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" Genre: Junior Books / Author: Fiona Watt / Board book / 10 Pages / Book is published 2008-08-29 by Usborne Publishing Ltd "
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That's Not My Santa is another book that my son has in his ever expanding festive-themed book collection. He also has another couple of books from the 'That's Not My..' collection, so we knew that this would be a hit when we got it for him last Christmas, when he was 9 months old. We have recently dug it out again for him to look at this year and, now he is a year older, he seems to enjoy it just as much.
For those unfamiliar, the 'That's Not My...' collection is a series of board books for babies and young toddlers. They all have textured pages which are great for young babies. They also follow the same story, each double page feature a picture of the character/item that the book is about - in this case Santa - and a small mouse hidden somewhere in the picture. The lines of text on each double page then read "That's not my Santa" and then the reason that it is not. For example, "his sleigh is too shiny" - this picture on this page has a gold, sparkly sleigh. The book then ends up with it being the character/item. In this book "that is my santa" and "his beard is so fluffy" and the picture has a lovely soft, furry beard for baby to stroke.
The book is a lovely basic story with good repetition, which my son loves. As a baby it was nice for him to feel the different textures. Now, as a toddler, he knows instantly where he needs to touch on each page and enjoys turning the pages as I read. The different textures are good for teaching him new words like 'rough' and 'smooth' as well as body parts like hands and beard. It is also a nice introduction to Santa (or Father Christmas, as we prefer) so that he becomes familiar with him and enjoys visits to Grottos etc as he becomes older. The pictures are brightly coloured so hold his attention and he enjoys finding the mouse on each page too.
The books in this series can vary dramatically in price, depending on where you buy them from. It is always worth browsing online as they can usually be picked up much cheaper than the £5.99 RRP here. As with all festive-themed books, we get limited use from this so I would recommend you pick this up as cheap as possible. We used it last year when my son was a baby and again this year as a young toddler but I would expect it too be a little basic for him in another years time. I would say that these books are probably most suited to babies. If you can pick up at a nice price, it makes a lovely stocking filler.
As a busy mum of 2 daughters, 5 years old and 23 months, I am always on the look out for a bargain. Both my daughters are mad bookworms - if we had to BUY all the books in our house to keep them amused we would be bankrupt! Thank goodness then for our local library!
My youngest daughter in particular loves to go to our local library, and we visit about once a week and take 3 or 4 books at a time. On the run up to Christmas we visited with the intention of selecting some festive books to read, to help us all get excited for the big day. One of the books chosen by my youngest was That's Not My Santa.
As with other books in the series this is a hard board book with a different tactile portion included in each page and on the front cover. In this instance each page depicts a different Santa Claus picture, with an explanation of why this isn't "THE" Santa - his boots are too squashy, his sack is too rough etc. My daughter loves to feel the different textures on each of the pages and is amused by the bright, colourful illustrations. She can even say some of the words for each picture - rough, fuzzy etc - as we have read this book so often!
This book was well loved over the festive period and was requested by my youngest time and time again - on a daily basis!
These books can be rather pricy at around £5.99 per board book, but if you can get them at the library or second hand they can be a good bargain. My daughter likes to change between books every day ort so, so I wouldn't pay full price, but the library is a God send!
As its Christmas I decided to buy a nice stocking filler for my little girl and settled upon the, "That's not my Santa," book from the, That's not my," range of books by Fiona Watt. I thought it was very fitting as its nearly Christmas and for the last month or so we have been looking out for the big fella and deciding what he looks like and trying to be good in the hope that he leaves lots of presents.
We have quite a few of these books now as I love their simple stories that contain different sensory aspects and their bright colourful pages. The range is published by Usborne books and are described as "This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches."
On the front cover we see the classic picture of Santa with his long white beard and his red hat and coat. The front cover is a lovely Christmas green colour and has lots of pretty snowflakes surrounding Santa. In the book we see lots of Santa's in different situations but find out that that is not our Santa for different reasons. For example on the front page that is not our Santa because his hat is too soft. We then go on too see that his sack is too rough, his gloves are too fuzzy, his sleigh is too sparkly and his boots are too squashy. There are lots of different materials for babies to touch and feel on these pages such as a Velcro feeling sack and a plush hat.
On the final page we find our Santa and know this is true because his beard is so soft.
I really like this book as its very colourful and shiny and definitely catches the eye and is a great book for a Christmas present or one to read over the festive period to enjoy the build up to Christmas and to get you in a festive mood with the kids. The book is great quality. It's A5 size and a robust board book so it'd hardback and chunky and can withstand lots of banging, chewing, etc.
It is priced at £5.99 and can be found at Mothercare.
That's not my Santa is a baby/toddler book that is - as can be guessed by the name - aimed towards the festive period. We have owned this book for several years now and it was primarily bought for my daughter around the time of her first Christmas. For many a years this book has sat on the book shelf but as my daughter has been getting into the festive spirit over the past couple of weeks this book has become one of her favourites for bed time.
The book is primarily designed for young children/babies and I would suggest it be suitable for babies from the age of 1 plus. Saying that my daughter is almost 4 and she seems to enjoy it more now than she ever did. This is a board book and contains 5 double sided, hardback pages. The size of the book is very much appropriate for small hands and is approximately the size of a cd case with each page being rather chunky and thick making them easy to turn.
This book is a touch and feel book and the main story throughout the book is aimed around different textured sections that you can feel. The book has 5 double pages, each double page containing a different thing to feel. Every page of the book starts by saying "that's not my Santa" It then goes on to give a reason. For example; "that's not my Santa ... his sack is too rough. There is then a picture of Santa with a sack on his back which feels very rough. Another example includes; "that's not my Santa ... his gloves are too fuzzy. The picture then shows Santa's hands pulling out presents from a sack and his gloves feel extremely fuzzy and rough. The book concludes by finding the right Santa, they know this because his beard is so soft. The page then has a picture of Santa with a very soft feeling and bushy looking beard.
The book is very simple and basic and that's why I would primarily say that this is mainly aimed as a sensory book for young babies/toddlers. It does however, as I have already pointed out provides for a very festive book for older children too. The illustrations within the book and the general design is very simple with minimal intricate detail but it is done beautifully either way and is designed mainly to entice that of babies. Every page contains not only beautifully illustrated pictures but also further detail to enhance the pictures such as bright colours and most pages are very sparkly. The touch and feel part of the book is also done very well and each one is different and entertaining.
I find the story of this book to be simple yet it still happens to be fun and it is great for a range of ages. The quality of this book is also fantastic, we have had it for many years and I have yet to come across any problems such as wear and tear, rips or any issues with the touch and feel sections. It is very sturdy and very robust which is excellent as it is designed for babies and toddlers with heavy hands and a rough touch. Overall I would highly recommend this book, its perfect for getting into the Christmas spirit even if it is only a short story. Costing £3.50 on Amazon it won't break the bank either. The perfect book for getting everybody in to the Christmas spirit.
That's Not My Santa, was a book that (almost) nine month old Freddy received as a stocking filler, and the book that we shared before bedtime on Christmas Day. Freddy already had quite a number of the 'That's not my..." range of books, but I thought it would be nice to get him some that were on a seasonal theme.
==That's Not My...==
The That's Not My is a delightful series of board books that are perfect for sharing with babies and very young children. They feature bright simple illustrations by Rachel Wells with a very simple 'story' written by Fiona Watt. But the really special thing about these book are the patches of different textures to explore, all of which help baby develop sensory and language awareness. At approximately 6" square the book is a good size for baby to hold and the thick cardboard pages are sturdy enough to withstand their attempts at turning pages. Other books in the range include, That's Not My Car, Train, Plane, Monkey, Frog and many, many more.
==Where's My Santa?==
As soon as Freddy unwrapped this book (with a little help from Daddy), his eyes lit up. Although I must admit, Freddy does love books and the special time we have together sharing them before bed, which goes to show you can't start reading to children too early. (We've shared a book every night since Freddy was born). After having a quick look at the cover, we managed to prise the book away by showing him more parcels and so were able to put it up until bedtime.
As with all the That's Not My books, the story is very simple, in fact I'm not sure you can really call it a story. Basically we're looking for our Santa and on each double page (and the front page) there's a different picture of Santa, with the words "That's Not My Santa..." and the reason why. Then on the final page we finally find our Santa. What I (and Freddy) particularly like about this book is how many shiny and sparkly details there are.
Starting with the front page and Santa is surrounded with shiny, silver snowflakes, but it's not our Santa because his hat is too soft. And indeed his hat is made from delightfully soft, padded plush, that Freddy spent a couple of minutes stoking, while I talked about how Santa had brought him lots of presents. Opening the book, the next page shows a lovely scene of Santa in his sleigh being pulled across the night sky by his reindeer. Unfortunately this isn't our Santa either, because his sleigh is too sparkly. Even though this is quite a simple, uncluttered picture, there's still lots to talk about, with three little trees and even a snowman. I also talked about Rudolph and the other reindeer at this point.
Moving on and on the next page there's a big picture of Santa with his sack, but it's still not our Santa because his sack is too rough. Freddy spent absolutely ages running his thumb nail over Santa's sack which is made of the hook part of Velcro, he really does love that he can make this noise. On the next page there's a picture of Santa's sack full of presents with Santa's big black gloves. But this still isn't our Santa because his gloves are too fuzzy, Freddy's not so keen on touching this material (the fuzzy part of Velcro), but he loved looking at all the metallic details on the presents and we (I) talked once more about how Freddy had got lots of presents.
Moving on and the next page features Santa making his way down the chimney, with just his boots sticking out. But, it's still not our Santa because his boots are too squashy. On the final page we finally find our Santa, and we know he's our Santa because his beard is so fluffy. Freddy again spent ages on this page, stroking Santa's beard and saying "Ahhhh". As he always does when we're reading, Freddy wanted to start the book again from the beginning, he does so love his reading time.
==Learning With Santa==
The first thing I'm going to say here, is that it's never too early to start reading with your baby, I started reading and sharing books with Freddy the same day I brought him home from hospital. The earlier you start sharing books with your baby and more special you make that time, the more likely that they will grow to love books. Although we do share 'normal' books, Freddy's favourites have always been those books where there are also textures to explore, and by far the best range of these (in my opinion) are the Usborne That's Not My ones.
This book is, perhaps, not as versatile as others in the range, being very specific as a Christmas book, but it's still got plenty to stimulate baby. Firstly, there all the different textures for baby to explore, this encourages them to use their hands to experience new tactile sensations. Then these textures can be described, using both the words in the book and your own words, which will help a baby or young child gradually expand their vocabulary and learn to express themselves. Of course, at Freddy's age I'm the one that's doing all the describing, but as he begins to talk I'll encourage him to find his own way of describing what he's seeing and feeling.
This book is also a great tool in explaining the Christmas tradition of Santa to a very young child. It breaks down the visit from Santa into very simple steps and portrays Santa as a friendly figure (which is great if your child is scared when they visit Santa in his grotto). There's one final aspect to the book, and that there's a little mouse on each page and with the slightly older child you can encourage them to look for the mouse, which will help develop their observational skills. What I will say is that as with any book, while your baby or young child will no doubt enjoy exploring this on their own, it's only by you sharing it with them that they'll get the most from it.
==Final Words==
This book makes a great stocking filler for a baby or very young child, Freddy absolutely loved sharing it with me, and I enjoyed sharing it with him. It's not, however, a book that we will be sharing right through the year, and it will probably be put away after the new year until the run-up to next Christmas. I'll then be sharing it with him to prepare him for all the excitement next year. In a way, I wish I'd shared it with him before this Christmas, but I'm still glad I bought it for him.
With a recommended retail price of £5.99 (£4.32 on Amazon) this makes a lovely gift, either as a stocking or pre-Christmas present for any baby or young child up to about the age of two. And so I'm giving That's Not My Santa five stars out of five, and I'm sure Freddy agrees with me.
That's Not My Santa is a childrens book which is part of a series of award winning books by top childrens book publisher Usborne. Other books in the series include That's Not My Dinosaur, That's Not My Bunny, That's Not My Bear, That's Not My Monkey, That's Not My Car, That's Not My Dolly, That's Not My Dragon, That's Not My Plane, That's Not My Pirate, That's Not My Puppy and That's Not My Teddy - just to name a few (I think you get the idea!).
If you haven't already realised That's Not My Santa is a christmas themed book. Other christmas themed books in the Usborne Touch-Feely series include That's Not My Snowman, That's Not My Reindeer, That's Not My Penguin and That's Not My Angel.
That's Not My Santa is written by Fiona Watt and illustrated by Rachel Wells and is designed for children 1+ years. The book was published in 2008 and it's RRP is £5.99, although if you shop around you can get it for less. It's currently on Amazon.co.uk for £4.99 and in WHSmith for £4.79.
The book is 10 pages long and starts on the front cover. The pages are nice and thick and made of wooden board. The pages are laminated so it is not as edible as a lot of childrens books (yes I said edible!). The dimensions are 160mm x 160mm. The book is unisex and is made with paper from a sustainable forest (according to the back page). Each page has a different texture on and bright colours which helps develop babies sensory skills. Each page has a different Santa on and starts with the same phrase ("That's not my Santa...") which babies and toddlers seem to really enjoy as it means they can join in and seem to get quite excited by.
Here is the lay out of the book:
Front page - That's not my Santa... his hat is too soft. Includes a picture of a smiley santa, surrounded by snowflakes with a red fluffy textured hat.
Page 1 and 2 - That's not my Santa... his sleigh is too sparkly. Includes a picture of reindeers pulling Santa along the night sky in his sleigh. Below is snow, trees and a snowman. The sleigh is gold, sparkly and foil textured.
Page 3 and 4 - That's not my Santa... his sack is too rough. Includes a picture of Santa holding a brown, rough textured (much like the rough side of velcro) sack over his shoulder.
Page 5 and 6 - That's not my Santa... his gloves are too fuzzy. Includes a picture of Santas hands reaching into a sackful of colourful and sparkly presents. His gloves are black and fuzzy textured (much like the soft side of velcro).
Page 7 and 8 - That's not my Santa... his boots are too squashy. Includes a picture of Santa disapering down a chimney with just his feet sticking out. In the background are rooftops and stars. His boots are black, smooth textured and have a leathery effect. They are quite 'squashy' but actually appear more squashy than they actually are.
Page 9 and 10 - That's my Santa! His beard is so fluffy. Includes a picture of a jolly looking Santa in his red hat and suit, with a very soft textured beard - almost like cotton wool (but tougher and more durable).
Luckily my 2 year old really enjoys books and reading. She has had this book since her first christmas and has enjoyed it from day one. Nowadays this is one of her favourite books, alongside a couple of others from the Usborne touchy-feely series. She loves feeling the textures and always joins in with the "That's not my Santa" part of the story, followed by a big laugh. It is great value for money and I think it will get another couple of years use. It can also prove a useful book for teaching youngsters about Santa and christmas.
The only downside is that the book is a christmas book which means you might not want it out all year round - I personally don't put our copy away, I just put it to the back of the bookshelf and move it foward nearer to December!
I recommend this book to anybody that has a 1-3 year old or as a nice little christmas present/stocking filler.
I have been getting very excited about this Christmas for quite a few months now. The main reason is that my daughter will be eighteen months old and will be really into everything. We wanted to introduce her to Santa Claus so bought her the Usborne touchy feely "That's not my Santa" book.
I bought this because we thought if we read the book with her often then she would start to get an understanding of who Santa was and what he was going to do on Christmas Eve etc.
As a result of this book she now looks at a picture of Santa and points and tries to say his name.
That's not my Santa is brightly designed in festive colours of green and red on the front cover. It's one of the most vibrant books in the series I have seen. This in itself will attract young children to looking at the book.
A nice rosy cheeked gentleman known as Santa peers at you from the front cover, with a lovely velvet red hat. This is the first page to the story sitting right on the front cover, encouraging children to feel the different texture of Santa's hat.
As with the other books in the that's not my range, there are only a few pages, each with a different picture and different touchy feely section to encourage multi sensory aids in children. This particular one focuses on all the different parts of Santa and his sleigh.
Keeping in with the Christmas theme, it shows sparkly sections, velvety, fuzzy parts for his gloves, squishy boots and a lovely fluffy beard right at the end when we find the correct Santa.
The pages don't ever contain a lot of words but the pictures are well done and simple yet bright and attractive. There is always the trademark mouse that pops up on each page. This isn't very Christmassy but he doesn't fit in with a lot of the stories, but my daughter has already learnt to find the mouse in each of the different that's not my books we read.
I have used this book as I mentioned to get my daughter ready for Christmas in her own way, but also so we can elaborate on the story of presents and reindeer, which sends us off onto many tangents when reading the book.
I find this book can be very flexible in the story and whilst my daughter cannot read the words then I can tell her any story from the pictures I choose which provides hours of entertainment for us both.
The sensory patches in the book are great for children to feel different textures they may not feel and touch in day to day activities, so it's nice to see their faces as they don't like the feel of the harder surfaces or when they love touching the soft fur that appears on pages.
You can pick this book up for around £4 from Amazon, and whilst it's a Christmassy book I think it has been well worth the money we spent on teaching our daughter about the festive period coming round the corner.
The whole series has been written and illustrated by Fiona Watt and Rachel Wells.
Thats not my Santa
It's that time of the year when we start to get out all of the Christmas books.
**The Book...**
This is one of a series from Usborne, focus on touch and different types of surfaces so it's very tactile. We have used some of the other books in the series in the classroom and the children enjoyed this sensory approach, so i knew that this would definitely appeal.
The book itself is a smallish square book, nice and sturdy, and because it's a board book, there are no pages for little hands to tear, so the shelf life of the book is definitely increased.
The front cover poses the statement- "That's not my Santa" and immediately, we are into the format of the book with the reasoning behind the statement- "His hat is too soft". We feel his hat and it is a soft felt like material, whiclst the rest of the page feels like a book cover.
Into the book, we get the same statement on each page "That's not my santa". The reasons differ on each page... his sleigh is too sparkly; his sack is too rough; his gloves are too fuzzy; his boots are too squashy. For each statement we have to feel the object that the description refers to ans sure enough, if we feel or look at the thing, it does match the statement. So, we have a very sparkly golden sleigh as santa drives it through the night sky, a large brown and very scratchy sack,great big black mittens holding the presents and feeling like fuzzy felt, and Santa's very squashy boots sticking out of the chimney. At the end of the book, the double page spread has a large picture of santa and tells us "That's my santa! His beard is so fluffy". And yes, when we feel his beard, it's all soft and fluffy.
Each picture is a large double page spread with Santa driving through the sky, going down the chuimney etc. Each picture is one which children will recognise as relating to what they know about santa, and may induce a spontaneous burst into song...it certainly does with us when he is going down the chimney!
There is very little text and what there is is written in a simple and clear easy to read font. Since the text there is is so repetitive, children quickly get into the rhythmn of the book, and look for the tactile object, Then, they can describe what they are feeling, and even if it's not the same words as the book, we tend to use the words supplied by the children to describe the items.
**Other bits of information...**
Publisher: Usborne books 2008
Website: www.usborne.com
Price: RRP £5.99
**Other books in the series**
There are several books in this sereis, all very tactile and all following the same format, including "That's not my.... angel, car, dinosaur, fairy, dragon, monkey, kitten, robot, pirate"
Lots of them, so for anyone with a special interest, it's worth checking out the website to see if that interest is catered for.
A lovely sensory book for young children. It will stimulate language and for children who are beginning to understand descriptions, they can add their own descriptions and make their own sensory, descriptive books.
The colourful and simple illustrations will appeal to children's imaginations, and the children I have read it to love to talk about santa and what he looks like.
The thick pages means that children can "read" it on their own and there is very little chance of it getting damaged although I have found that it seems to be quite a good chew book. Even a good chewing doesn't seem to damage it too much- the thickness of the pages means that there are a couple of teeth marks and that is all.
A lovely Christmas book, and one which I will certainly be getting out year after year.
Thanks for reading.
Daniela x


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Parra provides lift in return from Classic
By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Gerardo Parra's three RBIs helped lead the D-backs past the Brewers, 7-0, on Wednesday night at Salt River Fields.
Parra was playing in his first game since going 0-for-8 for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic.
Parra homered to lead off the first inning and drove home a pair of runs in the sixth with a double to left-center that increased the D-backs' lead to 3-0.
Randall Delgado started and pitched well for the D-backs. The right-hander, who is battling Patrick Corbin and Tyler Skaggs for the No. 5 spot in the Arizona rotation, tossed four shutout innings.
The only time Delgado found himself in trouble was the first inning when the Brewers had runners on second and third with one out.
Delgado settled down to strike out Carlos Gomez and Alex Gonzalez to end the threat.
Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo was sharp in his first outing since pitching for Mexico in the World Baseball Classic.
After allowing the leadoff homer to Parra, Gallardo retired the next 12 batters, including five by strikeout.
"It definitely felt good," Gallardo said. "Obviously, we didn't want to be back in camp this early, but it's a good feeling to be back with the guys and preparing for the season, getting in that routine."
Brewers reliever Jim Henderson had a rough night. The right-hander was charged with four runs in the sixth inning. He faced five batters, walked three and allowed a double while recording just one out.
Up Next: The D-backs will have their first off-day of the spring Thursday before returning to action Friday afternoon against the A's at Salt River Fields. Brandon McCarthy, who pitched for the A's the past two seasons before signing a free-agent deal with the D-backs this winter, will get the start. Another former A's pitcher, Brad Ziegler, is also scheduled to throw.
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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I joined a block-a-week sew-along on 1-1-12, and the group is working through Carol Doak's book 50 Fabulous Paper Pieced Stars. Many of the participants are doing all 50 stars (one named for each state) but I wanted to make a lap quilt. Here is my top, another scrappy batik waiting to be quilted. Thanks for looking.
In case you are interested in the thread, here it is:
Never too late to join in the fun!


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Liriano outduels Strasburg as Pirates fend off Nats
WASHINGTON -- It would appear that all the Chicken Littles can remove the hard hats, for the time being at least. The sky is not falling on their Pirates. No more than base hits are falling around their starting pitchers.
The Bucs reclaimed their season peak of 21 games above .500 on Wednesday night with a 4-2 victory over the Nationals.Full Game Coverage
WASHINGTON -- It would appear that all the Chicken Littles can remove the hard hats, for the time being at least. The sky is not falling on their Pirates. No more than base hits are falling around their starting pitchers.
The Bucs reclaimed their season peak of 21 games above .500 on Wednesday night with a 4-2 victory over the Nationals.Full Game Coverage
Is this Pittsburgh team really 60-39? Yep, as sure as Pirates fans stirred Nationals Park with exhortations of "Let's go, Bucs!" that bounced off the emptying seats deep into the night.
"Yeah, that was very impressive," Neil Walker said of the way the 'Burgh Bunch made itself heard in the crowd of 33,636. "They showed up in full force, no doubt about that."
So did their team, to win the game in stages. First, Francisco Liriano pitched Stephen Strasburg to essentially a standoff. Then the Pirates typically jumped Strasburg's relief for three runs in the ninth. And after half of a 4-0 lead was wiped out by Jayson Werth's two-run homer off Justin Wilson, Mark Melancon entered to convert his first save opportunity since officially becoming Jason Grilli's double.
Not that it was simple. Please. These are the Pirates. With one out, Wilson Ramos singled under Walker's glove. Denard Span followed by bouncing into … a game-ending double play?
Walker fielded the grounder in Ramos' path and went to tag him before throwing to first to retire Span. Walker's tag attempt wasn't even close, but second-base umpire Laz Diaz ruled Ramos out.
The obvious conclusion to draw in such cases is that the runner was considered to have run out of the baseline, and everyone sees it the same way. However, Ramos did not appear to stray, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle had no idea what had happened, and Nats skipper Davey Johnson was explaining that he had been told by Diaz that Walker had indeed tagged his runner.
"He told me, 'He tagged you. I don't hear, but I saw it,'" Ramos explained -- or tried to. "I said, 'Sure, you didn't see anything. Not even close.' But I don't know, maybe he want to go home."
Far clearer was the fact that Liriano became the second Pittsburgh starter in as many nights to pitch two-hit ball deep into the game.
Liriano held Washington hitless until Anthony Rendon's infield single with two outs in the sixth, and departed after 7 2/3 innings and two hits.
The previous night, Gerrit Cole had pitched two-hit ball through seven innings of the Bucs' 5-1 win.
"We got the 'W.' That was the most important thing for me," Liriano said after picking up his 10th win. "I felt great out there but, no, I wasn't thinking about any no-hitter. I was thinking about winning the game."
Once again redefining the concept of doing the most with the least, the Bucs reached 60 wins with a modest attack, this one certainly understandable given the opposition of Strasburg on one of his very good days.
The Bucs had two hits in the second, including a Pedro Alvarez liner into the right-center seats for his 26th homer of the season, and nothing else while Strasburg ruled the mound.
"After Pedro hit the ball out, Strasburg just said, 'You're done,'" said Hurdle, and he meant that quite literally.
Travis Snider did single one out after the Alvarez homer. But after that, Strasburg retired 20 of his last 21 men, only a fielding error interrupting the streak.
With reliever Drew Storen on in the ninth. Starling Marte singled and scored on Walker's double to budge the Bucs off that 1-0 lead they'd protected since the second. Later, Michael McKenry's two-run single off Fernando Abad again doubled the lead, that time to 4-0.
It was dual masterpieces, this duel between a resurgent veteran left-hander and a young right-handed gun.
Strasburg accentuated his eight-inning two-hitter with 12 strikeouts, going double-digits for the first time this season and the ninth time in his career. The first of those nine came in his big league debut, on June 8, 2010, against these same Pirates.
Well, not exactly the same Pirates. Those Pirates went on to have 57 wins at the end of the season. These Pirates are already three victories better.
The gem buster was a convoluted bit of baseball drama. Rendon smoked the ball. Alvarez smothered it with a dive, the first part of a potentially sensational play.
But when the ball squirted out of Alvarez's glove, and his hasty attempt to regain control of it only led to the ball drifting even farther from him, there was nothing for the official scorer to do than immediately declare, "Base hit!"
Liriano followed by issuing his third walk of the game, to Ryan Zimmerman, but chased any notion of a meltdown by coming back to throw a called third strike past Werth.
He then worked a routine three-up, three-down seventh inning.
Risking being called a two-timing slugger by Cole, Alvarez had given Liriano a 1-0 lead with a solo homer in the second. The night before, Alvarez had homered for the fifth time in Cole's seven starts to contribute to that 5-1 win.
Alvarez's 26th of the season tied him for the National League lead with Colorado's Carlos Gonzalez -- the man whom he had replaced in last week's All-Star Chevrolet Home Run Derby.
That was not the only thing that lifted Alvarez's latest home run above routine. His liner seemed headed for an imaginary bull's eye on the wall -- but refused to give in to either gravity or the wind.
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TACOMA, Wash. – You may think you have heard Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. But you have not really experienced this rousing piece depicting Napoleon's invasion of Russia until you hear it played by eight hands in command of two pianos.
The Jacobsen Series concert, Four Hands and Eight Hands on Two Pianos, on Friday, Nov. 9, will be an opportunity to hear not just this cinema-score favorite as never before, but three other inspiring pieces performed by one, two, or four pianists. The concert will be in Schneebeck Concert Hall at University of Puget Sound, starting at 7:30 p.m. Ticket information is below.
If the program sounds familiar to Jacobsen Series fans, it is because the concert was originally programmed for January 2012, but excessive snow in Pierce County led to its cancellation.
The evening will open with Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche: Suite for Two Pianos, Op.165b, performed by Keith Ward, director of Puget Sound's School of Music, and guest artist John Pickett. The work, portraying the chameleon character of a young French aristocrat, is a lighthearted piece with some Latin American rhythms. It ends with a Brazilian samba.
John Pickett, professor of music at Central Washington University, will then play the monumental Franz Liszt Sonata in b minor for solo piano. Pickett, a prize-winning pianist, has performed in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including concerts at the Conservatoire de Paris and Carnegie Hall.
Duane Hulbert and Tanya Stambuk, acclaimed pianists and professors of music at Puget Sound, will perform Maurice Ravel's powerful La Valse on two pianos. The piece, written originally for ballet, is imbued with both the grief of Europe's devastation following the Great War and the ironically joyful nature of the waltz.
For the evening's finale, all four pianists will deliver the thunder and elation of the 1812 Overture on two pianos, complete with reverberating cannons and bells.
The Jacobsen Series, named in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair of the piano department at Puget Sound, has been running since 1984. The Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund awards annual music scholarships to outstanding student performers and scholars. The fund is sustained entirely by season subscribers and ticket sales.
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Early reviews of Acer's £220 Aspire One were none too complementary about the Small, Cheap Computer's build quality, but have spent a brief time with a unit that's not a pre-production model, we'd say Eee PC creator Asus has a real challenge on its hands. We've not had time to conduct a full review - our unit's on the way, …
any news as to when this is out in the UK?
amazon.co.uk have it down for Aug 11, play.com for Aug 7th. Both want £219.99 for the base version.
Just noticed Play has shifted the date from 25th July to 7th August. Also the basic version on Play.com is £229 not £219. Amazon is the cheapest for the base version (512 ram 8gb SSD HDD)
Any news on when/how/how much the larger battery will be available?
Like many people I've been hanging back waiting for an eee901 but I noticed the Aspire One has appeared on display in my local branch of PC World (Tunbridge Wells). The guy on the counter confirmed that they had 8 of them in stock (blue linux 8Gb).
The sample on display looked really quite good. The only snag is they've priced it at £249, which seems to be an uplift on the RRP for the base model.
They also had a plainer-looking own brand Advent machine with 80Gb hard drive for £279 (winXP).
My gf bought one the other day for £249.99 and I checked it out.
1. Reasonable build-quality;
2. Impressive sceen - quite awesome I would say;
3. Keyboard a bit flexy;
4. Battery life about 2.5 hours - maybe a tad more after time;
5. Linpus Linux is naff IMHO. Few apps and the usual hassle installing more/updating etc. Linux geeks will be okay with this though...if they can get a connection to the update server (which we couldn't);
6. Will run Win XP Pro SP2 fine (we tried it). Drivers from Acer Thai site;
7. Webcam is rubbish (only 0.3 megapixels);
8. Under Linpus neither the internal nor an external mic will record sound to local apps like webcam (apparently mics only work with Skype and Messaging services). An external mic works ok with XP Pro. But sound quality is awful. The internal mic still produces only a hissing noise. Even in the highest quality setting webcam video was dead jerky. So altogether webcam is pretty useless;
9. Connected effortlessly to local WLAN;
10. Easy to restore damaged installations. Will boot from a USB stick. Instructions included;
11. Documentation extremely sparse;
12. Acer UK support is virtually non-existent. No one there had 'even seen an Aspire One yet'. So they couldn't help. We were invited to call a premium rate number next day for more info. Although the hardware is guaranteed for a year, the software is not, apparently, guaranteed at all. So you has to pay plenty for help with it;
13. Sapphire Blue colour looks really cool.
In summary quite a dinky little unit and just about acceptable - to some perhaps - for the originally intended launch price of £199. But, given the above, way OTT at £250. So - back to the shop it went, and she's now saving for an Asus eeePc 901. A wise move methinks.


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See also: Miscarriage
Stillbirth is becoming less common as care for pregnancy improves. If you have a stillbirth, your health care provider may ask to carefully examine and test the fetus to determine the cause of stillbirth. This may help plan medical care for any future pregnancies. A full autopsy will be offered. You may decline this option if you wish.
Stillbirth can be caused by:
In about 15 - 35% of stillbirths, no explanation can be found.
Stillbirth is traumatic for the mother and her family. It can cause grief and lead to an increased risk for postpartum depression.
Cunningham FG, Leveno KL, Bloom SL, et al. Diseases and injuries of the fetus and newborn. In: Cunningham FG, Leveno KL, Bloom SL, et al, eds. Williams Obstetrics. 23rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2010: chap 29.
Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, eds. Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Churchill Livingstone; 2007.
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Great Old Broads for Wilderness, a national nonprofit based in Durango, announces the hiring of Shelley Silbert as its new executive director.
Silbert joins the organization with more than 20 years in the fields of conservation and sustainability. Most recently, she served as associate director of the San Juan Citizens Alliance in Durango. Silbert has a degree in anthropology and health care from the University of Tennessee and a masters degree in watershed management from the University of Arizona.
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World population reaches 7 billion: 7 things you should know
For some time now, the UN has estimated that today, October 31, the world's population is set to reach 7 billion. That's a big number, but what does this mean for all of us? How much do we really know about how the rest of the world lives? If you're asking yourself these questions, start here: 7 things you should know...
1. The highest rates of population growth are in less developed countries. Too many people are born in poverty and live out their days with little hope for better lives.
2. Good news! In developing regions, the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day dropped from 46 percent to 27 percent from 1990 to 2005. Even with the economic downturn, the world is on track to meet Millennium Development Goal #1 -- to halve extreme human poverty by 2015.
3. Despite economic growth, poverty is a huge problem in South Asia. While Africa's 26 poorest nations account for 410 million people, eight states in India have 421 million who are just as poor.
4. 884 million people don't have access to safe drinking water worldwide.
5. More than 350,000 women die each year because of complications of pregnancy or childbirth, 99 percent of them live in developing countries.
6. For the first time, more than half the world's population lives in cities and towns. One billion people live in typically unsafe and overcrowded urban slums.
7. While the world's population growth is slowing, the number of people in child-bearing years — 3.7 billion — means that there will be many more of us to care for in the coming decades.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in July during the launch of a report progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, said, "The poorest of the world are being left behind. We need to reach out and lift them into our lifeboat."
As it is estimated today, when the world's population odometer rolls over to 7 billion, we won't know whether it happens in a hospital delivery room in suburban Chicago or a tin shack in sub-Saharan Africa. While the 7 billion number is real, the observance is largely symbolic.
But when the 7 billionth human raises a cry, she — or more likely he — will stake a claim on the air, water, food and care needed to grow and live for 69 years. Boy or girl number 7 billion also stakes a claim on us as fellow humans to reach out and lift them up.
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Discussion in 'Doctor Who' started by Starkers, Feb 11, 2013.
Nick does pretty good Ice Warrior voices for the audios.
Meh, I've never seen the Peladon stories so I can't judge, but I don't like the concept of bad guys turning good.
No, I hope in this upcoming episode we finally get something evil!
Seen the advert or Saturdays doctor who with the Ice Warriors, and they look and sound great! When I saw their picture in the radiotimes I thought they didn't modify them enough, but in the dark shadows of the submarine, they look awesome!
He might do good voices for them in the audios but, in the new trailer it sounds like he's using the same generic growly voice he's used for other aliens including the Judoon.
So do you still consider Germany or Japan, or England or Spain, for that matter, to be an enemy of the United States? Nations can go from being enemies to allies over time as policies and objectives change. Earth and Mars had resolved their differences by the future century in which the Peladon serials took place.
That's a completely different thing (I'm English BTW). I'm talking bout things like super villains or sci-fi monsters, not real world politics.
As I've said I've not seen them so I can't really judge, just said I didn't like the sound of the concept.
You really should see the Peladon stories. They're great.
Yeah. I'd like too at some point.
Well, I can see where you're coming from, as the notion of the bad guys actually being honourable warriors who'll become your most reliable allies under the right circumstances has become a major league cliche. But when Curse did it to the Ice Warriors back in 72 it was fresh, if not unique, in TV SF (there'd been variants on the old Robin Hood/Little John fight at first meeting and end up as friends trope, but I can't think of any case of an established regular villain comign good). It was a major surprise, on the scale of Han Solo saying: "Actually, Vader hired me to infiltrate you idiots years ago... Here's all their secret codes, Lord Vader." ("Well done, Han. By the way, I am your father. You know, Luke's actually stupid enough to believe he might be my son just because I said so?")
We must agree to disagree there I'm afraid. I think his Ice Warrior voices are terrible.
Agreed. Plus it's been so overdone now with Moffat (the Silurian and Sontran allys of the Doctor, and the daleks have by far lost their edge since series 5.)
But maybe this version of bad turning good might be better.
Also, in the first Ice Warriors Story, they weren't necessarily villains or evil. They were scared and made poor Xenophobic choices out of mistrust. The Seeds of Death, however, yea, that one makes it clear they are indeed bad guys.
Well, the Silurians were always portrayed as a noble people who had as much right to the planet as we do, and as a species that the Doctor was always trying to work with to find a peaceful solution. The recurring thread in all the Silurian stories was that there were peacemakers and warmongers on both sides, and unfortunately it was always the warmongers who won, up until "Cold Blood."
Just to be clear, the Peladon serials are not specifically about the Ice Warriors. They're just one of multiple featured alien races.
Good point. It's worth noting that all four classic Ice Warrior stories, including the two Peladon serials, were written by the same person, Brian Hayles. So it's not like it was some new writer introducing a retcon; it was their creator adding more depth to them.
Well, not quite - the rewrites on Monster and the last half of Seeds were so extensive that in the internal paperwork Terrance Dicks is credited as co-author (similarly, very little of original Hayles's Celestial Toymaker script made the screen.)
I'd like to see the Movellans and the Dominators come back. Maybe the Yetis. Definitely the Rastan robot.
I quite like that they're not baddies. The whole "Every alien race is out to destroy us!" vibe that the show had given off in the past gets old after awhile. Hell even Sarah Jane was a bit xenophobic as a result.
That robot was what we got with the T-1000 after all--that is what it was meant to be--a lethal, fast killer that could out-perform slow cyberman hulks.
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A great aero helmet for the money
Slippery in the wind, light on Wallets
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In a day when snub nosed aero helmets seem to be all the rage, its easy to overlook the tried and true design of the Giro Advantage. While helmets such as the Air Attack may be better suited to the wide range of wind conditions road racers face, if you're looking to do a triathlon or the race of truth 40k TT, you need one of these in your quiver. There is a reason why this design is one of the most widely used helmets at time trials and triathlons alike. The long tail noticeably smooths airflow across your back, and the retention system keeps the helmet predictably in place when tucking down in the aerobars. The shell is not well ventilated compared to a standard helmet, but it worked well enough in 100+ degree heat of Phoenix, AZ for me.
Pros: very aerodynamic a low yaw angles, looks super hardcore in race photos
Cons: heavier than standard helmets, not super well ventilated, no visor
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Nickname:Levy-chan|Smart Girl|Book Lover
Looks:Levy is a young, teenage girl with a slender build and stands at a height below average for her age. She sports blue hair, with the top cut short and the bottom longer, normally tied up with a colored bandana around her head. While her hair is initially rather straight, over time her hair has grown more wavy and wild, with more locks hanging down the sides of her face. Her outfit varies, she has been seen wearing both dresses or a tank top with shorts. Her tattoo is located on her left shoulder blade. When performing tasks like researching, she wears a pair of Reading Glasses and tends to tie up her hair out of her face.
Personality:Levy is a very intelligent shinobi. Though she may be young she has been praised many times for her intellect. In her village she is known as a very kind, fun-loving women who is loved by everyone in her village. In battle, Levy is a very calculating person, she is always trying to stay two steps ahead of her opponent and catch them off guard. While she is fighting she is very serious but often her emotions are swayed to look after her comrades even in the heat of a conflict.Levy is dreamed to become Hokage of Konoha someday.
Village Info.*
Village of Birth:Kumogakure
Village of Alliance:Konohagakure
Rank//Chakra Info.*
Ninja Rank:Sannin
Specialty:Water|Kenjutsu|Intellenge|Close Combat|Reading|Genjutsu|Rasengan|Espionage|Ranton
Your ninjutsu:
Ninjutsu: C-Rank
Satan' Flame:Mastered
Reaper Scythe:Mastered
Solid Script(Soriddo Sukuriputo)-Solid Script
Type: Supplementary
Chakra cost:25*
Damage Points:N/A
Description:The user makes words in solid form out of their own elemental chakra that changes to take on the form of what the word was (i.e. writing "fire" would create fire, writing "Mud" would create Mud, etc.) For an expansion on the explanation, by creating the words out of chakra and infusing them with one type of elemental chakra, the word can actually take on the form of what it spelled out. So by writing out "hole" on the ground, and infusing one's earth chakra into it, one could create a pitfall trap in order to confine an opponent. By writing out "wind" in the air, and infusing one's wind element chakra into the word, a protective barrier of wind could be formed capable of defending against Ninja Tools, and other weaker attacks. By writing out "Fire" in the air or on the ground, and infusing one's fire element chakra into the word, one could create a protective wall of fire to defend against taijutsu, and so on like this. The words can take form either as English words or as Kanji, either way it is the same result.*
~This technique cannot be used to materialize offensive techniques, but only serves for supplementary or defensive use.*
~This technique can only be used to materialize one type of defensive or supplementary medium per use.
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History:Levy Mcgarden,a very young girl born in the Land of Lighting to proud members off the Ranton Clan,however her mother lost her life during birth thus make her father sorrow.Levy was raised by her dad till she was about 4 years old,when her father died in an attempt to stop the 8th tails during its rampage.Lost and helpless Levy was put into foster care till she was old enough to be on her own.Rasied an orphan she didnt know much about her parents and about the Land.Later a stranger by the name of Akiza adopted her as her foster sister,later leaving Kumo at age 5 towards Hidden Leaf.Once at the new village she learnt about her clan's hidden kekkai genkai and was taught to use it well combining her Water and Lighting togther to create Ranton.Levy was then put into the care of Konoha's librarian and became in love with reading and writing.She enrolled to Leaf's Ninja Acadamey passing with the higest grades all year and even higher than most Jounin.By age 7 Levy has read every book in the Library amazed her foster mother to get even more books for her to read and learn more about.Studying histories of all the lands,maps,timeline and stories even cracking some off the most hardest riddles ever,Levy was always a source to find information from.By age 10 she was the youngest and smartest Chunin in leaf,though she prepered being in the background creating battle plans instead.During her Jounin exams she meet her foster sister Akiza yet again,telling her how much she grew up but a confused Levy wonders about there history,Akiza telling her "You know alot but yet you can even remember me..".Levy graduated into a Jounin at age 15,being the smartest Jounin in the village ever.Now knowing her own history Levy dosnet intend on trying to find out more as she was raised in a better place.People even considered her a Sannin but she finds it irrelevent as she was not strong compared to the original 3 but later knew what they meant being she is the one of the best of the best in leaf even close to Hokage level.Levy at age 17 resides in hidden leaf still training in hand to hand combat and working on her Affinity of Water.
Water Affinity
Levy has trained hard in water element that she eventually mastered it and can perform water jutsu using only one seal.
Taijutsu Specialist
Levy has trained alot in Taijutsu that she became very toned to hand to hand combat and can actually think and react swiftly in the heat of the battle.
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OK, twit doesn't cover it....
A juror who published Twitter messages during the course of a trial has undermined the trial process and its verdict, lawyers have claimed while launching an appeal. The US juror told reporters he did not think posting the messages was wrong. An appeal has been lodged in an Arkansas court against a $12.6 million ruling against …
...but perhaps twat does.
You simply replace the alphabet's 3rd vowel with the 1st.
Hope they throw the book at the 'tw*t' for contempt.
When they test people for Jury duty to see if they're suitable , they should be able to stop you from being a juror if they think you're an idiot!
Things like this wouldn't happen then
The appeal is garbage.
Both of the tweets were posted *after* the jury handed in its verdict and completed its duties. Neither displays any evidence of this guy's state of mind at the time the jury were deliberating, but are expressions of his reactions *after the fact* at a time when he had completely disposed of his duties as a juror. If your article had mentioned any evidence of him researching or discussing the case *prior* to handing in the verdict, that would have been grounds, but you don't.
As for the involvement of Twitter and your oh-so-witty 'Twit' comment - utterly irrelevant. It's no different to him talking to a reporter or going home and posting his reactions on a blog or forum. Last I heard, US citizens still have a right to free speech, and being a juror only means that right is curtailed during the trial, not after it.
Shouldn't you guys at OUT-LAW *know this stuff*?
>they should be able to stop you from being a juror if they think you're an idiot!
Unfortunately these are the kind of jurors lawyers, both defence and prosecution, like as they are the ones who can be more easily persuaded to agree with them as they have no mind of their own. In the end trials, especially high profile ones, boil down to the personalities of the legal teams, the team with the strongest personality generally wins.
If you've ever seen a bunch of jurors being interviewed on Larry King you'll know how thick most of the ones selected are.
He obviously made those comments after the results were in. I don't see that he did anything wrong at all. It's just a desperate attempt to seek grounds for an appeal.
I can't disagree that this man is a complete idiot who capitalises words for no apparent reason, but surely it's a bit ridiculous to force retrial because the juror revealed his bias. Does this mean the American legal system is happy for the jurors to be biased, as long as they don't reveal it?? I'm fine as long as they never see the swastika tattooed on my left buttock.
Reminds me a little of the Simpsons episode where Homer joins the Naval Reserve ('oh for God's sake don't answer that question')
this is why I got my self removed from jury service here in the old UK, sent a laundry list of reasons I shouldn't be a juror back to the CPS, and they agreed, no jury service for me.
Are you given the same instructions by the judge in the US as the UK. Here in the UK you are under strict instructions not to disclose any of the details of the trial outside the court room while it is ongoing. If these instructions are given in the US how on earth did this twat think he was doing nothing wrong?
Damn! I was going to try to get through this without using the word twat.
Furthermore there is no doubt that those messages display a certain bias. Again, in the UK you will be instructed by the judge not to form any opinion until you have heard all the evidence. This pillock clearly did so.
We see more and more stories that indicate a worrying trend. There is an increasing number of people who think that anything they do on the internet is some sort of game and not part of the real world. When will these dickheads learn that anything they "say" on the wibbly wobbly web is subject to the same rules as anything they say or write away from their virtual world?
Did he 'tweet' (fuck I hate that term!) from the courtroom itself? Couldn't taking a mobile or PDA in with him, and in particular using it, be some sort of contempt of court charge?
They accepted him in good faith, they have to live with the verdict.
Revealing what happened in the court room is probably Contempt of Court, but I don't see that it affected the outcome.
Different story if they could prove that he had received info during the trial, but no mention of that, so presumably not.
Im in youre courtz, ruinin youre trialz.
If you think you've done something wrong... immediately go into hiding!
In his defense, it's not like he's ever received any training in the legal process whatsoever... putting him on par with, well, every other juror out there :\
Hold the nitwit in question liable for all court costs for the original trial, including liars (oops lawyers fees), judges, and cost of food for the jury during the trial.
I suppose that to be strictly accurate here and make sense we'd need to get Twitter to change the name of the service to "Dickheader".
I guess 'tw@" will have to do for now....
How can this idiot NOT think he broke the rules? What part of "you're not allowed to discuss this case with anybody" did he not understand? Did he honestly think publishing information about the case would not be considered wrong if nobody spoke back to him? I may not like jury duty, and in my younger days I always hoped I wouldn't be picked for a jury (and luckily, I wasn't), but in theory at least, it's the best method we have. Unfortunately, people's rampant stupidity has turned it into little more than a mockery of justice. In cases like this, I think it should be declared a mistrial, and the offending juror should be charged with obstruction of justice and have to pay the full cost of the original trial (court costs, lawyer's time, everything). Maybe then jurors wouldn't be such idiots.
Proof that only people who do jury service and the ones too dumb to get out of it.
sums up the state of the US legal system. Run for entertainment, and or profit.
In the UK courts there are no "tests" to be on the jury. You just have to be on the Electoral Resistor. (I've done it four times. In one case one juror wanted to find innocent a Smack Head caught with with half a kilo of Smack! I was the Foreperson, so seance prevailed!)
...but a jury trial is a trial by your peers, and since half your peers must (by definition) be below average (median) intelligence, then so should half the jury, and I would guess that at least one should be a total eejit !!!
But then they'd struggle to find jurors ;)
Don't the legal team from both sides have to agree which jurors to have on the jury ? I seem to remember that from somewhere. In which case, the legal team (defence) agreed to have him and now they didn't get the verdict they wanted are looking for a way to call mis-trial, given the subsequent media attention this will garner, they can then claim that they cant get a neutral jury and can then claim to have the whole case thrown out.
If they had a test that prevented idiots from jury duty, there'd be no one to do it because only idiots can't come up with a good excuse to not show up.
<quote AC:>In the UK courts there are no "tests" to be on the jury. You just have to be on the Electoral Resistor. (I've done it four times. In one case one juror wanted to find innocent a Smack Head caught with with half a kilo of Smack! I was the Foreperson, so seance prevailed!)</quote>
The Electoral Resistor? Really? I thought it was the Voter's Variac.
As for having a seance to determine a verdict, that's just genius! I salute you, Foreperson!
Apparently the rest of the jury voted against their client, too. So unless they judge can find that the idiot had undue influence over the rest of the jury, the decision should stand. Having seen single (moronic) jurors completely hang a jury, it's sometimes amazing that they come up with anything at all.
One day people will begin to realise that the oh-so-annonymous comment you post on your Twitter feed or Failbook account THAT HAS YOUR NAME IN HUGE LETTERS OVER IT *will* eventually bite you in the ass...
Twit-O-Tron strikes again!
He has violated one of the rules of the jury system - all of the discussions of the jury and how they come to their verdict are supposed to be secret. Doing this causes grave problems when it comes to any appeal.
Hopefully the court will consider this a contempt and the little tw*tter can be sent to somewhere where Big Earl wants to become his very special friend.
"Lawyers for the firm have said that the messages, or 'tweets', revealed the juror's bias."
Of course all jurors are biased. [So say the 50% of Lawyers who lose].
We need a new variant of Godwin's law to apply to all these twits who keep equating everything to Bernard Madoff.
Don't the legal team from both sides have to agree which jurors to have on the jury
You have been watching to much TV. You are limited to how many jurors you can get rid of with out cause. Once you reached that number you must show cause(give a valid legal reason), and you cant say it because you think he/she is bias. Its up to the judge what cause is .
Actually, I've already adopted a new version which basically goes "The first person to bring up Godwin's Law in any conversation should be ignored for all eternity,"
It's more a rule of thumb, though - I'm willing to make occasional exceptions.
twat !
[quote]He has violated one of the rules of the jury system - all of the discussions of the jury and how they come to their verdict are supposed to be secret.[/quote]
Except... he didn't. And jurors in the US are NOT subject to restrictions of speech after they have disposed with their duty to the court. This would be because the US has inconvenient Human Rights like Free Speech written into their constitution , unlike the primitive democracies of Europe.
And the same goes for all the comments that ignorantly presupposed that he had Tweeted while he was still under jury restrictions. This article just goes to show how much the average El Reg reader needs to learn about basic human rights - {hint - acting like you're writing for the Daily Mail doesn't cut the mustard}.
I think this article takes the cake for an example of how an ignorant public which thinks itself clever can be enticed into betraying its basic authoritarian desires. El Reg readers: this was really pathetic, you need to hang your heads in shame.


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The 2001 Detroit Area Study (DAS) is a survey of over 4,300 adults in metro Detroit and addresses their perceptions, expectations, satisfaction, and behaviors associated with community living. The 2001 DAS, conducted in the spring and summer 2001, consisted of two parts. Initially, face-to-face interviews were conducted with a probability sample of 315 adult respondents (18 years of age and older) living in the tri-county area of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb Counties. Subsequently, a questionnaire was mailed to a sample of adults throughout the seven counties; 4,077 were returned. Response rates were 59.8 percent for the face-to-face sample and 56.7 percent for the mail sample. In addition to survey responses, DAS 2001 compiled contextual information about the minor civil divisions (MCDs) or communities and environments associated with each respondent. Contextual information includes housing and demographic characteristics, land use characteristics, and other characteristics of the communities where respondents live (growth rates, employment, school information). Questions on the survey asked about residential history; public services and transportation; government and taxes; schools; police; parks, recreation and where kids play; shopping and other community issues; community participation and involvement; neighborhood and neighboring; housing and prospective mobility; safety; employment and journey to work; health and health care facilities; other Detroit and regional issues; demographics; and observations. The 2001 DAS presents a unique opportunity to explore and record changes over time by measuring people's opinions and behaviors and the conditions in their communities. The 2001 DAS is different from earlier DAS surveys in several ways. First, the study has been expanded from three to seven counties in southeast Michigan, often referred to as the metro Detroit area. That is, the study contacted residents in Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Wayne, and Washtenaw counties and in the city of Detroit. Second, the number of people contacted is greatly increased using a combination of face-to-face interviews and questionnaires sent by mail. Over 4,000 households in the region were contacted. Third, the questionnaires were designed in consultation with stakeholder groups representing government, industry, and nonprofit organizations in the region. Finally, indicators associated with the sampled households are being compiled and analyzed (along with the survey responses) using statistical and spatial analytic techniques including Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Charlotte Bobcats assistant Charles Oakley isn't sure he'll be able to return to his job because of a painful back condition he says was caused during an assault last year in Las Vegas.
Oakley has sued the Aria hotel-casino, claiming he was beaten by security guards in May 2010. Oakley said Saturday that two slipped disks from the incident led to a painful sciatic nerve condition that forced him to miss the Bobcats' final 13 games. He's still having trouble walking.
One of the NBA's all-time tough guys as a player, Oakley was in his first season as an assistant. He says he doesn't know if he'll need surgery and if he'll be able to be on the bench in the fall.
Coach Paul Silas says he'll decide soon whether to replace Oakley on his staff.
If he's replaced now, and is then able to return at some point, I wonder if he'd be interested in being an Assistand under whoever our new HC is.
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Two significant, award-winning plays about race relations - written some 50 years apart, with one character in common - are running concurrently in Boston. They give audiences a chance to consider two very different perspectives on topics our country has a difficult time discussing - race and class.
Two significant, award-winning plays about race relations - written some 50 years apart, with one character in common - are running concurrently in Boston. They give audiences a chance to consider two very different perspectives on topics our country has a difficult time discussing - race and class.
Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," which debuted on Broadway in 1959, is being produced by the Huntington Theatre Company. It's only the second time in their history that they've tackled a play twice. This classic play features the Youngers, a black family who live in a crowded Chicago South-Side apartment while trying to make ends meet. They hope for a better life yet have conflicting ideas about how a $10,000 life insurance check should be used to improve their prospects. The play's title is taken from lines of Langston Hughes' poem "A Dream Deferred - "What happens to a dream deferred?/Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?/... Or does it explode?"
Across town, SpeakEasy Stage Company has mounted a production of "Clybourne Park" written in 2010 by Bruce Norris, a playwright who seems devoted to skewering the self-satisfaction of white liberal audiences. The title is the name of the fictional, all-white neighborhood where the Youngers in "Raisin" decide to move, much to the dismay of the residents.
The first act of Norris' play is set in 1959 in the home the Youngers are buying as we watch the owners, Bev and Russ, prepare to sell it and move out. In the second act, set exactly 50 years later, Tom and Lindsey, another white couple, have bought the very same house - now part of an black community that's being gentrified - and plan to raze it and build a larger one.
Linking the two plays is the character of Karl Lindner, a white, Clybourne Park property owner. In "Raisin," Lindner, played by Will McGarrahan, tries to persuade the Youngers not to move to Clybourne Park. And in the play "Clybourne Park," Lindner, portrayed by Michael Kaye, tries to persuade Bev and Russ not to sell their house to the Youngers.
The styles of the two plays are radically different. "There's a tremendous amount of heart to the story Lorraine Hansberry is telling," said M. Bevin O'Gara, who directed "Clybourne" as a freelance director and helped cast "Raisin" as part of her day job as associate producer for the Huntington. "Not that there isn't a heart to moments of "Clybourne. But overall, there's a tremendous sense of irony as to how writers today (including Norris) deal with these issues and situations."
Liesl Tommy turned down five invitations to direct "Raisin" before accepting Huntington's offer, her first crack at directing the play. "I knew it would be extremely challenging," said Tommy, who was born in South Africa. She agreed to direct it for the Huntington because she felt they would provide the support she, her designers and cast would need.
Tommy's earliest memories are of living in a black township in Cape Town, South Africa, where her family's home was so cramped her parents had one room, she and her grandmother shared another and her father's siblings and their spouses lived in other rooms and passages. She drew on these memories while creating the Younger's crowded apartment in "Raisin."
As she worked at making her production of "Raisin" feel fresh and relevant to today, she talked with her cast about the light the play sheds on today's African-American male, whom she said society marginalizes and makes one-dimensional. "He's ether a perfect creature or a lost person in jail. We see that in film and television daily, and we see it in theater."
Just before giving the interview, Tommy had helped Kimberly Scott go to the depths of a line in which her character, Lena, admits having treated her grown son, Walter Lee, in the same destructive way society has. "Sometimes it's really painful for black actors to go to that place and imagine," Tommy said. "The job of a director is to make sure we're going as deep as possible all the time. Acting is easy, what's difficult is going there."
O'Gara, the director of "Clybourne Park," found her way into directing as a high school student. "I was a dork among theater dorks," she said. When she wasn't selected as one of the students most likely to become a professional director, she was determined to prove her fellow students wrong. And did she ever.
O'Gara said that the first act of "Clybourne Park" is tragic with some comedy, while the second act is comic with some tragedy. In the second act, several characters, white and black, tell outrageous, racist jokes. "They're not the kind of jokes you sit around and tell friends, at least most people don't," she said. "My hope is that the humor washes over you and you go along with the ride, and only afterward you say, 'I just laughed at that, whoa, and what does it mean that I laughed at that.'" She believes Norris is using humor to make us confront things about our selves we wouldn't otherwise confront.
Norris is a self-proclaimed pessimist about racial progress, who's determined to be provocative and prove that we haven't really made much progress at all.
O'Gara perhaps isn't quite so much of a pessimist herself. "It's a bit of a gross generalization to say nothing has changed," she said. "The façade has changed, and here is more work to do."
She's reluctant to tell audiences what order they should see the plays in, but she did say, "You should experience both stories."
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WHEN: Through April 7
WHERE: The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston.
INFO: 617-266-0800, www.huntingtontheatre.org
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