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Despite a murder melodrama and some obvious tweaks for accessibility, "Friday Night Lights" still has a gritty realism and superlative acting that make it one of network TV's best shows. "Ugly Betty" still is bright, punchy and bursting with zippy jokes, even if a few plot wheels are spinning. The sophomore slump hits most shows but rarely as hard as it has hit "Heroes." One of 2006's best shows has disappointingly, but perhaps not inexplicably, toppled from its great heights. As compelling in its first season as "Lost" was, "Heroes" — about the vast connections between people who've discovered they have superpowers and the mysterious Company tracking them — is now written with virtually no comedic flair, palpable suspense or consistency of character. Claire ("the cheerleader," for those who've only seen "Heroes" ads) has gone from a strong-willed girl coming of age under harsh circumstances to a teenager gone stupid for plot purposes. A transplant to Ireland has done little for Peter Petrelli (last year's "burning man"). And although sweet, time-traveling Hiro being stuck in feudal Japan has flickers of promise, the writers seem too busy introducing lame new characters and poorly using returning ones to really expand upon it. "Company Man," a late-season episode from last year, was among the finest hours of TV shown on any channel in 2006. It pushed every button of heart, nervous humor and impressive action that "Heroes" has so far failed to find this year. Its writer? Bryan Fuller. So why can't he work more magic on this season? Because Fuller left to create 2007's big-buzz series, "Pushing Daisies." Fuller was a co-executive producer on "Heroes" last year; its creator is "Crossing Jordan's" Tim Kring. And he brought more to the scriptwriting table than his two credited episodes would suggest. In interviews, Fuller has said that despite his bottom-of-the-hierarchy title, his was a full week's job. All that snappy banter, bleak-but-bright humor and affection for characters from "Heroes" can now be seen in "Daisies," which has lived up to its intense hype as this year's show to watch. I'm not yet suggesting a defection from "Heroes"; only a gun at my temple could make me recommend "Two and a Half Men," and even then I'd have to think about it. But I'm afraid NBC — which already has a spin-off in the works — has put a branded cart before a quality horse. Already packed with product placement and incessant ad breaks, "Heroes" has shown so many Nissans this season, I'm waiting for one to sport the power of speech. Given how un-cool "Heroes" has been thus far, that development would be more "My Mother the Car" than "Knight Rider." Nick Rogers can be reached at email@example.com. Read his blog, Unpainted Huffhines, at blogs.sj-r.com/unpaintedhuffhines.


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A circus trainer in Egypt was killed after being mauled by a 450-pound lion in front of a shocked crowd during a live show.
Shaheen Islam, a 35-year-old lion tamer with a circus in Alexandria, was attacked by one of three lions in an enclosure used for the performance. The sickening attack was caught on video.
As loud music pumped through speakers, the lion lunged at Islam and grabbed him by the neck, causing panicked children in the audience to scream in fear. Other employees rushed to Islam's aid, poking the lion with sticks in an effort to get it to let go of the helpless man.
Islam, who had worked with lions for 10 years, according to his brother, was rushed to hospital but died of his injuries.
Circus spokesman Mohammed Mustafa said the lion, which had recently arrived from South Africa, was acting erratically because it was mating season. The killer lion, not surprisingly, has been removed from the show.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes used a strong third period to extend their winning streak to three games.
The Hurricanes scored four goals in the third period to rally past the San Jose Sharks 5-3 on Friday night.
"That was our best game of the year," Carolina coach Kirk Muller said.
Elias Lindholm had a goal and two assists to lead the Hurricanes, including the game-winner with six minutes remaining.
Jordan Staal, Eric Staal, Riley Nash and Jay Harrison had Carolina's other goals.
Cam Ward made 22 saves for the Hurricanes in his return to the lineup after sitting out Carolina's previous two games.
Justin Braun, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Tommy Wingels scored for the Sharks. Joe Thornton extended his point streak to eight games with an assist in the first period.
Backup goalie Alex Stalock made 30 saves, and San Jose lost consecutive games in regulation for the first time this season.
Before the loss to the Hurricanes and Thursday's 5-1 defeat against Pittsburgh, San Jose had won six in a row.
"I don't see an energized team right now," San Jose coach Todd McLellan said. "I see us chasing and the other team dictating the pace of the game. I see us making sloppy plays, sloppy passes — even missing assignments that are defensive assignments that we should be able to do in our sleep right now.
"That could be lazy or that could be fatigue. We have to figure that part out."
Lindholm's go-ahead goal came on a deflection on Andrej Sekera's wrist shot. Lindholm knocked it through Stalock's legs after Sekera skated around the perimeter.
It was the first career multi-point game for Lindholm, who was Carolina's first-round pick and fifth overall in the 2013 draft.
"That was the player we drafted," Muller said.
Eric Staal then added an empty-net goal with 30.2 seconds remaining.
"That has got to be a big confidence builder for our guys tonight — to beat a team like that who we have a lot of respect for tonight," Muller said.
San Jose had tied the score at 3 with 10:25 remaining in the third period on Braun's slap shot from the point.
The Hurricanes scored twice earlier in the third period, controlling much of the action to erase a 2-1 deficit.
Nash first deflected a Harrison shot above Stalock's left shoulder to tie the score at 2 at 4:54.
Jordan Staal then gave Carolina a 3-2 advantage 6:42 into the period when Nathan Gerbe centered the puck into the crease from the corner. Staal jammed at the puck a couple of times, and Stalock couldn't freeze the puck before Staal knocked it into the net.
San Jose quickly tried to move past Thursday's loss to the Penguins, scoring twice in the first period to build a 2-0 lead.
Wingels opened the scoring after Harrison couldn't connect with Jordan Staal on a pass up the middle of the ice from behind the Hurricanes net. Wingels took advantage of the miscue, batting Jason Demers' one-timer from the point by Ward.
The Sharks then took a 2-0 lead with 3:29 left in the period when Vlasic's wrist shot from the blue line deflected off the skate of Nash and beat Ward.
Carolina rebounded with a strong second period, trimming the deficit to 2-1 on Harrison's goal.
Harrison's wrist shot from the point hit the boards behind Stalock and bounced into the crease.
Stalock couldn't corral the puck, which ricocheted off Stalock's pad and skate before sliding into the net.
"We need to regroup, to get some rest," McLellan said. "I hope that is the case."
NOTES: With forwards Drayson Bowman and Patrick Dwyer missing the game with injuries, Carolina recalled Zack Boychuk from Charlotte of the AHL before the game. Boychuk played at left wing. ... The Hurricanes also agreed to terms with Carter Sandlak of the Plymouth Whalers on Friday. Sandlak will finish the season in the Ontario Hockey League before the Hurricanes decide where to assign him.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes used a strong third period to extend their winning streak to three games.


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South African Journal of Surgery
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S. Afr. j. surg. vol.52 n.1 Cape Town Jan. 2014
Hymie Gaylis passed away on 11 December 2013, a week before his 93rd birthday.
Hymie graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1945 and did his internship at Johannesburg Hospital under Professor I W Brebner and Dr E S Braun. He was a senior house officer in ENT and paediatrics in 1947 and a surgical registrar from 1948 to 1954 at the NEH and Baragwanath Hospital. From 1954 to 1957 he was a senior registrar to Professor Ian Aird at the Hammersmith Postgraduate Medical School in London. During this period he also worked under Mr Peter Martin, who was one of the pioneers of modern vascular surgery in the UK. In 1957/58 he was a clinical and research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and from 1958 to 1959 he was tutorial surgical registrar to Professor W E Underwood at Johannesburg Hospital. In 1955 he was awarded the FRCS (Eng) and in 1979 the FACS. His thesis on 'Experimental production of tendon sheaths' earned him the MS degree in 1953, and he obtained his MD in 1977 for his thesis entitled 'Studies in the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral vascular disease'.
On his return from the USA, Hymie started a private practice in vascular surgery. He was a part-time consultant at Johannesburg Hospital under Professor D J du Plessis from 1983 to 1986 and under Professor J A Myburgh from 1977 to 1982, and part-time head of a clinical surgical unit at Johannesburg Hospital from 1983 to 1986. He was responsible for establishing a vascular service in Johannesburg and together with Mr Len Stein was responsible for teaching vascular surgery to residents in the postgraduate programme of the University.
Hymie was one of the pioneers of modern vascular surgery in South Africa. During this period the first aortogram was performed at the Johannesburg Hospital by direct puncture of the aorta using a lumbar approach, before the direct femoral artery approach was established. In the early days of vascular grafting arterial grafts were made from parachute material and were sewn by the wives of the surgeons. Freeze-dried vascular grafts from cadavers were used at a later stage.
Aortic aneurysms were initially resected totally, which was a tedious procedure. This technique advanced to the present-day method of grafting into the wall of the opened aneurysm. I had the privilege of assisting Hymie during both of these eras. He was a meticulous surgeon, and his results were always predictably excellent. He operated with a quiet and calculated efficiency.
Hymie was an excellent teacher of both under- and post-graduates. He frequently made presentations at the Saturday morning surgical grand rounds, and these were of a high standard. He also regularly delivered papers at the annual congresses of the Association of Surgeons and at Surgical Research Society meetings. He served on the editorial committee of SAJS, and published 52 articles on vascular surgery.
Hymie was a perfect gentleman and was liked by all. He was married to his wife Rhoda for 60 years. Together they hosted many departmental parties, and these were always very pleasant occasions. When Hymie retired he moved to San Diego, where his two sons Franklin and Brendan were established in practice in radiology and urological surgery. He regularly attended the weekly surgical meetings at the University of San Diego.
I had the privilege of visiting Hymie and Rhoda in San Diego just three weeks before his passing. He had suffered an acute illness and was bedridden, but still able to reminisce about old times. He smiled several times when talking about the Du Plessis era in the Department of Surgery.
Hymie will be remembered by many, especially by the vascular surgeons he helped train - they are scattered among many countries all over the world. He and Len Stein not only pioneered vascular surgery at Wits, but elevated it to recognised world-class status. We are indebted to Hymie for his dedication to vascular surgery in South Africa and for the example he set. He is survived by Rhoda, Franklin, Brendon and five grandchildren.
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Verizon customers who have been long relegated to archaic 3G speeds can now rejoice. CFO of Verizon Wireless, Fran Shammo, announced today at the Wells Fargo Securities Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference in New York City that the company will finish implementing its LTE infrastructure with a full-blown rollout by the middle of next year.
Though Verizon had some issues with its LTE launch at the start, including the great service blackout of 2011, Shammo touted Verizon's reliability, citing the fact that Verizon's $3.9 billion buyout of nationwide AWS spectrum will give it an edge for at least five years. He added that Verizon will continue to look for opportunities to increase its spectrum in order to match demand, as about 250 million people utilize Verizon's LTE network, and the company hopes to increase that to at least 260 million by the end of the year. Verizon's LTE coverage should match the current 3G CMDA spread by the end of 2013.
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KENNESAW, Ga. (Nov. 7, 2007) - The ETSU women's soccer team earned their first ever post-season victory as they defeated the Stetson Hatters, 2-1 on Wednesday night at KSU Soccer Complex. The Bucs improve to 11-5-3, while the Hatters fall to 8-10-1.
The Bucs took a 1-0 lead early in the first half as Terri Miller (Cape Coral, Fla.) connected with Jordan Monty (Mesquite, Texas) and Meredith Goldman (Knoxville, Tenn.) from inside the box to blast the ball past Stetson keeper Andra Garavaglia during the third minute of play.
Stetson battled back as they were able to tie the match 1-1 when Emily Ware netted her first goal of the season from Heather Berg in the 25th minute.
In the second period both teams continued to battle it out but it was the Bucs who were able to convert during the 73rd minute when Monty slipped past the keeper on a cross from Katie Green (Knoxville, Tenn.). It would prove to be the game-winning goal as the defenses battled it out for the remaining time.
Offensively Monty led the Bucs with three shots, one goal and one assist while Miller had two shots and one goal. Freshman Kelly Brinkman (Clearwater, Fla.) also contributed two shots on the night. Goalkeeper Rachel Van Horn (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) made 12 saves for the Bucs.
With their two goals Monty and Miller each now have 11 goals on the season and are one away from trying the single season record of 12 goals set by Erin Ashton (New Bern, N.C.) in 2002. Monty's goal was also her fifth game-winning goal of the season.
For the match Stetson outshot the Bucs 25-10 while each team earned six corner kicks.
"Stetson did a great job pressuring us tonight and it was a battle the whole night just like during the regular season," said head coach Heather Henson. "We made an adjustment at the half and we were able to come out and execute it and convert that opportunity."
With the victory the Bucs have advanced to the semifinal round where they will take on top-seed and host school Kennesaw State. The match will be shown live on Asun.TV at http://asun.playonsports.tv/etsu and is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. Keep up with the ETSU women's soccer team by visiting www.ETSUBucs.com.


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GIRARD, Ohio — A police officer said a northeast Ohio man admitted cooking heroin on a spoon while driving his car.
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In one of the highlights of Lewis & Clark's spring season, the men's rowing team won the Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference Championship for the first time since 2007. The Pioneer men's coach, Lincoln LaRoe, was honored as NCRC Men's Coach of the Year. Lewis & Clark seniors Brandon Adams and Jessica Asbridge were recognized as members of the NCRC All-Conference Team.
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The men's and women's track and field teams boasted several stand-out competitors this year, including the Pioneers' Male and Female Athletes of the Year, seniors Karl Dickman and Liska Havel.
Dickman set several personal bests this season, while making a name for himself in Lewis & Clark's All-Time Records.
After not competing in the javelin for three years, sophomore John Berokoff set a new Lewis & Clark record while at the Northwest Conference Championships. Berokoff finished in third place, earning All-Conference honors, with a distance of 184-09, which broke David Owen's record from 1990. The Pioneer hurler entered the javelin ranked sixth in the conference.
On the women's side, Havel competed in the heptathlon for the first time in her career, earning All-Conference First-Team honors in the event. She also earned a spot on the All-Conference First-Team in the 200-meter dash. Havel was named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA All-Academic District 8 Second-Team for her GPA and overall athletic accomplishments.
The women's team had four other All- Conference performances, two from junior Cheyenne Feliz, and one each from first-year Illana Livstrom and junior Alla Khalitova.
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Jessica Mullins BA '10, a star on the Pioneer softball diamond, received an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award for the 2010 season. The national award honors undergraduates of color who have achieved success in the classroom and on the field of competition. Mullins is the only student-athlete, female or male, from a Northwest Conference school who made the list.
During the spring season, both the Pioneer baseball and softball teams saw new coaches at the helm. Shawna Feldt completed her first season as the Pioneers' new softball coach, after being hired in July 2009. Former assistant baseball coach Eric Deovlet took over as the interim head coach for the Pios after former head coach Justin Baughman took a job with the San Diego Padres. Deovlet guided the Pioneers to wins against the Whitworth Pirates and Willamette Bearcats.
The women's tennis team surprised their conference opponents with a third-place finish, despite missing ace Amalia Nilsson. Nilsson, a junior and two-time NWC Player of the Year, had to sit out the conference tournament due to injury.
The men's side also struggled with injuries, which translated into a challenging season.
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The all-aluminum Orbea Rallon stood out from our 20-plus bike test fleet for a number of reasons. First, it was one of the few all-aluminum bikes in the test. Second, it had a unique BOS front and rear suspension system specially designed for the Rallon. And third, its curb appeal was undeniable.
"Punk rock, rowdy, in your face Euro trash style going on with this whip," said one rider. "Absolutely love the loud yellow Mavic Crossmax Enduro wheelset. Everyone who came back from riding this bike had an ear-to-ear grin on their face, so I figured it must be worth a try."
Once we swung our legs over the Rallon, we noticed that the frame has quite a long top tube. Orbea confirmed that sizing runs on the large size, with a couple 6-foot-tall riders fitting perfectly on the medium size frame.
Rallon on the rise
Climbing up Sulphur Springs fire road, riders seemed satisfied with the way the Rallon ascended. The steep 74.5-degree seat tube angle puts the rider in a forward pedal-friendly position good for technical climbing.
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"The BOS suspension didn't have any lockouts like the FOX CTD system, but even with the suspension set fully open, the bike climbed quite well with minimal pedal-induced bob," commented on test rider. "Not quite as quick feeling uphill as the Mojo HDR or even the Bronson for that matter, but still felt eager despite its 30 lb. weight with XTR pedals."
Another rider had a few issues with pedal strikes through more technical climbing sections due to its rather low 13.3-inch bottom bracket height. Pedal strikes were also a slight issue on downhill sections as well, forcing riders to be mindful of crank angle and pedaling through corners, especially with the rear suspension compressed. It should also be noted that the test bike only had 170mm long cranks, which would make pedal strikes with 175mm cranks even more common.
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The Orbea Rallon was created specifically to rule the Enduro World Series circuit, and unlike most bikes that design suspension around suspension leverage rate, the Rallon Advanced Dynamics suspension was designed alongside BOS to control 160mm of rear travel through shock tuning. This gives the BOS Kirk rear shock much more influence on the feel of how the Rallon descends.
With separate rebound, high- and low-speed compression settings, the BOS Kirk shock is incredibly tunable, which might be intimidating for some who just prefer a set-and-forget mentality. For those, the Rallon can be equipped with the FOX Float CTD shock. With the BOS Kirk shock matched to the 160mm BOS Deville front fork, it gave the Rallon one of the most balanced feels of any bike in the test.
With a minor turn of the eccentric shock mount hardware, the Rallon can adjust bottom bracket height up to 7mm and angles by a half-degree depending on terrain. A concentric pivot at the rear 12×142 axle makes for a super stiff overall chassis as well as stronger and quieter braking. All of these innovations help the Rallon absolutely shred when gravity calls. Once pointed downhill, the Rallon displayed as much attitude in action as it does at rest, with one rider singing its rowdy praises.
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"I couldn't stop hooting and hollering on this bike," one rider effused. "It's capable and willing to be hucked off anything and feels burly as brass balls."
With its unique suspension design and 160mm of travel, the Rallon soaked up brake bumps and rough sections of trail with the smoothness of a 29er. In sections where other 27.5-inch bikes like the Ibis Mojo HDR had difficulty staying composed, the Rallon charged through without hesitation.
Another unique aspect of the Rallon is its purposefully mismatched front and rear wheel/tire combo. The Mavic Crossmax Enduro wheelset features a wider front rim and blocky Mavic Charge 2.4-inch tire paired to a narrower rear rim and a lower-profile Mavic Roam XL 2.2-inch tire. This intentionally unorthodox combination made the Rallon oversteer into corners, encouraging riders to slide it through turns. Its exceptionally short 16.5-inch chainstays—the shortest of any bike in our test—helped the Rallon turn with superior eagerness and agility.


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A collaborative project of theMissouri State Archives, a division of the Office of the Secretary of Stateand the St. Louis Probate Court
In November 1995, the Missouri State Archives, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, in cooperation with the St. Louis Probate Court agreed to preserve the valuable information contained in the early probate decedent files of St. Louis City/St. Louis County through the process of archival microfilming. St. Louis Genealogical Society members, trained by the Missouri State Archives, worked on the early records to prepare them for the filming process.
In September 1996, a camera operator from the Genealogical Society of Utah filmed the prepared probate files at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City, Missouri. In late 1996, missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) began processing the remainder of the probate decedent files through 1900. These files were transferred from St. Louis to the Missouri State Archives for this project. The entire project contains Probate File 1 through Probate File 26545; these files are available for research on over 1200 reels of microfilm.
The names found in the probate files represent a virtual "Who's Who" of early St. Louis. Included in the pre-statehood files are the probate records of Marie Thérèse Chouteau, society leader and property owner; Charles Lucas, killed in an 1817 duel with Thomas Hart Benton, later one of Missouri's first United States senators; and Manuel Lisa, fur trader and entrepreneur who opened the Northwest fur trade to the United States. These names are recognizable to Missouri historians, but the bulk of the probate files contain the names of the men and women who were ordinary citizens living and working in St. Louis. The files provide extraordinary information about the families who settled in territorial St. Louis, revealing family demographics, standards of living, biographical information, and level of community involvement.
The files created after statehood include the same information, as well as many familiar names. Mountain man Jedediah S. Smith; St. Louis founder Auguste Chouteau; explorer, territorial governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs William Clark; bridge builder James B. Eads, and Union general William Tecumseh Sherman are all included in the St. Louis Probate Court collection.
Through the processing project, the St. Louis Probate Court decedent records from 1804 through 1900 are now available for research on microfilm at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City.
In October 2000, the St. Louis City Probate Court agreed to transfer the guardianship files from storage facilities in St. Louis to the Missouri State Archives for archival processing and microfilming. The guardianship files cover the period from 1824 through 1900. This project, assisted by missionaries from the Mormon church who process and microfilm the records, is expected to reach completion in 2004.
In mid-2002, the Missouri State Archives decided to make the St. Louis Probate decedent files from 1804 to 1821, encompassing the territorial period in Missouri history, available to the public in digital format. The original documents were digitized and viewable copies of each file, many handwritten, were placed on the Secretary of State's Office website. Microfilming of probate files created after 1821 through 1900 was completed in 2002; digitization of and access to these records will be completed in several stages.
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Comparisons with EOP C04 Series
On the following pages you will find a comparison between the individual solutions of the analysis centres and the IVS combination with respect to the C04 series. The C04 series provides Earth orientation parameters (EOP):
- Polar motion with respect to the crust X-Pole and Y-Pole,
- Irregularities of the rotation angle UT1-UTC and LOD,
- Celestial pole offsets dX and dY
referred to the precession-nutation model IAU2006 and with respect to the ITRF2008.
These values are smoothed at 1-day intervals and published by the IERS Earth Orientation Centre. Since 1th December 2011, the EOP C04 series is delivered with 30-day latency and includes only final definitive values, cf. IERS message 198. A description of the C04 series can be found at the C04-Guide.
For comparison, the missing X- and Y-Pole Rate of the C04 series are determined by a weighted linear interpolation of the X- and Y-Pole values, respectively.
The comparison is embedded into an interactive tool containing data of the last two year. The user is free to display the graphics of the individual solution, to choose the time-span and to overlay the residuals with their error bars.
The statistic table is updated according to the chosen data set(s). Tool tipping a data point provides a link to the analysis report of the corresponding session.


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Avaya is making it easier to drop its unified communications capabilities into business applications, removing a layer of complexity that may be holding developers back from writing communications-enabled apps for businesses.
The company is announcing Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, which is made up of both a set of developer tools and also software that interfaces communications-enabled apps with Avaya Aura unified communications infrastructure that actually delivers the communication link.
[BACKGROUND:Avaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft]
The result, Avaya says, would be applications that can trigger a range of communications actions such as instant messaging, conference calls and video calls. For example, an intelligent-building control application could be enabled to set up a conference call among key building staff when the air conditioning system goes on the fritz.
The applications would require that customers of the apps have Avaya Aura to which they would add Collaboration Environment, which can run on any number of VMware virtual servers.
Competitors Cisco and Microsoft offer APIs to enable embedding communications features from their platforms into apps, but not the development platform, says Irwin Lazar, an analyst with Nemertes Research.
In Avaya's case, the company offers developers a plug-in for the Eclipse integrated development environment that is commonly used in writing business apps. Adding Aura UC capabilities to apps in Eclipse is done via drag and drop, Avaya says.
[COMPETITION: Microsoft Lync shows off the basics, but misses the mark]
"Open interfaces and SDKs make it easier to create applications that leverage those capabilities," says Henry Dowling, an analyst with Forrester Research. For developers, their task is to call on the communications resource rather than having to code the actual interaction, he says.
Lazar says there are enough Avaya Aura corporate customers to attract developers to write these apps. In general, these so-called communications-enabled business processes that the applications could perform have been talked about for a decade, but little has been done to make them a reality. Simplifying the writing of such apps could accelerate the process, he says.
Avaya also offers developers a new service called Avaya Aura Collaboratory, a cloud-based Aura test infrastructure. Rather than build their own test environment for doing quality control on their apps, developers can pay $1,000 per quarter for the Avaya developer test-lab service.
Avaya Messaging Service
Avaya says it used Collaboration Environment to build its own SMS service called Avaya Messaging service.It makes it possible for customers to receive on designated smartphones SMS messages that are sent to their work desktop phones, numbers that otherwise couldn't receive such messages.
Customers sign up for the service and use a secure portal to enter the desktop phone numbers they want to SMS-enable as well as the number of the smartphone to which the messages will actually be delivered. SMSs bound for those desktop phone numbers are routed to Avaya's infrastructure and relayed over a cellular data network to the appropriate smartphone.
The messages are displayed by the smartphone via an Avaya Messaging Service app that customers install. The service costs $120 per phone number per year.
IP Office upgrade
Avaya is has released a new version of its IP Office unified communication platform for midsize businesses. IP Office 9.0 doubles the number of users it supports to 2,000 and supports deploying the system to as many as 32 sites.
For the first time the platform can be deployed on VMware virtual machines. VMware is the only virtual environment IP Office 9.0 supports. The software can also be deployed on Linux hardware or on Avaya 500V2 appliances.
Hybrid deployments using more than one of these options is also possible.
Tim Greene covers Microsoft and unified communications for Network World and writes the Mostly Microsoft blog. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter@Tim_Greene.
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New Zealanders who worked in Australia and made compulsory superannuation payments will be able to get their hands on their nest eggs at last after the Australian Government introduced legislation that will allow Kiwis to transfer their funds across the Tasman.
Previously, New Zealanders who made payments to Australian pension schemes were compelled to leave them there.
Australian Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten said the legislation was an important step towards closer economic relations between New Zealand and Australia and a removal of barriers to labour mobility.
New Zealanders returning home and Australians moving here will be able to bring their Australian savings and consolidate them with their New Zealand retirement savings.
New Zealanders who move to Australia will also be able to transfer their KiwiSaver scheme savings there and add them to their Australian superannuation benefits.
Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement between the countries.
"That agreement, together with the single economic market agenda, has brought down trade barriers, reduced costs for business, encouraged investment and created jobs and economic growth for both Australia and New Zealand,'' said Mr Shorten.
The legislation will come into force in July next year.
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In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
" Celebrity news from the United Kingdom: In April, Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist and author of The Female Eunuch, was leaving her house in East Anglia, when a young woman accosted her, forced her back inside, tied her up, smashed her glasses, and then set about demolishing her ornaments with a poker.
A couple of weeks before that, the 85-year-old mother of Phil Collins, the well-known rock star, was punched in the ribs, the back, and the head on a West London street, before her companion was robbed. "That's what you have to expect these days," she said, philosophically.
Anthea Turner, the host of Britain's top-rated National Lottery TV show, went to see the West End revival of Grease with a friend. They were spotted at the theatre by a young man who followed them out and, while their car was stuck in traffic, forced his way in and wrenched a diamond-encrusted Rolex off the friend's wrist.
A week before that, the 94-year-old mother of Ridley Scott, the director of Alien and other Hollywood hits, was beaten and robbed by two men who broke into her home and threatened to kill her. "
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" A few months ago, Shirley Best, owner of the Rolander Fashion boutique whose clients include the daughter of the Princess Royal, was ironing some garments when two youths broke in. They pressed the hot iron into her side and stole her watch, leaving her badly burnt.
"I was frightened to defend myself," said Miss Best. "I thought if I did anything I would be arrested."
And who can blame her? Shortly before the attack, she'd been reading about Tony Martin, a Norfolk farmer whose home had been broken into and who had responded by shooting and killing the teenage burglar. He was charged with murder. In April, he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment—for defending himself against a career criminal in an area where the police are far away and reluctant to have their sleep disturbed.
Norfolk is a remote rural corner of England. It ought to be as peaceful and crime-free as my remote rural corner of New England. But it isn't. Old impressions die hard: Americans still think of Britain as a low-crime country. Conversely, the British think of America as a high-crime country. But neither impression is true. The overall crime rate in England and Wales is 60 percent higher than that in the United States. True, in America you're more likely to be shot to death. On the other hand, in England you're more likely to be strangled to death. But in both cases, the statistical likelihood of being murdered at all is remote, especially if you steer clear of the drug trade. When it comes to anything else, though—burglary, auto theft, armed robbery, violent assault, rape—the crime rate reaches deep into British society in ways most Americans would find virtually inconceivable.
I cite those celebrity assaults not because celebrities are more prone to wind up as crime victims than anyone else, but only because the measure of a civilized society is how easily you can insulate yourself from its snarling underclass. In America, if you can make it out of some of the loonier cities, it's a piece of cake, relatively speaking. In Britain, if even a rock star or TV supremo can't insulate himself, nobody can. "


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On Friday, June 24, Rhizome is presenting new projects by Jeremy Bailey and Antoine Catala as part of the New Silent Series. This post elaborates some of the ideas around the event.
The future never comes looking like it used to. Science fiction's universal hallmark of technological advancement was the videophone. While you can buy a device as slick as a Gene Roddenberry prop, most people make video calls with the same thing they do a thousand other things with, using a streamlined version of the computer-camera-modem combo that Jennifer Ringley set up in her dorm room in 1996. Her site JenniCam (now archived) did not stream a live feed of her life. It updated still images— black-and-white, at first— every three minutes. Traffic leapt whenever word spread that Ringley was undressing, or having sex with her boyfriend. But JenniCam was never meant to be an illicit site. As Ringley explained, she was broadcasting everyday life, and in everyday life sex and nudity happen. Her webcam was like a piece of furniture, a mirror that blankly took in the image of the room it faced. It was connected to the line of the telephone, a device that philosopher Avital Ronnell has described as a superhumanizing prosthesis, a machine that empowers the ear and voice to operate across great distances. The webcam's mirror/telephone hybrid— as used by JenniCam and its lifecasting progeny, from Ustream.tv to Chatroulette— is a messy sort of videophone that captures a reflection at its physical location and disperses it to whatever channel that switches the packets.
Rosalind Krauss called video "the aesthetics of narcissism." Her 1976 essay of that name describes Vito Acconci's Centers (1971) as a reflection on art's indexical function: he looks in a television monitor as a mirror and points at himself. One of her other examples was Richard Serra's Boomerang (1974), which locks Nancy Holt in a prison of feedback. She speaks and listens to her own words in a "collapsed present." "[V]ideo's real medium," Krauss writes, "is a psychological situation, the very terms of which are to withdraw attention from an external object— an Other— and invest it in the Self." What do her words mean thirty years later, when video, thanks to webcams, has become part of everyday life as a telecom device? Marisa Olson's remake of Boomerang offers an easy starting point. The webpage juxtaposes a video of Olson listening to and repeating the text of Boomerang with a copy of the old video that she saved on her YouTube account. Serra's tightly constructed frame excludes everything but Holt's face and the audio apparatus. Olson (who did the tasks of both Serra and Holt: the tech set-up and the on-screen performance) lets her webcam show her studio; we can see a doorway, artworks, a bookshelf, the glare of sunlight on a framed print. For Olson, the real "frame" isn't the field of her webcam's lens but the window of the browser, which subsumes both the art-historical past and the webcam's collapsed present in the empty space of default whiteness. She's not only creating a reflection of her own image, but connecting it to an artifact of another place and time by echoing its call.


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Qala'at Musailaha or Mseilha Fort, also known as "Puy du Connétable" is a medieval stronghold situated north of the city of Batroun in Lebanon. The fort overlooks the Nahr El Jawz valley from atop a steep sided rocky spur.[1] The Crusaders built the first fortifications during the Middle Ages and then it was rebuilt by Emir Fakhreddine II in the 17th century to guard the route from Tripoli to Beirut.
Qala'at Musailaha Peter van der Wielen @ Panoramio
The Mseilha fort was given to the Genoese Embriaco family who ruled over Gibelet by Bertrand de Saint-Gilles for employing the Genoese fleet in his service during the taking of Tripoli.
Castle Mseilha appears for the first time when the Crusaders had to borrow the narrow passage bypassing the rock of Râs Shaqqa between Nephin and Boutron. The fort, perched on its peak, could not contain the testimony of chronic six men, but they have enough alone "to defend the passage against all those who live in heaven. "(Albert of Aix)
The first Crusaders, while under the protection of the governor of Tripoli, safely crossed the dangerous procession. During the two centuries of Frankish occupation that followed, it seems to be no doubt that the counts of Tripoli did fortify the position, yet the problem remains as to the designation that the Franks gave the site: in Indeed, no source seems to mention the famous Qalaat Mseilha, then appears the "Puy du Constable" (or Puy Guillaume, Password or Saint-Guillaume), located in all likelihood the same place. Recent studies seem to confirm this assertion, the description in the Corbières French sites located on these spurs by "pog" (Montségur) or "puy" (Puy Laurens) provides many examples consistent. In addition to names, the very importance of this narrow defile alone would justify the allocation of the position Constable of Tripoli.
Based on this analysis, it should be attributed to the Mseilha history, the legacy of the citadel called Castrum Constabularii by the Count of Tripoli, Bertrand de Saint Gilles Saint-Laurent Church of Genoa in 1109. This lordship will continue until 1278, the lords of the Puy appearing to date from the County constables.
The castle can be seen today from the edge of the highway, is by no means the work of the Crusaders, but that of the Emir Fakhr el-Din, who refortifa the early seventeenth century several fortresses Frankish ( Beaufort , Cave of Tyron ...) in his rebellion against the Sublime Porte. Nevertheless, clinging to the steep paroies its peak, the fort still retains romantically valley, and its interior offers an amazing maze of corridors and rooms that contrast with the dark streaks of lights of its many loopholes in niches.
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I first "met" Jessica around 1980. This was back in the days when one could kill a few minutes waiting for a business appointment or a luncheon while perusing the local record store.
Usually privately-owned and operated, every community in southern
seem to have one and some of these Mom-and-Pop stores even had a Jazz section. California
It was during one such diversions that I noticed an LP in the cut-out bin by Jessica Jennifer Williams entitled Orgonomic Music [Clean Cuts CC703]. On the back of the album sleeve was the following quotation by Wilhelm Reich:
"Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it."
I didn't know who Reich was, nor did I know anything about "Jessica Jennifer Williams" and the only musician in the sextet featured on the album that I was [barely] familiar with was trumpet player Eddie Henderson.
But what the heck, Philip Elwood of The San Francisco Examiner said of Jessica that she was a devotee of Reich's whose sentiments I agreed with, the LP was only a buck, so I gave it a shot.
Boy, am I glad I did. I've been listening to everything I can get my hands on by Jessica ever since.
However, it wasn't until 1992, thanks to a fortuitous business trip to
, that I had the opportunity to hear Jessica in person as a part of pianist Dick Whittington's on-going Maybeck Recital Hall series. San Francisco
I "stayed close" to Jessica's music in the 1990's thanks to my association with Philip Barker, the owner of Jazz Focus Records for whom Jessica made a number of recordings including her Arrival CD which has the distinction of being the very first disc issued by Philip's label [JFCD001].
Thanks to a tip from
Gene Lees in one of his JazzLetters, I was also able to score one of the limited edition [1,000] Joyful Sorrow compact discs that Blackhawk Records issued as her solo piano tribute to the late, Bill Evans.
It was recorded at The Jazz Station,
on Carmel, CA September 15, 1996 on the 16th anniversary of Bill's death.
Sadly, too, The Jazz Station in
is no more, but Joyful Sorrow endures as just about my all-time favorite Jessica recording. Carmel
Thankfully, Jessica has subsequently released quite a number of solo piano and trio Jazz recordings, many of which are available as audio CD's and Mp3 downloads.
Jessica is a powerful and pulsating pianist. He music literally "pops" out at the listener it's so full of energy and enthusiasm.
She records many solo piano albums, a format which can sometimes be a recipe for self-indulgence and excessive displays of technique. But Jessica's music is always tasteful and informed. You can hear the influences from the Jazz tradition in her playing, but you also hear innovative probing and forays into her unique conception of what she is trying to say about herself and how she hears the music.
Her touch on the instrument is such that she makes the piano SOUND! It rings clear and resonates as it only can in the hands of a masterful pianist.
As Grover Sales, the distinguish author and lecturer on Jazz has commented:
"Jessica Williams belongs to that exclusive group Count Basie dubbed "the poets of the piano" that includes
Roger Kellaway, Sir Roland Hanna, Ellis Larkins, Jaki Byard, Bill Mays, Alan Broadbent, Cedar Walton, the late Jimmy Rowles and of course, Bill Evans. All share in common a thorough working knowledge of classic piano literature from pre-Bach to contemporary avant garde as well as the classic jazz tradition from Scott Joplin to the present.
All developed an astonishing and seemingly effortless technique that enabled them to venture anywhere their fertile imaginations wished to take them. All take to heart the dictum of Jelly Roll Morton in his epic 1938 interview for the Library of Congress: 'No pianist can play jazz unless they try to give the imitation of a band.'
And for all of their varied influences from Earl Hines to Bill Evans and beyond, all are instantly identifiable—unique in the literal sense of this often misused word."
Writing in the insert booklet to Jessica's Maybeck Hall CD [Concord CCD-4525], Jeff Kaliss notes:
"It's all there in the first track. Within a few choruses, Jessica Williams shows her hand, or hands: the harmonies in seconds (hit way off to the side of the piano), the punchy attack, the dust-devils in the upper octaves, the nutty quotes. It's familiar Jessica, but she's got plenty up her sleeve for the rest of this remarkable entry in the Maybeck menagerie. …
She came to my awareness as a word-of-mouth legend, a Baltimore-bred genius whose history and personality were said to be as mysterious and unpredictable as her keyboard inventions. As soon as I got to hear her, I was into the reality of her spontaneous magic and not much concerned with the legend. …
[She] has remained a best-kept secret … commanding awe and quiet in the clubs she visited … [her playing] filled with energy and imagination."
One gets more about her sense of "energy and imagination" when one reads the following notes that Jessica wrote about herself and her music for her Intuition CD [Jazz Focus JFCD 010]:
"I'm occasionally asked where I studied to learn to do what I do; who taught me, what "tricks" are involved, what secrets enable me, how does the process occur... how does one "distill magic out of the air?" The truth is that there are no practice techniques, no miracle drugs, no mantras, no short-cuts to creativity. I tell them that I've played piano since I was four, that I've played jazz since I was twelve, that I've never taken another job doing anything except what I've always known I should be doing in this life: playing music. And maybe that's a part of the answer, if indeed there is one. It's about Castenada's
PATH, 's BLISS; you follow it no matter where it leads, and over many years you learn to control it, channel it, allow it to happen. Campbell
You become the bow; the arrow is the gift. You never fully own it, just as you can never explore all of its depths, because it springs from the infinite possibilities within you. In this realm, your only ally, your only guide, is intuition. It is seeing instead of looking, knowing instead of believing, being instead of doing. It is Coltrane on the saxophone, Magic Johnson on the court, Alice Walker on the printed page; it is the primary intuition of "right-brained" activity, the birthing of idea into existence.
Perhaps it cannot be taught, but it certainly can be shared...and it is in the sharing that we all experience the best parts of ourselves. We instinctively intuit our organic truth; when we learn to live it, our planet could be paradise.
Your dreams are your sacred truth. …"
You can listen to Jessica's quite stunning pianism on the audio track of the following video tribute to her on which she performs Alone Together from the Joyful Sorrow Bill Evans tribute CD.


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Lights at the Christmas tree on Prague's Old Town Square were turned on on Saturday but not in a traditional ceremony for security reasons, news website iDnes reports. The lights will also be turned off on the hour for a few minutes for an undetermined period of time before they stay on for the greater part of the Christmas period. Key sites in Prague saw security increased until the end of the year at the earliest, following the recent attacks in Paris.
TOP 09's Karel Schwarzenberg, due to step down as party leader, has said that in the migrant crisis the Czech Republic, the EU and even his party faced the challenge of a generation, the same way predecessors had to deal with the realities of Nazism or communist rule. At his speech at his party's congress in Prague on Saturday, the former foreign minister, who has long championed human rights, said it was important to be open and friendly to refugees, suggesting anyone could become a refugee under certain circumstances. He added that the 25 year period following the Velvet Revolution had been golden but that it had ended. After his speech, he told journalists that he was disgusted by President Miloš Zeman's position on migrants; Mr Schwarzenberg went head-to-head against the current head of state in the presidential election in 2013.
The leader of TOP 09 Karel Schwarzenberg, 77, is to step down as chairman and pass the baton to deputy chairman Miroslav Kalousek at the party's congress launched in Prague on Saturday. The former foreign minister and presidential candidate is stepping down after successfully leading TOP 09 to third place in elections in 2010, not long after the party was formed. TOP 09, now in the opposition, was in the former government of Petr Nečas with the Civic Democrats and Public Affairs. Giving up the post, Mr Schwarzenberg will be named honorary chairman. The new party leader, Miroslav Kalousek, 54, is a seasoned politician who twice served as finance minister.
Air quality in smog-hit Moravia and Silesia improved on Saturday although all 14 measuring sites still measured levels of particulate matter higher than existing limits. Prior, levels had progressed to twice the legal amount, the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute said. The region of Moravia-Silesia regularly suffers from poor air quality related to heavy industry and other factors.
Police have shelved charges filed by the the Minister for Regional Development earlier this year over the alleged past manipulation of public tenders at the state agency for tourism, CzechTourism. Minister Karla Šlechtová filed charges against unknown perpetrators in March. The police, however, did not find evidence that any crime had been committed. CzechTourism is tasked with promoting travel in the Czech Republic, both at home and abroad.
Members of the government are to take part in a special meeting to discuss security in the Czech Republic as well as the European Union ahead of a Council of Europe meeting on Sunday. The prime minister is to push for stronger controls of the EU's Schengen borders. Other aspects of the continuing migrant crisis are also to be discussed. Security is at the forefront following the recent attacks in Paris which saw 129 people die at the hands of extremists. Saturday's meeting is to be attended by the head of the police as well as intelligence officials.
The Boston Bruins' David Krejčí found the back of the net with just
a minute remaining in the Bruins' match against the New York Rangers
on Friday to seal a 4:3 result. The Bruins are on a five-game winning
streak and are currently third in the Atlantic division, behind Ottawa and
In other hockey action on Friday, Philadelphia Flyers' goalie Michal Neuwirth turned away 33 shots in his team's 3:2 overtime win against Nashville. Neuwirth was named the game's second star.
Opposition lawmakers in the lower house of Parliament on Friday successfully obstructed a planned vote on a new bill on electronic cash registers, sought by the Finance Ministry to curb the grey economy and clamp down on tax evasion. The system is also to bring in an extra two billion crowns. The sum of two billion is accounted for in the draft state budget for 2016. If the bill on electronic cash registers is not passed in time, Finance Minister Andrej Babǐs said the shortfall would not be a major problem to cover from other sources. A final reading on next year's state budget is scheduled for December 9. The centre-right opposition opposes the electronic cash register system on the grounds it will add extra work and expenditures for business owners and end up hurting small businesses.
The Czech Republic should consider following Slovakia in filing a lawsuit against the European Union over compulsory refugee quotas, the country's minister of finance, Andrej Babiš, said on Friday. The ANO chief described the quota system as nonsensical and unworkable and said he would discuss the matter with cabinet colleagues. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, who opposed the quotas but accepted an EU vote on the matter, said he could not understand Mr. Babiš's change of view on the subject.
The number of reported crimes in the Czech Republic involving the theft of metals decreased by over half between March and November compared to the same period last year. Police recorded just over 8,000 such crimes in those months in 2014; this year the figure was slightly more than 3,400, according to the Ministry for the Environment. Officials said the fall was connected to an edict issued on March 1 barring the payment of cash for metals.


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A Christmas Story
by Rian B. Anderson
Pa never had much compassion for the lazy or those who squandered their means and then never had enough for the necessities. But for those who were genuinely in need, his heart was as big as all outdoors. It was from him that I learned the greatest joy in life comes from giving, not from receiving.
It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was fifteen years old and feeling like the world had caved in on me because there just hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I'd wanted so bad that year for Christmas.
We did the chores early that night for some reason. I just figured Pa wanted a little extra time so we could read in the Bible. So after supper was over I took my boots off and stretched out in front of the fireplace and waited for Pa to get down the old Bible. I was still feeling sorry for myself and, to be honest, I wasn't in much of a mood to read scriptures. But Pa didn't get the Bible, instead he bundled up and went outside. I couldn't figure it out because we had already done all the chores. I
didn't worry about it long though, I was too busy wallowing in self-pity.
Soon Pa came back in. It was a cold clear night out and there was ice in his beard. "Come on, Matt," he said. "Bundle up good, it's cold out tonight." I was really upset then. Not only wasn't I getting the rifle for Christmas, now Pa was dragging me out in the cold, and for no earthly reason that I could see.
We'd already done all the chores, and I couldn't think of anything else that needed doing, especially not on a night like this. But I knew Pa was not very patient at one dragging one's feet when he'd told them to do something, so I got up and put my boots back on and got my cap, coat, and mittens. Ma gave me a mysterious smile as I opened the door to leave the house. Something was up, but I didn't know what.
Outside, I became even more dismayed. There in front of the house was the work team, already hitched to the big sled. Whatever it was we were going to do wasn't going to be a short, quick, little job. I could tell. We never hitched up the big sled unless we were going to haul a big load.
Pa was already up on the seat, reins in hand. I reluctantly climbed up beside him. The cold was already biting at me. I wasn't happy. When I was on, Pa pulled the sled around the house and stopped in front of the woodshed. He got off and I followed. "I think we'll put on the high sideboards," he said. "Here, help me." The high sideboards! It had been a bigger job than I wanted to do with just the low sideboards on, but whatever it was we were going to do would be a lot bigger with the high sideboards on.
When we had exchanged the sideboards Pa went into the woodshed and came out with an armload of wood the wood I'd spent all summer hauling down from the mountain, and then all fall sawing into blocks and splitting. What was he doing? Finally I said something. "Pa," I asked, "what are you doing?"
You been by the Widow Jensen's lately?" he asked. The Widow Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband had died a year or so before and left her with three children, the oldest being eight.
Sure, I'd been by, but so what? "Yeah," I said, "why?"
"I rode by just today," Pa said. "Little Jakey was out digging around in the woodpile trying to find a few chips. They're out of wood, Matt." That was all he said and then he turned and went back into the woodshed for another armload of wood. I followed him. We loaded the sled so high that I began to wonder if the horses would be able to pull it. Finally, Pa called a halt to our loading, then we went to the smoke house and Pa took down a big ham and a side of bacon. He handed them to me and told me to put them in the sled and wait. When he returned he was carrying a sack of flour over his right shoulder and a smaller sack of something in his left hand.
"What's in the little sack?" I asked.
"Shoes. They're out of shoes. Little Jakey just had gunny sacks wrapped around his feet when he was out in the woodpile this morning. I got the children a little candy too. It just wouldn't be Christmas without a little candy."
We rode the two miles to Widow Jensen's pretty much in silence. I tried to think through what Pa was doing. We didn't have much by worldly standards. Of course, we did have a big woodpile, though most of what was left now was still in the form of logs that I would have to saw into blocks and split before we could use it. We also had meat and flour, so we could spare that, but I knew we didn't have any money, so why was Pa buying them shoes and candy? Really, why was he doing any of this? Widow Jensen had closer neighbors than us. It shouldn't have been our concern.


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It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. Let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team. Today we begin with the Central Division, so do us a favor and send us your tips at email@example.com.
• 1. Welcome To Hazmat Arena. The locker room facilities were so dirty and dilapidated at the team's first home, Cleveland Arena, that Boston guard John Havlicek used to shower and dress at his team's hotel, wearing his uniform to and from the game. He reportedly said he was afraid of contracting an infection from the locker room surfaces. Curiously, Havlicek willingly dressed and showered at Boston Garden, which was famous for having rats fall out of the ceiling. — (Thanks to Erik Cassano).
• 2. What Da Hook Gon Be. Larry Hughes, winner of the Austin Carr Good Guy Award last season, accepted the honor while wearing a Vito Corelone Godfather t-shirt. He is friends with the rapper Nelly (appearing in the Dilemma music video) and was also mentioned in fellow St. Louis native Murphy Lee's song What Da Hook Gon Be.
• 3. Yo Yo Yo. Donyell Marshall is often mistaken for the rapper Ludacris. In fact, Marshall said that when he was in college, two girls asked him for his autograph at an airport, and he was shocked that he was so popular. It turned out they had mistaken him for Ludacris. He said he had removed his braids because of it.
• 4. Ambassador Of Pain. Cavs forward Anderson Varejao drew some serious ire from people at the FIBA Championships over the summer after he elbowed a Greek player and broke his jaw. Whether it was intentional is disputed, but the guy wants to sue Varejao. — (Thanks to Bryan Wood).
• 5. They Enter A Room Five Minutes Before She Does (Ba-Da-Boom). According to the book Cavs: From Fitch to Fratello, former team owner Ted Stepien (1979-83) was known to introduce his daughter with the line "Doesn't she have great tits?" — (Thanks to Erik Cassano)


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Lord Admiral Karr rested his arms on his chair and leaned back, tilting the velvet seat with him. He found it was comfortable that way, although in his days as an ensign aboard an Emperor battleship his superiors would often scold him for his lackadaisical posture. Many G.Rs had since passed to separate him from that time, as his mandatory ten year service period expired and he pursued a successful career with the Scythian Office of Naval Intelligence.
His job nowadays ordinarily consisted of filling out paperwork, as a man of his rank and authority was often required to approve the numerous covert missions and infiltrations carried out constantly by SONI. On occasion he was allowed a little more excitement, as an admiral of some armada delivering classified KINGUNDERTHEMOUNTAIN artifacts- the grand Scythian Navy had been demoted to SONI's delivery service as ships and men were diverted without explanation to the high Admiralty's great annoyance.
Today though, was different- he was observing a classic interrogation session, a throwback to his days as an intern at SONI. Ordinarily a mission such as this would have been relegated to a subordinate, perhaps a lieutenant or a captain-level officer- but he had been informed of the potential for the discussion of information and technology too sensitive for the typical rank devoted to these tasks. He observed the scene through a large screen mounted on the wall facing him- the size and clarity of the panel could even trick the uninformed into thinking it was a window, not a video feed.
In the other room five figures surrounded a table, a glass hologram-projecting surface surrounded by a shining steel bezel. A single flickering fluorescent tube dimly lit the room as its light reflected off of dull metallic walls and flooring.
Three Scythian generals seated themselves each at an edge on one end of the table, dressed identically in claret jackets decked with banks of gleaming medals. The four-star general in the center was a rather corpulent fellow with an impressive set of whiskers and hair silvered with age. He was gnawing on an expensive cigar and impatiently tapping an expensive fountain pen against his edge of the table. Flanking him were two younger lieutenant generals, both bearing black berets and polarized sunglasses.
Across from them was the subject and the famous Scythian scientist, Professor Fuyutsia. The latter was enrobed in the typical Scythian science uniform, a red lab coat with gleaming golden buttons running along one side.
Karr was familiar with Professor Fuyutsia- a prodigy in his youth and undoubtedly one of the brightest even within an empire as vast as Scythia- he predominantly served as a tenured professor at the prestigious Scythian Faster than Light Institute, lecturing on advanced biology and its relationship to bleeding-edge physics theories. Fuyutsia every so often was called upon by SONI to assist as a consultant and bestow his expertise upon the analysis of strange artifacts and skunkworks weaponry. Now the old scientist wore a very slight grin and rubbed his hands in anticipation, glancing at his guest every so often.
The subject differentiated herself as the odd one of the group, an expatriate from the young nation of Trattoria, a state known to the brikverse for a mere four months. She had a blonde bob cut and wore a white lab coat over a blue dress, in direct contrast to the Scythian red and black. There was no doubt that she was intelligent, having mastered the standard galactic language in the span of a few weeks, although she still retained an exotic, almost Lancian accent that sometimes impeded a native listener.
The burly four-star brass commenced the interview.
"Announce your name clearly for the recording."
The subject directed her eyes towards the general, clasping her hands in front of her and resting on the table.
"My name is Dr. Akagi, of the Meritocratic Republic of Trattoria, colloquially recognized as the Trattorian Empire. I am present to assist in the proposal process of Project E."


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Yup, I know that is a mouthful. And to top it, we had to wait for more than 20 mins to get a table for 2. But boy, was it worth it!
The first time I had Xia Long Bao was on the last day of a trip to Hong Kong a few years ago. And the taste lingers. Xia Long Bao are steamed dumplings that have warm broth inside along with the more usual shrimp/meat mixture. The sheer mix of flavours and textures that this gives your mouth is crazy. I love it.
Din Tai Fung is the Taiwanese mecca of Xia Long Bao. And since they make it so well, they have now spread everywhere in Asia including to Singapore. On Saturday I went to their outlet at the Paragon Mall in Orchard.
Thanks to Martin for suggesting this place and accompanying me for an awesome meal.
For a useful lesson on how to eat Xia Long Bao, click on the above photo.


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Katy Perry Sounds Off On America's Woes In Rolling Stone Interview
Though she's known for her bubblegum pop songs, 'California Gurls' singer Katy Perry showed off her more serious side in the latest issue of Rolling Stone.
In the exclusive interview, Perry says she's undergone a political awakening of sorts.
"It just feels like the thing running our country is a bank, money," she told the magazine. "I know it sounds like an intense viewpoint, but I'm only slowly but surely getting the wool taken off my eyes. When I was a kid, I asked questions about my faith. Now I'm asking questions about the world."
Perry also gave her thoughts on healthcare, saying, "Not to get all politically divulging and introspective, but the fact that America doesn't have free health care drives me f****** absolutely crazy, and is so wrong."
Politics aside, Perry opened up about her issues with her body, her critics and her new obsession with the History Channel's 'Ancient Aliens.'
"When it talks about the sky people, how everyone comes from the sky and how the pyramids were used for star observations, it's too much for me." She said. "It all seems to connect the dots. It's blowing my mind."
You can check out the full interview with Katy Perry when the issue hits stands Friday.


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Did Washington Say, "Let history huzzah for you"?
It looks like that quotation is a simplified version of a statement repeated in the nineteenth century. In 1895, Elizabeth Bryant Johnston's George Washington Day by Day rendered the remark as:
"My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzahing, increase their mortification. Posterity will huzzah for us."This was described as from "Washington's address to his troops at the surrender of Yorktown," which sounds like a formal announcement but doesn't exist.
Other versions of the same quotation appear in Benson J. Lossing's 1848 books Seventeen Seventy-Six and The Lives of the Presidents. A footnote in the first says:
It is related that when the British soldiers were about to march out and lay down their arms, Washington said to the American army, "My boys, let there be no insults over a conquered foe! When they lay down their arms don't huzza: posterity will huzza for you!"And in the second:
It is related that when the British soldiers were about to march out and lay down their arms at Yorktown, Washington said to the Americans, "My boys, let there be no exaltation over a conquered foe! When they lay down their arms, don't huzza: posterity will huzza for you!"The difference between "exaltation" and "insults" shows that Lossing wasn't working from a written text. And his "It is related" opening shows he knew of no way of tying that anecdote back to the event—but Lossing didn't let lack of documentation stand in the way of repeating a good story.
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Saturday Club is a short breaks service designed for young people with more complex or severe learning disabilities who require a higher level of support.
The Club runs fortnightly (term time only) and provides opportunities for young people aged from 9 to 18 years to spend time with their peers; allowing their family to take a break from their usual caring responsibilities.
The young people participate in meaningful activities with the assistance of a one-to-one support worker, to promote independence and social skills. There are a variety of activities to take part in onsite, as well as trips into the community for swimming, bowling, adventure playground and more!
Each session runs from 10am to 4pm.
Sessions cost just £35 for all Luton families. For families living outside of Luton sessions cost £90.
Sessions must be pre-booked and paid for in advance.
Before attending, each young person will be assessed to determine what the appropriate level of support is for them at the club. Please contact our Short Breaks Coordinator Nazma Miah on: 01582 420 800.
Saturday Club is very popular, Luton Families can book via our website – available dates will be shown on the FUN website bookings page.


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May 01, 2013 - Dallas, TX
Hanley Wood Exhibitions is proud to announce that Dana Teague has been promoted to Vice President. The former Group Director of SURFACES | StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas will continue to have full P&L responsibilities for the two shows and will focus on launch opportunities, integrated initiatives and international development in the flooring sector.
Ms. Teague has been integral in developing innovative strategies to retain and attract key flooring manufacturers and grow increasingly successful events. SURFACES | StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas is the second largest revenue-product property in the division and is ranked 60th on TSNN's 2012 Top 250 U.S. Trade Shows List. The combined shows span 341,419 net square feet of exhibit space and grew 4.1% in exhibit sales in 2013.
Ms. Teague has more than 20 years in the industry and has been with Hanley Wood for 13 years. She earned her CEM designation in 2012 and was recently named to EXPO's 2013 list of ExpoElite.
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The official sponsor of SURFACES is the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA), the floor covering industry's largest advocacy organization representing floor covering retailers, contractors and allied service providers throughout North America.
The WFCA is a recognized leader in marketing research, industry certification programs, and operates the premier consumer flooring web site, www.wfca.org, providing unbiased information about every type of floor covering and connecting customers to members' retail stores. The WFCA also influences public policy affecting the floor covering industry and consumers. For more information about the WFCA, visit www.wfca-pro.org.
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StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas' Official Sponsors are the Marble Institute of America (MIA) and Natural Stone Council. The mission of the MIA is to promote the use of natural stone and be the world's most authoritative natural stone information resource. Membership in the association is worldwide and includes over 2,000 natural stone producers, exporters/importers, distributors/wholesalers, fabricators, finishers, installers, and industry suppliers—all committed to the highest standards of workmanship and ethics.
The Natural Stone Council, home of the Genuine Stone® brand, is the leader in the stone industry that represents the major associations who are committed to promotion and education of the industry and general public of the value and benefits of natural stone. Member associations include: Allied Stone Industries, Building Stone Institute, Elberton Granite Association, Indiana Limestone Institute, Marble Institute of America, National Building Granite Quarries Association, National Slate Association and Natural Stone Alliance.
Since 1919, the Building Stone Institute has worked on behalf of the quarries, fabricators, machinery and tools suppliers and others who comprise our diverse natural stone industry membership. BSI provides programs and services that empower and enable our member companies to offer the highest level of quality products and services, and to educate the architectural and design communities on the benefits and uses of natural stone. BSI is a proud continuing education provider with the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects. Learn more www.buildingstoneinstitute.org.
StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas 2014 official endorsers are Marmomacc and ASI.
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Veronafiere (Verona Trade Fair Company) is Italy's most important direct organizer of trade shows and among the top organizers in Europe. Founded in 1898, Veronafiere now focuses on economic sectors of primary importance to the Italian economy, including stone (Marmomacc), construction (Samoter), and wine (Vinitaly). Veronafiere conducts or hosts 37 trade shows a year in Verona and 11 abroad.
Marmomacc is the global leader in natural and engineered stone materials and related technologies and design. Samoter is one of Europe's major exhibitions of construction equipment and earth-moving machinery. Vinitaly is the largest wine trade show in the world. All three are owned and organized by Veronafiere.
About Hanley WoodHanley Wood, LLC is the premier media, event, information and strategic marketing services company serving the residential, commercial design and construction industries. Through its operating platforms, the company produces award-winning digital and print publications, Newsletters, websites, marquee trade shows and events, Market Intelligence data and strategic marketing solutions. The company also is North America's leading publisher of home plans.


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"For me to be myself, I have to play a Les Paul. I plug it in and it sounds like me—exactly the way I'm supposed to sound. Anything else just doesn't make sense." — Joe Bonamassa
Musicians that redefine an art form are few and far between. Yet in the span of a few years, guitarist Joe Bonamassa has singlehandedly transformed blues rock with his own unique fusion of both old and new ideas. His distinct interpretation of the blues, and his extraordinary guitar skills, have earned him a fitting a tribute from the Gibson Custom Shop—the new Joe Bonamassa Aged Les Paul Goldtop.