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An animated series isn't my first choice but it could be excellent a la The Clone Wars and it is far better than nothing. At the very least, it would demonstrate that Star Trek is perfectly viable on TV and keep the franchise alive in that medium. I still think that if Game of Thrones can make it on premium cable - nerdy content at a high price tag - then why couldn't space opera do the same?
The voices can also follow TCW, use the movie actors when feasible - Samuel L. Jackson must be cutting them a deal based on his love of Star Wars - and use voice actors for the rest. I like the guy who dos Obi-Wan better than Ewan McGregor and Anakin is good too although he does sound a bit too surfer-dude-ish at times. | <urn:uuid:53147b3c-7a64-4e2b-a106-45086da40020> | 2013-05-18T06:53:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Contemplative psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and groups in New York City.
Fire Under the Snow tells the powerful story of Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prisons and labor camps for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration and refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. While in prison, Palden Gyatso was tortured and forced to live in dehumanizing conditions. His courage and resilience, however, is a testament to the human spirit.
Sign up for the Tricycle BuddhaFest Online Film Festival, and watch Fire Under the Snow today.
Watch an interview with Makoto Sasa, director and producer of Fire Under the Snow. | <urn:uuid:14396184-c5ee-4101-99da-f0725f6e2e59> | 2013-05-18T05:31:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Rbash question (was Re: [TriLUG] Limited Access User Account)
rick.denatale at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 10:14:52 EDT 2005
On 9/14/05, Josh Vickery <vickeryj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never done this, but from what you have posted, I think it could
> be done more or less like so:
> 1. set the user's shell in /etc/passwd to "rbash" which is the same as bash -r
> 2. set the user's PATH to just the commands that you want (export
> PATH=/usr/bin/vi:... in /etc/profile or some such place that the user
> does not have write access to.
> 3. setup sudo for the user with the root commands you would like them
> to run, and add /usr/bin/sudo to the user's path
I'll file this one away (actually gmail has already done so <G>.
I hadn't heard of rbash (or bash -r) before. When I did a man rbash
on my Ubuntu system, the last paragraph stuck out at me:
When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash
turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script.
It this correct, or a typo. If it's correct I guess you need to be
careful about what scripts you let the user execute and make sure that
the user has only read and execute permissions to them. Which would be
a further consideration in doing step 2 above.
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In a interview with Slam! Sports, WWE Women's Champion Mickie James, had high praise for Trish:
"She's awesome, very professional and very nice, and she's very talented. It's definitely a treat to work with someone who's talented, and they know what they're doing, and they know what they're talking about. It helps out a lot because then you have two minds coming together trying to work something together that's going to be entertaining and tells a story." | <urn:uuid:1842d51f-d0e6-4c4d-bdb6-643b3699faf6> | 2013-05-18T06:26:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Willow opened her eyes and felt a slight kink in her neck as she woke up in her seat. Seven was operating the shuttle’s controls in the seat next to hers, and Willow took in the lines passing by through the glass. Seven said that those were stars, passing by so quickly that it’s all a blur. I gotta figure out how a warp engine works!
“You’re awake,” Seven noted from beside her. “Did you rest well?”
“Yeah, thanks Seven,” Willow said. “My neck is a bit achy, though. How long has it been since we left Voyager
“Almost four days.”
Willow nodded absently. She’d been passing in and out of consciousness since they’d left the larger ship. The adrenaline the Doctor had given her had kept her going for a while, but the amount of magic she’d been using to compel Janeway to speak the truth had caught up with her, and she’d had to rest. She didn’t think she’d be falling asleep again anytime soon, but she didn’t know for certain.
“And, you’re sure that your alcove is okay back there? No problems with it?” The last thing Willow had done before collapsing in her seat was to help Seven to beam her alcove onto the shuttle in a non-intrusive manner.
“The alcove is functioning normally,” Seven said coolly. The blonde regarded her companion. “Your neck is what aches, Willow?”
“Yeah,” Willow said with a wince. “I just slept on it funny, is all.”
Rising to her feet, Seven moved behind Willow’s seat and began to massage her tense neck muscles.
“Oh! Oh, wow! Oh, Goddess! Seven, where did you learn to do this?” Willow said as her companion kneaded her tense muscles quite skillfully.
“As a Borg, I possessed detailed knowledge of the anatomy of thousands of species. I only meant to be helpful. Should I stop?”
“No! Goddess, no! It feels great, Seven. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome,” Seven said softly. “The Doctor recommended this practice to improve our relationship,” she confessed. “He believed it would bring us closer.”
“Mm. Yeah…” Willow closed her eyes and let herself relax under Seven’s firm, steady hands.
“Willow? Do you need to rest again?”
“Huh? Nope. All good here. Just that this is really turning me on, you know?”
The kneading stopped for a brief moment before resuming. “No, I do not know. Please explain.”
Willow chuckled. “A massage is usually something that you either have someone professional do to you, or else someone who you feel close to. I like to think that I have both with you.”
“Thank you,” Seven said carefully, and Willow thought she detected some unspoken uncertainty in the blonde’s voice.
Turning her seat around to face her, Willow looked up into Seven’s eyes. That’s right, Rosenberg. Look up into her eyes. Don’t let yourself be distracted by what’s at chest level. Don’t stare at her big, gorgeous breasts any longer than you have to. Don’t stare. Don’t stare.
“Willow? Is everything all right? You are staring at my chest.”Crap.
“Uh, yeah. Hold on a sec.” Willow got up out of her not-quite-comfy seat and found her eyes closer to Seven’s own gaze. “Okay. Better now. So, um, I was actually going to ask if you were okay. You sounded a bit funny a second ago.”
Seven looked away for a moment, but quickly brought her gaze back to look at Willow. “I am unaccustomed to feeling this way about someone. I feel attracted to you, Willow. You know this. We have had sexual relations. But I am uncertain of what to feel now. I had assumed that such things would continue, but you said we needed to take things at a slower pace. I do not understand why this is.”
Willow sighed and smiled patiently. “I’d ask you to sit down, but I know you prefer to stand. So, let me think of how to put this, Seven. When we first slept together – well, spent time awake together, technically – we had known each other less than a day. I felt attracted to you as well, but I was acting mostly on impulse there. Sex doesn’t usually happen until both people know each other a lot better than we did when we first, um, did it together.”
“But we know each other better now,” Seven said, clearly puzzled. “Does your refusal to have sex with me mean that you do not care about me anymore?”
“No!” Willow cried, suddenly feeling quite trapped. “It’s not like that, Seven! It’s just that…” Willow took a deep breath before continuing. “I shouldn’t have engaged you like I did as soon as I did. I should have waited until we knew each other better. Sex is something that’s meant to be a sign of trust and intimacy between two people. I guess I had just been so lonely, lonelier than I realized, and I found that I wanted you so badly that I couldn’t help myself.”
Willow sighed, and now she did sit down. “It’s a problem I have. I see something I want, and I take it. I don’t think, I just do. It makes things messy.”
Seven sat down as well, and the gesture struck Willow as sweet. Seven hated sitting down normally, she knew. That she did so willingly now was indicative of… Of something. “I still feel strongly for you. Not just in my body, but my emotions will not let me think about much else. You have treated me as a true equal, Willow. You have shown me things that no one else has, and you have shown me new ways of looking at things that had never occurred to me before.
“You make me act irrationally. I cannot focus when I am thinking about you. My efficiency is impaired, but I find myself not caring. These feelings frighten me, but they also feel right. I don’t understand any of this, Willow!” she cried.
Willow took Seven’s hands in her own and shushed Seven gently. “It’s okay, Seven. It’s okay. I feel things for you, too. I just don’t want to take advantage of you by mistake. In some ways, you’re a lot younger than me. You know a lot about tons of species, but socially, you haven’t done what most people your age have gone through. And I’m not trying to insult you or make you feel bad. I just want you to know that, how do I put this? In my experience, using someone younger than you to get what you want is wrong. And I guess I decided to slow things down because I was afraid I would be, well, violating you.”
Willow hung her head. “And, I was afraid that I had already done so by making love to you the once already. You deserve better, Seven.”
For her part, Seven of Nine looked like she’d just been struck. It wasn’t often that anyone called her childish, nor was it every day that a human showed her this level of compassion. Putting together the notion of compassion along with that of calling her young, and Seven found herself at a loss.
“I don’t know what I deserve,” Seven said at last. “But I want to be with you, Willow. And if we’re going to be together for a while, then I want to get to know you. Shall we start now? Or do you require more rest?”
Willow looked up and smiled. Seven was so cute when she got eager about learning new stuff. “Sure thing. You remember that dream we shared? Let me tell you about myself. And feel free to interrupt whenever you want with a question, no matter how stupid it may seem.”
Seven nodded and smiled slightly. “I will comply.”
Three weeks later, Seven found herself increasingly drawn to Willow. She found herself sneaking glimpses at the redhead as she slept, and began to fantasize about what it might have been like to grow up beside Willow, seeing the things she had seen.
Willow had described things to Seven that had caused the witch great fear, but it seemed that a mere touch from Seven helped to quell those strong emotions. It was curious, but not at all negative. To Seven, the various demons that Willow described were nothing more than unexplained alien phenomena. Superstitions were irrelevant so long as they had no basis in truth. When reality intervened, they ceased to be superstitions.
That the object of her affections had taken up armed conflict against overwhelmingly superior forces at such a young age spoke highly of her character. Seven found herself ashamed at her cowardice of the Borg by comparison. When they had come for her aboard the Raven,
she had tried to hide, and she hadn’t been able to resist. And then she’d become one of them.
Willow had explained that while she couldn’t understand what it meant to be Borg, she could understand how it felt to lose someone to them. The Vampires that she described were similar in that they destroyed an individual and added its body to their own numbers. She claimed to have even met a vampiric version of herself from an alternate reality. The mention of that encounter had again made Seven reflect on how things might have been for her if her life had gone differently.
The console beeped, and Seven disengaged the warp engines. “We’ve arrived, Willow.”
“All right!” Willow said excitedly. “I hope we don’t make them feel bad or anything. I guess we should hail them. That’s what it’s called when you call someone in space, right?”
“Yes, Willow. Hailing frequencies to the Topara are open.”
Willow leaned forward. “Uh, hello? This is, um, this is Willow Rosenberg and Seven of Nine calling whoever’s down there on Topa. So, yeah. Hi there!”
A small screen lit up to display the faces of the High Clerics. “Guardian Willow! Seven of Nine! Welcome back!” Teya said warmly.
“Thank you for welcoming us,” Willow said diplomatically. “Uh, would it be okay if we landed? We’re in a shuttle. It’s not very big compared to the ship I left on. As for why we’re no longer with Voyager
, well, things didn’t quite work out with us, and I also have an idea. But I need your permission.”
“We will do whatever we can to assist you, Guardian. Do you remember the site we showed you once from where we launch our satellites?”
“Yup! Is that where you want us to land?”
“That would be optimal, Guardian. Thank you for your consideration.”
Willow chuckled. “It’s your world, not mine. I don’t want to do anything to make things tough for you. I’ve told you all to never give me a free pass, haven’t I?”
“So you have,” Yorei said, speaking for the first time since the conversation had begun. “I will arrange to have a vehicle bring you to us.”
“Thank you, both. May Peace go with you.”
“And with you,” the Clerics said as one, bowing their heads before signing off.
“So,” Willow said, turning to Seven. “Do you think you’ll be able to go without regenerating for a little bit longer? It’s been a few days.”
“I do not need to regenerate at this time,” Seven said, and as she said so, she reflected on the strangeness of that. She had always had to regenerate after a few days at the most, but the further they’d gotten away from Voyager and closer to Topa, the less time Seven seemed to need to spend in her alcove.
“Weird,” was Willow’s contribution to the discussion. “Not complaining, but it’s still strange, isn’t it?”
“Yes, it is,” Seven said, not elaborating on her uneasiness.
A few minutes later, they had touched down on the surface and were being escorted to the capital by a pair of friendly Toparan men who worked at the launch site. Unlike most other species, they did not act strangely around her, or fearful. It was reassuring.
On her second trip to the temple garden now, Seven found herself looking around at her surroundings with a different eye than she had before. The first time she had walked here, Seven was alert for threats at every turn. Now, however, she found herself taking in the simple beauty of the place. She was forced to concede that beauty and aesthetics were not irrelevant as she had once thought. They could bring immense pleasure, and that was also relevant.
Willow had left her side to speak with the High Clerics, leaving Seven to explore the luscious area. She stroked a fern with one hand, feeling its softness and coolness beneath her fingertips. Since her sexual encounter with Willow, Seven had been more prone to touch things, and she found herself in awe of the joy that could be found from such simple things.
Willow rejoined her shortly with both of the High Clerics. “So, uh, Seven… I’ve discussed my idea with High Clerics Yorei and Teya, and they’ve agreed that as long as we’re careful, we can go ahead with what we discussed. But I have to know that you’re sure it’s what you want, Seven.”
Taking Willow’s hand in her own, Seven smiled gently. “I am sure.”
“Very well,” Teya said softly. “The ritual will be lengthy, but it will allow us to fulfill a debt long since overdue. And if you can benefit from it as well, Seven of Nine, then it will bring us all the more joy. To heal one such as you is an honor and a pleasure.”
Seven didn’t know what to say, so she simply nodded as the High Clerics went about to make preparations.
Willow took Seven’s other hand with hers and smiled. “And now, we just have to wait a little bit longer.”
Willow found herself sitting on the altar where she had been a statue for almost four hundred years, but this time Seven sat with her. They held hands and looked into each other’s eyes. The clerics had told them that when Seven had touched Willow and woken her from her sleep on the altar, a bond had formed between them. Willow didn’t know what to expect from the bond, and she didn’t know what it entailed, save that it was there in some form or another. It was magic of some kind, she was sure.
Was this why they had felt so attracted to one another? Willow didn’t want to think that magic was responsible for what they had together, and upon further thought, she knew that what she felt was truly genuine. Unlike the love spell that Xander had misused back in High School, this was not sudden or compelling. It was natural.
It might have explained why Seven no longer seemed to need to regenerate at all, though. What other benefits might come, Willow didn’t know, but she guessed that shared dreams were part of the package.
The sun was setting over the horizon as a circle of clerics continued their chanting.
“By the Power, by the Will, and by the Spirit, shield these souls from sight.”
Upon hearing the clerics words, Willow knew that she and Seven had become invisible. And she knew that Seven knew this as well. She could feel their hearts beating as one, their meditation bringing them closer for the ritual. And it felt damned good, too.
“By the Earth, by the Water, and by the Air, deliver these souls unto their Time of Life.”
Willow felt the wind gust about her, and she knew that she had to keep her eyes closed, even if it was so tempting to snap just a peek.
The wind died down, and the feeling of stone beneath her was gone. Opening her eyes, Willow got to her feet alongside Seven.
Looking up at the moonless night sky, Willow saw the familiar sight of a Borg cube coming ever closer to the planet’s surface.
Behind her, she heard a different chant from a larger circle of clerics, and a portal of blue light was coalescing. She knew that this chant had been going on for days, and only now was it about to reach its completion. Outside of the circle of clerics, which they themselves were within, thousands of people made ready to flee through the portal.
It finally opened, but the clerics were immediately met by the sight of a large party of pissed-looking Slayers, Buffy taking point with the Scythe in her hands.
“Don’t any of you even think of setting foot here,” Buffy snarled.
The clerics began to stammer pleas and apologies that Willow was all too familiar with. They begged Buffy to let them pass, professed that they were harmless and needed to flee. But Buffy was a Slayer, fiercely protective of the Earth. And with their red and black eyes and their green skin, Willow couldn’t blame her friend for mistaking the Topara for demons.
“Hang on!” a voice called out from behind Buffy, and Willow realized that the voice was her own. Seven’s hand tightened around her own as she saw herself come forward to take a magical reckoning of the Topara. She stepped through the portal and looked up into the night sky.
“Oh, damn! Buffy, get some of the other witches and seal this portal, quickly! These aren’t demons at all, but there’s something terrible about to attack them.”
“What about you, Will?” Buffy asked. “Can’t you close it?”
“Of course, I could. But then I wouldn’t be able to drive off whatever that is in the sky.”
“What?! You want us to leave you behind, Will? Not gonna happen.”
“It’s gotta happen, Buffy. These people are innocent. They may not be human, but they’re not demons. I’m not gonna stand by and let this world end. I almost did that to our world once, and I’ll be damned if I do anything to let another world die because I was a coward!”
Willow saw the pain in her friend’s face, but she knew that Buffy knew wouldn’t be winning this argument.
“Don’t worry,” past-Willow said. “You’ll see me again, Buffy.”
“How can you know that, Willow?” Buffy protested.
“I don’t,” Willow heard herself confessed. “But I just know it somehow. Now get that portal closed, Buffy! If you don’t, then Earth really will be at risk.”
Knowing that the portal would soon be closed from her native side, Willow took Seven’s hand and slipped through the portal as the Slayers parted to make way for the witches. Still invisible, Seven and Willow went through unchallenged.
A round of chanting began to echo around them, only with human voices this time. Willow looked back and saw her other self look right at her, and she could swear that her past self was seeing her despite her invisibility.
In a brilliant flash, the portal disappeared. As it did, Willow and Seven became visible.
“I don’t believe it,” Buffy said to herself. “Do any of you really think we’re going to see Willow again?”
“I think so,” Rona said.
“You do?” Buffy asked, her eyes wet with tears.
“Uh huh,” the younger slayer said, gesturing with her head to where Willow and Seven were standing, hands still holding each other.
As Buffy turned to face her, Willow gave a nervous little wave. “Uh, hiya, Buff!”
“Willow!” Buffy cried, tackling the witch in a bear hug.
“Air, Buffy!” Willow said, fond memories of Slayer-hugs coming back to her in a rush.
“Oh! Sorry. But, how? What happened? And who’s this?”
“This is Seven of Nine. Seven, this is Buffy Summers, Senior Slayer and longtime friend of mine.”
Seven extended her hand. “It is an honor to meet you, Buffy. I’ve heard a lot about you.”
Willow watched with bemusement as Buffy took Seven’s hand. “Uh, it’s good to meet you, too. Can’t say that I know anything about you, though. And what the hell is that you are wearing?”
Seven shifted uncomfortably. “Willow has indicated to me that I am in need of ‘real clothing.’ She intimated that you would be willing to assist me in this.”
Buffy got an evil grin on her face that Willow knew all too well. “Oh, I think that can be arranged. It’s been too long since I’ve been to the mall. But, later. This portal has been building for days, and now that it’s gone, I think we’ve all earned a day or two of R&R.” A round of cheers from the younger slayers greeted Buffy’s remarks.
Seven took in the empty building around her, which seemed filthy and long abandoned. Willow’s living quarters were not distant, she had said, and Seven was hoping they were more amenable.
Hand in hand, the two women stepped outside, and Seven had to shield her eyes at first. The sun was shining overhead, and a fresh breeze whistled through the air. A pier was off to one side, and a body of water greeted Seven’s eyes, the cawing of gulls touching her ears in a way that was not quite unpleasant.
A city waited for them in the other direction. It was primitive to her eyes, but something simply felt right about it. This was Earth. For the first time in her life, Seven was standing on the human homeworld. The sun on her face felt warm and wonderful, and she felt an urge to tear off her biosuit and expose the rest of her body to her native star. She held in the impulse for now.
Willow looked at her, a warm smile on her face. “Well, this is it. How do you feel, Seven?”
Seven of Nine, not quite a Borg, not quite a human, took Willow in her arms, feeling sure of herself for the first time in a long time. “I feel like I’m home.”
Willow smiled and pressed her lips to Seven’s, and the two held each other for what might have been a second or an eternity. As they held each other, the two lovers found themselves knowing each other in a way that they couldn’t explain, but that they knew was right.
“Yes,” they said as one. “We’re home.”
I don't own Star Trek or Buffy, I'm just playing in their sandbox.
I want to thank all of you who read and reviewed this story. Your support has been outstanding, and has really been a great help to me. I can only hope that this story as a whole is to your liking.
Special Thanks to Hecatonchires for catching a silly error on my part.
I may write a sequel, if my muse is feeling cooperative. If anyone has any ideas for what such a story might involve, I'd love to hear from you.
With that said, thank you all again for your support, and I hope you have enjoyed The Pursuit of Perfection. ^_^ | <urn:uuid:dd1eb2a7-9fa5-481e-a3ac-73c7f3ed79c7> | 2013-05-18T05:29:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Human strength and an avalanche of visuals. Battle and magical music.
Battle will take the stadium like a force of nature. This major production provides a highly visual story of survival that challenges us to consider the future of humanity, both as individuals and as social animals. What does being powerful or being without power at all mean if we cannot control the elements around us? | <urn:uuid:41e7a063-44b4-4315-a06b-2613def00aa6> | 2013-05-18T08:08:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The electorate may be deeply divided, but the two candidates running for president share common ground on their favorite TV show. Both President Barack Obama and his opponent Governor Mitt Romney told TV Guide Magazine that Modern Family is the show they most enjoy watching with their wives. President Obama told us about his TV preferences and pop culture habits...
Per Variety, Clive Barker is writing and producing, but not directing, an update of 1987's Hellraiser. Barker, touting this as more than a remake, says, "There are areas where I think we can be a lot more intense and a lot scarier".... Hugh Jackman will produce and star in an adaptation of the Robert Littell novel The Amateur, which 24's Evan Katz will pen.... Eminem hopes to play gunslinger Palladin in Paramount's big-screen take on the 1950s TV Western Have Gun Will Travel.... Russia has banned the release of Borat, citing "material that [may be deemed] offensive to certain nationalities and religions." No, really? | <urn:uuid:067c720d-9578-416c-97ea-3e0d66ffe7a0> | 2013-05-18T08:15:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How do you make a hankie dance? You put a little boogie in it!Well, my friends started to send me other jokes like that when they heard them. Between my friends and Ellen's jokes, I now have a pretty good list going. Here are a few more of my favorites...
What did the Pink Panther say when he stepped on an ant? Dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead annnnnnnt (sung to the tune of the Pink Panther)They may not be the best jokes in the world, but they do make my friends and I giggle. So, do any of you have any "good" jokes for me? I would love to add to my list.
What are Mario and Luigi's overalls made of? Denim, denim, denim (like the sound effect from the classic game)
What did the Pillsbury Dough Boy see when he bent over? Dough-nuts | <urn:uuid:a024befb-1d83-4ff7-8641-f36a88f9f7d8> | 2013-05-18T05:30:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Brandon J. Owens was arrested about 6 p.m. Friday on one count of aggravated assault, a second-degree felony, and one count of deadly conduct, a third-degree felony, according to a news release.
The warrants were issued earlier Friday afternoon by 241st State District Judge Jack Skeen, Jr., who set bond at $350,000 for the aggravated assault count and $150,000 for the deadly conduct.
According to a news release, the charges stem from about 1:30 a.m. Christmas Day.
The release states that the offenses occurred while Owens was off duty and are not related to his employment with the Smith County Sheriff's Office.
Upon receiving the information relating to this investigation and upon Smith's oath of office at 12:03 a.m. on Tuesday, Owens was suspended. Owens was suspended at 7 a.m. on that same date upon arriving for duty at the Smith County Central Jail, according to a news release. | <urn:uuid:a5461076-1029-487b-a1e2-aa6b991c0905> | 2013-05-18T08:04:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Published Saturday, 11 August 2012
Luke Campbell of Great Britain (in blue) is declared winner over John Joe Nevin (© Getty)
Campbell claimed the title with a 14-11 victory in front of a 10,000 sell-out crowd at the ExCel arena.
The Team GB boxer landed a superb left-hand counter in the final round to floor his Irish opponent, who had beaten him in 2009 before the Hull man gained revenge with a close win in last year's World Championship semi-finals.
Nevin's tactics seemed to play into the hands of Campbell, who took a deserved 5-3 first-round lead.
An improved showing reduced the deficit to one point going into the final round, but Campbell made sure of the gold with a fine late effort, including the eye-catching counter that sent the Mullingar boxer to the canvas.
Team Ireland finish the Olympic Games with five medals in total - four in boxing, with Katie Taylor clinching gold in the women's lightweight division.
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Help! I'm new to Ubuntu so please be kind to me!! Every time I open a window on the desktop, they are always docked to the left hand edge of the screen. Even after I move them over to the center of the desktop, the next time I open them, they are back on the left! Can somebody help me fix this? | <urn:uuid:2946b2a2-d470-4c3c-b796-dccd292d3db0> | 2013-05-18T06:43:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Someone who is practicing all the kata through Sanseiloue, (probably Yondan and up)
should try to do without Master Uechi's "training wheels" for Wa-uke practice. (the basic training he taught of posting the upper hand/arm against the arm that descibes the full circle)
That was his idea (and an excellent drill) to keep the Wa-uke circle coming principally from the elbow not the shoulder and to restrict the diameter and thereby increase the speed of the circle.
What that drill produces is a small circle/oval , (performed by the elbow), within a larger circle/oval (performed by the hand and forearm ) all the while minimizing the exposure of the rib cage in terms of duration and size of the opening.
After ten years or so of practice, Master Takara's opinion is at Yondan, we should have the ability to perform the block correctly without needing the upper hand /arm to restrict the circular motion of the lower arm.
At that point, the wa-uke in all kata, including Sanchin, is seen as a closed circle, beginning and ending at the same point. I relate it to the numerals on a clock face. Looking at a student front on, the right Wa-uke starts and ends at 9 o'clock (counterclockwise) and the left at 3 o'clock (clockwise).
In Seichin, Kanshin and Sanseiloue, the blocks start at the same point as in the full Wa-uke, but, the circle terminates at roughly the half circle point as the opponents kick starts to be lifted vertically and you move your elbow out of Sanchin to keep his toes from reaching your chest.
I hope this is understandable! If not, let's talk some more. | <urn:uuid:02eeb81d-e615-4eee-ba11-05e527aa70e5> | 2013-05-18T05:59:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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TRAINING: I have been in training a long time for this fight, as I returned from my fight with Francis Carmont and had to sort out a few minor health issues and then I was back in the gym. I have had some great sparring - a typical day basically covers conditioning work, sparring and working on the technical side of my game - I have had sparring partners who have tried to impersonate Leben - I feel fit and ready
Thoughts on opponent, Chris Leben? I am so excited by this fight - I cannot wait to share the cage with a fighter like Leben, someone who comes to fight and has a lot of respect in the MMA world. I have the utmost respect for what he has achieved in the UFC and how he fights. I want to repay Joe Silva's faith in giving me such a fight by making it an exciting fight for the fans and also putting myself in the frame in the middleweight division.
When and why did you start training for fighting? 2007 – I enjoy the competition.
What ranks and titles have you held? CFC World and European Heavyweight Champion
Do you have any heroes? Fedor Emelianenko
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It has always been my dream and ambition to compete at the highest level and to showcase my skills. I believe that fighting for the UFC is the ultimate, and to fight in the USA before the great people of America fills me with great emotion and excitement. I hope to prove I am good enough for the UFC and to eventually become one of their main fighters. I am very grateful for the opportunity.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? No
What was your job before you started fighting? Door supervisor
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? Six-time Czech Republic national wrestling champion
Favorite grappling technique: Rear naked choke
Favorite Striking technique: Overhand right | <urn:uuid:af689f39-137a-4c7c-a4be-687c19c9e8f2> | 2013-05-18T06:51:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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TRAINING: Morning conditioning, afternoon technique session, evening sparring.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I turned pro in 2007 because I love the competition.
What ranks and titles have you held? Former Sportfight Welterweight Champion.
Do you have any heroes? Roy Pittman
What is your favorite technique? All aspects of Ground and Pound
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It means a lot. I'm really thankful for the opportunity. I think this is a huge step in the right direction for me. I'm excited to be in the show and hope to put on an exciting fight for the fans.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Went to Portland State University. No degree.
What was your job before you started fighting? I was a Union Carpenter worker. The biggest project I was a part of was the OHSU Tram that spans across Portland's OHSU campuses. It was a lot of fun and a really unique project to be a part of. | <urn:uuid:0dc17c36-848e-43e1-8678-5e6d478a6f30> | 2013-05-18T05:26:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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TRAINING: There really isn't a typical day - I'm always training different disciplines, and my training is diverse.
When and why did you start training for fighting? Age 20 - for self defense purposes.
What ranks and titles have you held? TUF 16 finalist, ranked in top ten at lightweight in Canada.
Do you have any heroes? None.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It has been my dream for years; it means everything to me.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? No.
What was your job before you started fighting? Odd jobs here and there, nothing stable.
Ranks in any martial arts styles: BJJ purple belt
Favorite grappling technique: Double leg
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Welcome to Campus Recreation
UIC Campus Recreation offers state-of-the-art facilities, fun and exciting programs, and provides educationally sound and healthy services, all focused on providing our university community a complete recreational experience. Campus Recreation is a valuable resource for students, faculty/staff, and our other constituents who wish to pursue a healthy lifestyle.
Through participation in various programs, participants can gain a multitude of personal benefits including improved levels of physical fitness and wellness, opportunities for social interaction, enhanced time management skills, the opportunity to engage in a group dynamic setting, the opportunity for a healthy means of stress relief, as well as the creation of a sense of ownership and belonging between students and the UIC community.
Please visit any of our state-of-the-art facilities to learn more about what Campus Recreation has to offer.
Human Performance Lab
2012-2013 Avery Brundage Scholarship
The scholarship is earmarked for graduate or undergraduate students who demonstrate excellence both in academic pursuits and athletic endeavors. Paper applications will not be distributed. Instead, applications should be completed and submitted online, and can be accessed at: | <urn:uuid:6e6f39ef-9158-4b89-9fc2-424dc9c5e85d> | 2013-05-18T07:13:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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3. "We think the cane could pose a hazard to other students. We’d like your child to leave it at the door or in the locker."
Why is this statement problematic?
The proper use of the long, white cane will not cause a hazard but can
actually prevent hazardous situations from occurring. The cane identifies
a child as having a visual impairment so that others can respond appropriately.
Like vision, the cane provides preview of what is out in front and enables
the child to detect objects, identify drop offs and other changes in elevation,
and walk confidently at a normal speed. Furthermore, the cane helps the
child develop spatial concepts and environmental awareness. The child must
be taught to take personal responsibility for the cane and use it appropriately
for safe and independent travel.
Possible Responses for Parents/Advocates
- “According to Ellie’s formal orientation and mobility evaluation
the cane is a necessary tool for her safe and independent travel. In fact,
she is building life-long skills that will enable her to negotiate a variety
of environments independently.”
- “Jan needs her cane in the same way that a student in a wheelchair needs
wheels or a student with myopia needs eyeglasses. She uses it for safe and
independent mobility. Not allowing her to use her cane in the halls and classroom
will compromise not only her safety but also her understanding of the environment.
In addition, her IEP cannot be considered implemented if she is not allowed
to use her cane.”
- “Jack’s cane is a respectable and necessary tool that enables him to
move about safely, independently, and age appropriately. For example, it
would be very demeaning and inconvenient if Jack had to wait for someone
to ‘take’ him to the bathroom. Jack has been trained in the proper use of
his cane and should be expected to use it properly. The O&M Specialist*
would be glad to discuss any concerns you have.
*Orientation and Mobility Specialist
Read the Law
Collabortive effort between the
National Center on Severe and Sensory Disabilities
and the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
Copyright © 2008 National Center on Severe and Sensory Disabilities
Copyright © 2006 National Center on Low-Incidence Disabilities
Permission to use for educational purposes granted. | <urn:uuid:9fcecae8-c49a-4229-86a1-ba44f544027a> | 2013-05-18T06:50:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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So, what kind of emulator do you use to run linus progs in Linux?
Don't you mean...run windows progs in linux??...lol
I mean, that's what emulators are for right? :p
Anyways, I've used wineX to play GTA3. It was nice, but eh..it's just not right. Dare I say, it's better under windows and rightfully so. Linux was never intended to be some kind of gaming OS. I've never tried the other emulators you mentioned, For several reasons, memory usage is increased and the software isn't free
and I really have no reason to run windows progs while using linux. Oh another thing, the official version of wineX is not free. But I found it some irc servers for free...hehe. But if you ask me, for the amount of stuff winex can do it's worth signing up and buying it.
The site can be found here... http://www.transgaming.com/ | <urn:uuid:62642f09-e874-4d03-8c0d-812bbe83993d> | 2013-05-18T06:45:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sidereal Time is the time is takes for celestial bodies to ascend and descend in the night sky. We know that celestial bodies are in reality, fixed in their positions. The reason for their dramatic movement in the night is because of the rotation of the earth. This is the same reason why the Sun and the Moon seem to rise and set. For the longest time, this motion caused many philosophers and astronomers to assume that the Earth was the center of the Universe. Fortunately later astronomers like Copernicus were able to discern the true movements of the Earth, Moon, and Sun helping to explain their movements. The time that it takes for a star, planet or other fixed celestial body to ascend and descend in the night sky is also called sidereal period. Coincidentally this time corresponds to the time it takes for the Earth to rotate one revolution which is just under 24 hours.
Sidereal time is not like solar time which is measured by the movement of the sun. Or the lunar cycles which take about 28 days. It is the relative angle of a celestial object to the prime meridian of the vernal equinox of the earth. IF these terms are confusing, here is what they mean. In cartography, the Earth is bisected by two major lines of longitude and latitude. These lines are the 0 degree points on the globe. The 0 degree point for the latitude is the Equator the point where the Earth is perfectly bisected. It cut through South America and Africa. The 0 degree point for the longitude is the prime meridian. It exact location is Greenwich, UK. The Equinoxes are essentially the times of the year when the sun rise and sets at the exact same point of the horizon at the equator. This means that these are the only times the solar day is equally divided into 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. The hour angle for a celestial object relative to this meridian is what we call sidereal time.This angle changes with the rotation of the Earth creating a pattern of ascension and descent for celestial bodies in the Earth’s sky.
With the knowledge of sidereal time astronomers can predict the positions of stars. The values for the sidereal time of celestial objects is compile in a table or start chart called an ephemeris. With this guide to sidereal time astronomers can find a celestial object regardless of the change in their position over the year.
There are also some great resources on the net. The U.S. Naval observatory has an online clock to help you find out the sidereal time in your area. There is also a great explanation on the astronomy section of the Cornell university site. | <urn:uuid:678e8811-82bd-4c27-af17-f540e64bc52a> | 2013-05-18T06:56:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"The Man Who Stopped the Desert''
Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate peasant in Burkina Faso has transformed the lives of thousands of people across the Sahel region. He stopped the expansion of the desert. His work inspired a British filmmaker to produce a documentary entitled "The Man who Stopped the Desert."
Ghana works to avoid the ” curse” of oil
The discovery of oil off the coast of Ghana in 2007 was greeted with joy. However there is also concern about corruption that has plagued other oil producing countries. A civil society organization in Ghana is working to ensure that there is transparency in the country's oil production process.
Tanzania prepares for a national census
Tanzania's population is increasing by an average of 1.3 million people each year. In 2012 the country plans to undertake a national census at an estimated cost of $76 million. The UN Population Fund is workng closely with the government to ensure the exercise proceeds smoothly.
Producer/Presenter: Derrick Mbatha
Editor: Jocelyn Sambira
Production Assistant: Sandra Guy
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John David "Catch" Carlson, Jr. (born May 12, 1984, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American football tight end for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Seahawks in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Notre Dame.
He was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, however his family moved to Litchfield right after his birth. Carlson graduated from Litchfield High School which competes in the Wright County Conference. As a football player, he was all-state Minnesota in his Senior year. He played in the 2003 U.S. Army All-American Bowl alongside fellow Notre Dame Fighting Irish players Brady Quinn, Ryan Harris, and Tom Zbikowski. As a basketball player, Carlson was voted to the preseason McDonald's All-American list. During his senior year, John Carlson managed to shatter three backboards. Carlson was also an all-state tennis player. His dad is also the basketball and tennis coach for the Litchfield Dragons.
Carlson played college football at Notre Dame, where he was a two-year starter at tight end. He was named captain in his junior and senior seasons. He recorded 100 receptions, 1,093 receiving yards and 8 total touchdowns in his career. He also lived in St. Edward's Hall, the oldest residence hall on campus. | <urn:uuid:631880e0-d87f-4cae-a1cc-e2bce785ca28> | 2013-05-18T06:58:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Scottish/Northern English phrase to suggest someone is a coward.
(your mate wont ask a girl out) "aww come on, stop being a Jessy"
(someone runs away from a fight with you) "Haha, ya big Jessy"
A dumb scene slut who thinks she's the utter shit;
she has no boundaries or morals
She gives herself away to guys and girls alike deliberately.
She has nose hairs like nothing you've ever seen before
She thinks she's model material
She's conceited, and talks like a five year old
She's ugly as shit
She dates/fucks anything with two legs. (Yet hardly anyone likes her)
For more information on a Jessy, look up:
Have you seen that Jessy today, man?" "Dude, keep her names from your lips, you might catch an STD..
Jessy is a very laid back person. He's really awesome to talk to and can make girls smile. He's short, has wavy brown hair and has an attractive face. He thinks he's going to be forever alone with cats but we all know hes not. And last but not least he has an amazing smile.
Jessy is so awesome! Who wouldn't want to be his friend?
A Pimp Ass Mutherfucking Mandingo That Would Steal Your Girl And Plow Her.
Jojo-Have You Seen Jessy?
Antonio-Yea That Pimp Ass Mutherfucking Mandingo Stoled My Girl And Ruuined Her By Plowing Her..Ruuuined.
1. Someone with either a lazy eye or one normal eye and one glass eye, usually the fake/lazy eye flops and is easy to notice.
2. 'Jessy' can also be used as an insult.
Person 1: 'Wow look over there!'
Person 2: 'I can't see anything, what is it?'
Person 1: 'Your a fucking jessy!'
Person 2: 'Fuck you' | <urn:uuid:9da92928-9823-467d-aced-d635983ac421> | 2013-05-18T06:26:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The BEST muthafucking shit around. Generally used in conjunction with the word "Muthafucka"
It is an internet meme from the site Youtube
That bitch right there it a muthafucking purple eagle!
Unknown phenomenon involving mysterious body art
unknown at this time.
Yo whats purple eagle mean? | <urn:uuid:7c895d51-e7e3-487d-a40e-9c5696e41ef7> | 2013-05-18T08:12:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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One of the most annoying songs on the radio.
"Shawty's like a melody in my head, can't keep out, got my singing like
Na na na na, every day
It's like my iPod's stuck on replay, replay-ay-ay-ay"
A song by Iyaz that acts as a subtle metaphor for the artist's homosexuality. A romantic song about a man falling in love with a girl on the surface it is a subversive message for Iyaz's love of cock. "Remember the first time we met/
You was at the mall wit yo friends/I was scared to approach ya." Iyaz reticence about approaching 'her' is not because of ego or fear of rejection but because he doesn't want to be outed as the homosexual he is.
"Who would have ever knew/That we would ever be more than friends" In this verse he is clearly demonstrating that he is acting differntly when with his friends making sure they don't know that they "would ever be more than friends." If the song really is about a girl than why is she the "gun to myhis holster." The gun is clearly a phallic metaphor as it is nothing less than pure masculinity why than does she have the gun? it is because the holster is Iyaz's anus and a man not 'she' is putting the gun in his holster. It is the draw of homosexuality that he replays over and over in his head. More subversive clues are "doin things that i never do," and "the one that could FILL your fantasies"
"You know that song Replay?"
"Sure, you realize it's a metaphore for represed homosexuality"
"i know Iyaz was gay"
"not there is anything wrong with that"
"no, not at all"
An addictive song by Sean Kingston ft. IYAZ that if on youtube, will keep you clicking "replay" afterwards.
Bob: Man, I listened to replay at least 600 times lastnight.
Regarding and related to repetitive online play.
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v.: to dismantle or otherwise redistribute the composite parts of a whole, as with an automobile, motorcycle, or computer system, according to the respective practical or monetary value of each.
n./adj.: used to denote or describe an item whose original purpose or function as a whole is no longer viable, but whose constituent parts retain some individual practical or monetary value, as with a "yard out" motorcycle (often hyphenated: "yard-out"), also called a "parts machine".
Context: The parting out of automobiles, motorcycles, electronic computer systems, industrial and agricultural machinery, electrical appliances, medical apparatuses, nautical and aeronautical equipment and other mechanical devices and instrumentation is done as an economical and, incidentally, ecological means of recycling (see recycle) and reusing various components that may otherwise be more expensive or difficult to obtain.
See also: part out; part it out; dismantle; parts queen, junk wagon.
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All instructors vary greatly in how their courses are designed. The chart below will give you a basic idea of some of the differences and similarities between the two types of courses. Blended courses may combine aspects of both.
|Face to Face Course||Online Course|
|Where?||In an assigned classroom on campus||Anywhere you have access to a computer and the Internet|
|When?||Class times are assigned; homework is done outside of class||All work is done at times most convenient to you. Some students prefer the morning, others afternoon, and others in the evening.|
|How are classes conducted?||Classes may consist of lectures, discussions, small group discussion, problem solving or other types of in-class exercises.||Classes and homework merge in online courses. They may consist of reading, viewing, or listening to course content as well as participating in a written class discussion, problem solving, essays, exercises, research, or other projects.|
|Homework||Homework may consist of reading, viewing, or listening to course content as well as participating in a written class discussion, problem solving, essays, exercises, research, or other projects.|
|Time Commitment||3 hours in class plus 3-9 hours of homework = 6-12 hours||6-12 hours for reading, viewing or listening to course content, participating in the discussion forum, and completing the course assignments|
|Deadlines||Homework and assignments have specific due dates||Homework and assignments, and discussions have specific due dates|
|Class Discussions||Instructors pose a question, which some or all students respond to verbally.||Discussions take place in the Sakai discussion forum in writing. Generally instructors pose a question to which all students are required to respond and possibly also to respond to their classmates. A discussion my last several days.|
|Grading||Instructors may grade quizzes, tests, essays, and other assignments||Instructors may grade participation in the discussion forum, quizzes, tests, essays, and other assignments.|
|Will I need to come to campus?||Yes, for all of your classes||Some online classes require proctored exams. If you cannot come to the campus, you will be provided with information to find a proctored test site.|
|How does my instructor get to know me?||Faculty are present in the classroom, have office hours, and may be contacted through email or phone.||Faculty are present in the online discussion forum, may provide personal feedback via email or in response to assignments, may have virtual office hours, and may be available by email, phone, or web conferencing.|
Anna Vaccaro '12Communication Studies
Gender & Women's Studies
"Because of online courses, I was able to finish my degrees despite having limited childcare available to me as a single parent. As a student, I strongly benefited from the way the online format encourages active participation skills. Passivity is not an option in a classroom style that requires you to consistently, meaningfully contribute to the class in order to prove your presence and earn your grade." | <urn:uuid:2abaf876-3fd1-45c5-9442-2b8cea2a20fd> | 2013-05-18T07:14:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The schoolgirl and activist from Pakistan shot in the head by the Taliban and subsequently flown to the United Kingdom for treatment waved as she left the hospital Friday.
LONDON – Malala Yousufzai, the schoolgirl and women's rights activist from Pakistan who was shot in the head by the Taliban and subsequently flown to the United Kingdom for treatment, has been discharged from Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the hospital said Friday.
Yousufzai was discharged on Thursday, but will be re-admitted in late January or early February for reconstructive surgery to her skull, the hospital said.
"Malala is a strong young woman and has worked hard with the people caring for her to make excellent progress in her recovery," said Dave Rosser, medical director of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. "Following discussions with Malala and her medical team, we decided that she would benefit from being at home with her parents and two brothers."
Yousufzai, now 15, was shot and wounded on her way home from school in October last year. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying she was promoting "Western thinking."
Her departure from the hospital comes in the same week that gunmen in Islamabad on motorcycles sprayed a van carrying employees from a community center with bullets, killing five female teachers and two aid workers.
The director of the group that the seven worked for says he suspects it may have been the latest in a series of attacks targeting anti-polio efforts in Pakistan. Some Islamic militants oppose the vaccination campaigns, accusing health workers of acting as spies for the United States and alleging the vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile.
Last month, nine people working on an anti-polio vaccination campaign were shot and killed. Four of those shootings were in the northwest where Tuesday's attack took place.
Earlier this week, Yousufzai's father was given a diplomatic post in the U.K. Ziauddin Yousufzai has been appointed Pakistan's education attache in Birmingham, the Associated Press reported.
In a post on Twitter on Friday, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, wrote, "Good news that Malala is well enough to leave hospital. We wish her well as her recovery continues with her family."
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Such was the condition in Kansas at the opening of the presidential year of 1856, and it became one of the leading issues of the campaign. The whole country was aroused over reports from Kansas, and it was impossible that such a question remain long out of the halls of Congress, notwithstanding the claim of Douglas that his famous bill would remove the slavery question from national politics. In May, 1856, Senator Sumner made a powerful speech on "The Crime against Kansas." The speech was a fearful arraignment of the slave power. But the speaker went out of his way to abuse certain senators whom he did not like, especially Senator Butler of South Carolina, who was then absent from the city, and who had made no special personal attack on Sumner.
Charles Sumner, with all his learning, was a narrow-minded man. He was opinionated, egotistical, and incapable of giving credit to another for an honest difference of opinion. But he was sincerely honest and courageous.¹ His espousal of the cause of the slave when that cause was very unpopular rose from the innermost depths of his soul. His furious attack on Butler was occasioned by the indignation expressed by the latter at the audacity of the Topeka convention in applying for statehood. But Sumner suffered severely for his extravagance. Two days after making this speech, as he sat at his desk writing, after the Senate had adjourned, he was assaulted with a cane by Preston Brooks, a member of the House and a relative of Senator Butler. Brooks rained blows on Sumner's head with great ferocity. Sumner sat so near his desk that he had no chance to defend himself; but at length he rose, wrenching the desk from its fastenings. Brooks then grappled with him and continued his blows until Sumner fell bleeding and unconscious to the floor.
So great were the injuries of the Massachusetts senator that he did not fully recover for four years; and indeed, never after this assault was he the powerful, robust athlete that he had been before. No incident in many years revealed more vividly the vast gulf between the North and the South than did the different manner of their receiving the news of this assault on Sumner² Throughout the North the deed was denounced as a cowardly outrage, unworthy of any but a bully and a thug. At the South, where Sumner was hated above all men, the verdict was that he received only the punishment he deserved. Brooks was hailed as a champion and a hero, and was presented with many canes. He resigned his seat in the House because of a majority vote--not the necessary two thirds--for his expulsion; but he was immediately reëlected by his district.³
Meantime matters were growing worse on the plains of Kansas. On the day that intervened between the closing of Sumner's speech and the assault by Brooks the town of Lawrence was sacked by a mob. The House of Representatives sent a committee of three to Kansas to investigate matters and report. This committee, composed of William A. Howard of Michigan, John Sherman of Ohio, and Mordecai Oliver of Missouri, after examining several hundred witnesses, reported in July. Howard and Sherman reported favorably to the free-state party, but agreed that the election of Reeder to Congress, as that of Whitfield, was illegal. Oliver made a minority report favoring the southern view.
With the attack on Lawrence the Civil War in Kansas may be said to have begun. Soon after this occurred the massacre of Pottawatomie, the leader of which was John Brown. Brown had come from the East to join his sons, who had been among the early settlers of Kansas. He was an ascetic and a fanatic. He had come to Kansas to make it a free state at any hazard. He regarded slavery with a mortal hatred, and while his courage was unlimited and his intentions upright, his soul was too utterly narrow to see a thing in its true light. He believed that the only way to free the slaves was to kill the slaveholders. "Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins," said John Brown.
A few free-state men, one of whom was a neighbor of Brown, had been killed by the opposite party, and Brown determined that an equal number of them should suffer death to expiate the crime. He organized a night raid--his sons and a few others--and started on his bloody errand. They called at one farmhouse after another and slew the men in cold blood. He did not inquire if they were guilty of not guilty; enough if they belonged to the opposite party. One man was dragged from the presence of a sick wife. Her pleadings that he be spared were not heeded. He was murdered in cold blood in the road before his house. Before the end of that bloody night raid Brown's party had put six or seven men to death--for no crime except that they belonged to the opposite party and had made threats--an offense of which Brown's party were equally guilty. When the news of this ghastly work was flashed over the country, the people in general refused to believe it; and to the credit of the free-state people in Kansas, they repudiated it as wholly unwarranted.
¹While he was uttering this speech, in which he attacked Senator Douglas also without mercy, the latter said to a friend: "Do you hear that man? He may be a fool, but I tell you that he has pluck." Poore's "Reminiscences," Vol. I, p. 461.
²Rhodes, Vol. II, p. 143
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PSY8601 Psychology Doctorate Project A
|Semester 1, 2012 On-campus Toowoomba|
|Faculty or Section :||Faculty of Sciences|
|School or Department :||Psychology|
|Version produced :||18 May 2013|
Examiner: Paul Bramston
Moderator: Jan Du Preez
The scholar-practitioner model of training in psychology has broad consensual acceptance within the applied profession. The professional doctorate therefore requires the student to be proficient in critically reviewing relevant theory and research to assist in the identification, investigation and resolution of current issues within the practice of psychology. This course provides the opportunity to conduct a comprehensive theoretical and empirical literature review related to a specific problem the student wishes to investigate and to design a research program consisting of at least two studies to investigate identified theoretical and practical issues.
This is the first of four project courses that contribute to the professional doctorate. The course involves selecting a topic and supervisor, conducting a thorough literature review, and developing a detailed thesis proposal that critically summarises the current substantive, practice and research methodology issues. The student will be expected to exhibit competence in conducting a thorough literature search using various data bases, identifying pivotal issues, formulating appropriate research questions and hypotheses derived from theory and empirical findings, and designing methods appropriate to investigating the research question(s). A written report (up to 8,000 words) will be submitted to the supervisor.
On successful completion of this course students will be able to demonstrate competencies in critically reviewing literature to address theoretical and practical questions and issues in the field, and designing research programs to further investigate these questions and issues. In general the student will be able to:
- demonstrate analytical, critical and creative thinking in postulating research hypotheses and problems;
- postulate new directions of research and new unsolved problems;
- write and summarise concepts in a professional and scientific manner;
- demonstrate competence in identifying and choosing procedures appropriate for addressing hypotheses, awareness of the limitations of the research plan they have chosen and account for these weaknesses and limitations; competence in assessing and addressing ethical concerns in research.
|1.||The subject of the thesis proposal will be proposed by the student and after consultation, will be finally determined by the student's supervisor.||100.00|
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from USQ's Online Bookshop (unless otherwise stated). (https://bookshop.usq.edu.au/bookweb/subject.cgi?year=2012&sem=01&subject1=PSY8601)
Please contact us for alternative purchase options from USQ Bookshop. (https://bookshop.usq.edu.au/contact/)
- There are no texts or materials required for this course.
American Psychological Association 2010, Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edn, APA, Washington, DC.
Student workload requirements
|Description||Marks out of||Wtg (%)||Due Date||Notes|
|DISSERTATION PROPOSAL||1||100||07 May 2012|
Important assessment information
It is the students' responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration. This course requires students to attend two half-day workshops for every semester that they are enrolled in the course until it is passed.
Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
To complete the dissertation proposal satisfactorily, students must obtain a pass from the Examiner and one other marker in the Department. Any disagreement amongst markers will be arbitrated by the Program Co-ordinator.
Penalties for late submission of required work:
If students submit the assignment after the due date without prior approval from the Examiner then a fail grade will be awarded.
Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
To be assured of a passing grade, students must demonstrate, via the summative assessment item, that they have achieved the required minimum standards in relation to the objectives of the course by satisfactorily completing the dissertation proposal.
Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
As P is the only passing grade available for this course, all students who are qualified for a passing grade will be given a grade of P. Other students will be given either a Failing grade or an Incomplete grade.
There is no examination in this course.
Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
There will be no Deferred or Supplementary examinations in this course.
University Student Policies:
Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene University policies and practices. These policies can be found at http://policy.usq.edu.au/portal/custom/search/category/usq_document_policy_type/Student.1.html.
Students must retain a copy of each item submitted for assessment. This must be produced within five days if required by the Examiner.
The Examiner in consultation with the Program Co-ordinator may grant an extension of the due date of an assignment in extenuating circumstances.
The Faculty will normally only accept assessments that have been written, typed or printed on paper-based media.
The Faculty will NOT accept submission of assignments by facsimile.
Students will require access to email and internet access to UConnect for this course.
The DISSERTATION proposal shall include: a comprehensive critical review of research in the field; a discussion of relevant theoretical and practical issues; a description of how the dissertation will make a contribution to the field; a list of all references cited; selection criteria for participants, describe the variables chosen, instruments/interview procedures to be used, interventions/treatments to be applied, administration procedures for consent of participants, and proposed methods for data analysis. Scientific justification of each segment of the research plan is essential. The report will conform to guidelines on the content, style and format of reports issued from time to time by either the USQ or the Psychology Department. The completed manuscript will not exceed 8,000 words. The manuscript will be submitted to the Examiner. Evaluation will be completed by the Examiner and one other member of the Department. The student will be graded as either Pass or Fail for this course upon approval of the proposal.
APA style is the referencing system required in this course. Students should use APA style in their assignments to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The APA style to be used is defined by the USQ Library's referencing guide. http://www.usq.edu.au/library/help/referencing/default.htm
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A modem self-test in which data from the keyboard or an internal test pattern is sent to the modem's transmitter, turned into analog form, looped back to the receiver, and converted back into digital form.
A variety of signals and wavelengths that can be transmitted over communications lines such as the sound of a voice over the phone line.
The mode used by your modem when answering an incoming call from an originating modem. The transmit/receive frequencies are the reverse of the originating modem, which is in originate mode.
A computer program designed to perform a specific task or set of tasks. Examples include word processing and spreadsheet applications.
Automatic Repeat reQuest. A function that allows your modem to detect flawed data and request that it be retransmitted. See MNP and V.42.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A code used to represent letters, numbers, and special characters such as $, !, and /.
Data transmission in which the length of time between transmitted characters may vary. Because characters may not be transmitted at set intervals, start/stop bits are used to mark the beginning and end of each character.
Sets the modem to pick up the phone line when it detects a certain number of rings. See S-register S0 in the Technical Reference section of this guide.
A process where your modem dials a call for you. The dialing process is initiated by sending an ATDT (dial tone) or ATDP (dial pulse) command followed by the telephone number. Auto-dial is used to dial voice numbers. See basic data command Dn in the Technical Reference section of this guide.
A term used to measure the speed of an analog transmission from one point to another. Although not technically accurate, baud rate is commonly used to mean bit rate.
A 0 or 1, reflecting the use of the binary numbering system. Used because the computer recognizes either of two states, OFF or ON. Shortened form of binary digit is bit.
Also referred to as transmission rate. The number of binary digits, or bits, transmitted per second (bps). Communications channels using analog modems are established at set bit rates, commonly 2400, 4800, 9600, 14,400, 28,800, 33,600, and higher.
bits per second (bps)
The bits (binary digits) per second rate. Thousands of bits per second are expressed as kilobits per second (Kbps).
A temporary memory area used as storage during input and output operations. An example is the modem's command buffer.
A group of binary digits stored and operated upon as a unit. Most often the term refers to 8-bit units or characters. One kilobyte (KB) is equal to 1,024 bytes or characters; 640 KB is equal to 655,360 bytes or characters.
The basic signal altered or modulated by the modem in order to carry information.
A representation, coded in binary digits, of a letter, number, or other symbol.
characters per second (cps)
A data transfer rate generally estimated from the bit rate and the character length. For example, at 2400 bps, 8-bit characters with start/stop bits (for a total of ten bits per character) will be transmitted at a rate of approximately 240 characters per second (cps). Some protocols, such as error-control protocols, employ advanced techniques such as longer transmission frames and data compression to increase cps.
class 1 and 2.0
International standards used by fax application programs and faxmodems for sending and receiving faxes.
cyclic redundancy checking (CRC)
An error-detection technique consisting of a test performed on each block or frame of data by both sending and receiving modems. The sending modem inserts the results of its tests in each data block in the form of a CRC code. The receiving modem compares its results with the received CRC code and responds with either a positive or negative acknowledgment.
The transmission or sharing of data between computers via an electronic medium.
data compression table
A table containing values assigned for each character during a call under MNP5 data compression. Default values in the table are continually altered and built during each call: The longer the table, the more efficient throughput gained.
Mode used by a modem when sending and receiving data files.
Data Communications (or Circuit-Terminating) Equipment, such as dial-up modems that establish and control the data link via the telephone network.
Any setting assumed, at startup or reset, by the computer's software and attached devices. The computer or software will use these settings until changed by the user or other software.
A test that checks the modem's RS-232 interface and the cable that connects the terminal or computer and the modem. The modem receives data (in the form of digital signals) from the computer or terminal and immediately returns the data to the screen for verification.
Discrete, uniform signals. In this guide, the term refers to the binary digits 0 and 1.
Data Terminal (or Terminating) Equipment. A computer that generates or is the final destination of data.
Indicates a communications channel capable of carrying signals in both directions. See half-duplex, full-duplex.
Electronic Industries Association (EIA)
Group which defines electronic standards in the U.S.
Various techniques that check the reliability of characters (parity) or blocks of data. V.42 and MNP error-control protocols use error detection (CRC) and retransmission of flawed frames (ARQ).
A method for transmitting the image on a page from one point to another. Commonly referred to as fax.
The mode used by a modem to send and receive data in facsimile format. See definitions for V.17, V.27 ter, V.29.
A mechanism that compensates for differences in the flow of data into and out of a modem or other device. See extended data commands &Hn, &In, &Rn in the Technical Reference section of this guide.
A data communications term for a block of data with header and trailer information attached. The added information usually includes a frame number, block size data, error-check codes, and Start/End indicators.
Signals can flow in both directions at the same time over one line. In microcomputer communications, this may refer to the suppression of the online local echo.
Signals can flow in both directions, but only one way at a time. In microcomputer communications, may refer to activation of the online local echo, which causes the modem to send a copy of the transmitted data to the screen of the sending computer.
Hertz, a frequency measurement unit used internationally to indicate cycles per second.
An electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
A company that provides dial-up (modem) access to the Internet for a fee.
An international organization that defines standards for telegraphic and telephone equipment. For example, the Bell 212A standard for 1200-bps communication in North America is observed internationally as ITU-T V.22. For 2400-bps communication, most U.S. manufacturers observe V.22 bis.
Link Access Procedure for Modems. An error-control protocol defined in ITU-T recommendation V.42. Like the MNP protocols, LAPM uses cyclic redundancy checking (CRC) and retransmission of corrupted data (ARQ) to ensure data reliability.
A modem feature that enables the modem to display keyboard commands and transmitted data on the screen. See basic data command En in the Technical Reference section of this guide.
Microcom Networking Protocol, an error-control protocol developed by Microcom, Inc., and now in the public domain. There are several different MNP protocols, but the most commonly used one ensures error-free transmission through error detection (CRC) and retransmission of flawed frames.
A device that transmits/receives computer data through a communications channel such as radio or telephone lines. It also changes signals received from the phone line back to digital signals before passing them to the receiving computer.
nonvolatile memory (NVRAM)
User-programmable random access memory whose data is retained when power is turned off. On the USRobotics modem, it includes four stored phone numbers and the modem settings.
Modem operations that are the equivalent of manually lifting a phone receiver (taking it off-hook) and replacing it (going on-hook).
online fall back/fall forward
A feature that allows high-speed, error-control modems to monitor line quality and fall back to the next lower speed in a defined range if line quality diminishes. As line conditions improve, the modems switch up to the next higher speed.
The mode used by your modem when initiating an outgoing call to a destination modem. The transmit/receive frequencies are the reverse of the called modem, which is in answer mode.
A simple error-detection method that checks the validity of a transmitted character. Character checking has been surpassed by more reliable and efficient forms of error checking, including V.42 and MNP 2-4 protocols. Either the same type of parity must be used by two communicating computers, or both may omit parity.
A system of rules and procedures governing communications between two or more devices. Protocols vary, but communicating devices must follow the same protocol in order to exchange data. The format of the data, readiness to receive or send, error detection and error correction are some of the operations that may be defined in protocols.
Random Access Memory. Memory that is available for use when the modem is turned on, but that clears of all information when the power is turned off. The modem's RAM holds the current operational settings, a flow control buffer, and a command buffer.
remote digital loopback
A test that checks the phone link and a remote modem's transmitter and receiver.
A copy of the data received by the remote system, returned to the sending system, and displayed on the screen. Remote echoing is a function of the remote system.
Read Only Memory. Permanent memory, not user-programmable.
The consecutive flow of data in a single channel. Compare to parallel transmissions where data flows simultaneously in multiple channels.
The signaling bits attached to a character before and after the character is transmitted during asynchronous transmission.
A device whose keyboard and display are used for sending and receiving data over a communications link. Differs from a microcomputer or a mainframe in that it has little or no internal processing capabilities.
Software mode that allows direct communication with the modem. Also known as command mode.
The amount of actual user data transmitted per second without the overhead of protocol information such as start/stop bits or frame headers and trailers. Compare with characters per second.
The ITU-T standard specification that covers the initial handshaking process.
An ITU-T standard for making facsimile connections at 14,400 bps, 12,000 bps, 9,600 bps, and 7,200 bps.
An ITU-T standard for modems operating in asynchronous mode at speeds up to 300 bps, full-duplex, on public switched telephone networks.
An ITU-T standard for modem communications at 1,200 bps, compatible with the Bell 212A standard observed in the U.S. and Canada.
An ITU-T standard for modem communications at 2,400 bps. The standard includes an automatic link negotiation fallback to 1,200 bps and compatibility with Bell 212A/V.22 modems.
An ITU-T standard for facsimile operations that specifies modulation at 4,800 bps, with fallback to 2,400 bps.
An ITU-T standard for facsimile operations that specifies modulation at 9,600 bps, with fallback to 7,200 bps.
An ITU-T standard for modem communications at 9,600 bps and 4,800 bps. V.32 modems fall back to 4,800 bps when line quality is impaired.
An ITU-T standard that extends the V.32 connection range: 4,800, 7,200, 9,600, 12,000, and 14,400 bps. V.32 bis modems fall back to the next lower speed when line quality is impaired, fall back further as necessary, and also fall forward (switch backup) when line conditions improve (see online fall back/fall forward).
An ITU-T standard that currently allows data rates as high as 28,800 bps.
An enhancement to V.34 that enables data transfer rates as high as 33,600 bps.
An ITU-T standard for modem communications that defines a two-stage process of detection and negotiation for LAPM error control.
An extension of ITU-T V.42 that defines a specific data compression scheme for use during V.42 connections.
An ITU-T standard for modem data compression. It provides for a 6:1 compression ratio.
The ITU-T standard for 56 Kbps modem communications. This technology uses the digital telephone network to increase the bit rate of the receive channel by eliminating the analog to digital conversion commonly found in modem connections. V.90 connections require a modem with V.90 or x2 technology calling a digitally connected Internet Service Provider or corporate host site compatible with V.90 or x2 technology.
The ITU-T standard for advanced 56 Kbps modem communications. This technology offers three new features to enhance the V.90 standard. The first feature is V.PCM-Upstream, which allows a modem's upstream communication to reach speeds of 48,000 bps. The second feature provides quicker connection times by allowing the modem to remember the line conditions of a V.92 supported service provider. The third feature is the Modem on Hold technology, which allows your Internet connection to be suspended when there is an inbound telephone call, then return to the connection when the call is completed without losing the connection. The V.92 technology can only be utilized if a V.92 modem is dialing into an Internet Service Provider that supports and provides a digital V.92 signal.
World Wide Web (WWW)
A part of the Internet designed to allow easier navigation of the network through the use of graphical user interfaces and hypertext links between different addresses.
USRobotics's trademark for its proprietary technology that uses the digital telephone network to increase the bit rate of the receive channel by eliminating the analog-to-digital conversion commonly found in modem connections. x2 connections require a modem with x2 technology calling a digitally connected Internet Service Provider or corporate host site compatible with x2 technology.
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Nationally syndicated conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt endorses Orrin Hatch's re-election bid.
Hewitt's endorsement came at the conclusion of the interview. “I don’t know if you’ve been noticing, or surprised by the fact that people like me or Mark Levin have come out very strongly in favor of your re-election. You know, going back to your Clarence Thomas defense and others for conservatives. . .”
Replied Hatch, “It means everything to me to have you support me, it really does." | <urn:uuid:0296d9d1-4795-4436-a7a2-da43ebc44ff1> | 2013-05-18T07:21:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The track and field team is prepared to take the track on Saturday at the Texas A&M Invitational.
The UTEP track and field team will open the indoor season at the Cherry and Silver Invitational.
The UTEP track and field team will compete in the Don Kirby Invitational this weekend.
The UTEP men's 4x400m relay squad clocks in a season-best time at the Texas A&M Invitational on Saturday.
The UTEP track and field team will be competing at the Texas A&M Invitational on Friday.
2012: Indoor: Finished sixth in the triple jump with a personal-best of 14.08m at the Conference USA Championships ... claimed bronze at the Blue and Orange Opener in the long jump with a mark of 6.58m ... recorded a season-best jump of 6.83m in the long jump at the Cherry and Silver Invitational ... participated in the long jump at the C-USA Indoor Championships.
Outdoor: Took silver in the long jump with a personal-best of 7.11m at the UTEP Springtime.
2011: Indoor: Took silver in the triple jump at the Lobo Open with a mark of 13.65m (44-09.50) ... finished fourth at the Texas A&M Challenge in the triple jump, 13.73m (45-00.50) and set a personal-best in the long jump, 6.82m (22-02.50) ... posted a season-high mark of 13.87m (45-06.25) in the triple jump at the UNM Invitational.
Outdoor: Placed fourth at the UTEP Springtime in the long jump, 7.02m (23-00.50) w+2.6 and the triple jump, 14.50m (47-07.00) ... finished third at the Texas Tech Open in the triple jump with a mark of 14.44m (47-04.50) and sixth in the long jump, 6.93m (22-09) w+4.4 ... posted a mark of 6.53m (21-05.25) in the long jump at the C-USA Championships.
Personal:Son of Alfredo and Maria Isabel Estrada ... majoring in psychology ... has two siblings, Abraham and Kennyah ... born October 4, 1991 in El Paso, Texas. | <urn:uuid:cf1d68a2-b174-4efc-b2b8-6adeb9e08aeb> | 2013-05-18T06:50:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Algerian forces launched a military assault Thursday at a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert, trying to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants who have ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, diplomats and an Algerian security official said.
Yet information on the Algerian operation varied wildly and the conflicting reports that emerged from the remote area were impossible to verify independently. What did leak out prompted governments around the world to express deep concerns about the way Algeria tried to rescue the hostages, who were from at least nine different countries.
News of the bloody Algerian operation caused oil prices to rise $1.08 to $95.32 on the New York Mercantile Exchange and prompted energy companies like BP PLC and Spain's Compania Espanola de Petroleos SA to try to relocate energy workers at other Algerian plants.
The Algerian government said it was forced to intervene due to the militants' stubbornness and their desire to escape with the hostages. The communications minister said there were casualties in the military operation Thursday, but gave no details.
"An important number of hostages were freed and an important number of terrorists were neutralized and we regret the few dead and wounded, but we don't have numbers," minister Mohand Said Oubelaid said on national radio. "The operation to free the rest of the hostages still inside (the plant) is ongoing."
Islamists from the Masked Brigade, who have been speaking through a Mauritanian news outlet, said Algerian helicopters opened fire as the militants tried to leave the vast Ain Amenas energy complex with their hostages. They claimed that 35 hostages and 15 militants died in the strafing and only seven hostages survived.
Algeria's official news service, meanwhile, earlier claimed that 600 local workers were freed in the raid and half of the foreigners being held were rescued. Many of those locals were reportedly released on Wednesday, however, by the militants themselves.
One Irish hostage was confirmed safe: supervising electrician Stephen McFaul, whose mother said he would not be returning to Algeria.
"He phoned me at 9 o'clock to say al-Qaida were holding him, kidnapped, and to contact the Irish government, for they wanted publicity. Nightmare, so it was. Never want to do it again. He'll not be back! He'll take a job here in Belfast like the rest of us," said his mother, Marie.
Dylan, McFaul's 13-year-old son, started crying as he talked to Ulster Television."I feel over the moon, just really excited. I just can't wait for him to get home," he said.
In Washington, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the Obama administration was "concerned about reports of loss of life and are seeking clarity from the government of Algeria."
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe protested the military raid as an act that "threatened the lives of the hostages," according to a spokesman.
Jean-Christophe Gray, a spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron, said Britain was not informed in advance of the raid but described the situation as "very grave and serious." French President Francois Hollande called it a "dramatic" situation involving dozens of hostages. | <urn:uuid:dce24036-9c49-4da1-b61a-51cf612477e0> | 2013-05-18T06:28:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Still, changes had begun to occur since
the late 1980s. when Dr. Bernhardt as well as others at the
clinic, as part of a working group to inquire into the events at the clinic during the Nazi period, commissioned a commemorative
wooden statue, which was made by the artist Sven Domann and
erected in 1991. While the Gedenkstätten
für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus volume
terms it "the first momument to the victims of NS 'euthanasia' on the
territory of former East Germany" (p. 480), it wasn't quite that in
terms of the date of its dedication (see Grossschweidnitz, where a
memorial was dedicated in 1990), but it was one of the first such memorials nevertheless (it does not address the children’s ward
specifically). The working group's charge to the artist was
to depict a sense of being alone, unprotected, and afraid for their
lives ostensibly felt by those who were victims of "euthanasia" in the
Nazi period, which the artist realized in the depiction of a disabled
person on a piece of wood cut off, placed on top of a pedestal for
which the samebrick was used as in the facility where the victims were murdered.
On it pedastal made in the front the word
"Ausgegrenzt" (Marginalized) is shown, and on the back, the word
"Vernichtet" (Exterminated). To the left and right are the years 1933
and 1945. After the
occurrence of vandalism and heavy construction at the
site, it was removed and only shown to the public on special occasions, such as during the clinic's open house day in various years and the anniversary events in 1999 nad 2000.The memorial's
removal from a public space was believed to be temporary at first, but
it turned out
to be anything but. Most of the time, it was put up in the clinic administration's conference center.
The situation remained like this until 2008, when
this researcher fielded inquiries about the status of the statue first
to the clinic and then to the Behindertenverband Ueckermuende and the
Allgemeiner Behindertenverband in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The two agencies consulted with the clinic and
asked that the statue be re-erected.
Prior to that, in 1999, a commemorative event was held on occasion of
60th anniversary of the first deportation of patients in November 1939;
during which a presentation alluded to the fate of the children; in 2000, on open house day in 2000, on occasion of the 125th
anniversary of the facility, one of the lectures at a symposium
and a part of a small exhibit addressed the murder of patients in Pomerania during the Nazi period;
in the same year a chronicle of the clinic (Albrecht 2000) mention
euthanasia, if only very briefly (in reference to H. Bernhardt's
studies, see p. 25); and in 2005, on occasion of the European day of
protest for equity for persons with a disability on May 5, a wreath was
laid on facility grounds to commorate victims of fascism persecuted on
the basis of disability or race and the 60th anniversay of the end of
the war on May 8.
A wreath was
laid on 8 May 2008 at the AMEOS Diakonie Klinikum (the clinic's current
name) and an event took place to commemorate those who were murdered during the Nazi period. A
group “Denkmal” (“memorial”) of members of the above groups and clinic
personnel met and new foundation for the statue at a
designated memorial space on clinic property was being considered,
which led to the re-dedication of the memorial on 15 May 2009. It is
now an iron-cast pedestal and a three-piece stela into which the wooden
piece is integrated.
A sign states: "'Verloren sein.' Eisenguss, Esche,
2x1 m, 2009. Den Euthanasieopfern des nationalsozialistischen Regimes
von 1933 bis 1945 gewidmet. 'Gedenken macht Leben menschlich.
Vergessen macht es unmenschlich' - Eberhard Bethge (1909-2000). Die
Holzplastik wurde 1991 von dem Bildhauer Sven Domann geschaffen und
nach der Restaurierung 2009 wieder aufgestellt" ('To be lost.'Cast iron
and ash wood, 2 x 1 m, 2009. Dedicated to the euthanasia victims of the
National Socialist regime 1939-1945. 'Memorialization makes life
humane. Forgetting makes it inhumane.' [German theologian] Eberhard
Bethge (1909-2000). The wood sculpture was created by the sculptor Sven
Domann and reinstalled after its restoration in 2009).
The choice of the new context for the statue is guided by the wish to allude to the next-to-last place that houses persons before those in power decide to murder them. Children helped preparie the iron cast. .
The web page of the clinic
does not refer to the memorial or Nazi "euthanasia" on its premises,
but two recent issues of the Mitarbeiterzeitung (staff newsletter)
have done so.
Albrecht, Hans-Eberhard. 2000. Das Krankenhaus am Rande der Stadt: Das Krankenhaus Ueckermünde an der Ravensteinstrasse im Wandel der Zeit von 1875 bis 2000. Ueckermünde: n.p.
Allgemeiner Behindertenverband in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V. 2008. "Mahnmal gegen das Vergessen in
Ueckermünde: Wiedereinweihung des restaurierten Mahnmals zum Gedenken
an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus." Available at http://www.abimv.de/cms/wm-cms,58.html.
Benzenhöfer, Udo. 2003. "Genese und Struktur der 'NS-Kinder- und Jugendlicheneuthanasie.'" Monatsschrift für Kinderheilkunde 151: 1012-1019.
Bernhardt, Heike. 1993. "'Niemals auch nur zu den primitivsten Arbeitsleistungen zu gebrauchen': Die Tötung behinderter und kranker Kinder 1939 bis 1945 in der Landesheilanstalt Ueckermünde." Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie 42: 240-48.
———. 1994. Anstaltspsychiatrie und "Euthanasie" in Pommern 1939 bis 1945: Die Krankenmorde an Kindern und Erwachsenen am Beispiel der Landesheilanstalt Ueckermünde. Frankfurt: Mabuse Verlag.
Endlich, Stefanie, Nora Goldenbogen, Beatrix Herlemann, Monika Kahl, and Regina Scheer. 2002. Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus, vol. 2. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Available at http://www.bpb.de/files/AFQX24.pdf.
Klee, Ernst. 1993. Irrsinn Ost, Irrsinn West. Frankfurt: Fischer.
Schmitz, Willi, and Harri Joschk. 1974. Provinzial-, Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Ueckermünde: Das Neuropsychiatrische Krankenhaus Ueckermünde. Neubrandenburg: Druckerei Erich Weinert.
Topp, Sascha. 2004. “Der ‘Reichsausschuss zur wissenschaftlichen Erfassung erb- und anlagebedingter schwerer Leiden’: Zur Organisation der Ermordung minderjähriger Kranker im Nationalsozialismus 1939-1945.” Pp. 17-54 in Kinder in der NS-Psychiatrie, edited by Thomas Beddies and Kristina Hübener. Berlin-Brandenburg: Be.bra Wissenschaft.
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Norwich have failed with an appeal against goalkeeper Mark Bunn's red card in Sunday's Premier League match at Sunderland.
The Canaries confirmed on their website that the Football Association had upheld referee Chris Foy's decision to dismiss Bunn after he was ruled to have handled outside his area in the 30th minute of the 1-1 draw at the Stadium of Light.
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 10:48 PM
Ah ha! Good thought: which album could it be?
Are you sure that's not an album cover ?
Something more clever/interesting than Drive By Truckers (DBT immediately springs to mind). C'mon y'all
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By Stephanie Zacharek
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Haitian director Raoul Peck says Lumumba proves to him that "you can make a mainstream film without compromising your political ideas." The Best Feature winner at the 2001 Pan African Film Festival in L.A. (it played at the Magic Johnson Theaters for six sold-out screenings), Lumumbaopens at Film Forum on June 27.
Peck, who was in town to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, began working on a Lumumba biopic over 10 years ago. A leader in the Congo's struggle to win independence from Belgium, Patrice Lumumba was his country's first elected prime minister. He held office for only two and a half monthsfrom late June to early September of 1960and was assassinated in January of the following year. "My main goal," Peck explains, "was neither to idealize Lumumba as a hero nor to denounce the CIA, the UN, and Belgium for their roles in his death. It was to make a film that would be of use to the future of Africa and the third world because it showed the mechanism of power. And for that, you have to put everything on the table, including the divisions among the Congolese themselves that allowed external influences to get power."
When Peck was eight years old, he moved to the Congothen in its early postcolonial periodfrom Haiti. Having already been arrested twice by the Duvalier regime, Peck's father seized the opportunity offered by the UN to be part of a contingent of Haitians recruited to fill in for the Belgian teachers and civil servants who had fled the country. Thus Peck's childhood memories played a part in shaping Lumumba. Among the piles of reference material he accumulated were family photographs and 8mm home movies.
He first incorporated his research into the lauded 1992 documentary Lumumba: Death of a Prophet. From the beginning, however, he wanted to make a dramatic film that "aimed to be a true story." By the mid '90s, he had secured financing, but the project was put on hold when he took time out from filmmaking to become Haiti's minister of culture for 18 months. "What was happening in Haiti was an overwhelming popular movement that involved poor people, the bourgeoisie, the intelligentsia. We felt we had only a limited amount of time to institutionalize the democratic vision of that moment. And basically, we lost. Most of us resigned with the prime minister, the crisis deepened, and we're still in it today." Peck continues to divide his time between France, the U.S., and Haiti. "If it wasn't for e-mail, my family could never keep track of me."
In his notes for the Cannes premiere of Lumumba in 2000, Peck wrote that he returned to the project "as a way of using my own experience to sum up a political destiny distorted from the start." Since war was again tearing through the Congo, he settled on Beira in Mozambique, which still resembles the Léopoldville of his childhood, as his primary location. The film cost $4 millionwhich, since it's a period piece with epic sweep, amazes the people Peck talks to in the U.S. "I worked with top talent in all aspects of the production, and they were well paid for their work. The money is all on the screen."
As Lumumba, Peck cast the great Paris stage actor Eriq Ebouaney, whose huge, shattering performance encompasses Lumumba's charisma, his oratorical brilliance, and the private fear, confusion, and exhaustion that dogged his brief experience of power. "Lumumba was the first African leader to attract the attention of the worldwide media, but he was self-taught and completely unprepared to confront skilled diplomats. Every day he'd go out and bluff. All he had was his gift for talking to people; he had no resources to back up his words. The Congo is a big country, and he didn't even have a plane at his disposal. He knew he needed Belgian support, but those powers don't accept the slightest exercise of resistance, and Lumumba refused to offer them conciliatory words or gestures. His daughter told me that most of the time he was sure he was going to be killed."
During the decade that Peck prepared Lumumba, he also completed two features, The Man by the Shore(1993) and Corps Plongés(1998). Several years ago, he acquired Russell Banks's novel Continental Drift and worked with Banks on an adaptation; after several years away from the project, he's started to write a new version from scratch.
Lumumba's $4 million budget is probably less than a third of what it cost to bring The Hire, a series of five short films, to BMW's Web site. The brainchild of BMW, its advertising agency Fallon, and the production-management company Anonymous Content, The Hire is the most dazzling instance of product placement since E.T. bestowed near magical power on Reese's Pieces. But more than that, it's a landmark in a hybridized media landscape, where it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate art, entertainment, and commerce, let alone the delivery systems of the movies, TV, and the Internet. Fallon's clever marketing campaign, which treats The Hire as if it were a theatrical-release feature (trailers on TV, print ads in the movie sections of newspapers and magazines), underscores the way the series collapses categories.
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Mark Morris's marvelous production of Orfeo ed Euridice resonates slyly with the history of opera. In the first version of Orfeo (1762), Christoph Willibald Gluck and librettist Ranieri Calzabigi broke with the conventions of baroque opera in order to fuse poetry, music, and dance in ways that would serve the story rather than show off vocal pyrotechnics. Their Orfeo's voice is first heard when he breaks through the mourning chorus with a single ringing, heartbroken cry to his dead beloved: "Euridice!" The opera set an example for later composers.
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Shed no tiers: Orfeo ed Euridice
Orfeo ed Euridice
May 2, 5, 9, 12 (closed)
The curtain at the Met rises and before usamazing!is another theater, with three very tall, curving tiers of seats. As James F. Ingalls's lighting gradually reveals the "spectators" (the huge Met chorus) that fill Allen Moyer's extraordinary structure, we realize we're looking at a gallery of characters from other operas. Although Isaac Mizrahi designed the clothes for the production, these look as if he raided the Met's costume shop. The 94 singers, who make small, stylized gestures and motions, oras the denizens of Hadescrowd to one end of a tier to sing menacingly down at the intruding Orfeo, also represent opera over the last centuries gazing at a progenitor.
Gluck and Calzabigi flouted convention by putting only three characters onstage: Orfeo, Euridice, and Eros. The role of the bereaved but dauntless musician, written for a castrato, is usually sung by a mezzo-soprano (the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, to whom the performances are dedicated, was to have performed Orfeo in this production). Casting countertenor David Daniels links Morris's Orfeo with the original. When, on the road from Hades, Daniels's rich, high sound mingles with that of soprano Maija Kovalevska, the close twining of their voices emphasizes the profound love that lies beneath their dissenting words.
Morris, as might be expected, leavens the action with subtle wit. As that cheeky boy Eros, the delightful soprano Heidi Grant Murphy (cropped hair, chinos, little pink-edged wings) descends nonchalantly from on high. After imposing the arbitrary conditions on which Euridice can be brought back to life, Eros starts to rise, before (oops!) deciding to come down and repeat the don't-look-back warning. When Orfeo, tormented by Euridice's pleas, faces her, she falls back into the arms of four black-clad men who rush her down the sloping path of a glittering black cavern (Moyer's set revolves ingeniously). After Orfeo has sung the ravishing "Che farò senza Euridice?" and Eros, quick as a wink, has appeared to contrive the happy ending demanded of 18th-cen tury operas, the men run Euridice back in the same position, feet first, as if a deus ex machina had pressed the rewind button.
As also might be expected, Morris emphasizes comradeship and affection. When Orfeo first sings of his loss, those men in black (Met dancers), one by one, approach to comfort him. Morris's 18 wonderful company members form a vital communityreaching lamenting arms toward Euridice's invisible bier, clinging to one another as they stagger and grope in underworld gloom, hymning love in Elysium, and celebrating the final reunion of the lovers with lusty dances. Mizrahi has made multiples of their individualized sporty, contemporary outfitsgrays for mourning, white for congregating in the Elysian fields, and variegated colors splashed with glitter for rejoicing on earth. These people, too, make the journey from to life to death to rebirth.
Morris's choreography lies intimately upon the music in terms of rhythm, texture, and quality. He presents the dancers as people you'd like to meet, whether they arch their bodies as they abandon themselves to grief, swing their partners (only some of the happy couples are heterosexual), or toss their legs around in peasant revelry. Their final circling patterns respond to Gluck's echoing birdcalls-at-dawn; it's as if they're tracing on the ground unbreaking rings of love, and the music that so beautifully expresses it. | <urn:uuid:6bad8f74-a2ce-46fe-8f15-b0a10136ca3d> | 2013-05-18T08:03:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Collection and Recycling Arrangements in Malta
Vinten products are sold in Malta by dealers. The dealers act as the importer of the equipment into Malta. Thus the dealers have the legal responsibility to:
- Register as the WEEE producer in Malta.
- Finance arrangements for collection and recycling of WEEE arising from Vinten products that the dealer sells in Malta.
Please contact the dealer directly to find out how they are meeting these obligations for your waste electrical and electronic equipment. Please contact us for more information about dealers in your area. | <urn:uuid:84623ab7-d990-4d11-b3d0-99bf195ac836> | 2013-05-18T05:59:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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African Americans in the Bluegrass
Whether you are spending a day, a week or longer in the Bluegrass Region, you and your family will learn fascinating information about African Americans. Gleanings from your travels will become answers to questions that you might not ever have thought to ask.
History in the Heart of Downtown
The public square at the center of downtown was platted in 1780 as the site of the courthouse for the newly established town of Lexington. The square has always been, and still is, a place where significant events and community activities have occurred. Archive records tell of a fight between a school teacher and a wildcat, controversial slave auctions, military drills, Civil War skirmishes, riots, hangings, speeches and fires that destroyed previous courthouses. This history has been inclusive of African Americans both enslaved and free.
By 1789, an area of the square had been designated as a marketplace and named after the market in London, England - Cheapside (old English ceapan means to buy). William Tucker (1787-1837), a free African American, was one of the merchants who advertised the sale of household items and spices from his stall. Farmers and others, during their monthly visits to transact legal business, bought, sold and swapped livestock and agricultural products. The sale activity, known as Court Day, ended in 1921. Historian J. Winston Coleman, Jr. documented two dozen dealers in Lexington who bought and sold the enslaved between 1833 and 1865. This commercial enterprise established Lexington as one of the largest slave markets in the south. The Cheapside Auction Block stood near Main Street in the general vicinity of the monument for J.C. Breckinridge. The historical marker giving an account of the sale of African Americans stands in the northeast courtyard on Short Street. It was placed on the former site of the whipping post, erected by order of town trustees in 1806.
The impressive Romanesque design courthouse, the fourth built on site, was erected between 1898 and 1900. The Tandy and Byrd Construction Company, owned by African Americans Henry Tandy and Albert Byrd, laid the brick under the stone façade. In 2003 the building became the Lexington History Center; it closed in 2012 for renovation.
|Blue Note: A number of nationally known individuals started their lives in Kentucky. Vertner Tandy (1885-1949), son of constructor Henry Tandy, became the first licensed architect in New York and a founding member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternal organization. He designed the New York mansion of Madam C.J. Walker, the hair care product millionaire and Berea Hall dormitory on the campus of Lincoln Institute, Simpsonville.|
In 2009, Cheapside once again became an open-air market when area farmers and merchants began selling fresh produce and food products every Saturday from April through November. The pavilion also serves as performance space for musicians during “Thursday Night Live” and shelters those who attend local festivals, events and celebrations.
Walk around the square to read the wayside markers and stroll our downtown streets to view other points of interest. Historical Highway Markers are located throughout Lexington. Those highlighting African American history include: Doctors' offices at 118 N. Broadway; Historic Pleasant Green Baptist Church at 540 Maxwell Street; Lyman T. Johnson who integrated the University of Kentucky on Administration Drive; Polk/Dalton Infirmary at 148 Deweese Street; African Cemetery No. 2 at 419 East Seventh Street; The Colored Orphan Home at 644 Georgetown Street; The Agricultural and Mechanical Fair of Colored People at Georgetown Street past Nandino Drive; and Maddoxtown Community on Huffman Mill Road. Main Street Baptist Church will be placing a marker at their church in 2013 celebrating 150 years at their West Main Street location.
|Blue Note: The Aviation Museum at Bluegrass Airport off Man-O-War Boulevard and U.S. Hwy 60 has an exhibit about the Tuskegee Airmen of Kentucky as well as other aviation history. 4316 Hanger Drive, behind the airport. (859)231-1219.|
Equine Industry Superstars
Plan a visit to the Kentucky Horse Park by traveling down Hwy 922, Newtown Pike, to Iron Works Pike. On the way, you’ll pass the Coldstream Research Farm on the left. It was once the thoroughbred breeding farm McGrathiana, owned by H.P. McGrath. On this farm worked Oliver Lewis, the African American jockey who won the inaugural Kentucky Derby in 1875. The winning thoroughbred was Aristides, trained by renowned African American Ansel Williamson. Williamson was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1998. Outlining a portion of the original boundary of the farm is a rock wall fence. A sign designates that it was crafted by African American masons who had replaced the Scottish and Irish immigrant stone masons of the 1840s and 1850s.
Admission to the Kentucky Horse Park includes both the International Museum of the Horse and the American Saddle Horse Museum. African Americans were the national sports superstars during the early development of the thoroughbred racing and Saddlebred horse industries. There are memorials to Isaac Murphy, the first African American jockey to win three Kentucky Derbies, and the famous thoroughbred, Man-O-War and his groom, Will Harbut. "The Buffalo Soldiers of the Western Frontier" is a permanent exhibit housed in the International Museum of the Horse. Pick up a DVD produced by the American Saddlebred Association entitled "Out of the Shadows", the story of African American trainers and owners. (859)233-4303.
|Blue Note: The rock fences seen as you travel the roadways are of limestone that was uncovered in fields being cultivated for agriculture as well as quarried. Most were dry laid - without the use of mortar. The Lexington Fayette Urban County government has ordinances in place that encourage the preservation and restoration of area stone fences. The nonprofit Dry Stone Conservancy has taken on the task of preserving and restoring the stone fences by conducting workshops to train new masons in old techniques. Look for signs that designate the dates, styles and builders of these fences.|
African Americans played an important role in the development of the racing industry. Stop by the Lexington Public Library downtown and you’ll see a mural highlighting a number of influential early African American jockeys, and the world’s largest ceiling clock as well! (859)231-5501.
The Stories of Slaves and Soldiers
Another day's tour can take you just outside Lexington to Waveland, site of a restored historic mansion and slave quarters. Head south on Nicholasville Road, then turn right onto Waveland Museum Lane. The stone building where the enslaved were housed and worked has been preserved and furnished with period artifacts. The guides tell you the history of enslaved on the property in conjunction with the story of the Bryan family, relatives of Daniel Boone, who lived in the Mansion house. (859)272-3611.
Leaving Waveland, turn right onto Hwy 27 again and travel south past Nicholasville, taking the 27 Bypass. Signs let you know you are approaching Camp Nelson, established in 1863 as a supply camp for the Union Army during the Civil War. It became the third largest recruitment and training center for African Americans who formed the regiments known as the United States Colored Troops. Kentucky recruiters enlisted 23,700 African Americans, primarily among those who were enslaved. Some 10,000 began their training at Camp Nelson.
The camp originally encompassed 4,000 acres and held 300 buildings which were dismantled following the war. The house that was used as headquarters was saved and has been restored. Guided tours are available. A self guided tour of the grounds will lead you to the camp's earthen fortifications which are being restored. A number of artifacts which have been unearthed can be viewed in the interpretive center, a replica of a barracks. Camp Nelson Heritage Park was added to the National Parks Underground Railroad Network to Freedom in 2007.
The third weekend in September, the park celebrates Camp Nelson Days. The site comes alive with re-enactors of the 12th Heavy Regiment of the USCT and other military units. Lectures and demonstrations (firing of the cannon, cavalry charges, open fire cooking) help you experience some of what camp life was like for the soldiers as well as the families who escaped slavery and became free.
Adjacent to the Heritage Park is the National Military Cemetery. In an original section, the grave sites of African American soldiers can be found. Check the list of those who are interred to see if you might have relatives who were veterans.
Just beyond the park are several Kentucky Highway Markers that tell the history as it relates to the formation of the Hall community and the Ariel school established following the closing of the camp. (859)881-5716.
|Blue Note: The town of Nicholasville is the birthplace of Morgan and Marvin Smith, the twin brothers whose photography captured images of Harlem, New York between 1935 and 1952.|
Cousins of Influence
Lexington and Richmond are the locations of homes of two influential men who were cousins. Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate is located at 120 Sycamore Drive, just off Richmond Road. At its zenith, the estate encompassed over 600 acres which were developed, cultivated and harvested by 50 enslaved at one time by Mr. Clay's telling. The farming operations also included active livestock breeding of horses, sheep and cattle. An interpretive history of the work performed by the enslaved in the management of the farm and household is presented. There are archival panels along with a sketch of Charles Dupuy, a member of the family responsible for the personal care of the Clay household. The Dupuy family traveled to Washington, D.C. when Henry Clay was appointed Secretary of State in 1825 and lived in the Decatur house, the Clay’s official residence. The story of Charlotte Dupuy's lawsuit filed in 1829, petitioning for her freedom as well as that of her two children, is truly fascinating. Charlotte did not win the suit, but Henry Clay did finally emancipate her and her two children, Charles and Mary Ann, in the 1840s. There are archive photos of the T.H. Hummons' family and other African Americans who were employed in the household from the 1900s to 1964. (859)266-8581.
From the Henry Clay estate, turn right onto Richmond Road and take I-75 South to Richmond, exit 95, to discover White Hall State Historic Site, the home of Henry Clay's cousin. The road leads to the home of Cassius Marcellus Clay - not the boxer - but the man who served as Ambassador to Russia during Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Cassius became an ardent emancipationist, having freed 50 of those enslaved to him in 1844. He printed the True American, a newspaper in 1845 promoting the emancipation of the enslaved. White Hall, a 44 room Italianate mansion, makes an impressive appearance as you approach the entrance.
|Blue Note: Cassius M. Clay supported the founding of Berea College in 1855, donating both land and money. Founder John G. Fee promoted the idea of a school where students from the Appalachian region could be educated regardless of race and income. Julia Britton, grandmother of Benjamin Hooks, Director of the NAACP, John H. Jackson, first president of Kentucky State University and Carter G. Woodson, founder of Black History Week, were graduates. The college is located in Berea, KY, just south of Richmond. You can spend a full day in the town enjoying the food, crafts and history.|
At the right rear of the house is a stone building that was used as housing and workspace for the enslaved. Several of the original outbuildings have also been restored. One serves as the Gift Shop and location for admission to the home. There are picnic tables and restroom facilities, so plan for lunch or a late afternoon snack on the grounds. (859)623-9178
An Afternoon in Paris
A scenic drive to Paris will take you past historic horse farms and more rock wall fences. Take Broadway/Paris Pike, Hwy 68 North from Lexington. One of the first stops should be the Thoroughbred Training Center located at 3380 Paris Pike. This facility actually trains future champion horses. You do need to be there before 9 a.m. if you want to see the horses put through their paces. Observing the work here will help you understand what is involved in the care and preparation of thoroughbreds for their careers in racing.
In earlier times, the tasks you observe would have been performed by African Americans, many of whom were children and young males. At age seven and eight, they started working in the barns and stables. By ten years of age some were being mounted on the horses as exercisers. Jockeys Isaac Murphy and William Walker began riding at the age of 11 and Raleigh Colston, Jr. rode in his first Kentucky Derby at the age of 13 in 1875. (859)293-1853. Reservations recommended.
If you have stopped at the training center, return to Paris Pike and continue into town. Visit the Hopewell Museum, (859)987-7274, located in the old Paris post office at 800 Pleasant Street. There is a permanent display featuring Garrett Morgan, inventor of the traffic signal and gas mask. Look for the Kentucky Historical Highway Marker at 10th and Vine Streets that marks the birthplace of Garrett Morgan.
Several quaint, independently owned restaurants make great lunch or dinner stops to round out your afternoon in Paris.
A Hamlet and a Railroad Town
Leaving Lexington from another direction, head west on Leestown Road (Hwy 421) and you’ll pass an African American community established in 1865 by Frederick Braxton, founder and minister of the Main Street Baptist Church in Lexington. He had purchased land and sold small acreage to other blacks after emancipation. They named the community in his honor, Bracktown.
Stay on Hwy 421 until you reach Midway. Turn left at Hwy 62 which will lead you to town. Don't be surprised to find that the railroad tracks run through the middle of the street. When goods were delivered by rail, it made it convenient to off load supplies directly to stores. On Railroad Street, a marker pays tribute to Edward Dudley "Dick" Brown. He was born into slavery in Lexington about 1848. R.A. Alexander purchased him at auction around 1856 and brought him to the Woodburn farm in Woodford County where he began his career as a stable boy. He eventually advanced to exerciser, jockey, trainer and finally owner of his own thoroughbred, Ben Brush, 1896 Kentucky Derby winner. Also in town are Historical Markers detailing the history of the Second Christian Church, Smith Street; Pilgrim Baptist Church, 133 East Stephen Street and St. Matthews AME Church, 112 S. Winter Street. They are within walking distance from Railroad Street.
A Capital Idea
Leaving Midway, get back on Hwy 421 and follow it into Frankfort, Kentucky’s capital. Take the by-pass until you see the sign directing you to Kentucky State University. Founded in 1887 by act of legislature, it became the first state supported school to train African Americans to become teachers. John H. Jackson, a native of Lexington, became its first president. Recitation Hall was the first building completed in 1887 by stone mason, James C. Brown. The building was renamed Jackson Hall and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The building is now the office/museum of the Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans. Visit the Welcome Center to view a display on African American history. Visitor permit parking is available.
Other sites to visit in Frankfort are the Memorial to United States Colored Troops at the Greenhill Cemetery, the Kentucky Military History Museum, the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, Kentucky State Capitol and Old State Capitol. Historic Markers are located at St. John AME Church, 210 West Clinton; 1st Baptist Church at 100 W. Clinton and Emily Thomas Tubman House on Washington Street.
For more information call the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau at 800-845-3959.
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|Sediment supply from soft cliffs <br> © A. J. Chadwick
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The current world’s coastlines were formed as a result of the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago (see the beach management manual <ref name="CIRIA">CIRIA (2010). Beach management manual, Second Edition. Publication no. RP787, London.</ref>). At that time large ice sheets covered more of the world’s land masses than they do at present. As they melted there was a rapid rise of sea level (about 120m between 20,000 and 6000 years ago). Vast quantities of sediment were carried by rivers to the sea during this period, eventually forming the pre-cursor to our present coastlines as the rate of sea level rise rapidly reduced about 6000 years ago. Much of our beaches today are composed of the remnants of these sediments, composed predominantly of sand and gravel. These sources of beach material have subsequently been supplemented by [[Coast erosion|coastal erosion]] of soft cliffs and the reduced but continuing supply of sediments from rivers. Material has also been derived from offshore banks left behind by relatively rapid rises of sea level after cold episodes in the earth’s climate.
The current world’s coastlines were formed as a result of the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago (see the beach management manual <ref name="CIRIA">CIRIA (2010). Beach management manual, Second Edition. Publication no. RP787, London. </ref>). At that time large ice sheets covered more of the world’s land masses than they do at present. As they melted there was a rapid rise of sea level (about 120m between 20,000 and 6000 years ago). Vast quantities of sediment were carried by rivers to the sea during this period, eventually forming the pre-cursor to our present coastlines as the rate of sea level rise rapidly reduced about 6000 years ago. Much of our beaches today are composed of the remnants of these sediments, composed predominantly of sand and gravel. These sources of beach material have subsequently been supplemented by [[Coast erosion|coastal erosion]] of soft cliffs and the reduced but continuing supply of sediments from rivers. Material has also been derived from offshore banks left behind by relatively rapid rises of sea level after cold episodes in the earth’s climate.
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Gravel beaches are widespread around the world, including the USA, Canada, Japan, Argentina, New Zealand and the wave dominated coastlines of Northern Europe . In the UK, about one third of the coastline is protected by such beaches .
In coastal defence schemes, considerable use is made of coarse-grained (gravel) sediment to replenish eroding beaches, often in conjunction with structures such as rock or wooden groynes or offshore breakwaters. This is because such beaches are known to be an efficient form of natural coastal defence . Two examples from the UK are those at Sidmouth, Devon and Elmer, West Sussex.
|Sidmouth coastal defence scheme||Elmer coastal defence scheme |
Picture courtesy of the Arun District Council
Research into the particular characteristics of gravel beaches and their engineering analysis is relatively new, with much of the progress being made recently. In the 1990’s small scale experimental measurements and early field studies lead to the subsequent development of parametric models for profile prediction, longshore transport and the stability of barrier beaches. Since 2002, two major large scale experimental studies and some new comprehensive field studies have been undertaken. Since that time, good progress has also been made in process based numerical modelling systems for long and cross shore transport.
The emphasis of the article is to present in a clear and concise manner the most relevant concepts, basic understanding and insights into the behaviour of gravel beaches, to provide a summary of the available engineering analysis techniques and modelling approaches and to provide guidance to further reading and a list of the most relevant references to work carried out since 1990.
|Sediment supply from soft cliffs |
© A. J. Chadwick
The current world’s coastlines were formed as a result of the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago (see the beach management manual ). At that time large ice sheets covered more of the world’s land masses than they do at present. As they melted there was a rapid rise of sea level (about 120m between 20,000 and 6000 years ago). Vast quantities of sediment were carried by rivers to the sea during this period, eventually forming the pre-cursor to our present coastlines as the rate of sea level rise rapidly reduced about 6000 years ago. Much of our beaches today are composed of the remnants of these sediments, composed predominantly of sand and gravel. These sources of beach material have subsequently been supplemented by coastal erosion of soft cliffs and the reduced but continuing supply of sediments from rivers. Material has also been derived from offshore banks left behind by relatively rapid rises of sea level after cold episodes in the earth’s climate.
Sediment classification and properties
|all pictures: © A. J. Chadwick|
Traditionally sand and gravel sizes have been classified according to the Wentworth scale. This defines sand as being of diameter between 0.0625mm to 2mm. Material sizes larger than this are classified as gravel, subdivided into granular (2mm to 4 mm), pebble (4mm to 64 mm), cobble (64mm to 256 mm) and boulder (>256 mm). Rounded gravel, typical of a significant number of UK beaches, is referred to as shingle.
There are several physical properties of sand and gravel beaches which are important in the study of coastal sediment transport. The first is the sediment density (ρs), typically 2650 kg/m³ for quartz. The rest are required in recognition of the fact that a beach comprises a mixture of the beach material, interspersed with voids which may be filled with air or water. Thus the bulk density (ρb) is defined as the in situ mass of the mixture/volume of the mixture, the porosity (ps) as the volume of air or water/volume of the mixture, typically between 0.25 to 0.4 for a gravel beach, the voids ratio (e) as the volume of air or water/volume of the grains, typically between 0.33 to 0.66 for a gravel beach, and finally the angle of repose (Φ), which is the limiting slope angle at which the grains begin to roll, typically about 35° in air. In water this reduces to about 30°.
The material sizes on any particular beach will normally comprise a range of grain sizes, thus it is standard practice to measure the grain size distribution by a sieve analysis from which the percentage by weight of material passing through a range of sieve sizes is plotted against particle size. The median size is denoted by D50, representing the diameter for which 50% of the grains by mass are finer. The spread of sizes is often indicated by the values of D84 and D16 and their ratio is used to measure the degree of sorting. A well sorted sample is one in which there is a small range of sizes (D85/D16<2), whereas a well mixed sample has a large range of sizes (D85/D16>16).
Beaches types may be categorised according to the mixture of sands and gravels present, which has a significant influence on the beach slope and the more general morphological response of the beach to wave action. Four categories are defined as pure gravel (G), mixed sand and gravel (MSG), composite sand and gravel (CSG) and pure sand (S).
|© A. J. Chadwick|| Picture courtesy of
Halcrow Consulting Engineers
|© A. J. Chadwick||© A. J. Chadwick|
The characteristics of a gravel beach are very different from those of a sand beach. Most notably, gravel can support a steep gradient typically of the order of 1 in 8 with a tendency to form a near vertical berm towards the high water mark and a step at the wave break point. Swell wave conditions promote onshore accretion in the swash zone, with storm conditions promoting rapid offshore erosion. Despite the large grain size, the sediment is highly mobile. Changes in the vertical profile of the order of 0.5m are commonly found over just one tidal cycle for moderate to large waves .
|all pictures: © A. J. Chadwick|
|all pictures: © A. J. Chadwick|
On macro-tidal beaches, the active swash zone continuously re-works the beach face as the tide rises and falls. At low tide, it is common to observe a berm at the high water mark of the beach below which is a beach face of uniform slope, which ends in the step feature at the low water mark.
Cusp formation on gravel beaches is another distinctive feature. They can form rapidly when the wave approach is near normal, but are also washed out rapidly when the wave approach changes to an oblique angle. In the literature, two dominant models of cusp formation are recognised, namely edge wave forced and swash circulation/self organisation modes. However, cusp formation on gravel beaches has not been discussed very much in the literature .
|© A. J. Chadwick|
The steep beach gradient allows waves to progress much closer inshore before breaking, often resulting in a single plunging breaker. Consequently, there is minimal generation of infra-gravity waves. Even during storms, a wide surf zone is rare. An important consequence of this is that the swash zone can be of similar width to the surf zone and hence the sediment transport within the swash zone is of considerably more significance than on sand beaches. A second effect of the steep beach gradient is that refraction processes are also confined to a narrower zone than is experienced on a sand beach, with the result that refraction is often observed to be incomplete and the waves arrive at the beach face with some considerable angle, resulting in significant longshore transport. Gravel beaches are also much more reflective than sand beaches, with reflection coefficients of up to about 0.2.
Another distinguishing characteristic is the high permeability of gravel which, compared to a sand beach, increases the potential for infiltration during the swash uprush and exfiltration during the swash downrush. This induces a downward, stabilising force on sediment movement during the uprush and a lift force during backwash. Conversely, there is a thinning of the boundary layer during uprush, leading to increased shear stress on the bed and a thickening during backwash, leading to deceased shear stress on the bed. This latter effect is thought to predominate. On a gravel beach the backwash volume can also be considerably reduced, lowering the backwash velocities (see Elfrink and Baldock (2002) for a detailed review). It is these processes that lead to the formation of the high water mark berm.
|Picture courtesy A. Pedrozo-Acuna|
Barrier beaches are a common geomorphological feature across the world, many of which are composed of gravel. Their essential features comprise a narrow, elongated ridge of sand or gravel existing slightly above the high tide level. The ridge generally extends parallel to the shore, but is separated from it by a wetland, lagoon or a tidal flat. Barrier beaches act as natural means of coast protection. In addition, wetlands and lagoons formed behind barrier beaches provide shelter for many coastal habitats and are therefore of considerable environmental significance. One explanation of their formation is that they have been formed by landward migration of submerged sand/shingle banks with rising sea levels since the last ice age.
Barrier beaches are constantly evolving in response to short and long term processes. Short term changes in barrier beaches are related to local wave and current climate, tidal variations, frequency and magnitude of storm events, barrier geometry and type of beach sediment and permeability. Over longer terms, the primary factors for change and modification of barrier beaches are sea level rise, longshore sediment transport and changes in sediment sources and/or sinks according to Orford et al. (1995) .
A barrier beach can respond to these factors by landward or seaward migration, reshaping and re-alignment and crest breakdown or build-up . The episodic processes of over-washing, over-topping and associated breaching are the primary phenomena behind long term evolution.
Understanding the processes of sediment transport on gravel beaches is important for beach management which requires some quantification of shoreline evolution. The vast majority of coastal engineering projects still rely on one-line models since, as yet, 3D morphodynamic models are restricted to short- and medium-term predictions and none have been validated against coarse-grained field data. Most one-line models make use of empirical total longshore transport equations. Hence, the formulation of a reliable estimate of longshore sediment transport rate remains of considerable practical importance in coastal engineering applications such as feasibility studies of port extensions, derivation of sediment budgets for coastal areas and the appraisal of long term beach stability.
To some extent, the mechanisms associated with the longshore transport of gravel may be differentiated from that of sand. Generally, for a sand seabed the oscillatory force due to the passage of a (breaking) wave will tend to stir the sediment into motion. The bed shear due to the longshore current can then transport the sand. On gravel beaches the sediment normally moves as bedload and is largely confined to the swash zone. As the flow in the uprush is perpendicular to the wave crest and in the backwash is perpendicular to the beach contours, the gravel describes a 'sawtooth', or zig-zag, path along the beach.
Quantitative estimation of sediment transport rates is extremely difficult on a gravel beach. Direct measurement of longshore transport has been attempted using a variety of techniques, such as deposition of a tracer material (radioactive, dyed or artificial sediment) or installation of traps (see Van Wellan et al. (2000) for a review).
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Changes in beach volumes may be calculated from data derived from ground or aerial surveys. If surveys are carried out over several years a trend for accretion or depletion may be discernible. This is not necessarily a direct measure of the longshore transport rate along the coast. Rather it is an indication of any imbalances in the supply of sediment from one point to another. However, where marine structures are constructed which cut of the supply from further up the coast, comparisons of beach volumes before and after construction can give some indication of the longshore transport rates.
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The most widely used formula for calculating longshore transport is the CERC equation (US Army Corps of Engineers, 1984). The equation was derived from sand beaches and has been developed over a number of years. The formula is intended to include both bedload and suspended load and is usually given in the form of:
is the immersed weight sediment transport rate
is the longshore component of wave power
where E is wave energy, is group wave speed, θ is wave approach angle, subscript b refers to wave break point
and where K is a dimensionless empirically derived coefficient. The volumetric transport rate, , is related to by: where
where ρs is sediment density, ρ is sea water density, e is voids ratio.
There is no direct inclusion of the influence of grain size in the CERC equation, other than via the coefficient, K. It should be noted that for random waves, the choice of wave height used in the CERC equation (significant wave height, Hs or root mean square wave height, Hrms) must be correlated with the K value. Much confusion can arise, as some authors have used Hs and others Hrms without explicitly stating which one. For Rayleigh distributed waves, the K value using Hrms is twice that using Hs. A suggested value for K using Hrms is 0.77 for sand sized sediments. For gravel beaches, Chadwick’s (1989) data suggested a K value of 7% of that for sand (K=0.053). This was later found to work well at another beach site, Slapton Sands, Devon,UK (see Alegria-Arzaburu & Masselink (2010) ).
Chadwick (1991) also developed a numerical model to predict longshore transport on gravel beaches. The hydrodynamic module uses the non-linear shallow water wave equations, which predict the instantaneous water levels and velocities throughout the surf and swash zones. These are combined with a sediment transport module based on Bagnold's stream power concept. Instantaneous transport rates across the surf and swash zones are subsequently summed in space and time to determine the total longshore transport rate. Thus, this model specifically includes a sediment threshold term and transport in the swash zone, both of which are of importance on shingle beaches. The model required calibration of only the friction coefficient, which was determined from field data. Subsequently, an algebraic formula (the Chadwick-Van Wellen formula) was derived from the numerical model results given by:
This equation was specifically designed for application to gravel beaches but has only been calibrated to the data from one field site. For further details of this and other longshore transport equations, applicable to gravel beaches, see Van Wellen et al (2000) .
Large scale experimental studies
|© A. J. Chadwick|
More recent work on coarse grained beaches was undertaken by the EU project “Large Scale Modelling of Coarse Grained Beaches” which was undertaken between March-May 2002. The experiment was conducted at full scale, thus avoiding the sediment scaling issues inherent in small scale models. The measurements included not only the wave field and resultant equilibrium profile development, but also detailed measurements of pore water pressures under the swash face. The experimental results of this work may be found in López de San Román-Blanco et al (2006) . This experiment was used to develop the cross shore profile model of Pedrozo et al (2006) , described in more detail in this article.
Subsequently another large scale experimental study of gravel barrier beaches was undertaken in BARDEX (Barrier Dynamics Experiment) in the Delta wave flume, the Netherlands, during June and July 2008. One unique aspect of this work was the inclusion of the effects of a back barrier lagoon in conjunction with a varying tidal level. A special edition of Coastal Engineering has been devoted to papers resulting from this work (see Turner and Masselink (2012)) . These include details of the observations, the effect of the lagoon water level on the beach profile, new measurements of and prediction techniques for wave friction factors, new predictive techniques for assessing barrier overwashing and overtopping and an assessment of the XBeach model used to predict beach profile evolution and the morphological effect of washover.
Parametric models for equilibrium profiles
The prediction of the expected profile for a gravel beach is very different from the concepts used for equilibrium profiles on a sand beach. The problem was first comprehensively addressed by van der Meer (1988) and Powell (1990) , based on extensive scaled laboratory flume tests (small scale with anthracite in Powell’s case and large and small scale with gravel in van der Meer’s case). Powell’s work resulted in the development of a parametric profile model, which described the profile as a set of three curves: from the crest to the still water level, from the still water level to a transition point and from the transition point to the base of the profile. This was found to work well using the data from the GWK experiment ).
Parametric models for barrier stability
Bradbury (2000) carried out a series of 3-D mobile bed laboratory tests on barrier crest response to hydrodynamic conditions and initial barrier geometry. Based on the model investigations, several categories of barrier response to hydrodynamic conditions were identified and underlying characteristics were qualitatively defined. These included crest raised by overtopping, crest lowered due to undermining of crest but with no overtopping, crest raised by over-washing with roll-back, crest lowered by over-washing with roll-back and finally, no change to the crest elevation with profile contained to seaward of the barrier crest.
He developed an expression for an over-washing threshold of barrier crests, based on regression analysis. It is a function of wave steepness (Hs/Lm), barrier free board (Rc) and barrier cross-sectional area Ba (above the still water line), given by:
The expression was validated against field data gathered at Hurst Spit, UK and found to be consistent with the field data. In addition, a conceptual model for barrier over-washing was formulated. According to his model, the beach will initially attempt to reach a dynamic equilibrium; if the critical barrier inertia is exceeded then the crest will be lowered by over-washing.
Modelling cross shore profile development
|Picture courtesy of A. Pedrozo-Acuna|
The first of several recent deterministic process based models for predicting the profile response of coarse grained beaches was developed by Lawrence, Chadwick and Fleming (2001) . It was shown that Boussinesq equations coupled with a bed load sediment transport formulation were a useful approach for process-based modelling of gravel beach profile evolution. This model was subsequently extended to model the sediment transport of grain size fractions and thus to predict sediment sorting across the beach face . However, it was found that this numerical model scheme was not stable on steep beaches.
Subsequently, using a newer Boussinesq model, Pedrozo et al (2006) demonstrated that the two principle sediment parameters of friction (f) and sediment transport efficiency (C) were controlling the shape of the gravel beach profile. With f and C as constant values, accurate prediction of the profile evolution was not possible. The use of bigger friction factors in the uprush slightly improved the prediction. When larger values of the sediment transport efficiency (C -value) were used in the uprush compared to the backwash, better predictions of the beach profile resulted. The physical processes which dictate the differences between the predicted and measured profiles were hypothesised as being related to infiltration effects on the flow above the beach face and more accelerated flow in the uprush. Further developments coupling the effects of infiltration/exfiltration with sediment movement were still required at that time. The more recent results reported by Jamal et al (2010) and Williams et al (2012) indicate that including this process leads to significant improvements in prediction. Pedrozo et al (2010) have also highlighted the importance of the impulsive pressures induced by plunging breakers on gravel beach sediment transport.
Suggestions for further research
For all budding researchers in coastal research, the further study of gravel and mixed beaches offers much opportunity to enhance our knowledge. Longshore transport prediction is still imprecise and cross shore processes very complex and not completely understood. Current parametric design methods leave much to be desired. Further field and large scale experimental studies remain a primary tool for advancing our understanding of long and cross shore processes. These will need to stand on the heads of the previously mentioned studies. Numerical modelling tools can still benefit greatly from improved process representation, including infiltration/exfiltration, interactions with groundwater flows, impulsive pressure forces, the incorporation of grain size fractions and the prediction of sediment sorting across the beach face.
Example barrier beaches
Chesil Beach, Dorset UK, is a world famous gravel barrier beach. It is approximately 28 kilometres long and, on average, 160 metres wide. The height of the beach is typically 11 metres above mean sea level. The beach stabilised close to its present position around 5000 years ago.
A rent research paper concerning the internal structure of Chesil beach (Bennett et al (2009)) also contains a good summary of the extensive historical literature on this beach. There is an informative web site at www.chesilbeach.org.
A comprehensive assessment of the historical development and contemporary processes affecting a significant gravel barrier beach system in the UK (Slapton Sands, South Devon UK) may be found in Chadwick et al (2005) and a short summary of these studies is presented elsewhere in the coastal wiki (Slapton barrier beach case study, UK).
The paper includes assessment of the effects of sea level rise on barrier migration and its susceptibility to over-washing and overtopping, inter alia. It was found that the processes at work on the Slapton shoreline included:
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- Short-term changes in beach profile due to storms, acting over a period of several days. These storms cause cut-back of the seaward edge of the shingle crest, or changes in crest elevation
- Overtopping, in which wave action throws water and sediment onto the crest.
- Overflowing, or overwashing, where extremely high water levels coincident with wave action cause water to flow over the crest of the ridge. This can cause significant changes to the crest and backslope of the ridge.
- Medium-term changes in beach width and profile due to longshore transport, occurring over a period of months or several years.
- Long-term landward retreat; the barrier beach responds to sea level rise by “roll-over” and by increasing its crest height. This process involves overwashing, transferring sediment from the shore-face to the back barrier area. This is an episodic rather than a continuous process.
- Planform change; as the barrier beach is pinned by hard rock cliffs at either end (Strete and Torcross), landward retreat results in a gradual increase in both curvature and length.
In a later comprehensive field study of this site, Alegria-Arzuburu and Masselink (2010) used an ARGUS video system to monitor short and medium term changes. This study confirmed many of the conclusions reached in the Chadwick study and demonstrated the importance of storm sequencing to both long and cross shore processes which affect beach erosion and accretion.
An up to date and comprehensive review of gravel beaches and barriers may be found in Anthony (2008) . Gravel beach dynamics are reviewed by Buscombe and Masselink (2006) . Stripling et al (2008) present a good review of barrier beaches and their management.
Finally, the management manual (2010) provides information on state-of-art methods, guidance on beach monitoring and maintenance, evaluation of the state and performance of a beach, design, procurement, execution and the after-care of beach improvement schemes. It also includes case studies to illustrate popular management techniques and draws from experience of existing management approaches.
- Risk and coastal zone policy: example from the Netherlands
- Shore protection, coast protection and sea defence methods
- The Integrated approach to Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
- Natural causes of coastal erosion
- Human causes of coastal erosion
- Coastal defense techniques
- Natural barriers
- Relative sea level
- Shore nourishment
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Buscome D., Masselink G. (2006). Concepts in gravel beach dynamics. Earth science Reviews 79 33-52.
- ↑ Fuller, R. M. & Randall, R. E. (1988). The Orford Shingles, Suffolk, UK. Classic conflicts in coastline management. Biological conservation.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Powell, K. A. (1990). Predicting short term profile response for shingle beaches. HR Wallingford Report SR 219.
- ↑ Diserens, A. P. & Coates, T. T. (1993). UK South Coast shingle beach study: storm response of shingle beaches. HR Wallingford Report SR 323.
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 CIRIA (2010). Beach management manual, Second Edition. Publication no. RP787, London. Available at: http://www.southerncoastalgroup.org.uk/bmm.htm Beach
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 Van Wellen, E, Chadwick, A J and Mason, T (2000) A review and assessment of longshore sediment transport equations for coarse grained beaches. Coastal Engineering, 40, 3, 243-275.
- ↑ 7,0 7,1 Anthony E. J. (2008). Gravel beaches and barriers. Developments in Marine Geology, Vol 4, 289-324.
- ↑ Elfrink B, Baldock T. (2002) Hydrodynamics and sediment transport in the swash zone: a review and perspectives. Coastal Engineering, 45, 149–167.
- ↑ Orford, J.D., Carter, R.W.G., Jennings, S.C. and Hinton, A.C. (1995). Processes and time scales by which a coastal gravel dominated barrier respond geomorphologically to sea level rise-Story Head Barrier, Nova-Scotia, Earth Surface process and Land Forms, 20(1), pp.21-37.
- ↑ Carter, R.W.G., Forbes, D.L., Jennings, S.C., Orford, J.D., Shaw, J. and Taylor, R.B., (2003), Barrier and lagoon coast evolution under differing relative sea level regimes-examples from Ireland and Nova-Scotia, Marine Geology, 88, Issue 3-4, pp.221-242.
- ↑ 11,0 11,1 Ruiz de Alegria-Arzaburu, A., Masselink, G. (2010). Storm response and beach rotation on a gravel beach, Slapton Sands, U.K Marine Geology 278, 77–99.
- ↑ Chadwick, A J. (1991). An unsteady flow bore model for sediment transport in broken waves Part 1: The development of the numerical model. Proc. Instn. Civ. Engrs. Part 2, 1991, 91, Dec. 719 - 737.
- ↑ Chadwick, A J. (1991). An unsteady flow bore model for sediment transport on broken waves Part II: The properties, calibration and testing of the numerical model. Proc. Instn. Civ. Engrs. Part 2, 1991, 91, Dec., 739-753.
- ↑ 14,0 14,1 López de San Román-Blanco, B., Coates, T., Holmes, P., Chadwick, A. J., Bradbury, A., Baldock, T., Pedrozo-Acuña, A., Grüne, J. (2006). Large scale experiments on gravel and mixed beaches: experimental procedure, data documentation and initial results. Coastal Engineering 53 (4), 349-363.
- ↑ 15,0 15,1 Pedrozo, A., Simmonds, D.J., Otta, A.K., Chadwick, A.J. (2006). On the cross-shore profile change of gravel beaches. Coastal Engineering, 53 (4), 335-347.
- ↑ Ian L. Turner, Gerd Masselink (2012). Coastal gravel barrier hydrology — Observations from a prototype-scale laboratory experiment (BARDEX). Coastal engineering, 63, 13-22
- ↑ Van der Meer J. (1988) Rock slopes and gravel beaches under wave attack. Delft Hydraulics Publications n 396.
- ↑ Bradbury, A.P. (2000), Predicting breaching of shingle barrier beaches- recent advances to aid beach management, 35th MAFF (DEFRA) Conf of River and Coastal Engineers.
- ↑ Lawrence, J, Chadwick, A J and Fleming, C A. (2001). A phase resolving model of sediment transport on coarse grained beaches. In: Billy L Edge (ed) Coastal Engineering 2000, 624-636. American Society of Civil Engineers: Reston, Virginia.
- ↑ Lawrence, J, Karunarathna, H, Chadwick, A J and Fleming, C A. (2003). Cross-shore sediment transport on mixed coarse grain sized beaches: modelling and measurements. Proceedings of the International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2002
- ↑ Jamal, M.H., Simmonds, D.J., Magar, V., Pan, S., (2010). Modelling infiltration on gravel beaches with an XBeach variant. Proc.32nd Conf. on Coastal Eng., Shanghai, China, 2010, sediment, p. 41 http://journals.tdl.org/ICCE/issue/view/154/showToc.
- ↑ Jon J. Williams, Amaia Ruiz de Alegría-Arzaburu, Robert T. McCall, Ap Van Dongeren (2012). Modelling gravel barrier profile response to combined waves and tides using XBeach: Laboratory and field results. Coastal engineering, 63, 62-80
- ↑ Pedrozo-Acuña, A., Torres-Freyermuth, A., Zou, Q., Hsu, T.-J., Reeve, D.E. (2010). Diagnostic modelling of impulsive pressures induced by plunging breakers. Coastal Engineering 57 (3), 252–266.
- ↑ Bennett M. R., Cassidy N. J., Pile J. (2009). Internal structure of a barrier beach as revealed by ground penetrating radar (GRP) Chesil beach, UK. Geomorphology 104, 218-229.
- ↑ Chadwick, A. J., Karunarathna, H., Gehrels, R, Massey, A. C.,O’Brien, D. ,Dales, D.(2005). A New Analysis of the Slapton Barrier Beach System. Maritime Engineering 158, 4, 147-161
- ↑ Stripling A., Bradbury, A.P., Brampton, A.H. and Cope S.N. (2008) Understanding Barrier Beaches Joint DEFRA/EA Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management R&D Programme. Technical Report FD1924/TR
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"Wake up! Wake up!" I thought it was my mother, but the voice was too husky to be hers. "Get up!" said the voice again, "Are you bloody stupid! I said get the hell up!" The mysterious figure with the abnormally husky voice delivered a rib- shattering blow to my chest. I cringed with pain as I slit my eyes to look up at the man standing over me. He was tall, roughly about 6 feet, with broad shoulders and spikey white hair. "Ugh!" I sighed as I turned onto my back, the bright florescent lights burning through my half open lids. "Right, I forgot I was being tortured to death before I passed out from a concussion," I replied with a sarcastic tone, "Once again, love what you've done with the place....." The white haired thug wanna be, also known as Nigil, decided to take his anger out on me with a harsh kick to the jaw; my head snapped back and hit the cold concrete floor. Nigil lowered his face to level with mine, "I've had just about enough of your smart ass comments, now either you tell me what I want to know or you'll end up like your brother....." I spat blood in his face, which was like saying "Screw you!" but more silent. "My brother had nothing to do with this." I said, calmly. "Pathetic!" Snow White here walked away with his black leather boots, splooshing through rusty water puddles. I finally sat up, wiping the caked blood off my lips. I stared at that worthless creatures' back with a hard gaze, without standing. He probably felt my gaze, so he took a chair in his hands and smashed me in the head with it.
Anyway, that was two months ago. My name's Kale, I'm a highschool drop out from Saint Michael's Prep School. Yeah I still live with my mom, but I got a job at the local record shop so I'm not a burden on her. I would get my own place, but unfortunately it'll destroy Eliza, my little sister. Yeah, I also live with my sisters, Tiffany and Eliza. Wondering about my brother? He was murdered in his room 2 years ago. My mom and sisters think he committed suicide due to a drug overdose. No my brother's not a crack head, he just got mixed up with the wrong crowd. Enough about how my brother's jacked up life came to be. This isn't about him; well not fully anyway. The day starts out with my crappy room, full of band posters and junk, and my alarm clock. It's one of those projector clocks, but of course during one of my "Screw the world" phases I ripped the projector part off. Yeah, so now it's just the alarm and digital numbers. Don't judge me. I can never just jump right out of bed like hippie do gooders, I kinda just roll and slug out of bed. Call me what you will, a lazy bastard, good for nothing moocher, a psychotic son of a bitch, hobknocker, anything. It doesn't bother me really, it's more expected from people to call me those names. That's basically the story of my life, so far that is.
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Kim Kardashian has asked the court to speed up proceedings in her divorce for the sake of her unborn child, Yahoo News reports. Kardashian is still legally married to basketball player Kris Humphries but is pregnant by rapper Kanye West. Kardashian was treated for pain earlier this week, which her physician attributed to stress.
Humphries is asking the court to annul the marriage on the basis of fraud, a claim Kardashian denies. Humphires' lawyer has filed a response to Kardashian's request stating that they should not have to move proceedings up to before the end of Humphries' basketball season just because of Kardashian's "apparently unplanned pregnancy" by another man.
"Community" finally returns tonight, and it seems to be making up for lost time. Abed is stressed about the group graduating at the end of the year, and he looks to Britta for help. This episode also includes a "Hunger Games"-style seat assignment method, led by Dean Pelton. While this will undoubtedly be amazing, one can only hope this isn't meant to replace a paintball episode this season. NBC 8 p.m. EST.
Hot video: Rihanna accompanies Chris Brown to court
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"There were so many people, you had to push through people to walk," recalled Pearl Ezeokeke, who was at the scene.
Even nine hours after the plane slammed into the earth, Sidi described "crowd control (as a) big challenge." But by 1:30 a.m. Monday, the Nigerian official insisted the situation was "all controlled" and that the greatest difficulty then was sifting through the heavy debris.
Femi Green-Adebo described how, in the middle of an otherwise nice Sunday afternoon, he heard a "loud explosion" and then ran outside and saw "smoke."
'It was so hot, we couldn't get close," he told CNN iReport. 'I just kept thinking about the people, if there as anyone in there.'
The fires made it difficult for people to see what was happening, as well as to breathe. Orange flames shot up in spots as late as 7 p.m. Sunday. Five hours later, Sidi said fires were no longer burning and the scene was under control.
"There was ... so much (smoke) that, my eyes, I couldn't see beyond where I was standing," Ilori Olayide told CNN.
Amongst the crowd of civilians, witnesses reported seeing police, firefighters and security personnel. Patrick Abbah, from the national emergency management agency, said, "Everybody is present -- it's all hands on deck."
There were no large lights on-site to add the rescue efforts as the sun went down. But over the subsequent hours, lights were up and illuminating the crash site, according to Sidi.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared three days of national mourning and ordered "the fullest possible investigation" after the crash.
A statement from his office noted that the incident came the same day that two church bombings in northern Nigeria killed at least 15 people and wounded 38 others, according to Red Cross spokesman Andronicus Adeyemo. | <urn:uuid:f1f1ba80-fe7c-43cd-9c2e-1effc3903e1a> | 2013-05-18T05:25:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Thomas Perez has climbed America's "ladder of opportunity" and now can help others do the same, President Barack Obama said on Monday in nominating the assistant U.S. attorney general as labor secretary.
The son of Dominican immigrants who worked different jobs such as collecting garbage to help pay for college, Perez has dedicated himself to fulfilling the promise of equal opportunity for all, Obama told a White House ceremony to introduce Perez, 51.
CNN's Jessica Yellin reported earlier this month that Obama would name Perez to the Cabinet position.
If confirmed by the Senate, the lone Hispanic Cabinet selection of Obama's second term so far would succeed Hilda Solis, who resigned in January.
In brief remarks, Perez thanked Obama in both English and Spanish for what he called the honor of the opportunity.
He pledged to work with "our partners" in organized labor, the business community, grassroots organizations and Congress, adding that he looked forward to meeting with senators from both parties to discuss the way forward.
"True progress is possible if you keep and open mind, listen to all sides and focus on results," Perez said.
Obama urged that Perez be confirmed "as quickly as possible."
Perez's nomination comes as the economy continues a sluggish recovery from recession, with unemployment hovering near 8%.
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One of the most iconic symbols of the presidency will soon have a twin.
Real Clear Politics reported Friday that President Barack Obama will vacate the Oval Office for a major West Wing renovation project but will take up a desk in a "nearly identical replica."
The Oval Office replica was expected to be in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is inside the White House compound and just across West Executive Drive from the West Wing. But the report also noted "unforeseen construction hurdles" may alter the current plans.
The office as it is known today was built under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934, though it was initially constructed in 1909 and rebuilt after a fire 20 years later.
Presidential historian Martha Joynt Kumar - a political science professor at Towson University and director of the non-partisan White House Transition Project - said the West Wing has been renovated in a "patchwork" way over the decades but major and necessary "electrical work ... restructuring of office space ... [and other] structural work" would not be feasible while the Oval and surrounding offices are in use.
"If you're doing major work then people will have to be moved," she told CNN on Friday.
The Oval is the president's functional as well as ceremonial office - where major decisions are made, foreign leaders are met, and presidents address the nation. It stands alongside Air Force One and the White House façade itself as powerful symbols of the presidency.
"The Oval Office has long been associated with the president," Kumar said. Theodore Roosevelt vacated the West Wing for renovations but was asked by guests to return "to the White House itself for meetings because people didn't want to meet in some temporary office building," she said.
When Obama took office, his he customized the office with new beige wallpaper, carpet, chairs, couches, and by removing a set of decorative plates. He's not "a plates kind of guy," Kumar said.
The Real Clear Politics report said the temporary Oval Office would be "replicated in shape and Obama beige-ness, is being readied for occupancy within months." It quoted an unnamed source as saying the administration would have "eight to 10 months to get ready" for the move. | <urn:uuid:4c76d765-7082-4b74-b074-9926acb27c06> | 2013-05-18T07:16:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Last week, comedian Phyllis Diller died at the age of 95. But "[w]hat's the lesson of her life, for us?" asks comedian Jeremy Owens. "Phyllis Diller proves, at least for me, that you can teach an old dog new tricks. You can start a stand-up career when you’re almost 40; you get to have your second act. If you’re lucky and live to be 95 you might even get a third, fourth or fifth. So I ask you, what is it you really want to do? Why don’t you go do it." Read an excerpt below or listen above:
“Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run,” at least according to Phyllis Diller. Long before Joan Rivers asked if we could talk and Chelsea Handler sexed it up like a frat boy, there was Phyllis. She created the mold for self-deprecating female comics and did it in an age where women were to be seen and not heard. She was the first woman to tell jokes like a man, did so to great acclaim and all while supporting her family.
Born Phyllis Driver on July 17, 1917 in Lima, Ohio, she became interested in classical music, writing and theatre at an early age. She briefly attended the Sherwood Conservatory of Music (aka Columbia College) in Chicago before transferring to Bluffton College. Her plans were to become a music teacher. Instead, she married Sherwood Diller and started a family.
She first found work writing a shopping column for a newspaper, then advertising copy. She moved on to writing and promotional jobs at radio stations, anything to make up for her husband’s inability to hold down a job. “I wanted him to get any job. He couldn’t sell Windex to a Peeping Tom.” Her knack for making people laugh at church, PTA and club functions prompted Diller, with her husband’s nudging, to set her sights on a comedy career at the ripe old age of 37.
In an NPR interview to promote her autobiography, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse, Phyllis recounted her decision to become a comic. “I didn’t know how to start. I thought you have a show and you find out where to do it. I called the Red Cross and said, ‘I have a show. Where do you want it?’ They said, ‘The Presidio.’ That’s an Army hospital. My first show was in a room with four beds. We did our dumb little show in that room. Three of the guys threw up and the other one re-enlisted. I’ll never forget it. I sweat blood.”
The Paper Machete is a weekly live magazine at the Horseshoe in North Center. It's always at 3 p.m., it's always on Saturday, and it's always free. Get all your The Paper Machete Radio Magazine needs filled here, or download the podcast from iTunes here. | <urn:uuid:cffc7cdb-8f1a-49fe-aa62-a7e60656f691> | 2013-05-18T05:15:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Shrout may have been influenced by the Newtown shooting because his first journal entry was made on Dec. 17, just three days after that attack
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A 17-year-old Alabama high school student accused of plotting to blow up his classmates may have been influenced by the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., in December.
Authorities say Derek Shrout, who was released on $75,000 bail Monday and has pleaded not guilty, wrote down plans for building a bomb in a journal found by one of his teachers at Russell County High School in Seale, Ala. The teacher then handed the journal over to police.
Shrout's parents allowed police to search their home after they were told of the journal. They found empty tobacco cans with holes drilled in them that were filled with pellets, which Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor characterized as the beginning stages of a bomb.
Taylor said he believes Shrout may have been influenced by the Newtown shooting because his first journal entry about the bomb was made on Dec. 17, just three days after that attack.
Shrout's attorney, Jeremy Armstrong declined to comment on the charges Tuesday morning, but he told local paper the Ledger-Enquirer on Monday that he believes authorities are overreacting to his client's case because of the shooting in Newtown. "Our position is that our client had no intention to harm anybody," Armstrong said.
A classmate of Shrout's told the Ledger-Enquirer that Shrout's desk at school was covered in swastikas and the words "White Power." Authorities say Shrout has said he is a white supremacist and that most of his intended targets for the bomb were black students.
Copycat threats often spike after a much-publicized school shooting, and authorities made several arrests over threats in the days after the Newtown shooting.
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Now that the sun shines and the temperature's up, Simon and Schooster have taken to the kitchen window to look at the birds. They sit there for hours at a time.
Simon and Schooster Watching for Birds
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In a career already groaning under the weight of titles and accolades, Roger Federer joined another exclusive list of tennis luminaries when he beat Andy Murray in this year's Wimbledon final.
In notching up his seventh Wimbledon win a month before his 31st birthday, Federer became the oldest champion since Arthur Ashe in 1975, and only the 11th player in the Open era to win a grand slam in his 30s.
Only Andre Agassi (at the Australian Open in 2001 and 2003) and Pete Sampras (U.S. Open 2002) have achieved the feat this century suggesting that, more than ever, modern tennis is a game which favors the power, agility and the sheer exuberance of youth.
Despite the ambition of those young guns and not forgetting the distractions of a young family, Federer's desire to remain competitive appears undimmed.
After dispatching the then 23-year-old Juan Martin del Potro in the final of the ATP Tour event in Rotterdam last February, Federer said he hoped to be around for another "three, five, six years."
And following his silver medal at the Olympic tennis tournament in August he reiterated that wish.
"I'll be 35 in Rio. I think it's possible, but we'll see how it goes," Federer told CNN.
The Swiss champion isn't the only one enjoying a resurgence in the autumn of his career.
From his perch at the summit of the world rankings -- which he reclaimed after winning Wimbledon -- Federer surveys a top 100 in which almost a quarter (24) of players are over the age of 30.
Five places below the Swiss is Spain's David Ferrer (who turned 30 in February) while lower down lie Jarkko Nieminen from Finland and Austria's Jurgen Melzer.
Read: Tight security in Shanghai as Federer appears after death threat
The 31-year-olds, ranked 35 and 37 respectively, have both won tournaments this year -- the Finn winning the Apia International in Sydney in January while Melzer took the Memphis title the following month.
Germany's Tommy Haas, who turned 34 in April, is currently the oldest player in the top 25. The former world no.2, whose career has been plagued by injuries, started this season outside the top 200, but has shot up the rankings this year to a current high of 21 in the rankings.
The rise was helped, in part, by victory over Federer in the final of the ATP tournament on home soil in Halle last June.
"Maybe 30 is the new 20," the German told CNN's Open Court, not entirely in jest.
"You know, I think a lot of the guys are becoming so much more professional ... everybody is looking more at how physical the game has gotten and how important it is to stay healthy and fit," Haas said.
"Thirty, at the end of the day, is really just a number ... If you really love something and you want to do it the right way, why not do it until you really know you can't do it anymore."
It's a philosophy which Federer shares, Haas thinks.
Read: Behind the scenes with Graf and Agassi
"He's a world-class athlete. He knows exactly what he is doing. He prepares as well as anyone out there ... he doesn't second guess many things, so I'm not really surprised."
Gil Reyes, the feted long-time fitness coach (and friend) to Andre Agassi, says Federer is just a class apart.
"Roger is a perfect athlete -- his movement, his game, his mental, his physical. There's Roger and then there's everyone else," Reyes said.
Technological advances and the physically demanding nature of the modern game have caught up with players less gifted and younger than Federer, says Reyes, leading to lots of wear and tear.
With players hitting that ball harder than ever, there is simply less time to play the next shot, he says.
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WILLMAR -- Eric Flores, 25, of Willmar, was sentenced Wednesday to 60 months in prison and $100 in fines on drug and weapons possession charges for possessing meth and a rifle when he was stopped by Willmar police in March.
The sentence was handed down by Judge Michael J. Thompson in Kandiyohi County District Court. Flores was given credit for 102 days already served.
As part of a plea agreement, the drug charge was reduced from second-degree to third-degree and two felony charges of first-degree drugs -- manufacture of methamphetamine and firearms possession, plus two misdemeanor charges, were dismissed.
The charges were filed after a Willmar police officer was on patrol around 4:30 p.m. March 14 along Willmar Avenue and observed a vehicle driven by a man he recognized as Flores.
The officer suspected Flores was driving without a valid license and was wanted on a warrant. Flores waved to the officer as he passed.
The officer followed the vehicle, confirmed with dispatch that Flores was wanted on a warrant in a domestic assault case and stopped the vehicle.
The officer smelled marijuana and searched Flores and the vehicle, locating $295 in Flores' pocket, 19 grams of meth in the vehicle and an SKS assault rifle in the trunk.
The officer also located a magazine of rifle ammunition and boxes of ammunition and brass knuckles in the vehicle.
Flores' criminal history includes convictions for felony assault of a peace officer in October 2005, possession of a dangerous weapon in March 2006 and burglary in July 2007. | <urn:uuid:c5e06ef0-5645-4241-8d8b-469049da43a1> | 2013-05-18T06:55:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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History of Ned Ray McWherter Weakley County Library, 1946-2002
The Weakley County Library opened in a rented room in the basement of Bowers Hotel on the main square in Dresden on April 9, 1946. Quarters were shared with the Red Cross. When the new courthouse was completed in 1950 both the library and the Red Cross were moved to a third floor room. Financial support was low-for many years $1,462 annually - and the location inaccessible. Circulation stayed around 3,000-4,000 annually for a number of years.
In June 1963, the Library was moved to a rented business building on the ground level. A larger county appropriation and the first city appropriation made this possible. In the new location circulation increased by 2,000 during the first year. The new quarters were attractive but small, and were outgrown almost immediately.
Weakley County was voted a two-year demonstration project by the Regional Board beginning July 1, 1964, which resulted in fast expansion and growth for all libraries of the county. Regional funds were used to pay librarians and buy books, and county funds were released to buy furniture and equipment and more books. The county board searched for a larger building, and finally a new building was constructed by a local citizen especially for renting to the Library. Library hours were increased from twenty per week to thirty-eight, including one evening, after the Library opened in the new building in February 1965.
The Library expanded to include a small concrete block building located behind the Library in 1993. This building was the Story Book House and was used for story times and summer reading programs.
Former Tennessee Governor Ned R. McWherter originated the idea for a new library facility to be located next door to his home on Linden Street in 1997. He provided funding for the purchase of the land and construction of the building. County commissioners helped obtain grants to help pay for the furnishings needed in the modern library. The Ned R. McWherter/Weakley County Library was opened on December 1, 1997. On November 19, 1999 the Ned R. McWherter room was dedicated and the library held its Grand Opening.
Some early librarians were Mrs. Lillian Ross, Mrs. Beulah Hamlin, Mrs. Hobson Mayo, Mrs. Rupelle Speight and Mrs. Louise Oliver. | <urn:uuid:e89aa85b-19af-45b1-99ca-5ca6da1a41dc> | 2013-05-18T05:54:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jose M. Villena
studied at Santa Rosa de Lima High School in Malaga, Spain, where he met David Tomaselli. He graduated from the University of Malaga with a degree in Economics wich, of course, later came in handy when he decided to devoted more than nine years of his career to design and marketing. Posters, floats, mugs, key rings, his friends do not come near for fear that he will sell them something. Since his early childhood he was very clear about he wanted to be when he grew up. While his friends wanted to be astronauts, soccer players or firefighters, he wanted to be a cartoonist. He admires the work of authors such as Bill Watterson, Charles M. Schulz, John Byrne, Akira Toriyama and Frank Cho among others. Besides drawing and painting he loves movies, music and martial arts, currently practicing Haidong Gumdo. He is now happily married and lives with his wife in Malaga, Spain making his dreams a reality.
- after meeting Jose Villena in high school and buying some T-shirts from him - studied Telecommunications Engineering and later dedicate himself to the world of consulting for Oracle. Now he doesn't stop traveling around Europe and he knows all brands of hotel shampoo. Due to his work with the computers he's allergic to them and hopes to retire one day to live on a farm with his dog "Gordo". Currently he is obsessed with learning German in order to talk to Gordo, a German shepherd who never pays any attention. Until now the dog only snores. | <urn:uuid:2715fe17-3277-4395-80ed-89bd4c3ed8d5> | 2013-05-18T07:21:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I don't see why you put this in the feedback section, but I'll attempt to help anyway.
My question to would be this: why? It just doesn't really make much sense as to why you'd want to do such a thing. The enter key already has a meaning when inside a form element and that is to submit the form. On the same note, the tab key already has a meaning that most users are aware of: to navigate through the form elements. | <urn:uuid:1be85e00-e6f6-47a3-82b0-6abd5418a7ab> | 2013-05-18T06:50:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Two rockets from Gaza slammed into southern Israel on Thursday morning, as U.S. President Barack Obama prepared to leave Jerusalem for Ramallah for meetings with top Palestinian Authority officials.
One of the rockets landed in the courtyard of a house in the city of Sderot, but no casualties were reported, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
A police disposal expert was still searching for the other rocket, Rosenfeld said.
Obama is on a four-day trip to Israel and the West Bank, his first since assuming office.
On Thursday, he is expected to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel seized Gaza during the 1967 war, and withdrew settlers from there in 2005. In the ensuing years, militants in Gaza have regularly launched rocket attacks into southern Israel.
In November, Israel launched what it called the Pillar of Defense operation, a series of military strikes on Gaza designed to stop the constant rocket fire.
Eight days of round-the-clock warfare followed between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian movement that controls Gaza.
As Israel targeted Hamas military commanders and weaponry, Palestinian militants continued to fire rockets into Israel, battering the southern region and reaching Israel's two major cities -- Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Israel called up reservists and massed its forces on the Gaza border, threatening a ground invasion. Many feared a repeat of Israel's Operation Cast Lead offensive against Palestinian militants in late 2008, an operation that led to a bloody three-week war. | <urn:uuid:6135a8f5-2fd5-4095-8266-7432836ff524> | 2013-05-18T07:19:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Across the Wesleyan curriculum, from the humanities to the sciences, you will find courses emphasizing writing. Many of these courses emphasize critical writing that is central to students' academic work. Other courses offer you the chance to explore writing for general readers or to try creative exercises. The English Department's major program includes a concentration in creative writing. Creative writing has long been an important component of the College of Letters curriculum, with entry level and advanced courses offered. The university's writing courses also include the Koeppel Journalism seminar, science writing seminars, translation courses, and writing about film and the arts. The Writing Certificate, essentially a minor in writing, is open to students in any major. | <urn:uuid:ad6c29b9-6e1e-4f4d-ab8a-e5e9ca70efa5> | 2013-05-18T05:49:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The fun thing about treasure hunts is the thrill of the chase. The 'treasure' doesn't have be a big, expensive prize. A piece of candy or something small is enough reward because of the fun of the hunt. Even children who can't read can participate if you have old magazines or catalogs from which you can cut pictures of furniture, appliances, or household items. The hunt works very simply. Begin by giving your child a written clue or a picture of an item, say a coffee maker. When the child gets to the coffee maker, he or she'll find the next clue, a picture or description of another item, like a T-V. At the T-V is a picture or description of a bookcase, and so on, until the treasure is found. With older children, you can write cryptic clues like riddles. If your child is just beginning to read, the game can be used to help improve vocabulary by involving words already learned, such as blue bed or dog dish. As a word of warning, this game can be addictive to the kids because they enjoy it so much, so don't tell them it's educational! You may even need to get a head start on the clues while the kids are asleep!
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(1) The section of a pedestal between base and surbase. (2) The lower portion of the wall of a room, decorated diffrently from the upper section.
The dance of death, a favorite late medieval picture subject. It generally shows skeletons forcing the living to dance with them, usually in matching pairs, e.g. a live priest dancing with a skeleton priest. Holbein's woodcut series the Dance of Death is one of the most famous.
Refers to a style of painting that developed in Regensburg, Germany, and elsewhere along the Danube river during the Renaissance and Reformation. It is characterized by a renewed interest in medieval piety, an expressive use of nature, the relationship of the human figure and events to nature, and the introduction of landscape as a primary theme in art. The term was coined by Theodor von Frimmel (1853-1928), who believed that painting in the Danube River region around Regensburg, Passau, and Linz possessed common characteristics; the style seems to exist even though leading artists did not form a school in the usual sense of the term, since they did not work in a single workshop or in a particular centre. Major artists whose work represents the style include Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Altdorfer and Wolf Huber.
a minister who was below the rank of priest in the Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox churches. Deacons originally cared for both the sick and the poor in early Christian communities.
the representation of Christ enthroned in glory as judge or ruler of the world, flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist acting as intercessors.
in medieval art a picture, often an altarpiece, consisting of two folding wings without a fixed central area.
In Renaissance art theory, the design of a painting seen in terms of drawing, which was help to be the basis of all art. The term stresses not the literal drawing, but the concept behind an art work. With the Mannerists the term came to mean an ideal image that a work attempts to embody but can in fact never fully realize. As disegno appeals to the intellect, it was considered far more important that coloure (colour), which was seen as appealing to the senses and emotions.
A technique of painting in which pigments are diluted with water and bound with a glue. It was usually used for painting wall decorations and frescoes, though a few artists, notably Andrea Mantegna (1430/31-1506), also used it on canvas.
in architecture, hemispherical structure evolved from the arch, usually forming a ceiling or roof.
A Roman Catholic order of mendicant friars founded by St. Dominic in 1216 to spread the faith through preaching and teaching. The Dominicans were one of the most influential religious orders in the later Middle Ages, their intellectual authority being established by such figures as Albertus Magnus and St.Thomas Aquinas. The Dominicans played the leading role in the Inquisition.
a patron who commissioned a work of art for a church. Donors sometimes had their portraits included in the work they were donating as a sign of piety.
A male garment, formerly worn under armour, that from the 15th century referred to a close-fitting jacket.
A ceramic product invented in England around 1720, which belongs to the category of fine stoneware. The porous white bodies are made of fired raw materials containing clay and kaolin as well as quartz, feldspar, and talc. A transparent glaze is applied upon the first or second firing. Earthenware, which is suitable for everyday use, is distinguished by its light, creamy surface. The most famous example of this category is made by the English firm of Wedgwood (since 1780).
Stand on which a painting is supported while the artist works on it. The oldest representation of an easel is on an Egyptian relief of the Old Kingdom (c. 2600-2150 BC). Renaissance illustrations of the artist at work show all kinds of contrivances, the commonest being the three-legged easel with pegs, such as we still use today. Light folding easels were not made until the 18th and 19th centuries, when painters took to working out of doors. The studio easel, a 19th-century invention, is a heavy piece of furniture, which runs on castors or wheels, and served to impress the c1ients of portrait painters. Oil painters need an easel which will support the canvas almost vertically or tip it slightly forward to prevent reflection from the wet paint, whereas the watercolourist must be able to lay his paper nearly flat so that the wet paint will not run down. The term 'easel-painting' is applied to any picture small enough to have been painted on a standard easel.
The words of Pontius Pilate in the Gospel of St. John (19, 5) when he presents Jesus to the crowds. Hence, in art, a depiction of Jesus, bound and flogged, wearing a crown of thorns and a scarlet robe.
In portraiture, a pose in which the sitter faces the viewer directly; full face.
Coloured glass in powder form and sometimes bound with oil, which is bonded to a metal surface or plaque by firing.
A print made from a metal plate that has had a design cut into it with a sharp point. Ink is smeared over the plate and then wiped off, the ink remaining in the etched lines being transferred when the plate is pressed very firmly onto a sheet of paper.
A combining of several media grouped together to form a composite art work. Chapels were among the most notable Renaissance ensembles, sometimes combining panel painting, fresco, sculpture, and architecture.
In classical architecture, the part of a building between the capitals of the columns and the roof. It consists of the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice.
Pictures or tables with reliefs and inscriptions erected in honour of the deceased in churches or sepulchral chapels.
the science of the end of the world and beginning of a new world, and of the last things,death and resurrection.
the sacrament of Holy Communion, celebrated with bread and wine, the most sacred moment of the Christian liturgy.
The term is used in an Italian context to designate spiritual currents manifest around 1540 which might be said to have occupied the confessional middle ground between Catholicism and Protestantism; hence it does not relate at all to the term 'Evangelical' as used in German or English contexts. It has been applied particularly to the so-called spirituali of the Viterbo circle, notably Cardinal Pole, Vittoria Colonna, Marcantonio Flaminio, Carnesecchi and Ochino, and also to Giulia Gonzaga, Contarini, Giovanni Morone; Gregorio Cortese and Vermigli. Such persons combined a zeal for personal religious renewal with spiritual anxieties akin to those of Luther, to which they sought an answer in the study of St Paul and St Augustine; convinced of the inefficacy of human works, they stressed the role of faith and the all-efficacy of divine grace in justification. Few of them broke with the Catholic Church.
Tin-glazed European earthenware, particularly ware made in France, Germany, Spain, and Scandinavia. It developed in France in the early 16th century, was influenced by the technique and the designs of Italian maiolica, and is named for Faenza, Italy, which was famous for maiolica. It is distinguished from tin-glazed earthenware made in Italy, which is called "maiolica," and that made in the Netherlands and England, which is called "delftware." It has no connection to the ancient objects or material also named faience, which was developed in the Near East ca. 4500 BCE.
A title given to those leaders of the early Christian Church whose writings had made an important contribution to the development of doctrine. Saints Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great were often considered the four principal Fathers of the Church.
Ancient Roman god of nature, protector of shepherds, farmers, fields and livestock. Equated with the Greek god Pan, he is frequently depicted with a goats legs and horns.
Architectural ornaments consisting of fruit, leaves, and flowers suspended in a loop; a swag.
In painting, representation of a rural feast or open-air entertainment. Although the term fête galante ("gallant feast") is sometimes used synonymously with fête champêtre, it is also used to refer to a specific kind of fête champêtre: a more graceful, usually aristocratic scene in which groups of idly amorous, relaxed, well-dressed figures are depicted in a pastoral setting.
of a column or pillar, carved with closely spaced parallel grooves cut vertically.
the Four Horsemen in the Revelation of St John (Rev 6, 2 - 8), which contains the description of the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ. The Horsemen personify the disasters about to happen to mankind, such as plague, war, famine and death. Their attributes are the bow, sword and set of balances. In some sculptures the first rider is identified as Christ by a halo. The colour of his horse is white, that of the others red, black and dun.
A Roman Catholic order of mendicant friars founded by St. Francis of Assisi (given papal approval in 1223). Committed to charitable and missionary work, they stressed the veneration of the Holy Virgin, a fact that was highly significant in the development of images of the Madonna in Italian art. In time the absolute poverty of the early Franciscans gave way to a far more relaxed view of property and wealth, and the Franciscans became some of the most important patrons of art in the early Renaissance.
Wall painting technique in which pigments are applied to wet (fresh) plaster (intonaco). The pigments bind with the drying plaster to form a very durable image. Only a small area can be painted in a day, and these areas, drying to a slightly different tint, can in time be seen. Small amounts of retouching and detail work could be carried out on the dry plaster, a technique known as a secco fresco.
Save in Venice, where the atmosphere was too damp, fresco painting was the habitual way of decorating wall surfaces in Italy, both in churches and in private and public palaces. During the 16th century a liking for the more brilliant effect of large canvases painted in oils, and to a lesser extent for tapestries, diminished the use of frescoes save for covering upper walls, covings and ceilings. The technique of buon fresco, or true fresco, involved covering the area with a medium-fine plaster, the intonaco, just rough enough to provide a bond (sometimes enhanced by scoring) for the final layer of fine plaster. Either a freehand sketch of the whole composition (sinopia) was drawn on the wall, or a full-scale cartoon was prepared and its outlines transferred to the intonaco by pressing them through with a knife or by pouncing - blowing charcoal dust through prickholes in the paper. Then over the intonaco enough of the final thin layer was applied to contain a day's work. That portion of the design was repeated on it either by the same methods or freehand, and the artist set to work with water-based pigments while the plaster was still damp; this allowed them to sink in before becoming dry and fixed. (Thus 'pulls' or slices of frescoes could be taken by later art thieves without actually destroying the colour or drawing of the work.) It is usually possible to estimate the time taken to produce a fresco by examining the joins between the plastered areas representing a day's work. Final details, or effects impossible to obtain in true fresco pigments, could be added at the end in 'dry' paints, or fresco secco, a technique in which pigment was laid on an unabsorbent plaster; the best known example of an entire composition in fresco secco is Leonardo's Last Supper.
The highest order the English monarch can bestow. It was founded by Edward III in 1348. The blue Garter ribbon is worn under the left knee by men and on the upper left arm by women. The motto is Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil to those who think evil).
in classical Rome, a person's invisible tutelary god. In art from the classical period onwards, the low-ranking god was depicted as a winged, usually childish figure.
In a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature.
The depiction of scenes from everyday life. Elements of everyday life had long had a role in religious works; pictures in which such elements were the subject of a painting developed in the 16th century with such artists as Pieter Bruegel. Then Carracci and Caravaggio developed genre painting in Italy, but it was in Holland in the 17th century that it became an independent form with its own major achievements, Vermeer being one of its finest exponents.
A term applied to the 14th-century followers of Giotto. The best-known of the 'Giotteschi' are the Florentines Taddeo Gaddi, Maso di Banco, Bernardo Daddi, and to a lesser extent the Master of St Cecilia. Giotto's most loyal follower was Maso, who concentrated on the essential and maintained the master's high seriousness.
French term used from the 15th century onwards for a lying or recumbent effigy on a funerary monument. The gisant typically represented a person in death (sometimes decomposition) and the gisant position was contrasted with the orant, which represented the person as if alive in a kneeling or praying position. In Renaissance monuments gisants often formed part of the lower register, where the deceased person was represented as a corpse, while on the upper part he was represented orant as if alive.
paint applied so thinly that the base beneath it is visible through the layer.
(1) The supernatural radiance surrounding a holy person.
(2) To have the distinction of one's deeds recognized in life and to be revered for them posthumously: this was glory. The nature of true gloria was much discussed, whether it must be connected with the public good, whether the actions that led to it must conform with Christian ethics, how it differed from notoriety. The concept did not exclude religious figures (the title of the church of the Frari in Venice was S. Maria Gloriosa), but it was overwhelmingly seen in terms of secular success and subsequent recognition, as determining the lifestyles of the potent and the form of their commemoration in literature, in portraits and on tombs. As such, it has been taken as a denial of medieval religiosity ('sic transit gloria mundi'), and thus a hallmark of Renaissance individual ism; as a formidable influence on cultural patronage; and as spurring on men of action, as well as writers and artists, to surpass their rivals - including their counterparts in antiquity.
French tapestry manufactory, named after a family of dyers and clothmakers who set up business on the outskirts of Paris in the 15th century. Their premises became a tapestry factory in the early 17th century, and in 1662 it was taken over by Louis XIV, who appointed Lebrun Director. Initially it made not only tapestries but also every kind of product (except carpets, which were woven at the Savonnerie factory) required for the furnishing of the royal palaces — its official title was Manufacture royale des meubles de la Couronne. The celebrated tapestry designed by Lebrun showing Louis XIV Visiting the Gobelins (Gobelins Museum, Paris, 1663-75) gives a good idea of the range of its activities. In 1694 the factory was closed because of the king's financial difficulties, and although it reopened in 1699, thereafter it made only tapestries. For much of the 18th century it retained its position as the foremost tapestry manufactory in Europe. 0udry and Boucher successively held the post of Director (1733-70). The Gobelins continues in production today and houses a tapestry museum.
a noble chivalric order, still in existence today, founded by Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy in 1430 in honor of the Apostle Andrew, for the defence of the Christian faith and the Church. In allusion to the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, the symbol of the order is a golden ram's fleece drawn through a gold ring.
In painting and architecture, a formula meant to provide the aesthetically most satisfying proportions for a picture or a feature of a building. The golden section is arrived at by dividing a line unevenly so that the shorter length is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. This ratio is approximately 8:13. The golden section (sometimes known as the golden mean), which was thought to express a perfect harmony of proportions, played an important role in Renaissance theories of art.
Italian gonfaloniere ("standard bearer"), a title of high civic magistrates in the medieval Italian city-states.
In Florence the gonfaloniers of the companies (gonfalonieri di compagnia) originated during the 1250s as commanders of the people's militia. In the 1280s a new office called the gonfalonier of justice (gonfaloniere di giustizia) was instituted to protect the interests of the people against the dominant magnate class. The holder of this office subsequently became the most prominent member of the Signoria (supreme executive council of Florence) and formal head of the civil administration. In other Italian cities, the role of the gonfaloniers was similar to that in Florence. Gonfaloniers headed the militia from the various city quarters, while the gonfalonier of justice often was the chief of the council of guild representatives.
The kings of France traditionally bore the title gonfalonier of St. Denis. The honorary title of gonfalonier of the church (vexillifer ecclesiae) was conferred by the popes, from the 13th until the 17th century, on sovereigns and other distinguished persons.
Gothic, which may well have originated with Alberti as a derogatory term and which certainly corresponds to Vasari's 'maniera tedesca' ('German style'), is properly the descriptive term for an artistic style which achieved its first full flowering in the Ile de France and the surrounding areas in the period between c. 1200 and c. 1270, and which then spread throughout northern Europe. It is characterized by the hitherto unprecedented integration of the arts of sculpture, painting, stained glass and architecture which is epitomized in the great cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens, and Reims or in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. In all the arts the predominantly planar forms of the Romanesque are replaced by an emphasis on line. There is a transcendental quality, whether in the soaring forms of the pointed arches or in the new stress on the humanity of Christ, which similarly distinguishes it from the preceding Romanesque style.
In thinking of Nicola (d. c. 1284) or Giovanni Pisano (d. after 1314) there is same danger of forgetting what had happened in French sculpture half a century or more earlier, and likewise it is hard to remember that the spectacular achievements of early Renaissance art are a singularly localized eddy in the continuing stream of late gothic European art. By northern European standards few Italian works of art can be called gothic without qualification, and the story of 13th and 14th century Italian architecture is as much one of resistance to the new style as of its reception, whether directly from France or through German or central European intermediaries. In sculpture and in painting, the Italian reluctance to distort the human figure, conditioned by a never wholly submerged awareness of the omnipresent antique heritage, gives a special quality to the work of even those artists such as Giovanni Pisano or Simone Martini who most closely approached a pure gothic style.
Nevertheless, the vitalizing role of Northern gothic art throughout the early Renaissance and the period leading up to it should never be underestimated. The artistic, like the cultural and commercial, interaction was continuous and much of the Italian achievement is incomprehensible if seen in isolation. It is not merely at the level of direct exchanges between one artist and another, or the influence of one building; painting, manuscript or piece of sculpture upon another, that the effects are to be felt. The streaming quality of line which is so characteristic of Brunelleschi's early Renaissance architecture surely reflects a sensitivity to the gothic contribution which is entirely independent of, and lies much deeper than, the superficial particularities of form.
The counterflow of influence and inspiration from South to North must likewise not be underrated. In particular, the contribution of Italian painters from Duccio and Simone Martini onwards is central to the evolution of the so-called International Gothic style developing in Burgundy, Bohemia and north Italy in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Gouache is opaque watercolour, known also as poster paint and designer's colour. It is thinned with water for applying, with sable- and hog-hair brushes, to white or tinted paper and card and, occasionally, to silk. Honey, starch, or acrylic is sometimes added to retard its quick-drying property. Liquid glue is preferred as a thinner by painters wishing to retain the tonality of colours (which otherwise dry slightly lighter in key) and to prevent thick paint from flaking. Gouache paints have the advantages that they dry out almost immediately to a mat finish and, if required, without visible brush marks. These qualities, with the capacities to be washed thinly or applied in thick impasto and a wide colour range that now includes fluorescent and metallic pigments, make the medium particularly suited to preparatory studies for oil and acrylic paintings. It is the medium that produces the suede finish and crisp lines characteristic of many Indian and Islamic miniatures, and it has been used in Western screen and fan decoration and by modern artists such as Rouault, Klee, Dubuffet, and Morris Graves.
Term applied to the lofty and rhetorical manner of history painting that in academic theory was considered appropriate to the most serious and elevated subjects. The classic exposition of its doctrines is found in Reynolds's Third and Fourth Discourses (1770 and 1771), where he asserts that 'the gusto grande of the Italians, the beau idéal of the French, and the great style, genius, and taste among the English, are but different appellations of the same thing'. The idea of the Grand Manner took shape in 17th-century Italy, notably in the writings of Bellori. His friend Poussin and the great Bolognese painters of the 17th century were regarded as outstanding exponents of the Grand Manner, but the greatest of all was held to be Raphael.
An extensive journey to the Continent, chiefly to France, the Netherlands, and above all Italy, sometimes in the company of a tutor, that became a conventional feature in the education of the English gentleman in the 18th century. Such tours often took a year or more. It had a noticeable effect in bringing a more cosmopolitan spirit to the taste of connoisseurs and laid the basis for many collections among the landed gentry. It also helped the spread of the fashion for Neoclassicism and an enthusiasm for Italian painting. Among the native artists who catered for this demand were Batoni, Canaletto, Pannini, and Piranesi, and British artists (such as Nollekens) were sometimes able to support themselves while in Italy by working for the dealers and restorers who supplied the tourist clientele. There was also a flourishing market in guide books.
A cross with four arms of equal length.
Term current with several different meanings in the literature of the visual arts. In the context of the fine arts, it most usually refers to those arts that rely essentially on line or tone rather than colour — i.e. drawing and the various forms of engraving. Some writers, however, exclude drawing from this definition, so that the term 'graphic art' is used to cover the various processes by which prints are created. In another sense, the term — sometimes shortened to 'graphics' — is used to cover the entire field of commercial printing, including text as well as illustrations.
A painting done entirely in one colour, usually gray. Grisaille paintings were often intended to imitate sculpture.
Italian political terms derived from the German Welf, a personal and thence family name of the dukes of Bavaria, and Waiblingen, the name of a castle of the Hohenstaufen dukes of Swabia apparently used as a battle cry. Presumably introduced into Italy 1198-1218, when partisans of the Emperor Otto IV (Welf) contested central Italy with supporters of Philip of Swabia and his' nephew Frederick II, the terms do not appear in the chronicles until the Emperor Frederick's conflict with the Papacy 1235-50, when Guelf meant a supporter of the Pope and Ghibelline a supporter of the Empire. From 1266 to 1268, when Naples was conquered by Charles of Anjou, brother of Louis IX, the French connection became the touchstone of Guelfism, and the chain of Guelf alliances stretching from Naples, through central Italy, to Provence and Paris, underwritten by the financial interests of the Tuscan bankers, became an abiding feature of European politics. The Italian expeditions of Henry of Luxemburg (1310-13) and Lewis of Bavaria (1327-29) spread the terms to northern Italy, with the Visconti of Milan and the della Scala of Verona emerging as the leading Ghibelline powers. Attempts by Guelf propagandists to claim their party as the upholder of liberty and their opponents as the protagonists of tyranny rarely coincide with the truth: power politics, then as now, generally overrode ideology in inter-state affairs.
Factional struggles had existed within the Italian states from time immemorial, the parties taking a multitude of local names. In Florence, however, Guelf and Ghibelline were applied to the local factions which supposedly originated in a feud between the Buondelmonte and Amidei clans, c. 1216. In 1266-67 the Guelf party, which had recruited most of the merchant class, finally prevailed over the predominantly noble Ghibellines; after this, internal factions in Florence went under other names, like the Blacks and the Whites who contested for control of the commune between 1295 and 1302. Meanwhile the Parte Guelfa had become a corporate body whose wealth and moral authority as the guardian of political orthodoxy enabled it to play the part of a powerful pressure group through most of the 14th century. After the War of the Eight Saints, the influence of the Parte declined rapidly. Although its palace was rebuilt c. 1418-58 to the designs of Brunelleschi, it had no part in the conflicts surrounding the rise of the Medici régime.
An association of the masters of a particular craft, trade or profession (painters, goldsmiths, surgeons, and so on) set up to protect its members' rights and interests. Such guilds existed in virtually every European city in the 16th century. The guild also monitored standards of work, acted as a court for those who brought their trade into disrepute, and provided assistance to members in need.
Guilds were essentially associations of masters in particular crafts, trades, or professions. In Italy they go back a long way; there is documentary evidence of guilds in 6th century Naples. In origin they were clubs which observed religious festivals together and attended the funerals of their members, but in time they acquired other functions. Their economic function was to control standards and to enforce the guild's monopoly of particular activities in a particular territory. Their political function was to participate in the government of the city-state. In some cities, notably Florence in the 14th century, only guildsmen were eligible for civic office, thus excluding both noblemen (unless they swallowed their pride and joined, as some did), and unskilled workers like the woolcombers and dyers. In Florence in 1378 these groups demanded the right to form their own guilds, and there were similar movements of protest in Siena and Bologna.
Guilds were also patrons of art, commissioning paintings for guildhalls, contributing to the fabric fund of cathedrals and collaborating on collective projects like the statues for Orsanmichele at Florence. The guilds were not equal. In Florence, the 7 'Greater Guilds', including such prestigious occupations as judges and bankers, outranked the 14 'Lesser Guilds', and in general the guild hierarchy was reflected in the order of precedence in processions. The great age of the guilds was the 13th and 14th centuries. The economic recession after 1348 meant fewer opportunities for journeymen to become masters, and greater hostility between master and man. The shift from trade to land in the 15th and 16th centuries meant a decline in the social standing of the crafts. In some towns, such as Brescia and Vicenza, guild membership actually became a disqualification instead of a qualification for municipal office. The guilds lost their independence and became instruments of state control. In 16th century Venice, for example, they were made responsible for supplying oarsmen for the galleys of the state.
Dutch painters who worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1900, producing renderings of local landscapes and the daily activities of local fisherman and farmers in the style of Realism. In this they extended the traditional focus on genre of the 17th-century Dutch masters with the fresh observation of their contemporary French counterparts, the Barbizon school. The group included Jozef Israëls; Hendrik Willem Mesdag; Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch; Jacob Maris, Matthijs Maris, and Willem Maris; Johannes Bosboom; and Anton Mauve.
In a drawing, print or painting, a series of close parallel lines that create the effect of shadow, and therefore contour and three-dimensionality In crosshatching the lines overlap.
the study of the meaning of emblems and coats of arms, with the rules governing their use.
The heretical movements affecting Italy between the mid-12th and the mid-14th century had their main impact in an area covering the north-west of the peninsula and southern France: it is not possible to speak of distinct Italian and meridional French movements. The authentically Christian movements which were expelled from the Catholic Church must in the first instance be distinguished from Catharism, which represented an infiltration by the originally non-Christian dualist system of Manichaeanism; from the start, the Cathars were an anti-church. By contrast, the Waldensian, Spiritual and Joachimite movements appeared initially as vital manifestations of Catholicism; only after their condemnation by the ecclesiastical authorities do they seem to have developed notably eccentric doctrines and to have described themselves as the true Church in opposition to the institutional Church; they had a recognizable kinship with movements that remained within the pale of orthodoxy.
These Christian heresies had in common an attachment to the ideal of apostolic poverty, which came to be seen by the ecclesiastical authorities as a challenge to the institutionalized Church. The Waldensians or Valdesi (not to be confused with Valdesiani, the followers of Juan de Valdes, d. 1541) took their origin from the Poor Men of Lyons, founded by Peter Valdes or Waldo in the 1170s. They were distinguished by a strong attachment to the Bible and a desire to imitate Christ's poverty. At first approved by the Papacy as an order of laymen, they were condemned in 1184. Likewise condemned was the rather similar Lombard movement of the Humiliati. One stream of these remained as an approved order within the Catholic Church, while others merged with the Waldensians. The Waldensians came to teach that the sacraments could be administered validly only by the pure, i.e: only by Waldensian superiors or perfecti practising evangelical poverty. Alone among the heretical sects existing in Italy they were organized as a church, and regarded themselves as forming, together with brethren north of the Alps, one great missionary community. They spread all over western and central Europe but in the long term they came to be largely confined to the Rhaetian and Cottian Alps (the Grisons and Savoy). The Italian Waldensians in the 16th century resisted absorption by Reformed Protestantism.
The early Franciscans might be regarded as a movement, similar in character to the Poor Men of Lyons, which was won for the cause of Catholic orthodoxy. However, divisions within the order over the issue of poverty led to religious dissidence. The Spirituals held up the ideal of strict poverty as obligatory for Franciscans and, indeed, normative for churchmen; following the Papacy's recognition of the Franciscan order as a property-owning body in 1322-23, their position became one of criticism of the institutional Church as such. Their heresies came to incorporate the millenarian doctrines of the 12th century abbot Joachim of Fiore. He had prophesied a coming age of the Holy Spirit ushered in by Spiritual monks; his heretical followers prophesied a new Spiritual gospel that would supersede the Bible. Joachimite Spiritualists came to see the pope, head of the 'carnal Church', as Antichrist. The main impact of the movement upon the laity was in southern France; in Italy it was an affair of various groups of fraticelli de paupere vita (little friars of the poor life), mainly in the south.
A courtesan of ancient Greece. There may have been one or two hetaira called Lais in ancient Corinth. One was the model of the celebrated painter Apelles.
prepared throne, Preparation of the Throne, ready throne or Throne of the Second Coming is the Christian version of the symbolic subject of the empty throne found in the art of the ancient world. In the Middle Byzantine period, from about 1000, it came to represent more specifically the throne prepared for the Second Coming of Christ, a meaning it has retained in Eastern Orthodox art to the present.
Painting concerned with the representation of scenes from the Bible, history (usually classical history), and classical literature. From the Renaissance to the 19th century it was considered the highest form of painting, its subjects considered morally elevating.
a representation of the Virgin and Child in a fenced garden, sometimes accompanied by a group of female saints. The garden is a symbolic allusion to a phrase in the Song of Songs (4:12): 'A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse'.
group of American landscape painters, working from 1825 to 1875. The 19th-century romantic movements of England, Germany, and France were introduced to the United States by such writers as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. At the same time, American painters were studying in Rome, absorbing much of the romantic aesthetic of the European painters. Adapting the European ideas about nature to a growing pride in the beauty of their homeland, for the first time a number of American artists began to devote themselves to landscape painting instead of portraiture. First of the group of artists properly classified with the Hudson River school was Thomas Doughty; his tranquil works greatly influenced later artists of the school. Thomas Cole, whose dramatic and colourful landscapes are among the most impressive of the school, may be said to have been its leader during the group's most active years. Among the other important painters of the school are Asher B. Durand, J. F. Kensett, S. F. B. Morse, Henry Inman, Jasper Cropsey, Frederick E. Church, and, in his earlier work, George Inness.
philosophical movement which started in Italy in the mid-14th century, and which drew on antiquity to make man the focal point. In humanism, the formative spiritual attitude of the Renaissance, the emancipation of man from God took place. It went hand in hand with a search for new insights into the spiritual and scientific workings of this world. The humanists paid particular attention to the rediscovery and nurture of the Greek and Latin languages and literature. To this day the term denotes the supposedly ideal combination of education based on classical erudition and humanity based on observation of reality. | <urn:uuid:8fa305ad-c183-4ce9-8443-401b5e3befd9> | 2013-05-18T06:55:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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people who experience migraines with aura are often told to avoid common triggers -- like bright lights and vigorous exercise. but a new study suggests that may not be necessary ...
researchers at the university of copenhagen in denmark studied nearly thirty people who had experienced migraine with aura triggered by exercise or bright, flickering lights.
they exposed each participant to the triggers again - and found no one developed a migraine after exposure to bright light alone.
one in ten had a migraine with aura after exercising and seeing bright lights -- another ten percent developed a migraine without aura.
researchers say this study suggests if a trigger has not led to a migraine in three months, patients no longer have to avoid it.
when aura is experienced with a migraine patients report seeing wavy lines or flashing lights. | <urn:uuid:710ba4c3-5925-4551-94c7-32f1b0ae2311> | 2013-05-18T05:50:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Pelini said in a statement immediately after the Cornhuskers' 42-13 win that "everything checked out just fine." He said he planned to work Sunday.
Nebraska spokesman Keith Mann said Pelini was out of the hospital Saturday night.
Pelini began feeling ill during the first half, and a member of the Nebraska medical staff checked Pelini's pulse on the sideline. Doctors treated him in the locker room at halftime.
There was no word on the nature of Pelini's symptoms. Athletic director Tom Osborne said doctors considered the situation serious enough that Pelini needed to be checked out at the hospital. | <urn:uuid:ec394d10-36b1-4e40-9f76-a63fa8c7c74b> | 2013-05-18T05:49:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Policy statement on HIV testing and counselling in health facilities for refugees, internally displaced persons and other persons of concern
UNHCR, WHO, UNAIDS
This policy statement examines the role of HIV testing and counselling in health facilities in increasing access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and other persons of concern to UNHCR. It also identifies specific issues regarding HIV testing and counselling amongst these populations as well as makes recommendations for future action.
This policy statement complements and should be used in conjuction with the 2007 WHO/UNAIDS Guidance on provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling in health facilities. Information on an enabling environment, training of workers, health care facilities are all found in the above mentioned WHO/UNAIDS guidance document.
It is anticipated that the recommendations in this document will remain valid until 2012. UNHCR will initiate a review of this document and its recommendations at that time. | <urn:uuid:ac3e4175-7801-4d85-bafd-ffdcab144cba> | 2013-05-18T06:33:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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On Sunday night ESPN aired their annual ESPY awards show. The show this year was hosted by Justin Timberlake and I though he did a great job. His opening monologue included him making fun of various athletes and was extremely funny. I'm sure all the Jayhawk fans enjoyed the part when he showed the Memphis basketball team how they should have guarded Mario Chalmers. My favorite part was when he gave Aaron Rodgers a hug. Aaron Rodgers has been Brett Favre's backup for the last few years and when Brett "retired" after last season, Aaron thought he was finally going to get a chance to be the starter. Unfortunately for Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre wants to play again and Aaron may have to spend another season as the backup. Justin Timberlake felt Aaron Rodgers needed a hug because of the situation. Very Funny.
Did you watch the ESPYs? What did you think? What was your favorite part? Did you agree with the awards?
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Henry Evans is a mute quadriplegic, having suffered a stroke when he was just 40 years old. Following extensive therapy, Henry regained the ability to move his head and use a finger, which allows him to operate computers. Last year, Henry caught a TV interview of Georgia Tech Professor Charlie Kemp showing research with the Willow Garage PR2 robot. Willow Garage and Professor Kemp were contacted by Henry shortly afterwards, and we have been collaborating since then.
We are currently exploring ways for Henry to use a PR2 robot as his surrogate. Every day, people take for granted the simple act of scratching an itch. In Henry's case, 2-3 times every hour of every day he gets an itch he can't scratch. With the aid of a PR2, Henry was able to scratch an itch for himself for the first time in 10 years.
While this is only a first step, it demonstrates how people with severe physical disabilities could use personal robots to gain independence. In another example, Henry recently used the PR2 to shave his cheek. We are actively researching ways for Henry and others to perform tasks like these on a daily basis.
Currently, Henry uses a head tracker to operate a variety of experimental user interfaces. These interfaces allow him to directly move the robot's body, including its arms and head. They also let him invoke autonomous actions, such as navigating in a room and reaching out to a location.
Robots that complement human abilities are extremely valuable, especially when they help us do things that we can't do by ourselves. Our goal is to get robots in homes to help people like Henry and Jane Evans. This is just the beginning.
Leila Takayama Recognized by MIT Technology Review's TR35 Listing of the World's Top Young Innovators for 2012 | <urn:uuid:a598bb26-9bcf-4c37-b446-316a1826452a> | 2013-05-18T08:07:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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About Terrazas de los Andes:
At the end of the 1950s, the famous French Champagne house, Moët & Chandon, realized there was an enormous potential for growth in South America. They sent their wine analyst, Renaud Poirier, to study the possibility of expansion. Monsieur Poirier finally proved that Luján de Cuyo, a region within the province of Mendoza, was the best place for the birth of fine wines. In 1960, Chandon Argentina was established, the first subsidiary of Moët & Chandon outside France.
To make the Terrazas de los Andes wines, Chandon Argentina took the initiative to restore this building, located in the heart of Perdriel and at the foot of the imposing Cordón del Plata (a section of the Andes Mountain Range).
In the past, Chandon Argentina made only sparkling and generic still wines, however at the beginning of the '90s fueled by a political system more orientated towards an international market, a varietal wines project was born, to which Terrazas has now become the reality. Situated in Perdriel there is an old Spanish style winery that was used by Pedro Domecq to create his brandy. Renaud Poirier asked Domecq if he could use his equipment to make the first experimental vintages, between 1957 and 1959. Thirty years later Terrazas de los Andes was born, a tributary of Chandon Argentina dedicated exclusively to the production of varietal wines. | <urn:uuid:4ce6a3a6-7d16-4bce-be7f-7ca1ef043512> | 2013-05-18T05:19:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This ultimate dodgeball game consiss of 2 levels. Hit the opponent with the ball as hard as you can.
Don't let the blood sucker suck your blood
Raise 24 out of 25 blocks as fast as you can.
Lead one of 3 nations in the battle for Rivadis in this real-time strategy game.
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Robb Godshaw, from Syynlabs,
has created a haptic cube that gives you an impression of what the
temperature will be like tomorrow.
The cube, which Godshaw has named the Cryoscope, consists of an
aluminium shell surrounding a Peltier
element, heatsink, cooling fan and an LED, all controlled by an
Arduino. The cube is heated to a "neutral" state of 30C, and then
adjusted by the number of degrees that the next day's forecast
differs from room temperature (23C).
It takes into account wind chill and humidity to give an idea
what the following day will "feel" like, rather than merely
reflecting air temperature. So, for example, if the forecast for
the next day is for 18C, once those factors are all taken into
account, the cube's
temperature will decrease five degrees from 30C to 25C,
resulting in it being slightly cool to the touch.
Godshaw describes it in the video above as a "haptic
weathervane", adding: "Users enter their location into a web app.
The cube then automatically adjusts to the forecasted temperature.
By touching the Cryoscope, the user is able to feel tomorrow's air
You can see
the Cryoscope in action over on Godshaw's website.
Updated 08:29 09/05/2012: Godshaw has
redesigned the Cryoscope and is raising money for full production
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed tougher sanctions against North Korea Thursday targeting the secretive nation's nuclear program hours after Pyongyang threatened a possible "preemptive nuclear attack."
"These sanctions will bite, and bite hard," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said after the vote.
China, North Korea's key ally, could have used its veto power to block the sanctions. Instead, after weeks of negotiating, it signed on to the final draft.
"China is a country of principle," China's U.N. Ambassador Li Baodong said. "We are firmly committed to safeguarding peace and stability on the Korean peninsula."
Leading up to the vote, Pyongyang ratcheted up its bellicose rhetoric.
A spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry suggested the United States "is set to light a fuse for a nuclear war."
As a result, North Korea "will exercise the right to a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors and to defend the supreme interests of the country," the country said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
Despite the strong language, analysts say North Korea is years away from having the technology necessary to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile and aim it accurately at a target. And, analysts say, North Korea is unlikely to seek a direct military conflict with the United States, preferring instead to try to gain traction through threats and the buildup of its military deterrent.
But the threat came amid increased concern over Pyongyang's dogged efforts to advance its nuclear and missile technology after a recent long-range rocket launch and underground atomic blast.
On Tuesday, North Korea said it planned to scrap the armistice that stopped the Korean War in 1953 and warned it could carry out strikes against the United States and South Korea. | <urn:uuid:57aaaa54-6b37-4559-a8c2-0ac08e565bbb> | 2013-05-18T08:02:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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1973 - Paul McCartney was arrested after police found marijuana growing at his Scotland farm. Sir Paul claimed a fan gave him the seeds and that he was unaware of what they were. He was fined $240.
1978 - At the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Van Halen kicked off their first tour. Their concert rider famously specified that M&Ms be made available, but with all brown-colored candies removed. | <urn:uuid:3bd45422-76a1-4ce6-9026-93985a1bf50e> | 2013-05-18T05:07:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A 3 1/2-year-old boy reported missing in Henniker has been found safe.
The boy had last been seen in the Peasley Road area about 10:45 a.m. At 2:30 p.m., Raymond Aucoin, a farmer on Baker Road saw the boy standing near a tractor and crying, said Police Chief Ryan Murdough.
Aucoin drove the boy back to the home where he was staying about 1.5 miles away.
Police said the boy, who is from Hillsborough, disappeared when he was playing outside a home his family was visiting.
"He had been outside playing," Murdough said. "His dad had yelled out the window and checked on him, and he acknowledged him at one point. A little while later, he yelled for him, and he did not respond. At that point, they became concerned. They checked the house, cars, garages, all the buildings."
Police sent out reverse calls and text and email alerts to people in a 4-mile radius as they began their search with fire officials and members of the Fish and Game Department. Aucoin said he received the alerts before he saw the boy by his tractor.
"He was crying, and I figured this must be the boy they were looking for," Aucoin said.
He said the boy appeared tired but unhurt.
"I told him I was going to bring him down to his daddy, so he seemed to be pretty happy," Aucoin said.
The boy was taken back to Peasley Road for a tearful reunion with his family. | <urn:uuid:93ef57bd-22a0-4a5a-bee8-4588a9fdc773> | 2013-05-18T06:23:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Nearly 600 workers and four foreign nationals -- two Scots, a Kenyan and a French citizen -- were free by late Thursday after the Algerian military operation, the state-run Algerian Press Service reported.
But some hostages were still presumably being held. "It is a fluid situation, it is ongoing," Cameron told the Reuters news agency. "I think we should be prepared for the possibility of further bad news, very difficult news, in this extremely difficult situation."
The Algerian military operation led to numerous casualties and was over by Thursday evening, the Algerian Press Service said.
But U.S. and British officials predicted it would resume Friday during the day.
"There are still hostages, and there are still terrorists," a senior U.S. official said. "So tomorrow is another day."
Two people -- an Algerian and British national -- died Wednesday when the Islamist militants attacked, the same news agency said.
The Algerians and foreign workers were taken hostage early Wednesday in an assault carried out apparently in response to France's offensive in neighboring Mali. The gas field is 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of the Libyan border and 1,300 kilometers (about 800 miles) from the Algerian capital, Algiers.
The kidnappers were equipped with AK-47 rifles and put explosives-laden vests on some of the hostages, a U.S. State Department official said.
On Wednesday, the attackers had put the number of hostages at "more than 40," including seven Americans, two French, two British and other Europeans. Another Islamist group told the Mauritanian News Agency there were 41 "Westerners."
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One could say this photo shoots down any remaining skepticism.
The White House on Saturday released a photo of President Barack Obama shooting skeet last August, backing up a claim he made in a recent interview that some Republicans questioned.
"Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," Obama said, answering a question about whether he had fired a gun before. He said that his daughters had not participated but that he has "a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that trace back in this country for generations. And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake."
The caption accompanying the official White House photo says it was taken at Camp David - the Maryland presidential retreat - on Aug. 4, 2012, his 51st birthday.
Obama's answer drew skeptical reviews from Republicans, including Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, who spoke Monday on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."
"If he is a skeet shooter, why have we not heard of this? Why have we not seen photos? Why hasn't he referenced this at any point in time?" Blackburn said.
Then she issued something of a challenge to the president: "I think he should invite me to Camp David, and I'll go skeet shooting with him, and I bet I'll beat him."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told CNN's Jessica Yellin at Monday's briefing for reporters that Obama goes "to Camp David with some regularity, but I'm not sure how often he's done that" sport, which involves shooting clay discs with a shotgun.
He was also asked whether there were any photos, and if one could be provided to reporters.
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Taxi drivers and bellboys aren't the only ones going back to school to learn a little English ahead of the 2014 World Cup to be hosted in various cities across Brazil.
In the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, prostitutes are lining up for free English classes that will be offered by the regional Association of Prostitution starting in March.
"Across Brazil, lots of businesses in the private sector are getting prepared and making their workers more qualified for the Cup. Well, this is a profession, too," Cida Vieira, the president of the association, told CNN in a telephone interview.
In Brazil, prostitution is legal, although sexual exploitation and pimping are not.
"English will be very important to communicate with clients during the Cup," Vieira said. "They'll have to learn how to work out financial deals and also use a specialized vocabulary with sensual words and fetishes."
Vieira said that 20 prostitutes had already signed up, but that she expected at least 300 women to participate in the classes once they started.
The association is in talks with teachers and English speakers to provide their services free of charge, similar to deals they have with doctors and health care workers. The classes would last six to eight months.
Belo Horizonte will host football games not only for the World Cup in 2014, but also for the Confederations Cup, a kind of dress rehearsal that will take place in June 2013. | <urn:uuid:b6a56dbc-2220-47aa-b4d6-c0c9a15e0970> | 2013-05-18T05:33:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love," McGraw told the television morning show "Today" to discuss his two part interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, which will air on "Dr. Phil" on Thursday and Friday.
"I asked him straight up, 'Was this a romantic relationship with you?,' and he says yes. I said, 'Are you then therefore gay?' And he said, 'When you put it that way, yes.' And then he caught himself and said, 'I am confused,'" McGraw told "Today."
Te'o has said in a previous media interview he is not gay.
The fake girlfriend hoax involving Te'o, who was a finalist for college football's highest individual honor the Heisman trophy, caused a sensation when it was revealed earlier this month on news website Deadspin.com.
Tuiasosopo says he played the part over the phone of Lennay Kekua, the fictitious woman who was Te'o's girlfriend in the hoax. Te'o, 22, had spoken about the woman in media interviews, and reports described her surviving a car accident and then dying of leukemia in September.
Te'o has said since the hoax was exposed that he was the victim of an elaborate prank, that he never met Kekua and that his acquaintance Tuiasosopo admitted to him that he was the one who played the part of Lennay.
Dr. Phil said in a segment on "Today" on Wednesday that after an extensive interview with Tuiasosopo, he believes Te'o had no role in creating the hoax.
"Absolutely, unequivocally, no," McGraw said, in pinning the blame for the scheme on Tuiasosopo.
The NBC morning program also showed some comments Tuiasosopo made in his interview for the "Dr. Phil" daytime program.
"There are many times where Manti and Lennay had broken up," Tuiasosopo told "Dr. Phil."
"But something would bring them back together, whether it was something going on in his life or in Lennay's life, in this case in my life," Tuiasosopo said.
Tuiasosopo, 22, is from southern California and played high school football in 2005 at Antelope Valley High north of Los Angeles, according to media reports. Tuaisosopo's attorney had previously told reporters his client was behind the hoax.
Before the hoax was exposed, a photo of a woman who was described as Lennay Kekua was presented in media reports about Te'o and his struggles to overcome her death and that of his grandmother, who actually did pass away.
But the photo of Kekua was taken from a Facebook profile of a California woman who said she was unaware of the scheme, according to Deadspin.com.
Te'o told Katie Couric in a broadcast of her show "Katie" last week that he received a telephone call from the person claiming to be Kekua on December 6 - two days before the Heisman presentation. But he said he was not really certain she never existed until Tuiasosopo's later confession to him.
The linebacker, during the Katie Couric interview, presented a voice mail he received from the person he said he thought was Kekua. "Doesn't that sound like a girl?" Te'o told Couric.
Te'o also told Couric he is not gay. "No, far from it," he said. | <urn:uuid:6f51c501-bfa3-4b44-a90d-83ac6ff351fc> | 2013-05-18T08:11:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A natural talent or aptitude; a knack: a flair for interior decorating.
- n. Instinctive discernment; keenness: a flair for the exotica.
- n. Distinctive elegance or style: served us with flair.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete spelling of flare.
- n. Odor; smell.
- n. In hunting, scent; sense of smell: used figuratively in the extract.
- n. The skate, Raia batis.
- n. Same as fiery-flare.
- n. Scent; the critical sense in art and literature.
- n. A natural or innate talent or aptitude; a knack.
- n. Distinctive style or elegance; panache or elan.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Smell; odor.
- n. Sense of smell; scent; fig., discriminating sense.
- n. A talent or ability, expecially an intuitive one that makes performance of a task appear easy; an intuitive appreciation; a knack.
- n. An attractive way of performing a task; style.
- n. distinctive and stylish elegance
- n. a shape that spreads outward
- n. a natural talent
- From Middle English, from Old French flair ("scent, odour"), from flairier ("to reek, smell"), from Vulgar Latin *flāgrō, dissimilated variation of Latin frāgrō ("emit a sweet smell", v). More at fragrant. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, fragrance, from Old French, from flairer, to scent, from Late Latin flāgrāre, alteration of Latin frāgrāre, to emit an odor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“He's taking that flair from the Outback to the economic heyday of the 1920's with his next project -- an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, "The Great Gatsby.”
“Preparing a document for translation may be, sometimes, a tricky and potentially overwhelming job, depending on how important the project is, and how vital, say, specific terminology or marketing flair is to this particular translation.”
“Investigative flair is seen as a sign of eccentricity.”
“The latest: Hatto's husband finally speaks, and his non-denial denials show a certain flair and appreciation for the art.”
“Looking at 90 minutes of charts and graphs, even with charts and graphs done well with theatrical flair, is boring.”
“Chef Garseus, who had a Latin American flair to his cooking, had similar problems during the entire competition, but got everything right last night in Kitchen Stadium.”
“The fare here pays homage to the home-cooked specialties of the South, and that regional flair is evident throughout the menu.”
“I do think that the city of SMA has gorgeous buildings and a certain flair and style.”
“It is no wonder that the Treasury has tried to get some control over this, but in the process it has stripped any prospect of entrepreneurial flair from the train operators out of the system.”
“You used the word flair, do you think the art of poetry is dictated more by talent than skill?”
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flair’.
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
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glisten, gleam, sparkle, shine, shimmer, gloss, pearly, opalescent, iridescent, prismatic, multifaceted, glow and 35 more...
words and phrases with french background commonly used in the german language, so-called "Gallizismen"
mostly from magoosh
words that describe me or that i am focusing on.
( personal list )
Words I like!
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short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
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Did you mayhaps mean comport?
Sorry, no definitions found.
“In 1964, the USS Cadmus moved her homeport to Newport, RI.”
“The report also recommends that one carrier should be based in Mayport Naval Station in Florida — a homeport preference that will renew a heated political battle between the Florida and Virginia delegations in Congress.”
“Faller, speaking from the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Arabian Sea, said the fishermen, who had been living off the fish they could catch, expressed their thanks and are believed to be headed back to their homeport in Iran.”
“The homeport of "Newport" is also painted on the stern, just below the name "Isabel.”
“For an extreme example, I have also read that the blockading power can intercept the neutral ship at any point on its trip home, so long as they get to it before it reaches its homeport.”
“Under heavy economic pressure, London agrees to cancel the U.S. lease on its Indian Ocean island base of Diego Garcia, while Canberra, pressured by the Chinese, informs Washington that the Seventh Fleet is no longer welcome to use Fremantle as a homeport, effectively evicting the U.S.”
“The upshot of the whole incident to us sailors however was that the brass decided to hold some hastily arranged exercises in maintaining radio and electronic silence, thus causing us to be a day late in making homeport after almost 7 months away.”
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“There may be a pattern to this and I hope that ships like the Liberty can find out where these patterns are, and I hope that one of them with poor communications is not my homeport.”
“The gold and silver coming from the mines of the Americas made Seville, the homeport of the treasure fleet, the economic center of and primary money market in Continental Europe during the middle of the 16th century.20 Here we have a place where there was a large circulation of money and a high price level.”
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Dipsomania.
- n. An intense and persistent desire to drink excessive amounts of alcoholic beverages.
- n. an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
“It also, further, suffers from the same potomania that characterizes Marxist writings: a glaring paucity of clear thought and a tendency to use a thousand words instead of one.”
These user-created lists contain the word ‘potomania’.
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Our chief weapons are words, that's all. Just words. Only words, not justly words, that is.
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By making and drinking super protein shakes, you can improve your diet and nutrition. Protein is needed by the body to build and repair muscles, cells,
and bone. It is a long-lasting source of energy, and it is invaluable in regulating metabolism. You can purchase protein shakes that only require the
addition of water or milk, but these are very expensive. A better choice is to make one out of ingredients you can purchase separately.
Even though you probably do not want to pay the high price for complete protein powder shake mixes, you might want to buy a simple protein powder to
use as a base. You can get whey protein or casein protein, both products of milk, or soy protein powders. These base powders need other ingredients
which you can supply much cheaper than buying the complete shake powder.
Eggs make good ingredients for a super protein shake because they are such a complete food. They have the entire range of amino acids needed for
metabolism, and are about 11% protein. Since most of the protein is in the egg white, it is not necessary to use the yolk to get a boost in protein.
Eggs also have minerals such as calcium, iron and phosphorous, and vitamins such as B12, A, D and K.
Peanuts are high in protein, and so is peanut butter. A spoonful of peanut butter can be added to increase the protein in your super shake, as long as
you are not on a strict low calorie diet. Peanut butter can be high in sugar, and some of it is also high in fat. Shop the labels carefully to get a
natural, low-sugar, low-fat peanut butter if you want to use this ingredient.
Milk is a common ingredient in protein shakes, but there is no need to use cow's milk if you that is not your preference. Many people are allergic to
cow's milk, or lactose intolerant. Others make a choice to use vegetable sources of protein instead. Almond milk can be used, and soy milk is
especially good because of its high protein content. If you use cow's milk, skim or low-fat milk is preferred. Yogurt can also be used.
Fruits and Vegetables
One medium banana has about 1 gram of protein. It does not sound like much, but it is good for a fruit. Add some higher-protein veggies such as
spinach. The fiber in fruits and vegetables is also a good addition to a protein shake which could be constipating otherwise.
If you use some fruit, you may not need anything to sweeten up the super protein shake. If you do, use a natural sweetener such as honey. Experiment
with the amount so that you use the least amount you can and still enjoy your shake.
In fact, use any or all of these ingredients to make up different shakes as often as you wish. You have the power to be as creative as you want to be,
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Divers have found 30 bottles of champagne thought to pre-date the French Revolution on the Baltic seabed.
When they opened one, they found the wine - believed to have been made by Clicquot (now Veuve Clicquot) between 1782 and 1788 - was still in good condition.
The bottle - whose shape indicates it was produced in the 18th Century - has now been sent to France for analysis.
If confirmed, it would be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world.
Diver Christian Ekstrom was exploring a shipwreck on the Baltic seabed when he found the bottles.
He took one to the surface, where he opened it and tasted it with his colleagues.
"It was fantastic," he told the Reuters news agency.
"It had a very sweet taste, you could taste oak and it had a very strong tobacco smell. And there were very small bubbles."
According to records, Clicquot champagne was first produced in 1772 but was laid down for 10 years.
Production was disrupted after the French Revolution in 1789.
The wine found on the seabed was perfectly preserved because of the conditions of dark and cold on the seabed.
If the bottles do come from the 1780s, that would make them around 40 years older than the current record-holder, a bottle of Perrier-Jouet from 1825.
Wine experts estimate each bottle would fetch around 500,000 Swedish kronor (£45,000; $69,000) at auction.
The bottles were found off the coast of Aaland, an autonomous part of Finland. The local authorities will decide what is done with the shipwreck - and the champagne. | <urn:uuid:8e144831-e1cc-4075-b944-460eb0935350> | 2013-05-18T06:26:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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French and American scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work with light and matter, which may lead the way to superfast computers and "the most precise clocks ever seen," the prize committee said.
Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States will share the $1.2 million prize, the second of six Nobel Prizes announced this month.
The award surprised those who expected the physics Nobel this year to be related to the discovery of the Higgs boson, considered one of the top scientific achievements of the past 50 years.
Wineland and Haroche work in the field of quantum optics, approaching the same principles from opposite directions. The American uses light particles to measure the properties of matter, whereas his French colleague focuses on tracking light particles by using atoms.
Both Nobel laureates have found ways to isolate the subatomic particles and keep their properties intact at the same time, scientists at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm, Sweden.
Usually when these particles interact with the outside world, the properties that scientists would like to directly observe disappear, leaving researchers postulating over what is going on with them.
The two have found a way around this, making direct observation possible. "The new methods allow them to examine, control and count the particles," the academy said.
Haroche is a professor at the College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and Wineland is group leader and NIST Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado Boulder.
Their work has some potential side benefits to future technology.
"Their ground-breaking methods have enabled this field of research to take the very first steps towards building a new type of super fast computer based on quantum physics," the academy said. | <urn:uuid:5652996e-b25f-42c5-9282-ece62c5dfdc1> | 2013-05-18T08:05:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In 2010, fire caused a 787 test flight to lose primary electrical power while flying from Yuma, Arizona, to Laredo, Texas. It landed safely using backup systems and the 42 people aboard evacuated using emergency slides.
An engine failed during tests on the ground in South Carolina in July 2012 and inspectors found a similar problem on another aircraft in September.
In December, another relatively new 787 operated by United Airlines diverted safely to New Orleans after experiencing mechanical problems.
"The 787, being a new airplane, does have teething problems," John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, told CNN.
Goglia, a former airline mechanic, said it is common for new planes to have "these kinds of problems."
While serious, Hiatt did not think these issues are a sign of larger concerns with the 787 program.
"There does not appear to be a common thread in the problems the planes have seen," he told CNN. "If they had another situation, a fire, that was in that same locality you'd start to say yes, we've got something else that is going on."
Boeing said it was investigating the incident and noted it was too early to draw any parallels.
"We need to give our technical teams time to really understand the event," Lori Gunter, spokeswoman for the 787 program, said in a statement.
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Obama Adviser Struggles with Apology
Given the chance to apologize to Ann Romney, Hilary Rosen seems more comfortable on the attack. Just call it an apolotack!
I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended," Rosen, a top Democratic strategist and CNN contributor, said in a statement. "Let's declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.
Here's what Rosen said to insult Mrs. Romney and working women.
The previous day, Rosen argued Ann Romney could not understand the struggles of women in the sluggish workforce because she "never worked a day in her life" as a stay-at-home mother. | <urn:uuid:8e475aa8-3283-46d5-9879-9c7e2ba113b9> | 2013-05-18T08:09:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The sanctuary, which is located just outside Kinshasa in some 30 hectares of primary forest, is today home to at least 65 bonobos, many of which are young orphans that have been either rescued from the wild or brought in after hunters killed their parents.
"Bushmeat never stops," says Andre. "We have no solution and we receive more and more orphans every year."
An important part of the sanctuary's work is rehabilitating injured bonobos from the forest and, hopefully, one day returning them to the wild.
"Conservation asks us to make a test for reintroduction in the wild," says Andre. "So we make this experience two times already since 2009, a group of bonobos from here, returned to the wild. And for them it was a success because after two-three months, they are home."
The sanctuary also aims to educate the public about bonobos. Staff at Lola Ya Bonobo say that some 40,000 people come through its doors each year, including tourists and local schoolchildren, as well as graduate students conducting research on everything from bonobo behaviour to the evolution of the human brain.
Conservationists say stability in the DRC is essential to ensure that bonobo conservation programs are not jeopardized.
"Advocating for wildlife conservation is always a battle in a country as poor as the DRC," says Morel. "In times of crisis, when the security and basic needs of civilian populations are often not assured, it becomes even more challenging. If eco-guards and staff have to be evacuated from certain areas for their own safety, equipment, infrastructure and sometimes animals suffer.
"Only with peace and stability can long-term investments in wildlife conservation -- research, conservation education, community-based habitat protection and eco-tourism -- be successfully implemented." | <urn:uuid:f45a369a-651b-4c1c-a600-3bdc12abeb46> | 2013-05-18T06:52:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A fumble on the goal line. An interception returned for a touchdown. A missed game-winning field goal in the closing seconds. Most view these as just part of the game of football. But could these things actually be the work of God?
Well, according to a new poll, 27% of Americans believe that God "plays a role in determining which team wins" sporting events. That means about 80 million Americans believe that God will help one of the teams in this Sunday's Super Bowl.
If God influences which teams win championships, it's clear that God likes certain teams more than others. And God's favorite -- and I know many will hate to hear this -- is clearly the New York Yankees. The Bronx Bombers have won 27 world championships, far and away the most championships of any American professional sports team.
Other teams high up there on God's fantasy sports team include the Boston Celtics with 17 NBA championships, the Pittsburgh Steelers with six Super Bowl wins and the Detroit Red Wings with 11 Stanley Cup titles.
And if God's affection for your team translates into more championships, then God really hates the Chicago Cubs. OK, maybe "hate" is too harsh, but there must be a reason the Cubs haven't won a championship in more than 100 years. What did the team do to deserve this much pain?
Even the Cubs crosstown rivals, the Chicago White Sox, won a World Series in 2005. And keep in mind that organization was involved in the infamous "Black Sox" scandal, in which some of its players took bribes in exchange for intentionally losing the 1919 World Series.
But despite the Cubs' horrible history, a special place must be reserved in God's doghouse for the NFL's Buffalo Bills. Not only haven't the Bills won a Super Bowl in 46 years, they made it to the Super Bowl four years in a row, from 1991-1994, and lost every time.
The most painful loss was in 1991, when the Bills' kicker missed a game-winning field goal in the closing seconds, resulting in a one-point victory for the New York Giants. (Being a Giants fan, I was praying for the kicker to miss, so maybe God was involved on some level.)
Of course, if God is helping teams win, how do you explain the success of teams with names like the New Jersey Devils or Duke Blue Devils? The New Jersey Devils have three Stanley Cup Championships and the Duke Blue Devils are consistently a powerhouse in NCAA men's basketball, winning their last national championship in 2010. Perhaps God has some evil competition in the area of sports?
In any event, let's turn to Sunday's Super Bowl. Are there any signs that might indicate which team God may support in the match between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers? | <urn:uuid:5cff41fe-f391-464a-b881-848197332827> | 2013-05-18T06:51:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Ivanovic Survives, Kirilenko Conquered
Published Feburary 09, 2011 07:31
PATTAYA CITY, Thailand - The PTT Pattaya Open experienced its first significant upset of the week Wednesday when qualifier Galina Voskoboeva staged a remarkable comeback against No.3 seed Maria Kirilenko.
A right shoulder injury that sidelined her from after last year's French Open until the start of this year resulted in Voskoboeva being the lowest-ranked player in the Pattaya draw at No.560. In fact, this is her first WTA event since that first round loss at Roland Garros.
However, now after winning two qualifying matches here, then a tight three-setter over Romina Oprandi in her main draw opener and then a 16 75 64 defeat of the 25th-ranked Kirilenko in the second round, Voskoboeva has matched her career best results, quarterfinal showings at Québec City in 2008 and Warsaw in 2009. Wednesday's win was the WTA's biggest upset in terms of ranking differential since unranked Aiko Nakamura beat No.154 Alexandra Panova at Osaka last October.
Voskoboeva worked especially hard for this one, as she was down 61 52 and had three match points against her with the Russian serving at 5-4, 40-0 in the second set before the Kazakh rallied. Voskoboeva was also down 3-1 in the third set when she staged another comeback. Her only victory over a higher-ranked player in her career than Kirilenko came against 24th-ranked Anna Chakvetadze in the first round of New Haven in 2006.
"Jill is a tough opponent," Ivanovic said. "I lost such a close match at the Australian Open, so today was very tough, especially mentally in the end. I'm happy I was able to win this one."
Ivanovic lost a tight three-setter in her opener in Melbourne to Ekaterina Makarova on the heels of pulling out of Sydney with an abdominal injury.
"It's getting better now," she said. "I still receive treatment for it, but I'm not suffering from it anymore."
Ivanovic, who next takes on fifth-seeded Roberta Vinci, is playing in Pattaya City for the first time.
"I like the tournament and the city," she said. "The people are all friendly to me and I feel very welcome here. It is a very warm feeling. I like it." | <urn:uuid:fa76197a-69aa-4340-8c99-35c12303bccf> | 2013-05-18T05:50:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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(WUSA) -- A man from Stafford, Va. was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for having an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old girl who he met online and then drove to Canada to have sex with earlier this year.
According to authorities, 35-year-old Johnny Soza will have to serve prison time and then 10 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
Court records show that the girl's father found sexually explicit photos of his daughter and conversations between his daughter and Soza on her iPod.
The girl, who is from Canada, met Soza online and told him she was a 15-year-old virgin. Record show from April 2011 to February 2012 Soza got the girl to send dozens of naked photos of herself and engage in sexually explicit conduct via webcam. Soza also planned several trips to Canada to have sexual relations with her or bring her to the United States. Then, around Feb. 17, 2012, he drove to Canada and had sex with her.
Authorities also found that Soza had enticed other girls between the ages of 12 and 15 and sent thousands of text messages to them. | <urn:uuid:c653f222-5d35-48b5-8bb8-1538c7d39ab8> | 2013-05-18T08:02:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Madonna made the list of Least Influential people of 2012 presented by GQ magazine. The magazine compiled a list of 25 "uninspiring" famous famous.
GQ said, "These folks are ranked in no particular order, because all zeros are created equal. (It's) a collection of people so uninspiring that we should round them all up and stick them on an iceberg."
Madonna was nominated after stripping on her MDNA tour.
Amanda Bynes, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, Goyte and Michelle Obama also made the list. | <urn:uuid:96800c30-4d48-441f-8e36-00f74521b6e3> | 2013-05-18T05:28:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"Here To Pass On Knowledge"
...My family and I have always joked about how I came from a long line of teachers: my mom, my dad, my uncle, my sister, my brother-in-law, and my half-sister, and I chose to be a nurse. But as I learned in college, nursing requires teaching skills as well. I am here to help those who need assistance with math and science. Thank you!...
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(PHOENIX) -- Accused murderer Jodi Arias was confronted Monday with a barrage of lies she told after she killed her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, but she twice defiantly declared that she was innocent of first-degree murder.
"It's the truth. I'm innocent of that charge," Arias said to prosecutor Juan Martinez, referring to the criminal charge that could carry the threat of the death sentence if she is found guilty.
Arias admitted on the stand that she lied for months and years after killing her ex-boyfriend, telling investigators and friends that she had nothing to do with Alexander's grisly death, in which he was stabbed 27 times, his throat was slashed, and he was shot in the head.
Eventually, Arias confessed to the killing, but claims it was in self-defense.
On Monday, prosecutors hammered Arias about her lying, getting her to admit to lies she told and playing video of her police interrogation and a TV interview in which she told stories that she has since conceded were not true.
In an interview with CBS' 48 Hours, Arias said she smiled for her mug shot partly because she knew she was innocent.
"You truly believe that you didn't do anything wrong here?" the prosecutor asked incredulously.
"I believed that I knew that I was not guilty of first-degree murder and I did plan to be dead," she replied, a reference to her claim that she planned to commit suicide.
During a day of contentious questions and answers between Martinez and Arias, the prosecutor used Arias' own diary entries and text messages to show contradictions of her claims that Alexander was abusive toward her, that he hit her and tried to choke her.
Arias said that in early 2008, Alexander hit her in the neck while they were riding in his car. Martinez showed a diary entry describing the day they rode in the car, and there was no mention of physical violence.
"This entry does not corroborate what you told us happened in the car," he said. "With regard to the [choking incident] you didn't call police. You didn't tell anyone about it. There is no corroboration anywhere in your journal. All we have is your word. Are there photos? Any other writings? Is there a police report? Is there a medical report?"
Arias said there was no evidence that the alleged abuse happened, except for her testimony in court.
"There's no evidence because it didn't happen, did it ma'am?" Martinez yelled.
Arias said that she had told one person about the abuse she claims she suffered at the hands of Alexander, and that it was another ex-boyfriend, Matthew McCartney. But when pressed for details about the conversation in which she told him, Arias became confused and changed her answers.
"I saw [Matt] a few days later, and he called me out on the bruises," Arias testified.
"Over the phone, just days after I think," she said.
"Isn't it true he wouldn't have been able to see your injuries because you were talking over the telephone?"
"No, I was in Yreka [California] by then. I stopped to see Matt after I left Arizona. Let's see, I believe it was two or three days after. I'm not saying there was no telephone call, [but] it was at his house. I went and saw Matt, and some makeup wore off, and he confronted me on [the bruises]."
Martinez said that McCartney has denied the conversation ever took place.
The argument mounted by Martinez Monday echoed the focus of the prosecution throughout the trial: that Arias murdered Alexander and then lied to everyone about it to evade arrest and prosecution.
"Ma'am you have a problem with telling the truth don't you?" Martinez asked as his first question Monday, the 11th day Arias has been on the stand explaining her role in Alexander's death.
"Not typically," Arias responded.
Martinez pointed out that Arias lied to Detective Esteban Flores of the Mesa, Ariz., police department as he investigated Alexander's death. She initially denied to the detective that she was at Alexander's home in Mesa when he was killed, and later said he was murdered by a pair of masked intruders.
Arias argued with Martinez, claiming that she lied to investigators out of shame, and lied to friends immediately after the death out of confusion.
"My mind wasn't right during all that period," Arias said referring to the hours immediately following the killing when she drove through the Arizona desert and made phone calls to McCartney and new love interest Ryan Burns.
"It's like I wasn't accepting it in my mind...because I never killed anyone before," she said.
Martinez also suggested that Arias tried to find out the status of the investigation into Alexander's death so that she could know if she were about to be arrested. When a friend of Alexander's called her to report the news about Alexander's death, Arias asked about details into the investigation, the prosecutor said. She also called Alexander's Mormon bishop and asked him what he knew about the case, and then asked friends and family members what they knew, according to Martinez.
He also went over lies that Arias told to her friend, Leslie Udy, and Ryan Burns, both of whom she saw in Utah the day after killing Alexander. She talked to both about Alexander as if he were still alive. Martinez pointed out that Arias even made out with Burns in his bedroom during their visit.
But Arias claimed that it was Burns who lied about their encounter.
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Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said that he had received information that all boats had left the shoal's lagoon as of Saturday. He said earlier that China and the Philippines had reached a verbal agreement to pull out from the lagoon. Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez later said an unspecified number of Chinese ships remained in the wider vicinity of the shoal.
Both countries claim the territory. Tensions flared in April when the Philippines accused Chinese fishermen of poaching within its exclusive economic zone, which includes the shoal. China responded by sending paramilitary vessels to protect the fishermen.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular briefing in Beijing that the situation at the Huangyan Islands—the Chinese name for Scarborough Shoal—"is overall toward peace." He did not comment on the Philippines' statement that Chinese vessels had withdrawn from the lagoon.
He said that Chinese vessels "have been running the ... islands and the nearby
The horseshoe-shaped shoal, a popular hunting ground for Filipino and Chinese fishermen, is one of the hundreds of tiny outcrops and islands dotting the South China Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes and an area believed to be rich in natural gas and oil.
China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam claim the nearby Spratly Islands, where disputes have occasionally triggered naval clashes. A nonbinding 2002 accord discourages aggressive acts that could spark fighting.
On Philippine-controlled Pag-asa Island, Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon announced Sunday the opening of a small kindergarten for a tiny community of Filipino settlers. In Beijing, Lei responded to the kindergarten by saying that his government opposed "any action that violates China's jurisdiction."
"We hope relevant countries comply with the laws and do not engage in acts that will aggravate the South China Sea tension," he said.
The United States, meanwhile, dispatched a nuclear-powered submarine to the former U.S. base at Subic in the northwestern Philippines facing the South China Sea.
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