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New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and police Chief Margaret Ackley have checked their notes and calendars and, with memories refreshed, now say their curious exchange of phone calls July 20 concerned The Day or, more precisely, documents that had been provided to the newspaper.
As noted in my Aug. 17 column, the phone calls were curious, and surprising, because up until then Mayor Finizio had said he had no contact with police officials that weekend. This is important because in the early morning hours of July 20 there was a reported sexual assault in the downtown commercial district.
It took several days for police to disclose the incident. Both the police administration and the mayor have faced heavy criticism in some quarters for not alerting the public sooner; and the attacker remains at large. There has still been no arrest. Some critics of the mayor have suggested the decision not to make an announcement was purposeful, an effort to play down crime in the city at a time when the police force has seen a large reduction in staffing.
Mayor Finizio has called the contention absurd. The chief says flatly that the administration never directed the department how to handle the information. But the mayor had also said he never talked with the police administration that day -a contention contradicted when I received phone records for the mayor's city-issued cell phone.
Those records show the mayor calling the chief at 9:45 a.m. and the chief soon calling back, the total exchange lasting about 10 minutes. As referenced in my earlier column, last week neither the chief nor mayor could recall the call or its content.
On Monday the chief - who the mayor says is a diligent note taker - emailed me and stated: "I have been able to determine the reason for the calls back and forth between myself and the Mayor; the reported sexual assault was NOT part of the conversation. The issue was a personnel matter that I cannot comment on."
Mayor Finizio, however, provided more detail. "The chief consulted her records and it is clear the conversation concerned the release of social security numbers to David Collins in response to his FOI request regarding dog bite statistics," he wrote me.
On July 19 The Day had published a column by Collins that referenced numerous complaints against the NLPD involving bites by police dogs over several years. Attached to the online version were the reports. But the city had failed to remove social security numbers and, after complaints, The Day took the reports off the web page.
It was a personnel matter for the city, said the mayor, because an NLPD employee should have removed the personal information.
"At no time was the alleged sexual assault discussed. The chief had not been made aware of the alleged sexual assault yet at the time of our conversation Saturday morning," stated Finizio. "I am confident our internal investigation will demonstrate that conclusively once it is completed and released."
That would be the investigation, ordered by the mayor, into how and why police did not disclose information about the assault sooner. Finizio said he did not learn about the assault until July 22, a Monday, during a conversation with the fire chief.
The mayor also offered an explanation why he had forgotten about the call and its content.
"Coming as it did on my birthday and being what I thought of as a minor issue, I had forgotten the call entirely … this conversation did not stand out," he wrote in the email.
Next time, perhaps the mayor should check the phone records before declaring with certainty he did not make or receive a call.
For some reason I don't think this will end the speculation. It also raises the question why the chief did not know about a rape in her city hours after it happened. Perhaps the results of the internal investigation will shed more light.
Most troubling, a serious crime remains unsolved. Amidst the politics and finger pointing that should not be forgotten.
Paul Choiniere is editorial page editor.
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Verbum Eccles. (Online) vol.33 no.1 Pretoria 2012
Leonard Mare
Department of Old Testament, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa
God is often portrayed extremely negatively in the Old Testament. For example, in the Book of Nahum God is pictured as being responsible for the most horrifying violence imaginable. This negative portrayal of God is also found in the Book of Job. God is responsible for the suffering that his righteous servant Job, has to endure. He is even manipulated by the satan to allow him free reign in attacking Job. God even acknowledges that the misery and pain inflicted on Job, was for no reason. Job's children are killed in order for God to prove a point, and in his response to Job's suffering, he doesn't even address the issue of Job's suffering. This is a picture of a very cruel, vicious God. This article investigates the negative, disturbing images of God in the Book of Job. Are these images of God who God really is, or is the God of Job a literary construct of the author? The focus of this study is on the prologue and epilogue to the book, as well as the speeches of God in Job 38-41.
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Balentine, S.E., 2003, 'For no reason', Interpretation 57(4), 349-369. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002096430005700402 [ Links ]
Boss, J., 2010, Human consciousness of God in the Book of Job: A Theological and Psychological commentary, T & T Clark, London. [ Links ]
Brown, W.P., 1999, 'Introducing Job: A journey of transformation', Interpretation 53(3), 228-238.http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002096439905300301 [ Links ]
Brueggeman, D., 2003, 'Sweet singers and sages: Israel's poetry and wisdom', in W.C. Williams (ed.), They spoke from God: A survey of the Old Testament, pp. 511-554, Gospel Publishing House, Springfield. [ Links ]
Carson, D.A., 2006, How long, O Lord? Reflections on suffering and evil, Baker, Grand Rapids. [ Links ]
Clines, D.J.A., 1989, Job 1-20, Word, Dallas. (World Biblical Commentary 17). [ Links ]
Cornelius, I., 2009, 'Job', in J.H. Walton (ed.), Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, vol. 5, pp. 246-301,Zondervan, Grand Rapids. [ Links ]
Dawkins, R., 2006, The God delusion, Black Swan, London. [ Links ]
Fretheim, T.E., 2005, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation, Abingdon, Nashville. [ Links ]
Gericke, J.W., 2004, 'Does Yahweh exist? A philosophical-critical reconstruction of the case against realism in Old Testament theology', Old Testamanet Essays 17(1), 30-57. [ Links ]
Goldingay, J., 2006, Isreal's faith: Old Testament Theology, vol. 2 , InterVarsity, Downers Grove. [ Links ]
Habel, N.C., 2004, 'The verdict on/of God at the end of Job, in E. Van Wolde (ed.), Job's God, pp. 27-38, SCM, London. [ Links ]
Hartley, J.E., 1988, The Book of Job, Grand Eerdmans, Rapids. (New International Commentary on the Old Testament). [ Links ]
Janzen, J.G., 1985, Job, John Knox, Atlanta. (Interpretation). [ Links ]
Kamp, A., 2005, 'Gods wegen zijn ondoorgrondelijk: Beelden van God en mensen in Job 1-3', in E. van Wolde (ed.), De God van Job, pp. 12-24, Uitgeverij Meinema, Zoetermeer. [ Links ]
LaCocque, A., 2011, 'Justice for the innocent Job!', Biblical Interpretation 19, 19-32. [ Links ]
LaSor, W.S., Hubbard, D.A. & Bush, F.W., 1996, Old Testament survey: The message, form and background of the Old Testament, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids. [ Links ]
Maré, L.P. & Serfontein, J., 2009, The violent, rhetorical-ideological God of Nahum, Old Testament Essays 22(1), pp. 175-185. [ Links ]
Mathewson, D., 2006, Death and survival in the Book of Job: Desymbolization and traumatic experience, T & T Clark, London. [ Links ]
Möller, F.P., 1998, Understanding the greatest of truths, Van Schaik, Pretoria. (Words of light and life vol. 1). [ Links ]
Ngwa, K.N., 2005, The Hermeneutics of the'Happy' ending in Job 42:7-17, De Gruyter, Berlin. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fűr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Bd. 354). [ Links ]
Perdue, L.G., 1994, Wisdom & Creation: The Theology of Wisdom Literature, Abingdon, Nashville. [ Links ]
Perdue, L.G., 2008, The sword and the stylus: An introduction to wisdom in the age of empires, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids. [ Links ]
Rogerson, J.W., 2010, A Theology of the Old Testament: Cultural memory, communication, and being human, Fortress, Minneapolis. [ Links ]
Seibert, E.A., 2009, Disturbing divine behavior: Troubling Old Testament images of God, Fortress, Minneapolis. [ Links ]
Walton, J.H. & Hill, A.E., 2004, Old Testament today: A journey from original meaning to contemporary significance, Zondervan, Grand Rapids. [ Links ]
Whybray, N., 2008, Job, Sheffield Phoenix, Sheffield. (Readings: A new Biblical Commentary). [ Links ]


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**Written by Doug Powers
Lots going on today, and if you're in an area affected by the storm, please take Chris Christie's simple advice: Don't be stupid.
I can't add much to that.
Via Twitchy, here's a photo taken in Ocean Grove, New Jersey — still well before landfall:
Consider this our open thread for storm-related discussion, or whatever else is on your mind.
If you're in the storm's path, be safe!
There will be lots of pictures, breaking updates and other info at Twitchy.
Other items for possible discussion this afternoon:
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–Hurrican Sandy gives Bette Midler a chance to shill for Al Gore.
—Bill Clinton: Hurricane Sandy is "nothing compared to the storm we'll face if you don't make the right decision in this election." No argument here, Bill.
–Bloomberg reporter: "Obama's 12 hour trip to Orlando. … Most expensive pizza delivery in history?"
–President Obama said that if he wins a second term he'll create a "Secretary of Business." Only more federal bureaucracy can unleash the potential of America's businesses.
–On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has been saying Republicans are counting on voters getting amnesia on November 6th. Yes, this guy is talking about amnesia.
–David Axelrod's feelings remain hurt over the Des Moines Register's "confounding" endorsement of Mitt Romney.
–Today is the 70th birthday of the late painter Bob Ross. I used to love that show.
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Libgdx version used on this post: 0.9.6 (download)As libgdx evolves we'll need to update our code base to make use of the latest improvements. The following posts were published on the official libgdx blog: latest version of libgdx and replace the JAR and SO files in our projects. After doing that you'll notice that many compile errors will appear.
Important changes in scene2dGetters and setters added
Using getters and setters is a simple best practice as it improves the encapsulation of behavior, but it could hinder the performance because these methods will be called several times for each rendered frame. I suggest you keep an eye on the FPS output of your game. For Tyrian it won't make a difference. If you'd like to read more about the advantages of using getters and setters, have a look at this question at stackoverflow.
Actions system rewritten
It's now even easier to combine actions because they can operate on the same properties of an actor. The syntax has also changed a bit, so instead of FadeIn.$(0.75f) we can statically import the action and use fadeIn(0.75f). The actions you can statically import can be found in com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.actions.Actions.
Previously we did this in SplashScreen:
Sequence actions = Sequence.$( FadeIn.$( 0.75f ), Delay.$( FadeOut.$( 0.75f ), 1.75f ) ); splashImage.action( actions );And now we do:
splashImage.addAction( sequence( fadeIn( 0.75f ), delay( 1.75f ), fadeOut( 0.75f ) ) );Generic event system developed
Each actor has a list of capture and event listeners. Both listeners extend the generic com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.EventListener. The capture listeners may intercept the events before they're handled by the event listeners. During this capture phase, the event is given to the root down to the target actor. If the event is not cancelled by a capture listener, the normal phase kicks in and the event is given to the target actor up to the stage's root. Given that, the following is possible:
- Instead of querying the input mechanism to move our ship, we could just receive the input events as they happen and modify our actor accordingly (see com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ActorListener). I didn't see any event related to the accelerometer though, so let's stick to what we were doing;
- We can also fire our own events. I'm glad to see this feature, otherwise I'm pretty sure we'd have to implement it ourselves;
- We can create a hierarchy of event listeners, possibly extending one of the shipped listeners:
- ActorListener: listens for input events, like keyDown/Up/Typed, enter/exit, touchUp/Down and so on;
- ChangeListener: listens for change events, that is, when something changed in an actor;
- ActorGestureListener: makes it easy to work with gesture events, like pinch, zoom and fling.
- We can reuse event listeners by adding them to different actors.
Actions and the new event system
I was expecting to receive events as the actions started/stoped on some actor, but sadly it doesn't work that way. In order to switch from the SplashScreen to the MenuScreen, we used to do something like this:
Sequence actions = Sequence.$( FadeIn.$( 0.75f ), Delay.$( FadeOut.$( 0.75f ), 1.75f ) ); actions.setCompletionListener( new OnActionCompleted() { public void completed( Action action ) { game.setScreen( new MenuScreen( game ) ); } } ); splashImage.action( actions );Now that OnActionCompleted was removed, we can do this little trick:
splashImage.addAction( sequence( fadeIn( 0.75f ), delay( 1.75f ), fadeOut( 0.75f ), new Action() { public boolean act( float delta ) { game.setScreen( new MenuScreen( game ) ); return true; // returning true consumes the event } } ) );The Drawable interface
An abstraction was created to handle objects that know how to draw themselves: com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.utils.Drawable. The following list shows all the currently shipped drawables, but of course you can also write your own:
- EmptyDrawable: A good drawable to extend if you're planning to write custom drawables. Provides a rectangular drawable area but draws nothing.
- NinePatchDrawable: Wraps a NinePatch, which provides dynamic image stretching. You can create nine patches with Android's draw9patch tool;
- TextureRegionDrawable: Wraps a TextureRegion, which is a rectangular area of a Texture;
- SpriteDrawable: Wraps a Sprite, which describes both a texture region, the geometry where it will be drawn, and the color it will be drawn.
Animations and the new Drawable interface
Remeber we use a 2D animation to tilt the ship? The utility class we used (com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Animation) still requires TextureRegions for the animation's frames. The problem is that the modified Image actor now requires a Drawable, and not a TextureRegion. So we'd better create a map whose keys are TextureRegions and the values, Drawables. This way we can avoid instantiating Drawables on demand, which would wake up the garbage collector sometimes, resulting in small freezes while playing the game. Have a look at the modified com.blogspot.steigert.tyrian.screens.scene2d.Ship2D code for detailed information.
Utility classes added
Utility classes are great, aren't they? This list highlights some of them:
- Pool and Poolable: A pool of objects that can be reused to avoid allocation;
- ReflectionPool: A customization of pool that uses reflection to build instances;
- Timer: Schedules the execution of tasks in a platform independent manner;
- Array: A resizable, ordered/unordered array of objects;
- DelayedRemovalArray and SnapshotArray: Customizations of Array that handle concurrent modification in specific ways;
Documentation is being rewritten
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The new TexturePackerThe TexturePacker was completely rewritten. It's now said to be much faster, easier to use and most importantly, it packs images better. A new packing algorithm is being used, the MAXRECTS, created by Jukka Jylänki. Here is the official documentation for the updated version. From the related libgdx post:
- Configuration: The underscore file name conventions are gone. File names can still have a numeric index, it is simply any numbers at end of the file name, before the file extension. To better control packing in various ways, a "pack.json" file can be placed in each input directory. This contains the JSON for the com.badlogic.gdx.tools.imagepacker.TexturePacker2$Settings object. Each directory inherits all settings from the parent directory and any property set here will override those.
- Nine patches: Files with ".9" before the file extension are considered a nine patch file. The pixels around the edges are read and stripped off before packing the image. Once again, you can create nine patches with Android's draw9patch tool. The split information is stored in the pack file, enabling TextureAtlas to provide instances of NinePatch. The splits in the TextureAtlas file format are optional, so existing pack files are still compatible.
In Tyrian we'll add the pack.json file in tyrian-game/etc/images, and this file will hold the configuration values for the TexturePacker. You can play with some properties if you want to customize the output. The only non-default values I used were the "filterMin" and "filterMag", which I set to "Linear". I also removed the configuration directives from the raw images' names (e.g.: splash-image_l,l.png is now splash-image.png). To run the TexturePacker, we could execute the following command on the prompt:
java -classpath gdx.jar;gdx-tools.jar com.badlogic.gdx.tools.imagepacker.TexturePacker2 inputDir outputDir packFileNameBut we can do it inside Eclipse by creating a Java launcher. I saved it under /tyrian-game/TyrianTexturePacker2.launch, so you can open it with your Eclipse like so: Run > Run Configurations... > Java Application > TyrianTexturePacker2.
That done we can use the TextureAtlas class like this:
TextureAtlas atlas = new TextureAtlas(Gdx.files.internal("image-atlases/pages.atlas")); AtlasRegion region = atlas.findRegion("image-name"); Sprite sprite = atlas.createSprite("image-name"); NinePatch patch = atlas.createPatch("image-name");
Important changes in Table LayoutRemember our layout descriptors? Well, they're gone. The main argument for its removal was that most of the time we "have to fallback to the code to manage the UI". As I see, the controller (screen) will be even more coupled to the view. I'm sad with this change because I like to have the layout structure in separate files, but let's follow the updated TableLayout's documentation and modify our code. Now we have to do something like this:
// creates the table actor Table table = new Table(); // 100% width and 100% height on the table (fills the stage) table.setFillParent(true); // add the table to the stage stage.addActor(table); // add the welcome message with a margin-bottom of 50 units table.add( "Welcome to Tyrian for Android!" ).spaceBottom( 50 ); // move to the next row table.row(); // add the start-game button sized 300x60 with a margin-bottom of 10 units table.add( startGameButton ).size( 300f, 60f ).uniform().spaceBottom( 10 ); // move to the next row table.row(); // add the options button in a cell similiar to the start-game button's cell table.add( optionsButton ).uniform().fill().spaceBottom( 10 ); // move to the next row table.row(); // add the high-scores button in a cell similiar to the start-game button's cell table.add( highScoresButton ).uniform().fill();I removed the layout descriptors and updated all the screens to comply with this new API, and you can see the result below:
ConclusionLibgdx is not yet mature, so we should expect future refactorings like this one. But it's evolving quite fast and it already provides many features required for commercial game projects. This is the tag on the Subversion repository for this post, and I these are the commit differences from the previous revision.
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Nicola Wellman registered her team-leading 10th singles win of the season on Saturday against Winthrop.
The Liberty women's tennis team dropped its first home match of the season on Saturday afternoon, falling to No. 63 Winthrop, 6-1, at the Hershey Tennis Courts.
The Lady Flames' record drops to 8-8 overall and 3-2 in Big South matches. Liberty remains winless all-time versus Winthrop and sees its home record fall to 3-1 on the season. The Eagles up their overall record to 9-3 and stay unbeaten in conference matches at 3-0.
Winthrop escaped with the doubles point to jump out to a 1-0 advantage to open the contest. After Liberty's Brittany Yang and Belen Rivera fell at No. 2, the Lady Flames bounced back with a win in the No. 3 position. Cameron Richard and Valerie Thong defeated Tijana Uzelac and Beth Williamson, 8-5. In a tight match at No. 1, the Eagles' Alice and Andressa Garcia edged Rebekah Jenkins and Maria Khval, 8-7, to clinch the point for the visitors.
The Eagles tallied the first three points in singles play to seal the match and go up 4-0. Andressa Garcia knocked off Rebekah Jenkins, 6-3, 6-1 in the No. 1 position and was followed by a victory from Alice Garcia over Yang, 6-1, 6-2, at No. 2. Cridland registered the clinching point by defeating Khval in the No. 3 spot, 6-1, 6-0.
At No. 5, Nicola Wellman put the Lady Flames on the scoreboard with her fourth consecutive singles win. The junior defeated Ekin Gunaysu, 6-3, 6-2, improving her record to a team-best 10-4 on the season.
Winthrop closed out the match with a pair of come-from-behind wins in the No. 4 and No. 6 positions. Uzelac knocked off Rivera, 0-6, 6-3, 6-2, while Monica Aguado ousted Mariely Hassey, 3-6, 6-3, 14-12.
"Winthrop outplayed us today," stated Liberty head coach Jeff Maren. "They are a good team and showed us how we are to compete in order to have a shot at performing well in the conference tournament. We learned a lot about ourselves and our opponents and are excited to get back to practice this week."
Liberty remains at home for its next match, hosting UNC Asheville on Friday at 1 p.m.
No. 63 Winthrop 6, Liberty 1 DOUBLES 1. Alice Garcia/Andressa Garcia (WU) def. Rebekah Jenkins/Maria Khval (LU), 8-7 2. Ekin Gunaysu/Caitlin Cridland (WU) def. Brittany Yang/Belen Rivera (LU), 8-4 3. Cameron Richard/Valerie Thong (LU) def. Tijana Uzelac/Beth Williamson (WU), 8-5
SINGLES 1. Andressa Garcia (WU) def. Rebekah Jenkins (LU), 6-3, 6-1 2. Alice Garcia (WU) def. Brittany Yang (LU), 6-1, 6-2 3. Caitlin Cridland (WU) def. Maria Khval, 6-1, 6-0 4. Tijana Uzelac (WU) def. Belen Rivera (LU), 0-6, 6-3, 6-2 5. Nicola Wellman (LU) def. Ekin Gunaysu (WU), 6-3, 6-2 6. Monica Aguado (WU) def. Mariely Hassey (LU), 3-6, 6-3, 14-12


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Friday, November 2, 2007
It could be coming. "John and Ken" of KFI – the L.A. talk-radio powerhouse – were all abuzz tonight about this blog post by journalist/book author Ron Rosenbaum.
John and Ken speculated that this two-month-old post on Big Head DC, a political gossip blog, might be related.
I vividly remember the first time I read the name "Monica Lewinsky." It was on the Drudge Report. I remember which room of my old apartment I was sitting in, with a Mac laptop that now serves as a paperweight.
The first news of President Clinton receiving blowjobs from a White House intern... it just laid me out.
I won't say now that it struck me as the dawn of a new media age. But in the decade since, a whole vast infrastructure of bloggers has evolved, their information and gossip bleeding over into right-wing talk radio and the cable-TV news shows... and sometimes into papers like the New York Times and Washington Post, which used to set the national media agenda.
If/when this scandal explodes, it'll go like a California wildfire.
20 comments:
- SJ said...
Huma Abedin is gorgeous, but I have a hard time believing the fact that Hilary has been sleeping with her.
The Edwards thing has been reported before...also, if it's such a big secret I'm guessing it's a Democrat.
I kinda hope this is true (is that wrong?), but it's probably not.
- November 2, 2007 at 8:08 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ If true... and if it's Hillary-related... you think Al Gore might be called upon to step in?
I think Edwards and Obama might look even more lightweight without Hillary Clinton at the head of the pack.
- November 2, 2007 at 8:15 PM
- estiv said...
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this will completely fizzle out--that there's nothing there. Bill's the mindless horndog in that dyad, not Hills. (And I use the term mindless horndog with the greatest affection and respect.) Whatever Hillary's character flaws, a deeply hidden recklessness is not one of them. If she were a lesbian, she would divorce Bill, step out of the closet, and deal with her fate straight up.
- November 2, 2007 at 11:19 PM
The one thing we know about Hillary is that she wants the Presidency more than her last breath. She's not going to give it up for a piece of tail.
- November 3, 2007 at 12:00 AM
- Bay Radical said...
Well, as a Certified Lesbo, I can report that rumors of Hillary's Sapphic tendencies have persisted in my 'community' for many, many years. The same way that rumors of the Indigo Girls and Queen Latifa circulated before they came out (oh ya, Latifa never came out, but come on people.)
- November 3, 2007 at 12:18 AM
- Thembi Ford said...
This story is too easy to believe that it can't be true - Hillary being a lesbian makes SO much sense to me that analysis is not even needed! I can picture Bill and Hills having an 'arrangement' especially if she starting exploring her options later in life.
That said, it all could be a dream come true if they called in Al Gore to pitch hit. With a woman and a black dude as our frontrunners I feel like the Democratic choices are just so weak in the eyes of most Americans...I really think we need to review the two-term limit and get Bill's behind on the ballot.
- November 3, 2007 at 9:53 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
Thembi: Al Gore's name definitely popped in my head. Not that I'm letting my mind run wild at the first whiff of rumor.
But still... whatever the L.A. Times has got cooking, it's gonna get out some kind of way. Front page or back channel.
Bay Radical: I'm embarrassed... I always assumed you were a dude! (Even when you tipped your hat to me regarding the lesbian standup comics post.)
The Internet is weird that way.
- November 3, 2007 at 10:59 AM
This is interesting but it truly is a rumor. Keep in mind that Hillary has been accused of murder in the past---all types of accusations about her and her husband.
I just don't believe she'd take that chance. People have a tendency to make accusations against people who work closely together.
I remember years ago taking a coworker to lunch to congratulate him on being promoted to a new job. As a result, TWO people asked me if I was dating that married man.
It boggled my mind. So I feel for HIllary, actually.
- November 3, 2007 at 11:14 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
I hear you, Lynn. And until a legitimate news organization like the L.A. Times reports something, I will assume nothing.
Alas, with the world we live in, this rumor could bubble up into the mainstream numerous ways before any such confirmation. A mega-blog like Drudge... a talk-radio heavyweight like Rush Limbaugh... a Fox News operative...
Stakes is high. The game is gonna get hard.
- November 3, 2007 at 11:49 AM
- odocoileus said...
I thought Hil's dating girls was old news. They had stories in the tabloids with photos of her alleged girlfriend years ago.
My question is, what does all this mean? Is Hilary really sleeping w/ her assistant? How can anybody prove it?
You've been around enough to have heard of "lesbian bed death". How much sex does the typical 60 year old lesbian have? Hell, how much sex does the typical 60 year old breeder gal have if her hubby's not twisting her arm?
Does somebody have photos of one going down on the other? Massaging the other's breasts? Makeout sessions?
If nobody can prove that they're actually having sex with each other, then where is the scandal?
They may very well be deeply in love with each other in an
emotional sense. I would hope that a 60 year old woman who aspires to the most powerful job in the world could control her physical urges well enough to avoid sleeping with an employee.
- November 3, 2007 at 12:14 PM
- SJ said...
Whatever the case, I think most of us would agree that Hilary being together with Huma Abedin is kinda hot. She does look good for a 60-year old.
Or am I the only one who thought of this?
- November 3, 2007 at 3:07 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Hee-hee...
- November 3, 2007 at 6:08 PM
- Thembi Ford said...
She does look good! Hillary is only unattractive to us because Bill wasn't trying to lock it down. She's a woman of power, which has to be attractive...this is being said by someone who, if Tony Soprano were a real person, would go there.
- November 3, 2007 at 7:03 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
She's a woman of power, which has to be attractive...
Yeah, Thembi, that's the thing. Do we wanna take a chance on another Clinton in the Oval Office being orally pleasured by a young female intern??
Damn... I'm seriously starting to hope that this rumor is bogus and it never flames up.
- November 3, 2007 at 7:09 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
But if it's gonna flame up... better now than after she's the Democratic nominee.
- November 3, 2007 at 7:11 PM
- Obie Joe Media said...
Riffing more on your point about the speed of the scandal, I wonder if the addition of blogs, etc. shortens the news cycle on the scandals. A scandal flares up quick and intense, but sputters out in a few days.
And -- I think the scandal might relate to Guiliani's current affair with a fundraiser in TX. In last month's Vanity Fair profile of Guilani, the woman was named.
- November 3, 2007 at 9:46 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Interesting about Giuliani, Obie Joe. Could very well be what the L.A. Times is (allegedly) sitting on.
As to the life cycle of scandals... this could support its own field of scientific inquiry. I think the danger to a presidential candidate is... it's not just new media influencing old media. It's new media, old media, and whole batallions of play-for-keeps political operatives who will use any good weapon they can grab.
Let's say the Giuliani rumor is true and gets proven and goes topside. Then he's toast. Republicans are already working hard to look past the previous divorces plural, the intrafamilial drama, recreational cross-dressing, and other stuff unbecoming of a "family values" candidate.
If you think Giuliani and his wife could pull off a Bill-and-Hillary "60 Minutes" damage control dealie... nuh-uh.
- November 3, 2007 at 10:17 PM
- Bay Radical said...
I'm embarrassed... I always assumed you were a dude!
Well, so did the soccer mom in the CPK bathroom tonight. So you're in good company. Seriously, it's been scientifically proven that I write like a guy. Also, I swear like a sailor (but I break like a little girl).
Also, sex scandal or no, I'm betting the farm that Hillary is taking this one. Believe me, the idea of a continuing Clinton Dynasty depresses the shit out of me, but I'm pretty sure that Giuliani's appearance alone is probably enough to kill his chances.
- November 4, 2007 at 12:06 AM
Yeah, Thembi, that's the thing. Do we wanna take a chance on another Clinton in the Oval Office being orally pleasured by a young female intern??
Heh, it didn't bother me when the first Clinton did it! It takes a village of interns to keep the Clinton White House running.
- November 5, 2007 at 10:05 PM
I don't know why anyone would be surprised about Hillary being bisexual. The State Troupers and Jennifer Flowers told us all that long ago. My surprise is that with all her baggage, the fact that she and her husband ran a criminal empire in Arkansas (illegal drug trade) that our dumbed down society would want someone who should be in jail, (ah la Martha Stuart for insider trading at the very least, or the worst, conspiracy to commit murder, see Clinton death list) to hold ANY public office. WAKE UP AMERICA!
- November 18, 2007 at 6:41 PM


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I saw the Zemanta CTO, Andraz Tori, speak at an Audible Tech Talk earlier this year, decided to give it a try, and have been in love every since. Sometimes you're inspired to write but are left with this long page of copy and no visual appeal. Hunting for images just kills your momentum… and this is where Zemanta really helps. It suggests images based on your copy, and even lets you know the licensing for the images it finds.


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Disappointment on the podium: silver medalists
You'd think an Olympian would be happy to approach the podium and
receive a medal, but while gold medal winners are understandably
ecstatic and bronze medalists look giddy just to be onstage, silver medal winners are often described as the "first loser." Many Olympians are proud of their silver while some can't help but express the disappointment of being so close -- and yet so far -- from Olympic gold. -- By Paul Rosales, Yahoo! Sports
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segarrett necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web codificada y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 17 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
yours2share.com matches like-minded people who want to share valuable assets. We want to redesign of the central section of the main home page as some people find it hard to understand what yours2share can do for them when they first arrive.
Desired Color Scheme:
Any colours or fonts in the existing CSS file (http://www.yours2share.com/css/yours2share.css) as your palette. You may use colours that are close variants of the colours in the existing CCS file, a lighter or darker version of the same tone if necessary.
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The design and location of the header and footer links are fixed. The design of the yours2share logo (just the yours2share name and the "share valuable assets with like-minded people" strapline) is fixed. By Header I mean the yours2share name/logo and st
Accepted File Formats:
html, jpg, gif, css, flash if you feel appropriate
This contest is for the redesign of the central section of the main home page. The winner will be the design that most clearly:
explains the key yours2share concepts
motivates the user to browse, register or explore the site
works alongside the design of the rest of the yours2share site.
Some people find the concepts behind yours2share hard to understand when they first arrive at the web site, particularly at the main home page. You do not need to include all of the information in the sources below, we are looking your view on what information should be included and how it should be presented.
Currently there a home page http://www.yours2share.com/index.shtml and four separate entry pages for specific types of sharing that are being targeted first. These are:
We will alter the four specialist entry pages in line with the new home page once we have a new design.
We started to redesign the home page ourselves http://www.yours2share.com/new.shtml. The key information that we think needs to be in the home page is here http://www.yours2share.com/brief.shtml. Then we realised we really needed some new thinking!
Although I've asked for a coded template, the coding is a lot less important to me than the design. If I get a good design, I can get the html coding done separately, or help the winner to do this.


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The extrapolated prevalence and the current statistics for thrombophlebitis in Switzerland were found to be 109,571 for 7,450,867 populations.
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Installing SAP HANA, express edition, on Microsoft Azure and openSUSE
You will learn
This tutorial will walk you through the setup of a Virtual Machine in your Microsoft Azure dashboard.
Go into the Azure portal and log in to your account or create one. Once logged in, from the
Compute panel in the
Marketplace search for openSUSE and choose the 42.2 version:
And click on Create:
Fill in the Basic information about your machine:
You can generate the SSH public key file with
PuTTYgen or with command
ssh-keygen. Alternatively, you can use a password. Be sure to keep the key file or the password safe and available to you.
Now you need to decide which type of machine you want to install. If you are planning on using the server-only version, you need at least 8GB RAM. If you are planning on also installing the XS Advanced applications, you need at least 16GB RAM. Finally, if you are planning on adding the XS Advanced applications later, take it into account when choosing the size of the disk (80GB Minimum).
Note: If you are installing XSA, after installation is finished, it is advisable to move the data and log folders to the
/dev/sdb1mount point.
You can now review the optional features. Make sure the IP address is set to
Static. If this machine is for development or testing purposes, the default settings should suit those needs.
Click OK. Once deployed, you will see the administration console. Take note of the IP address to connect using your defined username and the password or
ssh-rsa key you have generated
WARNING: If something in the following process fails, you could lose the data in your Virtual Machine. Make sure you create a backup if you do not want to start over or lose any data you may have in the disk in the Virtual Machine. You are responsible for safeguarding any data in the disk you are about to edit and you will proceed at your own risk. However, if you have just created the Virtual Machine and have not done anything with it, you can always create a new one.
Note: You will need to reboot the Virtual Machine.
Go to the configuration of your disk
Change the size of the disk and Save:
Note: You may want to reduce the size or delete the
/dev/sdb1partition to reduce costs.
You can now upload the installation files into your virtual machine using an SCP client, such as WinSCP. Upload
hxe.tgz if you plan to install the server-only version or upload both
hxe.tgz and
hxexsa.tgz if you plan to install the XS Advanced applications.
Continue with the next steps as the upload completes.
Configure Network rules by going into
Network interfaces and then
Security Group
Click on the network security group:
And then click on the Inbound rules:
Add each of the rules in the list below, where XX is the instance number you will use. The installer will suggest instance number
90, although
00 is also used. The XX is the ports represent the instance number. Remember this choice when you specify the instance number in the installation script.
If you are also installing XS Advanced:
- 51002-51027
- 53001-53100
In the example below, instance number
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View the remarkable store that time forgot! This large grocery store was operated by one family from 1871 to 1972 until it closed its doors with trading records and stock dating back to the 1890s all preserved in original condition.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
A New Mets Record! Put It In The Books!
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I like to see records broken, gives athletes something to shoot for! WTG Mets and getting the win! Hopefully they can win a few in a row! Thank you again for the artwork and Recap Joe!ReplyDelete
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The Final
Season 5 Episode 10 | 53m 56s
After weeks of pastries, cakes, and bread, three bakers have made it to the Final. But they face the last and most demanding of challenges yet as every aspect of their baking skill is scrutinized.
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Despite rotting at the bottom of the ocean, this long-wrecked ship plays host to a group of elaborately dressed party goers. What could possibly be going on in this under the sea scene? Let's hear your best fictional explanations.
This is just one of many images from Andreas Franke's Stavronikita Project, which blends real photos of the S.S. Stavronikita with images of folks in rococo fashions (via Design You Trust). You can see more photos from this series at The Sinking World for even more inspiration.
Post your tales of these underwater folk in the comments. Here's mine:
Mercado swam a little faster as the Rococo came into view. When she'd taken the Disaster Tours pod ride, she couldn't help but admire the clockwork creatures who still roamed the ship's decks. It wasn't just Feng Xitai's workmanship—though that was unquestionable; while the ship had rotted and furled with ocean life, the bots looked as new as they had on the Rococo's maiden voyage. It was the way they seamed to enjoy their underwater life, continuing to laugh over their dinner parties and trysts and elaborate dances. Most people thought the bots hadn't left the ship because Feng had failed to program them with adequate self-preservation protocols. Mercado liked to think it was because they were having too much fun.
She'd had to dismantle a Disaster Tours surveillance bot on the way down. Technically, Disaster Tours didn't own the Rococo or her crew, but there were rumors that the company kept shark bots near their underwater tour sites, and Mercado preferred not to meet her end between two sets of titanium teeth.
She spied a cluster of the ship's bots on deck seated about a dinner table. Illusory candles burned, lighting up faces that still looked powdered and rouged. She only needed one of the bots this time, a lure for the financiers who would back a full-scale salvage mission. She mentally selected a gynoid in a tall wig, slumped in her chair in faux drunkenness.
Mercado gripped the ships railing and pulled herself over. One of the bots spied her and raised his glass, beckoning her over. She briefly considered what it might be like to pull up a chair, to run out her oxygen surrounded by these elegant actors. Perhaps in her dying moments, she'd be reborn as one of them, haunting the ship for eternity with her own bon mots. Instead, she lifted up one of the drunken gynoid's arms and attempted to slip it into a propulsion vest.
As soon as the gynoid spotted the vest, however, she began to flail. She slammed Mercado backward with a surprisingly strong arm. Her screams pierced the water as Mercado scrambled to recover the vest and try again.
Mercado ignored the sharp, sudden pain in her gut as her fingers clasped over the vest. I was only when she tried—and failed—to push off the deck that she noticed the blade poking out of her belly and the tendrils of red snaking from her wetsuit.
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'I poured the wine and took a sip, but I wasn't paying it any mind.
I scratched at my chest. Whatever this suit was made out of, I didn't like it. I had seen suits made of cotton, wool, even silk. I had even been fortunate enough to sample the first two, and this didn't feel like either of those. I was also fairly sure the itchy fabric wasn't silk.
"Not enjoying the party, William?"
"Sorry?" I replied, shaken out of my mind.
Anna smiled, "I asked whether you were enjoying the party."
I took another sip of wine, "Oh, yes. Yes, it's very..." I looked around the room at the woman slumped in her seat, asleep, "It's very lively."
Anna laughed, "Not the word I would use."
"No," I agreed, "It's like a gathering of cadavers."
Jonathan walked over to Anna and I, "Anna! I didn't see you there! How are you enjoying my new ship?"
The ship rocked from side to side, causing me to spill my wine onto my suit.
Jonathan chuckled, "Not yet found your sea legs I see, William." He turned to Anna, "Anna, my dear. You simply must meet my aunt. I've told her about your poetry, and she wishes to hear some from your own lips."
Jonathan led Anna away. She turned her head to look back at me. Our eyes met and silent words shared when it happened.
The ship lurched forward, tossing me violently into the table, spilling soup all over the sleeping woman. The hull cracked and water poured in with intensity I'd never seen before. Water filled the cabin, and pushed it's way down into my lungs. The last thing I saw before everything faded away was Anna, floating away, hand in hand with Jonathan.'
The cloaked man stared at me silently for a moment.
'Is that all?' He asked.
'Yes, but isn't it enough?'
'I loved that woman since I was a boy, and never told her. The last thing I saw before I died was her unloving fiancee leading her away from me. I will not let that be.'
'You died,' the cloaked man said, 'People die. And they leave all manner of loved ones behind. To stay in the world and not live in it is a corruption of existence.'
I shifted.
'That being said,' he continued, 'I can't stop you. You must choose to move on.'
'Then I choose to stay!'
'You'll find nothing but misery, there.'
'I'll be with her.'
'A shadow of her.'
'But her.'
The cloaked man raised his staff and the world faded away.
I poured the wine and took a sip.
This time, I would get it right.
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It was an idea had by children hundreds of years ago, of having tea parties at the bottoms of pools; an adventurous game of breath holding and trying desperately to stay at the bottom for as long as possible. Some rich old bat decided that now was the perfect time to make her childhood dreams a reality, never you mind how boring tea parties actually were; especially tea parties without actual tea.
We were not to open our mouths or else the equipment keeping us all breathing would malfunction. Which could be a good thing; it is far easier to ignore dash board comments than actual speech. Our clothing was weighted so that we wouldn't accidentally float away or display the horrific undergarments we where currently enduring. This baroque themed party on a rotting boat was not what I wanted to be doing on my Saturday afternoon. I knew nothing about the baroque period before I was asked to attend this trivial torture and now I wish I knew less. How my mother convinced me this would be a good idea, I cannot possibly imagine. I think I will simply go to sleep, I hope this party will be over quickly.
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From all his adventures, full of debauchery and sin, the one Silvio, fourth Hidalgo of Limonagrio, regretted the most was that night during the new moon before Midsummer when he found himself at the seashore.
The last thing he remembered was getting removed by force from Doña Miguelina's Soiree after saying some scandalous rumors about her cousin, the archbishop and was lost after trying to find the path back to Villa Limonagrio when he suddenly hear the laughs and songs of an enchanted gathering.
He found himself in front of the sea, as black as ink, and along the dark waves he saw lights, not unlike oriental paper lamps and he felt oddly drawn to them. He swam, with blouse and breeches, and feeling such a wrapping peace.
Underwater, he approached to the lamps and figures, human figures, beautiful figures dancing on the deck of "La Doncella", a ship that had sank when Silvio's great-grandfather, the famous commodore and first Hidalgo of Limonagrio, was a mishipman. Never Silvio had seen such beauty and elegance; he observed them from afar, singing ballads in the language of whales and seagulls and playing licentious games that made him, from all people, brush.
The spectres noticed him and Silvio was needing air, but when he tried to go to the surface, the aparitions dragged him with cold porcelain hands and frozen faces. He thought on screaming but did not wanted to let go the little air he had left. He was feeling that unnerving peace pulling him, along those creatures and as he was losing consciousness he suddenly felt a pull and thought everything was lost.
When he woke up, it was a bit before dawn and Silvio was surrounded by fish. The fishermen in their small bost had caught many unusual things, including a monkfish, but never an Hidalgo. It turned out to be the best catch they ever had, granting them enough coins to make fishing a hobby while Silvio, the fourth Hidalgo of Limonagrio, returned to his carefree life of lavishness; always narrating the same story of the aquatic aristocrats amd alwalys making sure to never walk alone at night after heavy drinking. Especially near the seashore.
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"Transparency"? Civic engagement? After a string of closed-door meetings with municipal officials in Fall River, New Bedford, Quincy, Salem and, on Wednesday, in Framingham, Gov. Deval Patrick doesn't appear to be putting those words high on his "to-do" list.
"Transparency"? Civic engagement?
After a string of closed-door meetings with municipal officials in Fall River, New Bedford, Quincy, Salem and, on Wednesday, in Framingham, Gov. Deval Patrick doesn't appear to be putting those words high on his "to-do" list.
The governor met at the Memorial Building in Framingham with several town managers, including Framingham's Julian Suso, selectmen and several MetroWest lawmakers to discuss state finances and the souring national economic picture.
At least that's what we were told they talked about.
Pretty important topic these days, right? Probably issue #1 on everyone's mind as we close in on the election Nov. 4 and part of many worried discussions around the kitchen table.
So why would a governor gather together state and municipal decision-makers, pull them all into a meeting room at town hall and shut the door?
Asked in a brief Q&A with reporters after the Framingham meeting why he called these officials together, the governor said, "We're trying to be as transparent and constructive as we can be."
How can that be, when the meeting is closed to taxpayers, and the governor and many of those who were present hurry away after the meeting ends, like they were spring-loaded?
The Massachusetts Open Meeting Law says "All meetings of a governmental body shall be open to the public and any person shall be permitted to attend any meeting" except as provided in a list of nine specific circumstances. But the Legislature made sure the law doesn't apply to it, to the governor's office or to the court system. The law applies to municipal government bodies when a quorum gathers to do the business of the town. For at least part of the Wednesday closed-door session, three members of the Framingham Board of Selectmen were present, which constitutes a quorum. Julian Suso said after the meeting that selectmen didn't conduct business or take any votes, but we would argue that selectmen discussing the dire financial picture in Massachusetts with the governor will certainly inform their votes in the future. And the fact the governor felt it was important enough to call this meeting in Framingham and at least four other communities means this issue of state finances is very important.
So why wouldn't that be a discussion open to the public? If selectmen called the meeting, at the governor's request, they would be under no obligation to allow members of the public to speak. The chairman controls the gavel, as it were, and if the governor wanted this to be a meeting of the minds, a sharing of ideas that might help him pilot Massachusetts through this fog, then that's what it could be, without interruptions from that pesky public.
In criticizing Patrick for holding the closed-door meeting at Salem City Hall last week, a Salem News editorial said the governor's office "advertized the meeting as a listening session. He also wanted to explain the recent budget cuts he'd made and talk about what might be coming down the road."
MetroWest residents might have a strong interest in hearing about those things - even if they could only listen, and not speak.
Since the governor isn't bound by the Open Meeting Law, why should he let transparency and the public's right to know get in the way of a meeting with municipal and legislative officials? Shouldn't those who govern be allowed to meet in private to discuss our collective future any time they want?
Most likely, Patrick wanted to give local officials some straight talk about how bad it's going to get. He may have wanted to hear their concerns and yank them into his own reality, one in which the state financial picture will leave local officials fighting over a few crusts of bread instead of half a loaf.
No one here has any delusion the economy is in good shape. We read it daily, in the reports of more layoffs, of the financial sector shrinking, the real estate market still struggling, and local retailers hurting from fewer sales and higher prices to stock their shelves.
With so much cynicism about state government that voters on Tuesday will be asked to vote whether they want to eliminate the state income tax, why would a governor close taxpayers out of such an important, ongoing conversation?
By doing that he puts the lie to any claim of transparency and he feeds suspicion among taxpayers - many of whom will vote on Tuesday - that government really doesn't work in their best interests.
I don't believe that, but this week I'd be hard-pressed to tell you why.
Richard Lodge is editor of The Daily News and writes a column published Friday. He also writes the Press Pass blog with reporter Paul Crocetti on the newspaper's Web site. To e-mail Richard: email@example.com.


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I think it depends on the student. If they are responsible enough to work and go to school I think it is better if they are on their own. I have a daughter in her 2nd year of a 4 year college and I feel that she sometimes takes advantage of the fact that she is still home. They need to be indpendent and learn how to manage on their own. If the student is focused and taking a full load of classes which doesn't allow enough time to work and support themselves, then of course they should stay home, but if they are willing to move out and make it work....go for it! I would of course let them know that the door is open if they get a little overwhelmed the first year.
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A Brazilian police investigation has determined that the death of boxer Arturo Gatti was a suicide and a court has ordered the release of his wife, who was once suspected of killing him.
Lead investigator Paulo Alberes told The Associated Press on Thursday their investigation concluded that Gatti killed himself on July 11 in a seaside resort in northeastern Brazil. He offered no other details, but said he would hold a press conference later in the day.
Just one day after Gatti was found dead, police said they thought his Brazilian wife, Amanda Rodrigues, 23, had strangled him with her purse strap while he slept.
But police began to back off after a coroner's report said that Gatti may have killed himself.
State court judge Ildete Verissimo de Lima in the city of Recife ordered that Rodrigues be immediately released.
The judge wrote in the ruling that police informed the court that "the detention of the suspect was no longer needed" as the investigation "excludes the possibility of murder."
"The victim ... committed suicide by hanging," Lima's ruling read, referring to the police investigation findings.
Rodrigues lawyer, Celio Avelino, said she would walk out of jail Thursday afternoon.
Gatti was found dead in the apartment he was renting with Rodrigues in the seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas in Brazil's northeast.
The pair, who had a tumultuous marriage, had arrived there a few days before Gatti's death for a second honeymoon. The couple brought their 10-month-old son, who was unhurt and is in the care of Rodrigues' family in Brazil.
Gatti's family and friends in his adopted hometown of Montreal have been adamant that the boxer would not have killed himself.
"Nobody believes whatsoever that there's even a 1-percent chance of a suicide. He lived life to the fullest," Ivano Scarpa, a close Gatti family friend, said at the boxer's July 20 funeral service in Canada.
But Rodrigues, in a July 15 letter that she handed over to the AP from prison, said: "I'm innocent and I know that this will be proven in a few days."
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The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) has issued this video guide for the public on how to survive the sort of attack which took place in Paris last month.
The four minute video gives guidance on how to react if there is an armed assault on your place of work or a public place.
Entitled 'Stay Safe' the information film runs through the various options in dealing with an attack, including running and hiding from the attackers, as well as informing the police that an assault is underway.
The current terrorism threat level for the UK is 'Severe', meaning an attack is 'highly likely'.
In the run-up to Christmas security is being beefed-up in the UK's major cities, including Sheffield, with extra armed police patrolling the streets to offer reassurance to the public as well as to act a deterrent to any would-be attackers.
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Ferrari F12berlinetta. Another award, this time from Gulf Connoisseur
Ferrari has been honored once again, securing a prestigious award from Gulf Connoisseur, a leading luxury lifestyle bi-monthly magazine in the UAE, for the F12berlinetta, which has been crowned the best sports car, winning the coveted 'Gulf Connoisseur Award: Best Car – Sports Segment.'
Commenting on the latest addition to the Ferrari range, K.N. Ned, the Managing Director of Gulf Connoisseur, commented, "All sports car brands realize that in their business it is technological supremacy that determines performance. Not surprisingly, the F12berlinetta faced intense competition from some very exceptional cars in the fray, but our jury felt that this most beautiful and powerful Ferrari, harnessing all of 730 bhp, combines class-leading performance and technology with family-saloon levels of comfort, setting new benchmarks for grand touring coupés."
The F12berlinetta strikes a perfect balance between maximum aerodynamic efficiency and the elegant proportions typical of Ferrari's most powerful front-engined V12 cars. Since its launch, the car has been the object of universal acclaim from the press and public alike, with the Gulf Connoisseur Magazine award, following several other recent awards from GQ Magazine, BBC Top Gear Magazine's 'Supercar of the Year,' Auto Bild's 'Design Award,' The Sunday Times Driving's 'Best Supercar and Luxury Car' award and the Golden Steering Wheel award from Auto Bild and Bild Am Sonntag, the first time a Ferrari has ever taken this leading German industry prize. The Ferrari F12berlinetta's 6.3-litre V12 engine was also the winner of EVO magazine's 'Engine of the Year' award in November."


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I've said before that I have two only children. The age difference between Cameron and his sister is eight years, and they are opposite in every way imaginable. They love each other deeply, and sibling rivalry has never been a topic of any parenting book I pick up. We do not face the same issues many of my friends with children closer in age face, and so I refer to my children as two only children. But last week, when my daughter was at her annual checkup with a new pediatrician, the doctor asked if there were any siblings at home. I said, "Yes, she has a 17-year-old brother ... Half-brother, actually."
To which the doctor replied, "But you've raised her as an only child, right?"
Suddenly my jovial comment of having two only children landed in the pit of my stomach. What exactly did the doctor mean by her question? How does one raise a child as an "only child"? Is this an accusation of some sort? Is there a difference in how you raise one child versus multiple children? Was the doctor insinuating I had a spoiled brat who thought the world existed only for her own benefit? If my daughter and Cameron were closer in age, would that significantly change their personalities?
Having children closer in age was not in the cards for me. Back in the day when I was dreaming of a family, the "plan" had been two children spaced about two years apart. When Cameron's second birthday rolled around, I was missing a critical component for sibling production: a father. But as it turned out, having Cameron as an only child for eight years (and finding a new husband) was a good thing. My attention wasn't divided between Cameron's needs, as I found out they were "special," and the needs of an infant. By the time an infant came along, Cameron was mature enough to be excited about a new baby sister, and not threatened or bothered by her. We even went so far as to invent a special holiday for Cameron, in honor of him becoming a brother. We celebrated Big Brother's Day for the first time when Cameron's sister was around 4 months old. Cameron considered his sister a real blessing, and not just because of the present he received on Big Brother's Day. He really loved the feeling of our family becoming, in his mind, balanced by the addition of a female child. It was very symmetrical: A male and female adult pair, and a male and female child pair.
Of course, there's no way of knowing how life would be different for either of my children if they had been born closer together in age. As it is, I love the uniqueness of the individuals I've had a hand in creating. I love that my parenting muscle has been flexed in that there are very few occasions in which I say, "Oh yeah, I remember this phase." I get to experience everything fresh and new with each of my children. So the answer is no, I'm not raising my children as only children. I'm raising them each to be the truly unique, magnificent individuals they are. They both respect and appreciate each other, and the family unit of which they are critical components. And they're not the ones.


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Quite awhile ago we reviewed the 3D DepthQ projector and at the time of the review it was the best state of the art machine we had come across. Now the big boy of the 3D projector world seems to be the Mitsubishi HC-9000D 3D Projector.
So what makes the Mitsubishi HC-9000D Projector so special? Well for one thing it produces some AMAZINGLY CLEAR 3D Images thanks to some special reflective SXRD panels and an advanced frame sequencing method. Most 3D Projectors do 120 frames per second (60 for each eye). The Mitsubishi HC-9000D does 240 frames per second (120 for each eye) which results in a smoother 3D experience that feels natural to your eye and brain.
The 3D Glasses that go with the Mitsubishi HC-9000D projector are a special active-shutter setup that synchronizes everything to ensure that images for the left and right eyes are not mixed up. The result is a movie that looks so real you feel like you can reach out and touch it.
The Mitsubishi HC-9000D Projector is a quality build. It is sleek and beautiful and well crafted. The design accomodates several mounting options, and it makes for a great conversation piece. The Mitsubishi HC-9000D is also part of the new generation of Full HD 1080p projectors. Until now 3D projectors were 720p (including the DepthQ which scaled well to 1080p).
The performance we observed out of the Mitsubishi HC-9000D projector is superb. The issue here is going to be whether or not the Sony LCOS panels (the SXRD Panels we mentioned earlier) will lose contrast ratio, and color performance over time. There have been some fairly large concerns about Sony projectors because of this, in fact, Cine4home stopped selling Sony projectors because of the issue (according to a thread at AVSforums).
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We will be able to report when we have run more tests. However, we think that Mitsubishi may have solved this issue as our testing has not indicated any performance degredation to date. All in all I would have to say this projector is an outstanding value. At the time I am writing this (Dec 2011) the avg street price is around $4499 USD.
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Dr. Leiva was able to do all of the work in a far shorter time period as compared to a prosthodontist in Canada or the US.
These are the before and after images of patients who had all-on-four dental implants in Los Algodones, Mexico at Sani Dental Group.
Check out these before and after images of our former patients who have had porcelain crowns applied in our clinic in Antalya Turkey.
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