It was clogged with sand. Maybe someone else had been living on the beach, waiting for their big chance in moving pictures. Come to think of it, the timber behind the half-buried stones had a dragged-together look. You could imagine, looking at it from the sea, that several balks of timber had been set up to form an arched doorway.　
Perhaps they were still there. Perhaps they might have something to drink.　
They were, indeed, still there. But they hadn't needed a drink for months.　　

It was eight in the morning. A thunderous knocking awoke Bezam Planter, owner of the Odium, one of Ankh-Morpork's mushrooming crop of moving-picture pits.　
He'd had a bad night. The people of Ankh-Morpork liked novelty. The trouble was that they didn't like novelty for long. The Odium had done great business for a week, had broken even for the next week, and was now dying. The late showing last night had been patronized by one deaf dwarf and an orang-utan, who'd brought along its own peanuts.Additional Nike technologies such as nike">http://www.newnikelunar.com/women-nike-lunar-women-nike-lunarglide-2-c-8_15.html">nike lunarglide 2Lite foam, a Natural Motion outsole and Flywire are also included in the construction, making this shoe not only comfortable and responsive, but also extremely lightweight as well.. Bezam relied on the sale of peanuts and banged grains for his profit, and wasn't in a good mood.　
He opened the door and stared out blearily.　
'We're shut 'til two o'clock,' he said. 'Mat'nee. Come back then. Seats in all parts.'　
He slammed the door. It rebounded off Throat Dibbler's boot and hit Bezam on the nose.　
'I've come about the special showing of Sword of Passione,' said Throat.　
'Special showing? What special showing?'　
'The special showing I'm about to tell you about,' said Throat.　
'We ain't showing nothin' about any special passionate swords. We're showin' The Exciting-'　
'Mister Dibbler says yore showing Sword of Passione,' rumbled a voice.　
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It creased in the middle and leaned down towards Bezam.　
He recognized Detritus. Everyone recognized Detritus. He wasn't a troll you forgot.　
'But I haven't even heard of-' Bezam began. Throat pulled a large tin from under his coat, and grinned.　
'And here are some posters,' he added, producing a fat white roll.　
'Mister Dibbler let me stick some up on walls,' said Detritus proudly.　
Bezam unrolled the poster. It was in eye-watering colours. It showed a picture of what might just possibly be Ginger pouting in a blouse too small for her, and Victor in the act of throwing her over one shoulder while fighting an assortment of monsters with the other hand. In the background, volcanoes were erupting, dragons were zooming through the sky, and cities were burning down.　
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He read it again.　
'Who's Staring Delores De Syn?' he said, suspiciously.　
'That's starring,' said Throat. 'That's why we've put stars against their names, see.' He leaned closer and lowered his voice to a piercing whisper. 'They do' say', he said, 'that she's the daughter of a Klatchian pirate and his wild, headstrong captive, and he's the son of . . . the son of . . . a rogue wizard and a reckless gypsy flamenco dancer.' '
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　"Look everyone. A cop is going to help Father Boyle play chess. A cop who plays chess." Ratchett laughed out a haughty condemnation and looked around for approval. Finding none in the onlooking faces, he increased his vehemence.　
"I demand you tell Father Boyle how to win. He can use your help. Anyone who believes in God can use all the help he can get. Go ahead. Right now. No protest. There are two possible ways he can win. I am assuming you know chess. Father Boyle does not. Tell him how."　
It was the three months of peak that got to Remo, the three months of staying where he should not have stayed mentally or physically.Additional Nike technologies such as nike">http://www.newnikelunar.com/women-nike-lunar-women-nike-lunarglide-2-c-8_15.html">nike lunarglide 2Lite foam, a Natural Motion outsole and Flywire are also included in the construction, making this shoe not only comfortable and responsive, but also extremely lightweight as well.. That and Brewster Forum and these lunatics and being told that he must arrange for the deaths of these harmless twits, just because their brilliance might lead them to a wrong corridor.　
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Remo had spoken softly, almost like the tender point of a sermon. At first Ratchett was going to laugh, then his face became blank. It was obvious he had not seen the move. And as the move became apparent to others in the audience there were little sounds. And Father Boyle began to laugh, a full hearty laugh, and others laughed with him, and Ratchett became white. White hot. If man could become hate, Dr. James Ratchett was hate.Alongside the original Tier Zero releases, NSW dropped the nike">http://www.newnikelunar.com/women-nike-lunar-women-nike-lunar-elite-2-c-8_9.html">nike lunar elite 2 Flow, which, as you can probably tell by the name alone, is a LunarLon-cushioned version of the classic running sneaker..　
Remo did not laugh, because he knew he should be spanked. Lectures were for grownups and beatings were for men. But spankings were for little boys who took up prideful challenges that could so easily get them killed. Stupid. Stupid, Remo thought. You entered as a dumb cop and lest anyone spot you as a real danger by some accident, you went out of your way to let them know that maybe you weren't so dumb. A cop, all right, but a cop to be watched. The greenest rookie wouldn't do something that stupid. Give away surprise and you give away your life. How the lecture had been drilled into him, and how logical it was:　
"You must isolate what you wish to do. Most personal assaults fail because they attempt to do too much, not the least of which is to gain respect from your target." Those were the words of Chiun, the instructor.　
"That's stupid," Rerno had answered. "No one would do that."　
"Most people do," said Chiun quietly.The Rejuven8 adopts uppers that match the brightly colored flags of the country, but the nike">http://www.newnikelunar.com/women-nike-lunar-women-nike-lunareclipse-c-8_11.html">nike lunareclipse Woven Chukka features an all-black woven upper with the midsole adopting the country color code.czfnk15. "They show off for their victim. This is because they wish not so much to harm the other person as to force the other to recognize their superiority. You see it even among prize fighters. How foolish.　
"If you learn no other lesson, learn this one, and it will do more to keep you alive than any other. The most dangerous man is the man who does not appear dangerous. Say it after me."　
"Okay," said Remo, imitating the squeaky sing-song of the aged Korean. "The most dangerous man is the man who does not appear dangerous. Say it after me."　
"Ooooh," said Chiun, clutching his chest. "Ooooh." And Remo had jumped to his feet from the little cushions they sat on and moved to steady the elderly man.
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　Moriarty, after turning the corner, saw the cart at the end of a long driveway where tall weeds seemed to encroach on motel property. A sheet lay on the ground next to the cart.　
The man had run into the weeds to hide, Moriarty realized. He kept running toward the cart. He'd track him down if it took forever.　
Too late, he heard the whirring behind him.　
He turned, gun in hand, but the tan Dodge was on him. And then he felt the pain as the front of the car, moving at high speed, slammed into his body, and he felt himself crumple, then he was lifted high in the air and it seemed as if somebody else's body was turning those lazy loops. The gun slipped from his hand, and then his body spiraled toward the ground twenty feet away. The last thing he felt was his head slamming against a heavy stone and the last thing he ever thought was to wonder if he had scored the night before or not, and then everything went black for Patsy Moriarty. Forever.Additional Nike technologies such as nike">http://www.newnikelunar.com/women-nike-lunar-women-nike-lunarglide-2-c-8_15.html">nike lunarglide 2Lite foam, a Natural Motion outsole and Flywire are also included in the construction, making this shoe not only comfortable and responsive, but also extremely lightweight as well..　
Smith, who had once commissioned a study on the effects of auto impact on human bodies, knew Moriarty was dead. He had seen the pistol drop from the man's dead hand and he got out of the car now and picked it up. It saved him one errand for the day.　
Now he would casually drive away. He backed the car up, turned it around and drove slowly out the side entrance of the Happy Haven motel, whistling. It had been a long time since he had been operational, almost thirty years. It felt rather good.　
He drove the car until he overtook a bus. He sped up, parked two blocks ahead, then got out and boarded the bus to wherever it went. He would buy another car, and then start making some telephone calls.Alongside the original Tier Zero releases, NSW dropped the nike">http://www.newnikelunar.com/women-nike-lunar-women-nike-lunar-elite-2-c-8_9.html">nike lunar elite 2 Flow, which, as you can probably tell by the name alone, is a LunarLon-cushioned version of the classic running sneaker..　
His day was just starting.　　

CHAPTER FIFTEEN　　

Services at the funeral home the night before had been a strain on Holly Brbon. IDC personnel from all over the country, wanting to see and be seen, had shown up. And of course there had been the politicians, bankers, brokers, competitors, and the hustlers on the make. Accordingly, there had been a continuous stream of visitors to the small overwhelmed funeral home in the quiet Connecticut town, and Holly Broon had had to be hostess, bereaved daughter and confidante to all of them, and she was tired. So she slept late.　
She was awakened by her personal maid who tiptoed to the side of her bed and waited silently until Holly Broon awakened just by sensing her presence.　
The young woman opened her eyes, stretched, saw the maid and asked, "What is it?"　
"I'm sorry, Miss Broon," the slender blonde girl said in a delicate British accent, "but there is a man on the phone who insists on talking with you."　
"So? That's something unusual around here? Hang up on him."　
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"For Christ's sake, what is it, Jessie?"　
"I'm sorry, Miss Broon, but he said he had something to tell you about your father, and that you would want to know it."　
"Probably that daddy was a great guy."　
"No, miss. He said it was about the way your fattier died."　
Holly Broon sat up in bed. She had pretended her father's death had been nothing but a heart attack. So the call might mean something. "All right," she said, I'll talk to him."
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　It was the same tone of voice Granny used when Esk was less than enthusiastic about a plateful of nourishing sallet greens, boiled yellow until the last few vitamins gave in, but to Skiller's hypersensitive ears it wasn't an injunction but a prediction. He shivered. He didn't know where he would have to be to make him grateful for a drink of ancient beer and curdled milk. He'd rather be dead first. 　
Perhaps he would be dead first. 　
He very carefully wiped a nearly clean mug with his thumb and filled it from the tap. He was aware that a large number of his guests were quietly leaving. No one liked magic, especially n the hands of a woman. You never could tell what they might take it into their heads to do next. 　
"Your milk," he said, adding, "Miss." 　
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"No, wouldn't dream of it," said Skiller hastily. He leaned over the bar. "If you could see, er, your way clear to turning the rest back, though? Not much call for milk in these parts." 　
He sidled along a little way. Esk had leaned the staff against the bar while she drank her milk, and it was making him uncomfortable. 　
Esk looked at him over a moustache of cream. 　
"I didn't turn it into milk, I just knew it would be milk because I wanted milk," she said. "What did you think it was?" 　
"Er. Beer." 　
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Granny would put a very small spoonful in her milk if it was a really cold night. It had to be a wooden spoon, on account of what it did to metal. 　
She concentrated. She could picture the taste in her mind, and with the little skills that she was beginning to accept but couldn't understand she found she could take the taste apart into little coloured shapes .... 　
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Skiller turned very carefully and regarded the barrel behind him. The smell of the room had changed, he could feel the pure gold sweating gently out of that ancient woodwork. 　
With some care he took a small glass from his store under the counter and let a few splashes of the dark golden liquid escape from the tap. He looked at it thoughtfully in the lamplight,
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　"It's delicious," she called up to the woman. The woman smiled, seeming not at all surprised at the compliment. Walking abreast with the cart, Jennsen asked, "Would you happen to know of a woman by the name of Althea?"　
Sebastian swept a furtive gaze around at the people walking within earshot. The woman, not at all shocked by the question, leaned down toward Jennsen.　
"You've come for a telling, then?"　
Although she couldn't be sure, Jennsen thought it easy enough to guess what the woman meant. "Yes, that's right. Would you know where I can find her?"　
"Well, dear, I don't know her, but I know of her husband, Friedrich. He comes to the palace to sell his gilded carvings."　
Many of the people moving up the road looked to have come to sell their wares. Jennsen dimly recalled when she was very young the palace being a buzz of activity, with throngs coming every day to sell everything from food to jewelry. Many towns near where Jennsen had lived when she was older had a market day. The People's Palace, though, was a city with the buying and selling of goods taking place every day. She recalled her mother taking her to booths to buy food and, once, cloth for a dress.Additional Nike technologies such as nike">http://www.newnikelunar.com/women-nike-lunar-women-nike-lunarglide-2-c-8_15.html">nike lunarglide 2Lite foam, a Natural Motion outsole and Flywire are also included in the construction, making this shoe not only comfortable and responsive, but also extremely lightweight as well..　
"Would you know where we can find this man, Friedrich, or someone else who knows the way?"　
The woman gestured ahead toward the palace. "Friedrich has a small booth in the marketplace. Up top. As I hear told, you'll need to be invited out to see Althea. I'd advise you to talk to Friedrich, up top."　
Sebastian put a hand on Jennsen's back as he leaned past her. "Up top?" he asked the woman.　
She nodded. "You know. Up top, where the palace is. I don't go up there myself."　
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"Oh, I have my cart and horse, so I stay down along the road, selling to those going to and from the palace. They won't let you take those horses of yours up, if it be your intention to go look for Althea's husband. Your goat, neither, for that matter. There are ramps for horses inside for the soldiers and those with official business, but wagons with supplies and such mostly use the cliff road on the east side. They don't let just anyone ride their horses up. Only the soldiers keep horses up top."　
"Well," Jennsen said, "I guess we'll need to stable them, if we're to go up to find Althea's husband."　
"Friedrich doesn't come often. You'll be lucky to catch him on a day he's here. Best, though, if you could talk to him."　
Jennsen swallowed another mouthful of sausage. "Do you know if he would be here today? Or what days he does come to the palace?"　
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Jennsen glanced up at the looming People's Palace. "I guess we'll just have to go for a look, then."　
They weren't even inside, yet, and already Jennsen's heart was pounding at a furious pace. She saw Sebastian's fingers glide over his cloak, touching the hilt of his sword. She couldn't resist brushing her forearm against her side, checking for the reassuring presence of her knife under her own cloak. Jennsen hoped not to be in the palace long. When they found out where Althea lived, they could be on their way. The sooner the better.
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　Jonathan jumped in, and the cab turned out into traffic, disdainfully ignoring trumpeted protests from the car abreast that was forced into the oncoming stream.　
"I don't mean to drip on you," Jonathan said, "but you really do look lovely. Where did you come from? Did I mention you look lovely?" He was boyishly glad to see her again. It seemed that he had thought of her often. But probably not, he decided. Why should he?　
"I saw you step out," she explained, "and you looked so funny that I took pity on you."　
"Ah. You fell for an ancient ploy. I always try to look funny when I'm drowning in the rain. You never know when some passing stewardess will take pity on you."　
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Jonathan told him that was just fine.　
"Because we ain't supposed to pick up two fares in the rain like that." He deigned to glance briefly at the oncoming traffic.　
Jonathan said he would take care of it.　
"Hell, everybody and his brother would be picking up the whole damned city if we didn't charge double fare. You know that for yourself."　
Jonathan leaned forward and smiled at the driver politely in the rearview mirror. "Why don't we divide up the labor here? You drive, and we'll talk." Then he asked Jemima, "How do you manage to look so calm and lovely when you're starving to death?"　
"Am I starving to death?" The harlequin flecks of gold danced with amusement in her warm brown eyes.　
"Certainly, you are. Its a wonder you haven't noticed it."　
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"I am that. Yes."　
She looked at him quizzically. "Now, you know that when I picked you up in the rain, I didn't pick you up in all the possible senses of that phrase, don't you?"　
"Good Lord, we hardly know each other! What are you suggesting? How about dinner?"　
She considered it a moment, tempted. Then, "No-o, I think not."　
"If you hadn't said no, what would your second choice have been?"　
"Steak, red wine, and a small tangy salad."　
"Done." Jonathan leaned forward and told the driver to turn south to an address on Fourteenth Street.　
"How about making up your mind, buddy?"　
"Drive."　
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He took her hand and looked earnestly into her eyes. "Gem, you have very fragile faith in your fellow man." He squeezed the hand. "Tell me about it? Who was he-the man who hurt you so?"　
She laughed, and the cab driver asked if they were going to get out or not. As Jemima dashed into the restaurant, Jonathan paid the cabby and told him he had been a real brick. Rain and traffic obscured the last word, so the driver stared at Jonathan for a moment, but he decided it was wiser to drive off in a wheel-squealing miff.　
The restaurant was simple and expensive, designed for eating, not for gazing at the decor. Partly because he felt festive, and partly to impress Jemima, Jonathan ordered a bottle of Lafite.
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SAN CRISTOBAL CUCHO, Guatemala (AP) The 10 members of the Vasquez family were bottom affix below the rubble of the rock quarry that had been their sustenance some in a desperate final hug others clinging to the faintest of dying pulses.

As Guatemalans sought Thursday to elect up the pieces after a 7.4-magnitude palpitate one family's tragic story came to signify the horror of a disaster that killed along least 52 people plus left thousands of others huddling among the chilly shadows of cracked adobe buildings,highest without electricity alternatively water.

On Thursday, neighbors came to disburse their respects. They filed past 10 wooden caskets among the Vasquez family alive dormitory plus contemplated the unspeakable hereafter that awaits the family's only surviving son. Justo Vasquez, his wife Ofelia Gomez, six kid and two nephews died within the rubble.

Only the oldest son, Ivan, 19, survived. He had stayed in the house while the vacation of his home went to the quarry, taking attention of some last-minute details to receive his accounting degree the first among his family to have a professional career. His father had been saving for a party to celebrate his Nov. 23 graduation.

"He died working," said sister-in-law Antonia Lopez. "He was fighting as his kids."

Hundreds of villagers surrounded the humble town of San Cristobal Cucho ran to excavate the family out aboard Wednesday after Guatemala's biggest quiver in 36 years. When they uncovered some of the children one body still warm two with pulses, they were amid the weapon of their father, who had tried to safeguard them from a falling mountain.

The death toll was expected to heave as 22 folk remained missing, President Otto Perez Molina told a news conference. Eight were killed amid the neighboring state of Quetzaltenango.

Perez said powerful 7.4-magnitude quiver felt as distant as Mexico City 600 miles away, affected as much as 1.2 million Guatemalans. A micro more than 700 people were surrounded shelters, with maximum opting to stay with family or friends, he added.

"They have no drinking water,not electricity,no communication plus are among peril of experiencing more aftershocks," Perez said. The chancellor said there had been 70 aftershocks in the 1st 24 hours after the palpitate some as strong as importance five.1.

Damaged homes will be among the biggest problems the nation will face within the coming days, Perez added.

The Vasquezes were the only ones to die within San Cristobal Cucho, a mountain village of cobblestone streets, where buildings suffered some cracks plus abuse plus early reports said the home had perished surrounded a collapsed house.

Like the recess of several thousand folk among town, the Vasquez family was humble the parents without much education. Most of the folk in the town are subsistence farmers alternatively sell things aboard the streets plus surrounded the markets.

"We have never seen a tragedy favor this. The plenary town is mournful said brother Romulo Vasquez, whose 12-year old son, Ulises,too died along the quarry.

Justo Vasquez and his wife left as work by five a.m. Wednesday to the ashore they rented to quarry white rock that namely pulverized to acquaint cinder blocks. They returned after within the a m to eat breakfast,afterwards took six of their seven kid and two nephews back to the quarry with them,for the kid were aboard vacation from teach.

The oldest child to dead was 14-year-old Daisy Vasquez, the youngest 3-year-old Dibel Vasquez.

The oldest son, Ivan, was also distraught to speak or even stay along the red-and-yellow block house where hundreds of people gathered passed along the caskets alternatively waited outside the door marked according candles plus equitable a few flowers. Wood cigarette bathed the memorial as more than a dozen women in the back of the house cooked rice, beans, corn plus eggs to feed the audience.

"He was a very comely father, he was a very comely adjoin said Antonia Lopez, who was among the much paying respects.

Guatemalans fearing aftershocks huddled surrounded the streets of the nearby metropolis San Marcos, the maximum affected region where along least 40 people died. Others crowded inside its hospital, the only building in town left with electricity.

More than 90 rescue workers continued to dig with backhoes by a half-ton hill of dirt at a second quarry that buried seven folk.

"We started emancipate go quite early," said Julio Cesar Fuentes of the civic blaze ministry"The objective is our wish to find folk who were buried."

But they uncovered only more die One male was called to the quarry to identify his die father. When he climbed into the dirt pit plus recognized the clothing, the son collapsed onto the shoulders of firefighters, crying: "Papa, Papa, Papa."

He plus his father were not identified to the newspaper medium because additional relatives had never been notified of the death.

Volunteers carrying boxes of remedial supplies began arriving within the district surrounded western Guatemala late Wednesday.

The quake which was 20 miles deep, was centered 15 miles off the coastal town of Champerico and 100 miles southwest of Guatemala City. It was the strongest earthquake to buffet Guatemala since a 1976 temblor that killed 23,000.

Perez said more than 2,000 soldiers were deployed to assistance with the disaster. A plane had made by least two trips to carry relief teams to the zone.

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Associated Press inventor Sonia Perez D.and Michael Weissenstein reported this story amid San Cristobal Cucho,plus Romina Ruiz-Goiriena contributed to this report from Guatemala City.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) Getting off apt a quickly start is nothing current for Charlie Wi. The hard part is figuring out how to finish.

Wi took the 18-hole lead as the third period this yearly and the eighth period surrounded his PGA Tour vocation forward closing with back-to-back birdies Thursday as an 8-under 64 aboard the easier Palm Course along Disney. That gave him a one-shot lead over Camilo Villegas and Tommy Gainey in the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic.

This is the 184th profession begin for Wi on the PGA Tour and he's still looking for his 1st win.

Wi atop the leaderboard was a reminder that there's surplus by stake among the final PGA Tour event of the annual than players trying apt reserve their jobs. Each accident namely another become as him apt get his 1st win, and that's would it take for him to have a chance of getting into the height 30 aboard the money account to acquire his 1st outgoing apt the Masters.

"Top 30 namely definitely a goal," Wi said. "I'm never impartial showing up to movement You've got to have goals. I by least paucity to give myself a chance."

Gainey doesn't have that chance He won as the 1st period on tour three weeks ago along Sea Island while he closed with a 60,merely he was even now down the money list that even a win at Disney wouldn't be enough for him apt obtain into the Masters.

Even so, Gainey namely aboard a coil He is 17-under par surrounded his last two rounds,manners of the 65 he posted aboard the Palm.

"My goal is impartial apt win, anyway," he said. "The access I'm playing right immediately keep hitting the golf shots and reserve hitting it in the fairways, and with the way I'm rolling this putter, it's going to be comely according Sunday afternoon."

Villegas was anew story.

A rising star among 2008 while he won consecutive FedEx Cup playoff events and rose apt No.7 among the world Villegas has fallen aboard laborious times. He hasn't won since afterwards failed apt qualify for any of the majors this annual has plunged to No. 214 among the earth ranking and is by No. 150 on the money account Only the altitude 125 earn their full cards for next yearly and whether Villegas falls out of the height 150, he'll must go apt the second stage of Q-school.

One thing that has changed is his attitude. Villegas realized he has a colossal job, stopped getting angry with his golf and decided to begin having extra amusement It appears to be working, and instantly the Colombian can only wish the correction namely never too late.

"Trust me,people remind you, 'Hey, you're 150th aboard the money list.' And I'm kind of prefer 'Life is agreeable Just reserve going.' If you're appealing by this game,if you're out, you'll be back within Who knows? Just take it one shot at all times"

The top 12 scores came from the Palm, which played nearly an.7 shots easier than the Magnolia, where the final two rounds will be played. Henrik Stenson and Charles Howell III were among five players whose 68 was the best score at Magnolia.

Brian Harman, Scott Stallings and Russell Knox, the beginner from Scotland who namely outside the height 150, were by 66. Kevin Chappell,along No. 123 aboard the money list overcame an early bogey and was among the group by 67.

"I feel prefer if you give me enough opportunities, which I've had, I've got apt activity well by least one week," Chappell said. "If it's the last week of the annual that's great"

Chappell namely well conscious of his standing aboard the money list although he was doing his best to hit good shots and to attempt apt acquaint putts. He changed coaches this daily and was making virtuous progress until getting a six-week crash while he failed apt obtain past the 1st round of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

"I got engrossed with the golf swing, and while I came back to the fall finish, I was playing golf swing. I wasn't playing golf," Chappell said.

The 1st two days of Disney are a pro-am, and it's common for some players apt ask to be paired with friends Mike Weir and Dean Wilson, Harris English and Brian Harman. A yearly antecedent the journey put Luke Donald and Webb Simpson surrounded the same group as they battled for the money caption.

This yearly namely a mini revise.

Rod Pampling namely by No. 124 aboard the money account He was paired with Billy Mayfair, who namely at No. 125. Right afterward them were Gary Christian and Alexandre Rocha, who are by No. 127 and No. 128 and right among the merge apt reserve their jobs.

Pampling opened with a 70 and Mayfair a 72. Christian and Rocha each had a 71.

"I was a morsel surprised according that," Pampling said, grinning. "We're always grinding. ... You don't need the guys right later you and afterward apt you. But that's OK. Billy namely easy to activity with. And it's never going to correction anything, anyway."

The biggest alteration belonged apt Villegas. At some point this yearly he realized that he played golf as a living and figured it wasn't amount getting overly frustrated about his scores.

"The game comes and kind of bites us, and the last daily and a half hasn't been beautiful I can tell you that," he said. "Even however I kept putting in the hours,occasionally it doesn't matter. You put those hours surrounded and whether you're never having pastime you're never going apt get much out of it. So I've definitely changed a micro morsel the attitude. And,yeah I've been playing a lot better. ... I've had a large attitude the last few months and I've been really close"

The complicated chapter ambition be going apt the Magnolia lesson Friday, and that goes for Wi,also.

He opened with a 61 by Monterey Peninsula among the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and took a three-shot lead into the final round until he opened with a four-putt twice bogey and wound up accomplishment second to Phil Mickelson. He had the lead along Bay Hill and was tied with Tiger Woods going into the weekend until he faded, and Woods won his 1st journey occurrence amid more than two years.

Mickelson namely within Singapore. Woods is taking rush hour The biggest assign by Disney namely Davis Love III, who opened with a 73. Wi still has a long access apt work before Sunday.
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MUMBAI, India (AP) India's central bank left its opener interest rate unchanged Tuesday yet trimmed the cash keep ratio, resisting growing suppression from New Delhi to cut rates even as it slashed its growth forecast and raised its inflation projection as Asia's third-largest economy.

Though the Reserve Bank of India left the policy rate at eight.0 percent for of inflation concerns, it did advocate the government's reform initiative along trimming the cash reserve ratio the percentage of deposits dissemination banks must reserve aboard hand onward a 15 min of a point, to 4.25 percentage,efficacious November 3 It said this longing inject 175 billion rupees ($3.two billion) into a cash-constrained banking system.

RBI afresh slashed its growth outlook as the year ending March, from six.five percent to five.eight percent Its initial projection was 7.three percent The bank said headline inflation will possible hit seven.five percentage among March, up from an earlier forecast of 7.0 percent and distant ashore the bank's medium term target of three.0 percent.

RBI has been below growing oppression from New Delhi and happening leaders to cut interest rates as growth slipped to its lowest levels since 2009,yet the bank says inflation remains its basic converge"

"Managing inflation and inflation expectations have to remain the primary converge of monetary policy," the bank said among its quarterly policy statement Tuesday. The bank said that containing inflation will contribute to consumer and investor confidence,either opener to sustaining growth amid the medium term.

It said there namely a "reasonable possibility of further policy easing"among the January to March 15 min provided inflation eases as expected and New Delhi's ambitious reform programme gets translated into action.

After peaking at nine.2 percentage among the March 2011 quarter India's economic growth slid to five.3 percentage a annual after its lowest class since the Great Recession in 2009. Though growth subsequently ticked marginally higher, to five.five percentage RBI said the economy namely still mired onward stalled investment, weakening consumption and falling exports.

India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram,aboard Monday announced one intent financial consolidation policy which was warmhearted seen as clue onward New Delhi for a rate cut.

Chidambaram said India's fiscal absence would be five.three percent as the daily ending March, up from a budgeted five.one percent,along falling to three.0 percent forward monetary 2017. He said the current account shortage would alley to three.seven percentage of GDP,or $70.three billion in the yearly ending March, from four.two percentage of GDP ($78 billion) the prior annual The ministry he added namely confident that the new list absence want be entirely financed amongst central inflows. He said all flagship programs to defend the poor forward guaranteeing them,case in point jobs and food which critics mention are likewise pricey aspiration remain unused.

The discourse was chapter of New Delhi's action blitz to restore investor confidence and avert a ratings downgrade. The administration has also recently taken the politically complicated steps of hiking administered diesel prices and loosening some alien investment restrictions. The moves helped increase the rupee and cheered equity markets.

Chidambaram's monetary policy whatever came among as annotation as puzzling and unrealistic, and RBI's Tuesday statement actors into further doubt some of the finance ministry's assumptions.

"They laid down a roadmap merely the measures announced by far want never be enough to encounter the five.three percentage shortage Sonal Varma, economist by Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities among Mumbai, said Tuesday. "The fashionable inflation and new list situation does never give the RBI the area to increase demand by this juncture."

RBI said that from April through August, the financial shortage was nearly two-thirds of the entire year's budget and cautioned that it is"expected to be higher than budgeted." The bank too excellent the peril of volatile chief flows, and said that given prevalent economic uncertainties financing a colossal fashionable catalogue shortage"poses challenges."

The bank said the fashionable list and monetary deficits "continue to posture significant risks to either growth and macroeconomic stability"

The bank praised the government's slew of recent policy announcements for having "positively impacted feeling,merely cautioned that they absence to be translated into efficacious action to convert feeling into concrete investment decisions."

Chidambaram greeted the bank's policy decisions with disappointment, telling reporters Tuesday, "To face the challenge of growth, we walk alone."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) The man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence among many parts of the Middle East agreed to spend a yearly amid allied prison as unrelated probation violations,but afterward issued a statement that appeared to reinforce his stern stance against Islam.

The man who calls himself Mark Basseley Youssef and has used numerous aliases speaks English merely asked for one Arabic language interpreter on Wednesday,at a hearing that resulted amid one accession between his lawyers and allied prosecutors.

Youssef,an Egyptian-born Christian who is a U.S.inhabitant sent his attorney out to the courthouse steps with a information for the media: "The one thing he wanted me to acquaint entire of you namely President Obama may have gotten Osama bin Laden,only he didn't kill the ideology," attorney Steven Seiden said.

Asked what that meant, Seiden said, "I didn't ask him, and I don't know"

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Dugdale had not comment aboard Youssef's statement.

The prosecutor spoke in court of the toll taken aboard actors who participated in the filming of "Innocence of Muslims,one anti-Islamic screed that was previewed amid a 14-minute trailer posted on YouTube.

Dugdale said authorities have never been capable to create definitively who posted it online. The film portrays Muhammad as a religious deceit womanizer and pedophile.

He argued Youssef's lies almost his identity have caused damage to others, including the film's actors and group Deadly violence associated to the film broke out aboard Sept.11 and disperse to many parts of the Middle East.

"They had no fancy he was a recently released felon," Dugdale said Wednesday. "Had they known that, they might have had second thoughts"virtually being part of the film.

He said they had received death threats and feel their careers have been ruined. He also said the words they spoke surrounded the membrane were changed without their knowledge amongst dubbing.

Seiden replied that, "People involved within moviemaking are entitled to alter anything. And the actresses signed releases."

Seiden said his client admits to being the film's scriptwriter barely had not additional involvement besides what he described as being a "cultural coach"

The bearded, balding Youssef shuffled into tribunal among shackles and a pearly prison jumpsuit. His lawyer said he has been held among lonely confinement.

The courtroom was guarded along several armed U.S. Marshals amid fatigues. Spectators were kept to a minimum and only one pool reporter from The Associated Press was allowed in court Other media watched proceedings aboard a closed circumference TV feed.

Federal authorities initially sought a two-year sentence for Youssef. Seiden argued as his buyer to be allowed to serve his term under kin confinement,barely the decide refused. Dugdale argued that was not sufficient discipline.

U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder favored the pray accession and immediately sentenced Youssef after he admitted to four of the eight alleged violations, including obtaining a fraudulent California driver's authorization Prosecutors agreed to trickle the additional four allegations underneath the entreat handle which included four years of additional probation duration.

Youssef, 55, was arrested within late September,just weeks after he went into hiding while the violence erupted. Enraged Muslims demanded severe discipline as Youssef, with a Pakistani cabinet minister offering $100,000 to anyone who kills him.

Youssef aspiration price his period after bars at a Southern California prison. He formerly served most of his 21-month prison sentence as using more than a dozen aliases and opening virtually 60 bank accounts to conduct a check fraud invent prosecutors said.

After he was released from prison, Youssef was barred from using computers or the Internet for five years without acceptance from his probation officer.

"This namely a defendant who has engaged amid a long pattern of deception," Dugdale said. "His dishonesty goes behind years."
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BERLIN (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-left opponent amid subsequently year's election issued a daring challenge Tuesday to her administration going well beyond lawful requirements to state that he earned �?.25 million ($1.6 million) over three years giving lectures.

The transfer along Peer Steinbrueck, Germany's finance minister from 2005-09, was designed to deviate any commentary of him for taking money from financial institutions for speeches and to click as more careful earnings statements from always German lawmakers.

"I paucity to set an instance that other parties within Parliament ought imitate Steinbrueck said Tuesday, predicting that attacks on him would "boomerang."

The main opposition Social Democrats a month ago nominated Steinbrueck as Merkel's challenger among one election expected afterward September.

Opponents then drew attention to his earnings as a paid spokesman after leaving his ministerial post,order of the day when he was still a lawmaker. Steinbrueck and his party plan to make combating perceived financial-sector excesses a chief election issue and some among Merkel's center-right coalition suggested he risked appearing also near to the financial industry.

Steinbrueck struck behind by commissioning a full observe of his earnings, going beyond German Parliament rules that necessitate lawmakers to expose outdoor earnings only among very prevalent terms.

In the observe Steinbrueck detailed 89 lectures to events organized onward banks and other companies as which he was paid as much as �?five,000 ($32,250). He said that income was taxed at Germany's altitude rate of 48 percentage He too made extra than 200 speeches to universities and other institutions without taking a fare.

Steinbrueck, who has been warmly praised for helping drive Germany safely amongst the 2008 financial crisis said he adapt the lectures to peruse the rebel act to bankers. He said it was ludicrous and extra than that" to recommend that giving paid lectures made him dependent aboard the financial industry. He said it's too his job to approach out to folk who aren't natural Social Democratic voters.

Steinbrueck's Social Democrats and their allies, the Greens, have adapt the oscillate to move as distant stricter earnings disclosure rules for lawmakers. Merkel's coalition has proposed tightening the system somewhat,only not as much as the opposition have demanded.

German lawmakers are paid �?,668 ($9,900) per month. Steinbrueck said he doesn't receive that salary,however because he receives payments as a former member of a state administration instead.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A day subsequently Missouri voters scarcely rejected a keen join in the state's tobacco impose for the third period in a ten-year educators are wondering where they can find increased educate funding and supporters of the tax wade are trying to graph out where they could have pedestal more folk to behind the occasion.

Proposition B, which would have raised the excise tax aboard tobacco from 17 cents per package the lowest rate among the nation to 90 cents, failed along fewer than 1 percentage out of more than two.six million votes actors Tuesday. In 2002 and 2006, voters rejected similar measures onward fewer than two percentage points.

The state auditor's bureau estimated the initiative would have generated among $283 million and $423 million annually, with the earnings to be earmarked for education and smoking cessation efforts.

The amount had the backing of K-12 educators and those surrounded higher education because of the money involved,meanwhile the American Cancer Society pushed for the tax add as a deterrent to juvenile people thinking almost picking up the smoking habit.

"It was the maximum important thing aboard the ballot, more important than anybody statewide applicant for the well-being of either the kids in Missouri and our economic development said proposition sponsor Rep. Chris Kelly, a Columbia Democrat.

Ron Leone,brain of the Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, Proposition B's most prominent opponent, said the impose was far also drench and would have price Missouri its competitive advantage among the cigarette mall A learn along a University of Missouri economics professor estimated the state would more than $67 million in sales tax revenue because of one estimated drip within sales of almost 157 million packs.

Leone said he could advocate maybe doubling the tobacco impose to 33 or 34 cents, which would keep Missouri's tax lower than amid surrounding states.

A week antecedent University of Missouri's Columbia campus Chancellor Brady Deaton warned namely failure to pass the levy join would possible scuttle plans to enlarge its therapeutic educate with a second clinical campus amid Springfield.

On Wednesday, a college spokeswoman continual namely assertion.

"We are disappointed Proposition B did never pass, and there is no other source of funding to expand the medical educate surrounded Springfield," said Mary Jo Banken,guide of the university's news bureau.

Kelly praised the efforts of Leone's group meantime criticizing educators outside of Boone County as never perform enough to obtain the sum passed especially among rustic areas and academy towns such as Warrensburg,household of the University of Central Missouri.

"Except surrounded Boone County,teach folk didn't seem to care he said.

Brent Ghan,spokesman as the Missouri School Boards' Association, said K-12 educators fought hard as the impose join including passing resolutions in support of it.

But questions raised along opponents almost where the new tobacco revenue would be spent were legal he said,amid light of previous instances among which gambling income were promised as education, only to replace never accessory state funding as schools.

"Skepticism of administration within mutual probably came into movement within the ballot Ghan said.
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