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SHORT STORY- First Church
A gun fits well in a big blazer pocket when kneeling to pray.
The damp chill of the red clay seeps to my knees through the grass and the thin polyester/rayon dress pants I buy for $19.99 at J.C. Penney every other year or so. Little damp splotches of moisture will show on my knees, if I rise.
I know the image I cut here in the quiet of the night, kneeling as I am before the small church sign in the little front lawn announcing the time of our Sunday service and yours truly, the Rev. Andrew Mitchell, as the pastor. I look pious. My head is bowed. My eyes are closed. I'm dressed in my cheap black pants and my cheap black blazer with the big pockets (Sears, $59.99, five years ago, now a bit too small to button around my late middle-aged belly) and my cheap black shoes ($24.99 from Wal-Mart, new this year). I look every bit the small-town pastor, perhaps praying for the church itself, perhaps praying for an ill church member. I don't brush back my hair when the breeze pushes it onto my forehead, where it sticks to the beading sweat, showing focus and concentration on prayer for the benefit of any witnesses, though I see none.
What a lie. I haven't been able to pray for a month. Not since the men in uniforms came to tell me my son is dead.
Five miles away, outside of town, in the parsonage wedged in the back corner of a small farm, the early springtime evening cool is mixing with the smell of rural Virginia bursting into life. The peepers were peeping when I left it a half hour ago, bouncing along the rutted gravel drive in my old Chevy. The dashboard lights glinted on the bottle of Mad Dog, that favorite wine of winos everywhere. I picked electric melon flavor tonight. I can't stand the taste of anything stronger, but I want to be drunk, and I have to do it on the cheap. They are $3.99 a bottle; I bought a dozen of them yesterday at a c-store three or four towns down the road, as I have every week for the past month.
Now, kneeling. Kneeling and sweating and heart pounding and about to shoot myself in the head. I am suddenly aware of my own pulse throbbing in my interlaced fingers. I peek open an eye and see my hands quivering slightly with each pulse. I have gray hair on my knuckles now.
First year in seminary in 1975, shirtless in the April sun, young and lean and strong and believing and pulling my boxing gloves on my bare knuckles with my teeth. So is Billy Anders, my best friend, shirtless as I am. We dance around the dirt and grass of the quad, in what we imagine is Muhammed Ali style, one of a few hundred college students playing and sunning out on the quad in the first blast of summer to come, a party atmosphere, none besides Billy and me heading to the pulpit. Percy Sledge is singing on somebody's radio. Billy is jabbing, and I'm slipping and throwing right hooks to the body. Over there, Anne, who I will meet later that day, has a Frisbee and a bikini top and denim shorts made with scissors and old high school jeans. Somebody's football spirals over her head. Missing Billy with a wild swing and tripping over each other, both falling heavily to our knees and laughing.
Still on my knees. Still not praying. My hands rip apart and jam themselves in my pockets, my left hand holding the bottle, my right hand holding the gun. The bottle is empty. The gun is not.
I look over at my church, this church I have worked so hard to serve. Red brick, Flemish bond, of a kind that many first churches used in the growing towns of the southern Piedmont as Christianity flourished during America's adolescence. Those good first churches, the firsts of each denomination in each town, always clumped together near the court square in the heart of downtown, older and bigger than the little white clapboard country churches dappling the hills and hollows of my youth.
Oh, how I want to be able to pray again. Even if it is to be angry at God, I want to pray. I want to believe. I want to let go of what I am holding. I want to take my empty hands out of my pockets and put them back together, and pray.
I look down the town street to the other first churches, separated by slight degrees of tradition and little else. They are empty. They do not comfort me.
Breath hitching, caught in my chest just short of the lungs. Orange-colored fermented juice dribbles at the corner of my mouth.
Anne and me, Saturday morning in our apartment, just outside Chapel Hill in 1982. The senior pastor is letting me preach for the first time tomorrow. Her bikini top is buried in the back of the dresser we bought at the Salvation Army a couple of years ago, the week we got back from our honeymoon. The Climax Blues Band sings a mellow song in the big wooden Realistic speakers we bought for our anniversary. A bright yellow T-shirt is stretched tight around her belly. A list of baby names on the counter, William circled at the top of the one for boys. I just got back from a hard run, and I chug my orange juice. Anne laughs and hugs me from behind, belly touching first, then breasts, kissing my neck and wiping off the stream of orange juice from the corner of my mouth.
I am still on my knees. I struggle to pull my left hand off the empty bottle and out of my pocket, and I make a tight fist, then stretch it open, then a fist, then open again, speckling the skin of my palm with red and white. But I can't move my right hand. It stays where it is, holding that gun. That damned gun.
For one month now, I cannot pray because I cannot believe. I have always believed until now, now, when I need my belief the most. I had shrieked God's name when the men in uniforms came to tell me what had happened in Baghdad. It was the last day I said His name aloud.
"Our Father . . ." I whisper and stop.
I must be able to say the prayer my mother taught me over half a century ago. How can I not be able to say it? It always came so easily.
"Our Father . . ." I try and stop again.
The alcohol settles heavily on my brain. If I can just start saying it, maybe by force of habit I can let go of that gun and put my empty hands together again.
". . . but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory. Amen."
Beaming, now, easily saying the last prayer before brand-new soft-cover Bibles are given to the group of third-graders in front of the full church before me, our son Will among them. His hair is still blond; it didn't darken into a rich brown for a few more years yet. Anne in the front pew with the grandparents. The congregation is smiling and forgiving a small favoritism as I kiss my boy on his forehead when I hand him his Bible.
Now, when I need it most, I can't. I can't pray. I slump, sitting down on my calves, my right hand on the gun, my left hand on the ground, holding me from falling prone on this good grass the church landscape committee reseeds every year.
For 30 years, I have led congregations. I have preached on Sunday mornings. I have organized prayer groups on Wednesday evenings. I have visited the sick, comforted the sad, calmed the scared, baptized babies and blessed weddings and spoken gently over the departed. And every minute of it I meant it, every bit of it. I felt it with such a sure strength that it became an arrogance of faith.
But here I am, humbled. A preacher who cannot pray, a man of the cloth who cannot find faith enough to save himself. And I can't get my right hand off that damned thing. Two weeks after the men in uniforms came to tell me that Capt. William A. Mitchell, USA, was blown apart by a bomb made by men he never knew, I bought it. $369.99 at the first gun shop I found in Richmond. It has a three pound trigger pull, the man who sold it to me said. Three pounds of pressure, and it will go off. Squeeze the trigger slowly if I wanted the aim to be true, he said.
I used almost all of Anne's and my emergency cash to buy it.
1995 and Will begging to go on that trip to Canada with his friends. His junior high school French teacher ran a side travel agency and brought a group of paying kids up to Montreal for four days every summer, and it was a huge hit with the 8th-grade set.
Like many a pastor and his wife, Anne and I had a lot less money than the parents of our kid's classmates. The CD-playing Walkman we had bought Billy for his 13th birthday a few months back had pretty much tapped us out. I caught Anne singing along to Garth Brooks on it when making dinner one night, oblivious to me. I goosed her, and she yelped loud enough for the neighbors to hear.
Our trying to explain to Will how expensive the trip was. His trying to understand and not make us feel badly. Both feeling blooming heat of barely-suppressed disappointment. Anne relenting and going to our small stash of emergency cash in the coffee can. Will fiercely hugging his mom and tearing up for joy, the last year he would cry unashamedly before adolescent machismo would put a stop to that.
The gun looks big in my hand. I can see the fat bullets in the cylinder. Why did I load six in it? It's not like I'll be able to shoot twice.
I should fear hell – Hell – if I kill myself. But I cannot live either. The men in uniforms told me the bomb ripped apart a whole side of the hospital. Saddam Hussein's government built that hospital years ago. My son was supposed to be safe there. God was supposed to keep my son safe there. My son was supposed to do God's work there. And men who did not know him murdered him.
May of 2005. Will, a whole head taller than me and graduating medical school, the tuition paid by the Army. Anne ruffling his thick brown hair when Will picks her up to hug her, crying with joy and being the first to call him "Dr. Mitchell." I shake his hand firmly like a father should, then crack and kiss him on the cheek as he bear hugs me.
Anne lived without Will for just two weeks. She died of a heart attack in her sleep the night we came home from Arlington. But I understood. I was not mad at her. I just whispered, "Bye, baby," and kissed her on her forehead when I awoke the next morning and found her cool.
If God is all good, and God is all powerful, how can there be suffering in the world? Why would He allow it?
I clench the gun in my hand, an aging hand, a hand with thick fingers and swollen knuckles and soft palms. I try to suck air deep into my lungs, but it catches even before it gets to the bottom of my throat. I cock the hammer back. The cylinder rotates one step and stops.
The young American soldier in camouflage fatigues with a sidearm on his hip smiled and waved Anne and I on when we visited Will at an Army base in Germany last year. Will had just finished his emergency surgery training and was heading to Baghdad the following week. He was tall and broad-shouldered and beautiful and good and right. Anne and I wandered through the hospital, talking and praying with some of the young men in beds on his floor, several telling me of the wonderful care my son gave them.
I looked at the sign in front of my church. Another joke. Not my church. How can it be my church? I don't deserve it. I don't even have the faith to save myself.
Will was saving the life of a teenaged corporal from Alabama when his own arteries were ripped open by shrapnel from the bomb that destroyed the surgical wing of the hospital. That's not what the men in the uniforms told me – you don't say that after the mother has fainted stone cold on the porch floor and the father is howling the name of God at the sky above – but that is what happened. My son died alone, trying to save a boy he did not know.
I use the barrel of the revolver to brush the hair off my forehead. I press the barrel tightly against my temple. It makes a little angry red circle on the skin.
I close my eyes.
Dying is easier with eyes closed.
I start to cry.
Six weeks ago, our last email from Will. Anne and I crowd around the 15 inch screen at the public library. He is fine. He is safe. He loves us. He has been a real surgeon for hardly even a year now, but he loves what he is doing, and he already is training younger doctors to do what he does. Anne's tears of pride release my own, and we cry a happy cry together, the way older couples can.
Eyes clamped shut, my finger curls around the trigger. I open my eyes one last time and look at my church. It does not comfort me.
I look ahead and start to squeeze the trigger slowly. One pound of pressure.
I try to take a breath. It stops again before it gets to my chest. My cheek twitches. I push the barrel against my temple until it hurts. Two pounds of pressure.
My left hand clenches into a fist one last time. My right arm trembles with tension. I squint in anticipation, squeezing to that third and last pound of pressure.
The boy is about a hundred yards down the street. By the lights of the churches and law offices and shops lining the town street, I can see that he is black. He is a young man, actually. Maybe 15 or 16. He is wearing urban clothes, the clothes some of the young men wear to emulate the rappers they see on television. He is alone.
He walks in a slow strutting roll down the sidewalk, then across the street, to another of the first churches. He stops abruptly in front of it. He looks around, over one shoulder, then the other. Seeing no one, he walks in a quick gait up the steps to the front door.
I cannot move or breathe. I watch.
The young man stops short at the door of the church. I can see it is locked. I watch him hesitate, then look down at the door handle, his hand on the door handle. He is wearing a baseball cap cocked to the side.
A silent moment passes.
With a cry of anguish I can hear a block away, the young man suddenly pounds the door of that church, then slumps to the ground. As I stare silent a hundred yards away, he slumps to the ground in front of the door, hugs his lanky legs to his face, his eyes buried in the knees of his baggy pants. His strong young body shudders with sobs, rocking him back and forth.
My finger on the trigger, the barrel against my temple, ready to die with my knees bent.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
. . . hallowed be thy name . . .
I slowly pull the revolver off my head and look at it. A chubby, graying man, I look at it. Then, with a great rushing inhale I fill my lungs with the nighttime Virginia air, cooling my insides like ice cold water on a hot summer day.
. . . thy kingdom come, thy will be done . . .
I thumb the release of the cylinder to open it and turn the gun upwards. The six fat cartridges slowly drop out, one by one, falling noiselessly to the grass below.
. . . and forgive us our trespasses . . .
I rise from my knees, small round splotches of moisture on them. I walk to the concrete steps of the church.
. . . and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil . . .
With all of my might, I smash the empty gun on the edge of the concrete steps. The cylinder snaps off and the wood handle splinters. Quietly I lean down and pick up the broken pieces and the bullets.
Standing erect, I look down the street at the sobbing boy.
"Amen," I say aloud, and I walk down the street to comfort the boy.


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Lea Michele Breaks Silence Over Cory Monteith's Death [Picture]
Save for some (understandably) canned statements from her publicist, Lea Michele has been largely quiet since the death of her beloved boyfriend and her 'Glee' co-star Cory Monteith.
The actor died of drug and alcohol toxicity (aka an overdose) in a Vancouver hotel earlier this month, leaving Michele completely and utterly devastated. She went quiet on Twitter, which we can't blame her for, but has finally commented to her friends, fans and followers.
While rumors about their relationship sprung up during her silence – like the notion that they discussed marriage -- she stayed out of the public eye. She mourned and she grieved, while speculation about the future of 'Glee' in relationship to Monteith's character (Finn Hudson) loomed large.
Now that Monteith's death is slightly less fresh, Michele has emerged to issue the following tweet, thanking fans for their support and shared a photo of her and Monteith hugging and wearing gigantic, loving smiles. It was her first tweet since July 12. Monteith died July 13.
It's a reminder of a tragedy and a life lost too soon. Poor Lea. She must have such a shattered heart.
We continue to keep Lea Michele and Cory Monteith in our thoughts and prayers.

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Three people were dead after a small plane crashed into a house Friday afternoon while trying to land at a central Florida airport, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
The 1957 Beechcraft H35 Bonanza was heading from Fort Pierce to Knoxville, Tenn., when it began experiencing mechanical problems, FHP Lt. Justin Asbury said. The pilot told controllers that the engine was shaky and there was smoke coming from the plane. The plane was also entering bad weather.
The Flagler County Sheriff's Office reports that the plane hit a Palm Coast home just east of the Flagler County Airport around 2:20 p.m., several minutes after the pilot's call.
Robert Ferrigno, who lives down the street, said he heard the crash from his home.
"Planes go over here all the time, but this afternoon, I heard, 'putt, putt, putt,' and then I heard, 'boom,'" Ferrigno said. "I looked outside, and there were flames shooting up over the trees."
Ferrigno and another neighbor, Armando Gonzalez, ran down the street to the crash site.
The home's owner — identified by FHP as Susan Crockett — was already outside when they arrived, screaming that a plane had crashed into her house.
"The house was in flames, and there were explosions — boom, boom, boom — inside the house," Gonzalez said. He said the tail appeared to be sticking out the roof of the single-story ranch home.
Ferrigno added that the crash had thrown insulation everywhere, saying, "It looked like it was snowing."
Crockett was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution, Asbury said. She was listed in stable condition.
Authorities didn't immediately identify the people on the plane.
3 dead after plane hits house north of Daytona
Three people were dead after a small plane crashed into a house Friday afternoon while trying to land at a central Florida airport, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.


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Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010, 3rd Edition
Book Description
ASP.NET 4 is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 raises the bar for high-quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft's dynamic web solution.
This edition is updated with everything you need to come to grips with version 4 of ASP.NET, including coverage of ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX 4, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, and Silverlight 3.
Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from these groundbreaking new technologies. They cover ASP.NET 4 as a whole, illustrating both the brand-new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 4 applications in the best possible style.
What you'll learn
- Understand why ASP.NET 4 is so special, what its fundamental principles are, the basics of Visual Studio, and how ASP.NET controls are created and how they fit into ASP.NET pages, ultimately creating full applications.
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- Discover the intricacies of ADO.NET and how to perform data binding to many sources, from databases to file streams to XML.
- Learn the various forms of security available and how to best apply them. Once considered the Achilles' heel of all Windows web applications, security has vastly improved and is now a cornerstone of ASP.NET 4.
- Examine in detail advanced user interface techniques, including user controls, customer server controls, client-side JavaScript, GDI+, and Silverlight 3.
- Understand how to work with web services, an important skill in an increasingly connected world.
- Use ASP.NET AJAX 4, with an emphasis on contemporary web development techniques.
- Perform development using Internet Information Services 7, Microsoft's premier web hosting platform.
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This book is for anyone with some software development experience who is interested in the .NET Framework 4 and the VB language. Whether you are moving to .NET for the first time or are already writing applications on .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.5, this book will provide you with a comprehensive grounding in the new technology and serve as a complete reference throughout your coding career.
Table of Contents
- Introducing ASP.NET
- Visual Studio
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- Server Controls
- ASP.NET Applications
- State Management
- ADO.NET Fundamentals
- Data Components and the DataSet
- Data Binding
- Rich Data Controls
- Caching and Asynchronous Pages
- Files and Streams
- User Controls
- Themes and Master Pages
- Website Navigation
- Website Deployment
- The ASP.NET Security Model
- Forms Authentication
- Membership
- Windows Authentication
- Authorization and Roles
- Profiles
- Cryptography
- Custom Membership Providers
- Custom Server Controls
- Graphics, GDI+, and Charting
- JavaScript and Ajax Techniques
- Portals with Web Part Pages
- Dynamic Data
- Silverlight
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White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer never stopped smiling at the end of his CBS News interview Sunday, even when the host, Bob Schieffer, suggested that he was suffering in the spotlight. "I know this is not an easy job," Schieffer told his guest. "I mean, do you kind of feel like someone who drew the black bean here? You're the one who has to go out and try to explain?"
"Oh no," responded the cheerful Pfeiffer, who appeared on five network news shows Sunday to spin back the trifecta of scandal storylines—IRS, Benghazi, Associated Press subpoena—that threatened last week to engulf the White House. "It's a privilege to be here with you, Bob."
If his words seemed sincere, there was probably good reason. More combative than charming, Pfeiffer, 37, has spent the last six years working behind the scenes to protect and promote Barack Obama in the press. Now the protégé turned senior advisor is running the White House storytelling and spin operation—and getting a new turn in the spotlight—having been promoted early this year from his role as communications director to senior advisor in charge of message. He follows in the footsteps of Obama's two closest aides and strategists, David Axelrod and David Plouffe, who directed the Obama brand through two presidential campaigns and the first term in office.
In the tradition of his predecessors, Pfeiffer swatted away at the array of scandals on all five of the Sunday shows in the most Washingtonian of ways—dismissing the notion that they were even scandals at all or attributing the wrongdoing far afield of the White House. "What would be an actual real scandal in Washington would be if the president had been involved or had interfered in an IRS investigation," he told Schieffer on "Face the Nation."
"I think we've seen this playbook from the Republicans before," he said on NBC's Meet The Press. "What they want to do in they are lacking of positive agenda is try to drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped up hearings and false allegations, we`re not going to let that happen. The President has got business to do for the American people."
On "Fox News Sunday," Pfeiffer lashed out at congressional Republicans questioning Obama's actions and whereabouts on the night of the Benghazi consulate attack. "The assertions from Republicans here that somehow the president allowed this to happen and didn't take action is offensive," he said. "There's no evidence to support it."
For the last several months, Pfeiffer has been operating from an office just feet from the Oval Office, far from his first-term perch, which offered easier access to the press corps than the President. Former Obama aide Tommy Vietor said Pfeiffer's role in the White House—like Axelrod and Plouffe before—is to serve as a "gut check" for staff. "I can't tell you how important it is to have someone like that who you can go to at any time on any subject for a final decision or judgment call," he told TIME. "It's rare."
Like his predecessors, Pfeiffer brings to bear a close relationship with the president and in-the-room credibility that sets him apart from other public faces in the administration. Press Secretary Jay Carney found himself under fire this week when White House emails revealed that the administration was more involved in editing the Benghazi talking points than he let on in November. Senior administration officials explained that Carney had not reviewed the full emails about the revisions before addressing them from the podium. Asked about the discrepancy on ABC's "This Week," Pfeiffer pivoted to dismissing Republican allegations of political tampering in the wake of the attack and called on the GOP to apologize to UN Ambassador Susan Rice for criticism that now appears misguided.
A former spokesman for several Democratic Senators, including Evan Bayh, Tim Johnson and Tom Daschle, Pfeiffer was recruited to the Obama team as traveling press secretary in 2007 by Obama confidant Pete Rouse. Before the 2008 Democratic National Convention he moved to the Chicago headquarters as communications director for the campaign, a position he also held for Obama's transition office. He entered the White House as a front-line communications strategist. In November of 2009, Pfeiffer was named Obama's third communications director, charged with bringing order to a confused messaging operation. (He declined to comment for this story.)
On the Sunday shows, Pfeiffer put another face to the arguments that the White House has been making in public and private for a week. Over and again, he dismissed the lingering questions over Benghazi as base politics by Republicans. He expressed outrage over the mishandling of IRS applications, but said President Obama was not a cause of the problems, but rather the man determined to find a solution. "Everyone needs to take a deep breath and we should work out and resolve the problem, not try to score political points," he said at one point, one of many variations of the same theme.
When Obama picked Chief of Staff Denis McDonough early this year, one concern was that the national security aide had little experience handling political messaging. Pfeiffer's elevation helped solve that problem, advisors believed. Schieffer, however, still spoke to Pfeiffer like a deputy. "I mean this as no disrespect to you, why are you here today," the CBS host asked. "Why isn't the White House chief of staff here to tell us what happened?"
Pfeiffer didn't take the bait, choosing instead to deliver the message he had come to deliver. "What's important here is that when problems happen, is that the president takes responsibility for them and tries to fix them," he said.
With reporting by Michael Scherer/Washington


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Two years ago, video displays at auto shows were beginning to look like iPhone interfaces. This year at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the transformation is complete. Gone are the custom video panels and touchscreen PC's: pretty much every manufacturer has ditched them for a line of iPads.
Some mount them in custom cases, some don't, but this photo—taken at Toyota's hall for the sake of continuity—could have been taken anywhere. Most of the machines run in-house apps which show animations and video.
In-car interfaces are notoriously hideous. Perhaps this is the first sign of the industry recognizing that while they know the ins and outs of making cars, computer interfaces are an entirely other discipline.
But that said, how many of these automakers, who seem to grasp the utility of iPads on their auto show stands — will be actually finding a creative way of working them into their actual cars. We've already seen Hyundai's aborted attempt to offer the owner's manual for the Equus luxury sedan, and many automakers are contemplating iPad apps, but who's doing real integration? Nobody.
Hell, we're still waiting for someone to do a full iPhone integration that doesn't suck or cost an arm and a leg as a ticked check box. So which automaker will be the first to step up to the challenge of true Apple-automaker infotainment intercourse?
So more than likely, automakers use the iPads because of their minimalistic design and out of a hope that the patina of hipster coolness will rub off on them. That's the only reason we can see Toyota using it.
How else do you explain that the most advanced connectivity options some of Toyota's cars have — until they fully implement their new enTune infotainment system — is still just an aux input jack?


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Ahh, cleaning the closet. Don't you just love it? But it's not one of those jobs that you can love if you're planning on doing it. I mean, who ever gets up in the morning and is thrilled about saying, "Today I'm going clean the closet! Yippee!"??
In my experience, it's one of those jobs you can only love when it happens spontaneously. You know, like you just went in there for one thing. Maybe you didn't find it right away, so you started moving things around a bit, where the heck did I put that anyway, and you're digging through the piles of stuff on the shelves or in boxes or baskets on the floor.
Suddenly, there you are, raking out the closet, clothes are flying everywhere, a pile to give away, a pile that needs mending or washing. And then there's the stuff to try on because you're a different size now, one way or the other, or you want to be, or fear you're going to be, so what do you bring out next? Your piles of fat clothes or skinny clothes or your in-between clothes? - because you're in the midst of moving up or down the scale.
And then there's all the other stuff that's in there. Stored things, books and papers, a huge pile of stuff to chuck in the bin. And then there are all those odd bits of weird stuff that you know you might need or want someday but they just never found homes. You know, those things you frown at, stare at, carry around the house for a while, hunting for places for them to live, muttering, "What the heck am I supposed to do with THIS?" before discovering that you've still not got an answer for that, and you put it in the closet - "for now."
Perhaps this will be the time you find homes for some of it and if you do, you're ever so pleased with yourself. But in the meantime, there you are, hurling things into piles, running for the bin bags, hauling stuff out to the rubbish, or bagging it up for the charity shop.
And oh, it feels so great to get rid of all those unwanted items. Every single one of them holds energy, and that energy is negative and builds up in your house, which then adversely affects you, even if you aren't particularly aware of it. Some of us feel it more than others. Being a psychic and medium, I am extremely sensitive to the energy in my environment and a lot of 'dead energy' that comes with unused or unwanted items can really weigh me down and make me feel unwell.
Okay, so there you are cleaning and sorting and chucking stuff. Now you're really in the zone! You're a person possessed! You've tackled that closet and got rid of the energy associated with old, unwanted, unnecessary belongings and you feel so much better already, you move on to the rest of the room, or perhaps other closets, drawers, shelves and storage spaces. And doesn't it feel fantastic? Yes! You're probably even singing or humming, maybe you've cranked up some tunes. You might even be dancing around (but don't worry, I won't tell anyone I saw you singing into that deodorant can). Amazing, isn't it? You were dragging your sorry behind all over the house half an hour ago, and suddenly you're wired for sound and have no idea where all this energy came from!
But who cares? It feels great and you're making progress so whatever else you were doing when you got sidetracked with closet cleaning will just have to wait! After all, you've been meaning to do this for...how long?
When you get these sudden bursts of energy that have you tearing apart your house, de-cluttering and reorganizing, they are usually brought about by a de-cluttering and a reorganizing in you. Our environments reflect what's going on inside us. If there is chaos and disorganization on the outside, you can bet it's the same on the inside. A sterile, frighteningly neat and tidy home reflects a need for order and control that stems from fear and anxiety that are felt on the inside.
Every once in a while, we need a good de-cluttering in our homes, and certainly inside ourselves, too. Every once in a while, it's good to go through what we need, what we don't, what's important to us, what should stay, what must go - whether we're talking about the stuff in our houses, or the beliefs, desires, what we want - or don't want – in ourselves. A little personal re-evaluation from time to time is a great thing to experience, and when we find ourselves in the throes of it, whether by circumstance or by choice, we will often find us suddenly compelled to go through the closets and cupboards as we make our homes reflect our inner selves.
Sometimes, de-cluttering the closets is the signal that we're ready to clean house on the inside, too, or that changes have been going on somewhere in there, whether we've been particularly aware of them or not.
I absolutely love cleaning out the cupboards and raking out all kinds of stuff I no longer need or want - whether in my home or in myself. I love getting rid of negative energy, cleansing my home and my aura regularly by being sure I'm not holding onto anything I don't want or need. I like to take stock of what I have and what I need - who I am and who I'm not. What to change and what to keep, whether in my house, or in myself. It's the only way I can keep my world (both inner and outer) functioning at maximum capacity like a well-oiled machine.
Hmmmm....I don't know about you, but I feel a cleaning spree coming on... Better haul out the bin bags!
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) by a vote of& 288 to 127, RT reports.
Declan McCullough of CNET details why the bill — which encourages private businesses to voluntarily share "cyberthreat information" with the U.S. government — has privacy advocates up in arms.
McCullough explains that the legislation "authorizes federal agencies to conduct warrantless searches of information they obtain from e-mail and Internet providers," meaning that allows government agencies to collect vast amounts of data from private companies.
Furthermore, the bill overrides existing privacy policies and wiretap laws, so the feds would be able to "compile a database of information shared by private companies and search that information for possible violations of hundreds, if not thousands, of criminal laws."
The House Intelligence committee contends that any claim that "this legislation creates a wide-ranging government surveillance program" is untrue.
But groups including the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation argue that the bill allows for collection of sensitive private information such as Internet records and contents of emails, which could then be used "without meaningful oversight for purposes unrelated to cybersecurity."
CISPA now heads to the Senate and could soon end up on President Obama's desk to potentially sign into law. Earlier this week senior White House advisers recommended that the president veto the bill, citing concerns that the bill does not adequately prevent sharing of irrelevant personal information.
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Egypt court confirms death sentences for over 180
Sat., June 21, 2014
MINYA, Egypt (AP) — The Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader and over 180 others were sentenced to death Saturday by an Egyptian court in the latest mass trial following last year's overthrow of the country's Islamist president.
The ruling by the southern Minya Criminal Court is the largest confirmed mass death sentence to be handed down in Egypt in recent memory and comes from Judge Said Youssef, who earlier presided over the mass trial. It is the second death sentence for the Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie since the crackdown against his group began.
The court acquitted more than 400 others in the case and family members of the accused wailed or cheered the verdicts.
The case stems from an attack on a police station in the town of el-Adwa near the southern city of Minya on Aug. 14 which killed one police officer and one civilian. Similar revenge attacks swept across Egypt following a security force crackdown on Cairo sit-ins supporting toppled President Mohammed Morsi that killed hundreds. The charges in the case ranged from murder, joining a terrorist organization, sabotage, possession of weapons and terrorizing civilians.
Initially, Youssef sentenced some 683 people to death over the attack, then sent the case to Egypt's Grand Mufti, the country's top spiritual leader. The Mufti offered his opinion, then sent the case back to Youssef to confirm his sentence.
Lawyers for the accused said they planned to appeal. Of the initial 683, all but 110 were tried in absentia, a defense lawyer said, meaning they will receive new trials once apprehended as guaranteed by Egyptian law.
The mass trials have drawn worldwide rebuke. However, the trials have continued with many Egyptians appearing to approve of the heavy-handed measures as a way to end the turmoil roiling their country since its 2011 revolt against autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
"There has been an excess in using the death sentences recently, which will only lead to more violence in society because people are now used to the idea of execution, killing and blood," prominent rights lawyer Negad el-Borai said.
Saturday's hearing lasted for less than 15 minutes, a security official said. Only 75 prisoners were brought to a prison attached to the court but didn't attend the session. Badie, held in a Cairo prison, did not attend, the official said.
Youssef arrived to the court in an armored vehicle and security officials escorted him inside.
Female relatives to those who were acquitted ululated, clapped and chanted the pro-military slogan: "The army and the people are one hand."
Those whose relatives received death sentences screamed in grief and shouted insults to the brother of the police officer slain in the Aug. 14 attack. They believe police shot the officer themselves as part of a conspiracy against their loved ones.
Ashour Qaddab, the brother of the slain police officer, broke into tears after the verdict.
"This is God's justice … to my brother's five orphans," Qaddab said. On hearing him, relatives of other defendants screamed: "Your brother was killed by police!"
Associated Press writer Mariam Rizk in Cairo contributed to this report.
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Serious Grape: Fish and Seafood Wine Pairings
The March issue of Food Arts magazine arrived in my mailbox last week. It's a publication intended "for the trade," so I always find it especially interesting to see what chefs (or in this case, sommeliers) are saying to their peers. This month, an article called "Catches & Matches" addresses the rules for pairing wine and seafood.
Or should I say, rule. Singular.
According to the article, only one rule applies: when it comes to wine pairing, it isn't the fish that matters, it's the preparation of the fish. Here are a few other highlights from the article.
- Whimsical guideline: "White wine with white seafood, pink wine with pink seafood, and red wine with red seafood."
- David LeFeve, executive chef at Water Grill in Los Angeles says, "Look at the wines produced in great seafood areas—like the roses of Marseille, the wines of Portugal, Spain, Southern Italy. That's what goes with seafood."
- Rajat Parr, wine director for the Michael Mina restaurant group, created a wine list for the Las Vegas-based American Fish around four categories of cooking: salt-baked, wood-grilled and -smoked, cast-iron griddled, and poached in ocean water. The hardest part: pairing with the fish cooked in ocean water. He leans away from oaked/buttery wines, and toward lighter, crisper wines with more mineral and citrus, "which equalizes the minerality the ocean water brings to the fish."
- Parr also analyzes fish for three elements: with or without skin; oily or not oily; and intense or mild fish flavor. "Skin in particular changes the wine match," he says. "If there's skin, the wine has to be intense." He always opts for red wine with skin-on fish: "White wine will fade if there's skin."
Do you have any rules for wine pairings?
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NHL Needs Sid the Kid
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Forget the magic of Tim Tebow. Sidney Crosby returned to the NHL on Monday Night and was nothing short of magical.
It was another one of those "wouldn't believe it if it was in a movie" moments in sports. After 11 months off from one of the most talked about injuries in NHL history, Sidney Crosby scored his 1st goal of the season on his first NHL shot in 11 months. Crosby didn't stop there as he racked up 4 points total on the night, adding another goal and 2 assists. This was not only a special performance but it was incredibly heart-warming for anyone born with a soul.
I guess special is as special does.
Hockey is a Canadian sport though and south of the border it often doesn't generate much more buzz than a bowling tournament featuring Norm Duke and Walter Ray Williams Jr. Okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration but the point is Crosby's long-awaited return from his mysterious concussion has produced more than a bit of a noise in the United States.
While the 'Welcome Back Sid" hash tag may not have been trending on twitter as it was in Canada, Crosby's comeback illustrates how important one man can be to the world of star-driven professional sports.
With Alexander Ovechkin in an extended slump, the NHL has been absent of a true superstar for the past half-year. No matter how good the games are, no matter how good the playoffs have been and no matter how many games the Stanley Cup goes, nothing can fill the void left by an injured superstar of Crosby's magnitude. Unlike football and basketball, the game of hockey lacks household names. Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, that's it.
No Sidney Crosby equals big problems.
Sidney Crosby's identity and life is hockey. There must have been a point in the last 11 months where he thought he might have been without the only thing he has ever known. Sure, Sidney Crosby needs hockey. However, there's no doubt that the NHL needs Sidney Crosby more than Crosby needs the NHL.
Sid the Kid is the poster boy for the NHL. He can be as exciting as a peanut butter sandwich sometimes but his ultimate good guy reputation more than makes up for that. My grandmother is as likely to have Sidney Crosby as her favourite (non-hometown) player as that greasy guy sitting at the corner of the bar. His stardom reaches all.
Crosby is a ratings booster. Everyone knows Sid.
In this day and age of ever decreasing scoring and ever increasing trap hockey, Sidney Crosby is one of the few reasons to tune into a hockey game. The only people happier right now than the Pittsburgh Penguins are the executives at NBC and Versus. If Sidney Crosby can return to the NHL as good or, dare I say, better than ever, it will be almost impossible to keep him out from being mentioned in the elite company of players like Orr, Lemieux and Gretzky. Once in a generation talents don't come around every day.
It took quite a lengthy period of time but Crosby looks to have come back at the right time. Sheriff Shanny has finally implemented the absolutely necessary harsher punishments for head shots that was lacking from Colin Campbell's reign. The brutal head shots and concussions to go along with them seem to have significantly lowered in number this year. Amazingly, Dave Steckel, the man who essentially sidelined Sidney, wasn't even suspended for his actions last season.
That won't happen anymore.
The overabundance of bad press the NHL received over its handling of the head shots situation is gone and its most important entities are now much better protected.
11 months of NHL hockey without Sidney Crosby was tough. 11 more years of NHL hockey with Sidney Crosby sounds more like it.
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As a developer, you most likely need to work with all types of systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris, and so on. Perhaps you even need to work with DOS, NetWare, or other legacy operating systems. Even if you develop in a homogenous environment, perhaps you need to test network code, where your application is distributed across multiple machines. It may be costly or inconvenient to maintain a separate physical web server, application server, and database server per developer. Virtualization can help tremendously here, and it doesn't have to be expensive, heavyweight, or difficult to use.
In this article, I describe VirtualBox open source virtualization software that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and OpenSolaris. On any of these platforms, you can run Windows, Linux, Solaris, OpenSolaris, BSD Unix, QNX, OS/2, and even MS-DOS guest virtual machines. There's support for fast startup and shutdown of virtual machines, access to hardware-based graphics acceleration, true multicore support as well as multiprocessor emulation, integration of system taskbars, seamless operation (where windows of multiple OS's appear together on the host machine), 64-bit and 32-bit host/guest support, and various networking options.
VirtualBox: Getting Started
The native operating system upon which you install and run VirtualBox is called the "host OS", the "host system", or simply the "host". When you install and run a virtual machine in VirtualBox, it's called a guest machine, a guest OS, or simply a guest. Go to http://virtualbox.org to download and install VirtualBox for your host development machine. My development machine is a MacBook Pro, but I often do Windows development on my Mac with VirtualBox, as well as real-time systems development on Linux and Solaris. The advantage is that wherever I bring my Macbook, all of these other environments come along with me (see Figure 1).
When you create a new guest OS to install, you select the OS type (and proper distribution for Linux), set the amount of memory and hard drive space to make available to the guest, and create a virtual disk to install the OS onto. You can specify the disk as a dynamically expanding storage file, which starts out very small and grows to a maximum only as the guest OS requires.
For instance, say you specify a virtual disk for Ubuntu 9.10 to be 60GB in size. If you mark it as a dynamically expanding file, after installation, it will consume less than 4GB of actual space on your host hard drive. As you install other software packages on your guest (i.e., OpenOffice, Eclipse, gcc, and so on), the file will expand to hold these packages. As a result, you won't needlessly consume hard drive space on your host machine unless you need it.
Figure 2 shows Ubuntu Linux 9.10 running as a guest in VirtualBox on my Mac OS X host. The entire OS runs within a window on Mac OS X. It can be minimized, resized, or closed to shut it down.
You may notice an icon in the upper left corner of the Ubuntu desktop. VirtualBox exposes a virtual CD from which you can install a set of drivers called "VirtualBox Guest Additions". Let's take a look at this now, the features it brings, and the guest operating systems supported.


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H2SO4 has a few advantages over HNO3 for decapping. First, I can't as easily get ahold of fuming HNO3 and HNO3 tends to cause a lot of corrosion. However, H2SO4 works at much higher of a temperature so if nothing else takes longer to decap a sample from the time it takes to heat up the acid on a hot plate.
A heatgun on the other hand can rapidly heat something up by moving hot air over it. I decided to try decapping a few chips by first cutting down down with a Dremel and then superheating them in test tubes. You can see a video here:
Be sure to read the comments in the video description. Basically took about a minute to heat up and then another two minutes to cook off the bulk epoxy. Total decap time of maybe about 10 minutes a chip including Dremel time and cleaning.
However, this has numerous disadvantages. First, a few of the dies got stuck in the test tube (presumably related to thermal expansion) and broke corners off when I managed to shake them out of place. A lot of the dies also had rounded corners but I think that was more because I picked the dies up with my fingers (usually I use tweezers) which tends to break off the tips of the corners.
Dies also tended to come out pretty dirty. HNO3 is more "water based" so tends to clean off easily. H2SO4 is thick to begin with and dehydrates the epoxy into tar. Even after ultrasound (acetone and water) I got some chips coming out looking like this:
The bigger problem though is that some small bits of epoxy didn't dissolve off. When dies come out of HNO3 or longer soaks in lower temperature H2SO4 they tend to be pretty clean. However, I think that the epoxy mixtures had denser parts that didn't dissolve as well. When the chips were run through ultrasound they developed areas like this:
Close up:
Notice how the metal isn't damaged, only the overglass. This suggests that it happened after it was in the acid or otherwise the metal would have been corroded. Additionally, the pattern suggests something pulled off.
Chips had corrosion at various points on the die, one of them was quite bad. I suspect two leading causes. First, although epoxy dissolves faster at the higher temperature I think that the metal was dissolving more faster than the epoxy. Second, these were older dies with small holes in the overglass. Newer dies tend to have higher quality passivisation that may have been less of a big deal as generally they would only eat around the bond pads and not seep in very far.
I didn't take the temperature but I imagine was in the 300+ C range since H2SO4 was boiling off. I've decapped large BGA chips with 300C H2SO4 before (measured with thermometer) but generally stay away with it because the large amount of fumes and general safety hazard were it to somehow spill. However,since the fumes could condense as they moved up the test tube (which was still relatively cool) not that much fumes really came out. Also if the tube somehow broke the heatgun might disperse it everywhere. I had a teflon sheet behind the tube as a backshield for general control in case that somehow happened.
I tried runs with varying levels of acid. I leaned towards larger amounts than in the video that kept the solution very fluid at all times. With the volume in the video the solution became thick enough that it bubbled up and had to be monitored closely so as to not overflow the test tube.
In summary, has the following advantages:
- Easy to do / readily accessible. All materials can be found at local hardware sore
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- Higher temperature allows using less acid
- Very rough on die including both mechanical and chemical stress
- Several safety concerns: gives off H2SO4 fumes, hot concentrated H2SO4 will vaporize skin instantly
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- Eats metal quickly, especially problematic if passivation is not sealed well
- Dies did not come out very clean. Could be processed longer but will cause more damage


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This turned out fine. I had to enlarge the pattern because my granddaughter is 7 months and needs room to grow. But she won't sleep with out being swaddled. So this was the only answer.
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Founded in 1961, Most Holy Trinity Church (MHT) is a rich, multi-ethnic parish community and school on the east side of San Jose, Calif. It began as a mission of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish run by diocesan priests until 1991, at which time the Jesuits traded St. Joseph's Cathedral with the diocese for Most Holy Trinity Church. MHT is ranked among the 300 best Catholic parishes in the United States based on research completed by the University of North Carolina.
Most Holy Trinity includes Hispanic, Vietnamese and Samoan parishioners, and approximately 7,200 people attend 10 Sunday Masses. MHT has four deacons, two for the Hispanics, one for the Filipino and Vietnamese and one in training for the Samoans. The parish recently put in a projection system to enhance the parish's multi-lingual and multi-cultural liturgies. The screens are strategically placed so that the readings, responses and songs can be translated in other languages at the same time of the delivery.
As part of its "Social Justice Triangle" of direct service, advocacy and empowerment, MHT has a pantry that helps feed 1,600 families a month and delivers meals and toiletries to the homeless living in five camps around the bridges of the freeways and river beds in San Jose.
MHT is part of PACT (People and Congregations Acting Together) and takes on issues that include divestment from predatory banks, immigration reform and raising the minimum wage. The parish also has an Employment Center, which assists in job placement, and a counseling center, which offers sliding scale therapy sessions for families or individuals, available in multiple languages to meet the needs of the community.


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The entire planet is engulfed in blinding light for a matter seconds, but as the beacon discontinues its
radiance the space raiders are met by the relief effort that arrived during the blast of light.
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Cef: copy general solo!
A group of V-wing fighters soar upwards and open fire on the lead space raider barge. The falcon speeds
down to the beacon where the Royal procession is under siege from hired mercenaries whom attack the highly trained Jedi with Vibro-axes and blasters. The ensuing firestorm rains debris upon the city; Chi-ro rahem ignites his Blue bladed lightsaber and decapitates four mercenaries lunging towards umble zarr.
Gigin-Taue and Jacen Solo use the force to smash a group of barges into one another as they attempt to
open fire on the beacon, the burning rubble rains down on the city crushing thousands of fleeing citizens.
At that moment the falcon extends its ramp and maneuvers itself between an advancing army of mercenaries and the royal procession.
Jacen: (deflecting laser bolts) get aboard everybody!
Umble Zarr: are you off your bolt jacen that has to be a space raider decoy!
Gigin-Taue: (igniting yellow bladed LightSaber) no my dear, that's his Father's infamous Vessel. It's more
than safe; now get zeb-ska and yourself to safety.
Chi-Ro: (running to Zarrs side) just go! I've got your back.
Jacen: (absorbing laser blasts in his palm) everybody down!
As the young knight makes his warning a space raider barge takes a hit and crashes into the planetary
beacon causing a chain reaction of explosions along the coastline of Orran. The entire countryside bursts
into flames as the space raiders continue their bombardment. Citadels and mighty towers come crumbling
down on the citizens whom are running as fast as they can into Transport vessels, some vessels are knocked out of the sky as they lift off by laser blasts or falling debris. The royal procession quickly boards the falcon as Jacen and Gigin-Taue fend off the advancing mercenaries.
Gigin-Taue: (disengaging saber) there's nothing more we can do, let's go!
Jacen: (running up the ramp) Orran's fate now resides within the hands of the star fighters.
Gigin-Taue: (embracing umble and zeb-ska) may the force be with them.
Jacen rushes to the cockpit where his father sits alone driving the vessel, the young Jedi jumps at the
chance to assume the seat once frequented by Chewbacca as copilot.
Han: these Junkers didn't used to be this brazen.
Jacen: the senate should have just paid them for collecting all the space garbage.
Han: how ironic, now were fighting off that same garbage.
Jacen: where are mom and Jaina?
Han: Jainas had enough of Jag so there going their separate ways, Damn shame too the kids would have been some great pilots. Your mother and I haven't seen each other ever since the Republic was reformed and the Yuuzhan Vong where sent packing.
Jacen: its amazing how spread out we've all been, I can tell were all trying to pretend Anakin is also
somewhere out there living his own life.
Han: I don't want to talk about it. That's another reason your mother and I are practically separated, she
can't move on or except He's gone.
Jacen: I feel sorry for you both, but we must get to the deep frontier council.
Han: jacen don't sulk. I'm sorry it's just
Jacen exits the cockpit, Han turns to his controls and continues to shut out the reality of how broken his
family has become. The falcon speeds into the jungle followed by dozens of Transport vessels that depart
the Battle of Orran. The Space Raider Junk Barges surround the republic assault vessels and open fire.
Destroying most of the command ships and raining debris on the burning city of Orran, the jungle around
the city is engulfed in flame causing a charge of wildlife. The ensuing blaze creates a massive plume of
smoke that encumbers the countryside of Krushi, the sole inhabited continent of Proloxis IV. The space
raider fleet attempts to adjust their formation while evading the smoke.
The Jedi Escort Vessel piloted by Luke Skywalker emerges from the canopy jungle at the entrance to the
Deep Frontier Jedi Community of Lexrer. A vast moss covered wood temple built into a massive tree, the
only technical looking part of the temple is a massive Landing Pad covered with vines.
The vessel lands and extends its ramp, Luke exits the vessel with Mara and Ben at his Side the three are
accompanied by a platoon of Republic Troops and fourteen Jedi Knights adorned in simple robes. The group enters the temple and is greeted by Jedi Masters Kyle Katarn and Corran Horn.
Kyle Katarn: Luke, this is a surprise.
Luke: (shaking hands) Kyle, I didn't expect to find you here.
Kyle Katarn: This place kind of just begs for you to stay once you show some of your skill, so don't go
exhibiting your teaching abilities.
Mara: (holding Ben's hand) what does somebody miss life out on the fringe.
Kyle Katarn: no, teaching and remaining somewhere for more than a lunar rotation is not something I'm used to.
Corran Horn: Do you know if Master Soear survived the attack on Orran?
Luke: I have no information on that; we came here to confer with him.
Corran Horn: you missed him; they had the coronation in Orran. I doubt you could have missed the shining
of the beacon.
Mara: my eyes are still recovering.
Luke: (picking up Ben) I take it Cas-Lo has been left in charge of the council.
Kyle Katarn: oh yeah, and this guy is a real piece of work.
Luke: what do you mean by that, I remember Master Vont having somewhat of an authoritative approach to his actions.
Corran Horn: He's just a little too eager to assume the title of senior council member in gigin-taues
Mara: (taking back Ben) Doesn't Gigin-Taue have to give up control of the council in order to assume
lordship of the planet anyway?
Kyle Katarn: true, but Cas-Los already under the assumption that no one survived. He's acting as if old
imperial rank advancement where still in effect, it would also appear that the murder of Yap-En is being
swept under the rug.
Luke: are there any suspects?
Corran Horn: not at the moment, but were certain no one in the Jedi order possesses the skill exhibited
upon Yap-En.
Mara: (holding Ben close) what do you mean?
Master Cas-Lo Vont appears from out of the shadows.
Cas-Lo: Yap-En Soear was killed by extensively lethal focused energies expelled by a Force-Sensitive
practicing a mysterious form of combat.
Luke: Greetings Master Vont, I take it you came to that conclusion sometime before the coronation was
Cas-Lo: of course, I was in charge of the investigation. There was no reason for the senate to dispatch
you, I'm sure your attention is needed elsewhere.
Mara: (holding Ben) don't talk to him like that.
Luke: Mara, could you please stay out of this.
Mara: (putting Ben down) I think you need my advice in dealing with him; master vont like myself grew up
in a strict imperial environment.
Luke: nevertheless, could you return the ship and attempt to contact Han.
Mara: all right, but I'll be back.
Mara and Ben return to the ship as the four Jedi Masters continue the argument as they march Through the Temple which houses many ground breaking training facilities designed to sharpen a Jedi's Skills to
perfection in both lightsaber combat and force abilities.
Corran Horn: your disrespectful actions towards Luke Skywalker are inexcusable Master Vont.
Cas-Lo: he may have saved the galaxy on countless occasions and personally restarted this order, but I do not have to like someone who I can sense with every once of his power is hiding something from the rest of us.
Luke: how dare you accuse me of such an act?
Kyle Katarn: I knew you'd like him.
Cas-Lo: Master Horn, Master Katarn I believe you have students to teach. Luke and I have matters of great importance to discuss.
The veteran Jedi depart the arguing masters who enter the lightsaber training chamber. The doors shut.
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt today warmly welcomed the Caldicott Review, outlining how information and technology will only have a transformational effect on healthcare if this agenda respects the relationship of trust between a medical professional and their patient.
The independent Caldicott Review, whose report 'Information: To share or not to share?', was published today, was carried out by Dame Fiona Caldicott following a request from Jeremy Hunt to make sure there is an appropriate balance between the protection of patient information and the use and sharing of information to improve patient care. Read more about the Caldicott review.
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Many of the recommendations in the review resonate with the DH's Information Strategy, the 10 year framework for transforming information for the NHS, public health and social care; and with the commitments that have been made in the NHS Constitution and these will provide a helpful steer and a boost to making progress.
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Out of the box when a *logged-in* user types a comment on a Atahualpa blog it displays their nickname (which might be the same thing as their first name? not sure) next to their comment.
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Microsoft has licensed Lotus-to-anything migration software from Binary Tree, and plans to use its partner's wares to lure Lotus customers away from IBM and into the cloud.
Kevin Allison, Microsoft's general manager of Office 365. has declared the deal a tremendous idea as it "... helps simplify the onboarding process and reduce Lotus migration costs." Binary Tree, where the balance sheet presumably looks nicely healthy since the deal, is even more effusive in its praise of the very notion that Microsoft might encourage messaging migrations.
The tools Redmond now wields enable migration of Notes and Domino apps into SharePoint, plus migration of email, calendars and contacts databases into hosted Exchange environments. All of which has precious little to do with the personal productivity connotations that are raised by the name "Office", but do speak eloquently about how that 365-ified version of that product name has come to serve as an umbrella term for Microsoft's hosted business apps.
IBM will undoubtedly be more than a little miffed by this latest move in Redmond's decade-long attack on Lotus, especially as it offers a new way to prise the stickiest element of any Lotus incumbency – custom applications - out of its clutches . Yet Big Blue has also spent a lot of time spruiking Lotus' ability to add social stardust to business of late, and clearly sees defending messaging accounts as something that's nice to do rather than critical.
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WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court considers on Monday whether President Barack Obama's administration overstepped its authority by imposing new regulations to reduce pollution in response to climate change.
In a 90-minute oral argument, extended from 60 minutes because many parties are involved, the justices will examine a relatively narrow challenge by industry groups and Republican-leaning states to one aspect of a suite of regulations issued by Obama's Democratic administration in 2009 and 2010.
The regulations represent the first major federal effort to tackle greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are the driving force behind climate change.
Obama has been going it alone on climate change, largely because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress. The Clean Air Act has been the Environmental Protection Agency's main tool for addressing emissions since the US Senate rejected a cap-and-trade bill in 2010.
The nine justices will weigh whether the agency has authority to regulate greenhouse gases under a programme for issuing permits for stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and oil refineries. A decision is expected by the end of June.
When it agreed to hear the case in October, the court declined to consider several broader questions that would have more directly attacked the authority of the EPA in its regulation of greenhouse gases.
By declining to hear those questions, the court indicated it was unlikely to revisit a landmark 2007 case, Massachusetts v. EPA, when it held on a 5-4 vote that carbon was a pollutant that could potentially be regulated under the air pollution law.
The ruling is unlikely to have a broad impact on the administration's climate strategy, including plans to introduce greenhouse gas standards for new power plants under a separate provision of the Clean Air Act. The standards were announced in September but have yet to be formally issued.
By June the agency is expected to unveil more emissions standards for existing power plants. Power plants account for roughly 40 per cent of domestic greenhouse gas emissions.
The single question the high court agreed to hear was one of many raised by nine different coalitions of industry groups, such as the American Petroleum Institute, and 16 states, including Texas and Virginia.
"We remain concerned that if the EPA continues to stretch the boundaries of the Clean Air Act and apply it to greenhouse gases, it could have dire consequences for our members," said Ross Eisenberg, the vice-president for energy and resources policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, which is one of the challengers.
In June 2012, an appeals court in Washington upheld all the regulations, prompting challengers to seek high court review.
Although there are various ways the court could rule, a loss for the EPA could remove a whole category of pollutants, not just greenhouse gases, from the so-called "prevention of serious deterioration" or PSD programme, which requires any new or modified major polluting facility to obtain a permit before any new construction is done if it emits "any air pollutant."
Under the programme, the operators have to show they are using the best available technology available to reduce emissions of the covered pollutants. So far, 335 facilities have applied for permits that include greenhouse gas requirements, an EPA official said.
The regulations are being defended not just by the administration but also by 15 states and various environmental groups. One utility, Calpine Corp, which operates natural gas and geothermal plants, also backed the government by filing a friend-of-the-court brief saying the regulations are not a heavy and costly burden.
Sean Donahue, a lawyer representing environmental groups in the case, said removal of greenhouse gases from the permitting programme would lead to more emissions and discourage innovation on new pollution control technology.
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The case is Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, US Supreme Court, No. 12-1146.


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This course is suitable for those who have already studied German for at least a year, or for those who know basic German. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.
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- Participants must have basic German or studied German for at least a year.
Number of sessions: 9
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- Describe your daily work and home life
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