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I'm willing to give Wikipedia a try. It's been an age since I was on it. In fact, my old login no longer seems to work. I have registered as "sandofagen."
I added "sore grapes" as an eggcorn, just to get some practice. I footnoted it to our discussion.
We might try to clean up the examples for a start. Why, for example, are "should of" and "could of" on the list. They are not even eggcorns. Or, if they are, they are not good examples of eggcorns.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
I thought "sore grapes" was an idiom blend of "sore loser" + "sour grapes." I guess I'd defer to the linguists on Language Log to make some definitive determination since we might not be so well equiped to deal with all the subtleties. I wonder if Zwicky has assembled any sort of list—aside from the database on this site (which clearly needs cleaning up)—he is the one who coined the word after all.
"Sore grapes" may be an idiom blend. But it is also an eggcorn. When the words being switched in an idiom blend have a sound similarity, we either admit both categorizations or choose one assignment over the other. I'm inclined to call these two-category expressions eggcorns unless the blended idioms are so in your face that they can't be missed and the alternate imageries are so far apart that only the sound influence of the idioms could make them substitutions for each other. I can see "sore grapes" popping up in English even if "sore loser" did not exist.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Should we wrangle out what we'd like the page to say here first, or try to do it piecemeal?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Not sure. Perhaps it would be best to use this thread to come up with an improved opening and a better explanation of what an eggcorn is and how it is related to other language slips. If we could all agree on something, we could move it in as a mass edit and try to use our numbers to make it stick.
An initial thought: We should cite Liberman and Pullum's role in naming eggcorns but omit Pullum's definition. It is misleading to say that an eggcorn is never a malapropism without explaining what a malapropism is. And his statement about folk etymologies is confusing (to me, at least).
What about an initial definition, with one or two examples, then a short paragraph on each language slip that an eggcorn has some resemblance to. The paragraph could explain why an eggcorn is and is not like X (mondegreen, snowclone, malapropism, idiom blend, etc.)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Kem wrote
Perhaps it would be best to use this thread to come up with an improved opening and a better explanation of what an eggcorn is and how it is related to other language slips. If we could all agree on something, we could move it in as a mass edit and try to use our numbers to make it stick.
If you try to do a substantial revision to multiple long-standing parts of the article and then post it all at once, you're asking for a fight—I can pretty much guarantee it. And sheer numbers won't be useful if you end up in a "reversion war," where everyone just keeps reverting to their own preferred version. An admin could step in then, and there are plenty of biased admins—they could be biased against you. It's actually pretty hard to make complicated changes "stick" without compromise and constant vigilance.
I guess I've never seen anyone attempt a complete "takeover," but I'd advise against it. I think the best approach would be to decide what changes you want to make, and then prioritize them. Test the waters with the one most important to you and find out who cares. (I just committed the WTF typo "fight out"—you can see how I think about Wikipedia…). Maybe that's what Kem is advocating, but go slow. If the first edit is successful, keep on working your way down the list as you gain the trust and support of people with an abiding interest in the article (you'll be surprised how many there are). Trust and support really are key—Wikipedia is not a rational place where rational arguments carry the day.
You'll encounter fewer kneejerk challenges if you go in with references at the ready for every change you make. Wikipedians (understandably) tend to distrust blogs and Web forums as references (I think that distrust is actually written into policy—we could check), so the fact that a bunch of thoughtful people at the Eggcorns Forum say so may not pass the mustard. Language Log probably works now, but it didn't at first during the original deletion challenge—I don't think people recognized then the stature of the principals on LL. Eggcorn supporters had to cite The New York Times and other authorities citing Language Log in order to get things to stick. But LL will be a valuable resource in this case.
And maybe we could get DT to publish an article on eggcorns at one of those quick-turnaround online linguistics journals and then cite that. Uh, just a thought….
Last edited by patschwieterman (2008-07-27 02:33:29)
FWIW, I'll relate my experience in substantially re-writing the Wikipedia page on code switching. That page seems to garner less interest than the eggcorn page, so take this with a grain of salt, YMMV, etc.
In January of 2008, I suggested on the Talk page that the article was unsatisfactory, since it did not describe the linguistic theories related to the phenomena. The article at that point was mainly a jumble of anecdotes about places or instances where code switching occurs. I proposed reordering the article to put the examples at the bottom, and to strengthen the pieces on the general theory.
About a week later, I made those changes, and added several references to major publications.
In April, I suggested on the Talk page that the introductory paragraph should be changed to reflect the article's new scientific orientation.
Soon thereafter, I re-wrote the introduction. In doing so, I recycled as many of the actual words as possible in the existing introduction, re-ordering and supplementing them to make the introduction sound more or less the way I thought it should. At the same time, I was careful not to actually remove ideas that I thought were controversial (and that I disagreed with) but not outside the realm of the academic discussion.
Since then, a couple of people have made substantial additions, reflecting their own favorite theories, but no one has reverted the article to a version before my changes/additions.
Sounds like a wise way to go at it.
I've spent too much time here for a few weeks (though it's been fun), and for the next will be busy enough that I probably won't be posting as often. So anything done w Wikipedia or elsewhere I may not be able to participate much in.
btw, I'm Lavintzin on wikipedia, in case I do shove my oar in.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Great post, Nilep—virtually a mini handbook on how to avoid trouble when doing major edits on an existing article.
Like DT, I'm hoping to become scarce for a while—as soon as I've cleared out the reshapings on my to-do list.
I have just learned (via the Columbia Journalism Review) that the Merriam Webster's new Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary will include the word mondegreen as a new entry. CJR used this as a peg to reprint a bunch of errors from the New York Times. I wonder if media mention of mondegreens will drive folks to the Wikipedia pages for mondegreens, malaprops (which CJR also mentions) and eggcorns.
My advice for the Wikipedia article is to prioritize the effort and start with items that have the most widespread recognition. For instance, there are thousands of examples of people mistaking "bonfire" for "bomb fire." Virtually everyone can relate to this.
Would it make sense to clean up the list of examples first? By doing this, we could avoid the criticism "your definition doesn't fit X." Also, it involves smaller edits, and it might show us who we are dialoguing with.
If you agree, could you give us a list of the five or so best eggcorns that aren't already on the list, and also which ones should be removed (though removals might reasonably come later, when we can make the argument "too many examples").
I realize that we might fail, or that we might be only partially successful. But I don't think there is any group on the net that has worked on the problem of defining eggcorns as intensely as people in this forum.
One big assumption behind this project is that we can agree in this forum on a reasonable Wikipedia entry. I'm hoping we can, but it will require all of us to differentiate between our own take on the issues and those that we share with others (a piece of advice that I need more than others).
Last edited by kem (2008-07-30 00:11:57)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
kem wrote:
Would it make sense to clean up the list of examples first? By doing this, we could avoid the criticism "your definition doesn't fit X." Also, it involves smaller edits, and it might show us who we are dialoguing with.
It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg (corn) question, isn't it? Do you work on the examples first, and then fit the definition to prototypical examples, or do you work on the definition first and then select sufficient examples? My natural inclination is do opt for the latter, but I have no strong logical arguments for preferring that order. In fact, kem's smallest-edit-distance criterion is much better than anything I might suggest.
One big assumption behind this project is that we can agree in this forum on a reasonable Wikipedia entry. I'm hoping we can, but it will require all of us to differentiate between our own take on the issues and those that we share with others (a piece of advice that I need more than others).
I think we can come together on a reasonable piece, if we select widely-accepted examples and prototypical elements of definitions. And I'm a well-known contrarian.
By the way, I think Mark Liberman's LL approach (it's not a mondegreen because…, it's not a malaprop because…), which is reflected in the current Wikipedia definition, is not actually the best way to go for an encyclopedia. It served a purpose for Liberman's blog entry, but surely there are better ways to explain what eggcorns are for people who have heard the term and are looking for an explanation or definition?
Haven't time to think whether or how well this fits in with you all's, or my own, previous efforts, but here's another try at a short definition or introductory statement for an encyclopedia article:
An eggcorn (like <link>the usage for which it is named</link>) is a reanalysis of a standard word or phrase in which (a) some part of the standard structure (the "acorn") is replaced by a different structure with a closely similar sound, (b) the substitution effects a striking change in the semantic imagery (e.g. construing the nut of an acorn as an egg-shaped object), but (c ) the now reanalyzed structure (the "eggcorn") is still close enough in meaning to the "acorn" that it can be used in most contexts without hindering communication, and will typically pass unnoticed. Furthermore (d) the "eggcorn" is standard for some speaker(s), who are not aware that it differs from the more normal usage.
It could be followed by stuff like this:
These characteristics —(a) substitution, (b) reanalysis with imagery change, (c ) closeness of overall meaning, and (d) inadvertent abnormality—, in combination, distinguish eggcorns from a number of other kinds of errors or similar structures. For instance, puns show substitution and a change of meaning, but often produce very different overall meanings and are clearly purposeful abnormalities, rather than being thought normal. Mondegreens show substitution and a change of imagery, and are often inadvertent, but often differ strikingly in the overall meanings produced. Classic malapropisms are inadvertently abnormal and involve substitution with a concomitant change of imagery, but also differ strikingly in the overall meaning. They also tend to be substitutions (of a whole word or phrase for another) rather than reanalyses. Folk etymologies … Blends …, Double entendres … etc.
These are not disjoint categories, however. They grade into each other, and many kinds of in-between cases can be found. Eggcorns can be viewed as a subclass of malapropisms, malapropisms which make sense, and are similar enough in overall meaning to pass unnoticed. Or they can be seen as mondegreens which …
Anyway, it's another try. Gotta run!
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-07-31 13:35:41)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Your overall approach, David, seems to cover most of the bases and to follow the format of Wikipedia entries. Thanks for getting us started on the entry. The only thing I might add to the flow of the entry-I think I would put it between your initial definition and the paragraph(s) that distinguish eggcorns from other language slips-would be a short paragraph on the history of the word. Who first used it, etc. So the order would be:
I. Definition
II. History
III. Differentiations
IV. Examples
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Yes, right placement for the history, from my point of view. The link from early in what I wrote would be to that paragraph. (I didn't mark other things that should be linked, but of course they are there.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
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20-year old Brian Frazier is in custody this week, charged with the first-degree murder of his two-week old son. According to police reports, Frazier was pulling an all-night gaming session when baby Khan "got fussy" at around 5am.
Frustrated at the interruption to his gaming, Frazier reportedly grabbed the baby by the neck and punched him in the face. The baby - according to prosecutors - then "went back to sleep", and later died of his injuries.
It`s not because of the game, it`s because he's mentally unstable (he just happened to be playing a game). Crazy people are just crazy people you can help or save them and they don't explode when hit by sunlight, I don't care how crazy they are.
Yep the way they lived in filth backs that up. They're way below sub-human.
There are a bunch of people who kill their kids because "god told them to", and it's taboo to attack religion because of it. But when it comes to games, movies, etc, people don't mind attacking at all. It's not just the sickos who are sick anymore. It seems all of society has a hard time expecting people to take responsibility for their own actions.
He isn't mentally unstable, he is just trash. It wasn't the game, pressure from his life, that he never got a tickle me elmo, or the fact his father never held him enough when he was a baby. It's just him...period. Saying he was unstable in some way implies his actions may have been beyond his control. They weren't. And since he is responsible, and we need to start holding people accountable, he should forced down in a hole, justice should be administered for HIS actions, and then he should be forgotten.
The prison inmates will grow him a new asshole. There's still justice in the world in all the wrong parts.
I'd be angry if I was going out with that too.
boys, just search google. It appears this shit happened to another victim just last month.
Just hit "father gamer killed baby"
If he was mentally ill where were the authorities letting them keep a baby surely there too blame letting him keep a baby, it makes you mad that the authorities let this happen because they must have knew if he was mentally unstable, it's so sad what has happened.
I feel sorry for the baby; and only the baby.
His wife looks like an Ogre or some form of bridge troll that eats children.
aaand we got the first firestarter in the house. Any reason to bring religion into bad light some people just love to take that opportunity.
I bet this guy would never use this example the other way around, how video games =/= violence should mean religion =/= violence.
Crazy people are crazy. regardless.
Disgusting! Absolutely disgusting!
When my 18 month old son interrupts my game, I stop playing and take care of him.
All of my online friends, many of whom don't have kids or aren't married, fully understand and never complain when I have to stop mid game because they know I'm being a responsible parent.
apparently you can still play video games in jail
Look at these two meth heads. Who the f let them keep a kid they were both obviously unstable. This guy should be beat to within an inch of his life every day in prison til he dies of injuries. Too bad he'll most likely be ruled insane and be shipped off to a mental hospital. Makes me sick.
This is the reason why I can never see the argument with gay marriage. People say it's bad for kids. I say if your going to start regulating who can have kids then start with people like this first. A certification should be passed first.
Agreed... but he still needs to burn in Hell; I hope for baby Khan's sake, it's a painful process prior to Brian's departure.
There is no excuse for this type of behavior!
i don't understand why you have disagrees...
I'am glad this comment was the first...
I hope he gets raped in prison for the rest of his life.
Yeah because that will fix everything, grow up
ElementX, calm down. Sometimes you just need a dark sense of humor. The guy murdered his freaking baby for crying out loud. If ever there is an excusable time to be a little dark, it's now.
Just because people try to use religion to justify a kill doesn't mean religion is about that. Kids this days stereotype everything.
That is really horrible, I know the media will try to blame video games but that isn't the reason imo, like Maria said, Crazy people are Crazy, video games has nothing to do with it.
agreed... and From Dusk Till Dawn quote at the end +bubs
I hate this world...I really do
They should kill them....life for a life I say, oh but no the "Human Right" act and the group behind it will have there little way and it will be dragged out longer then it needs to. Just like most crimes these days...hell if that happened over here in the UK, he would probably get 10 years but would get let out early knowing our crappy system.
I agree. They should die.
Beauty only complies of a small fraction of this world, one might look at it and see beauty like a lovely waterfall for example surrounded by lush trees and a rainbow inside the waterfall generated by the warm sunshine but really it's just a cover up to what the world is really like these days. Earth is full of beauty, society isn't
Turn the news on and what will you see straight away...murder, rape, drugs, famine or a natural disaster which are becoming more frequent.
I'm not saying theres nothing nice on this planet but the majority of it is just horrible...it's the reason why I like to bury my head in video games and films, least I can ignore it in "fantasy land"
Sorry, I edited my comment. I decided to keep it short and sweet. But in reply to my ghost comment. I hear what your saying, just remember beauty is relative and fantasy lands don't exist anywhere.
That is not justice, that is revenge. By killing him you would do the same thing he did.
Executing him would prevent him from killing another person. Sure it's killing but the reasons are very much different. And the law does not equate to justice in fact most of the time the law denies true justice. I'm willing to be he'll be released back into society after a few years and kill another person again. We're wasting precious taxes on these pieces of human trash without getting any benefit from it. Just look at the crime rate in America and how many of these criminals go in and out of jail. The best way to dispose of trash is to simply kill them. The moment they kill a person without any remorse is the time they shed their humanity and become monsters.
The world is great and beautiful just the way you see water and sky , it created by GOD , its really organized , its people who destroy it , we are created to be tested , even angels asked GOD why he did this , he answered them that he knows what they dont know , he asked them to tell them the names but they didnt know , then he asked adam to tell them and he did , you have to know that there is a reason for this world , its not created by it self , we are something , i understand and feel it from my point of view , hearing and looking at what GOD created made me love it , we should feel sad for this guy , the good will get what they deserve , the bad will go to hell , he choose the path of ignorants instead of being with something great , just try to do the right things , it will makes you live good , you will make GOD love you , you wont fear anything in this life , you wont regret anything , dont hide your self , its not right , face your problems , thats what will make you happy not fantasy worlds , its a win win opportunity ...
But i agree with you , Its only gonna be worst from now on , you will see many deaths , unjustic in the coming years , the bad acts will be normal and the good will be forbidden , thats a good and bad thing , you already know the bad , the good is that you will see a new world after this suffering , you will see new laws , just like what you suggested , life for life ..etc , only time is gonna reveal this , i know that my talk is just talk for you , its hard to explain things in english , many many things to say to you people , if i had the good way to say them i would , im a person that feel these things but cant explain it to you in your way ...
"Executing him would prevent him from killing another person"
True, assuming he would actually go kill someone.
Executing him would absolutely cause life lasting pain for his family, Mother,Dad,Brothers/Sister,Gra ndparents, girlfriend.
Things arent always as straight forward as they seem.
LOl , thats why i told you its hard to explain what i think in english , you would understand if you know what i know , i hope you read it all , not just 3 sentences , you may understand a little ...
@ dredgewalker Thank you for proving my point. Executing someone is not justice. It would be just as wrong as what this guy did.
"The best way to dispose of trash is to simply kill them". Trash? these people are human beings! You guys talk big but i bet that if someone gave you a weapon to execute this guy none of you would have the courage to pull the trigger.
...but what IS straightforward is the fact that by incarcerating him for life, you are making people give their money (taxes) in order to make sure these piles of filth are fed, watered, and otherwise kept comfortable. Besides, I think he has already f'd up his family by murdering his two week old baby in a rage...Even if he did get out someday. I'm pretty sure there is no law stating that he can never impregnate another woman thus having chance at the same incident happening again.
True justice would be to remove this monster from society while not making good people pay for his mistakes (Remember, criminals don't have to pay for their jail time, YOU DO!
If you want to give this guy a hug so badly, then let him babysit for your kids! Sometimes justice is doing what's right for the better good. This man gave up his humanity when he butchered a 2 week old baby! No matter what cloud of flowers and singing animals you live on, in the real world people don't get rehabilitated all the time. Messed up people just need to be taken out of societies equation. Either that are you can pay the sometimes millions of dollars in rehab./lifetime medication/court costs/diligence work that this man will most likely be sucking from society the rest of his life. Despite what you think, it would be an injustice to let this man live!
When you kill another human being with such a petty reason, yes you become trash. It's not like war or self defense when you really have to kill to survive. And I've been placed in a situation where I almost had to use a weapon in order to defend my home and killing is not hard for me if it means the survival of me or my family from criminal elements. I have to be prepared to be in such a situation because I am in a country that is littered with crime and the criminals here are quite violent. You can't blame me for wanting these pieces of trash dead if you know what they are capable of.
I don't really care for the family of a psycho murderer. If their son killed people then they should be ashamed of bringing such a monster out into this world. They don't have a right to complain if their son is a person who kills people for fun or kills to blow off steam.
The world isn't that beautiful. There's been widespred chaos in the world before man even existed. Long before Man was around the world had already showed its various ugly sides and caused mass extinctions.
@ dredgewalker Shooting someone to protect your family is an extreme scenario and a completely different situation. I would do the same.
Do you know why executions were/are made by multiple soldiers? Because the soldiers themselves dont want to know who gave the lethal shot. Not only that soldiers were given blank cartridges and usually only one soldier would have live ammo. Today they use a "dummy" cartridge containing wax instead of a bullet. I dont think that i have to explain why these methods are used by firing squads. Like i said, asking for someone's life is easy until you have to do it yourself.
@ Guitardr85 Dont put words in my mouth. I want justice to be done. Obviously my definition of justice is different than yours. Not only that but i think that executing a murderer is the easy way out... for the murderer. If this guy understands what he did he himself is the 1st person to ask for his own death. Killing him would be the easy way out for him.
The answer isn't execution. It's forcing him to fight in wars. Let's see how tough he feels when his life is on the line every day. Give him no training, just a gun and a direction and see how long he lasts.
I can assure you if it was my job to execute criminals like these, I can honestly say it's easy. I'd be quite happy doing society a favor knowing that I've gotten rid of trash. I don't really feel any sympathy for these types of people nor do I see them as human beings, and since it would be legal for me to off them it would be much easier. I am fully aware of some firing squads having only one bullet to kill since it was a method used to kill our national hero. Let's face it, some people just don't have what it takes to kill a person even with the right reasons and some people are afraid to kill cause they're afraid they might be killed themselves in that attempt. The world would be a better place if we have less of these people.
At Dredge
If y think the world is as black and white as you make it seem then I hope no one in your family ever accidentally kills someone else. Something as fragile as life can't be avenged by something as harsh as calculated death.
He punched his son who happened to die, is how the law will see it. If we kill him, what do we do to those who commit premeditated murder? Then what do we do to the ones who commit massive murder. Then what do we do to those who commit genocide?
That poor precious child lost his life because this prick couldn't control his anger. Life is delicate. Which is why we must cherish it. The law understand that. It understands both that ppl who take a life are held responsible in what the world deems justice AND they also u detstand that at the same time life can be lost at any time, and we too must accept that. Sadly, there are things that are more important than an individual life In this world and when those things are taken away, we must act accordingly in justifying that wrongdoing.
Every act comes with a reason , the chaos that came before may leaded to environment for humans , or it's a wrath from GOD because of the bad things that these creatures done , or it's both of them , You may see things as a bad thing and hate it soo bad but in time and knowledge you would understand that this is a way to guide you or a test from GOD ...
here is an example :
GOD forbid , a women got married with a man , after a while he started to reveal his true personality which is being bad and stubborn , he always treated her bad , she cant get out from his life because she have children's because if she leave him he will destroy them , she suffered all of this to teach her children not to do to their families what their father did to her , so all of this suffering resulted to great parenting , after her children grow up she left him , she got a strong spirt because of her patient , GOD love this kind of women's , that's why he have a place for them in heaven ...
that's just a case that i saw in here , sometimes bad things makes us stronger , they reveal or improve our true identify they make us ready to live the difficulties and understand the purpose of life here and makes us ready to the life after death , it also makes us appreciate what we have ..
you also cant blame GOD if people did bad things , it's our fault for letting them do these things , there have to be true laws and red lines , not this weak law that created by selfish humans , that's why im not expecting things to get better in the coming years , it will take a little while but you will understand when you hear it or see by your self
'' GOD doesn't change people unless they try to change themselves ''
The moment society, one person, a govt, a religion (whatever) decides any person or group of people should die is when a line is crossed. If one person is unfit to live why not others? What happens when standards are raised or lowered? Sure first its the scum, the unemployed moochers, the criminals, handicapped who cant contribute, unborn babies but then its people who wont follow us, agree with us, or look different then us. Murder is murder is murder.
Eye for an eye is outdated even Christ was against revenge and said turn the other cheek. Its hard to swallow for sure but who the F are we to decide if someone should die? Only a righteous judge can determine that and there's no such thing here on earth so locking them away to protect society is the best choice.
What you guys are talking about is the same thing Hitler did to a degree. Rid the nation of all undesirables. Eugenics, making a better poulation exc. Rid the nation of all criminals, all peoples who cant contribute more to society than they consume, everyone works and everyone enjoys the fruits of their labors. Sure it sounds good when you imagine a world without criminals, moochers, lazy exc. A world where theres no need to steal because everyone shares and doesnt fight over rescources. Its a utopia until you realize 5 billion people will have to be murdered to realize this dream. If one person has to die to reach any goal its too high a price. It scares me to see how cheap life is to some, yes even a mentally ill baby killer. Its not our place to kill him. Maybe one day he will repent and help many others who knows?
I guess it comes down to a belief in God. If you do every life has a purpose. If you dont all that matters is now and offing some creatures is fine for the greater good. I also know firsthand that people change. I used to be one of these people in and out of jail that didnt contribute to jacksh**. I repented, changed, quit doing anything morally wrong (well i try but i am still human), im sober and bust my ass everyday for chump change but at least its honest. Point is you cant judge somebody because you cant see the end of their story. Paul, one of the greatest and boldest apostles of Christ was the man put in charge of rounding up christians and perecuting (most likely killing) them. God had other plans. If we judged him in the hieght of his persecution of christians we wouldve prevented a lot of good that would later come from this man. Sure its hard to see this guy changing but he may at least repent to God and save his soul which is much more important than his freedom or wasting a few tax dollars to feed and house him.
well then you guys would fit right in the dark ages
Killing baby killers is not unreasonable.
Maybe the dark ages is what we need, this age of enlightenment seems to like giving evil a free pass.
well im not saying its reasonable but people back then as far as i know would accuse of witchcraft without logic and burn you if they think you are doing something dark if you get what im trying to say here
Why let them off easy? I'd rather have them rot in prison rather than have them be killed.
Killing him wouldn't make you any different, also you don't even know if it was his fault or if he had a mental disease.
Anyways he will be in prison paying for what he did.
There is beauty in society, occasionally.
But much less, yes, than a fantasy land.
jinkies, no hate at all here, i think you're just little depressed, don't worry we all do at some point
Yeah I am, I take medication for it, that and anixety but my point still remains.
For me it's like if the world really does end on the 21st....."Meh"
Torture the POS put him in a wood chipper feet first.
Well the world is going to hell fast.
It is bastards like that whom give the other 99.9% of gamers a bad image.
99.9%? , a 0.1% killer gamer is a loot, that's is wayyy too much lot, they are wayy less
Ive all of a sudden got the urge to go cuddle my son (my Daughter is at school)
I dont think this sort of "news" belongs on N4G, its too hardcore, I dont need reminding that theres retarded, dangerous, weak minded people like this mofo out there
Agreed, this is too mature for some people. As a parent too I just can't imagine myself killing my own daughter. It's hard for me to understand why people like these exist.
A twenty year old with a kid, There's your problem!
The problem is that he's an idiot with a kid. A mentally deficient person should not have a child, and yet so many of them do.
True. I was a 20yo kid with a child 10 years ago and we got through it. Now my daughter is 9 and my son is 7 and our newborn is 3 months old. I myself just turned 31.
It's true that most people are still kids in their 20s hell even as 25yo many are KIDS. The guy in the news is SICK and even though those two sound somewhat alike they are 2 totally different things.


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Just a short trip over the border and you'll find a snowboard scene different from that of the U.S., with its own teams, snowboard magazines, and pro/am riders. We were wondering if it's easier or harder to get noticed, get flowed, and get pro in Canada. Once you get to the worldwide pro status of these guys, that's all water under the bridge, but they've been there.—Annie Fast
Is it easier or harder to come up through the ranks to pro status in Canada?
Simon Chamberlain
Age: 21
Sponsors: Stepchild, DC Shoes, Nomis, Dragon, Vestal, Bear Mountain, Active, IMI
"I think climbing the sponsor ladder is the same everywhere, so really wherever you're from, to get to pro status, it's all about how hard you work for it. My advice would be to snowboard as much as you can until you get noticed, and then go with it and try your hardest to climb that ladder. Most of all, though, play safe and have fun. God bless."
TJ Schneider
Age: 26
Sponsors: Capita, Sessions, Oakley, Deeluxe, Union, Defcon, Airblaster, Active, Kicker F-ker Chicken
"I think that it's harder for the average Canadian to move up in the ranks as a pro snowboarder. I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "We have too many Canadians on our team," and then seen Canadian riders fully dropped and less-talented U.S. riders get bumped up to the pro team. Also, so often you hear, "We have too many riders in that area," but then you see Company A with ten riders in Mammoth. For sure, there are hot spots, but personally I've seen some of the most talented riders come out of some of the weirdest areas like Saskatoon, Kelowna, and Calgary. It's just too bad that a lot of those kids won't see much more than a high five from their local rep, while the hot spot kid gets an easier ride to the top. Not that tons of these guys don't deserve it, it's just hard to see it happen-ya know? I guess it's just harder to get noticed way up here in the Great White North!"
Chris Dufficy
Age: 26
Sponsors: Option, Planet Earth, IS Design, Celsius, Active, RDS, Wildcats, DVS, Whistler/Blackcomb.
"I don't think it's harder to get sponsored or to come up in the ranks snowboarding in Canada. Canadian team managers might look for different types of riding styles that are influenced more by the big mountains, but in the end, it's definitely going to be an all-around rider. It really doesn't matter where you grow up. Different surroundings bring different types of riding styles to snowboarding, and that's what makes it awesome.
Also, a lot of Canadians are lucky enough to grow up around snow and without having to travel, which definitely makes it easier to progress-and cheaper. At the same time, the terrain can't be accessed by foot, so sledding can get expensive. In all reality, it's the person who wants to push themselves to become better, the person who keeps having fun whatever the conditions are, and the person who is dedicated to snowboarding who'll make it."
Chris Dufficy, Simone Chamberlain, TJ Schneider.
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Delaware Library Association Bulletin
VOLUME 28, No. 3
DELAWARE LIBRARY ASSOlCATION BULLETIN
Judy Matz, Editor
DLA, President, Irene Larrimore, received the following response to her "Interest-Inquiry" published in the Fall issue of the DTA Bulletin. She has requested that it be printed in this issue to encourage further discussion and appropriate action on Bicentennial celebration.
Dear Irene Larrimore,
Two hundred years ago a small group of citizens banded together to fight for what they believed were their inalienable right so in keeping with the spirit of these men I think we could best observe the bicentennial by fighting for the rights of all people to have appropriate library materials and services o We should feel good as librarians, about the service we provide to "Middle America", but in the next year let's try to show concern for, and stand up for, the rights of less fortunate groups.
I am thinking in terms of trying to provide service to four distinct and yet over-lapping groups of people The first group is the hardest for me to define. It seems that we, as librarians, try to raise all our users to what we consider a "higher" level of intellect We provide books by Proust, Kafka and Tolstoi but neglect Mickey Spillane, Walt Disney's books and Mad magazine. Our token (if any) purchases of popular titles is such a small percentage of budgets devoted largely to materials for people with at least high school educations and educated interests. Where does a person turn who wants to read the National Inquirer or Penthouse magazine? Too often he does not turn to the public library because he has been conditioned to think that we don't serve his needs.
Another group much in need and deserving of library service is the migrants who help our agricultural communities every year. Without them the revenue of the state would suffer greatly but in spite of their contributions they are not considered as residents by library systems. Continually excluded from, basic public services such as libraries they
must truly feel like "men without a country." We should take care of them, too!
Related to this service area is another which deals with the Spanish speaking communities. If they are not ignored and discriminated against in libraries, I don't know who is. A little time, a little energy and a little money and so much could be done. A story hour in Spanish, interesting Spanish language materials (not Don Quixote) and maybe even a brochure in Spanish explaining library service. But an effort must be made soon or we'll lose these people as library users forever, or don't we care?
And finally, what are we doing for the citizens of this country who are now behind bars, paying their debts toward society? Someday they will return to society and possibly we can help them study, learn and experience things which would keep them out of prison next time. What I am saying is basically this, let's celebrate the nations' birthday by remembering the values and ideals which were fought for them and defended for the past two hundred years. We who love freedom are all Americans no matter how educated, how permanently housed, how anglicized, or how guiltless; were all free men and deserve equal treatment by libraries.
I'd like to volunteer for anything that I can do to help improve these things and I look to you and the Delaware Library Association for leadership. Thanks for listening.
I remain,
Bill Morgan
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW CASTLE COUNTY LIBRARY DEPARTMENT No. 74-262
WHEREAS, it is in the interest of the people of New Castle County to provide library services in New Castle County through a unified county library system;
Section 1. The New Castle County Library Department is hereby created, headed by a County librarian who shall be a graduate of an accredited school of library science and shall have demonstrated administration experience in some phase of library service. The County Librarian shall be appointed by the County Executive, with the advice and consent of County Council, and shall serve at the pleasure of the County Executive. The Department shall perform the following functions:
1. Administer a unified countywide library system which offers every resident of said County, and the residents
of other counties, free and equal access to service and resources, and guidance in their use.
2. Administer any contractual library agreements or any library agreements authorized by County Council, and any library property assigned or transferred to New Castle County.
3. To receive, accept, administer and expend, according to the County budget, any monies, materials or other
aid granted, appropriated or otherwise provided by local, state or federal governments, or by any source, public or private, in accordance with the terms thereof, for the purposes provided in this Ordinance.
4. To perform all other activities pertinent to its organizational function.
Section 2. There is hereby created a New Castle County Library Advisory Board consisting of thirteen members who shall serve without compensation. The County Executive, with the advice and consent of County Council shall appoint twelve members, the initial appointees to be two members from each councilmanic district, who shall serve for a term of three years provided that the terms of the original members shall be established in a manner that four shall expire each year. The County Executive, with the advice and consent of the County Council, shall appoint one member who shall be Chairman and who shall serve at the pleasure of the County Executive. At no time shall there be more than a bare majority of members having the same political party affiliation. The New Castle County Library Advisory Board shall advise the New Castle County Library Department and recommend programs concerning local library needs and the implementation of an effective county library system.
Section 3. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its adoption.
Adopted by County Council
of New Castle County
In late November, a small group assembled at the Wilmington College library to consider informational possibilities for the Ethnic Salute, a portion of our DLA Bicentennial project. Present at this meeting were librarians and representatives from some Delaware ethnic communities. Mr. John Mickey, Executive Director of the Delaware Bicentennial Commission, addressed the group on the factors involved in a successful Bicentennial celebration.
Those present separated into four discussion units in order to do preliminary work on a questionnaire which would serve to gather information from various ethnic groups. Results of these groups have been reviewed by members of the Ethnic Salute Subcommittee.
This questionnaire has recently been completed and mailed to each organized ethnic group in the state. Information requested includes historical, cultural, and biographical aspects of each ethnic group, as well as current programs and goals. DLA plans to publish results of this survey, for distribution to Delaware citizens in time for the Bicentennial observance of Ethnic Salute Month, September, 1975.
Members of the Subcommittee on the Bicentennial Ethnic Salute are:
Nancy Gardner
Anna B. Hrynyshyn
Bob Marshall
Estelle Maier
Mary Lou Ponsell
Subcommittee members welcome questions, comments and suggestions.
Last summer a grant of $1700.00 from the Delaware Humanities Forum was awarded to the Delaware Library Association through the efforts of Billie Jean Ouellette and Sylvia Short. The grant was to sponsor a program in each county on the public issue of libraries (the creation of county systems). After several false starts the project finally developed into 3 separate projects with Ernest Muro, University of Delaware Library, in charge of the New Castle program, Billie Jean Ouellette, Division of Libraries, in charge of the Kent County program, and Alyce Bower, Milford Public Library, in charge of the Sussex program. Sylvia Short, as a Humanities Council member, was an advisor.
Many hours of planning, writing, meetings, stuffing of envelopes, etc. have followed. Pete Ridgley of WTHD taped a show on Perspective with Irene Larrimore, Florence Gibson, Alyce Bower, Ronald Dodd, and Ruth Mitchell, which was aired on Sunday, February 2 and repeated on February 5 as advance publicity for the Sussex program on February 6 in Georgetown.
Brochures were mailed to all members of DLA to keep you informed of the programs in your counties. Some video taping is being done as well as recording on cassettes. Cassettes will be available to all public libraries for circulation to library patrons who may wish to hear the meetings. Contact Billie Jean Ouellette concerning these materials.
The Library for the Handicapped has recently set up a 200 volume deposit of "talking books" at the Newark Public Library for the convenience of blind and physically handicapped patrons in the area. A library card is being prepared to identify the patron as eligible to use talking books produced by the Library of Congress. Patrons will continue to receive books on a regular basis from the Library for the Handicapped in Dover, but will now be able to pick up a book locally when they run out of reading materials.
The Corbit-Callaway Library, the Milford Public Library, and the Seaford Public Library receive regular deposits of large print books as do nursing homes, hospitals, and schools around the state. Any other libraries having patrons who need special materials because of visual or motor impairments may also receive a deposit of talking books, large print, or braille books by contacting Billie Jean Ouellette.
Help your library patrons who can no longer use your print books and give them more years of reading pleasure.
During the past year Billie Jean Ouellette has also been assigned the responsibility of institutional library funding. 1974 grants were made to most of the state-supported institutions. Delaware State Hospital, Delaware Home and Hospital, Sterck School for the Hearing Impaired, Delaware Correctional Center, Governor Bacon Health Center (Youth Dept.) and the Hospital for the Mentally Retarded have new (or near new) attractive libraries, basic collections, current magazines, local newspapers, and part-time or full-time staff. If you haven't seen these libraries lately, you might be surprised at what LSCA funds have been doing over the years. Institutional management has also contributed
to the new look in some institutional libraries.
The other side of the coin is the Sussex Correctional Institue. While there are books, newspapers, and magazines there, books are not easily available to residents. They are housed in locked cabinets in the visiting room. Officer Cooper has recently been assigned to the library and is working hard at providing some library service each week. However, until better facilities are built, little can be done to improve the library situation there. New facilities for work-release inmates are now being considered. When these are provided, we hope for a room to be designated as the library. Renovations will also have to be made in the present building; this would indicate that materials might have to be provided in both buildings. Plans cannot be made until the SCI building projects become a reality.
Helen Barnett is interested in exploring possibilities of continuing education for librarians in Delaware. Very few opportunities for idea exchange and new professional information exist locally.
Which area of service present problems? What information do you need to help you improve your libraries? Please contact Helen with your ideas and suggestions on program content and format.
A travelling exhibit of the works of contemporary illustrators of children's books is currently on exhibit at the Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington. This delightful show will remain at the museum through March 30, 1975.
Don't forget to celebrate National Library Week - April 13 - 19.
Qwindo's Window, a foundation of dance theatre for children, has expressed interest in performing in cooperation with interested Delaware libraries. Programs involve original works for elementary aged children in areas of pantomine, dance and movement.
The Dance Foundation is especially interested in performing for disadvantaged and exceptional children or involvement with programs for migrant children.
Interested libraries should contact Anne Dunkin, Qwindo Foundation, Box 6333, Washington, D. C. 20015.
Lectures and slide shows on Victorian domestic architecture may be appropriate for your library's Bicentennial program.
Tom Carroll of Cape May, New Jersey, can provide a variety of presentations. Lecture fee is $35.00 plus transportation casts. For further information, contact Tom Carroll, The Mainstay, 24 Jackson St., Cape May, N.J. 08204.
"Ethnicity and Librarianship," an institute funded by the U.S. Office of Education for school, public and college librarians, will take place at Queens College of the City University of New York next summer, July 7-25. The deadline for applications is April 15, 1975.
According to Dr. Morris A. Gelfand, Chairman of the Library Science Department at the college, the institute will deal with the selection and evaluation of library materials and services for all minority groups. Emphasis will be on the concept of ethnicity and the responsibility of librarians for developing library collections which clearly reflect the multi-ethnic composition of our society.
This institute is a followup of an institute held in 1972 at Queens College which concentrated on such groups as Asian-Americans, Blacks, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans and Puerto Ricans. In addition to these groups, the institute will include Polish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans and Irish Americans.
The institute is designed to contribute to the improvement of library service to children, young adults and adults with minority/ethnic orientation. It will attempt to identify materials which present a more positive view of minority groups and will invite authors, editors and publishers to discuss criteria for evaluation of available materials and goals for the production of better materials in this field.
Applications should be addressed to Professor David Cohen, Queens College Library Science Department, Flushing, New York 11267. Those librarians who themselves come from minority/ethnic groups and who have had some experience in working with minorities are urged to apply. Those completing the program satisfactorily will receive a certificate showing completion of nine graduate credits. All students or participants will be paid stipends of $75 per week plus a dependency allowance.
The goal of the institute will be the improvement in the ability of librarians, publishers, writers, editors and teachers to meet more effectively the recognized crucially important information needs of the minority population. The leaders of the institute will be Professor Cohen, Director, and Miss Lillian Lopez , Coordinator of Special Services, New York Public Library.
The newly formed College and Research Libraries Division of DLA has requested that their slate of nominees for 1975-76 be published for your convenience. The Nominating Committee included: Mrs. Margaret Wang, Chair; Mrs. Zona Lindsay, and Mary Lou Ponsell.
Nominees are the following:
Katherine Wood
Floyd Co Hardy
Daniel Coons
Asa Pieratt
Paul Lawless
Carolyn Adams
Mary Byrne
Jane DiCecco
Donna Pezdek
GOAL AND OBJECTIVES of the AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
The goal of the American Library Association is the PROMOTION OF LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS HIP TO ASSURE THE DELIVERY OF INFORMATION *
COMMENT: This brief goal statement incorporates the purpose of ALA as stated in Article II of the Constitution. Emphasis is on Service which includes delivery as well as access, to all people.
The Goal statement is followed by five objectives which are general guides to future decision-making and are intended to shape those decisions so as to maximize their contribution to the Goal of ALA. The Objectives are followed by enumeration of Courses of Action for implementation of Goal and Objectives. Recognizing the importance of each objective, the Committee on Planning has assigned no priority order. The Courses of Action are in alphagetical order for the same reason.
The following objectives are integral to the achievement of the
ALA Goal:
1. Provision of information services and resources for all the people of the United States of America in order to increase their opportunity to participate in society, to learn, to achieve self-fulfillment, to pursue careers, and to obtain information needed for research.
COMMENT: This objective emphasizes the broad concept of information services and resources. It is concerned with the user rather than types of libraries, and is intended to encompass service to all people regardless of geographic location, socio-economic** status, handicaps, and other limiting conditions.
2. Provision of leadership for interlibrary cooperation leading to a nation-wide information delivery system which equalizes access to information resources.
COMMENT: This objective further extends and emphasizes the concept of access by equalization of resources availability throughout the country. A nation-wide information system utilizing local commitment and development must be designed to insure that all client groups are served equally.
3. Cooperation to achieve increased access to library and information resources throughout the world.
COMMENT: International cooperation increases the access the people of the United States of America have to information resources.
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4. Support of intellectual freedom as expressed in the Library Bill of Rights and the Freedom to Read statement and support of librarians, trustees, or libraries whose defense of these principles is challenged.
COMMENT: This objective encompasses a positive program in support of intellectual freedom, as well as its defense.
5. Development and support of library personnel through the affirmative action, education, personal welfare, and training.
COMMENT: Emphasis is placed on Personal welfare and affirmative action as well as on education and training. A wide range of impossible continuing education activities is implied. The objective also implies the adoption of policies to effect personal welfare and affirmative action.
A. Coordinating with other appropriate organizations as their goals and activities relate to t hose of ALA, such as: governmental agencies; the information industry; international bodies; learned, professional, and scientific societies; mass media; publishers; social service agencies
B. Developing effective legislative programs at all levels of government to: Assure that laws on copyright, government documents, public information, communication technology and other concerns facilitate and extend library service
Provide appropriate statutory bases
C. Establishing guidelines and/or standards for:
Employment status and welfare of librarians
Equalization of service to users, regardless of socio-economic status, location, handicaps, and other conditions
Interlibrary cooperation
Organization of collections for access
Physical facilities and equipment
Professional education and training for library personnel
Scope and quality of collections and services
Utilization of emerging technologies
D. Evaluating of programs in terms of guidelines and stated objectives to assure accountability and to measure progress
E. Investigating and making facts known, providing testimony, filing griefs, and other appropriate legal actions
F. Mobilizing a vigorous public relations program in behalf of libraries and library services
G. Providing a vehicle for discussion and action on socially-sensitive issues related to library service
H. Sponsoring publications, conferences, orientation programs, workshops, and so forth
I. Stimulating and coordinating of research including but not limited to areas of development, organization and use of resources, networks, planning and evaluation, management freedom, and personnel
J. Strengthening and encouraging of ALA chapters to work effectively in accomplishment of ALA's Goal and Objectives.
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designjobs needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
A new chairity focused on measurable results and saving lives is being created. We need a clean and modern logo that can carry the organization forward as it grows.
Measurable Results
Clean and modern but lasting. Logo should work as a B/W version but should not be B/W.
The charity will focus initially on saving lives and later may expand into green initiatives. Instead of paying x $ to a charity and having no idea what happens with that we want measureable results so your donation is directly correlated to saving a life or significantly improving a life.
Measurable results could include anything that really helps such as:
Lives saved, meals delivered, vaccinations given, wells dug, students educated etc. (although initial focus will be on lives saved or actions that save lives. In the future the goal is to expand more broadly to help quantify the actual benefit the charity brings with any given donation or action that is taken.
Design could incorporate some counter concept. It means you know something about what is being done with a donation, it is not into the void; you have a direct measurable result.
- "Measurable Results" text
- Could also use "Measureable Results Charity" if it is better for your design but visual focus should be on first 2 words
- Can include other graphical element you think are well suited for the case like a globe, tree, something people based but this is up to you think of the charity, think about saving lives and design what you are inspired to design. These are just suggestions it does not mean we want to see these or must include them at all, just ideas, we imagine your ideas are better so go with it!
- No tape measures or other distance measuring devices. The measurable in this case is regarding results, not a measure of distance but a measure of success, lives improved or saved, dramatic improvements to the world.
- no crosses (confusion with red cross or other charities is not desirable)
- avoid hearts, this is a new addition based on some designs provided. I don't want to say don't use a heart at all because it is possible there is a design that would work well with it but generally the heart is conveying some medical (operation / hospital) or romantic (like a dating service) impression which is not desirable.
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Samsung S4 Shipments Cross 10 Million, and More
What's News: Samsung's Galaxy S4 passes the 10 million shipped mark. Twitter adds a verification feature to combat hacking. H-P profit slips, but shares surge amid signs of improvement. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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Henderson County Sheriff Charles McDonald is on a mission to slash residential break-ins and burglaries, and new mapping software is helping deputies with the task.
A white mask in a black box popped up in a crop of other masks on a computerized map of Henderson County Thursday afternoon. It marked the scene of yet another burglary.
"As I returned home, I drove in my driveway and this young guy was going around the back, and he's been in my house. He had a whole bag of stuff," an 85-year-old woman told 911 as she tried to catch her breath. "It looked like a pillowcase. He probably got something out of my house."
Dispatchers have heard similar calls before. Homes in the county have been plagued by nearly 600 residential break-ins and burglaries each year for the past three years, Sheriff Charles McDonald told county commissioners in January. His office is on a mission to slash those crimes by 12 percent by February, and officers are well on their way of meeting that goal.
According to a sheriff's budget request sent to the county, residential break-ins and larcenies are down between 6.5 and 10 percent so far this fiscal year.
Patrol, investigations, a newly formed Directed Enforcement Unit and nearly everyone in the department, from communications to the detention center, is pitching in to gather intelligence and target the goal.
Step one: Map it out.
The Henderson County Sheriff's Office used drug seizure money last year to purchase crime-mapping software to look at trends in crimes as they occur, helping officers impact criminals in ways not attempted here before.
The map went active on the sheriff's website earlier this year and can be viewed at www.crimemapping.com/map/nc/hendersoncounty.
On any given week, the new map is littered with symbols for robbery, larceny, vandalism, burglary and vehicle break-ins. The interactive symbols give officers insights to crime patterns, allowing them to better guess of where criminals might strike next.
We're "trying to throw everything we've got at the criminal element," said Maj. Frank Stout, sheriff's office spokesman.
Four deputies led by an in-house crime analyst, Darrin Whitaker, make up the Directed Enforcement Unit, tasked with targeting residential break-ins and burglaries. Coupled with a new atmosphere of teamwork intelligence and extra eyes in crime hotspots, the unit is investigating a suspected ring of thieves. Deputies arrested their first man in the case on Monday.
Byron Shane Ward, 42, has been charged with 30 counts, including larceny and breaking-and-entering, in relation to a crime spree deputies say targeted construction sites, homes, businesses and motor vehicles in four counties and South Carolina.
Ward is a "known criminal with an extensive record," Stout said. When deputies picked him up in the past on other charges, "he'd come into court, get bonded out and go back to stealing the next day," he added.
Ward remained in custody Friday in lieu of $126,500 bond. More charges and more arrests in the case are expected as the investigation continues.
On another case Tuesday, officers picked up Phillip Eric Stanford, 42, of 1191 Upward Road and charged him with multiple counts relating to larcenies after they say he swiped metal and sold it to a local scrap yard.
Patrol deputies arrested a suspect they linked to five or six break-ins and burglaries that occurred within a matter of hours in the South Lake Summit area on Tuesday. They found William Cody Clark, 21, of 382 Old Greenville Highway, impaired, bleeding and lying in a ditch near Green River Volunteer Fire and Rescue.
Stout said Clark appeared to have gotten cuts on his arms and hands while breaking into buildings. "He had run out of his tennis shoes" and was wearing a pair of stolen wake-board boots when deputies found him, Stout added.
The distinct track of the boots, a trail of blood and good old fashioned "hard-nosed police work" led deputies to several residences and buildings in the area that they believe Clark targeted. They also found his stash — a flat-screen TV and other electronics, a flashlight and a key to a pontoon boat from Camp Greystone.
Under the South Lake Summit bridge, officers found a stolen bicycle, valued at $1,100, and a Boston Whaler boat that Stout says Clark took for a cruise down the lake.
Clark was charged with six counts of felonious breaking and entering, four counts of felonious larceny after breaking and entering, four counts of felonious possession of stolen property, three counts of misdemeanor injury to personal property and one count of felonious larceny regarding a 2003 Boston Whaler boat belonging to Camp Greystone.
The Sheriff's Office is requesting $1,062,440 in extra funding from the county for the budget year that will begin July 1 to cover, among other things, five positions to replace the officers now staffing the Directed Enforcement Unit.
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Looks very slightly wonky in the pic ...but maybe the angle of photo ?
Also the stem is a little fatter than normal but if this is a studio piece then its actually very good. Making stems is highly specialised. Most modern studio goblets are very amateurish in technical terms.
It could Murano (which is effectively studio production). However, if by a maestro you would expect better so maybe a trainee. I have a stem by (Murano trained maestro) Franco Toffolo and it is a joy to hold and to behold.
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Experts say that turning certain varieties of grass or other plants into what's known as biofuels could limit the effects of global warming. Common biofuels include sugarcane and plant known as switchgrass, which a USDA's study found could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by ninenty-four perdcent compared to gasoline. Click here for the full text version of the Radio Roundup (PDF).


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Ernie Brauchli, president of Creative Beauty Concepts, has announced that Jean Sweet has joined the company's Artizen brand of professional styling appliances as editorial director. Sweet, a stylist, salon owner, and photographer, will create hair styling technical and educational material for Artizen. She will also direct the production of editorial trend collections to support the Artizen digital flat irons and ceramic blow dryers.
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SKILLMAN, N.J. (June 6, 2012) – After winning its sixth consecutive Atlantic Sun Championship and stringing together 14 straight wins during the 2012 season, the ETSU men's tennis team checked in at No. 72 in the final Campbell's/ITA Men's Team Rankings.
ETSU (14-9, 9-0 A-Sun) was a frequent visitor to the ITA Team Rankings, as the Buccaneers were ranked in 11 of the 16 polls the association released throughout the year. The Bucs began the year with their highest ranking of the season on Jan. 3 at No. 58 in the first edition of the poll, and remained in the rankings all the way through Feb. 21. ETSU then reentered the rankings on March 27, and were part of the top 75 for six of the season's final seven polls.
The Buccaneers have now been ranked in the ITA's Final Team Rankings each of the last seven years. ETSU's highest final ranking during that stretch came in 2008 when it was ranked No. 37 after defeating then-No. 26 Notre Dame in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
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My doubles partner and I are looking for higher skilled players (5.0) to play some games with in Mission Viejo and close surrounding areas. There aren't that many higher skilled players that we have found around here. Please let me know if you have a doubles partner and want to play some fun games. Evenings after 6:30pm or Sat after 10:30am are our open schedules.
Hi Ryan,
Are you still looking for someone to hit with? I live in the Brea area and am just getting back into the game. I sometimes hit down in Irvine. A few of us are hitting Monday, but that will be up this way in North Orange County. Let me know if you are ever interested though. I've also been looking for some people who would be interested in some competitive mixed doubles?
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About Sheet metal
Sheet metal, in various qualities, hardness's, thickness's and surface treatments, is widely used in light fittings.
The material provides a good balance between function and cost. Sheet metal has the advantage that it can be formed quickly in constant production, allowing the final product to be completed at a later stage, facilitating flexible production.
From the raw material (sheet metal), it is possible to run through the processes of punching, bending, welding and painting to final fitting instantly, with the only restrictions being the capacity of the manufacturer.
Certain parts may require the use of so-called deep drawing quality (soft sheet) metal, i.e. sheet metal stretched so intensely that ordinary sheet metal qualities would break.


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1. I have created a new table called Email_TimeNotifications. It has the Frequency, Name, Active and Path. I have added a record to it.
2. I added a udb_property of TN_RecordTypes = "Email_TimedNotifications".
3. I created a Email_Notification_Rule - on RecordType = "Email_TimedNotifications"
Condition = "$Frequency eq "Daily"
Subject = "ClearQuest - $name"
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***** To = When I put ES_GetSubscribersEmails() I get an error that this cannot be found. If I put a email address it works.
To execute it I use: cqperl timedNotification.pl foo "" BETSX XX DailyNotification