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"..the real seismic data..proves beyond a doubt the quake is not what we were told and was, in fact, an inland 6.8… The Japanese government is going along with the story of a scientifically proven false 9.0…
"Fukushima was impossible…"
As Jim Stone points out, the tsunami in and near Sendai slammed into perfectly good buildings that show no earthquake damage. Watch these youtubes again, and notice (1) a person walking on top of a building at risk for being swept away. How could one of the largest earthquakes in world history leave this area undamaged unless it didn't really happen?!
In this TV special, "Mega Quake; Hour That Shook Japan", 2 minutes and 40 seconds into part 2, an American named Brian Barnes is filming from a car trying to find the road out that leads to high ground. The narrator says they have only seconds left to flee before the tsunami strikes– the view out the windshield shows clean streets and perfect buildings– no broken glass, fallen signs or roof tiles, none at all. Passersby look nervous and uncomprehending, as Jim Stone suggests, taken by surprise. Notice the very large puddles –the Fukushima site had large puddles too. The region had been saturated with rain. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=vfNwtBUg6FA&feature=related ; minute 14:30 says the Fukushima seawall was 5.7 meters high and "at its highest point, the tsunami reached 38 meters above sea level", suggesting a wave of ocean water over 32 meters above the seawall crashed into the nukes –at minute 12:07 the image shows cars in the parking lot behind the tower are still neatly parked.
Japan's Nine-Eleven
I don't intend here to provide an analysis of events because everything that's wrong with the quake/tsunami story seems to be built in to the 'Megaquake' program, much besides the absence of earthquake damage. The timing offered for the tsunami coming ashore at various locations makes no sense whatsoever, for a quake erupting at 2:45 (14:45) An epicenter 80 miles offshore,
generating a wave at 400 to 500 mph would hit the nearest places in 10-15 minutes. The narration notes a Japanese Coast Guard ship "3 miles" out bobbing over the tsunami and then announces "they have less than 30 minutes before the big waves start to hit" [Coast Guard clip http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8392419/Footage-of-Japan-tsunami-waves-at-sea-captured-by-Coast-Guard.html; riding over two swells] –cut to Brian Barnes in Otsuchi, 80 miles north of Sendai, who is fleeing the town at 3:11, "moments before". A city neighboring Sendai on the coast, Arahama, doesn't get the wave until 3:55. If we're to believe this program, then the damaging tsunami appears like many smaller local tsunamis, and we're only shown "damage" occurring within land-sheltered harbors. Is this a case for Tsunami Bombs as Jim Stone declares? Thing is, Stone never suggests a series of smaller tsunamis and there's no footage of anything resembling a "peak height of 124 feet" (maybe here http://www.downloadmoviedirect.com/2009/04/09/poseidon/ )
generating a wave at 400 to 500 mph would hit the nearest places in 10-15 minutes. The narration notes a Japanese Coast Guard ship "3 miles" out bobbing over the tsunami and then announces "they have less than 30 minutes before the big waves start to hit" [Coast Guard clip http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8392419/Footage-of-Japan-tsunami-waves-at-sea-captured-by-Coast-Guard.html; riding over two swells] –cut to Brian Barnes in Otsuchi, 80 miles north of Sendai, who is fleeing the town at 3:11, "moments before". A city neighboring Sendai on the coast, Arahama, doesn't get the wave until 3:55. If we're to believe this program, then the damaging tsunami appears like many smaller local tsunamis, and we're only shown "damage" occurring within land-sheltered harbors. Is this a case for Tsunami Bombs as Jim Stone declares? Thing is, Stone never suggests a series of smaller tsunamis and there's no footage of anything resembling a "peak height of 124 feet" (maybe here http://www.downloadmoviedirect.com/2009/04/09/poseidon/ )
Brian Barnes, the dolphin activist who provided footage of Otsuchi while fleeing by car, it turns out, is an extreme weather storm-chaser. The BBC used Barnes' and his outfit for a documentary about tornadoes in 2009 saying "Brian has been at the game for years." I can guess he's an expert on radar signatures. http://www.youtube.com/user/stormtours#p/u/3/LwXWrHAq1bg ; He was in Japan representing www.savejapandolphins.org, a project of Earth Island Institute. "Earth Island Institute is an umbrella organization with[sic] has more than 60 projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the Earth." www.savejapandolphins.org/about-us/ Brian is missing the best tornado season ever — his company website, www.stormtours.com, is "No longer in business."
Barnes, and the 5 activists who were with him, were on a mission to film Otsuchi fishing practices –activists from the Sea Shepherd crew had been in the area since late February, about 2 weeks of coming and going –but they couldn't find their way to the highroad.?? Interesting– He tells his interviewer, "I just felt that it was time to start documenting.." The sensitivity of locals to the Sea Shepherd mission to document dolphin killing concerns a statistic that the catch in "Iwate Prefecture came to 866 tons in 2009, accounting for more than half of the nation's total [dolphin] catch of 1,404 tons."
Barnes never actually mentions his own experience feeling a quake. His first edited words mentioning earthquakes are,"When I went to Japan, I didn't even think about possible earthquake, I didn't know a tsunami would happen…"
Otsuchi tsunami wall in the background
Another account of Otsuchi's tsunami from a dolphin activist relates "The police, who had taken up a post at the only place we could pass, were frantically motioning for everyone to get through the gates in the tsunami wall. We got through. These walls and gates are massive… They extend high up into the air and rim the entire harbor area of the town… As we were driving along the interior of the wall, the huge gates were being closed… It was not long before the water drained from the harbor and then refilled. We learned from the firemen to expect to see several cycles of this draining and refilling… and all the while afterhocks were happening… [After the high water dragged seaward with debris carrying a woman, the activists attempted a rescue]..We continued to venture out on a seawall that was constantly being exposed and then overtopped by water. It was a gamble.."
"City firemen manually closed the 12 water gates in the port's tsunami wall…" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ctsuchi%2C_Iwate
"It is known that four members of the fire brigade died during the disaster…and it appears that another seven may also be dead because seven more..have not been found… It was the duty of the No.2 branch fire brigade..to close the storm barrier gates when an earthquake struck the region… The earthquake had shut down the power supply therefore the warning system was not functional… the former head of the same branch of the local fire brigade stated that he could hear the bell that Fujio Koshida was ringing in order to warn people." http://moderntokyotimes.com/2011/03/25/fire-brigade-heroes-of-otsuchi-who-died-during-the-tsunami-in-iwate/
.."apparently the time between the quake and the full-force arrival of the tsunami was longer than reported earlier. There was even time for one of our elderly neighbors to make it to safety walking with her cane… Having been in Otsuchi several times when quakes triggered false tsunami alerts, I fully understand the lack of urgency among those who failed to escape… One of the most haunting accounts came from those who took refuge on top of the..town hall. They watched Fujio Koshita..ring the bell on top of the nearby firehouse until he and the building were swept away. As the warning siren failed to work properly Koshita took it on himself..to warn the town." http://no1.fccj.ne.jp/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=321:the-perilous-beauty-of-otsuchi&catid=55:tohoku;
"The waves hit the eastern coast of Japan about 1.5 hours after the quake… 'I was actually shocked' to see all the damage the waves had caused, Barberopoulon told OurAmazingPlanet, because the damage didn't match up with initial estimates of the earthquake's magnitude.."
A structural engineer, who was driven into Otsuchi in mid-April to survey damage, had this to say about his observations: "During this time, at least in my opinion, one can't help but develop a further appreciation of an underlying elegant expression of Japanese lifestyle. What you notice is the concept that anything undertaken should always be done with the best effort and utmost precision of execution. When everyone does this, a harmonious mechanism results where everything appears to be just where it ought to be… there appears to be a remarkable lack of graffiti, litter or spiteful vandalism. Our arrival in the tsunami-stricken area of Otsuchi Bay was therefore quite shocking, because in the span of a few seconds, or less than a few hundred meters, the serenity of the scene is utterly transformed into chaos; there is extremely little middle ground between the unaffected and severely damaged zones… with essentially no exceptions, seawalls were overtopped… Undermining failures have also occurred… In other cases, some concrete gravity seawalls were overturned by the return flow after inundation, rather than by the incoming tsunami… heavy steel gates..seem to have resisted well the incoming flow but not necessarily the outward return flow." http://www.asce.org/PPLContent.aspx?id=12884906357
"[Scott West] was in..Otsuchi this week when the city was essentially destroyed..Suzanne West said. 'He said that the gates for blocking tsunami waves were ripped from hinges..' " http://myedmondsnews.com/2011/03/edmonds-man-escapes-tsunami-that-devastates-japanese-city/
"Patrick Fuller of the International Red Cross Federation [said] 'I don't think you will find anywhere worse on the coastline.' " http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/uk-japan-quake-scene-idUSLNE72D02Q20110314
Otsuchi's broken and missing tsunami wall: http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/13/as-tsunami-approached-town
Otsuchi fishing is destroyed: "Two months after..far from recovery and, with many working-age people moving away, they face the prospect that they could simply wither away and, ultimately, perhaps even disappear." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/world/asia/16recovery.html
Sumatra, December 26, 2004, 9.1 earthquake and tsunami, depth of 18.6 miles
Tsunami wave time map:
Banda Aceh witnesses, 155 miles from the epicenter, saw waves they believed were 10 meters high: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1272562.htm
"People [were] standing around or examining the remains of wrecked houses and cracked concrete.. Then suddenly..between 15 and 20 minutes after the quake..a swift powerful wall of water engulfing a busy street, rising to at least the second floor of buildings.." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/09/world/main665689.shtml
Aceh neighborhood, before and after http://www.shockandawe.us/tsunami/banda_acehBefore_After.htm
USGS, Indonesia distance info http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqakes/eqinthenews/2004/us2004slav/
Comparing the Sumatra tsunami makes the timing in Japan's 'Megaquake' impossible. We're obviously being treated to a large dose of video fakery.
For example, one of Brian Barnes' live-action clips that shows a tree engulfed by rising water also has a pile of flood debris already on its top. Did they run this clip backwards? While driving the streets of Otsuchi with a soundtrack blaring sirens, a person in the car asks, "Are we hearing sirens?" –someone answers "yes". They chatter about escaping the tsunami, worried that "bridges might be out" while viewers witness the perfect scene in front of them… All too revealing in the style of 9-11 perception management.
So, is it possible to localize a tsunami?
If a swimming pool model works, the answer is yes. http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=swimming+pool+earthquake. Did Japan's seawalls contribute to a swimming pool effect, and were the effects 'boosted' from inside those barriers?
2002 image
The image of the wave crashing into Fukushima, above, was supposedly a "new" release a month after the tsunami –not a lie exactly– since the same angle shot appears in 'Megaquake' but shows a definitely much thinner spray and calmer sea — that 'thin' image seems to appear only in the broadcast version of 'Megaquake', and not in the internet edits that I can link or paste. Either way, a careful look at the site damage confines its perspective to a small area of the first tier platform where 3 white tanks group together, and a patch on the second tier that fits with damage from hard falling water. It clearly doesn't correspond to the notion that the essential generator buildings were under 15 feet of water. Not that it matters, apparently. Reactor safety features were not dependent on the generators according to Jim Stone who concludes that sabotage is the only way that the Fukushima reactors could have exploded.
According to this post and the official TEPCO diagram, the flood on the reactor level was 14 to 15 meters deep: http://martynwilliams.posterous.com/tsunami-damage-at-fukushima-daiichi
Compare the wave spray heights with this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqGhm8oUYnk&feature=related; or these still photos http://www.lovethesepics.com/2011/04/power-of-the-storm-44-ferocious-waves-attacking-lighthouses/ and it looks like the Daiichi wave video was taken during a storm at some other time. "In 2004, eight cyclones passed over or skirted Japan's Tohoku region, where the Fukushima Dai-ichi power station is…The earliest was May that year…" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/20/MNBP1J4HL5.DTL For my money, the small leafy trees in the foreground of the power plant tsunami video look more like May than March.
News update: Aug.08,2011 –"Towering waves from a tropical storm threatened to hit a chemical plant in a Chinese port city… Waves as high as 65 feet (20 meters) broke a dike..and threatened to hit the..Fujiahua chemical plant.." http://news.yahoo.com/waves-storm-threaten-chemical-plant-china-073847844.html
–lest we compare the waves with the Fukushima plant, this item is circulating without wave photos.
MORE RECENTLY (below), however, a September 2011 Typhoon-generated wave offers comparison http://news.yahoo.com/typhoon-buffets-tokyo-heads-toward-tsunami-zone-102800571.html
a larger image shows rectangular chunks of seawall in the wash http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43193695/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/; a tsunami height of 46 feet minus a seawall height of 18 feet leaves 28 feet of water crashing above and 'carrying' the wall, except that all the images I can find of the Daiichi plant aftermath show that the platforms and seawalls are intact. Can someone explain this image?
The New York Times is sticking by this story: "..the tsunami was as high as 46 feet, the report said…. The tsunami struck [Fukushima] 46 minutes after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake.." http://www.nyties.com/2011/06/02/world/asia/02japan.html?_r=2&ref=world
There are obvious tons of debris on the site from the explosions, but this video footage shows that the seawall is still there –plans for sandbagging the walls are underway as cyclone season intensifies http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-japan-fukushima-report-20110602,0,7287295.story;
Excellent photos of the Daiichi waterfront, damaged reactors, and debris help with site orientation and confirm the "tsunami" shots as improbable-to-impossible http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm
Curiously, following the satellite map down the coast in Fukushima prefecture (south of Minamisoma) shows a very different-looking Daiichi site with an additional 'dog-leg' breakwater inside the large surrounding triangular arms. The shape of the interior 'box' breakwater was also changed. http://www.diddlefinger.com/m/fukushimaken/
Everyone was surprised
The "papers" now coming out on the Tohoku-Oki Quake are writing a new chapter in geophysical science history:
"[It's] not the [quake]size alone that has people worried; it's the fact that something this size occurred on a segment of fault that we didn't think was capable of producing a quake of this magnitude (an estimate that has had disastrous consequences at the Fukushima nuclear reactors)… The initial period of rupture occurred relatively deep under the plate and lasted for up to 40 seconds. That was followed by an extremely brief but violent horizontal rupture as the North American plate released the built-up pressure… This violent horizontal motion was followed by up to a hundred seconds of further deep rupture… [The] horizontal motion was the primary cause of the tsunami, but only provided a portion of the energy released in the quake. Thus, if a quake can generate that sort of motion on its own, then we could see much smaller quakes generating tsunamis that are far larger than we would have predicted… Globally, the quake has also told us that it's possible for a relatively small fault segment to spawn a giant earthquake. A perspective quotes the US Geological Survey's David Wald as saying, 'If you can get a 9 that is this compact, it increases the number of places you can [fit in] a 9 where you may not have expected one.' So, coastal nations around the globe might want to start re-evaluating the risks they face…"
The Foreshock
"The March 11 earthquake was preceded by a series of large foreshocks over the previous two days, beginning on March 9 with a 7.2 event approximately 40km from the epicenter of the March 11 earthquake, and continuing with another three earthquakes greater than M6 on the same day." http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0001xgp/#summary
Infrared emissions before the quakes: dense infrared signatures appear near Otsuchi on March 8 and 10 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/files/63290/Tohoku%20earthquake.png
On March 9 a 7.2 hit northeastern Japan: .."7.2 magnitude has struck off the coast of Japan, shaking buildings in the capital, Tokyo, and triggering a small tsunami…A 60cm (24in) tsunami reached the coastal town of Ofunato, with other towns reporting smaller waves shortly after the quake hit at 1145 (0245 GMT)..so far no reports of damage or injuries.." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12684585; The Sidney Morning Herald reported a near-identical location offshore for the March 9 quake: "The quake hit at 1:54pm about 169 kilometres off the city of Sendai..at a depth of 14 kilometres" http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/earthquake-rocks-japan-20110309-1bnif.html?from=smh_sb
What about HAARP –could HAARP have enabled the events of March 9-11? Could the huge circular signature over Otsuchi on March 8 and 10 signal that an infrared-based ground technology exploiting terahertz frequency was being used? Are there networked, off-grid (and subsurface) weapons that depend on infrared and the presence of HAARP? Read an earlier piece on the Haiti quake: https://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/haiti-and-haarp/. What caused the strange diagonal pattern seen on the 12th, accompanied by another 'target'?
Infrared (IR) signatures from previous quakes bear no resemblance to the round target-like images presented to the public in the technologyreview link. Quake radiations are pressure generated, asymetric, and sometimes butterfly-like, emanating along a fault or fault system. A closer-earth image, provided by NASA, of thermal IR scanning in India in January 2001 shows one such example (satellites showed intense IR 5 days before the deadly 7.9 Gujarat quake that killed more than 20,000) scroll down to third picture: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/11aug_earthquakes
"Relative to the..8.8 Maule, Chile earthquake, the Tohoku-Oki earthquake was deficient in high-frequency seismic radiation –a difference we attribute to its relative shallow depth." http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6036/1421.full
–Gujarat India was also shallow at 17 kilometers. http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/Gujarat2001.html
In 2008, "Minoru Freund, a physicist and director for advanced aerospace materials and devices at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, told BBC News: 'I do believe that we will be able to establish a clear correlation between certain earthquakes and certain pre-earthquake signals, in an unbiased way.' …the BBC understands that scientists also observed a "huge" signal in the ionosphere before the Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in China on 12 May.
"Last year, we looked at some fascinating data from the DEMETER spacecraft showing a significant increase in ultra-low frequency radio signals before the magnitude 7 Haiti earthquake in January 2010…" http://www.japanquakereport.com/earthquakes-and-weird-atmospheric-phenomena-which-comes-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg
Earthquake Animation sequence, beginning 00 hours March 11 JST, showing 1,326 quakes in the sequence: http://www.japanquakemap.com
August's AUDACIOUS UPDATES with additional programming on the disaster, confirming even more video fakery to further confuse tsunami events, is PBS's NOVA release of a newly made hour-long documentary in which Otsuchi (pop.18,000) is identifed as Miyako (pop. 52,000) and uses some of the same footage with "special thanks" credit to Brian Barnes. A satellite map pinpoints Miyako up the coast, set deep inside Miyako Bay which opens to the north, away from the traveling direction of the tsunami. http://mapsof.net/miyako . Nova drums up additional experts, such as Roger Bilham of the Univ. of Colorado who states, "Never before have we had such a surplus of data. There are no mysteries in this earthquake. We know exactly what happened." New sets of facts and obfuscations, not put forward in earlier programs, should really muddle things up. Around minute 32, Nova focuses on a snowy mountain village called Kahoku which had a saltwater lake appear within 24 hours of the first wave, surge from the coast that funneled into a river and traveled several miles uphill to flood out the town. Orientation to Kahoku suggests it's not far south from Ofunato, yet Kahoku evades a map search. To make a point, PBS assures us that this tsunami had "no clear pattern to when or where" it struck. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tsunami/
Tulane University has created a class around Nova's production. The webpage states that "despite the fact that a tsunami warning system was in place, the earthquake was so close to the coast that little time was available for people to react." http://www.tulane.edu/%7Esanelson/geol204/tsunami.htm
Seismologists report
"We used observations of open-ocean tsunami wave heights measured by deep sea-bottom pressure gauges..[from] 12 sensors in the Pacific ocean east of the Japan trench…." http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6036/1421.full
Global wave intensity image (click on the link): http://gisetc.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/japan-tsunami-wave-height-110311-02.jpg; showing a strongly compact eastward thrust of the wave. Consider that Hawaii, Oregon and California received the tsunami but the Philippines and New Guinea did not.
Below: colorized motion; March 11 epicenter is outlined with a black star (top of the red patch). This motion graph shows that the quake occurred at some distance from the trench.
"A 'major' earthquake is one measuring greater than magnitude 7.0… On average, the world has [had]..16 major quakes annually since 1900… In some years, such as 1986 and 1989, we have recorded only six major quakes while 32 of them occurred in 1943." http://www.statesman.com/opinion/bilham-natural-consequences-596272.html


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Pedagogical Quality Management
All German Overseas Schools within the network "German Schools Abroad International" ("Deutsche Auslandsschulen International") are obliged to offer education and school quality to the highest standards. The Central Agency for Schools Abroad (Zentralstelle für das Auslandsschulwesen, ZfA) systematically supports the German Overseas Schools in implementing their tasks for further development as part of their pedagogical quality management.
The supporting and subsidising bodies from the Federal Government and from the Länder codified the internationally recognised quality standards in November 2006 in the "Quality framework of the Federal government and the Länder for German Schools Abroad".
After the successful Federal and Länder Inspection (Bund-Länder-Inspektion) 1.0 (BLI) in September 2010 the German School Taipei was awarded the quality seal "Excellent German Overseas School" (Exzellente Deutsche Auslandsschule). This certifies that we meet the quality standards set by the German federal government.
The preparations for the next inspection due for November 2016 are well advanced:
- Self evaluation of the school in May 2014
In the course of this self-evaluation teachers, students and parents answered questions relating to the quality of the school and of the teaching. Their answers were processed in an evaluation report Evaluationsbericht into tables and diagrams.
- Peer Review in November 2015
"Critical friends" have looked into the progress made in implementing the required developments. They provided the school with important suggestions on where more work needs to be done to be well prepared for the Federal and Länder Inspection.
- Advice from the process consultant in September 2015 and September 2016.
The process consultant appointed by the ZfA for quality development of overseas schools in the Far East region regularly visits the school and gives valuable advice.
- Consistent quality development
The concepts for teaching development, organisational development and staff development are continuously discussed and further developed during the teachers' conferences, in the Steering Group for quality development and in all working teams including teachers, parents and representatives of the school body.
After having employed some new teachers it will be a great challenge for us to go through the inspection process.
A team of two inspectors representing the Federal government and the Länder will come to visit our school. The actual inspection consists of visiting both school campuses, conducting interviews with the Headmaster, parents, Section Council members, students, teachers and management staff as well as visiting many lessons.
We have prepared the quality documentation for the inspectors and provided them with extensive relevant documents.
In their feedback report the inspectors will point out the strong points that they observe in the school as well as possibilities for further development. As a result, new aims for school development may be formulated and agreed upon with the subsidising bodies.
During a further follow-up visit two years later, the representatives from the Federal government and the Länder will check whether the aims that have been agreed upon are consistently pursued and implemented.
- Inspection report BLI 1.0 from 2010
- The school programme resulting from this report as of March 2012
- Report on the follow-up visit in March 2013 (Bericht des Bilanzbesuchs aus März 2013)

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Race car drivers have transformed from characters with big personalities to corporate robots nearly incapable of a smile. Thankfully, not all of them have become cardboard cutouts.
Kyle Marcelli races sports cars and is an obvious fan of Will Ferrell and Talladega Nights. Instead of just saying this in an interview, he decided to express it verbally to a camera.
We need more racing drivers doing things like this. Having fun, showing that they're real humans. Now we just need Romain Grosjean to make a video where he pretends to be Jean Girard and the circle will be complete.


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TARRYTOWN, N.Y., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) will webcast management presentations at the following investor conferences:
The sessions may be accessed through the Company's web site, www.regeneron.com, on the 'Events and Presentations' page. Archived versions of the presentations will be available for thirty days after the live webcasts.
Regeneron is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron markets two products in the United States, ARCALYST® (rilonacept) Injection for Subcutaneous Use and EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection, and has filed regulatory applications with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for second indications for each of these products. A regulatory application has also been submitted to the FDA for the product candidate ZALTRAP® (aflibercept) Concentrate for Intravenous Infusion. Phase 3 studies are in progress with EYLEA® in a third indication, and with product candidate sarilumab. Earlier-stage clinical programs are underway with nine additional monoclonal antibodies. Regeneron has active research and development programs in many disease areas, including ophthalmology, inflammation, cancer, and hypercholesterolemia. Additional information and recent news releases are available on the Regeneron web site at www.regeneron.com.Contact Information: Manisha Narasimhan, Ph.D.
Peter DworkinInvestor Relations
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Expose IISExpress to Mac from a Windows Virtual Machine9.18.2012
While working on an iOS app I bumped into a situation where I needed to consume a .NET web service on my Windows Virtual Machine hosted on IISExpress. After searching in internet I couldn't even find one solution that was pleasing to my eyes. Since I was using Nancy Web Framework (the coolest .NET web framework out there), I almost went to even coding in MonoDevelop in Mac as Nancy official supports Mono. But since I like to have my dev environment similar to my production environment I insisted on using a Windows box.


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6 Stylish Shower Curtains
It may be the smallest room in your house, but the bathroom certainly doesn't deserve to be overlooked. Consider making a statement in the space with a shower curtain update.
Nate Berkus Batik Shower Curtain
If you want to make a colorful statement in your small space, this batik indigo curtain is an affordable option with intricate detailing to make it look luxe.
To buy: $25, target.com.
4040 Locust Wyatt Space Dyed Shower Curtain
The knotted tassels at the base give this classic striped curtain some fringed flare.
To buy: $69, urbanoutfitters.com.
Mendoza Shower Curtain
This bold watercolor-inspired textile will offer an eclectic burst of brightness to your washroom.
To buy: $148, luluandgeorgia.com.
White Totem Shower Curtain
This embroidered white-on-white shower curtain offers simple elegance for the bath. Balance its monochromatic look with a colorful bathmat or towels.
To buy: $125, johnrobshaw.com.
Whale Shower Curtain
Bath time is sure to be a splash with this nautical-themed curtain setting the scene.
To buy: $39, westelm.com.
Spear Shower Curtain
Liven up your little space with this multi-colored, geometric curtain.
To buy: $115, cleverspaces.com.


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General Assembly 10/18/11 Arrival: 8:01 (I may have missed some parts that occurred earlier) Terms: FORUM is an open discussion centered around a topic that is affecting the group. COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENTS are updates and reminders by committee reps. GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS are open announcements under unspecified topics. ACTION ANNOUNCEMENTS are new to this evening's meeting; I am not sure of what they are. PROPOSALS are items that are voted upon. ???? denotes sections that were unclear or confusing to transcribe. Italicized sections are my thoughts. All bullet points are essential points … Continued
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The War on Organic Data
There's a war going on my fellow SEOs and Search Marketers. Has been for a couple of years now. The war on organic data.
It was a war that started off very covertly, almost without incidence, as noted by Jon Henshaw over 2 years ago on Raven Tool's Blog. Google, by way of depreciated APIs, quietly pulled SERP [Search Engine Results Page] ranking data. Which then led to more and more companies scraping the results from Google and placing an extra burden on their servers. And, perhaps Google was banking on the fact, though somewhat quietly kept, Google Webmaster Tools has had "ranking data" for over 3 years now. Maybe this was Google's evolutionary step? Nonetheless, it was the one of the first assaults on organic data; Google's conscious and deliberate action to close off a major pipeline to SEOs and Webmasters. It registered as nothing more than a blip to most of the community, myself included, but the SEO tool companies probably had a good idea where it was headed. Maybe they decided to just "wait and see"?
2011: Google Kicks in the Door
A year after Google shut off the Ranking Data APIs, they got brazen. They gathered up the troops and kicked the down the door to the SEO house, fingers
hugging the triggers. It was akin to enacting Google's own personal Patriot Act. They black-boxed the organic search data. "NOT PROVIDED". Users who were signed-in or using SSL Google searches would appear as "not provided" in your organic search keyword data to help "maintain the privacy". All under the guise of privacy. Immediately this change was said to only affect less than 10% of data in analytics. "Single digits", was the quote from Matt Cutts.
2012: One Year of "Not Provided"
Danny Sullivan's excellent write up "Dark Google" tells the story. Single digits? It's hard to imagine that Matt could say it and keep a straight face. I don't know about you, but my sites are consistently between 1o% and 15% "not provided". And, in some extreme cases, they range near 25%. 25% shielded keyword data for a small business is pretty big, and pretty crappy. That's an awfully large gaping hole to be missing out on. How can they [small businesses] help it that people are signed-in or starting off in "https" search? That's a ton of valuable data that small businesses could be using to help them analyze customer behavior, to help them write better, more targeted content to their customers, and to help them expand and refine their consumer funnels to convert more and stay afloat in an economy that still moving sideways. I think of it this way: if Google suddenly lost 15% of its collected search data overnight, don't you think they'd be pretty pissed off? Just, "poof", and it's gone.
Losing That Data Might Be the Best Thing For SEOs
I know that it sounds backwards, but hear me out. Also, let's put aside the obvious here: of course this move was intended to get every business involved in Paid Search (not just the those who spend millions over millions every year). Because like SEOs, Google knows it's the thousands of small accounts [mid-tail/long-tail] that add up. If you ensure the data that was once free has to route through a paid resource, you're going to get a large swath of folks to jump on board and buy-in.
Perhaps it was all part of their design (can't discount that theory), but losing organic data has forced SEOs and Search marketers to expand their tool-kit to get that data. When you can't rely on a single source, you've got to employ multiple channels (i.e. social, content, CRO, etc.) to piece together the story again. I won't lie, that's a stretch (even to the writer). However, there's a small nugget of truth that this assault on organic data has forced us to become better marketers.
2013 and Beyond
The more Google pushes its own products (i.e. Gmail, Places, Google Drive, Insights & Trends) to its social platform (Google+) to create a fluid SUPER-DATA-HIVE, the more users must be signed in to interact. Luckily, Google+ hasn't quite pulled off the interaction and engagement with users it hoped to (so far). Then add in Firefox moving to Google SSL search by default and iOS6 doing the same. What you get is a "black box" on organic data that is the size of Utah, and is only going to get larger and more vacuous. It is their data to do with as they please, after all. The hypocritical precedent set a year ago by Google will continue onward: "user privacy". They clearly don't want to be viewed under the same lens as Facebook.
I think that by the end of 2013 organic site data will reduced to drips from a leaky faucet as SSL search become the rule and not the exception. I can't say what the end-game is here; whether its Google constructing a service to "buy back" organic data that they anonymize or making SEOs piece together the puzzle from several different platform strands. Or, just so it can be said aloud, push every business into AdWords platform to get "all the consumer data". It certainly seems like that's the objective with all these maneuvers: squeeze SEOs organic data into a corner so small that it becomes non-representative of overall searcher/consumer behavior.


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(CNN) -- Three years ago Sharon Twitchell was miserable.
Sharon Twitchell lost 110 pounds and went from wearing a size 22 to a size 2 in 10 months.
Carrying 227 pounds on her tiny 5'2" frame, the 51-year-old mother and wife could barely squeeze into her plus-size clothing.
Twitchell is the first of eight CNN.com I-Reporters who shared their weight loss stories with CNN. They revealed their secrets and reflected on the defining moments that motivated them to lose a combined total of 1,167 pounds and how the weight loss has changed their lives.
"I was wearing a size 22 and getting my clothes at stores where the biggest size was a 24. I asked myself, 'Where are you going to buy your clothes after you get bigger than a size 24?'" said Twitchell.
Adding to her misery, Twitchell says her ballooning weight was also wreaking havoc on her 31-year marriage.
"We were literally just co-existing together, like roommates," recalled Twitchell.
"Friends asked my husband to e-mail them a picture of us. Later, I discovered that he had sent them an old photograph taken when I was much smaller. Even though he loved me, he was embarrassed at how much weight I had gained."
Afraid she would have to purchase clothing from online stores catering to larger women, Twitchell told her husband she'd had enough and was ready to make a change.
Initially, Twitchell made an appointment with her physician in hopes that he would write her a prescription for a pill to help her lose weight. Instead, she says she saw the "w" begin to form on his lips and knew he was going to recommend she try Weight Watchers.
Uncomfortable with the thought of going to actual meetings, Twitchell lost 30 pounds on her own and eventually joined the online Weight Watchers POINTS program on October 26, 2004. She also bought an elliptical machine and a recumbent bicycle and started working out six days a week.
The pounds melted off.
Ten months and another 80 pounds later, she reached her goal weight on August 26, 2005.
Twitchell says she hasn't been this size since before her first daughter was born. She now weighs 117 pounds and wears a size 2 or 4, depending on the store.
How has this changed her life?
"I have a marriage again," says Twitchell, who recently retired and relocated with her husband from New Jersey to their new home in the mountains of western North Carolina.
"When I finally reached my goal (weight), my wedding ring was two sizes too big. I had already had it resized twice and the jeweler was hesitant that I might lose more weight. Rather than resize it, my husband bought me a new beautiful diamond ring and when he gave it to me he said this was a renewal of our wedding vows," she recalled.
Twitchell says her husband keeps telling people that he's got his wife back. This August, the couple will celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary and they couldn't be happier.
"If I can lose 110 pounds, anyone can," says Twitchell.
iReport.com: Have you lost weight? Share your story, photos and video. E-mail to a friend
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said banks need to take more risks in order for the U.S. economy to recover from the recession.
"To get out of this we need banks to take a chance on businesses, to take risks again," Geithner said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
Geithner, who outlined a plan to remove toxic assets from banks earlier this month, said banks would emerge "stronger" from this crisis.
U.S. & World
"We need to end this pattern of having booms and busts at the kind of frequency we've seen -- that has to change," he said. "That will make this a better place to live and a more productive economy moving forward."
The Treasury secretary also said the department has $135 billion in bail out money left that has not been set aside for specific banks.
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This past May Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that scaling back the Fed's $85 billion per month asset purchase program in the near term was a distinct possibility. He also included a qualifier: that such action would only occur with a corresponding improvement in the economy and the jobs market.
However, his qualifier seems to have been largely ignored. As a result of his typically measured comments, and somewhat true to form, the financial markets reacted in melodramatic fashion. Specifically, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury and mortgage rates spiked in a very short period of time. In fact, both increased around 100 basis points.
In the wake of this, we find a number of important observations to ponder concerning the near-term outlook and the potential for further irrational behavior in the financial markets. It appears that risk has been elevated which could leave unsuspecting investors rushing for the exits at some point. Moreover, it happened at a time when the economy is still limping along like an old three-legged dog. What are some of the potential consequences of higher interest rates? Let's dig a little deeper into this important and highly relevant topic.
The Historical Significance of Rising Rates
If history is any indicator, when interest rates rise, it's often a sign of an improving economy. This is partly due to the fact that as economic activity strengthens, along with demand, the cost of capital tends to rise. However, today we understand this is not the case, as economic growth remains weak.
In business, growth initiatives are heavily influenced by the cost of capital. As interest rates rise, companies are forced to pay a higher price to finance activities such as R&D and planned expansions. Hence, the problem today is not that the cost of capital is at an extreme level. Rather, it remains near historic lows. The problem lies in the speed with which it rose. What was demonstrated was how quickly rates can spike and how volatile the debt markets can be. That points to a more nervous investor and increases the degree of uncertainty businesses feel over the neo-regulatory policies of the past several years. But that is a story for another time.
Rising Rates and the Intrinsic Value of a Stock
To determine the present value of a stock one must discount its future income stream (i.e., dividends). Hence, as rates rise, the discount rate used in this calculation also rises, placing downward pressure on stock prices. As we've witnessed recently, volatility has increased and stocks have declined over the past several weeks.
Most understand that higher mortgage rates are a headwind for the housing market. However, quantifying this is another matter entirely. Let's consider an example. The median home price in America today is $152,000 (according to Zillow.com) and has been rising. For perspective sake, the median home price was slightly over $300,000 in 2008. Using today's figure and assuming a 20% down payment, a 30-year loan with a 4.0% fixed rate would create a payment (P&I) of $579 per month, or $6,943 annually. If mortgage rates rose by 1.0%%, the new P&I would be $650 per month, or $7,801 per year.
Using the Department of Labor's most recent median income amount of $776 per week, the monthly P&I payment with the 4.0% rate would represent 17.9% of gross income. However, if mortgage rates rose by 1.0%, up to 5.0%, the new monthly payment would consume 20.1% of gross income. Needless to say, as rates rise, the housing recovery will soften.
What's the Problem, Then?
Here's my concern. Based on how the financial markets reacted to the mere suggestion of a reduction in the Fed's bond buying program, what will be its reaction when the Fed finally begins to taper?
I believe it's possible that we could see an overreaction severe enough to cause investor fear to spike which could derail our already anemic recovery. After all, the crux of the issue today is weak demand. Anything that could further weaken demand would be a negative for the economy.
Hence, I believe this is an issue worth watching; if it actually does materialize, well, I'll let you draw your own conclusion. I'll just say there is plenty of uncertainty out there, and yes, we could see a bull run, but at some point, I think the potential exists for a rather dire period. I do hope I'm wrong, but I will remain cautious in the interim. Oh, did I mention we're going to swear in a successor when Bernanke leaves his post? Need I say more?
Until next time, have a great week and thanks for reading!


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General Information
As mentioned before US data protection distingiushes itself significantly to its European counterparts by strong affinity to self-regulation. This liberal approach lead to an patchwork legislature as far as the protection of privacy rights are concerned since laws were only levied once acute problems were not solved by the economy. Unfortunately these laws always cover only small parts of data protection since they were adjusted to each respective problem. There is no single federal law that defines data protection as a whole.
Do You Know Your Rights? – There are a lot of them!
Privacy and the Freedom of Speech go hand in glove. Most states provide data protection laws on their own. Their Security Breach Notification Laws bear strong similarities to each other in every state and deal mainly the utilization of private data without the individual's consent by imposing financial penalties.
The main part of data protection in the US is covered by the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to safeguard personal information in electronic transmissions. Find a overview of data protection laws here.
According to the Wireless 411 Privacy Act the directoy 411.com is not allowed to list mobile phone numbers without their owners consent. Since this only applies for mobile numbers their landline equivalent are still displayed in the directory and can only be removed for a small fee.
In addition, the US is part of several institutions pledged to uphold privacy rights on an international scale. To allow US companies transaction with their Eurpeoan counterparts the US Department of Commerce established a programmes called Safe Habour which complies with the EU Directives on Privacy. Learn more about Safe Harbour…
To further strength global consumer rights the US joined the WPISP in mutally coordinated attempt to secure privacy complementaries and the sustainability of internet commerce under the umbrella of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. Learn more…
Legal consultation is very important when feeling you are at risk of fraud or deception. You can use Google search to find a lawyer for consultation.
Simply type in "legal advice" or "lawyer" plus your city name in the search box below to find the nearest legal consultant.


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Women's Frontier
Designed for ease-of-use, the Tubbs Women's Frontier Snowshoe is new to our Trail Walking line this season!
Select Size Size Chart
The Tubbs Frontier women's snowshoe is an unbeatable value for solo trailblazers and hikers alike. The Frontier features the superior ease-of-use and all-day comfort of our 180™ EZ binding, and its women's-specific design is both lightweight and efficient on packed trails.
Included: One pair of snowshoes.
Women's Frontier
Designed for ease-of-use, the Tubbs Women's Frontier Snowshoe is new to our Trail Walking line this season!
Product Zoom
|Optimal Load*
|Surface Area
|8" x 21"
|3.3 lbs
|80 - 150 lbs
|136 in²
|8" x 25"
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|120 - 200 lbs
|178 in²
|9" x 30"
|4.3 lbs
|170 - 250 lbs
|234 in²
*Optimal Load refers to the total weight of the user plus anything they are carrying, such as a pack, equipment, etc. Recommended loads are based on light, dry snow conditions. Powder snow may require a larger snowshoe.
- Features:
- Weight/Pair: 3.8 lbs/1.72 kg (25")
- Sizes available: 21, 25, 30
- Frame:
- Fit-Step™ Frame
- Decking:
- Soft-Tec™ Decking
- Articulation:
- R1 Rotating Toe Cord
- Control:
- 180™ EZ Binding
- Traction:
- Recreational Crampons
- Uses Boa:
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Fit-Step Frame
The innovative and biomechanical aluminum Fit-Step™ frame, designed with a slightly upturned, rounded tail, reduces muscular skeletal impact on hip, knee and ankle joints by 10%.
Rotating Toe Cord
Rotating Toe Cord design enables the tail of the snowshoe to drop and snow to shed off the tail, reducing cardio-respiratory strain by 7%. The underfoot pivot point also allows the toe traction teeth to bite deeply into the snow when weighted.
180 EZ Binding
The streamlined180EZ binding features a simple, one-buckle tightening mechanism, coupled with an easy-to-use urethane heel strap for efficient, lightweight support. Patented Control Wings™ keep your heel aligned with the snowshoe for maximum control and comfort.
Recreational Crampon
Carbon steel toe and heel crampons feature front and rear braking teeth for a secure grip uphill, downhill and side hill in packed snow conditions.
SoftTec Decking
Tubbs SoftTec™ decking provides durable, lightweight flotation.


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Le Candy Corpse wrote:So... where can we start posting applications? And, just because I have all these books and nothing to do with them anymore, what edition does drowlove lean more toward? I'm assuming 3rd, but I'm not entirely sure.
It is 3.5 actually. So yeah 3rd edition. Screw 4th edition. And, um, I have no idea. We might make a separate thread for ooc and apps.


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The thing about Kanye is that he's great. The other thing about him is that he is incredibly quotable. Given that new album Yeezus is coming out next week and everyone seems to love hearing Kim Kardashian's future baby daddy talk about any ole thing, there's a quite lengthy New York Times piece with the "visionary." Without context, or further ado, we present the sixteen most amazing things Ye said during his Malibu hangout (read: interview) with reporter Jon Caramanica, in case you haven't already read them on Twitter.
- "I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus."
- "I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z."
- "I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things."
- "The longer your 'gevity is, the more confidence you build. The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous."
- "It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is."
- "I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that's how good I was. But I wasn't on my eighth-grade team, because some coach — some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah — they're all the same as that coach."
- "You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'"
- "I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis — you know, that liked nice things also."
- "I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war."
- "I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you?'"
- "I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person."
- "I'm the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?"
- "Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby."
- "This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration … I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body."
- "Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?"
- "I would go up the escalator [at Virgin music stores] and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far."


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Your horse's gait doesn't look right. It's not something you can really put your finger on, but he looks off. Is he lame, or is there something else going on? And how serious is it?
"Most clinicians can intuitively recognize an ataxic gait, but for owners or in subtle cases it can be challenging to distinguish an ataxic horse from a lame horse," explained Caroline Hahn, DVM, MSc, PhD, Dip. ECEIM, ECVN, MRCVS, from the Neuromuscular Disease Laboratory, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the 12th Congress of The World Equine Veterinary Association, held Nov. 2-6 in Hyderabad, India.
That being said, Hahn recommends going back to the basics to truly understand what ataxia is and how to diagnose the cause for ataxia in affected horses.
"Ataxia is a Greek term that means inconsistent," said Hahn. "Ataxic horses are those that are unable to control the rate, range, or force of their movements resulting in an inconsistent gait."
A normally functioning body is able to "sense" how its joints, muscles, and tendons are moving, and where all of the components of the body are in relation to each other. This is called proprioception, and two regions of the brain are responsible for proper proprioception: the forebrain and the cerebellum (at the base of the brain).
According to Hahn, "In order for the information to get to the cerebellum and forebrain the spinal cord has to be intact also, and this is a structure commonly involved in an ataxic patient."
To complicate matters further, damage to the vestibular system (which tells the body where it is in space) and the brainstem can also cause ataxia. Luckily, the "quality" of ataxia and the degree of the inconsistency associated with problems specific areas of the brain and spinal cord vary depending on which structure is affected.
"These subtle differences allow us to identify where the problem is when we are presented with an ataxic horse," noted Hahn. "For example, a horse with spinal cord ataxia due to a lesion in the neck may only show signs in the hind legs if the lesion is mild, and commonly will have large and small steps, step on itself when turning, and be very weak when its tail is pulled while it is walking.
"A horse with an inner ear (vestibular system) lesion on the other hand may have a wide-based stance, take small steps (because it is worried about falling over), and potentially has a head tilt towards the side that has the problem," she continued.
Owners can use these signs as guidelines to help determine whether a horse is ataxic or lame and to better communicate with the veterinarian to ensure the animal receives prompt and accurate treatment.


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Around mid-evening in late May, relish your time under the spring stars. Gorgeous Arcturus is bright and beautiful, gleaming high in the southeast about 9 p.m. and due south about 11 p.m. Look high and you will see this orange wonder, the brightest star in the constellation Bootes the Herdsman.
Around mid-evening in late May, relish your time under the spring stars. Gorgeous Arcturus is bright and beautiful, gleaming high in the southeast about 9 p.m. and due south about 11 p.m. Look high and you will see this orange wonder, the brightest star in the constellation Bootes the Herdsman. Otherwise known as Alpha Bootis, Arcturus is the third brightest star of the night sky. It is one of three bright stars that partition the sky roughly into thirds. The other two are also visible in late May evenings. Vega, which dominates the summer evening sky, shines low in the northeast about 9 p.m. in late May. This star appears blue-white and is the lucida (the brightest star) of the compact constellation Lyra the Lyre. Swing around northwest and what do you see? Probably a neighbor's house or hill, but if you are fortunate to be able to observe with a wide-open sky, you will find Capella. This yellow beacon is the highest of the many bright stars in winter's evening skies. The autumn has no brilliant star high up in the southern sky as seen from the northern hemisphere, but a bright blue-white star, Fomalhaut, rules low in the south every fall. Arcturus has a fascinating history. It is called the "Bear Watcher," as it follows the Big Bear (Ursa Major) -- which contains the Big Dipper and the Little Bear (Ursa Minor), otherwise known as the Little Dipper, around the pole. Opened the World's Fair Only 37 light years away, the light you see tonight from Arcturus left the star in 1971. Its light was used to open the 1933 Century of Progress International Exposition at the World's Fair in Chicago. That light had left Arcturus about the time of the previous Chicago fair in 1893. The rays were focused on photo-electric cells in a series of astronomical observatories and then transformed into electrical energy that was transmitted to Chicago. The starlight was used to activate the lights of the fair. Stars are classified by their temperature, which equates to its color. Arcturus is a classic "K" star with a temperature of 4290 degrees Kelvin. The star actually shines 113 times more brightly than our sun, if you were able to compare them side by side. It is much cooler than our sun, allowing it to radiate a great deal more energy in the infrared, which is invisible to the human eye. If your eyes could see infrared, Arcturus would glow 215 times brighter than the sun's infrared output. And Arcturus has a diameter 26 times that of the sun. It is moving across the sky at much greater velocity than other bright stars, and given its movement and composition, astronomers have suspected the star may be passing through, possibly being ejected from another galaxy. Sir Edmond Halley, the famed English astronomer (1656-1742) who determined the orbit of Halley's Comet, was the first to notice the movement of Arcturus, as seen in a telescope from year to year. It might have been the first star to be seen by telescope in broad daylight, having been spotted by Jean-Baptists Morin de Villefranche in 1635. Following a curving arc from the Big Dipper's handle leads one straight to Arcturus. Keep tracing that curving arc past Arcturus, and you will find the bright blue-white star Spica, lower in the southeast in late May evenings. The constellation Bootes looks very much like a huge kite, with Arcturus at the bottom where the tail would be attached. In the Bible The King James version of the Bible mentions Arcturus twice, both times in the Book of Job: "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south." -- Job 9:9. "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" -- Job 38:32. "Mazzaroth" may refer to constellations, and both these passages refer to the power of God. Last-quarter moon is May 27 and rises about 1 a.m., giving dark, star-lit evening skies. That assumes light pollution isn't much of a problem! Keep looking up! Peter W. Becker is managing editor at The Wayne Independent in Honesdale, Pa. He has been an amateur astronomer since the age of 12, in 1969. He may be reached at email@example.com.


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I would like to see a java, flash, or html/css based mapping solution made available to all pbp and chat gamers on this site. I am mindful of the html-based dungeon mapper released by WotC a long while back, that used mini images for dungeon tiles. Very lightweight.
Gametable has a hack available that allows it to be hosted on a website, but it is somewhat server resource heavy, especially for a community of this size.
Is this a possible offering for this community? I would very much like to see one, even if only for reference in-game and not actual tactical maneuvering.
nijineko the gm: AG16, CoS.
nijineko the player: AtG, RttToH; . The Journal of Tala'elowar Kiyiik! .
nijineko the archivist: the 3.x archive
nijineko the creator: TwinSeraphim Studios


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Opaque pink (parma) coloured Lalique lead crystal fish sculpture.
Based on the iconic design first created by Rene Lalique in 1913, this classic fish is still as popular over 100 years later, and is now available in a wide variety of colours. Produced and handcrafted by the talented Lalique artisans in the scenic Alsace region of France, every fish comes engraved with the Lalique signature and a Lalique branded box.
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Cowboys down Dolphins to cap preseason
Arlington, TX – Lance Dunbar ran for 105 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries, as the Dallas Cowboys' reserves beat the Miami Dolphins, 30-13, in the final tuneup for the regular season.
With most of the Cowboys' starters sitting out, Phillip Tanner took advantage of the extra playing time and scored on the ground to go along with 48 yards on nine carries.
Stephen McGee started under center and passed for 124 yards on 9-of-18 throws for Dallas, which went 3-1 in the preseason and will open the NFL's regular season schedule next Wednesday at MetLife Stadium against the Giants.
The Dolphins, meanwhile, went winless in the preseason for the first time since 1989.
Ryan Tannehill, in his final dress rehearsal before starting against the Texans on September 9, played two series and threw for 35 yards on 5-of-7 passes.
Matt Moore was not much better in relief, completing just 4-of-12 attempts for 49 yards and an interception, which was taken back 26 yards for a touchdown by Orie Lemon in the second quarter.
Miami's Dan Carpenter kicked a pair of field goals in the opening quarter, but Dallas scored the next 27 points -- 20 coming in the second quarter.
Dan Bailey made two field goals and Tanner ran in a one-yard score in the second, and Dunbar rumbled for a 58-yard TD in the third.
Lamar Miller was one of the few bright spots for the Dolphins, amassing 60 yards and 17 carries while scoring on a one-yard plunge late in the third.
Bailey kicked a 26-yarder in the fourth to account for the final score.


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California governments so routinely deny legitimate requests for public records that journalists and citizens who seek such records often have to sue to get them.
Such litigation is expensive, which is part of the governments' strategy: make seeking the records so expensive that those in pursuit of the documents stop. One way the playing field was leveled was that the governments who denied access often were forced to pay citizens' and journalists' costs when the courts forced them to hand over the documents.
That's why it's such bad news that an appellate court has a new opinion saying that citizens can recover costs only when they prove that a government acted in bad faith. The result will be fewer public records -- and thus less accoutability and more corruption.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
CalWatchdog has a very complete account here.
This decision wasn't published -- a cowardly move employed by judges when they want to hide their work. Motion for reconsideration, your honor.


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Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) today announced that it has been named to the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America, which tracks the financial performance of leading sustainability-driven companies.
BALTIMORE, MD - Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) today announced that it has been named to the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America, which tracks the financial performance of leading sustainability-driven companies. This marks the sixth time that Constellation Energy has been named to the index. The DJSI provides an objective benchmark on sustainability for investors and financial portfolio managers.
"We are pleased that Constellation Energy has again been selected by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index to be listed among the world's leaders for sustainability practices. This is a significant honor and reflects great work and good practices across a wide range of measures and business activities," said Paul J. Allen, senior vice president and chief environmental officer, Constellation Energy. "It is important to note that the DJSI has become an extremely competitive ranking index, and our success is a result of the efforts of a large team of business leaders and subject-matter experts who focus on excellence across the company every day."
Constellation Energy received the highest marks in the electricity industry in the Risk & Crisis Management category, an achievement that reflects the company's steadfast dedication to life safety, emergency preparedness and risk management. The company also saw marked improvement over last year's scores in the Market Opportunities category, which reflects our growth in offering renewable energy products and services to our customers.
Constellation Energy is one of 12 U.S. companies named to the 2011 DJSI North America in the electricity sector. The DJSI conducts an annual review of corporations both regionally and globally across a wide range of industry sectors. The results are based on a thorough analysis of set criteria, which include a corporation's economic, environmental and social performance. Investors worldwide monitor the lists annually to determine which companies are successfully establishing and achieving sustainability initiatives. The index also focuses on financial transparency and measures stock market performance. The rankings help encourage corporations to invest in sustainability initiatives, as well as to reduce the current and future risks associated with industry-wide performance benchmarks.


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Five months and counting: final theoretical exams for Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne
In preparation for his space mission Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne has reached an important milestone. Less than five months before his departure into space he finished his last theoretical exams. He can now apply himself to the final preparations for his mission and the scientific experiments he will carry out on board the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of October.
"I did my final theoretical exams on the Soyuz-TMA, the Soyuz-TM and the International Space Station", says Frank De Winne. The Soyuz-TMA is the newest version of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will launch Frank and his fellow crew members from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS at the end of October. As compared with the earlier version Soyuz-TM, the new Soyuz-TMA has been equipped with new instrument panels, new computers and adjusted software. There are also new procedures to learn.
What is a typical day for a European astronaut? "A typical day consists of four hours in the simulator, two hours of theory and two more of sports or preparations." The latter may be a consolation for many students: even for a space explorer exams are the hardest thing to do. "Training in the simulators is also physically tough, but I like doing it."
The next five months will be very busy for De Winne. He is spending the first days of June at ESTEC, ESA's technical centre in Noordwijk in The Netherlands. There he will practise especially with the Microgravity Glove Box (MSG). This is a closed work place of 225 litres, a bit like an incubator. By means of gloves, with the MSG, an astronaut can safely and efficiently handle experiments in the fields of material sciences, biology and chemistry.
From July on De Winne will get practical training on the Soyuz and Space Station simulators. He will also go to Belgium to prepare scientific experiments. In August he will spend a period in Houston in the United States, training with NASA colleagues.
In the meantime De Winne has made contacts for the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) programme. "I started practising as a radio amateur", he says. "I have a license, but practically speaking this is all new to me. On board the International Space Station we will make contact with school children in Flanders and Wallonia." ARISS has been set up in 1996 by amateurs in the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada - all partners in the ISS programme - and is a logical follow on to the successful contacts of radio amateurs with the former Russian space station Mir and with astronauts on board the space shuttle. Many astronauts on board the ISS have a license as radio amateur. ARISS offers an excellent opportunity for young people to get familiar with communications technology.
Does Frank De Winne miss his native country Belgium while he is far away in Moscow? "I always enjoy having contact with Belgium. But I'm now able to speak Dutch in Moscow too, because my Dutch colleague André Kuipers has arrived here to begin training, so we have a lot of contact."
He also has been on a visit with the Americans Kenneth Bowersox and Donald Thomas. Together with the Russian Nikolai Budarin, they will form the sixth permanent crew ('Expedition Six') of the ISS and they will welcome De Winne on the space station as a guest. "Don is a real fine cook, especially with Mexican food", gives De Winne away. If this gift will be of any advantage on the space station, remains however to be seen…
From July on Frank De Winne will share his experiences with the public by way of a diary, to be published on a dedicated ESA website.


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Now that Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley have been dubbed the highest grossing on-screen couple, it makes sense to turn to Hogwarts for dating advice. The magically gifted ladies are happy to oblige, with one girl from each house giving her advice on approaching that cute girl in your potions class and the hazards of kissing with braces.
The moral of this story? Don't date a guy who is friends with a Slytherin girl. And watch your braces around Ravenclaw.
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MARTINEZ — Contra Costa County could soon charge fees for some emergency medical calls to reduce a budget shortfall under a proposal by the fire chief that was endorsed in principle Tuesday by the board of supervisors.
Fire suppression, rescue and medical response services provided by the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District currently are financed mostly with property taxes. With the fire district facing a projected deficit of $10.2 million in its $106 million fiscal 2014-15 budget, officials are looking for alternative funding sources.
The proposed fees could generate about $1 million a year.
Fire Chief Jeff Carman proposes a first responder fee of slightly more than $400 for the assessment and treatment of medical patients. He estimated there would be just under 2,500 fee payments a year.
The fee would not include transport, a service that is provided under contract in Contra Costa County by American Medical Response.
The fee would be billed to a patient's health insurance provider. MediCal and Medicare do not pay assessment fees under current legislation. The fire district's report cites a section of the California Health and Safety Code that allows districts to charge fees commensurate to the cost of providing services.
Some fire districts in the Bay Area and elsewhere in the state already charge medical response fees, according to the report and other sources.
when a district ambulance provides emergency medical services and the patient declines transport, said spokeswoman Kimberly French.
The board instructed the county staff to draft a first responder fee ordinance but did not set a date for a public hearing.
Contact Tom Lochner at 510-262-2760. Follow him at twitter.com/tomlochner


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This is the third in a series of The Sun's winter athletes of the year and all-area teams chosen with the help of area coaches.
This is the third in a series of The Sun's winter athletes of the year and all-area teams chosen with the help of area coaches.
First team
Forward: Casey Troiano, Gainesville, junior: Team captain who scored 19 goals with four assists in 18 games for the 13-7-1 Hurricanes, who were unbeaten against their city rivals.
Forward: Sarah Collings, Eastside, junior: Posted 29 goals and seven assists for the Rams, who were 11-6-2 and won their fifth straight district title.
Midfielder: Grace Brett, Suwannee, junior: Finished with 15 goals and six assists for the 10-8-2 Bulldogs.
Midfielder: Delilah Allen, Gainesville, junior: Hurricanes' center attacker who netted six goals and 10 assists.
Midfielder: Sydney Kruljac, Gainesville, senior: Hurricanes top midfielder who had two goals and one assist.
Midfielder: Mekyala Williams, Eastside, freshman: Scored 13 goals on 54 shots with three assists for the Rams.
Defender: Lexie Messick, Buchholz, sophomore: Team MVP, had two goals and two assists from central defender position for Bobcats. Anchored backline that gave up only six goals in district play and posted six shutouts in 14 games.
Defender: Jessica Barnes, Buchholz, senior: Finished with two goals and one assist for 5-4-5 Bobcats.
Defender: Esther Blondeau-Lecompte, Eastside, senior: Had four goals and six assists with 13 shots at goal. Led a defense that had 517 steals on season.
Defender: Erica Belforti, Gainesville, sophomore: Hurricanes' best defensive player who scored three goals.
Goalkeeper: Sophia Smith, Eastside, freshman: Collected 206 saves with seven shutouts for the Rams, who reached the regional quarterfinals.
Second team
Forward: Maya Fisher, Buchholz, freshman: Scored three goals with five assists in 11 games played for the Bobcats. Also played in the midfield.
Forward: Andrea Henderson, Buchholz, freshman: Finished with three goals, which included two against Eastside. Also played as a defender.
Midfielder: Ashley Markant, Gainesville, sophomore: The Hurricanes' wing midfielder who had eight goals and three assists.
Midfielder: Morgan Garris, Gainesville, freshman: Compiled four goals and five assists for the 'Canes.
Midfielder: Margaret Carnes, Eastside, freshman: Had one goal and three assists on 11 shots on goal for the Rams.
Midfielder: Megan Matthew, Eastside, sophomore: Scored one goal and three assists with 11 shots on goal, also had 87 steals for the Rams.
Midfielder: Jenna Niblack, Gainesville, junior: Posted two goals and four assists for the 'Canes.
Defender: Desi Shepherd, Buchholz, senior: Allowed just one goal on her right side the entire season for the Bobcats.
Defender: Amaleah Mirti, Eastside, junior: Shut down winger for Rams with 287 steals for the Rams.
Defender: Soleil Yongue, Gainesville, sophomore: Scored three goals with one assist for the Hurricanes.
Goalkeeper: Lexi Rich, Gainesville, sophomore: Had 67 saves and posted eight shutouts for the Hurricanes.
Honorable mention: Buchholz: Stephanie Yuja, junior; Columbia: Keeley Murray, senior; Jaime Vincent, senior; Holly Boris, senior; Danielle Mathis, senior; Ashtyn Vincent, senior; Ellie Garcia Gomez, senior; Gainesville: Zoe McElwain, freshman; Kaitlyn Powell, sophomore; Suwannee: Blakely Burch, freshman; Brooke Wainright, junior
Coach of the Year
Chrissy Roddy, Gainesville
Led the Hurricanes to a 13-7-1 record and the best record against Gainesville-area opponents, in which they didn't give up a goal in seven contests. Gainesville fell in the district semifinals. Roddy, who has been involved in the Hurricane soccer program for nearly 10 years, resigned after three years as coach to pursue other opportunities.
First team
Forward: Madison Colaw, Keystone Heights, junior: Posted an area-best 36 goals with 17 assists for the 19-4-1 Indians, who reached the regional semifinals for the first time since 2009.
Forward: Jordyn Register, Santa Fe, junior: Second in area with 35 goals and 11 assists for the Raiders, who reached the regional quarterfinals for the sixth straight season.
Forward: Taylor Martin, Santa Fe, freshman: Finished with 30 goals, 16 assists for the 17-7-1 Raiders.
Forward: Anya Bernhard, P.K. Yonge, junior: Scored 25 goals with 10 assists for the 13-6-1 Blue Wave.
Forward: Raychel Trimble, Keystone Heights, junior: Kicked in 23 goals with 14 assists for the Indians.
Midfielder: Hannah Crane, Keystone Heights, freshman: Inside midfielder who scored 20 goals with eight assists for the Indians.
Midfielder: Amy Phillips, Santa Fe, senior: Scored seven goals with seven assists for the Raiders
Midfielder: Morgan Gibbs, Keystone Heights, sophomore: Outside midfielder who kicked in 19 goals with five assists for the Indians.
Defender: Nicki Linas, P.K. Yonge, senior: Anchored the Blue Wave (13-6-1) defensively at sweeper.
Defender: Biancca Irizarry, Santa Fe, sophomore: Top Raider defender who also scored four goals and had five assists.
Goalkeeper: Meghan Ray, Williston, junior: Team captain who played through adversity this season, great team leader who posted 132 saves for the Red Devils.
Second team
Forward: Megan Marcotte, Newberry, senior: Can play anywhere on the field and a leader for the Panthers.
Forward: Kendall Addison, Newberry, junior: One of the Panthers' leading scorers.
Midfielder: Lynce Stalnaker, Fort White, senior: Posted 11 goals with five assists for the Indians.
Midfielder: Susanne Anderson, Santa Fe, sophomore: Finished with five goals and five assists for the Raiders.
Midfielder: Hannah Dekle, Lafayette, freshman: Had 15 assists and two goals for the 9-11 Hornets.
Midfielder: Victoria Smith, St. Francis, senior: Finished with 15 goals and four assists for the 8-8-1 Wolves.
Defender: Crystal Waters, P.K. Yonge, senior: Helped to anchor Blue Wave defense, scored one goal.
Defender: Kirsten Washington, P.K. Yonge, senior: Converted from forward to defense this season for the Blue Wave.
Defender: Hallie Stringfellow, Fort White, sophomore: Anchored the Indians' defense in her first year playing soccer.
Defender: Grayson Zabel, St. Francis, senior: One of the team captains who scored two goals and three assists for the Wolves.
Goalkeeper: Hannah Shankman, Santa Fe, sophomore: Posted 68 saves and 15 shutouts for the Raiders.
Honorable mention: Bradford- Hannah Hildebran, junior; Rachel Ricker, sophomore; Fort White- Ayla Gonzalez, junior; Newberry- Ena Nater, senior; Michaela Leitch, senior; Shelby Chatfield, junior; Oak Hall- Ailey Tebbet, 8th grader; P.K. Yonge- Lee Ducharme, 7th grader; Malerie Whitehurst, sophomore; St. Francis- Ashton Stone, senior; Catherine Ryngaert, junior; Farah Rajaee, junior; Alex Oman, junior
Coach of the Year
David McCollum, Keystone Heights
Led the Indians to a 19-4-1 record, the District 5-2A title and their ninth regional quarterfinal in the last 10 years. Keystone Heights had the top offensive team in the area, led by player of the year Madison Colaw. Between Colaw, the area's leading scorer, Raychel Trimble, Hannah Crane and Morgan Gibbs, all first-team all-area players, the foursome totaled 98 goals. Santa Fe coach Ken Murphy, whose Raiders reached their sixth straight regional quarterfinal and lost 5-4 to Keystone in the district tournament final, was also considered for this honor.
The Gainesville Sun all-area teams, players of the year and coaches of the year were selected by high school sports editor Larry Savage with help from area coaches. If a team is not represented, it is because the coach did not respond to repeated emails sent to the school requesting information and numerous reminders in the newspaper.


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Jon Stewart Bids John Oliver an Emotional Farewell
Last night, Jon Stewart surprised correspondent John Oliver with a retrospective of his time on "The Daily Show," before the British comedian departs for his own show on HBO.
Oliver has been a correspondent on "The Daily Show" for seven-and-a-half years, including a stint as host while Stewart took a temporary leave to direct his film, "Rosewater."
In last night's segment, Stewart pretended to discuss the Royal Family and called on Oliver for commentary. Stewart swiftly turned to a clip reel playing Oliver's various characters and sketches on "The Daily Show," leaving Oliver in tears.


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Death of a Salesman Notes & Analysis
The free Death of a Salesman notes include comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. These free notes consist of about 63 pages (18,788 words) and contain the following sections:
These free notes also contain Quotes and Themes & Topics on Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
Death of a Salesman Plot Summary
Willy Loman, a sixty-year-old traveling salesman, is having trouble lately because he can't seem to keep his mind on the present. He keeps drifting back and forth between reality and memory, looking for exactly where his life went wrong. Having been demoted to a strictly commissions salesman, as he was in the beginning of his career, Willy begins to wonder what missed opportunity or wrong turn led his life to this dismal existence. Willy always believed that being well liked was the key to success -- it's not what you know, it's who you know. But now, as he nears the end of his life, he realizes that the only things you can count on are the things you can touch. You can't touch appointments and half-hearted sentiments. This was something that his brother, Ben, a man independently wealthy by the age of twenty-one, tried to tell him years ago. Despite this, Willy insisted that his success would come from being well liked.
Throughout his life, Willy attempted to show his sons the keys to success and to prepare them, or at least Biff, his oldest son, for excellence in the business world. Willy pretended to be an important, respected, and successful salesman to win the love and respect of his family (and himself in some ways). He even started believing that he was as important as he convinced the boys he was; whenever he couldn't live up to that expectation, and reality contradicted the image he tried to put forth, his whole life began to crumble. He realizes that he is a failure and he has wasted his life. Not only that, but he has taught his sons the wrong things. Now Biff is a bum who can't hold a job anywhere but in the West as a farmhand, and Hap is a philandering assistant's assistant who is just as deluded about his importance as Willy. Willy taught his sons the wrong things, and now their lives are mediocre because of it.
Willy and Biff, although close when Biff was younger, are always at odds because Biff hasn't lived up to Willy's great expectations for him. Biff was never given the proper direction to fulfill these expectations. Willy encouraged him only to be well liked and popular; Biff learned he never had to work for anything or take orders from anyone, and as a result, he couldn't keep a job in the business world. Willy even encouraged his boys to steal: another reason Biff couldn't hold a job, because he kept getting in trouble for stealing. Integrity was never an emphasized characteristic in the Loman house. Now Biff has come home and he realizes that he's just an ordinary guy who was meant for a life outside the business world. He is happy only when he is honest with himself. This realization prompts an entire overhaul of the values taught to him by his father, and Biff wants to expose the lies Willy has been telling for years. Willy won't have it. After a series of long arguments, Biff decides it's best if he leaves for good; he will never fulfill his father's dreams, nor will he convince Willy to confront reality.
Willy, now unemployed and completely broken down, decides that he must do something magnificent to prove to Biff his life wasn't useless and completely wasted. Feeling he will be of greater value dead, he kills himself so that Biff can use the insurance money to start his own business. His son will consider his father a hero, and appreciate the sacrifice that he made for his son. He also wants to prove that his importance and success as a salesman was not fake, expecting a grand funeral attended by many buyers in New England (similar to the funeral of Dave Singleman). It doesn't work out that way. The insurance doesn't cover suicide and only Willy's family and their two neighbors attend the funeral. In the end, Willy's legacy is one of a broken man, whose life had become a sad failure.


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Doctor says ex-President George H.W. Bush is becoming more active but is not ready to go home
HOUSTON (AP) � Former President George H.W. Bush is becoming more physically active but doctors in Houston are still not ready to discharge him from the hospital.
Bush has been in the Methodist Hospital since Nov. 23 for treatment of a bronchitis-related cough.
Hospital spokesman George Kovacik (koh-VAH'-chik) says the 41st president remains in stable condition Thursday.
Kovacik says doctors are pleased with Bush's progress but are being cautious with his care and are not ready to send him home.
Doctors say Bush's ailment is not life-threatening.
Bush and his wife, Barbara, divide their time between their homes in Houston and Kennebunkport, Maine.


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Knight School
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The library is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:10 PM to 5:00 PM. Students from College Park are available to help our students. Ms. Ryan (Language Arts) is the sponsor for Knight School. Please pick up your student before or at 5:00 PM at the front of Knox.