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Earlier, on the trail, they'd seen it. The massive dog. Tugging at its master's leash, so that the young man's calves bulged with muscle as he fought to hold the dog back. Grunting what sounded like "Damn, Rob-roy! Damn dog!" in a tone of exasperated affection.
Signs along the trail forbade dogs without leashes. At least this dog was on a leash.
The woman stared at the animal, not twelve feet away, wheezing and panting. Its head was larger than hers, with a pronounced black muzzle, bulging glassy eyes. Its jaws were powerful and slack; its large, long tongue, as rosy-pink as a sexual organ, dripped slobber. The dog was pale-brindle-furred, with a deep chest, strong shoulders and legs, a taut tail. It must have weighed at least two hundred pounds. Its breathing was damply audible, unsettling.
The dog's straggly-bearded young master, in beige hoodie, khaki cargo shorts, and hiking boots, gripped the leather leash with both hands, squinting at the woman, and at the man behind her, with an expression that seemed apologetic or defensive; or maybe, the woman thought, the young man was laughing at them, ordinary hikers without a monster-dog to pull and strain at their arms.
The woman thought, That isn't a dog. It's a human being on its hands and knees! Such surreal thoughts bombarded the woman's brain, waking and sleeping. As long as no one else knew about them, she paid them little heed.
Fortunately, the dog and its owner were taking another trail into Wildcat Canyon. The dog lunged forward eagerly, sniffing at the ground, the young man following with muttered curses. The woman and her male companion continued on the main trail, which was three miles uphill, into the sun, to Wildcat Peak.
The man, sensing the woman's unease at the sight of the dog, made some joke, which the woman couldn't quite hear and did not acknowledge. They were walking single file, the woman in the lead. She waited for the man to touch her shoulder, as another man might have done, to reassure her, but she knew that he would not, and he did not. Instead, the man said, in a tone of slight reproof, that the dog was an English mastiff—"Beautiful dog."
Much of what the man said to the woman, she understood, was in rebuke of her narrow judgment, her timorous ways. Sometimes the man was amused by these qualities. At other times, she saw in his face an expression of startled disapproval, veiled contempt.
The woman said, over her shoulder, with a wild little laugh, "Yes! Beautiful."
The hike had been the man's suggestion. Or, rather, in his oblique way, which was perhaps a strategy of shyness, he'd simply told her that he was going hiking this weekend, and asked if she wanted to join him. He had not risked being rejected; he'd made it clear that he would be going, regardless.
The woman had been introduced to the man seven weeks earlier, at a dinner party at a mutual friend's home in the Berkeley Hills. The friend, closer to the man than to the woman, had said to the man, "You'll like Mariella. You'll like her face," and to the woman, "Simon's an extraordinary person, but it may not be evident immediately. Give him time."
The woman and the man had gone on several walks together already. But a hike of such ambition seemed, to the woman, something quite different.
She'd said, "Yes! I'd love that."
It was late afternoon. They had been hiking for several hours, and were now making their way single file down the mountain. The woman was descending first, then the man. The man, the more experienced hiker, wanted to watch over the woman, whom he didn't trust not to hurt herself. She'd surprised him by wearing lightweight running shoes on the trail and not, as he was wearing, hiking boots.
She hadn't thought to bring water, either. He carried a twenty-ounce plastic bottle of water for them both.
The man was a little annoyed by the woman. Yet he was drawn to her. He hoped to like her more than he did—he hoped to adore her. He had been very lonely for too long and had come to bitterly resent the solitude of his life.
It had been an unnaturally balmy day for late March. At midday, the temperature was perhaps sixty-eight degrees. But now, as the sun sank like a broken bloody egg, darkness and cold began to rise from the earth. The day before, the man had suggested to the woman that she bring a light canvas jacket in her backpack; he knew how quickly the mountain trail could turn cold in the late afternoon, but she had worn just a sweater, jeans, and a sun visor. (The woman's eyes were sensitive to sunlight, even with sunglasses. She hated how easily they watered, tears running down her cheeks like an admission of weakness.) And she'd confounded the man by not bringing a backpack at all, with the excuse that she hated feeling "burdened." In the gathering chill, the woman was shivering.
The trail had looped upward through pine woods to a spectacular view at the peak, where the man had given the woman some water to drink. Though she said she wasn't thirsty, he insisted. There's a danger of dehydration when you've been exerting yourself, he said. He spoke sternly, as if he were a parent she could not reasonably oppose. He spoke with the confidence of one who is rarely challenged. At times, the woman quite liked his air of authority; other times, she resented it. The man seemed always to be regarding her with a bemused look, like a scientist confronted with a curious specimen. She didn't want to think—yet she thought, compulsively—that he was comparing her with other women he'd known, and finding her lacking.
Then the man took photographs with his new camera, while the woman gazed out at the view. Along the horizon was a rim of luminous blue—the Pacific Ocean, miles away. In the near distance were small lakes, streams. The hills were strangely sculpted, like those bald slopes in the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton.
Absorbed in his photography, the man seemed to forget about the woman. How self-contained he could be, how maddening! The woman had never been so at repose in her self. For nearly an hour, he lingered, taking photographs. During this time, other hikers came and went. The woman spoke briefly with these hikers, while the man appeared oblivious of them. It wasn't his habit, he'd told her, to strike up conversations with "random" people. "Why not?" she'd asked. And he'd said, with a look that suggested that her question was virtually incomprehensible, "Why not? Because I'll never see them again."
With her provocative little laugh, the woman had said, "But that's the best reason for talking to strangers—you'll never see them again."
At least the bearded young man with the English mastiff hadn't climbed to the top of Wildcat Peak, though other hikers with dogs had made their way there. A succession of dogs, in fact, of all sizes and breeds, fortunately most of them well behaved and disinclined to bark, several of them trailing their masters, older dogs, looking chastised, winded.
"Nice dog! What's his name?" the woman would ask. Or, "What breed is he?"
She understood that the man had taken note of her fear of the mastiff at the start of the hike. How she'd tensed at the sight of the ugly wheezing beast. It had to be the largest dog she'd ever seen, as big as a St. Bernard but totally lacking that dog's benign shaggy aura. And so at the peak the woman made a point of engaging dog owners in conversations, in a bright, airy, friendly way. She even petted the gentler dogs.
As a child of nine or ten, she'd been attacked by a German shepherd. She'd done nothing to provoke the attack and could only remember screaming and trying to run as the dog barked furiously at her and snapped at her bare legs. Only the intervention of adults had saved her.
The woman hadn't told the man much about her past. Not yet. And possibly wouldn't. Her principle was Never reveal your weakness. Especially to strangers: this was essential. Technically, the woman and the man were "lovers," but they were not yet intimate. You might say—the woman might have said—that they were still, fundamentally, strangers to each other.
They'd been together in the woman's house, upstairs in her bed, but they hadn't yet spent an entire night together. The man felt self-conscious in the woman's house, and the woman hadn't been able to fall asleep beside him; the physical fact of him was so distracting. Naked and horizontal, the man seemed much larger than he did clothed and vertical. He breathed loudly, wetly, through his open mouth, and though he woke affably when she nudged him, the woman hadn't wanted to keep waking him. In truth, the woman had never been very comfortable with a man at close quarters, unless she'd been drinking. But this man scarcely drank. And the woman no longer lost herself in drink; that life was behind her.
The woman liked to tell her friends that she wanted not to get married but to be married. She wanted a relationship that seemed mature, if not old and settled, from the start. Newness and rawness did not appeal to her.
"Excuse me? When do you think we might head back?" She spoke to the man hesitantly, not wanting to break his concentration. In their relationship, she had not yet displayed any impatience; she had not yet raised her voice.
At last, the man put his camera, a heavy, complicated instrument, into his backpack, along with the water bottle, which contained just two or three inches of water now—"We might need this later." His movements were measured and deliberate, as if he were alone, and the woman felt a sudden stab of dislike for him, anger that he could take such care with trivial matters and yet did not seem to love her.
There were no rest rooms on the damn trail, of course. These were serious hiking trails, for serious hikers. Longingly, the woman recalled the facilities at the trailhead. How long would it take to hike back down? An hour? Two? For male hikers, stopping to urinate in the woods was no great matter; for female hikers, an effort and an embarrassment. Not since she was a young girl, trapped on an endless, hateful hike in summer camp in the Adirondacks, had she been forced to relieve herself in the woods. The memory was hazy and blurred with shame, and humiliation at the very pettiness of her discomfort. If she'd told this story to the man, he would probably have laughed at her.
Driving to the park that day, the man and the woman had felt very happy together. It sometimes happened to them, unpredictably—a sudden flaring up of happiness, even joy, in each other's company. The man was unusually talkative. The woman laughed at his remarks, surprised that he could be so witty. She was touched that, a few days before, he'd visited the art gallery she ran, and purchased a small soapstone sculpture.
The woman slid over in the passenger's seat, to sit closer to the man, as a young girl might do, impulsively. How natural this felt—a rehearsal of intimacy!
The car radio was playing a piano piece by the Czech composer Janáček, "In the Mists." The woman recognized it after a few notes. She'd played the piano cycle as a girl. Her eyes filled with tears as she remembered. The man continued talking, as if he didn't hear the music. Avidly, the woman listened to the sombre, distinctive notes in a minor—"misty"—key. She didn't register the man's words, but his voice was suffused with the melancholy beauty of the music, and she felt that she loved him or might love him. He will be the one. It's time.
The woman was forty-one years old. The man was several years older. He had been the director of a research laboratory in Berkeley for many years. His work was predominant in his life. He was idealistic, a zealot for science education and the preservation of the environment. He was famously generous to younger scientists, a legendary mentor to his graduate students and postdocs. He'd never married. He wasn't sure he'd ever been in love. Though he'd always wanted children, he had none. He was dissatisfied with his life outside the lab. He felt cheated and foolish, worried that others might pity him.
He'd been upset earlier that year, while visiting one of his protégés at the Salk Institute, whose wife was also a scientist and who had several children; the young family lived in a split-level cedar house on three acres of wooded land. In this household, the man had felt sharply the emptiness of his own existence, in an underfurnished, rented house near the university, where he'd lived for more than twenty years. He'd ended the visit shaken. And not long afterward he'd met the woman at a dinner party.
The woman was also lonely and dissatisfied—but primarily with others, not with herself. She'd had several relationships with men since college, but she hadn't felt much for any of them. Some she had dated simultaneously. And yet she was deeply hurt if a man wasn't exclusively involved with her. Her father had left the family when she was a child and rarely visited. All her life she'd yearned for that absent man, even as she'd resented him. She'd hated her own vulnerability.
She was an attractive woman. Within her small circle of friends, she was popular, admired. She dressed stylishly. She was social. She'd invested wisely in her art gallery. Still, she was preoccupied with how she appeared in others' eyes. She could barely force herself to contemplate her own image in a mirror: her face, she thought, was too small, her chin too narrow, her eyes too large and deep-set. She hated the fact that she was petite. She'd have preferred to be five feet ten, to walk with a swagger, with sexual confidence. At five-three, it seemed she had no choice but to be the recipient, the receptacle, of a man's desire.
Sometimes, in the midst of buoyant social occasions, something inside the woman seemed to switch off. She could feel a deadness seeping into her, a chilly indifference. At the end of an evening, her women friends would hug her, or a friend's husband might slip his arm around her waist to kiss her, just a little too suggestively, and the coldness in her would respond, I don't give a damn if I ever see any of you again.
She laughed at herself. A hole in the heart.
Yet it happened, in the new man's company, that the woman felt a rare hopefulness. If she couldn't love the man, it might be enough for the man to love her; enough for them to have a child together, at least. (In the woman's weakest moments, she lamented the fact that she had no children, that she would soon be too old to have any. Yet children bored her, even her nieces and nephews, who she conceded were beautiful.)
What would the man have thought if he'd known about the woman's calculations? Or were these just harmless fantasies, unlikely to be realized?
Now, making her way down the trail, eager to be out of the park that had seemed so inviting hours ago, the woman felt disconsolate. The long wait at the peak had enervated her. The man's seeming indifference had enervated her. As the sun shifted in the sky, she felt strength leaking from her.
Brooding and silent, the man walked behind her, sometimes so close that he nearly trod on her heels. She wanted to turn and shout at him, "Don't do that! I'm going as fast as I can."
So absorbed was the woman with the voice inside her head that she only half realized that she'd been hearing a familiar sound somewhere close by—a wet chuffing noise, a labored breathing. The trail continued to drop, turning back on itself; another, lower trail ran parallel to it now, and would join it within a few yards, and on this trail two figures were hurrying, one of them, in the lead, a large beast running on all fours.
Appalled, the woman saw the enormous mastiff stop at the junction of the two trails, unavoidable. The dog's damp, shining eyes were fixed on her, sharply focussed. With a kind of indignation quickly shifting to fury, it barked at the woman, straining at its leash as the bearded young man yelled at it to sit_._
The woman knew better than to succumb to panic; certainly she knew better than to provoke the dog. But she couldn't help herself—she screamed and shrank away. It was the worst possible reaction to the dog, which, maddened by her terror, leaped at her, barking and growling, wrenching the leash out of its master's hands.
In an instant, the mastiff was on the woman, snarling and biting, nearly knocking her to the ground. Even in her horror, the woman was thinking, My face. I must protect my face.
Her companion quickly intervened, pushing himself between her and the dog, even as the dog, on its hind legs, continued to attack. Futilely, the dog's master shouted, "Rob-roy! Rob-roy!" The dog paid not the slightest attention.
The frantic struggle couldn't have lasted more than a minute or two. Fiercely, the man struck at the dog with his bare fists and kicked it. The young man yanked at the dog's collar, cursing. With great effort, he finally managed to pull the animal away from the man, who was bleeding badly now from lacerations on his hands and arms and face.
The woman, terrified, was cringing behind him. She felt something wet on her face. Not blood but the dog's slobber. She called out, "Help him! Get help for him! He'll bleed to death."
The dog was still barking hysterically, lunging and leaping with bared fangs, while the young man struggled to hold it down, apologizing profusely, claiming that the dog had never done anything like this before—not ever. "Jesus! I'll get help." There was a ranger station a half mile down the trail, the young man said. He'd run.
Alone with the injured man, the woman cradled him in her arms as he moaned in pain. He appeared to be dazed, stupefied. Was he in shock? His skin felt cold to the woman's touch. She could barely comprehend what had happened, and so swiftly.
The dog had bitten and scratched her hands, too. She was bleeding. But her fear was for the man. She fumbled in her pocket for her cell phone, tried to call 911, but the call failed to go through. She wondered whether she should make a tourniquet to stanch the flow of blood from the man's forearm. Years ago, in high school, she'd taken a course in first aid, but could she remember now? For a tourniquet, you had to use a stick? Her eyes darted about, searching for—what? Like a foolish trapped bird, her heart beat erratically in her chest.
The man insisted now that he was all right, that he could walk to the ranger station. Grotesquely, he tried to laugh. He had no idea how torn and bloody his face was.
The woman helped him to his feet. How heavy he was, how uncoördinated! His face was a mask of blood, flaps of loose skin on his cheeks and forehead. One of his earlobes was torn. At least his eyes had been spared.
The woman gripped the man around the waist, clumsily, and he was able to walk, leaning on her. She tried to comfort him—she had no idea what she was saying, except that there would be help for him soon, he would be all right. She saw that the front and sleeves of her sweater were soaked in dark blood.
By this time, the sun had sunk below the tree line. It was dusk, and the air was cold and wet, as if after a rain. They began to hear calls—two rangers were running up the shadowy trail with flashlights, shouting.
They were taken to the ranger station and given first aid. Sterilizing liquid, bandages. For the man's lacerated forearm, a tourniquet deftly applied by the elder of the rangers, who told the man how lucky he was: "The artery wasn't severed." With a dog attack, there was the possibility of rabies. It was imperative to locate the dog. It seemed that the young man had fled the park with the mastiff. Incredibly, he had not even reported the attack. But a hiker, who had witnessed it from a distance, had alerted the rangers and taken down the plate number of the young man's Jeep. The son of a bitch would be prosecuted for the attack, and for leaving the scene, too, the ranger said.
Around the bandages, the man's face was ashen. His breath came quickly and shallowly. He was urged to lie down on a cot. Despite his protests, an ambulance was called. His injuries required stitches—that was clear.
Within minutes, the ambulance arrived in the now near-deserted parking lot. The woman wanted to ride with the man, but he insisted that she take his car and meet him at the hospital; he didn't want his vehicle to be locked in the park overnight.
Even with his injuries, and speaking with difficulty, the man appeared to be thinking calmly, rationally.
The woman took his keys, and his wallet and backpack, and followed the ambulance along curving mountain roads in his station wagon. She could hardly breathe, her loneliness as palpable and suffocating as cotton batting.
She still could not quite fathom the idea that the dog's owner had fled the park without reporting the attack. The young man had cared so little about their welfare; he'd fled knowing that if his dog wasn't located by the authorities both victims would have to endure rabies shots.
She'd been told by the rangers that he would be apprehended within a few hours. The attack had already been reported to the local police. A warrant would be issued for the dog owner's arrest. She'd been assured that the authorities would find the man and check the dog for rabies, but in her distressed state she'd scarcely been able to listen or to care.
At the brightly lit clinic, the woman hurried inside as the man was carried into the E.R. on a stretcher. He seemed to be only partly conscious now, unaware of his surroundings. She asked one of the medical workers what was wrong and was told that the man had had a kind of seizure in the ambulance; he'd lost consciousness, his blood pressure had risen alarmingly, and his heartbeat had accelerated, in fibrillation.
Fibrillation! The woman knew only vaguely what this meant.
She was prevented from following the man into the E.R. She found herself standing at a counter, being asked questions. She fumbled with the man's wallet, searching for his health-insurance card. His university I.D. How slowly she moved—as clumsy in her bandages as if she were wearing mittens. One of the E.M.T.s was telling her that she should be treated as well; her lacerated hands and wrists should be examined. But the woman refused to listen. She flushed with indignation when the woman behind the counter asked how she was related to the injured man. Sharply she said, "I am his fiancée."
How long she remained in the E.R. waiting room the woman had no clear idea. Time had become disjointed. Her eyelids were so heavy she could barely keep them open. Several times, she inquired after the man and was told that he was undergoing emergency treatment for cardiac arrhythmia and that she could not see him yet. This news was unacceptable to her. He'd only been bitten by a damn dog! He hadn't seemed so badly injured; he'd insisted on walking. The woman was light-headed. Her hands and wrists began to burn. She heard her thin, plaintive voice, begging, "Don't let him die!"
Looking around, she saw how others regarded her. A woman crazed with worry, fear. A woman whose voice was raised in panic. The sort of woman you pity even as you inch away from her.
She saw that her coarse-knit Scottish sweater—it had been one of her favorites—had been torn beyond repair.
In a fluorescent-lit rest room, her face in the mirror was blurred, like those faces on TV that are pixelated in order to disguise their identity. She was thinking of how the massive dog had thrown itself at her and how, astonishingly, the man had protected her. Did the man love her, then? What a coward she'd been, ducking behind him to save herself, grabbing at him desperately, cringing, crouching, whimpering like a terrified child. The man had thrust himself forward to be attacked in her place. A man who was virtually a stranger had risked his life for her.
The woman had the man's backpack, with his camera and his wallet. In a state of nervous dread, she looked through the wallet, a leather billfold of good quality but badly worn. Credit cards, university I.D., library card, driver's license. A miniature photo of a tensely smiling middle-aged man with a furrowed forehead and thinning shoulder-length hair, whom she would have claimed she'd never seen before. She discovered that he was born in 1956—he was fifty-seven years old! A decade older than she'd guessed, and sixteen years older than she was.
Another card indicated that the man had a cardiac condition—mitral-valve prolapse. There was a much folded prescription, dated several years before, for a medication to be administered intravenously. Nearest of kin to be notified in case of emergency: a woman with the man's last name, possibly a sister, who lived in San Diego.
The woman hurried to the desk to speak with a nurse. She pressed the prescription on the woman, who promised to report this discovery to the cardiac specialist overseeing the man's treatment.
They were only humoring her, the woman supposed. The hysterical fiancée! They'd performed their own tests on the stricken man.
"Ma'am?" The waiting room was nearly empty when an attendant came to inform her that her companion was to be hospitalized for the night, kept under observation in the cardiac unit. The cardiologist on call had managed to control the man's fibrillation and his heartbeat was near normal, but his blood pressure was still high and his white-blood-cell count was low. The woman tried to feel relief. Tried to think, Now I can go home, the danger is past.
Instead, she went upstairs to the cardiac unit. For several minutes, she stood outside the doorway of the man's room, undecided whether to enter. Inside, the man lay unnaturally still, as nurses fussed about him. His heartbeat was monitored by a machine. His breathing was monitored. The woman saw that the bandages hurriedly applied to his face at the ranger station had been removed; his numerous wounds had been stitched together and bandaged again, in an elaborate and lurid mask of crisscrossing strips of white. The man's arms and hands had been re-bandaged as well.
As she entered the room, she thought she might faint. Yet she felt gratitude for the man's courage, and for his kindness. Shame for herself, that she'd valued the man so little.
She pulled over a chair and sat beside his bed.
The man's breathing was quick and shallow but rhythmic. The bed had been cranked to a thirty-three-degree angle. His eyelids fluttered. Was he seeing her? Did he recognize her? The woman thought, He has forgotten my name.
The man was trying to speak. Or—trying to smile? He was asking her—what? His words were slurred.
She heard herself explain that she would stay with him for a while. Until visiting hours ended. She had his wallet and his camera and the key to his station wagon. She said that she would return in the morning, when he was to be discharged, and would drive him home then. If he wanted. If he needed her. She would return, and bring his things with her, and drive him home. Did he understand?
In his cranked-up bed, the man drifted into sleep. They'd given him a sedative, the woman supposed. His mouth eased open, and he breathed heavily, wetly. This was the night-breathing the woman recalled, and now felt comforted to hear. She practiced pronouncing his name: "Simon." It seemed to her suddenly a beautiful name. A name new to her, in her life, for she'd never before known anyone named Simon.
Now tears spilled from the woman's eyes and ran in rivulets down her face. She was crying as she had not cried in memory. She was too old for such emotion; there was something ridiculous and demeaning about it. But she was remembering how at the top of the steep trail the man had insisted that she drink from his plastic water bottle. She hadn't wanted to drink the lukewarm water, yet had drunk it as the man watched, acquiescing, if with resistance, resentment. In their relationship, the man would always be the stronger; she would resent his superior strength, yet she would be protected by it. She might defy it, but she would not oppose it. She was thinking of the two or three occasions when she'd kissed the man in a pretense of an emotion she hadn't yet felt.
Like the man, the woman was exhausted. She laid her head against the headrest of the chair beside the bed. Her eyelids closed. Vividly, she saw him at the peak of the Wildcat Canyon trail, holding his complicated camera aloft, peering through the viewfinder. The wind stirred his thinning silvery-copper hair—she hadn't noticed that before. She would go to him, she thought. She would stand close beside him, slide her arm around his waist to steady him. This was her task, her duty. He was stronger than she, but a man's strength can drain from him. A man's courage can be torn from him, can bleed away. But it was she who was afraid of something—wasn't she? The pale-blue rim of the Pacific Ocean. The bald-sculpted hills and exquisite little lakes that seemed as unreal as papier-mâché that you could poke your fingers through. To her horror, she realized she was hearing a panting sound, a wet-chuffing breath, somewhere beside her, or below her on the trail, in the gathering dusk, waiting. ♦

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AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli has been suspended for three matches by the Italian league's disciplinary committee on Tuesday after insulting an assistant referee.sports Updated: Apr 10, 2013 13:46 IST
AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli has been suspended for three matches by the Italian league's disciplinary committee on Tuesday after insulting an assistant referee.
The Italy international was given a one-match ban after picking up a fourth yellow card of the season in last Sunday's 2-2 draw against Fiorentina.
He was banned for a further two games after insulting a linesman at the end of the match, the league said in a statement.
Balotelli turned on the official who was watching the forward having an animated discussion with Fiorentina goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano.
The suspension means he will miss Milan's next two big matches against Napoli and league-leaders Juventus, plus the encounter with Catania.
It was a controversial trip down to Florence for Balotelli who was involved in an incident on the train from Milan on Saturday.
The 22-year-old was caught smoking in the toilet of the train, whose controller informed Milan's chief executive Adriano Galliani of the indiscretion.
The CEO joked about fining the tempestuous Italy forward who has been in hot water several times during his short career both on and off the pitch.
He was infamous during his Manchester City days for picking up traffic fines in the town centre while he had training ground bust-ups with several teammates as well as manager Roberto Mancini.
Off the pitch he was fined by his club for throwing a dart at a youth team player while he was in trouble with the emergency services after starting a fire in his bathroom when setting off fireworks in his house.
"Super Mario" has scored seven goals in eight games since his arrival from City in January.
His absence robs third-placed Milan of their first-choice striker as they seek to wrest second spot from Napoli.
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Holding our convictions loosely
Many years ago, I received some unexpected advice about getting into a car accident. Not how to make one happen, but rather what to do if you see a collision coming. I was told that you want to loosen the muscles in your body right before impact so that you are as "plastic" as possible to absorb the shock.
Of course, our instincts are just the opposite. We brace ourselves against the blow by tensing up. But the combination of that rigidity meeting the sudden force of the crash amplify the injuries that result. Remember the saying about what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
Just consider the implications of this advice when applied to another kind of collision -- the conflict between groups of people holding differing religious beliefs. I have long been saddened by the history of religious divisions and wars.
The rigidity of tightly held convictions has caused a lot of damage when forced hard against those with differing beliefs. In spite of the hope of peace, which is a recurrent theme offered by many religious belief systems, the temptation to try to impose the superiority of one faith over another has often proved too strong to resist, creating new suffering instead of alleviating it.
Similarly, religious believers have sometimes become so self-righteous in their own positions that they feel justified in using forceful coercion and even persecution of those who wouldn't "see the light" as they had. It is understandable, then, why I once saw a bumper sticker that read, "Please Jesus, save us from your followers."
But contrary to these destructive examples of heavy-handed religiosity, passions of faith that run deep and strong can be both persuasive and generous. This happens when the holders of such strong convictions choose to honor the intelligence and capacity for discernment in others above their own impulse to want to coerce the other into right belief.
Generosity in sharing a strongly held faith is a lot messier than the "hard sell" approach that seeks certainty and control. Imposing one single creed that "fits all" is lot simpler than committing to keeping relationships with those who believe and practice differently.
But the high price paid for that simplicity is the loss of opportunities to learn from differing beliefs -- to see what effect they have on people's character and daily actions. Surrounding ourselves with others who think just as we do may be comfortable, but living in the midst of diversity offers greater opportunity for our own beliefs to be tested and honed.
A generous approach to sharing faith does not regard others as targets to be converted or prevailed upon but instead as people with dignity and free will deserving of our care and honor, even when they choose not to share our convictions.
I don't make that claim as a politically correct nod toward open-mindedness or in an attempt to be fashionably tolerant. Rather, I take that position, along with the complexities and extra effort it requires, because it is how my tradition of Christianity has understood God's example of relationship with humanity.
God does not put the hard sell on us or attempt to manipulate us into a relationship of respect and love. Instead, God reaches out with intention to bless and free us from our own self-centeredness and fears of one another. And then God lets go of control and honors our free will to either accept or reject that relationship.
The 2003 comedy "Bruce Almighty," starring Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman, captured well this aspect of Christian belief about the character of God. A scene toward the end depicts Carrey's character in an exasperated conversation with God, played by Freeman. Despite being temporarily given all of God's powers, Carrey discovers that he can't compel the woman he loves to feel the same way about him. He exclaims to God, "How can you make someone love you without affecting free will?!?" And God answers back, "Welcome to my world."
That is a world where we hold our faith tenderly instead of tensely and let go of the need to try to control what others believe. It is a world where a lot of destructive collisions are avoided and many inspirational examples of healing and caring for others take their place. It is a world where I want to practice my own faith.
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PSA, which started in 1991, has certified millions of collectibles in its history – making it the largest third-party grading and authentication service in the world. In this guide, we are going to show you how trading cards are graded at PSA. We hope this step-by-step guide will help answer your questions about the grading process and provide insight into what PSA is all about.
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Perhaps the most important task in the submission process is completing the submission form and preparing the submission package. Properly completing the form is the first step in ensuring that your order is processed accurately and efficiently.
After filling in all of your personal information, you must then separate your cards based on the type of submission such as Grading, Review or Crossover service. Once that is done, you must also separate the cards by service level based on the declared value and desired turnaround time. Keep in mind that only one type of submission and service is allowed per order.
The submission form is detailed and easy to follow. Once you have followed the instructions and have completed the form, you are ready to package your order.
We recommend that you insert your cards in flexible plastic pouches such as the Card Saver I product. We do not accept cards submitted in hard-acrylic or screwdown holders and do not recommend the use of hard plastic top loaders. In addition, we also recommend wrapping your cards in between two pieces of cardboard for added protection. The use of bubble wrap and/or Styrofoam pellets is also suggested to cushion your prized cards en route to PSA. Also, please remember to mark the outside of your package clearly with the service type requested.
PSA accepts shipments via USPS and Federal Express but we highly recommend that your packages are sent via registered/insured mail for tracking ability and protection. Detailed packaging and shipping instructions can be found in our Packing Guidelines.
It looks like we're now ready to follow your card's journey through the PSA grading process.
The receiving step is one of the most crucial steps in the PSA process. This is where all packages are logged in and separated based on their service level. Once the packages have been separated, each package is opened in priority of service and the cards are counted. After verifying the service level and payment, one of the most important steps in the grading process occurs.
The submissions are now assigned a generic order number, removing the identifying information from the order – thus removing the potential for bias. Finally, all of the pertinent data is entered from the PSA submission form, an e-mail confirmation is sent to you and your cards are off to the next stage.
The next step in the PSA process is called the Sticker Stage. At this stage, the cards are counted again and labels are placed on the outside of each card saver. The label or sticker assigned to each card contains information including the order number and individual certification number – that is the same certification number that will appear on the PSA label once the card is graded.
Once this occurs, the history of that card will be stored in our database as it travels through the process and is eventually assigned a grade. Finally, the information on the stickers is matched against the information on the card itself.
Once the information has been verified during the Sticker Stage, the order is then off to our Spec department. This is where our research team resides. Once again, the cards are counted, the sticker information is verified and the cards that need additional research, whether there was no information provided or if it is a rare issue, are examined before all of the data is entered into the database.
The cards are now ready for grading. Each order is distributed to graders based on their particular skill and expertise. For example, a 1956 Topps Mickey Mantle would not be distributed to one of our modern card specialists. While the graders are generally trained to handle cards from virtually all eras, they are assigned cards based on their strengths.
In addition, the sheer number of graders assigned to each card can vary depending on the type of card submitted. In all cases, at minimum, two graders are assigned to every card.
Here's an example – if you were to submit a 1965 Topps Willie Mays – this is how the grading process would work:
Each grader receives the order and they will enter the order number into the computer. Once that is done, the contents of that order will appear on the PSA grading screen. Grader #1 will then enter his grade for the card in question (and for each card within the order until the order is completed if there is more than one card) and close the order on his screen. Once that is done and after redistribution of the order, Grader #2 will do the same – not knowing the opinion of the first grader on any of the cards within that order.
If their grades match in the computer, the card would then eventually reach a 3rd grader for verification of the grade. If the opinion of the first two graders does not match, that card will be assigned to a 3rd grader whose opinion is required to break the tie, so to speak. As with the first example, the card would still be assigned to another grader for verification (a 4th grader in the process) to make sure the grade is accurate and consistent with our standards.
The first stage in the grading process is determining whether the card is authentic. With the values of some trading cards today, counterfeits are not uncommon on some of the hobby's biggest stars – especially rookie cards and reprints that are often submitted as originals.
Once the card has been determined to be authentic, it is then checked for possible alterations. Since the value of a trading card is often linked directly to its condition, some "card doctors" as they are referred to will attempt to enhance the condition of cards in a variety of ways.
For example, they may attempt this by either trimming them to enhance the sharpness of the edges and corners or re-color them to enhance the color or to cover up wear along the surface or edges. There are several ways a card can be "doctored" but, if evidence of such doctoring is present, the card will not be graded by PSA because the card is no longer original according to PSA standards.
So, finally, once the graders have determined the card to be authentic and unaltered, a grade can now be assigned to the card in question. PSA's 1-10 grading scale, with 10 being best, is universally accepted throughout the industry. Graders are now focusing on the characteristics of the card such as the strength and quality of the corners, color, edges, centering, surface, print clarity and overall eye appeal. PSA's grading standards can be found in Sports Market Report, which is the official price guide for PSA certified collectibles, and on our website. We highly recommend that submitters become familiar with those standards, because your improved knowledge may help increase your chances of attaining higher grades.
Once the grades have been assigned in the database, the PSA labels are now generated and printed. By entering the order number into the system, our team can now print all of the crucial information for the PSA label including the card number, player and/or subject, manufacturer, grade and the unique certification number mentioned earlier in our video. Each and every collectible certified by PSA receives this unique number which is stored in our database along with that collectible's history.
Now that the PSA labels have been printed, our sealing department is given the task of selecting the appropriate custom holders for each card and then carefully placing the card and PSA label within the holder. Once the contents have been assembled by hand, each card is taken to the boom room where cards are sonically sealed in our tamper-evident holders. This sonic weld is strong and helps ensure security of the PSA holder.
After the cards have been sealed in the PSA holders, they are then sent to the Grading Verification stage. As mentioned earlier, this is where another grader will check the orders for accuracy and consistency in relation to PSA standards. If the cards appear to meet PSA's guidelines, the order is then sent on to the next step in the process. If any of the cards do not appear to meet the standards, the card is then removed from the holder and re-evaluated by our staff.
Once our grading staff has finalized the grades through the verification process, the orders are then sent to the final verification stage. This stage is PSA's final quality control checkpoint. Here, the order is then reunited with the original submission form and each card is matched against the paperwork.
The cards and holders are examined for defects that may have been overlooked in prior stages such as scratched cases or improper information on the PSA label. Once this is checked and verified, a PSA packing slip is printed so our shipping department is aware of the method of delivery you have selected. Upon completion, the grades are posted and an e-mail confirmation is sent to the customer with the grading results.
We are now at the final stage in the PSA process – the shipping department. Now PSA's staff will count the cards within the order once again to ensure that the card count and submission form matches the information in our system.
Once this is completed, the staff members enter the shipping instructions into the computer, package the order and ship it back to the customer – who is eagerly awaiting their cards. Once the order is shipped from our facility, an e-mail is generated automatically to alert the customer that the order is on the way.
That concludes our look at the PSA grading process. We hope you enjoyed this inside look at the journey of a PSA submission and, hopefully, this guide will help answer many commonly asked questions about our service. From all of us at PSA: thanks for your continued support over the years. Your support has made PSA the preferred choice for collectors across the globe and the foundation of all great collections. For additional questions about PSA, please visit other areas of our website or call us toll-free at 1-800-325-1121 and ask to speak with one of our representatives.


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Free agent left-hander Randy Wolf is flying into Baltimore on Wednesday evening and will sign a contract with the Orioles, according to a source.
Wolf, 36, was 3-10 with a 5.69 ERA for the Milwaukee Brewers this season before being released Aug. 22.
He was not claimed on waivers, and therefore was eligible to sign with anyone for the prorated major league minimum.
He has to be in the organization by Aug. 31 to be eligible for the postseason. Given his experience – he has appeared in 371 big-league games and made 366 starts in a 14-season career – he obviously will be signing in Baltimore to be on the 25-man roster.
Wolf is 130-117 in his career with a 4.19 ERA for five different teams. He has never pitched in the American League.
It will be the second veteran left-hander that the Orioles have acquired this week. They traded reliever Matt Lindstrom to Arizona for Joe Saunders on Sunday.
Saunders will make his Orioles debut on Wednesday in a start against the Chicago White Sox.


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Nicely done!
The hero player looks so relaxed, just running the woman all over the court without any power. I thought on the second lob, she should have been able to slide over and slam that one down his throat, but apparently that is not a skill she has.
Back to the backhand slice, I think this video demonstrates that you can do a lot without really lazering it. His BH slice tends to float up on him, but his opponent can't take advantage of that because she is too much on the run.
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thg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 194 diseños de 49 diseñadores freelance.
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I run a small web company where I manage a wide variety of websites from video game forums to product review websites. If you visit thgwebmedia.com you'll see an outdated list of some of the sites I run. (Don't use this site as a basis for the logo though please, it's a terrible free design template I threw up on the web 2 years ago just to put something up).
After I get the logo created, I want to use it for business cards immediately and then follow it up with a simple website design which will allow me to highlight the various websites I run for potential advertisers and consulting services. (So as I mentioned above, if I like your logo design there is a chance we can work again on the website design).
The logo will be used on our new website and on business cards. Both of these would be seen by potential advertisers, clients for consulting, business associates etc. so it can't look cheap or amateur.
First of all I'm not a designer so I want you to be creative as possible while keeping in mind the target audience I've mentioned above.
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Multiple tornadoes touched down in central Indiana on Wednesday, tearing the roofs off apartment buildings, sending air conditioners falling onto parked cars and cutting power to thousands of people.
About a dozen people were injured — none seriously — as tornadoes moved through central portions of the state, according to an Indiana State Police spokesman.
Most of those injuries were in Howard County, including one resident who was trapped in a home by one of the storms that struck Wednesday.
Capt. David Bursten of Indiana State Police attributes the relatively small number of injuries reported by 8 p.m. to residents' taking the approaching storms seriously.
Gov. Mike Pence, who was on the campaign trail, said he would be touring storm-damaged Howard and Montgomery counties on Thursday to assess the damage.
"We're going to be home so long as it takes for us to make sure these communities have the resources and the support they need to put themselves back together after these very violent storms."
The National Weather Service reported a "confirmed large and destructive tornado" hit about 10 miles east of Kokomo, or about 40 miles north of Indianapolis. Meteorologist Dave Tucek said a tornado moved across the city Wednesday afternoon.
The city of Kokomo and Howard County declared a joint state of emergency, closing all roads to people and motor vehicles, apart from emergency vehicles, until 9 p.m. Wednesday.
"It's crazy. It's a madhouse," said Mitchell Carlson, a maintenance technician at the Park Place Apartments in Kokomo. He said the complex has 16 buildings and "probably eight of them don't have a roof."
But there have not been any injuries there, he said. "So, I guess we're all blessed at the Park Place."
He estimated 20 to 30 cars had been damaged by falling tree limbs and air conditioners.
Utility companies reported more than 39,000 customers were without power Wednesday evening. Duke Energy said more than 25,000 customers lost electricity in Howard County alone.
"We're just asking people to sit tight, especially if there's a tornado warning in their area, so they can stay as safe as possible," Indiana Department of Homeland Security spokesman John Erickson said.
Police officers in Indianapolis spotted at least two funnel clouds close to the ground in the city just south of Interstate 70, but the department had received no reports of damage, according to Officer Jim Gillespie of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
Local emergency dispatchers said only minor injuries had been reported. Television station WTHR showed images of downed trees and a toppled Starbucks in the area.
The weather service also said Indiana State Police observed a tornado northwest of the Montgomery County town of New Ross, or about 35 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
Indiana University-Kokomo canceled all events on campus Wednesday evening due to the severe weather. School officials in Avon, near Indianapolis, cited the severe weather in ordering all buses to return to the nearest school.


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SEATTLE (AP) — Corey Hart saw everyone around him contributing something to the Seattle Mariners' strong start. After a lackluster spring and sluggish first week, he desperately wanted to be a part of it.
His response: a three-run homer and a solo shot that sent the Mariners to a 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in their home opener Tuesday night.
"So many guys on this team have been chipping in and I haven't been one of them," Hart said. "It was nice to find contact tonight and be able to help out. I was getting kind of tired watching everyone else help out."
Seattle became the final major league team to open at home and improved to 4-0 this season against the Angels, who got consecutive home runs from Albert Pujols and David Freese in the first inning. After fans at Safeco Field gave Russell Wilson, Pete Carroll and other members of the Super Bowl champion Seahawks a raucous ovation, the Mariners gave the sold-out crowd some winning baseball to cheer for.
"I'm not a hoopla person. I'd rather just go about my business," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "But it was a good night in a lot of respects. I thought it was a good night for our fans on a lot of different avenues. I was very pleased with how our guys responded."
Seattle scored four times with two outs in the third inning, capped by Hart's three-run homer off starter Hector Santiago (0-2). Hart added his solo drive in the seventh.
Robinson Cano's home debut in Seattle was mostly uneventful. Cano went 0 for 3 and scored a run, getting a massive ovation when he was introduced before the game that was topped only by Felix Hernandez's reception.
Hart, another offseason acquisition, made plenty of noise.
Hart had the 15th multihomer game of his career and first since Sept. 29, 2012, before knee surgery sidelined him for the 2013 season with Milwaukee.
Seattle's rally in the third started when Santiago struck out Brad Miller but the ball bounced away from catcher Chris Iannetta. Miller reached first and Santiago pitched around Cano, walking him on four pitches.
Justin Smoak lined a two-strike single to score Miller, and Hart made Santiago pay for missing with an 0-2 pitch. It was the third time in his career Hart has homered on an 0-2 pitch.
His homer in the seventh was a line drive to center off reliever Fernando Salas.
Seattle starter James Paxton (2-0) gave up two first-inning homers, then retired 14 straight. He left in the sixth inning after straining a muscle on the left side of his back.
Paxton did not believe his injury was serious, but is taking the precaution of having an MRI on Wednesday. He initially felt a twinge in the fifth inning, but returned in the sixth. If he is sidelined, Paxton would join Hisashi Iwakuma and Taijuan Walker as expected starters in the Mariners' rotation dealing with early injuries.
"I just want to be careful right now," Paxton said. "They say my strength is still good. I just want to get it checked out."
Paxton was amped up early and it cost him when he gave up a two-run homer to Pujols and a solo shot to Freese. But Paxton quickly settled down and kept the Angels silent from there. Kole Calhoun's single leading off the sixth was the Angels' only hit after the first inning.
"Early on we had some strong looks at Paxton but he settled down and pitched a strong game," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said.
Yoervis Medina replaced Paxton and got out of the sixth. Danny Farquhar and Tom Wilhelmsen worked the seventh and eighth, and Fernando Rodney earned his second save despite walking his first two batters in the ninth.
"He was probably a little ticked at himself and turned it up a little bit," McClendon said.
NOTES: Pujols became the 52nd player to reach 1,500 RBIs. ... Iwakuma is expected to throw his first bullpen session Wednesday as he recovers from a finger injury. ... LHP Roenis Elias will make his first start in Seattle for the Mariners on Wednesday against Garrett Richards. Elias threw five strong innings in his debut last week. "It's going to be a little bit different being at home," he said through a translator. "Felix already talked to me and told me to be aggressive and stay ahead with my pitches and leave it out there."
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The VCU Men's & Women's Track & Field teams made the short trek to Newport News on Sunday morning for the 2011 CNU Holiday Open at the Freeman Center.
The Rams turned in a number of impressive performances, even breaking one school record in the process.
"I'm really pleased with how the athletes performed today," said VCU Head Track & Field Coach Jon Riley. "They took the things we have been working on and started to apply them under the pressure of a meet. If they keep working hard and staying patient, we will be in really good shape at the end of the season."
VCU freshman sprinter Alexis Stroman impressed in her first meet with the Rams, as she broke a school record and claimed first place honors in the 60-meter hurdles. After posting a time of 9.34 in the preliminaries (good for ninth place), Stroman sped past the field in the finals crossing the finish line in 8.68 seconds. The freshman broke current teammate Rachel Montague's record (8.85 seconds in 2011).
In the same event, the Rams captured a pair of top ten finishes with Chaneka Perry coming in eighth (9.27) and Nneka Ogwu finishing in 10th place (9.36).
Perry also took part in the triple jump, claiming first place honors with a jump of 11.47 meters. Perry next's closest competitor was William & Mary's Grace Oxley, who cleared 11.26 meters. Junior Jennifer McAvoy gave the Rams a third place finish in the same event, as she jumped 11.23 meters.
Redshirt sophomore Jaleesa Williams garnered a second place finish in the women's shot put, as she was one of only three competitors in the field to clear 14 meters. Williams toss traveled 14.17 meters for the Rams only second place finish on the women's side.
The Rams had a number of athletes earn fourth place finishes, including senior Brandy Preston (weight throw – 15.71 meters), redshirt senior Stephanie Newing (pole vault – 3.20 meters), senior Jazlynn Finney (women's long jump – 5.54 meters), senior Nicole Walters (600 meter run – 1:39.66) freshman Nicole Grasty (400 meter dash – 1:00.02) and freshman Niema Eaves (800 meter run – 2:23.28).
The VCU Men also turned in a number of impressive performances, with freshman Khalid Khamis leading the way with a third place finish in the mile (4:28).
After coming in fifth in the prelimaries of the 60 meter hurdles, sophomore Chase Turner moved up one spot in the finals to earn a fourth place finish. Turner crossed the finish line in 8.33 seconds in the finals.
Junior Alex Hinton turned in a sixth place finish in the 600 meter run, crossing 1:24.17.
The Rams had three student-athletes finish in the top 10 in the 5000 meter run, with junior Brenden Leavitt leading the way in sixth place (15:12.88).
Both teams will shut things down until after the New Year, starting things back up at the Father Diamond Invitational hosted by George Mason University on January 7th.


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WARM BEACH — Ronald Stansberry's septic business took illegal dumping to a new low.
Stansberry, 62, last month admitted in court to unloading more than 6,000 gallons of human waste surreptitiously on a stranger's property south of Stanwood.
Now the owner of Camano Septic is on the hook to pay restitution, pony up another $643 in legal penalties, and obtain proper permits before returning to any sewage-pumping work. If he doesn't comply, he could face nearly a year in jail.
The state Attorney General's Office said the Snohomish County District Court case was the first environmental crime it's prosecuted in a decade. More such cases could be on the way.
"Polluters need to know they can be held criminally liable for breaking laws," Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a press release.
Stansberry's crimes occurred between October and November of last year, court documents state. He pleaded guilty on June 5 to three counts of unlawful dumping of solid waste and one count of second-degree criminal trespassing. Unlawful dumping of solid waste is a gross misdemeanor carrying a maximum 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine.
Stansberry told the court he previously dumped sewage at a facility in La Conner, until falling behind on payments. He thought he could get away with unloading it for free along rural Frank Waters Road.
The property owner later paid to remove sludge from his land. Restitution will be based on clean-up costs.
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The McGurk Effect
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 12:23PM
I found a link to this youtube clip on Social Sound Design, a great audio forum, and it has kind of blown my mind.
Take a minute to watch this and see if you can make your brain overcome the McGurk Effect.
Sound is just as important as picture to making a movie work, and since I make a living providing sound to support and enhance moving pictures I know it to be true. I love making the argument sound completely effects the way the same scene is felt. Yet this McGurk effect proves that it works both ways and sound can be heard completely differently depending on the picture it is paired with. Never thought of it that way.
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To be honest I do not understand what the Harlem Shake is or what it means except it is universal silly meme but I can not ignore the fact that it is making noise in my country.
Already last week we had our Pyramids Harlem Shake and I believe our tourism board should have used it.
It is not the first Harlem Shake filmed in Egypt but it was the most famous and organized with public event on Facebook in Egypt. There have been previous Harlem Shake clips from Egypt to my surprise in the past two weeks in a way I could not understand it !!
Of course internationally we made headline with our Harlem Shake craze as four young students have been arrested yesterday in Agouza area in Giza when they danced in their underwear in the street. Their neighbors reported them to the police and the four students are accused of indecency !!!
By the way my dear friends Ibrahim Gamal El Din aka Hima and Ahmed Naguib aka Hamda did their own Harlem Shake in AUC dorm.
Now Egyptian youth are organizing even bigger and important Harlem Shake event next Thursday … at the Muslim brotherhood HQ in Moktakam. I really love my people , May God bless and protect them.
By the way the people of Harlem do not like and think it is silly and no related to the original Harlem Shake dance.
Now this how the original Harlem Shake goes , watch the video till the end


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As a world leader in manufacturing and delivering advanced hearing solutions, our goal is to bring people together and make lives richer by empowering individuals to reach their full potential in life.
In 1967, William F. Austin founded our company with the simple premise, "Alone we can't do much. Together, we can change the world." We live that vision every day. We are a proud supporter of Starkey Hearing Foundation, which helps people in need around the world receive the gift of hearing. To date, Starkey Hearing Foundation has provided more than 1 million hearing health care services to people in need worldwide.
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Whether it's our industry-leading lineup of invisible hearing aids, the way we took on the challenge of listening comfortably in noisy environments, or our wireless product options including Halo™— our Made for iPhone® hearing aid – we're continually innovating smaller, easier and better ways to hear. It was Starkey Hearing Technologies that created the industry's first in-canal hearing aid and first custom, digital and fully programmable invisible hearing aid. We were also the first to use nanotechnology in hearing aids, making hearing aids waterproof, and to begin tackling the biggest challenge wearers have historically faced – hearing in noise.
We don't do technology for technology's sake
At Starkey Hearing Technologies, we believe that all new products should bring specific and measurable improvements to a patient's hearing. We ask patients and practitioners what features and improvements they want in their hearing aids — then we get to work.
In recent years, we have answered patient demands for better sound quality in all environments, simpler controls and adjustments, faster processing, and hearing aids that are more discreet and attractive. In the process, we've set new standards for the industry.
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We rely on evidence-based design and only update products when a new technology or feature can make a measurable difference. If it doesn't improve your hearing experience, we don't do it. And we always benchmark claims and product research, thoroughly testing our products internally and against other hearing aids. If we make a claim, we back it up and make our findings public.
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In addition to giving the gift of hearing, the Foundation is committed to global hearing health and is leading a national program called Listen Carefully. Through music and education, Listen Carefully helps teens understand the science of hearing and dangers of exposure to high-decibel sounds. And its non-profit organization program Hear Now assists permanent U.S. residents who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and have limited financial resources.
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