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EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) — A sheriff investigating the apparent kidnapping and slaying of two Iowa cousins said Friday that the discovery of the young girls' bodies is a long-awaited break in the case that could help find their killer.
Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson said investigators would be deliberate in pursuing the case of Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins, who were 10 and 8 when they disappeared in Evansdale in July. Hunters stumbled upon two bodies believed to be Cook and Collins in a wooded wildlife area some 25 miles away on Wednesday.
Thompson said it could take "several weeks" for their autopsies to be complete and the results to be made public.
"We're going to be extremely meticulous and we're not going to apologize for that," he said a phone interview with The Associated Press. "We've got an opportunity to find a killer."
After nearly five months of chasing tips and theories about the girls' whereabouts, Thompson said police "finally have something credible. We finally have something we can sink our teeth into" in the high-profile case.
Thompson's remarks indicate the case is becoming a homicide investigation. At a news conference Thursday, Thompson's chief deputy said the investigation was leaning that way but that police would wait for the autopsy results before making the change.
Teams of local and federal officers have scoured the Seven Bridges Wildlife Area in Bremer County for evidence since the discovery of the bodies, searching in ditches along the road, fields and woods. The Iowa Medical Examiner's Office, which is handling the autopsies, was also at the scene. That office has declined comment on the autopsies.
The sheriff's office had asked neighboring counties, including Bremer County, to search their parks and wildlife areas for the girls after they vanished last summer, Thompson said. He said that as far as he knows, Bremer County officers did search the popular hunting and fishing spot but that the bodies would have been hard for anyone to spot.
"Even the hunters, if they had gone five feet in either direction, would not have found those bodies," he said.
The girls left the Collins' home in Evansdale, where they were being watched by their grandmother, for a bike ride July 13 and never returned. Authorities found their bikes and a purse near a recreational lake in the city, and their disappearance sparked a massive search and kidnapping investigation involving the FBI, state and local police.
The cousins' families had been hoping they would come home, maybe even for Christmas, until this week's news.
"This 100 percent blindsided us and it absolutely did them as well," said Sara Curl, a friend of the girls' families.
Curl helped organize a vigil for the girls Thursday night, one of many community activities that will be needed to help people heal in the days ahead, she said. The vigil was held around a Christmas tree that had been set up to honor the girls — with the hope they would be home for Christmas to see it.
In a posting on her Facebook page Thursday, Heather Collins, Elizabeth's mother, said it was not the outcome the family wanted but now "we know our girls are dancing up with our savior." Collins thanked the community for an outpouring of support.
When Zuhra Hodzic, 25, of Waterloo, saw that Facebook message, she was heartbroken. Hodzic was a volunteer on searches for the girls and other community activities.
"You're left with a blank," she said searching for the words and fighting back tears. "It's heartbreaking. It's devastating."
For her and many others at the vigil, the focus turns now to finding who is responsible.
"Our community deserves justice, and I hope our FBI agents and cops and everybody involved gets for us what we deserve," she said, "and that's justice for the whole family and all of us."
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Clive Davis' annual party, held the Saturday night before the Grammy Awards, is back on this evening following the shocking death of Whitney Houston.
"It's still on," a rep for the party tells JustJared.com.
"They are trying to pull together a memorial of sorts for grieving," adds another source. "But they are trying to turn away as many people as possible."
Whitney was to attend the party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel this evening. She was found unresponsive in her hotel room this afternoon and was later pronounced dead at the age of 48.


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Here are nine reasons why the Players Championship is worthy of major distinction, and nine reasons why it's not.
If nothing else, it's a major source of amusement within the world of golf.
The Players Championship: Even unofficially, can it rightly be called the "fifth major" championship in men's golf? They like to tout the Masters as "a tradition unlike any other." Well, the Players-as-major debate is also a tradition unlike any other.
Every tournament – big or small, major or pedestrian – opens with the front nine. Entering the 2013 Players Championship, we deliver an opening nine reasons why the Players is – and isn't – worthy of major discussion.
1. Why: Because the PGA Tour is the most successful golf league ever. Richest, too. And the PGA Tour has practically forced major status onto this tournament.
Why not: They designate "majors" on the Champions Tour, and they designate them on the LPGA Tour. Quick, try to name them. In worldwide men's championship golf, by WWII four tournaments evolved as major championships. The Players, to paraphrase Gary Koch, is better than most, but no major.
2. Why: The move from March to May fixed the calendar with one major per month for five months, starting with the Masters in April – June has the U.S. Open; July has the British Open; August has the PGA Championship.
Why not: That was a good move for a variety of reasons, but unless you want a long discussion on March-versus-May agronomy, let' s move along. The best advantage of this date change is the influx of sunscreen and tank tops instead of chap-stick and windbreakers.
3. Why: Tiger Woods has won it.
Why not: Yeah, once, back when he was so dominant, he could take two garden tools and a putter and win a tournament. Since that 2001 win, he rarely even contends, actually.
4. Why: At least Tiger shows up every year.
Why not: Yes, on Tuesday. Tiger spent Monday evening in New York City with Lindsey Vonn at a big social event. He doesn't wait 'til Tuesday to arrive at majors.
5. Why: Phil Mickelson also won it.
Why not: Nice try. Throw out Mickelson's 2007 win, and the last 10 Players winners have a combined two major championships. Two. A lot of nice players have won it, but the biggest tournaments usually have the biggest names on the trophy.
6. Why: Like the Masters, it's played on the same iconic course every year.
Why not: Iconic? Pete Dye's Stadium Course has evolved, matured and become downright familiar to the biggest golf fans, but let's hold the "icon" talk. The 16th and 18th are truly great home-stretch holes, but casual fans only know about the 17th and its island green. We'll give you this: It's the best course ever for spectating – the "stadium" aspects make life easier for those who like to trudge around and watch golf.
7. Why: The 17th hole means no lead is safe in the Players on Sunday.
Why not: Quite often, when things go horribly wrong on 17, it's a matter of inches or a fluke puff of wind. Many tournaments have been won and lost by something resembling luck, but the 17th hole is contrived drama. Great theater and downright entertaining, but compared to the 12th at Augusta . . . never mind, nothing compares to the 12th at Augusta.
8. Why: Like the traditional majors, the winner gets a five-year PGA Tour exemption.
Why not: Listen, the PGA Tour owns the Players Championship and sets the rules. The Tour could bestow a 20-year exemption if desired.
9. Why: It brings together the strongest field all year.
Why not: Can't argue with that. Everyone in the top 30 of the world rankings will tee it up. But with the five-year exemption available, not to mention the richest purse in golf ($9.5 million, compared to $8 million for the four traditional majors), they should.


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Sunday, July 1 was a USA Hockey roster cut down date and USHL teams, which had been carrying 30-man active rosters at the time, had to cut down to 25 players. USHL teams will be allowed to carry 25 players until the final reduction date of September 30 when they have to drop down to their 23-man active roster.


text: Student Profiles Marcus Pearson '05 Marcus Pearson '05 Hometown: Salinas, California Major: History and Latin American Studies with a minor in Spanish Why did you come to Bowdoin? I've got some family in New Hampshire so I would go there in the summers. Then I got to the point where I was actually looking at colleges, and my mom said, "Oh, Maine is great!" And I said, "Oh, Maine, huh?" I had never been to Maine. So, one day, she said "All right, let's get in the car. We're gonna go." So we jumped in the car and drove across the border. I saw the sign that said "Maine: The Way Life Should Be," and I said, "Oh, this wouldn't be too bad." When I got to Bowdoin, I liked it. It was summertime, so it was great weather. At first, it wasn't my top choice because I didn't know if I wanted to be out East, but when I was choosing, I said, "I really want to go to a smaller place." How did you decide on your major? Growing up in Salinas, it's 60 to 65 percent Hispanic, so I had always had this vague awareness [of Latin American culture]. I didn't know there was an official study of it, but I grew up living in a really multicultural community, and so to come here and find out that I could actually study [Latin American culture] and get a degree in it was pretty awesome. And then, I liked history a lot in high school. When I found out that I could take history classes and get a Latin American Studies major at the same time, I said, "I'll do it. I can do that." The class that got me into Latin American Studies was Latin American Cultures, a Spanish class with Enrique Yepes. I had always known about what was going on in contemporary Mexico, California, and Texas, but I had never known anything beyond that, so I got to this class, and this whole world just opened up. Every country [in Latin America] is so distinct and there's so much happening there. Latin America, in my mind, is really the next big place where a lot of the world decisions are going to be made. What has been your favorite class at Bowdoin? Last fall I took a class called The Caribbeans. Allen Wells [of the History Department] and Enrique Yepes team-taught it. All the Latin American Studies teachers and almost all the Latin American Studies majors were together in the same room, bringing all our collective knowledge together in learning about the Caribbean. Joanna Bosse from the Music Department taught some classes, and Krista Van Vleet taught some classes in anthropology and women's studies, and a couple of French teachers came in and talked about Franco-Caribbean culture. We had an economics professor, Stephen Meardon, come in to talk about how the World Trade Organization and the World Bank have influenced Caribbean economics. It was this whole survey of what's been going on in the Caribbean for the last 500 years. At the end of the semester, we got to do a daylong symposium. Everyone in the class presented their [independent projects]. Allen and Enrique rented out Moulton Union for the day, so we had those two conference rooms, and we had two panel discussions going on every hour and a half for the entire day. There were 19 or 20 people in the class, and the fact that everyone had a totally different subject and totally different interests really brought it home that the people here don't all think the same. Have you done any independent studies? I'm doing an honors project with Allen Wells in Latin American history. It's about the Cuban security state and how the Soviet KGB [intelligence agency] came into Cuba and institutionalized the security apparatus of Cuba from 1959 through 1964. I was down in Miami [over winter break] interviewing ex-political prisoners. Two of them had been in jail from 1961, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, until 1970, and [another was in jail] until 1976. So I was getting their take on what the security apparatus was like during that period. A big part of my paper is seeing what happened to them within the prison systems. I compared the Siberian Gulags to the Cuban prison system during the sixties to see how much the KGB had influenced the Cuban prisons and repression apparatus. It's been a good project because I got to interview really cool people, and I've gotten to talk with teachers who I wouldn't have thought I'd ever come in contact with because their specialty is 20th-century Russian politics or 20th-century social history of Russia, and [I think], "God, there are so many gems on this campus to glean information off of." You can be a little leach and it's totally legit. What extracurriculars do you participate in? Do you have an on-campus job? I just did Waiting for Godot. I like theater. I haven't done as much as I've wanted to, but I've done a lot of one-acts. I'm an officer at the Outing Club, too. I'm the treasurer. I've worked at the Art Library since my sophomore year. And I played baseball for a year. I've also been trying to start up an environmental co-op on campus, which was going really well until a couple of weeks ago. I think in the future, it'll be on campus. Hopefully next year. Did you study abroad? I did. I studied in Cuba, actually, the fall semester of my junior year, at the University of Havana. I had a really awesome time. That's how I got interested in doing the honor's project. I lived in an apartment because Americans can't live with Cubans, so we lived in a "residential hostel." I was in a neighborhood [though], so I had a sort of extended, block-long host family. I became close friends with a couple of folks, and I'd go over to their place and have dinner. We'd do a trade, so I'd go over and have dinner one night and then the next night [I'd make dinner]. I definitely didn't want to take their rationed food, but I wanted to be with them, so I'd bring my own food. It was definitely a fun four months and I learned a lot in general. What is your best Bowdoin memory? I guess there are some big instances, but for the most part, it's the little things that I see on campus. Maybe I'm just turning into an old, nostalgic man, but I'll be walking across campus on a fall day and seeing the colors - that kind of defines Bowdoin for me. And the people who I've been friends with the past four years. If you don't have people, what's college really about? And even though I ended up not doing baseball after freshman year, [I'm grateful to have met] everyone I did freshman year because of it. There's also a place called the Giant Steps, on Bailey's Island. Just to go out there and sit and listen to the waves crashing on the shore, it's just really peaceful. It's the mix of being on the Maine coast and hearing buoy gongs going in the background and seagulls screaming and the waves crashing and foghorns blowing and people talking quietly about lobster traps - that's the kind of stuff that sticks out. What are your plans after graduation? I'm waiting to hear back from a couple folks about doing either environmental law or environmental justice. I might go to Mexico to work with local groups as well as national groups to foster a sense of environmental justice for everyone. Basically, international environmental law is what I really want to do because it's such a new field. I'd like to get in on the ground level and try to make legislation that is sustainable and feasible and has the staying power to move beyond our lifetime. What advice would you give to a prospective student? Don't limit yourself and be so focused on a goal you think you want that you miss out on things that you wouldn't try out normally. This is the place and time to do it. When you get out of college, you're not going to be able to take a dance class or take the afternoon off and play a game of Wiffle Ball with your friends. For example, I'm not an Art History major and I have nothing to do with art, but I worked in the Art Library for three years. That's something where [I said], "I'd like to do it; I know nothing about it, but I think it would be fun." And it turned out to be one of my best times, being up there and working and having that second home. It wasn't comfortable at first because it was something new, but new things get comfortable after a while. If you try to stay comfortable for your whole life, you put blinders on and you forget that there's a big world out there. Oh, and get out into the Brunswick community, because it's awesome. Story posted on May 06, 2005 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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Craft this fun, laminated place mat for your pets and make cleanup a cinch.
Your pet may not mind dining informally, but for easy cleanup, you'll want it to eat with a place mat under its bowl. Decorated with animal-print paper and then laminated, the mat looks charming and can be wiped clean almost effortlessly.
Tools and Materials
Pet bowl
Measuring tape
Animal-print paper, such as wrapping paper or page from a clip-art book
Colored card stock
Spray glue
Shallow cardboard box
Rug underlay (foam webbing used underneath rugs for grip)
Pet Place Mat How-To
1. Measure your pet's bowl, then add a few inches to determine measurements of the animal-print paper. Adjust the animal-print paper on a photocopy machine to these measurements, magnifying it if necessary, and copy
2. Cut the card stock slightly larger than the animal-print paper to create a border. Lay the animal-print paper facedown in a shallow cardboard box; coat lightly with spray glue. Wait a few seconds until the glue is tacky, then mount the animal-print paper, centered, on the card stock. For a reversible mat, add animal-print paper to both sides of the card stock.
3. Laminate the mat at a local copy center, or do it yourself using a home laminator.
4. To prevent the mat from slipping on the floor, place a rug underlay beneath it.


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One reason 30-year-old wood artist Brandon Terry opened his new business on Greenville Highway was to help vitalize the local economy.
One reason 30-year-old wood artist Brandon Terry opened his new business on Greenville Highway was to help vitalize the local economy.
As a fifth-generation county native, Terry has seen local businesses shift toward larger retail chains. In an effort to support smaller businesses, he opened Terry's Mountain Wood Art at 1002 Greenville Highway about a month ago and is looking forward to the Saturday following Black Friday to promote small businesses in the county.
Small Business Saturday, a day when shoppers are encouraged to spend money in their communities, occurs between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Local merchants are counting on sales from that day to help their businesses and the area's economy.
"I am here for the locals and (to) supply the community with beautiful art," Terry said.
Chainsaw artist Rick Withrow, who was taught by legendary Mountain Dan, is scheduled to demonstrate his skills Saturday at Terry's Mountain Wood Art. Withrow is known for his bear, raccoon, mushroom and other wood carvings.
Terry's Mountain Wood Art carries several items including wood reindeer, benches, coffee tables, mask art, bottle trees and more. He carries merchandise that is unique and cannot be found at larger retail stores.
"There is always room for small, local businesses to grow and prosper and continue to be a place where people can go," Terry said. "Without local support, smaller businesses could not exist,"
Terry operates the business with his wife, Heather, and they are open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Downtown Hendersonville merchants are ready for the holidays and want to welcome customers to their shops like they would be welcomed into someone's home, said Caroline Gunther, owner, Wag! A Unique Pet Boutique on North Main Street.
Gunther said she's excited about the holiday weekend and will open her doors early at 8 a.m. for Small Business Saturday.
"We really want to make it a special holiday experience," Gunther said.
If everyone in Henderson County shifted $20 from purchases they would have made online or outside the community to local businesses, the impact would be more than $2 million in sales, said Lew Holloway, Main Street director.
"Small choices made in favor of small local businesses can have a big impact for our community," Holloway said. "Show your pride in Hendersonville and Henderson County by spending some of your hard-earned resources with the small business owners of Historic Downtown Hendersonville this Saturday and throughout the holiday season."
Mia's Marketplace of Antiques and More will have special deals and refreshments, and will also open early at 8 a.m. on North Main Street.
"Buying local keeps small businesses alive and flourishing," owner Mia Freeman said.
For more information about downtown Hendersonville, visit www.downtownhendersonville.org.
Small businesses are personally involved in the community and make tremendous contributions every year by sponsoring sports teams, contributing to local charities and raising money for special needs, said Bob Williford, president of the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce.
"Small Business Saturday presents us with a great way to show them (small businesses) our support and thank them for all that they do to make our community a great place to live, work and raise a family," Williford said.
Sales taxes collected by Henderson County businesses make up over 20 percent of the county's budget and between 20 and 30 percent of its municipalities' budgets, according to The Chamber.
Henderson County kicked off the Shop & Dine Henderson County campaign that encourages residents to spend money locally. For more information on the Shop & Dine Henderson County campaign, visit www.hendersoncountychamber.org.
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Horoscopes for week of February 6, 2003
What greater adventure is there than exploring the enigmas of your unique destiny, Aries? For more hints about the week ahead, listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Many college football bowl games now include their corporate sponsors in their names: the FedEx Orange Bowl and Nokia Sugar Bowl, for instance. Some financially strapped public schools near where I live may soon go the same route, becoming Toyota Heritage High School and Washington Middle School Sponsored by Nike. This is an excellent time for you Tauruses to look for a comparable branding opportunity. Maybe you could get a playground or park bench or bridge named after you. According to the astrological omens, your power to stamp your identity on your environment is at a peak.
No one knows you better than you do, Taurus. But maybe you'll be inspired to dig up even more self-knowledge in the coming week if you tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
"Dear Dr. Brezsny: I've been told by astrologers that I'm a natural money magnet. So why am I still poor? I pray constantly to the Almighty for financial help, and twice a week I buy lottery tickets. But no luck has come my way! Please tell me whether I will win the lottery. Better yet, give me the magic winning numbers. -Gemini Who's Crazy for Green." Dear Crazy: You'll never win the lottery with your current approach. The only chance you have to generate luck of that magnitude will be if you work your ass off for the next two years to create your dream job.
How much do you want to know about your destiny in the coming week, Gemini? How far do you dare to go? For more insight into your shimmering, undulating fate, tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope for the coming week. The reading costs $6.
"Use it or lose it" has long been a key dogma in the theory of evolution. Biologists have believed that if a species accidentally develops a certain new characteristic but then fails to incorporate it as a vital feature, it's gone forever. Recently, however, researchers have begun to question this tenet. They've found evidence that the "walking stick" insects known as phasmids have, over the last 300 million years, lost their wings because of disuse but then re-evolved them. I bring this up in the hope that it will encourage you, Cancerian, to recognize an equally improbable scenario in your own life: The omens say you're about to get a second chance to capitalize on an advantage you allowed to atrophy in the past.
Hungry for more inspiration, Cancerian? Curious about the unfolding mysteries? For more juicy details about your destiny in the coming week, check out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Have you ever felt a tension between your drive to be yourself and your longing to be in love? I'm guessing you did last September, when Jupiter and Neptune were opposite each other in the sky. But when the same planetary scenario recurs in the coming days, I suspect you'll be shown a way to resolve that tension. And in early June, when Jupiter and Neptune take on the same configuration a third and last time, I predict you'll have a breakthrough in which you dramatically harmonize your drive to express your unique beauty and your urge to blend your life with another's.
Your destiny is a gorgeous mystery, Leo. Your soul is awakening more every day. The secrets of life are ripening right in front of your eyes. For more clues, consider checking out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Perfumes to avoid in the coming week if you're female: Addict by Christian Dior; Envy by Gucci; Baby Doll by Yves Saint Laurent. Perfumes that will bring luck and intelligence: Sunflowers by Elizabeth Arden; Intuition by Estee Lauder; Vivid by Liz Claiborne. Colognes to avoid if you're male: Obsession by Calvin Klein; Mania by Giorgio Armani; Egoiste by Chanel. Colognes that will inspire good fortune and insight: Truth by Calvin Klein; Wings by Giorgio Beverly Hills; Safari by Ralph Lauren; Horizon by Guy Laroche. (P.S. All the scent names referred to above should also be regarded as metaphors.)
Life will bring you entertaining revelations in the coming week, Virgo. To explore even deeper, dive into your
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In ancient Rome, it was compulsory for everyone to learn how to gamble and throw dice from a young age. The ancient Greek legal system made it a criminal offense to remain sober during the yearly festival of Dionysus. In this tradition, I'm issuing the following mandate: By order of cosmic law, you must enjoy sexual pleasure in abundance during the coming week. Two corollaries: Your quest for erotic joy must be free of compulsive behavior. You must use all your Libran ingenuity to carry out your assignment with a spirit of love, fun, and generosity.
Want to hear more about the hidden factors influencing your life in the coming week, Libra? Listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
It's not easy to become yourself. Most people never figure out the trick. That's usually because they have an unreliable connection with the one source that offers unfailing guidance: the still, small voice within. They're distracted by the din of mildly interesting but useless information that our culture produces in abundance. You, on the other hand, are always pretty hot on the trail of finding out who you really are. That's one of the perks of being born a Scorpio. And in the coming weeks, you'll be able to tune in to your personal homing beacon better than ever. Prepare to receive instructions on how to become yourself twice as fast.
Want more clues, Scorpio? Need further insight? I discuss your coming week in greater depth in your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
I suspect that in most professions, from astrology to medicine, from engineering to poetry, the proportions are similar: about 10 percent of the practitioners are really bad, 20 percent are below average, 40 percent are mediocre, 20 percent are good, and 10 percent are masters. You shouldn't assume that just because a physician has been treating patients for 15 years, he's going to help you figure out how to guard your health; nor should you hand over your fate to the first astrologer whose ad appeals to you. This principle will be especially important to observe in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Temper your native optimism with a robust dose of discrimination. Don't just question authority; question every alleged truth, assumption, fa�ade, spin, and official stance.
Where do you want to go in the coming week, Sagittarius? Who do you want to be? For more clues, tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
"You're a flash-in-the-pan, Brezsny, a brief blip on the scene. I'll still be here inspiring readers with my astrological advice long after you're gone." That was the curse a competitor flung at me more than two decades ago when we were both young horoscope columnists. It made me mad, and motivated me to make sure that his hateful remark would never come true. My detractor died in the early 1990s, failing to make good on his vow. I felt no joy in his demise; on the contrary, I've always been grateful to him for helping to inspire my tenacity. This week, Capricorn, your assignment is to think of a comparable story in your own life. Who laid a curse on you once upon a time? What have you done to neutralize it, and what spectacular magic can you pull off to escape it forever in the coming days?
Need a few more whacks applied to your mental blocks in the coming week, Capricorn? A few more caresses administered to your growing edge? Cruise on over to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Chances are good you'll dream of being naked in public sometime soon. This will be a relatively bad omen if it involves shame, but a very good omen if your predominant emotion in the dream is fun-loving pride. In either case, such a dream will signify your readiness -- indeed, your urgent need -- to reveal more of who you really are in your waking life. P.S. For those of you with an ability to induce lucid dreams, here are two recommended scenarios: Dream of being gleefully naked while delivering a stirring oral report on the flight of eagles to your high school class; dream of being naked and wearing a crown of roses as you do what you do best in front of an equally naked audience.
Got enough clues to chew on for a while, Aquarius? If you need more, give yourself the luxury of your Expanded Audio Horoscope for the coming week. The reading costs $6.
[Warning: The following horoscope contains a scene that may be unsuitable for prim dispositions. Read at your own risk.] According to my reading of the cosmic omens, you should take your inspiration from France's King Louis XIV (1638-1715), who often conducted court business while seated on his toilet, which he regarded as his alternate throne. I'm not suggesting that you literally imitate the royal custom, Pisces, but I do recommend you carry out an approximate metaphorical equivalent: As you carry on your business and social affairs in the coming week, eliminate waste and toxins.
Want to explore the coming week even further, Pisces? Dig deeper? Feel stronger? Consider tuning in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Veteran U.S/ diplomat Princeton Lyman is stepping down as President Barack Obama's special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, the White House said on Monday.
Lyman's departure comes after a nearly two-year stint as Obama's troubleshooter for the region, a tenure that saw South Sudan secede last year under a U.S.-backed peace deal that ended decades of civil war.
But unresolved disputes between the two countries, including renewed border hostilities, have impeded normalization of ties.
"Princeton has done a tremendous job in helping to realize the promise of an independent South Sudan, and working toward the international vision of Sudan and South Sudan living side by side in peace," Obama said in statement.
"The people of Sudan and South Sudan, who have suffered so much, have the opportunity to seize a brighter future because of Princeton's efforts to urge both sides to put the interests of their people first."
The Obama administration did not provide any immediate explanation for the departure of Lyman, 77, who was named to the post in March 2011.
Before that, he led a U.S. team that supported negotiations for Sudan's 2005 peace agreement, and also served previously as deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, U.S. ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa as well as assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs.
Sudan and South Sudan have asked the African Union to help hammer out details of a proposed withdrawal of troops from their disputed border, defense ministers from both countries said on Monday, as stalled talks continued to delay oil exports from landlocked South Sudan through Sudan.
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St. Jude Medical Inc's implantable device reduced the number of debilitating migraine headaches in a clinical study, the company said on Thursday, but analysts said the results were not strong enough to win U.S. regulatory approval.
The company said it was not yet clear when the device would get U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment of chronic migraine.
The device is currently available in Europe to treat chronic pain.
A migraine headache is a disabling condition that can last for hours or days at a time and for which there are few treatments. Last year, the FDA approved injectable anti-wrinkle drug Botox to treat migraines.
The St. Jude system takes a different approach. It works by delivering mild electrical pulses from the implanted device, much like a pacemaker, to leads placed under the skin at the back of the head, with pulses stimulating the occipital nerves.
Results from the 157-patient study, presented at the International Headache Congress in Berlin, showed a statistically significant improvement in the number of headache days per month and improvement in quality of life.
The St. Jude-funded study -- the largest of its kind -- followed patients who suffered 26 headaches per month on average. Participants were implanted with the company's Genesis neurostimulator and randomly assigned to an active or control group for 12 weeks.
The active group got stimulation immediately, while the control group did not receive stimulation until after the first 12 weeks. After one year, 66 percent of patients reported excellent or good pain relief, St. Jude said.
Patients who received stimulation reported a 28 percent decrease in their number of headache days, or 7 fewer days per month, compared with the placebo group, which reported a 4 percent decrease, or 1 fewer day per month.
At 12 weeks, 53 percent of patients in the active group ranked their relief as excellent or good, compared with 17 percent in the placebo group.
St. Jude has filed for CE Mark approval of the Genesis neurostimulation system for the management of pain and disability associated with chronic migraine and expects to begin a limited introduction in Europe later this year.
About 10 percent of adults worldwide suffer from migraine, according to the World Health Organization. The condition affects almost 28 million Americans, or roughly 13 percent of the population, according to the National Headache Foundation.
"The chronic migraine market represents a large area of unmet medical need, and St. Jude is well positioned to capture a first-mover advantage in this potentially meaningful new market opportunity," JPMorgan analyst Michael Weinstein wrote in a research note.
St. Jude rival Medtronic Inc said it continued to explore the use of neurostimulation technology for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches.
"We completed our feasibility study for occipital nerve stimulation therapy for chronic migraine and we're applying what we learned as we determine next steps for our pivotal trial," a spokeswoman said. "However, at this time, it's premature to disclose our plans or discuss timelines."
Shares of St. Jude were down 3.5 percent at $46.96 on the New York Stock Exchange.


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You are all probably getting really tired of hearing about my pain. I've been battling nipple pain for over two months (my twins are almost 4 months old). The pain is worse with pumping and I've tried 5 different pumps. Currently I'm using the Medela Pump in Style. There is pain when feeding, too, so it isn't just a pump issue. I have had four rounds of antibiotics including the one given to me during delivery and one round that I just completed for a root canal. The pain feels like an electric shock, though sometimes my nipples are itchy and I get some shooting breast pains. The nipple often turns white after a feeding and at other random times. My nipples are bright pink and they look cracked and blistery.
I'm on my 4th thrush treatment. The babies were only treated the first time (they never had symptoms). They had oral diflucan while I used topical Nystatin. I saw no improvement over the course of 3 weeks. Then I got one pill of diflucan and saw no improvement. Then I tried the Nystatin again, leaving it on for longer periods, but saw no improvement. I'm now on day five of a seven-day diflucan prescription and am not yet seeing improvements.
I saw a lactation consultant (not IBCLC, I've had a hard time finding one!) and she suggested B6 for Reynauds and the week of diflucan. I've been taking the B6 for a week and haven't seen any improvement. I asked repeatedly, and she said I do not have to treat the babies again because they have no symptoms and that there are two different kinds of thrush. She said to take the diflucan every other day because it stays in your system. My doctor was SHOCKED by my request for the week of diflucan and had me go in to check for signs of an infection. She said my nipples looked irriated, but nothing else looked wrong. She gave me the diflucan and confirmed that I did not need to treat the babies again, but said to not take it every other day. I followed her advice, and am taking it daily. When I got the one day of diflucan, I asked my pediatrician and he said we didn't need to treat the babies again, either.
But everything I've read here, on Dr. Sears, on Kellymom, etc etc etc says that you have to treat both mom and baby at the same time. You have to treat for two weeks after the symptoms go away. You have to do all of these intense things that leave me overwhelmed like replace bottle nipples every week, wash things in vinegar, leave things in the sun, take specific blends of probiotics, and on and on. You can't use paper breast pads, but also don't use cloth ones because they harbor yeast. It's so much information and I feel like I need to do spells, too, just in case.
SO, here are my questions:
1. Do you think it's not thrush at all?
2. Are there two kinds of yeast, and for one the baby doesn't have to be treated?
3. Should I be seeing an improvement in my symptoms five days into a diflucan treatment?
4. Do I need to take 3 weeks or longer of diflucan, and if so, how does one even get that if none of your doctors believe that you need it at all?
5. How do I find an IBCLC? The search function on this website doesn't work for my state.
6. What is really necessary from the lists to treat possible thrush effectively?
Any other information? I've begun to resign myself to two more years of pain...


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New Orleans coach Mark Slessinger remembers watching stall-ball when he was attending high school in Indiana.
On Saturday, he brought it back.
Slessinger instructed his players to trade their up-tempo style for a more deliberate approach, using a modern-day shot-clock version of the tactic that Hinkle Fieldhouse helped turn into a Hollywood hit — and it almost worked again.
Kellen Dunham scored 15 points, Khyle Marshall had 13 points and eight rebounds and Roosevelt Jones finished with 11 points and six rebounds as No. 17 Butler struggled to hold off the patient Privateers 57-44.
"That's not how we usually play. Normally the shot clock for us is not an issue," Slessinger said. "The way we pulled the ball out, I know you all thought it was going to a Bloomfield 12-11 game, a game from the 1950s. I was at one of those at Bloomfield one time."
Slessinger was referring to another high school in his home state.
And there were plenty of reasons to make the change.
This program, now back to Division I status, lacked the size, depth or talent the Bulldogs have used to climb back into the Top 25 after reaching two of the last three national championship games. The Privateers (3-10) had not faced a team quite like the Bulldogs this season, and given the way things have been going, heck, it was worth a shot.
Lovell Cook finished with 11 points and Traddarius McPhearson added 10 to lead New Orleans, which has lost five straight overall, is 0-6 in true road games this season and has lost 15 straight road games to Division I foes. The Privateers hadn't even faced a Top 25 since beating No. 21 North Carolina State 65-63 on Nov. 18, 2007.
So Slessinger tried something different.
"I was really happy with the way we played halfcourt defense," Slessinger said. "Eventually, they were able to make some baskets but that's what they do."
The Bulldogs weren't quite as happy with how they responded to throwback Saturday.
"We just had too many turnovers and missed too many shots," Butler coach Brad Stevens said. "If a team is going to use the clock like that, you better make your layups."
Based on their traditional standards, it was a horrible day. Butler (12-2) committed seven turnovers in the first 8 minutes and finished with 15. It was just 5 of 16 from 3-point range and 17 of 42 (40.5 percent) from the field. And against the much smaller Privateers, Butler only held a 22-14 scoring advantage in the paint.
That was what Slessinger was hoping to do — confound a team that normally does the same thing to higher-profile opponents.
Eventually, though, Butler figured out a solution. It pulled away late in the first half, opened the second half with a quick scoring flurry and refused to extend its defense to help New Orleans shoot its way back into the game.
The combination was good enough to help the Bulldogs improve to 7-0 at home and win their ninth straight game. By the time Butler makes its Atlantic 10 debut on Wednesday night at conference favorite Saint Joseph's, Stevens knows his team will have to be sharper.
"We have to play Butler basketball, we have to play our 'A' game the next two games, really for the next month," he said before reeling off the list of upcoming opponents. "You better bring it, you better be good because B-plus won't cut it anymore."
New Orleans certainly put on a good show in Slessinger's old stomping ground.
Butler trailed 9-7 midway through the first half, and the superior Bulldogs never quite got a handle on the game until Dunham lined up his 3-pointer to give Butler a 13-11 with 6:01 to go. A few minutes later, Andrew Smith posted up for a layup, drew a foul and made a free throw. That sent the Bulldogs on a 9-3 run to close the half and gave them a 24-18 lead.
The Bulldogs kept the momentum in the second half.
Alex Barlow, who had made only three baskets in the 3½ games since making the shot to topple No. 1 Indiana, got it started with his second 3 of the season. Marshall followed that with a dunk off an alley-oop pass from Jones and Rotnei Clarke knocked down a 3 to make it 32-20 with 17:35 to go.
That was all the Bulldogs needed to pull away, and New Orleans couldn't get closer than eight again.
"We're not concerned at all," Marshall said. "Like coach said, it was just one of those games. We know it wasn't our best game, we've just got to get better."


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STOCKTON - An armed man escaped from police Friday night after stealing a motorcycle and fleeing from officers, authorities said.
STOCKTON - An armed man escaped from police Friday night after stealing a motorcycle and fleeing from officers, authorities said.
The suspect arranged to meet with a 29-year-old man who listed his motorcycle for sale on Craigslist, police said. When the two parties met about 8:45 p.m. near East Swain Road and Kermit Lane, the suspect pointed a black semiautomatic handgun at the victim and fled on the motorcycle, authorities said.
Officers spotted the motorcycle and tried to initiate a traffic stop near West Ben Holt Drive and Inglewood Avenue, but the driver failed to yield and led police on a two-mile pursuit that lasted two minutes, authorities said. The man fled on foot after abandoning the motorcycle near Porter Avenue and Porterfield Court, and police were unable to locate him.
The suspect was described as a black man about 25 years old, 5 feet 6 inches to 6 feet tall with a thin build, black collar-length dreadlocks, a white T-shirt and black shorts.
STOCKTON - A man in his 20s was injured by a boat propeller Saturday afternoon on the Stockton Deep Water Channel, authorities said.
The accident occurred when a man fell off the front of a boat about 3:35 p.m. on the channel west of Interstate 5, Stockton Fire Department Battalion Chief Rick Stubstad said. The man was sucked under the boat and struck by the propeller, causing serious lacerations to his left hand and left foot, Stubstad said.
The victim's friends wrapped his wounds and transported him to the Stockton Marina, where they were met by paramedics.
The victim was taken to a hospital in stable condition and seemed to be in good spirits, praising emergency responders as he was placed in an ambulance.
"The good thing is he still has feeling in his hand and his toes," Stubstad said. "His friends did a good job of wrapping him up tight and controlling the bleeding with boat towels."
STOCKTON - A man was arrested early Saturday after a police pursuit that ended when he crashed his vehicle into a tree, injuring his female passenger, authorities said.
Members of the Community Response Team and the multiagency San Joaquin County gang task force tried to initiate a traffic stop about 12:45 p.m. near West Acacia and North Van Buren streets. The driver, 37-year-old Darrick Devereaux, failed to yield, leading officers on a one-minute pursuit at speeds up to 50 mph, police said.
Devereaux crashed into a tree at North Van Buren and West Magnolia streets. He attempted to flee on foot but was taken into custody following a brief chase, officers said.
Devereaux's female passenger had moderate injuries from the crash, police said. Devereaux was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run resulting in death or injury, evading a peace officer resulting in death or injury and driving under the influence, authorities said.


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Do good, feel better, the theme for the 12th annual Women's Day Out presented by Western Plains Medical Complex.
Do good, feel better, the theme for the 12th annual Women's Day Out presented by Western Plains Medical Complex.
"We wanted a theme that encouraged women to go out into our community and do something good for someone else," Deb Goodwin, co-chair for the event said, "because it will make both people feel better."
Women's Day Out will take place from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Saturday, April 20 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Seating is limited this year because of the new location, so Goodwin urged that anyone interested in attending resisters in advance.
"People register by calling (620) 225-2822," Goodwin said. "They can register their whole group at once, but we do ask that they list everyone's names that are attending so we can get an accurate count."
The event will begin with registration from 9-10 a.m., this is also a chance for participants to visit vendors and enjoy a light continental breakfast.
Goodwin said they're expecting at least 20 vendors, but more may sign up before the event.
"We have shopping vendors — those selling handbags, jewelry, clothing and whatnot," Goodwin said, "community organization vendors — CASA will have a booth and party vendors — such as Pampered Chef. We'll also have at least one chiropractor there to do adjustments."
Once registration is complete, three speakers will present to the group. Deb Moffitt, a licensed specialist clinical social worker; Dr. Patricia Mahoney, a general surgeon for WPMC; and the keynote speaker, Dan Clemens, from Denver, Colo., who will be speaking about how to make fun your competitive advantage.
According to his bio, the three objectives of Clemens' presentation are; 1) learn to understand how notions of fun have evolved and how a new definition leads to greater engagement, performance and retention. 2) determine your "fun factor" by diagnosing your current situation. 3) learn how to have more fun in your work (inside and outside the home) to boost performance.
After Clemens' presentation lunch will be served, and local singer, Andrea Luna will perform. Luna is a 10 year-old who performs in both English and Spanish and is quickly becoming well known in the community and nationally.
After lunch wraps up, guests will have another opportunity to visit with vendors, or are free to leave.
"We wanted to give people time to get other things done in the afternoon if they need to," Goodwin said, "but our vendors will stay as long as people are here to visit with them."
The entire event is free and open to any woman in Dodge City that is interested in attending.
"We get so much support and help from the community, Kelly Tasset, co-chair said, "this is one way we give back and say 'thanks' for that support."
Tasset went on to say that the response she's received about past events has been overwhelmingly positive, and she hopes the hospital can continue to provide this fun, relaxing day for the women of the community.
"I hope everyone who attends Women's Day Out enjoys everything we have to offer them," Tasset said, "and that they take something away that they can use in their lives."
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What: Women's Day Out
When: Saturday, April 20, 2013
Where: Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Cost: Free, but registration is limited to the first 200 participants


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By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) - "It was a warm day but I suddenly felt cold," was how Philippa Langley described the powerful sensation she experienced when she walked over the unmarked grave of her hero King Richard III beneath a car park in central England.
One of the greatest archaeological discoveries of recent English history has been driven by one woman's obsession with overturning Shakespeare's portrayal of Richard as a twisted tyrant who murdered two young princes in the Tower of London.
The extraordinary tale of the discovery of the bones of the last English monarch to die in battle combined passion, sleuthing and scholarship with carbon dating, DNA testing and a search for funding worthy of a best-selling detective yarn.
The skeleton allowed Richard's face to be reconstructed -- fleshy with thick, dark eyebrows and rather bland features -- and also revealed the fatal wounds inflicted at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
Now Langley, a 50-year-old screenwriter, wants to rehabilitate Richard III as an enlightened monarch who made important strides in the areas of law and printing.
Historians had pursued several trails to track down where the defeated Richard had been ignominiously buried by the victor at Bosworth, the future King Henry VII who paraded Richard's naked corpse before handing it to friars to dispose of.
When Langley began reading a biography of Richard 15 years ago, she had no idea it was to be the start of a quest that would eventually solve the 500-year-old mystery about the last resting place of one of England's most reviled monarchs.
Against all odds, archaeologists announced this week they had found Richard's skeleton buried beneath a car park in the city of Leicester.
"I knew I was going to find him," Langley said in an interview with Reuters.
Her compulsion to find Richard -- at one point she almost re-mortgaged her home to fund her mission -- began in 1998 when she began researching a screenplay about the king who ruled England for just two years until his death at the age of 32.
Until then, like most Britons, she knew him as the villain of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, a man also demonized by other writers who took the side of Richard's conqueror, Henry Tudor, and his descendants.
To them, Richard was a power-crazed hunchback with a withered arm who stooped to any level to seize the crown after the death of his brother Edward IV. He was said to have murdered the "Princes in the Tower", one of them the rightful king Edward V, aged just 12.
Among the more outlandish traits attached to him were claims he was born with teeth and shoulder-length hair, and that he had spent two years in his mother's womb.
Perhaps not the sort of person whose remains you would spend years trying to find. However, Langley said a biography by American historian Paul Murray Kendall, which presented the king as a man of justice and honor, changed her view.
"That blew me away because I had no inkling of this other possible Richard, I'd always had this sort of Shakespearian child-killing (figure)," said Langley, who hails from northern England, where Richard was popular.
"What did it for me was Shakespeare's Richard III has been done time and time again. But nobody's told Richard's real story on screen, not ever."
Richard's reign came to a bloody end at the Battle of Bosworth Field, where even his enemies said he fought bravely until he was cut down. Shakespeare declares his last words to have been: "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!".
His body was stripped, taken by horse to Leicester and put on display for two days before being buried at the Grey Friars' friary. Grand sepulchres house the remains of most English monarchs, but Henry Tudor, by now Henry VII, paid just 10 pounds for a memorial to Richard.
Local legend in Leicester held that the body was dug up during the reign of Henry VIII when he dissolved the monasteries following his break with the pope in Rome.
Stories that Richard's remains were thrown in the nearby River Soar and his stone coffin turned into a drinking-trough for horses outside a pub became the established version of events. One riverside street is even named Richard III Road.
However, some 25 years ago, David Baldwin, a history tutor from the University of Leicester, challenged these accounts.
"They (stone coffins) had really passed out of use a century before Richard III's day," Baldwin told Reuters.
"All the visitors who came to Leicester who showed an interest in Richard went to look at this horse trough rather than go to the place of his burial."
Baldwin thought it possible, but unlikely, the body might one day be found in an area of the city where Grey Friars once stood, part of which formed a car park for Leicester council's social services department.
"I suppose as far as most people were concerned it simply wasn't very likely that anything would be found. I think most of the archaeologists were slightly skeptical," he said.
But Langley, who began writing her screenplay about Richard in 2005, was not deterred. Her research into places in England where he had been culminated in a trip to the car park in Leicester, about 100 miles north of London.
"I decided just before I got that first draft out it was time to go to Bosworth and Leicester ... This was going to be my final journey for Richard, to walk through Leicester where he died."
It was as she roamed through the uninspiring concrete municipal car park that she said she felt a sudden chill.
"It was the strangest experience, it was some kind of intuitive feeling, and I absolutely felt I was walking on his grave," she recounts. "I went back a year later because I had to find out if it really was something, and I had the same feeling again in the same spot.
"Just a couple of feet to my left someone had painted the letter R onto the tarmac, a white handpainted letter R. I had exactly the same feeling - R marks the spot and I was on a mission."
Her initial attempts to get support for the dig proved fruitless. The local archaeological society insisted the body had been thrown into the River Soar.
Her theory would probably have come to nothing had it not chimed with research by historian John Ashdown-Hill. He had found evidence of the location of the Grey Friars site, and had also traced the descendants of Richard's sister, Anne of York, giving them a DNA link.
"With that, everybody knew if we found him, no matter what, we had the chance to identify him," Langley said. "In every pitch I did, people would be rolling their eyes, but the minute you mentioned that, they were on board."
By Spring 2011, she had persuaded the local council and the University of Leicester's archaeological department that the dig was worthwhile.
"I wouldn't say that I was going there just to find Richard III because I never thought we would anyway," said Richard Buckley, the lead archaeologist. "Finding the Grey Friars would have been pretty good on its own."
A year later, the project was set to go when backers pulled the 35,000 pounds ($55,000) of funding they needed.
"It was a really dark moment, because I really thought it was over," said Langley, who considered re-mortgaging her home to raise funds.
"At one point I was so desperate. But I've got two (teenage) children and I couldn't go that far," she said.
Instead, help came from the University of Leicester and the Richard III Society, an organization formed 90 years ago and now comprising several thousand devotees known as "Ricardians".
Then, at the last minute, they lost 10,000 pounds of funding again. This time Ricardians from around the world -- Australia, Belgium, Germany and Canada -- raised 13,000 pounds.
Two individuals, one from the United States and one from Britain, donated 1,000 pounds apiece. Annette Carson, a biographer of Richard III who organized the international appeal, told Reuters Ricardians were people "with a mission".
"Find another monarch who has been trashed like Richard has been," she explained of the huge interest, sternly rejecting any historical criticism put to her. "When you look at the contemporary records, he was actually a caring king."
With funding secured, work began in August last year, providing a last chance to see if Langley was right.
"What funding body would come to you and say 'well OK you've not found him this time, dig another six trenches and have another go'," Buckley said.
But not far from where the car park was marked with an R, they almost immediately found a grave just 68cm (2 feet) beneath present ground level, housing a skeleton with a hugely curved spine corresponding to accounts of Richard and 10 battle wounds.
DNA matched that of Canadian-born Michael Ibsen, a London-based furniture maker and direct descendant of Richard's sister, proving to a team of academics and scientists that the bones were indeed those of England's last Plantagenet king. Carbon dating provided more convincing evidence.
"For the first trench to have actually hit, in the first five meters, the burial ... was amazingly lucky," Buckley said. "What are the chances of that happening?"
So why are people, particularly some women, still so fascinated by a king who died 528 years ago?
Unveiling a bust based on a computer reconstruction or Richard this week, Phil Stone, the chairman of the Richard III Society, said many of his female members would be envious of the woman who painted the face as "for over a week she spent her time with the head of Richard III in her lap".
Langley said that for her Richard had the appeal of a brooding hero from a romantic novel.
"There is something about the noble, tragic end, the final act of bravery, the all or nothing. I think we connect with something like that," she said. "It was the end of an era when Richard died. He was the last warrior king."
However, the discovery of Richard's skeleton is unlikely to transform the assessment of historians overnight.
"It can't really tell us anything about his personality or anything about his actions as king or whether he was guilty of any of the charges laid against him," said Baldwin.
"The only hope really, I think, is that there's now so much interest in him that it will encourage people to delve more deeply into the archives and perhaps in the future more evidence will come to light. His bones can only tell us so much."
($1 = 0.6389 British pounds)
(Editing by Guy Faulconbridge, Stephen Addison, Peter Millership and Giles Elgood)


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They've done it again. Kim Kardashian and husband Kanye West went in a different direction when it came to naming their second child. The couple welcomed a boy named Saint Dec. 5. He joins daughter North.
Jessa Duggar and her husband Ben Seewald chose a very strange name for their first child. Their son's first name, Spurgeon, is the last name of the 19th century British preacher Charles Spurgeon. Elliot is to honor the late missionaries Jim and Elisabeth Elliot. The couple explained they wanted it give their son a "strong name, with a lot of meaning, favoring names of "heroes from the Christian faith." The Seewalds will be calling him by his nickname Quincy.
Zooey Deschanel and her husband Jacob Pechenik named their daugther Elsie Otter because they like the animal. The "New Girl" star revealed her first child's name three months after giving birth. "We just really liked the name Elsie and then we both love otters, they're very sweet and they're also smart," she said on the "Today" show.
According to E! News, Leighton Meester and Adam Brody named their baby girl Arlo Day.
Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross chose to name their first child together Jagger Snow. It's a little different to say the least. However, considering Simpson named her son with ex-husband Pete Wentz, Bronx Mowgli, it should come as no surprise that the singer chose a unique name for her newborn daughter.
One week after welcoming their first child, Silas Randall Timberlake, proud dad Justin shared the first picture of his son on Instagram. He wrote, "The Timberlakes are ready!!! GO GRIZZ! #GritNGrind #Playoffs #BabyGrizzROAR."
Kimora Lee Simmons and husband Tim Leissner welcomed a baby boy... and gave him one strange name. Click here for more star baby names from ET Online.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar welcomed a daughter Lachlyn with wife Catriona. "So in love with our new baby girl, Lachlyn! Born last night 2/17 Mum and baby are healthy and happy. 2 boys, 2 girls, too perfect!" Mark tweeted. While it's not the craziest name we've heard, it's definitely not the sanest!
Kourtney Kardashian and boyfriend Scott Disick named their third child Reign Aston. Perhaps Scott's nickname-- Lord Disick-- had something to do with their royally strange pick.
Kelly Rowland and husband Tim Witherspoon welcomed their fist child, son Titan Jewell on Tuesday. "We are thrilled to announce that today we are the proud parents of our first son," the former Destiny's Child member said in a statement. While we're happy for the new parents, we can't help but wonder what they were thinking when they named their kid Titan Jewell...
We're kind of on the fence on this one. Wyatt's a boy's name, and their baby is a girl. But naming a girl a boy name is not that uncommon. But we've never heard of a girl named Wyatt. Which makes it weird. Or creative. Like we said, on the fence.
Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz and his girlfriend Meagan Camper welcomed their first child together. The name? Saint Lazslo. Clearly Wentz and Camper already think the world of their son. The musician has a 5-year-old son, Bronx, with ex-wife Ashlee Simpson.
Christina Aguilera must have been thinking about the weather when she decided to name her newborn daughter. According to Us Weekly, Summer Rain Rutler was born on Aug. 16, 2014.
It's a lil' princess for Lil' Kim. Us Magazine reports the rapper, 39, gave birth to her first child and named her Royal Reign.
Initial reports had Kim and Kanye naming their daughter Kaidence. But TMZ said it saw a birth certificate, and her name was North.
North West.
Actress Busy Philipps and her husband Marc Silverstein named their daughter Cricket, and though strange, at least their newest baby will fit right it with their 4-year-old daughter Birdie Leigh.
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard- When we first heard they named their kid Lincoln, we thought, interesting, but not crazy.
Then we heard it was a girl.
Then dad tweeted this.
"She has mom's beauty and dad's obsession with breasts. Hooray!"
Holly Madison- Former Playboy bunny Holly Madison said she wanted a unique name for her baby girl. Well, Rainbow Aurora is definitely unique-- to say the least.
Uma had her daughter on July 15, but waited until October 18 to reveal her name. Apparently, because she couldn't decide on just one. Or two. Or three.
"I would like to announce Uma and Arki's daughter's name for the first time officially: Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson, better known to family and friends as Luna," the actress's rep Gabrielle Kachman told People.
Uma, save some for the rest of us.
The 98 Degrees singer and "Wipe Out" host welcomed their first child, a baby boy, into the world in September 2012, but they say they had his name picked out a long time ago.
"We fell in love with it and decided on it five or six months ago," lacheye told People.
So what is it?
Apparently it comes from a street in Beverly Hills, not the economically challenged New Jersey town.
Camden is definitely not your normal "Bill" or "Tom," but lots of stars have done a lot worse. Click for proof!
What The?
Reese Witherspoon welcomed her third child into the world on Thursday.
She named her new baby boy … Tennessee.
That's right – she named him after a state, and since her husband has a different last name – that means the kid's name is Tennessee Toth.
Is he a prospector? Tenessee Tuxedo's country cousin?
Perhaps the child should just be thankful her favorite state isn't Rhode Island. Rhode Island Toth. Now THAT's a weird name.
Not ANOTHER "All K-Names" Family!?
"Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Kim Zolciak and her NFL husband Kroy Biermann welcomed their second son into the world. They named their first son Kroy Jagger after the dad and, well, Mick Jagger probably.
The second?
Kash Kade. Ayup.
The Kardashians already did the "all K's" thing Kim and Kris and Kroy and Kash! Plus every one of disgraced pitcher Roger Clemens' four sons has a K-name!
Kut it out! Kriminy!
Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan welcomed a baby boy recently.
Exton Elias Downey.
The 7lb, 5oz boy's name was kept top secret by the "Sherlock Holmes" star, and not because he knew it was a ... strange ... choice.
He was quoted in the Daily Mail as saying, "If I told you the name, then she would lop off my head with a machete."
We're not even going to touch that one. Too many jokes.
See what some other wild names celebrities chose that aren't in too many baby name books.
Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed a daughter to the world on January 6, 2012.
Perhaps not surprising, given the girl's parents odd monikers, she too has one:
Blue Ivy.
Hope that's not the poisonous kind.
Pink and her husband Carey Hart recently welcomed a little bundle of joy named Willow Sage Hart.
Sounds more like a type of incense than a little girl.
But Pink and Carey are faaaaaaar from the worst baby namers.
Oscar-winner Natalie Portman welcomed a son this year and gave him an interesting name.
It's Alef.
Pronounced AH-lif, the kid shares his name with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In Jewish mysticism the letter "alef" often represents the oneness of God.
What it gets him on a middle school playground will be another thing altogether.
Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon recently welcomed twins and then teased that the baby's names would both start with mom's first letter "M."
Later, we learned that the baby girl was named Monroe Cannon, after Mariah's beloved inspiration, Marilyn Monroe. Ok, fine.
But the baby boy was given the name Moroccan Scott Cannon, named after the room in their home where Nick proposed.
No, that's not Morocco. It's Moroccan. As in the nationality.
Click through to see more of Hollywood's crazy baby name choices.
(Click here for more Nick and Mariah pics from X17 Online.)
"It's unimaginable," Kim Zolciak told Life & Style magazine about being a new mom.
Or maybe she was talking about her son's name?
That would be Kroy Jagger.
Half rock star, half ... crustacean?
Oh wait - Kroy is her husband's name. So its his parents' fault.
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Alicia Silverstone became a mom for the first time this week when she gave birth to a healthy human boy weighing 7lbs, 15 oz.
We felt the need to point out that he is human because she apparently wants to convince people otherwise, giving him the name Bear Blu.
Poor kid.
(Click here for more Alicia Silverstone photos and news from X17 Online)
Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale's progeny feature wacky names you'd expect from rock stars: Kingston James McGregor (left) and Zuma Nesta Rock (right).
(At left, the family visiting Disneyland in July)
Volleyball player Kerri Walsh's kids are unequally named. Her first son with Casey Jennings is named Joseph. Her second? Sundance.
Is is just us or is Sundance more appropriate for a My Little Pony than a little boy?
If you didn't think Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz's kid would have enough problems growing up in Hollywood, we have three words: BRONX MOWGLI WENTZ.
We feel for the Toni Braxton's sons with Keri Lewis. Their names are... brace yourself... Diesel and Denham.
Nicole Richie & Joel Madden picked the unique, cute name Harlow Winter Kate for their daughter, but their son's gonna have some trouble on the playground. Because his name is Sparrow James Midnight.
Maybe someone in the Richie-Madden household really loves "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Also, guys? Harlow and Sparrow kinda rhyme.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has three daughters with floral-themed names. Poppy Honey Rosie, 8, Daisy Boo Pamela, 7, and Petal Blossom Rainbow, 1.
Jamie and his wife Jools expect their fourth child this month, and we can only guess at the type of terrifying moniker they'll bestow on the unsuspecting baby.
Gwyneth Paltrow and hubby Chris Martin get a lot of flak for naming their daughter Apple (and son Moses), but it's actually not so bad... compared to Daisy Boo Pamela, for instance.
Though they're now divorced, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis still spend time together with daughters Rumer, Scout LaRue, and Tallulah Belle.
Of Steven Speilberg and Kate Capshaw seven kids, only daughter Destry Allyn stands out with a wacky name. The 1939 movie "Destry Rides Again" is said to be behind the unorthodox choice.
Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell's twin girls don't have totally crazy names, it's just that they don't go together: Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip. Dolly and Charlie?
Couldn't they at least have done Dolly with an "-ie" or Charlie with a "y"? Consistency, people!
"General Hospital" star Ingo Rademacher named his son Peanut Kai.
Peanut. Just let that sink in. Peanut.
Actress Lisa Bonet (who personally goes by the name Lilakoi Moon) named her daughter (with Lenny Kravitz) Zoe Isabella -- totally normal. Then her daughter with Jason Momoa was called Lola Iolani. Also pretty normal.
Then, she and Momoa saddled their baby boy with Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha.
He's going to have a rough time learning to spell his name.
Nic Cage named his son Kal-El. That's Superman's real name. Because Nic Cage likes comic books. A lot.
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. We all have favorite authors, but when one is Franz Kafka, we go with "Franz" as the kid's name, not "Kafka."
Forest Whitaker explained his daughters' names (Sonnet, True, and Autumn) son Ocean's name thusly: "I want those names to be their destiny, for my daughter to be honest and my son to be expansive. I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing." Indeed.
Rob Morrow's daughter's name is Tu. Tu Morrow. There oughta be a law.
Richard Gere's son's name is Homer James Jigme. Jigme!
Bob Geldof named his daughter Peaches Honeyblossom, and she went and became a totally wild singer who, just, um, er ... has very few inhibitions. Go figure.
His other two daughters are named Fifi Trixibelle and Little Pixie, by the way, and he became the guardian of his late ex wife's daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.
Yo dog! What's up? Give it up dog. I am feeling your fame, Randy Jackson. But Steveanna? Really? We're just not getting it, yo. Sorry dog. How about you Simon?
The Edge named his kid Blue Angel, which we're going to forgive because he's Irish, and may not even know about the Blue Angels airplane thingie.
Penn Jillette's daughter's name, Moxie Crimefighter, sounds like a superhero. She should get to know Nic Cage's son, Kal-El.
Penn's son is named Zolten, but with a sister named Moxie Crimefighter, no one is even going to notice.
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The charge of EBSS' Psychology Committee is to provide a forum for librarians interested in psychology to become more active in EBSS, and to address issues and areas of interest specific to psychology. These pages are designed to serve as a resource in assisting librarians who have recently assumed responsibilities in the areas of psychology (with particular emphasis on reference and acquisitions) and, more generally, to provide a starting point for any librarian interested in exploring the field of psychology.
Although not exhaustive, resources included within this site were selected by present and former members of the Committee because they represent the "best of the best" of a very wide range of materials available on the internet related to psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral health. Common criteria of all sites selected include reputation, utility, accuracy, currency, and stability over time.


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Wyoming Stories
Close Range
Wyoming Stories
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love.
Close Range features stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes -- confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty -- with the more benign values of the new west.
Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
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Annie Proulx, the critically acclaimed winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is one of the most intensely original and authentic voices in American fiction. Her writing examines the lives of rural North Americans in the contexts of time and place, asking how these forces order human lives and behavior. Her latest collection of short fiction, Close Range: Wyoming Stories presents eleven unforgettable stories of isolation, violence, and redemption in the high plains country of Wyoming. It is an unsentimental look at the ranchers, bull riders, cowboys, women and small-town business people who survive in this tough place.
The epigraph to the collection is a key to the stories: "Reality's never been of much use out here." The stories are laced with threads of the magical, the impossible, the folk tale. How does this dismissal of reality relate to the American myth of the west? In what ways does fantasy shape our lives and culture?
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The Half Skinned Steer
1.) In the story told by Mero's old man's girlfriend, the half-skinned steer becomes a terrible fate Tin Head knows he can't escape. What is Mero's half-skinned steer? How was he marked by it and by his Wyoming origins? What is the nature of Mero's journey?
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French astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured an image of the razor-thin lunar crescent precisely at the moment of this month's New Moon.
There's always something of a spirited global competition to be first to spot the New Moon of Ramadan — this year celestial geometry favored the Southern Hemisphere — and sightings came in from many countries yesterday evening, by which time the Moon was a slam-dunk 25 to 40 hours old. With that, Muslims around the world begin their solemn month-long observance.But astrophotographer Thierry Legault went all-out to record the razor-thin lunar crescent exactly at the moment of New Moon — on July 8th at 7:14 Universal Time. He succeeded, but it wasn't easy.
Legault set up for his audacious attempt in the Parisian suburb of Élancourt, France. The Sun was well up in the late-morning sky, with the Moon 4.4° (nine solar diameters) to its south. He built the special screen seen in the photo at right, so that no sunlight would enter the telescope directly. He also used a near-infrared filter to reduce the sky's overwhelming brightness relative to that of the lunar crescent, which was only a few arcseconds thick.
"This requires a good mastery of the equipment and processing because the crescent is extremely faint, even with all precautions," Legault explains. "I could not see the Moon on the computer during recording — only after image stacking (to increase signal-to-noise ratio) and processing like brightness/contrast adjustment (to remove the glare from the Sun)."Read more about this incredible effort on Legault's website. It's the same approach he used to capture the New Moon of April 14, 2010, which involved a slightly greater separation of the two disks. (Technically, the closest New Moon that can be seen — in silhouette — occurs during a total solar eclipse.)
Thanks to a comment posted on Sky & Telescope's Facebook page, I should point out that a trio of German amateur observers at the Munich Public Observatory have a particular fascination with very thin lunar crescents. In particular, Martin Elsässer, recorded one on April 21, 2012, that was very slightly closer than Legault's. Did Elsässer succeed? You'll have to watch his video clip and judge for yourself.
By the way, seeking very young crescent Moons is great sport if you've got an unobstructed western horizon. But it takes planning to succeed. If conditions are right, you can usually glimpse a 17-hour-old Moon with a small telescope and a 20-hour Moon by eye. The youngest Moon ever seen with optical aid was just 11h 40m past new, and the record for the unaided eye is 15h 32m.
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Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis
The fifth edition of this book, authored by Kenneth V. Lanning and produced in cooperation with the FBI, is an investigative tool for law enforcement and child protection professionals investigating child sexual exploitation cases. It provides investigative strategies, the characteristics of offenders and the difficulties often encountered in cases of child sexual exploitation. 212 pp.


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On Tuesday, Aug. 28, St. Peter R.C. Church in Lewiston held its "Blessing of the School" along with a family picnic. Families were asked to gather on the front lawn of the rectory where Father Michael Zuffoletto began the school year with a family blessing. Principal Maureen Ingham greeted all the families gathered. A family picnic under the direction of Libby Broderick and Gretchen Broderick followed and new families were introduced. Families were treated to "Grilling with Grandpas" where student's grandfathers grilled hot dogs and hamburgers for everyone in attendance.
St. Peter R.C. School has openings for students in pre-K through grade 8. Its school motto is "It Takes A Village" to educate children. Pictured is Zuffoletto blessing the school's families.


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