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Re: ** Masha News and Articles! ** Vol. 2
unfortunately when she wore tiffany she didnt win a slam.
"I will never leave you. i will never hurt you. and i will never stop loving you."
SUICIDE title : prague 2009, Moskow 2010, Paris 2011
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I came across this just now (researching horseblocks!):
Berenger, History and Art of Horsemanship (1771), Vol. 1, pp. 64, 65 wrote:The horseblocks which they used, were composed of stone, or wood ; and were in great abundance upon all the roads ; the Roman people, according to Plutarch, being under much obligation to Gracchus, who caused these conveniencies to be placed at proper distances for the use of travellers. Porchachi, in his Funerali Antichi, has preserved an inscription, in which one of these horseblocks (suppedaneum) is jestingly dedicated by Crassus to his mule, and was erected in the road from Tivoli to Rome.
Dis pedib. Saxum.
Ciuciae dorsiferae & cluniferae
Ut insultare et desultare commodetur.
Pub. Crassus mulae suae Crassae bene ferenti
Suppedaneum hoc cum rifu pos.
Vixit annos XI.
It is impossible to translate this inscription so as to make it intelligible to the English reader ; to those who are acquainted with the language in which it is written, I will, with all deference, submit a conjecture, which may attempt to give it some meaning. It seems to be ludicrous, and designed, perhaps, as a parody upon the known form and stile of lapidary inscriptions. Dis ped. is for Dis pedibus, and is opposed to Dis manibus, allowing the pun between manes and manus, Saxum is contrasted to sacrum, the usual word in epitaphs. Beneferenti is used instead of benemerenti, a word frequent in monumental formularies ; and the cum risu seems to justify the construction, and confess that the inscriber was burlesquing, and in joke.
Non adusquè rectum, meâ sententiâ. Sic converto [quo "cruciae", non "ciuciae", lego]. Quid putas?
It's not entirely so, I think. I translate it this way [reading "cruciae" for "ciuciae"]. What do you reckon?
Stone [dedicated] to the foot gods, with back and hindquarters cross-support to aid mounting and dismounting. Publius Crassus erected this mounting block as a joke for the good services of his mule Crassa. It lived eleven years.
Photo of 'modern' horseblock at a roadside// Photographica suppedanei moderni propter viam imago:
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NEW YORK (AP) -- With nearly 200 designers showing their wares all over the city, for an entire week, it's virtually impossible to stand out, right?
Not if you're Thom Browne.
"I love to entertain," the designer said in what was, frankly, an understatement. He was standing in a corridor of the stately New York Public Library Monday afternoon after the first of three presentations of his womenswear show.
Emphasis on the word "show."
As the crowd entered the room, 10 male models stood against a wall in gray seersucker suits, their heads covered with huge silvery orbs -- like Coneheads, but rounder at the top. At each end, a man played the xylophone.
Suddenly a flock of female ballet dancers arrived. They wore silvery pointe shoes (these were real ballerinas) and stiff hoop dresses, like the ones you'd imagine under Scarlett O'Hara's gowns. They took their places on small circular platforms painted with black-and-white spirals, and danced in place, en pointe.
Then came the models, in suits and coats and skirts, exaggerated in all sorts of ways, all in gray at first. Their hair was coiled into buns teased high atop their heads.
The men gradually took the women and circled them on the round platforms. As they did, other models entered, this time bearing splashes of color -- pinks, greens, oranges. The color was highlighted dramatically against the sea of gray.
Browne, whose work was honored this summer at the White House, explained outside that he'd been inspired by a Bauhaus artist popular in the 1920s, Oskar Schlemmer, a German known for his choreography -- "conceptual ballets," Browne called them -- as well as his visual art. "This is my homage to him," he said.
It wasn't worth asking what Bauhaus had to do with singer Kate Bush and her 1978 hit "Wuthering Heights," which played as the presentation ended (the song also played at Wes Gordon's show earlier in the day.) Somehow, it seemed to work. | <urn:uuid:352615db-7aeb-4b12-815d-b91953c1b3f9> | 2013-05-18T18:02:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hyenas cooperate, problem-solve better than primates
(NC&T/DU) Captive pairs of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) that needed to tug two ropes in unison to earn a food reward cooperated successfully and learned the maneuvers quickly with no training. Experienced hyenas even helped inexperienced partners do the trick.
When confronted with a similar task, chimpanzees and other primates often require extensive training and cooperation between individuals may not be easy, said Christine Drea, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University.
Drea's research, published online in the October issue of Animal Behavior, shows that social carnivores like spotted hyenas that hunt in packs may be good models for investigating cooperative problem solving and the evolution of social intelligence. She performed these experiments in the mid-1990s but struggled to find a journal that was interested in non-primate social cognition.
"No one wanted anything but primate cognition studies back then," Drea said. "But what this study shows is that spotted hyenas are more adept at these sorts of cooperation and problem-solving studies in the lab than chimps are. There is a natural parallel of working together for food in the laboratory and group hunting in the wild."
Drea and co-author Allisa N. Carter of the Univ. of California at Berkeley, designed a series of food-reward tasks that modeled group hunting strategies in order to single out the cognitive aspects of cooperative problem solving. They selected spotted hyenas to see whether a species' performance in the tests might be linked to their feeding ecology in the wild.
|A pair of captive hyenas cooperatively solving a task to get some food. (Photo: Christine Drea)|
The first experiment sought to determine if three pairs of captive hyenas could solve the task without training. "The first pair walked in to the pen and figured it out in less than two minutes," Drea said. "My jaw literally dropped."
Drea and Carter studied the actions of 13 combinations of hyena pairs and found that they synchronized their timing on the ropes, revealing that the animals understood the ropes must be tugged in unison. They also showed that they understood both ropes had to be on the same platform. After an animal was experienced, the number of times it pulled on a rope without its partner present dropped sharply, indicating the animal understood its partner's role.
"One thing that was different about the captive hyena's behavior was that these problems were solved largely in silence," Drea said. Their non-verbal communication included matching gazes and following one another. "In the wild, they use a vocalization called a whoop when they are hunting together."
In the second and third experiments, Drea found that social factors affected the hyenas' performance in both positive and negative ways. When an audience of extra hyenas was present, experienced animals solved the task faster. But when dominant animals were paired, they performed poorly, even if they had been successful in previous trials with a subordinate partner.
"When the dominant females were paired, they didn't play nicely together," Drea said. "Their aggression toward each other led to a failure to cooperate."
When a na´ve animal unfamiliar with the feeding platforms was paired with a dominant, experienced animal, the dominant animals switched social roles and submissively followed the lower-ranking, na´ve animal. Once the na´ve animal became experienced, they switched back.
Both the audience and the role-switching trials revealed that spotted hyenas self-adjust their behavior based upon social context.
It was not a big surprise that the animals were strongly inclined to help each other obtain food, said Kay Holekamp, a professor of zoology at Michigan State University who studies the behavioral ecology of spotted hyenas.
"But I did find it somewhat surprising that the hyenas' performance was socially modulated by both party size and pair membership," Holekamp said. "And I found it particularly intriguing that the animals were sensitive to the na´vetÚ of their potential collaborators."
Researchers have focused on primates for decades with an assumption that higher cognitive functioning in large-brained animals should enable organized teamwork. But Drea's study demonstrates that social carnivores, including dogs, may be very good at cooperative problem solving, even though their brains are comparatively smaller.
"I'm not saying that spotted hyenas are smarter than chimps," Drea said. "I'm saying that these experiments show that they are more hard-wired for social cooperation than chimpanzees."
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In the fall of 2006, just after the Detroit Tigers eliminated the New York Yankees from post-season play, Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle (right, from Wikipedia) died in a tragic and spectacular plane crash. Lidle, who was a brand new pilot, and his flight instructor were both killed when their small Cirrus SR-20 airplane smashed into a building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. For obvious reasons, there was panic in the immediate aftermath of the crash. Had the long-feared next wave of airborne terrorist attacks finally begun?
It wasn't that -- just a terrible accident -- but still it was bad enough, with many people injured on the ground apart from the two families suddenly left without husbands and fathers. I was in China by then, but since I'd spent years flying the same kind of plane as Lidle's, I wrote several explanatory items just after the crash. The first was about the knowns and unknowns of the crash -- and whether it was probably a terrorist act (answer: No). The second was about the very unusual place where the accident occurred: an aerial "box canyon," in which pilots had to execute a very steep U-turn to stay out of controlled airspace. The third went further into that "box canyon" airspace issue.
A few months later, the families of Lidle and the flight instructor, Tyler Stanger, sued the manufacturer of the airplane, Cirrus Design (now Cirrus Aircraft, and soon to be Chinese-owned), saying that the plane's defects had caused the crash. They asked more than $40 million in damages. I'm no lawyer, but I indicated my sympathy for the families but skepticism about the claim here and here. The NTSB, in its final report on the accident, found that there was nothing wrong with the airplane and that, tragically, "The pilots placed themselves in a precarious situation that could have been prevented by better judgment and planning." The NTSB also produced a dramatic animated graphic, showing the difficulty of making the "box canyon" turn. Airspace rules have been changed since the crash to make it harder for pilots to get into this predicament.
Yesterday a jury in New York, after three hours of deliberation, ruled against the families, and in favor of Cirrus, in dismissing claims that the airplane or the manufacturer was at fault. There will be appeals, and the families say that the judge kept crucial info from the jury. We'll see. This is a closing-the-loop update. For other comments on the verdict, you can hear from a lawyer-pilot and a sports-fan pilot.
None of this changes the terrible loss for those young families. | <urn:uuid:d1269ab4-d2d3-4762-bb10-20e8e02e94cc> | 2013-05-18T17:21:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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On 14 February 1916, on the occasion of a banquet held by the Bell Telephone Company of Canada in Montréal, a call was placed to Vancouver - the first trans-Canadian telephone call, albeit routed through large parts of the United States. It would be another 16 years before such a call using all-Canadian lines would be made.
In the 1920s the Prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) created their own telephone companies, shrinking Bell's influence somewhat and precipitating the creation of alliances to ensure the provision of coast-to-coast telephone service through a series of toll and collaboration agreements.
The first such alliance was the Telephone Association of Canada, which was formed in the early 1920s and which was followed by the Trans-Canada Telephone System (TCTS) in 1931. The purpose of the TCTS was to ensure the creation and maintenance of a seamless, coast-to-coast telephone system. TCTS was eventually followed by the Stentor Alliance in 1992. Stentor was broken up by the end of 1999 upon Bell's promise to provide "national operational services" to the other telephone companies.
All-digit dialling replaced the combination of letters and numbers on the Bell network on 1 May 1960 in the Québec cities of Ormstown and Franklin Centre. On 15 March 1962, Bell became the first company in the world to offer commercial facsimile services.
What is known today as BCE was created in 1983 through a corporate reorganization whereby BCE became parent to over 80 companies previously known as the Bell Group, of which Bell Canada, the country's largest telephone company, had been head. This reorganization was designed to cast off charter restrictions inhibiting certain corporate acquisitions and investments and remove from detailed regulatory scrutiny many activities and inter-corporate dealings.
BCE and other providers of telecommunications services have moved beyond the traditional range of voice-to-voice services and will continue to do so, subject to consumer acceptance and the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission). Already providers of high-speed Internet and satellite TV services are aligning themselves with so-called "content providers" (such as The Globe and Mail, in the case of BCE), preparing to enter the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) market, and seeking permission to carry TV signals via their phone lines. A major step in the company's vertical integration of services came with the $1.3 billion acquisition of CTV Inc, the country's largest broadcaster, in 2011. The deal achieved CRTC approval with BCE's pledge of $245 million to be spent over the next seven years to create new programs, enlarge local news budgets and for other initiatives to reinforce domestic production and to move the network toward digital transmission."
At the end of 2003, BCE Inc was organized into four distinct business segments: Bell Canada (85.2% share of 2003 revenues), Bell Globemedia (7%), BCE Ventures (6.2%), and BCE Emergis (1.6%).
Bell Canada is by far the company's largest operating division and has come a long way from being a mere provider of telephone services. It is involved in the enabling and delivery of a wide range of communications through wired telephone traffic, cellular telephones, Internet access, and satellite television. The company remains a major player in wired telephone traffic and is the incumbent telephone company in Ontario, Québec, Atlantic Canada, and Canada's North.
Bell Globemedia represents BCE's foray into the area of media convergence, bringing together the television operations of CTV, which include the main network, The Sports Network (TSN), and a host of other specialty channels; and the media assets of Thomson Corporation, chief among them The Globe and Mail. BCE's stake in Bell Globemedia is 70.1 percent.
The BCE Ventures segment is used to combine a number of BCE's operations for management purposes, notably Telesat, a wholly owned provider of satellite communications and systems management services and CGI, a 29.8 percent owned IT services company, which itself is publicly traded.
BCE Emergis is an e-business service provider, focusing on the processing of claims, payments, loans and security services related to the health and financial services sector. In mid-2004, BCE sold off its interest in BCE Emergis through a public offering in an effort to streamline its operations.
Under its self-imposed mandate of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), BCE invests in a wide range of areas and causes. In 2003 the company's investment totalled $67 million and was spread over four areas: Workplace, University Innovation, Society, and Environment.
Sixteen million (or some 24 percent) of this amount was invested under the Society heading and went to youth organizations such as the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada and Allô Prof; the United Way; and other community development. The company's support of the Bell University Labs and other research and development activities came to $5.4 million and is intended to support goals such as increased innovation activities in western and Atlantic Canada.
BCE's CSR efforts are company-wide and funds come from corporate sources as well as employee contributions, either through donations or volunteering.
See also TORONTO FEATURE: 299 QUEEN STREET WEST.
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Links to Other Sites
Bell Canada's website for consumer products and services.
Keys to History
Search this "Keys to History" website for fascinating online exhibits about notable people, places, and events in Canadian history. From Montréal's McCord Museum.
The online home of TMX Group, which owns and operates the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange. For real-time and historical market data, sector profiles, and financial information about listed companies, click on listed company directory on left side of page or enter stock symbol in the search box.
The corporate website for BCE, Canada's largest communications company.
A bilingual glossary of frequently used terms and industry acronyms used in the wireless telecommunications industry.
System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval
Search the SEDAR online database for disclosure documents of Canadian public companies and mutual funds. From the Canadian Securities Administrators.
Bell acquires all of Virgin Mobile Canada
A CBC News story about Bell Canada's acquisition of Virgin Mobile Canada.
Search the Reuters website for the latest news and reports about specific Canadian companies and business sectors.
Canada's Bell to acquire Astral Media for C$3 billion
A Reuters news story about the purchase of Astral Media by BCE Inc, parent of Bell Canada, said to be a move to expand Bell's business activity in the province of Québec. | <urn:uuid:7c37b89c-b5eb-4b88-93be-deb2ad5abedd> | 2013-05-18T17:57:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who claimed to be the “mastermind” behind the September 11 attacks, wore a camouflage vest during a pretrial hearing in Guantánamo on Wednesday. Mohammed believes himself to be a prisoner of war, and said he wanted the same right to wear a uniform as Japanese and German troops who faced charges for war crimes after World War II had. He'd been denied the right during his May 5 arraignment, but Army Col. James Pohl granted the request on Tuesday. However, Pohl did prohibit Mohammed from wearing any items taken from U.S. military uniforms.
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An ancient Christian writer wrote that, "of all divine things, the most divine is to share with God in the saving of souls."
Interestingly, God and Souls was the motto of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, whose revelations in the 1930s led to the modern Divine Mercy movement.
Our Lord asked St. Faustina to pray and offer the Chaplet of The Divine Mercy for sinners and the dying, saying:
Pray as much as you can for the dying. By your entreaties [that is, insistent prayers], obtain for them trust in My mercy, because they have most need of trust, and have it the least. Be assured that the grace of eternal salvation for certain souls in their final moment depends on your prayer. You know the whole abyss of My mercy, so draw upon it for yourself and especially for poor sinners. Sooner would heaven and earth turn into nothingness than would My mercy not embrace a trusting soul." (Diary of St. Faustina, 1777)
Saint Faustina was often given the grace to know when a certain dying person desired or needed prayer; she would be alerted to the moment, by her Guardian Angel or by our Lord Himself. At those times she would pray until she no longer felt the need to pray, or a sense of peace came upon her, or she learned that the person had died, or heard the soul say, "Thank You!" She wrote: "Oh, dying souls are in such great need of prayer! O Jesus, inspire souls to pray often for the dying" (Diary, 1015).
One of the best means of assisting the dying is the one that Jesus revealed to St. Faustina and insisted that she use often, even continuously: The Chaplet of The Divine Mercy. Jesus said, "My daughter, encourage souls to say the chaplet which I have given to you. It pleases Me to grant everything they ask of Me by saying the chaplet. ... Write that when they say this chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person, not as the just Judge but as the merciful Savior" (Diary, 1541).
Earlier, our Lord said to her, "At the hour of their death, I defend as My own glory every soul that will say this chaplet; or when others say it for a dying person, the indulgence is the same" (Diary, 811).
What if the person prays from a distance? Saint Faustina had a love for the sick and dying, and she prayed for them with great fervor. The following experiences recorded in her Diary make it clear that one does not have to be at the bedside physically. She wrote, "It sometimes happens that the dying person is in the second or third building away, yet for the spirit, space does not exist. It sometimes happens that I know about a death occurring several hundred kilometers away. This has happened several times with regard to my family and relatives and also sisters in religion, and even souls whom I have not known during their lifetime" (Diary, 835).
Our Lord said to St. Faustina, "'My daughter, help Me to save a certain dying sinner. Say the chaplet that I have taught you for him.' When I began to say the chaplet, I saw the man dying in the midst of terrible torment and struggle. His Guardian Angel was defending him, but he was, as it were, powerless against the enormity of the soul's misery. A multitude of devils was waiting for the soul. But while I was saying the chaplet, I saw Jesus just as He is depicted in the image. The rays which issued from Jesus' Heart enveloped the sick man, and the powers of darkness fled in panic. The sick man peacefully breathed his last. When I came to myself, I understood how very important the chaplet was for the dying. It appeases the anger of God" (Diary, 1565).
These words are particularly relevant for members of the Eucharistic Apostles of The Divine Mercy (EADM) and all Eucharistic adorers. In chapels throughout the world, they are reciting or praying the chaplet for the sick and dying, and are part of an international registry established by the ministry.
We currently have more than 400 chapels worldwide praying the Chaplet of The Divine Mercy hourly during Eucharistic Adoration for the sick and dying. This includes 14 cloistered convents of Poor Clares in India and Bangladesh. Moreover, on the occasion of the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, by a personally signed parchment, imparted a Special Apostolic Blessing "to all the faithful, who during Adoration of Our Most Merciful Savior in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the altar will be praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet for the sick and for those throughout the world who will be dying in that hour." A copy of the blessing is available for chapels whose adorers pray for the sick and dying.
In addition, on the Feast of the Incarnation in 2003, Pope John Paul II imparted a Special Apostolic Blessing to all the faithful worldwide who pray the chaplet at any time and any place for pro-life causes: for mothers contemplating abortion; for infants dying in the womb; for victims of stem cell research, genetic manipulation, euthanasia; and for all elected officials that they promote a culture of life. So it is most appropriate that people worldwide pray a chaplet for all those dying, as well as for all the pro-life causes.
For more information, call the Eucharistic Apostles of The Divine Mercy (EADM) at 1-877-380-0727.
Dr. Bryan Thatcher, MD, is the founder and director of Eucharistic Apostles of The Divine Mercy (EADM). He travels the world promoting the Eucharist, prayer cenacles, and the message of Divine Mercy as a "way of life." Learn more about EADM. | <urn:uuid:63d936dc-466b-47bd-90ef-6d86f6cacd7c> | 2013-05-18T17:18:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Christopher Kane has, so far, had a storybook tale of success that would make any Project Runway hopeful cry with envy. He's won a slew of awards, was courted by Anna Wintour and Donatella (yes, that Donatella) before he graduated from Central Saint Martin's, and has pulled in some pretty impressive collabos, joining forces with the likes of Beth Ditto and Topshop. Though Kane's star rose high, fast, and has stayed bright throughout his still short career, his beginnings were as humble as any truly inspirational story would require. He grew up in Scotland with an engineer father and housewife mother. He's described his provenance as "gray" and "rural," and said that one of the major childhood incidents that put him on the path to fashion design stardom was his family's acquisition of a satellite dish: Now he and his sister Tammy could experience the "glamour" and "color" of high fashion clothing through TV shows beamed right into his provincial Scottish home.
Christopher didn't waste any time after he graduated from grade school to start his career. He enrolled in Central Saint Martin's while his sister attended the Scottish College of Textile and Design. In his year of graduation he was visited by Anna (by way of his awards, no doubt) and then introduced to Donatella and offered a job at Versace on the spot. He declined the cushy position and instead took a consulting gig with the company's line Versus, so that in 2006 he could begin his own eponymous line with his sister, which they operated out of their small shared apartment. The two are still partners today. Tammy helps with textile choice, design, and finances while Christopher takes care of the rest.
From its very start, the label garnered high marks from fashion critics. And so has virtually every collection since. Though some early detractors claimed his designs were misogynistic for their body-con fit, he's since then turned out collections with looser silhouettes. Christopher is a fashion chameleon, each season he turns out a collection that's markedly different from the last. While many houses have stayed on top with signature design flourishes, Kane is young and is either still experimenting or has decided that a mixed-bag of creativity is his signature. Either way, he's a designer to watch.
To get you started on your Christopher Kane love story, check out some of our favorite looks from some of his recent shows. | <urn:uuid:6dcb22d7-6618-47f0-8894-40e5ef51b469> | 2013-05-18T17:37:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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HI! For years I've been searching for a bread recipe but have no clue what the bread actually is! I had it years ago...the baker of the bread told me at the time it was an "egg bread". I remember it being very soft and squishy....tasted great! (Obviously it stayed with me all these years!! Lol. I don't recall the color but can anyone help me figure out what it may be? I'd love to try to recreate it! Thank you so much in advance ill take any and all suggestions! | <urn:uuid:76e1789e-6aa5-4b2e-8e49-50858d2de2f0> | 2013-05-18T17:27:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Quebec federalists and sovereigntists are at each others throats over the significance of reading the 1970 October Crisis Front de libération du Québec manifesto as part of the spoken-word event to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Former FLQ member Jacques Lanctôt says he can't understand why a public reading of the manifesto he co-authored almost 39 years ago should be interpreted as a vindication of the group's actions, which led to the death of kidnapped provincial Liberal cabinet minister Pierre Laporte.
"The manifesto was read on the public airwaves before the death of Pierre Laporte. And at the time, people interviewed on the streets said they supported what was said in the manifesto but were against violence. And that was normal. ... But it touched a lot of people," Mr. Lanctôt said in a telephone interview from his home in Havana, Cuba.
"It was written at a specific time in Quebec's history, and I can't see how today it could incite people to violence, as some critics have claimed. It is part of our history, and it is openly being taught in our colleges and universities."
The two-day event in Quebec City next weekend will mark the defeat of the French at the hands of the British in 1759 with a reading of 140 works about Quebec's history since the battle that placed Quebec under British rule.
The event includes texts from Louis Riel invoking the 1869-70 Métis Red River Rebellion, as well as texts from Louis Joseph Papineau, leader of the 1837-38 Lower Canada Rebellion.
"If you exclude the FLQ manifesto, does that mean you exclude the other two? That would amount to censorship," said historian Pierre Deschênes during an interview with the LCN news network.
"For some, the text [FLQ manifesto]was not part of our history and for others it is still alive. But nobody can deny its existence," Quebec City historian Jean-Marie Ledel told the Journal de Québec.
The marathon prose-fest was organized after the cancellation of the Plains of Abraham battle re-enactment, which sovereigntist groups claimed amounted to nothing more then a propaganda event for Canadian federalism.
But this time the spoken-word show, called Moulin à paroles, is going ahead despite a public confrontation with federalist forces. Provincial Liberal cabinet minister Sam Hamad lashed out at organizers, saying the inclusion of the FLQ manifesto was an attempt to vindicate the kidnappings of British diplomat James Richard Cross and Pierre Laporte, who was later found dead in the trunk of a car.
"The FLQ to me is assassinations, it's bombs, and we completely dissociate ourselves from this event," Mr. Hamad said on Friday. "Talking about terrorism is not history."
Premier Jean Charest defended his minister's comments and refused calls by the organizers for an apology. "We are not going to be associated with an event that trivializes the FLQ, terrorism and violence," Mr. Charest told reporters on Saturday.
One of the organizers, Brigitte Haentjens, said yesterday she was appalled by the attacks. "It is certainly an error in judgment on the part of the governments to question the content. ... It amounts to intimidation. I don't know if we can call it censorship. But what right do governments have to interfere with an event that is not publicly funded and that is an artistic event?" Ms. Haentjens said in telephone interview.
"Does it mean that the governments of Quebec and Canada will now judge the contents of plays? It's quite strange." | <urn:uuid:98df4371-f082-4c36-96f0-aed17faa580b> | 2013-05-18T17:39:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Kabul in March this year, and a smiling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mounts the podium beside the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. His arrival in the Afghan capital immediately after Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, had departed seemed an appropriate metaphor for what was happening in Afghanistan and what had happened in Iraq: exit the Americans, enter the Iranians.
"What are you even doing in this area?" Mr Ahmadinejad spoke to the United States, over the heads of his audience. "Your country is on the other side of the world. What are you doing here?" The Iranian president was making two points: rebuking the US for straying so far from its backyard, and emphasising the important links Iran shares with its eastern neighbour.
This was no diplomatic nicety. Afghanistan is in Tehran's backyard - the countries share a long border; Iran hosted millions of Afghans during the long years of Afghanistan's wars; Dari, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, is a variant of Farsi, the Iranian language - and Iran expects to have an appropriate amount of influence in the country.
For a period of time early in this decade, Iran was understandably nervous at having US troops on either side of it: boots on the ground in Afghanistan and tanks on the ground in Iraq. But the twin invasions have worked to Iran's advantage, cementing its links in the east and expanding its influence in the west.
With the exception of the US, no other country has had as much influence on Iraq's post-war development as its neighbour. Iranian and Shia influence in Iraq is immense - the United Iraqi Alliance, a Shia-dominated coalition of political parties, is the largest grouping in parliament and tilts strongly towards Iran.
Iran is also deeply embedded in Afghanistan. The New York Times reported that Mr Karzai had extended an invitation to Mr Ahmadinejad immediately after Mr Karzai's invitation to the White House was revoked. The invitation was a warning to the US, which has tens of thousands of troops on the ground in Afghanistan: we have other allies too. It is a message that may well have been on Mr Ahmadinejad's mind during his two-day visit to Lebanon last week.
Mr Ahmandinejad's first state visit to Beirut has focused minds in the region on the growing influence of Iran across the Arab world. But Iran's list of allies is growing far beyond the Middle East. Thanks to its strategic position, energy reserves and frenetic diplomacy, Iran has powerful allies far away from its backyard.
The easiest way to see this is through its nuclear programme. Iran maintains its right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium to supply its energy needs. The European Union, the United States, and many others, in the Middle East and beyond, fear it may be build a nuclear weapon. A new round of sanctions by the European Union and the United States, aimed at curbing what they see as the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions, took hold this summer.
The Obama administration is reluctant to be drawn into a military confrontation with Iran, especially given its commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. If Iran decides to "break out" and build a bomb, it is likely it already has the know-how to do so. The wild card remains Israel, which - despite some wild-eyed apocalyptic predictions - recognises that a nuclear-armed Iran would not be an existential threat as much as a strategic one. An Iranian bomb would change the power balance in the region, which worries Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states as well.
Publicly, all the members of the UN Security Council agree that Iran should be clearer about its nuclear ambitions and agree on exerting economic pressure to make it do so. But it is in the gaps between public rhetoric and private action that the limits of Iran's opponents and the extent of its friendships become clear.
Start with Turkey. In the last few years, Turkey has flexed its diplomatic muscle in the region, mediating between Syria and Israel and seeking solutions to sectarian problems in Lebanon and Iraq. Its status as a regional power was confirmed earlier this year when Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, appeared at the Arab League summit as a guest.
Turkey has usually followed the EU line on Iran, but has recently been reluctant to support harsh sanctions. Links between Turkey and Iran are strong. (They conduct around $10bn of trade a year.) Mr Erdogan has called Iran a "friend" and has warm - if not close - relations with Mr Ahmadinejad. He refused to be drawn into the argument concerning last year's disputed Iranian elections, saying it would be an unnecessary interference in the country's domestic affairs.
This summer, Turkey, along with Brazil, pulled off its most audacious diplomatic coup, convincing Iran to agree to a fuel-swap deal that involved Iran shipping its enriched uranium abroad for processing and receiving them back as fuel rods.
The deal broke down, but it highlighted Turkey's willingness to stand up for its own diplomatic links, in conflict with its Western allies. This potentially provides Iran with a powerful ally, because Turkey is intimately connected with international institutions - it has been a member of Nato for decades, is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and may one day be part of the European Union.
It is Turkey, with its strategic relationship with Israel, that is best positioned to make the case that Iran's purported nuclear ambitions can best be resolved by ridding the region of all nuclear weapons. Convincing the Israelis to part with their arsenal may be a step too far for Turkish diplomacy, but in its public pronouncements Ankara reminds the international community that any Iranian nuclear weapon would only add to the region's arsenal.
Russia - a permanent of the UN Security Council - has a more complicated relationship with Iran. The two share extensive economic interests, and Russia has defended Iran on the world stage in the past. But as the US seeks to "reset" relations with Russia, the Kremlin is taking a more guarded line on its relationship with Tehran.
On the one hand, Russia continues to aid Iran's nuclear power efforts, and has shipped uranium fuel to be used in the Bushehr reactor, which is expected to go online before the end of the year.
On the other hand, the Russians bowed to US pressure and refused to go through with the sale of surface-to-air missile systems to Tehran, something it had promised in 2007. The Kremlin last month cancelled the sale and promised to return a $166m advance payment, saying the deal was now illegal under the new round of sanctions.
Thus, the Russians are tilting both ways, treading a fine line between maintaining a strategic alliance with Iran and standing firm with American and European allies.
Yet the relationship between Iran and Russia goes beyond economic links. Because of their shared geography, Russia and Iran harbour concerns about Nato's move eastwards. Iran has attempted to portray such expansion to the eastern states bordering the EU as a threat to Russia and itself. Mr Ahmadinejad has said his country "defends the southern flank" of Asia against Nato influence, and such an argument resonates in the Kremlin. Only this month the head of Nato said that Georgia will become a member of the alliance. If that transpires, Nato would gain influence on Russia's border, in the Black Sea and almost on Iran's doorstep. As much as their economies converge - and could diverge again - the geography of the region will always push Russia and Iran closer.
Iran's biggest defender in the world is China. Iran accounts for around 15 per cent of China's oil imports, and a Middle Kingdom hungry for energy and guaranteed long-term access to energy is unlikely to jeopardise that. If the Chinese could accept a nuclear-armed North Korea on their doorstep as a price for regional stability, they may well be able to accept a nuclear-armed Iran.
The UN Security Council has struggled to hit Iran with punitive sanctions because of Russia and China's support of Tehran. The Chinese in particular want to make sure that any sanctions are tightly focused on Iran's nuclear sector and do not affect the wider economy or their trade links with their neighbour: Iran already builds missiles for the Chinese, and China supplies Iran with weapons and military know-how, a relationship that stretches back to the 1990s. As much as China talks tough on Iran's nuclear ambitions, its priority is bilateral links.
How the West and its allies deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions has become a test case for multilateral diplomacy in the post-Iraq war era. Arab states are understandably nervous about Iran's influence with Syria and in Lebanon. But talk of Iran as a regional power is simply stating the case; its influence in the Arab region is just the beginning. Far beyond its shores, Iran has found allies, sometimes willing, sometimes wary. The question is whether these links will restrain Iran's regional ambitions, or embolden them.
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TEHRAN // Iran yesterday hanged a man found guilty of providing military secrets and information to Israel's intelligence agency Mossad.
Ali Akbar Siyadat was executed at Tehran's Evin prison, the state news agency Irna reported. His name had been withheld by the state until the execution.
He was sentenced to death for "working to strengthen the Zionist regime" and acting against the security of the Islamic republic since 2004, according to a statement released on the website of the Tehran Public and Revolutionary Court.
Siyadat had confessed to receiving money and communication devices from Israeli agents and to providing military secrets and information including details about the Revolutionary Guard's missiles, the country's fighter planes and military bases, wargames and causes of air crashes to Israeli agents, the statement said.
He was arrested with 29 pages of classified documents while trying to flee the country with his wife in 2008, the statement added.
In November 2008 Iran executed another man named Ali Ashtari on charges of spying for Israel.
Iran maintains that Israel regularly conducts espionage operations against its military and nuclear programmes. It has also accused Israel, along with the US and Britain, of assassinating of two of its nuclear scientists in the past year.
Another prisoner, Ali Saremi, was hanged at Evin prison yesterday after he was found guilty of being a member of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq, the largest and most militant Iranian opposition group. Saremi was also found guilty of propaganda against the Islamic regime, the judiciary statement said.
Also yesterday, Iran confirmed that the families of two German journalists held in a prison in the north-western city of Tabriz since October had been able to visit them for the first time on Monday.
"Considering the humanitarian approach of our country's officials, the opportunity was provided for the families to leave Tehran for Tabriz last night … The German nationals were with their families last night," the foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, said at a press conference.
Germany's ambassador to Tehran was present at the reunion, held at an unspecified location, according to a report by Irna.
The German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, thanked his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi, the foreign ministry caretaker, for quickly arranging the meeting.
"The two German citizens have met with their loved ones in Tabriz," Mr Westerwelle said, expressing his gratitude to Tehran, according to a ministry spokeswoman. Germany was still pressing for the pair's release, he said.
Neither Iranian nor German authorities have so far identified the two journalists. But on Monday, Iran's state Press TV showed a passport belonging to a Marcus Alfred Rudolf Hellwig and identified the second journalist as Jens Andreas Koch.
The reporter and photographer for the mass-circulation German tabloid Bild am Sonntag were arrested in Tabriz on October 10 for attempting to interview the family and the lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman sentenced to stoning for adultery and death for complicity in the murder of her husband.
Authorities said the two journalists were arrested because they had not applied for press credentials from Iranian authorities and had entered the country on tourist visas.
Earlier this month, Mr Mehmanparast said the two German journalists could temporarily be released from prison to spend the Christmas holiday with their families. They hoped to be reunited in Tehran on Saturday but the prisoners were not transferred to the capital, Isna, a semi-official news agency affiliated with the ministry of higher education, quoted unnamed sources as saying. Iran's English-language Press TV, however, said on Monday that the reunion did not take place as the family members refused to travel to Tabriz for the visit.
Germany's foreign ministry spokesman Stefan Bredohl said on Monday that his ministry had summoned Iran's ambassador to Germany, Alireza Sheikh Attar, over the refusal of Iranian authorities to allow the visit but Iran's embassy in Berlin denied that Mr Sheikh Attar had been summoned and said the ambassador's visit to the German foreign ministry had been pre-scheduled.
Iranian officials say the two German journalists have confessed to breaking the Iranian laws.
On December 5 the prosecutor general, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, said the two German nationals were under investigation for illegal reporting but denied that they faced espionage charges.
Mr Mehmanparast said on Tuesday that the two German nationals would be released if they were found innocent.
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BAGHDAD (AP) - A series of bombings struck Baghdad and towns south of the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least 22 and wounding dozens in areas that are home to mostly Muslim Shiites - the latest evidence of rising sectarian discord in Iraq.
The attackers struck a day before tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims are expected to take to the streets in what have become weekly protests against the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The rallies are exacerbating long-simmering tensions between Iraq's Sunnis and the Shiite majority nearly a decade after the U.S.-led invasion.
The deadliest attack occurred around sunset when a pair of bombs exploded nearly simultaneously in Shula in northwestern Baghdad. One was a car bomb that was detonated outside a fast food restaurant and the other blast occurred near a soccer field. The twin bombings killed 15 people and left at least 40 wounded, officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but car bombings in Shiite areas are a favorite tactic of Sunni extremists such as al-Qaeda's local affiliate. The group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, considers Shiites to be heretics and accuses them of being too closely aligned with neighboring Shiite powerhouse Iran.
Earlier in the day, a car bomb tore through the crowded livestock market in the town of Aziziyah, 35 miles southeast of Baghdad. That attack killed three people and wounded eight.
A few hours later, a roadside bomb missed a passing police patrol in western Baghdad but killed a bystander and wounded eight people.
In the evening, explosives hidden beneath produce in the back of a pickup truck exploded in the town of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. That blast killed three policemen and wounded six.
Police and hospital officials provided details of the attacks and the casualty figures. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Violence in Iraq has fallen since the height of sectarian fighting in 2006 and 2007, but deadly attacks still happen frequently.
The latest attacks appear designed to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government. For the past two months, Sunni Muslims have been protesting what they describe as unfair treatment by the country's Shiite-led government. The protests have been largely peaceful.
Ammar Qassim, a resident of the Shula neighborhood where the two bombings occurred, blamed the attacks on political squabbling.
"This tragic security breach took place because the politicians and the leaders of this country are busy with their political conflicts. They should be brave enough to bear the responsibility for the victims falling daily in this country," he said.
Meanwhile, Iraqi authorities released a new batch of inmates from a Baghdad prison in a move aiming at calming the Sunni protesters. Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Sharistani announced the release of 160 prisoners, including 13 women, during a ceremony at the prison on Thursday.
He said 4,000 prisoners have been released since a government committee was set up earlier this year to consider protesters' demands. The Sunni protests were sparked by the arrest of bodyguards assigned to Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi, a senior Sunni politician, in December.
Thursday's bombings marked the fourth time this month that insurgent attacks have claimed more than 20 lives in a single day. More than 160 people have been killed in violent attacks in Iraq since the start of February, according to an Associated Press count.
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DALLAS—A controversial new book about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has raised questions not about the role of a lone gunman or a conspiracy of shooters, but about whether the late president was even even shot at all.
While the book, Outside the Crosshairs, does not dispute the fact that a massive portion of Kennedy's skull was separated from his head during the 1963 Dallas visit, it maintains that the president suffered fatal explosive- cranial trauma through means completely unrelated to gunshots.
"Certainly extreme force was involved in this tragic death," said Dr. Horace Musashi, the book's author and a professor of computer science at Mount Union College in Alliance, OH. "However, none of the available photographs or recorded footage provides even a shred of evidence that an actual bullet did anything to Kennedy's body. As scientists, therefore, we must consider all other possibilities, no matter how much they challenge the status quo."
Musashi himself favors an explanation known as the single-massive-spike-in-blood-pressure theory.
After 11 years of painstaking research, Musashi uncovered testimony from anonymous eyewitnesses who claimed that unopened packets of duck sauce and soy sauce were hastily removed from Air Force One after the assassination. According to the book's findings, the extremely high levels of monosodium glutamate combined with the stress of mediating an intense international ballistic-missile crisis caused Kennedy's systolic pressure to mount to the point where the right rear quarter of his cranium "shot clean off."
"Case closed," Musashi said. "Mass hysteria accounts for everything else."
The book has also sparked popular interest in a number of related theories. Retired police officer Joseph Czyz, who in 1991 was on the scene at Dealy Plaza for JFK-Fest, an assassination-reenactment weekend, claims Musashi and adherents to the single-massive-spike-in-blood-pressure theory have been led astray by carefully placed red herrings.
"A handful of chopsticks and take-out menus does not a credible theory make," said Czyz, who would only be interviewed on his Internet bulletin board for fear of reprisal. "Anyone looking closely enough can see that they were planted to distract us from Kennedy's deadly nut allergy."
Czyz points out that a Planters delivery truck was spotted cruising along Kennedy's parade route by several people, all of whom are now dead. And just two months before the assassination, Kennedy vetoed a bill that would have raised tariffs on cashew imports. "[The president] only had to be within 20 yards of a single open can of party mix to suffer fatal consequences," Czyz said. "Do you think it's mere coincidence that just 14 years later we had a peanut farmer in the White House?"
"In this case, the facts speak for themselves," Czyz added.
Still others, such as part-time music teacher and amateur ballistics specialist Luke Rossamer, refuse to rule out the possibility of lethal projectiles. According to Rossamer, bullet fragments that had lain dormant in Kennedy's head since World War II—when he was attacked by Navy frogmen who were bankrolled by mob boss Sam Giancana and disguised as a Japanese destroyer—were detonated by Ku Klux Klansmen on Nov. 22, 1963.
"Why they waited so long to use the top- secret explosive bullets, I have no idea," Rossamer admitted. "But there's still a lot we don't know about this case."
Although no government officials have offered comment on the new claims, other law enforcement and forensic personnel say the theories show some merit.
"It's true that no one has ever considered that JFK simply got caught in a deadly ninjitsu battle with Texas governor John Connally," said Secret Service agent Kellen Forslow, whose job is so sensitive that he is not even listed as being employed by the government agency. "And I really hope this leads to more people asking more questions and coming up with even more answers. America is still a democracy, after all, and one idea is just as good as another." | <urn:uuid:7b802d36-c1ec-4a8f-b491-98b11b124c6b> | 2013-05-18T17:50:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Question: Should the city of Rockville be investigated for charges of racism and harassment?
Three Quarters UP
Three Quarters Up
The controversial 70s: Sex, drugs, violence and a teenage boy named Jimmy.
While the world revolves around issues like school integration, forced busing, the end of the Vietnam War and the post-Beatle break-up world of rock and roll, young Jimmy Kayrouz is trying to get over the ffith anniversary of his father's death.
A high school football player with no sense of what's going on around him, he finds himself in the middle of a racial controversy when he begins dating a girl with a "Big Ole Smile".
What happens next is the quintessential tale of growing up in the 70s. | <urn:uuid:c067a8e6-e812-4420-b82d-1fe52f24f59f> | 2013-05-18T18:06:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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After winning the US Open at Congressional last year, Rory McIlroy sat there wide-eyed and in awe of his achievement. About to address the press corps, he took out his phone and took a photograph of the famous old trophy sitting in front of him. He could barely believe what he had done.
On Sunday it was a completely different McIlroy who sat before us, the huge Wanamaker Trophy alongside him proof positive that he had just blown away the field in the US PGA Championship and secured his second major title at 23 years of age.
McIlroy won the | <urn:uuid:1f3be3b9-a76d-4c74-adfe-fc17a2ccd056> | 2013-05-18T18:09:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Microsoft has released the Release Candidate of Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell and it is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center.
Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell
Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell will help scripters find Windows PowerShell scripts, snippets, modules, and how-to guidance in online repositories such as the PoshCode, local or network file systems, TechNet Script Center Repository, and Bing Search Repository
You may also want to read the Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell User Guide. This guide describes how to use Script Explorer to complete specific tasks that are related to the following supported scenarios in Script Explorer:
- Search for Windows PowerShell scripts, snippets, and modules in online and offline repositories, and save them to the local or network file system repository.
- Search for Windows PowerShell How-to Guidance topics that provide documentation for Windows PowerShell commands.
- Apply search filters and choose repositories to search.
- Apply search filters when searching in predefined focus areas.
- Browse for scripts based on a predefined list of categories and subcategories.
- Explore community resources to get started with Windows PowerShell.
The installer works on both x86 and x64 platforms and updates the All Users Windows PowerShell ISE profile file located at %windir%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\ Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 OR %windir%\SYSWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\ Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 depending upon your architecture.
Download : Microsoft. | <urn:uuid:1c11d4a3-fa42-4c23-81f6-50792ff78a90> | 2013-05-18T17:38:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Christian Bale knows a thing or two about meltdowns -- just ask anybody who heard the leaked audiotape of the actor going off an a crew member on the "Terminator Salvation" set. But don't ask him to comment on Hollywood's bad boy du jour, Charlie Sheen.
After grabbing up his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "The Fighter" at Sunday's Academy Awards, Bale headed backstage at the Kodak Theater, where he was asked about, among many things, the "Two and a Half Men" actor's recent shenanigans.
Bale had no comment -- but mainly, he said, because he's recently been filming "The 13 Women of Nanjing" on the other side of the world. Bale professed, "Been in China. No clue. Seriously … Just no idea."
Bale did, however, have something to say about his much-discussed weight loss for "The Fighter." Asked if he thought twice about taking the part of Dicky Eklund because of the physical sacrifice -- especially since he'd already gone through dramatic weight loss for "The Machinist" -- Bale noted that his primary concern was nailing the character down.
"In honesty I just liked the character and then…he’s welterweight isn’t he?" Bale said. "He’s a crackhead, how many fat crackheads do you see?"
Bale also made sure to note that, despite being a bona fide Academy Award winner now, he has no plans to abandon his role in the "Dark Knight" series.
"I’m in the middle of filming a movie in China right now," Bale noted. "When I finish the movie with China it’s straight on to Batman. Absolutely much more Batman." | <urn:uuid:ad48099a-6c06-411c-8a21-b1e2f8c8fd9f> | 2013-05-18T18:08:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.
As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.
But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.
Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.
But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."
The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they'd always suspected.
This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment. | <urn:uuid:50773158-26a2-41a2-958b-482f969555a1> | 2013-05-18T17:30:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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D'angelo's Sub, Cheese Nutritional Information
Learn how many calories are in D'Angelo's Sub, Cheese along with other nutritional information such as the protein, sugar and fat content and how many vitamins and minerals it contains.
D'Angelo's Sub, Cheese contains 610 calories per 1 Serving
1 Serving of D'Angelo's Sub, Cheese contains 610 calories and has 31000 milligrams of protein, 6000 milligrams of sugar, 33000 milligrams of fat, 2000 milligrams of fiber and 20 milligrams of cholesterol. D'angelo's Sub, Cheese contains the following vitamins and minerals: Calcium and Sodium. | <urn:uuid:fa543473-7825-475b-9f31-77004b5009d3> | 2013-05-18T17:57:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Python stars support Chapman film
Monty Python stars Michael Palin and Terry Jones have turned out to support their late friend Graham Chapman at the London Film Festival.
A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story Of Monty Python's Graham Chapman, based on his book, stars the man himself through audio recordings. The animated film brings Graham together with fellow Pythons Michael, Terry, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam for the first time in 23 years.
Michael, 69, said: "It's extraordinary that he recorded this soundtrack, he just read the book, and he played his own character, very well. I didn't know this existed, and it gave it this great feeling of Graham being still there.
"I think the great thing was, by doing it in animation makes it something very much richer, and slightly weirder and more surreal, which is very true to Graham's character I think."
Graham died in 1989 aged 48. The film tells the story of his life, including meeting the other members of Monty Python's Flying Circus at Cambridge University, and also documents his battle with alcoholism and his experience as one of the first actors to publicly come out as gay.
The other Python's voice characters in his life story, including Michael and Terry as his parents.
Michael said he thought Graham would appreciate the humorous tone of the film.
"Graham was always very irreverent, about everything really. And his own health, his own problems, he never really saw them as problems. I think he knew, because he was a doctor, what it was doing to him, but he loved to push the envelope a bit and find out what was going on in life.
"And we had some terribly funny moments when he was completely p***ed, I'm afraid." He joked: "And when the dear boy sobered up he was actually rather boring!"
The film is co-directed by Terry's son Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson and Ben Timlett. Terry said of taking part in the film: "Well Bill is family you know, I couldn't refuse. He had me in an arm-lock. But it was a pleasure to do it and I had no hesitation of doing it." | <urn:uuid:700015ab-fc3a-4d50-929f-2d23220aca7b> | 2013-05-18T17:18:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Is this a liberal site or a conservative site?
How many of us are content to do “what is done,” with little or no thought given to the possibility that “what is done” might not be “what is right?” Do we "go along" to "get along?" These lines deserve more thought than most are likely to give them:
“We owned slaves. It was what was done, and so that is what we did.”
”We, not a single one of us Negroes, would have done what we were not allowed to do.”
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Two vastly different films about the scourge of slavery in America, a thriller about the rescue of American hostages in Iran and a study of the dogged quest to capture one of the world's most wanted men -- Osama bin Laden -- were among the top nominees Thursday morning for the Golden Globe awards.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., made up of journalists from around the world, put their focus on U.S. events with their nominations for best dramatic films of the year.
The Civil War epic "Lincoln," which revolved around the 16th U.S. president's efforts to end slavery and the Civil War, scored a record seven Golden Globe nominations for director Steven Spielberg. The nominations included best director, best picture, and best actor honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, best supporting nods for Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field, as well as best screenplay and score. By contrast, his 1993 classic "Schindler's List" earned six Golden Globe nominations.
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"Django Unchained," a spaghetti Western opening on Christmas Day, revolves around a slave turned bounty hunter. It earned five nominations including best picture, best director and screenplay for filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, and two supporting actor nominations, for Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz.
Ben Affleck's political thriller "Argo," about the courageous operation to recover American hostages in Iran in 1980, also received five nominations, including best picture, director, screenplay, score and a best supporting actor nod for Alan Arkin.
And then Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," which chronicles the 10-year-search for Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, earned four nominations, including best film, director, screenplay and best actress for Jessica Chastain. It opens Dec. 19.
Rounding out the best dramatic picture nominees was Ang Lee's "Life of Pi," about an amazing journey of two shipwreck survivors: A young man and a tiger. The film also earned nominations for best director and score.
The nominations wrap one of the most closely watched weeks of the awards season, which kicked off Monday with the announcement of nominations for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, followed by the SAG Award nominations. The films and performers honored this week gain front-runner status leading up to the Academy Award nominations, which are to be announced Jan. 10.
Swimming upstream with three nominations Thursday morning was one of the biggest surprises of the award season: "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen." The quirky romantic comedy was nominated for best comedy or musical picture, and also earned best actor and actress nominations for stars Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor.
On the TV side of the nominations, HBO's drama "Game Change" -- chronicling Sarah Palin's 2008 vice presidential run -- earned the most nominations with five, including a best actress nod for Julianne Moore. "Homeland" followed with four nominations and "Downton Abbey," "Modern Family" and the TV movie "The Girl" picked up three apiece.
There's also a suggestion that the love affair with "Mad Men" may be coming to an end. The AMC period drama that has dominated award shows in recent years was noticeably missing from the best dramatic TV series nominees, although it did pick up a nod for star Jon Hamm. Earlier this year, the show failed to take home a single Emmy.
It was another good morning for veteran actress Maggie Smith. The 77 year-old -- who earned the most Screen Actors Guild Award nominations Wednesday -- picked up two Golden Globe nods for best actress in a comedy or musical for "Quartet" and for best performance in a supporting role for the TV series "Downton Abbey."
Vying for best actress in a dramatic motion picture along with Chastain are Marion Cotillard for "Rust and Bone," Hellen Mirren for "Hitchcock," Naomi Watts for "The Impossible" and Rachael Weisz for "The Deep Blue Sea."
There were several surprising omissions Thursday morning. Both "Les Miserables" director Tom Hooper and "Silver Linings Playbook" filmmaker David O. Russell failed to earn directing nods. Also shut out: Robert De Niro, who has earned several nominations this awards season for his supporting role in "Silver Linings Playbook."
And the critics’ darling, "Beasts of the Southern Wild," failed to receive any nominations.MORE: All nominees | Top nominees | Snubs & surprises | Celeb reactions | TV picks | Full coverage
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. divides its film honors between drama and comedy or musical, opening up of the field that led to best picture nominations for "Les Miserables," “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," “Moonrise Kingdom,” "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
Joining Blunt and Smith as nominees for best actress in a comedy or musical are Judi Dench for "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook" and Meryl Streep for "Hope Springs."
Vying with McGregor in the best actor in a comedy or musical category are Jack Black for "Bernie," Bradley Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook," Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables" and Bill Murray for "Hyde Park on the Hudson."
Earning nominations for best miniseries or motion picture are "Game Change," "The Girl," "Hatfields & McCoys," "The Hour" and "Political Animals."
The Golden Globes are to be presented Jan. 13 live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as hosts. The two will also be competing against each other that night in the best performance by an actress in a TV comedy or musical category, with Fey earning a nomination for "30 Rock" and Poehler scoring a nomination for "Parks & Recreation." | <urn:uuid:e245022d-87f5-4258-b9eb-4a2d000eee00> | 2013-05-18T18:07:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Somewhere in eastern Montana, in the rolling, eroded hills known as the Hell Creek formation, paleontologist Jack Horner sips a beer and looks down at the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed. It lies on its left side, its neck twisted back pitiably. Horner's crew has just exposed a section of pelvic bone to its first sunset in 65 million years, and someone remarks on the redness of the bone, like smoked bacon.
"It's the comet," says Horner, with a deep nod.
"That's why it's smoked," his crew chief says.
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No one likes a snitch, but Mark Felt, the former FBI agent who late in life revealed himself as the great mystery man known as Deep Throat, performed an act of high patriotism by helping Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the most serious set of political crimes in American history. His identity also became one of the great journalistic obsessions of the 20th century. Felt died this week at the age of 95 in Santa Rosa, California.
The Watergate scandal, (named after the office building which Republican operatives seeking information to damage Democrats burglarized at the direction of Richard Nixon's White House staff), ended in the only resignation of a President in American history. Although it was ultimately the power of the courts and of the Congress that forced Richard Nixon from office in the middle of his second term, it was the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein that first stymied the efforts of the President's men to cover up the White House involvement in the crime. (See a photo essay on the saga of Mark Felt a.k.a. Deep Throat.)
Felt served as a confirming source for many of the scoops produced by the young Washington Post reporters, and his role was critical to the Post's willingness to print incendiary stories about the scandal. As the Post printed scoop after scoop about the scandal, the Nixon White House ratcheted up its threats against the newspaper and its television stations. The fact that a high-level official of the FBI was confirming the stories emboldened the paper's owner Katharine Graham to resist those threats. Felt's motives for helping Woodward (whom Felt had met in the Nixon White House when Woodward was a young Navy lieutenant carrying classified documents between the Pentagon and the National Security Council) were not entirely pure. Felt had hoped to succeed J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI, and was miffed that Nixon had given the job to a close political ally. But Felt was also offended that the White House, through the new director, was attempting to manipulate the FBI's investigation of the Watergate crimes.
It is also highly probable that Felt's assistance to the press chasing the Watergate scandal was not limited to the assistance he gave Woodward. In the early months after the 1972 Watergate burglary, the Washington Post was nearly alone in trying to unearth the truth about the incident. But as more and more was revealed and after Judge John J. Sirica forced the initial burglars into cooperating with investigators, a feeding frenzy broke out among news organizations. It was likely the most competitive period in the history of the American press. As the story grew, home office editors put more and more pressure on their Washington bureaus to produce meaningful scoops not just about the origins of the break-in but also the details of Nixon's attempt to frustrate the investigations. When it was clear that Nixon aide John Dean was going to give testimony damaging to Nixon before Congress, unseemly competition broke out for the first exclusive interview with Dean (Newsweek won by offering Dean cover display). (See TIME's covers on Watergate.)
From early 1973 until Nixon's departure in the summer of 1974, TIME was prominent among the news organization unearthing important scoops about the misdeeds of the Nixon Administration. Many of TIME's stories, including most notably the first story about the secret wiretaps on reporters and his own staff ordered by Henry Kissinger, were from FBI sources. TIME was also a leader in uncovering the fact that Nixon's vice president, Spiro T. Agnew, was taking payoff money while in office. Agnew sued the Justice Department and TIME among others, charging them with libel. On the day TIME attorneys were to answer a subpoena in that case, Agnew resigned his office rather than face prosecution. Felt, because of his high rank in the bureau and his dismay at the criminality in the White House, was uniquely able to provide TIME with such information. Still, Woodward and Bernstein were clearly the most distinguished of the Watergate reporters, and their early attention to the story was critical to the failure of Nixon's cover-up. Their competitors, including those of us at TIME who worried each week whether the scoops we had in hand would be stolen away by a Woodward and Bernstein story, were intensely jealous of their sources. After their book All the President's Men revealed the existence of their secret source, speculation about the identity of Deep Throat, named playfully after a pornographic film of the era, became a Washington parlor game.
The obsession with the identity of Deep Throat sometimes took journalists, including myself, down strange detours. At one point several years after the Nixon resignation, two of us at TIME undertook to try to find the identity of Deep Throat. Although tracking down a competitor's source is not the highest calling of a journalist, we had always been intrigued by the fact that Woodward, at that point a very young and very inexperienced reporter, had managed to find a source as well placed as Deep Throat. We surmised that Woodward, having only been at the Post for a short time and at that covering minor local stories, had to have made this contact at some point in his life before journalism. We first tracked down the people whom he had met at Yale College and who also worked for Nixon and hounded them about their relationship with Woodward. One of those sources told us to look at Woodward's military service. Examining those records we found that he had been a courier from the Pentagon who regularly took documents to the National Security Council offices in the White House. We also learned from Woodward's first wife that she and Bob were occasionally given seats in the President's box at the Kennedy Center. This pointed us toward Alexander Haig, who before becoming Nixon's last chief of staff was military assistant to Henry Kissinger at the NSC. Haig repeatedly denied being Deep Throat, but we never quite believed him. Realizing we couldn't actually prove the connection without Woodward or Deep Throat himself confirming it, we gave up the hunt.
The Haig thesis finally proved to be a dead end when about three years ago Felt started to go public about his role as Deep Throat. First, Felt's family attempted to sell his story to national magazines. By then, age had taken its toll and it was difficult to ask him the kinds of specific questions that would have confirmed his claim. There was also the problem that his story's exclusivity could have been quickly eclipsed by Woodward's own account of the relationship. Later, Felt's family and his attorney told the story themselves in Vanity Fair magazine. Woodward subsequently published a short book detailing the relationship, providing the most interesting footnotes to a grim historical moment in the country's history.
John Stacks was TIME's Chief of Correspondents from 1987 to 1996; from 1973 to 1975, he coordinated the Watergate reporting of the magazine's Washington Bureau. He is the co-author of Judge John Sirica's memoir of the scandal's legal wrangling. | <urn:uuid:bb1c9b27-319b-4a81-b091-f0f527d3ce5d> | 2013-05-18T17:18:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The United Arab Emirates ended Australia's hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Olympics, winning 1-0 on Wednesday to bolster its own chances of playing at the Games for the first time.
In other Olympic qualifiers, South Korea qualified for the Olympics for the seventh time in a row with a 3-0 drubbing of Oman in Group A.
Bahrain kept its campaign alive with a 2-1 victory that put the brakes on Syria's surprise run in Group C, which is now led by Japan after its comprehensive 4-0 win over winless Malaysia.
Qatar ended Saudi Arabia's chances of advancing with a 2-1 victory in the Group A encounter. Qatar lies third, behind South Korea and Oman.
The winners of each group advances to the Olympics. The three runners-up will play off in a round robin competition starting in Vietnam on March 25. That team then will take on the fourth-place team from Africa, Senegal, for the final Olympic spot in a match to be played in England on April 23.
In Abu Dhabi, Australia set the pace early and had several good chances. Aaron Mooy forced the UAE keeper Khalid Eisa to make a diving save in the 15th minute and then five minutes later Eisa saved a shot from Oliver Bozanic with his feet.
UAE then went on the counterattack. Striker Ahmed Khalil fired in a blistering free kick that Australia keeper Matthew Ryan just got a hand on. Then seconds later, UAE midfielder Omar Abdulrahman collected a backheel pass from Rashad Eisa in the 22nd minute and fired a shot underneath a diving Ryan for the only goal.
Australia pressed late in the first half and nearly scored when Mate Dugandzic's effort clipped the crossbar in the 40th minute. It didn't create another good chance in the second half, leaving the team bottom of Group B and without a goal in the competition.
UAE tops Group B after Iraq beat Uzbekistan 2-1 Tuesday. The Gulf nation now needs only a draw in its final away match against Uzbekistan March 14 to qualify for the Olympics.
South Korea's Nam Tae-hee gave his team the perfect start when he scored after only one minute at their match in Oman. FC Seoul striker Kim Hyun-sung doubled the Koreans' advantage in the 68th minute before Kim Min-woo, who plays his club football in Japan's lower leagues with Sagan Tosu, adding the third just four minutes later.
In Manama, Mohamed Tayeb al-Alawi scored a brace for Bahrain to beat Syria and leave the teams tied for second, three points behind Japan.
Al-Alawi scored the opener in the 12th minute before netting the winner on the stroke of full time after substitute Ahmad al-Douni had equalized for Syria with four minutes left.
Qatar, the 2022 World Cup host, fell behind in the 12th minute after defender Ahmed Ali Walibi scored a penalty. But the home side were on level terms two minutes from the interval courtesy of skipper Hasan al-Haydos. Naser Nabeel sealed the victory 12 minutes from time.
In Kuala Lumpur, Japan rebounded from a shock loss to Syria by overwhelming Malaysia.
Hiroki Sakai opened the scoring in the 35th minute before Yuya Osako added the second a minute from halftime. Genki Haraguchi made it 3-0 10 minutes into the second half before debutant Manabu Saito sealed the win on the hour mark with his first goal for the Olympic team. | <urn:uuid:d18279f7-4ddd-481b-a4cc-1d959e6bc62a> | 2013-05-18T17:51:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Fighting between government troops and guerrillas had broken out around the 4-year-old girl's family home in the countryside of this Central American country. The soldiers took advantage of the confusion and seized Contreras and her two siblings, who were under the age of 2.
"We all fled the house and suddenly it all ended because they captured us and our parents disappeared," said Contreras, now 35 and living in neighboring Guatemala.
Contreras was just one of hundreds of children who disappeared under a variety of circumstances during El Salvador's brutal, 13-year civil war, which left some 75,000 people dead and thousands more missing. In most cases, the parents have yet to find out what happened to their children, while a few hundred of the missing have been identified after giving investigators DNA samples and other evidence.
Now, a human rights group, Probusqueda, is uncovering another macabre, and mostly unknown twist to the tragedy. In Contreras' and at least nine other cases, low-to-mid-ranking soldiers abducted children in what an international court says was a "systematic pattern of forced disappearances." Some of the soldiers raised the children as their own, while others gave them away or sold them to lucrative illegal adoption networks. In Contreras' case, an army private spirited her away, raped her and gave her
The crimes make El Salvador the second Latin American country proven to engage in such child abductions during internal Cold War-era conflicts. Argentina's military kidnapped hundreds of children of political opponents, and the prosecution of those responsible three decades later led to the indictment of top officers, including army Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla, then-head of Argentina's military junta.
No one has revealed the full scope of the child abductions in El Salvador. The number of confirmed abductions will likely rise if the country's Defense Department makes public files from the civil war era.
Contreras and the families of five other victims of military abductions successfully sued their government in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, demanding the military release more information. Three years later, the military hasn't turned over the requested files and the mostly retired officers suspected of adopting stolen children have refused DNA tests.
"Without those files we can't say this or that officer is responsible," said the country's attorney general, Oscar Luna.
President Mauricio Funes has tried to made amends for some civil war-era crimes, said Probusqueda director Maria Ester Alvarenga. The president belongs to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front party, which began as the guerrilla force battling El Salvador's U.S.-backed government, and could be expected to pursue such prosecutions.
"But it's surprising to me that he isn't making the military archives available," Alvarenga said. "I'm frustrated that nothing's been done at these levels."
Military officials refused to talk to The Associated Press about the cases, despite repeated requests for a meeting. Spokeswoman Vilma Quintanilla told the AP, "The request is in the hands of the chiefs, but still I don't have a response."
Several Latin American countries have hit stiff opposition from the military when they've tried to prosecute soldiers and officers for human rights abuses. In the cases of Argentina and Chile, prosecutors have succeeded in indicting and jailing top officials.
In El Salvador, Alvarenga said, the military "is a real power."
So far, the initial investigations have hinted at the possible enormity of the abuses.
Over the past 20 years, Probusqueda has received 921 reports of children who went missing during the war, with many killed in combat and others orphaned when their parents died. The human rights group has identified the parents of 382 of the missing through DNA tests, and of those, 235 have reunited with their families. Another 95 are waiting to meet their parents, while 52 have been found dead.
The majority of the cases, 529, remain unsolved.
A government missing-persons commission created in 2010 by order of the Inter-American court has also received 203 reports of missing children, with some of those cases likely duplicating Probusqueda's. Just last year, the commission investigated 124 cases and found 15 of the missing. Two of the children were located in Italy, and another was in the United States. Investigators found the corpses of eight children who had been killed and buried during the war.
According to Contreras and other sources, she, her siblings and nine other children were seized in 1982 as the U.S.-trained anti-guerrilla Atlacatl battalion clashed with rebels. A helicopter took away the boys, while the girls were driven away in trucks.
Army Pvt. Miguel Angel Molina ended up with Contreras and later registered her as his own daughter in the western Salvadoran town of Santa Ana, according to the Inter-American court, which also found that he had raped her.
"(The situation) put her in a state of extreme vulnerability that aggravated her suffering, acts of violence that she suffered during almost 10 years, that is to say, between the ages of 4 until 14 years," the court ruling says. Molina later committed suicide.
The court found the Salvadoran government was responsible for the abductions of not just Contreras but also of her two siblings—Serapio Cristian, who was 20 months old at the time of his kidnapping, and Julia Ines Contreras, who was 4 months old. The court also found the government responsible for the abductions of three other children who were between the ages of 3 and 14.
"That soldier stole everything from me," Contreras said. "He took away my parents, he took away my siblings, he took away my identity. I couldn't live like a girl because he never gave me the love of a father and he was always abusing me, even raping me. I was only 10-years old and I couldn't do anything."
Victims and investigators said justice won't be completely served until El Salvador's government carries out the entirety of the court's orders.
That includes accepting responsibility for the abductions of Contreras and the five others mentioned in the court ruling, and investigating those believed responsible. El Salvador has also been ordered to locate the four in the group of missing still unaccounted for, provide medical and psychological support to the victims, issue a public apology, name schools after those abducted and open government archives about the history.
In an Oct. 29 ceremony attended by Contreras, then-Foreign Minister Martinez Hugo Martinez fulfilled part of the order. He asked for forgiveness from "hundreds of Salvadoran families who were victims of the forced disappearances of boys and girls" and "who suffered the infinite pain of being hit by the disappearances of their most beloved and vulnerable people."
Yet Contreras' sister has never been found, and despite promises by the country's Foreign Ministry to name schools after victims, it hasn't indicated when it will start doing that.
The armed forces remain the chief obstacle to justice, said Miguel Montenegro, director of the nonprofit Human Rights Commission.
"Here, there's a strong power, a power exercised by old members of the armed forces," Montenegro said.
For Contreras, the quest for truth has been long, bitter and incomplete.
She eventually escaped Molina and stayed with one of his relatives. With the help of another of Molina's relatives, Contreras settled in Guatemala.
Her parents found her in 2006 after they appealed to Guatemalan officials and Probusqueda. Just recently, she reunited with her brother, who was also abducted and given to a soldier's relative. She's started her own family.
But Contreras remains distant from her parents and has yet to find her sister.
"I recovered my identity," Contreras said. "The other Gregoria doesn't exist. I have my husband and my children. I don't want anything more." | <urn:uuid:c524c8e9-8f03-4a2e-80fa-d3d1c99d97d0> | 2013-05-18T17:37:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Just about eight weeks ago, Julian Assange — the WikiLeaks founder and self-styled victim of an imagined international political conspiracy — sought asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London. After Britain's Supreme Court refused his appeal against extradition to Sweden, where Mr. Assange is wanted for questioning on alleged sex crimes, the 41-year-old Australian hacker broke his bail conditions and fled to the embassy, a few hundred yards from Harrods department store. Last week, Ecuador granted his asylum request.
Given that British authorities are sure to arrest Mr. Assange the minute he steps outside embassy premises, what this arrangement gives him is essentially imprisonment without a sentence. More interesting is what advantage Ecuador envisions from protecting an alleged sex criminal who was allowed to exhaust his legal options in one democracy and would be allowed to do the same in another.
Mr. Assange claims that extradition to Sweden will result in his being turned over to the United States, which, because of its embarrassment over the secret diplomatic cables and military logs WikiLeaks made public, might subject him to the death penalty. At a news conference of sorts on Sunday, in which Mr. Assange was careful not to stick too far out from the Ecuadoran Embassy's balcony, he went so far as to call on the United States to end its "witch hunt" against his organization.
Rafael Correa, Ecuador's outspokenly anti-American president, has stoked fantasies like these, having welcomed Mr. Assange to the so-called "club of the persecuted."
In January, he welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Quito. But he's also certainly aware that the United States has neither charged the WikiLeaks founder with any crime nor demanded his extradition.
Why then offer asylum?
Mr. Correa — who has cracked down on press freedoms in his own country — has begun to show signs of establishing the same sort of autocracy that Hugo Chavez has brought to Venezuela. He may imagine that protecting Mr. Assange will give a much-needed boost to his international reputation. But it also could have disastrous economic consequences for his country. As we've said before, the United States that Mr. Correa so despises allows Ecuador to export many goods duty-free, supports roughly 400,000 jobs in a country of 14 million people and accounts for one-third of Ecuador's foreign sales. Congress could easily decide to diminish that privileged commercial access early next year.
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COLDWATER, Mich. -- Maud Farris-Luse gently wrapped her wrinkled fingers around her daughter's hand, forging an unspoken bond between the two women.
It's one of the few ways the 114-year-old woman can communicate her affection, family members say.
The Guinness Book of World Records says she's the world's oldest living person. The designation was given June 19 after the previous record-holder, Marie Bremont of France, died last month.
The longevity record thrills Mrs. Farris-Luse, said Lori Ferris, 32, her great-granddaughter.
"She asked us if we were sure. And when we said 'Yes,' she said, 'Well, there are a lot of people in the world,' " Ms. Ferris said. "After that, she said, 'Wow.' "
Born just north of Grand Rapids on Jan. 21, 1887, Mrs. Farris-Luse now lives in The Laurels of Coldwater, a nursing home where she sleeps most of the day. She has trouble communicating, can't walk, is hard of hearing, and has difficulty seeing. But her vital organs are healthy and she eats three meals a day with her friends in the cafeteria.
For the most part, her family believes she's happy.
"What's not to be happy about," said Jay Neusbaum, 46, Mrs. Farris-Luse's grandson. "She gets three meals and relaxes all day."
And now she's the world's oldest living person -- not an easy feat when 6 billion people are on the planet.
"There are a lot of people out there who say they are the oldest living person but obviously all of these claims can't be verified," said Louise Whetter, researcher and record verifier at Guinness headquarters in London. "My job is to keep track of all the tips that come in. And at the moment, Maud Farris-Luse is definitely the oldest living person."
Mrs. Farris-Luse's life spans all of parts of three centuries.
When she was born, Grover Cleveland was president. At the time, there were no cars. Radio. Planes. Movies.
She has outlived all but one of her seven children -- Lucille Bull, 72, who lives in the Toledo suburb of Maumee.
"We always said she would have the biggest funeral in town. But now we don't think so, because she's outliving all her friends," Mr. Neusbaum said. "In fact, she's outliving many of her grandchildren."
It was Ms. Ferris' relentless research of her great-grandmother that led Guinness to Mrs. Farris-Luse.
An e-mail from a New York genealogist tipped Ms. Ferris off that her great grandmother likely was the oldest person in the United States. The news intrigued Ms. Ferris, who began digging up census records and looking for clues in Angola, Ind., where her great-grandmother moved when she was a young girl.
"When you die, sometimes you're forgotten," Ms. Ferris said. "I didn't want that to happen to my grandma."
With no birth certificate, Ms. Ferris used her great-grandmother's marriage license to certify her age. The license listed Mrs. Farris-Luse as 16 when she married her husband, Jason, in 1903.
When Ms. Bremont of France died on June 6, Ms. Ferris sent information about her great-grandmother to Guinness officials. A few days later, Guinness called and confirmed that Mrs. Farris-Luse was indeed the world's oldest living person.
Her family is excited about the news. So are people in the Branch County nursing home, about 90 miles northwest of Toledo.
"Meeting Grandma Farris is potentially more exciting than meeting the president," Mr. Neusbaum said. "She'll last longer."
Granddaughter Cindy Hewes of Maumee said family members regularly visit Mrs. Farris-Luse. But with more than 100 grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren scattered in the area, it's hard to keep track of who stops by the nursing home.
With great-great-great grandchildren added to the mix, Mrs. Farris-Luse is the matriarch of a family that spans many generations.
The majority of them remember her as an active woman who loved gardening and fishing with an 18-foot cane pole.
Mrs. Farris-Luse credits her longevity to fishing, not a healthy lifestyle or her secret recipe for moonshine.
"She said she went fishing a lot becuase God always said those days don't count," Mr. Neusbaum said smiling.
While she enjoyed most of her life, it wasn't an easy one.
Mrs. Farris-Luse worked at a variety of jobs, most involving manual labor. A proud woman, Mrs. Farris-Luse made ends meet by selling her garden-grown vegetables and collecting roadside dandelion greens, which she sold for $1 a bunch.
The death of her children hurt.
"She was very aware of the death of her kids, even when they were getting into their 80s and 90s," said Mrs. Hewes, 41.
Mrs. Hewes' mother, Lucille Bull, who is Mrs. Farris-Luse's only surviving child.
But the family knows that such sadness comes with beating the odds. Born at a time when women were not expected to live past age 48, Mrs. Farris-Luse is among a small group of medical marvels.
Although women's life expectancy has skyrocketed to about 80 years old and centenarians are becoming common, researchers are still interested in what makes a long-lasting person tick.
Her family recently gave permission to the Harvard School of Medicine in Boston to take her blood for research. Maybe, it's a key to mysteries of old age, family members said.
Mrs. Farris-Luse remained active and lived at home in Coldwater until she was 104 and suffered a broken hip. She then allowed herself to be admitted into a nursing care facility.
Her husband, Jason Farris, died 50 years ago when his wife was 64. She later remarried Walter Luse, a man who died three years into their marriage.
Mrs. Farris-Luse will be featured in the new book of records to be released in October. Officials acknowledge that the record of being the oldest living person in the world is broken often.
While Mrs. Farris-Luse's family is proud of her longevity and vitality, they know she has a long way to go before she is a permanent fixture in the book.
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The presidential candidate took time away from debate preparations to officiate the coin toss at a flag football game between reporters and his senior campaign aides. But he did not answer questions about how he would handle talks about the Middle Eastern country's nuclear program, how he was feeling about the Monday night debate with President Barack Obama or about a new poll showing a close race.
"I thought you were talking about one-on-one talks with the president, I was about to answer," Romney joked when a reporter assigned to cover his visit to the beach game asked about Iran.
He also refused to answer a follow-up question about whether he felt about this week's debate with Obama, which is focused on foreign policy.
"Ready for football," Romney said.
The White House on Saturday said Obama's administration is prepared to talk one-on-one with Iran to find a diplomatic settlement to the impasse over Tehran's reported pursuit of nuclear weapons, though there's no agreement now to meet.
While Romney's campaign has not addressed the specific proposal, the Republican has taken a hawkish line on Iran and its suspected attempts to develop a nuclear weapon. Romney has said he would tighten sanctions on the country, though he has not specified how.
Despite unprecedented global penalties, Iran's nuclear program is advancing as it continues to defy international pressure, including four rounds of sanctions from the U.N. Security Council, to prove that its atomic intentions are peaceful.
Those sanctions, coupled with tough measures imposed by the United States and European nations are taking their toll, particularly on Iran's economy. Iranian authorities have in recent weeks been forced to quell protests over the plummeting value of the country's currency. The rial lost nearly 40 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar in a week in early October, but has since slightly rebounded.
The topic is likely to come up during Monday's debate on foreign policy.
With less than three weeks before Election Day, Romney on Sunday headed to Delray Beach, where senior staffers were gathered across from the press team, all in flag football uniforms. Romney walked down through the sand to officiate the coin toss and buck up his team.
The former Massachusetts governor handed bracelets to both team captains, reporter Ashley Parker and Romney Communications Director Gail Gitcho. He told them the bracelets read, "Clear eyes, full hearts, America can't lose." It's a version of the slogan from TV's "Friday Night Lights."
After the coin toss, Romney gathered his aides into a huddle and led them in a cheer.
"Figure out which of their players is best and take them out early," Romney said jokingly. "That's right, don't worry about injuries guys, this counts. Win."
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The Carolina Panthers finished the 2011 season with an overall record of 6-10. They held a record of 3-5 at home playing their games at Bank of America Stadium and went 3-5 on the road. The Panthers ranked 7th in total offense and 28th in total defense in 2011.
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Rivers in South Korea
Travelers are voting Gyeongho River, Hwang River and Seomjin River as the best of 17 rivers in South Korea. Also popular are Sincheon in Daegu, Geumho River in South Korea and Taehwa River in Gyeongju. Want more? Check out our map of rivers in South Korea. | <urn:uuid:ec70721e-b622-4635-9a64-90367fb7aab9> | 2013-05-18T17:38:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Log Cabin Republicans: GOP Platform Is 'Ugly And Harmful'
The Log Cabin Republicans believed their presence at this year's GOP national convention would help move their party toward equality. They, as many predicted, were wrong, because the Republican platform is just as discriminatory and hateful as ever.
"The platform affirms the rights of states and the federal government not to recognize same-sex marriage," reads the party manifesto. "It backs a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman."
Now that their dreams have been dashed, Log Cabin leaders are lashing out at the GOP for its completely unsurprising bigotry. "The platform is ugly and harmful," the group's director of programs, Casey Pick, told NPR.
Pick also says that social conservatives' tenacious commitment to discrimination was only bolstered by her and her colleagues' involvement. "We lost," Pick said. "And you could say the social conservatives in our party dropped the hammer harder because we were there."
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Port of Johannesburg
Largest dry port in the world
The container terminal at City Deep is known to be the largest "dry port" in the world. The City Deep area has been declared an IDZ (industrial development zone) by the Gauteng government.
Johannesburg is one of the world's leading financial centres and it is the economic and financial hub of South Africa.
The city's manufacturing industries extend across a range of areas and there is still a reliance on heavy industries including steel and cement plants. The service and other industries include banking, IT, real estate, transport, broadcast and print media, private health care, transport and a vibrant leisure and consumer retail market. Johannesburg has Africa's largest stock exchange, the JSE. Due to its commercial role, the city is the seat of the provincial government and the site of a number of government branch offices, as well as consular offices and other institutions.
Imports by sea usually reach Johannesburg via the port of Durban. Shipments can be cleared and unpacked in Durban for on-carriage to Johannesburg, or forwarded directly to Johannesburg and cleared / unpacked there. | <urn:uuid:551be1b7-98a5-45fd-afc3-78b4643aa4dd> | 2013-05-18T17:27:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Whilst visiting Macau, it is recommended that you take the opportunity to see the Sun Yat-Sen Park which is located in the northwest of the Macau Peninsula. This park is one of forty-three Sun Yat-Sen Parks in the world. The park is 390 meters (about 426 yards) in length and 130 meters (about 142 yards) in width and covers an area of about 70,000 square meters (17.3 acres). It is the largest park on the Macau Peninsula. In recent years, the Sun Yat-Sen Park has received more funding than any other park from the Macau Local Council.
The park, which was created in 1987, was originally named 'Canal Dos Patos Park' to commemorate the friendship between China and Portugal. However, in 1990 a full-length bronze statue of Doctor Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) was placed at the entrance to the park and it was then formally renamed the 'Sun Yat-sen Park'. Doctor Sun Yat-sen is known in China as "the Father of the Revolution" or "the Father of the Republic".
Sun Yat-Sen Park is divided into two main sections which have distinct styles. The northeast section is laid out as classical Chinese garden with artificial lakes, an arched bridge, pavilions and towers. In contrast, the southwestern section is European in style with athletic facilities and greenhouses gardens. There is also a children's playground in the centre of the park.
Two features within the park are particularly worthy of mention. Firstly, standing as a symbol of the friendship between China and Portugal, there is a steel statue of two shaking hands in the center of the park. Secondly, the Huang Junying Public Library is a facility which is available to both children and adults alike.
Within the park there is also an open-air theatre, a swimming pool, pelota courts and grassed areas. Most of the attractions in the Sun Yat-Sen Park are linked together by a winding path which is 500 meters (about 546 yards) long. This is the longest of all the paths in the parks of Macau. | <urn:uuid:a8c11d0e-dc30-4964-8c8e-36c0c8fbf203> | 2013-05-18T17:38:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Buddha points to two mental qualities as the underlying safeguards of morality, thus as the protectors of both the individual and society as a whole. These two qualities are called in Pali hiri and ottappa. Hiri is an innate sense of shame over moral transgression; ottappa is moral dread, fear of the results of wrongdoing. The Buddha calls these two states the bright guardians of the world (sukka lokapala). He gives them this designation because as long as these two states prevail in people's hearts the moral standards of the world remain intact, while when their influence wanes the human world falls into unabashed promiscuity and violence, becoming almost indistinguishable from the animal realm (Itiv. 42).
While moral shame and fear of wrongdoing are united in the common task of protecting the mind from moral defilement, they differ in their individual characteristics and modes of operation. Hiri, the sense of shame, has an internal reference; it is rooted in self-respect and induces us to shrink from wrongdoing out of a feeling of personal honor. Ottappa, fear of wrongdoing, has an external orientation. It is the voice of conscience that warns us of the dire consequences of moral transgression: blame and punishment by others, the painful kammic results of evil deeds, the impediment to our desire for liberation from suffering. Acariya Buddhaghosa illustrates the difference between the two with the simile of an iron rod smeared with excrement at one end and heated to a glow at the other end: hiri is like one's disgust at grabbing the rod in the place where it is smeared with excrement, ottappa is like one's fear of grabbing it in the place where it is red hot.
In the present-day world, with its secularization of all values, such notions as shame and fear of wrong are bound to appear antiquated, relics from a puritanical past when superstition and dogma manacled our rights to uninhibited self-expression. Yet the Buddha's stress on the importance of hiri and ottappa was based on a deep insight into the different potentialities of human nature. He saw that the path to deliverance is a struggle against the current, and that if we are to unfold the mind's capacities for wisdom, purity and peace, then we need to keep the powderkeg of the defilements under the watchful eyes of diligent sentinels. | <urn:uuid:6e72168f-fdae-4979-91e7-38ec684a1945> | 2013-05-18T17:39:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The People's Partnership is being slammed for what is perceived as a lack of urgency in the handling of the now 18-day long hunger strike by environmental activist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh.
The People's National Movement (PNM), the Joint Consultative Council and Kublalsingh all expressed concern and disappointment that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has not yet properly addressed a matter that has engaged public and international interest for more than two weeks.
In a telephone interview yesterday PNM leader Dr Keith Rowley said he had "court clothes" and bashed both the Prime Minister and National Security Minister Jack Warner for "mishandling" the situation.
"I did anticipate them mishandling the situation," he said.
"Where else can a Government Minister tell a hunger striker to hurry up and dead?" he asked, referring to statements made by Warner at a Government public forum in Debe last Monday.
"I want to know what Warner prayed for in the Cabinet prayer. Warner said Dr Kublalsingh was eating doubles in the back of a van," Rowley said.
"We have seen the foolishness of Warner and his naked use of power when he destroyed the Highway Re-Route Camp," he said.
Rowley also blasted Persad-Bissessar for "embarrassing" the country on an international scale by improperly handling the negative fallout from the hunger strike.
Rowley visited Kublalsingh's makeshift camp on November 22, one week into his hunger strike and after speaking with him, wrote to Persad-Bissessar. In that letter, Rowley said it was his "sincerest suggestion that this is a situation where the age-old principle of "nobles oblige" could be applied for the wider good of not just those directly involved but for the peace, respect and reputation of the nation as a whole".
"In the time since I wrote that, I have seen myself attacked, denigrated in public by this government, but there has still been no official response from the Prime Minister," Rowley said yesterday. He was referring to the Government's public meeting in Debe last Monday where she publicly acknowledged his letter. She said then that "such thinking does not exist any longer in the new government for it is our philosophy that we are all one. In our government there are no kings and commoners, no masters and slaves."
"I thought if the Prime Minister received this correspondence she would deal with the matter in a decent manner. But not these people," he said.
Rowley urged that the Prime Minister and her Ministers leave the levity to local comedians "Sprangalang" and Tommy Joseph. He said the Government's "shallowness" was obvious in their response to the attempted mediation by the Joint Consultative Council and other civil bodies.
Afra Raymond, president of the JCC, also voiced his disappointment yesterday in the government's lack of urgency in resolving this impasse. Raymond and other civil bodies delivered a proposal to the Prime Minister last Wednesday offering an amicable solution to the stand-off. Hours after the 1 p.m. deadline passed on Friday. Raymond received a letter from Works Minister Emmanuel George suggesting a meeting tomorrow at 11 a.m. Raymond was not impressed with that time frame.
"I am very disappointed, we are disappointed and we remain willing, ready and able to meet with the Minister at any time over the weekend," he said in a telephone interview yesterday.
Though Raymond reiterated that urgency to George in an email response on Friday, he had not received a response yesterday.
"Let the record show, we are ready. I am disappointed, but I am also hopeful that good sense will prevail and we would see a solution to this issue," he said.
Kublalsingh said yesterday he was more disappointed that Persad-Bissessar had sidestepped her responsibilities by passing the core of responsibility to a Minister and not dealing with it herself.
"She has, once again, shifted responsibility to a line Minister," he said in a telephone interview yesterday.
Kublalsingh said his letter was addressed to the Prime Minister, as was the JCC's letter and yet she referred all responsibility to Works Minister Emmanuel George.
When asked for a comment on the Government's response to the JCC proposal via text yesterday, Persad-Bissessar responded: "Please speak with Line Minister George." | <urn:uuid:bc863913-8400-4f79-b18c-462362e48f93> | 2013-05-18T17:37:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A trip to Rehoboth requires two things--Thrasher's fries and Grotto's pizza. These are the best fries in the world. Have to have vinegar and salt.
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What a great place! The food is great, service tops, wine list wonderful, and the owner really cares about your experience! And try the outdoor seats---you can people watch--and enjoy your meal. Unfortunately, it's not open during the winter, but when it is open,this is a treat!! | <urn:uuid:c18174c4-1aae-4bde-bf92-c3049cd4469f> | 2013-05-18T17:57:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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14 days China Classic Tour with Guangzhou Break
China is a land of ferocious contrasts. Shanghai's ambitious skyline is a triumphant statement. If you are after history, indulge yourself in China's imperial monuments, stretching from Beijing to Xian and beyond. Seekers of modernity will find their requirements met in Shanghai and Beijing. If you are a nature lover, ...Read Full Description
- Trip Length:
- 14 days
- Best Time to Go:
- Any time.
- Recommended for:
Infants (under 2)
Children (2 - 5)
Children (6 - 8)
Children (9 - 11)
Children (12 - 14)
Children (15 - 17)
Adults (18 - 20)
Adults (25 - 29)
Family Trip, Group Retreat, Trip Around the World
Detailed Trip Description
China is a land of ferocious contrasts. Shanghai's ambitious skyline is a triumphant statement. If you are after history, indulge yourself in China's imperial monuments, stretching from Beijing to Xian and beyond. Seekers of modernity will find their requirements met in Shanghai and Beijing. If you are a nature lover, the amazing landscape and country scenery in Guilin, will never disappoint you. You will enjoy many places including Hutong tour by rickshaw in Beijing, Terracotta Army in Xian, cycling tour in Yangshuo and Acrobatic Show in Shanghai.
Day 1 - Beijing
International flight on your own arrangement.
Upon your arrival at Beijing airport, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure. Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel
Day 2 - Beijing
Visit Tiananmen Square, Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City in Beijing.
Today you will first visit the historic Tiananmen Square, and then the magnificent Forbidden City. In the afternoon, you will marvel at Beijing's splendid Temple of Heaven.
Tiananmen Square: the largest city square in the world and the spiritual heart of China, where the national flag is raised exactly at sunrise everyday.
Temple of Heaven: the place which was visited yearly by the emperors who performed intricate rituals to insure a good harvest for the whole nation at ancient times.
Forbidden City: located in the center of Beijing, used to be the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties with a history of around 600 years, it is the grandest integral palace complex still remaining in China.
Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel. Meals: B.
Day 3 - Beijing
Full-day excursion in Beijing.
Today's full-day excursion will take you to the majestic Great Wall(Badaling section), the Ding Tomb of the thirteen Ming Tombs and Sacred road.
Sacred Road: the path lined with stone statues of animals, mystical beasts and officials who are supposed to serve the emperor in his afterlife, through which the sitting emperors would go to perform memorial rituals for the ancestors once a year.
Ding Tomb: the burial site of the emperor Wanli, the 13th emperor of the Ming Dynasty who ruled for 48 years until his death in 1620, it is the only underground tomb of the thirteen Imperial Ming tombs ever excavated.
Great Wall: the most famous symbol of China and one of the world's most remarkable architectural wonders, it was built over 2,000 years ago and stretches about 6,700km.
Accommodations: Jianguo Garden Hotel. Meals: B.
Day 4 - China
After breakfast, you will visit Hutongs by rickshaw.
Hutongs: the old narrow paths with lots of courtyard homes where common people are living. They are like villages within a megalopolis. Through the hutongs' teeming maze of alleyways, you will see the old houses and learn about the daily life of ordinary Beijing citizens.
After then take the afternoon flight to Xi'an. China domestic flight on our arrangement.
Upon your arrival, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure. Accommodations: Hotel Royal Garden. Meals: B,L.
Day 5 - China
Full-day excursion in Xian.
Today, you will enjoy a full-day excursion to the incredible life-size Terracotta Warriors and Horses, after lunch, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and then the Bell Tower.
Terracotta Warriors and Horses: discovered in 1974 by local farmers digging a well, this is one of the most significant archeological finds of the 20th century. These 6,000 life-size painted Terracotta Warriors and Horses --individually sculpted from real-life models and arranged in battle formation have been protecting the mausoleum of the first emperor in Chinese history--Emperor QinShihuang for 2,200 years ago.
Big Wild Goose Pagoda: regarded by many as a symbol of the city Xian, the pagoda was built in 652 A.D. in the Tang Dynasty to house the sutras brought back from India by the famous monk Xuan-zang.
Bell Tower: standing in the center of the city and built in 1582, the Bell Tower is a three-story wooden structure with traditional Chinese architectural features. It is so called because an iron bell is hung in the tower to give the correct time.
Accommodations: Hotel Royal Garden. Meals: B.
Day 6 - Guilin
After breakfast, you will have a city tour to the Shaanxi Provincial Museum and the Ancient City Walls.
Shaanxi Provincial Museum: opened in 1991, the largest comprehensive museum in the province. The museum exhibits over 3,000 historical relics which is just a fraction of their collection. Most of the exhibited items are rare treasures, showing you the splendid Chinese culture.
Ancient City Walls : built during the 14th century on Tang dynasty foundations and they date from the Ming dynasty. The walls are the largest and best-preserved ancient fortress in the world. There is a gate in each of the four sides, and the gate towers built over each gate look lofty and magnificent and form a tight defence engineering system.
Onward flight to Guilin.
pon your arrival at Guilin, the most scenic city in China, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure. Accommodations: Guilin Park Hotel, Meals: B
Day 7 - Guilin
Private Car Service
After breakfast, drive to Zhujiang Pier (about 40-minute drive) to start the boat cruise along the tranquil Li River, the highlight of your sightseeing tour in Guilin, until you get to Yangshuo County.
River or Barge Cruise
Li River Cruise: Along the river, you will be inspired by the breathtaking views of peaks and pinnacles, crystal-clear water and reflections in the water together with the serene pastoral views of rice paddies and water buffaloes.You will certainly feel like you are walking into a traditional Chinese painting by cruising on this wonderful river.
Free time in the afternoon after checking in the hotel in Yangshuo. Accommodations: New Century Hotel. Meals: B,L.
Day 8 - China
Visit Yangshuo County, Yulong River in Yangshuo.
After breakfast, you will experience an interesting and enjoyable cycling tour along the road in Yangshuo.
Yangshuo County: founded in 590 AD, Yangshuo County has been booming because of tourism. With so many beautifully shaped mountains surrounding this county, it is described as "the world of green lotus and jade bamboo shoots".
Yulong River: a tributary of Li River, it is like a green ribbon winding peacefully through the rice fields and small villages. The unique-shaped pinnacles, the bamboo groves, the rice fields and the roaming water buffalos are all combined together to create a charming countryside picture.
Accommodations: New Century Hotel. Meals: B
Day 9 - Guangzhou
Private Car Service
Today, drive back to Guilin (1.5-hour drive) and have a city tour of the Elephant Trunk Hill, the Fubo Hill and the Reed Flute Cave before.
Reed Flute Cave: 5 kilometers away from the city center, famed as "A Natural Palace of Art", in which you can see lots of stalactites & stalagmites illuminated by the lights of different colors. You will also learn how they were formed.
Fubo Hill: where you can see lots of Buddha statues left about 1000 years ago in the Returned Pearl Cave and have a birds' eye view of the whole city after climbing up to the very top.
Elephant Trunk Hill : the symbol of Guilin, which resembles a giant elephant drinking water from the Li River.
Transfer to the airport for your flight to Guangzhou.
Arrive at Guangzhou. Be met and transfered to your hotel. Accommodations: The Landmark Hotel. Meals: B.
Day 10 - Guangzhou
Visit Chen Family Temple, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou.
Full-day tour to Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, the Chen Family Temple, Local free market.
Chen Family Temple: Also known as Guangdong Folk Art Museum, It was used to be the study house of Chen family in 1890s, also the best decorated ancient architecture in Guangdong province.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall: A Chinese style building which was sponsored by Chinese to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the great forerunner of Chinese revolution.
Accommodations: The Landmark Hotel. Meals: B
Day 11 - Shanghai
Free at Leisure until to be transferred to the airport for your flight to Shanghai.
Upon your arrival at Shanghai, our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure. Accommodations: Holiday Inn Shanghai -Downtown. Meals: B
Day 12 - Shanghai
Full-day excursion in Shanghai.
Today, your full-day excursion of incredible Shanghai will include: Shanghai Museum, the Bund and the Nanjing Road, Yu Garden and Yuyuan Market. Enjoy a wonderful Acrobatic Show tonight.
Shanghai Museum: often ranked as China's best museum, it is the biggest museum in China with a fine collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts.
The Bund : where the great trading houses and banks had their headquarters in the 1920s and the 1930s. The Bund is about about a mile long, it is the city's fulcrum.
Nanjing Road: known as "China's No.1 Shopping Street" with a huge selection of merchandise on sale.
Yu Garden: located in the Old Town of Shanghai and laid out in 1559 AD by a powerful Ming official, Yu Garden recreates a beautiful landscape of pagodas, pavilions, rockeries, fountains, ancient trees and precious flowers.
Yuyuan Market: outside the Yu Garden, a bustling market with different snacks and trinkets.
Acrobatic Show: Chinese Acrobatics is one of the oldest performing arts with its history tracing back to Neolithic times, during its development in the history, it has been absorbing plentiful merits from the opera, dance and Chinese Kungfu, and formed its own artistic features. In Portman Acrobatic Show, in a very typical Shanghainese setting and atmosphere, you will enjoy many breathtaking and stunning programs such as Calvaria Skills, Silk Suspending, Hoop Diving and so on performed by very skillful performers, you will truly have an unforgettable experience of your life.
Accommodations: Holiday Inn Shanghai -Downtown. Meals: B
Day 13 - Suzhou
Private Car Service
One full-day tour to Suzhou (100km away from Shanghai), which has been known as the Venice of the East. After your arrival, be met by your local guide. Your tour in Suzhou includes: the classical Humble Administrator's Garden and the attractive Lingering Garden, the ancient Tiger Hill Park and the No.1 Silk Factory.
Humble Administrator's Garden: covers 10 acres and is the largest garden in Suzhou. It was built in 1509 during the Ming Dynasty and is divided into the eastern, middle and western parts. All of this centers upon the broad expanse of a lake to form the poetic and picturesque garden landscapes and waterscapes with exquisite buildings and luxuriant vegetation.
Lingering Garden: is one of the four most famous gardens in China and was constructed in 1593 during the Ming Dynasty. It is famous for its artistic way of dealing with the spaces between various kinds of architectural forms and garden courts.
Tiger Hill Park: a symbol of the city, with a history of over 2,500 years, the Tiger Hill has had the reputation of being the No.1 sight of Suzhou, with a Song-dynasty leaning pagoda on top which was built in brick to imitate wood architecture.
The No.1 Silk Factory: Suzhou is famous for its silk production. In the factory you can learn more about silk production and detailed steps of the silk making process, and you will have an opportunity to purchase some of the incredibly delicate works as well.
Back to Shanghai after the tour in Suzhou. Accommodations: Holiday Inn Shanghai -Downtown. Meals: B.
Day 14 - Shanghai
Fly back home.
Free in the day until our local guide meet you and escort you to the airport for the flight to your sweet home.
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The NHL has suspended Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery indefinitely, pending a hearing with commissioner Gary Bettman.
Avery missed Tuesday's game against the Calgary Flames.
The Stars' super-pest is being suspended for disparaging remarks he made this morning in reference to Flames defenceman Dion Phaneuf and Phaneuf's girlfriend, actress Elisha Cuthbert, who previously had a relationship with Avery.
"I am really happy to be back in Calgary, I love Canada," Avery said on camera this morning in Calgary. "I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about. Enjoy the game tonight."
Cuthbert has also been romantically linked to Canadiens defenceman Mike Komisarek, while Avery also dated model and actress Rachel Hunter, the girlfriend of Kings centre Jarrett Stoll.
TSN Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie points to two reasons why the NHL felt compelled to hand out the punishment.
"I believe there are two reasons why Avery was suspended indefinitely pending his hearing with Gary Bettman and Colin Campbell," said McKenzie. "First is his specific choice of words, two words to be precise, 'sloppy seconds'. It's vulgar, the imagery is not good and in the mind of the National Hockey League, it's misogynistic, shows a lack of respect and objectifies women, in this case Elisha Cuthbert, his former girlfriend and current girlfriend of Flames' defenceman Dion Phaneuf. If he'd said ex-girlfriends, we wouldn't be talking about this.
"Secondly, there has been a long litany of things that he hasn't been punished for. He flipped the bird to a cameraman in New York, had verbal exchanges with Darcy Tucker as well as the allegations of what he may or may not have said about Jason Blake. There have been a number of things he hasn't gotten in trouble for and now that he has said this and crossed the line, the hammer has come down."
Avery's hearing will take place in accordance with the NHL Constitution, for conduct "detrimental to the League or game of hockey," the NHL announced. The NHLPA declined to comment on the suspension.
Stars owner Tom Hicks also released a statement on the team's website in which he said he supported the NHL's decision.
"Had the league not have suspended him, the Dallas Stars would have," Hicks stated. "This organization will not tolerate such behaviour, especially from a member of our hockey team. We hold our team to a higher standard and will continue to do so."
Teammate Marty Turco wasn't impressed with Avery's latest antics either.
"Unfortunately, you don't know what the right words are when ignorant comments are made, such as that this morning," Turco said following Tuesday's 3-1 victory over the Flames. "For us, the ability to focus maybe becomes more poignant right now, to bottle things up and play some solid hockey.. We're not gonna ignore what happened today, we're not going to pretend like these things don't happen or face up to it."
Centre Brad Richards echoed those sentiments.
"It's none of my business what he says and I'd rather not talk about Sean," said Richards. "He's got his own thing going on."
Forward Mike Modano felt that the comments were not what the Stars organization is about.
"It's way out of the ordinary and way out of what we expect out of each other, and you know.. It's gonna be dealt with and how it plays out, I'm not sure."
Sources tell TSN the Stars are expected to send Avery home Wednesday morning and NHL on TSN analyst John Tortorella agrees with the move and the suspension.
"The league stepped up here and I think they did the right thing. Enough is enough," said Tortorella. "He's embarrassed himself, he's embarrassed the organization, he's embarrassed the league and he's embarrassed his teammates, who have to look out for him. Send him home. He doesn't belong in the league."
And while NHL on TSN analyst and former player Matthew Barnaby does not agree with the suspension, he questions Avery's future with the Stars.
"As a former player, I don't agree with the suspension," said Barnaby. "Trust me, I said a lot of nasty things to a lot of different players but everything stayed on the ice. Bringing it out in the media is classless and stupid."
"I've played in that organization and it is a class organization. I think he's played his last game as a Dallas Star."
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- American Shani Davis won World Cup gold Saturday in the men's 1,500 metres at the Alau Ice Palace.
He finished first in one minute 46.01 seconds. Havard Bokko of Norway earned the silver medal in 1:46.34 and Zbigniew Brodka of Poland won bronze in 1:46.42.
Denny Morrison of Fort St. John, B.C., was sixth and Regina's Lucas Makowsky was 13th.
Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic won gold in the women's 5,000 in a track-record time of 7:00.75. Germany's Claudia Pechstein won silver in 7:01.05 and Russia's Olga Graf took bronze in 7:01.38.
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U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled Tuesday in the case of Michelle Kosilek, a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. Wolf said the Department of Correction must provide the taxpayer-funded surgery because it is the only way to treat Kosilek's "serious medical need."
Kosilek was born male but has received hormone treatments and now lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Kosilek was named Robert when married to Cheryl Kosilek and convicted of murdering her in 1990.
While courts around the country have found that prisons must evaluate transgender inmates to determine their health care needs, most have ordered hormone treatments and psychotherapy. Wolf is the first judge to actually order sex reassignment surgery as a remedy to gender-identity disorder.
"It's great to see a judge recognize that transition-related health care is medically necessary health care and that transgender prisoners are entitled to the same health care that other folks who are incarcerated receive," said Kristina Wertz, director of policy and programs at the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco.
Kosilek's lawsuit has become
Republican lawmakers, including then Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown, filed legislation in 2008 to ban the use of taxpayer funds to pay for the surgery for prison inmates. The amendment did not make it into law.
Now in the U.S. Senate, Brown said Tuesday that the sex-reassignment surgery would be "an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars."
"We have many big challenges facing us as a nation, but nowhere among those issues would I include providing sex change surgery to convicted murderers," Brown said in a statement. "I look forward to common sense prevailing and the ruling being overturned."
Diane Wiffin, a spokeswoman for the prisons department, said the agency would have no immediate comment on the ruling.
"We are reviewing the decision and exploring our appellate options," Wiffin said.
Kosilek first sued the Massachusetts Department of Correction 12 years ago. Two years later, the judge ruled that Kosilek was entitled to treatment for gender-identity disorder but stopped short of ordering surgery. Kosilek sued again in 2005, arguing that the surgery is a medical necessity.
In his ruling Tuesday, Wolf found that surgery is the "only adequate treatment" for Kosilek and that "there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care."
Wolf noted that the Department of Correction's own medical experts testified that they believe surgery was the only adequate treatment for Kosilek.
Prison officials have repeatedly cited security risks in the case, saying that allowing Kosilek to have the surgery would make her a target for sexual assaults by other inmates.
But Wolf, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, found that the security concerns are "either pretextual or can be dealt with." He said it would be up to prison officials to decide how and where to house Kosilek after the surgery.
He said the inmate had proven that those purported concerns masked the real reason for denying surgery: "a fear of controversy, criticism, ridicule and scorn."
Ben Klein, a senior attorney at Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, said Wolf's ruling "clearly recognizes that reassignment surgery is a legitimate life-saving medical treatment for transgender people."
"That did not start with the court; that's been recognized by major medical associations," Klein said.
The judge also said in his ruling that female hormones have "helped somewhat," but said Kosilek "continues to suffer intense mental anguish" because she truly believes she is a woman trapped in a man's body.
"That anguish alone constitutes a serious medical need," Wolf wrote. "It also places him at high risk of killing himself if his major mental illness is not adequately treated."
Wolf noted that Kosilek's gender-identity disorder has caused her such anguish that she has tried to castrate herself and twice tried to commit suicide.
Inmates in Colorado, California, Idaho and Wisconsin have sued unsuccessfully to try to get the surgery, making similar arguments that denying the procedure violates the U.S. Constitution's protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
Klein said Wolf's ruling in the Kosilek case could help bolster the cases of other inmates, but it doesn't mean every inmate will be able to get the surgery.
"A prisoner bears an incredibly high burden in a lawsuit to seek court-ordered medical treatment because prisoners have to prove (prison officials) have shown deliberate indifference to their medical needs," Klein said. "Not everybody will be able to prove it."
Kosilek's attorney, Frances Cohen, called the decision courageous and thoughtful.
"We feel very grateful that the judge listened very carefully to the medical experts and has given Michelle Kosilek what the prison doctors had recommended," Cohen said.
In a telephone interview last year with The Associated Press, Kosilek said the surgery is a medical necessity, not a frivolous desire to change her appearance.
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2. Migraine Is the Result of a Hypersensitive Brain
Most physicians—including experts in headache medicine—used to believe that migraine was caused by cranial blood vessels expanding and contracting, Rothrock says. “It was thought that migraine-associated constriction of blood vessels reduced blood flow to the eye or brain, producing aura, and that a compensatory dilation of the blood vessels caused the throbbing, sickening head pain.”
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Summer 2010 - Placed 23rd in the 10,000m at the USATF Senior National Championships (32:15.42).
2010 Track - Competed in the 10,000m at the NCAA Preliminary Round ... Was sixth in the 10,000m (29:31.01) and 10th in the 5000m (14:07.69) at Pac-10s ... Won the 5000m against USC (14:44.53) ... Placed sixth in the invite mile at the RJ/JJK Invite (4:06.31/3:48.06 converted to 1500m time) ... Placed 17th in the 10,000m at the Stanford Invite with the No. 5 time in UCLA history (29:00.21) ... In indoor track, had a top 3000m time of 8:03.71 and 14:03.58 in the 5000m (provisional qualifier) ... Athletic Director's Honor Roll ... USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree ... Pac-10 All-Academic second-team.
2009 Track - Regional qualifier in the steeplechase ... Finished eighth in the steeple at Pac-10s (9:09.05) ... Placed second in the steeple (9:04.82) and third in the 5000m (14:48.80) against USC ... Finished second in the 5000m at UCSD (14:37.15) and second in the 1500m at Cal/NV (3:47.85) ... Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention ... MPSF All-Academic.
2008 Track - Ran 9:13.02 in the steeple at the RJ/JJK Invite, placing 12th overall ... Ran 3:51.48 in the prelims of the 1500m at the Cal/Nevada Championships ... Finished fifth in his section of the steeple at the Stanford Invite (9:16.76) ... Pac-10 All-Academic Honorable Mention ... Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
2007 Track - Placed third in the steeplechase at the UCLA Invite (9:29.42), CSUN Invite (9:30.83), RJ/JJK Invite (9:14.49), UCSD Invite (9:21.97) and against USC (9:15.66) ... Placed second in the 5000m (15:04.90) against USC ... At the USATF Jr. National Championships, finished fourth in the steeple (9:25.95) ... Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
High School - Four-year letterwinner in track and cross country ... Prep bests of 51.5 in the 400m, 1:55.6 in the 800m, 4:17.8 in the 1600m, 4:20 in the mile, 9:28 in the 3200m, 14:58 in the 3-mile and 15:36 in the 5k ... Western League 3-mile course record holder (14:58) and champion ... Western League 1600m record holder (4:17) ... Won the 800m, 1600m and 3200m Western League titles in 2006 ... Western League Track Athlete of the Year in 2006 ... All-CIF San Diego Section Division II 1600m (champion) and All-CIF San Diego Section Division II 800m (runner-up) ... Team Captain for track and cross country his senior year ... Union Tribune All-Academic First-Team in 2005 and 2004 ... All-State in cross country in 2005 and 2004 ... Two-time Pepsi Outstanding Fall Athlete in cross country ... 2003 Western League Runner of the Year in cross country.
Personal - Born February 13, 1988 in San Diego, CA ... Son of Julio and Claudia Anzures ... Has one sister, Ariana ... History major.
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For Lent02.24.2013 | Catholic
Many people give things up for Lent - candy, Facebook, coffee, etc. While I like the idea of giving something up, it does not necessarily connect me to God in a way that is beneficial for me. (I'm not saying that it isn't beneficial for those who do it; I'm just talking about myself personally.) Instead of giving something up, I always look to do something extra. This Lent, however, I was brainstorming what I could do extra. But I was getting discouraged because my schedule is so hectic. I thought that maybe I could go to the 12:05 masses on weekdays, but I have classes at noon every day.
Fortunately, I came up with something that I've grown to like quite a bit - praying while walking. Generally when I'm walking, my mind is running in a thousand different directions; I'm worrying about things I need to do, of homework I need to get done, etc. I thought, "Kaitlin, you could be using that time to pray and connect with God." I've been trying it out with the Rosary as I walk, and I was able to say a whole Rosary on the way to and from work, which is pretty cool. I realized that when I got to work I felt fairly calm, and not so hyped up from all the swirling thoughts that are normally there.
I honestly think this "something extra" for Lent is something that I'll try to make a regular occurrence when I'm walking. It's very centering, not to mention it is a great metaphor for 'walking with God.' I'm glad this thought came to me this Lent - you should try it too, if it sounds like something that would be beneficial to you! | <urn:uuid:2c2fc734-943d-4938-9a2d-9623fe01b4ff> | 2013-05-18T17:39:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The success of The Wrestler caused the WWE to acknowledge the movie and seek an opportunity to co-promote. For Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky, Mickey's appearance at WrestleMania XXV can only help to raise the profile of the film in the eyes of a hardcore audience. Conversely, the WWE wanted to align itself with the Oscar nominated film about its own industry to raise its own profile in the eyes of the general public. The union seemed natural. Then Mickey called out Jericho on camera and people starting buzzing. During a interview on Larry King Live with Rourke Jericho appeared via satellite, attempting to play the role of the bad guy. Rourke demurred. Now, all we know is that Rourke will be in Houston. In what capacity, though, is yet to be seen. Rumors suggest he will just be attending, but I'm still holding out hope that he will climb into the ring, scale the ropes and drop a Ram Jam on Jericho.
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That worked great thanks! I have a few more questions that maybe you can help with:
1. Is it possiable to run a macro on multiple files at once and if so how?
2. I want to find a pattern and insert a new line and some text after it. Such as the following:
$result = oci_parse($query, $conn);
Would like to turn into:
$result = oci_query($query, $conn);
$r = oci_parse($query)
Where the red text is found and inserted into the line that is added. Not sure how to explain that, so I hope I did ok. The variable will always be differently named but it will always be a '$' followed by a legitimate variable name. Not sure how to insert in a new line so that is the hardest part for me. If I could turn it into a macro even better.
3. I would like to find any occurrence of the following and delete it. It will be part of a line so i don't want the line deleted only the occurrence. The catch is that it will always have a diff variable name it. So that will have to be claused. It will be any legit variable such as a-z any case 0-9 _ and - That is rep by the red text below and yes that is a space before it. I want to delete all but the ';' since that will be needed to end the line in the code.
Thanks for any help and I hope I described it well enough. | <urn:uuid:263db19d-1a6f-43ff-b416-d5603d366ef2> | 2013-05-18T18:06:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Status Report: March, 2011
Julien Chastang, Yuan Ho
Strategic Focus Areas
The RAMADDA group's work supports the following Unidata funding proposal focus areas:
- Broadening participation and expanding community
RAMADDA enables our earth science community partners to distribute geosciences data and metadata through web-based technologies thereby fostering scientific collaborations.
- Advancing data services
RAMADDA provides the geosciences public a mechanism to share and leverage earth science data. This feature is visible through user-end, web-based distribution and consumption of data as well programmatic access via RAMADDA APIs.
- Developing and deploying useful tools
RAMADDA assists in the development and deployment of useful tools by providing applications, such as the IDV, the capability to share and obtain geosciences data in a client/server fashion. Moreover, RAMADDA is a software platform that can be extended and built upon. RAMADDA plugins can provide enhancements to RAMADDA functionality. The RAMADDA IDV plugin, for example, enables web-based visualization of gridded data.
- Enhancing user support services
Unidata's RAMADDA installation enables the IDV team to communicate more effectively to our users concerning their issues. Specifically, during support ticket conversations, the IDV team requests that users upload pertinent data to RAMADDA for analysis. The IDV team also uses RAMADDA to share instructional screencasts with users.
- Providing leadership in cyberinfrastructure
RAMADDA is a web-based content management system specifically tailored for geoscientists. As such, RAMADDA provides the community unique capabilities that are not available elsewhere in the earth science arena.
Activities Since the Last Status Report
RAMADDA's migration to SourceForge
In order to better serve the Unidata community, RAMADDA development has migrated to SourceForge. Involving broader participation by the open source developer community will ensure the future success of RAMADDA. Unidata will continue participating in the RAMADDA project by supporting our user community and contributing to the open source development effort.
RAMADDA at AMS
During the 2011 AMS conference in Seattle, WA, Unidata demonstrated RAMADDA and the IDV plugin to booth attendees. We also assisted users with the installation and configuration of RAMADDA.
Tom Yoksas's RAMADDA demonstration at the University of Vienna
The RAMADDA team assisted Tom Yoksas with his demonstration of RAMADDA at the University of Vienna. This demonstration is in response to a request by Dr. Vanda Grubisic, current Chair for Theoretical Meteorology at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Vienna, past Unidata policy member, future head of EOL.
We plan to continue administering RAMADDA, provide community assistance and training, and collaborate with Jeff Mcwhirter, RAMADDA lead developer.
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Why the European Council has killed any workable EU patent
On Friday June 29th 2012, the European Council has reached an agreement between heads of State and government over a unitary patent and a flanking unified patent court. But, under the pressure of British government, such a deal was done at the expense of removing any overview from the Court of Justice of the European Union over patent law, through the deletion of provisions in the regulation on the unitary patent. But the Union law does not allow for such a move. Therefore the agreement reached by the European Council is doomed to be nullified.
The European Union is entitled to set up a unitary patent by article 118.1 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which reads as follows:
In the context of the establishment and functioning of the internal market, the European Parliament and the Council, acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, shall establish measures for the creation of European intellectual property rights to provide uniform protection of intellectual property rights throughout the Union and for the setting up of centralised Union-wide authorisation, coordination and supervision arrangements.
In the proposal for a regulation on the unitary patent, article 6 defines what constitutes a direct infringement to a unitary patent, article 7 defines what constitutes a indirect infringement to a unitary patent, article 8 defines limitations to rights conferred by a unitary patent, and article 9 defines the exhaustion of the rights conferred by a unitary patent. These articles define a minimal subset of substantive patent law. Removing them from the regulation, amounts to leave any substantive grounds for a unitary patent. This would clearly move the regulation out of the legal basis of article 118.1 TFUE.
Such a view was shared by the chairman of the Legal Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament, the German conservative Klaus-Heiner Lehne, who has rejected a proposal to removes articles 6-9 from the regulation during the JURI meeting of November 21st 20111:
And the Commissions was pretty clear, its legal service was pretty clear and this also seems to be the majority view in Council: there is a bit of a risk if we take these articles out, we won't really have a decent legal basis. Because the [legal basis is aimed at intellectual property, and if nothing is said on intellectual property, the legal basis would] shift out of intellectual property. Then you could end up in a situation where you could have read between the lines of the [Court] report that basically they wanted to retain their prerogatives. It's sure they will look at the paper very carefully. [there are different interests at stake.] There's the interest of those who want something practical, something usable, in patent law, and they don't really want the Court of Justice, because they find it bothersome [since it does not understand very well]. And [there are] those people who are [experts in European Union law], who say “well, in that case, [if it is Union law, then] it is the Court that is the final instance for interpretation. [Therefore the Court of justice has to be involved in all this procedure]“. And these two groups have some sort of a collision. I see that Mister Rapkay is nodding. I tend to look at things from the viewpoint of reducing legal risk, and more or less, to keep things as they are. That means we have things done in the regulation and [in the text for] the Court. But as I've put it out, the discussion was still run. [I don't know if] Mister Rapkay wants to contribute to the statement, [because things seems to me to be already pretty clear].
The German socialist rapporteur for this regulation, Bernhard Rapkay, has pushed this opinion in the same meeting2:
Well, one problem. Now, there was another proposal on jurisdiction. In fact, Council asked the Court of Justice to drop an expert report on how this could be compatible with EU law. And the Court identified inputs that are not compatible with EU law and that these need to be [changed], one of these was the proceedings [for referrals]. Now, I accept that basically you give them even more to do to control things are compatible with European legislation. And if we want to do things settled otherwise, then more remain about the situation where it's not compatible with Union law, and there will be a real pick-up. Furthermore, I'm concerned that we couldn't probably save us out of the troubles if we take all the material elements out. There will be many gaps we leave to others. But I'm not in favour of doing something which is a sort of content free. I mean the articles themselves specify what it is about. Furthermore, I think this could be problematic [to remove them].
Experts seem to be unanimous. But here, allow me to assess that in a political way. I could probably find a unanimous agreement of experts of a different view. This impression that experts are all singing from the same hymn sheet and that they want this, I think I have to say that's not an impression I’ve gained. I’ve talked to experts, I am not suggesting that they are saying the complete opposite, but those I have asked have said "No, it does not make any sense to get rid of that." There are many who believe that they want this in the Regulation. Please, let's not generate the impression [that all experts agree]. Well, Mrs Wikström said: “let's not go counter to the unanimous view of experts”. Well, non: it's the unanimous view of some experts. There are always interests at play. I have received letters from the German association of translators saying “Well what you are doing is terrible. This question of three languages. No, no, we need all languages”. One can understand where they are coming from. I mean, what we are not doing is guaranteeing the future of German translators. Everyone has got their interests. Now, I have a vague idea of what interests are at play. I know what one interest group is about and what the other interest group is about and at the end of the day we have got to arbitrate a decision. I think we should not tinker with the structure too much. Now in terms of the implication with the jurisdiction, here Mr Lehne has to come up with some ideas. You know I am something of a legal layman, I am happy to listen to legal experts, but the point is that there are all sorts of differing legal viewpoints but at the end of the day our job is to take a political decision.
Both Members of the European Parliament have referred to an opinion of the legal service of the Commission, stating:
Article 118(1) TFEU is the legal basis for "measures for the creation of European Union intellectual property rights to provide uniform protection of intellectual property rights throughout the Union".
Without Articles 6-8 of the UPP Regulation Proposal the UPP Regulation would not establish an intellectual property right providing uniform protection as it would be entirely left to the Member States to determine the rights of a proprietor of a European patent with unitary effect: Any question of what a patent proprietor could do with the patent would need to be determined by national law.
As the Court has held in C-350/92, a new IP right created by the Union, such as the Community Trade Mark, is "superimposed on national rights" and not a mere harmonization of national laws. In the absence of Articles 6-8, no right would be superimposed on national rights (nor would anything be harmonized for that matter).
Moreover, according to the case law of the Court, when the Union has regulated a subject matter the Member States have lost the power to regulate on the same subject matter unless to supplement the Union Regulation on subordinate points or to executed it. As said before, the matters regulated in Articles 6-8 of the UPP Regulation constitute the core of the patent protection and therefore cannot be regarded as subordinate matters. Thus, the Member States are no longer competent to regulate. Indeed, if Member States would have the power to determine the extent of the patent protection, the unitary effect of that protection could be endangered as each Member States could give a different content to that protection. When Member States cannot regulate individually, it is established case law that they cannot do so together outside the Union framework either.
The exclusive and uniform character of a Union regulation constitutes the essence of the Union legal order.
Moreover, all independent academic studies have confirmed that moving article 6-8 out of the regulation on the unitary patent is a legal dead end.
Hanns Ullrich, from the Max Plank Institute, has explained why such a move has rightfully been rejected by the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament:
Note, that such substance and uniformity may not be maintained by transposing Art. 6 – 9 of the Proposal of a [Unitary Patent] Regulation to the draft Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, as proposed by a resolution of 28/29 October 2011 of the “Intellectual Property Judges Association“ under the strongly voiced presidency of R. Jacob , and supported by an opinion given by Kraßer for the European Patent Lawyers Association (all available at http://www.eplawpatentblog.com/). This lobby initiative has been carried to the EP Legal Committee by MEP Wikström (see EP Legal Committee, Draft Report Rapkay, EP Doc. 2011/0093 (COD) of 27 October 2011, Amendment 65 – 67), but for good reason has not been retained. Not only does this proposal empty Art. 118 para.1 TFEU of its substance and carry the unitary patent out of the Council’s authorization of enhanced cooperation, since this agreement is to be concluded between the Member States alone as an international convention outside the framework of the EU. Rather, it also means that all the substance of the unitary patent will be derived from public international law, and, thus, although part of the framework regulation of the Internal Market, will be outside the reach of the EU as regards any future amendments as well as beyond the reach and oversight of the ECJ. The latter, of course, is precisely the objective of the judges’ move, the reasons given being fears of delays in infringement proceedings, and, indeed, that “the rulings of the non-specialist CJEU would (not)be clear”, and that “the whole point of creating a specialist patent court for Europe would be lost” (Jacob, ibid.). This shows that every possible attempt is made to escape EU law. However, the purpose of Art. 118 TFEU precisely is to confer upon the EU the power to establish an intellectual property system and a policy of its own. The provision has not been introduced to enable the EU to delegate that policy to Member States. In this respect, enhanced cooperation does not make a difference. Rather, it must be implemented in the same EU-perspective, since its objective is to intensify market integration with a view to expand it to the entire EU.
And Thomas Jaeger, also from the Max Plank Institute, has gone a step further, describing this attempt as almost schizophrenic, and bound to fail, no matter how provisions of substantive patent law are detailed in the regulation on the unitary patent:
While the patent judges’ move can hardly achieve the desired effect since the ECJ will necessarily be competent to adjudicate on the scope and effects of an EU law-based right in final instance irrespective of the level of detail to which those effects are laid out in the corresponding regulation, it is nonetheless evidence the somewhat contradictory and almost schizophrenic attempt to, on the one hand, ground the unitary effect in EU law by virtue of the legal basis afforded by Art. 118 TFEU while, on the other hand, trying to dissociate the patent as far as possible from the nature and institutions of the EU legal order.
Even if such an obviously illegal move has been pushed by the British delegation, the United-Kingdom European Scrutiny Committee has however concluded:
There is, however, in our opinion an inevitability to their inclusion. Whilst the arguments of Professors Kraßer and Jacob strike us as right as a matter of patent law, the counter-arguments of the Commission on what is required to implement Article 118 TFEU seem to reflect the firm views of the EU institutions, including the Court of Justice, as a matter of EU law. This calls into question whether incorporating a unitary patent regime within the EU will ever be practicable.
On the bottom line, with regard to all theses opinions, the decision of the European Council appears to be no more than a media hype. Would the unitary patent project comply with this decision, the regulation would never be able to come to life within the EU Law.
- 1. Original translation has been made by the linguistic service of the European Parliament. In the transcription, we have corrected some imprecisions with the help of the French translation.
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Dictionary Results for works|
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Hypernym(s): go, proceed, move
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Hypernym(s): use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
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Synonym(s): sour, turn, ferment
Hypernym(s): change_state, turn
38. work - verb
· arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"
Hypernym(s): become, go, get
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I would really like to have a playmode which is different from the usual daily tournament or death match, which could allow us to use those cards that are now unused in our collections.
For instance, cards such as Zatman
or Urlich and so on.
Let's think about it, these cards can be utilised only in certain events or in the, boring and useless, death match extended 25. If used in a daily tournament, they make you lose points, for the "elo" they are bans and for the "survivor
mode" they aren't strong enough... So what's their use?
I assume it's a game of collectible cards, but it would be still funny to be able to use all the cards of your deck.
I'm not talking about a mode with no rules, but about a playmode which considers your total achieved starts.
I think that something nice would come out, don't you? Maybe we would see the usual clans make some changes.
Well, I know that my idea is really vague, but I'm sure that the brainiacs of this game would be able to perfection it, and for those who are simple players as me, there would be more possibilities to vary the cards in their decks.
Moreover the game would become more funny, because we wouldn't be forced to utilize always the same playmodes and decks.
Thank you all, I hope that many people will agree with my idea. | <urn:uuid:a113f5fd-2519-4695-ad2e-e0576807db40> | 2013-05-18T17:18:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A anime character that expresses a feeling that you like seeing people in deep pain. If you like seeing people in pain because it happened to you or experienced it, then you're a Akito.
Akito is also a fruits basket character, a female leader of the zodiac clan.
Person 1: "Someone died from a car crash"
Person 2: " LOL GOOD FOR THEM
Person 1: You're just like Akito in Fruits basket...
The highest level assassin on SM Ragnarok Online.
Also used when referring to a high level assassin.
Oooh a high level assassin... who's that?
He's an Akito. | <urn:uuid:20746bdb-ed97-4c01-8beb-6f9d366fcdae> | 2013-05-18T17:37:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|14.||Zeeky Boogy Doog|
The phrase used to trigger a Zeeky H Bomb.
Guy 1: What's your favorite word?
Guy 2: Um... ZEEKY BOOGY DOOG!
|1.||zeeky boogy doog|
A phrase that, when uttered, causes a nuclear bomb to be launched from Mars and onto an unsuspecting victim. From the Demented Cartoon Movie.
Person A: "Don't say the zeeky word."
Person B: "What, you mean zeeky boogy doog?"
Zeeky H-Bomb: Zeeky boogy doog! (Boom)
by anonymous May 22, 2003 add a video
|2.||zeeky boogy doog|
By analyzing other transmissions from Mars, the following definition was procured:
Zeeky = Danger;
Boogy = Nucular;
Doog = Explosion
When uttered, these words will cause a nuclear explosion in the surounding area.
"Zeeky Bomb, You have been accused of being the one largely responsible for these explosions What do you have to say in your defense?"
Zeeky: "Uhhh... Zeeky Boogy Doog!" <Boom!>
Anchor: "Oh crap! that's going to be broadcast around the world!"
|3.||zeeky boogy doog|
A phrase, when said, causes a nuclear explosion. This was assumed to be caused by a mysterious machine of Mars, whihc flung an explosive towards the source of the phrase, but after its destruction, Zeeky Boogy Doog was still unsafe to say, therefore something else is to blame for these nuclear explosions. Most commonly said by the infamous Zeeky H. Bomb, a bomb with a crazed look on its face.
Blah Guy:Ooh, an ant! Wait a minute, that's not an ant...
*zoom in on ant*
Ant(with Zeeky H. Bomb for a head):Zeeky Boogy Doog!
|4.||Zeeky Boogy Doog|
When said a nuclear bomb is chucked from mars by a wierd machine and lands wherever it has been said and explodes. From Brian Kendall's Demented Cartoon Movie on albinoblacksheep.com See also: Fleece Narg Zip
Announcer Guy: So, Mr.Zeeky H. Bomb (cartoon style bomb with crossed eyes and weird smile), you have caused untold destruction around the world, what do you have to say for yourself? Bomb: ZEEKY BOOGY DOOG!
Announcer Guy: OH CRAP! THAT'S GONNA GET BROADCAST AROUND THE WORLD!
(Zooms out to world, a lot of nuclear explosions pop up, after world splits in two and explodes) (Possible misquote in first sentence)
|5.||zeeky boogy doog|
A word said in The Demented Cartoon Movie that causes a nuclear explosion.
blah23:we have to be quiet
blah24:yeah or we'll never see a kamikaze watermelon
*Fooby the kamikaze watermelon crashes into wall*
Zeeky bomb: Zeeky boogy Doog!!
|6.||zeeky boogy doog|
Words that trigger a nuclear mini-explosion in the Demented Cartoon Movie
Blah Cousteau: Now we have found ze bubblerfish. I will now shine the light on it.
Zeeky H. Bomb: Zeeky boogy doog!
Blah Cousteau: Oh 1@#$.
|7.||zeeky boogy doog|
The word that brings about a nuclear explosion from a metalic object on mars onto the speaker of the words in "The Demented Cartoon Movie"
Zigy H. Bomb: ZEEKY BOOGY DOOG!
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n. A Clutch play; eleventh hour savior
Did you see that game last night? Alex Rodriguez totally pulled an Aaron Boone.
Also known as god, Aaron Boone completely fucked the redsox up the ass.
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A good-looking guy used only for sex
Glex at 2 o'clock..... Only good for fun, not a future!!
the inverse of "flex" meaning, muscle tissue is forced inward making the body appear smaller and less masculine
The weight lifter is glexing in an attempt to fit in with the chess club. | <urn:uuid:64e985bf-be3c-4175-b591-8c37f8d52e72> | 2013-05-18T17:17:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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not to be confused with a bus down, which is a half smoked cigarette, a jailhouse short is a lit cigarette butt that would have been discarded had one not asked for it. on par with fishing butts out of an ashtray and relighting them.
comes from northeastern u.s. slang
Crackhead: "Can I get a cigarette?"
Guy: "Sorry, last one. You want this bus down?"
Crackhead: "Mothafucka, this ain't no bus down, this is a jailhouse short!" | <urn:uuid:526b76cf-d3c6-411f-9441-913387a17536> | 2013-05-18T17:47:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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You can rotate the lamp head of the Philips lighting fixture in the desired direction and bring light where needed.
The LED lighting technology used in Philips lighting fixtures is highly energy-efficient (7.5 W module produces 350 Lumen). As a result, every lighting fixture conserves energy, helping consumers to save money on their electricity bills and contribute to preserving the environment. For home lighting that's energy-efficient and provides great light in a range of contemporary designs, look for Philips LED products.
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EPISODE PREMIERE: June 15, 2008
A gossip columnist is killed and thereís a wide range of people who are suspects.SYNOPSIS:
A local TV news anchor is blackmailed by TK Richmond, a tabloid gossip columnist. When the anchorman goes to the police and wears a wire, the car blows up and TK is killed, the anchorman hurt.
Thereís a long list of people who want TK hurt, as the cops soon discover. He was blackmailing famous people, ostensibly for the money to open a restaurant. He lives with his 17-year-old sister Jeannie who is preparing for the funeral, and a mobster approaches Jeannie and itís obvious TK had some major gambling debts.
But the mobster explains that TK is worth more alive since he owes money, so they turn their attention on TKís humongous drug stash. Apparently, TK had inside information on athletes, and they suspect he was getting the information from his physician, Dr. Jacoby. Thereís also a connection to a blind item about Lloyd Spencer, a huge star who recently died on set, ostensibly from a heart problem. But when the cops investigate, the studio executive, Bev Tomkins, is shocked to hear about any drug involvement in Spencerís death. | <urn:uuid:ee1b77d4-13b9-4f55-9862-428ab0bc2b8e> | 2013-05-18T17:38:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Q: My husband wants to experience three-in-a-bed-sex|
with me and my sister.
A: Your husband is clearly devoted to you. He cannot
get enough of you, so he goes for the next best thing
your sister. Far from being an issue, this will bring
all of the family together. Why not get some cousins
involved? If you are still apprehensive, then let him
go with your relatives, buy him a nice, expensive
present, and cook him a nice meal and don't mention
this aspect of his behaviour.
Q: My husband continually asks me to perform oral sex
A: Do it. Sperm is not only great tasting, but has
only 10 calories a spoonful. It is nutritious and
helps you to keep your figure and gives a great glow
to the skin. Interestingly, a man knows this. His
offer to you to perform oral sex with him is totally
selfless. Oral sex is extremely painful for a man.
This shows he loves you. Best thing to do is to thank
him, buy him a nice, expensive present, and cook him a
Q: My husband has too many nights out with the boys.
A: This is perfectly natural behaviour - and it should
be encouraged. The man is a hunter and he needs to
prove his prowess with other men. Far from being
pleasurable, a night out with the boys is a stressful
affair, and to get back to you is a relief for your
partner. Just look back at how emotional and happy the
man is when he returns to his stable home. Best thing
to do is to buy him a nice, expensive present, and
cook him a nice meal and don't mention this aspect of
Q: My husband doesn't know where my clitoris is.
A: Your clitoris is of no concern to your husband. If
you must mess with it, do it in your own time. To help
with the family budget you may wish to video tape
yourself while doing this, and to sell it at flea
markets. To ease your selfish guilt, buy your man a
nice expensive present, and cook him a delicious meal.
Q: My husband is uninterested in foreplay.
A: Foreplay to a man is very hurtful. What it means is
that you do not love your man as much as you should -
he has to work a lot to get you in the mood. Abandon
all wishes in this area, and make it up to him by
buying a nice expensive present, and cooking a nice
Q: My husband has never given me an orgasm.
A: The female orgasm is a myth. It is fostered by
militant, man-hating feminists and is a danger to the
family unit. Don't mention it again to him and show
your love to him by buying a nice expensive present
and don't forget to cook him a delicious meal.
Q: How do I know if I'm ready for sex ?
A: Ask your boyfriend. He'll know when the time is
right. When it comes to love and sex, men are much
more responsible, since they're not confused
emotionally as women. It's a proven fact.
Q: Should I have sex on the first date ?
A: YES. Before if possible.
Q: What exactly happens during the act of sex ? A:
Again, this is entirely up to the man. The important
thing to remember is that you must do whatever he
tells you without question. Sometimes, however, he may
ask you to do certain things that may at first seem
strange to you. Do them anyway.
Q: How long should the sex act last ? A: There is no
average time, but anything over two minutes is good.
Anything under that and you may be rushing your man.
After your man has finished making love, he'll have a
natural desire to leave you suddenly, and go out with
his friends to play golf. Or perhaps another activity,
such as going out with his friends to the bar for the
purpose of consuming large amounts of alcohol and
sharing a few personal thoughts with his buddies.
Don't feel left out--while he's gone you can busy
yourself by doing his laundry, cleaning his apartment,
or perhaps even going out to buy him an expensive
gift. He'll come back when he's ready.
Q: What is "afterplay?"
A: After a man has finished making love, he needs to
replenish his manly energy. "Afterplay" is simply a
list of important activities for you to do after the
lovemaking. This includes lighting his cigarette,
making him a sandwich or pizza, bringing him a few
beers, or leaving him alone to sleep while you go out
and buy him an expensive gift.
Q: Does the size of the penis matter ?
A: Yes. Although many women believe that quality, not
quantity, is important, studies show this is simply
not true. The average erect male penis measures about
3 inches. Anything longer than that is extremely rare
and, if by some chance your lover's sexual organ is 4
inches or over, you should go down on your knees and
thank you lucky stars and do everything possible to
please him, such as doing his laundry, cleaning his
apartment and buying him an expensive gift.
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Constitutional FAQ Answer #5
Q5. "What do you believe are the reasons why the Constitution would not have been passed without the Bill of Rights."
A. Actually, the Constitution did pass without the Bill of Rights, as the first ten amendments are commonly known. The Constitution was ratified in 1788. Amendments 1-10 were adopted in 1791. | <urn:uuid:1ae117ef-98b4-4916-9367-b35159a5186c> | 2013-05-18T17:36:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Creative Assembly's critically acclaimed RTS franchise goes the story-driven route for the first time with three campaigns designed around one of military history's most complicated figures in Napoleon: Total War. Gamers can control either the legendary general himself, or one of his many Austrian and British opponents, in three campaigns that follow the diminutive dictator's rise and fall. Players can reenact Napoleon's early campaigns through Italy and Egypt, and perhaps rewrite history by changing the fortunes of his disastrous march from Moscow and his final defeat at Waterloo. As in previous entries in the series, Napoleon: Total War finds gamers controlling massive armies over land and sea in real-time, making use of historically accurate weapons and battle units. An in-depth diplomacy system allows players to broker peace through non-military means such as treaties and espionage, while a full set of online multiplayer options includes editors, gameplay bonuses, and Steam achievements.
The "Limited Edition" includes the full game and a voucher that allows players to download two exclusive unit packs. The "Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars" pack offers ten new infantry and cavalry units, while the "Elite Regiment" pack includes five new military forces of its own. ~ Christopher Brown, All Game GuideNapoleon: Total War -- Limited Edition, click here for more details | <urn:uuid:59de8e7c-d280-46ad-8975-a6dd4c414611> | 2013-05-18T17:48:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Rankings of doctoral programs in the sciences are based solely on the results of surveys sent to academics in biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and statistics during fall 2009.
[See the Best Science Schools rankings.]
The individuals rated the quality of the program at each institution on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding). Individuals who were unfamiliar with a particular school's programs were asked to select "don't know."
The schools with the highest average scores among those who rated them were sorted in descending order and appear in the ranking table. All doctoral surveys were conducted by Synovate.
The universe of schools surveyed in biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, mathematics, and physics consisted of schools that awarded at least five doctoral degrees for the years from 2003 through 2008, according to the National Science Foundation report "Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards."
The American Statistical Association provided U.S. News with eligible programs for statistics. In biological sciences, graduate programs may be offered in a university's medical school or its college of arts and sciences. In statistics, graduate programs may be offered through a biostatistics or statistics department.
Questionnaires were sent to the department heads and directors of graduate studies at each program in each discipline.
Response rates for the doctoral Ph.D. sciences were as follows: for biological sciences, 15 percent; chemistry, 25 percent; computer science, 46 percent; earth sciences, 29 percent; mathematics, 34 percent; physics, 31 percent; and statistics, 67 percent.
The number of schools surveyed were: biological sciences—256, chemistry—197, computer science—155, earth sciences—112, mathematics—164, physics—169, and statistics—75.
In the Ph.D. sciences rankings, programs with an average peer assessment score of equal to or greater than 2.0 are numerically ranked. All those with average peer assessment scores of less than 2.0 are listed in alphabetical order as RNP, or Rank Not Published by U.S. News.
Specialty rankings in the Ph.D. sciences are based solely on nominations by department heads and directors of graduate studies at peer schools. These respondents ranked up to 10 programs in each area. Those with the most votes appear in the rankings tables.
Rank Not Published means that U.S. News did calculate a numerical ranking for that school/program, but decided for editorial reasons that since the school/program ranked below the U.S. News cutoff that U.S. News would not publish the ranking for that school/program.
U.S. News will supply schools/programs listed as Rank Not Published with their numerical rankings, if they submit a request following the procedures listed in the Information for School Officials.
Schools/programs marked as Rank Not Published are listed alphabetically. Schools offering Ph.D. science programs, whose ranking is based solely on a 5.0 peer assessment score, are numerically ranked down to a peer assessment score of greater than or equal to 2.0. Schools with scores beneath 2.0 are listed in alphabetical order as Rank Not Published. | <urn:uuid:6cf13355-04b5-4290-b8ac-2eaa8ff09d1b> | 2013-05-18T17:32:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Vatican has finally made peace with the Beatles, saying their drug use, "dissolute" lives and even the claim that the band was bigger than Jesus are all in the past - while their music lives on.
Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano paid tribute to the Fab Four in its weekend editions, with two articles and a front-page cartoon reproducing the crosswalk immortalized on the cover of the band's album "Abbey Road."
The tribute marked the 40th anniversary of the band's breakup.
"It's true, they took drugs; swept up by their success, they lived dissolute and uninhibited lives," said the paper. "They even said they were more famous than Jesus," it said, recalling John Lennon's 1966 comment that outraged many Catholics and others.
"But, listening to their songs, all of this seems distant and meaningless," L'Osservatore said. "Their beautiful melodies, which changed forever pop music and still give us emotions, live on like precious jewels."
It is not the first time the Vatican has praised the legendary band from Liverpool.
Two years ago, Vatican media hailed the Beatles' musical legacy on the 40th anniversary of the "White Album." And last month the Vatican paper included "Revolver" in its semiserious list of top-10 albums.
Now, L'Osservatore says that the Beatles' songs have stood the test of time, and that the band remains "the longest-lasting, most consistent and representative phenomenon in the history of pop music."
Giovanni Maria Vian, the editor in chief of L'Osservatore Romano, said Monday that he loves the Beatles.
He said that at the time of Lennon's sensational statement, Osservatore "commented that in reality it wasn't that scandalous, because the fascination with Jesus was so great that it attracted these new heroes of the time."
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Protesters battled police for hours in Cairo on Monday and thousands marched through Egypt's three Suez Canal cities in direct defiance of a night-time curfew and state of emergency, handing a blow to the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's attempts to contain five days of spiraling political violence.
Nearly 60 people have been killed in the wave of unrest, clashes, rioting and protests that have touched cities across the country but have hit the hardest in the canal cities, where residents have virtually risen up in outright revolt.
The latest death came on Monday in Cairo, where a protester died of gunshot wounds as youths hurling stones battled all day and into the night with police firing tear gas near Qasr el-Nil Bridge, a landmark over the Nile next to major hotels. In nearby Tahrir Square, protesters set fire to a police armored personnel carrier, celebrating as it burned in scenes reminiscent of the 2011 revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
"I will be coming back here every day until the blood of our martyrs is avenged," said 19-year-old carpenter Islam Nasser, who wore a Guy Fawkes mask as he battled police near Tahrir square.
Angry and at times screaming and wagging his finger, Morsi on Sunday declared a 30-day state of emergency and a nighttime curfew on the three Suez Canal cities of Suez, Ismailiya and Port Said and their provinces of the same names. He said he had instructed the police to deal "firmly and forcefully" with the unrest and threatened to do more if security was not restored.
But when the 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew began Monday evening, crowds marched through the streets of Port Said, beating drums and chanting, "Erhal, erhal," or "Leave, leave" - a chant that first rang out during the 18-day uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011 but is now directed at Morsi.
"We completely reject Morsi's measures. How can we have a curfew in a city whose livelihood depends on commerce and tourism?" said Ahmed Nabil, a schoolteacher in the Mediterranean coastal city.
In Suez and Ismailiya, thousands in the streets after curfew chanted against Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which he hails. In Suez, residents let off fireworks that lit the night sky.
"Oh Morsi, Suez has real men," they chanted.
In Ismailiya, residents organized street games of soccer to emphasize their contempt for the curfew and state of emergency.
On Morsi's orders over the weekend, army troops backed with tanks and armored vehicles have deployed in Port Said and Suez - the two cities worst hit by the violence - to restore security, but they did not intervene to enforce the curfew on Monday night.
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Wang Guangmei, the widow of China's former President Liu Shaoqi and a powerful figure before she was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, died Friday in Beijing. She was 85.
Wang was once widely known in China as its beautiful, articulate, sophisticated first lady. Liu was president from 1959 to 1967, when he became one of the first high-level officials to be denounced as a “capitalist roader” and purged by Mao during the Cultural Revolution.
Liu died in prison in 1969, after being beaten and tortured. Wang was also arrested and accused of being an American spy.
In some of the uglier scenes of the decade-long Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966, she was publicly humiliated at mass rallies by a group of Red Guards who forced her to wear a necklace of Ping-Pong balls.
After Mao's death in 1976, Liu was rehabilitated by the Communist Party and the notorious Gang of Four, who were accused of conspiring on Mao's behalf, were imprisoned and put on trial.
Wang, who had spent about 12 years in prison, was released in 1979, just before Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, a leader of the Gang of Four, was put on trial and accused of leading the effort to destroy Liu and his wife.
Wang Guangmei was born in 1921 and grew up in a distinguished and prominent Chinese family. Her father was a government minister and a diplomat; her mother was an educator.
Wang studied French, Russian and English, and earned a degree in physics from Furen Catholic University in Beijing. She also studied at an American missionary university.
In the mid-1940s, she traveled to the Communist Party headquarters in Yanan and served as an interpreter during efforts by the American statesman George C. Marshall to negotiate a truce between the Nationalist government and the Communist rebels.
There, at the age of 24, she met Liu Shaoqi, who was nearly twice her age and had married five times before.
For years she served as his secretary. He was named a key deputy to Mao after the Communists took power in 1949. In 1959 Liu was named president, making him the second most powerful man in the country.
In the early 1960s, the couple traveled abroad on state visits to Afghanistan, Burma, Pakistan and Indonesia.
But in 1966, Wang was part of a group that purged the party leadership of Tsinghua University, and the effort backfired when she came under attack by a militant opponent who accused her of being a counterrevolutionary. This came at a time when her husband was also under fire by Mao and his deputies as being the leading “capitalist roader.”
Jiang Qing, Mao's fifth wife, was said to be jealous and angry with Wang and to have complained about the way she dressed, even wearing a pearl necklace on a trip abroad.
Wang was put under house arrest, then imprisoned.
After she was released in 1979, however, she was appointed a member of the National People's Congress standing committee, and she devoted herself to social causes. She donated some of her family's valuable antiques, a few dating back to the Qing and Song dynasties, to charity.
She is survived by her four children, some of whom have risen to prominent positions.
Her eldest son, Lt. Gen. Liu Yuan, was appointed a political commissar of the Academy of Military Sciences, a rank equivalent to a Cabinet minister, according to Reuters.
Her daughter, Ting Liu, graduated from Boston University and Harvard Business School and is chairman and president of the Asia Link Group, consultants in corporate finance. | <urn:uuid:8362f9cd-7608-481d-a503-3f844787ef78> | 2013-05-18T17:20:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sick-Day Guidelines for People With Diabetes
What happens when you are sick
When you are sick, your body reacts by releasing hormones to fight infection. But these hormones raise blood sugar levels and at the same time make it more difficult for insulin to lower blood sugar. When you have diabetes, even a minor illness can lead to dangerously high blood sugar. This may cause life-threatening complications, such as diabetic ketoacidosis or a hyperosmolar state.
Work with your doctor to make a sick-day plan for you or your child with diabetes. Discuss your target blood sugar goal during an illness, how you should adjust your insulin dose and timing (if you take insulin), and when you need to contact your doctor for help. Also, make sure you know how often to check blood sugar and urine ketone levels. Keep your plan in a convenient place, and include contact information in case you need to reach your doctor at night or on the weekends.
Steps to take during an illness
Here are some general sick-day guidelines:
- Continue taking your diabetes medicine even if you are vomiting and having trouble eating or drinking. Your blood sugar may continue to rise because of your illness. If you cannot take your medicines, call your doctor and discuss whether you need to adjust your insulin dose or other medicine.
- Try to eat your normal types and amounts of food and to drink
extra fluids, such as water, broth, carbonated drinks, and fruit juice.
Encourage your child to drink extra liquids to prevent
- If your blood sugar level is higher than 240 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), or the blood sugar level your doctor recommends, drink extra liquids that do not contain sugar, such as water or sugar-free cola.
- If you cannot eat the foods in your regular diet, drink extra liquids that contain sugar and salt, such as soup, sports drinks, or milk. You may also try eating foods that are gentle on the stomach, such as crackers, gelatin, or applesauce. Try to eat or drink 50 grams (g) of carbohydrate every 3 to 4 hours. For example, 6 saltine crackers, 1 cup (8 fl oz) of milk, and ½ cup (4 fl oz) of orange juice each contain approximately 15 g of carbohydrate.
- Check your blood sugar at least every 3 to 4 hours, or more often if it is rising quickly, even through the night. If your blood sugar level rises above 240 mg/dL and your doctor has told you to take an extra insulin dose for high blood sugar levels, take the appropriate amount. If you take insulin and your doctor has not told you to take a specific amount of additional insulin, call him or her for advice.
- If you take insulin, do a urine test for ketones every 4 to 6 hours, especially if your blood sugar is higher than 300 mg/dL (or the blood sugar level your doctor recommends). Call your doctor if you have more than 2+ or moderate ketones in your urine. Check your child's urine for ketones at least every 6 hours, even through the night.
- Weigh yourself and check your temperature, breathing rate, and pulse frequently if your blood sugar is higher than 300 mg/dL. If you are losing weight and your temperature, breathing rate, and pulse are increasing, contact a doctor. You may be getting worse.
- Don't take any nonprescription medicines without talking with your doctor. Many nonprescription medicines affect your blood sugar level.
When to call your doctor
Minor illnesses in people with diabetes—especially children with type 1 diabetes—can lead to very high blood sugar levels and possible emergencies. When children are sick, watch them closely for signs that they need immediate medical attention. Call 911 or other emergency services if you or your child has:
- Symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), such as abdominal pain, vomiting, rapid breathing, fruity-smelling breath, or severe drowsiness.
- Symptoms of dehydration, such as a dry mouth and very yellow or dark urine. Dehydration is particularly dangerous in children and may be caused by vomiting and diarrhea.
- A low blood sugar level that continues.
It may not be necessary to call your doctor every time you or your child with diabetes has a mild illness, such as a cold. But it is a good idea to call for advice when you are sick and:
- You have a blood sugar level that stays higher than the level the doctor has set for you, for example, 240 mg/dL for two or more readings.
- You have more than 2+ or moderate ketones in your urine.
- You still have a fever and are not feeling better after a few days.
- You are vomiting or having diarrhea for more than 6 hours.
When you are sick, write down the medicine(s) you have been taking and whether you have changed the dosage of your diabetes medicines based on your sick-day plan. Also note changes in your body temperature, weight, blood sugar, and urine ketone levels. Have this information handy when you talk to your doctor.
Last Revised: December 4, 2012
Author: Healthwise Staff
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If you have
chronic pain, such as with fibromyalgia or complex regional pain syndrome, you may have a hard time sleeping or you may wake up feeling tired and
unrefreshed. Some experts believe poor sleep can make pain worse.
Getting a good night's sleep may help.
Practice good sleeping habits. Go to bed only
when you are sleepy, and get up at the same time each day, whether you are
rested or not.
Avoid alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine for 4 to 6
hours or longer before bedtime. These can lead to poor sleep.
to go to bed and get up at the same time every day.
Do not read,
eat, work, or watch television in bed. Use your bed only for sleeping and
Keep your bedroom at a comfortable
Make sure your mattress provides good support. Use a
neck support pillow to stabilize your head and neck during
Eliminate or block out all sound and light that may disturb
your sleep. Try using a sleep mask and earplugs to help you
If you lie awake in bed for longer than 15 minutes, get up,
leave the bedroom, and do something quiet (read or listen to music) until you
are sleepy again.
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Cancer During Pregnancy
Topic Overview Back to top
On rare occasions, cancer coincides with pregnancy. Because the medicines and radiation used for treating cancer can be dangerous to a fetus, a pregnant woman and her doctors must weigh a number of factors when planning her care, including:
- The fetus's gestational age.
- The type and location of the cancer.
- How advanced the cancer is.
- How rapidly the cancer is developing.
- Whether she has other health problems.
In nonpregnant women, surgery may be used to remove cancer, depending on the cancer's type and location. After surgery to remove cancer, radiation, chemotherapy, or a combination of the two may be used to kill any remaining cancer cells. When treating a pregnant woman, doctors adjust the usual treatment regimen with the following in mind. 1
- Radiation therapy for cancer treatment is not usually used during pregnancy because in can be harmful to the baby.
- Diagnostic tests that use radiation may be used during pregnancy if necessary. But ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are considered safer and are used whenever possible.
- Chemotherapy medicines are not usually used during the first trimester because of the risks to the fetus, but there are some that may be safely given in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy.
Whenever possible, doctors try to delay chemotherapy during pregnancy to minimize the effects on the fetus. Such decisions depend on how advanced the cancer is and how quickly it is developing.
- If cancer is diagnosed in the third trimester, it may be possible to first deliver the baby, then start treatment. Once the fetus's lungs are mature, as confirmed by amniocentesis, an early cesarean or induced delivery can shorten the wait till treatment.
- If cancer is diagnosed in the first or second trimester, your doctors may try to delay chemotherapy as long into the second trimester as possible.
- If advanced cancer is diagnosed in the first trimester, and immediate radiation and chemotherapy are necessary, your doctor may recommend ending the pregnancy.
If you have been diagnosed with cancer during your pregnancy, you will be working with a number of health professionals. Ask your cancer specialist (oncologist) for the name of a licensed medical social worker who can help support you through your treatment. A social worker can also help coordinate the various professionals involved with your care.
References Back to top
Credits Back to top
|Primary Medical Reviewer||Sarah Marshall, MD - Family Medicine|
|Specialist Medical Reviewer||Kirtly Jones, MD - Obstetrics and Gynecology|
|Last Revised||July 23, 2012|
Last Revised: July 23, 2012
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Roundworm Infection in Dogs
Roundworms (nematodes or ascarids) are parasites that live freely in the intestine, feeding off of partially digested intestinal contents. Their name is derived from their tubular or "round" shape.
Toxocara canis and Toxascaris leonina are two important species of roundworms in dogs. Toxocara canis causes more significant disease and also may be transmitted to humans.
How did my dog get roundworms?
Infected dogs shed the microscopic roundworm eggs in their feces. Other dogs may become infected by sniffing or licking infected feces. Roundworm eggs can also be spread by other animals such as rodents, earthworms, roaches and birds. In these animals, the roundworms are merely transported, and do not mature into adults; if a dog eats this "paratenic" host, the roundworm is liberated and completes its maturation.
"In the dog, the roundworm undergoes a complicated life cycle."
In the dog, the roundworm undergoes a complicated life cycle before mature roundworms are found in the intestinal tract. This involves several stages and includes migration through various bodily tissues. Roundworm larvae (immature worms) can migrate and encyst throughout the host's body. This is important in the female dog because these encysted larvae will start to develop during pregnancy and ultimately cross the placenta into an unborn puppy. Thus puppies can be born with roundworms and can pass fertile eggs from adult worms in their stools by the time they are approximately eleven days old. Roundworm larvae may also enter the mother's mammary glands and be transmitted through the milk.
Are roundworms a threat to my dog?
"The most common consequence of roundworms is growth reduction."
Roundworms are most threatening to puppies. The most common consequence of roundworms is growth reduction. Since roundworms eat partially digested food in the intestinal tract, if there is a large burden of roundworms they will rob the growing puppy of vital nutrients.
The life cycle of Toxocara canis is more complicated than that of other nematode worms found in dogs. Roundworms can complete their life cycle in immature dogs, but as the pup's immune system matures (usually by 6 months of age), the larval stages will become "arrested" or encyst in the pup's muscles Roundworm larvae swallowed by adult dogs usually encyst in the dog's tissues. Few roundworms will mature in the bowel of infected adult dogs. Consequently few eggs are passed in the stool leading to difficulty in definitive diagnosis and treatment.
In intact female dogs, encysted Toxocara canis larvae can resume development after estrus, and she can shed eggs in the stool at that time. With dogs that have been spayed or castrated, development of a roundworm infection may indicate that there is an underlying immune system disease that has allowed the encysted larvae to complete their life cycle.
Toxascaris leonina can complete their life cycle in any age of dog, or in cats.
How are roundworms diagnosed?
"In puppies, clinical signs such as stunted growth, potbelly, and recurrent diarrhea are a good indication of roundworm infection."
In puppies, clinical signs such as stunted growth, potbelly, and recurrent diarrhea are a good indication of roundworm infection. Definitive diagnosis is made by microscopic examination of the dog's feces.
Is it true that children can get roundworm infections?
If the infective eggs of Toxocara canis are swallowed by people, the larvae can invade the tissues and become encysted in various organs. Humans act like any other paratenic or accidental host. If a young child ingests a large number of infected eggs, clinical disease may become apparent.
Very rarely, liver problems may result from roundworm larval migration (visceral larval migrans). Even less commonly, the larvae can migrate into the eye and cause blindness (ocular larval migrans). Because of the risk of roundworm infection in humans, it is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that all dogs be de-wormed monthly. Modern monthly heartworm preventives also prevent roundworm infections and are highly recommend for all dogs and cats.
"Because of the risk of roundworm infection in humans, it is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that all dogs be de-wormed monthly."
Because of the risk of roundworm infection in humans, it is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that all dogs be de-wormed monthly. Modern monthly heartworm preventives also prevent roundworm infections and are highly recommend for all dogs and cats.
How are roundworms treated?
Treatment is simple and effective. There are many safe and effective preparations available to kill adult roundworms in the intestine.
Many heartworm preventives contain medications that are effective against intestinal roundworms help prevent future infections. Some of these preparations only the adult worms and do not affect migrating or encysting larvae. New products have recently been developed that will also affect the larval stages. Your veterinarian will advise you on the best treatment and prevention plan for your pet.
What about roundworm eggs shed in the environment?
Initially the eggs are not infective. After a period, which may vary from weeks to months, the eggs develop into infective larvae. Under ideal conditions, this takes approximately four weeks. These infective larvae can remain viable in the environment for long periods of time and are particularly resistant to changes in temperature and humidity.
The best environmental treatment is prevention. Remove your dog's feces as soon as possible to prevent the spread and transmission of roundworms.
What is the most effective strategy I can use to control infection in my dogs, protect my family and reduce contamination of the environment?
Deworm pregnant dogs in late pregnancy, after the 42nd day or after six weeks of pregnancy. This will help reduce potential contamination of the environment for newborn puppies.
All puppies should be dewormed routinely, starting at about two weeks of age and repeated regularly. Your veterinarian will design the most appropriate deworming schedule for your pets.
The use of a heartworm preventative product that is effective against roundworms will stop the shedding of eggs into the environment.
Rodent control is important since rodents can serve as a source of infection.
Dogs should be prevented from defecating in children's play areas and there should be prompt disposal of all dog feces, especially in gardens, playgrounds and public parks.
"Practice strict hygiene particularly with children."
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I built my house in 2001. The process was arduous but I had an overall positive experience with building my own home. The reason I chose to build was because I needed accessible housing. For the past several years I lived in a two bedroom apartment spending way too much. I tried to find an accessible apartment with the amenities that I required such as a roll-in shower, but couldn't find any. There is a definite shortage of accessible housing in this country, which will only get worse in coming years with the aging of the baby boom generation. Likewise, there is an emerging interest in remaining in one's home and receiving at-home care rather than automaticatically going to a nursing home at the onset of any degree of physical disability. Two major reasons for being placed in a nursing facility is due to a lack of accessible physical accommodation in the home and an inability to receive at home nursing care. I realize that nursing homes have their place, but I applaud all efforts to allow a person with a disability to remain in their home all long as feasibly possible.
Finding a house that is handicap accessible or that could be easily modified is a crapshoot. I've received several e-mails from readers from around the country confirming the same thing. Often the few accessible houses become available upon the death of an elderly person who ended up needing their home modified later in life. These houses are usually adapted the easiest and cheapest way possible for the person to be able to remain living at home. Modifications may include a ramp built off the front door, a more spacious master bathroom that is wheelchair accessible, and perhaps a larger bedroom. These houses are at a premium and don’t stay on the market long.
Using an electric wheelchair for several years, I had a good idea what I was looking for in terms of accessibility. So I thought I could rehabilitate a house to fit my needs. Unfortunately, this was more difficult than I expected. Accessibility involves more than just adding a ramp and removing the bathtub to make a roll-in shower. Often times, I found that modifying the bathroom meant substantially enlarging it. Thus, moving walls would subtract precious space from the bedrooms, closets, and/or hallway. Some houses lend themselves well to these adaptations - other houses just cannot be done effectively at all. Narrow doorways and hallways are also huge hurdles in many older houses. Other major obstacles include; crowded kitchens, garages too small for a lift-equipped van, steps and sunken rooms, inaccessible light switches and door handles, lack of maneuvering room for opening doors, basement stairs, second stories, and inaccessible backyards. Finding the right house to be adapted can be as rare as finding one that is already accessible. Of course, depending on one’s disability the criterion for access varies greatly. Since I am a quadriplegic, many accessibility features are needed and their specifications are stringent. For example, the controls in a roll-in shower must be at the right height and position or I can’t reach them, having no hand function the controls also needed to be levers instead of knobs. These are only some of the details. Placement of handrails must be determined, the size of the shower area, and I run two showerheads – an overhead and a handheld showerhead. The ADA building codes linked here detail many of these specifications. However, one must determine whether each requirement is helpful to you. For instance, I sit higher in a electric wheelchair than manual wheelchair users so my table height clearances are higher.
I came to realize that modifying a house to be accessible for me would essentially mean gutting it and creating an entirely new interior space. The cost of doing this would be comparable to building a new house and I also wouldn’t need to worry about making the normal repairs requisite when purchasing an older home. Thus, building a house from scratch was the best option for me.
I want to note that anyone can build a house. It takes patience and above all attention to detail. As they say, “God is in the details.” With that said, my first concern when building a house was where to put it. Again I was very particular about lot location. I’ve always wanted a sunroom. I get cold very easy so I keep the house warmer than most. Therefore, I wanted a warm house without spending a lot to conventionally heat it. My sunroom faces due south to take full advantage of the sunlight. This serves two purposes, 1) I have a well lit and warm sunroom in the morning and in the afternoon and 2) I can use the sunroom as a solar collector for passive solar heating. Passive solar heating uses natural sunlight to warm your house. It doesn’t involve solar panels or water reservoirs as heat sinks. All you need are windows where they can capture the sunlight during the day and less windows in the north where they will lose heat to the outside during the night. The principle is like a car with its windows rolled up on a sunny day. A good book about passive solar heating is “The Passive Solar House” by J. Kachadorian. It gives details about house design and placement and total area of windows to optimize solar heat. Too many windows will cause the house to be too hot during the summer and the loss of heat during winter and at night.
My south-facing sunroom is about 40 feet long by 10 feet deep. It has ample glass to collect sunlight throughout the day. It also has a ceramic floor to act as a heat absorber during the day and keep warm during the night. This helps heat the entire house as well. The sunroom windows also provide natural light.
When I decided to build my own house, I looked at many many house design plans. I got floorplans from builders, books, and the internet. I wanted a house that was completely accessible for me. I didn’t want areas inside or out of the house that was unreachable to me. Even if I wasn’t personally going to do the laundry, I still wanted to be able go in and move about in the laundry room. I didn’t want areas that were off limits to me that included the yard.
I ended up finding a floorplan with the features that I had wanted on the internet. I needed four bedrooms and at least two bathrooms. I chose a one-story ranch to eliminate stairs, although using an elevator in a two-story house is possible. I modified the floorplan then to suit my personal needs and tastes using commercial house design software that was pretty inexpensive (Visual Home by Sierra). I don't think they make that software anymore. (Contact me if you would like a copy of the floorplan. I don't have complete blueprints to provide.) Once I was finished with my floorplan, I took it to a draftsman, who is an old high school teacher, to develop the final blueprints and check if there were architectural problems with my design. An architect is typically not necessary, as long as you have someone, like a draftsman or contractor, with knowledge and experience in house construction. My draftsman gave me very helpful recommendations, which I incorporated into the final blueprints that he created. Although the floorplan shows the overall configuration of the house, the blueprints specifies how the house is built, what materials and products are used, the exact dimensions of the house, and makes sure that the building codes are followed. That is why a professional is necessary. The typical charge for drawing blueprints is about $1200-$2000.
I feel that for a wheelchair user an open floorplan, in particular for the major living spaces like the living room, dining area and kitchen, provides greater maneuverability. I also enjoy having the kitchen open to the living and dining room. Most of the time life at home revolves around the kitchen whether during mealtimes, entertaining guests, or getting snacks while watching TV. Also, whoever is cooking won't feel isolated from the rest of the household. Lighting covers more area in open designs instead of houses with series of small rooms. Hallways can be major impediments. My plan required a hallway but I tried to have one as convenient as possible. The hallway is short, 4’ wid and straight. Narrow hallways with bends are more difficult to navigate.
In my kitchen a section of countertop overhangs the bottom cabinet 2 feet so I have a place where I can park me and my wheelchair. Since I use an electric wheelchair and am tall, I sit fairly high therefore I have the counter 36" high. That is the normal counter height, but it is likely too high for someone sitting in a manual wheelchair. Likewise, there is no cabinet below the kitchen sink so I can go underneath. The plumbing needed to be relocated so my knees wouldn't hit. This was particularly challenging because of the plumbing connected to the garbage disposal. We ended up using PVC plumbing instead of steel because it was more flexible.
Important! This house may not be the only house you live in. Keep in mind of general ADA building codes (wide entrances, door clearances, hallway widths) when designing your house. If you can maintain universal design principles as long as they don't inconvenience you, then the house's attractiveness and thus, resale value will be greater to potential buyers with different disabilities.
|Great care must be taken when designing the master bathroom or the bathroom used principally by the household member with the disability. I require a roll-in shower, so that means the whole bathroom floor is tiled and sloped toward floor drains. The concrete subfloor in the bathroom was 1" lower than the rest of the house to allow the mortar and tile of the bathroom threshold to be flush with the bedroom carpet. I have two floor drains in my bathroom, one in the shower area and one in the middle of the non-shower floorspace for spillage. The shower area is approximately 3' by 6' sectioned off by an L-shaped shower curtain. The whole bathroom is 8' x 8.5'. However, bigger is better if you can afford it and especially if more than one person will be using it. I have a two-walled shower area versus three walls enclosing it. In my case, one wall has the above-the-head showerhead facing the bather. The other wall to the side of the bather has the pressure and temperature controls and another lower handheld shower within easy reach. Both showerheads can be turned on independently or at the same time. The current trend in baths is to have multiple showers. I would highly recommend it and in the long run will enhance the value of your home. Remember: plumbing cannot be in exterior walls if your climate has freezing temperatures!||
In the bathroom lavatory I used an
accessible sink by Kohler
(Invitation model) that has the drain positioned in the back to
prevent a wheelchair user's knees from hitting the plumbing underneath.
This product has worked wonderfully for
me. The sink projects from the counter to be nearer to a seated person.
The tail fin levers to the faucet are also within easy reach.
I used a simple Formica laminated countertop
that could be cut to size to fit the available wall space (5' long). The
counter was installed 34" from the floor with ample space for leg room
beneath. I personally don't like standalone wall-mounted sinks with
narrow ledges in the master bathroom, because there's not enough room to
place everyday items, like
toothbrushes, shaver etc. However, I do have a wall-mounted sink in my
half bathroom for access. I don't need to place tolietry items on that one.
It is nice to have plenty of cabinet and storage space in the bathroom. I
have a floor-to-ceiling built-in bathroom closet with multiple shelves for
all the grooming/bath items, extra towels and everything else you need.
It is no different in construction than the bedroom closets except its
size. It is 36" wide and ample size to hold all my disability paraphernalia.
A good resource for appliances and building products to use in your accessible home is the Directory of Accessible Building Products which is a catalog of accessible products from different companies. The Directory is put out every year by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center.
I used 4'x4' casement windows by Andersen in the sunroom. Casement windows use cranks that I am able to open independently. Note: that below the casement windows I have a fixed 4'x2' window 6" from the floor. This positions the casement cranks at 32", so they are at the proper height. This makes for a 4'x6' window. If you take the time to shop, one can often find everyday appliances, fixtures, and products that lend themselves to be functional for persons with disabilities because of the wide variety styles that are available. For instance, I searched through the Amerock website and local hardware stores to find drawer handles that worked best for my hand limitations. I found an electric stove and oven that had buttons in the front that were within easy reach. I was able to do a lot of product searches on the web.
I will in the future list some of the building products that worked well for me and those that didn’t.
Several flooring options do not work well for wheelchair users. Plush carpets with thick underpads can feel to a manual wheelchair user like moving through sand. Tile, laminate, and vinyl flooring work well with wheelchair users. I recommend those types for kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms, and entry ways. As you know wheelchairs can track a lot of mud and water during rainy days. For the accessible bathroom with a roll-in shower 2" tile works really well. 1" tile has more grout that needs to be cleaned, in my opinion. Too large a tile and you may not have enough grout to provide sufficient traction on wet floor for ablebodied persons. Use the large tile for the walls or rooms with dry floors. (In the sunroom I have 12" tile.) Of course, there are other flooring options. Textured floor tile with raised surfaces may add needed traction.
I don't have much experience with wood flooring but am very impressed with wood laminate flooring. I've found it durable and attractive looking, plus it's cheaper than real wood and requires less maintenance. Now, some people insist on carpeting, they think it lends a warm, homey feel to a room plus is safer against falls. I'm one of those people. When installing carpet in a wheelchair accessible house, one must consider thickness or style of the carpet and how it's laid. There are many types of carpet. Look on the web to learn more about them. In short, there is plush (kind of like long grass), cut pile (like cut grass), Berber (loops), a mixture of types, and commercial grade carpet. I would recommend staying away from plush carpeting. It's just too thick for proper maneuverability. The rest may work.
The problem with conventionally laid carpeting is that is tends to roll after constant wheelchair traffic. Heavy rolling wheelchairs cause carpets to bunch up, like when a dog gets up from a rug on a slick floor. Usually carpeting is installed by nailing it to a track at the edges of a room. Therefore, the carpet in the middle of the room is not adhered which causes the bunching up. The solution to this is to glue the entire carpet to the underpad. I've used cut pile carpet glued to the underpad in my house for a couple of years now. So far, no problem.
Only one additional thing to add is to make sure flooring installers make
a seamless transition between different flooring types in your home. For
wheelchair users, it's annoying and totally avoidable to have a threshold
or 'bump' between rooms.
What more can I say, but try to find a builder that will work with you and your specific needs. It is imperative to find someone who is up to the challenge on doing things differently, unless you can find a builder who already has experience building different types of accessible homes. “W'e’ve never built something like that before,” should not be the definitive answer to a problem but the beginning to finding a solution. I used a tract home or production builder to build my house. If you can afford a custom homebuilder, then I would probably recommend that. Production builders make their money by putting up a lot of houses. So they are on a tight schedule and use a lot of different subcontractors who work on many houses for each phase of building your house. So details are easily overlooked, but it is these details that make a house truly accessible and usable. In addition, when you need a subcontractor to come back to fix a problem - and you will, they will already be on to their next project.
Important: PLAN AHEAD AND VISIT THE BUILDING SITE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. It wasn’t easy for me to visit my house during construction because the driveway is often the last thing to be done. But using boards and manpower the contractor could get me in. Don’t hesitate to inspect the house often and sometimes there might be a problem or overlooked issue that needs to be answered right away, so being present at the worksite is mandatory. Also use a camera or video camera to document the work-in-progress. Pictures are helpful documenting parts of the house. They aided me to figure out how I wanted the shower in the bathroom to be plumbed. It was crucial to decide– the location of the handles, how many shower heads, and that I wanted water to come from both heads simultaneously. Photographs also provide evidence if something goes wrong and the builder balks at fixing it. Luckily, I didn’t have much problem with that.
In conclusion, your builder is there to help you build the house you want and can afford. You can’t have all the answers, so you need a good contractor to guide you through the process. I didn’t know a lot about building a house, but I knew what I wanted and did some homework and my contractor helped to answer my questions and offered me useful suggestions and options.
A smart home is one that has been wisely planned and designed to fit your particular needs. Like a wheelchair or computer, a house should be considered as one type of assistive technology, perhaps one's greatest aid for enabling one to perform daily tasks intelligently, easier, and independently. Access to enter one's own home is crucial, but if one cannot control their environment than that's only half the battle.
X10 devices are the easiest and most popular method of home automation. There are several websites detailing this technology and offering different types of X10 controllers and responders. Smarthome.com is one of them. X10s work great in an apartment and rental housing but I feel that one should be able to design your own home so X10s aren’t as necessary. The thermostat and wall switches should be within reach and operable by a wheelchair user. There are different types of thermostats out there designed to be operable for persons with hand limitations. I used outside carriage lights that are motion activated and light sensitive to automatically turn on at dusk. I used a motion sensor for the porch light that easily screws into the light fixture. Both were available at my local hardware stores. There are many automated devices that are available for a little extra. I bought Emerson overhead fans with remote controls so pulling the chain is not necessary. I mounted the remote control on the walls next to the light switches, which I can control fan speed, light on/off and dimming, and fan direction. Timers are also commonly available to activate lights, outside Christmas lights, and the lawn hose. For turning on table lamps in a room, I, like many have the power to all the top wall sockets (or bottom) in the living room controlled by a wall switch. This is practical for everyone for turning on several lights from a single, convenient location. If you want turn on specific lights at certain time in the day then X10s might be the solution. I use X10s to control hard-to-reach appliances or turn on Christmas lights. You can also use automatic drapery openers to operate most pullstring curtains.
I do use some specialized environmental control devices. For instance, I use two voice-activated telephones by Justel, Inc., which is no longer in business. Quite a shame as their phone is a great product that is still unparalleled by any telephony device on the market in performance and price. I have one phone on my nightstand and the other in the master bath. Yes, I have a phone line in my bathroom. I spend a lot of time in there and most household accidents/falls occur in the bathroom. Extra phone, cable TV, and computer outlets are getting more commonplace and should not be considered as extras but make good planning on part of the homeowner with a disability. I am fortunate to have DSL access where I live; therefore when building I had Category 5 (cat 5) computer cable run to each bedroom and my study so I could plug the computer right into the wall without having to run cable throughout the house. Along with electrical, telephone, and cable TV cable, having Cat 5 cable running in your walls is the sign of the times and, believe me, well worth it if you own a computer. However, with wireless router the need for wiring every room in the house is unnecessary. (Speaker wire is also commonly run through the walls for whole house audio.)
DSL or cable broadband are nice because they doesn’t tie up the phone line and much faster than phone modems. I have the DSL modem and network hub and cable TV access centrally located in one room. (If you have any questions about my computer wiring, e-mail me.)
I also have installed an automatic door opener by Poweraccess that is very dependable but on the large side. This unit is used only for opening the door. There is a separate hydraulic door closer like you see on doors in public buildings. Single unit automatic opener and closers are available that attach to the door by an arm, which pushes and pulls the door opened and closed. I use this type of door opener by Keane Monroe at work and had very good experience with them. When building my house, I had the electrician prewire above the outside doors and the door latches so installing the door opener and electric lock strike later on would be easier and not require paying an electrician to come back and do it later. The automatic door opener installers will not do electrical wiring themselves.
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Carentan I terminated on March 31, with the
launching of Operation Carentan II. The new operation was conducted
in the same area, northwest from the coastal plains; south from Hue;
due west to the A Shau valley.
Operation Carentan II proved to be a testing point for the
Screaming Eagles. North Vietnamese regulars challenged Paratrooper
forces almost daily. The normal tactic of hit and run was absent from
the enemy's fighting strategy. The Screaming Eagles earned a
reputation among the enemy units. Those who wear the Eagle on their
shoulder were to be avoided.
The mission of Carentan II was to continue driving hostile forces
from the area around Hue, and to begin clearing operations toward the
A Shau Valley for a possible future raid into that area. The first
major battle occurred on the famous "Street without Joy." The 2nd
Squadron, 17th Airborne Cavalry began sweeping the area destroying
bunker complexes and other fortifications that had long been NVA
strongholds. Assisting in the "Street" sweep were 2nd Brigade
troopers from the 2nd Bn.,501st Abn. Inf. A sweep of the Phong Dien
village after a night cordon and artillery bombardment resulted in 66
During the same period, other 2nd Brigade troopers were completing
a week-long reconnaissance-in-force along the Song Bo River, three
miles northwest of Hue. Army aviation, artillery, tactical air, and
the airborne troopers combined to kill 200 enemy and capture 44
Another cordon operation around the village of Dong Xuyen, three
miles north of Hue, netted paratroopers from the 1st Bn.,501st Abn.
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"Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning is a poem that narrates the shift of power in a relationship, as the initially passive Lover suddenly strangles Porphyria with her own hair so that "her darling one wish would be heard" — that is, her desire to "give herself to me [the Lover] forever." The poem begins with the Lover sitting around in his cottage listening to a storm outside, perhaps in self-pity. He seems to be rather helpless, as he does nothing as Porphyria enters, makes a fire in the hearth, and subsequently goes to his side and confesses her affections:
And, last, she sat down by my side
And called me. When no voice replied,
She put my arm about her waist,
And made her smooth white shoulder bare,
And all her yellow hair displaced,
And, stooping, made my cheek lie there,
And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair,
Murmuring how she loved me — she
Too weak, for all her heart's endeavor,
To set its struggling passion free
From pride, and vainer ties dissever,
And give herself to me forever.
The Lover did not reply to Porphyria when she spoke to him, nor did he make any effort to get closer to her; Porphyria had to put her arm around him and "stoop" to place his head on her shoulder, perhaps indicating that he will not or can not return her advances (perhaps due to either an inhibiting mental issue, or a physical disability). Porphyria's confession of love then seems to indicate that, although she does truly love him, she cannot remove herself from some other ties in her life, and thus cannot be with him.
At this point, the Lover is overwhelmed to know that she loves him, and greedily tries to think of what to do to preserve the moment — "That moment she was mine, mine." The action suddenly shifts to the previously inactive lover, as he wraps Porphyria's hair around her neck and strangles her. Now, he has fulfilled her wish and placed himself in the more powerful position in the relationship, telling us:
I propped her head up as before,
Only, this time my shoulder bore.
1. What is the significance of the Lover's initially unreliabile statements in his subsequent strangling of Porphyria?
2. Does the Lover simply have some sort of psychotic disorder, or does he have a legitimate physical handicap as well?
3. What kind of relationship does Porphyria have with the Lover prior to the events of the poem — is she some sort of caretaker?
4. Are there social forces preventing a serious romantic relationship between Porphyria and her Lover, as perhaps indicated by "pride" and "vainer ties?"
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No country better defines its wine types by region than France. In Champagne, many of the world's finest sparkling wines are made. In Bordeaux, coveted bottlings of Cabernet Sauvignon-based blends are crafted. And in Burgundy, the white wine is Chardonnay, and the red wine is Pinot Noir.
Burgundian wines are "governed" by laws passed in 1905 and 1919, delineating rankings and defining appellation boundaries.
Some 600 vineyards qualify for "Premier Cru" status - not necessarily because they are among the best Burgundian wines being made today, but rather because of the standards that existed early in the 20th century. That's not to say these wines are suspect in any way, only that there are plenty of Burgundian wines that lack the designation but are quite similar in quality.
The most prestigious designation is "Grand Cru," bestowed upon only 33 vineyards. The wines produced from those vineyards, few would argue, represent the best of the best in Burgundy - names such as Chambertin, Corton-Charlemagne, Montrachet and Clos Vougeot.
Among Burgundy's appellations, Cote de Beaune wines are ideal for the impatient. Cote de Beaune reds are known for their enticing aroma and lighter body - and for maturing a bit more quickly than wines made in other areas. It's said that drinking a red Burgundy before its time is a sin, but the red wines of Cote de Beaune actually reward early cork popping.
Among some of the other areas, the red wines of Nuits St. Georges are known for being robust and elegant, while the white wines of Pouilly Fuisse are soul mates to shellfish and oysters.
And if you're looking for a guarantee of quality on a label, seek out a bottle from Meursault, where a third of the production bears a "Premier Cru" designation. | <urn:uuid:1e8f31a9-f47c-4333-b916-8f1a33ac96a7> | 2013-05-18T18:05:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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By W. Blake Gray
One of the main characteristics of Japanese is its vagueness. Language is culture, and Japanese helps people get along in crowded, resource-poor cities by preventing hard feelings in conversation.
Here's a good example of how this works: In a business meeting, everyone sits around the table vaguely feeling out each others' position until eventually everyone realizes what they're expected to say. Thus the first and only vote is almost always unanimous.
Here's a more frustrating example: I think this sake is named "140" (hyakuyonju) because it's the 140th attempt at crossing Aomori's native Hanafubuki rice with the more famous Yamada Nishiki, which doesn't usually grow so far north.
However, I can't confirm that; the Japanese describing it is just too vague. All I know is that in the crossing experiments, somehow this rice got the number "140." Maybe that's the number of wins Aomori native Daisuke Matsuzaka expects to pile up in Boston. Maybe it's just a mellifluous number.
As a journalist, I hate that vagueness -- it makes reporting anything from Japan a challenge, as you get notebooks full of quotes that, translated, essentially mean, "Maybe so." I can't help but wonder, as I struggled to get information on this product, how much Japanese exports would benefit from a trade export organization with English skills.
Oh wait -- there is one. I went to JETRO, the Japan External Trade Organization, where I learned the following about Aomori rice:
"The value that is delicious by the security that only the person who ate understands.
Please enjoy it in your mouth."
OK, at least we know where to put it. Let me tell you what I do know.
Aomori prefecture is the snowiest in Japan -- even more so than Hokkaido. Aomori is at the very tip of Honshu, and even in summer it's foggy and windy.
The prefecture is 66% covered by forest, and the rest mostly by farmland, such that a visiting English teacher posted somewhere on the web, "There's nothing but rice paddies here."
Aomori is fairly poor and has been losing population since it peaked in 1983, because young people don't want to pursue the number one industry -- agriculture. When they get to Tokyo, they have to relearn how to speak, because Aomori is famous in Japan for its unfashionable rural dialect. They also have to learn to have fun, because all there is to do in Aomori at night is carve artwork in the rice paddies -- which they've gotten quite good at.
Aomori grows 75% of the garlic in Japan and 52% of the apples. It also grows more yam and burdock root than any other prefecture. But we didn't come here to talk about garlic or burdock root (though we can talk about Calvados if you like).
Nowadays we believe that the best wines come from marginal growing areas -- areas that are too cold to guarantee a crop every year. Could it be true for sake as well? There are so many factors in creating great sake that it's hard to tease out the influence of cool climate.
But Aomori prefecture, with only 1.5 million people, has 45 sake producers. Nishida, maker of this sake, likes the area so much that it uses the Denshu brand just for junmais, and has a second brewery in Aomori where it makes its more famous brand Kikuizumi. And it's not the only famous name from Aomori, because Momokawa, which has an outpost in Oregon, has its home base there.
Nishida's Denshu Junmai is one of the most popular junmai sakes in Japan, regularly making local lists of top 10 junmais. The 140 is a more recent product, created in 2003.
Nishida claims over and over that all their Denshu sakes are "handmade." Here we get back to vagueness -- what does that mean? The rice can't possibly be polished by hand (down to 40%, hence daiginjo) in this day and age. But what the heck, it's good sake. When it comes my turn, I might prepare to possibly express an opinion in the direction of approval.
In any case, remember to follow the official instructions, and please enjoy it in your mouth.
Aromas of fresh cream, peach, white chocolate and orange pith. There's plenty of fresh fruit (peach and apricot) up front. You taste a jolt of alcohol (it's a hefty 17.0%) in your first sip, but then it turns quite smooth, with a long creamy finish. It's not the most complex daiginjo ever, but it's rich and smooth and crowd-pleasing.
In Aomori they would drink this with seafood stew, but I think it's fine with miso-glazed cod or other dishes where the creaminess would match the food's texture.
Overall Score: between 9 and 9.5
How Much?: $45 for 720ml
This sake is difficult to find online. Look for it at your nearest specialty sake retailer.
W. Blake Gray is a former Japan resident whose first wine book in Japanese will be published in August. Please enjoy other writing from him at wblakegray.blogspot.com.
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Shia LaBeouf: gaining weight was 'horrible'
Shia LaBeouf found it ''horrible'' gaining 40lbs for his role in 'Lawless'
The actor put on weight very quickly for his role in the gangster film so he would be more believable as Tom Hardy's brother, but said the process was horrible as he had to wake up in the night just to drink protein shakes.
Speaking on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno', he said: ''Once Tom Hardy got cast, he's a big boy and it became, 'Are we from the same fabric of man, can I be your brother?' Standing next to him I felt like [singer] Josh Groban, I just felt very meek.
''I gained about 40lbs, just eating, your whole lifestyle becomes something else. Every three hours you consume, food becomes vitamins, it's about necessity, which is gorging, it's horrible.''
''It was protein shakes really, a lot of chicken and eggs. At night, you wake up every three hours, take the shake and wake up. It's monotonous. You only have a certain amount of time, I had a month, two months to get there.''
Shia said bulking up his physique didn't make him more attractive to his girlfriend Karolyn Pho.
He added: ''I was sweating like a beast snoring, it was a disaster you know, terrible.''
The 26-year-old actor has also taken on another risky role recently, appearing full frontal nude in the video for band Sigur Ros' song 'Fjögur Pianó, which he said felt natural when it came to shooting the scenes.
He explained: ''They explained the idea, and we get to the markers and they were like 'OK, you guys have been having sex all night, now you wake up and you stand by the wall.' And my actress showed up and she was naked, and I figured, 'Well, if we'd been having sex all night, I wouldn't have my clothes on, you don't have sex with your clothes, on,' so I thought logically I should take my clothes off.''22-08-2012
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The sun setting Jan. 23 along the Gulf coast near Alabama Port, Ala. / Dave Martin, AP
Moving up from fourth-place, Alabama claimed the title as the most conservative state in the nation last year, according to a Gallup Poll released Friday.
North Dakota and Wyoming tied for second place.
In 2011, Mississippi was ranked as the reddest state, followed closely by Utah, and Wyoming and Alabama.
On the liberal side of the ideological ledger, Massachusetts, Oregon and Vermont repeated as the most liberal states, although the District of Columbia topped them all by a wide margin.
In the middle, Alaska edged out Rhode Island as the most moderate state.
Bottom line: Based on residents' own reports of their ideology, "America has become a slightly more liberal and a slightly less conservative nation than it was in 2011," Gallup concludes, "but conservatives still outnumber both moderates and liberals."
Overall, Americans in 2012 "remained slightly more likely to identify as conservative (38%) than as moderate (36%) or as liberal (23%), a pattern that reflects the general consistency in ideological self-reports over recent years."
The pollster says the results "generally reflects the familiar 'blue state,' 'red state' patterns that define the political geography of today's modern America." But it offers these caveats:
Three of the 10 most Republican states -- Kansas, Montana, and Alaska -- do not rank among the most conservative states. And Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas rank in the top 10 conservative states but not the 10 most Republican. ...
There is somewhat more accordance between the most liberal and most Democratic states. Only Illinois and Maryland rank among the most Democratic but not the most liberal. Oregon and Washington state rank among the 10 most liberal states but not the 10 most Democratic. ...
The distribution of moderates across the states is not highly related to the basic partisanship of the states. The state with the most moderates -- Alaska -- typically votes Republican and has a high Republican identification. The other two states with the highest percentage of moderate residents are Rhode Island (a blue state) and Ohio (a swing, competitive state).
Here's how the top-10 fared in each category:
Alabama â?? 50.6%
North Dakota â?? 48.6%
Wyoming â?? 48.6%
Mississippi â?? 48.2%
Utah â?? 48.0%
Oklahoma â?? 47.3%
Idaho â?? 47.1%
Louisiana â?? 45.6%
Nebraska â?? 45.3%
Arkansas â?? 45.5%
District of Columbia â?? 40.8%
Massachusetts â?? 30.5%
Oregon â?? 29.3%
Vermont â?? 29.2%
Delaware â?? 28.4%
Connecticut â?? 28.4%
Washington â?? 28.3%
Rhode Island â?? 28.3%
Hawaii â?? 27.7%
New York â?? 27.7%
Alaska â?? 42.7%
Rhode Island â?? 41.5%
Ohio â?? 39.5%
Maryland â?? 38.3%
Massachusetts â?? 38.1%
Michigan â?? 38.0%
Nevada â?? 37.8%
Connecticut â?? 37.8%
Montana â?? 37.6%
New Jersey â?? 37.6%
What about famously "liberal" California? In the Golden State, it trended reddish-purple: 36.1% moderate, 33.2% conservative and 26.9% liberal.
The results come from telephone interviews that Gallup conducted between Jan. 1, 2012, and Dec. 31, with a random sample of 211,972 adults, ages 18 and older.
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
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VMware Workstation 3.2
Features | Documentation | Knowledge Base | Discussion Forums
Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines
Setting Up Hardware Profiles in Virtual Machines
Certain operating systems use hardware profiles to load the appropriate drivers for a given set of hardware devices. If you have a dual-boot system and want to use a virtual machine to boot a previously installed operating system from an existing partition, you must set up "physical" and "virtual" hardware profiles.
Only users who are familiar with VMware Workstation virtual machines and the Windows hardware profiles concept should attempt this.
If you haven't already done so, review Configuring Dual- or Multiple-Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation before proceeding.
Each virtual machine provides a platform that consists of the following set of virtual devices:
- Virtual DVD/CD-ROM
- Virtual IDE and SCSI hard disk drives
- Standard PCI graphics adapter
- Standard floppy disk drive
- Intel 82371 PCI Bus Master IDE controller
(includes primary and secondary IDE controllers)
- BusLogic BT-958 compatible SCSI host adapter
- Standard 101/102-key keyboard
- PS/2-compatible mouse
- AMD PCNET Family Ethernet adapter (PCI-ISA)
- Serial ports (COM1-COM4)
- Parallel ports (LPT1-LPT2)
- Two-port USB hub
- Sound Blaster 16-compatible sound card
This set of virtual devices is different from the set of physical hardware devices on the host computer and is independent of the underlying hardware with a few exceptions (the processor itself is such an exception). This feature provides a stable platform and allows operating system images installed within a virtual machine to be migrated to other virtual machines, regardless of the configuration of the physical machine.
If an operating system is installed directly into a VMware Workstation virtual machine, the operating system properly detects all the virtual devices by scanning the hardware. However, if an operating system is already installed on the physical computer (for example, in a dual-boot configuration), the operating system already is configured to use the physical hardware devices. In order to boot such a preinstalled operating system in a virtual machine, you need to create separate hardware profiles in order to simplify the boot process.
Microsoft operating systems, beginning with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, allow you to create hardware profiles. Each hardware profile is associated with a set of known devices. If more than one hardware profile exists, the system prompts the user to choose between different hardware profiles at boot time.
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows .NET Server use Plug and Play at boot time to confirm that the actual devices match the chosen hardware profile. Mismatches lead to the automatic detection of new devices. Although this operation succeeds, it can be fairly slow.
Windows NT does not have Plug and Play support and uses the hardware profiles to initialize its devices. Mismatches lead to errors reported by the device drivers and the devices are disabled.
In order to set up hardware profiles for your physical and virtual machines, follow these steps:
Before running VMware Workstation to boot an operating system previously installed on a disk partition, boot the operating system natively and create two hardware profiles, which you can call Physical Machine and Virtual Machine. To do this, open Control Panel > System, then click the Hardware Profiles tab - or click the Hardware tab, then click Hardware Profiles, depending on the operating system. Click the Copy button and name the copies appropriately.
Windows NT only: While still running natively, use the Device Manager to disable some devices from the Virtual Machine hardware profile. To do this, open Control Panel > Devices, then select the individual devices to disable. Devices to disable in the Virtual Machine hardware profile include audio, MIDI and joystick devices, Ethernet and other network devices and USB devices. Remember to disable them in the Virtual Machine hardware profile only.
Skip this step if you are running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows .NET Server. The initial Plug and Play phase detects device mismatches.
Reboot the computer into your intended host operating system - for example, into Linux if you are running VMware Workstation on a Linux host.
Use the New Virtual Machine Wizard (on a Windows host) or Configuration Wizard (on a Linux host) to configure your virtual machine as described in Configuring Dual- or Multiple-Boot Systems to Run with VMware Workstation.
Boot the virtual machine and use your existing boot manager to select the guest operating system. Choose Virtual Machine at the hardware profile menu prompt. You encounter device failure messages and delays during this initial boot.
Windows .NET Server, Windows XP and Windows 2000 guests: After you log on to Windows .NET Server, Windows XP or Windows 2000 (now running as a guest operating system) you should see a Found New Hardware dialog box for the video controller as Plug and Play runs and discovers the virtual hardware. Do not install drivers at this time. Click Cancel to close the Found New Hardware dialog box.
Do not reboot the virtual machine - click No in the System Settings Change/Reboot dialog box.
Windows .NET Server, Windows XP or Windows 2000 automatically detects and load the driver for the AMD PCnet PCI Ethernet card. At this point, you should install VMware Tools inside the virtual machine. Allow the virtual machine to reboot after the VMware, Inc. SVGA video driver (included in VMware Tools) has been installed. Once Windows .NET Server, Windows XP or Windows 2000 reboots inside the virtual machine, select a new SVGA resolution from the Display Properties > Settings tab dialog box to increase the size of the virtual machine's display window.
If you want to enable the virtual machine's sound adapter to work inside the Windows .NET Server, Windows XP or Windows 2000 guest operating system, finish the remaining steps in this section, then refer to Configuring Sound in VMware Workstation.
Windows 95 and Windows 98 guests: You should see New Hardware Detected dialog boxes as Plug and Play runs and discovers the virtual hardware. Windows prompts you for locations to search for device drivers. Most of the device drivers are available in the existing operating system installation, but you may need the installation CD-ROM for some networking device drivers. Windows also asks you to reboot your system several times as it installs the device drivers.
In some instances, Windows may not recognize the CD-ROM drive when it prompts you to insert the CD-ROM to look for device drivers during the initial hardware detection. In such cases, you can cancel the installation of the particular device or try pointing to C:\windows\system\ to search for device drivers on the hard disk. Any failed device installations may be performed at a later time after the CD-ROM drive is recognized.
After Windows has installed the virtual hardware and its drivers, you can remove the failed devices corresponding to the physical hardware using the Device Manager (Control Panel > System > Device Manager tab).
Select the device, then click the Remove button. If a device appears in multiple hardware profiles, you can select the hardware profile(s) from which to remove the device.
Windows NT guest only: After the operating system has finished booting in the virtual machine, view the event log to see which physical devices have failed to start properly. You can disable them from the Virtual Hardware profile using the Device Manager (Control Panel > Devices).
Confirm that your virtual devices - specifically, the network adapter - are working properly.
Windows 95 and Windows 98: If any virtual device is missing, you can detect it by running Control Panel > Add New Hardware.
Install VMware Tools. VMware Tools appears and runs in both hardware configurations but affects only the virtual machine.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has invited other nations to invest in Iraq, saying the country is restoring its strength after decades of internal and external war and international sanctions.
Talabani spoke during the third day of debate at the United Nations General Assembly. He said Iraq is working on legislation to protect investors and their capital.
He also called on Iran and Turkey to stop bombing Kurdish areas of Iraq. Those two countries say they are targeting Kurdish separatists operating from Iraqi territory.
The leader of the new African nation of South Sudan is scheduled to speak later Friday, as well as the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
General debate continues on Saturday and Monday through Friday of next week.
On Thursday, in one of the most controversial of the speeches, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad harshly criticized the United States, Israel, and the West, accusing them of provoking wars, causing worldwide recession, and spreading "totalitarianism."
His statements provoked a walkout by delegations from the United States, France, and more than two dozen other nations. The speech came after several hundred protesters rallied outside the United Nations, voicing their displeasure over Ahmadinejad's presence at the General Assembly.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged world leaders to put pressure on Israel to achieve peace with the Palestinians and to not allow them to act above the law. | <urn:uuid:d9b05107-816b-479f-970e-22c060d23008> | 2013-05-18T17:37:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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France says a French architect who flew to China for questioning in connection with a major political scandal is in regular contact with French authorities.
A spokesman for the French embassy in Beijing said two diplomats met with Patrick Devillers last week after he arrived in China from Cambodia, where police had detained him at Beijing's request. The spokesman said Devillers was in "good shape" but did not disclose his whereabouts.
Cambodian authorities detained Devillers on June 13 but did not charge him with any crime. They took him to Phnom Penh's airport on July 18 for a flight to China, saying he boarded the plane of his own free will.
The French embassy official said Devillers told French diplomats in Cambodia that he made an agreement with the Chinese government to cooperate in an investigation. Western news media say Chinese authorities want to question the Frenchman about his relationship with the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai.
Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, is under investigation for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. News reports say the French architect helped Bo redevelop the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian while the Chinese official was mayor in the early 1990s.
Bo was a rising star in the Chinese Communist Party, serving as party chief of the city of Chongqing until authorities removed him from the post in March due to undisclosed transgressions. His scandal erupted the previous month when a longtime aide fled to a U.S. consulate and made accusations of Gu's involvement in the Heywood murder.
VOA Khmer Service's Heng Reaksmey contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:e1e52744-56d6-4547-bf2d-1abd0d0c51c4> | 2013-05-18T17:37:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Tskhouk-Karckar VulkanTskhouk-Karckar volcano is a group of 8 Holocene cinder cones in the central Siunik volcanic ridge along the Armenia/Azerbaijan border about 60 km SE of Lake Sevan.
The last activity took place about 5000 years ago, and built a cone which erupted lava flows. These flows overly older human settlement traces and were used for gravesites in the first half of the 3rd millennium BC.
Beschreibung:The Tskhouk-Karckar volcano group was constructed within offset segments of the major Pambak-Sevan strike-slip fault trending SE from Lake Sevan. 8 pyroclastic cones produced 3 generations of Holocene lava flows.
Human traces dated are found on the 2 older generation lava flows, including many petroglyphs, burial kurgans, and masonry walls. No such traces have been found on the youngest flows, suggesting they erupted later than these early settlements and human activities.
Some lava flows overlie petroglyphs dated to the end of the 4th millennium and beginning of the 3rd millennium BC and were themselves used in gravesites dated at 4720 +/- 140 yrs ago. Following these eruptions, the area was not repopulated until the Middle Ages.
(adapted from: GVP / Smithsonian Institution)
Karakhanian, A et al (2002) "Holocene-historical volcanism and active faults as natural risk factors for Armenia and adjacent countries", J Volc Geotherm Res, v. 113, pp. 319-344 | <urn:uuid:b5dfcd9b-03b4-4ad1-9784-91242d3b9e40> | 2013-05-18T17:28:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Event: 2012 Olympic Games
Dates: July 27-August 12, 2012
Location: London, England
Volleyball has been apart of the Summer Olympic games since 1964, where they were held in Tokyo, Japan. The history of Olympic volleyball can be traced back to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event. Consideration of its addition to the Olympic program, however, was given only after World War II, with the foundation of the FIVB and of some of the continental confederations. In 1957, a special tournament was held at the 53rd IOC session in Sofia, Bulgaria to support such request. The competition was a success, and the sport was officially introduced in 1964.
Canada’s first appearance in the Olympic Games was in 1976, where Canada played host in Montreal. Both teams finished in 8th place. In 1980, Canada boycotted the Olympics all together for political reasons. In 1984, both teams qualified again for the games, where the Canadian men had their best finish to date. They battled Italy in the bronze medal match, going down in three sets. The women finished in 8th place. In 1992 the men’s team qualified and achieved 10th place, finishing ahead of France and Algeria. 1996 was the last year to date where a Canadian team played in the games. The women’s team competed in Atlanta, and finished in the top 10 in 9th place, tying with Japan and finishing ahead of Peru and Ukraine.
Beach Volleyball was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics and was introduced as an official Olympic event at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. At those games, Canadians John Child and Mark Heese won the Bronze medal, and also went on to represent Canada at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Canada failed to qualify a team in the men's or women's categories for the first time since the event was held in 1996. | <urn:uuid:a7b24b08-9f4f-4363-8357-6d372a439ca1> | 2013-05-18T17:37:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What is a bubble? Today’s economies often experience large movements in asset prices that have significant macroeconomic effects. Given that many of these movements in asset prices seem unrelated to economic conditions or fundamentals, they have come to be called bubbles, whether swelling or bursting. Typically, these bubbles are unpredictable and generate substantial macroeconomic effects. Consumption, the capital stock, and output all tend to surge when a bubble arises and then collapse or stagnate when the bubble bursts. Despite the recurrent nature of bubbles and their macroeconomic implications, however, we still lack a stylised model to answer the basic questions:
- What is the origin of bubbly episodes?
- Why are they unpredictable?
- How do bubbles affect consumption, the capital stock, and output?
Of course, economists have long thought about asset bubbles. To do so, they have found it useful to think of an economy with two idealised asset classes: productive assets or “capital” and pyramid schemes or “bubbles”. Both assets are used as a store of value or savings vehicle, but they have different characteristics. Capital is costly to produce but it is then useful in production. Bubbles play no role in production, but initiating them is costless. A successful theory of bubbles should then explain why rational and informed agents optimally choose to hold bubbles in their portfolios, and it should also characterise the macroeconomic consequences of their choice.
Samuelson (1958) and Tirole (1985) laid the foundations for such a theory by portraying bubbles as a remedy to the problem of dynamic inefficiency. Their argument is based on the dual role of capital as a productive asset and a store of value. To satisfy the need for a store of value, economies sometimes accumulate so much capital that the investment required to sustain it exceeds the income that it produces. This investment is inefficient and lowers the resources available for consumption. In this situation, bubbles can be both attractive to investors and feasible from a macroeconomic perspective. For instance, a pyramid scheme that absorbs all inefficient investments in each period is feasible and its return exceeds that of the investments it replaces.
The Samuelson-Tirole model provides an elegant and powerful framework to think about bubbles. However, the picture that emerges from this theory is hard to reconcile with historical evidence.
- First, the model features deterministic bubbles that exist from the very beginning of time and never burst. This is contrary to the observation that, in real economies, bubbles pop-up and burst. We therefore need a model in which bubbles are transient, that is, a model of bubbly episodes.
- Second, and most importantly, in the Samuelson-Tirole model bubbles raise consumption by reducing inefficient investments. As a result, bubbles slow down capital accumulation and lower output. In the real world, bubbly episodes tend to be associated with consumption booms indeed. But they also tend to be associated with expansions in the capital stock and output.
A successful model of bubbles must come to grips with these correlations.
Towards a realistic theory of bubbles
In recent research (Martin and Ventura 2011a and 2011b), we build such a model by introducing investor sentiment shocks and imperfect financial markets into the theory of rational bubbles. Since bubbles have no intrinsic value, their current size depends on market expectations regarding their future size, i.e. on "investor sentiment". Introducing shocks to investor sentiment is therefore crucial to generate realistic bubble dynamics in the model. Introducing financial frictions is also crucial because these create rate-of-return differentials and allow efficient and inefficient investments to coexist. Our key observation is then quite simple. Bubbles not only reduce inefficient investments, but also increase efficient ones. In our model, bubbly episodes are booms in consumption and efficient investments financed by a reduction in inefficient investments. If efficient investments increase enough, bubbly episodes expand the capital stock and output. This turns out to be the case under a wide range of parameter values.
To understand these effects of bubbly episodes, it is useful to analyse the set of transfers that bubbles implement. In the theory, a bubble is nothing but a pyramid scheme by which the buyer surrenders resources today expecting that future buyers will surrender resources to him/her. The economy enters each period with an initial distribution of current and future bubble owners. Some of these owners bought their bubbles in earlier periods, while others just created them or are expected to do so in the future. In this setup, there are two natural channels through which bubbles may transfer resources from inefficient to efficient investment.
- First, they do so directly through the market for bubbles. On the demand side of this market we find investors who cannot obtain a return to investment above that of bubbles; while on the supply side we find consumers and investors who can obtain a return to investment above that of bubbles. When the market for bubbles closes, resources have thus been transferred from inefficient investors to consumers and efficient investors, leading to an increase in consumption and efficient investments at the expense of inefficient investments (Martin and Ventura 2011a).
- Second, bubbles may also transfer resources towards efficient investments through the credit market. This happens when the prospect of a future bubble raises the net worth of efficient investors, therefore allowing them to expand their borrowing and investment (Martin and Ventura 2011b).
Introducing financial frictions can thus explain how bubbles can lead to expansions in the capital stock and in output. It also solves a nagging problem of the theory of rational bubbles, which was first pointed out by Abel et al. (1989). In the Samuelson-Tirole model, bubbles can only exist if the investment required to sustain the capital stock exceeds the income that it produces. Abel et al. (1989) examined a group of developed economies and found that, in all of them, investment falls short of capital income. This finding has often been considered evidence that rational bubbles cannot exist in real economies. Introducing financial frictions into the theory shows that this conclusion is unwarranted. The observation that capital income exceeds investment only implies that, on average, investments are dynamically efficient. But this does not exclude the possibility that the economy contains “pockets” of dynamically inefficient investments that could support a bubble. Nor does it exclude the possibility that an expansionary bubble, by lowering the return to investment, creates itself the pockets of dynamically inefficient investments that support it. In such situations, the test of Abel et al. would wrongly conclude that bubbles are not possible.
Our research is part of a growing body of work that studies the effects of bubbles in the presence of financial frictions:
- Caballero and Krishnamurthy (2006) and Farhi and Tirole (2011) show that bubbles can be a useful source of liquidity;
- Kocherlakota (2009) shows that bubbles can also raise collateral or net worth; and
- Ventura (2011) shows that bubbles can lower the cost of capital.
Models of rational bubbles have also been used to interpret recent events, like global imbalances (Kraay and Ventura 2007) and the recent financial crisis (Martin and Ventura 2010b). The exciting next step in this research agenda is to assess whether these effects of asset bubbles can be quantitatively significant within the class of models used by modern macroeconomics. Doing so requires the introduction of investor sentiment shocks into a quantitative model of the business cycle. That is, we need a model with bubbly business cycles – something we are working on now.
Abel, A, G Mankiw, L Summers, and R Zeckhauser (1989), “Assessing Dynamic Efficiency: Theory and Evidence”, Review of Economic Studies, 56:1-19.
Caballero, R and A Krishnamurthy (2006), “Bubbles and Capital Flow Volatility: Causes and Risk Management”, Journal of Monetary Economics, 53(1):33-53.
Farhi, E and J Tirole (2011), “Bubbly Liquidity”, mimeo, Harvard University.
Kocherlakota, N (2009), “Bursting Bubbles: Consequences and Cures”, Minneapolis Fed.
Kraay, A and J Ventura (2007), “The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the US Current Account”, in R Clarida (ed.), G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment, The University of Chicago.
Martin, A and J Ventura (2011a), “Economic Growth with Bubbles”, CREI working paper.
Martin, A and J Ventura (2011b), “Theoretical Notes on Bubbles and the Current Crisis”, forthcoming, IMF Economic Review.
Samuelson, P (1958), “An Exact Consumption-loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money”, Journal of Political Economy, 66:467-482.
Tirole, J (1985), “Asset Bubbles and Overlapping Generations”, Econometrica, 53(6): 1499-1528.
Ventura, J (2011), “Bubbles and Capital Flows”, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming. | <urn:uuid:f9818e58-29b1-4913-aff0-b9e218d88d48> | 2013-05-18T17:38:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Today's amateur radio operator has several modes to chose from when operating. These modes include voice i.e. SSB, AM or FM and digital modes, i.e. CW, PACKET, PACTOR, PSK, MFSK, RTTY, SSTV and more. With the exception of CW, all digital modes require a control apparatus or interface between your radio and your computer.
There are also several software programs to chose from that allow you to operate in these modes. Some of the more popular ones that are in use are Airmail for PACKET and PACTOR and Mix-W for modes that make use of your computers sound card.
There is a system that is available to all amateurs that makes use of two of these digital modes. This is the Winlink 2000 system. (For more information go to www.winlink.org.) This system allows you to send and receive messages via standard email addressing and allowing you access to the Internet to forward these messages.
The Winlink 2000 system takes advantage of two of the more tried and tested digital modes, PACKET and PACTOR. THERE IS NO WINLINK DIGITAL MODE. Winlink 2000 requires access to the Internet for the forwarding or storage of all messages.
Stations that use the Winlink 2000 system normally use the client side software Airmail for preparing and sending messages. The stations that are Sysops (system operators) use proprietary software developed by the Winlink Development Team. Most of this software is in beta release, meaning that it may still have some problems that have yet to be resolved.
The essential parts of a digital station are the radio, the control/interface device and a computer capable of running the associate software. Most of the software for these digital modes are written for computers running Windows 98 or later. There is some software written for Linux-based computers and there may be a few programs for Mac computers but they are few and far between.
Digital modes used for formal messages, those that require a printed (hard) copy are PACKET and PACTOR. These modes allow for store-forwarding of messages between stations. Most other sound card modes don't have this capability.
PACKET and PACTOR modes require a Terminal Node Controller (TNC). There are some "Packet Engines" that can be used with your computer's sound card such as AGW, but they, in my opinion, leave something to be desired. PACTOR requires a TNC to transmit but some software like Mix-W has a PACTOR receive mode via your computers sound card. This allow for the reception of PACTOR 1 signals.
PACTOR today has 3 different speeds/modes referred to as PACTOR 1 (the original PACTOR mode), PACTOR 2 and PACTOR 3. PACTOR 2 and 3 require a SCS TNC/Modem and a proprietary license to use these modes. PACTOR 1 is available with the use of the AEA/Timewave PK-232 and several of the Kamtronics TNCs.
There are several TNC/Modems available for PACKET. Although PACKET is generally thought of as a VHF/UHF mode it may also be used on HF. The most common of the PACKET TNCs in use are the PK-88 by Timewave, the Kamtronics KPC-3+ and MFJ- 1278 (discontinued).
Digital operation can be lots of fun and a great asset to emergency communications when you are aware of its limitations. What it's NOT is the ONLY mode for EMCOMM. Digital is great for sending messages over long distances, depending on your stations capabilities but it will not deliver the message the last mile, this has to be done by a human operator.
The best way to learn digital, like any other mode, is through practice. Join local digital nets and participate in digital exercises to become proficient at operating in these modes and you will be ready when called on.
I hope this short primer will help to clarify the role of digital in amateur radio and will allow operators to know the difference between a mode and a system. | <urn:uuid:2ba9598d-a7f3-42d2-bf6f-5e482c551221> | 2013-05-18T17:17:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"Could you define the market -- everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food, therefore, everybody is in the market; therefore, you can make people buy broccoli," Scalia asked during the second day of oral arguments.
Scalia's witty argument attempts to draw an analogy between forcing people to buy broccoli and forcing people (and employers, etc.) to buy into government-regulated and mandated healthcare programs.
What do you think WSO? If the government is going to force us to have health insurance of some sort, they might as well go two steps ahead and get us all to eat healthy foods like broccoli, right? | <urn:uuid:34fd8f9f-c398-460c-9251-f75a1f9c667f> | 2013-05-18T17:19:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Water Tongue Forms
Water Tongue is found written in four basic forms (see below right). The regular form is found in the greatest abundance and was used in all aspects of daily life. Water Tongue in formal form was used for special occasions like weddings and for decoration. The informal form was used in hurried informal writings. Oldest of all the forms is the orginal form but use of the form appears to have waned. Its style resembles a waterfall and seems to have carried some religious or spiritual value.
|Water Tongue has three form structures, also called pyes, that all words are based off of. Two are referred to as the Hope and Fear pyes but there appearded to be some controversy surrounding the third: Love, Truth or Joy.| | <urn:uuid:63319490-2b56-4dd7-a627-4fd3c6328d15> | 2013-05-18T17:38:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Baby Gym Mat:
This type is a smaller mat used
by babies with hanging toys
Cot: Cots are
small beds for young children to
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sick at school.
These mats are larger, and used
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Rest Mat: In
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While looking at the GitHub help article on subtree merges, I noticed that the prompt shown in the examples also listed the current branch of the repo. Like this:
Interested to implement this myself I found the
git_completion.sh script, which provides all kinds of additional features in bash. Below is a short introduction that should help you to add the current branch to your bash prompt.
How to modify your bash prompt
PS1 variable determines how the prompt looks. You can see your current PS1 variable using echo in a terminal.
My output (mac) was
\h:\W \u\$. (note the space at the end) \h is the first part of my hostname. \W the current working directory and \u my username. There are a lot of extra options. Some of which I've listed below. More information can be found at this geekstuff tutorial.
- \d - Date
- \h - Hostname up to the first period
- \H - Hostname
- \u - Username
- \w - The current working directory
- \W - The base name of the current working directory
Integrating git into your bash prompt
Most of the git integration can be handled by the
.git_completion.sh script. Which you can download from GitHub. (Do so now). Place the file in your home directory and name it
.git_completion.sh. Then add the following to your
.bash_profile (mac) or
.bashrc (everything else).
Then close en re-open your terminal. Type
git and hit
tab twice, code completion for git command should now be working. The git_completion script has many more completion options (e.g. branches and remotes), take a look at the notes in the script to learn more.
Putting it together
Showing the current branch can now be accomplished using the
__git_ps1 command provided by the git_completion script. To do this, add the following line to your
.bash_profile if on a mac).
export PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '
$() is used to signify a function (in this case
__git_ps1 takes a format string that describes the lay-out of the result.
%s will be translated to the current branch name.
This line says that the PS1 variable is set to
[<user>@<hostname> <working dir> <git_ps1 branch if available>]$. If you want, you can also show untracked and staged changes. To do so, modify your bash profile to:
export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=true export PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ '
This will result in directories being displayed
[user@host directory-name (master*)]$ [user@host directory-name (master+)]$ [user@host directory-name (master%)]$
- On the first line a tracked file was modified
- The second line indicates a tracked file was modified and staged
- The third line indicates that untracked files are in your tree
Combinations of these are possible.
I like to add some color to my prompt to increase readability. Explaining colors in bash is something for a different tutorial, but this is my
.bash_profile, it colorizes the branch name (if a branch is available).
export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=true PS1='\h:\W$(__git_ps1 " [\[\e[0;32m\]%s\[\e[0m\]]")\$ '
And that's it!. More information on colors can be found at archlinuxBack to index | <urn:uuid:dc115a4e-a156-48e6-8994-2f34374af1fe> | 2013-05-18T17:27:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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You didn't bother to hide the fact you stole/edited an online template. "Joomla Templates." on the homepage.
- Headers on the page are unreadable
- Some of your headers have a pixelated look.
- Not enough information/ pointless information
- Screams I set this up to scam people.
- Your a computing firm not a law firm who I suppose this template is aimed at.
Besides that I can't believe the image you used to display the pricing graphic. Nothing attracts the customers like a big pile of cash.
Take a look at the market leaders in computer service and management and copy them.
Thanks for the feedback, your criticism though really harsh, I can see where your coming from. I'm not trying to scam people I already have a job working for another company as a system administrator, I just was trying to make a little bit of money on the side, so I was trying to entice people with free estimates. And that was a stupid picture with the money but I wasn't sure what to use.
I can design things for people but I can't seem to create a good website for myself, I lack a good basis for a design. With other's websites I made, they knew exactly what they wanted and that helped drive my design for them. I'm not sure what I want to do thats why I tried to use a template to start off. I shouldn't use a Joomla template, I should make the website using Custom coding.
But was there anything good about the website? So I can take anything away from the site when I start creating one from scratch?
Thanks for the feedback, you might get this twice as I thought I had posted something before but it seemed to not post. I'm not trying to scam anyone, I currently have a job as a system administrator and am trying to make a little money on the side.
But your right I didn't think that the site looked too good but I just wanted a place to start from. I should scrap the joomla template and just write everything in custom code. I agree with the money image too, I didn't really like that but I wasn't sure what image to use.
I'm going to redesign my site, but I was wondering, was there anything good about the site? Is the logo okay or should I re-design that as well?
Add some pictures on the other pages people are easy to please they don't like reading.
The logo actually goes well with the site on second look.
What really makes me go confused is the parts where you start talking about greek gods.
Your estimate forms are also good. And replace the cash graphic with some sort of graph graphic (people love graphs).
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The Castle Breakroom (General: Any Topic)
> Can you speak Chinese?
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Can you speak Chinese?
12-05-2006, 11:32 PM
I want to know,
Who can speak Chinese here?
Which Chinese website is your Favorite?
12-28-2006, 04:39 PM
All I can say is Hello, Thank you and Please.
Probably won't get me far if I decide to live in China ! | <urn:uuid:9a58d905-06fb-48ca-9052-018126ef057e> | 2013-05-18T17:37:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Egypt to hold elections in April
Egypt will hold parliamentary elections in several stages beginning April 27, a member of President Mohamed Morsy's presidential team announced Thursday.
Pakinam el-Sharkawy made the announcement on state television.
These will be the first elections since Egypt's highest court dissolved the lower house of parliament last June, and it will be the first full parliament in Morsy's presidency. The upper house, the Shura Council, has continued to meet.
The election process will take place in four stages: April 27-28, May 15-16 and June 2-3 and 19-20, according to the official decree released by the president's spokesman, Yassir Ali. Runoffs will be held one week after each stage.
The House of Representatives, the lower house in Egypt's bicameral system, will hold its first session July 6, the decree said.
Previous elections have had three stages, not four. More stages raises the possibility of more politically charged violence, particularly in the province of Port Said.
In the past year, violent clashes in the coastal province along the Suez Canal have highlighted the longstanding resentment residents there feel toward Cairo.
Both Port Said and Cairo are included in the first round of voting.
Several stages of elections also means the Muslim Brotherhood, the group that backs Morsy, has more time to rebuild its waning support.
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Hello, hello, hello - what's goin' on 'er then ?
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LANCASTER - A Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman says the armed robbery suspect shot by deputies at the end of a vehicle pursuit has died.
Capt. Mike Parker tells KABC-TV that it appeared that the suspect fired at deputies, they fired back and the suspect is deceased.
A TV news helicopter view of the scene late Friday morning appeared to show the first shot coming from inside the vehicle and out the windshield.
Parker says, however, that everything remains under investigation.
The man, wearing a camouflage jacket, was ordered out of the vehicle at gunpoint. TV news reports showed him getting out of the SUV and standing by it.
After a short time, however, the man got back into the car and closed the door. A short time later bullets blasted holes in the windshield.
The man had repeatedly refused to show his hands before he returned to the car and he apparently fired first at deputies, who shot back, Parker told KCAL-TV.
"The suspect made this decision. The deputies gave him every opportunity to surrender," he said.
No deputies were hurt.
The chase began after a report that an armed man robbed a Bank of America in the Santa Clarita area at about 9:15 a.m. The pursuit went north into the Antelope Valley
A freeway chase of a bank robbery suspect into the Antelope Valley ended Friday with a shootout between the cornered gunman and Los Angeles County sheriff's
There was no immediate word on the man's condition after gunfire exploded at around 10:15 a.m. on a Lancaster cul-de-sac.
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Elemental analysis is a process where a sample of some material (e.g., soil, waste or drinking water, bodily fluids, minerals, chemical compounds) is analyzed for its elemental and sometimes isotopic composition. Elemental analysis can be qualitative (determining what elements are present), and it can be quantitative (determining how much of each are present). Elemental analysis falls within the ambit of analytical chemistry, the set of instruments involved in decyphering the chemical nature of our world.
For synthetic chemists, elemental analysis or "EA" almost always refers to CHNX analysis — the determination of the percentage weights of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and heteroatoms (X) (halogens, sulfur) of a sample. This information is important to help determine the structure of an unknown compound, as well as to help prove the structure and purity of a synthesized compound.
The most common form of elemental analysis, CHN analysis, is accomplished by combustion analysis. In this technique, a sample is burned in an excess of oxygen, and various traps collect the combustion products — carbon dioxide, water, and nitric oxide. The weights of these combustion products can be used to calculate the composition of the unknown sample.
Other quantitative methods include:
- Gravimetry, where the sample is dissolved and then the element of interest is precipitated and its mass measured or the element of interest is volatilized and the mass loss is measured.
- Optical atomic spectroscopy, such as flame atomic absorption, graphite furnace atomic absorption, and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission, which probe the outer electronic structure of atoms.
To qualitatively determine which elements exist in a sample, methods include:
- Mass spectrometric atomic spectroscopy, such as inductively coupled mass spectrometry, which probes the mass of atoms.
- Other spectroscopy which probes the inner electronic structure of atoms such as X-ray fluorescence, particle induced x-ray emission, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Auger electron spectroscopy.
- Electrochemical methods
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Children (and many adults) often regard the removal of a splinter with terror. It's not just the pain of the splinter itself, but the thought of digging under your skin with a needle and tweezers! Here is an easy, fairly pain-free way to remove a splinter. This baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) method will even work to remove a deeply embedded glass shard.
- 1Don't squeeze it! As you are inspecting the splinter for the first time, don't squeeze it to try and get it out. If it's sharp, you could be embedding it further into your skin; if it's brittle, you might break it into smaller pieces.
- 2Clean and dry the spot with soap and water. Be gentle—patting the area dry with a paper towel will soak up the water without any unnecessary (and potentially painful) rubbing. You don't want the skin (or the splinter, if it's wood) to get soggy.
- 3Inspect the splinter with a magnifying glass. The size of the splinter and how it's angled in your skin will help you know what's the best way to take it out.
- See How to Remove a Splinter for a description of other methods you may want to try first. The baking soda method described here is best for tiny, invisible splinters, or deeply-embedded ones. The baking soda paste will cause the skin to swell and push the splinter out. It's best used after other methods, since it will make the other methods (tape, tweezer ,needle) more difficult because your skin will be slightly swollen.
- 4Make a baking soda paste. Add water to about 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda to make a thick paste.
- 5Apply the paste to the splinter. Spread the baking soda paste onto a bandage, then apply the bandage to the affected area.
- 6After 24 hours, remove the bandage. The splinter may be sticking out of the skin. If it's visible, pick it off with tweezers, and rinse the skin gently. If the splinter is sticking out but not visible, this may wash it away without further complications.
- Repeat the method with new paste and another bandage every 24 hours until the splinter is gone.
- 7Use a topical anesthetic. If the splinter is extremely painful, you might rub a bit of Baby Orajel around the affected area and wait a few minutes before trying to remove the splinter. The Baby Orajel will numb the area. Once you wait a few minutes, wash the affected area .
- The baking soda on your hurt area may feel strange.
- Alternate treatment: Lightly apply white glue in a thin layer to the affected area. Allow to dry. Peel the glue off for the hopeful easy removal of the small splinters. Glue conforms and gets into nooks better than tape.
- Also, if you flinch while using the tweezers, it will hurt more.
- You may have to re-bandage the area twice or even three times during the 24-hour period before the splinter becomes loose enough to remove (or falls out).
- Signs of infection around the splinter may include:
- Angry redness, red streaks, swelling, skin hot to the touch, thick liquid or pus seeping out of the area.
- If there is any sign of infection, seek medical advice.
- Use of a topical anesthetic on the damaged skin is not recommended. The active ingredient in preparations such as Orajel, benzocaine, can be dangerous when applied to broken skin.
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