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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pete Sampras believes tennis is free of performance-enhancing drugs now, as well as during his 14-year pro career that ended in 2002.
The winner of 14 Grand Slam titles says other than "a random case here and there" he doesn't see the top players engaging in doping.
All top tennis players are subject to being tested without warning. The admission in January by Lance Armstrong that he used banned substances in all seven of his Tour de France victories has increased the focus on doping in all sports.
"It's just my feeling," Sampras said Monday night after playing doubles with top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the Los Angeles Tennis Challenge exhibition.
"I don't think players are that sophisticated in tennis," he said, referring to the elaborate system Armstrong used to avoid detection. "It's not their culture. I don't think it's in their nature."
Last month, the International Tennis Federation banned 124th-ranked Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic for six months for doping. She tested positive for the stimulant sibutramine at a tournament last fall. She said the drug got into her system through a supplement and denied taking it to enhance her performance.
"It's a random case here or there," Sampras said. "I don't see the top guys messing around with that. Maybe I'm naive."
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The young man's hands began to shake, and he tugged at his fingers to keep them still. The 20-year-old ethnic Tibetan was terrified of the police finding out that he'd spoken about the Buddhist monks who've been burning themselves alive.
"They're doing it because they want freedom," said the man, a livestock trader who asked that his name not be used because of safety concerns.
He paused before adding, "Because we want freedom."
Since March, according to rights groups, 10 Tibetan Buddhist clergy have set themselves on fire in China's western Sichuan province. Almost all those have come in or around the town of Aba, 50 miles as the crow flies to the west of Hongyuan, amid mountain ranges at the edge of the Tibetan plateau where yaks graze and prayer flags inscribed with mantras and blessings flap in the wind.
At least five reportedly have died in the fiery exclamations of Tibetan complaint about restrictions on their culture and religion and the continued exile of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
The chain of self-immolations – comprising six monks, three former monks and a nun – is unprecedented in modern Tibetan history. The most recent occurred Oct. 25.
Tough response
The response so far by the Chinese Communist Party has been to knuckle down even more. Towns surrounding Aba are stacked with police. Internet access is shut off in many spots. Those suspected of sympathizing closely with activist monks are said to have disappeared.
A McClatchy reporter was detained for two hours Saturday when he was pulled over at a police checkpoint 15 miles from Hongyuan on the winding road toward Aba. He was released only after photos were deleted from his camera and he agreed not to stop again in Hongyuan on the way out, a condition emphasized by threats to his driver and the multiple vehicles that followed him.
Beyond issues particular to the Communist Party's policy in Tibetan areas, the situation also may hint at the limits of the effectiveness of Beijing's authoritarian approach toward social unrest.
Conversations at Hongyuan and outlying villages suggest that the government's tough response hasn't deterred angry Tibetans. Rather, it now threatens to alienate those who were accepting of the regime.
One Tibetan businessman interviewed in the vicinity said that he appreciated the roads and offices the government built. The man, who gave his name as Tsering, said he understood the pragmatic reasons that his daughter received Tibetan language instruction at school only two or three times a week, while she was taught Mandarin Chinese every day.
When talking about the self-immolations, however, Tsering, 29, was adamant. "The monks are asking for justice," he said.
The first self-immolation came on March 16, when a 21-year-old monk named Phuntsog lit himself aflame, apparently to mark the third anniversary of riots that struck Tibet and neighboring territories. Tibetans claim that in one incident during the 2008 disturbances, police shot 13 people dead at a demonstration in Aba.
After Phuntsog's death, six monks — including Phuntsog's brother and uncle — were sentenced to prison or labor camps, according to Free Tibet, a London-based Tibetan advocacy group.
In April, about 300 monks from Phuntsog's Kirti Monastery allegedly were taken away in trucks, prompting the United Nations to inquire about their whereabouts. The Chinese government denied that monks had disappeared from the monastery, although it did note that some were taken away for "education."
The crackdown didn't stop monks from spreading their complaints via pamphlets in the area nor did it put an end to people soaking themselves with gasoline and lighting matches; six self-immolations took place in October alone.
Many Tibetans say that the country's Han Chinese majority, with the muscle of the Communist Party behind it, essentially is occupying their lands and moving to monopolize business interests while marginalizing the Tibetan language and way of life.
The Chinese government maintains that it liberated Tibetans from a feudal existence, and now works to improve their lives with billions of dollars in infrastructure projects. Any outbursts of Tibetan rage, the government maintains, are due to outside influences personified by the Dalai Lama.
'Terrorism in disguise?'
Speaking about the self-immolations, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a news briefing Oct. 19 that the Dalai Lama and those around him had encouraged "more people to follow suit," an action that Jiang said amounted to "terrorism in disguise."
Later in the month, the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959, said it was China's own "ruthless policy" that was to blame.
At one Tibetan monastery nestled by snow-capped hills in the region, there are no photographs of the Dalai Lama visible from outside the compound's main buildings. Police are stationed nearby.
In the living quarters of one of its senior monks, though, a large portrait of the Tibetan leader greets visitors.
The monk, whose name and location McClatchy is withholding to prevent retribution from local officials, said he'd tried last August to visit Aba, which is known in Tibetan as Ngaba.
"The police wouldn't even let me into the town," said the monk, whose elderly uncle smiled a toothy grin and pulled a cell phone from the folds of his vest to show a visitor his picture of the Dalai Lama. "The living conditions for monks in Aba aren't very good, and there's a conflict now between the Han and the Tibetans there."
Standing in a prayer hall that a group of young monks was sweeping for a ceremony the next day, the soft-spoken man in a crimson robe and yellow fleece jacket said that, "a lot of these problems have roots in the 2008 troubles."
'We are all afraid of the government'
Here in Hongyuan, police now swarm the streets. Many of those patrolling the predominantly ethnic Tibetan town appear to be Han Chinese.
"A lot of people have been taken away by the government," said the livestock trader, who wore a puffy neon-blue jacket and jeans. "A lot of Tibetans feel that we aren't free. We aren't allowed to put up pictures of the Dalai Lama. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
He was joined by a group of friends, a couple of whom wore small likenesses of the Dalai Lama at the ends of thin leather necklaces that they tucked beneath their shirts.
One of them, another Tibetan trader in his early 20s, spoke up, "We are all afraid of the government."
A few blocks away, a policeman sat in his car and filmed every person who walked by an intersection.
Chinese officials have tried suppressing news about the extent of the security presence and pressure on Tibetans in places such as Hongyuan.
When the McClatchy reporter was stopped while traveling in the direction of Aba, one man in the small police stand where he was held set the ground rules: "It is against the law to write things down in here."
The reporter was told four different times that he could leave, only to be stopped by further demands: handing over his camera, explaining to two additional plainclothes officers why he was in the area and, finally, tearing out a page of notes that contained the name of a local police commander, Qiu Po.
In the meantime, a driver whom McClatchy had hired was taken outside and told that he could be arrested.
The next morning, a police officer visited the reporter's room in a hotel some four hours away. The officer said that news media were hereby forbidden from traveling in the direction of Hongyuan. It was permissible, he said, to remain near the town of Songpan, where Tibetans and Han Chinese dressed as Tibetans cater to tourist groups flying in every day from Beijing.
Later in the afternoon, a second police officer stopped the reporter outside the hotel and, accompanied by three men in plainclothes, questioned him about every detail of his trip.
The Han Chinese officer, surnamed Jiang, seemed particularly anxious to know what the Tibetans had been saying.

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Man who thought he was a tiger has killed himself
By Julio Severo
Dennis Avner, a 54 years old man who spent years trying hard to make his body look like a tiger, has committed suicide. According to DailyMail of November 13, his body was found November 5. He lived alone.
|Dennis Avner
With an impressionable mind, Avner didn't to grudge any pains to transform his fantasy into reality, making his own body to look like what his imagination thought he was: a tiger. Regardless what he saw or what others saw, the important thing was what the eyes of his mind saw.
With his desire governing his head, he went through surgical procedures in his mouth, lips and ears. He also started to use silicones and implants. After all, to live in the fantasy world is today a kind of fundamental "human right", even when such a fantasy is pathological. Avner lived that right to its last consequences, until his own suicide.
The case of Dennis Avner is not different from radical homosexuals, who want to live according to their sexual desires or fantasies. It does not matter what their eyes see or what the eyes of others see, they will use any trick — silicones, mutilations, hormones, etc. — to deny, hide and reject what the nature has powerfully engraved in their bodies.
Anus is the exclusive orifice for defecation, never for sex. Nature proves abundantly it.
If it is ridiculous for a man to see himself as a tiger, it is more ridiculous to treat anus as a sexual organ.
The only difference between Avner and radical homosexuals is that, at least for the time being, there is no large number of people thinking they are tigers, monkeys, donkeys and pigs, although many have behaved this way.
If their number increases, then we will certainly see parades of donkeys and pigs, and lobbies in the Congress: "To walk on hands and knees is a human right!"
We will see mutant men and women, with their deformed, siliconized and operated bodies, putting their crazy imagination above Nature.
Obviously, Avner was not happy. Men only kill themselves because they are extremely unhappy.
It is obvious also that, to see himself as a tiger or a pig, a man has mental problems.
But if Avner saw himself as a "woman", then the media chorus would begin, "He killed himself because of 'homophobia' preached by bigoted fundamentalist Christian haters, not because of mental problems!"
However, the difference between the fantasy of Avner and a man's fantasy that wants to be a woman is very little, so that activists could say, "He killed himself not because of mental problems, but because a bigoted society hates the appearance of an animal in a human!"
The great contradiction in the modern tendency of men and women artificially altering the natural form and functions of their bodies in the name of assumed individual and human rights is that the society sends, at the same time, the message that Nature is sacred and that humans should live in harmony with her norms.
A society that approves and consecrates in its laws the mutilation and disfigurement of the human physical nature transforms men and women into aberrations for themselves and Nature.
The fact is, when looking themselves at the mirror, mutilated men and women will never be satisfied with the result of their surgical and hormonal procedures to be what they are not, because they know that their imagination can alter at the most their appearances, but never the reality impressed by Nature. The end result is despair, madness and death.
When will this stop? It is difficult to know, because human imagination has no limits.
Portuguese version of this article: Suicidou-se homem que pensava que era um tigre
Other article by Julio Severo:


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This is a fisheye view of a NASA-funded rocket being shot into the Aurora Borealis in Alaska.
In a move applauded nationwide, NASA has declared war on the sky. Obviously there's a lot of (metaphorical) ground to cover, but NASA, as well as scientists from a number of universities, started with the mysterious Alfven Wave. These waves are like waves traveling along, say, a stretched string. The string, in this case, is a magnetic field line. When the overall magnetic field is disturbed, say with a bunch of particles coming in from space, the the string propagates the wave. These waves show up as the long strings of green light that appear in the sky as part of the Aurora Borealis. Rightly thinking that this was a threat, NASA shot a Terrier-Black Brant rocket into the waves.
The rocket reached a height of 186 miles, and came down 200 miles away. It spent its time in the air measuring the particles it encountered, and the magnetic and electric fields it went through. With any luck, it will give us the information we need to take down this luminescent menace.
In the mean time: does anyone else think that Aurora and Alfven are the ultimate nerd names?
Image: Ryuho Kataoka/Tokyo Institute of Technology


text: Germany's Chaos Computer Club has announced the theme for their annual Chaos Communication Congress: "Nothing to hide". Like last year's "Full steam ahead!", it's open to many interpretations. People striking down privacy laws often say citizens shouldn't mind since they have "Nothing to hide". The phrase is also connected to the inability to hide data, as the CCC demonstrated this year by publishing the German Home Secretary's fingerprint. On a more positive side, "Nothing to hide" is also about the free exchange of information that happens at hacker conventions. The Congress is in its 25th year and promises to be as good as ever. At last year's 24C3, we saw great talks like [Drew Endy]'s biohacking talk and the original MiFare crypto presentation. 25C3 will be held in Berlin December 27th to 30th. The wiki is already up and they've published a call for participation, if you're interested.


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My confession: I hate summer. I have a vague memory of enjoying it when I lived in Toronto, but in the decade since I moved to New York, it's become my least favorite season. My lack of affection for it is based partly on the sticky unpleasantness of heat and humidity in the concrete jungle. It's also because summer is invariably a crazy time for me. I spend most of it chained to my desk, and when I venture outside, I wish I were still chained to my desk.
That said, there is one highlight: Thrillerfest, the conference of the International Thriller Writers, which takes place in New York every July. While there's plenty going for the conference, the very best thing about it is that it brings so many wonderful people to town. This year, that list included Meg Gardiner, Sean Chercover, Dennis Tafoya, Brad Parks, Daniel Palmer, Jennifer Hillier, Owen Laukkanen, Peter Farris, Jamie Freveletti, Carla Buckley, Boyd Morrison, Sophie Littlefield, Mike Cooper, Shane Gericke, Josh Corin, Pam Callow... um, I could go on and on, but you get the point.
Some highlights from this year. I was having so much fun I forgot to snap photos until the last night, at the ITW awards banquet:
|At the Tor/Forge table with my awesome publicist, Aisha Cloud, author Jon McGoran (who has a novel coming out with Forge next July), and editor extraordinaire Kristin Sevick Brown.
|Brad Parks and Daniel Palmer rock the house with "Ghost Writers in the Sky"
|You cannot imagine how hilarious this was...
|With one of my favorite thriller writers, Jeffery Deaver, at the afterparty.
|With the always-awesome Todd Robinson at the after-afterparty. While Thrillerfest is terrific for bringing out-of-town friends into NYC, it's also fantastic for getting New Yorkers into Manhattan to party.
If there's one negative thing I have to say about this year's Thrillerfest, it's this: some wonderful writers were missing from it. In particular, I would have loved to see Rebecca Cantrell there, so I could say congratulations on her latest Hannah Vogel novel, A CITY OF BROKEN GLASS. The book is out today from Forge, and it's earning rave reviews. Library Journal gave it a star and said: "Cantrell's fourth historical featuring journalist Hannah Vogel (after A Game of Lies) is compulsively readable. A palpable sense of dread builds, as we know that Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom of November 1938, is imminent. This award-winning series succeeds at weaving a very personal story into a well-researched historical survey. In an increasingly crowded genre period, Cantrell's series stands tall."
Check out Becky's website to see more praise for the book. Read an excerpt over at Macmillan's site. And please send email to Becky telling her that she needs to come to New York next summer!


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MONTREAL - You could almost hear a collective "Phew!" from universities this week as members of student associations vetoed the tentative agreement their negotiators had reached with the Charest government.
But the universities' relief could be premature. The agreement's core idea isn't dead yet, and that might be all for the good.
If that idea is ever revived, it could help the academia's Establishment to change its often meandering, self-indulgent ways.
That's because the agreement called for creating an ad hoc council to evaluate the way universities spend money. This body was to make recommendations to Quebec's education ministry by Dec. 31 on how to make economies. Any eventual savings were to have been passed on to students (by means of commensurate cuts in students' administrative fees – as distinct from tuition fees).
The root problem with the financing of Quebec universities is that the government pays each institution according to the number of students,
This drives universities to fervent efforts to put more bums in seats. To make up for the dwindling number of Quebecers of university age, some of the schools even flog themselves like mass-market consumer products. Witness Université de Montréal's renting of rinkside billboards at Canadiens games and its festooning of métro cars with pleas to apply.
Defenders of this practice say it "democratizes education." Yes, but at a cost.
A prof at one Montreal university emails me this comment: "Something that never gets talked about, probably because it might not be 'appropriate,' but which anyone who has taught at the undergraduate level can relate to, is that a good chunk – let's say 25 per cent to be conservative – of undergraduates have no clue what they're doing there and are even less interested.
"They constitute a major drag because one can't push a class too hard given you'd lose those guys. So, many talented and motivated students do not benefit as much as they should. I suppose some people might find this elitist, but we are talking about universities, are we not?"
The 2008 movie, Le Banquet, dramatizes this trend: A nameless Montreal university, presumably UQAM, refuses to expel a misfit who disrupts a class, penalizing serious students. In the end, the student fatally shoots the earnest teacher. Moral: Egalitarianism is killing quality education.
But other practices, too, stem in part from this per-capita funding policy. The building of campuses in other cities (for example, Quebec City-based Université Laval's facilities in Montreal) is part of the search for warm bodies. The policy is also a factor in universities' avid quest for international students. Note also that part of the rationale for U de M's Outremont expansion (in the face of shrinking Quebec demographics) is attracting and housing foreign students. Ditto UQAM's botched Voyageur project.
The council that negotiators agreed to had an amazing mandate: It explicitly included, among other things, the study of publicity practices, "internationalization," campus proliferation and real-estate expansion. Finally, these trends would have received attention.
The savings potential could have been impressive. Killing the Outremont plan alone would economize over $1 billion and thus slash the students' administrative fees. Yet the students nixed the pact because it said nothing about the holy grail of lower tuition fees.
Universities feared the council because it would throw light on their spending, challenge their autonomy and rock the boat.
Yet universities are publicly financed, and what they do with the public's money is the public's business. The particular sort of council the negotiators designed, however, would not have carried out its useful mandate well.
That's because:
The council would have studied all 17 Quebec universities on a short deadline, creating the potential for hasty, one-size-fits-all recommendations. (Cutting back on, say, international recruiting might make sense for Université du Québec à Rimouski, but not for McGill.)
The council's 19 members would have been polarized. On one side would have been six university heads, two business reps and one CEGEP rep; on the other side four boycotting students and four of their union allies. A war of worlds.
No one knows the outcome of the tuition crisis. Logically however, a solution would include a new attempt at reviewing university finances – which are, after all, the underlying issue of the tuition dispute. If such a review takes pace, a less politicized body ought to to do it. The complexities of academia's finances need an inquiry that is calm and free of idées fixes.


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Painted toolbox
in Star brite #1
Is there anything to clean a black aluminum toolbox?
Is it painted black or an anodized finish?
We do make an aluminum cleaner for canoes, pontoon boats, traielrs, etc that is very effective.
Im guessing its painted black from UWS that has faded from the sun.
If it's painted, you are cleaning the paint, not the aluminum. Think of it like your car or truck: it has aluminum, plastic and steel panels, but they are painted, so you clean & polish the paint, not the material underneath.
Next question: is it dirty or is it faded or is it scratched? The answer is what dictates the proper product to use. If it's just dirty, any boat or car wash will work fine. You can actually apply a protective coat of polish afterwards to help keep it clean.
If it's faded or scratched, you might want to use a cleaner wax to help restore it, but be careful, as I doubt the layer of paint is very thick. Any overly aggressive use of a cleaner wax or a compound could easily strip off the remainign paint.
You might be best off to clean the tool box and then repaint it with an appropriate paint.
when I get to it Im gonna linex it to match the bed in truck, thanks Bill
Line X is great stuff. I used it to undercoat my Grand Wagoneer and to do the engine bay when I replaced the engine, too. Good choice.


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Death of a Salesman Analysis
- Death of a Salesman mostly takes place in Willy's home in New York City. Urban development has boxed the house in. Willy often thinks of his brother's adventures, because he wants to escape.
- The play switches between the present, which encompasses the final ten days of Willy's life, and the past, particularly the period in which Biff and Hap are adolescents. This temporal layering illuminates the decline of the Loman family.
- The materialism of the 1950s gives the play its cultural context. Like many Americans of this period, Willy feels that his sense of self is tied to his material status.
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Death of a Salesman is a modern tragedy depicting the last days in the life of Willy Loman. When the action occurs in the present, the drama is realistic, both psychologically and emotionally. When the action is set in the past, however, the drama becomes dreamlike. Thus, in the scenes in which Willy's sons, Biff and Happy, are in high school, only Willy can see them. This flashback technique is also used to incorporate Willy's older brother Ben, the man to whom Willy turns for advice when circumstances produce a level of stress beyond which Willy can no longer function.
The story of Death of a Salesman is complex not only because it combines past and present but also because it grows out of a lifetime of lies and denials. Willy, unable to maintain a strenuous life on the road as a traveling salesman, seeks a steady job in New York, only to be fired by his boss, Howard Wagner, the son of the man who initially hired Willy. With unpaid bills piling up, Willy is further burdened by the return of his thirty-four-year-old son Biff, who has returned from working as a ranch hand in Texas in the hopes of finding a white-collar job in New York.
Biff and his younger brother, Happy, move back into their parents' house and lament both the loss of their innocence and their failure to realize their dreams. Only their boyhood friend Bernard, now an attorney, has achieved success. Consequently, both brothers blame their father for misdirecting them, although their bitterness is nevertheless fraught with admiration and love.
During a family quarrel, Linda reveals to her sons that Willy has been attempting suicide, both with the car in a series of staged accidents and with a rubber pipe fastened to a gas line in the basement. Biff resolves to reform his life for the sake of his father, and act 1 closes with the familiar denial of old wounds and Biff's promise to make a business deal in New York.
In act 2, after Willy has been fired, he meets Biff and Happy at a restaurant, hoping to hear good news from Biff. Instead of the promised deal, Biff reveals that he stole the fountain pen of the man who interviewed him. Stunned, Willy retreats to the bathroom, where he relives a pivotal moment in both his and Biff's life: the time that Biff caught him in a Boston hotel room with his mistress. Crushed by his father's betrayal of his mother, Biff refused to take a course in summer school and failed to graduate, thus beginning the string of small disasters and petty thefts that have ruined his life.
Having abandoned Willy in the restaurant, the family members reunite at home, where they have a final, explosive confrontation. Biff accuses Willy of having blown him full of hot air, and Willy accuses Biff of ruining his life out of spite. Forever the peacemaker, Linda tries to quiet them and is shouted down, as is Happy. Biff throws the rubber pipe onto the table and demands to know if Willy thinks that his suicide will make a hero out of him. Willy breaks down, and he and Biff are reconciled, but, when the rest of the family trudges off to bed, Willy speeds off in his car to kill himself, hoping that the insurance money will provide Biff with the new start in life that he so desperately needs.
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Loman home
Loman home. Modest house in Brooklyn, New York. Despite the play's fixed location, playwright Arthur Miller makes it clear that Willy's...
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Saratoga: Designer Legs by DQ; Corfu in a photo
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- A rough stretch drive that resulted in a disqualification of the first-place finisher in the Adirondack was followed by an excruciatingly close photo finish in the Saratoga Special.
Long shot Designer Legs benefitted from the DQ of Who's in Town in the Grade II for juvenile fillies, and Corfu desperately held off Wired Bryan in the Grade II for juvenile colts.
Besides the disqualification, the Adirondack was further marred by the breakdown of Charmed Hour, who shattered her right front leg while trailing the field and was euthanized on the track.
That incident sent jockey John Velazquez to the deck, but he was able to walk off with a sore back to get back in the saddle and win on Corfu.
Asked when he lasted experienced such an extraordinarily compressed series of opposing events in one day, Velazquez said, "That doesn't surprise me. That doesn't surprise me. I've been on the very, very highs and very, very lows on the same day, so ... it doesn't surprise me."
Who's in Town, ridden by meet leader Joel Rosario, led all the way through the stretch while pressured from the outside by Designer Legs, ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan.
Fiftyshadesofgold and jockey Corey Lanerie tried to come up the rail, but twice were impeded by Who's in Town, enough so in the opinion of the stewards to e taken down and placed fourth, giving the victory to Desgner Legs, who was a neck behind Who's in Town at the wire.
"It was game. She fought back and forth with that horse [Who's in Town]," winning trainer Dallas Stewart said. "Fortunately for us it came up the right way."
"What can I do?" said Michael Matz, who trains Who's in Town. "I was pleased with the way my filly ran."
Corfu won the Saratoga Special just 17 days after breaking his maiden at Saratoga.
"He needed to improve for this race, and actually he did it," Velazquez said. "To have only one race, to come back and hold on the way he did it today, I'm very proud. He held on, as fast as we were going all the way around, you've got to take your hats off when a horse keeps running like that."
"Wired Bryan ran a courageous race; we were just on the fortunate side of the head bob," trainer Todd Pletcher said.
Wired Bryan, attempting to be the first horse to sweep the Sanford and Saratoga Special since City Zip did it in 2000, fought gamely but couldn't quite get there.
"That was the closest thing to a dead heat that I've ever seen," said trainer Michael Dilger, a former Pletcher assistant. "We are very happy with him."
Velazquez had a chance to tie his own record for wins on a Saratoga card, but came up a half-length short in the finale.
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Normally I hate May, but this year I love May. Mostly because I'm going to m00t with some other TORCers this month. That being said, it probably stands to reason I won't be posting as regularly on here this month. No cause for alarm, no need to panic. I'll still be around.
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Feels Like The First Time
Starbird's 51st Annual Wichita Show
About this time last year I took a trip back to the state known for aircrafts, wheat, and Dorothy to check out the 50th Annual Darryl Starbird National Rod and Custom Car Show in Wichita, Kansas. Well, seeing as it appears the half-century-old show isn't going anywhere for a while I went ahead and made reservations for the 51st annual show.
Last year's turnout, in terms of custom classic trucks, was nothing less than superb. There was variety, style, creativity, and, most importantly, an abundance of trucks. All it took was a lap around the show to really get the creative juices flowing for one to rush home and start hacking away at their own hauler. With that being said, we could only hope that this year's show would yield the same results. But let's be honest, it's hard to duplicate one's first time.
As the weekend unfolded, I soon figured out this show wasn't going to duplicate last year's, simply because this year's show doubled the number of last year's trucks. Not only did it double in quantity, but quality was stepped up a notch as well. Every square inch of the massive Century II building was doused with a truck here and there. This not only kept my camera busy, but my mind in full swing as well. So yeah, I guess this year's show wasn't the same as last year's, but then again the excitement and electricity was right on par. I guess Foreigner said it best: "It feels like the first time." Visit www.darrylstarbird.com for information on next year's show, or call 918/257-4234.


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To describe the struggles of her profession--that is, how difficult it is for a woman writer to express opinions in a world dominated by men--she chose a metaphoric character. Woolf describes her intent to write a book review of a male author's book, and says:
I discovered that if I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certain phantom. And the phantom was a woman, and when I came to know her better I called her after the heroine of a famous poem, The Angel in the House. It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews. It was she who bothered me and wasted my time and so tormented me that at last I killed her....She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts of family life. She sacrificed herself daily. If there was chicken, she took the leg; if there was a draught she sat in it--in short she was so constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of her own, but preferred to sympathize always with the minds and wishes of others. Above all--I need not say it---she was pure. Her purity was supposed to be her chief beauty--her blushes, her great grace. In those days--the last of Queen Victoria--every house had its Angel. And when I came to write I encountered her with the very first words. The shadow of her wings fell on my page; I heard the rustling of her skirts in the room. Directly, that is to say, I took my pen in my hand to review that novel by a famous man, she slipped behind me and whispered: "My dear, you are a young woman. You are writing about a book that has been written by a man. Be sympathetic; be tender; flatter; deceive; use all the arts and wiles of our sex. Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all, be pure." And she made as if to guide my pen....Had I not killed her she would have killed me. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing.Strong words, but they reflected perfectly Woolf's own experience. She was born in the Victorian era in 1882, growing up in a male-dominated household. Her first novel had been published 16 years before this speech, which followed the liberating era of the 1920s, and took place in the run-up to World War II. It was a time of change, and she gave voice to that change.
What can you learn from this famous speech?
- Have a strong point of view: Too often, speakers--and women speakers--have as their goal not to offend anyone. They purge opinion from their speeches, and the results are pale, boring groupings of platitudes. Woolf not only embraces her viewpoint, but makes it violent and memorable. To her, this was the ultimate struggle, and you can tell.
- Get your audience to see something in their mind's eye: Part of the speech asks the audience to imagine the writer, pen in hand, and describes the scene so that her hearers can get a mental picture of what her work is like...and the conditions under which she has to battle the angel. The images you put in your audience members' minds will always be more memorable than any slide or photograph. It's a great technique to build audience engagement.
- Use metaphor to create a character or personality: I don't see enough speakers turning the forces they are describing into metaphoric characters, real personalities the audience can picture and relate to. But it's an effective tactic here, allowing Woolf to describe the Angel of the House as a person, making it more recognizable and familiar.
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Is the Second Great Depression approaching? Part two: the case against
Is the Second Great Depression approaching? Part two: the case against
While it is true that there are similarities between the present day and the pre-Depression period
- Surplus countries unwilling to stimulate (Germany today)
- Overproduction and the lack of a global engine
the question is whether it adds up to another Great Depression or a slow period of growth?
Weak growth rather than collapse
A more likely outcome to my mind is that rather than a collapse, we just get weak growth punctuated by bursts of policy easing, which ultimately may only be resolved through inflation or debt write-offs.
I am brought to this conclusion by the differences between today and the 1920s, which combine to produce a more benign economic environment and a greatly reduced risk of crisis.
Money supply eases stress
Firstly, we should bear in mind that the US money supply contracted and the economy went into serious deflation during the Great Depression.
By contrast, though the US is experiencing low inflation at present, its money supply continues to expand (see chart).
In addition, other major central banks are also busily expanding the money supply, with quantitative easing underway in the eurozone and Japan, while China is also easing monetary policy.
This widespread monetary accommodation does much to ease financial stresses of the sort that helped trigger the Great Depression.
In a related vein, the US banking system is stronger today than in the 1920s and 30s, as the recent crisis helped to demonstrate.
Though there were high profile casualties, depositors were protected and we did not see a string of bank failures.
In part this was due to the provision of liquidity by the US and other authorities, but also to the structural reforms imposed upon the banking system in the intervening decades.
Weaker links
Secondly, while it is true that a number of economies still maintain some form of dollar peg, the fact remains that the links today between the US and the rest of the world are far weaker than under the Gold Standard system.
The Gold Standard provided a link between major developed markets and the US, as well as the emerging markets who dominate the "pegged currency" list today.
The clearest demonstration of the difference this makes for monetary policy lies in the diverging stances of the Federal Reserve (Fed) and European Central Bank (ECB), with the latter all but actively cheering the euro's depreciation against its transatlantic cousin.
Consequently, an economy almost the equal of the US, in terms of GDP, will be easing as the Fed tightens, providing a welcome counterweight to the contractionary effect on global liquidity.
We are not about to enter a second Great Depression, but growth will remain sluggish.
Of course, dollar and euro liquidity are not perfectly mutually interchangeable, but you will not have the eurozone constricting demand in tandem with the US.
It is also likely that other major economies would feel comfortable to allow currency depreciation given their lack of US dollar debt.
The main pain here will be felt by the emerging markets. This is not to be discounted – there could be serious casualties – but it will not be on the scale of a global depression.
Stronger trade
A third point is that, while it is true that overall global trade is struggling, the degree of weakness is but a mere echo of that seen in the 1930s.
The chart below depicts trade behaviour around the 1929 Great Depression and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and we have simply not seen anything like as significant a contraction in trade this time around.
Trade is certainly weak, perhaps in part as a result of trade restrictive measures, but neither the measures nor the contraction seem comparable to the Great Depression era.
Finally, while we have seen significant falls in some commodity prices, commodities are a smaller share of global GDP today than they were in the 1920s, as Craig acknowledges in his case for.
The price declines have also been of a lesser magnitude – the most pessimistic reading of current data sees a 45% decline across commodities in the last five years, while declines of up to 70% in a similar time period were witnessed in the run up to the Great Depression. Consequently, the effect here is again more muted.
To sum up
I can see a number of parallels and similarities between the 1920s and today, but in each case they are in a more attenuated form today.
This alone would lead me to conclude that the implications for growth are less severe as a result.
I agree that the world lacks a locomotive at present and do not see the US being in a position to repeat the credit driven expansion which characterised the twenty years before the financial crisis.
China is going through a major structural adjustment.
But the world today is different as the factors which turned a downturn into a depression are far more constrained. This time around the policy response has been far more significant.
There was no QE in the 1920s/30s, and this ameliorates many of the problems economic historians identified – whether the Friedman view of mistakenly tight policy, or the Eichengreen view of the Gold Standard generating global tightening.
Finally, banking systems are more stable today. We saw this in the lack of mass failures in the US during the 2008 crisis, for example.
This policy response owes much to the experience of the Great Depression, a period on which Ben Bernanke, at the helm of the Fed as the financial crisis unfolded, is an expert.
Yet as with all medicine there are side effects.
In this case by driving interest rates to zero to support the economy, the authorities prevented some of the creative destruction which would have cleared out unproductive sectors and provided a better base for recovery.
Much of the recovery we have seen has been accompanied by an increase in government debt which will drag on future growth. Meanwhile, productivity struggles as resources are misallocated.
We are not about to enter a second Great Depression, but growth will remain sluggish by past standards. In avoiding the fall we have hampered the recovery.
In case you missed it, part one of the debate: The case for... is available here.
The full article containing both Keith Wade and Craig Botham's sides of the argument is available as a PDF below.
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Chuck Answers Fan Questions For His Third 'Phoenix' Essay
On February 12th, Chuck Palahniuk released a new short story exclusively through Amazon's Kindle Single program called 'Phoenix.' At the time of my writing this, 'Phoenix' is #1 across the board on Amazon's Kindle Single rank. The story is burning it up! (pun intended)
So earlier month, Chuck decided to start a series of essays explaining the construction and backstory of this short story. (You can read Essay 1 here, Essay 2 here and Essay 3 here.) And he decided to let a small number of fans submit questions to him. So without further ado, here is the second batch of Questions & Answers. And it goes without saying, but if you haven't yet read 'Phoenix,' there are spoilers below.
(Chuck's answers are italicizied within)
From Brian McHale:
Regarding the anecdotes, how do you remember them?
Do you use index cards like you mention in *Stranger Than Fiction*?
Is this room akin to the one used in the creation of the first Oxford
English Dictionary?
Chuck's Response:
Brian, you send the strangest food pictures. The pineapple (?) still has me scratching my head. In regard to your question, here's a great writing exercise. It's something Tom Spanbauer used to assign his students on their first class session: Write the story of something you only half remember. Or barely remember. Start by recording the few details you can recall. Don't focus on your feelings, just write down every physical aspect of the setting and what occurred. Doing this, Tom's students are always amazed. Each might start with a couple sentences, but the longer they reflect the more those scant details evoke additional ones. This isn't about inventing memories, the process actually demonstrates how memories cue deeper memories. It's similar to song lyrics: If you can retrieve one line or phrase from your memory you can eventually recall most of the song.
With anecdotes, once I decide to quilt them into a story I'll sit with scratch paper and do Tom's exercise. The anecdote foremost in my mind will cue others, and I'll make a list of them and decide which will work best as plot points.
Personally, I've given up making on-going notes and note cards. Too much clutter. In workshop, Chelsea Cain insists that's the first test of a good detail. If it lingers in your mind over time, it's worth using. But if you have to write it down and file it, it wasn't worth using in the first place.
Just today I told a friend about walking into someone's kitchen and seeing the homeowner standing at the counter with his penis dangling in a cereal bowl filled with salt water. Apparently he'd just gotten a Prince Albert piercing, and while it healed he had to periodically soak it in warm saline. The sight was funny and shocking, and I swore never to eat a meal in that household. In fact I used the visual in "Fight Club": Tyler looks like an elephant wearing a bowtie drinking soup through its little trunk. My point is… when I told the story, today, my listener responded with an almost identical anecdote about his college roommate soaking a new piercing in a shared coffee cup. Tonight I'll share both stories at dinner and probably come home with a third and fourth version. Already, the basic story has prompted people to tell me about botched piercings. And infected piercings. Someday the best of these clustered anecdotes will become the scenes within a book or story.
From Aaron I:
In this last essay, you laid out how 'Phoenix' was gathered over time and eventually compiled. You also mentioned how you've taken a number of true stories and experiences from your life and put them forth into your work.
My question: How do you determine when you have enough information or enough of an idea for a story & start writing it?
Chuck's Response:
Excellent question. I wish I knew the perfect answer. At best, I try to start writing when I have three anecdotes: one that establishes the premise… one that escalates it with humor… and a third which arrives at disaster. In "Guts" those anecdotes are the carrot, the candle and the swimming pool. Once I find a way to string three scenes together I begin to look for holes. First, I take it to workshop. We all need an intelligent "ideal reader" whom we trust for useful feedback. Writers in workshop will prove to me where the laughs are, but my first question is always about clarity. Does the reader understand what takes place? My next priority is pacing. Does the story move too slow or too fast? My fellow writers will answer my concerns, and there's a good chance that they'll also provide an anecdote or some background information that will help me flesh out the story.
Once I know where the holes are – questions about motive, or perhaps I need more gradual steps in my discovery process or my reveal, or I need a better 'hook' to engage the reader at the opening – then I can go into the world knowing what kind of information or anecdotes I need to fill those holes. That means going to more parties, talking to more people, fishing for exactly the right piece to finish the puzzle.
My thanks this week to everyone whose helped Dennis with his campaign on Kickstarter. I don't have another essay ready about Phoenix, but I'd rather wait and give you a good essay rather than waste your time with space filler. If there are aspects of the story you're curious about, please ask. Happy St. Patrick's Day.
We'll be posting Part 3 of Chuck's 'Phoenix' essays later this week at which time Chuck will accept more fan questions. For now, if you haven't yet read this great story...


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from Radar Magazine – The Independent (UK) / by Emma Jones
She is already attracting Oscar rumours for her latest film in which she plays a double amputee. Emma Jones meets her
There's a theory that the best way to win a best actress Oscar is by a dramatic change in appearance. From young to old, beautiful to haggard, from Meryl Streep to Margaret Thatcher. At least no-one can accuse Marion Cotillard of deliberate Oscar-hunting. She already has one, for playing French chanteuse Edith Piaf in 2007's La Vie en Rose. Nevertheless in her new film Rust and Bone, which won Best Film at the London Film Festival last weekend, Cotillard transforms strikingly to play a double amputee called Stéphanie. Her hair hangs lank, her eyes are half-dead. And you can't take your eyes off her.
Today, the actress is dressed in Dior – she's a "face" for the fashion house – and looks like Paris in the springtime. She, apparently, finds her beauty irrelevant, being more interested in losing herself in a part. When her Rust and Bone co-star, the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts, first met her on the set, Cotillard was in her wheelchair, sullen and silent. She was already Stéphanie, a sea-world trainer who loses her legs in a freak accident. Ali, a rough bouncer, played by Schoenaerts, is the only one who doesn't treat her like an invalid. As a love story, it's a bruiser. Made by Jacques Audiard, director of A Prophet, it's been a critical hit at festivals including Cannes, Toronto and London.
Despite the difficulties of transforming for her previous role as Piaf, Cotillard describes this film as "her biggest challenge so far".
"I wanted to work with Jacques Audiard. Even before we met, he was on my to-die-for director list. And then there is Stéphanie. Usually, I connect emotionally with a character, and I discover all the layers. But with her, I freaked out. There is something so mysterious about her, I felt I didn't know her at all."
You could almost level the same accusation at the actress. She speaks perfect English, pausing frequently to find the right word and answers honestly. Yet she doesn't give herself away easily. Her parents and her younger twin brothers are all in the business. Acting was the only option.
Now 37 she has been with her partner, the director Guillaume Canet, since 2007. They originally met 10 years ago, on the set of Love Me If You Dare. Their son Marcel was born 18 months ago. Although she and Canet have the tag of "France's Brangelina", they live quietly, solidly, together in Paris. They last collaborated together on Little White Lies in 2010, a tale about dysfunctional thirtysomethings which was a hit in France. She smiles wryly at the memory. "In some ways it is great to be directed by your partner, because then you can always be together. But we did talk constantly about work and it came off set with us. However, I guess he did something right because I have promised him I will work with him again."
Rust and Bone was one of the first films she signed up for after the birth of Marcel. Seeing the actress without legs is a punch in the guts – even if it is just CGI. She says she didn't do any research into amputees, apart from watching footage of how to move. "It was not so much the physicality of the part that interested me, but the emotion. I haven't lost my legs, but I have lost, and I have felt pain. I knew the CGI would work, because otherwise, there was going to be no movie.
"The first scene I did without legs, I was in a wheelchair, so my legs were bandaged up underneath me. In every scene, the CGI people were so quick, and so discreet, that I barely noticed them. I have to say, when I saw it for the first time in a cinema, I was amazed. It is so powerful."
By "discreet", she is referring to the numerous sex scenes she and Schoenaerts had to perform. An image of her naked, amputated body appears in the film trailer, something Cotillard approves of: "The sex and flesh is part of the story," she says. " It's not sensational or a statement at all, it had to be in there. You know how you feel when you rediscover your body, love, your life. That's what happens to both these characters and I think that is very sexy."
Ever since she was discovered, aged 21, with a part in Arnaud Desplechin's comedy My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument, the parts Cotillard has chosen have been far from feeble French flowers; from Tina Lombardi in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement, who gets guillotined for murder; to bisexual headcase Marie in Little White Lies. She even smacked Russell Crowe in the face in A Good Year.
The Hollywood parts she has been offered post-Oscar seem feebler: a moll in Public Enemies with Johnny Depp; a cheated-on wife in the Rob Marshall musical Nine and love interest Miranda in The Dark Knight Rises. Christopher Nolan put off filming the latter because he wanted her in it, and at the time of asking the actress was pregnant with Marcel. "He called me up after Inception", she recalls, "And it was something I really wanted to be part of, but of course I couldn't. So he said, 'I am writing at the moment, let me see what I can do for you.' I feel so lucky that he would do that for me – the guy is a creative genius. I mean, it was amazing to be part of one of the biggest films ever made, but I don't feel with Christopher that I am making a blockbuster. He is a completely independent thinker."
As the first actress since Sophia Loren in 1973 to win an Oscar for acting in a foreign language, Cotillard isn't ungrateful to Hollywood. "I am so lucky to be able to work in both France and America. Most of the movies that fed my dreams as a child were American. The Oscar opened a door, there is no doubt about that. And perhaps there will be more doors opened because of The Artist's success too. French cinema is travelling, and I am proud to be a French actress. We are an old country of cinema."
You get the feeling that Cotillard will only ever keep dipping her toe into the studio system. She claims to like the "difficult" roles "in whatever language I can get them. Often, they aren't found in English. I want to explore and learn all my life", she explains. "Even when I am old. Before I am an actress, or a mother, I am a woman first. I feel that very deeply in my heart."
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Just when everything looked as hopeless as it has ever looked this season, the Pirates got a chance to go to the well versus the only team they've found any success against this year: The Cubs.
Ended: Six game losing streak. 17 game road losing streak. A Pirates starting pitcher recorded an out in the 8th inning for the first time this year.
Continued: Domination versus the Cubs (8-2). Losing a second baseman to a concussion from a collision with the right fielder in consecutive series.
Milledge has to call off Crosby for that ball. I like how he's hitting but the mental errors are killing me and costing the team runs every game. I was very surprised to see Delwyn Young brought in to play second; it seemed like the perfect time to get Andy LaRoche into a game at 2B to get his feet wet.
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Nevada Preppers Roll Call 3/06/11
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The American Preppers Network is conducting a network-wide roll call.
Nevada Preppers, please reply to this post and let us know what you are doing to prep.
Are you new or not sure where to start?
Here are a few tips
The APN focuses heavily on promoting our state groups at the regional and local levels, more so than most forums. Here is the State Network directory, use it to get to know and communicate with others near you.
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Man arrested after speedy chase in NH
NORTHFIELD, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire State Police say a 22-year-old man is facing multiple charges after a chase in Northfield in which the suspect's stolen car exceeded 100 mph.
Trooper Joshua Beauchemin stopped the Buick LeSabre for a speed violation, 95 miles per hour, on Interstate 93 just after midnight Saturday.
The operator stopped briefly and then sped off, and a pursuit was initiated in which the suspect's vehicle allegedly exceeded 100 mph. The vehicle later pulled over and the operator was taken into custody without incident. The car had been reported stolen.
Stevan Stead was charged with receiving stolen property, aggravated driving while intoxicated, reckless conduct , operating after suspension and other charges.


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Manuscripts Section
The Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library is the local record office for the City of London (the "Square Mile"), although it does not hold the archives of the City of London Corporation itself which are separately administered. Its holdings date from the 11th century and include the archives of the Diocese of London, St Paul's Cathedral, the City wards and parishes, and around 80 of the City livery companies. It also holds family and estate records, and, in keeping with its location, considerable business and commercial archives, including those of the London Stock Exchange, the London Chamber of Commerce, Lloyd's of London and numerous merchant banks, insurance companies, stockbrokers, merchants and trading companies.
The main genealogical sources are:
* registers of baptisms, marriages and burials in over 100 parishes within the City of London and in St Leonard Shoreditch; records of burials at Bunhill Fields burial ground and at the City of London cemetery, Little Ilford;
* registers of some Anglican churches overseas (mainly 19th-20th centuries; a few earlier registers); also the "International Memoranda" of baptisms, marriages and burials overseas (19th and early 20th century);
* rate books for City wards and parishes (mainly 1692-1907; some earlier records); see also Land Tax Assessments;
* marriage licence records for the Diocese of London (1597-20th century), the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral (1670-1841) and the Royal Peculiar of St Katharine by the Tower (1686-1802 with gaps);
* probate records for the Archdeaconry Court of London (1393-1807), the Commissary Court of London (1374-1857) and the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral (1535-1837);
* apprenticeship and membership records of most of the City livery companies (mainly 17th- 19th centuries; some earlier and later records);
* ordination and other records of clergy in the Diocese of London (14th-20th centuries);
* registers of children attending Christ's Hospital (1563-1911) and some other schools in or connected with the City;
* Lloyd's "Captains Registers" (1869-1948) relating to the careers of master mariners;
* registers of pilots licensed by Trinity House (1808-1929) and other Trinity House records.
Printed Books Section
The Printed Books Section has numerous biographical and genealogical sources, particularly for former inhabitants of the City of London. It also holds a considerable quantity of material for the rest of England, and some for the rest of the British Isles and overseas.
The main sources are:
* published family and local histories; journals etc of national and local historical, genealogical and record societies;
* Beaven's Aldermen of the City of London (1276-1912), and other published sources relating to City dignitaries and officers;
* trade directories of London (from the 1730s), many English towns (from the late 18th century) and English counties (from the 1820s);
*telephone directories, London and provincial (mainly 20th century);
* poll books of many English towns and counties (mainly 18th-19th centuries);
* electoral registers for the City (1832 to date);
* census returns for the City (1841-1901) and the 1881 Census surname index for England, Scotland and Wales. Census returns for England, Scotland and Wales, 1841-1901, are also available electronically via the Ancestry website;
* the International Genealogical Index, compiled by the Mormon church, of many baptisms and marriages in the British Isles (1538-1880). The CD-ROM version of this, known as Familysearch, is also available;
* published and/or unpublished register transcripts of many Anglican and Huguenot churches, and of some English non-conformist and Roman Catholic churches;
* Boyd's Marriage Index (1538-1837) for England;
* Cliff Webb's supplement to Boyd's Marriage Index for London and Middlesex;
* Boyd's Burial Index (1538-1853) for Middlesex and London;
* index of apprentices from Inland Revenue records (1710-74);
* published registers of many schools, colleges and universities;
* regimental histories and rolls of honour;
* clerical, medical, legal and armed services directories (mainly 19th-20th centuries);
* Burkes and Debretts publications;
* some published lists of immigrants and emigrants;
* National Probate Calendar indexes (1853-1943);
* Electronic resources, including Ancestry, National Burial Index, Pallot's Marriage Index, Pallot's Baptism Index, Who's Who (1897-1996), Palmer's Index to The Times (1785-1905), Official Index to The Times (1906-1980), 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection newspapers, 19th Century British Library newspapers, The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985), Daily Mirror (1903 onwards), Soldiers who Died in the Great War, Army Roll of Honour - World War II and the Dictionary of National Biography.
A Guide to Genealogical Sources in Guildhall Library, compiled by Richard Harvey (4th revised edn. 1998) is currently available, with many other publications, from theGuildhall Library Bookshop.
Last updated December 2008
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Is this news? It probably pays to step back from the slander and the tumult, the bluster and the bilge every once in a while to consider that question. Whatever the parameters they drew up for us at journalism school, those lines have, as everything else has, not so much shifted as been completely fucked with by the internet. There isn't so much a line at all anymore, just an orbiting, sucking puddle of chatter. Still, it gives me license to litter this piece with dubious photographs of blood and breasts and Prince and Britney.
Or more accurately, you do. Here are the most read news stories published every month this year on Drowned in Sound.com.
1. Monstrous behaviour: bands cancelled in favour of Doherty
2. Rage Against California: rap-rockers to headline Coachella
3. Brandy involved in fatal car accident
4. Cos he doesn't look a thing like Jesus? Ghostface spurned by Killers
5. "Homosexual" 50 Cent can "suck my gun," says gay rapper
1. Brian May in DiS-hating shocker!
2. Arcade Fire: "F*ck all those bands who've got no ambition"
3. "Can anybody find meee...somebody to love?" No-one making Mika squeal this Valentines...
4. "Tim Westwood f*cks little girls": Plan B tears into DJ
5. Stop the clocks: Liam Gallagher to appear on Countdown
1. Britney Spears attempted suicide, tabloid claims
2. Lily Allen slags off America
3. NME Awards: winners in full
4. 'art-break Hotel: The Horrors destroy porcelain Elvis
5. Internet porn: a lot like scoring drugs, says Anthony Kiedis
1. Bring Me The... head of the person that did this.
2. Popworld Pulp closes after only one week
3. The Coopers call it quits
4. Zane grabs Laverne's slot
5. Pop of the Flops: Bye Bye Popworld
1. MTV2 loses head over new Cribs vid
2. Larrikin Love split
3. Trent Reznor on NIN's label: they meant to "screw the consumer"
4. Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon on their Don't Look Back Daydream Nation shows
5. Muse announce Wembley Stadium supports
1. Sodding hell: Heavy rain predicted for Glasto
2. Still using MySpace? You low-rent good for nothing loser...
3. The Verve reunite: tour in November
4. Trouble: Akon throws fan offstage
5. Ryan Adams cheats drug death
1. Breaking news: Truck Festival postponed
2. Wanted: Pumpkins in search for Siamese Dream twins
3. Mercury Prize nominations announced
4. Mail On Sunday threatens legal action over Prince chart ruling
5. Pink warns Lily and Winehouse over sex, drugs
1. Exclusive: Field Day organiser answers festival criticism
2. RIP: Tony Wilson dead
3. Shiner for you: man beaten for singing Coldplay
4. Hypocrite! Hitler's vinyl solution
5. What have The Fratellis and Hendrix got in common?
1. Led Zeppelin reformation show: 100% confirmed
2. Found: "the worst band in the world ever!!!"
3. Fighting cocks: Kid Rock batters Tommy Lee
4. Go! Team 'gutted' after Craig David request
5. Grohl: "She's a total, raging, disgusting, rich, lazy party slut"
1. Who's listening to Radiohead: In Rainbows gets scrobbled...
2. Split: Nine Inch Nails clipped
3. Is this news? Arcade Fire exposed as frauds
4. Bass: a thing of the past?
5. Red. Yellow. Pink. Green: Radiohead to release new record in 10 days
1. NME announces 2007 Cool List
2. Arcade Fire boycott Nottingham after missile attack
3. Phil Collins: 'a fat, bald, chocolate-eating bastard'
4. New romantic? Simon le Bon laments Amy Winehouse's 'tits'
5. Is Morrissey racist? NME firefight resumes
1. NWS: Uffie poses for Zoo magazine
2. Flakey: Tori Amos tells fans to fuck off
3. Radiohead announce huge UK shows
4. Radiohead: 'We left EMI because they wouldn't give us what we wanted'
5. RIP: Underground Kingz' Pimp C


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- Type: Mosque
- Address: 337 79th St, North Bergen, NJ 07047, USA
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If you've ever been out and about and the battery on your mobile phone, PDA or MP3 player has died, you'll know how frustrating it can be.
The Power Monkey is an emergency charger small enough to carry around with you and act as a quick top-up. You'll need to charge it before you set off, but it comes with a variety of adapters so you can use it in 150 countries around the world.
It also comes with a host of different device connectors, ranging from the Sony PSP, Apple iPod and BlackBerry, through to most standard phones. You can even charge most mini-USB based devices, including Bluetooth headsets.
It's a great tool that really works and, while you have to ask yourself why you remembered to charge the monkey and not your phone, it'll help prolong your mobile device's battery life on even the longest of journeys.


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it's really going to happen... yes, today it seemed real!
i told a couple of friends i'd write about my lap-band experience, and here i am, as advertised.
it started back in december when i went to see my back surgeon. i'd experienced several months of physical therapy, lots of tests, and medicine to make it all bearable. the diagnosis is degenerative disc disease and the tests determined that the discs in my lumbar spine are shot. so surgery seemed inevitable, with fusion likely. dr. subach said he'd like to keep me "comfortable" with p.t. and meds for as long as possible since fusion is so permanent and i'm so young.
young. *smile*
i'm not old, but i look so much younger than my 41 years that middle-aged women still call me "dear".
(what exactly is middle-age?).
i know i've digressed. it's my story. i'm allowed!
anyway, prolonging the inevitable seemed to be the best solution, with hopes of fda-approved artificial discs coming out before the pain in my back demanded fusion. so i went for a visit to the good doctor (and his p.a.). these guys always make me smile. as we were chatting, i think i asked his professional opinion about weight-reduction surgery. i have three dear friends who've had such great results, and i'm so tired of losing weight, feeling good, (okay, not tired about that part, actually, but tired of) gaining it all back again, and feeling achy and "old".
the good doctor said, "i know a guy." as it happens, the guy he wholeheartedly recommends had the honor of removing my nasty gallbladder about four years ago! i took it as a sign. well, the docs are up in northern va, and i'm in southern va. i decided to stay with the best and called to make an appointment with dr. robert pinnar.
the consultation was positive, and i left with a little pile of things to read, tests to have done, etc., as i considered the possibilities. i told my family and friends that i was getting a new body for christmas this year, but it just hadn't come in yet! after phone calls to the insurance company, denial from the insurance company, more phone calls (they aren't covering, but i know it's still the right thing for me), lots of prayers and loans from two dear friends, i called to schedule my surgery.
my pre-op appointment is monday, march 10. today i had all of my tests done in preparation for that appointment. my morning started with a "barium swallow test" where i had to drink nasty, goopy, lumpy, chalky liquid while they took pictures of it coursing through my system. the gag reflex is strong, but i was stronger. with the morning off from school (thanks, amanda, for subbing for me), i swung by starbucks on the way to my next appointment. there, they did an ekg and took four tubes of blood.
the pre-op tests are done. the results will be delivered to dr. pinnar's office in time for my monday morning appointment (thanks, dee, for subbing for me monday!) and then it's only one more month until...
...april 11
that's the day of surgery, but it's not the day the ("new me"? no. i won't be new, thought there are elements of that. how about "former me"? no. there are elements of that too, but that's just not it. oh, i know...), that's the day the "healthy me!" gets a super boost! yes, the healing has already begun! so april 11 is not the beginning, it's just the shot of adrenaline that will help me keep moving in a positive, healthy direction!
i'm excited! it's actually going to happen! i got a healthy body for christmas, and they're about to deliver it!
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SPOILERS!!! DWTS Season 14, Week 7 – Who Got the Boot??
Thank god, the dance duels are OVER!! Pretty sure that what went down tonight was NOT what the producers had in mind. Two good dancers up against each other, while the lesser dancer remains.
That's right, it was Jaleel versus Roshon doing the Rumba….and that was the half I got right in my numbers post. 🙂 But there is no predicting the judges and they actually ALL voted to save Roshon. Question is – Will Melissa fall out in the double elimination next week with Roshon, or will it take out Maria instead?? Or one of the favorites??
What did we predict?? Well…
Heidi: I predicted Roshon would dance against Jaleel in the duel and would lose. My second choice was Melissa versus Jaleel with Jaleel winning.
Courtney: Put Jaleel versus Melissa in the duel with Melissa going home; outside chance of Jaleel versus Roshon.
Vogue: Said it was Jaleel's time to go.
Technically, even though I called the bottom two right, VOGUE was the only one who called the loser. 🙂


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Aperture is a facade installation which functions as an interactive display. The display is created using iris diaphragms which together create an interactive matrix. Iris diaphragms are apertures with a variable opening diameter. The single apertures in the grid react to varying intensities of incoming light by altering their diameters correspondingly. This feature makes passers-by able to influence the opening diameter of the iris diaphragms by their movement in front of the facade, thus creating a display capable of depicting the people moving by, while at the same time being a new channel for communication between the inside and outside of a building.
Aperture is created by Frederic Eyl and Gunnar Green from the University of the Arts Berlin.
Check out the video of the functioning prototype built by Frederic Eyl and Gunnar Green.
The apertures react to varying intensities of incoming light by altering their diameters correspondingly.
This creates a display capable of depicting people moving by.
Originally posted on digitalexperience by lmailund