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"Transformers" powers its way to top at the box office
Published 10:27 am, Wednesday, July 2, 2014
The "Transformers" film franchise is far from extinct.
"Transformers: Age of Extinction," the fourth installment in Paramount's morphing-robots series, earned $100 million in North America during its opening weekend, making it the biggest debut for a movie this year.
The visual-effects-heavy blockbuster, which cost an Optimus Prime-size $210 million to make, outperformed "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and its $95 million debut in April.
"Age of Extinction" also earned $201.3 million from 37 international territories, including $90 million in China, where it was partially filmed and co-produced by partners including the state-owned China Film Group and the China Movie Channel.
"With almost half of the international total coming from China, it shows how important that marketplace is to the worldwide box office," said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Rentrak. "This film has really capitalized on all fronts."
"Age of Extinction" will get a post-World Cup roll-out in Latin America and elsewhere in Europe.
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1. TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, x½
At this point, four movies into the series, making a new Transformers film is like an arms race taking place in an 11-year-old's imagination. Meanwhile, the prospect of story coherence and pacing are already long gone, swallowed up by the skyscraper-eating metal vacuum cleaner that seems to threaten the good guys in every one of director Michael Bay's films. Mark Wahlberg is an upgrade over Shia LaBouef, especially in the early scenes. (PG-13) 165 minutes - Peter Hartlaub
$100.04 million; one week
2. 22 JUMP STREET, xxxx
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are back as undercover cops in this consistently inventive, laugh-out-loud funny sequel to "21 Jump Street." There's just a bit of an energy dip about 20 minutes before the end; otherwise, this is a terrific comedy. (R) 112 minutes - Mick LaSalle
$15.8 million; $140.3 million; three weeks
3 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2, xxxx
Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless, explore new lands and do battle with a bloodthirsty, dragon-trapping tyrant. This sequel is darker in tone and more layered than its popular predecessor, but that's definitely a good thing. Like the original "Star Wars" trilogy and "Toy Story" series, the makers of this franchise are allowing the films to grow up alongside loyal young viewers. (PG) 102 minutes - P.H. $13.2 million; $121.9 million; three weeks
4. THINK LIKE A MAN TOO, xxx
This sequel to the 2012 hit is a disappointment, in that it takes its focus off the four women (Meagan Good, Taraji P. Henson, Gabrielle Union and Regina Hall) and places it on Hart, who was a (very funny) minor character last time. Unfortunately, most of the comedy doesn't land, although the characters are appealing as ever. (PG-13) 105 minutes - M.L.
$10.3 million; $48.1 million; two weeks
5 MALEFICENT, xxxx
This is a reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty story, as presented from the standpoint of the wicked fairy who casts the sleeping spell. In this telling, though, the fairy isn't exactly wicked; she's just Angelina Jolie, which means she's stern, but she has her reasons. Jolie never leaves us with a second's mystery as to her thoughts and motives, and her behavior is invariably tied to something deep. (PG-13) 97 minutes - M.L.
$8.4 million; $202 million; five weeks
6. JERSEY BOYS, xxxx
It's a dark road to success for this New Jersey quartet in Eastwood's screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical. Even if you never liked the Four Seasons' music, you will like it here - and their story is interesting, too. In fact, it's half of a great movie - the second half hits structural problems and never completely recovers, though it remains entertaining throughout. (R) 132 minutes -M.L.
$7.7 million; $27.4 million; two weeks
7. EDGE OF TOMORROW, xxxx
Tom Cruise stars in this imaginative, propulsive and often funny science-fiction film, in which a soldier, killed in battle in his first day of combat (against invading space aliens, of course) falls into some time loop in which he gets to relive the same day - and improve his combat performance. Co-starring Emily Blunt, the film is directed with wit by Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity"), who rightly depends on Cruise to bring home the comedy. (PG-13) 113 minutes - M.L.
$5.4 million; $84.3 million; three weeks
8. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, xxx1/2
It's hard to be definitive about this film, which is exploitative in the most obvious ways yet sincere; a project of market calculation, yet well-acted; well-made, yet nothing you'd ever want to put yourself through again. In short, it is cynically prefabricated, yet lovingly, achingly assembled. Manipulative in the worst way, it's also manipulative in the best way, in that it takes a willful act of disengagement not to be moved by it. It's a teen romance about kids with cancer, and it's acted beautifully by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. You already know if you want to see it. I wouldn't talk you out of it - or into it. (PG-13) 125 minutes - M.L.
$5.1 million; $109.9 million; four weeks
9. X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, xxx1/2
The best of the X-Men series so far tells a time-travel story in which Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) goes back to 1973 to alter history, with the help of the young Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Charles Xavier (James McAvoy). McAvoy is the moral center of the movie and gives the pivotal performance, though Jennifer Lawrence is eye-catching as Raven, in form-fitting blue skin. (PG-13) 131 minutes. - M.L.
$3.3 million; $223.4 million; six weeks
10. CHEF, xxxx1/2
One of the best movies so far this year, with writer-director Jon Favreau as a chef going through a crisis. It's really the portrait of an artist, told in a free-flowing style, full of warm moments, good comedy and effectively written scenes. (R) 115 minutes - M.L.
$1.6 million; $19.4 million; eight weeks
11. GODZILLA, xx1/2
The first 45 minutes, with Bryan Cranston as a scientist in Japan who figures out that something is going very wrong underneath the ground, is gripping and full of human touches. Most of the rest is monster battles designed on a computer and blown up to the size of a movie screen. It's OK, if you love that sort of thing. (PG-13) 123 minutes - M.L.
$935,038; $197 million; seven weeks
12. NEIGHBORS, xxxx
The fourth winner in a row from director Nicholas Stoller ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Get Him to the Greek," "The Five-Year Engagement"). This one wasn't written by Stoller but has what is now his familiar combination of surface hilarity with a serious undercurrent. In this case, a loving couple (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne) have to contend with noise and nonstop parties when a fraternity moves in next door. It's an escalating battle with lots at stake. (R) 97 minutes - M.L.
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(Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher)(1926-2012), Second wife of Thomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot
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Valerie Eliot is the widow and second wife of the Nobel prize-winning poet Thomas Eliot. She married Eliot, thirty-seven years her senior, in 1957. She is his most important editor and literary executor, having published The Waste Land: Facsimile and Manuscripts of the Original Drafts (1971) and The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 1, 1898-1922 (1989). She also assisted Christopher Ricks with his edition of The Inventions of the March Hare (1996), a volume of Eliot's unpublished verse. She donates the £15,000 annual prize money for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
T.S. Eliot; (Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher)
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(Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher); Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd Webber
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EIC73-Inspired by hats and pixies!
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- Kerry said...
Oh I just love how you colored her! The softness of the pencils paired with the kraft is perfect! I'm going to have to try this bag too...thanks for the inspiration! :)
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Now this is one adorable little gift. I just love this image with all the hearts and your coloring is awesome.
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This is sooo cute. I just have to try one of these. I love the awesome little bag. It is perfect for a little treat.. Great job.
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Too cute Emily!!
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Emily, This is so cute. I love the little bag. Great project. Thanks for playing with the Pixies!!
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Oh my gosh Em! How cute is this?!? I am loving your little bag! Too too cute!
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Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan, Sonam Kapoor, Lara Dutta and Kalki Koechlin shared photos celebrating the festival of colours with family friends and fans! Celebs are revelling in the festivities but they did not forget to share their best Holi moments with their fans. Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik Roshan did not let a bad year overpower his Holi fun. The 'Krrish' actor was spotted enjoying Holi with his sons Hrehaan and Hridhaan sans estranged wife Sussanne. But joining the boys was Sussanne's sister and designer Farah Khan Ali along with his brother-in-law Zayed Khan in Mumbai. Hrithik, Zayed and Farah enjoying the festivities.
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it means that u are mixed with more then one race..
That you have many nationalities in your heritage. Trust me, that is good thing because you are much more unlikely to get illnesses, like my disorder which is not something you'd want.
I've only heard people refer to themselves that way, not to others. It just means you are from many nationalities, which genetically is far better than coming from one tiny inter-marrying gene pool.
i agree with whomever said it means the person saying it has no manners. people are NOT their upbringing/lineage/$ inheritance or not....they are INDIVIDUALS, every one.
my ugly and cruel sister.
Mutt, no matter who says it or what group they identify with, it all boils down to one logical understanding:

It would mean; A person of Poor Breading or One who does not have a heritage of class, or up bringing.

The British have their "Blue Bloods" and their pets are Pure Breads. Anything below that class, is a Mutt, human or animal. This is what a "Blue Blood" explains to me.
That they have very bad manners
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It means that people can't tell what race you are. People usually end up staring for a very long time. That happens to me every where I go.
A gowd darn dirty cross breed?

Hey maybe durbanpoison explains it more acurately?
They think of you like they must think of Obama and Tiger and Jeter and Mariah and Alicia Keyes and Selma Hayek and Halle and the late great Bob Marley, peace be upon him.
Durban is a bit long winded today. Hehehehe.
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Everything is possible in Russia..
This has been discussed in a different thread.
As much effort as has clearly been put in to the achievements, without hacking it would not have been possible to do 9 max level characters in the first day, with all the proffesions with just one player.
If it wasn't hacks, there must have been about 10+ different players, all with different accounts but using the same Battle.net ID. Even using Multiboxing, the XP lost on quests etc would be enough to really limit getting all 9 to 90 in a day. Sharing Battle.net is strongly against TOC and if Blizzard finds could just ban all the accounts.
he had a ton of people playing different accounts in his name, then merged them afterwards.
"Such insolence... such arrogance... must be PUNISHED!"
but how can he have earned all the realm first proff at 24-09-2012 when MoP is released at 25-09-2012
This is why i hate russians
Please do not post useless spam like this.
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If it's from a Russian server then its most likely hacked stats.
I wonder who here remembers the great battleground crashes of the BC to wotlk patch where Russian bg's could enter the EU servers and then they was hacking, flying players under the ground, ret paladins spamming hammer of wrath at any health etc. xD
You may remember me from such threads as!
My guess is multiboxed and merged. For alot of other feats, my guess is he bought accounts with alot of feats and merged. Or he got them all by himself.. but if he did, that's some dedication
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
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There has been alot of bashing and meaningless oneliners in this thread now. Please stop that or I will be forced to lock this thread.
If your look at his http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ement#92:a7384
He got ach reach mx lvl with 5 diff classes 06/11/2012 dunno how if he got all realm first 25.9


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A recent ABC television program on stargazing prompted a rush of photographers to set their cameras to the night sky in order to catch the best shots.
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Interested West Coast photographers have been busy getting their snaps of the region's picturesque landscapes and adding the stunning mix of light and colour from the night sky.
Local photographer Andrew Brooks said this was the best time to capture a stunning shot, just as he had, leaving the camera running for 30 minutes of exposure.
"This is the best time of year, when you can get a crystal clear winter's night," he said.
"The best thing to do is to get away from artificial light, so get away from towns.
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BOSTON (CAP) - Throughout the election campaign, Mitt Romney's five sons, Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben, and Craig, played an essential role in helping their father get the word out. But a dark rumor being leaked today suggests that Romney is a little disappointed with one of them.
"He's pissed," said Brian Jones, a campaign strategist. "He's never asked much from those boys and has always been a good father. This was their time to give back. One of them didn't."
Each son brought their own touch to the campaign trail. Craig is fluent in Spanish and appealed to the Hispanic community, Josh gave speeches, Matt kept things light on the trail, Tagg worked social media, and Ben, the only one not to go into business (a radiology student), occasionally helped out, though he mostly shied away from the spotlight. Sources suspect it's Ben.
"I don't think anyone should be playing the blame game," said Heather Martin, a campaign fundraiser. "Those boys did what they could. Besides, I didn't see Obama's daughters doing a single thing. So what if they're young?"
Unlike Meghan McCain, election results indicate that Romney's sons actually pulled in voters, but needed a bigger push.
"When you look at the numbers," said Bryce Morgan, a statistician, "it shows that Romney would have defeated Obama - if one of the brothers did just a little more work."
Morgan said he wasn't quite sure who Romney is mad at. "It's gotta be Ben, though. He's the only one with blond hair. That creates a distance."
Romney has refused to comment on the matter and finds the speculation ridiculous. His entire family joined him for a recent press conference.
"I'm not going to say which one let me down," said Romney, glaring at Ben. "Not going to say which one."
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Is there something wrong with me?
I noticed something the other day. I don't know what to make of it. I found that when I am out enjoying my hobby, doing my art, expressing my inner innards, swimming in geek….. I share a hobby with a bunch of old ladies. Engrossed in some technical puzzle deep in the bowels of my camera's menu system or staring for an eternity at some fuzzy bug on a flower, I look up, and sure enough, there are two old ladies cackling away just a few feet away from me. Shoo! Go away! Sheesh! How did this happen? It always happens. How did I end up here, older, wiser, and always standing next to some old lady with more flowers on her dress than the entire Philadelphia park system?
Hmm… I need to rethink things. Is this where I wanted to be? Did I want to grow up and spend my time hanging out with craggy wrinkles, stinky perfume, and endless boring stories that go nowhere? Nope, not me.
I got it!!! Let's get rid of all the old ladies! Yep! Pass a law. Keep them out of the places we sophisticated photographers and artists need to be. We are too smart and too important to be hampered by well…. whatever it is that hampers us. Maybe just a "protection zone" is needed around us. My friends already respect my zone and don't get near me anymore. I respect them and they respect me. They know to leave me alone and not bother me with silly talk like "How are you?". They are good friends. Now we need a law to keep the other nuisances away.
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Cape May in the fall, particularly in September, is just outstanding for viewing bird and butterflies. This is peak migration time, and Cape May is ground zero. Being on the lower tip of New Jersey and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay, southbound birds concentrate there where they stop and fuel up for a long run across an expanse of water. This is world-class birding.
I always meet folks from all over the USA as well as Sweden, Norway, Germany, and the UK and am shocked at how well Europeans can identify these American birds. Really, if you live within a day's drive of Cape May, you really owe it to yourself to go and check this place out. Don't expect discounts on hotels…. this may be off-season for sunbathers but still prime time as hotels are booked solid with bird nerds.
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Check out my other blog piece on how to shoot butterflies by clicking here. There I go into a bit of technical detail.
Cape May is the place to go, but where once you get there? I will save my opinions on where to shoot birds in another blog post, but for butterflies…. try anywhere! I took all of the pics above in a place called Triangle Park on the corner of Lighthouse and Coral Avenues near the lighthouse. If you drive around the neighborhood near there, you will find a few homes loaded with butterfly-attracting plants and flowers. Drive by and just ask a homeowner sitting on a porch if you can snap a few. I was never turned down and the folks are more than happy to share their environments with you. Another place to stop is the office building at the light house where they have a nice garden that is always loaded with butterflies.
Beware your background. This is a "foundational" aspect to taking good photographs. For butterflies, I like to try and get a smooth, homogeneous, creamy backgrounds. You can get this nice background by doing a few things:
- Shoot against the sky. I like this… nice blue… but your butterfly may be a bit dark against the light sky. Try bumping your exposure compensation +2/3 to lighten the butterfly. If you bump up exposure compensation, the blue sky will become whiter. This is OK because you can darken blues in software later to return the sky to its original color. If not the sky, find something far away but still a single, smooth color.
- Open your aperture all the way. This always works for blurring backgrounds but depth of field is so shallow that parts of the butterfly may be out of focus. This only works if you shoot the butterfly with its wings perfectly perpendicular to your camera.
- Make sure the background is far away. This will allow you to close down your aperture to say f/8.0 thus getting more of the bug in focus, but the background will still be blurred being farther away.
- Don't use a wide angle lens. If you use a focal length of say less than 50mm or so, you run a chance that the butterfly will be bulged and distorted.
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We are all affected by sights, sounds, and smells.
That is why aromatherapy is effective for so many different things that we may experience in our lives. It includes physical illnesses as well as mental setbacks, such as depression. In fact, aromatherapy is highly effective in easing the symptoms of depression.
Lavender is one of the most effective scents for the treatment of depression. This scent increases the instance of waves in the back of the head, which promotes relaxation. Jasmine is also another well-known scent, as it increases the example of waves in the front of the head.
However, the waves increased in the back of the head with lavender are alpha waves — for relaxation — while the waves increased in the front of the head are beta waves — for alertness.
Aside from lavender and jasmine, other scents are also useful for various aspects of depression symptoms. These include clary sage (insomnia), basil (fatigue), rose (nervous system), and sandalwood (tension). Other prominent scents that may ease symptoms of depression include chamomile, patchouli, bergamot, rosemary, and geranium.
While you can use candles for aromatherapy, the ideal method is to use essential oils of the herb scent that you require. Essential oils can be used as diffusers, in baths, massages, or even as perfume or body splashes.
Again, when using scents for aromatherapy, the oils are more effective than candles. These oils can be purchased from health food stores and online sources. In many cases, you will receive a small break on the cost when ordering larger quantities.
While aromatherapy will ease symptoms of depression, it should not replace therapy that is needed to treat depression, and it may not even replace medications used for treatment of depression.
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At the end of The Family Who Vanished (Channel 4), I was so totally gobsmacked by what I'd seen that I had to watch it straight through again, mainly to make sure I hadn't imagined it. It was about the terrible murder of Anil Chohan and his entire family by Ken Regan. Regan had targeted Chohan's freight business as a way of getting back into drug-smuggling after a spell inside. He started off by getting a job at the company, as a driver, and ended up killing not just the boss, but the boss's wife, his mother-in-law and his two little children. Having stolen the dead man's company, he then had the cheek to give the job of managing director to his fancy lady, Belinda Brewin, socialite and one-time best mate of Paula Yates.
It wasn't so much the case itself that left me so astonished; though truly horrendous, it was high-profile and I was reasonably familiar with it already. And it wasn't an especially brilliant film - frankly, I think it could have gone in harder, questioning the mistakes in the investigation. But it did talk to all the right people, and it's the behaviour of some of them that I found so bizarre.
First of all, the people who worked at this company. OK, so Chohan had said he was interested in selling the company, and went to meet some potential investors (at Stonehenge - maybe there was a clue that this wasn't a conventional takeover). But then, the following Monday, when there was no sign of Chohan, Regan said Chohan had sold up and gone back to India, just like that, and by the way this was Belinda, the new MD.
Did no one think this strange? "Because of it being a busy company, you couldn't just sit down and start whingeing," says one employee. "You just had to get on with the work."
I'm trying to think of an equivalent situation here ... OK, one Friday, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger announces he's thinking of quitting, and he's off up Glastonbury Tor to meet some people who are interested in taking over the Guardian. There's no sign of him on Monday morning (or ever again), but Reggie Kray's here in the office, with Anita Pallenberg, whom he introduces as the new editor. Oh well, busy day, better crack on with the telly review, I suppose.
Next, Belinda Brewin. She says Regan was, of course, a villain, but she was quite happy to accept a job from him - two days a week, £72,000 a year, to run an international freight company, something she had zero experience of doing. Did that not strike her as odd? Or that, when she decided to go home sick on her second day, she found an old Jaguar in her drive, and Regan's henchman in her field with a digger, digging a drainage ditch she didn't need? "I was a bit overcome by the whole thing, really, and I don't really know what I thought," she says. "Maybe I didn't just sort of want to think that someone had been buried in my field."
My biggest problem, though, is with the police. At first they didn't want to get involved at all, and Chohan's brother-in-law had to come over from New Zealand to persuade them to investigate.
Their performance didn't improve much after this. Mobile-phone tracking showed that Regan's and Chohan's phones had met up, somewhere around Stonehenge, and then gone to Devon, where Belinda Brewin lived. The police decided to pay Belinda's place a visit, but then one of Regan's associates called and basically persuaded them not to. He told them Chohan was on the run, and would be turning up by the statue of a pig in Newport, South Wales, on Monday, so why didn't they go and get him there? And guess what? The police agreed.
So Regan had killed Chohan and his family, and buried them at Brewin's house. Then, when he heard the police were investigating, he got his mate to call them and tell them to go to a bronze pig in Wales instead, while he dug the bodies up and threw them in the sea. "I don't think, personally, he was having a swipe at the police ... [with a] subtle joke about pigs," says the unfortunate DI Andy Rowell. Are you sure about that, Andy?
It was only by chance that Chohan's body was found, two months later, in the sea off Bournemouth. In the corpse's sock, folded up, was a letter addressed to Regan at his flat, and it was this that persuaded a jury that Chohan had been held captive at Regan's place, and led to Regan's murder conviction. Chohan had known he was going to die and stuffed the letter into his sock to show where he'd been - almost as if the poor man had foreseen the incompetence of the police investigation into his disappearance and murder.
The strange thing is that there's nothing in the interviews with DI Andy Rowell to suggest he thinks there was anything wrong with his investigation. Is it just me? But on the second viewing, I found the whole thing even more extraordinary.


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Bob Lambert Investigated by Police Over Firebombing
Former Special Demonstration Squad officer – and later unit chief – Bob Lambert is to be investigated by police over allegations he firebombed a department store.
Stealing the identity of a dead child called Bob Robinson, Lambert went undercover to infiltrate animal rights groups in the mid-1980s. In 1986 he co-wrote the McLibel leaflet that triggered the longest trial in English history, though his involvement was kept secret from court throughout.
The following year Lambert was part of a small, secret group of animal rights activists who planted incendiary devices in branches of fur-selling department store Debenhams. They were set to ignite during the night, triggering the sprinkler system and dousing the stock – it was designed to be economic sabotage rather than an attack on people.
One night in July 1987, three Debenhams stores were targeted simultaneously. The other two activists, Geoff Sheppard and Andrew Clarke, went to target the Luton and Romford stores. Lambert was to plant devices in Harrow.
The three shops were visited and £9m of damage was done. Acting on Lambert's information, police caught Sheppard and Clarke red-handed making the next round of devices and they were both jailed.
After Lambert's 2011 exposure as a police officer, in June 2012 Sheppard made a statement – read out in Parliament – claiming Lambert was the third firebomber.
Lambert denied it, saying
It was necessary to create the false impression that I was a committed animal rights extremist to gain intelligence so as to disrupt serious criminal conspiracies. However, I did not commit serious crime such as 'planting an incendiary device at the [Debenhams] Harrow store
This raises the question of who did actually plant the Harrow devices. There appear to be only two explanations. Either:
- There was a fourth firebomber. Though this person was part of the group, neither Lambert, Sheppard nor Clarke mentioned them at the time, nor at any time since. Despite getting the other two jailed, Lambert let this one get away scot free, unnamed and unaccused; or
- Lambert is lying and he planted the devices at Harrow.
Whichever, it undermines the resulting court case. In the cases of climate campaigners the Ratcliffe 20 and the Drax 29, people were convicted despite crucial evidence from undercover officer Mark Kennedy being kept from the court. After Kennedy's exposure, it was clear these were miscarriages of justice and all 49 have now had their convictions overturned.
Lambert's involvement in the convictions of Sheppard and Clarke is an identical situation. It has been more than two years since the convicted men submitted their appeal against conviction, yet still no decision has been made.
It is not clear why it has taken the Metropolitan Police four years to get round to investigating Lambert's involvement in burning the Debenhams store. It is difficult to imagine any other person being left alone so long after being credibly accused of causing hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage for animal rights.
Perhaps the Met were previously unwilling to look critically at someone with thirty years' service in their force, and who collected an MBE for services to policing on his retirement. But maybe the time has come when even the Met cannot fight the rising tide of opprobrium.
In 2014 they paid record compensation to an activist Lambert deceived into a relationship and had a child with.
Last year, another woman similarly deceived by Lambert was one of the group who received compensation and an unprecedented apology from the Met.
There is perhaps no more toxic issue for the Met than their treatment of the family of Stephen Lawrence. Earlier this year, the Independent Police Complaints Commission report into spying on the Lawrence family – an activity overseen by Lambert as Special Demonstration Squad manager – found that if he were still in the force he would be facing misconduct charges.
With this growing catalogue of abuse, as outrageous as it is undeniable, it seems the Met may finally be ready to face the truth over Bob Lambert, even if Lambert himself is not.


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CORVALLIS, Ore. – An expert on science in ancient Greece and Rome has been named Oregon State University's 2007 Horning Visiting Scholar and will give three lectures April 10-13 on the OSU campus.
Liba Taub, director and curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and a fellow of Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, will speak on April 10, 12 and 13, in the Memorial Union Journey Room. The April 10 and 12 presentations start at 4 p.m.; the April 13 event begins at noon.
The talks, which will discuss how scientific information was conveyed in ancient Greece and Rome, are free and open to the public.
Her presentation on Tuesday, April 10, "Genres of Scientific Communication in Ancient Greece and Rome," will focus on how several genres chosen by Greco-Roman scientific authors reflect interactions between oral and written culture. Those include poetry, dialogues, lectures, treatises, problem texts, letters, teaching texts and commentaries.
The Thursday, April 12, talk, "Scientific Poetry and the Limits of Myth," will revolve around an anonymous Latin poem "Aetna," in which the author explains volcanoes as being due to natural causes. Taub will talk about how the writer chose to convey scientific ideas through a poem, rather than prose.
On Friday, April 13, Taub will speak on "Science and Myth in Dialogue." She will look at Plutarch's "Dialogue on the Face of the Moon," a work that juxtaposes science and myth in interesting ways.
Taub's research and scholarship focus on the history of scientific instruments and the history of early science, particularly ancient Greek and Roman astronomy, physics and meteorology. Her books include "Ptolemy's Universe: The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy's Astronomy" and "Ancient Meteorology."
The OSU lectures will be published in 2008 by the OSU Press as the first volume in a new Horning Visiting Scholars Publication Series.
For information, contact the OSU Department of History at 541-737-3421 or go to http://oregonstate.edu/cla/history/lectures/horning/06_07.php.
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Kanye, Jay-Z get trophies for rap
Published 8:39 pm, Sunday, February 10, 2013
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LOS ANGELES -- Everybody's thinkin' about Frank Ocean -- but his main competition Kanye West and Jay-Z took home two early Grammy Awards.
They won best rap song and best rap performance in the pre-telecast awards Sunday for the song "N----s in Paris" from their "Watch the Throne" collaboration, joining Skrillex, Esperanza Spalding, Chick Corea and Matt Redman atop the pre-telecast awards show toteboard.
Other early winners included Rihanna, Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Mumford & Sons.
Ocean is the man with the momentum as Sunday's Grammy Awards began. He is one of six top nominees with six nominations apiece, Ocean -- the 25-year-old R&B singer turned cultural talking point -- has the music world's attention.
It remains to be seen if it will be the "Thinkin Bout You" singer's night. Already a budding star with a gift for building buzz as well as crafting songs, Ocean was swept up by something more profound when he told fans his first love was a man last fall as he prepared to release his major-label debut, "channel ORANGE."
It was a bold move and one that could have hurt his career before it really even got started. Instead, everyone from Beyonce to the often-homophobic R&B and rap communities showed public support.
"It speaks to the advancements of our culture," producer Rick Rubin said. "It feels like the culture's moving forward and he's a representative of the new acceptance in the world for different ideas, which just broadens (our experience), makes the world a better place."
A recent altercation in a parking lot with Chris Brown only focused more attention on Ocean. Both are competing against each other in one of the Grammy categories.
Ocean was up for the major awards best new artist, album of the year and record of the year when the show went live on CBS at 8 p.m., sharing top-nominee billing with fun., Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Jay-Z and West.
The early Grammy awards had 70 trophies up for grabs, including rock, pop, rap and country categories. Skrillex won three early awards for dance music, while former best new artist winner Esperanza Spalding, jazz man Chick Corea and Christian singer-songwriter Matt Redman had two wins apiece.
Spalding had one of the most touching moments of the pre-telecast awards show, taking the stage with her longtime jazz teacher Thara Memory for their win in the best instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist category. She won for best jazz vocal album for her "Radio Music Society."
Corea, who competed against himself in two categories, won best improvised jazz solo for "Hot House" with Gary Burton and best instrumental composition for "Mozart Goes Dancing."
And Redman won best gospel/contemporary Christian music performance and best contemporary Christian music song (tie) for "10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)."
Other early winners included Rihanna, who won short form music video for "We Found Love" featuring Calvin Harris, and Taylor Swift won her seventh Grammy for best song written for visual media for "Safe & Sound," her collaboration with The Civil Wars on "The Hunger Games" soundtrack. It was Swift's seventh Grammy and the third for Joy Williams and John Paul White of The Civil Wars.


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Scots-Irish Impact on the Appalachian region Please welcome guest blogger Byron Chesney. By day a computer applications engineer in Knoxville, TN, Chesney is also an active observer of the Southern Appalachian scene on his numerous Tennessee and Knoxville area related websites. Somewhere in all that he manages to eat and sleep! Stubborn, proud, independent, rugged, […]1 comments


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There's a report from Reuters this morning that Microsoft and Yahoo are considering expanding the scope of their search deal "outside the United States":
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company could look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo outside the United States, if it gets regulatory approval.
Wasn't that already the intention? I thought it was a global deal already. European regulators wouldn't be considering it if it didn't apply to their markets; they wouldn't have jurisdiction. So I guess I'm a bit confused I guess.
Regardless, if either the EU or US Department of Justice disapproves the deal it will kill the whole thing globally in all likelihood. I would expect approval although it's also possible that limitations and conditions could be attached by regulators.
Reportedly Barry Diller, CEO of IAC Corp., wants to sell Ask — perhaps feeling he's ridden the wave as far as he can (with some disappointment). If so, the most likely buyer would be Microsoft according to widespread speculation. It would allow Microsoft to grab some incremental but meaningful share of the market. The question would be at what price?
Timing is huge here. If Ying/MicroHoo were to gain approval from regulators, or the appearance of forthcoming approval were strong, the value of Ask to Microsoft is less than if the Yahoo deal were not to go through. In the latter case Diller could exact a higher price than in the former. There could be other buyers out there for Ask (e.g., News Corp., Comcast?) but Microsoft is the one with more to gain from adding scale.
According to comScore, Ask maintains a small but meaningful core following:
That respresents 718 million queries in September, according to the metrics firm. However iCrossing recently said it has seen referrals to its clients' sites from Ask drop "precipitously."
Postscript: The following was a clarification that I received in email from a Microsoft spokesperson:
[T]he Microsoft-Yahoo! agreement does apply outside the United States. As it's written, it must be approved by regulators in the U.S. and Europe in order to go into effect. As soon as those regulators give approval, the agreement goes into effect worldwide, although implementation in a specific country is postponed if regulatory approval is required there and it is not yet obtained. But that will not postpone implementation in other places.


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DARFUR IS DYING: THE GAME…July 2nd, 2006
Via She Who Writes Like She Talks comes this: MTVU, along with the The Reebok Human Rights Foundation and the International Crisis Group, has launched Darfur Is Dying, a narrative-based simulation that puts the player in the role of a Darfurian. It is easy to dismiss a game based on the genocide in Darfur, but this is no Pac Man.
From DarfurThesis:
Implementing what we term multiplayer online game activism, we hope to facilitate an immediate call to action — a way to engage a wide spectrum of young people and students to take notice of the crisis in Darfur, the first time in history that the United States government has declared an on-going crime as genocide.
Creating gameplay that informs as well as motivates effective and swift real-world action is a grand and elusive goal. The process of discerning appropriate representational aesthetics as well as appropriate interactive mechanics and metaphors has proven to be very difficult. We are aware of the stakes of such an endeavor — purporting to faithfully convey the real suffering of the Darfuri people — and as such, we do not feel that we have reached a solution, rather that we are immersed in a rigorous work-in-progress.
It beats the feck out of playing solitare or Quake 3.
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I vamped up the page for this site again - check it out ! I added a link to Belle's official blog - where it all began. Also, link to a documentary on the UK sex blog phenom and the names of some of the most famous sex blogers in the UK. Included are info about all the books written by Belle as well as where to buy them and the whole series on DVD. I hope you all LOVE it! Can't wait for the second season - I'm dyin! I'd love to know what you all think! :->
I completely vamped up the page for this site - check it out! I added a ton of pictures and show information. I'd love to know what you all think! :->
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Underage workers, unsafe working conditions, failed employment information and a lack of first aid supplies are just a few of the rotten things Apple has found in a report on its worldwide suppliers.
And it's cracking down on those facilities and its suppliers that are breaching its conditions.
In its Supplier Responsibility: 2011 Progress Report, in which it audited the facilities and management practices of 127 of its worldwide suppliers, it found 91 cases of underage labour, including 31 workers who had been hired prior to reaching the legal age, but were no longer underage or no longer employed at the time of the audit. Of these 98 percent had been recruited through schools or labour agencies.
One facility, although not named, bore the brunt of Apple's corporate wrath with the company claiming in its report: "We determined management had chosen to overlook the issue and was not committed to addressing the problem.
"Apple has terminated business with the facility."
It also went after facilities which fell foul of its standards. One was given the boot after Apple claimed it had "presented falsified payroll records and provided misleading interview answers to Apple's audit team," and another got its name on the black list after a facility manager reportedly "offered cash to Apple's third-party auditors, asking them to reduce the number of audit findings."
However, it seemed the troubled Foxconn plant came away with flying colours, despite reports of staff neglect, suicides and riots.
It began this part of its report stating: "Like many of our customers and others around the world, we were disturbed and deeply saddened to learn that factory workers were taking their own
lives at the Shenzhen facility of Foxconn."
It then went on to explain how in June last year Tim Cook and some of his Apple friends took a little road trip to meet with Foxconn CEO Terry Gou – someone who isn't exactly shy about pushing hard work and little benefits.
The cosy tete a tete led to Apple scrambling a team of suicide-prevention experts to "conduct a deeper investigation into the suicides, evaluate Foxconn's response, and recommend strategies for supporting workers' mental health in the future."
It also interviewed 1,000 Foxconn workers, met with managers and looked at the working conditions.
After all its work Apple "commended" Foxconn for hiring psychological counsellors to prevent suicides, establishing a 24/7 care center, and "even attaching large nets to the factory buildings to prevent impulsive suicides."
It even went as far as claiming that Foxconn's actions, "definitely saved lives".
Apple added: "In addition, [Foxconn] have begun the process of expanding operations to other parts of China, enabling workers to be closer to their home provinces.
"Apple will continue to work with Foxconn through the implementation of these programs, and we plan to take key learnings from this engagement to other facilities in our supply base."
And it seems other factories got away lightly, getting a second chance rather than the axe.
One factory which was found to have concealed a production area from Apple's audit team, preventing assessment of associated environmental health and safety risks, was given a slap on the wrist and required to fix all violations in this area. It was also forced to certify that all facilities used to manufacture Apple products were in future disclosed.
Another factory, in which a facility manager assembled workers and told them to provide false wage payment information to Apple auditors, was also let off the hook on the proviso that it produced the actual records and to better train its management staff in time for another audit this year.
And Apple wasn't going too hard on those factories which were found using n-hexane, a dangerous chemical, which if used in a closed work space can cause health problems. Although it dedicated a section to this subject, the company, which found that 137 workers at the Suzhou facility of Wintek, one of its suppliers, had suffered adverse health effects following exposure to n-hexane, merely ordered that the factory stop using the chemical. It also advised that the ventilation was sorted out.
"Since these changes no new workers have suffered difficulties from chemical exposure," Apple said in its report.


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On a track however, a slushbox will get completely destroyed by a stick, no question about it.
Automatic manual(shiftable automatic)
Paddle shifting
On a track however, a slushbox will get completely destroyed by a stick, no question about it.
Automatic because I can't drive manual. I tried to learn once and just couldn't get the hang of it.
I prefer manuals because when I drive automatics I "push" the clutch down, realise i've just just slammed the brake then hit my head on the steering wheel!
Not sure which I'd prefer since I've never tried an automatic....but probably automatic as it'd be easier
automatic vs manual is like PvE vs PvP. One is just so much cooler and superior to the other. *puts into drive and tries to stay awake*
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Manual fo sho, drove a automatic car once, and never again. I missed the gearshift too much :P
Besides, when the roads are frozen, I prefer breaking on my engine/clutch than using the actual breaks and end up gliding into someones rear bumper
I drive stick but I'd like to drive automatic. Teh laziness
I guess it depends on where I'll be driving the most.
At the moment, I have an automatic 2010 Hyundai Elantra. When I bought it, I was working just north of downtown Columbus, the traffic I was driving in was stop and go on the Interstate a lot of the time, that being the case, I went with an automatic.
But now I work in the small town I grew up in and live in a bigger town in the next county over. My commute has virtually no traffic, and I wish everyday that I had a manual.
TL;DR: Manual.
DSG automatic. Automatics are faster than manuals and it's easier in the city. I used to have a double friction clutch and it was a work out on my legs in traffic. Valet attendants can't even start my car. I always have to go start it for them. What was the point of valet parking?
Now with F1 tech going into affordable cars I prefer automatics on my Lexus IS-F. Now we just need an affordable transmission like the one off the Lamborghini Aventador.
I generally prefer manual. It's more fun, and feels like you have a bit more control in some situations (Having access to good engine break capability is nice where I live; snowy and hilly Norway). I just prefer the feel of it I guess, I have no particular hate towards automatic either. Matter of fact I drive automatic at the moment, because finding a 1998 XJ8 with manual gearing is nigh on impossible..! And also, lets admit, that kind of car is more suited to automatic anyway
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like more than half of you more than you deserve.
Well, I drive both. My first car was a 1998 hyundai tiburon and it was a standard. it's fun to drive around in and bog around in my little town (100k population, i call that small as I live 3 hours away from edmonton). But driving in a big city I prefer automatic. Just incase I need to mindlessly slam on the breaks and not stall my engine (im taking into consideration that my only instinct is to hit the breaks and cant clutch at the same time for whatever reason). It's sad that my new car a 2006 mustang is a automatic, but I put ALOT of money into that car and just paid it off. So if im driving, I want my complete and undevided attention to the road.
So im going to say Automatic manual(shiftable automatic). I have a ratchet shifter so I can go 1-3 manual then up one more is just drive. So I can be a standard for the first 3 gears if I want some fun ;D
For me, after driving manual transmission for nearly 10 years, I'd rather have an automatic. Shifting gets old after a while. When I head in and around Vancouver, all the stop and go traffic is annoying as hell when your shifting every 10 seconds. Automatics are programmed so well these days, the only real advantage that manual has now is a lighter car.
Manual for me!
Living where I do, constant bombarded by snow in the winter, I would much prefer the complete control of a manual transmission.
Even without that fact, there's so much more enjoyment with driving when driving a manual. The only time I would prefer an automatic is in traffic jams.


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If you don't like an idea, you probably shouldn't risk putting it up to a vote.
Such a lesson was just learned by Republican congressman and former Marine Duncan Hunter. Hunter has opposed recent changes in the Department of Defense allowing women to serve in front-line combat positions. "Right now the draft is sexist" he argued(tongue in cheek), adding an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act that would draft women.
He voted against his own amendment, but as the Associated Press reports, apparently others thought it was a great idea:
Women would be required to register for the military draft under a House committee's bill that comes just months after the Defense Department lifted all gender-based restrictions on front-line combat units.
A divided Armed Services Committee backed the provision in a sweeping defense policy bill that the full House will consider next month, touching off a provocative debate about the role of women in the military.
The measure was approved 32-30.
But don't worry yet ladies, even if the draft returns, it's unlikely you'll be setting foot on the battle field.
The United States has not had a military draft since 1973 in the Vietnam War era, but all men must register with the Selective Service Systems within 30 days of turning 18. Military leaders maintain that the all-volunteer force is working and the nation is not returning to the draft.
Feminists have been calling for gender equality for centuries now — wonder how they'll embrace this step toward it.
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Dear Parents and carers,
Welcome to St Kentigern's RC Primary School. Ours is a very friendly school serving the families and children of Fallowfield, in the Diocese of Salford. Our work is built around the teaching of Jesus Christ, and love of one another and of God are central to all we do. We want every child to do well, so we work hard to provide a curriculum which helps all children to shine. OFSTED inspectors recognised this when they visited our school in September 2017 and judged the school to be outstanding in all areas. We recognise that to do well, children have to feel good about themselves, and we place a great emphasis on developing children's self confidence and self-esteem. A broad and engaging curriculum is supplemented by a wide range of after school clubs and visitors, to enable children to celebrate their unique gifts and talents. We have been awarded Sportsmark and Artsmark Gold for the quality of our broad curriculum. Our children are polite and respectful, people who visit the school, including OFSTED, comment on their good manners, and we are very proud of them. Our teaching staff and Governors are dedicated to securing the best outcomes for all children, and we continually seek to improve what we do to enable our school to be the best it can. If you would like to look round the school, please do not hesitate to contact the office to make an appointment.
Best wishes
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"St. Kentigern's is an outstanding Catholic Primary School." (Diocese of Salford 2016)
"Respect and tolerance for all is a golden thread that runs throughout the school. Pupils` behaviour shines in the classroom and the playground." (Ofsted Oct 2015)
We learn and pray in faith and love
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We had great fun at the Christmas craft fair and our special visitor from the North Pole was so impressed by St Kentigern's children!
We had a fabulous Christmas dinner!
Fabulous nativity from KS1. Thanks everybody for a wonderful Christmas Story!
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Kauai's huge high-tech military range just got another shot in the arm.
A military contractor will receive $42 million for general services at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The Defense Department awarded ITT Corp.'s Systems Division $42,177,137 for operational support at Barking Sands and its offshore range.
ITT's Systems Division, based in Colorado Springs, Colo., provides 500 employees for basic services, such as electrical work and landscaping, and technical support, such as running and maintaining radar equipment, said Tom Clements, PRMF spokesman.
ITT has provided general services since at least 2004 for the facility, Kauai's largest employer.
On an average day about 900 civilian employees, active-duty Navy members and private contractors work at the facility, the largest multienvironment range in the world.
Barking Sands has been at the forefront of sea-based ballistic missile defense tests.
The ocean range west of Barking Sands, which includes 1,100 square miles for subsea operations and 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace, is able to support surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously, according to its Web site.


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Each week, this column will take a critical look at key statistical trends to highlight pass rushing and tackle matchups to exploit and avoid. We'll be heavily relying on another great feature at FBG this season, the IDP Matchup Spreadsheet that will be generated by Aaron Rudnicki. That spreadsheet will contain a number of weekly and weekly average statistical measures to help identify those defensive teams who are facing the best and worst opportunity as the season progresses. While this column will include two large tables of tackle and pass rush opportunity and matchup data, it's only a fraction of the data available in the spreadsheet. We hope that the Matchup Spreadsheet and this column will join John Norton's weekly IDP projections, Doug Drinen's Matchup Analyzer Tool and our customizable MyFBG function as useful tools to assist in making weekly line-up and waiver wire decisions.
Before we get to the hard data and matchup analysis, a quick explanation of the metrics we're using will probably be helpful. This column will be broken up into two primary sections - pass rushing matchups to exploit/avoid and tackle matchups to exploit/avoid. Each text section is followed by a table listing the relevant statistics and metrics driving our matchup decisions.
The pass rushing matchup table will include weekly averages of sacks, adjusted averages of sacks and quarterback hits and pass attempts faced. It will also have a column titled Pressure Applied, a metric we're introducing to show how often a team defense is generating pressure on the opposing quarterback. We'll be calculating Pressure Applied by dividing each team defense's sacks and quarterback hits by its total pass attempts faced. The same set of data will be provided and Pressure Allowed calculated for each team offense, to show which offenses are allowing pressure on their quarterback most often.
The tackle matchup table will include weekly averages of both rush and pass attempts faced, total offensive snaps faced and the percentage of rush vs pass attempts faced. It will also have a column titled Tackle Opportunity, a metric we introduced in mid-2007 to show how many plays a defense faced that could have ended in a solo tackle. We'll be calculating each team's Tackle Opportunity by adding all rush attempts, pass completions and sacks - the three plays that can end in a solo tackle outside of special teams and turnover plays. The same set of data will be provided and Tackle Opportunity calculated for each team's offense, to show which offenses are allowing the most tackle opportunity to opposing defenses.
We'll be highlighting the Pressure Applied/Allowed and Tackle Opportunity metrics with color codes showing the best and worst pass rush and tackle matchups. Expect to see lots of "good" and "bad" matchups early, as a relatively low sample size will show a lot of teams outside the historical standard deviations we'll be using to focus on the key matchups. While sample size will be a confounding issue during the early weeks, we'll still make every effort to show where the data looks meaningful. Without getting into a long discussion of statistics, we recognize that these metrics and tables will not be as predictive and reliable early in the season. We also acknowledge the noise within a set of unofficial statistics like solo tackles and quarterback hits. As the season progresses and the standard deviations of the data fall in line with prior seasonal averages, we expect that the data tables will be increasingly more reliable and useful.
You are very welcome to the first edition of what will be a season-long look at the best and worst matchups in the IDP landscape based on detailed, accurate spreadsheet data generated by Aaron Rudnicki on a weekly basis.
For those of you who don't know me, my name is Dave Larkin. I am a veteran IDP player and what some would call a diehard fan of this game of football that we all love so much.
Defense is my passion. Over the past few years, I have assimilated countless pages of data from various sources to hone my knowledge of the defensive side of the football. Each and every week I will study film from the previous week's games and provide you with nuggets of wisdom that will lead you to a championship.
With our first data point in the books, some of our hypotheses about certain teams' weaknesses and strengths have been confirmed; some remain a mystery. What we do know we can use to our advantage, however. Waiver runs prior to the second week of the season are typically some of the most active, and owners have a chance to snag some matchup plays that could turn into fixtures of their line-up.
Less data means we have to listen to our guts as we approach a week of games that is an important building block on the way to a championship.
So, without further ado, let's see where our gut takes us in Week 2.
Pass Rushing Matchups to Exploit
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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital • St. Peter's University Hospital • JFK Medical Center • ProCure Proton Therapy Center • Highland Park / Edison, New Jersey
"The mitzvah of Bikur Cholim obligates the community to take care of the worldly concerns of the patient and to promote and to provide essential peace of mind." – Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 335
Bikur Cholim means "visiting the sick." Bikur Cholim of Raritan Valley, under the guidance of the Vaad Harabonim of Raritan Valley, is an all-volunteer organization founded over 20 years ago. We are based in the Highland Park/Edison community across the Raritan River from New Brunswick, NJ. Our volunteers:
- prepare and deliver kosher home-cooked meals to patients in our local hospitals and to families with illness in the home;
- lend out medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers and nebulizers;
- provide transportation to appointments in the hospitals and doctors' offices;
- visit Jewish patients in the local hospitals and nursing homes, as well as those who are homebound.
We stock kosher food pantries at the hospitals and arrange for shofar blowers, seder plates, megillah readers and lulav and etrog. We also help with referrals for accommodations near the hospitals and with other arrangements needed when there is illness in the home.
Please do not hesitate to call us: 732-572-7181
We are here for you.
See and hear what Bikur Cholim is all about…
At the heart of Bikur Cholim of Raritan Valley are over 250 volunteers.
Our aim is to provide support and comfort to families in need.
If you are in need of our services, call us at (732) 572-7181.
People discover Bikur Cholim unfortunately when they are confronted with challeges … and Bikur Cholim is there always to lend support and to do what needs to be done to help the family and all of the members of the family.
When you go and visit somebody in need, they never forget that. They'll have eternal gratitude for what you might feel is just a minor effort, but it makes a major difference.
It's a beautiful thing to see how all the volunteers in town are ready to give and to make whatever we need… It's a wonderful feeling to see when we deliver the food to the family, the reactions on their faces, the simcha on their faces is something that's unbelievable.
Sometimes while I'm stocking a locker, somebody walks by and says "Hey, wow, I just want you to know we used it and this was great!"
As one of our children was being born, my wife and I knew that we'd have to spend one Shabbat in the hospital. However all of our needs, we knew ahead of time, were going to be met. The closets were stocked with everything we would need, from food to Siddurim to Shabbat candles. Knowing that we'd have visitors, knowing that whatever we'd need we could call upon Bikkur Cholim to help us out.
Here is an opportunity in our community, across the street maybe, around town, of people who are in need of help because they are incapacitated in some way. This is an opportunity which we can all be part of this great effort of the Bikur Cholim of Raritan Valley and I urge you to please seize the opportunity.


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Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid may have captured something rather interesting in his short story published this month by The Guardian. And it is not as obvious as it looks.
In "Terminator: Attack of the Drone", Hamid imagines life in Pakistan's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan under constant attack from U.S. drone bombings. His narrator is one of two boys who go out one night to try to attack a drone.
"The machines are huntin' tonight," the narrator says. "There ain't many of us left. Humans I mean. Most people who could do already escaped. Or tried to escape anyways. I don't know what happened to 'em. But we couldn't. Ma lost her leg to a landmine and can't walk. Sometimes she gets outside the cabin with a stick. Mostly she stays in and crawls. The girls do the work. I'm the man now.
"Pa's gone. The machines got him. I didn't see it happen but my uncle came back for me. Took me to see Pa gettin' buried in the ground. There wasn't anythin' of Pa I could see that let me know it was Pa. When the machines get you there ain't much left. Just gristle mixed with rocks, covered in dust."
It is powerful stuff, told in the language of a black American slave in the style of Toni Morrison's "Beloved". It vividly captures the terror inspired by drones, and the helplessness of the people who live in the tribal areas. But is it true? And does it matter?
In a discussion on Twitter, literary critic Faiza S. Khan, who tweets @BhopalHouse, argued that the story should be judged as a work of fiction rather than taken as reportage. A fair point. But what if we turn this around and consider the story as reportage, not of the tribal areas and the drones, but of the way these are imagined in Pakistan's Punjabi heartland? As a writer who spends part of his time in Lahore, capital of Punjab, Hamid can be considered representative of at least part of that Punjabi imagination.
We will return to the short story later, but first step back a bit and consider that the narrative gaining traction, at least in urban Punjab, is that the people of the tribal areas have been radicalised by American drone attacks. Pakistan's rising political star, Imran Khan, attracted tens of thousands to a rally in Lahore last month with a version of this narrative. Stop the drones, and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Pakistani Taliban, can be engaged in peace talks to end a wave of bombings across Pakistan.
The simplicity of this narrative is beguiling. At a stroke it taps into the anti-Americanism prevalent in Pakistan and also promises peace. Yet it is incredibly problematic. Bear with me – this is not a defence of drones per se. The use of "machines" to fight a war is disturbing, as indeed is the use of snipers in their capacity for personalised targetting by an unseen hand. Emotionally, I would be far more scared of drones and snipers than I would be of artillery and airstrikes, even if I knew the latter two were more likely to kill me. And nor is it a defence of the way the United States has fought its war in Afghanistan – the risks of the Afghan war going wrong have been obvious from the start to anyone with a knowledge of history. But those are different subjects. This is about how the drone campaign is perceived in mainland Pakistan, and perhaps particularly in Punjab.
The first problem with the narrative is that it slides over the fact that radicalisation in the tribal areas (and Pakistan as a whole) began long before the U.S. drone campaign. Many ascribe it to Pakistani support for the United States in backing the jihad against the Soviet Union after the Russians invaded Afghanistan in 1979. I might go further back, perhaps to the 1973 oil boom when a disproportionate number of Pashtun from the tribal areas went to seek work in the Gulf . The results were twofold – the migrant workers were exposed to the Wahhabi puritanical Saudi Arabian tradition of Islam, and the remittances they sent home upset the traditional balance of power in the local economy. I could go back even further, to the origins of the Pakistani state in 1947 and its use of Islam as a unifying force to counter ethnic nationalism, including Pashtun nationalism. In short – it is complicated. Stopping drones may or may not be a moral imperative, depending on your perspective. But let's not be fooled into thinking that in itself, it will bring peace.
Secondly, the narrative on drone attacks takes at face value assertions that they cause high numbers of civilian casualties. The Americans say they are precise; their critics say they are lying; the rest of us simply don't, and can't, know the truth. With little independent reporting on the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), we can't possibly verify whether the claims of civilian casualties are accurate. We don't know for sure the numbers of the dead, let alone whether among those dead were Taliban foot soldiers who are also civilians.
What I have noticed however, is that at least some among the Pashtun intelligentsia say the drone strikes are precise, and that opposition to them increases the further away you get from the tribal areas. Earlier this year, a senior Pakistani military officer was quoted as saying that "a majority of those eliminated are terrorists, including foreign terrorist elements". Writer and academic Farhat Taj has taken this argument further by saying that people actually prefer drone strikes to living in fear of the Taliban and their foreign allies.
Now I don't know the truth. I have been to the tribal areas only once, on a one-day army-supervised trip to Bajaur. Incidentally, I was struck by how far the landscape differed from my own Kiplingesque imaginings of "the Frontier". In Bajaur, I saw agricultural prosperity, neatly laid out fields, and mountains which in relative terms (ie compared to Siachen, the Karakoram and even the barren mountains of Scotland) seemed unexpectedly tame. I gather other parts of FATA are wilder, but that Bajaur trip was a lesson for me in how far my imagination (no doubt heavily influenced by colonial literature) was very different from reality. Many Pakistanis never get a chance to visit FATA at all – and so it remains in the Pakistani heartland as much of an imagined frontier as it was under the Raj.
So to get back to the drones, let's for a moment take the prevalent view that Pakistan is fighting "America's war" out of the discussion and consider what the people of FATA themselves think about drone attacks and peace talks with the Taliban. As the people who suffer most at the hands of the Pakistani Taliban, their views – at least from a moral point of view – should predominate in any Pakistani discourse which set itself up as idealistic. What do they say?
This brings me to the most problematic part of the narrative, and loops back into Hamid's short story. In the "stop the drones, win the peace argument", the people of FATA are crucially assumed not to be able to speak for themselves. They are frozen in time in an idealised village life, people who will revert to their ancient traditions as soon as the drones and the Afghan war ends, as though the last 60 years of history never happened. As though not not one of them had ever got on a plane, worked in the Gulf, or migrated to Karachi.
Look at how they are portrayed in Hamid's story (though since I have not asked him, I will concede this may have been an intentional parody of the way the people of FATA are often viewed).
In his story, our characters have no ability to grasp the big world events that have brought the machines to their land. They speak in the language of black American slaves. The narrator's mother is compared to an animal, "snorin' like an old brown bear after a dogfight". Their primitiveness is underlined by the sexualisation of the weapon assembled by the two boys to attack the drone: "We put the he-piece in the she-piece".
They are reduced to the cipher of "the noble savage".
It is true that the people of FATA do not tend to speak for themselves. But given the scale of bombings and assassinations, fear seems to be a more likely explanation than an inability to articulate their thoughts.
And it is also true that they are not even proper citizens. Rather they are subject to the Frontier Crimes Regulation – a draconian colonial-era law which makes them liable to collective punishment, and which is only slowly being reformed by the Pakistani government. The eventual abolition of the FCR, the incorporation of FATA into Pakistan, and other reforms meant to decentralise and accommodate Pakistan's different ethnic groups, would arguably be far more effective in the long run in allowing the country's Punjabi heartland to make peace with the Pashtun in the tribal areas, more even than ending drone strikes.
You will find people who argue you can do both – abolish the FCR and end drone strikes. But how can you tell? How do you make peace with a particular group and work out what suits them best, unless they are represented politically? (Holding peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban is not the same.)
Now reread Hamid's piece and consider the gap between the characters imagined in his short story, and a people with full citizenship rights and political representation. As Fazia S. Khan said, judge it as a work of fiction. But as a window into the Punjabi imagination, it may also have its uses as a political document.


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ORD CORPS watches are not often seen but in my experience the combination of stamping and engraving is ok for the Bulova. Elgins were fully stamped and Walthams - well they were a bit odd.
Martin (isologue)
P.S. ZMW shows Bulova OF-542515
Thanks Martin. The only ones I had seen to date stated Bulova on the case back.
WW2 ORD DEPT Bulovas would have that marking. The ORD CORPS are nice watches - WW2 movements largely but nice chunky cases. Of course, now you quite often see the surplus WG and H-1917 cases with all sorts of movements in them.
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