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A Lexington man accused of beating his wife to death spent most of Friday in a Fayette County courtroom.
Donald Southworth attended the last hearing before the scheduled start of his trial.
Police say the 48-year-old savagely beat his wife, Umi.
She died in June of 2010 after being found outside the home she shared with her husband and her daughter.
Jury selection in Southworth's trial is set to begin on Monday. | <urn:uuid:1d45ed84-a70f-4394-b0fa-3713f23ad926> | 2013-05-21T10:27:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The issue of discipline will doubtless be an important one in your selection of a school. You'll be concerned, and rightly so, that your child has a safe and ordered environment in which to learn. The school's rules and regulations should be spelled out in their printed material; look them over carefully. But just as vital, you'll need to investigate how well these rules are actually enforced by the administration. What type of punishment do they carry out for various actions? Do you agree with these steps? Another area to evaluate is the type of peer pressure your children are likely to encounter at a given school. With today's problems such as alcohol, drugs, sex and gang violence, you'll want to know what your child might be up against. Also, how does school policy respond to these situations? You might also ask if discipline is enforced off the school grounds; can students be expelled for certain behaviors that take place away from school? Some parents prefer strict disciplinary action, with no exceptions made; others favor a more lenient approach. Obviously, you'll want to find a school whose philosophy is more or less consistent with your own.
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I am a control freak. I openly admit that. I want to be in control of every situation which may arise in my life.
I accepted Christ into my heart at the tender age of twelve. What this means for me is that, for the past 41 years, I have tried to "let go, and let God," as the popular saying goes. And admittedly, I have met with varying levels of success.
I prefer to control the small, everyday headaches that are a part of life. I don't really understand why this is. If I overdraw my bank account, I take action on my own. When I feel hurt because of something a friend has done, I jump in to make the situation all right again. In fact, I very seldom think of asking for God's help with the mundane.
It's when the huge storms of life hit that I tend to relinquish control to God. My family has recently gone through a couple of situations, which threatened to totally overwhelm me. These situations I quickly and voluntarily handed over to Him.
On second thought, why should this surprise me? I have been independent and responsible for my own life and well-being for the past twenty-plus years. I have had to learn to handle things on my own. I am proud of my hard-won independence -- yet I believe this is where my reliance on God's mercy has taken a hit. Could pride be at the root of the problem?
As a single woman, I have had to get my car serviced ... I have been responsible for paying all my bills ... I was a single mom. I have to do my own cooking and cleaning; feed the animals; go to work every day and ... well, you get the point. No wonder I began to feel I could do it on my own!! Somewhere along the line I forgot to include God in my daily activities.
At some point I began forgetting to say, "Thank You, Lord" at the end of a long day. Yet at no point did He forget about me. His blessings still continued to rain down on me. I could never begin to thank Him for everything He has done for me, or has given me. I am like the selfish child who, when her parents buy her the doll she wants, grabs it and runs away without a word of thanks.
Lately my thoughts have been turning more and more back toward God. Perhaps it's related to getting older and realizing my own mortality. Or maybe it's due to the influence of a dear friend. What is important is that I am finally beginning to relinquish some of that so-called "control" over my own life, and turning it all over to God.
As I have for the past 41 years, I continue meeting with varying degrees of success. But, like Ezekiel in the Old Testament, I am finally listening once again to that still, small voice. I must remind myself constantly Who is in control in this relationship -- and it's not me. Difficult? Definitely. But with His help and unfailing love for me, our relationship is finally once again on the path to where it should be. | <urn:uuid:5478ec0c-efc3-4ab5-acc6-f2458aacf172> | 2013-05-21T10:27:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Wed December 12, 2012
Sources: U.S., Jordan Training Syrian Rebels On Anti-Aircraft Weapons
Originally published on Wed December 12, 2012 1:50 pm
The U.S. has now formally recognized a new Syrian opposition group as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. But the U.S. has repeatedly declined to provide weapons for rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's army.
However, NPR has learned that there are movements behind the scenes. In Jordan, several Syrian sources said that Jordanian authorities, along with their U.S. and British counterparts, have organized training for Syrian rebels on sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons.
The Syrian sources would not identify the weapons or where they came from, but they indicated they were the kind of arms that could have a dramatic impact in the fight against Assad's military.
Since the summer, the Syrian air force has been pounding rebel strongholds with helicopter gunships and fighter jets. Those bombings have killed hundreds, if not thousands, and many of the casualties have been civilians.
In recent weeks, the rebels have acquired anti-aircraft weapons from Syrian military arsenals, after capturing key air-defense bases in northern and central Syria. The rebels successfully downed a Russian-made MiG fighter jet late last month. It was the first time the rebels succeeded in assembling and firing an SA-16 shoulder-to-air missile.
Training For The Rebels
One Syrian rebel fighter, who did not want to be named, said he attended a training course in Jordan and that the training was not led by uniformed Western soldiers, but rather by men in plainclothes who spoke several different dialects of Arabic. This suggests the trainers may have been private contractors, who are sometimes used by the U.S. for training and assembly of sophisticated weaponry. The rebel fighter also said members of the Jordanian military attended the training sessions.
The source said he and about 25 others took part in the course. He said a handful of rebel groups fighting inside Syria each sent a few men to the training.
Another source said hundreds of men have done the training in the past two to three months.
These two sources — along with two other sources (none of whom wanted to be named) — said it was their impression that the sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons are present in Jordan and could be transferred into Syria at any time.
"You have to unite first," a source quoted one American as saying during a training session. The reference is to disparate rebel groups fighting in Syria who don't follow a clear chain of command.
"They want us to have structures. It's all about structures," said a second source, a Syrian army officer who defected and comes from a prominent family.
This same source said uniformed U.S. military officials regularly meet with Syrian defectors to discuss military planning. He said the current debate centers around whether rebel fighters should first seize the southern Syrian region of Dera'a, just across the border from Jordan, before making a march to the Syrian capital, Damascus, just an hour's drive away.
Another option would be for the rebels to focus all their attention and resources on Damascus, where some rebel groups have already launched an offensive east of the city and on the civilian airport.
Several sources said the focus of this military training and advising has been on professional soldiers who defected from the army, rather than civilian fighters who might have a more religious bent.
The officer who defected said the U.S. and Jordan hope to avoid what they call the "mess" in northern and eastern Syria, where Islamist fighters like Jabhat al-Nusra have dominated the fight. That group has been designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization.
The U.S. Embassy in Jordan referred questions about this story to the State Department in Washington. Neither the State Department nor the Pentagon responded to requests for comment. | <urn:uuid:00f0e64d-ed9d-469e-9387-674c7ce58b73> | 2013-05-21T10:23:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I completely agree with FPSNDIVER. I am a scuba instructor in Wilmington, and dive with sand tigers and other sharks frequently. I seriously doubt a sand tiger was responsible for this. The "attack" was probably by a sandbar, silky, or bull shark, trying to find a fish meal in the surf and mistook her arm as possibly a fish.
I'm very glad she is OK, and hope she makes a full recovery and regains full use of her arm. She has "bragging rights" to a very rare event!
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"He's a passionate man, but he also has a problem with his very fast brain-and-mouth coordination. Anything that comes into his head goes out of his mouth immediately, and he's certainly not diplomatic," Landau observed. "My feeling is he's one of the most honest characters I've ever played. If he wasn't born overseas, I'd like to elect him as president. What you see is what you get. But he also taught me, when you're making a speech in front of your student's parents, you shouldn't call them 'stupid' and expect to hold your job."
Unlike Tahan and Landau's characters, Shaffer's "E" Gore didn't quite resemble the actor in real life, and for good reason: "E" Gore represents the sort of creepy, hunchbacked characters made famous by big-screen icon Peter Lorre.
And of course, as Shaffer learned, you can't have a Lorre-like character without doing a Lorre-like voice.
"About the second or third audition into the process, they asked me to do the character in my Peter Lorre voice, so immediately my mom rented me 'The Maltese Falcon,' and we already had 'Casablanca,' so we just sat there and watched," Shaffer recalled for me. "It was not only wonderful to study for the role, but to actually do it well enough to be hired for the part was such an honor and privilege."
The great thing is, Shaffer said, while Edgar's appearance and actions give off a strange vibe, he still marches to his own beat and has no apologies for it.
"That's the great thing about Tim's films -- they have distorted characters, but they are comfortable for who they are," Shaffer said. "They don't worry, tremble or try to sway to the ways of others. They are their own beings, and the movie gives a message that you can be comfortable in your own skin."
Landau said the real human emotions you get watching "Frankenweenie" helps set the film apart from others.
"A lot of people have said they were moved by the movie and they laughed a lot. It's because it's a character-driven movie, which you don't see anymore," Landau said. "The characters are so delineated and clear."
Another being that gives the emotional weight to the film is its top dog, Tahan added. After all, Sparky sparks the story of "Frankenweenie."
"Almost all people have had or do have a dog, so they can for sure relate to this," Tahan said. | <urn:uuid:10a93bdc-d12f-4ce0-b4f9-b69c05b2cfba> | 2013-05-21T10:22:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This isn't great. I can applaud the attempt to remake stock ships, because after several new incarnations of the game they could certainly use an update. However this is a rather poor attempt.
I suggest you keep the whole thing stock green, or eliminate the over saturated colors entirely.
There are symmetry errors. The sections are a jumbled mess. Also, the weapons and modules seem to have almost no sense of good placement.
Honestly, all you have succeeded in doing is making something worse than the original.
If you want to improve upon other people's work first, I recommend that you become decent at building your own ships first.
um, first of all the weapon placements are similer just different weapons. autocan replaces blaster , machinegun replaces pulse.
-yes i tried to do this without sprites so its not as smooth
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"Biological sciences and language help from Ivy League grad"
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B A R 4 D
- About B A R 4 D
- Himalay Barad, 19, Indian, Born & Raised in Bristol.
- Bristol, England
- Gaming, Rugby, Cycling, Driving, Basketball, Paintball.
- 1st year in Information Technology Degree at University of Gloucestershire
- B A R 4 D
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I grew up on an Island with my mother and sister and brother. On the Island lived some other families that had "always" lived there. My mother came from another country, with another language. She came to the Island to be a maid and then met my father who was a sailor. I was born and she stayed - my father went on board a ship and I didn't see him more than a few times on his short visits on land.
Quite often we were visited by Gypsies that came by to sell things like mirrors, pearls, combs, underwear, watches...
We sometimes let them spend the night with us. I remember one of them especially who always wanted to sing for us while we were sitting waiting for the fire to burn out for the night. He sang a song - I think it was a Tango and it was about longing. That melody has followed me through life.
My mother sometimes told me a story (like a joke) that she found me in a sack by the road and that she thought it might have been the Gypsies that had left me there. My mother loves Tango and my father disappeared on the Ocean.
I decided to go to sea too, as a bartender on a ferry where I could enjoy the music and the people. | <urn:uuid:f143a20c-dc41-4ec0-8201-30f0f81f33ac> | 2013-05-21T10:15:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In grammar terms, a participle is an adjective (descriptive word) made from a verb.(noun)
An example of a participle is "sleeping" in the phrase "sleeping dogs."
See participle in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: OFr < L participium < particeps, participating, partaking < participare, participate: from participating in the nature of both v. & adj.
See participle in American Heritage Dictionary 4
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , variant of participe
Origin: , from Latin participium (translation of Greek metokhē, sharing, partaking, participle)
Origin: , from particeps, particip-, partaker; see participate. Usage Note: Participial phrases such as walking down the street or having finished her homework are commonly used in English to modify nouns or pronouns, but care must be taken in incorporating such phrases into sentences. Readers will ordinarily associate a participle with the noun, noun phrase, or pronoun adjacent to it, and misplacement may produce comic effects as in He watched his horse take a turn around the track carrying a racing sheet under his arm. A correctly placed participial phrase leaves no doubt about what is being modified: Sitting at her desk, Jane read the letter carefully. • Another pitfall in using participial phrases is illustrated in the following sentence: Turning the corner, the view was quite different. Grammarians would say that such a sentence contains a “dangling participle” because there is no noun or pronoun in the sentence that the participial phrase could logically modify. Moving the phrase will not solve the problem (as it would in the sentence about the horse with a racing sheet). To avoid distracting the reader, it would be better to recast the sentence as When we turned the corner, the view was quite different or Turning the corner, we had a different view. • A number of expressions originally derived from participles have become prepositions, and these may be used to introduce phrases that are not associated with the immediately adjacent noun phrase. Such expressions include concerning, considering, failing, granting, judging by, and speaking of. Thus one may write without fear of criticism Speaking of politics, the elections have been postponed or Considering the hour, it is surprising that he arrived at all.
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Have you ever sent someone a message in a song?
Yeah. I don't think they listened. I'll tell you about another side of it. Blake [Sennett, co-writer/guitarist/singer] and I started the band, and then we started dating, and then we broke up about three years ago. So sometimes I'll be very angry with him, and I'll write something about him, and then bring it to the practice space. And we're all arranging the song, and suddenly the line will come up that's intended to just hurt him. And I'll have to kind of mumble it at first so he doesn't hear it. But ultimately he figures it out, and then later asks me about it: "Was that, by any chance…?" And I might even lie at that point and say, "Well, no, it's not."
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There have been incidents of things being thrown, and screaming, and I hopped out of the van once on a toll road on an East Coast tour. "I’m outta here! Forget you, man!" But we've weathered it. Now we're both dating other people, and we actually invite our boyfriends and girlfriends on the bus, and so we all get to hang out in really close quarters. It's a testament to how we're evolving.
If that [history] weren't there, would you be writing the kind of music you're writing?
No, I don't think so. It's like having a child, this band. It's our poor, dysfunctional child that had to endure mommy and daddy getting divorced. At some point, we'll probably have to send it away to boarding school.
Do you think songwriting goes better when things are going well romantically, or when they're going poorly?
From my experience, poorly. But I don't necessarily want to live by that. Maybe that is the thing that happens in your early and mid-twenties anyway. It's the time for experimentation and figuring out who you want to be with. Do you want to be with someone who's supportive and patient and great, or maybe be with someone who's a little more exciting and causes you a bit more heartache? Your late twenties is an interesting place to be, weighing the importance of career, the importance of relationships, the importance of family.
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Under the name OpenSolaris, Sun officially announced an open source version of the Solaris operating system that's largely based on Solaris 10. Several intellectual property barriers remain to open-sourcing all of Solaris 10. As those hurdles are cleared, Sun intends to move more of Solaris 10's componentry into OpenSolaris' codebase. To qualify as open source, software must have an Open Source Initiative-approved license attached to it and, in OpenSolaris' case, that license is the Sun-authored and very recently OSI-approved Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). During the announcement, both Sun chairman and CEO Scott McNealy and the company's executive vice president of software John "Johnny-L" Loiacano characterized the CDDL as a license that allays open source licensing confusion by removing ambiguities and "cleaning up" the licensing language. In the end, McNealy concluded, "We're committed to one word and that's sharing. "
But in addition to having introduced perhaps even more ambiguity into an already ambiguous environment (more on that in my analysis of the transcribed text below), will Sun's announcement further compartmentalize an already compartmentalized open source community? Read on.
Perhaps the most interesting among the list of commentators is IBM's vice president of standards, Bob Sutor, who in his blog entry, commended Sun for embracing the spirit of open source, but then added "As far as I understand it, Sun is not pledging these patents for use in any open source project as [IBM] did."
In terms of what IBM did, Sutor is referring to the 500 patents that IBM released for unencumbered use by any developer working on open source software that has any OSI-approved license attached to it (as opposed to a specific open source license such as the GNU General Public License). And Sutor's conclusion, which originally sent this hound on the hunt, is true.
What Sutor is referring to is that, apart from certain academic open source licenses such as the BSD and MIT licenses, most open source licenses, including both the GPL and CDDL, have reciprocal provisions in them that require derivative open source software to bear the same license as the code from which it was derived. What this means is that if code from the CDDL-licensed OpenSolaris were intermingled with code from the GPL-licensed Linux, then the resulting derivative work would technically be required to inherit the licenses from both, which is impossible because certain provisions in each license cancel out the other. (In other words, they're totally incompatible with each other.)
In fact, the entire open source community is compartmentalized along these licensing lines. For example, code from the Eclipse Project (started by IBM) cannot be intermingled with code from Mozilla because each of the those projects operates under their own, incompatible-with-the-other open source license. The net-net is that when a large company--be it IBM, Sun, or anyone else--donates code (as IBM has with Eclipse, and Sun has with OpenSolaris) to the open source community, the writing (and approval by the OSI) of a one-off license like the Eclipse Public License or the CDDL gives those companies a way to donate their code to the open source community (which in turn can enhance it to the benefactor's advantage) without that code leaking into a competitor's product (with a non-reciprocating license) in such a way that it can be used against the benefactor.
Nothing prevents IBM from building a product using CDDL-licensed code. But then, that product, which is technically a derivative of the CDDL-licensed code, must also be available under the CDDL, which then means all of IBM's contributions to it become available to anything else Sun is building under the CDDL (like OpenSolaris). So, to McNealy's point that Sun is committed to one word and that one word is "sharing," yes, Sun is sharing its code. But like a lot of other shared, open source code, that code has a firewall around it. CDDL or unlicensed code that's ready to take on the CDDL license can get it in, but nothing gets out. In other words, it's not universal sharing.
From the legal corner of the blogosphere, SCO whipmaster and master-miner of legalese Pamela Jones at Groklaw wrote:
...they are freeing up 1,600 patents, but not for Linux, not for the GPL world. I'm a GPL girl myself. So it's hard for me to write about this story on its own terms. I am also hindered by the fact that I've yet to meet a Sun employee I didn't like personally. But, despite being pulled confusingly in both those directions at once, in the end, I have to be truthful. And the truth is Sun is now competing with Linux. That's not the same as trying to kill it, but it's not altogether friendly either. Yet, at the teleconference, Sun said they want to be a better friend to the community. I feel a bit like a mom whose toddler has written "I LUV MOMMY" on the wall with crayons. Now what do I say?"
Answer? Just tell it like it is PJ. Just remember all is not as it seems.
Then, from across the pond comes a newsletter from the folks at Gentoo, which basically applauds Sun for the move and talks about how Gentoo is embracing OpenSolaris under the Portaris version of its Portage project. Portage, according to an e-mail I received from Gentoo senior manager Pieter Van den Abeele, is a metadata-driven package manager. One thing you can most definitely do with Gentoo is describe a final operating system installation in terms of what it can do (I'll take a router, a firewall, an Apache Web server, and a browser please) and then stamp out a version of Red Hat that does that. If you don't like the final work of art, using the same metadata, you can now stamp out a version of OpenSolaris that does the same thing. But, in addition to that, as best as I can tell from Van den Abeele's e-mail (please correct me if I'm wrong), you can pick and choose best-of-breed parts from any source code (regardless of the license that goes with those parts) and stamp out your own sort of Frankenstein. Said Van den Abeele:
Gentoo declares GPL licensed metadata about various applications and platforms in one big machine-readable, GPL-licensed knowledge base. Our users declare their feature requirements and preferences to our Package Manager "portage," which in turn using the knowledge base suggests a plan to build or enhance an operating system that will satisfy the user.
If my interpretation of what he's saying is right, then I'm declaring Gentoo the Napster of Open Source. To the extent that you can create a final package that mixes, matches, and violates every open source license known to man, Gentoo appears to be just the facilitator. This is reminiscent of how JBOSS couldn't distribute a soup-to-nuts Java-based application server, but it could tell you how to take what it built and merge with something else from Sun (a Java Runtime Environment) to come up with a free app server. Just don't forget that this sort of Frankenstein merger of code is exactly what SCO sued Autozone for.
And finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, a transcription of what was said, and my Between the Lines analysis.
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Apache Commons developers have released a major update to the Apache Commons Math project, which is designed to extend Java with specialised mathematical and statistical components.
Apache Commons was formerly a part of the Apache Foundation's Jakarta, an umbrella project for developers creating open-source software for the Java platform, but is now an independent project overseen by the organisation. In general, the Commons is intended to create and maintain reusable Java components.
The latest version of Apache Commons Math, version 2.0, is a major release that contains bug fixes, new features and changes to existing features, and is not compatible with earlier versions of the project.
Among the new features are decomposition algorithms in the linear algebra package, support for sparce matrices and vectors, several new optimisation algorithms, support for curve fitting, new multistep integrators, and a Mersenne twister pseudo random number generator.
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Ta-mei Fa-chang (752-839) was a Chinese Ch'an master. After he got awakened under the Great master Ma-tsu Tao-i (709-788), he went to the Ta-mei mountain and resided there.
One day there was a traveling monk who got lost in the Ta-mei...
二十五 三座説法 | hide chinese .
show chinese | 仰山和尚、夢見往彌勒所、安第三座。
In a dream Kyozan Osho went to Maitreya's place and was led in to sit in the third seat. 有一尊者、白槌云、今日當第三座説法。
A senior monk struck with a gavel and said, "Today the one in the third seat will speak." 山乃起白槌云、摩訶衍法離四句、絶百非。
Kyozan rose and, striking with the gavel, said, "The truth of Mahayana is beyond the four propositions and transcends the hundred negations. 諦聽、諦聽。
Taicho! Taicho!" [Hear the truth!]
Mumon's Comment 無門曰、且道、是説法不説法、開口即失、閉口又喪。
Now tell me, did Kyozan preach or did he not not? If he opens his mouth, he is lost; if he seals his mouth, he is lost. 不開不閉、十万八千。
Even if he neither opens nor shuts his mouth, he is a hundred and eight thousand [miles away from the truth].
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Tribal energy managers are encouraged to plan for interconnection and permitting early in the project development process. This includes electric interconnections for all projects connected to the utility and gas line interconnections for projects requiring gas at higher volumes and pressures than the gas distribution system can provide. In addition, you will need to work with various entities to obtain applicable permits. Some of these activities will require more time, effort, and money than you originally estimated and may pose certain barriers you will have to overcome. This section is designed to help you understand the general interconnection and permitting processes and what might be involved.
Simply put, "interconnection" refers to the technical, contractual, rates, and metering issues that must be settled between the system owner and the utility and permitting authorities before the system is connected to the grid. Interconnection requirements vary from state to state and utility to utility. However, the following general process typically applies: You will file an application with the utility, providing basic information about the proposed project and enclosing a nominal payment for processing and review. After a specified period (generally two to three weeks), you will be informed whether a more involved study is required, what it will include, what it will cost, and approximately how long it will take (typically, about six weeks). This study will then describe the utility system upgrades (if any) that are necessary, what they will cost, and when they can be scheduled. It is then up to you to evaluate the cost in relation to your project's total cost and projected savings and decide if your project is still cost-effective.
The general interconnection process is outlined below in six basic steps:
The first step is to contact your local utility and ask about interconnection standards and requirements they have in place. You should also be able to establish a single point of contact to discuss any of your interconnection matters.
File Interconnection Application
If the result of the pre-application communication indicates that you can move forward with your project, a formal interconnection application will need to be submitted to the utility.
Utility Reviews Application
Based on the information you provide on the size, type, and location of your potential power generation project, the utility will decide if interconnection is allowed, or if further information or analysis needs to be completed first. Depending on your specific project, the process can be more or less complicated. For example, some states pre-certify power generation systems, so using pre-certified power generation technology for your installation could simplify the installation in those states.
Likewise, the interconnection review and approval process is generally much simpler for systems under a certain capacity, so if your tribe is installing a small generation system, it may be best to keep the capacity of the system below this threshold. For example, renewable energy systems producing less than 10 kilowatts may require nothing more than an inspection by the utility. The threshold varies for each state and sometimes for each utility. See the Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) for specific information for your tribe's location.
For systems up to 100 kilowatts, a study is likely to be required, but it should not take more than a few hours for the utility engineer to determine impacts, and interconnection requirements should not be great. Above 100 kilowatts, the impacts on the utility system can be significant, so a more in-depth study, or series of studies, is likely to be needed. A study can take a utility from two to six weeks to perform, and the tribe will probably be required to pay the utility's costs to conduct it. The result may be that protective equipment or other hardware must be installed, and the tribe will be required to pay for that as well.
Interconnection Agreement Signed
Once the interconnection application is approved, the tribe and the utility will complete an interconnection agreement. This agreement can also outline the provisions of any net metering or power purchases resulting from the power generation project.
In this step, the power generation project is built and installed to the specifications outlined by the utility. In addition, the utility completes any new construction or equipment installations, including any metering equipment, necessary to ensure the safe and successful operation of the power generation system.
Connection, Testing, and Operation
Before the power generation system can be operated, it must be tested to verify compliance of the generator and related interconnection equipment with the utility's requirements. Once testing is successfully completed, the power generation system is allowed to operate in parallel with the utility's electric grid. A formal letter of acceptance for interconnection of the power generation system is generally then issued by the utility.
If your tribe uses a contractor to design or build the power generation system, it is often possible to require your power generation contractor to take care of all the necessary interconnection and permitting studies, paperwork, and fees as part of the project contract. Such contracts can simplify the implementation of power generation projects and bring needed expertise and experience in navigating the interconnection and permitting processes. The California Energy Commission's Distributed Energy Resources Guide lists system developers and equipment vendors for many small generation technologies.
The DSIRE database mentioned above is the best place to check for interconnection standards for your state or local utility. If you cannot find interconnection standards there, it may be useful to examine some other interconnection standards before approaching your utility, so you know what to expect. Three states — New York, Texas, and California — were the first to develop standardized interconnection requirements, and links to those can be found on the DSIRE Web site. In addition, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners has developed Model Interconnection Standards (PDF 614 KB) for states interested in defining their own standardized power generation interconnection requirements, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is also developing standard interconnection agreements. Download Adobe Reader.
Some Typical Equipment Requirements
To interconnect any power generation system to the grid, the utility may specify certain equipment requirements to ensure safe operation of the grid, regardless of how the generation system is functioning. Typical requirements may include the following:
Equipment that prevents power from being fed to the grid when the grid is de-energized (for example, for power line maintenance)
Manual disconnects that are easily accessible to utility personnel
Power quality requirements such as limits on the interconnected system's effects on "flicker" and other types of distortion.
Power generation systems may also be required to automatically shut down in the event of electrical failures. To accomplish this, protective schemes at the grid interface may include these items:
- A synchronizing relay
- Protection against under- and over-voltage
- Protection against under- and over-frequency
- Phase and ground over-current relays
- Ground over-voltage relays, and more.
Even more restrictive (and expensive) requirements can include an isolation transformer for the system and liability insurance against worst-case scenarios of damage to utility equipment and harm to utility personnel.
In addition, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has developed a standard labeled P1547 for interconnection of power generating systems up to 10 megawatts in capacity. The standard defines the technical performance standards and testing requirements that will be necessary for most interconnecting these systems. States are expected to adopt this new standard. If your facility meets this proposed standard, the process should be expedited.
If possible, find out what other facilities in your utility's service area have done or are considering in terms of interconnected generators. Other facility managers may be able to offer you valuable advice based on their own experiences. If your power generation project involves the use of natural gas or propane, don't forget to contact your local gas utility if it is not the same as your electric utility. Your gas utility may have additional or different requirements and procedures for implementing small generation projects.
For more information on technical requirements for interconnection, see the EERE's Industrial Distributed Energy Program Web site. In addition, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council has prepared a detailed guide to connecting small generating systems. See the publication, Connecting to the Grid: A Guide To Distributed Generation Interconnection Issues (PDF 410 KB). Download Adobe Reader.
Potential Interconnection Barriers
The potential barriers to getting a tribal power generating system interconnected to the grid include technical, regulatory, and business practice barriers.
Technical barriers relate primarily to your local utility's electrical interconnection requirements, which are meant to ensure that your generator will not negatively affect the reliability, safety, and power quality of the electric grid system.
Regulatory barriers include issues that arise from or are governed by statutes, policies, tariffs, or regulatory filings by utilities. Specifically, these include the numerous permits and approvals that may be required to move your power generation project to the operational stage. These can be economic as well as regulatory barriers, because time, effort, and money go into overcoming them. Because many permits require fixed fees regardless of the size of the power generation project, the impacts on smaller projects can be greater than those for large projects. Other barriers arise because of utility regulations or policy decisions. Standby charges are assessed because the utility is obligated to serve your load if the power generation is not available and the utility must maintain adequate distribution facilities. Exit fees repay the utility for distribution facilities already built that are "stranded" because your power generation reduces the utility's return on investment. Similarly, regional transmission charges may be assessed for stranded transmission assets.
Business practice barriers involve the contractual and procedural requirements for interconnection, including contract length and complexity, contract terms and conditions, application fees, insurance requirements, and the timeliness of utility responses. power generation projects should be easier to implement in states that have standardized interconnection requirements.
How can you tell if the utility's demands are appropriate for your specific installation? And how do you make sure that the process is handled with a minimum of delays? Here are some tips:
Ask the utility contact for proper application forms, and make sure you understand the technical data they are requesting. You or the contractor will have to provide these data when applying, and you may need to contact equipment vendors or other resources to obtain the data. If your power provider does not have an individual assigned to deal with grid-connection requests, try contacting your public utilities commission, state utility consumer advocate, or state energy office.
Ask the utility to specify how long it will take to process the application and what fees must be submitted with it.
Investigate all potential utility charges that may apply to your system, such as standby charges, exit fees, or regional transmission charges.
Utility commissions in some states have established regulations specifying the interconnection process. Find a contact person at your state's utility commission and ask for any guidelines or rules that apply. Also, ask whom to contact for dispute resolution, if that becomes necessary.
For more information on the potential barriers to interconnecting power generation systems, see Making Connections: Case Studies of Interconnection Barriers and their Impact on Distributed Power Projects (PDF 1.8 MB). Download Adobe Reader. | <urn:uuid:c3c91624-7f2d-4ddc-a530-b0b6d465a265> | 2013-05-21T10:21:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hydrography is the branch of marine science concerned with the measurement, description and depiction of the nature and form of the seabed. It has been crucial to the development of world trade and to offshore expansion in the search for hydrocarbons.
This programme has been developed in response to expressed commercial need and graduates are sought after throughout the industry. It will provide the foundation for a career in hydrographic research and development, port and offshore/nearshore surveying and environmental support. You will develop an understanding of the present state of knowledge relating to hydrography in the fields of marine geophysics, oceanography, acoustics, geodesy, and marine resource management. You will consider the wider aspects of hydrography and the implications for data capture, data management, processing, and information systems.
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Dons successful in defender appeal
Last Updated: September 20, 2012 3:58pm
Russell Anderson: Had his red card against Inverness rescinded
Aberdeen defender Russell Anderson has had his red card rescinded after the club's appeal was upheld by the Scottish Football Association.
Anderson was dismissed by referee George Salmond during Saturday's SPL game at Inverness, which ended 1-1.
He was given his marching orders for bringing down Shane Sutherland inside the box and Richie Foran converted the resulting penalty for the opening goal for the home side.
It was Scotland international Anderson's first red card of his career.
However, a claim of wrongful dismissal was accepted by an SFA fast track tribunal which convened on Thursday to consider the case and the red card has been scrapped. | <urn:uuid:5b5ba5fc-378d-4bcc-961c-5329a6a21d50> | 2013-05-21T10:28:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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(1) 1. CONTI, O.S.B.Cas., Bernardo Maria (1664-1730)
Birth. March 29, 1664, Rome. His family gave the Church Popes Innocent III, Gregory IX and Alexander IV; also, he was brother of Pope Innocent XIII. Grand-nephew of Cardinal Carlo Conti (1604). Nephew of Cardinal Giannicolò Conti (1664). Grand-uncle of Cardinal Bartolomeo Ruspoli (1730). on his mother's side. Other cardinals of the family were Giovanni dei conti di Segni (1200); Ottaviano dei conti di Segni (1205); Lucido Conti (1411) (pseudocardinal); Giovanni Conti (1483); and Francesco Conti (1517).
Education. Entered the Order of Saint Benedict Cassinese in 1680, at the monastery of S. Paolo fuori le mura, Rome.
Priesthood. Ordained, December 21, 1689. Abbot of the monastery of S. Maria di Gangi, Sicily. Abbot of the monastery of S. Maria di Farfa, Rome. Visitor of the Benedictine provinces of Rome, Etruria, and Naples.
Episcopate. Elected bishop of Terracina, December 1, 1710. Consecrated (no information found). Assistant at the Pontifical Throne, January 1, 1711. Resigned government of the see for health reasons on June 3, 1720 and retired to the house of the duke of Poli, his brother.
Cardinalate. Created cardinal priest in the consistory of June 16, 1721; received the red hat and the title of S. Bernardo alle Terme, July 16, 1721. Grand penitentiary, August 3, 1721 until his death. Protector of the Order of St. Benedict Cassinese. He frequently spent time at the monstery of S. Paolo fuori le mura. He had an apoplexy in 1723, which left him partially paralyzed. Participated in the conclave of 1724, which elected Pope Benedict XIII. Abbot commendatario of S. Maria de Mentorella from 1724. Entered the conclave of 1730, which elected Pope Clement XII; died during its celebration.
Death. April 23, 1730, Rome; had an apoplexy in the conclave at 1 p.m. and died, after placida agonia, on that same day at 5:30 p.m., having received the extreme unction. Exposed in the church of S. Maria in Via, Rome, where the funeral took place without the participation of the cardinals who were in conclave. Transferred to Tivoli and buried in the church of the Madonna della Mentorella, in the jurispatronato of the House of Conti, according to his will.
Bibliography. Cardella, Lorenzo. Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa. 9 vols. Rome : Stamperia Pagliarini, 1794, VIII, 194; Notizie per l'anno 1722. Rome : Nella Stamperia de Galeazzo Chracas, presso S. Marco al Corso, 1722, p. 173 no. 64; Ritzler, Remigium, and Pirminum Sefrin. Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recientoris Aevi. Volumen VI (1730-1799). Patavii : Typis et Sumptibus Domus Editorialis "Il Messaggero di S. Antonio" apud Basilicam S. Antonii, 1968, pp. 33, 44 and 372.
Link. His engraving by Johannes Christoph Kolb, Antiquariat Hille, Berlin; and his engraving by Girolamo Rossi, CalcoGRAFICA, Istituto Nazionale della Grafica.
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Home Fire Safety for Family and Friends of Older Adults
When it comes to fire, adults over age 65 are at greater risk than any other group. Most fire deaths occur in the home and it is important for older adults to know how to protect themselves. If you have a relative, friend or neighbor in this high-risk group, please take a few minutes to complete this fire safety check of their home.
Conduct the following safety checks:
- Check that there are working smoke alarms on every level of the home and in sleeping areas.
- Make sure the older person can hear the alarm when it activates. If not, there are now a variety of smoke alarms on the market that combine sound and light to alert those with limited hearing that there is a fire in the home.
- Check that the smoke alarms have been tested. If not, test the smoke alarm by pressing the alarm test button. If it is difficult to reach, use a broom handle or ruler to test it.
- Check that the batteries have been changed within the past year. Batteries should be replaced each year. It is a good idea to mark the date on the batteries so that anyone will know when they were last replaced. Families are encouraged to change the batteries in the fall during "Change your Clock, Change Your Batteries" programs.
A chirping sound indicates a low battery, but this sound can be difficult for an older person to hear or recognize.
- Check for scorch marks on pots and pans. If you find scorch marks, discuss with the older person. He/she may be leaving cooking unattended.
- Check that clothing, bedding, furniture and floors are free of cigarette burns. If you find cigarette burns, discuss the situation with your older friend or relative.
- Do you know how to leave quickly if there is a fire?
- Check that the older person knows two ways out in case the main route is blocked by smoke or flames. Check that all doors and windows in the escape route can be easily opened.
- Do you have a neighbor who can help in an emergency?
- Is there a phone near your bed in case you need help?
- What would you do if the room filled with smoke?
- Demonstrate how to crawl low and go.
- For those living in apartments:
- Do you know the sound of the fire alarm and what to do if the alarm sounds? Find out correct procedures from building management.
- Do you ever leave cooking unattended?
- Most kitchen fires start because cooking food has been left unattended. Never leave items cooking unattended on the stovetop. It's best to turn off the stove before leaving the kitchen and to closely monitor things cooking in the oven. Use a timer or take an item such as a potholder as a reminder if there is something cooking in the oven.
- Do you know what to do if a pot on the stove catches fire?
- Keep a proper fitting lid nearby and safely slide it over the burning pot.
- If a grease fire starts:
- Using a potholder, place a lid over the burning pan.
- Turn off the heat source.
- Leave the lid on the pan until it is completely cool.
- Never use water on a grease fire.
- Don't try to carry a pan that is on fire to the sink or outdoors. Smother the fire with a lid and leave the pan where it is.
- If a grease fire starts:
- Are combustibles or things that can easily ignite, such as dish towels or curtains near the stove?
- Keep anything that can easily catch fire away from the stove.
- Do you wear tight-fitting or rolled up sleeves when you use the stove?
- Dangling sleeves can easily brush against a hot burner and quickly catch fire.
- Are you careful not to reach over hot burners?
- Use the front burners as much as possible.
- Do you keep portable heaters at least 3 feet from any combustible materials, such as drapes, clothing or furniture?
- Space heaters can quickly warm up a cold room, but they have also been the cause of many serious home fires. Remind your friend or relative that portable heaters should be at least three feet from all combustible materials, including paper, bedding, furniture and curtains. Never use your heater to dry clothing or shoes and make sure that all heaters are turned off before leaving your home or going to bed.
- If you smoke, do you consider yourself a careful smoker?
- Smokers should use large, deep ashtrays and never smoke when drowsy or in bed.
- Where do you empty your ashtrays?
- Soak cigarette butts and cigar ashes in water before discarding or in a non-combustible can. Ashes from a cigarette can smolder for hours before a flare-up occurs.
- Are you cautious when your drink and smoke?
- Drinking alcohol while smoking is a deadly combination and account for many fire deaths.
Take a few minutes to learn about safety in the home and get family members involved! With a little planning, many injuries and deaths from fires and unintentional injuries could be prevented. We put safety where you put your family - FIRST. Please don't hesitate to call the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service if you need help with any aspect of your home safety. | <urn:uuid:99330924-df10-4f1a-9b25-8e1ca35960f1> | 2013-05-21T10:00:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Volume 11, Number 3—March 2005
Rumor Surveillance and Avian Influenza H5N1
We describe the enhanced rumor surveillance during the avian influenza H5N1 outbreak in 2004. The World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Regional Office identified 40 rumors; 9 were verified to be true. Rumor surveillance informed immediate public health action and prevented unnecessary and costly responses.
In January 2004, 14 persons in Vietnam were admitted to provincial hospitals with severe respiratory illness (1). Avian influenza H5N1 was detected in samples from 3 of these patients. Health officials and the World Health Organization (WHO) were concerned, as these were sporadic cases of an influenza strain that normally infects birds exclusively (2). Furthermore, little was known about the extent of the outbreak, its potential for international spread, and the possible evolution of a pandemic influenza strain. WHO issued an international public health alert on January 13, 2004, to inform the world about the outbreak (1).
News of the outbreak led to international anxiety and the propagation of unofficial outbreak reports or disease rumors (3). These rumors could have led countries to impose trade and travel restrictions with negative social, economic, and health consequences (3,4). To protect both the international community and the affected countries, WHO introduced enhanced rumor surveillance for reports of avian influenza H5N1, a process of investigating unofficial reports of disease events to determine their veracity. Rumor surveillance aims to decrease the potential for misinformation and misunderstanding and to inform the public and health officials about disease outbreaks, facilitate a rapid response, and promote public health preparedness (3).
Rumor surveillance is a passive process, where rumors are identified from media reports, professional groups, the public, and persons in the WHO network, which is made up of WHO headquarters, country offices, and WHO Collaborating Centers. In an enhanced system, rumor surveillance is intensified by actively seeking out rumors and undertaking more rigorous follow up. This surveillance includes analyzing more media sources and regularly requesting information from the WHO network about outbreak events. Previous studies have examined the role of enhanced rumor surveillance during public health emergencies, such as the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 and the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda in 2000 (5,6). However, research has not examined the role of rumor surveillance in multicountry or regional outbreaks.
The importance of rumor surveillance is likely to increase as the international community considers the revised draft of the International Health Regulations (IHR). Article 8 of the IHR Working Paper (7) states, “WHO, in consultation with the health administration of the State concerned, shall verify rumors of public health risks which may involve or result in international spread of disease.”
During the avian influenza outbreak, WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) was the focal point for identifying rumors and coordinating their investigations in the region (8). WPRO covers 37 nations and stretches from China in the north and west, to New Zealand in the south, and to French Polynesia in the east (9). This study examines whether the enhanced rumor surveillance undertaken by WPRO during the first 40 days of the outbreak achieved its aims of 1) offering timely assistance to potentially affected nations, 2) prompting countries to undertake preparedness measures appropriate to their level of risk of being affected, and 3) informing the public and the international community about relevant events.
WPRO designated a rumor surveillance officer to develop and implement the rumor surveillance system for avian influenza in animals and humans. This officer actively assessed media sources and email-based public health discussion and regularly contacted the WHO network to identify rumors. Media sources included journalists visiting WPRO and Web sites for television networks and newspapers. Most were English-based media sources; however, some were also in Japanese and Arabic. To increase the scope of the active media search, this officer also accessed the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (10), an electronic surveillance system that continuously monitors >600 media sources and biomedical journals in a number of languages, including Chinese, Spanish, English, and French.
Each rumor was followed up by an email or a telephone request to the relevant WHO country office to investigate its veracity. The WHO country office in turn sought verification from the country’s health authorities. Overall, the onus of the verification process was in the hands of the affected countries’ health authorities. The authorities had to demonstrate to WHO that appropriate investigations were conducted to deem rumors correct or incorrect. To ensure this process, WHO sometimes supported rumor verification by assisting in laboratory testing or shipment of isolates.
Once available, the outcome of the investigation was disseminated to WHO stakeholders, including the outbreak response team. For events reported in the media, WPRO’s media officers made information publicly available through press releases and media interviews, as well as providing up-to-date information on the WHO Web site (http://www.who.int).
From January 20 to February 26, 2004, a total of 40 rumors were identified, most within 4 weeks of the outbreak alert (Figure). The rumors concerned 12 countries and 1 special administrative region. Of the total rumors received, 19 (48%) were received from the media, 18 (45%) from the WHO network, 2 (5%) from embassy staff living in affected countries, and 1 (2%) from ProMED Digest with a media source as the origin. Nine (23%) rumors were confirmed to be true events: 5 in China and 1 each in Cambodia, Japan, Laos, and South Korea. Of the incorrect rumors, 6 were in China, 6 in Laos, 4 in Vietnam, 4 and in Hong Kong, 3 in Cambodia, 2 in Germany, and 1 each in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore.
The average period for verification of true events was 2.7 days (range 1–5 days). The average period to verify that a rumor was incorrect was 9.3 days (range 1–26 days). Sixty percent of the rumors related to human outbreaks, of which 1 was true, and 40% to animal outbreaks, of which 8 were true. The Table provides examples of rumors received during the 40-day study, the outcomes of the investigation, and the public health action taken. The remaining 32 rumors are not shown for reasons of brevity and privacy; however, not all rumors resulted in public health action after the verification process. This finding was expected because the high sensitivity of the system decreased the predictive value positive.
WPRO’s enhanced rumor surveillance system identified many rumors. Most were identified in the first few weeks after the public health alert. A similar pattern was also observed during the 2003 SARS outbreak, when most rumors were received within the first 7 weeks of the public health alert (11). The decreased rate of rumor detection later in the outbreak is consistent with Allport and Postman’s basic law of rumor (12). According to this law, the amount of rumors in circulation is roughly equal to the importance of the rumor multiplied by the uncertainty surrounding the rumor. We found that, as more information became available about the outbreaks and about the H5N1 virus, fewer rumors circulated. This decrease was despite the fact that the importance of the disease remained high because of the ongoing risk for evolution of a pandemic influenza strain.
Through rumor surveillance, WHO assisted affected countries by issuing guidelines, providing technical expertise, and mobilizing supplies. Unaffected countries also took action by banning the importation of poultry from affected countries. This action was crucial in preventing the further spread of avian influenza.
An important part of rumor surveillance is the timely dissemination of accurate information to reduce misunderstanding and unwarranted concern, especially for rumors reported in the media. One example was the need to address the international concern that arose about the rumor that pigs were infected with avian influenza (13). If the rumor had not been reported to be incorrect publicly after the verification process, health authorities may have heightened avian influenza surveillance to include the investigation of persons with symptoms of influenza and a history of contact with pigs.
The literature lacks guidance on how to establish and operate enhanced rumor surveillance during large outbreaks. Based on our experience and drawing on the recommendations in standard texts on public health surveillance (14,15), we suggest the following criteria for developing rumor surveillance: 1) Define the goals of surveillance as part of an early warning system in which each rumor deserves investigation to determine its veracity; 2) Apply a case definition that will have a high level of sensitivity (and therefore a relatively lower specificity) to identify the event of interest early in the outbreak; 3) Articulate clearly the steps to be undertaken to assess the veracity of the rumor, the criteria for deeming the verification process complete, and the ethics and confidentiality in conducting investigations; 4) Clarify the actions to be taken if the rumored events are true, or incorrect, or if the response of the verifying authority lacks credibility; 5) Delegate responsibility for data collection, management of the rumor database, and verification to a person trained in surveillance. This person must have access to relevant national and international networks and appropriate negotiation skills to investigate the veracity of the rumors. In selected instances, multilingual staff may be essential; 6) Include among the data sources print and electronic media, the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, national health authorities, and professional bodies and networks. Consider mechanisms for the public to report rumors through a hotline or an email address; 7) Develop mechanisms to provide regular updates on current verification activities, the number of rumors investigated, and their outcomes to the outbreak response team; 8) Provide regular feedback on the outcomes of investigations to those who provided data, and where appropriate, to the international community; and 9) Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the investigations and upgrade the rumor surveillance system through a process of continuous quality improvement.
Ms. Samaan is completing a field epidemiology training program at the Australian National University and is currently working at the Australian Department of Health and Ageing. Her research interests include emergency disease outbreak response and mental health epidemiology.
We thank Roseanne Muller and Janet Li for their comments.
This research was supported by the Masters of Applied Epidemiology Program at Australian National University.
The Masters of Applied Epidemiology Program is funded by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing.
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Suggested citation for this article: Samaan G, Patel M, Olowokure B, Roces MC, Oshitani H, and the World Health Organization Outbreak Response Team. Rumor surveillance and avian influenza. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet] 2005 Mar [date cited]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1103.040657
1WHO Western Pacific Region Team: Richard Brown, Maria Roces, Elizabeth Miranda, Peter Cordingley, Karen Shaw, Masahiro Ueno, Kumi Ueno, Lance Jennings, Akira Suzuki, Reiko Sato, Kevin Carroll, and Clara Witt.
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After scanning the contents of the note, Asenath shot a glare in Eunice's direction. Her first instinct was to accuse her former friend, but she relented. No, even as things stood between them now, Eunice couldn't possibly be so stupid as to go running her mouth.
Smirking, Asenath knew that as long as she kept her cool and denied everything, Victoria had no real proof. What she had was a hunch that she was trying to confirm as fact -- sadly, Asenath would never give her that pleasure. Legally, Asenath's arrangement for her father was ironclad. But the fact that Victoria simply entertained these suspicions made her a bigger enemy in Asenath's eyes -- one that would have to be taken care of.
She had half a mind to crumple up the note in a ball and just toss it away, but instead she scribbled down:
|What an active imagination. I'd love to accept the invitation, unfortunately I have better things to do than talk to blood traitors. If there's anyone you need a chat with, perhaps it's the school psychiatrist. I hear Dr. Willett's office is open. |
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Knight's family and fellow firefighters attended.
Knight was promoted from firefighter/operator to the rank of captain on Oct. 29.
He began his career at the ZFD as a volunteer in 2006.
In 2008, Knight became a full-time firefighter and has now been promoted to the rank of Captain.
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Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said that Gujral, also a former Foreign Minister, represented India absolutely well.
"He was a talented person, well read and also a writer," he told reporters outside Parliament House.
Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said, "I am deeply grieved... He practised the politics of idealism and conviction. Succeeding generations would be inspired by him."
He said he had a personal relationship with the former Prime Minister, who was a freedom fighter and patriot. "I always received affection from him like a father treats his son," he said.
Kumar said Gujral's core interest was foreign policy. "A joke was going around (at that time) that if you have Gujral in Moscow, then there is no need in Russia for a foreign minister... He had balanced views and believed in Nehruvian policies," he said.
Railway Minister Pavan Kumar Bansal said that Gujral's demise "is a big loss to the country".
Expressing condolences, Bansal said that Gujral "followed value-based politics. He was a remarkable, great and one of the rare Parliamentarians".
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V Narayanasamy said that Gujral was a very learned person as well as a voracious reader.
"I pray to God to give courage to his family. He had handled important issues. He worked for the development of the country. Gujral was the Prime Minister at a crucial period and carried on the coalition partners," Narayanasamy said.
"It is a great loss to the nation. Rather I would say an irreparable loss to the nation. He was very active in public life with impeccable integrity. He has left behind a great legacy of probity and also statesmanship," Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily said.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar also condoled the death of Gujral, terming it as an "irreparable loss to the country".
The Editors Guild of India also condoled the passing away of Gujral.
"Apart from being Information and Broadcasting Minister in his early career of political life, he served the country as an astute and successful diplomat and later as Minister of External Affairs," the Guild said in a statement.
It said Gujral would be remembered for his efforts to seek conflict resolutions in the South Asia region. The Guild also hailed him as a champion of Freedom of press, someone who was always accessible to media.
Describing Gujral as an outstanding statesman, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said as Prime Minister he took a number of significant decisions in the best interest of the country though his tenure was for a brief period.
"He was an Urdu scholar and staunch supporter of democratic values. His contribution will always be remembered," the Delhi Chief Minister said.
New Delhi: Union Ministers on Friday condoled the demise of former Prime Minister I K Gujral and described him as a person who practised the politics of idealism and conviction.
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Feb. 26, 1909 (Friday)
CANAL ENGINEER WORRIES ABOUT PANAMA'S GATUN DAM:Members of Boston's Commercial club got an earful yesterday from French engineer Philippe Bunau-Varilla (right) who told listeners he fears that the massive Gatun Dam could give way and lead to "one of the greatest disasters of modern times." In addition, he condemned the idea of building the canal in Panama with locks, saying that eventually the designers will see the error of their ways and remove enough dirt to make a sea-level canal between the Atlantic and Pacific. The Globe explained why the Frenchman is being so candid in his criticism of the dam (shown above in 1908):
His reason for speaking so plainly on the subject he said was similar to Col. Picquart's reason for reopening the Dreyfus case -- he did not wish to die with the knowledge of the thing on his conscience.... already a section of the dam 200 feet long and 80 feet high had sunk 20 feet, and he did not care to think what would happen when the full weight of the dam and the water behind it was brought to bear on such an unstable foundation.
GLOBE MASCOT LOOKS LIKE HE SWALLOWED A ... GLOBE: You have to love this top-hatted, cheery mascot of the Globe. The portly gentleman is obviously happy to be promoting a color photo of someone who would rival him in girth -- the massive Taft, whose inauguration is imminent. | <urn:uuid:9a3c579c-586f-4c51-9c85-bde15f8b0296> | 2013-05-23T18:39:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Helen was concerned when Kyle paid the rent and discussed it with his father later. When Sam found out Kyle was smuggling drugs, he tried to stop him, but he tore the bag open instead. CTU thought this released the virus, but luckily it was part of a sting operation by Jack Bauer, Gael Ortega, and Tony Almeida. They tracked Kyle down but he was kidnapped by some of Hector Salazar's men. However, a CTU team managed to find him and, assuming that he was carrying the virus, put him into incubation and told him that he had a few hours to live. His parents said a tearful farewell to him, but soon after Dr. Nicole Duncan informed the parents and Kyle that he would be fine. | <urn:uuid:a7436056-e6eb-4573-baed-c0a98db8ab28> | 2013-05-23T19:05:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How sad that in a time of tragedy people let their emotions override their good judgment. Such is the case when Nicholas Kibre (Letters, June 15) somehow blames the driver of an SUV for a fatality involving a bicycle. Kibre doesn't blame the driver for what may have been a failure to yield to the bicyclist during a left hand turn. No, he goes for the politically correct jugular and blames the driver for purchasing an SUV. Although, I saw no mention that the driver either purchased or owned the Ford Bronco in question. There was no mention in Kibre's letter about the unfortunate young girl not wearing a helmet as required by law which was probably more of a factor than the type of vehicle she collided with. Instead of putting additional blame on the city of San Jose for delays in implementing traffic measures it would seem more appropriate to encourage authorities to increase the education and enforcement of helmet laws.
I suppose this guy has me on the the poin that the driver may not have actually owned the Ford Bronco. Maybe she stole it! That changes everything!
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I am going to miss George Bush. What provided me with the most amusement was his now famous Bushisms - his infamous blunders in syntax. David Letterman made them a nightly feature on his show. Even in his last press conference he honoured the media with one last gem when he told them that "sometimes you misunderestimated me".
I tried to search for my favourite. It was hard but this one stood out. If anyone can tell me what it means I would be very grateful:
People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.
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| Posted 30/05/11 at 10:18 PM||Reply with quote #1 |
I am new on 4D systems.
Could anyone explain what is SPE?
| Posted 31/05/11 at 07:57 AM||Reply with quote #2 |
|SPE was a rewrite of the original serial protocol in 4DGL.|
It was superceeded (very quickly) by SGC which has more flexibility, speed and functionality.
It remains as an example of implementing a serial command structure in 4DGL. | <urn:uuid:bd6b0b56-12c1-479a-bd53-01c12edb1a3a> | 2013-05-23T18:31:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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By Thomas Grove
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Arms flailing to the synthesized beat of a folk tune, film star Gerard Depardieu hit the dance floor in Chechnya and vowed to make a movie in the volatile region on the latest stop of an erratic tour of his new Russian homeland.
The actor, who quit France after criticizing a planned 75-percent tax on millionaires, embraced Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov during a weekend visit, then showed off traditional 'Lezginka' dance moves in television footage aired on Monday.
The trip came a month after Depardieu received a hug and a passport from President Vladimir Putin and heaped praise on the Russian leader - earning criticism from opposition and rights campaigners.
His visit to the Chechen capital, Grozny should prove equally divisive - human rights groups have accused security services in Chechnya of carrying out kidnappings, torture and extrajudicial killings to try to quash an Islamist insurgency.
Pro-Kremlin Kadyrov, who denies the accusations of abuses, has imposed an uneasy peace over the region, the scene of two separatist wars that killed more than 100,000 people in 1994-2000.
"I would really like to shoot a film here and show that it's possible to do that here in Grozny, shoot a great film," Depardieu, 64, told private broadcaster NTV.
"I can't reveal all the details now, but we'll come back here and this is only the beginning," added the star of "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Green Card".
Depardieu first came to Chechnya to celebrate Kadyrov's birthday last year. When the actor was presented with his Russian passport, the Chechen leader invited Depardieu to live in the region.
"We got to know each other well during his first trip. We discussed several projects. I believe that the current trip will also be productive," Kadyrov told Interfax news agency.
"I ADORE VLADIMIR PUTIN"
Depardieu, bitterly criticized by many in France for abandoning his homeland, has said he did not leave for tax reasons.
He set up a home in Belgium last year before making the move further east to Russia, which has a flat tax of 13 percent on income.
Depardieu registered as a resident of the provincial city of Saransk in western Russia on Saturday and announced he planned to set up a health food restaurant where he would mostly serve pork, lamb and chicken.
In separate comments recorded there on Sunday and broadcast on Monday, Depardieu said he liked Moscow and Russia's second-largest city of St.Petersburg, but that he was mostly drawn to more remote regions.
"I have always been strongly attracted by the Russian temperament, because I myself also feel very, very much Russian," the actor told the state TV channel Rossiya 24.
"I adore Vladimir Putin, your president," he added, praising the former KGB spy for overseeing the reconstruction of historic buildings in his hometown St.Petersburg.
The actor has appeared in an advertising campaign for ketchup in Russia and a film about the monk Grigory Rasputin.
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Attempts by federal investigators and Toyota technicians to recreate the experience described by a San Diego driver who said his Toyota Prius raced out of control have raised questions about the driver's version of events.
James Sikes said that the accelerator on his 2008 Prius somehow got stuck during the half-hour March 8 incident, and that he could only stop the car, which reached a top speed of 94 mph, by applying the brakes and his emergency brake.
But investigators who test drove the car could not induce sudden acceleration, and said that recreating what Sikes described resulted in the car shutting down, according to a memo drafted by a Congressional observer and provided to ABC News by a source close to the investigation.
"These findings certainly raise new questions surrounding the veracity of the sequence of events that has been reported by Mr. Sikes," said Kurt Bardella, spokesperson for Rep. Darrell Issa, R.-Calif., ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, when contacted about the memo. "Hopefully, Mr. Sikes will be able and willing to help reconcile the gap between what has been said and what the reported empirical data depicts."
In a statement released Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed that its engineers had "recreated the drive Mr. Sikes took" and had "not been able to find anything to explain the incident that Mr. Sikes reported."
However, said the statement, "We would caution people that our work continues and that we may never know exactly what happened with this car. It is rare to recreate these unintended acceleration incidents except in floor mat entrapment cases."
James Sikes' attorney, John Gomez, said the tests did not replicate what his client had actually done while driving the car, and did not support the contention of those who believe Sikes faked the incident for profit or publicity.
"There is no reason whatsoever to believe it's a hoax," said Gomez. "And just to be clear, he is not filing a lawsuit, ever. He's not asking for money, ever. So there's no reason for him to make it up."
According to the memo, a Congressional observer was present during the inspection and testing of the car by technicians from Toyota and investigators from NHTSA as of 2 p.m. Wednesday. Some inspection of the car had already been conducted by Toyota and NHTSA. Also present were Prius driver James Sikes and his attorney.
Investigators looked at the floor mat and the pedal. Toyota has issued massive recalls to adjust floor mats and pedals, and its floor mat recal includes the 2008 Prius.
"The investigators placed the floor mat back into the car and tried to make the gas pedal stick to the floor board, manipulating the floor mat to see if it was possible for the gas pedal to stick.," said the memo. "Both Toyota and NHSTA were unsuccessful."
Investigators also inspected the brakes on the vehicle. They found that both the front and rear brake pads were worn down, according to the memo. The front brakes were essentially gone. "After visually inspecting the rear brakes," said the memo, "it appeared that the brakes again were worn down." Sikes had said that he had applied the brakes throughout the incident, and officers from the California Highway Patrol had seen his brake lights on and smelled his brakes burning.
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We'll move on to the latest from the disaster zone in oklahoma. We have stunning new video of the deadly twister as it touched down at an elementary school. A teacher there captured the terrifying... See More
We'll move on to the latest from the disaster zone in oklahoma. We have stunning new video of the deadly twister as it touched down at an elementary school. A teacher there captured the terrifying seconds on her cell phone. Abc's cecilia vega has more now from moore, oklahoma. Cecil cecilia? Reporter: Amy, good morning. It's hard to imagine what it must have been like for these children huddled down in this school, this tornado fearing down everything around them. Out here, the smell of gas is still thick in this area and this damage, just take a look. It could top more than $2 billion. Reporter: You can't see it but you can hear it. Terror in the darkness, just as the massive ef-5 twister is tearing through briarwood elementary. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Reporter: This brave teacher capturing the moments of impact on her cell phone. Listen as she tries to comfort her students clinging to each other in a darkened bathroom. It's almost over. It's almost over. I hate this. Honey, it's okay. Reporter: And then it's over. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god, my house. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Reporter: Across town, walls crumbled around the 22 people riding out the storm in this bank, huddled inside the vault. They were holding the door shut, but when the pressure started to drop and our ears started to pop, that's when the bank manager started yelling don't let go. Reporter: That fifth grade teacher took abc's david muir back to where she and her students had huddled together. This is where we locked down and I was right here with -- there were probably 20, 25 girls in here and several teachers. That's our playground. Reporter: This is the playground here. This is the playground. Reporter: Once the tornado passed, dietsic now worried about two other children, her own. Sam and first grade and her daughter in fourth eventually finding both safe along with her husband. Honey, it's okay. Reporter: This morning residents like tyler kerry back home for the first time to assess the damage wonder what the next step is. You see this and what goes through your mind? First thought, where do you begin. Reporter: He'll start by saving what little they can find in the rubble. Tyler. Reporter: What they found was a blanket tyler's grandmother made for him. You can see and hear these thunderstorms, the rain hamp hampering for those residents going back into their homes. Between 12,000 and 13,000 people's homes impacted by this tornado. The number of people left homeless by this is still unknown and, amy, the white house says that the president will be paying a visit to moore, oklahoma, this coming sunday. And, so sole ya, those were such harrowing moments that we just witnessed and yet speaking to the strength and the spirit of the people there in moore, oklahoma, I understand they're already discussing rebuilding plans. Reporter: That is something almost every single resident that we've met out here tells us that they want to rebuild. This is a community used to living with these tornadoes. Nothing ever like this before but the sense of resolve, the spirit to rebuild is out here but really it's first things first and that begins with restoring power and that's what's happening in these neighborhoods starting today. So much to do, but certainly our hearts go out to everyone there. Cecilia vega, thank you very
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Me: What is your wife’s favorite color?
Lawyer: I don’t know, why?
Me: I’m trying to get started on my holiday knitting. Find out for me.
Lawyer picks up the phone, calls his wife, asks her what her favorite color is. “Because she’s trying to start her holiday knitting,” he says impatiently, as if it were obvious. “Okay, bye.”
Me: Off-white? Like cream? Or beige?
Me: But that’s not a color. How about light blue? I have some gorgeous pale blue mohair.
Lawyer: No, she seemed pretty definite about the off-white.
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My question is how do we know whether to say Ittaqullah and not Attaqullah or Uttaqullah.
Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh
Kindly explain the rules of how to read a word when one needs to seperate it from the word before it for example I know that when we seperate Ya Ayyuhallazina Amanuttaqullaha and want to say 'fear Allah' on its own, we say Ittaqullaha. My question is how do we know whether to say Ittaqullah and not Attaqullah or Uttaqullah. I remember learning the rule long ago, something to do with the sign (fathah, dhamma, kasra) on the next letter, but have since forgotten.
Please explain with examples from the Qur'an.
Jazak Allahi Kkhair
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
The rules involved in the question are the hamzah al-wasl rules. We have to look at the word beginning with the hamzah al-wasl and determine whether it is a verb, a noun, or a participle. In this case, the word is a command form of a verb. In a verb starting with hamzah al-wasl, we look at the vowel on the third letter, if it is a fathah or a kasrah, then we start the hamzah al-wasl with a kasrah.
To see the detailed lessons on hamzah al-wasl, please see the following link. You will find many examples in the eight different lessons insha' Allah:
Wa iyyaaakum wa-l-muslimeen.
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This is a language dependent introduction course on computer program design and development. Emphasis is on the identification and solution of business problems through systems of computer programs. Programs are described and designed through such tools as program flowcharts, structure charts, and pseudocode. Within this framework, programming languages are treated as tools which can be selected, as appropriate, to implement the designs.
This course provides the foundation for a program of study in computer science. It introduces the discipline of computing and the roles of professionals. A contemporary high-level language with appropriate constructs for structured design and structured types is presented. It integrates an introduction to algorithm design, an understanding of abstraction applied to date types and structures, and an appreciation of imperative and object-oriented programming. Programming assignments are an integral part of this course. Prerequisite: CSC 110 or Permission of Instructor.
This course develops the discipline of computing and the roles of professionals by introducing software engineering early in the learning process. This course formally presents abstract date types (ADTs). The ADTs presented are stacks, queues, lists, trees, graphs and tables. Simple sorting and searching techniques, along with their efficiency are studied. The use of pointers and recursion is covered. Programming assignments are an integral part of this course. Prerequisite: CSC 111.
This course covers the manner in which the computer is used to solve problems. Lectures cover the style and techniques necessary to solve problems using the Visual Basic programming language. Object-oriented programming (OOP) will be covered. This course will allow students to take advantage of the many new capabilities of building applications in a graphical user interface (GUI).
This course emphasizes the organization and operation of real computer systems at the architectural level. The mapping of statements and constructs in a high-level language onto sequences of machine instruction is studied, as well as the internal representation of simple data types and structures. Topics include the fetch/execute cycle, bus structures, memory hierarchy, addressing modes, and subroutines. Alternative architectures, such as vector and parallel models, are presented. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: CSC 111, MAT 161.
This course is the capstone course for the AS degree in Computer Science. The course focuses on software engineering and requires a major software project. Topics include: object-orientation, software design tools and techniques (such as data flow diagrams, structure charts, CRC cards, algorithms, pseudocode), software reuse, software test strategies, and documentation standards. Prerequisite: CSC 112.
This course is an introduction to game programming techniques and gaming development. Topics include 2D graphics and code generated animation, sound technologies, interactivity, and multi-player games. Prerequisite: CSC 111 or CSC 264 or Permission of Instructor.
This course is an introduction to the administration of servers operating in a client server environment. Students will be introduced to the system software running client server networks, and will learn to install, configure, monitor, and manage a network server. Specific topics include server software installation, protocols, shells, system and user administration, scripts, and daemons. Students will be exposed to several different operating systems and several server applications, such as Web, ftp, database, and mail servers. Three lecture hours. Prerequisite: CIS 130 or Permission of Instructor.
The fundamentals of database design and implementation are introduced with an emphasis on data relationships. Utilization of a Database Management System (DBMS) and its components will be covered, along with Structured Query Language (SQL) and data security techniques. Prerequisite: CIS/CSC major with sophomore standing.
An introduction to the C++ language which provides software developers with an "extendable" language in which abstract data types suitable for a given application can be created and then used as naturally as built-in data types. While based on the C programming language, C++ provides data and function encapsulation, function overloading, inheritance, strong typing, and other features needed for object-oriented programming (OOP). This makes C++ a true high-level language suitable for professional software engineering. The language constructs and OOP methods are introduced with a series of examples of increasing sophistication which are the basis of project assignments. Four lecture hours and one optional recitation hour per week. Prerequisite: CSC 110 or Permission of Instructor.
This course introduces object-oriented Java using current technical advances in programming methodology, Web-based applications, and applications for hand-held devices. Java methods, classes, objects, inheritance, graphics, animation, and networking are discussed. Four lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: CSC 110 or Permission of Instructor.
This course builds upon the fundamental topics explored in CSC 162. More advanced topics involving object oriented programming (OOP) will be studied. This includes Graphical User Interface (GUI); File and Database Management; ActiveX controls; Networking, Internet and World Wide Web applications; Multimedia applications; and Dynamic Data Structures. Prerequisite: CSC 162 or Permission of Instructor.
This course focuses on the language and programming fundmentals of the C# language and object-oriented programming, in the context of the .NET development environment. Topics covered will include: the .NET platform including common language runtime and framework, Visual Development Environment, Object-Oriented Programming, C# Language and Application Structure, basic GUI constructs, and basic concepts of XML. This course may not be used to fulfill a Liberal Arts elective. Prerequisite: CSC 112 or Permission of Instructor.
Onondaga Community College
Explore. Discover. Transform.
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Forecast for weekend is dry, 10% Sat and zero Sun.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
-- Bertrand Russell
To make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first invent the universe.
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Thanks Twinrider, btw, my brother owns a nice 92(?) TDM, well, it's red. Stray, yes, it is a Tempter, just found a site that mentions the "Tempter" name was never used in the UK, but instead the GR650 nameplate.
Have a look. Hope mine could look this good. | <urn:uuid:7f903e92-8684-4fa8-aef3-b4d3f4f44bb7> | 2013-05-23T18:38:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Country of Origin: United States of America
Overall: 7 1/2in. x 1ft 4 1/2in. x 4in., 8.5lb. (19.05 x 41.91 x 10.16cm, 3.9kg)
Overall, stainless steel; nozzle, phenolic; black plastic protective wrappings on ends of both propellant outlet pipes and two yellow protective caps on the ends of the two adjoining curved pipes; nozzle with red plastic protective cover, with clear plastic five-side dessicant container on cover and adjacent white paper sticker.
This is a 100-pound thrust Gemini Orbital Attitude Maneuvering System (OAMS) thruster. OAMS thrusters provided the necessary thrust for the U.S. Gemini spacecraft to rendezvous with the Agena target vehicle, controlled the spacecraft in orbit, enabled the separation of the Gemini from the second stage Titan launch vehicle and inserted it into orbit, and provided abort capability. For these functions, the OAMS consisted of 100-pound thrusters to maneuver the craft axially, vertically, and laterally; 85-pound thrust motors for forward and rearward motions; and 25-pound thrust thrusters to control the Gemini craft in its pitch, yaw, and roll axes. The four 100-pound thrusters were situated at equidistant places around the exterior middle of the crew cabin.
Gemini OAMS motors used hypergolic (self-igniting) propellants, which made the system simple and reliable and eliminated the need for a separate igniter. On 24 February 1962, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, the main contractor to NASA for the Gemini spacecraft, awarded a subcontract to North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division for the development of the OAMS thrusters. Qualification tests on all the auxiliary Gemini rocket systems were completed in August 1965, and the systems performed satisfactorily in all the Gemini missions until the conclusion of the program in November 1966.
McDonnell Douglas donated this thruster to the Museum in 1968.
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Arguably, the most significant advancement of the 21st century, social media has had a profound impact on our lives. But has it improved our lives? It is a question with a philosophical ring and one that opens up a host of other queries.
First, we must analyse the conveniences and abilities social media has given us.
If one is to measure the noteworthiness of broadband by calculating the amount of time spent on specific elements, then social media would come on top. Facebook boasts a billion users and Twitter 500 million. That's one out of every seven human beings alive on earth and this doesn't even take into consideration the numbers conversing online through Google+ and what not.
It isn't just how many social media users there are on earth that indicates how much an influence it has had on our lives. It is the amount of time such a large proportion of the human population spends on these sites. A study late last year concluded that one out of every seven minutes online are spent on Facebook, while similar figures are to be expected with Twitter.
However, has this actually improved our lives? A report by published in the Guardian in mid-March established a correlation between Facebook usage and levels of obsessions with self-image, shallow friendships and being a socially disruptive narcissist. The theory was that the social media site had become a platform for empty self-expression and popularity contesting.
Social media does have its benefits of course. One would have to look no further than the Arab Spring to identify these. The platform's ability to organise and mobilise protests has been cited as the catalyst behind the Arab protests that saw the overthrow of prominent dictators throughout the Middle East.
These uprisings were branded 'Twitter Revolutions' and it is supposed that the ability to network and spread news through social media sites helped the protests spread in a way that would not have been possible otherwise.
While one cannot exactly obtain a broadband speed test and determine the connection levels in the countries involved in the Arab Spring at the time; it is accepted that high speed connections were available in the right places throughout the Middle East. This increases the likelihood of social media having had a fundamental role to play in the uprisings.
However, it has also been suggested that the impact of social media on these revolutions has been overstated, particularly in the Western media. This logic argues that there were large scale revolutions before social media, indicating that the protests would have spread regardless.
In truth, it is likely that social media did play some role. Nevertheless, that it was impactful in the toppling of unjust regimes and tyrannical governments is a credit to the existence of social media.
In Britain, the 2011 riots fueled by social media, which allowed the organisation of rebellions.
Such negative aspects have however brought about positives as many rioters who used social media to arrange and express their involvement in looting sessions, were easily tracked down by the police.
What Constitutes an Improvement to Our Lives?
Upon deliberation, the question of whether or not social media has improved our lives is somewhat unanswerable without knowing the full meaning of life. What is improvement for something you do not know the nature of?
What can be said is that social media has changed our lives and made many aspects incredibly more convenient. But that is all that can be said. | <urn:uuid:c9f1e303-724e-4bb0-8883-96548ef68658> | 2013-05-23T18:39:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Slate asked several directors and critics to name the movies they've rewatched the most. Spike Lee names "Election." He's watched it more than 40 times. Excellent choice. I've rewatched that one a few times. Nowhere near 40 though. [CORRECTION: Slate's layout confused me. Spike Lee names "West Side Story," with zero commentary, and the next guy, Adam McKay, a director I'd never heard of, names "Election."]
Lots of other interesting choices -- along with some crushingly boring ones. I mean, even if your true answer is "Citizen Kane," please spare me. I wrote that before reading through the whole list and getting to Dana Stevens, who begins: "Leaving out the movies everyone's seen countless times (The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life)...." I suspect most of the answers followed that rule without saying it.
I love this subject of what you want to rewatch. To watch something the first time is to respond to some mysterious mix of your own imagination and the various things you've heard. Maybe something about a poster or some feeling about a movie star pulls you in. Then you find out if it was what you thought it would be or if you're surprised in a good way. But rewatching a movie, you know basically what's there, and you're making a choice to relive what you know or you have a sense that there are places in there where new things can be found. It's a richer, deeper experience. Oh, that reminds me of what Andre says about marriage -- as opposed to an affair -- at the end of my most rewatched movie, "My Dinner With Andre."
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Said Dan Barker, a former preacher, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, about the Clergy Project. Richard Dawkins — the atheism proselytizer — is also involved in this project. He writes:
"If a farmer tires of the outdoor life and wants to become an accountant or a teacher or a shopkeeper, he faces difficulties, to be sure. He must learn new skills, raise money, move to another area perhaps. But he doesn't risk losing all his friends, being cast out by his family, being ostracized by his whole community...A farmer who "tires of the outdoor life" is not a fraud, is not deceiving the people he cares about telling the truth to. It's funny that Dawkins didn't put that problem first. That says something about Dawkins, no?
"Clergy who lose their faith suffer double jeopardy. It's as though they lose their job and their marriage and their children on the same day."
Anyway, it really is an awful problem, to believe you're called into the ministry and then to feel that's nothing at all. And yet, isn't that part of training for the ministry, struggling with "the dark night of the soul" and so forth? | <urn:uuid:77609cf1-3745-49ff-bf46-9ed59d5f40fd> | 2013-05-23T19:07:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Rush Limbaugh, just now. "Biden did exactly what was desired, and in the process hurt himself and Obama.... His job was to excite the base.... They came out of their shell: none of this compassion and understanding... The base wants blood. The base wants rude.... Biden gave them exactly what they wanted."
UPDATE: How it looked, per Rush: "Paul Ryan was a son who was a little embarrassed for his father... trying to tell his dad that the world has passed him by" without subjecting him to public humiliation. | <urn:uuid:9ee816c6-99a6-4d14-afee-c220094f53ea> | 2013-05-23T18:47:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Photography - Overview
The millions of photographs in the Museum's collections compose a vast mosaic of the nation's history. Photographs accompany most artifact collections. Thousands of images document engineering projects, for example, and more record the steel, petroleum, and railroad industries.
Some 150,000 images capture the history, art, and science of photography. Nineteenth-century photography, from its initial development by W. H. F. Talbot and Louis Daguerre, is especially well represented and includes cased images, paper photographs, and apparatus. Glass stereographs and news-service negatives by the Underwood & Underwood firm document life in America between the 1890s and the 1930s. The history of amateur photography and photojournalism are preserved here, along with the work of 20th-century masters such as Richard Avedon and Edward Weston. Thousands of cameras and other equipment represent the technical and business side of the field. | <urn:uuid:4c09ccb6-b489-4574-9e82-73f3859b7df4> | 2013-05-23T18:52:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Government actions undermined freedom of expression. The police and other law enforcement officials accused of committing human rights violations were not brought to justice and impunity for perpetrators of sexual and other forms of gender-based violence continued.
President Kikwete was re-elected for a five-year term in general elections held at the end of October. The main opposition challenger, Willibrod Slaa, and his party, Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA), alleged election irregularities and disputed the validity of the presidential result and some of the parliamentary election results.
In July, a public referendum approved the formation of a national government of unity in Zanzibar. The referendum sought to address past political disagreements between the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi, and the opposition Civic United Front, which had led to violence between their supporters in Zanzibar.
The general elections and the referendum in Zanzibar were generally peaceful. However, delays in announcing some of the election results led to heightened public tension and protests in a number of areas.Top of page
In the run-up to the general elections the government threatened to either ban or deregister two newspapers – Mwananchi and MwanaHALISI. Government officials sent letters to the newspapers alleging that they were publishing materials with the intention of “inciting chaos and breaking peace” in the country. The government letters did not specify any particular articles deemed by the government to be offensive. By the end of the year the government had not banned or deregistered either of the two newspapers.
A number of journalists complained of intimidation and harassment by some government and public officials because they had criticized the conduct of these officials or the policies and practices of the government.Top of page
The government did not institute investigations into alleged human rights abuses committed by police and private company guards in July 2009 in Loliondo, Ngorongoro district, northern Tanzania. According to reports, an unknown number of women were raped by police officers and guards; families were separated and up to 3,000 people from the Maasai pastoralist community were forcibly evicted. These alleged abuses were committed in the context of an operation to evict these people from their homes and grazing land ostensibly in order to conserve a wildlife protection area.
Throughout the year there were reports of unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment by the police and other law enforcement officials in the course of security operations in different parts of the country. No investigations into these allegations were carried out, and those responsible were not brought to justice.Top of page
Sexual and other forms of gender-based violence remained widespread, particularly domestic violence. Few perpetrators were brought to justice.
Despite a law prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM), the practice remained prevalent in certain areas such as the Dodoma region in central Tanzania. According to the Legal and Human Rights Centre – a local NGO – implementation of the law prohibiting FGM was hampered by widespread ignorance of the law, enduring traditional beliefs and the lack of public confidence in the criminal justice process.Top of page
There were no reports of albino people being killed for their body parts during the year, although there were up to eight attempted killings, including two mutilations. Some human rights defenders working to promote the human rights of people with albinism reported threats and intimidation from suspected perpetrators of human rights abuses against albino people.
The police were slow to investigate cases of human rights abuses suffered by albino people, and little action was taken in response to the threats to human rights defenders. Overall, the government’s efforts to prevent human rights abuses against albino people were inadequate.Top of page
As of November, up to 38,000 Burundian refugees remained in Mtabila refugee camp in western Tanzania despite the government’s official position that it considered the camp closed. Official efforts to promote voluntary repatriation among the Burundian refugees led to about 6,500 being repatriated from the camp since January 2009. Affected refugees cited possible land disputes in Burundi and fears related to the 2010 election process in the country as reasons for their reluctance to return there. Some stated that they had genuine and well-founded fears of persecution if they were to be returned. There were no procedures in place to assess whether repatriation was a valid option for some of the refugees.Top of page
There were reports of overcrowding and insanitary conditions in a number of prisons. Some prisons were holding twice their capacity. There were also concerns that children were being held with adult inmates.Top of page
Courts continued to hand down the death penalty for capital offences. The government did not take formal steps to abolish the death penalty. A court petition filed by three local civil society organizations in 2008 challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty remained pending in the High Court.Top of page | <urn:uuid:4e3224b9-4a94-4471-b141-749a44c99bd7> | 2013-05-23T19:02:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Teaching Students to Dialogue
One of the most important lessons I learned this year was that I cannot rely on my students to come into my classroom knowing how to interact with one another. Instead, it is my job to teach them. Below is the handout I use in my classroom to do just that. It is based on a technique called Accountable Talk, and it has changed the way my students interact with one another.
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The other morning I woke up and Gregory came in my room. I asked him to get me a coke. He came back with a can. I opened it, took a sip, and poured the rest down the sink. He had brought me a beer.
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Yellow tangs, Zebrasoma flavescens, are reef fish found in the waters west of Hawaii and east of Japan in the Pacific Ocean. They mainly live off the coast of Hawaii, but are also found in the more western ranges of their habitat, including the islands Ryukyu, Mariana, Marshall, Marcus, and Wake. They prefer subtropical waters. (Agbayani, 2008; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999)
Yellow tangs are reef-associated fish. Their preferred water temperature is around 21 degrees Celsius. They inhabit coral reefs in subtropical waters, but generally do not live in tropical seas. Yellow tangs mainly live in the sub-surge zone of a coral reef, this is the area with the least wave action. Zebrasoma flavescens live at depths of 2 to 46 meters. The clear larva of yellow tangs develop into marine plankton, in this stage they are carried close to reefs where they settle in coral crevices. (Agbayani, 2008; Ogawa and Brown, 2001; Reynolds and Casterlin, 1980; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999)
Yellow tangs have a clear larval stage before developing into juveniles. Juveniles and adults have a narrow, oval body. They have an average length-weight ratio between 2.93 and 3.16. They have a long snout for eating algae, a large dorsal fin with four to five spines, and an anal fin with three spines. Like other surgeonfish and tangs (Acanthuridae), yellow tangs have a white, scalpel-like spine on both sides of the tail that can be used for defense or aggression. Yellow tangs are named for their bright yellow coloring; the only area that is not yellow is the white spine. At night, this bright yellow color changes to a darker, grayer yellow with a white lateral line. (Agbayani, 2008; Froese, 1998; Guiasu and Winterbottom, 1998; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999; Wood, 2008)
Yellow tangs begin their lives as fertilized eggs floating in open water. After hatching, the clear, pelagic larvae develop in the plankton. They enter the acronurus larva stage where they develop an oval body, dorsal and ventral fins, and spines. After about ten weeks, they enter a planktonic stage. Here, waves carry them to a coral reef where they take refuge and continue to develop and grow. (Brough and Brough, 2008; Sale, et al., 1984; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999; Wood, 2008)
Zebrasoma flavescens can spawn in groups or in pairs. When in groups, females release eggs and males release sperm into open water where fertilization occurs. When in pairs, the male courts a female by changing colors and exhibiting a shimmering movement. The two fish then swim upward and simultaneously release their eggs or sperm into the water. Males may spawn with multiple females in one session, while females typically spawn only once a month. (Brough and Brough, 2008; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999; Wood, 2008)
Yellow tangs reproduce externally. Their spawning peaks from March to September, but some fish spawn at all times throughout the year. An average female can release about 40,000 eggs. (Agbayani, 2008; Detroit Zoological Society, 2008; Lobel, 1989)
There is no parental investment in yellow tangs beyond the fertilization of eggs.
Juvenile yellow tangs are often territorial. This trait usually diminishes as the fish mature and start to roam wider areas of the reef. Adult tangs live singly or in small, loose groups. These groups sometimes contain other species of fish, like sailfin tang (Zebrasoma veliferum). Yellow tangs are diurnal. During the day, tangs move from place to place, grazing on algae; at night, they generally rest alone in coral reef crevices. (Agbayani, 2008; Atkins, 1981; Brough and Brough, 2008; Wood, 2008)
When they are juveniles, yellow tangs have small home ranges that they defend, often staying within a few meters of one area. Not much is known about the home ranges of adult yellow tangs. (Parrish and Claisse, 2005)
When mating, males change colors and exhibit a shimmering movement to attract females. In defense or aggression, yellow tangs extend their fins to full length, greatly increasing their size. They also expose their scalpel-like scales on their fins as a warning sign. They use these not only to defend themselves from predators, but also to scare away competitors for food or territory. (Brough and Brough, 2008; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999)
Yellow tangs have a long, down-turned mouth with small teeth that are specialized for grazing on algae. Because they are mainly herbivores, they spend a large amount of their time grazing either alone or in groups. A large portion of their diet consists of uncalcified and filamentous algae that grows on coral reefs. In addition to smaller types of algae, yellow tangs feed on macroalgae, such as seaweed. Yellow tangs will also eat some types of zooplankton. (Guiasu and Winterbottom, 1998; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999; Wylie and Paul, 1988)
Predators of Zebrasoma flavescens include larger fish and predatory invertebrates such as crabs and octopi. Yellow tangs rely on camouflage and their scalpel-like fins to protect themselves. To humans, these fish appear bright yellow, but, to other fish, yellow tangs blend in very well with coral reef backgrounds. According to Marshall et al. (2003) wavelength differences between yellow and average reef color become negligible at the depths where yellow tangs are found. In addition to camouflage, Zebrasoma flavescens use their scalpel-like fins for defense. (Barry and Hawryshyn, 1999; Detroit Zoological Society, 2008; Marshall, et al., 2003; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999)
Yellow tangs, along with other algae feeders, are crucial parts of coral reef ecosystems. They feed on algae and seaweed that grow on the reefs, preventing them from overgrowing and killing corals. Yellow tangs are also a food source for larger fish and invertebrates. (Detroit Zoological Society, 2008; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999)
Yellow tangs are important for tourism and the aquarium trade. Their bright yellow color is well recognized by scuba divers and other tourists on Hawaiian reefs. They are also a valuable resource in aquarium trade; they are the number one collected fish for export out of Hawaii. Their coloring, hardiness, and low cost all attribute to their popularity in marine aquariums, making them one of the ten most popular fish. (Brough and Brough, 2008; Ogawa and Brown, 2001; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999)
Yellow tangs, along with other surgeonfish (Acanthuridae), are not generally dangerous. When they are young, they possess venom glands. As they age into juveniles and adults, they lose these glands. If yellow tangs are provoked, they can inflict deep injuries with the sharp blades on their tails. (Agbayani, 2008; Waikïkï Aquarium, 1999)
Zebrasoma flavescens is not a threatened or endangered species.
Tanya Dewey (editor), Animal Diversity Web.
Kara Zabetakis (author), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Kevin Omland (editor, instructor), University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
body of water between the southern ocean (above 60 degrees south latitude), Australia, Asia, and the western hemisphere. This is the world's largest ocean, covering about 28% of the world's surface.
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
having markings, coloration, shapes, or other features that cause an animal to be camouflaged in its natural environment; being difficult to see or otherwise detect.
humans benefit economically by promoting tourism that focuses on the appreciation of natural areas or animals. Ecotourism implies that there are existing programs that profit from the appreciation of natural areas or animals.
animals which must use heat acquired from the environment and behavioral adaptations to regulate body temperature
fertilization takes place outside the female's body
union of egg and spermatozoan
An animal that eats mainly plants or parts of plants.
having a body temperature that fluctuates with that of the immediate environment; having no mechanism or a poorly developed mechanism for regulating internal body temperature.
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
seaweed. Algae that are large and photosynthetic.
A large change in the shape or structure of an animal that happens as the animal grows. In insects, "incomplete metamorphosis" is when young animals are similar to adults and change gradually into the adult form, and "complete metamorphosis" is when there is a profound change between larval and adult forms. Butterflies have complete metamorphosis, grasshoppers have incomplete metamorphosis.
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
specialized for swimming
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
reproduction in which eggs are released by the female; development of offspring occurs outside the mother's body.
the business of buying and selling animals for people to keep in their homes as pets.
the kind of polygamy in which a female pairs with several males, each of which also pairs with several different females.
structure produced by the calcium carbonate skeletons of coral polyps (Class Anthozoa). Coral reefs are found in warm, shallow oceans with low nutrient availability. They form the basis for rich communities of other invertebrates, plants, fish, and protists. The polyps live only on the reef surface. Because they depend on symbiotic photosynthetic algae, zooxanthellae, they cannot live where light does not penetrate.
mainly lives in oceans, seas, or other bodies of salt water.
breeding is confined to a particular season
remains in the same area
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
associates with others of its species; forms social groups.
uses touch to communicate
defends an area within the home range, occupied by a single animals or group of animals of the same species and held through overt defense, display, or advertisement
the region of the earth that surrounds the equator, from 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.
an animal which has an organ capable of injecting a poisonous substance into a wound (for example, scorpions, jellyfish, and rattlesnakes).
uses sight to communicate
breeding takes place throughout the year
animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae. (Compare to phytoplankton.)
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Barry, K., C. Hawryshyn. 1999. Effects of incident light and background conditions on potential conspicuousness of Hawaiian coral reef fish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 79: 495-508.
Brough, D., C. Brough. 2008. "Animal-World" (On-line). Accessed April 08, 2008 at http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/tangs/yellow.php.
Detroit Zoological Society, 2008. "Detroit Zoo" (On-line). Accessed April 09, 2008 at http://www.detroitzoo.org/zoo/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=562&Itemid=610.
Dodds, K. 2007. "Reef Resources" (On-line). Accessed May 03, 2008 at http://www.reefresources.net/RR_profiles/viewtopic.php?t=153.
Froese, R. 1998. Length-weight relationships for 18 less-studied fish species. Journal of applied ichthyology, 14: 117-118.
Guiasu, R., R. Winterbottom. 1998. Yellow juvenile color pattern, diet switching and the phylogeny of the surgeonfish genus Zebrasoma. Bulletin of Marine Science, 63: 277-294.
Lobel, P. 1989. Ocean current variability and the spawning season of Hawaiian reef fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 24: 161-171.
Marshall, N., K. Jennings, W. McFarland, E. Loew, G. Losey. 2003. Visual Biology of Hawaiian Coral Reef Fishes. BioOne, 3: 467-480.
Ogawa, T., C. Brown. 2001. Ornamental reef fish aquaculture and collection in Hawaii. Aquarium Sciences and Conservation, 3: 151-169.
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Wylie, C., V. Paul. 1988. Feeding preferences of the surgeonfish Zebrasoma flavescens in relation to chemical defenses of tropical algae. Marine Ecology, 45: 23-32. | <urn:uuid:ec113256-0ade-48f5-a524-8c0cc66e22cf> | 2013-05-23T18:33:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I would also love to find out more about the staffing opportunities. I know it's a little late, but I've attended many conventions and run panels at several. I'd love to attend, but being unemployed that's only gonna happen if I can work it! I sent a message to Gary through the email link from the forums, but could not find any other way to contact him, either on the convention site, or the anime club's site. I live in Lafayette, so going to the club meetings is not really convenient for me. | <urn:uuid:7f591880-2c1b-45fe-a4e1-a2016ba53417> | 2013-05-23T18:51:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Yes, it's Protect Your Groundwater Day!
Here is some information from the National Ground Water Association:
Everyone can and should do something to protect groundwater. Why? We all have a stake in maintaining its quality and quantity.
- For starters, 95 percent of all available freshwater comes from aquifers underground. Being a good steward of groundwater just makes sense.
- Not only that, most surface water bodies are connected to groundwater so how you impact groundwater matters.
- Furthermore, many public water systems draw all or part of their supply from groundwater, so protecting the resource protects the public water supply and impacts treatment costs.
- If you own a well to provide water for your family, farm, or business, groundwater protection is doubly important. As a well owner, you are the manager of your own water system. Protecting groundwater will help reduce risks to your water supply.
Groundwater protectionThere are two fundamental categories of groundwater protection:
- Keeping it safe from contamination
- Using it wisely by not wasting it.Before examining what you can do to protect groundwater, however, you should know that sometimes the quality and safety of groundwater is affected by substances that occur naturally in the environment.
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La session questions-reponses de la conference Management en temps de crise de Carlos Ghosn
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Imagine the scene:
You want to learn Arabic, you find an old teach yourself Arabic book, you open a random page, and the first example you read is “The man whom my father killed”
The man who killed my father – الرجل الذي قتل ابي
WFT? Talking about perpetuating stereotypes.
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Ukraine GuideUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It lies at the northwest end of the Black Sea, with Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland to the northwest, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, and Romania to the south west and south, with Moldova in between. HotelsFind hotels in Kiev, Lviv, Odessa, Yalta and more.
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In UkraineCentral UkraineCentral Ukraine is the region in the center north of Ukraine, and is the country's cultural, economic, and political center. Western UkraineWestern Ukraine makes about a quarter of Ukraine, and is the country's most Central European region. CrimeaCrimea is a region in the south of Ukraine. The Crimean Peninsula is connected to the rest of the Ukraine by a narrow neck of land, making it more like an island with a natural land bridge than simply a bit of land jutting out into the sea. Southern UkraineSouthern Ukraine is the region aside from the Crimea that occupies the Black Sea coast of Ukraine. Eastern UkraineEastern Ukraine is the industrial coal-mining region of Ukraine, home to much of the country's Russian population. ZaporizhiaZaporizhia is a city in Ukraine. The name Zaporozhia means "beyond the rapids". Before the Dniproges Dam was built, the rapids on the Dniepr river were a notorious impediment to navigation.
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There is an endless list of things to do it seems. Where should you start? The more you think about it, all you want to do is go back to bed. You don't have the energy needed to just dig in. Why are you feeling this way? It's as if there is an enemy within battling you...and the enemy is FATIGUE.
Dealing With Fatigue
The extra effort needed to carry out basic tasks for people with chronic arthritis, involving mobility and movement, tires them to a greater extent than it does healthy people. Movement can be particularly difficult in the morning when stiffness is the worst. There exists a wide range of functional difficulties experienced by people with arthritis and related diseases.
Study Shows Disease Impact
One study involving rheumatoid arthritis patients revealed that:
- 79% had some level of difficulty performing housework tasks such as vacuuming
- 68% had difficulties with dressing tasks such as tying shoelaces or doing buttons
- 64% had difficulty climbing a short flight of stairs or taking a bath
Tasks taken for granted by healthy individuals require special effort, forethought, and often dependence on others for people living with rheumatoid arthritis.
Fatigue can be considered a directive of daily living with chronic arthritis. Fatigue can be considered a warning by the body that you need rest. Without fatigue as an indicator you would likely push yourself to do more and cause harm to your body and your joints.
What Causes Fatigue?
There are several factors which cause fatigue.
Fatigue can be caused by the disease itself. Fatigue is a known symptom of arthritis and related diseases and becomes a greater problem during periods of flare in disease activity. Fatigue is a result of the body's reaction to substances released in the bloodstream by activated immune cells.
As already discussed, routine and basic tasks are more difficult for people with arthritis than healthy people. These tasks cause more of a drain on the energy level of arthritis patients allowing less energy leftover for other things. As the person pushes to do more and more, fatigue and pain are amplified.
The pain and discomfort of arthritis leads to interrupted sleep patterns for many sufferers. One arthritis study revealed more than half of the participants complained of interrupted or shortened sleep cycles due to their disease.
A person can also become fatigued because of how they feel emotionally as well as physically. Feelings of depression, boredom, worry, or unhappiness can be sources of exhausted energy.
A low number of red blood cells and/or hemoglobin is common in people who have chronic inflammatory arthritis. Fatigue can be a physical effect of anemia. The severity of the fatigue is proportionate to the severity of the anemic condition.
Medications are used to cause chemical changes within the body and fatigue can be a resulting side effect. As with any side effect, the level of fatigue can be drug specific or dosage dependent.
Coping With Fatigue
The key response to fatigue must be energy preservation.
Rest is the most obvious solution to coping with fatigue. When the body signals that it has reached a physical limit, a short nap or sleep period is the needed response. By responding with a rest period you give the body a chance to regain control.
Planning ahead, scheduling activities, and pacing yourself can help minimize the intrusion of fatigue. Limiting the number of strenuous activities, allowing interspersed rest periods, and remaining flexible can favor preserving energy.
Prioritizing activities helps curtail fatigue. Important activities should be done first before energy becomes depleted and less significant activities can be delayed if needed.
Whenever possible reorganize to make things more convenient. Keeping things within reach or nearby can be energy saving mechanisms.
Exercise / Weight Control
Maintaining a healthy weight and participating in regular exercise may also help reduce symptoms of chronic fatigue.
- Over One-Third Of People With Arthritis Get No Exercise
- What Makes People With Arthritis Overweight?
Coping With Rheumatoid Arthritis, by Robert H. Phillips, Ph.D.; Understanding Rheumatoid Arthritis, by Stanton Newman et al.; The Duke University Medical Center Book Of Arthritis, by David S. Pisetsky, M.D., Ph.D. | <urn:uuid:4f48c494-f499-43c9-962b-d59d2a058385> | 2013-05-23T18:32:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Clifton A. Stanton Jr.'s first love was singing gospel music but he was equally adept at making people laugh, friends said.
"I guess everything he did made others happy and that's why he was so good at singing and laughing," said Chantelle Gordon, a longtime friend. "He knew how to brighten the spirits of everybody he ever knew."
Mr. Stanton, a lifelong Baltimore resident, died of cancer Saturday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was 36.
Mr. Stanton, who began singing when he was about 9, had a rich baritone voice that often moved audiences to tears.
"He just seemed to put so much emotion and feeling into the words of the songs that everyone was just taken and absorbed his songs," Ms. Gordon said. "He truly enjoyed singing the gospel and everyone enjoyed his singing."
"His singing was just a gift that God gave to him," said his father, Clifton A. Stanton Sr. of Baltimore. "He started as a high tenor but later in life he was a baritone and that suited him well."
His favorite gospel songs were "I Won't Complain," "Hold To His Hand," and "Crimson Stream."
Mr. Stanton had a collection of gospel records that he'd sing along with at his West Baltimore home then later sing for friends. He was a member of the Church of the Redeemed of the Lord at 4617 York Road and also sang at other churches, including ones in Frederick, Hagerstown and New York City. He accompanied himself on piano and preached.
"He enjoyed singing but he also was interested in the ministry of the word," said his pastor, the Rev. Jerome Stokes.
Mr. Stanton, who graduated from Frederick Douglass High School, was manager of a downtown fast food restaurant for the past seven years.
Kevin Jenkins, a co-worker, said Mr. Stanton often would sing hymns while cooking hamburgers.
"It was one of neatest things. I'd be fixing an order and all of a sudden I'd hear his voice singing about the Lord," Mr. Jenkins recalled. "Everybody in the restaurant, including the people in line, would be smiling listening to him sing."
Services for Mr. Stanton will be at 11 a.m. today at the Church of the Redeemed of the Lord.
Mr. Stanton, who was divorced, also is survived by his mother, Myrtle Pope of Baltimore; a brother, Rafael Taylor of Baltimore; and a sister, Susan Y. Stanton of Philadelphia.
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April 29, 2010
In their first public statement, the parents of a Northern Irish woman badly beaten in Bucktown say they are "devastated and heartbroken" by the attack but "greatly comforted" by the outpouring of support from "friends and strangers alike. " Natasha McShane has been in a drug-induced coma since she and a close friend, Stacy Starl Jurich, were beaten with a baseball bat while walking in the Bucktown neighborhood last Friday. Prosecutors disclosed today that doctors do not...
May 1, 2010
The relatives of a woman who was the victim of a baseball bat attack last week said today they were hopeful after the woman briefly came out of a medically-induced coma and opened her eyes Friday afternoon. Natasha McShane, a student from Northern Ireland, remained at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition with family members at her bedside, said the woman's grandmother Bernadette McShane from her home in Northern Ireland. "It was a brief glimpse of hope," said...
June 4, 2010
A man and woman charged in the beating of two women with a baseball bat during a robbery in Bucktown in April pleaded not guilty on the charges today. Heriberto Viramontes, 31, and Marcy Cruz, 25, are charged with attempted murder, armed robbery, aggravated battery, aggravated unlawful restraint and other charges in the April 23 beating of Stacy Starl Jurich, 24, and Natasha McShane, 23, a native of Northern Ireland. Authorities allege that Cruz waited in a vehicle and...
October 10, 2008
OSLO, Norway -- Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize today for his efforts to build a lasting peace in places as diverse as East Timor and the Balkans in Europe. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to Martti Ahtisaari for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts. These efforts have contributed to a more peaceful world and to 'fraternity...
May 7, 2010
The UIC grad student from Northern Ireland severely injured last month in a baseball bat attack in Bucktown is awake, hospital officials said today, but she remains in serious condition and is showing "limited" brain activity. Doctors have relieved the pressure on Natasha McShane's brain that resulted from the attack on April 23, and she has been taken off coma-inducing medications, according to a statement by Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where McShane is receiving treatment. | <urn:uuid:c53271c3-078a-4b81-b877-3cf5d3bda0d1> | 2013-05-23T18:38:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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John Lowenhaupt's decision to refuse induction into the William and Mary athletic hall of fame is to be admired and questioned.
Lowenhaupt made the refusal to protest the status of the basketball program. The Indians are currently ranked in the bottom 10 of the 290 NCAA Division I basketball teams.
Ten years ago, when Lowenhaupt played, the Indians were good enough to earn a berth in the post-season National Invitation Tournament.
How did William and Mary go from a playoff team to the bottom 10? Mostly it was coaching changes and the inability to recruit quality players.
The oddity of college basketball is that it takes just one blue-chip player to create an instant contender. Indiana State, with Larry Bird, was a Final Four team. Bird graduated and Indiana State hasn't had a winning record since.
This year, without Danny Ferry who was hobbled by a back injury, Duke lost four of five games. When Ferry returned to health, the Blue Devils were again one of the top teams in the country.
To Lowenhaupt's dismay, the Indians have had no luck in blue-chip recruiting. His protest is well founded.
But the forum is wrong. The hall of fame induction was to have been a personal award, not a political venue.
Just by accepting, Lowenhaupt would have reminded people that not many years ago William and Mary was a quality program. And the obvious question generated would have been, "What happened?"
By refusing, he shifted attention to himself and away from the problem he was trying to point out.
THANKS, MARIO - After he won the International Boxing Federation lightweight title by decisioning Greg Haugen, Pernell Whitaker of Norfolk used a press conference to thank the people who had helped his career.
One of those people was Mario Cuffee.
It was Cuffee who inadvertently launched Whitaker's boxing career.
One summer day when he was eight years old, Whitaker was involved in a street fight. Clyde Taylor, who ran a youth boxing program in Whitaker's neighborhood, intervened.
Do your fighting the gym, Taylor said. "He took me home and got my parents' permission, then he took me to the gym and put the gloves on me," Whitaker remembered.
Whitaker's opponent in that street fight was Mario Cuffee.
Cuffee was at Whitaker's post-fight press conference. After he explained the story, Whitaker smiled and said, "Thanks, Mario,"
Haugen looked up and said, "Yeah, thanks Mario."
REACH OUT - Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz said he has never had an unlisted telephone number.
"I'm just a football coach," said the man who guided the Fighting Irish to the national championship this year. "I figure if somebody wants to call me, he ought to be to get my number."
Has that created any unusual problems?
"Well, my wife and I have learned not to go to bed until the bars close," Holtz said.
GOLDEN OLDIE - Years ago, stock car race driver Richard Petty was on the Johnny Carson Show.
Carson's question: "How do you know when the pit crew is done changing tires and you can go back out on the track?"
Petty's answer: "They let the jack down."
ASK AGAIN - With pro hockey moving into Norfolk and pro hockey wanting to move into Hampton, an age-old question is again making the rounds: Can Hampton Roads support professional sports?
The answer is yes, but first, changes are needed.
Hampton Roads remains in the grip of a provincial mentality. The area's seven cities insist on working independently and competing over opportunities that actually benefit the entire area.
Exhibit A is the current hockey situation. Norfolk has secured a team in the East Coast Hockey League. Hampton wants one. Groups from the two cities are in competition.
What would happen if they worked together, pooling resources and savvy? They would have the financial and civic clout to bring in high quality hockey.
As it is, they have the ECHL, a low minor league that is several steps below the major league National Hockey League.
This has always been Hampton Roads' problem. When professional baseball moved into the area many years ago, the cities and civic leaders didn't work together. Rather than one quality product, minor league teams were placed in Portsmouth, Norfolk, and on the Peninsula.
When an attempt was made to build an auto race track in the area, valuable time was lost to squabbling over in which city the track would be built. In the end, no track was built. Instead, Paul Sawyer was able to shelve the issue by refurbishing his Richmond International Raceway.
The same thing happened to a horse race track proposal. While the cities were hashing out a way to work in concert, a group in New Kent County took the lead and in all likelihood will build a track.
A visionary group named the Future of Hampton Roads has attempted to address this issue. It established a sports committee that examined resources and potential and made recommendations. The committee decided the area would support a variety of professional sports endeavors.
Nothing has been done because provincialism continues to block the way.
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PARIS: Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won their second Grand Slam title together and first French Open trophy after crushing the challenge of Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Santiago Gonzalez in the mixed doubles final, here today.
Playing their third Grand Slam final together, the seventh seeded Indian pair scored a 7-6 (3) 6-1 win over the Polish-Mexican pair in one hour and 13 minutes at the Court Philippe Chatrier.
It is second career Grand Slam title for Sania while 12th Major trophy for Bhupathi, who now has won eight mixed doubles trophies.
Sania and Bhupathi had won the 2009 Australia Open and it is their first Grand Slam title since then. Sania had become first woman tennis player from India to win a Grand Slam with that Australian Open trophy.
Leander Paes is the most successful Indian tennis player with 13 Grand Slam titles, seven of which are men's doubles trophies with various partners.
With this win, Sania and Bhupathi sent out a warning to the players worldwide that they will be the force to reckon with at the upcoming London Olympics.
However, they are not yet sure of competing there. Sania needs to get the wild card to make the women's singles draw which will make her eligible to contest in the mixed doubles.
In today's match, the Indians were slow off the blocks with their rivals dominating the proceedings early on but they raised the level of their game as the match progressed and in the end scored a comfortable win. | <urn:uuid:01464254-ba19-4859-9bc9-e8c5154cebba> | 2013-05-23T19:06:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- The house of Capt. John Kerney, Huxley Hall, was marked with a bronze plaque by the National Society Colonial Dames XVII century, Sir George Calvert Chapter of Maryland. It is one of the highest honors awarded for a house.
The home is on Old Mill Road in Martinsburg.
Kerney, who was born in 1745 and died in 1805, served with Captain Abraham Shepherd in a company of riflemen defending Fort Washington on Long Island, N.Y. The battle was a serious defeat for Gen. George Washington and the Continental Army. Kerney "suffered long and painful imprisonment under the British" after which he returned to Berkeley County and was appointed lieutenant in a state regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Crockett.
Kerney married Susannah Tabb and they had nine children. Kerney held the position of justice of the peace and was a member of the County Court.
He was buried with his family on land he owned which is now the site of Martinsburg Mall. Upon reinterment by Crown American Corp., to make room for a parking lot, he was positively identified by the Revolutionary War uniform he was wearing. | <urn:uuid:a5d9f58b-a191-4e0c-8030-2f8efb10b596> | 2013-05-23T18:38:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Researchers at Stanford University have brought about a unique marriage between computer chips and living cells that could greatly accelerate everything from tests for new drugs to screening for diseases such as leukemia.
The basic living element in every organism is the cell. Humans have at least 100 trillion of them, all designed to carry out various bodily functions. Each cell is a complex bag of enzymes and chemicals surrounded by a spherical membrane, and how a cell reproduces and works with other cells determines how efficiently the organism performs.
Scientists have struggled for years to understand the cell and especially the membrane that seems to control most of the crucial functions, but they have been hampered by the difficulty of growing cells in a laboratory culture for research.
A decade ago, Stanford researchers developed artificial membranes that were so like the real thing that living cells could be tricked into attaching themselves to them.
Two years ago, graduate student Jay T. Groves learned something interesting when he pulled a pair of tweezers through one of the artificial membranes. The parts separated permanently. He also found that he could manipulate the different parts by applying an electrical current.
About that time, Nick Ulman, an electrical engineer, joined Groves' research group, headed by chemistry professor Steven G. Boxer. Ulman brought with him an understanding of microelectronics.
The researchers discovered that the electric field generated by a tiny microchip could be used to separate the artificial membrane into tiny squares, which they called "corrals." The corrals were so small that millions occupied an area no bigger than a fingernail.
That gave the researchers something they had never had before: a means of isolating, cataloging and manipulating millions of cell membranes simultaneously.
"It's a little bit like having a parking lot with assigned spaces," Boxer says. If you leave your car in an unmarked parking lot at the airport, he says, you may be lucky to find it again. But if each parking space has a number, it becomes much simpler.
"Ultimately, you can say I've got a Ferrari in spot 2A, and I've got a Volkswagen over in space 3D," Boxer says.
Similarly, living cells can be "tricked" into attaching themselves to individual membranes. That is done by modifying the surface of each membrane.
"If you wax a car, after you wax it, water beads up on the surface," Boxer says. "Before waxing, the water just runs off. That's an example of modifying the properties of the surface such that water associates differently with the surface."
One potential use is for cell screening for leukemia patients. Some of the membranes on the chip could be "seeded" with proteins that bind to different kinds of cells. By flooding a glass plate embedded with chips with blood from the patient, the cells would attach themselves to designated areas, thus revealing how many cells of different types are present, and possibly even how well they are performing.
Joseph A. Zasadzinski, professor of chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, who has analyzed the Stanford research, sees many potential applications.
It could pave the way for a pharmaceutical researcher to "try 50 million different things" at the same time, Zasadzinski says.
"Right now, you grow cells in culture and you see which ones die, and that's very slow. Here you can imagine 20,000 little plates in a square inch, and each one of them you can tweak a slightly different way."
It could greatly increase the rate of testing for new drugs for viruses, he says, because the experiments could be repeated millions of times in a tightly controlled and manipulable environment.
Others see it leading to a test for AIDS in which thousands of blood tests could be conducted in the time it now takes to do just one.
The heart of the system is the computer chip.
"That's where the ultimate power of this comes in," Boxer says. "The same technology that's used to make integrated circuits, computer chips, is also being used to design a biocompatible surface."
That has led to a bit of unwelcome fallout, he adds. The researchers are constantly asked if they are on the road to the ultimate marriage between computers and living cells--the bionic man.
Boxer flinches at the suggestion. This is such a tiny step, he says, that it's ludicrous to think of it in those terms. Still, some see this as one more step toward creating computer-based biological systems.
"If you can optimize this, you can get a nice bio-sensor out of it," Zasadzinski says. "But it would be hard to imagine any sort of bionic man for an awful long time."
He says he is more worried about "that sheep in England."
"That's scary," he says.
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Pier 1 Imports Inc. has agreed to refrain from violating financial reporting rules and its former chief financial officer will pay a $75,000 fine to settle allegations of concealing a $20-million investment loss. The settlements, announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission, were the latest actions related to the agency's investigation of S. Jay Goldinger, a former high-profile money manager from Beverly Hills who was accused of defrauding corporate clients, including Pier 1. The SEC alleged in a civil lawsuit that the former CFO, Robert G. Herndon, hid the $20-million loss in Pier 1's investment funds in 1995 from the company's senior management and outside auditors. By concealing the loss and other facts of Pier 1's investments with Goldinger, the SEC said, Herndon caused the company to make misrepresentations and omissions in its periodic filings that are read by the investing public. Shares of Fort Worth-based Pier 1 rose 19 cents to close at $13.13 on the NYSE. | <urn:uuid:4321990b-173e-4e37-b41c-dc0f7faec0dd> | 2013-05-23T19:06:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A backyard mechanic identified by police this week as the Grim Sleeper serial killer had a lengthy criminal history stretching over four decades but was never sent to prison despite calls by law enforcement officials for tough sentences, according to Los Angeles County court records released Friday.
Probation reports show that Lonnie David Franklin Jr. repeatedly cycled through the county's justice system years before he was charged this week with killing 10 women in South Los Angeles.
Franklin was arrested at least 15 times for car theft, burglary, receiving stolen property, assaults, firearms possession and other crimes, the records show. In most cases, he avoided prosecution or was sent to jail and placed on probation even as law enforcement officers called him a serious criminal and urged prison terms.
Franklin allegedly killed seven women between 1985 and 1988, when his crimes seemed to abruptly stop, authorities say. The slayings resumed with three more between 2002 and 2007, police said.
In 2003, Los Angeles probation officers wrote that Franklin — then 50 — had admitted spending three decades as an active criminal and was back to his old ways when he was caught driving a luxury SUV stolen from the Glendale Galleria.
"If at this age the defendant is still engaging in criminal activities … the community can best be served by imposing the maximum time possible in state prison," one probation officer wrote.
Franklin faced up to three years in prison after pleading no contest to receiving stolen property. As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, however, he was sentenced to jail for 270 days.
Once he entered jail, Franklin again benefited from Los Angeles' overburdened justice system. Sheriff's officials were releasing inmates early to ease overcrowding in the county's jails. Franklin was released in May 2003, more than four months early, according to jail data obtained by The Times.
Two months later, when he should still have been behind bars, Franklin allegedly killed again. In July 2003, a crossing guard in the Westmont area of the city stumbled across the lifeless body of Valerie McCorvey. The 35-year-old had suffered trauma to her neck, police said.
Franklin was only recently identified as a suspect in the case when a "familial search" of state DNA records indicated that a convicted felon was probably related to the killer. Franklin is the felon's father.
Franklin's attorney, Deputy Public Defender Regina A. Laughney, declined to comment, saying she had yet to review all of the evidence in the case.
Despite his numerous contacts with police, Franklin, now 57, was never entered into the state's DNA database because his crimes were never considered serious enough. In 2004, voters approved a measure that required DNA be taken from every person convicted of a felony, but Franklin's last conviction was a year earlier.
LAPD Det. Dennis Kilcoyne, who heads the LAPD task force investigating the killings, said he was not surprised by Franklin's criminal record. Serial killers, he said, often turn out to have relatively low-level arrests that did not raise police suspicions.
"He's a classic of what we've seen in the past," Kilcoyne said. "He's danced to the raindrops for a long time without getting wet."
Franklin's crimes, he said, did not involve the type of violence against women that would have drawn police interest at the time.
Probation reports offer more details about the man who neighbors said was known for helping the elderly with car trouble but also spoke about his visits to prostitutes.
Franklin told one probation officer that he graduated with a certification in welding after attending Los Angeles Trade Technical Community College for two years. He said he served in the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1976, earning an honorable discharge, records show.
Franklin was first arrested at the age of 16 on suspicion of car theft. He was arrested twice more as a juvenile, once for car theft and once for stealing property from a car, and was placed on probation, the reports said.
Police picked him up four more times between 1971 and 1984 on suspicion of theft, burglary and carrying a loaded firearm. The arrests resulted in only one misdemeanor conviction — for possessing a concealed weapon in 1974.
He was sentenced to 10 days in jail, according to court records.
During the height of the Grim Sleeper's killings, between 1985 and 1988, Franklin avoided police attention. But the next year, he was arrested twice and was convicted of possessing burglary tools.
He was placed on probation.
Franklin found himself in regular trouble with the law during the 1990s, earning convictions for assault, battery and receiving stolen property.
In 1993, Los Angeles police officers caught him working on a stolen car in his backyard and found another stolen vehicle and several parts of more vehicles, including four engines, records said. | <urn:uuid:0de9b430-2777-4879-b15d-cb7aa6f0027e> | 2013-05-23T18:54:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Joanne Siegel's personality was infused into the Lois Lane character,…
Joanne Siegel, who played a role in the creation of the Superman saga in the 1930s as Joe Shuster's teenage artist's model for Lois Lane and later married the Man of Steel's co-creator, writer Jerry Siegel, has died. She was 93.
Siegel, a longtime resident of Marina del Rey who successfully fought a long legal battle to regain her late husband's copyrights to Superman and related characters, died Saturday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said her daughter, Laura Siegel Larson. The cause of death has not yet been determined.
Joanne Siegel was high school student Joanne Kovacs when she took out a small classified ad under "Situation Wanted — Female" in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the Depression year of 1935: "ARTIST MODEL: No experience."
One of the responses to the ad came from Shuster, a young Cleveland artist who was developing Superman as a potential cartoon strip with his young writer friend, Siegel.
"Joe was taking art lessons and felt that he needed someone to pose as the Lois Lane character for the Superman story. So I posed," Joanne Siegel recalled in a 1996 interview with the Plain Dealer.
"I remember the day I met Jerry in Joe's living room. Jerry was the model for Superman. He was standing there in a Superman-like pose. He said their character was going to fly through the air, and he leaped off the couch to demonstrate."
Siegel's daughter said that "one of the things [Shuster and Siegel] were particularly interested in is how would a woman look like if she was being carried in the arms of someone flying through the air.
"So they set up a chair that had arms on it, and my mom draped herself across one arm and her legs across the other arm, and Joe drew her in that position."
At least three women in the Cleveland area reportedly have claimed to have been the inspiration for Lois Lane over the years, but Joanne Siegel said in the 1996 interview that they were all wrong.
"My dad actually wrote a letter to Time magazine one time because he was so aggravated over people making claims on this," Larson said. "Joe Shuster also wrote a letter. He wanted to make sure that everybody knew my mom was the actual model [for Lane].
"My father said she not only posed for the character, but from the day he met her it was her personality that he infused into the character. She was not only beautiful but very smart and determined, and she had a lot of guts; she was a courageous person."
Superman made his debut in 1938, in Action Comics No. 1 published by the predecessor of DC Comics. The character became an immediate sensation and was on its way to becoming one of the most recognizable characters in the world.
Siegel and Shuster, however, signed a publisher's release in 1938, and a court later ruled that they had sold the entire Superman copyright for $130.
The daughter of Hungarian immigrants, Joanne Siegel was born Jolan Kovacs in Cleveland on Dec. 1, 1917. (Because teachers and classmates found her first name difficult to pronounce — it's pronounced YO-lon — they called her Joanne.)
After graduating from high school, she modeled in Boston and New York under the name Joanne Carter before working in a Los Angeles-area shipyard during World War II.
After the war, she moved back to New York City, where she was reunited with Siegel, whom she married in 1948; they had both been married to other people and divorced.
The previous year, Shuster and Siegel had tried and failed to get back the rights to Superman.
After that, Larson said, "my father tried to get work and found that publishers were not willing to hire him. He had been blacklisted. My mother and father lived in complete poverty for many, many years.
"It was due to my mom's ingenuity that she called up the publisher of Superman at a certain point and said, 'How can you sit by and continue to make millions of dollars off of a character that Jerry co-created and allow him to live in this unbelievable poverty?'
"And it was due to her determination and keeping after them for several years that eventually my father went back to work as an uncredited writer on many Superman, Lois Lane, Supergirl and other stories."
Before the release of the 1978 "Superman" movie, a campaign led by comic book writers and artists led what was then known as Warner Communications — the parent company of DC Comics — to agree to give both Shuster and Siegel $20,000 a year for the rest of their lives.
Jerry Siegel died in 1996.
"His wish was for my mom and me to continue his quest to regain ownership of the character that he created with such love," Larson said.
Due to new provisions in the Copyright Act, she said, they successfully regained those rights in a 2008 federal court ruling. However, the Siegel family is still waiting to receive money that has been owed to them since 1999.
In addition to her daughter, Siegel is survived by a sister, Sophie Halko; and two grandsons. | <urn:uuid:7ea5e4d3-41be-4cb4-8e21-e7acc0525cf5> | 2013-05-23T18:40:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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October 13, 1989
Jan Leschly has resigned as president of Squibb Corp., saying his personal goals "are not realistic" under the company's merger with Bristol-Myers Co. "The combination of the two companies makes it difficult for me personally to realize my own career objectives," said Leschly. "The near-term personal goals that I had hoped to achieve at Squibb as an independent company are not realistic within the same time frame with Bristol-Myers Squibb." Squibb, based in Princeton, N.J.
July 27, 1989 |
In a surprise announcement today, Bristol-Myers Co. and Squibb Corp. said they have agreed to merge in an $11-billion stock-swap deal that would create the world's second-largest pharmaceutical concern. Under terms of a definitive agreement approved by the boards of both companies, Squibb would be merged into Bristol-Myers through a tax-free exchange of 2.4 shares of Bristol-Myers common stock for each Squibb share. Based on Bristol-Myers' stock price today, the deal is valued at $11.35 billion.
December 7, 1992 |
The fate of James D. Robinson III and his 15-year tenure as chairman of American Express Co. may have been sealed at a meeting of the board of directors Sept. 20. Robinson, who had been trying for years to overcome a series of setbacks at the company, told the board that it should begin thinking seriously about the succession issue. The 57-year-old CEO had said that he wanted to retire by 60. The process appears to be moving faster after the unusual September meeting.
January 11, 1989 |
Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael D. Eisner, who led his company to record profits in 1988, earned $40.2 million last year, mainly in profits from a stock option plan. The compensation, detailed in a regulatory filing, is the second highest for any U.S. executive whose pay is publicly disclosed. The 46-year-old executive's $750,000 base salary was unchanged from 1987. But he realized a $32.6-million profit from the company stock options program last year and was paid a $6.
February 2, 1993 |
The stock market followed through on last week's rally with a moderate advance amid more signs that the economy is continuing its recovery. * The dollar continued its rally, benefiting from turmoil among European currencies and more favorable news about the U.S. economy. * Treasury bond interest rates increased on the signs of economic recovery. | <urn:uuid:fd50c0ac-8408-4deb-a0b4-079b99401d4e> | 2013-05-23T18:32:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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James Huffman Hisey, of Charlevoix, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Feb. 19, 2005. He was 85.
Mr. Hisey was born Aug. 23, 1919, in Wayne, Mich., the son of Ventry and Lois (Huffman) Hisey. He attended public schools in Wayne and later graduated from Michigan State University.
He married the late Beverly Grace Simpson and with her had three sons, James Hisey II of Fairfield, Conn., Jon Arthur Hisey of Charlevoix, and Jerrold Ross Hisey of Garden City, Mich. He had seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
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CAIRO - In front of tens of thousands of cheering supporters, Egypt's first Islamist and civilian president-elect vowed Friday to fight for his authority and symbolically read an oath of office on Cairo's Tahrir Square on the eve of his official inauguration. Mohammed Morsi's strongly worded speech was a show of defiance as he gears up to struggle with the country's ruling generals who passed a constitutional declaration taking over major presidential powers in the days before election results were announced after a bitter campaign.
November 2, 2011 |
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan's president-elect said Tuesday that the U.S. air base there needs to close by 2014 because its presence on Kyrgyz soil puts this former Soviet nation at risk of retaliatory strikes from those in conflict with the United States. Almazbek Atambayev, who won more than 60 percent of the ballots in Sunday's vote, said Kyrgyzstan would honor a contract allowing the United States to lease the Manas base through mid-2014. The United States has used Manas, within Kyrgyzstan's main civilian airport, as a key logistical hub for operations in nearby Afghanistan since 2001.
January 18, 2009 |
As the nation celebrates the inauguration of its 44th president, there will be no shortage of megawatt star power in Washington. Beyonc?, Jay-Z, Denzel Washington, Bruce Springsteen, Jamie Foxx, the Jonas Brothers, John Legend, Bono, Shakira, Sheryl Crow and Stevie Wonder, among many others, will honor the incoming chief executive. There'll be no question, however, as to who's the most omnipresent pop cultural icon on the banks of the Potomac. That would be Barack Obama, the self-described "skinny kid with a funny name" who shares the cover of the sold-out current issue of Marvel Comics' "The Amazing Spider-Man" with another web-savvy superhero.
January 18, 2009 |
As the nation celebrates the inauguration of its 44th president, there will be no shortage of megawatt star power in Washington. Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Denzel Washington, Bruce Springsteen, Jamie Foxx, the Jonas Brothers, John Legend, Bono, Shakira, Sheryl Crow and Stevie Wonder, among many others, will honor the incoming chief executive. There'll be no question, however, as to who's the most omnipresent pop cultural icon on the banks of the Potomac. That would be Barack Obama, the self-described "skinny kid with a funny name" who shares the cover of the sold-out current issue of Marvel Comics' "The Amazing Spider-Man" with another web-savvy superhero.
January 11, 2009 |
One fragment is a poster-size patch of discolored red-and-white cloth, the other little more than threads and fibers. Both pieces come from the same source. And both are more than what they seem. "Relics," said Andrew Coldren, curator of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, "of Lincoln's epic train journey. " Both swatches were snipped from a giant U.S. flag that President-elect Abraham Lincoln raised at Independence Hall during the 1861 rail voyage that took him through Philadelphia to Washington for his inauguration.
December 16, 2008 |
Nearly 150 years ago, a newly elected president from Illinois rode a train through Philadelphia on his way to his inauguration, pausing to speak to people here. Barack Obama plans to do the same. In a trip that will echo the 1861 journey of Abraham Lincoln, officials announced yesterday that Obama will travel to his inaugural by railroad, departing from Philadelphia and hosting events along the way in Wilmington and Baltimore. Inaugural planners depict the trip as the last leg of a journey that has taken the president-elect from the steps of the Old State Capitol in Illinois to the steps of the Capitol in Washington.
December 11, 2008 |
President-elect Barack Obama is set to nominate New Jersey's Lisa P. Jackson, Gov. Corzine's chief of staff and for nearly three years his top environmental official, to lead the federal government's environmental protection efforts, according to published reports. Jackson, who has a master's degree in chemical engineering from Princeton, would bring to the job more than 20 years of experience as an environmental officer at federal, regional and state levels. She will be the first African American to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
December 3, 2008 |
Having spent four years in Washington with the Clinton administration, former Common Pleas Court Judge Nelson Diaz may return for a second extended stay. Diaz, who served as city solicitor under Mayor John F. Street, is among a handful of high-profile Latinos rumored to be possible picks to serve as secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President-elect Barack Obama. Diaz said yesterday that shortly after Election Day, he received a call from Obama's transition team to gauge his interest in a Washington position.
December 2, 2008
FIVE MONTHS AGO, Barack Obama made history in Philadelphia with a speech on race prompted by reports about his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Today, he has another chance to make history when he meets at Independence Hall with at least 40 of the nation's governors to hear how they're coping with the economy. It's already historical that such a newly minted president would meet with the governors' group before his administration even started, and the move gives us great confidence that President-elect Obama recognizes the importance of states and cities.
November 26, 2008
I FOR ONE have had it. I'm sick and tired of a bunch of idiots foaming at the mouth regarding President-elect Obama having no experience. Unless I've lost my mind, neither did Ronald Reagan. He was a Hollywood actor. Need I say more? Ann Townson Philadelphia | <urn:uuid:a752f190-e858-41de-b1ce-009a2279d694> | 2013-05-23T19:00:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
(1888 - 1989)
Breath is central to Yoga because it is central to life and
Yoga is about life Inhale and God approaches you.
Hold the inhalation and God remains with you.
Exhale and you approach God.
Hold the exhalation and surrender to God.
(1915 - 2009)
"Ashtanga Yoga method is universal, it is not mine or yours. That method is perfect, it is complete. Ashtanga Yoga is yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, samadhi - these are the eight steps which make up Ashtanga Yoga method. But first you take asana: "āsanaṃ prāṇasaṃrodhaś pratyāhāraś ca dhāraṇām, dhyānaṃ samādhir etāni ṣaḍaṅgāni prakirtita" (śandilya) upanisads are telling: first you start asana, asanas are your foundation.
Thinking God, any god, which (ever) god you pray,
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Heather Cashman graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry but has always loved to write, winning her first contest in the second grade. Married since 1992, she has three unique children and has moved from Arizona to New York to Kansas. She loves to kayak and canoe down the windiest rivers she can find. She welcomes opportunities to visit schools, libraries, and book groups in person or via Skype. Born in Tucson, Arizona, Heather currently lives near Wichita, Kansas with her husband and three children.
Deirdra: When did you first know you wanted to be an author?
Heather: It wasn't until after I published that I realized that sharing my novels would be so rewarding. At first, I thought only my friends and family would be interested, but as more and more people read my novel and love it, I find a great sense of connection with my readers. For the first time in my life, I feel like I can have a positive influence on the world beyond myself and my immediate relations.
Deirdra: How does writing help you in your personal life?
Heather: Writing is my balm. For some reason, I only feel sane when I can write a bit every day. It helps me use my imagination and skills rather than letting my mind stagnate.
Deirdra: What was the pathway like for you to get your first book published?
Heather: I wrote several novels before I found my editor. Once I plucked up the courage to have it edited, Perception became more than it ever could have on its own. That's when I wanted to perfect it. I cut and mended over and over until the finished manuscript was one I could be proud of. Even though my editor encouraged me to find an agent, I still wasn't sure I wanted to publish. Rather than going traditional, I decided to self publish and see what would happen. So far, so good.
Deirdra: Were you ever discouraged along the way? If so, how did you deal with it?
Heather: There were many times I wondered what I was doing. I hated learning to format ebooks, the printing process, and general computer savvy. I felt the learning curve acutely. Instead of writing, my endeavor had turned into a full time job that kept me from my writing. It is still a battle, but one I am learning how to win. The desire to write was what kept me going--almost as necessary as eating and sleeping. My family also continues to encourage me all the time.
Other discouragement came from a lack of confidence in my writing, but the more I write, the more I believe in my writing. The positive reviews and comments from fans are helping as well.
Deirdra: What is your writing schedule like?
Heather: I write all day when my three teenagers are in school. I fit in interviews, reviews, reading, social media, blogging, etc. when my kids are doing homework, at lessons, or after everyone else goes to bed.
Deirdra: Where do your ideas come from? How do you know the idea is good enough to write a book about it?
Heather: Characters tend to walk into my imagination fully formed, and like every person on the face of the earth, they are every one good enough to write about. I believe a really good writer can spin a tale out of just about anything. The question is: Am I a good enough writer to write about this character? It's more a question of my worthiness than theirs. Some of my stories are waiting in the recesses of my brain until I can write well enough to do them justice.
Deirdra: Can you tell us a little about your book Perception?
Heather: Perception is the first of a trilogy. It is an Epic Fantasy set in a dystopian future where genetic engineering for military purposes has spliced humans with different living things to make a more powerful soldier. The novel begins over five hundred years later. The genes of humans and their individual animal companions have continued to mutate, refine, and combine, until they have become telepathically linked. Ardana and her tiger Rijan take us on their journey to escape a life of abuse and exile and find their way in a complicated world of politics and prejudice.
Deirdra: What do you hope readers will get from your books?
Heather: I try to make all my writing an exciting exploration of each person's imagination. I don't care how names are pronounced. Make them your own names. I don't care how you picture the characters. Make them your own. Reading should be a creation of the reader's mind that is guided by the author. I also hope to share some of my own insights about life and make each of us question what we believe, how we should act, and become a better person by reading them.
Deirdra: Do you need absolute quiet to write? Do you listen to music when you are writing?
Heather: It has to be quiet enough that I can focus. I can't listen to music, but my children tell me I can block them out well enough.
Deirdra: What kinds of inspiration do you use during your story creation periods?
Heather: Like my characters, the settings are often already formed. And I pray a lot.
Deirdra: Who has made the greatest difference for you as a writer?
Heather: So many people have helped me along, but I would have to say that beyond my own raw desire to write, my editor (and now one of my best friends) has made the biggest difference in my writing. She knows just what to say, has this amazing quality of pulling things out of me I never knew were there, and has always believed in my abilities. (Her information is on my blog.)
Deirdra: Besides writing, what other talents or hobbies do you have?
Heather: I think being a good mother is a talent. I have devoted most of my life to it. I also like to garden, read, kayak, cook and bake.
Deirdra: What words of advice do you have for other writers who desire to have their manuscripts become books in print?
Heather: Follow the path that suits you. So many people think there's only one way. In reality, there's only one way for you individually. For some people, they feel the need to be traditionally published. Perhaps now I could accept being traditionally published because I know what the industry is like, what it's about. I never would have made it before. And I am having a lot of fun getting to know other authors in a way that might have been impossible if I had not self-published. Who knows? Just keep trying different things until something works.
Deirdra: What are you working on now?
Heather: I am currently revising Deception (The Tigers' Eye Trilogy, Book 2) and am also writing an Urban Fantasy series.
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Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena is seeking a financial investor to help revive the ailing lender and will remove a current cap on voting rights to help raise 1 billion euros (822.5 million pounds), its chairman said.
"I would like to have a long-term financial investor," Alessandro Profumo told Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore in an interview published on Sunday. "Nationality is not a problem. The important thing is that it believes in our project".
Late on Saturday the Bank of Italy gave its approval to Monte Paschi's request for 3.9 billion euros ($5.3 billion) of state loans, which Profumo said would be issued by February.
The central bank's backing was the final stage required to free up the financial help for Italy's third-biggest lender, which this week revealed loss-making derivatives trades that could cost it about 720 million euros.
In October, investors cleared a 1 billion euro share issue as part of its business plan, which Profumo said would be launched by the end of 2015.
Shareholders in the world's oldest bank on Friday approved two additional capital boosting measures for a combined 6.5 billion euros to be used in case the bank is not able to pay back the loans and interest with cash.
Profumo said he was confident the bank would generate enough cash to pay back the state bailout over the next five years and may not need to turn to investors to raise the 6.5 billion euros, which he described "theoretical" guarantees.
"We believe in this. The objective is to return to profits already during the course of this year," he said.
The bank will remove its current 4 percent cap to voting rights before launching the 1 billion euro cash call, he added. The move would encourage investors who could end up with more than 4 percent stakes to participate.
The scandal around opaque Monte Paschi trades is widening fast and Italian media have reported that public prosecutors are investigating a large number of derivatives contracts.
The issue has shot to the centre of the campaign for next month's national election and has prompted questions about how the deals, which were conducted between 2006 and 2009 and involved Japanese bank Nomura and Deutsche Bank, could have been hidden from regulators.
Monte Paschi was already under investigation over its 9 billion euro cash acquisition of smaller lender Antonveneta from Spain's Santander in 2007.
In an interview with La Repubblica daily on Sunday, Monte Paschi Chief Executive Fabrizio Viola said he had no evidence at this time that any crime had been committed, but the bank would not hesitate to protect its interests by taking legal action should any crime be ascertained by judges.
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Grammy award-winning singer Usher has won primary custody of his two children from his ex-wife.
The recording artist had been locked in an custody battle for their two sons, Usher Raymond V, 4, and Naviyd Ely Raymond, 3, for months.
Though the exact reasons for the ruling are unknown, Raymond User (the singer's real name) said that his ex-wife and former stylist Tameka Foster, had spit at his new girlfriend and attacked him during a visit with the children, said the Associated Press.
The battle was often times brutal to say the least.
During the proceedings, Foster claimed that Usher was unfit to be a father because of his grinding schedule and the fact that he had used drugs in front of his kids, said MTV.
Usher cancelled his ex's credit card, which she discovered at the register of Saks Fifth Avenue, and was forced to reinstate it given her duties as his stylist.
For his actions, Usher was held in contempt of court.
Yet, the court still ruled in his favour.
USA Today reported that the move is another blow for Foster whose 11-year-old son from another man was killed last month in a boating accident on a Georgia lake.
Their marriage lasted for two years, finally ending in divorce in 2009.The details about the visitation rights have not been disclosed.
'The West Australian' is a trademark of West Australian Newspapers Limited 2013.
All rights reserved.
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Uplifting, exciting, modern corporate business track. A simple melody on piano is backed up by drums/shaker and a few sections of spiccato strings. Halfway through the first section a Fender Rhodes counterline is brought in, and this builds to a break. The break introduces a few new elements that build into the final section and ending. This track would work wonderfully for many corporate business projects that want to set forth a positive and exciting message! | <urn:uuid:6b809953-5264-4c88-9709-0aba541d7864> | 2013-05-23T18:46:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Here they are:
1) Cake or Pie: PIE! Not that there's anything wrong with cake. But pie is better. My father used to say "Cookies are for children, cake is for ladies, pie is for men!" And pie is for breakfast too, where I come from.
2) Train or Airplane: Train
3) Mac or PC: PC
4) Univocal or Equivocal: Equivocal. I guess.
5) Peter or Paul: Peter
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Hello again Tweakers,
I'm going to get some watercooling for my rig and wanted to know if the new Corsair H110 will fit in my NZXT Phantom 410 without additional hole modifications (like the Kraken X60), or if I should just go with the H100i which I know fits.
The NZXT Phantom 410 should be able to house Corsair's H100 cooler, but it would be up to you if you want to go for the newer H100i. From what I've read in preparation for this question, Corsair's H100 will fit into the NZXT Phantom 410.
For peace of mind, I would go for the Corsair H100i, as you said - you know it works. That way you won't be worried when installing it. Let us know how you go! Definitely comment back here when you finish the build and let us know how you went!
Edit: I read the question wrong, and presumed you wrote "H100". The H110 is a 280mm unit, so by the looks of the Phantom 410, it will not fit. The H100i, however, will fit - so my recommendation is the same - go for the H100i!
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When you run out of something, what do you do? The solution is to substitute an ingredient called for in a recipe with another one. Here, you can find ingredient substitution charts and information for use in your recipes. Making one thing into another is never 100 percent, but in a pinch, however, it's helpful to know how to come close to an orginal ingredient, although sometimes it doesn't work. If you have any baking questions, please post them in our Forum, where they will be answered shortly.
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|GENERAL - MEASURING INGREDIENTS BY VOLUME|
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|1 tablespoon (tbsp) = 3 teaspoons (tsp)|
1/16 cup = 1 tablespoon
1/8 cup = 2 tablespoons
1/6 cup = 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons
1/4 cup = 4 tablespoons
1/3 cup = 5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon
3/8 cup = 6 tablespoons
1/2 cup = 8 tablespoons
2/3 cup = 10 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons
3/4 cup = 12 tablespoons
1 cup = 48 teaspoons
1 cup = 16 tablespoons
8 fluid ounces (fl oz) = 1 cup
1 pint (pt) = 2 cups
1 quart (qt) = 2 pints
4 cups = 1 quart
1 gallon (gal) = 4 quarts
16 ounces (oz) = 1 pound (lb)
1 milliliter (ml) = 1 cubic centimeter (cc)
1 inch (in) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)
|-Measure dry ingredients in dry measuring cups|
-Measure liquid ingredients in liquid measuring cups
-Weigh ingredients using a kitchen scale
Allspice (1 tsp.)
= 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves and 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Baking Powder (1 tsp.)
There is no substitution for DOUBLE-ACTING BAKING POWDER
Substitutes are NOT reliable.
There is no good substitute.
|Butter or Margarine||2 cups (4 sticks) = 1 pound or 16 ounces |
1 cup (2 sticks) = 1/2 pound or 8 ounces
1/2 cup (1 stick) = 1/4 pound = 8 tablespoons = 4 ounces = 113 grams
1/3 cup = 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) = 4 tablespoons = 2 ounces
1/8 cup (1/4 stick) = 2 tablespoons = 1 ounce
1/8 stick = 1 tablespoon = 1/2 ounce
1 cup butter = 1 cup margarine = 1 cup regular or butter flavored shortening (packed)
1 pound unsalted butter = 1 pound salted butter (remove 1 teaspoon salt from the recipe)
Buttermilk (1 cup)
Real fresh buttermilk works the best
Cake flour, bleached (1 cup)
1 cup (preferably) bleached all-purpose flour minus 2 tablespoons, and then add in 2 tablespoons cornstarch. Combine.
Bleached cake flour works the best.
1 package (12 ounces) chocolate chips = 2 cups
Can use chopped chocolate
|Citrus Peel||Lemon: One lemon yields approximately 1 tablespoon of zest. |
Lime: A yield of a lime is hard to predict because the thickness of the skin varies so much. Key limes, because of their thin skins, do not zest well. Use a regular lime, instead.
Orange: One large orange yields approximately 2 tablespoons of zest.
Tangerine: 2 - 3 tablespoons tangerine zest obtained from 12 - 13 tangerines
|Cream of Tartar||In general, for each 1 large egg white, use 1/8 teaspoon cream
of tartar or 1/4 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice or 1/4 teaspoon
distilled white vinegar. |
Up to 1 teaspoon cream of tartar per 1 cup egg whites
NOTE: Pasteurized egg whites NEED cream of tartar or lemon juice added so you can be able to beat to a stiff meringue. You will need double the amount. For example, for cream of tartar for pasteurized eggs: for 1 pasteurized egg white use 1/4 teaspoon of cream of tartar.
|Flour, Self-rising||For each cup of cake or all-purpose flour, add 1 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon of salt.|
|Salt||1 teaspoon fine sea or table salt = roughly 1 1/4 teaspoons Morton's kosher salt = roughly 1 3/4 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt|
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Noella (sp?) Pontois
Posted 15 February 2001 - 02:19 PM
Posted 16 February 2001 - 01:38 AM
[This message has been edited by Drew (edited February 16, 2001).]
Posted 16 February 2001 - 11:55 AM
probably would have much to say about her, I remember she wrote on ballet.co.uk that Pontois was one of her favorite dancers. Also perhaps Alymer would have some comments about her?
Yes, her first name is Noella with a "a" (and there should be a Umlaut on the "e"). In French, "Noel" means "Christmas", and she was born on Dec 24, 1943, so that's why her parents chose that name.
She was trained at the POB school and was a POB principal between 1968 and 1983, and still performed as a guest star later (her last performance was on her 50th birthday, in Neumeier's "Nutcracker". Her daughter Miteki Kudo, who is a POB soloist now- and a very delicate and elegant dancer in my opinion- performed on that day too). I think she was one of the most popular dancers of her generation in France.
She often danced with Atanassoff (dancing classical roles in alternance with Michael Denard and Ghislaine Thesmar), in ballets such as "Swan Lake", "Giselle", "La Sylphide", "Coppelia", "The Sleeping Beauty"...
Now she is one of the teachers of the POB corps de ballet. I remember seeing her in the audience at some performances. All the comments I've read about her said that she was a very kind person.
I wish there were more videos of her. I only saw one of "Petrushka" in which she danced the doll (Nureyev danced the main role, and Jude danced the Moor).
Posted 07 March 2001 - 11:04 AM
I'm interesting by your video of Pontois and Baryshnikov, could you contact me at my email address to trade for it : email@example.com.
I had a video of her in Raymonda with Nureyev, Guizerix, Vulpian, Loudières. I had also Etudes with Bart and Atanassof, Sylvia too with Atanassoff and Fille mal gardée. If you could send me a mail I will be happy to trade.
It was the biggest etoile in the seventies and they pass often ballet on TV with her.
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|Occupation(s)|| Superhero (formerly)|
Business man (formerly)
|Powers and Abilities|
|Alias|| Captain Nemesis (formerly)|
|Voice Actor||Christopher McDonald|
|First Appearance||Hero Time|
Carl Nesmith, also known as Captain Nemesis and later known as Overlord, is a character introduced in Hero Time. Originally, he was a famous human super-hero, as well as a great American icon and Ben's idol, but in reality, he is just a greedy gloryhound and a fraud. After a jealous rivalry with Ben as a hero, Nemesis grew insane with jealousy and changed his name to Overlord before joining Will Harangue in his smear campaign against Ben.
Captain Nemesis has been active as a hero since a long time ago (According to him, before Ben was born). A famous superhero and a great American icon according to most characters, his long services made him rich and famous, having his own weapon-making company and comic book series. In reality, he's really a gloryhound and a fraud who stages all criminal activities he seemingly stopped in order to get fame and fortune, though his agent implied he was a true hero in the past. Unlike Ben, he is shown to be greatly estimated by the anchorman Will Harangue, who described him as a "true American hero."
In Hero Time, Captain Nemesis organizes a fake kidnapping on Jennifer Nocturne in order to save her and come back on the first page of the news. However, the fake kidnapping was mostly stopped by Spidermonkey before Captain Nemesis arrived, causing Ben to get most of the credit. This, plus Jennifer kissing Ben in front of the media, caused Captain Nemesis to grow jealous of Ben, despite Ben's admiration for him. After a second attempt to get back credit was again unwillingly spoiled by Armodrillo, Captain Nemesis proposed a "friendly competition" between the two of them to see who was the best. Though he was able to win one test thanks to an Ultimatrix malfunction, he ended up being humiliated by Four Arms, ruining his image.
After his defeat, Captain Nemesis was jealous and rancorous toward Ben, and upgraded his armor in a dangerous way in order to get revenge on him. He then kidnapped Julie and intersects Jennifer's helicopter. He uses them to bring Ben to him for a rematch. After a fight with Ultimate Humungousaur, Captain Nemesis endangered Julie and Jennifer's lives to force Ben through a "no-win" situation game. Goop saved Julie, while Gwen and Kevin saved Jennifer. During the fight, Captain Nemesis expressed a disgust and disillusionment for having "wasted" his life saving pathetic souls like Ben, and renamed himself Overlord, stating that Captain Nemesis is dead. Water Hazard was able to defeat him. He is then arrested by the police.
In Catch a Falling Star, Nesmith escapes from federal prison with aid from Jennifer Nocturne and wanted revenge on Ben. Then with Jennifer Nocturne they go to a Motel were Jennifer dyed her hair black. Later, Nesmith confronts Ben and they have a hand to hand battle with Nesmith losing. He later goes to a veterinary named Dr. Pervis to get plastic surgery, but he ends up killing Dr. Pervis afterwards, and later on the road he kills a truck driver and leaves a letter to Ben stating that he's going to the Nemesis Corporation building.
At Nemesis Corporation, he wounds and kills some police officers. He reaches the elevator and inputs a code to a secret floor where he activates a bigger Power Armor but gets interrupted by Ben and Gwen. He then attacks them with his gauntlet, injuring Gwen in the progress. Ben then transforms into Eatle and defeats Nesmith, causing Jennifer Nocturne to wear the power armor. After his defeat, he surrenders and gives himself up to the police.
Powers and AbilitiesEdit
Captain Nemesis had no powers by himself, instead he uses a powerful battlesuit. However, the armor was so complex that he needed his staff of technicians to put it on. He gains the following abilities when he wears the suit:
- Enhanced Strength: The armor enhances his strength to an unknown degree.
- Enhanced Durability: It provides him protection against damage.
- Jet Boosters: The suit can be equipped with jet boosters that are used for flight or increased speed.
- Projection of Energy Blasts: The gauntlets' palms can harness yellow energy for projection of blasts or for stronger punches. The beams are adjustable for narrow or destructive emission.
- Grappling Hook: A gauntlet has a hidden grappling hook launcher for restraining opponents.
After his upgrade in which he boosted the core, he displayed much greater strength, speed and durability, as well as projecting red energy blasts from his palms. However, as a side effect, the armor grew hotter each time he used it, and according to Kevin, the suit would have blown up and killed him if Water Hazard hadn't saved him from it.
Overlord appears on Ben's second Trip to Rome, where he reveals that he was the one spying on Ben and leaking battle footage of him to Will Harangue. Ben appeared to Overlord and he is angry at him that Ben once again one-upped him. When fighting Ben, Overlord powers himself up by using the piece of the Potis Altiare that Enoch used. After Ben defeats Overlord, Overlord collapses from exhaustion.
Overlord serves as the mini-boss of the Colosseum level. He is a pretty easy opponent. Overlord attacks by firing lasers and melee attacks. While some of his attacks cannot be blocked, they are all avoidable. Overall, dodge his attacks and keep attacking until he is defeated. The easiest way to beat him is to turn into NRG, and continuously blast him with a radiation beam.
- As Overlord takes damage, pieces of his armor fall off.
- Overlord has an 'N' on his armor instead of an 'O', however, this is remains from his costume as Captain Nemesis.
- Overlord has a strong resemblance to Adonis from Teen Titans, as well as similar facial features to that of Warp in the same show.
- Overlord is voiced by Christopher McDonald, and the character is apparently a pastiche of McDonald's previous corrupt antagonist characters who were all a force for good that have gone over the edge:
- The brainwashed Superman from Batman Beyond (a long-time known superhero turned villain upon being controlled by Starro)
- The paranoid CIA agent Kent Mansley from The Iron Giant (an ally of the U.S. who views the protagonist as a threat)
- The jealous Dr. Wilson Croft from Flubber (the protagonist's equal counterpart who is jealous of the protagonist gaining all the attention)
- The jealous golfer Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore.
- Overlord's new face after plastic surgery slightly resembled his voice actor Christopher McDonald, especially the new thick lips and the bags underneath the eyes.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director intensified the opposition to CIA-directed drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Drones, by the way, are unmanned aerial vehicles either controlled from the ground or increasingly, autonomously following a pre-programmed mission. Unlike manned aircraft they can stay aloft for many hours. For example, Zephyr, a British drone under development, broke the world record by flying over 82 hours nonstop. Also, Drones are much cheaper than military aircraft and, because they are flown remotely, there is no danger to a flight crew.
Drone strikes have dramatically increased during the Obama administration. As of September 2012, Obama had authorized 238 drone strikes in Pakistan, six times more than during President George W. Bush's eight years in office, resulting in between 1,494 and 2,618 estimated deaths with only about 13 percent of them of a militant leader. The remainder of the deaths were "collateral damage," seemingly acceptable to the Obama administration
In September 2011, a drone strike in Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a militant cleric with al-Qaeda, and Samir Khan, an accused al-Qaeda propagandist. Both men were American citizens and had not been indicted or charged with any crime. In October 2011, a drone strike killed al-Awlaki's son Abdulrahman. According to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, drone strikes in Yemen have killed between 72 to 178 civilians, including 27 to 37 children. Between 2004 and 2013, CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed 473 to 893 civilians, including 176 children, and between 2007-2013, drone strikes in Somalia have killed 11 to 57 civilians, including 1 to 3 children.
In addition to the death and injury caused by drone strikes, a Stanford/NYU Report found that drones hovering twenty-four hours a day over communities in northwest Pakistan, striking homes, vehicles, and public spaces without warning, terrorizes men, women, and children, giving rise to anxiety and psychological trauma among civilian communities. Drone strikes then are making the U.S. few friends and provide a recruitment tool for Taliban and al-Qaeda.
These killings, of course, raises the question of whether the U.S. government has the power to kill Americans who have not been indicted or charged with any crimes. It also raises the larger question as to whether the U.S. has the legal authority to target for assassination any non-American.
In June 2012, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were given an undated confidential "Department of Justice White Paper entitled “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force.” This White Paper was recently obtained by MSNBC. The White Paper is a strained legal justification for targeting for assassination Americans abroad. It sets out a three-prong test: First, the suspect must be an imminent threat. Secondly, capture of the target must be “infeasible." And thirdly, the strike must be conducted according to “law of war principles.” According to the White Paper, U.S. officials may consider whether an attempted capture of a suspect would pose an “undue risk” to U.S. personnel involved in such an operation. If so, U.S. officials could determine that the capture operation of the targeted American would not be feasible, making it lawful for the U.S. government to order a killing instead, the White Paper concludes.
But as the ACLU points out, "This sweeping authority is said to exist even if the threat presented isn't imminent in any ordinary sense of that word, even if the target has never been charged with a crime or informed of the allegations against him, and even if the target is not located anywhere near an actual battlefield. The white paper purports to recognize some limits on the authority it sets out, but the limits are so vague and elastic that they will be easily manipulated.“ Basically, what the government is saying is that, "it has the right to carry out the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen. … It recognizes some limits on the authority it sets out, but the limits are elastic and vaguely defined, and it’s easy to see how they could be manipulated.” In particular, the ACLU concludes, the White Paper “redefines the word imminence in a way that deprives the word of its ordinary meaning.”
According to the White paper, the government has the authority to carry out targeted killings of U.S. citizens without presenting evidence to a judge before the fact or after, and indeed without even acknowledging to the courts or to the public that the authority has been exercised. Without saying so explicitly, the government claims the authority to kill terrorism suspects, including Americans, in secret.
At the February 7, 2013, Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended attacks by unmanned drones, claiming that such strikes are used only against targets planning to carry out attacks against the U.S, never in retribution for an earlier one, including Americans. Mr. Brennan is playing fast and loose with the facts. Clearly, if Brennan becomes CIA Director, the drone strikes will continue. And Congress seems unlikely to stop these drone strikes. That puts the ball in Obama's court.
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The Art of Burlesque: ‘New Gotham Burlesque, 1931’ by Reginald Marsh (1898-1954)
The drawings of burlesque and vaudeville acts Marsh made in the 1920s for the New York Daily News are among the first of his many images of popular theater. Such entertainments flourished throughout the country and were available all over New York City. The burlesque that Marsh captured can be described as raunchy and vulgar, but also comedic and satiric. Marsh’s drawings depict chorus girls, clowns, theater goers and strippers. Burlesque was “the theater of the common man; it expressed the humor, and fantasies of the poor, the old, and the ill-favored.” Marsh continued his burlesque sketches during his trip to Paris in 1925.
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Five Thousand Fed
1After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).
2A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs which He was performing on those who were sick.
3Then Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat down with His disciples.
4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.
5Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a large crowd was coming to Him, said to Philip, Where are we to buy bread, so that these may eat?
6This He was saying to test him, for He Himself knew what He was intending to do.
7Philip answered Him, Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little.
8One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peters brother, said to Him,
9There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?
10Jesus said, Have the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
11Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks, He distributed to those who were seated; likewise also of the fish as much as they wanted.
12When they were filled, He said to His disciples, Gather up the leftover fragments so that nothing will be lost.
13So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.
14Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.
Jesus Walks on the Water
15So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone.
16Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,
17and after getting into a boat, they started to cross the sea to Capernaum. It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
18The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing.
19Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were frightened.
20But He said to them, It is I; do not be afraid.
21So they were willing to receive Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
22The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone.
23There came other small boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
24So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.
25When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, Rabbi, when did You get here?
Words to the People
26Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.
27Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.
28Therefore they said to Him, What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?
29Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.
30So they said to Him, What then do You do for a sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform?
31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, HE GAVE THEM BREAD OUT OF HEAVEN TO EAT.
32Jesus then said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.
33For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.
34Then they said to Him, Lord, always give us this bread.
35Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.
36But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.
37All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
39This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.
40For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.
Words to the Jews
41Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, I am the bread that came down out of heaven.
42They were saying, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, I have come down out of heaven?
43Jesus answered and said to them, Do not grumble among yourselves.
44No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
45It is written in the prophets, AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.
46Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.
47Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.
48I am the bread of life.
49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
50This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
51I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.
52Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, How can this man give us His flesh to eat?
53So Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.
54He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
55For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.
56He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
57As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
58This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.
Words to the Disciples
59These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.
60Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?
61But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, Does this cause you to stumble?
62What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?
63It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
64But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.
65And He was saying, For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.
Peters Confession of Faith
66As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.
67So Jesus said to the twelve, You do not want to go away also, do you?
68Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.
69We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.
70Jesus answered them, Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?
71Now He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray Him.
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September 03, 2007
Shafars and Brights
(Today being the Labor Day holiday, I am reposting an item from July 21, 2005, edited and updated.)
Sam Smith runs an interesting website called the Progressive Review. It is an idiosyncratic mix of political news and commentary with oddball, amusing, and quirky items culled from various sources thrown in. Mixed with these are his own thoughtful essays on various topics and one essay that is relevant to this series of posts on religion and politics is his call for "shafars" (an acronym he has coined that stands as an umbrella term for people who identify with secularism, humanism, atheism, free thought, agnosticism, or rationalism) to play a more visible and assertive role in public life and to not let the overtly religious dominate the public sphere.
Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins have started a similar effort, which has caught on more than Smith's, to have people identify themselves as "brights". Who or what is a "bright"? The bright website says that "a bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview; a bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements; and the ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic worldview." Clearly shafars and brights are almost synonymous.
Smith playfully refers to the "faith" of shafarism and says that "Shafars are 850 million people around the globe and at least 20 million at home who are ignored, insulted, or commonly considered less worthy than those who adhere to faiths based on mythology and folklore rather than on logic, empiricism, verifiable history, and science." He goes on:
As far as the government and the media are concerned, the world's fourth largest belief system doesn't exist. In number of adherents it's behind Christianity, Islam and Buddhism but ahead of Hinduism. Globally it's 85% the size of Catholicism and in America just a little smaller than Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans put together. Perhaps most astoundingly, given today's politics, in the U.S. it is roughly the size of the Southern Baptist congregation.
Its leaders, however, are not invited to open Senate sessions. Our politicians do not quote them and our news shows do not interview them. And while it is a sin, if not a crime, to be anti-Catholic or anti-Semitic, disparaging this faith is not only permitted, it is publicly encouraged.
He argues that the overtly religious are given prominence in the media out of proportion to their actual numbers.
Further, omnipresent evocations of American religiosity ignore some basic facts. Such as the Harris poll that shows about half of Americans go to church only a few times a year or never. In other words, they are at best what is known in some Latin American countries as navi-pascuas, attending only at Christmas and Easter. And among these, one reasonably suspects, are numerous closet shafars, silenced by the overwhelming suppression of skepticism and disbelief. In fact, the same poll found that 21% of Catholics and 52% of Jews either don't believe in God or are not certain that God exists.
Such facts are blatantly ignored by a media which happily assigns absurdly contradictory roles to God in stories such as the recent shootings in Atlanta. In that case one was led to believe that religious faith saved the hostage, even though the abductor professed belief in the same almighty, as presumably did at least some of those killed by the perpetrator. But who needs journalistic objectivity when such cliches are so handy?
Smith makes the important point that there is nothing intrinsically virtuous about being a shafar. "None of which is to say that mythology and folklore are necessarily evil or that the non-religious necessarily earn morality by their skepticism. I'd take a progressive cardinal over Vladimir Putin any day. The thoughtfully religious, expressing their faith through works of decency and kindness, are far more useful, interesting and enjoyable than lazy, narcissistic rationalists."
But the key point is that there is no reason to give the leaders of traditional faiths any more respect than anyone else when they make pronouncements on public policy. As long as they stick to their pastoral and spiritual roles, they can enjoy the benefits of being treated deferentially by their congregants. But if they want to step into the political arena they should expect to receive the same amount of slapping around that any politician or (for that matter) you or I can expect. This is something that seems to be lost on our media who treat the statements of people like Pat Robertson, the late Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, etc. with an exaggerated deference, even when they say things that are outrageous.
For example, in a program on the Christian Broadcast Network just after the events of September 11, 2001, Falwell and Robertson suggested that the events were God's punishment on America for the sins of its usual suspects, especially the gays, abortion rights supporters, and the shafars. Falwell said:
"The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen."
Robertson said, "I totally concur, and the problem is we've adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government, and so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do, and the top people, of course, is the court system."
Falwell and Robertson can think what they want and say what they want on their own media outlets. The question is why the rest of the media take people who have such bizarre views seriously and invite them over and over again to give the "religious" perspective on political matters, and treat them with excessive deference.
As Smith says:
If the Pope wants to tell Africans not to use condoms, then he has left religion and deserves no more respect than George Bush or Bill Clinton. If Jews encourage Israel to suppress the Palestinians then they can't label as anti-Semitic those who note the parallels to South Africa. And if the Anglican church wants to perpetuate a second class status for gays, then we should give the Archbishop of Canterbury no more honor than Tom DeLay.
In other words, if you want to pray and believe, fine. But to put a folkloric account of our beginnings on the same plain as massive scientific research is not a sign of faith but of ignorance or delusion. And if you want to play politics you've got to fight by its rules and not hide under a sacred shield.
Smith also makes an important point about the different standards that are applied to different groups.
After all, is it worse to be anti-Catholic than anti-African? Is it worse to be anti-Semitic than to be anti-Arab? Is it worse to be anti-Anglican than anti-gay? Our culture encourages a hierarchy of antipathies which instead of eliminating prejudices merely divides them into the acceptable and the rejected. Part of the organization of some 'organized' religion has been to make itself sacred while the devil takes the rest of the world.
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Listen to what Paul Hoynes had to say today during his weekly chat on cleveland.com.
Here are a few of the questions he answered:
• Are the Indians playing better or just playing the right teams at the right times?
• What is Matt Ginter's future with this team?
• What free agents would you like the Indians to pursue this offseason?
+ Andy Marte, Josh Barfield and more.
Click on the play button to listen
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If there is a constant c such that DTIME(2cn) is not contained in DSPACE(2.99cn) then P=RP.Later results used hardness against nonuniform circuits to derandomize complexity classes. For example Impagliazzo and Wigderson show
If E does not have circuits of size 2o(n) then P=BPP.where E=DTIME(2O(n)).
I recently discovered that Peter Bro Miltersen in his derandomization survey (page 56) notes that you can use a uniform assumption, a weaker version of Sipser's assumption.
If E is not contained is DSPACE(2o(n)) then E does not have circuits of size 2o(n) and thus P=BPP.Miltersen's proof works by searching all circuits, using the local checkability of E to verify the correctness of the circuit.
You can even assume the circuits have access to QBF or Σ2p gates, the later an assumption we needed in a recent paper. Saying E is not contained in subexponential space is so much nicer than saying E does not have nonuniform subexponential-size circuits with Σ2p gates.
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A Quote by Samuel P. Huntington on western, dangerous, world, war, west, soviet union, asian, muslim, civilization, and dominance
Western universals is dangerous to the world because it could lead to a major intercivilizational war between core states and it is dangerous to the West because it could lead to defeat of the West. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Westerners see their civilization in a position of unparalleled dominance, while at the same time weaker Asian, Muslim, and other societies are beginning to gain strength.
Source: The Clash of the Civilizations, p310
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In the name of the beeAnd of the butterflyAnd of the breeze, amen!
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Contributed by: agapimou
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Source: Stray Birds
Contributed by: bajarbattu
"Now it's dark..."
Source: Blue Velvet by David Lynch
Contributed by: Enrique
"I'll fuck anything that moves!"
"Don't toast to my health, toast to my fuck!"
Butterflies represent transformation. They evolve from a caterpillar into a beautiful, wondrous being - much like a woman finding her inner goddess; her personal power.
Contributed by: goddess of the gypsy moon
If a butterfly can flap its wings a thousand times a minute to reach its destination, imagine what you can do!
Source: I heard it in my massage class
Contributed by: Ronny
Just as the caterpilar thought the world was over, it turned into a butterfly.
Contributed by: Aimee
"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked."You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
Source: Hope for the Flowers, Pages: 75
Contributed by: aphiemi
Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
Source: Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal
Contributed by: Amanda
Copyright © 2013 Gaiam, Inc. | <urn:uuid:eedb60cc-3137-4ec4-b316-02f21eafe6d8> | 2013-05-23T18:31:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Let me paint a picture for you.
Looking over the rail of a bridge on a winter evening, in the foreground snow-bound rails wind away behind trees. The middle distance is underlined by the blue smear of a highway bridge's lights spanning the unseen frozen river, and obscured by clouds billowing horizontally from riverside power plants. These clouds drape lazily across the skyline glittering sharply in the background below a dusky blue sky punctuated by a setting Venus.
This is a photo I'd like to have taken, but I didn't bother packing my camera today. I've found that the batteries freeze up below -5ˆF or so, which was roughly the high temperature today. A secondary concern, of course, was the fact that I'd have to stand around on a bridge for a while, in subzero weather with my heavy gloves off, while setting up for a low-light shot. Brr. | <urn:uuid:b43937dc-ec58-4ef9-94f6-19a9b0c3c4fc> | 2013-05-23T19:06:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Consider the following in Haskell:
let p x = x ++ show x in putStrLn $ p"let p x = x ++ show x in putStrLn $ p"
Evaluate this expression in an interactive Haskell session and it prints itself out. But there's a nice little cheat that made this easy: the Haskell 'show' function conveniently wraps a string in quotation marks. So we simply have two copies of once piece of code: one without quotes followed by one in quotes. In C, on the other hand, there is a bit of a gotcha. You need to explicitly write code to print those extra quotation marks. And of course, just like in Haskell, this code needs to appear twice, once out of quotes and once in. But the version in quotes needs the quotation marks to be 'escaped' using backslash so it's notactually the same as the first version. And that means we can't use exactly the same method as with Haskell. The standard workaround is not to represent the quotation marks directly in the strings, but instead to use the ASCII code for this character and use C's convenient %c mechanism to print at. For example:
Again we were lucky, C provides this great %c mechanism. What do you need in a language to be sure you can write a self-replicator?
It turns out there is a very general approach to writing self-replicators that's described in Vicious Circles. What follows is essentially from there except that I've simplified the proofs by reducing generality.
We'll use capital letters to represent programs. Typically these mean 'inert' strings of characters. I'll use square brackets to indicate the function that the program evaluates. So if P is a program to compute the mathematical function p, we write [P](x) = p(x). P is a program and [P] is a function. We'll consider both programs that take arguments like the P I just mentioned, and also programs, R, that take no arguments, so [R] is simply the output or return value of the program R.
Now we come to an important operation. We've defined [P](x) to be the result of running P with input x. Now we define P(x) to be the program P modified so that it no longer takes an argument or input but instead substitutes the 'hard-coded' value of x instead. In other words [P(x)] = [P](x). P(x) is, of course, another program. There are also many ways of implementing P(x). We could simply evaluate [P](x) and write a program to simply print this out or return it. On the other hand, we could do the absolute minimum and write a new piece of code that simply calls P and supplies it with a hard-coded argument. Whatever we choose is irrelevant to the following discussion. So here's the demand that we make of our programming language: that it's powerful enough for us to write a program that can compute P(x) from inputs P and x. This might not be a trivial program to write, but it's not conceptually hard either. It doesn't have gotchas like the quotation mark issue above. Typically we can compute P(x) by some kind of textual substitution on P.
With that assumption in mind, here's a theorem: any program P that takes one argument or input has a fixed point, X, in the sense that running P with input X gives the same result as just running X. Given an input X, P acts just like an interpreter for the programming language as it outputs the same thing as an
interpreter would given input X.
So here's a proof:
Define the function f(Q) = [P](Q(Q)). We've assumed that we can write a program that computes P(x) from P and x so we know we can write a program to compute Q(Q) for any Q. We can then feed this as an input to [P]. So f is obviously computable by some program which we call Q0. So [Q0](Q) = [P](Q(Q)).
Now the fun starts:
[P](Q0(Q0)) = [Q0](Q0) (by definition of Q0)
= [Q0(Q0)] (by definition of P(x))
In other words Q0(Q0) is our fixed point.
So now take P to compute the identity function. Then [Q0(Q0)] = [P](Q0(Q0)) = Q0(Q0). So Q0(Q0) outputs itself when run! What's more, this also tells us how to do other fun stuff like write a program to print itself out backwards. And it tells us how to do this in any reasonably powerful programming language. We don't need to worry about having to work around problems like 'escaping' quotation marks - we can always find a way to replicate the escape mechanism too.
So does it work in practice? Well it does for Haskell - I derived the Haskell fragment above by applying this theorem directly, and then simplifying a bit. For C++, however, it might give you a piece of code that is longer than you want. In fact, you can go one step further and write a program that automatically generates a self-replicator. Check out Samuel Moelius's kpp. It is a preprocessor that converts an ordinary C++ program into one that can access its own source code by including the code to generate its own source within it.
Another example of an application of these methods is Futamura's theorem which states that there exists a program that can take as input an interpreter for a language and output a compiler. I personally think this is a little bogus. | <urn:uuid:e9f8736e-fa3e-4ea6-b907-b80b1d97b5d9> | 2013-05-23T18:53:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico say Gene Hackman was acting in self-defense when he slapped a homeless man who had become aggressive toward the Oscar-winning actor and his wife.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that the incident occurred Tuesday afternoon in downtown Santa Fe. According to TMZ, the Oscar winner smacked Bruce Becker after he made threats and called Hackman's wife a dirty word.
Police didn't immediately provide any additional details. A message seeking comment was left for Hackman's publicists at Guttman Associates in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Hackman and his wife have a home in Santa Fe.
The 82-year-old actor has won two Academy Awards and been nominated for three others over a career that has spanned five decades.
Hackman took the Best Actor trophy for his portrayal of Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in "The French Connection" in 1971, and the Best Supporting Actor award for "Unforgiven" in 1992. | <urn:uuid:467ed5fd-71d6-45fc-9d43-7350365bd6a9> | 2013-05-23T18:59:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Principles of Design
Balance in design is similar to balance in physics. A large shape close to the center can be balanced by a small shape close to the edge. A large light toned shape will be balanced by a small dark toned shape (the darker the shape the heavier it appears to be)
Graduation of size and direction produce linear perspective. Graduation of colour from warm to cool and tone from dark to light produce aerial perspective. Graduation can add interest and movement to a shape. A graduation from dark to light will cause the eye to move along a shape.
Repetition with variation is interesting, without variation repetition can become monotonous. If you wish to create interest, any repeating element should include a degree of variation.
Contrast is the juxtaposition of opposing elements eg. Opposite colours on the colour wheel – red/green, blue/ orange etc. Contrast in tone or value – light /dark. Contrast in direction – horizontal/vertical.
The major contrast in a painting should be located at the center of interest. Too much contrast scattered throughout a painting can destroy unity and make a work difficult to look at. Unless a feeling of chaos and confusion are what you are seeking, it is a good idea to carefully consider where to place your areas of maximum contrast.
Harmony in painting is the visually satisfying effect of combining similar, related elements. Eg. Adjacent colurs on the colour wheel, similar shapes etc.
Dominance gives a painting interest, counteracting confusion and monotony. Dominance can be applied to one or more of the elements to give emphasis.
Relating the design elements to the idea being expressed in a painting reinforces the principal of unity. Eg. A painting with an active aggressive subject would work better with a dominant oblique direction, course, rough texture, angular lines etc. whereas a quiet passive subject would benefit from horizontal lines, soft texture and less tonal contrast.
Unity in a painting also refers to the visual linking of various elements of the work. | <urn:uuid:1c130101-a582-4897-9622-779b3ce5a7a6> | 2013-05-23T18:37:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Organization Tip of the Day: Hang Your Necklaces to Keep Them Tangle-Free
Are your necklaces a jumbled mess in your jewelry box? Hang them on pretty vases to keep them tangle-free.
How to do it:
- Display necklaces by wrapping them around a collection of narrow neck vases.
- Turn this trick into a DIY project by painting empty wine bottles. Just remember to allow each bottle to dry completely before adorning it with your favorite baubles.
Expert tip: Instead of necklaces, use this technique to display your bracelets. Simply stack your favorite bangles on top of one another and display on your dresser or vanity. | <urn:uuid:43455119-55e6-49e0-ae5f-26b489f4f2a9> | 2013-05-23T18:39:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Broward has joined Miami Dade in wrapping up its final vote count.
In Broward, the president got 67% of the vote to only 32% for Mitt Romney. In Miami Dade, the president received 62% of the vote to only 38% for Romney.
But, two other counties are still tallying votes. Details from WLRN-Miami Herald News. | <urn:uuid:96b1b909-e973-4dca-bd3e-9cd0ee9321aa> | 2013-05-23T19:00:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hey Donny…Wanna explain that “shot down the plane” thing any further?
Ok. I’m no conspiracy theorist. But I do question those who say, “If the USA had shot down Flight 93 over Pennsylvania, they would want everyone to know. They wouldn’t hide it.” I disagree with this. Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to say, “The plane went down because of a struggle in the cockpit.", than to say, “We decided to shoot the plane down.” The second guessing would have been tremendous, whether it would have been deserved or not.
If he did just misspeak, can this guy do anything right? He is clumsier than Bush.
More stuff from The BM Rant | <urn:uuid:f5c3e48e-8e50-48a2-89bb-6ce97e3feb10> | 2013-05-23T19:04:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Consistently across NFL sites and the blogosphere, I hear that Ryan cannot lead the Falcons to the Super Bowl, that the Falcons will never win it all with Ryan under center, and that he has peaked from a statistical standpoint. I would trade statistics for a Super Bowl ring in a heartbeat, but I don’t think Ryan has peaked completely, and I believe he has the types of tangibles and intangibles alike to lead the Falcons to a Super Bowl victory.
I would like to pose a question for all NFL fans out there, not just Falcons fans. What do you think Ryan’s production will be like statistically? I believe that with a full training camp, fewer drops from Roddy White, a full healthy season from Julio Jones, and better offensive line play, Ryan will throw for more than 30 Touchdowns in 2012. However, the true stats remain to be seen. What are your thoughts on Ryan’s production? Has he truly peaked at 29 touchdown passes, or can he elevate his game to another level? Cast your vote, and comment below as to why you selected a certain range. | <urn:uuid:9b48c271-6631-4020-a3eb-e0f48c946cb4> | 2013-05-23T18:45:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Tony Martin declares Bradley Wiggins as a favourite for Olympics Time Trial
World Time Trial champion Tony Martin is targeting the Olympics Gold medal at the 44 kilometre Olympics Individual Time Trial event on Wednesday.
Martin opened his 2012 winning account with a stage 4 victory at the Tour of Belgium and also managed to occupy the top podium spot at the race.
He occupied the fifth overall position at the Tour of the Basque Country and finished second at the Volta ao Algarve 2012.
However, the 27-year-old believes that British cyclist Bradley Wiggins is more likely to win the Olympics gold in front of the home crowd.
"There's just one name and it's Bradley Wiggins. He's the one to beat," said Martin.
"The surface of the road on the course is quite bad but I don't think that's too big a problem, because I'm leaning forward and will be resting on my arms".
"My goal for Wednesday is still a medal. I still hope for gold, but I don't have much hope left".
Martin is not 100% fit for the race and will ride the event with an injured wrist which will make it a little more difficult to match the likes of Bradley.
Wiggins joined the English Olympics team after returning from a fresh Tour de France overall victory and is in supreme form to receive the honours.
He has filled his bag with numerous overall victories in the earlier part of the season including the stage wins and overall victories at the Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie, Criterium du Dauphine, Volta ao Algarve and the Tour de France.
Bradley already holds six Olympics medals and his win on Wednesday will open the ways to the record books, earning the seventh Olympics medal of his career.
His Olympics medal hunt started back in 2000 when he won a bronze medal being part of the team pursuit on track.
Any medal on Wednesday can help the British cyclist will move Wiggins a step ahead of Sir Steve Redgrave who won six medals, most by any British athlete.
While Mark Cavendish failed to do his magic during the Olympics Men’s road race, it appears as if Wiggins is an ideal candidate to cheer the home crowd with his performance. | <urn:uuid:47f6e381-3d8c-4bc6-9f78-bc47b1bd4490> | 2013-05-23T18:30:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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(Born September 27, 1973) -- Fame in the National Football League can be fleeting. Ask Dusty Zeigler.
Zeigler was drafted by the Bills in the sixth round in 1996 after a good career at Notre Dame. He spent his first season, watching and learning like most rookies.
Then he became the answer to a trivia question - who was the Bills’ starting center after Kent Hull. Zeigler spent three years as a starter on the Buffalo offensive line. He moved to right guard in his final year.
Then free agency called, and Zeigler jumped to the New York Giants. In his first year with the Giants, he reached the Super Bowl. New York lost that game to Baltimore. Zeigler started all 16 games in 2001 as well.
Then he lost his starting job, and was out of football at the end of 2002. Since retiring, Zeigler has dabbled in local politics a bit in Georgia.
--- Budd Bailey | <urn:uuid:d93c602d-d318-4d80-8376-abbcaf41d718> | 2013-05-23T19:05:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What is Fluorescence?
Fluorescence is the ability of certain chemicals to give off visible light after absorbing radiation which is not normally visible, such as ultraviolet light. This property has led to a variety of uses. Let’s shed some further light on this topic; consider the omnipresent “fluorescent” lights. Just how do they work? Fluorescent tubes contain a small amount of mercury vapor. The application of an electric current causes a stream of electrons to traverse the tube. These collide with the mercury atoms which become energized and consequently emit ultraviolet light. The inside of the tube is coated with a fluorescent material, such as calcium chlorophosphate, which converts the invisible ultraviolet light into visible light. The same idea is used to produce color television pictures. The screen is coated with tiny dots of substances which fluoresce in different colours when they are excited by a beam of electrons which is used to scan the picture.
But fluorescent materials had practical uses even before we dreamed of color television. One of the most amazing of all fluorescent materials is a synthetic compound, appropriately called fluorescein. Under ultraviolet light it produces an intense yellow-green fluorescence which during World War II was responsible for saving the lives of many downed flyers. Over a million pounds of the stuff were manufactured in 1943 and distributed to airmen in little packets to use as a sea marker. Since the fluorescence is so potent that it can be seen when the concentration of fluorescein is as little as 25 parts per billion, rescue planes easily spotted the men in the ocean. Aircraft carriers also made extensive use of fluorescein. The signal men on deck wore clothes and waved flags treated with the compound which was then made to glow by illumination with ultraviolet light. The incoming pilots could clearly see the deck and the need to use runway lights which would have drawn the attention of enemy aircraft was eliminated. Certain natural substances also fluoresce under ultraviolet light. Urine and moose fur are interesting examples. Prisoners have actually made use of this property of urine and have used it as a secret ink. What about the moose fur? Well, in Canada and Sweden there are hundreds of accidents each year involving the collision of automobiles with moose. Some of these result in fatalities. Some car manufacturers are now considering fitting their vehicles with UV emitting headlights to reduce moose collisions! How’s that for putting the right chemistry to work. | <urn:uuid:8a9fffa2-d413-4b8a-87c4-d9c60c04d098> | 2013-05-23T18:52:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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