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A well-known electrical concept called skin effect, which describes how the effective resistance of an electrical conductor varies as the frequency of an alternating current (AC) increases and decreases, was used to investigate GLS behaviour via a novel ERT spectroscopic technique. The process relies on the change in effective resistance of conducting objects with changing AC frequency to selectively detect different phases. The concept was initially validated with static phantoms of a stainless steel and plume of gas before being applied to dispersible stainless steel particles and gas. ERT spectroscopy showed that two AC frequencies (0.3 kHz and 9.6 kHz) could successfully isolate and simultaneously detect the gas and solid phases at a fixed current. By subtracting solids and gas conductivity, the change in solids and gas holdup were obtained.

Type of Work:Eng.D. thesis.
Supervisor(s):Simmons, Mark J. H. and Barigou, Mostafa and Stitt, Hugh
Department:Chemical Engineering
Subjects:TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy
Institution:University of Birmingham
ID Code:3375
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Coroners were a part of the South Carolina legal system from the beginning, but the office was not formalized until 1706, when the colonial legislature determined to "fully direct ... the Coroners of this Province ... in the due administration of their offices." The resulting "Act Relating Unto the Office and Duty of a Coroner, and For Settling and Ascertaining the Fees of the Same" established protocols for death investigation that would carry into the twentieth century. Appointed by the legislature for an indefinite term, the coroner's primary charge was "to take inquests of felonies and other violent and casual deaths committed or happening within his precincts." The moment he learned of a suspicious or sudden death in his district (later his county), he was "forthwith" to write constables in the local area and direct them to round up a fourteen-member jury who were to meet him at the body's location at a specified day and time. Once arrived, the coroner administered an oath compelling the jury to reach a verdict as to "how, where, at what time, by what means, with what instrument, and in what manner, the party was killed or came to his death." To ensure that all available evidence had been heard, the coroner was empowered to compel witnesses to attend the inquest and "declare their knowledge concerning the matter in question." If they failed to show, they would face a fine. If the body had been moved, the coroner was to find out who moved it and why. If the body had been buried, the coroner was empowered to dig it up. Colonial instructions were so specific that if the probable cause of death was snake-bite, the coroner was to make sure that there were bite marks.

The first substantial revision to the 1706 act did not come until 1839. In many ways a restatement of the colonial statute, "An Act Concerning the Office, Duties and Liabilities of the Coroner" (1839) included some new limits on the coroner's office while at the same time expanding its powers. Appointed by joint resolution of the state Senate and House of Representatives, coroners were now subject to term limits of four years, and they were required to lodge a surety bond of five thousand dollars before they could take office. Such bonds were expected of most public officials and were designed to protect taxpayers from embezzlement or malfeasance. In practical effect, the bonds ensured that coroners would be men of relative affluence who could be expected to make good on a $5000 bond.

With these exceptions, the 1839 act was mostly a clarification and expansion of the coroner's powers. For the first time, he was explicitly given an office for his own use at the county court house. Any constable or sheriff who did not comply with a coroner's order to impanel a jury would be fined twenty dollars. Any juror who failed to show at the inquest would be fined twenty dollars. Any witness who failed to appear or refused to testify at an inquest would be fined twenty dollars and would be taken to jail. Most important, "if the finding of inquest be wilful [sic] killing by the hands or means of another," the coroner was empowered to direct any sheriff or local constable to have the suspect arrested and imprisoned. To ensure that he would have access to such prisoners, the act specified that "the Sheriff of each District shall set apart in the jail room for the confinement of such persons as may be exclusively in custody of the Coroner, of which the Coroner shall have exclusive control."

By 1839, then, the coroner had become a key figure not merely in the state's system of death investigation but in law enforcement and the judicial process more broadly. His functions were not merely clerical -- the convening of an inquest and the filing of a result -- but judicial -- levying fines, compelling witnesses, making arrests, and building the state's initial case against the accused. He functioned, in a sense, as a sheriff of the dead, with primary control over potential criminal cases in which, by accident or malice aforethought, someone had been killed.

With this expansion of powers came an expansion of compensation. Coroners were to be paid not only for every inquisition taken but for every mile traveled, warrant issued, person arrested, or body disinterred. More important for the purposes of CSI:D, coroners were encouraged to keep extensive and duplicative records. As before, all original inquest documents, including all evidence gathered from witnesses, were to be filed with the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. But coroners were also required to transcribe every word of those documents into a "book to be called 'The Coroner's Book of Inquisitions," which would remain in the coroner's office to be transferred to the next coroner at the start of his term. To compensate coroners for all of this transcription, they were to be paid "twelve cents per copy sheet of ninety words," thus incentivizing them to capture additional details (and additional revenue). From the historian's perspective this requirement is also important because it gives us two chances that the records would survive and, in cases where both survived, to check them against each other for completeness. The coroner's office would receive additional statutory tweaks after 1839, but this one act largely captured the design and function of the office as it appears in CSI:D, with the only big change coming in 1868 when coroner became an elective office state wide.

The 1839 act described the coroner's office in idealized form, however. In practice, many inquests were presided over not by the district's official coroner but by justices of the quorum, justices of the peace, or other local magistrates acting as coroners. Usually this was a simple matter of convenience -- cases where the official coroner had not been named by the legislature or was away from the district or simply did not want to travel to some particular location. There is some evidence, however, that occasionally local magistrates took these on duties (and the related fees) without official sanction. In 1861, for instance, the state legislature mandated that anyone presenting an invoice for an inquest would have to include an affidavit verifying that the appointed coroner had been sick, absent, or otherwise unable to attend to his duties. This law was in keeping with an earlier 1855 injunction on coroners to limit their use of physicians as expert (and compensated) witnesses to those cases in which such testimony was crucial to establishing a cause of death. Such laws were clearly meant to curb costs, and one can imagine that, like any public office, the coroner system had become prone to abuse -- with collusions between physicians and magistrates hoping to line their pockets.

The Richmond Times Dispatch served up a particularly good example of "if it bleeds it leads" journalism on October 4, 1903.

No direct evidence places a reporter at any of the inquests in the CSI:D sample, but subsequent coverage makes it clear that they were privy to all details, including witness testimony, even in criminal cases. Nothing, apparently, was 'sealed' about an inquest and, perhaps more than trials, inquests were a staple of Southern reportage. Fully ninety percent of

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Particle behaviour in gas evolving S-L systems were quantified using the Zwietering ‘just-suspended’ impeller speed (Njs) condition in a sponge nickel® and sodium hypochlorite system. The presence of gas caused Njs to increase, however a coherent relationship between Njs in an ungassed and gassed system
could not be easily ascertained. Further work with Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) was advised to quantify the relationship.
A well-known electrical concept called skin effect, which describes how the effective resistance of an electrical conductor varies as the frequency of an alternating current (AC) increases and decreases, was used to investigate GLS behaviour via a novel ERT spectroscopic technique. The process relies on the change in effective resistance of conducting objects with changing AC frequency to selectively detect different phases. The concept was initially validated with static phantoms of a stainless steel and plume of gas before being applied to dispersible stainless steel particles and gas. ERT spectroscopy showed that two AC frequencies (0.3 kHz and 9.6 kHz) could successfully isolate and simultaneously detect the gas and solid phases at a fixed current. By subtracting solids and gas conductivity, the change in solids and gas holdup were obtained.

Type of Work:Eng.D. thesis.
Supervisor(s):Simmons, Mark J. H. and Barigou, Mostafa and Stitt, Hugh
Department:Chemical Engineering
Subjects:TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy
Institution:University of Birmingham
ID Code:3375
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Repository Staff Only: item control page<|endoftext|>Meet the Coroners

Coroners were a part of the South Carolina legal system from the beginning, but the office was not formalized until 1706, when the colonial legislature determined to "fully direct ... the Coroners of this Province ... in the due administration of their offices." The resulting "Act Relating Unto the Office and Duty of a Coroner, and For Settling and Ascertaining the Fees of the Same" established protocols for death investigation that would carry into the twentieth century. Appointed by the legislature for an indefinite term, the coroner's primary charge was "to take inquests of felonies and other violent and casual deaths committed or happening within his precincts." The moment he learned of a suspicious or sudden death in his district (later his county), he was "forthwith" to write constables in the local area and direct them to round up a fourteen-member jury who were to meet him at the body's location at a specified day and time. Once arrived, the coroner administered an oath compelling the jury to reach a verdict as to "how, where, at what time, by what means, with what instrument, and in what manner, the party was killed or came to his death." To ensure that all available evidence had been heard, the coroner was empowered to compel witnesses to attend the inquest and "declare their knowledge concerning the matter in question." If they failed to show, they would face a fine. If the body had been moved, the coroner was to find out who moved it and why. If the body had been buried, the coroner was empowered to dig it up. Colonial instructions were so specific that if the probable cause of death was snake-bite, the coroner was to make sure that there were bite marks.

The first substantial revision to the 1706 act did not come until 1839. In many ways a restatement of the colonial statute, "An Act Concerning the Office, Duties and Liabilities of the Coroner" (1839) included some new limits on the coroner's office while at the same time expanding its powers. Appointed by joint resolution of the state Senate and House of Representatives, coroners were now subject to term limits of four years, and they were required to lodge a surety bond of five thousand dollars before they could take office. Such bonds were expected of most public officials and were designed to protect taxpayers from embezzlement or malfeasance. In practical effect, the bonds ensured that coroners would be men of relative affluence who could be expected to make good on a $5000 bond.

With these exceptions, the 1839 act was mostly a clarification and expansion of the coroner's powers. For the first time, he was explicitly given an office for his own use at the county court house. Any constable or sheriff who did not comply with a coroner's order to impanel a jury would be fined twenty dollars. Any juror who failed to show at the inquest would be fined twenty dollars. Any witness who failed to appear or refused to testify at an inquest would be fined twenty dollars and would be taken to jail. Most important, "if the finding of inquest be wilful [sic] killing by the hands or means of another," the coroner was empowered to direct any sheriff or local constable to have the suspect arrested and imprisoned. To ensure that he would have access to such prisoners, the act specified that "the Sheriff of each District shall set apart in the jail room for the confinement of such persons as may be exclusively in custody of the Coroner, of which the Coroner shall have exclusive control."

By 1839, then, the coroner had become a key figure not merely in the state's system of death investigation but in law enforcement and the judicial process more broadly. His functions were not merely clerical -- the convening of an inquest and the filing of a result -- but judicial -- levying fines, compelling witnesses, making arrests, and building the state's initial case against the accused. He functioned, in a sense, as a sheriff of the dead, with primary control over potential criminal cases in which, by accident or malice aforethought, someone had been killed.

With this expansion of powers came an expansion of compensation. Coroners were to be paid not only for every inquisition taken but for every mile traveled, warrant issued, person arrested, or body disinterred. More important for the purposes of CSI:D, coroners were encouraged to keep extensive and duplicative records. As before, all original inquest documents, including all evidence gathered from witnesses, were to be filed with the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. But coroners were also required to transcribe every word of those documents into a "book to be called 'The Coroner's Book of Inquisitions," which would remain in the coroner's office to be transferred to the next coroner at the start of his term. To compensate coroners for all of this transcription, they were to be paid "twelve cents per copy sheet of ninety words," thus incentivizing them to capture additional details (and additional revenue). From the historian's perspective this requirement is also important because it gives us two chances that the records would survive and, in cases where both survived, to check them against each other for completeness. The coroner's office would receive additional statutory tweaks after 1839, but this one act largely captured the design and function of the office as it appears in CSI:D, with the only big change coming in 1868 when coroner became an elective office state wide.

The 1839 act described the coroner's office in idealized form, however. In practice, many inquests were presided over not by the district's official coroner but by justices of the quorum, justices of the peace, or other local magistrates acting as coroners. Usually this was a simple matter of convenience -- cases where the official coroner had not been named by the legislature or was away from the district or simply did not want to travel to some particular location. There is some evidence, however, that occasionally local magistrates took these on duties (and the related fees) without official sanction. In 1861, for instance, the state legislature mandated that anyone presenting an invoice for an inquest would have to include an affidavit verifying that the appointed coroner had been sick, absent, or otherwise unable to attend to his duties. This law was in keeping with an earlier 1855 injunction on coroners to limit their use of physicians as expert (and compensated) witnesses to those cases in which such testimony was crucial to establishing a cause of death. Such laws were clearly meant to curb costs, and one can imagine that, like any public office, the coroner system had become prone to abuse -- with collusions between physicians and magistrates hoping to line their pockets.

The Richmond Times Dispatch served up a particularly good example of "if it bleeds it leads" journalism on October 4, 1903.

No direct evidence places a reporter at any of the inquests in the CSI:D sample, but subsequent coverage makes it clear that they were privy to all details, including witness testimony, even in criminal cases. Nothing, apparently, was 'sealed' about an inquest and, perhaps more than trials, inquests were a staple of Southern reportage. Fully ninety percent of the front page of the Richmond Dispatch for October 4, 1903, for instance, was devoted to Death, demonstrating just how far newspapers had


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    Having time to yourself is taxed from the moment that little one enters your house until the day they leave for college. Aside from the time spent doing the shopping, folding, cooking, carpooling, homework-helping, boo-boo attending, cuddling, nose-wiping and tear-blotting. Calculate the time you spend thinking about your children. It's amazing there are enough hours in the day for the thinking, worrying and planning - not to mention the actual doing.

  • Single Girls Bucket List...

    Posted by Charli McKenzie

    Single. It's a weird realization. This notion of freedom pops into your head wielding this large metal sword trying to battle off those nasty feelings of loneliness. Then you think: Because I'm single, I should, like -- go out, right?

    So what's a single lady to do? Make a bucket list. With time, the pain will ease. And when it does, you'll need to get out there. You deserve it. Thus I present you with 20 things every single girl should do:

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    3. Be a super duper wing woman and be OK spending your night talking to someone you're not interested in. Value the conversation for what it's worth. You might learn something.

    4. Go on a date with a younger man.

    5. Buy yourself flowers. Trust me, they look JUST as good no matter who puts down the cash.

    6. Go to the bar by yourself. Order something that ISN'T your usual.

    7. If you haven't, make an online dating profile. Even if you don't use it, I PROMISE you'll get some hilarious messages.

    8. Splurge on a pair of heels that make you feel sexy. It'll show in the way you present yourself.

    9. Go on a day date. I'm talking hiking in the park, trying a trapeze class, going kayaking. A man who will meet up with you during daylight has potential.

    10. Change your own light bulbs and put up your own blinds. Show yourself you DON'T need a man to do around-the-house tasks for you.

    11. Kiss a stranger. Don't go home with him.

    12. Go on a date with an older man.

    13. Spend a LOT of money on a dress or skirt you'll only wear a few times from a store you don't usually shop at. You'll feel like 1,000,000 bucks and it'll show.

    14. Get some new hobbies. You owe it to yourself to figure out what you really like to do so you can find someone that shares your interests.

    15. Train for some really hard physical endurance test, like a marathon.

    16. Go to a bookstore and read for an hour or two. Some calm (sober) alone time will do you good.

    17. Be bold. Turn the tables and approach someone you think is good looking.

    18. Make a bucket list of restaurants and bars to go to where you live. Feel great checking them off.

    19. Go on a date that lasts until 4 a.m., then kiss him goodnight and go your separate ways.

    20. Smile. You're worth it.

  • Need your toddler to sleep better? Here are 7 helpful tips

    Posted by Charli McKenzie

    Sometimes, when you are deep in the throes of parenting a 2-year-old, you can wonder: Dear Lord, will this ever end? For most of us, there IS a respite. It's called 8 p.m. It's that blessed time of day when your toddler is suddenly quiet and you can peek in, see her angelic sleeping face, and know you have the strength to do it all over again.

    Yes, moms and dads NEED that time from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. So what happens when your good baby sleeper suddenly stops sleeping? Or worse, what if you NEVER had a good sleeper to begin with?

    There are some sleep issues that need to be addressed now so that they might not get worse down the line. Dr. Hannah Chow is a pediatrician at Loyola University Health System who is an expert on kids and sleep. She says:

    "Lack of sleep can cause a lot of stress and difficulty for a child. Kids can have a hard time concentrating, which causes problems in school. There can be physical complications, such as headaches, and it can even cause a child to have a more negative outlook on life." Yep. Sleep matters. So how do we fix common sleep problems? The Stir talked exclusively to several sleep experts to give us insight into the 7 most common toddler sleep issues and how we can combat them. See below:

    1.) Waking up bright and early: "A reasonable wake-up time for a child is anywhere from 5:30-7 a.m., but some children are up before that time wide awake or their wake up time is too early for mom and dad," says Jenn Kelner, a Certified Child Sleep Consultant who runs a business called BabyZzz.

    Solution: "Room darkening shades to block out morning light, white-noise machines to block out morning street noise, a timed light or child alarm clock that changes color when it’s time to get up, and an earlier bedtime. It’s counter-intuitive, but the earlier a child goes to bed, the later they will sleep in." Amen. I saw it with my own kids. Now sleep mom and dad!

    2.) Giving up the nap when they still need it: If your child misses a nap because of older siblings' activities or for some other reason, it actually becomes HARDER for them to nap. Over time, this overtiredness has a cumulative effect, which may cause the child to refuse to nap altogether.

    Solution: "Start an earlier bedtime to help make up that sleep deficit and make it easier to nap," says Kelner. "Get the child outdoors in the morning for fresh air and exercise, very soothing routine before naptime, and leave the child for 60 minutes to give them the opportunity to fall asleep without stimulation. Once the nap has been re-established, bedtime can be moved a little later."

    3.) Difficulties in falling asleep: "Many children have difficultly falling asleep on their own if they have been used to being rocked to sleep, or if they have been falling asleep next to their parents," Kelner says.

    4.) Getting up in the middle of the night: Waking during the night is normal, but it becomes a problem when the child cannot return to sleep unassisted, Kelner says. It's especially hard if the child calls out for mom and dad and everyone is losing sleep.

    Solution: "Have a consistent soothing routine in place to get the child nice and drowsy. Ensure the child is getting enough sleep, as over-tiredness leads to frequent night waking," says Kelner. "Make sure the child is able to self-soothe, and implement some sleep training/coaching if necessary."

    5.) Asking for mom and dad 15 times after "good night":

     "During your soothing routine, set a kitchen timer for 15 minutes, and explain that once the timer goes off, it’s time to say a final goodnight," says Kelner. "Ensure that before the timer goes off, you anticipate what that child may ask for -- so get them a drink, take them to the bathroom, and give the child lots of hugs. If the child is still requesting extra attention, implement some sleep rules with consequences, or simply ignore their

 you became a parent, the tax on you is such that a nice meal becomes filling up on whatever your toddler tossed from their plate onto on the floor while simultaneously dreaming of popping open a beer and watching something on Bravo for a few minutes before falling asleep.

    Having time to yourself is taxed from the moment that little one enters your house until the day they leave for college. Aside from the time spent doing the shopping, folding, cooking, carpooling, homework-helping, boo-boo attending, cuddling, nose-wiping and tear-blotting. Calculate the time you spend thinking about your children. It's amazing there are enough hours in the day for the thinking, worrying and planning - not to mention the actual doing.

  • Single Girls Bucket List...

    Posted by Charli McKenzie

    Single. It's a weird realization. This notion of freedom pops into your head wielding this large metal sword trying to battle off those nasty feelings of loneliness. Then you think: Because I'm single, I should, like -- go out, right?

    So what's a single lady to do? Make a bucket list. With time, the pain will ease. And when it does, you'll need to get out there. You deserve it. Thus I present you with 20 things every single girl should do:

    1. Scream into your pillow in the morning.

    2. Fly (or go on a road trip) somewhere by yourself and feel OK exploring on your own.

    3. Be a super duper wing woman and be OK spending your night talking to someone you're not interested in. Value the conversation for what it's worth. You might learn something.

    4. Go on a date with a younger man.

    5. Buy yourself flowers. Trust me, they look JUST as good no matter who puts down the cash.

    6. Go to the bar by yourself. Order something that ISN'T your usual.

    7. If you haven't, make an online dating profile. Even if you don't use it, I PROMISE you'll get some hilarious messages.

    8. Splurge on a pair of heels that make you feel sexy. It'll show in the way you present yourself.

    9. Go on a day date. I'm talking hiking in the park, trying a trapeze class, going kayaking. A man who will meet up with you during daylight has potential.

    10. Change your own light bulbs and put up your own blinds. Show yourself you DON'T need a man to do around-the-house tasks for you.

    11. Kiss a stranger. Don't go home with him.

    12. Go on a date with an older man.

    13. Spend a LOT of money on a dress or skirt you'll only wear a few times from a store you don't usually shop at. You'll feel like 1,000,000 bucks and it'll show.

    14. Get some new hobbies. You owe it to yourself to figure out what you really like to do so you can find someone that shares your interests.

    15. Train for some really hard physical endurance test, like a marathon.

    16. Go to a bookstore and read for an hour or two. Some calm (sober) alone time will do you good.

    17. Be bold. Turn the tables and approach someone you think is good looking.

    18. Make a bucket list of restaurants and bars to go to where you live. Feel great checking them off.

    19. Go on a date that lasts until 4 a.m., then kiss him goodnight and go your separate ways.

    20. Smile. You're worth it.

  • Need your toddler to sleep better? Here are 7 helpful tips

    Posted by Charli McKenzie

    Sometimes, when you are deep in the throes of parenting a 2-year-old, you can wonder: Dear Lord, will this ever end? For most of us, there IS a respite. It's called 8 p.m. It's that blessed time of day when your toddler is suddenly quiet and you can peek in, see her angelic sleeping face, and know you have the strength to do it all over again.

    Yes, moms and dads NEED that time from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. So what happens when your good baby sleeper suddenly stops sleeping? Or worse, what if you NEVER had a good sleeper to begin with?

    There are some sleep issues that need to be addressed now so that they might not get worse down the line. Dr. Hannah Chow is a pediatrician at Loyola University Health System who is an expert on kids and sleep. She says:

    "Lack of sleep can cause a lot of stress and difficulty for a child. Kids can have a hard time concentrating, which causes problems in school. There can be physical complications, such as headaches, and it can even cause a child to have a more negative outlook on life." Yep. Sleep matters. So how do we fix common sleep problems? The Stir talked exclusively to several sleep experts to give us insight into the 7 most common toddler sleep issues and how we can combat them. See below:

    1.) Waking up bright and early: "A reasonable wake-up time for a child is anywhere from 5:30-7 a.m., but some children are up before that time wide awake or their wake up time is too early for mom and dad," says Jenn Kelner, a Certified Child Sleep Consultant who runs a business called BabyZzz.

    Solution: "Room darkening shades to block out morning light, white-noise machines to block out morning street noise, a timed light or child alarm clock that changes color when it’s time to get up, and an earlier bedtime. It’s counter-intuitive, but the earlier a child goes to bed, the later they will sleep in." Amen. I saw it with my own kids. Now sleep mom and dad!

    2.) Giving up the nap when they still need it: If your child misses a nap because of older siblings' activities or for some other reason, it actually becomes HARDER for them to nap. Over time, this overtiredness has a cumulative effect, which may cause the child to refuse to nap altogether.

    Solution: "Start an earlier bedtime to help make up that sleep deficit and make it easier to nap," says Kelner. "Get the child outdoors in the morning for fresh air and exercise, very soothing routine before naptime, and leave the child for 60 minutes to give them the opportunity to fall asleep without stimulation. Once the nap has been re-established, bedtime can be moved a little later."

    3.) Difficulties in falling asleep: "Many children have difficultly falling asleep on their own if they have been used to being rocked to sleep, or if they have been falling asleep next to their parents," Kelner says.

    4.) Getting up in the middle of the night: Waking during the night is normal, but it becomes a problem when the child cannot return to sleep unassisted, Kelner says. It's especially hard if the child calls out for mom and dad and everyone is losing sleep.

    Solution: "Have a consistent soothing routine in place to get the child nice and drowsy. Ensure the child is getting enough sleep, as over-tiredness leads to frequent night waking," says Kelner. "Make sure the child is able to self-soothe, and implement some sleep training/coaching if necessary."

    5.) Asking for mom and dad 15 times after "good night":

     "During your soothing routine, set a kitchen timer for 15 minutes, and explain that once the timer goes off, it’s time to say a final goodnight," says Kelner. "Ensure that before the timer goes off, you anticipate what that child may ask for -- so get them a drink, take them to the bathroom, and give the child lots of hugs. If the child is still requesting extra attention, implement some sleep rules with consequences, or simply ignore their requests."

    : "Giving your child a special transitional object, such as a teddy bear or 'lovie' to snuggle and go to bed with during the bedtime routine can help them learn to use this object to help themselves get back to sleep when they wake in the middle of the night," says Jennifer Metter of Jenni June Certified Sleep Consulting in Los Angeles.

    Solution: "Using an uneventful quick and silent return to the bed without payoff can help eliminate this behavior. Sleep consultants call this, 'The silent return'. Consistency is key here," says Metter. "It requires a bit of work and perfect consistency from parent for successful results, but uneventfully and silently returning your child to their bed the moment you notice they are out of it will help teach them to remain there until it is time to wake for the day. Children won't continually do what doesn't work for them."

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    1. The first hotel-casino to open in Vegas was the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino. It opened in 1906, but in 1910 gambling was outlawed in Nevada.

    2. 87% of people who visit Vegas end up gambling at some point.

    3. The Flamingo, one of the oldest establishments in Vegas, opened in 1946 and was named after the long


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Dallas Mavericks TV play-by-play voice Mark Followill held a chat on Tuesday. Here are highlights.

Question: Hi, thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. Are there any players you see us adding at the trade deadline? I was thinking we could use some more scoring off the bench, and T. Ariza offers not just that but good D at SF/SG as well. He'd be an upgrade as the 6th-man over Carter. He's also an expiring contract so maybe WAS wants to get something for him vs. letting him walk for nothing. Thanks!

Followill: Hi Kristen, thanks and glad to help. At this time it's way too early to know specifically who realistically is attainable at the trade deadline. So much is still left to play out with each team's situation between now and then that will dictate who they might look to move at the deadline. I'm confident the Mavs will look to be as they say "opportunistic". But with over two months still to go it is just too early to say. I've always liked Ariza though so that would be an intriguing option

Question: Is it me or is this team really boring?

Followill: It's you. I think they're pretty exciting and fun to watch with their ability to score a lot of points, and have had some thrilling wins like Saturday night in Portland or at home recently against Houston.

Question: I know he's not a mav any more but is j-kidd gonna be the nets coach much longer?

Followill: Great question. I think Kidd still has on his side that the team hasn't been healthy so that will help him I assume in how he is being judged by management. From a Mavs perspective and for what he meant here in 2011 I hope for good things for him. NBA head coaching is a tough gig and to make the transition immediately from being a player is crazy difficult and I think that notion is getting a pretty strong reinforcement right now.

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UnderpassGodmother595: no i am single and i am not looking for anyone right now<|endoftext|>What are Undescended Testicles (Cryptorchidism)?

What Happens under Normal Conditions?

How the testicles descend into the scrotum during pregnancy
How the testicles descend into the scrotum during pregnancy
Image © 2003 Fairman Studios, LLC.

The testicles (or "testes") are 2 organs that hang in a pouch-like skin sac (the scrotum) below the penis. The testicles are where sperm and testosterone (the male sex hormone) are made. The scrotum keeps the testicles in a cooler setting than the body. This is because sperm can't grow at body temperature. During childhood, sperm in the testicles go through a process that results in mature sperm at puberty.

Normal testicles form early in a baby boy's growth. They form in the lower belly (abdomen), but descend, or "drop," into the scrotum toward the end of pregnancy. Normal testicles attach themselves with stretchable tissue in the bottom of the scrotum. This is controlled by the baby's normal hormones.

What are Undescended Testicles?

An undescended testicle (or "testis") is when it fails to drop into the normal place in the scrotum. Your child's health care provider can find this during a routine exam. This issue is found in about 3 or 4 out of  100 newborns (and up to 21 out of 100 premature newborns). Luckily, about half of these testicles will drop on their own during the first 3 months of life. But testicles won't drop on their own after 3 months of age. Thus, about 1 or 2 out of 100 boys with undescended testicles will need treatment.

It's important not to confuse undescended testicles with "retractile" testicles. After 6 months of age, a male child has a reflex that temporarily pulls the testicles up to protect them when he's cold or frightened. These testicles are in the scrotum at other times and don't need treatment. Only testicles that are truly undescended need treatment. A pediatric urologist can tell the difference with a physical exam.

The testicles need to be 2 to 3 degrees cooler than normal body temperature to make sperm. The scrotum is many degrees cooler than body temperature, and so is the ideal place for the testicle. Testicles that don't drop into the scrotum won't work normally. The longer the testicles are too warm, the lower chances are that the sperm in that testicle will mature normally. This can be a cause of infertility, especially when both testicles are affected.

Undescended testicles are also linked to a higher risk of:

  • Testicular cancer in adulthood (though the risk is still less than 1 in 100)
  • Testicular torsion (twisting of the chord that brings blood to the scrotum)
  • Developing a hernia near the groin<|endoftext|>Maurice D. Kellogg was a fairly typical youth from the American heartland of Wellington, Kansas, where he was born.

Shoveling sand from railroad gondolas toughened his body but he had a curious mind that would enable him to recite poetry to prove a claim that he was only studying, after a diligent truant officer hauled him in before a befuddled principal.

This was an unusual person who was anything but dull. Leaving home and a job as a ticket agent for the Trailways busline, he set out for California by riding the rails as many did back then.  >>>

author - book - campaign - ordering
military - business - artist - obituary<|endoftext|>Watch a Metal File Transformed Into a Handsome Japanese Knife

Don't you want this in your kitchen?

Wood, Hardwood, Tool, Wood stain, Steel, Blade, Kitchen utensil, Silver, Natural material, Aluminium,
Miller Knives

There is no shortage of knives that are made out of other non-knife things. And for every knife made out of a wrench or a saw blade, it seems that there are about 9,923 made out of a metal file. This file-turned-knife isn't just any DIY knife though. It's one of the most handsome ones out there.

Smithed by Miller Knives, this knife isn't just some boring old paring, bowie, or chef's knife, those common shapes you tend to think of when you think of knives. Instead, it's something called a Kiridashi, an elegant Japanese design where the sharp-pointed chisel-grind blade just sort of emerges out of the metallic handle.

A Kiridashi serves pretty much the same purpose as your average utility knife, but it looks super slick while it does it. And in this case the effect is only heightened by the rough, untreated texture of the metal file that this knife used to be.

Kind of makes you want to go dig up an old metal file and get to work, doesn't it?

Source: Miller Knives via Reddit

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 teachers, provides online homework help do my quiz. Online college homework while working and dismiss the thing on not only to take your assignments at homework planners.<|endoftext|>Sports DaySports Day Mavericks

Mark Followill: Trevor Ariza would be an intriguing option for the Dallas Mavericks at the trade deadline

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Dec 9, 2013; Sacramento, CA, USA; Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins (15) pivots to the basket past Dallas Mavericks center DeJuan Blair (45) during the first quarter at Sleep Train Arena. Mandatory Credit: Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports

Dallas Mavericks TV play-by-play voice Mark Followill held a chat on Tuesday. Here are highlights.

Question: Hi, thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. Are there any players you see us adding at the trade deadline? I was thinking we could use some more scoring off the bench, and T. Ariza offers not just that but good D at SF/SG as well. He'd be an upgrade as the 6th-man over Carter. He's also an expiring contract so maybe WAS wants to get something for him vs. letting him walk for nothing. Thanks!

Followill: Hi Kristen, thanks and glad to help. At this time it's way too early to know specifically who realistically is attainable at the trade deadline. So much is still left to play out with each team's situation between now and then that will dictate who they might look to move at the deadline. I'm confident the Mavs will look to be as they say "opportunistic". But with over two months still to go it is just too early to say. I've always liked Ariza though so that would be an intriguing option

Question: Is it me or is this team really boring?

Followill: It's you. I think they're pretty exciting and fun to watch with their ability to score a lot of points, and have had some thrilling wins like Saturday night in Portland or at home recently against Houston.

Question: I know he's not a mav any more but is j-kidd gonna be the nets coach much longer?

Followill: Great question. I think Kidd still has on his side that the team hasn't been healthy so that will help him I assume in how he is being judged by management. From a Mavs perspective and for what he meant here in 2011 I hope for good things for him. NBA head coaching is a tough gig and to make the transition immediately from being a player is crazy difficult and I think that notion is getting a pretty strong reinforcement right now.

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<|endoftext|>What are Undescended Testicles (Cryptorchidism)?

What Happens under Normal Conditions?

How the testicles descend into the scrotum during pregnancy
How the testicles descend into the scrotum during pregnancy
Image © 2003 Fairman Studios, LLC.

The testicles (or "testes") are 2 organs that hang in a pouch-like skin sac (the scrotum) below the penis. The testicles are where sperm and testosterone (the male sex hormone) are made. The scrotum keeps the testicles in a cooler setting than the body. This is because sperm can't grow at body temperature. During childhood, sperm in the testicles go through a process that results in mature sperm at puberty.

Normal testicles form early in a baby boy's growth. They form in the lower belly (abdomen), but descend, or "drop," into the scrotum toward the end of pregnancy. Normal testicles attach themselves with stretchable tissue in the bottom of the scrotum. This is controlled by the baby's normal hormones.

What are Undescended Testicles?

An undescended testicle (or "testis") is when it fails to drop into the normal place in the scrotum. Your child's health care provider can find this during a routine exam. This issue is found in about 3 or 4 out of  100 newborns (and up to 21 out of 100 premature newborns). Luckily, about half of these testicles will drop on their own during the first 3 months of life. But testicles won't drop on their own after 3 months of age. Thus, about 1 or 2 out of 100 boys with undescended testicles will need treatment.

It's important not to confuse undescended testicles with "retractile" testicles. After 6 months of age, a male child has a reflex that temporarily pulls the testicles up to protect them when he's cold or frightened. These testicles are in the scrotum at other times and don't need treatment. Only testicles that are truly undescended need treatment. A pediatric urologist can tell the difference with a physical exam.

The testicles need to be 2 to 3 degrees cooler than normal body temperature to make sperm. The scrotum is many degrees cooler than body temperature, and so is the ideal place for the testicle. Testicles that don't drop into the scrotum won't work normally. The longer the testicles are too warm, the lower chances are that the sperm in that testicle will mature normally. This can be a cause of infertility, especially when both testicles are affected.

Undescended testicles are also linked to a higher risk of:

  • Testicular cancer in adulthood (though the risk is still less than 1 in 100)
  • Testicular torsion (twisting of the chord that brings blood to the scrotum)
  • Developing a hernia near the groin<|endoftext|>Maurice D. Kellogg was a fairly typical youth from the American heartland of Wellington, Kansas, where he was born.

Shoveling sand from railroad gondolas toughened his body but he had a curious mind that would enable him to recite poetry to prove a claim that he was only studying, after a diligent truant officer hauled him in before a befuddled principal.

This was an unusual person who was anything but dull. Leaving home and a job as a ticket agent for the Trailways busline, he set out for California by riding the rails as many did back then.  >>>

author - book - campaign - ordering
military - business - artist - obituary<|endoftext|>Watch a Metal File Transformed Into a Handsome Japanese Knife

Don't you want this in your kitchen?

Wood, Hardwood, Tool, Wood stain, Steel, Blade, Kitchen utensil, Silver, Natural material, Aluminium,
Miller Knives

There is no shortage of knives that are made out of other non-knife things. And for every knife made out of a wrench or a saw blade, it seems that there are about 9,923 made out of a metal file. This file-turned-knife isn't just any DIY knife though. It's one of the most handsome ones out there.

Smithed by Miller Knives, this knife isn't just some boring old paring, bowie, or chef's knife, those common shapes you tend to think of when you think of knives. Instead, it's something called a Kiridashi, an elegant Japanese design where the sharp-pointed chisel-grind blade just sort of emerges out of the metallic handle.

A Kiridashi serves pretty much the same purpose as your average utility knife, but it looks super slick while it does it. And in this case the effect is only heightened by the rough, untreated texture of the metal file that this knife used to be.

Kind of makes you want to go dig up an old metal file and get to work, doesn't it?

Source: Miller Knives via Reddit

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 were not out to eclipse Venice. "I see Rome as a further opportunity for cinema. We will be a big metropolitan festival and Venice will stay the queen of the festivals," said Teresa Cavina, one of Rome's programmers.

Nonetheless, the civility was deceptive. It quickly became apparent that there was bad blood. As ever, the Italian media was doing all it could to fuel the enmity. Last month, Muller accused the press of becoming fixated with the budgets of the titles screening, rather than considering whether or not the films were any good.

What probably irks the Venetians most is Rome's success in courting buyers and sellers. The most dynamic festivals are invariably those that attract the deal-brokers as well as the stars and film-makers. Venice has been trying for years to set up its own market but the Romans may beat them to it.

The eternal city has very deep pockets. Its reported budget is 8m euros (£5.5m). Not only is the new festival offering a whopping cash prize of 200,000 euros to the winner of its inaugural competition, it is also inviting journalists and distributors from all over Europe to attend, and offering to pick up their hotel bills. The main prize, which will be decided by a jury headed by Italian auteur Ettore Scola and 50 film fans, is bound to attract film-makers who may have thought about taking their movies elsewhere.

Even without the money as bait, Rome is a far more attractive destination than some of the run-down seaside towns or overpriced ski resorts where other international festivals are held. It is cheap to get to and - by Italian standards - has a reasonable infrastructure.

It is hard not to detect tension at the heart of the Rome project. The new festival may want to evoke memories of Fellini's Rome, but it is worth remembering how satirical Fellini's portrayal of celebrity culture was. In a sense, the festival is in the same position as the gossip columnist in La Dolce Vita. Marcello is a debonair but forlorn figure: someone who aspires to be a serious writer but just cannot kick the celebrity habit. When you can frolic in the fountain with Ekberg or have flings with beautiful socialites, why would you want to sit alone and write a novel no one is going to read?

Rome is bound to be a spectacular party. "In a way," says Giorgio Gosetti, general director of the Rome festival, "[the festival] is also part of the face of the new Italy, more friendly and more open - and able to learn something from its scandals and its problems. If cinema can help, why not?"

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Today in pictures<|endoftext|>chatbot: hello new friend! whats up?
VicinityHarm945: nothing much. just chilling on saturday.
chatbot: that is good. any good saturday hobbies?
VicinityHarm945: cooking new vegetarian dishes, watching tv.
chatbot: give. i like to watch wrestling
VicinityHarm945: do you go to the stadium or on tv?
chatbot: tv mostly. what do you do?
VicinityHarm945: i work as a dental hygienist.
chatbot: sounds fancy. any cool perks?
VicinityHarm945: not really. i wanted to become a dentist but then i chose this profession.
chatbot: gave up on your dream? how sad...
VicinityHarm945: yes. i did not want to spend years in school.<|endoftext|>Tag: Tholen

Tholen – Neuropol

If you want to feel like you live in a collapsing cyberpunk dystopian world where pollution and human failure have caused the denizens to retreat to the murky underground, then leave this playing at all hours. It’s intricate and detailed enough for somewhat active listening, but un-intrusive enough to leave on while you do other life activities.<|endoftext|>Monday, October 31, 2005

BGG.con: Monday, Oct 31

Today is Halloween, a strange pagan holiday we don't know anything about in Israel (I'm originally American, however), but you wouldn't know about it in our part of Dallas, aside from a pumpkin here and there and some newspaper ads. No trick-or-treaters, no costumes, no craziness, nothing closed.

Since I had no other plans, I decided to play around with the public transportation system and cruise around town. I left the house without a jacket, of course, and stopped in Tom Thumb to pick up a lunch. By the time I came outside, it was raining and cold. Oops. I don't remember anything about rain in the weather report I looked at before leaving Israel. Now what?

I ran across Preston to one of the other strip-mall corners, looking left and right to see if I had missed any men's clothes stores or umbrella stores somewhere. I got a little wet, and I knew I would not be able to make it all the way home without getting thoroughly soaked. Nothing looked promising. So I stopped into the Clotheshorse Anonymous to see if they carried men's clothes. Nope.

Inside, however, the salespeople all gathered round, trying to help me come up with a solution, and then one of them offered me her umbrella to keep. I was stunned; I offered her something, but she wouldn't take anything for it. Well, well, a stolen jacket, and a given umbrella. The wheel keeps on turning.

The umbrella helped, and I would have made it home even drier if I had not turned down the wrong street. Somehow I made it halfway down the wrong block before noticing my error. It was then I noticed the small hole in the umbrella ...

Back home I decide to stick it out and spend the day cutting and assembling more copies of the game. I managed to get through about nine copies. Takes a bloody long time. (Coldfoot - I'll send yours out tomorrow.) In the meantime I learned that daytime television sucks.

Big game news of the day is Rick Thornquist planning to start something new. I can't see how it will pay him any more than he was getting from Gamefest, but I guess that depends on how much he was getting. Good luck, Rick.

For dinner we went out to a local restaurant, which shall not be named. The last time my friends had been to this restaurant, the waitress (plus staff) had misdelivered half of the order. This time they managed to improve on that by misdelivering almost the entire order.

The waitress was on her first day. We don't blame her, because she should have someone standing next to her during her training period for a few weeks. She didn't know most of the items on the menu, or what was allowed or not, so she went back and forth to the kitchen to answer our questions. After placing our order, the fun really began.

Only my friend's daughter got what she ordered. David ordered broiled tuna and received canned, which he was not happy about, and had to send it back while being informed that they don't have any fresh tuna to broil. Sharron and I both ordered but we received only one plate, with her main dish and one of my side dishes, and one cup of soup that could have been either of ours, but we couldn't tell what type of soup it was because it was opaque and came without a spoon. We were also missing dressing for the potato and the salads.

We tried to correct this and received a large salad of some type (which we didn't order), and sometime later a spoon. Eventually a more experienced waitress came over to try to solve the problem, but the only thing that happened was that she took the complete order again and promised to bring back the correct items but never did. Eventually the manager came out and we bantered a bit, feeling like the entertainment was worth it all. David got a new salad with roasted salmon but no dressing. Then we got dressings for all items and identified the soup (Sharron's). We had to leave soon, so we couldn't start ordering an entire meal again, but when I told him that I had also ordered a soup, he said he could at least bring that out quickly. So he did - without the spoon. I felt like calling him over to ask him to "taste the soup" like the old joke.

The whole thing was ridiculous, but the food - I tasted some of what actually made it to the table - was good. The "new" waitress was apparently the sister of the waitress that had done the same thing last time. Ursula, maybe? We received a $25 coupon for the next time for our troubles.

On the way back to our house, we stopped to let Sharron sign up her daughter for basketball, which apparently involved a reading of the entire set of rules and regulations to all parents. David and I strolled around playing mental Go on a 5 x 5 board, since we had no equipment. I was pretty sure that first move could force a win, but David believed that we would tie.

Me: B2
David: C3

David seemed to think that the center was a winning move for him. I disagreed.

Me: B3
David: C2

Me: C4
David: D3

I was rather happy with this, as it looked like I might end up with 16 spaces to his 9. David disagreed, of course.

's statement "an incredible offence to cinema".

Ironically, earlier in the year, the Rome organisers had been on a charm offensive to reassure their neighbours they were not out to eclipse Venice. "I see Rome as a further opportunity for cinema. We will be a big metropolitan festival and Venice will stay the queen of the festivals," said Teresa Cavina, one of Rome's programmers.

Nonetheless, the civility was deceptive. It quickly became apparent that there was bad blood. As ever, the Italian media was doing all it could to fuel the enmity. Last month, Muller accused the press of becoming fixated with the budgets of the titles screening, rather than considering whether or not the films were any good.

What probably irks the Venetians most is Rome's success in courting buyers and sellers. The most dynamic festivals are invariably those that attract the deal-brokers as well as the stars and film-makers. Venice has been trying for years to set up its own market but the Romans may beat them to it.

The eternal city has very deep pockets. Its reported budget is 8m euros (£5.5m). Not only is the new festival offering a whopping cash prize of 200,000 euros to the winner of its inaugural competition, it is also inviting journalists and distributors from all over Europe to attend, and offering to pick up their hotel bills. The main prize, which will be decided by a jury headed by Italian auteur Ettore Scola and 50 film fans, is bound to attract film-makers who may have thought about taking their movies elsewhere.

Even without the money as bait, Rome is a far more attractive destination than some of the run-down seaside towns or overpriced ski resorts where other international festivals are held. It is cheap to get to and - by Italian standards - has a reasonable infrastructure.

It is hard not to detect tension at the heart of the Rome project. The new festival may want to evoke memories of Fellini's Rome, but it is worth remembering how satirical Fellini's portrayal of celebrity culture was. In a sense, the festival is in the same position as the gossip columnist in La Dolce Vita. Marcello is a debonair but forlorn figure: someone who aspires to be a serious writer but just cannot kick the celebrity habit. When you can frolic in the fountain with Ekberg or have flings with beautiful socialites, why would you want to sit alone and write a novel no one is going to read?

Rome is bound to be a spectacular party. "In a way," says Giorgio Gosetti, general director of the Rome festival, "[the festival] is also part of the face of the new Italy, more friendly and more open - and able to learn something from its scandals and its problems. If cinema can help, why not?"

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Today in pictures<|endoftext|>Tag: Tholen

Tholen – Neuropol

If you want to feel like you live in a collapsing cyberpunk dystopian world where pollution and human failure have caused the denizens to retreat to the murky underground, then leave this playing at all hours. It’s intricate and detailed enough for somewhat active listening, but un-intrusive enough to leave on while you do other life activities.<|endoftext|>Monday, October 31, 2005

BGG.con: Monday, Oct 31

Today is Halloween, a strange pagan holiday we don't know anything about in Israel (I'm originally American, however), but you wouldn't know about it in our part of Dallas, aside from a pumpkin here and there and some newspaper ads. No trick-or-treaters, no costumes, no craziness, nothing closed.

Since I had no other plans, I decided to play around with the public transportation system and cruise around town. I left the house without a jacket, of course, and stopped in Tom Thumb to pick up a lunch. By the time I came outside, it was raining and cold. Oops. I don't remember anything about rain in the weather report I looked at before leaving Israel. Now what?

I ran across Preston to one of the other strip-mall corners, looking left and right to see if I had missed any men's clothes stores or umbrella stores somewhere. I got a little wet, and I knew I would not be able to make it all the way home without getting thoroughly soaked. Nothing looked promising. So I stopped into the Clotheshorse Anonymous to see if they carried men's clothes. Nope.

Inside, however, the salespeople all gathered round, trying to help me come up with a solution, and then one of them offered me her umbrella to keep. I was stunned; I offered her something, but she wouldn't take anything for it. Well, well, a stolen jacket, and a given umbrella. The wheel keeps on turning.

The umbrella helped, and I would have made it home even drier if I had not turned down the wrong street. Somehow I made it halfway down the wrong block before noticing my error. It was then I noticed the small hole in the umbrella ...

Back home I decide to stick it out and spend the day cutting and assembling more copies of the game. I managed to get through about nine copies. Takes a bloody long time. (Coldfoot - I'll send yours out tomorrow.) In the meantime I learned that daytime television sucks.

Big game news of the day is Rick Thornquist planning to start something new. I can't see how it will pay him any more than he was getting from Gamefest, but I guess that depends on how much he was getting. Good luck, Rick.

For dinner we went out to a local restaurant, which shall not be named. The last time my friends had been to this restaurant, the waitress (plus staff) had misdelivered half of the order. This time they managed to improve on that by misdelivering almost the entire order.

The waitress was on her first day. We don't blame her, because she should have someone standing next to her during her training period for a few weeks. She didn't know most of the items on the menu, or what was allowed or not, so she went back and forth to the kitchen to answer our questions. After placing our order, the fun really began.

Only my friend's daughter got what she ordered. David ordered broiled tuna and received canned, which he was not happy about, and had to send it back while being informed that they don't have any fresh tuna to broil. Sharron and I both ordered but we received only one plate, with her main dish and one of my side dishes, and one cup of soup that could have been either of ours, but we couldn't tell what type of soup it was because it was opaque and came without a spoon. We were also missing dressing for the potato and the salads.

We tried to correct this and received a large salad of some type (which we didn't order), and sometime later a spoon. Eventually a more experienced waitress came over to try to solve the problem, but the only thing that happened was that she took the complete order again and promised to bring back the correct items but never did. Eventually the manager came out and we bantered a bit, feeling like the entertainment was worth it all. David got a new salad with roasted salmon but no dressing. Then we got dressings for all items and identified the soup (Sharron's). We had to leave soon, so we couldn't start ordering an entire meal again, but when I told him that I had also ordered a soup, he said he could at least bring that out quickly. So he did - without the spoon. I felt like calling him over to ask him to "taste the soup" like the old joke.

The whole thing was ridiculous, but the food - I tasted some of what actually made it to the table - was good. The "new" waitress was apparently the sister of the waitress that had done the same thing last time. Ursula, maybe? We received a $25 coupon for the next time for our troubles.

On the way back to our house, we stopped to let Sharron sign up her daughter for basketball, which apparently involved a reading of the entire set of rules and regulations to all parents. David and I strolled around playing mental Go on a 5 x 5 board, since we had no equipment. I was pretty sure that first move could force a win, but David believed that we would tie.

Me: B2
David: C3

David seemed to think that the center was a winning move for him. I disagreed.

Me: B3
David: C2

Me: C4
David: D3

I was rather happy with this, as it looked like I might end up with 16 spaces to his 9. David disagreed, of course.

Me: D4
David: B4

I said that that was suicide for white, since I will just capture him. I think David was having a hard time trying to remember which position was which at this point.

Me: B5
David: A4

I said that that doesn't help since I will just reduce it to one liberty again well before he can capture anything of mine.

Me: A3

At this point, David was obviously having trouble visualizing it; the women came out and we went home. The first site on Google detailing how to solve Go on a 5x5 board can be found here. It's cute, with animated games for many of the typical openings. The optimal opening is, indeed,


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it is an old connecting bridge between i believe glassport, and west mifflin, it is out past the old allegheny co. airport....
2004-10-24 1:38:30 AM
Living in San Pedro, CA I was nine years old and going out with my mom and dad and a little girl friend who lived around the corner to trick or treat.In that same neighborhood, lived a totally burned out former stripper/prostitute. We called her the crazy lady. Her actual name was Beverly. She boarded with a former stripper from the 50s who was about 1000 years old who took her in and tried to take care of her. Beverly often would be seen screaming obscenities in the street...talking to her fingers...the drugs killed her more than once.

Anyhow, we all walk to me little friend's house, and I get up to the porch (Ma and Dad are a little ways behind) and as I head for the door, this figure, covered in blood from head to toe comes out from behind the potted palm tree and says, "Get outta here! You can't come here! Get the F outta here." I mean she looked like "Carrie."

"No problem!" says I and bolt. "No, Margie" says Ma and Dad, "You belong here. She doesn't" My mom and dad's yelling totally scared her and she backed up to the porch swing several feet away, and we went in. My friend and I hid under her bed while all our parents called the police. Beverly had knifed herself up and down, head to toe. God only knows why. The bubble gum machines pulled up, and she disappeared.

Her caretaker confirmed that she had OD'd some weeks after that night. Every once in a while people would swear they heard her screaming her children's names--the ones the courts had given to a foster family, that Halloween afternoon.

Then, I realized it was more sad than scary.

/can't watch "Carrie"
2004-10-24 1:43:43 AM
My most recent "paranormal" experience was last month. I don't consider this one too creepy, rather nice actually. I was at work one evening, I opened a file cabinet to put something away, and the very distinct smell of my great-grandmother's kitchen hit me. It surprised me at first, because I hadn't been in that kitchen in a few years, as my great-grandma was in a nursing home, and my grandpa had sold the house. I leaned down to get a better sniff, and it made me smile, because her kitchen always smelled so good. She died about two days after that.

/oh yeah, that was the only time that smell ever came from the file cabinet. I hope great-grandma gives me another whiff some day.
2004-10-24 1:43:51 AM
Howard Dean

I've known a slightly different version of this for most of my life but haven't come across anyone else who's heard it since grade school.

Now if only I could find the rest of:

"a body! a body! the voice cried in pain.
"Out on your lawn in the cold, pouring rain."

I can't remember all of that one.
2004-10-24 1:45:00 AM
Last fall I was at an art school in Florence, Italy. Everyone joked about the ghosts in it. (It was once the home of Gallileo, it could have been him)

During a one on one art critique in the printmaking studio, the french doors that are normally impossible to open (stupid italian doorhandles, grrr) burst open and a wind made its way around the room. Not like a normal breeze that makes everything ruffle at once. This 'wind' fluttered the papers consecutively as it passed around the room. My professor and I looked at each other and then nervously joked about the ghost coming to my review.

I guess we laughed a little too hard. The breeze abruptly reappeared, but it headed out the door!!!! The door slammed shut much harder than it had opened! YIKES!

I've also had dreams forewarning me of bad things to come. I knew for about two weeks beforehand that my boyfriend at the time was going to crash my car. I was napping while he drove, and woke up about ten minutes before he got us into the back end of a 5 car pileup. Since I *knew* it was coming, I relaxed completely and didn't even get a seatbelt bruise. Very strange to get out of something like that and already be over it because you accepted the outcome days beforehand.
2004-10-24 1:50:05 AM

if you know about things that far in advance, why don't you try to prevent them from happening?
2004-10-24 1:52:20 AM
I'll have to keep this short, night life is calling.

Scene: Old farm house, best friend, high school, sleep over.

Best friend has two beds in his room, room has two ways out, stairwell leading downstairs and a makeshift door leading to an adjoining room.

Make shift door doesn't have a normal knob setup but instead uses a "eye and hook" latch you would find on a fence gate. Best friend gets up, closes and latches said door and returns to his bed. Lights still on, both still awake. After a few minutes the hook pops out of the eye-bolt and the door swings open about six inches. WTF!?!?! sez me. Friend tells me about previous old owner who killed himself there and haunts the place. BS sez me. Friend tells me to try and close the door. Guess what. Hook and eye-bolt now no where even close to reaching each other. I called BS and my friend said to try again in the morning. Of course it worked just fine the next day and I had no problem latching the door.

Later that same night, my friend had a clock about five feet above his bed that made a loud ticking noise. Bothered me as it was totally quiet in the house otherwise and I told him I didn't like the noise. A couple minutes go by and the clock fell off the wall and hit my friend in the head. Note it fell a total of three feet and had to travel horizontally about a whole foot to strike my friend in the head.

End of creepy events for the night. My friend had many more stories about that house. Then when his fam. moved out the house burned to the ground within a couple months.

2004-10-24 1:54:07 AM
These aren't my dreams, but they are from my cousins.

Apparently all three of my cousins have past-life dreams. They're shared dreams too. My middle cousin told me about them recently. The three of them are all knights of malta or something like that. Heavy mounted cavalry. Big horses. Shields and armor and all that. And their father is their leader/general.

My middle cousin that told me, also told her dad about it. He's had them too. Ooooooooooooeeeeeeeooooooo.
2004-10-24 1:55:15 AM
this happend to me,i to this day i wont let anyone bring a pig of anykind in my home...

it was 1970,we lived in burbank cal, on hollywood way.
my sister had a friend spending the night,i was 6yrs tracy my sister was 8yrs, her friend was 8yrs as well.
my dad was at the next building over,helping the hippies paint their apt,mom was at work and it was after dark,we were alone. it started out to be like any other weekend night,the girls were playing in the living room,i was watching tv not far from them. the tv started to act funny,this was a old style tv that had a wire remote,not radio, it would get loud and then no sound,the picture would get big,i mean the picels would look hugh! then it would get small ,to a dot.over and over it kept happing until i tried to turn it off, no go.

it is an old connecting bridge between i believe glassport, and west mifflin, it is out past the old allegheny co. airport....
2004-10-24 1:38:30 AM
Living in San Pedro, CA I was nine years old and going out with my mom and dad and a little girl friend who lived around the corner to trick or treat.In that same neighborhood, lived a totally burned out former stripper/prostitute. We called her the crazy lady. Her actual name was Beverly. She boarded with a former stripper from the 50s who was about 1000 years old who took her in and tried to take care of her. Beverly often would be seen screaming obscenities in the street...talking to her fingers...the drugs killed her more than once.

Anyhow, we all walk to me little friend's house, and I get up to the porch (Ma and Dad are a little ways behind) and as I head for the door, this figure, covered in blood from head to toe comes out from behind the potted palm tree and says, "Get outta here! You can't come here! Get the F outta here." I mean she looked like "Carrie."

"No problem!" says I and bolt. "No, Margie" says Ma and Dad, "You belong here. She doesn't" My mom and dad's yelling totally scared her and she backed up to the porch swing several feet away, and we went in. My friend and I hid under her bed while all our parents called the police. Beverly had knifed herself up and down, head to toe. God only knows why. The bubble gum machines pulled up, and she disappeared.

Her caretaker confirmed that she had OD'd some weeks after that night. Every once in a while people would swear they heard her screaming her children's names--the ones the courts had given to a foster family, that Halloween afternoon.

Then, I realized it was more sad than scary.

/can't watch "Carrie"
2004-10-24 1:43:43 AM
My most recent "paranormal" experience was last month. I don't consider this one too creepy, rather nice actually. I was at work one evening, I opened a file cabinet to put something away, and the very distinct smell of my great-grandmother's kitchen hit me. It surprised me at first, because I hadn't been in that kitchen in a few years, as my great-grandma was in a nursing home, and my grandpa had sold the house. I leaned down to get a better sniff, and it made me smile, because her kitchen always smelled so good. She died about two days after that.

/oh yeah, that was the only time that smell ever came from the file cabinet. I hope great-grandma gives me another whiff some day.
2004-10-24 1:43:51 AM
Howard Dean

I've known a slightly different version of this for most of my life but haven't come across anyone else who's heard it since grade school.

Now if only I could find the rest of:

"a body! a body! the voice cried in pain.
"Out on your lawn in the cold, pouring rain."

I can't remember all of that one.
2004-10-24 1:45:00 AM
Last fall I was at an art school in Florence, Italy. Everyone joked about the ghosts in it. (It was once the home of Gallileo, it could have been him)

During a one on one art critique in the printmaking studio, the french doors that are normally impossible to open (stupid italian doorhandles, grrr) burst open and a wind made its way around the room. Not like a normal breeze that makes everything ruffle at once. This 'wind' fluttered the papers consecutively as it passed around the room. My professor and I looked at each other and then nervously joked about the ghost coming to my review.

I guess we laughed a little too hard. The breeze abruptly reappeared, but it headed out the door!!!! The door slammed shut much harder than it had opened! YIKES!

I've also had dreams forewarning me of bad things to come. I knew for about two weeks beforehand that my boyfriend at the time was going to crash my car. I was napping while he drove, and woke up about ten minutes before he got us into the back end of a 5 car pileup. Since I *knew* it was coming, I relaxed completely and didn't even get a seatbelt bruise. Very strange to get out of something like that and already be over it because you accepted the outcome days beforehand.
2004-10-24 1:50:05 AM

if you know about things that far in advance, why don't you try to prevent them from happening?
2004-10-24 1:52:20 AM
I'll have to keep this short, night life is calling.

Scene: Old farm house, best friend, high school, sleep over.

Best friend has two beds in his room, room has two ways out, stairwell leading downstairs and a makeshift door leading to an adjoining room.

Make shift door doesn't have a normal knob setup but instead uses a "eye and hook" latch you would find on a fence gate. Best friend gets up, closes and latches said door and returns to his bed. Lights still on, both still awake. After a few minutes the hook pops out of the eye-bolt and the door swings open about six inches. WTF!?!?! sez me. Friend tells me about previous old owner who killed himself there and haunts the place. BS sez me. Friend tells me to try and close the door. Guess what. Hook and eye-bolt now no where even close to reaching each other. I called BS and my friend said to try again in the morning. Of course it worked just fine the next day and I had no problem latching the door.

Later that same night, my friend had a clock about five feet above his bed that made a loud ticking noise. Bothered me as it was totally quiet in the house otherwise and I told him I didn't like the noise. A couple minutes go by and the clock fell off the wall and hit my friend in the head. Note it fell a total of three feet and had to travel horizontally about a whole foot to strike my friend in the head.

End of creepy events for the night. My friend had many more stories about that house. Then when his fam. moved out the house burned to the ground within a couple months.

2004-10-24 1:54:07 AM
These aren't my dreams, but they are from my cousins.

Apparently all three of my cousins have past-life dreams. They're shared dreams too. My middle cousin told me about them recently. The three of them are all knights of malta or something like that. Heavy mounted cavalry. Big horses. Shields and armor and all that. And their father is their leader/general.

My middle cousin that told me, also told her dad about it. He's had them too. Ooooooooooooeeeeeeeooooooo.
2004-10-24 1:55:15 AM
this happend to me,i to this day i wont let anyone bring a pig of anykind in my home...

it was 1970,we lived in burbank cal, on hollywood way.
my sister had a friend spending the night,i was 6yrs tracy my sister was 8yrs, her friend was 8yrs as well.
my dad was at the next building over,helping the hippies paint their apt,mom was at work and it was after dark,we were alone. it started out to be like any other weekend night,the girls were playing in the living room,i was watching tv not far from them. the tv started to act funny,this was a old style tv that had a wire remote,not radio, it would get loud and then no sound,the picture would get big,i mean the picels would look hugh! then it would get small ,to a dot.over and over it kept happing until i tried to turn it off, no go.
while this was going on,the girls were screaming behind me,i thought they were just acting that way over the tv,
they were always screaming over something. but it sounded different,ilook over at them and their white as sheets pointing at the walls,the pictures are moving,back and forth,some spining. i join the screaming.
now the tv's real loud,our family pics are dancing on the wall,and we are just little kids, i then notice the banging coming from the walls,like someone is in the wall trying to get out,i dont know how long that pounding was going on, with all the confusion it could have been there from the start. the topper is the damn pig,everything else was kinda understandable,we have all moved a pic, changed the volume on the tv, so these were scary but within our understanding, at least thats what i think.
but the pig,it was a piggy bank from mexico,you know the big pink one with the curly tail? they still sell it over there. it moved, it ......okay it walked,no ran and rolled its eyes while running across the shelf it was on, sqealing .
i know it is nuts,i know this did not happen,it must be a false mem