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2013 World Junior Hockey Championships – Game 1 Summary
So, Team Canada just wrapped up a 9-3 win in their first official game of the tourney against Germany.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins stood out for Canada, earning 1 goal and 4 assists, and getting the player of the game award for Team Canada. The German player of the game was Leon Draisaitl, who looked like one of few Germans who were really in the game… so that was well earned on his part. Edmonton prospect Tobias Rieder had the first goal for the Germans on a back-door play on the powerplay. He was left unprotected behind Malcom Subban, and banged a cross-crease pass home on the one-timer. Later in the game, Subban got revenge though.. on a similar play 5-on-5, Rieder was in tight for a cross-crease one timer, and Subban made a remarkable kick save.
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How Life Stage Diets Can Help Senior Dogs
By Lorie Huston, DVM
Whether or not your senior dog needs special dog food depends, to a large extent, on your individual dog. There are a number of health issues that senior dogs face that might benefit from a special food. Here are just a few of them…
Obesity and Being Underweight
As pets age, they may become less active. Less exercise may lead to an increase in weight, requiring changes in your dog's diet to compensate and avoid obesity. A diet formulated for dogs that are less active might be appropriate in these situations. This may be a food with a lower calorie content that still contains adequate levels of nutrients to meet all of your senior dog's nutritional needs and keep your dog healthy.
In some cases, the opposite may happen and your senior pet may actually start to have difficulty holding his or her weight. In a case like this, a diet with an increased calorie count and a highly palatable and highly digestible protein source may be useful but the choice of diet may depend on the cause of the weight loss as well.
Arthritis is a common condition in older dogs and a pet food supplemented with glucosamine, chondroitin, and/or omega fatty acids may be helpful in improving joint health and decreasing the pain associated with arthritis and other degenerative conditions.
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Dietary protein levels for older dogs are controversial. Some veterinarians believe that decreasing protein content in the food of a senior dog may be beneficial, particularly if your dog is experiencing kidney disease. Others feel differently, worrying that restricting protein content may lead to inadequate nutrient levels being provided. It is important to remember, especially in senior pets, that not all forms of protein are equally accessible. Some proteins are more easily digestible and therefore more valuable for your pet than others. Your veterinarian can help you determine what is right for your dog.
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NEW ORLEANS – A man on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in connection with a 2008 rape and homicide has been captured and brought to Louisiana, where the crime took place.
The FBI reports on its website that Jose Manuel Garcia Guevara surrendered to authorities in Mexico and was returned to Lake Charles, Louisiana, Wednesday morning.
Guevara is accused of breaking into 26-year-old Wanda Barton's home in Lake Charles on Feb. 19, 2008, raping her and then stabbing her to death in the presence of her then-4-year-old stepson.
Guevara was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list last year. His was the 499th name to be added to the list, which was started in 1950.
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After the Oscars, dessert will be served in 3-D at the Governors Ball this year. Spago pastry chef Sherry Yard has created an Austrian chocolate cake that resembles a staircase leading to a giant edible Oscar statuette that is iced in a way that makes it pop into relief when viewed through the 3-D glasses presented with the dessert.
"It's the first time we're going to eat in 3-D," says the ball's master chef, Wolfgang Puck, over coffee before lunch service at Spago in Beverly Hills. "Why not? We love movies in 3-D these days."
The dessert is a far cry from the vanilla and chocolate ice cream that was served in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel for the first Oscar ceremony in 1929. Eighty-three years later, the Oscar night meal has evolved into a spectacle as outsized as the telecast itself. However, outsized doesn't mean buttoned up, so in keeping with the times, Sunday's meal at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland is kicking off its shiny shoes — forsaking a formal sit-down dinner in favor of a party-style affair featuring passed small plates and lounge-style seating.
Until 1944, the ceremony was held during a dinner banquet — one that was rarely commented on in news accounts of the evening. But that year the banquet vanished as the presentations turned into a stage show. Food finally returned in an official capacity when the first Governors Ball dinner was held in 1958, the year"The Bridge on the River Kwai"won best picture.
For years, the ball was staged off-site at the Beverly Hilton and a hotel caterer saw to the menu, which was often mocked for its pretensions. In 1982, for example, 1,380 guests, including Warren Beatty (who had just won as director for "Reds") and Diane Keaton, noshed on something called Supreme de Volaille en Croute Lucullus.
Over the years, the ceremony bounced from location to location. When the decision was made to hold the dinner at the same place as the ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in 1988, a Santa Monica-based firm called Ambrosia Caterers took over. In the early 1990s, when the dinner and ceremony moved to the Music Center, Pavilion Catering, whose parent company owned Coco's, Carrows and Chi Chi's, held an exclusive contract.
Before Puck assumed the cooking duties for the Governors Ball in 1995, one of the most popular dinner parties on Oscar night was the one hosted by agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar and his wife, Mary, a triple-A-list gathering at Spago, which was held annually for nearly three decades. That and editor Graydon Carter's annual Vanity Fair party, which for nearly 20 years has been one of the toughest invites in town — a place where Justin Bieber and Salman Rushdie might be seen in the same room.
The Vanity Fair soiree is famous for the In-N-Out burgers that are passed around on trays with the rest of the canapes. But Carter recently wrote in an email that his "is not a party where you remember the food, this is a party where you remember who you talked to and who you embarrassed yourself in front of."
Besides, Carter says most of his guests prefer a liquid diet by the time they get to his party.
"I think the guests want some Champagne (last year we went through 330 bottles), maybe a little water and perhaps a cigarette when they're socializing at the party," writes Carter.
Since it was at Spago, Lazar's party was known for its food, including Puck's Jewish pizza with smoked salmon and créme fraiche.
Lazar died in December 1993, and in 1994 Puck kept Spago dark out of respect for his late friend, but by 1995 the academy had wooed Puck to cater the Governors Ball — in large part because it hoped his presence would inject life into an obligatory post-awards party that had turned into what The Times referred to in 1993 as "the 800-pound gorilla of Academy Awards celebrations."
Such was the status of Puck's culinary stardom that year that he shuttled between the ball at the Shrine and his own party at Spago in a helicopter.
At the time, Puck was the wunderkind of gourmet pizza — a daring chef who wooed new Hollywood by taking the "F" in fine dining and turning it into fun dining. It's a trick that he's happy to return to with this year's Governors Ball, which for the second time in the ball's 54-year history will not be a formal seated affair.
In 2007, it was presented as an open-format supper party with food stations serving up full-sized entrees at the behest of Sid Ganis, former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But the size of the plates made eating on the go difficult, and some people complained, so the next year a formal seating chart was once again instituted. And the seating chart, according to Puck, has been the most contested aspect of the ball since he's been cooking for it.
For the 84th Academy Awards, at the prodding of the academy's new chief executive, Dawn Hudson, that chart has been chucked in favor of a relaxed, restaurant-style format in which the stars can arrive and be guided by a maitre d' to sit with whom they'd like.
In addition, there will be no main course, only 10 small plates, cold appetizer and sushi platters, and plenty of tray-passed bites. These include Chinois lamb with cilantro-mint vinaigrette; crab and lobster Louie with horseradish panna cotta and marinated tomatoes; Shanghai lobster with coconut curry, jasmine rice and pickled ginger; and gold-wrapped baked potatoes with caviar and crème fraîche.
"Dawn runs the show now, and she wants to have a party — she doesn't want to have a fancy sit-down dinner, which is what I always told them they should do," says Puck. "But they never knew how to do the seating — I fought with them so many times — they were so rigid with the seating. This year, we're going to have low tables, like in a lounge, and we're going to serve small plates — things you can eat with a fork or just with your hands."
Sound familiar? If you've been dining out in L.A. — or any other major metropolitan area — over the last four years, chances are you've been nibbling on plenty of small, shared plates. Puck and Yard say the trend has developed to the point of saturation as diners have become more sophisticated about food in general and would rather have, as Yard puts it, "one dark, deep, decadent bite" of a complex dessert than 10 bites of milk chocolate.
However, Cheryl Cecchetto, who is producing the ball for the 23rd consecutive year, says the thinking at the Governors Ball has always reflected larger societal trends.
"Think of the world. Everything is shorter, faster — is actually in small bites," says Cecchetto, decked out in a sparkly silver dress at the media preview for the ball. "The world is living in small bites. The world wants to keep moving."
That's certainly true of Hollywood's elite, who over the years, Cecchetto and Puck have noticed, would sit in their assigned seats for only a short period of time before hopping up to socialize all over the room, a habit that made serving a hot dinner problematic.
That wasn't always the case, though. Smartphones, Twitter and tablets may have made us restless lately, but such behavior would never have flown during Lazar's reign. As one Times article put it in 1994, the year after his death, "Lazar didn't suffer table hoppers gladly. If you were seated for dinner, you sat."


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North Texas hoops signs former Cincinnati center Kelvin Gaines
DENTON, Texas — North Texas head basketball coach Tony Benford has announced the signing of former Cincinnati center Kelvin Gaines to a scholarship.
The Ocala, Fla., native played in 39 games for the Bearcats over the last two years after taking a redshirt in 2010-11. Gaines will graduate from Cincinnati this summer, and is expected to be immediately eligible to play his final two seasons at North Texas.
"We are tremendously excited to have Kelvin Gaines joining the Mean Green family," Benford said. "He brings a great deal of character, athleticism and toughness to our program. Kelvin comes from a great program in Cincinnati, which has put him through three years of Big East competition. He's been to the NCAA Tournament, he understands how to work, and he can protect the rim for us. We have great shooters and great balance in our program right now, and Kelvin will really help us shore up the paint."
Standing 6-foot-10, Gaines has been a potent defensive asset for the Bearcats. He tallied 39 blocks in just 276 career minutes for UC. As a redshirt freshman in 2011-12, Gaines ranked third on the team with 23 blocks, and he tallied 17 more last season.
With the offseason additions of Gaines and George Mason transfer Vertrail Vaughns, the Mean Green will have two graduates in its locker room for 2013-14.
"In my 20-plus years of coaching, I've never seen a kid that got his degree in three years and still has two years to play. That shows me that Kelvin has a great head on his shoulders and will be a tremendous mentor for our younger players."
Gaines' resume also includes international experience, as he toured Belgium, Germany and London as part of the Global Sports Academy team in 2011. He played a total of five games against international competition — two contests in Brussels, Belgium; and one each in Cologne, Germany; Dusseldorf, Germany; and Antwerp, Belgium — and averaged seven points and nine rebounds during the trip.
As a senior in 2009-10, Gaines transferred to Arlington Country Day in Jacksonville, Fla., where he led the Apaches to the FHSAA Class 2A finals and a record of 21-6. He ultimately chose Cincinnati over offers from UCONN, Georgia, Memphis, Oklahoma and Miami (Fla.).
As a junior, Gaines averaged 10.1 points, 9.9 rebounds and 6.2 blocks per game in 2008-09 playing for Heat Academy in Martinsville, Va. The Heat finished the season with a record of 50-8 and was ranked as high as No. 12 in the national prep school polls.
North Texas Basketball 2013-14 Recruiting Class
Kelvin Gaines – 6-10, 227, Jr., C, Ocala, Fla. (Cincinnati)
Vertrail Vaughns – 6-2, 184, Sr., G, Mesquite, Texas (George Mason)
Colin Voss – 6-7, 240, Jr., F, Grand Rapids, Mich. (Northern Oklahoma)
Armani Flannigan – 6-8, 200, Jr., F, Rockford, Ill. (Central Wyoming State)
Tony Nunn – 6-9, F/C, Salisbury, N.C. (Oldsmar Christian)
Josh Friar – 6-8, F, Houston, Texas (Kingwood HS)
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Despite global economic uncertainties, the euro zone debt crisis, and fears of a hard landing in China, the mega-rich — the one percent of the one percent — have had a great year.
The world's billionaire club has added to its numbers and increased its wealth even as equity, currency, and commodity markets have suffered one of their most volatile periods. The number of billionaires worldwide grew 9.4 percent to 2,160, expanding their wealth by 14 percent to $6.19 trillion — a $760 billion jump over the previous year, according to research firm Wealth-X.
Wealth creation among billionaires did vary according to regions, depending on the extent of the economic slowdown in their part of the world. The overall wealth of the larger group of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, those worth $30 million and more, dropped nearly 2 percent this year.
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In London, there is a Princess Diana memorial fountain in Hyde Park, not far from the Princess Diana memorial playground. In gift shops, you can buy a Princess Diana memorial tartan. But perhaps the best-known monument to the late Princess can be found in the basement of Harrods department store, which was, from 1985 to 2010, owned by Mohamed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi Al Fayed, with whom Diana had her last fling. In a city of monuments, it is one of the newest, put up in the aftermath of the August 31, 1997, car crash that took Diana's and Dodi's lives.
A Harrods salesclerk gave me directions: "Downstairs, to the right, through the shoe department." The memorial consists of side-by-side color photos of Dodi and Diana, framed by golden interlocking *D'*s and sculpted albatross. Set in an acrylic pyramid in front of the photographs is the famous and controversial "engagement ring" that Dodi bought Diana the day before their deaths, along with a smudged wineglass—preserved, as the inscription notes, "in the exact condition it was left on the couple's last evening together at the Imperial Suite at the Hotel Ritz in Paris."
Mohamed Al Fayed has attempted to preserve a similarly lasting impression of his version of the relationship between Diana and his late son. Mohamed, a self-styled enemy of the British establishment, has long maintained that Dodi was murdered by the British secret service, as part of a conspiracy involving members of the royal family, because he was a Muslim about to marry the mother of a future King of England. Al Fayed's insistence on this plot outline—and on the allegation that Diana was pregnant when she died—has been so zealous that in 2008, more than 10 years after the fact, it engulfed what would otherwise have been a bureaucratic and largely pro forma coroner's inquest into the deaths of Diana and Dodi. (The inquest had had to await the completion of a French police investigation, which lasted until 2003, and of an independent follow-on British police investigation, which began in 2004.) The coroner's inquest lasted 89 days.
Diana's closest confidants in her last years did not need an inquest to know the absurdity of Al Fayed's claims. Not only was she not planning to marry Dodi Al Fayed, or pregnant with his child, they say, but she was in fact still "madly in love," as one of them describes it, with another man, an unassuming Pakistani heart surgeon named Hasnat Khan.
A Serious Man
No monument recalls their romance. Diana's love affair with Hasnat Khan was secret. He was as understated as Dodi was flashy, as remote as Dodi was public, as somber as Dodi was carefree. Though they were together for two years, Diana and Hasnat were largely unknown as a couple. They spent much of their time together in Kensington Palace, where they could avoid the paparazzi and their cameras. When they ventured out, it was often in Hasnat's Chelsea neighborhood, sometimes with Diana wearing a dark wig and sunglasses.
Hasnat Khan has been described as a serious man. More specifically, at the time he met Diana, he was a modestly paid junior surgeon employed by the National Health Service. He worked 90-hour weeks and, like most surgeons at his stage of career, he simply wanted to sleep when he got home. Diana threw herself into the almost aggressive normalcy of his existence. Her friends tell stories about how she puttered around his small one-bedroom apartment and tidied up, doing the dishes and folding his laundry. Hasnat didn't ride or hunt. He liked jazz and Guinness, so he and Diana stood in line to see the late-night acts. If they argued, Diana sometimes sent her butler, Paul Burrell, to talk things over with Hasnat at a local pub, the Anglesea Arms, in Chelsea. It's hard to imagine Dodi socializing with the help.
In recent months I have sought out the people who knew Diana and Hasnat when they were together. In my reporting, I also combed through inquest transcripts, police reports, and the published writings of friends, acquaintances, journalists, biographers, and employees in Diana's circle. Diana has given rise to a lucrative memoir niche, but Hasnat has been noteworthy in not sharing his story. He has given occasional interviews to British tabloids but, according to a friend of his who agreed to talk to me on his behalf, regretted them all for the headlines that resulted, like this one from the Mirror in 2002: POOR HASNAT IS LOCKED IN GRIEF. HE SAYS IT IS ONE BIG NIGHTMARE. Hasnat's most significant disclosures came in 2008, when the British inquest looking into Diana's death required his testimony, and even then Hasnat elected to stay in Pakistan and instead offered the inquest his responses from his official interview with the British police, in 2004, as their own investigation got under way. The contents of this interview had never before been made public.
More recently, in January 2012, Hasnat received a letter from Scotland Yard, notifying him that the police had found his name and cell-phone number during its investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World. The hacking, if it occurred, would have been done either at the time of his relationship with Diana or before the inquest, when the press was eager to determine if Hasnat was going to attend. He has brought a civil claim against News Corporation. Whatever money he might get from the company, he has said, he will donate to the hospital cardiac unit he has opened in Pakistan to serve impoverished children. In September, the British production companies Embankment Films and Ecosse Films will release a movie called Diana, starring Naomi Watts in the title role and focusing on the last two years of Diana's life and specifically on her relationship with Hasnat. He has not cooperated and is said to have laughed at some of the scenes the movie conjures.
Perhaps Hasnat's discretion, in the end, has been his greatest gift to Diana. "Everybody sells me out," she told a friend the summer of her death. "Hasnat is the one person who will never sell me out."
The Name on the Shoes
Their first meeting was by chance, and for the most famous woman in the world, his reaction was unusually abrupt. On September 1, 1995, Hasnat Khan, the attending surgeon, had come to a waiting room at the Royal Brompton Hospital to tell Oonagh Toffolo, an acupuncturist and self-described healer, that he had to rush her husband, Joseph, back to the operating room. Hasnat had assisted at her husband's triple-bypass surgery the day before, but there had been a complication and the patient was hemorrhaging. As Hasnat relayed the news, Toffolo introduced him to the visitor who had arrived that morning: Princess Diana. Hasnat nodded perfunctorily and then left the waiting room to go about his business. "It is doubtful if in her entire adult life Diana, the Princess of Wales, had ever made less of an impression on someone!," Toffolo wrote in the Mirror after Diana's death. Diana waited two beats, to make sure Khan was gone, and then turned to her friend: "Oonagh, isn't he drop-dead gorgeous?" Diana wasn't missing a detail: "And his name is Hasnat Khan," she went on. "It's written on his shoes."
Oonagh Toffolo was part of the retinue—healers, hairdressers, astrologists, masseuses—that Diana gathered around her as she distanced herself from her royal life. She had been officially separated from Charles in 1992 and by the time she met Hasnat Khan she was living alone in Kensington Palace. She had cycled through many of her friends, owing to perceived or actual slights, and sometimes out of simple boredom. She changed her cell-phone number every six months to foil anyone—such as the British secret service, not to mention the British tabloids—who she believed might be trying to listen to her calls, but the rotation had another consequence. "It was an incredibly effective way of dumping people," Richard Kay, a Daily Mail journalist who was one of her favorites, told me. "By the end, the number of friends she had you could count on one hand."
What followed that cursory introduction at the hospital was an unlikely romance, a two-year Roman Holiday affair that many close to Diana say was the most significant relationship since her marriage to Prince Charles. For the 35-year-old Princess, Hasnat Khan represented not just a secret, illicit romance. He was a shot at normalcy, at a life away from the increasingly unfriendly spotlight, and a man with whom Diana hoped she might find the personal happiness that had long eluded her. One friend of Diana's told me, "When you think of the kind of men Diana must have met or been with or seen—here is a man who is completely and totally selfless. She said she'd never met anybody like him."
After that first visit to Joseph Toffolo, Diana returned to see him every day during his nearly three-week hospital stay. Diana was soon to be divorced, and she knew it. "She was conflicted in this time in her life," Patrick Jephson, her onetime private secretary, told me, "between some undefined yearning for normality—her concept of normality is not normal, it must be said—and what was a reaction to the traumatic experience of her separation and divorce. You must remember that she didn't join the royal family to be Princess. She joined the royal family to be Queen."
Shortly after meeting Hasnat, Diana found herself alone in a hospital elevator with him, and their eyes locked. "I think I've met my Mr. Wonderful," she told Simone Simmons, her energy healer, as Simmons recalled in a recent conversation. Diana added that Hasnat had "dark-brown velvet eyes that you could just sink into." She often showed up at the hospital late at night to avoid detection. "I found Diana very down to earth, and she made everyone feel at ease," Hasnat told police in his official interview in 2004, speaking of her manner at the hospital. "I did notice that she was also very flirtatious with everyone."
Diana was circling Hasnat, and it took about two weeks, until mid-September, for them to have their first date, in the form of a visit to his Aunt Jane and Uncle Omar's house in Stratford-upon-Avon, to pick up some books. "I did not think for one minute that she would say yes, but I asked her if she would like to come with me," Hasnat recalled, according to the transcript of his interview with the police. "I was very surprised when she said she would." They drove together, and Diana met Omar and Jane. She and Hasnat had dinner and drove back to London. "After this, our friendship turned into a relationship," he said.
Call from Dr. Armani
In November of 1995, Diana, as a joke, sent a large flower arrangement to Hasnat at the hospital. There was no card with the flowers, though Hasnat knew exactly who had sent them. The hospital staff watched with amusement as Hasnat carried the flowers through the corridors. They suspected, but didn't know for sure, where the arrangement had come from. Eventually, someone called the florist and pretended to be inquiring on Hasnat's behalf. The caller threatened to return the flowers if Hasnat didn't learn who had sent them. The florist finally admitted they had been ordered from Kensington Palace. "After this, the press went everywhere trying to get information on me," Hasnat told the police. "They visited old girlfriends, my medical school, and retired professors whom I had known." It was an early warning sign for Hasnat, who came to see the press as a major stumbling block.
For Diana, the media formed a backdrop to her everyday life and represented something that she both resented and needed. Her nocturnal visits to the hospital stopped temporarily after November 30, 1995, when she was intercepted outside it by a photographer from the News of the World. Familiar by now with all of the tabloid editors and reporters who covered her, she took the photographer's cell phone and spoke directly to Clive Goodman, the paper's royal correspondent. (Goodman would be jailed in 2005 for hacking into the voice mails of Diana's sons, William and Harry.) She told him that she visited the Royal Brompton several times a week for hours at a time. Of the terminally ill patients she visited, she said, "Some will live and some won't live—but they all need to be loved while they're here." The story—"My Secret Nights as an Angel"—appeared three days later and led with a reference to Diana's recently alleged affair with the English Rugby star Will Carling. (AT LEAST I'M NOT HERE WITH MR. CARLING, read one of the News of the World headlines.)
Diana, though still big business for editors, had worn out her welcome with the press. When she and Prince Charles were young and married—and, later, when the entire press corps blamed him for her unhappiness—she could do no wrong, and it was in everyone's interest to build her up. But over the years she had told a few lies and attempted to twist the story too much in her favor. Reports of affairs with other men—one of them (Carling) married—had damaged the view of her as a victim. "She had a very tetchy relationship with the media," her former press secretary Jane Atkinson told me. "There was a lot of mistrust about the information they received from her, and a lot of rivalry for stories." The News of the World article gave fodder to critics who saw Diana as unhinged and desperate to be around desperate people. Private Eye, the satirical fortnightly magazine, weighed in with the "Di-No Card," a fictional card that an ill person could clip from the magazine and present in order to stave off a royal visit. ("At last, with the new Di-No Card, you are guaranteed 100% protection from the woman who wants to love you.")
But ridicule was a small price to pay for keeping the romance with Hasnat out of the newspapers—a tactic that worked, for a while. Throughout 1996, Diana nurtured the relationship. Hasnat smoked and brought takeout to Kensington Palace. Diana, who never smoked and who obsessed about her weight, started to set out ashtrays from Thomas Goode and Hermès. "I'd find the ash tipped into the dustbin in my pantry, scattered on top of Kentucky Fried Chicken boxes," Paul Burrell, Diana's butler, wrote in one of his books.
Hasnat's button-down shirts stretched over a small paunch. He worked obsessively and often had little time for the Princess. "Why do you like him?" a friend asked her, mystified by the attraction. "Oh, I love him," Diana replied. "He is so dedicated to his work." In truth, his work was both an attraction and a hindrance. "When he wasn't working, he wanted to sleep," a friend of his told me. Such a schedule didn't suit Diana, who would call multiple times when Khan was in surgery, leaving messages under false names, such as Dr. Armani. Her late-night visits made hospital administrators worry about press intrusion. One hospital staffer told Jane Atkinson, "We've been terribly, terribly worried for a long time. She comes in the night and she goes off and sees Hasnat Khan and we've been terribly worried the story would break." As Hasnat recalled for the police, the hospital "had started getting a bit upset by the disruption caused by Diana's visits. It was becoming a security issue." But the concern didn't stop Diana.
Hasnat soon realized that Diana didn't experience life the way "normal" people did. Even before her marriage to Charles, she was a member of one of the most fabled aristocratic families in England. Diana's lineage can be traced back to Charles II. Her parents, Edward Spencer and Frances Shand Kydd, were the Viscount and Viscountess Althorp. "People joke that the only mistake she made was marrying beneath herself," Jephson told me. With Hasnat, she reveled in the everydayness of his existence. "For example," Hasnat told the police, "we once went to the pub together and Diana asked if she could order the drinks because she had never done so before. She really enjoyed the experience and chatted away happily to the barman." On another occasion, the two waited in line outside Ronnie Scott's, a jazz club in Soho. She called Simone Simmons from the line and said, as Simmons recalled, "You meet such interesting people queuing!" Once, when Hasnat was in Spain, she expressed a desire to fly and meet him there. "I told her that she would not be able to just walk into the airport as everybody would be looking at her," Hasnat told police. Diana replied that she would wear a wig to disguise herself. He pointed out, somewhat frustrated, that flying commercial in disguise was impossible, since she would look nothing like her passport photo.
The abnormality of Diana's life, as both a princess and a celebrity, strained the relationship and revealed how fleeting any lurch toward normalcy would be. "Going to Kentucky Fried Chicken might be what you would do if you were desperately pursuing normality," Jephson told me. "She would go on holiday, but after two or three days she was climbing the walls because she needed to be entertained and needed to feed her public persona. She would say, 'I want to be normal,' but actually, when it came around to the business of being normal, it is damned inconvenient to have to park your car in a car park."
Meet the Parents
Diana and Hasnat discussed marriage, and Diana told two friends I spoke to that she wanted to have a daughter with him. She introduced Hasnat to her sons. Diana went as far as to ask Paul Burrell to find someone who could discreetly marry them. When Hasnat found out, he said, "Do you honestly think you can just bring a priest here and get married?" He told the police, "I thought it was a ridiculous idea." When they weren't hiding out in Kensington Palace, they talked about where they might go that would be shielded from the media glare. "I told her that the only way I could see us having a vaguely normal life together would be if we went to Pakistan, as the press don't bother you there." Diana strongly considered the idea. She also visited South Africa, where her brother, Charles Spencer, was living at the time, and Australia, to see whether there might be suitable places for the couple to live. The notion that Diana, with two sons in school in England, would even have entertained such options shows how fundamentally unrealistic she was. Throughout it all, Hasnat was leery of the press attention Diana received. "I did not want to have to look over my shoulder all the time," he said.
On February 20, 1996, when she was deep in divorce negotiations with Charles, Diana flew to Pakistan with Lady Annabel Goldsmith, the wife of the financier James Goldsmith, and her niece, Cosima Somerset, aboard the Goldsmiths' private Boeing 757. On the way, the women struggled with their pullout beds—"It was like a dormitory farce," Somerset wrote in a remembrance of the late Princess. The professed purpose of the trip was to visit the cancer hospital of the famed Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, who had recently married Lady Annabel's daughter Jemima. After the separation from Charles, Diana and her two boys (who were in boarding school) had spent many Sundays with Ben Goldsmith, Lady Annabel's youngest son, at her Ormeley Lodge, just outside London, where Diana found a surrogate family atmosphere amid the casual Sunday lunches.
Jemima Khan became a friend of the Princess's. Both Imran and Hasnat (who were distant cousins) were from traditional Pashtun families, and Diana sought out Jemima, who was nearly 15 years her junior, to discuss what it was like to be married to a Pakistani man. "Diana was madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him," Jemima told me, "even if that meant living in Pakistan, and that's one of the reasons why we became friends." Diana joked with Jemima about how difficult Pakistani men could be.
For a "son to marry an English girl is every conservative Pashtun mother's worst nightmare," Jemima told me. "You send your son to be educated in England and he comes back with an English bride. It's something they dread." Diana must have felt that such objections would be no match for her charm. She believed she could win the family over. She corresponded with one of Hasnat's grandmothers, known as Nanny Appa, with his family members acting as translators, and spent time at his Aunt Jane and Uncle Omar's house in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Back in London, Diana showed an interest in Hasnat's career. She had asked Khan and the senior consultant he worked for, the prominent cardiologist Sir Magdi Yacoub, if she could witness a heart operation. In April 1996, a charity Yacoub had founded arranged for an operation to be televised. A young boy had been flown in from Cameroon to receive a lifesaving procedure that wasn't available to him at home. Hasnat would assist at the surgery. Diana showed up in heavy eye makeup (as press coverage of the event witheringly noted) and watched the proceedings in scrubs. By that point, Diana was seen as a would-be manipulator of the media. Among the journalists who covered her, everyone seemed to think that everyone else knew about Hasnat, but no one could be entirely sure. They played games with Diana, and she with them. In the earliest coverage of their first meeting, the Daily Mail noted that "Mr. Khan's swarthy good looks have led to comparisons with Omar Sharif and Diana is said to feel inspired by his cool, clinical confidence."
On July 4, 1996, Prince Charles's lawyers announced his offer for a divorce settlement. That night, Diana attended a fund-raiser at the Dorchester hotel for Imran Khan's hospital, dressed in an ivory, pearl-studded shalwar kameez, a traditional Pakistani outfit that was a gift from Jemima Khan. She had told friends she wanted to re-marry once the divorce from Charles was final, and she was trying to make inroads with Hasnat's family. In Stratford-upon-Avon that summer, Diana met Nanny Appa, to whom she had been writing for several months. According to Kate Snell, author of the book Diana: Her Last Love, which is the basis for the upcoming Naomi Watts film, Diana invited Nanny Appa and Hasnat's cousin Mumraiz, who was traveling with her, along with Hasnat's Aunt Jane, to visit Kensington Palace, and they stopped in on their way to the airport the day they were returning to Pakistan. The cousin captured the visit on a video camera, with Diana sitting nervously next to Hasnat's grandmother. The visit was filled with small misfires. Diana introduced Nanny Appa to her cook, a Bengali woman, who to the dismay of the grandmother did not speak Urdu. Diana watched as Nanny Appa inspected the tea sandwiches, carefully lifting the edges to see what was inside. Diana asked Aunt Jane to help her translate, and Hasnat's grandmother, it turned out, was concerned that the sandwiches might contain ham, forbidden in a Muslim diet. She had to be assured several times that the pinkish substance was in fact smoked salmon. Nanny Appa was perhaps right to worry. Diana "never thought about it that [Hasnat] was a strict Muslim," Simone Simmons told me. "And she was very good at bacon sandwiches. So when he brought friends over, she made them bacon sandwiches, and it was a total disaster."
In October, Diana flew to Rimini, Italy, and accepted a humanitarian award along with Christiaan Barnard, the South African heart surgeon who in 1967 performed the world's first successful human heart transplant. While there, she spoke with Barnard about Hasnat, trying to get him a job—something that infuriated Hasnat when he learned about it, months later. After Italy, she continued on to Sydney to open the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, a medical facility named for a mentor of Hasnat's who had been shot and killed in a botched kidnapping five years earlier. Two days later, the Sunday Mirror ran the story that Hasnat had been dreading: DI'S NEW LOVE; HOW TOP HEART SURGEON FINALLY MENDED A SAD PRINCESS'S BROKEN HEART; HOW PRINCESS DI FELL IN LOVE WITH HASNAT KHAN.
Richard Kay, of the Daily Mail, was one of a small number of reporters traveling with the Princess, and he called her assistant that day to ask that Diana get in touch with him to respond. Kay had become Diana's go-to newspaper reporter, a reliable ally in her unending effort to protect and burnish her image. When Diana reached Kay, she assured him that the story was "bullshit," and according to his article the next day, Diana had been "deeply upset" by the Sunday Mirror story because of the "hurt [it would] do William and Harry." It quoted her as telling friends, "It has given me a lot of laughs. In fact, we are laughing ourselves silly over this."
"At the time, I accepted what she told me," Kay recalled recently, adding that he made a "mental note" to follow up on the rumor. "We were in Sydney. Visits to a Pakistani doctor did seem slightly difficult to comprehend." As much as Hasnat wished to keep the romance a secret, to have Diana publicly disavow it hurt him, and it strengthened his gathering conviction that any sort of normal life with Diana would be impossible. Hasnat also began receiving threats in the mail—for instance a cutout picture of himself with a noose around his neck. Shortly after the Sydney trip, Kay says, he met Simone Simmons, Diana's healer and confidante at the time, and Simmons told him all about the relationship with Hasnat.
By early 1997, Diana had a new philanthropic focus. On January 15, she made her famous walk through an Angolan minefield and appeared to be finding new purpose. But it didn't deflect her from Hasnat. In May of that year, Diana and Jemima Khan flew in Jemima's father's jet to Lahore. "She came to visit me twice in Pakistan to help fund-raise for Imran's hospital, but both times she also went to meet his family secretly to discuss the possibility of marriage to Hasnat," Jemima told me. "She wanted to know how hard it had been for me to adapt to life in Pakistan and she wanted advice on how to deal with Pakistani men and their cultural baggage."
By now, Hasnat had decided he couldn't marry her, and she knew it. "He was horrified by the secret wedding plan, and suddenly she saw all these pitfalls looming," Richard Kay told me. Still, on this trip, winning over Hasnat's mother, Naheed, was a top priority. Diana spent time with Imran's sisters, Aleema and Rhanee. The three women agreed that, in order to avoid press attention, they would drive themselves to the family's home in the Model Town neighborhood of Lahore. Ten minutes into the drive they found themselves in a traffic jam. After five minutes of sitting still, it dawned on Aleema that there they were, in the middle of Lahore, without bodyguards or drivers, with the mother of the future King of England. "Are we mad?!," Aleema exclaimed. "We are like sitting ducks. If anything happens, this will create an international incident!" Soon enough, people on the highway started to recognize Diana, pointing toward the car and waving. "She was entirely unflappable," Aleema remembers. "She rolled her window down, smiled, and waved back at them." Diana knew the address of the house by heart and directed Aleema as she drove.
According to Snell's account, aunts and uncles had gathered at the family home. The power had gone out in the house, and the group assembled in the garden in sweltering heat. They joked about the power outage. Aleema told me that, even after she and her sister felt it was time to leave, Diana wanted to continue the visit. Eventually, the women made their way back to Imran's house in their Toyota. That night, Diana talked to Imran Khan, who promised to speak to Hasnat on Diana's behalf. He never got the chance to do so. Diana died before Imran made it back to London.
End of the Affair
After her divorce, Diana was always looking for a way to spend time with her sons in a setting that could rival the lush privacy of the royal family's Balmoral estate, in Scotland. When Mohamed Al Fayed invited her in June 1997 to spend a week at his villa in St. Tropez that July, Diana accepted, and looked forward to the privacy and security of Al Fayed's residence.
For some of Diana's trips to see Hasnat's family, whether in Pakistan or Stratford-upon-Avon, Hasnat was not around. His work schedule prevented it. On June 21, Diana spent the day with his family in Stratford-upon-Avon. His grandmother Nanny Appa was visiting from Pakistan. Diana took several of Hasnat's young cousins driving in her car and on trips to the grocery store. Snell writes about how Diana brought the cousins to the local Tesco and let them ride in the shopping cart. They attempted to hide her identity, telling other shoppers that her name was "Sharon," but in the end no one was fooled.
Four days later, 79 of Diana's dresses were auctioned off at Christie's in New York, raising $3.25 million for her favorite charities and further shedding her royal baggage. On July 10, the night before she went to St. Tropez, Hasnat stayed with her at Kensington Palace. "When Diana went to St. Tropez with Mr. Al Fayed, everything was fine between us," Hasnat told police investigating her death. "After a few days, I felt something was wrong. Her mobile kept going on to answerphone." Diana was being followed once again by the paparazzi, who took photos of her Jet Skiing off the beach near Al Fayed's villa. In an impromptu press conference on July 14, she told the photographers following her, "You are going to get a big surprise with the next thing I do." Mohamed Al Fayed called his son Dodi, who was in Paris with his fiancée, Calvin Klein model Kelly Fisher, and asked him to come down to help entertain Diana. Dodi obliged, and left Fisher in Paris. Mohamed had recently purchased a $30 million yacht, the Jonikal, with the express purpose of impressing Diana, according to Tina Brown's biography of her. She and her boys spent time at the villa and aboard the boat with Dodi and family. In the middle of the vacation, on July 16, Fisher flew from Paris to join Dodi but stayed on a different Al Fayed boat, and Dodi shuttled between Diana and her sons and his fiancée, until July 18, when Fisher left for a previously scheduled modeling assignment. The papers were filled with photos of Diana frolicking in the Mediterranean with her sons.
Diana flew on July 22 to Milan to attend the funeral of the murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace. When she and Hasnat eventually spoke again, toward the end of July, Diana had come back from Milan and then secretly flown to Paris with Dodi for the weekend. "When you know someone very well, you know when something is not right, and that is exactly how I felt when I spoke to her," Hasnat said of that period. "I told her I thought something was wrong because of the way she had been acting, but she just said that because of the geography of where she was, she was having problems getting reception on her phone."
Diana returned to London on July 27 and met Hasnat soon after in Battersea Park. "She was not her normal self, and she kept looking at her mobile phone," Hasnat told police about this meeting. He told her he thought she had met someone else, and it must be someone with a connection to Al Fayed. She denied there was anyone else. "At the end of our meeting in Battersea Park, we arranged to see each other again, the following day, at Kensington Palace It was at that second meeting that Diana told me that it was all over between us." He continued: "I remember saying to her at the time, 'You are dead,' meaning her reputation was dead. I said this because I was sure that it was someone from Mohamed Al Fayed's group and that was how I felt about anyone involved with him."
When her sons went to Balmoral for the month of August, Diana began traveling almost nonstop. She flew to Sardinia with Dodi on July 31 for a six-day cruise aboard the Jonikal, during which Dodi and Diana were photographed by the Italian paparazzo Mario Brenna, who had reportedly been tipped off by Diana herself.
She returned to London on August 6 and went almost immediately to Bosnia as part of her campaign against land mines. The trip was overshadowed by the publication on August 7 of Brenna's photos of the couple embracing and by other tabloid stories about the apparent romance. (Kelly Fisher, seeing the photos, hired Gloria Allred to file a lawsuit against Dodi, which she dropped after his death.) Richard Kay wrote in the Daily Mail that Diana had told a "close friend" that "she wants to get a life—a real life She's sick of all the cloak-and-dagger stuff. Why shouldn't she have a man in her life, and for people to know about it?" In her book Diana in Search of Herself, Sally Bedell Smith noted that, according to Diana's friends, this message was "meant for one reader, Hasnat Khan."
Diana's Final Trip
After her return from Bosnia, Diana went on a cruise with her friend Rosa Monckton, the former managing director of Tiffany & Co., who disapproved of Mohamed Al Fayed as a traveling companion for Diana and had advised her not to vacation with his family. During that trip, Diana told Monckton that the relationship with Hasnat was over and that Dodi was going to give her a ring and that it was "going firmly on my right hand." The two talked much more about Hasnat than they did Dodi, and Monckton strongly believes to this day that the relationship with Dodi was designed to make Hasnat jealous.
The friends of Diana with whom I spoke insist that she had broken off the relationship out of frustration that Hasnat wouldn't agree to marry, or even to go public. "Hasnat was a decent, intensely private man from a traditional, conservative Pakistani family, and he was worried about how it would work," Jemima Khan told me. "And he hated the thought of being in the glare of publicity for the rest of his life." Diana's friends were under the impression that Diana had by no means given up on Hasnat, whatever his own reluctance. He told police investigating her death, "My main concern about us getting married was that my life would be hell because of who she was. I knew I would not be able to live a normal life and if we ever had children together, I would not be able to take them anywhere or do normal things with them." A few days after their last meeting, Diana flew to Paris to see Dodi. She found in him someone who had seemingly endless time for her. But, again, it may also be that she was using him to force Hasnat's hand.
Even after Diana broke things off with Hasnat, she contacted his family and gave the impression that the two were still together. Both Lady Annabel Goldsmith and Rosa Monckton spoke publicly at the British inquest in 2008 about Diana's love for Hasnat and the improbability of a serious relationship with Dodi Al Fayed. Monckton was obliged, in her appearance, to reveal that there was no way Diana could have been pregnant with Dodi's child. Just a week before her trip to Paris with him, Diana had been on the cruise with Monckton and had had her period.
The world is well acquainted with Diana's final trip with Dodi and the frenetic last night in Paris, which ended with a high-speed chase through the Alma Tunnel and a fatal crash. Hasnat Khan tried to reach Diana the night of her death, but she had changed her number. He went to her funeral in sunglasses and barely spoke to other guests. He still lives in the U.K. and is a heart surgeon. He has reportedly had two engagements since Diana, and one marriage, which ended quickly. "I think that if Diana were alive today, we would have remained very good friends, whatever she did and whomever she was with," Hasnat told police. "It is a huge loss when someone very close to you dies. I do not know what Diana was like in other relationships but she protected me very well, not just from the media but also from a lot of information. Perhaps she protected me because she thought we had a future together."
And Hasnat has been protecting her ever since.


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The impact of the financial crisis on Malawi has so far been limited. The financial sector is small and less sophisticated, with two (out of nine) commercial banks dominating the banking sector. Foreign direct and portfolio investment levels are very low. However, most commercial banks have reported difficulties accessing foreign credit lines. Furthermore, exchange rate movements in the west are having a negative impact on foreign aid inflows to Malawi. For example, DFID's inflows (in Malawi Kwacha equivalent) have been reduced by about 25 percent due to a depreciation of the British Pound against the US Dollar.
In the medium to long term, the second round effects of the financial crisis could have a significant negative impact on Malawi through its impact on commodity exports and remittances. Malawi's productive sector could be severely affected through reduced demand for the country's exports, mainly tobacco, sugar, and tea. These exports are particularly vulnerable because the EU and the US are the principal destinations. Further, Malawi receives significant amounts of remittances from abroad (around 4 percent of GDP). Therefore, a slowdown in the world's economy is likely to have a significant negative impact on Malawi's current account.
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Africa is Even More Open For Business
With the extreme nature of the world's economic meltdown Africa is even more open for business than ever before. With the unacceptable painful financial cancer spreading the international financial network, Africa is unlikely to be affected at the same rate as the advanced global economies. This is mostly that the financial infrastructure systems in Africa is not complex and sophisticated as that of other advanced economies......thank God for that!
The advanced and sophistication found in these economies has less regulation which encourages unchecked greed that affects these economies. For example, how can one individual defraud USA and world economy by $50 billion within the relaxed regulatory framework to guide against such action. We need to establish a strong regualtory frame in African countries throug the assistance of the World Bank, to ensure that individuals such as those found in USA or other advanced economies are not allowed to bring down the economy of any African countries. We need to learn from these mistakes.
Trade and investment opportunities in Africa under this current economic meltdown is one of the issues that can be discussed in the International Conference on Industry Growth, Investment and Competitiveness in Africa(IGICA) to be held in Abuja, Nigeria, on 8-10th June 2009. Visit the website on www.kfint.com/igica to register your interest to participate.


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Beyond Façade: Pattern Matching for Natural Language Applications
March 15, 2011 Page 1 of 5
[Is the age of natural speech here? Telltale's Bruce Wilcox delves into techniques for natural language processing and contrasts AIML and Façade's approach against his own award-winning ChatScript, showing a path forward for word-based game technology.]
Understanding open-ended simple natural language (NL) requires huge amounts of knowledge and a variety of reasoning skills. And then there's dealing with bad spelling, bad grammar, and terse context-dependent input. No wonder games severely limit their use of NL.
But speech is a coming interface. It solves input issues on small devices as well as being more appropriate than a mouse or controller for some games. Those old text adventure games were a lot of fun even with extremely limited vocabulary and parsers. Google now provides free servers translating speech to text for web pages, so the focus will shift to using that text.
Scribblenauts accepts text nouns and adjectives in its latest puzzle game and Telltale Games has a planned product mixing nouns and verbs. In other words, full natural language games are only a matter of time. Bot Colony is currently attempting this and Façade already did so (sort of) five years ago.
In this paper I will look at successive refinements to NLP (natural language processing) as they apply to games, reviewing AIML, Façade, and ChatScript. I will cover how the state of the art has evolved from matching patterns of words to matching patterns of meaning.
This paper will make the following general points:
- Script syntax and semantics have a big impact on ease of content authoring.
- Matching sets of words instead of single words approximates matching meaning.
- The absence of words is as important as the presence.
- Wildcard matching (in place of parsing) should be reined in to reduce false positives.
Unrestricted NL input has existed for decades – chatbots like Eliza and A.L.I.C.E. (left). But the output is barely useful. It takes a lot of data to make any plausible approximation to natural language understanding. This places a premium on making it easy to author content.
A.L.I.C.E is written in AIML. AIML is a miserable system for authoring. As a programmer, I think of AIML as recursive self-modifying code at the assembly level of language processing -- in other words, a content creation and maintenance nightmare. And its pattern matching is feeble.
Pattern Matching
AIML is simple. You describe a category (what others call a rule) as a pattern of words and wildcards and what to do when the rule matches the current input. AIML's syntax is XML based, with a pattern (input) clause and a template (output) clause, like the rule below:
<pattern> I NEED HELP * </pattern>
<template>Can you ask for help in the form of a question?</template>
The pattern must cover the entire input of case-insensitive words; punctuation discarded. The wildcard * binds to any non-zero number of words, creating patterns matching many inputs.
Problems with authoring arise instantly. Matching the sequence I love you in all sentences requires four rules, and still can't match I really love you.
<pattern> I LOVE YOU </pattern>
<pattern> * I LOVE YOU </pattern>
<template>Whatever </template>
<pattern> I LOVE YOU * </pattern>
<pattern> * I LOVE YOU * </pattern>
<template> Whatever</template>
If only AIML wildcards matched 0 or more words, then a single pattern would do. You can make the above patterns match I really love you by adding in a wildcard between I and you, but then it would also accept sentences like I will never love you. Wildcards in AIML are inadequate.
Recursive Substitution
The power of AIML lies in recursive substitution. It can submit input to itself using the <srai> tag and put the contents of * into the output using <star/>. The rules for mapping Can you please tell me what LINUX is right now to the question What is LINUX? might look like this:
<pattern> * RIGHT NOW <\pattern>
<template> <srai><star/></srai></template>
=> CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT LINUX IS and then
<pattern> CAN YOU PLEASE * <\pattern>
<template> <srai> Please <star/></srai></template>
=> PLEASE TELL ME WHAT LINUX IS and then
<pattern> PLEASE TELL ME WHAT * <\pattern>
<template> <srai> TELL ME WHAT <star/></srai></template>
=> TELL ME WHAT LINUX IS and then
<pattern> TELL ME WHAT * IS <\pattern>
<template> <srai> WHAT IS <star/></srai></template>
=> WHAT IS LINUX and finally
<pattern> WHAT IS LINUX <\pattern>
<template> LINUX is an operating system. </template>
=> LINUX is an operating system.
AIML does everything this way. A.L.I.C.E. has 1300 rules merely to remove what it considers useless adverbs like really and accordingly in sentences.
Extended Patterns
AIML allows you to augment patterns in two ways. One is with a topic you can set on the output side and test on the pattern side. This prioritizes rules inside a matching topic over rules outside of it. So if the topic became set to "tasty breakfast food" then this rule would get priority.
<topic name="* breakfast *">
<pattern>I like fish</pattern>
<template> Do you like sushi? </template>
The problem with this is that you have to dedicate rules outside of this topic to set the topic name for you to match. How many rules you will need and how to craft them will be significant issues.
The other pattern augmentation mechanism is the that clause, which adds a pattern match on the last output sentence given by the system. Rules that match a that clause have priority over rules that don't. You can use that to script continuations based on expected reactions to your output.
<that> Do * sushi </that>
<template>I hate sushi</template>
This rule responds to a simple yes only if the last output was a "Do" question that ends in sushi.
With pattern augmentation, you can write some obscurely clever code. But obscure code is generally self-punishing and few people can write or read such code.
Complex Computation
On output, aside from writing text and sending itself new input, you can call the OS system shell or use JavaScript. AIML lets you set variables, but other than the topic variable you can't consult them on the pattern side. AIML uses variables to handle pronoun resolution. When you author an output, you also author what pronouns you are affecting by specifying a new value for their corresponding variable and writing patterns to remap inputs with pronouns. Adds to the authoring burden but it works.
Implementing AIML is easy. All the data is precompiled into a tree structure and input is matched in a specific order against nodes of the tree, effectively walking a decision tree. The first matching node then executes its template, which may start up a new match or do something else.
Inherent Weakness
AIML's basic mechanic is also its weakness. Recursively self-modifying input creates problems.
First, you can't glance at code, you have to read it and think about it. XML is not reader friendly. It's wordy, which is fine for a machine but hard on a human. Just consider the simple that rule about sushi above. You can't just look at it and know what it does. You have to think about it.
Second, you can't see a rule and know if it will match the input. You have to know all the prior transformations.
Because of this, writing and debugging become hard, and maintenance impossible.
AIML is clever and simple, and a good start for beginners writing simple bots. But after 15 years, A.L.I.C.E has a meager 120K rules. AIML depends on self-modifying the input, so if you don't know all the transformations available, you can't competently write new rules. And with AIML's simple wildcard, it's easy to get false positives (matches you don't want) and hard to write more discriminating patterns.
Still, A.L.I.C.E. is a top chatbot, coming in 2nd in the 2010 Loebner Competition.
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Red Lobster Waitstaff Talking About Diarrhea Turns Into Free Meal And Smiles
Reader Wormfather had an unsatisfactory Red Lobster experience with waiters joking about "diarrhea" and wanting "hot" customers, but after mentioning it to the manager, the couple left with satisfaction and smiles on their faces. His story, inside…
Yesterday my fiancée and I were out and about with a lot to do in preparation of the upcoming wedding, our travels finished in Westchester County, NY. It was getting late and we were starving, we thought seafood would be great and we were close to a Red Lobster (yes, I know, I know) so we decided that we'd zip in for dinner.
Once inside we learned that there was a 25-minute wait, that was out of the question as it was already closing in on 9PM. With that said we decided to sit at the bar area that had no wait. It took a couple of minutes to get our food ordered which was fine and to be expected, hey, they were busy. Well we order our dishes, receive our drinks and then waited 20 minutes for our appetizer, after those aforementioned 20 minutes our entrées show up and we asked the server what happened to our appetizer he apologized and offered to go see, we decided that we'd skip it, finish eat our dinner and head home.
Now all throughout our meal there were waiters going back and forth between the kitchen, the bar and their respective tables, all the while they were cracking jokes to the likes of "Why cant I get a hot customer" and another waiter complaining about the fact that their table came $15 short of the required amount for a automatic tip to be added, both situations I can sympathize with. However as I was halfway through with my meal, two waiters passed by and were audibly joking about diarrhea, well enough was enough and my appetite was finished. A few minutes later I saw the Service Manager passing by and explained to him the situation regarding our appetizers and the professionalism of the waiters. The manager asked me if there was anything he could do, I told him that there was nothing (I know, we should have had a clear request of some sort), we were just grossed out and wanted to let him know what was going on. He apologized and then his eyes caught on fire, he started pointing at waiters and directing them to the back, we overheard a waiter say "All wait staff meeting in the kitchen and at this point my fiancée and I were satisfied, the manager was addressing the situation. We waited for the waiter to comeback and asked for the check and gave him the credit card. A few minutes later the manager emerged with my credit card and informed me that he was buying our dinner tonight, he explained that he was very embarrassed by the situation and had reminded his staff that they are always on stage and that nothing comes before the customer.
Needless to say we left with a smile on our face and despite my fiancée's concerns about a potential retaliation from the staff, we'll be back to the Scarsdale Red Lobster next time we're in the area.
And that's why it's always a good idea to speak up.
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Word Snack level 54 answers
Word Snack is a new mobile game that requires you to solve a wide range of word puzzles in order to reach a new level. Not only are there hundreds of hidden words for you to explore, but completing the puzzles is totally an amazing experience.
Unlike other similar games, you will note that Word Snack does come with its own set of unique words in each level. At first, they are rather simple, but in level 54 the words do tend to get pretty complex and it will take a lot of time for you to find them all.
Don't worry, we are here to help you. We have found all the answers to Word Snack level 54.
Word Snack level 54 answers
Answers: Hat, Hare, Heart, The
Next level?
You can go now to Word Snack level 55 or go to the homepage of Word Snack Answers to select a different level.
Quick Search!
You can use the following search form to find the answers to any level of Word Snack game.
Similar games.
Obviously, you liked this game, but did you know that there are a lot of other games similar to Word Snack? Well here are some of them. Note: Some of the games are available only in English.
- Word Connect (English)
- Word Blocks (English)
- Pictoword (English)
- Wort Guru (German)
- Pro des Mots (French)
Like other games, Word Snack does come with a daily bonus, which can be pretty significant if you stick to the game for a long time. It's a delightful experience to have and one that does pay off immensely in the end.


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Is it important for children to have a healthy snack prior to settling down and doing their homework? If so, explain.
It depends on the child and the time of day and/or situation. Studies have shown that children do better in school when they have a good breakfast, for example, so it makes sense that they may be able to focus on homework if they have a healthy snack. If a child is hungy, it can be difficult for them to concentrate on their homework. Of course, a healthy snack like fruits, veggies, or nuts is always preferred over a candy bar, cookies, or cake! Fruits and veggies make great after-school snacks. For more snack recipe ideas, click here.


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It's Business as Usual for Anonymous as Panda Takes a Hit
Mar 7, 2012 2:59 PM PT
The hacktivists known as "Anonymous" have retaliated following Tuesday's news of the arrests of LulzSec hackers exposed by their former leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur.
Overnight, Anonymous hackers took down more than 25 websites belonging to Panda Security. They also posted email addresses, usernames and passwords of more than a hundred of the firm's employees and defaced a number of marketing-related sites.
Members claiming to be part of Anonymous posted numerous messages aimed at both Panda Security and at Monsegur, also known as "Sabu." In one post, the group noted "Yeah, yeah, we know... Sabu snitched on us," referring to the fact that Monsegur aided the FBI, resulting in the arrests of other LulzSec members.
The attack did not breach its internal network, and neither source code nor customer data was accessed, Panda Security said in a statement. Anonymous was only able to access information related to marketing campaigns and some obsolete credentials.
Panda Security did not respond to our request for further details.
Anonymous and Decentralized
This brazen attack shows that the group is neither down for the count nor as weakened as reports on Tuesday might have suggested.
"This is the Anonymous agenda," Steve Fox, CEO of Security Pursuit, told TechNewsWorld. "They have set out to make a mockery of law enforcement or those that were helping law enforcement."
Panda Security had long condemned the actions of Anonymous and helped play a role in recent arrests in Spain, noted Fox.
The arrests of Monsegur and the other LulzSec members were part of an international effort by law enforcement, but it remains unclear whether they will have any lasting impact on the group's structure.
"The one thing to keep in mind, is Anonymous isn't so much of an 'it' as much as a 'they,'" said Fred H. Cate, director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University.
The group is a group really in name only, he told TechNewsWorld. "This is a loose federation of lots of independent hackers doing things and without a lot of coordination."
This lack of coordination and the decentralized nature of Anonymous also means that law enforcement officials -- and even security firms -- need to think of them differently.
"It's not useful to think about Anonymous and other hacktivists like they are as organized as Amway," nCircle CTO Tim Keanini told TechNewsWorld. "Frankly, trying to characterize Anonymous is like trying to characterize all rock and roll artists. About the only thing all participants have in common is their medium."
Hacktivism is all about diversity and common cause, said Keanini -- not about centralized leadership.
"There's no way of knowing how hacktivists will respond to recent events, but enterprise security teams should not let their guard down," he cautioned. "Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a great instruction manual for IT security. It teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position as unassailable as possible."
Anonymous Resolve
Despite the arrests Anonymous appears as determined as ever, and there is little evidence to suggest any rifts in the group -- but this is due to its decentralized nature.
"The state of Anonymous is not much different than it was three days ago," added Fox. "The arrests seem to have had little negative impact."
What is notable, he added, is that even with the information that Monsegur turned informant, the group has maintained a fair amount of solidarity.
"In their posts online, they didn't throw the arrested members under the proverbial bus," Fox said. "And internal rifts -- we don't see that either."
At present, the group is showing resolve, and that's not likely to change.
"This is because the group doesn't coordinate, and these groups are typically only a loose federation," said Cate. "This is their de facto way of operating, and one benefit is that they become more resilient to being shut down."


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Welcome to VegWeb's Soft Launch!
Hi all!
I just wanted to thank you all for stopping by the newly redesigned VegWeb! We're so proud of and excited about the site, and we hope you will be too.
There's a new blog section where we'll regularly post site news and have fun guest chef posts and all sorts of great stuff. Find out about the soft launch and about new and coming attractions here: http://vegweb.com/blogs/welcome-vegweb
As always, if you have any questions or comments, shoot me a private message or email me at email@example.com.
Again, so excited, and stay tuned for even more delicious happenings!
TOT, but hey Sarah, check your inbox, I PMd you.
I like the new look a lot, am mourning my lost recipe box, - would love to have the star system back and greatly miss the ability to sort the recipes by rating!
at first glance it's a bit shiny and new but even with me being a technophobe I'm sure I'll love it quick time. as others have said, having trouble locating recipe box and previous receipes submitted but hopefully guess this is all in hand and they'll return. is it me or isn't there a feature to continue adding to our receipe box? also miss the ability to edit comments before/after posting!
You might want to rethink showing the text of the last post on the "community" top page. Just sayin'.
I miss my recipe box but lovin everything else.
I miss my recipe box but lovin everything else.
This site is great. Thank you for providing such a wonderful resource!
I am really missing my recipe box too :-( Glad you guys are working on it! Also, I haven't been able to access VegWeb for a while because you were having trouble with Malware, and my browser wouldn't let me on. It looks like that has been fixed now too?
I haven't yet tried editing anything, but I'm pleased that the ability to edit posts appears to have returned.
Recent new problems include:
- threads with new posts do not seem to be marked as such,
- threads are no longer sorted by date of last post, and
- my user info in the upper-right part of the page (everything in #quicktabs-user_block) seems to belong to someone else. This apparently includes seeing the number of unread messages their account has, though my profile page (and mailbox) still seems correct. ETA: And immediately after posting it now shows my name again. I wonder if everyone sees the name of whoever posted last? (Just before it was showing my name as thpeppermntleaf)
That's been happening to me too, Kuzu.
I wish we could quote other people's posts like we used to.
I'm showing up as random users.... I'm wondering if this will post under my username or one of the weird ones that keep showing up.
eta: Should have read the posts before I posted it, good to see it's not only me, hah.
Hey WML, I just edited a post and there were a couple issues -
- the bold tags don't work (they used to; not sure if this is specific to edits or a problem with posts in general now)
- the edited post shows up as a new post, dated today. Like I deleted my original one and posted it anew or something.
Edit3: So, to summarize, html-style tags seem to work for me (at the moment), even when editing (maybe it was a typo in the tag name?). More importantly, bbcode-style tags work too. So we now can have colored text.
On the plus side, it seems faster and, when you click on the text of the most recent post, you get taken there instead of the first page of the thread.
good point veggydog! i didn't even notice that.
Hi Laura! I know you're working hard, especially on stuff like the recipe box. I looked through to make sure no one else had mentioned this, so I hope no one already did and I missed it... Instead of really using the "recipe box" feature, I used to always just look through my own photos of things I'd tried to have a visual little menu of "what's gonna be for dinner tonight?..." I see a lot of my old food pictures on my profile, but lots are missing, too. I'm sure I'll never remember all of them, but I know that many of them are not there. Is this another of those things that is being migrated over slowly, or are they lost and gone forever? Thanks so much for all your hard work. :)
A lot of very old threads have reappeared, but at the same time more current ones seem to have vanished, and I can't find them. I spent an hour last night on the Kitchen Sink board looking for some current threads with no success. I wanted to add to those conversations. I hope we can search for thread topics soon; it's not surprising the boards are so quiet if people can't find what they're looking for.


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Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
1960 was the first year Corvettes were sent to race at Le Mans. Figuring it would be the start of something pretty neat, GM made a documentary about the whole thing accordingly. Little did they know it would lead to class wins at the Circuit de la Sarthe, ALMS, and the FIA GT Championship, but it was certainly a start.
This particular documentary is great in that it provides such a complete perspective of Americans racing in France when Eisenhower was still President. The way that flat accent of the narrator pronounces "Le Havre," or as he says it, "Tha Harv," is just magical.
Of course, we'll be getting a Corvette C.7R pretty soon, and that should do alright at Le Mans as well. But now you'll know where it all started.


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Next, I cut the slits into the zipper tape, and then I ran the running stitch, gently pulling the thread to make the zipper curve. Then, I knotted the thread, holding the curve into place. Last, I whipped the edges of the tape into place. I think that it turned out nicely.
I stuffed the purse with net bags (onion bags) and zipped it closed, and then needle felted the yarn onto the outside of the bag.
In the photo below, and in the first photo of the black purse - I had to adjust the exposure so that it would show up nicely - in reality, the purse is jet black. These photos seem to show that the purse has a greyish tinge, but no, that's just the exposure. The entire purse is like in the photo above - BLACK!
Since she was planning to make a proper purse, she made her felt pretty thick so that it would be durable. My purses were to be small, "treasure" bags, and I wanted for mine to be pretty thin.
This was a very fun project - and, wow, your hands are never as clean as they are after a wet felting project!!!
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just figured out my mynah's favorite play toy and it turns out to be papers from magazines. he would just pick fights with it for hours lol
apparently they like bottle caps and shiny things but Crowley was only interested in the paper
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This is a T Shirt Design I recently completed. I had submitted it to Designed By Humans, but unfortunately was rejected. I supposed it may have been to detailed and I should tone back the amount of texture, however many of the designs of the website can get quite intricate. Anyway, I thought I'd post it here in hopes to get some feedback.


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UC Irvine men's volleyball All-American Kevin Tillie was named Lauds & Laurels Outstanding Student-Athlete at the school's Salute to Scholar-Athletes banquet at the Bren Events Center to close out the school year.
The award is the most prestigious given by the UCI Alumni Assn. Tillie was a member of UCI's back-to-back NCAA champions, earning first team All-American accolades each year. Tillie was also named first team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and All-NCAA Tournament twice.
Senior tennis player Kristina Smith earned UCI Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors, while senior baseball player Ronnie Shaeffer was named the school's Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Earlier this year, women's volleyball player Kristin Winkler and men's distance runner Sam Hyams were honored as UCI's Big West Female and Male Scholar-Athletes of the Year, respectively, and they were also recognized at the banquet.
Smith was named the 2013 Big West Conference Player of the Year after posting a record of 20-3 at No. 1 singles in dual matches. She won the Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award for the Southwest Region and competed at the NCAA Singles Championship in late May.
An English major, Smith was selected to the Big West Conference Fall All-Academic team and is a three-time scholar-athlete as well as an eight-time Dean's Honor List honoree. She ranks second all-time at UCI with 97 total singles wins, including tournaments, and passed her mother Maria for most career dual-match wins (75) which ranks third all-time.
Shaeffer, a double major in anthropology and business economics, is a semifinalist for the prestigious Johnny Bench Award that recognizes the nation's top collegiate catcher. He is a two-time first-team All-Big West selection. Shaeffer was named Most Outstanding Player at the 2011 Los Angeles Regional, where he hit .600 and drove in the game-winning run against UCLA to clinch the regional title for the Anteaters. He was named the 2011 Rawlings Gold Glove winner by the American Baseball Coaches Assn. and is a three-time scholar-athlete and has made the Dean's Honor List four times.
Winkler ended her career as the Big West and UCI career leader in digs with 2,260. She also set the UCI single-season record with 676 digs in 2012. She received honorable mention in the American Volleyball Coaches Assn. All-American voting and was named All-West Region and first-team All-Big West.
Winkler, a business administration major, was selected to the Big West Fall All-Academic team twice and was a four-time scholar-athlete honoree. She was on the Dean's Honor List nine times.
Hyams qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary Round in the 1,500 meters this season. He finished second among 105 runners in that event at the Beach Invitational and placed sixth in the 1,500 at the Big West Conference Championships.
Hyams was 15th at the Big West Cross Country Championships last fall. He will graduate with a degree in political science. Hyams was named to the Dean's Honors List nine times and garnered scholar-athlete distinction all four years.
Sakia Sailinuu from women's track and field, as well as men's basketball player Derick Flowers were awarded UCI Academic Achievement Awards by the UCI Admissions Office, while women's soccer player Rachel Wood and men's basketball player Michael Wilder received Athletics Leadership Awards.
The women's golf team earned the Faculty Athletic Representative Award for highest team Grade-point average for the second consecutive year.
There were 121 who were named scholar-athlete honorees after having had at least a 3.0 GPA over three quarters (3.2 over two quarters for freshmen) and having earned letters in their sports.
The scholar-athlete award was implemented by the Big West Conference and was expanded by UCI to include teams that do not participate in Big West-sponsored sports.
Other awards included:
Outstanding Freshman Performance: Alex Young (men's basketball), who was Big West Freshman of the Year and a Mid-Major Freshman All-American; McKenna Mitchell (women's water polo), who had 41 goals this season; and Sarah Stadfelt (women's tennis), who was 25-6 in singles and 21-8 in doubles.
Outstanding Sophomore Performance: Will Davis (men's basketball), who was a Mid-Major Defensive All-American; Taylor Sparks (baseball), who was Big West Co-Field Player of the Year and a Collegiate Baseball third-team All-American; and Itos Aikhionbare (women's track and field), who set the school record in the discus throw.
Outstanding Junior Performance: Andrew Morales (baseball), who was first-team All-Big West, a Collegiate Baseball second-team All-American and posted a 10-0 pitching record; Mitch Wise (men's water polo), who was a third-team All-American with 62 goals; Natalia Ledezma (women's soccer), who was a first-team All-Big West and All-West Region performer.
Outstanding Senior Performance: Adam Folker (men's basketball), who won the Big West Best Hustle Award for second straight season; Tillie, Smith and Winkler (see above).
The scholar-athletes honorees, by sport:
Baseball – Ryan Cooper, Scott Gottschling, Andy Lines, Jimmy Litchfield, Jonathan Munoz, Shaeffer, Sparks, Connor Spencer, Jeff Stephens, Andrew Thurman and Matt Whitehouse.
Men's basketball – Flowers, Folker, Reed McConnell, Travis Souza and Wilder.
Men's cross country – Calvin Tan.
Men's golf – Mickey Chan and Bhuvan Potluri.
Men's soccer – Mitchell Alvarez, Bryan Breslin, Victor Calderon, Daniel Coates, Jake Marcon, Mika De Coster and Jonathan Hammel.
Men's track & field – Stephen Brown, Hyams, Nick Jennings, Mike Kennedy, Julian Lujan, Riley Martin, Oliver Pham, Conor Stanton and Alex Tebbe.
Men's volleyball – Jason Agopian, Ian Castellana, Jeremy Dejno, Connor Hughes, Zack La Cavera and Travis Woloson.
Men's water polo – Kyle Adama, Pablo Carballo, Bo de Lange, Alexander Kazmier, Bobby McDonald, Winston Newland, Larson Pfeil, Nick Pfeil, Brian Pickford, Alan Robertson, Chris Swieca and Mitch Wise.
Women's basketball – Cheyenne Cathey and Mokun Fajemisin.
Women's cross country – Emma Archuleta, Melanie Driessen, Chloe Fata, Mary Follo, Kaycee Holcomb, Katherine Kass, Nicole Mendoza, Maggie Newton-Neal, Maddy Post, Chelsea Schneider, Courtney Sharar, Gabbi White and Courtney Wilson.
Women's golf – Brenna Carlson, Michelle Park, Ronnie Valerio and Taryn Yee.
Women's soccer – Devon Delarosa, Janelly Farias, Zoya Farzaneh, Jenna Pellegrino, Jennifer Randazzo, Mar Rodriguez, Jackie Samis, Dana Sanderlin, Samanatha Shaw, Mady Solow, Alana Sooy, Jordan Utvich and Rachel Wood.
Women's tennis – Kat Facey, Franziska Goettsching, Sarah Gong, Alison Klein, Brooke Schweyer, Smith and Nakisa Vahdat.
Women's track & field – Itos Aikhionbare, Marie Brashears, Lauren Hackney, Kira Helmer, Kate Johnson, Charity Lyons, Maggie McDuffee, Carlotta Pham, Chelsea Pham, Lacey Surak, Lily Trinh, Alex Webb and KayC Wharton.
Women's volleyball – Marissa Alvarez, Shannon Fleming, Hannah Nabbout, Taylor Smith, Aly Squires, Sarah Wilder, Winkler, Sydney Wright and Molly Yoder.
Women's water polo – Hannah Croghan, Hillary Estrada, Layne Kipp, Mary Jane O'Neill, Michaela Pierandozzi, Rebecca Voytilla and Jillian Yocum.
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Today two mediocre iPhone and iPod Touch games were dropped in price. First up is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, this game droped from $9.99 to $7.99. The controls in this game were pretty limited, and the gameplay is pretty short. Second game is Kroll, this title dropped from $7.99 to $4.99. It's a beautiful game, but the gameplay is just a little too simple to keep you entertained long enough.


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