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Staff, pupils and parents at Beckley Church of England Primary School are celebrating after achieving "Good" in all areas following their Ofsted inspection in February.
The report describes the school as having a caring, family ethos. All pupils work well together, showing high levels of respect to all adults and other pupils. They feel safe and behave well in lessons and around the school.
Teaching is good, with pupils enjoying motivating and interesting lessons, allowing them to achieve well and make good progress across the curriculum. Children make a successful start in the Reception Year and are well prepared for Key Stage 1.
The report also praised leadership of the team, stating: "The acting head teachers and governing body have made considerable improvements in a short space of time, including raising expectations and improving punctuality and attendance."
It adds: "Teachers are skilled in getting pupils to explain their thinking and pupils share views and learn from each other."
On behalf of the school, Acting Head Philippa Gasson said: "We are absolutely delighted that Ofsted has confirmed our own judgement that this is a truly good school. We are very proud of our staff and pupils for this achievement".
Ann Cockerham, Executive Principal of the Rye Academy Trust, which is supporting Beckley as part of the local Alliance structure, is particularly pleased that the hard work of the staff and support of the parents in enabling the children to make good progress has been recognised with this judgement.
Ann said "This report places the school in a strong position for the future. The staff, past and present, have been fantastic in the absence of a substantive head teacher and we are now in the right place to recruit an exceptional new head for September".
The school is well known for its community involvement and children have impressed Beckley Horticultural Society with their entries for village shows.


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The Age Project is a rather interesting idea. It enlightens the guessers who are likely to get better and better at identifying age as well as the submitter, who finds out how old people secretly think they are. I guess you have to be prepared for an answer you don't expect, or want though. The other problem is that submitters might be lying about their age and simply want to know how old other people think them.
It's still a great idea though! You could even submit pictures of yourself in different clothes and see which looks youngest!


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So what else is new?
The American Hockey League confirmed something hockey fans in San Antonio have known for the past couple of years.
The Rampage front office is pretty good at what they do.
Led by Ryan Snider, the team's Director of Business Operations, the Rampage have found a way to pack the building with an all-time attendance boom, with an average of 6,411 fans filing into the AT&T Center.
The New York Islanders are jealous.
As a result of their overall performance, the AHL designated the Spurs-owned franchise the league's President Award, given to the team for excellence in all areas of the operation off the ice. They also won awards for sales increases as well as the awards were announced at the league meetings this week.
Snider, coming into the job three years ago from the Fort Worth Brahmas of the Central Hockey League, has injected energy into the efforts of a staff that can now focus on hockey.
The results are seen on a game-by-game basis.
Since the team has fallen flat on the ice, Snider and his band make sure the evening isn't a total loss for fans.
Ingenious interactive activities, promotions, a free-wheeling video production team, T-Bone, coupons, group sales, and strong sponsorships allow fans to leave the building muttering to themselves, "well, the team got pounded, but man, that was really fun!"
Snider is the head of the snake, but he has loads of help.
Ed Chamberlain, who just moved on to the Hamilton Bulldogs to head their sales team, provided sales and marketing acumen.
The connection with Chik-Fil-A is one of the tightest relationships in local sports. The cow drop gets fans out of their seats every night, as bovines parachute from the rafters with free sandwich coupons, by far the most popular promotion of the game.
Other members on the Rampage staff are:
Starla Scrivner, Franchise Administration Assistant
Brad Porch, Corporate Partnership Account Executive
Katie Krause, Media Relations Manager
Dan Weiss, Broadcast Operations Manager
Evan Maxwell, Franchise Operations Manager
Cassidy Lien, Franchise Game Operations Coordinator
Sonia Davies, Talent Resources Manager
Elizabeth Rozyskie, Franchise Interactive Marketing Coordinator
Steven Rohall, Franchise Marketing Coordinator
Kassie Moore, Senior Franchise Services Coordinator
Jason Dawbin, Franchise Ticket Manager
Matt Kalister, Franchise Sales Manager
Damian Paul, Sales Representative
Frank Torres, Sales Representative
Elisa Trevino, Sales Representative
Curt Waugh, Sales Representative
Lindsay Petrone, Sales Representative
Like most of us, i don't know the minions who run around the AT&T Center, providing service and putting on the show that is Rampage hockey.
But just know this — they are the best in the AHL at what they do!
Something we've known for years.
Who's Going Where?
Former Crystal Ice Palace zamboni driver and chief bottle washer, Bill Peters, inked a three-year deal to be an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings. Peters, who worked at the CIP while finishing his studies here in San Antonio, has been a successful juniors coach, winning the Memorial Cup in 2008. Peters worked with Detroit head coach, Mike Babcock in Spokane in 1999, and that connection, along with his success in Washington and as head coach of the Rockford Ice Hogs, punched his ticket to the Show.
I always hold this one over Peter's head when he came in with the IceHogs to play the Rampage — made a nifty glove save on the one-hit Iguana wonder at the CIP dropin one night. Of course he scored about six other times, but that glove save was a beauty!
Peters played in only one professional game — with the Iguanas. San Antonio was shorthanded because of injuries and suspensions and needed an emergency player. John Torchetti signed Peters to an emergency contract, had him sit the bench in the first period, have Peters serve penalties in the second but gave the kid a shot in the third. Peters scored a goal and added two assists in the Iggies 12-4 win over the Dallas Freeze.
Peters' appointment in Detroit is the only reason to root for the Red Wings.
Former Rampage players have been showing up on the transaction pages.
In case you didn't notice, when Andrew Ebbett was called up to Phoenix, the Rampage hit the skids. Of course, Ebbett's summons wasn't the only reason the Rampage went from first to almost worst in the division in three months. But it sure didn't help the locals. Ebbett signed with the Stanley Cup runner up Vancouver Canuck organization. Maybe Ebbett will be just what the Canucks need to get over the hump? If not, we'll see him in a Chicago Wolves uniform, the new AHL affiliate of the Western Conference champs.
Also signing with the Canucks was Matt Climie, who will most likely toil with the Wolves, even though Roberto Luongo's name is mud in many areas of British Columbia, and Cory Schneider is a more than capable backup with the big club. Climie had his moments in San Antonio, but his overall performance was disappointing after he helped the Texas Stars get to the AHL Finals the year before.
Alexandre Picard inked a deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning, another successful NHL organization that made the Eastern Conference finals before losing to Boston in seven games.
Here's hoping Picard gets a shot with TB. The former number-one pick of the Columbus Blue Jackets is one of those AHL players who gives his all most nights on every shift, stands in front of the net, takes his shots — both from opposing defensemen and on teammate's rebounds — hustles up and down the ice and generally causes grief to guys in the other uniforms. He also managed to lead the Rampage in goals this season with 24 and added nine more in 16 games after being acquired in the trade for Chad Kolarik in March of 2010.
A player who, like Picard who was drafted eighth overall by Columbus, may be coming this way via the Florida Panthers is Angelo Esposito, who was taken 20th by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2007 but hasn't lived up to the hype. He was picked up in a trade with the Winnipeg Jets, Esposito scored 110 goals in four years in juniors and was thought to be one of the top players in the draft four years ago, but has been a dud in the pros, scoring three goals last season in 57 games with the Wolves — his first full pro season. Hall of Fame last name tho!
Hopefully not another Alex Bourret.
Matt Watkins was resigned by Phoenix to play in Portland next season. It seemed whenever Watkins contributed on the scoresheet, the Rampage won the game.
We'll be seeing more of Jeff Taffe, unless he gets some ice time with the Minnesota Wild, who signed him last week. Taffe is one of those head scratchers for me — a late first rounder of the St. Louis Blues who scored 25 goals in 92 Rampage games in the mid-00's (is that pronounced, aught-aught?), has scored 25, 28 and 30 goals in his last three AHL seasons with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Rochester and Rockford, but can't find a place in the NHL. He has been known to punish the Rampage every time he plays against them, so look for some long nights for Rampage goalies this season against Houston.
Speaking of Houston, former Aeros Anton Khudobin and Benoit Pouliot signed with the Bruins. Goaltender Khudobin was acquired from the Minnesota at the trade deadline last season and is third on the Bruin depth chart behind all-everything Tim Thomas and Tukka Rask.
Let's all stand and cheer as Brett Sterling returns to the West Division to torment San Antonio, signing a deal with the St. Louis Blues. Sterling scored 144 goals with the Chicago Wolves, it seemed like 143 against the Rampage, before playing last season in the East with WB/Scranton, giving Rampage goaltenders a break from fetching the puck from the back of the net.
Dan Carcillo is now with the Blackhawks, taking his manic show to the Windy City. He played five games with the Rampage back in 2007…speaking of nutjobs — Francis Lessard will be back with Calder Cup Champion Binghampton. Lessard played 24 games in Ottawa last year with the typical Frankie line — 0-0-78 after accruing 2-1-3 187 with the cup champs in 36 contests.
In an unofficial trade, Nolan Yonkman stays with San Antonio despite changing organizations…the Panthers signed Yonkman, who played here last season while with the Phoenix organization.


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Officials NEED Technological Help!
Once again Blackburn Rovers, who are by no means the only side who suffer this, were on the wrong end of a controversial goal line decision at the weekend. It HAS to be time for technological help surely?
A recent Vital Blackburn poll asked your opinion, most felt (71% in fact!) it was time the referee's and their assistants had some technological help, and in the day and age we live in surely this is right? You can weigh up all the arguments for and against but the argument for far outweigh those against.
Technology is quick and easy, they use it in Rugby and Cricket as we all know, I believe to a degree also in Tennis now, or at least were thinking about it? So it's time in some instances it came into football. These replays would cause no less of a disruption than the arguments that break out when such things occur anyway would it! People push and shove, remonstrate with the referee and linesman so by the time that's sorted a good minute or two, usually longer passes. You'd be long underway again with the aid of technology.
You have the argument that if you introduce technology into one area others soon follow, this doesn't need to be the case. In Cricket they only get help with tight run out call and occasional catches, not LBW calls so why can't we just have it for tight goal line calls and maybe nothing else?
Help in other areas would be useful, for debatable penalties etc. but maybe you lose something from the game if you have replays for this? I know it may seem a little contradictory by saying "dodgy penalties" should stand, but "dodgy goals" shouldn't but at least with a penalty you still have a 50:50 chance of the goal not being scored, debatable goals are 100% for or 100% against (depending which side you are on) with no reprieve. Goals WIN and LOSE matches, goal line technology will insure the right calls are made and will only take seconds to check.
Football is more than just a sport, it is a business like it or not. The calls that are wrong can cost teams millions, may cost us just that and a place in Europe as a result, which could in turn lead to players possibly leaving? These calls could easily be corrected but aren't but could so easily be stamped out; it's time to act. I've said it before but will say it again, wait until a World Cup, European Championship, Champions League or FA Cup is decided in such a controversial manor, we'll all be using this technology in a flash but we shouldn't have to wait for this for action to be taken…
The argument of funds for this comes up but with the amount of money in the game now UEFA, FIFA, the FA, whomever should be able to budget such technology across ALL levels of professional football.
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|Reviews for Murdered By Her Mouth
| PastOneonta chapter 1 . 1/19/2015
"I doubt that your precious Edward ever wanted you smart". Brilliant. This is a very good little story I found when planning to read your OUAT fic. It described Edward's possessiveness and obsessiveness masquerading as protection and love perfectly. But more importantly you write a Jacob who loves Bella and wants her to help herself. He says it's "twisted" and he's so right and how come no one else ever said it to her? No one told her how messed up she was. But your Jacob did and it's a great story and thank goodness for fanfic fixing things.
| CutieSOS chapter 1 . 10/6/2013
this was really good
| Lucyferina chapter 1 . 11/16/2012
Loved this story...
| esther chapter 1 . 9/26/2012
wow. i hate twilight withe fire of a thousand suns, even though i've never read the books (so hypocritical, i know), but i've totally always thought that jacob had so much potential to be the good guy who deservedly gets the girl.
but stteffaniey meyers ruined that, didn't she.
never mind. i'll take this fic and snuggle it and pretend it's canon (even though it's better than the canon).
i think you could even make 50 shades of suck readable.
| Malapropian chapter 1 . 5/6/2012
This was a fantastic explanation of why Edward/Bella was so disturbing to me.
Later on Jacob was equally problematic and disturbing. If we're only taking the first two books into account, then yeah, this is pretty accurate characterisation. I saw Jacob as a flawed teenager who was inherently sweet and just wanted Bella to be happy and experience things.
I have a lot of problems with Twilight, and a lot of the fanfiction embraces what I find problematic. It's always nice to find fanfiction that subverts the themes and does it well.
| liam22 chapter 1 . 1/29/2012
I love this. It just feels right, you know.
| kamlo-ren chapter 1 . 11/25/2011
I'm an angry ex-girlfriend of Twilight, but occasionally I allow myself to read Jacob/Bella fics if only because of the Edward bashing and OOC/strong Bella. This is one of those occasions, thanks for making it a good one:)
| Koraki chapter 1 . 9/18/2011
I'll start out with stating that I am not a Twilight fan. I read the first book to see how I'd like the series...like many others, I wasn't too terribly impressed.
That being said, although Meyer's writing isn't amazing and the plot problems make me wince, the characters of Twilight and their relationships are actually something that I am extremely interested in. I didn't feel that Meyer presented them as well as she could've. And so, though I didn't begin to actively seek out Twilight fanfic, I started reading oneshots written by authors who had great writing styles.
That's how I found this.
I do really love this - I much prefer Jacob/Bella to Edward/Bella, if only because (a) they are more realistic; and (b) I like werewolves much more than vampires, for whatever reason. In any case, this story was extremely well-written, with no mechanical mistakes to speak of, and no characterization errors as far as I could tell. Lovely work; I'm favoriting you and this story. :-)
| Anon chapter 1 . 9/10/2011
This is the first Twilight fanfic I have read - well, ever. I absolutely love your LWD fic, though, so I decided to give this a shot.
And I really liked it. Jacob was the only prominent character I actually liked in the books, for one thing, and there's just something so sweet about this story. This shows so much of what I don't like about Edward, and EdwardandBella. I remember Bella at one point in the books comparing Edward to drugs and Jacob to sunshine and I thought - well OF COURSE you don't go with the drugs, stupid!
Also, Jacob's analogy about movies and pictures is ... amazing.
You've made me realize that there could have been a much, much better story in those books (my God, the last one book especially was awful, I wanted my time back), and that is pretty incredible.
| vapanalley chapter 1 . 8/14/2011
This is totally my headcanon now. Forget whatever happened in those silly books. This is what really happened. Thank you so much for pointing out the uber psychopathic ways of one love-sick vampire.
| dancingbarefoot chapter 1 . 8/11/2011
I loved this;small and strong like a bullet.I wnt to read more of your work!
| kitsuneasika chapter 1 . 8/9/2011
...You are officially one of the few people who can make me enjoy Twilight-related things. (At least it wasn't EdwardBella. If you had made me like something that was EdwardBella I think I would have to commit ritual suicide.)
ANYWAYS. Your writing has gotten so good, my God. I mean, I've always loved your writing, but I kind of feel like it's really grown somehow. The prose in this was so gorgeous.
And your characterization- you wrote a Bella that both fits into the events of the actual book yet was a character that I actually liked. I don't even know what to say about your Jacob- he was just amazing.
And the way you use him to point out the awful, awful things about Edward and Bella's relationship just made me so happy. And. I don't know how to put it, but I just really liked this, and I'm glad that I didn't just delete the alert for this when it popped up in my inbox. (I nearly did. Then I decided to check who the author was, and when I saw that it was you, I figured, why the hell not.)
| lucyferina chapter 1 . 8/9/2011
Good story so far, you could write more of it :)
| the sun in splendor chapter 1 . 8/9/2011
i don't even LIKE twilight, but this?
this was awesome. definite win.
| aej1085 chapter 1 . 8/9/2011
I freaking loved it! Great job!


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Published 1:00 am, Wednesday, June 28, 2006
GOSHEN -- Seven jurors were sworn in late Tuesday in the murder trial of Christopher Porco, putting the case on track for opening statements this afternoon, officials said.
The remaining panel members -- five jurors and at least four alternates -- are scheduled to be selected this morning.
During detailed questioning of potential jurors Tuesday, Porco's defense team tacitly unveiled portions of its trial strategy, asking the Orange County residents if they could look past Porco's calm demeanor and allegations he may have victimized his parents before they were bludgeoned inside their Delmar home 19 months ago.
Laurie Shanks, one of Porco's attorneys, stunned prosecutors when she inquired of potential jurors whether they could separate the evidence in the brutal attack from any problems the family may have had leading up to the murder of Peter Porco and the attempted murder of his wife, Joan.
Prosecutors have built their case around a theory that Christopher Porco was a failing college student who stole from his friends and family, forged loan applications and college transcripts, and was flunking out of college when he allegedly plotted to kill his parents with an ax for money.
"Can you promise me you'll only base your verdict on the evidence, not on your sympathy for anyone?" asked Albany County Chief Assistant District Attorney Michael P. McDermott, alluding to Joan Porco's steadfast support of her son and her belief in his innocence.
Shanks, an Albany Law School professor who is co-defending the case with her husband, Terence L. Kindlon, conceded Porco had apparently staged a burglary at his parents' home almost two years before the murder, and later sold his mother's stolen laptop computer on eBay.
But she wrapped the concession around questions to potential jurors about their feelings on police misconduct and whether they could have built their murder case against him only after concluding he had done it.
"Do you think police officers could make a mistake?" Shanks asked. "Do you think that people ever make a snap decision and then they really have a hard time admitting they made a mistake?"
McDermott said he was surprised Shanks brought up the burglary, which is one of at least three break-ins authorities believe Porco committed against his parents and an employer.
"She wanted to try and inoculate the jury," McDermott said.
Shanks also pressed them with questions about defendants who don't testify on their own behalf, and whether Porco's calm demeanor could be misinterpreted.
As he has from the beginning, Porco has remained at ease with the charges hanging over him, maintaining a normal social life and walking arm-in-arm into court hearings with the woman he is accused of trying to kill.
At a pre-trial hearing last month, he showed no outward emotion as a paramedic and police officers described in clinical detail the bloody scene they encountered inside 36 Brockley Dr. on Nov. 15, 2004.
"Do you think you can tell by looking at someone how they feel about something?" Shanks asked the panelists.
At the end of the day Tuesday, 21 potential jurors who had undergone incisive questioning about their habits, work history, ties to law enforcement and love of television crime shows were whittled to seven after prosecutors and defense attorneys each dismissed seven for undisclosed reasons.
Among the potential jurors let go were the wife of a State Police investigator, a young man who works as a bill collector, a retired police sergeant and a woman who plays percussion instruments and teaches high school science in the Bronx.
The group sworn in includes a bus driver, a retired history teacher who also worked as a psychotherapist, and a widow, now retired, who worked as an accountant for several years.
The questioning of jurors became pointed at times. Orange County Judge Jeffrey G. Berry scolded McDermott for asking a repetitive question, and he cut off Shanks when she asked: "Do you have a sense of what it would be like to be charged with a crime you didn't commit?"
If opening statements begin today, as scheduled, the Albany County court officer who discovered the grisly crime scene will be the first witness to testify, McDermott said.
The officer, Michael Hart, went to the Porco home late on the morning of the murder after Peter Porco failed to show up for his job as a judge's law clerk. Paramedics who treated Joan Porco at the scene, and are credited with helping save her life, would follow Hart on the stand.
The trial is expected to last about five weeks. The case was moved here, more than 100 miles south of Albany, after a state appeals court determined that pretrial publicity had probably ruined Porco's chances for a fair trial in Albany County.
Porco was indicted on murder and attempted-murder charges in November. He remains free on $250,000 bail.


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Sri Lanka finished the second day of the 3-day first under 19 test against Pakistan on top after a fine double century from skipper Charith Asalanka at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Hambantota.
After Sri Lanka under 19 had declared their first innings at 347-9 following the dismissal of Asalanka for 200 scored off 276 balls with 24 fours and a six, Pakistan under 19 were bundled out for 209 despite a fighting century (102 off 167 balls) from wicket-keeper Umair Masood.
The damage to the Pakistan batting was done by fast bowlers Asitha Fernando and Lahiru Kumara and left-arm spinner Thilan Nimesh who captured three wickets apiece.
By stumps the home side had made ten without loss and go into the third and final day with an overall lead of 148.
Scores: Sri Lanka (u19) 330-7 contd 347-9 decl (Charith Asalanka 200, Shadab Khan 6/89, Saif Ali 2/78) and 10-0 at close.
Pakistan (u19) 209 (Abdullah Shafiq 20, Umair Masood 102, Shadab Khan 29, Awais Iqbal 20, Asith Fernando 3/60, Lahiru Kumara 3/46, Thilan Nimesh 3/46)


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Cortria Corporation's TRIA-662 Named One of 10 Most Promising Cardiovascular Projects By Leading Industry Panel
Cortria Corporation, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing safe and well-tolerated medicines to fight cardiovascular disease, today announced that TRIA-662 has been selected as one of the Top 10 most promising cardiovascular projects in development. TRIA-662 is currently in Phase 2 clinical development for the treatment of dyslipidemia, an atherogenic disorder characterized by abnormal lipid levels in the bloodstream.
"We are excited that Windhover has selected TRIA-662 as one of the industry's top ten cardiovascular projects. This recognition supports our belief in the potential of TRIA-662 to become a new standard of care in the treatment of dyslipidemia by providing the benefits of niacin therapy without causing skin flushing," said Daniel Grau, CEO & Vice-Chairman of Cortria. "Skin flushing is a well-known side effect of niacin and severely limits use of available niacin-containing therapies."The selection of TRIA-662 was made by an independent committee of judges assembled by Windhover Information, a leading provider of business information products and services to senior executives in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
"Selected companies have been screened using a strict set of judging criteria for the Top 10 award and represent what our committee considered the most attractive cardiovascular opportunities the industry has to offer," said Roger Longman, Managing Director of Windhover Information. "Winners have met rigorous criteria including: unmet medical need, market potential, diversity of indications, strong science, multi-level partnering opportunities (biotech and pharma), potential for new opportunities beyond initial indications, and corporate stability."
As a selected company, Cortria has been invited to present data on TRIA-662 at Windhover's Therapeutic Area Partnerships conference taking place November 3-5, 2008, in Philadelphia, PA.
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TRIA-662 is currently in Phase 2 clinical development for the treatment of dyslipidemia, an atherogenic disorder characterized by abnormal fat levels in the bloodstream. In preliminary human studies, TRIA-662 demonstrated the potential to provide the lipid-controlling benefits of niacin therapy without causing skin flushing. Niacin was the first lipid-modifying agent proven in outcomes trials to extend life, yet the side-effects of niacin, principally skin flushing, cause many patients to discontinue therapy and substantially limit the drug's potential. Previous efforts to create a flush-free niacin therapeutic - using extended release formulations, dose titration and, more recently, fixed dose combination technologies - have not been successful. As a result, TRIA-662 represents an important opportunity as a new first-line therapy in the multi-billion dollar cardiovascular risk reduction market.
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Cortria is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing safe and well-tolerated medicines to fight cardiovascular disease. Cortria is based in Boston, MA and backed by Domain Associates and MVM Life Science Partners.
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Windhover Information Inc., an Elsevier company, has led the field in providing analysis of the healthcare industry to decision-makers at all levels since the founding of its flagship publication, IN VIVO, The Business & Medicine Report, in 1983. Windhover provides its information and analysis in many formats, including print, electronic databases, international conferences and webinars. For more on the company's products and services, please see www.windhover.com.
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ERIE — Magpul Industries, caught up in the debate over a proposal to ban magazines that hold more than 15 rounds, has launched a Cold War-themed campaign that focuses on making its PMag ammunition magazines easily available to Colorado residents.
Dubbed the "Boulder Airlift" — and modeled after the Berlin Airlift of the late 1940s — Magpul is pledging to "bring much needed supplies to freedom-loving residents trapped inside occupied territory" by allowing Colorado residents to specially purchase limited quantities of magazines from its website, store.magpul.com.
Magpul, which employs 200 people, has threatened to leave Colorado if the state legislature passes a law that would make it illegal for people in the state to own magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition. The House passed HB 1224 last month, and the bill is before the Senate.


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Regardless of heavy downpours, Todmorden's "Pals" set out on their march to Rochdale this morning, honouring their Territorial Army forebears who made the march in August 1914, just days after Britain entered the First World War.
Spectators armed with umbrellas and waterproofs watched as Mayor and Mayoress of Todmorden, Coun Michael Gill and Nikki Gill, and Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire, Virginia Lloyd, inspected the troops of the reformed 1/6th Lancashire Fusiliers before the strat of the march, which will end with a reception and short service of commemoration at the memorial garden near Rochdale Town Hall,
Todmorden Community Band led the parade, which also included Air Training Corps cadets and paraders dressed as first world war nurses, away from the old Territorial Amry Drill Hall on Dalton Street to cheers from those watching and the tune of It's A Long Way To Tipperary.
A year in the planning, the marchers wanted to pay tribute to the Territorials from Todmorden who were summoned to muster at Rochdale just days after war broke out in 1914.
Together with men from Rochdale and Middleton, they comprised the 6th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers and although TA volunteers were only obliged to serve domestically, a great number of them volunteers to serve abroad.
They could not have known the horror of what awaited them as they were thrown into the disastrous Gallipoli campaign just hours after reaching it in May, 1915, being involved over the following weeks in the conflicts at Krithia, and casualties were high.
Following that they saw action in France and Belgium.
Their story is told in the book The Gallipoli Oak, by authors Martin Purdy and Ian Dawson - the tree in question was planted near the battlefield by the parents of a young Rochdale officer who was killed there and the now stout Lancashire oak still flourishes there in their memory.
Martin believes TA units like that from Todmorden were in effect the first "Pals" battalions, even though they did not bear that name.
This inspired the march, which has some direct links with 1914. For example, relatives of one of the Todmorden officers, who survivved the war, Captain Robert Barker, were to attend and some of those taking part also had family ties to it.
For example, Steve Wright's great-uncle Ben Wright also survived and also met at Dalton Street with fellow veterans on the war's 50th anniversary in 1964. Steve's taking part means there has been a member of the Wright family on each of those occasions.


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Noise Pollution Makes It Harder For Plants to Have Sex
Written by Stephen Messenger
Aside from a gentle rustling in the breeze or the occasional creaking bough, trees are generally nature's strong and silent types — and as it turns out, they'd probably prefer us to keep the noise to a minimum too. According to some rather surprising results of a new study on the effects of excessive industrial ruckus on flora, even plants are apparently feeling the squeeze from human-generated noise pollution.
Researchers from North Carolina's National Evolutionary Synthesis Center recently discovered that, despite an absence of ears, plant life cycles are being negatively impacted by persistent loud noises in their neighborhoods, reports the BBC. The team set their sights (and sounds) on a patch of New Mexico forest home to a number of clamorous gas wells and soon learned that the noise pollution made it harder for trees to have sex — because it deterred their reproductive assistants: pollinators.
Hummingbirds in particular, it seems, generally prefer to take their meals away from the hum of industrial machinery. But while it's hard to blame them for that, it does make it difficult for trees to get together, so to speak.
And the trouble for plants in noisy regions doesn't end there. Researchers also found that many animals which usually consume and later deposite seeds elsewhere weren't coming around quite as much to help disperse the tree's offspring. That's a serious problem says lead-researcher Clinton Francis:
"Fewer seedlings in noisy areas might eventually mean fewer mature trees, but because pinon pines are so slow-growing the shift could have gone undetected for years. Fewer pinon pine trees would mean less critical habitat for the hundreds of species that depend on them for survival."
Unfortunately, given the endless expansion of human activity in formerly tranquil ecosystems, silence is likely to be harder to come by in the future for nearly everyone and everything — and it may be a more difficult problem to curb.
This post was originally published by TreeHugger.
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ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Jet fuel from a train derailment north of Talkeetna last December has reached the Susitna River, a state environmental official said Wednesday.
A small amount of fuel turned up in a water sample taken last Friday after fuel was found in several test wells, one of which was just 10 feet from the river, said Leslie Pearson, onsite coordinator for the Department of Environmental Conservation.
The test well contained 16,400 parts per billion, enough ''to raise eyebrows,'' Pearson said. The water sample from the river contained 330 parts per billion.
''It is a low level, but the fact that it is there is a concern,'' she said.
More than 120,000 gallons of jet fuel was spilled during the derailment 36 miles north of Talkeetna. Crews recovered 16,570 gallons, or about 14 percent of the total.
Ernie Piper, Alaska Railroad's vice president for safety and environmental compliance, said new test samples were taken Wednesday and results should be available by Friday.
He began questioning the initial test results once he got a closer look at a laboratory report breaking down the fuel components found in the samples.
''The sample results do not look like they should,'' he said. ''There could be an error.''
When a similar thing occurred in January, retesting showed no fuel in the Susitna, Piper said. ''Maybe there is, but let's be sure,'' he said.
The Alaska Railroad, which has spent about $9 million so far on the cleanup, began digging a trench over the weekend to prevent any more fuel from reaching the Susitna. About 300 feet of trench had been dug by Wednesday, Piper said. The trench when finished will probably be about 450 feet. Plans also call for placing several hundred feet of boom in the water.
Instead of removing contaminated soil, the railroad chose to pump air into the ground to vent some of the fuel vapors and to stimulate bacteria that will feed on and break down the hydrocarbons.
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Consumer Groups Unhappy with Enron's Deregulation Push
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PHILADELPHIA -- Enron made an enemy of consumer activist Lance Haver last October when it offered to cut Philadelphia electricity rates by 20 percent.
Naturally, Haver didn't oppose a rate cut. He and other activists, along with government and industry officials, spent months negotiating with Peco Energy, Philadelphia's electric utility, to win residential rate cuts of up to 10 percent.
What he feared was that Enron's maneuver would give regulators a reason to reject the carefully negotiated Peco plan for opening Philadelphia's power sales to competition, and eliminate any guaranteed rate reductions. He was right. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission turned down Peco and Enron's proposals, and adopted rules it said would let competition reduce rates without mandated cuts. "It hurt," said Haver, head of the 3,000-member Consumers Education and Protective Association. "It was very, very damaging to the consumer's interest." It wasn't supposed to be this way. Consumer advocates were expected to be some of Enron's biggest allies in the push to end utility monopolies. With a combination of high-profile television advertising and sophisticated lobbying, Enron is trying hard to convince rate payers and legislators alike that removing regulatory controls from the $200 million-a-year U.S. electricity market will save consumers money. Yet from Pennsylvania to Oregon, where many worry that deregulation will lift rates by sending low-cost hydroelectric power to California, consumer advocates are joining with utilities and politicians to hinder Enron's crusade. In most cases, Houston-based Enron has the backing of businesses, especially large industrial users, in its efforts to move rapidly to competition. Big consumers of electricity can negotiate much lower rates in a deregulated market. Yet activists fear competition will hurt residential customers if rate cuts aren't written into deregulation laws. Without the guarantees, electric companies will charge small customers more to make up for the lower returns from industrial customers, activists say. "It's the customers who are able to be served at a lower price that will want the competition," said Sam Peltzman, an economics professor at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Public Citizen, the Washington-based consumer advocacy group, supports the concept of opening the electricity market to competition. It just doesn't share Enron's faith that moving quickly offers much to consumers. "We're very queasy about deregulation," said Charlie Higgins, a Public Citizen policy analyst. "There's big problems with the current system, but the proposals put forward by Enron won't necessarily benefit the consumer." Enron is used to such criticism. Once simply a regional natural- gas pipeline company, Enron steamrollered rivals in the 1980s to become the largest U. …


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Destiny is getting some new writing chops in the "has experience with gun-toting space superhero stories" department.
Joining the team at Bungie as lead writer is Chris Schlerf—formerly the lead writer on BioWare's fourth game in the Mass Effect series, Mass Effect: Andromeda. Schlerf announced on Twitter he was no longer working on BioWare's game about a space marine and his or her pals who fly around space fighting aliens, and was instead joining Bungie to work on their game about space wizards and their pals who fly around space fighting aliens.
Before he was at BioWare, Scherlf worked at 343 Industries on Halo 4—a game about a space marine (but not really any of his pals) fighting aliens. While Halo 4 wasn't exactly lauded for its story, mostly because it required reading a bunch of supplementary novels and such to understand what was going on, the Mass Effect series has consistently been reliant on solid dialogue and story ideas (even if the ending of Mass Effect 3 was basically a pile of slapdash garbage—the rest was great). Schlerf didn't work on the previous Mass Effect games, but given the series' history, he definitely had big shoes to fill and possibly the writer-feet to fill them.
Given that Destiny is full of cool story lore that's, uh, not actually in the game, hopefully Bungie is looking to apply more writing talent to its upcoming expansion and next year's Destiny sequel.
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Author Notes: My British mother isn't a baker. It's not her thing. It isn't really mine either. It requires precision and patience and we lack both. So we only bake when it's really necessary and, come the holidays, mince pies are necessary. First, they're delicious (especially when served with cream). Second, the recipe is flexible. When I called my mother to confirm the pastry recipe, she said she doesn't use a recipe, she just uses "some flour, half as much butter and sugar, an egg, salt, and vanilla." So, I wouldn't stress over the exact amounts for anything in this recipe. Traditionally, mince pies have beef suet in them but our family recipe is vegetarian. —Fancy and Casual
Makes 12
For the Mincemeat
- 2 pounds cooking apples (or sour apples like Granny Smith)
- 1/2 pint apple cider
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup rasins
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup glace cherries
- 1/4 cup flaked almonds
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1 lemon (zest and juice)
- 1 orange (zest and juice)
- 1/4 pint brandy (or rum)
For the Pie Crust
- 8 ounces all purpose flour (plus extra for rolling)
- 2 ounces white sugar
- 4 ounces softened butter
- 1 egg
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon milk (to glaze)
- 1 tablespoon confectionary sugar (to dust)
- Peel, core and finely chop the apples. Place sugar and cider in a large saucepan and heat until the sugar is dissolved. Add all the mincemeat ingredients, except the brandy, to the saucepan. Bring to the boil, stirring constantly. Simmer for 30 – 40 mins until the apples are soft. Leave to cool. Stir in brandy or rum and taste. If it tastes bitter, add more sugar. If it needs more brandy, add more brandy.
- While the mincemeat is cooking, prepare the crust. Add flour, sugar, egg, butter, salt, and vanilla extract to the bowl of a food processor. With the plastic blade, pulse and then blend until mixture forms a ball. Remove from food processor, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Once chilled, liberally flour your kitchen surface and rolling pin (it's a sticky dough). Roll out dough until thin, but not falling apart (about 1/8 inch). Using big and small circle cookie cutters, cut out equal numbers of big and small dough circles. If you want to get fancy, you can use a small star cookie cutter instead of a small circle.
- Grease a muffin tray and place the big circles in the muffin holders. The dough should go up around the edges to form a cup shape. Fill the cups with about a tablespoon of mincemeat, then cover with a smaller circle (or star) of dough. Lightly glaze the tops with milk.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 15 - 20 minutes or until top is golden brown. Remove from oven and let mince pies cool. Once cooled, sprinkle with confectionary sugar.
- Leftover mincemeat can be spooned into clean, hot jars and covered with wax circles and Ball Jar lids.
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FG sees support drop in new poll
03/08/2014 - 10:35:49Back to Ireland Home
Support for Fine Gael has fallen in the latest political opinion poll.
The Millward Brown poll for the Sunday Independent shows Fine Gael with the support of 25% of voters, just one point ahead of Sinn Féin.
The poll also shows Fianna Fáil is losing support, while Labour - under new leader Joan Burton - are making modest gains.
967 people were sampled for the poll, between July 18 and 30, just before details of the water charges system were released.
The results show Fine Gael taking a hit - with support at 25%, down four points from the last similar poll three months previously.
Sinn Féin gains four points and now stands just a point behind - on 24 - four points ahead of Fianna Fáil, who are down two to 20.
Independents and others are up one point to 24, but Labour's vote remains low, up just two points to nine.
However, there is some positive news for Joan Burton as her personal satisfaction rate is 27%, equal with Enda Kenny and Micheal Martin - and a full 11% ahead of where Eamon Gilmore was three months ago.


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Hi Yves, 2009/4/13 Yves Lafon <email@example.com>: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Conrad Parker wrote: > >> 2009/4/13 Yves Lafon <firstname.lastname@example.com>: >>> >>> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>> >>>> * we need to mention that the replies are not cachable for the full >>>> resource, but cache only the fragmented resource, which can result in >>>> n copies of some subset of the resource in caching web proxies. Since >>>> it is typically expected that a fragment request will be used >>>> repeatedly (e.g. a fragment URI being shared around), this is >>>> potentially acceptable. But we have no experimental data to confirm or >>>> deny that this may pose a challenge to caching web proxies. >>> >>> Why? it is the case only if the cache can't handle merging timed >>> fragment, >>> which is the case of general purposes caches (they will handle only >>> bytes), >>> but media procies might be able to do so. Once again, it is not sure that >>> they will do that as requesting the whole resource and serve fragments >>> from >>> the cache might be more efficient for such caches anyway :) >> >> HTTP/1.1 byte-range caching is a format-agnostic method, and already >> specified in an established standard. This WG has already determined >> that format-specific media proxy caching is not necessary for at least >> Ogg and MP4. If it is necessary for any other formats, we need to >> specify in detail what the format developers need to implement. > > Oh, did I miss that byte range was in rfc2616 and httpbis drafts? The request/response format for byte-ranges is specified, and rfc2616 includes text like "HTTP/1.1 origin servers and intermediate caches ought to support byte ranges when possible." (14.35.2 Range Retrieval Requests). The way a cache does that, ie. whether or not it does byte-range recombining, is an implementation detail. By specifying methods that make use of the existing byte-range features, we do not add any new requirements for cache implementation; new implementation is restricted to the user agent and the origin server. > Can you point me to the decision saying that format-specific caches were not > wanted? No I can't! apparently it was decided in earlier meetings that format-specific caches would be fun to implement :-) > The merging algorithm depends on the format, and it is not this WG's task to > specify the algorithm. It is up to implementers and format specifications. yes :-) >> I haven't yet seen a use for Range units other than bytes that does >> not cause complications :-) > > You think that the use of byte unit is without complications? :) Well, the mechanisms for handling byte ranges in HTTP are already well specified. If we make use of those then we don't add any new complications. Byte and time units are not independent: in particular the use of time units may require modifying/inserting data, in a format-dependent manner. So by allowing both, we suddenly need to specify how to handle the presence of both. And we can't simply get rid of byte units, as they are already part of the protocol :-) For example, if we wanted to deal with the presence of both units on the HTTP response side: the returned data may vary in a different way than for a normal partial GET, as it is no longer a bytewise subset of the original resource. The data effectively becomes uncacheable: it makes no sense to add a Vary header for Content-Range! Conrad.Received on Monday, 13 April 2009 05:12:43 UTC
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Red Ride 4-Way Tour - Toronto Concert
TORONTO…Four years ago, the eclectic duo, Cris Derksen and Kristi Lane Sinclair toured across Canada and dubbed the "Red Ride Tour". Establishing this as a yearly event, the 2014 two-week tour hits the road on May 16 making stops in 14 cities including Toronto.
The Red Ride 4-Way TORONTO Concert
May 29, 2014 @ The Great Hall (1087 Queen Street West)
Doors Open: 8PM ~ Show Time: 9PM
Tickets: $15 (Door Only)
Anchored by, classical grunge rocker Kristi Lane Sinclair and critically-acclaimed composer and electro-cellist Cris Derksen, the Toronto gig adds to its line-up New York's dynamic violinist Laura Ortman.
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When detective V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 in "Indemnity Only," its author, Sara Paretsky, created a sensation by creating a female investigator who uses her wits as well as her fists. Paretsky challenged a genre in which women typically were either vamps or victims. "Body Work" (Putnam) is the latest in the V.I. series. Paretsky has broken barriers in other ways, such as when she founded Sisters in Crime, a worldwide organization that promotes women crime writers, which earned her Magazine's 1987 Woman of the Year award.


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A magistrate's home is the latest property to be raided by anti-terrorism police who had earlier arrested the son of a senior diplomat.
Officers specialising in biological and chemical threats are searching the end terrace house where Meena Patel, 54, lives with her two grown-up daughters in Stratford, east London, following the arrest of a 36-year-old woman who remains in custody.
Over the weekend officers also arrested James Sutcliffe, the 19-year-old son of Nicholas Sutcliffe, who works as First Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was later released on bail.
Both arrests were made on suspicion of offences under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act.
Mrs Patel sits on the bench at Thames Magistrates Court and was described by neighbours as a pillar of the community.
One of her daughters, Kuntal, 36, works in the City and the other, Poonam, 33, is a pharmacist. The family are understood to be Hindus.
Today at least eight police officers wearing masks and protective suits could be seen in and around their home and garden.
The back garden and garage off an alleyway were being searched and officers had erected a tent in the alleyway. Three police vans remained parked in the street.
One neighbour said: "They are a lovely family, the girl who was arrested was definitely well educated. They are just a really quiet family.
"My mum said the family might own a pharmacy nearby. I'm not sure where exactly. I was really shocked when I read the news.
"I believe there is a mum and two daughters who live there. One works in the City and I think she earns quite good money. I think they worship at a temple nearby."
Another resident called Ben added: "I've been watching the vans since the arrests but the police wouldn't say what happened. All the masks and suits were a bit worrying.
"I don't know them - I just go to work and come home. I believe there is a mum and two daughters who live there."
Meanwhile police said they had concluded searches of diplomat Mr Sutcliffe's home and an adjacent property in Streatham Hill, south London.
Mr Sutcliffe, who has worked in Brazil and Cuba with the FCO, lives at the £650,000 four bedroom house in south London with his wife and four sons.
A relative of James Sutcliffe, who was bailed until April within hours of being arrested, said he had been told by police he had "nothing to worry about".
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said residents were at no "immediate risk" and the operation had been pre-planned and led by intelligence.
They said: "The searches are being carried out as a precautionary measure and are ongoing."
Mr Sutcliffe has been a first secretary since 2001.
His brother, Peter Sutcliffe, 49, said: "I find it extraordinary police have made an arrest and I cannot believe James has involvement in terrorism."


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Many people enjoy an occasional game of Bingo. After all, Bingo does fall in the 'game' category and therefore should be fun – a solid source of entertainment.
Maybe I'm too competitive or let my impatience get the best of me, but Bingo is no stroll in the park. I'd have to search long and hard to find another game which musters up such high levels of frustration and boredom.
Sadly, repulsion fades over time. So even when the unfavorable activity is proposed for a source of entertainment, the negative connotation isn't recent enough to remember exactly how monotonous this "activity" is. Besides, you already spent $5 on a dauber – you might as well use some of the ink.
You know the drill. Once you have your card, you wait for the letters and numbers to be called. Hoping to possess the magic card, you anxiously await each number and repeat it while scanning your card for the combination.
If it's found, you let out a little, "yessssss!" and firmly stamp your card. Once you have a half of a row filled, you begin brainstorming creative ways to announce your victory. Scream it loud or say it soft? Show your excitement or be nonchalant?
Veterans of the game quickly get annoyed with your parrot skills and enthusiasm and start shaking their head at you. You quickly learn why they're so grumpy.
"BINGO!" you hear from the corner. Your shoulders slump, your eyes roll and everyone in the room groans. Several glares are shot across the room at the person waving their card through the air. Others simply set down their dauber and crumple up their own game.
You wait for the assistant to discover the player erred in their stamping, which never happens. Before you know it, the caller and gamers move on to the next game.
For the next fifteen minutes, you intently listen to the caller. Frantically searching your card each time a combination is called, your hopes begin to elevate again. Nobody has shouted the key word, and you are getting close to a Bingo! Forgetting that others are likely getting close, too, you bite your lip, cross your fingers and allow a smirk to spread across your face.
"B-10, B-10, B-10," you begin to chant under your breath, swaying from side to side and bouncing one knee. "Show me the money!"
"I-18," the caller announces.
You start gritting your teeth, hoping for once in your life this game will be different.
That's when you hear it – the sound of a "regular" winning for the tenth time that afternoon.
"Bingo…" They sound as if they just lost their best friend. Craning your neck, you try to see why someone who just won sounds like they're re-experiencing The 'not-so-great' Great Depression. Oddly, the person looks familiar. You could swear the same person was sitting in the exact chair last time you played – over two years ago.
Well, if they're still here, maybe I could learn a thing or two from them, you think, keeping an eye on the Bingo pro. Studying their strategy, it is suddenly very apparent what you've been doing wrong. Dauber in each hand, this person has a sea of cards in front of them. Shouldn't that be considered some form of cheating? They appear as if they're doing some type of arm exercise as they rapidly scan and stamp their cards. And there you sit, slacking off by playing with only one card, which you struggle to keep up with.
Obviously the game is more than just entertainment to this Bingo fiend – it's a profession. Their stacks of cards make their surroundings look like a recycling center, and anyone who can pay attention to seven or more cards must have speed-reading abilities, which they likely practice to enhance their bingo playing. They spread out new cards and prepare for another sweep.
At this point, staring at the boxes and numbers starts to give you a headache – or maybe it's the smell of your dauber's pink ink. Your mind wanders to more meaningful things that could be done with your time – like dusting your vacuum or revising the research paper you wrote for a middle school class project fifteen years ago.
Figuring your odds of winning in the presence of the Queen of Bingo, you realize you'll likely never get to be the one to stand and proudly proclaim "BINGO!"
Unless, of course, you buy a dog.
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The Center for Responsible Politics' OpenSecretsblog posted a story on Friday about LGBTs who have bundled "big money" for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. Among them are Los Angeles gay fundraisers Dana Perlman, who sits on the board of the Human Rights Campaign, and Barry Karas, a former HRC board member. (The New York Times has a larger story, mentioning other bundlers such as Hollywood heavyweight Jeffrey Katzenberg.)
Obama bundler Dana Perlman (rt) with Courage Campaign founder Rick Jacobs at a party Jacobs threw for White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard (Photo by Karen Ocamb)
The blog previously reported that:
more than 350 bundlers have collectively raised at least $56 million for Obama and the Democratic National Committee – the equivalent of $1 out of every $3 the two organizations have raised. And at least $2.7 million of that sum has come from 12 prominent gay and lesbian advocates, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics. That's nearly 5 percent of the money all of Obama's bundlers have raised.


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(Literary Masterpieces, Critical Compilation)
In a succession of novels set primarily in the United Kingdom during the last decades of the twentieth century, Ian McEwan has explored the disorder and fragmentation of a society in which his characters are grasping for some sort of value or direction to give their lives a semblance of meaning, or at least make them tolerable. As Michael Adams has astutely observed, all of McEwan's novels are, to some extent, a "meditation on alienation," his protagonists depicted in a struggle with political and psychological forces that seem to be expressions of the darker sides of human behavior. Inexplicable evil, random violence, casual cruelty, and pointless endeavors plague people who are essentially decent but often unsure of how to proceed in a world where chaos and stupidity seem to be in ascendance. Because of his insertion of scenes so grotesquely bizarre that they are unavoidably amusing, McEwan's books have tended to balance a dark vision of society with a comic stance that alleviates the grim circumstances they describe, and his main characters have often found some degree of surcease from their difficulties. Jeremy, the narrator of Black Dogs(1992), the novel preceding Enduring Love, states that there is "the possibility of love transforming and redeeming life." This is a position that McEwan supports but one which is not examined in much detail in his other work. In Enduring Love, he has not only examined and developed it in depth but has also gone further to consider how "the possibility of love" can be both life-enhancing and dangerously lethal, approaching a familiar subject and sentiment with such powers of invention that its ultimate power is renewed and revealed again.
Utilizing the kind of unusual situation that has become one of the distinctive elements of his writing, McEwan begins the novel with a devastating incident that completely unsettles the pleasant, comfortable, moderately fulfilling life of Joe Rose, a freelance writer specializing in explaining complex scientific phenomena in journals and on television programs. Rose is in his early forties, a "large, clumsy, balding fellow," as he describes himself, who is aptly and affectionately seen as "the world's most complicated simpleton" by his wife of seven years, Clarissa Mellon. Her work as a lecturer in literature at a mediocre university is moderately rewarding, and although they are childless because of a botched surgical procedure in Clarissa's youth, their relationship has an affirmative intimacy and mutual dependence that has enabled both of them to feel generally grateful and satisfied most of the time. On the way to a picnic in the lush English countryside of Chiltern Hills, they see a balloon with a small child moving out of control, and Joe joins several other bystanders in an attempt to anchor the carriage to the ground. A sudden wind shift pulls the balloon out of their grasp, and as the men are forced to relinquish their grip, one person holds onto the mooring rope. He is carried aloft and falls to his death. The horror of this is sufficient to leave Joe and Clarissa severely shaken—"I've never seen such a terrible thing as that falling man," Joe says—but what takes it beyond "mere tragedy" is that one of the other bystanders who ran to help, Jed Parry, has also experienced a kind of fall. He has become, in the instant of their meeting, totally and completely in love with Joe, in spite of Joe's utter displeasure with Jed's fervent protestation of affection.
Joe and Clarissa have established a kind of personal fortress to keep the harshness of life in England at the end of the twentieth century at a safe remove. Their life together is a place of retreat and restoration, providing protection against a world where illness, argument, petty aggravation, and pervasive ugliness are rampant. Most of their friends are separated or divorced, Clarissa's school is administered by uneducated oafs, Joe is troubled by his career decision to forsake pure science for reductive popularizing, and he is tormented by guilt since he feels that he and the others could have held onto the balloon's rope and saved the man whose heroic efforts were not only deadly but also unnecessary, as the balloon with the boy eventually landed safely. He and Clarissa regard the balloon tragedy as a trial and expect to help each other through the crisis.
This is one aspect of the "enduring love" that the title proposes. Jed's sudden declaration of ardor, however, compounds the equation and compels Joe to consider the most basic components of a structure he has previously enjoyed without much introspection. This, in itself, is not necessarily unpleasant because of his inclination for analytical reflection. Jed's wild devotion, though, cannot be contained by the methods of rational inquiry to which Joe is accustomed.
Jed is in his late twenties, affluent, idle, intelligent, and a religious zealot. Nothing that Joe does or says has any affect...
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Last week, Apple held an informal town-hall style meeting where company employees engaged in a Q&A session with CEO Steve Jobs. Wired, citing an anonymous person who was there, yet not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, writes that Jobs addressed a bevy of issues, including Apple's stance on flash, the next-gen iPhone, and Apple's relationship with Google.
When asked about Google, Jobs reportedly went into rant mode and declared that Apple didn't enter the search business, but that Google entered the phone business. (We didn't land on plymouth rock, plymouth rock landed on us!) "Make no mistake about it," Jobs stated, "they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them." Jobs finished his Google discussion with a pointed jab that left the room rolling: "This don't be evil mantra – it's bullshit!"
Man, how much would you pay to attend one of these meetings?
Next, addressing Adobe and the obvious lack of Flash support on the iPad and iPhone, Jobs articulated that Flash is buggy and is, more often than not, responsible for system crashes on the Mac. Moreover, Jobs stated that Adobe is lazy and refuses to do anything interesting, despite an abundance of potential to do so. Jobs then reiterated Apple's stance that Flash is dying and that HTML 5 is the future.
In a more detailed account of the meeting relayed to MacRumors, Jobs reportedly stated that Apple will "deliver aggressive updates to the iPhone that Android/Google won't be able to keep up with." Jobs also lumped the iPad in with the Mac and the iPhone as one of the more important product launches he's been a part of. This seems to corroborate a report that floated around a day or 2 before the iPad announcement which had Jobs telling friends that the iPad is the most important thing he's ever done.
Jobs also discussed Apple's upcoming product roadmap, stating that the next-gen iPhone will be an "A+ update" and that the next installment of 2010 Macs will "take Apple to the next level." In regards to Apple's acquisition of the streaming music site LaLa, Jobs confirmed speculative reports that the purchase was made to incorporate LaLa's engineers into the iTunes team. And finally, if any of you out there are holding out for Blu-Ray support on the Mac, you might want to buckle up and prepare for a long winter. Jobs reportedly stated that "Blu-Ray software is a mess", and that Apple won't begin to take it seriously into actual Blu-Ray sales see some serious improvements. Jobs, in the past, famously declared that Blu-Ray licensing was a big bag of hurt, and though the process has gotten easier in the past few months, Apple doesn't appear willing to hitch its wagon to the Blu-Ray train just yet.ad


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Q: I had a short fling with my now-boyfriend while travelling Europe. We kept in touch for a year. I moved to his home country last May, for work, and soon, for an exclusive relationship with him. I returned home and he joined me six months ago on a temporary work visa.
Our issue is his ex-girlfriend, whom he dated while living in Europe. She also later moved to his home country, just before I moved there. While I was dating him there, I knew from mutual friends and social media that they were involved, but he never told me.
She apparently considered herself his girlfriend, as did everyone else.
He ended that relationship to be with me, and generally is very considerate and caring. But I have trouble trusting him concerning this girl, who has moved to a city near us, as her stated "Plan B."
He Skype's, texts and chats with her, saying that they're friends.
I know that I'm sometimes insecure in relationships. However, I discovered (I snooped) that he was planning to travel with her and the guy she's now seeing, plus her friend, to a nearby city.
He cancelled, but only because he later realized it was Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. I hate snooping, but always find reasons to trust him less.
He says he'll visit her in future. I can't tell him whom to be friends with.
What boundaries are appropriate?
He's somewhat open to attending counselling with me. I'm unsure how I can overcome jealousy of his past.
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A: Two issues scream for resolution: Agreeing on boundaries and separating your general insecurity from his specific disregard.
By all standards of an exclusive relationship, he's leading this girl on. She's followed him, deliberately. He clearly likes the flattery and is used to it (you followed him, too).
It's too facile for him to dismiss your snooping and insecurity as controlling his "friendship." She's a predatory ex. You're wise to be suspicious, but snooping's a crummy way to prove it.
Your tendency to be insecure in relationships is a separate matter for you to explore with a counsellor. But unless you two set boundaries, and you'll need counselling help to do so, he won't last with you past his visa.
Q: I'm 24, got my first full-time job, and moved in with a female friend after discussing it for months. I immediately regret it.
I just didn't realize how much I needed to save up before being out on my own. It'd make more sense for me to stay at home, save money, possibly get a car (cheaper than rent plus all the extras).
I feel trapped. I feel like I'm just trying to be nice by staying. If I express my feelings, I'll let down my parents, (who've supported me so much with this), my friend, and everyone who knows that I've moved out.
I try to think of the positives and making it work, but the "cons" of being there outweigh "pros."
Trapped Myself
A: Talk to your supportive parents. They'll bring understanding and experience to a discussion with you about the "cons." Perhaps your friend isn't easy to live with, her habits/behaviour worrying you, the costs way too high for your earnings.
They'll help you look at things more calmly, so you can decide your next move without guilt or embarrassment.
Everyone has a right to their own choices, for their own reasons.
You'll have to help your friend find another roommate, by subletting. A good friend should want you to be comfortable wherever you live.
Stop snooping and confront reasonable suspicions openly.
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So here's an interesting problem I ran into today. You have metadata in an XML file. You want to make the file self-describingly self-correcting, so you want to embed its checksum inside it. The problem is, you can't add the checksum to the XML file without changing the file's checksum!
Is there an XML verification tool not subject to this particular tail-chase? I don't know of one offhand.


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