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Coast Guard officer injured in Alaska rescue dies
12/19/2013 12:17amThe Coast Guard says one of its officers who was injured last month while rescuing crew members from a disabled fishing vessel off Alaska has died of his injuries.
Lawyer: Accused Harvard student was under pressure
12/19/2013 12:30amA Harvard student accused of making a bomb threat to get out of a final exam was under a great deal of pressure and seems remorseful, his lawyer said Wednesday after his client was freed on bail.
Quotations in the News
12/19/2013 1:02am"Children see total lawlessness and total impunity ... I think it reinforces this notion of hopelessness, of no protection. They see adult family members arrested, detained, and beaten, and homes looted. It's terribly destructive to their emotional well-being and their sense of place in the world." _ UNICEF emergency coordinator Bob McCarthy, speaking about how armed fighters attacks on villages in Central African Republic are impacting the country's children.
US ambassador to visit Central African Republic
12/19/2013 1:43amThe U.S. ambassador to the United Nations plans an eight-hour visit to the Central African Republic to press transitional leaders to hold people accountable for vicious acts of violence and force armed groups to lay down their weapons to restore calm in the country shattered by violence and fear.
5 major NSA spying task force recommendations
12/19/2013 1:54amFive major recommendations from the 46 proposals by the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology to change National Security Agency surveillance programs and other intelligence and counterterrorism operations:
White House greets budget deal with caution, hope
12/19/2013 1:56amThere were no champagne corks popping at the White House after Congress passed a two-year budget deal, no declarations of a new era of cooperation in President Barack Obama's second term.
A look at the congressional budget agreement
12/19/2013 1:57amThe budget agreement passed by Congress sets spending limits for two years and averts a possible government shutdown in January. It increases government deficits in 2014 and 2015 but reduces them over 10 years by a total of $23 billion.
DIGITS: Public softens on marijuana legalization
12/19/2013 2:06amWith legal sales of marijuana in Colorado just two weeks away, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds public opposition to legalization declining.
Bernanke's new formula for pleasing investors
12/19/2013 2:17amIn his final performance, Ben Bernanke rewrote the script.
Pakistan protests may make US fly war cargo out
12/19/2013 2:27amU.S. officials, frustrated that hundreds of military shipments heading out of Afghanistan have been stopped on the land route through Pakistan because of anti-American protests, face the possibility of flying out equipment at an additional cost of $1 billion.
Fewer deportations big issue for Asians, Hispanics
12/19/2013 2:44amWith immigration legislation stalled in Congress, Hispanics and Asian-Americans say getting relief from deportations is more important for many of the 11 million immigrants here illegally than creating a pathway to U.S. citizenship, a new study finds.
NJ Transit bus crashes into building, 9 injured
12/19/2013 5:38amOfficials are investigating a crash involving a taxi and a New Jersey Transit bus that caused the bus to careen into a building in Newark and sent nine people to the hospital.
Arson attempted at atheist billboard in NJ
12/19/2013 7:48amPolice say someone tried to torch a billboard in New Jersey that was put up by atheists to protest a "Keep Christ in Christmas" banner.
Former attorney pleads to threatening judge
12/19/2013 8:34amA Montana attorney has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor for making threats against a judge in an apparent ploy to get the judge to recuse herself from his civil case.
Christmas is more cultural than religious for many
12/19/2013 9:21amFor a significant number of Americans, Christmas has largely lost its religious meaning, becoming an occasion focused instead on visiting family and friends and exchanging gifts, according to a new survey released Wednesday.
Marshals service denies some of diplomat's claims
12/19/2013 9:23amThe U.S. Marshals Service is denying claims by an Indian diplomat that she was subjected to a cavity search when she was arrested on charges of visa fraud.
Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine, dies in NY
12/19/2013 9:24amAl Goldstein, the bearded, bird-flipping publisher of Screw magazine who smashed down legal barriers against pornography and raged against politicians, organized religion and anything that even suggested good taste, died Thursday, according to a friend. He was 77.
US blacklists 4 members of Japan crime syndicate
12/19/2013 10:01amThe U.S. has blacklisted four senior members of a Japanese crime syndicate in an effort to disrupt illicit activities and undermine their financial stability.
FBI targeting corruption in New Mexico rural areas
12/19/2013 10:07amThe Federal Bureau of Investigation said it will begin an aggressive campaign to drive out corruption in New Mexico's rural areas after the state saw a rash of high profile cases of small town corruption in recent years.
Lockheed Martin ends Boy Scouts gifts over gay ban
12/19/2013 10:18amDefense and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is halting its donations to the Boy Scouts of America over the organization's ban on gays serving as adult leaders after a review of the company's philanthropy guidelines, the company said Thursday.
La. gov. critical of A&E over Robertson 'hiatus'
12/19/2013 10:34amThe A&E cable television network's suspension of "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson from the hit reality show has drawn criticism from the governor of his home state.
In God we trust, maybe, but not each other
12/19/2013 11:20amYou can take our word for it. Americans don't trust each other anymore.
Husband of Patty Hearst dies at 68
12/19/2013 11:29amBernard L. Shaw, a San Francisco police officer who served as Patty Hearst's body guard and later married her, has died at the age of 68.
You can trust us on this, but you probably won't
12/19/2013 11:48amDo you keep a close watch when you hand over your credit card?
How the AP-GfK poll was conducted
12/19/2013 11:51amThe Associated Press-GfK poll on the American public's trust in others was conducted by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications Oct. 3-7. It is based on online interviews of 1,227 adults who are members of GfK's nationally representative KnowledgePanel.
AP hires Alan Suderman as Va. Statehouse reporter
12/19/2013 11:52amAlan Suderman, an investigative reporter with the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., is joining The Associated Press to cover Virginia state government and politics.
Senate leader vows Jan. vote on jobless benefits
12/19/2013 11:56amThe Senate's top Democrat promised Thursday that the chamber would vote in early January on extending jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.
Guilty plea in NJ to ivory, rhino horn smuggling
12/19/2013 12:10pmA Chinese national acknowledged Thursday that he was the mastermind of an international smuggling operation that illegally transported more than $4 million in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory from the U.S. to China over the last several years.
6 states receive $280M in early learning grants
12/19/2013 12:45pmSix states were announced Thursday as winners of a combined $280 million in government grants to improve early learning programs for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Pakistan protests may make US fly war cargo out
12/19/2013 1:16pmU.S. officials, frustrated that hundreds of military shipments heading out of Afghanistan have been stopped on the land route through Pakistan because of anti-American protests, face the possibility of flying out equipment at an additional cost of $1 billion.
FDA to make food safety rules more farmer-friendly
12/19/2013 1:24pmThe Food and Drug Administration says it will revise sweeping food safety rules proposed earlier this year after farmers complained the rules could hurt business.
Wis. man's conviction in wife's death overturned
12/19/2013 1:30pmA Wisconsin man convicted of poisoning his wife 15 years ago was improperly tried because he couldn't confront his dead wife and her "letter from the grave" implicating the husband as the primary suspect, a federal judge has ruled.
Ex-W.Va. sheriff gets probation for wiretapping
12/19/2013 1:31pmA former West Virginia sheriff has been sentenced to probation for hacking his now ex-wife's work computer.
White House threatens to veto Iran sanctions bill
12/19/2013 1:39pmThe White House says it would veto new congressional legislation that would toughen sanctions against Iran.
Oil trains raise concerns in small towns, cities
12/19/2013 2:00pmIt's tough to miss the trains hauling crude oil out of the Northern Plains. They are growing more frequent by the day, mile-long processions of black tank cars that rumble through wheat fields and towns, along rivers and national parks.
2 kids kidnapped, one's throat cut in south Miss.
12/19/2013 2:41pmA man lured two brothers, ages 5 and 8, from their yard in south Mississippi and took them to his camper trailer, where he sexually abused them and slashed the older boy's throat, authorities said Thursday.
Man who shot woman on porch will face murder trial
12/19/2013 2:46pmA Detroit-area man who fatally shot a drunk, unarmed woman on his porch will stand trial for second-degree murder, a judge said Thursday, rejecting a self-defense argument for the killer's "bad choice."
US Rep. Kingston criticized for school lunch idea
12/19/2013 3:10pmU.S. Rep. Jack Kingston is defending comments he made suggesting that poor students who are part of the nation's school lunch program should sweep cafeteria floors.
DHS removed more than 368,000 immigrants in 2013
12/19/2013 3:14pmThe Obama administration removed 368,644 immigrants from the country last year.
US ship preps for Syria chemical weapons mission
12/19/2013 3:15pmThe U.S. ship that will serve as the lynchpin for the destruction of Syria's most toxic chemical weapons is preparing to leave Virginia in about two weeks for what will be an unprecedented, complex mission.
Professor in trouble after prostitution skit
12/19/2013 3:38pmA tenured Colorado professor has run into trouble after a lecture on prostitution featured a skit in which students dressed up as prostitutes, sex slaves and escorts.
Investigators urge more safety for rail workers
12/19/2013 3:50pmWorkers who maintain the nation's transit rail tracks urgently need more protections to help prevent accidents such as the one that killed two workers on the San Francisco Bay Area system last fall, federal officials said Thursday.
New Mexico AG sues to stop horse slaughter
12/19/2013 3:58pmNew Mexico's top prosecutor filed a lawsuit Thursday in state district court in an attempt to block a planned horse slaughter plant from opening in less than two weeks.
Ohio teen accused in school standoff pleads guilty
12/19/2013 4:00pmA 14-year-old student accused of triggering a lockdown and police standoff at a high school by flashing a pellet gun has pleaded guilty to three charges in juvenile court.
Army: 5 of 6 killed in Afghan crash based in Kan.
12/19/2013 4:02pmFive U.S. soldiers based at Fort Riley, Kan., and one based in Europe were killed in a helicopter crash this week in southern Afghanistan, Army officials said Thursday.
Army cadet in NY accused of emailing child porn
12/19/2013 4:09pmA West Point cadet was arrested on campus Thursday and charged with distributing child pornography via email.
Saint's remains to return to Hawaii from New York
12/19/2013 4:22pmThe remains of a saint known for caring for exiled leprosy patients in Hawaii are being relocated again.
Judge: Heat on La. death row unsafe for inmates
12/19/2013 4:30pmLouisiana's death row gets so hot that it violates U.S. constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Judge: US government assisting child smuggling
12/19/2013 4:39pmA federal judge in South Texas said in a recent order that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is assisting in criminal conspiracies to smuggle children into the country when it helps reunite them with parents who are known to be in the U.S. illegally.
Ohio woman sentenced in husband's 2003 slaying
12/19/2013 4:43pmA woman who compelled her 10-year-old stepson to shoot his father dead in 2003 and say it was an accident was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole, a prosecutor said.
Wis. governor signs school mascots bill
12/19/2013 4:48pmWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Thursday that will make it harder to force public schools to drop tribal nicknames, pushing aside opponents' charges that the measure is racist.
ACLU alleges racism at California school district
12/19/2013 5:14pmA civil liberties group has accused a Northern California school district of pervasive racism and of condoning weekly traditions in which female students are groped.
Feds give OK; NV Energy-MidAmerica sale complete
12/19/2013 5:22pmThe sale of Nevada's main electric utility to an Iowa company controlled by billionaire investor Warren Buffett was declared a done deal Thursday, after federal regulators gave their approval.
Runway reopened after plane slides in Utah
12/19/2013 5:26pmFlights were disrupted at Salt Lake City International Airport on Thursday after a cargo plane slid on a taxiway made slick by a winter storm.
30 injured as bus overturns on California freeway
12/19/2013 5:32pmA tour bus has overturned on a rainy Southern California freeway, injuring 30 people.
Vegan leather, faux fur are hot holiday gifts
12/19/2013 5:34pmFinding a knockoff version of the fur you want under the Christmas tree would ordinarily be a disappointment.
Obama deploys small military group to South Sudan
12/19/2013 5:36pmPresident Barack Obama has deployed a small military contingent to South Sudan to help bolster security at the U.S. Embassy amid escalating violence.
Man thought to be Gacy victim found in Montana
12/19/2013 5:40pmA man presumed dead for decades as a potential victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been reunited with his family after investigators found him alive and well in Montana.
Commutations and pardons granted by Obama
12/19/2013 5:55pmPresident Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of eight people convicted of crimes related to selling drugs:
Ark. man accused of defacing racist billboard
12/19/2013 6:06pmAn Arkansas man is accused of defacing a billboard that carried a racist message.
Obama commutes sentences for 8 drug convictions
12/19/2013 6:12pmPresident Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of eight people he said were serving unduly harsh drug sentences in the most expansive use yet of his power to free inmates.
Obama commutes sentences for 8 drug convictions
12/19/2013 6:12pmPresident Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of eight people he said were serving unduly harsh drug sentences in the most expansive use yet of his power to free inmates.
Ohio man who amassed guns at mall sentenced
12/19/2013 6:17pmA man who stockpiled weapons and ammunition at a northern Ohio shopping mall was sentenced to nearly six years in prison Thursday.
Deal reached on Duggan's role as Detroit mayor
12/19/2013 6:17pmMayor-elect Mike Duggan said Thursday that he and Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr will share some of the duties of running the cash-strapped city but the bulk of the financial responsibilities will remain under Orr's control.
NYC Council passes plastic foam, e-cigarette bills
12/19/2013 6:20pmNew York City lawmakers paved the way Thursday for an eventual ban on plastic foam containers, added electronic cigarettes to the city's already stringent smoking bans and approved the creation of a website that will help the public track federal dollars budgeted for Superstorm Sandy-related damages.
Witness: Student, officer fought before shooting
12/19/2013 6:26pmA University of Incarnate Word student who was fatally shot by a campus police officer earlier this month had resisted arrest and scuffled with the officer moments before, a fellow student at the Roman Catholic university in San Antonio says.
Mom accused of trying to kill girl OK'd for trial
12/19/2013 6:42pmA northern Michigan mother charged with attempted murder in the carbon monoxide poisoning of her autistic 14-year-old daughter is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
Fla. rejects request to install Satanic display
12/19/2013 7:17pmOfficials overseeing holiday displays at the Florida Capitol have allowed a Nativity scene, a Festivus pole and even a chair holding fake pasta with eyeballs and an accompanying "provHerb" from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Police: 4 charged in bogus prison release in Fla.
12/19/2013 7:19pmA Florida man was charged with helping his brother's killer and another murderer escape from prison with bogus court documents, authorities said Thursday in announcing more charges in the scheme.
Senate to vote on Yellen for Fed chair in January
12/19/2013 8:24pmThe Senate will vote on the nomination of Janet Yellen to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve in January.
Report: Fired nuke general misbehaved in Russia
12/19/2013 8:40pmThe Air Force general who was fired from command of U.S. land-based nuclear missile forces had engaged in "inappropriate behavior" while on official business in Russia last summer, including heavy drinking, rudeness to his hosts and associating with "suspect" women, according to an investigation report released Thursday.
Gov't offers a stopgap health insurance option
12/19/2013 8:41pmThe Obama administration is trying avoid making more bad news over the rollout of the president's health care law.
NY court restores Saudi Arabia in Sept. 11 lawsuit
12/19/2013 8:52pmA federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated Saudi Arabia as a defendant in lawsuits claiming it provided support to al-Qaida before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Okla. man proposes to girlfriend during arrest
12/19/2013 9:26pmAn Oklahoma man proposed to his girlfriend last week while an officer tried to arrest him on two outstanding warrants
Ga. woman claims 1 of 2 winning lottery tickets
12/19/2013 9:50pmOn her way to work, Ira Curry heard on the radio that one of the winning lottery ticket numbers was her family's lucky No. 7. She called home, her daughter checked the ticket and in an instant, Curry was a multi-millionaire.
For Illinois senators, an odd public friendship
12/19/2013 11:33pmOn Capitol Hill, where the partisan divide runs so deep it has shut down the government, it can be unusual for members of opposing parties to publicly join together for much of anything _ much less birthday cake.
Jury: Portrait of Fawcett should stay with O'Neal
12/19/2013 11:53pmFor most of the last 33 years, an Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett has hung in the home of her longtime lover, Ryan O'Neal, and a jury's verdict Thursday ensures that is where it will stay.
'Duck Dynasty' fans react to Robertson's hiatus
12/19/2013 11:58pmWhen the A&E network suspended "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson for disparaging gay people, it may have followed a time-honored TV tradition of quickly silencing a star who, for better or worse, speaks his mind. But in doing so it also ruffled the feathers of possibly millions of fans of its most popular show.


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Yes Bloomberg is an out-of-touch billionaire. Yes he wouldn't showed in a bathroom the size of the apartments he's proposing. Yes he's a really easy target for proposing that people live in tiny apartments. But… he's also right.
Here's a reality. Manhattan apartments haven't been affordable in a while. Residents are paying huge amounts of rent for one room that may be twice the size of the micro-apartments that Bloomberg is proposing.
Bloomberg can either try to regulate housing prices or deregulate minimum apartment sizes. Putting a price cap on the amount of monthly rent that can be charged for an apartment in Manhattan might be legal, but it would also be stupid in a bad economy with a troubled housing market. A lot of developments are already frozen and scrambling for funds.
Capping Manhattan rents at 750 per room would be a proposal that the Village Voice would love, but would leave hundreds of unfinished buildings standing around the city, it would bankrupt a lot of companies who have taken out loans based on projected returns and it would hit people who bought apartments to rent out and are suddenly dealing with a mortgage that they can never pay back.
The rents are outrageous, but trying to artificially cap them would be a serious blow to the economy, would put thousands out of work and would kill a lot of future development in Manhattan. So there would be some affordable apartments, but the only new apartments after that would be in housing projects.
So Bloomberg deregged apartment sizes. No one is being forced to live in these small apartments, but they will make it possible for people who can't afford to live in Manhattan, but need to, to live in Manhattan. And that's a good thing.
Mini-apartments cuts through the insane price situation by creating apartments that people can afford to live in. And I know people who would love a shot at a tiny but affordable place in Manhattan. A place that isn't an illegal tiny apartment in Chinatown that puts residents at risk, but is completely legal, safe and inspected.
Laws limiting how small an apartment could be were there to prevent tenement crowding, but the people who want small places for less in Manhattan are mostly young and single. This won't be a case of eight people crammed into 300 square feet. Though there will have to be oversight to make sure this doesn't take off in Chinatown.
No one is supposed to live in these places for 30 years. They're places you move into in your twenties while trying to make it in advertising, publishing or on Broadway.
Bloomberg boasted in a news conference that his first New York City flat was roughly 600 sq ft and cost between $120 and $140 each month. "I would have taken a smaller one, if I could possibly have found it," he said.
Lots of others would too.
The question is will the rents actually be affordable?


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While fall is certainly an excellent excuse to run out and buy sweater coats and boots, you can really stretch your wardrobe by working summer pieces into your fall wardrobe!
Take this top – one of my favorites – a silk shell from Banana Republic, scored on super clearance for only $10. During the summer, I paired it with bright denim or capris and sandals.
For transitioning to fall, I have three tricks:
1. Change your colors: Bright pink pants are perfect for summer. And they're always cute for any time of year. But paired with a summery top, they'd look out of place. Don't pair summer fabrics with summer colors. Wear those summer fabrics with fall colors, like burgundy, mustard and forest green to keep the trends from looking out of season.
2. Layer: Layers are always a good idea! Always. Repeat: ALWAYS.
3. Think outside the box: Yes, layering a cardi over a shell is hardly ground breaking. What can I say… It was a rough week. But what about throwing on tights under a sundress and adding a denim jacket? Or wearing a flowy maxi dress with a chambray shirt or sweater and cozy scarf?
See the difference?
How do you transition to fall?
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Any expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business. Business expenses are deductible and are always netted against business income.
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You have a certain image of Suresh Gopi films; either he is an honest politician or an upright cop taking on the corrupt and corroded system. So, when a newcomer tries to do a double whammy by casting him in both the roles in one film, you cannot help but praise him for the courage he has shown.
But beyond that director Jeethu Joseph's Detective turns out to be a typical fare, not because Suresh Gopi is cast in familiar roles, but because the investigative story (the film was publicised as an investigative thriller) is not intelligently written.
The story is about the suicide of the wife (Sindhu Menon) of an upcoming young political leader Mohan Kumar (Suresh Gopi number one), who is fighting a by-election for the parliament. The suspicious circumstance in which the death occurs prompts the Government to order a high level inquiry by an independent team of officers headed by Shyam Prasad (Suresh Gopi number two). Surprisingly his designation is hardly mentioned in the film. The fact that Mohan Kumar and Shyam Prasad are step-brothers is supposed to add to the complications.
The investigation as such reminds us the two latest films in CBI series starring Mammootty, where there is less of investigation and more of image projection. The same pattern was also adopted in recent Mohanlal-starrer Baba Kalayani.
Here also, the hero has premonition about where everything is headed and how things may have happened without taking the trouble of explaining anything to us or to his colleagues and subordinates (most of them are just mute spectators).
Even the complications are kept at minimum, with everyone around being a suspect. But there is no excitement as everything happens at a lethargic space with nothing in sight to pick up the momentum. Even the filial conflict is kept at the minimum.
And, the climax that has heavy influence of Shaji Kailas' The Truth, with the final phase of inquiry happening in a conference room with every person in high place, all the suspects and the public under full media glare. But the final twist will put even a comic book to shame.
The characterisations are something that holds our interest. In the beginning, Mohan Kumar is introverted and silent. The justification may be the illegitimate birth and this is the only novelty in the film. As soon as the second Suresh Gopi aka Shyam Prasad enters the scene, everything becomes normal as in every other Suresh Gopi film; the slow motion walks, the dialogues sprinkled with English etc etc.
Suresh Gopi tries his best to lift up the humdrum proceedings, but cannot do it beyond a point. His getup as Shyam Prasad is interesting with designer glasses, chic hairdo and all that, but the writing doesn't support him.
The supporting cast can make only negligible contribution as everyone is on the radar of suspicion. Sai Kumar is the only person who appears consistent; all the others have no inkling of what they are up to. Jagathy Sreekumar appears to provide comic relief as Shyam Prasad's assistant in the first half, but the screenplay unceremoniously dumps him in the second half.
In final analysis; one can only say that debutant director Jeethu Joseph presented a promising premise, but failed to capitalise on it.
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Domestic help helps herself to elderly employer's jewellery
To prove her 'innocence' the accused, now arrested, turned up for work the next day; police suspect she has committed similar crimes in the past
To prove her 'innocence' the accused, now arrested, turned up for work the next day; police suspect she has committed similar crimes in the past
Good help is hard to find these days. But it isn't her inefficiency that led to 26-year-old Reshma Khan's arrest. Kasturba Marg police nabbed the domestic help yesterday for allegedly looting a senior citizen after securing a job at her house. Police officials said the woman's husband was involved in serious crimes like murder earlier.
Hide and seek: Reshma confessed to cops that she had robbed the
gold ornaments and hid them behind a switchboard at her house.
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According to cops, Reshma was working for a Borivli (East) resident as a maid. The 70-year-old complainant Lalaben Pannalal Shah, who lives in Samarth Sadan building at Carter Road, had not registered Reshma with the police. She had, however, taken down her contact number.
Won't wash!
On Tuesday, while taking Shah for a bath, Reshma had removed her employer's gold chain and other ornaments. After the laving, the maid had snagged all the valuables and left the house. Shah realised later she had been robbed. She asked Reshma about the jewellery the next day when she came to work. Reshma feigned ignorance and asked her employer to search her house if she did not believe her. Shah approached the police and registered a complaint. Since cops did not have proof against the accused, they came up with a plan to make Reshma reveal the truth.
"We had Reshma's mobile number. However, if we had waited to trace the location of the phone, it would have taken 15 days due to the procedure. To save time so that Reshma could not flee, one of our officers called up on her mobile, pretending to be looking for a domestic help," said API Pradeep Rawrane from Kasturba Marg police station.
Runs in the family
The officer told Reshma that the prospective employer was a senior citizen, who lived alone and had to be taken care of. Reshma agreed to work for the 'fictitious' person. "We had spoken to the accused and called her near the gate of a building. Since we had only suspected Reshma, we decided to meet her and begin inquiry.
When we reached the spot we realised she was the wife of Ashfaq, who was earlier arrested by Charkop police for murdering a person and dumping the body at Aksa beach. We detained Reshma. However, even after investigations she denied to have robbed Shah," said Rawrane. The police then interrogated the accused and she finally confessed to cops that she had robbed the gold ornaments and hid them behind a switchboard at her house. Following the directions, police officials recovered Shah's jewellery worth Rs 1 lakh.
Reshma has been arrested and cops are now conducting inquiries to find out how many more -- if any -- such senior citizens she has robbed in the past.


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Archive for March 4th, 2012
Human body animations
Tonight, I enjoyed some of the many human anatomy animations by Nucleus Medical Media . . .
More soldiers die of suicide than from combat
For the second year in a row, more soldiers die of suicide than from combat. As reported by Project Censored:
For the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat (462). "If you… know the one thing that causes people to commit suicide, please let us know," General Peter Chiarelli told the Army Times, "because we don't know." Suicide is a tragic but predictable human reaction to being asked to kill – and watch your friends be killed – particularly when it's for a war based on lies.
Catholic clergy, obsessed about gay rights, again shoots itself in the foot.
I've known Charlie Robin for many years, so I was deeply saddened to hear that the Catholic Church retaliated against Charlie's partner, Al Fischer immediately after the pair announced that they were traveling to New York this week to get married.
Al has done exemplary work as a music teacher at St. Ann Catholic School, a St. Louis grade school. For many years, Al and Charlie have been out in the open as a committed gay couple. When they recently announced that they were getting married, though, it was too much for the St. Louis Diocese. The Administration of the St. Ann Catholic School has been, and remains, supportive of the couple, but must now hire a new music teacher for the children, even though they already had a perfectly good music teacher.
I was raised Catholic and I know a huge number of Catholics who are completely in support of gays getting married. The upper clergy are another matter, though. I'm not really angry about Al's firing, because this is the kind of thing I expect of the Catholic Church at this point, and I'm also delighted to see how supportive the local Catholic school has been of the relationship and proposed marriage. The Clergy, on the other hand appear to be engaged in classic groupthink, combined with a willingness to elevate a personal feeling of disgust into a dominant moral principle; and this is combined with a classic reaction formation–I've heard from many sources (including many men who were in the Catholic seminary) that a significant proportion of Catholic clergy are, themselves, gay.
What should Catholics do in the meantime? That's certainly not for me to say, since I don't believe in any of the miraculous claims of the Bible. Then again, from my discussions with many Catholics, neither do many Catholics. What they do tend to believe in is coming together as a community to celebrating their community in song and ritual, as well as maintaining an admirable commitment to helping others in need through on-the-ground good works. It is in this context that the Catholic clergy displays its ugly vindictiveness. Perhaps this self-destructive decision by leadership of an ever-dwindling church will become a flashpoint for reform efforts in St. Louis, or even nationally. Decisions like the firing of Al Fischer, combined with many other salient moral lapses of the Catholic clergy, help explain why one out of every 10 people in the United States (22,725,000) is an ex-Catholic. Not that any of this will sway the Pope, whose constant vitriolic rants against gays strongly suggest to me his own frustrated gayness.
I often wonder whether and when large numbers of Catholics will start buying up abandoned Churches, and start their own churches.
Then again, this animosity toward gays goes well beyond the Catholic Church. Rick Santorum, one of the front runners for the GOP has indicated that, if elected, he would work hard to pass laws to un-marry the 130,000 gay married couples in the United States. Such are these times . . .
Alan Grayson lists 10 myths of the Republican Party
At Reader Supported News, Alan Grayson lists 10 myths held dear by the modern Republican Party:
- The government can't create jobs. (Tell that to FDR, who created four million jobs in three months.)
- Tax cuts reduce the deficit. (Doesn't it bother them that a man named "Laffer" came up with this one?)
- A fetus is a baby.
- The poor have too much money.
- Cutting the federal deficit will end the recession.
- The rich are incentivized by tax cuts, while the poor are incentivized by lower wages, no
- benefits, an end to the minimum wage, and unemployment.
- An unwanted child is God's will.
- Everyone who wants health insurance has it.
- The problem with education is the teachers.
- The "free market" satisfies every human need.
- There is no discrimination in America anymore.
- The distribution of wealth and income are irrelevant.


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Looking for the best laptop? Owning a laptop has been a top necessity in the modern world. Unlike before, almost all people today find it important to have a laptop more importantly to have the best laptop. It is widely used by businessmen, students, media personnel, travelers and of course, the work at home individuals. Today there are a lot ... Read More »
Steps on Taking Care of Your Laptop Battery
If you have a new laptop computer with you, it always comes with a manual or an instructional guide. You can read from their instructions on how to use your computer; what to do and what to avoid. But sometimes, people tend to neglect to sift through these important pages. Some of the information is very vital to teaching how ... Read More »
How to Choose a Cheap Laptop
If you're considering buying a cheap laptop computer, then you need to have method for deciding which one is right for you. I'm assuming that your reason for wanting a cheap laptop is that you don't have a tone of money to throw around on a computer with all the bells and whistles that you will never use. You are ... Read More »
Broken Laptop – How To Detect The Problem
Often when a laptop breaks down, we are at a loss how to fix it. Oftentimes we have no idea what the problem is and are kept lurching in the dark. But without knowing what exactly is wrong with the broken laptop, it is difficult to determine whether we should go for the repair or buying an altogether new one ... Read More »
Caring for Your Laptop Battery
The era wherein laptops are only considered as the inferior relatives of the desktop computers is long gone. If in the past, the laptop is only used for processing files, storing small amounts of data or doing simple tasks like viewing photos or doing calculations, now it is starkly different. Laptops are now as powerful as or even more powerful ... Read More »
The Magic of the External Laptop Battery
An external laptop battery can be a hero to most people especially the ones that are working overtime with their laptops. This battery works just like the ordinary one, and they give all new life to your laptops but for just a limited time. There are also USB batteries that can add an extra few hours of power to your ... Read More »


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PhotoMath Brings Its Awesome Math Equation Solving App To Android
A Chat With The Researcher Who Found Online Bystanders Won't Stop Bullying
PhotoMath is a nifty little app. You point your phone camera at a math equation, and it will give you the answer and show you all the steps to solve this particular equation. Following its huge success in the App Store, the app is coming to Android.
When I first played with PhotoMath before the team took the stage in our Battlefield competition at Disrupt London, I was impressed by its design and overall user experience. Solving a math equation with a computer is nothing new — WolframAlpha has been doing that for years. But typing an equation inside WolframAlpha's app is a painful process. With PhotoMath, you point, you shoot and you're done.
And now, in addition to coming to Android, the app now supports quadratic equations, inequalities and more. The app is faster and the solution screen has been revamped as well.
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What I didn't expect is that so many people would find it useful. In just 24 hours, the app rocketed to the top of the App Store, and people attending Disrupt London couldn't stop talking about it.
MicroBlink, the startup behind PhotoMath, is a text recognition technology company. The company worked a lot on accuracy and speed so that scanning text only takes you seconds. PhotoMath is a great way to showcase its real-time text recognition engine.
The app has accumulated 11 million downloads on iOS and Windows Phone, and people are still using it. In January alone, it was used to solve 8 million math problems. And now, it is available on Android. It is still free and should resonate well with high school kids who have a cheap Android phone.


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Synth: Nice iPad Music App but not for Serious Musicians
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Any application that can make me feel like I have any musical talent must be pretty good and I've found that many iPhone/iPod Touch apps can do that and now on the iPad a plethora of musical iPad apps are coming out which will hopefully make me feel even more like a musical maestro.
This time it's Synth for iPad which aims to replicate an electronic synthesizer with it's range of musical and crazy sounds to create musical montages with.
Everything you need with Synth is on the one made page which in one hand makes things very easy while on the other shows that it doesn't have the range of options that other similar applications have.
The multiple-touch controls are both responsive and sensitive and the sound quality is good too with a decent range of 40 sounds to choose from and the ability to sample your own sounds.
The additional 5 adjustments also offer a degree customizations and the ability control the octave range extrapolates those options even more.
Ultimately while Synth is well put together and will entertain for about as long as a 99 cent synthesizer application should. If you want to have a handy synthesizer available to you for a quick blast of electronic fun every now and again then this will suffice, those looking for a more serious synthesizer with the options to produce a quality piece of work you may want look elsewhere.
The Good
- Over 40 different instruments
- Ability to sample your own sounds
The Not So Good
- Not enough options for serious musicians
Price: $0.99 (iTunes Store Preview)
Released: Apr 01, 2010
Reviewed Version: 1
Size: 1.5 MB
Language: English
Seller: The Retronyms LLC
© 2010 Retronyms
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Welcome to the Hot Tub Things Blog. Discover all the latest products and get tips on how to keep your hot tub in tip top condition with The Hot Tub Things blog!
Hot Tub Things New Line of Spa Care Products
Our new custom line of spa care products is finally here! Hot Tub Things has unveiled a brand new set of spa care products that makes spa care easier than ever. Just like other big name chemical brands like Leisure Time and Baqua Spa, our Hot Tub Things products meet or surpass all EPA requirements and can be used with fiberglass, wood, and vinyl-lined spas. We are committed to bringing you the highest quality hot tub products in the industry, and our custom line of chemicals is no exception. We have carefully designed each individual product to be as simple to understand and use as possible. Each product is uniquely color coded to enable an easy to follow spa care program. Here's a quick run down of how our chemical line works.
Color Coding Meaning
Red is Sanitizer
All products in our chemical line with a red Hot Tub Things label is a disinfectant. This includes the 2lb and 5 lb Chlorinating Granules, the 1.5lb and 5lb Bromine Tablets, and the 2lb sodium bromide.
Yellow is As Needed
Any product that has a yellow label is to be used in your hot tub as needed. For example, if you have a periodic issue with foam, then our Spa Defoamer that has a yellow label will be used for combating the foam. Products with yellow labels that are included in the as needed category are Spa Defoamer, Calcium Increaser, Jet Line Cleaner, and pH and Alkalinity Up and Down.
Purple is for Filling
Our products with purple labels are usually for a fresh fill, or start up circumstance. They would be used when you first fill your hot tub and have to do the initial balancing of the water. These products include pH Lock and Stain & Scale Control.
Light Blue is Monthly
The light blue colored labels indicate that the product is to be used monthly. These products are usually cleaners and maintenance products that help keep your spa operating in peak condition by cleaning it monthly. The monthly products include Instant Cartridge Cleaner, Cartridge Cleaner, and Surface and Cover Cleaner.
Dark Blue is Weekly
Products with the dark blue label indicate the product needs to be used weekly. This includes Oxidizing Spa Shock and Spa Clarifier. Both of these products are used weekly to help keep the water crystal clean and clear.
Overall, there are five categories or colors that the spa product can be associated with: Sanitizer, Weekly, Monthly, As Needed, and Filling.
Hot Tub Things also carries a Chlorine Start-Up Kit that includes all the chemical products you need for a fresh fill of your hot tub. It even includes a 50 count bottle of test strips that will last you long enough to get through the set of chemicals. The Start Up Kit includes Chlorinating Granules, pH & Alkalinity Up, pH & Alkalinity Down, Oxidizing Spa Shock, Spa Clarifier, Stain & Scale Control, and a 50 Count of Test Strips.
Each Start-Up Kit also includes a waterproof laminated card that explains the chemicals and how to use them, a quick start-up guide, and a full troubleshooting guide. Go ahead…throw it in the hot tub! It's waterproof quality will ensure you'll be able to use the quick guide for a long time to come.
If you purchased other full sized products from our chemical line instead of a start-up kit, but still want a quick waterproof guide, then feel free to mention it in your order and we'd be happy to throw one in for you!
Go to hottubthings.com and try out our chemicals! We promise you'll be thrilled with our new custom products. For more information on our new line of spa care products, contact us today!


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Just in case you are starting to feel shivers from a lack of a Gears update, here is a fact sheet from E3. Now put the gun down.
Title: "Gears of War 2"
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Epic Games, Inc.
Format: DVD for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Pricing: $59.99 for Standard Edition and $69.99 for Limited Edition1
Availability: Nov. 7, 2008
Product Overview:
"Gears of War 2" is the highly anticipated sequel to the 5 million-selling blockbuster action game and one of the most popular Xbox games in history.
Players continue as Marcus Fenix, a reluctant war hero and leader of Delta Squad, six months after the events of "Gears of War." The last cities on Sera are sinking, swallowed by a new Locust threat from below. A massive counterattack is humanity's last hope for survival.
"Gears of War 2" blends a best-in-class third-person shooter with unsurpassed high-definition visuals, all layered on top of an engaging story of survival, loss and retribution.
"Gears of War 2" is developed by Epic Games exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system.
• Unparalleled gameplay. "Gears of War 2" takes the award-winning gameplay of the original and improves upon it in every way. The genre-defining cover system is further refined, making the "stop and pop" gameplay more intuitive. Dynamic cover is given new meaning as downed opponents can be picked up and used as shields. The intimate violence of the battlefield is heightened when combatants engage in chainsaw duels. Destructible environments and vicious new finishing moves add to the over-the-top experience.
• Jaw-dropping visuals. "Gears of War 2" continues to raise the graphics bar through its breathtaking visual effects, made possible through advances in Unreal Engine 3.
• Engaging experience that pulls you in and won't let go. "Gears of War 2" takes deep and immersive storytelling in video games to greater heights. Players connect with humanity's battle for survival on a personal level as they move through a story that introduces new characters and sheds light on the histories of familiar ones.
• Expanded cooperative play. Team up with a friend to fight through the harrowing story of Delta Squad in the enhanced campaign mode, now featuring drop-in/drop-out gameplay, as well as individual player difficulty options. Or recruit four friends to battle in the new game mode "Horde," where you'll fight together to fend off a seemingly endless onslaught of Locust forces to attain the highest score.
• Fierce and varied competitive multiplayer action. "Gears of War 2" features eight distinct multiplayer modes,2 including the new Wingman, Guardian and Submission modes, where up to 10 players choose a side and pit their courage and battlefield mettle directly against others. In addition, multiplayer bots are available to sharpen your skills offline or to fill out your online private matches on Xbox LIVE.
• Party system and skill-based online matchmaking. New to "Gears of War 2" is a party system that allows players to form a full or partial team with friends and continue together from match to match without the need to reform after each game. "Gears of War 2" also supports a skill-based online matchmaking system, powered by TrueSkill, which groups players of similar skill level together in competitive multiplayer matches.


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Company Overview
Polarmax® is the primary retail brand of Longworth Industries, Inc., located in West End and Candor, North Carolina. Celebrating 25 years of innovative technical base layer apparel, Polarmax® is a distinguished leader in the base layer marketplace.
With aggressive fabric development and product testing, a strong green story, and a completely vertical business structure, it is no wonder that Polarmax® is one of the nation's top base layer apparel manufacturers.
Add the "Made in the USA" label, and you have the smartest choice for both consumers and retailers.
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Polarmax® "Hand": We have built our reputation on designing and developing fabrics that perform with unquestionable quality but with the feel of perfect comfort next to your skin.
Polarmax® Partnership to the Consumer : The best base layer garments available in today's marketplace for keeping you warm, dry and comfortable while you enjoy the competitive pricing and clear conscience.
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Polarmax® Made in the USA: We are very proud of our upwards of 150 employees who work together to give meaning to "Made in the USA" label.


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I am primarily famous online for my typing prowess. Since I am asked the same questions so frequently by various other typists, I figured I would provide substantive detail on my typing history here.
I taught myself to touch-type when I was about three years old on the old DOS program CPT Personal Touch-Typing. I attained a high speed of 83 wpm (415 cpm) at age six and 108 wpm (540 cpm) at age ten, which was faster than any of the other students or teachers at Smith Road Elementary. The faculty occasionally had me type things for them, most notably a poetry book featuring poems from all the second-grade students. In my teen years, I promptly forgot about typing applications, but continued to improve. My father installed a typing application on his computer when I was a teenager and by that point I was somewhat frequently exceeding the 199 wpm that was the maximum score that program would display. I spent no time actually studying the mechanics of typing and I don't entirely remember what I did to improve since it was not one of my focuses.
I discovered competitive typing by accident in the spring of 2008 while in grad school. My high school classmate Jordan Nott was using the Facebook Typing Speed application (which now appears to be defunct) and it appeared in one of his status updates. I did a few 30-second races most days for the next few months, and was rather startled to discover that I was consistently 20 wpm (100 cpm) faster than almost all the other users, with the primary exception of MIT computer science grad student Jelani Nelson, who was essentially my equal. Eventually, over the next year and a half, I was receiving a few Facebook friend requests a week from people intrigued by my typing and many PMs inviting me to other competitive typing sites.
In late 2009 and early 2010, I joined a multitude of typing sites and set records on most of them. That culminated in Jelani inviting me to compete in the Ultimate Typing Championship for a $2000 cash prize at the 2010 South by Southwest Interactive Conference. Jelani and I were roughly equal on that site and far faster than anyone else, each scoring peak speeds of over 200 wpm (1000 cpm). However, Jelani chose not to participate, so I won all three rounds of the semifinals for the Ultimate Typing Championship fairly easily, averaging 154 wpm (770 cpm) in the first round, 146 wpm (730 cpm) in the second round, and 157 wpm (785 cpm) in the third round. Former Harvard Crimson reporter Yifei Chen finished a fairly close second in all three rounds, but could not get time off work for the contest, so my competitor was instead then-Condé Nast programmer Nate Bowen.
The championship itself was a best-of-three match and I won both matches over Nate rather easily.
I beat Nate 163 wpm-110 wpm (815 cpm-550 cpm) on the following text in the first round of the finals:
That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, partly rouse our powers of understanding into activity, to compare, to connect, or to separate these, and so to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which is called experience? In respect of time, therefore, no knowledge of ours is antecedent to experience, but begins with it. But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience. For, on the contrary, it is quite possible that our empirical knowledge is a compound of that which we receive through impressions, and that which the faculty of cognition supplies from itself (sensuous impressions giving merely the occasion), an addition which we cannot distinguish from the original element given by sense, till long practice has made us attentive to, and skillful in separating it. It is, therefore, a question which requires close investigation, and is not to be answered at first sight whether there exists a knowledge altogether independent of experience, and even of all sensuous impressions? Knowledge of this kind is called a priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience. But the expression, "a priori," is not as yet definite enough, adequately to indicate the whole meaning of the question above started. For, in speaking of knowledge which has its sources in experience, we are wont to say that this or that may be known a priori, because we do not derive this knowledge immediately from experience, but from a general rule, which, however, we have itself borrowed from experience. Thus, if a man undermined his house, we say, "he might know a priori that it would have fallen;" that is, he needed not to have waited for the experience that it did actually fall. But still, a priori, he could not know even this much. For, that bodies are heavy, and, consequently, that they fall when their supports are taken away, must have been known to him previously, by means of experience. By the term "knowledge a priori," therefore, we shall in the sequel understand, not such as is independent of this or that kind of experience, but such as is absolutely so of all experience. Opposed to this is empirical knowledge, or that which is possible only a posteriori, that is, through experience. Knowledge a priori is either pure or impure. Pure knowledge a priori is that with which no empirical element is mixed up. For example, the proposition, "Every change has a cause," is a proposition a priori, but impure, because change is a conception which can only be derived from experience.
The second text was considerably harder as most of the special punctuation marks on the keyboard were included in a relatively awkward order to slow the typists down. I beat Nate 124 wpm-79 wpm (620 cpm-395 cpm) on this text to win the Ultimate Typing Championship. I am frequently criticized on YouTube for "only" winning with a speed of 124 wpm (620 cpm). I have typed more conventional texts at a rate of over 160 wpm (800 cpm) over a ten minute period in English, and recently exceeded 170 wpm (850 cpm) over a fifty-minute period on hi-games.net, as mentioned below. I believe it's understandable that Nate and I both typed this considerably more slowly than our usual pace:
1.a) [MAN] A man ordered 2,000 drums of pink ping pong balls in Paris, France. Each drum contained 100 pink ping pong balls. He paid $120 (80 Euros!) per drum, which means he spent $240,000 on 200,000 pink ping pong balls. 1.b) {BALL} These pink ping pong balls measured 40mm (how many inches?) and were given a 1 star rating [1 star?]. [FRIEND] His friends all asked him, "why did you order so many pink ping pong balls, how can you afford to spend that much, and what are you going to do with them?" His answer: "I'll tell you tomorrow." [MAN] Every day his friends asked the same question, and every day he gave the same answer: "I'll tell you tomorrow." {BALL} The pink ping pong balls started decreasing in quantity: only 189,000 left, and then only 172,000, and then 163,000, and then 147,000, etc. {BALL} One day 90% of the pink ping pong balls were gone (100% - 10% = 90% right?). His friends were really feeling frustrated with him now and demanded an explanation, "Tell us what the &^%$ [blip] you're doing with all of these @#^& pink ping pong balls!" [MAN] The man's response: "I spent $240,000 on 200,000 pink ping pong balls for a project. I have now used 90% of those, as you have observed. I promise to tell you tomorrow." [FRIEND] His friends decided to wait one more day and pronounce the alphabet to kill some time: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ then wrote a code word with strange signs: /a/&B#R{+1}>>[Bb] = X0 - 3 + @a rooftop ^ 32 + 12443678923458789 && 1 2 3 < 4. . The next day they were gathered in the man's house for the big revelation. The man stated, "Of the 200,000 pink ping pong balls I ordered I have 137 left. Would anyone like them?" His friends all groaned and said, "[---] no! Give us an answer!" The man began again, "Friends, I am about to unveil a great invention." He took a deep breath...and died. His 7 friends would never know why the man spent $240,000 on 200,000 pink ping pong balls, and neither will you.
I won a deluxe Das Keyboard as part of my prize for my semifinal result and used that to set most of my records on the other typing sites.
My current records on each typing site are as follows:
237 wpm/1185 cpm (last 10 races, 1st all time), 189 wpm/945 cpm (average, 1st all time), 256 wpm/1280 cpm (peak speed, 1st all time). All these records have been broken since, but it is generally believed that nearly every user who broke these records was cheating or using an alternative system such as Plover technology. However, my all-time peak speed record has been surpassed by chickenquestion's 270 wpm. Also note that I used race selection to obtain those averages, as almost all the top members on TypeRacer do. I primarily use two accounts on TypeRacer; I use the arenasnow account to set records by only including fast races, while I use the arenasnow2 account to show my actual ability not inflated by race selection. My average speed on the latter account is 177 wpm (883 cpm), higher than anyone else who is not race-selecting. Although occasionally people say that I often or usually hit 200 wpm, that is definitely not the case. On TypeRacer, I usually only get a 200 wpm (1000 cpm) race every 30 or 40 races. I usually peak at 200 wpm on short texts up to a minute on most sites, but my average converges at about 175 wpm on every site.
English permanent text - 181.06 wpm (1086.36 cpm) - 1st all time. Also note that TypingZone is a European site which defines 1 wpm as 6 characters per minute as opposed to 5 characters per minute on most other typing sites. Hence, my US equivalent typing speed on this passage was 181.06*1.2 = 217.272 wpm.
French permanent text - 167.15 wpm (1002.90 cpm) - 1st all time
Pi to 200 digits - 738.18 cpm (147.64 wpm) - 12th all time
Alphabet - 1.241 sec. (209.51 wpm; 1257.05 cpm) - 19th all time
Alphabet backwards - 1.600 sec. (162.50 wpm; 975.00 cpm) - 38th all time
I am an endurance typist and I tend to benefit the longer a text is. As the alphabet tests prove, there are certainly several other typists who are faster than I am at sprint typing on extremely short texts, especially Guilherme Sandrini (Kukkain) from Brazil.
30 second typing in English - 205 wpm (1025 cpm) - 1st all time
1 minute typing in English - 203 wpm (1015 cpm) - 1st all time
2 minute typing in English - 189 wpm (945 cpm) - 1st all time
5 minute typing in English - 175 wpm (875 cpm) - 1st all time
50 minute typing in English - 174 wpm (870 cpm) - 1st all time (this unofficially breaks Barbara Blackburn's Guinness world record of 150 wpm (750 cpm) over 50 minutes, but is perhaps less impressive because she used a typewriter while I used a computer keyboard).
This is the site that the Ultimate Typing Championship uses. I set the early record of 212.0 wpm (1060.0 cpm) on this site, which has been surpassed many times since (but I believe only by cheaters) and also exceeded 200 wpm (1000 cpm) once at SXSW itself live in a practice race. Unfortunately, I was not logged in at the time.
2 minute English sentence test - 895 cpm (199 wpm) - 1st all time
2 minute Finnish sentence test - 622 cpm (124 wpm) - 12th all time
2 minute German sentence test - 761 cpm (152 wpm) - 1st all time
2 minute Portuguese sentence test - 627 cpm (125 wpm) - 3rd all time
2 minute Turkish sentence test - 527 cpm (105 wpm) - 4th all time
2 minute Dutch sentence test - 725 cpm (145 wpm) - 4th all time
1 minute English words test - 868 cpm (174 wpm) - 1st all time
1 minute German words test - 836 cpm (167 wpm) - 4th all time
1 minute Dutch words test - 767 cpm (153 wpm) - 4th all time
English - 220 wpm (1099 cpm) - 1st all time (this unofficially breaks Stella Pajunas's nearly seven decade old record of 216 wpm over a one-minute interval; however, 10fastfingers requires just typing a string of random words with no punctuation or capitalization, so it is likely Pajunas was typing a more complicated text)
English advanced test - 194 wpm (968 cpm) - 1st all time
This international organization holds the online typing contest where participants type in up to sixteen languages for ten minutes each. In 2010, I won the mother tongue championship and placed third in the multilingual championship; in 2011, I won both championships. I set the all-time multilingual score record of 81505 keystrokes in 2011 despite not typing in Russian, averaging 162.98 wpm (814.9 cpm) in English, 139.96 wpm (699.8 cpm) in Dutch, 134.58 (672.9) in Italian, 129.04 (645.2) in Portuguese, 127.38 (636.9) in Spanish, 122.02 (610.1) in German, 117.98 (589.9) in French, 112.90 (564.5) in Romanian, 104.34 (521.7) in Finnish, 97.78 (488.9) in Polish, 95.38 (476.9) in Croatian, 78.58 (392.9) in Slovak, 75.46 (377.3) in Turkish, 69.42 (347.1) in Hungarian, and 62.30 (311.5) in Czech over a ten minute period. In 2012, I won multilingual again albeit with a lower score but dropped to third in mother tongue. From 2013 on, I only competed regularly in mother tongue, winning in 2013 and finishing second in 2014, before winning twice more in 2015 and 2016.
I have also been active on several other typing sites with considerably fewer users, but I'm omitting them for brevity. I have uploaded performances on several of the above sites and many others on my YouTube channel to prove their authenticity.
I am frequently asked which keyboard layout I use. I have only ever used the traditional QWERTY layout. I recognize that Dvorak and Colemak may be better on the hands, but it would be too much of a loss of speed in my case to justify switching. I used a Das Keyboard Professional Silent until it wore out but have since switched to a Logitech Illuminated Keyboard k740. I do not particularly feel much of a speed difference between the two keyboards, although the Das Keyboard probably did feel better to type with.
I am also frequently asked for tips on typing faster. I believe my biggest advantage in typing is that I do not necessarily use the same finger to type the same key. I use whichever finger is most comfortable, which can vary based on the context of the letters in the word. I cannot completely explain what I'm doing since I have been doing it since my childhood and it comes naturally, but I do tend to use whichever finger is closest based on the positioning of my hands typing the other letters in the word. Additionally, if you want to increase your speed, do not type each word at uniform speed. Speed through the easier words and take a little more time on the harder words to ensure accuracy. Always focus on the word after the word you are currently typing so there are no unnatural pauses in your typing. I recommend using caps lock instead of shift to type capital letters to allow more flexibility in the hand that you would normally use shift with. Finally, with regard to online typing games, for whatever reason my scores seem to register higher in Google Chrome. Although this won't actually improve your speed, it could improve your nominal scores on certain typing sites.


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Saturday, February 6, 2010
California Family
A couple weeks ago we spent it in California visiting my husband's family. Like I said in previous posts, the weather was amazing and I wish this ice box of a state could learn a lesson or two from California. It was a super fun time and it was great getting to know my husband's side a little better. I barely know them I'm afraid. We live all the way on the other side of the country and I've only been around them twice my entire life. They seem to accept me okay though, so that's pretty cool. I feel like I stand out from them big time unfortunately. I'm a tad bit of a prude. Josh's family isn't afraid to say what they think and they're loud and proud. It's great and all, but it's hard for me to be so crude. They have conversations that can make you blush. Oh well. They are so loving and would do anything for each other, so there isn't much bad you can really say. I know that they would be there for me no matter what. Josh wants to move out there so bad. I hate that he doesn't get to see his family and always has to sacrifice in that way. We hope to one day be out there. I owe it to him. He has put my needs and wants before his, and I appreciate it. It means a lot to Josh to raise Wyatt in California. He want there to be lots of options for his son, different things to experience. I don't know, but I miss sunshine already!
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I like the second photo... it looks like you were having fun. As far as them saying whatever is on the minds... you must be spending too much time in VA and not MD, 'cause I'm pretty certain you'd be blushing round here too.ReplyDelete
What part of Cali? I am from Huntington Beach, Ca :) It is Southern and I miss it!ReplyDelete
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From Jacinta: How do you deal with anger and anxiety?
Hi Jacinta-
In order to move beyond anger and anxiety, we need to work with their opposites.
The opposite of anger is forgiveness. Let's do a little exercise; think about being angry at someone. How does that feel in your body? Your heart contracts, your chest tightens up, and your jaw clenches. Now, forgive that person and forgive yourself. Let the anger go by replacing it with forgiveness, even if you don't believe that you are ready to forgive. Watch as a lightness comes over your heart, your chest lifts and expands, and your lips turn up in a smile.
If you have been deeply hurt or violated by another person, the hardest thing to do is to let go of your anger. But if you really think about it, the anger you are holding inside yourself is only hurting you. You are suffering because you are keeping this anger in your body. Forgiveness is a practice of self-love. Begin by forgiving yourself. Then, if you can, shift your perspective and see the situation from the other person's point of view. See the hurt, pain, and fear that the caused the other person to do the thing that you are angry about. Understanding breeds compassion.
I know that forgiving someone you are really angry at may sound like an impossible task. If you're not ready to forgive yet, it will help to wake up each morning and do a yoga set to release the anger from your musculature. Here is a link to a kundalini yoga set that you can practice to relieve inner anger: http://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/kriya/featured-kriyas/kundalini-yoga-kriya-relieve-inner-anger.
Here is a link to another great article and an easy meditation to do to release anger:
Now let's look at anxiety and it's opposite, trust. Anxiety again occurs when we are listening to that big voice of fear that lives within us. It's the voice of the ego that wants to protect us from getting hurt, being embarrassed, or looking stupid. The ego is our limited self. It tells us what we cannot do and why we cannot do it. Our dreams are the voice of our soul. Our dreams guide us to our happiest, most joyful, enlightened versions of ourselves.
Listen to your dreams. What is the wildest thing you can imagine that brings a sense of excitement, and makes you feel alive with hope and anticipation?
"Fear is excitement without the breath." Fritz Pearls
Once you know what you want to do, take a deep breath into your chest, expand your diaphragm and know that your spirit placed that dream within you because you have all the necessary tools to accomplish it. You've got this. Trust that you are enough, and you have what it takes.
In order to build self-trust, do things that you are afraid to do, and keep doing those things. Let go of the outcome, and just have fun with being a beginner. When you see babies learning how to walk, you don't see them beating themselves up because all the adults around them are running already. You see them playfully wobbling around, falling, and trying again. Bring that childlike spirit into your life, and trust that you will eventually learn to walk, then run, then sprint, then climb, and so on. You simply have to begin by taking one single step.
This is my favorite meditation to calm down anxiety: http://www.yogibhajan.org/ybkriyas/index.php?id=87
I hope this helps you. Please keep me updated on your journey.
Good luck!


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The Neuromuscular Center focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of muscle diseases called metabolic myopathies, which includes inherited disorders of muscle fat, carbohydrate and mitochondrial muscle metabolism. The major energy sources for muscle contraction are glycogen, glucose and fatty acids; glycolytic defects refer to disorders that interfere with the breakdown of glycogen or glucose; lipid disorders refer to defects in the breakdown of long chain fatty acid; and mitrochondrial disorders to defects that impair both carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Affected patients often complain of lifelong exercise intolerance and fatigue, and frequently are seen by many doctors before a correct diagnosis is made. Such patients may have a defect in one of the metabolic pathways that normally supplies energy to working muscle - the muscle (and the patient) simply "runs out of gas" and may present not only with exercise intolerance, but with pain, weakness and cramps. In its most severe form, muscle breakdown called rhabdomyolysis occurs.
The Biochemistry Lab performs cutting edge functional or exercise testing which allows use of the most sophisticated techniques available to evaluate the metabolic machinery of working muscle. The team of physicians and scientists assembled as the faculty of the Neuromuscular Center have pioneered the application of such techniques to the study of the human muscle disorders. A unique capacity of the Neuromuscular Center is the ability to undertake comprehensive biochemical evaluation of the abnormalities discovered by exercise testing and to diagnose muscle disorders characterized by specific metabolic defects using both invasive (muscle biopsy, blood analysis) and non-invasive (analysis of expired air, determination of the amount of blood pumped by the heart, magnetic resonance spectroscopy) techniques.
Study of these disorders has yielded novel insights into muscle metabolism and illuminated unforeseen relationships between muscle energy metabolism and physiological responses to exercise.
Dr. Ronald Haller is a renowned expert in metabolic disorders of skeletal muscle and has authored more than 100 publications including articles in Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He has active scientific collaborations with investigators in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark as well as in the United States. His research has centered upon metabolic and physiologic investigation of muscle disorders using exercise testing, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and detailed biochemical analysis
Current Projects
- The effects of nutritional supplements as therapy for patients with inherited disorders of fat and/or carbohydrate metabolism
- The effects and safety of endurance exercise training as therapy for patients with mitochondrial disorders
- Identifying the potential role of high field 7 Tesla magnetic resonance-imaging (MRI) and -spectroscopy (MRS) for the non-invasive diagnosis of metabolic myopathies
- Ren J, Lakoski S, Haller RG, Sherry AD, Malloy CR. Dynamic Monitoring of Carnitine and Acetylcarnitine in the Trimethylamine Signal after Exercise in Human Skeletal Muscle by 7T 1H MRS. Magn Reson Med. 69:7-17, 2013
- Taivassalo T, Ayyad K, Haller RG. Increased capillaries in mitochondrial myopathy: implications for the regulation of oxygen delivery. Brain 135:53-61, 2012
- Heinicke K, Taivassalo T, Woods H, Wyrick P, Babb T, Haller RG. Exertional dyspnea in mitochondrial myopathy: clinical features and physiological mechanisms. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 301:R873-R884, 2011
- Vissing J, Duno M, Schwartz M, Haller RG. Deep splice site mutations preserving minimal residual glycogenolysis ameliorate the phenotype in McArdle disease. Brain, 132:1545-1552, 2009
- Mochel F, Knight MA, Tong W-H, Hernandez D, Ayyad K, Taivassalo T, Andersen P, Singleton A, Rouault TA, Fischbeck KH, Haller RG. Splice mutation in the iron-sulfur cluster scaffold protein ISCU causes myopathy with exercise intolerance. Am J Hum Genetics, 82:652-60, 2008
- Haller RG, Wyrick P, Taivassalo, T, Vissing J. Aerobic Conditioning: an effective therapy in McArdle Disease. Ann Neurol. 59:922-8, 2006
- Vissing J and Haller RG. The effect of oral sucrose on exercise tolerance in McArdle's disease, N Eng J Med, 349:2503-9, 2003
- Taivassalo T, Dysgaard Jensen T, Kennaway N, DiMauro S, Vissing J, Haller RG. The spectrum of exercise capacity in mitochondrial myopathies: a study of 40 patients. Brain, 126:413-423, 2003
- Haller RG and Vissing J. The spontaneous "second wind" and a glucose-induced second "second wind" in McArdle disease - oxidative mechanisms. Arch Neurol.59:1395-1402, 2002
- Taivassalo T, Abbott A, Wyrick P, Haller RG. Venous pO2 during aerobic forearm exercise: an index of impaired oxidative metabolism in mitochondrial myopathy. Ann Neurol 51:38-44, 2002


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Legendary comics writer Steve Englehart returns to the adventures of Max August in The Arena Man, the fourth novel in his fantasy thriller series.
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