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Missouri Visit Planning
Why we are going here[edit]
Team Members[edit]
- Nancy Bolt
- Lynne Bradley
- Mark Bard
March 1 & 2
People to Visit[edit]
Hotel Information[edit]
Hotel DeVille
319 W. Miller
Jefferson City, MO 65101
(573) 636-5231
|February 28
|Arrives in Jefferson City @ 3:10 p.m.
|March 1
|March 2
|March 3
|Departs Jefferson City@ 9:00 a.m.
State Specific Questions/Data Points[edit]
Link to MOREnet - http://www.more.net
For those unaware and interested, here is the information on MO Senate Bill 121:
Email from Margaret the State Librarian on 2/22/2007
Here is a list of who you will be interviewing so far. Please send confirmation of interview times when you can. The items in italics are optional events for your team; they just represent gatherings of librarians. March 1 and 2 are very busy days for us, so it should be interesting!
March 1: State librarian, state library technology consultant (Debbie Musselman)
Mark Reading, Executive Deputy Secretary of State, on state budget staff when MOREnet was formed
Town Hall Meeting, Sedalia, Mo (1 hour away), 10-noon
Legislative videoconference, State Library, 1-3
Remote interview with select public librarians, via videoconference after legislative update ends
Telco Meeting @ 11 a.m. @ MO Telecommunications Industry Assoc. 312 East Capitol Avenue
March 2: Town Hall Meeting, Columbia, 10-noon
Focus group, immediately following Town Hall Meeting (still working on this)
MOREnet staff, available 12:30 to 5 p.m.
Dan Ross, the state's Chief Information Officer is available any time except Thursday from 10:30-11:30, and is expecting to meet with you. I am working on one more appointment, with marginal success, with Dr. Curt Fuchs, Department of Elementary and Secondary Ed, who was working in a local school system at MOREnet's inception. Barbara Reading, Director of Library Development here will be present at one or more of the meetings, as her schedule allows.
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Price check in electronics! Why are some of Walmart's products so much cheaper online than in-store?
A group of lawyers threatened a class action lawsuit last year against Disney for deceptive practices since their Baby Einstein videos are heavily marketed as educational but resea
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Here are the results of my exploration to remove scratches from my CDs and DVDs, complete with my own experience with each remedy.
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NBA Bedding
NBA Center Court Bedding Sets Make Everyone Feel Like The League MVP!
Are you the biggest basketball fan in your home? Do you recognize only one season: basketball season? In fact, are you obsessed with basketball? Are you ready to show it with NBA bedding? A top quality, deluxe bedding set is one of the best ways to show off your ceaseless support for your favorite NBA basketball team. No matter which team you're rooting for, Bedding.com has multiple options to choose from.
Bedding.com caters to fans of all ages by offering one of the largest selections of NBA branded items available anywhere. We have a complete catalog of basketball sheet and comforter sets featuring all of today's most popular NBA teams like the Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls, LA Clippers & the Miami Heat. Search for items from brands like The Northwest Co. and Sports Coverage Inc.
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Whether you end up purchasing the San Antonio Spurs woven jacquard baby throw to keep the littlest fan in the house cozy, or Cleveland Cavaliers microfiber sheet set to show everyone who enters your room how much you love your team, or you go for something completely different and exclusive to your home, we want to make sure that when you buy our products, you find one that's exactly right for you.
You can stick to basic colors accentuated by a pillowcase or two, or try a comforter set in your team's colors emblazoned with its logo. Our incredible inventory also includes body and decorative pillows, crib sets, pillowcases, and towel sets, all offered at unbeatable prices. We also offer bed rests, floor rugs, sleeping bags, and wall décor. You can find everything you need to support your favorite NBA team, from beanbag chairs to standard shams for your bed.
Check out our NBA Sidelines comforter collection, made from soft, colorfast, wrinkle-free, 100 percent polyester jersey. Take advantage of our sale on Sidelines comforters, where you can get sets for the Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Dallas Mavericks, Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks, and New York Knicks. Don't worry if you can't find your favorite team in the Sidelines comforter collection: we have tons of other items to add NBA flair to your home.
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LaGrange Park resident George L. Schoenbeck, III, of Sosin & Arnold, Ltd., Orland Park, is a guest on Illinois Law: The Best Ways to Hold Real Estate Title, a half-hour program presented by the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), will air on Chicago Access Network Television, Channel 21 in Chicago, at 10 p.m. on Tuesdays, July 9 and 23, 2013.
Joining Schoenbeck to discuss the real estate topic are Ralph A. Schumann, Law Offices of Ralph J. Schumann, Schaumburg, and president of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association; Joel L. Chupack, a lawyer with Heinrich & Kramer, P.C., Chicago; and program moderator Martin A. Dolan, of Dolan Law, P.C., Chicago. Schumann, Chupack, and Schoenbeck are chair, vice-chair, and member, respectively, of the ISBA's Real Estate Law Section Council.
The 32,000-member ISBA (isba.org), with offices in Springfield and Chicago, provides professional services to Illinois lawyers, and education and services to the public through a website (illinoislawyerfinder.com), consumer brochures, and distribution of legal information.


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As mentioned yesterday, here are several ideas for displaying your beloved quilts......all are beautiful and it doesn't matter if you have a quilted pillow or you are a collector of many full sized quilts......put them out there for all to enjoy!
Drapes - Wendy Valliere
On walls
On chairs
More upholstery
Draped over an ottoman
Another quilt on an ottoman
(Mary Douglas Drysdale)
In baskets
Over chairs
(Have loved this room by Justine Cushing since I
first laid eyes on it years ago!)
And on bannisters!
Image 1 Lux Interior Designs, Image 2 BHG,
Image 3 Pinterest (southernsavvygirl), Images 4, 9 & 13 Traditional Home
Image 5 Judi Boisson, Image 6 Unknown,
Image 7 Diamond & Baratta, Image 8 BHG,
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Weather Effects
Sunshine | Harsh Sunshine | Rain | Heavy Rain | Hail | Sandstorm | Strong Winds
Fog | Shadow Sky
Weather effects have been in the games since Gold & Silver. They all have numerous effects for multiple Pokémon, attacks and ability. There are Four kinds of true weather in the game and 2 extra ones that can also be classes as such. Some Pokémon can cause the weather with their abilities and others, with the abilities of Air Lock or Cloud Nine can have their abilities dispell the weather. In addition to this, the ability of Overcoat will prevent the Pokémon from receiving damage from the weather such as Hail and Sandstorm. In battle from Black & White onwards, you'll have the ability of seeing what the current weather is at any point during the battle
Each Weather Effect once called upon using their respective attacks lasts for 5 turns. However, these can be increased through having the user of the attack hold specific items. As of X & Y, they also prolong the weather effects from abilities. The items as such are below:
The weather types and the effects are as follows:
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Dear Basketball Gods,
I know I do not speak to you often, for I imagine that you are engaged in any number of fierce cloudtop pickup games. But I must ask you to pause for a moment and make this single heartfelt plea:
Please let Butler win the national title this weekend.
I am not a Butler alum, nor am I from Indiana. I have no regional bias for Butler in any way. All I know is this: If Butler wins the whole NCAA tournament, it will be awesome. If someone else wins it all, it will suck.
We Americans are conditioned to always root for the underdog, particularly during March Madness. If you aren't from Kansas or didn't have money on Kansas, were you rooting for them to beat Northern Iowa? No, you were not. Only horrible people would do something like that. The popularity of sports is driven by its potential for unpredictability. We like seeing teams that aren't supposed to win, win. I know I do, largely because it makes me feel like I could totally accomplish something similar, which I realize is hilariously misguided.
Yet, the NCAA tournament has a stubborn habit of letting underdogs go only so far. Once George Mason reached the Final Four a few years ago, they just soundly thrashed by eventual champion Florida. This is annoying. The most memorable underdog champion in tournament history is the 1985 Villanova squad. Villanova is a Big East school. That's not good enough. The last mid-major conference team to win a national title was UNLV. That sooooo doesn't count. I want to see one of these so-called Cinderellas finally put their foot on the throats of the big conference schools, win it all, and deliver a giant eff you to the fantastically annoying oligarchy that is the NCAA.
Furthermore, I hate the idea that any of the other three teams could end up winning the title. Duke is Duke. No one wants to see all these upsets take place just so Duke can win the title. And while the folks of West Virginia are very nice, and their state is quite beautiful, the fact is that Bob Huggins is impossible to root for, and not just because he frequently rocks a mock turtleneck.
Which brings us to Michigan State. I admire Tom Izzo's stunning March track record (six Final Fours in 12 years), and there's little else hatable about the Spartans. Except this: If I have to hear one more story about how a winning team in Michigan (much less one located 90 minutes from Detroit) is somehow saving that economically depressed state, I will not be pleased. No one says, "Oh, hey! MSU won the title! Maybe I should buy a house in Detroit and pay $10,000 over the asking price!" And the only way to prevent that sort of media-inspired "we love a good story!" story is for Michgan State to get thrashed.
No, not only is Butler is sole underdog left in all this, but they are by far the most likable team left. It's hugely annoying when the team you think karmically SHOULD win it all does not end up doing so. And so, Basketball Gods, whoever you are, I beg you today to not let this merely be a "happy to be here moment" for the Bulldogs. They're good, and they have the home crowd.
Let 'em take the cheese.


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Shooter Jennings At The GRAMMY Museum
Southern rocker Shooter Jennings held court at an installment of the GRAMMY Museum's The Drop series on March 25, discussing his new album along with producer Dave Cobb before an intimate audience of 200.
Jennings and Cobb talked about the making of Black Ribbons, Jennings' new ambitious concept album which veers into heavy rock and rap-metal territory.
Jennings, the son of original country outlaw Waylon Jennings and country singer Jessi Colter, grew up on tour buses and in recording studios. He was playing drums by the age of 5. He ultimately moved from Nashville, Tenn., to Los Angeles to explore his interest in rock, forming the well-received Stargunn, which he dissolved a few years later to follow a country-rock path. He issued his debut record, Put The O Back In Country, in 2005, and followed with several more albums that explored his own sense of outlaw country. With Black Ribbons, he may just be exploring his sense of outlaw, at least when it comes to shattering expectations.
Upcoming events at the GRAMMY Museum include an interview and performance session with George Thorogood (April 14), the Hold Steady (May 3) and Court Yard Hounds (May 10).
For more information on the GRAMMY Museum, visit www.grammymuseum.org.
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Smartphones will be able to access the Miiverse—the Wii U's social network—sometime this spring, Nintendo announced this morning, with a dedicated app for smart devices to follow sometime later. In short, it sounds Miiverse will have a mobile-optimized website soon.
Miiverse is the hub where Wii U players connect with others, sharing comments, thoughts, images and drawings in communities segmented by game (or app). The smartphone support is one of a few upgrades Miiverse is getting this spring, including the ability to set up user-created communities within certain games. Wii Fit U was given as an example.


text: Seems like an awful lot of trouble when you can just buy an extra section or two of used Rohn 25. Just saying...... On 2/18/2012 6:33 PM, Bruce Ward wrote: > Mark, > > You make a very sane suggestion. > > My reason for putting the tower on top of the building, if I do, is to > get an extra 8' to 10' of height. The building will be sufficient to > handle the 1100 pound weight plus the horizontal wind loads. > > The tower site is covered in 60' plus trees and there is a similar > height hill with similar height trees between my tower and the far end. > I need to get above the trees plus above the fresnel zone so I want to > go as high as I can. > > If I use the Rohn 25G we will add sections until we are high enough. > This method could mean that I have to build sufficient structure to > bracket even higher than 35'. I would place the bottom section Rohn 25G > on the ground (a concrete base) and bracket it to a pole embedded into > the building. > > If I use the the TRI-EX I am stuck with its 70' height plus a 10' mast. > Since it is a one shot deal I would like to start as high as I can. > > Thank you. > > On 02/18/2012 06:19 PM, Mark Robinson wrote: >> I am not a mechanical engineer but why don't you put the tower in the ground >> and the building next to the tower. >> >> >> Mark N1UK >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bruce Ward"<Bruce at IPIntel.com> >> To:<towertalk at contesting.com> >> Sent: Saturday, 18 February, 2012 6:53 PM >> Subject: [TowerTalk] Request for Advice - Rohn 25 vs TRI-EX HZN 471 >> >> >>> I am setting up a tower (my first) to get internet service. The >>> antennas will be less than 2 square feet of wind loading combined and >>> could be even less using 2 11x14" grid antennas. >>> >>> My plan is to build a 10'x10' 9' to 10' tall block building on a slab >>> that is larger in all directions. This building will will have a >>> concrete roof with rebar and wire in all concrete. The blocks will have >>> rebar and concrete in every cell. The structure will use 12 to 15 >>> yards of concrete plus 400 concrete blocks providing an over 45,000 >>> pound base for the tower. I have a civil engineer friend who will be >>> involved in the final design of the building. The building is dual >>> purpose, it will provide a secure home for my servers and a stable base >>> for the tower. >>> >>> Now for the difficult part, I do not have room for guy wires. >>> >>> I am trying to decide between two options >>> >>> 1. I have 9 full and a top section of Rohn 25G in my yard waiting to be >>> be installed. Currently Rohn rates the 25G for freestanding use up to >>> 40' with 1.4 square feet of wind loading. From reading online it sounds >>> like Rohn 25s have been used for decades even higher without guy wires. >>> I do not want to risk stretching beyond Rohns specifications. I have >>> access to 40' lengths of 8" pipe. If I go with the Rohn 25G my intention >>> would be to embed a 40' section of the 8" pipe into the building and >>> bracket to that pipe up to 35' or so then have the tower extend another >>> 35' to 40' above the pipe. All the metal would be isolated from the >>> ground and properly guided with a ground rod to avoid corrosion issues. >>> >>> 2. There is a TRI-EX HZN 471 available locally. I would have jumped on >>> this one earlier but it is worth more the the current owner than it is >>> to me. This is a 70' (71'?) crank up tower with a motorized winch. The >>> motor is broken and would need to be replaced. The tower is free >>> standing with the exception of three diagonal pipe braces that connect >>> from the top of the bottom of the 4 sections to the ground around 10' >>> out. I like that this tower is freestanding and I believe I could do >>> away with the braces if I bracketed the tower at the same location to a >>> sufficiently strong structure. If I used this tower I would likely >>> build a 3'x3' column of solid concrete into my building and place the >>> tower on top. >>> >>> I would very much appreciate any suggestions and advice. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TowerTalk mailing list >>> TowerTalk at contesting.com >>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TowerTalk mailing list >> TowerTalk at contesting.com >> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk > _______________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > TowerTalk mailing list > TowerTalk at contesting.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk > -- 73, Gary K9GS Check out K9NS on the web: http://www.k9ns.com Greater Milwaukee DX Association: http://www.gmdxa.org Society of Midwest Contesters: http://www.w9smc.com ************************************************


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Illinois residents will be charged 8.00% sales tax.
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Upon moving to Seattle, we were surprised to hear that one of the city's famous desserts was the Triple Coconut Cream Pie from restaurateur Tom Douglas' Dahlia Lounge (you may recognize the restaurant from the timeless classic Sleepless in Seattle). Our wariness was twofold: first off, while a good dessert, coconut cream pie has never been a major player in our dessert vernacular, more often something that we'll eat because it's there, a second or third choice at best. And second, did we really trust a restaurateur who had a neon sign in his own image boldly hung outside of the restaurant? Was it a gesture of self-deprecating tongue in cheek humor, or just plain ego? And so, two years of residence passed before we even tried this pie, which has been their bestselling dessert for over twelve years.
But oh, to think back to the day we finally did try the famous pie. As will happen from time to time, a baked good is so well-made that even if it's outside of your general taste preferences, it will make you a believer. The taste of fresh whipped cream, laced with vanilla and coconut, is the first taste that hits you: rich, creamy and decadent. At an indeterminate point, the whipped cream ends and the pie filling begins, filling the mouth with a custardy, indulgent cocunutty taste; that gives way to a light, flaky pastry crust, also infused with coconut--all summing up to make you think that maybe, just maybe, becoming morbidly obese on this stuff wouldn't be so bad at all. Their restaurant portion will satisfy Herculean appetites; servings for all appetites can be found next door at the Dahlia bakery: from mini individual "bites" to larger sizes depending on how big a crowd you're feeding (or, you know, how hungry you are).
If you're coming to Seattle, we deem it worth seeking out; if you're not in the Seattle area, then don't despair, here's the recipe (which can also be found in the worth-buying book Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen, available here)
Triple Coconut Cream Pie
(Makes one 9-inch pie)
For The Coconut Pastry Cream
- 2 cups milk
- 2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
- 1 vanilla bean, split in half lengthwise
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- One 9-inch Pie shell (go ahead, put coconut in the shell too!)
- prebaked and cooled
- 2 1/2 cups heavy cream, chilled
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 ounces unsweetened "chip" or large-shred coconut (about 11/2 cups) or sweetened shredded coconut
- Chunks of white chocolate (4 to 6 ounces, to make 2 ounces of curls)
1. To make the pastry cream, combine the milk and coconut in a medium saucepan. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and add both the seeds and pod to the milk mixture. Place the saucepan over medium-high heat and stir occasionally until the mixture almost comes to a boil.
2. In a bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, and flour until well combined. Temper the eggs (to keep them from scrambling) by pouring a small amount (about 1/3 Cup) of the scalded milk into the egg mixture while whisking. Then add the warmed egg mixture to the saucepan of milk and coconut. Whisk over medium-high heat until the pastry cream thickens and begins to bubble. Keep whisking until the mixture is very thick, 4 to 5 minutes more. Remove the saucepan from the heat. Add the butter and whisk until it melts. Remove and discard the vanilla pod. Transfer the pastry cream to a bowl and place it over a bowl of ice water. Stir occasionally until it is cool. Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the pastry cream to prevent a crust from forming and refrigerate until completely cold. The pastry cream will thicken as it cools.
3. When the pastry cream is cold, fill the prebaked pie shell with it, smoothing the surface. In an electric mixer with the whisk, whip the heavy cream with the sugar and vanilla on medium speed. Gradually increase the speed to high and whip to peaks that are firm enough to hold their shape. Fill a pastry bag fitted with a star tip with the whipped cream and pipe it all over the surface of the pie, or spoon it over.
4. For the garnish, preheat the oven to 350°F. Spread the coconut chips on a baking sheet and toast in the oven, watching carefully and stirring once or twice, since coconut burns easily, until lightly browned, 7 to 8 minutes. Use a vegetable peeler to scrape about 2 ounces of the white chocolate into curls.
On The Plate
Cut the pie into 6 to 8 wedges and place on dessert plates. Decorate each wedge of pie with white chocolate curls and the toasted coconut.
A Step Ahead
If not serving immediately, keep the pie refrigerated, covered with plastic wrap. The finished pie should be consumed within a day. Prepare the garnishes just before serving. The coconut pastry cream can be made a day ahead and stored chilled in the refrigerator, covered with plastic wrap as described above. Fill the pie shell and top it with whipped cream and garnishes when you are ready to serve the pie.
Recipe borrowed from Books-for-Cooks.com, Copyright © 2002.


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Memory Lane Inn necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 16 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Memory Lane Inn
We are a husband and wife who own and operate two retreats in Texas. We really try to differentiate ourselves from other similar places in our area by being a high end craft retreat. We do this by having clean, polished Inns, higher quality amenities, and better food options (our private chef, for example). I'd like to see this feeling reflected in the redesign of these cards.
We are similar to a B&B but cater to females who scrapbook and other such crafts. Our reservations are made by a group, who basically consist of friends and/or family members, that are looking to get away for a weekend and to work on their craft projects.
Our target audience is a 20-50 year old female with creative abilities.
Include this information somewhere on the card:
Upscale scrapbooking and crafting retreats
As our guest, you will be pampered with desirable amenities, the latest crafting tools, and luxurious accommodations. Memory Lane Inn is the perfect crafting retreat to share with your friends.
Accommodate group sizes from 2-18
Individual work space includes large table with double shelf and mat, Ott-Light, leather chair, trash, drink holder, and outlets
On site 'Memory Market' mini store
High speed wireless internet
Multiple HDTVs with DVD & Netflix access
Variety of delicious snacks and decadent treats
Complimentary Starbucks coffee, imported teas, sodas, juice, and bottled water
Complimentary goodie bags for every guest
Use the fully furnished kitchen or enjoy our personal gourmet chef
Arrive on Thursday at no extra cost
Repeat guests earn free stays
Web Site: http://www.memorylaneinn.com
Phone: (855) MEM-LANE
E-Mail: jenniferATmemorylaneinn.com (replace AT with @)
We are looking for a standard 4"x9" double sided rack card to advertise our two Inns. These rack cards will be placed at local craft stores, handed out at conventions, and left out at our Inns.
The rack card should include both our locations (see http://www.memorylaneinn.com for details). I would like to see a regal/upscale feel with a vintage look. I'm thinking chandeliers, wallpaper, etc. Maybe this page from our web site will help:
The rack card should incorporate our logo & tag line. It should incorporate all the attached photos, our amenities (listed under 'Target Audience'), and our contact information (listed under 'Target Audience'). The exterior photos of each Inn should denote it's location (by overlaying the text 'McKinney' and 'Tyler' for example).
Deliverable should be in .ai & .pdf format. Work should be at 300dpi and prepared at the full bleed size.
Attached is our current rack card for our Inn located in McKinney, TX. This new design will incorporate both our McKinney and Tyler Inns. I don't want it to look like our existing card, I'm just including it for reference.


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5047 Franklin Ave Waco, TX, 76710 United States
(254) 776-6575
Welcome to WRS Athletic club. We are a locally owned and operated health club serving the Waco area for 24 years. WRS was started in 1995 as an executive adult health club promoting first class health and fitness. Over the past 24 years we have maintained that philosophy as the health industry expands. We strive to provide a clean and friendly atmosphere where our members can be comfortable in their pursuit of health and Fitness.
Robbie Little - Owner


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Recall 05V560000
Air Bags in Sport Model Steering Wheels May Fail to Deploy Correctly
Recall Details
Certain passenger vehicles equipped with sport model steering wheels fail to comply with the requirements of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard # 208 "Occupant Crash Protection"In certain tests conducted by NHTSA, using an unbelted female crash test dummy, conditions were found that occupants may not be properly protected during a crash, resulting in injuries. Dealers will install a new airbag module free of charge. The Mercedes recall # is 2006020005
Our Quick Take
In certain passenger vehicles equipped with a sport model steering wheel, the airbag may fail to deploy correctly.
What Should You Do?
Mercedes will notify customers of affected vehicles beginning March 15, 2006. If you have not been contacted and feel your car falls under this recall. You should contact your local dealership. It's helpful to have your VIN Vehicle Identification Number ready when doing so.


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Being a party to an offence or a crime is often referred to as aiding and abetting.
We think it is absolutely essential, particularly if you are young, to understand clearly how vulnerable you may be if you are simply with other people who commit crimes or offences. You can get dragged in if you are not careful.
So read Section 66 carefully at the bottom of this page.
You could very well be criminally liable, and even sent to prison, for being a party to another person's offending, even if you did not think you were doing anything wrong.
If you get involved in some way then you are at real risk of being a party to an offence or crime committed by another person
The law is not unfair but the younger you are the more care you have to take not to be "sucked in" by the criminal actions of another person.
There are obvious cases where a person who does not actually commit the crime is still clearly criminally guilty for aiding and assisting.
If your friend breaks into a house and steals things (this is known as burglary), but you only act as a look out ready to warn him if the police come, then the law will find you just as guilty of the burglary as your friend.
We hope that this is obvious to you.
But there are a number of other perhaps more difficult fact situations which you might not realise could well lead you to getting into serious trouble.
The law of in relation to being are "party" to a crime is set out in section 66 of the Crimes Act 1961. We set out the full wording of that section below.
You should read both section 66(1) and 66(2) very carefully because both subsections deal with different fact situations.
Subsection 1 effectively deals with actually assisting somebody else to commit a crime. But be careful, because the Courts have held sometimes that simply giving weight in numbers by standing around a fight or an assault, could amount to you being a party to the actual assault. It depends on the circumstances.
It is usually said that 'mere presence' is not enough to be a party at an offence BUT we advise that you do not take the risk
Subsection 2 deals with the situation where you can be stuck with a criminal offence committed by someone else when you did not think that they were going to commit such events.
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Reading 2: Building the Academical Village
Jefferson's early experiences and observations about education led him to conclude that the practice of housing students, faculty, classrooms, and dining halls in a single large building was not a satisfactory arrangement. While serving as President, Jefferson wrote a letter to Littleton Tazewell, one of the delegates to the Virginia Legislature, offering his observations on a proposal to create a new state university:
...the greatest danger will be their overbuilding themselves by attempting a large house in the beginning, sufficient to contain the whole institution. Large houses are always ugly, inconvenient, exposed to accident of fire, and in bad cases of infection. A plain small house for the school & lodging of each professor is best. These connected by covered ways out of which the rooms of the students should open would be best. These may then be built as they shall be wanting. In fact, an University should not be a house but a village. This will much lessen their first expenses.1
After retiring from the Presidency, Jefferson's thoughts about an ideal university were taking clear shape, even though Virginia's state representatives had not yet passed legislation to create a system of public education:
No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in its effect towards supporting free and good government. I, am sincerely rejoiced, therefore, to find that so excellent a fund has been provided for this noble purpose in Tennessee.... I consider the common plan [for colleges] followed in this country, but not in others, of making one large and expensive building, as unfortunately erroneous. It is infinitely better to erect a small and separate lodge for each professorship, with only a hall below for his class and two chambers above for himself; joining these lodges by barracks for a certain portion of the students, opening into a covered way to give a dry communication between all the schools. The whole of these arranged around an open square of grass and trees would make it what it should be in fact, an academical village.... Much observation and reflection on these institutions have long convinced me that the large and crowded buildings in which youths are pent up are equally unfriendly to health, to study, to manners, morals, and order.2
Once the law establishing the university was enacted, Thomas Jefferson personally transformed his ideas into reality. He applied his remarkable intellect to design a university whose physical presence and course of studies would produce an educated citizenry capable of defending the freedom and democracy of the new United States of America. Jefferson produced beautiful neoclassical plans, including those for the five pavilions to house faculty and students which he designed in an astonishing 15 days. He enthusiastically described his plans to mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch in his letter of October 26, 1818:
The legislature passed an act establishing a university, endowing it for the present with an annuity of fifteen thousand dollars and directing commissioners to meet to recommend a site, a plan of buildings...etc.... The plan of building is not to erect one single magnificent building to contain everybody and everything, but to make of it an academical village in which every professor should have his separate house [called 'pavilions'], containing his lecturing room with two, three, or four rooms for his own accommodation according as he may have a family or no family, with kitchen, garden, etc.; distinct dormitories for the students, not more than two in a room; and separate boarding houses [called hotels] for dieting them by private housekeepers. We concluded to employ no professor who is not of the first order of the science he professes, that when we can find such in our own country we shall prefer them and when we cannot we will procure them wherever else to be found.3
Jefferson not only drew the architectural plans of the buildings but also made the four-mile trip between his home, Monticello, and the University on horseback almost every day to oversee construction. The elder statesman was as attentive to detail as he was to the overall concept; for example, he stipulated that the university's bronze bell have an acoustical range of two miles, and he also designed the brickyard to supply the university's construction.
Construction of the university was slow and plagued by tight budgets, religious and political opposition, and critics of the university's aesthetics. Nonetheless, by the time the University opened its doors to the first 125 students in 1825, 10 pavilions had been constructed to house the first professors and their families. A colonnaded passageway bordered the east and west sides of the Lawn (the central open space), connecting the two-story pavilions with the adjacent student dormitory rooms. The south end of the Lawn was intentionally left open to views of the mountains beyond. At the head of the Lawn stood the Rotunda, an impressive domed structure, which housed the University library. This building was modeled on a famous Roman temple, the Pantheon, which had been built between 118 and 128 A.D. Two rows of secondary buildings, known as the East and West Range, were constructed parallel to the Lawn. The Range contained more student rooms interspersed with 6 dining halls, linked again by a covered passageway. Between the buildings of the Lawn and the Range Jefferson included gardens enclosed by serpentine brick walls that were shared by the professors and hotelkeepers (the families who ran the student dining halls). Thomas Jefferson had succeeded in taking his ideals about education and democracy, transforming them into a working plan, and producing the University of Virginia.
Questions for Reading 2
1. What did Thomas Jefferson not like about the traditional practice of housing all university functions in a single building?
2. Describe the major components of the "academical village" envisioned by Thomas Jefferson.
3. How did the rural, western setting of the University of Virginia and its ground plan reflect Jefferson's ideas about education and American's future?
Reading 2 was compiled from Richard Guy Wilson, ed., Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village (Charlottesville, Va.: The Bayly Museum of the University of Virginia, 1993); Bernard Mayo, ed., Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American (Charlottesville, Va: The University Press of Virginia, 1942); and Andrew Lipscomb and Albert Bergh, editors, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 Volumes, (Washington, D.C.: 1903-1904).
1Letter from Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., to Littleton Waller Tazewell, January 5, 1805, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.


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Lea, the officer, had stopped feeling her own body. She lay on top of an anti-sniper barricade, holding up a page from a newspaper, blocking the stars. She had to stretch out her arms to hold the wide page above her head.
"Oh," she said.
"The Army didn't do it," Tomer said. He flicked his cigarette butt down onto the asphalt of Route 799. He was talking about Huda, the little Palestinian girl on the beach. The picture in the newspaper showed her screaming on red sand, amid the body parts of the seven people who had been her family.
"I know," she said. "This is a manipulation."
The world said that the Israeli Army had done it with artillery fire, but the Israeli Army knew that the family had been killed by a dormant shell that Palestinian militants had left by the sea. Lea looked at Tomer. The orange light of the road lamps lit him from behind, so that he could have been a demon. He was nineteen, two years younger than the officer.
"It's just that I can't feel my body all of a sudden," she said.
Lea often told him that she couldn't feel her body. That she could move it, but not feel it. That those were two separate things. He never questioned her; he pushed her. This was what she wanted.
Tomer took his weapon off his back and pressed her shoulders into the concrete. When their pants were pulled down, he pressed his hands on her neck, then her arms. He called her Lea during the day, because it was her name, and because she said he could. At night, when he pulled her hair so hard that her scalp buzzed, he called her Officer, because it was what she said he should call her then. When she looked to the side, she could see the warm glow that came from the homes of people in nearby villages.
She knew that her military service was approaching its end, but could not feel it. She could not imagine or remember any of the things she had wanted before she became a soldier, and struggled to find things she wanted for her civilian life ahead. She guessed that she must want a family, or to get into a good school, but she guessed this from the data around her. She did not feel the want herself. When she first began feeling this way, less than a year into her service, after the neck of one of the soldiers at her checkpoint was cut almost in half, she decided that the only reasonable thing she could truly want must exist inside the Army, so she applied to become an officer. She did not want to be a dumb checkpoint soldier anymore, the type whose neck could get cut almost in half. She wanted to be able to yell at soldiers who put their necks where they might get cut. She grew to accept that her service time would begin and end in the Transitions Unit, but figured that if she had to be at a checkpoint she might as well be an officer.
Tomer did almost everything that she asked of him. He was a sensible nineteen-year-old boy. And Lea, she had a certain beauty, after all. A cold, humming, unfazed beauty, and great breasts. She was also the only girl sprinkled into his days.
Lea woke up alone in her field bed the next morning. She had her own tent, because she was the only female at the checkpoint.
It was an odd posting. Route 799 cut through the West Bank, but had been closed to Palestinians since 2002, when the motorcyclists were shot. The Army needed four soldiers and a commanding officer to staff an improvised checkpoint every hundred kilometres or so, so she found herself commanding four boys who took shifts on an always deserted road. But if anyone did decide to show, even after all this time, there would be someone there to say, "Sorry, the road is blocked." The posting would have made her angry, except she knew that her service would be over in a few weeks anyway.
She spent the day in bed, reading a prep book for university entrance exams. She hoped to score high enough to study business. She was supposed to check in with the boy on duty twice a shift, but she didn't bother, because nothing ever happened. Except, that day, something did. Tomer, who had the afternoon shift, called her military cell to say that there were three Palestinian male demonstrators at the checkpoint.
"Have they thrown rocks or anything?" she asked.
"No, but they have a sign. And they keep on asking me to, like, disperse them, even though I explained that we don't have any means of suppressing demonstrations here."
"That's not true."
She was suddenly more excited than she had been since she was posted to Route 799. As an officer, she knew that every checkpoint had a supply box to be used in case of demonstrations. And, if the demonstrators insisted, she must aim to please.
She unlocked the metal supply closet in her tent and pulled out a wooden box. It was heavy, so it took her a while to carry it to the anti-sniper barricade, and then to cross the road to the sun umbrella that marked the checkpoint.
"We had a lesson about demonstrations and stuff in boot camp, but I forget," Tomer said.
Two of the demonstrators were in their thirties, and one was just a boy, a boy with his fingers in his mouth. They had a piece of A4 paper on which they had written "Open 799" in English, with a marker. One of the men was wearing a Guns N' Roses T-shirt. He raised his hand, and so she signalled him to step forward. When he was four steps away, she signalled him to halt.
"Officer, we are here to demonstrate against the restriction of our mobility, which is a collective punishment and against international law," the demonstrator said, in solid, accented Hebrew.
She put one hand on her weapon and one in her pocket. "How come there are only three of you? This is hardly a demonstration."
"I do apologize, Officer. We have a wedding this week in the village, and, you see, other people, they are not serious," he said. He bowed a little when he spoke. "Is there any way you could disperse us just a little—enough for a press blast, or something?"
She had meant to be cruel, but the man was rather sweet. He looked more like a bank customer asking for an increase of his credit limit than like a demonstrator. It made her feel, a little, like this was the real world.
"We'll see what we can do," she said.
She sat on the asphalt and opened the wooden box. There were printed instructions tucked inside a sheer nylon sleeve. Tomer signalled the man to step back and wait, then he sat by her and they both read:
The purpose of Means of Suppressing Demonstrations is to suppress demonstrations. It is intended to intimidate, and at most injure, but the purpose is not to kill. One general guideline:
*Use from light to heavy: shock, tear gas, rubber. We must minimize damage when possible.
Grenade 30, the shock grenade, was designed to stun and scare by creating a loud noise. The instructions said that, if detonated within two metres of a person, the grenade could damage the eardrums and cause light injuries, so Lea told the demonstrators to step back a bit. They backed up, still facing the sun umbrella, and after a while the boy took his fingers out of his mouth and gave her a hesitant thumbs-up. She didn't know quite how to respond, so she gave him a thumbs-up, too. Then she quickly put her hand back on her weapon.
The shock grenade was orange, and cone-shaped. It had a red stripe encircling it. She held it in her hand and then bent to the ground to lift a rock. She dropped it into Tomer's hand.
"You're the soldier," she said. "And, besides, it's been longer since I last learned about this stuff. Let's practice."
They pretended that the rock was a grenade. She gave him the instructions as if she knew them by heart. She reminded him to keep the grenade in the palm of his hand and to secure the lever with his index finger. She explained how to thread the middle finger of his left hand inside the safety, as if it were a ring, and to pull it with a spin of his wrist, as if he were checking his watch. She raised her voice at him a bit, because he pulled his arm back for the practice throw without keeping his eyes on it.
"The instructions say after you take the safety out you have to look at the grenade at all times, because you only have three and a half seconds until it explodes. What if you took your hand back and hit a wall?"
"But I know there's no wall behind me," he said.
"What if there were, suddenly? What if a bird came? It is not nice to have something explode in your hand, even a shock grenade."
After a couple of dry runs, it was time for the real thing. The boy had his fingers in his mouth again, and one of the men was wiping his brow. Heat radiated from the asphalt between them.
"O.K.?" she shouted. Then she and Tomer put their earplugs in.
She thought that anything one could guard against with pieces of foam could not be so powerful, but each time a grenade exploded she felt the noise in her hip bones like a jolt and in her mouth like a hint of metal.
After four grenades, the demonstration was dispersed. Everything went according to plan, just as anyone who was standing in her position would have anticipated.
During her school years, she had felt as if every minute were part of a race. Get that grade. That boy. That shirt. The Army was a numbing respite from that eighteen-year-long breathless race. Whatever she did, the Army would end when it ended. She would arrive at the same spot, that same station near the base where soldiers return their uniforms at long last. Most of her days involved procedures and orders, going from one dot to the next in what appeared to be the only possible straight line.
She tried, a bit, still, sometimes, to jut out of the line, the way a drawn line jutted during her school years when her thumb on a ruler forced the pencil off course. She tried with sex, with pain, with shocking newspaper articles, sometimes, but she did not try too hard.
The story in the newspaper that Tomer brought to the barracks that night was about a girl who'd been killed by her mother. The girl was an Israeli Arab from a northern village, and she had got pregnant by her neighbor, who had raped her and was expected to receive a harsh sentence. A picture showed the girl on the day of her high-school graduation, smiling and wearing jeans. She had a generous, good-girl smile. She looked like the kind of schoolgirl you couldn't even gossip with about soap-opera characters. The mother was expected to receive a light sentence, because she had acted in the name of honor, and out of passion, and one has to respect another's culture. She had used knives and a cane and a plastic bag, and she swore that she had first urged the girl to take her own life.
The officer let the boys keep the newspaper that the delivery truck brought every morning, with the understanding that Tomer would save her the most shocking parts to read at night. She didn't want to waste time reading anything that would make her feel less than what was most.
"I thought that little boy was going to cry," Tomer said that night. He was wearing his undershirt and uniform pants, even though she had told him that she didn't like it when he stepped out of the residential section not in full uniform.
"I didn't," she said. "It was just some noise. I didn't even think it would disperse them, but maybe they just wanted something symbolic." She could hear singing in a language not her own coming from a radio in a house nearby.
"It was, like, boom!" Tomer said. Then they didn't talk anymore.
She hadn't told him she couldn't feel parts of her body that night, but on the concrete they acted as though she could not feel anything at all, and everything was fair and necessary as long as the other soldiers could not hear them. The tents where the other soldiers slept were only half a kilometre away from the anti-sniper barricade, and sometimes she screamed loud enough that she thought she should worry.
Her hours, the sands. She passed through them like a ghost she read about in a book she had bought at the supermarket as a teen-ager. The ghost was in a house, but could not open drawers, or pick up a coffee cup. She could not move a thing, and her existence did not matter, was not felt.
The demonstrators came back the next afternoon. She had spent the morning wondering if they would. She made mistakes on a practice test in her prep book, even on one math question that was little more than algebra and common sense.
The demonstrators came back, this time with earplugs.
She had told the early-morning-shift soldier to take the wooden supply box to the checkpoint, just in case.
"What is it we can do for you now?" she asked the man as he carefully approached. He was wearing the same T-shirt as the day before. The boy held the sign this time, but he still had his fingers in his mouth.
"The thing is, no one is going to write a story about a few noise crackers," the man said. "That's the thing, Officer." He was cautious, like a customer who had bought a shirt and was now demanding a refund, even though he had already worn the shirt more than once. But he didn't back down.
"The boy could get hurt," she said. Tomer stood behind her, drumming on his collarbone with his fingernails.
"He is thirteen," the man said. "That's a man for you. That's bar mitzvah."
He looked younger. She remembered that the instructions said that, no matter what, means of suppressing demonstrations should not be used against children. She also remembered a long discussion in her officers' training school about a child being anyone whom you could not possibly imagine having already had his bar mitzvah, wearing a suit and reading at the temple and all that. These demonstrators really knew their stuff—informed consumers or whatnot.
The Federal, the gun used for shooting gas grenades, looked more like a toy gun than any actual toy gun she had ever seen. It had a wooden stock with two silver handles, one in front and one in back. It looked as if it had been spray-painted. The instructions for it were long, and she didn't want the man to think that he had the power to make her move faster, so she shooed him away without a word of promise, and sat on the plastic chair under the sun umbrella to read.
For some reason, the instructions were half history. After a few minutes, she had learned that the Federal gun was invented in America, by a company called Federal, hence the name! In the Army, it seemed that each document was allowed to have its own life. Sometimes there were still surprises in the Army. Small times.
The Federal's ammunition was a 37-mm. grenade filled with CS-type gas. It was silver with a blue stripe and looked very pretty and technological. The Federal had sights, and this worried her, because both she and Tomer were terrible marksmen, which was what had landed them on Route 799 in the first place. But the instructions said that the sights were not to be used—the shooter shouldn't aim directly at an individual target, since gas disperses. When she put her hand to her nose, she could smell a bit of the gas already, cutting into her lungs like sawdust.
The instructions said that the gun's effective range was eighty metres, but it didn't say how close was too dangerous, and so she positioned the demonstrators at a distance that looked like about fifty metres, then thought better of it and told them to take a few steps back.
She licked her finger to check the direction of the wind, but couldn't feel a thing. She loaded the gun, hoped for the best wind direction, and aimed at a forty-five-degree angle from the ground.
All this time, she had not said a word to Tomer and he had not said a word to her. But then she signalled him to take her place. She said, "Literally, all you have to do now is press the trigger, but press it hard, because the gun has no safety, so the designers compensated by giving it a stubborn trigger."
Then she waved to the demonstrators, and even though Tomer had not counted, had not warned them, there was the slightest sound of a thing coming undone, and then the demonstrators' faces were red and wet and screaming, and then they ran and were gone.
There were not enough stars that night, and on the barricade Lea was crying. The lights of the houses went out one after another. The picture in the newspaper that Tomer brought was of a bird whose species would be extinct in two years. The bird was an eagle with a gray tail, but the newspaper said it was called the white-tailed eagle, which made Lea think that the picture and the story could be lies. But the bird looked angry in its eyes in a way she had not known birds could be, even those that knew they were going extinct.
"This is the worst you could find today?" she asked.
"There was no mention of the demonstrators," Tomer said. They had reported the incident to the Route 799 headquarters over the phone on the first day, but no one had seemed to care much about it.
Tomer was on his back, too, looking at the paper and then over at her. He crushed her shoulder with his. "You are crying, though," he said. He had not seen her cry before. "Or is it the tear gas? You're the one who told me to wash my hands twice before touching my face," he said.
"I am not that stupid," she said. "I am going to go to T.A.U. for accounting, you know." She had never talked to him about when she would leave, and she didn't know if he knew that it would be soon.
"Then what?"
"My shoulder. You're hurting it."
She had known they would come back the next morning, so she was able to study without being distracted. She made only four mistakes on the practice exam, all of them in the English section. She knew the answers were wrong before she checked, but could not guess what the right ones would be.
She had known that the demonstrators would come back and so she went with Tomer for the start of his shift. What she had not known was that the demonstrators would come with lab goggles and surgical masks. She could not use gas against them. They looked like mad scientists and she wondered where they had got those costumes, in their pathetic town in the West Bank and all. The boy wore cheap plastic sunglasses over his goggles, and she smiled when she saw them, so he smiled back.
But when the man with the Guns N' Roses T-shirt shouted, "It's rubber day!," her face hardened. She used only her chin to signal him. She let him come closer than she had before.
"No," she said. "A rubber bullet could kill you guys. This has gone on long enough."
"But, but—" the man said. He thought better of the tone of his voice. He realized that he was not a customer, that he had every reason to be afraid of upsetting her. "That's the point, though. They'll report rubber for sure. They always report rubber."
Lea shook her head.
"We won't ask for anything ever again, we swear."
She didn't move.
"We just want this one thing, and you can give it to us. I mean—" he said. "Think about that."
She thought about that, and she knew that she was done for, and that her face showed it. The man stepped away on his own, raising his arms slightly to signify that he was giving her all the time in the world.
"The boy has to move away, because you have to be eighteen for rubber," she said. She wasn't sure if that was a rule but thought that it might be.
The boy sat with his fingers in his mouth by the side of the road for a half hour, until they wrinkled. That's how long it took her to read the instructions. Longer. Tomer was standing above her as she read.
The instructions warned that rubber bullets could kill. Everything about them seemed designed to entertain and to complicate a soldier's life. It occurred to her to wonder how many soldiers had read these instructions recently.
The Romay was a metal barrel that you screwed onto an unloaded rifle. Then you stuffed four rubber-covered steel bullets down it, and blasted them out with a single demi-bullet you loaded in your magazine. If you used fewer than four rubber bullets at a time, the demi-bullet would expel too forcefully, and the effect would be like that of live fire. The bullets spread at ten-degree angles, and you had to make sure that you hit only the target's legs, because if you hit other parts of the body the effect would be like that of live fire. If the target was farther than fifty metres, then it was out of range. If it was closer than thirty metres, then the rubber bullets would have the effect of live fire.
The instructions were written so that if the rubber bullets killed someone the blame would rest on the finger that had pressed the trigger. She wondered how this would work in most cases, when the demonstrators were not three coöperative individuals with a paper sign but an actual angry mob. But she did not wonder too much, because her demonstrators were three coöperative individuals, so what she did next was to measure.
She told them to go very far, and then walked toward them, counting her steps, as she had learned in boot camp. According to her calculations, they were a little less than fifty metres away from the sun umbrella. She signalled for them to take a few steps forward, and then walked back to Tomer.
The two men stood quietly, like tame children waiting for permission to go play in the park, positioned in the exact spot where she had told them to wait to be shot.
The kit had only a few demi-bullets, so she put two inside Tomer's magazine. The bullets were the same as regular bullets except they had no copper bullet heads.
"Below the knees," she told Tomer. "Get on the ground and aim below the knees."
It was the other man, the one she had never talked with, who took the hit. He lay on the ground and held his leg like a soccer player who had sustained an injury. But an hour later he limped away. His limping looked bad, because he was supported by the one man on his left, and by the boy, who was small, on his right.
Live fire is not a means of suppressing demonstrations, and Lea knew that the coöperative demonstrators knew this—they knew all the rules—and so she knew that they would not come back.
That night, out of laziness, Tomer brought the entire newspaper to her, and then he was so rough that she spent moments on the concrete imagining her spine as a string, and then that it had knotted, and then that it had snapped.
But they did come back. The two men came back with bits of mattresses tied to their legs with pieces of cloth. They looked as if they were half sumo wrestlers. The men came immune to rubber bullets. And the boy with wet fingers came back simply as a boy.
"We won't shoot you with live fire," she said. That was the only option left.
"Please," the man said. He stepped closer, without invitation, and so did the boy and the other man. "Shoot and miss, just shoot and miss."
"You have to have means and intent to kill for us to shoot," she said. "That's I.D.F. Guidebook 101."
"Please," the man said. "We need to be in the newspaper. Page 5, even."
But she said means. Then she said intent. Then she said means.
"Means?" the boy asked.
"A gun," Tomer said.
"Or a knife," she said.
"Or a rock," Tomer said.
He didn't know what he was saying, because, at that, the boy slowly bent to pick up a rock from the asphalt. It was the rock that Tomer had used to practice throwing a shock grenade.
She raised her gun to her shoulder and charged the weapon and aimed at the boy. Tomer raised his gun to his shoulder and charged the weapon and aimed at the boy.
It was before the boy heard the man whisper in Arabic that he dropped the rock to the ground, as if he had been caught shoplifting it.
Then the boy put his fingers in his mouth, and the guns were lowered, and she thought the day and the summer and the place were almost over, but Tomer spoke up behind her.
"We could technically arrest him for that," Tomer said. "We could, technically."
"Please?" the boy said. He wasn't asking her. He was asking the man. The arrest of a child was always at least page 5, she knew. He'd be out in days; he'd probably be out in days.
The man shook his head but then the boy said that the thing was, they just wanted this one thing, and now they could give it to themselves, and then he told the man to think about that and the man knew that he was done for.
"Whore," the man said to Lea as Tomer took the boy by the arm. It was what he needed to say to her. After all, she was a female checkpoint officer. He played the role of the poor Palestinian, but it felt forced and she was embarrassed for him.
After the men left, she and Tomer walked behind the boy toward the base to make the calls about the arrest. Night was falling by the time they walked back to the barricade, but the orange road lights were not yet on.
She sped up, because she wanted to walk alongside the boy. She quickened her step, but then grew afraid that she had startled him. Her hand jumped and grazed his.
Instead, it was she who was afraid, and more, because she could feel the drying wetness of his hand now on her hand, and bits of dust from the rock he had held, and the wind. She could feel it all at once. She thought of how, later that night, Tomer would slam the entirety of his weight onto her bones, pressing them into the concrete. For a passing moment, she wondered if he would call out her real name, rather than Officer. She wondered if she should ask him to, then remembered that it was not an important detail to ponder. Those dates, the dates at both ends of her service. Whatever happened between them was decoration and air and would not change the place where she would end up.
A few years later, they opened Route 799 again, but it lasted only a couple of months. There are still soldiers who spend three years doing little but saying, "Sorry, road is blocked," to anyone stupid enough to approach. When she heard that the route was open, and then when she heard it had closed again, she could feel it: her own hand, the boy's spit, almost as much as she had felt it then and there.
Sometimes, at dark parties in Tel Aviv and on walks and in rooms, she felt the spit on her hand, even when she was not forced to hear about Route 799. She felt it at dark parties and on walks and in rooms where she was never alone, where she was always with someone, and it was when those people called her name that she felt it. What do you say, Lea? Thanks a lot, Lea. I agree with you, Lea. Every time she heard her name in the dark, she felt the boy's spit on her hand.
That night, Tomer trailed only one step behind her and the boy. They walked, kicking stones, humming, staring at the stars before the lights took some of them. She thought about all that had yet to happen, but that would happen soon. The concrete. The paper. The plea for shock.
"Lea," Tomer said, right before they reached the base. "Let's remember to take bets on which page in the news this arrest will be. What do you say, Lea?"
And there was that silly question again, the one she had just chased. It came back. She wondered what he would call her that night, though she knew that whatever word of the words of this world he chose would not matter. It would not shift the pace of the steps of the days, or even the pace of the steps of that night.
As they walked, the boy put his hand in his mouth again, the hand that hers had just grazed.
That night, Lea was twenty-one. Tomer, nineteen; the boy, thirteen. They passed by the concrete barricade in silence and with synchronized steps. Through the eyes of a villager looking out from the light of a very distant house, they could have been a family. ♦


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9 weeks and exhausted!
Dew Drop was born first and weighed 3.24kg, was 50cm long.
Minx was born next and weighed 3.365kg, was 50.5cm long.
I went into labour on Xmas morning and had a C-section at 3pm. Because of my previous labours they didn't let me try for a natural delivery. Dew Drop was breech anyway so there was little hope of him coming out! The labour was very managable but I was a little annoyed to have to have any contractions at all! It was all sorted - i was meant to be having them on 5 Jan. The best laid plans... and now we have twins with birthdays on Christmas day. That will make Christmas festivities interesting forever more!
The first 6 weeks were absolute hell! Neither baby would sleep at night. They had 3 hourly feeds, day and night, but often didn't settle at all between feeds. I had about 2 hours sleep a day and was running on adrenalin. I think I thought I might die at times and found myself thinking of ways to "sell" my children in the wee hours of the night. I thought I had ruined my lovely life with these screaming babies giving me no joy and taking so much from me! Fortunately these feelings have passed...
I had lots of support from the family and the Geege (always had someone around to help) which was completely necessary given that I needed to recover from the C-section and couldn't lift any of the kids. Sometimes I felt like I just needed my own space, but on the whole I was totally grateful to have others there. Mum was a real trooper - she had as little sleep as I did, often sleeping with one or other of the twins in her bed. I really couldn't have asked for more from my Mum. I am one lucky girl to have such a special Mum :)
Our friends have been super generous with their time and energy too - we have had regular meals delivered and more clothes/gifts than 2 little babies could ever need. All the love and support has been a little overwhelming really. Geege and I must be doing something right for our friends and family to care so much! It is something that I will remember forever!
The last few of weeks have been considerably better. The twins have started to get the day and night thing better and have been sleeping a lot better too. I still find that I have one or the other screaming for a good few hours a day, but this is a lot better than the constant screaming we were dealing with. They are both smiling as of 6 weeks too, so that makes it more worthwhile. The breastfeeding is still 3 hourly during the day, but has pushed out to 4-5 hourly at night, so if I am lucky enough to get them both settled after a feed, i now get some 3-4 hour stretches of sleep at a time. This makes me a much happier Mum!
Nugget and Doo Dah are in love with their new brother and sister. Sometimes they are a little too enamored and can get too hands on with them (Doo Dah stomped on Minxy this morning trying to kiss Dew Drop on the head for example). They have both adapted fairly well although Nugget had some regression with the toilet training (since fixed) and Doo Dah is very clingy. We are lucky they are both good natured and fairly well disciplined because they have been pushing the boundaries but we are still managing okay with them.
Geege and I are both exhausted but can see a light at the end of the tunnel now. I think our family will be awesome in a few years, but until then we are just in for hard work! At least everyone is happy and healthy. I am off to Tresillian next week with the twins and feel this may be an opportunity to recharge the batteries a bit too. I hope to improve the twins routine, learn more about twin breastfeeding (especially how to do this in other places than my couch!) and discuss bathing! The poor twins don't get bathed very often at the moment!
I have also managed to get some "staff". We have two girls that come - Cassie on Monday - Wednesday and Laura, Thurs and Fridays from 4-6.45pm. They help me with the boys and keep the night time routine on track. The In-laws are helping us finance these girls, so we are truly grateful to them for that too!
There has been other stress in our world too - Geege lost his full-time job (he is still working casually) - a by-product of the economic downturn. We have also been having big (expensive) problems with our new (used) car. We bought a 2004 VW Caravelle in August to transport the troops and it is currently off the road with automatic transmission problems. We are having fights with the car dealership over honouring the warranty because it is estimated to need about $10 000 worth of work! It has certainly been challenging to be stuck without a car.
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One of the first vehicles to be produced as part of a new cooperation between France's PSA and Mitsubishi broke cover this week (with a little help from Photoshop), with fresh photos appearing of a small, French SUV on the recently redesigned World Car Fans. Based on the new Mitsubishi Outlander, the Peugeot 4007 is a small four-by created to satisfy Europe's broadening demand for such vehicles. Word is PSA made a big investment in the struggling Mitsubishi, which will likely provide the gas engine choices for the 4007, while PSA will contribute one of its proven diesels. Americans pining away for French namebadges won't likely get a Peugeot to swoon over anytime soon — the company has no plans to re-launch the brand in the US.
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