A burglar who broke into a house and threatened a pensioner with a knife got more than he bargained for when the victim turned out to be a retired boxer who left him bruised and bleeding. Frank Corti, 72, who served with the Royal Engineers in North Africa from 1956-58, dodged the knife and punched Gregory McCalium, 23, twice in the face, giving him a black eye and a swollen lip. He then restrained the attacker until police arrived. McCalium, a barman, was given a four-and-a-half year prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court on Monday for aggravated burglary and was told by the judge he had "got what he deserved".
Frank Corti, 72, who served with the Royal Engineers in North Africa from 1956-58, dodged the knife and punched Gregory McCalium, 23, twice in the face, giving him a black eye and a swollen lip. He then restrained the attacker until police arrived.
McCalium, a barman, was given a four-and-a-half year prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court on Monday for aggravated burglary and was told by the judge he had "got what he deserved".
However it does seem that the pair were neighbours who didn't get on. So I bet there was a bit more going on than's been revealed. keep to the Fen Causeway
Carla Bruni poses in lace underwear in this recently rediscovered photograph from the Next Directory mail order catalogue. France's First Lady may have reached supermodel status at the peak of her career, but in 1989 she was just starting out in the business. She landed the assignment for Next, the British High Street chain, three years after dropping out of university to pursue a full-time modelling career.
France's First Lady may have reached supermodel status at the peak of her career, but in 1989 she was just starting out in the business.
She landed the assignment for Next, the British High Street chain, three years after dropping out of university to pursue a full-time modelling career.
Source: R.Dawg
The value proposition (if true) is invisible. The execution is absurd on several levels of design including but not limited to illustration. So a tidy portrait of the creative direction of green economy in the US. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
And it won't cost twenty five to thirty grand like a Mini. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
We have one parked outside ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
That I would give some serious thought to. We'd never have to buy gas again. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
After a fierce legal battle and a voter recount fight that stretched on for seven months, the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner in the long-disputed U.S. Senate race. Hours after the decision was announced, Republican Norm Coleman conceded defeat during a press briefing, saying, "The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken."
Hours after the decision was announced, Republican Norm Coleman conceded defeat during a press briefing, saying, "The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken."
[painful silence]
(And could we trade up for Olympia Snowe?) Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
As is well known, the theory of the maxima and minima of functions was indebted to him for the greatest progress through the discovery of the method of tangents. Well, he conceives God in the creation of the world like a mathematician who is solving a minimum problem, or rather, in our modern phraseology, a problem in the calculus of variations - the question being to determine among an infinite number of possible worlds, that for which the sum of necessary evil is a minimum. A cautious defense of Leibnizian optimism would invoke certain scientific principles that emerged in the two centuries since his death and that are now thoroughly established: the principle of least action, the conservation of mass, and the conservation of energy. In addition, the modern observations that lead to the Fine-tuned Universe arguments seem to support his view: The 3+1 dimensional structure of spacetime may be ideal. In order to sustain complexity such as life, a universe probably requires three spatial and one temporal dimension. Most universes deviating from 3+1 either violate some fundamental physical laws, or are impossible. The mathematically richest number of spatial dimensions is also 3 (in the sense of topological nontriviality). The universe, solar system, and Earth are the "best possible" in that they enable intelligent life to exist. Such life exists on Earth only because the Earth, solar system, and Milky Way possess a number of unusual characteristics.[14] The most sweeping form of optimism derives from the Anthropic Principle.[15] Physical reality can be seen as grounded in the numerical values of a handful of dimensionless constants, the best known of which are the fine structure constant and the ratio of the rest mass of the proton to the electron. Were the numerical values of these constants to differ by a few percent from their observed values, it is unlikely that the resulting universe would contain complex structures.
As is well known, the theory of the maxima and minima of functions was indebted to him for the greatest progress through the discovery of the method of tangents. Well, he conceives God in the creation of the world like a mathematician who is solving a minimum problem, or rather, in our modern phraseology, a problem in the calculus of variations - the question being to determine among an infinite number of possible worlds, that for which the sum of necessary evil is a minimum.
A cautious defense of Leibnizian optimism would invoke certain scientific principles that emerged in the two centuries since his death and that are now thoroughly established: the principle of least action, the conservation of mass, and the conservation of energy. In addition, the modern observations that lead to the Fine-tuned Universe arguments seem to support his view:
wow, the breadth of this man's mind symbolises our heritage as thinking europeans, (and global beings).
the communication systems back in the 1600's were so slow and dodgy, yet the intellectual networking already working is extraordinary.
it would be fascinating if he could visit us and see how much fruit has grown from the seeds he sowed. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
