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As library and information professionals we understand the importance of our libraries to the communities we serve, but many policy makers who decide on the future of our libraries don’t.

This was a daunting task for our #brandlibraries working group – the stereotypical library brand is out of date, but it's well engrained in the minds of New Zealanders.

The working group began by brainstorming with friends and colleagues testing each idea by asking two questions:

1. Is this statement or concept true for all sectors?

2. Is this statement or concept only true of libraries?

Any idea that couldn’t pass both tests was set aside. This strategy was used as the basis of their brief as they selected a branding agency to assist in the process.

The successful agency was BRR and they have been instrumental in helping us develop our brand strategy.

This strategy begins by articulating the shared values that underpin the library and information profession building into a unified brand – Libraries Aotearoa

Watch the Libraries Aotearoa Past Present and Future presentation at LIANZA2014 in Auckland.

Over the past few months we've been running workshops within the sector to share our brand story and the feedback we've received has been positive.

We aim to have toolkits available for libraries to use within their communities to identify their user needs and to deliver back to the LIANZA office so that we can inform future marketing campaigns.

We'll be working very closely with other library associations and our SIG and regional groups to ensure that any marketing as a result of this brand is of value to the profession.

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If you like our branding and want to incorporate it in some way, you will find logos and guidelines here.

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The MSU Libraries welcome Gifts In-Kind in many different forms. In the past we have received collections of books and ephemera, gifts of artwork for display in the library, specialized equipment such as map cases, and other materials which enrich our collection and facilities.

For more information about making a Gift In-Kind, please call Seth Martin at (517) 884-6446. Or, email the development offices at giving@lib.msu.edu to discuss your intended gift.

Accepting Gifts In-Kind

Sadly, we are not able to accept all in-kind gifts offered to the library. We must consider the condition of the materials; whether they are compatible with our collection development priorities; and whether we have space and resources to preserve your gift. For gifts of artwork, we must also consider size and other factors.

Credit for Gifts In-Kind

Gifts In-Kind valued at less than $5,000 require only a single form, which the Development staff will gladly assist in completing.

Gifts valued at greater than $5,000 will also require an appraisal; federal law requires that this be completed at the donor's expense by an appraiser not connected with the library. If you are seeking Federal tax credit consideration, please see IRS Publication 561, Determining the Value of Donated Property, and IRS Publication 526, Charitable Contributions.

Donors making gifts for which they seek tax credit will be required to file IRS Form 8283, Noncash Charitable Contributions, signed by an appraiser and an authorized MSU Foundation representative to accompany their IRS Form 1040. Donors are encouraged to consult their legal and financial advisors for further information.

Economics professor Carl Liedholm has donated unique research material to the Map Library.

Professor Carl Liedholm, Department of Economics, has donated unique research material to the Map Library.

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Cancelling The Voter Registration: Success in Virginia!

Nothing makes my day more than seeing a fellow freedom seeker completely opt-out of political crusading; that is, by cutting the nasty little tie to the State known as the voter registration. Earlier this afternoon, I received the redacted proof of success from a gentleman residing in the great tax farm of Virginia. That makes six states total and surely more to come. Thank you for your service, Carl.

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Either you're a fan of Chew, or you don't know what you've missed. I'm not sure that adults encountering her for the first time can love her as much as we who knew her when we were kids did... but in any case, do not let your library cull these! Check them out now! Quick clean adventures - What If? magic were real, and some nice 'tween kids got their hands on some? ( )
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You know how great a book must be when you still remember how it fired your little girl imagination. Probably Ruth Chew is singlehandedly responsible for my lifelong love of fantasy and horror stories. ( )
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Reading the books I missed during my childhood awoke in me a great sense of nostalgia for something I did read then. And as a true book hoarder, I still have my copies of many of the books I lovingly accumulated from the Scholastic fliers in school. It is rare that I see my own children interested in something from "so long ago" and so these books sit on the kid book shelves fondly remembered but untouched by the short philistines I am apparently raising. So I decided that I needed to re-read one of the books I remember delighting my younger self so much. Being contrary, I didn't want it to be a book that pretty much everyone remembered reading so I scrounged through my long neglected kid books and finally unearthed Ruth Chew's The Witch's Buttons. I loved this book. It had so much potential and allowed for such flights of fancy, even after the last page was turned. And I can tell you I have always had a button basket ever since I read this book. It obviously fired my imagination as a child and continued to influence small things in my adult life so it was the perfect candidate for a re-read.

As I mentioned, this is my original copy of the book. And not only does it have a story that has stayed with me too many years later to count, but the physical book itself offers clues to the child I was. On the front inside cover in my schoolgirl cursive, I wrote my name. Given that it's in cursive, that probably means I read this in second or third grade, when we first learned such fancy pants writing. Even better than the badge of ownership, in the back, I created my own library due date and pocket for the book. It's made out of lined notebook paper and it looks like the book was never checked out of my library since no one else ever signed the slip. (I'm still reluctant to loan books as a matter of fact.) I have clearly been a book nut (or completely warped) from a young age, in case just *having* my original copies of the books wasn't proof enough! Should I admit that I carefully put the homemade due date slip back in the pocket and aligned it neatly with the fading around it? The back inside cover of the book, with its library addition looks like when a picture is removed from a wall and the shadow of its presence remains. I love that I got a quick glimpse at a me I only half remember just by opening the cover of the book.

The story of The Witch's Buttons is also a charming one and would likely hold up fairly well for kids today. Sandy has lost the button off of her brand new coat and while retracing her steps looking for it, she runs into Janet, a girl who is slightly annoying but who tells Sandy that her mother most likely has a match for Sandy's missing button in her button bag. Although the bag yields no match for Sandy, it does have a strange button shaped like a little Pilgrim man and Janet allows Sandy to keep it. Pocketing the button, the girls hurry to the trimming store to buy a button for Sandy's coat. When they get there they find a little gray-haired woman asking about unusual buttons. She is disappointed in her quest but when Sandy goes to pay for her common gold button, she mistakenly pulls the strange button out of her pocket and the woman is intrigued. But Sandy has already decided that her button is magic and she and Janet run home to try and evade the woman.

The woman eventually offers them five dollars for the button, telling the girls that it is an antique but once Sandy discovers that the button is alive and is indeed magic like she thought, they want to keep it. But witches always get what they want, right? And the girls drop the button, a kitten snatches it and runs off, and they end up at the witch's house watching in horror as she drops the button in a steaming cauldron. Out of the concoction comes a fully grown man in a bad mood who chastizes the witch for her carelessness in turning him into a button centuries ago. And this is just the start of the adventure.

The book is short. An adult will read it in no time flat. But it is charming and despite a few brief tense bits, there's nothing here that will scare a child. Betsy, the witch is kindly, her brother Silas is crabby, and Sandy and Janet get to have a marvelous adventure and start a friendship all because of a button (or three). The plot is the thing here and it moves along offering new surprises and enchantments around every corner. I never did read any others of Chew's books but this definitely has the feel of a series and after reliving the sweetness of the this one, I am hoping I'm correct in thinking there will be more button adventures for Sandy and Janet. Maybe I'll try to tempt my kids to read the book despite all of them being well past it in terms of reading level by getting out my little button basket and sorting through it before casually mentioning the book. This one will always be a keeper in my house. ( )
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I have to say that this is my favorite Ruth Chew book. It was the first of her books I had recieved, and I have read it over and over. It is truly an amazing book, and I don't think that I would have had as great of an appreciation for fantasy if I hadn't read it. ( )
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In case you are hearing about my cookbook for the first time, or just don’t remember, here are the details: Simply Beautiful Homemade Cakes: Extraordinary Recipes and Easy Decorating Techniques. It’s got 65 new recipes (including cookie cakes, single layer cakes, cupcakes, layered cakes, ice cream cakes, cheesecakes and more!) and an entire chapter showing you all the tips, tricks and techniques I used to bake and decorate the cakes in the book! Everything from setting up cake pans and piping bags to 15+ tutorials showing you the decorating techniques used in the book. Are you excited yet?!

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What a relief it was to be able to lay down in a bed and stretch after long hours of sitting in a cramped space inside an airplane. When we got home our house was not in total disaster but just in disarray. Ralph did try his best keep the house in order but he can only do so much. He has also been working overtime while we were away. He may had to do radar detector in his police car, do check points for DUI or do some race escort for the city. The whole time we have been away he only had 3 days of time all to himself. I am so proud of my husband for being such a good provider and being a good man.The very least I could do for my husband is to take care of him, our kids and just be there for him when he needs me. Hopefully in 3 years time he won't have to work as much.

July has been a very memorable month for my MIL, Kaitlyn and I. We journeyed thousand of miles in order for us to go back home and see my family once again. But I will write about that experience another time. While in Cebu, Philippines I realized that my youngest daughter is no longer a baby. I look at her and see how much she has developed and improve daily. I had to hold on to my tears when I was folding the baby clothes I had bought for my godchildren. I realized that she could no longer fit on those clothes and wished she was a baby once more. It made me long for another child once more. Husband and I had discussed that we would be trying for another baby when I get back from my vacation. It's high time we try to add to our brood of 2 and maybe have another girl. Well, MIL and hubby would like a boy but I prefer a girl only because I have girls and I feel like I wouldn't know how to raise a boy,lol. But no matter the sex of the new baby I would love it with all my heart. I'm just hoping that we will be blessed soon.

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Proposed Democratic Party Platform is So Extreme on Abortion Even This Democrat Calls It “Crazy”

National   Micaiah Bilger   Jul 7, 2016   |   4:20PM    Washington, DC

As word gets around about the radical abortion position being proposed in the new Democratic Party platform, even some party members are getting uncomfortable.

The proposed Democratic Party platform this year is more extreme than it has ever been, calling for a repeal of the Hyde Amendment and full-fledged taxpayer funding of abortion. The Democratic Party platform already supports legalized abortion on demand for any reason up until birth.

The Hyde Amendment prohibits direct taxpayer funding of most abortions and has done so since the late 1970s. Upheld by the Supreme Court, the Hyde Amendment is now a target of abortion advocates who have moved from pro-choice to pro-abortion — forcing Americans not only to accept unlimited abortions before birth but also to pay for them.

But one Democratic U.S. Senator is calling the newly proposed platform “crazy,” while a potential Democratic vice presidential pick seemed hesitant to get behind it.

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, who describes himself as pro-life, criticized the radical abortion language in an interview with The Weekly Standard.

“That’s crazy,” Manchin said. “It’s something that I know most Democrats in West Virginia and most West Virginians would not agree with. I don’t either.”

Most Americans do not support taxpayer funding of abortion either. A new Marist poll shows that more than two-thirds of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion, including a majority of women and people who identify as pro-choice.

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… [Vice President] Joe Biden repeatedly voted for the Hyde amendment. The law is credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, and it enjoys overwhelming support among voters: Democrats didn’t try to repeal it when they had huge congressional majorities from 2009 to 2011.

Calling for the repeal of the Hyde amendment could put some pro-choice Democrats in an uncomfortable position. “I haven’t been informed of that change, but I’m going to check it out,” Virginia senator Tim Kaine, a potential running mate for Hillary Clinton, told TWS on Wednesday. “I have traditionally been a supporter of the Hyde amendment, but I’ll check it out.”

Kaine tries to paint himself as a moderate on abortion, but his recent actions and statements indicate that he is aligning himself with the Democratic Party’s radical pro-abortion stances. He is reported to be one of Hillary Clinton’s top picks for vice president, if she receives the Democratic nomination.

Clinton also has promised that she will make every effort to overturn Hyde and force taxpayers to fund abortions, if elected.

In the latest draft of the platform, the Democratic Party also mentions the abortion giant Planned Parenthood specifically, Breitbart reports. In a press release, the party said it wants to “champion” the nation’s largest abortion chain and commit “to push back on all Republican efforts to defund it.”

Planned Parenthood does more than 300,000 abortions a year, more than any other group in the U.S., and it receives about $550 million in federal taxpayer dollars annually.

The Democratic Party platform on abortion is a stark contrast to the Republican Party’s stance on the issue. The Republican Party platform recognizes “that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.”

The Republican Party supports a human life amendment to the Constitution, recognizing unborn babies as human beings with equal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. It also opposes taxpayer funding for abortions and groups that do abortions. Read the full pro-life platform here.

Several strong pro-life leaders are in charge of drafting the 2016 Republican Party platform. The Hill reports U.S. Sen. John Barrasso will chair the Republican platform committee at the national convention in July. Barrasso, who represents Wyoming, has a 100-percent pro-life voting record from the National Right to Life Committee. His appointment signals a strong party commitment to restoring unborn babies’ right to life.


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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation has launched a programme to give H1N1 flu vaccines to nearly 100 developing countries, with the first ones receiving the shots soon, its vaccine expert said on Friday.

Marie-Paule Kieny, head of vaccine research at the U.N. health body, said a group of 16 countries was being contacted and should shortly receive enough vaccines to inoculate up to 2 percent of the population.

The countries were recommended to vaccinate health care workers first, she told a news conference.

Eventually the WHO would supply 95 developing countries with a view to immunising over 10 percent of their population against pandemic H1N1, widely known as swine flu.

WHO has received donations of 156 million doses of vaccine from four manufacturers or governments, and hoped to reach the 200 million dose level needed to help 95 countries, she said.

Donor governments are also helping with syringes, needles, other equipment and finance.

The WHO declared H1N1 an unstoppable pandemic in June and it has since spread around the world, with 25 manufacturers making vaccines to different formulations.

WHO experts say the vaccines, of which one shot suffices, are safe.

Teenagers and young adults are most likely to catch swine flu, in contrast to the seasonal flu viruses where the elderly are most at risk.

Most people escape with mild symptoms, but some groups such as pregnant women or people with previous health conditions such as diabetes can suffer severe illness or die from the virus.

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Smoking tied to higher psoriasis risk

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding to the list of possible health consequences from smoking, a large study suggests that smokers have an increased risk of developing the chronic skin condition psoriasis.

People with psoriasis develop thick, red, scaly patches on the skin, which are often itchy or sore.

Experts believe the disease is caused by an abnormal immune system attack on the body's own cells. Some studies have suggested that smokers are more vulnerable to psoriasis, possibly because the habit can affect immune activity.

But most have studied people at only one time-point, which makes it hard to be sure the smoking came before the psoriasis.

So for the new study, researchers used data from three large, long-running studies of U.S. health professionals.

Of nearly 186,000 men and women followed for 12 to 20 years, 2,410 developed psoriasis during that time. And the risk was greater among both current smokers and former smokers.

People who were current smokers at the study's start were almost twice as likely as lifelong non-smokers to develop psoriasis. And past smokers had a 39 percent higher risk than non-smokers.

The findings, reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology, do not prove that smoking, itself, causes psoriasis in some people.

But it is clear that the smoking came before the psoriasis, said senior researcher Dr. Abrar A. Qureshi, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Past studies have found links between psoriasis and both obesity and heavy drinking. But after accounting for those factors, the smoking-psoriasis link remained, Qureshi told Reuters Health.

"I think if there's one message, it's that for now, smoking seems to be a risk factor for new-onset psoriasis," Qureshi said.

Other studies have pointed to some reasons that smoking could contribute to psoriasis -- mainly its effects on immune system activity and inflammation. Smokers, for instance, tend to have higher levels of "autoantibodies" -- immune defenses that are mistakenly aimed at the body's own cells.

About 7.5 million Americans have psoriasis, according to the National Psoriasis Foundation.

Type 1 psoriasis arises in teenagers and young adults, and it's strongly related to family history of the disease. In contrast, type 2 psoriasis arises later in life, and it tends to be milder and less related to heredity.

The men and women in the current study were middle-aged to older. So it's likely they had type 2 psoriasis, Qureshi's team says.

As for people who already have psoriasis, the current findings don't speak directly to whether quitting will help them, according to Qureshi.

But there are already plenty of reasons for any smoker to quit, he said.

In particular, people with psoriasis have been shown to have an increased risk of heart disease. Since smoking is a major risk factor for heart disease, Qureshi said, quitting seems especially important for people with psoriasis.

SOURCE: American Journal of Epidemiology, online January 12, 2012.

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• They Could Not Endure

    Hebrews 12:20–21

    It is easy to get caught up in our day-to-day lives and forget the tremendous benefits we have living under the new covenant. Unlike most of old covenant Israel, we have access into the very presence of God Himself. Take ...Read More

  • What May Be Touched

    Hebrews 12:18–19

    We have not come to the earthly copies of the heavenly realm but to heaven itself. Our position as new covenant members is far better than that of old covenant believers, and, therefore, our responsibility is far greater. Thank God ...Read More

  • The Faithful God

    Genesis 15:1–21

    It is easy for Christians to talk about the trustworthiness of our God. Sometimes, however, we discuss God’s faithfulness openly without really believing that He will fulfill His promises to us. Look at your life to find areas where you ...Read More

  • Hands of the Living God

    Hebrews 10:30–31

    John Owen writes concerning these verses: “People are prone not to think about this. But God’s judgment exists and will be dreadful, terrible, and eternally destructive of everything that is not good.” These warnings are real. If we do not ...Read More

  • Profaning the Blood

    Hebrews 10:28-29

    Too many churches today encourage unbelievers to take Jesus on “a test drive.” People outside the church are encouraged to join churches without clear professions of faith. If you are a church member and do not believe in Christ, repent ...Read More

  • Sinning Deliberately

    Hebrews 10:26–27

    Do you find yourself struggling with a particular sin that you just cannot overcome? Is there some violation of the law of God that you feel compelled to commit even though you believe in Christ? If so, repent, and find ...Read More

  • Hold Fast

    Hebrews 10:23

    Many of us can find places in our lives where we do not hold fast to our confession. Maybe our workplaces, families, or friends pressure us to be silent about our faith. If you are in a situation where you ...Read More

  • Draw Near

    Hebrews 10:21–22

    Are you afraid to draw near to Christ? If you are, do not be afraid to draw near in times of doubt or sin because He has opened up the way into the presence of God. Come boldly before His ...Read More

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Julianne Hunter: Pride in a legacy

Julianne Hunter accepts her Villager of the Year award April 24 at Jax Cafe. The award was established in 1991 by the St. Anthony Chamber of Commerce to recognize a resident who has made outstanding contributions to improve the quality of life in St. Anthony. (Samara Bilyeu-Anderson/Bulletin)

It probably seemed like a normal enough Thursday night for Julianne Hunter: volunteer at one event, duck out midway through to receive an award for her commitment to volunteering, return to volunteering as soon as possible.

So it was for Hunter, named the St. Anthony Villager of the Year by the St. Anthony Chamber of Commerce on April 24, who picked up her award at Jax Cafe in Minneapolis, and then returned to Stanley’s Bar Room, just four blocks away, where she was serving as an ambassador at Dining Out For Life, put on by The Aliveness Project, an organization that supports those in the Twin Cities diagnosed with HIV and AIDS.

“We did, actually, pretty well,” Hunter said of the Aliveness Project’s fundraising. “I ran over to get the award and came back to finish up,” she said.

The award she’d just picked up?

“I left it in the car.”

Hunter, originally from Indianapolis, now works for Interior Architects in Chicago -- from her home in St. Anthony with about ten days a month traveling.

Hunter started volunteering when in Chicago, taking after her parents (“I didn’t make this volunteer gig up on my own,” she says), and said that things fell into place when she and husband Thad, a paid on-call firefighter, moved a couple of blocks to St. Anthony from Northeast Minneapolis.

“We decided right away to get involved.”

Hunter started coordinating St. Anthony’s Village Fest in 2003, and has chaired the planning committee the past nine years. From there, she and a variety of local groups seem to have been pulled together as if by magnetism: The St. Anthony Family Services Collaborative Board, the St. Anthony Community Services Advisory Council, and once her twin girls, now 9-year-olds, were born, Wilshire Park Elementary, and the Girl Scouts.

With the Scouts, though, she’s had to draw a line. “I just do what they tell me to do when they need it, as long as it doesn’t involve camping, I will not camp.”

The best part: it doesn’t feel like work, thanks to her fellow volunteers. “There’s a lot of talented and generous volunteers in St. Anthony and you just kind of get sucked in.”

Even with such a resume, Hunter said the Villager of the Year award took her by complete surprise.

“I was speechless, which never happens, ever,” she enthused. “It was an honor to be chosen, just to be added to that cast” of previous winners.

“Julianne exhibited her usual modesty when she was told of her selection: ‘What? Me?’” Wendy Webster, director of St. Anthony-New Brighton Community Services, said as she presented Hunter the award.

“It’s about time,” Diane Sparks, an owner of the Culver’s in St. Anthony and a friend of Hunter’s, said of her win. “She’s a really good asset to the city and I’m really happy that they rewarded her with that.”

In all likelihood, Hunter says, she and her family will be in St. Anthony for a long time, as her husband is here to stay, and because her daughters, third graders, still have many years of school left to go.

“In like, 30 years I’ll still be chair of Village Fest,” she joked. “I won’t be able to walk!”

Mike Munzenrider can be reached at mmunzenrider@lillienews.com or 651-748-7824.

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One of the definitions of “epiphany” is “a sudden, intuitive perception of, or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.”

I had one of those experiences nine years ago, and it led directly to the creation of Linear Air, the nation’s first successful executive charter travel company operating the newest generation of executive jets known as “VLJs.”

It was 2003, and I was having a very bad day traveling between Lexington, MA, and Parsippany, NJ. There was no direct, easy or inexpensive air service on that routing. My only option was to drive an hour to Boston’s Logan International Airport, pay the ransom-like price for a last-minute coach ticket, submit myself to the indignities, hassles and wasted time of airport security, and fly to Newark. Once at Newark I had to waste more time renting a car before driving to Parsippany – a drive that can take up to an hour, depending on the time-of-day and traffic conditions. And then I had to do it all in reverse to get home that night. Arrrgh!

As the co-founder of an online marketing company I’d made lots of exhausting trips like that one. But as a licensed private pilot I knew that I could save a lot of time and money by flying my single engine plane from uncongested Hanscom Field in nearby Bedford, MA, to Parsippany. However, I had no desire to fly my Cessna Skyhawk into the very busy and crowded air traffic control environment around New  York City. Nor did I want to have to concentrate on the serious business of piloting when I needed to be preparing myself for my meeting with customers.

But for the first time that day I recognized two things: that there probably are thousands upon thousands of business people just like me who would love to have the option of point-to-point air service at prices competitive with airlines’ business fares; and that a new generation of aircraft then in development called Very Light Jets promised to dramatically lower the cost of business aviation.

By 2005 my friend, famed aerobatic pilot and international airshow performer Michael Goulian, and I were ready to launch Linear Air. Technically, we are what is called an “air-taxi” service. And really, thinking of Linear Air as a “taxi with wings” is a pretty good way of understanding what we do. We can pick up as many as four passengers traveling together at any of the 5,000 or so business aviation airports in the United States and fly them quickly and inexpensively to virtually any US. destination.

Today we manage a growing fleet of 11 Eclipse Jets - the most successful VLJ on the market – to and from cities and towns in the Northeastern states and Canada from bases in the Boston, New York and Philadelphia areas, and to and from destinations in the Western and Southwestern states from our Southern California base.  Each Eclipse Jet is flown by a pair of fully certified pilots and can carry a party of up to four at a cost comparable to, or even less than what airlines typically charge business travelers who can’t buy their tickets weeks in advance. And we operate from the pleasant, no-hassle environment of business aviation terminals, which is a key to our ability to shave 30% to 40% off business travelers’ door-to-door travel times. That translates into huge cost savings and productivity gains. And it means business travelers arrive at their meetings fresher and better prepared – and that in many cases they can get back home in time for dinner with the family.

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-current (march 19 '07) + NVIDIA driver.
I noticed that compiz-0.3.6 is a part of the new xorg in -current, so I thought I'd give it a try (I haven't yet because of what about to type).
/*Edit: This could have ben posted in cwwilson721s Sticky thread... Yay hindsight! */

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If you want to do it the easy way:

Because direct rendering is needed for this kind of toy, I tried to install the NVidia proprietary graphics driver (ver. 9755).

Installing the NVidia proprietary graphics driver (ver. 9755) seems to go off without a hitch. No obvious errors... because there really isn't any.

the layout of the new xorg seems to cause problems with where the driver gets installed.
So, after digging around in /var/log/packages to find the correct paths I figured I'd post this Maybe-HowTo just in case anyone else runs into this issue (I don't think it's a bug... at least, not a -current bug. Maybe an NVIVDIA bug though ;) )

Keep in mind, this worked for me and it might not work for you.
Back up your working xorg.conf before you try any of this. restoring it should make it so you can get back into X if my directions lead you completely astray.

I assume anyone following these instructions has followed the CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT to get to -current

I'm using the vmlinuz-huge- kernel, because that's the one that the upgrade hit last.

Also, I won't be suprised if the layout of xorg changes before -current == -stable and this thread becomes obsolete (or heavily edited)

So here we go!

First, get out of X. If in runlevel 4 I prefer to issue `telinit 3` as root, just to be thorough.

# sh -e
the '-e' puts you into "expert mode" which is funny, because I am no where near being an "expert."

ACCEPT to accept the license and continue with the installation

the existing driver will be uninstalled. Are you sure you want to continue? YES

Kernel module installation path:
I didn't have to change this.

attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel NO

No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel OK

Kernel source path:
this was fine too.

Building kernel module:

X installation prefix:
This was one of the problem areas. The installer wanted to use /usr/X11R6, like it thought we were still using xorg-6.9

X library installation path:
this was fine though.

X module installation path:
This was odd, it wanted to use /usr/lib/modules. maybe that's how they expect xorg-7+ to be installed

OpenGL installation prefix:
No problem!

Documentation installation prefix:
No problem!

Utility installation prefix:
Just peachy!

Install NVIDIA's OpenGL header files? YES
I do this, I don't know if it's nessecary or not though...

Is this acceptable? YES
Shows you an overview of what you're about to do.

Would you like to run the nvidia-xconfig utility?.. pre-existing X configuration file will be backed up. YES
because I'm lazy and don't want to do it myself.

Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for
Linux-x86 (version: 1.0-9755) is now complete.

Now we can start up X again to see if it worked!

Tomorrow, I will give compiz a go.

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Even though you can do it the "easy way", I appreciate the effort you put into writing this all up.

After all, it is much better for the community as a whole to understand why something is a problem and how it is resolved rather than just giving people a one line command and saying "Type this".

I am interested in getting this working myself in the next few days. A few weeks back I installed some unofficial packages for XOrg 7.1 to get Beryl and such working, and it was much much harder than it should have been.

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Re-release for Moonsong!

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From Bestselling Paranormal Romance Author Lisa Olsen

After werewolves attack her family, Amelia Singer escapes to Cutter’s Folly in search of her long lost grandmother. There she finds the strangest revelation yet – not only is she descended from a long line of shapeshifters, Amelia’s firstborn is destined to lead the pack to dominion over all others. Now power hungry shifters everywhere will stop at nothing to share in that prophecy. Choosing a mate is the only way to end the violence, but how can she be expected to choose a man she’s known for less than a week? At the heart of this struggle, Amelia is torn between Chase, who makes her pulse race with a single sultry glance, and Cutter, a reclusive but tempting loner with secrets of his own. Can fiercely independent Amelia find happiness with the pack, or will she rebel under the pressure and take her chances on her own?

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Chase dropped to the ground on her right, landing light as a cat before straightening to his full height and stepping close. “You’re not so good at listening, let’s see how good you are with your mouth,” he smirked. Closing the distance between them, he leaned down to kiss her, giving her no opportunity to pull away.
Millie opened her mouth to retort, her reply cut off to little more than a squeak as his mouth closed over hers. Who the hell did he think he was? A wolf… a little voice deep inside reminded as she tasted his hunger. Awareness flushed through her body as Chase pressed her against the length of him, trapping her body between his and the tree. Everything about him was hard and unyielding, but he didn’t punish her with his strength, he merely kept her from escaping while he explored the dark secrets of her mouth at his leisure. Amelia’s initial hesitation quickly disappeared, the blood singing in her veins as her arousal spread like wildfire wherever their bodies touched.
Still, a smidgen of self control remained and Millie shoved at his chest, desperate to create a little space between them. Chase barely gave an inch, blazing a trail of kisses along the curve of her jaw toward the smooth column of her throat.
“What are you doing?” she demanded, even as her fingers slid up to curl around the collar of his shirt, pulling him closer.
“Showing you how dangerous the night can be.”
His kiss was everything wild and dangerous about the night as promised, and a secret part of herself she didn’t even know existed responded to the predator who took what he wanted, instead of asking permission as society dictated. No thought for consequences or the future, Chase operated on a purely sensual level. She could feel it in the way the energy thrummed from his body to hers. It made her forget the party in full swing just a few feet away, forget her objections to being manhandled altogether. Somewhere in the back of her mind that bothered her in a big way, and a flare of panic went through her as he touched bare skin.
“Wait…” she panted, breaking the kiss and drawing in a ragged breath.
“Relax.” Chase made no move to let her go, lips brushing over the sensitive spot where neck met shoulder.
“We should get back to the party.”
“I warned you not to stray into the dark woods unprotected.” His teeth scraped lightly over her flesh in a love bite, and Millie hoped it wouldn’t leave a mark. That was the last thing she wanted to explain to Gran.
“You were the one who was supposed to protect me, remember?”
“I am protecting you,” he insisted.
“How, by mauling me out in the woods yourself?” Millie demanded, pulling her head away to try and catch his gaze.
“I am keeping you safe by making you mine,” Chase replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“Who says I’m yours?”
That brought him up short. “Is there someone else?”
“Well, no, but…”
“Then what’s the problem?” His sexy grin reappeared.
“The problem is, I just met you yesterday, Chase. I don’t work that fast.”
“You can’t fight your destiny, Amelie. You know we belong together.”
“Don’t call me that,” she snapped irritably. Chase seemed unperturbed, stroking his fingers down the bare skin of her back, making her shiver with delight. It took Amelia a long moment to focus her thoughts again before she could reply. “Just because you’re a good kisser, doesn’t make you my destiny. Besides, what about Leah?”
“What about her?” He stared back blankly.
“Aren’t you and she…?”
Chase gave an inelegant snort. “That was never anything serious.”
“Does she know that? Because if looks could kill…”
“She knew exactly what she was getting into.”
Millie turned that over in her head for a moment, trying to decide exactly what he meant by that. “Look…” She stole a deep, calming breath. “I like you Chase. I’d like to get to know you better, but I don’t belong to anyone but myself. That’s about all I’m offering right now. If that’s not enough…” She shook her head.
Chase stared back at her for a long moment, and then the tension went out of his body and he found his smile again. “Alright, that’ll have to be enough for now. I’m a patient man, Millie – up to a certain point,” he replied, tilting her chin up and placing an almost chaste kiss to her lips. “So, if you’re not going to let me steal your virtue out here, let’s get back to the party. And no more wandering off, you understand?”
“Okay, okay,” she grumbled, trusting the darkness to hide her eye roll. “I read you loud and clear.” She accepted his hand for the walk back to the party.
“Good, I’d hate to have to give you another lesson.”

moonsong author bio

I am a writer, wife, and mother of two currently living in the Pacific Northwest. I am a complete TV addict (have to have it on at all times, even when I’m writing). I also enjoy online RPG’s, singing, reading, cooking… lots more I can’t think of at the moment.

The supernatural has long been my favorite to write and read. Werewolves, vampires, witchcraft, ghosts, things that go bump in the night; these are a few of my favorite things to write about. Not sparkly beings with phenomenal cosmic power that are always the smartest, bravest, prettiest Mary Sue to walk the planet, but real people who just happen to have this little quirk…

I’ve just published my 26th book, Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down (#10 in my vampire series, Forged Bloodlines).

Here is a complete list of Lisa’s books:

Forged Bloodlines Series

Wake Me When the Sun Goes Down

Meet Me When the Sun Goes Down

Find Me When the Sun Goes Down

Miss Me When the Sun Goes Down

Follow Me When the Sun Goes Down

Hear Me When the Sun Goes Down

Release Me When the Sun Goes Down

Trust Me When the Sun Goes Down

Tempt Me When the Sun Goes Down

Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down

Carter (announced)

Forged Bloodlines #11 (announced)

The Fallen Series

Angel of Mercy

Mercy for the Wicked

Mercy for the Damned

Child of Mercy

Mercy for the Fallen.

The Company Series

The Company of Shadows

The Company of Darkness

The Company of Lies

The Company of Death

Pretty Witches All in a Row

Kiss the Witch Goodbye

Scarlett Moon: Moonsong sequel (announced)

Nine Steps to Sara

The Touch

Kindle Worlds: The Vampire Diaries: Tabula Rasa

Kindle Worlds: The Vampire Diaries: Dark Side of the Moon

You can keep in touch with Lisa here:
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Wake Me When the Sun Goes Down is on Episode!

Wake Me when the Sun Goes Down has come to Episode! Well, the first three chapters, at least. Want to see more? This is where you come in. The more people who read through all three chapters on the app, the more chance that they’ll put in an order for the rest of the book.

What is Episode? It’s all about interactive storytelling, in a fun, animated format. What does that mean for you? This is basically like reading an animated comic book on your phone (any Android/iOS device) for free when you download their app. You get to make choices about who you talk to, how you interact, even what you’re wearing! This means fans of the Forged Bloodlines series can take things to the next level and interact with the story in a new, fun way.

Here’s the link to get the apps (or you can find them on your phone): http://pocketgems.com/episode-interactive/
My story is listed under the “Fantasy” category and then under the “pilots” section.

In addition to my story, there are dozens of other animated stories there and if you can even try the writer’s portal if you’re interested in trying your hand at animating your own story for fun.

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Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down is out in Print

If you’re the type who likes to have the physical book in your hand, Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down is now available in print! You can buy it here from Amazon for $13.99

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Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down is live!

Ready for a fangtabulous time? Bishop is back where he belongs! Book #10 in my Forged Bloodlines vampire series, Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down, is live! It’s out as an e-book for $3.99 but you don’t have to have a Kindle or Nook to read it, they have free downloadable apps so you can read it on your PC, or even your phone. It’ll be available in print as well in a couple of weeks through Amazon.

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Here’s the blurb:
“I could rely on Bishop, I felt it in every fiber of my being. Only… I’d been wrong before.”

Anja’s no longer the geeky newbie who couldn’t bite her way out of a paper bag. Since becoming Elder of the West, Anja stood up for what she believes in and found her place in vampire society. But can she remember what it’s like to be a normal girl and go on a date? More than anything, Anja wants to start over with Bishop and recapture what they lost, but can she trust him not to make the same mistakes that broke her heart? And hearts and flowers aside, what happens when an enemy resurfaces to take revenge against all that Anja holds dear? Will the past rob Anja of her future?

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Up next I’m working on a sequel to Moonsong, before Carter gets his own book, and then I’ll return to Anja and Bishop.

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Cover Reveal for Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down

Argh, I forgot to post the cover reveal here! It’s been a crazy week, and here’s the cover for Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down. So far it’s out on Amazon, still waiting for it to show up on other sites. You can buy it here.

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Stay on target…

I feel like I’m in the home stretch for getting Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down to you guys, and I hope to have it out in the next couple of weeks. I’ll have the cover reveal here shortly as well as some teasers too.

After that, I’ll be taking a break from writing for a few weeks to attend to some business stuff I’ve been putting off for far too long. We’ll be redoing a couple of the covers and changing up some of the blurbs. I’ll also be reworking Moonsong, tightening up the beginning, and putting back in some of the racier bits I initially cut out in preparation for working on the sequel – Scarlett’s story.

The rest of the chapters (14-24) for Always Talk to Strangers on Episode for Android devices has finally been released too, so head over to check those out if you’ve been following along the story. I’m also working on adapting Wake Me When the Sun Goes Down for Episode, and that should be released any time now.

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Australia look to turn it around with spin

Experienced off-spinner Nathan Lyon will spearhead a spin quartet that includes uncapped leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson

Nathan Lyon will be Australia’s spin spearhead in India. Photo: Reuters.
Nathan Lyon will be Australia’s spin spearhead in India. Photo: Reuters.

Australia will be visiting India for a four-Test series starting in Pune on 23 February with a spin-heavy bowling attack, a move that appears to go against the grain of the traditionally pace-strong team that is currently No.2 in the International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings.

Experienced off-spinner Nathan Lyon will spearhead a spin quartet that includes uncapped leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson and two left-arm spinners—four-Test-old Steve O’Keefe and two-Test-old Ashton Agar, both of whom will rely heavily on the experience gained from the 2015 India visit with Australia A.

Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Jackson Bird are the three specialist fast bowlers in the 16-man squad for the series against top-ranked India, who have been unstoppable this season, routing New Zealand 3-0, England 4-0 and beating Bangladesh in the one-off Test that ended on Monday.

Batting-strong India have lost only two Test series at home in the last dozen years. Spin played a crucial role in England’s 2-1 win in 2012-13, while leg-spinner Shane Warne provided excellent support to a pace-strong Australia attack when they won the series in 2004 after a gap of 35 years.

“To succeed in India, you either need fast bowlers who are really quick through the air like the West Indies greats of old, or a good spin attack possessing variations,” says former India off-spinner Shivlal Yadav, who took 55 wickets against Australia in 13 Tests spread over four series.

“You don’t get bounce on Indian pitches…you will get the turn, but not the carry. A spinner will need to possess variations in flight and an adjustable width of spin to succeed in India,” adds the former national selector.

In his first two tours in 1998 and 2001, Warne had struggled to make an impression in India, being the kind of spinner who requires bounce in the pitch. Indians have also traditionally been wonderful players of spin.

The late Richie Benaud played a key role in Australia’s first two Test series victories in India, in 1956-57 and 1959-60, taking 52 wickets in eight Tests with his leg-spin.

Spin also had a big hand in Australia’s 3-1 series win on their five-Test visit in 1969-70.

“I felt we could win in India,” Ian Chappell wrote in ESPNCricinfo, referring to their third Test series win on Indian soil. “This was based on having a batting line-up that was adept at playing spin, in addition to a fine pace bowler in Graham McKenzie and an extremely good off-spinner in Ashley Mallet.”

Mallet took 28 wickets and McKenzie, 21 in five Tests while leg-spinner Jack Gleeson took 10 from three Tests.

Lyon, who has 228 wickets in 63 Tests, took 15 wickets during Australia’s 0-4 defeat in India on their previous visit in 2012-13, and Starc is the only other specialist bowler in the squad with Test experience in India.

The Steven Smith-led side was routed 0-3 in Sri Lanka on their tour to the subcontinent last year.

“They’ve got the fast bowling attack to exploit these conditions. The likes of Starc, Hazlewood and the rest will get the ball to reverse (swing),” former India captain Sourav Ganguly told India Today’s website.

“But once again the challenge for Australia will be spin. That’s the key in the subcontinent, you have to play spin well and bowl spin well.”

Jason Gillespie took 20 wickets, Glenn McGrath, 14 and Michael Kasprowicz, nine, with Warne keeping up the pressure to fashion Australia’s 2-1 win in 2004-05, their last Test series success on Indian soil. The leg-spinner played in the first three Tests of the four-match series (the visitors took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the third Test in Nagpur), bowling 140 overs at an economy rate of 3 for his 14 wickets.

“It will be difficult to beat India with pace alone on these slow wickets. If you go back to the 2004 Australia win, their pacers got wickets because they bowled a nagging length. The great Warne backed them up. The spinners will have to back their pacers,” says former India left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju, who played in eights Tests against Australia over three series.

“They will have to adjust quickly to the SG ball, which is different from the Kookaburra that they are used to, with the prominent seam and the width of the seam,” adds Raju.

Cricket Australia roped in England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar, who took 17 wickets in the 2012-13 Test series in India, to work with their spinners in Brisbane, and have hired former India cricketer Sridharan Sriram as consultant for the training camp in Dubai and for the series.

Ricky Ponting, who has travelled to India on six Test tours, expects this visit to be tough for Smith’s side. “As long as they can find a way to be competitive in the Test series, even if we don’t win, I don’t think it would be that big of a deal,” he was quoted as saying by Cricket Australia’s website.

Sanjay Rajan has written on sport for over two decades. He tweets at @SeamUp.

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Mayawati’s mega ‘donors’ are too poor to donate, CBI claims

Mayawati’s mega ‘donors’ are too poor to donate, CBI claims
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Daggers drawn: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati at a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday.
Daggers drawn: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati at a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday.
Updated: Mon, Jul 14 2008. 12 42 AM IST
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) affidavit in the Supreme Court, alleging Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has sought to conceal actual sources of her wealth by falsely claiming these were donations from people, stems from investigations concluding the alleged donors didn’t have the necessary wealth in the first place.
The affidavit, which the Supreme Court will take up on 28 July, carries a detailed account of the assets owned by the chief minister and her immediate family as on 18 September 2003.
Daggers drawn: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati at a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday.
“It has been found that in order to camouflage the source of funds for acquiring immovable and movable assets, 307 donations/gifts worth Rs13,18,73,188.00 (Rs13.18 crore) have been shown to have been received by Ms. Mayawati and her family members from more than 130 donors”, the CBI affidavit says.
The affidavit was filed following a writ petition filed by Mayawati on 5 May challenging the so-called first information report, or FIR, that was filed after an examination of the assets of the chief minister.
The FIR, filed in October 2003, is a step preceding the filing of a chargesheet.
The investigation was initiated after the apex court, while hearing the so-called Taj Corridor case, asked the CBI to investigate the assets of people associated with the project, including Mayawati.
That case had been filed after allegations of wrongdoing in the construction of the Rs175 crore corridor connecting the Taj Mahal with four other monuments — Agra Fort, Itmad-ud-Daulah’s tomb, Chini-ka-Roja and Rambagh.
However, the CBI could not proceed as Uttar Pradesh governor T.V. Rajeswar refused to approve prosecution in June 2007. Mayawati, who is also the head of the Bahujan Samaj Party, or BSP, that came to power in Uttar Pradesh (UP) in May 2007, has denied the charges and claimed that these were politically motivated.
The CBI dismissed allegations that the affidavit was politically motivated. “Different innuendos and meanings have been attributed to the filing of this counter-affidavit at this junction. It is clarified that it has been filed in compliance with the specific direction given by the apex court,” a CBI spokesperson said.
In its affidavit, CBI has stated that it had traced and examined 30 donors. “These donors have stated that they do not have the means and resources to gift/donate such huge amounts as reflected by the donees concerned in their income tax returns,” it says.
The CBI said that an earlier examination of some of the donors by the income tax department had also yielded a similar response. The income tax department was told by 12 donors that their bank accounts were actually opened and operated by an individual based in New Delhi and that they were unaware of the transactions in those accounts.
In the affidavit, the CBI also highlighted the statements made by three sisters — Gurcharan Kaur, Kulwant Kaur and Swaran Kaur to the income tax department.
Mayawati had claimed that the trio had each donated Rs23.3 lakh through cheque transfers in November and December 2001. However, income tax investigations showed that the addresses furnished by the three when opening the bank accounts, were false. These bank accounts were opened at a Canara Bank branch in New Delhi by an employee of the bank allegedly at the behest of Mayawati’s brother, Raj Kumar, the CBI alleged.
The three sisters had claimed that their father, Hari Singh, had given them funds to donate to Mayawati. The affidavit says that Singh turned out to be a “humble artisan with no capacity to save money. Even the ladies did not have adequate income from where they could have spared any amount for making gifts.”
Mint could not independently ascertain who the three sisters or Singh were, or their role in the saga beyond what the CBI has claimed in its affidavit. Mint also could not independently confirm the involvement of Kumar as noted in the affidavit.
Maywati, however denied the CBI claims and maintained that the income tax department had cleared her name after they assessed that the donations or gifts were genuine and the donors had valid sources of income. “This matter was also heard at the I-T (income tax appellate) tribunal and here they said that the gifts were genuine,” she added.
The I-T tribunal had held that gifts in cash totalling Rs12 lakh and property worth Rs62 lakh given to Mayawati by BSP supporters were not taxable. The case relates to the assessment year 2003-04.
The Centre had in April filed a challenge to this verdict in the Delhi high court.
According to Joginder Singh, former director of CBI, the modus operandi of opening bank accounts in the name of poor, illiterate people had been used by politicians in the past.
As expected, Mayawati has taken action. Singling out CBI director Vijay Shankar, while addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday, she said that filing the affidavit soon after her party’s withdrawal of support to the Centre and before the trust vote, brings the action of the premier investigative agency under the “needle of suspicion”.
The CBI’s latest move has acquired a political hue because the Samajwadi Party, or SP, the main opposition party in UP that was routed by Mayawati in the last elections, recently decided to support the Congress-led UPA at the centre, even as Mayawati severed her party’s association with the UPA. The SP’s support to the UPA government is critical, ahead of a proposed trust vote in Parliament on 22 July.
“It is not the style of Congress party to pressurize anyone using the CBI,” All India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijay Singh told reporters, adding that the independence of the investigating agency has been known even in the Jain Hawala case.
For excerpts from a 2003 CBI Supplemetary report on the Taj Corridor project, that was annexed to the CBI affidavit that gives brief details of the assets belonging to Mayawati and her relatives, click in the following links:
Krishnamurthy Ramasubbu and PTI contributed to this story.
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NIGEL MARTYN has revealed how his derby heroics earned plaudits from the toughest audience of all for an Everton player - the Kop.

The 37-year-old, (left), was the Blues' Man of the Match thanks to a string of eye-catching saves.

Steven Gerrard could have had a hat-trick had it not been for Everton's experienced number 25.

And the quality of his display maintained his impressive record at Anfield, where he has only been on the losing side four times during his long career.

It has led to respect from the Liverpool faithful.

Martyn said: "There was a guy in the Kop behind me and he just said 'well played today, congratulations' and I thanked him.

"Jamie Carragher came up and said something along the lines of you lucky so and so. I just said the harder I work the luckier I seem to get.

"With the tradition and stuff, Anfield is a great place to come and play For Everton players it is even more special, especially to keep a clean sheet.

"I can remember being told to clap the Kop on my first visit here with Crystal Palace because they always give a good reception to goalkeepers, as they still do today."

Gerrard wasn't the only player frustrated by Martyn.

Didi Hamann, Jamie Carragher and Harry Kewell all had decent efforts destined for the back of the net diverted by the Blues' keeper.

Picking the best stop of the afternoon is not easy. But Martyn was happiest with a save from Gerrard low to his left in the opening period.

He adds: "The one I turned on to the post in the first half from Gerrard, that was probably the hardest one.

"I got more satisfaction from that one, although I was pleased with the Carragher save. I was already committed but stuck a leg out and I got enough on it to get it over the top.

"That said, Chris Woods has worked me very hard on the deflection thing. He does a lot of work on that in training, so he will be claiming the credit for that one.

"He has got these little boards that he has manufactured that deflect the ball in different directions."

But it wasn't the perfect afternoon for the keeper because the Blues didn't get all three points.

He admits that there were a lot of disappointed players in the dressing room at half-time after seeing two key decisions not going their way.

"The guys thought Tomasz had been impeded and that the handball was a penalty," revealed Martyn.

"I didn't see either really from my end of the pitch half a mile away. But they were really disappointed.

"We had other chances and their keeper made some saves as well. If we could have taken one or two of those chances maybe the second hal f woul d have been different."

Martyn has never regretted choosing Everton.

He adds: "I had offers to go to other clubs. They were clubs with recognised goalkeepers - one was Chelsea - and I think having had a season out and not playing, at my age that was really disappointing.

"At 37, you're not going to go on forever and to move your children and your family at that stage of your career is a little bit unfair and I just hoped something else would come along or I'd get a chance in the Leeds team.

"It was nice they wanted me but it was just the wrong end of the country. I am very happy to be at Everton.

"I have got this season and next on contract here so I will see how I amin a year.

"Have I another contract left in me? I've no idea. That is really a decision for Everton to make.

"Financially they are in a bit of a quandary at the moment so they will probably wait a year and see how I am doing. But the way I am feeling at the moment I think I could go on another year."