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'Chicken' arrested at Londonderry paradeMARK QUIRK
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 18. 2014 9:33PM
A man wearing a chicken costume was arrested for reportedly harassing the New Hampshire governor and a U.S. senator at the Old Home Day parade in Londonderry on Saturday.
The man was Michael Zona, 23, of Manchester. Zona, a state Republican Party staff member, was arrested for disorderly conduct at the parade, where he was allegedly harrassing Gov. Maggie Hassan and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, both Democrats. It's not clear what Zona was doing to get him arrested.
Zona said he was trying to draw attention to Shaheen's public appearances.
"I believe Senator Jeanne Shaheen should be holding town halls and I have a First Amendment right to express that point of view," Zona said in a written statement provided to Lauren Zelt, a spokesperson for NHGOP. "I wasn't bothering anyone. I wasn't disturbing anyone. In fact, I got a good deal of encouragement from people along the parade route."
Zona was released on personal recognizance bail and has a court date set at 10th Circuit Court-District Division-Derry on Sept. 8.
This isn't the first appearance of the chicken on a campaign trial. It also paid a visit to a Shaheen campaign event in Keene last Thursday where the person in the suit held a sign stating "Jeanne Shaheen too chicken for Town Halls."


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U2 will be Jimmy Fallon's musical guests during the debut as host of NBC's "Tonight Show" on Feb. 17, according to a release from the network. Fallon is replacing Jay Leno, who first took over as host from Johnny Carson in 1992.
Will Smith will be Fallon's first interview guest.
During the show, it is rumored that the Irish quartet that played live for the first time in more than three years a couple weeks ago at Sean Penn's Help Haiti benefit in Beverly Hills, will premiere new material from its upcoming album expected to come out in April.
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer is back
Jeremy Spencer, who with Peter Green, were founding guitarists in Fleetwood Mac in July 1967, will undertake his first U.S. tour in 43 years (when The Mac toured in 1971), according to his website.
The 30-date jaunt begins Feb. 12 with an in-store appearance at Fingerprints in Long Beach and wraps March 31 at Iridium in New York with The Les Paul Trio. Other appearances include Feb. 13 at Largo in Los Angeles and Feb 14 at LeStats in San Diego.
Spencer abruptly left Fleetwood Mac in February 1971 before the band's scheduled gig at the Whiskey a Go Go. He then turned up as a member of Children of God, a Christian-based religious cult formed in Huntington Beach. The cult. of which Spencer remains a member, changed its name to Family International. Drummer Mick Fleetwood says Spencer and Green were both negatively affected by a bad mescaline trip they each took early on that tour.
The guitarist released five solo albums since 1970 and is expected to perform songs from those albums as well as delving deeply into tunes from his Fleetwood Mac days. Spencer will be backed by two bands depending on the location, The Evie Sands Band; and a band fronted by guitarist-back-up singer Brett Lucas.
Paul and Ringo reunion update
Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney will perform together during the Grammy Awards and also on CBS special, "The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles."
The Grammy Awards air live this Sunday on CBS, while the two-hour special tapes Jan. 27 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and airs Feb. 9, 50 years to the day that The Beatles made their debut on the network's "Ed Sullivan Show."
Ringo spoke with Rolling Stone about The Beatles historic landing "Sullivan Show" appearance. "(It was) incredible. It was Ed Sullivan, and it was a big show, and we didn't know while we were playing that 70 million people were watching (73 million, actually, the most viewers in the history of television at the time), but it was being in America that was so exciting. All the music we loved was in America; it came from America to England. I could feel the buzz, even on the plane, it was so exciting. I went 'Aaaaah!'"
However, another rumored Beatles reunion, which states the pair would perform together during Sunday's Grammy Awards, might truly die in the rumor mill. Both Beatles will attend and receive Lifetime Achievement Awards for their work as Beatles and are expected to perform at the awards show that CBS is telecasting from the Staples Center, but they might do so separately.
If so, wouldn't separate performances disappoint the millions of fans watching and waiting for a reunion?
No reason for the possible separate performances has been given.
Clapton, Plant, Springsteen, Santana, Fogerty headline New Orleans Jazz Fest
Eric Clapton, former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Santana and former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty are headlining this year's New Orleans Jazz Festival, organizers announced.
The festival is slated for April 25-May 4 at the Fair Grounds Race Course.
A couple hundred other performers will also appear over the fest's six nights of music, including Boz Scaggs, Phish, country singer Robert Earl Keen, The Avett Brothers, Robin Thicke, The Branford Marsalis Quartet, Vampire Weekend, former Gap Band singer Charlie Wilson, 72-year-old "Soul Queen of New Orleans" Irma Thomas and more.
Steve Smith writes a new Classic Pop, Rock and Country Music News column every week. Contact him by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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In January 2002 National Public Radio launched The Tavis Smiley Show, a daily one-hour magazine program featuring a high-velocity mixture of commentary, reporting and analysis, and hosted by one of the most energetic and ambitious young media personalities in the country. The first new daily program produced at NPR in a generation, The Tavis Smiley Show was directed at an audience poorly served by public radio: African-Americans. According to NPR, it did quite well in terms of ratings. But the honeymoon didn't last: Smiley felt that NPR was not doing enough to promote his program among nonwhite listeners, and his contract negotiations with the network collapsed in late 2004, after which he went on the offensive against NPR. "It is ironic," he informed Time, "that a Republican president has an administration that is more inclusive and more diverse than a so-called liberal-media-elite network."
Smiley directed his firepower at an organization that has accomplished a great deal in recent years. Thanks in part to NPR's comprehensive foreign coverage, its listenership has soared since 9/11: In the wake of the attacks on New York and Washington, NPR gained (and has kept) nearly 4 million new listeners, and the network's various programs now reach 23 million listeners a week on more than 780 member stations. Morning Edition is now the most listened-to morning show in the country. As the listenership grew, so did the philanthropic largesse: In November 2003 NPR received a stunning $236 million bequest from the estate of Joan Kroc, the widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc.
But Smiley ruined the party both by calling attention to the shortcomings of an institution that emerged from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and by underlining the gap between NPR's rhetoric–in this case, about racial inclusion–and reality. The entity that calls itself National Public Radio, he reminded us, is not serving the entire public. "You'd be amazed," he told Salon, "at the number of people of color who do not know what NPR is."
In its journalism and its financial structure, NPR has indeed evolved into a somewhat different entity from what its founders envisioned. On May 3, 1971, it went on the air with the first broadcast of All Things Considered. The program began with a kaleidoscopic account of a major antiwar rally in Washington, DC, at which more than 6,000 people were arrested. "Excuse me," NPR's reporter asked a police sergeant attempting to quell the protests, "Is that a technique? Where the men actually try to drive the motorcycles right into the demonstrators?" Three decades later, rough-edged, in-your-face reportage has largely been supplanted by conventional punditry from the likes of Cokie Roberts, Daniel Schorr and David Brooks, and by consciously mainstream news reporting by correspondents whose voices are often indistinguishable from one another.
To some extent, financial and political pressures help to explain NPR's turn toward mainstream respectability and high-minded professionalism: NPR's founders had every expectation that public funds would cover the budget, but Republican hostility to public broadcasting thwarted those early hopes and dreams. Three decades after its creation, NPR now draws a significant portion of its funding from corporations such as Wal-Mart, Sodexho and Archer Daniels Midland. Likewise, NPR had sound journalistic reasons for turning away from its edgy, countercultural roots. Over the past decade, as media conglomerates dumped public-affairs programming in favor of "infotainment" and tabloid trash, NPR recognized the void and moved to fill it with high-quality news reporting. That news-oriented model, by drawing in listeners hungry for substantial coverage of politics and public affairs, has enabled NPR to thrive: Today, it continues to add correspondents and bureaus at a time when most other major news organizations are trimming them. A fair-minded evaluation must conclude that if NPR has turned its back on some of the values enshrined in its original mission statement, it has also, in other ways and despite enormous political pressure from its detractors, remained true to them as well.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The dollar lost ground against most major rivals on Friday amid mixed U.S. data on industrial production and consumer sentiment. Chinese inflation data boosted the Aussie and the euro advanced amid a report showing the euro-zone economic recovery picked up speed.
U.S. economic data have played into broader concerns about whether growth will slip. Investors began the year expecting the economy to accelerate, but data have disappointed to the downside, with weather being a primary factor. Now investors are wondering whether to downgrade their expectations or muddle through what could just be a soft patch that recedes in the spring.
After Friday's data, the ICE dollar index DXY, -0.02% a gauge of the U.S. unit's strength against six other currencies, dropped to 80.13, from 80.31 late Thursday. It is down roughly 0.6% on the week. The WSJ Dollar index BUXX, -0.05% which tracks the greenback against a broader basket of comparison currencies, fell to 73.41, from 73.62 late Thursday.
The British pound GBPUSD, +0.5323% jumped versus the dollar to $1.6748 from $1.6660. Against the Japanese yen, the dollar USDJPY, +0.24% declined to ¥101.81, from ¥102.27 late Thursday.
Data on Friday showed a gauge of consumer sentiment was unchanged at 81.2 in February, according to the University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a drop to 80. But industrial production dropped 0.3% in January, below expectations of a 0.2% gain.
"This week has been an exceptional week. The dollar has been down against everything, including the yen," said Marc Chandler, currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman.
The currency-market's reaction to data has been muted, given expectations that the indicators won't impact the Federal Reserve's decision to wind down its bond-buying stimulus program, said Chandler. Nonetheless, strengthening currencies elsewhere in the world pushed the dollar weaker. But other market participants said the weak data has taken on an increased significance in the market.
"It's impossible to ignore the coincidence of U.S. dollar weakness with the sudden slump in top of the line U.S. economic data. The U.S. dollar pain trade really began on January 10, when the market was stunned with a +74K (later revised to +75K) December NFP print," said Christopher Vecchio, currency analyst at DailyFX
Meanwhile, the euro EURUSD, -0.0086% edged up to $1.3698, from $1.3677 late Thursday, as investors digested a report showing the euro zone is slowly finding its footing. Gross domestic product increased at an annualized rate of 1.1% during the fourth quarter, or 0.3% on a non-annualized basis. Economists had expected economic growth of 0.2% on a quarter-on-quarter basis.
China's consumer inflation rate held steady at 2.5% in January, as beef and vegetable prices rose, China's National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday. It was slightly above projections of a 2.3% rise in separate surveys from The Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
The Australian dollar AUDUSD, -0.0561% jumped to 90.36 U.S. cents, from 89.85 U.S. cents late Thursday. The currency is often sensitive to data from China, which is the biggest export market for Australia.
"The easing in food inflation is encouraging for Chinese policy makers, but the slight lift in core inflation is not a concern," Craig James, chief economist for Commonwealth Securities Research, said in a report on Friday. "There are few sources of angst for Aussie investors at present."
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(University of Miami School of Law, 1994-03)Under good economic conditions, but particularly during recessionary periods, there is usually intense competition between states to attract new businesses. New businesses improve local and state economies by providing an ...
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Statement before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, 104th Congress, 1st Session, Sep. 29, 1995 (1995-09-29)On September 21, 1994, the House Committee on Small Business held a hearing on the socio-economic impacts of the trend toward increased legalized gambling activities. At the hearing, the committee received testimony from ...
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Statement of John Warren Kindt Before the Illiniois House of Representatives Committee of the Whole, Springfield, Illinois, July 9 , 2008 (2008)
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Statement of Professor John Warren Kindt, Univ. Ill., to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, "U.S. and International Concerns over the Socio-Economic Costs of Legalized Gambling: Greater than the Illegal Drug Problem?" (1998-05)Knowing that legalized gambling has a zero-sum economic effect (except for increased socioeconomic costs) in its market, gambling proponents focus public attention on the wrong market-- that is the local market instead ...
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Subpoenaing Information from the Gambling Industry: Will the Discovery Process in Civil Lawsuits Reveal Hidden Violations Including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act? (University of Oregon School of Law, 2003)
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Testimony Before the Committee on Resources, United States House of Representatives: Hearing on Tribal proposals to acquire land-in-trust for gaming across states lines; and how such proposals are affected by the off-reservation discussion draft bill, April 27, 2005 (2005)
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Testimony Before the Illinois House Executive Committee, Capitol Building, Springfield, Illinois: Tax Gamling, Not People: The Budget and Pensions Solution for Illinois (2013-10-23)Testimony Before the Illinois House Executive Committee, Capitol Building, Springfield, Illinois
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Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, United States House of Representatives, Legislative Hearing on H.R. 4777: The "Internet Gambling Prohibition Act," April 5, 2006 (Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business, 2008)Congressional testimony of John Warren Kindt
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Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee On Resources, 109th Congress, 1st Session, Apr. 27, 2005 (2005-04-27)Hearing on Tribal proposals to acquire land-in-trust for gaming across states lines; and how such proposals are affected by the off-reservation discussion draft bill
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Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business, 103rd Congress, 2nd Session, Sep. 21, 1994 (1994-09-21)From a business-economic perspective, the main issue involved in legalizing various forms of gambling is whether gambling activities constitute a valid strategy for economic development. While the dollars invested in ...
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Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, of the Committee on the Judiciary, 109th Congress, 2nd Session, on H.R. 4777, Apr. 5, 2006 (2006-04-05)A. Internet Gambling Destabilizes U.S. National Security and the Strategic Economic Base; B. A Summary List of Problems with Internet Gambling; C. The Socio-Economic Impacts of Gambling Activities via the Internet, Cell ...
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U.S. National Security and the Strategic Economic Base: The Business/Economic Impacts Of Legalized Gambling Activities (Saint Louis University School of Law, 1995-12)Accordingly, this Article concludes that because widespread legalized gambling activities represent such a threat to the strategic U.S. economic base and to stability of expectations, Congress should seriously consider ...
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Would Re-Criminalizing U.S. Gambling Pump-Prime the Economy and Could U.S. Gambling Facilities Be Transformed into Educational and High-Tech Facilities?: Will the Legal Discovery of Gambling Companies' Secrets Confirm Research Issues? (Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance, 2003-03)Economists and sociologists noted that the economic justifications for decriminalized gambling such as claims of new jobs, public revenues, and business development were the same types of arguments that Lincoln decried as ...
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The Bachelor's Jake Pavelka cheating scandal refuses to go away, as his ex-girlfriend Tanya Douglas has now given an exclusive paid interview to Life&Style magazine.
In the latest issue of Life&Style, Tanya reveals that Jake only did the Bachelor for money and that he professed his love to her after proposing to Vienna Girardi on the show.
Tanya tells Life & Style that Jake only did the show for the money, saying he's obsessed with being on TV. Tanya also claims Jake was still in love with her when he went on the show and even wanted her to be a contestant! "I don't think he has any idea what he wants except to be on TV," says Tanya.
Tanya,25, says she first met Jake in July 2008 and the two quickly became friends. They became romantically involved once Jake left The Bachelorette, and their romance was still going strong when Jake got a call to appear on The Bachelor. At first, Tanya claims Jake didn't want to be on the show. "He said, 'Everything I was looking for I've found in you,'" she says. However he eventually decided to do it due to financial problems he was experiencing. Jake told Tanya he would receive $500,000 to do the show.
"Maybe I can persuade the producers to let you be on the show and be one of the 25 contestants, and then it's rigged for me the whole time, and in the end we can still be together and have the money," is what Tanya claims Jake told her.
The cheating accusation comes to play when Jake began contacting Tanya just days after he proposed to Vienna back in November. And then in December, Jake told Tanya he was still in love with her despite having a fiance. "He said over the phone, 'Ever since that day I saw you get on that plane in Asheville, I've never loved anyone more.'"
"Vienna is being lied to," Tanya states. "The person Jake is on TV is a different person than when he was with me."
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Thanks man! That's actually the old paint job, the new one is a 3 stage. Black base, violet toner, and clear. The paint job that you saw only ran me $1700, but I had a good friend do the work for me. The one that I have now is closer to $4000, but again, I had a (different) good friend do it for me after a lady hit my car in a parking lot and destroyed the entire driver side.


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BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets stuttered Friday after a survey showed a sharp drop in Japanese business confidence and a lack of progress in U.S. budget negotiations intensified fears that the world's largest economy faces a new recession.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.4 percent to 9,706.50 after a Bank of Japan survey showed large Japanese manufacturers becoming more pessimistic about business conditions. The index in three months to December dropped from September's minus three to minus 12, much worse than expected.
The survey suggested than an economic recovery might come even later than the central bank is currently envisaging, said Yoshiro Sato of Credit Agricole CIB in a market commentary.
South Korea's Kospi fell 0.6 percent to 1,989.66. Benchmarks in Singapore and Taiwan also fell. Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.3 percent to 22,519.7 and Australia's S&P/ASX added 0.1 percent to 4,588.90.
Among individual stocks, Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. surged 5.5 percent and Sharp Corp. jumped 5.2 percent.
Wall Street stocks slid Thursday after investors registered their dismay at an apparent lack of progress during budget talks in Washington between President Barack Obama and key Republican lawmakers.
A deal must be reached by the end of the year to avoid what has been dubbed the "fiscal cliff" — hundreds of billions of dollars in automatic spending cuts and tax increases that could plunge the world's largest economy back into recession.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.6 percent to 13,170.72. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 0.6 percent to 1,419.45. The Nasdaq composite index fell 0.7 percent to 2,992.16.
The decline in stocks came despite the fourth straight weekly drop in applications for unemployment benefits. Applications fell 29,000 last week to 343,000, the second-lowest this year, the Labor Department reported.
Benchmark crude was up 36 cents to $86.25 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract lost 88 cents to end at $85.89 per barrel in New York on Thursday.
In currencies, the euro was nearly unchanged at $1.3076 from $1.3075 late Thursday in New York. The dollar rose to 83.68 yen from 83.17 yen.
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I know there are parents who swear by this new Christmas tradition and get really into it (um really, really into it). I am a reluctant Elf on the Shelfer, but I'm warming up to the idea.
I am new to this whole elf thing. To be honest, I wouldn't have one if we hadn't been given the book as a gift a few years back. We've read it during the holidays before but this is the first year we've actually played along and hidden the elf every day. I think they must talk about it at school because Alex asked me last week when our elf was coming, which basically meant I had to buck up and jump on the elfwagon. So we got our book and elf out of the "Christmas Toys" box over the weekend (I did not let the kids see me unearth him since apparently he's supposed to swoop into town from the North Pole, not out of your garage). We've already had some bumps in the road—on day two I forgot to hide him so when I ran downstairs in the morning to do so and Alex followed me despite my imploring him to stay put, he saw our elf lying face down on the counter and accused me of finding him first and that was unfair and "you totally ruined my whole day, mom." That awesome morning aside, I think overall we're off to a good start.
The first day he arrived I told the kids they needed to name him, then Nick and I overheard this conversation between our very excited kids:
Alex: "I think we should call him Elfie, what do you think, Nora?"
Nora: "That's a really good name, Ali!"
We melted. The book is kind of cute, if a little creepy (again with all the naughty and nice and watching and the doll coming to life at night—eek!). Apparently you're not supposed to touch the elf but my kids do sometimes and I don't freak out. I'm not always watching them when they search for him in the morning and Nora isn't even three yet and she doesn't understand/listen when I tell her not to touch something that looks like something a kid should be able to touch (i.e. a stuffed toy). Alex often mumbles, "I hope he doesn't lose his magic," but I don't have the energy to make a big deal out of it. Though I'm probably going to have to. When Nick and I came home Saturday night to relieve our sitter, I went to check on the kids and Nora had Elfie sleeping under her chin—whoops! (Obviously, I removed him since he had to "go to the North Pole to report back to Santa"). And yesterday she came over to me and said this: "Mom, I just broke Elfie's arms but I don't think he cares." Oy. (She just pulled the stitch out that keeps the hands together. Again, whoops!).
I don't talk a lot about our elf reporting back to Santa and telling him whether my kid are naughty or nice (e.g. I did not tell Nora that Santa would notice Elfie's broken arms and not think very kindly of that act—or of Nora). If they ask I confirm his magic but I'm not perpetuating the story too much. It just feels inauthentic to me since, like I said, I'm new to this and it's a new thing anyway and I'm a slow adapter to made-up holiday traditions. Maybe my hesitation comes from a place of jealousy—that I didn't make up a holiday tradition and get super rich from it. I don't know, though I also feel uncomfortable saying "Santa is watching" and that guy's been around forever. All that said, my kids are really into the elf thing and I'm definitely a fan of whatever makes this magical time of year even more magical for them. Am I going to take it to the epic lengths some other moms do? Doubtful. (My friend, Christi, shared this post about one mom's struggle with the Elfsanity last week—hilarious. Elves who make cookies in the middle of the night and leave a huge mess? Why??!!). Right now the only expectations my kids have is that Elfie is hiding in a new spot every morning. I think I can handle that. (Parenting posted these cute and do-able ideas I may try if I'm feeling creative/bored/like being a really great mom).
Anyway, I'm curious about how you guys feel about Elf on the Shelf. Are you into it? Against it? Did you dive right into it or were you dubious at first like me? And do you get super creative or is it just enough that you remember to hide the little bugger each night? Let's discuss.


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Photos of the day: 11/14
Photos from around the globe.
A member of the Mercedes team rides during inspections of the track Thursday for the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Flames and smoke billow above rooftops and houses burning after a gas pipeline exploded Thursday during renovation work in Jankow Przygodzki, western Poland. Several people were killed and at least 10 injured. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iranian Shiites cover themselves with mud Thursday during Ashoura, marking the death anniversary of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, at the city of Bijar, west of the capital Tehran, Iran. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A surfer is silhouetted against the sea while riding a wave Thursday near Peniche, on the west coast of Portugal. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Col. William M. Knight, commander of the 11th Wing, salutes as Air Force One with President Barack Obama departs Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A sinkhole has swallowed parts of two houses and forced seven homes in the area of Robmar Road in Dunedin to be evacuated. LUKE JOHNSON/STAFF
Typhoon Haiyan survivors help carry USAID food Thursday after a U.S. military helicopter unloaded in the destroyed town of Guiuan, Philippines. Aid was beginning to reach some of the half-million people displaced by the storm that tore across several islands in eastern Philippines six days ago, killing thousands. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Famous Czech pop music singer Karel Gott presents golden medals issued at the occasion of his 75th birthday by the Czech Mint in Jablonec and Nisou, Czech Republic, some 100 kilometers north of Prague. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A staff member stands on top of school buses Thursday after taping posters of Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar as students gather to honor him in Chennai, India. Tendulkar is about to play his world-record 200th and last test. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Col. William M. Knight, commander of the 11th Wing, salutes as Air Force One with President Barack Obama departs Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


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Metals, both precious and base, are measures of economic health. Precious metals serve as a store of value and base metals measure economic activity. Gold began an impressive rally at the beginning of this century as the long bull equity market came to an end. Analysts are debating whether or not we are in another secular bull equity market and many turn to gold as a gauge. But gold bulls are liquidating to get into U.S. equities as the Dow Jones set an all-time high in the first quarter of 2013.
Gold peaked in September 2011 at $1920.80 and has been mostly range-bound between $1,525 and $1,800 since then (see "Is it the end of world or end of gold bull?" below). The fear is that there is a wall of inflation awaiting us because of all of the liquidity added and quantitative easing executed across the globe to deal with the financial crisis. But many a fortune has been made and lost in gold on both sides of the market. If gold is the place to be when inflation spikes, many traders have realized that, like the end of the bull equity market predicted throughout the 1990s and eventually arriving in 2000, the market can remain irrational longer than traders can stay solvent.
"Gold is off, S&Ps are up. Fund managers have to move money to performance. There hasn't been any new buying in gold," says George Gero, vice-president of Global Futures RBC Capital Markets and long-time gold trader. He compares what is going on in gold to the mid- and late-1990s when many people correctly understood that the long equity market was coming to an end but lost money by being early. He says traders are in a wait-and-see mode and will wait for a sign of an exit (from QE) before going long again. And he doesn't expect the next leg up in gold to happen for a year, barring some unforeseen geopolitical event.
Steve Platt, senior futures strategist at Archer Financial Services, says the market lost a lot of interest because of the movement in stocks. "It is movement from one asset class to another and stocks have been a favorite after being ignored for so long. Money has moved out of gold because it did have a sizable rally and people have taken profits."


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Pictured here, Warwick resident Gary Remillard gets to meet Mrs. Rhode Island Anita Seraichyk of Coventry. Seraichyk, a mother of four who works in network operations for Verizon Communications, attended the kick off for the Special Olympics Rhode Island State Summer Games on June 1. Nearly 1,500 athletes, 500 coaches and 1,000 volunteers are expected to participate. (Submitted photo)
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Senior Courtney Verloo scored her third goal with 2:13 left in the second overtime Sunday night as second-ranked Stanford rallied past No. 22 Santa Clara 3-2 in a riveting women's soccer match in front of 3,252 at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Verloo scored the game-winner on a 22-yard free kick at the top of the box. She buried the shot inside the left post beyond the reach of goalkeeper Andi Tostanoski.
It appeared the Broncos (4-3-1) had gained a big upset when Sophie Huerta scored in the 82nd minute for a 2-1 lead. But in the final, desperate moments Cali Reis fouled Stanford's Maddie Bauer on the edge of the box that resulted in a penalty kick with 54 seconds left. Verloo, who also scored in the first 80 seconds off a free kick, put away the penalty.
Stanford (7-0-1) extended its win streak over Santa Clara to nine games.
Santa Clara midfielder Julie Johnston scored in the 17th minute as the schools ended the first half 1-1.
San Jose returned defenseman Mirco Mueller, its No. 1 pick in the 2013 draft, to his junior club. Mueller, who also was signed to a standard entry-level contract, had six goals and 25 assists in 63 games last season for Everett (Wash.), of the WHL. The Sharks play their final home exhibition game Tuesday against Vancouver at 7:30 p.m.
Akemi Khaiat shot a 3-over 75 for a 36-hole total of 3-over 147 and was stroke-play medalist at the USGA Senior Women's Amateur at CordeValle in San Martin. San Jose State grad Lynn Cowan tied for third at 150. The field of 132 was trimmed to 64 for match play. Four other Northern California golfers advanced: Rachel Moreaux, Juvy Timan, Marianne Towersey and Sandra Woodruff.
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PARIS (AP) — The owner of a leading tennis academy in Spain says its players have stopped consulting a sports doctor banned by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for his work with disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Pancho Alvarino told The Associated Press the relationship between his TenisVal academy and doctor Luis Garcia del Moral "started approximately 14-15 years ago."
USADA says del Moral helped implement a "team-wide doping program" at Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service cycling squad. The agency in July handed the doctor a life ban from sports.
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Halloween is my favorite time of year for various reasons: Scary movies, costume parties, overloading on tons of sugary goodness. But I am also reminded about the fact that many of our spooky superstitions–vampires, ghosts, and werewolves–have come to us from thousands of years ago. That, in and of itself, is a little freakishly cool, don't you think? That people, thousands of years ago, living in Athens or Rome or Alexandria, had the same basic fearful ghouls that we shiver over today. Compiled here in this post are a few examples from Classical, Jewish, and Christian sources that involve tales of the haunted, the horror-ible (See what i did there? Horror+horrible! I'm so clever), the frighteningly cool. Enjoy… if you DARE! Muahahahaha!
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"If thou dost not give me the Bull of Heaven, I will smash the doors of the Nether World, I will place those above below, I will raise up the dead eating and alive, so that the dead shall outnumber the living! (Ishtar to Anu, Epic of Gilgamesh, VI.94-100)
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. (Zechariah 14.12)
The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. (Matthew 27.52-3)
Ghosts and Specters
Disembodied now, I hover as a wraith over my mother's head, riding for three long days upon the air, three hopeless days of suffering and fear since she left Troy and came to Chersonese. Here on the shore of Thrace, in sullen idleness beside its ships, the whole Achaean army waits and cannot sail. For Achilles' ghost appeared, stalking on his tomb, wailing, and stopped the ships as they stood out for sea on the journey home. He demanded my sister Polyxena as a prize, the blood of the living to sweeten a dead man's grave….On this day destiny shall take my sister down to death. Ah you, poor mother, you must see your two last children dead this day, my sister slaughtered and my unburied body washed up on shore at the feet of a slave. These were the favors I asked of the gods below—to find my mother and be buried by her hands—and they have granted my request. Now I go, for there below I see my mother coming, stumbling from Agamemnon's tent, still shaken by that dream in which she saw my ghost. (Euripides, Hecuba 30-54)
Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me."When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul." The king said to her, "Do not be afraid. What do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth."He said to her, "What is his appearance?" And she said, "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe." And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and paid homage. Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."And Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy? The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David. Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.Moreover, the Lord will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me. (1 Samuel 28.11-19)
Prophets and Curses
Germanicus's conviction that he had been put under a spell by Piso aggravated the disease. They dug up the floor and the walls and found remains of human bodies in them, spells and binding curses, and the name of Germanicus inscribed on lead tablets, ashes half-burned and smeared with gore and the other evil devices by which it is believed that souls are devoted to the infernal powers. (Tacitus, Annals 2.69)
He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria. (1 Kings 2.23-5)
The Mummies Return
The old [Egyptian] woman, believing that she was now free of hindrance and was not being watched, first dug a pit and then kindled a fire on one side of it. She laid out the body of her son between the two and took a ceramic bowl from an adjacent tripod…. She cut her arm open, wiped up some of the blood with a laurel branch, and threw it into the fire. She did some other strange things in addition to these and then bent over the corpse of her son and sang some incantation into his ear. She roused him and compelled him to stand upright by her [witch]craft…. She was inquiring whether her remaining son, the brother of the dead man, would return home safe and sound.
The corpse made no reply, but just nodded, allowing its mother the insecure hope that the response was favorable. But then all at once he fell headlong onto his face. The woman rolled the corpse onto its back again and would not finish with the interrogation….
While the old woman was doing this Chariclea [the Greek ingenue] earnestly begged Calasiris [the Egyptian priest] that they should approach the scene of action and make an inquiry of their own…. He [Calasiris] declined; it was not holy, he said, even to watch the rite, but he suffered it under the constraint of circumstance. It did not befit a prophet either to attempt or to attend such rites. Prophets derived their divination from lawful sacrifices and pure prayers, but the impure and earthly actually derived their divination from circling around corpses, just as, by accident, they were now seeing the Egyptian woman do.
Calasiris was still speaking when the corpse muttered in a deep, ugly voice as if from a crypt or a craggy cavern. "At first I spared you, mother," it said, "and I put up with you as you broke the laws of humanity, violated the decrees of the gods, and unfixed with your sorceries what was fixed. For, so far as possible, respect for parents is preserved even among the dead. But you abolish this of your own accord. No longer are you merely dabbling in lawlessness, as at first; now you push it beyond limit…. Hear now these prophecies which I have long been forbearing to reveal to you. Neither will your son return safely to you nor will you yourself escape death from the sword…." (Heliodorus, Aethiopica 6.12-15)
And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet. (2 Kings 13.21)
Demons and Underworldlings
When a plague fell upon the Ephesians, and no defense against it could be found, they sent to Apollonius, and made him their doctor for the disease…. Apollonius assembled the Ephesians and said, "Do not worry, for I will put an end to the disease this day." Saying this, he led all the people into the theatre, where the statue of the Averter is now sited. there he found what appeared to be an old beggar contriving to squint…. He was dressed in rags and had a squalid face. Apollonius grouped the Ephesians around the beggar and said, "Collect as many stones as you can and throw them at this enemy of the gods." The Ephesians were taken aback by this instruction, and thought it terrible to kill a stranger in such an unfortunate condition. The beggar himself was beseeching Apollonius and begging for pity, but Apollonius was insistent and urged the Ephesians to get on with the job and not let the man go. When some of the people began to pelt him with stones, the man who had been pretending to be squinting suddenly looked up at them and showed that his eyes were full of fire. The Ephesians then recognized that he was a demon and so they stoned him to death so thoroughly that they built up a heap of stones over him. (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 4.10)
That same day, in the city of Ecbatana in Media, a woman named Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, was being insulted by one of her father's servant women. Sarah had gone through seven wedding ceremonies with seven different husbands, but each time, before she and her new husband had gone to bed on their wedding night, he was killed by the demon Asmodeus. That's why the servant had told her, "You've already been married seven times, and each of those times you have killed your husband before he could give you a son. So why do you strike at us because your husbands have died? Just go where they are! We hope you never have any children!" (Tobit 3.7-9)
Large Beasts and Monsters
The moon was shining like the midday sun. We arrived among the tombs. My man went [to relieve himself – ed.] against a gravestone. I held back, singing and counting the stones. Then, when I looked back at my companion, he had taken all his clothes off and laid them beside the road. I almost died of fright, and I stood there like a dead man. He urinated a circle around his clothes and suddenly became a wolf. Don't think I'm joking. No one's inheritance is so valuable as to make me lie. But, as I'd begin to say, after he had become a wolf, he began to howl and ran into the woods…. But I drew my sword and hacked at shades, until I arrived at my girlfriend's house. I was like a ghost when I got in, and almost bubbling out my final breath. Melissa expressed amazement that I'd walked there so late and said, "If you'd come earlier, at least you could have helped us. For a wolf got into the estate and among the flocks. He was draining the blood out of them like a butcher. But even if he got away, the last laugh was ours, for our slave managed to get a spear through his neck." When I heard this, I could not even think of sleep, but when it was fully light I ran off home like the robbed innkeeper. But when I arrived home, my soldier was lying on his bed like an ox, and a doctor was attending to his neck. I realized that he was a werewolf, and I could not thereafter bring myself to break bread with him, not even if you had forced me on pain of death, Others can make up their own mind about this. But if I'm lying, may your guardian spirits exercise their wrath upon me. (Petronius, Satyricon 61-2)
Witches and Their Spell Books
Two friends from Arcadia who were taking a journey together came to Megara, and one traveller put up at an inn and the second went to the home of a friend. After they had eaten supper and retired, the second traveller, in the dead of the night, dreamed that his companion was imploring him to come to his aid, as the innkeeper was planning to kill him. Greatly frightened at first by the dream he arose, and later, regaining his composure, decided that there was nothing to worry about and went back to bed. When he had gone to sleep the same person appeared to him and said: 'Since you would not help me when I was alive, I beg that you will not allow my dead body to remain unburied. I have been killed by the innkeeper, who has thrown my body into a cart and covered it with dung. I pray you to be at the city gate in the morning before the cart leaves the town,' Thoroughly convinced by the second dream he met the cart-driver at the gate in the morning, and, when he asked what he had in the cart, the driver fled in terror. The Arcadian then removed his friend's dead body from the cart, made complaint of the crime to the authorities, and the innkeeper was punished. (Cicero, Div. 1.57)
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name."And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them." (2 Kings 21.1-8)
"As such," replied Apollonius, "you must regard this adornment, for it is not reality but the semblance of reality. And that you may realize the truth of what I say, this fine bride is one of the vampires, that is to say of those beings whom the many regard as lamias and hobgoblins. These beings fall in love, and they are devoted to the delights of Aphrodite, but especially to the flesh of human beings, and they decoy with such delights those whom they mean to devour in their feasts."
And the lady said: "Cease your ill-omened talk and begone"; and she pretended to be disgusted at what she heard, and in fact she was inclined to rail at philosophers and say that they always talked nonsense. When, however, the goblets of gold and the show of silver were proved as light as air and all fluttered away out of their sight, while the wine-bearers and the cooks and all the retinue of servants vanished before the rebukes of Apollonius, the phantom pretended to weep, and prayed him not to torture her nor to compel her to confess what she really was.
But Apollonius insisted and would not let her off, and then she admitted that she was a vampire, and was fattening up Menippus with pleasures before devouring his body, for it was her habit to feed upon young and beautiful bodies, because their blood is pure and strong. (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 4.25)
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. (John 6.53-7; I couldn't help but to include this!)
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Dental and Oral Health (Children)
Cheek Area
Recently, I noticed a fluid-filled sac located in my inner cheek. The area feels a bit tender to the touch, and I noticed a small amount of dark blood inside the sac. What could this be due to? How do I go about cleaning the area?
This could be a mucocele or a bruise ("blood blister"), either of which could be caused by injury (biting the area; sharp piece of food). Both of these are harmless and don't require any special precautions related to cleaning. If it is a mucocele, then it often will fill up, break open and drain, heal over, and repeat the process until it is removed surgically.
If the problem lasts for more than 2 weeks, you should see an oral pathologist for evaluation.
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Friday, December 09, 2005
My Work Space
you tell me -
can anyone, but anyone at all, accomplish anything in this mess???
And who do you think I blame?
Categories: writing, general, misc
30 comments:
- Cavan said...
Hey! That looks exactly like my desk.
- 09 December, 2005 19:33
- ME Strauss said...
Hey, I just cleaned mine. Whew, got in under the wire on this one. What a relief.
- 10 December, 2005 02:03
- Yzabel said...
I cleaned mine one week ago, and it looks worse than this already ;)
(No kidding. i'm totally unable to keep a clean desk. I so want to, but in 20 years of using a desk, it's never worked. Go fig.)
- 10 December, 2005 02:40
- melly said...
Cavan, you like cookies too???
Yzabel and Liz, I'm so jealous. You don't think you could swing by and help me out here???
I just have no idea how to tackle this. This is only just one corner the rest of the office is even messier...
- 10 December, 2005 09:37
- rdl said...
Oh my! guess u need one of those organizational gurus to stop by.
- 10 December, 2005 14:19
- Cavan said...
The ones on my desk are Oreos. :)
- 10 December, 2005 17:35
- dog1net said...
Too funny. I wish I had a digital camera, which I think I'll eventually get, so I could send you a picture of my desk. I think clutter is characteristic of the creative soul. Clutter is chaos. We accept that. It's what inspires us to write, to create a sense of order. Kudos to your desk.
- 10 December, 2005 19:43
- Karen Lee Field said...
Mine used to be like that, but then I wanted to take a photo -- so I cleaned it up. Guess what? It's still tidy! :)
- 11 December, 2005 05:21
- Melly said...
rdl, you have no idea how right you are!
Cavan, Oreos are definitely acceptable :)
Oh boy Scot. I'm glad it makes you laugh, but to be honest, I think it's starting to get to me...
Really Karen? How did you do it? What's your secret? YOu gotta tell me.
Well, I guess the first step is to tidy it and then worry about keeping it like this.
- 11 December, 2005 13:13
- kate said...
Do you want me to pass by and clear the mess? But then you'll not find a thing ... ya!
- 11 December, 2005 14:08
- melly said...
Oh, yes please. Would you???
I'll find things. You'll just have to stay and tell me where you put them all :)
- 11 December, 2005 16:35
- Deborah said...
Mine looks much worse. Papers and pens scattered everywhere. Books and notebooks stacked all around. Let's not forget the Christmas presents sitting innocently in front of my floor-to-ceiling book case, just waiting to be wrapped. I'll get to that on the 24th.
- 11 December, 2005 20:32
- Rose said...
That's my desk anad guess what? IF it didn't look like this I couldn't get anything done.
- 11 December, 2005 20:39
- Patry Francis said...
I used to try to clear up my desk and "bless it" for the next day's work every night befor bed, but after seeing your post, I looked around and eeek! This place is totally out of control--much worse than yours.
- 11 December, 2005 22:10
- Eric Mutta said...
What you have right there, is a localised mess. From a bird's eyeview, it's perfectly orderly, but when you zoom in, you get a heart-attack...kinda like with my workspace!
Incidentally, when I do make a mess, I always make it in exactly the same way each time, so I can still find things. A chaotic order of sorts :-)
- 12 December, 2005 03:20
I sympathize completely. My workspace looks just as bad. Piled high with books, CDs, movies and other junk. I just cleaned it last night but it's already starting to grow again.
- 12 December, 2005 08:12
- melly said...
Deborah, worse? Oh, my. BUt it does make me feel better. Thanks :)
Rose, I guess you feel more comfortable like that. I can relate ;)
Bless it? Patry, I'm going to try and bless it. LOL, that's too funny. Is there a certain blessing I should say? D)
Eric, yes, I'm very good at making piles of things I deem to relevant. But then I pile the piles one on top of the other...
Fred, I cleaned mine just now and hope it will last. At least a few days. Here, I'll bless both our desks for us :-)
- 12 December, 2005 08:53
- Pat Kirby said...
Duuude. So much tidier than my workspace. In addition to ten times the chaos, my keyboard is covered in mystery stains. Turn it upside down and crumbs fall out.
It's no wonder the monitor started spewing smoke.
I think chaos is a sign of a creative mind. My husband thinks I'm a pig. Oink!
- 12 December, 2005 10:04
- melly said...
Oink if you're messy!
Should be a sticker.
Good, I feel much better Pat.
- 12 December, 2005 11:31
- David Amulet said...
Hey, you can see desk surface -- that's more than many of us can say most of the time!
-- david
- 12 December, 2005 20:12
- melly said...
Thanks David. Most encouraging words... I'm laughing...
- 12 December, 2005 20:39
- The Phoenix said...
Is that a box of frozen corn or something?
Maybe a chicken pot pie???
- 12 December, 2005 20:50
- Melly said...
No, just shortbread cookies I have with my coffee. There, you now know one of my habits...
- 13 December, 2005 10:08
- OddVinnieP said...
For some reason, I need the mess. It makes the desk "creative" or something. I also know exacly what is in the mess and where.
At work though, I hate clutter. Is that wierd?
- 13 December, 2005 19:47
- Melly said...
Yes, OddVinnieP, it's weird, but then you wouldn't be odd vinnie - right? ;)
See, the problem is that this desk is my work space, so... I'm in trouble.
But no worries - I cleaned up and cleared the desk from the clutter. I'm much happier now :)
- 13 December, 2005 21:44
- Jennifer said...
Oh my!I got my new computer and I TOTALLY cleaned my desk out. Got rid of all the junk piling up. It's so clean and clear I don't know what to do with myself! :)
- 14 December, 2005 16:08
- Melly said...
That's right, you got the new computer. How's it working for you???
I'm sure you'll do just fine with a clear desk. In no time it will have your character again :)
- 15 December, 2005 00:22
- Ryan Oakley said...
My God Melly . . .
I supposed I shouldn't be surprised at the disorganization. After all, I have seen you play chess.
- 15 December, 2005 08:25
- Melly said...
Okay you!
Low blow. I protest!
Stop attacking my chess game on cyber space... or... or... mocking me in general. And we both know why you're mocking me ;)
I wish I could stop laughing so hard.
(By the way, if I recall, while the score is in your favour, you've been stalling on a rematch.)
- 15 December, 2005 12:05
- Jennifer said...
LOL loving thhe new computer and already things are piling up :) It never takes me long :) Though I really am trying to keep things a little neater...at least for a little while longer :)
- 15 December, 2005 13:13


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Posted by Pamela on February 14, 2008 at 00:23:
In Reply to: Would that I could... posted by pamela on February 14, 2008 at 00:23:
: : : : Searching for the origin of the phrase "Would that I could, but I can't, so I shan't." I may be misquoting a bit. "That" could be replaced with "if," etc. I recently used "Would that I could..." in a opinion piece for my local paper and my editor questioned it. I don't know that he had ever heard it, but I was at something of a loss to explain it. Now I'm curious. Any help would be appreciated.
: : : It makes sense in ordinary, if a tad stilted, English. But don't replace "that" with "if," as it changes the syntax of the sentence, even if not the essential meaning. The initial "I" has been elided, but add that and you have, "I wish that I could, but I can't so I won't." It sounds better the original way, of course. Someone somewhere said it or wrote it and enough people echoed it for you to hear it. BUt I don't know who started it. It's probably British. Modern Americans don't say "shan't." (I have occasionally done so, but I'm not a modern American.)
: : As a modern American, I say "I would if I could, but I can't so I won't." Also this version gets 592 Google hits while the shan't one as posted above gets exactly 0.
: And my mongrel version ("I would if I could, but I can't so I shan't) gets a paltry 17. This might be a matter of accent, but the would/could can't/shan't version (either one, sytax or not) rhymes, which is surely why it passed into common use? Pamela


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Fear Her was the eleventh episode of series 2 of Doctor Who.
The episode saw a return to the year 2012, not seen since Dalek in series one, this time focusing on the Olympic games as a backdrop to the events of the story, which (a first in the show) explored the issue of child abuse through the character Chloe Webber. The story also featured an unorthodox plot point by incorporating the prominent social issue of child abuse. Tardisode 11 served as its prologue.
Synopsis Edit
In London in 2012, the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler set off to see the Olympics, only to find terror in the most ordinary place.
Plot Edit
The TARDIS materialises on Dame Kelly Holmes Close on the day of the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. On the street, concern is divided between preparation for the Games, as the torchbearer will pass by on the final leg, and the continued disappearance of children from their garden. Rose also meets a ginger cat who walks into a cardboard box and disappears. Cars break down on the street. A council worker, Kel, states this has been happening all week.
The source of the problems is a small girl named Chloe, who can make people disappear by drawing them.
Wandering down one of the estate streets, Rose hears a noise from one of the garages and decides to investigate. As she opens the door, a fuzzy Scribble creature flies out, hitting Rose square in the face. Rose swats at it helplessly. The Doctor arrives and deactivates it with the sonic screwdriver. He deduces from residual energy and the carbon of the scribble that had attacked Rose that the problem is alien in origin.
By talking to Chloe, he learns the disappearance is related to the Isolus, an alien life-form with four billion siblings, who had befriended Chloe; she has had a troubled childhood and an abusive father. The Doctor warns that the Isolus is desperate for love too, and will use the billions of people watching the Olympic opening ceremony to replace its family.
The Doctor returns to the TARDIS and locates the Isolus pod in the Close. However, a frantic Chloe draws the TARDIS and the Doctor, trapping them both in one of her sketches and forcing Rose to try to find the pod herself. She rationalises that the pod is located on the hottest spot on the street, and is able to dig it up with a pickaxe (to Kel's protestations). Meanwhile, Chloe has caused the entire crowd at the Olympic stadium to disappear and is now set on making everyone in the world disappear. Rose realises she needs to offer the pod heat and emotion, which she does by throwing the pod towards the torch, following a clue the Doctor left in the drawing of himself.
As the missing children start to reappear, and Rose realises that so will the demon-like drawing that Chloe had made of her father. Rose and Chloe's mother calm Chloe enough to destroy him. However, the Doctor does not reappear like everyone else, worrying Rose.
As the torch-bearer approaches the Olympic Stadium, he staggers, but the Doctor suddenly appears, completes the run and lights the Olympic Flame. The heat of the flame and the emotion of the crowd power the pod, allowing the Isolus to return home.
As the Doctor and Rose walk off to watch the Games, Rose remarks that however hard "they" attempt, nothing will ever split up the two of them. However, the Doctor does not seem so sure, as he surmises that a storm is approaching.
Cast Edit
- The Doctor - David Tennant
- Rose Tyler - Billie Piper
- Trish - Nina Sosanya
- Chloe - Abisola Agbaje
- Maeve - Edna Dore
- Tom's Dad - Tim Faraday
- Kel - Abdul Salis
- Driver - Richard Nichols
- Neighbour- Erica Eirian
- Police Officer - Stephen Marzella
- Commentator - Huw Edwards
Crew Edit
|Executive Producers Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner
|Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
References Edit
Individuals Edit
- The first three children taken are Danny Edwards, Jane McKillen and Dale Hicks. Their parents, Mr Edwards, Mrs McKillen and Mrs Hicks, greet them when they're restored.
- Danny Fairweather carries the Olympic torch through Dame Kelly Holmes Close.
- Lord Coe is mentioned.
- The International Olympic Committee is mentioned.
The Doctor Edit
- The Doctor lists three things necessary to travel the universe: wormhole refractors, a warp drive and a hand to hold.
People from the real world Edit
- The Doctor tries to remember the name of the torch-lighter in 1948: Mark? John? Mark? It's John Mark.
- Shayne Ward's new album is advertised just next to where the Doctor parks the TARDIS.
Music Edit
- Trish sings "Kookaburra" to Chloe.
- Shayne Ward's new album is Shayne Ward: The Greatest Hits.
Games Edit
- The Doctor claims to be reasonably adept at squash and jokingly mentions Snakes & Ladders when asked "what his game is".
Food Edit
- The Doctor marvels over edible ball bearings.
- When the Doctor is in the kitchen with Rose and Trish Webber, he eats orange marmalade.
Galactic Law Edit
- The Doctor invokes the Shadow Proclamation.
Species Edit
- The young Isolus begin their journey in the Deep Realms.
- Humanoid catkind are mentioned, and the Doctor cites them as the reason he's no longer a "cat person".
Other Edit
- The Doctor shows that he can do the Vulcan salute from the American science-fiction show Star Trek.
- Papua New Guinea surprises everyone in the shot put at the 2012 Olympics.
- The Doctor uses a binary dot tool.
- The Doctor mentions a copper's hunch.
Story notes Edit
- Fear Her replaced an unwritten script originally allocated to Stephen Fry.
- This is the first televised Doctor Who story to deal with actual child abuse, although there is a possible allusion to the subject in The Empty Child.
- This is also the first episode, since The Doctor Dances to have no casualties at all for the entire run time.
- Working titles for this episode included Chloe Webber Destroys the Earth and You're a Bad Girl, Chloe Webber.
- No characters die during this episode, a rarity for the series.
- In 2009, Doctor Who Magazine conducted a reader poll to rank the first 200 Doctor Who stories in order of preference. Fear Her ranked 192nd out of 200, earning it the dubious distinction of being the lowest-ranked story of the 2005-present revival. (DWM 413) In another DWM reader poll in 2014 where the first fifty years of Doctor Who stories were ranked, Fear Her was also the lowest-ranked story of the revival, this time ranking 240th out of 241st. (DWM 474)
- The London 2012 logo seen at the start is the bid logo, not the final logo of the games, which wasn't unveiled until after the episode was produced.
- The writer, Matthew Graham, noted on the DVD commentary that the scribble creature was never to be called a "scribble monster", as the Doctor would never call anything a monster.
- The idea of a child bringing things to life through drawings was also featured in the 1991 Eerie Indiana episode "Who's Who".
- The mini-episode Good as Gold takes place during the Olympic opening ceremony. However, the circumstances are shown to be clearly different, with an athlete carrying the torch and the Weeping Angels involved.
- This story idea of the Tenth Doctor's involvement in the 2012 Olympics sparked a petition from thousands of fans all over the world wishing David Tennant to carry the Olympic Torch.[1] However, it was not Tennant, but Matt Smith who would carry the 2012 Olympic torch in Wales on 26 May 2012.[2] Neither did the Tenth Doctor appear at the official opening ceremony, even though David Tennant himself claimed to be up for it, having heard about the petition.
- In the real world, it was the rower Sir Steve Redgrave who finally delivered the torch to the Olympic Stadium in London, and a group of seven young athletes who lit the Olympic Flame. However, newsreader Huw Edwards did provide the commentary on the ceremony, and during one of the elaborate production numbers prior to this, the sound of the TARDIS materialising was also heard. Also, the torch in this episode is at least similar to the actual one.
Ratings Edit
- 7.14 million
Filming location Edit
- Temorfa, Cardiff
Production errors Edit
- When the Doctor and Rose walk down the lane, the road is perfect, with no blemishes. However, when the Doctor later picks up the Isolus pod, there is a clear paving spot.
- In a shot before the cat disappears, the white flowers in the ground behind Rose are obviously fabric.
- In the kitchen, the Doctor sticks one finger into a jar of marmalade and then into his mouth. Rose gives him a look and shakes her head and he freezes but is then seen to have two fingers in his mouth.
- When the Doctor rubs out part of the pencil scribble creature, the rubber on his pencil clearly does not touch the ball of graphite.
- In the shot after the Doctor rubs part of it out, the pencil scribble creature is whole again.
Continuity Edit
- The Doctor uses his telepathy. (TV: The Sensorites, Terror of the Zygons, The Hand of Fear, The Girl in the Fireplace)
- Rose previously visited the year 2012 with the Doctor's prior incarnation. It is the home era of Adam Mitchell. (TV: Dalek)
- The Doctor previously had a foreboding sensation in his hands during his first incarnation. (TV: The War Machines)
- The Doctor cites his confrontation with the Sisters of Plenitude as the reason why he is no longer a "cat person" (TV: New Earth).
- During his eleventh incarnation, the Doctor would visit the 2012 Olympic Games once again in the company of Amy Pond. (TV: Good as Gold) He had previously visited 2012 on at least one occasion during or prior to his sixth incarnation (AUDIO: The Raincloud Man) as well as during his seventh, (AUDIO: Frozen Time) eighth (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon) and ninth incarnations. (TV: Dalek).
- In the far future, radio and television broadcasts concerning the 2012 Olympic Games could be accessed via the Gogglebox inside the Moon. (AUDIO: The Reaping, The Gathering)
- When the Doctor talks to Chloe about drawing, he says, "I'm rubbish. Stickmen're about my limit." He is apparently lying. He did skilled drawings in A Journal of Impossible Things, and when Joan Redfern asks where he learned to draw, the Doctor, as John Smith, says Gallifrey. (TV: Human Nature)
- The Doctor comments that he "used to be a dad once." (TV: An Unearthly Child, et. al.) In his previous incarnation, he similarly related to Dr. Constantine's remark about having been a father and grandfather in the past (TV: The Empty Child).
- The ginger cat that Chloe drew reappeared in the video game Art Attack. There he was named Ginger.
- The Fifth Doctor previously attempted to take Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka to the 2012 Olympics but the TARDIS instead materialised in London in 1982. (AUDIO: The King of the Dead)
Home video releases Edit
- This story was released on a vanilla DVD (a DVD release containing no extra features) with Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.
- It was also released as part of the Series 2 DVD box set.
External links Edit
- BBC - Doctor Who - Episode Guide - Fear Her
- Fear Her at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Fear Her at The Whoniverse
- Fear Her at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)
- Fear her at The Locations Guide
Footnotes Edit


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May 03. 2013 10:56PM
Salem police arrest 3 for Home Depot theft, drugs
By JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
Richard Ball, 23, of Kingston (left), Nicholas Messina, 21, of Haverhill, Mass. and Yris Fraden, 21, of Bradford, Mass. were arrested by Salem police. (COURTESY)
SALEM - A trio of shoplifters at a Home Depot store set off two searches that led police to finding heroin, drug paraphernalia and hundreds of dollars worth of stolen data boards.
Richard Ball, 23, of Kingston was charged with felony theft and resisting arrest shortly after police were called to the Route 28 store on Wednesday.
Nicholas Messina, 21, of Haverhill, Mass., and Yris Fraden, 21, of Bradford, Mass. were also arrested on a variety of charges. Police pulled over the silver Audi they were traveling in near the area of 310 Main St.
All three suspects are being held on bail pending their arraignments in 10th Circuit Court in Salem.
Police responded to a call from the Home Depot store for a report of several shoplifters running from the store. Police were advised one man was running across a nearby plaza, while another fled in a car. Responding officers found the man on foot inside a McDonald's restaurant nearby and took him into custody.
Another officer spotted a car matching the description of a vehicle that fled the scene driving down Main Street, according to police. A brief investigation resulted in the driver and passenger being taken into custody, police said.
Ball and Messina had approximately $400 worth of data boards from the store, according to police.
Messina is charged with willful concealment and held on $600 bail. Fraden was charged with possession of a controlled drug, resisting arrest, driving after revocation and accomplice to theft.