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Today is opening day in Major League Baseball. One of the holiest days of the year. Well, it is for everybody except the Rays and Orioles who will not play until tomorrow night at The Trop.
So everybody else gets to celebrate and we are left chomping at the bit for another 24 hours. So to bide the time and satisfy our cravings, I dusted off my copy of the 2008 ALCS Game 7 and decided to write a retro diary of the game.
0:00 — FOX starts us off with the pre-requisite aerial shot of The Trop. I always wondered why networks deploy blimps to domes. While The Trop is underrated inside, the aerial shot reminds us that from the outside it looks like the biggest game of the 2008 season is about to take place in a grain silo. Every discussion about a new stadium for the Rays should just start and end with this image.
0:01 — I assume I was pretty nervous at this point when the game happened originally. I have no idea. There is a good chance I had started drinking about 8:00am that day. But even though I know the ending, I am sitting here nervous as hell. BARTENDER!
Immediately I notice the amount of Red in the stands which instantly increases the Sox odds of winning this game because Red Sox Nation is better than other fans. They're such amazing fans that they can walk on water and had the power of invisibility back in the early 80s. And there is no such thing as a bandwagon Red Sox fan. Every single Red Sox fan is descended from a guy named Sully that came to this land on the Mayflower wearing a hat with 'B' embroidered on it, red socks and chanting "Yankees Suck!" the entire trip.
Matt Garza is on the mound for the Rays. It is fun to see 2008-Matt Garza. His sideburns and chin-pubes were so cute back in '08. They just say, "hey, we just went through puberty."
0:02 — It is amazing to think how lucky the Rays were to have this game at home. I know The Trop can be very loud at times (I was there for games 1 and 2), but right now we are literally seconds from the first pitch and the place is very quiet. Think that would happen at Fenway?
And immediately after 2 pitches we get the first shot of Garza's ear plugs which look more like Dioner Navarro stuck a spit ball in his ear when he was taking his afternoon nap.
0:03 — I don't remember thinking too much about the announcing team back in '08. But in hindsight, how much more enjoyable was this series simply because we weren't subjected to Joe Buck and Tim McCarver? I am certain I would have been on TV #3 by game 7 if we had been. Instead we got the very benign Chip Carey, Ron Darling and Buck Martinez.
Coco Crisp starts the game by attempting a third-pitch drag bunt. Carlos Pena is lucky he was wearing a glove because I am pretty sure he would have died as the throw to first from Garza was his hardest throw of the year and aimed right between Pena's eyes. You can even see Pena duck his head a tad as his glove snaps back over his head.
0:05 — Garza just threw what I can only assume was a slider on 1-1 to Dustin Pedroia. It was 84-mph, it was letter-high, did not break a lick and landed 5 rows deep just down the left-field line. I hate Hobbits. They're dirty little creatures.
0:08 — Garza gets to 2-2 on David Ortiz and the crowd is up on its feet. Still though, the noise is more like a golf-clap. You can tell the crowd started nervous, and the Hobbit's home run just took any wind they might have had in their sails and popped it.
0:09 — Ortiz walks on a full-count pitch that just misses away. And we get our first look at the Rays lineup. Pretty standard, most of which will be the same tomorrow. The two differences are Aki Iwamura at second base and some guy in right field named Rocco Baldelli. Never heard of him.
0:10 — I can tell it has been a while since I have watched a Red Sox game because I had forgotten how much I want to see Kevin Youkilis get kicked in the balls.
First pitch to Youkilis is up-and-in and almost hits him. Buck Martinez approves saying "that never hurts, even if it is unintentional." In hindsight, I'd say that was intentional. First pitch of the at bat. Youk had 10 hits (2 HRs) in the first 6 games and Garza hasn't been wild yet despite the walk. That was certainly a message pitch. Youk then pulled the next pitch, a 96-mph fastball, into the third base dugout. Hard to be early on that kind of heat.
0:11 — Youk flies one down the right field line that slices like one of my drives. Rocco makes a running knee-high catch after starting somewhere near the Rays tank in right-center. Gomes and Hinske were both left off the roster. Neither of them make that catch. Instead of 2 outs and man on first it would have been 1 out and 2nd and 3rd with the Red Sox primed to break the game open. Joe Maddon is so wise. He is like Buddha, if Buddha wore Sarah Palin glasses and a white mohawk.
0:13 — Garza gets JD drew on 2 nasty breaking balls, the first a knee buckler and the second in the dirt, ending the inning.
0:14 — Now we get a look at the Rays batting order and it is not familiar at all. Crawford who spent most of the season batting second, but was dropped to third behind Aki and Upton in August missed the final month of the season. In this game he batted fifth with Upton 2nd followed by Pena 3rd and Longo 4th. That light-hitting team MVP (Bartlett) bats 9th.
Jon Lester is on the mound. If I remember correctly he was a guaranteed 2 wins for the Sox entering this series. Aki leads off and man do I miss his high-cuffed pants.
0:15 — Chip Carey announces that the Red Sox have "high hope" because Jon Lester has "never lost back-to-back starts in his entire major league career." Granted that is a span of 58 starts (up to that point), but I am thinking the Sox' confidence went beyond the arm of a 24-year old starting pitcher.
0:17 — After a weak ground out to second by Aki, Upton comes up with an air of confidence we haven't seen in a long time. And the bat speed! I heart you.
0:19 — We now see a graphic telling us that Upton is already 1 HR shy of the all-time record for HRs in a post-season. It is still only the ALCS. And showing how much power he used to be able to generate with those quick wrists, Upton flicks his wrists and drives a ball to the warning track in right field.
0:22 — Just to show you how much of a pass Joe Maddon was getting at that time, we have no idea why this lineup didn't bother us more back in '08. JoeMa is a little too obsessed with breaking up the batting order (righty-lefty-righty, etc.). In this case, why was Pena batting 3rd against a tough lefty? It doesn't take much to fill out a lineup card. You don't need a college degree. You don't need bookkeeping experience. You just need to be able to wipe your own ass.
And in his first at bat Pena looks bad striking out, missing a breaking ball by 6 inches.
0:25 — Garza starts the second by striking out Jason Bay. Garza is definitely throwing with extra adrenaline. If Garza had a tired arm in '09, we can probably blame this game a little bit. Every single pitch looks like Garza is throwing with maximum effort…This is followed by Bartlett making a play on a ball to the right of the second base bag. I just started chanting "MVP, MVP!" Even 6-month old Baby Prof looked at me as if to say "Let it go."
0:30 — The TV crew has now spent 3 pitches talking about Varitek's impending free agency. Obviously this is pertinent as this could have been his last game in a Red Sox uniform, but this is a Game 7. Anything more than a brief mention is too much…Varitek goes down on strikes and Garza has now struck out 3 of the last 4 batters.
0:32 — Longoria leads off the second and works the count to 3-0 before taking a questionable high and tight called strike. And in a clear case of "occasionally getting one right" Fox goes to a tight shot of Joe Maddon as he yells "that's enough of that shit!" to the umpire.
0:33 — Longoria grounds out to short in what is a clear reminder of how far the Sox have come in their defensive philosophy. Alex Cora made this one, but he is toilet, both at the plate and with the glove. In hindsight, the Red Sox couldn't have possibly won the World Series in '08 with Alex Cora playing short.
0:35 — Crawford strikes out and Aybar grounds out. 6 up and 6 down for the Rays to start the game.
0:36 — After Cora flies out to left, Coco Crisp comes to the plate. Buck Martinez says Crisp is getting a "rude reception" because of the brawl earlier in the season when Crisp charged James Shields. Not even exagerating, I think 10 people boo'd…Crisp strikes out and that is 7 in a row for Garza since the first inning walk.
0:41 — Buck Martinez just called the pitch Pedroia hit for a home run a "high fastball" and that "anybody can hit" one of those. One problem. That pitch was 84. Garza hasn't thrown a fastball 84 since the 2nd grade. It wasn't a fastball.
0:43 — Garza hits Pedroia on the elbow with an 0-2 pitch that got away. That was 95mph. THAT is a Garza fastball. And the Red Sox faithful boo…Seque: Whenever a (usually) hometown player gets hit by a pitch the home crowd will boo even if it was obviously unintentional. I hate that announcers always assume the crowd is not baseball savvy and assumes the pitch was intentional. Can't the crowd just boo because they don't like their player getting hit?
0:47 — The Hobbit steals second against the shift, but it is for naught as Big Papi goes down swinging to end the inning. Outside that 0-2 pitch that got away and hit Pedroia, Garza is in a zone, retiring 8 of 9.
0:50 — Navi strikes out to start the third and Lester is perfect through 2.1 innings. I will now try to jinx the perfect game by typing PERFECT GAME in all caps.
0:51 — I see Rocco. He looks glorious. Not only does Rocco look like actor Ethan Embry, but both have had hugely disappointing careers. I mean, who didn't expect great things from Embry after "Can't Hardly Wait"?…Rocco strikes out and Bartlett pops up. 9 up, 9 down for Lester. At this point back in '08 I am fairly sure that I was NOT my usually pleasant self.
0:54 — The fourth starts with a nice running throw by Longoria on a groundball by Youkilis.
0:55 — More evidence that JoeMa could do no wrong in our eyes back in 2008, FOX shows an interview with Maddon conducted between innings. Why did it not bother me that Maddon looked like he had no idea that the Rays were trailing in Game 7 of the ALCS and had yet to even see a batter reach first base? Doesn't Maddon have more important things to worry about at this point than answering questions about how well he knows the Red Sox?
0:56 — After a JD Drew popup we get our first shot of Rayhawks in the stands. There must be 2,000 people in the stands will blue-dyed mohawks and what does FOX show? Two fans with fake mohawks. Thank you FOX for shitting on our one shining moment. Blue Mohawks were our thing. It was stupid as hell, but it was ours.
0:58 — Bay strikes out on a fastball that absolutely paints the corner down and away. This after a nasty 12-6 curve that Bay gave up on before it even reached the plate. Garza is on fire. 11 of 12 retired.
0:59 — Aki leads off the fourth with a line-drive single to left to break up the perfect game. I'll take all the credit. And with that we are reminded what team is still king in Tampa Bay with a zoomed-in shot of a fan wearing a retro John Lynch jersey. C'mon people. A Bucs jersey at Game 7 of the ALCS is not OK. And we know there were a lot of Red Sox fans there, but couldn't FOX find one Rays fan in a, you know, Rays jersey? Thank you FOX for perpetuating the myth that all Raysheads are bandwagon jumpers.
1:02 — Upton just struck out and gives us the Upton face. You know the face. We see it everytime he is picked off first base and gets that look on his face like he is wondering if he remembered to feed Deuce that morning.
1:03 — And here we have Pena up with 1 out and a runner on first. Big spot and Pena is up facing a tough lefty because Maddon needed his left-handed bat in between the two righties. Ron Darling reminds us that 18 of Pena's 31 HRs tied the game or put the Rays ahead. He doesn't mention that Pena hit .190 against lefties in '08 (why am I so bitter about this 2 years later?) Pena grounds to second and Aki is forced. Two down.
1:08 — After spinning himself into the ground and looking like a rookie on a breaking pitch, Dirtbag shortened his swing and pokes a ball right down the right field line. Might have been the weakest swing of Longo's career. But let's face it, he is Dirtbag. When he wakes up in the morning he pisses excellence…Pena comes all the way around from first base to tie the game. Pena is out if Pedroia's relay isn't up the line. Probably was the play of the game. If Pena is thrown out at home, that might have killed the Rays psychologically. Of couse some sabermatatricians will tell you that baseball players don't have a psyche. And just by typing that I will be labeled as "anti-good-stats," which couldn't be further from the truth.
1:10 Crawford strikes out for the second time, this time to end the inning.
1:14 We remember Garza having a good game in game 7, but it is amazing to look back and see just how dominating he was. Every one of his pitches is working. His curve was as good as we have ever seen it. At least 4 times to this point he has dropped a curve that the hitter didn't even think about swining at. No Red Sock has even made good contact since the first inning and after another 1-2-3, Garza has retired 14 of 15. The one baserunner was an 0-2 hit by pitch.
1:17 — To start the 5th, Aybar hits a curve ball that was maybe 2 inches off the ground and golfs it off the wall down the left field line. The pitch was so low, Varitek was already in position to block it in the dirt…I have been thinking about that left field corner at The Trop. We are about 4 or 5 more Gabe Kapler cheap home runs from renaming that part of the field "Kapler's Korner." I know Kapler OPS's like a stud against lefties, but he should thank that short porch for still having a job with the Rays.
1:21 — Remember when I was trashing Alex Cora's defense earlier? Navarro just hit an infield single that Cora had to move about 3 steps for. Cora didn't even make a throw. How many infield singles does Navi have in his career? Two? How bad do you have to be to give up an infield single to Navarro on what should have been a routine groundball? Even Brendan Harris would have thrown out Navi and that guy plays like his feet are in cement.
1:23 — Rocco just missed his one shining moment (trying to stay topical) by towering a flyball down the left field line that just missed being a 3-run HR…He follows that with groundball single to left that drives in Aybar for a 2-1 lead…And what are we subjected to? Dick Vitale jumping up and down and everybody around him ignoring him completely…On a side note, gutsy move by Tom Foley to send Aybar home. Granted he beat the throw easily. But if he doesn't go, it is bases loaded with no outs and 9-1-2 due up. Pretty good odds that Aybar will score anyway if he is held up. So yeah, gutsy call.
1:26 — Even worse than wearing a retro John Lynch football jersey to ALCS Game 7? Wearing a Redskins jersey. Not even Jason Collette would do that and he still has a picture of John Riggans hanging somewhere. Please tell me this happens at other ballparks? Can you imagine what would happen if somebody went to a Game 7 at Yankees Stadium wearing a Rams jersey? That guy would be covered in beer by the second inning.
1:27 — Bartlett strikes out. MVP! MVP!
1:28 — Aki grounds out weakly to the pitcher and Upton again puts his immense bat speed on display by rocketing a ball down the left field line that goes just foul. Granted Navi was on second and probably wouldn't have scored. Still, I don't think Upton hit a ball that hard at all in 2009…He lines out to SS to end the inning.
1:31 — Coco (I hate that his name no longer makes me giggle) hits a line drive that goes foul. That is the hardest hit ball off Garza since the first inning…FOX now shows a close-up of Joe Maddon and Dave Matinez. Why does Davey look like he is a foot shorter than JoeMa? Do you think JoeMa makes Davey stand on a lower step? And speaking of Martinez, what are the odds he is managing the Padres or somebody else next year? Even money? 2:3? If the Rays make the playoffs this year, Davey will be on top of everybody's list after the season…And for the second time this game, CooCoo grounds out to Garza, this one on a pitch in his eyes. That is not easy to do.
1:35 — Garza's run of retiring 15 out of 16 batters ends with a Pedroia walk in an 11-pitch at bat. The Red Sox have had 4 baserunners. Three of those were Pedroia. Stupid Hobbit…Based on "Win Expectancy," at this point the Rays have a 65% chance of winning the game. And even though I know the outcome, I feel like it is about 35%.
1:42 — Garza comes back and gets Ortiz and Pedroia on a strike-em-out, throw-em-out. And look at how far Pedroia was out by. Remember when Navi actually threw out base stealers? Yeah, neither do we…And I am pretty sure I just smashed a beer can on my forehead. Not back in 2008. Just now…Despite the walk, Garza faced only 3 batters that inning, but he needed 25 pitches to do it. You can see the '09 season slip further and further with each pitch.
1:45 — Pena pops up, and Longo just misses a home run as he got under a pitch a tad and flies out to deep left.
1:46 — Crawford takes a ball to deep center, but it is a can o' corn. That's Lester's first 1-2-3 inning since the 3rd when he still had the perfect game going.
1:48 — Youkilis leads off. Skip Carey tells us that Garza is over 100 pitches and that there is action in the Rays bullpen. Does he tell us who is warming up? No. Do they show us the bullpen? No…Youk pops up to SS and now we get a shot of the bullpen with Trevor Miller and Grant Balfour warming up…One of the few things I truly hate about The Trop is that the bullpens are on the field. High school teams have bullpens on the field.
1:50 — JD Drew walks on 4 pitches. He is the first non-hobbit baserunner for the Red Sox since Ortiz walked in the first inning.
Navarro visits the mound and he looks genuininely nervous that Garza might spit on him. Is there anybody in baseball that spits more than Matt Garza? And that guy constantly has the biggest loogys. How does he do it and not die of dehydration on the mound?
1:52 — Bay singles to left. The Rays win probability was 73% at the start of the inning. It is now 61%. Time for a new pair of boxers.
Joe Maddon visits the mound and no doubt asks Garza if it is bad luck to drink red wine during a Red Sox series…But instead of going to Miler against the lefty Kotsay, he stays with Garza with the tying run on second and go-ahead run on first with only 1 out.
1:54 — And on a 2-1 pitch, Garza gets a fastball in on Kotsay breaking his bat and getting a lazy flyball to right field…Varitek comes up with 2 outs and the tying run on third.
1:58 — Garza gets Youk on a 58-footer. Followed by Skip Carey calling him "Big Game Garza." James Shields is not happy.
1:59 — Skip Carey, thinking Raysheads aren't nervous enough reminds us that we are 6 outs away from the World Series. The Rays win probability just went from 78% to 12%. Thanks Skip. Thanks.
2:00 — Lester is still in the game to face Aybar and on a 3-2 pitch, Lester throws an 88mph belt-high fastball that Aybar just tattoos into the left field seats. Oh Mama! Not even Skip Carey can ruin this now. Who would have ever guessed before this game that we would enter "Awesomeville: Population Willy Aybar"?
2:05 — Buck Martinez reminds us that the game is apparently not over yet by stating "there are 50 guy on this field tonight and no one thinks this game is over." Thanks Buck. I actually thought there was a 2-run rule in baseball after the 7th inning.
2:07 — Navi flies out, Rocco strikes out and Bartlett flies to center. Masterson and Okajima warming up for Boston, so Lester's night is over. 4 batters too late.
2:08 — Interestingly, JoeMa puts Gabe Gross in right field. Why make that move then? Was Gross that much better than Rocco defensively? Why not wait until Rocco's next time up to bat to make sure there is a right-handed pitcher on the mound or to force Francona to make a move earlier than he wants? Another questionable move by JoeMa that we never saw when we were wearing Merlot-tinted glasses.
Garza starts the inning and faces Cora. For all the great players in Red Sox history, they always have a shit-player like Cora.
2:09 — MVP Jason Bartlett boots an easy groundball and that is it for Garza. Guarantee you that Garza still reminds Bartlett of that groundball at least once a week.
Dan Wheeler is the first arm out of the pen. How I even still had a pulse at this point back in '08 is a testament to the alcohol…Garza only gave up 2 hits in 7 innings. It is 17 months later and I am giving Garza a standing O.
2:13 — Buck Martinez reminds us that Dan Wheeler "is not overpowering." Thank Buck. Twist the knife a little more.
2:14— And CooCoo Crisp singles to right. 2 on, nobody out. At this point back in '08 I am pretty sure I had a heart attack in my ass…Guess who is up? Pedroia. With Wheeler on the mound. Red Sox fans were probably planning world series parties at this point.
2:16 — And the Hobbit put on a home run swing on a home run pitch and just gets under it. The Rays dodged a bullet.
Maddon back out to the mound. This time it is JP Howell to face Big Papi.
2:19 — Who knew Paul Giamatti was a Rays fan? "if Joe Maddon orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot!"
2:20 — Howell gets ahead of Papi 0-2 with his 88mph cheese…Howell has got guts. At this point I wouldn't throw Papi anything but curveballs in the dirt and pray.
Segue: Anybody else disturbed by the ESPN commercial where Ortiz is wearing a Yankees cap? How is this not a bigger deal to Red Sox fans? Would Larry Bird ever wear a Lakers jersey?
2:24 — And on the 7th pitch, Howell gets Ortiz to ground weakly to 2B into the shift and Crisp is forced at 2B. Huge play, keeping the tying run out of scoring position. And how close was it? Crisp is safe if he goes for the bag. Instead he tried to break up a double play that was never going to happen. If Crisp goes for the bag, it is bases loaded with 1 out and Youkilis at bat. How many bullets did the Rays dodge in this game?
Howell is out after just one batter. Now it is Chad Bradford to face Youk.
2:29 — Bradford walks Youkilis to load the bases. And amazingly the win probability at this point is still 80%…for the Rays! Even more amazingly, we have now had at least our third close-up of a "Rays fan" wearing a Bucs jersey. "Don't worry guys. Monte will call for a blitz here and force Drew into over-throwing his receiver in the flat." Ugh.
2:30 — And who is the 5th pitcher of the 8th inning? David Price. Think about this. 16 months before this he was pitching for Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt. 2 months before this he was in the minor leagues. Now he is called upon in the 8th inning of ALCS game 7 with a 2-run lead and the bases loaded..And he is using an illegal glove. Pitchers are not allowed to use gloves that light in color. Price nowadays uses a much darker model. Can you imagine the scene had Francona asked the umpires to make Price change his glove. Unbelievable.
2:31 — How nervous is Price? Not at all. He starts Drew with 2 sliders. Both strikes. After a 96 mph fastball out of the zone, he paints the corner with a 97mph fastball that just freezes drew. Price gives a very emphatic body convusion, followed by the cermonial eating of the illegal glove.
2:33 Lester is finally out of the game. Okajima is in. An Aki groundball, Upton flyout to CF, Pena strikeout and 9 pitches later, the Rays are done in the 8th. But who cares. Let's get to the 9th!
2:40 — 3 outs to go! I'm in a glass case of emotion!
Price looks to get Bay on a 2-2 pitch. Bay checks his swing and gets the benefit of the bad call from the umpire. He walks 2 pitches later. The Rays win probability at this point is 84%, but it sure doesn't feel like it…Kotsay is up.
2:43 — Price gets Kotsay looking on a pitch that absolutely paints the outside corner. Then again, the replay shows it is a couple of inches outside. Mark one down for the good guys.
2:46 — Price gets Varitek swinging on a slider. Aybar reminds Price that they only need 1 more out. That or he is pointing out the hot chick behind the dugout to Price.
Jed Lowrie is the final batter for the Sox. What must Red Sox fans be thinking at this point. Up until this point they had to like their chances even when trailing by 2 runs late in the game. Afterall, they are the Red Sox and this was the Devil Rays. Now all of the sudden they are down to their final out and who is up to bat? David Ortiz? No. Manny Ramirez? No. Kevin Youkilis? Dustin Pedroia? No and No. Hell, it is not even JD Drew. Nope. They get Jed Effin' Lowrie to try and save their season. Ouch.
2:47 — And on the second pitch Lowrie hits a ground ball to Aki who takes it himself…Two things about this groundball: 1) Aki has never gotten enough credit for this play. This was a wicked hop (Boston pun intended). This image doesn't do it justice. Aki thought this ball was going to be a couple of inches off the ground and instead it almost takes his head off on the bad hop after it hits the lip of the infield turf; 2) Look at Price in this image. Aki is still 10 feet from the bag and King David is already looking for his crown. I love it.
In the aftermath, Navarro is obviously the first player to reach Price. But who was the second? It is hard to tell from this picture, but it is Jonny Gomes of course. Love that guy.
What a great end to a great season. I've heard rumors that the Rays played a few more games after this. News to me.


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The Stars were supposed to reveal their new logo and uniforms at a big, formal event on June 4. Yesterday, the team pushed out what appears to be the logo, as a wallpaper option on their official iPhone app. Oops?
Probably not an oops. These official-unofficial "leaks" are becoming the standard for logo reveals. Over just the past year, we've seen: the Nets logo on the wall of an under-construction Barclays Center; the Astros logo sold on iPhone cases; the Dolphins logo on some ready-to-ship merchandise. All put out to build up buzz before the official unveiling—and with the internet, just as effective.
Here's how owner Tom Gaglardi described what the Stars were going for back in January:
"What I wanted for this franchise was a logo and a look and a crest that when you look at it has timeless, original-six, vintage, classic qualities to it."
The problem is, (If there's a problem; I think it's a decent logo, though the internet is giving more mixed reviews), no one will ever mistake the Stars for an Original Six team, and it's not particularly original. As Puck Daddy points out, the above logo, lodged in a circular crest, seems tailor made for jersey fronts—just like those broken out in recent years by teams like Florida, St. Louis, and Minnesota. I know Dallas was thinking Boston's spoked B, but everyone else is thinking Winnipeg. That's not a good thing.
Here's a look at the logo without the crest. Now this could look good on a chest, or on a shoulder—but the smaller the better. The Stars have confirmed that green will be their new primary color, and the only team currently doing green—the Wild, with their third jerseys—walk a fine line of cluttering up a color that can't support much ornamentation.

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If you have no choice but to leave companion animals behind unattended, understand that circumstances may prevent your return to the premises for an extended period of time—and plan accordingly. Do not leave companion animals loose outdoors. Keep them in a secure area inside your 下载万家彩票 with access to upper floors in case of flooding. Provide at least ten days' supply of dry food and as much water as possible. For rescuers or anyone who might need to attend to your animal in your absence, leave your pet's identification, your name, your location (if known), and how to reach you, as well as any special care instructions. Leave notification outside of the building of the fact that live animals are inside. Also, having your pets microchipped and making sure that their registration is up to date may help rescuers reunite you with your pets.
The Aftermath
After surviving a disaster it may be hard to get back to a normal routine. Animals, like people, can become disoriented and confused, especially if once familiar surroundings have changed. Leash dogs and cats when they go outside and maintain close contact at all times in the days following major upheaval. This is especially important if there are downed power lines or other hazards as a result of the disaster. Animals, like people can suffer from post-traumatic stress, so it is also important to monitor behavior and react accordingly by visiting a veterinarian if temperament changes are causing you concern.


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Martin OM42PS (Paul Simon) and PS2
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles charts, "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water". In 1970, at the height of their popularity, the duo split, and Simon began a successful solo career, recording three highly-acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music that helped fuel the anti-apartheid movement. Besides music, Simon wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony in 1980 and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman in 1998.


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220 marine scientists raise alarm about NSW recreational fishing
14 January 2014
More than 220 marine scientists from across Australia and internationally, including from the University of Sydney, have raised concerns for NSW's marine life if the state government moves to permanently allow recreational fishing in no-take sanctuary zones.
In advance of the imminent and globally unprecedented decision, 222 marine scientists have written a joint statement to the NSW premier, Barry O'Farrell, urging him to keep no-take marine sanctuary zones free from fishing, in keeping with well-established scientific practice.
Dr Will Figueira, a marine ecologist at the University of Sydney's School of Biological Sciences and president of the NSW branch of the Australian Marine Sciences Association, said:
"Last year Premier O'Farrell temporarily allowed recreational fishing in sanctuary zones, a decision made without consultation and not based on scientific research."
"Now the government may decide to make fishing in sanctuary zones a permanent feature of marine parks in this state.
"The concern felt by the science community, both in NSW and internationally, is of such significance that an unprecedented number of scientists have been motivated to write to the premier.
"Permanently allowing fishing in protected no-take sanctuaries will undermine their conservation value. No-take zones are essential for maintaining healthy marine life over the long term and serve as buffers against the risk of over-fishing.
"Around the world, scientists support marine sanctuaries as an essential tool for protecting marine life. However for these zones to be effective there must be no take of any kind."
NSW has six multiple-use marine parks, each with no-take marine sanctuary areas zoned within them.
Sanctuaries account for only seven per cent of NSW state waters, which extend three nautical miles (5.5 km) from shore. It is these state waters where both extraction of resources and biodiversity values are most intense.
Marine ecologist Professor David Booth, from the University of Technology, Sydney, said:
"Globally, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that no-take sanctuary zones are essential to protect our marine life, and NSW is unique in the developed world in allowing fishing back in."
"A decision to allow any form of extractive use in NSW marine no-take zones would represent a fundamental backwards step in our efforts to protect our diverse coastal ecosystems from the impact of ever-growing human pressures. "
The joint statement has been supported by fourteen academics and researchers from the University of Sydney.
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How I Met Your Mother's fourth and perhaps final Robin
SparklesDaggers sparked a big ratings bump.
The CBS sitcom, which was just renewed for a ninth season last week, hit a season high Monday with 10.3 million viewers and a 4.0 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, up 8 percent from last week. It was the night's top-rated show and CBS' only show to perk up.
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The Season 7 premiere of Rules of Engagement followed with 9.33 million and a 3.1, down from its Season 6 opener, which was on a Thursday.
Facing a fresh CBS lineup, both Bones (9 million, 2.3) and The Following (8.9 million, 2.9) fell 12 percent.
ABC and NBC also had down nights, save for NBC's Deception (3.1 million, 1.2), which was flat.
On The CW, The Carrie Diaries (1.5 million, 0.7) hit a series high.
Things weren't so rosy for another new series, TNT's new medical drama Monday Mornings, which premiered to 1.34 million viewers and a 0.3 in the demo. The series followed Dallas, which also fell to a series low of 2.2 million.
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CBS: How I Met Your Mother 10.4 million viewers (4.0); Rules of Engagement 9.3 million (3.1)
ABC: The Bachelor 7.8 million (2.4) [8-10 p.m.]
Fox: Bones 9 million (2.3)
NBC: The Biggest Loser 5.7 million (2.0) [8-10 p.m.]
CW: The Carrie Diaries 1.5 million (0.7)
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CBS: 2 Broke Girls 11.2 million (3.6); Mike & Molly 10.7 million (3.1)
Fox: The Following 8.9 million (2.9)
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CBS: Hawaii Five-0 9.6 million (2.3)
ABC: Castle 8.7 million (1.8)
NBC: Deception 3.1 million (1.2)


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Evesham Voyager C550 full review
We've seen a few laptops based around Intel's new dual-core mobile processors, and as vendors begin to get used to the technology the results we are seeing are getting better. Take Evesham's Voyager C550 – it's fast, full of features and great value for money.
See our Laptop Advisor website for expert reviews of today's best laptops, plus read our essential advice to make sure you choose the right specs
Two cores running at 1.83GHz on a single die in a T2400 chip provide the grunt. In combination with 1GB of DDR RAM these helped the Evesham to a WorldBench 5 score of 98. We have tested several laptops that have matched this score, but none have yet gone faster.
The dual-core processor provides a great deal of power for gaming, too. The Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of dedicated VRAM proved to be a great games platform, giving stunning frame rates in our tests, especially when playing Halo.
As if this wasn't enough for gamers, the screen is fantastic. It doesn't use anything similar to Sony's X-black technology, but it does have good colour depth, while the sharpness of the image is unsurpassed. A resolution of 1,920x1,200 on a 15.4in screen is quite out of the ordinary.
It's not so unusual to find a 100GB hard drive in a laptop these days, but it's a rarity to find one that spins at 7,200rpm – most laptop hard drives are limited to 5,400rpm. Although it won't make a great deal of difference when opening most conventional documents, it will allow users faster access to large files such as video.
Multimedia options
If you plan to use the Voyager as a hard-disk recorder you'll be pleased to find Windows XP Media Center 2005 Edition installed. This allows for a host of multimedia functions. Burning your favourite films and music to DVD is made easy by the multi-format writer that allows you to use both DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL dual-layer media, giving you 8.5GB per disc.
The software bundle is pleasing: it includes Microsoft Works 8.0, Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.0 and Bullguard Internet Security. This host of applications is a great starter pack for any system, especially since the operating system is Media Center rather than plain XP.
The layout of the keyboard is intuitive and sensible. If we have one complaint, it would be that the spacebar is tiny, but otherwise it's great to use. There are full-sized Shifts on either side and a massive Enter, while the most used key of all – Backspace – is difficult to miss.
Mobile limitations
At 3.3kg the Evesham isn't too difficult to carry around, but there's very little point - we measured its battery life as a couple of minutes short of two hours. It really is only viable as a desktop-replacement model, and wouldn't be much cop for working with away from a wall socket.
There are four USB 2.0 ports on the back of the unit as well as VGA and DVI outputs, though why you'd want to use them when the screen is so good is beyond us. If you want to chat online to your friends in distant lands, you'll find the integrated 1.3Mp (megapixel) camera and microphone very handy.
But there's one mystery about the Evesham: why no Wi-Fi facilities? It surely can't cost all that much to include an integrated chip, but it hasn't been done. This means that if you're planning to work wirelessly you'll have to purchase a separate card for the PC Card slot. It's not a huge problem; it just seems a little odd.
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- 1.83GHz Intel Centrino Duo T2400 processor
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- 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card
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The Cave Wii U "up to par" with other consoles
The Cave will use the Wii U's Game Pad to make character selection easier, but Double Fine otherwise expects it to be identical to other console versions.
Joystiq saw the Wii U version in action last week, and reports the Game Pad is used to select characters and focus the camera on them.
Double Fine's Chris Remo said it's "pretty much" just like all the other versions.
"We did work really hard to ensure that visually everything you're seeing is identical to the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, so there's no downscaling, there's nothing going on that is not up to par with the other next-gen systems," he elaborated.
"There's nothing super wacky going on, but it's a completely full-featured version of the game."
The Cave is due on the Wii U's eShop in the first quarter of 2013. Despite its multi-platform release, creator Ron Gilbert says it's been developed with core PC gameplay in mind. It's the first Wii U game from Double Fine.


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The Trilliane wall sconce from Schonbek features a beautiful 3-tiered design.
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The Trilliane wall sconce, one of Schonbek's signature crystal designs, draws its energy from an unexpected innovation: the inverted crystal pendeloques suggest the growth of mineral crystal. The beauty of your decor is sure to reach new heights with this beautiful fixture trimmed with Swarovski Elements clear crystal. Swarovski Elements crystal was formerly known as Strass Swarovski crystal.


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I'm about to release a polished version of a multiple-window gui-application I wrote years ago. I improved usability a lot (it was BAD!), with which i mean stuff like:
- fixing tiny errors in alignment
- making all dialogs accessible by keyboard
- proper "modality" of dialogs
- open them at "logical" positions instead of random ones
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My question is whether I should tell my users, that a lot of these tiny problems have been resolved or will they notice by themselves?
Differently put and with an example: There were dialogs that couldn't be closed by pressing ESC. Did they learn by now to not try to press ESC in a certain Dialog and use the mouse, or are stumbling blocks like this never "internalized" anyway?


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I love how Johnna comes with me when I do photoshoots... she is such a trooper. We have fun together.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Whatta team
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- tamiz said...
That's a good looking assistant you've got there!
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- LaDawn Lingard said...
She IS good. Not just any woman would do that. She's a keeper.
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- JoHanna said...
How fun! Enjoy the time that you have with just the two of you!
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Aalto University from the O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory and the Department of Applied Physics have successfully connected a superconducting quantum bit, or qubit, with a micrometer-sized drum head. Thus they transferred information from the qubit to the resonator and back again.
– This work represents the first step towards creating exotic mechanical quantum states. For example, the transfer makes it possible to create a state in which the resonator simultaneously vibrates and doesnt vibrate, says professor Mika Sillanpää from Aalto University, who runs the research group.
A qubit is the quantum-mechanical equivalent of the bits we know from computers. A traditional bit can be in a state of 0 or 1, while a qubit can be in both states at the same time. In theory, this inconceivable situation allows for a quantum calculation in which the operations are performed simultaneously for all possible numbers. In the case of a single qubit, this means zero and one, but as the number of qubits increases, the amount of possible numbers and simultaneous calculations grows exponentially.
The quantum state of a qubit is very fragile and easily disturbed between and during the operations. The key to successful quantum calculation is being able to protect the qubit state from disturbances in the environment.
– In this case, the qubit state can be stored as vibration, thus preserving the state for much longer than the qubit itself. The resonator also functions as a mechanical quantum memory, which is something that an ordinary memory can't do, explains Juha Pirkkalainen from Aalto University, who is doing his dissertation on the topic.
The work combines two Nobel Prize winners' achievements in one
The work combined the achievements of both winners of this years Nobel Prize for Physics. The qubit state was measured using a superconducting cavity in the same way that Serge Haroche measured atoms, and the qubit state was also linked to mechanical movement as in David Winelands experiments. In contrast to these larger-scale measurement arrangements, the experiment at the O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory was prepared for a tiny silicon microchip. This made it possible to cool the sample to near absolute zero temperatures and then use microwaves.
The groups results have just been published in Nature, the premier weekly science journal. The study was performed at Aalto Universitys O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory, which is part of the Academy of Finlands Centre of Excellence in Low Temperature Quantum Phenomena and Devices. Some of the sample used in the measurements was produced at Micronovas Nanofab cleanroom facilities. The project was financed by the Academy of Finland and the European Research Council ERC.
Link to the Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v494/n7436/full/nature11821.html
Further information:
Professor Mika Sillanpää
Tel. +358 50 344 2794
Department of Applied Physics
Aalto Universty School of Science
Juha Pirkkalainen, Doctoral student
Tel. +358 50 344 2394
O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory
Low Temperature Laboratory
Aalto Universty School of Science
O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory web pages (ltl.tkk.fi)
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Songs for desolate hearts
'Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.' Isaiah 54:1
Suggested Further Reading: Revelation 3:1–6
I question if hell can find a more fitting instrument within its infernal lake than the church of Rome is for the cause of mischief. And your church will in its measure be the same if bereft of the Spirit. I do not care if it be Wesleyan, Baptist, Independent, or what it is; when the life is gone it becomes henceforth good for nothing; it is not even fit to manure the ground, as the contents of the dunghill are, but men cast it out and tread it under foot. Get conscious of that, and then let those of you who are humbled in the sight of God meet together and spread the case before the Lord. We ought to have great faith in the power of the twos and threes, 'For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them,' says the Lord. The long thin red line, which has often won the battle, will yet win it in England—I mean the thin line of the few that sigh and cry for the desolations of the church. If you, my brother, an earnest man, be the only member of the church that does really sigh and cry before God, God intends to bless that church yet, for he has already blessed it in sending you to it. Look out for others of a kindred sort, and without murmuring, without raising divisions, without seeking to expel the minister or make any changes in the discipline, just you set to work, and pray down, as Elijah did, the fire from heaven upon the sacrifice. This is the one thing which is wanted. The wrong in organisation, the mistakes in government, the unfitness of the church officers—all this will come right enough if you once get the divine life; but without this, though you should rectify everything else, you would have done but little to any real purpose.
For meditation: Believers should be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13–14), but a church can lose its way and need some members to be the salt and light of the church (Mark 9:50). Are you having to do that? God knows (Revelation 3:4).
Sermon no. 649
10 September (1865)365 Days with C.H. Spurgeon, Vol. 2: A Unique Collection of 365 Daily Readings from Sermons Preached by Charles Haddon Spurgeon from His Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (365 Days With Series); edited by Terence Peter Crosby; (c) Day One Publications, 2002


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Welcome Back Broncomaniacs!
So what did you think of the Broncos 6th preseason game? Someone needed to tell them the season started. Oakland was ready and on fire. Monday Night at home against a rival. Of course they were ready. Too bad our coaching staff showed we werent.
Before I get further into this thread, Id like to talk about a charity that is close to my heart. Its called the Isaac Yiadom Foundation. The foundation supports traumatized CBs who are tortured and tormented on the field by opposing QBs. The goal of the foundation is to help these CBs regain the confidence, skill and knowledge to retake the field without hopelessly looking lost or out classed. Wont you help #toastedbronco Thank you
So yeah week one was awful, but there was plenty of blame in all three phases and the coaching.
So here we are week two, the Denver home opener against the Bears. Vic Fangios old team, who may not terrorize you with their offense, but will destroy you with their defense. The five sacks on Aaron Rodgers was not a fluke. Green bay was also 2 of 12 on 3rd down thanks to the Bears D. Bears also held the Packers run game to 2.1 YPC
The Denver D was supposed to regain its dominance. Not make Derek Carr's Jersey look like the after shot in a Tide commercial.
Denvers offense needs to get it together as well. Flacco did some good things out there, but he was far from perfect. He caught fire in the 4th quarter going 8 of 9 for 131 yards and a TD. Too late though. The run game struggled parts of the night. 21 carries for the two headed beast for 99 yards and no Tds.
Flacco was sacked three times on Monday night, the Bears team may triple that up if we dont get better protection for him. Chubb and Miller need to start getting sacks of their own. As a defensive unit we need to be better as a whole, secondary was flat out bad. A bright note for this week though is that the Bears O-line gave up five sacks in week one.
Looking at our 10 years stats, this is our best week of the whole season historically. In week 2 games we are 9-1 over the last decade. The only loss was Manning at the Falcons in his first year with us. Of the 9 wins , 7 were at home and two on the road. So that is a positive.
We need the offense to start kicking it in high gear. Bronco are 12 -1 when holding opponents to under 24 points in the last 2 seasons. The issue is team has averaged 19.22 PPG since 2017. That ranks them
26th in the league during that period.
We need to turn it around and this week seems a good place to start as any. We know it is a long rough season. Going 0-2 will not help that. We beat the Bears the last 2 times we faced them. The last time in Mile high it took some Tebow Time but we got the W This team needs to show what it can do, and Vic needs to show it wasnt a mistake making him a head coach after all these years.
Thank you one and all. Please as usual follow the rules of the COC. It's game 2, the mods have a long season ahead of them. Stay classy. Hopefully this time we get the W Let's help them as best we can. Looking forward to the upcoming season, all the highs and lows. As always GO BRONCOS!!


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If it's true that, as Shakespeare famously put it, "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows," then pro-democracy Arab dissidents must be very miserable indeed.
CyberDissidents.org is a project created in 2008 by the Jerusalem-based Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies "to research and focus attention on the online activities of democracy advocates and dissidents in the Middle East, in the hope of empowering them at home and raising awareness of their plight abroad." Until its demise in 2009, the Adelson Institute was located at the Shalem Center, a controversial research institute associated with right wing Zionist causes. Founded in 1994, the Shalem Center was initially funded by its current chairman, Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune. Lauder is also president of the Jewish National Fund, which promotes ethnic cleansing through planting forests on expropriated Palestinian land. The Adelson Institute was set up in 2007 with a $4.5 million grant from Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who, like Lauder, is a patron and confidante of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Under the direction of Natan Sharansky, the former Israeli minister who resigned his cabinet seat in 2005 in protest over Ariel Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan, the institute held a "Democracy and Security" conference in Prague in 2007. It brought together Israeli officials; their American neoconservative sympathizers with their favorite Middle Eastern dissidents in tow—most notably, Richard Perle's Israel-admiring Syrian protégé Farid Ghadry; and the newly-installed Eastern European democrats swept to power in the wake of a wave of neocon-backed "color revolutions," the latter group presumably serving to inspire the Arab and Iranian participants to emulate them.
One year later, Sharansky's activist coordinator of democracy programs at the Adelson Institute, David Keyes, co-founded CyberDissidents.org and has served since then as its director. During his visit to the United States in 2009 to present the organization's mission and progress to pro-Israeli policy-makers, activists and press, Keyes spent "significant time" with ardent Zionist academic Bernard Lewis, an advisory board member to the group during the first two years of its existence. Among his more notable contributions to the Arab world, Lewis introduced the concept of a "Clash of Civilizations" between Islam and Christendom, advocated the "Lebanonization" of the region, and was "perhaps the most significant intellectual influence behind the invasion of Iraq."
Seemingly undeterred by its Israeli origins, prominent Middle Eastern pro-democracy activists have been recruited by the Adelson Institute's project for Internet activists. On its advisory board are Egyptian dissident Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and the Arab Organization for Human Rights and a board member of the Arab Democracy Foundation, who participated in the Prague conference; and Samer Abu Libdeh, the director of the Interaction Forum, an Amman-based civil society and democracy-promotion organization, and a senior fellow at the Center for Liberty in the Middle East (CLIME). Abu Libdeh also served as a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a think tank created by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
On its website, CyberDissidents.org features provocative articles such as the one entitled "Shocking Videos, Photos, and Tweets from Syria," which includes amateur videos, digital photographs and tweets from Daraa. It first appeared on The Daily Beast website, where David Keyes also blogs about the human rights abuses of practically every Middle Eastern regime, except the one occupying Palestine. Considering The Daily Beast's insatiable appetite for Arab freedom, it's worth noting that its creator Barry Diller, who also launched the Fox TV network, attended a 1983 Manhattan conclave convened to coordinate pro-Israeli political operations in the United States. Incidentally, fellow participant Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief emeritus of The New Republic, not noted for his love of Arabs, lambasted President Obama's insufficiently enthusiastic support of the Libyan rebels as a "betrayal of the Arab revolution, of an Arab people and of Arab hope."
Last April, David Keyes attended an event entitled "Cyber-Dissidents and Political Change" sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute. "Inspired by President and Mrs. Bush's unwavering commitment to freedom for all people," its website states, "the Bush Institute works to embolden dissidents and freedom advocates, creating a powerful network for moral support and education." Keyes was one of the featured guests on a TV programme presented by the institute's executive director, Jim Glassman, who as Bush's Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy brought dissidents from around the world to New York for the inaugural Alliance of Youth Movements summit in 2008. The other guests were Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty president Jeffrey Gedmin, formerly a resident scholar at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute and a Project for a New American Century founding signatory; Christopher Walker, director of studies at Freedom House, home to indefatigable pro-Israel democracy promoters like Max Kampelman, Paula Dobriansky and Joshua Muravchik; and former Ha'aretz journalist Bari Weiss, The Wall Street Journal's assistant editorial features editor with a soft spot for the world's non-Palestinian dissidents.
Dissidents who put their faith in such improbable champions of Arab freedom would do well to remember the words of Sheldon Adelson. Referring to a conversation he had with Iranian dissident Amir Abbas Fakhravar at the Prague conference, the Likudnik casino magnate reportedly said, "I like Fakhravar because he says that, if we attack, the Iranian people will be ecstatic." But when another Iranian pro-democracy activist disputed that assumption, Adelson candidly responded, "I really don't care what happens to Iran. I am for Israel."


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In a recent article about opposition to conversion of the Cove Point liquefied natural gas import terminal to an export terminal, The Sun reports that: "The gas industry says such complaints (about pollution) are unfounded and that any problems related to "fracking" are isolated cases" ("Dominion's LNG export bid sparks legal dispute," Sept. 21).
If that is the case, why does the gas industry oppose the repeal of federal legislation exempting hydraulic fracturing from the Clean Water Act, The Safe Drinking Water Act and the so-called "Superfund" Act covering disposal of toxic wastes? If industry believes fracking is safe, it should have no fear of the same pollution control laws that apply to the rest of American industry.
Chris Yoder, Baltimore
The writer is chair of the Sierra Club's Greater Baltimore Group.


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Although, it may seem that the concept of character creation; one that is a cornerstone of the Roleplaying hobby, would be elementary...and i would agree with you...however, in Ravenloft character creation should be a well thought out process...
Given the fact that most characters don't survive past level 5 or 6, if the game is run correctly...one shouldn't min/max and determine what course of action would lead one's character to instant power brokerage. Rather, one needs to keep the essence of the setting in mind. Gothic horror, fear, madness and most importantly, i feel, a sense of loss.
Remember, most people from outside the Demiplane of Dread have been brought here, against their will, for some reason that attracted the Mists to come across time and space to claim them. While most of the Darklords have arrived because of their irredemable evil...other, 'lesser' individuals have come out of the actions or inactions of vengeance, longing, jealousy...etc. The main issue is that they have emotional 'baggage'. And while statistics for other D&D settings are important, one must remember that the essence of 'who' the character is, remains key in Ravenloft.
In otherwords, a stalwart dwarven fighter, or aloof elven ranger is one thing...but a dwarven fighter, captured and beaten by the elves of Sithicus, and forced to fight against his will lest his family be destroyed, or an elven ranger, once alone in the forest, fighting against the inner beast that tugs at his sould due to his lycanthrope...those are far more interesting to the game and furthers the mystique of the setting considerably.
Here is an exercize you might work through, just to get a taste of 'improved creation'.
Don't focus on race, or class just yet...have a rough frame, but don't be rigid. Think about where you want to come from. Are you native to the Core? an Island of Terror? Are you Barovian? Sithican? Har'Akiri? or maybe you're not native to the Demiplane...Are you from Athas (Dark Sun)? Toril (Forgotten Realms)? Ansalon (Dragonlance)? Zhakata (Al-Qadim)? Your point of origin greatly determines your outlook and opinions, how you act and react to the world around you.
IIa. FACE IN THE MIRROR
One of two possible steps at this point...Race...race is an inportant factor in Ravenloft...while humanity is the most common race on the demiplane, they are also the most dominant...many nations and churches feel that Men are sacrosanct and that any non-humans are an aberation...considering that they live in a nightmare world of monsters, i'd be jumpy too. The races closest to human; elf and half-elf are more accepted than the dwarf, gnome or halfling. Last on the totem pole would be the caliban...the face in the mirror is the face you show the world...
Consider going into a very human settlement as a gnomish bard. Although you carry yourself well in travels...they may have never seen such a creature. This should make you stop and think how your race is perceived and how you react to the world around you. In the Gaz. there are populations by percentage that will help you gauge where each settlement and domain stands.
There are also outsider ratings to roll against listed for the races in the Ravenloft Players guide. Also bear in mind that any and all races are possible in the Dread Realms...I had an Elan Psion, very briefly before being destroyed by the Mist elementals he spawned off of a failed metacreativity roll...but it is also likely to have an Athasian Thri-Kreen...or Celestial Aasimaar...or Zhakatan half-djinn. The DM and player should sit down and discuss the rarity of races and agree upon an outcast rating...humans and nearhumans usually start about a three or so, the more exotic...the higher it gets. (See R:PG for details, chapter II, races.) This is added to diplomacy rolls as a penalty. But i've also used this as a bonus to intimidate rolls for the more monstrous races; Caliban, for example.
Remember, don't be afraid of a little flavor...a good basic rule of Ravenloft is don't start a game without having at least one additional character ready to play...:D


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Summer may be over, but Toronto's arts continue to shine, just like fall's brilliant colours. One can still catch the two world famous festivals outside the city. The drive to these festivals is now twice as exciting, because of the stunning colours that enrich the landscape at this time.
Toronto's many kosher dining facilities, and community events, make it a good destination for meeting people, especially in the fall, when everyone is back in town.
Both the Stratford and Shaw festivals continue until the end of October. The Shaw is running an excellent production of Guys and Dolls, Our Betters and Enchanted April.
At Stratford Fiddler on the Roof is playing to a full house constantly, and has extended its run with several extra performances. This festival is also showing Othello, Mary Stuart and Romeo and Juliet.
One of the delights of attending the Stratford Festival this fall is the service of a luxury bus, at a truly nominal cost, that takes people from Toronto's downtown right to the theatre's entrance.
Aside from the Stratford and Shaw Festivals there are many plays running in the city this fall. The Mirvish Theatre group, celebrating 50 years of theatre presentations, is showing Les Miserables at its Princess of Wales Theatre. Aladdin, the new musical, begins its run on Nov. 1, until January, at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.
The play Once, the winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards, opens on Nov. 26 at the Mirvish group's Royal Alexandra Theatre, which is now showing I Love Lucy, Live on Stage. Mirvish's Panasonic Theatre is bringing God of Carnage from Nov. 22 through Dec. 15.
The Soulpepper Theatre Company presents The Norman Conquests, until Nov. 16.
The Harold Green Jewish Theatre will show There's No Business Like Irving Berlin, on Nov. 3, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Teatron Toronto Jewish Theatre is showing The Chosen, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, Nov. 13 to 24.
For music, the Koffler Centre of the Arts has two fine programs this fall. Music She Wrote: A Tribute to Canadian Woman Composers, with the Koffler Chamber Orchestra, is scheduled for Nov. 24, at the Music Gallery. Tango & Rio Klezmer are two films on Jewish immigrants who forever changed regional music in Argentina (Dec. 8, at the Miles Nadal JCC.)
The Ger Mandolin Orchestra, an international group, re-creating the pre-war Jewish mandolin orchestra of Gora Kalwaria, Poland, will perform on Nov. 7, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
Opera Atelier presents Mozart's Abduction From The Seraglio, until Nov. 2, at the Elgin Theatre.
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra brings pianist Emanuel Ax, Nov. 6 and 7, playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2. The Symphony has scheduled music by Beethoven and Strauss for Nov. 20 and 23, and music by Mahler on Nov. 27 and 28.
Pinchas Zuckerman will play music by Mozart and Shostakovich on Nov. 30. An all-Tchaikovsky program is planned for Dec. 6 and 7.
Toronto's Holocaust Education Week is scheduled this year for Nov. 3 to 9. Aside from numerous lectures, at different venues, there will be a large number of films, concerts, exhibits and other programs to engage the community during this special week.
Among the concerts, Letter from Bozena (at the Kiever Congregation, Nov. 10) is a song cycle by composer Charles Heller based on his grandmother's letters to her son written in l939-l940.
Among the exhibits, Precious Legacy celebrates the lives that survivors have built after the Holocaust. This is an ongoing exhibit that starts Nov. 1, at the Baycrest Health Sciences Centre.
There will be over a dozen films to view at different locations during Holocaust Education Week, most of which will have free admission.
One film that is not to be missed (free admission) is No Place On Earth, the true story of one extended family, who survived the Holocaust inside one of the world's largest caves, in Galicia.
Having spent l8 months in that cave, longer than any human has ever survived in such a place, their ordeal has also earned them a place in the annals of science. Their story was covered extensively by the National Geographic magazine.
For exhibits, Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World offers the public a rare chance to view more than 170 artifacts from the cradle of civilization (until January). The Art of the Everyday, one of the rarest collections of French faience pottery in North America can be seen at the Gardiner Museum, until January.
Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture, at the Bata Shoe Museum, is an exhibit about the history of sneakers, over the past l50 years. On view are over 120 pairs of sneakers.
Artist Josh Silburt's World War II political cartoons, and landscape paintings, are on exhibit at the Art-Square Gallery until Nov. 4.
The Great Upheaval, Modern Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, opens Nov. 30. It features works by Cezanne, Chagall, Picasso, Kandinsky, Matisse and Modigliani.
On the first Thursday of every month the Art Gallery of Ontario hosts a party, after closing, when the galleries are filled with live music, performances, talks, and much more.
All the above suggestions in the arts are only a very small sampling of what Toronto offers during this fall season.


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A cursory examination of his teeth indicated that he had gingivitis.
Anaemia, constipation, haemorrhoids, heartburn, hypertension, gingivitis, thrush?
Dental therapy - treatment of carious diseases, gingivitis, parodontosis, periodontitis and other teeth and gums problems, restoring teeth shape and colour.
In contrast, diabetes, a weakened immune system and not lastly smoking increase the risk for caries and gingivitis.
Last year, he discovered He had gingivitis of the gums, So he had all his teeth pulled.
Mango fruit are rich in A, D, C, B-complex vitamins, they contain Ca, P, Fe, Zn, Mn, K. Mango is recommended for people with gingivitis or colds.
Oulitis, or gingivitis transfers to incurable parodontitis without due and proper care, which in its turn may result to loss of teeth.
Crest Pro-Health Toothpaste is a good option because one of the medicinal ingredients it contains is therapeutic stannous fluoride, an effective anti-microbial agent that kills harmful bacteria that cause plaque and gingivitis.
Detective. Teeth, gums, gingivitis are out of my line.
Dyspepsia, gastroesophageal reflux, stomatitis, ulcerative stomatitis, gingival bleeding, loose stools, constipation, flatulence, hemorrhoids, gingivitis, glossitis, dehydration, taste perversion


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Urine formation
- This topic has 7 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 10 months ago by chikis.
November 8, 2011 at 2:42 pm #15657
Am I want to post this question in form of objective.So any person who want to answer the question should choose the correct answer from the options provided and do well to explain how the option he/she has chosen is true. So here is the question: which of the following statements on urine production is not correct? A. Concentrated urine is produced under the control of antidiuretic hormone. B. The total volume of urine produced depends on the need for water excretion. C. If there is an excess intake of water, dilute urine is excreted. D. If there is a shortage of water in the body the volume of urine produced decreases. E. In the presence of antidiuretic hormone dilute urine is produced. So which is the correct answer and why?
November 9, 2011 at 2:51 am #107923aptitudeParticipant
E is incorrect. The functions of antidiuretic hormone, as the name implies, serve to prevent water loss and dehydration, and therefore ADH will reabsorb sodium from the distal tubule, and water will follow by osmosis. Therefore, in the control of ADH, concentrated urine is produced, not dilute urine.
November 9, 2011 at 5:23 am #107931
@aptitude, thank you for your answer. You have tried very well. But one more thing, you could have studied the question very well before answering. In the option I provided, I said that all the ' all the following are correct about urine production except one'; so which one is not true about urine formation? Since almost all my options are true about urine formation, I require you to give me the one that is not true about urine formation with reason.Thank You.
November 9, 2011 at 7:41 am #107934
November 9, 2011 at 6:00 pm #107941JackBeanParticipantquote aptitude:E is incorrect.
I guess this is what he meant
and how nicely you're asking us to do your homework, aren't you?
November 10, 2011 at 5:52 am #107954
November 14, 2011 at 4:23 am #108090daniel.kurzParticipantquote chikis:@aptitude, thank you for your answer. You have tried very well. But one more thing, you could have studied the question very well before answering. In the option I provided, I said that all the ' all the following are correct about urine production except one'; so which one is not true about urine formation? Since almost all my options are true about urine formation, I require you to give me the one that is not true about urine formation with reason.Thank You.
Aptitude is correct, and you are quite wrong.
November 14, 2011 at 12:35 pm #108095
My sincere gratitude goes to Aptitude, JackBean and Daniel.kurz for their imense contribution to this post. It also goes to any other member that may contribute to the post in future.
Two heads are better than one. When scientist put heads together, problems are solved; knowledge is developed, things work out fine and life become improved.
In the course of my preparation for an exam, I came across this very question in a prepared past question and answers of the said exam. I studied the question and analysed it hastely; my mind was twisted between two of the options A and E.
I then turned to the answer page of the book and suprisingly found A to be the answer and I wonder why and how; I become confused and burdened.
That burden I cannot carry alone and I decided to bring it foward so that other biologists can discuss it. When it landed in the forum, You my fellow scientist lambasted me for bringing in such question without working on it before posting it but I did in my own little way which showed no succes to me.
Nevertheless, your critics has made me go back to the drawing board to get a better picture of what I painted initialy. In the course my re-evaluation of the question and your opinions, I found that Aptitude is right indeed. Kudos to Aptitude for his careful answer! Thank you Aptitude. Below is a brief of what I found out cocerning the question
:The amount of water saved and the final concentration of the urine depend on the permeability of the walls of the collecting duct. When the blood osmotic pressure increases, as duringg dehydration, more ADH is released from the pituitary gland. ADH increases the permeability of the collecting duct probably by expanding the size of pores of the walls of the duct. Then, as the fluid in the collecting duct passes through the hyperosmotic region of the kidney medulla, water diffuses through the pores into the surounding interstitial fluid and is carried away by the blood circulation. The urine looses water and become more concentrated. Given this sequence of events for dehydration, it is not difficult to anticipate how the system respond to overhydration: the pituitary stops releasing ADH, the pores in the collecting duct walls close, and a large volume of dilute urine is excreted.
The above brief account for urine formation could not have been possible if no body replied or considered my question because I will feel that the question is so difficult such that it is rare to have an answer to it.
From the above account I now conclude that the option A in past question and answer is wrong but that the correct option is E. Which Aptitude earliar wrote.
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Detroit Public Schools' new 'DPS Open Doors Day' guaranteed to wow families!
On Saturday, April 27, more than 90 DPS schools will open their doors, allowing parents to see schools firsthand; meet principals, staff and parent leaders; take tours; sample healthy nutrition food in the school cafeterias for free; and see in action DPS' plans to create Neighborhood-Centered, Quality Schools throughout the city.
The 'DPS Open Doors Day' will be held from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. as part of the Open Enrollment Period, which runs through May 10.
Some activities will include classroom visits, instructional technology/lab demonstrations, presentations by teachers, student performances and business/community partner information. Some schools will also feature choirs, step and cheer teams, puppet shows, mini band concerts, Michigan Tech Science Experiment Stations and more!
Unique 'DPS Open Doors Day' offerings:
· Two free flights over the city by staff from Davis Aerospace High School
· Hard-hat tour of the new Diann Banks-Williamson Educational Center, a $6.67 million addition to replace the old Kettering West Wing facility for Special Education that will open adjacent to the new East English Village Preparatory Academy
· Showcase of the district's 17 new or significantly renovated schools as part of the 2009 bond issue
· Dance and music performances by students from the renowned Detroit School of Arts
· Free shuttle buses available from seven Parent Resource Center hubs; the four-hour time block, as well as the shuttle bus service, will allow families to visit several schools in one day
· Free samples of DPS' healthy lunches, free refreshments and other giveaways, while supplies last
· Mobile Dentist at Ludington Magnet Middle School
· Preschool Showcase at Marcus Garvey Academy and Charles Wright Academy
· Free workshops by The Home Depot at the Osborn Parent Resource Center
· Autistic Team offering information and support opportunities for students with disabilities at Earhart Elementary-Middle School
· And much more!
Individual schools that are open for enrollment include 12 neighborhood schools showcased by Excellent Schools Detroit as among the best in the city, as well as new schools and college preparatory programs with curriculums focusing on science, medicine and performing arts. DPS also offers multilingual education programs, Public School League scholar-athlete programs and Parent Resource Centers.
More than 90 schools open for information, tours from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.; FREE shuttle service; Every site will offer FREE healthy meals, receptions and giveaways!
For enrollment information, call (313) 240-4377 or visit detroitk12.org/enroll


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Sometimes that's all it takes. I was just sitting here at my computer this morning having my cup of coffee and trying to wake up. I decided to open my file cabinet beside me and just pull out a file and see what I could find.
I reached in and just randomly selected James "Jim" Holcomb Graham. My Aunt did a lot of the research on our Graham's so I haven't spent much time there yet. I did see what else I could find on them when I had my subscription to Ancestry.com, but with not much new information. What was on Rootsweb.com was information my Aunt had given me. So I just put their information aside for another day.
I was sitting here just going over my notes and that of my Aunt when I happened to notice one of her notations to herself (1860 Census? and 1870 Census?) She hadn't been able to find the family in those two censuses. So I pulled up my Heritage Quest and went to work. I also had made notes when I was searching Ancestry and hadn't been able to find them either.
I'll be darn if I didn't find them with in 15 minutes of searching. First I started looking for Jim Graham (the name he was known to use), but still no luck. Now James would have been about 8 and 18 respectively in those two censuses. So I got to thinking I might have better luck looking for his father, Tillman Williamson "T.W." Graham. With the chance that he went by T.W. sometimes and Tillman other times I just put "T" Graham in my search criteria. It turned up nothing for 1860, but there they were in 1870. T.W. Graham, wife J.J. (Jency Jane) with eight children, including James H (that's why, he must not have used the name Jim until he was a grown man) 18 years old. They were living in Grayson Co., TX.
So in a matter of 15 minutes I found a census record we had never found. In it I have five more names of siblings we also did not previously have.
Now to add to this discovery I also have a new mystery this census has presented to me. In the two dwellings listed above T.W. Graham are two other Graham families, but here is the interesting part. T.W. is white and in every record is listed as such. But these two families with the same name are Black/Mulatto. Are these former slaves of the Graham family who have followed the Grahams to Texas and taken there name as well? I believe (though I have yet to find records) that it was very possible the Grahams did own slaves since they were from NC and TN. Did they free their slaves, who then followed them to Texas and became their employed servants and neighbors? I would like to think that they made an effort to set right the injustice they may have participated in.
Now I will research this family listed with them and see if I find any other connections.
By the way I am going back to work. My husband is coming off the road and looking for something here near home. But I will try and make a greater effort to keep up with my blog and my research now. We have a few more remodel projects we are buried in, but after those are complete we will quit working on this house until we can save up enough money to do those major remodel projects now. So I should have more time in the near future even though I will be working.
Until next time, Happy Hunting.
My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.
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On her first visit to Boston five years ago, Denise Price set out to continue her tradition of bringing home pop-up books for her nieces and nephews from wherever she traveled. When a search of area gift shops revealed that the Hub didn�t have its own pop-up book, the Denver native decided to do something about that.
�When I first traveled to Boston, I was a typical wide-eyed tourist, very excited to walk the Freedom Trail. Back home, the oldest buildings probably date to the late 1800s. In Boston, though, there are so many historic buildings which date to the Revolutionary War. It didn�t take long before I became fascinated with Boston�s history and the City�s dedication to preserving its landmarks. Toward the end of my trip, I started to look for a Freedom Trail pop-up book to bring home. When I couldn�t find one, I searched for any Boston pop-up book. Much to my disappointment, I found that there were no such books about Boston at all. So after I moved here in late 2009, I began to think about how I could create one,� explained Price by telephone from her office in Cambridge last week.
After her book proposal was rejected by an array of publishers who found production costs on the labor-intensive project prohibitive, Price decided to self-publish �The Freedom Trail Pop-Up Book.� She then enlisted the help of social media maven Mary-Liz Murray of Everett to develop and execute a Kickstarter campaign, running through June 30, to raise the $52,500 needed to finance the production, publication, and distribution of a limited run of 5,000 books.
�With Kickstarter it�s all or nothing. We have an ambitious goal and we have to reach it to succeed. You have to have buy-in from the crowd. If this funds in full by midnight on June 30, then backers� credit cards will be charged; if not, then no charges will be put through. But Bostonians love their city, so we�re very hopeful,� says Price, who acknowledges that online donations have also come in from the West Coast, the U.K. and Canada. Campaign rewards will include copies of the book, behind-the-scenes tours of select Freedom Trail sites, and limited-edition art work by Price.
If Price succeeds in publishing the first ever pop-up book about Boston � to be sold in bookstores and gift shops along the 2.5 mile Freedom Trail with a portion of the proceeds going to the Freedom Trail Scholars program � it will also be a first for her.
�I have a longstanding, intense love of paper, but I�m not a paper engineer, illustrator, or historian. I was determined, however, so the first thing I did was take apart some existing pop-up books to see how they were made. In time, I found my way to a Wacom tablet. I had to figure out to use it, but once I taught myself how to illustrate digitally then I was ready to go. I live in Porter Square, so I just walk across the Longfellow Bridge and I�m on Beacon Hill or Boston Common and walking the Freedom Trail in no time. What was fun about working on this book digitally was how many times I had to visit each site. I walked the Freedom Trail almost every weekend for four years to make sure I got everything just right. It is important that fans of Boston architecture find this book as accurate as it can be. The Freedom Trail Foundation, which gave permission for the use of its medallion and trademark, provided materials for the text so that�s also accurate. The Foundation staff has been very helpful and encouraging to me throughout this project.�
Price�s weekly walks resulted in a host of sites being incorporated into the book, including Boston Common with a pop-up of the Frog Pond building; the Massachusetts State House, Park Street Church, and Faneuil Hall, with weathervane call-outs; the Granary Burying Ground, with a headstone pop-up; a U.S.S. Constitution complete with flowing sails; King�s Chapel, the Paul Revere House, and more.
�The book will include 16 architecturally accurate pop-ups as well as profiles of the five historic weathervanes along the Freedom Trail. This means there are 283 glue points that will have to be held together by hand while they set,� explains Price of the detailed production process that will begin upon the successful completion of the Kickstarter campaign. �The minute I know that the book will be financed, I will have six to eight months more work ahead on it � including four more stages of edits and production.�
The first-time author is confident that there are plenty of people who will welcome the chance to learn more about Boston in this imaginative way.
�This will definitely be something more exciting to bring home than just photos taken with a cellphone. This book will be something people of all ages can enjoy.�
Kickstarter campaign to publish "The Freedom Trail Pop-up Book"
WHEN: Through midnight on June 30
INFO: ThePopUpBook.com or Kickstarter.com
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On her first visit to Boston five years ago, Denise Price set out to continue her tradition of bringing home pop-up books for her nieces and nephews from wherever she traveled. When a search of area gift shops revealed that the Hub didn�t have its own pop-up book, the Denver native decided to do something about that.


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|The deceased lunatic, Edwin Gyado who killed five of his victims on the day of his graduation from school
People of Tse-Alaaigyu, Ikyaghev district of Naka, Gwer West local government area of Benue State are yet to come out of the shock and unbelief that trailed the heinous killings of five of their kinsmen by a lunatic, Edwin Gyado, who suddenly ran amok and beheaded his unsuspecting victims.
Edwin, a 27 year old graduate of the Calvin College of Education where he bagged an NCE had a history of insanity which also runs in his family.Saturday Vanguard gathered from sources in Naka the local government headquaters that the culprit popularly called Nomjov slaughtered some his victims at the Naka earth dam, just few metres from their homes and the site of his local block molding industry.
Our source disclosed that the culprit had over a long period of time, suffered from mental derangement and was taken to the Makurdi Federal Medical Centre where he was treated of his insanity and discharged.
But unknown to his people, the young man relapsed into insanity again until he ran amok, killing his brothers, a woman and children in the community.
It was gathered that he had invited some his victims to the earth dam and the factory site pretending that he wanted something interesting to show his victims but ended up slaughtering them.
Though members of the community meted out jungle justice on the insane young man by beating him to death in revenge for the bizarre killings of his victims, his elder brother, Daniel Gyado, a health worker at the local government secretariat told Saturday Vanguard that Edwin lived a normal life and interacted very well with the people until his mental derangement.
Daniel recalled that on Saturday 19th January, 2013, Edwin complained bitterly to him that his in-laws were pressurizing him to complete the bride price on his wife which according to him was a directive from the gods.
He said, "When he told me that, I encouraged him not to be worried by their complaint and assured him that we would pay his wife's bride price after consultations with the village head".
Daniel added that he was however shocked a day later when someone called to inform him that his younger brother had gone on rampage in the village, killing five persons including a woman and her daughter whom he hacked to death.
"I could not believe it and so, set out to look for him. Someone told me that he was spotted at Imande village, some few minutes from here, but later I discovered that a mob had killed him at the Makurdi road in Naka town", Daniel said.
Narrating how the man killed one of his victims, Zaki Tor Gbenda who was a childhood friend of the insane young man before his death said Edwin hacked a 30 year old Mrs. Nyishima Tyosue a native of Tse-Dzwatema, Mbayoondu, Gbaange/ Tongov to death.
"The murdered woman was my uncle's wife. I watched from afar as the woman pursued Edwin with a stick after he had killed his nine- year old son Terhile Tyosue with a matchet. Her strength failed her and she fell down. Edwin who she was chasing suddenly came after her, caught up with her and ordered her to kneel down. And in a jiffy, I saw him chop off the woman's head with the machet. I shouted and he ran after me", Zaki said as he fought back tears.
Hitherto, the lunatic had invited his 15 year old brother, Iorguma to his block moulding site on the pretense that he wanted to show him something. While there, he chopped off his brother's head. It was gathered that the insane man suddenly started pursuing people on the streets and a community earth dam where he caught up with a 10 year old Dangote Samuel of Tse-Uchough Nyamshi village and another nine- year old Joy Ortwav both of whom he seriously injured with his machete but later died at the Federal Medical center, Apir. "After this last killing, the people became aware of his escapades, so youths in the village mobilized themselves and searched the entire village until they caught him where he was hiding in a bush in a nearby village.
"They had contemplated taking him to the police but they finally resolved to mete out jungle justice on him by beating him to death".
Commenting on the unfortunate incident, Chairman of Gwer West local council, Mrs. Eunice Mbajwa who described the incident as horrifying said she could not comprehend the unfortunate killings.
"For sometime now, I've not been able to sleep well nor have I been able to resume work, it's indeed saddening. But generally, we have ensured that peace prevailed in the entire community", Mrs. Mbajwa said.
At the time of visiting the troubled village, some youths were seen digging the grave for the deceased mad man while his shocked wife who had been sobbing uncontrolably managed to utter these words, "my husband was a nice man. I never envisaged that he would commit such an act."
Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in charge of the state,Deputy Superintendent of Police Daniel Ezeala who also confirmed the incident, decried the villagers resort to jungle justice but added that the command was investigating the matter to ascertain if the man was actually insane.


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This article was originally published on the SciDev.Net Website 0n 22 June 2012.
The Rio+20 summit has highlighted a new concerns for the Worlds poor, access to broadband and ICT skills.
These two areas have been targeted as sustainable goals, so as to close the technology gap opening up exponentially as we accelerate through the digital age.
Some may argue that the digital divide is dead, but a new gulf — the broadband divide — is impeding poor countries' efforts to develop sustainably, a meeting on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) heard this week.
Mobile phone technology is now firmly established. In a world of seven billion people, six billion mobile phones are currently in use.
But the broadband story is very different. Just four per cent of people in developing countries are subscribed to fixed broadband, compared with 25 per cent in developed countries.
In 2010, just five per cent of people in the developing world could access broadband on their mobile phones, compared with 42 per cent in developed countries, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency specialising in information and communications technology (ICT) development.
"Broadband is essential to fulfilling what has become a reality — that ICTs are fundamental to all three pillars of sustainable development [economic, social and environmental]," said Gary Fowlie, head of ITU's Liaison Office.
Broadband is a telecommunications signal that uses a wide range of frequencies, allowing for larger data flows and thus high-speed internet access. Many developing countries currently lack either the necessary fibre-optic and wireless networks, or cannot afford access to international submarine cable and satellite services.
Investing in broadband infrastructure would have spillover benefits for all pillars of sustainable development — for example, by spawning programmes in e-agriculture, e-health, and e-education — and would spur economic growth, said Fowlie.
A ten per cent expansion of broadband networks could lead to a 1.38 per cent growth in GDP (gross domestic product) in low and middle income countries, reported the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, which was set up in 2010 by the ITU and UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
In advance of Rio+20, the commission presented a 'call to action' to include broadband as a sustainable development goal.
But others argued this week that barriers to sustainable development would be better overcome by addressing the growing gap in knowledge regarding use of ICT services.
Nitin Desai, former under-secretary-general in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, told the meeting that cultivating capacity to apply new and emerging technologies was critical to achieving desired sustainable development outcomes.
This could be achieved through nurturing the capacity of end-users such as farmers, and of service-providers such as health professionals, he said.
Nathaniel Manning, director of business development and strategy at Ushahidi, a Kenya-based non-profit technology company, said that poor communities were not yet using non-broadband mobile services to their full capacity. These services include Mxit, a social network based on mobile messaging developed in South Africa, and M-Farm, an SMS service enabling farmers in Kenya to access information on product retail prices.
Source: SciDev.Net – Press Release – 26 June 2012


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