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Landscape painter, mainly of Kensington Gardens and the Chelsea Embankment. Born 13 November 1863 in Chelsea, London. Studied at the R.C.A. and under Theodore Roussel. Influenced by Whistler and in 1889 was one of the 'London Impressionists' with Sickert, Steer, etc. Exhibited in London at the Baillie, Paterson, Goupil and Grafton Galleries and with the R.B.A.; also in Glasgow, Paris, Munich and Dresden. Art Examiner for the Board of Education 1893–1908. A hunchback, lived a secluded life. Died 13 May 1909 in London. Subsequent exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries 1928, 1948 and 1962.
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Can you think of anyone more deserving of an award for excellence? Oprah Winfrey, the undisputed queen of daytime, received a Minerva Award on the third day of Maria Shriver's Women's Conference in Long Beach, which honors outstanding women. Always deflecting the attention from herself, Winfrey gave it up to Shriver for her role as the First Lady of California. Winfrey also touched on the programming of her upcoming Oprah Winfrey Network, saying, "It's also [going to be] fun and entertaining without tearing people down and calling them bitches. Imagine that. Imagine." Wouldn't that be nice!? Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Oakland children's charity founder Oral Lee Brown were also among the five women honored at the conference. Inspiring speakers included First Lady Michelle Obama, hip hop soul star Mary J. Blige and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden. What award would you give Oprah?
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''People in Otago have been affected by it, although we don't
know how many at this stage. It is quite a big deal,
apparently. It's a big international scam.''
The scam involved online advertising of holiday home
accommodation in New Zealand.
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which was believed to have cheated ''thousands of dollars
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I am using Debian 7 on some newly designed hardware. After bootup the Ethernet is not setup correctly, but if I run an "/etc/init.d/network restart" or do an if down/up after bootup then it works. Does anyone know how to make the Ethernet work on the first boot without this 2nd stage configuration step?
The system does seem to take a few seconds to see that the network is alive, as is shown below. Maybe this delay is causing some type of startup problem with Debian?
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The morning and afternoon Kidz Zone is designed to provide children with a safe, well-supervised environment when an adult is unable to be at home. The activities will include art, quiet study and reading areas, physical fitness, games, outdoor and indoor play. Our program encourages a relaxed environment for the child who is in school all day. A monthly newsletter will be available the first Friday of every month to keep communication ongoing and update you on program activities. An afternoon snack is also provided daily.
|7:00a until school starts
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- Changes to your schedule are due by the 20th of each month, prior to the start of the new month*. There are a few exceptions ... the December and January schedules are due up to a week earlier. Please check the schedule change form for the exact due dates.
- Payment is due, by the fifteenth of each month for that month's scheduled days. Because our staff is hired based on the number of children registered, we are unable to give credit for absences due to illness, vacation, camp, etc. Please put in a schedule change to reflect your vacations, camp, appointments, activities, etc.
- Kidz Zone is not open when the Bloomfield Hills School District is closed for holidays and/or teacher workdays.
- EXCEPT for Snow Days: you can purchase a SNOW DAY INSURANCE PASS good for care all snow days (except during treacherous weather conditions). Snow day care is available from 8:00a-6:00p at Conant Elementary school. The fee is $50/child if purchased by December 1st and $75.00 if purchased after December 1st. The pass expires at the end of the school year. Insurance passes must be purchased prior to the snow day.
- Activity Days will be offered every half day of school, including the first* and last day of school. *September 6th is a half day of school for grades K-5 & a full day for grades 6-12.
- These special Kidz Zone days run from the time of dismissal until 6:00p.
- The cost will be $30.00*/child (includes lunch). *If you register by the deadline. After the deadline if space permits the fee is $40.00/child. If you are not registered one full school day before the Activity Day and need care, the fee is $55/child.
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We highly recommend that you schedule in advance, however, we offer drop-in service at a slightly higher rate.
- You must purchase debit visit cards for this service, in advance.
- The fee for a Debit Visit Card is $45.00 for 5 visits: good for morning or afternoon visits.
- You must be a registered Kidz Zone user in order to use this service.
- Registration begins in May for the 2016-17 school year. Forms are available at each Latchkey/Kidz Zone location, Bloomin' Preschool Fox Hills and online.
- Registrations may be mailed in up until August 7th only. No faxes or emails are allowed!
- Beginning August 8th, registrations must be completed in person at the Kidz Zone Registration Office located at Bloomin' Preschool Fox Hills office.
- The Bloomin' Preschool Fox Hills summer office hours are Monday-Thursday 8:00a-5:00p and Friday 8:00a-4:00p. The Bloomin' Preschool Fox Hills office will be open until 7:00pm Tuesday & Wednesday August 16th & 17th.
- Registration forms must be completed and include the annual $30.00 registration fee/per family. Only one registration fee is due per family whether you are registering for ELEMENTARY School Latchkey and/or MIDDLE School Kidz Zone. September fees are due by September 15th. These fees are non-refundable.
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By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, April 1 (Yonhap) -- Some ugly pitching and defense led to plenty of runs on the opening weekend of the top South Korean pro baseball league.
The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) launched its 32nd season last Saturday, with eight of the nine teams in action. The same teams played each other again on Sunday.
The first day yielded 54 runs scored, a league record for an opening day. There were three grand slams hit on that first day, also a KBO record.
The teams followed that up with 36 runs scored on Sunday. Three of the four victorious teams on both Saturday and Sunday came from behind to win.
These results may have been exciting, but as much as productive offense, sloppy relief pitching and fielding contributed to high-scoring games.
The two-game set between the Lotte Giants and the Hanwha Eagles served as a prime example.
The Giants won both of their home games in Busan in their final at-bats, by the identical scores of 6-5. The Eagles' pitchers played as big a part in these results as the Giants' offense, as they handed out 10 walks on Saturday and seven walks on Sunday.
On Saturday, after starter Denny Bautista left the game with a 4-1 lead for Hanwha in the sixth, three relief pitchers issued three walks and hit two batters, allowing the Giants to pull even at 4-4. Park Jong-yoon won the game with a sacrifice fly in the bottom ninth.
Kim Euong-yong, the Eagles' manager, lamented the pitchers' passive approach.
"I don't think our bullpen pitchers had confidence on the mound," he said. "I'd figured we could score around five runs and keep the opponents to four runs. We had it our way midway through the game but couldn't close it out."
On Sunday, the defense came undone for Hanwha. The team committed only one error on the score sheet, but made three fielding miscues in the sixth inning that didn't count as errors but that might have been even more costly.
The Eagles' catcher Han Seung-taek missed what should have been an easy double play. With the bases loaded, third baseman Oh Sun-jin grabbed a hard grounder and threw home to get the lead runner out, but Han inexplicably turned his body toward the second base and failed to throw to first.
On the next play, shortstop Lee Dae-soo, the 2011 Golden Glove winner, misjudged a pop-up and let it drop in no-man's land between left field and third base. It counted as a base hit, but allowed the Giants to tie things up at 2-2.
Later in the same inning, right fielder Kim Tae-wan bobbled the ball on a single and allowed a runner to score from second, making it 3-2 for Lotte. If Kim had handled the ball cleanly and thrown it home, he would have had a close play at the plate.
Given another life, the Giants went on to score two more runs off of the deflated Hanwha pitchers.
The Nexen Heroes wasted some impressive offensive production as they split their two games against the Kia Tigers. On Saturday, they went up 3-0 on the Tigers but ended up losing 10-9.
The two clubs exchanged leads four times. After the Tigers clawed back from 3-0 down to lead 6-4, the Heroes tagged on five runs in the top seventh to lead 9-6.
Just when the victory appeared to be sealed for the Heroes, their relief pitchers came unraveled. After getting two outs in the bottom seventh, Han Hyun-hee hit Cha Il-mok. The next pitcher, Moon Sung-hyun, promptly gave up three singles and two walks without retiring a batter. When the dust settled, the Tigers were up 10-9, which stood as the final score.
The Heroes' bullpen survived another scare on Sunday. The bats staked the team to a 6-1 lead, before the Tigers got three runs back in the bottom seventh. Nexen's Kim Young-min, relieving starter Kim Byung-hyun, gave up a two-run homer to pinch hitter Shin Jong-gil.
Kim Young-min walked the next batter and was relieved by Lee Bo-geun, who then gave up a run-scoring double to Lee Yong-kyu.
The Heroes held on to win 6-4 Sunday, though, and Yeom Kyung-yup, the team's manager, said he would gladly take the first win of the season any way he could.
"We played two very tough games in a row, and I saw a lot of promise in our team," he said. "It would have been a big blow if we'd lost on Sunday, too. We overcame some difficult moments and this is a major boost to our confidence."
Even the SK Wyverns, long known for their lockdown bullpen, lost a late lead on Saturday at home against the LG Twins. With a 4-2 lead in the eighth, Lee Jae-young, SK's second pitcher after Jo-Jo Reyes, walked in a run to make it 4-3 and then served up a grand slam against Jeong Seong-hoon. The Wyverns ended up losing 7-4.
The Wyverns, who have played in a league-record six Korean Series finals in a row, are missing two key bullpen pitchers from last year. Closer Jung Woo-ram is now doing his mandatory military service, and setup man Park Hee-soo is out indefinitely with an elbow injury. The patchwork bullpen without the two could be in for a long season.
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Silent Grove AU: Your Journey is Mine by aimoWatch
©2013-2016 aimo
Silent Grove comic alternate universe, where Senior Warden Alistair embarks on the journey to discover secrets of his past...thankfully one he doesn't have to make alone, with his lady love by his side :3
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Pity he shaved between UWS and Inquisition... I really love his outfit during the comic series. You can see the elements of his old splint mail, but now its the quality fit for kings. Beautiful job as always.
i'm going to have to play Dragon Age one day
I support any story that doesn't separate the Wardens!
Plz why isn't this canon??? <3
Mmm, me like Alistair in a beard!
Love this~!!
They look so nice together, it is so wonderful art! ^_^
of course she's coming along, Varric is ccoming along to :3
They're so cute~
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Trick or Treat (1986 film)
|Trick or Treat
Original film poster
|Directed by
|Charles Martin Smith
|Produced by
|Michael S. Murphey
Joel Soisson
|Screenplay by
|Joel Soisson
Michael S. Murphey
|Story by
|Rhet Topham
|Music by
|Fast Eddie Clarke
Dave King
Christopher Young
|Robert Elswit
|Edited by
|Jane Schwartz Jaffe
|Distributed by
|De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Release dates
Running time
|98 min
|United States
|Box office
Trick or Treat is a 1986 American supernatural horror film by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, starring Marc Price, Tony Fields, and Lisa Orgolini, with special appearances by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. The film centers around a teenager who is haunted by the ghost of his rock hero.[1]
High school outcast Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price) is writing a letter to his hero, heavy metal musician Sammi Curr (Tony Fields). A vulgar and infamous superstar, Sammi is a hometown hero of Eddie's town, and an alumnus of Eddie's own Lakeridge High School. He puts the letter in an envelope and starts doing his chores. Watching the news at the same time, following a report on Sammi's being banned from returning to Lakeridge High to perform at the Halloween dance, Eddie is shocked to hear the worst words to ever reach his ears: Sammi Curr has died in a mysterious hotel fire. Eddie is completely devastated. He goes to his friend "Nuke" (Gene Simmons), a radio DJ who knew Sammi Curr personally. To take Eddie's mind off the death of his idol, Nuke gives Eddie the only copy of Curr's last and as-yet unreleased album, "Songs in the Key of Death", on an acetate disc. Nuke has recorded the disc onto high quality tape and plans to play it in its entirety on-air at midnight on Halloween as a tribute since, according to Nuke, that was always Sammi's plan for the album's debut.
Once back home, Eddie falls asleep while listening to the record and has a strange dream about the fire that killed Sammi Curr. When he wakes up he finds that the record is skipping and after listening to it for a few seconds he comes to realize that something is not quite right about the lyrics that the record is stuck on. Having previous experience with hidden lyrics, Eddie plays the record backwards, but receives more than he imagined: Sammi Curr speaking to him from beyond the grave.
Sammi instructs Eddie on how to go about getting revenge on a group of bullies who make his school life a torment, since Sammi himself was bullied constantly in high school and he wants to now take the revenge on Eddie's bullies that he never got to take on his own. Eddie explains the situation to his best friend Roger (Glen Morgan), who is highly skeptical of the whole thing. At first the revenge is innocent enough, but before long the plans start to become more sinister, with the potential to cause real physical harm and eventually building towards murder. Having no desire to take things so far, Eddie determines to sever ties with the dead rocker, but Sammi has no intention of letting that happen. When Eddie is alone in his room, Sammi causes some soda to spill on the record, initiating an electrical surge that gives him just the amount of energy he needs to escape out of the record and become able to carry out his murderous plans without the help of another. Eddie smashes his record player and stereo system after a personal, face-to-face visit from Sammi, hoping to make sure he never sees the dead rocker in his room again.
After a cassette tape Eddie copied of the album puts his worst bully's girlfriend in the hospital simply from listening to it, Eddie recruits Roger to steal the tape out of the bully's car, and orders its destruction. Out of naivety and ignorance to the severity of the situation, Roger lies to Eddie about the tape's destruction and instead plays it on his own stereo system, earning Roger his own visit from Sammi Curr himself. Sammi orders Roger to play the tape of "Songs in the Key of Death" at the high school Halloween dance, or die.
Roger does as he is told, and goes to the dance to play the tape over the PA system. Eddie learns of the tape being played, and quickly attempts to reach the school to stop Sammi from causing any more damage. When the live band takes the stage for their performance at the dance, however, Sammi literally explodes out of the lead singer's guitar amplifier and proceeds to steal the show. The delighted students think it is all a Halloween tribute to Sammi Curr, even as Sammi begins to fire electric bolts from the neck of his guitar, disintegrating audience members. After the first few deaths, however, panic erupts as the young revellers realize the danger is very real, and Sammi wreaks havoc as the dance attendees flee in terror.
When Eddie reaches the school, ambulances and police cars surround the building. As he goes about trying to save the people still inside, Eddie realizes something; Sammi can only travel through radio signals, so, no radios, no way for Sammi to carry out his plans. Eddie sets about destroying every radio he sees in an attempt to prevent Sammi from continuing his rampage, leading to a final confrontation between the young metal fan and his former idol. After reaching the radio station in a futile attempt to stop the midnight broadcast of Sammi's demonic album, Eddie succeeds in luring Sammi (in a cassette tape) into a police car and starts baiting him with insults until he breaks out and tries to attack Eddie from behind the car's security grill. Eddie drives on to an unfinished bridge and speeds over the edge, launching the car into a river, short-circuiting the tape and finally destroying the malevolent rocker.
Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. was to originally play Sammi Curr.[citation needed] Ozzy Osbourne plays a televangelist decrying the evils of heavy metal music. "Lunch of the Dead" is displayed on a cinema marquee. According to The Internet Movie Database, no such film exists. It was likely an invention of the props department.
Director Charles Martin Smith (known for his acting roles in motion pictures such as American Graffiti and Never Cry Wolf) takes the helm of this project as his directorial debut. In a brief credited cameo, Smith plays the high school principal, killed by a bolt of electricity fired from Sammi Curr's guitar during the Halloween dance.
After long debate, the role of undead rock icon Sammi Curr went to Tony Fields, a former Solid Gold dancer and one of the stars of A Chorus Line.
Eddie Weinbauer is played by Marc Price (known for his role as 'Skippy' on the situation comedy Family Ties). Eddie's mother is played by Elaine Joyce.
Doug Savant (of Melrose Place and Desperate Housewives fame) plays Tim Hainey, the popular bully responsible for much of Eddie Weinbauer's angst.
Alice Nunn plays Mrs. Sylvia Cavell.
Special effects for the movie were created by Kevin Yagher, who would go on to provide the effects for such horror icons as Freddy Krueger and the Crypt Keeper from HBO's Tales from the Crypt. Yagher also had a cameo in the movie as the lead singer/guitarist for the band, The Kickers, playing at the high school Halloween dance (Sammi Curr's hand reaches through the amplifier and explodes Yagher's head).
All Sammi Curr music was composed by the band Fastway and upcoming composer Christopher Young. In the stack of records the mother looks at, the last LP is a copy of Megadeth's Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!, with a cut corner. Normally a record with cut corners denotes that it was a radio promo, or was for discounted sale only. The other records in the stack were also real releases. Included was a 4 song E.P. by U.S. heavy metal/horror rock band Impaler, Rise of the Mutants, and Canadian thrash metal band Exciter's 1986 LP Unveiling the Wicked and Savatage's 1984 release The Dungeons Are Calling. On the walls in Eddie's room, there are posters of Judas Priest, Anthrax, Raven, Twisted Sister, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne and KISS. On his locker door in school there is also a sticker with Lizzy Borden. Co-composer Christopher Young went on to compose music for the films The Gift, Urban Legend, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, Drag Me to Hell and The Uninvited. Gene Simmons was originally offered the role of Sammi Curr, but he did not think much of the script and ultimately agreed to do only a cameo as radio DJ, Nuke. Simmons later said in an interview that he chose to play the role as a childhood hero of his, Wolfman Jack.
The film was released theatrically in the United States by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group in October 1986. It grossed $6,797,218 at the box office.[2] It was released on VHS by Karl-Lorimar home video the following year.
The film was released on DVD in the United States by Platinum Disc Corporation in 2002.[3] This version is currently out of print. Some people believe the DVD cover to be misleading because it shows Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne starring in the movie, when actually they only make very brief cameo appearances. On the back of the DVD artwork are also scenes from the making-of.
Anchor Bay Entertainment was all set to release a 20th Anniversary DVD in 2006, but due to music copyrights, the release was cancelled. Anchor Bay so far has no plans to release any kind of DVD.
See also[edit]
- ^ 10 of the Cheesiest Heavy Metal Horror Flicks of All Time!
- ^ "Trick or Treat". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
- ^ "Trick or Treat". dvdempire.com. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
External links[edit]
- Trick or Treat at the Internet Movie Database
- Trick or Treat (1986) at The Croc's Domain


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While I agree that reforms to our system must be made, the plan President Obama presented tonight is not the answer. In recent weeks I have held several town meetings on healthcare reform both in person and by teleconference. Many thousands of people have participated with the overwhelming majority being opposed to a federal takeover. Despite the President's rhetoric tonight I am still opposed to this takeover.
If we are going to prevent the federal takeover, I need your help. Many of you have already signed my petition at www.NoFedMed.com to let Senators Webb and Warner know you are opposed to this legislation. However, I need you to ask your friends, family members, and co-workers to sign the petition and keep the pressure on our Senators to vote No.
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ART REVIEW; Dizzying Realm Of Asian Art
By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: March 26, 1999
''Asia'' doesn't exist and it never has. It isn't a place or culture; it's a geopolitical fiction, a patchwork of people, climates and languages stitched together lightly, and only here and there, by the bright thread of Buddhism.
Yet something called ''Asian art'' has taken New York by subtle force in the last few years, sweeping aside cultural and political distinctions. Its presence is especially evident during these early spring days, in what has come to be known in the art world as Asia Week.
Asian auctions have been in progress at Christie's and Sotheby's. The International Asian Art Fair has again arrived -- with a tinkle of cymbals and a rustle of big money -- at the Seventh Regiment Armory. Asian work of every size, shape and function can be found in galleries from the Upper East Side to Chinatown.
All this hoopla is new. Just a few years ago, a graduate student could visit Sotheby's Asian previews and puzzle undisturbed for hours over Sanskrit inscriptions and the tantalizing odds and ends. Now the odds and ends have been replaced by the ''important'' property, and a buzz of acquisitiveness, competitive but erudite, is in the air.
Why Asian art now? There are many reasons. Buyers, institutional and private, are realizing that they can pick up a drop-dead masterpiece from India, Tibet or China for a small fraction of what a third-rate Italian Renaissance painting costs, not to mention a goodish Picasso.
And although Asian art is still widely considered a specialist's realm, it is becoming clear that the scholar, the dealer and the casual shopper are all, at some level, neophytes. Asian art is not a field; it is a universe. If you are deeply conversant with one facet of it, you are likely to be in the dark about another. And in the face of its endless beauties and challenges, everyone gets a chance to be star-struck and enthralled.
Being enthralled is a lot of what a visit to the International Asian Art Fair is about. In its fourth year, it remains the hands-down best art fair in New York. Many of the premier European and United States dealers are present. The quality of the work is high, the variety wide. And the show feels good: the pleasure principle is at work, but so is the intellectual excitement of seeing things for the first time.
The art of India, for example, may finally start to find the audience it deserves. Visitors will be stopped in their tracks by the carving of an 11th-century goddess, her hair a mass of twisting vines and blossoms, at Doris Wiener. And the South Indian bronze figure of Kali, with her avid face and tiny fangs, at the Chinese Porcelain Company, along with the Gandharan head of a young man with cushiony lips at Spink are also likely to cause a pileup.
But there are also quieter rarities: an exquisite Gupta period bronze Jain figure at John Eskenazi, for example, and a set of pages from a 12th-century palm-leaf manuscript, with iconic paintings and the most beautiful script you've ever seen, at the booth of Sam Fogg, a London dealer who is one of this year's prize new participants.
India is just the start. Ancient China is represented by a Northern Qi limestone bodhisattva at R. H. Ellsworth, as slender and upright as a sapling; by a lustrous gilt Buddha, hands held overhead, at A. & J. Speelman, and by a pair of Tang period tomb doors etched with figures at the booth of the Brussels dealer Gisele Croes.
Scholars' utensils are on view in cool, clean installations at Nicholas Grindley and China 2000 Fine Art. The latter gallery adds contemporary work by the Chinese-American artist Arlan Huang to its forward-looking mix. New work also finds a voice at Art Forum Singapore, another first-time participant, and at Michael Goedhuis, in calligraphic paintings by the Beijing artist Gu Gan.
And as a kind of preview to the exhibition of 19th- and early 20th-century Meiji period Japanese art set to open at the First USA Riverfront Arts Center in Wilmington, Del., next month, the London dealer Malcolm Fairley has brought examples of enameled vases that are the Asian equivalent of high Victoriana. You may never have seen much of this work before, and you may not be wild about it if you have, but it is one more piece to add to the fascinating mosaic that is the Asian Art Fair.
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Not all of the European dealers visiting New York are at the armory. Giuseppe Eskenazi, who specializes in the art of ancient China and is in from London, has set up shop in the Pace Wildenstein premises on 57th Street.
Mr. Eskenazi is at the top of the field, and anyone who saw his first New York show in 1997 may still feel a bit lightheaded at the memory. This year's selection of bronzes and ceramics is pretty wonderful, too.
Among the larger pieces is a bronze bell from the Shang period (about 1500 to 1000 B.C.), set upright, like a downward-tapering vase, its surface studded with nipple-like nobs and incised with animal-mask meander patterns. Imposing in a different way are a pair of unglazed earthenware guardian figures from the Tang Dynasty (7th to 10th century), the ferocity of their faces softened by their hands-on-hips disco poses and their dainty armor, all sashes and ruffs and incised chrysanthemums


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He is survived by his wife, Janice Marchand Martin; one son, Derrin Martin; two daughters, Darlene Hattier and husband, Gary, and Mary Benson and husband, Greg; one sister, Ada Lawless; five grandchildren; and one gret-grandchild.
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The invention relates to automatic speech recognition and more particularly to a method and apparatus for continuous speech recognition using a self-adjusting decoder network having multiple layers.
Two decoder techniques are commonly known in the speech recognition field. The first of these two techniques is called the best-first based stack decoder. This first technique accommodates long span language models, multi-word grammars and increased vocabulary size. However, the best-first stack decoder method requires good search heuristics in order to estimate the least upper bound of the speech recognition path score so that search errors can be avoided and complexity reduced. The second of these two techniques is called the breadth first based beam decoder. The breadth first beam search technique does not require heuristics and the search can be made frame synchronous to the incoming speech data frames. However, the breadth first beam search decoder requires considerable circuit resources in order to support and maintain the large number of active nodes that typically are created and maintained during a beam search.
Thus, there is a need in the art for a speech recognition decoder that combines the resource advantages of the best-first stack search decoder and the accuracy advantages of the breadth first beam search decoder into a new search decoder.
Briefly stated in accordance with one aspect of the invention, the aforementioned need is achieved by providing a continuous speech recognizer that is based on three dynamically expanded networks, each having a self-adjusting capability.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the aforementioned need is provided by a system for recognizing speech which includes a converter for converting input speech into frames of speech data. The speech data is inputted to a dynamic programming network which receives the frames of speech data and builds nodes that represent likelihood scores of various pre-defined models corresponding to the speech data of the respective frame. An asynchronous phone expanding network operates in parallel with said dynamic programming network, and provides phone rules that control which nodes of said dynamic programming network can be connected by arcs to other nodes dependent upon said speech data. It should be noted that the word 'phone' in this application is taken directly from the Greek word 'phone', which means sound and/or speech. Additionally, an asynchronous word network operates in parallel with the phone network and the dynamic programming network to provide word rules that control which portions of the phone network correspond to recognizable words and which do not correspond to recognizable words. The dynamic programming network, the phone network and the word network cooperating to process the speech data frames to recognize the input speech.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the aforementioned need is achieved by providing a speech recognition system including: a converter for converting input speech into frames of speech data; a dynamic programming process that establishes a plurality of nodes in response to the frames of speech data and arc paths connecting to others of the plurality of nodes thereby forming a speech decoder network; a phone rule driven process that applies predetermined phone rules for the speech decoder network to establish a phone network and increase the accuracy of an output of the speech recognition system; and a word rule driven process that applies pre-determined word rules for the speech decoder network and the phone network to increase also the accuracy of the output of the speech recognition system.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the aforementioned need is achieved by providing a decoder for continuous speech recognition using a processor and a memory having a plurality of memory locations. The decoder has a speech framer for regularly processing input speech into consecutive frames of acoustic data. Connected to the output of the speech framer are a word network process for storing and applying language rules, a phone network process for storing and applying phone rules; and a dynamic programming network process. The dynamic programming network process processes the acoustic data to build a network of nodes connected by arcs which provide possible decodings of the input speech. The dynamic programming network process also uses information from the word network process and the phone network process to direct the building of the nodes and the connection of each node to previous nodes by arcs.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system according to one aspect of the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a layered decoding network architecture according to the present invention.
Referring now to FIG. 1, a system 100 is shown. System 100 has a processor unit 102 that has sufficient processing capability and equivalent throughput to decode one or more channels of continuous input speech, for example a PowerPC 604 by Motorola Corporation, Schaumburg, Ill. Processor unit 102 is connected to a storage unit 104 which stores the operating system and application programs that support the method and apparatus of the present invention. Processor unit 102 is also connected to memory 106 which is a high speed memory such as a random access memory. Memory 106 stores the intermediate results of continuous speech decoding.
System 100 has a speech input framing unit 110. Speech input framing unit 110 receives speech that has been converted into electrical signals for transmission and converts these signals into frames of data for speech recognition. Such framing of speech data is discussed in: A Frame Synchronous Network Search Algorithm for Connected Word Recognition, written by Chin-Hui Lee and Lawrence R. Rabiner and published in IEEE Transactions on Acoustic and Signal Processing, volume 37, No. 11 November 1989, which is hereby incorporated by reference. After speech input framing unit 110 has converted the speech data into frames, processor unit 102 by the support of the programs from storage unit 104 and the data in memory 106 performs a continuous speech decoding according to the present invention.
Referring now to FIG. 2, a method for continuous speech decoding referred to as a wave decoder 200 is illustrated. Wave decoder 200 has three individual layers to provide the continuous speech decoding function. One layer, a dynamic programming layer (DP), is a dynamically constructed layer which serves as an anchor point layer to support fast network expansion and reconstruction, should the need occur. The wave decoder 200 is a decoding network that is sliced horizontally into three layers: a dynamic programming network layer 202, a phone network layer 204 and a word network layer 206. The dynamic programming network layer 202 is based on the integration of all knowledge sources and is the place where the dynamic programming is performed. Phone network layer 204 keeps the phone level knowledge sources, such as a phone lexicon graph. The word network layer 206 keeps the word level knowledge source such as grammar constraints and specifications from the language model.
This speech decoder architecture of multiple layers, each providing a separate decoding function, is a sharp departure from previous continuous speech decoders. In wave decoder 200, the use of cross-word, tri-phone models and other detailed acoustic modeling techniques in the speech recognition search will only affect the size and the complexity of the dynamic programming network layer 202, without affecting the phone network layer 204 and the word network layer 206. The word network layer 206 and phone network layer 204 are independent from the type of acoustic model used at the dynamic programming network layer 202. Since any penalty on the phonem transitions can be mapped down to the dynamic programming network layer 202, the phone network layer 204 is then implemented as independent of both the acoustic model and the language model. The phone network layer 204 is time independent, and is a layer which can be easily copied and/or shared. The word network layer 206 is also time independent and is a layer that can be easily copied and/or shared.
The horizontal layering of the decoding network according to the present invention has the advantage that more than 90% memory usage is at the lower dynamic programming network layer 202. The upper layers 204 and 206 form a very light layered structure which supports very fast dynamic programming network expansion and reduction. In the wave decoder 200, the speech decoding network, which includes all three layers 202, 204 and 206, is both constructed dynamically and released frame synchronously. Dynamically growing the layered structure is accomplished very quickly because the horizontal slicing of the decoding network in wave decoder 200 not only makes the layers of the structure light but also isolates the knowledge sources making it easier to grow a decoding network of nodes, scores and arcs to related upper level nodes. The difficult issue is the dynamic expanding and reduction, i.e. releasing, of the dynamic programming network layer, especially for the case where the decoding network is re-entrant.
The wave decoder 200 is a special case of a general speech decoding network. The wave decoder 200, especially the dynamic programming network layer, is a selfadjusting graph of likelihood nodes and arcs. At any time instant, the stored data (and hence the memory space resources), are self-adjusted to serve the need of that particular time frame. If FIG. 2 is viewed from the time axis, this time frame corresponds to a vertical slice of the decoding network, Net_active(t), as illustrated by the unenclosed area of dynamic programming network layer 202 in FIG. 2. Net_active(t) is the active portion of the decoding network at that particular time instant t that the self-adjusting dynamic search graph represents. Net_active(t) is an approximation of the minimum and sufficient local decoding network to cover the need of active nodes at the present time frame, t. Net_active(t) is determined mainly by the model matching at that particular time frame and is relatively independent of the depth of the grammar and the duration of the speech input. For the wave decoder 200, and primarily dynamic programming network 202,
This size relationship holds even for re-entrant networks because the need for re-entrant to non re-entrant network transformations can be eliminated for the wave decoder 200. The significance of which will be explained below.
The actual decoding (search) process is ultimately performed at the dynamic programming network layer 202. Active path is represented as a node in the corresponding decoding (search) tree of the search graph. Such node representation for search graphs is known from "Principles of Artificial Intelligence" by N. J. Nelson published by McGraw Hill in 1980.
The dynamic programming network layer 202 forms the search graph in the present invention and each active path is represented as a node in the corresponding decoding (search) tree of that search graph. Each node in the decoding tree carries with itself all necessary links, scores and trace-back information. Similar decoding graph structures have been used in static decoders for many years. However, in a dynamic decoder, the search graph is not physically built but the subset of the search graph covering the need of the decoding tree at the current time instant must be well established in order to make the search admissible to the list of viable possibilities. This dynamic network is self-adjusting and varies with time.
For a non re-entrant network, the expansion is performed forward and locally the network is not punctured by dynamic network releasing. On the other hand, for a re-entrant decoding network, such as wave decoder 200, it often occurs that a previously used portion of network which is partially or totally released from the previous actions is re-entered. When a re-entrance to a previously used portion of the network which is partially or totally released from the previous actions occurs, one known problem of previous decoders is the so called "wanton expansion". The "wanton expansion" occurs if the network dynamic programming cannot locate the remaining pieces of the previously used network and thus generates duplicate network structures. The result of "wanton expansion" is the decoding memory usage overflow and the tremendous waste of CPU cycles (i.e. processing time).
In order to overcome the problems of "wanton expansion" and wasted CPU cycles, a two-level dynamic hashing structure is used in the wave decoder. At each phone network node, a hashing process hashes the related nodes existing in the dynamic programming network and stores the results in a respective phone network node table. The hashing process also hashes the related arcs, i.e. hidden Markov model instances, existing in the dynamic programming network and stores the results in a respective phone network arc table. Beam search is performed for all nodes presently in the decoding tree. A network pruning procedure is then followed to release nodes and arcs which are not active. A network expansion procedure, on the other hand, grows any needed arcs or nodes based on hashing information and adjusts the shape of the dynamic search graph. The result of this controlled pruning and growing is a minimum and sufficient decoding graph that covers the needs of supporting the remaining active nodes for the next time instant.
There are three structures in the wave decoder that are managed dynamically for the dynamic programming network. These are dynamic programming arcs, dynamic programming nodes and hashing tables. The dynamic programming arcs are released once they are not within an active part of the search beam. The dynamic programming nodes are released if they no longer terminate an active dynamic programming arc. The dynamic hashing tables, which are used to hold the record of the existing portion of arcs and nodes under the higher layers, are released when they become empty because of their arcs being not within the search beam and their dynamic programming nodes do not terminate an active dynamic programming arc.
When re-entering a used decoding network, the dynamic network generation engine first examines the node hash table at the upper level phone node to re-establish the missing nodes and reuse the existing nodes which have been left from the previous time instant. Then it examines the arc hashing table at the respective phone node to re-establish the missing arc connections and reuse the existing arcs. The use of fast dynamic hashing is important because a linear search can incur quite a cost in recovering a punctured network.
With the layered, self-adjusting decoding graph, one pass dynamic decoding is made possible on a punctured decoding network, and therefore it no longer requires the network to be non-re-entrant. Moreover, the key issue of controlling network growth in one pass dynamic decoding can be addressed in accordance with the present invention. Unlike the conventional beam search decoders, the one-pass dynamic decoder is a quasi-stack decoder. Active word end nodes are sorted and linked into various dominance chains. These chains in fact form a stack, and each dominance chain is an entry in the stack. Only the most likely word-end on the chain is allowed to create successor nodes and each expanding word end node has its own copy of its successor network. This can lead to a tremendous growth in a decoding network if not controlled properly. The layered, self-adjusting decoding graph provides the enhanced control on the network growth, while at the same time supporting a much deeper network pruning due to its layered architecture.
In operation, efficiency of the wave decoder 200 is an important issue. Closely related to efficiency of the wave decoder 200 is the mortality rate of newly created arcs and nodes in the dynamic programming network. In general, this newly created arc mortality rate issue can be more easily handled using fast-match and other heuristics in the network pruning procedure, although the admissibility of the search may suffer. In wave decoder, an admissible arc predication scheme is incorporated if no other heuristics for arc prediction are available. This scheme is based on a novel modification of the traditional beam search and herein after referred to as a soft beam search. In the traditional beam search, the best path score at the current time frame is first identified. Once the best path score is identified, other paths, whose scores are more than a distance Δ below the best path, are pruned. However, computing the best path score in a dynamic decoder is not a trivial matter. If a node is active, all scores of paths entering the first state of the following arcs are often missing. Thus, a rebuilding of such arcs is required first. On the other hand, it is often the case that many of such newly built arcs are found to be outside of the beam right after the best path score is determined, and hence pruned away by the pruning procedure. Such rebuilding and pruning can cause memory thrashing and slow down the decoding speed.
For the wave decoder 200, a soft beam based on existing arcs is calculated first. Arc predication is performed before any new arc is created. The arc predication engine first calculates the path score entering the first state of each respective arc before physically allocating each missing arc. This calculated path score is compared with the present soft beam. If a calculated path score is within the soft beam, the predicted arc is created and the soft beam is updated. This soft beam scheme is admissible assuming that the selected width of the correct beam is appropriate, because the soft beam scheme permits a lower cut-off score than the cut-off score determined by the correct beam. This admissible arc predication scheme is useful for the dynamic decoder, but it makes almost no difference for a static decoder, because in that scenario, the decoding network is always fully built. For a dynamic decoder, this admissible arc predication scheme is quite effective in reducing the mortality rate of the newly created arcs, one of the critical problems which plagues the efficiency of previous dynamic decoders.
The use of detailed acoustic models in speech recognition makes it important to minimize the redundancy in the decoding network. In theory, for context dependent tri-phone modeling, there are N�M connections for each center phone in the dynamic programming net, where N is the number of different left phone context and M is the number of different right phone context. However, depending on the context dependent tri-phone model unit inventory in the acoustic model, many triphone model units are cloned using the available tri-phone model units which most closely resemble the missing tri-phone model units. As a consequence, the number of distinct arc connections is often much less than N�M. Optimizing a fully compiled static dynamic programming network is relatively straightforward, whereas reducing the redundancy in a dynamically constructed dynamic programming network is more involved. The situation becomes more acute when the network is not only constructed dynamically but is also being punctured due to various partial releases. In this situation, the local network is not fully built, and the redundancies, if they exist, are difficult to locate. In the wave decoder 200, the dynamic network expansion process employs certain optimization procedures in creating the dynamic programming network.
In order to reduce arcs in dynamic network building, a model inventory hashing table for distinct tri-phone models in the existing arcs is maintained at the corresponding phone network node. For each node requiring an arc expansion, the following method is performed to minimize the dynamically generated decoding network. If there is an existing arc based on the arc hashing table with the same triphone model unit from that node, no new arc is created and the arc is shared with a new destination node added for that arc. Further, if there is no existing arc with the desired tri-phone model unit, a new arc is created and inserted in the arc hashing table. These procedures are all performed at the local N�M dynamic programming network level, and therefore, such arc sharing is possible. In fact, the minimized self-adjusting local search graph is a generalized graph because one arc can have multiple starting nodes and multiple ending nodes as a result of incorporating the structure of an acoustic model in the search graph minimization.
In operation, one embodiment of the present invention has been implemented and tested. In one application, the test task was recognition of known length connected digit strings. When fully expanded, the decoder grammar for 16 digit strings had a depth of 16 levels. The acoustic model used in the experiments was a set of 274 context dependent acoustic model units. The inter-word context dependency was explicitly modeled and each digit model was represented as a context dependent graph with 12 fan-in heads, one body and 12 fan-out tails. The speed overhead of maintaining a self-adjusting search graph in the wave decoder 200 was negligible (<2%) and the peak decoding memory usage was only 6% of the corresponding static decoder. It is clear that additional savings could be achievable for multi-channel automatic speech recognition by sharing the higher layers, i.e. the phone network layer and word network layer, across different channels. The peak memory usage was determined mainly by the number of channels active and their joint memory usage at each time instant. Because the peak memory usage for each channel is sparsely distributed over the duration of the speech input and happens at a different time instant, the actual memory usage for a multi-channel decoder can be even much less. The wave decoder 200 was also tested for a most compact re-entrant grammar, a nogrammar network with a re-entrant null arc transition, using the same set of acoustic model. The total peak decoding memory usage was only 80 KB (0.08 MB). In both cases, there is an order of magnitude memory usage reduction compared to a static decoder. In fact, for a dynamic decoder, it is relatively easy to get significant savings on a huge decoding network, whereas savings on a very compact grammar is often more difficult, depending on the tightness of the self-adjusting search graph at each time instant.
Thus, it will now be understood that there has been disclosed a new method and apparatus for providing continuous speech recognition. While the invention has been particularly illustrated and described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form, details, and applications may be made therein. For example, the wave decoder can be a semi-autonomous circuit module within a larger system. Multiple wave decoders can also share the same word layer and the same phone layer to conserve resources, regardless of implementation within the system. It is accordingly intended that the appended claims shall cover all such changes in form, details and applications which do not depart from the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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[Another] Physics Help
A 270g model rocket is fired straight up. For the first 2.00s its engine provides a constant upward force of 11.0N. The fuel is then used up and it continues under the normal action of gravity. How high does it go in total?
(Gravity also acts on the rocket. Assume that the mass is essentially constant and friction is negligible.)
It goes high. ;)
lol thats a pretty hard question, what grade is this?
I'm new in Physics 12 this year and the teacher said it was a review...
So I'm guessing Physics 11?
Dam, I wish I could help you but I have to say I dont know a single thing about this class.
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I didn't read your post carefully and just clicked on the pic because I love Photospheres. I turned it around and I saw a smiling asian guy and thought "Holy crap that's Brian Tong! ...wait don't be racist Brydon all asians don't look the same..." Then I saw Brian Cooley and Molly Wood and realized "DUH it's the CNET booth"
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Lol, what the heck happen here? The phone has a Picasso mode? +Brydon Raethel , i didnt get to see BT, where did you see him?
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- 1 egg, beaten
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- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons garlic powder (or more to taste)
- 1 large zucchini, cut into 3/8 inch diagonal slices
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Combine egg and water in a shallow dish.
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- Dip zucchini slices first into egg mixture, then in crumb mixture to coat evenly.
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Mini FAST Draw Tanto
Traveling light and being prepared are not mutually exclusive when you have the Gerber Mini F.A.S.T. Draw Tanto sitting comfortably in your pocket or on your belt. At less than 2 ounces, this folding tactical knife weighs less than your average collection of keys and is far more capable. The Mini gets the same attention to detail as its full-size sibling, including Gerber's proven Assisted Opening 2.0 mechanism and safety plunge lock.
An everyday carry tactical knife needs to do more than just offer a reliable blade. It needs to be tough enough to handle the routine and unexpected problems. It should also, like any well-designed tool, foster a comfortable and confident grip that lets you focus on the task at hand. It's the Mini's modest size that helps it rise to these demands. Its 2.1-inch tanto-style blade is practical yet truly effective, and together with its molded nylon grip makes for a tool that simply disappears into your pocket until you need it.
Your job is easier when your tools work easily and as expected and Gerber's Assisted Opening 2.0 mechanism offers proven one-handed blade engagement. Simply lever the thumb stud to open the blade quickly and positively. The reliable plunge lock keeps the blade fixed when open, and makes for safe, easy closure without putting your fingers in the path of the folding blade.
Modest in size, the tanto blade is ever ready to puncture, cut and perform as the job demands. Partial serration adds utility for working through stubborn materials like knots or thick plastic, where a sawing action can be helpful. Its stealth matte black finish means no reflective blade issues, and an added layer of protection for the blade over the long term.
- Overall Length: 5.0" (12.7 cm)
- Blade Length: 2.13" (5.41 cm)
- Closed Length: 3.0" (7.62 cm)
- Weight: 1.75 oz. (49 g)
- Steel Type: 7Cr17MoV
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- Gerber's proven Assisted Opening 2.0 technology for smooth action
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overall a good little knife. i had mine for about 2 months and i use it everyday. the "assisted opening technology" works good not too hard, not too easy. the only downside i have found, the blade could of been made of better steel. it's easy to sharpen but doesn't hold an edge very good.
I liked the mini fast draw a lot but after a year and a half or so the AO spring broke. The knife is still usable but .... I guess my next knife wouldn't be made in China :P
Not a fan. Spring assist actually makes it harder to get it started. My thumb slipped off the stud and onto the blade once the spring engaged, resulting in a bloody mess. The Evo JR. was better. Mini Draw is suitable for whittling, but not reliable for defense.
had spyderco lost it had to settle for the cheap piece of ship
Very hard to open, tried to break-in the spring for two days. Switching back to spyderco.
Great blade Gerber! I own multiple Gerber blades including the first mini fast draw model. This is a great modification. The change from the switch safety/lock mechanism to the plunge lock makes a huge difference in functionality and ease of use. The tanto design is perfect for a self defense blade and the assisted opening helps with quick deployment. The day after I got this blade I ran it through a wide variety of materials. Carpet, wood (both lumber and tree limbs) plastic, paper, wicker, clothing, seatbelts, and even broke a piece of tempered glass. Not a scratch or ding on the thing! This is by far my favorite knife to date, and with the pocket clip I can be sure it's always by my side. I would recommend this and it's bigger brother to anyone who needs a tough and reliable edc/defense blade. Give the guy who thought of this idea a raise.
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Energy companies should add sensors to read the pressure in deep-water oil wells to help prevent blowouts such as the BP Plc blast that led to the worst U.S. offshore spill this year, the panel probing the disaster said.
"During the well-design approval process, the Department of Interior should require well components to include sensors," the staff of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill said today in a presentation in Washington.
Devices should "obtain accurate diagnostic information, including pressure readings" and position of a blowout preventer's rams, which would cut the flow of oil if the well malfunctions, according to the presentation.
The panel, established by President Barack Obama, yesterday determined that London-based BP alone isn't to blame for the April 20 blast that killed 11 workers, spewed crude for 87 days and shut a third of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing.
BP, which owned the well, Transocean Ltd., provider of the rig that exploded, and Halliburton Co., supplier of cement to plug the well, all "were heavily involved in the decisions that are most questionable," panel co-chair William K. Reilly said yesterday.


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Eli Manning's hold on the Giants' starting quarterback position just got a little less secure. The Giants have agreed to a deal with former Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman to be Manning's backup, but given Manning's poor performance last season -- only 16 touchdowns against 27 interceptions -- and recent ankle surgery, this signing might be more than just insurance in case Manning goes down. Freeman has struggled in his career after a hot start, but if Manning starts this season off with a bushel of interceptions, he could find himself with an opportunity to restart his career.
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After a quarter, it seemed like the New York Giants might be bound for yet another defeat in this difficult season. But then, well, it finally happened: New York won, 23-7 at the expense of the lowly Minnesota Vikings and debutant quarterback Josh Freeman. New Tom Coughlin's crew is 1-6. What's next for New York?
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The Super Bowl champs from two years ago! A playoff team from last season! And ... only one win between them in 2013? That's the situation facing the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants, whose playoff hopes appear dead already. The questions, then: Is this the week the 0-6 Giants finally win? And what to make of the Minnesota quarterback situation?
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Josh Freeman's unemployment didn't last long -- less than a week after getting released by the Buccaneers, he's been signed by the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings have struggled at quarterback this season, with Matt Cassel starting in place of an injured Christian Ponder for the team's only win of the season. If Freeman recovers the form he showed early in his career, it could turn Minnesota's season around quickly; if not, he'll be another wrong answer to a question the Vikings have been asking for years.
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DETROIT | U.S. auto sales went out like a lion in March.
Automakers said Tuesday that new car and truck sales picked up speed halfway through the month, culminating in a strong final weekend. Toyota dealers had their two best sales weekends of the year at the end of the month, the company said.
"We're optimistic that momentum will spring us into April," said Bill Fay, who manages the Toyota division in the U.S. Toyota's sales rose 5 percent in March.
The month saw some big gainers. Chrysler's sales rose 13 percent on demand for Ram pickups and the new Jeep Cherokee SUV. Subaru's sales were up 21 percent; its new Forester SUV jumped 53 percent to nearly 14,000.
Nissan's sales were up 8 percent. Ford's rose 3 percent, with a 5 percent gain for the F-Series pickup compensating for lower car sales.
Volkswagen's sales fell 3 percent, while Hyundai and Honda both saw 2 percent declines. All three rely more heavily on sales of cars, which were outsold by trucks and SUVs in March, according to Edmunds.com.
General Motors warned that its sales data would be later than usual because of a computer issue, but its sales could be hurt by a series of safety recalls in March.
March sales helped rescue what was otherwise a disappointing first quarter. Analysts had predicted flat growth for the first three months of this year after harsh weather in January and February hurt sales.
The surprisingly strong March results could help the first quarter pull off a sales increase, but it's not likely to top the 6 percent increase that the industry saw during the same period in 2013.
Jesse Toprak, the chief analyst for the car-buying site Cars.com, said the fundamentals that helped the industry rebound from the recession remain the same. Low interest rates, declining unemployment and attractive new vehicles will continue to bring buyers into showrooms.
But they won't be buying at the same pace. Since 2010, U.S. sales have grown an average of 10 percent each year, but they're now reaching a natural peak, he said.
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Despite an infusion of money, Archbald Pothole State Park has not turned into the tourist attraction that local officials hoped. The park near Scranton, centered around a 38-foot-deep glacial pothole, reopened five years ago after a $170,000 facelift. Instead of attracting tourists, officials said, it has become a prime location for trash dumping. The world's largest such pothole, it was formed by glacial movements during the last Ice Age about 18,000 years ago.


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Thank you for your reply, Kat
I realise it must be very hard for him. It always is for partners who are fundamentally different, and I guess he is getting the short end of the stick. We have talked about it and I'm making compromises too, but I can see how he's making more sacrifices than I am.
My main problem is the idea that if I'm NOT doing something with him, I shouldn't with anyone else. Surely, if taken out of the sex context, it makes no sense. Say, I've never been to the zoo with him, so I'm not allowed to do so with someone else? It seems weird.
While some things I feel I
do with him, and I guess he could see it unfair as I'd be willing to do them with other people, but I keep thinking, what if it is just something that has never come up with him?
Am supposed to go to my husband and say "my other partner has suggested we try X. Since I've never done it with you, I'll have to do it with you first to be allowed to do it with him. Are you interested?"
To some extent, I can understand the other way around better. "I want this to be specific to us. I don't want you to do it with him". Whether is something sexual (and specific enough. I don't think I'd be fine if it included ALL sex for instance), or a special place that he wants to be unique to us, or anything at all.
But his seem to be more along the lines of "if I can't have it, I don't want anyone to get it". And I'm just thinking, what does it take away from him? Maybe things I've been unwilling to try because I'm nervous about them, I might be willing to try with someone else, find out I actually enjoy them, and then do them with my husband too. It might end up better for OUR sexual life, too.
But he seems personally insulted by the idea that something I haven't been willing to try with him, I might be willing to try with someone else. I guess I can understand it in some ways, but asking me to promise I won't seems... bitter to me, if I'm making sense. Similar (although definitely not as bad!) to people who shoot their wife thinking "if I can't have you, nobody will!"
I am not trying to be offensive, and I'd love to really understand and acknowledge his feelings, I am simply worried he's, in a way, shooting our relationship in the foot by asking me to promise things like that. Surely there will always be things that will be unique to our relationship between him and me, what if I also want other things to be unique to my relationship with another person?
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