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Feyenoord appoint Koeman
Feyenoord have confirmed Ronald Koeman as their new coach in succession to Mario Been.
Koeman, who also had spells at Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Valencia and AZ Alkmaar, takes over after Feyenoord's first-team squad had "lost confidence'' in Been.
Koeman told his new club's official website: "It is my firm conviction that we will be capable of causing some surprises in the weeks to come this season. There is indeed plenty of quality and talent in this young squad. Along with the players and the entire club, I share the burning ambition to show that we are much more capable than we have shown in the recent past.''
The 48-year-old ended his professional playing career with Feyenoord in 1997 having previously played for FC Groningen, Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona.
Been's decision to quit was hugely controversial, and the club's new technical director Martin van Geel said at the time that the responsibility for his exit lay "entirely with the players'' and not with the Rotterdam club's board.
Under Been last season, Feyenoord made an awful start before recovering to finish 10th in the Eredivisie. Former Schalke, Hamburg and PSV coach Huub Stevens had expressed his interest in the role but Feyenoord have opted for Koeman.
Van Geel told the club's official website: "The talks of the last few days have been very hectic. Significantly and beautifully we had almost no conversation about money, but mostly about the ambition of Feyenoord.''
Koeman will be assisted by Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Jean-Paul van Gastel, both of whom he played alongside during his spell as a Feyenoord player between 1995 and 1997. He worked on his coaching skills as part of the Holland and Barcelona back-room teams in the late 1990s before taking on his first head coach post with Vitesse Arnhem in 1999.
He impressed at Vitesse, leading the club to European qualification despite a limited budget and moved on to Ajax, where he won a domestic double in 2002 and another Eredivisie title in 2004 before being dismissed in early 2005 after losing too much ground to PSV in the title race.
He spent one largely unsuccessful season with Portuguese giants Benfica before returning to Holland to coach PSV, where he won the league title in 2007.
Later that year he moved on to Spain to succeed Quique Sanchez Flores at Valencia, where he won the Copa del Rey but was fired within days because of poor league form which culminated in a 5-1 thrashing at Athletic Bilbao.
His most recent posting began in May 2009 when he succeeded Louis van Gaal at AZ but survived only seven months in the job after a mediocre start to the season by the defending league champions.
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Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who would be missing the initial matches against England having opted to take a time-off, said that he is open to the idea of Michael Clarke captaining the team in the T20 and the 50-overs format of the game.
Speaking about sharing the leadership responsibilities with Clarke, Ponting said, "If that's the way that I or others outside of what I'm thinking decide this is the right way to go, there's absolutely no reason why that couldn't happen."
"It has happened in the past with Australian teams. It is happening with other teams around the world right at the moment."
"Paul Collingwood is captain of the England Twenty20 team and Andrew Strauss is captain of the one-day and Test cricket teams. Those things are things that need to be thought long and hard about, but if it means that I'm going to be better off for Test matches and bigger series when they come around," Ponting said.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting said he was as hungry as ever despite his side's loss in the Ashes series and would love to tour England again in 2013, even if he was no longer Test captain.
Ponting faced a grilling from the media at Sydney Airport after arriving back on home soil as the first Australian captain in 119 years to lose two Ashes series in England.
He batted away suggestions he may stand down as captain, saying he wanted a chance at redemption in the next Ashes tour of England in four years' time, when he will be 38 years old.
"Having a pretty bitter and sour taste in my mouth at the end of that Test match, I'd love to be able to go back and give it one more crack," Ponting said.
Australia's most prolific scorer of Test runs said he still had a lot to offer the team, both as a batsman and a leader, but vowed to continue his Test career even if he lost the captaincy.
"If it ends up getting to the point where I'm not the captain, my hunger and determination to keep playing this game are as good as ever," he said.
"If that's with a 'c' next to my name, all well and good. If it's not, I still think I have a lot to offer, particularly a lot of the younger guys who are around our set-up at the moment."
While the once all-conquering Australia has slipped from first to fourth in the Test rankings, Ponting said the young side was heading in the right direction.
He said the bowling attack of Ben Hilfenhaus, Peter Siddle and Mitchell Johnson, as well as all-rounder Shane Watson, would learn from the defeat.
"In years to come those guys are going to win a lot of Test matches for Australia and as a result of this series they all should become better players," he said.
Ponting is in Australia for a short break arranged before the Ashes loss and will miss his side's Twenty20 matches against England, a one-dayer against Scotland and the start of the one-day series against England.
"I've got four one-day games to play at the end of this Ashes tour when I go back (to England), I've got the Champions Trophy (in South Africa next month) around the corner... that's all I can focus on at the moment," he said.
The other Australian Test players who returned home Wednesday refused to blame Ponting for the defeat.
"Ricky Ponting has got my full support and I think he's the best man to be captain," fast bowler Stuart Clark told reporters. "I think it's ludicrous that anyone can say anything other."
Opening batsman Simon Katich said the whole team had to take responsibility for the failure against England.
"There were 11 of us out there that had an opportunity to win the Ashes -- you can't just blame it on one person," he said.
"We had our chances throughout the whole five Tests. Unfortunately, when those chances came around, whether it was Cardiff, Lord's, The Oval, we didn't grab them."
Cricket Australia has backed Ponting's captaincy despite calls for Michael Clarke, Katich or even retired spin master Shane Warne to take over.
Australian media were furious at the defeat, with most anger directed at the selection panel.
"What hurts more than seeing England partying after a stunning Ashes win? Seeing the Poms NOT hit the tiles after an Ashes triumph," said Sydney's Daily Telegraph, referring to England's toned-down celebrations.
Ponting open to sharing leadership
Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who would be missing the initial matches against England having opted to take a time-off, said that he is open to the idea of Michael Clarke captaining the team in the T20 and the 50-overs format of the game.


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Roshi reviews the Confession Ceremony, including a brief explanation of the poem we use for our monthly Reaffirming the Precepts.
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I bow to all Buddhas in the ten directions.
I bow to all Dharmas in the ten directions.
I bow to all Sanghas in the ten directions.
Please acknowledge me.
With all my heart
I have the following prayers.
Please let me forever have an immense respect,
Greater than mountains or oceans,
For all Buddhas of the ten directions.
Forever let me have a timeless love,
Spreading out from the three high levels of existence
Like rain on all sentient beings,
Creating peaceful lives for them all.
Together without hatred, together without war.
Let those who commit wrongdoings
Believe in reincarnation and karma,
So that they may turn toward right action.
Please let the blind see,
And the deaf will hear,
The poor have clothes and food,
And the sick be cured of all illness.
Please let animals
Be free from ignorance,
So they will be born into human form,
And learn the Buddha's way.
Please let the roaming ghosts
In the other world
Be free from a destiny of constant hunger
And follow the Buddha's teaching.
Please let the ones suffering in the hells
Kindle the light
Of compassion in their hearts,
So that their pain will end.
Oh, Buddhas of the ten directions
And Bodhisattvas,
I pray that you will bring the holy Dharmas
To shine in the thousands of worlds.
So that no matter where we happen to be
We always will meet with the wonderful teachings,
And always have a chance to practice:
Being humble, respecting all people, embracing virtue,
Sharing and worshipping goodness, and
Helping others who are in need.
Please let me be calm
No matter what the situation I'm in
Even if somebody hurts me with words
Or by design.
Let me be happy
When somebody is successful
Or when they do good deeds.
Let me be happy for them,
As if the good deeds were mine.
Please let me learn to control my speech
So I can be quiet
And not speak of others' faults.
Let me learn the way
To use words wisely
To help correct others' wrongdoings.
Please let me get rid of
Possessive love,
And replace it with compassionate love,
For everybody and everything.
I bow to all Buddhas of the ten directions.
I have been in great pain for so long,
In the never-ending cycle of lives,
In and out, out and in, bitter and tired.
Now I am making this prayer
To end my cycle. I want to stop it.
I want to return to my "Buddha nature."
The wisdom:
Then, help others,
In order to show gratitude to the Buddhas.
Please let me be strong
In my determination to study the way,
Not a minute of straying,
Not an hour of dreaming.
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Let me master deep meditation
Which will bring a clear mind.
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My ego will eventually dissipate.
Let me be awakened
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No matter how advanced
The stage I'm in,
I will always find my weakness.
Let me keep going
Without stopping at any time.
I have to go on to the absolute state
Without boundaries,
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And in million forms of life,
Of birth and death cycles,
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Is this for real?
Only in the US of A.
An Apple Store in the US state of Georgia refused to sell an iPad to an American teenager because she spoke the Iranian language Farsi in the store. A student in the nearby city of Atlanta was also banned from buying an iPhone for the same reason, according to a report by local TV channel WSBTV. "I just can't sell this to you …
Is this for real?
Only in the US of A.
Hahaha, Symon that's awesome, that is one the dumbest, ill measured sack of crap rants anyone has written on this site, and Andrew Orlowski is an editor here.
Ahem, chill pill needed by others too.
1) "Only in USA" is not the same as "All Americans". While being an important center of cultural and scientific progress, it's also the promised land of extreme nutjobs and bigots.
2) You can't deny the US has a recent history of security hysteria, Americans themselves being its biggest critics. Do I need to point you to "Security Theater", tazings, flight blacklists etc. ad nauseam?
"its citizens have won about a third of all Nobel prizes ever awarded"
They were mostly immigrants, so it doesn't count!
State-run website Cubadebate reports that attempts to access Google Analytics direct people to the US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control website. Cubadebate also slams the move as "outrageous censorship," criticizing Google for blocking Analytics in addition to previous blocks on other tools like Google Earth, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, and Google Code Search.
Apple survey online customers with an ethnic tick box survey just before you press the buy now button?
'I'm sorry but your purchase has been declined on ethnic grounds.'
We apologise for any inconvenience, please try again when we have become more enlightened.
>Only in the US of A.
Yeah unfortunately not only were we stupid enough to not let the South US walk away like we should have in the mid 1800s (whats another 3rd world country to the south?) but we even gave them back the right to vote even after they committed the ultimate form of high treason. Even today many in the region care more about controlling the behavior of others than doing whats right for the country.
Team Apple: World Police.
Being that it is Georgia...chances are they find it difficult to sell to ANYONE who isn't "lilly white" anyway...regardless of what language they are speaking.
My first thought was that you can't blame Apple for the actions of one sales employee. That the manager admitted this on camera - that's just plain stupid. It'll be interesting to see what Apple's official take is.
I was going to suggest what Apple's response (at least to El Reg) would be, but the forum software said "The post is required, and must contain letters".
I had a quick look around and according to her:
"She called customer relations, received an apology, and bought the iPad online."
So Apple's sorted it out the way it should and is now left with a PR disaster caused by two imbeciles. Better than the response she would have received from Jobs - "you're speaking the words wrong".
Blimey - I might have accepted a free one as part of an apology, but I don't think I'd have been interested in carrying on with my purchase after that sort of treatment.
Racism? It just works.
The key phrase here is "export". Refusing to sell to someone based on their country of origin, certainly under UK law, is very much illegal.
Also illegal under Australian law, and probably all the relatively civilised countries.
Which is why it's perfectly okay in the USA.
But this was in the USA and the US Treasury enforces conditions like that for individuals - even those resident in the USA - if it's suspected the purchase may end up being exported to a Iran or Syria.
There's a lot of regulation concerning that see the page below for details:
For example a recent presidential order, signed by Mr Obama himself:
I'm not saying that staff were correct, but not saying they were wrong either. I think only the US Treasury and OFAC will be able to provide an answer. Maybe Ms Leach could ask them?
Last I read, it was illegal here in the US, too.
And I was just getting used to Atlanta maybe not being THAT bad a place to live, maybe even starting to become a bit level headed for a southern state. *sigh*
Is speaking a foreign language prima facie evidence of intent to export the device to a foreign country? If she had stood in the store and said "This will be great back in Tehran" then they might have had some justification for declining to sell under export restrictions but to do so merely as a result of using a foreign language is ridiculous.
Stupid. Ignorant. Dumb as all fuck.
Mind you, the whole US export prohibitions are a farce anyway...
Anyone could buy a suitcase full of them and just drive across the border.
It's even worse that these are the very countries that the American corporate cartels are exporting "Peace and Democracy to the middle east" - with weapons, CIA plants, political and social destabilisation, and installing armies of occupation in...
Then they say, "These countries are the (enemy) acting against US interests, by resisting being declared war on - for their oil.... and the toppling of their own popularly elected governments.
Moron shop staff and moronically evil sanctions.
I didn't think Apple could successfully do anything to make me dislike them anymore than I already did.
I was wrong.
based on one incident by a redneck?, hum, you should get out more
Based on "one incident by a redneck" where it's actually two incidents in two separate stores, and involving at least three Apple employees.
If it really was just "one incident by a redneck" then that would suggest a stupid "Genius" - but that it's more than one incident in more than one store suggests the problem is higher up the chain. It might not be Apple's actual policy, but it's certainly a problem somewhere in Apple.
Who says 'redneck'? The real gem of the story is in this line:
"The employee was from Iran, WSBTV said, which is why he was able to recognise the language as Farsi."
If you're from Iran you are only allowed to sell iPhone, not buy them...
That's just dumb. Almost makes me want to go out and buy one just to mail it there.
The far end corner of the arrogance/ignorance/controlfreakery 3-D graph has been reached, captain.
Happened in Atlanta. Would it happen in say.. NY or Palo Alto Apple stores? Some retraining needed here.
Still totally unacceptable regardless of the location.
Atlanta is pretty cosmopolitan thus the students with international backgrounds living there.
Very weird making stores the gatekeepers though. That's what customs officials are for: person has electronic equipment with them? check boarding cards and massive database and follow instructions.
easy to get around this policy: get WASP fanboi friend to buy your kit for you.
Oh wait, then they have to refuse to sell it to anyone, because anyone could potentially export it anywhere.
iStasi - there's an app for that.
Simples - it's so last year.
Quoting catch phrases from adverts does not make you sound 'cool'.
Do Iranian Apple Employees still get the staff discount on Apple products?
How did that one slip past HR?
Yes I wondered about that too. So going by their own policy, I'm assuming they wouldn't allow their own employee to buy an Apple product?
I was just going to ask how the employee knew they were speaking Iranian, guess this answers it.
they were speaking Farsi. pedantic, I know but it's a bit like saying someone conversing in Hebrew is speaking Jewish.
Surely a better analogy is saying someone conversing in Hebrew is speaking Israeli? Jewish is an ethnicity rather than a nationality. Iranians are mainly of Persian ethnicity (according to wiki).
I'm sure the employee swore allegiance to the fruit, I mean the flag, before becoming an employee.
lol - you are quite right. nothing worse than a pedant who gets it wrong!
This would be funny if it weren't so sad. It actually makes me want to visit america, just so I can buy some apple products, and then fly to iran to sell them.
Filming it for youtube of course.
I hope someone does, that way these stupid export restrictions of the US of A would be shown to be a farce!
Not only the USA have export restrictions to a number of countries.
I don't know where you live, but try to ship a computer from there to Iran and see how that goes. Your local authorities will most probably become quite anal about it (literally as well) or have you move up a couple on pages on their watch list for quite some time (hence the Big Brother icon).
Don't forget that most of Iranian nuclear technology came from (illegal) exports from the Netherlands, while a lot of current tech leaders were trained in the USA (before 1979) and France ....
"I don't know where you live, but try to ship a computer from there to Iran and see how that goes."
Not like the Iranians couldn't go shopping in Dubai or somewhere out that way where there is no export restriction though is it?
except then you'd be extridited and put on trial for providing them with something they could use for something....
She should sue Apple for racial abuse
What baffles me is why after all that she BOUGHT ONE ANYWAY. Stuff that - buy from a competitor and sue for racial harassment with the money you saved.
Yes she still bought one because if you want iOS 5 you have to buy one. If you wanted a Samsung and they had said that to you, you could go buy an Asus or Motorola.
Sort of chump legislation which led to US mattresses bearing a label with words to the effect "It is illegal to remove this label".
Probably some pretty good reason to do with materials used, inflammability, or something.
But laughable out of context.
Read the report.
The young lady said "The iPad was to be a gift for her cousin who lives in Iran." So it was to be exported - contrary to current Administration thinking "A representative for the U.S. State Department told Viteri it is illegal to travel to Iran with laptops or satellite cellphones without U.S. authorization"
That's not to say one could be successfully exported via another country.........Doh!
"Shabet says she lives in America and has no intention of exporting the device."


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Journal : International Economics, Volume 140, December 2014, Pages 71–88
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Quoting a joint analysis made by the OECD and the IEA, G20 Leaders committed in September 2009 to "rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption". This analysis was based on the OECD ENV-Linkages General Equilibrium model and shows that removing fossil fuel subsidies in a number of non-OECD countries could reduce world Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 10% in 2050 (OECD, 2009). Indeed, these subsidies are huge. IEA estimates indicate that total subsidies to fossil fuel consumption in 37 non-OECD countries in 2008 amounted to USD 557 billion (〈http://www.oecd.org/env/45575666.pdf〉 and et al.,). This represents almost five times the yearly bilateral aid flows to developing countries as defined by the Official Development Assistance (ODA). This paper discusses the assumptions, data and both environmental and economic implications of removing these subsidies. It shows that, though removing these subsidies would amount to roughly a seventh of the effort needed to stabilize GHG concentration at a level of 450 ppm or below 2 °C, the full environmental benefit of this policy option can only be achieved if, in parallel, emissions are also capped in OECD countries. Finally, though removing these subsidies qualifies as being a "win–win" option at the global level in terms of environmental and economic benefits, this is not true for all countries/regions. The paper also provides some discussion about the robustness of these results.


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Javier Mascherano has discussed happenings at FC Barcelona during the presentation of the eleventh edition of R', a book that he is lending his image to this year.
"It is not easy to play every game at the same level. Although we might not shine in every game, we're playing at a competitive level and are in contention for every title. It is all in our own hands right now. We went through difficult times to stay in all three competitions and the team has shown what it is made of.
"I wasn't surprised that Xavi got a standing ovation. He has had many ovations because of what he represents to this institution. He holds the record for the most titles won with FC Barcelona and is one of the biggest heroes in the history of the club. It would be great if he could stay here because of all he offers. He is everything being an FC Barcelona player is about – the way he behaves and the example he sets for youngsters".
"Alves has been one of the best players this club has ever had, he's a great performer. I'd like him to stay. He's an amazing person, a real fun guy and very professional"
"Sergi Roberto is a lad who adapts to many positions, not just behind the midfield. He offers a lot of options to a coach. Luis Enrique has entrusted him with that position. It's more competition and means we all play better. It can only be good for the team and that shows week after week"
"We are two very different players. I think it'd be impossible to replace Sergio because he's so good, he's a midfielder made for this team. The difference between my football and his is that Sergio is more positional, he holds his position well and that makes our play more fluid. I try to make the team more physical, to be more on the lookout for ways to help others. That doesn't mean we can't play together, we're very different central midfielders and Sergi's style is much more suited to the way FC Barcelona play than mine"
"When I get to play I try to do the best I can. When I don't, I try to train hard and help and support the ones that are playing"
"The nest game is as important as the other seven. They're three points but a difficult trip. They're playing very well, especially at home. They'll make things very hard for us. All the games we have to come are going to be difficult against teams that have a lot to play for"
"I have never gone crazy about not scoring. I haven't scored many goals. Not even when I play in midfield. But if we do have defenders that can help out in the attack, then so much the better"
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- One-to-many relationship: In this, your object must contain a collection of the related objects and must handle loading them with load and adding and removing them with save operations.
- Many-to-many relationship: This is the most complex relationship and involves a bridge table in the database to establish the relationship. There are two different situations for the bridge table as described below:
- Bridge table with only primary key: In this situation, the bridge table contains only the primary key (which is actually composed of multiple foreign keys). So, your object need not have any bridge table attributes and only needs to keep a collection of the related objects (similar to one-to-many). In fact, the public interface of your object is usually identical to one-to-many but the underlying code is different because of the bridge table.
- Bridge table with additional columns: This is the most complex situation because the bridge table has additional useful columns that your object must cater to. Your object needs to load a collection of composite objects containing both the bridge table and the related table information.
The life cycle management feature must include the ability to load a primary (or parent) object and through this object load all the related objects (meaning all the different relationships). You should also be able to add newly created related objects or remove existing related objects from the relationships. And, when you save the primary object, it must save all the relationship information along with it (as one transaction). A good O/R mapping tool would let you define all types of relationships and handle life cycle management in the generated code.
Feature 5: Object Inheritance
As you already know, a very important aspect of object-oriented programming is inheritance. However, relational databases do not automatically provide inheritance in the relational model. But, there are a number of patterns on how to map object inheritance to a relational database. And, a good O/R mapping tool must provide this capability.
Here are a few ways to map object inheritance to relational databases.
- One table per object: This is the most popular and flexible pattern. Each object is mapped to its own table in the database. And, there is a one-to-one relationship between every base object and its derived object. The foreign key of this relationship is kept in the derived object. It is the most flexible because without changing the structure of any existing tables, we can keep adding to the inheritance hierarchy. However, it is not efficient for loading both base and derived objects because it requires a separate "load" for each object.
- One table for all objects: In this pattern, the base object and all the derived objects are represented in one table in the database. This table contains columns representing attributes from all the objects. It is most efficient for loading and saving data but is very limited because adding a new object to the inheritance requires changing the structure of an existing table in the database, which is highly undesirable.
Keeping this in mind, the O/R mapping tool must support at least the "One table per object" approach and if it can also support this second approach that is icing on the cake. The generated code for base and derived classes should handle the following situations:
- Insert and update operations: The derived class must first ask the base class to do Insert or Update and then do its own. But both the base and derived class operations must be performed in one transaction.
- Delete operation: Unlike an insert or update operation, the delete operation is performed first on the derived object and then on the base object. However, both must be done in one transaction.
- Load operation: The load operation in the derived class must also call load on the base class and both of these should be done in one transaction.
Feature 6: Static and Dynamic Queries
The next most common thing that a database application does is to retrieve rows of data from one or more tables. The application does this by using SQL queries (SELECT statements). However, an object-oriented application wants to fetch a collection of objects and not rows. So, the O/R mapping tool must provide a way for you to create queries that return collections of objects.
Static queries are those that are defined at compile time and the only thing that changes at runtime for them are the parameter values. These queries can be precompiled and run very efficiently. So, the O/R mapping tool must allow you to define static queries as methods of your objects and specify whether these queries take any run-time parameters or not.
Dynamic queries on the other hand are those where either the query or its criteria is created at runtime. These queries cannot be precompiled and must run as "Dynamic SQL." However, their benefit is that they allow for those situations in your application where you are performing ad hoc search operations and, based on the user's input, determine what the query should look like. These queries also need to be provided as methods to your objects but with the flexibility that you can specify the "WHERE clause" and "ORDER BY clause" at run-time.
Feature 7: Stored Procedure Calls
Stored procedures have become very popular in high transaction environments because they allow you to put all your SQL inside the DBMS and in a compiled form. As a result, your SQL does not have to be compiled at runtime because that is a very expensive process. An O/R mapping tool must support two situations when it comes to stored procedures as described below:
- Existing Stored Procedures: The first situation is when you already have custom stored procedures in the DBMS and you want to have your persistent objects call them. The O/R mapping tool must allow you to define methods in your objects that can call stored procedures. It must also support different parameter types (in, out, in/out) and be able to determine whether the stored procedure returns a Recordset or not. If the stored procedure returns a Recordset then the object must return this data to its client.
- Generate Stored Procedures: The second situation is where all the SQL (minus the dynamic queries) that is going to be generated as a result of your object-relational mapping is put inside the DBMS as stored procedures and your objects code is generated so it calls these stored procedures. If you did not generate stored procedures for all the SQL, it will be put inside your object source code as "dynamic SQL."


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HII Regions & Planetary Nebulae
Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks
Star Formation: From the Massive to the Minute
I study star formation and the earliest phases of stellar evolution. Because much of this takes place when the stars are still heavily embedded in their natal clouds, we do most of the observational work at infrared wavelengths, principally using spectroscopic techniques. Infrared spectroscopy is a fairly new field. A good deal of our effort goes into learning how to retrieve astrophysically important information from the spectra. For both technical and astronomical regions, it makes sense to divide work on young stellar objects into three categories: Massive protostars will eventually become O and B type stars. These objects largely form in clusters and have a profound influence on the interstellar material in the cores out of which they have formed. Young objects with masses comparable to the sun can form in clusters with the OB stars or in isolation. It is as yet unclear what the lower mass limit is for objects that form like stars. The lowest mass young objects are only now becoming accessible to spectroscopic investigation.
Ultracompact HII Regions
Massive stars form quickly and finish most of their pre-main sequence evolution while still enshrouded in massive and opaque circumstellar envelopes. One of the earliest manifestations of O-type stars are the dense ionized regions known as ultracompact HII regions that develop as the stellar surface temperatures become hot enough to ionize hydrogen. Most studies of UCHII regions have been carried out in the radio using the VLA. We have been making use of Texes, a mid-IR spectrograph developed at UT, to map emission in the 12.8 µm fine-structure line of ionized neon. Because neon ions have a large atomic weight, the NeII line is not as strongly broadened by thermal motions as the hydrogen lines observed in the radio. As a result, the 12.8 µm line is a perfect probe of the mass motions in UCHII regions. We have been using measurements of the neon line to try to understand the dynamical evolution of the regions.
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Map of the UCHII region MonR2 in the 12.8 µm line of NeII (Jaffe et al. 2003). The left panel shows a map of the UCHII region. The line designates the position of the cut shown at the right. The right panel shows the velocity of the line emission versus position along the cut. There is a broad line at position 0, a double peaked line on either side, becoming a single velocity component at the extreme ends of the emission.
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The left panels show the observed (top) and model (bottom) distributions of NeII emission toward the UCHII region G29.96-0.02 (Zhu et al. 2005). The model is for an HII region confined by a stellar bow shock. There is remarkably good agreement in the morphology of the position-velocity diagrams (right) along the cuts indicated in the right-hand panels.
Photodissociation Regions
Ultraviolet light emitted by the young massive stars at wavelengths too long to ionize hydrogen escapes from ultracompact and later compact HII regions and is able to have a profound influence on the chemistry and energetics of the remaining molecular gas in the core out of which the stars have formed. We have been using Texes to study the rotational lines of H2 in the mid-IR. These lines allow us to probe the temperature structure of the hot molecular boundary at very fine spatial scales.
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(left) Chemical structure of the molecular bar at the edge of the Orion nebula. The blue shows emission by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the green shows emission by molecular hydrogen and the red by carbon monoxide. (right) Distribution of emission in the 17 µm line of H2 within the white box in the left-hand panel (Allers et al. 2005). The H2 emission comes from a region at the edge of the molecular cloud where the temperatures reach several hundred degrees.
Recent papers about high-mass star formation
Mass Flows in Cometary Ultracompact H II Regions, Zhu, Qing-Feng, Lacy, John H., Jaffe, Daniel T., Richter, Matthew J., and Greathouse, Thomas K. 2005, ApJ, 631, 831
H2 Pure Rotational Lines in the Orion Bar, Allers, K.N., Jaffe, D.T., Lacy, J.H., Draine, B.T., and Richter, M.J. 2005, ApJ, 630, 368
High-resolution observations of the near-infrared emission from NGC 6822 Hubble V, Lee, Sungho, Pak, Soojong, Lee, Sang-Gak, Davis, Christopher J., Kaufman, Michael J., Mochizuki, Kenji, and Jaffe, Daniel T. 2005, MNRAS, 361, 1273
A CS J=5-->4 Mapping Survey Toward High-Mass Star-forming Cores Associated with Water Masers, Shirley, Yancy L., Evans, Neal J., II, Young, Kaisa E., Knez, Claudia, and Jaffe, Daniel T. 2003, ApJS, 149, 375
Kinematics of Ultracompact H II Regions Revealed: High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Mapping of the 12.8 Micron [Ne II] Line in Monoceros R2, Jaffe, D.T., Zhu, Q., Lacy, J.H., and Richter, M.J. 2003, ApJ, 596, 1053
Early Evolution of Solar Type Stars
Quantitative Infrared Spectroscopy of T Tauri Stars
While our understanding of main-sequence and post main-sequence evolution is mature, the picture of the formation and pre main-sequence evolution of stars like the sun is much less firmly established. Extinction by circumstellar dust make the usual techniques of optical astronomy problematic. In addition, emission due to accretion or to a protoplanetary disk mask the line and continuum emission from the stellar photosphere. By using high resolution infrared spectroscopy, we can avoid both of these problems and measure temperatures, surface gravities, and rotation rates for young stars, as well as determining the contribution of hot dust in the disk to the near-IR continuum.
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High resolution near-IR spectrum of a young stellar object in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud. The left panel identifies the lines in a small spectral interval in the K band. The right panel shows the best fit for temperature, rotation rate, and non-stellar emission (Doppmann, Jaffe, and White 2003).
Recent papers about solar-mass young stellar objects
Evidence for J- and H-Band Excess in Classical T Tauri Stars and the Implications for Disk Structure and Estimated Ages, Cieza, Lucas A., Kessler-Silacci, Jacqueline E., Jaffe, Daniel T., Harvey, Paul M., and Evans, Neal J., II 2005, ApJ, 635, 422
Results from the TEXES/IRTF H2 Survey of Disk Sources, Richter, Matthew J., Lacy, John H., Jaffe, Daniel T., Bitner, Martin A., Greathouse, Thomas K., and Blake, Geoffrey A. 2005, IAU Symposium 231, 99
Looking for Pure-Rotational H2 Emission from Circumstellar Disks, Richter, M.J., Jaffe, D.T., Lacy, J.H., and Blake, G.A. 2004, ASP Conf. Ser. 324, 232
Stellar Properties of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars from High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra, Doppmann, G.W., Jaffe, D.T., and White, R.J. 2003, AJ, 126, 3043
A Spectroscopic Technique for Measuring Stellar Properties of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars, Doppmann, G.W., and Jaffe, D.T. 2003, AJ, 126, 3030
The Least Massive Young Brown Dwarfs
In order to understand the process of star formation and the physics and evolution of protoplanetary disks, it is useful to have a sample of objects spanning the broadest possible range of masses. Over the past few years, a number of young objects have been found with nominal masses down to around the deuterium burning limit (~12 MJupiter). We have used results from the Spitzer Legacy Program "From Cores to Disks" and our own sensitive near-IR imaging to develop a sample of 1-3 million year old brown dwarfs with accompanying disks. Some of these objects have luminosities as low as 1/1000 that of the sun and have nominal masses as low as 6 MJupiter (Allers et al. 2006). We can use the broad-band near-IR and mid-IR colors to begin to characterize the objects and their disks. Near-IR spectroscopy (now under way) will reveal more about the nature of the sources.
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Spectral energy distributions for young brown dwarfs with disks (Allers et al. 2006). The grey lines show models for brown dwarf photospheres while the dashed and black lines show various models for reradiation by a protoplanetary disk. Each panel lists the luminosity of the central object.
Recent papers about young brown dwarfs with very low masses
Young, Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs with Mid-Infrared Excesses, Allers, K.N., Kessler-Silacci, J.E., Cieza, L.A., and Jaffe, D.T. 2006, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0602249)
Young, Jupiter-Mass Objects in Ophiuchus, Allers, K. N., Jaffe, D. T., van der Bliek, N. S., Allard, F., Baraffe, I., to appear in the proceedings of "The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos" a meeting held 9-12 November 2004 (astro-ph/0506079)


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The Leon's beach party first boarded ship while she was anchored at the Norfolk Naval Yard. The date was March 9, 1944.
The picture below is the only one that I have seen of the entire beach party. This picture was provided by my newfound friend, Mr. Printy Arthur. Printy was a crewman who is alive and well today, living in Sylvania OH. He is one of those youngsters in the third row, a corpsman who would serve in five amphibious assaults as part of Dr. William Lusk's first aid station on the beach.
(Note: If you recognize any of the men in this picture, we would like to hear from you!)
Three months later, the crew of the Leon had finished preparations for her first amphibious assault: Saipan. The beach party had participated in all practice landings conducted with Fourth Marine Division. At 0850 on June 15, 1944, they landed on Blue Beach 2 with the first wave and—like everyone else—dug a fox hole to survive the murderous artillery and mortar fire landing on the beaches.
We don't know much about the beach team's experiences on D Day at this assault. Mostly the men who were there didn't talk about it much. However, the family of Dr. Lusk shared with us several photographs of him on Blue Beach 2. In the picture below, this small town doctor from Central Illinois seems to have resigned himself to his time in hell, writing across the top: SOME FUN.
In the second picture we see him standing amidst a group of marines in the shade on the beach. Don't we wish we knew what was happening that day!
While the beach party had its hands full on land, the Leon was being transformed to a hospital ship. We pick up the story from All Came Home:
"As she anchored in the transport area on D + 1 day and began lowering her boats, the crew soon learned that the Japs had attacked in force throughout the night on the beaches. Boats arrived immediately and throughout the day carrying approximately 200 casualties from the beach and from other ships. They came so rapidly and in such numbers that it was impossible to keep records or do anything but treat the most seriously wounded.
The Leon's Dental Officer did an excellent job supervising the receiving ward set up in the troop officers' mess. Ambulatory patients were directed to and treated at the forward battle dressing station. Wards for the serious patients were set up in the chief petty officers' quarters and in the troop officers' quarters. The ship's four doctors labored around the clock, perspiring endlessly, wearing only their shorts, conducting surgery on the dinner tables in the troop officers' wardrooms."
D + 2 Day
"The Leon's hands were happy to receive the ship's beach party back aboard at 1400 on D plus 2 day. The beach crew had been pinned down by mortar fire and sniper fire on the beach since D-Day. After a minimal rest, the beach party doctor and eight corpsmen turned to, making it possible to run two operating rooms simultaneously.
LST (landing ship tank) 275 pulled alongside at 1222 with more casualties, and the medical team fell further behind."
Six of the wounded aboard ship died from their wounds. But the Leon's doctors and corpsmen stayed up day and night, and the remaining 300 survived.
The Lusk Family Collection
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THE arrival of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, ``Long Walk to Freedom,'' on the bedside book pile has diversified somewhat the collection of presidential biographies in my readings-in-progress: The South African president is neither dead nor white nor of European descent.
The United States has lately experienced a fit of concern about the teaching of history. The National Center for History in the Schools, at the University of California at Los Angeles, released in October a 271-page curriculum guide to the teaching of American history in public schools. The outcry was intense: The new standards are too ``politically correct,'' too dedicated to airing dirty historical linen (the Ku Klux Klan, the anticommunist ``witch hunt'' of the 1950s), and too minimizing of the role of heroes like Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.
A first decision on the part of anyone who would write History is, Whose stories shall we tell? It is a decision that has often been made unawares.
History is, in part, what the people make of it. History that is not internalized by the people, and subsequently drawn on as a resource to inform contemporary decisions, is like an invention that remains in the lab without ever being brought to market. It makes sense for history teaching to focus on the groups and individuals and events that made a difference in the society over time. This may be an argument for devoting more attention to the Bill of Rights than to the Aztecs or the Eastern empires. It may also be an argument for considering social and cultural figures along with generals.
The view that ``history is the biography of great men'' has come under great fire lately, not least because ``men'' is seen to be too gender-exclusive. Yet biographies can illumine whole periods. One follows a hero - or heroine - through the plot line of history as one follows a melody through a symphony.
Moreover, not only does it make sense to consider the history that made a difference, it makes sense to consider the people on whom we have information. We can't learn from those whose stories we don't have.
A more open, egalitarian society will value the contributions, the stories, of all its members, and be the richer for it. The Mandela autobiography will no doubt open a whole world to readers unused to thinking of dirt-floored huts as the stamping ground for world leaders.
But meanwhile, it makes sense to make the most of the archive we have.
Management guru Peter F. Drucker, in his book ``The Effective Executive,'' draws heavily on the considerable historical record of the leadership experience of such men (the term is used advisedly) as George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff during World War II, and Franklin Roosevelt's aide Harry Hopkins.
Now a distinction must be made between Drucker's particular use of history and the schools' teaching history for citizenship education. Drucker cites Marshall's decision to expose Dwight D. Eisenhower, then an up-and-coming Army major, to war planning as an object lesson in staff development. Drucker discusses Harry Hopkins's ability to achieve a great deal even as illness severely constrained his working hours as an example of superb time management.
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JERUSALEM — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is virtually certain to win passage Thursday of a United Nations General Assembly resolution upgrading the status of the Palestinian territories from "observer entity" to "nonmember observer state" in the international body.
But he won't have much time to bask in the diplomatic victory.
This month's eight-day clash between Israel and the Islamist militant movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip provided fresh momentum for Abbas' U.N. campaign while also raising the stakes for what was once seen largely as a symbolic step to jump-start peace talks and rattle Israel into making concessions.
Many Palestinians are already looking ahead to see what Abbas, head of the secular Fatah faction — a rival of Hamas — in the West Bank, does after the U.N. vote.
The United States, Europe and Israel hope Abbas will reengage in a U.S.-sponsored peace process. Abbas, a longtime proponent of direct negotiations with Israel, has said he would be ready to return to the negotiating table the day after a U.N. vote if Israel agreed to halt its West Bank settlement construction.


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Democratic-controlled Senate flips revenue resolution back from GOP House numbers
Continuing a game of budgetary Pong, the Democratic-controlled state Senate today reversed the GOP-led House's move last week on a revenue resolution, using the original estimate from legislative economists about how much money the state would have in the 2011-12 fiscal year.
The legislature is required by law every year to certify how much general fund money there will be to appropriate (though some of that money may be transferred from other places in the budget to the general fund.) But the resolution ultimately is non-binding on lawmakers in the budget process, so they could choose another figure if they wanted.
The state faces what is expected to be a budget shortfall of at least $1.1 billion.
And so when the Republican-controlled House last week passed the revenue resolution with a figure $195 million less than the estimate arrived at by legislative economists, Democrats said it was all political theater aimed at deflecting attention away from a controversial Republican vote on school breakfasts. Democrats also asked Republicans where they would find another nearly $200 million in the budget to cut.
When the resolution reached the Senate floor today, Democrats planned to flip it right back to the original estimate made by legislative economists of $7.093 billion.
Senate Majority Leader John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, said it made no sense to plan to cut another $195 million out of the budget when the state still has an economic forecast in March before it finalizes the 2011-12 budget, which takes effect in July.
He said that cutting the budget needlessly would hurt people, saying that $195 million represented jobs for nearly 3,200 teachers.
"We're actually talking about real jobs and real children's education," Morse said. "Let's not cut this until we have to."
But Senate Republicans argued that, throughout the recession, estimates have continually been higher than actual revenues. It made sense to budget lower than the latest estimate, they said.
Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp, R-Littleton, said that would help avoid making "last-minute, draconian cuts on the fly."
But Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, asked what was so special about the $195 million figure, calling it arbitrary.
"We could deduct $500 million and make the argument that we really want to be conservative," Heath said.
The Senate passed the reversed revenue resolution on a 20-15 party-line vote. The resolution now heads back to the House, where lawmakers must either agree to the changes or seek a conference committee.
In a statement, House Speaker Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, said he was disappointed in the Senate's vote.
"In the House, both Republicans and Democrats believed giving the JBC the lower budget target for next year was the more responsible course of action," McNulty said. "Unfortunately, earlier today, Senate Democrats sent a clear message that they are more interested in holding on to the business-as-usual attitude of spending every dollar the state is anticipated to receive.
"This policy has required the governor to make harmful last-minute cuts when revenues came in lower than anticipated. We cannot continue to spend money we do not have."


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Radio Rose- Book 1 in the Change of Heart Cowboys series.
Radio Rose knows Martians aren't real.
As a DJ for a late night talk show about extra-terrestrials, she'd never admit to being a non-believer. Talking to crazies all night isn't the perfect job for most people, but she's happy with her solitary life. Until a middle of the night car crash and a blow to the head has her mistaking a stranger for a real life alien.
Adam Cameron, raised by his narcissistic grandfather for most of his childhood, made his escape from Careless, Colorado the day he turned eighteen. Forced to return ten years later for the reading of his grandfather's will, he's about to be pulled into a contest for a vast fortune and the future of a town he'd just as soon forget.
Relationships aren't one of Rose's strong points. Hell, she mistook the hot stranger for an alien the first time they met, but Adam needs help and she's the woman to help him--maybe.
In a town filled with new-found friends, Rose has to decide how far she's willing to go to trust the loner.
And here's an excerpt from Radio Rose:
The thing grabbed her upper arms and shook her. "Stop fighting me. I'm not going to hurt you."
"That's what they all say," Rose shrieked, "just before they abduct you."
"Stop it!" The tone and volume of the words penetrated the static in her head, and she quit struggling. This alien spoke perfect English in a deep voice with no sign of an accent.
She focused her eyes on the way his T-shirt stretched across his muscular chest then slid her gaze up until she came to his face. She was surprised to see a very good-looking man. No not a man, an alien in human form.
With dark blond hair, long black lashes surrounding his navy blue eyes and a delectably, kissable mouth, he was the personification of her make-believe boyfriend. She licked her lips and lifted one hand to touch his face before coming to her senses.
Boy, aliens had taken morphing to a whole new level. It would be easy to relax into his strong arms, but she needed to keep what senses she had left sharp.
"Are you hurt?" he asked.
Rose was still in shock and shook her head. Glass shards of pain sliced into her brain. She slammed her eyes shut and sucked in a breath.
The helmet slipped to the side, and he gently lifted it off her head. Pressing it into her hands, he waited for her to open her eyes.
She peeked at her helmet and saw half the lights had burned out. "Damn, piece of shit helmet. This piece of crap is guaranteed for ten years. How am I going to make good on the guarantee if I'm abducted? Answer me that."
"Are you dizzy?" he asked. "Can you walk?"
As she lifted her gaze to his eyes, firefly sparkles flashed across her vision. She'd forgotten he was there. She tossed the helmet to the ground. I must be out of my mind. Abducted by aliens, and I'm worrying about that piece of junk.
As she tried to answer, the words froze into little clumps of ice and melted back down her throat.
"How many fingers do you see?" he asked, holding up one hand.
"Hold them still so I can count."
"How many?" he asked again, impatience riding on each word.
It seemed a stupid question for an alien to ask, but now was not the time to question these guys on their mathematical skills. Focusing her eyes, she counted the fingers slowly, twice then told the truth. "Seven."
"You need to sit down while I try to get us out of here." He carried her to a vehicle, opened the door and placed her on the seat.
"Don't take me with you. Please. I'm not a normal human. I wouldn't make a good specimen," Rose pleaded as she stuffed her trembling hands between her knees to hide the shaking. "Really, I'll skew your results."
She focused her vision and concentrated on his features. Nothing was making sense. He looked like a human, a darn nice one, but her callers had told her aliens could change form at will.
He placed her helmet in her lap. Only a light, here and there, was blinking now. Forty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents down the drain when she didn't have money to spare. But if she disappeared into outer space to be experimented on, money would be the least of her worries.
She didn't have the energy to fight him when he lifted her legs, put them in the spaceship and dug around until he found the straps to tie her down. He reached across her, belted her in and shut the door. Now she was trapped. Running her fingers over the door, she tried to find the handle. Before she could make her move, she felt the spaceship lifting off.
She'd listened countless times as her callers talked about their experiences with this exact thing. In her mind, she'd discounted them as being delusional.
Now she remembered what Louise, a regular caller, had said. "They put me in a huge, bright capsule. The takeoff was smooth as glass, and silent as a forest after a snowstorm."
Her spaceship jerked. With each move, her head spun and noise burrowed into her skull with all the finesse of a jackhammer. There was no beautiful machine here, just a piece of junk, kind of like her Geo.
Just her luck she'd get this puny, puddle jumper of a spaceship. They probably didn't even serve inter-flight drinks, and she could use a shot of bourbon. As the vehicle jerked again, she grabbed the edge of the seat. Make that two.
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Crybaby Bridge
This covered bridge with a covered pedestrian walkway was built in the 1800s and is the oldest of its kind. Legend has it that a woman decided to murder her baby and thus threw him off the side of the bridge where he plummeted to his death. Since then, many have reported hearing a baby's cry coming from beneath the bridge.
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kelbean says:
October 9, 2005, 3:56 pm
Urban Legend!
jordan clever says:
October 26, 2005, 8:53 pm
i have heard of crybaby bridge and me n some friends r goin this weekend if we can find out where it s if u can let me knoe plz it would be a great help thanks e-mail me or im jordan04clever (AIM) http://email@example.com (E-MAIL)
Natasha says:
October 28, 2005, 3:07 pm
dude what's up does every state have one of these stories tye are all lies maybe one is true and they are copying all the rest I don't know
Mistybear says:
November 19, 2005, 6:44 pm
omg another crybaby bridge? come on ppl there cant be this many copys of the story!!!!! when there 2 many remakes of it then the storie just isnt scary or interesting any more!
lesa says:
December 21, 2005, 7:56 am
all i can say is i lived 25 years in newton falls and never once heard of this story also have been on the bridge many MANY times never once heard anything! Were do you get you information??? Someone is pulling you legs lol…
PATTI says:
December 23, 2005, 7:24 pm
I agree lesa, I've live in Newton Falls my whole life, am 52 and have never heard that story and have also been across the bridge many, many times. Also attended the grade school which is right beside it. Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me…..someone's makin up stories!!
Jessica says:
December 27, 2005, 1:06 pm
I've been to cry Baby Bridge and you have to read the Legend and know how to go there and acrossed
the bridge.
jane says:
December 27, 2005, 1:12 pm
And I have read the legend it is
not a myth. I have been there
and heard the baby cry.
I have heard the woman
calling for her baby.
jane says:
December 27, 2005, 1:21 pm
And I have read the legend it is not a myth it is true and I heard
the baby crying and I have heard the woman calling for her
baby and other screaming spirits from other people
who died there long ago!!!!!!
Sheree says:
December 29, 2005, 8:26 pm
Okay. That is a LIE. I lived in NewtonFalls since I was 4 years old . Right down the street from the bridge on Arlington Blvd. I often walk past/though the bridge . No crying !!! Nothing ever Happened there .
email me email@example.com says:
January 22, 2006, 2:47 pm
it can be ture it was scary my dad died when i was 3 and i ear him calling my name in the middel of the night he waches me and he sits in my rocking chare rocking when i am trying to sleep i dont rilly like it am and that was years ago and it still gowing on
ur grandma says:
January 26, 2006, 4:37 pm
shizz to all and all a good night
brandon says:
February 15, 2006, 9:27 am
this is not that scary, it is just weird and stupid
Taylor says:
March 1, 2006, 6:36 pm
ok…why would sum1 murder their baby, then start calling after it later, after they KNOW it is already dead? just wanted to know if i was the only person who wondered about this.
Brittany says:
April 2, 2006, 9:07 pm
HEy no no no dude cry babys bridge is some where by alliance ive been their its real but its not to scarey..
Carla says:
June 10, 2006, 9:32 pm
when i visit ohio yes i'm from california and when i visit my daughter and son in-law that lives in new philadelphia,ohio we go there and i never here a baby or a mother so i believe its not true and i wish you people in ohio had haunted things but you dont so crybaby bridge isn't scary at all.-
Ash says:
June 11, 2006, 1:24 am
Okay this is bull dust!! I live in kentucky and we have one as well. either the person that submitted this lied about the location or we just have a bunch of idiots copying fake stories. Please people, stop lying!
Lafunda says:
September 15, 2006, 4:49 pm
Your all worong, that is not even how the story goes, this is the real one, a phyco women was walking with her nonstop cying baby. The women was tired of it cying , and the only way it would stop was if she tied a rope around its neck, so she did this and hung it on a branch, then the branch broke and the baby fell into the water. It is said that you go to the bridge on a friday night at midnight, and you hear the babycrying, and a branch brake….. I get you all non belivers and everything, ya it could be made up, but it could be true!….Peace Out*…Lafunda
horrorchick23 says:
September 17, 2006, 6:29 pm
im soooooo sick of the dam crybaby bridge ledgends, i dont even think that they are real. theres way tomany of them. whom ever started them need to be shot.
haunt says:
September 29, 2006, 2:05 pm
The crybaby bridge in newton falls has definately been an attraction. This has made many people travel from near and far to listen for the murdered baby. If you know your way around the place you will find an old farm on the other side of the bridge that has been there for years. This farm has a bird called a picock! The noises you hear are not from a baby they are from a bird!!!!!
john doe says:
September 30, 2006, 11:47 pm
I was there one year, just a fews days before halloween. It was late/early morning. What I saw scared the **** out of me. I would never do something like that again. If I told anyone they would think I was crazy so I just leave it alone. But yes, it is very very real.
john doe says:
September 30, 2006, 11:51 pm
I was there also. I was sitting underneath the bridge and a babe crawled out of the water with a knife and came after me. I beat it up and tied its hands together. Then I called the police. They arrested the baby and it is now awaiting trial. That was so scary.
Amber says:
October 3, 2006, 3:38 pm
maybe it was just that night!
or it was just a lie who knows ohwell i go sometime and find out!
Amber says:
October 3, 2006, 3:40 pm
Maybe it was just that night!
ohwell i'll go sometime and find out!
Susan says:
October 16, 2006, 1:00 am
OMG! How many versions of this story are there? I've heard of like 10 different cry baby bridges and thats just here in Ohio. I think its all a bunch of bs.
taylor says:
October 19, 2006, 2:41 pm
I think that it is really crazy that a woman would do that to her own child. She needs to be locked up.
Bob says:
October 19, 2006, 2:44 pm
I think that this woman is so crazy and she needs to take a chill pill and I also think that she needs to be on trail.
zach says:
October 30, 2006, 7:40 pm
i have been in newton falls all my life and iam 14 years old and i have to be a ghost expert and yes there is a cry baby bridge
Taylor says:
October 31, 2006, 8:42 pm
i have been to cry baby bridge it seems real but its not
sandy says:
October 31, 2006, 8:46 pm
i have been to cry baby bridge it seems real but its not it a fricken legend thats not true if any one killed there child they should be locked up dont belive this.
Tori Lynn says:
October 31, 2006, 8:59 pm
im so scared thats just a stupid story someone made up and it went around the world ITS SO STUPID dont listen to this!
kelsey lochbaum says:
October 31, 2006, 10:28 pm
hay this is true i live right besid it. it is true my mom says it is true belef me
Matt Lamp says:
November 1, 2006, 5:52 pm
Hey! This place is really haunted!! My whole family lives around there and it's so spooky!! We rode across it one time and our car shut down for about a second or two!!! At that time we heard a baby cry!! I nearly started crying, too!!!!! I was only 10 years old at the moment that happened!!! IT WAS DEFINETELY THE SCARIEST PLACE IN OHIO!!
P.S if you're coming to Ohio please do not cross this bridge… I've heard of 4 people dying there. My greatest enemy died there!! I hope he doesn't come to haunt me!! WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
danna says:
November 1, 2006, 6:31 pm
this doesnt sound all that scary people believe things that there imagination brings up when its quiet and lonely outside.
Cry Baby in the flesh says:
December 1, 2006, 5:29 pm
eddie says:
December 7, 2006, 12:49 am
i been there i got the gost pregnet the baby needs to be bress feed lol
Trixie says:
January 15, 2007, 12:14 am
I don't Know about everyone else, but I thought that the guy that told the story about the baby crawling out of the water with a knife made me laugh all night!! And I think the story is true!!!! You all are just non beleivers!!!!
Meg says:
January 22, 2007, 4:55 pm
I think that you all should go see it for yourselves befor you say anything and I have been there alot of times and I am a beliver of the cry baby bridge. so thank you and have a great day lol
susanna & stephany says:
February 16, 2007, 1:18 pm
ur full of ****!!! there is no such thing we never been to it but i agree wit trixie that guy was full of ****!!!!!!!!and eddie ur full of **** 2 buddy!!! ur just nasty and needs to shut ur BREST FEEDIN KUTER LICKIN MOUTH UP OR I WILL!!!!!!!!GET OVER URSELF!!!
Julie says:
March 3, 2007, 10:56 am
i am goin this weekend but i ttly forget how to get to cry baby bridge!so if u can give me directions how to get there my email iz email@example.com!my mom went there bout12 years ago when she wuz 16!she said she heard the crying but it wuz hur friends big bro and his friends!
Bill Sutley says:
March 16, 2007, 6:29 pm
I love Cry Baby Bridge. I go there all the time.
I always here the baby crying! You people are just not as cool as me.
I usually like to go to Arby's and get a beef and chedder and sit there for 3.5 hours slowly nibbling on the sandwhich as I listen.
Sometimes I take my cat Whiskers along.
I want to take a date, any ladies interested?
I'll share my beef n chedder. Who knows maybe we will swing by the Circle K for a slushie afterwards! SOUR APPLE ROCKS MY WORLD!
-Bill Sutley- Cry Baby Bridges #1 FAN!!!
joseph little says:
June 13, 2007, 11:39 am
Well I am from Ohio i have indeed heard of cry baby bridge but being an athiest you already no what my comment is
katlin says:
June 19, 2007, 12:27 pm
Natasha I SO agree with you!!!!!!!! THESE ARE ALL UNTRUE LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alexis Pruett says:
June 20, 2007, 1:17 pm
Okay I read this same exact story on this same website and it said that the mother and her baby fell off the bridge and this one said that the mother had merdered her baby and then threw it off the bridge …. this doesn't make any sense.
lindsey says:
June 30, 2007, 8:23 pm
I live in newton falls too. And i heard this story and i acctually live right by the bridge.And i have never heard a noise. So it may be true but i have never heard a sound.
~lil linds`
amber says:
July 10, 2007, 5:12 pm
ok yall ive lived in ohio all my life and am like 5 minutes away . is it all that scary ???
Zach says:
August 7, 2007, 4:21 am
Again there are 19 of these stories in Ohio alone. Not to mention the hundreds of others in the U.S. alone.
Rick Trump says:
August 13, 2007, 12:20 am
Okay, well, I grew up in Newton Falls, was there when the tornado went trough and all. My sister wrecked my dad's van into the side of the Covered Bridge and I fished under it all the time. I never heard the story of the crying baby. As for Bill Sutley eating Arby's under the bridge, WHAT ARBY'S!? Now, if you want some real ghosts from Newton Falls, go over to the cemetary beside the Nazarene Church on North Canal Street. I grew up behind the church and trust me, there are some freaky, creepy, and scary happenings in the graveyard.
big Bill says:
September 6, 2007, 11:32 am
Mr. Rick Trump. You must not have been to Newton Falls for a few years. The fine fast food establishment that once was Hardee's is now an Arby's! shocking I know, but these things happen. good day sir.
NewWindRider says:
September 10, 2007, 10:55 pm
Unfortunately, due to stupid kids that want to be noticed, the actual location of Crybaby Bridge is publicly lost. There are four 'Crybaby Bridge"s in Indiana alone, and two thus far on this state's list.
Your best bet for finding actual haunted locations is to go to your local library and look for a book on it. The internet, sites like this in particular, are the LAST places to look, simply because -like wikipedia- it is user edited content, and as such, I could say that the ghost of elvis lives in my bathroom, and be given as much credibility as anyone else.
steele says:
October 4, 2007, 8:25 am
ok well i have been there and the baby powder works there is little hand prints and i put a basket ball on there and it didnt roll and then a level and it is level and the car sits for a second and then it began to roll that stuff is for real u need to go the hand print really freaked me out little baby hand print yeah f*** that firstname.lastname@example.com
Maddie, Lanie,&& Liz says:
October 6, 2007, 10:06 pm
FAKE!!! i live under that bridge && their is no babys underthere. silly.
rae says:
October 8, 2007, 3:52 pm
BS that bridge is shut down it has be for years i have never even hurd a baby cry there hat is bs
sillyness says:
October 23, 2007, 5:52 pm
I have lived in Newton Falls since I was like 4 and this story has always been around! ugg! Whatever I think it is all fakeola!!! But whatever! Oh and since the bridge has a trailor park and various houses around it with children/babies in them did anyone ever consider that hmmm possibly it could be a real child/ or baby crying??? I mean really people they cry LOUD!!! ha ha ha oh well although there are various "ghost" stories other than this for Newton Falls that may be true you can look them up in the public library!
realistic says:
October 30, 2007, 10:07 pm
Ok the thing is probably in a lot of states because the combined sound of the bridge and train can make a crying sound so people think it is a babyand the story is created
Jessie says:
February 20, 2008, 3:10 am
I was born in ohio. I have been to six different cry baby bridges (purely by accident, my friends like to bridge jump. Four of them have actually been caught and charged with attempted suicide, how retarded is that, but anywho)I never heard or saw anything at any of them. Then I moved to Tenn. Since I got there, I've heard tell of 3 more crybaby bridges. I believe in ghosts, but I think that most of these were the attempts of parents to keep their kids from swimming in the river at night. That's when the snakes come out. shudder.
Birth Von Jacobson says:
March 17, 2008, 6:42 pm
My family and I have lived under the bridge for years. Yes, we are trolls. I often hear Billy Goats galloping above. I have also heard Bill Sutley munching on his beef and chedder, but never have I heard an infants cry.
Sometimes when Papa troll eats broccoli, he gets the stinkers. Perhaps that is what you heard?
Michelle says:
April 3, 2008, 11:13 am
I live in Newton Falls, I go over the bridge at least once a day now that it has been done. Never once have I heard a baby or woman crying or screaming. I do believe that there are haunted places out ther but Newton Fall's bridge is not one of them. I live right down the road from it.
Sarah says:
April 30, 2008, 9:39 am
I think its somewhere near Alliance Ohio a couple of my friends drove out there last year they didnt hear anything the first time they went but heard it the seconed, they wolnt talk about it when you bring it up. as for me I'd have to go there myself to believe it. I've heard and seen paranormal things all my life and I dont nessecarily believe in ghosts
Jim says:
May 1, 2008, 11:18 am
i think this is real people. i've been there before. it s true but it is just a goat that sounds like a baby crying.
Jim says:
May 1, 2008, 11:19 am
this is true. It is just a goat that sounds like a baby crying.
Jim says:
May 1, 2008, 11:23 am
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Jim says:
May 1, 2008, 11:24 am
suck my **** *****!!!
Anna says:
May 13, 2008, 6:28 am
i didnt believe this at first but then i
went and now i beleive it was really scary
Nicole says:
May 17, 2008, 8:20 pm
Well, Im not quite sure if I could Call it a "crybaby" bridge but the area around the bridge definately has some sort of ghostly activity there. Here's my story: When my friends and I were in high school(about 4 years ago) we decided to do a little "ghost hunting" ourselves since we were interested to see what was out there. So we had found out about the Newton Falls supposed "crybaby bridge" on a website and decided to take a drive down one day around dusk(just light enough to see)but where it was still creepy enough to have some fun! We arrived and parked the car(there were 4 of us)and we got out and walked down to the covered bridge and had some cameras to take pictures and so on and so forth. We all dared eachother to cross the bridge(to see if we could hear the baby crying) and only I and one other person went while the other 2 stayed back….we got about half-way through until we started hearing creeking and creepy noises(just the brige though)and decided it was too much so we went back. It was just about to get dark by this time(still hadn't heard the crying baby) but decided to take a few more pictures before we left. We had gotten in the car and left. We went and got our pictures developed and found one that really stood out. At one point during the night 1 of my friends had taken a picture of the other 3 of us infront of the bridge and in the picture above all 3 of us was a ghostly figure starting from the bottom of my friends foot and extended up over all 3 of our heads and suprisingly looked like it was "Waving" a hand at the camera. You could tell where the face was and all. True story-no lie. To this day, I cannot find that picture and I wish we would have kept it in a safe spot. Im sure one of us has it in an album but who knows! maybe one day one of us will find it again!
Nicole says:
May 17, 2008, 8:28 pm
Im tellin' ya, this place is haunted!!!
Rick Trump says:
May 28, 2008, 3:46 pm
Okay, I had not been to NF for a while but I still know the bridge. There are a number of dd things in Newton Falls. I know the old bakery was haunted and I saw numerous creepy things in both the old and new cemetary. My father did not believe in ghosts however, once when I once was out walking with my parents at night near the new cemetary, he stopped and told us we needed to go home right away, but not through the cemetary. When we finally made it back to the house he told us that he had seen something in the new cemetary and did not want to go near it. I still do not know what he saw but whenever I ask him he just tells me he does not want to talk about it but trust him it was something we did not want to be near.
hunter says:
June 26, 2008, 4:39 pm
I've heard that story before but this version was alot creepyer but why did the lady have to kill her baby thatz just downright low and nasty!
dylan says:
July 18, 2008, 9:23 am
This is not the real cry baby bridge. the real one is located in Doylestown. just outside summit county.i visit this place often. and there are books about this place library's. here is the website where it can be found.http://www.forgottenoh.com/rogueshollow.html
aaron says:
November 1, 2008, 12:14 am
me and my friends and her mom took us 2 the cry baby bridge and we herd the baby hit the water a huge thud and it splashed…..we also put baby powder on the front of the bumper and the read bumper and if u drive slow and put ur car in park u will see after ur done you will see tiny hand prints on the bumpers….. we also did it again and we herd runnign the the woods right next 2 the passenger and somthing hit his window and nothing was there we took off and drove around the corner of the bridge and there was a possum and its head was ran over and there was no cars that wnt by and it was still moving….. go there if u dare….!!!!!
Wayne says:
November 29, 2008, 12:27 am
I skipped school and hid under the bridge,I am now 53 and never heard this one.
Nico Persaliano says:
November 29, 2008, 2:19 pm
You people.. are all retarded. I'm 21 years old and have lived in Newton Falls, OH my entire life. I've walked through the bridge many times back in the day when I didnt have a drivers license and had to walk to McDonald's where I worked, very very late at night after closing. Not only then, but many other times. As far as cars turning off when you drive through it.. please.. the bridge is like 10 feet long… you just f*ckin drive through it and go on your merry way. Not haunted, not scary, and they even rebuilt it so now its even more sturdy than it was before. Dont waste your gast to drive from your town to boring *** newton falls.
haley miller says:
January 21, 2009, 7:05 pm
my friends mom told me and him that the family were walking on the bridge and than they accidentilly dropped the baby and it got ran over.
sam says:
January 27, 2009, 1:55 pm
the real one is in grattis ohio.. and it is real
Squekay says:
January 30, 2009, 12:59 pm
Well this story is lame! hAHA!
suzy says:
March 8, 2009, 12:27 pm
this is not true. i live around here and nothing like that has ever happened, i assure you.
Angie says:
March 23, 2009, 4:06 pm
There is at least one Cry Baby bridge in every county it seems like,I believe that it Urban Legend…
Paul says:
May 27, 2009, 3:48 am
I grew up in N.F. and walked across this bridge almost daily, Both my parents were born in N.F., and all four of my grandparents moved to N.F. by 1920. In addition to this I have numerous aunts and uncles that lived in N.F. at one time or another and this is the first time I heard this story. It's a bunch of b.s..
Shannon And Danielle Swonger says:
June 24, 2009, 10:15 pm
Danielle: i have been a crossed cry baby bridge b4 and nothing happened, it was also almost midnight on halloween night our car stalled but nothing really happened.
Shannon:I believe it's not haunted, bu that it has a really bad aura.
Angel says:
July 11, 2009, 2:31 pm
OK..I have lived in Lordstown( right down the street from NF) for 18 years and I have never heard of this one. Its fake. However I have heard from theshadowlands.net that Sam's Pizza is haunted by a 13 year old boy..true or false..comment that.
taylyn says:
July 28, 2009, 1:02 am
we hav a legend in iowa about cry baby bridge and these kids where on a feild trip and they where crossing a bridge with a bus and the bus fell through the bridge. and if u put baby powder on the back of ur bumper and get on the bridge turn ur car off and the kids will push ur car. and u will actually move i've tried it and it worked but u hav 2 b quite and when they are done pushing u, u hav 2 look on ur bumper and u will see finger prints but make sure when u put the baby powder on the bumber dont touch the baby powder, i hav done this 2 times and it has worked both times!
Richard says:
August 3, 2009, 11:17 pm
The cry baby bridge story in Newton Falls, when did this start? The closest cry baby bridge I knew of is in Doylestown, in small little place called Rouges Hollow. I have been to Rouges Hollow, and never heard a baby cry, However there ARE alot of folklore about the place that is true. Look it up if you want to. As for the bridge in Newton Falls, I lived there for 8 years and graduated from Newton Falls High, I never heard that one…
Sasha says:
December 3, 2009, 4:26 pm
iv been to cry-baby bridge and it is scary i slept right by that bridge in a tent and i couldnt sleep at all and i almost fell off of it couse i sliped!!!!!!
Barbie! says:
December 29, 2009, 4:18 am
This is the story of how the Cry Baby Bridge got started! I want to know if its true or not! And umm Jordan Clever you said your going to it ok well e mail me after you do and tell me if its real or not! My e-mail is email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com ok thx if you do!
Aubrie Hamon says:
February 21, 2010, 2:03 pm
I have been there and its true at night you hear the crying of the baby. i live in this town. me and some friends got together after hearing the tail. well i can tell you this, its true.
Tori says:
May 26, 2010, 7:52 pm
I have been there before with my step dad and step brother we saw/heard nothing… it was by sum house and it was all just urban legends
James says:
August 9, 2010, 10:58 am
The South Carolina one is real. Me and my friends went their one time. The real story is when you say you have the gohsts baby it will chase you off the bridge then dissappear. Our car door locked when everyone was outside and we couldnt get in. There is a church across the bridge that has blood marks inside and 4 angels in the corners of the sanctuary. This one is the real deal
Town's End says:
August 21, 2010, 10:10 pm
Ok. I grew up in NF, mostly. Elementary through graduation. I lived right down the road from the old/new cemetery. (On one side of the river it's old the other side it's new) The old side is haunted, especially around a hidden tomb there. Yep I could walk there at night without being seen (due to the geography of the location) so I did. There are definitely ghosts there, go figure. One grave stone was especially odd. Though cold outside and even on the edges of the stone, the center was really warm. As far as the bridge, false imo. There is another bridge in town though, one that many don't even know about. I have never heard of a story connected to it, but I have even in the daylight heard and seen things there. It's not a covered bridge, it's rather old and metal. It's next to an open field on a backroad. By the way, you people do realize that NF used to have TWO covered bridges.
charlotte simpson smith says:
February 26, 2011, 4:12 am
same story, different town. don't know the history, but know the story.
outside great falls south carolina. older sister and friends used to tell
me if you drove across the bridge, the car would stall,in the middle and
if you got out and dropped a rock over the side into the water, you could
hear, the baby cry. just a bunch of teenagers trying to keep urban legends
going. but i will however say it makes for intresting conversation. besides
if it weren't for these so called " ghost stories" when someone asked you
if you knew of one or had any experiences you'd have to say no. I for one
don't mind them. it's a part of history, true or not
Tessa says:
March 26, 2011, 9:06 pm
ok about a week ago i got this new alarm clock.So 1 nite i set my alarm clock
for 6:07 and that same night i was felling like i was being watched the next morning i didnt wake up until like 6:43 but when i woke up my alarm clock said 12:36p.m wich i thought was weird so i reset it and it still said 12:36p.m weird right ???????????????????????????????
Mr. Whiskers says:
April 16, 2011, 12:10 pm
I love the fun stories told by Bill Sutley and Birth Von Jacobson. I know they are silly stories, but its all good fun.
Skrilla says:
July 2, 2011, 2:00 pm
Yes this is real its in alliance ohio I live in the town my mom n cuzin went to mess around was holding hands they seen the water bubbel n rising she let go of my other cuzins hands since then we been haunted I do belive it but im not scared…
baby under the bridge says:
October 7, 2012, 9:11 pm
Waaahh waahhh waaahh
Ivan Von Purtlesnout says:
October 7, 2012, 9:12 pm
I have never been to crybaby bridge, Newton Falls, or even America! But the tales you have told here have chilled me to the bone! As a collector of paranormal memorabilia I am currently making arrangements to purchase crybaby bridge and have it disassembled then shipped to my homeland of Moldova. I cannot wait to curl up under the bridge and be serenaded to sleep by the sounds of a crying ghost baby like so many of you have described.
Mike Brown says:
January 1, 2014, 2:51 pm
Might be true I'm prolife I belive all is worth saving this story is dividing line which side on cause when Cain killed Abel God heard his cry throught he blood if were on side we would hear it too
kara dunn says:
April 20, 2015, 2:50 pm
i live in marion ohio n we have cry baby brightoo
Patti says:
September 29, 2015, 11:55 am
I've lived in Newton Falls my whole life and have never heard this story or the bridge being "haunted" what so ever. Ridiculous.


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'The Table Polarization' - Season 7, Episode 16
When Leonard buys a new dining room table for the apartment, Sheldon begins to reconsider the changes made in his own life. Meanwhile, Howard's offered the chance to go back to space, but Bernadette doesn't think it's a good idea and doesn't know how to tell Howard.
Air Date: February 27, 2014.