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n. - A male hawk. See Tercel.
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n. - A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
v. i. - To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
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I signed in on my husbands user.I want to give him an autographed picture off his favourit coock(idol).Can someone tell me how I can get this for him.
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Visit one the restaurant or tv studio, rummage around in the bin waste for correspondence to home address, stay outside for a few days and jump out late at night after a long shift - either you'll get a pen stroke or end up in jail. Who dares....
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The History and Use of Herbal Medicine and its Use Today for Pets
The History Of Botanical Medicine
Although no direct evidence exists explaining how humans and animals initially learned which plants were safe to use as foods or for healing, there is anthropological evidence that supports the premise that plants have been used by humans for themselves and for their animals since the dawn of humanity 60,000 years ago. (1) The Roman herbalist Pliny wrote in the first century A.D. of the discovery of the medical uses of plants by animals such as swallows, dogs, and deer as having been influential in teaching humans which plants to select.
Research in the field of zoopharmacognosy (the study of animals' recognition and utilization of wild plants) demonstrated that elephants, monkeys, bison, pigs, civets, jackals, tigers, bears, wild dogs, rhinoceros, mole rats, and desert gerbils use plants as medicines. (10)
Physicians in the U.S. studied and relied on plant "drugs" as primary medicines through the 1930s. Up until the 1930s, medical schools in the U.S. taught basic plant taxonomy, pharmacognosy [the study of medicines derived from natural sources] and medicinal plant therapeutics. Physicians routinely used plant drugs as their primary medicines. In fact, the word "drug" is derived from a word for the root of a plant. In 1870 the U.S. Pharmacopoeia listed 638 herbs in its publication. By 1990 there were only 58 listed. (2) Some of these plants fell out of use due to their weakness or toxicity. However, the majority of clinically useful plants were replaced by pharmaceuticals which could be patented, thereby capable of generating larger profits as well as supporting the increased industrialization and materialism of contemporary conventional medicine. (3)
Herbal medicine is a vibrantly alive discipline that is being used actively in many cultures throughout the world today. There is no question that botanical preparations can have a beneficial or therapeutic effect. The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of the world's population relies on herbs for their primary health care needs. In France and Germany it has been estimated that 30-40% of all medical doctors rely on herbal preparations as their primary medicines. (4)
Dr. Silver went on to reiterate that just because herbs are natural does not mean they are safe under all circumstances. They can have powerful and sometimes deleterious effects, particularly when used in combination with other herbs or conventional medications. Herbal remedies are best utilized under the direction of an experienced veterinarian.
Owners also need to be aware of issues surrounding the safety and potency of herbal formulations and other supplements. There is little regulation over the animal supplement industry, and bad actors are out there who do not have the best interests of pets and their owners at heart. The National Animal Supplement Council (NASC) was developed to help veterinarians and owners identify quality products. Companies that are members of the NASC and can use the NASC logo on their labels allow inspectors into their facilities to ensure that they are in compliance with the organization's standards. Look for the NASC logo on any supplement you buy for your pets.
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In my opinion, anything we give our critters should have some the oversight of a veterinary professional.
Wasn't there some kind of problem several years ago with humans taking too much of a particular supplement? (Just because "some" is good, doesn't necessarily that "more" is better.)
Zoopharmacognosy. I've learned a new word today! It's fascinating that some critters have figured out ways to make themselves feel better. -
I always remember, in my early days as a vet tech working at a practice that did livestock, too and there was a scours (diarrhea) medication that had blackberry root in it and the vet said that was an old Indian remedy for diarrhea...interesting how nature works...
Do you know of any good herbal remedies to help with gas?? Between my friends and I we have a few stinky dachshunds!!
I usually recommend starting with a change in diet. Look for high quality, digestible ingredients with just enough fiber (whole grains are a good source) to promote normal GI transit. If that doesn't do the trick, try adding a probiotic/prebiotic supplement. Good luck!


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The Story of Jim Henson, Creator of the Muppets is a 106-page biography of Jim Henson. It was written by Stephanie St. Pierre, a childhood friend of Henson's oldest daughter, Lisa Henson. Although the book was in production before Jim Henson died, it wasn't finished and released until 1991, a year after his death.
- Author's Note
- A River of Rainbows
- Down by the Creek
- Puppets and Television
- On the Air
- Partners
- A Creative Family
- How They Got to Sesame Street
- HA! Hi! HO!
- A Frog with a Dream
- Superstars
- Fantastic Worlds
- New Directions
- It's a Good Life
- Highlights in the Life of Jim Henson
- Page 24 incorrectly refers to The Junior Morning Show as The Junior Good Morning Show.
- A photo caption incorrectly refers to Junior Gorg as a fraggle.
- Page 35 makes the incorrect claim that Kermit the Frog was named after one of Jim Henson's childhood friends.
- Page 69 incorrectly lists Orson Welles and Lily Tomlin as guest stars on The Muppet Show. While Welles made a cameo in The Muppet Movie and Tomlin was a guest in The Muppets Go to the Movies (among other Henson productions), neither appeared as a guest on the show.
- On page 76, The Muppet Show: On Tour! is referred to as The Muppet Show Revue.
- On page 85, it's incorrectly stated that The Muppets Take Manhattan came out on June 1984, instead of July 1984.


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This is state disability, and yes it is a court order. However, my son agreed at the time of the divorce to pay an additional $200.00 more than what would have been the amount ordered by the court because he wanted the best for his children. Also, it is a very good possibility that within a few weeks he will have to apply for social security benefits. SSI. This is extremely difficult and hard for him to accept considering he is only twenty eight years of age. However, he has become very ill.
Good afternoon Valarie, I'm sorry that you are asking now about this as opposed to half a year ago. But now is better than never. Because of the long term nature of your son's disability, he could have filed a Motion for Modification of Child Support at any time and based on his disability and his significant decrease in income, the court would have agreed to lower his support, and they still will do so---probably to about $250 per month. Your sin can, and should apply for Social Security Disability right now. If he is still disabled, it is possible for him to qualify right now. And because the process takes about 6 months to complete for social security, when he is deemed disabled, they will give him retroactive disability back to the time he applied for it. If he is awarded social security disability, his child will also get a benefit from social security equal to half of what your son will be getting. And under CA law, that money for the child which is paid to the mother will be a dollar for dollar credit for what your son owes in child support. In most cases, that would mean that your son would no longer have to pay any child support at all. So have him apply for social security disability as soon as possible. You may reply back to me using the Continue the Conversation or Reply to Expert link and I will be happy to continue to assist you until I am able to address your concerns, to your satisfaction. Please remember to rate my service to you when our communication is completed. I wish you the best in 2013, Doug


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That's our vision at ASH, a tobacco-free world. This year marks ASH's 50th anniversary, and we are as committed as ever to end the tobacco epidemic. With your help, we can achieve this vision. Here's how we'll do it: • Hold the tobacco industry, including corporate executives, accountable for the death and disease they cause;… Read the full article >
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A Global Perspective on Tobacco in America Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death, and while significant progress has been made, international examples help to illustrate steps that could be taken by the United States to curb this epidemic. "Avoidable Death" considers U.S. tobacco control activities with regard to six articles from… Read the full article >
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Most effective measure is the most under-utilized WASHINGTON, DC. 10 July – A report released today by the World Health Organization concludes that tax and price measures are the "least-achieved" of a global menu of regulations to combat the growing tobacco epidemic, in spite of overwhelming evidence that higher tobacco taxes are the most effective… Read the full article >
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by Scott Stuccio / Washington CapitalsHERSHEY, Pa. – Mike Carman factored into all of the HERSHEY BEARS scoring, assisting on goals by Barry Almeida and the game-winner by Cameron Schilling in a 2-1 victory over the Manchester Monarchs on Saturday night at GIANT Center.
Having not played since last Saturday, the BEARS were looking for a good start and got it just 2:05 into the game. The fourth line of Almeida, Carman and Matt Clackson combined to stake the BEARS to a 1-0 lead, after Clackson and Carman worked the puck through the neutral zone. Clackson dished ahead for Almeida, who had to weave his way around Manchester defenders and down the slot. He then snapped a shot over the glove of Monarchs goaltender Martin Jones from in close for his fourth goal of the season.
The score held up all the way through the second period, which was highlighted by a scrap between BEARS defenseman Steve Oleksy and Monarchs blueliner Nick Deslauriers. The BEARS outshot the Monarchs 19-5 in the middle period, but Jones held his ground.
Schilling would net the necessary insurance at 5:31 of the third period. Driving down the slot, he one-touched a hard cross-ice pass from Carman over the arm of Jones and under the crossbar.
Linden Vey would make things interesting after the Monarchs scooped up a loose puck from in front of a goalmouth scramble. Chris Huxley grabbed the puck and dished to his left, where Vey fired a low shot inside the left post to beat Philipp Grubauer and cut the BEARS lead to 2-1 at 14:06.
The Monarchs got Jones to the bench for an extra attacker inside the final minute, but drew themselves into two delayed offsides, ending their chance at a comeback.
Grubauer evened his record at 3-3-0 with a 22-save performance, while Jones made 42 saves in a tough loss and fell to 11-15-2. The BEARS finished 0-for-3 on the power play and 2-for-2 on the penalty kill.
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Hugh Dowding
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Lord Dowding
Nickname(s) | Stuffy |
Born | Moffat, Scotland |
24 April 1882
Died | 15 February 1970 Royal Tunbridge Wells, England |
(aged 87)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/branch | British Army (1900–18) Royal Air Force (1918–42) |
Years of service | 1900–42 |
Rank | Air Chief Marshal |
Commands held | RAF Fighter Command (1936–40) Air Member for Research and Development (1935–36) Air Member for Supply and Research (1930–35) Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain (1929–30) RAF Transjordan and Palestine (1929) No. 1 Group (1920–22) No. 16 Group (1919–20) No. 16 Squadron (1915–16) |
Battles/wars | First World War Second World War |
Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Mentioned in Despatches |
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain. He was unwillingly replaced in command in November 1940 by Big Wing advocate Sholto Douglas.
Early life[edit]
Dowding was born at St. Ninian's Boys' Preparatory School in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, the son of Arthur John Caswall Dowding and Maud Caroline Dowding (née Tremenheere). His father had taught at Fettes College in Edinburgh before moving to the southern Scottish town of Moffat.[1] Dowding was educated at St Ninian's School and Winchester College.[2] He trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich before being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 18 August 1900.[3]
Military career[edit]
Promoted to lieutenant on 8 May 1902,[4] Dowding served with the Royal Garrison Artillery at Gibraltar, in Ceylon and in Hong Kong before being posted to No. 7 Mountain Artillery Battery in India in 1904.[5] After returning to the United Kingdom, he attended the Army Staff College 1912 before being promoted to captain on 18 August 1913 and being posted with the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Isle of Wight later that year.[5] After becoming interested in aviation, Dowding gained Aviator's Certificate no. 711 on 19 December 1913 in a Vickers biplane at the Vickers School of Flying, Brooklands.[6] He then attended the Central Flying School, where he was awarded his wings. Although added to the Reserve List of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), Dowding returned to the Isle of Wight to resume his Royal Garrison Artillery duties. However, this arrangement was short lived and in August 1914, he joined the RFC as a pilot on No. 7 Squadron.[5]
First World War[edit]
Dowding transferred to No. 6 Squadron in October 1914 and then, after two weeks as a staff officer in France, became a Flight Commander, first with No. 9 Squadron and then with No. 6 Squadron. He became commanding officer of the Wireless Experimental Establishment at Brooklands in March 1915 and went on to be commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron in July 1915.[5] After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General Hugh Trenchard, the commander of the RFC, over the need to rest pilots exhausted by non-stop duty. In September 1915 the author Duncan Grinnell-Milne joined No 16 squadron as a junior pilot. Years later he published an account of his time in the squadron, in which he criticises Dowding as being "too reserved and aloof from his juniors", although efficient.[7] Promoted to major on 30 December 1915, he was recalled to England in January 1916, and, having been promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel on 1 February 1916 was given command of 7 Wing at Farnborough later that month. He transferred to the command of 9 wing at Fienvillers in June 1916. Returning to England, he was promoted to temporary colonel on 1 January 1917 on appointment as commander of the Southern Group Command and promoted to temporary brigadier-general on 23 June 1917 before being given command of the southern training brigade in August 1917. He was sent to York as chief staff officer to the RAF's senior administrative officer in the area in April 1918.[8] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George on 1 January 1919.[5]
Inter war years[edit]
Dowding was given a permanent commission in the RAF on 1 August 1919 with the rank of group captain.[9] He commanded No. 16 Group from October 1919 and then No. 1 Group from February 1920 where he was responsible for organising two of the annual air displays at Hendon. He was promoted to air commodore on 1 January 1922,[10] and served as chief staff officer at Inland Area headquarters at Uxbridge from February 1922 before being appointed Chief Staff Officer for RAF Iraq Command in August 1924.[5]
Dowding was an accomplished skier, winner of the first ever National Slalom Championship, and president of the Ski Club of Great Britain from 1924 to 1925.[11]
In May 1926 Dowding was appointed director of training at the Air Ministry. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 2 January 1928[12] and promoted to air vice-marshal on 1 January 1929.[13] Trenchard sent him to Palestine and Transjordan to study security problems caused by Arab–Jewish unrest: his reports, which gained Trenchard's approval, were a cause of further career advancement. Dowding became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain in December 1929 and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research in September 1930. One of his first responsibilities in this post was the approval of the granting of a certificate of airworthiness to the R101 airship shortly before it set off on its illfated voyage to India; he later said "I think I was wrong not to insist on much more extensive trials and tests" and that his decision had been based on optimistic technical advice.[14] Dowding's time in this office coincided with a period of rapid development in aircraft design and a growing fear that another major war was on the horizon. Although without scientific or technical training, he displayed a great capacity for understanding technical matters. He was promoted to air marshal on 1 January 1933[15] and advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 3 June 1933.[16]
In July 1936 Dowding was appointed commanding officer of the newly created RAF Fighter Command, and was perhaps the one important person in Britain, and perhaps the world, who did not agree with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's 1932 declaration that "The bomber will always get through".[17] He conceived and oversaw the development of the "Dowding system".[18] This consisted of an integrated air defence system which included (i) radar (whose potential Dowding was among the first to appreciate), (ii) human observers (including the Royal Observer Corps), who filled crucial gaps in what radar was capable of detecting at the time (the early radar systems, for example, did not provide good information on the altitude of incoming German aircraft), (iii) raid plotting, and (iv) radio control of aircraft. The whole network was linked in many cases by dedicated telephone cables buried sufficiently deeply to provide protection against bombing. The network had its centre at RAF Bentley Priory, a converted country house on the outskirts of London.[8] The system as a whole later became known as Ground-controlled interception (GCI).[19]
Dowding also introduced modern aircraft into service during the pre war period, including the eight gun Spitfire and Hurricane.[8] He is also credited with having fought the Air Ministry so that fighter planes were equipped with bullet proof wind shields.[20] He was promoted to air chief marshal on 1 January 1937[21] and appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order on 23 January 1937.[22]
Second World War[edit]
Battle of Britain[edit]
Due to retire in June 1939, Dowding was asked to stay on until March 1940 because of the tense international situation. He was again permitted to continue through the Battle of Britain, first until July and finally until November 1940.[8] In 1940, Dowding, nicknamed "Stuffy" by his men for his alleged lack of humour,[23] proved unwilling to sacrifice aircraft and pilots in the attempt to aid Allied troops during the Battle of France. He, along with his immediate superior Sir Cyril Newall, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from Winston Churchill to weaken the home defence by sending precious squadrons to France.[24] When the Allied resistance in France collapsed, he worked closely with Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, the commander of 11 Fighter Group, in organising cover for the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk.[25]
Through the summer and autumn of 1940 in the Battle of Britain, Dowding's Fighter Command resisted the attacks of the Luftwaffe.[8] Beyond the critical importance of the overall system of integrated air defence which he had developed for Fighter Command, his major contribution was to marshal resources behind the scenes (including replacement aircraft and air crew) and to maintain a significant fighter reserve, while leaving his subordinate commanders' hands largely free to run the battle in detail.[8]
Dowding was known for his humility and great sincerity.[20] Fighter Command pilots came to characterise Dowding as one who cared for his men and had their best interests at heart. Dowding often referred to his "dear fighter boys" as his "chicks": indeed his son Derek was one of them.[8] Because of his brilliant detailed preparation of Britain's air defences for the German assault, and his prudent management of his resources during the battle, Dowding is today generally given the credit for Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain.[26]
Dowding's subsequent downfall has been attributed by some to his singlemindedness and perceived lack of diplomacy and political savoir faire in dealing with intra-RAF challenges and intrigues, most obviously the still even now hotly debated Big Wing controversy in which a number of senior and active service officers had argued in favour of large set-piece air battles with the Luftwaffe as an alternative to Dowding's successful Fabian strategy.[27] Another reason often cited for his removal, but characterised by some contemporary commentators more as a pretext, was the difficulty of countering German nighttime bombing raids on British cities.[28] The account of radar pioneer, E. G. Bowen in Radar Days (1987) rebuts the claim that Dowding's grasp of the problems of British night fighters was inadequate. He suggests that if Dowding had been left to follow his own path, the ultimately effective British response to night bombing (which depended completely on developments in air-borne radar) would have come somewhat sooner.[29] Dowding himself showed that he had a good grasp of night fighter defence and was planning a defence system against night bombing in a letter he wrote some time after the Battle of Britain. However, there was great political and public pressure during the Blitz for something to be done, and Fighter Command's existing resources without, as yet, airborne radar, proved woefully inadequate. A committee of enquiry chaired by Sir John Salmond produced a long list of recommendations to improve night air defence; when Dowding approved only some of them, his erstwhile supporters, Lord Beaverbrook and Churchill, decided that it was time for him to step down.[8]
Dowding was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 8 October 1940.[30] He unwillingly relinquished command on 24 November 1940 and was replaced by Big Wing advocate Sholto Douglas. Churchill tried to soften the blow by putting him in charge of the British Air Mission to the USA, responsible for the procurement of new aircraft types.[31]
Publication of his book Twelve Legions of Angels was suppressed in 1942. The British Government considered that it contained information which might be of use to the Germans. The book was finally published in 1946, soon after the war ended.[8]
Ministry of Aircraft Production[edit]
After leaving Fighter Command, Dowding was sent on special duty to the United States for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, but there he made himself unpopular with his outspokenness. On his return he headed a study into economies of RAF manpower before retiring from the Royal Air Force in July 1942. He was elevated to the peerage, as Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory on 2 June 1943.[32]
Later life[edit]
Later in life, because of his belief that he was unjustly treated by the RAF, Dowding became increasingly bitter. He approved Robert Wright's book Dowding and the Battle of Britain which argued that a conspiracy of Big Wing proponents, including Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Douglas Bader, had engineered his sacking from Fighter Command.[33] In the wake of the debate that followed, the RAF passed him over for promotion to Marshal of the Royal Air Force.[8]
In his retirement, Dowding became actively interested in spiritualism, both as a writer and speaker. His first book on the subject, Many Mansions, was written in 1943, followed by Lychgate (1945), The Dark Star and God's Magic. Rejecting conventional Christianity, he joined the Theosophical Society which advocated belief in reincarnation. He wrote of meeting dead "RAF boys" in his sleep – spirits who flew fighters from mountain-top runways made of light.[1]
In 1951, Dowding laid the foundation stone of the Chapel of St George at RAF Biggin Hill, now London Biggin Hill Airport, in memory of fallen airmen.[34]
Dowding and his second wife Baroness Dowding were both anti-vivisectionists and in 1973 Britain's National Anti-Vivisection Society founded the Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research in his honour.[35]
Dowding became a vegetarian, based on his beliefs as a theosophist and spiritualist. Although he was a vegetarian, he believed that "animals will be killed to satisfy human needs for many a long day to come", and he made several appeals in the House of Lords for the humane killing of animals intended for food.[36] He was also a member of the Fairy Investigation Society.[37] Although he knew that people considered him a crank for his belief in fairies, Dowding believed that fairies "are essential to the growth of plants and the welfare of the vegetable kingdom".[38]
Dowding died at his home in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 15 February 1970. Following his cremation, his ashes were laid to rest below the Battle of Britain Memorial Window in the Royal Air Force chapel at Westminster Abbey. Dowding's son Derek (1919–1992) inherited the title of Baron Dowding.[8]
Personal life[edit]
Dowding married Clarice Maud Vancourt, the daughter of an officer in the Indian Army, on 16 February 1918; they had one son, Derek. Following the death of his first wife, he married Muriel Whiting on 25 September 1951; they had no children.[8]
Battle of Britain film[edit]
In the 1969 film Battle of Britain, Dowding was played by Laurence Olivier. Olivier had himself served as a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during World War II. During filming, Dowding (then aged 86 and in a wheelchair) met Olivier. Olivier told Dowding he had sat behind the latter's desk all day "pretending to be you" and was "making an awful mess of it too", to which Dowding replied, "Oh, I'm sure you are." This broke the crew and Olivier into laughter. Footage of this can be seen in the special features section of the film's Special Edition DVD.[39]
Honours and tributes[edit]
A statue of Dowding stands outside St Clement Danes church on the Strand, London. The inscription reads:
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding was commander-in-chief of Fighter Command, Royal Air Force, from its formation in 1936 until November 1940. He was thus responsible for the preparation for and the conduct of the Battle of Britain. With remarkable foresight, he ensured the equipment of his command with monoplane fighters, the Hurricane and the Spitfire. He was among the first to appreciate the vital importance of R.D.F. (radar) and an effective command and control system for his squadrons. They were ready when war came. In the preliminary stages of that war, he thoroughly trained his minimal forces and conserved them against strong political pressure to disperse and misuse them. His wise and prudent judgement and leadership helped to ensure victory against overwhelming odds and thus prevented the loss of the Battle of Britain and probably the whole war. To him, the people of Britain and of the Free World owe largely the way of life and the liberties they enjoy today.[40]
Other monuments to Dowding can be found in Station Park in Moffat, the town of his birth,[41] and in Calverley Gardens in Tunbridge Wells where he died.[42] The RAF Association in conjunction with the RAF Benevolent Fund, purchased his birthplace, the former St Ninian's School, Moffat;[43] the building was renamed Dowding House and restored to provide sheltered housing for former members of the Royal Air Force or their dependents.[44]
The Dowding Centre at the School of Aerospace Battle Management (formerly the School of Fighter Control) at RAF Boulmer is named after Dowding.[45]
A green ceramic commemorative plaque was unveiled at his former residence (1951–1967) in Darnley Drive, Southborough on 6 May 2012.[46]
The 1946-built Southern Railway Battle of Britain pacific (4-6-2) locomotive 21C152 was named Lord Dowding in his honour.[47]
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- ^ Carver 2005, p. 206
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- ^ The London Gazette: no. 33453. p. 71. 1 January 1929. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
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- ^ Korda 2009, pp. 124–125.
- ^ Dixon 2009, pp. 103–120
- ^ Bowen 1987, pp. 71, 119, 121.
- ^ The London Gazette: no. 34964. p. 5893. 8 October 1940. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ^ McKinstry 2010, pp. 222–3
- ^ The London Gazette: no. 36087. p. 3117. 9 July 1943. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ^ Wright 1970, p. 247
- ^ "Say A Prayer for St George's Chapel" (PDF). RAF Chapel Biggin Hill. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
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- Bowen, E. G. (1987). Radar Days. Bristol, UK: Adam Hilger. ISBN 0-85274-590-7.
- Carver, Michael (2005). The Warlords. Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-1844153084.
- Deighton, Len (1980). Battle of Britain. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-3441-9.
- Dixon, J. E. G. (2009). Dowding and Churchill: The Dark Side of the Battle of Britain. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-84415-854-6.
- Grinnell-Milne, D. (1933). Wind in the Wires. London: Aviation Book Club. OCLC 7955618.
- Korda, Michael (2009). With Wings Like Eagles. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-173603-2.
- McKinstry, Leo (2010). Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain. John Murray (Publishers). ISBN 978-1-84854-339-3.
- Orange, Vincent (2008). Dowding of Fighter Command: Victor of the Battle of Britain. London: Grub Street. ISBN 978-1-906502-14-0.
- Waugh, S; Wright, J. (2010). War and the Transformation of British Society 1931–1951. London: Hodder Education. ISBN 978-0-340-98435-2.
- Wright, Robert (1970). Dowding and the Battle of Britain. Corgi Childrens. ISBN 978-0552085113.
Further reading[edit]
- Brown, Peter (2005). Honour Restored: The Battle of Britain, Dowding and the Fight for Freedom. Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount. ISBN 1-86227-301-4.
- Bungay, Stephen (2000). The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain. London: Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1-84415-854-6.
- Collier, Basil (1957). Leader of the Few: the authorised biography of Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding of Bentley Priory. Jarrolds. OCLC 123752575.
- Dixon, Jack (J E G) (2008). Dowding and Churchill: The Dark Side of the Battle of Britain. Pen & Sword, UK. ISBN 1-86227-301-4.
- Wright, Robert (1969). The man who won the Battle of Britain. Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 4169149.
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Apparently going for the towel causes problems with meeting the more stringent 25 second rule, or at least it did for Baghdatis in the Brisbane ATP event.
i don't understand why they have to wipe themselves dry after every rally. They don't play in trousers anymore, so appearances don't really matter as much as in the 19th century.
There are going to be players that are going to get very frustrated with the ballkids in the next few months. Toweling off is definitely not a valid excuse for taking more than 25 seconds. That will be one of the negatives of the new rule, I'm afraid. I just hope that none of the players receive a time violation on a big point, and have to hit a second serve, and then turn around and rip into a ball kid verbally for taking too long to get them their precious towel. Another negative, is that if there is a rule question, or a dispute about something, the chair umpire will have a little bit of discretion with time to answer a question or 2 before going back to the clock. Once the players catch onto that, there may be some more ridiculous arguments or discussions over stupid things, which is something that has drastically improved with the addition of Hawkeye. While there are some people that use ridiculous Hawkeye challenges with the intent of buying more time, there are a lot of players that go through several matches without using a challenge that aren't when they legitimately thought the call was wrong. Once the players realize that the 25 seconds doesn't start until the OUT/IN image is revealed, there may be several more wasted challenges. While I have never been a fan of the "shot clock" idea, I do think that if the chair umpire's discretion is taken out of the equation, and time violations will be given each and every time 25 seconds is exceeded, I do think it may be a good idea to have one, because it's tough to judge when you are actually playing the difference between 22 and 27 seconds. It may save several time violations if a player looks up and says, "I'm at 20, get to the line and serve." Another thing to remember is that the umpire controls the clock. The time clock on the PDA starts as soon as the umpire enters the point into the PDA. That does not happen EXACTLY when the point ends. The chair umpire's technique is to check the point loser at the end of the point to make sure he's not going to chuck a racket, or launch a ball, or do some other code violation. THerefore, the clock may not start for 1-3 seconds after the point ends. So, when the TV networks put that image on the bottom of the screen that shows the time since the last point, it may show 26-28 seconds, but the umpire's clock may say 22-25. There is no absolutely perfect way to do this. There will be positives and negatives to just about everything that they can come up with. I do think that losing a serve makes it more fan friendly, better on the players, and more enforceable for the umpires than a loss of point. Also, the players have been being warned about this new change for the last couple of monts of last season. It shouldn't be a surprise to them. Of course, at the Australian Open, it will be 20 seconds (not 25), and it will be up to the umpire's discretion again. That is the main problem I have. They just need to get on the same page. Brad Gilbert and John McEnroe are going to be broadcasting at the Aussie Open blasting the umpires for not following the new rule, because I can guarantee you that they will have no idea (as they are usually clueless about the rules) that it's different.
I may be in the minority, but I think that ball kids should not have to deal with towels. Leave one at the back of the court or on their chair and let the player be in charge of it. If they want to walk back and use it as part of their 25-sec. that is fine. This way there is no complaining about the ball kids taking too long. Not to mention that it's not the most pleasant thing for a ball kid to have to handle a sweat soaked towel.
Exactly, hopefully the first ball kid that gets Nalbandianed, is immediately defaulted, that's not their fault.
it does seem like players are getting stupid about toweling. i know its hot in austrailia this time of year but i've seen players go for the towel after an ace. really???? one shot (or no shots if you're the receiver) and you're so sweaty you need a towel because your wristband and/ or your bandana have been completely overwhelmed??? heck, i remember lendl used to use his shirt sleeves! when did this toweling thing start? i don't generally like the idea of more rules (especially when there's the possibility they might not be enforced uniformly) but i think it has gotten ridiculous and won't get any better if left to the players' discretion (i'm afraid). it seems like the kind of thing that started to help players be more comfortable on the court (which i don't have that much of a problem with) but its been abused to the point of being silly. there's a huge opportunity here for sham-wow to get into the headband/ wristband game! someone call vince!
Enforce the time clock and the towel behavior will cease. Players will find other solutions (new wristband on every changeover, for example) because they HAVE TO. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention, Plato told us.
They don't towel off because of perspiration most of the time. They towel off because it's become a force of habit, a compulsion. Most players towel off between every point, including aces. It's a subconscious way of resetting themselves for the next point. Players do other things as well: Roddick tugs on his shirt, Sharapova pushes back her hair on both sides, and Nadal...does what he does.
I can overlook toweling off after rallies, but not after some fool gets aced or watches a double fault fly by.
I'd like to know how this is going to be applied in a practical by the umpires. Just say a player has been over the 25 second rule a couple of times just as they start their serve. The umpire isn't going to call out during their serve so does he, before the next point, call the violation? Or will they wait until someone is at 27 or 28 seconds before a serve to call it right there and then. It's going to be a nightmare imo... some players are going to go ape if it happens just before a break point etc.
why don't they just keep the towels on a chair/stool at the back of the court. that way, any time wastage is player related and the ball boys/girls can't be blamed.
The umpires won't stop a player in ther service motion. If they haven't started their motion by 26-28 seconds, it will be called. Also, keep in mind what I said earlier that its impossible to start the clock exactly when the point ends, because the chair umpire has the clock, which starts when he enters the point in te PDA. There is a 1-3 second delay, especially if it looks like a player may commit a code violation, or has a question.
I just hope it doesn't cause players to abuse the ballkid, start stupid arguments with te umpire, or make more dumb challenges. Maybe they should institute timeouts. Like a player gets 1 or 2 15 second timeouts per set.
It could also penalize people who can't toss a ball into the air - V Williams and Ivanovic come to mind - which surely is fair.
I was wondering about the WTA as the current event iin Brisbane includes both tours and the commentators have noticed the new attention to the time, but were unable both to get the rule right or distinguish between the two events. And it is a rather simple change. Despite this fact R Harrison was moaning endlessly to the umpire about being warned.
In Brisbane, ATP is 25 seconds with the new rule. WTA is 20 seconds with the old rule. Unless the WTA changed their rule before this week, that is my understanding.
This makes me think of an interesting avenue players could go down... as they're nearing their serve each time they could look up and ask the umpire to remind them the score.... Hey presto another 5-10 second leeway created.
None of you have ever played at any significant level, so you really are not is a position to comment on intimate stuff like sweating and toweling and their impact on performance at the pro level. If a rule is not working out, it has to be changed.
They use the towel not to just wipe off sweat, but to buy time to deconstruct the last point won/lost, buy time as a breather, clear your mind if it was an important point lost, think about the placement of the next serve. It really has more applications than just for wiping off sweat.
yup, you're right. you got me. you've pegged the fact that i down a bag of doritos and a big gulp of mt. dew on every changeover and keep hohos in my racquet bag to munch on at my lowly club "hit and giggles" :roll: really dude, if the rule is you have to have played tennis "at a significant level" (nice and vague term isn't it?) before you can have an opinion about anything, they'd better just shut this place down now! but since you brought it up, what would you say is a "significant level"? it must not be the ncaa because i've watched tons of DI ncaa men's tennis and those guys don't towel off after every point. the futures must not be significant either because those guys don't towel off after every point either. since no one has really said it before, i wonder how much $$$ came into play here? were the powers that be somewhat concerned about sponsorship dollars? if so, could that possibly been a consideration?
I've thought this for a long time. It's not just sweat either (which in itself can be pretty disgusting), but they sometimes even sneeze or blow their noses into it. In some tournaments they do have a box at the back of the court and some players do use it. I think they should have them everywhere and insist that the players stop signalling the ballboys to hand them their towels. Some players are downright disrespectful in the way they do it. The ballboys are there to look after the tennis balls - not act as personal valets to the players.


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First-person shooters are a dime a dozen, but recently this genre has seen an influx of score-oriented types of gameplay. From Bulletstorm to Bodycount, it is no longer enough to just give the player some guns, a few levels, a story, and hope your game will sell some copies to people who aren't already playing Call of Duty.
Xotic fits this new trend, but while it is an FPS that is all about scoring big, it shares more similarities with a shoot-'em-up such as Ikaruga than a narratively driven shooter like Bulletstorm.
Xotic (PC [reviewed], Xbox Live Arcade)
Developer: WXP Games
Publisher: WXP Games
Released: September 16, 2011 / XBLA: TBA
Players who are expecting the usual FPS trappings of traversing from level to level, progressing through a story, and spending most of their time exploring and shooting at enemies can forget about all of that in Xotic. There is a story, told through a few cutscenes, that sounds like it was written by someone who was on some quality drugs. There are enemies that need to be dispatched in order to "clear" a level. But while the story and enemy design evoke the madness of Zeno Clash to a degree, they are both secondary to the game's exotic level design.
Everything in Xotic revolves around attaining as high a score as you possibly can. Even though you might start out just screwing around and shooting at everything you see, it doesn't take long until you realize that there are certain ways to get a higher score and more efficient paths through a level to get you there.
Each level contains batches and lines of red blobs called "scabs" that, when shot, explode in sequence to keep a "terraforming" chain bar going. The longer you keep this bar from dropping to zero by shooting other scabs, the higher your chain multiplier and the higher your eventual score will be. Do all of this in as little time as possible, and a nice time bonus will await you at the final tally.
Because this in itself would make for a pretty boring game, levels are littered with crystals for points, enemies, modifier pick-ups and "brains" that can be shot for a lot of points. The downside is that all these things put together will make you divert your attention from the shortest and most efficient path. When you jump through a batch of crystals, you get an "aerial combo" bonus. But perhaps you should have timed that jump only after clearing a section in run-up to it, and perhaps you should have landed the jump in question to go straight into another jump, shooting a few scabs along the way to keep the terraforming chain going.
This makes the enemies more of a nuisance to obstruct your optimal score than the sole purpose of completing a level. You do need to kill all of them to open a portal that lets you exit and finish a level, but in terms of gameplay, enemies are simply there to distract you. It's a good thing too, because while the enemy AI is pretty basic, it tends to focus on walking backwards and behind cover so you'll have to actively chase and kill your foes -- costing you valuable time in the process.
As levels become increasingly large and complex, suffice it to say that those who want to keep improving their scores and staying on top of the leaderboards will have plenty to do in Xotic. You might be able to run through all the levels once in under three hours, but that would be missing the point of the game entirely.
This is a game that wants you to explore a level, to learn where the enemies are and how to shoot them on the run, to memorize where x2 and x3 score multipliers can be found, and to fine-tune your best path through all the crystals in a level while simultaneously shooting scabs to chain them into one giant combo.
As such, you can look at it as a type of Ikaruga, with its enemy pattern memorization and the training required to place shots exactly where they need to be, and nowhere else -- but with Quake III controls and first-person gameplay. It also means that if you're looking for a shooter with a campaign to blast through for a few hours of fun, so you can complete it before moving on to the next game, you should probably look elsewhere.
Although Xotic might best be described as a shmup with a first-person perspective, it does lack the wider appeal of its genre cousins. You can play any shmup for a few minutes until you die, accept that you suck at it, but still have fun in the meantime. Doing so in Xotic still offers plenty of fun, but it's not much of a pick-up-and-play game -- although it boots up very quickly and runs well on a lower mid-range PC. There are weapons to unlock and level up, but once you have found the primary and secondary weapons that work for you there's little reason to use most of the other ones.
If you are the kind of person that didn't play Quake III Arena for casual fun, but competitively with all the weapon and armor spawn locations hardwired into your brain, then Xotic offers a huge amount of challenge to spend hours upon hours with. Many levels even require you to plan vertically as well as horizontally, by means of "hard holograms" that can be projected to act as shields or mid-air platforms; before long you're placing holograms below you as if you're doing rocket jumps. Unfortunately these holograms can also sometimes get you stuck inside of them if you place them like an idiot -- something I found all too easy to do with my spastic keyboard claws.
Despite being a PC game for now, it's clear that Xotic is also developed as an Xbox Live Arcade title. Your Steam ID is called a Gamertag, the menus mirror those of a typical XBLA game, and only graphics option is brightness control. This doesn't really detract from the in-game experience, though, and you're probably better off with the mouse and keyboard twitch controls than using a gamepad if you are serious about getting that #1 spot on the leaderboards in the PC version. The lack of graphics option are not a big issue either, since the game looks good, runs smooth, and adjusts to your desktop resolution.
While a small bug may pop up here and there, and it can to be a bit hard to notice when you are close to dying, the core game is a largely fluid and polished experience.
Xotic demands a certain competitive mindset to fully enjoy it, to be sure, but for those who want to test their first-person skills with the type of score-based arcade gameplay that is usually found in other genres, it does what it sets out to do and it does so successfully without overwhelming the player.
Xotic reviewed by Maurice Tan
Impressive effort with a few noticeable problems holding it back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth most people's time and cash.
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OXFORD – On Saturday, April 26, Oxford Police investigators charged Jesus Martinez, 32, of Oxford, with one count of sexual battery.
Martinez was arrested after officers responded to the Ole Miss Motel for a victim who had been sexually assaulted. After officers spoke with witnesses and processed the scene they were able to identify Martinez as the suspect, and he was arrested at his home in Oxford.
Bond was set at $25,000.
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Subject: | Re: What does Balbina mean, then? |
Author: | Andy (guest, 22.214.171.124) |
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Are you saying BALBINA means "strong"? Or "girl"? Where did you read this? I'm sure you've done some research - I just wonder: where?
Are you searching more information about the surname of your great grandmother? Your message seems a little confusing to me.Andy ;—)
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By Josh Steiber
Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck. [1] Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in the darkness, the temptation to dwell on and ridicule these figures, ones that have even caused divisions between conservative commentators, is strong. Lind's point is crucial though: the question is not primarily whether or not Beck's theories are sane. Actually, the less sane they seem, the more likely it is that these theories are moves of desperation and the more important it is that we should stay focused on the actual issue.
First, however, a short recap of Beck's theories: global unrest—from revolts in the Middle East to labor protests in Wisconsin—is the precursor to an international Caliphate (Islamic Rule). But on Friday, Beck's alarms rang even louder; Code Pink, The Muslim Brotherhood, and other ideologically different groups are clearing the way not only for the Caliphate, but also for the "The Mahdi," who is the prophesized Muslim redeemer. According to Beck, however, this figure is better known to Christians and End Times enthusiasts as "The Antichrist." [2]
Does it bother me that Beck preys on his viewer's fears and biases the way he does? Absolutely, but here is exactly where Lind's cautions apply: "When progressive opinion leaders wait for conservatives to say something stupid and then pounce on it, they cede the choice of topics in national debate..." [1]
Sure, there are plenty of insults for Beck's utilization of logic, study of history, and choice of "expert" [3] sources that would apply to his performances. But simply slapping labels on Beck and his friends are a missed opportunity. Prepared for the insults, they'll call it persecution, gain more sympathy from their followers and dig more entrenched battle lines.
If Glenn Beck wants to scream that the Mahdi is the Antichrist, I'd prefer to calmly tell him that I shook hands with the Army of the Antichrist than call him a nut. For those who haven't been studying important issues like the Iraq War, one of the major political players throughout the occupation has been Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia. Translated as "Army of the Mahdi," [4] al-Sadr's Jayish al Mahdi was the primary enemy of the infantry company that I deployed with to Baghdad from February 2007 to April 2008.
Despite the macho rhetoric of declarations like "we will not negotiate with terror," my company signed cease fires and made deals with the very militia that killed our comrades. A Madhi Army member who led a bomb cell was arrested and destined for prison until we discovered that he was a leader in our district, so we released him and negotiated with him instead. More recently for al-Sadr himself, Reuter's reports:
"A somewhat diminished maverick whose Mehdi Army was once viewed by U.S. forces as the greatest threat to Iraq, Sadr's movement is making a stab at the political mainstream. Winning 39 seats in an election last year, its support was crucial in securing a new term for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. It has seven ministries in Maliki's government." [5]
The television network that helped inspire me to fight for democracy in the Middle East has not only changed its narrative by declaring that this region can't handle democracy in places like Egypt, its franchise player is essentially saying that the government in Iraq is run by the Army of the Antichrist.
Too much is at stake to get too bogged down in reacting to Beck on his level. What he says is weakened far more by an understanding of history than a reflexive label. The Surge in Iraq, which I deployed in, was not successful primarily because of superior firepower; following the U.S.-provoked civil war with all its casualties and displacements, a weary population, including militia groups, was willing to negotiate for stability. [6] The massive cost to the Iraqi population cannot be forgotten when pointing to groups like the Mahdi Army moving from hated enemies to major pieces of the new Iraqi government as the prime explanation for The Surge's costly "success."
To heed Lind's call of being proactive in shaping the national dialog, knowledge can shape the future more than fear. Consider the lead up to the Iraq War: after Saddam was a key U.S. ally, he was branded with all kinds of alarming titles. When he was deemed worthy of attack (with evidence proving increasingly shoddier) many in this country, including myself, saw him as a monster who needed taken down with little thought of what would fill his place. Ironically, the Madhi Army helped to fill that vacuum yet the concept of the Mahdi is now being used to create a new surge of fear about other Middle Eastern countries.
Now, if a Beck follower tries to explain to me that the Caliphate is underway and will soon bring with it the Antichrist, I'll refrain from saying something insulting. Instead, I will smile and say that I personally shook hands with the Army of the Antichrist and explain that the alarmist labels can't work both ways. If followers of the Mahdi are to be feared, then aggression may lead to increased power, as al-Sadr's followers can affirm. Conversely, if Iraq is going to be billed as a success, then the reality of why the violence has diminished must include both the cost of war and the explanation that even the militia named after the alleged Antichrist can become allies.
With a little bit of light, the boogeyman doesn't seem so scary. And if the boogeyman needs to be as big as an Antichrist, then it probably means there is great value in looking at events like attack on unions in WI. This is exactly the kind of event, along with the full reality of the War on Terror, that needs to be discussed as we learn who is really "on the side of the common people."
1. http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/15/lind_beck_bachmann/index.html
2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358488/Glenn-Beck-Some-Muslims-want-Antichrist-return.html
3. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102170019
4. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-sadr.htm
5. http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/02/10/idINIndia-54805120110210?pageNumber=2
6. Rosen, Nir. Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim Word. New York, NY: Nation Books. 2010. 227. Print.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Navy Yard gunman visited two hospitals in the weeks before the rampage but did not say he was depressed or having thoughts of harming himself or others, the Veterans Affairs Department said Wednesday.
Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist who killed 12 people Monday before being slain in a police shootout, complained of insomnia during an Aug. 23 emergency room visit at the VA Medical Center in Providence, R.I. He was given sleep medication and was advised to follow up with a doctor.
He made a similar visit five days later to the VA hospital in Washington, when he again complained of not being able to sleep because of his work schedule. His medication was refilled.
Law enforcement officials have said the 34-year-old man was grappling with paranoia, hearing voices and convinced he was being followed.
Two weeks before his ER visit, he complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through and the walls and ceilings of his hotel room and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep. Newport police alerted the naval station, and they did not hear from again.
Alexis had enrolled in VA health care in February 2011, and received monthly disability payments of $395 for orthopedic problems.
Meanwhile, Alexis's mother said Wednesday she does not know why her son opened fire and on office workers during a more than 30-minute rampage and shootout with police.
Cathleen Alexis read a brief statement inside her New York home, her voice shaking. She did not want to appear on camera and did not take questions from a reporter.
"Aaron is now in a place where he can no longer do harm to anyone, and for that I am glad," Cathleen Alexis said. "To the families of the victims, I am so so very sorry that this has happened. My heart is broken."
Authorities said he used a valid badge to enter Building 197 on the sprawling grounds of the Navy Yard, carrying with him a Remington 870 Express shotgun — a firearm that would not be covered under a proposed weapons ban supported by the White House. The ban was introduced in the Senate earlier this year and would prohibit 157 specific firearms designed for military and law enforcement use, and it would exempt more than 2,200 others.
The Navy Yard was set to return to mostly normal operations Thursday, although Building 197 and the gym, which is being used as a staging area for the FBI, will remain closed.
The shooting, which police still don't have a motive for, raised questions about the adequacy of background checks for government contractors who have access to sensitive information. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus this week ordered two security reviews of how well the Navy protects its bases.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has also ordered two sweeping reviews of military security and employee screening programs, acknowledging Wednesday that "a lot of red flags" may have been missed in the background of the Washington Navy Yard shooter.
"Obviously, there were a lot of red flags," Hagel told reporters at a Pentagon briefing. "Why they didn't get picked, why they didn't get incorporated into the clearance process, what he was doing, those are all legitimate questions that we're going to be dealing with."
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It's difficult to fathom where the years have gone, but Sean Lennon is now 23, and on 18 May he releases his debut solo album Into The Sun for the Beastie Boys' label, Grand Royal. By sheer coincidence, his stepbrother Julian releases his fifth album, Photograph Smile, on exactly the same date. No doubt Julian, 10 years Sean's senior, could pass on some brotherly advice regarding the pressures of received celebrity.
For one year, Sean Lennon attended Columbia University in New York with a view to majoring in anthropology. His interest in the family business soon became all-consuming, however. In 1995, he collaborated with his mother Yoko on her album Rising, but it was when his power-noise trio IMA disbanded in 1996 that he began to write the more intimate and contemplative material featured on Into The Sun.
Produced by his girlfriend, Yuka Honda - one half of the New York alternative- pop duo Cibo Matto - the album has been described by Sean as a kind of "musical time-capsule" documenting the couple's first six months of living together. Lyrically, it's as naked an expression of the pair's relationship as the album cover of John and Yoko's Two Virgins. "Mystery Juice", for example, finds Sean confessing: "I can't stand when you talk about that other man." On "Two Fine Lovers" (largely concerned with the pleasures of staying in bed till "half past noon") things have obviously taken a turn for the better.
Musically, it's a surprisingly eclectic and beautifully understated record; and, as Lennon segues from Latin-influenced pop to grunge to jazz, and from guitar to bass to drums to keyboards, one soon recognises a musical polymath with an impressive ability to assimilate influences which traverse both eras and genres. "It's different strokes for different folks," he explains. "I wanted it to be like 'check this out', so that people would see I'm not just a Beatles imitator or something."
Endearingly, for such a famous son, Lennon can still gush about his idols. The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, whom he's shortly to interview for the American rock magazine Raygun, is one of his biggest heroes, and he speaks reverently about I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, Don Was's acclaimed documentary on the Beach Boys' leader. "I'm so psyched man!" Lennon says, apropos of his interview with Wilson. "I've never encountered such an explosive talent as that guy - I'm probably gonna cry when I see him."
The youngest Lennon is just as likely to enthuse about musicians outside of the rock and pop canon. The seminal Brazilian composer Carlos Jobim, for example (whom he got a taste for when Yuka bought him a box-set of the composer's work for Christmas), is an obvious influence on Into the Sun's breezy title track. The song is a bossa nova duet in which Sean is joined by Cibo Matto singer Miho, someone he describes as having "something of the phrasing of Astrud Gilberto", the original Girl From Ipanema.
When asked to single out a highpoint in the album's recording, Lennon opts for a session in which a live jazz ensemble was drafted in for the recording of the instrumental "Photosynthesis".
"I was on piano, and Yuka was on Fender Rhodes," he remembers. "But getting all these musicians that I respect and admire - Dave Douglas on trumpet, Brad Jones and EJ Rodriguez from the Jazz Passengers - was fantastic.
"And when EJ came in with that timbale solo, Yuka and I were 'like wow!' ".
Naturally, Sean's recent claim in The New Yorker that the CIA saw John Lennon as a potential prime-mover in a wave of youth activism has raised his own media profile somewhat. It will be interesting to see what sort of impact his candid assertion that ultimate responsibility for the death of his father should lie with the American government, rather than with gunman Mark Chapman, will have on his own US career.
In the meantime, Sean is sure to garner some column inches in the music press when he plays his debut UK gig at London's Camden Falcon on 7 May. It's certainly a less salubrious venue than the Hollywood Bowl, but then, as Lennon's agent, Scott Thomas, has intimated, this is a deliberately low-key move acknowledging the fact that Sean is a young, alternative artist with everything to prove. His five-piece band will include Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, and the Into The Sun material will be augmented by "some interesting cover versions". At recent US shows, these reportedly included an impressive version of The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows". Keep your fingers crossed.
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We can use a noun as an adjective when it precedes a noun that it modifies; a mountain bike is a bike designed for riding up mountains. 'Mountain' functions as an adjective modifying the noun 'bike'. The second noun takes the plural form, while the first behaves like an adjective and consequently does not, unless the word is normally used in the plural (sports hall) or refers to people (women footballers).
We use these for well-known things, some can be hyphenated and some are written as one word.
See Also: Concrete Noun; Abstract Noun; Proper Noun; Adjectival Noun; Collective Noun; Mass Noun; Substantive
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