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and Ezry to assist their father in raising the younger ones, confiding to Blant's special care the week-old baby, "your paw being too puny to set up with it of nights." After the two big boys there was a gap in the family caused by the death of four children from typhoid; then followed Nucky, who was eleven, and the five younger children. Blant and Ezry accepted their trust with sincere devotion. Their father was able to do a good deal of the cooking and housework, but they assisted him even in this, and, when not at work outside, tirelessly and tenderly minded the children. At night "the babe" always slept at Blant's side,-or, rather, the first three colic months it did not sleep, and Blant patiently walked the floor with it, jolted it on his knees, toasted its little feet before the fire, warmed its bottle, gave it generous doses of corn liquor, and, as Nucky said, "made it sugar-teats and soot-tea as good as a woman."
During the latter part of this colic-time, Mr. Marrs became so desperate by reason of being constantly disturbed in his sleep that he concluded there was nothing for it but to get a woman in the house; and one evening he sadly and secretly started off across Elbow Mountain to propose to a capable widow over in Sassafras Hollow. On the very summit of the mountain, he was confronted by his wife's spirit, which, with denunciation and warning, turned him back, trembling and repentant, to renew his promise to the children that they should never have a stepmaw, and from that day to settle down to the lonely estate of a "widow-man."
From all accounts, Nucky's mother had been a woman of remarkable mind and heart, worthy of the rare affection her children cherished for her. Nucky was proud of telling that, although she had never seen the inside of a school-house, she had yet been a "scholar," and able to read, write, and figure, her great-grandfather, when a very old man of nearly a hundred, and unable to do anything but sit by the fire, having imparted to her a portion of his own learning. She had proved such an apt, eager pupil that, on his death, he had left her his most valued possessions-a few ancient books. One of these was a Bible, another a story-book, with pictures, "about a man by the name of Christian, that fit with devils, and come
near being et up by a jont ten times as big as him." The latter book had been the chief delight of Nucky's infancy. All this was most interesting to Miss Loring, as being another proof that the early settlers were men of an education which isolation and the hard struggle for existence made impossible to their descendants.
Nucky was continually expecting Blant and Ezry over to visit him at the school, and getting word from passers-by that they aimed to come soon; and Miss Loring and the cottage boys were most eager to see the heroes materialize. But it appeared that, although the babe was now more than a year old and done with colic, Blant was still unable to make up his mind to leave it overnight.
The autumn passed, and almost any story Miss Loring read or told Nucky would be able to match with performances of Blant and Ezry and their best friend Richard Tarrant, who always assisted them in their undertakings. Blant, however, was the star actor on every occasion. When, for instance, along in December, they were reading the story of Ulysses, and reached the place where the hero and his friends escape from the cave of Polyphemus, Nucky told of the last time Blant had been arrested for necessarily killing a Cheever (when a Cheever and a Marrs met it was only a question of the quickest trigger), and how, on the way to the county-seat afterward, the officers and prisoner were overtaken by darkness and compelled to stop all night at a wayside house. Blant went to bed in an upper room, handcuffed, between the sheriff and a deputy, each of whom retired with a loaded revolver in his hand. In the morning, when the officers awoke, the prisoner was gone, while the quilt that had covered the three swung from the window, and beneath it, on the ground, lay the two revolvers, placed neatly side by side.
Christmas came and went, and still no Blant and Ezry appeared. The children had returned from their holiday visits home, and the first Saturday evening thereafter, which happened to be the fifth of January, Miss Loring and her boys sat around the fire, again reading Ulysses. There was a violent interruption, however, when Ulysses permits Scylla to snatch six of his friends out of the ship for a meal. "Dad burn him! I 'm
done with him!" "Why n't he grab his ax and chop off them six heads when he seed 'em a-coming?" "Any man can't fight for his friends better be dead!" "Ongrateful 's worse 'n pizen!" "Don't want to hear no more about no such pukestocking as him!" "Better shet up the book!" were some of the sentiments. Miss Loring bowed to the storm and shut the book, and conversation finally simmered down to smoother levels, touching upon the adventures of the boys themselves during the holidays. These seemed to Miss Loring exciting enough; but nearly every boy was bewailing the fact that he had had to return to the school before Old Christ
mas.
"I've heard you boys speak of Old Christmas a number of times," said Miss Loring. "Now, what on earth is it?"
"Old Christmas is sure-enough Christmas," replied Taulbee, gravely. "You brought-on women thinks New Christmas is Christmas, but it ain't. Real Christmas comes to-morrow, on the sixth of January; and to-night is real Christmas eve."
"What makes you think so?"
"Well, all the old folks says so, for one thing, and I think they knows better than young ones; and, for another, I think the beastes and plants knows better still. Tonight 's the night when the elder blossoms out and the cattle kneels down and prays. You can hear 'em a-lowing and a-mowing at midnight if you stay awake and listen."
Miss Loring had some recollection of the English calendar having been set forward eleven days in the middle of the eighteenth century, and of the refusal of many of the people to accept the new dates, and specially the new-style Christmas. This survival in the mountain country seemed to her as wonderful as that of the old English ballads, and the good old Shaksperian words, obsolete elsewhere.
"What do people do on Old Christmas? Do they give presents?" she asked.
"No, indeed," said Taulbee. "They never heared tell of such a new-fangle thing. The old folks they cook up a week or two beforehand, and lay in a good stock of cider and liquor, for hospitality, so 's they can offer a-plenty to eat and drink, and then when Christmas comes they set around and hold their hands all day (it would be a sin to work then), and
tries to keep the young folks from antikin' around too much, for they claim it 's a solemn season. But the girls they mostly gets out and visits and sees what little fun they can (th' ain't no real fun no time, though, for women), and the boys they take their nags and pistols and jugs and rides up and down the road or the creek, hollering and shooting and making what noise they able to. It's what you might call a dangerous time to be out in."
Miss Loring and the boys all agreed to wake up at midnight that night and hear the cattle "lowing and mowing"; but they failed to set the alarm-clock, and unfortunately slept through the miraculous hour.
On the Tuesday following, Miss Loring was passing through the school-yard on her way to dinner at noon when she saw a crowd rapidly gathering at the fence. A man on horseback outside was talking and gesticulating. As she joined the crowd, he was telling how, on Old Christmas morning, Blant and Ezry Marrs, Rich Tarrant, and a lot of the boys, were galloping up and down Powderhorn, drinking, shooting, and celebrating the day, when Rich recklessly and foolishly dashed out on Blant from behind a large rock, and Blant, with his everready instinct for the Cheevers made more keen by liquor, fired on the instant, before he saw who it really was, killing Rich dead. Blant, said the news-bearer, was in a deplorable state of mind, first attempting to end his own life, and, foiled in this, sending word to the sheriff to come and arrest him. Though Blant lived in Boyne, the shooting had occurred on the lower reaches of Powderhorn, in Kent County, and the sheriff and deputies were now bringing both Blant and Ezry to the jail. in the village near the school, Ezry having opposed Blant's surrender and fired into the posse when it arrived, and being arrested for "contempt."
All the rest of that day, with pale face and straining eyes, Nucky watched the road; and the other boys kept just as near the front fence as possible. A little before. dark, the cavalcade came along. Between two armed men rode Blant, his face rigid with misery and horror; Ezry, sullen and defiant of aspect, was behind, between two others. Nucky leaped into Blant's stirrup and rode along with him to the jail, the
faces of both as white and unseeing as the dead.
Thereafter Nucky spent every possible moment with his brothers in the jail, and several times Miss Loring stopped in with him. Blant's anguish was terrible to see. In vain Nucky and Miss Loring, Ezry and the other prisoners, and even the jailkeeper, argued with him and tried to convince him he should not reproach himself so bitterly or give way to such utter despair and grief. His one reply was: "I have killed my best friend. My heart is broke'. Life has no more charms for me. I hope to God the law will kill me and put me out of my misery." The strange fact also developed that he had had a forewarning of Rich's death. For three consecutive days before Old Christmas, once when he was riving boards for the roof, once when he was climbing the mountain in search of a lost cow, once when he was sitting with the babe in his arms before the fire, he had had visions of Rich standing beside him, headless; and so strong had been the impression that he had told Rich the first thing when they met Christmas morning, and had warned him to be specially careful what he did that day.
For weeks he was thus inconsolable and desperate. The first relief came one Saturday when Nucky and Miss Loring were at the jail. A neighbor from over on Trigger stopped his nag at the jail window, and told Blant, through the bars, that "the babe just whimped and cried day and night for him, and could n't be pacified noway." At this Blant laid his head on the table where the other prisoners were playing cards and wept, the first tears he had shed, and they seemed to wash away some of his burden. A day or two later, a message came from Powderhorn which should certainly have comforted him some: Mrs. Tarrant, Rich's mother, sent word to him that though he had "darkened the light of the sunball" for her, she freely forgave him.
The following Friday, Nucky asked and received permission to make a visit home over the week-end; and the next afternoon Miss Loring was surprised to see him out in the road in front of the cottage, on his paw's nag, with a small bundle carried very carefully on one arm. This he unwrapped to show Miss Loring.
It was the babe, a beautiful little girl, with big, gray eyes like Nucky's and Blant's, and such a tiny, white face, and so pathetic and patient a smile, that Miss Loring's heart was wrung within her.
"Seem' like it 'll pine to death if it don't get to see Blant," explained Nucky; "so I brung it over."
"Please bring it back to spend the night with me!" implored Miss Loring.
But Blant would by no means consent to this; not for an instant should it depart from his arms during the time it had to stay. Nucky reported afterward: "It just grabbed aholt of him the minute it seed him, and laid its head on his breast, and would n't turn him a-loose even to eat or sleep. All the other boys tried to get it to come to them, but it would n't go even to Ezry. And Blant he set up and helt it in his arms all night."
The process of separating the babe from Blant next day was such a painful one that there was not a dry eye in the jail.
Court was not to sit until the middle of March, when the trial of Blant and Ezry would come off. Of course Ezry would be acquitted,-"contempt" was nothing,
and at first it was hoped that Blant would be acquitted, too, the absence of intention in his killing of Rich was so patent, and his grief so cruel and overwhelming a punishment in itself. But as the weeks passed on there was a growing sentiment among the solid men of the county that a short penitentiary sentence in his case would be a very good thing, and would make all the young men in the region more careful with their guns in the future. Of course if Blant had killed a Cheever, it would not be so imperative for the law to step in, -the Cheevers were perfectly able to attend to their own affairs, but this thing of shooting wild and killing the wrong man was a menace to the whole community, and ought not to go unpunished. Also, Kent County was, and prided itself on being, more law-abiding than Boyne; and this chance to make an object-lesson of a Boyne boy was not to be overlooked.
These various rumors as to public opinion were carried to Blant by passers-by, callers, and the jail-keeper himself; while from Trigger came more and more distressing news every day. The Cheevers, taking advantage of the situation, were
marauding, shooting hogs, burning fodderstacks, etc. Mr. Marrs was worn out and distracted in his mind by the unaccustomed load of cares, and as for the babe, its grief was working on it to a dangerous extent. "It's fairly pindling away," "Nothing but a pitiful little passel of bones," "Some days don't touch ary morsel of victuals," "Favors a little picked bird," "Aiming to die if he don't get back to it soon," were successive messages that reached the jail.
The situation was freely discussed by Blant and Ezry and the other prisoners, mostly nice boys, arrested for only slight offenses, such as moonshining and celebrating Christmas too enthusiastically, and by the jail-keeper; and one day Blant expressed his mind as follows:
"Yes, I don't know as I like the notion of going down there to Frankfort very well. If the law would just hang me, I'd feel better. But I reckon there ain't no hopes of that; I ought to have recollected the prejudice they got again' hanging in this country. The way I look at it, a life for a life is just common justice. But what good or justice it will do anybody to coop me up in Frankfort for a couple of year' or more when I'm so bad' needed at home, I fail to see. Here I am, with a living to make for the folks, and the outdacious manoeuvers of the Cheevers to keep down, and the babe to raise,-you might say with my hands running-over full,-and now they aim to shut me up where I can't do none of it! It ain't reasonable. Now, if they was to send me off to the Philippynes or somewheres to fight for 'em, I could see some sense in that, because then I'd do 'em a heap of good. But just to shut me up where I can't never see no sunshine, or do nothing but set and think, why, seems like it's more than I want to face."
"You ought to have thought of that sooner," admonished the keeper. "You done a mighty near-sighted job when you sent for the sheriff; I would n't have believed it of you, Blant. Nobody would n't have thought of arrestin' you; they 'd 'a' knowed you never meant no harm to Rich. But I reckon your mind was clean unhinged by misery. And now you 've made your bed, you got to lay in it. Whatever you do, take warnin' and don't try no tricks here on me. Because, whatever
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happens, and however well I like you, law is law, and I'm obligated by my oath, and aimin' to do my whole duty. I really think a heap of you, Blant, and I 'd hate right smart to have to kill you."
One Tuesday morning early in March, Miss Loring started down to the village post-office. When she reached that place in the road where it was necessary to walk the fence some distance on account of the frightful mud-holes, she was surprised and delighted to see that a gang of men were working the road, and to recognize in them Blant and Ezry and the other prisoners. They were picking the shale from the mountain-side, and shoveling it into the bottomless holes. All appeared happy to feel the warm sunshine and breathe the fresh air again, and worked with a will, talking merrily with chance passers-by, the keeper, who leaned on his rifle, entering amiably into the conversation. Miss Loring was relieved to see Blant's face relaxed and almost cheerful, and to know that time was in a measure healing his sorrow. She hoped that the last news she had had from Trigger-that the babe was nothing but a feather and would soon blow away-had not reached him.
The two succeeding days the cottage boys made every excuse to go up the road and exchange words with the road-gang. By great good fortune, Nucky had the kitchen-job, and, running errands for the housekeeper to and from the village, had frequent chances to see his big brothers. Friday noon he brought word that the mud-holes were filled, and the boys were now preparing to blast out rock and widen the road at a point still nearer the school. All that afternoon heavy detonations rent the air, and puffs of smoke were visible from the school-garden, where it was almost impossible for Miss Loring to keep her boys at work.
Saturday, too, the blasting continued at intervals. About two in the afternoon the wash-girls had finished their labors and were out "passing the ball" in the schoolyard, and the boys, under Miss Loring's supervision, were washing the last windows and scrubbing the last floor in the cottage. Joab, on his knees, plying a scrubbing-brush, with an occasional droll glance at Miss Loring, was chanting monotonously,
"Let the women do the work, do the work, do the work,
Let the men do the laying around,"
when several loud, near-by gunshots sent everybody flying to the front yard. Up the steep mountain-side facing the cottage two men were leaping, while down in the road below ran a third, stopping only to aim and fire.
"It 's Blant and Ezry!" called out a dozen voices. "Go it, boys! Run! oh, Run! oh, run!"
All the school was by this time at the fence, breathlessly watching the hard ascent. The mountain was cleared half-way up, not a tree or a rock affording shelter. The keeper, selecting a vantage-ground just outside the cottage gate, took his stand there, and grimly proceeded to do his "whole duty," firing calmly, swiftly, and surely at the flying figures. In running accompaniment to the gunshots, Nucky's voice rang out sharp and clear. "Keep to the right a little grain!" "Drap down in the swag there, so 's he can't hit you so easy!" "Make for the timber!" Bullets raised tiny clouds of dust about the feet of the fugitives, and in the slope just ahead of them. The seconds seemed ages; the watchers' hearts stood still. Once Blant stopped short, clutching his left arm; then he ran on again more swiftly than ever, the arm dangling strangely. Nucky's voice, edged with agony, faltered no more than did the bullets. "Can't you move no quicker 'n that? Once you reach them trees, he'll never hit you. Oh, hurry! hurry! Seems like I could crawl faster. You 're getting near now. The trees!
the trees! the trees! Oh, God, they 're to 'em! They 're safe!"
After a few parting shots into the timber, the keeper shook his head, philosophically shouldered his gun, and turned to the other prisoners, who had come down the road behind him. "Well, boys," he remarked, "I done my best, as the law required. But they got too good a start on me. It was right pyeert of 'em to stand on the far side from me when that last blast went off, and gain that much of a start. That was as plucky a race for life as ever I see; and I hain't sorry I never killed 'em. I put Blant's arm out of business for a while, but I'm free to say I'm glad it was n't no vital. Yes, sir, I don't know when I ever made the acquaintance of two nicer, cleverer boys than them; and I think it was mighty sensible of 'em not to stay and stand trial. That 'ere Blant is as perfect a gentleman as ever I seed, and hain't got a criminal bone in him. To send him to Frankfort would be just plumb ridiculous and scandalous. He never ought to have give' himself up when he killed Rich; that was the dad-burn foolishest thing ever I beheld. But of course he was momentarily distracted by grief and not accountable. Well, I hope it has learnt him a lesson to think twice in future. And now I reckon he 'll lay out in the woods a spell, though I'm sure nobody would n't be low-down enough to hunt him, and it 's again' the law, anyhow, that a man's life shall be twice in jeopardy for the same offense, and then he 'll go home, and settle the Cheevers, and cheer up his pap, and raise what 's left of that pore little babe."
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ArenaNet just had a press release regarding the pre-purchasing of the game. Apparently, the price for Guild Wars 2 is not that bad.
This epic game will be available for pre-purchase on April 10, 2012. For people who want this game badly like me, be prepared because people who pre-purchase the game will able to access all beta weekend events, and can also play the full game 3 days earlier. You'll also get an item (Hero's Band).
Anyone here planning to buy this game? (*raises hand* - ed) I'm sure OMGeek will form a guild to make this more awesome!


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La Coppa Europa di sci alpino 1997 fu la 26ª edizione della manifestazione organizzata dalla Federazione Internazionale Sci.

La stagione maschile iniziò il 5 dicembre 1996 a Valloire, in Francia, e si concluse il 7 marzo 1997 a Les Arcs, ancora in Francia; furono disputate 34 gare (9 discese libere, 6 supergiganti, 9 slalom giganti, 10 slalom speciali), in 16 diverse località. L'austriaco Stephan Eberharter si aggiudicò sia la classifica generale, sia quelle di discesa libera e di supergigante; il suo connazionale Heinz Schilchegger vinse quella di slalom gigante e i francesi Joël Chenal e Richard Gravier, a pari merito, quella di slalom speciale. L'austriaco Hermann Maier era il detentore uscente della Coppa generale.

La stagione femminile iniziò il 7 dicembre 1996 a Špindlerův Mlýn, in Repubblica Ceca, e si concluse il 7 marzo 1997 a Les Arcs, in Francia; furono disputate 33 gare (8 discese libere, 7 supergiganti, 9 slalom giganti, 9 slalom speciali), in 13 diverse località. L'austriaca Marianna Salchinger si aggiudicò sia la classifica generale, sia quelle di discesa libera e di supergigante; la francese Ingrid Jacquemod vinse quella di slalom gigante e la norvegese Trine Bakke quella di slalom speciale. La svizzera Sylviane Berthod e la russa Svetlana Gladyševa erano, a pari merito, le detentrici uscenti della Coppa generale.

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Legenda:
DH = discesa libera
SG = supergigante
GS = slalom gigante
SL = slalom speciale

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Generale

Discesa libera

Supergigante

Slalom gigante

Slalom speciale

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Legenda:
DH = discesa libera
SG = supergigante
GS = slalom gigante
SL = slalom speciale

Classifiche

Generale

Discesa libera

Supergigante

Slalom gigante

Slalom speciale

Voci correlate
 Coppa del Mondo di sci alpino 1997
 Nor-Am Cup 1997

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Afghan Taliban fighters attacked a convoy of fuel trucks at the Pakistan border, triggering a firefight between police guards and Islamist insurgents. A suicide bomber explosion and a gunfight resulted in 37 fuel trucks being burned.
Afghan officials claim that up to four suicide bombers participated in the attack on NATO outpost in eastern Nangarhar province, near the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan. The main target of the assault was a convoy of fuel trucks parked there.
According to border police spokesman Idris Momand, the attack began early Thursday morning.
All but one of the suicide bombers were shot dead while trying to reach the parking lot with trucks, but the last one managed to get there and blew himself up, the provincial governor's spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, said. As a result of the explosion and intense shooting that accompanied the assault dozens of NATO trucks loaded with fuel and supplies were destroyed.
Abdulzai confirmed that 37 fuel trucks had been destroyed. One Afghan driver was reportedly wounded in the attack, Reuters report.
The convoy was reportedly making its way to Afghanistan from the Pakistani port of Karachi, the key supply route for ISAF forces in Afghanistan.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming his group was behind the assault.
Taliban fighters have been attacking convoys bringing supplies for NATO-led forces in landlocked Afghanistan for years now.
Though the majority of foreign troops are set to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, there is no end in sight to the violence in the country.
Just last Saturday, Taliban militants killed score of voters during the second round, run-off presidential election in Afghanistan.
The Taliban believes that the presidential elections in Afghanistan are a US ploy and the two candidates, both of whom support signing a new security pact with the US, could be cheating, which could eventually lead to deadlock in the second round of the election.


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A site about Hollywood and its history
Page Peters, Hollywood Cemetery's first celebrity resident
By Allan R. Ellenberger
Page Peters was born in Louisville, Kentucky and educated at the Western Military Academy. Peters was one of Hollywood's sexiest and most well liked actors at the time of his popularity around 1914 to 1916. He is not related to actor, House Peters. Among his more important roles in films were in Pasquale (1916) with George Beban; Davy Crockett (1916), The Gentleman from Indiana (1915), and Ben Blair (1916), with Dustin Farnum, An International Marriage (1916), with Rita Jolivet; He Fell in Love With His Wife (1916), with Florence Rockwell, and Madame La Presidente (1916) with Anna Held.
On June 26, 1916, Peters and a party of friends drove down to Hermosa Beach from Los Angeles for a day's outing at the home of a mutual friend, Harry Graves, at Fourth Street and Strand. Early in the morning, Peters and several of the house guests decided to take a dip in the Pacific ocean. Peters and a female friend ventured out beyond the others where, apparently he was seized with a cramp. The young woman, a Miss Graves, tried to assist him to keep afloat and screamed for help, but it came too late. His body was found about one-hundred feet from the shore by some of the searchers in a motor boat. A pulmotor was brought down from Redondo Beach and men worked on the stricken actor for two hours in a vain effort to restore his life.
The verdict of the medical examiner was that Page Peters, who was 27 years old, and very strong, died of heart failure rather than drowning.
Peters funeral was held at Hollywood Cemetery a few days later on a day, which coincidentally was three years to the day that he first started working in films. The pallbearers were all members of show business and among the six were Al Christie, Horace Davey, Ray Meyers, and Raymond Russell, who worked with him in his first picture. At the request of his parents, the funeral was filmed under the direction of Al Christie, Peter's first director and Anton Nadge, who photographed his first, filmed the funeral, using the same camera.
Page Peters is possibly the first actor to be buried at Hollywood Cemetery. His grave, near the eastern wall across from the Cathedral Mausoleum, is unmarked. .
The unmarked grave of actor Page Peters is in the general vicinity noted above, Section 9, Lot 428.
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'Partridge Family' Actor Dave Madden Dies at 82
He was best known for his role as Reuben Kinkaid, who managed the Partridge family band.
NEW YORK (AP) — Comic actor Dave Madden, who played the child-hating agent on the hit 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, died in Florida on Thursday at age 82.
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Russell Johnson Obituary
Russell Johnson, 89, 'Gilligan's Island' Sage, Dies
By BRUCE WEBER
Russell Johnson, an actor who made a living by often playing villains in westerns until he was cast as the Professor, the brains of a bunch of sweetly clueless, self-involved, hopelessly naïve island castaways, on the hit sitcom "Gilligan's Island," died on Thursday at his home in Bainbridge Island, Wash. He was 89.
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Kiphire: Students of the remote Kiphire district of Nagaland have shown the way in wildlife conservation by rescuing a rare Eastern Grass Owl, sometimes referred to as the 'Daddy Long-Legs Owl', from a villager who caught the bird in Tsudowong on Saturday and later brought it to Pungro town.
The rare bird, enlisted in the IUCN red list of threatened species 2016 and belonging to the family of barn owl, was rescued by members of the Pungro Area College Students' Union.
In another statement, the Kiphire wildlife warden stated that "noted ornithologist and creator of Vannya, a digital bird guide, Shashank Dalvi helped in identifying the species" and was informed that there were "very few photographic records of the species from India till date, making this rescue even more significant".


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Fallout from the crash that killed seven motorcyclists last week continued Wednesday, as a top Connecticut official insisted that his state had properly notified the state of Massachusetts about the driving violations of the man now accused of causing the fatal collision.
"If the information we sent was insufficient, we're still waiting to hear how," Tony Guerrera, deputy commissioner of Connecticut's motor vehicles department said Wednesday evening.
His defense came a day after the head of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles resigned, and Massachusetts officials accepted some of the responsibility for failing to suspend the commercial driver's license of Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, who is charged with negligent homicide in the fiery New Hampshire crash.
Just six weeks before the crash, Zhukovskyy was stopped by police in Connecticut, refused a chemical test, and was arrested and charged with operating under the influence, Massachusetts officials said. That should have resulted in the suspension of his commercial license, but Massachusetts officials said this week that Connecticut "failed to provide sufficient information" about the arrest through a national tracking system.
However, Massachusetts did receive a notification for a manual review, which registry personnel in Massachusetts did not conduct.
In an interview Wednesday, Guerrera said that the Connecticut department reviewed the case and found that its internal reporting protocols were followed properly, and that a May 29 message to Massachusetts included police codes indicating that Zhukovskyy declined the chemical test.
"Unless someone can show me something different, I think we dotted all of our I's and crossed our T's," he said.
A spokeswoman for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, which runs the national system that alerts agencies of driver violations, said Wednesday it appeared Connecticut officials followed the correct procedure.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is charged with seven counts of negligent homicide in the New Hampshire crash.associated press
The oversight led to the resignation of the head of the Massachusetts RMV, Erin Deveney, who could not be reached for comment Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, which oversees the RMV, declined to comment, referring to the agency's statement a day earlier.
Speaking to reporters at the State House, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito said the registry is undertaking "a thorough review of not only the process involving this particular license holder but also a review of the entire process."
"It's very important that the Registry of Motor Vehicles implement the law, implement the procedures that govern the public safety, and in this case there was a process that needed to be adhered to that was not," Polito said. "And there was a very significant outcome that we all realize."
Polito said she could not answer whether other drivers with similar infractions have licenses.
Zhukovskyy, of West Springfield, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Lancaster, N.H., to seven counts of negligent homicide. Federal authorities have placed him on a detainer, planning to take him into ICE custody once the legal proceedings conclude.
His case raises several questions about how commercial drivers' records are monitored. While state agencies issue licenses, the commercial trucking industry is regulated via a complex matrix of state and federal laws.
Anyone applying for a license to operate a commercial vehicle faces a battery of written and performance tests, background checks, and medical exams. States authorities monitor commercial truck drivers via the national alert system, which notifies licensing agencies when a license holder commits a driving-related violation.
Zhukovskyy's record includes a string of driving and drug-related violations that began in earnest in 2013, when he was arrested on drunk driving charges.
Per state and federal guidelines, that arrest did not disqualify him from obtaining a commercial driving license in 2018. In Massachusetts, a first impaired driving offense carries a year suspension. A second carries a lifetime ban. Drivers can appeal to lift the ban 10 years after the offense.
While large trucking companies tend to hold themselves to high standards, smaller motor carries sometimes "cut corners in order to put a warm body in the seat to get a truck to go down the road," said Scott L. Turner, a trucking industry consultant and former New Jersey State Police car crash investigator.
Turner said systems that monitor commercial trucking companies and drivers have improved significantly over the years. But he said gaps remain, and a shortage of drivers — due to a strong economy and low unemployment — has left some companies desperate to make hires.
Federal records show that the Massachusetts company that owns the truck Zhukovskyy was driving had racked up serious driver-related violations over the past two years at a rate four times higher than the national average.
Commercial vehicles undergo roadside inspections to determine whether they are in compliance with federal regulations, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's website.
Over the past 24 months, 48 inspections were conducted on drivers working for Westfield Transport Inc., records on the agency's website show.
Ten of those inspections, or 20.8 percent, resulted in at least one "out-of-service" order, nearly four times the national average of about 5 percent, records show. An out-of-service order is issued for serious violations.
Federal records for Westfield Transport listed no reported crashes that resulted in fatalities, injuries, or tows over the past two years.
Zhukovskyy had begun working for Westfield Transport three days before the crash, the company's owner, Dartanyan Gasanov, said this week, adding that he wasn't aware of Zhukovskyy having driving issues in the past.
Federal records indicate the company has five drivers and five vehicles.
Just 18 days before the New Hampshire crash, Zhukovskyy was driving a car carrier for a different Massachusetts company that rolled over on a Texas highway, authorities there have said.
Zhukovskyy told police in Baytown, Texas, that he had overcorrected after a car cut him off. Police could not locate the vehicle Zhukovskyy said cut him off, said Baytown police Lieutenant Steve Dorris. The truck was carrying five cars at the time.
Zhukovskyy was uninjured in the June 3 crash, did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and was not cited by police, Dorris said.
Also, Zhukovskyy was arrested in February at a Denny's restaurant in Baytown along Interstate 10, near the spot of his rollover.
Zhukovskyy was unsteady on his feet and his pupils were dilated. Officers said it was "pretty clear he was intoxicated," Dorris said. They found that Zhukovskyy was carrying a crack pipe, and he was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Matt Stout of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Vernal Coleman can be reached at vernal.coleman@globe.com. Matt Rocheleau can be reached at matthew.rocheleau@globe.com.


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Lori Loughlin's newly single daughter…
Lori Loughlin's newly single daughter still flaunts 'White privilege' on YouTube
Olivia Jade Giannulli focuses on sharing videos from her fabulous life, including a boisterous trip with friends to Disneyland, downing alcohol on the limousine drive there
Olivia Jade, daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli returned to YouTube after an absence of almost nine months. (Olivia Jade/YouTube)
By Martha Ross | mross@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: August 13, 2021 at 3:42 p.m. | UPDATED: August 13, 2021 at 5:07 p.m.
The last time Olivia Jade Giannulli, Lori Loughlin's faux-crew-star daughter, invaded the public's consciousness was in December, when she admitted she was guilty of "White privilege."
But the beauty influencer is back this week with the news that she's newly single after breaking up with boyfriend Jackson Guthy and has "lots of stuff" coming soon, presumably more content for her Instagram and YouTube accounts.
It also appears that the 21-year-old hasn't shifted the creative focus of her content, which helped make her one of the most recognized, ridiculed and reviled figures of the college admissions scandal. That's because Olivia Jade is still posting photos and videos of her fabulous "White privilege" life — getting up in the morning, putting on her makeup, modeling clothes, giving herself facials, waiting for someone to come to her high-rise apartment to manicure her nails, getting a spa treatment, sipping cocktails while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas and packing two suitcases of clothes and makeup to spend the summer away from Los Angeles.
Perhaps the most annoying case of Olivia Jade flaunting her privilege is the segment of one her recent "Week in the Life" vlogs, which shows her and her boisterous friends in the back of a Mercedes limousine van, taking a day trip to Disneyland.
The group, including Olivia Jade in Chanel sunglasses, downed cans of White Claw hard seltzer and what looked like hard liquor straight from the bottle, as they traveled to the theme park to go on rides and party some more.
This apparently is work for Olivia Jade, because she can of course use it for content to build her brand as a stylish but relatable-enough daughter of Hollywood. She has 1.8 million subscribers on YouTube and 1.3 million Instagram followers.
Back in December, Olivia Jade tried to salvage her reputation by appearing on Jada Pinkett Smith's "Red Table Talk" Facebook show, where she expressed sorrow for the fact that her TV star mother and fashion designer father broke federal laws.
Olivia Jade Giannulli, from left, and Lori Loughlin attend WCRF's "An Unforgettable Evening" at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 27, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli served time in federal prison after pleading guilty to paying $500,000 in bribes to get Olivia Jade and her older sister, Isabella, fraudulently admitted to the University of Southern California on the pretense of being crew athletes, even though they had never participated in the sport.
"It's been hard," she told Pinkett Smith and Pinkett Smith's more skeptical mother, Adrienne Banfield Norris. "I think for anybody, no matter what the situation is, you don't want to see your parents go to prison, but also I think it's necessary for us to move on and move forward."
Olivia Jade told the women she realized the extent of her White privilege while volunteering at an after-school program in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Olivia Jade grew up in Bel-Air, attended an elite girls' prep school and laughingly admitted in one of her pre-scandal YouTube vlogs that she didn't care that much about academics or going to college. In Watts, she met children who "were so grateful" for their education.
Talking to the children, Olivia Jade said, "shifted my whole mentality."
"I was watching all of them, and I was thinking about my situation and that I took all of that for granted," she said. "I didn't think I was lucky to have that. I just expected that because I grew up around it. So it was a big shift in my head, knowing, like, let's start recognizing where the wrongs are in that."
Banfield Norris definitely didn't seem moved by her story about being contrite or working with underprivileged children. "Child, please," Banfield Norris said.
In another recent vlog, Olivia Jade claimed that she still does volunteer work with an unnamed charity but wouldn't identify the charity because it asked her not to. She also said she still cares about helping under-privileged children and "really wants to use my platform to educate myself and others about certain topics."
That remains to be seen, but, meanwhile, Olivia Jade is happy to share photos and videos in which she promotes clothes and beauty products, enjoys movie nights with friends in her apartment with its city views, lounges by a mountain lake in a bikini or contemplates a sunset.
Meanwhile, Olivia Jade confirmed her breakup from Guthy by posting a selfie on Thursday that showed her responding to a follower who asked, "Are you single?"
"I am indeed," Olivia wrote over a selfie, People reported.
Olivia and the musician, 25, previously split in 2019 after her parents were arrested in the college admissions scandal. The couple rekindled their romance in August 2019, with Guthy sharing a photo on his Instagram featuring the pair kissing in front of a mirror.
After Olivia Jade's "Red Table Talk" interview, Guthy publicly praised her, writing "very proud of you!" on his Instagram story, People said.
Olivia Jade hasn't included Guthy in any of her social media posts since New Year's Day, when she shared a video of the pair dancing to "Le Freak" by CHIC, People said.
"2021 let's just keep the vibes good, k?" she captioned the post.
Martha Ross | Features writer
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After Peter Capaldi had stepped down his role as a Time Lord in Doctor Who, the star from My Family star was one of the first names to be the 13th incarnation of the Doctor. However, Marshall's odds have been slashed so much in the last 24 hours that bookies such as Ladbrokes had to cease all betting. A spokesman told the Daily Mail that a lot of punters had backed Marshall, so they had no other choice but to completely close the book. He even added a pun including the show by saying that if Marshall gets the part, the bookmakers would be the first to be exterminated.
If you want to place a bet on him, it is still possible at William Hill. The organisation is still accepting wagers on the 43-year-old to enter the Tardis. However, they have slashed the odds from 3/1. Rupert Adams, a spokesperson for William Hill, told NME that they do not think that the decision has been made and for now they will still be accepting bets.
Marshall stepped down his Death in Paradise role during last month, which leaves him free to take a role a closer to home. A few weeks ago we talked about Tilda Swinton, who was previously the top of the list to replace Capaldi. The soon to be former Doctor, recently told the Mirror that he would like for a woman to take over for him and his first choice was Frances De La Tour.
Doctor Who will be returning to BBC One on the 15th of April.


WALTER DUMVILLE, farmer and dairyman, was born in the town of Newburgh, May 9, 1843. His father, Benjamin Dumville, was a native of England and came to America in 1827, a few years later locating in Newburgh, where he married Miriam Harris. He was the first wholesale butcher in Newburgh. After Walter finished his education he engaged with his father in that business, and later conducted it alone successfully for many years. He at one time served as collector of the town of Newburgh. Mr. Dumville is a director of the Columbus Trust Co., also the Milk Producers' Association and the Horse Thief Detecting Society. July 16, 1873, he married Josephine, daughter of John and Catherine O'Brien, of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Dumville are members of the Unitarian Church.


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Q: How to force/fake linux eth0 in 'up' status even without cable connected? One of my testing script is eth0 status related, when eth0 goes down(cable unplugged), the script exit, and i need to unplug and plug cable many times due to test needs.
is there anyway can fake linux the eth0 still 'up' even cable is unplugged? sort of Cisco 'no-keepalive' command?
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(Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Harry Winks has signed a new five-year contract, the Premier League club said on Thursday.
The 22-year-old academy graduate has committed his future to the north London club with an improved deal to 2023, including a one-year extension on the previous contract he signed in February last year.
Winks made 16 Premier League appearances this season but missed the latter stages because of an ankle injury and is scheduled for surgery.
The club said that Winks is likely to return to full fitness before the start of next season.


For 40+ years, ICS has specialized in the manufacture, design and sale of time delay relays and time delay control products. As an established electronics contract manufacturer, we also specialize in developing and manufacturing custom oem industrial electronic controls. ICS corporate headquarters is located in the Chicago suburb of Rolling Meadows, Illinois.


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Q: Find exact duplicate records in mongodb There are many questions about finding duplicates by a property, but I didn't find anything about finding exact matches.
I have the following (simplified) document structure:
{
    _id: ObjectId('...'),
    name: 'Some string',
    props: [
        {id: 100, val: 250},
        {id: 101, val: 350},
        {id: 102, val: 550},
        {id: 103, val: 150}
    ]
}

Currently I can find ids of documents with duplicated names using aggregation:
db.coll.aggregate([
    {$group: {
        _id: { name: "$name" },
        uniqueIds: { $addToSet: "$_id" },
        count: { $sum: 1 }
    }},
    {$match: {
        count: { $gte: 2 }
    }}
])

1) How can I find documents where the props arrays are also identical?
2) Is there a general way to find documents that are identical except their ObjectId?


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Jason Derulo gets high and touch the sky with his brand new single "Kiss The Sky" featuring on his new album Platinum Hits. The feel good track was produced by Thomas Eriksen and Thomas Troelsen.
Jason Derulo performed at the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday night and will be making an appearance on The Tonight Show on August 5.
Listen to the single "Kiss The Sky" and check out the lyrics below.


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Q: Is star walking a metonymy of space walking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsz1hP0BFo
Is star walking a metonymy of space walking? In the lyrics, we see "star walking", but it doesn't make sense, so I was wondering if it was a metonymy like when we say I am drinking a cup of coffee instead of I am drinking coffee.


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Thailand's Auto Parts Suppliers: from regional to global players
Over the past 5 years Thai exports of auto parts have shown strong growth of 4%, higher than the 3% growth in of global car demand during the same period.
Particularly during the first half of 2017, Thailand's auto part exports totaled USD 7 billion, up 12% from the first half of 2016.
Major trading partners were the world's large automotive producers, such as Japan, the U.S., and emerging markets in which domestic production surged but still lacked production capabilities for several key parts. Therefore, those countries (Indonesia, Mexico, India, South Africa, the Philippines and Vietnam) must rely on importing auto parts from Thailand.
During 2012-2016, Thai auto parts exports grew in line with 4% growth in global car demand. Exports to new auto producing countries performed particularly well, such as Indonesia, Mexico, India, South Africa, the Philippines, and Vietnam. In 2016, power-train parts registered the highest growth ever of 15% compared to the previous year, followed by 6% growth in electronics and body parts.
EIC suggests Thai part producers consider investment plan in countries where automotive production is growing but the ratio of parts producers to auto makers is still small. This will capture business opportunities in emerging markets like Mexico, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa. Moreover, businesses can further develop their products to be more competitive in existing markets to expand to new auto producers.
Accounting for 40% of auto part exports, power-train exports surged 15% in 2016 compared to last year the previous year. Exports of electronics and body parts grew 6%, while suspension parts rose 4%.
In terms of different types of exports, auto parts with showing the highest growth were power-train parts, such as gear sets, that grew more than 60% every year on average during 2012-2016.
Second highest growth was diesel engines, which expanded over 13% during the same period. Exports of gear sets and diesel engines in 2016 amounted to USD 2.3 billion.
Moreover, higher auto parts exports were also observed in the electronics, suspension, and body categories, namely LCD sets, break sets, and engine accompaniment with 15%, 12% and 5% growth in 2012-2016, respectively. Growing exports of auto parts was concentrated in high-valued products and reflected Thailand's capacity and key role in the region's automotive industry.
Thailand is one of the world's key auto part makers
In addition, automotive companies regard Thailand as one of the world's key auto part makers and established centers to source and distribute auto parts to all areas of the world.
Toyota set up such center in 2007, while Mazda and BMW followed in 2015 and 2016, respectively. In addition, investment in research and development by automotive companies contributed to the continuous advancement of Thai automotive industry.
Thailand is equipped with an extensive supply chain of over 2,000 car and part producers. Growth in Thailand's automotive industry certainly enabled the country to become the world's 15th largest exporter of auto parts and the largest ASEAN exporter for 10 years.
EIC sees the growth of the automotive industry in Thailand's trading partner countries as an opportunity for the Thai auto parts industry, especially for new producers such as Mexico, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and the Philippines.
Car production in these countries is growing faster than global rates and there are fewer than 50 part makers per each car maker. In Thailand, the ratio is around 95. Such countries are likely to import parts from other producing countries like Thailand, Japan, and Germany.
Despite their lower growth, Thailand's main trading partners like Japan, the U.S. and Malaysia account for over 30% of total exports. Thailand's auto parts industry will definitely benefit from growth in the automotive industries in these countries.
Author: Nantapong Pantaweesak and Phankawee Mukdaprakorn
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Contributing factors include the recovering world economy and the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) estimate that the world economy will expand 5.2 percent in 2021 from a contraction of 4.4% this year.
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BANGKOK (NNT) – The Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP) forecasts that exports in 2021 will gradually return to expansion mode, based on signs of economic recuperation globally and the distribution of a vaccine to protect people against COVID-19.
The Board of Investment of Thailand's (BOI) latest survey, shows most foreign investors, estimated at 96%, are still confident in the country, and are willing to bring forward their investments.
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