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LOGAN, Utah — If it weren't for a home run during a recreational softball playoff game in northern Utah, a man who fell into an irrigation ditch might have drowned.
Bart Griffiths was fetching a ball that was hit over a fence at the Willow Park Sports Complex in Logan on Wednesday when he saw something out of the corner of his eye.
"I was picking it up and walking back in, and I glanced over toward the swamp, and I thought I saw something gray," Griffiths told The Herald Journal. "What it was, was the tire of the wheelchair sticking up. And I thought, 'Why is somebody dumping something in the swamp?'"
But then he spotted a 62-year-old man nearby, face-down in about 6 inches of water. Griffiths thought the man was dead.
"When I lifted him up I said, 'Can you hear me?' And he said, 'I'm dying,'" Griffiths said. "And I thought to myself, 'Oh, that's a good sign (he's talking)."
Griffiths called 911 on his cellphone, and paramedics transported the man to the hospital. First responders said the man, who had propped himself up on his elbows to breathe, had probably been in the ditch for 15 to 30 minutes and was starting to show signs of hypothermia.
The man apparently had crashed his motorized wheelchair into the edge of the canal and was thrown into the water, Griffiths said. He was cited for intoxication after he was treated, according to police.
Griffiths, who's largely responsible for running the softball league, told the newspaper he doesn't see himself as a hero — just someone who was in the right place at the right time.
"If Grant wouldn't have hit his (homer), I don't think I would have been back out there since Wednesday was the last day we had games that week," Griffiths said, referring Grant Calverley, the player who knocked the ball out of the park. "So even right now, that guy might have still been in there."


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Let's compare the official statements from the companies involved. First, Google CEO Larry Page:
An Apple spokesperson told Reuters:
PalTalk told The Washington Post:
Then there's AOL:
And here's Yahoo:
Notice a few things? Yes, these statements all contain the same key words and phrasings, and if you truly believe all these companies would come up with this independently I have a palace to sell you. This looks like a coordinated marketing campaign, with a focus on three elements: we have not heard of PRISM, we only respond to court orders, no direct government access to our servers. Those three elements return in all official statements.
Now let's compare this to the most recent development, which comes courtesy of The New York Times. According to the latest report in the NYT, the US government contacted Silicon Valley's technology companies to demand easier ways to access the user data these companies hold. Except for Twitter, all of them complied.
The companies involved are legally obliged to comply to these court orders under FISA, and they include Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, Apple, and Paltalk. The talks and negotiations around this matter are all classified, and it's illegal for the people involved to discuss them - which explains why the companies involved deny they have any knowledge of PRISM. These talks are still ongoing, and now also include Intel and possibly other companies.
It gets much worse, though. According to the NYT report, at least two companies (but perhaps more) went above and beyond their obligations under the law, and altered their computer systems to make the process more efficient.
This means that the coordinated PR statements from Apple, Google, Facebook, and so on, are technically correct: they do not provide the government with direct access to their servers, and they only hand out data whenever it's part of a FISA order - and those orders are, in turn, classified and may not be discussed.
Interestingly enough, a more detailed account of what happens by the NYT seems to contradict all of this:
When you put all this together, it's clear that only one major player had the balls to resist demands from the US government for easier access to user data, and that's Twitter. Everybody else did what they can to make it easier for the US government, which makes their statements, while technically true, incredibly scummy and slithery. The outrage from people like Zuckerberg and Page, hence, is fake, dishonest, and douchy. These guys, as well as the other companies' spokespeople, know full well what's going on, and they know full well they're using technicalities to skirt around the issue.
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BALTIMORE -- A Gaithersburg, Md.-based storage facility will pay $95,000 and furnish other substantial relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
In its suit (Civil Action No. 8:08-cv-02498-PJM), filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern Division, the EEOC said that Extra Space Management, Inc. unlawfully fired James L. Hill II, a maintenance worker, because of a disability. Hill, who has a visible disfigurement as a result of sustaining severe burns to his body in a house fire, began working for the company in June 2006. Although he was physically capable and willing to perform all his job duties, Hill was fired after meeting the acting district manager, who said that he "noticed he was handicapped, deformed or something," and "it's clear he can't get the job done."
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EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Maria Salacuse added, "Mr. Hill had been successfully performing his duties. Society's myths and fears about a perceived disability are often more handicapping than any physical limitations that may flow from a physical impairment."
Disability discrimination charge filings with the EEOC nationwide totaled 19,453 in Fiscal Year 2008, up 9 percent from the prior year and the highest level in a decade.
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WICHITA — Wichita police say someone intentionally ignited a police car that had been parked on a residential street over the weekend.
The officer who drives the car awoke shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday and found his cruiser engulfed in flames. Fire Department spokesman Lt. Kelly Zane said flammable liquid was present outside the vehicle, so there is no doubt it was set on purpose.
Police said it is possible the patrol car was targeted in retaliation for the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy by a police officer April 13. Eleven people have been wounded in officer-involved shootings in or near Wichita this year, including four who have died.
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Reporting from Richmond County, Va.
The June air in the Northern Neck of Virginia was humid and electric, almost delirious. Big blue dragonflies bobbed over the tall grass, and cicadas sputtered in the forest. A thundercloud was waking up in the distance, and a restless breeze set the entire landscape in motion.
I had first come here in March investigating the origins of my family name. The place then had no color, no life. My mood was equally bleak as I pored over court archives and had terse meetings with Mozingos who didn't know or care about the name.
By now, though, I'd met all manner of Mozingos — white, black, racist, tolerant, generous, loathsome, loner-ish, loyal, tragic — and seen shards of our buried history surface in their stories. Many had been curious about the name all their lives.
I returned to hear the tale of two clans: Rhodie Mozingo's in Virginia and Wiley Mozingo's in North Carolina.
Rhodie's was white. Wiley's was black.
I wondered how each would react to the long-buried fact that our common forefather, Edward Mozingo, was black, and that our surname was Bantu.
It's hard to tell when Mozingos first passed as white. There was no consistency in how census takers and court clerks defined race.
Wiley's lineage can be directly traced as far back as a Christopher Mozingo, who was born in 1800 and listed as mulatto in census records but white on a tax list.
Rhodie's can be traced all the way to the 1600s and Edward.
By the late 1700s, Rhodie's great-great-great-great-grandfather John was identified as white on tax lists, as were his three brothers. But the brothers also appear on a registry of "Free Molattoes."
John, who had more money than his brothers and even owned a slave, probably had the clout to keep his name off. From then on, Rhodie's ancestors were considered white.
I had briefly met Rhodie in March after visiting his older brother Junior. He seemed decent and thoughtful. He sold insurance door to door for 20 years and now worked at a Lowe's in Fredericksburg. He was raising a grandson, struggling with chronic lung disease and dreaming of retiring to Myrtle Beach.
His father, who managed only about three years in school, had signed his name with an X and never said a word about their roots. Rhodie, 62, didn't know he'd spent his childhood within a mile of where his ancestors settled in the late 1600s. But he started wondering about family when his father died in 1991. He wanted to give his seven grandchildren a sense of their origins.
When we met at his small ranch-style home, set under two great maples on Fallin Town Road, he asked what I'd learned since we last spoke.
I showed him a printout of his lineage straight to Edward Mozingo, his seventh great-grandfather, and the Virginia court ruling from 1672 calling Edward "Negro." He looked briefly at the papers, smiled and sighed.
"Well, we're probably a mix of every race there is," he said.
We headed down the road to meet the so-called Buck Mozingos, all of whom supposedly had one blue eye, one green eye and a streak of white hair.
We followed two-lane roads through rolling fields of corn and soybeans and stands of hardwood tangled with creeper and wild rose. Rhodie pondered Edward.
"Back in the '50s or '60s this would have bugged the hell out of me," he said. "Today, things have changed so much. There's not just one race anymore. . . . There's a percentage of this county that can't accept a mixed president. If he does a good job for me, I don't care if he's purple."
On Drinking Swamp Road, Earl Buck Mozingo, 70, looked up from under the hood of his Ford pickup as we walked up. His dog, chained to another truck, lunged and barked with raw fury.
I couldn't see the streak of white in Earl's hair because he was wearing a cap with the Confederate flag. He conveyed — within seconds, using just the word "nuh" — that he didn't know anything about the Mozingo name and never wondered.
So we stepped inside the vinyl-sided home to chat with his sister, Madeline, 68, who wore shorts and flip-flops and was as cheerful as her brother was curt. She said her sister in Florida had been researching the family tree.
"I said, 'Quit digging!' I'm going to find out I'm my own grandma."
Rhodie told her about Edward in a somewhat tortured way. "He was a dark-complected man. We don't know if he was Portuguese, Italian, Indian or Negro."
"That's why I told my sister to quit digging!" she said.
Madeline brought out printed e-mails from her sister that told three stories about our origins. One said our name used to be spelled d'Monzangeau, "which means Mount Zangeau." Another said there were several "historical Italian figures with this name," but didn't identify them.
The last read like a children's story: An Italian boy named Moses Mozingo and a friend stowed away on the Queen Mary and were caught by the captain, who threatened to throw them overboard and then forced them to work on the ship for seven years. "When they were finally put on land, it was America and Moses . . . settled in Richmond County, VA, and became a farmer."
We shifted our talk back to Edward Mozingo — our tribe's real Moses, who brought our name to America from the Congo region in the mid-1600s. Madeline clearly didn't care to hear more.
We spoke a while longer, said goodbye and then went to see Rhodie's grandmother's grave.
Two cracks ran down the weathered headstone like a strike of lightning. It was a simple, homemade marker of poured concrete, the inscription written by hand, like a child's name in the sidewalk. "In Memory Of Josephine Hinson, 1903 to 1948."
What Rhodie had known of the family hit a dead end here. Josephine Mozingo was the matriarch, bestowing her maiden name on her sons, who were born before she married George Hinson.
The single photo of her always made Rhodie wonder. She looks Native American, with high cheekbones, dark hair, dark eyes.
His Uncle Milton had those same cheekbones, as did Rhodie's sister Betty. And almost all the Mozingos he knew had straight black hair. He assumed they had Indian blood.
He never thought of black, until now.
"It doesn't bother me none," he said. "Why would I care? It doesn't change who I am if he was of the dark race."
It was clear, though, as we talked further, that his ancestor's race was not a fact for him to embrace so much as a painful truth to accept. He was born in a time and place where "coloreds" were the only people lower than poor whites in the social order.
There already was a vague sadness about him, a heaviness that spoke to many disappointments. This wasn't what he wanted to tell his grandchildren. On the phone with me sometime later, he mentioned the Queen Mary story.
"Your research says black. Hers says Italian. I don't think we'll ever know."
"Yeah, probably not," I said.
he other side of our tribe's racial split settled to the south.
Down Interstate 95, the soft, leafy forest of Virginia turned drier and more piney. Lone clouds drifted in the pale sky, dragging trails of rain the sun wouldn't let hit the ground.
In Wayne County, on North Carolina's broad coastal plain, Wiley Mozingo was waiting in his small brick ranch home in Rollingwood Estates, a black subdivision with a white twin, Foxfire Estates, next door.
He was 59, a stoutish, soft-spoken man with plaintive eyes. He worked as a prison guard for 18 years before retiring because of a painful inflammatory disease called sarcoidosis. Wiley played with his 2-year-old grandson in the den and talked.
In simple terms, Wiley's family was black. But their experience was vastly more complicated.
Wiley grew up in a wood-frame house his father, Fred Mozingo, had built on the north edge of Goldsboro. Fred was a boilermaker at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, and he raised chickens, hogs and cows. He was mixed-race and could pass as white. He sat at lunch counters and went to white-only restaurants. Wiley's mother, Naomi, was darker. Wiley remembers going with her to the Woolworth's lunch counter as a little boy and how they were told to eat on the sidewalk.
Lighter skin afforded such status that Wiley's paternal grandfather all but banished Fred for marrying a darker woman.
When Wiley was 10, his father died of a heart condition. Naomi and her seven children moved into sharecropper shacks and worked the tobacco fields with other black families. They moved whenever farmers demanded the children pick tobacco instead of going to school.
Wiley continued his story as we got into his Buick and drove around Wayne County.
He said he worked in the fields summers, weekends and after school, picking tobacco leaves. His hands turned so dark with tobacco gum that he dared not touch his eyes for the sting. At night the family scrubbed down with the lye soap his grandmother made. The shacks had no plumbing, and heat came from the single wood stove. "You'd be burning up front, freezing in back," Wiley said.
The family became firmly entrenched on the black side of North Carolina society.
Yet they didn't all look black. Wiley and his mother were the darkest, while his youngest brother Ricky looked white. The rest fell somewhere in between.
The spring before ninth grade in 1965, Wiley and three friends signed up to play football at a white high school that had agreed to enroll blacks. "I showed up and my friends didn't," he said. "It was the most stress I've ever been in in my life."
Students threw trash at him on the school bus or didn't let him sit down. He started riding his bike. On Mount Olive Highway, drivers ran him into the ditch. He remembers one particular tormentor, a white boy named Larry Mozingo, announcing: "This is one of my slaves." (What, if anything, Larry remembers is a mystery; he didn't return my calls.)
Wiley didn't answer the abuse. He became a star linebacker and vowed to endure the humiliations.
The harassment never ended. The family kept finding their tin mailboxes blown to shards. When Wiley had the ball on the football field, he heard opposing fans yell, "Kill the nigger!"
I told him then about the origins of our name. He didn't seem to care.
I thought the news might give him a shred of vindication, a connection to a deeper past. I don't know why. I'd met his sister Shirlyn in Los Angeles, who told me she thought the name came from Milan. When I countered that it probably came from Africa, she winced.
"I like Milan," she said.
Maybe Wiley had too much pain in his life for the news to matter. He was struggling with his illness and depression over his youngest son, who was in prison for his role in a drug killing.
The next day, Wiley and I pulled up to the Rexall in Mount Olive's little downtown. As an adolescent, Wiley was once shooed away from the lunch counter because he was black. We stepped inside. The drugstore looked like a snapshot from the 1950s, Formica counter and all. Two men in horn-rimmed glasses looked down from a black-and-white photo on the wall.
"May I help you?" asked a blond woman behind the counter. She glared at us, hyper-alert.
I muttered, "nuh uh."
"May I help you," she demanded.
We ordered coffee and sat at a table. Here was Wiley, wearing a dark blue polo shirt tucked into khaki pants, with crisp white tennis shoes. His Buick LeSabre was parked in front.
She grudgingly poured our coffees while staring as if her eyes were blue lasers.
"They were sure watching me closely in there," Wiley said outside, in his soft-spoken way. "They always have."
iley's brother Ricky joined us for dinner that night at Wilbur's pit barbecue.
Ricky drove a dump truck for a living and was tall and broad-shouldered, with a lean face and thick gray goatee. He wore a camouflage "Best Sand & Gravel" cap and greeted me with a "howdy."
In any other context, I'd peg him as a good ol' boy.
In the 1970s, Ricky crossed the color line that Rhodie's ancestors had crossed in 1800. He identified more as white than black when pressed on the issue, but he didn't care much for the whole concept of race as his experience with it had been agonizing and isolating.
Ricky and I got to talking, and he seemed to want to say something important. We drove to a bar in Goldsboro.
"My childhood was hell on earth," Ricky said. "I learned early the wrath people can feel just from the color of your skin . . . Wiley was just dark enough that white people hated him. I was light enough that dark people hated me."
The resulting resentments naturally ran in opposite directions too.
"People identify with what they look like," he said. "Growing up, it felt like I got dropped off in the wrong neighborhood. . . . I kind of felt like a mistake for a long time."
In high school, he tried to look and talk "black." He put his head under the dome of his mom's big bonnet hair dryer to get some extra frizz. He had few good friends. "I had guards up against everyone."
When he went to North Carolina Central University, a historically black college, he gave up trying to be any one race.
"I realized God doesn't make mistakes," he said.
Forever being an outsider forced him to find solace within himself.
I had talked to his sister Shirlyn about this. She said Mozingos were mostly loners and outsiders. In my experience, she had a point. We avoided clubs, cliques, teams, movements, fads, organizations of any sort, really. Maybe it was beaten deep into us during our past as a mixed-race "pariah class" — as one prominent historian called it — isolated in a society of whites and slaves.
Who knows where the traits we inherit originate?
Now Ricky came to what he wanted to tell me: There was a "blood covenant" between God and Mozingos.
"My dad, that's what he left me, his heritage," he said, his voice low and solemn. "God makes certain people promises that would be passed through their seed forever, to this very day."
What was the promise?
"An inner circle to secret, spiritual stuff," he said.
We stepped outside. The night was warm and chattering with crickets. I told Ricky about our name's origins. He said he'd heard something else: Mozingos were a Lost Tribe of Israel.
He liked that explanation more.
In his isolation, the name always carried a mystique.
"As a kid, I used to think there was something special about being a Mozingo," he said. "Like it was something mysterious, something to be proud of."
"Did someone tell you that?" I asked.
"No, it was just in the air."
flew to Indiana the next morning to see the distant relatives I met just weeks before.
I thought about what Wiley and Ricky had gone through.
I thought about what our ancestor Edward must have endured as a black man trying to scrape out a life and keep his children out of bondage. I thought of his posterity, scattered through the country, the piece of him in me.
I thought about why we develop our prejudices.
Mine were never about race so much. When I was younger, I denigrated people (in my mind) to protect my own sense of uniqueness. If someone did better in school, then they had to be worse at something else. If they were funnier or better liked or more athletic, they were shallow.
This defensive scorn was aimed mostly at individuals, but typecasts coalesced.
By college, my deepest prejudice was for "frat boys," which said a lot more about my defects than theirs.
Racism probably derived from the same impulse. Yet instead of flickering in solitude, its fire ran wild, fueled by family, friends and co-workers, by demagoguery, economics and bloody history.
As I got older, married and had my son, the compulsion to lessen the value of the "other" faded. Looking into my ancestry only made it seem all the more absurd.
Seeing the generations that have come and gone with barely a trace, studying gravestones and birth records and yellowed marriage certificates, imagining all the struggles in each of those lives, stripped me of illusions in a most jarring way.
The personas we create are just shadows in the end.
Unless we're Michelangelo or Winston Churchill or Jonas Salk, all we really leave is our posterity, our blood.
I hoped against my innate skepticism that Ricky was right about that "blood covenant" — which, to me, signified a connection to immortality, to our ancestors, to an African man who found himself in America so long ago.
That was the part of my family's story that had been swiped from our consciousness, the missing piece of my identity. It was there, entwined in the DNA. I just needed to feel it.
n Indiana, my fourth cousin, Bud Mozingo, 74, was talking about his brother Stan's goats. We were coming back from a mule ride at Stan's ranch. Bud couldn't remember what culture drank goat blood.
"People in New York," he finally said. "That's where they all move."
We passed silos and farmhouses with porch lights on and fireflies blinking in the fields. We talked late over the tenderloin at Trax diner and met again in the morning.
My other fourth cousin, Amy Osting, 78, told me about the time her grandmother went out to the barn to find a young man having his way with her cow. She chased him off, but found him there again a couple of hours later. She screamed, and her son-in-law raised his rifle and winged him.
"Why did he shoot him?" I asked.
"He was screwing the cow!" Amy rasped. "This isn't California!"
I laughed. Amy was definitely my relative. So was Bud.
I was going home the next day. My baby girl was due in three weeks.
A few of us walked down through the forest behind Rodney Baptist Church to the creek where people have been baptized for 150 years. Amy sang a hymn.
"Shall we gather at the river, where bright angel feet have trod?"
The creek ran through a deep hollow, flowing over shelves of bedrock, falling off steps into ponds where water bugs scrambled between the bubbles on the surface. The current had carved and polished the stone. Pebbles spun in the eddies.
After my relatives left, I floated under a 3-foot cascade in the cool, tannic water, watching the world. The creek came warm and shallow off the shelf, heated by the sun over the rock.
I lay on my back, inhaling to stay afloat, exhaling quickly and drawing the air back in before my face went under. The water below gurgled like the plumbing in an old hotel. The maple leaves above glimmered with the ripples of sunlight reflected off the pond.
These creeks were immortal.
I closed my eyes and saw the orange light glowing through the blood in my eyelids, content that it was my turn, and my children were just beginning.


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Tom Mueller of Victory BMW in Chandler, AZ has suffered a serious stroke. He and his family could use our help. Here are the details of an event to be held on Feb 10th to raise money.
Ok everyone,
It is time to do something for your good friend Tom Mueller of Victory BMW. So I have been in touch with many vendors and people are stepping up to help in a big way. So I am planning an event that will be held at my new shop. The event is going to be held on Feb 10th 2013. I was planning on having a pot-luck dinner, silent auction, raffles, and much more. I will have the shop open all day for people that would like to come by and give donations to help out Tom and his family. Dinner will be held around 5:00PM. I am still working out a lot of the logistics and would appreciate any help. If anyone has a dish they specialize in please let me know as I will be making a list of people bringing food. Lets remember this is a great chance for all of us to get together and celebrate Tom. If anyone has any great ideas of how to make this event very successful for Tom please let me know. I will be posting updates for the even as we go along. Please contact me with any questions.
Josiah Brennan
Dirtball Customs
480-794-1066 (new shop phone number)
420 S Robson
Mesa, AZ 85210


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A message doesn't work if it's just sent out. It must also be sent in. Think about it. Is your message understood just because you have delivered it? Consider it delivered when you are sure your audience understands.
A lot of people just send their messages out. I have seen it a million times in corporate communication, especially in a company's internal communication. PowerPoints with no context appear on the intranet (can it be worse?) and people act like: "here's my presentation, read my mind!"
What does such a message communicate? Certainly not what's intended. Say you have worked a long time on a project, it's finally finished and you want to spread the word. You place your latest PowerPoint on the intranet (the same presentation you used when summing up the accomplished work in your project group). You write some kind of caption instead of a headline, let's say "New product", you add a thumbnail pic from Clip Art to go on the front page along with your caption, and you press the publish button. BAM! Your message is out. But is it, really?
3 things NOT to do when trying to get your message through:
1. A caption will not attract readers' attention.
If your message is going to have the slightest chance of readership beyond your personal fan club, an eye-catching headline is a must. If we use a product launch as an example, readers are more likely to click on something like this: "Get Ready for the Future: Our New Product will Change the Market" than the bland caption "New Product".
2. Clip Art pictures are a big no-no!
Use a relevant photo, either on the product itself or on you and your project group. A Clip Art figure with a lamp bulb above its head symbolizing a new idea is so… 1993. We've seen it, we've used it, we've passed it. It has absolutely no relevance to us anymore. And it probably doesn't fit into the company's graphic profile.
3. No-one understands a PowerPoint without anyone presenting it.
A PowerPoint is supposed to be used as a visual tool supporting your speech. It's not supposed to stand by itself, let alone be read when the presenter is not there. (Sure, you can write a report and place it in a PowerPoint template, but that's a different thing. Then you've more or less created an e-book). But now I'm talking about the usual presentations. They should under no circumstances go up on the intranet, not even as attachments. Take your time and write a summary instead. Skip the PowerPoint, it will bore people and they will not understand what it's about. You simply don't get your message through. And that's the last thing you want to risk with your precious new product, am I not right?
My suggestion is that you ask the communications team for help when telling about bigger accomplishments that all employees must know of. The comms people know how to structure a message, how to craft it, get the impact you want it to have and know how to shout it out from the rooftops as loud as it deserves!
When it comes to less important communication like new information to your work group, the best way is to mix a couple of communication channels to make sure the message gets through.
- Present the information in a group meeting. When all employees get the same message at the same time, rumours and confusion are less likely to arise.
- Ask the attendees of the meeting to speak their minds after or during your presentation (depending what you're most comfortable with). Making room for discussion and questions is the best way to make sure you are in the same place.
- Follow up by sending out notes and reflections from the meeting by email. (Don't attach the PowerPoint presentation, if it's not specifically asked for).
Don't expect your co-workers to be mind-readers! Make sure your message is very clear when sent out and ask for feedback when possible to make sure you'll get the chance to correct misunderstandings. If correctly done, you can consider your message being sent in, not just out!
Anna Rydne is not a mind-reader. She is an internal communications specialist and has a special interest in personal branding. She believes the road to success is trying. She writes the blog Communicate (your) Skills and tweets about communication and social media @CoSkills.


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"Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham." This is the first sentence of the gospel read at the Sunday before the Nativity in the Orthodox Church. I suggest the gospel reading actually should begin with the first "real" ancestor of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Of course, the reason the gospel starts with Abraham is because, despite being surrounded by polytheistic, idol worshipping, pagans, Abraham acknowledged that God is unseen and one. God made a covenant with him that made him the leader of God's people -- the people of the First Covenant (Genesis 17) -- and the "father of many nations."
A complete understanding the nativity of Our Lord reaches back even farther, to the first ancestor of mankind: Adam. In Hebrew "Adam" means "man." Adam too, is a first ancestor of Our Lord, in that Jesus was both fully human (being born of woman) just like all mankind, although fully God as well by being conceived of the Holy Spirit.
The scripture account is a narrative but also a great theological mystery. Adam and Eve were made in God's image and called to be like Him. They start out in Paradise with the potential of full union with God but still experienced testing. They fail the test by the sin of pride. They are cast out of paradise into the world and are disordered -- inclined to sin and destined for death. We are the offspring of Adam and partake of these same maladies.
Everything in the Orthodox Church tradition -- the Scripture, the Church Fathers, the Divine Liturgy and other worship services, the architecture of the temple [building] the icons and the iconostas, and more -- tell the story of salvation from the primordial beginnings.
For example, every Church has an iconostas, a screen of icons with three doors, a middle or royal door before the altar, a north door to the left, and a south door to the right separating the holy of holies or altar area from main area where the people of God are located. This symbolizes the separation between mankind and the kingdom and the paradise that was lost after Adam's sin. The icons function as windows to heaven (or paradise).
The relation between paradise and the heavenly kingdom is a great mystery. St. Gregory of Sinai talks about a "paradise of Eden and a paradise of grace." Nikitas Stithatos, the disciple and biographer of St. Symeon the New Theologian tells us, "...we should learn what the kingdom of heaven is, what the kingdom of God is, and what paradise is, and how the one differs from the other;" (Philokalia, V 4). Or consider the words of Our Lord to the thief on the cross, "today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43).
In the Divine Liturgy paradise is at least paralleled with the Kingdom of God. The priest starts the Liturgy in front of the altar (which seen though the open Royal Doors) by chanting, "Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
The icon of St. Michael the Archangel who expelled Adam and Eve from paradise is on the north door of the iconostasis. St. Michael to this day prevents all, except those who have earned it, from getting into the Kingdom. The archangel at the south door is Gabriel who said to Mary, "Hail (Ave) Full of Grace ...you are to bear the Son of God...." She responded, "Be it done unto me according to your word." Gabriel's gift to mankind is to announce the the way back to the Kingdom, to paradise (Luke 1: 28-38). Mary's response to God's invitation, her consent to the command of God through Gabriel becomes the a key that opens the door of paradise to all mankind.
Our Lord voluntarily "emptied" (kenosis) Himself when He took on human nature through Mary. In the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church this self-emptying is twice proclaimed. During the Small Entrance, the priest exits the sanctuary through the north door carrying the book of the Gospels -- the Word of God. He who was born in the flesh comes out of paradise to be among us who are presently out of the Kingdom to give us His Word. This liturgical action is a beautiful symbol of the public life of Jesus when He taught His disciples and apostles and still teaches us today. After few hymns, the priest returns to the sanctuary through the Royal Doors, a liturgical action representing a return to the Kingdom of God.
The second exit a little later is at the Great Entrance. Ordinary bread and wine is carried in procession by the priest again out of the same North door and brought back through the Royal Door and laid on the altar. The bread and wine will be transformed into the very body and blood of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when the priest says the words of Jesus, "This bread is my body, this wine is my blood" and asking that it be blessed by the Holy Spirit.
Holy Communion was instituted at the Last Supper and the events that followed it: the passion, death and resurrection of Christ conquered death and opened the door for those 'in whom He now indwells' to enter the Kingdom. The Nativity started this salvific act. Mary, the teenage virgin from Palestine, by her simple obedience was the key that allowed Emmanuel (God with us) to bring us salvation. She became the "New Eve," the Theotokos (God-bearer), Our Mother. The Nativity is united with the whole life of Jesus, his teaching, the Last Supper, Calvary, and the Resurrection.
The Nativity is understood in our heart, not in rush and press of a commercialized Christmas. The secularists who want to remove the word Christmas from the public square by taking Christ out of Christmas and replace it with an X, who want to ban Christmas trees or Nativity scenes, who won't allow children to sing a carol in school, may unwittingly have point. The real meaning of Christmas is to have Christ born in us, indwelling in our hearts.
V. Rev. Fr. George Morelli Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist, Coordinator of the Chaplaincy and Pastoral Counseling Ministry of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, (www.antiochian.org/counseling-ministries) and Religion Coordinator (and Antiochian Archdiocesan Liaison) of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion. Fr. George is Assistant Pastor of St. George's Antiochian Orthodox Church, San Diego, California.


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Low announce new album, produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy...
hope it is better than the last one
the three new songs they've played live haven't been up to much unfortunately.
C'mon had its moments
but lacked the intensity of previous albums. Yeah, probably my least favourite Low album (though by comparison still a good album)
I though C'mon was LOADS better than drums and guns
that's their weakest imho
C'mon is a superb record
And so is Drums and Guns
- badgertastic this'd this
- kostenurky this'd this
very superb...
which in turn makes I Could Live in Hope and The Great Destroyer extremely superb.
I think The Great Destroyer slips to the level of flawed brilliance
The others are just brilliant
I can't be the only one to think that none of their later stuff tops their first three albums
I know that's the indiest thing i could've possibly said, but i dont care.
or even comes close to it actually
except for the odd song
It depends whether
you count Things We Lost In The Fire as "their later stuff". For me it's their best album.kostenurky this'd this
i was counting everything after the first 3 as later stuff
i've not heard secret name though.
I only ever listen to low if i want to hear something crushingly depressing. Things we lost in the fire is good but not depressing enough really.
Secret Name is brilliant
I think Secret Name and Things We Lost In The Fire are their 2 best albums actually.Raanraals and aboynamedgoo this'd this
You are all forgetting Low Christmas
Shame on you all! I only let myself play it in December and so I'm starting to get feverish in anticipationPale-eyedBadger and the-breacher this'd this
Drums and Guns was the first Low album I actually heard
and thus i remain very fond of it, and I thought C'mon was very solid if not brilliant
What this thread has taught me:
everyone likes different Low albums.
In a year's time this new one will be someone's favourite.
For the record, it's Drums & Guns for me.
I really like the Drums and Guns production.
It was great to hear Low in a completely different context. It feels strangley unfinished, but that just adds to the intrigue.
I don't have a great deal of love for C'mon though.
has anyone downloaded that free live EP?
it's good like.randomgirl_3 this'd this
I listened to Trust all the way through yesterday
for the first time in years and there is some heavy stuff going on on that album.
vocal melodies kind of sound a bit like the tourist by radiohead, don't they?
something like that.
Pretty shit song, though.
how the fuck did I miss this?
I bet it'll be brilliant. in the pattern of recent albums, i.e. poor, brilliant, poor...
I will be so disillusioned if a Tweedy-helmed Low record isn't a knockout.
i've heard four songs from it, and three of them sound pretty dull
i dunno if Alan's running out of steam or spreading himself too thin nowadays..
Really miss the old Low
Haven't done anything brilliantly consistent since Trust. Going back I still think "The Curtain Hits The Cast" is the ultimate Low album, so dark and dense. The warmest and loveliest is probably "Secret Name", those strings...
Especially me
is quite likely the greatest Low song ever off of C'mon. Don't get how one likes Fire and doesn't like C'mon or Drums and Guns. You're pretty much following them push their sound in different directions now and it's fascinating. All the album's are growers as well.


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Product Description 2014 One 138 Modello Wakeboard - Phantom/Psycho Green:
The One Modello Ronix Wakeboard offers professional specs at an affordable price. Since its inception in 2007, this freeride super Ronix One wakeboard is best known for its mellower transitioned turns, buoyant feel on the water, progressive edge hold and a smooth 3-stage kick off the wake. Danny Harf's latest signature wakeboard is really focused on 3 key things.
1. Make a wakeboard that feels less tight on the water - recessing the fins inside of the channel for a looser overall feel and a quicker release off the wake, without sacrificing stability.
2. Build a smoother blend in the variable rail for more controlled edge transfers.
3. With the help of Parks, create a new style of rocker with the most in glide speed.
Every aspect of the One wakeboard's rocker and variable rail was built for the least amount of resistance with the water and more overall speed into the wake. The future of freeride designs - ride longer with less work.
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saarstol needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 103 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
I need a grayscale logo for a surf equipment (stand-up paddle boards) and surf wear company with the brand name "Tower", as in lifeguard tower. The brand of the company is not about lifeguards, but rather about some of the characteristics the thought of lifeguards brings to mind. An iconic lifeguard tower will be used to conjure up these associations. The brand is about fitness, surfing, being a waterman, and being one with the ocean. Paddle boarding is a regal sport originated by ancient Hawaiian kings.
The target market of the brand is a water-loving, fitness-minded audience that seeks out adventure. The closest proximity is probably a surf wear audience, but more of an old-school minded audience rather than one chasing the latest trend. Longboarders, versus shortboarders.
I'm looking for an iconic illustration of a lifeguard tower – not necessarily a highly detailed illustration, but rather a more abstract illustration of a classic lifeguard tower (but clearly identifiable as a lifeguard tower). This lifeguard tower icon must be able to stand alone, and also be displayed with the abbreviated brand name "Tower" and also the full name "Tower Paddle Boards". The lifeguard tower icon will be the major design element on a surfboard/paddleboard, but also must be friendly to use on t-shirts, hats, etc. The "Tower" text must also be able to stand alone. For the text elements, I'd like "Tower" to be emphasized (larger, bolder, whatever) over the "paddle boards" part, and in a hip surf culture friendly font. The surf wear brand will likely just be referred to as "Tower".
Ideally, this will be submitted in a vector format like PDF, but we can also accept any other vector filetype, but we'll require a .jpg as well so we can open it on all our computers of who needs to review this.
As there are many different types of lifeguard towers out there, I've attached some styles that we consider suitable (California lifeguard towers). The mock-up of a logo is just a rushed "mock-up" of something like what we're looking for - don't let this influence your work or idea generation. Note that "Tower" must be able to be vertically or horizontally oriented.
New Add: Added refined-11.jpg, which is close to what I'm looking for. Note the top portion of this tower is blueblu's (#3), so you can't copy that portion for your original entry. But I wanted to give some in-contest direction as the design concept progresses.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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London: Manchester City kept pace with title rivals Manchester United as they claimed a last-gasp victory over Reading thanks to an injury-time header from Gareth Barry.
The Premier League champions were in command for the vast majority of the game but were only able to make their advantage tell when the England midfielder headed in David Silva`s left-wing cross in added time.
City boss Roberto Mancini made two changes to the side that won at Newcastle last weekend, with 18-year-old defender Karim Rekik making his full debut in place of Gael Clichy, and Gareth Barry coming in for Samir Nasri. Reading meanwhile, made four changes from their heavy defeat against Arsenal, as Chris Gunter, Alex Pearce, Jem Karacan and Ian Harte were all named in the starting line-up.
The hosts made the brighter start to proceedings and after half-chances from Carlos Tevez and Matija Nastasic, Mancini`s men should have taken the lead but were denied by Adam Federici, who produced a superb close range save from Tevez after the Argentinian had latched on to compatriot Sergio Aguero`s fine flick-on.
Reading defended resolutely following that early opening, and frustrated City for much of the first half, however the champions were able to create some opportunities, most notably when Barry powered a header towards goal from a Tevez cross, only to see his effort comfortably held by Federici.
City continued to pile the pressure on the Reading goal, but the opener continued to elude them, Yaya Toure had a claim for a penalty turned down after Tevez and David Silva combined beautifully on the right, and Pablo Zabaleta was also unlucky not to have netted when his deflected shot looped just over Federici`s bar.
The Royals had been on the back-foot for the entirety of the opening period, but they almost grabbed the advantage early in the second as Pearce headed just over from a Harte corner.
Still it was the home side who carried the much greater threat, and will have wondered just how they had not taken the lead when Zabaleta`s ball evaded both Tevez and substitute Edin Dzeko with the goal gaping. The introduction of Dzeko appeared to galvanise City and he was at the hub of another attack minutes later, heading inches above the bar from a Tevez corner.
The visiting defence remained stern in spite of City`s dominance however and although Mancini`s men dictated the play, Reading could perhaps have taken all three points had they been more clinical on the counter. Indeed, Brian McDermott`s side again went close as Pearce directed another header just wide from a fine set-piece delivery from Harte.
Aguero, the hero of City`s title winning campaign last season, almost gave the home fans another late showing as he broke free before firing into the side netting. However it was Barry who delivered the finale when he powered a header into the net with just minutes to play to maintain the Citizens` title tilt.


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The Affordable Care Act has been a boon to advisers in law and accounting, who are busy handling client concerns about Obamacare.
But the new law is poised to make an impact in an unexpected industry: real estate.
Consolidation among the thousands of doctors in New Jersey has been going for more than a year, but that will accelerate under the Affordable Care Act, according to John Fanburg, a managing member with the law firm Brach Eichler. That's because the law encourages efficiency, which will drive doctors to join larger practices to fend off perceived drops in insurance reimbursement rates.
That means larger, newer space requirements in a medical office sector that's already strong.
"The pressure is finally on physicians to move into a larger group," especially among practices with fewer than five doctors, said Fanburg, who heads his firm's health care practice. "That's been the trend for some time around the country."
A July survey of 150 New Jersey doctors by Roseland-based Brach Eichler found 46 percent of respondents were considering changing their practice structure.
Nearly half that group said they planned to integrate with another health care organization — a move Fanburg said often leads them to existing large groups or hospitals.
For landlords, that means new opportunities in a market already faring better than the overall office sector. The medical office stock in the state's 12 northernmost counties is about 85 percent occupied and has remained stable over the past decade, according to NAI James E. Hanson, a Hackensack-based real estate brokerage.
Through the second quarter, leasing activity totaled more than 310,000 square feet, fueling more than 243,000 square feet of net absorption, the firm found.
Darren Lizzack, a broker with NAI Hanson, said health care withstood the downturn because of the need for medical services. Demand also benefited from the fact that speculative developers had long overlooked medical office space, he said.
"I don't think there was an oversupply in the market when the recession hit, so that's why it weathered the storm pretty well," said Lizzack, an associate vice president who specializes in medical space.
But the sector also is in store for a change, he said, as "the need for 1,500 square feet is a dying breed" among health care users: "Those available spaces today are going to sit on the market for a long time, because the move is in a different direction."
New development aimed at meeting that demand is appearing in some areas. In Plainsboro, about a mile from one of the state's newest hospitals, River Drive Construction is the general contractor for a 40,000-square-foot medical office building at the Forrestal Professional Center. The project is expected to be complete by early next year, and was 75 percent pre-leased through the summer.
It is the latest medical project for River Drive, whose president, Joseph Langan, said health care "has been more or less recession-proof for us." And any growth in the sector could help replace niches that have suffered since the recession, such as office interiors.
"Until we see a lot more job growth, we won't see these fit-outs resurface," said Langan, whose Elmwood Park-based firm also has recently completed medical office buildings in Bergen and Ocean counties. "So that could help fill that void."
Langan said health care construction typically is more expensive for a developer — roughly $80 to $100 per square foot, versus $40 to $50 for typical commercial space. But experts say medical tenants are more secure and stable for a landlord and investor.
"Health care is certainly a good safe haven," Lizzack said. Doctors invest heavily in their space up front, so they "don't move around too often."
Nearly 45 medical office properties traded in North Jersey in the first half of 2013, totaling $115 million in sales volume, according to Lizzack's firm. And sellers are getting better returns than three years ago.
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Jazz Recalls Kevin Murphy from D-League
Rookie returns after 14 games with the Reno Bighorns.
SALT LAKE CITY (January 8, 2013) – Utah Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey announced today that the team has recalled rookie Kevin Murphy from the Reno Bighorns, Utah's NBA Development League (D-League) affiliate. Murphy is expected to be in uniform when the Jazz visits the Charlotte Bobcats tomorrow, January 9, at 5 p.m. MT.
In 14 games (12 starts) with the Bighorns, Murphy averaged 13.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 28.6 minutes. He began his assignment with Reno on November 26.
Selected by the Jazz in the second round (47th overall selection) of the 2012 NBA Draft, the 6-6, 185-pound Murphy played four seasons at Tennessee Tech, where he averaged 15.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. Murphy averaged 20.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists as a senior and finished his career as the Golden Eagles' second all-time leading scorer (2,019 points).
Murphy became the sixth player in Jazz history to be assigned to the D-League, and the first since current Jazz teammate Jeremy Evans was in March 2011.


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Genetic Causes of Panic Disorder
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00083265
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 17, 2004
Last Update Posted : February 16, 2018
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date
|May 15, 2004
|First Posted Date
|May 17, 2004
|Last Update Posted Date
|February 16, 2018
|Study Start Date
|May 13, 2004
|Primary Completion Date
|Not Provided
|Current Primary Outcome Measures
|Not Provided
|Original Primary Outcome Measures
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|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00083265 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures
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|Original Secondary Outcome Measures
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|Current Other Outcome Measures
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|Original Other Outcome Measures
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|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title
|Genetic Causes of Panic Disorder
|Official Title
|Association Between Adenosine Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Physiological Responses to Caffeine in Subjects With Panic Disorder and Healthy Controls
|Brief Summary
This study will try to identify genes that increase the risk of developing panic disorder-an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent unexpected panic attacks-and that contribute to the abnormalities associated with it. It will compare reactions in patients with panic disorder and in normal volunteers to caffeine, a compound that can induce anxiety, and to placebo, an inactive substance. Caffeine is believed to induce anxiety by blocking proteins called adenosine receptors on the surface of nerve cells in the brain. One study found that people with a specific adenosine receptor gene called 1976T/T had greater anxiety in response to caffeine challenge than did people with other adenosine receptor gene groups. There is also evidence that people with the 1976T/T genotype are more vulnerable to having panic disorder.
Normal volunteers and patients with panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia) who are between 18 and 60 years of age may be eligible for this study. Candidates are screened with physical and psychiatric examinations, a diagnostic interview, mood and anxiety ratings, an electrocardiogram, and blood and urine tests, including genetic studies.
Participants have two caffeine/placebo challenge sessions at least 3 days apart. Each session lasts about 4 hours. For at least 1 week before each session, subjects follow a diet excluding foods with caffeine and refrain from drinking alcoholic beverages for at least 48 hours before the procedure. The morning of the session, following an overnight fast, subjects swallow either a placebo capsule or a caffeine capsule that is equivalent to about 5 cups of coffee. During the session, subjects take a battery of neuropsychological tests to document changes in cognitive and emotional functioning, including attention, memory, and motor performance. In addition, heart rate and blood pressure are measured 15 minutes before and 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, and 180 minutes after the caffeine or placebo dose.
At the end of the study, patients with panic disorder are eligible to receive routine clinical treatment for up to 3 months and may participate in planning for long-term treatment under the care of their local health care provider.
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Caffeine, the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, exerts its behavioral effects by antagonizing adenosine receptors (AR). Four different human AR subtypes have been found and there is evidence that the stimulatory effect of caffeine is mainly caused by an inhibition of transmission via adenosine A(2a) receptors. A significant association has been found in healthy infrequent caffeine users between caffeine-induced anxiety and two linked polymorphisms on the A(2a) receptor gene, the 1976C greater than T and 2592C greater than Tins polymorphisms. In one study looking at monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs, there was much evidence that individual differences in caffeine use, intoxication, tolerance, and withdrawal were substantially influenced by genetic factors. Family and twin studies have shown that genetic factors may increase vulnerability to panic disorder. In one study a systematic mutation screening and association study of the A(1) and A(2a) adenosine receptor genes in panic disorder showed a significant association between the 1976T allele and 1976T/T genotype of the A(2a) receptor gene and panic disorder. As the 1976T/T genotype of the A(2a) receptor gene has been associated with both increased caffeine-induced anxiety in healthy controls, and has been associated with increased vulnerability to panic disorder, we wish to study whether the 1976T/T genotype in panic disorder patients is associated with increased caffeine-induced anxiety.
This study will study subjects with panic disorder and healthy controls. Based on previous studies the following hypotheses will be tested (2 replication and 2 new hypotheses): Replication; (1) panic disorder subjects will report higher anxiety after a caffeine challenge than the healthy control subjects. (2) healthy controls with the1976 T/T polymorphism will report increased anxiety after a caffeine challenge compared to healthy controls with the 1976 C/T and 1976 C/C genotypes, New hypotheses; (3) panic patients (two separate groups: currently ill and remitted) with the 1976 T/T polymorphism will report increased anxiety after a caffeine challenge compared to panic patients with the 1976 C/T and 1976 C/C genotypes, (4) panic patients (two separate groups: currently ill and remitted) with the 1976 T/T polymorphism will report increased anxiety after a caffeine challenge compared to healthy controls with the 1976 T/T polymorphism will report increased anxiety after a caffeine challenge compared to healthy controls with the 1976 T/T genotype.
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A former public servant has rejected suggestions his review of the fatal violence on Manus Island was not thorough, and defended the $83,000 he was paid to do it.
Robert Cornall was forced to back the adequacy of his report during a Senate inquiry examining the February riots at the Papua New Guinea facility, which left one asylum seeker dead.
"I reject any suggestion that it's not a thorough review," Mr Cornall told a hearing in Canberra on Thursday.
The report released in May made 13 recommendations, including security improvements and granting guards powers to search and use force.
The report said it was impossible to apportion blame directly to any of the parties involved in the riot.
Nor could it nominate any one factor which, if handled differently, may have resulted in fewer injuries or less damage.
Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young accused Mr Cornall, a former head of the attorney-general's department, of cutting corners.
She said there was evidence his review - and a previous review he conducted into sexual abuse allegations at Manus Island - had not covered all the evidence or come to solid conclusions.
Mr Cornall said he was paid just less than $83,000 for three months work.
"That was calculated at the rate of $1500 a day, for eight hours a day," Mr Cornall said.
"It's at the rate of a second-year solicitor."
Mr Cornall said he did not start a submission process during his review to allow people to contact him with information.
Instead, Mr Cornall wrote to security firm G4S, the Salvation Army and healthcare provider International Health and Medical Services asking for nominations of people to interview about events on the night of the riot.
"I had enough information from key players," he said.
Mr Cornall received written accounts from 270 asylum seekers, had meetings with about 50 and interviewed four.
He told the hearing his review had not examined the conduct of Immigration Minister Scott Morrison because that had not been in his terms of reference.
Senator Hanson-Young said this contradicted Mr Morrison's statement to parliament in February that the review would look at his own conduct.
Mr Morrison was criticised after initially stating that the violence had occurred outside the detention centre, but then issued a correction, saying it had taken place inside.
A PNG police investigation is still under way and no one has been charged over the death of Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati.
Mr Cornall's received evidence that a PNG Salvation Army worker led the attack on Mr Barati.
Nicole Judge, who had stints as a caseworker for the Salvation Army on Manus Island, told the hearing asylum seekers were "treated like animals" at the detention centre.
Asylum seekers told her every day they would rather die than stay in detention.
"I spent lengthy amounts of time trying to convince people their life was still worth living," Ms Judge said.
Salvation Army management repeatedly warned staff their phone calls were monitored and emails read and if they talked about their work life they would lose their jobs or face criminal charges, she said.
Former security firm G4S employee Martin Appleby gave evidence about inadequate training of local PNG guards.
Mr Appleby, who has a background as a prison officer, said communication was difficult because his trainees only spoke Pidgin.
Many were recruited from local villages and some had never had a job before.
"It was extremely difficult to converse even to get my name across to the 30 to 40 trainees in the room," Mr Appleby said.
He was extremely concerned the detention centre's incident response team was made up mostly of PNG nationals.
"I still don't know why that occurred," he said, adding ex-Australian and New Zealand army and police personnel who were working for G4S should have been the mainstay of the squad.
The inquiry continues on Friday.


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10. Björketorp Runestone
This is one of a group of runestones found in Blekinge, Sweden, dating back to the 6th century AD. The stones measure up to 4.2 metres in height. Some of the stones appear in circles while others stand alone. The Björketorp stone bears the following inscription:
I, master of the runes(?) conceal here runes of power. Incessantly (plagued by) maleficence, (doomed to) insidious death (is) he who breaks this (monument). I prophesy destruction / prophecy of destruction.
A local legend relates that the curse was once tested and proved. A very long time ago, a man wanted to remove the stone so as to get more land to cultivate. He piled wood around it in order to heat it up and then crack it with water. The weather was dead calm and there was no wind. He had just lit the fire when a sudden gust of wind turned the direction of the flame setting the mans hair on fire. He threw himself on the ground to extinguish it, but it spread to his clothes and the poor man died in terrible agony. However, the fire around the rune stone was extinguished as if an enormous hand had enveloped the stone and smothered the fire.
5. James Deans Porsche
At 5:45 p.m. on 30 September 1955, film icon James Dean was killed in a car accident when his new Porsche Spyder (nicknamed Little BAD_WORD) crashed head on into another car. Rolf Wutherich, Deans friend and mechanic (who had been riding with the movie star) was thrown from the Spyder and survived the wreck, but Dean was pinned inside, his neck broken. Donald Turnupseed, the driver of the other car, suffered only relatively minor injuries. After the tragedy, master car customizer George Barris bought the wreck for $2,500. When the wreck arrived at Barris garage, the Porsche slipped and fell on one of the mechanics unloading it. The accident broke both of the mechanics legs. While Barris had bad feelings about the car when he first saw it, his suspicions were confirmed during a race at the Pomona Fair Grounds on October 24, 1956. Two physicians, Troy McHenry and William Eschrid, were both racing cars that had parts from the Little BAD_WORD. McHenry died when his car, which had the Porsches engine installed, went out of control and hit a tree. Eschrids car flipped over. Eschrid, who survived despite serious injuries, later said that the car suddenly locked up when he went into a curve. Accidents continued to occur in relation to the car, until 1960 when it vanished. Its whereabouts is still known.
Top 10 Bizarre Curses
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Posted 28 September 2009 - 09:17 AM
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
Or do things worth the writing.
Posted 28 September 2009 - 10:55 AM
What makes them bizarre? I could understand if they were the Top 10 Most Famous, but bizarre? I think the title has a bad word choice.
Posted 28 September 2009 - 11:02 AM
It wasnt my word choice but I kinda agree...though the definition for the word bizarre is:: strikingly out of the ordinary: as a : odd, extravagant, or eccentric in style or mode b : involving sensational contrasts or incongruities.
I would say some of them fall under odd/out of the ordinary and involving sensational contrasts or incongruities.
I would say some of them fall under odd/out of the ordinary and involving sensational contrasts or incongruities.
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
Or do things worth the writing.
Posted 28 September 2009 - 12:42 PM
LOL Bats, Little B was going to be my next curse thread
Thank you for not feeding the trolls
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Please don't be smug about the ladies oil wrestling, people. It's Ryan the bartender who came up with the idea. She did it do drum up business on Thursday nights which had been lacking, and it's worked. Sure, it may not be for everyone, but at least itt's something DIFFERENT on this island, instead of the same old same old.
She just has her lady friends wrestle, and everyone has a great time. It's not sexual or lewd, just fun. The first night, they only had 4 wrestlers, but as word of mouth has grown, more wrestlers have performed some nights.
A couple very good friends of mine wrestle there, and they're cool chicks. So, do away with your pre-conceived notions and maybe check it out. You might actually have, you know, fun.
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Nugblazer, come on. I was a tomboy and still have more guy friends then girlfriends. There is NO WAY a guy is not going to find this titillating. NOT saying the girls are trying to be in any way shape or form, just that that is how men's minds work. Just mention the words cat fight around a group of men and watch what happens.
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The wife and I just got back from the best meal we have had on STX since we moved here. We ate at "The Galleon" and I had escargot and the seafood bouillabaisse and the wife had duck Napoleon and for dessert she had chocolate fondant and I had the creme brulee.
I have to say, if you are going out for a nice meal this restaurant is awesome! We ate at Bacchus last week for about the same price and were very disappointed. The wait staff were attentive and the owner "Leslie" was there to see everything was perfect.
We take our kids to eat at The Deep End all the time (which we also enjoy) and never realized what a treasure was right next door.
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Had dinner at Bluewater Terrace and thought it was very good. The pasta chicken carbonara was great and had a specialty pasta, which I liked, the kind you would be hard pressed to come by in a regular grocery aisle. The service was good, no one standing around, as previous posters said, but it was only two poor girls waiting the tables and they were busy!
They sat us near the bar, which only became a minor problem when the power drinkers rolled in, and got loud. There was one man singing bawdy songs and going "ARRGH!!" over and over in the course of his conversation, so much so that he wasn't joking and I think he thought he was a real pirate. But he had on a polo shirt. Annoying. Pick the other side of the room.
I would go back. The deli case was beautiful. I didn't notice until after I drank it that the bottled water I ordered, brand name 'Blue Waters' is purified well water from Trinidad....Just fyi.
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Had lunch today at Breeze's that would easily qualify for Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares and then some. Came in a little after noon and the place was about three quarters full. After standing around conspicuously for 5 minutes, was seated by the friendly but harried bartender. Nothing happened for another 15 minutes when the lone server asked us about drinks. Ten minutes later they arrived and the server took our order. She and the bartender were the only ones working the floor and clearly this was going to be a problem. It's always slow at Breeze's but this was the worst we'd ever seen it.
Meanwhile, people were filing in until the place was almost full. Forty five minutes after arriving I called over a manager looking fellow and asked him to check on our lunch. He grumbled something and from then on he was in the kitchen helping, I presume. He never came back to report about our meal delay. In the meantime, I went to the bar, served us more ice water and later took my wife's empty wine glass to get filled. She had asked the server for it but she obviously had forgotten to get it. Finally lunch arrived and my sandwich was ice cold. I sent it back and it was nuked back to life in a couple seconds which was the only fast thing that happened there today.
In looking around, all the tables had the same problems with "service" and a few got up and left without ordering. I won't be going back to Breeze's - too bad because the food can be fine. Gordon Ramsey, I have a place that really needs your help.
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Apple, Telecom Weigh on Stocks
The Dow industrials rose for a fifth-straight session, while the Nasdaq slipped on telecom worries. Alexandra Scaggs has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.
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