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Chess Grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov Returns to Campus
by Karen Handley
October 15, 2007
Chess Grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov will return to the Wabash College Campus Tuesday, October 30 for a blindfold and simultaneous speed chess games.
Kaidanov, who visited Wabash in 2002 and 2005, became a Grandmaster in 1988. The Russian native lives in Lexington, Kentucky, teaches private chess lessons, competes in national and international tournaments, and gives exhibitions across the country.
Kaidanov will play a blindfold speed game at 7 p.m. in the Baxter Hall Lovell Lecture Hall on Tuesday then move to the Detchon Center International Hall for an 8 p.m. exhibition against 30 opponents.
He will play the blindfold game with five minutes to complete all his moves. Any move, all done from memory, that is illegal results in a forfeit. After he completes the game, he will replay the match from memory and comment.
Kaidnov will then go across campus and play 30 games simultaneously. He will follow that by playing 4 games of timed chess, running from board to board to conserve the time he is allotted to make his moves.
The Berdichev (Ukraine) native started playing chess at age six, learning from his father. He and his family visited the U.S. as tourists in 1990 and eventually settled in Kentucky.
His list of accomplishments is impressive: Boys under-14 Russian Federation Champion, 1972; Master, 1978, International Master, 1987, Grandmaster, 1988; World Open Champion, 1982, US Open Champion, 1990; tied for first in National Open in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999; U.S. team member in 1998 World Chess Olympiad; U.S. team member in World Chess Olympiad, 2000.
Kaidanov's appearance is sponsored by the Wabash College Lecture Committee. | <urn:uuid:c1027da5-61c4-4f85-8c48-ce50fab0a365> | 2013-05-26T03:09:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Colombian runner banned 2 years for doping
MONACO (AP) — Track and field's governing body says Colombian runner Diego Palomeque has been suspended for two years after failing a drug test at the London Olympics.
Palomeque had a positive testosterone reading in an out-of-competition test in the Olympic Village on July 26 and was barred from the 400-meter heats.
In releasing its latest list of doping cases Tuesday, the IAAF said Palomeque is banned until Aug. 8, 2014.
During the London Games, the IOC also asked Colombia's Olympic committee to investigate Palomeque's coach, Raul Diaz Quejada, regarding injections given to the runner. | <urn:uuid:49e4fbd8-bc6b-4c38-ac6d-195edc7a795e> | 2013-05-26T02:42:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Woman Gets 13 Years for Leaving Baby to Die in Hyattsville
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
A District woman, who a year ago left her newborn daughter to die in a garbage bag she left in a field in Hyattsville, was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison.
Wendy J. Villatoro's sentence is near the low end of Maryland's sentencing guidelines. Circuit Court Judge Cathy H. Serrette said she balanced the need to punish Villatoro's "intolerable" conduct with the difficult circumstances of her life.
"Leaving the baby to die certainly merits punishment," Serrette said. Speaking to Villatoro, she added, "At the same time, the evidence indicates you've pretty much been punished your whole life."
During the two-day sentencing hearing, Assistant Public Defender Michael D. Beach presented evidence that Villatoro, 26, was sexually abused while growing up and was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and severe depression on the night she left the infant in the field.
Beach said Villatoro became pregnant after she was raped in Honduras, shortly before she came to the Washington area. Villatoro did not tell him or male police investigators about the rape, he said.
It was only when Carole Giunta, a clinical psychologist, interviewed Villatoro for about nine hours over two days that Villatoro revealed the rape, Beach said. Beach said Villatoro told Giunta that she thought someone would find the child.
Beach asked Serrette to sentence his client to 12 years.
Assistant State's Attorney Renee Battle-Brooks, who asked for the maximum 30 years, argued that whether Villatoro was impregnated because she was raped was irrelevant.
"That doesn't make [the baby's] life any less valuable," Battle-Brooks said. "That baby struggled for breath in that plastic bag. She was alone, she was cold and she was hungry."
Battle-Brooks said Villatoro got rid of the baby because she was afraid the man she was living with would break up with her for having another man's child.
According to a statement of facts agreed to by both sides, about midnight Oct. 12, 2008, Villatoro walked to the field from her nearby home in the District, where she was living with a man she considered her husband. She carried a pink towel, a plastic garbage bag and scissors.
Villatoro gave birth, used the scissors to cut the umbilical cord, wrapped the girl in the towel, placed her in the garbage bag and walked home, prosecutors said. The baby was found hours later by workers helping clear the field of brush. The girl was taken to Children's National Medical Center in the District, where she was pronounced dead.
Through a translator, Villatoro said during the hearing that she came to the United States to try to work to better provide for her two young sons in Honduras. "I just want to ask you to forgive me for the offense I committed against you and the country," Villatoro said. "I know what I did was wrong."
A spokesman for State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey said he did not know Villatoro's immigration status. | <urn:uuid:53081704-9c80-44f3-8a00-c79917036dc5> | 2013-05-26T02:57:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Yemen's fight with rebels a regional concern
Saturday, November 14, 2009
MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- Along the jagged, oatmeal-colored mountains of northern Yemen, civil war has transformed the windswept landscape into a canvas of human misery, bolstering al-Qaeda's efforts to create a haven in the Middle East's poorest nation.
It is a war largely hidden from the rest of the world the past five years, and it pits the Hawthi rebels, who are Shiites, against Yemen's government. In recent days, however, it has also drawn in Saudi Arabia. Yemen and Saudi Arabia, both ruled by Sunnis, accuse Shiite Iran of backing the rebels, raising the specter of a proxy war that could elevate sectarian tensions in this oil-rich region.
The fighting could have serious implications for the U.S. anti-terrorism effort in a failing nation where al-Qaeda is gaining strength, Western diplomats and Yemeni analysts say. The war is drawing attention and scarce resources away from efforts to combat poverty, a secessionist movement in the south and piracy along the nation's shores. A prolonged conflict, they say, could further weaken Yemen's government and deepen societal fissures, allowing al-Qaeda militants to thrive.
"The longer the war in the north continues and the longer the problems in the south continue without resolution, the more we pave the road for al-Qaeda," said Yahya Abu Asbu, a Foreign Ministry official and deputy secretary general of the Yemeni Socialist Party. "Yemen will become more dangerous than Somalia."
Ruling party officials concede that the war is siphoning resources from other pressing problems, but they say their priority is to crush the rebellion.
"You cannot say the Hawthis are less dangerous than al-Qaeda," said Yasser Ahmed Bin Salim al-Awadi, who heads the government's ruling bloc in parliament. "Al-Qaeda is not doing something like what the Hawthis are doing now."
The war has forced more than 175,000 Yemenis to flee their homes; many more remain trapped in areas gripped by violence.
Ali Abdu and his family are among the war's newest victims.
They escaped to Saudi Arabia two months ago. But last week, the Hawthi rebels crossed into Saudi Arabia and attacked a Saudi patrol. The kingdom retaliated by bombing rebel positions in Yemen, but also forced Abdu and hundreds of other desperate refugees back across the border.
Evading bombs and bullets, the family reached Mazraq, a crowded refugee camp less than five miles from the front lines.
"It is our destiny," said Abdu, 45, with no hint of emotion. He paused, then added: "Only Allah knows why they are fighting."
The Hawthis, who believe in the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam, ruled northern Yemen as a religious imamate for nearly a millennium before being overthrown in a 1962 coup. Ever since, Yemen's rulers have been wary of them and other Zaydi clans. The Zaydis make up more than a quarter of Yemen's population and constitute a majority in the north. | <urn:uuid:b4298321-8742-4079-9b7d-f566b9d4f152> | 2013-05-26T02:43:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Harken-Bahrain Deal: A Baseless Suspicion
By George Lardner Jr.
He didn't. But suspicions linger, mostly by virtue of repetition.
Bush was on Harken's board of directors in the late 1980s when officials in Bahrain decided to look for more oil in their waters. To widespread surprise, Harken, which had never drilled a well offshore or overseas, wound up with the concession. The award, in January 1990, stirred talk in the oil industry that the Bahrainis might be trying to win an entree to the Bush White House.
There is, however, no evidence that Bush had any role in negotiating the deal and those familiar with it confirm that he actively opposed Harken's entering into it. In addition, the Bahraini official at the center of the negotiations, Yousuf Shirawi, already had a link to the administration, dating to the days when George Bush was vice president.
Asked how Harken was chosen, Shirawi, then Bahrain's minister of development and industry, said in an interview that seismic surveys were promising, but the "big boys" in the oil industry weren't interested. Shirawi said he decided to go shopping for a small American company and found Harken through a Houston oil consultant and longtime friend, Michael Ameen.
Shirawi said he was "not aware that George [W.] Bush was a member of the board" at the time the deal with Harken was made. He said he did learn this somewhat later, but whenever it was, he said: "I will swear one thing: that that information was of no significance. Because we wanted them to drill a hole."
When the multimillion-dollar project came up for discussion at Harken board meetings, Bush warned against it, saying it would cost more than Harken could afford to spend and emphasizing the fact that it had never drilled a single well overseas or in water.
"The guy who didn't want into Bahrain was George W. Bush," Ameen said. "He said, 'I don't think we have the expertise, we've never been overseas, and we don't have the money.' "
In fact, the project proved a huge disappointment. Harken found no oil.
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are user-created categories, which are designed and managed by groups of
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The absence of Kathryn Bigelow - and a few other names - from the Academy's list of best director nominees has been a contested oversight, not just for observers but for the star of Bigelow's Oscar-nominated film.
When CNN spoke with Jessica Chastain, who did earn an Oscar nod for best actress for her work in "Zero Dark Thirty," she admitted that she was let down that her director wasn't recognized as well.
"It's a bittersweet moment because I wouldn't be able to do what I did without her," Chastain told CNN Thursday. "So much of her is in my performance. So I do feel disappointed. But by acknowledging the film as a best picture nominee we're also acknowledging her. It makes me feel better."
Chastain is also up for an award at Sunday's Golden Globes, where she's nominated for best actress in a dramatic motion picture, and she won't be flying solo on the red carpet.
"Grandma is coming with me this year. My grandma is very excited about the awards season," Chastain, 35, said. "I brought her to the Oscars last year. I think now she's going to be my go-to date for most of these shows. She'll be the biggest party animal at the table at the Globes, I can tell ya that!" | <urn:uuid:f13a3600-c2ed-484e-934a-df9141a359d1> | 2013-05-26T02:58:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hugo Chavez was as colorful as he was polarizing. Celebrating his 10th year in power four years ago, he held a jewel-encrusted sword of his hero, 19th-century revolutionary Simon Bolivar, and reminded a Caracas crowd what he was about.
"There is no other path to redemption for the human being than socialism," the Venezuelan president said, flanked by like-minded Latin American leaders helping him mark his anniversary.
After his death on Tuesday, detractors and fans had plenty to say about his fiery character and leftist pursuits, and it's hard to remember they're talking about the same guy.
He wrecked Venezuela's economy and trounced on democratic institutions and people's liberties, some say. He improved the lives of the poor and rightly stood up against "imperialist" nations, say others.
One of the more interesting tributes came from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who declared on his Farsi-language presidential website that Chavez was a great leader who will "resurrect" along with Jesus.
How many different ways can people look at Chavez? Here are a few:
Champion of the poor
Chavez, who led virtually uninterrupted from 1999 until his death, launched big poverty-reduction programs and paid for them with Venezuelan oil income. The programs worked on measurable levels, fans say.
The percentage of Venezuelans living under the poverty line declined from a peak of 62% in 2003 to 29% in 2009, according to World Bank statistics. Between 2001 and 2007, illiteracy fell from 7% to 5%.
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It was the middle of the night, Oscar Pistorius says, and he thought an intruder was in the house. Not wearing his prosthetic legs, feeling vulnerable in the pitch dark and too scared to turn on the lights, the track star pulled his 9mm pistol from beneath his bed, moved toward the bathroom and fired into the door.
It was only after he called to girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp -- whom he thought had been in bed beside him after a quiet evening -- that he realized something horrible might have happened, he told Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair in a statement read by his lawyer during his bond hearing Tuesday. Prosecutors dispute the version of events that Pistorius detailed in his statement.
Pistorius says he broke down the locked bathroom door -- at one point in the statement saying he kicked the door in, at another saying he used a cricket bat to break it down -- then scooped up the mortally wounded Steenkamp and carried her downstairs after for help.
"I tried to render the assistance to Reeva that I could, but she died in my arms," he said in the statement. "I am absolutely mortified by the events and the devastating loss of my beloved Reeva."
While prosecutors and defense lawyers agree Pistorius shot Steenkamp, the track star denied intentionally killing her, in the statement read Tuesday.
Prosecutors say they believe Pistorius put on his prosthetic legs, picked up his gun and walked to the bathroom where Steenkamp, 29, had locked herself -- apparently after a heated argument -- and shot at her four times.
Three of the bullets struck Steenkamp, who died soon after. Her funeral was Tuesday.
Pistorius spent much of the hearing sobbing and heaving at the mention of his girlfriend's name, at one point forcing Nair to stop the proceedings to ask him to compose himself. His family stood nearby, huddling during breaks and appearing to pray. During parts of the hearing, Pistorius' brother placed his hand on the suspect's back.
During Tuesday's hearing, Nair upgraded the charge against Pistorius to premeditated murder, saying he could not rule out the possibility that the track star planned Steenkamp's death. But Nair said he will consider downgrading the charge later.
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I'm reverse engineering a site and fixing some problems I inherited. The site's local so I don't have a link for you but I hope I can clearly explain:
I simply want a container div to expand horizontally to fit a child div which contains a table (but I wouldn't think the table matters)
I set a min-width to the container and all's well in all browsers EXCEPT IE7/8...the container is expanding to the full screen!!!!
I've poured over forums and found some really funky solutions but none of them worked. I've been building sites for YEARS and have never come across this issue!
Here's the css for the 2 containers. The 'width:expression' was the latest thing I tried but it didn't work.
Thanks so much for your help!
min-width: 940px !important;
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Interface with computers using gestures of the human body, typically hand movements. In gesture recognition technology, a camera reads the movements of the human body and communicates the data to a computer that uses the gestures as input to control devices or applications. For example, a person clapping his hands together in front of a camera can produce the sound of cymbals being crashed together when the gesture is fed through a computer.
One way gesture recognition is being used is to help the physically impaired to interact with computers, such as interpreting sign language. The technology also has the potential to change the way users interact with computers by eliminating input devices such as joysticks, mice and keyboards and allowing the unencumbered body to give signals to the computer through gestures such as finger pointing.
Unlike haptic interfaces, gesture recognition does not require the user to wear any special equipment or attach any devices to the body. The gestures of the body are read by a camera instead of sensors attached to a device such as a data glove.
In addition to hand and body movement, gesture recognition technology also can be used to read facial and speech expressions (i.e., lip reading), and eye movements.
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Explore some live examples of Wt below.
The source code of these (and many more) examples is included in the Wt source distribution. You may also browse through the source code of each example using the source code viewer, following the link below each example.
Cross-linked source code for these examples is also in doxygen documentation (in a new window).
This simple example illustrates most of the basic Wt concepts:
- How to make a minimal Wt application, using WRun() to start the web server, and a function to create a new WApplication, corresponding to a new session.
- Creating widgets, and adding them to the widget tree.
- Reacting to events using the signal/slot mechanism.
- Reading user input and updating widgets.
For a thorough (although slightly out-dated) explanation of the hello world example, see also the nice introduction to Wt written by Victor Venkman. | <urn:uuid:92c1a5bc-78a5-4585-8c44-fff3cc5f200b> | 2013-05-26T02:49:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Learning Curve
Rediscovering counterinsurgency in Iraq.
May 11, 2009, Vol. 14, No. 32 • By MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS
As the insurgency metastasized in 2005 the United States had three military alternatives: continue offensive operations along the lines of those in Anbar after Falluja; adopt a counterinsurgency approach; or emphasize the training of Iraqi troops in order to effect a transition to Iraqi control of military operations. Gen. John Abizaid of Central Command, and Gen. George Casey, the overall commander in Iraq, chose the third option, supported by Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Richard Myers.
But while moving toward Iraqi control was a logical option for the long run, it did little to solve the proximate problem of the insurgency, which had generated sectarian violence. Based on the belief of many senior commanders, especially General Abizaid, that U.S. troops were an "antibody" to Iraqi culture, U.S. forces were consolidated on large "forward operating bases," maintaining a presence only by means of motorized patrols that were particularly vulnerable to attacks by IEDs. In so doing, we ceded territory and population alike to the insurgents. Mansoor describes this approach as a mistake: "Security of the population is the fundamental basis of any successful counterinsurgency strategy."
The withdrawal of American forces to forward operating bases also contributed to a "kick-in-the-door" mentality among troops when they did interact with Iraqis. This was completely at odds with effective counterinsurgency practice, seriously undermining attempts to pacify the country. And yet, despite many difficulties (including resistance from above), some Army and Marine commanders had been implementing a counterinsurgency approach on their own initiative; that is to say, forming partnerships with the Sunni sheikhs in al Anbar province who had tired of al Qaeda's reign of terror in the Sunni Triangle. By providing security to the people in cooperation with the sheikhs, the Americans were able to isolate Al Qaeda in Iraq. And as U.S commanders were struggling with the insurgency, the Army and Marine Corps were developing a counterinsurgency doctrine based on this insight, and an operational strategy that would successfully be applied as part of the surge in 2007.
As a close associate of General Petraeus, Colonel Mansoor helped serve as midwife to the remarkable shift in Iraq arising from a more general application of the lessons that he had learned during his 2003-04 command. This new approach rejected the position articulated by Petraeus's predecessor, General Casey, who had told President George W. Bush in 2006 that "to win, we have to draw down." And General Abizaid of Central Command, sticking to his belief that American soldiers were an "antibody" to Iraqi culture, seconded Casey.
But Petraeus agreed with Mansoor's observation that "counterinsurgency is a thinking soldier's war," requiring "the counterinsurgent to adapt faster than the insurgent." The time for applying a new approach was at hand, and to his credit, President Bush saw the necessity for change and took action.
One of the debates triggered by our experience in Iraq concerns U.S. force structure. As Mansoor puts it, "If we accept the premise that [counterinsurgency and] stability operations [are] of primary concern, then the Army's organization for combat should [be] different." This debate pits the "long war" school against "traditionalists." The former argues that Iraq and Afghanistan are most characteristic of the protracted and ambiguous wars America will fight in the future, and that the military should be developing a force designed to fight the "long war" on terrorism, which envisions the necessity of preparing for small wars, or insurgencies.
The traditionalists concede that irregular warfare will occur more frequently in the future and that fighting small wars is difficult. But traditionalists also conclude that such conflicts do not threaten U.S. strategic interests, while large-scale conflicts, which they believe remain a real possibility, will threaten strategic interests. They fear that the Long War School's focus on small wars and insurgencies will transform the Army back into a constabulary force, whose new capability for conducting stability operations and "nation-building" would be purchased at a high cost: the inability to conduct large-scale conventional war.
This is by no means a parochial debate, of interest only to the uniformed military, and its outcome has implications for broader national security policy: A force structure aligned with the requirement to fight conventional wars would make it more difficult for the United States to fight small wars. This may be a legitimate choice for the United States, but it is one that should be made by policymakers, and not delegated to the uniformed military. To do so would permit military decisions to constrain policy and strategy questions that lie well within the purview of civilian authority, and our experiences in Vietnam and Iraq demonstrate the dangers of leaving military doctrine and force structure strictly to the military.
Mackubin Thomas Owens is editor of Orbis, the journal of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College. | <urn:uuid:fb7b5cfd-23b6-4918-ae25-7de764971dd2> | 2013-05-26T03:02:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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For me, the key obstacle to Elena Kagan's confirmation is pt. 5 in Ed Whelan's NRO post, which is also the question raised by Peter Berkowitz in these pages several years ago and by Peter Beinart just recently: Her hostility to the U.S. military.
Hostility? Isn't that harsh? Kagan has professed at times her admiration for those who serve in the military, even as she tried to bar military recruiters from Harvard Law School. But how does one square her professed admiration with her actions--embracing an attempt to overturn the Solomon Amendment that was rejected 8-0 by the Supreme Court--and her words?
Consider these words in particular from her letters to "All Members of the Harvard Law School Community": On Oct. 6, 2003, Kagan explained that she abhorred "the military's discriminatory recruitment policy....The military's policy deprives many men and women of courage and character from having the opportunity to serve their country in the greatest way possible. This is a profound wrong -- a moral injustice of the first order." On Sep. 28, 2004: "...the military's recruitment policy is both unjust and unwise. The military's policy deprives..." etc. And on March 7, 2006: "I hope that many members of the Harvard Law School community will accept the Court's invitation to express their views clearly and forcefully regarding the military's discriminatory employment policy. As I have said before, I believe that policy is profoundly wrong -- both unwise and unjust...," etc.
Notice, time and again: "the military's discriminatory recruitment policy," "the military's policy," "the military's recruitment policy," "the military's discriminatory employment policy."
But it is not the military's policy. It is the policy of the U.S. Government, based on legislation passed in 1993 by (a Democratic) Congress, signed into law and implemented by the Clinton administration, legislation and implementation that are currently continued by a Democratic administration and a Democratic Congress. It is intellectually wrong and morally cowardly to call this the "military's policy." Wrong for obvious reasons. Cowardly because it allowed Kagan to go ahead and serve in the Clinton administration that enforced this policy she so detests, and to welcome to Harvard as Dean former members of that administration, as well as Senators and Congressmen who actually voted for the law--which is more than the military recruiters whom Kagan sought to ban did.
As Ed Whelan asks, "Instead of taking potshots at military recruiters who were merely complying with the law, did Kagan ever exclude from campus any of the politicians responsible for the law?"
Of course not. Indeed, whatever moral opposition Kagan had to the law when it was adopted didn't deter her from seeking and obtaining employment in the Clinton White House. Nor will it keep her from palling around with the many senators who voted for it, such as Vice President Biden.
Kagan engaged in her cheap moral posturing in the aftermath of 9/11, at a time when American soldiers were at war defending our freedom.
Many important people are complicit in what Kagan regards as the "moral injustice of the first order" of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The only ones Kagan sought to make pay a price were those serving the ranks of the military.
So Kagan needs to be asked: Why doesn't this reflect hostility to the military? | <urn:uuid:ec302d7e-53fd-4180-8f1e-30cd3b01eec4> | 2013-05-26T03:10:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Rabbi David Wolpe offered the benediction last night at the Democratic convention and made sure to emphasize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. "[Y]ou have taught us that we must count on one another; that our country is strong through community, and that the children of Israel on the way to that sanctified and cherished land, and ultimately to that golden and capital city of Jerusalem, that those children of Israel did not walk through the wilderness alone," said Wolpe.
And Wolpe mentioned God. "Ribono shel Olam, dear God," he said at the beginning of his prayer.
Language that acknowledged Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and "God" were omitted from this year's original Democratic platform, though the platform was later revised to include these items.
"Ribono shel Olam, dear God.
"We are grateful that our nation is founded on the highest principles of freedom and resourcefulness and creativity and ever-renewed strength. And we understand that those worthy ideals stand alongside the commitment to compassion, to goodness, our sacred covenant to care for those who are bereaved and bereft, who are frightened, who are hungry, who are bewildered and lost, who seek shelter from the cold.
"As your prophet Isaiah taught us: shiftu yatom, v’rivu almanah—defend the orphan and fight on behalf of the widow.
"We know that our lamp is lifted not only to illuminate our way but to serve as a beacon to others—that here, this land, is a place where the dreams of a weary world flourish and endure.
"Ours is a holy charge: a single moment, a touch, a glance, a word, can change a life; our children look to us with aspirational eyes, with the hope that their world will be kinder, sweeter, smarter, than the world we have known.
"Each of these changes touches all of us: for you have taught us that we must count on one another; that our country is strong through community, and that the children of Israel on the way to that sanctified and cherished land, and ultimately to that golden and capital city of Jerusalem, that those children of Israel did not walk through the wilderness alone.
"Rachmana, merciful God, may we be guided by your wisdom, and so become more understanding and tolerant of others. May our souls be enlarged by empathy and uplifted by leaders and thinkers and teachers who believe in strength of soul and wild, wonderful visions; so together, with right and left worshiping the same God, our nation, this nation, this strong, blessed nation, filled with spirit and called to noble cause, will become more passionate, more purposeful, more burnished and bright through the warmth of your embrace and the extraordinary power, dear God, of your love. | <urn:uuid:d8eb23bd-b927-4008-80ba-111d4ecd038b> | 2013-05-26T03:13:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Negative beliefs you have about yourself can undermine your efforts at losing weight. For example, past failures may be lodged in your memory and produce underlying obstacle thoughts like:
See if you can dig up one negative thought you harbor about you and weight loss. then talk to yourself.
Through careful consideration and some imagination, you can alter self-defeating beliefs. Dreaming a little about what you might do differently can free you. | <urn:uuid:2dd1af80-93dd-4758-ab28-503b6b88f094> | 2013-05-26T02:45:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Quintana Roo, officially Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo, is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 10 municipalities and its capital city is Chetumal.
It is located in Southeastern Mexico, on the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is bordered by the states of Yucatán to the northwest and Campeche to the west. To the north, Quintana Roo borders the Gulf of Mexico and to the south, Belize. It also claims territory which gives it a small border with Guatemala in the southwest of the state, although this disputed area is also claimed by Campeche.
Quintana Roo is home of the world famous city of Cancún, the islands of Cozumel and Isla Mujeres, the towns of Bacalar, Playa del Carmen and Akumal, as well as the ancient Maya ruins of Chacchoben, Coba, Kohunlich, Muyil, Tulum, Xel-Há, and Xcaret. The Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve is also in the state.
The state officially covers an area of , but since 1997 there is a boundary dispute with the states of Yucatán and Campeche over an area of approximately .
The statewide population is expanding at a rapid rate due to the construction of hotels and the demand for workers. Many immigrants come from Yucatán, Campeche, Tabasco, and Veracruz. The state is frequently hit by severe hurricanes due to its exposed location, the most recent and severe being Hurricane Dean in 2007, making landfall with sustained winds of 280 km/h (175 mph), with gusts up to 320 km/h (200 mph).
The area that makes up modern Quintana Roo was long part of Yucatán, sharing its history. With the Caste War of Yucatán starting in the 1840s, all non-natives were driven from the region and the independent Maya nation of Chan Santa Cruz was centered on what is now the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
Quintana Roo was made a territory of Mexico by decree of President Porfirio Díaz on November 24, 1902. It was named after an early patriot of the Mexican Republic, Andrés Quintana Roo. The Mexican army succeeded in defeating most of the Maya population of the region during the 1910s, and in 1915 the area was again declared to be legally part of the state of Yucatán.
Quintana Roo was granted statehood within the United Mexican States on October 8, 1974. It is the Mexican Republic's youngest state. | <urn:uuid:2a0b5083-86de-45fd-99a3-cef3ab552a59> | 2013-05-26T02:44:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It's made of beach objects collected. I am fortunate enough to live by the ocean, and am concentrating on sculpture using naturally occurring and found objects for now. The stones on the driftwood bark are wired in place representing the struggle to co-exist nature with industry. The contrast is the thunderbird sentiment representing native man's ability to harmonize with nature. Branching off, the stones can also be interpreted as figurative, individuals caught within the conflict, family units, and those with relationships less bound in the struggle. Those individuals existing in an advanced state of spirituality and enlightenment have a more complex task making sense of it all. If I were to do it again the wire would be more prominent and the contrast of the individuals more clearly defined. I'm new at this. | <urn:uuid:fa57c188-3337-4712-952a-4992e1023b19> | 2013-05-26T03:03:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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All of the offenses seem to have occurred in the Aledo area, according to a Parker County Sheriff's Office press release. There have been reports in the 300 block of West Gate, the 200 and 300 blocks of Howard Way, the 200 block of Mocking Bird Lane, and the 100 block of Deer Creek Drive. The sheriff's office also released surveillance pictures from one of the crimes. It is unknown if all the crimes were committed by the same suspect, or are even related. The suspect's vehicle is pictured in the background. | <urn:uuid:81f17e02-83f2-4440-bd2f-b1e7bd0cb164> | 2013-05-26T02:36:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Would you like to see pecan pie become the State Pie of Texas?
What do you think is the biggest problem in the State of Texas? Funding public schools? Finding jobs for the unemployed? Fixing broken roads and bridges?
Yes. Did you realize that Texas has no official State Pie?
Florida has Key lime pie; Vermont claims apple pie; and Indiana residents are partial to something called sugar cream pie.
Schwertner's resolution would designate pecan pie as the official State Pie of Texas.
It reads, in part:
"Though there are many ways to enjoy pecans, it is practically a given among Texans that they belong, first and foremost, in a pie; the earliest record of this distinctive dessert dates to the late 19th century; the weekly humor magazine Texas Siftings described it in February 1886 as being 'not only delicious' but 'capable of being made into a 'real state pie.''
"Texans generally agree on two things: Texas pecan pies are, hands down, the best, especially when made with Texas pecans by a Texan, and secondly, whether served hot or cold, with a scoop of ice cream or without, pecan pie is indeed the perfect ending to any meal."
On Monday, Sen. Schwertner's pecan pie resolution was recommended for uncontested adoption. | <urn:uuid:981c277e-2ba0-49c6-b814-ba0c07628ccb> | 2013-05-26T02:43:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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School officials in Bethlehem are telling students and faculty to back off of a certain body spray.
Officials say a student at Freedom High School suffered an extreme allergic reaction to Axe brand body spray at school.
This happened a few weeks ago.
Officials say the allergy is potentially life-threatening.
The student ended up going to the hospital.
Officials are asking everyone at the school to refrain from using Axe. | <urn:uuid:d1c04048-bcf8-4231-a4c3-191d1e7bbdbd> | 2013-05-26T02:57:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 25, 2009
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today, North Korea said that it has conducted a nuclear test in violation of international law. It appears to also have attempted a short range missile launch. These actions, while not a surprise given its statements and actions to date, are a matter of grave concern to all nations. North Korea's attempts to develop nuclear weapons, as well as its ballistic missile program, constitute a threat to international peace and security.
By acting in blatant defiance of the United Nations Security Council, North Korea is directly and recklessly challenging the international community. North Korea's behavior increases tensions and undermines stability in Northeast Asia. Such provocations will only serve to deepen North Korea's isolation. It will not find international acceptance unless it abandons its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.
The danger posed by North Korea's threatening activities warrants action by the international community. We have been and will continue working with our allies and partners in the Six-Party Talks as well as other members of the U.N. Security Council in the days ahead. | <urn:uuid:67b20b0f-e32b-424d-9042-dcce69878d16> | 2013-05-26T02:44:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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KS Ferruccio Furlanetto will give a recital together with Igor Tchetuev (piano) on May 28th at the Wiener Staatsoper.
Elīna Garanča will give her role debut as Carmen at the Wiener Staatsoper. Roberto Alagna will sing Don José, Massimo Cavalletti Escamillo, Anita Hartig will perform Micaela. Bertrand de Billy conducts the orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper.
Dates: May 20th, 23th, 26th, 30th, June 2nd.
KS José Cura will perform the title role in a series of Umberto Giordano´s fourth and most successful opera about the young poet Andrea Chenier. To be seen from May 16th!
Marius Petipa´s ballet being inspired by episodes from the legendary novel by Cervantes will be on stage again from May 25th.
The exhibition "Wagner und die Wiener Oper" will be presented in the Wiener Staatsoper from April 8th, 2013. | <urn:uuid:9fecad26-1c14-4126-8535-c9a315fe795c> | 2013-05-26T02:42:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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2 lbs. boneless chicken thighs
1/2 c. vegetable oil
1/4 c. vinegar
2 T. Spanish paprika
2 T. ground cumin
2 T. dried coriander
1 T. chili powder
1 lime, juiced
Mix the wet and dry ingredients in a large non-reactive dish. Place chicken in the dish and marinate overnight or up to 48 hours in the fridge.
Prepare the grill for direct heat method.
Remove the chicken from the marinade and grill for 12-14 minutes per side until the juices run clear.
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Bridgwater is a bustling market town set on the edge of the Somerset Levels with, to the north, the Mendip Range and to the west, the Quantock Hills. The town lies in the valley of the fiercely tidal River Parrett which historically enabled its development as a major port and trading centre. Bridgwater is mentioned both in the Doomsday Book and in the earlier Anglo-Saxon Chronicle dating from around 800, owing its origin as a trade centre to its position at the mouth of the chief river in Somerset. Today, Bridgwater still maintains a large industrial base which is strengthened by its proximity to the M5 motorway, both Junctions 23 and 24 accessible within 3 Miles. Bridgwater also hosts a main line railway station whereby the County Town of Taunton can be reached within 15 minutes and Bristol within 50 minutes. | <urn:uuid:972d4eb6-e219-4115-80c3-7cd4142d27bc> | 2013-05-26T02:49:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dinosaurs dying at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Volcanism is thought to be one of the main causes of the dinosaurs dying out.
Click on image for full size
Courtesy of NSF
K-T Extinction (Why Did the Dinosaurs Go Extinct?)
Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? No one knows for sure, but there
are some explanations that seem to make sense.
At the time the dinosaurs and lots of other species died out (which is sometimes called the K-T
extinction), there were lots of active volcanos on Earth. There were also some large asteroids or comets that struck the Earth around
then. Together, volcanos and asteroid impacts may have thrown dust
into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and making it very hard for the
dinosaurs to survive.
Other things might have helped cause the dinosaurs’
extinction. We know that the atmosphere and the oceans both went
through large changes at the end of the Cretaceous Period, and the
Earth's climate probably
changed a lot, too.
Scientists around the world are still doing
research in order to test different theories
and try to learn what made the dinosaurs go extinct.
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It's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs. | <urn:uuid:a00283cc-64eb-4120-9e97-187c647d2dd9> | 2013-05-26T02:35:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Within the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just grated an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften. | <urn:uuid:81e8af89-8f31-4b80-a31c-ca13f86a854c> | 2013-05-26T02:42:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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AaronW. wrote:Hey Otto,
I'm curious as to why the description of your blind tasting of a Gamay wine concluded with "candied cherries" and you associated that essence with that of a Calif. Pinot. Does your palate prefer the "earth tones" of a wine or is Cal. Pinot generalized as "candy" wine? I've generally been of the understanding that, varietally speaking, Pinot's are renowned for their "earthy" notes such as- mushrooms, soil, truffles etc.. Which is why my curiosity is compounded. Not that I'm a pinot-ologist, because I'm certainly not; that's why I'm asking. Are there no good pinots from the Golden State in your opinion, because I tried a "David Bruce '03" from Sonoma and I thought it was outstanding with great balance. But then, at this point in time, my palate kind of leans toward fruit forwardness. I'm looking forward to being informed.
Aaron! You must understand that the title was a sweeping generalisation: I have had some very nice Californian Pinots that I would love to have again (some Caleras e.g.). But like in all generalisations there is a hint of truth in that the trend in Cali Pinots seems to be much sweetness, little savoury character, high alcohol and what to my Eurocentric palate seems like an utter lack
of earthy notes!
The Calera and Arcadian Pisoni had these typical Pinot scents, but e.g. Siduri and Loring didn't. You certainly will have more experience with Cali Pinot than I do, but it seems that the Calera style is in the minority. I hope I am wrong as I like that style: it is distinctly Pinot, yet distinct from Burgundy.
Also, the cherry question. I tend to see cherry as a typically Burgundian scent, yet when I add such a word as "candied" or "confected" it becomes a bad sterotype of the fruit-forward New World style IMO. Once again, I hope I am wrong in thinking this style of Pinot the dominant one there.
This probably is more a matter of me liking wines that most other people call tart, overly acidic, thin... I don't know why this could be. I heard an intriguing theory recently. Apparently people's own PHs vary and this will affect whether that person likes highly acidic wines or the softer (which I guess will usually mean sweetly fruity wines due to the lesser acids). I've no idea if this is an Erich von Däniken -like theory or not, but it's certianly an interesting question.
So in conclusion, I think this boils down to just my lack of experience in Californian wines, my wanting to make a catchy title, my love for sweeping generalisations (trolls, I guess) and our palates' differences.
I don't drink wine because of religious reasons ... only for other reasons.
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The Palm Computing Platform - An Overview
Years from now, we may look back on the introduction of the Palm Pilot as the "killer application" for mobile computing that
got the ball rolling. While many devices had previously tried and failed (the Apple Newton being the most notable example),
the Palm Computing Platform, originally introduced by Palm Computing (since purchased by U. S. Robotics and now controlled by 3Com), has succeeded undoubtedly
beyond its creators' wildest imaginations. Depending on which market estimate you read, devices running the Palm OS dominate
the handheld world, garnering over 70% market share for handheld devices and over 80 percent market share for palm-sized
devices. As wireless data access was added with Palm OS 3.2 and the introduction
of the Palm VII organizer, it has become clear that Palm Computing is here to stay and will be one of the leaders of the
coming wireless revolution.
The initial Palm Computing device (the Pilot 1000) was introduced in 1996. A steady stream of upgrades led to the introduction
of the Palm III in 1998. This device was the most successful of the Palm OS devices and is currently the "entry-level" Palm
device today. The Palm V followed the III with a slightly slimmer metallic case that used rechargeable batteries. The Palm
VII (released in 1999) was the first mass-market handheld device to include wireless communications capabilities (using the
Palm.Net service). The Palm OS has since been licensed by leading manufacturers such as IBM, Sony, and Nokia for potential usage in
a wide range of applications and the licensee list continues to grow. Clearly, the Palm OS is currently the leading platform
if you're interested in developing commercial applications for the widest range of users.
The Palm OS has succeeded where so many have failed for a number of reasons, perhaps the leading reason being its simplicity.
Instead of trying to be all things to all people, the Palm designers seemingly focused on doing a few things, but doing them
well. There is no keyboard device, no color screen (at least not in the original devices!), no full-text character
recognition, and no high-powered processor. It is even ridiculously simple to synchronize data with your PC: simply drop the
Palm device onto its cradle and hit one button...installed software does the rest of the work for you. The Palm API is
relatively straightforward and is C language based, which opens it up to the widest variety of development options. Finally,
the devices are inexpensive (and getting cheaper by the day) and enjoyable to use. Handwriting recognition is included
through the Graffiti recognition keystrokes which take only a matter of minutes to learn.
The Palm OS graphical user interface makes use of a number of common UI metaphors including menus, buttons, checkboxes,
bitmaps, fields, gadgets, labels, and scrollbars (see Figure 1). The user interacts with this GUI using a pen (known as a stylus) by selecting
widgets on the screen (such as buttons).
Figure 1 - The Palm OS Applications Screen
Text entry is accomplished via a graphical keyboard or through the built-in
Graffiti character recognition system. While text entry can be accomplished rather quickly once you've learned the basics,
it is important to remember that is always easier for the user to select items with the stylus than to manually enter text.
If you have any event-driven programming experience (on platforms such as MacOS, Windows, Motif, or Java), you will be familiar with the event-loop paradigm used by the Palm OS.
The Palm OS provides the ability for applications to permanently store data in memory on the storage heap. A portion of the
Palm OS known as the Data Manager manages databases, which can be stored in one of two formats: as a resource or as
a record. Note that the Palm OS does not support standard file-based access to data; instead all data is stored within objects
known as databases and individuals records or resources can be retrieved from a database one item at a time. Databases
are associated with a creator ID, which can be obtained by registering at the Palm Computing Developer Zone.
Palm database programming will be covered in tutorials within this section and on regular articles at this site so check back regularly.
The Palm OS and its underlying hardware support three modes of operations: sleep mode, doze mode, and running mode. In sleep mode,
the device appears to be off although the real-time clock and interrupt generation circuitry are still running. Sleep mode is entered
when the device remains inactive for a pre-defined time or when the user presses the Off button. In doze mode, the system appears to be
on (the display remains active and the processor's clock is running), however no instructions are being processed. The device
is continually in this mode while it is on as long as it has no user input to process. Running mode is entered when their
is a user event to process. The device reenters doze mode immediately after processing the final event. System API calls
allow applications to enter doze mode as well as determine current time-out values and battery levels.
One of the keys to the success of the Palm (and handheld devices in general) is the ability to quickly and painlessly synchronize
data from the handheld device to the desktop (and vice versa). The Palm OS accomplishes this via an innovative client/server
architecture with the client being the handheld device and the server (known as a conduit) existing as a dynamic link library (DLL)
on the user's desktop. A conduit development tutorial will appear in this section at a later date.
Serial communication via the Palm serial port allows the device to communicate with a wide range of compatible devices including
PCs, modems, barcode scanners, and GPS units. Serial communications are controlled by the Serial Manager portion of the Palm OS. The
Palm OS API allows developers to open serial connections, send and receive data, then close connections through standard
function calls. A new Serial Manager (imaginatively titled the "New Serial Manager"!) supports multiple serial connections
within a single Palm device. This became necessary as Palm devices added multiple serial devices (such as the IR device).
Infrared Communications, more commonly referred to as "Beaming", allows devices to interchange data via an IR device onboard
newer Palm organizers (Palm III and later). These data exchanges take place using the IrDA standard (see the Infrared Data Association
for more information). A portion of the Palm OS known as the Exchange Manager controls IR communications
and an API is provided that offers developers a standard set of functions for opening infrared connections and transferring data
Network Communications are made possible via two APIs: the Net Library and the Internet Library. The Net Library, based on the Berkeley Socket API, supports
data transfer using TCP and UDP connections while the Internet Library adds support for HTTP and HTTPS. Wireless
communications are now possible using the Palm VII organizer via the Palm.Net wireless network. This network
uses the BellSouth Wireless Data network to send and receive data. Currently, special applications known as Palm Query Applications (PQAs)
are installed on the handheld device and are used to submit requests for data and then retrieve data using UDP. As this is a purely
proprietary approach, it remains to be seen whether more standardized means of data access (WAP, for instance) will become the norm.
Basic sound capabilities are provided by the Palm OS, including support for playback of Standard MIDI Files (.smf files). Sound
playback is limited to one note at a time through a tiny speaker inside the device. Access to the Palm OS Sound Manager is
provided through an API that supports the playback of custom sounds and system sounds as well as the ability to control
default sound settings.
If you've never designed for a handheld device, there are obviously a number of ways in which this type of development differs
from standard desktop application development. Here are a few keys to keep in mind:
- Remember that the screen is tiny! Instead of forcing the user to scroll down three or four screen lengths to select
data items, always attempt to think of ways to allow the user to "drill down" into the data by selecting options.
- Processing power is limited. If possible, store data in a raw format, saving number-crunching and analysis for the
desktop workstation or enterprise server. In most cases, handhelds are simply used for data collection, not data analysis.
- Memory space is also extremely limited. To quote the Palm OS Programmer's Companion from Palm Computing, "Because of
the limited space and power, optimization is critical. To make your application as fast and efficient as possible, optimize for
heap space first, speed second, code size third."
- Be consistent with the UI. Get a feel for how the standard Palm applications work (To Do, Address Book, Date Book, Memo Pad, etc.) and
stick very closely with their UI styles. Most of these applications provide a very basic entry screen that fits the needs
of most users. They then provide more advanced functionality available through selecting a button or menu item.
- Minimize steps required to properly perform data synching. The most successful applications hide synchronization
details from the user, allowing the user to simply place the unit in a cradle and press a button.
- Wireless communications capabilities are currently limited and not 100% reliable. Test your application in a variety
of environments and attempt to limit, as much as possible, the amount of data being transmitted. If you're developing
an application to be deployed in multiple cities (or even countries) look into wireless middleware options from vendors
such as NetTech, Aether, and IBM. This middleware allows the developer to isolate the application layer from the underlying
communications layer providing for greater flexibility and maintainability.
The Business Case
From a developer's viewpoint, the primary advantage to building Palm applications is the sheer number of users available to
buy your application. As the market share leader, Palm Computing has the advantage now of driving the market in the direction
that they are interested in going as opposed to following behind another hardware or OS vendor. Because the OS was built
from the ground up to run on small, low powered devices, it is likely that it will eventually appear in a number of
settings, from wireless phones to electronics consoles to machine control interfaces. Vendor support and connectivity
to enterprise products from IBM, Oracle, Sybase, and SAP have allowed the Palm to become an integral component
in real-world business applications.
The Palm OS's biggest disadvantage when compared to products such as Personal Java and Windows CE is the development
knowledge required to build applications for it. For instance, Microsoft has produced Windows CE versions of its
popular Visual Basic and Visual C++ tools which result in a much shorter learning curve for the average developer. The Palm devices'
monochrome screens have their critics as well although a color screen (coming in Spring 2000!) does come at a price in terms of power requirements and cost.
Finally, Palm devices currently use the Motorola 68328 (Dragonball) processor which is limited in terms of speed and computation
capabilities thus limiting the level of handheld application processing.
Hardware Support (partial list)
Software Support (partial list)
See our Books section for recommended Palm books that can be ordered directly from WirelessDevNet.com.
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CHRIS BROWN / RIHANNA hookups are like the BIGFOOT of celebrity hookups. People keep claiming they've seen them . . . but nobody's got proof.
--The latest unsubstantiated "eyewitness accounts" come from the Griffin nightclub in New York City on Monday night. Rihanna and Chris reportedly arrived separately, but Chris immediately moved over to Rihanna's table.
--A source says they started flirting . . . then Chris took off his shirt and started dancing on the table. Soon the two of them were dancing together and kissing passionately.
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A combination of schooling and experience is necessary to become a senior systems analyst. Some employers may require a college degree, while other companies stress and encourage many years of experience. It is possible for a computer enthusiast to find that their favorite hobby has turned into a lucrative career path.
Senior systems analyst positions concentrate on maintaining company databases and software modules; many analysts work with colleagues from around the world to integrate software packages for a more cohesive company database. As a result, many employers look for a person with a four year college degree in a related field. Typical majors can include business or computer science. As a college graduate, companies view you as a well-rounded individual; in addition to knowledge gained, graduates will usually be articulate and able to communicate effectively with different types of people.
Most college graduates cannot secure an analyst position without several years of experience. Many start in a lower position, such as a basic computer analyst, before they become a senior systems analyst. During these first years of employment, you will normally work with an experienced analyst who will cover all the proprietary information necessary regarding the company's database and software needs. In fact, employers normally look for at least five to seven years of experience before considering a candidate for a senior position.
Applicants who do not have a college degree can become a senior systems analyst; however, experience at a related job must be extensive. In essence, you will need to prove to the employer that you can perform the job duties specified. Some applicants rely on networking within their current company, as well as with friends and colleagues at other businesses. Networking helps you find job openings that may not be posted to the public yet. As a result, you can become a senior systems analyst without a college degree.
Many computer enthusiasts work with software modules for personal interest; these hobbyists tend to have an in-depth knowledge of both hardware and software since they need to work with both portions to build or repair a computer. Sometimes, a hobbyist can interview to become a senior systems analyst. He or she should bring in an example of a software and hardware configuration to showcase his or her skills. The example chosen should demonstrate the applicant's skills, increasing the chances that he or she will be hired for this position. | <urn:uuid:8d6df306-d696-4948-9d2d-a7f01a11b2bd> | 2013-05-26T03:03:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sea tragedy father 'truly heroic'
The mother of a man who drowned off the coast of Majorca while unsuccessfully trying to save his young son described him as "truly heroic".
George Selby, who was in his 20s, and his young son Louis Selby died on the Spanish island on Saturday.
The tragic accident occurred at Cala Antena beach, a small bay near the resort of Calas de Mallorca, in the south east of the island.
In a statement released through the Foreign Office (FO), Christine Selby said: "My son George Selby died trying to save his son Louis Selby. George was passionate about his wife Abigail and their three sons.
"This tragedy that has befallen this family has devastated the lives of his wife, sons, and mother. George, Louis and their family were - and still are - loved by all that knew them. Please allow us to grieve for our devastating loss of a truly heroic husband, father, son, brother. And Louis our little bear."
According to a local paper, Louis was swept out to sea by a current and his father then tried to rescue him.
Lifeguards tried to save the pair, but the rest of the family looked on as their efforts proved fruitless. A red flag warning beachgoers not to swim is believed to have been flying at the time.
It said the family had arrived for a holiday on the Balearic island just two days earlier.
The deaths come less than two weeks after five-year-old Lara Lewis and her grandfather Brian O'Dwyer, 66, drowned near the holiday resort of Nazare, around 60 miles north of Lisbon in Portugal. It is thought Lara was walking with her grandparents along a sandy beach when they were all pulled into the sea by strong waves on August 22.
Just a day later, Cambridge University student Marcus Hughes-Hallett drowned while swimming off the Maltese island of Comino. The 20-year-old, who was studying maths at Queens' College, is believed to have got into difficulties while snorkelling in caves in the Bay of Santa Marija during a family holiday. | <urn:uuid:82451168-2e31-493c-96a4-1a122ccb8ab9> | 2013-05-26T02:43:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A giant is a humanoid-shaped creature of great strength, usually of at least Large size.
Features: A giant has the following features.
- 8-sided Hit Dice.
- Base attack bonus equal to 3/4 total Hit Dice (as cleric).
- Good Fortitude saves.
- Skill points equal to (2 + Int modifier, minimum 1) per Hit Die, with quadruple skill points for the first Hit Die.
Traits: A giant possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature's entry).
- Low-light vision.
- Proficient with all simple and martial weapons, as well as any natural weapons.
- Proficient with whatever type of armor (light, medium or heavy) it is described as wearing, as well as all lighter types. Giants not described as wearing armor are not proficient with armor. Giants are proficient with shields if they are proficient with any form of armor.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA lost the space shuttle Columbia 10 years ago Friday and 12 children lost a parent.
A decade later, the youngest is now 15 and the oldest is 32. The oldest son of Columbia's pilot is now a Marine captain with three young children of his own. The commander's daughter is a seminary student. The young boy who lost his astronaut mother now likes scuba diving and parachuting, just like mom.
NASA will remember Columbia's seven astronauts at a public memorial service at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Friday morning. The shuttle was headed home from a 16-day science mission when it broke apart over Texas on Feb. 1, 2003, because of damage to its left wing.
Flights resumed two years later and the shuttles were retired in 2011.
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Wisconsin news anchor Jennifer Livingston has become an internet sensation -- and inspiration -- after responding on television to a email from a viewer about her weight.
The viewer wrote that he was "surprised that her physical condition hadn't improved for years," and that she was not being a good role model to young girls.
In response, rather than quietly replying to the email, Livingston, an anchor at La Crosse TV station WKBT-TV, took four minutes on-air to firmly take a stand.
Livingston acknowledged that she is overweight but followed by asking the viewer, "Are [you] pointing out something that I don’t see? You don't know me, so you know nothing about me but what you see on the outside, and I am much more than a number on a scale."
Livingston then used the opportunity as a platform to address young victims of bullying by saying, "do not let your self-worth be defined by bullies. Learn from my experience.”
The station later posted a response from the viewer, identified as Kenneth W. Krause, which read, "Given this country's present epidemic of obesity and the many truly horrible diseases related thereto, and considering Jennifer Livingston's fortuitous position in the community, I hope she will finally take advantage of a rare and golden opportunity to influence the health and psychological well-being of Coulee Region children by transforming herself for all of her viewers to see over the next year, and, to that end, I would be absolutely pleased to offer Jennifer any advice or support she would be willing to accept." | <urn:uuid:4cefd0e4-b98e-4e67-969c-f8bc357766dc> | 2013-05-26T02:58:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Since 1900, Woodward Academy has helped young men and women to discover their inner strengths and to develop their abilities in all areas. The Academy strives to encourage the development of well-rounded individuals and to help students learn to appreciate the importance of academics, arts, and athletics.
Founded as Georgia Military Academy, Woodward Academy is the largest independent day school in the Atlanta area and in the continental United States. The Academy is presently divided into five schools on two separate campuses serving approximately 2,700 students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Students arrive on our campuses daily from 23 counties in the metropolitan Atlanta area. The Academy's student population includes a minority composition of approximately 18% African American, 14% Asian/Pacific and 3% Hispanic; a wide range of cultural and religious diversity is represented within the community as well.
At Woodward Academy the application process is “self managed” which means that it is the responsibility of the parent(s) to track the application from beginning to end. Parents should make all appointments, ensure that all information is submitted in a timely manner, and make certain that all supporting documents are submitted for inclusion in the applicant’s file.
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WASHINGTON-The display tent at the Reason Rally 2012 on March 24 smelled of wet rain gear and sweaters soggy from the near-constant drizzle. Atheists, freethinkers, and secularists of all stripes were checking out booths from two dozen or so atheist groups.
The crowd inched around the perimeter of the tent, but traffic stalled where people clustered for photos. Like carnival-goers with a muscleman cutout, they took turns standing behind an empty picture frame with, "This is what an atheist looks like" printed below.
That's what I had come to find out. Organizers of the rally, held on the Mall near the Washington Monument, clearly hoped to use "history's largest" gathering of atheists and like-minded brethren to combat their public image as cheerless, caustic scolds.
Outside the tent, most of the 10,000 or so attendees-a mix of college students, adults, and a scattering of families with children, some with bright umbrellas and plastic ponchos-applauded speakers. The day-long schedule included activists, bloggers, entertainers, and a couple of congressmen, all headlined by world-famous Oxford professor Richard Dawkins.
Giant video screens flanked the stage. Five flags flapping overhead read, "Equality," "Charity," "Compassion," "Diversity," and "Reason." Rally organizers asked attendees not to curse at the "Turn or burn" counter-demonstrators, who obligingly showed up bearing signs warning of Hell.
That led to some sharp exchanges, and some atheist signs were vulgar or insulting, such as "Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church," and "So many Christians, so few lions." But "Ask me" stickers were also common.
Among the speaker highlights:
The emcee, actor Paul Provenza, said when Christians try to witness to him he glances at his watch and says, "I'd love to stay and chat, but I've gotta take my girlfriend for an abortion because I'm pretty sure the baby is going to be gay."
Blogger Greta Christina was upset that some wives submit to husbands and "my wife and I had to get married three times before we finally had a marriage the state recognized." Anytime she (or any other speaker) mentioned gay rights or abortion, the crowd cheered or booed as appropriate.
Elisabeth Cornwell of the Richard Dawkins Foundation argued that Thomas Jefferson would have been appalled at Virginia's recent passage of a pro-life ultrasound law. At her direction, the crowd of freethinkers faced Virginia and repeated three times after her: "Build up that wall!"
Then Cornwell stalked off the stage, and soon the skeptics were chanting, "Richard! Richard!" Dawkins approached the podium with equanimity. In a crisp British accent he delivered a short lecture rehashing some arguments from his books. The crowd laughed at his jokes and cheered when he said religious claims about reality "need to be challenged and, if necessary, ridiculed with contempt."
Dawkins did not mention his admission in a filmed interview that the spontaneous origin of life on Earth is so improbable that maybe aliens seeded it here. After Dawkins finished, a security team hustled him off to his after-party.
While wandering amidst the crowd, eventually I began to realize that behind every sign was a lost person with a story:
Chazz Turnbaugh came to the rally from York, Pa., where he and his handful of freethinker friends, surrounded by Mennonites, feel isolated: "People look at us like we're silly." Turnbaugh was happy to chat about his evolutionary beliefs, that we're all the result of condensed clouds of gas and that morality is just a matter of science. He described lengthy conversations with religious friends but said he is unwilling to make a "leap of faith."
A sign reading, "God hates figs" collected admirers as Fran Welte of Cincinnati carried it along the edge of the crowd. This, she explained, was a swipe at both an infamous Westboro Baptist slogan regarding homosexuality, and the Bible episode where Jesus curses the fig tree. "That's where [Christians] get their rules from," interjected a bystander: "It's lunacy." Welte said her Catholic mother beat her as a child for not going to church. People, she said, are naturally atheists and believe in God only because their parents conditioned them to it: "My mother told me to pray. I tried that and nobody was there."
Virginian Lydia Rice was holding a sign that read, "Get out of my [picture of pink frilly underwear]." "Out" was spelled with a Star of David, a sideways Muslim crescent, and a cross. She was tall, with long, frizzy hair and a wide-brimmed hat festooned with buttons for liberal causes. Her family was very religious, and it irked her that her parents treated her and her brothers differently.
Rice said she considered various religions but finally rejected them all. "I'm a seeker," she grinned. "You know, 'Seek and you shall find'? I sought and I found."
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The Philippines had suffered under the Japanese occupation. A highly effective guerilla campaign controlled sixty percent of the islands, mostly jungle and mountain areas. MacArthur had supplied them by submarine, and sent reinforcements and officers. Filipinos remained loyal to the United States, partly because of the American guarantee of independence, and also because the Japanese had pressed large numbers of Filipinos into work details and even put young Filipino women into brothels.
MacArthur returned to the Philippines in force on October 20, 1944. He waded in with Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, restaging the landing a second time for the newsreel cameras. The US Army forces met resistance, but steadily advanced, until the landings at Ormoc on December 7, 1944. Most of the fighting was at sea during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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Bell said that when mobile chip designs start getting smaller and smaller -- more than halving their current size down to 14 nanometers -- it's going to be difficult for many less-experienced companies using ARM's platform to manufacture something like that.
Specs aren't the only factor in chip performance, however. The chips in the iPhone, for instance, aren't the industry's best, but they typically outperform the best Android devices, because Apple builds the software and hardware to work together. Intel's chips are designed for Google's Android platform, which runs on literally hundreds of devices.
Bell, who came to Intel from Apple two years ago, says that's something Intel is working on as well.
"We have a great relationship with Google," said Bell. "We can do as good a job optimizing our systems as anyone, and Google has never told us 'no' when we have said we'd like to improve performance somewhere."
A year ago, Intel chips began popping up in smartphones for the first time. The chip architecture has gained some limited traction, but it hasn't been a barn burner. Its mobile chips still have virtually no U.S. presence.
Intel believes that will change with the release of its new 22 nm mobile chip design this fall, which will incorporate 4G-LTE capabilities. The company expects to announce a tablet partner in the fall and a phone in early 2014.
Meanwhile, it has a steep hill to climb. | <urn:uuid:5f1b1516-288b-47a7-b160-c5acb94c19d0> | 2013-05-26T03:11:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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State regulators said Wednesday that Volkswagen will recall 384,181 cars in China, just days after the automaker was the subject of a state television expose.
The investigation, which aired Friday as part of China Central Television's annual consumer rights broadcast, examined problems with Volkswagen's direct shift gearbox -- or DSG.
The closely-watched CCTV program detailed cases in which the gearbox was causing unanticipated changes in speed while driving.
Following the broadcast, Volkswagen and its Chinese manufacturing partners said they were cooperating with regulators, but did not detail how many cars would be recalled.
On Wednesday, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision listed the recalled models in a statement posted on its website.
Volkswagen controls a substantial market share in China, and builds cars in partnership with SAIC Motor Corp and FAW Group. Volkswagen has aggressively expanded its operations in China, and now counts the country as its largest single market.
Most of the recalled cars were manufactured by FAW Group, including the popular Golf, Polaris, Jetta and Magotan models.
The two-hour CCTV program that targeted Volkswagen is broadcast each year on World Consumer Rights Day, and often features prominent western brands along with Chinese companies.
Apple's customer-service operations also were criticized this year. McDonald's and Carrefour were highlighted in 2012.
Food and product safety issues are drawing increasing attention in China following a series of scandals. In response, the government has pledged to empower regulators and sharpen its response to consumer complaints. | <urn:uuid:430c1fe1-549a-4ec2-bf67-82323c4aeeeb> | 2013-05-26T02:41:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Obama administration is stressing that the aim in talking to all parties is for a "de-escalation" of the fighting between Israel and Hamas. But while administration officials talk about trying to stop the fighting, they are assiduously avoiding using the term "cease-fire."
At a press conference Tuesday in Cambodia, National Security Council spokesman Ben Rhodes said he was not refraining from using the term, but then he refrained from using the term.
QUESTION: Ben, you keep using the phrase "de-escalate the situation." Are you avoiding using the word "cease-fire"?
RHODES: No, I mean, there are many ways that you can achieve the goal of a de-escalation. Again, what our bottom line is, is an end to rocket fire. We're open to any number of ideas for achieving that goal. We've discussed any number of ideas for accomplishing that goal. But it's going to have to begin with a reduction of tensions and space created for the situation to calm. So we'll be discussing going forward, as we have been over the last several days, what are the various ways in which we can accomplish that goal.
At the State Department briefing on Tuesday, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland also emphasized de-escalation over cease-fire, saying there are many ways to lessen the violence.
QUESTION: Does the administration have some aversion to calling this a cease-fire? Or -- and if it doesn't, why not just use it? And if it does, what's the aversion?
NULAND: You know very well, from having watched these kinds of situations unfold, that there are many ways that this can de-escalate. I'm not going to prejudge here.
One reason for the administration's position could be that Israel does not want a cease-fire, at least not at the start. Israeli officials are calling for a "calming down" for 24-hours. The "calming down" could halt violence, but would not be the same as an official cease-fire or truce, CNN's Ben Wedeman reported.
The United States is not sure what nomenclature will be acceptable to each side to describe a cessation of violence, which is why the administration is using the term "de-escalation," one official told CNN's Jill Dougherty.
Stressing de-escalation keeps the bar lower than talking about a cease-fire, observes Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. | <urn:uuid:ddc0ce4d-f680-4bab-806e-d4d17398dd19> | 2013-05-26T02:42:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A great appetizer your family can enjoy during the holidays or even just kicking back watching football!
3 lbs. fresh chicken wings
2 cup soy sauce
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
1 Tbsp. molasses
1 Tbsp. sea salt
1 Tbsp. black pepper
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1. In a large bowl mix sugar, soy sauce, orange juice, molasses, salt, pepper and oil. Blend mixture very thoroughly. Then, fold in chicken wings. Mix and cover. Refrigerate overnight, stirring 2 or 3 times.
2. In a 350° oven, bake wings on an oiled cookie sheet for 30 minutes. Run the wings back through the marinade and bake for 15 more minutes.
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HERNDON, Va. (WUSA) -- Fairfax County Police have made an arrest in the case of a serial animal slasher. A teenager has been charged with four felony counts of maiming animals after two attacks at the Frying Pan Farm Park in Herndon.
The first attack came two months ago. Three therapy horses with the Spirit Open Equestrian Program were stabbed overnight on April 26th. Then, exactly one month later, four farm animals - two goats, a calf, and a chicken - were slashed at the Kidwell Barn. The community was so outraged that they donated $7,500 for a reward. Finally, last Friday, Fairfax County Police got the anonymous tip they'd been waiting for.
"One of the things that the detectives found is what they believe to be the weapon that was used. It was a 22 inch machete," said Lucy Caldwell with Fairfax County Police.
Police arrested the 17-year-old boy on Saturday afternoon. They won't reveal his identity because he's a juvenile, but they would confirm that he is from the Herndon area. He's been charged with four felony counts of maiming animals, three misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals, and two counts of unlawful entry. He is currently being held at the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center. Despite the arrest, police won't say what motivated the teen to commit the two attacks.
"We can't always release what the motive is to the public, but it's something that's very difficult for anyone to understand," said Caldwell.
It's especially difficult for the Frying Pan Farm Park Staff.
"We feel relief and sadness," said Tawny Hammond, Frying Pan Farm Park Manager. "I'm just grateful to the community and to police for giving the animals the justice they deserve." | <urn:uuid:d0a38f2d-5fda-447c-bbd3-741356bbef34> | 2013-05-26T02:55:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The German aircraft industry excelled in producing efficient aircraft for high altitude reconnaissance duties and pioneered the use of aircraft specifically designed for the ground attack role.
The Albatros C.XII was a German military reconnaissance aircraft which saw service during the late period of World War I. It differed markedly from previous Albatros C-type aircraft by adopting an elliptical-section fuselage similar to that of the Albatros D.V. The C.XII also featured a tailplane of reduced area, but it retained the wings of the earlier Albatros C.X.
The aircraft was powered by a single 260 hp (190 kW) Mercedes D.IVa, inline water-cooled engine. The aircraft's armament consisted of: a single 0.312 in (7.92 mm) "Spandau" LMG 08/15 machine gun, fixed downward, and a single trainable 0.312 in (7.92 mm) Parabellum MG14 machine gun in the observer's cockpit
The Albatros C.XII was a sleek aircraft with clean lines. Despite the aerodynamic advantages of the design, there was no significant increase in performance achieved over the C.X. Examples remained in service until the end of the War.
The Albatros C.XV was a German military reconnaissance aircraft developed during World War I. It was essentially a refinement of the C.XII put into production in 1918. The war ended before any examples became operational, however some found their way into civilian hands and flew as transport aircraft in peacetime under the factory designation L 47. Others saw service with the air forces of Russia, Turkey, and Latvia.
The Halberstadt CL.IV was one of the most effective ground attack aircraft of World War I, relying on its good maneuverability to avoid ground fire. It appeared on the Western Front towards the end of the German offensives in 1918. Karl Thies, chief designer of the Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke, G.m.b.H., designed the CL.IV as a replacement for the CL.II, which was very successful in harassing Allied troops. Purpose of an improved version was to create a superior ground attack aircraft.
The new CL.IV featured a shorter, strengthened fuselage and a horizontal stabilizer of greater span and higher aspect ratio than that of the CL.II. These changes, along with a one-piece, horn-balanced elevator, gave the CL.IV much greater maneuverability than the CL.II. After tests were completed of the prototype in April 1918, at least 450 were ordered from Halberstadt, and an additional 250 aircraft from a subcontractor, LFG (Roland).
As with the CL.II, the CL.IV was powered by a single 160 hp (120 kW), 6 cylinder in-line, watercooled Mercedes aircraft engine. The aircraft was armed with a fixed forward-firing 0.312 in (7.92 mm) LMG 08/15 “Spandau” synchronized machine gun, and a single trainable 0.312 in (7.92 mm) “Parabellum” MG14 machine gun, on a ring mount in the observer's cockpit.
The Halberstadt C.V was a German single-engined photo-reconnaissance biplane designed by Karl Theis. The C.V was built by Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke G.m.b.H. The first flight was in March of 1918, it proved very manoeuverable and superior to other type aircraft in its class. The C.V entered service in late 1918 where it saw limited service with the Luftstreitkräfte during the final months of the war.
The C.V was developed as a refinement of the Halberstadt C.III. The aircraft was fitted with a more powerful supercharged 160 kW (220 hp) Benz Bz.IV engine modified for high altitude flying by raising the compression in the cylinders. Armament consisted of a foreward firing 0.312 in (7.92 mm) LMG 08/15 machine gun operated by the pilot, and a trainable parabellum machine gun operated by the observer. It could also carry up to 110 pounds (50kgs) of bombs. Initially a 250mm camera was mounted in the observer's cockpit floor. An electrical generator driven by the engine powered heated flying suits worn by the crew, and radio equipment.
The design was not without a problematic safety issue. Take offs and especially landings could be dangerous due to the C.V's very short fuselage length and a lack of structural strength in the undercarriage struts. Because of the short fuselage, the aircraft had a tendency to bounce when landing damaging the undercarriage which could collapse and in some cases flip the aircraft over. In spite of this flaw the pilots who flew the aircraft, liked it very much. They were willing to trade off the risky landings for the C.V's excellent flight characteristics and the protection provided by the deep fuselage sides. The design provided a good visibility an field of fire for the observer mounted parabellum machine gun.
Late in the war one Halberstadt C.V was captured in Estonia. The aircraft was modified for use as a float plane and operated by the Estonian Air Force in 1919. A single C.V (S/No. 3471/18) survives at the Musée Royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire in Brussels, Belgium.
The Junkers CL.I was a ground-attack monoplaine aircraft developed in Germany during World War I. Its construction was undertaken by Junkers under the designation J 8. as proof of Hugo Junkers' belief in the monoplane, after his firm had been required by the Idflieg to submit a biplane (the J 4) as its entry in a competition to select a ground-attack aircraft.
The J 8 design took the J 7 fighter as its starting point, but had a longer fuselage to accommodate a tail gunner, and larger wings. The prototype flew in late 1917 and was followed over the next few months by three more development aircraft.
The Idflieg was sufficiently impressed to want to order the type, but had misgivings about Junkers' ability to manufacture the aircraft in quantity and considered asking Linke-Hoffmann to produce the type under licence. Finally, however, Junkers was allowed to undertake the manufacture as part of a joint venture with Fokker, producing a slightly modified version of the J 8 design as the J 10. Like the other Junkers designs of the period, the aircraft featured a metal framework that was skinned with corrugated duralumin sheets. 47 examples were delivered before the Armistice, including three built as floatplanes under the designation CLS.I (factory designation J 11). After the war, one or two CL.Is were converted for commercial service by enclosing the rear cockpit under a canopy.
LVG C.VI was a German two-seat reconnaissance and artillery spotting aircraft used during World War I.
The aircraft was designed by Willy Sabersky-Müssigbrodt and developed by Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (LVG) in 1917. The C.VI was a further development of the C.V, which Sabersky-Müssigbrodt had made for his former employer DFW. It was lighter, smaller and aerodynamically refined, although its fuselage seemed more bulky. It was a biplane of mixed, mostly wooden construction. It featured a semi-monocoque fuselage, plywood covered. Rectangular wings of wooden and metal construction, canvas covered. Upper wing of slightly greater span, shifted some 25 cm (10 in) towards front. Vertical fin plywood covered, rudder and elevators of metal frame canvas covered, stabilizers (tailplanes) of wooden frame canvas covered. Straight uncovered engine in the fuselage nose, with a chimney-like exhaust pipe. Two-blade Benz wooden propeller, 2.88 m (9.45 ft) diameter. Flat water radiator in central section of upper wing. Fixed conventional landing gear, with a straight common axle and a rear skid. Aircraft were equipped with a radio (morse send only); transmissions were by means of an antenna which could be lowered below the aircraft when needed. The crew had parachutes and heated flying suits. A total of 1,100 aircraft of the type were manufactured.
Most LVG C.VIs were used by the German military aviation in last operations of World War I, mostly on Western Front, for close reconnaissance and observation.
After the war, Deutsche Luft-Reederei (DLR) used several C.VIs to provide mail and passenger transport service. The Polish Air Force used several aircraft during Polish-Soviet war (the first was left by the Germans, another was completed from parts in 1920, and several were bought abroad). Suomen ilmailuliikenne Oy purchased two C.VIs from a Swedish airline in 1923. The company went bankrupt in 1922, but would be a predecessor to Aero O/Y, in turn a predecessor of Finnair. The Finnish Air Force purchased two aircraft. One was destroyed in a spin in Santahamina in 1923. The other was used until the end of 1924. Several (at least eight) were used by Lithuania, two last ones survived until 1940. Three were used in Czechoslovakia, two in Switzerland (1920-1929), several in the USSR.
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Images: Who got arrested?
Do you know who Norm Peterson's wife was on the hit sitcom "Cheers?"
Some of the greatest TV characters in the history of television never appeared on the screen. Take a look at the some of the greatest TV characters you never saw.
The parent company of Fox News was aware years ago that the Justice Department was targeting one of its reporters in a leak investigation, sources said Saturday.
One law enforcement source said the Justice Department notified a media organization thre... | <urn:uuid:bc78f990-642c-427b-8526-c57bec6f6ee6> | 2013-05-26T02:50:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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American military satellites picked up and confirmed the infrared signature of four short-range Scud missiles launched from the Damascus area to northern Syria in the past several days, a U.S. official said.
NATO said in a separate statement that unguided "Scud-type" missiles were detected this week by "allied intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance." The alliance also said their use was contained within Syria although the U.S. official, who was not identified by name due to the sensitive nature of the information, said they "came close" to the Turkish border.
While not confirming specifics, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the Syrian regime is using more lethal weapons.
"As the regime becomes more and more desperate, we see it resorting to increased lethality and more vicious weapons moving forward and we have in recent days seen missiles deployed," Nuland said.
Earlier this month, a U.S. official said the Syrian regime was "ratcheting things up," noting its forces fired nearly 20 rockets with a relatively long range of 60 miles, which it had not done before.
The use of Scuds would be a further escalation of the offensive posture. Experts said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has up to 400 short and medium-range Russian-developed missiles.
As the Syrian military uses weapons with increased range and lethality, NATO is preparing to send a Patriot missile defense system to neighboring Turkey. Turkey made the request, which was agreed to last week.
Within a number of days, the Obama administration is expected to issue orders determining the number of Patriot missile batteries and personnel to be sent by the United States, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and NATO have endorsed the plan.
The escalation involving Scuds comes as the United States said another concern, indications the Syrian military was preparing chemical weapons for possible use, had ebbed some since the intelligence was revealed and various world leaders warned Syria against their use. | <urn:uuid:e7b42260-b876-49a5-a41a-16bf430aa371> | 2013-05-26T02:42:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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President Barack Obama said Friday that he would strike down a ban on same-sex marriage if he were on the Supreme Court, and that he believed his administration was obligated to weigh in on a California case before the justices.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Obama opened up about his rationale for signing off on a government brief that was filed in an appeal of California's 2008 prohibition of same-sex marriage.
The Justice Department brief submitted on Thursday urged the high court to invalidate the ban.
"Let's treat everybody fairly. Let's treat everybody equally," Obama said.
The issue could be a defining moment in Obama's presidency, similar to the political impact last year when the high court upheld the health care reform law that he spearheaded.
It is rare for a president to become personally involved in the legal and political considerations in a Supreme Court appeal, and sources say Obama spent a good deal of time reading up on the issue and articulating his views privately before the brief was filed.
The administration is not a party in the California appeal, one of two same-sex marriage cases before the high court this term, and was not required to offer an opinion although the Justice Department often does so in important constitutional cases.
Sources said Obama made the final decision for the administration to submit a viewpoint and signed off on the wording.
He said Friday that he believed it was "important for us to articulate what I believe and what this administration stands for."
The California law, known as Proposition 8, does not provide any rationale for "discriminating against same-sex couples," Obama said. | <urn:uuid:b325359b-a552-47dc-b93f-6ca07c783afe> | 2013-05-26T03:04:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A man was arrested and charged after deputies said he assaulted his girlfriend with swords.
Spartanburg County deputies were called to a home on Riveroak Road on a reported assault.
When the deputy arrived he said he found the female outside of the trailer.
The woman said her live-in boyfriend, Scott Setzer, was upset that the cat had gotten inside and took down one of his swords from the wall, unsheathed it and began pointing it at her chest.
She said she would push away and told him to stop.
The woman said Setzer then hit her on the hips with the sword several times.
The responding deputy said she had visible injuries.
According to the incident report, the woman told deputies Setzer then said he had a better sword to kill the woman with and went and got the larger sword.
She said he pointed the larger sword toward her chest and neck and then hit the sword on the kitchen counter causing damage.
The woman said she went to a neighbor's home and called 911. | <urn:uuid:ba3727fc-9a08-48c6-9c50-5665374b3f37> | 2013-05-26T03:06:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Architecture in Ancient China
For most visitors to China, sightseeing means a daily encounter
with Chinese architecture of one type or another ranging from
temples through gardens, mausoleum, pagodas, imperial palaces
to residential houses.
The Forbidden City in Beijing best exemplifies the elements of palace architecture. Imposing buildings, like the three great Halls of Harmony, stand well-spaced along the central axis. Facing south and rising from a terrace, these buildings represent the supreme power and authority emperors enjoyed during the feudalistic dynasties. The living accormdations of the imperial dfamily are found at the back of the City. Clustered around the Great Halls at a distance are numerous smaller buildillgs where the more influential eunuches and concubines were locked in struggle for power and influence.
To the south of the Forbidden City is the Temple of Heaven,
an exquisite example of what foreigners might call religious architecture,
for it was here that the emperor would go twice a year to carry
out ritual ceremonies of sacrifice, expressing gratitude to Heaven
for the previous harvest and praying for the next harvest. Constructed
without the use of a single nail, the round 39-meter-high Hall
of Prayer for Good Harvests has a three-tier roof, whose tiles
are painted deop blue, symbolizing the colour of heaven. The roof
is supported by 28 pillars, of which the four most massive ones
represent the four seasons. The double ring consisting of two
circles Of twelve pillars represent the 12 months, plus the traditional
divisions of the Chinese day, each comprising of two hours.
Visitors who see Chinese buildings Will invariably notice the extensive use of timber as a building material in addition to bricks and tiles. That is because timber was not only easily available and transportable but also was very practical. Heavy posts are capable of carrying the roof while the wood could be carved for decoration and embellishment. After all, Who would fail to be impressed by the highly elaborate decorations and embellishments in those buildings?
Pagdas are as much a part of Chinese scenery as churches are in England. Tall or low, massive or slender, pagodas dot China's landscape as evidence of Buddhist influence on and merge with Chinese culture. The oldest existing pagoda, also built of wood, is located in Yingxian County in north Shanxi. That the 67. l3 meter-high pagoda should have survived all the vicissitudes of life for more than 900 years, including some strong earthquakes, was a miracle. Because it is out of the way, most visitors do not see this pagoda. More frequently visited pagodas are the Great Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, the Pagoda of Six Harmonies in Hangzhou, and the Forest of Pagodas near Shaolin Monastery in Henan, central China, to name just a few.
What is it that gives China's building unmistakable Chinese characteristics? It is the ombination of the massive, often curved roof, the predominant use of timber, the terrace, the corbel construction, and the dazzlingly colourful decoration.
The roofs of Chinese temples and palaces lend an air of weightlessness to the generally large and massive buildings. The eaves, of ten slightly upturned, seem to let the entire roof float above the building as if carried on invisible columns. Another way of achieving this illusion of floating is the double roof. Here the roof is constructed in two stages and the low wall separating the two suggests a small additional storey. A practical funciton of uptumed roof gutters is to ensure enough light inside the building while making it easy to carry off rain-water. Additionally, the roofs of palaces are covered with glazed tiles. As the emperor's colour was yellow, those of the impe rial palace are in yellow. The Temple of Heaven, on the other hand, is appropriately covered ln blue tiles, the colour of the sky.
Buildings in China, be they temples or palaccs or pagodas, rise invariably from a terrace. That is as it should br, for the wooden frame, however flexible it is, has to be protected from any ingress
of water. OId texts, however, point to a symbolic cosmlogical meaning when they state "the Heaven covers and the Earth carries". The terrace in these terms represents the Earth and the roof the Heaven. Thus we come to the recurrent theme of ancient Chinese philosophy, which is a complete harmony between man and nature.
No discussion of traditional Chinese buildings can be completed without a mention of the corbel construction. Developed by Chinese craftsmen over the centuries, it is the ultimate form or style of Chinese architecture that is the pride of the Chinese nation and the admiration of foreigners. While posts and beams satisfy structural requirements and are often built without the benefit of glue or nails, corhels and brackets are artfully combined into incredibly complex and visually intriguing structures to support the roof. These corbel systems also give a clue to the social status of the owner of a house because ordinary people were not permitted to have them: they were the prerogative of people of rank.
Decorations for ancient Chinese buildings are largely of two types, i. e., colourful paintings and decorative sculptures. The former plays a decorative, symbolic or protective role. A classic exam-
ple is that found in the Long Corridor of the Summer Palace in Beijing. Decorative sculptures, which are found both inside and outside the main buildings, range from brick sculptures on walls, stone sculptures on balustrades, to the small sculptures of mythological beasts atop a palace or temple roof ridge and the large ones of men and beasts in front of a mausoleum. For example, in front of the Hall of Preserving Harmony there is 200-ton stone on the terrace which is an intricate1y carved design of dragon and pheonix. | <urn:uuid:80a2e12d-662a-431e-993a-9f174998a025> | 2013-05-26T02:43:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The organization announced Tuesday that the Motown founder will receive the Pioneer Award at its 44th annual induction ceremony on June 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
The award was established last year to honor people who have "been a major influence on generations of songwriters." It was presented posthumously to Woody Guthrie.
As the head of Motown, Gordy helped establish careers and hits for Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, and Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five. A Broadway musical about Gordy's life, "Motown: The Musical," debuted this week.
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Sheer Horizontal Shades Buyers Guide
Completely open, the view of the outside world is subdued. Partially to completely closed, there's a softly diffused glow with opalescent translucency. When raised, the entire shading disappears into a sleek headrail. The picture below describes it best in fully closed, partially closed and fully open positions.
What can Soft Horizontal Shadings do for me?
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Acapella Praise Medley
Acapela Praise Medley is track 9 on 'A Collection of Songs' 'TJ2' by Tony Jarman
"Redeemed Medley" is track 12 on album "A Collecton of Songs: Disc One" by Tony Jarman.
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Farther Along is Track 13 on "A Collection of Songs" "TJ1" by Tony Jarman
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|Since 1976 the YWCA Women’s Crisis Center has successfully been providing shelter, advocacy, and supportive services for women and children fleeing violent homes.
Each year the YWCA shelter houses hundreds of women and children. The YWCA provides safe/confidential housing, basic needs, advocacy, crisis and supportive counseling, domestic violence education, parenting, support groups, agency referrals, and a children’s program.
(316) 267-SAFE (7233)
The YWCA Women's Crisis Center was founded in 1976 as the result of a study conducted in Wichita by a task force of women who recognized the need for such a facility. Several of the women were from the Commission on the Status of Women while others represented the community at large.
This task force documented the need for residential shelter for battered and destitute women. After extensive research, they wrote the background proposal for the Center, called the Wichita Women's Center. The proposal was unanimously approved by the Commission on the Status of Women and then presented to the City and other appropriate agencies.
Although incorporation was considered, it was decided that an already established agency needed to sponsor the project. The YWCA agreed to serve in this capacity, taking responsibility for the efficient administration and money management of the shelter. After several months of searching, first year funding of $25,000 was secured through the Community Action Agency. The first director was employed in June and the shelter opened on August 18, 1976.
Many changes have occurred since the Center first opened. The original proposal was for the care of five residents, but demands for space became so great that bed space was increased to house 12 women and children. In late 1977, it became obvious that the overwhelming need was to serve abused women. At this time, it was decided abused women would be the sole priority of the facility
In January of 1980, the original shelter was sold. In late 1980, after much searching, the YWCA Board of Directors was given a Victorian house, in need of repair, in the Midtown area. Twenty-four women and children were housed in the new shelter. By April of 2000, the older and out-dated house was sold and the shelter moved to the present-day confidential location that can serve over 30 women and their children. There are many barriers to prevent battered women from escaping abuse - lack of money, resources, and support. The YWCA Women's Crisis Center provides women and children fleeing violent homes with safe shelter and the supportive services needed to establish and maintain a violence free life. | <urn:uuid:cdd3853f-d503-4ecb-91ef-87ae03d724ff> | 2013-05-26T02:42:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The heaviest known insects are the Goliath beetles of equatorial Africa. One fully grown male was found to weigh 3.5 ounces. (almost as much as a handful of quarters)
The heaviest human in medical history was Jon Brower Minnoch, who weighted 392 lbs. in 1963, 700 lbs. In 1966, and 975 lbs. in 1976. After being admitted to a hospital in 1978 from heart and respiratory failure, a doctor estimated that Jon weighted over 1300 pounds. When he died in 1978, he weighed more than 798 pounds.
The larva of the Polyphemus moth consumes an amount equivalent to 86,000 times it own birth weight in the first 56 days of life. In human terms, this would be like a 7 pound baby taking in 301 tons of nourishment. That is a lot of baby food!
Highest g Force
The click beetle averages 400g when "jack-knifing" into the air to escape predators. One specimen that jumbed to a height of 11.75 inches was calculated to have endured a peak brain deceleration of 2300g by the end of the movement. A recorded human example is that of David Purley, a race car driver who survived a deceleration from 108 mph to 0 in 26 inches in England in 1977. His g force was estimated to 179.8g. He suffered 29 fractures, 3 dislocations, and 6 heart stoppages!
Female mosquitoes hold the record in this category. They need a lot of protein in order to lay eggs. They obtain this protein by drinking the blood of reptiles, birds, or mammals. Sometimes a mosquito will triple her body weight with just one meal of blood. For a 100 pound human to imitate this feat, he would have to consume 36 gallons of liquid at one sitting.
The fastest moving insects are certain large tropical cockroaches. The record is 3.36 mph, or 50 body lengths per second. Tiger beetles are also quite fast, as they scurry after their prey. They can often be seen zipping across a road, their bright metallic colors flashing in the sun. The fastest human ever recorded was Carl Lewis, who ran 100 meters in 9.86 seconds in 1991 in Tokyo, Japan.
The champion jumper among insects is the common flea. In one experiment, a flea performed a long jump of 13 inches, and a high jump of 7.75 inches. If a human could jump like a flea, we would be able to jump 853 feet, which would be like jumping from street level to the 70th floor of the Empire State Building. The champion human high jumper is Javier Sotomayor of Cuba, who jumped 8 ft. 0 in. in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The ant may be tiny, but for his size he is one of the "giants" of the insect world. With his strong jaws he is able to carry 50 times his own weight. That would be like a human trying to carry a baby elephant. Among human strongmen, the record is held by Leonid Taranenko of Russia, who lifted a whopping 1,047 pounds in Australia in 1988.
The monarch butterfly is capable of flying 2,000 miles from Canada to Mexico and parts of California. Millions migrate every autumn, often stopping in the same rest spots each year. In early spring and summer, returning females travel north in relays, new generations replacing old, laying their eggs along the way. In comparison, the longest human-powered flight ever documented was when Kanellos Kanellopoulos averaged 18.5 mph in his 112 foot wingspan machine from Crete to the island of Santorini, Greece, flying 74 miles.
Other Interesting Tid-bits
Loudest Insect - The loudest of all insects is the male cicada. At 7,400 pulses per minute, its tymbal organs produce a sound detectable over a quarter of a mile away.
Best Stunt Flyer - Large dragonflies are not only super fast flyers, they are also masters of maneuverability! Many kinds of dragonflies can hover, fly backward, turn around quickly in mid-air, and land in an instant.
Longest Insect - The longest insect in the world is the tropical walking stick. Females have been measured at 13 inches in body length. It looks just like a slender twig, which is how it blends in with its surroundings.
Fastest Flyer - Modern experiments have established that the highest maintainable air speed of any insect, including the deer bot-fly, hawkmoths, and horseflies is 24 mph, rising to a maximum of 36 mph for short bursts by some large dragon flies.
Official State Insects and Butterflies of the United States
Many states have adopted official state insects and/or butterflies in recent years. They have done this to remind citizens of the vital role that insects play in our lives. As of December 31, 1995, 34 states have officially designates state insects and/or butterflies, and this information is summarized below. You will find an alphabetic list of the states that have official state insects and/or butterflies (along with the name of the insect), as well as a list of insects (and the states that have adopted them s their official symbols).
State Insects and Butterflies Listed by States
Alabama monarch butterfly Arkansas honey bee California California dogface butterfly Colorado Colorado hairstreak butterfly Connecticut European praying mantis Delaware convergent ladybird beetle Florida giant swallowtail butterfly Georgia honey bee (insect); tiger swallowtail (butterfly) Illinois monarch butterfly Iowa ladybug Kansas honey bee Kentucky viceroy butterfly Louisiana honey bee Maine honey bee Maryland Baltimore checkerspot butterfly Massachusetts ladybug Mississippi honey bee (insect); spicebush swallowtail (butterfly) Missouri honey bee Nebraska honey bee New Hampshire Ladybug New Jersey honey bee New Mexico tarantula hawk wasp New York nine-spotted ladybird beetle North Carolina honey bee Ohio ladybug (insect); tiger swallowtail (butterfly) Oregon Oregon swallowtail butterfly Pennsylvania firefly South Carolina Carolina mantis South Dakota honey bee Tennessee ladybug and firefly Utah honey bee Vermont monarch butterfly Virginia tiger swallowtail butterfly Wisconsin honey bee Wyoming western swallowtail butterfly
State Insects and Butterflies Listed by Species
Baltimore checkerspot butterfly Maryland California dogface butterfly California Carolina mantis South Carolina Colorado hairstreak butterfly Colorado European praying mantis Connecticut Firefly Tennessee and Pennsylvania Honey bee Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin Ladybird beetles/ladybugs Delaware (convergent), Iowa, Massachusetts, New York (nine-spotted). and Ohio Swallowtail butterflies Florida (giant), Georgia (tiger), Mississippi (spicebush), Ohio (tiger), Oregon (Oregon), Virginia (tiger), and Wyoming (western) Tarantula hawk wasp New Mexico Viceroy butterfly Kentucky
Is your state on the list? If not, you might want to help initiate a campaign to have a representative insect and/or butterfly designated as one of your official state symbols.
The first step is to collect "nominations" from friends, family, and classmates. Have them think of an insect and/or butterfly that would make a good symbol for your state. After a while you should have a list of possible candidates and an idea of how popular each nominee is. Now comes the hard part - selecting one candidate to present to state legislators. Perhaps you might narrow the field to two or three of the most popular nominees and have a run off "election."
Once you have the possibilities narrowed down to a single candidate you will need to begin building a rationale for designating your insect candidate as the official state insect (or butterfly). Why is your insect candidate the best choice? How does it fit into your state's history or culture? How popular is the choice (collect signatures on a petition). All of this information will be useful to you when you go looking for a legislative sponsor or sponsors to help you introduce a commemorative bill into the house and senate (start with the representative for your district first). The commemorative bill will most likely go to a committee first, at which time you (and others will have an opportunity to speak for or against the bill), but if you are persistent and well prepared you might be responsible for your state adopting an official state insect or butterfly!
The Amazing Animal Quiz
Introduction - Insects and their relatives (arthropods) are some of the most amazing animals that inhabit our world, yet most of us rarely give them credit for their incredible abilities. The "Amazing Animal Quiz" can help you and your students "tune in" to the incredible world of arthropods and open their eyes and minds to learning more about them. Hopefully after students complete this exercise they will have a better appreciation for the amazing abilities of arthropods.
Getting started - This quiz is really quite simple and makes a great introduction to a unit on insects and other arthropods. Before starting, have students number a piece of paper from 1-25 down the left-hand side. Tell the students that you are going to read a series of statement that describe animal activities (don't bias them by mentioning insects or arthropods at this time) and that you want them to right down the name of any one animal that they can think of that fits the description you have given.
Name An Animal That...
- ...raids the garbage
- ...is cold blooded
- ...hides from other animals by using camouflage
- ...changes shape as it grows
- ...is poisonous and covered with scales
- ...lives in the ground
- ...is capable of flying
- ...attacks and devours (eats) other animals
- ...migrates long distances
- ...gathers and stores food
- ...sings to attract a mate
- ...hibernates as an adult
- ...eats wood
- ...lives longer than 40 years
- ...is striped
- ...lives on another animal
- ...spends part of its life cycle in the water
- ...drinks nectar from flowers
- ...lays eggs
- ...has big back legs and is a good hopper
- ...catches their prey with traps
- ...is active mostly at night
- ...is brightly colored
- ...is covered with hairs
- ...gives off a foul odor
Scoring the quiz. After administering the quiz, have the students score themselves in the following manner: 1 point for each mammal named, 3 points for each bird, reptile, amphibian, or fish names, and 5 points for each arthropod (insect, spider, etc.) names. As you can see in this exercise you get more points when you answer with arthropod names. A few of the possible arthropod (insect/spider) answers are:
- fly/maggot, carrion beetle
- any insect or other arthropod
- walkingstick, underwing moth, crab spider
- any insect or other arthropod
- monarch butterfly
- ant, yellowjacket, white grub/beetle
- fly, bee, wasp, ant, moth, butterfly, beetle, bug, grasshopper, dragonfly, mayfly, caddisfly, in fact most adult insects.
- Praying mantis, ladybird beetle, aphidlion, wolf spider, tarantula, centipede
- Monarch butterfly, painted lady butterfly, green darner dragonfly, leafhopper
- Ant, honey bee
- Cicada, cricket, katydid
- Morning cloak butterfly, ladybird beetles
- Termite, wood-boring beetle (not ants)
- Queen termite
- Bee, monarch (caterpillar), swallowtail (caterpillar), beetle
- Louse, flea, tick
- Dragonfly, damselfly, mosquito, stonefly, mayfly, caddisfly
- Butterfly, moth, bee, fly
- Any insect or other arthropod (except a few aphids and roaches)
- Grasshopper, cricket, leafhopper, flea, flea beetle
- Antlion, spider
- Moth, most beetle
- Many butterflies and beetles
- Mosquito, caddisfly, and many caterpillars
- Stink bug, bombardier beetle, black swallowtail caterpillar
Source:Young Entomologists' Society, Inc., Minibeast World of Insects and Spiders, by Gary A. Dunn, M.S., F.R.E.S., Director of Education
- During a single meal, a female mosquito can drink her own weight in blood.
- Some mayflies live 24 hours or less as adults.
- The smallest insect ever discovered is a hairy-winged beetle from the tropics. It measures 1/100 of an inch (.25 mm) in length.
- The longest insect ever found is a tropical stick insect from Asia. Some of the females get to be over a food (30cm) in length.
- Over one million different kinds of insects have been discovered. This is twice the total of all other kinds of animals put together.
- A swarm of desert locusts (of the grasshopper family), containing over 1000 million insects, has covered an estimated area of 2000 square miles (5200 KM2). Swarms of locusts have been seen at sea 1200 miles from land (1920 km).
- Bombardier beetles can shoot a hot, smelly liquid from their abdomen that is 212 ° F (100° C).
- Fireflies aren't the only light-producing insects. Some click beetles, springtails, and gnats also light up.
- There is a fly in California called the petroleum fly that lives and breeds in petroleum.
- The largest animal in Antarctica that lives strictly on land is a wingless fly less than 1/4 of an inch (6 mm) long.
- The color a head louse will be as an adult can depend on the color of the person's hair is living in. For example, a louse living in blond hair would most likely be alight color; one living in black hair would be dark.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head.
- Fleas can jump 200 times the length of their bodies.
- Some queen termites live as long as 50 years.
- The atlas moth of India is one of the world's largest insects. It measures 12 inches (30 cm) from wingtip to wingtip.
- A tiny insect called a biting midge can beat its wings 1000 times a second.
- How many flowers must honey bees tap to make one pound of honey?
- Two million
- How far does a hive of bees fly to bring you one pound of honey?
- Over 55,000 miles
- How much honey does the average worker honey bee make in her lifetime?
- 1/12 teaspoon
- How fast does a honey bee fly?
- About 15 miles per hour
- How much honey would it take to fuel a bee's flight around the world?
- About one ounce
- Why are honey bees sometimes called "white man's flies?"
- North American natives called honey bees this because they were brought to North America by European colonists.
- What is mead?
- Honey wine
- How long have bees been producing honey from flowering plants?
- 10-20 million years
- What Scotch liqueur is made with honey?
- How many sides does each honeycomb cell have?
- What is the U.S. per capita consumption of honey?
- What state is known as the beehive state?
- How many wings does a honey bee have?
- How many beekeepers are in the United States?
- An estimated 211,600
- How many honey-producing colonies of bees are there in the United States?
- The USDA estimates that there are approximately 3 million honey producing colonies. This estimate is based on beekeepers who manage five or more colonies.
- Hall of Fame Trivia Bugs
- How many flowers does a honey bee visit during one collection trip?
- 50 to 100
- How do honey bees communicate with one another?
- "Dancing." Honey bees do a dance which alerts other bees where nectar and pollen was located. The dance explains directions and distance. Bees also communicate with pheromones.
- What does "super" mean to a beekeeper?
- The super is the hive box in which honey is stored.
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Posted: Feb 24, 2013 9:42 AM by Matt Stafford
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama says she's eyeing another job in 2016 and, contrary to speculation, it doesn't involve running for public office.
During her first appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," the host asked her Friday to consider a Michelle-Hillary ticket for president in 2016. The latter is former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who lost the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Mrs. Obama's husband. Speculation is rampant that Clinton will run again in 2016.
The first lady replies that she's thinking about "putting my hat in the ring" for the "Tonight Show" when host Jay Leno retires.
Fallon says he has his hat in the ring, too. But when Mrs. Obama asks for his opinion, he suggests he won't challenge her. Says Fallon: "I'm done thinking about it."
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To the editor:
On Feb. 13, the Kansas Board of Education will vote on adopting new science standards based on the recommendations of the Science Standards Writing Committee, replacing the intelligent-design-influenced standards passed by the previous board in November 2005.
As a member of that committee and as president of Kansas Citizens for Science, I strongly encourage all state board members to vote "yes" on this important issue for two compelling reasons.
¢ First, the committee's standards represent the mainstream scientific consensus on the nature of science and on evolution, and the current standards do not.
¢ Second, the committee's standards were developed according to the proper process, and the current standards were not.
The committee, appointed by the board in 2004, followed established procedures, including addressing all minority views democratically by requiring a two-thirds vote on all content. The previous board badly abused established procedures. They allowed members of the intelligent design movement to subvert both content and process based on their entirely false belief that mainstream science is atheistic.
Adopting the committee's standards now is simply finishing the proper process: restoring mainstream science to our standards and credibility to our state.
New board members Jana Shaver of Independence and Sally Cauble of Liberal ran on clear platforms of replacing the current intelligent design standards. I encourage all Kansans to join me in supporting them and their fellow board members in fulfilling this campaign pledge. | <urn:uuid:b7838c98-e3af-49d7-be5f-4bfd29c66d3c> | 2013-05-26T02:34:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Federal prosecutors argue that undercover investigators were correct to broaden their investigation to include methamphetamine manufacturing as part of a 2010 case that resulted in lengthy federal prison sentences for two Lawrence men.
In a recent appeal to the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, attorneys for Randy J. Dyke and Donald Milton Steele accused investigators of exhibiting “outrageous government conduct,” alleging they planted the idea of methamphetamine manufacturing and provided supplies to the two men in an effort to obtain stiffer prison sentences. The case is related to an investigation that included a 2010 raid on Steele’s house east of Lawrence, 1706 N. 1500 Road.
In a response to Dyke’s appeal, prosecutors argue that undercover officers investigating Steele, Dyke and other co-defendants were correct to broaden their investigation because, they allege, Steele had suggested manufacturing methamphetamine “in light of the numerous criminal ventures occurring,” including counterfeiting money and purchasing marijuana.
“The undercover operation that followed was objectively reasonable and tailored to thwart the defendants’ wide-ranging criminal activities,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Tristram Hunt wrote in the government’s response to Dyke’s appeal. “This issue should be denied.”
Hunt also alleged Steele, and not investigators, initially involved Dyke in the methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy. Dyke received a nearly 20-year prison sentence.
Dyke’s attorney has asked the appellate court to hear an argument on the issue and acquit him of the most serious charges in the case. | <urn:uuid:a2c82aa3-15f3-4dfd-8fb2-ff4b30c0ce25> | 2013-05-26T02:43:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Nov. 15, 2012
WASHINGTON -- As part of the $4 billion settlement announced today between the federal government and BP concerning the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the National Academy of Sciences has been asked to establish a new $350 million, 30-year program on human health and environmental protection in the Gulf of Mexico. Below is a statement from Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences.
Statement Regarding New NAS Program on Human Health and Environmental Protection in the Gulf of Mexico
Ralph J. Cicerone
President, National Academy of Sciences
As part of today's Deepwater Horizon $4 billion court settlement between the federal government and BP, the U.S. Department of Justice has asked the National Academy of Sciences to establish a program focused on human health and environmental protection in the Gulf of Mexico. In response and in keeping with its mission, the NAS — a private, nonprofit institution chartered by Congress in 1863 to advise the government on matters of science — has agreed to bring its resources to bear on this important national priority.
The NAS program will fund and carry out studies, projects, and activities over a 30-year period that draw upon the scientific, engineering, and health expertise of the NAS, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. It will seek to advance scientific and technical understanding to enhance the protection of human health and environmental resources in the Gulf Coast region including issues concerning the safety of offshore oil drilling and hydrocarbon production and transportation in the Gulf of Mexico and on the United States' outer continental shelf. The program will also aim to contribute to the development of advanced environmental monitoring systems.
The legal settlement between the federal government and BP Exploration and Production Inc. requires penalty payments (formally called "remedial order payments") by the company. These payments, to be made to a fund administered by the NAS, will total $350 million over a five-year period.
The NAS program will be conducted based on scientific merit and integrity with emphasis on freedom of inquiry and independent, nonpartisan advice and recommendations. Among its activities, the program will fund projects in the public interest not otherwise supported by private industry. BP will have no involvement in any decisions related to the NAS program.
On April 20, 2010, 11 people lost their lives in the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Additional human and environmental consequences followed, some continuing to this day. Our institutions — and in particular, our committees of volunteer experts — have already contributed to the knowledge base about the accident and its aftermath.
In two studies, NAE and the National Research Council performed a detailed analysis of the Deepwater Horizon accident, examined ways to prevent rig blowouts (2010), and recommended steps that could be taken to enhance safety in offshore drilling (2011). The National Research Council also examined ecosystem services valuation for the Gulf of Mexico and the effectiveness of offshore safety and environmental management systems (both 2012). And IOM conducted a rapid-response workshop in 2010 with public health officials from the Gulf states on methods to assess the effects of the oil spill on human health.
Building on this existing work and remaining mindful of the tragic loss of life and other human and environmental consequences of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, we will begin by developing a careful plan to guide the work of this long-term program.
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If there is an event in the queue, XtAppPeekEvent fills in the event and returns a nonzero value. If no X input is on the queue, XtAppPeekEvent flushes the output buffer and blocks until input is available (possibly calling some timeout callbacks in the process). If the input is an event, XtAppPeekEvent fills in the event and returns a nonzero value. Otherwise, the input is for an alternate input source, and XtAppPeekEvent returns zero.
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Hanoi: North Korea on Thursday condemned imminent US-South Korea naval exercises as a threat to global peace as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Vietnam for Asia-Pacific security talks.
A spokesman for the North Korean delegation in Hanoi also dismissed fresh US sanctions against the isolated communist state for its alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, saying they violated a UN statement on the incident.
"Such movements pose a great threat not only to the peace and security of the Korean peninsula but also to global peace and security," the spokesman, Ri Tong Il, told reporters.
"If the US is truly interested in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula it must take the lead in creating an atmosphere (for dialogue) rather than... staging military exercises or imposing sanctions."
The nuclear-armed North has warned of war if it is punished over the sinking of the Cheonan in the Yellow Sea in March with the loss of 46 lives, an incident that has sharply raised tensions on the peninsula.
The United States says its imminent naval exercises involving an aircraft carrier, destroyers and thousands of troops are "defensive" in nature and meant as a clear show of "deterrence" against North Korean "aggression".
Hillary said the sanctions were designed to pile pressure on the Pyongyang leadership and were not aimed at the North Korean people, "who have suffered too long due to the misguided and malign priorities of their government".
State Department officials said Hillary would ask Beijing to do more to influence its ally North Korea, during bilateral talks with China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Hanoi later Thursday.
But officials in Hillary's delegation said the meeting was not expected to take place until Friday, when the 27-member ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meets to discuss a range of security issues spanning the Asia-Pacific.
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Hillary would ask Yang to look at additional steps to pressure North Korea to stop what Hillary called its "destabilising, illicit and provocative policies".
"We hope (greater sanctions) have an impact on the core leadership which will, I think, change their calculations about how they engage with the United States and other countries," he said in Washington.
Heightened tensions over the sinking of the corvette have further tested already strained relations between Washington and Beijing, which froze military ties with the United States in January over arms sales to Taiwan.
South Korea, the United States and other nations -- citing the findings of a multinational investigation -- have accused the North of sending a submarine to torpedo the ship.
Pyongyang angrily denies the allegations and China has not blamed its communist ally.
The UN condemned the attack as a threat to regional peace, expressed deep concern at the findings of the investigation but noted the North's denial and did not apportion blame -- a result hailed as a "victory" in Pyongyang.
China has repeatedly warned Washington and Seoul against the exercises.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang called on all sides to "maintain a cool head and exercise restraint, and not do anything that aggravates regional tensions".
A draft ARF declaration expresses "deep concern" over the sinking of the Cheonan and supports the July 09 UN statement, without blaming the North or acknowledging the probe that found it responsible for the alleged attack.
It also calls for the resumption of six-party talks on North Korean disarmament.
The countries involved in the stalled talks -- China, Japan, the two Koreas, Russia and the United States -- will be represented at the ARF but analysts expect little progress will be made on resuming the dialogue.
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Experimental data on social preferences present a number of features that need to be incorporated in econometric modelling. We explore a variety of econometric modelling approaches to the analysis of such data. The approaches under consideration are: the random utility approach (in which it is assumed that each possible action yields a utility with a deterministic and a stochastic component, and that the individual selects the action yielding the highest utility); the random behavioural approach (which assumes that the individual computes the maximum of a deterministic utility function, and that computational error causes their observed behaviour to depart stochastically from this optimum); and the random preference approach (in which all variation in behaviour is attributed to stochastic variation in the parameters of the deterministic component of utility). These approaches are applied in various ways to an experiment on fairness conducted by Cappelen et al. (2007). At least two of the models that we estimate succeed in capturing the key features of the data set.
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'A central question we will address is: how do evaluation approaches under cost and time constraints affect the validity of the evaluation design and the conclusions derived from the analysis? What are acceptable compromises that permit valid findings and what are the minimum methodological requirements without which a study can no longer be considered a quality impact evaluation? Section 2 considers a range of options for simplifying the design of an evaluation, and examines the implications for evaluation rigor and cost. Section 3 presents options for selecting comparison groups, while Section 4 looks at the use of secondary data. Strategies for reconstructing baseline data, to improve an evaluation's rigor, are examined in Section 5, while options to reduce the costs of data collection are outlined in Section 6. Finally, the ways in which budget, time and data constraints reduce the rigor of an evaluation are reviewed in Section 7. This section also presents a range of options for addressing each of these constraints.' | <urn:uuid:4f470134-0b4e-440a-bc8a-4ff4f3136f78> | 2013-05-26T02:45:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The questions answered are:
1) What was your opinion of the team’s offseason?
2) Can Pedro Alvarez get back to the form that made him a top prospect?
3) How will the rotation shape up?
4) Is there a prospect that will make an impact on the team this season?
5) Where will the team finish in their division and what are you most excited about for 2012?
My favorite part is that Jim and I gave the same answer for the Pedro Alvarez question almost word-for-word. Give a click to see what it was. | <urn:uuid:feae8c5a-5b5d-49b8-a67d-0ba540f4b9ad> | 2013-05-18T17:49:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Songwriter Jerry Leiber Dies
Songwriter Jerry Leiber, who wrote/co-wrote such hits as “Jailhouse Rock” and “Hound Dog”, died today, according to Rolling Stone. He was 78.
Along with Mike Stoller, Leiber wrote dozens of hits, and earned his way into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
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Amanda Knox was acquitted today of a murder that riveted three countries for the past four years and just hours later was whisked away from an Italian prison, ending her four-year ordeal.
The Seattle woman's legs buckled and she let out a silent cry when the judge in Perugia, Italy, announced that the appeals court had thrown out her conviction for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher and vacated her 26-year prison sentence.
Knox, 24, was hustled out of the courtroom, barely able to walk, stumbling while being hauled along by court officers. The former exchange student was crying and doubled over, her head occasionally coming up for big breaths of air.
Hours later, a pair of black vehicles slid out of the gates of Capanne Prison outside of Perugia, with Knox in the back seat. She is expected to return to home to Seattle immediately.
Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in December 2009 of killing Kercher in a 2007 attack that left the British exchange student partially nude and bleeding to death from a slashed throat. Sollecito was also acquitted of the murder today.
Knox, 24, and Sollecito, 27, have spent the past four years in an Italian prison and faced the prospect of a life sentence depending on today's appeals court ruling.
The tension of the moment was so acute and full of dread for Knox that she looked pale and physically ill when she was brought into the courtroom for the verdict. A female member of her legal team knelt next to Knox to comfort her.
When the judge cracked the tension by announcing her acquittal, Knox nearly collapsed, her face contorted with relief and tears.
Left behind in the courtroom was the family of Meredith Kercher, Knox's British roommate, whom she was accused of killing. Kercher's mother, Arline Kercher, sat stoicly long after the elated Knox family hugged one another fiercely and streamed out into the street.
In the street, the family was greeted with cheers and boos with some shouting "disgrace."
Knox's younger sister, Deanna, talked to reporters from the steps of the courthouse, saying, "We are thankful that our nightmare is over. She has suffered for four years for a crime she did not commit."
The jury did find Knox guilty of slanderingDiya "Patrick" Lumumba, a bar owner in Perugia who once hired Knox. Knox inadvertently implicated Lumumba in the murder after nearly 50 hours of interrogation by police.
Knox's lawyers argued that Knox mentioned Lumumba because police essentially put those words in her mouth, insisting that he was involved because her cell phone had a message to Lumumba the night of the murder that said in Italian, "See you later."
The maximum sentence for slander is three years in prison, but Knox has already served four years. She was also ordered to pay 22,000 euros to Lumumba.
Knox's family has been a constant presence at the nearly year-long hearings, but Kercher's family has stayed away before arriving today to hear the verdict.
The court's six jurors and two judges deliberated for hours after listening in the morning to impassioned pleas by Knox and Sollecito to throw out the guilty verdict and set them free.
Knox struggled through tears and, at times, a shaking voice, as she addressed the court in Italian.
"I want to go home. I want to go back to my life. I don't want to be punished. ... I don't want my future taken away from me for something I didn't do because I am innocent," she said.
Seated in the courtroom, Knox's mother Edda Mellas and her younger sister Deanna cried.
Knox's statement combined sweet memories of her brief time with Sollecito before the murder and what she insisted was her friendship with Kercher. But she had bitter words for the Italian police.
"I made myself available up to the point of total exhaustion. ... I was betrayed," she said. "I was manipulated."
"I didn't do what they say I did. I didn't kill. I didn't rape. I didn't steal. I was not there," Knox insisted.
She dismissed prosecution claims that her relationship with Kercher had become strained and angry.
"We had a friendship. ... She was concerned for me. She was always kind to me. She cared about me," Knox said.
In encouraging the six jurors and two judges to set her free, Knox said, "I am not escaping truth. I am not fleeing from justice. I insist on the truth."
Sollecito told the court that he couldn't express how terrible the past four years have been.
"At the end of the day, every single day in prison is like death," he said.
Sollecito looked back at the moment just before he had been arrested when he met Knox. He said he had been "in a beautiful situation." He was about to defend his college thesis and had met this "beautiful vivacious girl, and so sweet."
Sollecito pointed to a rubber bracelet he was wearing with the inscription, "Free Amanda and Raffaele" that was given to him.
"I think it's time for me to take it off," he said, removing the band and hoping the court would not send him back to prison. | <urn:uuid:c5cd84ee-b924-411c-861e-9dcd27745b23> | 2013-05-18T17:49:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Clayton Sandell is an ABC News Digital Correspondent based in Denver. In this role he files stories for "Good Morning America", "World News with Diane Sawyer", "Nightline", ABC News Radio and ABCNews.com.
Sandell covers a wide range of breaking news across the West, in addition to stories on climate change, space exploration and the science behind extreme weather. He's reported on wildfires and avalanches, the Texas trial of polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs, the FBI's hunt for serial bank robbers, Najibullah Zazi's plot to bomb New York subways and the infamous "Balloon Boy" hoax.
Prior to his post in Denver, Sandell was a producer for "World News with Charles Gibson," and "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" based in Washington D.C.
In 2010, Sandell received an Emmy award as part of the ABC News team that covered the inauguration of President Barack Obama. He traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009 to cover the U.N. Climate Change Conference. Along with correspondent Bill Blakemore, Sandell went to Greenland in 2007 and has made two trips onboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy to follow scientists researching the effects of climate change in the Arctic region. In October 2007, he went to China with correspondent David Kerley to produce a special series on toy recalls and food safety.
In April 2007, Sandell helped cover the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University. From the U.S. and the Caribbean he has reported on the approach and aftermath of numerous hurricanes, including Hurricane Ike that struck Texas in 2008 and category-four Hurricane Wilma that hit Cancun Mexico in 2005.
He was in Haiti in February 2004 during the violent uprisings that led to the ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, and also covered the trials of the two men eventually convicted in the 2002 DC-area sniper murders.
Prior to joining "World News," Sandell was an associate producer for the "Sam Donaldson: Live in America" radio program and the "SamDonaldson@ABCNews.com" daily webcast. He joined ABC's Washington bureau in September 2000, working on the assignment desk.
Before coming to ABC News, Sandell worked as a reporter at Los Angeles news radio station KFWB-AM. During that time he also produced and edited award-winning science and nature documentaries for the Finley-Holiday Film Corporation in Whittier, California. He began his professional broadcasting career in Southern California, first as a DJ at KRTM-FM radio in Temecula and then as a reporter and anchor at KCKC-AM news-talk radio in San Bernardino.
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As a biographer to Gen. David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell enjoyed tremendous access to the general during the year they spent together in Afghanistan, finding out the idiosyncrasies that helped shape the man who was the public face of the war.
"He was really motivated to please his father when he was younger," Broadwell told ABC News' Christiane Amanpour earlier this year. "His father doled out what he called gruff love, so he was always working hard to keep his father happy and I think that's reflected in his personality now."
It was clear in interviews Broadwell gave to promote her book, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus" that she and the general shared a mutual trust. What remained unseen, however, was an extramarital affair that sources say was discovered by the FBI after intimate emails sent from the CIA director were found in Broadwell's email inbox.
By all accounts, Broadwell seemed to have it all.
The 40-year-old resides in Charlotte, N.C., with her husband, Dr. Scott Broadwell, who works as a radiologist, and their two young sons.
Growing up in Bismarck, N.D., Broadwell was the high school valedictorian and homecoming queen.
She went on to attend West Point, where she was ranked No. 1 in overall fitness in her class. She spent some time in the Black Ops and later earned post-graduate degrees from Harvard and King's College in London.
On Monday, just days before before Petraeus would step down from his post with the CIA, a story by Broadwell was published on Newsweek's website titled "General David Petraeus's Rules for Living." No. 5 is notable in light of the news about his extramarital affair.
"We all will make mistakes," he said. "The key is to recognize them and admit them, to learn from them, and to take off the rear-view mirrors -- drive on and avoid making them again.""
Petraeus resigned on Friday, citing personal reasons and an extramarital affair.
"Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the president to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA," he said in a statement. "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the president graciously accepted my resignation." | <urn:uuid:b7ea3fc7-643b-46cc-ac11-0cfa3cf1d204> | 2013-05-18T17:20:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Almost five years after a murder mystery consumed the suburbs of Durham, N.C., police arrested and charged Raven Abaroa with first degree murder in the death of his first wife Janet.
Janet Abaroa, a beautiful, 26-year-old northern Virginian, was stabbed to death in her own home in April 2005.
Abaroa, 30, is expected to be arraigned this morning at a courthouse in Montpelier, Idaho. He moved to the Salt Lake City area after Janet's death and remarried; he is now being held for extradition to North Carolina.
Abaroa has said he discovered his dead wife's body in the bedroom of their Durham home after he returned from playing soccer that evening. Nothing else in the house was disturbed, authorities say. The couple's 6-month-old son, Kaiden, was left unharmed in another room.
The arrest, which was a joint effort by the Durham Police Department, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations and the FBI, comes four months after "Primetime Crime" aired an investigation into the unsolved death of Janet Abaroa.
Janet's family members, whose suspicions have long pointed toward Abaroa, credit "Primetime's" critical examination of the murder with helping to spur a new investigation. In a statement, they expressed gratitude and said that they believe the "extensive evidence will speak for itself."
Although an arrest has been made, Durham Police say the investigation is ongoing.
Janet Christiansen, the seventh of 10 siblings, came from a solid Mormon family. At Southern Virginia University, in Buena Vista, she met Raven Abaroa in 1998. He instantly swept her off her feet.
"She was beautiful, attractive. ... I just felt so much comfort when I was with her," Abaroa said in an interview with the TV show "NC Wanted" in 2007. "And we started this journey of getting to know each other and it was an amazing journey."
Janet Abaroa's sister, Erika Bakey, said her sister was enamored of Raven. Both were 19 and enthusiastic soccer players. "She always talked about if they had any kids, they were going to be fantastic soccer players because both of them were," Bakey said.
In August 2000, after two years together, Janet and Raven married at the Mormon temple in Washington, D.C. They settled in southeastern Virginia. Janet's friends and family said they thought life for the newlywed couple was perfect.
Soon a job opportunity moved the couple to Durham, where they both took positions at a major sports apparel company. Janet's sisters say the couple was beginning to have some marital problems.
"He came to her one day because he wanted to be out of the marriage," said Sonja Flood, Janet's sister, "and explained to her that he had been cheating on her with several different people. And very soon after that, she found out that she was pregnant."
Pregnancy should have been the happiest time of Janet and Raven's lives, but instead Janet confided in her family that she felt helpless. Her older sister, Dena Kendall, said that Janet "didn't want to raise the baby as a single mother."
But after Abaroa received some advice from close friends to "grow up," the young couple was able to work things out, and welcomed son Kaiden into the world on Oct. 17, 2004.
"He promised, swore up and down, that he would no longer cheat on her, that she was the only one for him. He would make it work," Flood said. | <urn:uuid:42e2d95f-dd69-415d-b1a1-dfaa2f3cc91f> | 2013-05-18T17:19:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A 7-year-old girl who disappeared from her Utah home Monday was likely dead before her parents realized she was missing, allegedly killed by a neighbor in the apartment complex where she lived, police said today.
"It [the killing] occurred within the hour, within an hour of her leaving her house," South Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Snyder said at a news conference today. He said the girl died "fairly quickly, probably before the family even knew she was missing."
Hser Nay Moo was found dead Tuesday night in a bathtub inside the neighbor's apartment, police said.
The man, Esar Met, 21, admitted to authorities that he killed her before trying to hide her body, according to Utah police.
Met, who lived in a row-house style unit at the same complex from which Moo disappeared Monday afternoon, was arrested this morning after he admitted to attempting to hold the child "by force" and she died, according to a Salt Lake County statement.
Met also told authorities he tried to conceal the body and other evidence from the crime scene, according to the statement.
In addition to the aggravated murder charge, Met was booked on kidnapping and evidence tampering charges.
Met was among five people held for questioning after a team of FBI agents found the missing girl's body in a basement bathroom around 9 p.m. inside the South Parc apartment complex.
The four other men were questioned by police and released, Gary Keller, a spokesman for the South Salt Lake City police, confirmed to ABC News.
Keller said additional charges in the case were "probable."
Hser knew some of Met's roommates and frequently went to their apartment to play, Snyder said today.
The girl's father knocked on the door of the unit when he was looking for her, but no one answered, according to police.
Snyder announced the discovery of the girl's body late Tuesday night.
The child appeared to have died from some sort of trauma, Snyder said, but declined to provide additional details. "I will say there is some trauma present and that's all I'm going to say," he said.
Moo had been missing since Monday afternoon when she walked away from her house after an argument with her 10-year-old brother.
The apartment where her body was discovered was the last unit searched by authorities during a daylong sweep of buildings, authorities announced.
Authorities detained four men at the apartment and a fifth at a separate location. Snyder would not say whether there was any connection between the girl's family and the suspects beyond living in the same apartment complex.
Their names were not initially released.
The discovery came just hours after the South Salt Lake police announced at an afternoon briefing that an Amber Alert issued Tuesday was still in effect and that authorities had no new information on the case. Police acknowledged at the time that they were "gravely concerned" about the child's safety.
Hundreds of people came out to help search for the child, whose family came to the United States from Burma in the summer. She was last seen leaving the South Parc apartment complex Monday afternoon after the argument with her brother.
Though the child was reported missing Monday, police issued the Amber Alert Tuesday -- a lag that Snyder has defended.
Moo's father, Cartoon Wah, had pleaded through an interpreter for the public's help finding the girl, his only daughter among five children.
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Redfern was named after emancipated convict Surgeon William Redfern who was granted land in the area by Governor Macquarie in 1817. Distinguished by grassy paddocks and plains, Redfern was initially a primarily residential suburb with a significant number of migrant market gardeners and seed growers quickly settling in the area to service the nearby city of Sydney. The construction of Sydney's main railway terminus in Redfern in 1855 would be transforming for the fledgling suburb. The influx of railway workers to the suburb would have the primarily pastoral land divided into small worker cottages and terraces and cemented the working class profile of the suburb.
Named after the familiar call heralding the rabbit meat sellers who sold their wares by foot in Redfern, Rugby League team The Rabbitohs were born in Redfern in 1908 and are one of code's oldest and most successful clubs with more premiership titles to their name than any other. The once feted 'pride of the league' faced financial ruin and was forcibly retired from the code in 1999, yet the considerable efforts and tenacity of their fans and the funds from influential backers such as Russell Crowe and Peter Holmes a Court had them return in 2002, hoping to recreate the glory days of the past.
Redfern has always housed a large Aboriginal community with Sydney's largest Aboriginal population living in Redfern today. However, following the Depressionin in the 1930s the Indigenous community in Redfern was largely dispossessed with many squatting in empty buildings. It was in the 1970s that the squatters formed the Aboriginal Housing Company and, in conjunction with the property owners and the newly elected Whitlam government, were given a grant to buy six squatted terrace houses in Redfern's Eveleigh Street which would become known as The Block.
This was the first urban Aboriginal land rights claim of its kind in Australia and brought significant positive renewal for the Aboriginal community in Redfern and despite intermittent government funding, the community based company had purchased all houses in The Block by 1994. Plagued by drug abuse and crime, The Block and its residents have had a troubled history with the Aboriginal Housing Company choosing to demolish several derelict buildings known as haunts for heroin users in 1997. In February 2004 the Redfern Riots broke out after 17 year-old Thomas J Hickey was impaled on a fence after being pursued by police. The Aboriginal community expressed outrage at how the police treat the community, resulting in a full-scale roiot using molotov cocktails. The incident made world news.
The once staunchly working class Redfern has undergone something of a gentrification since the turn of the 21st Century with a significant proportion of its population in high income industries. The City of Sydney is currently in the middle of an urban renewal project for Redfern with plans to redevelop significant portions of the suburb including the Station and Eveleigh Street. | <urn:uuid:1d0e4d9e-4335-4e4f-b573-f83fb1cf5bb8> | 2013-05-18T17:28:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Not gonna listen but I'm still hoping she wins. I've seen her in the smallest of venues and now she's on such a huge stage. Woah.
That's no reason to want someone to win a competition. Especially when there are artist a lot more talented than her competing. | <urn:uuid:70b0030a-f325-410e-88c9-1f6652099164> | 2013-05-18T17:58:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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As originally published in March 1550, the Ordinal of the Book of Common Prayer prescribed, in the ceremony of ordination of a priest, the following interrogatory and response:
The Bishop.Will you then give your faithful diligence always so to minister the Doctrine and Sacraments, and the Discipline of CHRIST, as the LORD hath commanded, and as this Church and Realm hath received the same, according to the commandments of GOD; so that you may teach the people committed to your Cure and Charge with all diligence to keep and observe the same?Answer.I will do so, by the help of the LORD.
As so written (probably by Archbishop Cranmer), the question formed part of the ordination ceremony called the "Exhortation", in which the Bishop "called out" the ordinand to undertake the special responsibilities of a life in the priesthood. That interrogatory and response continued in the same words in all subsequent editions of the Book of Common Prayer, including those adopted by the Protestant Episcopal Church (USA), down through the 1928 Edition. (The American version dropped only the words "and Realm".)
As a completely separate and different kind of undertaking, all English clergy were required to subscribe, before entering into office, an oath of allegiance to the Crown, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and an "Oath of Canonical Obedience". This was done separately, apart from the service of ordination. The 1913 Prayer Book Dictionary explains the latter oath as follows:
The earliest form of the Oath was the solemn declaration of a bishop after consecration to obey and maintain the "Sacred Canons" of the Church. It was not a promise of obedience to a person; and, though eventually it took a personal form, the meaning and scope was not thereby changed. . . The obedience promised is therefore limited to what is prescribed by the law and custom of the Church. This was very clearly stated by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Long v. The Bishop of Capetown (Broderick and Fremantle 313): "The Oath of Canonical Obedience does not mean that the clergyman will obey all the commands of the Bishop against which there is no law, but that he will obey all such commands as the Bishop is by law authorised to impose"; that indeed is what is signified by the qualifying word "Canonical". . . .The form of the Oath of Canonical Obedience as taken by a priest or deacon is: "I, [name], do swear that I will pay true and Canonical obedience to the Lord Bishop of A. and his successors in all things lawful and honest. So help me God."
When the newly formed Protestant Episcopal Church (USA) split off from the Church of England and adopted a Constitution in 1789, the Oath of Canonical Obedience was carried over in the following form, required to be subscribed by each new ordinand (which, since it did not invoke the Deity as witness, was not literally an "oath", but rather a "declaration"):
. . . I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrines and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in these United States.
This declaration remained in that form until the Constitution was completely revised by the General Convention of 1901. As so altered, the new declaration of canonical obedience required of all ordinands read:
. . . I do solemnly engage to conform to the Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
The 1901 amendments also required the ordinand to "subscribe and make" the declaration of conformity; i.e., both to sign a written form of the declaration, and to repeat it orally at the service of ordination. However, the Book of Common Prayer was not revised to include the declaration in the service as such until 1979. And to do so, the revisers collapsed it in with the previously quoted ceremony of Exhortation, so that the two different forms of adjuration---one a response to a "calling out" to the ministry of Christ, and the other an affirmation of obedience to lawful canons---became hopelessly mixed and confused in purpose:
The Bishop says to the ordinand
Will you be loyal to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of Christ as this Church has received them? And will you, in accordance with the canons of this Church, obey your bishop and other ministers who may have authority over you and your work?
I am willing and ready to do so; and I solemnly declare that I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of The Episcopal Church.The Ordinand then signs the above Declaration in the sight of all present.
Do you see what has happened here? For over four hundred years, the clergy of the Anglican Communion were called upon "to minister the Doctrine and Sacraments, and the Discipline of CHRIST" in such a way as to teach the people under their care "with all diligence to keep and observe" those things. Then the separate Declaration of Canonical Obedience was mingled in with that promise in a manner that confuses the "Discipline of CHRIST" with the "Discipline of this Church."
The recent charges and depositions against bishops and clergy for "abandonment of the Communion of this Church" have all grown out of this doctrinal confusion. What has happened is that the "Discipline of this Church" has eclipsed the "Discipline of CHRIST", to which "this Church" is and always must be subject. The Declaration of Canonical Obedience has been transformed into an Declaration of Disciplinary Obedience, from a commitment to obey "all such commands as the [Church] is by law authorised to impose" into an (imputed) requirement to obey "all such commands of the [Church] against which there is no law"---thereby turning the meaning of the original statement upside down.
General Convention, of course, enacts the Canons and makes changes to them. And, given the fact that Jesus Christ does not appear currently to have sufficient representation in General Convention, that is the Church's current problem in a nutshell. | <urn:uuid:b3a9464e-e495-40ca-8d46-b24ea16eaa55> | 2013-05-18T17:49:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Obviously, the price is usually the most important element, but there are other factors that make an offer more - or less - attractive. For instance, one obstacle is a "contingency," a clause that allows a
buyer to back out if certain conditions are not met. Of course, offers with the fewest contingencies are most attractive to sellers.
When it comes to contingencies, first-time buyers are often better prospects for a seller's home than move-up buyers. Why?
Because offers from homeowners usually are contingent upon the sale of their present
home. Even if a move-up buyer has an offer for their home in hand, their buyer's offer may be contingent on another contingency (or sale) - and so on down the line. If one transaction in the chain falls through,
they all might.
Cash offers can also be more attractive to sellers. Why?
After all, the seller will get their money at closing whether or not the buyer has cash or takes out a loan. True, but cash offers
do not require lender approval, and loan approval is never a certainty - it may delay closing. (incidentally, for this reason, buyers who get pre-approved for a loan have an edge over other buyers. A pre-approved
buyer is the same as a cash buyer.)
Buyers offering a larger-than-customary amount of "earnest money" (a deposit that accompanies an offer) can be more appealing, too. More money demonstrates greater
sincerity and motivation to close the transaction.
Naturally, sellers are always looking for the best price for their home, but remember they also want an easy, trouble-free reliable transaction. Thus, as a rule,
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Headphone impedanceAlso known as nominal impedance. The impedance is the AC resistance of the coils of loudspeakers and headphones in ohms. Since impedance depends on the frequency, it is always specified at a frequency of one kilohertz.
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Now imagine that you are born to be covered in spines. How cool will that be? You will not have to think about what to be for Halloween. You can either be an Astrocaryum warrior or an Astrocaryum princess!
Now imagine, that the big tree in the BCI forests decided to hold a costume party in honor of Halloween.
Who do you think will win?
Will it be the elegant male red-capped manakin with a black cloak draped over its body and a vibrant red paint on its face, or will it be the katydid who is dressed in shades of green just like the leaves in trees that we have seen!
Or will it be the giant tarantulas who are myth by day and emerge out of their tiny brick homes in the darkness of night.
Or will it be the liana whose bodies twist and turn and curve and creates a roller coaster for ants and termites and ant birds alike!
And how about the strangler figs,
who wraps its arms and legs around a tree that has healthy trunks and twigs!
Eight eyes of the wolf spider make it scary enough, so scary that you can’t imagine it crawling on your scruff!
Now you would think that the forest is the only place where scary creatures roam, wait till you meet the residents who are dressed as frightening gnomes! | <urn:uuid:f88b7cfc-74c6-4773-8509-903783ccab80> | 2013-05-18T17:48:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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To protect human health and the environment by achieving and maintaining acceptable air quality through:
Operation of a comprehensive air monitoring network.
Creating effective partnerships with air pollution sources and the public.
Timely dissemination of accurate and useful information.
The judicious use of program resources.
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European Bank to provide EUR18.2m loan for environmental project in Belarus
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has entered into a loan agreement to with Belarus to provide €18.2m under a 15-year environmental project in the country.
The loan will be employed to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the provincial cities of Vitebsk, Baranovichi and Slonim through de-centralized project implementation units.
A wastewater treatment plant at Vitebsk will also form part of the said project.
The project is expected to reduce the pollution in the Baltic Sea and will use the biogas from wastewater sludge to be harnessed for energy production.
Total international financing designated for this project, including loans, investments and grants from the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership and the governments of Austria, Finland and Sweden amounts to about €68m.
The EBRD loan is part of a wider international effort to increase investments in the wastewater and water sector outside of the capital, Minsk. | <urn:uuid:55ebc833-325b-4438-a31f-40811527c11c> | 2013-05-18T18:05:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What is Apprenticeship?
Apprenticeship is a training program that combines on-the-job training, work experience and technical training in a trade. From day one, apprentices earn a salary for their time on the job. An apprenticeship training program lasts one to four years depending on the trade.
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Red Seal Program This interprovincial standards program makes it easier for skilled workers to move and work across Canada.
Apprenticeship and Labour Mobility This multi-level initiative helps ensure that qualified, skilled Canadian workers can practise their respective trades across Canada. | <urn:uuid:5a9fcaf1-4ca7-4c30-8ee2-89ebae411a13> | 2013-05-18T17:27:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Host of Joy FM's Super Morning Show, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has reacted to claims that he was attacked by the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) after the IEA Presidential debate last Wednesday.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was widely condemned - especially by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) - for supposedly attacking Kojo who was one of the moderators of the debate on the night, since he refused to grant Nana a request for rebuttal.
Clearing the air on the matter, however, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah explained to Joy News what actually transpired that night.
"You know usually, at the end of every debate the candidates will walk up to where I'm seated, shake hands with you and everybody will tell you something different.
"I recall that at the end of Wednesday's debate, when the NPP candidate came up he drew my attention to the fact that he had wanted...to do a rebuttal about one of the inaccuracies that one of the candidates had mentioned."
Kojo said he apologized to Nana Addo for not affording him that opportunity to rebut and promised to forward his grievances to the IEA Presidential debate committee.
"And we left it at that," Kojo added. | <urn:uuid:aabe7a02-77ff-43d1-882a-d8e7c0799057> | 2013-05-18T17:49:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Cairo — Nine people were hurt when gunmen fired at protesters camping in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, according to witnesses and Egyptian media, as the opposition called for a major demonstration it hopes will force President Mohamed Mursi to postpone a referendum on a new constitution.
Supporters of the Islamist leader, who want the vote to go ahead as planned on Saturday, were also gathering in the capital, setting the stage for further street confrontations in a political crisis that has divided the Arab world's most populous nation.
Meanwhile, the secretary-general of the committee overseeing Egypt's constitutional referendum on 15 December has threatened to step down if more violence erupts before or during polling.
Zaghloul El-Balshi, who was appointed by President Morsi, said he had instructed judges supervising the referendum to close polling stations and go home if violence erupts during the vote.
Egyptians should refrain from protesting and express their view on the constitution via the ballot box, he added. | <urn:uuid:6271fd77-e587-4c4c-bf78-c25bb9937f86> | 2013-05-18T17:37:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mr. Weiner, a Democrat, came to the conclusion that he could no longer serve after having long discussions with his wife, Huma Abedin, when she returned home on Tuesday after traveling abroad with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.Oh, no! What will he do now? Become a stay-at-home dad and write a memoir about it all?
I would love to know what those conversations between Huma and Hillary were like, not that Anthony will ever know what that was. I suppose some clever novelist could write a roman a clef and make up what those 2 women might have said to each other. Did Hillary ever speak directly to Anthony? Did Bill? Did Bill, Hillary, and Huma ever confront Anthony at the same time?
AND: I hope the widdle weiner within is all right. That's the important thing. | <urn:uuid:f23f1756-e143-4cf2-b53d-cf8a65aa16f1> | 2013-05-18T17:31:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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For decades, Jim Crow laws made this crime statutory. They codified the spaces into which black bodies could not pass without encountering legal punishment. They made public blackness a punishable offense. The 1964 Civil Rights Act removed the legal barriers but not the social sanctions and potentially violent consequences of this “crime.” George Zimmerman’s slaying of Trayvon Martin — and the subsequent campaign to smear Martin — is the latest and most jarring reminder that it is often impossible for a black body to be innocent.This is the left-wing presentation of the case. All I want to talk about here is the photograph The Nation has used to illustrate this item. We see a 3-year-old child, a boy who happens to be black. He's been dressed in a black hoodie — the item of clothing Martin was wearing when he died — and given a sign to hold. The sign has a picture of a bag of Skittles — the candy the 17-year-old Martin had in his possession when he was shot — and the words Justice 4 Trayvon Martin. The child's eyes are downcast. He looks terribly sad.
But he can't possibly be sad about racism in American, injustice, or the death of Trayvon Martin. He's 3 years old!
He's probably sad because he's been dragged to a protest and made to stand around, holding a sign, at knee level to a lot of adults who are angry about something he can't understand. Who knows the ways in which a 3-year-old absorbs the emotions of the adults who surround him? Does he even know he's black, and if he does, does that have meaning for him? What meaning is he learning — that he's guilty of being black? | <urn:uuid:09fc4088-6bff-4a81-9244-10cc7ce1451b> | 2013-05-18T17:39:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Government, Politics, and Reform - Overview
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln are all represented in the Museum's collections—by a surveying compass, a lap desk, and a top hat, among other artifacts. But the roughly 100,000 objects in this collection reach beyond the possessions of statesmen to touch the broader political life of the nation—in election campaigns, the women's suffrage movement, labor activity, civil rights, and many other areas. Campaign objects make up much of the collection, including posters, novelties, ballots, voting machines, and many others. A second group includes general political history artifacts, such as first ladies' clothing and accessories, diplomatic materials, ceremonial objects, national symbols, and paintings and sculptures of political figures. The third main area focuses on artifacts related to political reform movements, from labor unions to antiwar groups. | <urn:uuid:1904bb3a-e057-4e3f-9021-b021aa643aa4> | 2013-05-18T17:27:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Greek Macedonians discovered a valuable treasure hidden in the bowels of the earth, thanks to the methodical excavations undertaken in the construction of the Thessaloniki metro. Many artifacts found in the excavation, from items such as gold hoops, benches... [continue reading
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Roman Martyrology-October 18th- on this date in various years-
In Bithynia, the birthday of St. Luke the Evangelist. He died, filled with the Holy Ghost, after having suffered much for the Name of Christ. His relics were translated to Constantinople, and thence taken to Pavia.
At Rome, the birthday of St. Paul of the Cross, priest, confessor, and founder of the Congregation of the Cross and Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Known for his remarkable innocency of life and his penitential spirit, and aflame with love for Christ crucified, he was canonized by Pope Pius IX, and the 28th of April was assigned as his feast day.
At Arenas in Spain, the birthday of St. Peter of Alcantara, confessor and priest of the Order of Friars Minor. He was canonized by Pope Clement IX because of his admirable penance and many miracles, and his feast is observed on the day following.
At Antioch, the bishop St. Asclepiades, who was one of the celebrated band of martyrs who suffered so gloriously under Macrinus.
At Neocaesarea in Pontus, the holy and learned Bishop Athenodorus, brother of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, who underwent martyrdom in the persecution of Aurelian.
At Louvres, in the diocese of Beauvais, St. Justus, martyr, who, being but a boy, was put to death in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Rictiovarus.
At Rome, St. Tryphonia, at one time the wife of Caesar Decius, the mother of St. Cyrilla, virgin and martyr. She was buried in a crypt, near that of St. Hippolytus.
At Auriesville, in the state of New York, the birthday of the holy martyrs Isaac Jogues, priest of the Society of Jesus, and John de la Lande, a temporary helper to the same Society, who came from France to teach the faith. On this and the following day they were cruelly tortured and killed by the Iroquois in the same place where, a few years before, one of the companions, René Goupil, also a temporary assistant, had received the palm of martyrdom.
In Mesopotamia, in the neighbourhood of Edessa, the commemoration of St. Julian the Hermit, surnamed Sabas, who is mentioned also on the 17th of January.
And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God. | <urn:uuid:e28dd638-7a2b-46f8-9c01-a390e5875b35> | 2013-05-18T17:26:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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REDLANDS - Animals have a friend in Susan Finsen and Katherine Noble-Goodman, both of Redlands.
The women, who have been friends for almost 10 years, met through their husbands, Lawry Finsen and Stuart Noble-Goodman, both professors at the University of Redlands. It's not surprising that they struck up a friendship, as they share several of the same qualities: both are mothers, vegetarians, animal rights activists and teachers.
"My whole life, I've been connected to animals," said Finsen, a philosophy professor at California State University, San Bernardino. "It took me until I was 23 to become a vegetarian. I did animal research in college and questioned the ethics. I was asked to kill rats at the end of studies, and I couldn't do it. That got me to thinking, `Well, what about the meat on my plate?"'
"When my brother was 12 and I was 10, he announced he was not eating another animal," said Noble-Goodman, a freelance writer who sometimes teaches at the University of Redlands. "I was 14 when I became a vegetarian, and now all of my siblings are."
Both women read "Animal Liberation" by Peter Singer, a book about animal rights and the ethics behind it that came out in 1975.
"After reading the book, you'd have to change your logic if you continue to eat meat," Noble-Goodman said. "My entire family read that book."
"When I read it I asked myself, `Is that \ any different from other exploitation, sexism or racism?"' Finsen said. "I began thinking about it as a philosopher."
Finsen's pets include cats, dogs, turkeys, pigs and more. She is a member of Barnyard Rescue, which started as Californians for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It is an animal rights and educational organization, and in the early years Finsen and other members would protest fur and animal research.
"We were in your face, and then decided to change our tactics," she said. "We started rescuing farm animals that came into the county animal shelter. It started with a duck, then the shelter workers became more cooperative and realized I was a sucker. There were two pathetic pigs that they loaded into the back of my Honda Civic wagon.
I looked at them in the back of the car and said, `I have no idea what I'm going to do!' It's been a real learning experience."
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Is it really helpful in reality? Why is it helpful? How is it helpful?
closed as off topic by Robert Cartaino♦ Dec 22 '10 at 17:49
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It's a snake-oil.
Of course you need to set goals and think hard about how to achieve them. But seriously, that's not news to anyone, is it?
Read this more well put criticism about the book.
If you need a good self help book, I recommend How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie, Winning by Jack Welch or anything by Peter Drucker, especially his writing on "Managing oneself". These are people with actual working scientific theory behind them.
It's success is simple: it caters to the egoist in everyone.
Anyone who thinks that you can wish your problems away through "positive thinking" is engaging in self-delusion and laziness. It helps you delude yourself with the idea that you don't actually have to do anything, just think it. If it didn't work, well, you didn't think hard enough obviously, right?
The corollary not explored is that apparently all bad things happen to you because of weak/bad thoughts. If your mother died of cancer, is it because you or someone else wanted her dead of cancer? Who's ego wished that up?
Positive attitude, from a psychological not spellcasting POV, is definitely an important component of success, but it is not the only one. The Secret takes that and magnifies into a solve-all mysticism that is absurd.
You should also look at the book Think and Grow Rich, written by Napoleon Hill in 1937. Part of the secret "revealed" in The Secret is Andrew Carnegie's secret. Carnegie was one of the world's wealthiest men, and he believed that achievement of financial success could be reduced to a simple formula, which could be duplicated by the average person.
In the preface to his book, Hill says, "The secret was brought to my attention by Andrew Carnegie, more than a quarter of a century ago. The canny, lovable old Scotsman carelessly tossed it into my mind, when I was but a boy. Then he sat back in his chair, with a merry twinkle in his eyes, and watched carefully to see if I had brains enough to understand the full significance of what he had said to me. When he saw that I had grasped the idea, he asked if I would be willing to spend twenty years or more, preparing myself to take it to the world, to men and women who, without the secret, might go through life as failures."
In 1908, Carnegie commissioned Hill (at no pay), then a journalist, to interview more than 500 high and wealthy achievers to find out the common threads of their success. Hill eventually became a Carnegie collaborator, and their work was published after Carnegie's death in Hill's book The Law of Success (1928) and Think and Grow Rich (1937). Think and Grow Rich has not been out of print since it was first published and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
The "Carnegie Secret" is a concept that Hill studied extensively. Carnegie said that this formula for success was so powerful that if learning how to apply it was taught to students, the time they needed to spend in formal schooling could be cut in half. Carnegie said that the formula was used by all the leading businessmen and inventors of the late 19th and early 20th century. Carnegie asked Hill to go out and confirm if the formula was being applied by the 500 richest/most successful Americans.
Some People Interviewed included:
In the preface, Hill goes on to say, "These names represent but a small fraction of the hundreds of well known Americans whose achievements, financially and otherwise, prove that those who understand and apply the Carnegie secret, reach high stations in life. I have never known anyone who was inspired to use the secret, who did not achieve noteworthy success in his chosen calling. I have never known any person to distinguish himself, or to accumulate riches of any consequence, without possession of the secret. From these two facts I draw the conclusion that the secret is more important, as a part of the knowledge essential for self-determination, than any which one receives through what is popularly known as 'education.' What is EDUCATION, anyway? This has been answered in full detail." | <urn:uuid:9d05243b-9394-4850-8317-1b80044acedb> | 2013-05-18T17:49:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Party of Our Discontent: An Interview With Green Party Candidate Jill Stein
by Steve Horn
Discontent with the political system as a whole is rising, as seen clearly through the lens of struggles around the world and right here at home, via the ongoing Occupy movement. Numerous figures have speculated and are continuing to speculate as to what the electoral strategy, if any, will be for the Occupy movement, come the 2012 election cycle.
Some, such as Center for American Progress' Van Jones, have proposed a new "American Dream Party," paralleling the Tea Party, with others critiquing that as a plan to Astroturf and co-opt the movement through various Democratic Party fronts.
Recently, in the aftermath of the now infamous pepper spray incident at University of California-Davis, Occupy UC-Davis declared its disgust with both the Democratic and Republican Parties, and made a public disavowal declaration of both parties. Similarly, Occupy Des Moines has stated that it will be part ofOccupy the Caucus, planning several actions, geared toward both political parties, in the days leading up to the Iowa Caucus in early-January. Furthermore, Occupy Des Moines has declared an around-the-clock camp-out site, set to sit outside of President Barack Obama's campaign office.
This is the background to my conversation with Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for president of the United States, during a campaign stop in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 15. Stein is hoping to ride the momentum of the Occupy movement and reach uncharted water for a third-party candidate for president, and has a central campaign platform called the "Green New Deal."
~ Steve Horn, for Truth-Out.org
Original article appears here: http://www.truth-out.org/party-our-discontent-interview-green-party-candidate-jill-stein/1327346398
Steve Horn: What was your overall motive for running for president of the United States, particularly as neither Democrat nor Republican? What got you to this point in your life; what moved you to run for president as a member of the Green Party?
Jill Stein: I've been fighting as a third party candidate for ten years. I stepped up to the plate for this election, basically. I stepped up to the plate because it is a perfect storm for really organizing a political alternative, a politics of integrity that our lives depend on - and more and more people are seeing that.
Specifically, it was the debt ceiling debacle last spring when President Obama put Social Security and Medicare on the table: it really felt like, "How could we not put an opposition voice up against this? This is outrageous!"
Between the Keystone XL Pipeline debacle, the ozone regulation roll-back; expanding war - multiple wars, drones and drone surrogate wars - our "pull out of Iraq"; only to establish a new base in Kuwait, that we now have a new front in the war for oil inCentral Africa; and the tripling of the troop presence inAfghanistan, it just felt like "How can we not have a voice of opposition here? This is nuts!"
So, you know, I wanted to help the Green Party find someone who could run and there weren't a lot of campaigns that could ramp up, and I'm in a position to - having run for state office multiple times ...
SH: In Massachusetts?
JS: I ran for governor in 2010; I also ran for governor in 2002, and I also ran for secretary of state in 2006. Everyone is upset out there. People are really upset and we have no politics to attach it to.
SH: Electoral politics?
JS: Exactly. There is not a political vehicle for this and it was going to be the Greens or nobody because Nader, for a variety of reasons, is not going to run, and if you're not Nader, it takes a political party. Nader is just about the only person who can run a non-corporate campaign without having an expensive electoral organization. He has an extensive organization that he's built up over 40 years and nobody else is going to come along and compete with that. And there is no other political party that has managed to survive - something I've really grown to appreciate about the Greens is that - you see the glass half empty or half full. You can see the Greens as weak and fringe or, on the other hand, you can see them as incredibly heroic survivors who've managed to withstand the barrage from corporate America, and the fear campaigns and the smear campaigns, and being kept off the ballot, and censored and away from the microphone and all of that. I mean, it's impressive that the Greens have survived when the New Party and the Progressive Party and the Labor Party and the Socialist Party as electoral organizations have all folded. It's not because they do not have compelling positions and really dedicated people - it's extremely hard to survive in this extremely repressive political environment. But Greens have made it for the long haul and it was going to be us or no one, and I felt like it would be unconscionable not to step up to the plate when it seemed like our campaign team was probably best prepared to run a national race.
SH: When did you begin your involvement with Green Party politics and had you been involved with other politics before? Were you ever part of the Democratic Party machine?
JS: I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics. I'm trained as a medical doctor - that's my field: I've been practicing long enough to see how extremely broken our health care system is, how broken our health is, the link between that and the environment. I had become very active in the world of health care advocacy, advocating for single payer, but also in the world of environmental politics, and advocating for being a community provider of health. That's really the way to do it. If you really want people to remain healthy, you can't just throw pills at people once they become sick, which I feel like I was doing as a medical doctor, so I began working on more upstream thinking.
I began thinking, "If only our elected officials knew that there were all of these cost-saving solutions ..." So, I went into advocacy of this sort for about five years before I really knew what it was all about, and it was really a treadmill moving backward and that if you really want to fix any political problems, you also have to fix the political system. I was reaching the end of that rope after we passed campaign finance reform inMassachusetts, thinking when I was working on that issue, "Oh, it's the money that stops us from shutting down our incinerators ..."
SH: What year was this?
JS: It was passed in 1998. It then got repealed by the legislatureafter passing on a two-to-one margin via a citizen referendum. The people of Massachusetts passed it by a two-to-one vote, so it was an enormous victory and it took two years for the legislature to turn around and repeal it on a voice vote and to me that said, "Okay, we can't even change the system by changing the system - we actually have to throw the bums out." This is a long-term political struggle, and doing all of those other things, by the way ...
SH: But you need people to actually implement the will of the people if you're going to have a democracy?
SH: So, that was an experience that came before your days in Green Party politics?
JS: That was pre-Green Party and I had been a little involved in Nader's campaign in 2000, and coming out of that, the Green Party came to me and said, "Why don't you keep doing what you're doing and call it a campaign for Governor?" Either way, I'd be working on the same issues - a green economy, health care, chronic disease and all that. It's a win-win. If you're doing the right things with the economy, then you're doing the right things for the environment and the right thing for our health. It's this really compelling, uplifting narrative that never gets discussed. It really is a win-win that we can afford and that actually tackles all of these urgent needs, and that's when I realized I could do it all with the Green Party, so I ran for Governor in 2002, which at the time was a crazy thing to do. I had no idea what I was getting into, but it really turned into a really wonderful conversation that was begging to happen and I was continually shocked that things were not the way the media portrayed them to be, that it wasn't like you had "Red," "Blues" and "Greens." No, you had people who were really bewildered and distraught at the system, and the lack of solutions and the lack of integrity and they could smell a rat on both sides of the aisle. You didn't need sophisticated politics or ideology to get that the system was really screwed and screwing you. It was really exciting to be out there in the public domain having this conversation. I realized you don't do this work in one race - you have to build a party and a following as you do the work - and that's where it basically has continued from since then. I feel like I've been running continually since 2000 when I became involved for the 2002 election.
SH: Can you tell me more about your medical background and what you do as a doctor?
JS: Yeah, I was a general adult doctor and I practiced in an HMO setting and I also practiced at a college clinic where my patients were mostly young people. And in 2006, I realized that I couldn't keep doing both, that I couldn't keep on both running for office and practicing medicine, so I consider what I'm doing now "political medicine" that addresses perhaps the biggest disease of all that has to be fixed if we're going to achieve health in any other aspects of our society. We have to heal up our politics.
SH: You brought up single payer, you brought up what we have now, which is for-profit health care. What's your stance on what passed under Obama in 2009, what is popularly referred to as "ObamaCare"?
JS: Well, we have it in Massachusetts, since it's really modeled after RomneyCare (passed under Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney when he was the Governor of Massachusetts), and it's very problematic. It is not a solution - it did extend care to some people who didn't have it, but kind of at the cost of working families. The costs are not fairly distributed; the mandate is extremely unfair; the system is entirely unsustainable, and it is not working.
I heard a survey the other day before I left and many people say health care is worse than it is better under ObamaCare, which is remarkable because you don't know what the real problems of a health care system are until you get sick. So the fact that so many people are saying this already - most people are not critically ill, but that's the real test of a health care system, does it take care of people who are critically sick - [is interesting]. Privatized health care does not [take care of people] - it leaves them in a lurch - it's basically a boondoggle for health insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.
SH: Would you support an amicus brief from the left for the upcoming US Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of ObamaCare. And do you think ObamaCare was a step forward or step backward for the final goal of single-payer, universal health care support?
JS: I think it was a step backward for the final goal of a system of single payer health care. Whether I'd support an amicus brief, that's a good question, and I really haven't yet given it much thought yet.
SH: The big question here, though, is do you support ObamaCare?
JS: I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.
SH: Can you tell me about the Green New Deal, which is the centerpiece of your presidential campaign, and what sorts of policies you envision coming out of a Green New Deal in the United States, especially coming out of the recent debacle in Durban?
JS: This is another reason why we're running the campaign now - because if you follow the science there we don't have four years to wait. I mean, we don't; we really have to start tackling this now. It's really important for the climate and it's time that people put their politics where their values and science argue they ought to be. I think Obama supporters are really having a rude awakening right now.
The Green New Deal is an emergency jobs creation plan that really addresses the crisis in our economy, in unemployment, and likewise, in the climate. And truth be told, it has enormous potential to address health issues, as well. It's a win-win on all those fronts and is modeled after the New Deal that helped us get out of the Great Depression, and would help us through direct and indirect means, ways to create scores of new jobs and really attack this problem with all of the inspiration and force that it deserves, not just a little two million job creation hit that comes and goes, but to really tackle the crisis head on. In doing so, it would do away with the recession and put people back to work, jumpstarting the economy as a green economy, instead of going back and going back to the same old economy that isn't going to work. It goes green and also relocalizes, and it jumpstarts, in particular, small businesses and co-operatives. And in so doing, it puts a stop to escalating climate change.
The US, as you know, is the largest per capita contributor toclimate change and the direction the US pushes goes a long way toward determining what the rest of the world does, and from that perspective, dramatically downscaling carbon emissions goes a long way toward determining the global carbon budget and helps move global policy that way. Typically, the jobs it would create are in the green area of the economy. We're talking about green manufacturing, sustainable local agriculture, public transportation and clean renewable energy that has the added benefit of making wars for oil obsolete. This would be felt immediately, as the millions of dollars spent on the military-industrial-complex on an annual basis would be put into creating these jobs.
The numbers we've worked out - we look at various models for doing this, and we looked at a report by an economist named Phillip Harvey out of Rutgers Law School, and according to his model, the cost of creating these jobs - the costs of creating these jobs would be less than what was spent in the Obama stimulus package, which essentially created two million jobs, which were good and probably blunted a worse catastrophe and did add some jobs in the area of the green economy, but ultimately wasn't of sufficient magnitude to really fix the problem. So, this will do a whole lot more. The cost for the stimulus package worked out to be about $220,000 per job created, because the mechanisms were indirect and relied a lot on tax incentives, which don't always get used to create jobs. This, instead, would be money used directly to create jobs and would be more like $20,000 per job created.
SH: Many liberals say natural gas is a "bridge fuel" toward a clean energy future. How do you feel about that?
JS: The current science - I mean, there's been doubt on that for quite some time - and increasingly, the science confirms the cynics here. When you do full life-cycle accounting of it, it is not a cleaner fuel, and is very carbon intensive. Add into that all theimpacts on water and we do not want to be going there.
SH: Would you support a national ban on fracking?
JS: Absolutely. We should not be opening up new lines of carbon right now, like shale gas and shale oil, as well as tar sands oil, and we just cannot go there right now if we do not want to go over the climate cliff. We are already a bit over the climate cliff right now as it stands. As conservative of an organization as theInternational Energy Association is, the IEA, started by Henry Kissinger and others, they're saying - we're not talking about radicals here - we're looking at 5-6 degrees Celsius increases of warming by the end of century and that's just not survivable. And that's just where we're at now, so there's no way that we can conceivably get out of here alive if we keep doing what we're doing. People need to hear the truth about that. Already, the US has been pulled back in their climate understanding by intensepropaganda campaign, but even so, they still get that it's really a problem and they're seeing it right now, with the droughts and the floods and the hurricanes and all that, so people do not even doubt this anymore. I think the number is at something like 70 percent of people who think this needs to be dealt with, so I think we badly need national leadership to do the right thing.
SH: You mean, specifically, someone to use the words "climate change" on a consistent basis?
JS: Yes, I mean, it's my understanding that the Obama administration prohibits the use of the words "climate change."
SH: I knew there were criticisms that they did not use those terms, but did not know that there was an official prohibition of the use of those words, though I can see why they wouldn't want them to be used.
Now, in terms of ballot access, getting signatures and all of the barriers that exist for third-party candidates that are not in play when you are a Democrat or a Republican: knowing that going in, has that ever come across to you as something you just do not want to deal with - the barriers are so high that it doesn't seem worth it to you? And how hard do you plan on campaigning?
JS: Well, the exciting thing is that people in the party are really motivated right now and see it as the perfect storm after having beat their heads against the wall during the Obama bubble.
SH: 2008 and pre-2008?
JS: Exactly, and the fallout after Nader, and I think Greens feel so vindicated right now. We've had this experience over the past eight years where we've been told to silence ourselves, muzzle yourselves, shut up, hold your nose, you know, vote for the "lesser evil."
SH: Bush to Obama transition in particular, you mean?
JS: Yeah, so now people now really have the evidence that silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy. It is not a survivable type of politics. Witness what just happened with the Defense Authorization bill. We cannot go there and we need to do something. It just doesn't pass the "laugh test" anymore, and silence just is not working, nor is the politics of fear. The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest. Greens are standing proud now, and none too soon. Two ships are going down - Democrats and Republicans are both going down. Historically, we've said the Republican ship is going faster. I think that's debatable right now, but regardless, is the solution for getting off of a sinking ship to jump on another ship that is also going down and maybe just a little bit less quickly? Absolutely not. We've got to get in another boat and take us to where we've got to go. At any rate, it's a good time for Greens to be fighting. It's not easy to get on the ballot - we've got 16 states where we're already on. It just so happens, for the first time, we are already on the ballot in the five states in which it is hardest to get on the ballot in, so we are way ahead of the game.
SH: Are there a lot of people on the ground getting signatures?
JS: There are and it's definitely a lot of work. It's a really uneven playing field that we have to exhaust ourselves in. The Democratic and Republican Parties can start off right away and get out their message. It's a rigged system, a totally rigged system, but it's a really good time to be fighting it, and people are angrier than I've ever seen them. This is my sixth race, and in some of them, some people have been angry at me for running as a Green, and I expected it in this race, but I've been shocked not to encounter it as much this time around.
SH: Would you say Obama has done a lot of the work making the case for you?
JS: Exactly. He's made the case for us.
SH: How do you make more noise then, or how do you get around the fact that there are scores of highly paid partisans working for the Democratic Party in particular, since often, that's who you are really up against. How do you defeat the people loudly saying "Vote for the lesser evil; the right is really scary. The right is really evil. Romney is really scary; Perry is really scary." What's your strategy for combating that message?
JS: Our strategy has a lot to do with alternative media and selectively engaging with groups who have been screwed over by both parties. They don't need much convincing. Students, for one, they're there. We launched our campaign at Western Illinois University. Students are on the receiving end, and when you're talking about an issue of generational injustice, because everything we're discussing will end up falling into the hands of the youth and young people - unfairness in jobs, a climate catastrophe - and we have to ask ourselves what kind of world we're making for them, how we're going to clean up this mess we've left for them. I mean, students and young people are really on the receiving end. What civilization devours its young? Because that's what we're doing. The profiteers are going after the young as a population to exploit. That's why the loans are so high; that's why young people have been put at the bottom of the priority list. They are victims of profiteering. We are all about fighting that. We think green jobs will help with this fight; we will forgive student debt. They must be engaged because they bring creativity and fresh life into our economy, and we need them badly. We will provide tuition-free higher education, since it's comparable to a high school education in the 20th century - you need a higher education degree in the 21st century economy and it should be provided as a basic right.
I also support legalization of marijuana, ending war, and other bread-and-butter concerns for young people. This is a constituency that is just itching for a platform of this sort. After that, the Occupy movement is a key constituency. UC-Davis, for example, the night before I came there, said they disavow the Democratic and Republican Party, so that's a great opportunity. The antiwar movement, the civil liberties movement - in fact, I've met Republicans and Ron Paul supporters who have told me, who have said that when Ron Paul doesn't make it in the Republican Party they're supporting us in our campaign because we are the only voice in the race for our assaulted civil liberties. This has been completely different than my experiences with campaigns. This one seems to have a life of its own. Running in other campaigns as a Green, outreach is a big part of the job. This one has been different.
SH: Would you say the growing social movements in the US and around the world have something to do with that?
JS: Yes. Economically, people are up against the wall and people are looking for a voice to represent them within the system. It's a real credit to Occupy Wall Street that they not only maintain their independence, but that they are constantly rethinking their strategy. When they began, they did not want to have anything to do with electoral politics. As they are increasingly evicted, they realize they have to use every tool they have and they can't afford to overlook an electoral tool if they have one. And we've actually been written to by one of the Occupies in Delaware and they said they were really excited about the campaign and wanted to go to work, asking what they can do. So, they're all on a steep learning curve, as we all are, since the times are so rapidly changing, demanding and stressful, and I think that one of the very exciting things about the campaign is that it is part of a very public conversation about where we stand and what we do to help each other work through solutions. And a lot of people get stuck on this thought process of, "Oh, I've been told I can't stand up for my values," and I think people have hit the wall with that right now.
SH: What do you see as the role of the Internet for your campaign? For example, in 2008, many people say Obama succeeded largely because of how his team utilized and maximized the capacity of the Internet to tap into young people. At the same time, you can say that the Occupy movement has spread much further and grown in size because of tools like Twitter.
JS: Exactly. Look at Egypt. That really is the model. If Facebook can bring down Mubarak, or in Tunisia, their dictator, the unspoken subtext here is that incredible and unpredictable things can happen with the rise of social networking sites because more people are on it.
SH: Do you see social networking sites as a vital prong of the campaign?
SH: One of the big things I notice when I'm online is ads, be it on Facebook, Google, YouTube etc, particularly pertaining to the 2012 presidential campaign. Do you see those as influential, and how do you compete with that, as the two parties have big corporate money to spread their message far and wide, and not just on the Internet?
JS: This type of stuff is extremely influential, and many people simply do not have enough time to come up to speed with all of the issues, so that's why in my mind, it's a very imperfect process. We're fighting within an extremely rigged system and I think that's why we can know the public is with us through polling - the public is more than disenchanted with the two corporate parties and has rejected them. The largest group of voters says that they are neither Democrats nor Republicans and are fed up with both. Large majorities favor bringing the troops home, support good wages for workers and all of the things we stand for. So, if we really lived in a democracy, then we'd expect to win this, but that's not the way the American political system works. It's mostly about money, and if you get a word in edgewise about democracy, you're doing really well. We don't expect that they are going to open up debates with us, but on the other hand, we could fight our way in.
SH: Can you talk a bit more about the debates? Political scientists have said that debates are one of the few times a year where vast amounts of people are tuned into a single political event, paying attention to politics, and that debates are the "Super Bowl" event of the year for politics. That being said, are you going to try to fight your way into them and if so, how?
JS: If we got traction in the social media sphere, where we get up in the polls to 10-15 percent, then it would be hard to deny us a spot in the debates. To my mind, that is our goal, to reach out to those constituencies. We're just dead in the water without it.
SH: So, the goal is to get in, within the very rigged rules? They do make it almost impossible for anyone that is not a Democrat or a Republican to get into the debates, and even more difficult post 1992, after the Perot incident, where he got into the debates on merit, and afterward, the rules were changed to make it evenharder for a third-party candidate to get into the debates. Your first goal is, obviously, to get in through the rigged rules, but if you don't, then what do you plan to do?
JS: Another option is to do an alternative debate, outside the debate, on the debate grounds, where we are live streaming the event to the general public. We can create the debate, even though they try to prohibit it. We can hold simultaneous output of the questions, so that we can answer the questions ourselves and get it out to our viewers. It won't be easy.
SH: Would you be willing to commit an act of civil disobedience to get in?
JS: I wouldn't rule anything out at this point.
SH: Many in the Green Movement, broadly speaking, support things like cap and trade, carbon markets, carbon sequestration, industrialized biofuels etc. What's your stance on these issues? Is it part of your Green New Deal? If not, why? Would you describe what a real green job looks like if it's not one of these?
JS: Our job is to do the right thing in both the climate emergency and the jobs emergency and not let the public relations campaigns of the various fossil fuel interests - and nuclear interests as well - confuse our thinking - because they're hyped up when you actually look at this stuff carefully. Take, for example, carbon sequestration: there's really no evidence for it whatsoever that it's going to do the job, and it just so happens that it puts billions of dollars into the pockets of coal companies. This is just an exercise in influence peddling. Our job is to do the right thing because we do not have time to keep going down the wrong road, and we keep allowing influence to be bought.
We do not accept money from lobbyists, corporations, CEOs or corporations that hire lobbyists, so I think those very unconvincing strategies hold sway when you're taking money from those corporations, but when you're not taking money from them, they really don't hold sway at all.
SH: They're not based on science, is what you're saying?
JS: Exactly. They're not based on science or even sound economics, because the economics behind the carbon trade and carbon markets looks to be as problematic as hedge funds.
SH: Would you say they're sort of like a Ponzi scheme?
SH: So, what is the alternative to that and what is a true green job?
JS: It's not carbon and not nuclear. It needs to be clean. A lot of it has to do with redirecting our economy to less carbon intensive, relocalized versions of the economy.
SH: What's your stand on the Israel/Palestine conflict and US foreign policy more generally? What's your vision of the US role in the world?
JS: Israel/Palestine is a microcosm of broader US foreign policy principles, and our foreign policy needs to come into harmony with principles of human rights, nonviolent conflict resolution and a respect for international law - haven't been there at all in Israel/Palestine and more globally. And I think, globally speaking, the issue of clean and renewable energy factors in here as well. Because as we become less dependent on oil, we can stop fighting wars for oil and they go hand in hand and make each other possible.
So, in Israel/Palestine, we need to start holding all parties accountable. All of the various factions responsible in Palestine and in Israel, for stopping human rights violations, so that assassinations are not accepted, so that apartheid is not accepted etc. We need to ask all parties to come up to the same standards of respect of human rights. We need to stop, in particular, being Israel's enabler of being the more powerful prohibitor of human rights. Occupation is unacceptable.
SH: Most people do not know how many military bases there are around the world because it is not part of the everyday dialogue in the United States, although people around the world definitely know when they have an American military base in their backyard. What would you do about that?
JS: Well, the bloated military budget is first of all, not good for our safety, and neither is the militarization of our foreign policy. Neither is a good thing and I think they enable a knee-jerk military solution to all problems and it is not a good thing for us to have this ready default to engage militarily. It's extremely expensive and we can't sustain it, and again, the more we create renewable, secure energy sources domestically, the less we need to do what we're doing internationally. Our program is to downsize our military by at least 50 percent, if not more.
SH: And you say use it more for defense, rather than offense or forward engagement?
JS: Yes, and not make it the crux of our international relations and use international law and working through international governmental bodies to resolve conflicts.
SH: Anything else you wanted to talk about?
JS: Well, [December 15] is the 220th birthday of the Bill of Rights, and it, in particular, is on life support. The Patriot Act symbolizes the death of the Fourth Amendment and the right to judicial review, and the right to a trial has just been sabotaged by Obama. It is as if a coup has occurred. Any one of these alone is bad enough, but when you add them all up, we are on some pretty thin ice right now as a free society. Our freedom is hanging in thin air right now. There is now a legal basis for curtailing that freedom.
SH: Do you support an immediate repeal of the Patriot Act?
JS: Yes. And also, an immediate repeal of the Defense Authorization Act that just passed. It's an outrage.
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MacTavish, will be working alongside President Kevin Lowe and General Manager Steve Tambellini.
MacTavish was the Edmonton Oilers Head Coach from 2000-2009, leading them to the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in seven games.
As a player, MacTavish played for the Edmonton Oilers from 1985-1994 where he won three Stanley Cups, and was team captain from 1992-1994. He went on to play for the New York Rangers in 1994 where he won another Stanley Cup.
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By PAUL SCHEMM
BEIRUT (AP) - In a brazen daylight kidnapping, gunmen snatched a bus filled with 48 Iranian pilgrims from a Damascus suburb as they headed to visit a shrine holy Shiites, reported Iranian state television on Saturday.
Just a few miles away in the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital, regime forces pounded the neighborhood of Tadamon, one of the last rebel-held areas in the city and began to move into the neighborhood.
The abduction was the largest single kidnapping of Iranians in Syria, where several smaller groups of Iranians have been snatched in recent months.
The pilgrims had just left their hotel on Saturday and were headed by bus to the Sayeda Zeinab mosque, a holy shrine for Shiite Muslims in a suburb south of the capital, when they were taken, Iran's Arabic language, state-owned TV station al-Alam said, citing an official at the Iranian embassy in Damascus.
Iran's English-language state station, Press TV, blamed "terrorists" for the abduction, echoing language used by the Syrian regime to describe the rebels in has been battling for the past 17 months in an uprising that has claimed 19,000 lives.
Mainly Shiite Iran is a close ally to the Syrian regime, which is dominated by the Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Earlier this year a group of Iranian engineers and later a group of pilgrims were kidnapped, with only some of them having been freed. Sunni militants often attacked Iranian pilgrims visiting holy sites in neighboring Iraq during the years of unrest there.
The kidnapping came as heavy explosions shook the Syrian capital and helicopters circled regime forces pounded Tadamon neighborhood, which has been sealed off by the Syrian army from surrounding areas.
"We heard heavy bombing since dawn," a witness in Damascus told The Associated Press, asking that his name not be used out of fear for his personal safety. "Helicopters are in the sky."
Saturday's violence comes only two weeks after the government crushed a rebel run on Damascus that included incursions by fighters into downtown neighborhoods and an audacious bomb attack that killed four members of Assad's inner circle.
The fighting in Damascus appeared likely to drain the army's resources as fighting stretches into its second week in Aleppo, 350 kilometers (215 miles) to the north.
As the fighting grinds on, Syria reached out to its powerful ally Russia on Friday. Senior Syrian officials pleaded with Moscow for financial loans and supplies of oil products - an indication that international sanctions are squeezing Assad's regime.
Syria is thought to be burning quickly through the $17 billion in foreign reserves that the government was believed to have at the start of Assad's crackdown.
Russia has protected Syria from U.N. sanctions and continued to supply it with weapons throughout the conflict. The Kremlin, backed by fellow veto-wielding U.N. Security Council member China, has blocked any plans that would call on Assad to step down.
On Saturday, China said the West that should be blamed for obstructing diplomatic and political efforts to restore order and peace in Syria.
Wang Kejian, a deputy director of north African and west Asian affairs at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told a news conference that Western countries had hindered and sabotaged the political process by advocating regime change.
Wang reiterated China's stance that the solution to the Syria crisis should be a political one and that it is opposed to any military intervention.
Associated Press writers Elizabeth Kennedy in Beirut and Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
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A daily mish-mash of stuff, fluff and nonsense
Ten seconds later, the cat was dead. The rat was never suspected; after all, she was drinking from the very same bowl, yes?Muahahaha...
Hi, Kev! Original video is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uoqgFJPyc
Thanks for that Dave!I thought I'd seen it before.
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original sin" Susan Sarandon (source)
According to yesterday's Newsday, which seems to have broken the story: -
Susan Sarandon dropped a zinger or two when she appeared at the Bay Street Theatre Saturday for an interview with fellow actor Bob Balaban. The outspokenly political actress talked about Occupy Wall Street, recalled her run-ins with the NYPD over the Amadou Diallo case and called the current pope a "Nazi."
That last comment was somewhat offhanded. She was discussing her 1995 film "Dead Man Walking," based on the anti-death-penalty book by Sister Helen Prejean, a copy of which she sent to the pope.
"The last one," she said, "not this Nazi one we have now." Balaban gently tut-tutted, but Sarandon only repeated her remark. (emphasis mine)I really don't know who Susan Sarandon is, but her Wikipedia entry claims that "[s]he is ... noted for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes." One assumes, then, that she is amongst the Left-leaning set of self-righteous activists who hate the Church merely because Catholicism refuses to modify God's moral laws for the sake today's relativistic obsession with political correctness - apparently, Sarandon has already stated that "the Catholic Church angers [her] so much." Maybe, then, she feels justified to feed this anger by undermining the Papacy with apparent lies and slurs? It seems that Sarandon is typical of most relativists and so-called liberals, who care very little for the truth, even when they claim to be objective advocates of it.
It really is time now for Catholics to effectively counter this insidious "Nazi" smear against the present Vicar of Jesus Christ, for it is often used by those desperate to undermine the Church's moral teachings and therefore by those who, knowingly or unknowingly, wish to lead souls to ruin.
The truth is that Pope Benedict XVI despised the Nazis as a young man, and has continued to speak about the horrific effects of Hitler's awful dictatorship throughout his ministry as theologian, priest, bishop and pontiff. Although he, like all young Germans at the time, was forced to join the Hitler Youth as a teenager, and even had to wear a German uniform during the War, it is clear beyond any doubt that both the young Joseph Ratzinger and his family were totally opposed to the Nazi regime.
It is well-known that Joseph Ratzinger's father, an officer in the Bavarian State Police who was also called Joseph, constantly had to face transfers and demotion due to his resistance to Nazism. He often tried to reign in the excesses of the local SA (the Nazi brown-shirted thugs), because he was convinced that their beliefs were severely opposed both to Catholicism and to humanity in general. It is also known that the older Joseph Ratzinger's intolerance of Nazism was shared by his wife and children. When the younger Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) was eventually forced, in 1941, to join the Hitler Youth as a 14-year-old boy, he did so under protest, and even managed to avoid attending the organisation's meetings - a dispensation gained mainly thanks to a sympathetic maths teacher (cf Zenit, which quotes Salt of the Earth by Pope Benedict XVI). Even when the young Ratzinger was conscripted into the German military, he never fired a shot and eventually managed to desert - an action that could have led to his execution.
Pope Benedict XVI has constantly and vehemently spoken out against the various forms of tyranny that oppress humanity - from the horrendous dictatorship of relativism (a dictatorship that Sarandon seems to actively support) to the politically totalitarian regimes of which Nazism is the classic example. In fact, the Pope has sometimes even made connections between the modern dictatorship of relativism and the Nazis, who also "wished to eradicate God from society" (cf Pope Benedict XVI speech to Queen Elizabeth II, 16 September 2010). In his recent address to the German federal parliament (the Bundestag), Pope Benedict XVI called the Nazis a "highly organized band of robbers, capable of threatening the whole world and driving it to the edge of the abyss." He also emphasised in the same speech that those with a Christian understanding of humanity are compelled by their consciences to act against the state when it adopts dictatorial systems, such as the "Nazi regime and other totalitarian regime[s]." When talking about Nazism and other forms of dictatorship, Pope Benedict XVI has always condemned these regimes in the strongest terms, for he knows and believes that these tyrannical systems are frighteningly real manifestations of evil.
It is sad to note, then, that Susan Sarandon seems happy to lie in her determination to undermine Catholicism, or express her hatred of the Church. It's even more depressing to note, though, that she is not alone in this smear campaign against Pope Benedict XVI and the teachings of of Jesus Christ. One need only read the quotes attributed to so-called rationalists like Richard Dawkins to realise that when it comes to the Papacy and the Catholic Church, all reason and objectivity is abandoned, even by those who should know better or who claim to love the truth. Those with a vested interest in refuting or mocking Catholic morality, such as gay rights activists, also often use the "Nazi" smear against Pope Benedict XVI. By doing so, they are desperately and despicably trying to corrupt the truth so as to ruin souls - even if they might not see it that way. In that sense, these characters, including Sarandon, have to be countered, but also need our prayers - so that one day they, too, may come to a full understanding of the truth, which is to know God Himself.
As for Susan Sarandon's films, let's just say that until she withdraws her comments about Pope Benedict XVI, I for one will not be buying a cinema ticket for anything she is in. I encourage every other Catholic to boycott her films, too.
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My only bear encounter while hiking was when I was about 21 years old. I was doing a day hike on the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. I had moving quietly, hoping to see some deer or other wildlife. I heard something a little ahead of me, so I stopped and looked to see what made the noise. To my surprise, all I saw was a large black furry back, the rest of the animal concealed by some bushes off to one side of the trail, maybe 20 feet away. "BEAR!", I realized. He had not seen or heard me, and was evidently eating some berries or something. I thought for a few seconds about what I should do. Go back from where I came and choose another route? Or continue forward, quietly, since the trail got no closer to the bear. I chose the latter. I had only taken about 2 steps when the bear either heard or smelled me. He raised his head and looked straight at me! GULP! But then, the unexpected happened. In less than a second, the bear jumped up, rotated, and ran off in the opposite direction from me. I was really relieved and continued my hike, shaken but not stopped, and sure that would be my only bear encounter of the day.
A couple of hours later, on the same hike, I came into a small clearing and saw a large metal cylinder with an open gate at one end and a closed gate at the other. At first, I didn't know what I was looking at. Then it hit me! A bear trap, set out by the park rangers! Then I realized, where there was a trap, there was likely another bear. I wasted no time getting out of there, my confidence about not seeing another bear shaken. (But I finished my hike maybe an hour later and didn't see another one.)
Maybe I was lucky that day. But it is a memory that will stick with me forever.
Regarding using an airhorn to frighten off the bears, have you considered instead getting some bells (like Christmas jingle bells) and attaching them to your boots? When I visited Denali National Park several years ago, that's what the rangers recommended if you were going to hike in the backcountry there. The bells would be much lighter and would alert the bears to your presence long before you get close, thereby avoiding an encounter.
"Wildness is a necessity." -- John Muir
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Tuesday night paired Alessandra Guercio and Dez Duron, with one of the two going home.
Ladies first- Alessandra meets with Christina, and the two immediately connect as they work on Rihanna's "Take a Bow." Christina tries to push Alessandra's vocals to an extreme. Next Dez meets next with Christina and they work on "Stuck on You" by Lionel Richie. Dez picked the song to showcase his expressive side. Christina shapes his vocals until they're just right.
At the stage, Carson introduces Alessandra and she vaults into her performance; her vocals carry the song and the audience to new heights. Not be outdone, Dez tackles the Lionel Richie song next, pouring his heart into the song and showcasing his sensitive edge. Adam comments first; he's impressed with Alessandra's vocal growth since the last time he heard her sing. Blake calls it a toss-up. Christina's torn, but in the end, she goes with Dez.
Congratulations Shreveport native Dez Duron on all your success. We'll be rooting for you! | <urn:uuid:cedb48f5-1147-4cb2-aec8-8ea9bed1d4c9> | 2013-05-18T17:57:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Evidence from caves in Siberia indicates that a global temperature increase of 1.5° Celsius may cause substantial thawing of a large tract of permanently frozen soil in Siberia. The thawing of this soil, known as permafrost, could have serious consequences for further changes in the climate.
Permafrost regions cover 24 percent of the land surface in the northern hemisphere, and they hold twice as much carbon as is currently present in the atmosphere. As the permafrost thaws, it turns from a carbon sink (meaning it accumulates and stores carbon) into a carbon source, releasing substantial amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. Both of these gasses enhance the greenhouse effect.
By looking at how permafrost has responded to climate change in the past, we can gain a better understanding of climate change today. A team of international researchers looked at speleothems, such as stalagmites, stalactites, and flowstones. These are mineral deposits that are formed when water from snow or rain seeps into the caves. When conditions are too cold or too dry, speleothem growth ceases, since no water flows through the caves. As a result, speleothems provide a detailed history of periods when liquid water was available as well as an assessment of the relationship between global temperature and permafrost extent.
Using radioactive dating and data on growth from six Siberian caves, the researchers tracked the history of permafrost in Siberia for the past 450,000 years. The caves were located at varying latitudes, ranging from a boundary of continuous permafrost at 60 degrees North to the permafrost-free Gobi Desert.
In the northernmost cave, Lenskaya Ledyanaya, no speleothem growth has occurred since a particularly warm period around 400,000 years ago—the growth at that time suggests water was flowing in the area due to a melt in the permafrost. The extensive thawing at that time allows for an assessment of the warming required globally to cause a similar change in the permafrost boundary. Global temperatures at that time were only 1.5°C warmer than today, suggesting that we could be approaching a critical point at which the coldest permafrost regions would begin to thaw.
Not only will increasing global temperatures cause substantial thawing of permafrost, but it may also create wetter conditions in the Gobi Dessert, based on data from the southern-most cave obtained for the same time period. This suggests a dramatically changed environment in continental Asia.
Aside from changes in temperature and precipitation, thawing permafrost enables coastal erosion and the liquefaction of ground that was previously frozen. This poses a risk to the infrastructure of Siberia, including major oil and gas facilities. | <urn:uuid:867e4ca7-5a93-4c6d-b021-8088aa153645> | 2013-05-18T17:27:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In 1957 the French government initiated the creation of a new dictionary of the French language, the Trésor de la Langue Française. In order to provide access to a large body of word samples, it was decided to transcribe an extensive selection of French texts for use with a computer. Twenty years later, a corpus totaling some 150 million words had been created, representing a broad range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
It soon became apparent that this corpus of French texts was an important resource not only for lexicographers, but also for many other types of humanists and social scientists engaged in French studies - on both sides of the Atlantic. The result of this realization was American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) -- a cooperative project established in 1981 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
The ARTFL project has focused on three objectives over its long history:
* to include a variety of texts so as to make the database as versatile as possible; * to create a system that would be easily accessible to the research community; * to provide researchers with an easy-to-use but effective tool.
At present, ARTFL's main corpus, ARTFL-FRANTEXT, consists of nearly 3,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions. The FRANTEXT corpus is updated as new high-quality digital texts become available.
In addition to FRANTEXT, ARTFL has built hundreds of databases for researchers and students working in specialized disciplines and languages other than French. Please see our Databases, Resources, and Collaborations pages for links to these projects.
New Opportunities for Research
ARTFL's stable of databases is one of the largest of its kind in the world. The number, variety and historical range of its texts allow researchers to go well beyond the usual narrow focus on single works or single authors. The databases permit both rapid exploration of single texts and inter-textual research of a kind virtually impossible without the aid of a computer. For a description of the latest research developments underway at ARTFL, please visit our Research Blog.
PhiloLogic is a tool for ARTFL text research which provides a menu driven system featuring a sophisticated help program that can be accessed at any time. PhiloLogic does not require any specialized knowledge of computers -- in fact, this system provides an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with the possibilities of computer-assisted research and teaching. The ARTFL Project has written full documentation for PhiloLogic, available here.
PhiloLogic provides several ways for users to select the texts they wish to analyze. Users may search a single text, texts by a single author, texts from a particular time period, texts with a particular word in the title, or all the texts in the database. For example, one might wish to work with all the texts of Balzac in the database, or all the texts published between 1750 and 1789. A single command will select these texts for further analysis.
ARTFL's PhiloLogic system supports a number of searching options. A user may search for a single word, a word root, prefix, suffix or a list of words created by the user. For example, one might search for the word liberté in the texts published between 1789 and 1794, or all of the words associated with "artist" -- artiste, artistes, écrivain, écrivains, poète, poètes, etc -- in the works of Zola. In many cases a researcher will not merely be interested in the occurrences of single words or lists of words, but where words occur in texts. Philologic allows the user to search for logical combinations of words and word lists. One might, for example, search for all the occurrences of words associated with "artist" where words beginning with "fem" -- femme, femmes, feministe, etc. -- are found in the same sentence in the works of Zola.
Several display formats are available to the Philologic user. Results can be displayed on screen line by line, with the search word highlighted or centered. The user may also browse through the full context of any result, examining many sentences or paragraphs around the target of the search. Philologic displays the bibliographic information and page number for each occurrence and can sort the results on screen by date, author name, keywords and other fields.
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Access to the databases is organized through a consortium of user institutions, in most cases universities and colleges, each of which pay an annual subscription fee. In 2009, this fee is $500 (US) for PhD granting institutions and $250 (US) for other universities and colleges. All scholars and students at affiliated institutions have access to the database. Our Subscription Information page contains more on database access.
Both the CNRS and the University of Chicago are committed to the future growth of the ARTFL Project. These activities include expansion of the size of the database, correction of texts already in the database, and continued development of access and analysis software. The Project has obtained many important texts from other scholars and welcomes new contributions and proposals for collecting more texts. ARTFL expects to continue improving its research systems and plans to develop new analytical tools as well. We welcome joint projects with other institutions and invite you to contact us to discuss possible collaborations. Users at member universities will continue to play an important role in providing direction to the future development of the ARTFL Project. Please consult the ARTFL news page for updates concerning newly available texts and tools.
The ARTFL Project is supported by a full-time staff at the University of Chicago. We encourage you to contact us with any questions you may have about the project, such as the availability of texts, operation of the system, or the costs of using the database.
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