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From: "Patrick D. Olguin" <drpat@p...>
Date: Wed Jan 19, 2000 12:54 am
Subject: Dog Boxes
I have a pair of ATC SCM-300's that we will be building dog boxes for,
however, I haven't found much information on theory and construction
details for the boxes. These are some of the questions that I have:
1. Should I close the backs or not? If it is closed, where is the best
place to poke the hole for the cable entrance.
2. Should I line the side cavities with fiberglass?
3. The speakers will be mounted above a window and therefore will be
tilted downward. Am I running the risk of the speakers falling forward
because of this? If so, how do I secure them properly so that they don't
fall out?
4. I'm assuming that the cracks around the front need to be sealed
airtight so that bass will not travel from the back to combine. What is
the best way to approach this?
Any help or pointers in the right direction is appreciated.
Patrick D. Olguin


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The Chicago School Of Professional Psychology
The Chicago School is the nation's oldest and largest graduate university focused exclusively on psychology and related behavioral sciences. As a professional school, our focus is not strictly on research and theory, but on preparing students to become outstanding practitioners, providing direct service to help individuals and organizations thrive.
We prepare our students with superior theoretical and classroom preparation—coupled with an unrivaled range of real-world training experiences; opportunities to build their multicultural and global sophistication; and ongoing personal and professional mentorship from faculty who are active leaders in their fields. Chicago School students graduate with the knowledge and practical skills they need to make an impact in the world and achieve their goals.
The Chicago School is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and an active member of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology, which has recognized The Chicago School for its distinguished service and outstanding contributions to cultural diversity and advocacy.
The Chicago School was established by practicing psychologists committed to providing high-quality professional psychology training in a not-for-profit setting. Initial plans for the school were made in 1977 and realized in January 1979 by the nonprofit Midwestern Psychology Development Foundation.
The Chicago School began its first classes at temporary quarters located at 30 West Chicago Avenue before moving to the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in 1980. In 1986, following an extensive search, The Chicago School moved to its next location, the historic Dearborn Station in Chicago's South Loop. In 2004, the school found a new downtown home at 325 N. Wells St. to accommodate the growth that resulted from becoming a psychology graduate school that offers multiple programs focusing on Business Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Industrial/Organization Psychology, Applied Behavior Analysis, and School and Counseling Psychology programs.
In 1980 the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) authorized the school degree-granting authority. Also in 1980, the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) awarded Candidate for Accreditation Status to The Chicago School, with accreditation status first awarded in 1984.


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Guidelines for All Doctors in the Diagnosis and Management of Migraine and Tension-Type Headache. 2nd ed. London, UK: British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH); 2004.
Headache—frequently asked questions. National Headache Foundation website. Available at: http://www.headaches.org/education/Tools_for_Sufferers/Headache_-_Frequently_Asked_Questions . Accessed September 11, 2008.
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NJ Gov. Calls Jersey Shore Stars 'New Yorkers'
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie totally went there on ABC's This Week when host Jake Tapper asked him about MTV reality show Jersey Shore , blaming the show, and its colorful cast of labor heroes and queer activists , on New York .
"What it does is takes a bunch of New Yorkers—most of the people on Jersey Shore are New Yorkers... drops them at the Jersey Shore, and tries to make Americans feel like this is New Jersey," said Christie. "I can tell people, they want to know what New Jersey really is? I welcome them to come to New Jersey anytime." (Note that he probably didn't mean to make that last bit sound like a threat; that's just how people talk in New Jersey.)
And he's kind of right! Most of the cast members on the show are from Staten Island... just like most of the people who throng Seaside Heights every year.


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On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines: with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexander's ex-girlfriend, the attractive and soft-spoken Jodi Arias. Though Arias initially said that she was nowhere near the scene of the crime, little about this case was as it seemed, and before long she had been caught lying to police. As the investigation progressed, her lies evolved multiple times before finally resting on an appalling claim: she had killed Travis in self-defense. Along the way, startling details emerged about the Mormon couple's relationship, and soon graphic stories of their lurid sexual encounters and jealousy-driven blowouts revealed a dark side to their life together. These revelations launched a trial filled with sex and deception but also raised substantial questions about Arias's deceit, as people from across the country struggled to understand the bizarre world of Jodi Arias.
Now, award-winning broadcast journalist and bestselling author Jane Velez-Mitchell, a veteran of some of the most storied court cases in recent memory, goes behind the scenes of the trial and into the mind of a killer. Using insider accounts from friends who knew Travis and Jodi, Velez-Mitchell turns her sharply-focused lens on Arias and offers her seasoned perspective on the case's most pressing questions. Separating fact from fiction, she reports on the bizarre and explicit stories that have both shocked and fascinated the American public—from Jodi's romantic history before meeting Travis, to their torrid sex life together, to the complicated role their Mormon faith played in the relationship's demise. With unbridled access to the evidence and the case's key players, Velez-Mitchell unearths Jodi's contentious life with those closest to her, examining the paranoid and erratic behavior behind each relationship and illustrating the disturbing pattern of a murderer in the making.
Complete with photos from the case and Jane Velez-Mitchell's fresh insights on the crime, Exposed takes readers behind closed bedroom doors to uncover the truth behind the secret and sordid life of Jodi Arias.
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Jane Velez-Mitchell has a deeper understanding of this case than anyone. She revealsJodi's sexual secrets and takes us inside her twisted mind to get to the root cause ofwhy she butchered Travis Alexander. A true-crime must-read!
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Jane Velez-Mitchell has been deep inside the Jodi Arias trial, covering it from every angle. Now readers can follow Jane through the sordid, twisted tale as it unfolded and get at the truth of the Arias saga.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: The IRS recently revised instructions for form W8-BEN. A US Tax ID number is no longer required for claiming tax treaty benefits. However, you MUST supply a US Tax ID Number in the US TIN box OR your country's issued Tax ID number in the Foreign Tax ID number box on form W8-BEN..
For non-US residents (called non-resident aliens), there's a bit of good 'ole USA bureaucracy involved in getting paid all, or as much of your royalties as allowed, under US Tax law from your stock music and sound effects sales.
First, all royalty payments are subject to 30% tax withholding. This means that from the royalties we pay you, we have to deduct and remit 30% of your royalty earnings to the IRS. Sucks for you, and it's a lot of work for us. However, there are Tax Treaties in place between the US and most countries that allow for a reduced withholding rate. In many cases, the Tax Treaty benefit is a 0% withholding rate. (P.S. We're not making this up. Check out this awesome post by Amazon.com on the same topic: https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A1VDYJ32T5D3U4 — if you don't believe us, this is what a larger company with many more lawyers and accountants has to say.)
But to get this reduced rate, you have to claim it by filing some paperwork with Productiontrax, and the US Government.
Here's how you do it:
1) Apply for a US ITIN. (Note: If you already have an EIN, SSN, or ITIN, skip this step.) A US International Tax ID number is required to claim tax treaty benefits. You do this by filling out Form W-7. Be sure to follow the instructions. For our purposes, make sure you check box a and box h, and quote Exception 1(d) – Royalties. You will also need to enclose a letter from us – you can email us for a copy. Send that completed form and supporting evidence to the address on the instructions. In about 6 weeks or less, you will receive your ID number in the mail.
UPDATE: We've learned that the IRS requires an original letter from us. Please email us to have a letter mailed to you.
2) Fill out Form W8-BEN. (Instructions: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw8ben.pdf) This form certifies to Productiontrax.com that you are a foreign person claiming a tax treaty benefit. Be sure to complete part 10, enter your new EIN, SSN, or ITIN on line 6, and don't forget to sign the form. And for goodness sake, don't check the box in Part III — it doesn't apply to you (wikipedia it if you don't believe me). You send this completed form to Productiontrax.com.
3) If you're not an individual, get an Employer Identification Number
Foreign entities that are not individuals (i.e., foreign corporations, etc.) that are required to have a federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) in order to claim an exemption from withholding because of a tax treaty (claimed on Form W-8BEN) should submit Form SS-4 Application for Employer Identification Number to the Internal Revenue Service in order to apply for such an EIN. Those foreign entities filing Form SS-4 for the purpose of obtaining an EIN in order to claim a tax treaty exemption and which otherwise have no requirements to file a U.S. income tax return, employment tax return, or excise tax return, should comply with the following special instructions when filling out Form SS-4.
When completing line 7b of Form SS-4, the applicant should write "N/A" in the block asking for an SSN or ITIN, unless the applicant already has an SSN or ITIN. When answering question 10 on Form SS-4, the applicant should check the "other" block and write or type in immediately after it one of the following phrases as most appropriate:
"For W-8BEN Purposes Only"
"For Tax Treaty Purposes Only"
If questions 11 through 17 on Form SS-4 do not apply to the applicant because he has no U.S. tax return filing requirement, such questions should be annotated "N/A". A foreign entity that completes Form SS-4 in the manner described above should be entered into IRS records as not having a filing requirement for any U.S. tax returns. However, if the foreign entity receives a letter from the IRS soliciting the filing of a U.S. tax return, the foreign entity should respond to the letter immediately by stating that it has no requirement to file any U.S. tax returns. Failure to respond to the IRS letter may result in a procedural assessment of tax by the IRS against the foreign entity. If the foreign entity later becomes liable to file a U.S. tax return, the foreign entity should not apply for a new EIN, but should instead use the EIN it was first issued on all U.S. tax returns filed thereafter.
Here are the forms again:
Find your withholding rate (copyright royalties): Tax Treaties by Country
Form W7 – Application for US TIN. (instructions)
Form W8-BEN – Foreign Person Claim of Tax Treaty Benefits (instructions)
Form SS-4 – Application for an Employer ID Number. (instructions)


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Post-Baccalaureate Certificate: Community Development (2002-2003)
Program Description
The Community Development certificate program is designed to meet the needs of students desiring to work in smaller communities by integrating course work in both planning and economic development. Specialized course work in the certificate program focuses on issues related to community development in rural areas. The program culminates in a closely supervised internship experience (11 months) in the management of community devlopment projects.
The Community Development certificate program is closely related to, and integrated with, the Master's degree programs in Economics and Geography.
Certificate Requirements:
Course Descriptions
460G Urban and Regional Economic Analysis. (3) A study of the economics literature on urban and regional economic development theories and techniques. Particular attention is paid to economic policies to stimulate employment and foster income growth. Various measurement techniques for monitoring economic development are examined. Prerequisite: ECON 232.
535 Small Community Development. (3) This course emphasizes the practical knowledge required to deal with non-metropolitan development issues. The emphasis will vary with changes in the development environment. Topics will include economic trends, federal and state resources available to support economic development, and special problems and opportunities in small community development. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of the instructor.
549 Nonmetropolitan Planning. (3) An advanced course on the process of nonmetropolitan planning. Particular emphasis is placed upon planning for smaller communities, and the restrictions that geographic space places on the planning process, especially in the delivery of public services.
557 Planning Implementation. (3) An examination and application of the various instruments that may be used to implement comprehensive or development plans. Topics included are land use regulations, ownership, taxation, and public investment. Particular emphasis is placed upon the preparation of an implementation program for a unit of government within the western Illinois region. Prerequisite: GEOG 448 or its equivalent, or GEOG 549, or permission of the instructor.


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We knew the Huawei Ascend W1 Windows Phone was destined to Wal-Mart and now are seeing signs that the Windows Phone 8 device has arrived.
Listed for $229.88, the Huawei was spotted at the local Wal-Mart in Foley, Alabama (down near the coast). The no-contract purchase is restricted to the $45/30-day Unlimited Nationwide data, text and talk Smart Talk plan.
Checking online the Huawei Ascend W1 hasn't made it to Walmart.com but we have to scratch our heads at the price. It doesn't appear to be very competitive with the Nokia Lumia 520 going for $129.88 and other smartphones under $100. Could Huawei priced themselves out of competition?
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Is there a simple solution for problems with missing or broken images? Yes, it is. You don't need any script, just an alternate image to display when this problem occur and the "onerror" event available with the img element. Here is an example:
< img src="/path/to/image.jpg" height="100px" width="100px" onerror="this.src = '/path/to/alternate-image.png'" / >
This simple solution was posted by Satya on his web scripting blog. Anyway, if you preffer a more elegant solution, you could use a script that dynamically detects the missing images and replace them with an alternate image. A good Java Script solution is presented on the tech evangelisit's article.


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Ryan McGeary needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 238 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
McGeary Consulting Group
I specialize in rapid web application development. I am very hands-on with my clients. I try to not only deliver applications with high quality, but I also offer ample business value. I try to understand what my clients need and why they need it. This results in me often building something slightly different than what the client originally envisioned, but something that often has a better impact on their market.
* Small to Medium Businesses who are looking for contractors to build their next "Web 2.0" application
* VC-funded Startups that are looking for early wins, but are also have a strong interest in quality.
* 1 Logo suitable for web and print. I will use this for my business web page, my business card, and stationary for things like invoices.
* Original vector artwork.
* Font names that were used.
* Because the company's initials are "mcg" and because the first three letters of my last name are also "mcg", my original idea was to play off of Einstein's Mass–energy equivalence equation ( E=mc² or Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared), but replace the "2" with a "g" (E=mcg). See attached and http://mcgearygroup.com/
* I'm kind of stuck on the equation idea, and I'm looking for embellishment. I'm still open to stellar alternatives, but they should have some other underlying meaning.
* If you go with the equation idea, the "mcg" portion should be able to stand by itself.
* Instill interest and curiosity.
* Be creative!
* Color is flexible, and it'd be great if the logo could support a wide range of color palettes. I like to print business cards with http://moo.com and I like to make it look like each card is unique in color.
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This morning in the United States, the White House announced a new "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights" as part of the effort to improve consumers' online privacy. As I've mentioned before, Microsoft is actively participating in the industry initiative for Tracking Protection at the W3C to produce Web standards for online privacy.
The Tracking Protection Working Group is chartered to work on two complementary initiatives: Tracking Preference Expression (Do Not Track) and Tracking Selection Lists (TSL). The TSL editor's draft defines a format for interchangeable lists for blocking or allowing tracking elements from Web pages. Last month, at the W3C face-to-face meeting, the working group decided that a sub-group (or "task force") of those interested in TSLs should work on the specification together.
Work on Do Not Track (DNT) is continuing and the W3C expects this to become a standard sometime in 2012. In the meantime, IE's Tracking Protection feature is available to IE9 and IE10 users today. This is the only technology that can filter out unwanted cookies, beacons, and other tracking devices without requiring Web sites, advertisers, and publishers to change.
At the CPDP 2012 conference in Brussels, Simon Davies and Alexander Hanff of Privacy International launched two new tracking protection lists designed to protect consumers from Web Analytics and Behavioural Tracking. These lists are available from http://www.privacyonline.org.uk/. Check out the complete set of Tracking Protection Lists available from the IE Gallery (including the popular EasyPrivacy and Fanboy lists).
--Adrian Bateman, Program Manager, Internet Explorer
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The Charles Fudgemuffin Blog
|The 'How To Save The World' books
are not suitable for prudes or squares.
'Aliens from the planet Fem have decided that as compassionate citizens of the galaxy they have a duty to alleviate suffering and affliction from the rest of the galaxy.
In the majority of cases this will involve sharing their unprecedented prosperity and quality of life with those planets less fortunate than themselves. Of course, in a minority of extreme cases this will also involve eliminating life from those planets in the galaxy where the level of suffering is simply too great to alleviate.
Unfortunately for Earth, the Femlings have deemed us one such planet...'
'How To Save The World: An Alien Comedy' is available for Kindle from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk:
US: How To Save The World: Part 1 - An Alien Comedy
UK: How To Save The World: Part 1 - An Alien Comedy
You can check out the Charles Fudgemuffin blog at the following link:
Charles Fudgemuffin's Blog
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Worthy Of A Bigger Audience
|Worthy Of A Bigger Audience promotes
music, books, movies, etc, which
more people need to know about.
That doesn't mean that when it comes to music, for example, that only unknown and undiscovered artists will be featured on the blog. Some of the reviews will be of reasonably well known talented artists who have already achieved a fairly large amount of commercial success and critical acclaim. It's just that in the opinion of Woaba Blog, the level of their success should be even higher.
So if you want to stay up to date with the latest reviews and recommendations for cool stuff to check out, then you can check out Worthy Of A Bigger Audience at the following link:
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Tomorrow's Technology Today
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only features innovational gadgets.
Instead Tomorrow's Technology Today will only feature reports on truly groundbreaking inventions, innovational gadgets and revolutionary scientific developments which could potentially go on to make a big impact on the world we live in.
As an example of the type of stories covered, the first two articles on Tomorrow's Technology Today feature a new UV protection patch set to replace sun screen lotion and the Kinetic Capture™ insoles which store up the energy from your run and then later use this energy to charge up your iPod or iPhone:
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interviews from authors.
'Author Quiz is a chance for authors to introduce themselves to book lovers with a personalised interview, and a chance for book lovers to discover some great indie authors breaking into the self-publishing market.'
So if you're an author who would like to be featured on Author Quiz then check out the 'How To Get Featured On Author Quiz' page for further details on how to take up the chance to promote your writing absolutely free with a personalised Author Quiz interview:
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Esquire exclusive: The man who shot Osama
Warning: Contains graphic language
Editor's note: For the first time, the Navy SEAL who fired the three shots that killed Osama Bin Laden tells the story of the May 2, 2011, raid on his residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The Shooter requested and was given anonymity for several reasons, including fears for his family's safety.
Phil Bronstein is the former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and currently serves as executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He wrote this story for Esquire magazine in cooperation with CIR. It can be read in its entirety at esquire.com.
The reason we knew this was a special mission, the Shooter said as our interviews about the bin Laden operation began, is because we'd just finished an Afghanistan deployment and were on a training trip, diving in Miami, when a few of us got recalled to the Command in Virginia Beach. Another SEAL Team 6 team was on official standby—normally that's the team that blows out for a contingency operation.
But they were not chosen, to better cloak what was going to happen.
There was so much going on—the Libya thing, the Arab Spring. We knew something good was going to go down. We didn't know how good.
The first day's briefing, they actually kind of lied to us, being very vague. They mentioned underwater cables because of the earthquake in Japan or some craziness. They hinted at Libya. They said it was a compound somewhere in a bowl and we were going to have two aircraft get us there and we don't know how many are inside but we have to get something out. You won't have any air support.
I assumed it was WMD, a nuke, because why else are they sending us to Libya?
Every question the Red Squadron ST6 members asked was answered with, "Well, we can't tell you that." Or: "We don't know."
It was also weird that the entire Red Squadron was in town, but they kicked everyone out of the briefing except those guys who were going, twenty-three and four backups.
The Shooter was a mission team leader. Almost everyone chosen had a one or two ranking in the squadron, the most experienced guys. The group was split into four tactical teams, with the Shooter as leader of the external-security group—the dog, Cairo, two snipers, and a CIA interpreter to keep whoever might show up in the area out of the internal action.
The group left Virginia on a Sunday morning, April 10, 2011 to drive to the CIA's Harvey Point, North Carolina, center for another briefing and the start of training.
The Master Chief was saying JSOC [Joint Special Operations Command] would be there, the Secretary of Defense might be there, the Pak/Afghan CIA desk, too. That's when the wheels started spinning for me: This is big.
By Monday the team was assembled in a big classroom inside a one-story building.
They actually had security sitting outside. No one else was allowed in. A JSOC general, Pak/Afghan and other D. C. officials, and the ST6 commanding officer were there. The SEAL commander, cool as ever, said, "OK, we're as close as we've ever been to UBL." And that was it. He kind of looked at us and we looked at him and nodded. There was none of that cheering bullshit. We were thinking, Yeah, okay, good. It's about time that we kill this motherf--er. It was simple.
This is what I came for. Jealousies aside, one of us is going to have the best chance of killing this guy.
During the daylong briefing, the SEALs heard how the government found the compound in Abbottabad, how they were watching it, analyzing it, why they believed bin Laden might be there. He, UBL, had become known as the Pacer, the tall guy in satellite imagery who neither left nor mixed with the others.
It was the CIA woman, now immortalized in books and movies, who gave the briefing.
"Yeah," she told us. "We got him. This is him. This is my life's work. I'm positive."
By then, government and military officials had been considering four options.
They were either going to bomb the piss out of the compound with two-thousand-pound ordnance, they were going to send us in, do some kind of joint thing with the Pakis, or try what was called a "hammer throw," where a drone flies by and chucks one f--ing bomb at the guy. But they didn't want any collateral damage. And they wanted to make sure he was dead and not in a cave or a safe room.
After the group settled into "motel-like" rooms, with common areas that had TVs and a kitchen, the team started strategizing with a model of the compound on a large table. Then they drove to a full-scale mock-up for a walk-through.
The next day the helos came and we started doing iteration training based on how we wanted to hit it.
Once I realized what was going on, I actually moved myself to one of the assault teams, even if I was no longer a team leader. We didn't need that many guys on the exterior team, and I'll go fast-rope on the roof with what I started calling the Martyrs Brigade, because as soon as we landed, I figured the house was going to blow up. But we were also going to be the guys in there first to kill him.
I was usually the guy to joke around when we were planning these things—we all dick around a lot. But I was like, "Hey guys, we have to take this f--ing serious. There's a 90 percent chance this is a one-way mission. We're gonna die, so let's do this right."
The Shooter and the rest of the team made one last night run on the mock-up of the compound in North Carolina, then drove back to their homes and headquarters in Virginia for a brief break.
There were goodbyes to his wife and sleeping children.
Normally she'd say, 'I'm fine, just go.' This time there was nothing fine about her. Like this would be the last time we'd see each other.
Saying goodbye is just horrible. I don't even want to talk about it . . . this is the last time I'm going to see these children.
This was ultimately an assault mission like hundreds he'd been on, different in only one respect.
The group discussed what would happen if they were surrounded by Pakistani troops.
We would surrender. The original plan was to have Vice President Biden fly to Islamabad and negotiate our release with Pakistan's president.
This is hearsay, but I understand Obama said, Hell no. My guys are not surrendering. What do we need to rain hell on the Pakistani military? That was the one time in my life I was thinking, I am f--ing voting for this guy. I had a picture of him lying in bed at night, thinking, You're not f--ing with my guys. Like, he's thinking about us.
We got word that we'd be scrambling jets on the border to back us up.
An Ambien, a C-17 cargo-plane ride, a short stop in Germany, and they were in Afghanistan.
At Jalalabad, the Shooter saw the CIA analyst pacing.
She asked me why I was so calm. I told her, We do this every night. This is just a longer flight. She looked at me and said, "One hundred percent he's on the third floor. So get to there if you can." She was probably 90 percent sure, and her emotion pushed that to 100.
Another SEAL squadron, which was already in Afghanistan and would have normally been the assaulters, were very welcoming to us.
They would form the Quick Reaction Force flying in behind, on the Chinooks. The Red Team visitors stayed in "transient" housing.
During the day, the group would work with our gear, work out.
Nighttime was poker and refreshments, or what is called "fellowship," while they waited for a go from Obama himself.
There was one last briefing and an awesome speech from (Adm. William) McRaven comparing the looming raid and its fighters to the movie Hoosiers.
Then they're gathered by a fire pit, suiting up. Just before he got on the chopper to leave for Abbottabad, the Shooter called his dad.
I didn't know where he was, but I found out later he was in a Walmart parking lot. I said, "Hey, it's time to go to work," and I'm thinking, I'm calling for the last time. I thought there was a good chance of dying.
He knew something significant was up, though he didn't know what.
The Shooter could hear him start to tear up.
He told me later that he sat in his pickup in that parking lot for an hour and couldn't get out of the car.
The Red Team and members of the other squad hugged one another instead of the usual handshakes before they boarded their separate aircraft. The hangars had huge stadium lights pointing outward so no one from the outside could see what was going on.
Ninety minutes in the chopper to get from Jalalabad to Abbottabad. The Shooter noted when the bird turned right, into Pakistani airspace.
I was sitting next to the commanding officer, and he's relaying everything to McRaven.
I was counting back and forth to a thousand to pass the time. It's a long flight, but we brought these collapsible camping chairs, so we're not uncomfortable. But it's getting old and you're ready to go and you don't want your legs falling asleep.
Every 15 minutes they'd tell us we hadn't been painted [made by Pakistani radar].
I remember banking to the south, which meant we were getting ready to hit. We had about another fifteen minutes. Instead of counting, for some reason I said to myself the George Bush 9/11 quote: Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. I could just hear his voice, and that was neat. I started saying it again and again to myself. Then I started to get pumped up. I'm like: This is so on.
Tomorrow: The Shooter is forced to make a split-second decision about Osama's youngest wife before he takes out the most wanted man in the world.


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DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings know what's at stake over these last four games of the regular season.
And any hiccup along the way could end their record run of berths in the postseason.
"I think there's been pressure all along here," forward Justin Abdelkader said after the morning skate at Joe Louis Arena Monday. "Every game has been important and we know it's been kind of like playoff type games. We're just going out and preparing ourselves and know we're back at home so we just need to take care of our home ice here."
The Wings, who open a three-game homestand tonight against the Phoenix Coyotes, are currently ninth in the Western Conference, three points behind Columbus and tied with Dallas in points.
"We still have to do the job out there," defenseman Niklas Kronwall said. "Sure we're somewhat in an OK spot right now, but every point is huge. We have to find a way through it.
"I think enough talk has been done to be honest with you over the last week or so," Kronwall added. "We all know the situation we're in. We have to look at the opportunity we have. Right now we're on the outside looking in, so we just have to make sure we have to take care of business."
The Wings do control their own destiny and winning out would extend their record of postseason berths to 22.
"We have to do a lot better to get points on a nightly basis," Kronwall said. "We're in the standings where we're at for a reason. We have to live in the now and make sure to find a way through it."
Columbus has just two games left (at Dallas, Thursday; home against Nashville, Saturday), while the Wings three at home before ending the regular season on the road in Dallas on Saturday.
"It feels like it's the playoffs right now," defenseman Jonathan Ericsson said. "That's the type of urgency it feels like. You have to win every game to stay in. That's how it is for us right now. If we don't win, we're not going to be in.
"Essentially, it's all up to us," Ericsson continued. "If we win the rest of our games, we're going to be in. It's up to us."
Dallas, which holds the tiebreaker on both Columbus and Detroit (regulation and overtime wins) has three games left (at San Jose, Tuesday).
"We have games in hand on all of them," Abdelkader said. "We just have to take care of our business. You are what you are and your record shows how you played this year. Maybe we haven't had fortunate breaks in overtime or shootouts or whatever, but that's how it goes sometimes. We have to play well on our home ice and take care of business."
The Wings, who have lost their last five games that have gone to a shootout, are also just 10-7-4 at home this season.
"Pressure means you've got a chance because if you didn't have a chance, there would be none," Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "The second thing is I think it's fun to be in big games. Players tell you how hard they compete, how much drive train they have. To me those things come in front of skill this time of year. I'm excited to see what they do with it.
"We've been in a lot of battles," Babcock continued. "Just finished a stretch with 14 road games, six home games and went back-and-forth five times out west. I think our club did pretty well at that time and yet we didn't get enough points. We went .500 during that time, 8-8-4. We've got four games here, three at home, it's an important stretch, but tonight is what it's all about for us."
Patrick Eaves will be in tonight for the injured Drew Miller (broken hand). Babcock will also go with the same defensemen that dressed Saturday in Vancouver, meaning Ian White, Carlo Colaiacovo and Brian Lashoff will sit.
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Pro-Ukrainians worry their views are being lost in focus on pro-Russia protests
Katarina Butko smiled Monday evening as she looked at what she'd organized: a line of 15 cars decorated with the yellow and blue flag of Ukraine. They were seconds away from leaving on a motoring campaign around town, "to wake the sleeping pro-Ukrainian people."
The idea was simple: Polls consistently show that residents of this region of southeastern Ukraine bordering Russia overwhelmingly believe in a united Ukraine. But a small, loud and violent minority has grabbed international headlines and scared residents into hiding their beliefs.
The driving, honking tour was scheduled to last an hour. It had to be abandoned about 30 minutes later, though, when pro-Russian separatists, some wearing masks, some not, some stumbling from drink, attacked the caravan with baseball bats and more. Butko's car was put out of service when a Molotov cocktail smashed the front window.
But a later rally attracted what Ukrainian media reported to be 5,000 people, a reflection of a reality that many here believe the international media misses by focusing on the violence with which such gatherings have ended.
"There really aren't many active pro-Russians around Donetsk these days," said Yuri Temirov, vice dean of international relations at Donetsk National University. "But those few are very aggressive. The aggressive pro-Ukrainian side tends to focus more on petitions and legal frameworks for ending the crisis here. This doesn't make for very exciting newscasts."
There have been two recent polls of Donetsk residents on the notion of separating their region from Ukraine and joining Russia. Both indicated that 27 percent of locals support seceding from Ukraine and joining Russia (or for all of Ukraine to be consumed by Russia). Both also founded that the majority of respondents (53 percent in a poll done by a national group, 66 percent in a poll done by a regional group) support remaining part of a united Ukraine.
The 66 percent number was collected in late March, the 53 percent number in April; the latter poll didn't show an increase in support for joining Russia, but it did indicate that a greater number of people had fallen into the "don't know" category, an indication that months of protest and the flight of former President Viktor Yanukovych, who is from Donetsk, had shaken confidence in Kiev.
Those numbers, however, are the only ones likely to come out of this tense situation.
Pro-Russian separatists have insisted they will hold a Crimea-style referendum on joining Russia on May 11. But at this point there have been no concrete moves to organize a vote, and there is no evidence that the separatists control the workings of governance, even though they now occupy several government buildings.
In Crimea, Russian forces nicknamed "little green men" controlled city streets, airports and government offices. But those offices remained open and operational. Two weeks before the March 27 referendum that Russian President Vladimir Putin said proved Crimea was Russian, workers and volunteers were printing ballots and arranging to open and staff polling places, while across the region billboards were covered by election slogans.
None of that sort of groundwork has happened here.
"There is zero chance the separatists will actually pull off a vote here," said Temirov. "The difference between Donetsk and Crimea is that there, the separatists appeared to have a plan and a plan of action. Here, they're just looking to destabilize."
Still, Viktor Sokolov, first vice president of the Gorshenin Institute, a political research group in Kiev, said he finds it worrying that the number of people who favor joining Russia in the states of Donetsk and nearby Lugansk _ where 30 percent favor joining Russia _ while still a minority, appears to be growing.
"We can see that internal problems in Ukraine and pro-Russian propaganda increased these numbers," he wrote. "Pro-Ukrainian residents are more passive and more peaceful. They can hardly withstand attacks of pro-Russians."
Experts on the situation here agree that the most active, and violent, pro-Russians appear to be paid for their efforts. The local legend is that regional business and political leaders actually had a hand in beginning the separatist movement, thinking they could use it as a bargaining chip in negotiations for more local autonomy, particularly over government spending. Greater control of the budget could both enrich businesses and score points for politicians, experts noted.
"But after creating the monster, they lost control," said Volodymr Kipen, head of the Donetsk Institute for Social Research and Policy Analysis, which conducted the March survey.
Kipen said the common belief is that the separatists, who locals insist have a surprising amount of money to spend in local bars on vodka, are now being bankrolled by Yanukovych and his family. Media reports and experts say Ukrainian intelligence forces have intercepted a number of couriers, each carrying millions of Ukrainian hryvnia (11 hryvnia equal $1) and credit cards tied to Yanukovych family banks, intended for the separatists.
Separatists now controlling a number of village and state buildings around Donetsk are thought to total just a few hundred, according to Ukrainian officials and media reports. Ukrainian officials insist that the separatists have been trained and directed by as many as 100 Russian special forces. But those numbers are far fewer than local residents who support staying in Ukraine, analysts here believe.
Among those favoring Ukraine, apparently, is the country's Muslim community, which is the largest religious minority in a country where most people are Christians. Said Ismagilov, who's the top religious figure in the Religious Administration of Ukrainian Muslims, an organization that oversees Islamic religious matters, said the reasons are simple.
"We remember well what life was like for a Muslim in the Soviet Union, where we were outlawed and our leaders were hunted down," he said. "It's now Russia, and not the Soviet Union, but is there much difference? We don't want that life again. Ukraine, to us, means freedom. Dictatorships destroy even our history."
In the Islamic community, imams give weekly pro-Ukraine messages during Friday prayers, and many area Muslims have volunteered to work with groups spreading that message. Ismagilov took part in the driving tour Monday. He said he wasn't injured, though his car sustained some damage.
"The route we took was probably a tactical error," he said.
The attack, after all, came on a major downtown street, a block from the Donetsk state administration building that pro-Russian separatists have occupied.
When the caravan had passed that same spot at the start of the tour, there had been a brief skirmish when a single pro-Russian young man had raced past three police officers at a traffic light and tried to rip a Ukrainian flag from a car window.
Those in the car pulled back, so he started beating on the car. A passenger opened a car door and sprayed what looked to be mace at him. As the man stumbled backward he tried to grab a flag from a second car, where a passenger grabbed the thick flagpole and whacked him on the head twice.
The caravan moved on, to both honks of support and shouts of derision, just as a group of three masked and several unmasked pro-Russia supporters neared the spot. Down the block at the administration building, more pro-Russians began moving toward the street, several in a weaving, stumbling run that seemed to indicate that the vodka they'd been drinking that afternoon had taken hold.
"When we came back by, they were waiting for us," Ismagilov said.
"There weren't that many of them, but they did a lot of damage," Ismagilov said. "Still, that kind of sums up the situation here."


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Mitt delivers economic closer in Iowa
AMES, Iowa — Mitt Romney offered no new policy details in what his campaign billed as a major economic speech here Friday. He sought instead to raise the election's stakes, promising to improve the lives of regular people and bring "big change" to Washington.
Trying to stoke enthusiasm 11 days out, Romney stressed in human terms how much the election matters.
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"The choice you make this November will shape great things, historic things, and those things will determine the most intimate and important aspects of every American life and every American family," he said.
The former Massachusetts governor spoke of seniors being denied care if Medicare cuts go into effect, a man in his prime working for a third the pay of what he used to, a college graduate straddled with loans and a child stuck in a failing school.
"This election is about big things — like the education of our children, the value of our homes, the take home pay from our jobs, the price of the gasoline we buy and the choices we have in our health care," he said, reading from a teleprompter. "It's also about the big things that determine these things — like the growth of the economy, the strength of our military, our dependence on foreign oil and America's leadership in the world."
The speech, meant as one piece of a bigger closing argument, also sharpened the contrast with President Barack Obama.
"The president's campaign falls far short of the magnitude of these times," Romney said. "And the presidency of the last four years has fallen far short of the promises of the last campaign. Four years ago, America voted for a post-partisan president, but they have seen the most partisan and political of presidents, and a Washington in gridlock because of it."
Romney spoke outside Kinzler Construction Services in this college town on a windswept afternoon. It was in the low '40s, but a breeze made it feel a few degrees colder.
He told them that they can expect to see more of him and Paul Ryan, his running mate, in the Hawkeye State — home to a closely fought race — over the next week-and-a-half. A return trip is planned early next week.
"This state may be the state that decides what kind of America we're going to have and what kind of lives our families are going to have," Romney said. "So we're counting on you."
Romney downplayed fresh GDP numbers that came in above projections earlier Friday.
"Last quarter, our economy grew just two percent," he said. "After the stimulus was passed, the White House promised that the economy would now be growing at 4.3 percent. Over twice as fast! Slow economic growth means slow job growth and declining take-home pay. That's what four years of President Obama's policies have produced."
During the final week of the campaign, Romney desperately wants to keep the discussion centered on the economy. It's by far the most important issue to voters, and he has a potentially decisive advantage on who is the better candidate to create jobs.


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CONCORD, N.H. -- Utilities in New Hampshire are closely monitoring Hurricane Sandy, alerting extra crews that they could be needed when the storm hits early next week.
A spokesman for Unitil Corp. says the utility is talking to crews as far away as Tennessee and Michigan to make sure they will be available. Alec O' Meara said typically, Unitil talks about reaching to contractors as far as three days in advance of a storm, but the calls are being made sooner than that this time.
Northeast Utilities' Public Service of New Hampshire also has secured a number of contractor crews and the company is working to retain additional line workers and support staff. Spokesman Martin Murray says PSNH also has two storm trailers to assist with coordinating responses to storm-related damage.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A transit bus has been struck by gunfire in west Philadelphia and one person was hit by breaking glass.
Officials say the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority bus was hit by bullets around 12:30 a.m. Monday in west Philadelphia. Investigators say the bus had people on board when bullets hit two windows on the driver's side.
Officials say the person hit by shattered glass did not need to be hospitalized.
SEPTA spokeswoman Heather Redfern says it wasn't clear if the bus was an intended target. Police say a parked vehicle in the area was also hit.
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Human rights group labels Syria's use of barrel bombs a war crime
The Syrian government's campaign to clear rebels from the city of Aleppo by pummeling residential neighborhoods with so-called barrel bombs constitutes a war crime because the weapons cannot be aimed at combatants, according to a detailed report released Monday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
The report, which cataloged what it said were 266 bombings that affected 340 different sites around the city from Nov. 1, 2013, to the end of February this year, provided a legal rationale for viewing the barrel bombs, which often are nothing more than barrels filled with explosives dropped from helicopters, as different from other munitions used in the war.
"Use of barrel bombs in residential neighborhoods has done the expected: killed hundreds of civilians and driven thousands from their homes," said Sarah Leah Whitson, the group's Middle East director. "If these indiscriminate dumb weapons managed to hit a military target, it would be sheer luck."
The use of a weapon that can't be aimed violates long-established laws on the conduct of war, the report argues.
"Military commanders should not, as a matter of policy, order the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects in populated areas due to the foreseeable harm to civilians," the report said. "By using barrel bombs on densely populated areas, Syrian government forces used means and methods of warfare that could not distinguish between civilians and combatants, making attacks indiscriminate and therefore unlawful."
Using satellite imagery, Human Rights Watch identified at least 340 locations in Aleppo's opposition-controlled neighborhoods that had been struck by explosions. The majority of those showed "damage signatures that are strongly consistent with the detonation of barrel bombs." In many cases, investigators found that residential neighborhoods located far from active front lines were repeatedly targeted. In most cases, residents told Human Rights Watch investigators that rebel military targets were rarely located anywhere near those strikes.
Rebel groups have controlled roughly half of Aleppo since the summer of 2012.


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Off topic, but thought you all should know: I am alive.Poor Zachary had a ruptured spleen, and in valiant, bloggerly style, blogged it, with photos of himself — in a hospital gown — taken at arm's length. Perhaps the blogosphere is full of photo-essays showing the details of emergency rooms, not to mention accident scenes — wounds and all. (Point to some!)
I once posted "I just wrecked my car!" — and, though I blogged about how, almost immediately, I thought about blogging the accident, I did not get out my camera to get the photos. (Later, at the wrecker's, I got the photos.) So I admire Zachary's presence of mind in taking those photos, especially since he was in pain — though presumably he was also bored and, unlike me at the car crash, not in the presence of victims, police, and EMTs who would have thought ill of me if I'd displayed a hearty bloggerly spirit. (In case you're wondering why my readers didn't seem to give a damn back then, I didn't have commenting turned on.)
Anyway, I love Zachary's intrusion into the late night thread to tell us about his situation. When you go to comment on my blog, you can see that part of the instructions for commenting are: "You can digress, but digress creatively. Amuse us!" So OT was OK. And maybe I should rethink "amuse." Another reason to rethink "amuse" is that people — probably remembering Queen Victoria's most famous quote "We are not amused" — think I'm using the royal "we." I'm not. And actually, neither was Victoria. But speaking of memorable lines... I love "I am alive." It's one of those very short sentences that feel entirely literary.
Is it a famous quote? I Google and see it's at least a video game.
But it has the feeling of something old, something I read long ago. Is it the last line of Daniel DeFoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year"? The e-text is on-line. So:
A dreadful plague in London wasYet I alive! I love that.
In the year sixty-five,
Which swept an hundred thousand souls
Away; yet I alive!
Is it "Moby Dick"?
The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck.Perhaps you can help me find "I am alive" (and things close to it) in literary — or cinematic or video-game-ic — works of art. Don't talk about statements in the third person. The first-person statement is the interesting thing here. If you are not alive, you are in no position to comment. By the same token, to say anything is to say "I'm alive." What prompts the always-true words "I am alive" is the consciousness that you might not have been able to say it (or anything else). While it is always within our mental grasp to be suddenly intensely impressed by the vivid fact of being alive, we don't — we could! — say it out loud or write it down... in the comments section of someone else's blog.
... So, floating on the margin of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it, when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve. Till, gaining that vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and now, liberated by reason of its cunning spring, and, owing to its great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin life-buoy shot lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and floated by my side. Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirgelike main.
Or, no, there is a second reason to say "I am alive." You might need to cry out to someone who thinks you are dead. DeFoe tells of a piper, who went door to door for food and drink "and he in return would pipe and sing and talk simply." But times were hard, and he'd nearly starved, "and when anybody asked how he did he would answer, the dead cart had not taken him yet, but that they had promised to call for him next week." One night, he'd finally gotten some drink, and he was lying drunk in a doorway where the people inside "hearing a bell which they always rang before the cart came, had laid a body really dead of the plague just by him, thinking, too, that this poor fellow had been a dead body, as the other was, and laid there by some of the neighbours." A man named John Hayward loaded both bodies onto the cart:
From hence they passed along and took in other dead bodies, till... they almost buried him alive in the cart; yet all this while he slept soundly. At length the cart came to the place where the bodies were to be thrown into the ground, which, as I do remember, was at Mount Mill; and as the cart usually stopped some time before they were ready to shoot out the melancholy load they had in it, as soon as the cart stopped the fellow awaked and struggled a little to get his head out from among the dead bodies, when, raising himself up in the cart, he called out, 'Hey! where am I?' This frighted the fellow that attended about the work; but after some pause John Hayward, recovering himself, said, 'Lord, bless us! There's somebody in the cart not quite dead!' So another called to him and said, 'Who are you?' The fellow answered, 'I am the poor piper. Where am I?' 'Where are you?' says Hayward. 'Why, you are in the dead-cart, and we are going to bury you.' 'But I an't dead though, am I?' says the piper, which made them laugh a little though, as John said, they were heartily frighted at first; so they helped the poor fellow down, and he went about his business.But I an't dead though, am I? It's a terrifying question to have to ask, but, thank God, the answer is always "yes."


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Congrats on the transfer! We'll be here to support you through the 2ww.
Awesome on the BFP! I can't wait to hear if it's twins.
Had our consultation this past Wednesday. Classic PCOS for me. DH's sperm looks terrific (he's been real smug about that).
My stomch is in knots. Do we do it or not? Shouldn't I be satisfied with the family we have? How can I not give it this try? How do people afford this? GEESH.
So many layers of complication when you add a donor into the mix. We're certainly looking at a few months before a real start if we proceed, due to the logistics of using a donor.
Dr. Whelan either told me to expect a call from the business office and the egg donor coordinator, or I'm supposed to call them! I'll follow-up on Monday. I was on informaiton overload when I met with Dr. Whelan.
I can't recall who was doing Shared Risk through Integramed. I have questions ... will you let me know who you are?


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After a customer told restaurant owner Chuck Holcomb about an available space in Littleton, he decided to open Lucha Cantina in southwest Jeffco.
Since leasing the 5,900-square-foot space formerly occupied by Hops Grill and Brewery on West Bowles Avenue, Holcomb has been working with contractors to renovate it, with plans to open in March.
"There are a lot of good things about it," he said.
The restaurant and bar with an eclectic Mexican flavor will be the third of its kind that Holcomb and his business partners have opened in Colorado.
White Fence Farm has new owners, but the legendary fried chicken hasn't changed.
Restaurant industry veterans Tom Piercy and Craig Caldwell, who also own Keys on the Green in Evergreen, purchased the iconic family restaurant and farm in November. The business, at 6263 W. Jewell Ave. in Lakewood, had had the same owner, Charlie Wilson, since opening 41 years ago.
By Cat Elsby, For the Courier
Since opening in 1875, Murray's Shoes has walked the talk: Treat customers like family and take care of their feet. And with fourth- and fifth-generation Murrays running the Littleton store, the soul of the Murray legacy continues.
Murray's Shoes originally opened in Illinois and bounced around between cities and family members. Then, in 1983, Jim Murray brought the store to Colorado.
Jefferson County has given initial approval to $16.7 million in tax rebates for Lockheed Martin Space Systems for its plan to add hundreds of high-paying jobs at its Waterton Canyon facility.
Lockheed Martin, the largest private employer in the county, is planning a $336 million expansion at the South Jeffco plant. About 350 positions will transfer, or already have moved, to South Jeffco from other Lockheed Martin facilities, and another 500 new jobs will be created. The Waterton Canyon facility currently has about 4,100 employees.
A developer's plans for a medical center in South Jeffco could mean eviction for Fun City.
Developer Fleisher Smyth Brokaw LLC is in the pre-application process with the county to turn the property that houses the entertainment center at 9760 W. Coal Mine Ave. into a medical facility. In the pre-application, plans indicate the current building may be torn down, said Heather Gutherless, a senior planner with Jeffco's Planning and Zoning Department.
Sometimes you have to think small to have a big impact.
Small Business Saturday was a busy day in downtown Littleton. The shopping holiday was created in 2010 by American Express to bring Black Friday's big-chain focus back to local stores on the following day.
"It was so crazy in here yesterday. It was a beautiful thing," Julie Pech, owner the Chocolate Therapist on Main Street in Littleton, said Sunday. "Yesterday was the busiest day the shop has had in any November."
By Cat Elsby
For the Courier
For the locals, by the locals — that was the vision of owners Jason Reinhardt and Andy Nelson when they decided to open a brewery, Locavore Beer Works, in Littleton.
The aim of Locavore, which opened its doors on Saturday, Nov. 15, is to support local businesses as much as possible and promote local companies, Reinhardt said. Names of the brewery's business partners appear on the beer menu, and the tables were made by a local craftsman.
Local ingredients
Stephanie Alderton, For the Courier
South Jeffco has a new dining destination for lovers of all things fried and battered, thanks to three IT guys with Southern-bred appetites.
By Stephanie Alderton, For the Courier
Kathy Pride hasn't always been proud of her looks.
While undergoing chemotherapy for bone cancer, Pride, a professional hairstylist, lost all her hair and shrunk to 95 pounds.
"I looked like Beetlejuice," she said, referring to the 1988 film.
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A new Putty version beta 0.59 was released at 2007-01-24 !!!
Not exactly new news but might be for some.
http://www.putty.nl/changes.html
The last time was 2005 so this means all sorts of good things
It seems to me to connect much faster to my box in Lan (SSH)
It also has a huge improvement in response time to keyboard commands so the copy paste is much better now
Enjoy !


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Cox's 'great ride' culminates with induction into Hall
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Bobby Cox understands immortality enough to head it off at the pass.
Cox, the great manager of the Atlanta Braves, spent part of his Hall of Fame induction speech on Sunday putting his career in perspective. Sure, he'd love to go down in history as one of the smartest managers who ever lived, but not if it robs him of a chance to be self-deprecating.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Bobby Cox understands immortality enough to head it off at the pass.
Cox, the great manager of the Atlanta Braves, spent part of his Hall of Fame induction speech on Sunday putting his career in perspective. Sure, he'd love to go down in history as one of the smartest managers who ever lived, but not if it robs him of a chance to be self-deprecating.
Cox, who got to go into the Hall of Fame with two of his own players -- pitchers Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine -- told a brief anecdote that illustrated why he had the complete support of his clubhouse. Sometimes, he said, the mistakes you make are more memorable than your success.
"Glavine's pitching this game. As usual, it's tight and late," said Cox. "I'm not looking at the situation. Runners on second and third, two outs. At least that's what I'm seeing. I go out to the mound and [third baseman] Chipper [Jones] comes in with the other infielders. I say, 'Hey, Tommy, what do you think? Why don't we just walk this guy instead of pitching around him?' He said, 'Skip, that's one of the better ideas you've had in the last month, but where are we going to put him?' So I looked at third, looked at second. There's runners there. I glance over at first, and there happens to be a runner there, too. So I said, 'Look, if this gets out to the press tomorrow, each one of you is going to be fined $1,000.'"
Cox never had to fine his players for divulging his secrets, and he picked the biggest moment of his baseball life to come clean. Cox, who led the Braves to a record 14 straight division titles, 15 playoff appearances, five National League pennants and the 1995 World Series championship, couldn't help but reflect on a charmed life on the diamond.
They managed
|1. Connie Mack
|2. John McGraw
|3. Tony La Russa
|4. Bobby Cox
|5. Joe Torre
|6. Sparky Anderson
|7. Bucky Harris
|8. Joe McCarthy
|9. Walter Alston
|10. Leo Durocher
The 73-year-old traced his entire career path Sunday, starting with his childhood in Selma, Calif., and winding through his first professional tryout with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Cox went on to play for the Yankees (1968-69), and he later starred in managerial tenures with the Braves (1978-81 and 1990-2010) and the Toronto Blue Jays (1982-85), whom he won a division title with in '85.
Cox even spent five seasons as Atlanta's general manager (1986-90), and the experience left him with a profound respect for all levels of an organization. Cox credited his former general manager, John Schuerholz, and said he hopes to see Jones and pitcher John Smoltz in Cooperstown some day.
"I was lucky in my career working for great baseball people," said Cox. "To John Schuerholz, my general manager and now president of the Braves -- who gave us the players to win 14 straight division titles -- I can only say I hope to see you here soon. Because of free agency and monetary restraints on some clubs, it's difficult for a player to stay with one organization his entire career. But Chipper Jones did it. Chipper, you'll be standing here soon, and thank you for everything you've done for the Braves' organization. Thanks to all the players, coaches, scouts, trainers, clubbies and front-office personnel that passed through Atlanta and helped make the Braves' organization what it is today."
Leo Mazzone, the Braves' pitching coach from 1990-2005, was on hand Sunday, as were several of the team's former stars. But the nicest part of the ceremony for Cox was the ability to hear what his players thought of him. Maddux and Glavine both offered a brief message to Cox during their respective speeches, and Smoltz narrated a video tribute that ran before his speech.
Maddux, who went into the Hall of Fame without a hat to avoid slighting either Chicago or Atlanta, said that he was proud to achieve his lone World Series title with Cox and the Braves.
"Bobby taught us how to play winning baseball and enjoy our time away from the park," he said. "Thank God David Justice hit that big homer when he did, and Glav threw one more clutch game."
"I can't tell you how good he was at pumping you up," said Glavine of Cox, echoing comments made by Smoltz. "I can't tell you how many times I would pitch a bad game, and I'd read the newspaper the next day and read Bobby's comments and think, 'What game were you watching? And how did I not win?' Bobby, thank you so much for all your guidance. I appreciate all that you did for me."
Cox, fittingly, had his own people to thank. The baseball lifer thanked the executives in Toronto who gave him a chance to manage after he had been dismissed in Atlanta in 1981, and he made sure to mention the people who even gave him the opportunity to call the shots in the first place.
Cox said that former manager Ralph Houk and Hall of Fame executive Lee MacPhail were responsible for grooming him as a manager, but his baseball passion began long before. Cox, who set a Major League record by being ejected 158 times, said he inherited his love of the game from family.
"I had an awesome dad, mom and my sister, Joy. My father had five brothers and six sisters who loved the game of baseball. In fact, they formed the first Little League and Babe Ruth leagues in my hometown of Selma, Calif.," said Cox, reflecting upon his idyllic formative years. "My father made my first pair of spikes out of an old pair of shoes. I know they're watching from above today, and I will say this: If there's a game going on at the same time as this ceremony, I will guarantee you that my father is switching the TV back and forth and second-guessing both managers."
Cox is one of just 22 Major League managers in the Hall of Fame, and he got to share his induction day with two others in Joe Torre and Tony La Russa. That company -- along with Maddux, Glavine and former slugger Frank Thomas -- meant everything to Cox, and he made sure to mention that fact.
"I am truly humbled to stand here before you in Cooperstown with two men that pitched for me and two managers that made my life as a manager so challenging, and a hitter that we never did figure out how to pitch to him," said Cox. "To Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux -- and I have to mention the third member of the Big Three, John Smoltz -- I can honestly say I would not be standing here today if it weren't for you guys. Together, these guys won six Cy Young Awards by wearing a Braves uniform."
Cox, dismissed by the Braves after the 1981 season, went to Toronto and gave the Blue Jays three winning seasons in four campaigns before returning to Atlanta as general manager. He was back in the dugout for the Braves in June 1990 after they dismissed Russ Nixon after a 25-40 start, and the next season, they started one of the great runs in history.
Cox and the Braves won the NL West in '91, '92 and '93, and after the '94 season ended prematurely due to labor issues, the Braves captured the NL East in every season from 1995-2005. Atlanta won the pennant in '91 and '92, only to fall short in epic World Series to the Twins and Blue Jays.
Atlanta won the World Series under Cox in 1995, but the Braves lost in the Fall Classic to Torre's Yankees in both '96 and '99. Cox, who has six 100-win seasons and more than 2,500 victories in the Majors, said that he would go into baseball immortality with a treasure trove of memories.
"This has really been a great ride for all these seasons, every one with a changing cast of characters," he said. "And every one full of memories. I'll never forget the '91 season, and not too long after that, the '95 season when we went to the World Series and got all the way past Cleveland."
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com.


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ORLANDO, Fla. - A 29-year-old man was arrested in Orlando on suspicion of trying to force his fiancee to swallow her diamond engagement ring because she no longer wanted to live with him.
Faron Thompson was arrested Sunday on charges of battery via strangulation and child neglect.
According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, Thompson's girlfriend of four years contacted authorities about the incident after she left home and drove to the Walmart on West Colonial Drive.
She said she was arguing with Thompson about moving her things out of her home and left the ring on the kitchen counter, according to deputies. When she went to retrieve it, she realized Thompson had the ring, said deputies, who added that he tried to force the ring down her throat while holding her down.
Thompson also threatened to burn her house down, prompting her to call him a "psycho," according to Orange County sheriff's deputies.
During the alleged attack, the woman said Thompson pushed her against a wall while she was holding a one-year-old child, said deputies, adding that Thompson covered the woman's mouth and preventing her from breathing.
The woman told deputies she feared for her life and left the home, but he shoved her out the door while she was holding the child, who was only wearing a diaper and shoes.
She then drove off and called authorities, meeting a deputy at the Walmart. The deputy said he noticed redness around her neck and throat and a scratch on her upper right arm.
Thompson was later located and arrested but denied the allegations, saying "women always claim assault, but never accept responsibility for provoking someone," according to deputies.
Thompson was arrested and taken to the Orange County Jail.
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Suicide terrorist who killed 21 receives "highest honor" from Palestinian Lawyer's Union
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Oct. 18, 2012
Suicide terrorist who killed 21
receives "highest honor"
from Palestine Committee
of Arab Lawyers Union
Union is observer at UNESCO,
in consultative status with ECOSOC
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
, Oct. 14, 2012]
Female Palestinian suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat, who killed 21 Israelis and injured more than 50, has been chosen worthy of "the highest honor" by the Palestine Committee of the Arab Lawyers Union. The Palestinian daily
reported earlier this week that the Arab Lawyers Union had "created the 'Martyr Hanadi Jaradat plaque of honor,'" which a delegation presented during a visit to Jaradat's family.
Hanadi Jaradat was working as a lawyer when she carried out a suicide terrorist attack in a restaurant in Haifa in 2003.
The honorary plaque refers to the day of her suicide bombing as "the sweet anniversary of her Martyrdom":
Dedicated by the Arab Lawyers Union - Palestine Committee
to the family of the Martyrdom-seeker, the lawyer
Hanadi Jaradat
on the sweet anniversary of her Martyrdom
Committee Chairman
Lawyer Said Abd Al-Ghani
[paltoday.ps, accessed Oct. 18, 2012]
The Palestinian paper reported:
"The delegation conveyed to the family of Martyr Jaradat the good wishes of the head of the Union, Mr. Omar Al-Zayn... and also emphasized the pride of the Arab Lawyers Union for what their daughter had done in defense of Palestine and the nation."
The Arab Lawyers Union (ALU), which is "an NGO [and] a pan-Arab confederation of bar associations and law societies based in Cairo," states on its website that it
"is in consultative status with ECOSOC, an observer at UNESCO national, regional and international Organizations (such as; UIA, IADL, ILAC) and a member in several UN committees."
As its "mission," the ALU includes the following statements:
- "Promote and protect human rights, basic freedoms and the primacy of law"
- "Struggle with the Arab Palestinian people to liberate Palestine from Zionist settlers colonialism."
- "Struggle against Zionism and its greed as a form of racism."
- "Resisting all forms of naturalization with the Zionist enemy and all projects which aim at dominating the Arab region and eradicating its identity."
In 2005, suicide terrorist Jaradat was also honored by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Culture when the ministry produced a poetry collection named after Jaradat entitled "What did Hanadi say," which it distributed with the daily newspaper
Book's dedication:
"'To the rose of Palestine, the iris of the Carmel, the Martyr Hanadi Jaradat'"
The poem in Jaradat's honor ends as follows:
"Oh Hanadi! Shake the earth under the feet of the enemies!
Blow it up!
Hanadi said: 'This is my wedding'
It's Hanadi's wedding, the day when death as a Martyr for Allah becomes the highest goal that redeems my land."
, Aug. 22, 2005]
According to Islamic tradition male
martyrs marry 72 virgins
in Paradise. "Hanadi's wedding" seems to be a reference to that tradition, applying it to women as well.
Palestinian Media Watch
has reported on the PA's
glorification of terrorists
as heroes.
The following is the report on the Arab Lawyers Union honoring suicide terrorist Jaradat from the Palestinian daily
: "Jenin: Arab Lawyers Union honors family of Martyr (
) Hanadi Jaradat"
"Yesterday, the Arab Lawyers Union honored the family of martyred lawyer Hanadi Jaradat (i.e., suicide terrorist) from the city of Jenin, marking the ninth anniversary of her death as a Martyr, during a visit by a delegation representing the union to the family's home. The visiting delegation awarded a plaque from the Arab Lawyers Union to honor the family of Martyr Jaradat, who died a Martyr's death on Oct. 4, 2003, in an operation (i.e., terror attack) during which 19 Israelis were killed and about 50 injured. Member of the Palestine Committee of the Arab Lawyers Union, Ayman Abu Aysha, said that the honoring of the family of Martyr Jaradat came in the wake of a decision taken by the Palestine Committee of the Arab Lawyers Union during a meeting held in Cairo on Sept. 8, 2012. The delegation, which included Khatam Al-Hih, Muhammad Alan, Muhammad Halaweh, and Adi Alawi, conveyed to the family of Martyr Jaradat the good wishes of the head of the Union, Mr. Omar Al-Zayn, and of the head of the Palestine Committee in the Union, Mr. Said Abd Al-Ghani, and also emphasized the pride of the Arab Lawyers Union for what their daughter had done in defense of Palestine and the nation. Deputy Secretary of the Arab Lawyers Union, Said Abd Al-Ghani, said that the Union created the "Martyr Hanadi Jaradat plaque of honor," the highest honor awarded by the Union in esteem for any [female] lawyer in the Arab homeland."
, Oct. 14, 2012]
Hanadi Jaradat
- One of the first female Palestinian suicide terrorists. Her bomb in restaurant Maxim in Haifa in 2003 killed 21 people and injured 51.
The following is the text describing the Arab Lawyers Union and its "mission" on the union's website:
"Arab Lawyers Union (ALU) is an NGO. It is a pan-Arab confederation of bar associations and law societies based in Cairo. ALU is in consultative status with ECOSOC, an observer at UNESCO national, regional and international Organizations (such as; UIA, IADL, ILAC) and a member in several UN committees. ALU was engaged in founding the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR) at Tunis."
"The ALU is constituted of bar associations, organizations and law societies in Arab countries and individual Arab practice lawyers. ALU currently has a membership of bar associations in 15 countries and 27 affiliated organizations, with a membership of more than 200,000 individual lawyers and 27 bar associations."
"The 15 countries are: ALGERIA - BAHRAIN - EGYPT - IRAQ - JORDAN - KUWAIT - LEBANON - LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA - MAURITANIA - MOROCCO - PALESTINE - SUDAN - SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC - TUNISIA - YEMEN"
- To develop the profession of lawyer in the Arabic countries to make it a true auxiliary of justice.
- To work for the independence of the judiciary power.
- Contribute to the development of the law and to the unification of laws and legal nomenclature in Arab countries.
- Promotion of training of young lawyers.
- Promote and protect human rights, basic freedoms and the primacy of law
- Participate in the decolonization of the Arab Countries, to their liberation and the establishment of social justice.
- Struggle with the Arab Palestinian people to liberate Palestine from Zionist settlers colonialism.
- Struggle against Zionism and its greed as a form of racism.
- Resisting all forms of naturalization with the Zionist enemy and all projects which aim at dominating the Arab region and eradicating its identity.
- Struggle against colonialism and new colonialism, and participation in the defense of the basic rights of all people and supporting the solidarity, cooperation and equality among them and its rights of independence, sovereignty and self-determination and the causes of liberation, progress and peace in all parts of the world.
- Struggle to liberate the Arab person from all forms of oppression, backwardness and exploitation through guaranteeing their right to political and social democracy, public freedom and freedom of association, protection against torture and extermination and guaranteeing his basic rights included in the International human rights convenient, so as to enable his active participation in decision making about his future and the future of his country.
- Endeavor to liberate Arab countries from all forms of domination and guaranteeing its independence and development as means to realize social justice."
[Arab Lawyers Union, http://www.alu-1944.org/Default.aspx
accessed Oct. 17, 2012]
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Fitting kit for bike carbs or bike throttle bodies suitable for CBR1100 carburettors and GSXR600 2008-2009, GSXR750 2001-2003, GSXR1000 2001-2004 throttle bodies - a popular upgrade with modified and kit car owners and modified car enthusiasts. The kit consists of the following:
4x machine cut Silicone Hose (fluoro lined). The fluoro lined silicone is fuel resistant and will not break down like standard silicone or rubber when exposed to fuel.
8x stainless hose clips (4x narrow 9mm for carburettor or throttle body end and 4x 12mm for manifold end).
Internal Diameter: 48mm
Colour: Black
Hose will stretch by 1-3mm if required - always select exact size or slightly under-size and stretch if possible. Over-size hoses often cause problems in sealing.


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Brazil: Rousseff Nominates Senator Gleisi Hoffman as New Chief of Staff (News Brief)
by Luciana Lima and Daniela Jinkings
Brasília – President Dilma Rousseff has nominated senator Gleisi Hoffman (PT-PR) to be the new presidential Chief of Staff ("ministra-chefe da Casa Civil"), replacing Antonio Palocci.
Hoffman has been a member of the PT since 1989. In 2002, she was a member of the transition team as the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva prepared to take office.
She ran for the senate from Paraná in 2006 and lost. She ran for mayor of Curitiba in 2008 and lost. Shortly after that election, she became the state president of the PT. Last year, she ran for the senate again and was elected with almost 3.2 million votes (two senators were elected and she was the one with the most votes).
Gleisi Hoffman has been a state secretary in Mato Grosso do Sul (Administrative Restructuring), a city official in Londrina (Public Management) and the Director of Finances at the Bi-National Itaipu hydroelectric power plant.
The new minister is a 45-year-old lawyer and is married to Dilma's minister of Communications, Paulo Bernardo (he was Lula's minister of Planning). They have two children.
Earlier News Brief
by by Luciana Lima
Brasília - Shortly after 6:00 pm last night, minister Antonio Palocci, the presidential Chief of Staff ("ministro-chefe da Casa Civil"), submitted a letter of resignation to president Dilma Rousseff. The president accepted his resignation.
According to a note from the Casa Civil, Palocci believes that the decision by the head of the Office of Federal Prosecutors ("procurador-geral da República"), Roberto Gurgel, not to begin a criminal investigation "confirms that his activities were legal and his behavior correct."
On May 16, the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported that Palocci, during the period he was a representative (PT-SP) ("deputado federal") and the Dilma Rousseff presidential campaign manager ("coordenou a campanha eleitoral de Dilma Rousseff à Presidência"), that is, between 2006 and 2010, worked as a consultant and made an amount of money that increased his worth some 20 times ("patrimônio do ministro teria aumentado 20 vezes").
After the campaign, Palocci became a member of the transition team that prepared for the new government to take office in January. He was appointed Chief of Staff at that time.
Palocci is the first member of president Dilma Rousseff's cabinet to resign, 158 days after the new administration took office.
This is the second time Antonio Palocci has been forced to resign from a prominent and powerful position in the federal government. In March 2006 he resigned as minister of Finance in what became known as the scandal of the violation of the gardener's bank account. A whistleblower gardener had revealed that Palocci lied about his relations with lobbyists.
Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English (ABr)
- Originally published by Agência Brasil June 8, 2011 under Creative Commons Licensing


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HP Pavilion 65-inch DLP HDTV
One big reason for its appeal is that, incredibly, the MD6580n is one of only a few mass-market 1080p sets that can actually accept a 1080p signal through its primary video inputs. (Others include HP's smaller, 58-inch 1080p set, and some Mitsubishi models will accept 1080p on their computer inputs.) A bit of perspective before you drop the magazine to rush out and buy one, though: 1080p content is exceedingly rare today and pretty much restricted to material that can only be played back from a PC. When native (in other words, not upconverted) 1080p sources do appear, they'll likely be in next-generation DVD players or videogame consoles and not TV broadcasts. Still, if I were plopping down a few grand for a new HDTV, the ability to accept future 1080p sources would be a big plus.
HP didn't mess around with its first big screen - it's a huge presence even when turned off. It just seems to absorb light - almost every inch of its surface is matte black, and the 65-inch screen reflects back very little light. A 1/8-inch strip of silver that runs the width of the face below the screen, a tiny silver HP logo, and a nondefeatable status light provide the only accents. The optional stand ($700, see photo) has distinctive rounded corners that match the television's top.
I liked the friendly remote. It fit easily in my hand and placed most keys, including a big beige cursor control that can access every function via onscreen menus, within thumb-reach. My only complaint is that its lack of illumination may confound unfamiliar users in the dark. HP plans to add backlighting later on.
SETUP HP designed the MD6580n so you'd never have to go 'round back. The front panel has a full-width bottom-hinged door below the screen that swings open to reveal the lamp-replacement compartment (lamp life is rated at 6,000 hours, and replacements cost $300) as well as the TV's full complement of inputs and outputs. And I mean full - there are no jacks on the rear of the set. The illuminated, color-coded input bay leaves plenty of room to insert connectors and manage A/V cables - they can be sent straight down or through a wide channel under the chassis. Imagine being able to add new sources without having to muscle the TV or squeeze behind it. This easy-access panel is hands-down one of the coolest improvements I've seen on any recent TV.
I came across another notable feature while exploring the well-designed menu system: Visual Select, which summons a grid showing video thumbnails of up to ten active sources. You use the arrow keys on the remote to navigate to the input you want to select. Though it worked fine with a couple of sources, when I loaded up the inputs, it completely froze my early production review sample - I had to unplug it and power up again to unfreeze it. HP says it will have fixed this bug before the TV hits the market.
The set also failed to play nice with the digital video output on our Scientific Atlanta 8300HD cable box. Despite the HP's being copyright compliant, the box didn't see it as such, shut down its HDMI output, and issued an onscreen error message. We've encountered this now on several HDTVs when using different samples of the 8300HD in different locales, and it appears to be an issue either with the box or with local cable providers.