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We all know that Iceland is a through and through literature loving nation. Not only read Icelanders a lot, they also produce a lot of literary work.
The literacy rate here in Iceland is allegedly 100%, apparently Icelanders read the most books per capita in the world.
Especially in my native country Germany Icelandic literature is much appreciated.
Well, let's be honest- Germans are crazy about Icelandic books!
Personally, I love crime novels and thrillers, and Iceland's book market has so much to offer.
The most famous crime novelist from Iceland is certainly Arnaldur Indriðason.
Arnaldur's (b.1961) first book, Synir duftsins ("Sons of Dust") came out in 1997 and marked the beginning of the popular series with Detective Erlendur. As of 2011, the series includes 12 thrilling novels.
Arnaldur's books have become a major success and won many awards. The stories about Detective Erlendur have become the export hit of the Icelandic literary world, published in over 26 countries and translated into at least 20 languages.
Definitely worth reading!
Another internationally known author is Yrsa Sigurðardóttir.
The Reykjavík born writer (b. 1963) works both as civil engineer and crime novelist. After writing children's books, Yrsa turned to a darker genre and published her first murder mystery novel Þriðja táknið ("Last Rituals") in 2005. This was the kick off for Yrsa's successful series evolving around the investigative lawyer Þóra Guðmundsdóttir. The author's latest work, Ég man þig ("Blessed are the Children") from 2010, is her first thriller where Þóra is not in the picture.
My first Icelandic crime novel was a German translation of Yrsa's debut work Þriðja táknið and got me hooked on this series.
Þráinn Bertelsson (b. 1944) is a multi-media multi-talent.
How Þráinn finds the time to write novels while being a renowned film maker, journalist, radio host, newspaper editor and politician is a mystery to me.
But thinking about it, all these occupations are certainly a never ending source of inspiration.
As of today, Þráinn has published three darkly comic crime novels, Dauðans óvissi tími ("Death's Uncertain Hour, 2004), Valkyrjur ("Valkyries", 2005) and Englar dauðans ("Angels of Death", 2007).
The 2012 film adaption of Stefán Máni's synonymous novel Svartur á leik (Black's Game, 2004) is causing huge excitement in Iceland at the moment. The brutal, dark story takes the reader deep into the belly of Reykjavik's underworld.
To date, Stefán Máni has published eight novels. One of them, Skipið ("The Ship", 2006) was awarded with the Icelandic Crime Writer's Award, Blóðdropinn ("Drop of Blood").
Critics highly praise Stefán's style as Tarantino-esque and raw.
Sounds like my kind of author.
I haven't read any of his books yet, but I'm planning on changing that as soon as possible.
There are so many more wonderful Icelandic authors of thrillers and crime novels that should at least be named such as Helgi Ingólfsson, Ólafur Haukur Símonarson, Páll Kristinn Pálsson, Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson, Árni Þórarinsson, Ævar Örn Jósepsson, Stella Blómkvist and Óttar Norðfjörð.
I cannot name them all but they are great!!
Thanks to the great international success more and more books are being translated from Icelandic into other languages so the magnificent work of Icelandic writers becomes accessible to a broader audience.
Until then, we just have to be patient.
Check out this fantastic website about Icelandic literature. There you will find useful information about contemporary Icelandic crime novelists (and of course also about other genres) and their work.
Most of the books mentioned here can be purchased on amazon.com.
By the way, Iceland's homicide rate is one of the lowest in the world. I was told the number of murder victims per year is around five to ten.
So be at ease and come to Iceland.
Katharina Hauptmann – [email protected]


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April 09, 2010
Join the John T. Huston- Dr. John D. Brumbaugh Nature Center for RedTail's River Trips on Sunday, April 6 from 2-3 p.m.
RedTail is back with a slide program of some of his favorite river trips. These include his trip last summer down the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, which he calls his best trip ever. Join us for a little while as we imagine ourselves on the river.
No registration is required. Call the Nature Center at (330) 823-7487 for more details. The Nature Center is located six miles south of Mount Union College on Daniel Street, just off Route 183.

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Empty Nester series was written by Barbara Rubenstein and edited
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All information was current at the time the article was written.
I - Deciding to Go
Part II - Child-free Dining
Part III - Recreation
I have previously talked about how satisfying a trip to Walt Disney World can be for Empty Nesters taking a trip without the kids, focusing on where to stay and where to eat, as well as some touring strategies. There is so much else to do at Walt Disney World especially for folks finally getting the chance to experience it without the little ones in tow.
Here are some ideas to get you started... but I bet you can come up with even more!
Several of Disney's resorts offer tennis. If tennis is your sport, why not indulge in it at Disney? The courts at Disney can be a pleasurable escape for anyone who likes to play. Book court time early in the morning, since it gets quite warm during certain times of the year in the afternoons. I have never seen the courts at Disney overly crowded, so you can probably get court time whenever you want. Imagine an early morning tennis match or maybe even a lesson, followed by a late character breakfast and an afternoon at the pool/beach or spa. What a wonderful, RELAXING way for a couple to spend a vacation day.
Could there be any more wonderful golf courses than those found at Disney World? Whether you choose the spectacular Osprey Ridge or Eagle Pines or any of the other perfectly manicured and maintained Disney courses, I recommend considering Disney as you would any golf vacation resort. Again, a half day of golf, a wonderful lunch and some pool time makes for the perfect Disney day.
For the "kid" golfer in all of us, there are also the Disney miniature golf courses, Fantasia Gardens and Winter Summerland, a fun after-dinner activity.
When running through Disney with kids, the last thing on your mind is working out or taking a beauty treatment. But now that we travel without the kids, my husband loves a visit to the gym and I enjoy being pampered for a few hours. Some of the Disney resorts have beauty salons or spas on their premises. A manicure, pedicure and hair treatment are things I would have never considered doing at Disney several years ago, but now we try to set aside something like this every trip as our "private time." After we do our own thing for a bit, we feel relaxed and ready for a great dinner and evening activity together.
You don't have to be Steamboat Willie to partake of the many boating opportunities available at WDW. It's great fun during any part of the day, but the marinas tend to be less crowded early on. We love to have a lazy morning and then take one of the different types of watercraft (pedal boat, water mice) out onto a lake or bay. What a nice way to bond, talk and relax!
Fishing is not our forte, but if it's yours, Disney even offers a variety of fishing excursions. During the early part of the day, the waterway is not crowded and at times you may even feel that you are the only ones out there.
After spending some time on the water, it's fun to sneak over to one of the parks for an afternoon parade. We have done this many times, watching the parade from near the park entrance, then going right back to the resort at the completion of the parade. Without kids, we don't feel as though we have to push our way to the very front to enjoy the parade or that we have to wait on the curb for an hour before the parade begins. We really have a wonderful time doing this, knowing that we won't be cajoled into going on any rides or waiting in lines that we do not wish to wait in.
There are many other sports-related activities at Disney that adults without children can indulge in. Swim, engage in sporting activities and indulge your taste buds, just as you would at any fine resort. Read up on your favorite activities and plan a day or two to participate in them -- a visit to Guest Services at your resort will help you plan wonderful Disney days together.
It's no oversight that I have left the parks for the end. Even though the parks are the mainstay of Disney, you can have a complete and fulfilling vacation without ever setting foot inside a theme park.
Here's a brief overview of what it's like to tour the parks from an adult-only viewpoint:
Even though Disney offers Extra Magic Hours for on-site guests (which allow guests into a park for certain attractions an hour or so before and after the general public), we usually don't take advantage of them. Unless you are very very early risers, why rush in the morning to get to a park if you don't have to? Now, I am not saying not to get an early start -- it really pays to do so for a number of reasons -- it's not usually as hot early in the a.m., for one thing. But without the kids along, it's much nicer to take things at a slower pace.
When arriving at the park that we have selected for that day, we of course go to the one or two most popular attractions first. This is probably the only time of any day that we really rush to do anything. After doing the first or second attraction, we then will look for a place to have a quick breakfast. We tend to select a bakery type of eatery where they offer both baked selections and boxed cereals, then sit and eat our breakfast looking over the brochure that lists the attractions and shows that may interest us.
We pick a few things that we want to see and do a little planning due to time constraints (especially for shows). (Of course, now that many attractions have FastPass, waiting in lines is not really a necessity.) We then proceed to have a leisurely visit to the park.
It's nice to be able to browse without anyone tugging on your tail. We find that in this respect the Disney parks can really be an enjoyable and very relaxing experience. We always leave around the lunch hour and select somewhere to have our afternoon meal, then return to the parks in the evenings, again planning to see one or two attractions in an evening. Of course, this is the time that you may want to view a parade or fireworks show or participate in one of the evening dinner/concert series.
We usually hop over to a park during one afternoon if there is a particular parade that interests us. As I discussed before, we go to the park, see that parade and leave.
In visiting the parks at a nice, leisurely pace with breaks in between, we sometimes feel we actually get more accomplished than we did frantically racing around with the children. Of course, everyone has their own itinerary and should proceed at the pace they are comfortable with.
I can't emphasize enough how important it is to ENJOY Disney and all it has to offer for the Empty Nester guest. As the saying goes, "Rome was not built in a day." Neither was Disney. Take advantage of ALL of Disney's activities and you, too, will be planning your next Disney vacation before you arrive home from your current one.
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Another shopkeeper came forward and said Perrone had gone into his store and questioned him on whether he worked alone and when he closed, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. Police devoted scores of detectives to the case, he said.
"It's reasonable to assume he was going to keep doing this, and, by arresting him, we saved lives," Kelly said at a news conference. Read More


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Thanks for that info eclecticgrrl. Our blood bank has rung me after I donated plasma to say that I am a perfect candidate for platelets, but I don't know anyone who has done platelets before. When you say it was weird, what sort of weird? I'm A+ as well and I want to get a few more times of plasma before trying platelets but it sounds a little scarey.
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Moonrise Kingdom
Director: Wes Anderson.
Cast: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray.
IF you like Wes Anderson and his notoriously whimsical style of offbeat comedy, you'll love Moonrise Kingdom.
If you don't appreciate Anderson's previous efforts, particularly The Darjeeling Limited and The Royal Tenenbaums, then steer clear.
As with those two films, Moonrise Kingdom touches on the effect a family (or the lack of one) can have on a young person.
Here it's on two misfit kids who are drawn to each other, and the naive romance between Sam (Gilman) and Suzy (Hayward) forms the sweet centre of this film as we follow their efforts to run away together.
Sam is fleeing his Khaki Scout troup, led by the hapless Scout Master Randy (Norton), while Suzy is running away from her family, particularly her parents (Murray and McDormand), who have drifted apart but are united by their concerns for Suzy's mental state.
Leading the search is Captain Sharp (Willis), the lonely and lone police officer on the island of New Penzance, assisted by Sam's disturbingly sociopathic fellow scouts.
Anderson's habit of creating a believable (or at least likeable) hyper-reality are in full effect - we see the Khaki Scouts build an impossible treehouse for example, and his use of an onscreen narrator is novel. His idiosyncratic camera moves (the movie is full of sideways tracking shots and slow pans), his shot composition (Anderson loves symmetry), and his eccentric background details (particularly a kid who starts trampolining behind an inaudible conversation) only add to this world and the movie's unique tone.
This hyper-reality exists on a knife's edge however, and towards it's end, Moonrise Kingdom tips too far into the unbelievable zone, most notably when one character gets struck by lightning.
Gilman and Hayward's performances are stilted and subdued but hilarious and work in well with Anderson's trademake tone, while Norton, Murray and McDormand are also superb (as are Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton and Anderson regular Jason Schwarzman in small roles).
But the best turn comes from Willis, who gives his most interesting performance since 12 Monkeys. His is the most intriguing character, managing to be both authoritative yet browbeaten, and a lonely soul yet the emotional core of the film. Even the fact that his character is supposedly "dumb" and that Anderson and co-writer Roman Coppola are incapable of writing "dumb" doesn't distract from Willis' tender performance.
The disfunctional family may have been better explored by Anderson in The Darjeeling Limited and The Royal Tenenbaums, as this beloved theme of Anderson's is more of a sidebar or springboard to the main story of Moonrise Kingdom.
And that main story is something new for the quirky director. At its heart, Moonrise Kingdom is a sweet and surprising love story with a healthy twist of typically warped humour.


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Thirteen years into his retirement from coaching prep football — a retirement that may soon end — Ken Miller received a "nice surprise" as December of 2012 was ending.
A notification letter informed Miller that he was being inducted into the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Miller, who remains an administrator at Coal City High School, where he last coached the football team in 1999, did not even know he had been nominated.
Miller later found out that Wilmington High School assistant principal and football coach Jeff Reents had nominated him.
"I hadn't really thought about it. I had been away for a while, so I thought I had no reason to," Miller said of the possibility of induction.
Reents, who says CCHS Athletic Director and former assistant football coach Dan Hutchings helped with the process, did not delay the nomination purposefully.
"I nominated Ken after realizing that he was not in yet. I, as many other coaches, thought he was already in," Reents said in an email.
"I think Coach Miller is a great definition of what a Hall of Fame coach is, which is he cared about his players and coaches, was a good role model for the school and community and had a tremendous amount of success on the field. He helped myself out when I first started my career, as he did other young coaches. In watching and learning from Coach Miller, everything was always first class."
A three-sport athlete at VIT High School in Table Grove, Ill., Miller played baseball at Illinois College. His first teaching and coaching job was in Carthage, where he taught fifth grade and coached three sports, including the high school football team. His football teams went 38-13 and advanced to a 1A state championship game in six seasons.
In 1986, Miller moved on to Coal City, where he inherited a football team that had never made the playoffs in seven seasons.
"When I got the opportunity to interview with Mr. (Jerry) Arthur, I saw a community that I felt was going to grow because of its location. They had great facilities, and I could see great leadership, from the board of education on down to the administration and to the A.D., Mr. (John) Cullick — his first year was my first year," Miller said.
"They wanted someone to try and turn things around. I was told by Mr. Arthur that it felt like we were a sleeping giant for football, and that someone to take up that sleeping giant was what he was looking for. It was a great opportunity for me.
"I went from a program that was 75 years old and joined a program that was seven years old."
In Miller's first season at the helm, the Coalers went 1-8.
We knew we had to work hard to be able to compete, but I would be lying if I say there wasn't some doubt there," Miller said. "During a 1-8 season, there's going to be some difficult times, but hopefully you learn from them."
By the following season, the Coalers were in the playoffs, as they would be for each of Miller's last 14 seasons as their coach. Some of his most vivid memories from his tenure came from that 1987 season, including a season-opening win over Minooka that he says surprised many observers and a regular season-ending win over Reed-Custer that clinched the school's first playoff berth.
Miller says that the groundwork laid by his first few Coaler playoff teams "culminated" in the 1993 season, during which the Coalers went 14-0 and won their only football state championship to date.
As the winning grew, so to did the passion for prep football in Coal City.
"That's a big part of it in small towns," Miller said. "The enthusiasm and excitement that builds as you're winning and getting towards the playoffs, and then of course when you're in the playoffs, is huge."
Miller stepped down following the 1999 season having gone 146-54 overall and 108-41 at the helm of the Coalers. Exclusing his first season, his Coal City teams were 77-14 in Interstate Eight Conference play.
"To lose 14 games in 13 years in what was always a tough conference, we always prided ourselves in our ability to be successful in a tougher conference, and that shows that we were," Miller said.
In addition to the credit he gives his assistants and players for his success, Miller says his family made it possible.
"A coach's family makes a lot of sacrifices if they're going to do it right, and my family played a large role in that regard," Miller said.
"My father and grandfather were great role models in instilling a love of athletics. My father coached me in youth leagues from the first time I picked up a ball. My grandfather was a coach in the early 1900s at Vermont High School. He coached football, basketball, track and field, tennis — he was the only coach, so he did it all."
Since stepping down as coach, Miller says he has attended nearly every game the Coalers have played. The Coalers have gone 102-42 in the 13 years since under Miller's former defensive coordinator, Lenny Onsen.
"I was very proud when our board of education allowed coach Onsen the opportunity to follow me," Miller said. "The assistants he has brought in and the kids have kept the traditon going. I love watching Coaler football on Friday nights."
But Miller, who has spent some of the past several years on IHSA advisory committees and as president of the Interstate Eight Conference, admits that he still has the desire to do more than just watch football. He will retire from his CCHS administrative duties in June.
"Coaching will always be where my passion was. The best part of my day was going out for football practice and doing what needed to be done to be successful on Friday night," Miller said.
"I truly believe we all have things that we're blessed with the talents to be able to do, and with that in mind, I do hope to be able to get back into coaching someday. When that happens, and where the right place and right time will be, I think I'll know when it comes."
WHO: Steve Ebner, Don Flowers, Mark Gould, Jamie Harrington, Mike Hearn, Kerry Martin, Ken Miller, Gene Muzzarelli, Ted Phelps, Rigo Schmelzer, Jack Schomig, Tom Shallenberger, Willie Simpson and Scott Steward
WHAT: 2013 Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame induction luncheon
WHEN: Saturday, April 6 at 12 p.m.
WHERE: Hilton Garden Inn, Champaign
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Journal Billosaur's Journal: My Reality Invaded By the Real World 7
So I am at work yesterday afternoon and I get a panicked phone call from my wife because neither of our sons (my stepsons) have shown up from school. Now one has an after-school program he goes to and she is supposed to pick him up at school, but our other son is nowhere to be found. She drives frantically to the school and upon arriving sees no buses anywhere, and more importantly the school is surrounded by police and fire department vehicles. She asks a police officer what is going on and he explains that all the kids were evacuated from the middle school to the high school (which is down the road about 3/4s of a mile), but has no information as to why.
The kids make it home all right, but they were forced to evacuate without being able to at least bring their coats, and yesterday was cold and rainy, which made neither of us happy.
When I got home, I went on the school district web site and sure enough, my guess as to what happened had been accurate: someone had made a bomb threat to the school. Now, we live in central NJ, basically out in the middle of nowhere important, midway between NYC and Philly. We're a fairly diverse, more upscale community, and up until yesterday, peaceful.
This was a middle school, for crying out loud! 4th through 8th graders! 1000+ kids! And someone, some moron, thought it would be funny (or perhaps mean, or even psychotic) to call in a bomb threat to the school about five minutes before dismissal.
I hope it was not a kid in the school, because if it was, I want the the child to watch their parents be flayed alive. Yes, I'm that mad right now. I suspect when I calm down, I will only want them stoned to the point of unconsciousness. If it was an adult, they better have a horrible mental illness, because that's the only thing that would keep me from finding them myself and stringing them up in the center of town. Again, when I calm down, I'll probably be human enough to allow them to live, but horribly crippled. I can't say.
I may be in this state owing to the 9/11 flashback I had when I read it was a bomb threat, for on that day, as I sat in my office, stunned and pretty much incoherent to the disaster going on around me, a higher up came through and told each person still there (there were only a handful of us at the time) that someone had called in a bomb threat against our building in Midtown. It didn't move me to leave, because I knew this was more idle threat than actuality, but it pissed me off that someone thought now was the chance to get in their licks while the lower end of Manhattan was smoking and burning. I don't know if they ever found out who did it, and that person should probably be glad I don't know who they are.
I've watched Oklahoma City, 9/11, Columbine, Virginia Tech... seen them come and go and promised myself I would do everything in my power to keep my kids away from those types of events, full well knowing it's impossible to predict the actions of madmen. And now I'm just so pissed off that it's hard to articulate. The world is so full of problems and we live with enough fear of the unknown now that something like this is unconscionable.
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Hello. I have a side project I'm working on, and I am stumped. Of course, its been 25+ years since I've been in the inside of a classroom and I was always pretty shaky at math. I'll post a picture, and maybe someone can help, or direct me to the right place FOR help.
The following image represents what I'm trying to do. Its a circular graph for oilfield equipment, where there are actual pens logging various pressures. I'm not interested in that part of it, what I AM interested in is figuring out a formula that will give me the diameter of the arc to keep the areas constant with changing diameters.
On the original graph, the OD is 10", and as near as I can tell by tracing in a vector drawing program, the intersecting arc (parabola?) diameter is 22.5".
It can't be as simple as making that intersection arc 2.25 times the graph OD, can it?
I'm stumped as to where to start to figure out the intersecting arc diameter for a given OD to keep the area on the graph constant. Thanks in advance for any help!
*ETA*: I will be working with various diameters; in this graph example, its 10", I will be working with diameters ranging from 5" to roughly 25", and will need to keep the surface area constant for the different diameters. All I did was overlay circles on the arc until I got where it would trace the arc and still bisect the center of the graph, but its not exact and I don't want to eyeball it, I'd like to KNOW what the formula is for figuring it out. Again, thanks in advance.


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First-year Nashoba Regional High School football coach Jamie Tucker expected tough, physical play from Shrewsbury during Friday night's game with the Division 2 rival, and the Colonials did not disappoint.
However, the Chieftains played tougher, especially on defense, limiting Shrewsbury to a single touchdown.
At the other end of the field, Nashoba's Eli Williams proved dominant, rushing for two touchdowns to help the Chieftains claim a 21-7 win before a large crowd at the Colonials' gridiron.
Nashoba, which has won 28 straight games, improved to 2-0. Shrewsbury, coming off a 33-point game against Algonquin Regional, dropped to 1-1.
"We came up with some big plays at big times, and that was a key for us," Tucker said. "This was a very big win for our football program.
"To come in here and beat a very good Shrewsbury team in their home opener in front of a big crowd is just huge," he said. "The kids played very well."
The Chieftains went ahead for good late in the second quarter when captain Frankie Chiodo, a senior fullback, made good on a 21-yard rush up the left side. Junior Casey Elkins kicked the extra point, giving Nashoba a 14-7 advantage, which the Chieftains maintained at the half.
Chiodo's rush capped a three-play, 52-yard drive that came on Nashoba's first possession after the Colonials had tied the score at 7. Williams had a 27-yard run for a first down on the play prior to Chiodo's scoring scamper.
Williams added a 6-yard TD rush in the fourth quarter. Elkins kicked the extra point, upping the Chieftains' lead to 21-7.
The score came after the Colonials fumbled on their own 35-yard line.
Shrewsbury got the ball back after Nashoba's TD and was eventually stopped on fourth-and five at their own 47. The Chieftains retained possession the rest of the way.
Williams had a 7-yard TD rush in the first quarter. Elkins booted the extra point.
Junior defensive back Greg Gothie's quarterback sack on fourth down in the third after a tough Shrewsbury drive led a host of Nashoba defensive standouts.


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One Marriage, Two Weddings: What to Do When You're Invited to Two Weddings for the Same Bride and Groom
When a bride and groom practice two different religions, sometimes they'll have two different weddings. Here's what to do if you're a guest of both
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The wedding traditions of other people are often strange to us, but attending such ceremonies is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the many different customs and rituals out there. That said...
Dear Wedding Guru: "I've been invited to two weddings... for the same couple. The bride is of one religion and the groom another. In lieu of having two officiants at the ceremony, they opted to have two ceremonies in two different places — one in the morning and one in the evening. (A reception follows the second wedding.) I've never been in this position before — do I attend both ceremonies? Can I assume that there's something to eat after the morning ceremony, or will we need to fend for ourselves for lunch?"
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Neshoba Central faculty and students are recovering from two campus break-ins over a four-day span. First Thursday night, then Monday night. The Neshoba County Sheriff's Department is working to determine whether the two break-ins are related... And find the culprit. Superintendent Tommy Dearing says some small items were stolen, but most of the expenses will come from a total of 23 broken windows.
"Not that much taken," Superintendent Dearing said. "Very minor items taken. Mostly just damage to windows and doors."
When faculty arrived Friday morning, they discovered 11 windows were broken across the elementary, middle and high schools on campus. The next apparent break-in occurred Monday night with 13 broken windows in the high school. And the damage hasn't gone unnoticed.
With this incident marking the second break-in in such a short period of time, Dearing says he has received some concerned phone calls from parents. But he doesn't believe that either of these crimes is reason to be concerned that student safety is in jeopardy.
"I think our students are perfectly safe. Of course, there's concern in the community any time anything of this nature occurs, but our Sheriff's Department is working it, and I think their investigation hopefully will turn up some individuals connected with it real soon," Dearing said.
The school does have security cameras in place, but officials have not said whether those will be helpful in solving this case.


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Richie Havens' ashes will be spread over the grounds that made him a defining voice and face of the Woodstock Festival, his family and manager said.
Havens, who died Monday at age 72 of a heart attack at his New Jersey home, was cremated Tuesday, they said in a letter that appeared on the City Winery website.
Havens' ashes were placed in a "beautiful stone pyramid urn" at his request and will be at the service for viewing, the letter said.
"Later in the summer they will be scattered across the field where the Woodstock Festival took place -- Max Yasgur's farm, now Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center," the letter said.
A spokesman for the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y., told the (Middletown, N.Y.) Times Herald-Record the center had not been contacted about the intentions for Havens' remains.
"Plans for a memorial concert are also under way," Havens' daughters and Hawes said.
Havens was the opening performer at the Aug. 15-18, 1969, Woodstock Music & Art Fair, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music."
He was not supposed to open the festival -- he was scheduled to go fifth. But the opening folk-rock band Sweetwater from Los Angeles was stuck in traffic, while Havens and his guitarist and drummer had arrived by helicopter.
Havens was scheduled to play four songs, but ended up playing 10, including Beatles tunes, because other performers were also late.


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Fran Grady, a retired school teacher, joined "the family" in 2010. She joined a family of more than 2.8 million people in the U.S. who have also survived breast cancer. "We are like an extended family," the 55 year-old said.
Fran Grady, a retired school teacher, joined "the family" in 2010.
She joined a family of more than 2.8 million people in the U.S. who have also survived breast cancer.
"We are like an extended family," the 55 year-old said. "We understand each other on a level that others who have not had it can't understand. We feel like kindred spirits for having gone through many similar things."
We are like sisters, she added.
About 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society. About 39,620 women are expected to lose the battle this year, not making it into the family.
Surviving is a "a blessing from God," said Mary Taylor, a mother of seven who was diagnosed at stage zero on her birthday in February of this year. "The whole thing was miraculous. It makes you think and reflect on your life. What do you need to be doing to be a blessing to others? ... I had never really reflected on myself that much."
Although Taylor was fortunate to discover the disease at an early stage, she still had the burden of finding out on her birthday. A surprise she attributed to providence was waiting in her mailbox after her doctor visit.
"I came home and opened my mailbox, and it was full of red and pink envelopes," she said. "A church — Living Waters — had taken me on as a Valentine's project before anyone even knew. Only God could know. I got bad news and had a mailbox full of cards that continued all week long."
After a lumpectomy and 24 rounds of radiation at the Gibbs Cancer Center, Taylor emerged from her treatment cancer-free.
"I look at it as a blessing from God," she said. "From start to finish — blessings."
Linda Sanders, who has been cancer-free for 18 years, also faced a joyful celebration with a difficult diagnosis.
"I had to tell my family during our Thanksgiving dinner, and they were all in shock," she said.
Sanders underwent a mastectomy followed by eight cycles of chemotherapy.
"I never questioned God, 'Why me?' " Sanders said. "I always thought, 'Why not me?' "
Becky Moyer Harmon, who is in her third year of recovery, expected to have a lumpectomy after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, but her diagnosis turned out to be more dire than the doctors originally thought.
"I thought I would have a lumpectomy and was scheduled for one," she said.
A biopsy and more testing revealed multiple tumors, and she decided on a double mastectomy. "I didn't want to think of the possibility of having to go through the surgery a second time," she said.
Harmon chose to focus on the good rather than despairing.
"I am not a person who gets depressed or lets things get the best of me," she said. "I said to myself, 'This is something you have to get through and be strong and think positive.' "
Grady reflected a similar sense of peace. "I never really got depressed," she said, a remarkable statement coming from a woman who underwent three major surgeries in two years.
Grady had a double mastectomy in 2009 after doctors discovered the cancer in stage 2B. While she was going through her chemotherapy and radiation treatments, doctors also discovered spots on her right lung and removed the lower right lobe. The following year, Grady also "had a hysterectomy by choice for a preventative measure," she said.
Despite the severity of her case, she maintained good spirits.
"I went into info mode," she said. "Information comforted me and made me feel I had a little control because you have no control with cancer.
"I made it my job to get better."
Grady also went to the Gibbs Cancer Center for treatment.
"You could not ask for more," she said. "You're always under continuous care, and you're always under continuous concern. It's a safe haven and a caring place. (Spartanburg) should be very proud."
Writer Amy Bright contributed to this article.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/14/bt_more_jobs_going/
BT health problems will cost more jobs
Telco engaged in write-offs and job cuts
Posted in Networks, 14th April 2009 11:49 GMT
BT shares fell sharply this morning on rumours that it is to cut another 10,000 jobs and take a massive hit on the cost of its NHS work.
The telco is preparing to cut 10,000 more jobs - alongside the 10,000 which have already gone. It will also use next month's results announcement to write £1.5bn off the value of ongoing contracts, mostly from its troubled Global Services business.
Much of this write-off is down to problems connected to contracts with the National Programme for IT - the government's ambitious plan to replace NHS technology and introduce electronic patient care records.
The telco is also cutting 60 per cent from dividend payments.
BT shares fell over five per cent in early trading but have now recovered. The company dismissed the reports in the Sundays as pure speculation.
Earlier this year BT confirmed it was freezing wages for 100,000, and said in November that it would cut headcount by 10,000 by the end of March.
The company has just seen a big jump in its ability to do business in India, however - Tech Mahindra, which is one-third owned by BT, looks set to take over Satyam. ®


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Yes. There has been an extraordinary and growing effort in this region to protect and recover salmon and steelhead populations. Sport and commercial fisheries on the Columbia River are specifically designed to target hatchery-produced fish and spare threatened and endangered stocks. In most cases, wild salmon and steelhead must be released, and fishing seasons are managed to hold incidental mortality rates for those fish within strict federal limits.
Meanwhile, recovery plans are being developed in every watershed to restore important habitat, improve dam passage survival and reform hatchery programs to assist wild fish populations. Northwest citizens have supported restoration efforts, and borne the costs, because of the importance of salmon to our heritage, their cultural value to Native Americans and the economic value of salmon to Washington's fishing communities.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration issued a travel advisory Friday: Because of a budget standoff in Washington, flights will be delayed.
That was the message Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood delivered at the daily White House briefing as he outlined the impact that across-the-board budget cuts would have on air travel, a drumbeat he acknowledged was aimed by the administration at Republicans in Congress.
"I would describe my presence here with one word — Republican," LaHood said of the White House. "They're hoping that maybe I can influence some of the people in my own party."
LaHood described a nettlesome set of potential problems if, as scheduled, $600 million is eliminated from the Federal Aviation Administration's budget this year as part of the so-called sequester cuts set to kick in March 1.


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Mohd Badri bin Mohd Radzi might just be the best corner kick taker in the world.
The Kelantan midfielder has garnered a reputation as a set-piece specialist after scoring direct from a corner on several occasions throughout his career, most recently on April 30.
But would you believe it, he's been at it again. Just one week later Mohd Radzi scored another straight from a corner kick, bending home a goal against Negeri Sembilan as Kelantan won 3-0.
The last time he did we asked you if you thought he meant it. And it's safe to say this time around there's little doubt - the midfielder's a genius from corner kicks.
Watch Mohd Badri's latest wonder-goal in the video below...
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9 ideas for taking journalism to a new place
Social media is far more than social marketing, which is why Socialmedia.biz returns regularly to the subject of how social is reshaping the worlds of media and journalism.
I arrived in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday to take part in a three-day event: first, a gathering of 150 journalism students from major universities in Chile on Tuesday. And today I'm giving the closing talk at a gathering of news executives, editors, reporters and academics from major publications and universities in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Venezuela, the United States and elsewhere, organized by Grupo de Diarios América — the world's biggest online Spanish network with some 50 publications and sites with a reach over 50 million users per month — and held at the headquarters of El Mercurio, Chile's best newspaper.
My colleague Chris Abraham asked me a few months ago to offer my thoughts on where journalism is heading — or ought to be heading — for the benefit of both those entering the profession and those trying to figure out how to navigate these choppy waters. So this seemed like a good way to do that.
Plus, I finally made it down to South America!
The presentation, embedded above and available for download or embedding on SlideShare, offers some ideas about how journalism might be reimagined in an age when more people are embracing the precepts of social media.
Questioning nine fundamental assumptions
I found that the two-day symposium had far too few opportunities for interaction (thankfully, the organizers thoughtfully provided translations for talks in Spanish that were broadcast into a Listen Display Receiver, a nifty mobile device and earpiece), and so I framed the presentation more as a series of questions rather than answers.
Many of the suggestions below — and for the now widely accepted idea that journalism should be thought of as a process, not a finished product — have been discussed by thought leaders in the space for years. It's time to distill some of these ideas and reexamine them through the lens of journalism in South America. Here, then, are nine assumptions by journalists and media organizations, and suggestions on how those assumptions might be reconsidered or reimagined.
1Objectivity is our sacred goal. Yet, users are increasingly turning to transparency as the new yardstick of a news organization's credibility. Is transparency the new objectivity?
2Content is all that matters. While people come for the content, they stay for the conversation. Shouldn't journalists spend more time engaging with users and participating in conversations? Continue reading


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China is home to more than 150 million gamers who collectively generate half of the global PC online games revenue:
- Chinese gamers are more likely to spend money on MMORPGs than on any other type of game, with 85% of gamers who play MMORPGs spending money on games.
- More than 60% of China's Online Games Revenues Comes from MMOGs.
- Numerous strong Chinese online game operators compete head-to-head for MMORPG market share, but Tencent reigns supreme for advanced casual games.


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Despite signs of recovery in demand and supply, global commodity markets covering energy products, metals (base, precious and industrial) and agriculture continued to remain vulnerable to a clutch of uncertainties including sustained global economic growth, monetary policy, exchange rate, geopolitics and not the least, weather.
Many of these factors played out in their own way the whole of 2013 – some favourably like the weather, and some otherwise, like geopolitics and monetary policy – but they all have refused to go away. Most of the driving forces will be around in 2014………………………………………..Full Article: Source


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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Thousands more people have enrolled for health coverage in the past month through Nevada's insurance exchange but problems persist.
The board overseeing Nevada Health Link was told Thursday that nearly 35,000 people had enrolled in a qualified health plan as of May 3, halfway through a two-month special enrollment period that ends May 30.
Another 11,000 have selected plans but not yet paid for them.
But board members say over the past two weeks complaints have increased from carriers and others about billing problems that have plagued the system built by Xerox since it went live Oct. 1.
A Xerox official says they are researching the latest wave of errors.
Board members Thursday also said they hope to decide by month's end whether to keep Xerox as the operator.


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I a writing a Content Management System in PHP and working on a profile update reminder script that will send an email and allow users to click a link in the email to visit their profile and update their info and preferences.
This is for a closed membership group of 200-400 members and I expect emails to go out to individuals all at on time when admin chooses.
I am almost finished with this module and have HTML form letter templates working where each members info gets filled in and they get an individual URL with key in the email. ( also have opt-out links and options setup to be compliant with my host policies.)
My question is:
Is it better to send out the emails in batches of 10-20 using AJAX or just spool all 200-400 using the PHP mail() command in succession all at one time.
I do not have much server experience so I am trying to avoid pitfalls here. If it were just a newsletter I would be sending 200-400 copies of same email but each of these will contain some unique content.


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Can anyone please suggest me a example link, for implementing the video search API for youtube, dailymotion and metacafe. It should allow the videos to be searched from these sources all at a time and to be displayed to the user with the uploaded date and views. Later based on the uploaded date or views the user should be allowed to sort the videos.
I tried using the Camideo Video Search API. I even got the API key for it. However it shows the error,
It looked like we made a mess with the API key.We are fixing this at the earliest. Sorry for the inconveniences.


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Today, South Carolina Congressman Jeff Duncan chaired his first hearing in the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency. The hearing addressed the Department of Homeland Security's progress and shortcomings in implementing its various missions, integrating its components, and ensuring that taxpayer dollars are being spent efficiently.
"The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 forced us to fundamentally rethink the threats our nation faces and our approach to defending the homeland," said Duncan. "Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a budget of almost $60 billion, employs more than 225,000 people, operates in more than 75 countries, and is the third largest federal agency. At a time when our nation stands at over $16 trillion in debt, we cannot afford the luxury of spending on programs that do not meet core mission priorities."
One of the witnesses testifying before the subcommittee was former VA Governor Jim Gilmore who shared his concerns about department efficiency. "Al-Qaeda has said in their public statements that their goal is to collapse the economy of the United States if we waste money or carry out an ineffective program then we carry out the mission of Al-Qaeda," said Governor Gilmore. "That's why this Committee's work is so important."
Congressman Duncan also brought up the subject of civil liberties during the hearing.
"Oversight to ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent effectively is an important part and role of Congress. The protection of civil liberties is, in my opinion, just as important." Duncan said.
"I also look forward to strong bipartisan cooperation in helping to make the Department of Homeland Security as efficient and effective as possible," said Duncan.
Source: http://jeffduncan.house.gov/press-release/congressman-jeff-duncan-holds-first-subcommittee-hearing-chairman


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Can I just say that I'm so happy to have this message board back!! I was just BARELY introduced to it when it disappeared, and I so missed it.
How did you pick your screen name? There is a silly YouTube video about Edward's volvo and I got my screen name from that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt6P7mx ... re=related
How did you come to read Twilight and which book is your favorite? Everyone at work had already read them -- I was almost the last one to read it because I was in the middle of Harry Potter at the time. Anyway, I'm a BIG fan of both worlds, but Twilight is the one that's definitely taken over my life!! In a good way!! Twilight is my favorite (can't go wrong with the original)
Who do you like best: Edward, Bella, or Jacob? EDWARD!!! He Dazzles Me!!
Who is your favorite minor character? Alice is the best, she completely kills me, she's so hilarious!
What are your hobbies? I have 3 kids -- 4, 2, and 5 months -- so they are pretty much my hobby. After kids, I love to scrapbook, read, and obsess over Twilight!
Where are you from (general area like Montana, not exact town!) Utah, baby!
How old are you? (In general, like teen, 20's, 30's, 40's etc) I'm about to leave my 20's this year! Gasp!!
I'm way excited to get back into chatting with everyone, I just can't get enough of a Twilight fix!!


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Coco Crisp's critical error loomed large in Game 2, but his defensive gem Tuesday helped the Oakland Athletics save their season.
The fleet-footed center fielder stole a home run from Prince Fielder and scored a run in the A's 2-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers in Game 3 of the ALDS.
Leading off the second inning, Fielder cracked a shot into right-center field. Crisp took off at the crack of the bat, ranged to the warning track and timed his leap perfectly as the ball looked like it was about to sail over the fence.
"You see him hit it and you just kind of put your head down a little bit because you think you just gave up a homer," A's starter Brett Anderson said.
Crisp, though, snatched the ball with his glove before crashing into the wall. The spectacular catch preserved a 1-0 Oakland advantage.
"The key to that play was he was playing deep and that enabled him to get into a spot to get up and make the catch. And it was a great catch, no doubt about it," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said.
The sensational defensive effort came after Crisp was unable to handle Miguel Cabrera's two-out flare in the seventh inning of Game 2 with a pair of runners on.
The ball glanced off the heel of Crisp's glove as he charged forward to make a basket catch and then was unable to swipe it out of the air on his subsequent diving attempt.
Two Detroit runners came in to score on the play, which gave the Tigers a 3-1 lead. The Tigers eventually won, 5-4, via a game-winning sacrifice fly in the ninth inning to take a 2-0 series lead.
The A's are looking for another improbable three-game home sweep like the one last week against the Texas Rangers, which propelled Oakland to the AL West crown.
In a season filled with walk-off wins, rallies and a plethora of whipped-cream pies, another three-game sweep will just add to an already remarkable year.
The left-hander Anderson, who was 4-2 with a 2.57 ERA in six starts following a 14-month absence recovering from elbow surgery, made his postseason debut.
In his first start since Sept. 19 due to a right oblique injury, Anderson (1-0) fanned six, scattered two hits and walked two over six shutout innings for Oakland, which snapped a six-game losing streak to the Tigers in postseason play. The A's were swept by Detroit in the 2006 ALCS.
"We always feel good about when he takes the mound," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "He goes very hard after his bullpen, so we felt confident that he was simulating that enough to go out there and pitch accordingly in a game. I don't know how you could expect more than we got out of him tonight."
Anderson outdueled Anibal Sanchez (0-1), who surrendered two runs on five hits and two walks in 6 1/3 innings to absorb the loss.
"He was a little hyped up to start with," Leyland said of Sanchez. "He pitched an excellent game for us, there's no question about that. He gave us more than a chance to win. They pitched a little better than we did tonight. It's pretty simple. But I thought Sanchez was fantastic.
Fielder, who was robbed of another potential hit by A's left fielder Yoenis Cespedes in the seventh inning and is hitting just .083 (1-for-12) in the ALDS, grounded into a game-ending double play to notch Grant Balfour's first save this postseason.
Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera has yet to tally an RBI in the series, but is batting .333 (4-for-12) with two doubles and a walk. He was 1-for-4 in the setback.
The A's plated a run in the first and another in the fifth.
Crisp led off the home first with a single to right field, advanced to second following Stephen Drew's walk and scored when Cespedes slapped a single back through the middle and past the diving second baseman Omar Infante.
"We scored a run early and kind of eased me into the game a little bit," Anderson said.
Sanchez settled down and retired nine in a row before Seth Smith golfed a low fastball and sent it over the center-field wall in the fifth inning for a 2-0 Oakland margin.
Fielder began the seventh and ripped a slicing and sinking liner into left field, but a quickly charging Cespedes came on and made the diving tumbling catch.
Game Notes
Oakland was 1-for-3 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base, while Detroit finished 0-for-2 with RISP and stranded four ... Tigers 16-game winner Max Scherzer will attempt to close out the series in Game 4 Wednesday night against A's rookie A.J. Griffin.


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The Tysons East Guideway is the longest of three aerial sections, when combined make up more than three miles of the project. It is comprised of 1,479 concrete segments, each uniquely engineered for its place on the alignment and weighing 25 to 40 tons a piece. The remaining aerial work will be completed by the end of the summer.
"This milestone means that we now have the green light to finish laying the rail through this portion of the guideway and begin connecting and testing the rail systems along the alignment," said Larry Melton, Bechtel project executive director.
In addition to the progress on the aerial guideways, construction of the stations is advancing. The Wiehle Avenue and Tysons East station structures are now finished and work on Phase 1 is nearly 80 percent complete.
"We'll become a little less visible to the public as we move into the intricate work of connecting the Dulles extension to the existing rail line and start to power up," said Melton. "We are bringing on approximately 300 electricians from around the region to help us with this next stage of construction."
The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project is an extension of the Washington, D.C., region's existing Metrorail system and is being managed by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.


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Steven Caulker hopes to prove to Roy Hodgson that he can cut it on the international arena by snuffing out the mighty Miroslav Klose in Tottenham's Europa League clash at Lazio.
Caulker was expected to play a bit-part role at Spurs this season, but some excellent pre-season form, and an injury to Younes Kaboul mean the 20-year-old has became a regular at the heart of the team's defence so far this season. He also earned his first England cap in last week's friendly in Sweden and he is determined to fill the void left in the national squad by John Terry.
"Every game in a Spurs shirt is a chance to prove myself at international level," Caulker said. "Lazio have a German striker in Klose so I have a chance to prove myself again and get my place back in the England squad."
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Came across this on reddit, poorly drawn NFL logos -
The new pics thread is just not as good as the old one....
That was epic.
They even included the gong banging at the end
Now some bright spark go ahead and replace the rage comic characters with Hampur avatars. You know you want to. I think S. Side should be the focus.
Post to get to the next page.
And next time, find a better song. That was le ghey.
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- Vendee Globe around the world yacht race sets sail from Les Sables d'Olonne, France
- 20 sailors in 18m yachts single-handedly race around world in 90 days
- One of the toughest sporting competitions, just half have ever finished
- Five days in to race and already four sailors have pulled out
After less than a week at sea, the Vendee Globe single-handed round the world yacht race has lived up to its moniker as "the world's toughest race" -- with nearly a quarter of the field crashing out in the first few days.
Earlier this week, 20 sailors set off from Las Sables d'Olonne in France to begin the 38,700 kilometer circumnavigation -- in which they are expected to battle everything from fierce storms in the Southern Ocean to the dreaded doldrums of the equator, with just themselves and an 18 meter yacht for company.
In the six editions of the race, first held in 1989, only half of the competitors have ever completed it. So it is yet another testament, if one were needed, to the Vendee Globe's notorious difficulty that after five days, four competitors have already pulled out.
French skipper Marc Guillemot retired on the first day after his boat Safran broke her keel, just 95 kilometers off the coast of France.
Guillemont, 53, had been one of the favorites to win this year's Globe after finishing third in the last race, held in 2008-2009.
Day two was similarly dramatic with compatriot Kito de Pavant, 51, also pulling out after his yacht Groupe Bel was struck by a fishing boat off the coast of Portugal.
"I went to sleep at the wrong time," De Pavant told organizers. "I am not angry at the fisherman but at me because it should not have happened. You can't anticipate this," he said.
Skippers are pushed to the limit, sleeping in snatches as they first sail the Atlantic, then the Southern Ocean, round Cape Horn and head back through the Atlantic to France -- all in the hope of winning $190,600 in prize money.
When Sir Robin Knox-Johnston made history as the first person to sail non-stop around the world in 1969, the epic voyage took him more than 10 months. Fast forward 20 years and the Globe's competitors are expected to complete the course in just 90 days.
French sailors have won all previous races, held every four years, with Michel Desjoyeaux taking the last one.
But the third casualty was another Frenchman, Vende Globe first timer Louis Burton who, like his compatriot De Pavant, endured a dramatic collision with a shipping trawler on Wednesday.
Finally, hoping to have made history as the only woman to ever win the race was Briton Samantha Davies, the only female sailor in this year's competition.
But the mother-of-one, who finished fourth in 2009-2009, announced Thursday that the mast of her Open 60 Saveol yacht had come crashing down in rough seas north of Madeira in the Atlantic.
Both Davies and Burton are prevented by race rules from stopping at the nearest port to make repairs with a return to Les Sables d'Olonnes the only option under the rules for a repair and continuation. In both cases, however, their boats are too badly damaged to make the six-day journey back to France.
For the remaining 16 contestants -- currently led by 35 year-old Frenchmen Armel Le Cleac'h -- it's just the beginning of what is shaping up to be another drama-packed Vendee Globe.


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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Mohnish Pabrai: A Super Salesman, not a Super Investor
A couple of years ago, I sent a copy of Pabrai's book, The Dhando Investor2, to a friend of mine who works in the Southern California office of a firm that was initially established as the family office for a Gilded Age family, and now handles the finances for other wealthy families. At the time, I figured my friend's firm might be interested in looking at Pabrai as a candidate for its stable of outside investment managers, but now I think a better role for Pabrai would be as a salesman for a wealth management firm (though perhaps one with a lower minimum asset requirement than my friend's firm).
If I were Pabrai, I would quietly approach some leading wealth management/family office firms about them absorbing Pabrai's assets under management and bringing Pabrai on to gather assets for the firm from affluent Indian Americans. Pabrai could probably add more value to his wealthy clients as an excellent salesman than as an investor.
1Pabrai also doubled down on a subprime mortgage lender, Delta Financial Corporation, after the securitization market seized up in August of 2007. He held his stake until that company went bankrupt.
2Pabrai's brief book actually contains some interesting stories about entrepreneurship (Pabrai was an IT entrepreneur before becoming a hedge fund manager), but Pabrai himself ignored some of the lessons in those stories. For example, Pabrai wrote about the ethnic Indians whose businesses were expropriated by Idi Amin, and despite this, Pabrai invested in an oil company based in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.
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You make it sound as if superinvestors ought to be infallible. Nobody is. Under your stringent criteria, nobody could be called a superinvestor. I will not go so far as to suggest that Pabrai could yet be dubbed a superinvestor, but your reasoning eliminates the valuable learning process all investors go through.
- September 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- DaveinHackensack said...
My main issue with isn't that he's made mistakes (everyone does) but his lack of any coherent investment methodology, his tendency to repeat the same mistakes, and his apparent inability to learn from them.
Consider, for example, his explanation of why he doesn't use Berkshire as a 'placeholder for cash' anymore. In Miguel's notes, Pabrai says its because some of Berkshire's businesses are not positioned to do well in the current economy. Wrong answer. The right answer is that you shouldn't use any common stock as a placeholder for cash because it doesn't maintain a stable value like cash does.
Consider also the example of Sears. Pabrai knew the problems with investing in retailers -- in fact I posted his article about that very subject here last year -- and yet he invested in Sears anyway. Why? He gave the usual bullshit reason about it being a "collection of assets managed by a master asset allocator" but Lampert himself had dismissed talk of Sears being a "hedge fund in disguise". Pabrai seems to have invested in Sears for two reasons:
1) He got his head handed to him on a series of investments where he went solo.
2) He had the comfort of the herd investing in Sears.
Also, consider the example of Compucredit. Pabrai blames them for "predatory lending"? That's a tendentious characterization of their business, and it's besides the point anyway. The company was risky because it was a highly-leveraged, subprime lender, at the tail end of a massive credit bubble. Not because it was "predatory". Pabrai's answer there is more about his desire to be admired (similar to Buffett's), and doesn't get to the heart of the risks associated with Compucredit.
- September 20, 2009 at 6:00 PM
You are correct in everything you say Dave. Good analysis.
- September 28, 2009 at 11:49 PM
- value said...
Couldn't agree more about Pabrai being a salesman than an investor.
Two specific investment reason's
-Pabrai bought Pinnacle Air which I think used to lease aircraft to airlines. That dropped like a stone in the 08-09 crash. A simple analysis using Munger's criteria for 2nd order effect shows if an airline goes bankrupt any fixed price contract is well worth only paper
-2nd is Pabrai's Investment in an agri firm called Cresud, he held it for all of 1.5 years(check Gurfocus)
Agriculture has a longer cycle than manufacturing , he should have held it at leasst 3-5 years i guess if he thought it is valuable(though I do not know why he sold it)
Ever since his million dollar lunch with Warren he has basically been dropping value tips
Given all that however I would credit him with 4 things
1)He is an honest fund manager whose fund is quite sucessful overall
2)He admits his mistakes (see his latest Forbes interview) and is generous about his learnings
3)He is anyday better than a banker selling me a CDO
4)His foundation in India seems to be doing some socially useful work
- April 26, 2010 at 4:13 PM


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Enterprise visualization software company iRise has released version 8.10 of its visual prototyping platform this week. In response to increasingly high user expectations and "consumerization of IT" trends, iRise says that it has produced a means of creating ultra-realistic visual simulations of new iPad and Android apps.
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In the face what iRise has called "elevated application expectations" from users due to the ease of use of the latest mobile platforms, the firm says that its new offering will help cut development time by speeding up the requirements-specification process and eliciting early feedback from stakeholders before coding starts.
"The iRise platform flips the old software development paradigm on its head. Stakeholders get to see and test software before it's built, rather than when it's almost fully completed, by using the visualization to try the types of things they'll do when the application is fully coded," said Maurice Martin, president, COO and founder of iRise.
Similar to computer-aided design (CAD) tools for physical products, simulations built with iRise act as working models or "visual blueprints" for complex business applications. Users can use the simulation the way they will interact with the final version. Once everyone on a project has used a new prototype and agrees on how the application should work and what it will look like, iRise helps generate HTML for the final coded user interface.


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Found in "Cassell's New Compact German-English English-German Dictionary" published by Cassell and Co., 1966.
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- Jon said...
I would say that what you have is a relic of the cold war. From the ook's date, and the info on teh card I'm pretty sure it's a dictionary some guy in Germany carried while keeping the Godless Communists from storming the west. Although on the bright side, it probably meant all he got was the cold and snow of Germany, instead of getting shot at in Viet Nam.
- April 11, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- Min said...
I admit I'm only a lay-man in this particular subject as small arms are more my forte, but this appears to be an ID chart for WWII era artillery shells, perhaps even ship fired projectiles.
- April 12, 2011 at 12:50 AM
- Min said...
I love a good hunt!
There's your source.
- April 12, 2011 at 5:29 PM
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Nissan's Crash-Free R&D: 7 Cute Robots Mimicking Bees and Fish 105
cartechboy writes "As Nissan develops autonomous cars for its 2020 target date, the company's engineers are modeling the tech after behaviors seen in bumblebees and fish. Nissan actually tests self-navigation algorithms in seven small toy-looking robots called EPORO. The robots have 180-degree vision (modeled after bees) and monitor each others' positions, travel nose to nose and avoid collisions--just like a school of fish. Getting small robots to zip around without bumping into things might be the first step in getting cars to do the same."


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The patch's secondary mission is to give players the ability to launch dedicated servers without requiring Steam to be executed. More information on server functionality can be found on the official Breach forum.
Atomic Games also noted a patch for the game's console version is planned for release soon; however, the developer did not detail what would be the focus of that update.
A breakdown of the patch notes can be found after the break. Breach was released on the Xbox 360 and PC on January 26.
- New features added to the Breach Dedicated Server include
- Dedicated Server no longer requires Steam to be running
- New feature allows configurable ports in Dedicated Server
- Fixes included in the patch
- All known crashes fixed
- Many fixes to reduce lag
- Network performance improved by more than 33%
- Bug that caused Sole Survivor games to end in draw fixed
- Bug that caused invisible canister in Retrieval games fixed
- Bug that caused Vendetta icon to appear incorrectly fixed
- Server Browser can now sort by number of players
- Server Browser can now be manipulated with mouse scroll wheel
- Fixed bugs related to Friendly Fire settings
- Better ability for laggy game to recover when bandwidth improves
- Dedicated Server stability significantly improved


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Alpha Phi Omega 'Lights Up the Lakes'
April 19, 2013
University of Mount Union students and community members joined brothers of Alpha Phi Omega in the first ever 'Light Up the Lakes' at University of Mount Union on April 17 and raised $751.30 for the Alliance Food Pantry.
More than 200 people attended the floating candlelight vigil and lit a candle in memory of their loved ones.
Dan Goswick, a sophomore marketing major and Alpha Phi Omega brother, who organized the event, discussed his thoughts on the successful project.
"This was one of those times where I was very much beside myself. I saw people moved to tears, and it was incredible to hear people's stories," Goswick said. "I'm very thankful for all the support this project received. It truly surpassed my wildest expectations."
This was the first time an event like this has happened at Mount Union's campus and Goswick says he hopes to be able to put the event on again next year. The project was sponsored by Chives, Circulatory Center, Cockrill's Studio and Healthy Heart Healthy Pleasures.


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Gossip Girls is finally over and Leighton Meester is getting rid of her Blair Waldorf image with a very provocative editorial for Flaunt Magazine as the cover star for its The Mother Issue: Blow Your Load.
Shot by Yu Tsai, this photoshoot reminds me of something Helmut Newton would do, and I absolutely love Leighton looking like a high-end model with her jet black bob, it is like she went under a Tara makeover *sorry I am obsessed with America's Next Top Model*.
I like the sexy styling, Robert Behar has done an amazing job, I completely adore the one-sleeved asymmetrical bustier Anthony Vaccarello gown on the cover, it works perfectly sandwiched between two naked models wearing Christian Louboutin brogues.
The rest of the editorial is just as strong with Leighton working a shaggy Mulberry coat, a striking yellow Versace dress, a gorgeous Pucci gown, and uber-sexy heels by Christian Louboutin and Brian Atwood – this is one steamy editorial.
So what do you think of Queen B's raunchy editorial and do you like her Rose Byrne-inspired bob? Plus anyone else a little distracted by the very naked arse on the cover?


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Saturday, October 26, 2013
Bowie-Based Mare Expected To Be Among The Favorites In Filly & Mare Sprint
LAUREL, MD. 10-25-13---Dance to Bristol put in her final work at the Bowie Training Center Friday morning, eight days before the $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita Park. The Ollie Figgins III trainee stopped the clock in 58.60, the fastest drill of the morning at the 5-furlong distance. Regular rider Xavier Perez was aboard.
Dance to Bristol has won seven of her nine starts this year, including three graded stakes races. The daughter of Speightstown began her 4-year old campaign with a second place finish in the What A Summer Stakes at Laurel Park in January.
Then with Perez picking up the mount, the filly reeled off seven straight victories from February through August, including a win in the Skipat Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Preakness weekend and three graded races in New York: Bed Of Roses (G3), Honorable Miss (G2) and Ballerina (G1).
"To have the opportunity to ride a horse of this caliber is a dream come true," Perez said. "We are going to the Super Bowl of racing, going against the best of the best. It is an unbelievable feeling to know that I am going into the race with a horse that has a shot to win the race. We have been competing against most of the same runners next weekend."
The Filly & Mare Sprint is also expected to feature defending champion Groupie Doll and Book Review, who finished behind Dance to Bristol in the Ballerina at Saratoga.
Figgins indicated his star would ship to Southern California tomorrow morning. A victory next Saturday would likely mean an Eclipse Award in the filly and mare sprint division.
"We have a very live shot and I always feel that with her," added Figgins. "Every time she goes to the gate I feel like she is going to be the winner because she gives it her all. It is a great thrill to have a nice horse with the talent to go to New York and win graded races. The Bed of Roses performance was the race where I knew she was a horse of that caliber. It has been a lot of fun."
Dance To Bristol has 10 wins and eight second place finishes in 19 career starts with earnings of $980,880. She has raced nine times in Maryland during her career with five victories and four runner-up finishes. She broke her maiden on Oct. 29, 2011 at Laurel and also captured the 2012 Marshua Stakes at the central Maryland track.
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Spicy Lamb Kebabs with Grapes
Cut lamb across the grain and on a bias into 3/4" thick slices. Cut each slice with the grain into three pieces. The chunks of lamb will be about 1"x 1" x 1".
Rub marinade into lamb and skewer the lamb alternately with seedless grapes. Allow skewers to marinate under refrigeration for a minimum of 1 hour. Preheat the grill to high.
Grill lamb skewers over high heat until nicely colored and cooked medium 2 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a heated serving platter and sprinkle with parsley. Serve hot or at room temperature.
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Question: I read about a fire in a condo recently. No lives were lost but there was serious damage. It turns out that the owners had the required smoke detectors but the batteries were dead. If the alarms had gone off, some of the damage could have been prevented. Can my association do anything to prevent this happening to us?
Answer: Working smoke detectors can go a long way toward saving lives and protecting property in condominium communities, where a fire in one unit can damage other units or endanger lives.
Building codes sometimes require hard-wired smoke detectors. If your local ordinances to not require this, your association could set a smoke detector maintenance policy.
Before you set the policy, check whether your governing documents give you the right to do so. Your documents may already give you the right to set policies as needed to protect the health of members and the safety of your community, or if your state law requires all homes to have operable smoke detectors, and your governing documents say that members must comply with all laws. Check with your attorney if you are not sure whether you have the right to set a smoke detector policy.
A good smoke detector policy should require members to keep all smoke detectors in their units operable at all times and, for battery-operated detectors, to replace batteries as needed. It should also bar members from disabling smoke detectors.
The most important section of the policy would require members, upon moving into their unit, and each year after the first, to submit a signed certificate confirming that all smoke detectors are operable and that they have not removed or disabled any smoke detectors that were in the unit when they bought it.
Associations' documents sometimes give management the right to enter members' condos for certain purposes. If your association has the right, you might want to include in your policies that the association can enter the condo for the sole purpose of inspecting the smoke detectors. If your association's governing documents and state law allows you to fine members for violating association rules, mention in your policy that members who don't maintain their smoke detectors in operable condition or who don't submit an annual certification may be fined.
Also, tell members that if they are fined for not maintaining their smoke detectors or for not submitting an annual certification, they will have a right to a hearing before the board to contest the fine. Consider seeking the advice of an attorney before initiating new smoke detector policies.
Attorney Sylvia Heldreth is a certified specialists in real estate law. Her office is located at 1215 Miramar St., in Cape Coral.
This article is not intended as specific legal advice to anyone and is based upon facts that chance from time to time. Individuals should seek legal counsel before acting upon any matter involving the law.


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Discussion in 'Literature' started by CooperTFN, Sep 18, 2012.
Darth Bane 3: Magic Sithalo
Darth Bane, on the wane, died in pain, trying to get in Zannal's brain
Oh wow, can we have a "summarize EU novels in rhyme" challenge sometime? I'd love to see Darth Plagueis as a sonnet.
Who's Zannal?
The dark lord of the flannel.
Typo, my bad. Its Zannah
I believe that's Lucas you're describing, even though he won't be the Dark Lord for much longer.
Katie Lucas should marry someone from the Steve Jobs estate and suddenly find themselves owners of Disney.
Larry and RC are tied at five. I'm genuinely split myself. One more day.
Two RCs! My mind can't handle it! Wait yes, it can. I didn't post one for this one.
Man, this has been one long day.
*zzzzrnk* ehwha?
Blame Disney.
Well, LarryG has pulled way ahead, so there you go. Now let's see...
The Paradise Snare. Be warned, this was my first SW book. Sentiment abounds.
Han Solo and the Temple of Doom.
OK for real:
Han Solo begins his life as a pilot by working for talking rhinos, who have lured many people to work for them as slaves through their mating ritual sex, and falls in love with a ginger and makes friends with a cat-man.
Han Solo beings his life as a pilot working for some zealot religious beings who only want glitterstim, falls in love with a religious nutter who abandons him on Coruscant as Han enters the Imperial Academy
Han Solo is with a wookiee who is not Chewie, a woman who is not Leia, and pilots a ship that is not the Falcon.
Two in a row! Thanks! The love you all show for me is getting addictive. I did not read Paradise Snare though, so my run is at an end.
Quick! Read it!
Han runs away from being Oliver Twist so that he can join the Imperial Navy, but first he has to go smuggle drugs for a bunch of Hutt-rhinos that have a bunch of addicts working for them -- not addicted to the drugs, but to the good vibes from the Hutt-rhinos and their weirdo cult; Han decides this is stupid and blows town with an addict girl and a giant furry sidekick who's a cat this time around.
Somehow that makes it sound less awesome than the book was. Nice one Havac you destroyed another piece of joy in SW.
And krtmd makes y'all look like punks.
Hutt Gambit.
Why thank you. *blushes*
The Hutt Gambit: Han Solo is with a wookiee who is Chewie, yet another woman who is not Leia, and pilots the Falcon, although he does not own it.
Ann Crispin precedes Luceno by referencing practically every other Star Wars work in existence, while having it serve the plot (and, in some cases, improve the plots of the works referenced) and form a cohesive universe rather than come across as obligatory shout outs; also, Han finally gets his very own walking carpet.
Han Solo manages to win a massive naval victory over the Galactic Empire yet still gets picked to lead the ground team at Endor.


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Watch All the Face-Punches in 'Road House' in 45 Seconds
A lesson in so-bad-it's-good film making, 'Road House' transformed the late Patrick Swayze from the guy who starred in 'Dirty Dancing' into Dalton, the world's most dangerous bar bouncer. Seriously.
In modern-day terms, it would be like Zac Efron starring in a remake of 'Fight Club.' (We apologize in advance in case that movie ever happens.)
Sam Elliot, wrestler Terry Funk and the late Ben Gazzara were also featured in 'Road House,' but the real stars are the dialogue that offers quote after testosterone-filled quote and the constant bar fighting, which you can see below:


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By NAIA Communications and Sports Information Staff
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that the 2014 and 2015 NAIA Men's Golf National Championships will be hosted by The Sun Conference in conjunction with the Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. The 72-hole championship will be played at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla., on May 13-16, 2014, with the following year taking place May 19-22.
"We are tremendously excited to have our Men's Golf National Championships return to Florida," said Jim Carr, NAIA President and CEO. "It's not every day that our student-athletes will have the opportunity to play on a course with the quality of LPGA International, which will make it a memorable experience for all individuals involved. I'm confident that The Sun Conference and the Daytona Beach Area CVB will further enhance the strong tradition of the event."
Florida has welcomed the men's golf national championships on four previous occasions, with the most recent event coming in 2003 at the Matanzas Woods Golf Club in Palm Coast, Fla. Prior to Daytona Beach, the championships spent the last two years at Creekside Golf Club in Salem, Ore.
LPGA International, who since 1994 has served as the home course for the LPGA Tour, is no stranger to NAIA golf, as the course hosted the NAIA Women's National Championships in 2004. In addition to the NAIA, LPGA International – a four-star rated course by Golf Digest – hosts multiple LPGA Tour events and the LPGA Tour Qualifying School.
The Sun Conference was first established as the Florida Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 1990 with nine members. The league, which currently boasts 12 schools, sponsors conference championships in baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track and field, and women's volleyball.
"The 12 members of The Sun Conference are thrilled to host the NAIA Men's Golf National Championships in 2014 and 2015," said The Sun Conference Commissioner Mark Pope. "Since golf is the premier sport in Florida, South Carolina and Georgia, we know that we will have great interest in the Southeast for this event."
I look forward to working with the Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and LPGA International to make this a tremendous success for the NAIA, our participating student-athletes and the community of Daytona Beach."
The Daytona Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is responsible for the advertising and promotion of the Daytona Beach area as a tourism destination. The CVB works with area tourism and hospitality-related businesses, non-profit organizations, and event promoters to represent the area to potential travelers, tour operators, travel agents, meeting planners, and the travel media.
The CVB maintains a staff of approximately 15 full time marketing and administration professionals.
"Everyone at the Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is very excited and honored to receive the news that Daytona Beach will host the 2014 NAIA Men's Golf National Championships," said the Daytona Beach Area CVB President and CEO Jeffrey Hentz. "Our Destination continues to attract nationally recognized sports organizations and competitive arts events from throughout the U.S., and securing an event of this stature clearly solidifies Daytona Beach as a national player in this market segment."
I'm confident our World-Class Destination will provide the ideal backdrop for this outstanding event and one that our entire community will embrace and welcome all participants with the warmest hospitality."
The NAIA has sponsored men's golf since 1952, when its inaugural championship in the sport was held at the Abilene Country Club in Abilene, Texas. Oklahoma City, which won its second-consecutive team title in 2013, leads the NAIA with nine titles. Currently, 175 institutions sponsor the sport of men's golf. For a complete list of participating schools, click here.
Since 1937, the NAIA has administered programs and championships in proper balance with the overall educational experience. In 2000, the NAIA reaffirmed its purpose to enhance the character-building aspects of sport. Through the Champions of Character program, the NAIA seeks to create an environment in which every student-athlete, coach, official and spectator is committed to the true spirit of competition through five core values: integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership.
To learn more about NAIA men's golf, click here.
To learn more about The Sun Conference, click here.
To learn more about the Daytona Beach Area CVB, click here.


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A west Alabama driver is lucky to be alive after his car was hit by a train.
At the time of the crash, investigators say the motorist was crossing train tracks at the intersection of Strawberry and Franklin Street in Demopolis.
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Nokia Releases Qt 4.6 6
Lawand writes "Nokia today released Qt 4.6, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI framework. Featuring new platform support, powerful new graphical capabilities and support for multi-touch and gestures, and this is the first release to include significant code contributed from the community. This release introduces support for the Symbian platform with integration for the S60 framework, expanding the addressable market for Qt applications by over 130 million Symbian devices."


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Ohio man charged with trying to buy girl for $400
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- February 13, 2014 - 11:55 AM
CLEVELAND — An Ohio man has been indicted on federal charges of trying to pay an undercover officer $400 to buy a 10-year-old girl to keep at home for sex, the government said Thursday.
The three-count indictment against Robert Thomas Jr., 37, of Cuyahoga Falls near Akron, was announced by the U.S. attorney's office and the FBI.
Thomas also was charged with using the Internet to try to entice a girl to have sex with him and downloading images of minors involved in sex acts.
"The conduct laid out in the indictment should sound an alarm for all parents," U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach said. "We will remain vigilant in protecting our children from predators."
Thomas' attorney did not immediate respond to messages left at his law office for comment.
Thomas was arrested last month after allegedly making an online request to arrange a marriage between him and a girl. An undercover officer in Alliance said Thomas told him he wanted to keep the girl at home for sex.
Thomas came to the attention of an Alliance officer who works with the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force when Thomas allegedly asked on an online site if anyone was willing to arrange a "marriage" of their daughter.
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LANCASTER -- Police are expected to charge a Clinton woman in a hit-and-run accident that seriously injured a 12-year-old Lancaster boy Wednesday night.
Julie Gallagher, 44, of Clinton, allegedly hit the boy around 6 p.m. as he was riding his bicycle home through the Mill Street Extension neighborhood. Police have not released his name, but said the injuries he suffered are "very serious in nature." He is being treated at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.
Several Lancaster and Clinton residents "flooded both police agencies" with information regarding the vehicle and driver, according to a press release.
"Without the assistance of these concerned citizens, the whereabouts of the suspected vehicle and the identity of the operator of the car may have been greatly postponed," the release stated.
Gallagher's vehicle has been taken as evidence.
Police say charges are expected today, but they have not said what the charges will be.


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kubatyszko wrote:Don't encourage him that much or we never get newish firefox on IRIX
"People achieve the best results not knowing something is difficult or even impossible"...
It's not my intention to be negative or discouraging.
I find having realistic expectations about the time required helps me immensely. If I go in thinking something will be a quick and easy task, I'll very quickly get discouraged if it's not. If I know it's going to be difficult, I'm more apt to slog through just for the sense of accomplishment that comes at the end.
I prefer the quote, "to be forewarned is to be forearmed". Better to prepared for the hard work than surprised by it!


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DETROIT (AP) -- Authorities say three people have been arrested and at least 30 vehicles have been impounded after an overnight crackdown on drag racing in Detroit.
The Wayne County sheriff's office says shots were fired at one point late Friday. Gunfire has been a common complaint from residents. The races have been linked to violence, even death.
Sheriff Benny Napoleon says he won't tolerate loud cars and "lewd, drug-fueled behavior." He says residents in some west side neighborhoods feel terrorized.
The sheriff's office worked with Detroit police on the crackdown.