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Search for motive in Conn. school shooting
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NEWTOWN, Conn. The massacre of 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, a 20-year-old described as brilliant but remote, would have been driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims.
CBS News has learned that all of the dead have been identified by authorities with the help of pictures provided by grieving parents and family members.
Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance told "CBS This Morning: Saturday" that the bodies have been removed from the school, which remains a crime scene.} }
Investigators were trying to learn more about the gunman, Adam Lanza, and questioned his older brother, who is not believed to have been involved in the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary. Police shed no light on the motive for the nation's second-deadliest school shooting.
At a Saturday morning press briefing Lt. Vance said that investigators at the school crime scene and at the secondary crime scene - the home of the shooter's mother - did produce "very good evidence."
"We're hopeful it will paint a complete picture as to how and why this unfortunate incident occurred," he said.
Lt. Vance also confirmed that the gunman was not allowed into the elementary school and had forcibly entered the building.
He also said there have been other arrests associated with this investigation.
In tight-knit Newtown on Friday night, hundreds of people packed St. Rose of Lima church and stood outside in a vigil for the 28 dead 20 children and six adults at the school, the gunman's mother at home, and the gunman himself, who committed suicide. People held hands, lit candles and sang "Silent Night."
"These 20 children were just beautiful, beautiful children," Monsignor Robert Weiss said. "These 20 children lit up this community better than all these Christmas lights we have. ... There are a lot brighter stars up there tonight because of these kids."
One parent whose children had escaped the event felt a different emotion: "I feel in some respect guilty because I have my baby here, and I just hope anybody who needs help . . . I feel terrible."
Lanza is believed to have suffered from a personality disorder and lived with his mother, said a law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation.
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Lanza shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, drove to the school in her car with at least three guns, including a high-powered rifle that he apparently left in the back of the vehicle, and shot up two classrooms around 9:30 a.m. Friday, law enforcement officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A custodian ran through the halls, warning of a gunman, and someone switched on the intercom, perhaps saving many lives by letting them hear the chaos in the school office, a teacher said. Teachers locked their doors and ordered children to huddle in a corner or hide in closets as shots echoed through the building.
The well-liked principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was believed to be among the dead. A woman who worked at the school was wounded. An update on victims' identities was possible Saturday morning, state police Lt. Paul Vance said Friday evening.
A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said investigators believe Lanza attended the school several years ago but appeared to have no recent connection to it.
At least one parent said Lanza's mother was a substitute teacher there. But her name did not appear on a staff list. And the official said investigators were unable to establish any connection so far between her and the school.
Lanza's older brother, 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, of Hoboken, N.J., was questioned, but a law enforcement official said he was not believed to have had a role in the rampage. Investigators were searching his computers and phone records, but he told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about 2010.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the unfolding investigation.
At one point, a law enforcement official mistakenly identified the gunman as Ryan Lanza. Brett Wilshe, a friend of Ryan Lanza's, said Lanza told him the gunman may have had his identification. Ryan Lanza apparently posted Facebook page updates Friday afternoon that read, "It wasn't me" and "I was at work."
For about two hours late Friday and early Saturday, clergy members and emergency vehicles moved steadily to and from the school. The state medical examiner's office said bodies of the victims would be taken there eventually for autopsies.
A law enforcement source told CBS News that Adam Lanza had three weapons with him during the attack: Two handguns (a Sig Sauer and a Glock), and a Bushmaster .223 assault rifle; spent shells were found in the school. Those three weapons were registered to his mother.
There was also a fourth weapon (a long gun) found in the car he drove to the school.
In addition, the source told CBS News there were "a few" other weapons found at the mother's house. The registry of the weapon in the car and at the house are still be checked. The tracing of all the weapons - such as where and when they were purchased - is still being conducted.
The Associated Press reports a Henry repeating rifle, an Enfield rifle and a shotgun were recovered. It was not clear exactly where those weapons were found.
Adam Lanza and his mother lived in a well-to-do part of prosperous Newtown, about 60 miles northeast of New York City, where neighbors are doctors or hold white-collar positions at companies such as General Electric, Pepsi and IBM.
Lanza's parents filed for divorce in 2008, according to court records. His father, Peter Lanza, lives in Stamford, Conn., and works as a tax director for General Electric.
The gunman's aunt Marsha Lanza, of Crystal Lake, Ill., said her nephew was raised by kind, nurturing parents who would not have hesitated to seek mental help for him if he needed it.
"Nancy wasn't one to deny reality," Marsha Lanza said, adding her husband had seen Adam as recently as June and recalled nothing out of the ordinary.
Catherine Urso, of Newtown, said her college-age son knew the killer and remembered him for his alternative style. "He just said he was very thin, very remote and was one of the goths," she said.
Adam Lanza attended Newtown High School, and several news clippings from recent years mention his name among the honor roll students.
Joshua Milas, who graduated from Newtown High in 2009 and belonged to the school technology club with him, said Adam Lanza was generally a happy person but that he hadn't seen him in a few years.
"We would hang out, and he was a good kid. He was smart," Joshua Milas said. "He was probably one of the smartest kids I know. He was probably a genius."
An official who spoke on condition of anonymity said it was not clear that Adam Lanza had a job, and there was no indication of law enforcement interviews or search warrants at a place of business.
The mass shooting is one of the deadliest in U.S. history, and among school attacks is second in victims only to the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, which left 33 people dead, including the gunman. Reaction was swift and emotional in Newtown, a picturesque New England community of 27,000 people, as well as across the country and around the world.
"It has to stop, these senseless deaths," said Frank DeAngelis, principal of Colorado's Columbine High School, where a massacre in 1999 killed 15 people.
In Washington, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence organized a vigil at the White House, with some protesters chanting, "Today IS the day" to take steps to curb gun violence. In New York's Times Square, a few dozen people held tea lights in plastic cups, with one woman holding a sign that read: "Take a moment and candle to remember the victims of the Newtown shooting."
President Barack Obama's comments on the tragedy amounted to one of the most outwardly emotional moments of his presidency.
"The majority of those who died were children beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old," Obama said at a White House news briefing. He paused for several seconds to keep his composure as he teared up and wiped an eye. Nearby, two aides cried and held hands.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard described the attack as a "senseless and incomprehensible act of evil."
"Like President Obama and his fellow Americans, our hearts too are broken," Gillard said in a statement.
In Japan, where guns are severely restricted and there are extremely few gun-related crimes, the attack led the news two days before nationwide parliamentary elections. In China, which has seen several knife rampages at schools in recent years, the attack quickly consumed public discussion.
At the Newtown vigil, Anthony Bloss, whose three daughters survived, said they are doing better than he. "I'm numb. I'm completely numb," he said.
Panicked parents looking for their children had raced earlier in the day to Sandy Hook, a kindergarten-through-fourth-grade school where police told youngsters to close their eyes as they were led from the building so that they wouldn't see the blood and broken glass.
Schoolchildren some crying, many looking frightened were escorted through a parking lot in a line, hands on one another's shoulders.
Robert Licata said his 6-year-old son was in class when the gunman burst in and shot the teacher. "That's when my son grabbed a bunch of his friends and ran out the door," he said. "He was very brave. He waited for his friends."
He said the shooter didn't utter a word.
Kaitlin Roig, a teacher at the school, said she implored her students to be quiet.
"I told them we had to be absolutely quiet. Because I was just so afraid if he did come in, then he would hear us and just start shooting the door. I said we have to be absolutely quiet. And I said there are bad guys out there now and we need to wait for the good guys to come get us out," Roig told ABC News.
"If they started crying, I would take their face and say it's going to be OK. Show me your smile," she said. "They said, we want to go home for Christmas. Yes, yeah. I just want to hug my mom, things like that, that were just heartbreaking."


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These quotes will get you through tough times, when you need an inspirational quote just to keep things going. Get uplifted, inspired, and back on track to feeling good about how things are going.
1. Shaun Hick Explains the Importance of Shadowy Times
"You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun." – Shaun Hick
Think about some of the hard times you've had in your life over the years. Can you see anything that made you really appreciate the good times? Times of joy and plenty are made that much sweeter after experiencing any kind of hardship. Have faith; you will stand in the sun again.
2. Randy Pausch Makes Light of Tough Times
"No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse." – Randy Pausch
This goes along with the saying, "It could be worse." It is not to discount or discredit the rough time you might be going through. Instead it gives you a chance to see how much worse your situation could be; therefore making your problems feel not quite so heavy.
3. Dean Young and the Properties of Darkness
"You start with a darkness to move through, but sometimes the darkness moves through you." – Dean Young
When you embrace the darkness that is happening instead of fighting it, a deeper level of healing occurs. You might think that you need to work through this dark time, but would you agree that dark times often create darkness within us? It is incredibly cathartic to let the darkness move through us as we process it.
4. Kenji Miyazawa on How to Use Pain Effectively
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." – Kenji Miyazawa
Pain is an indication that something deserves our attention and healing. Using pain and despair as a tool to ignite the passion for change within you is not only constructive, but incredibly rewarding. Do not let your pain crush you; do not give your power (fuel) away.
5. Albert Schweitzer on Getting Rejuvenated by Others
"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being." – Albert Schweitzer
The darkest and hardest of times can leave you feeling undeniably lonely, can they not? Some of the lights at the ends of our tunnels come unexpectedly from others around us. If you're in a tough time right now, reach out to others. You may be pleasantly surprised.
6. Epictetus on the Value of Great Difficulties
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." – Epictetus
If we were never challenged, we would never learn anything! You can pick up some of the most valuable lessons from your life's challenges. You have a chance to become wise after going through arduous times. Look at it like school – The School of Life.
7. Robert Schuller on What Problems Really Are
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." – Robert Schuller
These guidelines can change the course of your direction to lead you to things that will serve your life in a different way, or they exist to challenge your resolve. What if your problems are pushing you directly into the path of people and opportunities that will be great for you?
8. Doe Zantamata Ruminates on Our Darkest Hours
"It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed." – Doe Zantamata
It might not seem so, but in our darkest hours is when our light shines the brightest. Think of how many things you have survived in your life, even when in the midst of it you though you never would. That strength and light guides you during all times, even the tough ones. You need just acknowledge it.
9. Mary Engelbreit on What to Do with Things You Don't Like
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." – Mary Engelbreit
Sometimes you might not have the resources or influence to change a tough situation you are a part of. If this is the case then the only thing you can change is the way you think about it. Instead of feeling the oppressive energy of this rough patch you're in choose to see it as a learning opportunity.
10. John Wooden on Making the Best of Things
"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." – John Wooden
This goes along well with quote #9. When you make the best of whatever you are experiencing, you are participating with a lighter energy which will naturally bring lighter energies to you. This will in turn give more power for things to turn out better for you, more frequently.
11. Jacques Prevert on Remembering Happier Times
"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." – Jacques Prevert
One of the best practices is to find joy in any little moment you can. Hold onto the happiness of seeing an amazing view in nature, of savoring that delicious latte, or of the sound of a child laughing. Don't forget about all the ways that happiness shows up.
12. Confucius Works His Quotable Magic
"It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop." – Confucius
Don't unpack your baggage and camp out in misery! Keep moving forward even if it is just one day, one moment, or one inch at a time. Keep moving towards the day when things will clear up and settle down for you again. The more you move, the faster you'll get there.
13. A Jewish Proverb on What to Ask For
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders." – Jewish Proverb
Consider asking for more strength, power, grace, love and forgiveness to get through times that are hard. Sometimes your situation won't lighten no matter how much you ask you for it, and you just need extra oomph just to get through it. Ask to be able to carry your burden more easily.
14. Lee Iacocca on Surviving Adversity
"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca
Within these times of stress and adversity, stillness can allow you to wallow and sink into depression. The feelings that come during hard times need a job; they need something to do so they don't swallow you up whole. People have been known to say that their houses get astonishing clean when they are angry.
15. Joel Osteen on the Tough Times of Life
"You're going to go through tough times – that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events." – Joel Osteen
There are always great lessons and blessings in each challenging experience you have. It is victim mentality to think that things are always happening "to" you. When things happen "for" you, you learn and grow wise. The first way of thinking is small and weak; the second way of thinking is constructive and liberating.
16. Marjorie Pay Hinckley Says to Enjoy Even the Tough Times
"The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead." – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Sometimes our rough times can last years. Waiting for something better (that may not even come) is a perfect waste of the NOW. This moment is all we have. Even if it flavored by pain, why would you not want to enjoy what you've got in any way you can?
17. Vivian Greene on Dancing in the Rain
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene
I'm sure you've seen this quote floating around social media and it might even feel a bit cliché, but it's true to the core. Learning how to be happy and confident during any of life's storms give you incredible power over the ups and downs in your life.
18. Mary Anne Radmacher on Being Courageous
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow." – Mary Anne Radmacher
Being courageous in the face of trials doesn't always look like you at a full run, head to toe in armor, wielding a sword, and screaming war cries. It can be that quiet resolve you have to get up and face another day, to tackle what comes and try again.
19. Thomas Edison on the Limit of Possibilities
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." — Thomas Edison
You don't have to be a genius to think of ways to change or solve your situation. Put on your problem solving cap and get to work brainstorming all the solutions that could work for your life. Be creative and think outside of the box. A solution oriented mind is valuable indeed.
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Communities have the opportunity of "coming together to love and celebrate people with differences."
Foundation Church pastor says cultural diversity is symbolic of a "glimpse of heaven."
Employees asked to sign company's "Affirmation of Biblical Community," promising to not lie, abuse drugs or have sex before marriage.
Volunteers are encouraged to join Answering the Call Together, Inc. (ACT) on a mission trip to Plymouth, N.C. from Feb. 24 through March 2.
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Pontiff says Church won't defend abuses
Midwestern region of the Jesuit church releases names of accused priests.
Teen's dad: "He basically called him a sinner in front of everybody. … We were just blindsided."
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Leader of southwest Ohio's half-million Roman Catholics says Vatican's request last week to delay reform and accountability measures is an "enormous disappointment."
American bishops forced to divulge secret lists of offenders dating back more than six decades.
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Relative font sizes Vs. Browser zoom functionality
Saturday, 13 February 2010
I was recently asked a question about whether we can rely solely on the browsers inbuilt zoom functionality instead of using relative fonts in our web design. This is an issue which seems to have two strongly conflicting schools of thought… here was my response, please let me know your views on the subject :
To be honest, I don't think there is a straight answer. However on the whole, I would say that relative font sizes are *still* important in accessible webdesign, particularly as you can never be sure who, or indeed, how the user will access your site.
Most of the modern browsers do have great "zoom" functionality. They use what is called "page zooming" which quite literally zooms in on the entire page (text, imagery, formatting, etc). However, some older browsers (IE6 springs to mind…) only gave the option to "text zoom". This scaled the text size up (or down) while maintaining the layout of the page. Since several old browsers are still used by some users, we should strive to support these older browsers as much as possible.
My opinion is that we should still code webpages using relative text sizes. This really gives the user (and the web designer to some extent) the ability to make their own choice as to whether they increase the size of the text alone (using text scaling) or zooming in on the page using "page zoom".
Relative font sizes can be fiddly to get right, but I usually find it pays off in the end. Some websites can display better if the text has been scaled, rather than zooming. One of the main reasons is that page zooming often results in horizontal scrolling, which I believe to be a usability no-no, particularly as it reduces page scannability. Admittedly, text scaling can make webpages look terrible (if the layout was not designed to be liquid) but it usually maintains the page dimensions and retains normal (vertical) scrolling.
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How to start an edit pre-logged: use Lumberjack!
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As part of our ongoing beta testing of Lumberjack we recently did a shoot at Furnishing Hope for After Action reports on the Military Entertainment Channel. I get to edit this one, so it was really nice to start with my multicam clips fully logged.
Instead of an empty timeline and me making the decision on what's up first, I've got the full interview, logged, ready to start editing.
The Timeline index combined with Lumberjack's on-location muscular logging, makes this perfect.
For reference, I chose the "by person" string-out. Had I had multiple interviews I could have created string-outs by content keyword (activity notes.)
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InuYasha the Movie
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In the first of these four movies, Inuyasha must defeat the son of a demon sealed away by his own father, while Kagome must contend with a potentially permanent separation from Inuyasha. In the second, Inuyasha and his ragtag team finally slay Naraku, but in so doing clear the way for evil moon-princess Kaguya to return to Earth. In the third, the reawakening of the most destructive and autonomous of Inuyasha's father's swords forces Inuyasha and his brother Sesshomaru to join forces in defeating it. In the fourth, Inuyasha returns to a mystical island he and Kikyo once visited to free the half-demon children imprisoned there and defeat the four demon-gods who are enslaving them.
There's definitely a pattern to the movies spawned by Rumiko Takahashi's long-running "feudal fairy tale." Each one follows the same broad plot outline and even the same basic movie structure. They could almost be remakes of one another, or at the very least really similar variations on a theme. That probably has something to do with the conspicuous consistency of their production—they were produced with machinelike precision at yearlong intervals—along with their consistent authorship (each was written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa and directed by Toshiya Shinohara). But there's more to it than that. They adhere to formula, at least in part, simply because it's a decent formula: effective, entertaining, and flexible enough to create disparate charms for each film.
The basic story goes thus: Evil is released from some form of imprisonment; evil gathers power to itself; evil crosses Inuyasha and company; evil gets destroyed by Inuyasha and company. The evil always has some connection to Inuyasha's past, always has small-fry subordinates for the secondary heroes to battle, always reaches the pinnacle of its power before the good guys can stop it, and is always crushed in the end by the combined powers of Inuyasha and Kagome (or in the case of movie three, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru). Structurally, each film begins with a big battle, during which it reintroduces the franchise's main players. It builds through several smaller battles to a spectacular final showdown. It concludes with a humorous "what comes after" montage during the end credits, followed by a short coda that usually ends with Kagome getting mad at Inuyasha and telling him to "sit!"
As thoroughly and sometimes annoyingly predictable as that rigid formula can be, it has certain built-in advantages. Its clean, classical structure for instance. No matter how each film fares in terms of its villain or its emotional undercurrents, it can still rely on its established structure to give it an opening hook, a smoothly escalating conflict, a satisfyingly epic climax, and a gentle wind-down at the end. Regardless of their end worth, every film is guaranteed a certain base level of entertainment value.
The real value of the formula, though, isn't its stability, but the little bit of flexibility it allows itself. In each film the formula is wrapped around a different issue from the main franchise—Inuyasha and Kagome's relationship in the first, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's rivalry in the third, and so on. And unlike most franchise films, Inuyasha's films have no qualms about bracing the big issues head-on, and even breaking a little new ground while they do. Which allows each movie to resonate in a different way with the franchise's fans, and to take on a slightly different flavor from its neighbors.
In terms of individual flavor, the first film is definitely the tastiest. Partly that's just because the formula hasn't gotten stale yet. Mostly, though, it's because the film's heart is that of the franchise at large: Inuyasha and Kagome's kinda-maybe romance. The film offers up more Kagome/Inuyasha goodness than a whole season of the TV show, especially when Kagome is buffaloed into returning to the present by Kikyo. Her return is cut off, and the film takes on a sad, snow-muffled lyricism that shamelessly exploits the pair's fairy-tale separation (the movie isn't called Affections Touching Across Time for nothing). The movie also benefits from its hissable villains, the weaker of which meet satisfyingly ignominious ends.
The second film is the closest to being a direct remake of the first, the only difference being its female villain and full incorporation of arch-villain Naraku into its plot. The film is quite clever and surprisingly logical about how it weaves Naraku into what is essentially a regurgitation of the first film's story. And Naraku's early "death" allows the movie to explore the ways Naraku has damaged the characters' lives, and how they might react to the end of their anti-Naraku quest, in sensitive and surprisingly touching ways. As with the first film, it is those quieter, more emotional passages that linger even after the concluding bombast has faded from memory.
The third film runs into trouble by trying to make dramatic hay with the dried-up remnants of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's brotherly bond. Cold, terminally inexpressive Sesshomaru is one of the franchise's least interesting characters, and his rivalry with Inuyasha one of its least interesting relationships. The film does earn points for giving us a taste of what Inuyasha's mother and father were like, and what they felt for each other. But when the script tries to milk uplift from the brothers joining of forces, it quickly curdles into cheese. The slop about how sons idolize their fathers and how fathers are goals that their sons strive for doesn't help a whit.
The final film continues the downward slide. It's the only one of the films that doesn't clearly center itself around one of the franchise's ongoing concerns. If you count the flashbacks to non-corpse Kikyo and the fight involving an evil Kikyo clone, you could make a case for the film being centered around Inuyasha and Kikyo's tragic relationship, but that would be stretching things a bit given the brevity of their scenes together. The film is far more interested in the plight of its troop of adorable half-demon kids, which makes it a closer cousin to the heroes-help-new-characters filler films of series like Bleach and Naruto.
The first film sets the visual pattern for the later films by underplaying its visuals in the first half—sticking reasonably close to the quality level of the TV series—before pulling out the stops for the second half. The snow-wrapped modern-day interlude and the final spectacle atop a skyscraper-sized evil tree are both standouts, as are a couple of full-motion shots involving arrows. The later films lose the hand-drawn look of the first, substituting it with a more modern digital gloss, but retain the split in energy between their first and second halves. Generally the best of Sunrise's animation is kept for the second half, where it supports the big (often very big) supernatural action with gorgeous, destructive fluidity. Unfortunately, with the possible exception of more poetic parts of the second film, none of the films ever again summon anything as individually memorable as the highlights from the first film. That said, the franchise's rather grotesque imagination stays strong even when the movies are weak, delivering a wealth of impressively baroque scenery (especially within the twisted lairs of its villains) and freaky supernatural occurrences (the refleshing of a zombie samurai for instance).
Kaoru Wada's soaring medieval score is another constant, though it can range from full-bore action punctuation to jidai-geki-styled classical reserve within any given film. Whatever tack it's taking, however, it's always superb—an invaluable source of eerie atmosphere and stirring fanfare. It's one flaw is its fondness for repetition, but given how memorable the themes are, that's not much of a flaw. It isn't until you listen to a composer of Wada's quality that you realize just how forgettable most other scores are.
Viz's dub, on the other hand, definitely tends towards the forgettable. Except when its memorably bad. The first film was dubbed far enough back that it still retains traces of the early TV dub's awful old-timey affectations, mostly in the ye, thee, thou nonsense of elder priestess Kaede. The later movies don't have Kaede, so they lose any such trace. They do, however, retain the slight flatness and the overall lack of conviction peculiar to Viz dubs of the early-to-mid 2000s. The script is extremely conservative, to the point of aping the subtitles almost word-for word, which does nothing to further the natural flow of dialogue. It's a tolerable dub, but no match for the star-studded original.
Tolerable is a good word for this whole set. Sometimes it's highly enjoyable, especially during the effectively emotional portions of the first two films. And even after the third and fourth films start slipping into mush-laced mediocrity, it's never less than diverting. But as an overall experience, it's too formulaic and too repetitive to be more than merely tolerable entertainment. Skip the set, and settle for the DVD of Affections Touching Across Time. You'll get the same plot, better visuals, and none of the repetition.
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Overall (sub) : B-
Story : C
Animation : B+
Art : B+
Music : A-
+ The first movie; most of the films are tied, at least emotionally, to the TV series' main story; fine visuals and a glorious soundtrack.
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Sincere sympathy goes to the family of Pattie Bermingham Kilcloon who died recently. She was a much loved wife,mother,grandmother and sister. Burial was in Kilcloon cemetery. Ar Ndheis De Go Raibh si.
Warmest congratulations goes to Aishling Noone (Tirmoghan) and Jane Healy (Newtown) on receiving their John Paul 11 awards,along with all the other young people from the diocese,at a ceremony in Carlow recently.
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Erect or scrambling shrub, 0.25-1 m high. Fl. cream-white, Sep to Dec. Loamy or clayey sand over chert. Low rocky ridges & hills, outcrops.
Beard's Provinces: South-West Province.
IBRA Regions: Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
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"Smile Angel" is the working title of my new novel yet in manuscript form but submitted to a publisher for consideration. You are wekcome to read the beginning:
An unlikely Siren beckons someone to shore.
Churning waters veil an unforgiving reef.
Her hallowed invitation soars,
Enchanting an old sailor,
Drawn strong in joy,
Charmed toward jealous death;
Odysseus bound never had it so good.
In the spring of 2012 in Southeastern Pennsylvania, an angel appeared to a girl and her dog...
Hi. My name is Emmet McDuffy. Old childhood friends still call me Emmer. I have no idea how Emmet became Emmer. That's how things go. Maybe some kid did not hear my name right in grade school or my dad thought it was cute. Good old dad—I still wonder what ever became of him?
Emmet means ant in a Cornish dialect. Emmer is an ancient form of wheat cultivated by Babylonians. There's a wild disconnection for you, one that I finally discovered at age twenty when I was stationed in the Middle East!
I am an attorney and have been for nine years. I spent some of my youth in the armed services, did one tour in Afghanistan where I sustained a head wound—the gift of metal bits from an explosion I never saw or saw but cannot remember. You can see a three-inch scar on the right side of my forehead into the hairline. No hair grows in that old gash. Now and then, when my anxiety builds up, I go to a vet group rap session.
I wear my thinning, wavy auburn hair long. I tie it back with one of those simple, black elastic bands in my professional role, you know, when I am at the office or in court. The only jewelry I wear is an ivory and black onyx yin yang medal that hangs from a cord around my neck. It is one of the few things I own that belonged to my dad. I wear round, wire-rimmed glasses like my dad did. Not so subconsciously, I want to pretend he is yet in my life. I look like him, I suppose, so I see him in the mirror too, but he was a lot thinner than me when I last saw him when he was around thirty-one. I'm six feet two or so, maybe fifteen pounds over my slim, six-pack abs days—maybe twenty. I am forty-four years old at this writing, born in November in 1969 in New Jersey.
My parents were hippies. Mom grew up Jewish in Brooklyn but not as a believer. Her folks were Progressives—she said they joined the Communist Party in the Thirties. I never met her folks before they died. They did not like dad who may have been too progressive for them.
When I was ten, we were living in a propane-heated trailer just inside the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey. The Pine Barrens, for those of you that never heard of them (or missed that episode of The Sopranos), or the Pinelands contain a vast forest that stretches over seven counties in the flat, coastal plain. Much of it is swamp. Over one million acres is a pristine National Reserve, so designated by the U.S. Congress in 1978. It feeds one of the purest aquifers in America with rainwater filtered through sandy soil. As a matter of expedience, Mafioso transported and dumped murdered stiffs into the Barrens where they sunk in the swamps—so much for pure water, eh?
Mom and dad never wanted to be married and never did marry.
Dad was into Carlos Castaneda's bogus Indian sorcery when mom met him. Dad never met the elusive author, but he read and believed the books as if they were about a real Indian. I never mentioned this in public before, but mom told me they were tripping on mescaline when I was conceived. In any case, I am not sure what that has to do with me—I was practically not there at all. Mom reassured me that she stopped all drug use when she found out she was pregnant. I want to believe her.
Dad was a dreamer, and maybe he was a little crazy. According to an old high school friend of his I met once, he was known as McDaffy. But, then again, crazy was hip during the late 1960s. On one occasion, I helped dad create a Jersey Devil costume—not the hockey team uniform—you know, that legendary bat-winged, two-legged, hairy man-beast that roams the Pine Barrens. The scary legend has been around for at least two hundred years. One version says it was a freaky, practically indestructible child born to a pioneer woman. Dad gave me twenty bucks to help film his charade with a 16mm camera as he dashed in costume among the trees and disappeared into a swampy thicket. He presented a fuzzy, fifteen second film clip to a local television reporter. The regional news ran with it as a human interest anecdote, as they might in Scotland with sightings of the Loch Ness monster or in Oregon of a Bigfoot.
I must admit, the images of our Jersey Devil on TV looked impressive. I was proud of my work. Credulous people came flocking to our home in the Barrens with cameras to interview us. Many overran the area hoping to score with their own pictures of a sighting. Mom refused to participate. The county sheriff put a stop to the parade of cars and foot traffic that trampled sensitive habitat. Dad finally fessed up, not liking the attention that often included ridicule—skeptics saw through it immediately.
My teachers were none too happy with me, but I was famous with the fifth grade fringe. I had my fifteen minutes of infamy—Andy Warhol once said everyone deserves fifteen minutes of fame.
My parents split apart for good by the time I was twelve. Dad disappeared in 1980 and his last note to mom was in 1981. Mom said he was on a quest after reading about a shaman in the Amazon. I once overheard her say that an anaconda strangled and ate him, but I never believed that. Or did she mean she hoped one did?
Mom sold our trailer home after our big mutt dog Tarzan was dying of cancer. He was skin and bones. It was awful. We could not afford treatment. We had to put him down ourselves and bury him. I shot him point blank in back of the head with dad's shotgun. We moved to Camden. The fellow that bought our grungy trailer hauled it away to the county dump. He put up a fantastic A-frame in its place with exquisite landscaping. The place ended up looking like something out of Home and Garden magazine.
Thankfully, Mom landed a good job at a high-end restaurant in the city. We rented a half a double, two-story house in an old, ethnically and racially mixed neighborhood. Mom raised me alone from there and did her best as a pot-smoking waitress to give me a home until I signed up for the service. Mom took her social security early at 62 and moved in with her older cousin Joan in Arkansas a few years ago.
The military helped me reset my priorities. Boot camp blew out my childhood insecurities. My Purple Heart award got me some recognition and academic assistance. With the help of military benefits, I managed to finish college and law school at Rutgers where I met a fine Canadian girl and married her. She divorced me ten years ago. She said I drank too much and got violent once with her. I did and I am ashamed. I now live alone in a small, comfortable if messy apartment with a big flat screen television. My drinking is under control. I am too distracted anymore to keep a pet—not even a goldfish—and every plant anyone gave me as a gift died. My ex has our son and they live in Canada with her family; but enough about me.
This story is about Sirena Toth, a little girl—she was around eleven and small for her age—that I represented in a civil case recently. I want to tell her story while events are yet fresh in my mind and in my heart, and while I have access to witnesses and evidence. I have boxes of paper files, a flash drive with many images and documents, and several DVDs. She and her parents gave me permission to relay the story as best I can. In fact, they want the facts to speak for themselves, but facts, I have to admit, have a way of getting muddled in memory, from points of view, and through controversy.
For many reasons that will become apparent, this family, the Toths, no longer wanted to be personally involved in self-promotion. I take responsibility for this story about what happened after an angel appeared to Sirena at Indian Rock.
"Baggins, get back here you dumb dog. You're not supposed be out today!" Sirena shouted breathlessly. The small-for-her-age, eleven-year-old with long, tied back black hair, limped her way up the rocky, wooded slope in sight of her pet bounding along a familiar trail. The morning sunlight streaked through the canopy of oak, ash, maple, walnut, beech, and hickory trees creating a flickering light effect on Sirena as she moved through one ray of sunlight after another. It was late spring and warm in hilly, southeastern Pennsylvania. New corn had broken ground surface. Birds had built their nests. The spring equinox had passed. Sirena lagged well behind the spunky Cocker-Jack cross. "Get back here, Baggins" she yelled again with all the breath she could manage.
Baggins was due for a routine examination and shots later that morning. Sirena figured that the dog knew it and slipped out the door. Veterinarian visits made him nervous. But that was not why he was running away. He was running toward something.
The mottled tan and white mutt led the way toward the ridge above a familiar, huge, gray boulder. Sirena and Baggins knew the rock site well. The rock with a domed top was easily eight feet across and nine feet to its base. From ages past, it had been exposed by erosion as an outcrop along a steep slope.
Before I continue with the rock event, I want to give you more background. This apparition occurred a little over two years after Ian Toth, Sirena's dad, moved his small family to live in their old, stone farmhouse. The cozy home was forty yards off the main road and two hundred yards of rugged trail from the big rock. The four-bedroom, two-story house had many new features including newly installed, energy efficient windows and doors. Solar panels on the sloped roof supplemented power from the nuclear reactor twenty miles to the southeast. The house combined vintage features—original plank floors upstairs, nine-foot ceilings downstairs, claw foot tub in main bathroom, white ceramic doorknobs—with modern comforts like central air. Ian inserted a heat blasting Jotul F-500 wood stove into the original living area fireplace that had a white marble mantel.
Ian and his wife, Rani, appreciated Pennsylvania's colonial heritage. They eagerly invested a portion of Ian's inheritance into remodeling after purchasing the property from their elderly neighbor, Seth Prosser. Mister Prosser figures strong in this story. The big rock was just across the property line on Prosser's land. Prosser was a second generation farmer on that land.
After sealing the house deal and saying goodbye to realtors, Prosser invited his new neighbors to walk with him to his farm and house for drinks and snacks. They hiked along a semi-worn trail through woods and a meadow for a quarter mile. The four new friends sat in a roomy, rustic kitchen to go over more details about the property. Sirena, then going on nine, was preoccupied with Mooch, Prosser's orange tabby cat that rubbed against her leg. Mooch was the only barn cat among several on the farm that he allowed inside. All Prosser's cats were neutered. Decades before, he made the mistake of letting his outdoor cats breed—no more. The house cat purred as Sirena scratched its head. Ian asked about the Native American rock site Prosser mentioned when they passed it during the hike.
Prosser hunched over a vintage, double-pedestal, maple dining table. He traced an imaginary path on its surface with his finger when he told the Toths, "I figured that the huge boulder was rolled into that position by the expanding Laurentide ice sheet and left there when it withdrew. It has not moved since."
Prosser was a sturdy seventy-nine years old in 2012 when I knew him. He stood five feet, eight inches tall. He trimmed his thick gray hair in a crew cut, a style he retained since his service as an officer in the Navy. He continued to farm twenty of his forty acres to raise soy beans and feed corn for his small herd of beef cattle, several pigs, and two goats. He lived alone. The farm and government checks kept him going comfortably. His wife passed away from cancer ten years earlier. The Prossers only child, a daughter, died from leukemia when she was Sirena's age. He naturally saw his daughter in her—his Laura also had long dark hair.
"That ice sheet was maybe a mile thick around these parts. Imagine that!" he exclaimed with his left hand held high above his head and eyes wide open for emphasis. "Huge boulders moved like grains of sand when that thing crept along. Locals started calling this one Indian Head Rock because when you see it from a lower vantage point, it has a rough but distinct profile of a bald man's head. Local Indians used it as a ceremonial place."
Prosser may have been wrong about the Laurentide sheet that reached only into northern Pennsylvania territory at its most extreme glaciations. He may have been closer to correct in saying that some form of major erosion sculpted, set, and exposed the rock. Prosser was quite the storyteller, not shrinking from embellishment.
"Does it look like an Indian? Sirena asked.
"Not so much, Siri. No feathers, no warpaint on it!" Prosser chuckled at his humor. "One anthropologist said the site was used by Indians many centuries ago. Could be thousands of years old," he said. "The chiefs sat above the head there in the stone seats," he said while tapping his finger on imaginary seats on the table.
Prosser was referring to a row of seats carved or chipped and fitted by aboriginals out of gray boulders that they imbedded along the hillside above the head.
"The seats might accommodate eight or nine elders from a tribe," he said. "One university chap suggested that it might have been a sacrificial site, but no one found any old bones of animals or people—yet."
He winked at Sirena. She half-smiled back.
"The rock head, however, was not carved or chipped by hand. It appeared to be a purely natural formation that adds to its magical presence. A large bowl-like depression, also natural, on top of the head may have served a ceremonial function. The entire setting spoke of ritual or ceremony to two anthropologists who studied it. Oh, if you go there, take a hammer with you. There is a spot around the forehead with high iron content—it's a bit worn there. It rings like a dull bell when you strike it with a hammer!"
"That must have added some drama to the ceremony," Ian noted with a smile. "I wonder what happened."
"We can only imagine," Prosser responded thoughtfully. "I don't mind if you all go there, but I'd rather you not bring any visitors without my permission. Few people now living in the area know of Indian Rock, as we used to call it when I was a kid. No one gets to see it without my permission anymore."
Seth Prosser protected his land and the site with no trespass and no hunting signs. Most of the property was not fenced. The semi-retired widower was the second generation owner. Mister Prosser, as everyone addressed him, allowed few people to see the Amerindian site since the late 1960s.
"Back in the day, groups of Beatniks," Prosser said with emphasis, "with their romantic ideas about Indian culture, overran the place several times. They took their drugs and smoked their pot there. I was told they were doing a ceremony, but to me they were more like parties. I had enough of them after hearing complaints from neighbors. The last straw was when I had to rush one long-haired, skinny kid to a hospital after he fell off the rock and cut his head open. His dopey friends dumped him on my front porch, not knowing what else to do. I guess they were scared. They wrapped his bloody head in a tie-dyed under shirt."
"I hope he was okay," Rani remarked.
"Oh, he survived after a few stitches and a big headache. I tried to be tolerant of the kids. I was wild in my day too. But the liability was too much for me, you know?"
"I do not blame you for closing it," Rani said. "Mister Prosser, tell us about your Indian heritage. I know so little about Indians in this area." Rani noticed Prosser's native features, his broad face, strong nose, and light brown skin when they first met. The realtor told Rani that Prosser was an Indian.
"I have family roots in this part of Pennsylvania. My father was Welsh. I take after my mother more. My mother was full-blooded Lenape (pronounced le-NAH-pee). She was born in 1899 in the springtime or, as she put it, when robins laid eggs. No one recorded the exact date. As best I could determine, Lenape people last used the site before the 1800s. Neither mom nor dad had any idea it was here until I was a teenager, maybe thirteen. I found it when I was looking for a tree to build a tree house on. I got thirsty and stumbled onto the spring. From there I saw a huge rock below me that was the top of the head. When I jumped down onto the head, I turned and saw what looked like the seats.
"When I discovered it, in 1946, vines and shrubs covered a lot of it. There was no trail then. Dad's signs kept hunters and hikers away. I cleared it over a few of days of hard work. I got a good case of poison ivy rash for my effort, mostly on my face and hands. But the worst was my crotch, if you know what I mean, Ian?"
The men laughed. Rani merely shook her head. She expected no less from Prosser. In all innocence Sirena asked, "How did you get it on your crotch?"
Prosser glanced at Ian briefly for a permissive nod before stating, "The poison was on my hands when I stopped to pee in the woods, kid. Men have to hold theirs, if you know what I mean!"
"Oh, sure," Sirena said flatly as she continued to pet the purring cat next to her chair.
Prosser's cat jumped onto the table in front of Sirena. She reached out to stroke its back, but Prosser shooed it off.
"Down cat. Not now." The cat dropped to the floor. "Sorry, I usually feed him up here when we eat breakfast together. He often sleeps up here."
Prosser continued, "I took my mom down there. She had no idea what it meant or why it was there."
Prosser paused to rub the white stubble on his chin. "Centuries earlier, her Algonquin-speaking ancestors thrived from Canada into Delaware."
The farmer traced a large, invisible ellipse on the table. He used his index finger to indicate a route.
"Starting in the 1600s, the main tribes of Lenni Lenape, or the Real People, in the Delaware Valley migrated west and north after white settlers arrived. William Penn may have been fair to the Indians at first, but later the whites placed a bounty on rebel Indians. They were forced off traditional lands by bad treaties and greed on both sides.
"My father, a mining engineer from Wales, bought this land in 1919 shortly before he met my mother. She was a hostess and cashier at a diner. She was a plain looking woman with a big nose, but he thought she was pretty—that's how they met. She was living nearby in Allentown at the time. She hid her Indian identity from him for many years."
"Why would she hide it, Mister Prosser?" Sirena asked.
"She was taught to be ashamed of it, Siri. Her given Indian name was Mahwah but school officials made her use Mary after she was orphaned. Most people thought she was a mixed black person. She was one of those kids forced to go to a government school, to speak English only. Her parents died from European diseases when she was seven or eight. She mostly forgot her native tongue. A generation later, she may have been one of the few, full-blooded Lenape left in these parts."
Prosser liked the Toths or he would not have sold to them. He allowed Sirena and her parents to view his small but significant collection of Indian artifacts. His Indian heritage meant only as much to him as his Welsh ancestry. For a half-blood Indian, he had an odd connection to Indian culture, almost as a curious white man might. His mother rarely talked to him about Indians, from what I could determine. Hell, my crazy dad was more into Indian culture, even if it was fake, than Prosser was as a kid.
Now, we can get back to Sirena at the rock.
Sirena knew where Baggins was headed. Indian Rock was her favorite spot for playing picnic with her dog. Baggins looked forward to sharing snacks there. As she approached the site, she could see Baggins on top of the rock head. The dog did not appear to notice or hear her. "Baggins, don't you move," she said as she approached him with a woven leather leash in hand. The dog was statue still with head cocked as if fixated on something nearby. That something stood, or seemed to stand above a gurgling, spring-fed spill that looked like a miniature waterfall.
The slim, irritated girl was about to clip the leash onto the unmoving dog's collar when a glow in the pet's line of vision startled her. She raised her eyes slowly. She noticed the bright shape emerging from the source of the spring above the spill. Cautiously, Sirena stood upright. The leash hung slack from her hand. Both dog and girl were gazing at the same thing. Sirena's expression changed from surprise to wonder to awe and then to silent laughter as the light took form and spoke to her. During the minutes-long encounter, Sirena would answer, then giggle uncontrollably, yet not make a sound.
"Dad, I met an angel."
Ian turned his head as he removed his tortoise shell eye glasses. He leaned and twisted sideways in his stuffed fabric recliner, the better to see his daughter. She stood in the foyer between him and the front door, her thin figure backlit and in silhouette. The bright early light surrounded her in a halo through the door's oval window. Her long black hair hung behind in a braid. She had returned with Baggins who stood obediently by her side, happily wagging his stub.
"Glad you guys are back. We have to get going," Ian said with emphasis. Then the angel statement hit him. "What did you say, honey?"
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This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP.
Virtually every modern business understands that they need to protect their brand, but many businesses mistakenly trust a registered corporate name or trade name for protection. That has led to countless cease and desist letters, trademark infringement lawsuits, and rebranding exercises.
- Corporate Name: A corporate name is the legal name of a corporation, acquired through provincial and federal corporate registries. The primary purpose of a corporate name is to identify a corporation on legal documents (e.g. contracts, invoices, etc.). While there are rules in place to prevent confusion around corporate names, you should be wary of using a corporate name as you brand. Doing so may result in a claim of trademark infringement if your corporate name is confusingly similar to an existing trademark. Owning a registered corporate name is not a defence to trademark infringement.
- Trade Name: A trade name is a secondary registered name for a business entity. Trade names are available to virtually any entity, including partnerships, corporations and sole proprietors. As with registered business names, you should be wary of using a trade name as your brand. The fact that your trade name is registered is not a defence if you are sued by someone who already has a registered trademark.
- Trademark: A trademark identifies the source of goods or services. Trademarks benefit both businesses and consumers, enabling businesses to monopolize their brand while allowing consumers to select goods and services from their preferred provider. Once a trademark is registered, the owner may sue anyone who uses the trademark or a confusingly similar trademark in the same field anywhere in Canada. Registered trademarks also carry a range of other brand-protection benefits, which you can read more about in Trademarks 101: Five Reasons to Register Your Trademark.
The trade name/corporate name registration process often confuses business owners into believing that they "own" their brand and can prevent unauthorized use:
- Trade names/corporate names often overlap with trademarks, partly because businesses use the same name on their branding as they do on more formal legal documents (e.g. the corporation Coca-Cola Ltd. owns the trademark COCA-COLA).
- As anyone who has registered a trade name/corporate name will know, registries may vet names for confusion with existing names and registered trademarks. During this process, the applicant may receive the results of a NUANS search, or similar search, and a notice that their trade name/corporate name has been approved. After seeing this vetting process, it is completely understandable that business owners might believe having a registered trade or business name means they own their brand.
If you are using a corporate name/trade name as your "brand" but you have not registered a trademark, you are taking a number of risks, including:
- Someone else owns the trademark. They may demand that you rebrand or, even worse, sue you for trademark infringement to obtain the profits you have made with their trademark and for their legal costs.
- Someone else starts using the same trademark. If you do not have a registered trademark, you will be in a weaker position to stop them, particularly if you only have a regional reputation and they are not in the same region.
- Someone else registers your trademark after you start using it. Whether they are a legitimate business or a squatter, if someone registers your trademark they have put you in a very weak position. At best, you can pursue costly Federal Court proceedings to try to have their trademark cancelled. At worst, you will lose your brand entirely.
- Before you brand, make sure a trademarks professional has conducted the appropriate searches. For more on searches, see Trademarks 101: Pre-screening and Searches.
- Register your trademarks. The process takes a minimum of 12 months, so it is best to file as early as possible.


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Another shipment of BB Dakota clothing at the store on Tuesday. We had just sent out a mass e-mail for the weekend shopping. Of course by trying to drive a few hundred shoppers to our website we had to get the new clothing online. We were able to get a few models to show up the night before Thanksgiving for a photo shoot. I had the opportunity to have my first shoot with Carissa. She did a runway show two weeks ago for the boutique (at Burt Watson Pontiac Chevrolet) but I had not worked with her. For a first photo shoot she did a great job!
Carissa wearing the BB Dakota Bloomington Dress.
I over exposed the images a little and the backdrop was a bit wrinkled. I didn't notice this until I got home and started to edit the images.


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(From Daily Dot, 3/21/2016: Apple exec says using a 5-year-old PC is 'sad')
Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, took the stage in Cupertino, California, to explain some of the new features and specs on the new iPad Pro.
Between showing off a new display and camera, Schiller also took some digs at Windows and PC users, specifically calling out those users who are on computers more than five years old.
Schiller said that 600 million people are using PCs that are over five years old. "This is really sad," he said.
The audience in Cupertino laughed and applauded, but many of those watching the livestream did not.
I don't applaud the VP's statement either.
Mindless pursuit of the latest consumer goods can be detrimental to your financial health.
Default retention and expansion of expensive cable/satellite services can also be bad.
My feelings and thoughts about money were crystallized by a book I read in 1992: "Your Money Or Your Life" by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.
The book's thesis is that achieving Financial Independence (FI) is a feasible and a highly desirable goal.
Also, you can consider money as something you receive in exchange for your "Life Energy".
In view of the fact that you have a finite amount of life energy, it makes sense to consider whether each prospective purchase is worth the life energy you would expend to pay for it.
Every unnecessary, unfulfilling purchase you make delays the arrival of FI for you.
(It also clutters up your living space; my favorite book on this topic: "Not For Packrats Only".)
The book, at least as originally written, supposed that we dislike our jobs and want to be free of them.
(As the great Russian philosopher Illya Kuryakin once said when asked by colleague Napoleon Solo if he was free for an assignment: "No man is free who works for a living. But I'm available.")
I had been working at American Airlines as a realtime programmer for over three years by 1992, and was still thrilled to be doing what I was doing. So I didn't agree with that supposition at all, then.
However, 20+ years including a spin-off, an outsourcing, an acquisition, a boomerang, and an overall deterioration of corporate culture later, the job's luster significantly diminished for me.
At that point, I was glad I had been diligently putting the book's general philosophy into practice all that time.
The book's specific financial advice was lacking. I didn't invest in 30-year Treasury bonds as it recommended.
That was because I had previously read the book, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street".
Though I participated in an investment club in the mid-1990s, the main thing I learned was that I didn't want to be spending my time researching stocks.
"Random Walk" had already revealed to me that a monkey throwing darts at a newspaper stock listing outperforms professional investment advice over time.
Besides, a monkey charges only peanuts for his services.
Buying and holding index funds (a way to automate the monkey) and not attempting to outguess the market is an easy, low drama way to invest.
(Being mindlessly on autopilot in this realm is not such a bad thing once you have set a general course, as over-attention can lead to taking financial actions at the wrong times.)
My computer setup in its entirety cost less than the cheapest iPad on the screen behind the Apple VP (skip the following if it bores you).
As part of TCC's Wavebreak Cloud Computing program, I was issued a now-8-year-old dual-core Dell laptop for free. It was upgraded first to Windows 7, then to Windows 10 at no cost. I am typing on it at this moment.
My mom (who had loaned me the "Your Money Or Your Life" book) unloaded a now-7-year-old weak Celeron processor-powered desktop Windows 7 PC on me when she switched to a laptop. I realized I could use the built-in Windows Media Center software and a USB TV tuner to turn it into a PVR (personal video recorder) for the media room. It has since been upgraded for free to Windows 10 as well. It runs headless (no monitor).
Our newest PC is a 5-year-old PC bought used from a friend, who bought it at an estate sale. Of the four, this is the only one with significant CPU power (quad-core i5). It does all the heavy transcoding of DVR'd broadcast TV for the free Emby server software, which streams to smartphones or Rokus. It quickly converts DVDs to .mkv files usable in Plex or Emby. Likewise, it was upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 at no cost. It also runs headless.
The oldest is about 11 years old. It also has a weak Celeron CPU, is still on Windows Vista, and won't be upgraded. It still has some use as a Plex and print server. With monitor and free VNC software, it serves as a window into the desktop environments of the two headless home theater PCs. It was the most expensive of the lot!
I also have three Linux-based Raspberry Pi computers costing $35 each.
I strap one of my wife's cast-off Android smartphones to my arm as a music player while running and working out. Another one, I use as a wifi-only smartphone around the house and other wifi-enabled hangouts.
When I retired early, I found that I did miss one aspect of my old job: some of the actual work, researching and solving computer problems, and writing about them. Cord-cutting has given me opportunities to do both.
I've had a lot of fun doing it, not the least aspect of which is the large savings of "Life Energy" on cable TV.
So, Mr. Apple VP, I will take your opinion of old computers "under advisement", and "going forward", will most likely ignore it.
You do not need PCs at all to cut the cord. A TV and an antenna can completely suffice.
Maybe add a Roku box for Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, etc., if the TV isn't "smart".
Maybe add TiVo (and leave off the Roku) if you want an onscreen program guide and DVR.
That's all you need to start saving a lot of "Life Energy".


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Well, I'm finally a CCNA! It only took 9 years! Seriously, I took a 4 semester Cisco Networking Academy back in high school but didn't pursue it much after that. See, I took the CCNA exam 9 years ago and just barely missed passing. The problem is, I didn't pay enough attention in high school, so I didn't get all that I needed to out of that great oppurtunity.
Right after high school, I started working for a local government IT department, this job has grown into what is now my career. I love the job and I have learned so much more on the job than I ever did in any classroom. My job, doesn't really require me to pass any certifications but, about 3 years ago, I started really getting into self study mode. I ended up learning so many valuable things from my self study that I didn't know from on-the job experience. The MCSE studying especially, help me.
After all these years though, I had never thought about attempting Cisco again… I didn't have much I had to do with any Cisco devices at work, so it never really played that much of a role in my job anyway. Well, last year, I finally decided that I wanted to take another crack at it. This time, I wouldn't be relying on a classrom environment, but rather self-study. I soon found that I really enjoyed studying for Cisco exams… They are a lot more hands on then MS exams and they are not as dry (yet).
Last October, I finished the ICND1, but I unfortunately fizzled out… A small break turning into a couple months! I finally picked up the books, and fired up the Cisco equipment again, the first week of February! Today, I passed the ICND2, making me a CCNA. I passed with a fairly high score and felt a confidence going in, that I never felt 9 years ago. I knew, the I knew the material. I spent hours upon hours doing and redoing labs.
I think now, I might lay low on IT certs for a while and finally go back to college, maybe I'll do the project+ first though… Not sure yet.
If anyone is interested in what I used for study material, Here is a list.
Sybex CCNA book! IMO a very good book!
CCIE lab guide(McGraw Hill) by Stephen Hutnik and Michael Satterlee
-borrowed from my father-in-law! Very awesome lab book, starts from that easiest lab setups and works it's way up.
Ciscokits.com Lab book
-It has a few typos and a couple small errors, but overall it was very helpful to have.
Packet Tracer 5.1
I used this tool a lot when I wasn't near any real equipment. Very hand sim to have.
3 x 2600 series routers
1 1710 router
1 2950 switch
1 3550xl switch


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Neptune Collonges, an unfancied 33-1 shot, won a thrilling renewal of the John Smith's Grand National at Aintree on Saturday near Liverpool, England.
Heavily-backed 8-1 joint-favorite Seabass led over the final fence under Katie Walsh, but tired on the run to the Elbow and it was Sunnyhillboy who took up the running under Richie McLernon.
Sunnyhillboy looked to have the race in the bag when two lengths clear with just 100 yards left to run, but Neptune Collonges, under a determined Daryl Jacob, gradually closed in and grabbed the verdict by a nose right on the finish line in one of the closest finishes in the history of the race.
Seabass held on for third, five lengths adrift, with Cappa Bleu fourth for each-way backers.


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This is easily the most exciting piece of gaming hardware to come to light in many years. A super-rare Sega Pluto prototype of which only two were ever made. It's a bit battered, but you can buy it. You may need to sell your house, car, sofa, phone, microwave and bottom by the hour first to raise enough money, but it could be yours.
Last week a Sega employee boasted about owning one of the two Pluto prototypes that were produced for internal evaluation, wowing the gaming world with a magical piece of unknown Sega plastic. Now a regular gamer has admitted to finding the second Pluto test machine at a car boot sale, where he paid just $1 for it. That's every gaming hardware fan's wildest dream come true.
Internally, it's not hugely thrilling, as all Sega's done here is combine a Sega Saturn with an internal modem. Had it been released, the Pluto hardware would've offered fairly crappy online play in an internet world ruled by chirping modems and which pre-dated Sega's own fully-online Dreamcast machine by a couple of years.
The owner's produced a low-res video, in which he says it's "pretty dope" and a bit on the enormous side. He's not wrong. [GameGavel via Kotaku]


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Tony's got very high hopes for Festival success
By Damian Dolan.
2013 was a big year for Tony Martin, in more ways than one. No stranger to the winner's enclosure at Cheltenham, Benefficient and Ted Veale did the business for the Meath based trainer at last year's Festival, although that double success was sadly tempered by an injury to the highly rated Bog Warrior.
Having set a blistering pace in the World Hurdle, Bog Warrior faded before picking up an injury when finishing fifth. Solwhit, with Paul Carberry in the saddle, went on to claim victory. Bog Warrior has only run once since then, last month at Gowran when he unseated jockey Bryan Cooper at the second last in the Red Mills Steeplechase.
Entered for the Gold Cup at the Festival, it remains to be seen whether he'll make it to the starting line, but what a sensational story it would be if 12 months on, he returned to claim victory.
"It was good to get two winners, but Bog Warrior was a fair old kick in the teeth," said Martin of his stable star. "A real champion, he could have been anything.
"He's entered but it's too early to say. He's over his fall, he was late getting back and we've just let him come himself without rushing him. We ran him the other day and unfortunately he just wasn't straight up. Hopefully he's improving.
For more see this week's edition of the Irish World


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Ohhhh yeah, it's time for another edition of Scrap It Girl's Favorite Things Friday. This week is dedicated to your favorite paint brush or water color tool.
I absolutely love my water brushes. In my opinion, they are essential tools for blending. I use them on images colored with water color pencils. I used them to blend water based inks, or even for adding ink to tiny places on projects.
What is your favorite paint brush or water color tool?


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My wife is a proud graduate of June Buchanan School - a K-12 school located on the campus of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Ky.
I certainly knew that June Buchanan School was small; my wife was in a graduating class of nine. But for some reason I don't know what I was expecting when I finally made the trip over to Pippa Passes. Alice Lloyd College is quite a wonderful little place. The school was founded in 1923 by Lloyd and Buchanan, who travelled to Kentucky trying to improve the educational system of those in Appalachia. What began as a model Appalachian community transformed into the Caney Junior College. The school became a four-year college in 1982, the same year that June Buchanan School was founded.
Interestingly, all students, regardless of how much they pay to go to school, are required to perform some job at the school. They may work as janitors, tutors or do some other work study, but all of them must have a job. The school averages around 500 students.
The origin of the name Pippa Passes is among the more interesting stories I've heard. I always assumed it had something to do with a mountain "pass." The real story is more interesting though. The name comes from one of Alice Lloyd's favorite poems - "Pippa Passes" - by Robert Browning. The poem is famous for the line - "God's in his heaven - all's right with the world." The name Pippa Passes actually relates to the unknown goodwill and happiness that the title character Pippa brings to those that she passes.


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In The Supreme Court of Nigeria
On Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Suit No: SC.250/2009
Before Their Lordships
DAHIRU MUSDAPHER……. Justice of the Supreme Court
MAHMUD MOHAMMED……. Justice of the Supreme Court
JOHN AFOLABI FABIYI……. Justice of the Supreme Court
OLUFUNLOLA OYELOLA ADEKEYE……. Justice of the Supreme Court
SULEIMAN GALADIMA……. Justice of the Supreme Court
BODE RHODES-VIVOUR……. Justice of the Supreme Court
NWALI SYLVESTER NGWUTA……. Justice of the Supreme Court
ATTORNEY-GENERAL, CROSS RIVER STATE …Appellants
2, ATTORNEY-GENERAL, AKWA IBOM STATE …Respondents
Items (a) and (b) above have further implications as follows –
d. Cross River State has 35904 N and 81253 E as coordinates of the terminal point on the Nigeria/Equatorial Guinea International Maritime boundary.
Cross River will gain 75 number of oil wells and Akwa Ibom State will lose the same number of oil wells. The status of the plaintiff as an oil producing state was sequel to the amicable resolution of the boundary dispute between the plaintiff and the 2nd defendant in 2005.
The plaintiff also submitted that the 1st defendant or any of its agencies has no power to resolve the purported dispute without the contribution and the views of the plaintiff and the defendant. The statutory duty of the National Boundary Commission implies that there must be a boundary dispute before the Commission can refer the dispute to its technical committee. The plaintiff also dismissed the claim of the federal government that the decision of the International Court of Justice in the Cameroon/Nigeria Border dispute on the Bakassi Peninsula, as the basis of the review of the Derivation Fund Formula and why the plaintiff's name was removed from the table of beneficiaries.
The plaintiff disagreed with this reason in view of the following facts –
a. The decision of the International Court of Justice was made in 2002.
b. The boundary dispute between the plaintiff and 2nd defendant was amicably settled in 2005.
c. The decision of the ICJ has implication of the retention of the Western part of Bakassi Peninsula by Nigeria which means legally and administratively Bakassi LGA of Cross River State remains integral part of Nigeria. This entails that Cross River State has an outlet to the sea.
d. The ICJ decision can no longer be the basis for changing realities as erroneously canvassed by the RMAFC and NBC.
The plaintiff further submitted that the 1st defendant having acted ultra vires of its powers under the law, the purported settlement of non-existence boundary dispute is null and void. The plaintiff cited cases to support the submission that the 1st defendant acted ultra vires of its powers:-
Knight Frank & Rutley (Nig) v. A-G Kano State (1998) 7 NWLR (Pt.556) Pg. 1 at pg. 19. Ujam v. IMT (2007) 2 NWLR (Pt.1010) Pg.490 at Pgs. 498 -499.
The 1st defendant through her counsel Mr. Mike Usman, learned senior counsel argued and submitted that the National Boundary Commission; the Revenue Mobilization Allocation of Funds Committee; the Surveyor-General of the Federation and the Department of Petroleum Resources did not determine any boundary dispute between the plaintiff and the 2nd defendant at her Inter-Agency Retreat in Kano in August 2008. The Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission relied on her statutory power under Section 6(1) (a) and (b) of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission Act Cap R7 Laws of the Federation 2004 where it is empowered to –
"Monitor the accruals to and disbursement of Revenue from the Federation Account and review from time to time the revenue allocation formulae and principles in operation to ensure conformity with changing realities."
The Revenue Allocation Commission would rely on information supplied by relevant various departments in the preparation of the 13% derivation Revenue Indices pursuant to Section 162(2) of the 1999 Constitution and Section (1) of the Onshore/Offshore Dichotomy Abolition Act 2004.
The 1st defendant specified the statutory duty of the National Boundary Commission based on Section 7(1) of the National Boundary Commission (Establishment) Act Cap N10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 which reads that the "National Boundary Commission is empowered to define and delimitate boundaries between States, Local Government Areas or Communities in the Federation and between Nigeria and her neighbours in accordance with delimitation instrument or document established for that purpose."
The 2nd defendant submitted through the learned senior counsel Chief Bayo Ojo about the effect of International Court of Justice's judgment on the boundary demarcation between the plaintiff and the 2nd defendant. The judgment of the International court was delivered in 2002. The decision was taken into consideration in resolving the Maritime boundary dispute in 2005. The letter of 4th January 2005 specified the boundary but the letter was written under the impression that Nigeria would be allowed to retain Western Bakassi. The judgment of the International court did not give Nigeria the privilege of retaining Western Bakassi neither did the judgment at any time excise Bakassi nor award it to Nigeria. The entire Peninsula was handed over to Cameroon in August 2008. The letter of 4th January 2005 was written with the hope that Bakassi Peninsula would become part of Nigeria and the National Boundary Commission in 2005 transferred and attributed to Cross River State the 76 oil wells which hitherto were legally the properly of and within the Maritime boundaries of Akwa Ibom State. The National Boundary Commission's letter dated 4th January 2005 was hinged on the prospects that Nigeria would succeed in retaining Western Bakassi Peninsula. The map Exhibit CRSG 1 was said to have been approved by the President on the 24th of January 2005. This court in the case of A-G Cross River State v. A-G Federation (2005) 18 NWLR (Pt.958) Pg.581 rejected the National Boundary Commission revised boundary map that was then approved by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in that it will be premature for the court to determine the maritime boundary of the two states. Nigeria and Cameroon has to conclude their negotiation to finality and the international boundary fixed by the International Court of Justice is codified and published in line with the agreement. In effect, this court decided in that case contrary to the facts put forward in this case in this suit, that Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State do not share maritime boundaries in which circumstances there could not possibly be a maritime boundary dispute that could possibly be settled between the two states. The National Boundary Commission 2005 delineation/map was rejected by this court in the case A-G Cross River State v. A-G Federation. Both Exhibits F and B were nullified in that case. It is a misconception to conclude that RMAFC Inter-Agency meeting went in search of a non-existent maritime boundary dispute between Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. With the decision and execution of the judgment of International Court of Justice between Nigeria and Cameroon, there can never be a maritime boundary dispute between Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. As an outcome of the judgment of that court, Cross River State is now landlocked and has no seaward boundary. It is not a littoral state and consequently shares no maritime boundary with Akwa Ibom State. The National Boundary Commission and the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission have the statutory power to react to the changes and realities the after effect of the judgment of the International Court of Justice. The plaintiff failed to tender any map to support the contention that Cross River State has access to the sea directly and not through any other State.
The plaintiff also argued in favour of maritime boundary agreement based on the agreement of parties and supported same with two decisions of the International Court of Justice in the case concerning the Temple of Preach Vihear (Maris) Cambodia-Thailand ICJ Report (1962) and the case of Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso) v. Republic of Mali (1986) ICJ Report.
The decision of this court in the case of A-G Rivers State v. A-G Akwa Ibom State adequately supported the use of negotiated agreements in the resolution of maritime boundary disputes. The 2nd defendant however pointed out that such agreements may only be possible in the context of onshore/offshore Dichotomy Abolition Act 2004 where the parties share maritime boundaries. The plaintiff and the 2nd defendant do not share boundaries and there cannot be an enforceable agreement between the two states on the attribution of the 76 oil wells pursuant to the Dichotomy Abolition Act. The case A-G Rivers State v. A-G Akwa Ibom State (2011) 8 NWLR (Pt.1248) Pg.31 has no application to this case as both States in that suit are and still remain Littoral States. The 2nd defendant urges this court to so hold.
Issue one as identified by this court is prompted by the contention of the plaintiff that there was no maritime dispute between the plaintiff and the 2nd defendant hence there was no basis for the alteration of the existing indices for revenue distribution to have called for a fresh implementation of the powers of the RMAFC as relied upon in Exhibit 1 attached herewith. By the letter of 4th January 2005 already approved by the President, an agreed maritime boundary was identified between the plaintiff and the 2nd defendant. The Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission acted on the amicable boundary dispute resolution between the plaintiff and the 2nd defendant and the plaintiff enjoyed to some extent payment of the derivation fund. The plaintiff now disputed in this suit the unilateral removal of the plaintiff's name among the beneficiaries of the 13% derivation fund and the recalcitrance of the 1st defendant to change the position, culminated in the filing of this case (vide the plaintiffs statement of claim and Final Written Address Exhibit 1).
It is not disputed that in order to qualify for the payment of the 13% derivation fund or revenue, the state must appear on the National Boundary Commission Maritime Boundary Delineation Map as a littoral State. The RMAFC Inter-Agency meeting held in Kano in 2008 relied on the National Boundary Commission 2008 Maritime Boundary delineation Map to decide those which are littoral states and consequently entitled to the payment of the derivation. It is convenient to explain at this stage that the bone of contention is 76 oil wells located offshore the coast of Nigeria to which Cross River State, represented by the plaintiff, lays claim for the purpose of 13% derivation revenue attribution pursuant to Section 162(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
By way of brief background as at the time the judgment of this court in A-G Federation v. A-G Abia State (2002) 6 NWLR (Pt.764) Pg.542 was pronounced, only the Federal Government and not the littoral states could lawfully exercise legislative, executive and judicial powers over the maritime belt or territorial waters and sovereign right over the exclusive economic zone subject to universally recognized rights. The immediate effect of that judgment popularly referred to as the Resource Control judgment was the promulgation of the Allocation of Revenue (Abolition of Dichotomy in the Principle of Derivation) Act 2004. By virtue of Sections 1(1) and (2) of the Act, as from the date of commencement in 2004 the 200 meters water depth Isobaths contiguous to a State of the Federation was deemed to be a part of that State for the purpose of computing the revenue accruing to the Federation Account from that state pursuant to the provisions of the 1999 Constitution or any other enactment.
For the purpose of the application of the principle of derivation, it is immaterial whether the revenue accruing to the Federation account from the state is derived from the natural resources located onshore or offshore. In effect, by virtue of Section 1(1) of the Allocation of Revenue (Abolition of Dichotomy) Act 2004, all littoral states had some derivative interests in offshore natural resources located within 200 metres water depth Isobaths. Relevant agencies of government like the National Boundary Commission with the Surveyor-General of the Federation have the statutory duty of delineation of national and maritime boundaries. The National Boundary Commission was established by the National Boundary Commission Act Cap N10 Laws of the Federation 2004. Section 1(a) depicts that the Commission shall deal with, determine and intervene in any boundary dispute that may arise between Nigeria and any of her neighbours or between any two States of the Federation with a view to settling such dispute. Section 7(1) empowers the Commission to define and delimit boundaries between States, Local Government Areas or Communities in the Federation and between Nigeria and her neighbours in accordance with delimitation instrument or document established for that purpose.
The National Boundary Commission had the presidential mandate to produce the delimitation of the Maritime Boundary of Nigeria Littoral States: Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Rivers, Delta, Ogun, Ondo States from the shore/baselines into the sea up to 200 meters isobaths.
(b) Determine the total number of offshore oil wells for each littoral state so that the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission can implement the Constitution and prepare indices for the sharing of the proceeds in the escrow accounts and the 13% derivation fund. The National Boundary Commission on the 4th of January 2005 in Exhibit F gave proposals for the Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State Maritime Boundary delineation followed by the allotment of 76 oil wells to Cross River State. The parties accepted the issues of boundary delineation as mutually settled to the satisfaction and benefit of both parties (See Exhibit A of the plaintiff which is a letter from the Akwa Ibom State Governor to the president dated 31st January 2005). This court rejected the National Boundary Commission 2005 revised map in the case of Attorney-General Cross River State v. Attorney-General Federation & anor (2005) 15 NWLR (Pt.947) Pg.71 and concluded that in the prevailing circumstance of the judgment of the International Court of Justice on the case between Nigeria and Cameroon.