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BRISTOL, Tenn. – It may only be February but it is still the start of baseball season! King College will lace up the cleats, tighten the glove straps, and take their hacks this weekend to start the 2012 campaign. The Tornado return a majority of its lineup from a season ago and will be introducing new key players to vital areas as they compete in its first year with Conference Carolinas.
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The pitchers to watch - click here
The freshman to watch - click here
The 2012 schedule - click here
This year's goal - click here
First-year Head Coach Blaine Brown takes the reins of the Tornado program after serving as an assistant for two seasons. Brown has implanted an "attitude of gratitude" approach with his players and predicates his team's play with perfecting the routine plays while running the bases aggressively. He coins his system as "organized chaos" to help keep teams on their toes and give the Tornado a variety of ways to score.
The Tornado have a strong group of starting outfielders locking down all three positions and an offense that will keep the team in contention while trying to get a young pitching staff up to speed as quickly as possible. Though expectations are low for King as it enters its first year in Conference Carolinas, having been tabbed seventh in the preseason coaches' poll, Brown has set the bar high for his group that contains 11 returning seniors, eight juniors, 20 sophomores and six true freshmen.
Last year the Tornado stole 123 total bases on 160 attempts (.769) and scored 248 runs, good for 4.68 runs scored per game. Returning from that aggressive offense is outfielder Bryant Walker (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Garrett Cook (Luray, Va.) who Brown indicates will be heavily relied upon to lead the younger players in their maturation.
Walker, a senior outfielder, led the team in hitting despite missing two weeks of the season due to an arm injury that he fought through to close out the year. He hit .352 overall in 41 games, tallying the fourth-most hits (43) and doubles (6) on the team. He knocked in the second-most runs (23) and had the second-highest slugging percentage (.525) while swiping 6-of-7 bags.
Cook and junior Tyler Orndorff (Stephenson, Va./Daytona State) will lock down the remaining two outfield positions, with Cook expected to hunker down centerfield. Cook started and played in 52 of the team's 53 games last season, tops on the team, and hit .283. He led the team in slugging percentage (.566), RBI (32), doubles (12), home runs (12), and total bases (82) a season ago and will serve as good protection in the middle of the lineup.
Preaching the importance of strength up the middle, Brown has called upon returners Shane Timberlake and Cody Snyder to lock down the middle infield. Timberlake, a senior from Lynchburg, Va., will return to play shortstop following a season he hit .281, stole 15 bases and kept his fielding percentage in the mid-90s all season long. Snyder, a sure-handed sophomore from Bluff City, Tenn., will play second base after making only two errors (.990) all of last year. Also up the middle but behind the dish will be Doug Freeman, a senior from Lakeland, Florida (Seminole CC). Freeman will see his role on the team expand on both sides of the pitcher-catcher relationship. Brown cites, "he [Freeman] has a lively arm that we need to use to the fullest". Freeman will also see time on the mound as a reliever to help bolster a young pitching staff. While behind the dish, Freeman tossed out eight runners attempting to steal against him on 38 attempts (.210) in addition to contributing a batting average a shade under .300 last year.
After losing top starter Alex Martin to an arm injury at the end of last season, the pitching staff will need to rely on some of its younger talent to bolster the top of the rotation. Sophomores Cory Rhodes (Kissimmee, Fla.) and Wesley Houser (Kodak, Tenn.) will begin the year as the 1-2 punch out of the gate. The pair combined for 11 wins last season as freshmen in a combined 21 starts. Rhodes was the team's second-best starter, starting 13 games and posting a 3.75 earned run average in 81.2 innings pitched. He held the opposition to a .257 batting average and struck out a team-high 39 batters. Houser went 3-5 last year in eight starts and will be promoted to the top-3 after serving as the team's mid-week man in 2011. Rounding out the staff is senior Danny Laperna (Lake Worth, Fla.), who went 5-5, registering five quality starts throughout his junior year.
After serving in a relief role last year, Reiss Stanley (Lenoir City, Tenn.) will begin the year as the fourth starter to help gain valuable experience on the hill to prepare for the long season ahead. In seven innings pitched last year, Stanley (1-0) has notched five strikeouts while walking only one. Dustin Pannell (Aiken, S.C.) and Nic Melcher (Orlando, Fla.) will help on the backend of the staff to provide late-inning relief. Both served in the same roles last year and ended the year each with sub-3.50 ERAs. Melcher tossed 60.1 innings in relief and posted a 2.98 ERA, striking out 28 hitters and walking only 11 while holding hitters to a .239 batting average.
Local sophomores Carl Roberts (Blountville, Tenn.) and Jarrod Payne (Johnson City, Tenn.) will slide into the starting lineup showing two new corner infielders at first and third base, respectively. Roberts will play a variety of roles but makes his name on the offensive side as a transfer from East Tennessee State University.
Bristol (Tenn.) native Tyler Gaby will serve as one of the team's reliable bench players that can help provide depth in the outfield and give a spark at the plate, when needed. He also possesses speed on the base paths, having stolen 18-of-25 bases last year, second-most on the team.
Also providing depth as they gain experience will be Jake Portugal (Barrington, R.I.) and Matt Higgins (Cincinnati, Ohio) will both see time on the bump as they mature both physically and mentally in their freshman years. Bluff City (Tenn.) native and Tennessee High graduate Stephen Mullins will also get some playing time around the infield and off the bench as one of Brown's most naturally talented freshman of this year's class.
King will open their season against No. 23 Georgia College, a team that advanced to the NCAA Division II championship just three seasons ago, this weekend. Brown has loaded his schedule with some tough competition, including preseason NCAA DII No. 1 Francis Marion (Feb. 12). The Tornado play their home opener on Feb. 18 in a doubleheader against Salem International and debut in Conference Carolinas against Barton on Feb. 25. Twenty-seven of their 50 schedule games will be against conference opponents, including Southeast region No. 2 and defending Conference Carolinas champions Mount Olive, who serve as the Tornado's third league series of the year (March 10-11).
King finished the 2011 season 28-25 overall while playing as an independent to complete the transition into NCAA Division. The Tornado fought through many injuries as the season progressed after starting the year 9-5 and hitting a stretch of the season where they went 11-4. A 10-game losing streak brought the Tornado back down to Earth as injuries began to pile in key areas though the resolve of the squad lifted them to a birth in the NCCAA World Series. The Tornado advanced all the way to the championship game where fellow Conference Carolinas newcomer, North Greenville, stood waiting and ended the Tornado's season.


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The decline of the restaurant critic?
Thanks to John Imbergamo for sharing this article on the Columbia Journalism Review's web site, entitled "Everyone Eats…But that doesn't make you a restaurant critic."
Written by Village Voice critic Robert Sietsema, it details the history of the modern restaurant review, and poses the question: In a world where anyone can easily publish an instant online critique of a restaurant, is old-school restaurant criticism dying — or perhaps already dead?
Are the ideas of dining anonymously, of waiting a couple of months for a restaurant to find its feet before subjecting it to a review, of visiting many times before printing an assessment (the rules that we adhere to here at the Denver Post) — are these once-required elements of restaurant reviewing any longer legit? Has knee-jerk feedback and clever snark replaced due diligence and methodical reporting?
If so, at what cost?
Are restaurants themselves at risk of shortchanging their potential in this new environment by putting so much effort into big splashy openings to court positive "media" attention, that they're ignoring the long-term work that's required for sustainable quality?
And as restaurants now strive for instant, opening-night buzz — at the potential expense of lasting greatness — are they in danger of cannibalizing their own relevance?
I hope not. The more I go out to dinner, the less impressed I am by glitz and gimmick, and yet, that's where most new restaurants seem to pile their stock as they chase instant press. It's hard to blame them, as investors pressure restaurateurs to get P/L statements in the black impossibly quickly, but it does make them feel disposable.
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Where does the future of restaurant criticism lie?

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First vote in!!!!
*does the happy idiot dance*
Call of Cthulhu
Beyond the Supernatural
WitchCraft/Armageddon or All Flesh Must Be Eaten
World of Darkness
Unknown Armies
Don't Rest Your Head
Pretty much the topic says it all, I want to find out what folks' favorite horror game is. I may not get to list all of those published, but if I miss one or two, mention it in a post.
First vote in!!!!
*does the happy idiot dance*
WoD, first horror rpg I ever played :P, I love the older versions more (vampire the masquerade mainly) but white wolf brought me back when the first bloodline book came out for Vampire the Requiem
"If you are flamable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit." - Mitch Hedburg
"If you find you are falling into madness -- dive." -Malkavian Proverb
Swords don't need reloading... that's why I am a melee fan .
Wow, this is a tight race.
There actually are a number of horror games that I didn't mention.
Little Fears, In Nomine, The Seventh Seal, and Delta Green just offer up a few.
I know some consider Nobilis to be horrific, but I don't think it quite qualifies here.
"If you are flamable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit." - Mitch Hedburg
"If you find you are falling into madness -- dive." -Malkavian Proverb
Swords don't need reloading... that's why I am a melee fan .
There is a brand new horror RPG campaign "Fellowship of the White Star" missing from the survey. That's my favorite.
I also don't see Witchhunter, a new horror game by Paradigm that also premiered at Origins.
Wait! Where is Dark Conspiracy?!? It is the best Horror RPG I have ever played. Put me down for it.
I loved old WoD but I also really like Witchcraft and AFMBE although I have never played either.
I like the old stuff, particularly the Ascension War (even though that was more on the Mage side of things).
CoC FTW!
Vampire The Masquerade hooked me when I was a PC gamer. I did a ridiculous amount of side projects for it with the most successful being the audio indexed search engine that was used to make comical conversations between characters that never happened in the game. I just sat in on a game locally and was absolutely taken with it. I've been reading some of the sourcebooks for other games like Call of Cthulhu and Kult RPG but neither are as appealing as the politically grandiose VTM.
I want to say Call of Cthuhlu but frankly the best times I have had were with Dark Ages Vampire. Unknown Armies, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, and Dark Conspiracy get honorable mentions
Coc is still the original and the best for my tastes.


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Aerosmith headline Calling Festival
Aerosmith are to headline a major outdoor festival in London which has been rebranded and moved to a new location.
The veteran rock band will play their first date in the city for four years at the Calling Festival on Clapham Common on Saturday June 28.
The event was formerly known as Hard Rock Calling and had been staged in Hyde Park for many years but, after a switch to the former Olympic park in east London last year, the sponsors pulled out.
Promoter Live Nation has now kept the festival alive with a further two-day event at the new location in south London.
Sharing the bill with Aerosmith - whose hits include Walk This Way, Love In An Elevator and Crazy - will be Thunder and Joe Bonamassa.
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry said: "It's been far too long since we have performed in the UK. We can't wait to bring back some of the classics as well as some of the new songs from Music From Another Dimension. We miss our UK fans."
Live Nation's vice president of promotions, Toby Leighton-Pope, said: "We're looking forward to bringing the new look event to Clapham Common, one of London's premier outdoor locations."
In past years the festival - which began life as Hyde Park Calling - has featured acts of the calibre of Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Sir Paul McCartney.
A headliner for Sunday June 29 is to be announced later. Tickets go on sale at 9am on March 7 at www.livenation.co.uk.
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By John McMullen
PHILADELPHIA - Jump in my hoopty hoopty hoop ... I own that.
"And I ain't paying my rent this month ... I owe that."
Nicki Minaj is probably on a lot of playlists around Philadelphia but you certainly would have never expected to hear the Trinidadian-born songstress belting out "Starships" in the background of an Andy Reid practice.
Things are far different in South Philadelphia these days as Chip Kelly has not only changed the stale culture around the Eagles, he has strapped a defibrillater on it and shocked it into a new era.
Minaj headlined an eclectic soundtrack as the Eagles practiced in front of the media for the first time under Kelly. Ozzy Osbourne, Duran Duran, Pitbull, Tupac and The Scorpions were some of Kelly's others choices as the he flew the Birds through a 20-period session that could only be described as frenetic.
In fact, it was like being at an Arena Football League game with constant noise bombarding the senses at every turn.
"There's a lot of science behind it," the Eagles' new coach said when asked about the music. "We've used it for a while."
A Siri-like male voice announced the various periods in the practice, which is heavy on tempo and repetitions before a few "teaching sessions" late in the process.
"We just want to practice efficiently, so it's the best way for us to practice," the former Oregon mentor said. "You've got 90 guys now. I don't think anybody on our team is going to complain about the amount of reps they got. I think everybody gets a chance to show what they can do on film, so therefore we can make some real good evaluations in terms of where we are because at some point in time we're going to have to go from 90 to 75 and then eventually to 53.
"So we want to make sure that we can use the full time we have. Obviously, this isn't how we're going to practice during the season, but in the offseason I think it's the best way to practice."
Kelly is big on the "science" of the game, so much so that it's become a talking point for him as he interacts with the notoriously tough Philly media.
"Obviously, we know we can't practice full speed for the entire time we're out there, so it's got to be short bursts, but the game of football is short bursts," Kelly explained. "It's really an anaerobic sport when you look at it, because you're going hard for five to six seconds and then you're taking a break, and that's what we're trying to get accomplished with these guys."
More that a few have questioned what Kelly is trying to do at the game's most important position. He brought back 33-year-old starting quarterback Michael Vick and signed his old acolyte from Oregon, Dennis Dixon, while also proclaiming second-year man Nick Foles will be given a chance to compete and then drafting former USC star Matt Barkley.
Of course, Vick and Dixon are movement-based signal-callers who project in the read-option while Foles and Barkley are traditional drop-back passers who rely on a quick release and getting the ball out of their hands.
It's a confusing situation.
Vick and Foles split the first-team reps on Monday while the rookie Barkley also got a lot of looks.
"I always feel like I'm a starter," Vick said. "I think the mind-set that you have to have is that you're going to be the number one guy."
All that said, Kelly's philosophy is slowly starting to come into focus and it's all about quick decision making, something which could foreshadow Vick's demise and the eventual winner of his QB derby.
"I think the game is about making quick decisions," Kelly said. "It's a game of 60 to 70 to 80 four-second plays. So once the ball is snapped, it happens at that tempo. We're just trying to force them to -- everything we do has to kind of be -- reflect what the mission is, and the mission is to be prepared to play a four-second play."
You can feel some of the old school guys rolling their eyes when Kelly talks, and that kind of second-guessing is going to follow the rookie coach until he prove his "college gimmicks" work with the big boys.
"We want to be efficient in our time, we don't want to be on the field for a long time, want to maximize the time we're on the field, and obviously you see us go from tempo periods to teach periods, there's a rhyme or reason to what we're doing, time on task versus time teaching, and I think there's a good balance of that," Kelly said.
For now, about the only thing we do know is things have changed with the Eagles.
Hit it, Nicki ...


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The Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network has issued tips on how to keep your home safe when going on holiday this summer.
Working in partnership with its security sponsor Avocet Hardware, Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network is urging householders to #stayABSsafe this summer by launching the #ABSsummerlockin campaign to coincide with the school summer holidays – a time of year that sees a 10 per cent increase in domestic burglaries and 40 per cent increase in outdoor thefts.
The office for National Statistics latest crime survey for England and Wales reports 92 per cent of all domestic burglary in a dwelling is committed through the front and back door, 52 per cent and 40 per cent respectively.
Furthermore, the report highlights one quarter of all burglaries are the result of forcing the lock or lock snapping as it's more commonly known – a growing trend directly related to the increase use of uPVC and other double glazed doors.
Jim Maddan, chairman of the Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network, said: "The school holidays is a busy time for burglars as many houses are left empty when people head off for a getaway. Throw in the light nights and warmer weather and it's no wonder there is an increase in break-ins.
"We want people to enjoy their summer holidays without worrying about their home, which is why we have joined with Avocet to let people know that fitting a proper anti-snap lock is a really effective way to help stop a burglar gaining access to your property."
Clive Lloyd, managing director of Avocet Hardware, said: "The rise in lock snapping is directly related to the increased use of uPVC and other double glazed doors, which can be found in millions of homes around the UK. By and large, these doors are fitted with a standard Euro cylinder lock that can be snapped and removed in a matter of seconds using nothing more than simple DIY tools.
"The ABS Snap Secure Lock is the only lock available with a patented snap secure technology, which will effectively lock the central cam in place. The ABS snap secure technology totally blocks access to the door bolt mechanism inside the lock case to effectively combat a snap attack."
For further information and updates on #ABSsummerlockin follow Twitter @N_Watch and @avocetabs. To stay up to date on Avocet news and competitions join its Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/abs.secure.
The Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network is also advising people to get to know their neighbours in a bid to lessen the chance of a burglary at their home.
Recent research by Admiral home insurance shows only one in three people in the South East make an effort to get to know their neighbours when they move house and 48 per cent don't tell nearby homeowners when they're going on holiday.
The growing concern is that a lack of neighbourly communication could pose a security risk to residents' homes this summer.
Jim Maddan said: "Neighbourliness seems to have slipped down the agenda in our busy lives, and this important survey has highlighted the issues.
"At this time of year when we are often away on holiday, it is vitally important that we share our plans with our neighbours, if only to ask them to feed the pets, water the plants or to make the house look lived-in.
"In this way burglaries can be prevented and we can do each other a good turn."
The student undertaken by Admiral suggests 69 per cent of people wouldn't trust their next-door neighbour with a key to their house while they're away. However, 45 per cent of people said they would go and investigate if they saw something suspicious happening in their neighbour's property,
Joining a Neighbourhood Watch scheme is completely free and has been proven to reduce your chance of getting burgled. For further information and home security safety advice visit the Neighbourhood and Home Watch website at www.ourwatch.org.uk.
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Robert Capa - FRANCE. The Battle of Normandy And Advance On Cherbourg US Forces.
Manche. Cherbourg. 27th June 1944.
The Mayor of Cherbourg Mr Paul REYNAUD announcing on the radio the liberation of the City, accompanied by Gen Joseph LAWTON ...
June-July 1944. An American unit entering a town.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 26th, 1944. German soldiers surrender to American troops.
FRANCE. WWII. The Battle of Normandy. Manche. Cherbourg. June 26th, 1944. General von Schlieben (left), Commander of the defeated German garrison with US General Manton S. Eddy, commander of the US 9th Infantry Division.
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Normandy. Mont St Michel. August 1944. The recently liberated town had been declared off limits to all military personnel except Generals and War Corre
FRANCE. Normandy. June, 1944. German officer surrendering to American officers.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 26th, 1944. US Major-General Mathew B RIDGEWAY (left), commander of the US 82nd Airborne Division and US Gen. Jospeh LAWTON COLLINS (right, in profile), commander of the US VII Corps.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June, 1944. A view of the city, damaged by allied bombs.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 27th, 1944. German soldiers captured by American troops.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 28, 1944. American soldiers and French civilians celebrating the liberation of the city in front of Cherbourg's city hall.
FRANCE. June 27, 1944. American troops approaching Cherbourg.
FRANCE. Near Cherbourg. June 22-28, 1944. US soldiers with German prisoners of war.
FRANCE. Cherbourg region. June 22-28, 1944. Wounded American soldiers.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 26-28, 1944. American troops.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 28th, 1944. American Military Police with German prisoners of war.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 26th-28th, 1944. German soldiers captured by American troops.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 26-28, 1944. American soldiers reacting to sniper fire.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 26-28, 1944. An American soldier during the fight for the city.
FRANCE. Cherbourg. June 26-28, 1944. German prisoners of war carrying their wounded.


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Just in case you haven't had your fill of cats rocking out to Top 40 hits today (who are we kidding? This is the Internet!), here is Ariana Grande's 'Problem' as remixed by cats.
Remember how the 'Sam & Cat' star's 'Problem' lyric vid was shot in black and white with pinwheel-type shadows? Well, the kitties in this vid are shot in the same way, only the lyrics are entirely cat-themed and entirely hilarious.
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Cheat Sheet
Solving Cryptic Crosswords For Dummies Cheat Sheet (Australian Edition)
Cryptic crosswords are often seen as a challenging puzzle form — delight may be rare to anyone new to this type of brain teaser! On first reading, the clues can seem to be made up of complete gibberish. However, cryptic crosswords actually conform to a set of rules and they can be solved! In this Cheat Sheet, you will discover some handy pointers on how cryptic clues go together, the basics of the main cryptic devices, and a brief introduction to cryptic abbreviations often found in clues.
Understanding Cryptic Clue Anatomy
While they do look completely incomprehensible at first glance, cryptic clues are actually written along set guidelines. The majority of clues in a cryptic crossword adhere to these standards:
Every cryptic clue includes a straight definition of the answer, just like in a 'regular' crossword. It's astonishing, but true!
The definition part of the clue will always be at the start or end of the clue, and never sandwiched in the middle.
Most cryptic clues run along the lines of this formula: Definition + Wordplay = Answer (or Wordplay + Definition = Answer).
The wordplay is the (hopefully) fun part, and can use one, or a combination of, about 8 or 9 main clue types. Wordplay devices include anagrams, reversals, deletions and so on.
The definition part of a cryptic clue may be a straightforward dictionary definition, or a more oblique or unusual definition.
Identifying the definition section of the clue is a vital part of solving a cryptic clue. Once you think you've pinned it down, the remainder of the clue is automatically the wordplay!
Many cryptic clues include 'indicator words', which are a word or a short phrase that tells you what sort of wordplay is being used in the clue.
Getting to Grips with Cryptic Crossword Devices
There are about eight main types of wordplay devices used in cryptic crossword clues and a bunch of less common ones. Here you'll find the basic points of the main devices.
An anagram is a device where the letters from one word, or a few words, are jumbled up to form another word (the answer to the clue). For example, TRIMS CASH is an anagram of CHRISTMAS.
The letters to be rearranged are in clear view in the clue. These words are called the anagram 'fodder'. Abbreviations are occasionally included in the anagram fodder.
An anagram clue has to have an anagram indicator, which tells you some words in the clue have to be rearranged. There are hundreds of possible anagram indicators. Any word that gives the impression of something being broken, confused and so on, could be one!
The longest words in the crossword grid are very often clued with anagrams.
A charade clue is one where one part is added to another to get the answer. For example, CARAWAY can be clued as a charade of CAR + AWAY.
The parts that are added together are typically synonyms, words 'in the clear' (words seen in the clue without needing to find a synonym), or abbreviations, or combinations of these.
Charades don't generally have indicator words. They occasionally have linking words such as with, has, and, and similar, to join the parts.
Charades are a common clue device and can be used in conjunction with other clue devices.
All cryptic crosswords include at least some, if not many, charade clues.
The container clue device is one set of letters, or a short word, put inside another word.
Indicator words are used in the containment device, and will indicate that you need to put one thing inside another. Just a few examples: aboard, among, breaking and within.
Container clues can also be clued as one word out around another word.
The sorts of indicator words used give a sense of surrounding, such as astride, clutching, eating, going around, outside, protecting, and wrapping. The parts to be put together are usually synonyms of words in the clue, abbreviations, or a combination of these.
This is a very common device, and can be used in conjunction with other clue devices.
A deletion cryptic device is one or a few letters being deleted from another word, to get to the answer. For example, END can be clued as MEND – M, or FRIEND – FRI, or …
An indicator word or two is always needed in a deletion clue. These are words which give a sense (not surprisingly) of something being deleted. A few examples: abandoned, almost, cut, excluding, forgetting, lacking, leaving, missing, not, shed, wanting, without.
Letter position is sometimes indicated in these clues (first, middle, last, half, etc). This is a common cryptic device, and can be used in conjunction with other devices.
Reversals are a cryptic device where one word, or a part of a word, is reversed to get to the answer. For example, OGRE is ERGO reversed.
Indicator words give a sense of something being reversed, such as backfiring, back to front, coming back, contrary, go around, inverted, recalled, and spun.
* Down clues can also have reversal indicators that give a sense of words rising upwards, such as ascending, elevated, hoisted, raised, and skyward.
Reversals are a common device, and can be used in conjunction with other devices.
Homophones are words that sound like other words, but are spelt differently. For example, BOW and BEAU are homophones.
Homophone clues have indicator words that give a sense that something needs to be heard, spoken, or broadcast. Some examples: aloud, audibly, by the sound of it, declared, for the listener, I hear, in speech, on the radio, orally, and verbal.
This is a less common device, and a crossword will generally have only a few or even none.
Double Definitions
In a double definition clue, there are simply two different definitions for the answer put next to each other. For example, DESERT can mean an arid sandy place, or to abandon someone.
Double definition clues vary from the usual "Wordplay + Definition = Answer" equation. Their equation is "Definition 1 + Definition 2 = Answer".
Indicator words are not generally used, although sometimes a linking word or two is used, such as and, but, from, gives, makes, or that.
This is a moderately common cryptic device, so keep an eye out for them!
Hidden Words
The letters of the answer are in plain sight, in a hidden word clue! They are sitting within other words of the clue. For example, the word TENT can be hidden in kitTEN Temper.
Indicator words are used, these will give a sense of containment, such a bit of, buried in, concealed by, essentially, from, held by, in part, sample of, or within. Container indicator words can also be used.
Sometimes the alternate letters of a word are indicated. These can be indicated an instruction to look at the alternate, regular, odd, or even letters of a word in the clue.
This is a less common cryptic device, as these clues are relatively easy to solve.
Cryptic Definitions
Cryptic definition clues are different from the standard cryptic equation. In a cryptic definition clue, the whole clue works as a funny or quirky definition for the answer. There isn't any wordplay in the usual sense of the word, and there aren't any indicator words. For example, a wicked thing is a cryptic definition for CANDLE (because it has a wick, groan).
A question or exclamation mark is often used at the end of these clues.
These clues are seen in most cryptics; some setters use them a lot, some use them a little.
Tackling Abbreviations Used in Cryptic Crossword Clues
Abbreviations are widely used in cryptic clues, and many clue devices use them. You will come across abbreviations in charade, container, reversion and deletion clues in particular, and in some anagram clues.
Cryptic abbreviations can often trip up new solvers, so gaining some familiarity with these is a great way to improve your cryptic solving skills. There are hundreds of possible abbreviations, so reference lists are definitely handy.
Many cryptic abbreviations are quite straightforward and in common use. For example: north = N, left = L, oxygen = O, and that is = IE. The phonetic alphabet is often used (foxtrot = F, sierra = S, etc), as well as musical symbols (soft = P, for piano, loud = F, for forte, soprano = S etc) and cricketing terms (duck = O, from a score of 0, run out = RO etc).
However, there are a bunch of abbreviations that are decidedly odd, and which you really need to be told about to understand. These can really present stumbling blocks to the uninitiated! A lot of these are British, and come from an earlier time when cryptics were first developed (in the 1940s and 1950s). Many of these abbreviations stem from British divisions in the World Wars, or from school boy slang.
As an example of this, meal ticket = LV (luncheon voucher, part of a WWII scheme in the UK), main road = MI (looks like M1), lines = BR (British Rail), and beware = CAVE (from the Latin word for "beware", which was used as schoolboy slang).
The best way to spot abbreviations in cryptic clues is to look at each word of a clue in turn, and see if it might lead to a common abbreviation. Looking up single letter entries in any dictionary will provide you with good lists of the common abbreviations. For the more specialised cryptic abbreviations, try using a cryptic crossword dictionary such as Chambers or Bradford's, or looking for lists online.


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Technical competency, the "hard side" of engineering and other technical professions, is necessary but not sufficient for success in business. Young engineers must also develop nontechnical or "soft–side" competencies like communication, marketing, ethics, business accounting, and law and management in order to fully realize their potential in the workplace.
This updated edition of Engineering Your Future is the go–to resource on the nontechnical aspects of professional practice for engineering students and young technical professionals alike. The content is explicitly linked to current efforts in the reform of engineering education including ABET′s Engineering Criteria 2000, ASCE′s Body of Knowledge, and those being undertaken by AAEE, AIChE and ASME. The book treats essential nontechnical topics you′ll encounter in your career, like self–management, interpersonal relationships, teamwork, project and total quality management, design, construction, manufacturing, engineering economics, organizational structures, business accounting, and much more. Features new to this revised edition include:
A stronger emphasis on management and leadership
A focus on personal growth and developing relationships
Expanded treatment of project management
Coverage of how to develop a quality culture and ways to encourage creative and innovative thinking
A discussion of how the results of design, the root of engineering, come to fruition in constructing and manufacturing, the fruit of engineering
New information on accounting principles that can be used in your career–long financial planning
An in–depth treatment of how engineering students and young practitioners can and should anticipate, participate in, and ultimately effect change
If you′re a student or young practitioner starting your engineering career, Engineering Your Future is essential reading.
Technical Competency: Necessary but Not Sufficient xix
Audiences: Students and Practitioners xx
Organization and Content xx
Additions and Improvements xxi
This Book and ABET Engineering Accreditation Criteria xxii
This Book and the Body of Knowledge Movement xxiii
Acknowledgments xxvii
Cited Sources xxviii
List of Abbreviations xxix
Chapter 1 Introduction: Engineering and the Engineer 1
The Playing Field 1
Definitions of Engineering 3
Leading, Managing, and Producing: Deciding, Directing, and Doing 4
Leading, Managing, and Producing Defined 4
The Traditional Pyramidal, Segregated Organizational Model 4
The Shared Responsibility Organizational Model 6
The Focus of This Book: Managing and Leading 7
Leading Misconceptions 8
The Seven Qualities of Effective Leaders 8
Honesty and Integrity 9
Vision: Reach and Teach 9
Strategies and Tactics to Achieve the Vision 12
Always a Student 13
Courageous 15
Calm in a Crisis and Chaos 17
Creative, Innovative, Collaborative, and Synergistic 18
The Engineer as Builder 19
Concluding Thoughts: Common Sense, Common Practice, and Good Habits 20
Cited Sources 22
Annotated Bibliography 23
Exercises 24
Chapter 2 Leading and Managing: Getting Your Personal House in Order 27
Start with You 27
Time Management: But First Roles and Goals 28
Time is a Resource 28
Roles, Goals, and Then, and Only Then, Time Management 28
Time Management: The Great Equalizer 30
Time Management Tips: The ABCs 31
A Time Management System 45
Key Ideas about Time Management 46
Employment or Graduate School? 46
Full–Time Graduate Study 47
Full–Time Employment 48
Learn From Potential Employers 48
The New Work Environment: Culture Shock? 49
No Partial Credit 49
Little Tolerance for Tardiness 49
Assignments are Not Graded 50
Schedules are More Complicated 50
Higher Grooming and Dress Expectations 50
Teamwork is Standard Operating Procedure 51
Expect and Embrace Change 51
The First Few Months of Practice: Make or Break Time 51
Recognize and Draw on Generic Qualities 52
Guard Your Reputation 53
Learn and Respect Administrative Procedures and Structure 53
Complete Assignments in Accordance with Expectations 53
Get Things Done 54
Trim Your Hedges 54
Keep Your Supervisor Informed 55
Speak Up and Speak Positively 55
Dress Appropriately 56
Hone Communication Ability 57
Seize Opportunities for You and Your Organization 57
Choose To Be a Winner 57
Summing it Up 59
Managing Personal Professional Assets: Building Individual Equity 59
Personal Professional Assets 59
Annual Accounting 60
Careful Management of Personal Professional Equity 60
Continuing Education 61
Involvement in Professional Organizations: Taking and Giving 61
Licensing 64
Concluding Thoughts: Getting Your Personal House in Order 67
Cited Sources 68
Annotated Bibliography 69
Exercises 70
Chapter 3 Communicating to Make Things Happen 73
Five Forms of Communication 73
Three Distinctions between Writing and Speaking 75
Single–Channel versus Multi–Channel 75
One–Directional versus Two–Directional 76
Conveying versus Convincing 76
Listening: Using Ears and Eyes 77
Be Attentive 77
The Value of Facts and Feelings 78
Body Language: The Silent Messenger 78
Verify Understanding 80
Use What Is Learned 80
Writing Tips: How to Write to Make Things Happen 80
Define the Purpose 80
Profile the Audience 81
Structure the Document to Reflect the Audience Profile 82
Ask About Document–Writing Guidelines 84
Start Writing on "Day 1" 84
Get Started: Overcome Writer s Block 85
Avoid Tin Ear 87
Retain Some of the Outline in the Document 88
Write Major Documents in Third Person: Mostly 88
Employ a Gender–Neutral Style 89
Write in an Active, Direct Manner Rather Than a Passive, Indirect Manner 89
Recognize that Less Is More 90
Apply Rhetorical Techniques 92
Adopt a Flexible Format for Identifying Tables, Figures, and Sources 93
Use Lists 94
Design a Standard Base Map or Diagram 94
Compose Informative Titles 94
Establish Milestones 95
Produce an Attractive and Appealing Document 95
Cite All Sources 95
Read One More Time 96
Speaking Tips: How to Speak to Make Things Happen 97
Conquer Reluctance to Speak: Commit to Competence 98
Prepare the Presentation 99
Deliver the Presentation 111
Follow–Up the Presentation 116
Concluding Thoughts about Writing and Speaking 118
Cited Sources 118
Annotated Bibliography 120
Exercises 121
Chapter 4 Developing Relationships 123
Taking the Next Career Step 123
Personality Profiles 124
Maslow s Hierarchy of Needs 125
The Hierarchy 125
Application 126
Theories X and Y 127
Definitions 127
Applications of Theory X and Theory Y Knowledge 127
Dominance of Theory Ys 128
Delegation: Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What Someone Else Can Do Today? 129
Reasons to Delegate 129
Reluctance to Delegate 131
Delegation Isn t Always Down 133
Delegation Tips 133
Three Possible Outcomes 134
Orchestrating Meetings 135
Reasons to Meet 135
When Not To Call a Meeting 136
Tips for Successful Meetings 136
Additional Meeting Thoughts 145
Working with Technologists, Technicians, and Other Team Members 145
Essential Members of the Organization 146
Challenges Unique to Working with Varied Team Members 147
A Dozen Tips for the Entry–Level Technical Person 148
Selecting Co–Workers and "Managing Your Boss" 150
Carefully Select Your "Boss" and Co–workers 150
Seek a Mutually–Beneficial Relationship 150
Avoid Being a "Yes" Man/Woman 151
Caring Isn t Coddling 151
Coaching 152
Coaching Tips 152
Concluding Thought 153
Teamwork 153
Three Teamwork Essentials 154
Creating a Team 155
The Forming–Storming–Norming–Performing Process 157
Closing Thoughts about Teams 157
Effective Professional Meeting and Conference Attendance 158
Learning about the Conference 158
Before the Conference 158
At the Conference 159
After the Conference 162
Looking Ahead 163
Concluding Thoughts about Developing Relationships 163
Cited Sources 164
Annotated Bibliography 165
Exercises 166
Chapter 5 Project Management: Planning, Executing, and Closing 167
Project Broadly Defined 167
Project Management Defined 168
The Centrality of Project Management 169
Relevance of Project Management to the Student and Entry–Level Technical Person 172
Planning the Project 173
All Projects Are Done Twice 173
The Project Plan: Introduction 174
Consequences of Poor or No Planning 175
The Project Plan Avoidance Syndrome 175
Preparing the Project Plan 176
Principal Project Plan Elements 177
Element 1: Objectives What Do We Want to Accomplish? 178
Element 2: Scope How Are We Going to Do It? 178
Element 3: Risks What Could Go Wrong? 178
Element 4: Deliverables What Will We Provide to the Client/Owner/Customer? 181
Element 5: Milestones/Schedule When Will We Provide the Deliverables? 181
Element 6: Tasks What Tasks Need to be Done and in What Order to Provide the Deliverables? 182
Element 7: Resources/Budget How Much Will the Project Cost? 183
Element 8: Directory Who Will Participate? 184
Element 9: Communication Protocol How Will We Collaborate? 185
Element 10: Monitoring and Control Procedure How Will We Know How We Are Doing Relative to the Project Plan? 185
Ten Possible Additional Project Plan Elements 186
Project Planning Versus Project Doing 187
Executing the Project 188
Keep the Project Team on Track 188
Interact With Client, Owner, or Customer 188
Communicate With Stakeholders 188
Monitor Project Progress and Take Appropriate Actions 189
Closing the Project 190
Seek External Input 190
Conduct Project Team Meeting 191
Leverage the Just–Completed Project 191
Closure: Common Sense and Self Discipline 192
Cited Sources 192
Annotated Bibliography 193
Exercises 194
Chapter 6 Project Management: Critical Path Method and Scope Creep 195
This Chapter Relative to the Preceding Chapter 195
The Critical Path Method 196
Introduction: The Four Schedule Questions 196
Alternative Scheduling Methods 197
Network Fundamentals 199
Critical Path Method Steps 200
Example Application of the Critical Path Method 201
Tips for Determining Tasks 207
Some Observations about the Critical Path Method 208
Review of Earlier Schedule Questions 209
Closing Thoughts about the Critical Path Method 210
Scope Creep 210
Two Types of Scope Creep 210
Consequences of Uncompensated Scope Creep 212
Drivers of Uncompensated Scope Creep 213
Doing Something Extra: The Platinum Rule 215
Relevance to You as a Student 215
Preventing Uncompensated Scope Creep 216
Resolving Uncompensated Scope Creep 223
Ideas for Clients, Owners, and Customers about Avoiding Uncompensated Scope Creep 225
Closing Thoughts about Scope Creep 227
Cited Sources 227
Annotated Bibliography 228
Exercises 228
Chapter 7 Quality: What Is It and How Do We Achieve It? 231
Everyone Is for It! 231
Quality Defined 232
Quality as Opulence 232
Quality as Excellence or Superiority 233
Quality as Meeting All Requirements 233
A Caution for Engineers and Other Technical Personnel 235
Quality Control and Quality Assurance 236
Suggestions for Developing a Quality Seeking Culture 237
Strive to Understand Client, Owner, and Customer Wants and Needs 238
Define the Other Project Requirements 242
Assess and Manage Risk 242
Think Upstream, Not Downstream 242
Create, Use, and Continuously Improve Written Guidance for Repetitive Tasks and Processes 243
Expect Each Person to Check His or Her Work 248
Arrange for External Reviews 249
Reduce Cycle Time 249
Tools and Techniques for Stimulating Creative and Innovative Thinking 250
The Need for and Value of Tools and Techniques 250
Create and Innovate Defined 250
Brainstorming 251
Mulitvoting 252
Strengths–Weaknesses–Opportunities–Threats 252
Stakeholder Input 253
Process Diagramming 253
Fishbone Diagramming 254
Pareto Analysis 254
Problems–First Meetings 256
Mind Mapping 256
Ohno Circle 258
Metrics 259
Freehand Drawing 260
Take a Break 263
Closure: Commit to Quality 264
Cited Sources 264
Annotated Bibliography 266
Exercises 267
Chapter 8 Design: To Engineer Is to Create 269
The Root of Engineering 269
This Chapter s Approach 270
Design in the Context of Major Engineering Functions 271
Four Engineering Functions 271
Interaction 271
"Back–of–the–Envelope" Sketches and Calculations 272
Design Phases 273
Hard and Soft Results 274
The Disproportionate Impact of the Design Function 274
Design in Terms of Deliverables 274
Drawings 275
Technical Specifications 276
Non–Technical Provisions 277
Design as Risky Business 278
Design as a Personally–Satisfying and People–Serving Process 279
More Than Applied Science 279
Aspiring to Creativity and Innovation 280
The Words "Engineer" and "Create" 280
Closing Thoughts About Design 281
Cited Sources 281
Annotated Bibliography 282
Exercises 282
Chapter 9 Building: Constructing and Manufacturing 283
The Engineer as Builder 283
Constructing 285
Importance of Constructing 285
What Gets Constructed and How? 286
Roles of Engineers in Constructing 287
Trends in Constructing 289
Manufacturing 290
Importance of Manufacturing 290
What Gets Manufactured and How? 291
Roles of Engineers in Manufacturing 292
Trends in Manufacturing 293
Differences between Constructing and Manufacturing 294
Closing Thoughts about Constructing and Manufacturing 294
Cited Sources 295
Annotated Bibliography 295
Exercises 296
Chapter 10 Basic Accounting: Tracking the Past and Planning the Future 299
Relevance of Accounting to the Engineer 299
The Balance Sheet: How Much Is It Worth? 300
Personal Balance Sheet 301
Business Balance Sheet 302
The Income Statement: Inflow and Outflow 304
Personal Income Statement 305
Business Income Statement 306
Relationship between the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement 308
Accounting for Your Future 309
Estimating the Necessary Net Worth at the End of Your Earning Phase 309
Accumulating the Necessary Net Worth by the End of Your
Earning Phase 312
Is This Overkill? 314
The Impact of Time Utilization Rate and Expense Ratio on Profitability in the Consulting Business 314
Utilization Rate and Expense Ratio 314
Analysis of a Consulting Firm s Income Statement 315
Sensitivity of Profit to Time Utilization and Expense Ratio 316
The Multiplier 319
The Multiplier as an Indicator of Cost Competitiveness? 319
Reducing the Multiplier 320
Caveat about Cost and Consultant Selection 320
The Income Statement as Part of the Business Plan for a Consulting Firm 320
Project Overruns: Implications for Profitability and Personnel 321
Concluding Thoughts about You and Accounting 324
Cited Sources 324
Annotated Bibliography 325
Exercises 325
Chapter 11 Legal Framework 329
Why Law for Engineers? 329
Legal Terminology 332
Changing Attitudes: Forewarned is Forearmed 334
Liability: Incurring It 334
Liability: Failures and Learning from Them 336
Collapse of Hotel Walkway 337
Other Failures 338
Liability: Minimizing It 339
Insurance: Financial Protection 339
Organizational Preventive Practices 339
Personal Preventive Practices 340
Maintaining Perspective on Liability Minimization 344
Legal Forms of Business Ownership 344
Sole Proprietorship 345
Partnership 346
Corporation 346
Closure 347
Concluding Comments about the Legal Framework 347
Cited Sources 347
Annotated Bibliography 349
Exercises 349
Chapter 12 Ethics: Dealing with Dilemmas 353
Inevitable Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions 353
Defining Ethics 355
Definitions 355
Distilling the Definitions 356
Teaching and Learning Ethics 356
Legal and Ethical Domain 359
Codes of Ethics 362
Introduction to Codes: What They Are 362
Engineering Society Codes of Ethics 363
Ethics Codes for Other Professions 365
Business Codes of Ethics 366
Government Codes of Ethics 367
University Codes of Ethics 369
Codes Cannot Anticipate All Circumstances 370
Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas: Using Codes and Other Resources 370
Ethics Codes 371
Advice of Experienced Personnel 371
A Nine–Step Individual or Group Process 371
A Systematic Group Process 372
Application of Moral Imagination 373
Case Study: Discovering a Major Design Error after Construction Is Complete 374
Design and Construction 374
Post–Construction Discovery 374
The Engineer s Actions 375
What Happened to LeMessurier? 376
Concluding Thoughts: Seeing Sermons 376
Cited Sources 377
Annotated Bibliography 378
Exercises 379
Chapter 13 Role and Selection of Consultants 381
Consultant Defined and Why You Should Care 381
The Meanings of Consultant 381
Why You Should Care 382
Why Retain a Consultant? Let s Do It Ourselves! 383
Characteristics of Successful Consultants 385
Consultant Selection Process 387
Cost Versus Quality 387
Price–Based Selection 388
The Ideal Selection Process 389
Qualifications–Based Selection 390
Steps in the Selection Process 391
Welcome Exceptions 396
Summing Up the Consultant Selection Process 396
Price–Based Selection: Three Costs to the Consultant 397
Offering Less Than We Could 397
Further Reduction in Profit 398
Damaged Reputation 398
Closing Thoughts 399
Conclusions about the Role and Selection of Consultants 400
Cited Sources 401
Annotated Bibliography 401
Exercises 402
Chapter 14 Marketing: A Mutually–Beneficial Process 403
Consider Your View of Marketing: Are You Carrying Some Baggage? 403
Chapter s Scope 404
The Economic Motivation for Marketing Professional Services 405
Marketing and Selling: Different but Related 406
A Simple, Powerful Marketing Model 409
The Model 409
Applying the Model 410
Caution: Respect the Order and Invest Time Wisely 411
Marketing Techniques and Tools 412
Create a Personal Marketing Plan 412
Learn the Marketing Language 414
Schedule Marketing Tasks 416
Find Common Ground 416
Earn Trust 418
Ask–Ask–Ask: The Power of Questions 419
Talk to Strangers 422
Stress Benefits, Not Features 422
Focus on Existing Clients, Owners, and Customers 423
Help to Establish Multiple–Level Links 424
Proactively Establish the Next Step 425
Selectively Share Data, Information, and Knowledge 426
What Works and What Doesn t Work 426
Marketing Concluding Comments 427
Cited Sources 428
Annotated Bibliography 429
Exercises 429
Chapter 15 The Future and You 431
What Does the Future Hold? 431
The World You Will Work In: Same Role but New Stage 432
After the Knowledge Age, the Conceptual Age? 433
After The Knowledge Age, the Opportunity Age? 434
After The Knowledge Age, the Solving Wicked Problems Age? 435
Additional Views of the World Stage 436
Implications for You 437
How to Lead Change 438
Encounter a Leadership Gap 438
Move Beyond Being the Thermometer: Also be the Thermostat 439
Define the Situation: What, Why, Who, How, and When? 439
Recognize Widespread Resistance to Change 440
Practice Paradigm Pliancy: Prevent Paradigm Paralysis 442
Appreciate the Movers Movables–Immovables Structure 446
Work Effectively With theMovers,Movables, and Immovables 447
Expect the Awareness Understanding Commitment Action Cascade 448
Test Drive Terminology 449
Learn Why Change Efforts Fail 450
Adopt Change Principles and a Change Process 451
Concluding Thoughts about You and the Future 451
Cited Sources 452
Annotated Bibliography 453
Exercises 454
Appendix A: Engineering your Future Supports ABET Basic Level Criterion 3 455
Appendix B: Engineering Your Future Supports ABET Program Criteria for Civil and Similarly–Named Engineering Programs 457
Appendix C: Engineering Your Future Supports the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge 459
Index 461
About the Author 469


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This is one of the largest Chinatowns in North America. It is centred around the intersection of Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue, and extends outward from this point along both streets. It has grown significantly over the years and has come to reflect a diverse set of Asian cultures through its shops and restaurants, including Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai. Prior to this, Chinatown was located on Dundas Street West and Bay Street. When the City began construction on the current City Hall in the 1960s, Chinese-oriented stores and homes formerly in the old district were required to close down and move shop, so that the area could be cleared for the new building. Consequently, the Chinese community migrated westward to Chinatown's current location. Only a handful of Chinese businesses still remain around Bay and Dundas. Since the late 1990s, younger, higher-income immigrants from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong have moved out, so those left in the district are typically from older generations who depend on downtown's dense concentration of services and accessibility to public transportation. The area has also seen a surge in Latin American immigrants, who are changing the face of old Chinatown.
An influx of University of Toronto and Ryerson University students seeking affordable housing, coupled with the location of the Ontario College of Art and Design adjacent to Chinatown, has accelerated gentrification of the district, bringing in young professionals to the area.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Why the Dippers and Wells Shouldn't be Laughing at Quebec Liberals
Here's a spin that Wells didn't talk about in his little blog story. One that brings the NDP's rejoicement over Liberals - who are apparently their real enemy, not Stephen Harper - to an abrupt holding pattern.
The Liberals have been hovering around 18 - 24 percent in Quebec for most of 2007 and 2008. Nothing's really changed in that regard. The Bloc was at 36% in the last poll out. According to this little CROP poll (try to find their website. Good luck) the Bloc is at 29%. A nice drop. So who got their support? The Conservatives and the Dippers. It's not the Liberals leaking support. It's the Bloc.
It would appear that Harper's immigration strategy is paying off large for him in the areas outside of the island of Montreal. Now we know why he has that ridiculous bill in the budget. It's clear that, once again, Harper has learned to pander to popular - and not always correct - opinion in Quebecoisville off the island. Remember the uproar recently over immigrants?
So, in the end, after the next election, the story will be the same. The Dippers will have one or less seats in the province of Quebec and 10 less seats in the House of Commons. That's my opinion. Afterall, how many seats have the NDP won in Quebec lifetime? Somebody refresh my memory.
So, for Quebec Liberals, repeat after me. The sky is not falling. The sky is not falling. The sky is not falling.
9 comments:
- Robert McClelland said...
Only retards make this big of a deal out of polls.
- Apr 30, 2008, 1:53:00 PM
- wilson said...
'' It's clear that, once again, Harper has learned to pander to popular - and not always correct''
The 'people' are always right James.
Perhaps Libs need to stop pandering to the Dipper voters, and take a good look at what the majority of Canadians want.
It won't be a carbon tax,
it won't be raising the GST to pay for a new social program.
- Apr 30, 2008, 3:09:00 PM
- Ted said...
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th across the province who cares? We don't have a US electoral college system here.
Canadian elections are pretty simple: Win the most votes in one riding and you get the seat.
So when the polls show the NDP and the Conservatives chipping away at the Bloc support... where Liberals have no chance of winning... who gives a crap.
This poll shows the Liberals not losing a single seat in the next election and maybe gaining, and it shows the NDP not gaining a single seat.
If that is heaven for the NDP, then congratulations. You are almost relevant.
- Apr 30, 2008, 4:42:00 PM
- James Curran said...
Yes Robert We know:
Wilson, I'm convinced you are really Pierre Poilievre.
Teddy, well said.
- Apr 30, 2008, 5:09:00 PM
- Robert McClelland said...
There's a big difference between reporting a poll and writing a 600 word polemic trying to divine what it means. Only a right whinger wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
- Apr 30, 2008, 8:33:00 PM
- James Curran said...
Really? You should read some of your stuff. Quite lengthy. Makes for good bathroom material.
- Apr 30, 2008, 8:35:00 PM
- Alan said...
That is encouraging, considering all this time over numbers in Quebec have stayed the same since the last election. Never thought of it like that, thanks James for clearing the air. Guess the media was looking for a raise so they made up some crazy stories these past few weeks.
My own opinion is that we may take some seats back, though they may be restricted to Montreal island. I'm talking about Ahuntsic, and Papineau (where Justin Trudeau is running)
- May 1, 2008, 12:09:00 AM
- James Curran said...
Wells mentions Ahuntsic in his updated piece. Is Eleni running there again?
- May 1, 2008, 12:13:00 AM
- Alan said...
Yes, Eleni is running again that's what I heard. She recently left her post at the OLO in Ottawa.
I think Paddy Torsney's running again too.
- May 1, 2008, 11:27:00 AM


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Continual coverage of the trial of Drew Peterson for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
5:30 p.m. Testimony done for the day
Jurors have been sent home, and testimony has concluded for the day. Court is scheduled to resume Wednesday morning.
4:45 p.m. 'Life would be easier if she was dead'
Bolingbrook Police Lt James Coughlin testified he was at the Will County courthouse in February 2004, standing near the elevators with a fellow Bolingbrook officer, when he saw Drew Peterson in the hallway.
Coughlin testified that when his fellow officer commented about how Peterson's divorce attorneys, who were laughing, seemed happy, Peterson said, "That's because they're getting all of my money."
Peterson, who Coughlin said seemed irritated, then said:
"My life would be easier if she was dead - or died, I don't recall which word," Coughlin testified.
The incident stuck with him, Coughlin testifed, because Savio was found drowned in her Bolingbrook bathtub just a few weeks later.
2:50 p.m. Pathologist said Savio wasn't murdered
Robert Deel testified that Dr Bryan Mitchell, the pathologist who performed the original autopsy, told him that Kathleen Savio's death was not a murder.
"He told me her death was not a homicide," Deel testified.
Defense attorney Joel Brodsky asked Deel if Mitchell, who died two years ago, had ever wavered in his belief.
"No," Deel replied.
2:35 p.m. Investigator says he kept open mind
Under cross-examination from defense attorney Joel Brodsky, state police investigator Robert Deel testified that he kept an open mind as he checked Kathleen Savio's home, but he saw nothing that looked like foul play.
He said there was "consensus" among the investigators that there was nothing suspicious about the death scene. The bathroom looked orderly, nothing was broken and while many items were undisturbed around the tub, there was a shampoo bottle and bar of soap inside it.
"There was even a soap bottle that was in the bathtub," Deel said. "If you're going to move one thing, you're going to move everything. The position of the body was consistent with where it should be… I can only say that it looked to me as if it was a normal bathroom and everything appeared as it should be."
But he said he placed bags over Savio's hands to preserve evidence in case her death was later ruled a homicide.
"When we left there, we didn't really know what happened to her," he said
Earlier, defense attorney Steve Greenberg objected to a prosecutor's line of questioning about what Deel didn't do the night Savio's body was found. Judge Edward Burmila said prosecutors are allowed to put on their case, but if they can't tie it up, they won't be able to argue a botched investigation in their closing arguments.
"If they want to say this is the worst police investigator on the face of the earth … I can't stop them from doing that, but I don't see how that prejudices Mr. Peterson," Burmila said.
1:45 p.m. Investigator didn't assess head injury
Investigator Robert Deel testified this afternoon that the bruises and injuries he saw on Kathleen Savio's body did not affect how he processed the scene.
He said he knew Savio was bleeding from a head injury but he didn't investigate it, saying that was the role of the pathologist at a later autopsy.
"When we took her out of tub, we got blood all over our gloves, but I didn't conduct an examination of her head to see where that blood was coming from," he said. "That's beyond the scope of what I'm supposed to do."
12:05 p.m. 'I was not thinking it was a homicide'
Illinois state police trooper Robert Deel testified there was nothing to indicate foul play at the scene of Kathleen Savio's death.
"I was not thinking that it was a homicide at that time," said Deel, who conducted the initial investigation into Savio's death for the Illinois state police.
Deel said he noticed a bottle of household cleaner on the dresser in the master bedroom as well as an abrasion on Savio's left buttock.
Asked if he took note of the injury the night he investigated Savio's death, Deel said, "Not particularly, but it's in the photo."
When asked if there was anything in the bathroom of note, Deel said, "There was a dead body in the tub."
He said that because nothing indicated foul play, he decided the best thing to do would be to wait for the autopsy.
Judge Edward Burmila has stopped the trial for a lunch break. Testimony is expected to resume about 1:15 p.m.
11:22 a.m. Deputy coroner: Tub raised suspicions
Will County Deputy Coroner Michael VanOver testified that his suspicions about Kathleen Savio's death were aroused when he noticed how clean the tub was and that there were rows of shampoo bottles and other bath products arrayed around the edge of the small tub.
There "There was no obvious signs of struggle or foul play in the bathtub. I don't know how else she could have drowned," he said. "If a person would have fallen in that bathtub, I'm of the opinion that those bottles around the edge of that bathtub would have gone flying."
In addition, he wondered how Savio could have ended up face down if she simply slipped and fell.
"It's a fairly small tub, and if a person would have fell, it's unlikely they would have come to rest that way," VanOver said
Nonetheless, he didn't mention anything about his suspicion to anyone, even after a coroner's jury ruled the death was an accident.
However, he said that when he appeared to agree with investigator Robert Deel that there was no sign of foul play, he loudly stated "NO" into the dictation machine used to record his notes, which he intended to signal his feeling that there may have been foul play.
"It's, it's hard to explain," he said. "I felt it was a homicide."
11:08 a.m. Deputy coroner had homicide suspicions
Drew Peterson attorney Darryl Goldberg pressed Deputy Coroner Michael VanOver, a former Livingston County sheriff's officer, about his testimony that he thought the lack of soap scum in Kathleen Savio's bathtub was suspicious.
"You didn't tell Trooper (Robert) Deel that you thought this was a homicide, right?" Goldberg asked.
"No, I did not," VanOver replied.
He further admitted that he never mentioned his suspicion in any report or in any conversation with law enforcement.
10:10 a.m. Protocol not followed on Savio's body
When he removed Kathleen Savio's body from the bathtub, Deputy Will County Coroner Michael VanOver said he did not follow his office's protocol for homicides or suspicious deaths because state police crime scene investigator Robert Deel said it was unnecessary.
The protocol involves wrapping the body in a clean, white sheet and placing it in two body bags, which are then sealed.
"After Trooper Deel bagged the hands, I asked him...if they thought there was something wrong here, and he said no, they were just doing it (bagging the hands) for precautionary purposes," VanOver said.
The trial took a brief recess to allow prosecutors to retrieve original photos of the scene from their office after the defense objected that photos the state wanted to use in questioning VanOver had never been shown to them.
Prosecutors disputed the charge, but were asked by Judge Edward Burmila to bring the photos to court.
"I think the defense has a right to view those before cross examination (of VanOver)," he said.
9:45 a.m. Deputy coroner takes the stand
Deputy Will County Coroner Michael VanOver testified that when he and state police crime scene investigator Robert Deel removed Kathleen Savio's body from the tub, he did not notice any signs of trauma -- stab or gunshot wounds -- that would indicate foul play.
VanOver said Deel placed paper bags over Savio's hands before they placed her in the body bag.
9:25 a.m. Defense complains about coverage
TV news coverage of the case has chafed the defense team.
One of Drew Peterson's attorneys, Steven Greenberg, complained about "media pundits" who over the weekend "ripped" Judge Edward Burmila for siding with the defense. Greenberg noted Burmila ruled for the defense and prosecution throughout the first week of the trial.
"Unfortunately, people are used to judges who are pro-prosecution," Greenberg said. "The judge is supposed to be the umpire, he's supposed to go down the middle."
9:15 a.m. Defense files motion over second autopsy
The defense filed a motion about potential testimony from Dr. Michael Baden, who performed an autopsy on Savio's body when it was exhumed following the disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy.
Defense attorney Steven Greenberg cited a television interview in which Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles police detective who led the O.J. Simpson investigation, said he and Baden had discussed the case before the autopsy.
"He was on 'Judge Jeanine' and said how he and Baden decided this was a homicide before the exhumation and before they performed the autopsy," Greenberg said.
Another defense attorney, Joel Brodsky, said Baden was paid by Fox Newsto perform the autopsy. "If there's no murder, there's no story" for Fox News, Brodsky said.
It was not clear prosecutors plan to call Baden as a witness.
A spokesman for the prosecutors, Charles Pelkie, announced the witness list for today: Michael VanOver, a Will Countydeputy coroner who was at Kathleen Savio's house; Robert Deel, the Illinois State Police investigator who led the initial death investigation and ruled Savio's death an accident; Patrick Collins, who investigated the case with Deel; Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil; and Bolingbrookpolice officer James Coughlin.
8:45 a.m. 'They're shifting the burden of proof'
On his way into the courthouse this morning, defense lawyer Steve Greenberg said he expected that two state police investigators will take the stand and maintain that Savio's death was an accident -- and that prosecutors will be in the unusual position of trying to cast doubt on a police investigation.
"The state wants to present evidence that the investigation was somehow botched, therefore they have no evidence," Greenberg said, noting that a more thorough investigation might also have provided more evidence Savio's death was an accident. "The one thing they don't have is evidence Drew was in the house that night or that morning.
"I don't think the state should be allowed to tear down their own investigators. What they're doing is shifting the burden of proof on us, and that's not proper."
6:45 a.m. Investigators expected to testify
Two investigators who led what prosecutors say was an inept inquiry into the 2004 drowning of Kathleen Savio are expected to take the stand today in the Drew Peterson murder trial.
Savio's death was at first treated as a household accident. Prosecutors have laid the blame for that on former Illinois State Police crime scene investigator Robert Deel, who they allege ruled out foul play in Savio's bathtub drowning within 30 minutes of arriving at her Bolingbrook home.
Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow even mentioned Deel by name during his closing argument in a 2010 pretrial hearing, telling a judge that former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Peterson had staged the scene well enough to "fool" Deel.
"He bit on it hook, line and sinker," Glasgow said. He noted that Deel had testified that Savio's bruises were "insignificant" and said, "If you have an evidence tech like that running a crime scene, you have a problem."
Prosecutors have suggested that Deel's position swayed a state police sergeant handling his first homicide investigation and led the county's pathologist to include a line in his report that Savio's head wound may have been caused by a fall in her tub.
Defense attorneys have argued that there is no evidence the crime scene was staged or that Savio's death was anything but an accident. Deel has testified that he also believes Savio's death was an accident.
Peterson's trial got under way last week with opening statements and the first prosecution witnesses. The judge halted the trial Friday afternoon to give a sick juror time to recover, and testimony is expected to resume Tuesday morning.
Deel, who has since been reassigned to patrol, testified during a pretrial hearing in 2010 that Will County prosecutors asked that he never work another crime scene in their county after Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, vanished in 2007.
Prosecutors believe Peterson murdered Stacy, but he has not been charged and denies any wrongdoing. After she disappeared and her case became national tabloid fodder, authorities took another look at Savio's death, ultimately exhuming her body and ruling her death a homicide after a second autopsy.
Deel testified that he did not gather any evidence from Savio's home, ignoring a plastic glass of orange juice in her kitchen and failing to notice a mug of tea left in her microwave, items that a defense lawyer pointed out could have been tested for DNA.
He denied making up his mind that night about how Savio died, saying it wasn't until after the autopsy and a coroner's jury ruled her death an accident that he agreed. And Deel testified that he would not have investigated the scene differently if he had thought it was a murder.
Retired state police Sgt. Patrick Collins also might testify Tuesday. Collins contradicted Deel's account of the night Savio's body was found, testifying during the 2010 hearing that Deel told him her death was an accident.
"I relied on that particular night and case very heavily on investigator Deel because that was my first homicide," Collins testified in 2010. "I did ask him should we collect anything. He basically informed me that it appeared to be accidental."
Peterson was interviewed on his home turf at the Bolingbrook Police Department, Collins testified. He also testified that he granted Peterson some "professional courtesy" when he interviewed Stacy, allowing Peterson to sit in on the interview.
Collins testified that Peterson sat less than a foot away from Stacy during the police interview "almost like guarding her." She told police Peterson was home with her, a statement prosecutors hope to contradict later in the trial by using hearsay from a counseling session with her pastor.


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Here they go again. Asian governments with overlapping claims to the South China Sea are working this week toward a code of conduct for handling the frequent upsets between competing naval ships.
The agreement, raised at the Association of South East Asian Nations in Cambodia, would be the 10th covering essentially the same territorial dispute since the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The idea is that it would spell out what ships should do to avoid a clash but it wouldn't actually spell out how to resolve competing claims, according to regional news media.
So what's the big deal behind this year's deal – besides calming nervous people onshore and making their leaders look like saintly peacemakers?
The deal doesn't really work unless China, the one that all the others are worried about, agrees to it. But China is leaning against adding its signature. It wants to keep an upper hand in the dispute, especially with the recent US push to focus on Asia.
"China says there needs to be greater confidence and trust building – there's a sense that China is being told what to do," says Bonnie Glaser, senior fellow with the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "The risk is, it becomes a voluntary agreement, and in that case, it's completely meaningless," she adds.
Safety net against China?
Naval ships often track their countries' oil rigs and fishing expeditions. Oil, natural gas, and fish explain why the 3.5 million square kilometers (1.4 million square miles) of water stretching from Singapore to Taiwan are so sought after.
The past three decades have seen countless military clashes: One occurred in 1976, when China took the tiny, uninhabited Paracel Islands from Vietnam. Another came in 1988, when China and Vietnam clashed in the equally miniscule Spratly Islands, according to the US-based public policy organization GlobalSecurity.org. The 1988 incident sank Vietnamese boats and killed 70.
So agreements are popular between the smaller claimants that, in addition to Vietnam, include Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and the Philippines. They want a safety net against China, which is ranked No. 3 in the world in terms of military might.
A 1999 regional code of conduct largely written by the Philippines was directed at containing China. In April this year, vessels from China and the Philippines were locked in a standoff over Scarborough Shoal, a South China Sea landmark west of Luzon Island.
China's take
China dodged signing the code of conduct this week at the East Asia Summit, a regional security meeting in Cambodia. But, Beijing's language on the issues in the South China Sea has swung from bristly to conciliatory.
"China is using both hands, soft and hard, yet the hard hand would never come to military action," says Lin Chong-pin, strategic studies professor at Tamkang University in Taiwan. "But code of conduct – has China agreed? Of course not."
China is torn between being a good Asian neighbor but using its dominant role in the region to get the most out of the ocean instead of conceding rights to a group of rivals, analysts deduce. "[China] is a much bigger country and can leverage that better in its bilateral agreements," Ms. Glaser says.
The code being discussed now would include the whole 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations bloc.
China also must mind Washington or risk that the No.1 military power will side with the smaller claimants.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton irked China this week by urging it to settle the dispute with all parties. Washington is technically neutral, but relies on the sea for shipping lanes that see about half the world's tanker traffic.
If the United States got involved now, it may err on the side of aggression. US President Obama wants to be seen as a strong leader before his reelection bid in November, Mr. Lin says. "He has to do things that the Republicans cannot use as ammo against him," he says.