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ZipSpeak is a talking mini-distribution of Linux for blind and visually impaired people, based on version 7.0 of the Slackware distribution and version 0.08 of the Speakup screen reader. Like ZipSlack, ZipSpeak is designed to be installed on an existing MS-DOS or Windows system, so that the user can try out a talking Linux system with a minimum of difficulty, and without assistance from someone who can see.
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Phonics Silly Sentences provides fun activities that introduce vowel sounds and their letter combinations. The activities will help kids identify short vowels. We also have advanced application for the long vowels. Through the flash cards, matching, games, and silly sentences, the kids will received a lots of practice distinguishing between the different vowel sounds.
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Conservative American Views.
Since President Obama is so fond of saying he inherited every problem he ever had, who gets to inherit all of Obama's messes? The current foreclosure fiasco certainly has taken place on Obama's watch. Using democrat-think, if its his watch, it's his problem… so, doesn't that mean, in Pro-Regressive thinkology, Obama created the current foreclosure problem?!
Last December, President Obama told 22 lies during one talk at the Brookings Institution. We called it the "Brookings Bull." #17 was on Foreclosures…
"Obama's Brookings Bull # 17 – We Stemmed the Tide of Foreclosures 12/8/9 OBAMA: We enacted measures to stem the tide of foreclosures in our housing market, helping responsible homeowners stay in their homes. FACTS: RealtyTrac reports, "Default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 937,840 properties in the third quarter, a 5 percent increase from the previous quarter and an increase of nearly 23 percent from Q3 2008. One in every 136 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing during the quarter — the highest quarterly foreclosure rate since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in the first quarter of 2005." The President also said home values are improving. While that was actually true, the national home values remain below 2008 levels."
So while Obama keeps lying about the economy, the housing market and foreclosures, things keep getting worse… on his watch. Obama had a plan in 2008 that was supposed to fix all this, remember? Continues below…
President Obama was still lying about the mess a year later. From page 15 of the Official Obama Administration Scandals list…
"Obama Lies about FHA Making only Sustainable, Safe & Sound Loans 9/14/9 The Market Ticker reports Obama speaks and lies again: "THE TRUTH is that: FHA has been and still is putting Americans into loans they cannot afford, as is proved by the default and foreclosure statistics. The housing and banking industry HAS NOT reformed its ways, specifically, pushing loans on people they cannot afford, and the FHA is blatantly conspiring with these clowns in APPROVING loans that statistically have a one in five shot at failure. The claim that these mortgage programs are "helping Americans" is a damned lie. No program that winds up with one in five borrowers unable to pay – a rate double that of credit-card defaults – can be said to be "sustainable", "safe", or 'helping homeowners."
So, not only has Obama done nothing to fix the "tide of foreclosures," he also has done nothing to prevent the bad loans from continuing!!!
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By Bill Keveney, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES Don't worry. Bob Newhart didn't suffocate at last month's Emmy awards.
He survived in a container with just three hours of air, facing comic doom if the traditional speechifying made the ceremony run long.
Winners "just keep on thanking people, people you've never heard of, their mailman or the UPS man who brings them their script," Newhart says. "So, if the show went over three hours, those verbose people would be responsible for (my death). And the show wound up shorter than three hours."
Newhart, 77, looked healthy and well respirated recently at the door to his Bel Air mansion, the one with the welcome mat that reads: The Newharts. The Rickleses' Best Friends.
A stand-up comedian who starred in two revered situation comedies, he tells stories about Don Rickles and other comedy all-stars in his first book, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny (Hyperion, $23.95).
It's not a memoir, he says. "That sounds ponderous. The Marquis de Sade and geishas write memoirs."
However it's described, the book is the story of Newhart's unlikely transformation from accountant to stand-up comedian to TV star. It's sprinkled with advice for young comedians; elements of his routines, featuring his famed phone calls; and stories about a Chicago everyman in Hollywood wonderland.
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• How he switched from comedy writing to stand-up when Don Adams stole his material. "I'm indebted to him," Newhart says.
• How the fledgling comic, fresh from his hugely popular Grammy-winning first album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, performed in a Hollywood agent's living room before Jack Benny, George Burns and Danny Kaye.
• How a producer for The Bob Newhart Show nervously proposed having Bob Hartley's wife, Emily (Suzanne Pleshette), become pregnant in the fifth season. "It's a very funny script," Newhart said, to the producer's great relief. "I only have one question. Who are you going to get to play the part of Bob?"
Newhart got into TV partly to spend more time with his wife, Ginnie, and their family, which includes four children and seven grandchildren.
As for staying married 43 years in divorce-prone Hollywood, Newhart pointed to the long marriages of comedians Rickles, Burns and Sid Caesar. "Humor helps you get past the rough moments."
It can offer career benefits, too. Ginnie proposed the classic ending of Newhart in which the '80s sitcom is a dream of Bob Hartley's, with Newhart waking up next to Pleshette in the final scene.
Newhart sees comedy as a continuum, comparing Mark Twain's description of life on the frontier to the inner-city routines of Richard Pryor, whom he calls "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years."
He's a student of the form, pointing out that comedy is subversive and the comic mind notices things other people don't, creating "the shock of recognition."
Today, he enjoys Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Steven Wright, Garry Shandling and Ellen DeGeneres.
Newhart still does 30 stand-up dates a year, shortening routines because of declining attention spans. His audience is a mix of longtime devotees and younger fans, who may know him from appearances in Desperate Housewives, Elf, Legally Blonde 2 and ER, "my first intentionally dramatic role."
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Final Fantasy XII
How can i get the Sword of King in the Shrine?
Ive been killing 850 Zombies try to open the Doors or Path Way nothing happens im stuck for Two Weeks now i need help.
lordjaypee - 8 years ago
Top Voted Answer
BOSS: Mateus - HP: 34259 - LV: 30
You may find this to be quite the challenging fight, but I've got a few tips
that should be enough to turn the tides in your favour. Your first concern
(of course) is dealing with the little elemental friends that the boss summons
at the beginning of the battle.
The easiest and most efficient way to eliminate all of them is to run right in
the middle, pull as many of them as possible and let loose the biggest
Quickening you can chain. This should be more than enough to take everything
down (or leave you in a position where you can finish it off easily yourself).
If, for whatever reason, that is not a viable option, your next best bet is
the Thundara spell. On the plus side, the minions are weak to Thunder and
will all take quite a bit of damage, on the flipside the boss is protected by
Reflect and this won't likely be a very pleasant experience for the caster.
Here's how to survive the onslaught of enemies at the start of (and
throughout) the battle: equip your main tank with an Ice Shield (which I told
you to buy) and as many other characters as possible with one two. This will
already halve the ice damage you take.
In addition, a helpful tactic is to equip the tank with the Dawn Shard. The
bonus of 20 Magick resist will often yield a wall of 0 damage hits as the ice
spells come pounding in. It certainly couldn't hurt to cast Decoy on him/her
either to alleviate the stress on the rest of your party.
Now that everything is under control, it's time to dive in and pound the boss
with physical attacks (remember, Reflect, avoid magic). With only about 35000
HP, you've pounded down larger foes in your time. It's all about maintaining
control at the beginning.
Take the southern door and approach the large glowing object to trigger an
event. The Sword of Kings that you acquire here is an enormous and impressive
paperweight. As impractical as a paperweight may sound in the context of this
game, it still remains a better option than swinging this dull blade at an
Return to the entrance and leave the Stilshrine of Miriam. Doing so will
initiate another cutscene. Use the crystal to save your game and then
teleport back to Mt Bur-Omisace.
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Zarcanada - 8 years ago
um... i don't quite under stand but i think this may help you...
When you get inside, head down a little bit and locate a pedestal on one of
the east-west walkways. Touching this pedestal will spawn three zombie
enemies and have no other effect. In order to make it work as it is supposed
to, you must equip your lead character with the Dawn Shard (which will reduce
his/her MP to 0), so you probably won't want to keep it equipped for long.
Get ready to take down some large guardian creature when you appear in this
area. There is a chest here (behind a trap) which will not respawn. It has a
50% chance of containing either an Elixir or Megalixir.
You will also have to face three difficult enemies in the next room, so be
prepared with AoE attacks (Dark, "-ara" spells, etc) and perhaps a Quickening
chain. The large stone heads will come to life on the west side when you
approach them.
Climb the stairs and approach the pedestal on the east side. You will need to
re-equip the Dark Shard before touching it again. Return to the room below
and take either of the new staircases down.
The green crystal in this room is in fact an enemy that will spawn upon
examination of the crystal. Defeating it will transform the crystal into a
regular Save Crystal. In the next room, you need to run down to the south end
and examine the "Sword of Judgment." Doing so will unlock the door at the
north end. Head up there and examine the Way Stone to teleport back to the
dungeon's entrance.
A bit of an "atypical" situation is coming up. That is, a boss without a save
point prior to it. For this reason, I suggest you go outside to save your
game now. Once that is done, return here and go to the northeast corner.
Take the stairs down to the door that is no longer locked, then take the east
exit from the Cold Distance.
* Note - It has been pointed out to me that there may be an error with the
directions in this section such that the northeast door may be locked,
requiring you take the northwest door and navigate around to the east side of
the Cold Distance before you can reach the boss. I apologize for any
misdirection there may be in this section, and hope that you can still manage
to reach the correct destination through the use of the map. Credit to
Michael for this correction.
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Zarcanada - 8 years ago
BOSS: Vinuskar - HP: 15138 - LV: 27
During your time in Mt Bur-Omisace I mentioned picking up a set of light
armour for your party, well this battle was the reason. Anyone wearing heavy
metal armour will be automatically burdened by a Slow effect, making their
attack turns take almost three times as long as another character clad in
light armour. Make sure to equip it.
This is an interesting boss because he really isn't all that... difficult.
You might think that his HP total is a typo, but it isn't. Almost all your
attacks will really pound down his health bar, especially guns which penetrate
all defenses. Your main goal is to just keep pounding this guy down with the
heaviest attacks you have, His Sword Dance might cut you up a little, but
it's nothing that Cura can't fix.
Take the west door and examine the statue in here. Examine the statue, then
rotate the statue counterclockwise once to face it west. Also, don't miss the
urn with the map inside against the south wall. Now, exit from here back to
the Cold Distance and go north to the entrance.
Save your game once again, and this time take the stairs leading down from the
northwest corner of the Ward of Measure. Take the west exit from this area to
reach the Walk of Prescience. Make an immediate right (north) and follow that
walkway west.
When you come to the statue at the end of the room, turn it clockwise once so
that it faces east. Now descend the stairs to the south.
Follow the path and go through the first door, then continue east through the
second. If you want treasure, head south and find the treasure room at the
southwest corner. Since it leads to a dead-end, come back here when you're
done (ignore the staircase on the way).
Proceed north and go up. You will have the choice of either going up more
stairs (south) or staying on this second level (north.) Take the stairs up to
the third floor and go north. Beyond some enemies you'll find another
treasure trove.
Now head south to find another statue. Rotate this one counterclockwise once
to face north. From here, head east and the north. You may find a couple
more chests (if they spawn) on your way up toward the north corner where the
exit to the Cold Distance is found.
Head back to the Ward of Measure and take the Way Stone teleporter at the
south end. You will definitely want to make a quick trip east to the Save
Crystal (a much more difficult enemy that the "miniboss" Vinuskar awaits).
Once that is done, run to the south end of the Ward of the Sword-King.
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Zarcanada - 8 years ago
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Designing econometric models for large panels of time series and developing solutions for the so-called `curse of dimensionality problem'; economic forecasting in real time (now-casting); monetary policy and its effect on financial intermediation
Lucrezia Reichlin is Professor of Economics at the London Business School, non-executive director of UniCredit Banking Group, and Ageas Insurance Group, as well as a trustee of the Center for European Policy Research. She is Chair of the Scientific Council at the Brussels based think-tank Bruegel and she is in the advisory board of several research and policy institutions. Between March 2005 and September 2008 she served as Director General of Research at the European Central Bank. She is a co-founder and director of Now-Casting Economics ltd. She is a columnist for the Italian daily paper Il Corriere della Sera.
Reichlin is an expert in forecasting and monetary policy and she has published widely in international academic journals. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the European Economic Association, and was a member of the council of the Royal Economic Society. She won the 2016 Birgit Grodal prize awarded by the European Economic Association. She is Grande Ufficiale of the Italian Republic.
Reichlin has been a consultant for several Central Banks around the world, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
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NFL superlatives from Week 2
Best end of the deal ... for now: The St. Louis Rams passed on the chance to draft QB Robert Griffin III last spring and instead parlayed their No. 2 choice into three first-round picks (and a second rounder) from the Washington Redskins. Though the final verdict on the trade is many years away, the Rams looked pretty wise Sunday as incumbent QB Sam Bradford outdueled RGIII, and the Rams notched their first victory for new Head Coach Jeff Fisher 31-28.
Biggest bonehead: Redskins WR Joshua Morgan was goaded into an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty by feisty Rams CB Cortland Finnegan on Washington's final drive. Morgan's meltdown forced K Billy Cundiff to attempt a potential game-tying field goal from 62 yards instead of from 47. Cundiff missed. Badly.
Best payback: While etching themselves into the record book, the New Orleans Saints piled on the points and stats in last year's regular-season finale against the Carolina Panthers. However Cam Newton and Co. earned a measure of revenge Sunday, hanging 35 points and 463 yards on the Saints ... not to mention an 0-2 start.
Best defensive turnaround: A week after their high-priced defense was torched by the New York Jets, the Buffalo Bills rebounded by collecting five sacks and three turnovers in their 35-17 rout of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Worst offensive turnaround: After scalding the Bills, the Jets lived down to their preseason woes, managing 10 points and 219 yards in their loss at Pittsburgh. Tim Tebow has yet to throw a pass and largely remained a non-factor, though he did notch one of the club's five rushing first downs with a 22-yard scamper.
Best defensive performance in a losing effort: Browns MLB D'Qwell Jackson recorded three sacks and picked off a pass in Cleveland's loss to the Bengals.
Best Patriots kicker: That would be Adam Vinatieri -- who hit two Super Bowl-winning field goals for New England -- but served the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday with a 53-yard dagger in the final seconds to beat the Minnesota Vikings. As for the Patriots? Stephen Gostkowski, who is actually the most accurate kicker in team history and was 4-for-5 Sunday, pushed a potential game-winning 42-yarder wide left with 1 second left.
Best backup tight end: A rib injury kept San Diego Chargers star Antonio Gates down. Though he's not going to be Wally Pipp-ed, understudy Dante Rosario scored three TDs on Sunday in the Bolts' blowout of the Tennessee Titans.
Worst starter as a defensive coordinator: In his first two games as the New York Giants defensive coordinator in 2007, Steve Spagnuolo's unit was burned for 80 points and 846 yards. In his first year with the New Orleans Saints, Spagnuolo's charges have already allowed 68 offensive points and 922 yards. The good news? The 2007 Giants won the Super Bowl.
Worst hangover: After basking in their Week 1 win over the New York Giants, the Dallas Cowboys fell flat 11 days later, getting steamrolled 27-7 by the Seattle Seahawks.
Worst offense: The Jacksonville Jaguars may have ranked dead last in offense last season, yet they still seem to be going backward. Their 117 yards Sunday were a franchise worst, complementing their 0-for-9 third-down conversion rate and 16:43 time of possession. The Jags were hammered 27-7 by the Houston Texans.
Worst field possession: The Oakland Raiders could've used more from their special teams. Their best starting position in six first-half possessions at Miami was their own 18-yard line.
Best excuses not invoked: The Miami Dolphins won their first home opener in seven years after thumping the Raiders -- who had to play in the South Florida humidity with their body clocks ticking at 10 a.m. PT just six days after losing their Monday night opener in Week 1. "I'm not going to use those factors as a crutch," said Raider coach Dennis Allen. "We've got to coach better and play better and they were the better team today. They out-executed us, and we've got to do a better job."
Best wideout tandem: Giants WRs Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz combined for 21 catches, 378 yards and two TDs.
Worst fundamentals: Why do Virginia Tech-bred tailbacks -- Ryan Williams, David Wilson -- have such trouble holding onto the rock?
Worst handshake: Tom Coughlin and Greg Schiano had cross words after the New York Giants coach took issue with Schiano's Bucs firing into the Giants' O-line on the game's final kneeldown. "It was a little bit of a cheap shot," said Giants QB Eli Manning, who ended up on his backside on the sequence.
Best handshakes: Not surprisingly, the Detroit Lions' Jim Schwartz and San Francisco 49ers' Jim Harbaugh could not have been more pleasant pre- and postgame after their infamous exchange from last year.
Welcome back, Pac: The man formerly known as Pacman -- Cincinnati Bengals CB Adam Jones -- returned his first punt for a touchdown since 2006, the year before he was issued a season-long suspension for his off-field missteps. Jones' 81-yard score matched the second longest effort of his career.
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It's LG's 'hero' product around the world, but the company's flatscreen TV with built-in PVR won't be coming to the UK – at least not yet.
At the brand's UK Trade Show, James Atkins, Marketing Manager for brown goods, said: "It was offered to the UK but I had to turn it down. The problem was the screen wasn't going to have a built-in Freeview tuner. In the rest of Europe, it's not such a problem. There's still some demand for analogue TV tuner products, but here in the UK the market is much more advanced. I told Korea that until they can offer a Freeview solution, we wouldn't be ranging it."
The lack of Freeview integration is currently a major problem for LG UK, with precious few products sporting the increasingly important digital feature. According to Atkins: "We're about a year behind most other major brands."
Amongst the new products shown at the trade-only event were the PY2R series plasma TVs, available in 50 and 60 inch sizes and the new 42PC1D (pictued above).
All incorporate the second iteration of the company's XD Engine picture processing technology. The 42 inch screen also has the brand's 'Clear Filter' which replaces plasma's traditional thick glass filter with single thin film filter, eliminating reflection, glare, double imaging and dramatically reduces the weight of the screens. Pioneer already uses a similar technology.
Panel resolution on the 42PC1D is 1024×768 and connectivity includes double HDMI inputs. The PY2R series have 1366 x 768 glass. All TVs have analogue tuners.
The brand's upcoming LC2D LCD screens (pictured above) at least ship with Freeview as standard. Included are 32, 37 and (by the end of the year) 47 inch models.
Features include XD-Engine and LG's Eye Intelligence technology, which senses the amount of ambient light in the room and automatically adjusts the screens contrast, brightness and sharpness. Resolution is 1366 x 768.
The brand is expanding its range of DVD recorders. Top of the range is the RH200MH (pictured below) which includes a 250Gb hard drive and 'super-multi' drive, compatible with all available DVD recording formats: DVD-RAM, DVD+RW/+R, DVD-RW/-R and DVD+R Double Layer. It unit also has a memory card reader. The unit can even record in MPEG4 to the hard drive – but the tuner is analogue.


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Question: I am probably going into foreclosure on my home, and have $25,000 in charge offs. My issue is that I will be receiving a check from my county (Suffolk), NY, treasurer's office in the amount of approximately $60,000, from a personal injury lawsuit, within 2-3 weeks. What do I do with this check? Response: You need to deposit the check in your bank account as you would with any other check. You may want to open a new account and name the account personal injury recovery/payments. However, your bankruptcy filing should be postponed until you can spend down the money. Your personal injury payments are only exempt up to $21, 625.00, if you choose Federal Exemptions Scheme when you file for bankruptcy protection. See 11 U.S.C. Sections 522(d)(11)(D). If you are not claiming any homestead on your house, you can claim additional exemption of $11,975.00 using the Wild Card Exemption and Homestead Exemption Pour Over. See 11 U.S.C. Section 522(d)(5). If you decide to use New York Exemptions, you can only exempt up to $7,500.00 of your personal injury payments. See New York Debtor & Creditor Law Section 282 (3)(iii). When you file for bankruptcy protection, you have to decide whether to use the Federal Exemptions Scheme or New York Exemptions Scheme. You cannot choose both. Before, you can only choose New York Exemptions Scheme because New York opted out of the Federal Exemptions Scheme. However, eight months ago New York opted in.


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This story comes as a stark contrast to the kerfluffle earlier this week involving Steve Spurrier and The State in South Carolina. The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is scaling back their coverage of Southern University football after the team restricted the paper's access to the team's players following a story last week in which linebacker Anthony Balancier called opponent Northwestern State "horrible." Southern lost the game 55-14, and the quote was a main reason given by Northwestern State for the beatdown. As a result, the team decided to limit access to players, giving the media access to just three players per week until October 5th. The Advocate initially said that they'd provide "minimal" coverage to the team, but eventually dialed back their comments. In an earlier story, The Advocate said that policy would cause the newspaper to give "minimal" coverage to Southern football. The story should have said that Southern's decision will limit the ability of The Advocate to provide much of its standard coverage. It would have been nice to see the paper stick to their guns and keep the coverage of Southern football scaled back while the media restrictions were in place, but instead, they've essentially changed their tone to "we can't provide coverage without player interviews." The Advocate traditionally has player feature stories that run in the print edition on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and has an opponent feature story that runs on Fridays. In addition, there are "sidebars" to the main game story which run on Sundays. Those stories rely on player interviews. If this situation happened with LSU and not Southern, I highly doubt that The Advocate would be taking this stance. On the other hand, it's a little silly for Southern to restrict media access to their players because one made a flippant comment. At least the paper didn't totally surrender to the football program like we saw in South Carolina. [The Advocate via Deadspin]
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A. Linux kernel follows modular kernel design. Loadable Kernel Modules (LKM) are object files that contain code to extend the running kernel, or so-called base kernel. LKM's are typically used to add support for new hardware, filesystems etc.
Loading a kernel module is an essential task. File /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/modules – see a note below for more info) is configuration file for loading kernel modules.
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Apple will be announcing all kinds of exciting new things when its WorldWide Developer's Conference (WWDC) kicks off at 6pm GMT tonight, and it looks like iOS 6, the latest version of its iPhone and iPad OS, will be one of them.
Rumours about iOS 6 have been flying around the interwebs for months now, and the appearance of iOS 6 banners outside Apple's WWDC venue in San Francisco (spotted by MacStories) have sealed the deal. Now we just have to wait for the details to emerge. We're expecting tons of exciting new features, as well as Siri support for iPads and greater synchronicity between iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.
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Summer is a time where outdoor activities is at its peak.
However, staying outdoors and engaging in recreational activities has its own drawbacks, one of which is bugs.
Mosquitoes are a major concern when outdoors and with the health problems that they potentially can cause malaria and Zika virus.
Using commercial bug repellents could prove expensive especially if you intend using it outdoors in a vast open space. Now you do not have to spend a fortune to ward-off bugs and enjoy your summer outdoors, you can get rid of these bugs with a simple natural bug repellent that is safe to make and use.
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It is a known fact that lemon eucalyptus essential oil repels mosquitoes this gas been proven in several studies conducted.
Other studies into the extracts from the peels of citrus fruit like grapefruits, lemons, tangerines and oranges have shown that they have a strong smell that repels mosquitoes and with no side effects.
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You can use mason jars to carry the essential oils and citrus fruits that will repel mosquitoes. It is an effective method of repelling mosquitoes and bugs.
- Mason jar — 2
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Sprigs of rosemary — 4 (this is optional)
- Put even quantities of lemon and lime slices into the jars.
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- Then add water into the jars, let it be about 3/4 full.
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From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.
In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.
Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.
The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he "literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff," according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney's office filed.
The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father's influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.
The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.
It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. "Stay tuned," the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.
Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.
That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.
Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father's ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called "transformative economic development projects." It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.
The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.
THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. "I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this," Mr. Baroni said. "I am an innocent man."
The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.
Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.
That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.
Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.
The live music at the Vice Media party on Friday shook the room. Shane Smith, Vice's chief executive, was standing near the stage — with a drink in his hand, pants sagging, tattoos showing — watching the rapper-cum-chef Action Bronson make pizzas.
The event was an after-party, a happy-hour bacchanal for the hundreds of guests who had come for Vice's annual presentation to advertisers and agencies that afternoon, part of the annual frenzy for ad dollars called the Digital Content NewFronts. Mr. Smith had spoken there for all of five minutes before running a slam-bang highlight reel of the company's shows that had titles like "Weediquette" and "Gaycation."
In the last year, Vice has secured $500 million in financing and signed deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with established media companies like HBO that are eager to engage the young viewers Vice attracts. Vice said it was now worth at least $4 billion, with nearly $1 billion in projected revenue for 2015. It is a long way from Vice's humble start as a free magazine in 1994.
At the Vice after-party, the rapper Action Bronson, a host of a Vice show, made a pizza. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times
But even as cash flows freely in Vice's direction, the company is trying to keep its brash, insurgent image. At the party on Friday, it plied guests with beers and cocktails. Its apparently unrehearsed presentation to advertisers was peppered with expletives. At one point, the director Spike Jonze, a longtime Vice collaborator, asked on stage if Mr. Smith had been drinking.
"My assistant tried to cut me off," Mr. Smith replied. "I'm on buzz control."
Now, Vice is on the verge of getting its own cable channel, which would give the company a traditional outlet for its slate of non-news programming. If all goes as planned, A&E Networks, the television group owned by Hearst and Disney, will turn over its History Channel spinoff, H2, to Vice.
The deal's announcement was expected last week, but not all of A&E's distribution partners — the cable and satellite TV companies that carry the network's channels — have signed off on the change, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private.
A cable channel would be a further step in a transformation for Vice, from bad-boy digital upstart to mainstream media company.
Keen for the core audience of young men who come to Vice, media giants like 21st Century Fox, Time Warner and Disney all showed interest in the company last year. Vice ultimately secured $500 million in financing from A&E Networks and Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in Facebook and Netflix.
Those investments valued Vice at more than $2.5 billion. (In 2013, Fox bought a 5 percent stake for $70 million.)
Then in March, HBO announced that it had signed a multiyear deal to broadcast a daily half-hour Vice newscast. Vice already produces a weekly newsmagazine show, called "Vice," for the network. That show will extend its run through 2018, with an increase to 35 episodes a year, from 14.
Michael Lombardo, HBO's president for programming, said when the deal was announced that it was "certainly one of our biggest investments with hours on the air."
Vice, based in Brooklyn, also recently signed a multiyear $100 million deal with Rogers Communications, a Canadian media conglomerate, to produce original content for TV, smartphone and desktop viewers.
Vice's finances are private, but according to an internal document reviewed by The New York Times and verified by a person familiar with the company's financials, the company is on track to make about $915 million in revenue this year.
Vice showed a highlight reel of its TV series at the NewFronts last week in New York. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times
It brought in $545 million in a strong first quarter, which included portions of the new HBO deal and the Rogers deal, according to the document. More of its revenue now comes from these types of content partnerships, compared with the branded content deals that made up much of its revenue a year ago, the company said.
Mr. Smith said the company was worth at least $4 billion. If the valuation gets much higher, he said he would consider taking the company public.
"I don't care about money; we have plenty of money," Mr. Smith, who is Vice's biggest shareholder, said in an interview after the presentation on Friday. "I care about strategic deals."
In the United States, Vice Media had 35.2 million unique visitors across its sites in March, according to comScore.
The third season of Vice's weekly HBO show has averaged 1.8 million viewers per episode, including reruns, through April 12, according to Brad Adgate, the director of research at Horizon Media. (Vice said the show attracted three million weekly viewers when repeat broadcasts, online and on-demand viewings were included.)
For years, Mr. Smith has criticized traditional TV, calling it slow and unable to draw younger viewers. But if all the deals Vice has struck are to work out, Mr. Smith may have to play more by the rules of traditional media. James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's son and a member of Vice's board, was at the company's presentation on Friday, as were other top media executives.
"They know they need people like me to help them, but they can't get out of their own way," Mr. Smith said in the interview Friday. "My only real frustration is we're used to being incredibly dynamic, and they're not incredibly dynamic."
With its own television channel in the United States, Vice would have something it has long coveted even as traditional media companies are looking beyond TV. Last year, Vice's deal with Time Warner failed in part because the two companies could not agree on how much control Vice would have over a 24-hour television network.
Vice said it intended to fill its new channel with non-news programming. The company plans to have sports shows, fashion shows, food shows and the "Gaycation" travel show with the actress Ellen Page. It is also in talks with Kanye West about a show.
It remains to be seen whether Vice's audience will watch a traditional cable channel. Still, Vice has effectively presold all of the ad spots to two of the biggest advertising agencies for the first three years, Mr. Smith said.
In the meantime, Mr. Smith is enjoying Vice's newfound role as a potential savior of traditional media companies.
"I'm a C.E.O. of a content company," Mr. Smith said before he caught a flight to Las Vegas for the boxing match on Saturday between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. "If it stops being fun, then why are you doing it?"


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Super Bowl Reflection Super Bowl 25
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With the Super Bowl looming, it is hard to believe that the Buffalo Bills were once participating in this event. I can't even remember what it was like for the Bills to make the playoffs, let alone be playing in the Super Bowl for four consecutive years. This time of the year makes me reflect on those four games and what happened during them that caused the Bills to come out on the losing end in all four appearances.
Super Bowl XXV
The Bills were favored by 7 going into this game. They ranked first in offense and 6th in defense and had a league best point differential. The New York Giants on the other hand were without their starting quarterback Phil Simms. They did have the league's best defense but their offense was middle of the pack, ranked 15th in the league. The Bills went into the Meadowlands during the season and beat the Giants. They were coming off two easy playoff wins including a 51-3 destruction of the Oakland Raiders. Who really thought the Giants had a chance to win this game? They couldn't even find the end zone in their NFC championship game, there was no way their offense with their backup quarterback could keep up with the Bills.
The problem, besides the rumor that Buffalo's players were partiers and were out for all hours of the night before the game, was that there was a huge coaching mis match. The Giants head coach was Super Bowl Champion Bill Parcells, and even worse, their defensive coordinator was then little known Bill Belichick. Somehow they put together a game plan to hold the Bills offense under 20 points, a feat that was accomplished only 4 times out of 18 games, one of which in a meaningless week 17 game that Gale Gilbert played in. The Giants struck first with a Matt Barr field goal which was matched by Scott Norwood later in the first quarter. The middle two quarters were perhaps the most decisive. The Bills took the lead in the second quarter with their first touchdown from kick returner and 3rd string running back Don Smith on a running play near the goal line. Then, somehow the Bills managed to turn a safety into one of the two plays that cost them the game. After tripping over a lineman, Jeff Hostetler held the ball away from his body with one hand. Bruce Smith grabbed his arm but did not strip the ball en route to the tackle. This could have been a sure touchdown but instead was just a safety and a 12-3 lead. The Bills relinquished all the momentum after Hostetler hit Baker for a 17 yard touchdown pass to cut the lead to 12-10.
The third quarter is where the Giants put their stamp on this game. Ottis Anderson and the Giants' offense embarked on an epic march that took 9 minutes and 29 seconds off the clock. The story of this drive was missed tackles by the Bills. On a critical 3rd and 13, Hostetler threw about a 7 yard pass to Ingram who was able to break about 5 tackles and somehow pick up 13 yards and a first down. That play broke the backs of this defense and allowed the Giants to punch it into the end zone a few plays later. The Bills were able to rally on a 31 yard touchdown run from Thurman Thomas, who was easily the best player on the field that day, to re take the lead 19-17 for the final time.
As the fourth quarter began, the Bills held the lead, but their defense was exhausted as the Giants held the ball almost the entire second half. Matt Barr's field goal half way through the 4th gave the Giants a 20-19 lead. The Bills had a great season, but in the end they came up short as usual in heart breaking cut wrenching style. The Bills got the ball back with 2 minutes and 16 seconds left from their own 10 yard line and only one time out. They managed to drive the ball 60 yards in 2 minutes and 8 seconds thanks to the running of Thurman Thomas. That set up Norwood. The rest is history. If the Bills played the Giants 10 times that season, they would have won 9 of them but they didn't win the one that mattered.
The Giants held the ball for 40 minutes and 33 seconds, compared to the 19 minutes and 27 seconds for the Bills. It is hard to believe that with this much of a disparity, the Bills even had a chance to win the game. The Bills converted only 1 out of their 8 third downs while the Giants converted 9 of 16. Ottis Anderson was the MVP but the best player was Thurman Thomas. Thomas had 20 touches for 190 yards and a touchdown. He was unstoppable in this game. A lot of this has to do with the defensive scheme the Giants ran. They played with only 2 down lineman much of the game which slowed down the Bills offense by taking away the passing attack. When it was all said and done, the Bills were out coached and out played by a team that they were clearly better than and they would never again be close to winning a Super Bowl.
Interesting Super Bowl fact: The Bills fumbled one time in Super Bowl XXV. The Bills added 6 in Super Bowl XXVI, 8 in Super Bowl XXVII and another 3 in Super Bowl XXVIII. That is 18 fumbles in 4 games. How does that happen?
Super Bowl XXVI recap coming soon.


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Eleven best beards at the Fleet Foxes show last night
Seeing as Fleet Foxes' own Robin Pecknold dons a Christ-like beard, it would only make sense for his listeners to sport similar face rugs. Westword photographer Brandon Marshall eyeballed enough awe-inspiring beards last night at the Fillmore for us to dust off our fan-beard rating system (FBRS). This system is fault-free, seeing as I am whisker-less woman. In the position of objectivity, I am locked and loaded to determine the Holy Grail of beards that was amongst the Fleet Foxes crowd.
Beards will be judged in three cardinal categories: 1. Thickness 2. Length 3. Style
Each category is ranked five to one, with the possibility of earning fifteen points a beard. From pubescent to lumberjack on 'roids, these are the best beards (in July, no less!) spotted last night.
Read the review of last night's show: Fleet Foxes at the Fillmore concert review.
11. Daniel Watters of Denver Thickness: 1 Length: 1 Style: 1 Total Beard Score: 3
10. Fleet Foxes fan Nick Waldschmid Thickness: 2 Length: 1 Style: 2 Total Beard Score: 5
9. Fleet Foxes fan David Lord Thickness: 2 Length: 2 Style: 1 Total Beard Score: 5
8. Fleet Foxes fan Kellen Monette of Witchita, Kansas Thickness: 1 Length: 2 Style: 3 Total Beard Score: 6
7. Fleet Foxes fan Will of Fort Collins. Thickness: 3 Length: 2 Style: 2 Total Beard Score: 7
6. Fleet Foxes fan Case Thickness: 3 Length: 3 Style: 2 Total Beard Score: 8
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Life On Marina is a Misty's Greatest Adventures episode.
- After watching a Code Geass episode, Marina starts to think about wearing Shirley Fenette's normal clothes. So she puts on her nude tights and the Shirley Fenette normal costume and also puts them to Mahri. Then they have fun.
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"Don't Bug Me"
Disclaimer/Credit Where Credit Is Due: Ah, if only these characters belonged to me, but alas, they belong to George Lucas and he is the one who is making the money off of them. The song "Big Ten Inch" belongs to Aerosmith.
Author's Note: This story takes place immediately after "Sex and the City of Coruscant".
"Open up!" Anakin Skywalker yelled as he pounded on the door. "C'mon, let us in!"
"We know you're in there," Obi-Wan Kenobi added. The apartment door slid open.
"You photograph very well, Anakin." Palpatine said casually, leaning on the doorframe. Anakin waved his hand impatiently.
"Forget about that. I'm willing to put that all behind us. Besides, we men have got to stick together."
"Really? What brought this on?"
"Padmé and Sabé are having a Girls' Night In, and you know what THAT means."
"I do?"
"Absolutely. They're gonna talk about US."
"They are?"
"Believe it." Obi-Wan told him.
"You know how women are, Palpatine." Anakin said. "They discuss every little intimate detail of their lives. You know, sex stuff."
"They do?" Palpatine was getting a sinking feeling in his stomach.
"Yes. But don't worry - we're going to have a GUYS' Night In." Obi-Wan said. Palpatine raised his eyebrows.
"Check it out," Anakin said. Grinning, Obi-Wan held up a small black box festooned with a number of small buttons and blinking lights.
"What is it?" Palpatine asked warily. "A bomb?"
"Nah, even better." Anakin told him. "It's the receiver for a listening device." Palpatine took it from Obi-Wan and examined it curiously.
"What good is it?" he asked, handing it back to Obi-Wan.
"Well, on its own, it's pretty useless." Obi-Wan admitted. "But…. if you have a listening device planted somewhere… well…" Palpatine's eyes narrowed.
"Where would this hypothetical listening device be planted?" Anakin grinned.
"IF we had a listening device, and IF we were the kind of guys who would use one to spy on someone, we'd probably plant it in Padmé's hotel suite." Palpatine grinned. "It has a limited range, so we're going to rent a room at the hotel and hang out. We're going to order room service and make it a party. Are you coming?"
"By all means!"
"Room service," said a voice from the hallway. Anakin went to the door. It slid open to reveal a young Rodian pushing a hovering room service cart. The Rodian looked familiar.
"Hey, don't you work at McDiarmid's?" Anakin asked. The Rodian shrugged.
"That's my day job."
"Ah," Anakin said.
"Wait a minute, I remember you guys," The Rodian said suddenly. "You're the ones with the holorecorder."
"That's right," Palpatine replied cheerfully. The Rodian watched as he and Obi-Wan busily tuned a listening device.
"We should be able to hear everything they say," Obi-Wan was saying. "Hopefully, they'll talk about sex a lot." The Rodian shook his head.
"You guys are weird."
"There," Palpatine said with satisfaction as he finished adjusting something on the side of the receiver. "I think that's done it." Anakin was pouring out liberal doses of Jameson's Irish Whiskey. Palpatine switched on the receiver, and Sabé's voice immediately came tumbling out of the small speaker.
"So, what do you want to know?"
"Tell me everything," Padmé replied. Palpatine groaned and put his head in his hands, while Obi-Wan and Anakin nudged each other and grinned in anticipation.
"Well," Sabé said, "Age and experience DEFINITELY beat youth and enthusiasm ANY day of the week!"
"Huh?" Anakin and Obi-Wan exclaimed, surprised.
"Who wants to be pawed and poked and groped by some horny, clueless little teenage boy?" Sabé asked rhetorically. "I don't want a little boy. I want a man who knows what he's doing."
"And Palpatine knows what he's doing?" Padmé asked.
"Oh, absolutely." Sabé replied. Palpatine managed to look both embarrassed and pleased with himself at the same time.
"See, I've thought about stuff like that too." Padmé said. "To tell you the truth, Sabé, I'm a little jealous. I've always wanted to give Palpatine a ride myself." Palpatine and Anakin both choked on their whiskey.
"WHAT did she say?" they yelled in unison. Obi-Wan's eyes were as big as saucers.
"So, uh…. " Padmé continued, "How…. ah… you know…. how big…?" Silence as Sabé presumably indicated a measurement. "NO WAY!" Padmé yelled. Anakin and Obi-Wan whooped with glee. Palpatine looked like he wanted to crawl under his chair and die of embarrassment.
"Oh man, what were we thinking?" Anakin asked Obi-Wan. "We could've had the visual if we'd hidden the holorecorder in there instead!" Palpatine silently thanked whatever gods there were that Anakin and Obi-Wan had a habit of not planning stunts like this out very well.
"AND," Sabé was saying, "He knows how to use it!"
"SABÉ!" Padmé screamed with laughter.
"Well, it's TRUE," Sabé said.
"Look at him," Obi-Wan said, indicating Palpatine. "If he turns any redder, his head will explode."
"Too bad Palpatine can't give Anakin some pointers," Padmé said. Anakin's eyes widened in shock as the other two screamed with laughter.
"Ah, see, now it's YOUR turn," Palpatine said to him, laughing.
"Not that Anakin has as much to work with as Palpatine," Padmé continued. Palpatine and Obi-Wan were in hysterics. Anakin, on the other hand, was completely failing to find the humor in the situation.
"Are you saying that our brave Jedi's lightsaber isn't exactly of knightly proportions?" Sabé asked. The two women howled with laughter.
"Strictly Padawan league," Padmé replied, which set them off laughing again. While Palpatine and Obi-Wan were enjoying this portion of the conversation immensely, Anakin looked like he couldn't decide whether he was enraged or mortified.
"You poor girl!" Sabé commiserated. "Well, you could always give Palpatine a royal command…"
"That would be abuse of power," Padmé said mildly.
"Royal Command Performance," Sabé snickered. "May it please Your Majesty…" Padmé giggled. "..'cause her boyfriend sure isn't doing the job!" Sabé finished. Anakin handed his lightsaber to Obi-Wan.
"Do it," Anakin said dully. "Kill me now. I want to die."
"Poor Anakin," Palpatine said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes and slapping Anakin on the back. "Poor old fellow." Obi-Wan was giggling madly. Palpatine began singing something under his breath.
"What's that song?" Anakin asked suspiciously. Palpatine looked at the ceiling.
"Oh nothing," he said innocently. Anakin looked away. Palpatine sang more loudly. "She just loves my big ten inch…" Anakin leaped out of his chair. Obi-Wan grabbed him before he could get his hands around Palpatine's neck.
"So what do you think Obi-Wan's story is?" Padmé asked.
"Your turn now, buttmunch." Anakin said to him. Obi-Wan shrugged.
"I haven't slept with either of them, so there's not much they can say about me."
"Don't bet on it," Anakin advised him.
"Well," Sabé was saying. "I did hear something about him, but you can't repeat it to anyone."
"OK, tell
me. I'm all ears."
"So are we," Anakin said, leaning forward. Obi-Wan looked apprehensive.
"It seems that THAT particular Jedi Knight is one gay blade!" Anakin and Palpatine screamed with laughter. Obi-Wan was crimson. "I heard this from a Padawan who heard it from his Master," Sabé continued. "It seems that one evening, Obi-Wan was taking a shower." Obi-Wan paled.
"Omigod, where's the 'off' button??" he exclaimed, fumbling with the receiver. Anakin grinned and yanked the receiver away from him.
"As he was getting out of the shower, he heard the door to his quarters slide open, and he knew only one other person had the key: his Master, Qui-Gon Jinn. He walked out into the living area completely naked. All the lights were out, but he could sense Qui-Gon was there, so he said, 'Qui-Gon, come and get it while it's still clean!'. Just then, the lights went on, and almost ALL of the Jedi Knights were standing there. It was a surprise birthday party – and Obi-Wan was VERY surprised." Palpatine and Anakin were doubled over with laughter.
"Look how red he is," Anakin said. "His cheeks are flaming!"
"So is HE!" Palpatine replied. Obi-Wan was dying of embarrassment.
"That's not funny!" he said petulantly.
"Notice he's not denying the story!" Anakin said.
"Yes, I did notice that." There was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Anakin asked. No response. Frowning, Anakin went to the door. It was Padmé and Sabé.
"How did you know we're here?" he asked her. Padmé smiled at him.
"I found something that I think belongs to you," she said, pulling the transmitter out of her pocket. Anakin groaned. She spoke directly into the transmitter. "It's not nice to eavesdrop on private conversations. I hope you three have learned your lesson."
"Wait a minute," Anakin said. "You knew all along we were listening?"
"Yep." Padmé replied. "You shouldn't have hidden it in my underwear drawer. I found it earlier today. I saw it had a limited range, and called the front desk. They told me that you had a room here."
"So… all that stuff you two were saying… you know, about me… Palpatine… none of that was true, right?"
Padmé and Sabé exchanged knowing smiles.
"We can't really say," Sabé said.
"That's right," Padmé said. "You wanted to hear what we had to say so badly. Well, now you can wonder which parts are true." She turned to her handmaiden. "Come along, Sabé." As she turned to leave, she kissed Anakin on the cheek. "Pleasant dreams, dear," she smiled.


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toronto | A synagogue in suburban Montreal picked up nearly $25,000 thanks to the provincial lottery and some generous congregants.
Fourteen members of the Young Israel of Chomedey recently won a lottery prize of $363,450 and, per an earlier agreement, gave a share of the winnings to the congregation. That means $24,230 went into the synagogue's coffers.
The money was sorely needed. In October 2010, the shul was vandalized when a water hose was inserted into the building's outdoor oil pipe and hundreds of gallons of heating oil were pumped onto the synagogue's property. The cleanup took seven months and cost around $75,000, most of which was covered by donations from members, non-members, strangers and even a local Catholic church. The synagogue and surrounding community narrowly averted an environmental disaster.
"In light of our near-disaster and the good fortune this year, someone seems to be watching over us," said Young Israel president Frank Cwilich.
Several years ago, some synagogue regulars formed the "Morning Minyan-Aires" club and began playing the Quebec lottery as a group. "From the beginning, the objective was that if there was going to be a significant prize, an equal share would go to the shul," Cwilich said.
In fact, the winning ticket was one digit away from the number that would have won the $50 million jackpot.
"But we can't complain," Cwilich said. "We're very grateful for what we got." — jta


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THE tall gums seem to kiss each other across the narrow winding road, and nothing is visible through their dappled shade but a mysterious green tunnel leading into an unknown world.
Policeman Spur Rd, on the outskirts of Maleny and east of Caloundra, is so far off the beaten track that once you've turned off it into the dirt driveway of Lyola Pavilions you still have a kilometre or so of not being able to see where you're going.
No wonder they call the two pavilions Hide and Seek.
But eventually the track opens out into David and Jane's spacious garden, and their lovely house overlooking the Conondale Ranges, and from here, after a cup of tea – and a slice of Jane's home-made banana and date loaf if you're lucky – she'll lead you down to start your own game of hide and seek.
Hide, where we've stayed twice now, is reached down a wooden walkway and several steps, so it's not for the faint of heart or slippery of foot, but once there you won't want to leave.
Snuggled in beneath huge forest gums, the appropriately-named Hide is almost impossible to see from the path above, while Seek, the only other pavilion, is much higher up and perhaps has a better outlook. It also has a wheelchair-friendly ramp and specially equipped bathroom, so is easier for some people to access.
Comfortable day bed and elegant easy chairs
Both cottages are self-sufficient, so there's no reason to leave unless you want to, assuming you've brought enough tucker for lunch and dinner, as this is bed-and-breakfast only. But there's a generous platter of local cheese, crackers and fresh fruit waiting in the fridge for you, and ingredients for breakfast, and if you tell Jane when you want to eat in the morning she'll deliver a loaf of just-made bread to the breadbox outside your door, firmly snibbed to keep the possums away.
There's a small microwave and a couple of cook-top burners if you want to make your own evening meal, but there's also a great selection of restaurants within 20 minutes' drive.
I especially like Hide with its comfortable day bed and elegant easy chairs from where you can gaze out over unbroken forest. The interior is best described as subdued elegance, decorated in rich earth tones with minimal but graceful furniture.
In the winter the wood stove crackles behind you, while on extra-hot nights even the airconditioning can barely be heard. But most of the time, if you open the windows, the soft scented air of the forest creeps gently in, and if you want to get even closer to nature, you can go through the bathroom with its deep sunken bath to the edge of the forest, where you can lounge in the steamer chairs with a drink and a good book, or watch/join in with your partner under the outdoor shower.
Coming back is more of a challenge
If you've remembered to bring some sturdy shoes you can clamber down the rocky track, which has steps and handrails to make the trek a little easier, and swim in the deep rock pool at the bottom, or just laze in the steamer chairs set on a wooden platform overlooking the creek. But don't forget the Aerogard: there are ticks and mozzies galore in the damp surrounds.
Coming back is more of a challenge, and you should allow at least twice the time it took you to get down. By the time you've reached your own personal Hide you'll be well ready for that hot outdoor shower, with perhaps a bubbly soak in the sunken tub to uncrease your stretched muscles.
Hide and Seek are true luxury places to stay, and their description as pavilions is well-chosen, as they have the air of luxurious elegance that the word suggests. As well as all the extras you'd expect in a B&B of this standard, there's a small selection of books and intelligent DVDs and videos.
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