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My copy of Hail Cesar turned up a few days ago and I've been slowly looking through it, and so far, it seems like a fantastic system. I love the apparent freedom you get with the system, allowing you to tailor your army to fit the scenario/period of history.
I want to get my friends involved, and I've found the best way of doing that is to run an introductory game. I'd love to go ahead and build all the armies I have floating around in my head (The VI Victrix Legio, the Celts of Maiden Castle, the army of Arthur at Badon Hill, a Viking raiding force, the Knights Templar, etc. etc. etc.) but alas, like so many of us, I don't have the time, nor the money
So, can anyone suggest a good army list or two that will allow my friends and I to play through a few games and still get a well-rounded feel for the game? | <urn:uuid:cd13bbf9-3f32-4eca-8af5-6f118fcef750> | 2013-05-23T18:46:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Author's Note: Dedicationt to. . . .
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It was only yesterday I went and saw Josh, in such a bad state. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to get into fights all the time. To have almost permanet cuts because they would always be refreshed with each fight, one after the other. It was even worse that he was knocked out, and, he got his jaw broken. I clench my own. I can feel some sort of irritation.
It's about four in the morning and I'm just laying here. I can hear Addie's quiet breathing, but other than that, I'm just laying here, slightly propped up and just listening to the slight breeze outside. I pass the untired time by thinking about my time here. I've been here for two and a half weeks so far. Only four long weeks to go. Well, three and a half. I sigh.
I don't really understand why I'm not tired. Maybe I'm just worried about Josh. My new friend. Complete opposite from enemy, though he is still such a player. I don't feel anything for him.
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I wake up with the sun shining brightly into the room. It takes me a while to actually open my eyes properly. So I ended up falling asleep. I look around and realise Addie is gone. Her bed isn't made which is strange. She always makes it. She's neat, all the time. I get up and do my usual morning routine, which includes getting dressed into some comfortable clothes. I leave the cabin, once I've made both beds. The air has a cold touch to it but it's not fresh. I suppose it's just fresh.
I'm rounding a corner, when I'm forced to hold my hands up, in order to smack my face into whoever I crashed into. It was an running and tired out Addie.
"Addie?" I ask, finally putting my hands down. I straighten my jumper.
She puffed out, and still in her pajama's. She's swallowing, trying to catch her breath back. She's finally calmed down and able to tell me what's wrong.
"I'm going back for home for a couple of days," she says, biting her lip.
I feel so disappointed. I feel like I'm going to go through torture of being by myself again.
"It's only for a couple of days,' she repeats. 'But I'll be coming back."
"What. . . why?" I ask, finally finding my words.
"My grandfather is. . .dying. . . 'But, like I said, I'll be coming back."
I immediately feel bad for being so annoyed about her leaving.
"I'm sorry," I whisper.
She waves her hand dismissively.
"He's been sick for quite a while," she sighs.
There's al long pause before I speak again.
"Well, why would you come back?"
"Because,' she says quickly. 'I have to finish it, my step mum will force me too."
There's another pause, but it's quick.
"But I want to come back anyway, because you're here."
We both smile. She tells me how Martha woke her up early this morning when her family rang and told them the news. Now she's going back to pack just a few things, but is leaving the rest.
"Well, do you need me to do any laundry?" I ask.
She shakes her head with a smile.
"No, it's okay, thank you anyway. I'll take those with me."
I just give her another smile. Then we go back together so she can get dressed and some of her belonging's. We have breakfast together and just finish when a taxi arrives to take her home. She didn't have to catch a plane here. She only lives about an hour or two away. Once I've hugged her and she's said goodbye to Martha, Mrs. Wilson and Mr. Armstrong, she's gone, out of sight and I'm here on my own, once again. Martha gives me a hug. I tell her I'm going to do laundry. We're not doing any activities today. It's a free one.
I go back down to my cabin and pull out my dirty washing. I take it up in a plastic bag, back to the laundry that I was at the other day. There's no one else in here, just the same as before. The only noise is that of the washing machine that I put on.
I didn't know what to do today. So in the morning, I decide to actually go down to storage hall. It would have been closed if Josh had really died. At first, I'm hesitant to go in but I do. It's cold and dark. The art tables have been left there, though the blood and vomit is cleaned up. You can only see a slight stain from Josh's blood.
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|Leighton Meester||as Scarlett Murdoch|
|Mary Elizabeth Winstead||as Molly Rookes|
|Demi Lovato||as Morgan Smith|
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Mollie and Chase have been dating for the past two years. When Chase is offered a chance for a foreign exchange program in England, Mollie immediately tells him to go. You ever hear the saying: If you love something, let it go?
Well, that's what Mollie was thinking. But what happens when Mollie switches schools to be with Chase? | <urn:uuid:58f00f53-8e45-4640-bac9-0a76a84433da> | 2013-05-23T19:06:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - An attorney for a Kansas City man accused of killing the wife of his prayer group leader says he made up his confession.
Twenty-three-year-old Micah Moore was charged with murder in the death of 27-year-old Bethany Deaton after he confessed to Grandview police on Nov. 9.
He was scheduled for a preliminary hearing Wednesday but that was delayed at prosecutors' request.
Moore's attorney Melanie Morgan made a statement afterward, saying Moore didn't kill Deaton, was distraught over her death and made up his confession after being dropped off at the police station by other prayer group members.
Morgan did not address Moore's allegations that he killed Deaton at the request of her husband, his prayer group leader, or that Deaton had been sexually assaulted by members of the prayer group.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Police encircled Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park on Sunday as protesters geared up to observe the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
A loosely organized group of demonstrators first gathered in New York one year ago Monday as part of a movement that thrust "the 99 percent" into the political lexicon. The protests spread to dozens of cities across the United States.
By 7 p.m. Sunday, New York police said there had been no arrests during the day -- but they put the number of arrests Saturday at about 40. Protesters faced various charges including disorderly conduct, resisting arrests and felony assault.
Video of the scene showed people near the park being detained, while others banged on drums and shouted. Zuccotti Park is located in the city's financial district.
The group's messages have ranged from protecting the environment to protests over education costs. There's been an overriding theme of condemning income inequality and social injustice.
It put out a statement Sunday, saying "the day's events are about flexing people power in the streets and utilizing public spaces."
"The Occupy movement continues to utilize culturally creative tactics to build the movement for social and economic justice," the group said.
The movement also has been criticized for its lack of focus, and over reliance on a physical space.
"The camp is one of the central points for the first couple of months and that's just not a sustainable form of protest," said Fordham University professor Heather Gautney, referring to Zuccotti Park.
"So I think there was a transition into more localized acts of protest but they never really had the momentum that the camps had." | <urn:uuid:c5955e3a-499b-4628-a065-3d0d89225282> | 2013-05-23T18:53:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Red Cross helped a family of six after a fire forced them from their home.
The fire happened Monday on Beach Street in LaFollette. The Red Cross provided infant supplies and food and shelter for the family, which includes four children.
The Red Cross is looking for additional volunteers in Campbell County. If you would like to help, please call (865) 584-2999. | <urn:uuid:5c86c720-41e1-4193-99bc-82c027300d8a> | 2013-05-23T18:30:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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FR. AYODELE AYENI CsSP
April 2, 2012
At the dawn of creation, "the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters (Genesis 1.2)." The waters at creation not only manifest the symbolism of water in Christian theology, but also its creational importance. Water sustains life and its absence spells doom or death.
The story of Noah and the Ark gives a Christian account of the havoc excessive water may cause, even if there will be a rebuilding or newness that follows.
However, wherever water cohabits with the Spirit of God, as we see in Genesis 1.2, creational order unfolds from chaos. The Spirit of God hovering over water gives life and saving effects to water - "Wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live" (Ezekiel 47.9).
Water and Spirit have come a long way. In recognition of the association of water with the Spirit, we now say, in the Second Eucharistic Prayer: "Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall."
Here again, the Spirit is associated with water, in the form of a dewfall, with the mission of creating something new - the transubstantiation (changing) of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
St. Paul already anticipated this link between water and Spirit when he said: "For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and we were all made to drink of one Spirit (1 Corinthians 12.13)." What a theological evolution!
St. Paul anticipated the theological link between water and spirit.
The instructions of God at creation (Genesis 1.1-2.4) brought creation into being, and every creature was given its limits, including water: "I (God) placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it" (Jeremiah 5.22).
The human person pushed his boundary by "sin of origin," only to discover his frailty. When humans needed regeneration or salvation from their sins, water was readily available: "You (God) set the beams of your chambers on the waters, you make the clouds your chariot, you ride on the wings of the wind. . . . When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the earth" (Psalm 104.3, 30).
Humans can either lose their identity through sin, or have their identity denied them by servitude, like the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt.
The restoration of a lost identity comes via redemption. God redeems by re-creating the primeva l state of creation, not necessarily through destruction, but by manifesting his power as creator.
With the Israelites, he chose water as the medium of his re-creation.
The waters of re-creation originated with the redemption of the Israelites from Egypt, a fact which coincided with their new identity as a people.
St. Paul theologized on the crossing of the sea in these words: "I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 Corinthians 101-3).
The birth of a new people, Israel, by the passing through the sea, keeps giving new birth and identity to all who approach the baptismal font, especially on Easter night.
The column of light which announces God's presence among the Israelites, symbolized by the paschal candle, and the waters of the sea, represented by the water of Baptism, offer Christians the eternal memorial of God's acts of creation and re-creation.
Throughout human history, God never ceases to act. Every Easter season actualizes God's presence and intervention on behalf of his people, in all circumstances of their lives.
The baptismal font symbolizes those waters of re-creation. Baptism confers Christian identity to all who receive it, just as the Israelites received their identity before God.
Also, since the Israelites received a collective identity as a nation of people, at Baptism, every Christian is incorporated, as an adopted child of God, into the Body of Christ, as a member of the Church.
At Easter, we celebrate our individual and collective Christian birthday, our identity and our re-creation or redemption in Christ: "As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3.27-28).
Spiritan Father Ayodele Ayeni is a sessional lecturer at Newman Theological College and pastor of Mary Help of Christians (Chinese) Parish in Edmonton. | <urn:uuid:95b2af27-3c75-4634-b32e-98b5d5b52d84> | 2013-05-23T18:58:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is lifting the ban on women serving in ground combat units, a landmark decision that will open up some 230,000 military jobs to women. But this is hardly new territory for the ladies of the big screen, where females have been fighting on the front lines for decades.
That's not to say these fictional fighters are always on equal footing with their male colleagues. In some films the military heroines spend as much time battling gender barriers as they do fighting the enemy, like Demi Moore's muscled character in "G.I. Jane."
Some silver-screen servicewomen are even forced to hide their sex from their fellow soliders — think Chinese army enlistee Mulan, the title character in the 1998 Disney animated film, or Rohan cavalry warrior Eowyn from "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." In the latter, the niece of a king defeats an undead wraith, said to be invincible.
"You fool," the wraith rasps to the disguised Eowyn. "No man can kill me. Die now."
"I am no man!" she replies before casting the death blow.
Sing it, sister.
In the realm of science fiction, however, there are plenty of films in which nobody bats an eye at women in combat. Take tough-as-nails Pvt. Jenette Vasquez of the Colonial Marines, played by Jenette Goldstein, in James Cameron's 1986 action thriller "Aliens."
From "Joan of Arc" to "G.I. Jane," click through the gallery above for a look at some of the trailblazing warrior women of the big screen. | <urn:uuid:c154f34e-0cd5-40a9-b86e-58669ad890e9> | 2013-05-23T18:39:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Search: Nuclear chemistry, Darmstadtium, Germany
In honour of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the discovering team around Professor Sigurd Hofmann suggested the name copernicium with the element symbol Cp for the new element 112, discovered at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (Center for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt. It was Copernicus who discovered that the Earth orbits the Sun, thus paving the way for our modern view of the world. Thirteen years ago, element 112 was discovered by an international team of scientists at the GSI accelerator facility. A few weeks ago, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC, officially confirmed their discovery. In around six months, IUPAC will officially endorse the new element's name. This period is set to allow the scientific community to discuss the suggested name copernicium before the IUPAC naming.
"After IUPAC officially recognized our discovery, we – that is all scientists involved in the discovery – agreed on proposing the name copernicium for the new element 112. We would like to honor an outstanding scientist, who changed our view of the world", says Sigurd Hofmann, head of the discovering team.
Copernicus was born 1473 in Torun; he died 1543 in Frombork, Poland. Working in the field of astronomy, he realized that the planets circle the Sun. His discovery refuted the then accepted belief that the Earth was the center of the universe. His finding was pivotal for the discovery of the gravitational force, which is responsible for the motion of the planets. It also led to the conclusion that the stars are incredibly far away and the universe inconceivably large, as the size and position of the stars does not change even though the Earth is moving. Furthermore, the new world view inspired by Copernicus had an impact on the human self-concept in theology and philosophy: humankind could no longer be seen as the center of the world.
With its planets revolving around the Sun on different orbits, the solar system is also a model for other physical systems. The structure of an atom is like a microcosm: its electrons orbit the atomic nucleus like the planets orbit the Sun. Exactly 112 electrons circle the atomic nucleus in an atom of the new element "copernicium".
Element 112 is the heaviest element in the periodic table, 277 times heavier than hydrogen. It is produced by a nuclear fusion, when bombarding zinc ions onto a lead target. As the element already decays after a split second, its existence can only be proved with the help of extremely fast and sensitive analysis methods. Twenty-one scientists from Germany, Finland, Russia and Slovakia have been involved in the experiments that led to the discovery of element 112.
Since 1981, GSI accelerator experiments have yielded the discovery of six chemical elements, which carry the atomic numbers 107 to 112. The discovering teams at GSI already named five of them: element 107 is called bohrium, element 108 hassium, element 109 meitnerium, element 110 darmstadtium, and element 111 is named roentgenium.
The new element 112 discovered by GSI has been officially recognized and will be named by the Darmstadt group in due course. Their suggestion should be made public over this summer.
The element 112, discovered at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (Centre for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, has been officially recognized as a new element by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). IUPAC confirmed the recognition of element 112 in an official letter to the head of the discovering team, Professor Sigurd Hofmann. The letter furthermore asks the discoverers to propose a name for the new element. Their suggestion will be submitted within the next weeks. In about 6 months, after the proposed name has been thoroughly assessed by IUPAC, the element will receive its official name. The new element is approximately 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element in the periodic table.
“We are delighted that now the sixth element – and thus all of the elements discovered at GSI during the past 30 years – has been officially recognized. During the next few weeks, the scientists of the discovering team will deliberate on a name for the new element”, says Sigurd Hofmann. 21 scientists from Germany, Finland, Russia and Slovakia were involved in the experiments around the discovery of the new element 112.
Since 1981, GSI accelerator experiments have yielded the discovery of six chemical elements, which carry the atomic numbers 107 to 112. GSI has already named their officially recognized elements 107 to 111: element 107 is called Bohrium, element 108 Hassium, element 109 Meitnerium, element 110 Darmstadtium, and element 111 is named Roentgenium.
Recommendation for the Naming of Element of Atomic Number 110
Prepared for publication by J. Corish and G. M. Rosenblatt
A joint IUPAC-IUPAP Working Party confirms the discovery of element number 110 and this by the collaboration of Hofmann et al. from the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany.
In accord with IUPAC procedures, the discoverers have proposed a name and symbol for the element. The Inorganic Chemistry Division Committee now recommends this proposal for acceptance. The proposed name is darmstadtium with symbol Ds. This proposal lies within the long established tradition of naming an element after the place of its discovery. | <urn:uuid:149ab25b-f1f4-4231-88ea-4e1968ed8a9d> | 2013-05-23T18:53:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Luteinizing hormone (LH) is produced by the pituitary gland. In women, LH helps regulate the menstrual cycle and egg production (ovulation); in men, LH stimulates the production of testosterone, which plays a role in sperm production.
Women's LH levels normally vary with the phase of the menstrual cycle, rapidly increasing just before ovulation occurs. This "LH surge" is a dependable sign that a woman is in a fertile time of her cycle. Men's LH levels normally remain constant.
Abnormally high or low LH levels can be a sign of an inability to produce eggs or sperm.
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I understand that HTTPS is slower than HTTP - does anyone know by what percentage?
04-16-2004, 10:33 AM
The above link describes it as about 5 times slower. Although how they came up with that figure I don't know. I would think that it would depend on some factors though. One of which being level of encryption. Other determining factors could be what kind of hardware you have. Your available bandwidth, etc.
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Alabama became the first team to come away with a shutout in a BCS bowl game, blanking LSU, 21-0, in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game in New Orleans. It was the first time since 2002 that the Tigers had been held scoreless.
Top-ranked LSU, who wasn't able to advance the ball past midfield until midway through the fourth quarter, managed just 92 yards. No. 2-ranked Alabama dominated throughout the contest, totaling 20 first downs to the Tigers' five. For Alabama, the win avenged a Nov. 5, 9-6 loss to LSU.
Tide head coach Nick Saban becomes the first coach in the BCS era to win three national titles.
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GÜNTER GRASS self-destructed at the beginning of Europe's literary season. However, what, to foreign observers, may look like a near-fatal fall from the moral high horse Grass had saddled in the 1960s may not be the inevitable punishment for unbridled hubris. Rather, it may be a simple case of my pragmatic mother's axiom that old folks show their true character as they lose the will to compromise.
Grass, who will turn 80 next fall, caused outrage in Germany not because he revealed in his new memoir Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (Peeling the Onion) that he had served in the Waffen-SS as a 17-year-old, but because he, who for much of his career had harassed politicians, intellectuals, and ordinary Germans into facing their Nazi past, seemed so unashamed when he revealed that he had, for more than half a century, concealed his own brown secret.
Immediately, there were suspicions of opportunism. Grass was accused both of keeping the SS-secret under wraps to remain a viable candidate for the Nobel Prize (which he won in 1999) and of releasing the news just slightly in advance of the memoir's publication to generate interest.
But the story of Grass's use of his past and its presentation to the public is not merely a tale of opportunism. It is a story of the emancipation, for better or worse, of the German public from its moral and aesthetic dictators.
FOR THE PUBLIC the story began on Saturday, August 12, when the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung announced the headline "Günter Grass: I was a Member of the Waffen-SS." The article was accompanied by a front-page editorial written by one of the paper's five publishers, and supplemented inside with a 2-page interview with Grass.
The lead article reported in the first paragraph that Grass admitted that he was a member of the Waffen-SS; that he would comment on his military service in his memoir to be published in September; and that in the accompanying interview he explained his motivation for "breaking his silence" as: "it was irking to come out." The opening sentence simply stated that "Günter Grass admitted that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS." But the time and place of Grass's confession were not mentioned.
It was immediately apparent that the "news" of Grass's service in the Waffen-SS had not been spurred on by newly discovered facts. Instead, it was being deliberately announced by the top culture editors at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for reasons that would become clear as the story unfolded.
IN FACT, the news about Grass had been out since July 2006. In mid-July Grass's publisher, Steidl Verlag in Göttingen, distributed some 550 advance copies of the memoir to reviewers. The confession of Grass Waffen-SS service appeared on pages 126 and 127. But nothing happened. No one jumped at the revelation.
For its part, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's planning for the Grass memoir had begun in April 2006. "It was clear from the start," wrote the literary editor Hubert Spiegel on August 19 (a week after the news had first appeared in the paper), "when Grass writes his memoirs, it's an event. Therefore we asked the Nobel laureate to make his memoirs an event in the paper, an artistic event, by contributing his own handiwork." The editors asked Grass to design a special eight-page supplement to be printed on glossy paper and distributed with a Saturday edition of the paper in late August.
Reading Spiegel's August 19 report about the making of the supplement, the motivation of the editors begins to become clear. In the 1960s and 1970s , a headline happily broadcasting "Grass confesses Waffen-SS membership" in the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung would have been taken as a conservative act of revenge on a leftist figure. Not so in 2006. The Frankfurt paper is still conservative. But Grass is no longer simply a liberal activist.
He is now Germany's greatest literary artist, the only living German writer of international repute, and the only writer who, in novel after novel, from the Tin Drum (1959) to Crab Walk (2003), transformed German history into mesmerizing literary art. He developed a baroque style of linguistic impreciseness that dissolves hard facts into earthy sensual pleasures. He is a regionalist, culturally rooted in the landscape around Danzig, where he grew up, and implicitly hostile to the capitalist cosmopolitanism of a borderless European Union. What Grass has come to represent is the possibility of creating, once again, a particular German art. It was his creation of a new German aesthetic over the course of 50 years that the culture editors at the Frankfurt paper had planned to celebrate.
The problem with the celebration, though, was that in his memoir Grass quietly corrected his well-established biography. He had always claimed that he had been drafted in 1944 as a Flakhelfer, a minimally trained youngster loading anti-aircraft guns. In his memoir Grass explained that he had volunteered for service in the Navy in the summer of 1943 because he wanted to escape the indignities of an impoverished, petit-bourgeois life in a two-room hell-hole where he was forced to listen to his father fulfill his connubial duty. Grass was called up a year after signing his papers as a volunteer, joined his unit of the Waffen-SS, Division Frundsberg, in September 1944, and was sent into combat in March and April of 1945. Grass is somewhat hazy on the issue of when, precisely, he realized that he had signed on to the Waffen-SS.
In 2003, several prominent literary intellectuals of impeccably liberal views had been outed as having been members of the Nazi party. The revelations permanently damaged their reputations. Thus the editors at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung knew they had a problem. They wanted to honor a distinguished man. But the man had done the unforgivable: Not only had he remained silent while pushing others to confess, but he had actually lied about his military service during the Nazi years (for instance to his biographer Michael Jürgs).
Unfortunately, by mid-August, no critic with an advance copy had taken that problem public and thus off the hands of the Frankfurt editors.
So they decided to go it alone. On August 12, a week before the celebratory supplement was scheduled to appear, the editors put the biographical "news" on the front-page of the paper. And all hell broke lose. A furious debate ensued, raged for two months, and ended in a nifty twist from which Grass is unlikely to recover, at least in Germany.
THE NEWS of Grass's "confession," produced a shock among intellectuals and triggered red-hot anger in ordinary Germans. Politicians, public intellectuals, and writers, especially those abroad, tended to defend Grass, saying that while it was certainly not nice to have volunteered for the SS as a youngster, it was awfully good of Grass to come clean now. (The alternative presumably being to have his secret dug up by a doctoral student while he was moldering defenseless in a dusty grave.)
Ordinary folks, though, weren't fooled. Their outrage, fueled by suspicions of Grass's insincerity and opportunism--as well as his long history of public moralizing and heckling--had been inflamed not by the August 12 lead article, but by the interview, in which Grass had not only shown himself to be naïve but also mind-bogglingly callous.
The journalists who had posed the 37 questions of the printed interview were later criticized as much too soft by the liberal weekly Die Zeit. Yet it was the very softness of the questions and the exquisite politeness of the journalists toward the old man that had tempted Grass to speak unguardedly.
Twice Grass evaded questions about why it had taken him so long to admit his service in the Waffen-SS. Pinned down, Grass argued, in one of his baroquely twisted sentences: "It is certain that I believed that with what I was doing in writing I had done enough." Presumably, Grass meant that his writing had expiated his sin.
Later in the interview, Grass praised the fact that after the war his contemporaries in the Soviet-occupied East were immediately given a new and believable ideology ("eine neue und glaubhafte Ideologie"), while in the west and emerging from American internment, he was ideologically on his own ("in the wilderness") and had to figure out how to cope with his Nazi past.
Grass condemned Adenauer and his Catholic narrowness ("we had Adenauer, horrible, with all the lies and with the whole Catholic foul air") and he argued that not even the Nazis had been as philistine and petit bourgeois as the Adenauer '50s. Still later in the interview, he called the Nazis attractively "antibürgerlich"--meaning that they opposed parental authority rooted in 19th-century bourgeois values.
To these observations Grass added two more shockers. Asked whether he had any idea what fear the sight of an SS uniform could cause, he said he had had no inkling. He pointed out for many months after the war that he didn't believe that Germans had committed the crimes he saw in the pictures of concentration camps he was given to look at during his POW internment by the Americans. It was not until Baldur vonSchirach confessed at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 that Grass came around to accepting the reality of the crimes.
Grass even added that while he was first learning about the German crimes in the American POW camp, he observed white Americans insulting their black country men: "Suddenly I was confronted with direct racism," he said.
NONE OF THIS was well received by the public. Letters to the editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung were extremely critical of Grass. Letter writers provided historical details about the Waffen-SS, stressed that Catholicism and other forms of Christianity had given some Germans the strength to resist the Nazis, and pointed out the philistine nature of Nazi Germany.
Taking its cue in part from the letters, the Frankfurt paper began running articles that reconstructed the historical elements of Grass's active service. The culture editors at the paper came to Grass's defense, but their hearts didn't seem to be in it. The review of Grass's memoir, which the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published on August 26 was positive, but not glowing. The memoir was no longer the great artistic event the editors had been so sure it would be.
A couple weeks later, the paper turned (with considerable relief) to serializing Joachim Fest's autobiography Ich nicht (Not I), a straight-forward memoir about resisting cooptation by the Nazis.
As September wore on, Grass became increasingly defensive. In public appearances he downplayed his volunteering for service and stressed his involuntary involvement in the SS. With a chip on his shoulder, he embarked on his author tour. But angry letters kept arriving at the Frankfurt paper and the editors kept printing critical voices. On September 29, the paper devoted its cultural front page to Grass once more: It printed two letters Grass had written in 1969 and 1970 to Karl Schiller, a fellow social democrat and Germany's economics minister at the time. In the letters Grass urged Schiller to confess his membership in the NSDAP "without a big mea-culpa-gesture." The letters were accompanied by an analytic article, in which the author used the word "Verdrängungskunst" (art of suppression) to describe the Grass letters. The next day the paper was attacked by the former president of the University of Lübeck for accusing Grass of cultivating the Verdrängungskunst and for denying him the right to attack former Nazis.
The Frankfurt paper, first accused by liberal journalists of helping Grass sell his memoir and assisting in his attempted cover-up, now stood accused of attacking Grass for his evasion of truth.
In early October, the Frankfurt Book Fair began and Grass saw his memoir shoved aside to make way for a novel written by an American--in French--purporting to be the intimate memoirs of a sexually deviant former Nazi. Who could compete with that?
Grass, never one to admit defeat, appeared at the book fair and, as the New York Times reported, "drew a crowd that listened raptly as he defended his decision not to confess having been part [of the Waffen-SS]." He excoriated the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for publishing his letters to Schiller and "said he had taken legal action against the paper."
In mid-August, the German Jewish writer Henryk Border predicted that "Grass is finished" and German bloggers now spell his name "graSS." But Grass is a survivor. And he's got fame on his side, which always attracts the support of fellow writers, like those who rushed to praise his courage when his revelation first hit the papers.
Not least among these supporters are some 50 Arab authors and intellectuals who signed a declaration of solidarity with Grass and declared that the criticism of Grass was a maneuver to detract attention from the Israelis' crimes in Palestine and Lebanon. Grass will troop on and do what he has done in all his literary work: turn a crushing humiliation into literary art.
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The Israeli navy prevented a French ship called the Dignity from running its blockade of Gaza today, according to news reports in the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz. "The Dignity was carrying 17 pro-Palestinian activists. It was part of the Free Gaza Movement’s flotilla that was canceled earlier this month after Greece refused to allow the ships to leave its ports for the Gaza Strip," the Jerusalem Post reports.
The boat was able to leave the Greek harbor only after its captain lied about its destination, telling authorities that the ships final destination was Alexandria, Egypt.
Preventing the radical activists from reaching Gaza seems to have gone smoothly, according to Haaretz:
An Israel Defense Forces official confirmed that the Israel Navy contacted the yacht, and warned it that it is nearing a blockaded area. Defense establishment sources stressed that they would not allow any kind of vessels to dock in the Gaza Strip, so any ship trying to break the blockade would be intercepted.
Following the quick interception of the vessel, the IDF sailed it to the Ashdod port where the passengers will be taken into police custody and handled by Israeli immigration authorities.
The IDF spokesperson stressed that the order to intercept the ship was issued only after the passengers repeatedly refused to answer the demands of the navy and stop sailing toward Gaza. According to the IDF spokesperson, none of the passengers were hurt and IDF soldiers offered the passengers food and beverages following the interception.
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Health Club Info
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You might recognize prominent primatologist Frans de Waal from lectures he has given about his research on primate behavior, which have been popularized on YouTube.
His face is familiar to chimpanzees, too; some chimps that he knew as babies still recognize him even after decades apart, he said.
"Chimpanzees have the advantage that you cannot ask them questions, so you have to watch (their) behavior to see what they do," says de Waal, director of Emory University's Living Links Center, in his Dutch-accented voice that is both gentle and authoritative.
He adds, with dry humor: "With humans, you can ask questions and you get all sorts of answers I don't trust, so I prefer to work with chimpanzees for that reason."
Living Links is part of the oldest and largest primate center in the United States: The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, a secluded grassy area in suburban Atlanta where humans work in office trailers and other animals play in open-air compounds.
De Waal, who has been at the center for more than 20 years, has made a career out of finding links between primate and human behavior, particularly in the areas of morality and empathy.
You might think of "morality" as special for humans, but there are elements of it that are found in the animal kingdom, says de Waal -- namely, fairness and reciprocity. His latest study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that chimpanzees may show some of the same sensibility about fairness that humans do.
The popular belief that the natural world is based on competition is a simplification, de Waal says. The strength of one's immune system, and the ability to find food, are also crucial. And many animals survive by cooperating.
"The struggle for life is not necessarily literally a struggle," he said. "Humans are a highly cooperative species, and we can see in our close relatives where that comes from."
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Projection: McCaskill beats Akin to keep Senate seat
Democrat Claire McCaskill has successfully defended her U.S. Senate seat against GOP challenger Todd Akin in a race that received national attention because of Akin's comments on pregnancy and rape.
With 77 percent of precincts reporting, had 1,030,581 votes for 53 percent of the vote total, compared to Akin's 781,182 votes and 40 percent. Libertarian Party candidate Jonathan Dine had 120,969 votes and 6 percent.
McCaskill had not been expected to win a second term, but Akin came under attack after saying in a local news interview that women have biological ways to avoid pregnancy after a "legitimate rape."
McCaskill, who was elected to the Senate in 2006, was expected to have a tough re-election bid against Akin, a six-term congressman.
McCaskill was trailing Akin in the polls until Akin’s comments on rape turned the race on its head and prompted conservative groups including Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit founded by Karl Rove, to pull money out of the race. | <urn:uuid:d56727eb-ef5e-45f5-80b6-ae1cd45054ad> | 2013-05-23T18:46:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The man responsible for buying the gun that was used to kill a police officer in Montgomery County has pleaded guilty.
Michael Henry, pleaded guilty Tuesday to 23 counts, including purchasing the gun used by Andrew Thomas to kill Plymouth Township Ofc. Bradley Fox in September 2012. Thomas then used the gun to kill himself, police said.
The charges against Henry, 31, came down in October, shortly after Fox was killed.
Gov. Tom Corbett signed a law about the same time, making straw purchasing a crime.
Thomas, with a lengthy rap sheet, wasn't legally allowed to buy a gun, police said. He sought out Henry, who police said met Thomas in rehab, and Thomas needed the money to fuel his drug addiction.
Charges show Henry bought nine guns for Thomas, but police said only one gun was recovered.
The DA's office said it's seeking the maximum penalty for Henry, who faces up to 84 years in prison. | <urn:uuid:86e1cfdb-79ba-4151-a532-fff83f3f1e3a> | 2013-05-23T18:51:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Yemeni authorities working with the U.S. Navy intercepted a ship carrying a "substantial" cache of "illegal arms" such as surface-to-air missiles, potent explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, a U.S. official and Yemen's government said Monday.
The incident took place in Yemeni territorial waters in the Arabian Sea last Wednesday, according to a statement issued five days later from Yemen's embassy in Washington.
The crew of the USS Farragut, a Naval destroyer, was working with Yemeni authorities when they spotted the vessel in question, said an official in the Obama administration. The ship had several flags onboard, but no reliable documentation showing where it came from, the official added Monday.
After the ship was intercepted, Yemeni coast guard officers boarded it and "found a large cache of illegal arms," according to the Yemeni embassy's statement, which was also posted on the website of the Arabian country's state-run SABA news agency.
The firepower included anti-aircraft missiles, C4 military-grade explosives, ammunition and bomb-making equipment such as circuits, remote triggers and various handheld explosives, the Yemeni statement said.
There were eight Yemeni crew members aboard the vessel.
The Obama administration official described the effort as a joint operation, and said U.S. forces joined their Yemeni counterparts in boarding the suspect boat. | <urn:uuid:8f241d3f-f856-4472-84b5-9e2067a1a243> | 2013-05-23T18:39:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Has smallpox really disappeared from
The International Vaccination Newsletter, Dec 1997
In 1982, the WHO advised a global vaccination moratorium against the smallpox vaccination because, they said, the disease appeared to have vanished from the earth. For another thing, the side-effects had become too obvious to maintain the traditional guidelines in favour of mass vaccination.
There are many questions about the role of the vaccine in the decline of the disease, a point which may be clarified in a later issue of IVN. However, it is questionable whether smallpox really was eradicated as we have been told. Some publications stated that the last smallpox virus had disappeared from this globe. But had it really?
Certainly not, since viruses were stored and even used in later experiments as carrier molecules for an experimental AIDS vaccine. Some of the volunteers engaged by the Pasteur Institute died during the experiment from a smallpox-like illness (1). The institute managed to keep the information out of the front pages.
A new and embarrassing development was the resurgence of pox-family viruses in Africa, known as the monkeypox. This fact has been known for many years but the public was reassured that this had nothing to do with smallpox and that the human species was safe.
Not as safe as we were told,
though, since in the Congo in 1970, pox viruses were isolated from humans2 corresponding to the pox viruses found in captive monkeys in 1958 and identified the next year (3). It was baptised monkeypox~. The same virus was isolated from 6 humans in 1959 by Foster. In 1976, Gipsen reported on more cases in Nigeria (4).
The terminology of the disease became ever more confusing, since what were at first simply monkeypox are now introduced into literature ashuman monkeypox. What, now, is the difference between smallpox and human monkeypox? It is interesting to read in a recent article in the Lancet that "Human monkeypox is a systemic exanthem, resembling smallpox, that occurs as a sporadic zoonosis in rural rainforest villages of western and central Africa. The disease is caused by an orthopoxvirus, which is transmitted to human beings by handling infected animals; serosurveys have implicated squirrels ... as the probable reservoir. Secondary human-to-human spread by aerosol or direct contact accounts for about 28% of cases..." (my emphasis)
So, let us make a simple addition. This virus is an orthopox virus, which means, literally translated, a real pox virus. This virus spreads among humans causing an exanthem resembling smallpox, and causing disease and death among the infected (between February and August 1996, 71 cases were notified in the Katako-Kombe area in Zaire, 6 of which 4 died from the disease (5).
So what is the difference between smallpox and human monkeypox? The difference is a difference in protein structure. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed different structures. But what does this really matter it both viruses affect us in the same way, spread in the same way, and cause the same eruptions and the same clinical disease? Scientists do, the victims dont!
It is quite odd that the authors do not mention the smallpox vaccination status of the infected. All they mention is that in a preliminary study none of the examined had a scar of smallpox vaccination. Which does not mean that they had not been vaccinated as the vaccine may not have taken. No figures are available about antibodies against smallpox, so that we have no real clue whether, in this study, the vaccine showed any protection against monkeypox or not. Many of the patients described elsewhere were vaccinated. Arita and Henderson (6) found 94 children with facial scarring caused by monkeypox; all except two who also showed scars typical for smallpox vaccination. So the least one can do is to question the protection offered by smallpox vaccination against the new monkey-pox virus.
Apparently the new virus is quite infectious, since 42 cases, including 3 deaths, were reported in a small village with only 346 inhabitants. The article further states that "present cluster of cases constitutes a reemergence of human monkeypox on a scale greater in magnitude than the approximate 65 annual cases previously indicated for Kasai Oriental, Bandundu, and Equateur regions from 1981 to 1986" and also that "it contains a more extensive occurrence of person-to-person transmission than previously recognised."
The conclusion of the authors is that" Because sequence analyses have indicated that Zairian monkeypox strains have not diverged greatly from the first isolate from the area in 1970 and monkeypox and smallpox variola viruses are independently evolved species (7), notions of monkeypox virus mutating into variola virus are unfounded." This does not sound very reassuring.
Former suggestions that "prolonged episodes or sustained cascades of transmission of human monkeypox would be unlikely" (8) do not hold up. Although the smallpox VIRUS appears to have died down a few decades ago, obviously the DISEASE is still present on this earth and able to make a come-back. Whether this is due to the mutation of the original virus or to a new virus that generates the same disease is a question that remains unanswered.
Another pillar of the vaccine dogma, its victory over smallpox, has fallen into pieces.
1. Personal communication with a staff member.
2. Mukinda, V.B.K.; et al Reemergence of human monkeypox in Zaire in 1996. Lancet, 1997; 349:1449-50
3. von Magnus, P.; et al A pox-like disease In cynomolgus monkeys. Acta Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica, 1959; 46/2:156-76
4. Gipsen, R.; et al Monkeypoxspecific antibodies in human and simian sera from the ivory Coast and Nigeria. Bull, WHO, 1976; 53; 355-60 5. WHO. Monkeypox, Zaire. Widy Epidemiol Aec, 1996; 71:326
6. Arita, I.; Henderson, D.A.; Monkey-pox and whitepox viruses in West and Central Africa.Bull WHO, 1976; 53:347-53
7. Douglass, N.; Dumbell, K.R.; Independent evolution of monkeypox and variola viruses. J Virol, 1992; 66:7565-7
8. Jezek, Z.; Fenner, F.; Human monkeypox. Monographs In Virology Vol 17, J.L.Melnick, ed. Basel, Switzerland:Karger, 1988
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Police warn about rape suspect
July 3, 2008 · Updated 12:46 PM
"Police say a man posing as a law enforcement officer faked his way into a woman's Oak Harbor Street apartment, handcuffed and attempted to rape her early Tuesday morning.Oak Harbor Detective Jerry Baker said police are warning women on North Whidbey to be wary of any man without a police uniform who identifies himself as a member of law enforcement.Don't open the door until you confirm who they are, Baker said, adding that a real police officer will give a phone number to confirm his identify. Don't always believe what you see.In the recent case, the woman said that the man came to the door of her apartment in the Forest Meadow apartment complex and told her that he was an agent with NCIS, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.He showed her a badge, which Baker describes as a standard emblem badge. After she let him in the apartment, the man handcuffed and blindfolded her, then attempted to rape her.Before he left, the man wrapped the woman's hands and ankles in tape. The ordeal lasted about 20 minutes, immediately after which the woman called 911.If found, the man could face kidnapping, burglary and attempted rape charges.The suspect is described as a while male, somewhere between five-foot-seven and six-foot, about 25 to 27 years old, with light brown, medium-length hair. He was wearing a T-shirt and jeans at the time of the assault.Anyone with any information should call the police department at 679-5551 or call 911." | <urn:uuid:80d9ca60-ecae-4b44-830c-748f999ce681> | 2013-05-23T18:32:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The National Park Service maintains a number of historic sites associated with black history. Ten of those sites are featured here, each with a link to visitors information from the park service.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site commemorates the Supreme Court's landmark decision to end segregation in the country's public schools.
The Black Heritage Trail on Boston's Beacon Hill pieces together the story of the free African American community that lived here during the decades leading up to and during the Civil War.
Fort Davis is important in understanding the presence of African Americans in the West and in the frontier military because the 24th and 25th U.S.
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818, and was given the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (Baly), after his mother Harriet Bailey.
On October 16, 17, and 18, 1859, John Brown and his "Provisional Army of the United States" took possession of the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. | <urn:uuid:6e793c40-99aa-41dd-9090-28044f8eb355> | 2013-05-23T18:52:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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About 85 percent of voters supported the recall of Mayor Brenda Esqueda and councilmembers Maribel De La Torre and Mario Hernandez, according to the Los Angeles Daily News ( http://bit.ly/SNZBgM). Hernandez had resigned his post in July.
His announcement that he was having an affair with De La Torre at a Nov. 21, 2011, meeting raised the curtain on a broken city government.
Hernandez shocked meeting attendees when he announced he'd had an affair and he and his wife were separated—despite his wife's immediate objections that they were still married. She had been seated in the front row of the meeting until Hernandez had her removed from the meeting by police when she interrupted him to say, "I'm his wife... we weren't separated."
He then adjourned the meeting and left with De La Torre.
The San Fernando Sun first reported details of the meeting in the small town in the San Fernando Valley.
The councilmembers' affair quickly fizzled, reaching a low point when Hernandez and De La Torre each took out restraining orders against each other, leading a court to order them to stay 100 yards away from each other after a confrontation over an iPad.
De La Torre, who was
"It's been a wonderful 12 years of public service. I'm going to breathe, relax, and enjoy life all over again. I leave a legacy that will impact San Fernando," she said.
Esqueda, who had been accused of having an affair with a city police sergeant, said she had a heavy heart about the recall.
"I believe the voters were intimidated... by a police department trying to take over local government," Esqueda said.
Voters chose Jesse Avila to replace Esqueda and Robert Gonzales to replace Hernandez.
In the race to succeed De La Torre, Joel Fajardo led Louis Lopez by 164 votes, but it's unclear if absentee ballots will affect that outcome.
The new city leaders have a tough task ahead. The city must deal with a budget shortfall of nearly $500,000, which may result in layoffs or cuts to city services.
Recall committee chairman Julian Ruelas called Wednesday a happy day on which the city decided to take out the trash.
"We now have people who care about getting the job done," Ruelas said.
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NEW YORK - Robert Wagner's marriage to Natalie Wood was known to all. His love affair with Barbara Stanwyck was a secret — until now. In his new memoir "Pieces of My Heart," Wagner writes of his four-year romance with the star of such classics as "Stella Dallas" and "Double Indemnity."
They met on the set of "Titanic," released in 1953, when he was 22 and she 45 and divorced from actor Robert Taylor.
The press knew nothing about their relationship and neither did most of Hollywood, except for such friends as Nancy Sinatra, the first wife of Frank Sinatra; and Spencer Tracy, whose bond with Katharine Hepburn was the ultimate show business secret.
"I would say she gave me self-esteem," writes the actor whose successful TV series included "It Takes a Thief" and "Hart to Hart," but the relationship didn't hold. They were both too busy working and the age difference was too great. Stanwyck eventually broke it off.
"I would always have been Mr. Stanwyck," Wagner, now 78, writes, "and we both knew it." | <urn:uuid:85bcc8c6-17f6-4836-9108-a6d5be1b98e1> | 2013-05-23T18:39:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Send keys not working for certain computers
- Joined: Feb 11, 2011
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I have a winautomation script that sends keys to a game program running on 3 different computers (Win7 and XP). The keys are successfully sent only to 2 of the 3 machines running the same program and I have tried both manually configuring the keys into job designer and recording the macros.
The computers that this function works on are running Win7 and XP. The problem machine is running Win7 and is a considerably newer computer as well as higher performance (2011 Alienware desktop).
The keys sent are:
What do you think is causing this issue? I'll be happy to provide more information if its needed.
Thanks in advance!
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- Posts: 1
Adding some delay also not work for "System Properties" in my Win7. Any other idea?
- Joined: Jan 13, 2011
- Posts: 298
Your examples were:
It is my understanding that the parentheses have to be outside of the braces..for example:
You have them the other way in your example.
I had a similar problem with similar keys; when I changed the braces and parentheses around to the correct order, everything worked great. | <urn:uuid:4b2f1264-43da-4c7e-9b1f-d62c30bc9308> | 2013-05-23T18:31:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Maison Trimbach began in 1626 when Jean Trimbach settled in Riquewihr and established the family wine trade.
Jean-Frédéric Trimbach, born in 1811, was appointed Gourmet of Hunawihr, a position designed to protect the quality of wine exports. He transferred the Maison Trimbach business to Hunawihr, where he served as mayor for many years.
Jean-Frédéric and his son, Frédéric-Emile continued the family tradition, and Frédéric-Emile traveled extensively to promote the wines. In 1898 he received the Certificate of Highest Quality at the Brussels International Show. With Frédéric-Emile at the helm, Maison Trimbach began bottling its wines in Alsace rather than selling in bulk, providing a new guarantee of quality and authenticity. The contribution of Frédéric-Emile Trimbach was recognized when the family adopted his initials in the firm's official name: Maison F.E. Trimbach.
Today, the tradition of quality continues with the 11th and 12th generations of the Trimbach family. Hubert and his older brother Bernard, along with Bernard's sons, Pierre and Jean, have continued operations and currently produce approximately 80,000 cases of wines annually. Over one-third of their production is exported to the United States. While one of the smallest of the many producers in Alsace, they are nonetheless the largest, most widely recognized Alsace brand in the United States. | <urn:uuid:b2f8907b-9ae4-48ec-92fd-53df5d2588c6> | 2013-05-23T18:33:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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When Thurgood Marshall retired from the U.S. Supreme Court in June 1991, a reporter asked him what were the medical reasons that contributed to his leaving the bench -- and its lifetime appointment -- after serving for nearly 25 years. He was his usual blunt self.
"What's wrong with me?" Marshall said at the packed news conference. "I'm old. I'm getting old and falling apart."
When the news broke this week that Pope Benedict XVI was stepping down as the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics because of his concerns about being able to do the job, many began to speculate that there were other reasons for the decision.
We have become accustomed to a pope dying in office. That's not a surprise. It has been nearly 600 years since the last pope, Gregory XII, quit in 1415.
Even though the job of pope is a lifetime appointment, frankly, it is selfish of any individual to hold on to the job for dear life, knowing full well they don't have the capacity to do the job.
"Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me," according to a statement from Pope Benedict released by the Vatican.
Whether we want to be honest or not, it was sad to watch the decline of Pope John Paul II. He was a vibrant figure when he became pope in 1978, traveling the world and spreading the gospel to anyone who would listen. But toward the end of his life in 2005, he was barely able to move or talk, clearly worn down by significant health challenges.
Any leader who respects the organization they serve should have the common sense to know when it's time to say goodbye. We've seen countless examples of CEOs, pastors, politicians and others hang on and on to a position of power, hurting the very people they were elected or chosen to serve.
It takes considerable courage for anyone to step away from the power bestowed upon them by a position, as well as the trappings that come with it.
I'll leave it to others to try to figure out other reasons behind the resignation. But we should at least acknowledge the value of an ego-less decision that reflects humility and concern about the very institution the pope pledged his life to. | <urn:uuid:28b94942-0d35-4ce0-8ee8-c36d50a5d3aa> | 2013-05-23T19:07:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Breast ironing tradition targeted in Cameroon.
Every morning before school, nine-year-old Terisia Techu would undergo a painful procedure. Her mother would take a burning hot pestle straight out of a fire and use it to press her breasts.
With tears in her eyes as she recalls what it was like, Terisia tells CNN that one day the pestle was so hot, it burned her, leaving a mark. Now 18, she is still traumatized.
Her mother, Grace, denies the incident. But she proudly demonstrates the method she used on her daughter for several weeks, saying the goal was to make her less desirable to boys -- and stave off pregnancy.
A study found that one in four girls in Cameroon have been affected by the practice.
The U.S. State Department, in its 2010 human rights report on Cameroon, cited news reports and said breast ironing "victimized numerous girls in the country" and in some cases "resulted in burns, deformities, and psychological problems."
There are more than 200 ethnic groups in Cameroon with different norms and customs. Breast ironing is practiced by all of them.
Some mothers use hot stones or coconut shells to flatten their daughters' breasts.
Doctors believe improved diets have resulted in young Cameroonian girls going through puberty early. Many of them are also becoming pregnant early.
Terisia became pregnant at 15. Her child died at birth.
She told CNN that breast ironing doesn't work. She hates the practice and wishes her mother had instead talked to her about sex and preventing pregnancy.
Grace Techu argues that if it weren't for the breast ironing, Terisia would have become pregnant at an even younger age.
Techu has four daughters, and she used the procedure on the first two. The third avoided it because her breasts are growing at an acceptable rate, Techu says, and the fourth girl is still too young.
Mothers who want their children to finish school before becoming parents have resorted to this drastic measure, and many see nothing wrong with it.
In 2006, a German nongovernmental organization exposed the practice, which at the time was done mainly in secret.
Now, charities have embarked on campaigns to educate mothers in Cameroon that sex education -- not breast ironing -- is the solution to ending teenage pregnancy.
Dr Sinou Tchana, a gynecologist in Cameroon, has seen breast glands that were destroyed. She also saw one case of cancer, though she says it couldn't be established whether the ironing caused or only exacerbated the cancer.
"One mother came with secondary burns because the stone she was using to do this breast ironing burned her," Tchana says.
One of Tchana's patients is a 23-year-old whose scars are still painful 14 years after her breasts were ironed. She has joined the effort to confront mothers about the effects of their actions.
The challenge for all those trying to stop the practice is reaching parents like Techu in villages before a ritual that they say is motivated by love shatters more lives. | <urn:uuid:6730a6f2-cc23-476a-b987-ea44a1129889> | 2013-05-23T18:38:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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“Hajieh to be the first saved from stoning”
Behareh Davalloo was the lawyer of Hajieh Esmalivand, a woman who was sentenced to stoning in 2006. Davalloo was also the director of the Independent Society of Attorneys, and member of the Network of Volunteer Lawyers, the Women’s Centre for Legal Counseling, and the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign. Davalloo represented Hajieh since August 19, 2006, and was able to schedule a retrial on November 7, 2006. She had been in prison for seven years awaiting a stoning sentence for adultery. Davalloo detailed her case and how the Network of Volunteer Lawyers and the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign was able to successfully fight her stoning sentence and prove her innocence. Hajieh’s case is important because it was the first broadly publicized case of stoning since the 2002 moratorium and was the first instance of the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign successfully saving a potential victim of stoning. | <urn:uuid:dee6fc7a-718b-48e3-8804-d6c45baaa8c8> | 2013-05-23T19:01:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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just sayin: "who cares? she was there as eye candy. and it wasn't a paid performance was it? nobody should expect them to be singing for real at these sorts of entertainment events."
Lisa freira: "That was actually a good idea. Can you imagine if it somehow got messed up? She'd be living that down for years. Meantime what we got was a beautiful rendition of a song to make us all proud"
Although at least one person couldn't resist a joke:
jazziebelle: "...wow, guess she's not all she's cracked up to 'Bey' LOL"
OK, make that more than a few people:
"If Beyonce did lip-sync the National Anthem, it was only because Michelle Obama's bangs left her speechless," tweeted Comedy Central.
"'Hey Aziz, can you the sing the National Anthem into this mic? I won't do anything with this recording...' - Beyonce, 3 days ago #Betrayed," posted Aziz Ansari.
3:00 p.m. ET: A few hours into Beyonce-gate, there were a few who were seemingly disappointed and/or disbelieving (although we're hoping some of this is sarcasm):
@killencassie: "#Beyonce lip syncing? What is good in this world anymore? I want to cry."
@ShiahRae: "How could she do this to me? My life is a lie! #Beyonce" | <urn:uuid:1fbed6af-14eb-41bb-99ae-68b423fb7de7> | 2013-05-23T19:07:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Learn the ins and outs from industry experts. What sort of contracts should be in place when striking a remixing deal? Should a remixer earn royalties on a remix? What should you charge for a remix? Join us for the answers to all these questions and more!
John Morales - M&M Mix Productions LLC
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Bucks Co Jury Finds Man Not Guilty In 1973 Killing
A Philadelphia man charged with criminal homicide in a Bucks County shooting that happened more than 38 years ago has been acquitted.
A jury found 58-year-old Domingo Negron not guilty of first and third degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Joseph Kwiatkowski, who died about 2 1/2 years ago at the age of 54 while living at a nursing home in Florida, where a medical examiner ruled that his death was a homicide, caused by complications from the gunshot wound he suffered many years earlier. He was shot in the back during a fight outside the F and M Food Mart, also known as the Hoagie Hut, near the Warminster Heights public housing development in May of 1973. Defense lawyer Craig Penglase argued that that his client acted in self-defense, or in defense of his brothers and uncle, during a brawl between white and Latino men. The incident sparked what came to be known as the Lacey Park Mother’s Day Race Riot. | <urn:uuid:358b91bc-d2e7-4609-9fd1-9e5602008135> | 2013-05-23T18:45:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The FACE is where expert destiny experts look for symbolic mountains and rivers on the face, for these are regarded as the vital indicators of wealth and abundant good fortune. Start by looking at the central axis of the face as this the crucial starting point of anyone’s destiny. How your life will pan out in terms of good times and bad times is strongly indicated by the symmetry and balance of the two sides of the face.
1. SYMMETRY VITAL - The first wealth spot
To the Chinese, the first requirement of a “wealthy face” is symmetry of the two sides of the face. Only when this is properly indicated can there be good balance, which in turn leads to things going smoothly for you. When the face does not have this all-important balance, it is believed that a difficult life lies ahead.
The central axis of the face reveals whether the face is balanced or not. Only balanced faces are deemed to be lucky. It is thus a good idea to avoid selecting hair styles that tend to upset this all-important balance of the two sides of the face.
2. FOREHEAD HIGH - Second wealth spot
nly those with high and rounded foreheads are said to possess the potential for wealth. This is considered a highly reliable indicator of wealth. It also suggests that wealth comes early in a person’s life. The forehead signifies luck sent from heaven. The forehead is also considered the first prosperity mountain of the face, so ideally it should be gently curved, round, high and even slightly protruding. A forehead like this suggests not just wealth but authority and great power as well. If you have a forehead like this, it is likely that you command respect and possess the charisma of authority. A perfect forehead is rare, but as long as it looks prominent and wide, then genuine good fortune is indicated. High foreheads also suggest high intelligence and an ability to think quickly on your feet.
The Chinese believe that a good forehead supports all the other luck features of the face since it also signifies the place of the heavenly celestial dragon. This is a yang spot on the face and a very reliable indicator of a person’s luck potential.
It is vital to look after your forehead, keeping it clear of blemishes and unsightly pimples. Use artificial aids if you need to, especially if it ensures that your forehead is smooth and unlined. Using cosmetics to even out skin tones and reduce blemishes and lines brings good fortune, so this is something that is highly recommended.
Moles on the forehead should not occupy the centre. Black moles here are unlucky and are best removed. Red moles tend to be luckier.
3. MONEY NOSE - The third wealth spot
A person’s nose (actually its size!) is the best known measure of a person’s potential to get rich, and men who possess a fleshy nosy is a great favourite with superstitious old aunts and grandmothers! The Chinese always regard a big nose favourably, no matter how out of place it may look. The nose is the repository of money fortune, indicating wealth from many sources. However, this indicator of wealth is said to be more reliable on a woman’s face than on a man’s face.
The rounder, higher and larger the nose is, the better, and on a woman, this is said to bring great wealth to any man she marries. I have a friend whose nose is the one thing you notice each time you see her. When they married, her husband was far from rich, but today he is a serious billionaire! I like to use her as an example of the big nose theory, but have to confess that her husband does not take too kindly that all the credit should go to her nose!
Readers should nevertheless take note that the nose (from between the eyebrows right to its base) is an important part of the face and it should really never be cut or surgically altered in any way. The most famous celebrity whose series of nose jobs brought him misery and ultimately death has to be the late Michael Jackson. If you look at the before and after pictures of MJ’s nose, the transformation is quite startling and of course, everyone knows how his fortunes waned as his nose looked increasingly more and more like the nose of Diana Ross... and less like the original MJ. So leave your nose alone!
But you can make up for this by using cosmetics to make the top of the nose look clear, bright and luminous, with no blemishes or spots. There should be no hair, patchy colouring, spots or moles here. Spots suggest blockages to your money luck. When the bridge of your nose is high, clear and luminous, it suggests a life of affluence and comfort.
The nose is a yin spot. It symbolizes one of the rivers of the face. Chinese classical texts on face reading refer to the nose as the river Jie, a river that brings great wealth. The rounder and fleshier the nose looks, the greater the wealth that is brought. Nostrils should be neither too small nor too large. Moles at the tip of the nose are a major sign of misfortune.
4. PEARL LIP - The fourth wealth spot
This little pearl-like protrusion on the top of your lips indicates effortless good fortune. Wealth luck is often with such people from birth. The pearl is regarded as a gemstone to the Chinese, so this is a feature that also suggests class and prestige. It looks round and is slightly protruding, and those who have it will usually have had it from childhood, visible on them as newborn babies. When a newly born baby has this feature prominently obvious on its little face, it is safe to predict that the child will grow into a very lucky adult indeed.
Like the cleft chin or the dimple, the pearl is regarded a beauty spot, so it brings attraction luck to both men and women. The mouth pearl is also regarded an indication of wealth, and is highly valued on the face of a woman – especially on prospective daughters-in-law, as they bring good fortune luck to their husbands. The pearl also suggests that the person possesses the power of speech. Some refer to this wealth spot as the phoenix pearl.
5. LOTUS MOUTH - The fifth wealth spot
regarded as the second river on the face. It is the river Huai, an auspicious waterway when it is delicate, relatively small, but still soft and succulent. Irrespective of its size, the mouth must never appear dry, since this indicates a lack of water in the river and hence a drying up of luck.
As long as the mouth is always kept relatively moist, it indicates money luck. This is why it is such a good idea for men and women alike to drink plenty of water, as this replenishes the supply of water. It is also good to use lip balm, as this keeps lips perpetually moist. Women have the added advantage of using lipstick and this is said to attract good fortune, especially when painted red, bringing yang chi to the face.
The mouth is the fifth wealth spot on the face. Moles around the mouth, as long as they are not black, enhance the good luck of the mouth. Often, small red moles around the mouth indicate that the person will never lack food.
6. STRONG CHIN - The sixth wealth spot
A strong chin provides a strong base mountain for the face. Here is where the wealth of the individual is stored; and to be suggestive of a person who can accumulate asset wealth, the jaw line must be prominent. An auspicious chin is slightly protruding, quite fleshy and looks like a “mountain”. Receding jaw lines are signs of misfortune in old age and can even be a sign of premature death. A prominent chin indicates a mountain and suggests a long and fruitful life.
7. BRIGHT EYES - The seventh wealth spot
Nothing is more suggestive of a great life than bright eyes that appear alert and aware. Your eyes indicate good fortune when they shine and always with a steady gaze. It does not matter what the shape, size or colouring of the eyes are – more important is the inner vitality that shines through.
When the eyes are bright and are well protected by arched eyebrows, this indicates good health and prosperity. Eyebrows must never be overly plucked or shaved. In fact, no face must lack eyebrows! Without eyebrows, you cannot succeed at anything!
Your eyebrows protect you, guarding against “attacks” by wandering spirits and jealous people. When you pluck your eyebrows, never ever pluck above the brows. This instantly curtails your good fortune. When one eye is smaller than the other, use artificial aids like eyeliners to correct the imbalance. Once again, it is symmetry that suggests good fortune. It does not matter if your eyes lack the double eyelid of Caucasian faces; what is important is the shine and luminosity of the eyes themselves.
8. PLUMP CHEEKBONES - The eighth wealth spot
The cheekbones mark the eighth wealth spot on the face. In terms of age luck, one enters into the center section of the face after the age of 21. When the cheekbones stand out prominently and appear bright and shiny, it predicts serious wealth about to manifest. Cheekbones should always have flesh. They should never look bony since this is an indication of harmful yang energy. They are in fact luckiest when they look good enough to pinch! The colour of the cheekbones is also important. Cheekbones that look pink and luminous are indicators of good fortune. Cheekbones that appear sallow and dry suggest a loss of vitality.
9. PROMINENT EARS - The ninth wealth feature
When your ears are well formed and proportionate, they indicate good fortune and wisdom. They are said to represent the flow of the Yellow River. The Chinese have a great preference for long ears, as these kinds of ears remind them of Buddha. Long, well-defined ears that are not overly fleshy are a sign of class and the high-born.
Of the nine wealth features, only one is placed in the youth section of the face and two in the old age section. This suggests that our destiny manifests mostly during the time of life between youth and old age – this is known as the age of maturity. Face reading gives us a good idea of our luck potential, but it is also necessary to see if wealth luck carries on into old age. In the end, this is the most crucial indicator!
Our lives should get better as our destiny unfolds. The face reader should note that the face over time can and does undergo change. Mountains can flatten and rivers can run dry. It is vital to stay ever watchful, as much over our physical bodies as over the luck that we are constantly creating for ourselves.
This is shown according to the diagram here. Look for discolouration, spots or indentations, which usually predict problems relating to health and other difficulties at the corresponding age. A smooth skin indicates that you have few worries.
Chinese face reading has always been considered an indispensable tool to understanding our destiny and personality. Face reading categorizes individual features according to colour, shape, disfigurements and birthmarks, and the meanings of these indications depend on where they appear on the face.
A popular way to determine one’s luck at different times of life is by examining the “mountains” and “valleys” on the face. These are usually quite accurate in pinpointing at what age you will face obstacles and when your life will blossom into perfection. These readings are even better when supplemented with other forms of destiny analysis like Chinese Astrology and Paht Chee.
YEARS OF YOUR LIFE
The ears and top part of the face represent the early years of one’s life i.e. the time of pre-teens, teens and early twenties. As you grow older, your destiny is recorded progressively down the face towards the eyebrows, nose, cheeks, lips and finally the chin.
Using the diagram here, note that if your current age is on the right hand side of your face, leisure dominates your time. If you are on the left side of your face, work and career matters take up most of your attention. If you are at the center part of your face, you are said to be at a crossroads and some important decisions confront you.
SIGNS OF MISFORTUNES
Marks, spots, creases and indentations indicate problems. Where they are found on your face gives you an idea at what age you will face these problems, which can manifest as illness, bad relationships, accidents, money troubles and so forth. The bigger and the darker the mark, the more serious the problem will be. The Chinese usually take the sudden appearance of dark marks as a portent and usually sponsor prayers to “avert” something bad happening.
If you have a birthmark on one of your ears, this indicates a difficult time during childhood years. Marks on the bridge of your nose indicate a tough time in your twenties. Discolorations at the end of your nose point to troubles during your forties, perhaps to do with your family or with your financial stability. Issues will arise that cause you to worry.
Generally, when your forehead is flawed, it means you will have a difficult relationship with your parents. (Or it could indicate you were a bit of a rebel when you were a teen!) When your forehead is small or bony, it indicates your parents were not well heeled and could not afford expensive schooling fees. A skinny-looking forehead is almost always an indication of something lacking in your life during your childhood years.
If you have a broad, round and smooth forehead, it indicates an easy and pampered period during your growing-up years. Markings, spots and scars in your face can change over time, which denotes that your fate is not fixed but can change through the years. This usually reflects the result of the trinity of luck working simultaneously, where good mankind and earth luck influences your heaven luck.
If you find you are at a difficult age period in your life, one way to deal with it is to grit your teeth and be even more determined to improve the other two thirds of your luck to compensate for unlucky events.
You can get yourself a bottle of moisturizing cream or book yourself a facial to iron out the trouble spots on your facial features! Strange as it may sound, when you take good care of the physical face, the psyche also benefits – it is like attracting good chi with a smooth and unblemished complexion.
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wmubronco wrote:Maybe this was already answered, but no multichannel output (from video link)?
So that means I can't be watching tv in living room, and playing music from the receiver in another room?
If this is the case, what would a supplemental receiver be with this feature?
The TX-NR609 has "optional" 2-zone capability. You just have to settle for 5.1 in the "viewing room", no 7.1 surround or Dolby PL IIz. You can use the "rear speaker" outs, or the Zone 2 line outs. There are some restrictions on what material can be sent to Zone 2: as far as I remember, video sources are excluded, as are some digital sources - check the manual. You would, for example, be able to play FM radio in Zone 2 while watching a 5.1 movie in Zone 1.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In Latreille's classification, one of the two main divisions of the class Insecta, including all the winged orders. The other division is Aptera.
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“They were of many breeds, but their common life had formed of them a certain type, -- a lean and wiry type, with trail-hardened muscles, and sun-browned faces, and untroubled souls which gazed frankly forth, clear-eyed and steady.”
“These same characteristics were stamped on his sun-browned features, except that his hard-bitten looks were made handsome by the lazy glint in his blue eyes and the grooves carved near the corners of his mouth that always seemed to suggest a lurking smile.”
“Shirtless and sun-browned and slick-skinned, he looked like an ad for cologne.”
“Gone were the college kids, the backpackers, the sun-browned women with their dresses and straw hats.”
“His white T-shirt contrasted with his sun-browned skin, and she envisioned him on a surfboard.”
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“She approached Sorcha with a benign smile on her sun-browned face.”
“With their sun-browned bodies flecked with paint, they sat at the table on the porch in their skimpy shorts, waiting for her to bring them lunch.”
““Her sun-browned hair was uncombed, her jacket half-fastened, her face grey,” wrote Grace.”
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World Bulletin / News Desk
Turkey ordered an Armenian plane flying to the Syrian city of Aleppo to land on Monday and authorities were searching its cargo, as Ankara steps up efforts to prevent its air space being used to supply the Syrian military.
Turkey had previously been informed the plane, which was forced to land in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, would be carrying humanitarian aid and Armenian officials knew it would be searched, an official from the Turkish prime minister's office said.
The plane would be allowed to continue on its journey if nothing else was found, a Turkish foreign ministry official said.
Turkey forced down a Syrian airliner travelling from Moscow last Wednesday and said it was carrying Russian munitions destined for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's military, infuriating Moscow and Damascus.
Russia has said there were no weapons on the plane and that it was carrying a legal cargo of radar. But it moved to cool friction with Ankara - Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the incident would not hurt "solid" relations.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said over the weekend Turkish air space had been closed to Syrian planes. Syria has also banned Turkish planes from flying over its territory. | <urn:uuid:8f0bad52-d8d3-4e5e-b4e1-ce6eee5e9e7b> | 2013-05-23T18:32:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Background Information for Morocco
Background: In 788, about a century after the Arab conquest of North Africa, successive Moorish dynasties began to rule in Morocco. In the 16th century, the Sa'adi monarchy, particularly under Ahmad AL-MANSUR (1578-1603), repelled foreign invaders and inaugurated a golden age. In 1860, Spain occupied northern Morocco and ushered in a half century of trade rivalry among European powers that saw Morocco's sovereignty steadily erode; in 1912, the French imposed a protectorate over the country. A protracted independence struggle with France ended successfully in 1956. The internationalized city of Tangier and most Spanish possessions were turned over to the new country that same year. Morocco virtually annexed Western Sahara during the late 1970s, but final resolution on the status of the territory remains unresolved. Gradual political reforms in the 1990s resulted in the establishment of a bicameral legislature, which first met in 1997. The country has made improvements in human rights under King MOHAMMED VI and its press is moderately free. Despite the continuing reforms, ultimate authority remains in the hands of the monarch.
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Twilight Reaver says: Aku'mai demands more sacrifices, now you must die!
Twilight Reaver says: Intruders! The Hammer shall fall upon you.
Twilight Reaver says: The Old Gods will be restored. You will not be allowed to interfere!
Twilight Reaver says: Your blood shall be the catalyst for the Old Gods' return!
After killing this NPC you will gain:
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The Wowhead Client is a little application we use to keep our database up to date, and to provide you with some nifty extra functionality on the website!
It serves 2 main purposes:
It maintains a WoW addon called the Wowhead Looter, which collects data as you play the game!
It uploads the collected data to Wowhead in order to keep the database up-to-date!
You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles!
So, what are you waiting for? Download the client and get started. | <urn:uuid:941e985b-68a8-4ffa-ae15-3b3a7f8b57aa> | 2013-05-23T19:06:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Wyrmskull WatcherDeliver the Meeting Note to Watcher Moonshade at the entrance of the Wyrmskull Tunnel in the Blade's Edge Mountains.
|Meeting Note (Provided)|
DescriptionHmm, I'm not certain what we should do. I'm not much of a military planner.
Watcher Moonshade will know what to do. He's heading up our defensive efforts at the Wyrmskull Tunnel to the west at the end of Wyrmskull Bridge. We have a force out there just in case the cultists try anything funny.
Please, take the note to him with all due haste.
I've got an idea for how to help you, but first, I was wondering if you might help us out?
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa swept to an easy re-election Sunday in a vote that showcased stability and the popularity of his left-leaning social and economic programs.
With about 74% of ballots counted, Correa claimed 56% of the vote.
His closest competitor, Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, garnered 23% of the vote. He conceded.
"This victory is yours," Correa told throngs of supporters outside the presidential palace, many of whom waved the electric green flags of his party. "You know we have never failed you, and we never will."
Correa went into the election with a big lead over his seven challengers, and was widely expected to win.
To avoid a runoff, the winner must obtain at least 40% of the vote and more than 10 points' difference from the runner-up.
From abroad, the leftist president is often characterized as a disciple of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Indeed, the U.S.-trained economist has created his own "Citizens' Revolution," a socialist-oriented economic program with some similarities to what Chavez has done in Venezuela.
Correa's social and economic programs have boosted his popularity. He enjoys an approval rating of nearly 85%, according to a December survey by pollster Perfiles de Opiniones.
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5 diet busters that will keep you fat
These foods not as healthy as they may seem
With obesity rates soaring, many people are looking for ways to drop a few pounds.
Medical experts generally recommend against trying fad diets that promise to lose a lot of weight in a short period of time. Rather, they suggest that you change your eating habits and make a healthy diet a mainstay in your life.
The most important way of introducing a healthier diet into your life is to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and to be aware of the nutritional content of the food that you choose. And of course coupling exercise with eating better is sure to get the pounds off.
But no matter which way you choose to shed the fat, there are five seemingly innocent foods that can ruin your plans to have a slender, sleeker physique.
No. 5: 100-calorie snack packs
There are numerous 100-calorie cookies, crackers, bars and snacks to grab in the grocery store.
For many people, the snacks appear to be a good choice -- after all, the packages boldly and clearly say, "100 Calories." So many people think, "Wow, a tasty treat with minimal calories."
But while tossing the already prepared snacks in your grocery cart may help you control calories, the snacks may not necessarily be the best choice for nutritional intake.
In fact, preparing more nutritious snacks in small plastic bags is a better idea. A few healthier snacks would include almonds, celery or carrots. Grabbing any fruit would also be a good choice.
But if the 100-calorie pack of Oreo cookies continues to attract you, be sure not to make it a daily thing. And while eating proportioned and prepackaged snacks may derail your diet plans, so can drinking soda ...
No. 4: Soda
Don't even think about grabbing a soda -- diet or not -- if you want your weight loss plans to be successful.
Soda is one of those things that only provide empty calories. This means that there is no nutritional value of drinking a soda, so why even reach for one?
Instead drink plenty of water. Water makes up about 70 percent of your body weight. Water is also the most important nutrient for the body.
If it's tough for you to drink water, try dumping a flavored pack of Crystal Light, Wyler's or Special K into a bottle or glass of water to make it more of a healthy flavored drink.
If you don't have any on hand, add a slice of lemon. Not only will the lemon add a little flavor, it will help you burn about 70 more calories. It will also help flush toxins out the body.
No. 3: Salad dressing
Whenever someone tries to lose weight, salads are usually first on the list.
While salads are good for dieting -- well, actually, they are great -- be careful about the salad dressing you pick and how much you use. Be sure to measure it.
Don't just grab the bottle and begin pouring, because chances are that you will pour on too much. Use a tablespoon to spread the dressing and only use two tablespoons.
If this doesn't sound like enough, try putting your dressing in a separate container and dip sparingly. While cream-based dressings, such as ranch or blue cheese, may be more appealing, find a vinaigrette that is tasty.
And if you really want to be creative, whip up your very own dressing using olive oil and a low-fat recipe.
While salads may be part of your new health regiment when you set out to lose weight, be sure to watch your sodium intake ...
No. 2: Sodium
A lot of people do not realize that sodium or salt intake will decrease the chances of shedding pounds.
As you drop items in your cart at the grocery store, be sure to pay attention to the sodium on the nutritional value content label. If you really want your weight loss tactics to be effective, reduce your sodium intake to about 1,000 milligrams.
Sodium is a necessary nutrient, but too much of it will cause you to retain water.
Another way to avoid higher levels of sodium is to avoid processed foods, which are typically loaded with sodium. Also avoid salted nuts, chips and snacks. Instead of using seasoning salts that contain massive amounts of sodium, use herbs, peppers and vegetables to season your food.
But even if you decrease the amount of sodium, don't go crazy with smoothies ...
No. 1: Smoothies
There's a huge craze going on right now and it may just be packing on the pounds and you don't even know it. Smoothies can be healthy and tasty, but if not made with the correct ingredients can pack on the pounds.
When making or buying a smoothie be sure that it isn't made with some sort of pre-made concoction that will add calories. The best smoothies are made with fresh or frozen fruit, low-fat milk and yogurt.
If you use any additive such as fat burner or protein, pay close attention to the nutritional value. Be sure to check out the sugar grams so that your smoothie is truly a healthy addition to your diet.
And be sure to get a nutritional content chart when ordering from smoothie bars and fast-food restaurants to be sure that the smoothie is a good choice. You also may want to consider getting the smallest size because of course it would have the fewest calories.
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Chrissie's Swansong Remembered
Published September 08, 2009 04:32
NEW YORK, NY, USA - It seems like only yesterday, but this year's US Open quarterfinals mark the 20th anniversary of the retirement of one of the sport's towering figures: Chris Evert. On the Louis Armstrong Stadium, the setting of so many great moments in a career that spanned two decades, the 34-year-old American found the net with a forehand return of serve. With that her Fed Cup teammate Zina Garrison advanced to the semis, 76(1) 62.
The gloomy weather suited the occasion, for as 'Chris America' gave a final wave to the adoring New York fans there was barely a dry eye in the house. Even the vanquisher was swept up in the emotion. "I was the one crying at the net because Chris was such a great champion," Garrison recalled. "Chris was consoling me."
While it was no fairytale ending there was no shame in the loss, just the fourth pre-semifinal Grand Slam departure of a stellar - and phenomenally consistent - career punctuated by statistics that may never be bettered.
Evert first captivated the nation in 1971 when she reached the US Open semifinals as a 16-year-old debutante - dubbed 'Cinderella in Sneakers', it took top-ranked Billie Jean King to stop her - and from that point on she only ever failed to reach at least the final four of a major four times in 56 outings. A third round loss to Kathy Jordan at Wimbledon in 1983 finally snapped what remains the Open Era record for most consecutive Grand Slam semis or better - 34, extending from the 1971 US Open through to Roland Garros in 1983.
Along the way there were 18 Grand Slam singles titles, appropriately tied with her great rival Martina Navratilova, and fourth on the all-time list behind Margaret Court (24), Steffi Graf (22) and Helen Wills Moody (19). Seven of Evert's Slams were won at Roland Garros on her beloved clay; six came at the US Open; she won three times at Wimbledon (where she was runner-up no less than seven times) and twice at the Australian Open.
Indeed, Evert lifted at least one Grand Slam trophy a season for 13 years between 1973 and 1986.
She Made it Here, She Made it There, She Made it Everywhere...
Her 154 Tour singles titles second only to Navratilova's 167, Evert still owns the best win-loss percentage in pro tennis history (.900) and boasts the record of any player for a single surface - a 125-match win streak on clay that stretched from August 1973 until May 1979, when Tracy Austin defeated her in a third set tie-break in the semis at Rome.
She won 101 matches at the US Open, still more than any other player, male or female, for just 12 losses. She reached the semis on 17 of 19 visits to New York, first at Forest Hills and then at Flushing Meadows.
Injury kept Evert out of the first two Slams of the season on her final year on the Tour, but she was back at Wimbledon, where she drew on her trademark mental strength - and a dazzling backhand pass down the line - to avert disaster against Italy's Laura Golarsa in the quarters, before succumbing to Graf.
Third on the list of total weeks at No.1 (260) and having finished the season as No.1 five times, Evert walked away from the game if not at her peak, then still very much a member of the elite. As late as 1985, after her stunning win at Roland Garros, she briefly stole the top ranking from Navratilova - and remains the oldest player to ever have held the top spot (at 31 years, 10 months, 7days).
Between 1972 and 1989 she was never ranked lower than No.4 in the world.
Not for her would there be a protracted, sad-to-watch decline; the losses to lesser lights mounted towards the end, sure, but in the 1980s Evert actually remade herself into a more complete player, spurred by the off-court training and on-court attack of Navratilova. Their rivalry would end at 43-37 in Navratilova's favor, including an implausible 60 meetings in finals.
Fittingly, the two stars joined forces to win the Fed Cup for the United States a month or so after Evert's US Open exit, with Evert's final win coming over future Wimbledon champion Conchita Martínez of Spain.
But perhaps the match best worth remembering came the round before that loss to Garrison, when Evert produced a vintage display of pinpoint accuracy to rout a young 12th-seeded Monica Seles, 60 62. It was a match few expected the veteran to win, and a powerful performance that seemed to say: "I would have been great in any era."
Of course, Evert's legacy is not just about victories and statistics. Through it all, she was a key protagonist in the politics of the sport, serving a record nine terms as president of the WTA Players Association. Her mix of athletic achievement, wit, poise and traditional feminine deportment brought glamour to the baseline and provided the sport with a mainstream, crossover star at a crucial time. Most importantly, though, her example - with that peerless double-handed backhand and steely determination to make the most of herself - encouraged countless young girls to take up the game.
Sonyericssonwtatour.com will soon launch new web biographies of the retired greats of our game, starting with former world No.1s from the computer-ranking era: Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Martina Hingis, Monica Seles, Tracy Austin, Jennifer Capriati, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario and Evonne Goolagong Cawley. We would like to publish a selection of thoughts, memories or anecdotes on each player, whether from former peers on the Tour, people who work behind-the-scenes in tennis, or indeed fans. Please send submissions (no longer than this paragraph) to Adam Lincoln at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:5fefadfa-7c9d-4ec0-ba45-369b30298c79> | 2013-05-23T19:01:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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VIENNA, Va. (WUSA) -- Each Veterans' Day leaves us fewer World War IIheroes to tell the amazing stories of the greatest generation.
But in Vienna, one of the most vibrant vets is still telling remarkable tales.
"It's been a great Veterans Day," says Richard C Kirkland, 89. His life sounds more like a movie.
He flew with some of World War Two's greatest aces... He knew Charles Lindberg and Howard Hughes... he met Eisenhower and MacArthur.
He shot down a handful of Japanese Zeroes. "As I banked up, I kind of glanced down, with flames going all down the airplane," says Kirkland, describing a dogfight near New Guinea. "He looked up at me and I was looking down at him, and for just a second we had eye contact."
In the Korean War, Kirkland choppered patients to the surgeon memorialized in MASH the movie and tv show. "The infamous Hawkeye," he says, pulling out a photo. His name was Sam Gilfand. Here's a picture of him, with his buddy Trapper, and me."
And Kirkland ferried scientists to the atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. He pulls out a charred piece of wood with the words "Greenhouse" and " '51" in relief. "It seared the board, and left that," he says pointing to black residue. "That's atomic bomb blast."
Kirkland's painted and collected mementoes of the wars and his life in the basement of his Vienna home -- and in four non-fiction books.
He's just finished his first novel -- he calls a "Wide Place in the Road" a "greatest generation" love story, and the heroine is modeled on his wife Maria. "She's the barefooted California girl, running up the mountainside."
Kirkland's heart goes out to today's vets. "Those poor guys coming out all beat up and it just goes on and on."
He says World War Two was a very different war. "When I fought, you're fighting to win, and you hit the other guy period."
He'll always remember, but hopes the world never relives it.
Written and Reported by Bruce Leshan
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World War II infantry veteran Carrol Walsh, top, hugs Holocaust survivor Paul Arato at a reunion in Queensbury, N.Y., on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Walsh's unit liberated a Nazi train carrying 2,500 Jewish prisoners, including Arato, from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany during the war's waning days (AP/Tim Roske)
HUDSON FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - A World War II veteran from New York whose account of liberating Holocaust victims from a Nazi train led to reunions with the survivors 60 years later has died.
Matthew Rozell, a friend of Carrol Walsh, tells The Associated Press that Walsh died Monday at his home in Sarasota, Fla. The retired New York judge was 91. A cause of death wasn't immediately available.
Walsh and other American soldiers liberated 2,500 Jewish concentration camp prisoners from a Nazi train at the end of World War II.
His story was posted on a website Rozell created for the history class he teaches at Hudson Falls High School in upstate New York.
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NEW ORLEANS - Police are still looking for four men they say beat another man unconscious after a fight inside of a Bourbon St. club continued out on the street over the weekend.
View the video at the bottom of the story.
The incident occurred around 4:30 a.m. Saturday in the 200 block of Bourbon and was captured on video.
According to police, the four suspects and the victim were kicked out of a night club due to fighting and once outside the argument continued.
Police said the victim continued to act aggressively toward the suspects and he was knocked to the ground and then kicked several times into unconsciousness.
After one of the suspects removed something from the victim's pocket, all of the suspects fled.
Police said the suspects are being sought for simple robbery and aggravated battery.
The victim was released from the hospital Saturday morning and will be re-interviewed by police at a later time.
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Subject #3 is described as an African-American male wearing a light colored floppy eared winter hat, a green/blue sweat shirt and dark pants.
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As residents of the U.S. Northeast grapple with the destruction wrought by Superstorm Sandy, an offer of assistance has come from an unlikely quarter: the leader of a radical Muslim group in Pakistan that Washington has branded a terrorist group.
"We offer our unconditional support and help for the victims" of the storm, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, head of the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, said in a statement late Tuesday. "If U.S. government allows, we will send our doctors, relief and rescue experts, food and medicine on humanitarian grounds."
India accuses Saeed of masterminding the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai that killed 166 people -- an allegation he denies.
The United States, which has declared Jamaat-ud-Dawa a terrorist organization and put up a $10 million reward for information leading to Saeed's arrest and conviction, declined the offer.
"While we have great respect for Islamic tradition of social assistance to those who are in need no matter where they might be, this particular offer strikes us as very hollow," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Wednesday.
Saeed said in the statement posted on Jamaat-ud-Dawa's Facebook page Tuesday that despite the bounty and U.S. allegations about his organization, helping Americans struck by adversity is "our religious and moral obligation."
"Islam orders us to help them without discriminating between religion, cast or creed," he said in the statement, which was set against the backdrop of an apparently fabricated image of a scuba diver swimming through a submerged Times Square subway station.
His organization said on its Twitter account that it had previously carried out relief efforts following natural disasters in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
The "wanted" notice for Saeed issued by the State Department's Rewards for Justice program in April described him as a former professor of Arabic and engineering who helped found Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which aims to bring about Islamist rule in India and Pakistan.
The group's military wing, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, which means army of the pure, is blamed for violence in the disputed territory of Kashmir aimed at liberating Muslims. | <urn:uuid:f5c70a2f-b711-4b02-8517-fff8880b8e29> | 2013-05-23T19:00:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Twitter account of Pistorius' brother hacked
Hacker posted Pistorius would do interviews; Family says that's not true
A hacker falsely posted on the Twitter account of Oscar Pistorius' older brother Saturday that the South African Olympian was going to do media interviews, a family spokeswoman said.
Carl Pistorius didn't post such a tweet, and he and his sister, Aimee, were canceling all their social media accounts Saturday, said family spokeswoman Janine Hills. All three Pistorius siblings live in South Africa, she said.
On Friday, Oscar Pistorius was freed from jail on $112,000 bail eight days after the shooting death of his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, 29.
Pistorius, 26, is charged with premeditated murder in her February 14 death.
"It is most unfortunate that during this sensitive time, someone would choose to hack into Oscar Pistorius older brother, Carl Pistorius' Twitter handle," Hills said in a statement. "Carl did not tweet this afternoon, out of respect to Oscar and Reeva."
Hills said she heard on a South Africa radio station that Carl Pistorius' Twitter account stated that Oscar Pistorius was going to speak to the media.
"This is untrue," Hills told CNN in a separate interview. "I spoke to Oscar myself. He has not spoken to anybody and does not plan on doing any interviews."
The hacking apparently occurred Saturday afternoon, she said.
Meanwhile, Oscar Pistorius' family and friends expressed "immense relief" Saturday about how he was freed on bail, a relative said.
"What happened has changed our lives irrevocably," said Arnold Pistorius, the athlete's uncle, referring to the events surrounding Steenkamp's death.
Oscar Pistorius said he fired his gun because he thought an intruder was hiding in a toilet room inside the bathroom of his Pretoria home, not realizing it was actually Steenkamp inside.
"We are acutely aware of the fact that this is only the beginning of a long road to prove that, as we know, Oscar never intended to harm Reeva, let alone cause her death," Arnold Pistorius said in a statement. "We realize that the law must run its course, and we would not have it any other way."
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"James the Tutor"
...From there I prefer to have the student work the problems themselves with guidance from myself. Lastly, I see if I can get the student to complete the entire problem alone and if they are stuck I encourage them to do their best to finish the problem, but if that doesn't work then I will give hints to get them started. My goal is for a student to...
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Table of Contents
glLightModelf, glLightModeli, glLightModelfv, glLightModeliv - set
the lighting model parameters
void glLightModelf( GLenum
GLfloat param )
void glLightModeli( GLenum pname,
GLint param )
eqn not supported
void glLightModelfv( GLenum pname,
- Specifies a single-valued lighting model
parameter. GL_LIGHT_MODEL_LOCAL_VIEWER, GL_LIGHT_MODEL_COLOR_CONTROL, and
GL_LIGHT_MODEL_TWO_SIDE are accepted.
- Specifies the value that param
will be set to.
const GLfloat *params )
void glLightModeliv( GLenum pname,
const GLint *params )
glLightModel sets the lighting model parameter.
pname names a parameter and params gives the new value. There are three
lighting model parameters:
- Specifies a lighting model parameter. GL_LIGHT_MODEL_AMBIENT,
GL_LIGHT_MODEL_COLOR_CONTROL, GL_LIGHT_MODEL_LOCAL_VIEWER, and GL_LIGHT_MODEL_TWO_SIDE
- Specifies a pointer to the value or values that params
will be set to.
- params contains four
integer or floating-point values that specify the ambient RGBA intensity
of the entire scene. Integer values are mapped linearly such that the most
positive representable value maps to 1.0, and the most negative representable
value maps to -1.0. Floating-point values are mapped directly. Neither integer
nor floating-point values are clamped. The initial ambient scene intensity
is (0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1.0).
- params must be either
GL_SEPARATE_SPECULAR_COLOR or GL_SINGLE_COLOR. GL_SINGLE_COLOR specifies
that a single color is generated from the lighting computation for a vertex.
GL_SEPARATE_SPECULAR_COLOR specifies that the specular color computation
of lighting be stored separately from the remainder of the lighting computation.
The specular color is summed into the generated fragment's color after
the application of texture mapping (if enabled). The initial value is GL_SINGLE_COLOR.
- params is a single integer or floating-point
value that specifies how specular reflection angles are computed. If params
is 0 (or 0.0), specular reflection angles take the view direction to be
parallel to and in the direction of the -z axis, regardless of the location
of the vertex in eye coordinates. Otherwise, specular reflections are computed
from the origin of the eye coordinate system. The initial value is 0.
- params is a single integer or floating-point value that specifies whether
one- or two-sided lighting calculations are done for polygons. It has no effect
on the lighting calculations for points, lines, or bitmaps. If params is
0 (or 0.0), one-sided lighting is specified, and only the front material
parameters are used in the lighting equation. Otherwise, two-sided lighting
is specified. In this case, vertices of back-facing polygons are lighted
using the back material parameters, and have their normals reversed before
the lighting equation is evaluated. Vertices of front-facing polygons are
always lighted using the front material parameters, with no change to their
normals. The initial value is 0.
In RGBA mode, the lighted color of a vertex
is the sum of the material emission intensity, the product of the material
ambient reflectance and the lighting model full-scene ambient intensity,
and the contribution of each enabled light source. Each light source contributes
the sum of three terms: ambient, diffuse, and specular. The ambient light
source contribution is the product of the material ambient reflectance
and the light's ambient intensity. The diffuse light source contribution
is the product of the material diffuse reflectance, the light's diffuse
intensity, and the dot product of the vertex's normal with the normalized
vector from the vertex to the light source. The specular light source contribution
is the product of the material specular reflectance, the light's specular
intensity, and the dot product of the normalized vertex-to-eye and vertex-to-light
vectors, raised to the power of the shininess of the material. All three
light source contributions are attenuated equally based on the distance
from the vertex to the light source and on light source direction, spread
exponent, and spread cutoff angle. All dot products are replaced with 0
if they evaluate to a negative value.
The alpha component of the resulting
lighted color is set to the alpha value of the material diffuse reflectance.
In color index mode, the value of the lighted index of a vertex ranges
from the ambient to the specular values passed to glMaterial using GL_COLOR_INDEXES.
Diffuse and specular coefficients, computed with a (.30, .59, .11) weighting
of the lights' colors, the shininess of the material, and the same reflection
and attenuation equations as in the RGBA case, determine how much above
ambient the resulting index is.
GL_LIGHT_MODEL_COLOR_CONTROL is available
only if the GL version is 1.2 or greater.
GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated
if pname is not an accepted value.
GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated if pname
is GL_LIGHT_MODEL_COLOR_CONTROL and params is not one of GL_SINGLE_COLOR
GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if glLightModel
is executed between the execution of glBegin and the corresponding execution
glGet with argument GL_LIGHT_MODEL_AMBIENT
glGet with argument GL_LIGHT_MODEL_COLOR_CONTROL
glGet with argument GL_LIGHT_MODEL_LOCAL_VIEWER
glGet with argument GL_LIGHT_MODEL_TWO_SIDE
glIsEnabled with argument GL_LIGHTING
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SUMMARY PARAGRAPH for CDC13
Cdc13p is a multi-functional, telomere-binding protein that plays a role in telomere replication, length maintenance, end protection and telomerase regulation (4). CDC13/EST4 is one of five genes required for telomerase activity in vivo. EST1, EST2, TLC1 and EST3 are the other four genes. Mutations in any of these five genes leads to progressive telomere shortening, the so-called ever shorter telomeres (EST) phenotype and eventually to cell death; however, a complete deletion of CDC13 is inviable. CDC13 is the only essential gene among the EST genes (7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and references therein).
The N-terminal region of Cdc13p is crucial for the protein's activity due to its various interactions with different binding proteins (12). The telomere capping function is mediated through its interaction with Stn1p and Ten1p, essential proteins required for telomere length regulation (13, 14, 15). Cdc13p plays a role in telomere replication through its interactions with the Pol1p catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase alpha, and an essential subunit of telomerase, Est1p (16). Cdc13p and Est1p also recruit and activate the telomere-bound Est2p catalytic subunit of telomerase for its replication (17). The telomerase recruitment step is regulated by the yeast ku heterodimer (Yku70p-Yku80p), and Stn1p which impart positive and negative control on the Cdc13p-Est1p interaction (11, 18). Cdc13p is regulated by the phosphorylation of the SQ/TQ motif in the telomerase recruitment domain by the checkpoint kinases, Mec1p and Tel1p (19). Mutation in Cdc13p results in abnormal uncapped telomeres with long exposed G-strands leading to activation of the RAD9 DNA damage pathway, cell cycle arrest at the G2/M phase and cell death (1, 20, 21, 22, 12).
In humans, telomere length is linked to aging and cancer: in human germline cells telomeres are long, whereas in cells of somatic tissues, telomerase activity is absent and the telomeres are short. Upon sufficient shortening, the somatic cells stop dividing and become senescent. Inappropriate telomerase activity is detected in most malignant tumors, and the genes required for telomerase activity are potential targets for cancer therapy (23, 8).
Human orthologs for four of the telomerase subunits are known. Est2p, the telomerase reverse transcriptase catalytic enzyme, is similar to TERT (OMIM), TLC1, the template RNA is similar to TERC/hTR (OMIM), while Cdc13p shares sequence similarity with human POT1 (OMIM) (24, 9). There are three Est1p like proteins in humans, although only hEST1A and hEST1B have been shown to be associated with the telomerase (25). A human ortholog for EST3 hasn't been identified. Mutations in TERT (OMIM) and TERC/hTR (OMIM) cause short telomeres and congenital aplastic anemia (OMIM, 24).
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Cueing skills are developed by copying your past Yoga instructors, video tapes, and repeating the directions you have read in your texts. Once you have finalized your lesson plan, try it out on a friend. Practicing your cueing technique will develop your skills.
If you want to critique yourself objectively, run a tape recorder and teach a mock lesson. When you play it back, you will see how your voice carries throughout the room. You can also follow along with the tape to see, if your directions are easy to understand. This type of an exercise will fine tune your ability to teach a Yoga class, as you learn to overcome any weak points you find. | <urn:uuid:4f9eaccd-60ac-467c-8674-088ba9d0d22a> | 2013-05-23T18:58:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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At his oil demonstration, while squeezing a lemon into a bowl of freshly cut avocado, Fabio Viviani said, "If you're afraid of seeds, I'm sorry." He didn't bother to pick out seeds that had fallen from the lemon into the avocado and pointed out that there's really no harm in consuming the seeds of citrus. Normally I'm nitpicky about getting seeds out of salads and such, but maybe from now on, I'll be more like Fabio. How about you? If a seed drops into a dish, say guacamole, are you careful to pick it out? | <urn:uuid:96c69065-957b-49bf-8cdc-4aa943572ffd> | 2013-05-23T19:06:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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For your vegetarian Thanksgiving, think about going green with the wine. A variety of eco-conscious wineries are offering white and red wines made from sustainably-grown, organic grapes.
Don't forget a water, sparkling apple cider, and a signature cocktail. An unexpected and festive cranberry caipairinha will get guests in the mood. For the recipe, read more | <urn:uuid:8711a4ca-a6dc-489a-ac7c-1f824e2db216> | 2013-05-23T19:06:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Zalora.com.my will not be able to ship certain items to Brunei, and thus you will not see all items on the shop.
Unfortunately there were 0 matches found for your search
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Chinese Internet company Tencent is suing software company Qihoo 360 for unfair competition over an incident in 2010 and is asking for 125 million yuan (US$19.7 million) in compensation.
The case finally went to the Guangdong High Court on Tuesday, with Tencent claiming that Qihoo 360's release of "KouKou Bodyguard" security software in 2010 targeted and made modifications to its QQ instant-messaging software--causing the Internet company to lose income from its value-added services and advertisements, reported Sohu IT.
On Oct. 29, 2010, Qihoo 360 offered "KouKou Bodyguard" security software on its Web site, saying it will help users remove value-added services and advertisements included in QQ to speed up the instant-messaging software.
Qihoo 360 had reportedly released the software, as part of retaliation against Tencent, which had muscled into Qihoo's antivirus territory, through the bundling of its own antivirus software with the popular QQ client. The incident escalated in November when Tencent stopped QQ from running on computers installed with Qihoo 360 software--forcing consumers to pick sides.
Tencent's legal representatives said Qihoo 360's "KouKou Bodyguard" modified QQ and caused damage to the "integrity and security" of the product. However, Qihoo 360's lawyers denied the charges, saying while "KouKou Bodyguard" software hid QQ's advertisements and value-added service, it did not affect QQ client's integrity.
The session in court started from 9.30am and lasted till 6pm with a lunchbreak, according to the article. No decision was reached, with the presiding judge saying Tencent might need to bring witnesses to elaborate on how they came up with its case, noted Sina Tech. | <urn:uuid:5687ee67-4b24-43f2-8312-4a66a85a0aa4> | 2013-05-23T18:47:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Bill to Recognize Cohabitants Is Criticized
Groups Says Italian Proposal Not Needed
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ROME, FEB. 19, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The Italian government's bill on the legal recognition of the rights of cohabitants has drawn criticism from the Cardinal Van Thuân International Observatory.
Stefano Fontana, director of the group that promotes the Church's social doctrine, wrote an article posted last week on the institution's Web site that says the law goes too far.
Fontana explained that such a law is not necessary as "individual rights are already covered in the Italian Constitution."
It is unnecessary to provide "legislation that recognizes a 'de jure' status to cohabitants who want to remain a 'de facto' couple," said Fontana.
Cohabitation "does not deserve any kind of public recognition," Fontana explained, "because it is not based on the prior assumption of duties and it is inconsistent with the centrality of the family founded on marriage encompassed by the constitution."
Such legislation, Fontana explained, would have "predictable repercussions on people's mindset and customs."
"It would reinforce the equivalence between desire and rights," Fontana stated. "It would pave the way for future expansions of the so-called rights of cohabitants and could even lead to equate cohabitations with the true family."
Fontana sees the new legislation of cohabitation as a misstep in achieving the vision of secularism that includes religion and ethics promoted by Benedict XVI. | <urn:uuid:542f2b34-3281-46b5-8d73-1e55b008c38d> | 2013-05-23T18:59:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Blogger from the 9th Floor of the Tower
Undead Knightmare - Chapter 4
Sadon chased after Lizzie down a once crowded road. The city was silent. The empty houses and shops seemed to stare at Sadon mournfully, as if they knew their owners would never return. Lizzie stopped running as soon as they could no longer hear the ill's dreadful moans, or of Mr Williams battle to keep them safe. Lizzie and he leaned on the wall of an abandoned home, and breathed heavily.
"If we don't make it out of here—" Sadon said.
"Don't talk like that. We'll make it out," Lizzie interrupted.
Sadon wanted to believe this, but the he heard a howling wind echoing off the stone that he had never been able to hear before, and this terrified him. Everybody was gone and he feared what may happen to him, and worse, Lizzie. He was ready to express what their friendship meant to him, but held his tongue for she would be able to read the fears written on his face.
"I only mean to say... happy birthday, Liz. I wanted to give you a gift, but there was an unexpected turn of events," he motioned to the empty shops.
"Oh my gosh, I completely forgot about that. With everything that's been happening, I'm honestly surprised you managed to remember."
"As embarrassing as it is to say, you're pretty much all I have." Sadon mumbled shyly, face flushed red and eyes fixed on his feet. He kicked at the dirt like a child asking for a bit of candy.
"Shut up!" Lizzie laughed. "But thank you, Sadon. You remembering is the only gift I need." She peeked around a nearby building and observed another empty street. "We had better get out of here, before any of the ill find us. The main gate should be down this road."
"I don’t think they’re ill, or at least how we used to view it. You saw it as well as I did, these people died,” he paused for moment and the word hung in the air, “and came back alive. If this is a disease, then it was sent from the heavens, from Zephro himself, as a final act of purging.”
"I saw the death too! I know that what I saw is beyond natural! But to give up hope is to give up any chance of this being fixed. As long as I view them as sick and not cursed, I’ll have at least a sliver hope that everyone isn’t doomed.”
Sadon admired her optimism, but did not agree with it. He had seen people he had known his entire life slaughtered in the streets, and by people he once considered friends. His hope was already fading, but he nodded at her without looking at her face. He feared what more he would see as they left market, what had happened to the rest of the city.
“Let’s go.” He took off down the street, sticking close to the wall.
Valrock was the imperial city of Hysteria—a great expanse of land that extended from the Hodre Ocean in the east to the Varien Ocean. A land that bore mountains, forests, and many undiscovered dangers hiding in the darkest corners. Valrock was at the centre of it all. Miles of white stone that glistened in the mid-day sun spanned the city. Most that were born inside the walls never left, and those outside rarely let in. This was due largely to the legendary Last War.
A thousand years ago Hysteria was booming with activity and Valrock was reaping its rewards. The walls did not exist and the city was growing ever larger. That is, until what is remembered as the demons attacked. Little detail of the beasts has survived history, but it is said they were born of fire and rock and larger than mountains. The cults formed to worship the demons sought to end the civilization of Hysteria, and begin a new empire were as dangerous as their masters. This war lasted for fifteen years, and in this time the walls around Valrock were built and the gates shut. People swarmed to Valrock for it had become a symbol of safety. No demon or cultists could penetrate it, nor was anyone trusted to be let in. Even after the demons disappeared—most believe Zephro banished them, but is unknown what became of them—and the were cultists forgotten, Valrock kept its reputation. Its gates never opening to new comers and those the inside felt safe inside its walls, for fear the demons would return.
Sadon and Lizzie had no idea what they were escaping to or how to escape to it. They did not know what would lay beyond the walls, but were not eager to be trapped inside them with the ill. Without the crowds, the city did not look the same and they got lost many times. Most of the day was spent crossing through alleys and climbing to roofs to avoid ill walking in the streets. The sun was now barely visible on the horizon and it was snowing thickly.
Sadon jumped from one roof top to its neighbor—almost slipping as he landed—and turned around to catch Lizzie as she followed.
“Something has been bothering me,” Sadon said as he made his way across the roof. “Where is everyone? Valrock has more people in one shop, than we’ve seen so far.”
“I’ve been wondering the same thing. They may be congregating elsewhere. Remember the crowd that came to the howler by the house? They seem to like to travel in packs.”
“If that’s case, let’s try not to find where they all are.” He noticed a large flag in the distance—it was crimson red with a large white horse crested upon it. “Do you see that Lizzie?” Sadon asked, motioning toward it with his head. “They only have flags that big at the castle and main gates.” He ran up the edge of the building and stopped as soon as he looked over.
“You’re right!” Lizzie’s eyes flashing with excitement. “I think we’ve found the way out.”
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I am currently a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Before that I was at SRI International Sarnoff in Princeton, N.J. My research spans the areas robotics, human-robot interaction, machine learning, distributed sensing, and computer vision. Specifically, I am interested in perception and learning for robotics, focusing on two important areas:
Human-Robot Interaction: As robots become increasingly common, they will have to interact with humans in everyday environments. How can robots perceive the outcome of interactions with humans? I am interested in perception algorithms capable ot accurately detecting various characteristics of the person that the robot is interacting with. This includes the use of 3D sensors such as the Kinect to allow the robot to detect gestures and other natural forms of interaction. The flip side of this is how can people naturally command many robots at once, especially when the multi-robot system is a distributed swarm.
Robot-Robot Interaction : I am interested in how heterogeneous robots with different modalities can coordinate, communicate, and share knowledge. I received my Ph.D. in 2010 from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, where I worked at the Mobile Robot Laboratory headed by Ronald Arkin. My main research area during this time was robotics, focusing on learning, coordination, and knowledge in heterogeneous robot teams. My thesis made progress in showing how robots can teach each other, allowing the use of one robot's experiences to speed up learning on another robot (transfer learning). I used information theoretic metrics to allow robots that differ perceptually to build model of their similarities and differences to facilitate such knowledge sharing. | <urn:uuid:d005771d-8a85-42d6-a4b5-c62530e909b4> | 2013-05-23T18:58:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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On-Site Energy Installations Increase Nationwide
July 28, 2004
As power reliability becomes more and more important, the United States is turning to on-site energy systems more than ever before. Sales were up by 20 percent overall in 2003, and most purchases were fairly evenly distributed among the government, communications, and emergency response/healthcare sectors.
On-site systems generate power or heat for nearby use, and they can be connected to a building as well as to the electric grid. Energy generation thus appears to be following a "distributed" pathway similar to the one charted in the telecommunications industry by cellular technology.
Today, both established and new energy technologies are used for on-site electricity generation. Some of the major technologies include:
- advanced batteries and fuels cells;
- combined heat and power (CHP) systems;
- heat engines and smaller natural gas, propane, and diesel generators;
- micro-hydropower and small (less than 50-kilowatt) wind systems;
- modular biomass; and
- solar technologies (photovoltaics and solar thermal systems).
On-site systems can also provide thermal energy for space heating and cooling, water heating, and industrial process heat and preheating. In addition to CHP systems, these technologies include the following:
- concentrated solar systems,
- ground-source heat pumps,
- solar thermal water heaters, and
- transpired solar "walls" to preheat air for buildings.
There are several reasons for this increase in the use of on-site energy systems; one is cost. On-site systems save money in some applications, especially when the alternative involves installing new utility wires and transformers. In addition, both demand charges and peak power rates can often be offset by producing energy on site for use during times of peak demand.
Another reason for the increase in the use of on-site energy systems is regulatory. On-site renewable energy technologies help users meet green power requirements and renewable portfolio standards. They also provide ways to comply with procurement and environmental regulations established by federal, state, and local governments.
Some users want to ensure backup power with something other than diesel generator sets, not only because it might be hard to obtain diesel fuel, but also for environmental reasons. If the fuel must be transported a great distance, this can also be costly as well as risky. On-site solar, wind, or fuel cell generators are some of the technologies that can alleviate this problem.
Another reason for on-site generation is to increase power quality. In some applications, surges and transients on the electric grid can impede the performance of electrical equipment or even harm sensitive controls, computers, or communication systems. Dedicating sensitive systems to on-site generation, or adding distributed energy to the grid as backup, can be a good solution.
Finally, one increasingly important reason is to ensure reliability. Distributed, on-site energy systems are maturing to the point that it's easier than ever to use them to ensure reliable power, particularly for strategically-important functions such as national emergencies and homeland security.
In addition to installations described in earlier issues of FEMP Focus, there are numerous examples of effective, reliable on-site energy systems meeting the need for reliable power in critical applications. One is the 1-kilowatt ReliOn fuel cell unit installed at McCord Air Force Base in Tacoma, Washington. The unit runs on unpressurized, industrial-grade hydrogen to back up communications for a Federal Aviation Administration radar system. It has been running flawlessly, according to Mr. Howard Kernodle of the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA supported the San Francisco International Airport's installation of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roofing panels to produce 20-kilowatts of electricity. This system supplies a portion of the power needed at one of the airport's support buildings.
In New York City, Montefiore Medical Center was the only hospital that continued to operate with full power during the first night of the 2003 regional blackout, in large part because a Solar Turbines Taurus 60 generator set drives its CHP system. Montefiore operates its own 14-megawatt cogeneration plant, and all its critical loads are backed up by emergency power generators.
The United States Postal Service implemented an innovative combination of on-site renewable generation and demand control measures to reduce electrical demand and energy use at the Marina Mail Processing Center in Los Angeles. Their partnership with PowerLight and Viron Energy Services led to the installation of a 127 kWp solar electric system atop the Marina del Rey facility, and a state-wide energy information system for 27 USPS sites. This energy system allows USPS to automatically shed more than 4 megawatts of electrical load. The solar system covers more than 15,00 square feet of the facility's roof and can generate enough electricity during the day to power more than 120 homes. The combination of solar electric generation and demand control measures gives USPS maximum flexibility to respond to high electric demand charges and utility grid emergencies.
Utilities are also using on-site alternatives. Solargenix LLC recently installed a 30-ton solar absorption cooling system to cool the Austin Energy Sand Hill Power Plant control center in Texas. This power plant provides energy to many federal and state government facilities in and around the state capitol, so it's important to keep it up and running.
On-site systems are becoming more attractive options as cleaner, quieter, and even more reliable systems enter the market. They also come with warranties and are becoming more standardized.
To help cover costs, several innovative leasing and financing packages are available for federal, state, and local government groups. In the coming years, look for even better choices, system configurations, and financing methods that will help facility managers obtain the on-site energy systems that are best for their sites. | <urn:uuid:339580e8-4793-4fc6-8cf8-cb7e0d0784cf> | 2013-05-23T18:39:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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You'll want to add in a file named .htaccess and within that file, place rewrite rules to redirect the users.
- Code: Select all
RewriteRule ^CAPS.html$ /health/students/caps/ [R=301]
If you can't get any .htaccess rewrite rules to work, we may need to contact IS to give you permission to override mod_rewrite directives in your .htaccess files.
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Roberto Magris Quintet: Mating Call (2010)
Even though drummer Idris Muhammad may be the only member of the group to elicit nods of recognition here in the States, Italian pianist Roberto Magris' quintet is world-class in every respect, consistently affirming its singular prowess on Mating Call, the second release from Paul Collins' Kansas City-based J-Mood Records. Magris also headlined the label's initial recording, presiding over a quartet (including the late bassist Art Davis) on Kansas City Outbound in 2007.
Three of the album's seven engaging numbers ("Optional Man," "Hill of Illusions," "Europlane Blues") were written by Magris, who arranged the others as well. It's safe to say that J.J. Johnson's plaintive "Lament" has seldom sounded better, converted by Magris from ballad to medium-tempo swinger with a Latin substructure. The ballad "Theme for Ernie" was written by Fred Lacey, the exotic "Mating Call" by Tadd Dameron for a 1956 Prestige Records session with John Coltrane. As a pièce de résistance, Magris plays tasteful solo piano on the exquisite finale, Leonard Bernstein's "Lonely Town," from the Broadway musical On the Town.
"Theme for Ernie" showcases one of the group's two admirable horns, tenor saxophonist Michael O'Neill, and adds another eloquent solo by Magris. Paul Carr plays soprano sax on the lyrical opener, "Optional Man," and "Hill of Illusions," tenor the rest of the way, showing remarkable proficiency on either instrument, while bassist Elisa Pruett is a paragon of strength and stability. If musical excellence is more important to you than names, check out the Roberto Magris Quintet. Chances are you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Track Listing: Optional Man; Hill of Illusions; Lament; Theme for Ernie; Mating Call; Europlans Blues; Lonely Town.
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The School of Health, Exercise Science and Athletics is divided into different departments.
Exercise Science is an academic area of study concerned with the art and science of physical movement. This department explores the processes through which individuals obtain optimal health, physical skills and fitness. Learning concentrates on human movement as it affects and is affected by physiological, psychological, cultural, social and mechanical parameters. The application of movement concepts evolves from a foundation in human anatomy, physiology and principles of kinesiology that cover healthful living, nutrition and emergency practices.
The Exercise Science Department officers an Associate Arts Degree in Exercise Science as well as certificates of Achievement for the Fitness Specialist Certification, Basic and Advanced.
The Exercise Science Department offers activity classes, an aquatics program, a limited program and ES theory classes.
The Department also offers various health education classes, including several online health classes. Health Education is a popular class and one in which students can learn about their own personal health and wellness as well as about healthcare career options.
Southwestern College's athletic teams, the Jaguars, compete in the Pacific Coast Conference and the school offers 15 sports. The football team completes in the Foothill Conference.
The following sports are offered at the college: baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track & field, women's softball, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, men's and women's swimming & diving. and women's water polo. | <urn:uuid:9f1919cf-b2dc-46ff-8714-345a9ca233c4> | 2013-05-23T18:37:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I just read about the discovery of a temple at Beth-Shemesh in Israel, dated to the 11th century B.C. (see the link below). This got my attention right away because (1) Beth-Shemesh was a border town in Old Testament times, between the Israelites and Philistines, (2) the 11th century B.C. was the time of the last judges and King Saul, and (3) a story from the Old Testament took place in Beth-Shemesh, right at that time. According to 1 Samuel 4-6, the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant in a battle, but after a wave of plagues hit the cities where the Ark was kept, they decided to return it. To find out if God was behind the plagues, they loaded the Ark on an ox-cart, and sent it off without a driver, to see if the oxen would take it to Israel. They did, and when the cart reached Beth-Shemesh, the locals rejoiced and made a sacrifice of the oxen, until a number of them were struck dead for not handling the Ark properly. Then the Ark was sent to another town, Kiriath-Jearim, and because nobody there wanted to touch it, after what had already happened, it stayed there for at least forty years, until King David came along and took the Ark to Jerusalem.
The article goes on to say that the site was identified as a holy place because of the animal bones found there, and that it was destroyed once and rebuilt. The archaeologists are guessing it was an Israelite place of worship, which the Philistines destroyed when they took Beth-Shemesh, and the Israelites rebuilt it later, when they took Beth-Shemesh back.
So far so good, but I have a few questions which the story did not answer. First, how did the archaeologists get the 11th century B.C. date? I am assuming it was carbon-14 dating, or a comparison of the local styles of pottery. This matters because at other sites in the Holy Land, it now looks like the artifacts were dated to the wrong period. The ashlar stone walls at Megiddo, for example, are usually dated to the time when the Canaanites ruled the city, when King Solomon may have been the one who really built them.
Second, how did they decide it was an Israelite temple, and not a Philistine or Canaanite one? It would have helped if the article mentioned what kind of animal bones were found; if they included pig bones, you can rule out the Israelites. In those days, the Israelites were only allowed to perform sacrifices where the Ark was (usually at Shiloh), so sacrifices only could have been done legally during the brief period when the Ark was at Beth-Shemesh.
Have we found the exact spot where a Bible story (1 Samuel 6) took place? It’s an exciting thought. | <urn:uuid:5e4c2040-56ff-46f1-a470-c802e5b13d1c> | 2013-05-23T18:32:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Link fishing with Hena
|First appearance||Twilight Princess (2006)|
|Region||Upper Zora's River|
- "It's a fight against nature with lure fishing! What kind of fish can you catch?"
- — Sign
The Fishing Hole is a location from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. This small lake, located in the Lanayru Province, in the Upper Zora's River, is owned by Hena. For a price, Link can fish in the lake where many fish, including Greengills, Hyrule Bass, Hylian Pike, Ordon Catfish, and the extremely rare Hylian Loach (which can only be caught during Summer) can be found. Larger fish tend to congregate under the waterfalls, under the arch, or in the Lily Pads. Link can either go fishing alone for 20 Rupees or hire Hena to help him for 100 Rupees. The seasons will usually be different every time Link enters the fishing hole. To change the season inside the Fishing Hole, Link can repeatedly enter and exit the area until it has changed to the season of his liking.
In the cabin nearby, also owned by Hena, is a tank that displays all of Link's catches. There's also a section with various items that Link can examine, where he can also play the mini-game Rollgoal, which Link receives a Frog Lure for beating. If Link rolls into the walls an exceeding amount of times, Hena will yell at him and throw him out, and he can only enter again if he apologizes for his actions. | <urn:uuid:ee74e3a5-bf93-4292-9522-6d8dec7fd71f> | 2013-05-23T18:32:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A Beautiful Way to Communicate - Languages of Love and Understanding
Making English the official language, is exclusionary, elitist, and demeaning to hardworking, striving individuals. It is politically destructive to limit the use of languages. Sharing languages is a means of creating harmony and understanding between people of different cultures and a way to foster cooperation. It is a growth experience for individuals, an enhancement in strengthening communities, and eventually a benefit for government for languages to be recognized and shared, and for groups of people to be respected.
English will always be considered the first language of the United States. It should not have to be legislated as such. By recognizing the use and importance of other languages in the United States, English will take priority. In lieu of disenfranchising and discouraging others, the idea here would be to take the positive approach of recognizing the second most commonly used language, Spanish, as a second , or, sister language. English, therefore, remains 1 | <urn:uuid:984f504c-8f8b-4a9d-8f9c-4b802c2948bf> | 2013-05-26T02:41:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Since I'm such a huge fan of dips and spreads, I often need something other than crackers and pita chips to dip into them. Like my polenta crackers, these are super quick to make, and have a different flavor than the normal crispies you are used to.
Since the recipe is so basic, it's open to literally any translation you can come up with. You can substitute poppy seeds or flax seeds for the cumin seeds or add in some fresh garlic or other seasonings. No matter how you make them, you can have these on the table in under 20 minutes.
1 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp cumin seed, toasted
1/3 c water (or more if needed)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl. Add water, and combine to form an elastic dough. Be careful not to overmix!
Roll out dough to 1/4" thick, and cut into 1" diamonds or squares. Place on ungreased baking sheet or preheated baking stone. Place in oven, and bake 15 minutes, until slightly brown. If desired, brush with melted butter upon removing from the oven.
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Given all the evidence presently available, we believe it entirely reasonable that Mars is inhabited with living organisms and that life independently originated there
The conclusion of a study by the National Academy of Sciences in March 1965, after 88 years of surveying the red planet through blurry telescopes. Four months later, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft would beam back the first satellite images of Mars confirming the opposite.
After Earth and Mars were born four and a half billion years ago, they both contained all the elements necessary for life. After initially having surface water and an atmosphere, scientists now believe Mars lost it’s atmosphere four billion years ago, with Earth getting an oxygenated atmosphere around half a billion years later.
According to the chief scientist on NASA’s Curiosity mission, if life ever existed on Mars it was most likely microscopic and lived more than three and a half billion years ago. But even on Earth, fossils that old are vanishingly rare. “You can count them on one hand,” he says. “Five locations. You can waste time looking at hundreds of thousands of rocks and not find anything.”
The impact of a 40kg meteor on the Moon on March 17 was bright enough to see from Earth without a telescope, according to NASA, who captured the impact through a Moon-monitoring telescope.
Now NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will try and search out the impact crater, which could be up to 20 metres wide. | <urn:uuid:132d7809-ba28-4c89-8ce0-867a2a81c1e6> | 2013-05-26T02:41:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Guillermo Del Toro — the Mexican director, producer, and writer known for the dark, fantastical vision he's brought to films like Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy — is the latest in a string of high-profile filmmakers to pass on directing the new series of Star Wars films. Guillermo called the offer "flattering," but ultimately declined, citing his busy schedule. While it would have been interesting to see what hand print Del Toro might have left on the iconic sci-fi saga, he's far from the first star to turn down a big movie. Here are other big names that turned down big opportunities.
|Jack Nicholson: Michael Corleone|
Can you imagine the intensity Jack Nicholson would have brought to the role of Michael Corleone? Today, it's tough to picture anyone but Al Pacino — director Francis Ford Coppola's first choice — in the role, but the then-upcoming actor hadn't fared well when he tested for the part, and the studio insisted on hiring a big name — like Nicholson, who, according to some sources, felt that the part should be played by a person of Italian descent.
|Johnny Depp: Ferris Bueller|
A young Johnny Depp was among several currently famous actors — including Jim Carrey and Tom Cruise — who were originally considered for the role of Ferris.
|Tom Selleck: Indiana Jones|
|Mel Gibson: The Terminator|
Mel Gibson as The Terminator? "I'll be back" just wouldn't have had the same oomph. Also, just going to leave this here: "O.J. Simpson was also considered for the role but the producers thought he was 'too nice' to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded killer."
|Sarah Michelle Gellar: Cher|
Sarah Michelle Gellar had to turn down the role of Clueless' fashion-forward heroine due to her busy "All My Children" schedule. Another big role she passed on? Juliet in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet. That's ixnay on two modern updates of Shakespeare, for those counting at home.
|John Travolta: Forrest Gump|
Still trying to picture this one.
|Al Pacino: Han Solo|
Speaking of Pacino… the actor turned down the role of Han Solo. As did Burt Reynolds, Christopher Walken, Nick Nolte, and James Caan.
|J.J. Abrams: Star Wars|
Abrams would have brought a lot to the Star Wars franchise but, alas, he too turned down the opportunity. "I quickly said that because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek,' and also just being a fan, I wouldn't even want to be involved in the next version of those things," he explained.
|Sam Mendes: The Avengers|
Skyfall director Sam Mendes was among those courted to direct The Avengers, but was unimpressed with the pitch he received because it announced the superheroes film's release date before even offering a look at the script or story. The job, of course, eventually went to Joss Whedon, and the rest is history. Box office-exploding history. | <urn:uuid:e629c4e7-2167-479e-a0cb-e8bfed7d2f59> | 2013-05-26T02:44:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The NFL and several manufacturers have focused resources on improving helmet safety. But helmets, Bailes said, may now be part of the problem.
"The helmet has given a false sense of security, and I think for many players it has been a weapon. It has led paradoxically, unfortunately, ironically, to some of the injuries that we are currently seeing," he told "Nightline." I think the helmet as it has evolved in parallel, has led paradoxically to players sticking their head in with a false sense of security."
And while helmets cannot protect the brain within the skull, there is a further problem: What about players like Webster who never experience a career-ending concussion but instead suffer the cumulative effects of up to 50 head collisions per game, season after season?
"I think there is a phenomenon called subconcussive impacts, a subconcussive blow? the question it begs is: does that lead to microscopic damage? Can it lead to that?" Bailes said. "We don't have that definitive answer. But we've got several linemen who did not have career-ending concussions, who were later found at an earlier age to have extensive brain damage."
"Nightline" spoke to Dr. Joseph Maroon, a neurosurgeon and current doctor for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who represents the NFL. He's also a member of the NFL Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee.
When asked if he was concerned about that area where an individual isn't concussed but nevertheless has taken repeated blows to the head, Maroon said it's an area that should be more carefully examined.
"I think that's an important observation and consideration. Absolutely, I think that's an important new emphasis on what happens to the brain and head in football," Maroon said.
The NFL says it has implemented several safety regulations to protect players in the event of an overt concussion.
"It clearly has instituted educational programs to inform the athletes, the players, the coaches, and the trainers, of just what is a concussion and of the long term consequences of concussion," said Maroon. "It's instituted a whistle-blower hotline so that if any athlete feels like he is being pushed back into play too soon, he can directly report this anonymously to the NFL."
In a statement provided to "Nightline," the NFL said: "We have more resources than ever devoted to the care of this injury and to the education of players and their families, as well as coaches and team personnel. ... Hundreds of thousands of people have played football and other sports without experiencing any problem of this type. There continues to be considerable debate within the medical community on the precise long-term effects of concussions and how they relate to other risk factors, including pre-existing conditions or family history."
But the issue of subconcussive blows to the head is far more problematic to address because no method of measuring them currently exists.
"I think there is yet more to learn. And I think the phenomenon of subconcussive impacts is important to understand," Bailes said.
A phone survey commissioned by the NFL and completed at the University of Michigan found that pro football players are 19 times more likely to be diagnosed with dementia, Alzheimer's disease or other memory-related illness than the same 30- to 49-year-old-age group in the general population. | <urn:uuid:51f7b29e-0ac0-4a75-8288-1f4a2fa009d6> | 2013-05-26T02:50:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Bush's record of service in the National Guard, by contrast, is more of a negative: Just seven percent are more likely to support him because of it, 18 percent less likely. It remains to be seen if the resurgence of this issue hurts Bush, but as a rule it's harder to damage a sitting president with a strong personal image and current record than to define a lesser-known newcomer on the national political scene.
There's also the issue of Kerry's anti-war efforts after leaving the military in 1969. Twenty percent say they're more likely to support him because of his public opposition to the Vietnam war, but 28 percent are less likely. And more generally a 49-37 percent plurality disapproves of Kerry's opposition to the war.
All these views are infused with partisanship; for example, hardly any Republicans say they're less likely to support Bush because of his service (two percent). But it is more of a negative than a positive for him in the center — net 11 points negative, for example, among independents. However, as noted, a bigger hot button for a significant group is Kerry's war opposition: Among veterans, 39 percent say they're less likely to support him because of it, compared with 17 percent more likely.
War and Terrorism
On the war in Iraq, 51 percent in this poll say it was worth fighting, over half (albeit barely) for the first time since April. Fifty-seven percent think the war has contributed to long-term U.S. security. And while 54 percent think the United States has gotten bogged down in Iraq, that's down from 65 percent in May.
As noted above, Bush has majority support on another point — 58 percent think the war in Iraq is part of the war on terrorism.
Fifty-five percent think the United States is winning the war on terrorism, and 52 percent express at least some confidence in the government's ability to prevent further attacks. But 73 percent are worried about another attack, and a third are worried that they personally could be a victim of terrorism.
Perhaps most fundamentally, though, just days before the third anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, 64 percent of registered voters say the country is safer than it was before that attack. And Bush leads Kerry by more than 40 points in this group, 69 to 26 percent.
This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone Sept. 6-8 among a random national sample of 1,202 adults, including 952 registered voters. The results have a three-point error margin for registered voters, 3.5 points for likely voters, who account for 57 percent of all respondents. Sampling, data collection and tabulation were done by TNS of Horsham, Pa.
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Thank you! In all honesty, I write a LOT of reviews, so it seems like that this website should be changed to AbsoluteJustbradleyreviews.net. Haha. But thank you! I just read your review (that was overshadowed by mine, haha), and that was good, too! I've been meaning to listen to that EP, actually. | <urn:uuid:21f22cd8-2407-4c62-befc-739bedf191fa> | 2013-05-26T02:49:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jet Quenching in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC
- Jet Quenching in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC
- Angerami, Aaron
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- Cole, Brian A.
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- Ph.D., Columbia University.
- Jet production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied using Pb+Pb collisions at a center of mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon. The measurements reported here utilize data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC from the 2010 Pb ion run corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 7 µ b^(-1). The results are obtained using fully reconstructed jets using the anti-k t algorithm with a per-event background subtraction procedure. A centrality-dependent modification of the dijet asymmetry distribution is observed, which indicates a higher rate of asymmetric dijet pairs in central collisions relative to periphal and pp collisions. Simultaneously the dijet angular correlations show almost no centrality dependence. These results provide the first direct observation of jet quenching. Measurements of the single inclusive jet spectrum, measured with jet radius parameters R=0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5, are also presented. The spectra are unfolded to correct for the finite energy resolution introduced by both detector effects and underlying event fluctuations. Single jet production, through the central-to-peripheral ratio R CP, is found to be suppressed in central collisions by approximately a factor of two, nearly independent of the jet p T. The R CP is found to have a small but significant increase with increasing R, which may relate directly to aspects of radiative energy loss.
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Good exercise. Cheers.
When my G/F started riding we did a similar thing, bigger circle with wider spacing of the balls. When she was comfortable around the outside she went inside. After that it became a slalom, weaving through the balls. Then we got tricky and followed along behind changing the distance between the balls so that each circuit was different, bringing in observation & speed control. | <urn:uuid:d24245ca-f07f-4f20-9840-c8d312cc48c7> | 2013-05-26T02:54:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Delineating each addition to the 63 chapters covering new developments, techniques, and knowledge in neuroscience would require excessive space. Generally speaking, the progression of the chapters has remained the same, with relevant additions made to each to deal with new developments. Most of these additions, as already noted, fall into the molecular arena. A new chapter, "Genes and Behavior," is presented in part 1 and provides the foundation for genetic topics in subsequent chapters. The "Genes and Behavior" overview describes very cogently the multiple avenues for exploration of the genetic determinants of behavior, including single gene allele determinants of normal variations in behavior, as well as the effects of mutations, deletions, and other defects in manifest behaviors. This introduction does an exceptional job of setting the stage for the remainder of the text. The broad scope of this text is exemplified in the introduction as it overviews genetic findings in worms, Drosophila, and mice, bridging these findings with studies of complex behavioral and psychiatric disturbances such as bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia. | <urn:uuid:da5444a3-0d3b-4c64-bda8-c0493b22aa92> | 2013-05-26T02:49:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In the article “What Happened to Lithium? Antidepressant Augmentation in Clinical Settings” (Am J Psychiatry 2006; 163:1219–1225), Table 1 (p.1221) contained errors in the presentation and prevalences of antidepressant-antidepressant augmentation strategies. A revised table with an alternate title to more clearly reflect the denominators used for calculating percentages appears below.
Also, in the third paragraph of the Results section, the second and third sentences should read as follows: “Bupropion and sertraline were the most frequently appearing antidepressants in combined antidepressant augmentation strategies. Bupropion appeared in 10,279 (38%) of all antidepressant-antidepressant combinations and sertraline appeared in 6,727 (25%).” | <urn:uuid:93186441-4fab-4116-8011-8b06cb7f868f> | 2013-05-26T02:36:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Around 1881, Herbert Bryant, a prominent citizen who owned a large fertilizer plant in Alexandria, had a new home built near the northwest corner of North Washington and Queen streets. Designed by architect Benjamin F. Price, the Second Empire style home featuring a mansard roof was noted in a local paper: Of all the residences in the city, none are handsomer than the one recently erected by Captain Herbert Bryant. The building inside is supplied with all the modern improvements. The workmanship on this building reflects credit upon Alexandria mechanics.
Even more than 25 years later, a souvenir publication described it as a splendid modern residence. Bryant died at his home at 306 North Washington St. in 1914, and around 1918, the property became the site for a new parochial school.
The Xaverian Brothers operated the school for boys within St. Marys parish. The first two floors served as classroom space and initially, the brothers lived on the top floor. But as enrollment grew, St. Marys purchased a nearby property to provide living quarters for the brothers. Lawn parties and suppers were held on the grounds to help raise money for the St. Marys school. Student enrollment at the Xaverian School reached 154 in 1930, but the school proved to be too expensive to operate. With church officials citing the impact of the Depression, it closed around 1934.
The old Bryant home was used as an apartment building for many years. In 1956, it and other structures in the 300 block of North Washington Street were demolished. In the early 1960s, an office building was constructed on the site.
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Kampala — Revelations of military activities during the just concluded elections are pointing to a much wider and deeper role that the military could have played in determining final results of voting than previously known.
In the run-up to the polls, human rights organisations - local and international, religious leaders and opposition groups - expressed concern over increased military and militia activity countrywide, which they argued was beginning to cultivate an air of fear and uncertainty amongst the population. The government denied these allegations, calling them propaganda engineered by the opposition to cause confusion.
But on February 18, Ugandans woke up to the sight of military personnel in almost every corner of the country. Three weeks after the polls, this newspaper is beginning to receive information on military activities during the polls indicating that they were directly involved sometimes in directing how votes should be cast. In Kasese, FDC's Christopher Kibazanga, who stood for the Kasese District chairperson seat, says the villages of Kasese were under a fictitious 'state of emergency'.
"The peoples' army fought the people in my area. Never has the army been deployed in the hills of Kasese during elections. The last time these villagers saw the army like that was during the ADF insurgency. Villagers who were otherwise free were told they could not move freely in their own villages at night," he says.
Mr Kibazanga says the army went as far as campaigning for the ruling party. "Villagers were told to vote NRM or else rebel insurgency would return to Kasese. Military activities were re-enforced by crime preventers some of who were given military uniforms," he says. Mr Kibazanga questions in whose interest the army were working.
He recounts an incident when he was arrested after a local NRM leader shot at an FDC candidate's home. "Hajji Matovu, the NRM vice chairman, together with a group of armed youths, went to the home of Ms Mikayi Kahindo, a district council candidate. He fired several rounds in the air forcing ,Ms Kahindo to call for help," he says.
Mr Kibazanga says he went to Ms Kahindo's home only to find the Area O.C at the scene. "Mr Matovu had apparently left the scene. When I inquired why a civilian like Mr Matovu was allowed to shoot and scare civilians in the dead of the night and was not arrested, the O.C had me arrested," he says.
Mr Kibazanga was transported to a police post, where he was asked to record a statement. He was later released but the next day, he went back to Ms Kahindo's home where he collected a live bullet and several empty cartriges, which he says he will produce at an appropriate time. "I cannot seek leadership at any cost like what the NRM did in these elections. It was so shameful," he says. But the UPDF spokesman, Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye expresses doubts. "If these reports are genuine, then Kibazanga should report them to police for further investigations," Lt. Col. Kulayigye told Sunday Monitor. "We as UPDF have not received any of these complaints."
In Budadiri West, MP-elect Nathan Nandala Mafabi escaped with his life after shots were fired at his car, one of them hitting Julius Odeke, a journalist he was travelling with. In an interview with this newspaper, Mr Mafabi recounted how military activities in Mbale paralised electioneering in Sironko District. "The army beat up and terrorised civilians on the eve of the elections. They used civilian vehicles some of which had either had their number plates removed or covered," Mafabi says.
"There is no military barracks in Sironko District. Where did they come from? We were shocked to see Mambas (armoured cars) and soldiers. We were followed all over and at one point, we were stopped by UPDF officers who told us to get out of our cars. We refused. The boys on my car were forcefully removed and beaten badly."
Mr Mafabi cited Mr Jackson Kisoro, a URA employee, Mr Lumulu Mafabi, a businessman and NRM chairman for Sironko District and Presidency Minister Beatrice Wabudaye as those who commandeered military activities in Budadiri District. He also named civilians who wore military uniforms and who beat up civilians in his area. "Civilians like Mr George Nandege, Mr Samuel Odia, Mr Mabali, son of Nambasi, Ali son of Yusuf and one Wolude, a driver, were dressed in military uniforms and were seen terrorising civilians," he said.
Mr Mafabi said Sironko District deputy police commander Gerald Mbasa was beaten up by UPDF officers but later accused his supporters of attacking him. "Why would the people attack him? Those who beat him did not know who he was. There are witnesses who saw a driver and UPDF soldier beat up the DPC."
"They have now abandoned my case of attempted murder and assault and are now accusing me of inciting violence and disarming a soldier. They even say I have the soldier's gun yet we discovered that the gun was deposited miles away at another police post," Mafabi says.
In Isingiro, Lt. Col. Frank Kashaka and another UPDF officer Toofa Agaba are being accused of beating, intimidating and threatening supporters of a candidate for LC chairman Dominic Kashaaki. In an interview with this newspaper, Mr Kashaaki told of how Lt. Col. Kashaka terrorised his area. "Kashaaka forcefully withdraw a vehicle license number UG1729C from the district headquarters and removed its number plates," Mr Kashaaki says.
He says he moved through three sub-counties where he forcefully voted. He says he drove erratically through the sub-counties and causing a lot of commotion in the process. One polling official was reportedly beaten up and put at gun-point while an unknown polling agents were arrested. "We have not received any of these complaints," the Electoral Commission spokesman Willy Ochola says. "Some of these allegations are being made by people who want to justify their political losses. The media should be careful not to be used by some politicians to gain political mileage," Lt. Col. Kulayigye says.
According to Pokot MP Francis Kiyonga, successive army battalions that have been stationed in Karamoja during the disarmament process have never been deleted from the voter register. "Old battalions have never been deleted from the voter register. The Electoral Commission continues to add names and those who are currently there vote for those who have moved on," he said. "In Rupee Sub-county, for example, out of an estimated 17,000 voters, 7,000 are soldiers. Physically, however, there are not more than 150 soldiers on the ground."
Mr Kiyonga says he has just returned from Kenya where he fled for fear of his life. "Soldiers attempted to arrest me four times. When they finally succeeded, one of the officers who knew me released me and told me to ensure I report to a police station 50km away. On foot, I crossed into Turkana land that night. I found myself a place to stay and just returned through unconventional routes recently," he said.
But according to the military, Mr Kiyonga has been in Kampala.
"Crossing between Kenya and Uganda happens very often amongst the Turkana and Karamajong. Kiyonga has, however, been in the country and more so in Kampala," a military officer says. Mr Kiyonga says almost two weeks after the polls, two of his agents, Mr Solomon Tukei and Mr Locia Albino, are still in custody and have never been presented to court. "The two had video and audio equipment which we were using to document all these happenings."
Mr Kiyonga says he and close to 100 civilians intercepted three ballot boxes, two of which were transported by soldiers and hidden in homes of civilians. "When we learnt of this, I mobilised the locals. We even called election observers from Kampala because the local ones in Karamoja had been compromised. At 1.30a.m., we surrounded the home of Mr Lobot Nangole and Ms Anna Namiti. In both homes, we found people ticking and stuffing ballot boxes. We kept them inside the whole night but in the morning, the army dispersed us violently and took away the boxes."
To this allegation, Capt Deo Akiiki, the UPDF spokesperson in Karamoja said: "This is absolute rubbish and in any case Kiyonga should have reported this to election security officials unless he is accusing himself of abating crime, if this happened anyway. We did not have any soldiers or an incident where we dispersed any group on that day. Kiyonga could be day dreaming of the imaginary reasons that could have led him lose his seat. No single iota of truth in his allegations".
Jacqueline Chepengat, a nurse at a health Centre in Karita who was a polling official during the February 18 elections said she witnessed multiple voting.
In a telephone interview with Sunday Monitor, Ms Chepengat recounts how she saw soldiers returning again and again to vote. "I have medically treated most of these soldiers so I know them by name and by face. I saw them dressed in full military uniforms then return moments later in civilian clothing to vote a second and third time."
"Some army officer I know even dressed up in police uniforms."
Ms Chepengat now says she is receiving threats from those officers. One particular officer has promised to kill her while another police officer is constantly calling her. She has since written to the Director Health Services (DHS) to transfer her away from Karamoja.
"I am in so much fear. They visit my home in the dead of the night, knock at my door and call out my name. I need to leave this please or else they will kill me," Ms Chepengat told this newspaper.
According to Mr. Kiyonga, poling in other areas were closed by 4pm over what officials called security reasons but later on in the evening, soldiers from Moroto and Bukwo were allowed to vote. Robert Apollo, the returning officer at Karita polling station is sighted as one of the officials who stopped the polls before time.
"Officials were told the soldiers had been out on an operation and requested them to vote. No proper procedure was followed. Officers just picked ballot papers; some took as many as three, ticked them and stuffed them in the ballot boxes." "We would wish Mr. Kiyonga would put these allegations in writing so that we could investigate them," EC's Willy Ochola told Sunday Monitor. "We encourage all those with complaints to do the same since they are not the only people affected."
Mr Ochola said the EC would independently investigate all the allegations and respond appropriately. "So of these allegations have serious political implications," Mr Ochola was keen to note.
On this allegation, Capt. Deo Akiiki, the UPDF spokesman in Karamoja, says: "This is absolute rubbish and in any case, Kiyonga should have reported this to election security officials unless he is accusing himself of abating crime, if this happened anyway. We did not have any soldiers or an incident where we dispersed any group on that day. Kiyonga could be day-dreaming about the imaginary reasons that could have led his loss his MP seat. No single iota of truth is in his allegations."
Ms Jacqueline Chepengat, a nurse at a health centre in Karita, who was a polling official during the February 18 elections, said she witnessed multiple voting. In a telephone interview with Sunday Monitor, Ms Chepengat recounts how she saw soldiers returning again and again to vote.
"I have medically treated most of these soldiers so I know them by both name and face. I saw them dressed in full military uniform then return moments later in civilian clothing to vote a second and third time. Some army officers I know even dressed up in police uniforms," she says.
Ms Chepengat now says she is getting threats from some of the those officers. She says one particular officer has promised to kill her while a police officer is constantly calling her. She says she has since written to the Director Health Services (DHS) to transfer her from Karamoja. "I am in so much fear. They visit my home in the dead of the night, knock at my door and call out my name. I need to leave this place or else they will kill me," Ms Chepengat told this newspaper .
According to Mr Kiyonga, voting in other areas were closed by 4p.m over what officials called security reasons, but later in the evening, soldiers from Moroto and Bukwo were allowed to vote. Robert Apollo, the returning officer at Karita Polling Station is cited as one of the officials who stopped the polls before time.
"Officials were told that the soldiers had been out on an operation and requested them to vote. No proper procedure was followed. Officers just picked ballot papers - some took as many as three - ticked and stuffed them in the ballot boxes," Apollo said.
"We would wish Mr Kiyonga puts these allegations in writing so that we could investigate them," EC's Willy Ochola told Sunday Monitor. "We encourage all those with complaints to do the same since they are not the only people affected."
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If igf acts in a similar way to HGh (i.e. hyperplasia) why would you need to cycle it, as suggested by bobo? After all, users of HGh can usually take it for months with better results than they would get from a 5-week cycle (especially for fat loss). Is there a significant feedback mechanism that would down-regulate the body's own synthesis of IGF and take time to recover from IGF usage? From what I'm reading on this forum, the post-cycle effects of IGF only seem to be psychological anyways (withdrawal symptoms). | <urn:uuid:5d219173-be80-467c-b161-1eea846b55c2> | 2013-05-26T03:11:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Im wondering about the pro's (if any) and con's of training the same lifts day in, day out?
I underatand from a scientific standpoint your muscles need rest to grow, and that if you can lift every single day, maybe your not lifting enough. But at the same time I recall having some very labour intesnive jobs, in which Id be physically exhausted at the end of the day... But Id have to go back the next morning and do it all over again. After three weeks Id start getting used to it. So why not the same in weight lifting?
Its my underatanding that some top MMA athletes do "weight training" every single day for weeks before taking a break.
Also I read an article a long time ago about a specific form of Russian Training, in which they would lift for 21 days straight, then take a week off.
Please keep in mind that my goals are not neccisarily(sp) to gain size.
The routine Im using as an example is as follows:
Clean and Press, 12-15rep weight, as many sets as needed to reach 100reps.
Push-ups, as many sets as needed to reach 200 sets.
Chins, as many sets as needed to reach 100 reps
Body weight Squats, as many sets as needed to reach 200 reps.
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If you have clear competition, try to engage with their power-users. You'll get plenty of blunt feedback, and while it might be scary, this is the best feedback you can get. The second population is easily defined as your target customers. Get the product into the hands of those you intend to attract in the future. They will be a huge source of information and one you can't overlook. Never assume you know what your users need.
Don't rely on friends and family, especially those without a lot of experience in your space. Everyone will of course love your new venture, but you can end up operating in a warm and fuzzy bubble which is not reality.
This of course assumes that your interpretation of "beta" is to polish the product. Some companies use the beta stage for different purposes (testing scalability, etc.)
Overall, it's quality not quantity of beta testers. The ones who will give feedback are key. Search Twitter for the names of your competitors, find their fans, and engage with them. Also, seek out early adopters like @scobelizer, etc. These people see tons of software, and will have valuable insight as well.
Just my two cents. Best of luck! | <urn:uuid:3e77f1ff-9452-4612-8410-d72fe7a58ff8> | 2013-05-26T02:41:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I would offer a few lines in the "praise" category, since I found this website and a few writings in it that I skimmed to be very clever. Kudos to John Tyrrell and everyone else!
I've been unidentifying myself from religions for as long as I can remember, and it's been a weird experience for me to suddenly be able to identify with something. My own personal philosophy regarding religion has always been something along the lines of "I have no faith and think yours is interesting but pretty ridiculous, and plus I have more important things to think about." So I think apathetic agnosticism fits closely enough, with a few wrinkles. Talking about the wrinkles would require another feedback box and more time than I have.
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Thread: Trust a fellow officer
03-06-13, 11:56 AM #1
Trust a fellow officer
A defense attorney was cross-examining a police officer during a felony trial -- it went like this:
Q: Officer, did you see my client fleeing the scene?
A: No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender running several blocks away.
Q: Officer, who provided this description?
A: The officer who responded to the scene.
Q: A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?
A: Yes sir, with my life.
Q: With your life? Let me ask you this then officer, do you have a locker room in the police station, a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?
A: Yes sir, we do.
Q: And do you have a locker in that room?
A: Yes sir, I do.
Q: And do you have a lock on your locker?
A: Yes sir.
Q: Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, that you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with those officers?
A: You see sir, we share the building with a court complex, and sometimes defense attorneys have been known to walk through that room.
"A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others."
The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented
on his wearing his sidearm. "Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you
expecting trouble?" "No Ma'am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have
brought my rifle."
(just stole this one hope you don't mind)
03-06-13, 10:29 PM #2
In yo face!Do not war for peace. If you must war, war for justice. For without justice there is no peace. -me
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wormhole bindl Pip!it's been a while since we had one of these "Pip-outside-the-frame" toons, nice to see one again.
Wormhole between the bindles
Bindl-space connects all bindls.
Is "bindl space" anything like "hammerspace?"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_satchel
Bindlespace is nearly exactly like hammerspace.
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Member States were next asked a series of questions related to safety and herbal medicines. The first question asked countries to describe those regulatory requirements used for the safety assessment of herbal medicines. The following options were given: same requirements as for conventional pharmaceuticals, special requirements or no requirements. If Member States chose the option “special requirements”, they were further asked to choose all that applied from the following options: traditional use without demonstrated harmful effects, reference to documented scientific research on similar products, and other requirements. If other requirements were selected, the respondents were asked to describe the requirement.
A total of 130 Member States responded to this question: however, as respondents were asked to choose all that applied, there are more responses than respondents for this question (Figure 30). Eighty two countries indicated that special regulatory requirements exist for herbal medicine. Of the remaining responses, 57 countries indicated that the same regulatory requirements for safety assessment apply to herbal medicines as to conventional pharmaceuticals. Finally, 28 countries indicated that no regulatory requirements for safety assessment exist in their country.
Figure 30. Regulatory requirements for safety assessment of herbal medicines
When selecting the category “special requirements”, countries were further asked to choose the relevant categories of special requirement, or to describe other special requirements. Sixty-six countries of the 82 that chose the category of special requirements indicated that their laws and regulations employ the regulatory requirement of traditional use without demonstrated harmful effects, while 53 countries indicated that they had a regulatory requirement for reference to documented scientific research (Figure 31). Please note that, as countries were able to choose all options that apply, the number of responses exceeds the number of responding countries.
Figure 31. Special regulatory requirements for safety assessment of herbal medicines
Twenty-one countries chose the option “other” and provided details on other regulatory requirements for safety assessment. These included the following: clinical studies, bibliographical documents, screening of herbs not suitable for food use, screening for toxic elements, radioactivity and heavy metals, well-established use, traditional literature documentation and toxicological studies.
Finally, countries were asked whether control mechanisms exist for the regulatory requirements for safety assessment detailed above and, if so, a brief description was requested. Though 125 Member States responded, the figure below only includes 106 since it excludes those that did not respond to the previous question, or responded solely that that there are no requirements. Of the responding countries, 67%, or 71 countries, indicated that such control mechanisms exist (Figure 32). The control mechanisms were also specified in some cases, of which licensing and registration, laboratory testing and pharmacovigilance centres were among the most frequently cited.
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At the Democrats' presidential debate last week, the candidates were asked to comment on issues pertaining to education. This was Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd's response:
"I've been asked the question over the years, 'What's the single most important issue?' I always say education because it is the answer to every other problem we confront as a people here."
Needless to say, no other candidate took issue with Sen. Dodd, and it is likely that most senators, all the Democrats and many Republicans, would agree with the sentiment.
But the sentiment is not only wrong, it is destructive.
There are, of course, links between education and professional success, between education and the ability to read and write. And obviously we need well-educated people in order to be able to compete with other countries. But for at least the few generations in the Western world there has been no link between higher education and human decency.
This is one of the many myths believed by the educated in Western society (people are born good is another). But there is not a shred of evidence to support it.
In fact, the record of the last hundred years -- if it argues for any link between higher education and goodness -- argues for an inverse link. Put simply, the higher educated in Western society have been more likely to have awful moral values and more likely to support massive cruelty than the less well educated.
The two greatest evils of the 20th century -- fascism and communism -- were often headed by well-educated individuals. And Communism was supported in the West almost exclusively by intellectuals. You almost had to be an intellectual in order to support the mass murderers Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
Ask any well-educated person to identify the educational backgrounds of the Nazi mass murderers who made up the einsatzgruppen, the mobile killing units that massacred Jews and anti-Nazi dissidents before the gas chambers were invented. It is a safe bet that most would respond that the vast majority of einsatzgruppen members were poorly educated. In fact, however, of the four einsatzgruppen sent into Russia, for example, "Three of the four commanders held a doctorate, whilst one was a double Ph.D." (HolocaustResearchProject.org). These Nazi mass murderers "included many high-ranking officers, intellectuals and lawyers. Otto Ohlendorf, who commanded Einsatzgruppe D, had earned degrees from three universities and achieved a doctorate in jurisprudence" ("The Einsatzgruppen Reports," Holocaust Library, 1989).
According to Professor Michael Mann -- whose book, Fascists, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004, was declared by the American Historical Review to be "by far the best comparative study of interwar fascisms" -- "all fascist movements during the interwar period appealed disproportionately to the well educated, 'to students in high schools and universities and to the most highly educated middle-class strata.'"
To the extent that many people graduate Western universities with good values, it is despite, rarely because of, their university education.
Yet, all the evidence of higher education's vast moral failure notwithstanding, most leftists deny the link between immoral values and higher education and continue to perpetuate the myth of education as the solution to society's problems.
They do so for a number of reasons.
First, the university is to the secular leftist what the church is to a religious Christian or a yeshiva (Talmudic academy) is to a religious Jew -- a place of holiness and the epicenter of his values.
Second, it is through control of higher education (and the media) that leftist values are most effectively communicated to the next generation. Even the media have somewhat more ideological diversity than Western universities, which almost exclusively convey a leftist worldview.
Third, a secular liberal education is the best antidote to the Judeo-Christian value system that the left most fears.
And there is a fourth reason why a Democratic senator, in particular, would say that education is the "the answer to all other problems." Teachers unions and the National Education Association provide major political and financial support to the Democratic Party.
There is, of course, a form of education that can indeed solve most of society's problems: moral education. That would consist of teaching young people what is good and what is bad, how to develop personal integrity and providing them with the life stories of the best individuals in history.
But little or none of that is now done in schools. "Good" and "bad" are terms that are rarely used, and usually derided as "Manichaean." Personal integrity is essentially defined as taking liberal positions on social issues such as global warming, same-sex marriage and income redistribution. And the best Americans -- those who laid the foundations of our liberty -- have generally been vilified as slave owners and racists.
So, Sen. Dodd, education as it presently exists, is not the answer to all of society's problems. Indeed, it is at least as often the source of many of them. | <urn:uuid:34200cf5-eefb-45bc-992c-2478af74b937> | 2013-05-26T02:41:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey
In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything
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October 24, 2007 Subject:
Victor Sjöström's Final Film as Director
It was interesting to see this film by Victor Sjöström (Sjostrom, Seastrom). At first glance it's difficult to recognize the director of "The Outlaw and His Wife (1918), where he introduced expressive nature and scenery as an active part of the drama, "The Phantom Chariot" (1921), where the monster is alcoholism, or his Hollywood films, of which I'vs seen "He Who Gets Slapped" (1924).
This is an action drama in a historical setting, the early 17th century France and the fight between the Catholic monarchy and the Calvinist Huguenots. People wear lace collars (that never get dirty) and wide hats with swaying plumes. We meet them in bright lit galleries and halls of old castles, contrasted to stairs and vaulted rooms with dark shadows. It's a well done movie in this genre, well acted, with a witty dialogue, some expressive outdoor scenes and an interesting soundtrack. The fans of this genre will like this movie, but I was a little disappointed.
Sjostrom can be recognized in this movie, but his few talkies can hardly compete with his silents. After his years in Hollywood 1923-30 he made a few films, but first of all he worked as an actor and as a supervisor of Svensk Filmindustri. He was the mentor of the young Ingmar Bergman, and at the age of 78 he played the leading part in "Wild Strawberries" (1957). Bergman used to say that it was Victor's film, that Victor took over it. You get a glimpse of how and why when you see Victor's face in the last scene.
Thanks for uploading this movie! Maybe some of Sjostrom's Hollywood films are in the Public Domain and could enter this site... | <urn:uuid:5ea9597f-344f-4006-ad53-ed137d45bdfb> | 2013-05-26T03:02:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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One of the major highlights of the exhibit hall was Intel's booth, which had two prototype MID computers running Intel's new GTK/Hildon-based mobile software environment. The MID prototypes at the Intel booth are a newer revision than the one that Troy reviewed at the Akademy conference. I tested the device myself and discussed the mobile operating system with an Intel developer at the booth. I asked some questions about Intel's efforts to make the Firefox browser integrate with the Hildon environment. The developer explained that most of the window calls were already supported and that work on other Hildon features is still ongoing. When I tested the Firefox browser on the MID myself, I noticed that the menubar hasn't yet been Hildonized, but the menus themselves already appear to be rendered with Hildon.
I also discussed Intel's new mobile technology web site and mentioned that I had run into a few problems with the mobile disk image creator tool. The developer at the booth informed me that the interface for Intel's mobile image creator was originally going to be created with Tk, but they decided to do it with GTK instead. Before creating the image creator, the developers working on the project had minimal experience with Python and GTK and had to learn as they worked.
As a Python/GTK enthusiast, I'm always impressed with how quickly developers can pick up those technologies and use them for something productive, useful, and interesting even without prior experience. The Glade interface designer for GTK is very well-suited for programs like Intel's mobile image creator that have relatively straightforward, static graphical interfaces. Despite the minor problems I encountered with the image creator during my previous tests, it's really a very impressive program with a lot of potential and I'm looking forward to seeing it mature into a reliable product. The developer said that a new version with improvements and fixes has already been released since my test. | <urn:uuid:d5bf1883-716e-4c35-98e1-b4246e4698b1> | 2013-05-26T02:50:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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As the years tick by with most of the planet doing little in the way of reducing carbon emissions, researchers are getting increasingly serious about the possibility of carbon sequestration. If it looks like we're going to be burning coal for decades, carbon sequestration offers us the best chance of limiting its impact on climate change and ocean acidification. A paper that will appear in today's PNAS describes a fantastic resource for carbon sequestration that happens to be located right next to many of the US' major urban centers on the East Coast.
Assuming that capturing the carbon dioxide is financially and energetically feasible, the big concern becomes where to put it so that it will stay out of the atmosphere for centuries. There appear to be two main schools of thought here. One is that areas that hold large deposits of natural gas should be able to trap other gasses for the long term. The one concern here is that, unlike natural gas, CO2 readily dissolves in water, and may escape via groundwater that flows through these features. The alternative approach turns that problem into a virtue: dissolved CO2 can react with minerals in rocks called basalts (the product of major volcanic activity), forming insoluble carbonate minerals. This should provide an irreversible chemical sequestration.
The new paper helpfully points out that if we're looking for basalts, the East Coast of the US, home to many of its major urban centers and their associated carbon emissions, has an embarrassment of riches. The rifting that broke up the supercontinent called Pangea and formed the Atlantic Ocean's basin triggered some massive basalt flows at the time, which are now part of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, or CAMP. The authors estimate that prior to some erosion, CAMP had the equivalent of the largest basalt flows we're currently aware of, the Siberian and Deccan Traps.
Some of this basalt is on land—anyone in northern Manhattan can look across the Hudson River and see it in the sheer cliffs of the Palisades. But much, much more of it is off the coast under the Atlantic Ocean. The authors provide some evidence in the form of drill cores and seismic readings that indicate there are large basalt deposits in basins offshore of New Jersey and New York, extending up to southern New England.
These areas are now covered with millions of years of sediment, which should provide a largely impermeable barrier that will trap any gas injected into the basalt for many years. The deposits should also have reached equilibrium with the seawater above, which will provide the water necessary for the chemical reactions that precipitate out carbonate minerals.
Using a drill core from an onshore deposit, the authors show that the basalt deposits are also composed of many distinct flows of material. Each of these flows would have undergone rapid cooling on both its upper and lower surface, which fragmented the rock. The core samples show porosity levels between 10 and 20 percent, which should allow any CO2 pumped into the deposits to spread widely.
The authors estimate that New Jersey's Sandy Hook basin, a relatively small deposit, is sufficient to house 40 years' worth of emissions from coal plants that produce 4GW of electricity. And the Sandy Hook basin is dwarfed by one that lies off the Carolinas and Georgia. They estimate that the South Georgia Rift basin covers roughly 40,000 square kilometers.
The authors argue that although laboratory simulations suggest the basic idea of using basalts for carbon sequestration is sound, the actual effectiveness in a given region can depend on local quirks of geology, so pilot tests in the field are absolutely essential for determining whether a given deposit is suitable. So far, only one small-scale test has been performed on any of the CAMP deposits.
Given the area's proximity to significant sources of CO2 and the infrastructure that could be brought into play if full-scale sequestration is attempted, it seems like one of the most promising proposals to date.
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RSA Security will replace virtually every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently in use as a result of the hacking attack the company disclosed back in March. The EMC subsidiary issued a letter to customers acknowledging that SecurID failed to protect defense contractor Lockheed Martin, which last month reported a hack attempt.
SecurID tokens are used in two-factor authentication systems. Each user account is linked to a token, and each token generates a pseudo-random number that changes periodically, typically every 30 or 60 seconds. To log in, the user enters a username, password, and the number shown on their token. The authentication server knows what number a particular token should be showing, and so uses this number to prove that the user is in possession of their token.
The exact sequence of numbers that a token generates is determined by a secret RSA-developed algorithm, and a seed value used to initialize the token. Each token has a different seed, and it's this seed that is linked to each user account. If the algorithm and seed are disclosed, the token itself becomes worthless; the numbers can be calculated in just the same way that the authentication server calculates them.
This admission puts paid to RSA's initial claims that the hack would not allow any "direct attack" on SecurID tokens; wholesale replacement of the tokens can only mean that the tokens currently in the wild do not offer the security that they are supposed to. Sources close to RSA tell Ars that the March breach did indeed result in seeds being compromised. The algorithm is already public knowledge.
As a result, SecurID offered no defense against the hackers that broke into RSA in March. For those hackers, SecurID was rendered equivalent to basic password authentication, with all the vulnerability to keyloggers and password reuse that entails.
RSA Security Chairman Art Coviello said that the reason RSA had not disclosed the full extent of the vulnerability because doing so would have revealed to the hackers how to perform further attacks. RSA's customers might question this reasoning; the Lockheed Martin incident suggests that the RSA hackers knew what to do anyway—failing to properly disclose the true nature of the attack served only to mislead RSA's customers about the risks they faced.
RSA is working with other customers believed to have been attacked as a result of the SecurID compromise, though it has not named any. Defense contractors Northrop Grumman and L-3 Communications are both rumored to have faced similar attacks, with claims that Northrop suspended all remote access to its network last week. | <urn:uuid:203b873e-bb3c-49f2-9bb6-76110be0ca0a> | 2013-05-26T02:57:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A bunch of the boys were shmoozing about the economy at a local cantina the other day, when in walks my old buddy, Herman Geltenfelter. He looked as if he had been hit by a flower pot dropped from a 10th-floor window.
"It's an outrage," sobbed Herman. "The market fell 175 points in one day. There goes my whole windfall in stocks. Goodbye, nest egg. I feel like taking gas."
"Now just a darn minute," I replied. "Explain your sudden Chicken Little behavior."
"Look," says Herm, waving newspaper stock tables in my face. "All three of my investments took a dive: Upper Mongolia Lead, Recalcitrant Tech and Amalgamated Horse Farms. I dumped $100,000 into those babies three years ago and things were going fine. Now this!"
"For heaven's sake, friend, chill out," says I. "Let's take a look at your investments and the topsy-turvy Dow. You're better off than you think."
"Oh yeah? How come?" The pink started to return to Herman's pale face.
"Simple. You're like every other spoiled investor around. Stocks have been making out like gangbusters for more than seven years. In fact, in the past three years alone, the market's risen by an average of 26 percent a year. Every $1,000 you put in, in 1994, is now worth $2,007, so your cumulative return so far is about 100 percent."
"Listen," Herm interrupted, grabbing me by the lapels. "You're just like my broker. Don't try to spook me with those crazy numbers. I can't keep taking these hits. I'll go bust, fast."
"OK, but look here," I said, scribbling some figures on a table napkin. "You're whining and crying about a 175-point drop in the market. That's nothing. On Aug. 15 there was a 247-point falloff, the second-largest ever. That amounted to only a 3 percent dip in the Dow, then stocks rebounded."
"So?" Herb's jitters were turning into curiosity.
"Let's take that $100,000 you invested three years ago," I said. "Even if the market plunged by 30 percent--got that, 30 percent?--the cumulative price of your stocks would still be up by almost 41 percent, and your average return for each of the three years would be 12 percent. That's nearly 2 percent higher than the Dow average over the past 70 years."
"In other words," said Herman, grabbing my pen and doing some fast math of his own, "the Dow could sink from 7,900 to as low as 5,500 or thereabouts and I'd still be that much ahead?"
"Correct," I responded.
"Yeah, but I can't take all these ups and downs and maybes," said Herm, mopping the sweat off his brow. "Instead of living in Heart Attack City every time the market takes a bath, aren't I better off putting my money into insured bank CDs?"
"That's up to you, old buddy. Had you parked all your money in average one-year CDs back in '94, and kept rolling them over, your $100K today would be worth $115,380. That works out to about 5 percent a year, or less than half the earnings in the stock market, even after it took that 30 percent hit," I explained.
"So how come the banks are paying zilch?" Herman demanded.
"Easy. They're already getting in all the money they need, over the transom from Nervous Nellies like yourself."
"So how long will the bull market last?" asked Herm.
"Trouble is, everybody expects the market to keep performing on all cylinders. They think that spectacular 26 percent average yearly gain they've become accustomed to over the past three years is going to continue forever. History says no. The market one day will revert to what the experts describe as a `reversion to the mean,' meaning it'll once again seek out its natural, historical level. That's nearly an 11 percent average gain since the year 1926."
"But there's gotta be a lot of bunk and junk in any 70-year average," commented Herm. "How about, say, the last 20 years?"
"Glad you asked. Since 1976, the average annual return on big-company stocks has been even better--almost 15 percent," I said.
"Hey, wait a minute. You're giving me a lot of jazz about staying in the market for the long haul. But I'm no teenager; I won't be around for another 70 years," said Herm, with new worry creeping across his middle-age face.
"Agreed, but you'll probably be around for 20," I said, looking him straight in the eye.
"So what's my game plan?"
"Only one," I replied. "Next time you panic about a market plunge, stop for a moment and look at the real math."
- Latest rate trend. CDs are flat, but 30-year mortgages fell by more than an eighth of a percent to 7.38 percent.
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(David Shields/For the Tribune)
When the University of Virginia was considering whether to offer a lacrosse scholarship to Grayslake North's A.J. Fish, they requested film of Fish playing quarterback for the Knights.
Fish is hoping to find a college football coach with the same reaction.
Though he's a high school All-American with lacrosse in his blood — his father Brad played at Rutgers and is the head coach at Grayslake North — he didn't grow up loving the sport.
Fish is having so much fun putting up video game numbers on the gridiron for the surprising Knights (3-1), lacrosse at Virginia suddenly has become an extremely attractive fallback option.
Still relatively unknown in football recruiting circles, the 6-foot-2, 185-pound Fish is hoping to land a scholarship to play quarterback for a Division I school before the Nov. 14-21 early signing period for lacrosse.
"Right now I am committed to Virginia for lacrosse," A.J. Fish said. "I had to make that commitment or they would have offered the scholarship to someone else.
"Hopefully, if I keep playing like I am now, something will happen. Some of it is my fault. I didn't put myself out there (this summer) because I was focused on my commitment toward lacrosse."
Brad Fish didn't force lacrosse on his son when he founded the Grayslake Youth Lacrosse Association eight years ago, but he "wasn't exactly a willing participant."
A.J. excelled at baseball, basketball and football, and it wasn't until eighth grade that he took a sincere interest in lacrosse.
He became a varsity quarterback as a sophomore and had a big junior year, but lacrosse gave him the best opportunity to fulfill his dream of being an athlete at a big-name university.
After leading the Knights to the Class B state championship last spring, he was one of 10 juniors selected to play in the Champion All-American Showcase in July.
He traveled east to play lacrosse throughout the summer rather than participate in the football recruiting circuit, and he committed to Virginia.
Then came time for football, and "all of a sudden he goes gangbusters," Brad Fish said.
In just four games, he's thrown for 894 yards and four touchdowns while completing 70 percent of his passes. He's also run for 662 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Grayslake North doesn't play the most difficult schedule, but Fish made a statement by throwing for 323 yards and rushing for 153 in a 56-21 victory against a good Jacobs team.
"That game against Jacobs, the light switch really went on for him," Brad Fish said. "That gave him more confidence, and he decided he wants to see what happens with football.
"It will be interesting to see how this plays out. If (a football scholarship) doesn't happen, he's not going to be crushed. He's a three-sport athlete, and he loves whatever sport is in season. He loves football, he loves playing hoops and he loves lacrosse."
A.J. Fish by the numbers
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My name is Paloma. I am a beggar woman on the streets of New Delhi, India. I put my hand out for bread and passersby look at me with scorn or revulsion or both. My legs are scarred, my arms are hideous, and my face appears mutilated. Occasionally some kind person will take pity on me and hand me a rupee, being careful not to touch my outstretched fingers.
It was not always this way. I was once a beautiful girl, with dreams of becoming the dutiful wife and mother I was told I was meant to be in this world. Of having a loving husband such as my father and raising a family. It was not to be.
At age fifteen I was favored by a man who offered to marry me. He was given money and gifts by my family, as is the tradition of my culture. I was thrust into an unfamiliar life with my new husband and in laws, all people I did not know. My mother- in-law trained to me to become a proper wife for Ragu, my new husband. All seemed well for awhile.
Ragu was happy with me at first, or it seemed so. Then his kind demeanor turned ugly, and my father- in-law started to harass me. They said if my family did not pay more money and gifts to him I would be in harm's way. I was threatened daily with words of Choola.
Choola is what happens when a wife is doused with kerosene and set on fire, and it happens to a woman every one hundred minutes here in the region of India.
My parents paid for my protection as long as they could, but they are not wealthy people, and could not keep meeting my in-law's demands. I lived in terror day by day of what might happen to me. One day I overheard my father-in-law speaking, and I knew what was coming.
"I have found a new one for you, Ragu. Her family has money."
"Yes, Baba." I heard my husband say.
My blood ran cold, but I had no where to go for help. My family would not take me back, as it would bring great shame on them, and I had no one else to turn to.
My mind now goes back to the evening I was cooking dinner, and my father-in-law came into the kitchen, yelling at me. I looked up, startled, and he threw kerosene oil on me and lit a match. I caught fire, but I managed to get out the door, screaming in agony. Someone heard me and came to my rescue, but not before my whole body was severely burned.
The authorities did nothing. My husband and his family managed to convince them I had been depressed and was trying to commit suicide. I was hospitalized and then put out on the streets to live as an outcast in shame and humiliation.
Now I pray daily for the courage to to take my own life, but it does not come.
I wish I had died in the fire.
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SEATTLE — At least 20,000 gallons of crude oil have spilled from a corroded pipeline near Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska, state officials said Wednesday, adding that cleanup crews were hampered by severe conditions such as wind-chill temperatures of 50 degrees below zero.
The leak has been plugged, and cleanup crews with giant vacuum trucks known as "super suckers" have been deployed to gather the spilled oil, said Lynda S. Giguere, a spokeswoman for Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation.
The quarter-inch hole in the 34-inch-wide pipeline, about 650 miles north of Anchorage, was detected last Thursday.
It is at a point in the line covered by a mound of gravel designed to let caribou cross the pipeline.
An official estimate of the size of the spill is not expected until today, Giguere said. Cleanup crews have recovered about 58,000 gallons (or approximately 1,380 barrels) of crude oil mixed with snow from the frozen tundra, she said, adding that no determination had been made on how much of it was crude or how severe the environmental impact would be.
The largest spill on record along the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline occurred shortly after it opened in 1978, when vandals blew up a section, causing about 700,000 gallons to escape. The Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons when it ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989.
In 2001, a man fired his hunting rifle into the pipeline, creating a leak that spilled about 285,000 gallons onto the tundra and led to a $7-million cleanup. Authorities arrested the 37-year-old hunter and he was convicted on federal weapons charges; it was not considered a terrorist incident. Pipeline operators say that it has been shot at through the years at least 50 times, but that the incident was the first time a bullet had punctured the double-steel-walled pipeline.
The spill on the North Slope occurred in a "feeder line" to the main pipeline, causing a shutdown of that line and a temporary drop in overall production.
Alaska is a major source of oil for West Coast refineries.
The pipeline is supposed to be monitored for any evidence of a drop-off that could signal a leak in the system; and when a leak is detected, the pipeline is shut off to limit the fallout.
Some industry watchdogs say the aging pipeline will become increasingly vulnerable to corrosion. "It's like a garden hose going bad on you," said Chuck Hamel, a former oil and tanker broker who runs a website that monitors Alaska oil development. "You patch one leak but then you'll get another."
But a spokesman for BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., which runs the section of the pipeline that leaked, disputed that characterization.
"We have a very aggressive, robust corrosion monitoring program," said the spokesman, Daren Beaudo.
He said the company thought it had a "very effective cleanup" going on.
Pipeline operators say that spills have amounted to less than a teaspoon in a swimming pool when compared to the overall volume of oil delivered.
In 1999, six pipeline employees wrote anonymously to federal officials arguing that neglect and maintenance cuts on the pipeline could lead to disaster.
"It won't be a single gasket, or valve, or wire, or procedure, or person that will cause the catastrophe," the employees wrote. "It will be a combination of small, perhaps seemingly inconsequential events and conditions that will lead to the accident that we're all dreading and powerless to prevent." | <urn:uuid:f42d114a-db72-4d07-b085-e440f00a625d> | 2013-05-26T03:11:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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James Bond was the 20th century's most famous spy and -- almost as certainly -- one of its best-known literary characters.
Had he lived, 007's creator, Ian Fleming, would be 100 years old today. A number of new books have been timed to the centenary -- including the 15 volumes under review here -- and London's Imperial War Museum is staging an exhibition, "For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond," which explores the numerous connections between Bond and the author's real-life experiences, particularly those that occurred during his service with British Naval Intelligence in World War II. The exhibit continues through March.
Handsome, charming, witty and sophisticated, cultivated but unpretentious, Fleming imbued his literary alter-ego with many of his own sybaritic tastes, including an abiding pleasure in the company of beautiful women. There were certain departures -- Bond's extreme fondness for scrambled eggs, for example, while his creator relished the haute cuisine of France. They shared, however, a prodigious appetite for distilled spirits and cigarettes, of which Fleming smoked about 80 a day. The combination is generally blamed for his early death in 1964 at age 56, attributed variously to heart failure or complications of pleurisy brought about by an ill-advised round of golf (another passion) in foul English weather.
All the Bond books -- 12 novels and two collections of short stories -- were written over a dozen years, beginning when Fleming was 44, and all were composed during his annual three-month sojourn at his beloved retreat on the Jamaican coast, Goldeneye. (The name was borrowed from a particularly ingenious intelligence operation Fleming conceived during the war.) There, each day, the author rose early, went for a swim in the cove below his home, then went to work on a portable Remington typewriter for three hours. Cocktails and lunch were served on the terrace with its spectacular views, followed by an hour more of work and the completion of each day's quota: 2,000 words. The rest of the day and evening were spent in the glittering company of friends -- Noel Coward, first among them, but also W. Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Eden and a "Who's Who" of British literature and politics.
As one biographer put it, Ian Lancaster Fleming, the second of four brothers, was born into one of those privileged British families to whom "all roads seem open," though they never quite are. His father, Valentine, heir to a banking fortune, was a widely admired member of Parliament who enlisted in a fashionable cavalry regiment during World War I and was killed in France. Valentine's fortune was bequeathed to his wife, Evelyn, in a trust, one of whose conditions was that she forfeit the entire thing if she ever remarried; another specified that his sons were not to receive any of it until her death. (Eve, as she was known, made her own accommodation with circumstances and, though she died Valentine's widow, bore a daughter to the painter Augustus Johns.)
Ian attended Eton and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst but was dismissed from both for indiscretions with young women. His mother sent him to the continent to learn French and German in hopes he could pass the Foreign Office exams, which he failed. Fleming took up a career with Reuters, including a stint in Moscow covering the show trials, which left him with a profound revulsion for communism. He subsequently worked as a stockbroker, making a handsome enough income to cut a fashionable figure in the upper reaches of London society, while building what ultimately became an internationally famous personal library devoted to first editions of books that revolutionized the scientific and intellectual landscape.
By 1938, he'd returned to journalism -- though probably as cover for his new vocation, espionage. Just before the war, he enlisted as a subaltern in the Black Watch but quickly was recruited as personal assistant to Adm. John Godfrey, the Royal Navy's director of intelligence. Fleming had what the British like to call "a very good war," ultimately rising to the rank of commander. Early on, he engineered the escape of Albania's King Zog from occupied France, an operation that made time for a spectacular French meal just hours before the Nazis arrived in Dieppe. He ultimately took over supervision of a daring commando unit, whose dashing field commander -- Patrick Dalzel-Job -- was a major inspiration for James Bond.
After the war, Fleming returned to journalism, built his famous house in Jamaica, which he'd discovered during the conflict, and resumed his life in society, including his affairs, one which left his longtime lover, Lady Ann Rothermere, pregnant. He wrote his first James Bond novel -- "Casino Royale" -- while in Jamaica waiting for her divorce from her viscount husband to become final, so that they could marry. | <urn:uuid:3f4acddd-3b87-482e-aab3-15d090437542> | 2013-05-26T03:06:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The president of one of the nation's largest African American denominations was found guilty Saturday of racketeering, convicted of bilking more than $4 million from companies seeking to sell products to the group's members. The Rev. Henry Lyons, 57, of the National Baptist Convention USA was also found guilty of two counts of grand theft in connection with $244,000 given to him from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to rebuild burned-out black churches throughout the South.
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The Rev. Henry Lyons, the president of the National Baptist Convention USA, pleaded not guilty to racketeering and grand theft during a hearing in St. Petersburg. A trial was set for January 1999. Lyons, 55, was arrested in February and charged with two counts of grand theft and one count of racketeering.
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August 30, 1997 |
The Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention, the largest black Baptist organization in the state and an affiliate of the beleaguered National Baptist Convention, USA, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The convention's membership includes about 900 churches with a total of 420,000 members, said the Rev. W.E. Pitts, a Tuscaloosa minister who is the convention's executive secretary-treasurer.
February 20, 1992
The head of the nation's largest black church organization denied reports that the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. tried to coerce a teen-age beauty pageant contestant into withdrawing her rape complaint against boxer Mike Tyson. The Rev. T.J. Jemison, president of the group, acknowledged he telephoned the woman but denied that he tried to pressure her into changing her story or offered her money.
September 8, 1990 |
The National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc., the nation's third-largest Protestant denomination, Friday urged the United States to negotiate a settlement with Iraq in the Persian Gulf crisis, "no matter how horrific the position of Saddam Hussein might appear." About 1,500 delegates to the black denomination's annual meeting in Los Angeles approved without debate a resolution that reflected the stance of National Baptist President T. J. Jemison. | <urn:uuid:6722555c-2e0d-4cbf-a260-f2405091bdb5> | 2013-05-26T02:35:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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