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This fifthwheel has a small delaminated area just above the midpoint of the fender skirt ... see the small bulge there? That indicates that de-lamination has started and will lead to further problems down the road. See anything else?
The large bulge in the siding between the awning arm and the fender skirt shows that the entire last third of this wall has suffered de-lamination to a major extent. All of the strength of this wall has been destroyed and the cost of repairing this damage would exceed the value of this older fifthwheel.
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Disarmingly simple to calculate, return on equity is a critical weapon in the investor's arsenal, as long as it's properly understood for what it is. ROE encompasses the three pillars of corporate management -- profitability, asset management, and financial leverage. By seeing how well the executive team balances these components, investors can not only get an excellent sense of whether they will receive a decent return on equity but can also assess management's ability to get the job done.
Return on equity is calculated by taking a year's worth of earnings and dividing them by the average shareholder equity for that year. The earnings number can come directly from the Consolidated Statement of Earnings in the company's most recent annual filing with the SEC. It can also be figured as the sum of the past four quarters' worth of earnings, or as the average of the past five or 10 years' earnings, or it can even be an annualized figure based on the previous quarter's results. However, investors should be careful not to annualize the results of a seasonal business, in which all of the profit is booked in one or two quarters.
The shareholder-equity number is located on the balance sheet. Simply the difference between total assets and total liabilities, shareholder equity is an accounting convention that represents the assets that the business has generated. It's assumed that assets without corresponding liabilities are the direct creation of the shareholder capital that got the business started in the first place.
The usual way investors will see shareholder equity displayed is as "book value" -- the amount of shareholder equity per share, or the accounting book value of the business beyond its market value or intrinsic economic value. A business that creates a lot of shareholder equity is a sound investment, because the original investors will be repaid with the proceeds that come from the business operations. Businesses that generate high returns relative to their shareholder equity pay their shareholders handsomely and create substantial assets for every dollar invested. These businesses are typically self-funding and require no additional debt or equity investments.
To quickly gauge whether a company is an asset creator or a cash consumer, look at the ROE it generates. By relating the earnings to the shareholder equity, an investor can quickly see how much cash comes from existing assets. If the ROE is 20%, for instance, then 20 cents of assets are created for every dollar originally invested. As additional cash investments increase on the asset side of the balance sheet, the ROE number shows whether additional dollars invested are dollars of return from previous investments.
If return on equity is simply:
ROE = one year's earnings / shareholder equity
… then how is it that we can see the profit margin, asset management, and financial leverage through this one calculation? If we expand the equation, we can start to take into account other variables. (We apologize if this gives you a flashback to high school algebra.)
ROE = (one year's earnings / one year's sales) x (one year's sales / assets) x (assets / shareholder equity)
Because the sales and the assets are both in the numerator and the denominator of the entire equation, they cancel one another out. When we break the equation apart in this manner, the three component parts of ROE come to light. Earnings over sales is profit margin, sales over assets is asset turnover, and assets over equity is the amount of leverage the company has. We'll discuss each one, and after we complete our analysis, we'll come back to ROE and how this composite number can be used to evaluate companies. We'll also explore its limitations as an analytical tool.
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I purchased this coat for $10 at a charity store quite some months ago. I have done some digging around for information relating to the maker of the coat, but there is next to no mention online apart from phone book references and some dead links on other websites.
The tag says "Peter Moore 32 Savile Row London W.1". Interestingly when I obtained the coat the 32 was covered with correction fluid and a 13 written neatly in its place, which I scratced to reveal the original text. Online phone books state the address as number 13. Could this be a misprint on the label that was covered up?
I would like to learn more about this coat, is the tailor still around today someplace (number 13 is now otherwise occupied according to my research), what is this tailor's reputation, et cetera.
If any readers of this thread know any details, I would appreciate your time in sharing them
Following are a lot of pictures of the coat
The front
The back
The cuff buttons and holes (2 working, 2 sham)
Front buttonholes
Side and sleeve
Inner pocket finishing
Underside of collar
Lining stitching to front facing
Finally, the label - I have erased the client's name for privacy
Thank-you to those who have any information on this coat...


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Fast and the Furious 5 is going to be called Fast Five and according to Vin Diesel, at least part of the film is going to take place in Brazil. The reason we know the location….Vin Diesel posted an update on his Facebook page tonight. He wrote:
Had a meeting with Justin Lin today regarding the Fast saga… some daring but fascinating thoughts in terms of action set pieces… and relationships, old and new. The team is on their way to Brazil this evening, to scout, and to see what selection of cars there are.
While some might wonder why a 5th film is going to get made, I can give you $343 million reasons. That's the amount the last sequel pulled in at the worldwide box office, and with a reported budget of $100 million, it was a very profitable movie. With Justin Lin location scouting in Brazil, I'd imagine they'll be shooting in the next few months. Expect updates as we get them. Fast Five is scheduled to be released June 10, 2011.


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To the surprise of no one, Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller have finally completed the details of their divorce.
After separating shortly before Sheen's "Two and a Half Men" meltdown and subsequent nation-wide live tour - during which time both sides have lobbed accusations of drug abuse to vehemently that their separation agreement was amended to include random drug testing - Sheen and Mueller filed divorce papers in a Los Angeles court.
According to those documents, Mueller will get $55,000 a month in child support (she maintains custody of the couple's two sons, Bob and Max). The papers actually went so far as to demand: "Under no circumstances shall the child support paid by Charlie for Bob and Max be less than the child support paid by Charlie to Denise Richards for [Sheen's children] Sam and Lola."
Mueller will also be paid a lump sum of $757,698 and $1 million for her share of their house, which will remain Sheen's place of residence.
Sheen's "Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour hit Las Vegas last night, and Sheen was reported to be out partying until the wee hours with his remaining "goddess," Natalie Kenly.
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Upcoming April deployments have been cancelled for a San Diego-based Navy ship and submarine, the U.S. Pacific Fleet public affairs office confirmed Friday.
According to the Navy, the deployments of USS Rentz out of Naval Base San Diego and submarine USS Jefferson City out of Naval Base Point Loma have been cancelled due to budget cuts imposed by sequestration.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet office says the Secretary of Defense has approved the cancellations.
Additionally, the deployment of San Diego-based guided-missile frigate USS Thach will be cut short, also due to sequester cuts.
The ship left San Diego on Jan. 8 for what was scheduled to be a six-month deployment in Central America, but Navy officials say USS Thach will now return home in April. The 220 sailors aboard USS Thach have been leading anti-smuggling operations targeting drug traffickers in Central America during this time.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet office says the Navy has been preparing to cancel some April deployments since early March.
Each respective chain of command has started notifying impacted sailors, and the U.S. Pacific Fleet says the commands had been previously told to prepare for these cancellations.
"The Secretary of Defense has directed, and U.S. Pacific Fleet is ensuring, that constrained resources are being prioritized to support forces operating forward, and to those being trained to relieve them," the U.S. Pacific Fleet office said in their announcement.


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Before watching this full mile Russian drag race video it wouldn't seem unreasonable to think a supercharged 700hp Corvette Z06 racing a 1000+ horsepower Koenigsegg CCRX would surely result in a Swedish slaughter fest.
Perhaps that is why watching the exact opposite happen in this impressive video footage is so satisfying. Although I love all things Koenigsegg as much as the next guy (or girl), it is hard to argue with the entertainment value of watching some supercharged 'Merican muscle beat a significantly more expensive super car through a straight mile drag race.


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Gem State Writers began on April 1, 2011. Since then, we have posted 572 blogs. Along the way, our members have been published, been successful in writing contests, and developed their craft.
As with much in life, things change.
As we devote more of our time to writing, the group has decided it's time to retire Gem State Writers. We all want to making writing the best books we can a priority in our lives. We leave knowing GSW has helped us grow and learn about this time-honored profession. And we'll miss all of you.
Our members share their thoughts below.
Stephanie Berget: When I was asked to be a contributor to Gem State Writers, I was so excited that this group of talented women considered me good enough to write alongside of them. I was also terribly nervous. I'd never blogged before, had really never written with any kind of deadline, and that scared the crap out of me.
Throughout the last year and a half or so, blogging at Gem State Writers has expanded my knowledge of writing craft, taught me to have the post ready whether I feel like it or not, and how to research topics. I'm thankful for that, but I'm more thankful to have had a great group of writers to learn from. I'm going to miss each and every one of you.
Peggy Staggs: In the short time the group was together, I learned a lot about my fellow bloggers. I've enjoyed everyone's perspectives and techniques. Even when I sometimes struggled for ideas, I still looked forward to stretching my mental muscles. The good news is I have a ton (or at least a few pounds) of blog under my belt. The bad news is I will miss you all.
Janis McCurry: When Gem State Writers began I asked myself what interested me about writing. Language was the answer. I loved researching for the language blogs I wrote. The evolving of the language and the continual change intrigues me. I loved having deadlines to "keep me honest." I loved getting to know my co-GSW-ers and learned something from every blog. Reader comments were delightful and insightful (how's that for rhyming?). It was a great 2 ½ years and I don't regret a minute. Thanks to all of you, both bloggers and readers.
Judy Keim: Blogs are considered a waste of time by a lot of people. In my opinion, some are; some are not.
If one is committed to write blogs to the detriment of writing stories, then it is a waste of time. If one thinks writing blogs is a sure way to get the attention of an editor or an agent, it is a waste of time. If one thinks you can sell a large number of books by blogging on a regular basis, it is, in my opinion, another waste of time. (There are other ways of promoting your work.)
On the other hand, if you are writing or participating in a blog to learn about others (both in your group and those who respond) it can be worthwhile. If you're blogging as a means of sharing industry information or skills, it also can be valuable.
What I've learned by blogging with the Gem State Writers is that we have a group of talented, interesting, knowledgeable people whom I've gotten to know a little bit better. That's been time well spent!
Mary Vine: I've enjoyed being a part of Gem State Writers, a shared effort to get our blogs out to the world. I will miss Neysa writing how important it is to go to conferences; I will miss Janis giving us a look at language and sharing about her travels; I really appreciate Peggy's piece on The Bad Guy Tree for mystery writers; I enjoyed reading about Corina's life near McCall; Lynn helped me understand trying to write with a tiring, busy schedule; I've gotten to know Judith through her move and writing journey; I've learned more about the rodeo from Stephanie; Through Jennifer I am reminded what it was like trying to write with children in my home; Meredith gave me a glimpse of living in a faraway place where one can meet up with a wild animal or nearly get snowed in; I've already missed MK and her individual pursuit of writing. Yes, every time someone has moved on to other writing pursuits, I regretted seeing them leave. Finally, cheers for Marsha who has stayed with us to the end, to inspire us in our writing, and to share her own journey.
Lynn Mapp: At the inception of Gem State Writers, we blogged every two weeks. I didn't think I had that many blogs in me. What I learned during my time with the "Gems" is I actually had the ability to write two articles a month. It doesn't sound earth-shattering, but it was for me.
I also had the opportunity to be with a group of women committed to writing and sharing their journey with other people on the same path.
Someone told me that my blogs tended to be of the "you can do it" nature. I am a cheerleader, a supporter, a believer. Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts with you.
Neysa Jensen: I've enjoyed blogging about writing, specifically children's writing. It helps me put things in perspective when I try to explain it to someone else. Anyone who would like to be with and learn from fellow writers is welcome to join our SCBWI events. You can find out more on scbwi.org.
Corina Mallory: Thank you to everyone on this blog for letting me join your ranks. It's been a real pleasure to read your work and get to know you better through your comments. I've learned a lot, not just about my fellow writers, but about myself. You've made me think about why I write the way I do, why I love some things and others leave me cold. You've helped me become a better writer. I'll miss coming here and seeing your bright happy faces in your avatar photos and hearing what's going on in your lives and what topics you're finding interesting. But the internet is forever, right? We'll always have pixels.


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The Dry Road
Dry Road
|Chests & Collectibles
|2 Chests
|1 Soldier Artifact
Upon entering the Dry Road you'll only encounter fairly minor enemies until you get to the large, open area. Here angels will attack. Use your Mercy pistol or Scythe to knock them out of the sky and then use sword attacks when they hit the ground.
Jump across the gap in the southwest corner to find a Vulgrim location. A Chest (Dry Road 1/2) with Souls is in the south end of the area.
Above this chest, and at the far south end of the map, you'll find a Soldier Artifact (Soldier Artifact 11) on top of a ledge right out in the open.
Just to the east of this is a ledge with another Chest (Dry Road 2/2) on it. This one contains a Lifestone Shard (Lifestone Shard 9). Head due north.
|Ashlands Access Tunnel
|Chests & Collectibles
|4 Chests
In the tunnel ahead you'll meet a Grappleclaw. Bash it with cars and then turn it against the smaller enemies before killing it.
A Goremaw holds a cube with handgrips up ahead. Aim and shoot at it with the Mercy pistol to make it drop the cube. Hop onto the cube's handgrips and the Goremaw will pick you up. Jump off towards the northern platform and float down to score a Chest (Ashlands Access Tunnel 1/4) with the Carnage Enhancement inside! Equip it immediately.
|Enhancement Profile: Carnage
|War fills with hatred and generates Chaos at an accelerated rate.
Now, bring the cube down again and use it to get to the east platform so you can cross the wide chasm.
Grab a bomb and toss it onto the red crystals to the north. Hand grips line this wall. Drop down to the lower eastern platform and then hop over to these.
Cross the hand grips left and enter the pipe. On the other side you'll find three Goremaws over a single rope. Hit the nearest one with Mercy and quickly hop onto the rope. Move to the right, away from the other Goreclaws, and climb the Demonic Growth to get to a Chest (Ashlands Access Tunnel 2/4) with Souls inside. Drop back down to the ledge you were on before.
Now, target the three Goremaws with your Crossblade and hit them all in one toss. Jump on the rope once your Crossbalde returns and dash to the left. Follow the Demonic Growth up and out of the cave.
Just ahead on your left is a Vulgrim location. Activate it.
In the northwest segment of the cave, look for a clump of blue crystals just to the southwest of the Vulgrim location. Smash the crystals to find a Chest (Ashlands Access Tunnel 3/4) with a Lifestone Shard (Lifestone Shard 10) inside.
|Return for Treasure
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- (adj) disturbing the public peace; unpleasantly loud and harsh; "outbursts of raucous laughter"
Raucous (रॉकस) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
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Raucous Origin
- mid 18th century: from Latin raucus 'hoarse' + -ous.
Raucous in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)
- Old Trafford gives Jose Mourinho raucous welcome.
- Around 10,000 Iceland fans were also in the Stade Velodrome and the two sets of fans produced a raucous atmosphere.
- Swami Satchidananda, who calmed the crowd at the raucous Woodstock Music Festival in 1968.
- The raucous protestors criticised the government over the ghastly acid attack and raised slogans.
- The Oracle Arena is considered to be one of the most raucous and have the loudest fans.
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The 27-year-old journalist, commonly known as Jehad Ali, not only clung to life but vowed to recover from crippling injuries and take up his camera again. His determination to rebuild his strength through swimming led to a chance encounter with a CBS News crew that opened the door to a foreign press community eager to help with money and contacts to get him out of Iraq for medical treatment.
Now, having finally gained permission to enter the United States, Ali is hoping for another stroke of good fortune--successful surgery in a California hospital to repair his bullet-shattered right leg.
Ali's story began on the morning of December 27, 2005, when he and a colleague were walking from their Sunni neighborhood to the Al-Iraqiya office. A car sped toward the two men. "I am not sure whether the gunmen fired two or three bullets into my right thigh," Ali told CPJ in Baghdad. "I fell to the ground when they fired the first bullet at me. ... I was conscious but collapsed in pain."
His colleague escaped. An assailant with an AK-47 assault rifle got out of the car and continued to fire on Ali, whose work for Al-Iraqiya, a state-run television station set up with U.S. aid in 2003, had led to repeated threats against his life. Fliers had been handed out at mosques in several Sunni areas where al-Qaeda was known to be active, saying that it was acceptable "to shed the blood" of Ali and two of his co-workers. Numerous Al-Iraqiya reporters have been targeted because of their work. CPJ research shows that the Iraq Media Network, which includes Al-Iraqiya, has seen 27 of its staffers killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, more than any other news organization.
Iraq by the numbers
135 journalists and 50 support workers have died in direct connection to their work in Iraq.
Even after the United States stopped funding Al-Iraqiya in 2005, its employees continued to be targeted for attack because of the station's pro-government line. They are just some of the hundreds of journalists and media support workers associated with Western or Western-funded media companies who have suffered threats or attacks from various militias operating in Iraq.
As sectarian and anti-Western violence raged from 2004 to 2007, many Iraqi reporters with foreign news outlets tried to keep their profession secret to protect themselves. Some moved from their homes into safe houses or lived in the news bureaus where they worked. Their workload and exposure to danger increased during this time because they were deployed in areas that had become unsafe for foreign journalists.
Eventually, the threats and stress became intolerable for many Iraqi staff members, and they turned to their employers for help in resettling in the West. For the first four years following the invasion, however, the United States set security clearance so high for Iraqi refugees that mere hundreds were admitted annually, according to Western journalists working in Iraq and U.S. officials.
Even those with good prospects of gaining admission to the United States have faced a long and laborious process to secure travel documents. Ali, for instance, did not qualify for a U.S. visitor visa because he had no assets in Iraq that would ensure his return home. So he applied instead for humanitarian parole, which would allow him to enter the country for medical treatment. Ali had the help of U.S. lawyers, a guarantee from doctors, and proof of funding for his stay, but his application still took six months to assemble. In August, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)--which this year increased the volume and speed of handling Iraqi applications--approved Ali's request to travel to California for medical treatment.
Ali, a heavy-set young man with a pronounced limp, remained stoic throughout, trusting that the power of his story and the help of his colleagues would eventually move the bureaucracy to action.
Speaking in Arabic with a CBS producer acting as interpreter, he patiently recounted the events of that violent December day. After the initial round of shooting, Ali recalled, he flattened himself against the ground only to be struck again repeatedly. He suffered 11 bullet wounds in all, the most serious to his leg, where one round took out an inch-long chunk of his femur.
The attackers did not approach after they stopped firing but instead drove off, in the apparent belief that he was dead. "I lay there for a while, and then people came out and saw I was still alive," said Ali, even now expressing astonishment at the courage of those who, ignoring the possible presence of informers, risked their own safety to help a victim. He was driven to Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital, where doctors stopped the bleeding in his leg.
But Ali was not yet out of danger. The gunmen had gotten wind of his rescue and were hunting him: "A doctor at the hospital came to ask me to leave, saying that three to four armed men were waiting for me outside." Weak and still in pain, he called Al-Iraqiya, which sent an armored car to take him to another hospital.
Once he'd sufficiently recovered, Ali began the long search for a doctor who might be able repair his right femur. "I knocked on all doors," he said. "I asked government officials, the Red Crescent--I even asked religious figures to help me. Nobody provided financial assistance or helped me find a place to get treatment."
So Ali helped himself. In order to rebuild his leg muscles and control his weight, he spent a sizable chunk of his modest salary on fees for the use of the swimming pool at the Al-Mansour Melia Hotel. It was there that he ran into a crew from CBS News, which had set up its local bureau in the hotel. Ali asked the crew for help, and they introduced him to the network's chief international correspondent, Lara Logan.
"When I first met him and saw what he needed, my heart sank," Logan told CPJ. "Here was this kid who had taken so many bullets and survived. ... I was just overwhelmed by his personal sense of responsibility. He was sleeping at the [Al-Iraqiya] office because he couldn't go home. ... He would go out after curfew for X-rays, he was going to the pool to get better. You meet a lot of people when you are out on the road who have a feeling of entitlement, as a victim. Jehad was never like that."
Logan contacted Dr. Randolph Sherman, head of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, whom she had come to know for his humanitarian work with Iraqi surgeons. "I made calls," Sherman told CPJ, "and got hold of the combat support hospital that looked at Jehad." Armed with X-rays and a thorough medical assessment by American doctors in Baghdad, Sherman determined what it would take to help Ali.
Sherman has secured the pro bono services of one of California's top orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Donald Wiss, to treat Ali; a local hospital, the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, has offered a discounted rate for his stay. "After that, he will probably be staying at my house," Sherman added with a laugh.
Logan, who began raising money last year to send Ali to the United States, approached CPJ for help. "I was absolutely astounded by the response," she said. Money poured in from friends, colleagues, and journalists, including big-name news anchors. By late summer, funds stood at around $50,000. "I was very proud," Logan said. "Someone in Iraq in Jehad's condition didn't normally survive. But he had. He had no big network to take him on ... no one to turn to. So I said, 'Well, he's a journalist and they have organizations....' That's when I contacted CPJ."
Despite Jordan's tightening of visa regulations for Iraqis this year, Ali obtained a temporary permit in July and left Baghdad for the relative safety of Amman to wait out his parole request. While there, he tried to pursue his goal of returning to work as a cameraman by doing some assignments for Al-Iraqiya. He was strong enough to film with a tripod-mounted camera carried by an assistant, but he couldn't walk with a 20-pound-plus Betacam on his shoulder as he once did.
"Now even when I just walk or stand for some time my back hurts and I begin to have a headache," Ali said after his arrival in the Jordanian capital. Just as the prospect of a long and frustrating wait in Amman loomed, the DHS in Washington approved Ali's application.
"First, I am happy because I will get the surgery that will enable me to work again and live the life I had before I was shot," Ali said in reaction to the news. "And second, I am thrilled that I will finally come to the United States, the developed country that has so much to offer."
Ali is exceptional because of the high-profile media backing his case has attracted. But in one way, he is typical of the many reporters, camera operators, fixers, interpreters, and drivers who have risked their lives by working for foreign or Western-financed news organizations and now want safe passage out of Iraq.
"We unquestionably have a moral obligation to Iraqis at risk because of their association with Americans," said The New Yorker's George Packer, who has reported from Iraq and written articles and a play on the United States' debt to Iraqis threatened for their work. "Soldiers, I know, have a code that you don't leave your buddy on the battlefield, and in this case it doesn't matter if that battlefield's an office in the Green Zone or an American news bureau."
For several years after the invasion in 2003, Washington made no special provision to resettle Iraqis, and the backlog of applicants waiting for vetting lengthened as the flood of refugees overwhelmed U.S. missions in the region. "No official in DHS or the State Department wanted to be responsible for letting in the next Mohamed Atta," Packer said, referring to one of the 9/11 hijackers. "There was no professional upside to streamlining the process."
In the fiscal years 2003 to 2006, the annual number of Iraqis resettled in the United States never exceeded 500. Meanwhile, the number of Iraqi civilians uprooted by the war surged. According to Todd Pierce of the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, some 4.7 million Iraqis have been displaced since 2003, and of those, about 2 million have fled as refugees.
With the increased violence came increased pressure from U.S. humanitarian groups, media, and politicians for an expanded resettlement program, particularly for those Iraqis who had worked for U.S. interests. Media attention and advocacy won results in September 2007, when Congress passed a measure sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy and backed by CPJ to help Iraqis under threat for their links to the United States. The Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act (cosponsored by a bipartisan group that included Senators Carl Levin, Sam Brownback, Joseph Lieberman, and Gordon Smith) was signed into law by President George W. Bush in January. It expands the allowable number of visas and speeds up the process for issuing them, and has set a target of receiving 12,000 Iraqi refugees in fiscal year 2008.
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To help an Iraqi journalist in exile, visit CPJ's Journalist Assistance program.
First in line under the new legislation are those Iraqis and their families who worked for the U.S. military and government. The act also covers journalists with affiliations to American media. In the spring, the U.S. embassy in Baghdad began accepting in-country refugee applications for the first time.
Word of the new visa program has spread among the local staff of foreign news outlets in Baghdad. "About 70 percent of the workers with me in the bureau applied or are wishing to do so, including journalists, guards, and drivers," said Mudhafer Abbas of The New York Times. Despite the improvements, he and other journalists in Baghdad still think they are treated less fairly than others. "It's easier for many other nationalities to get a visa to the States," Abbas told CPJ.
The administration is moving to speed up processing of applications, and the DHS has sent staff on a so-called "circuit rider" program to interview applicants for their security clearance.
Packer said the situation appears to have improved. "Since the Kennedy bill, cases are moving more quickly and more cases are moving," Packer said. "Most of the Iraqis I know who have been trying to get here for the past year have made it. ... I still fault the administration for taking this long, and for continuing to make it difficult, but I want to give credit where credit is due."
For now, Ali can set aside the political obstacles and focus on his health. "All I am thinking of right now is to get the surgery," he said, "and to be able to carry a camera again."
Robert Mahoney, CPJ's deputy director, led a mission to Iraq in May.


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In a resource-constrained world, big brands have to make major adjustments. Some are already doing this; the Institute for the Future and Forum for the Future are often tapped by companies to offer insight into the future global landscape. Others still operate unaware of (or unwilling to pay attention to) the shifting environment around us.
Fiona Bennie, head of sustainability for design and innovation agency Dragon Rouge (and former sustainability advisor for the Forum for the Future), worked with a design team to come up with a series of concepts for how today's well-known brands could adapt to an "aspirational future" in 2030–that is, a future where humanity hasn't devolved into an apocalyptic cesspool.
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None of the brands were consulted for the project, which examines the brands as they exist today and then offers alternative versions of what they might become. Popular airline EasyJet is reimagined as a high-speed rail company. British health care organization Bupa is refashioned as a global preventative health care specialist. And clothing retailer Primark is transformed into a style subscription service. "We deliberately kept ourselves away. We let Rio Tinto know [about the project] because they're a Dragon Rouge client, but they didn't have any input," says Ruth Wyatt of Dragon Rouge.
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If you've traveled in Europe, you've probably encountered EasyJet. It's the biggest airline in the U.K., and it's the second biggest low-cost airline in Europe (RyanAir is first). But despite the company's earnest overtures towards sustainability, it's impossible to ignore the realities of air travel: It guzzles lots of fuel, and it's responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. While some airlines are moving towards biofuel, the industry will rely on fossil fuels for a long time to come.
So Dragon Rouge's future rebrands EasyJet as a high-speed rail operation that retains the company's values (more value for less, honesty, fun, etc.). In this future, EasyJet connects the smart grid and offers fares based on excess capacity. All trains give energy back to the grid via an "advanced kinetic energy recovery system."
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Today, Rio Tinto calls itself the "world leader in finding, mining, and processing the earth's mineral resources." Tomorrow, Dragon Rouge imagines that it will instead be "the global leader in sourcing, grading, re-purposing, and processing the world's used metals, plastics, and minerals." With metals and minerals creeping up in cost, pressures to mine sustainably, and concerns about issues like peak metal, it makes sense for Rio Tinto to turn towards re-use. After all, we throw away unconscionable amounts of perfectly good materials with our old electronics.
The alternative future version of Rio Tinto takes in used materials for recycling and ensures that its leased metals, plastics, and minerals all come back to it at the end of use. The company also has mastered landfill mining techniques.
This popular U.K. supermarket chain is facing many of the same issues as other supermarket chains: a rise in the collaborative consumption culture, increased online purchasing, on-demand manufacturing, and a desire for a local, more personalized shopping experience.
In its Dragon Rouge-inspired future, Morrisons is all about "keeping local, local." It provides fresh goods via partnerships with local bakers, butchers and greengrocers. Other household and grocery items can be found in neighborhood Morrisons stores. It's less of a transition than the proposed futures for Rio Tinto and EasyJet; Morrisons already lays out its stores like a "market street," with special awnings for bakers, fishmongers, and other goods. It's almost like being out on the street, but inside a store.
Some brands will undoubtedly react positively to their Dragon Rouge makeovers. "I think that Rio Tinto is a really forward-looking company. I wouldn't be surprised if they looked at the [proposed future] and nodded sagely," says Wyatt. But others might not take too kindly to the idea that their business models need to be flipped upside down. But Bennie believes that a lack of inspiration and storytelling in the sustainability movement has caused it to be left behind in the CSR department of companies, when really it should be integral to business. "We want to talk about trends in an open and approachable way," she says.


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HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- Is a future component of Major League Baseball broadcasts on display at this Caribbean Series? Alejandro Mendivil, CEO of the startup company DVL Productions here in Mexico, sure hopes so.
Eight months ago, Mendivil began experimenting with a helicopter-like remote-control camera at different sporting events, and now it can be seen hovering over the fans at Estadio Sonora.
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Three University of Michigan scientists are among the 126 professors in the U.S. and Canada named Tuesday as the 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellows.
The fellows are Emanuel Gull, assistant professor of physics; Pavel Nagorny, assistant professor of chemistry; and Nathaniel Szymczak, the Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemistry. The three researchers are in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
The fellows, all in the early stages of their academic careers, were nominated by their peers and chosen by a panel of senior scholars. They received $50,000 each to further their research.
The three were the only fellows named from Michigan universities.
Gull's lab uses simulations to improve the understanding of how behavior by electrons is behind quantum physical phenomena, such as magnets and superconductors.
"I'm very honored to be selected for this prestigious award," Gull said in a press release. "This is a very nice confirmation that the research I'm doing is interesting and important, but mostly I'm enthusiastic about the research this fellowship will allow me to perform."
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"A long-term application of this approach is to find alternative catalysts, based on earth-abundant elements, to the currently used industrial catalysts, which use rare and expensive metal," he said.
The Sloan program recognizes the achievements of outstanding young scholars in science, mathematics, economics and computer science. Past recipients of Sloan research fellowships have gone on to win Nobel prizes, Fields Medals in mathematics and John Bates Clark Medals in economics.
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Monday, 27 September 2010
The bike apple - new cycle parking at Alphen aan den Rijn station
Wednesday 18th August was the opening date for the "Fietsappel" ("Bike Apple"), an unwatched cycle park in the area of the railway station in Alphen aan den Rijn. Travellers and visiters can park their bike for free in this multi storey building of steel in the shape of an Apple. 970 bikes fit within the bike racks in the "apple."
The 'Fietsappel' was designed by Wytze Patijn of Kuiper Compagnons. The concept is as an artwork of an apple. The floor is a spiral shaped as an apple. The steel artwork has a width of 27.5 metres and a height of 15.5 metres, the sloped floor goes around the "core" which is a steel column. The outside skin is transparent and gives the impression of space. It was a deliberate choice to make the cycle park feel as open as possible to give a good feeling of social safety.
At the station there are two other parking facilities for cyclists. Under the stationarea is "De Verbinding", which combines a bike tunnel under the railway line with an underground watched cycle park of 1280 parking spaces and next to it there are now two unwatched cycle parks. The "Kerk en Zanen" with 600 places and the new Fietsappel with 970 spaces.
This brings the total number of cycle parking spaces at Alphen aan den Rijn station to 2850. The town has a population of around 72000 people, so there are places for around one in 25 residents to park a bike at the railway station.
This is not exceptional, but actually quite normal. It is a similar proportion to other railway stations in the Netherlands - and somewhat different from the situation in London, other places in the UK, and indeed the rest of the world.
The Netherlands doesn't just have one or two "cycling cities." It's the whole country. There's quite a collection here of railway station cycle parking stories on this blog.
Update Jan 2011: Daniel Sparing visited the Fietsappel and took some photos.
There's now an official translation as well
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I love the design of this, form and function in one. In contrast, I locked my bicycle at a train station on the Gold Coast (Australia) this morning. 24 bike spaces and I was the only one there using the facilities and it was a perfect blue-sky 20 Deg C day. If only the rest of the world weren't 30 yrs behind the Dutch.
- 27 September 2010 at 04:53
- Shirley Agudo said...
Thanks for posting this, David. Very clever idea. Would look great at my nearby station of Hilversum.... Cheers!
S. Agudo, Bicycle Mania Holland
- 27 September 2010 at 09:40
It's wonderful! When I think of facilties provided at UK railway stations it really does make you want to weep!
- 28 September 2010 at 14:06
It is a very nice example of how little space you need to park bicycles.
Mark Garrett, Bristol UK
- 30 September 2010 at 10:28
- Simon said...
If only Cambridge architects could see this - then they might realise how beautiful cycling could be!
Any chance you could add a photo of this to CycleStreets.net, David?
- 30 September 2010 at 13:48
- Daniel Sparing said...
I have recently been to this small town so here are some pictures:
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Around the world, Fujitsu is also accelerating in winning major services deals which underline the strength and scope of its offerings. Today, Fujitsu is able to announce a new contract with Correios de Portugal, S.A. (CTT) –Portugal's universal postal service provider – to manage more than 9000 devices including desktop PCs, thin clients, notebooks and printers, as well as multiple Post Office devices in front office branches.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Brandeis men's basketball team were held to 25 percent from the floor and 22 percent from downtown in the second half after connecting on 48 percent overall and 62 percent from deep in the first today as the Judges dropped a 64-58 decision at rival New York University in the University Athletic Association (UAA) opener for both teams. The Judges fall to 8-4 overall and 0-1 in the UAA, while the Violets improve to 11-1, 1-0 UAA.
Brandeis took a 36-34 lead at halftime thanks to their hot shooting from beyond the arc. Senior guard Derek Retos (No. Attleboro, Mass./No. Attleboro) led the way, connecting on 5-of-6 from downtown for a team-high 15 points. Three of his five trifectas came in the final four minutes as the Judges closed the half on a 9-2 run to erase five-point deficit. With his five 3-pointers, Retos moved into third place on the Judges' career list with 188, surpassing Kevin Olson '09. He is now 12 shy of becoming the third player in school history with 200 3-pointers and 21 short of the school record 209 held by Steve Harrington '92. Retos has averaged five trifectas per game in 2014 after struggling through a five-game stretch when he dealt with an illness.
The Judges also had eight first-half points from senior Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.), who hit two 3-pointers of his own. Brandeis hit 13-of-27 (48%) from the floor and 8-of-13 (62%) from 3-point range in the first. NYU stayed close thanks to nine points from guard Ryan Tana and eight from forward Evan Kupferberg. The Violets also outrebounded the Judges by a 19-10 margin.
Brandeis maintained and expanded their lead for the first 8:04 of the second half. After Alex Stoyle (Goffstown, N.H./Tilton Acad.) connected from long range and classmate Youri Dascy (Fall River, Mass./St. Andrews School, R.I.) hit a free throw, the Judge led by eight, 52-44, with 11:56 remaining in the game. The hosts responded by scoring the game's next seven points, starting with a 3-pointer by Iyoha Agho. A Kupferberg lay-up cut the NYU deficit to one, 52-51, at 10:19, but Brandeis's Gabriel Moton (St. Petersburg, Fla./St. Petersburg) hit a pair of foul shots to stretch it back to three.
Agho got the Violets back within one from the line, and after five straight empty possessions, a Kupferberg offensive rebound at the 6:39 mark put NYU back ahead for the first time since the first half. Brandeis answered with an Ishmael Kalilou (Windsor, Conn./Taft School) lay-up, but the hosts scored the game's next five points, an Alec Papesch lay-up and a Max Ralby 3-pointer that made it a four-point game, 60-56, at the 4:50 mark that gave NYU the lead for good. Kalilou's bucket proved to be the last field goal of the game for the Judges, who hit just two free throws down the stretch, missing their final eight shots in the 64-58 defeat. NYU had 10 points from Kupferberg and eight from Agho in the final 20 minutes, while holding Retos scoreless on four shots (three from downtown). Bartoldus was the only Brandeis player to hit more than one bucket as the Judges connected on just 6-of-24 (25%) and 2-for-9 (22%) from deep in the second after their hot first half.
For the game, Kupferberg led all scorers with 18 points and also had a game-high eight rebounds for NYU. Retos finished with 15, all of which came in the first half. Bartoldus (14 points) and Moton (10 points) also reached double figures for the Judges, while Agho and Costis Gontikas also had 10 points for the home team. Kalilou led Brandeis with six rebounds, while Moton had five assists and three steals to lead all players. NYU owned a 41-28 rebounding edge and outshot Brandeis, 44 percent to 37 percent for the game.
Both teams head to the Midwest for their next UAA contests, with Brandeis at Washington University in St. Louis next Friday night at 8 Central/9 Eastern, while NYU is at Chicago at the same time.


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Hazaaro Khwaahishein: Quote 8 (Man ki Mahabharat)
महाभारत के युद्ध की तरह, मन का 'अर्जुन' आंतरिक मतभेदों से जूझ रहा था. 'राधा' ने 'कृष्ण' बन, समय का चक्र रोक रखा था. हमारी इस फिल्म को कोई तो direct कर रहा था, जो जानता था – किस किरदार की एंट्री कब होनी है और कैसे. वो, जो सबसे बड़ा कहानी-कार था.
Hazaaro Khwaahishein: Quote 7 (Ishq aur Inquilaab)
इन्कलाब, रामलीला मैदान पर ही सीमित रहता तो बेहतर था. उन दिनों मेरी छोटी-छोटी बातें भी मैडम को बाण की तरह चुभने लगती और घर में महाभारत हो जाया करती. गुस्से में लाल, 'अन्ना हज़ारे' बनकर, वह अनशन पर बैठ जाती. मैं 'कुमार विश्वास', उसे अपनी कविताएं सुना कर मनाया करता ~राहुल चावला
Hazaaro Khwaahishein: Quote 6 (Mohobbat aur Chinese item)
मोहब्बत तो भैय्या 'चायनीज़ आइटम' है. कौनो गारंटी नहीं! किस्मत अच्छी रही तो लाइफ लॉन्ग साथ निभ जाए. नहीं तो शाम को शुरू हुई और सुबह की अंगड़ाई से पहले ही ख़त्म
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I have at least temporarily replaced an X1000 that quit on me in December with the SAM460xe that the X1000 had replaced a few years ago and that I had luckily never got around to selling. As things stand, I have OS4.1 FE for Sam 460 installed on a flash drive, from which I boot, but I am able to address the old X1000 Amiga disk now residing on the SAM. This set up may tide me over until I get the X1000 repaired, or if that is impossible, move on to an X5000.
Meanwhile, I don't know how to set up the internet or the screen size on my new install, and I am here seeking advice.
I seem to remember setting up the internet by choosing "Automatic" or whatever was the alternative to "Manual" in the past, but that did not do the trick today. I would have googled for an answer (and probably will shortly, now that I'm back on my Raspberry-pi), but Odyssey refused to find anything on the internet.
Second problem: I remember seeing something about installing OS4.1 FE on the SAM that said it wouldn't have the Radeon stuff I would need, but I can't remember where I saw it or how it said I could get what I do need. I may already have it. "System > find" turned up a couple dozen files that answered to "radeon#?" in a copy of DH0: from my X1000. Quite a jumble, and I'm not smart enough to figure out if anything in the jumble is what I need. Here is what came up, edited a lot:
Devs/Monitors/Radeon HD 5450
Prefs/Env-Archive/AppDir/Radeon HD 5450
System/RADEONHD2/Install RadeonHD
/Utilities/AMIStore/Downloads/ (10 files)
/Utilities/DATA/ (8 files)
Meanwhile the new SAM system has
Devs/Monitors/Radeon RV730
Kickstart/RadeonHD.chip (I forgot to check whether this was different from the one in the X1000 Kickstart)
Kickstart/ATIRadeon.chip (ditto)
Can I fix things by copying one or more of the files from the X1000, or will I have to wait until the first problem is fixed and I can go on-line and re-order from AMIStore?


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Giants in no hurry to play Posey more at first
SAN FRANCISCO -- With a new nine-year contract, Buster Posey is with the Giants to stay. And with MVP credentials and a demanding position at the backstop, one wonders how the team will try to keep him fresh. He is a catcher, strongly prefers it, but also plays first base.
In 2012, Posey started 111 games behind the plate and 29 at first base. Manager Bruce Bochy was asked Saturday what the approach is in 2013, seeing as Posey's contract goes until 2021 and it would be nice to keep Posey as healthy as could be.
Bochy only went as far as saying "maybe" Posey would appear at first base a few more games this year. Five games into this season, Posey has started one at first, necessitated when regular first baseman Brandon Belt was ill.
"But if it's not broken," Bochy said, "don't fix it."


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Monday night was the last night for the final three talents on "The Voice" to win over audiences' hearts and votes, and their last stabs at stardom ran the gamut from belabored to effortless, understated to electric.
The night kicked off with the coaches all performing "Pour Some Sugar on Me" alongside members of Def Leppard, and while it was rousing, it didn't give a hint of the urgency to come -- courtesy not of the superstar coaches but of the blistering numbers Team Adam and Team Christina had yet to deliver.
Monday night, after all, was a night for Tessanne Chin and her Team Adam cohort Will Champlin, as well as Team Christina's own Jacquie Lee, to showcase not just their pipes but also their musical bonds with their coaches. It was their final chance to remind audiences why the coaches had turned their chairs for them at the season's start -- and to demonstrate how far they'd come since.
To that end, Tessanne kicked off the night singing the song with which she'd turned all four chairs in the blind auditions, Pink's "Try." Even as she struggled to overcome some hoarseness, looking pained as she belted some of the big notes, Tessanne managed to add her own personal touches. Her performance was living proof that she had taken the song's message of perseverance to heart.
"You're so good you make me want to be better," her coach Adam told her. CeeLo, channeling his inner Tallulah Bankhead, added, "You deserve it all, darling."
Next, her teammate Will performed the song he had first used to make it onto Adam's team, before he bounced over to Christina's and then, by a stroke of luck, back again to Adam's. That song was Gavin Degraw's "Not Over You," which he sang with ease and imbued with his own bluesy playful spirit, alternating a husky belt with a falsetto croon.
Afterward, his coach paid tribute to his hard work and his unwavering commitment. "All you ever did was continue to be passionate about music," Adam said, "and I have profound respect for that."
Jacquie took the stage next, performing the Amy Winehouse song, "Back to Black," that won her a spot on Team Christina with a last-minute chair turn back when the season began. The teen powerhouse's performance Monday night was a world away from the one she'd delivered at her blind audition, showcasing her new, more refined control over her powerful voice and her mastery of dynamics. Her coach was clearly proud.
"I love this girl so much," Christina told her. "You make me enjoy everything about what I do here in this chair, and you make me look forward to coming back here again and watching you kill it every single time."
Christina's rapport with her young protege was clear, and it was to become clearer with the night's next trio of performances, as each of the final three contestants sang a duet with their coach.
First, Adam and Tessanne tackled "Let It Be," replete with an unexpected reggae arrangement that showed the ease with which Tessanne can shift from classic pop to the music of her Jamaican roots.
Next, Christina brought Jacquie in for a duet on her own "Hunger Games" hit "We Remain," both of them joyously belting like proper divas, decked out in dramatic red gowns.
And finally, Adam came back onstage, this time with Will, to perform a low-key version of the Elton John classic "Tiny Dancer," stripping out much of its nostalgic jangle.
The three finalists then joined on a candle-lined set to give an easy, warm performance of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There." But the real showstoppers -- the finalists' last big chances to prove their readiness to be crowned "The Voice" -- were yet to come.
Tessanne's came first, with her confident coach assigning her a monumental challenge: Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing."
"My first instinct was to go, 'Nuh-uh, I''m not doing Whitney!'" Tessanne admitted, laughing. "I can't sing Whitney like Whitney," she acknowledged, so instead she planned to perform the song as "a kind of tribute."
If her all-out, emotionally committed performance were a tribute, it was a powerful one that the late pop star herself would have appreciated.
And when Carson Daly asked Tessanne's coach for his thoughts, he admitted he didn't have much to offer. "I don't have thoughts right now, I just have emotions," he said.
Her teammate Will took the stage next, with Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You," adhering faithfully to the original's tone and arrangement while letting his own warm, gravelly voice shine.
"You didn't have to glitter it up. You didn't have to do anything too fancy," Blake Shelton -- who for the first time in "Voice" history has no team members in the finals -- told him, calling his "solid performance."
But fancy might be what "The Voice" finals were calling for, if any of the three finalists were to pull ahead and stake their claim to the title.
Jacquie, the finals' youngest contestant by more than a decade, delivered that in spades with her no-holds-barred take on Jennifer Hudson's version of the "Dreamgirls" torch song "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." At the end of her tormented take on the tune, Christina's mouth was hanging open nearly as far as Jacquie's had been on one of the song's biggest notes.
Blake tipped his hat to Jacquie's bond with Christina, which had become as sisterly as it had artistically fruitful. "This is one of the best coach-artist pairings I've ever seen," he said, and he told Jacquie, "Your evolution on this show, sister -- that was amazing."
"There are few people that I see and that I know are gonna be gems and gonna be superstars one day," Christina said. "I'm scared of you!"
Her fearsome performance, along with the eight others by herself and her rivals Monday night, could help deliver any one of them the title of "The Voice" come Tuesday.
It's then that the season five winner will be announced, following a finale featuring performances from Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and more.
"The Voice" finale airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.
Tessanne, Jacquie and Will Sing for Their Last Shot at "The Voice" Title
It will all be over Tuesday night, when either Tessanne Chin, Jacquie Lee or Will Champlin will be named the season five victor.
Monday night was the last night for the final three talents on "The Voice" to win over audiences' hearts and votes, and their last stabs at stardom ran the gamut from belabored to effortless, understated to electric.


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Hundreds of unmarked graves found in League City
A community cleanup of a cemetery in League City over the weekend uncovered some deep history: unmarked graves of black residents of the Dickinson area dating to the 1800s.
Now, community leaders and historians are working to identify the grave sites, which could number as many as 400. They are also want to obtain a Texas historical marker for Magnolia Cemetery on Texas 3 near FM 646, the only African-American cemetery in northern Galveston County, said Melodey Hauch of the Galveston County Historical Commission.
"The main thing we want to do right now is see what kind of cemetery history we can compile," she said. "We want to talk to a lot of the old families and descendants to see what they can tell us. It's really important because it's a very historic cemetery."
Volunteers using tractors, saws and trimmers were cleaning up the cemetery Saturday when they discovered multiple areas of depressed earth, said the Rev. William H. King III, of Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, which is next to the cemetery.
The church members made up about 20 of the roughly 50 volunteers who took part in the cleanup.
"We saw unmarked graves where people had been interred," King said. "It's difficult to know who's there but some individuals have come forward with data, including several caretakers of the cemetery. Some of that information is now surfacing, and I believe (identifying the grave sites) will be an achievable task in the next few years."
There are about 150 marked grave sites at the cemetery that include veterans of both world wars, business owners, educators and also children.
Hauch, who also works with the Bay Area Genealogical Society, agreed that identifying the unknown grave sites would not be easy.
"One problem is that they're unmarked," she said. "They may have been marked with wood crosses, which have deteriorated over the years."
Based on online genealogical research and death certificates, there could be as many as 400 black residents from the Dickinson and League City areas interred at the cemetery, she said. Some of the documents refer to Dickinson Colored Cemetery, which it was commonly called, as well as to Magnolia Cemetery, Hauch said. The site is located on the border of Dickinson and League City, but is in the League City city limits.
"We're also trying to find obits and to locate people who may know more of the history of the area," she said.
King is leading efforts to obtain new signage for the cemetery as well as to erect a wrought-iron fence around it. The current archway sign has decayed significantly.


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A smiling and healthy looking Redmond O'Neal left Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday after Judge Keith Schwartz congratulated him on completing a yearlong rehab stint.
But according to the Los Angeles Times, that same judge also warned that if the troubled son of Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett in any way slipped during his probationary period he would be sent to prison to complete his suspended sentence.
In 2011 O'Neal pleaded no contest to two felony counts including firearms and heroin possession by a felon. Santa Monica police discovered heroin in O'Neal's car after he was pulled over for running a red light. He was sentenced to one year of intense, live-in rehab therapy by Schwartz.
It was not the first brush with the law for O'Neal, who has been in and out of rehab centers for substance abuse since he was a teenager. He was jailed in 2009 after being found in possession of heroin during a routine security check at a California detention center. He was temporarily released from jail that same year so he could attend his mother's funeral.
In September 2008, O'Neal and his father were booked on suspicion of narcotics possession following a probabtion search at Ryan's Malibu home. The elder O'Neal pleaded guilty and completed an 18 month drug diversion program.
On Wednesday, Judge Schwartz extended Redmond O'Neal's probation to 2016 and ordered him to complete additional psychological and substance abuse counseling. O'Neal must also return to court in three months for a for a progress report and will continue to wear an electronic monitoring device.


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As was pointed out in a recent Drowned in Sheffield column, The Crookes are one of the few bands from the city that have actually managed to build up a following beyond South Yorkshire. The support of Richard Hawley has given them kudos locally, while Steve Lamacq's fandom has given them the national exposure that alludes so many. So what's so different about The Crookes?
They are a break from what much of the music industry assumes the sound of Sheffield to be. The Crookes favour romanticism over gritty realism, they dress in foppish shirtsleeves rather than polo shirts and trainers and they make you wonder why they're slumming it playing students' unions rather than writing poetry in Parisian cafes. They're admittedly old-fashioned and (consciously or not) unequivocally middle-class. That's what's different – they don't look, sound or feel like any other band that's come out of Sheffield over the last few years. You might argue that that's because they're not from Sheffield at all, having only moved here for university. But then they're different again because after graduation, they stuck around, when most Yorkshire-born-and-bred musicians would have moved to London to seek their fortune. They're even named after one of the city's suburbs.
In short, Chasing After Ghosts isn't a rehash of Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. It's full of sad, sorry stories and confused, tragic characters all the same, but not the sort that you'll find stumbling out of Wetherspoons on a Saturday night. It's an album that treats situations more sensitively and intellectually than that. Clearly, The Smiths are an obvious influence, making The Crookes sound like close cousins of those other fey pop poets, Frankie & The Heartstrings.
But these are pop songs that feel a little bit as though they're trying not to be. Two of the best choruses on Chasing After Ghostscome towards the end of the album. On 'I Remember Moonlight', George Waite's weepy vocals become dryer and raspier with each repetition as his agony starts to overwhelm him. It's a theatrical trick that pulls you in, but the rhythm seems to stomp uncertainly instead of crashing with matching emotion. The Housemartinsey 'Bloodshot Days' is paced more quickly, making it much easier to cement in your memory, with sweet "ba ba ba" backing vocals. But the catchy vocal hook isn't supported by an extra surge of energy from the rest of the band.
This isn't a problem on 'Chorus Of Fools', which uses clever guitar playing that gradually complicates to build intricate verses. Rapid punches of jangling chords makes the chorus jump out properly. But ultimately, there isn't a track on Chasing After Ghoststhat has the elegant enthusiasm of an early single like 'Backstreet Lovers' to makes this a great pop album.
It has to be said though, this does feel like nitpicking. The Crookes deserve credit for making an album which, while it doesn't have any obvious chart-topping cuts, seems very much like the album they wanted to make. It is eloquently coherent, with themes of youthful frustration and heartache constantly present, but never in a way that is embarrassingly gushing or childishly simplistic. It is frequently charming and beautiful, when it isn't being cheery and uplifting. The Crookes pay for their intellectualisation with a lack of anthemic immediacy, but it's nice to know that there's a place for poetry in contemporary pop.
7Robert Cooke's Score


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