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A Monad Transformer for explicitly typed checked exceptions.
The exceptions thrown by a computation are inferred by the typechecker and appear in the type signature of the computation as Throws constraints.
Exceptions are defined using the extensible exceptions framework of Marlow (documented in Control.Exception):
data DivideByZero = DivideByZero deriving (Show, Typeable) data SumOverflow = SumOverflow deriving (Show, Typeable)
instance Exception DivideByZero instance Exception SumOverflow
data Expr = Add Expr Expr | Div Expr Expr | Val Double
eval (Val x) = return x eval (Add a1 a2) = do v1 <- eval a1 v2 <- eval a2 let sum = v1 + v2 if sum < v1 || sum < v2 then throw SumOverflow else return sum eval (Div a1 a2) = do v1 <- eval a1 v2 <- eval a2 if v2 == 0 then throw DivideByZero else return (v1 / v2)
GHCi infers the following types
eval :: (Throws DivideByZero l, Throws SumOverflow l) => Expr -> EM l Double eval `catch` \ (e::DivideByZero) -> return (-1) :: Throws SumOverflow l => Expr -> EM l Double runEM(eval `catch` \ (e::SomeException) -> return (-1)) :: Expr -> Double
|Run a computation explicitly handling exceptions
|Run a safe computation
|Run a safe computation checking even unchecked (UncaughtException) exceptions
|The throw primitive
|Rethrow an exception keeping the call trace
|The catch primitive
|Like catch but makes the call trace available
|Sequence two computations discarding the result of the second one. If the first computation rises an exception, the second computation is run and then the exception is rethrown.
|Like finally, but performs the second computation only when the first one rises an exception
|Capture an exception e, wrap it, and rethrow. Keeps the original monadic call trace.
|A monad of explicitly typed, checked exceptions
|Run a computation explicitly handling exceptions
|Run a safe computation
|Run a computation checking even unchecked (UncaughtExceptions) exceptions
|This function may be used as a value for mplus in MonadPlus
|Produced by Haddock version 2.6.0


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QuotedPZInz 32TP wzór.44 and wzór.46 "Lwica"
The 32TP wz.44 tank was designed by PZInz as a replacement for the 26TP wz.42, itself a heavily-modified variant of the German Panzer IV tank. The 32TP was designed to provide superior firepower and protection in comparison to the 26TP. An 85mm gun, based on an anti-tank gun prototyped in 1942, provided enhanced firepower in comparison to the previous 75mm guns used on Polish tanks.
The adoption of the 26TP wz.42 - a final variant of the German-designed Panzer IV - caused a significant social backlash between the Polish government and industry, as well as within the Bron Pancerna. Although Poland's industry had not produced a viable and modern medium tank design, the adoption of the German tank was widely the source of significant disgust to Polish nationalist movements, who felt that the country had the industrial capability to design and build a well-regarded medium tank that could be exported to other Eastern European armies. Additionally, the Bron Pancerna felt that the 26TP design did not have any modernization potential sufficient for a long service life. In 1942, the Bron Pancerna, under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, directed PZInz to begin a new design project to produce a more modern medium tank to serve as a generational follow-on to the 26TP, incorporating more indigenous parts.
In January 1943, PZInz submitted two alternative designs, designated Alt 2 and Alt 3, to the Bron Pancerna for final approval. (The Alt 1 design, a tank of 28 tons with a 75mm gun, was rejected earlier in the development cycle.) Both alternatives were armed with a high-velocity 85mm/L55 gun and were estimated to weigh in at 32 metric tons. The Bron Pancerna rejected Alt 2, a design with a rear turret and central engine, objecting to the use of untested or prototype automotive components, as well as concerns about maintenance due to the central engine. The Alt 3 design, a scaled-up version of Alt 1, was selected for further development, although a series of changes were required; the vehicle was shortly thereafter designated the 32TP.
The 32TP wzór.44 Prototype, as presented to the Polish Army
A first prototype of the 32TP was constructed in spring of 1943, and was demonstrated throughout the summer. The prototype had a welded hull with a well-sloped frontal glacis, a cast turret, and a transverse engine mounting similar to that of the Russian Federation's T-44 tank, which appeared at approximately the same time. Polish intelligence became aware of the T-44's transverse engine design sometime during 1943, but it was never clear if the Russian tank influenced PZInz's use of the same feature on the 32TP. However, as on the T-44, the use of this feature resulted in a generally improved layout and a lower profile for the tank.
Most castings for the tank were provided by Huta Ludwików (also known as SHL).
The tank had a fairly standard layout, with the driver centrally located in the forward hull (with a top-opening access hatch), and three crewmen (gunner, loader, and commander) in the turret. The gunner and commander were seated on the right side of the gun in the turret, while the loader was seated on the left. The loader had access to a two-piece hatch in the side of the turret that allowed for ammunition loading; the gunner had a simple one-piece hatch in the turret roof.
The 32TP used a torsion-bar suspension with six rubber-tyred road wheels and no return rollers. The tank had decent ground clearance, slope-climbing, and trench-crossing capabilities; a power-to-weight ratio of 18.75 hp/tonne gave it excellent cross-country performance in all conditions.
During the design process, PZInz attempted to find a Polish-developed engine, but it quickly became clear that no indiginous petrol or diesel engine had enough horsepower or reliability for the job. A newly-developed engine was hypothesized but quickly discarded as too expensive. However, through their ties with the French firm of Alsthom, PZInz's Ursus factory was able to provide a locally-manufactured (and slightly modified) version of the Alsthom/SACM MD.12/36 tank powerplant, a 36-litre V-12 diesel engine that could provide 600hp; the engine was called the Ursus Jelen ("Stag") in Polish production.
The hull of the 32TP was welded, with a well-sloped frontal glacis; the turret was centrally located in the hull. The glacis had an overall slope of 60°, with a thickness measuring between 40mm and 90mm. The sides varied between 30mm and 75mm, with no sloping.
The 32TP's turret was originally developed as a prototype for the preceding 26TP wz.42, but was scaled up slightly for the 32TP's turret ring and the 85mm armament. The turret face had a thickness of 120mm. The turret face had no substantial sloping, but much of it was covered by an additional 40mm gun mantlet, and the turret profile was low and relatively narrow.
While the preceding 26TP wzór.42 used a licensed variant of the German KwK 40 L/48, the 32TP was intended to use a larger 85mm gun of Polish derivation. The final gun was designated the 44U-BA, with an 85mm bore size and a length of 55 calibers. At the time of its introduction, it was one of the most powerful tank guns in Europe. The 44U-BA had a number of visual similarities to the German KwK 40; the two guns were manufactured in the same factory using German-tooled equipment originally purchased to license-manufacture the Polish KwK 40. However, the breech lock showed distinct differences, and the 44U-BA had no muzzle brake. The 32TP's low-profile turret design restricted the maximum gun depression to -6°, which was deemed workable if not particularly outstanding. Zeiss optics were purchased from Germany for the main gunnery sight.
In mid 1946, the 32TP received the upgraded 44U-BE4 main gun, which increased the barrel length to 62 calibers, a move intended to improve the gun's antitank performance. Additional weights were added to the load end in order to maintain balance, and improved aiming
Ammunition was carried low in the tank, with two wet stowage racks, each holding twenty-seven rounds, located at the bottom of the turret. Four more 'ready rounds' were located near the loader's position, for a total of fifty-eight rounds. While one wet stowage rack was located under the loader's position and was easily accessible, the second wet stowage rack was harder to access.
A coaxial 7.92mm machine gun was originally placed in the turret, next to the main gun, but it interfered with the working room available to the loader, and it was removed from production tanks by December of 1944. A hull machine gun was also originally planned, but removed prior to the beginning of production. This left only the pintle-mounted machine gun located on top of the turret. The Polish Army preferred to use an air-cooled derivative of the Wz.36 machine gun manufactured by Panstwowa Fabryka Karabinow. Export tanks built for Bulgaria used a variant of the Russian SG-43 Goryunov machine gun, license-built by DVF Kazanlak and chambered in 7.5x55 Swiss.
Other Features
Gundlach tank periscopes were provided for the use of both the commander (who had six) and the driver (who had three), allowing for an excellent degree of visibility around the tank when buttoned up.
Beginning in 1946, a pair of small ventilation fans were added in the turret to help remove fumes from firing the main armament. Two sets of three 81mm smoke grenade launchers were placed on the sides of the turret, and a K6 smoke generator was installed from December 1944 onwards.
The Bron Pancerna evaluated six pre-production vehicles during February and March of 1944 prior to giving final approval to the design in April. The design was given the official designation 32TP wzor.44 (usually shortened to "32TP" or "Wz.44"). Manufacturing started at a low level in May, and the first vehicles were delivered to training units in September, two months later than the June date originally desired by the Polish Army.
A 32TP wzór.46 Lwica in standard Polish summer camouflage.
Production was undertaken in a number of batches, each of which incorporated a number of improvements and variations. As a result, three major variations appeared through the 32TP's production run.
Export Users
- 32TP wzór.44/A. The initial production model, built from May 1944 to December 1944. This version could be distinguished by the inclusion of a coaxial machine gun in the turret, firing through a hole in mantlet on the left side of the gun. Seventy-four vehicles were built, including twenty-four export vehicles for Bulgaria.
- 32TP wzór.44/B. An improved variant built between December of 1944 and June 1946. Introduced almost two hundred minor engineering changes designed to ease manufacturing or lower cost. Among the largest improvements was the removal of the coaxial machine gun and the addition of the K6 smoke generator. Internally, wet stowage racks were installed for the ammunition, and improvements were made to the loader's working space. Sideskirts manufactured from 10mm steel plates were added to the vehicle to prevent dust from interfering with the crew while moving.
- 32TP wzór.46 "Lwica". An enhanced version that entered production in June of 1946. The largest change to the 32TP wzór.46 was the adoption of the longer-barreled 44U-BE4 gun (85mm/L62) and the installation of an improved gunlaying system. At the same time as the introduction of the improved gun, a new 85mm HEAT shell was introduced to service. Other updates were made to the fuel pumps, the winterization gear, and the fire controls. A number of small armour changes (due to the adoption of different castings) raised the vehicle's overall weight to 35 tonnes. The new variant was named the "Lwica" (Lioness). By the end of 1947, this name sometimes was applied incorrectly to older variants of the tank of the tank.
- 32PP wzór.46 Kobra
PZInz worked on a set of three variants, including a casemate tank destroyer armed with a 100mm gun, an air-defense tank with twin 37mm Bofors cannon, and a self-propelled artillery piece. As design work progressed, serious issues with the self-propelled artillery design became apparent, and further design work was cancelled in 1945. A prototype of a 100mm-armed casemate tank destroyer was constructed, but despite interest from the Polish and Bulgarian armies, no orders for this type were placed. Ultimately, the only one of the three major variants ever built in any numbers was the 32PP wzor.46 (for pojazd przeciwlotniczy), or 'Kobra'. An open-topped turret with twin 37mm guns was mounted on an otherwise-standard 32TP tank hull.
- Engineering Vehicles
A number of armoured engineering vehicles were constructed on the basis of the 32TP hull. In most cases, this involved replacing the turret with a rotating platform with a crane, installing a heavy-duty dozer blade on the front, and placing a digger attachment on the left rear side of the tank. A bridge-laying variant was also constructed, although most 32TP bridgelayers were converted from older worn-out tanks later in their service lives.
In late 1943, the prototype of the 32TP was shown to senior officers of the Bulgarian tank arm during a tour of the PZInz plant. The Bulgarian Army's General Directorate of the Mechanised Forces (GDMS - Glavna direktsiya na mekhaniziranite sili) was immediately interested in the design and signed a memorandum of understanding with PZInz to purchase at least sixty tanks upon the start of production. Bulgaria contributed money to the development effort through 1943 and 1944, but the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense demanded a number of design changes, including the use of some Bulgarian-manufactured parts. This annoyed PZInz and the Polish government, which were already setting up the manufacturing line. Further, PZInz raised doubts about the quality-control of Bulgarian parts. The two parties, after some ongoing disagreement, agreed to use Bulgarian-sourced parts only on the tanks ordered by them. PZInz's concern about quality-control was well-justified, and the Bulgarians withdrew most of their requirements for their follow-on orders. However, once the Bulgarians received their first tanks, they developed solutions to two of the most problematic issues with the 32TP, fixing the defective cold-weather starter system and developing an improved fuel pump. The Polish Army in turn adopted these solutions over the course of 1946, eventually incorporating them back into production with the 32TP wzór.46 variant.
The vehicle was designated the T44/85 in Bulgarian service. Bulgarian T44/85s could be visually distinguished by their use of a licensed SG-43 machine gun mounted on the turret roof, alternate engine grills, and a lower-mounted detachable fuel drums on the rear of the tank. Starting in 1946, Bulgaria switched over to use Russian-supplied Protsion radios, refitting them to all Bulgarian vehicles. The Bulgarians also applied a flame-retardant cloth lining to the interior of the crew spaces to serve as a spall liner.
By the close of 1947, Bulgaria had ordered 258 tanks:
-- T44/85A1 (32TP wzór.44/A): 24x
-- T44/85A2 (32TP wzór.44/B): 174x
-- T44/85A3 Luvitsa (32TP wzór.46 Lwica): 60x
Bulgarian T44/85 (A3) in "Thracian" camouflage.
Uncertain - probable export user; Romania was very interested in buying 32TPs at one point, but may have selected the Standardpanzer Panther instead.
Poland offered to sell the 32TP to the Latvian Army, which instead elected to purchase German Standardpanzer Panthers in 1947. Armenia also showed interest in the design, but the purchase fell through due to economic reasons when the French acquired a copy of the official Polish sales proposal, and undercut them with an offer to supply refitted AMX-34 Montbrun medium tanks.
One of the four 32TP wzor.44s as demonstrated to the Hungarian Army
Over the course of 1946, the Hungarian Army expressed interested in license-building the 32TP in order to replace their fleet of secondhand German Panzer IVs. In early 1946, four 32TPs were delivered to the Hungarian Army for evaluation and training. However, at the last moment, the Hungarian government received an alternative offer to pick up, for a lower price, Switzerland's stake in the Czech TVP vz.47 project. Although some negotiations continued between Hungary and Poland for nearly a year afterward, Hungarian interest slowly evaporated. All four tanks were officially retained by Hungary, although one was surreptitiously 'loaned' to Czechoslovakia during 1947 for technical evaluation.
-- Length: 6.07 meters (hull), 7.65 metres (with gun)
-- Width: 3.25 meters
-- Height: 2.5 meters
Weight: 32 tonnes, eventual rise to 35 tonnes
-- 44U-BA 85mm/L55 gun with 58 rounds; later 44U-BE4 85mm/L62 gun
-- Pintle-mounted MG on turret roof (for commander)
-- 6 x 81mm smoke grenade dischargers
Engine: Ursus V12 'Jelen' diesel, 600hp (licensed Alsthom/SACM MD.12/36)
Transmission: Manual, 5 speeds forward and reverse
Suspension: Torsion bar with six road-wheels
-- Turret face: 120mm
-- Glacis: 40mm-90mm (sloped at 60°)
-- Sides: 30mm-75mm
Power to Weight Ratio: 18.75 hp/tonne (drops to 17.14 hp/tonne with later models)
Speed: 53 km/h (road), 25 km/h (offroad)
Range: 350 km (120 mi) with 500 litres fuel
Constructors: PZInz
-- Good overall balance of mobility, firepower, and decent protection on a combat weight of only 32 metric tons
-- Low profile
-- Inexpensive to purchase and operate
-- Poor gun depression of -6°
-- Mediocre frontal protection on the turret
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity.
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?
In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family's inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. "A fascinating look at the disease that . . . could have cost this vibrant, vital young woman her life" (People), Brain on Fire is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic.
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?
In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family's inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. "A fascinating look at the disease that . . . could have cost this vibrant, vital young woman her life" (People), Brain on Fire is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic.
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Brain on Fire CHAPTER 1 BEDBUG BLUES Maybe it all began with a bug bite, from a bedbug that didn't exist. One morning, I'd woken up to find two red dots on the main purplish-blue vein running down my left arm. It was early 2009, and New York City was awash in bedbug scares: they infested offices, clothing stores, movie theaters, and park benches. Though I wasn't naturally a worrier, my dreams had been occupied for two nights straight by finger-long bedbugs. It was a reasonable concern, though after carefully scouring the apartment, I couldn't find a single bug or any evidence of their presence. Except those two bites. I even called in an exterminator to check out my apartment, an overworked Hispanic man who combed the whole place, lifting up my sofa bed and shining a flashlight into places I had never before thought to clean. He proclaimed my studio bug free. That seemed unlikely, so I asked for a follow-up appointment for him to spray. To his credit, he urged me to wait before shelling out an astronomical sum to do battle against what he seemed to think was an imaginary infestation. But I pressed him to do it, convinced that my apartment, my bed, my body had been overrun by bugs. He agreed to return and exterminate. Concerned as I was, I tried to conceal my growing unease from my coworkers. Understandably, no one wanted to be associated with a person with a bedbug problem. So at work the following day, I walked as nonchalantly as possible through the newsroom of the New York Post to my cubicle. I was careful to conceal my bites and tried to appear casual, normal. Not that "normal" means a lot at the Post. Though it's notoriously obsessed with what's new, the Post is nearly as old as the nation itself. Established by Alexander Hamilton in 1801, it is the longest continually run newspaper in the country. In its first century alone, the paper crusaded for the abolition movement and helped promote the creation of Central Park. Today the newsroom itself is cavernous yet airless, filled with rows of open cubicles and a glut of filing cabinets packed with decades of unused, forgotten documents. The walls are freckled with clocks that don't run, dead flowers hung upside down to dry, a picture of a monkey riding a border collie, and a big foam Six Flags finger, all memorabilia from reporters' assignments. The PCs are ancient, the copy machines the size of small ponies. A small utility closet that once served as a smoking room now holds supplies, and is marked by a weathered sign warning that the smoking room no longer exists, as if someone might accidentally wander in for a cigarette among the monitors and video equipment. This has been my eccentric little world for the past seven years, since I started here as a seventeen-year-old intern. Especially around deadline, the room buzzes with activity—keyboards clacking, editors yelling, reporters cackling—the perfect stereotype of a tabloid newsroom. "Where's the fucking picture to go with this caption?" "How is it that he didn't know she was a prostitute?" "What color were the socks of the guy who jumped off the bridge?" It's like a bar without alcohol, filled with adrenaline-soaked news junkies. The cast of characters here is unique to the Post: the brightest headline writers in the business, the hardened newshounds hunting after exclusives, and type-A workaholics who possess the chameleon ability to either befriend or antagonize almost anyone. Still, on most days, the newsroom is subdued, as everyone silently combs through court documents, interviews sources, or reads newspapers. Often, like today, the newsroom is as quiet as a morgue. Heading toward my desk to start the day, I wove through the rows of cubicles marked by green Manhattan street signs: Liberty Street, Nassau Street, Pine Street, and William Street, throwbacks to a time when the Post was actually flanked by those downtown streets in its previous home at the South Street Seaport. My desk is at Pine Street. Amid the silence, I slid into my seat beside Angela, my closest friend at the paper, and gave her a tense smile. Trying not to let my question echo too loudly across the noiseless room, I asked, "You know anything about bedbug bites?" I often joked that if I ever had a daughter, I'd want her to be like Angela. In many ways, she is my newsroom hero. When I first met her, three years before, she was a soft-spoken, shy young woman from Queens, only a few years older than me. She had arrived at the Post from a small weekly paper and since then had matured under the pressure of a big-city tabloid into one of the Post's most talented reporters, churning out reams of our best stories. Most late Friday nights, you'd find Angela writing four stories on split screens simultaneously. I couldn't help but look up to her. Now I really needed her advice. Hearing that dreaded word, bedbugs, Angela scooted her chair away from mine. "Don't tell me you have them," she said with an impish smile. I started to show her my arm, but before I could get into my tale of woe, my phone rang. "You ready?" It was the new Sunday editor, Steve. He was just barely in his midthirties, yet he had already been named head editor of the Sunday paper, the section I worked for, and despite his friendliness, he intimidated me. Every Tuesday, each reporter had a pitch meeting to showcase some of his or her ideas for that Sunday's paper. At the sound of his voice, I realized with panic that I was completely unprepared for this week's meeting. Usually I had at least three coherent ideas to pitch; they weren't always great, but I always had something. Now I had nothing, not even enough to bluff my way through the next five minutes. How had I let that happen? This meeting was impossible to forget, a weekly ritual that we all fastidiously prepared for, even during days off. Bedbugs forgotten, I widened my eyes at Angela as I stood back up, gamely hoping it all would work out once I got to Steve's office. Nervously, I walked back down "Pine Street" and into Steve's office. I sat down next to Paul, the Sunday news editor and close friend who had mentored me since I was a sophomore in college, giving him a nod but avoiding direct eye contact. I readjusted my scratched-up wide-framed Annie Hall glasses, which a publicist friend once described as my own form of birth control because "no one will sleep with you with those on." We sat there in silence for a moment, as I tried to let myself be comforted by Paul's familiar, larger-than-life presence. With his shock of prematurely white hair and his propensity to toss the word fuck around like a preposition, he is the essence of a throwback newsman and a brilliant editor. He had given me a shot as a reporter during the summer of my sophomore year of college after a family friend introduced us. After a few years in which I worked as a runner, covering breaking news and feeding information to another reporter to write the piece, Paul offered me my first big assignment: an article on the debauchery at a New York University fraternity house. When I returned with a story and pictures of me playing beer pong, he was impressed with my chutzpah; even though the exposé never ran, he assigned me more stories until I had been hired on full time in 2008. Now, as I sat in Steve's office wholly unprepared, I couldn't help but feel like a work in progress, not worthy of Paul's faith and respect. The silence deepened until I looked up. Steve and Paul were staring at me expectantly, so I just started talking, hoping something would come. "I saw this story on a blog . . . ," I said, desperately plucking up wisps of half-formed ideas. "That's really just not good enough," Steve interrupted. "You need to be bringing in better stuff than this. Okay? Please don't come in with nothing again." Paul nodded, his face blazing red. For the first time since I'd started working on my high school newspaper, journalism disagreed with me. I left the meeting furious at myself and bewildered by my own ineptitude. "You okay?" Angela asked as I returned to my desk. "Yeah, you know, I'm just bad at my job. No big deal," I joked grimly. She laughed, revealing a few charmingly crooked incisor teeth. "Oh, come on, Susannah. What happened? Don't take it seriously. You're a pro." "Thanks, Ang," I said, sipping my lukewarm coffee. "Things just aren't going my way." I brooded over the day's disasters that evening as I walked west from the News Corp. building on Sixth Avenue, through the tourist clusterfuck that is Times Square, toward my apartment in Hell's Kitchen. As if purposely living the cliché of a New York writer, I rented a cramped one-room studio, where I slept on a pullout sofa. The apartment, eerily quiet, overlooked the courtyard of several tenements, and I often awoke not to police sirens and grumbling garbage trucks but to the sound of a neighbor playing the accordion on his balcony. Still obsessed with my bites, despite the exterminator's assurance that I had nothing to worry about, I prepared for him to spray the place and spent that night discarding things that could be harboring bedbugs. Into the garbage went my beloved Post clips, hundreds of articles reminding me of how bizarre my job is: the victims and suspects, dangerous slums, prisons and hospitals, twelve-hour shifts spent shivering inside photographers' cars waiting to photograph—or "pop"—celebrities. I had always loved every minute of it. So why was I suddenly so terrible at it? As I shoved these treasures into the trash bags, I paused on a few headlines, among them the biggest story of my career to date: the time I managed to land an exclusive jailhouse interview with child kidnapper Michael Devlin. The national media were hot on the story, and I was only a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, yet Devlin spoke to me twice. But the story didn't end there. His lawyers went nuts after the article ran, launching a smear campaign against the Post and calling for a judicial gag order, while the local and national media began debating my methods on live TV and questioning the ethics of jailhouse interviews and tabloids in general. Paul fielded several tearful phone calls from me during that time, which bound us together, and in the end, both the paper and my editors stood by me. Though the experience had rattled me, it also whetted my appetite, and from then on, I became the resident "jailhouser." Devlin was eventually sentenced to three consecutive lifetimes in prison. Then there was the butt implant story, "Rear and Present Danger," a headline that still makes me laugh. I had to go undercover as a stripper looking for cheap butt enhancements from a woman who was illegally dispensing them out of a midtown hotel room. As I stood there with my pants around my ankles, I tried not to be insulted when she announced that she would need "a thousand dollars per cheek," twice the amount she charged the woman who had come forward to the Post. Journalism was thrilling; I had always loved living a reality that was more fabulist than fiction, though little did I know that my life was about to become so bizarre as to be worthy of coverage in my own beloved tabloid. Even though the memory made me smile, I added this clip to the growing trash pile—"where it belongs," I scoffed, despite the fact that those crazy stories had meant the world to me. Though it felt necessary at the moment, this callous throwing away of years' worth of work was completely out of character for me. I was a nostalgic pack rat, who held on to poems that I had written in fourth grade and twenty-some-odd diaries that dated back to junior high. Though there didn't seem to be much of a connection among my bedbug scare, my forgetfulness at work, and my sudden instinct to purge my files, what I didn't know then is that bug obsession can be a sign of psychosis. It's a little-known problem, since those suffering from parasitosis, or Ekbom syndrome, as it's called, are most likely to consult exterminators or dermatologists for their imaginary infestations instead of mental health professionals, and as a result they frequently go undiagnosed. My problem, it turns out, was far vaster than an itchy forearm and a forgotten meeting. After hours of packing everything away to ensure a bedbug-free zone, I still didn't feel any better. As I knelt by the black garbage bags, I was hit with a terrible ache in the pit of my stomach—that kind of free-floating dread that accompanies heartbreak or death. When I got to my feet, a sharp pain lanced my mind, like a white-hot flash of a migraine, though I had never suffered from one before. As I stumbled to the bathroom, my legs and body just wouldn't react, and I felt as if I were slogging through quicksand. I must be getting the flu, I thought. This might not have been the flu, though, the same way there may have been no bedbugs. But there likely was a pathogen of some sort that had invaded my body, a little germ that set everything in motion. Maybe it came from that businessman who had sneezed on me in the subway a few days before, releasing millions of virus particles onto the rest of us in that subway car? Or maybe it was in something I ate or something that slipped inside me through a tiny wound on my skin, maybe through one of those mysterious bug bites? There my mind goes again. The doctors don't actually know how it began for me. What's clear is that if that man had sneezed on you, you'd most likely just get a cold. For me, it flipped my universe upside down and very nearly sent me to an asylum for life.
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The following is from the March 19 City Council meeting. All council members were present.
Mayor Kelly Boyd presented a proclamation declaring April as Donate Life California Month in Laguna Beach to Marisa Garcia, ambassador of the Department of Motor Vehicles program.
Organ, tissue, bone marrow and blood donations are life-giving acts recognized worldwide as expressions of compassion to those in need, according to the proclamation.
More than 116,000 individuals nationwide and more than 20,000 in California are on the national organ transplant waiting list, with one of them dying every 90 minutes due to the shortage of donated organs.
California residents may sign up with the Donate Life Registry when applying for or renewing their driver's licenses or Identification Cards at the department.
Garcia thanked the council for supporting the program.
The public is allowed to speak on any subject not on the agenda. Speakers generally are limited to three minutes, but the time can be adjusted by the council.
•After thanking the City Clerk's office for always being of assistance to him, Bruce Hopping went on to state that more art is needed along Coast Highway and suggested that the city initiate a design contest for Young Artist Community Services organization to submit murals or sculptures to businesses lining the highway.
Hopping indicated the city would be improved by the installation of a sculpture in Heisler Park similar to the U.S. Normandy Beach World War II Memorial and another one honoring the Brooks Street Surfing Contest.
•Gene Gratz said that he was concerned that some administrative decisions by Community Development Director John Montgomery are not appealable and the process should be revised.
•Eleanor Henry said she objected to a motorcycle officer lurking at Main Beach and questioned the legality of the practice.
She also said she read an article in the Coastline Pilot that the Parking, Traffic and Circulation Committee had approved five parking spaces between the 1200 and 1400 block of Bluebird Canyon Drive, but claimed that no one knows where they are. She also said the "No parking" signs are still in place.
Council members and staff report on events they have attended, people with whom they have met and other items of public interest.
•City Treasurer Laura Parisi reported that the Laguna Beach Investment Status meeting, held on March 12 was attended by Councilman Bob Whalen, City Manager John Pietig, Finance and Information Technology Services Director Gavin Curran and resident Karl Koski, a former city manager of another community.
Koski commented that the investment policy adopted by the City Council established the necessary criteria for investing city funds that stressed safety, liquidity and yield, according to Parisi. She said her office had met the required obligations during a period of low interest rates.
A copy of the complete presentation was to be placed in the City Council office.
•Councilman Steve Dicterow reported that he attended several events since the last City Council meeting, including two skateboard park meetings, the Heisler Park bench dedication and the Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce Leadership meeting with the mayor.
Dicterow said he also attended the Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau's food and wine festival, a Laguna Playhouse opening night and the Laguna Community Pool Citizen's group meeting and met with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, the Mission Viejo mayor and a number of locals.
He and Mayor Pro Tem Elizabeth Pearson spoke at the Laguna Beach Tax Payers Assn. meeting.
•Whalen complimented the Laguna Beach Investment Status meeting. He said he feels the city had well and safely invested approximately $80 million.
He reported that he and the mayor had met with the Irvine Bowl Policy Committee and approved some infrastructure improvements that would hopefully be completed before summer.
Whalen also met with residents regarding the establishment of a task force with South Orange County Wastewater Authority (SOCWA) on the future of the coastal treatment plant
•Councilwoman Toni Iseman said the recent League of Cities Convention in Washington, D.C., was the best she had ever attended, including a hearing hosted by the National Organization to Insure A Sound Control Environment (NOISE) at which a member of the Federal Aviation Administration offered interesting information regarding airports and noise. She learned that Atlanta was able to work with Air Traffic Control to lessen noise by re-routing planes.
She also learned that the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) were offering grants for police officers, which would cover salary and benefits for three years if the grantee city would guarantee the money to cover the fourth year.
Iseman said she looked into several grant opportunities and spoke with the California Environmental Protection Agency regarding initiatives and available monies.
During the convention Iseman met with staff of U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa), Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Iseman said the city's lobbyist is known and informed.
•Mayor Pro Tem Elizabeth Pearson said her primary objective in going to the League of Cities Convention was to lobby FEMA for reimbursement of the money spent by the city due to the 2010 flood. She said the meeting went well, and she was very hopeful for a fruitful outcome. She met with Rohrabacher regarding various issues in Laguna Beach.
•Boyd waxed enthusiastically about the new Heisler Park bench at the end of Jasmine Street and urged residents to go and see it.
He announced that View Preservation Committee would be meeting at 4:30 p.m. April 16 and April 30 at the Susi Q Community Center, 380 Third St.
Boyd thanked friends and community members for the emails, letters and phone calls he received supporting his fight with cancer.
Consent calendar items are approved unanimously in one motion unless a member of the City Council, staff, or public "pulls" the item, which then requires opening it for public comment and a separate vote.
Among the items approved unanimously:
•Adoption of resolutions setting the date of April 23 to hear public objections to the annual weed abatement and the street-sweeping and intersection visibility abatement programs.
•Purchase of a new Kenmore Elite biological evidence refrigerator, the $2,566 cost to be reimbursed by Proposition 69 grant funds.
•Permission for Pietig to provide city tiles to county supervisors, State Senate and Assembly, and members of the California Congressional delegation to be displayed in their offices.
•Proclamation declaring April 7 to 13 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Week.
Pulled for discussion:
•Purchase of two personal water crafts to be outfitted as emergency response equipment. Funding was donated by Laguna Beach residents Steve Chadima and Mark Porterfield; approved 5-0.
Items require separate discussion and citizen input, if desired, before the council makes a determination.
Heritage Committee size, appointments approved, three votes required
Despite a committee recommendation and a public appeal at the hearing from committee member Rick Gold to reduce the committee from nine to seven members, the City Council voted to stick with the larger membership.
Six residents submitted applications for the five open seats.
The council selected Mollie Bing, Bonnie Hano, Debbie Lewis, Linda Morgenlander and Ken Fischbeck.
Fischbeck, a developer, said after the meeting, that he could not recall a single instance where the committee had approved a project that he had submitted for their consideration.
The new members will serve two years through March 31, 2015.
Any action taken must be reported publicly.
•Labor negotiations with Laguna Beach Police Employees, Municipal Employees and Marine Safety and the Orange County Professional Fire Fighters associations and unrepresented management employees.
•Anticipated litigation regarding 741 Summit Drive.
•Real property negotiations regarding 497 Ocean and Driftwood Properties.
Compiled by Barbara Diamond from information provided by the city clerk's office


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Our friends over at Videomaker magazine are generously sharing their expertise and articles here in the Creator's Corner. It's a good thing, too: Videomaker.com teaches every aspect of video production, no matter your skill level. You will find hundreds of articles and videos about audio, video and lighting, tools and techniques, video editing and special effects, how to find financing and distribution, and much more. Their first guest post is all about "tips on time manipulation" -- in other words, techniques on keeping your video moving at a good pace.
The problem with movies, and perhaps, also, the greatest thing about them, is you just can't show everything that happens to your character. It would take too long, and be extremely boring. So how does one go about editing out the unnecessary content? By manipulating time to your liking.
One way to portray a passage of time without taking a lot of time to show it is with the use of cross-dissolves. A commonly used application of this technique is the long walk on a deserted road. This is usually a wide shot of the character, way off in the distance, walking towards the camera. As an editor, you could allow this scene to play in its entirety, with the character taking the 10 minutes to actually walk to the camera. However, since this would be agonizingly boring to watch, it's a perfect time to add some cross dissolves.
Start by establishing the scene and allow the character to walk for about five seconds. Using a cross-dissolve transition, cut to a part of the footage where the character is closer to the camera, maybe half the distance or so. Again, allow the character to walk for about five seconds. Use another cross-dissolve and cut to a point where the character has reached the camera, but continues walking. This will give the viewer the impression that your character just walked the whole stretch of road, without actually having to view the whole journey.
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World Series 2013 Game 1: Red Sox capitalize on reversal, rout Cardinals
BOSTON-Jon Lester pitched 7 2/3 innings of five-hit shutout ball, striking out eight, and the Boston Red Sox's merciless lineup pounced early and often on mistakes by the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday night, rolling to an 8-1 victory. Here's how it happened, as it happened....
The Cardinals have two lefthanded hitters in the lineup against Red Sox southpaw Jon Lester, with leadoff man Matt Carpenter at second base and first baseman Matt Adams batting seventh. Allen Craig returns for his first game since Sept. 4. The All-Star first baseman, sidelined for a month and a half with a foot injury, slots in as the designated hitter and bats cleanup. It's a huge advantage for the Cardinals over the usual National League team that has to find a bench player to be the DH in the American League park, and a testament to what Adams has done to make it an easy call for Mike Matheny.
Carpenter is followed in the lineup by right fielder Carlos Beltran, left fielder Matt Holliday, and then Craig. Catcher Yadier Molina bats fifth, with 2011 World Series MVP David Freese batting sixth and playing third base. Adams, center fielder Shane Robinson, and shortstop Pete Kozma round out the lineup, with ace Adam Wainwright on the mound.
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The MVPs of the Red Sox's previous World Series wins, Manny Ramirez and Mike Lowell, no longer play in Boston, but 2004 ALCS MVP David Ortiz still is here, batting cleanup as the designated hitter. The top of Boston's lineup remains as predictable as ever, with Jacoby Ellsbury in center field, Shane Victorino in right, Dustin Pedroia at second base, Ortiz, and first baseman Mike Napoli. John Farrell stays with Jonny Gomes over Daniel Nava in left field batting sixth, and Xander Bogaerts, the third baseman who proved to be a dynamic force after entering the lineup for Will Middlebrooks in the middle of the ALCS, moves up to the No. 7 spot. Stephen Drew plays shortstop and bats sixth, with David Ross catching.
The first pitch of the World Series is a ball to Carpenter, low, but Lester follows it with a fastball that's called for a strike, and then Carpenter grounds out to shortstop on a smooth backhand play by Drew. Beltran goes down swinging in his first career World Series at-bat, then Holliday gets the first hit of the series on a ground ball up the middle and into center field. Untroubled by the two-out baserunner, Lester gets Craig to pop up to second base.
Wainwright, who last pitched on Oct. 14, walks Ellsbury, which sets up the first act of the drama of Boston base-stealers against Yadier Molina's arm. Ellsbury stays put during Victorino's at-bat, which ends with a line drive straight to Holliday in left field for the first out. A line single to center field by Pedroia moves Ellsbury to second base and gives Ortiz the first RBI opportunity of the game.
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Ortiz hits a grounder to Carpenter that should be an inning-ending double play, but Kozma closes his glove too soon and the ball glances off. Inexplicably, second base umpire Dana DeMuth rules that Kozma caught the ball, and Pedroia is out, which draws Farrell out of the dugout to argue. The umpires confer, and correctly reverse DeMuth's call, loading the bases with one out. Matheny gets his opportunity to argue, but it's a lost cause, as his only possible case is that the initial ruling should stand because it was the initial ruling. It was obviously wrong, though, and Matheny's pleas fall on deaf ears.
Napoli makes the Cardinals pay for their sloppiness with a double to left-center field, and the Red Sox take a very quick 3-0 lead. Napoli only gets two RBI on the play because Robinson is charged with an error for mishandling the ball and letting Ortiz come all the way around from first. That's just bookkeeping-the point remains that if Kozma catches the ball and throws to first to double up Ortiz, the inning is over. Wainwright gets Gomes to ground out to first base and strikes out Bogaerts, but he's given up three runs and thrown 31 pitches in one inning. Saying that it's a suboptimal start for St. Louis is an understatement.
The Cardinals' response is muted in the top of the second. Molina and Freese both strike out looking, and Adams grounds out to second base. It's just that simple for Lester, who needs ony 10 pitches after a 12-pitch opening frame. Meanwhile, Robinson's error is rescinded, restoring Napoli's third RBI.
Wainwright gets Drew to pop up on the infield, but the pitcher either loses the ball in the lights or hears Molina call him off, because it drops at his feet for one of the softest singles in baseball history. Ross follows with a looping line drive just over Carpenter's outstretched glove, and Boston has another scoring opportunity. Ellsbury provides a momentary reprieve with a flyout to left field, and then Victorino hits a grounder that results in a harsh error on Kozma-the ball goes off the shortstop's glove, but with his momentum carrying him into left field, it's doubtful that he would have had a play on anyone. At any rate, the bases are loaded again.
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Pedroia hits a ground ball that skips past Freese and into left field for an RBI single, bringing home Drew and keeping the bases loaded with the score now 4-0. Ortiz hits a nearly identical ball to the one that went for the tying grand slam in Game 2 of the ALCS, but this time, instead of going over Torii Hunter's glove, there's a little bit more loft and it goes into Beltran's. It's a robbery of a home run, and Beltran hangs on as he runs into the wall and his arm-with the ball in his glove-drapes over the right field fence. Ross comes home on the sacrifice fly to make it a 5-0 game. Napoli hits a grounder to the mound, and Wainwright makes extra sure to deliver a clean throw to first to end the inning, using an exaggerated and deliberate motion on his toss to Adams.
Because Beltran made the catch in right field, rather than dropping the ball for a grand slam, it is possible to imagine a worse start for the Cardinals, but barely. Also, they have a hit, so there's that, too. A quick check of fangraphs.com shows that Boston's win expectancy at the moment is 90.6 percent.
Robinson grounds out to shortstop, which brings Kozma to the plate for his first at-bat after making two errors. He pops up, and Napoli takes a winding and stumbling path to the ball, but the baseball gods are not on Kozma's side as Boston's first baseman makes the catch in fair territory. Carpenter strikes out.
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The question of how things could be worse for the Cardinals is answered during Carpenter's at-bat, as Jon Jay steps into the on-deck circle in Beltran's place. In the bottom of the inning, Jay goes to center field, and Robinson moves to right. Beltran's night is over, certainly as a result of his collision with the wall while robbing Ortiz's bid for the grand slam.
Gomes pops up to Adams in foul territory, Bogaerts hits a fading line drive that Kozma makes a nice play to grab before it hits the ground, and Drew strikes out. It's the first easy inning of the game for Wainwright, and at the end of it, the announcement is made that Beltran has a right rib contusion. Beltran later heads to a Boston hospital for further examination.
Jay makes a positive contribution in his first opportunity, drawing a leadoff walk in the fourth inning that snaps Lester's string of seven consecutive batters retired. After Holliday becomes Lester's fifth strikeout victim, Craig hits a grounder up the middle and past the diving Drew to give the Cardinals a runner in scoring position for the first time. Molina follows with another well-placed grounder for a single to left field, and the bases are loaded. Freese bounces back to the mound, Lester throws home, Ross throws to first, and just like that, the threat is quashed on a 1-2-3 double play. According to Baseball Reference, it's the first 1-2-3 double play in the World Series since the Oakland A's turned one in 1973 against the New York Mets.
Wainwright strikes out Ross and Ellsbury in the bottom half, and appears to have settled into something of a groove. Victorino flies out to center field, and the last eight Red Sox have been retired.
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After Adams lines out to left field leading off, Robinson singles to left, giving Kozma a chance to find a measure of redemption by getting a rally going. The struggling shortstop flies out to right field. Carpenter slices a flare into left field that dunks in front of Gomes, who bobbles the ball to allow Robinson to advance to third base on a close play and Carpenter to advance to second behind the throw. It's ruled an error on Gomes for allowing the runners to advance, and now Jay is up again in Beltran's spot. Jay hits a little chopper over the mound, and Drew alertly charges in to make sure he can get the out, as Jay has decent speed getting up the first base line. The result is another missed opportunity for St. Louis to chip into Boston's 5-0 lead. The Red Sox's win expectancy is now up to 96 percent.
Pedroia hits a fly ball down the right-field line that tails away from Robinson as he runs toward the wall, but Robinson is able to make the catch on the warning track. A couple of inches over, and Pedroia has a leadoff triple, maybe more, but instead it's the ninth straight out recorded by Wainwright. Ortiz ends that little run with a line-drive single to center field. Napoli hits a ball back to Wainwright, and the pitcher, knowing that it's Ortiz running, throws to Kozma to get the lead runner. The return throw is just a step late to get the double play, but Gomes bounces into a 6-4 force to end the frame.
Having struggled to get through the previous couple of innings, the Cardinals' 3-4-5 hitters coming up looks like a challenge for Lester. Of course, Lester beat cancer, so he's not going to be daunted by Holliday, Craig, and Molina. Flyout to right, strikeout, popup to first base, back to the dugout.
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Wainwright's night is over after five innings, and John Axford comes in from the St. Louis bullpen. Only three of the five runs against Wainwright are earned, and having thrown 95 pitches, he looks like a good bet to return on three days' rest in Game 4, which in turn would line him up for a Game 7 start, also on three days' rest. Axford strikes out Bogaerts, Drew and Ross in a breeze of an inning.
The Red Sox need nine outs to lock down the victory, and have Lester cruising with their full bullpen ready to go at a moment's notice should anything go awry. It's 10:30 p.m., so the television ratings for Game 1 are about to take a tumble as people either flip away or simply start going to bed on the East Coast. Anyone turning off the game misses Lester's seventh strikeout of the night as Freese goes down swinging. The former World Series MVP is not having a nice return to the Fall Classic.
Adams grounds out to Bogaerts, who is all alone on the left side of the infield as the Red Sox play the shift. The smooth backhand shows why shortstop is Bogaerts' natural position. Lester gets Robinson swinging for strikeout No. 8, and he's got a five-hit shutout through seven innings.
Randy Choate enters the game for the Cardinals, gets Ellsbury to ground out to second base, and promptly leaves, replaced by Seth Maness. Victorino lines out to first base, then Pedroia reaches on St. Louis' third error of the night, a throwing miscue by Freese, whose nightmare evening continues.
Kevin Siegrist comes in to face Ortiz, a move by Matheny that makes little sense because it is giving Big Papi a look at the Cardinals' top lefthanded reliever in an extremely low-leverage situation. Ortiz lowers the leverage of the situation going forward by hitting the first pitch over the right-field wall to make it 7-0. The Red Sox have thoroughly and mercilessly punished every mistake the Cardinals have made. As it happens, 7-0 is also the score of the last World Series opener to end in a shutout-the Reds over the A's in 1990, the start of a sweep. Napoli flies out to end the inning.
Lester remains in, and Kozma, who said on Tuesday when asked for his favorite World Series memory, "Probably tomorrow," grounds out to shortstop. Kozma may have other memories in the future that he will enjoy more than this game. Lester gets Carpenter to fly to center field, and after 112 pitches and 7 2/3 mostly brilliant innings, his night is over, with nine straight outs to wrap it up. Junichi Tazawa takes over to face the lefthanded-hitting Jay and gets a strikeout looking.
Carlos Martinez heads to the mound for the Cardinals, and Daniel Nava pinch-hits for Gomes. Nava does the best that he can to convince Farrell that he deserves to return to the starting lineup, sending a ball to the Green Monster on one hop for a double. Nava goes to second base on a wild pitch and comes in to score Boston's eighth run on a sacrifice fly by Bogaerts.
The game is now on its way to being the most lopsided World Series opener since 2007, when the Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies, 13-1, to start a sweep. The most recent shutout by eight or more runs? That would be 1982, when the Cardinals lost, 10-0, to the Milwaukee Brewers. St. Louis wound up winning that series in seven games.
After Drew grounds out to first and Ross flies to right, Ryan Dempster comes in to try to finish up the shutout. He fails at that task, giving up a home run to Holliday over the deepest part of the Green Monster. Craig pops up to right field, Molina pops up to second base, and Freese just beats out a single to right field with a feet-first slide into first base to beat a throw from Victorino. Adams strikes out to end the game, and the Red Sox have their ninth straight World Series victory since falling in Game 7 in 1986.


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When Dolphins center Mike Pouncey went to Massachusetts on Sunday, he left with a loss. And with an invitation to return.
According to Pete Thamel and Greg Bedard of SI.com, Mike Pouncey was served with a grand jury subpoena after Sunday's game. Per the report, police are focusing on Hernandez's "potential involvement in interstate gun trafficking, which is being investigated by several agencies in multiple states — at least Massachusetts, New York and Florida."
It's unclear whether the subpoena comes from an existing Massachusetts grand jury, or a federal grand jury. The reference to interstate gun trafficking suggests that it's possibly a federal grand jury.
That said, the subpoena was served by the Massachusetts State Police, which would suggest that it comes from one of the existing state-level grand juries.
It's unknown whether Pouncey is simply a witness or also a target.
"Organizationally, we do not have a comment," Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene told SI.com. "And Mike Pouncey does not have a comment."
Per the report, "signs that Hernandez was involved with a large-scale, multi-state gun running operation began to emerge" shortly after the investigation began regarding the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.
The possibility of additional weapons charges (Hernandez already has been indicted on several weapons-related offenses) provides a potentially valuable fallback for prosecutors who may have a hard time proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Hernandez killed Lloyd — or that he killed Safiro Furtado and Daniel Abreu in July 2012.
As to the July 2012 murders, Hernandez is believed to be the target of a grand jury investigation. While he has been indicted for the murder of Lloyd, he has not been indicted for the murders of Furtado and Abreu.
Mike Pouncey and his twin brother, Maurkice, made waves in July when they wore "Free Hernandez" hats at their birthday party. Maurkice Pouncey later apologized; Mike didn't.
It's unknown whether Maurkice Pouncey, who plays for the Steelers, is also a potential witness in any of the potential cases against Hernandez.


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While it did finish in first place, New Year's Eve dropped the ball this weekend with a disappointing $13.02 million opening. Things were comparatively better for The Sitter, though Jonah Hill didn't impress in his solo debut. Adding these two movies to an already weak field turned out to be box office poison—overall grosses were at around $75 million, which is the worst weekend tally since Bangkok Dangerous opened on top of the chart with $7.8 million on the first weekend of September 2008. New Year's Eve's $13.02 million was off 77 percent from Valentine's Day's $56.3 million debut last February. A drop was to be expected, given the different time of year and the distance from the titular holiday, though the opening is still far lower than even the most modest expectations. It's tough to account for this middling debut, considering the movie is the first romantic comedy in months and has an abundance of familiar faces, though it may simply be that audiences don't look back fondly on Valentine's Day and its ensemble, patchwork structure. With three weeks to go until New Year's Eve the movie will certainly hold up better than Valentine's Day, but this still isn't a very good starting point. The Sitter debuted in second place with $9.85 million. That's lower than any other movie with Jonah Hill in a major leading role, though this is really the first time he's tried to open a movie alone (he co-starred with Michael Cera in Superbad and Russell Brand in Get Him to the Greek). The movie is the latest R-rated comedy to fail to hit the mid-teen-millions range, with this slump dating back all the way to The Change-Up at the beginning of August.After leading for three-straight weeks, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 dipped 53 percent to $7.8 million and took third place for the weekend. On Saturday, it passed The Hangover Part II to become the third-highest grossing movie of the year behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and it has so far made $259.4 million. The Muppets eased 37 percent to just under $7 million. That's a slightly steeper decline than Tangled or Enchanted at the same point, but it does appear that The Muppets is at least leveling off a bit. The movie has now earned $65.7 million.With the Christmas season in full swing now, Arthur Christmas held on extremely well at the box office. The holiday animated movie dipped a light 12 percent to $6.5 million, and has a total of $33.4 million so far.Hugo expanded in to 2,608 theaters and fell 20 percent to $6.05 million. Given its expanding pattern, this marked the first weekend that distributor Paramount Pictures tracked exit polling. The audience was 52 percent male and 31 percent under the age of 25, and they awarded the movie a "B+" CinemaScore. After nearly three weeks in theaters, the Martin Scorsese children's book adaptation has grossed $33.4 million. The Descendants made its nationwide expansion this weekend and was down 9 percent to $4.4 million. The movie is pacing way ahead of past Alexander Payne movies About Schmidt and Sideways and has already earned $23.6 million through its fourth weekend. Two significant limited openings also took place this weekend, with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy winding up ahead of Young Adult by just $299. The espionage thriller was a big hit with $310,562 from just four theaters. Its per-theater average of $77,641 is the third-best of the year behind Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life, and also the third-highest ever for a movie opening in four theaters behind The Tree of Life and The King's Speech. The Cold War espionage thriller will be expanding in to Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. this weekend, though there's no set nationwide release date yet. Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody's Young Adult debuted to an okay $310,263 at eight locations (twice as many as Tinker, Tailor). That's not great business for a high-profile release like this, though its real test comes next weekend when it expands in to around 1,000 locations.Last Weekend• 'Twilight' Leads, 'Muppets' Succeeds Over Thanksgiving WeekendThis Timeframe in Past Years:• 2010 - 'Narnia' Fails to Tread Water, 'Tourist' Trips• 2009 - 'Princess and the Frog' Leaps to the Top• 2008 - 'The Day the Earth' Stalls• 2007 - 'Golden Compass' Doesn't Get the Lead Out• 2006 - 'Apocalypto' Impales Top Spot• 2005 - 'Narnian' Delight: Passion of the 'Lion' Pays OffRelated Charts• Weekend Box Office Results• All-Time Domestic
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After years of wondering how Southington could manage the difficult and expensive task of managing phosphorous in the town's wastewater, officials say 2013 could begin with some more progress on this issue.
The town has been nervous about the phosphorous question since 2009, when officials learned of the mandate, conceived by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) but administered in Connecticut by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). In response to a previous mandate involving nitrogen, the town spent over $14 million construction a denitrification plant. Depending on the standards enforced by the EPA, the phosphorous treatment had the potential to be even more expensive.
The financial impact of the mandate on the town depended on how extensively the EPA would require towns to remove the phosphorous from the water. In the initial discussions, it was speculated that for about $50,000, the denitrification plant could be modified to treat phosphorous in addition to nitrogen. This would bring the phosphorous levels down to .7 milligrams per liter. However, the EPA had a tougher standard in mind – .2 milligrams per liter.
The numerical difference was only five tenths of a percent, but the fiscal difference was massive. Town Manager Garry Brumback said this outcome would cost the town $20-30 million in capital costs and about $500,000 each year afterward to maintain it. Faced with a potential cost burden that looked disastrous, the council voted last year to allow Southington to enter into a coalition with other area towns and hire the services of a lobbyist to help with the ongoing efforts to reduce the impact of an environmental mandate concerning phosphorous in the Quinnipiac River.
The effort appears to have made some strides in the town's favor since the potential deal on the table would allow the town to go forward with the cheaper .7 standard. The DEEP would issue Southington a permit that would be in effect for five years, and during this time the environmental agencies will research the phosphorous issue further to come to a conclusion on the final standard.
Town Council Chairman John Dobbins said those interim permits could be coming soon.
"We're expecting interim permits for the phosphorous sometime during the first quarter," he said.
This relief from the tougher standard may only be temporary. If the EPA's additional research brings the agency to the conclusion that .2 is the proper standard, Southington will have to face this issue again.
It is also possible that the EPA could decide on another standard between those two numbers, which would be more expensive for Southington but not to the same degree.
However, since the possibility of a deal was made public in October, officials have expressed relief and some surprise that the conversation with the EPA had made a positive difference.
"It's not totally final yet," Brumback said. "We've worked out a lot of the language and we will hopefully get that draft permit in the next 30 to 60 days. I'm grateful for that."


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- Bloom Where You Are Planted and Where You Are Transplanted
- The Change Game
- Ten Tender Weeks: The Countdown
- The Chap Who Lives in a Flat
- Conspiracy Theory
- The Closers
- He Knows
- Surprising Steps with a Friendly Wind
- If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!
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(John 4:13-14 NIV)
Steve and I chose to stay at a hotel off The Strip, which worked perfectly for our more conservative personalities. From our balcony, though, we were able to see the lights of The Strip blaze brilliantly into life as the sun set each day. From our vantage point, I was struck by the contrast between the over the top, man-made attractions of the city and the rugged, natural beauty of its surroundings. From that angle, away from the bustle and brightness, visitors are able to see the reality of Las Vegas.
Quite frankly, it is a desert.
The wonder is that this city has managed to survive and grow for as long as it has, thanks to underground springs and a large man-made lake. However, time is running out . . . and so is the water. According to one countdown, Las Vegas has less than 2700 days of water remaining based on current usage and supply.
I have to admit, I found Las Vegas fascinating, but not for the usual reasons. In it, I saw a spiritual parallel with the world that both disturbed and challenged me.
Now, I know some of you are saying, "Deb, you were in Las Vegas, baby. You didn't have to look too hard to see spiritual parallels with the world." And you would be right. However, it wasn't the obvious things — the excess and extravagance, for example — that struck me. It was the dry, desert place that this city exists in.
Obviously, in a physical sense, without water there can be no life, and Las Vegas is currently working toward solutions to ensure the city can be sustained once that countdown comes to an end.
However, the same is very true in a spiritual sense. Without living water that comes from Jesus Christ alone, there can be no spiritual life. The appearance of life may be there, and at times may even seem very beautiful and abundant, but scratch beneath the surface and that life exists in a dry and barren land.
If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you are a spring of His living water, the Holy Spirit, and called to bring His life into desert places.
At times the desert may feel as though it is encroaching on us, but as Jesus said, "whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst." We have a well that will never run dry. Our responsibility is to share it with a dry and dusty world that is thirsty for real life.
And that is exactly what the inspiring Suzanne R. calls us to do in her article Bloom Where You Are Planted and Where You Are Transplanted. Suzanne, an Australian working in Asia, has been living the truth of this for many years, and her message is a call to others to respond and become transplants for the Lord.
Keeping things Down Under a little longer, Noel Mitaxa shares encouragement about being led by the Spirit in his article Surprising Steps with a Friendly Wind. Our little acts of service and ministry may often seem fairly inconsequential in the big scheme of things, but when God is directing our steps those little things have the power to change lives.
Normally, Noel is the one to make us chuckle (or groan) with his penchant for puns, but it's Danielle King who made me laugh in this issue with her story If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!. Fun story with a very good message at the end. Enjoy (I know I did)!
Still in a lighthearted vein, I'm sure most parents will remember the days of squirming babies and diaper changes. I well remember needing lightning reflexes to grab hold of my daughter's leg before she scampered off mid-change — and that was 28 years ago. That's why The Change Game by Christina Banks is such a pleasure to read.
Allison Egley adds to the humor in this issue when she revisits the old fable of the hare and the tortoise in her story Conspiracy Theory, and Verna Cole Mitchell wraps up the fun with her poem about The Chap Who Lives in a Flat.
Verna's poems are always a delight, as are the poems of Sally Hanan and Margaret Kearley. Sally's poem, He Knows, is straight from the heart, and Margaret's poem Message in a Bottle will touch your heart, particularly when you realize this was inspired by a true story.
Most moving article of all was Carolyn Ancell's Ten Tender Weeks: The Countdown, written about her mother's final weeks and the blessing that time was to Carolyn and her brother.
Virgil Youngblood is also sharing a snippet from his life in his excellent article, Walking the Talk, and Vince Martella provides the perfect ending with his great story, The Closers.
Until next issue, happy reading with FaithWriters Magazine.
Deb Porter
Editor, FaithWriters Magazine


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