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ORLANDO, Fla. - George Zimmerman's girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, described Zimmerman as alone, depressed and fascinated by guns in the days after after his acquittal on charges in connection with the death of Trayvon Martin.
[PICS: Zimmerman arrested | 1st appearance | VIDEO: Zimmerman released | Court proceeding | Local 6 report | AUDIO: Girlfriend calls 911 | Zimmerman calls 911 ]
Scheibe and her mother, Hope Mason, spoke with Local 6 on and off through text messages and phone calls over the past three weeks as they talked about participating in an on camera interview about Scheibe's relationship with Zimmerman.
That interview never materialized, but the conversations provided extensive details about the couple's relationship and Zimmerman's life after the verdict.
Scheibe first entered the public eye as the mystery blonde seen in news helicopter video consoling George Zimmerman after that infamous iPad incident with his wife, Shellie.
By the time of that September incident, Shellie had filed for divorce, and George Zimmerman had started dating Scheibe. Zimmerman eventually moved into her home.
But soon, Scheibe said her relationship with Zimmerman decayed as he fought bouts of depression. She said she feared him, but said she stayed with him because she thought she could help him.
By the end of October, Scheibe said she demanded that Zimmerman get professional help for depression. She claims that in response, Zimmerman moved all of her furniture, clothes and food out of her Seminole County home.
"She's scared is the bottom line," Scheibe's mother, Mason, wrote in a text message.
Scheibe and her mother started to seek interviews with national media outlets. Mason said she hoped by Scheibe doing the interview, she would force Zimmerman to get help - and the attention would keep Scheibe safe.
"Things have gotten hotter on her end. He has shown up two times already today to her house, so we need to make a move sooner than later so she stays safe," Mason wrote in a text message.
But soon after, Scheibe said she and Zimmerman apologized to one another, and he moved the furniture back in.
But Scheibe said the relationship continued to be volatile. She said at times she feared for her life, and other times "everything was fine."
After one argument with Zimmerman, Scheibe said she went to her mother's house to get away from him.
While there, Mason said Scheibe's daughter received a text message from George Zimmerman. Mason said that message was a still image from an intimate home video of Scheibe and Zimmerman.
"He's now threatened her in writing and even sent a portion of the video to her baby girl," Mason wrote in a text message.
But still Scheibe stayed with Zimmerman and the couple reunited.
Just last Thursday, Mason was still seeking a national interview. But this time she was promising both George Zimmerman and Samantha Scheibe.
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That interview never happened, and just four days later, Scheibe called 911 saying Zimmerman had threatened with a gun.
Samantha Scheibe's mother says her daughter did not hunt down George Zimmerman to create a relationship with the man found not guilty in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Scheibe said she first met Zimmerman more than 12 years ago when she was in her late teens -- before Zimmerman was married to Shellie. Scheibe says they dated for a short time.
Even though their relationship didn't work out at that time, Scheibe says she was a constant friend to George -- and to Shellie -- throughout their marriage.
When the relationship between George and Shellie started to sour, Scheibe says she stepped in to "be there" for George as a friend, and it was during that time a romance began to kindle.
She echoed a sentiment about Zimmerman that many testified about during his trial: George was a nice, warm man and would help you with whatever you needed help with.
He was "Georgie," she said
Scheibe says George and Shellie's relationship had soured by February 2012.
On February 26 -- the night of the shooting -- she says Shellie and George had gotten into a heated argument. Shellie had left to spend the night elsewhere, and that's why she wasn't home when the shooting happened.
Talk of divorce had already started, she says.
During his murder trial, George and Shellie shared a home owned by Shellie's parents in Lake Mary.
While they arrived and departed the courthouse together everyday, Schiebe says they were not "a couple," in the traditional sense. Shellie and George were living very separate lives, not speaking much even though they continued to live together, she says.
Even though his parents testified on his behalf during the trial, George didn't speak much with his parents, she says.
Scheibe says after the jury returned a not guilty verdict on all charges stemming from the shooting of Trayvon Martin, George began to change.
When the media fervor surrounding him went away, she and her mother say Zimmerman spiraled into what she calls a very deep depression. She said doctors prescribed medication to help him with the bouts of sadness and despair he was feeling, but he got to a point where he stopped taking it.
She says George would spend days in bed, refusing to get up and refusing to take his medication. She claims the depression got worse.
Scheibe says there was time when she walked into his bedroom, and she saw an empty bottle of sleeping pills on his sidetable. She claims he overdosed. She wasn't able to revive him and watched his breathing.
When he finally did wake up, he started crying and eventually put a gun inside his mouth, telling her he was ready to end it all. She says she talked him out of it.
Scheibe says Zimmerman threatened to take his own life on more than one occasion, and she says the threats seem to come about when he was not one of the news headlines.
She says she believes Zimmerman enjoyed the attention he was getting in the news, while also knowing he wasn't able to carve out a "normal existence" if he was always a headline.
Also after the verdict, Scheibe said Zimmerman formed an inseparable bond with his dog, Oso. Zimmerman wouldn't go anywhere Oso couldn't go at a moment's notice, which is why he drove virtually everywhere he went, including Texas, where he again made headlines after being pulled over in a traffic stop by police.
George's televised fight with his estranged wife Shellie happened on Sept. 9, 2013, at a home they had rented from her mother, Machelle Dean.
Scheibe says she and Zimmerman had spent the morning at Kel Tec, a gun manufacturer in Cocoa. On their way back to the Orlando area, Scheibe says Zimmerman accessed the home surveillance cameras at the Lake Mary home belonging to her mother using an app on his phone. She says he saw Shellie was moving her things out, but she says she also say him moving things that belonged to him.
That's when they drove to the house, and the fight escalated, Scheibe said.
Scheibe says she watched as Shellie hit George over the head repeatedly with her iPad. That's when she said George took the iPad away from her, broke it over his knee and threw it to the ground.
Scheibe claims George did have a gun on him that day, and it wasn't in the trunk of his car.
Scheibe refused to give police a statement that day, as reflected in the police report obtained by Local 6.
No charges were ever filed, and the case was closed.
At his first appearance Tuesday on charges connected to the alleged domestic violence incident with Scheibe, Zimmerman's lawyers said the first they had heard about the allegations that Zimmerman had suicidal thoughts was at the hearing.
"I do not know if it's true or not," Jeff Dowdy of the Seminole County Public Defender's Office said in response to a reporter's question about Zimmerman's alleged suicidal thoughts.
In his 911 call during the Monday incident with Scheibe, Zimmerman said, Scheibe had "gone crazy on me."
Zimmerman told the dispatcher that he believed Scheibe was pregnant with their child. Seminole County Sheriff's officials say Scheibe is not pregnant.
Zimmerman said Scheibe was the one who smashed things in the house during the argument. "I guess she thought I was going to argue with her. But she's pregnant. I'm not going to put her through that kind of stress," Zimmerman said.
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This week, the huge asteroid Pallas reaches opposition, being opposite to the sun in Earth's sky, making it a prime target for avid skywatchers with telescopes.
Asteroids are not as well behaved as planets, and their orbits are often far from the plane of the ecliptic. This is clearly the case with Pallas, because it reaches opposition in the unlikely constellation of Serpens Caput, very close to Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. This is a pretty circlet of stars just to the left of Arcturus in northern hemisphere skies.
To spot Pallas tonight, look for the brightest star, called either Alphecca or Gemma, in Corona Borealis. Pallas is an 8th magnitude object just south of this star. [How to spot Pallas.]
If you make a sketch of the star field with binoculars tonight and repeat this over the next few nights, you'll clearly see which "star" is moving: This is the best way to identify an asteroid. Alternatively, use planetarium software to make a chart of the area of Corona Borealis and identify Pallas from that. Binoculars or a small telescope are essential for spotting this faint object.
Pallas is the second largest asteroid, 326 miles (524 km) in diameter. Or is it? Vesta might dispute this claim for, although it's slightly smaller in diameter at 318 miles (512 km), it is much more massive due to a much higher density.
Legacy of Pallas
Pallas' history is closely tied with the discovery of the first known asteroids centuries ago.
In the year 1800, the solar system was a pretty simple place. There was the newly discovered planet Uranus, making a total of seven planets, plus the sun, moon, and a number of comets.
Within a few years, the solar system became a much more complicated place. On the first day of the new century, January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a new "planet" which he named Ceres. A little over a year later, on March 28, 1802, Heinrich Olbers discovered another new "planet" which he named Pallas after Pallas Athena, another name for the goddess Athena.
Olbers is most famous for his paradox, which states that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the supposition of an infinite and eternal static universe.
These discoveries were followed by Juno in 1804 and Vesta in 1807, the latter also being discovered by Olbers.
Astronomers were divided as to whether these tiny objects were planets or something different, called "asteroids" by some because they were all so small that they appeared as stars in the telescopes of the day. It was nearly four decades before a fifth asteroid was found.
That find was almost totally overshadowed by the discovery a year later of the planet Neptune, and asteroids have been relegated to a minor role in the solar system ever since. We now know thousands of them, but the four discovered in the first decade of the 19th century remain the largest and brightest.
Other tantalizing sky targets
While you're out looking for Pallas, take the time to look for some deep sky objects. May and June are the months to hunt down galaxies but here are a couple of easier targets to start with, the globular clusters Messier 3 and Messier 5, both of which are well placed right now and make fine sights in a small telescope. Slideshow: Month in Space: January 2014
Messier 3 is the easiest to find, about half way between the bright star Arcturus and Cor Caroli, the smallish star all by itself tucked under the handle of the Big Dipper. Get your scope pointed at the right spot using your finder, then sweep the area with your low power eyepiece until you spot a ball of fuzz. That's what it will look like at first, but when you switch to a more powerful eyepiece, you'll see that it is actually a swarm of tiny stars.
Messier 5 is a bit trickier to find because it's in an area without many bright stars to guide you. Use Arcturus and Spica as your guides, the two brightest spring stars. You find them by extending the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper: "Arc to Arcturus, then speed on to Spica."
Make an imaginary equilateral triangle with Arcturus and Spica as two of the corners, then imagine the third corner to their lower left, and sweep in that area with your low power eyepiece until you spot M5, which looks a lot like M3. These are two of the finest globular clusters in the sky, each with at least a hundred thousand stars in them.
Once you've located these two clusters, you might try for a couple of galaxies. Messier 65 and 66 in Leo are among the brightest galaxies in the sky.
They are tucked just under the right angled triangle which forms the left half of the constellation Leo. In fact they are just below the star that marks the right angle. Look for two faint smudges of gray in your low power eyepiece.
Finding deep sky objects is much easier if you use a good star atlas and a pair of 7x50 or 10x50 binoculars to scout out the locations first.
A dark clear sky is another essential: deep sky hunting can't be done under suburban skies until you really know what you're looking for. I recommend Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas (Sky) and Terence Dickinson's book NightWatch (Firefly) as guidebooks.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
The Golden Age of Giant Woman Movies
The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman (1958) It's hard to start a good Golden Age with such a bad movie, and even most of My People agree, this was a bad movie. It's very short but it feels longer than it is, because you wait around forever through a bad soap opera to get to the scenes where a giant Allison Hayes trashes a tiny town looking for her cheating little pipsqueak of a husband. The special effects are beyond awful, but if there is anything in this quickly and poorly made movie that can be called "interesting", it's interesting that Miss Hayes plays the giantess scenes nearly silently. You can hear her voice some times when she is off screen, but when on screen, she has this impassive look on her face you see here. She shows almost no emotion, but it feels like contempt and disdain for the tiny little mice that look like humans scurrying around beneath her.
The Thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959) This film is famous only as an answer to a trivia question. What movie did Lou Costello make without Bud Abbott? He made this in 1959, two years after splitting with Abbott, when tax problems made Costello desperate for money.
Lou plays Artie Pinsetter, a junk collector who hopes to become a famous inventor. His girlfriend Dorothy Provine is turned into a giant, and he still wants to marry her. Good on ya, Artie!
For My People, the problem is that Ms. Provine spends most of the movie whining about being big. She has a short rampage scene where she lords it over the little people in the town where she lives, but most of the rest of the movie her character is just mopey, and that kind of spoils the mood.
The best known of the rest of the cast are Gale Gordon, playing a pompous windbag, and Charles Lane, playing a miserly curmudgeon. In other words, Gordon and Lane played the roles they played for their entire careers.
Costello died the same year the movie was released and never reconciled with his longtime partner Bud Abbott.
The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) It's a bit of a stretch calling this a giant woman movie, but I include it and a later entry on the list because of the work of special effects artist Ray Harryhausen. Compared to special effects today, stuff from the sixties looks incredibly fake and cheesy, but back in the day, Harryhausen did effects work that was much better than most of his competitors. He is most famous for his stop action animation work, but he also did a lot of work with special effects shots that included giants and little people interacting.
The three worlds mentioned in the title are Gulliver's own world in England, tiny Lilliput and gigantic Brobdingnag. Most of the scenes with Gulliver and a giant are opposite Sherry Alberoni as Glumdalclitch, who was just a kid when this was made. I may be a weirdo, but I'm not actually into giant jail bait. There is a scene with Gulliver and the Queen, but this movie is the only one on the list where the giantesses are not played by fabulous babes.
Later in the 1960s, Sherry Alberoni had a regular role on Family Affair as oldest sister Cissy's friend Sharon.
The Temptation of Doctor Antonio from Boccaccio '70 (1962) The movie was originally supposed to be a collection of four short films about sex and money, directed by four different Italian directors. The problem was that Federico Fellini didn't keep his segment that short, so one of the four was dropped from the version shown in movie houses. It has been restored on the version of the film you can now get on DVD.
Long story short. A prudish man who lives in Rome is offended by a billboard put across from his apartment, with a voluptuous Anita Ekberg lounging on a huge white sofa in an ad for milk. She escapes from the poster as a giantess and torments the little fellow throughout the streets of Rome.
The special effects here are fairly good, and Miss Ekberg has a much sexier attitude than all of her gigantic predecessors. This easily has the best production values of all the films on the list and the most competent director. It was also the movie Matty Boy first saw, probably at the age of eight or nine on TV, where he realized that the idea of giant women gave him funny feelings down there.
Okay, too much information. Sorry.
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Like Three Worlds of Gulliver, this movie has special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Also like Three Worlds, it's a bit of a stretch to put this film on a list of giant woman movies. In the earlier film, there are no giant fabulous babes. In this one, Honor Blackman as the goddess Hera is clearly a giant fabulous babe, but she only has one short scene with tiny Jason visiting Mount Olympus. When I was a kid, this was the only giantess movie I actually saw on the big screen. Everything else was on TV years after it was released.
Village of the Giants (1965) Here it is, the swan song for giant woman movies. It's a monster movie, it's a beach party movie, it's two great tastes that go great together. The two actors from the film that were best known at the time were probably Tommy Kirk and Johnny Crawford. The two best known names today are Beau Bridges and Ron Howard. But if you have seen the movie or the trailer or the poster, you will know that the film really starred Joy Harmon and Her Very Large Breasts.
I wrote a post back in 2007 that if she were magically transported from her heyday to present day Hollywood, Joy Harmon would be derided as being too fat. I have never, ever heard one of My People, or any heterosexual male, for that matter, say that Joy Harmon was too fat. She had a face that was like Julie Christie's, big eyes and a wide mouth, but she wasn't as talented an actress. Like many starlets, she was used as scenery, and I for one certainly admired the view.
Special effects are better today, but no one is making movies about giant women anymore. The most My People get are videos, and while some of them are pretty good, I would like to see a real giant woman movie on the big screen.
C'mon, Hollywood! Throw us a bone. We are an incredibly loyal audience and relatively easily amused.
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- Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein said...
Mmmmmmm, giant women.
- March 22, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Well, the movie Monsters vs. Aliens has a giant lady in it voiced by Reese Witherspoon. It isn't live action, but I believe she is the main character.
- March 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM
- Matty Boy said...
Yes, Monsters Vs. Aliens is the closest thing to an actual giant woman movie in many years. She's on a super hero team, so she's more like one of the main characters, but at least it's something.
- March 23, 2009 at 2:43 AM
- Karen Zipdrive said...
I dated a couple of six footers in my day and that's a bit too much woman. Too much ground to cover, if you get my drift. ;)
- March 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM
- BobManDo said...
Ok what about "Bee Movie" ? Srunken man (as bee) not Giant women... Maybe furriers or "insectiers" would enjoy. It was fun never the less even if it doesn't fit the mold.
- April 3, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- bogone said...
You should check out Garganta: The Amazing Colossal Woman from Bill Black. It's an homage to Attack of the 50ft Woman. He's got several other giant women movies in the works as well.
- May 3, 2009 at 7:27 AM
There was the 1960s Tv series Irwin Allen's Land of the Giants. Episodes can still be seen on Hulu.com
- October 28, 2010 at 7:28 PM
- Matty Boy said...
Yes, anonymous, but "Land of the Giants" was a show full of missed opportunities.
- October 28, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- OzoneTom said...
Heidi Klum was one of many giants in "Ella Enchanted".
- April 2, 2012 at 10:38 AM
- Matty Boy said...
@OzoneTom: Quite true. There have been some major cameos by giant women in live action movies this century, notably in Dude, Where's My Car?, Bedazzled and Ella Enchanted.
- April 2, 2012 at 10:54 AM
- Tywest said...
Ive been making these clips for over 5 years now.. --TywestVideos---
- July 18, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Matty Boy said...
Hi, Tywest. I've seen your stuff and it certainly makes sense for you to put a link on this post.
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The anti-trust arm of the European Commission today denied that it had reached any provisional decision in its ongoing probe of Intel's marketing and sales practices.
EC competition spokesman Jonathan Todd said: "There is no provisional or internal decision on this case. The investigation is very much active and ongoing," reports Reuters.
He slammed The Financial Times Deutschland newspaper, which cited Brussels sources, for providing misleading information and described the report as "irresponsible journalism".
The newspaper had said that the European Union anti-trust authority planned to take action against Intel's marketing and sales practices by this summer. It reckoned that decision had already been made by EU commissioner Neelie Kroes because the EC had gathered enough evidence against the world's biggest chip maker following a lawsuit by rival AMD.
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Texans defensive end J.J. Watt's attempt to catch 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith for the NFL sack lead was bolstered when the league's official statisticians reviewed the tape from Sunday's win over the Titans and gave Watt another sack.
The official scorers had originally said that when Titans quarterback Jake Locker slipped, fell and fumbled just as Watt was pressuring him, that it wasn't a sack for Watt because Locker dropped the ball before Watt touched him. After reviewing the tape, that was reversed, and Watt now has 16.5 sacks.
Smith still leads the league with 17.5 sacks, while Denver's Von Miller is third with 15 sacks. Those three, who were among the first 11 picks in last year's NFL draft, will be terrorizing NFL quarterbacks for years to come.
And those three also may be chasing Michael Strahan's NFL record of 22.5 sacks in a season. Smith is on pace to break the record and finish with 23.5, while Watt is on pace to fall just short with 22, and Miller is currently on pace for 20. Only eight players in NFL history — Strahan, Jared Allen, Mark Gastineau, Reggie White, Chris Doleman, Lawrence Taylor, Derrick Thomas and DeMarcus Ware — have ever had 20 sacks in a season.
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Deer season finally kicked into gear with a burst of cold weather, West Alabama deer processors say.
TUSCALOOSA | Deer season finally kicked into gear with a burst of cold weather, West Alabama deer processors say.
"Starting the weekend of the SEC Championship Game, we had 10 days of 75 degrees, and that hurt," William Bambarger of Wild Game Processing in Eutaw said. "But I started out way ahead, and I'm back ahead of where I was last year, and last year was the best year I've had."
Bambarger processed more than 1,000 deer last year and thinks he will again this year.
"They're fat and they're healthy," Bambarger said. "The weather's been giving them a fit, but we're ahead of where we were last year."
Darrell Cook of Stump Hollow Deer Processing, located in north Hale County on Highway 25, noticed that business has picked up.
"This is the time to go," Cook said. "They've been bringing them in right and left ever since that cold weather came in. Deer are really moving. It seems like they're moving right up in the middle of the day."
Chris Grant of Grant's Deer Processing in Jena said a slow year got a jump start.
"A lot of people said in the beginning they weren't seeing anything," Grant said. "I think it was because we hadn't had any cold weather. The first two weeks of December, I said, 'This isn't looking good.' When we got closer to Christmas, it exploded."
That's normal for West Alabama, Cook said. The number of deer he's taken in indicates he'll get about the same number he usually processes.
"It was time," Cook said. "It usually hits a little before Christmas."
In addition to colder weather, Grant said he's seen signs the deer are rutting.
"Everybody we're talking to says they're starting to chase a little," Grant said.
Customers aren't sharing a lot of information about where they're killing deer. But indications are that they are hunting on food plots and other openings, Grant said.
"Deer appear to be feeding mostly in food plots now," he said. "But they were fat to begin the year. There must have been a pretty good crop of acorns. We haven't seen any skinny deer. They look healthy."
As Christmas approached, a higher percentage of the deer brought in were bucks, Grant said.
The bow season yielded a good harvest this year and the youth hunt appeared to be successful. But right after the first of the season, the number of deer brought in decreased.
"As far as the volume of year, it's been slow," Grant said. "I've talked to other processor, and they say they've only had about half of the deer they had last year. We're not off that much."
The recent push gives him reason for optimism.
Normally, January is our best month, so we're looking forward to what that brings," he said.
For Cook, the push began the day after Christmas.
"Wednesday when it was so windy one of our customers said he saw more that day than any other day," Cook said.
The deer don't seem to be coming from any particular area. Hunting success seems to be fairly evenly distributed.
Deer are fat, and he's seen some good weights. His largest deer weighed 233 pounds and several more have come in at between 190 and 200 pounds. He has caped out 15 to 20 deer so far for mounting.
Cook also believes the deer are rutting now.
"Their necks are swollen up," he said. "They're in full rut around here."
Earlier in the season, deer were feeding mostly on acorns, Cook said. A few deer still have acorns in their stomachs. But beginning about two weeks ago, deer appeared to be drifting toward food plots. Many appear to be eating natural browse as well.
"Bucks aren't eating much right now," Cook said. "They've got something else on their mind."
Cook also processes hogs and hunters appear to be having good success with them as well, he said.
Bambarger noticed that the number of bucks brought in picked up during the past week.
"The rut has started and the cold weather made a big difference," Bambarger said.
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial for giving hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks entered its second week Monday in a fresh spotlight cast by a brand-new leak by another low-level intelligence employee.
Like Manning, Edward Snowden could find himself hauled into court by the U.S. government after he unmasked himself Sunday as the leaker who exposed the nation's secret phone and Internet surveillance programs to reporters.
Legal experts closely following both cases said they were shocked to find out young, low-ranking people had such access to powerful government secrets. Manning was 22 when he turned over the military and diplomatic cables about three years ago; Snowden is 29.
"In that respect, these cases suggest we should be much more careful about who is given security clearances," said David J.R. Frakt, a former military prosecutor and defense lawyer who has taught at several law schools.
At the same time, legal experts saw differences between the two cases, namely that Manning's secret-spilling was more scattershot, while Snowden appeared more selective.
"I'm not awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom here," Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale Law School, said of Snowden. "I'm just saying you could say it is something more akin to educating the American public about sensitive surveillance issues that have some level of First Amendment concern attached to them."
As for how Snowden's revelation will affect the Manning case, Fidell said it probably won't influence the military judge, who is hearing the case without a jury, but "it ratchets up the entire subject in the public eye." Fidell said it could spur outrage about government secrecy in general, but could also underscore the dangers of leaks — and that, he said, won't help Manning.
"It's a reminder that if what Manning did and what Snowden did is OK, then it's basically every man for himself," Fidell said, adding that national security would end up with "more holes than cheese."
Manning is charged under federal espionage and computer fraud laws. The most serious charge against him is aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence. Testimony was expected to continue Tuesday.
As the trial opened last week, prosecutors said they would show that some of the secrets fell into the hands of Osama bin Laden himself. Manning's attorney said he was young and naive, but a good-intentioned soldier who wanted to make the world a better place by exposing the way the U.S. government was conducting itself.
Snowden said his motives were similar but told The Guardian newspaper of London: "I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest."
Manning never publicly acknowledged his actions until more than two years after his arrest. He was seized only after an informant turned him in. Snowden is hiding out in Hong Kong, perhaps eventually hoping for asylum somewhere.
At Manning's trial Monday, his defense team won an intense battle over the admissibility of a piece of evidence supporting his claim that he leaked secrets to expose wrongdoing by the U.S. military and State Department.
The evidence was WikiLeaks' "Most Wanted Leaks of 2009." Army criminal investigator Mark Mander testified he found several versions of the list, including one prefaced by an explanation that the records were sought by "journalists, activists, historians, lawyers, police or human-rights investigators." That's the version the defense sought to admit; prosecutors offered a version without the preface. They objected strenuously to the defense's version but the military judge, Col. Denise Lind, said both versions were equally relevant.
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Twenty grams lighter and markedly cheaper than a recently tested titanium model, One23's composite external bearing bottom bracket has some interesting features but will have greatest appeal amongst budget conscious riders of moderate weight seeking a fit and forget Shimano compatible alternative. That said, I reckon it's capable of churning up to ten thousand plus miles before pensioning off.
Sealed cartridge bearings turn smoothly and should prove dependable in hard service although they lack the outright refinement of the ceramic type and aren't replaceable. However, our test model bedded in after a hundred or so miles and with careful installation, immersion in gloop and other casual neglect hasn't revealed any obvious weaknesses.
Installation procedure is identical to Shimano and other pattern designs but greater care is required when fitting the aluminium cups and a thorough application of stout grease is recommended-especially on tourers, crossers and trainers that are ridden long and hard. The composite mid section certainly trims some fat and although the distributor assures us there's no upper weight limit, riders over 85 kilos might be better served elsewhere.
Despite my initial reservations there's been no unnerving squeaks or creaks even climbing out of the saddle with my feet dancing on the pedals*, although it has to remembered, at a modest 70 kilos I don't tax components in quite the same way as bigger, more powerfully built brethren. While happy to churn four seasons' road miles, I'm not so confident of its staying power for regular, competitive cross racing.
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Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The One23 is an external bearing bottom bracket with a transparent, composite centre which looks very fetching while shaving a ferw grams into the bargain. Primarily intended as a road component, it tackles other disciplines too. However, in my opinion, it's best for riders not exceeding 85 kilos
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Standard sealed (non replaceable)cartridge bearings, 68mm shell, composite centre to keep weight low.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
There's no doubt the One23 feels every bit as smooth as others at this end of the market, although it took our test model a hundred miles before the bearings bedded in. Performance is generally very good with no apparent contamination from gloop and grime but remember to apply thick grease to the alloy threads and I have small reservations concerning longer term durability for competitive cross and similar duties.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Low weight and curious, eye-catching design.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Bearings could've been just a touch smoother.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Possibly
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes, just so long as they weren't too big
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Age: 35 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
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Last evening, I had an interesting meeting with a 'friend' who is also a local entrepreneur where I live. We had met after some months, and we chatted about many things - and he shared his travails with various govt agencies to make his venture grow... Some excerpts from our conversations (not verbatim, but as I remember them... and do convey the gist):
He: "It is very difficult to grow and expand... There is so much corruption here in these states in the East. One has to pay for anything to move."
Me: "What about your expansions elsewhere? In the western and southern states? I understand things are much better there. No?"
He: "Oh yes, much better there! I have been able to move much faster... which actually is a pity! This is my state - I was born and brought-up here - and I am not able to do much here - at least not as much as I would like to do."
Me: "You mean that this part of the country is more corrupt than those states..."
He: "Oh, no!!... They are as much corrupt and need bribes - in fact, more! - sometime they ask for more than what they ask for here..."
Me: "Then...? - this puzzled me.
He: "oh, there! - there at least, if you give them the "Speed Money", your work gets done. Over here, even that does not work."
Me: "meaning?..."
He: "Arre bhai!.. Over there, if you pay bribe, there is certain amount of honesty; they deliver what they promise... At least, there is no corruption in corruption there..."
We had a nice evening together, but I came back with a couple of queries in my mind:
What kind of society we have become (or were always), where:
Don't know, really!... Good night!
[NOTE: Over last 30yrs or so, since I started working, I have had the benefit of knowing, befriending and getting acquainted with very wide bandwidth of people - ranging from students, factory artisans, grassroot activists, entrepreneurs... to some who are CEOs. They have been nice to have remembered me over decades, and when we meet we meet as friends... With some I have differed on issues, but have always found them well-meaning, honest people with their own issues in life - as all of us have.
Some of those interactions have created dissonance in me, but I have also learned from those differences... And in any case, I have emerged wiser through those... So, in some ways, they have been my teachers to help me understand life (within and around me) - because they raised questions for me...
...this interaction was one of the many of those!]


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text: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 APTA-FSBPT Collaboration: Developing Models of Continuing Competence For many years, APTA and the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy (FSBPT) have discussed and collaborated on continuing competence. Following the publication of a joint paper in 2010 to generate discussion on continuing competence and to move the conversation forward, members of APTA and FSBPT boards of directors met in early in 2011 to discuss several topics, including continuing competence. On Monday, APTA and FSBPT sent a joint communication to members that provided the 2011 discussion topics and outlined APTA's and FSBPT's preferred approach to developing models of continuing competence. The communication also provides information on voluntary tools that FSBPT has developed for state licensing boards. For further information or to ask questions, contact Janet Bezner at firstname.lastname@example.com or Susan Layton at email@example.com. Comments Continuing competance has been a discussion point since the middle to late 1990's. Then as now, the discussion became a bit warm when the suggestion was made that PTs might be required to retake the NPTE to continue work. In many cases, niche practices and specialization has focused our knowledge base and has made the entire body of knowledge in Physical Therapy more remote and probably stored in a memory buffer somewhere in our brains. If the FSBPT and the APTA do require that PTs re-test, I am hopeful that it will be a test that allows the PT to test within their area of practice - an orthopedic test for orthopedic PTs, a cardiopulmonary test for cardiopulmonary PTs. Even doing this will be hard becuase so many of us are fairly diverse in our specialization - women's health, wound care, fitness/wellness, and diabetes care, education and treatment to name but a few. So, I hope that a great deal of wisdom will be exercised in the decision to re-test the entire profession. Dave Arnall Posted by David Arnall on 1/27/2012 12:47 PM I agree with Mr. Arnall's statement. As a licensed and practicing PT since graduating in 1979 I would be hard pressed to pass a test that included knowledge that I have long since forgotten because of my specialization in OMPT. Let's all hope a great deal of thought and wisdom is exercised... Posted by Michael Beauvais on 1/28/2012 11:51 AM I retired at age 65 and worked in the last several years with Cerebral Palsy children, stroke patients,spinal cord injured and other Neuro patients and did keep up by attending any seminars on these subjects. It makes sense that many different tests will have to be contructed and will be a big job. I've known PT's who have not taken any Continuing Education Courses and felt we should have been required to do so. Posted by Shirley Nasby on 1/28/2012 3:01 PM Because many or most of us have developed specialty areas of practice, repeating a general test periodically would be counter-productive. I know of no other equivalent profession (e.g. medicine, nursing) that requires this. the current practice of requiring continued competence through approved professional education is sufficient. The change I would like to see is that this approval occur at a national level (as with OT); since it is quite onerous for both the providers & practitioners when approval must be sought in each state. Posted by Charles Costello on 1/30/2012 10:43 AM Related to the issue of licensing boards requiring licensees to take an exam as a part of the requirements for re licensure, please read the paper mentioned in the e-mail communication related to continuing competence. You can find it at this link: http://www.apta.org/ContinuingCompetence/ In the paper, pros and cons of different types of assessments are described, starting on page 8, including asking licensees to take an exam. There are no states that currently require PT or PTA licensees to take the board exam for re-licensure. Having said that, licensing boards are stepping up their requirements in terms of asking the licensees to demonstrate that they have maintained their competence. This issue is discussed further in the paper and you may find the information helpful. Posted by News Now staff on 1/30/2012 10:53 AM


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If you're not familiar with the world of political consulting, The Parkside Group is a major player in organizing and running political campaigns – as well as very busy government lobbyists - throughout the city, but is a special darling of the Queens County Democratic Party, whose preferred candidates often turn to Parkside to handle the business of getting them elected to office.
Some of their clients this year included Queens state senators Joseph Addabbo and Tony Avella, among others that "won big!"
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Irish lineout head and shoulders above the rest
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Ireland's Paul O'Connell claims a lineout during his side's recent Six Nations clash with France in Paris © Getty Images
The modern-day lineout is a sanitised affair, aeons apart from the set-piece as it existed in the amateur era. For those who don't remember the old days, a viewing of the famous 1973 clash between the All Blacks and Barbarians - as well as showcasing some wonderful running rugby - emphasises the morass that was the amateur lineout.
Forwards lined up shoulder-to-shoulder and, though calls were made, the hooker's throw was very much on an 'Scramble!' basis. In such chaotic circumstances, numerous tricks were employed to try and gain an advantage over your opposing jumper because, with no lifting allowed, a half-second head start could make all the difference.
Those were also the days of the old cloth shorts and there was one second-row, well-known on the Munster club scene, who would take to the pitch with his pockets full of bits foil wrapper taken from packets of sweets. At the critical juncture, 'Willy Wonka' would flick a piece of foil into the line of vision of his opponent just before he launched himself at the throw. Admittedly a pretty basic tactic but one that always drew the eye and invariably paid dividends.
Other ruses were to stand on your opposite number's toe or tug at his shorts immediately before the throw while there were also calling tricks which could lead the opposition astray - generally taking advantage of forwards' Mensa-precluding lack of brain capacity.
A favourite tactic in this regard was for the two jumper to approach his hooker as he was readying to throw and whisper conspirationally in his ear. Whether he was reciting his two times tables or passages from Shakespeare mattered not a whit, the other team always assumed it was a conversation relating to the upcoming throw and the two jumper would then be lynched by three or four opponents - allowing the hooker to lob the ball long to the unmolested six jumper at the tail.
Then there were the calls for short lineouts. Most teams would not attempt any subterfuge in this area, merely calling "two-up" or "four-up" for two-man and four-man lineouts respectively.
One imaginative variation was to have a non-alcoholic drink call for two-man and an alcoholic drink for a four-man. The 'Seven-Up' call would cause all manner of confusion (particularly among props, furiously trying to work out how seven men could constitute a short lineout) and almost always guaranteed a free-kick for 'numbers' when the ball was delivered.
Though the choreography has altered hugely from those amateur days, brain power and intelligent use of resources remains massively significant in the battle for aerial power.
Tommy Bowe, deservedly, grabbed the headlines for his two-try turn at Twickenham and the Les Kiss-masterminded Irish defence was ultimately the difference between victory and defeat but, as it was throughout 2009, the lineout proved to be a cornerstone of the Irish performance, repeatedly disruptive on the opposition throw and security itself on its own.
Indeed, the English, wary of Ireland's excellence out of touch, only allowed the Irish six throws over the course of 80 minutes.
Gert Smal is a master tactician at the lineout and has willing students in second-rows Paul O'Connell, Donncha O'Callaghan and Leo Cullen. There is real intelligence and confidence to Ireland's lineout play, smart plays are being called and then impeccably executed. As was demonstrated for Bowe's second try in Twickenham. That set move, bringing Bowe in off the right wing to take a popped pass from scrum-half Tomas O'Leary, was a bold call as Ireland chased a winning score with less than 20 minutes to go but one made on the assumption of perfect lineout ball.
And so it proved. Rory Best's delivery was inch perfect, the lifters were smooth and assured and O'Connell's transfer of the ball from high above his head straight to O'Leary's hands could not have been bettered.
Smal was coaching the South African forwards when their lineout proved a launch-pad for Rugby World Cup success in 2007. And when the world champions came to Dublin last November, Smal was waiting.
The Irish forwards were taught relevant Afrikaner words to decipher the Springbok calls and won the lineout battle conclusively, a critical factor in their victory.
Wales have selected Luke Charteris for Saturday's clash at Croke Park and the 6'9" lineout specialist will have a brief to use his height and stretch to go after O'Connell and O'Callaghan. However, that pair have seen it all before - South Africa's 6'10" second row Andries Bekker had no joy in November - while Cullen's lineout expertise waits in reserve. It is a big ask for Charteris and the other Welsh jumpers.
Perhaps a few packets of silver-foiled mints would not go amiss…
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While running around outside keeps children physically active during the summer, it's important that they exercise their minds as well.
Studies show that if kids forego reading throughout the summer, they are vulnerable to the "summer slide," a decrease in learning and reading level over the summer months.
The National Summer Learning Association reported that students could lose from one to three months of learning – math and reading – during the summer
"We're on a mission to change that," said Lesli Rotenburg, senior vice president of children's media at PBS, who partnered with JetBlue Airways to launch Soar with Reading – Let Your Imagination Take Flight, an initiative to keep children engaged in reading and learning everywhere they go this summer.
"It's really just to get kids out there reading," said Gina Rauscher, manager of Corporate Social Responsibility for JetBlue. "Reading and education can happen anywhere."
The program, targeted at ages three to eight, provides children flying with JetBlue this summer with a free activity kit filled with reading games to entertain them during flight.
"You're just looking for something to do, so why not give them activity books…. keep families engaged when in an airplane," Rotenburg said.
On the program's website, SoarwithReading.com, parents can download the same activity kit, craft a summer reading list, and log minutes spent reading.
"We're taking the JetBlue experience to a new level, creating new ways for families to take advantage of the free Soar with Reading resources – online, in-flight, and on the ground in local communities," Icema Gibbs, director of corporate social responsibility for JetBlue said in a press release.
"The program was designed to help improve literacy skills," said Rauscher. "We are working to get it on board on all of our flights and in all of our airports."
JetBlue is coordinating with their general managers from Costa Rico, Columbia, the Dominican Republic and other locations to develop similar programs. They have also published the activity book in Spanish.
But Rauscher said children traveling with JetBlue are only a fraction of the target audience. Another component of the program brings JetBlue crewmembers, PBS KIDS characters, and hosts and popular authors of children's books to local libraries across the country in cities including Washington, D.C.; New York; Boston; and Los Angeles.
One nominated library will also receive $10,000 worth of Random House Children's Books. A runner-up will receive $2,500 worth of books followed by five others that will receive $500 worth of books.
"Reading is fundamental to everything we do as adults and we know that children who read achieve greater success in life," Rotenburg said.
For every child that registers on the Soar with Reading website, First Book will also donate one book to a child in a low-income community up to 10,000 books. First Book distributes books and educational materials to programs and schools in low-income areas throughout the US and Canada.
Studies show that students who participate in public library summer reading programs during the summer return to school in the fall more ready to learn with an improved level of reading when compared to children who do not engage in summer reading programs according to teachers, as reported in a three-year study conducted by the Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.
The study also showed that students in a public library summer reading program earned higher scores on reading achievement tests at the start of the school year.
"We love the fact that we are able to add this [program] to everything that we're doing to make summertime about learning time," Rotenberg said. "We are really dedicated to make sure that every child has the opportunity to succeed in school and in life."
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This Roleplay is a prequel to Steven Universe to an extent with some slight retconing and its own progression to the story that will turn out differently to how stuff plays out in the show.Thanks to the message by Rose Quartz several gems are rising up to protect Earth and have labelled themselves as the Crystal Gems. Others on earth are remaining aligned to Homeworld though despite the isolation of Earth from Homeworld
All gems on earth are still stranded, the communication hub is still offline and all the space warps are shattered, it has now been revealed that this is the work of Rose Quartz and her small group known as the Crystal gems. They have rebelled against Homeworld and have chosen to protect the Earth (Trapping themselves on Homeworld to keep the warps down).
Now both sides are fighting among themselves along with fighting against the 'Corruption' a virus is infecting many gems turning most of them into mindless monsters, but those with a stronger will seem to becoming something more sinister.
The Game has changed now. The question has finally been posed, are you against Homeworld or allied with them. Or do you have your own agenda that may or may not been assisted by the 'Corruption'. Regardless the seeds have been placed down and although it is only the beginning the fight for or against Earth and the corruption has begun. The choice is yours for how it is shaped on the Original Steven Universe Roleplay Site. Orginal Opening Plot Here
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Now the big question is when will 4.01 be released. Many people are guessing this Oct 5th or Oct 12th based upon this post from MMO champion. I don't have any inside info on the patches release date, but I would be very surprised if it is released in the next two weeks and I don't expect it until November. Here's why.
- I don't trust the Oct 5th and 12th dates. You may remember that MMO champion announced that the target release date for Cataclysm was Nov 2nd. In my opinion, Oct 5th and 12th are likely legacy dates tied to the original targeted release date of Nov 2nd. Since release was bumped a month the patch dates are likely bumped as well, if my guess is correct. Not only that the October dates have been removed from the web site. If they were correct, why remove them? The cat is already out of the bag.
- They released a new PTR build of patch 4.0.1 over the weekend. This pretty much guarantees that it won't be on the 5th and in my opinion makes it unlikely that it will be on the 12th. I haven't been on the PTR but the Beta still feels a bit imbalanced. I think there is still quite a bit of work to do before they want the player base as a whole messing around with it.
- Prerelease patches put the game into a state of purgatory where nothing really matters. Therefore, Blizzard is unlikely to want that to extend to long. Patch 2.0 was released just over a month before TBCs release. Patch 3.0 was released just under a month before WotLK release. If Patch 4.0 came out in the next two weeks it would be almost 2 months before Cataclysm's release. I think that is highly unlikely to happen.
- The WotLK release date was announced on September 15th. At the time everyone thought patch 3.0 would come out before Sept or possibly early October. However, Patch 3.0 came out on Oct 14th almost a month after the release date announcement.
I could be wrong, and Blizzard has done unpredictable things in the past. However, at this point I don't see anything really credible that points to an early October patch date for 4.0.1. If I had to guess we will see patch 4.0.1 on Nov 2nd and patch 4.0.3 on Nov 9th or 16th.