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Clint Dempsey just needed one more chance to make good on what had been a frustrating day at White Hart Lane.
With the snow beating down on London and almost forcing a pregame postponement, Dempsey scored a stoppage-time equalizer to lift Tottenham to a 1-1 draw with league-leading Manchester United Sunday. Dempsey, who had been denied on a number of occasions by Red Devils goalkeeper David De Gea, came through moments before the final whistle to offset Robin van Persie's opening goal and give Spurs a precious point as they look to remain in the hunt for next season's UEFA Champions League.
The goal-scoring sequence capped a furious rally in the second half for Spurs. De Gea, who had previously stuffed Dempsey on a one-on-one opportunity, punched a cross away from his area, but it landed at the foot of Aaron Lennon. The winger crossed into the center of the area, where Dempsey was waiting to slot it home with a right-footed shot.
The goal was Dempsey's fifth in his last seven games across all competitions and it was his second goal against Manchester United this season. He opened his account for Spurs at Old Trafford with a game-winning tally in a 3-2 victory on Sept. 29.


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Neff Presents New Disney Themed Collection
Neff's latest collaboration teams the burgeoning streetwear brand with a multimedia giant that has put smiles on kid's faces for almost a century. The Neff x Disney collection contains an assortment of clothing, featuring Disney's most iconic character, Mickey Mouse. The capsule includes tees, sweaters, beanies and watches, predominately in black-and-white. Although, there are a few items with floral print. The number 28 — a nod to Mickey Mouse's (1928) origin, the Neff logo, as well as the text "Too Many People Grow Up" also appear on the apparel. A select number of pieces from the collection are available now at Neff retailers. Head over to Tilly's online store to shop the full collection now.


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Joe Moreno has operated Catch-All Baseball out of a Port of Stockton warehouse for eight years, helping local high school and club players hone their skills and gain exposure to scouts. Professional players including Dallas Braden and Justin Friend of the Philadelphia Phillies organization have participated in the program.
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Cappadocia's Cave Chapels and Houses are preserved at Goreme Helen Page is checking out Goreme's Open Air Museum in Cappadocia, enjoying the cool of the cave houses and the rock art. "This morning we're at Goreme. This is an open-air museum, and as you can see, it's famous for its cave houses. … [Read more...]
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'Star Wars: Episode VII' cast: Where have you seen them before?
Forget about waiting until Star Wars day on May the fourth – director J. J. Abrams and company dropped a Death Star-sized casting bomb today, announcing the long-awaited, hotly speculated list of talent who will be appearing in next year's Star Wars: Episode VII.
There are some familiar faces – and not-so-familiar faces – gathered in London for the first table read of the Episode VII script. Here's a rundown of where you've seen them before, and why they might be an awesome addition (or not) to the newly expanding Star Wars universe.
Adam Driver
Where have I seen him?
You probably know him best as Lena Dunham's quirky, complicated beau Adam from the HBO series Girls, or as Al Cody from last year's Oscar-nominated Inside Llewyn Davis.
Good choice or bad?
Great choice. Driver, who is rumoured to be playing a major villain in Episode VII, is very talented yet still relatively unknown, something that can be said about a good many of the people Abrams has gathered together for this film. He's also a striking-looking dude, handsome in an unconventional way, rather than having the generic good looks of someone like, say, Zac Efron.
Oscar Isaac
Where have I seen him?
Though he's often tapped for small but memorable character roles (he was especially menacing as the skeevy club manager in Zack Snyder's otherwise disappointing Sucker Punch), Isaac exploded in a big way with last year's acclaimed Coen brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis, playing the titular downtrodden folk singer.
Good choice or bad?
Like his Inside Llewyn Davis co-star Adam Driver, Isaac is a thoughtful and powerful actor, yet not quite familiar enough to be distracting on screen. He's shown great dramatic chops across a range of roles, and it's incredibly encouraging that Abrams is using him for Episode VII.
Andy Serkis
Where have I seen him?
Well, you've seen him in the flesh in small roles here and there, but Serkis is best known for bringing computer-generated characters to life, including Gollum, King Kong and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboots.
Good choice or bad?
Do you remember Jar Jar Binks? DO YOU!? Then it should go without saying that having a guy who is incredibly experienced in doing performance-capture work for digital characters can only be a good thing. Watch for Serkis to be playing an important but (we're assuming) entirely CG character.
John Boyega
Where have I seen him?
Unless you're a connoisseur of obscure indie fare, likely in just one place: 2011's sci-fi/horror/comedy gem Attack the Block, in which he played the thuggish but ultimately noble Moses, who leads his gang in repelling an alien invasion of their London housing project.
Good choice or bad?
It's tough to pass judgment based on one (albeit memorable) movie role, but the 22-year-old Boyega has been tagged as one of those actors who could break out in a big way if given the right part. And this could be it.
Daisy Ridley
Where have I seen her?
Some of the actors announced for Episode VII are semi-known, but teenaged (we think?) U.K. actress Ridley is a completely new face, whose only credits are a handful of roles in British TV shows.
Good choice or bad?
Tough to say. From watching her 2013 highlight reel, she seems like she could be a good fit for the part of the sassy young female heroine that Abrams was rumoured to be seeking. Han and Leia's daughter, maybe? Or is she too young for that? More data needed!
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Domhnall Gleeson
Where have I seen him?
Well you certainly know his last name – Gleeson is the son of acclaimed Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, and starred alongside his pops as Bill Weasley in the last two Harry Potter movies (dad Brendan played Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody in the films.) He's popped up in a variety of mostly small roles, from the ill-fated Moon in True Grit to the cyber-eyed techie in Dredd.
Good choice or bad?
From what we've seen, Gleeson is a competent and versatile actor, yet – like many of his Episode VII co-stars – not so famous that when he appears on screen, your brain immediately screams, "HEY, THAT'S DOMHNALL GLEESON!" Assuming you actually know how to pronounce Domhnall.
Max von Sydow
Where have I seen him?
Where haven't you seen him? The legendary Swedish actor has been in dozens upon dozens of films, from Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries to The Exorcist to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. (And let's not forget him as Bob and Doug McKenzie's nemesis in Strange Brew.) His sci-fi resume alone is fairly impressive, including Minority Report, Dune and (ahem) Flash Gordon.
Good choice or bad?
Von Sydow can read the phone book and make it sound compelling. Hopefully he's playing some sort of Imperial bad guy, as that seems like the most logical fit.
Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker
Where have I seen them?
Respectively, inside the costumes of Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2 in the previous Star Wars movies.
Good choice or bad?
Having these three fan-favourite characters forming part of the connective tissue between the original trilogy and the new movies is very heartening. And it's fantastic that Abrams is going with the original actors to play the parts (or at least voice them – these men are all in their late 60s or 70s, and might not be up to the physical challenges of the roles). Then again, if Abrams brought these characters back and didn't have these three guys involved, there'd be a fan revolt.
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher
Where have I seen them?
You're kidding, right? Yeah, you're kidding. Cementing the worst-kept secret about Episode VII, original Star Wars trilogy stars Ford, Hamill and Fisher will appear in Episode VII (and perhaps beyond), with Ford in particular rumoured to have a "gigantic" role.
Good choice or bad?
Well now, this one's open to debate. Episode VII could easily have focused on its own story and its own characters without having to further bind itself to the previous movies. And while it sounds amazing in theory to find out where Han, Luke and Leia ended up, it could be difficult to reconcile these wrinkly, puffy actors with the larger-than-life heroes of our youth. But Abrams is no dummy, so we're cautiously optimistic he has a plan that will work. And in just 19 months, we'll know for sure.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A woman is suing the leaders of a north Mississippi town, accusing them of conspiring to prevent her from opening a gay bar by denying her a business license.
Pat "PJ" Newton filed the federal lawsuit Tuesday against the town of Shannon.
The 55-year-old, who is lesbian from Memphis, Tenn., wants to open a cafe and bar called O'Hara's.
Newton says leaders of the town of about 1,700 denied the application June 4, saying the bar presents a health and safety hazard.
The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and an injunction allowing the bar to open.
It names the mayor and six aldermen as defendants. They did not immediately respond to a phone message Tuesday.
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Miranda Kerr: Jonesing for David Jones
Miranda Kerr hosts an in-store fashion workshop highlighting new trends and pieces from the David Jones Collection on Elizabeth Street in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday (August 5).
The 26-year-old Australian beauty has been trying out a lighter hair color recently and her mom doesn't like it! Miranda's mom, Therese Kerr, "I prefer her as a brunette. Her eyes shine more when her hair is darker."
DO YOU THINK Miranda is hotter as a brunette – YAY or NAY?
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Thing is I'm not in the US right now, I'm working abroad, in Eastern Europe. People are pretty flawed here when it comes to technology.
I am curious about future lenses, will they e backwards compatible?
Well, if you already set up your mind and the price is even better, then go for it and good luck. About the lenses, as far as I know all the line of olympus m 4/3 lenses work with every body olympus has made, and with m 4/3 you can even use panasonic lenses on it.
The more replies I get, the more undecided I am.Wow... this is so baffling to me.Don't get me wrong, you are all giving me great information, and the wealth of knowledge you guys have is just mind blowing.Ok, the type of photography I will be taking... Indoor, family stuff, outdoor ones, seldom probably, and when I'm going out with my friends playing some pool. So, all in all, it will be landscape photography, incandescent, low to medium distances, and probably low light when we are out. So an overall package. I haven't really thought about shooting films or making clips with the camera. Why? Because I believe mixing specialization will never cut it. This means if I want to make some clips I'd go for a dedicated camera.Currently, on the market, I can find the Olympus PL-1, J1 and V1 Nikon cameras, but no Sony, unless special orders are placed. There is also a Canon DSLR, the EOS 1000 or something like this.I asked around regarding other mirrorless cameras, but somehow people only feel about Nikon and Olympus, maybe a Canon, but nothing else. Amazing. Also, people tend to bash Sony around, much like AMD fans bash Intel, if you know what I mean. And I am clueless as to why.


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Joanna Brady Mysteries; Volume number 12
Dead Wrong
On Sale: 06/26/2007
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Juggling a family and a career has never been easy for Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now the impending birth of her second child only adds to her burden, especially when two brutal crimes fall under her jurisdiction.
A corpse is discovered in the Arizona desert with the fingers severed from both hands—the body of an ex-con who served twenty years for a murder he claimed not to remember. Soon after, one of Joanna's female officers is savagely assaulted and left for dead while on an unauthorized stakeout. Since the victim is one of their own, the department directs the bulk of its resources toward finding her attacker. But the desert slaying haunts Joanna as well, and neither her pregnancy nor family concerns will keep her from doing her duty, no matter how perilous. Because justice must be served. And enforcing the law has become more than what Joanna Brady does—it's what she is.
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"Jance deftly combines personal and professional stories in this twelfth Brady mystery." - Booklist
Praise for J.A. Jance: "Jance delivers a devilish page-turner." - People
"J.A. Jance does not disappoint her fans." - Washington Times
"Suspenseful, action-packed." - Dallas Morning News
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Teen dies in 16-story fall from Ala. beach condo
July 19, 2013
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — A Louisiana teenager is dead after falling 16 stories into the pool at a beachfront condominium in Alabama.
Orange Beach police say 18-year-old Challenge Talbot of Thibodaux, La., was found dead about 3:45 a.m. Friday.
Authorities say Talbot fell from a balcony on the 16th floor at Turquoise Place Condominiums and landed in the water.
A couple walking by the pool found the body. Police say there were no witnesses, but they're still investigating.
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Medical Procedures
If medications and other comfort measures are ineffective, there are some invasive procedures that are used to temporarily reduce joint pain and inflammation. These procedures will have to be repeated to maintain effectiveness.
Corticosteroids can be directly injected into the joint with a needle. Steroids can help decrease inflammation and pain in the joint. Sometimes, your doctor will remove excess joint fluid from the joint just before injecting the steroid medication.
Steroid injections often have to be repeated every several months. Most practitioners believe that you shouldn't get more than 3-4 such injections in a year. More injections may cause damage to the joint cartilage.
This is a treatment that involves filtering your blood through a medical device that removes antibodies. The rest of the blood is then returned to you. The procedure takes about 2 hours and is usually done weekly for 12 weeks. Side effects may include:
- Fatigue
- Achy muscles
- Weakness
- Joint pain and swelling
- Nausea
Surgical Procedures
Surgery can not treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) itself, but may be needed to repair, rebuild, or replace damaged joints and supporting structures. It may help to reduce or eliminate pain, correct joint deformities, and restore mobility. Surgical procedures are generally only recommended for those who don't have relief with other treatment methods.
Chronic inflammation of RA can cause damage to tendons near the affected joints. Damaged tendons can make it difficult to move because tendons connect muscles to bone. Severe damage to the tendon can also lead to a rupture of the tendon. Surgery may be recommended if the tendon pain is not responding to conservative treatment or is interfering with daily activities.
A tendon reconstruction surgery will repair or replace damaged tendons with new tendon tissue. It is most often done on tendons of the hands.
RA can cause a deformity of the joints. Deformity in the feet can be painful and make it difficult to walk.
The metatarsal heads are the end of toe bones that make up the joints at the ball of the foot. A metatarsal head resection removes and remodels the metatarsal head to reduce deformity, improve function, and reduce pain.
The synovium is the tissue that surrounds the joint. Inflammation from RA develops in this tissue.
A synovectomy is the removal of the inflamed synovium. It is rarely done since the tissue will eventually grow back, but it may be done with other surgical repairs. A synovectomy may provide temporary pain relief and slow the destruction of the joint.
Arthroplasty replaces part or all of the damaged joint. A synthetic joint or devices, often made of a chromium alloy and plastic, will be used. The replacement is done to decrease pain and improve function.
The knee and hip are the most common joints replaced.
Arthrodesis is a last resort for those who have not had good pain relief from other efforts. In this procedure, the 2 bones making up a joint are permanently fused together. While this can greatly improve pain, it also means that the joint is no longer able to function and movement is limited.
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Retro piracy - Should the Royal Navy kick arse?
Tackling the freebooters of the 'Gate of Tears'
Ms Purves tells us that the Ministry of Defence has "finally" agreed to deploy HMS Northumberland, a Type 23 frigate, to Somali waters "after years of pathetic indecision". But that doesn't satisfy her and her unnamed source:
The Royal Navy that once cleared the seas of pirates (and before that, of slave ships) has until this meagre deployment been made powerless ... the Royal Navy has been cut savagely in recent years anyway, and is currently crippled by supplying half the manpower and airpower for landlocked Afghanistan ... For all the ignorant sea-blindness of this island nation, the cold fact is that without sea trade we would have little food, fuel, or goods ... Our force of destroyers and frigates has - in ten years - shrunk from 35 to 22 despite promises that it would not slip below 25. The number of smaller vessels, minehunters, decreases annually (they could be handy in this work) ... air cover is crippled, with one lot of planes gone and the next not ready.
There are some grains of truth there - it's a fact that the Royal Navy far more than any other organisation in the world was responsible for wiping out the seaborne slave trade in the 19th century, for instance. It's also a fact that the number of destroyers and frigates has fallen as described.
This gets you there a lot quicker
It's true too that HMS Northumberland is now off the Horn of Africa, and patrolling against the Somali pirates is part of her mission. Actually, though, she was sent on that task two months ago - well before the current media rumpus. The RN has been routinely taking part in the CTF 150 international security taskforce in those waters ever since 9/11, in fact. The ship's website makes much of its armed boarding team, all set to pile aboard a suspect vessel - and in the event of any resistance from scurvy buccaneers "armed with automatic weapons", more than ready to "return fire and take down the aggressors".
Also in the area is HMS Cumberland, another frigate, patrolling as part of a NATO taskforce. Again, Cumberland's presence was planned months ago. The Marines who dealt with the buccaneer dhow crew so briskly on Tuesday were based aboard the Cumberland, in fact.
As Ms Purves and her unnamed puppeteer suggest, Blighty can't spare any more frigates for this sort of work. But one thing the Royal Navy is never ever short of is admirals - so we've decided to send one of those instead. According to MoD spokesmen:
UK Defence Ministers have recently offered to provide the EU with a British Rear Admiral and an Operational Headquarters to lead a European mission to counter piracy.
Presumably someone else will provide the actual ships. (Good luck with that - other European countries mostly make our navy look massive. The only exception is the French, and they have plenty of admirals of their own.)


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Reports showed that Chinese manufacturing shrank at a faster pace and the country's benchmark money-market rate climbed to a record. One of Bernanke's key statements yesterday addressed the stimulus program: "If the incoming data are broadly consistent with this forecast, the committee currently anticipates that it would be appropriate to moderate the monthly pace of purchases later this year."
Equities: The SEP13 E-mini S&P 500 could not stay above our key pivot level of 1643 yesterday, and is down big today, trading to 1595 (down 29 points). We have key resistance levels at 1612, and then 1622 above that. If the market decides to keep going down, we look for our next market profile downside target of 1565 to be approached. However, at this point, there are not any major overtly bearish structures on the profile. Our key profile pivot level is 1614. It seems as though momentum is skewed to more selling. At this very point, we don't see any glaring set-ups to enter the market.
Bonds: The Eurodollars and bonds have been crushed starting with the FOMC statement, and are having another big down day today. The US 30-year bond futures (SEP13) hit a low of 135'25 this morning, before rallying a point. Even after the rally off lows, the market is still down more than 1 point! There has been major long liquidation over the past 24 hours. The high volume area for the day is 136'21, so this could be a short term magnet level. Key resistance is at 137'11, and then 138'04 above that. Key support zone starts at 135'26. It is a tough call to try to pick bottoms in this market at this point though, so we will wait until we see a "neutral" or normal day in the market profile before trying to identify when the market will start to move sideways.
Commodities: Gold and silver have gotten destroyed along with the bond market. AUG13 gold is down a whopping $77 to $1,297. The initial main target of $1,339 has been crossed, and we would not be surprised to see this market head even lower. One potential downside target from the profile is $1,242. Key resistance levels include $1,315, $1,330, and then the previous target are is now resistance at $1,338. With the U.S. dollar strength, many other commodities are suffering, such as corn, crude oil, natural gas, and copper.
Currencies: The currencies are having a big day as well. The euro is down 78 ticks to 131.97, the yen is down 159 ticks to 102.09, and the Aussie is getting crushed, trading down 163 ticks to 91.18. The euro has been very strong this month, and just recently has begun to change course. A very key market profile support level below the market is at 130.94, or 100 ticks below the current price. The market could potentially trade down there on the bearish momentum of the FX complex. We do believe the euro is still the strongest of the key FX pairs, and would not be surprised to see that support level cause an initial bounce. Key resistance is at 132.35. The Aussie dollar is down huge again, today trading down 169 ticks to 91.12. If this market keeps trading down, we focus on our next downside target of 90.23. Our key short term pivot level is 91.40. The market's overall trend is down, so we would not be surprised to see more selling to the next target.
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Pretty cool with the way its going to be scored! Some best shot, some alternate, and some total...should be a really fun time!!
That WAS disgusting...however, I almost NEVER miss anything 15' or less now. I had a bad day and a mental block once I missed the first one. Me and Kev will be out at Channy today at 3:30 - i'll give you a call when we get there.Also, if it isn't absolutely pouring, I will help you out there Saturday.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 3, Vl.4 (US - DVD R1)
Gabe promises that this will be his last Avatar review...until the book 3 boxed set
Frodo had to destroy the One Ring, Darth Vader had to kill the Emperor, and Moses had to lead his people to the Holy Land. Every epic has to come to an end, and for Aang the Avatar this is it. At the end of this disc there will be no more Avatar: The Last Airbender, and I'm torn between satisfaction and sadness. I haven't invested myself in a serial adventure this fully since Deadwood, and I haven't been this sad to see something go since Home Movies. For this review I'm continuing my tradition of running down each episode with pretty massive spoilers, so please beware.
In fact, if you haven't seen the episodes yet, don't even read this. Sorry Chris.
The Southern Raiders
Season three, or book three, whatever you want to call it, is all about closure, and emotionally there had been no closure between Zuko and Katara. Way back in season two Zuko betrayed Katara, and even though he's proven himself an asset to the team, Katara is still unwilling to trust him. Zuko realizes that Katara has somehow tied her anger with him into her anger over her mother's disappearance, and after some digging he decides to build a relationship with Katara by taking her to the people he assumes took her mother—the Southern Raiders.
This episode offers some brief back story on Katara and Sokka's mother, and why she was taken when they were young (it's also implied that she was murdered shortly after). Zuko and Katara get their closure, and in the end Katara makes the right decision and doesn't resort to bloody vengeance, but the episode feels a bit like a last minute lock down on the characters before the big showdown. Like the rest of the final episodes, the pacing rush is jarring compared to the series' normal tempo, but the Sokka comedy moments are some of the funniest in the show's history (and pretty racy, as it's implied that Zuko has inadvertently interrupted a romantic evening between Sokka and his girlfriend Suki), and the final moments where Zuko asks Aang how he plans on stopping the Fire Lord without killing him reverberate through the final episode. Pretty heavy stuff for a show that started with the hero riding Penguins.
The Ember Island Players
This is the closest Avatar gets to a clip show, apparently following the Anime serial tradition of having a wrap up episode, but it isn't a skippable episode either. The team takes a trip to the theatre to watch a play about them and their journey, as put on by the Ember Island Players, a Fire Nation acting troop. Some facts are muddled or wrong (Toph is played by a giant man), and some of the mistakes hurt to consider (perhaps Katara really does love Aang only as a brother). Some of the drama plays out a bit heavy handed (frankly, Aang's 'more then a brother' affection for Katara isn't of much concern at this point in the story), but when the team has to watch their on-stage equivalents lose to the Fire Lord, the point of the episode finally rings true.
The episode offers the writers a chance to parody more then the normal clip show. The play's version of the characters are super-simplified, like those of most children's animation, and the simplified nature offers the 'real' characters a chance to comment on the simplicity, though mostly though complaints. The writers also poke fun at themselves. For example, the drill episode attack prattles on until the audience is asleep, and the death of Jet the rebel is unclear, admits Sokka.
Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle (parts 1,2,3 and 4)
It all comes down to one final super-episode, where Aang and his friends finally confront their destinies. Fire Lord Ozai declares himself the Phoenix King in honor of the coming of Sozin's Comet—the thing that will give him and the rest of the Fire Nation the power to burn the entire Earth Kingdom. Ozai declares Azula the new Fire Lord and leaves to incinerate his enemies.
But Azula, still shaken by the betrayal of her only two earthly friends, begins to go mad, and quickly banishes every one of her loyal subjects. So much of seasons two and three were spent setting Azula up as an almost invincible fighter and a brilliant strategist that this downfall comes as a pleasant shock. In the past Azula effectively took the Earth Kingdom capital, 'killed' the Avatar at the end of season two, and thwarted the attack on the Fire Nation capital so effectively in the middle of season three that her father's apparent superiority was a nightmare. The creators craftily take away Azula's most powerful asset, her confidence, at the last minute by turning her friends against her. This is simply another of a long line of trope inversions that make the series so wonderfully effective. Azula's defeat at the hands of her 'inferior' but enlightened brother Zuko is arguably a more potent moment in the series finale then Aang's defeat of the Fire Lord.
Meanwhile, Aang disappears for a large section of the finale. Disturbed at the prospect of having to kill the Fire Lord he struggles to come to terms with the idea, and finds himself adrift on a mysterious island. On the island Aang meditates with his past lives, who all agree he must commit an act of murder to save the world. Still not accepting violence as the answer, Aang realizes the island is actually a giant Lion Turtle, who shows him how to 'energy bend', thus offering him an alternative to murder.
This section has drawn the most critical ire, and with good reason. It's a total Deus Ex Machina moment, but it's such a Deus Ex Machina moment that I'm suspecting it was the point. The Lion Turtle is basically a god, and it is by his hand ( literally) that Aang learns to energy bend. So much of Avatar is about dealing with tropes, clichés and myth that such a direct use of a classical mythic trope simply has to be pointed. If I'm wrong, and I'm simply defending a big mistake on the part of the writers, I apologize to every single detractor.
Beyond all the intellectual hubbub, the final fight is pretty spectacular, effectively pushing the show's budget to the very limit. I've got no complaints. The animation looks fluid, the setting is exciting, and the scale is gigantic. Even more impressive then Aang and the Fire Lord's element bending duel is Sokka, Toph, and Suki's take down of several war balloons. The sheer scope of the sequence was enough to make me want a bigger television. And as if this wasn't enough, we're also reintroduced to the Order of the White Lotus (all the older guys that've helped our heroes throughout their journey), who liberate the Earth Capital of Ba Sing Se with an impressive show of force.
And when everything comes to an end the closure is generally satisfying. There's a sense that the writers needed two or three more episodes to fully clean up shop. A few of the characters are sort of dropped without any proper final moments, and others are wrapped up in a matter of seconds without getting a chance to be a part of the final battle. I would've liked to have seen some inclusion of the jailed B-characters finding their way out of prison (a lot of them are in various prisons by the end of the season), and I think the final romance between Aang and Katara should've probably been a little bit more ambiguous, but overall I found a whole lot of satisfaction in this series finale.
You know, it's kind of moot to write about the video quality of these releases because they're always the same, except for those few low-res, high contrast episodes that plagued the season one and two collections. This disc is more of the same that we've seen from the rest of the series on DVD. Again we have minor problems, like warm colours dancing with blocking and low-level noise, and edge enhancement on the hard black outlines. Details are pretty sharp, as they should be for a cell animated series, and colours still don't bleed a lot, but compression noise and occasional interlacing effects are still issues.
Again, this disc sounds the same as those other discs, and again, I'm expecting a Blu-ray release with a 5.1 remix in a few years. These Dolby Digital 2.0 mixes just aren't enough. Everything is clean, there is no discernable distortion, and centered effects work well, but the surrounds and general LFE impact are lacking, making the show sound too made for television (which of course it is, but that's not the point). Perhaps one of the most exciting elements of these final episodes is the presence of new music on the soundtrack. It seems the producers were saving there music budget for an impressive finale, and they do not disappoint.
Besides another mini-comic book and some trailer for other Nick DVD releases, we're stuck with only a few commentary tracks as extras. I'm wondering what the season three box set will hold on its fifth disc. Creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are joined this time by members of the voice cast and dialogue director extraordinaire Andrea Romano. The presence of extra members makes these tracks a little more involving then other Avatar commentaries, but frankly I wanted to hear about the final episodes, not the two lead-ups.
It's sad to see Avatar: The Last Airbender come to an end, but I appreciate the creators finishing things before they grew stale. This is what we call going out on a high note. I just hope Paramount puts the breaks on the live action adaptation, because it's entirely unneeded at this point, and I still don't think M. Night Shyamalan is the man for the job. I'm on the list for the season three collection, so stay tuned for one last look at the show sometime next month. That is, if you still care, which I'm sure many do not.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
*Shakes fist for making me edit all that*
This reminds me of that Chinpokomon episode of South Park:
'Rooster and Labtron must fight Shoe for the Ultimate Power!'
This reminds me of that Chinpokomon episode of South Park:
'Rooster and Labtron must fight Shoe for the Ultimate Power!'
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,719
Did I tell you that my season two review is quoted on the season two page of the wikipedia?
poland626 Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 77
I lost track of this show after season 2 I think after that fish episodes with black and white fish. I need to get back into it
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,719
You're actually discribing the end of the first season.
Shaun Andrews Member Join Date: March 2004 Location: United States Posts: 149
It was the reviews on this site that caused me to check out this show. I watched all of season one in about 2-3 days, and it was great. I intend on seeing it through to the end.
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Release Date: 29th July 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Surrond 2.0 English, Dolby Surround 2.0 French, Dolby Surround 2.0 Spanish
Subtitles: None
Extras: Creator/Cast Commentaries on Two Episodes
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Various
Cast: Zach Tyler, Jack De Sena, Mae Whitman
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation and Comedy
Length: 110 minutes
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Jennifer Garner Stopped Ben Affleck from Directing 'Homeland'
Jennifer Garner and her husband Ben Affleck grab a cup of coffee together on Friday morning (November 2) in Brentwood, Calif.
The 40-year-old actress later took her son Samuel to meet up with her daughters Violet and Seraphina.
The day before, Jen and the girls went on an afternoon stroll the day before in Santa Monica.
Ben recently said that Jen's work schedule caused him to turn down a directing gig on an episode of Homeland.
"I liked the show. I signed on. The guys were ready. I don't want to blame it on 'her,' but my wife and I have an arrangement where when she works, I don't work and when I work, she doesn't work," Ben shared (via Us Weekly). "She said, 'I have this movie, it's 10 weeks, it's in Atlanta.' I said, 'Okay, forget it. I'm sure nothing will happen with it anyway.'"
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If you are starting to create a library of reuseable PHP functions, you will soon encounter some typical problems. For example, you will experience name clashes if you start mixing your own components with that of other developers: sooner or later some foreign function will have the same name as one of yours or will use a global variable that you are using, too.
But you may even experience problems if you are using only selfmade components. Imagine for example a set of functions that is manipulating a database link. Example 1 shows such a set of functions which shares a common variable named $Link_ID.
Example 1: A hypothetical set of functions for accessing a database
If you define an include with these functions, you could easily write the query() function in a way that it checks for a valid $Link_ID. If there is no valid link, query() should call connect() to establish that link. query() would update the $Query_ID and next_record() would automatically reference that variable to work with it. To make this work, all of these functions would have to share common variables. Because PHP does not know pointer or reference variable types, it is necessary for these variables to be global.
<?php $Link_ID = 0; // ID of current database link $Query_ID = 0; // ID of currently active query $error = 0; // current database error state function connect() { … } function query() { … } function next_record() { … } function num_rows() { … } ?>
This is going to be a problem as soon as you have a page that needs two concurrently active queries, because these queries would fight for the global variables. If you had PHP pointer or reference types, you could call connect(), query() and next_record() with the with references to the appropriate variables. But in this case you would have gained nothing, because you would be back to dealing with $Link_IDs and $Query_IDs yourself.
PHP offers a different approach to solve this problem: You may group a number of variables and functions together into a package and name that package. The package itself uses no names in your global namespace. You may then create copies of the packages and insert them under any variable name into your global namespace, much like you can mount disks anywhere in a directory hierarchy. Creating a package of variables and functions is called "declaring a class" in PHP and mounting a package copy in your namespace is called "creating an object as an instance of a class". Example 2 shows how a class is defined using the "class" keyword and how objects are created using the "new" operator. Compare this to the definition shown in Example 1 and see how they match one to one.
Example 2: Definition of a class DB_MiniSQL with call properties of Example 1. Creation of two object instances $db1 and $db2 of that class.
<?php class DB_MiniSQL { var $Link_ID = 0; // ID of current database link var $Query_ID = 0; // ID of currently active query var $error = 0; // current database error state function connect() { … } function query() { … } function next_record() { … } function num_rows() { … } } $db1 = new DB_MiniSQL; $db2 = new DB_MiniSQL; ?>
A declaration of a class does not use names in the global variable namespace – the class declaration only establishes a plan how to build DB_MiniSQL variables, but does not actually build such variables. PHP now knows what makes up a DB_MiniSQL object, if it were asked to make one.
We ask PHP to make such objects using the "new" operator and name them by assigning them to a variable. We can have multiple objects of the same type under different names – $db1 and $db2 in our example. Unlike the situation in Example 1, this does not lead to name clashes, because both variables differ in their "pathnames" (Remember the disk mountpoint analogy!): $db1->Link_ID and $db2->Link_ID are obviously different variables. With function calls it is the same: $db1->query() sends a query via one link, $db2->query() via the other link.
For library developers this is an important feature, since it allows us to encapsulate the definition of our functionality in a non-intrusive way. We leave it to the user of our functions to decide how many copies of them are needed and under what name. For users of such a library it is easy to handle this: They just have to get used to choose an appropriate name for the imported functions (for example by writing "$db1 = new DB_MiniSQL") and then always use the functions under that name prefix (for example by writing "$db1->query()").
But that's the view from the outside, from the users side of the code. From the inside it is a little bit different. Why? Imagine the query() function wanted to check the value of $Link_ID. It would have to know its own name, because it would have to decide whether to access $db1->Link_ID or $db2->Link_ID or another, completely different object. That would be quite inconvenient to code. All local object variables and functions are available under the prefix $this instead, independent of the actual name of the object. So in our case, query() could simply access its own Link_ID as $this->Link_ID and call its own connect() function as $this->connect(). Note that the variable name is "this->Link_ID" and thus it is written as "$this->Link_ID", not as "$this->$Link_ID". This is a very common beginners error. {mospagebreak title=A database access class as example} We will be coding a class DB_Sql for access to a MySQL database as an example. [1] Our class shall have variables $Host, $Database, $User and $Password, which define the server to connect and contain all necessary information to log on to the database server. The result of that logon will be a $Link_ID, which must be saved by the class, too.
Queries to the database will either produce a result set referenced by a $Query_ID or error codes, which will be kept in $Error and $Errno for the error text and number respectively. While we read the result set of the query, we will keep the current row in a hash named $Record and we will keep the current row number in $Row. To do all this, our class will have to create the variables show in Example 3 – the functions working with these variables are still missing, though.
Example 3: Definition and explaination of all variables used in DB_Sql.
class DB_Sql { var $Host = ""; // Hostname of our MySQL server. var $Database = ""; // Logical database name on that server. var $User = ""; // User und Password for login. var $Password = ""; var $Link_ID = 0; // Result of mysql_connect(). var $Query_ID = 0; // Result of most recent mysql_query(). var $Record = array(); // current mysql_fetch_array()-result. var $Row; // current row number. var $Errno = 0; // error state of query… var $Error = ""; // insert functions here. }
To be able to work with this class you will have to add at least code that establishes a database connection. This can fail, if the server is not reachable, the database is not present or username and password are wrong. The class must have a way to signal an error and stop the program. We define a function halt(), which prints an error message and stops the program. We also define a function connect(), which tries to get hold of a valid $Link_ID. The code is shown in Example 4.
Example 4: The functions halt() and connect() are to be added to the class DB_Sql.
The first thing halt() does it to emit a bunch of closing tags. This is the futile attempt to close an HTML table that is still open, if the error occurs within such a table. Many browsers (Netscape for instance) do not render the text of the error message, if the error occurs within a table. You will only see the text of the error message in the HTML source view of the page in such cases. The error message is shown along with the current values of $Errno and $Error. To prevent further damage, the program is then stopped.
function halt($msg) { printf("

 Database error: %s
n", $msg); printf("MySQL Error: %s (%s)
n", $this->Errno, $this->Error); die("Session halted."); } function connect() { if ( 0 == $this->Link_ID ) { $this->Link_ID=mysql_connect($this->Host, $this->User, $this->Password); if (!$this->Link_ID) { $this->halt("Link-ID == false, connect failed"); } if (!mysql_query(sprintf("use %s",$this->Database),$this->Link_ID)) { $this->halt("cannot use database ".$this->Database); } } }
The connect() function tests for a valid link. If this is not the case, we try to establish such a link using the values of $Host, $User and $Password. If this fails, we signal an error and stop processing, otherwise we try to change the current database to $Database employing a MySQL "use" command.{mospagebreak title=Extending classes} Our class is now useable, albeit not productively. We are able to establish a database link, but without query() and next_record() functions we are unable to make use of it. We are going to use the class anyway, to show how to set it up for a production environment. Example 5 shows a workable, but inconvenient method how you could deploy the class.
Example 5: A non-recommended method to configure and deploy DB_Sql.
<?php // The include file contains the definition of DB_Sql. require("db_mysql.inc"); // $db is our database object. $db = new DB_Sql; // Overwrite the connection parameters as needed. $db->Host = "localhost"; $db->User = "kris"; $db->Password = "" $db->Database = "sampleserv"; // Try to connect to the database server process. $db->connect(); ?>
This is not a recommended method to configure a class for use, because after creation of the object you have to set up all variables within that object manually and you have to do it over and over on each page where you are using it. It would be much nicer if we were able to define a class that is just like DB_Sql, but with different connect parameters. In fact we can easily do this: We can extend any given class and base the definition of a new class on any single existing class. Example 6 shows the definition of a class DB_Sample, which performs exactly the same connect as Example 5. Example 6b shows how to use this class.
Example 6: Definition of a new class DB_Sample, based on DB_Sql
// DB_Sample is just like DB_Sql, only different.. 🙂 class DB_Sample extends DB_Sql { var $Host = "localhost"; var $User = "kris"; var $Password = ""; var $Database = "sampleserv"; }
Example 6b: Using DB_Sample.
// This include file contains the definiton of DB_Sql require("db_mysql.inc"); // This include file contains the definition of DB_Sample require("local.inc"); // Create a database connection object $db = new DB_Sample; // Connection to database… $db->connect();
DB_Sample is not empty, but contains exactly the same variables and functions as DB_Sql, although these are not written down explicitly in the class definition. The magic is in the class definition: DB_Sample extends DB_Sql, that is, DB_Sample starts as a simple copy of DB_Sql. Within the class body of DB_Sample certain definitions of DB_Sql are overwritten, specifically we redefine the database connection parameters.
On use of DB_Sample as shown in Example 6b, the database connection will be created using these redefined parameters. Unlike Example 5 we do not have to mention these parameters on each page, but DB_Sample "automatically" knows the appropriate parameters and does the right thing. If we had to change the connection parameters, we could do so by editing a single file, local.inc. This is very convenient, especially in larger projects. {mospagebreak title=Queries and query results} Example 7: Adding the functions query(), next_record() and seek() to DB_Sql.
function query($Query_String) { $this->connect(); # printf("Debug: query = %s
n", $Query_String); $this->Query_ID = mysql_query($Query_String,$this->Link_ID); $this->Row = 0; $this->Errno = mysql_errno(); $this->Error = mysql_error(); if (!$this->Query_ID) { $this->halt("Invalid SQL: ".$Query_String); } return $this->Query_ID; } function next_record() { $this->Record = mysql_fetch_array($this->Query_ID); $this->Row += 1; $this->Errno = mysql_errno(); $this->Error = mysql_error(); $stat = is_array($this->Record); if (!$stat) { mysql_free_result($this->Query_ID); $this->Query_ID = 0; } return $stat; } function seek($pos) { $status = mysql_data_seek($this->Query_ID, $pos); if ($status) $this->Row = $pos; return; }
Example 7 adds three functions to our DB_Sql class which make the class actually useful: Finally we are able to make use of the database link for sending queries to the database and retrieving the results. For this purpose, query() calls connect() internally to create the database link. This saves you a manual call to connect if you are using the database class later in your pages.
If you activate the disabled printf() statement within query(), you get a list of all queries on a page as they are made on the page. This is very useful for debugging your SQL and to get a feeling how expensive the creation of a certain page actually is.
When you send a query, a new $Query_ID is being generated and the current row number is reset to zero. After that we check the error state to see if the query was legal. If not, we raise an error and halt the program. If the query was legal, we return the query id to the caller.
The next_record() function can be used to retrieve the query result. The function reads the current result row, increments the row counter and checks for errors. If the result set has been read completely, we call mysql_free_result() to save application memory. next_record() returns "true" as long as there are still result records so that you may use the function as the condition of a while()-loop.
Using seek() you may move within the current result set and read a single result multiple times (unless it has been freed) or skip certain records at the beginning of the result set. Example 8 shows how to use query() and next_record() to get data from a table. Example 8: Query to the table ad_customers within the database sampleserv.
<?php require("db_mysql.inc"); // DB_Sql require("local.inc"); // DB_Sample $db = new DB_Sample; $query = "select name, graphics, link, desc from ad_customers"; $db->query($query); ?>

 ID	 Graphics	 Link	 Desc
 <?php while($db->next_record()): ?>
 <?php print $db->Record["name"] ?>	 <?php print $db->Record["graphics"] ?>	 <?php print $db->Record["link"] ?>	 <?php print $db->Record["desc"] ?>
 <?php endwhile ?>

Example 8b: Definition of table ad_customers.
CREATE TABLE ad_customers ( id int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL auto_increment, name varchar(127) DEFAULT " NOT NULL, graphics varchar(127) DEFAULT " NOT NULL, link varchar(127) DEFAULT " NOT NULL, desc varchar(127) DEFAULT " NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id), KEY name (name), ); CREATE TABLE banner_rotate ( pos int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL, );
Many webservers keep rotating banner ads at the top or bottom of their pages. These banners are present as GIF images with known path names. In our sample database we keep a table named ad_customers, which lists information about each banner. We keep a banner name, the pathname to the GIF image on disk, a link target that is to be activated when the banner is clicked and a description text for the images alt-attribute.
Example 8 shows, how to read this table using the DB_Sample class. We are generating an HTML table with all banner names and related data. Example 8b shows the database table definitions involved. The second table, banner_rotate, contains just a single row with a single column with the currently active ad banner number. The rotation program uses this information to control the banner rotation.
The actual banner rotation program (Example 9) is just a single function banner_rotate(), which does nothing more than incrementing the pos counter from the banner_rotate table and produces the appropriate image tag. The locking shown in that function is specific to MySQL (MySQL does not do proper transactions).
The function is pretty linear: It locks the banner_rotate table and updates the counter using an SQL update statement. After that it uses a SQL select statement to read that counter value and unlocks the table. Using the counter value corrected modulo the number of actual ad customers the appropriate customer data from the ad_customers table is selected and an image tag is created which is embedded into a link. We do not directly jump into the customers presentation using this link, but we refer the user to another local program which registers the click and additional data about the users browser. It is that second program which generates a Location header to redirect the user to the final external destination. This is the only way to measure the efficiency of a banner and to get provable data for the customer. Example 9: Function banner_rotate() to rotate banner ads.
<?php function banner_rotate() { global $db; // Assumes that a global object with that name exists. $max_ads = 4; // CONFIGURE ME! $db->query("lock tables banner_rotate"); // Set lock. $db->query("update banner_rotate set pos = pos + 1"); // Increment counter. $db->query("select pos from banner_rotate"); // Read counter. $db->next_record(); $pos = $db->Record["pos"]; $db->query("unlock tables"); // Drop lock. // Find matching customer (mod $max_ads). $query = sprintf("select * from ad_customers where id = '%s'", $pos % $max_ads); $db->query($query); $db->next_record(); // Link and Image generation printf(" ", $this->Record["name"], $this->Record["graphics"], $this->Record["desc"]); } ?>
The jump.php3 script is not shown. It receives a parameter name identifying the clicked banner. Using that parameter the script can extract the link information from ad_customers and create a Location header to redirect the users browser to the final location. Also, it does record the click in another table named banner. Example 10: More functions for DB_Sql
<?php function num_rows() { return mysql_num_rows($this->Query_ID); } function num_fields() { return mysql_num_fields($this->Query_ID); } function f($Name) { return $this->Record[$Name]; } function p($Name) { print $this->Record[$Name]; } function affected_rows() { return @mysql_affected_rows($this->Link_ID); } ?>
To complete DB_Sql, we add the functions shown in Example 10. These are intended to ease access to query results: num_rows() and num_fields() return the width and height of the result set. The functions f() and p() are useful to access single result set values. And affected_rows() can be used to test the success of SQL insert or update statments.
The class DB_Sql is a basic building part of PHPLIB The version of DB_Sql from PHPLIB contains some additional functions which are not relevant for this tutorial.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rarely seen paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas are among an impressive collection of 62 artworks that have been transferred to the National Gallery of Art after being held for decades in a private estate, the museum said Thursday.
The paintings, sculptures and other works are among 110 objects bequeathed to the museum from the estate of museum benefactor Paul Mellon after his death in 1999. They remained in the care of his widow, Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, at their Virginia home until her death in March.
A major highlight of the bequest is Van Gogh's painting "Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves," which now joins the museum collection and will be put on display beginning June 7.
Acquiring any Van Gogh is cause for celebration, said curator Kimberly Jones, but this one is particularly important. It was created in a tumultuous moment in the artist's life during a brief time between hospitalizations after Van Gogh's mental breakdown in 1888, when he cut off part of his ear. As an artwork, it's "a real knockout," Jones said.
"It's this very emotionally wrought period of time" after artist Paul Gauguin moved out of the house they had shared, and Van Gogh is mourning the break in their relationship, Jones said. "I think this still life, of all the still lives, is the most Gauguin-like in terms of the pallete, the symbolism. ... I can't help but wonder, looking at this, if Paul Gauguin's presence isn't being very much felt in this painting."
The Mellon family already released 48 other artworks during Rachel Mellon's lifetime, including Van Gogh's painting "Green Wheat Fields, Auvers" in December. Most of the museum's Van Gogh works will be displayed together in June.
The Mellon acquisitions were made mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, with many brought back from France. Most works kept in their Upperville, Virginia, estate haven't been seen since a 1966 exhibition of the Mellon Collection.
Other highlights include one of Monet's earliest known paintings, "Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread and Wine" from 1862-1863 and a large, colorful painting by Degas titled "The Riders," depicting a group of jockeys on horseback.
The collection includes 12 oil sketches by Georges Seurat, who died young and did not have a large body of work. Now, combined with four other paintings by Seurat and a drawing, the museum has one of the most significant U.S. collections of his work, Jones said.
There are nine American paintings in the Mellon group, including two by Winslow Homer.
Since 1964, Paul and Rachel Mellon donated nearly 1,200 works of art to the museum. Mellon's father, the Pittsburgh industrialist Andrew Mellon, founded the National Gallery in 1937 and donated his famous art collection to the nation.
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Crime Scene Investigation
High-definition surveying gives law enforcement a complete picture of a crime scene.
Lt. Raymond E. Foster
March 2, 2005
It's a given that criminals such as arsonists and serial murderers often return to the scene of the crime -- sometimes to relive the crime. But not only criminals do so.
Detectives, prosecutors and juries must also revisit the crime scene. Detectives may need to re-examine the evidence, prosecutors may return for case preparation and jury members may need to review the crime scene to make a decision.
To do their re-evaluations, investigators typically rely on photographic evidence and two-dimensional drawings. Since we live in a three-dimensional world, however, it can be difficult to visualize the positional relationships of evidence with two-dimensional tools.
What if agents could measure with extreme accuracy thousands of data points per second in a crime scene? What if an agent could capture that information, recall it and create his or her own virtual representation for use during a trial?
Through a combination of laser and computer technology, high-definition surveying (HDS) creates a virtual crime scene that allows investigators to maneuver every piece of evidence.
HDS reflects a laser light off of objects in the crime scene and back to a digital sensor, creating three-dimensional spatial coordinates that are calculated and stored using algebraic equations, said Tony Grissim, homeland security and law enforcement liaison for Leica Geosystems HDS, based in San Ramon, Calif.
"An HDS device projects light in the form of a laser in a 360 degree horizontal circumference," he said "The HDS is measuring millions of points, creating a 'point cloud.'"
Think of letting off an insect bomb in your apartment -- millions of particles create a fog, and the resulting cloud settles on all objects in your apartment. With HDS, instead of millions of data particles settling on the objects, those data points are bounced back to the receiver, collected, converted and used to create a virtual image of any location.
An average desktop personal computer can now take the data file and project that site onto your screen. Not only has the scene been preserved exactly, but the perspective can also be manipulated. For instance, if the crime scene were the front room of an apartment, the three-dimensional image allows the investigator to move around and examine different points of view.
Or perhaps the victim was found seated. An investigator could see and show a jury what the victim might have seen. If witnesses outside said they looked in a living room window, an investigator could zoom around and view what the witnesses could or could not have seen through that window.
Cloud of Information
"Understanding evidence documented on a 2-D drawing of a staircase is difficult," said Derry Long of Plowman Craven & Associates (PCA), a land surveying company based in the United Kingdom. "If you create a 3-D staircase and cut-away, the relevance of evidence is often clear."
Long spent 12 years as a civilian employee of Scotland Yard, where he designed police stations and developed computer modeling. At PCA, he uses HDS to re-create crime scenes down to the submillimeter level. Although PCA's focus is working with builders and developers, Long created the first HDS call-out team in Europe for criminal investigations.
His team, on-call 365 days a year, responds to about 150 incidents each year.
Many times, Long responds to a scene weeks after crime-scene investigations are concluded. His job, then, is to scan the scene, and then use the photographic documentation and crime-scene notes to re-create the scene.
Long recalled a recent homicide where the murder was thought to have occurred in the kitchen, but no one could determine how the body ended up in a hallway. By re-creating and studying the crime scene, investigators examined different points of view and the positional relationships of the evidence.
"Now it made sense, the investigators were able to see what had happened," said Long, adding that because the case is still ongoing he can't provide further details.
Keeping the Scene Clean
A basic concept taught to first responders is securing a crime scene, so contamination of evidence is minimized.
Crime-scene contamination can take many forms -- someone may touch an object leaving their fingerprints, or inadvertently move or take evidence from the scene, perhaps by picking up fibers on their shoes.
Analyzing a scene's evidence helps explain what happened, and if an item of evidence is moved or disturbed from its resting place, the analysis could be faulty.
The time after a crime has been committed, during which there is a maximum potential for the recovery of forensic evidence, is referred to as "the golden hour" by Mark Harrison, MBE, special adviser to the UK's National Crime & Operations Faculty (NCOF).
Harrison, an 18-year veteran of British policing, is on loan from the Bedfordshire Police to the NCOF, a national organization in the UK that provides special services during complex investigations.
He commonly uses HDS technology as a "stand off" device, allowing him to approach the scene in stages by scanning from the outer perimeter and moving into the heart of the scene.
"The laser doesn't care if its day or night," Harrison said. "It captures the information and allows me to interrogate the crime scene with my laptop before it has been disturbed."
In the past, the method of preserving information about the evidence was photographic documentation and two-dimensional drawings. Later, not only could someone testify to the recovery of the evidence, they might also provide expert interpretation. Drawings and photographs assist investigators in the investigation, and ultimately assist prosecutors in telling the story to a jury.
In many cases, Harrison said, the value of evidence is in its positional relationship.
"It could be blood splatters, a firearm, shell casings or any other pieces of physical evidence," he said.
Investigators often go to elaborate means to reconstruct scenes. Unfortunately no matter how good your photographer, there is always something else an investigator wants to know. Photographs and drawings are helpful, but they are two-dimensional, and are the technician's interpretation of the scene.
Long and Harrison agree that observer bias always creeps into photography and crime-scene drawing. If an HDS device is used at the scene, detectives, prosecutors and juries can return to a crime scene in its preserved state.
Matter of Perspective
The investigative and prosecutorial value of virtual crime scenes is evident. Showing a jury exactly what a witness could or could not have seen can be very valuable.
Recently Craig Fries, president and founder of Precision Simulation, said his company was asked to re-create an officer-involved shooting in the San Francisco area that occurred one year earlier.
There were more than 40 witnesses to the incident, he said, and the scene itself was approximately 400 feet by 2,000 feet -- an entire city block with businesses and apartments. Using HDS technology, Fries scanned the scene, the involved vehicles (at the impound yard) and used photographic evidence to reconstruct a virtual model of the incident that could be examined from almost any point of view.
"Once the plaintiff knew what we were able to provide, they dropped the lawsuit," Fries said, adding that HDS technology is beginning to be a tool used by both the defendant and plaintiff. "If done well, it's very compelling to the jury."
HDS works equally well in a large rural area. Harrison recalled a political execution in Ireland where the crime scene was a large pasture. HDS technology allowed investigators to document the entire scene in a relatively short period of time and was extraordinarily useful in their investigation.
Long and Harrison also said UK agencies have scanned vehicles, train crashes, river crossings, buildings and planes. From the point-cloud data, investigators in the UK can develop two-dimensional line drawings, three-dimensional models, animations and interactive multimedia packages.
The system also has training applications. Currently there are driving, pursuit and use-of-force simulators. Using HDS, police officers could be taken into a virtual world to practice their skills, or taken back to actual events and debriefed on their own or other police officers' actions.
HDS technology could be used for tabletop exercise, and in addition to training, the technology has a real-time application in tactical situations. Harrison explained that if there were a hostage situation on an aircraft, a similar aircraft could be used to create a virtual representation of the problem.
"Within about two minutes, you could scan the interior of the second aircraft, upload the data and hand virtual goggles to the tactical team," he said. With that data, combined with other real-time intelligence, the team could explore the interior of the aircraft before taking action.
In the UK, government agencies are beginning to use HDS to document critical infrastructure as a means of furthering emergency planning. It would be valuable for fire, and emergency medical or tactical teams to have access to virtual information about buildings.
Imagine a tactical team virtually touring the inside of a school where children are being held hostage. As with the aircraft scenario, the HDS could produce a virtual school, and combined with real-time information, could give tactical teams an edge over the hostage-takers.
For this to be effective, though, the HDS scanning of critical structures must take place before the incident. As we go forward in the 21st century, we will likely see this technology take an important role in criminal investigations, civil liability, training and emergency preparedness.
Lt. Raymond E. Foster
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In order to maintain a healthy body, the body must have a healthy circulatory system. Specifically, blood pumps from the heart to the organs and throughout the body via a network of veins. If there is a problem with the body's circulation, then the body let's its owner know.
One of the specific ways in which circulation problems materialize is in the form of a varicose vein. You can immediately distinguish what a varicose vein is, because it literally protrudes from the leg, usually in the calf area, or in the thigh area. Additionally, they can either be green, blue, or purple.
How exactly does a varicose vein come to be? While men can get them, they mostly just appear on women – especially those who have been pregnant multiple times. When a woman becomes pregnant, it only stands to reason that she gains weight. This added weight occurs rapidly, which increases the pressure put on the veins in the legs.
As a result, the blood that flows through those veins ends up constricted. In an effort to push that blood through the veins, the veins start to swell. Sometimes a varicose vein ends up being nothing more than an aggravation. However, if the presence of the vein coincides with stiff and painful legs, then that might mean a clot is forming. So, if a person is experiencing these symptoms, the best thing to do is to seek out the expertise of a dermatologist, who will provide either medicinal injections, or laser therapy.


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The warmth of spring - and the habitual house cleaning that follows - is still months away. Welcome to the mid-winter lull.
As temperatures nosedive, so can the motivation of many to overhaul their interiors. Or perhaps they simply don't have the cash or the time to give their home a major facelift.
Still, there are options for those looking to make subtle changes to help enliven their spaces . Here are five ways to warm up your home decor during the winter.
1. Textiles . No need to rely on a fresh coat of paint or wall coverings to inject sorely needed colour into your surroundings. Adding textiles drenched in bright or bold hues can quickly add pop to a staid space.
"It's a pretty affordable solution, so one of the ways you could do that is maybe by changing out your pillows on your sofa to something that's vibrant either in colour or in pattern," says Ikea Canada spokeswoman Alicia Zoffranieri.
For those unsure of which new hues to try, Zoffranieri suggests considering turquoise, lilac or emerald - Pantone's colour of the year - as an accent.
Seeking a colourful alternative that doesn't involve pillows? Consider a new sofa slipcover, bed linens, rugs or even shower curtains, she says .
Shannon Acheson typically adds in a blue throw for her son's room and purple and pink variations for her daughters. Whether in cable knit, cashmere or velvet, layers of the snug coverings along with pillows help add texture and colour, says Acheson .
2. Lights. Illuminating interiors can be beautiful - and affordable - says Zoffranieri. Whether selecting a removable shade for an existing base or a stand-alone lamp with a unique structural design, the right lights can lend a touch of elegance to a room or help round out an existing space.
Use the existing room colours as a guide for which - and how many - brightly hued lamps to bring into the interior, she notes. If it's fairly plain and absent of a lot of colour, consider teaming lamps in two complementary hues, like lilac and green, she adds.
3. Plants. Individuals yearning to flex their green thumbs still have some time to wait before they can start digging into the soil outside. But gardening enthusiasts and neophytes alike can get their fix by bringing in an assortment of fresh plants to add life to the home.
Zoffranieri says if there is a "hot list" for plants, the fiddle-leaf fig plant would rank among them. The lush, large-leafed, slow-growing plant can stretch to be six feet tall .
"It grows towards the light. If you want to make sure it keeps growing straight up, you have to make sure you rotate it," she says.
4. Do-it-yourself. Even those who aren't the most DIY-inclined can try their hand at a simple craft project. On her blog, akadesign.ca, Acheson outlines one that's easy enough to do with her kids: customizing porcelain pieces.
Use a permanent marker to scrawl a word, quote or saying (or to craft a design) on a bowl, plate or mug. Place the item on a cookie sheet in the oven for 30 minutes at 350 F (175 C). A bowl can be placed at the front door to collect keys; a mug can become a gift, she says.
5. Printables. Transforming an empty frame into a work of art is a few mouse-clicks away.
Acheson says printables are easy to access online. Many craft-focused blogs and sites like Pinterest offer downloads of colourful prints that are print-ready to slip into various sizes of frames.
Some have seasonal things to print out, she says. That means you can swap it out for quotes or other images.


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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - South Carolina tight-end Weslye Saunders has been dismissed from the football team.
Athletics Director Eric Hyman announced the dismissal Wednesday. "Weslye Saunders is no longer part of our football program," said Hyman. "Beyond that I will have no further comment."
STORY AD BEGINS HERE Saunders, a 6'5", 270-pounder from Durham, N.C., had been suspended indefinitely since August 23 following a violation of team rules. Last month, Saunders was questioned about possible improper contact with a sports agent.
According to a published report, the NCAA is also looking into the living arrangements of Saunders and some of his teammates who have rooms at the Whitney Hotel.
Coach Steve Spurrier still has some tight-ends on the team such as sophomore Justice Cunningham, who has one reception in the in the first two games. Patrick DiMarco is listed as the starter this week at tight-end. He's caught two passes this season.
DiMarco says they have no choice but to step it up now that they know Saunders is gone for good.
An NCAA spokesperson said they're working cooperatively with USC, but wouldn't go into specifics about the investigation.
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Striker Shaun Harrad ended his goal drought with a wonderful 25-yard strike to hand Cheltenham a share of the points in a 1-1 home draw with York.
The on loan Bury frontman had not found the net in the league since September but ended his barren spell with a curling effort midway through the second half.
A dismal first period saw both sides struggle to create chances. Robins goalkeeper Scott Brown was tested by a long-range Pat McLaughlin effort after 10 minutes, with Keith Lowe heading a corner over from close range a minute later.
But it was a different tale after the break with both sides looking for the breakthrough.
Brown saved well at his near post after 55 minutes to keep out Matty Blair with York keeper Michael Ingham finally forced into action soon afterwards when he did well to block a point-blank Harrad effort.
Cheltenham struck just two minutes after the introduction of substitutes Kaid Mohamed and Jermaine McGlashan. And the former had a hand in the 67th-minute goal, helping a Marlon Pack pass into the path of Harrad who brilliantly curled his shot around Ingham.
York's equaliser came six minutes from time when a free-kick was headed on by Chris Smith and Jason Walker steered the ball over the line.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways.
Rail service from Connecticut to New York City, along with Amtrak between Boston and New York, was expected to resume by Wednesday morning rush hour, five days after the derailment and crash injured scores of passengers.
While investigators have revealed little beyond their interest in one particular rail section, Connecticut lawmakers plan hearings on the crash on the rail network servicing New York City — one they say is in need of extensive improvements.
The Metro-North crash at rush hour Friday evening injured 72 people, including one who remained in critical condition Monday. It snarled commutes for roughly 30,000 people who normally use the train.
Commuters struggled Monday to find transportation, and many reported rides to work and back home far longer than on typical days.
For Gary Maddin, the drive from his home in Milford, Conn., to the Bridgeport train station normally takes 20 minutes. On Monday, it took an hour. Then he had a shuttle bus and a train ride before he got to his destination, Grand Central Terminal in New York.
"It's a lot," he said. "It's a nightmare just to get into the city today."
Some commuters used a jury-rigged alternative to the trains: A shuttle train ran between New Haven and Bridgeport, where a bus connection to Stamford circumvented the accident scene, and finally customers boarded a train for New York. That system was to continue Tuesday.
Others drove themselves, and state officials nervously watched heavy traffic on two major arteries in southwest Connecticut, Interstate 95 and the Merritt Parkway.
But transportation officials were pleased that area highways were not as choked as they feared, Malloy said. He said commuters heeded his warning over the weekend about the prospect of highways becoming parking lots if all 30,000 of the usual train riders drove instead.
Backups on the Merritt Parkway, a secondary route through Connecticut, were less than on an average Monday, and I-95 was only slightly more jammed than usual because of fog, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said.
"Today went exceedingly well," the governor said. "People listened to us. Many people stayed home or worked from home."
Crews have worked around the clock since Saturday, and track rebuilding has progressed quickly, officials with the Metro-North railroad said.
Resumption of service is "tremendously good news," Malloy said at a news conference later Monday. Amtrak was also expected to be running Wednesday, state officials said.
Federal investigators arrived Saturday and were expected to be on site for seven to 10 days. They are looking at a broken section of rail to see if it is connected to the derailment and collision. Officials said it wasn't clear whether the rail was broken in the crash or earlier.
Members of the General Assembly's Transportation Committee said they have been briefed by state transportation officials over the years about the hefty investment Connecticut needs to make to fully upgrade the commuter rail line, including a couple of 100-year-old bridges that need to be replaced.
"It's like anything else, you know," said Rep. Tony Guerrera, co-chairman of the committee. "You can have a brand-new car and it runs great, but if the roads are awful, with potholes going up and down, what good is it?"
The last major collision involving Metro-North occurred in 1988 when a train engineer was killed in Mount Vernon, N.Y., when one train empty of passengers rear-ended another, railroad officials said.


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NEW YORK (AP) - A flight attendant accused of cursing out a passenger on an airplane public-address system and using an emergency slide to hop off looked happy and relieved afterward, a passenger said Tuesday.
Steven Slater lost his temper after a passenger accidentally hit him on the head with luggage on the ground at Kennedy Airport on Monday, police said. After the plane parked, he grabbed beer from the galley and used the exit slide to make his getaway, police said. He was awaiting arraignment Tuesday in Queens on criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing charges.
Passenger Phil Catelinet said he heard the profanity-laced announcement on Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh, which he described as "the most interesting part of the day to that point," but didn't see Slater use the exit slide or grab the beer. It wasn't until he saw Slater on an airport train and overheard him talking about the escapade that he put it all together.
"He was smiling. He was happy he'd done this," Catelinet told NBC's "Today."
Slater appeared "pretty relieved" and "seemed like he was looking forward to whatever comes next careerwise," Catelinet told CBS' "Early Show."
By Monday night, several Facebook pages had been set up in tribute to Slater, with many users of the social networking site expressing support for his grand exit from his job. Slater, 39, was arrested at his home in the Belle Harbor section of Queens by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police. His attorney's name wasn't immediately available, and there was no home telephone number listed for him.
A woman who answered a phone at his previous residence in Thousand Oaks, Calif., identified herself as his mother but said she wasn't speaking to the media. JetBlue Airways Corp. said in a statement that it was working with the Federal Aviation Administration and Port Authority police to investigate the matter. It said the safety of its customers and crew members was never at risk.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
In order to protect the American people from "malicious cyber actors," the Justice Department and an organization representing police chiefs from around the country insist Congress pass legislation requiring ISPs to retain customer usage data for up to two years.
The calls were made during a hearing on Tuesday held by a House subcommittee chaired by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Republican congressman from Wisconsin.
Law enforcement considers current policies insufficient. ISPs are only required to save data at the specific request of law enforcement. Police argue the current policy hampers their investigations and efforts to pursue online predators and criminals.
"There is no doubt among public safety officials that the gaps between providers' retention policies and law enforcement agencies' needs, can be extremely harmful to the agencies' investigations," Jason Weinstein, deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, told Sensenbrenner's subcommittee.
In 2006, Sensenbrenner proposed similar legislation that would have imprisoned ISP executives for up to a year if they did not comply.
In addition, according to Declan McCullagh, the law would have created a federal felony targeting bloggers, search engines, email service providers and websites. The law was reportedly aimed at any site that authorities might have "reason to believe" facilitates access to child pornography through hyperlinks or a discussion forum or by other means.
Sensenbrenner's legislation was ultimately shelved.
In 2008, the FBI and numerous members of Congress attempted to revive the dormant proposals.
"From the perspective of an investigator, having that backlog of records would be tremendously important if someone comes up on your screen now," FBI Director Robert Mueller told a House of Representatives committee. "If those records are only kept 15 days or 30 days, you may lose the information you may need to bring that person to justice."
Both Republicans and Democrats supported new legislation. Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., said that internet chat rooms are teeming with with sexual predators. Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary committee at the time was a data retention enthusiast and Democrat Rep. John Conyers, the senior Democrat and committee chairman, said that proposed data retention legislation submitted by the FBI "would be most welcome," according to CNET News.
The current effort by Congress and the Justice Department to force ISPs to hold data in order to facilitate government snooping dovetails with the Department of Homeland Security's expansion of its "If You See Something, Say Something" program.
As we reported last month, the DHS recently partnered with Walmart in a coordinated effort to propagandize the public on an aggressive government effort to create a widespread Stasi-like informer network in the United States. The DHS plans to roll out over 800 telescreens at Walmart stores across the country.
The Justice Department is deliberately flaunting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with its call to force ISPs to retain information on customers.
The Fourth Amendment states that the government must have probable cause "supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." The proposed legislation would strike this constitutional requirement.
The Justice Department is arguing that the government has the right to engage in unreasonable searches and seizures without evidence of specific crimes being committed.
If House Republicans go along with the Justice Department's effort, it will underscore the fact members read the Constitution earlier this month as a theatrical stunt and they are not seriously interested in protecting the rights enshrined in the Constitution, rights they have sworn to protect and uphold.
DOJ seeks mandatory data retention requirement for ISPs, Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld, January 25, 2011.
Statement of Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attonry Genral, to the Committee On Judiciary Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, January 25, 2011.
Congress may make ISPs snoop on you, Declan McCullagh, CNET News, May 16, 2006.
ISP snooping plans take backseat, Declan McCullagh, CNET News, May 18, 2006.
FBI, politicos renew push for ISP data retention laws, Declan McCullagh, CNET News, April 23, 2008.
Wal-Mart Invasion Part of Larger DHS Takeover of America, Infowars.com, December 7, 2010