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Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO) is a discount variety retailer operating 6,655 stores in 44 states. Most of the merchandise the company sells ranges from less than a dollar to around $10 in price, with the majority under $1 per unit. The company's strategy is to target low to lower-middle income households with cheap consumables and home goods. FDO recorded net sales of $7.867 billion and net income of $358 million in fiscal 2010.[1]
Unlike other retailers, FDO profits during recessionary U.S. Economic Cycles, as consumers substitute down to cheaper items. For example, recent harsh economic conditions led to a 23% increase in net income compared to fiscal 2009.[1] As a dollar-store retailer, Family Dollar has little ability to increase prices to compensate for any changes in input costs. Additionally, Family Dollar is trying to differentiate itself by focusing on selling food products and opening stores in urban areas.
Family Dollar stores carry a variety of food products, housewares, clothing, accessories, toys, school supplies, and seasonal goods. The company divides its merchandise into the following segments:
Discount retailers often experience difficulty passing on cost increases to customers, particularly "dollar-store" chains such as Family Dollar who by-name are obligated to keeping prices on some products at or under $1. In addition to this obligation, the company's customers can not afford to pay much more than a few dollars as many earn household incomes at, near, or below the poverty line.[3] Consequently, input cost increases (such as inventory, overhead, marketing) are difficult to pass on to consumers. Macroeconomic and company specific changes to cost structure, including higher distribution costs related to rising energy prices, and supplier or distributor consolidation may lead to large margin decreases that cannot be offset by price increases. This is particularly relevant to oil prices which increase freight costs and other activities related to getting products from factories to Family Dollar stores.
Family Dollar competes against discounters with wider selection and significant cost and scale advantages in its local markets. A Family Dollar store operating within a few miles of a nearby Wal-Mart or Target, for instance, will struggle to compete on value and selection, and may instead gain customers via convenience and location. It also faces competition from other "dollar stores," that have similar or identical value propositions, such as Dollar Tree Stores (DLTR), Dollar General (DG), and 99 Cents Only Stores (NDN). With low barriers to entry and few natural competitive advantages to gain, the industry has become flooded with dollar stores and collectively, these companies are approaching U.S. saturation. While Family Dollar has some competitive advantage in the southern US states, there is substantial risk of lower margins due to increased overhead expenses as well as stiff competition as other discounters pursue the same strategies.
Family Dollar is a discount retailer that competes with other stores that have similar business models. Thus, the company faces direct competition from dollar-store chains, such as Dollar Tree Stores (DLTR) and 99 Cents Only Stores (NDN), that sell many of their products at or around $1.


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AFP Still Not Giving Up On Its Bizarre Claim That Twitpic Images Are Freely Licensed To Anyone
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Soon after this, the actual photographer saw the photos and sent a cease & desist. The AFP then sued the actual photographer, claiming that it had not violated his copyrights. The AFP's argument for this was so confused that it raised questions about whether or not the AFP even really understood what the company had done. First, it claimed that Twitter's terms of service says the following:
You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).It seems the AFP somehow interpreted this to mean that any content posted to Twitpic could be freely used. There are two massive problems with this line of argument. First, Twitpic isn't Twitter (something that no one involved in the lawsuit on either side seemed to realize -- which is just downright sloppy) and posting an image to Twitpic has nothing to do with Twitter's terms of service. Second, even if the images were covered by Twitter's terms of service, those terms are boilerplate language describing the license between the user and Twitter -- not between the user and any third party. This is plainly obvious from the language of the clause, which notes that it "grants us" the license. The "us" is Twitter. Not any third party. The Twitter license then does allow Twitter to post that content elsewhere -- but that right does not just extend to any third party. This is pretty standard stuff that is found in just about any internet service's terms of use.
I had kind of figured that after this rather massive set of mistakes was highlighted, AFP would realize its errors and back off from the lawsuit. No such luck apparently. Venkat Balasubramani has an update on the case, suggesting that the AFP is sticking by its totally illogical claims. What brought this on is that Twitter has apparently clarified its terms of service, to avoid this sort of situation (even though the original terms seemed pretty clear), but the AFP is still insisting that its tortured interpretation of the terms supports its position. It's somewhat bizarre to see that no one involved in the lawsuit has realized just how insanely weak this position is. It seems like a huge waste of effort for an interpretation of terms of service that, if actually believed, would likely come back to haunt AFP.

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Michael Bublé – "Crazy Love" Tour
Adelaide - Entertainment Centre
Monday, 28th February
- Nancy Z
What a fantastic night! Naturally 7 were great, even better than their last performance in Adelaide. They really got the crowd going with their jump routine. The electric guitar acapella was out of this world. How can ones voice make such a sound? Phenomenal! They are a true talent and were more than happy to interact with the audience after the show.
And now to the main performance, the one and only Michael Buble. What an entertainer. A true crowd pleaser. He made a grand entrance with "Cry Me A River". He also took the time to sign poster made by audience members, before performing more of his popular hits from his Crazy Love CD. He worked the audience on all levels, performing in the middle of the Arena to please those in the stands. Naturally 7 returned to show case their talents before Michael made his way through the crowd to the main stage. And what about that voice! It was like I was listening to his CD, sometimes even better!! The choice of songs were great. Starting with the ever popular Van Morrison hits before breaking out with his own hits of "Haven't Met You Yet" & "Hollywood" which really got the crowd to their feet.
He really got the audiences attention with his sense of humour. He has a great way of introducing his band and it looks like they all enjoy each others company. I was in stitches!!
The stage lighting and huge screens were fantastic, giving you a perfect view every time. He is a true performer, show casing not only his singing talents, but his personal interactions with each and every one of you. At times you feel like he's just singing to you. He expressed his childhood idols including the likes of Michael Jackson and showed his emotional side by admitting that he "misses him" before breaking out with a short version of "Man in the Mirror" and "Billie Jean". He also showed his love for the late 80's with a mention of Ferris Bueller, before singing "Twist & Shout" Ferris Beuller style.
But how could the night end...he still had so much to perform and came back for an encore to complete the night with "Feeling Good", "Me & Mrs Jones" and the ultimate finale of "Song for You" and he once again show cased his talent of singing without a microphone. He showed his true appreciation to his audience and promised to be back again.
So what more can you ask for in a performer. There were people there from the ages of 8 to 80. Who can entertain people these days to such a broad age group? Who else but Michael Buble.....Can't wait to see him again and again and again!!


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Dolphins WR Mike Wallace returns to practice
Dolphins WR Mike Wallace returns to practice
Aug. 07, 2013
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins receiver Mike Wallace returned to practice Wednesday after being sidelined more than a week by a groin injury, and he expects to play in Friday's exhibition game at Jacksonville.
Wallace caught a long touchdown pass in practice from Ryan Tannehill, their first such connection in training camp.
"Finally got one," Wallace said. "It's just the start. I plan on catching a lot of those. It's just a matter of time. Be patient. It's going to happen."
He became the Dolphins' highest-paid player when he signed $60 million, five-year contract in March after four seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Miami wideouts caught only three TD passes last year.
Wallace said he was happy to return to practice after missing Sunday's exhibition opener against Dallas.
"You can't get better on the side," he said.
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Jessica Biel & Jason Bateman Join Matt Damon's Toilet Strike
Jessica Biel and Jason Bateman hold up a strike sign in support of Matt Damon's Toilet Strike, which began last week and will continue until "everyone in the whole world has access to clean water and sanitation."
"No matter where I go, I'm humbled by the outpouring of generosity shared with Water.org to help others end their struggle to get safe water. Hundreds of people, many of them volunteers, came together to make this idea a reality," Matt said about the plight of getting clean water for everyone.
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While the 76ers got a two-time all-star center in the mega-trade that brought them Andrew Bynum, the prevailing wisdom is that while he's probably the best center to don a Sixers uniform since the days of Moses Malone, Bynum is still considered by most to be the second-best center behind Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard.
However, new teammate Dorell Wright doesn't necessarily agree. Having faced Bynum, acquired from the Los Angeles Lakers, multiple times when he and Wright played in the Pacific Division, Wright, who spent his last two seasons with the Golden State Warriors, stated unequivocally that Bynum is the league's best big man.
"He's going to need two defenders to stop him; I would say he's the best big man in the NBA right now, hands down," Wright, speaking at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, said. "He's a guy that can give you baskets with his back to the basket; a guy who makes free throws at 7-feet. You've just got to respect him."
At that point I interjected, asking him if he calls Bynum the best big man in the league because they are now on the same team. Or could it be because Howard is on the mend from back surgery?
"No way, I'd say it any day. It's because I know he can put his back to the basket and give us a basket and request a double team and make free throws," Wright continued. "It's his all-around game. Hopefully he can stay healthy and we can ride, he can put us on his back and he can take us as far as we can go."
Wright seemed to enjoy the little back and forth. He even turned the tables on me, asking me whom I thought was the best big man in the game.
I told him Dwight Howard.


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|Oct 17th, 2009 05:17 PM
|Another good book to pick-up, that I enjoyed at least, was the current Hercules stories from Marvel. Oh and Nova.
|Feb 10th, 2009 11:20 PM
|I heard it was supposed to be an elsewhere story, but Didio wanted to make a cross over.
|Feb 9th, 2009 07:45 AM
I think the tie ins express what I consider to be one of the failings of the Marvel and DC universes. They annoy me as giant cohesive universes.
I like them internally, and I love say, a lot of Batman arcs, when I can treat them with a loose grip on continuity and a showpiece for my love of a character, but tie-in's remind me of some annoying problems present by having all of your superhero's inhabit the same world.
Things like... anytime a low-rent hero is challenged with the destruction of the world (or a major city, or you know, just anything big time), how come the big dogs don't step in to do something. Once DC reminds me that all of their comics take place in one planet (for the most partY), everytime a villain points a death ray at a major city and makes his intentions known, I wonder why Superman doesn't do something about it and leaves it to the far weaker player I'm reading about. I mean, I don't always keep up on his trades, so maybe he's busy off planet or something, but I'd think if he was just doing his usual shtick he might get off his butt to spare ten seconds to save a city.
Also, all the confusion about diety's, types of magic, etc. It becomes constraining. When they fold stories into their universes, suddenly characters who made deals with the devil (like the Original Ghostrider), now have to be dealing with demons who are just pretending to be the devil. Or say, if they were on the run from a govt. conspiracy, but now we want to fold them into the universe, we have to make sure that what they thought was a conspiracy was already one of the major villainous govt. organizations we've already defined operating under a different name, that takes a lot out of the character for me, it constrains some of the individuality for new characters and arcs, when they have to deal with existant forms.
I could read an episodic comic forever, like I can read tons of Sherlock Holmes, and I love coherent paced continuities that have an ending (like say, Battlestar Galactica, which hasn't ended yet but won't be running forever), but mainstream comics inhabit some strange middle ground that turns me off of them.
|Feb 9th, 2009 05:54 AM
|the Platinum Poppy
|I haven't read any of this yet but I love Grant Morrisson. In my opinion his take on the X-men was the peak of that series, then it went downhill and although I occassionally read the books I can't really be bothered to care about them. So I have to read this stuff... but first we'll make it our project at home to buy and read all the old crisis books. I guess that will take some time.
|Feb 8th, 2009 09:29 PM
|Max: Fist pretty much ignores current Marvel continuity, for the most part. Check out the first trade, and I bet you'll be hooked (it's a nice quality trade too with good paper stock).
|Feb 7th, 2009 01:52 PM
|I have avoided Final Crisis like the plague.
|Feb 7th, 2009 12:02 PM
Does "Fist" totally or mostly ignore current marvel continuity?
FF and Cap both pay as little attention to it as possible, and they are my two favorite marvel books.
|Feb 7th, 2009 11:09 AM
Max, I've been enjoying Millar's FF run as well. So Marvel definitely still has some good books, you've just got to know where to look for them.
|Feb 7th, 2009 03:25 AM
|Rufus the Perturbed
|This is why I stopped reading comics. Caveman superhero? Batman sent back to prehistory? Head....hurts...AAAAAAHHHHHH!
|Feb 6th, 2009 08:12 PM
|I like the current run on FF. It basically ignores Marvel's current continuity.
|Feb 6th, 2009 06:41 PM
Ooh, I forgot about Daredevil, the Lady Bullseye storyline has been great, I hate the art style though, it's got that cheap look like they had someone pose for pictures, then ran 'em through a Photoshop filter. Good thing I mentioned that I was going off the top of my head. :P
I haven't read Iron Fist though, I try avoid comic books that seem doomed, so I don't have to experience the sadness of random cancellation, I'll have to pick it up now that I've got your recommendation.
|Feb 6th, 2009 06:16 PM
|Feb 6th, 2009 02:08 PM
52 was great, the current New Krypton storyline is great.
I cannot tell you a single title worth reading from Marvel off the top of my head. I liked Machine Man in Marvel Zombies 3, but that is over. I don't really see the point in Dark Reign, since Komodo should just pop a cap in Osborne and end the storyline.
Heck, all comic books are better pretty crappy now besides Superman, Supergirl and Adventure Comics. I dropped Walking Dead after that one guy started bawling about wanting to shoot Gimpy, the one handed idiot, I didn't like the end of the prison storyline, it was a silly tabula rasa ending that only happened because the writer got bored. but the storyline has totally lost all of its organic nature since they first encountered The General. Not to mention that each issue seems to be getting smaller and smaller, but containing more and more filler.
I remember thinking while reading one of the last issues I read "What just happened?" and not in the good way. They drove for a few minutes, somebody went to pee, got attacked by a zombie, the zombie got killed, two characters talked for two or three panels, it was over. It wasn't even good talking, it was standard macho posturing that does nothing to establish anything.
|Feb 6th, 2009 01:52 PM
|If I had hung around then Identity Crisis alone would have made me march on DC with the flaming torches.
|Feb 6th, 2009 10:29 AM
|You must have a track record of making really horrible decisions
|Feb 5th, 2009 09:27 PM
|I am so glad I ditched DC years back. Best decision I ever made.
|Feb 5th, 2009 08:37 PM
Peter Parker was a perfect example of the greatness that is possible with your typical superhero comic (and television show, comic strip, and comic books in general) by which I mean, a character created with a beginning (origin) and a middle (Status Quo) he started out as a rascally teenage boy, lost a love, grew into a rascally young man, got married, grew into a man, became a teacher and widely accepted by the population at large, even becoming an avenger, then Jose Quesada (Hint; if the writers of a superhero movie use your name for a rapist, and then kill that character off in the most brutal death of the entire movie, find a new job.) decided that as opposed to doing the totally organic thing of letting this thirty year old man let go of his fifty billion year old aunt, he should sell his wife to Satan, so he can complain about the lack of fictional wheat-based foods.
Another great example, and this one still exists, is Black Lightning, originally a racist stereotype that wore a break-dancing outfit and existed simply to be Africa American, they went so far as to make him from the ghetto (albeit, Metropolis's ghetto.) but he has recently grown into an interesting, useful character between his appearances in various books.
|Feb 5th, 2009 06:45 PM
|Yeah, but that's really not good either if the status quo is never changed and they're always just spinning their wheels. Granted, the status quo rarely changes in truly substantial ways (see Barry Allen), but at least the characters have evolved slowly over time.
|Feb 5th, 2009 04:27 PM
I really hate this kind of crap because as a casual comic book reader it makes it completely impossible for me to get into any series I want to read! Comic books, at least as an actual comic book (marvel and dc make all their money off of tv/movies and merchandising now days) are dying a slow death, never becoming fully main-stream like other mediums and the reason imho is this sort of crap. I have no problems with writers making long compaigns of universe altering arcs and crazy visits to alternate universes, but perhaps it's time for comic books to take a page from the more popular mediums and implement the "saturday morning cartoon" laws.
1. All characters shall remain in the same clothes, drawn exactly the same way forever!
If for some reason any of the character's costumes need to be changed, the series must end in leu of a new series starring the same characters.
2. Any problems or journeys involving parallel worlds or crossovers with other series are fine, but they must be COMPLETELY RESOLVED by the end of the story arc. By "resolved" I mean anything that happened must be wrapped up in such a way that anyone who missed the arc would never know it or could be filled in in a few seconds.
3. Main characters never age or die. If they do age or die, then the series must END!
I think a perfect example of how to properly do a strange, universe-altering story-arc is the recent "Angel: After the fall" I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but basically the way it is wrapped up, we are right back where we started when the tv series went off the air and the story-line doens't interfere with the ongoing buffy comic one bit.
In other words, the way to properly do a universe-altering comic is to not really alter the universe!
|Feb 5th, 2009 11:55 AM
I think what you're looking at and being irritated by, are the problems inherent in what I call long form fiction, and I think I discussed in one or another of my 'Hey Dork' columns.
I'm sure there are folks out there with more letters after their name then I currently have who have identified this form and called it something else, but whatever it is, in terms of fiction is a pretty modern thing.
you can find it in any fiction with multiple writers, some nod to continuity and a fairly long time frame.
The longest examples would be soap operas, about which I know next to nothing, but I gather some of them are still on the air that began on radio and feature an admittedly strained but ongoing continuity. You find the same thing in multi season television series, and comic books.
It isn't just a young art form, which al by itself accounts for lots of failure, it's a collaborative art for with all the pitfalls of any collaboration (movies, theater, group sex) plus it has an evolving dynamic. Not only do all the creators not know each other, same of them are sepearted by generations at this point.
What I admire about Morrison is that he treats comics like an art form and takes a whack at accepting and incorporating it's problems, strictures and limits.
I also like one issue stories or short arcs that don't deal with continuity, or thumb their noses a it or just go along with a good yarn without worrying about it. BUT I credit Morrison with taking a look at long form for what it is and trying to do something with it.
The tie ins are what I think are a mistake. Not only is it too expensive, but you can't count on them to be readable, let alone in a league with the major work.
If a writer counts on tie ins to fill in the blanks, or even flesh out the story, he's partly responsible if they suck and fully responsible if he leaves gaping holes in his own stuff others don't fill.
It's problematical, and I can't imagine what the vast majority of readers make f the whole mess. I think they just probably ignore it and move on
and that's fine for an audience, but I think writers do to, and that is one of the big pitfalls in a longform fiction
|Feb 5th, 2009 10:27 AM
I only skipped four and five, I think, but this was just bad. Batman's death was silly, and the fact that he used the Omega Sanction? What purpose did that serve beyond NOT killing Batman? For those of you not geeky enough to recall, all the Omega Sanction does is teleport the individual to an alternate universe, one that theoretically will be a bad universe, while destroying (in some stories, not all.) a duplicate version of their body in this universe.
I can only assume that due to the constant flux of the multiverse at Batman's time of death, he was teleported to a random point in time on the standard DC Earth, meaning that within time, probably a few weeks, Booster Gold or another time traveler will find him and bring him to the present so he can grimace and say "I'm done being Batman! I'm not worthy! I killed Darkseid!" then toss his cowl dramatically at Dick Grayson or New Dick Grayson, or New Dickina Grayson.
I can never remember all the Robins names, he's had like five in the current version, hasn't he? One that is Nightwing, one that is a girl, now Spoiler, one that is legally his son because Captain Boomerang finally got that one-in-a-million kill, one that died and was never shown, but decided he wanted nipples on his costume so they shot him.
|Feb 5th, 2009 10:10 AM
I think, the problem with comics is becoming that it's just getting absurd to assume that the same characters have done SO much.
All great fiction has a beginning, middle, and end (even if they weren't planned at inception), but comic heroes stories drag on forever in the mainstream. I'd like for someone to figure out how many times Superman has saved the world, apparently died, fell in love, lost said love, traveled to an alternate dimension, and bested a plan of Lex Luthors. I don't care how cool Superman is, his life is not going to just have THAT MUCH ADVENTURE.
I just can't read about any of the major Marvel or DC players anymore because I know I'll leave the whole thing unsatisfied and unresolved. So I tend to stick to things more like Preacher, Sandman, etc. I usually wait until a big bulk is out and then read it in one shot. Oh, and the Runaways, that's good stuff.
|Feb 5th, 2009 05:43 AM
|Purple Man
Whoa. I came in here, tried to devour those opening two paragraphs, then saw the slabs of commentary. Screw this shit; one hideously out-of-control multiverse is enough for me, thank you.
To be honest, my DC fandom always began and ended with Babs Gordon. I can only be so much of a nerd.
|Feb 5th, 2009 02:34 AM
My problem is kinda the same as everyone else's, but it didn't leave me with love for Final Crisis, or the enormous apparent ego-stroking that Grant Morrison seems to have accomplished here. Shit happened for seemingly no reason, with no warning or with seemingly little care, feeling mainly done just to be "daring and edgy" just to prove that they (or he) could do this. And don't get me started on those f'n tie-ins, which DC's probably set a record for in "Useless F'N tie-ins" that only served to further clutter up the whole damn narrative.
To me this wound up being more of an actual clusterfuck than Secret Invasion, I could at least follow THAT mega event, and didn't need to collect every god-damn tie-in, and apparently have an extensive knowledge of Marvel history, (even moreso than I already DO) just to scratch the surface of what was really going on.
I'm hoping we're really done with the Crisis-stuff now... but part of me knows that this is probably only going to get worse.
At least we have the "Blackest Night", and "Return of Barry Allen" stuff to look forward to. e_e
|Feb 4th, 2009 03:49 PM
I read 6 out of 7 issues of Final Crises (I missed Issue 5) and Superman Beyond. I've been reading comics for pretty much my entire life, and honestly... I found it to be masturbatory. Grant Morrison lecturing me on how he thought story telling should work. I think that sort of thing can be interesting, but I don't think it's fitting as a universe hanging work. The whole thing is just a meta-textual exercise, and what's more, I think Morrison made a conscious effort to try and make it impossible to understand. That last issue especially, where he told half in flashback and even the flashbacks had sudden jumps through time, plus the fact that he seems to have just thrown in every idea he had... Look, I'm with you in some respects, Max. He did some interesting things, some of the individual moments in it are incredibly interesting, but I think that looking at it as a whole, it's just a mess. It's Morrison being paid to be self-indulgent and DC not having any editorial control over what he was doing.
I'm sick of events. I'm sick of everyone writing just for trades. The fact of the matter is, we don't have writers anymore who can tell a solid story in twenty two pages, and that sucks. I know that plenty of people out there think that single issues are crap compared to long stories, but they don't get it. The truly great comics are the ones where you can pick up any issue without having read the whole, but if you read them all you can actually see an arc to the characters. Morrison can't even write a single trade that works.
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LONDON (AP) — Disappointing retail sales figures are likely to reinforce concerns at the European Central Bank that the eurozone economic recovery is failing to gain momentum at a time when inflation is stubbornly low.
Official figures released Wednesday — a day ahead of a highly anticipated ECB policy meeting — showed retail sales across the 18-country eurozone suffered their biggest drop in over two and a half years in the crucial shopping month of December.
Eurostat, the EU's statistics agency, said retail sales fell 1.6 percent in December, more than offsetting the previous month's 0.9 percent rise.
That was way worse than the 0.5 percent fall anticipated in the markets and represented the biggest monthly decline since May 2011. The drop, which means retail sales in the eurozone ended the year 0.9 percent lower than where they started, was broad-based, with the region's top-two economies faring particularly badly. Germany saw a sharp 2.5 percent monthly decline while France posted a 1 percent drop.
Retail sales are a major component of economic output across the region and the December figures may raise concerns that the eurozone recovery did not accelerate in the fourth quarter as many had anticipated.
On Feb. 14, Eurostat will publish its first estimate for economic growth in the eurozone in the final three months of the year. Most economists had expected a quarterly growth rate of 0.3 percent, a modest improvement on the previous quarter's paltry 0.1 percent. But with retail sales down 0.7 percent during the October to December period, those forecasts may now be in doubt.
"We think the recovery for the economy as a whole continues, but at an anemic pace," said James Ashley, senior European economist at RBC Capital Markets.
The figures will also likely ratchet up the pressure on ECB officials to ease monetary policy further at their monthly meeting on Thursday to shore up the recovery.
As well as fretting about growth, the ECB has another headache — the possibility of a debilitating bout of Japanese-style deflation. At an annual rate of 0.7 percent, consumer prices are rising at a far slower pace than the ECB's target of just below 2 percent.
If prices were to start falling across the eurozone for a sustained period of time, it would jeopardize the already-muted recovery. Deflation can make consumers delay spending in the hope of getting cheaper bargains down the line as well as making businesses reluctant to invest and innovate.
If the ECB were to do more at Thursday's meeting, analysts reckon the most likely action would be a cut in the benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.10 percent from the current 0.25 percent. In theory, that could help hard-up households and businesses, which could stimulate the economy and get inflation back towards target.
A broad range of economic indicators have shown that the recovery in the eurozone has continued into the new year but that it's not amounting to much.
A survey Wednesday from financial information company Markit reinforced that view. Though its purchasing managers' index — a broad gauge of business activity — rose to its highest reading since June 2011, it was lower than anticipated.
Markit said its composite PMI, which incorporates the manufacturing and services sectors, was 52.9 in January, up from December's 52.1 percent but down on a preliminary estimate of 53.2 issued last month. Still, at just above the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction, the figure suggested a mild rise in activity.
"The upshot is that whilst the PMI suggests that the wider economic recovery picked up at the start of the year, growth will still be too weak to solve the region's debt and unemployment problems," said Jonathan Loynes, chief European economist at Capital Economics. "Accordingly, a consumer-led recovery does not seem likely."


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Google Chrome Extends Windows XP Support Until End of 2015
They also dropped support for Windows Vista before Vista reached its 10 year end of support status, which was just recently in April of 2017. They'll probably be dropping Windows 7 support in a couple of years and I wouldn't be surprised to see it become a Windows 10 only product within 5 years.
Google makes their money from the cloud, and pushing people to new operating systems which don't support older applications makes people switch to online cloud based replacements for these applications. These older applications were likely purchased in a store on a CD during the Windows XP days or before and require no Internet connectivity.
For example, you bought a CD with software to make greeting cards in 1998. It has hundreds of styles, even more than what can be found in stores so it can practically be used forever. It has worked fine on Windows XP & Vista through 2014. Then you found that Chrome would no longer work. So you updated your computer to Windows 8 or 10. Now Chrome works, but your greeting card software does not. So you found a website that lets you print some free greeting cards. It's slow even on a DSL connection and it's filled with advertisements from Google's advertising division, which is what allowed the site to have a high ranking in Google's search results, which is how you found it in the first place. Now you've used up the free cards and now you've signed up for a subscription to have full access to all the greeting card styles. To make matters worse, the subscription doesn't remove most of Google's advertisements which are on the site.
Perhaps I'm thick but if you buy a CD with software to make cards or do anything else for that matter, why can't you just continue using it? How does Google Chrome get involved? I've never used Google Chrome.
Because the greeting card software on the CD doesn't work on computers that come with Windows 7 and later, and Chrome requires Windows 7 or later.
My first computer was an old Macintosh...had a separate fan that sounded just like my vacuum cleaner.
My laptop gets used maybe once a month or so.
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text: Student Profiles Robin Smith '05 Robin Smith '05 Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Major: English and Theater Why did you come to Bowdoin? I knew that I wanted to go to a school in New England. There was a college fair at my school and I just picked up pamphlets from colleges in the New England area. My mom was a major help. She did a lot of research for me and every day, when I would come home from school, she would have a lot of information on something. Then the summer after my junior year of high school, we went on a two-week college tour - I went with my parents and my grandmother - and we drove all around New England and looked at fifteen or sixteen schools. And, it's so cliché, but seriously, the minute [I arrived] on the campus, I knew that I wanted to be at Bowdoin. It seemed like the perfect size, and the guide was really cool and I'm actually still in touch with him today - Jay Stull, who graduated in 2001. So I showed interest in the school and I applied early decision. And actually, after I sent in my application, there was the [Bowdoin Experience] weekend, and the College flew me to Bowdoin. You know, you go in the summer and there's nothing really happening on campus, so going in the fall of my senior year really enabled me to see the campus in all its workings. I was able to stay in a dorm and interact with students and interact with other kids who were visiting that weekend. I thought it was really well put together and there were all these activities for us to do. We had speakers and I had such a fabulous time. And everyone was just so kind. That was one of the things that really got me. Everyone was just so kind and so welcoming and really willing to share as much information as I wanted. That was great. So I wiped my brow after that weekend because my application was in and I [thought], "Great, I made the right decision." I was one of the first people in my class to know - I found out December 18th! I was really lucky because it was the only school that I applied to. If I hadn't gotten into Bowdoin I don't really know where I would have applied. How did you decide on your major? I believe it was during our freshman year that the interdisciplinary major of English and Theater came about, and I was really happy about that. I started doing theater my junior year of high school because I was afraid up until that point to perform. So I did a musical my freshman year at Bowdoin, and then took Gretchen Berg's Women in Performance class the fall of my freshman year. I think the combination of the two really got me psyched about theater. I had been pretty psyched upon arriving at Bowdoin, but I remembered how much of a rush you get from performing, and I [thought], "Wow, this is something that I would enjoy doing." Then I found out about the English and Theater major and I [thought], "Great. I'll do it. Why not?" I think it's kind of funny that the English part is in there because I'm not the best writer in the world, but [the two disciplines are] very complementary and I'm pleased with the classes I've taken for the major. What has been your favorite class at Bowdoin? Oh, wow. It has nothing to do with my major. It was an Africana Studies class that I took last spring: Issues in Black Photography with Julie McGee. I was surprised by how entangled I got with the material. Everything sucked me in and I absorbed everything like a sponge. For this class you had to really dig deep into the material and some of the concepts were a bit difficult for me to grasp, but I enjoyed that struggle so much. I sort of shied away from taking an actual photography class, so this class was nice because you didn't have to be a visual arts major - you could just sit back and view and analyze and critique. It was a nice-sized class and everyone seemed to be highly involved in the work. The readings were great. And the teacher! Professor McGee is such a nice woman and she really knew her stuff. She was always going to these various conventions about Africana Studies, and she had been to South Africa on many occasions. She really knew what she was talking about. I think it was easy for students to have a great relationship with her because she was really easy to talk to - I think eighty percent of my [email] inbox last spring was filled with emails from her! She would find all these articles from The New York Times or other newspapers and [the articles] all related to the course material. I think she's a great professor and everyone that I've spoken to about her says the same thing. And that class, in particular, was amazing. That would have to be one of my favorites, and I think it's interesting that it has nothing to do with my major at all. What extracurricular activities do you participate in? Do you have an on campus job? I have two things going on. Starting my sophomore year, I began work-study with the Theater Department, and I love that job. [Theater Department Technical Director] Michael Schiff-Vere and [Assistant Technical Director] Deb Puhl are great, great people to work with. I always enjoy going to work. There's always something different going on. This semester I'm doing a lot of work in the costume shop, but on Fridays I usually work with lights or props or carpentry. What I like most about the job is that you get paid to learn. And they make it a lot of fun and you work with great people. It's sort of like I have my own little theater family. At the beginning of this semester, Urban Bush Women came [to perform on campus] and I was able to work on that show. It's great because you're able to get a behind-the-scenes [view] of the performers and how they work. I did sound for the first time this semester. What's great is that they talk with you and they want you to feel comfortable, [but] they also want you to learn. And there's always someone there to guide you. They don't make you feel stupid. It's wonderful. We do a lot of fun stuff - [like] an egg hunt and a Christmas party. And my other extracurricular is Chamber Choir. I took a little year hiatus, but I'm back this semester. I joined my freshman year and I love it. [Chamber Choir Director] Robbie Greenlee is amazing and I'm kind of scared - I would like to join a chorus after I graduate - but I don't know...Robbie is just so unique and he's [so] good that I doubt I'll find anyone [else] like him. I really enjoy singing and it's a nice release. Have you studied abroad during your time at Bowdoin? I did. In the fall of 2003 I went to London on a program through Sarah Lawrence College called the British American Drama Academy (BADA). It was wonderful. It was mainly acting. BADA has two programs. There's the Shakespeare program, which is much more written-based, and you write a lot of essays; [but] I did the London Theater program, and that was awesome. [The program brings American students to England to be taught by British professionals.] It gave me a chance to really focus on acting for a semester, for three months. There were only sixty students on my program and we were split up into four groups, sort of like your elementary school homeroom, so you would have all your classes with that one group. You didn't have the same classes every day. I think I took eight courses total. There was a physical comedy class, and a stage fighting class, there was Shakespeare, there was dramatic criticism, there was high comedy, there was movement, voice. There were a lot of courses and you sort of dabbled in everything. And there were tutorials every other week [where] you'd work on a monologue one-on-one with someone. There were master classes - [Irish actress] Fiona Shaw came to speak. The last month is spent on final productions and there are three. I was in a production of Pericles. Everything ran so smoothly, and that last month was really a joy. That was what you were there for. You got to work with a cast and this director who was not one of the [BADA] teachers - [like all the directors] he was pulled from the outside. And so you work with them and they worked on a professional level. Then the performances are performed once [each], three days in a row, in a small little black box theater in London. I think that was one of the best performances I've ever done. And the people that I met there - it's just great. Study abroad is so essential. If you can get away - I know it's really hard for science majors - but it's such a key part of your college experience, even if it's only for a semester. What is your best Bowdoin memory? Actually, that's pretty simple. I took French my freshman and sophomore years, and [every year] the French Department takes a group of students to Quebec. That was really a lot of fun because I was a freshman and I was still getting to know people. It was so exciting, because Quebec is like a little European country in North America. It was great. We had a lot of free time to walk around. That's something that sticks out in my mind. It was [Assistant Professor of Romance Languages] Margaret Vété-Congolo and her husband, and [Associate Professor of Romance Languages] Charlotte Daniels and the two French [Teaching Assistants]. We were speaking French and we struggled, but it was fun. When we got there at night we immediately went to a crêperie. It was nice to see teachers out of the academic environment. C'est très bon. What are your plans after graduation? Aaaah! Explosion! I'm looking at internships at various theaters, mainly in the D.C. area, but I'm looking at one in Philadelphia, as well. It's mainly technical work, but I've been doing technical work for the past year and I would like to stick with that for a bit before I try acting. Stage management is one of things I enjoy most about technical work. So I'm just applying to various places and if someone would snag me, I would be most grateful. As long as I am doing something in theater I will be happy. So that's what I'm aiming for - theater, theater, theater. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first year about the Bowdoin experience? You have to say no to some stuff - you can't do everything. And there's so much stuff that I wish I could have done, that I would have tried. I really enjoyed the Pre-Orientation trip, and I would like to have gone on an Outing Club adventure. I think that would have been a lot of fun. But try to find a happy balance. Just take advantage of as much as you can without driving yourself insane. Have fun - we're young. I'm not saying don't go to classes, but just enjoy yourself. Story posted on March 29, 2005 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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A jackknifed tractor-trailer shut down Interstate 95 Friday.
The roadway was closed northbound at mile marker 211, between State Road 50 and State Road 407 near Titusville. One lane reopened shortly after noon, but traffic was moving slowly in the area.
The Florida Highway Patrol said the accident involved a tractor-trailer hauling produce and a tanker with fuel. The produce truck jackknifed.
Traffic was diverted off I-95 and onto State Road 407 as a detour to State Road 50.
Brevard County Fire Rescue said the tanker carrying fuel had damage to the product tank that required crews to pump the product from the damaged tank to a second truck.
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BEIJING (AP) — Foreign companies in China say they want the country's new leadership to act on pledges to reduce bureaucracy and remove investment barriers as the business climate gets tougher, the American Chamber of Commerce in China said Friday.
Results of a survey of 325 businesses conducted by the chamber show just 28 percent see China's investment environment improving, down from 43 percent a year earlier.
Although 78 percent were optimistic about business in China over the next two years, only 18 percent said they planned to substantially expand their investments in the coming 12 months, down from one-third in the year before.
Slower economic growth, market barriers and government restrictions were the main reasons for the more modest investment plans, while rising labor costs were also a concern, according to the survey conducted in November and December of last year. Foreign companies have had to contend with double-digit percentage growth in salaries and benefits for their workers over the past two years, while the cost of land and raw materials have also shot up.
Chamber President Christian Murck said companies were encouraged by recent statements from leaders such as Premier Li Keqiang's pledge to reduce the number of approvals needed for investments by one-third, but that real action is now needed.
"Overall, it's a hopeful time despite the challenges. We have a new leadership, we have an economy that is performing pretty well," Murck said. "We all feel that there is a very broad understanding of the issues at the senior levels of the Chinese government, and we are hopeful that we will begin to see a more direct focus on action."
Doing business in China has grown tougher with economic growth in the world's second largest economy slowing from the torrential pace of past decades to 7.6 percent in 2012, the lowest level in three years. However, opportunities remain strong for the 71 percent of companies surveyed who are targeting the Chinese domestic market directly and annual foreign direct investment continues to top $100 billion.
That's despite evidence that China's economic opening has stalled in recent years and foreign companies "have not felt over the last four or five year that there have been commercially significant positive changes in the business environment or the investment environment," Murck said. As China continues to develop into a more mature economy, a failure to proceed with new policies would cause it to lose momentum and start "almost effectively moving backward," he said.
Survey respondents, mainly senior-level country managers, also expressed concerns about cybersecurity, with just over one quarter reporting that data had been accessed or stolen. Although there was no direct indication that the breaches originated within China, numerous reports have pointed to extensive Chinese commercial hacking, some of it allegedly government directed.
Questioned about the survey finding, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said accusations of hacking against China frequently had political overtones.
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Businesses in the survey were also increasingly gloomy about China's protection of copyrights and patents, with 72 percent saying measures to protect intellectual property were ineffective. However, 47 percent said they had noticed an improvement in intellectual property rights enforcement over the past five years, against just nine percent who saw a deterioration
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Soybean rust disease is one of the most bothersome issues facing U.S. soybean growers because it has the potential to devastate the country's soybean industry, growers at a recent conference focusing on the disease were told.
"We must work to prevent the accidental introduction of soybean rust associated with imports or travelers, and a potential outbreak via wind-borne spores," says American Soybean Association President Ron Heck, a soybean producer from Perry, Iowa.
Soybean rust attacks the foliage of a soybean plant causing the leaves to drop early, which inhibits pod setting and reduces yield. The amount of damage depends on how early in the growth of the soybean plant the infection occurs. It can cause 90 percent yield losses.
More than 200 soybean producers, scientists and industry experts participated in a recent soybean rust disease conference to learn more about the threat of Asian soybean rust and measures being taken to safeguard the United States from this damaging crop disease. The conference, hosted by the American Soybean Association (ASA), also provided growers with information on the approval status and registration of fungicide products to combat the disease, the identification and detection methods for soybean rust, and the steps being taken to develop rust-resistance soybean varieties.
"The American Soybean Association has undertaken a series of actions designed to safeguard the U.S. soybean crop," Heck says. "This kind of concerted effort on behalf of soybean farmers is what ASA is here to do, and that's why membership in the ASA is so important."
Conference speakers included United Soybean Board Production Chair Brian Hieser, who discussed checkoff-funded efforts concerning rust; Mary Palm from USDA/APHIS provided an overview of the biology of soybean rust, both its pathogen and disease; and Morris Bonde from USDA/ARS talked about past and present research on soybean rust at the USDA/ARS Plant Disease Containment Facility at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland.
Glen Hartman and Monte Miles from the National Soybean Research Center at the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign talked about USDA's breeding for resistance efforts at the national cooperative, contract research, and international levels.
Robert L. Griffin from USDA/APHIS, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, talked about assessing the risks of soybean rust introduction associated with trade, followed by X.B. Yang, Iowa State University, on the natural pathways for the spread of soybean rust. Todd Topp, a U.S./Brazilian farmer, talked about farmers' experience with soybean rust in Brazil.
Allison Tally, Syngenta Crop Protection; Jim Bloomberg, Bayer CropScience; Ted Bardinelli, BASF Corporation; David Ouimette, Dow AgroSciences; and John French, Sipcam Agro USA, provided an update on the efficacy and availability of fungicide products.
Martin Draper from South Dakota State University reviewed Section 18 approval status and registration of fungicides, and Bob Tomerlin of the Environmental Protection Agency talked about the registration outlook for various fungicide products. Ray Hammerschmidt, North Central Plant Diagnostic Network, Michigan State University, presented an overview of National Plant Diagnostic Network and its role to combat rust.
One of the topics discussed at the conference was the immediate concern that rust could be transported through commercial soybean shipments from South America, where Asian rust has already caused significant crop losses. Because imported soybeans are allowed to contain up to 2 percent foreign material that mostly consists of pieces of plant stems, pods and leaves capable of transmitting the rust spores, ASA is concerned that soybean imports from countries where rust has been detected represent a risk to the U.S. soybean industry.
"ASA is working closely with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to develop protocols that will prevent the accidental introduction of soybean rust from any potential imports of soybeans or soybean meal," Heck says. "ASA and APHIS share the goal of developing procedures that will protect the United States while ensuring that the procedures are science-based and no more trade restrictive than necessary to achieve the protection goal."
The commodity group is adamant that the risk assessment procedures must be based on good science because the U.S. exports more than 1 billion bushels of soybeans each year and U.S. growers would not want other countries to erect non-scientific barriers to trade.
"ASA is confident that USDA is working to develop the right protocols to prevent the accidental introduction of rust," Heck says. "As global exporters, it is in our best interest to have plant protection measures around the globe that are grounded in science because we also have to live with such measures to reach our international customers."
During the past three years, the American Soybean Association has worked extensively with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Agricultural Research Service, the Office of Pest Management Policy, and with the new Homeland Security Department on the rust issue. ASA is also working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure fungicides are approved and readily available, promoting additional federal funding to expand rust research, and now, hosting the Soybean Rust Conference.
"What is needed now are more Federal dollars to expand rust research," Heck says. "ASA is calling on the Administration and Congress to substantially increase soybean rust research funding. Growers can help by becoming ASA members, and by calling on their Senators and Representatives to provide greater Federal research funding to fight soybean rust disease."
The conference was conducted in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture and was sponsored by BASF Corporation, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Sipcam Agro USA and Syngenta Crop Protection.


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Helping Joplin
A father and son from Camdenton made three trips to twister-torn Joplin in the wake of the deadly EF-5 tornado that struck on May 22, 2011. Ric Brady and son Sean reached out to victims one at a time and used heavy equipment to touch the lives of dozens.
Sean Brady, a Camdenton High School grad who just finished his freshman year at Missouri University of Science and Technology, couldn't prepare himself for what he saw when he arrived in Joplin on the Monday morning after the Sunday night tornado plowed through the city. Brady noticed significant damage as his truck and trailer drew closer to the tornado touchdown site, but he was blown away by the indescribable damage along Rangeline Street.
Brady unloaded a Bobcat and proceeded to go house-by-house and street-by-street, offering to help anyone who needed it. He helped people by turning their cars right side up, removing trees and other debris, and moving other misplaced objects.
Students, faculty and staff on all four of the UM System campuses and throughout the system administration and auxiliaries have joined the relief effort in Joplin after a tornado devastated the city in May. From T-shirt sales to benefit the United Way to volunteer work to clothing and food drives, efforts have continued for weeks to benefit the people of Joplin and their well being.
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Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures–from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories–in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.
They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can–as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances.
None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there–along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of–will be much more than half the fun.
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Chapter One
On Discord Arising from the Excessive Love of a Hat
For numberless years a myna had astounded travelers to the caravansary with its ability to spew indecencies in ten languages, and before the fight broke out everyone assumed the old blue-tongued devil on its perch by the fireplace was the one who maligned the giant African with such foulness and verve. Engrossed in the study of a small ivory shatranj board with pieces of ebony and horn, and in the stew of chickpeas, carrots, dried lemons and mutton for which the caravansary was renowned, the African held the place nearest the fire, his broad back to the bird, with a view of the doors and the window with its shutters thrown open to the blue dusk. On this temperate autumn evening in the kingdom of Arran in the eastern foothills of the Caucasus, it was only the two natives of burning jungles, the African and the myna, who sought to warm their bones. The precise origin of the African remained a mystery. In his quilted gray bambakion with its frayed hood, worn over a ragged white tunic, there was a hint of former service in the armies of Byzantium, while the brass eyelets on the straps of his buskins suggested a sojourn in the West. No one had hazarded to discover whether the speech of the known empires, khanates, emirates, hordes and kingdoms was intelligible to him. With his skin that was lustrous as the tarnish on a copper kettle, and his eyes womanly as a camel's, and his shining pate with its ruff of wool whose silver hue implied a seniority attained only by the most hardened men, and above all with the air of stillness that trumpeted his murderous nature to all but the greenest travelers on this minor spur of the Silk Road, the African appeared neither to invite nor to promise to tolerate questions. Among the travelers at the caravansary there was a moment of admiration, therefore, for the bird's temerity when it seemed to declare, in its excellent Greek, that the African consumed his food in just the carrion-scarfing way one might expect of the bastard offspring of a bald-pated vulture and a Barbary ape.
For a moment after the insult was hurled, the African went on eating, without looking up from the shatranj board, indeed without seeming to have heard the remark at all. Then, before anyone quite understood that calumny so fine went beyond the powers even of the myna, and that the bird was innocent, this once, of slander, the African reached his left hand into his right buskin and, in a continuous gesture as fluid and unbroken as that by which a falconer looses his fatal darling into the sky, produced a shard of bright Arab steel, its crude hilt swaddled in strips of hide, and sent it hunting across the benches.
Neither the beardless stripling who was sitting just to the right of its victim, nor the one-eyed mahout who was the stripling's companion, would ever forget the dagger's keening as it stung the air. With the sound of a letter being sliced open by an impatient hand, it tore through the crown of the wide-brimmed black hat worn by the victim, a fair-haired scarecrow from some fogbound land who had ridden in, that afternoon, on the Tiflis road. He was a slight, thin-shanked fellow, gloomy of countenance, white as tallow, his hair falling in two golden curtains on either side of his long face. There was a rattling twang like that of an arrow striking a tree. The hat flew off the scarecrow's head as if registering his surprise and stuck to a post of the daub wall behind him as he let loose an outlandish syllable in the rheumy jargon of his homeland.
In the fireplace a glowing castle of embers subsided to ash. The mahout heard the iron ticking of a kettle on the boil in the kitchen. The benches squeaked, and travelers spat in anticipation of a fight.
The Frankish scarecrow slipped out from under his impaled hat and unfolded himself one limb at a time, running his fingers along the parting in his yellow hair. He looked from the African to the hat and back. His cloak, trousers, hose and boots were all black, in sharp contrast with the pallor of his soft hands and the glints of golden whisker on his chin and cheeks, and if he was not a priest, then he must, thought the mahout, for whom a knowledge of men was a necessary corollary to an understanding of elephants, be a physician or an exegete of moldering texts. The Frank folded his arms over his bony chest and stood taking the African's measure along the rule of his bony nose. He wore an arch smile and held his head at an angle meant to signify a weary half-amusement like that which plagued a philosophical man when he contemplated this vain human show. But it was apparent to the old mahout even with his one eye that the scarecrow was furious over the injury to his hat. His funereal clothes were of rich stuff, free of travel stains, suggesting that he maintained their appearance, and his own, with fierce determination.
The Frank reached two long fingers and a thumb into the wound in his hat, grimaced and with difficulty jerked out the dagger from the post. He turned the freed hat in his hands, suppressing the urge to stroke it, it seemed to the mahout, the way he himself would stroke the stubbled croup of a beloved dam as she expired. With an air of incalculable gravity, as if confiding the icon of a household god, the Frank passed the hat to the stripling and carried the dagger across the room to the African, who had long since returned to his bowl of stew.
"I believe, sir," the Frank informed the African, speaking again in good Byzantine Greek, "that you have mislaid the implement required for the cleaning of your hooves." The Frank jabbed the point of the dagger down into the table beside the shatranj board, jostling the pieces. "If I am mistaken as to the actual nature of your lower extremities, I beg you to join me in the courtyard of this house, at your leisure but preferably soon, so that, with the pedagogical instrument of your choice, you may educate me."
The Frank waited. The one-eyed mahout and the stripling, wondering, waited. By the door to the inn yard, where the ostler leaned, whispered odds were laid and taken, and the mahout heard the clink of coins and the squeak of a chalk wielded by the ostler, a Svan who disdained the distinction between turning a profit from seeing to the comfort of his guests and that of turning one from watching them die.
"I'm sorry to report," the African said, rising to his feet, his head brushing the beams of the sloping roof, speaking in the lilting, bastardized Greek used among the mercenary legions of the emperor at Constantinople, "that my hearing shares in the general decay of the broken-down black-assed old wreck you see before you."
The African yanked the shard of Arab steel from the table and with it went in search of the Frank's voice box, ending his quest no farther from the pale knuckle of the Frank's throat than the width of the blade itself. The Frank fell back, bumping into a pair of Armenian wool factors at whom he glared as if it were some clumsiness of theirs and not his cowardly instinct for self-preservation that had cost him his footing.
"But I take your gist," the African said, returning the dagger to his boot. On the ostler's slate the odds began to run heavily against the Frank.
The African restored the shatranj board and pieces to a leather pouch, wiped his lips and then pushed past the Frank, past the craning heads along the benches and went out into the inn yard to kill or be killed by his insulter. As the men trooped after him into the torch-lit courtyard, carrying cups of wine, wiping their bearded chins on their forearms, the weapons belonging to the combatants were fetched from a rack in the stable.
If because of his immensity, the span of his arms and his homicidal air, and despite his protestations of senescence, which were universally regarded as gamesmanship, the betting had been inclined to favor the African before the weapons were fetched, the arming of the two men decided it. The Frank carried only a long, absurdly thin bodkin that might serve, in a pinch, to roast a couple of birds over an open fire, if they were not too plump. The travelers had a good laugh at "the tailor with his needle" and then pondered the mystery of the African's choice of sidearm, a huge Viking ax, its haft an orgy of interpenetrating runes, the quarter-moon of its blade glowing cold, as with satisfied recollection of all the heads it had ever lopped from spouting necks.
Under the full moon of the month of Mehr, with the torches hissing, the African and the Frank circled an ambit of packed earth. The Frank minced and scissored on his walking-stick legs, the tip of his bodkin indicating the heart of the African, glancing from time to time at his own fine black boots as they threaded a course through the archipelago of camel and horse turds. The African employed an odd crabwise scuttling style of circling, knees bent, eyes fixed on the Frank, the ax held loosely in his left fist. The awkward, almost fond way they went about readying themselves to murder each other moved the old mahout, who had trained a thousand war elephants to kill and so recognized the professional quality of the interest these two combatants were taking in the fight. But the other travelers jostling under the eaves and archways of the inn yard, who knew nothing of the intimacy of slaughter, grew impatient. They jeered the combatants, urging them to hurry so they could all finish their suppers and file off to bed. Half-maddened by boredom, they doubled their wagers. Word of the duel had reached the village down the hill, and the gate of the inn yard was lively with women, children and sad-faced lean men with heroic moustaches. Boys climbed to the roof of the inn, shook their fists and hooted as the Frank and the African emptied their heads of last regrets.
Then the ax, humming, seemed to drag the African toward the belly of the Frank. Its ...
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This friendly dining room offers quality locally sourced produce cooked to enhance the overall experience of a visit to the East Neuk, with a local variety of speciality foods ranging from Pittenween oatcakes to Aberdeen Smokies
We have many guests who return year after year to our small personally run Guest House. It is ideal for those wishing to relax in a friendly atmosphere and enjoy eating great fresh food chosen from a menu that is changed daily. Some of our favourite dishes are, home made Sticky Toffee Pudding. There is a small but select wine list to complement your meal and from our well stocked Honesty Bar, a good selection of single malt whiskies, plus a tempting choice of beers brewed in Scotland. We cater for families, tourists, golfers, walkers and business people. Our style is informal, and the atmosphere is quiet and intimate. The decor is traditional with an emphasis on the history of fishing in the East Neuk. House specialities include homemade Cullen Skink and kipper pâté, Aberdeen boneless smoked haddock, and homemade sticky toffee pudding.


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CENTER TWP — A 21-year-old man died early this morning after he apparently shot himself by accident at a house in the 200 block of Pine Tract Road, authorities said.
Matthew Judge Hughes of Butler died of a gunshot wound to his chest shortly before 1:30 a.m., according to an autopsy, said Butler County Coroner William Young III.
Hughes was pronounced dead at the scene.
State police continue to investigate Hughes' death but it did not appear suspicious, said Lt. Steve Ignatz.
"It appears to be accidental," he said, "but we're looking at all the circumstances of what happened."
Trooper Ronald Kesten said investigators at 9 a.m. were still interviewing three other people, two males and a female, who were at the house at the time of the shooting.
Police were notified of the shooting at 1:26 a.m., when someone at the house called 911, said Steve Bicehouse, director of county emergency services.
Ignatz said police recovered the gun, a revolver, at the house. Police did not say who owned the gun.
Police also did not immediately say who lives at the house.
Kesten said it did not appear alcohol was involved in the shooting.


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Guess what – I forgot my sister's birthday!! My daughter reminded me later that day so I did ring her but felt terrible that I hadn't remembered. I made this card and sent her so hope I am now forgiven.
Really love this gold washi tape – it just finished the card off great.
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