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• "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
• "I do desire we may be better strangers."
As You Like It
• "You, minion, are too saucy."
Two Gentleman of Verona
• "A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality."
All's Well That Ends Well
• "Thou art unfit for any place but hell."
Richard III
• "A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers."
Richard III
• "Having flown over many knavish professions, he settled only on rogue."
The Winter's Tale
• "His garments are rich, but he wears them not handsomely."
The Winter's Tale
• "As I told you always, her beauty and her brain go not together."
• "I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!"
The Tempest
• "Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words."
Henry VI
• "I was seeking a fool when I found you."
As You Like It
• "The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes."
• "Lady, you are the cruelst she alive."
Twelfth Night
• "Come, you are a tedious fool. To the purpose."
Measure for Measure
• "Thou hast the most unsavoury similes."
Henry IV
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STOCKTON, Calif. - A retired military veteran is seeking legal action after he was suspended from his job for using "God Bless America" as his email signature.
Boots Hawk served as an Army soldier for 20 years, before he retired and took a job at Dameron Hospital in Stockton, Calif.
Hawks, who has worked at the hospital for 10 years, was asked to remove the phase from his emails by his supervisor.
According to Hawk, he followed the supervisor's direction, but also let them know that he would be consulting with an attorney about his right to keep the phrase.
The next day, Hawk noticed the combination on his locker had been changed and his computer password was suspended.
Hawk was placed on leave for "insubordination" just days before Veterans Day.
"I think Dameron provides fantastic care to people and I hate to see bad publicity and I don't mean this to be publicity. I just see that we need to have justice done," said Hawk.
The Pacific Justice Institution has taken Hawk's case and wrote a letter to the hospital demanding an apology

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Scouting Report He is by far the smallest defensive lineman we took in this class, but he DOES have the frame to add bulk (as he displayed by gaining 28 lbs during his senior season).But the defensive line is stacked in front of him, so right this way Mr. Dwight
BigEasyTider's Take Intriguing, versatile kid here. He's listed as 6'2, but certainly looks a lot longer on his tape, and plays across the defensive line. He will play all over the DL board in Tuscaloosa, and has the size to play end as well as the combo end-tackle position. Almost certainly in for a redshirt season in 2014, but getting him qualified academically was a big development.
runtheoption22's Take Dwight has a chance to be a special DL. Good motor and speed and will probably play all over the line. LSU and some others tried to sway him late in the game.
WMack4Bama's Take Dwight is very, very good against the run and has shown the ability to consistently shed blocks and penetration the backfired vs.the run. His pass rushing skills, however, could use a little work. He's physical enough to play inside (although he definitely needs to add some bulk) and he's athletic enough to play the end and set the edge.
In terms of size,he reminds me a lot of Wallace Gilberry when he first got to campus. In terms of his ability, based on what I've seen, I'd say a notch or two below Lorenzo Washington. My guess is that Dwight is able to contribute in rotation duty and add some tenacity to the defensive line after he is redshirted this season.


text: Course Description (as stated in the COAS Bulletin): "Style, form, and preparation of Written materials for electronic media." Prerequisites: None Course Objectives: T211 is a course designed to allow student to develop/improve/hone the skills of writing for electronic communications. T211 is an introduction to, an overview of, and practical experience in writing for electronic media. It focuses on writing skills, including organization of ideas, expression, grammar, and spelling, as they apply to writing for radio, television, and developing media. The class covers several forms of broadcast writing such as advertising, promotions, news, broadcast campaigns, features, etc. It also considers expository writing as used by persons in the electronic media industries. Course Format: T211 is interactive in nature – both in class and through assignments. The class uses a combination of lecture and discussion. Students are assigned definite writing exercises – some in class and some as outside work. Active participation and daily preparation are required. A "final project" involves researching and writing a short program-insert for possible broadcast on WFIU. To see which requirements, in the College of Arts and Sciences, this course will fulfill consult the College Bulletin at http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iub/coas/2006-2008/. If you have questions, or need additional help, see your academic advisor. Required Texts: Berner, R. Thomas, Language Skills for Journalists, Second Ed. Meeske, Milan D., Copywriting for the Electronic Media, Fifth Ed., Wadsworth. Strunk, William, Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, MacMillan Recommended Text: Hacker, Diana, A Pocket Style Manual, Third Ed., Bedford/St. Martins Meeting Times: Spring 2009 Class Number 10678 11:15am - 12:30pm MW To see which requirements, in the College of Arts and Sciences, this course will fulfill consult the College Bulletin at http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iub/college/2008-2010/index.shtml. If you have questions, or need additional help, see your academic advisor.


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South Berkshire towns to get broadband connections soon
GREAT BARRINGTON -- The fast flow of online information via fiber-optic cables could become a reality within two months for many south Berkshire County towns.
Judith Dumont, director of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute, said that perhaps as soon as late March a floodgate of online information could be made available to schools, town halls, and other businesses located along the fiber-optic cable route.
The Berkshire communities that would reap the early benefits will be Great Barrington, Otis, Sandisfield, Monterey, New Marlborough, Sheffield, Mount Washington, Egremont and Alford.
Especially in rural south Berkshire, information can be limited to other slower modems including dial-up, satellite or a digital subscriber line (DSL).
"This is the culmination of what so many people in Western Massachusetts have worked for," Dumont said. "This will bring the region on parity with the rest of the Commonwealth and the rest of the United States."
The high-speed communication is being made available through the MassBroadband 123 project, a state and federally funded endeavor. The south Berkshire fiber-optic line stretches from Springfield through Sandisfield to Great Barrington and most surrounding communities.
Dumont said installing electronics and testing is all that remains before activating the network. Town officials would need to work out contracts with service providers.
Schools, town halls, and public safety buildings would be early beneficiaries because that's where the fiber-optic lines were placed, Dumont said, but other homes and business will likely benefit in the following months as telecommunications companies provide the infrastructure.
From March through July, Dumont said that other communities across the Berkshires, including those in north central and Western Massachusetts, will begin to reap the benefit of construction started in July 2011.
There was a June 2013 deadline to use all federal funding, but weather complications will lead to an extension from the federal government. There was a month delay following Hurricane Sandy because electrical crews were pulled to assist with electrical wiring in New York.
The pricetag for the project has increased from $71.6 million to about $75 million, Dumont said, because the 911 Commission, Executive Office of Public Safety, and other agencies have requested add-on projects to the fiber-optic project.
If you'd like to leave a comment (or a tip or a question) about this story with the editors, please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you can do that by filling out our letters form and submitting it to the newsroom.


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Donation letter from Durham County Teen Court & Restitution Program
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Baker: No four-out saves for Chapman
By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com
CINCINNATI -- With lefty setup man Sean Marshall (shoulder tendinitis) not eligible to come off of the disabled list for another week, Reds manager Dusty Baker is not going to consider using lefty closer Aroldis Chapman in the eighth inning.
During Monday's 4-2 win over the Phillies, Bronson Arroyo gave up a game-tying two-run, two-out home run to pinch-hitter Chase Utley -- a left-handed hitter -- in the top of the eighth. Chapman was not warming up at that point.
"When do you warm him up? Do you warm him up at the start of the eighth?" Baker asked on Tuesday. "That's what you'd have to do to have him ready at the end the eighth. It's easy to have somebody loose but you're going to tire your bullpen out before they even get in the game. It's easy afterwards."
After the Reds scored two in the bottom of the eighth, Chapman got the save during a perfect top of the ninth. Baker has considered the notion of using Chapman for four-out saves, but is opposed to it for the time being.
"As we get more into the season, you might do it," Baker said. "Right now, we've got to keep these guys strong."
Reds pay tribute to Boston with 'Sweet Caroline'
CINCINNATI -- It's hard not to have Boston heavy on the mind. It's a city in need of a lift, and any kind will do after Monday's shocking terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured nearly 200.
Why not a little "Sweet Caroline"?
Each night the Reds play the "Twitter DJ" song of the game, but that was the one song seemed fitting for a miniature tribute to fans in Boston.
"Tonight's song of the game has become a part of the everyday game day experience at Fenway Park. Here is Neil Diamond," said Reds public address announcer Joe Zerhusen.
"Sweet Caroline" has traditionally been played during the eighth inning at Red Sox home games. Many teams around Major League Baseball paid homage to Boston and the Red Sox by playing the song -- including the rival Yankees on Tuesday night.
As it was "Bark in the Park" night at Great American Ball Park, fans and some of the 600 dogs in attendance were shown on the video board merrily singing along.
Ludwick begins slow rehab process for torn labrum
CINCINNATI -- Still in the early stages of recovering from right shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum, Reds left fielder Ryan Ludwick is shaking hands awkwardly with the left hand.
Ludwick was seen in the Reds clubhouse Tuesday for the first time since he injured his shoulder sliding head-first into third base on Opening Day against the Angels.
"I know I'm in a sling for two more weeks," Ludwick said. "I can't wait to get it off because it's like a second wife right now. I sleep with it, I eat with it and I do pretty much everything with it but shower with it. I feel good for being only two weeks out. They say my range of motion is pretty good. It's my non-throwing arm, that's a positive."
Ludwick, 34, isn't expected to return to the lineup until around the All-Star break. Currently, he's in the beginning of his rehabilitation.
"Slow, very slow," Ludwick said of his rehab. "The process at this point is very slow, very boring. It's not fun. I think when I get that sling off in two weeks, we can do some more active stuff. They've got a dog collar on me now holding me back. We'll get going."
Since the injury, and subsequent surgery, Ludwick has consulted former Padres teammate Adrian Gonzalez.
"He had the same deal, except his was on his throwing arm," Ludwick said. "It's a little different. It took him longer to come back than three to four months. When you throw, it's a whole different ballgame."
Pitching around Votto just fine for Reds, Phillips
CINCINNATI -- Reds first baseman and No. 3 hitter Joey Votto has yet to really take off at the plate but entered Tuesday batting .317 in 13 games. His Major League leading 21 walks were 10 more than second-place's Albert Pujols -- and three more than the entire White Sox team.
Opposing pitchers have worked Votto carefully and he has never been afraid to take walks. Reds manager Dusty Baker doesn't expect pitchers to change their approach with Votto, which would make cleanup hitter Brandon Phillips the biggest beneficiary.
"If they don't, Brandon could have a whole bunch of RBIs," Baker said on Tuesday. "I don't care who does it, as long as somebody does it. Brandon seems pretty happy with it."
Phillips entered the night fourth in the Majors with 16 RBIs and has eight multi-hit games during a great start to his season.
Bruce on hand to dedicate field in memory of scout
CINCINNATI -- Right fielder Jay Bruce never forgot the Reds scout who signed him out of high school as a first-round Draft pick in 2005. A year later, that scout, Brian Wilson, died suddenly from a heart attack -- a terrible shock since Wilson was only 33 years old.
On Tuesday at the Batavia Township Community Center in Clermont County, Ohio, Bruce was on hand for the dedication of Brian Wilson Field. Ground was broken last May to begin field renovations, and it was underwritten by Bruce through the Reds Community Fund.
"It was great," Bruce said. "I feel fortunate to be able to help out with something like that and I'm one of the smallest parts of it. I just had the name and financial backing but all the guys that put in the work and dedicated the time are the ones who really need to be praised."
The field is to be used for youth players in the Reds Rookie Success League and by the University of Cincinnati-Clermont County baseball team.
"Those guys have a place to play now," Bruce said. "It's a nice token of appreciation to Brian and his family, and his efforts. But it doesn't begin to explain the effect he had on me and the Reds organization in general."
Also attending the ribbon cutting were Wilson's widow, Prairie, and their three children. Besides Bruce, Wilson also signed current Reds players Sam LeCure and Logan Ondrusek and former Reds center fielder Drew Stubbs.
"He was one of the most genuine, nice, pleasant people I've ever come across in my life -- still to this day," Bruce said. "That's the one thing that sticks out in my mind when I think about him - how genuine he was. That's important when it comes to amateur scouting. … He made you feel at home. He was a great extension of the Reds organization. He represented them very well."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Freddie Mercury Dressed Princess Di in Drag and Then Took Her to a Gay Bar Because Amazing
In case you needed a few more reasons to love both fallen Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and the late, lovely Princess Diana, know this: Mercury once got her to dress in drag so they could go to a gay bar together.
Comedian Cleo Rocos chronicled a bizarre night out with Mercury, the Princess of Wales and a fellow comedian, the late Kenny Everett.
"Scrutinizing her in the half light we decided that the most famous icon of the modern world might just — just — pass for a rather eccentrically dressed gay male model," Rocos wrote (quotes via Digital Spy).
They decked Diana out in an army jacket, aviators and a leather cap, then made their way to the bar — but they weren't terribly convinced that the Queen of Hearts could pull off pretending to be a dude.
"When we walked in … we felt she was obviously Princess Diana and would be discovered at any minute," Rocos revealed. "But people just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. But she loved it."
Rocos insists, "Absolutely no one recognized Diana."
Lady Di still drank like a lady once she got there, ordering a white wine … and a beer, because, you know, she was supposed to be a man that day.
"Never has going to a bar been quite so exhilarating and fun. We then made a swift exit, a cab was hailed and we whisked Diana back to Kensington Palace. The jolly queens queuing outside [the bar] unknowingly waved back as their 'queen of hearts' waved goodbye. Not a single person ever found us out."
Sounds like a true Killer Queen to us.


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When court is done for the day, the conversation is only just beginning. Watch our new show, "HLN After Dark: The Jodi Arias Trial," nightly at 10 p.m. ET on HLN.
Prosecutor Juan Martinez came out swinging Wednesday, challenging Jodi Arias on her memory lapses and her version of how she killed her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander.
Based on time stamps on inadvertent photos from Alexander's camera that may show the killing in progress, Martinez said Arias only had 62 seconds to shoot him in the head, stab him multiple times and slit his throat from ear-to-ear.
"Under your scenario, in 62 seconds you get body-slammed, you do whatever you do but you get away," Martinez said. "You run down the hallway, you go in the closet, you grab a gun, you back up, you shoot Mr. Alexander. After you shoot Mr. Alexander, you pick up the camera… and he's already down the hallway with his throat slit," a scenario Martinez said was "impossible."
HLN is live-blogging the Jodi Arias trial. Get caught up on DAY 1 of juror questions and Day 2 here. Read below for minute-by-minute updates from her testimony Wednesday (best read from the bottom):
6:36 p.m. ET: Martinez has finished his follow-up questions, and there are no more questions from the jurors. Court has recessed until 1:30 p.m. ET Thursday.
6:35 p.m. ET: Nurmi has completed his follow-up questions, and now Martinez is asking questions.
6:33 p.m. ET: Nurmi is now asking about whether Arias took pictures of her injuries to her neck in April 2008. Arias said Alexander choked her and it bruised her neck.
6:32 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with the judge.
6:31 p.m. ET: Arias said Alexander told her to not go to her bishop about her sexual sin. She claims that after Alexander died, she did go to her bishop about her sexual sin, but did not mention killing him.
6:29 p.m. ET: Arias said she was not a perfect Mormon, and she is talking about what a Mormon does when they commit a "transgression." For serious transgressions, Mormons should speak with their bishop. Arias said she tried to go to the bishop about her sexual sin with Alexander.
6:28 p.m. ET: Defense attorney Nurmi is now asking Arias follow-up questions.
6:26 p.m. ET: Juror questions: How many phone calls and text message conversations did you have with Alexander June 2 through June 4, 2008. Arias is reviewing the phone records now.
6:25 p.m. ET:
6:23 p.m. ET: Juror question: If you were scared after shooting Alexander, then why did you not shoot him again? Why did you use a knife?
Arias said Alexander knocked the gun out of her hand, and she said doesn't really remember what happened.
6:22 p.m. ET: Judge Stephens is reading additional questions from the jurors. The first juror question: How many times did you see Alexander's gun?
Arias said she saw it a few times before June 4, 2008.
5:55 p.m. ET: Judge Stephens has recessed court for the afternoon break. The live blog will resume when testimony picks back up at 6:10 p.m. ET. Our producer in the courtroom says it appears the attorneys are reviewing new questions from the jury.
5:54 p.m. ET: In Session's Beth Karas is in the courtroom, and she says the jurors have submitted yet more questions for Arias as Martinez grills her.
"You would agree that it requires you to put your finger on the trigger and pull it for it to fire, right?" asked Martinez.
"That's my understanding, yes," said Arias.
"You were there, right?" asked Martinez.
"Yes," said Arias.
"And so you fired the gun, you shot him in the head and you killed him, right?" asked Martinez.
Yeah," said Arias.
5:51 p.m. ET:
Martinez asked: "If he had already told you it was unloaded, then why did you think he was going to stop?"
"It was just a hope because it was my philosophy that if I had to look at the end of a barrel of a gun, I would stop. And I didn't have time to sit and rationalize about whether or not he would care whether it was unloaded or loaded or what. I didn't know, I just wanted him to stop," said Arias.
5:50 p.m. ET:
5:49 p.m. ET:
"There's really nothing here that's out of order, wouldn't you agree?" asked Martinez.
"I agree with that," said Arias.
5:48 p.m. ET: Martinez asked Arias if she stepped on that shelf, wouldn't it have tipped over, because they rest on little pins. Arias said the shelf did not tip over.
"Did you know that the rating on these shelves was 40 pounds? Did you know anything about that?"
At the time, Arias said she weighed around 150 pounds.
5:42 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking Arias about how she stepped on the shelf to reach Alexander's gun. Arias said she doesn't remember exactly which shelf she stepped on. Martinez is pointing out that the shelves are resting shelves.
Martinez asked: "Did you use anything to get up there or no?"
"Yes, I did," replied Arias.
"What did you step on?" Martinez asked.
"I stepped briefly on the edge of the shelf, and I held on to the edge of the shelf with my other hand and I grabbed the gun with my free hand," said Arias.
5:39 p.m. ET: Arias said she doesn't know if the gun was loaded on June 4, 2008.
"Did you believe or not believe that the gun was loaded?" asked Martinez.
"I didn't stop to really think about whether it was loaded or not so I don't know. I just… the only time the gun came to my head – I grabbed it and pointed it at him so he would halt," said Arias.
5:37 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking how Arias was able to grab the gun off the top shelf in Alexander's closet.
5:36 p.m. ET: Arias said yes she did tell Flores that Alexander did not own a gun, and that was a lie.
"Do you remember telling Detective Flores that Mr. Alexander did not have a gun?" asked Martinez.
"Yes I do," said Arias.
"That was a lie, is that what you're saying now?" asked Martinez.
"Yes," said Arias.
5:34 p.m. ET: Martinez is now asking if Arias told Det. Esteban Flores days after Alexander did not have a gun just days after he died.
5:30 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with the judge.
5:28 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking Arias why she didn't call 911 when Alexander abused her. Arias said one of the reasons relates back to a situation that happened with her high school boyfriend.
Martinez asked: "Did anything stop you from calling 911?"
"Well in the heat of the moment, yeah, Travis did but afterward I could have," said Arias.
"Sure you could have, right?" asked Martinez.
"Yes," said Arias.
"And you didn't though, right?" asked Martinez.
"That's correct," said Arias.
5:27 p.m. ET:
Martinez asked: "Isn't it true that you knew it was wrong and you said, 'I don't care,' even if it's wrong – involving the sex – you're going to do it anyway?"
"At one point, regarding when we would go all the way with vaginal sex, it reached a point where we did say that, yes," said Arias.
5:25 p.m. ET: Martinez is now asking Arias about how she took guidance from Alexander about the Mormon Law of Chastity. He asked her if she ever told Alexander that "if it is wrong, I don't want to be wrong." Arias said yes. She did say that to Alexander.
5:22 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with the judge. Martinez was asking about how Arias was offended by the language Alexander used during the fight.
5:18 p.m. ET: Arias said the fight began downstairs, and then it continued upstairs.
5:16 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking about a fight she had with Alexander before they went on a hike.
5:14 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with the judge.
5:13 p.m. ET:
Martinez asked: "Why don't you tell us… what the mandate is involving lying?"
"Um… that more or less you're condemned to hell," said Arias.
"For lying, right?" Martinez asked.
"Yes," said Arias.
5:12 p.m. ET: Martinez asked Arias if she really follows the Book of Mormon using it as a guide for her life. She said that is not a yes or no answer.
5:11 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking Arias about The Mormon Law of Chasity. He is now showing Arias an excerpt of the Book of Mormon that mentions lying, and how people will be condemned to hell for lying.
5:05 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with judge Stephens.
5:04 p.m. ET: Arias said she tried her best to be a good Mormon, but she followed guidance Alexander gave her. Martinez is now asking Arias about what the Book of Mormon says about lying.
5:03 p.m. ET: Martinez is now asking Arias about how she has read the Book of Mormon. Arias said yes she has read it, but not the index.
"I didn't read it cover-to-cover, I just read to the end of the Book of Mormon. But they have a huge index in the back that I didn't read. Sorry," said Arias.
Martinez asked: "You tried to be a good Mormon, right?"
"I did my best to appear that way," said Arias.
5:02 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with the judge.
5:01 p.m. ET:
"As you sit here today and you think about it, which is it: Was it in a holster or was it in a box?" asked Martinez.
"Well at that moment I didn't have time to sit and examine it, I just grabbed it. I reached up – I didn't get that high – I reached up my arm and grabbed it," said Arias.
"I understand that you just reached up and grabbed it," said Martinez. "I want to know if it was in a holster or not."
"I can't tell you," said Arias.
5:00 p.m. ET: Defense attorney Nurmi seems to be objecting to every question Martinez asks Arias. One frequent objection Numi keeps using is argumentative.
4:58 p.m. ET:
Martinez asked: "Are you having any memory problems today?"
"Not that I'm aware of," said Arias.
4:56 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking Arias whether Alexander's gun was in a holster when she grabbed it. Arias said she does not know, because she was in a rush.
4:55 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with the judge.
4:53 p.m. ET: Martinez just pointed out that during her "fog" she manipulated almost every piece of evidence of the crime.
Martinez asked: "Ma'am, everything that we've talked about that has anything to do with the crime… you somehow, in this fog of yours, manipulated, didn't you?"
4:50 p.m. ET: Arias said she "presumes" she put gas in the car after killing Alexander.
4:49 p.m. ET: Arias said she put gas in her rental car at some point during her drive in the desert, but she is unsure when she did it. She also said she doesn't really remembering put gas in the car.
4:47 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking Arias about her drive in the desert after killing Alexander. Arias said she doesn't remember when she stopped to clean herself up.
4:44 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with the judge.
Martinez asked, "After you dropped the knife, you took it with you, right?"
"Took it where?" asked Arias.
"I don't know, I'm asking you, where did you take it?" asked Martinez.
"I have no idea," said Arias.
4:42 p.m. ET: Arias said she remembers dropping the knife in the bathroom, because she heard it hit the tile.
4:41 p.m. ET: Martinez asked Arias what happened to the knife, and Arias said she doesn't remember.
4:40 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking she ever remembers having in the knife. Arias said at some point she does remember dropping the knife and screaming.
4:38 p.m. ET: The problem seems to have been resolved. Arias is back on the stand.
4:27 p.m. ET:
4:26 p.m. ET: The court still has a technical problem. Judge Stephens said she hopes it will be resolved shortly.
4:24 p.m. ET: Judge Stephens is back on the bench, and the attorneys are at a sidebar. Testimony should resume shortly.
2:36 p.m. ET: The court is having a technical problem. The judge has decided to discuss an issue with the attorneys in her chambers. The live blog will pick back up when testimony resumes at 4:15 p.m. ET.
2:32 p.m. ET:
Martinez asked, "So you had the knife with you?"
"I didn't have the knife at the time that we fell and at the time when he threatened my life," said Arias.
Martinez asked, "At the time you shot him, did you have the knife with you?"
"I did not," said Arias.
2:30 p.m. ET:
Martinez asked, "Given the time restraints here, and the fact that you didn't know where the knife was, it would have been impossible for you not to have the knife with you when the attack happened, right?"
"I don't understand that question, sorry," said Arias.
2:28 p.m. ET: Arias said she did not have the knife with her when she shot Alexander. The attorneys are now at another sidebar with the judge.
2:24 p.m. ET:
2:23 p.m. ET: The attorneys are at a sidebar with judge Stephens.
2:22 p.m. ET: Martinez said there's another reason why her scenario is impossible. Arias said she doesn't remember much after she shot Alexander.
Martinez said, "Under your scenario, in 62 seconds you get body-slammed, you do whatever you do but you get away. You run down the hallway, you go in the closet, you grab a gun, you back up, you shoot Mr. Alexander. After you shoot Mr. Alexander, you pick up the camera… and he's already down the hallway with his throat slit."
2:21 p.m. ET: Martinez challenges Arias' scenario that she was slammed on the ground, found his gun, shot him, and slit his throat all within 62 seconds. Martinez is using the inadvertent photos from Alexander's camera to conclude it took 62 seconds. Arias said the way Martinez describes it is not exactly true.
2:17 p.m. ET:
2:16 p.m. ET: Arias said she doesn't know how she got the knife or how long it took her to get it.
2:13 p.m. ET: Martinez said Arias had to go find the knife after she shot him. Arias said she doesn't know what happened. She said Alexander could have had the knife.
2:12 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking Arias where the knife was located in Alexander's bedroom. Arias said she doesn't know.
2:09 p.m. ET: Martinez is grilling Arias about her memory lapses. Arias said she doesn't know what or why she has lapses. She said she can only describe it the best way she can.
2:07 p.m. ET: Arias said she can't remember what happened shortly after Alexander began to yell at her.
2:05 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking Arias why she remembers Alexander yelling at her -- and that he was going to kill her, when she claims to have memory lapses when someone yells at her.
2:04 p.m. ET: Arias said she was scared for her life, and it was a high-stress situation.
2:03 p.m. ET: Arias said she doesn't know what happened after Alexander body-slammed her, but she ran for his closet and got his gun. Martinez wants to know if Alexander had time to examine the camera after she dropped it.
1:59 p.m. ET: Arias is describing how Alexander grabbed her and body-slammed her after she dropped the camera.
1:58 p.m. ET:
1:56 p.m. ET: Martinez is walking Arias through the accidental photos from Alexander's camera that may show the killing in progress.
"I remember saying that it was inadvertent," said Arias.
Martinez asked, "Oh so this is an inadvertent photograph, then?"
"Yes, that was not intentionally taken," said Arias.
1:52 p.m. ET: Martinez is asking Arias about how the fight with Alexander began on June 4, 2008, when she allegedly dropped his camera causing him to become enraged.
1:50 p.m. ET: Arias is taking the stand, testimony should begin shortly.
1:49 p.m. ET:
1:46 p.m. ET: The judge is off the bench, and it is not clear when court will resume.
1:41 p.m. ET: The attorneys are still at a sidebar with judge Stephens. Arias' defense has filed a motion to compel, but it not clear what it is about.
1:39 p.m. ET:
1:37 p.m. ET: Arias is wearing a blazer today, with a light blue dress shirt.
1:36 p.m. ET: Judge Sherry Stephens is on the stand, and the attorneys are at a sidebar.
1:27 p.m. ET: All the parties are in the courtroom, including Arias. Court should begin any moment.
1:13 p.m. ET: Jodi Arias should be back on the stand in just a few moments.
Arias is back on the stand Wednesday, days after withstanding an onslaught of juror questions -- more than 200 -- during a two-day whirlwind session last week that delved deep into the events surrounding her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander's brutal slaying.
Read more: Arias trial: Witnesses you may have missed
Wednesday will be the 18th day Arias has been on the stand testifying about how her ex-boyfriend's alleged abuse culminated in a fight June 4, 2008, forcing her to kill him in self-defense. It could be her last opportunity to convince the jury that she is innocent.
Read more: What if Arias is found not guilty?
Prosecutor Juan Martinez will also continue with his questions for Arias, likely picking up where he left off with asking Arias about how she allegedly cut her hand working at a restaurant days before killing Alexander.
Watch: What do men see in Arias?
But the jury's questions may not end when Martinez is done with his. As Martinez challenged Arias about discrepancies in her testimony last week, some jurors appeared to submit more questions for her. Judge Sherry Stephens is expected to consult the attorneys on the new questions, and if they are not objectionable, Arias may face a new round of juror questions. The attorneys would then get another chance to ask follow-up questions.


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Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American author born in 1935, in Colorado, to dairy farming parents. His family moved to Oregon when he was 11, and Kesey spent his adolescence and early adulthood there. His keen interest in writing began at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism, and he relocated to California in 1958 to attend the creative writing programme at Stanford.
Kesey's earliest two novels, Zoo, about San Francisco beatniks, and End of Autumn, about a working class student who receives a scholarship to an Ivy League university, were written in 1959 and 1960 respectively, but never published.
Kesey was drawn to alternative culture. At a veterans' hospital in California, he volunteered to participate in medical experiments with hallucinogenic drugs, including LSD. He also worked as an aide in the hospital, and often passed time talking to patients on the mental ward. His experiences there contributed to the publication of his highly successful novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in 1962.
Kesey's second-published novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, made its debut in 1964. It was, along with the 1964 World's Fair, the catalyst for a cross-America trip Kesey took in a school bus with a group of friends self-dubbed 'The Merry Pranksters'. Many of the Pranksters' experiments and tales are told in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
While Kesey published many works before his death, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest remains his masterpiece, and became a 1975 film. The movie starred Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a patient in an Oregon mental hospital whose attempts to bring joy, life and fun to the ward are eventually rewarded with a lobotomy. Nurse Ratched, one of literature's most frightening villains, was played by Louise Fletcher. The film took five Academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Leading Actor and Best Leading Actress.
Kesey died in 2001 from complications following surgery. He was 66. Signed copies of his work vary widely in price, with signed copies of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest fetching into as high as tens of thousands of pounds.


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Come to Clovis. I'll be happy to ride away from you. It's not that averaging higher speeds isn't possible.
It's that apparently YOU can't average higher speeds.
If you ran the route you say you did, and on the roads you mention, weren't able to average higher speeds, where the speed limit is 65 or 70 for 75 mile or more stretches, you aren't someone that can stay on a bike.
Lastly, you also need to understand that most of us the enjoy long rides, do so for a lot more than 8 hours a day. 8 hours a day is working hours, not riding hours....
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Steve Aikens, Clovis, NM
Here's my 'average'..120 miles per tank, at 50 mph average. I ride at 55 to 60 mph on the open road but take into account for towns and slow pokes ahead of me. Then its a 15 - 20 minute fuel stop. So, thats 2.7 hours to go 120 miles, =45mph average. I realize fuel could be done quicker and some tanks are bigger than mine, so this number could change if I was in a hurry and pushed the reserve to its limits. But, over a long distance, there will also be a meal break in there of at least 30 minutes to bring the average speed even lower.
Even at an honest 55 mph and then a 15 minute fuel stop, it would still be 2.45 hours to go 120 miles = 49mph average. So 7 hours to go 350 miles with no meal break; only gas stops. I could do it but my pillion would be screaming bloody murder!
This is just me, not saying it could be done faster.
Mike Davis
"Old n Slow" It's a way of life!
11.1 gallons. 400 plus miles to fuel. Fuel in an average of 5 minutes. I eat on the bike.
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Steve Aikens, Clovis, NM
That is an impressive set up for sure though!
I enjoy the stops though. I'm generally in no hurry when I take a ride on the bike. And my girlfriend likes to talk to people, so our gas stops can be as long as 30 minutes!
Mike Davis
"Old n Slow" It's a way of life!
Generally, I'm not in a hurry on the bike either. However, I am not a fan of stopping until I get where I want to visit. I'm good for a courteous Hi and Bye at stops, nothing more. I have a destination I want to reach.
And just so we're all on the same page, everyone has different riding styles - none is better or worse than another. However, I take some offense to posts like Mike Simon's, which I take as one step from saying Paul and Voni aren't being honest in what/how they ride. The fact that Mr. Simon is unable to ride at the same level isn't relevant to the fact that others can and do daily.
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Steve Aikens, Clovis, NM
I don't want to hijack the thread from the original intent (too late), but for those of you who do not participate in the MOA mileage contest (Steve), who are MOA members and Beemer riders, I have to ask why not?
In recent years my local "club" has one rider who participates (me). I turn in the forms even when my performance is pathetic (last year). For me it's not for bragging rights, it's about participating in something my national club is putting on. It is part of being an "active" member, in my humble opinion.
I was told once that unless you are posting 20,000 miles a year, there's no need to turn in mileage. As much as I respect the person who told me that, I think that attitude is bullcrap.
If you don't want to participate, that's okay. But I wonder why not?
I think Paul did a fine job of standing up for himself, and explaining why he and Voni ride.
A side motive: In the big scheme of things, the 100k mile benchmarks, those signed contest slips along with IBA witness forms are the only things I have "officially" documenting bike mileage (my bikes never go to the dealerships).
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2016 R1200RS, 2012 R1200GSA, 1975 R90/6 (x2)
Anyway........back to the original concept...
Had the bike out today, got like 11 more miles. Kinda amazing how dusty it can become just sitting....blew it off with some shop air, quick wipe-down with some Pledge, good to go.
Thinking about some maintenance.......maybe a little something for the final drive, Chain Wax otta' do.
Might be time to think about scheduling that oil change for September.......
Clutch lever seems different, do they stretch from non use?
Did I mention that I received both the April issue of the BMWON and the 2012 Anonymous book.......only the cover of the Anonymous book was torn up.......I wonder if there is anyone in the Anonymous book I know?....have to take a peek tomorrow.....
"You can do good or you can do well. Sooner or later they make you choose." MI5
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I used to regularly hit between 15k and 25k, back when the contest winners were over 100K - (my butt and wallet hurt thinking of that). Had a daily 50 mile one way commute and had weekends and vacations to ride with my wife. Now, we own the Inn ( love it but it is 24-7) plus I still work full time for the State. Seems like my ONLY riding these days is my weekly commute to HQ in Sacramento, between April and November, if I don't have to do the Costco run for laundry and paper products for the Inn. Fortunately for me, it is 150 miles of some of the best twisty roads between here and there. 3-4 hrs in the morning, then again in the evening, with an average of ~52mph no matter what I do to change it. Gas at each end, and average 43 mpg. That generally gets me maybe 7k a year, oh and throw in a ride to Sears Pt for AMA races, and if I am lucky, a day or two riding at the track. But no matter what mileage I get, I always enter (not sure what happened to my entry last year, oh well) just to sort of keep tabs on things, keep them in perspective. I thought the lower mileage would me less spent in tires and gas, but gas is up and the tires I use now are more expensive, oh well. I just LOVE to ride and miss it when I don't get to.
Jim Douglas '00 K1200RS >138,000 miles -- Black, 01/10/2000 to present
Gone: White '09 K1300S sold @ 22k mi, Black '93 K1100RS traded @ 78k mi, Red '85 K100RS sold @ 44k mi, '06 Kaw 650R chrome yellow track bike sold http://www.seagullbb.com/
I think it's a great "tool" for BMW to add just one more motivation that may help folks enjoy their scooters a little more, get more bikes out of garages and on the streets and generally offer something everyone - regardless of mileage [there's a lowest mileage recognition as well as high] - can enjoy without going too far out of theri comfort zones.
It also inspires friendly contests between individuals and clubs. It's win-win, regardless of what someone's mileage is.
I've seen some friends rack up some awesome feats and hope to share some more of their successes with them in the future.
Nothing wrong with it, but just not my bag.
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Steve Aikens, Clovis, NM
Steve, who makes auxiliary fuel tanks for R1200s?
Kevin Huddy
Tm Pterodactyl MT Outpost
I will ride every where, my wife always says she doesn't have time to ride. I always say just ride with me or lets just go. There is always an excuse from her, it's to cold, ho, windy, might rain, etc. My standing statement to here and every one else I get this from is "In Indiana, if you are only going to ride when weather is perfect, you might get two weeks of riding in. Total"
On my commute to and from work (about 20 miles Ea.) I have heard, "aren't you cold, Your gonna get wet, don't you get hot in all that, Etc." You have to have the gear and and the want to just enjoy the ride weather it is twisties or slab or commute.
I am not a high miles guy and it bugs me to think of putting a tire on every other oil change, but I really enjoy it so the miles add up because I just want to ride every chance I get. I may only have about 35 to 40 more years of riding, I waisted the first 40 by not riding enough.
There are a couple of guys that do manufacture custom tanks though. Jack Shoalmire's son in law Barry is the first that comes to mind. He built an un-real custom tank for Jacks RT.
Check it out here.
Stuff like this ain't cheap.
Here's a link to the LDRider Fuel Cell Page.
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Steve Aikens, Clovis, NM
Speakin'a mileage average...I noticed that if I use an interstate and maintain 70 mph [wheels rolling]...that at the end of the day, with stops & all factored in...I averaged right at 50mph +/- for the day total..point "A" To point "B".
But if I'm on US/State roads and average 45-55 mph [wheels rolling]...that at the end of those days I'm averaging about 35-40 total for the day point "A" To point "B"
At the end of the day (pick your day), as far as I am concerned all that matters is enjoying the ride. 'Nuff said.


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Getting to my 20th high school reunion (Dos Pueblos HS in Goleta CA) was just the excuse I needed to pack the bike for an extended trip down the West Coast. The trip from my home on Bainbridge Island WA to mom's house in San Luis Obispo CA is a bit over 1200 miles if you follow the coastal route of US 101 and HWY 1. I've ridden down to SLO before but always took I-5 through Oregon and cut over to the coast at Grant's Pass on 199. Over the years I have developed an aversion the Interstate Highway system so following 101 seemed like good idea despite warnings from those who had BTDT....
Along with Interstates, over-crowded State Parks with their screaming children and humming RVs have found themselves on my "do not patronize unless you have to" list. So for the first time ever I would set out without my camping gear, this would be a motel-only excursion. A bit of time spent with some mapping software and Expedia got my schedule ironed out. I work a 24 hour shift and would be leaving after work so a relatively short day one to Tillamook OR was in order then on to Eureka and Half Moon Bay CA before arriving in SLO. My return trip would mirror the outward bound leg.
Day one started with a meeting in the rain with a contractor who thought he'd be able to pour the foundation for my 1100 sq foot addition to my garage by the time I got back (as of today I have a trailer with some forms on it in the driveway, no sign of anything else). Rain showers, fog and what we call "sunbreaks" would follow me for the next two days. Hwy 101 through Washington is nice, the part I took runs down the Hood Canal before cutting over towards the coast where you go past alternating oyster farms and land belonging to logging companies. Nice sweeping turns and fairly low population density make for a nice ride. Coastal Oregon on the other hand was not worth the effort. Low speed limits, high population and straight roads coupled with the local's inability to maintain the posted speed limit (about 5 under on my speedo seeemed average) make this stretch of road insufferable, next time it's back to I-5) Badly dinging a front rim on a rock while traversing a construction zone didn't exactly help my impression of this section either.
Once into sunny California things began to pick up. Remembering an article in the MON I cut through Ferndale and explored a bit of the Lost Coast. This would be the begining of the best day of riding in my 20+ years on bikes. Not to be taken lightly the road is full of bumps, tight twisty sections and steep switchbacks running up and down hills and along the coast through open range areas, small farms and giant redwood trees before spitting you back onto 101. Over the river and through the woods and you arrive at the top of Hwy 1 in Legget. Wow. Recently paved this is a fantastic stretch of road through valleys thick with trees and along ridges offering up sweeping views if you dare take your eyes off the road. It eventually spits out onto the coast where the road settles into a rythm of sweeping curves along the water and tighter sections up into the valleys. There are signs everywhere telling slow traffic to pull over with turn-outs liberally supplied for them to comply. I found most people pulled over fairly quickly and the road lightly traveled over all. I had a choice to make in Jenner, cut over to 101 and a fast ride through San Francisco or continue on 1. I took 1, it runs through towns like Bodega Bay and Stinson Beach that you read about in high school lit classes and offers up some incredible riding too. Make sure you have good tires and brakes before tackling this road, you'll use 'em hard. (BT020's and EBC organic compound pads work well for me on my '91 K100RS) This was well over 300 miles of fun riding.
Half Moon Bay is a cute little town about 30 miles south of SF. The main highway by-passes "downtown" which is full of funky art galleries, antique shops and restaurants. By mutual agreement about half the stores are closed on tuesdays... Route 1 opens up a bit from here south, more sweeping vistas and fewer "twisty bits" but still fun. San Luis is a neat little community, not too hot, not too cool it is the kind of place you visit and want to stay. It's going through some serious expansion right now, lots of housing going up, considering the cost of the existing homes I'm not surprised.
The return trip was much the same, drier and I took fewer side trips off 101 due to being tired and a bit saddle sore. 2500 miles, eight days of riding over an 11 day trip, oil consumption minimal (just above the dot to just below) time for a new front tire and probably a new rim. Overall not a bad way to wind down the summer riding season.


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BEREA -- Big Phil Taylor, the missing part of the Browns defense that doesn't get talked about, is close to playing again.
Taylor is on the Physically Unable to Perform list recuperating from pectoral surgery performed in May. He has to miss at least two more games and then can start practicing.
After a player from the PUP list starts practicing, the team has a three-week window to activate him or put him on injured reserve for the remainder of the season. Another player has to be released or placed on I.R. to create a roster spot if a PUP player is activated.
"I want to get back, but I'm not going to push it," Taylor said in the locker room Monday. "My body will let me know when I'm ready to play."
Some PUP cases are more serious than others. This is one of the serious ones.
Taylor, 335 pounds, was injured bench pressing during an offseason conditioning session in the Browns' weight room just days after defensive tackles John Hughes (fourth round) and Billy Winn (sixth round) were selected in the 2012 draft.
Taylor wasn't trying to fulfill some crazy dare when he and his friends and teammates were off on their own trying to prove how strong they are. He said he was bench pressing "in the 300s" but won't get any more specific.
"Phil certainly would help us; there's no doubt about it," defensive coordinator Dick Jauron said last week. "I believe he was ready to start off where he ended last year because he was playing good football by the end of the year. He's worked awfully hard in his rehab. He's probably a little ahead of schedule. His weight is right where he wants it and where we want it.
"But we were really lucky and smart. Our organization did a great job acquiring the two young guys because they are really filling in well."
Winn started the first four games in Taylor's spot and is listed first on the depth chart for the game Sunday against the Giants in the Meadowlands.
Winn had the best game of his blooming career last Thursday in Baltimore when he made five tackles, including two behind the line of scrimmage. The Browns lost the game, 23-16, but they were successful holding Ray Rice in check. Rice rushed for 47 yards and had 47 yards receiving. He did not score a touchdown.
Hughes was a starter early in preseason and now is part of a rotation Jauron uses to keep the defensive linemen fresh in the fourth quarter. Despite coming off the bench, Hughes (eight) has one more tackle than Winn. Hughes also has a sack.
"When we drafted them, we anticipated they'd have to play early," Jauron said. "At this stage they've done better than we anticipated. We really believe they're just going to get better as we keep moving along."
The Browns allowed one rushing touchdown in the first four games, but nine passing touchdowns. They allowed 12 rushing touchdowns and 16 passing touchdowns last year.


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Moon Dust Dilemma
NASA is on a mission to collect dust from the moon's surface. A team is put together to design an apparatus that an astronaut can use to accomplish this task. One member of the team designs a type of vacuum cleaner which can be used to suck up and collect the dust. He is immediately fired for his incompetence. What was wrong with his plan?
HintWhy do they call it a vacuum cleaner?
AnswerSince the moon has no atmosphere, it is already under vacuum. The reason a vacuum cleaner works is that the pressure drop between the air in the room and the vacuum bag causes air to rush into the bag, carrying some dirt with it. Since there is no pressure drop between the vacuum chamber and the moon's surface, you could not suck up moon dust.
Also, there is no air on the moon to carry the dust along, anyway. A solid is not affected by a vacuum. If it were, the moon would have exploded by now.
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Ships are remarkably efficient (all things considered). Despite the runaround, it's still a lot more "efficient" to a lot of people compared to, say, walking (or even biking)
iirc bicycles and even more so recumbents are the most energy efficient mechanical methods of transport
I believe water is more efficient in terms of tons per meter per minute, by far. My google-fu is failing me. But think about 1 horse pulling a barge all day in a canal. The weight being transported is several orders of magnitude larger than in a cart or wagon.


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Samsung I7110 Video clips
As the INNOV8, Samsung I7110 is running on Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 but is a thin (12.9mm) candybar. Feature-wise, it is almost identical to the slider but lacks the huge internal memory and trades the 8MP camera for 5MP one, still sporting features like the smile and blink shot detection. It is equipped with a 2.6" AMOLED display that should deliver better image quality than a TFT. Features include 3G (on the European bands), Wi-Fi, GPS, DivX videos support (no XviD) and preloaded Asphalt and Fifa 2008 games.


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Rodriguez nursing left hamstring tightness
By Tom Singer / MLB.com
PHOENIX -- Left-hander Wandy Rodriguez has been classified by the Pirates' medical staff as "not likely" to be able to start against the Reds this weekend.
Rodriguez departed with left hamstring tightness in the third inning of his Monday start, and on Tuesday, he underwent an MRI which showed a strain of the hamstring.
The lefty had been tentatively considered to start the Sunday finale against Cincinnati at PNC Park.
Manager Clint Hurdle was not yet prepared to name a replacement starter for Rodriguez -- or to definitely rule him out.
"We're gonna give Wandy another rehab work day," Hurdle said after Wednesday's game. "We'll get him out to the park Friday, and should have a decision sometimes that afternoon or evening."
If he can't go, candidates for that spot start include pitchers on the current staff -- Jeanmar Gomez, Chris Leroux or Justin Wilson -- or someone being recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis.
Marte red hot atop Bucs' batting order
PHOENIX -- If the Pittsburgh offense was a stage play, it would still be in the off-Broadway rehearsal stage. The opening act, however, has already been boffo -- Starling Marte is a best-case scenario unfolding atop the Pirates' lineup.
The dynamic left fielder had his fifth consecutive two-hit game on Wednesday, and drove in his fourth run of the season. It's been Marte -- he improved his batting average to .333 -- and the smidgens -- the rest of the team had a .128 average coming into the game.
While he waits for the rest of the batting order to come to order, manager Clint Hurdle has the luxury of choosing which iconic leadoff batter he wants Marte to emulate.
"One thing we're mindful of -- we want this kid to be aggressive in the strike zone. We're not looking for him to become Maury Wills," Hurdle said. "More of a Rickey Henderson-type leadoff hitter.
"His at-bats have continually cleaned up, throughout Spring Training into the season. He gives us a spark -- an explosive spark -- at the top of the lineup."
With Marte, there is a lot more, obviously. Speed on the bases, defensive range and arm.
"The excitement when he gets on base, we've already seen. It's a good package," Hurdle concluded.
Melancon's bounce-back year off to good start
PHOENIX -- Mark Melancon has been around the Major League block a few times. This, as they say, is not his first rodeo.
However, the 28-year-old righty has never ridden that bucking bronco of big league hitters as smoothly. He has thrown blanks in his first five appearances with the Pirates, allowing only two baserunners in five innings.
And, Melancon says, there is nothing accidental about these first strides on the comeback trail from a 2012 season in which he had a 6.20 ERA out of Boston's bullpen.
"I learned more about my delivery and about pitching in general in a month of Spring Training than I have my whole pro career," said Melancon, whose career began with his 2006 First-Year Player Draft selection by the Yankees.
Melancon has also been through the Houston and Boston organizations without getting the benefit of the type of instruction offered this spring by Pirates pitching coach Ray Searage and Jim Benedict, a special assistant to general manager Neal Huntington, whose specialty is pitchers.
"He brought awareness to some of the things in my delivery which, honestly, I haven't really yet changed," Melancon said of Benedict. "It's a work in progress, and I'm just glad I'm aware of it, so in the long run I can deal with it and be that much better."
It's not a big thing. Just those "little tiny things" that can make a difference, like Melancon's "leg kick and the path it takes."
"People in the big leagues expect you to know everything and just do it," Melancon said. "There's not a whole lot of learning."
The Pirate City School of Pitching appears to be an exception.
Worth noting
• Thursday will be the Bucs' final off-day during the month of April. They are scheduled to play 20 straight games until the next day off, on May 2.
• Brandon Inge (cracked right scapula) went 0-for-4 on Tuesday, and is 2-for-18 six games into his rehab assignment with Triple-A Indianapolis. Wednesday was Inge's first day of eligibility to come off the 15-day disabled list.
• The D-backs weren't sorry to see Garrett Jones missing from the Pirates' lineup on Wednesday, with a left-hander, Wade Miley, on the hill. Jones has a lifetime average of .353 in Chase Field, with three homers and 10 RBIs in 15 games.
• The Pirates' starting lineup on Wednesday -- even with Marte (10-for-32, .313) atop it -- had a collective .167 batting average entering the game.
• A.J. Burnett, scheduled to start Friday night's first meeting with the Reds this season, on the seven Pirates batters hit by Cincinnati pitchers last season: "Obviously something is going on there. That's not our priority. Our priority is to win baseball games. So we'll take care of business when we have to."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Chicago examiner ! vol xiv no 72 a m wednesday Chicago march 15 1916 wednesday u.s'ftmn price one cent toc srl d sw^sss germans cut french line west of verdun 72 hours bombardment followed | by attack of 100,000 men french admit loss at 2 points claim repulses elsewhere ;• n ii<in '. sews lißmcl • ■..-,. h 14 furious _ has been renewed on •*** uotb uaukt of hie meuse north i orthwesl u.id northeast of verdun germans by heavy assaults i'ol iiig the unprecedented bombard ■t of the last seventy-two hours | i roke through the french lines at two points on the front between i:ethincourt and deadman's hill the ain was made the war office mid night report asserts at the cost of heavy losses to the kaiser's forces four attacks in all were launched during the day two on each bank of the meuse early in the morning cast of the river the artillery can nonade against the french positions attained its climax germans leave hundreds of dead the furious barrier r;i jl the french and storm of machine tun bullets and shrapnel mowed down the sray columns of germans as tl.ey wept time and again to the attack the germans leaving hundreds of lead on the field were forced to tall oack this attack failing the artillery lire west of the meuse redoubled in fury according to the midnight war office report and in the afternoon a crriftc assault was begun on the french front between bethincourt and cumieres divisions of the 100.000 new re serves gathered by the germans were lhrown into the battle despite the terrible fire the advancing legions succeeded in reaching the french po sitions and a hand-to-hand battle ensued on the greater part of the front the report asserts the ger mans were repulsed but at two points they gained a footing the midnight communique says north of the aisne the germans tried three times to penetrate our trenches on the northwestern edge of the bois des buttes none of the attempts succeeded in the argonne our artillery on the sector of the four de paris car ried out an effective fire exploding a depot of munitions and shelling the railway tracks roads and ger man establishments in the region of montfaucon and abexcourt , artillery action doubles in violence west of the meuse the bombard ment with heavy shells of our,posi tions from bethincourt to cumieres has redoubled in violence during the afternoon the germans launched a powerful infantry attack on this sec tor they vere repulsed on the whole of the front with serious losses they succeeded in gaining a foothold in our trenches at only two points be tween bethincourt and mort homme east of the meuse and in woevre the artillery has been exceedingly active on both sides during the day but there were no infantry actions north of st mihiel our batteries bombarded important german bar rmeka in the heudicourt woods caus ng a great fire in the railway sta tion setting fire also to the store houses at la marche-en woevre tn lorraine we shelled a german i-olumn northeast of delnie in the vosges there has hern great senator shively of indiana dies in washington veteran statesman succumbs to long illness senate adjourns in his honor rn international news service washington march 14.—benja min f shively the junior senator from indiana died at providence hospital here late this afternoon after an illness of several months mr shively has not attended any of the sessions here since he was sworn in following his re-election the opinion among indiana demo crats was general to-night tha tom taggart can come to the senate as the successor to senator shively if he wants the place if taggart does not care for it he undoubtedly will name the man it was said the following members of the sen ate will accompany the body of their late colleague to south bend where burial probably will take place on friday kern smith ariz wil liams c'lapp johnson maine ken yon swanson james sutherland martine l-'helan and smith ga dupont to run for president report bv international news service washington march it a prom inent republican senator who asked that his name be withheld cast a small-sized bomb into that party's ranks here this afternoon by an nouncing that the name of t cole man du pout the powder magnate would soon be placed before the country as a candidate for the re publican nomination for president aberdeens here today for war sufferers the earl and marchioness of aber deen will arrive in Chicago to-day from detroit they are sponsoring a new movement for the relief of war sufferers and will attend a union gathering of charity organizations to morrow they are bringing a num ber of home-grown shamrocks which will be sold for charity the earl and marchioness will stop at the blackstone hotel goeben evades russ blockade brings aid by international news service london march 11 — an athens dispatch says the former german cruiser goeben has broken through the russian blockade of the turkish black tea coast and landed guns and msn at treblsond funeral service for united states soldiers killed by villa raiders at columbus n m vh«>f ■• l international film ■»• >■\ ii haiselden ousted by physicians Chicago medical society drops from membership doctor made famous by baby bollinger cass dr harry j haiselden was dropped from membership by the Chicago medical society at its meeting in the hotel sherman last night dr hai selden was not present but several of his friends spoke in his behalf be fore the executive council of the so ciety sustained the ethical relations committee in its recommendations that he be dropped the charge against dr haiselden grew out of the baby bollinger case dr haiselden surgeon in charge of the german-american hospital re fused to operate on the baby to try to save its life on the grounds that the infant was defective and it would be better for the baby and the human race to let it die wide attention attracted the case attracted nation-wide at tention at the time and there were many supporters of dr haiselden he also was severely criticised and the ! publicity he got in the newspapers caused much comment in the medical profession the Chicago medical society charged that he passed judgment on a human life where he had no author ity and also that he was unethical in writing a book on the bollinger baby his signed articles on the case were considered unethical in that they were personal advertising the case of dr haiselden was taken up by the medical society some time ago and was considered again at the meeting last month at that time dr haiselden said he had not been given a chance to prepare a de fense and the matter was postponed until last night isabi.k to be present about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon dr haiselden telegraphed the secre tary of the society that he was de tained in avalon wis and would not i be able to appear before the meeting his case was taken up however and after much debate the council voted unanimously to drop hira from the rolls of the society dr haiselden will have two chances to appeal he can take his case to the state society and from there to the american medical society if he asks for a reconsideration of the case by the Chicago society it will be granted according to the sen timent expressed at the meeting last night members of the society said he would be given every chance to explain his actions and to clear his betrayer's wife adopts child of girl he wronged after aiding husband's victim mrs stockwell now pleads for his liberty women like the one that charles i i stockwell married are pictured some times in fiction but they have not been seen very often in the courts of Chicago stockwell is a clerk thirty-two years old and at 5132 dakin street he has a home and a wife who loves him he was arrested a little while ago and his wife went to see him the charge was that stockwell was the father of a child whose mother was a young girl — whose name has no place here mrs stockwell lis tened to the story and then she said the poor girl — i must help her so mrs stockwell found the girl she befriended her took her to a hospital cared for her through the ordeal of childbirth and finally to save the girl's name mrs stockwell adopted the baby as her own everything possible has been done for the mother and so mrs stock well is fighting for her husband now his trial was scheduled for yester day but his wife induced judge new comer to grant a continuance sabath demands u s gasoline inquiry washington march 14 — charg ing indirectly that the huge increase in gasoline prices is due to conspir acies and combinations among pro ducers representative sabath of illi nois introduced in the house this afternoon a resolution directing the attorney general to investigate con ditions and prosecute offenders the resolution was referred to the judiciary committee representative sabath said he would press for an early hearing u s weather forecast Chicago a.\d vicinity — gener ally fnlr and nlikhtly colder wednes day thursday air with lowly ris ing temperature fresh northerly winds diminishing by wednesday night thmfbratcre for twenty-lour hours ending at - a m : highest ::»: lowest 25 mean 30 normal temperature for the day 34 excess of temperature since jaauai-y 1 144 degrees preciiritaliou for twenty-lour hours trace ex cess since january 1 70 inch relative humidity 7 a m 70 2 p m 73 ■7 l m wj barometric pressure reduced to sea lcrel 7 a m 29.93 7 p in 30.1t 1 sunrise to-day 6:02 sunset 5:56 moon sets 4.30 a m thursday house votes 120,000 army war footing baker will recruit 20,000 more men at once to guard the border as veterans invade by international news service washington march 14 1n preparation for a lengthy campaign in mexico the ad ministration to-day took steps to place the united states army on a full war footing a resolution urged by president wilson and secretary of war baker adding 19.947 men to the army was put through the house with but one dissenting vote the new troops will be used to re place those taken from the border forces to go after villa and to fill out all mobile troops at interior points to war strength anticipating favorable action by the senate when the resolution comes up to-morrow the war de partment to-night sent telegraphic in structions to recruiting officers to proceed vigorously with enlistments army at full strength will have 120,000 men the house resolution which was introduced by chairman i lay of the military committee after a confer ence with secretary baker provides for the recruiting of approximately 16,000 infantry 2,900 cavalry and 1,100 field artillery this will in crease the army strength to 120,000 men exclusive of the quartermaster and hospital corps this will make available a mobile army of about 30 000 men for service in mexico within a short time two other resolutions bearing on the mexicau situation were intro duced in congress one of these by kepresentative britten of Illinois would authorize the recall of troops now in the phil ippines for service in mexico the other by representative cary of wisconsin would authorize the com mandeering of all arms and muni tions of war in the country carranza plea for delay will be rejected while preparations for the funston expedition into mexico were contin latest mexico bulletins troop train blown up fun st on hears san antonio march 14 general funston re ceived a report that a united states troop train was blown up near hachita n m washington march 15 — nothing resembling sticli a story nas come to the war department said secretary of war baker to-night regarding the reported blowing up of a troop train carranza troops riot at osinaja presidio texas march 14 — a troop of the thirteenth cavalry is on its way here from marfa on rush orders following a report that rioting has broken out among the carranza troops at ojinaga across the border from here and that general rojas the carran za commander has been assassinated carranza war chief aids u s douglas ariz march 14 — tension along the border was relieved this afternoon when the following telegram was received by general calles from general alvaro obregon just appointed secretary of war in the carranza cabinet a treaty having been effected between our gov ernment and the united states of north america in order that troops of eacr country may cross the inter national line in pursuit of the bandits which are com mitting depredations along our frontier i hereby ad vise all officials of these privileges and instruct them in every case to place themselves in co-operation with the military authorities of the united states to the end that the pursuit of these bandits may result in the best possible termination signed alvaro obregon minister of war and navy 50 brokers in mexico city arrested mexico city march 14 about fifty stock brokers were arrested to-day charged with spreading alarming news referring to the foreign situation general gonzales wired from queretaro that the difficulties between mexico and the united states had been arranged amicably and that the relations between tre two nations would continue friendly the telegram was at once made public several demonstrations will take place to-morrow to celebrate the event military bands playing national airs marched through the streets to-night announcing the peaceful settlement jovito orozco the former federal officer charged with being one of madero's captors will be shot to morrow wilson flees mexican report nogales ariz march 14 — a weekly newspa per printed in spanish is durango last week was re ceived here to-day it contained the information that villa had taken tre states of texas and new mexico and was pressing rorth president wilson and his family it was added , were fleeing to canada for safety troops cross border by h h stansbury advance guard in 110 at 11:30 p 111 carranza's plea for two weeks delay answered by sending troops over line main body of force moves this morning bulletin san antonio tex march 14 * — at 11:30 o'clock to-night it wa reliably reported the advance guard of general pershing's troop had crossed the border from co lumbus n m bulletin | el paso tex march 14 the american column under general pershing will cross the border all 2:30 to-morrow march 15 morn-1 ing 3:30 Chicago time accord ing to a dispatch which came to el paso to-night by way of dent ing n m twenty miles north of the mobilization camp later indi i cations were the troops could not get started across the line before 7 o'clock a shortage of cars on f he el paso & southwestern kailway to take necessary supplies to the i camp at columbus is responsible for the delay stall correspondent uf the interna tlonal xewt service el paso tex march 14 — gen eral john j pershing as the head of the cavalry division which will start the hunt for fran cisco villa has completed plans to corss the border to-morrow morning the rush with which the final ar rangements for thp expedition were closed to-night is conceded to be in answer to a demand made by car ranza for a further delay general pershing returned to ei paso this morning from columbus at the request of the mexican au thorities for a conference with lutsj gutierrez commander-in-chief of thst carranza forces in chihuahua gu tierrez urged in the name of venusj tiana carranza that the americas | troops keep out of mexico for ttuki ! weeks longer i claims five columns : closing on villa he declared five converging co j umns ol carranza soldiers withii the time stated will have trappei villa and eliminated the necessi of the punitive expedition of amer can troops my orders have been to catc villa and i cannot delay executio of my instructions general persl ing replied but we have five columns a troops 1.200 men in each columr and they are closing in on vil from as many directions he can not escape said the carranza gen eral it is too late said genera pershing , it will cause much ill feelius on the part of the mexican people said general gutierrez talk to washington pershing suggests the only suggestion i can msk is that your diplomatic tervic taj continued on 2d page 4th column pt»«u»d on 4th page 2d column #■■just a hint of spring j|j iiij jl and you'll be wishing that you too could join the throng of i people who are motoring to chi cago's wonder spots there's a car waiting for you at the price ri 1 1 t ou cbn afford to pay in the 1 | f-i""l examiner's want ad section hull ifimatl edition |
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Identifying Terrorist Activity with AI Plan Recognition Technology
We describe the application of plan-recognition techniques to support human intelligence analysts in processing national security alerts. Our approach is designed to take the noisy results of traditional data-mining tools and exploit causal knowledge about attacks to relate activities and uncover the intent underlying them. Identifying intent enables us to both prioritize and explain alert sets to analysts in a readily digestible format. Our empirical evaluation demonstrates that the approach can handle alert sets of as many as 20 elements and can readily distinguish between false and true alarms. We discuss the important opportunities for future work that will increase the cardinality of the alert sets to the level demanded by a deployable application. In particular, we outline the need to bring the analysts into the process and for heuristic improvements to the plan-recognition algorithm.
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I tried to explain 'mousetrapping' to someone last week.
I was accused of saying that every 'get rich quick work at home thing' was a scam.
There is some truth in that accusation.
There is always some truth in everything.
Shifty sorts have created a new worm which spread rapidly on Facebook on Friday. The malware, for now at least, does nothing more malicious than posting a message on an infected user's Facebook wall that point to a site called fbhole.com. Nonetheless, the speed of its spread on the social networking site has net security …
I was accused of saying that every 'get rich quick work at home thing' was a scam.
There is some truth in that accusation.
There is always some truth in everything.
1. How many markers did you have to sniff before you started typing such gibberish?
2. All 'get rich quick work at home things' ARE scams.
It's a bit of a give-away that a machine running (what appears to be) the keramic2 KDE theme is displaying a dialog box using WinNT4/Win95/Win98 style decorations...
Don't most people use WInXP teletubbie theme or Vista7 theme by default now anyway?
"try not to laugh xD http://www.fbhole. com/omg/allow.php?s=a&r=[random number]"
People click on links like this?
I wonder how many FB users would click on such a link were it inside an unsolicited email.
What makes them dispense with all common sense when such links appear in FB?
It only confirms my suspicions regarding the level of quick witted foresight possessed by the average FB user.
There's a new bunch born every second.
Just don't click sheeple!
Better still, just don't join FB.
But they don't check out.
Its "Distracting Beach Babes" now:
"How to hook up with a girl in 15 minutes" directs to a page saying "click here to continue" which adds itself to your "Likes" page when you 'click here'
Don't click anything on the interweb, ever, anywhere..
facebook has its place in the interwebs. It is a ideal playground for people who are sick of the elitists who constantly bash the less than perfect general jo public that use the interwebby these days....
The pricing of broadband and of low cost computers has pushed the use of networked computers into the lower educated households. When tied with the ease of use of the current batch of windows operating systems and how simple it has been made to set up a PC... (colour coded plugs and sockets, dammnit, if the shape is not a good enough give-away). The usual class divides are brought together,
in the past, the upper class used to live higher up the hill, they had there own 'gentlemen's clubs' and the WI. At the bottom of the hill there was working-men clubs. the two classes never really met except for church on Sundays, but even then the upper classes had the front rows. Off the children went to the private grammar schools and universities where they got to play with the new computer systems. The people at the bottom end of the hill never got a look in.
Now as computers have got so cheap that the people at the bottom of the hill can afford them, the snobs and computer geeks do not like it that they have to share the sandpit.
This snobbery went on when I was at school, the only school was halfway up the hill so the two cultures were forced together. I had a computer, a zx spectrum 48k, None of the other kids in the yard who had computers and used to stand around in there own little group would believe that I had a computer... I was from the bottom end of the hill.... I had to bring my computer to school to show them before they would believe me... even then, they all said it was probably the cheaper 16k version.... still, they let me stand in the group with them... BUT, not a single one of the tapes that were passed around to copy came my way, nether the less, being part of this informal group i learned the basics of computing and as I had no software I had to program my own this in turn gave me the ability to build my home a little higher up the hill... (I wouldn't want to be higher up the hill with all the two faced snobbery)
now this snobbery continues as the masses joint the information superhighway..... the facebook generation get abused by the elitist snobs. they sneer an look down there noses at the facebook generation. I have a facebook account, and proud of it. I get to keep up with friends and family. I keep myself and my family 'safe' using the knowledge i have learned over the 30 years i have worked with computers.
For all those anti facebook snobs, worms and virus were around long before facebook and in the past those virus and worms were a lot less sophisticated than they are now but at some point we have all fell for one or two of them.... Most of the less technical savvy people I know that use facebook are to afraid to use credit/debit cards online banking and the rest of it, so what risk are they running online? a corrupt os? a slow computer? big deal..... what is your level of online risk....
... if a Malware/Virus/Worm/* writer could write the bad stuff AND write a funny joke!
"facebook has its place in the interwebs. It is a ideal playground for people who are sick of the elitists who constantly bash the less than perfect general jo public that use the interwebby these days...."
Err no. Facebook is a playground for egocentrics and people suffering from HPD who have to be the centre of attention no matter what and genuinely think that the mundane details of their tedious lives are of interest to other people. At first Facebook may have had some normal people on it who were just playing around with a new toy , but they all gew up and left. Now its just the haunt of people who don't have any real friends so they can't even email them, never mind phone up or visit them so they lurk on facebook basing their self worth on the number of other facebook loser phony friends they can notch up.
Boltar, and everyone else who posts this stuff; how much do we need to wade through? Seriously, every story about Facebook?
You may want to medicalise the motivations of the enormous number of entirely ordinary people who use Facebook; but it's blindingly obvious that for the most part they use it alongside living a healthy life. Do you know that many more people, representing a broader cross-section of humanity, use Facebook than post on the Reg with flame icons (or, indeed, reply to such posts)?
I, and many others here, are interested in Facebook's security issues for a whole host of reasons. This being the Register, one of those is because we develop apps for the site; I imagine others are interested in the security issues as it impinges on the network and users they manage.
So please - please - can you avoid sinking all Facebook threads under this kind of garbage? Since you can't be posting here either for reasons of egocentrism or HPD, perhaps you can look on the ream of similar comments that have been posted on this board for years as having sufficed to get across the point of view you represent.
Everyone look at jjbd's work. He is doing it right.
"So please - please - can you avoid sinking all Facebook threads under this kind of garbage?"
Why when its true?
"Since you can't be posting here either for reasons of egocentrism or HPD,"
An online discussion is the complete opposite to something like facebook. Facebook is the preserve of the "please like me" crowd. An online discussion usually attracts the "I don't care what you think , these are my views" crowd.


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A risk factor is something that increases your chances of developing cancer. Some risk factors such as age or family history cannot be changed. Fortunately, there are also risk factors which can be modified. Lifestyle changes may help lower your risk of prostate cancer:
- Eating a healthful diet—A diet high in red meat and dairy fat may increase the risk of prostate cancer. Develop a diet that has plenty of fruits and vegetables. Choose whole grains and lean proteins (like chicken or fish). Switch from high-fat dairy to low- or non-fat varieties. Make changes slowly so you do not get discouraged. Eating a well-balanced diet will also help you maintain a healthy weight and body mass index (BMI).
- Getting regular exercise — Strive to maintain an exercise program that keeps you fit and at a healthy weight. This may include walking or participating in another aerobic activity for at least 30 minutes a day on most days of the week. Choose exercises you enjoy and make them a regular part of your day. Check with your doctor before starting any exercise program.
- Medications—There are some medications associated with reduced risk, including daily aspirin or 5-alpha reductase inhibitors. Your doctor will weigh benefits and risk if you need these medications.
- Vitamins and supplements—Vitamin E, lycopene, and selenium have been associated with reduced risk, but evidence to support it is inconsistent. Consider changing foods you eat to include these vitamins and minerals in order to get adequate amounts.
Medications, vitamins, supplements, and herbal remedies have side effects that may do more harm than good. Talk to your doctor about your options before starting any of these.
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Police name 'river drowning' couple
A young couple who may have drowned after entering a swollen river to rescue their pet dog have been formally named by police.
Alicia Marie Williams, 25, and boyfriend David Christopher Platt, also 25, had been walking their dogs near the River Clywedog, near Wrexham, North Wales, when the tragedy occurred.
It is feared the couple may have entered the river trying to rescue one of their dogs and drowned in fast currents caused by heavy rainfall.
Locals said the River Clywedog has risen by about four feet (1.2m) since this week's torrential downpours began.
North Wales Police said the deaths of the couple, who had been together for more than two years, were being treated as unexplained.
The body of Ms Williams, who has a young daughter, was found on a sandbank by another dog walker shortly after 5pm on Wednesday.
Police extended their search after witnesses reported having seen two people walking with "four or five" dogs a short time before. More than 20 volunteers, including fire and local search and rescue crews, took part in the operation, which later recovered Mr Platt's body nearby.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Pierce, of North Wales Police, said the families of the couple were suffering a "huge amount of distress".
He said: "The two deaths are unexplained but the likely scenario is at the moment that there was unfortunately a tragic accident. We believe the couple were here with dogs and at the time the river was swollen."
Post-mortem examinations are expected to take place on Friday morning to establish the cause of death and a file is being prepared for the coroner.