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In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighters shout at a captured suspected pro-Bashar Assad fighter in the town of Harem, Syria. Rebels say the man was killed shortly after this picture. Despite two weeks of attacking a Roman-era citadel in which pro-Assad militia are dug in, the rebels failed to secure the town. (AP Photo/Mustafa Karali)
PARIS (AP) -- France raised the possibility Thursday of sending "defensive weapons" to Syria's rebels, but Russia warned that such a move would violate international law.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said his country will ask the European Union to consider lifting the Syrian arms embargo, which prevents weapons from being sent to either side.
"We must not militarize the conflict ... but it's obviously unacceptable that there are liberated zones and they're bombed" by President Bashar Assad's regime, Fabius said in an interview with RTL radio. "We have to find a good balance."
The civil war in Syria, which began as an uprising against Assad's regime, has killed more than 36,000 Syrians since March 2011, according to anti-government activists. The fighting and flood of refugees seeking safety have also spilled over into several of Syria's neighbors, including Israel, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.
The fighting has descended into a bloody stalemate, and rebels say they desperately need weapons to turn the tide.
"The question of defensive arms will be raised," Fabius said, without providing details about what such arms would be. "This cannot be done without coordination between Europeans."
The topic of Syria is sure to be on the agenda at the EU foreign ministers meeting Monday in Brussels.
France has taken a leading role among Western countries in supporting Syria's rebels. On Tuesday, it became the first Western nation to formally recognize Syria's newly formed opposition coalition as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
On Saturday, the president of the new opposition coalition, the 52-year-old preacher-turned activist Mouaz al-Khatib, is to visit Paris and meet with President Francois Hollande. Al-Khatib is scheduled to hold talks a day earlier in London with British officials, who have said they will urge the opposition to set out a strategy to halt the conflict.
Syria's splintered rebel factions agreed to a U.S.-backed plan to unite last weekend under the new umbrella group, which seeks a common voice and strategy against the regime.
A French diplomatic official said Thursday that Paris sees quick recognition as a primary way to assure success for the opposition.
"There won't be many other occasions like this," said the official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and asked not to be named. "We have a collective responsibility, to the Syrians and ourselves, to make this live."
Turkey, which shares a long border with Syria and is a major backer of the opposition, followed suit on Thursday, with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu saying Ankara recognized the Syrian National Coalition as "the only legal representative" of Syria, the Anadolu news agency reported.
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council already has recognized the new broad-based Syrian opposition group. The GCC includes Qatar and regional power Saudi Arabia, both of whom have been some of the strongest supporters of the rebels fighting to oust Assad.
The U.S. also recognized the leadership body announced in Qatar on Sunday as a legitimate representative, but stopped short of describing it as the sole representative, saying the group must first demonstrate its ability to represent Syrians inside the country.
President Obama on Wednesday reiterated that the U.S. isn't considering sending weapons to the opposition because of concerns the arms might end up in the hands of extremists.
Although Assad remains isolated internationally, he still has the backing of key allies Russia, China and Iran.
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich warned that providing assistance to Syrian opposition fighters would breach international law.
He specifically cited a 1970 United Nations document saying that no country should help or finance military action aimed at the violent overthrow of a foreign government. He also said the opposition's refusal to hold talks with Assad would "strengthen positions of extremists."
Lukashevich said Russia will continue its contacts with both the government and the opposition to encourage them to sit down for talks. "There is no alternative to an inclusive dialogue without any foreign interference," he said.
Despite myriad attempts over the past year to reach a diplomatic solution to the crisis, violence has continued unabated on the ground.
Syrian activists said regime warplanes carried out airstrikes Thursday on an eastern town bordering Iraq after rebels seized a security headquarters following days of heavy fighting.
Rebels had been making advances in the town of al-Boukamal in the oil-rich province of Deir el-Zour for weeks. On Thursday, they seized control of the military security building and a military checkpoint at the edge of the town.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a local activist who gave only his first name, Omar, said Syrian regime forces retaliated with air raids on al-Boukamal. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.
The Observatory also said it received a report from Aleppo, Syria's largest city and the epicenter of some of the worst fighting, that dozens of soldiers' bodies were being held at the international airport. The men apparently had been killed in fighting, but authorities were delaying returning the soldiers' bodies to their families.
It was impossible to independently confirm the report. | <urn:uuid:cd829d9e-c706-4f75-9df2-e6ce98cec56a> | 2013-05-18T17:38:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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ExploraTour - How to Build a Star
"But wait a minute," you say. "We've tried this nuclear fusion stuff on Earth to produce energy and so far it hasn't worked very well. How does the sun succeed where we have failed?"
You are right. Operational nuclear power plants on Earth use fission reactions to produce power. They work by splitting apart heavy nuclei like Uranium-235 or Plutonium-239. The combined mass of the resulting lighter nuclei is less than the original heavy nucleus. The missing mass is converted to energy, mostly in the form of heat.
Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239 are very rare elements that are difficult to extract. The Earth's reserves will be used up in a relatively short time. In addition, the products left over from the fission reaction are radioactive and thus dangerous to humans. This radioactive waste has to be disposed of very carefully.
We have high hopes that nuclear power plants using fusion reactions to liberate energy will soon be developed. | <urn:uuid:774cbc1e-d50b-432b-9ca1-4a27d0d9fdf4> | 2013-05-18T17:19:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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michael dietrich wrote:So what was your preparation for the turkey pastrami ? Did you just use a turkey breast ?
Recipe is out of Steven Raichlen's "How to Grill." Whole turkey breast, skin on, remove the backbone, put on the rub (a whole slew of spices and seasonings) and let cure for 24 hours, then smoke over an indirect fire for about 2 hours. Served room temp, on pumpernickle, with brown deli mustard and Swiss.
And I'd imagine any CdR would work well with it, although the Pastrami is very flavorful, and you might need something like Gigondas to answer it: even the 27-year-old I served brought that extra richness. Chateauneuf would be fabulous with it. Of course, Chateauneuf is fabulous in and of itself!
"The sun, with all those planets revolving about it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else to do"
(avatar: me next to the WIYN 3.5 meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory) | <urn:uuid:2e3f4c6c-8fa2-492f-a340-ed232e26ebbb> | 2013-05-18T17:38:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Richard Branson is well on his way to space. Now he plans to
explore the deepest parts of the ocean as well.
announced his undersea exploration venture, Virgin Oceanic, on
Tuesday. Unlike his suborbital-space-flight company, Virgin
Galactic, the new venture is not accepting paying passengers.
Instead, it will comprise only five
deep-sea dives, each one carrying just one person, to the
deepest points in each of the five oceans.
To make the dives, Virgin
has built a custom submarine and a flashy promotional
video. The sub's cockpit has a bubble-like dome made of quartz,
which can withstand 6 million kilos of pressure across its surface,
Overall, the sub looks a bit like an aeroplane, the better to
"fly" to its underwater destinations. It weighs 3,600 kilos, is
made of carbon fibre and titanium, and is rated to withstand
pressure up to 37,000 feet below the surface. It's not fast,
though, with a maximum speed of just 3 knots and the ability to
dive at 1.8 metres per second, so its life-support systems are
meant to last up to 24 hours.
In addition to its one human, the sub will have a water sampling
system that can filter microbes and viruses from the water for
later study. It will also be able to deploy unmanned probes. So
far, the sub has only gone for a dip in San Francisco Bay.
Virgin Oceanic notes that sub was originally the brainchild of
aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett, a friend of Branson's, who
crashed during a solo plane flight in 2007 but whose remains
weren't found until 2008.
To support and transport the sub, Virgin has retrofitted
carbon-fiber racing catamaran with a crane, generators and
lots of electronics.
The first dive will be to the bottom of the
Mariana Trench, a 36,201-foot canyon deep in the western
Pacific. Humans have made it to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
just once before, in 1960. The commander of that expedition,
Jacques Piccard, later recounted the experience of that
The second dive will be to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench,
which at 8,600 metres below the surface is the deepest trench in
the Atlantic Ocean. Branson himself plans to pilot the sub for this
journey. Branson will be the backup pilot for the Mariana dive too,
if his designated pilot is unable to do it. Three other dives are
planned, each to the deepest point of other three oceans.
There's a serious scientific
purpose to Virgin Oceanic's missions, Virgin says, with actual
scientists lined up to make the most of these dives for their
research into bottom-dwelling microbes, bioluminescence and
But mostly, we suspect, it will be an excellent adventure for
the man Wired has called a "happy-go-lucky
tycoon." More power to you, Sir Richard. We'll be watching for
the IMAX movie. | <urn:uuid:b46f3d22-881d-4779-a347-9580bcff3f52> | 2013-05-18T17:48:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If you read this blog regularly, you know I have a fondness for the so-called “missing eruptions” — that is, volcanic events found in ice core or sediment records but not yet identified in the geologic/volcanic record. The most glaring right now is the eruption of 1258 A.D., supposedly 1.8 times as large as the 1815 eruption of Tambora, but no candidate volcano has been conclusively identified as the source. Another enigmatic climate event that has a little more potential to be matched with a volcano happened during the mid-1450s, a period that saw cold winters in China, dry fogs in Constantinople and stunted tree ring growth around the world. It also saw one of the biggest cases of sulfur loading in the atmosphere in the last few thousand years, rivaling that of the famous 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland. All these climatic effects have been attributed to an eruption in the New Hebrides arc, specifically the Kuwae caldera in Vanuatu. However, the relationship between this eruption at the climate signatures — and the existence of the eruption itself — is still hotly debated. | <urn:uuid:eecc926a-6ecd-4a92-bf87-2115959015a7> | 2013-05-18T17:40:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Learn something new every day More Info... by email
A jog dial is a controller that can step through options or regulate the speed of media playback. It consists of a wheel or disc that spins freely or can move through a series of individual stops, known as detents or clicks, depending on the design. Electronics like cameras may have jog dials, and they can be attached to mice or external controls for a computer to control programs. For example, transcriptionists, video editors, and audio mixers may use an external jog dial to work more efficiently with media.
The design of the dial can depend on the device. Some are aligned vertically to create a spinning wheel, while others are horizontal. Textured edges are common to make a jog dial easier to grip and these may have markings to allow the user to see the appropriate setting. On a digital camera, for example, a dial can allow the user to select from several detents, each representing a different shooting mode. Another dial may control aperture or shutter speed when the user is on a manual or semi-manual mode.
For controlling media playback, a jog dial spins freely. It can be activated to fast forward or reverse, pause, and slow media. This can be critical for editing and transcribing, where one-touch control increase efficiency. Disc jockeys can use jog dials for fades, record skips, and other effects both in recordings and live performances. Jog dials also provide a quick method for reviewing footage in the field, useful for sound technicians and videographers.
Some computer mice come with a jog dial, sometimes known as a scroll wheel, which can be used for scrolling, clicking, and other functions. External jog dials can also be connected separately. These are usually designed for quick installation; some come with compact discs loaded with software for full feature functionality. They may be designed to coordinate with specific software programs to add features and make the software easy to use.
In addition to responding to spinning, some jog dials also respond to pressure. The user can push down to click or select, and may be able to selectively exert pressure on either end of the jog dial to access additional features. This increases the capacity of the device, although the learning curve can be steeper as people learn to control it effectively. Accidentally putting pressure on one end while operating the device, for instance, may inadvertently trigger an unwanted function. | <urn:uuid:b214b0f0-6fb5-447b-bfbe-27a4758425da> | 2013-05-18T17:58:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama reaffirmed that the country's war in Afghanistan would be over by the end of 2014.
He also laid out more specifics.
Of the approximately 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan now, more than half -- 34,000 -- will come home in the next year, Obama said.
At the same time, Afghan troops will assume most of the responsibility for combat missions.
"This spring, our forces will move into a support role, while Afghan security forces take the lead," Obama said.
It was previously expected that Afghan forces would take the lead in combat missions by the middle of this year. But a U.S. official told CNN that the military transition has accelerated and that Afghans will lead all security operations by March.
What does this news mean for Afghanistan and America's longest war? Here are some key questions that will be asked in the coming months:
1. Are the Afghan troops up to the task?
There are certainly doubts.
A Pentagon review in December claimed that only one of 23 Afghan army brigades was capable of functioning on its own. | <urn:uuid:c338b660-60d9-4497-9779-e3f7c7a84f1c> | 2013-05-18T18:05:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The state has recorded its first child death during the current flu season.
State health officials say the six-year old died February 4th of complications from the flu. The child was at risk for complication from the flu because of underlying medical conditions, according to a news release.
To protect the family's privacy, the state will not release the child's hometown, county or sex.
Each year the flu kills an estimated 25,000 people in the United States, and hospitalizes more than 220,000 people. State health officials say it's not too late to get your flu shot, as the season can last well into the spring. | <urn:uuid:f956479a-946e-4dbe-9e5c-c535b309a596> | 2013-05-18T17:28:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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CLEVELAND -- Blunt force impact to the head, torso and extremities has been ruled as the official cause of death for 3-year-old Emilliano Terry.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office also reports that Emilliano had suffered skeletal, visceral and soft-tissue injuries.
Emilliano's mother, 20-year-old Camilia Terry, remains jailed on a $2 million bond on an aggravated murder in connection with his death.
It was back on Nov. 25 when Camilia initially reported her son had gone missing at Kossuth Park. His body was found the next night at a trash processing facility in Oakwood. | <urn:uuid:54af1c2c-ec59-401d-ad8b-325a9a534d62> | 2013-05-18T17:18:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Susan Rice (STEPHEN CHERNIN/AFP/GettyImages)
Susan Rice withdrew from consideration for the Secretary of State position on Thursday, citing Republican criticism of her record that had signaled a tough confirmation battle.
In a letter to President Obama, Rice said she could have done the job "ably and effectively," but added that "I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly -- to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities."
Rice will remain as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
In a statement, Obama praised Rice, while criticizing the "unfair and misleading attacks" on her by Senate Republicans and others over the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"Her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first," Obama said.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and other Republicans, including South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, had criticized Rice over a string of Sept. 16 television interviews in which she attributed the Benghazi attack to the protest over an an anti-Islam video. Officials later said organized terrorists carried out the attack that killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
After the decision became public, Graham issued this statement:
"I respect Ambassador Rice's decision. President Obama has many talented people to choose from to serve as our next Secretary of State.
"When it comes to Benghazi I am determined to find out what happened - before, during, and after the attack. Unfortunately, the White House and other agencies are stonewalling when it comes to providing the relevant information. I find this unacceptable.
"The story of Benghazi is a story of national security failure and we must work to prevent it from ever happening again. I will continue working diligently to get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi."
President Obama's statement:
"Today, I spoke to Ambassador Susan Rice, and accepted her decision to remove her name from consideration for Secretary of State. For two decades, Susan has proven to be an extraordinarily capable, patriotic, and passionate public servant.
"As my Ambassador to the United Nations, she plays an indispensable role in advancing America's interests. Already, she has secured international support for sanctions against Iran and North Korea, worked to protect the people of Libya, helped achieve an independent South Sudan, stood up for Israel's security and legitimacy, and served as an advocate for UN reform and the human rights of all people.
"I am grateful that Susan will continue to serve as our Ambassador at the United Nations and a key member of my cabinet and national security team, carrying her work forward on all of these and other issues. I have every confidence that Susan has limitless capability to serve our country now and in the years to come, and know that I will continue to rely on her as an advisor and friend.
"While I deeply regret the unfair and misleading attacks on Susan Rice in recent weeks, her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first. The American people can be proud to have a public servant of her caliber and character representing our country." | <urn:uuid:9dc49e32-668a-4d35-9be9-4dd8329f2042> | 2013-05-18T18:06:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Nepalese women are among thousands of Asians who travel to the Middle East in search of employment. They often arrive willingly, but subsequently face conditions that the U.S. State Department says is indicative of forced labor -- the withholding of passports, restrictions on movement, nonpayment of wages for work up to 20 hours a day, threats, deprivation of food and sleep, and physical or sexual abuse.
I started working on what became this book more than ten years ago, because I felt there was so much confusion in the way that large sections of the trade union movement and the Left responded to globalisation. They took a straightforward anti-globalisation position which, by default, reinforced a nationalist reaction against globalisation. This went against all my Marxist internationalist instincts. Also, having been involved in trade union research for decades, it was obvious to me that many of the evils attributed to globalisation, such as subcontracting and the shifting of production, had been rampant for years or decades prior to it. Most disturbing of all, much of the anti-globalisation rhetoric was indistinguishable from the rhetoric of the extreme Right. (I have given examples of this in my book.) | <urn:uuid:f4d33482-5d4e-49e8-b88f-f9b1483b3d47> | 2013-05-18T17:38:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Updated: Maine mugshots, see who's been arrested
Smoke and water damage at Berwick Academy. The white fire curtain was pulled to contain fire on stage yesterday.
An inside look at the damage from Tuesday's fire in the arts building at Berwick Academy.
At least 15 people were killed Saturday in Baghdad and Anbar provinces, police said, in what appeared to be a continuation of sectarian violence. | <urn:uuid:686b2208-3b38-40c8-badf-6a93c64f5963> | 2013-05-18T18:00:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Twenty-one days after her bone marrow transplant, "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts is now recuperating in the comfort of her own home, as she wrote in a post on "GMA's" website.
Roberts was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder in June, but thankfully found a bone marrow match in her sister, Sally-Ann, who helped Roberts through the process along with their other sister, Dorothy.
"I'll be adding that to the long list of things for which I am grateful," Roberts said in her post. "Least of all, my new and improved bone marrow from Sally-Ann. My doctors tell me her cells are making themselves right at home, and with the grace of God, I pray they will continue to do so."
In the meantime, Roberts is going to continue to rest at home on hiatus from "GMA" "until I'm given the all clear," she said. "But sleeping in my own bed again feels like a big victory."
She thanked her medical team, who will continue to monitor the TV anchor to ensure everything's progressing as it should, as well as her fans for their thoughts and prayers.
"I know it is your prayers and warm thoughts that have gotten me this far," Roberts said. "Each day I get stronger and stronger. ... [E]ven in some dark moments, of which there are still a few, I now see that light at the end of the tunnel. This too really shall pass." | <urn:uuid:86dd4644-5f1b-42ca-8b49-96e9ca058846> | 2013-05-18T18:08:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The crew aboard Carnival Triumph didn't hesitate when a fire broke out and power was lost, an emergency that turned the cruise liner into a bobbing Porta-Potty.
From blackjack dealers to chefs to dishwashers, the disparate crew, from about 60 countries, did "things I wouldn't do," one passenger said.
The scene that unfolded aboard the Triumph has been well-documented: Sewage spilled into rooms and halls, steak and lobster rotted when freezers went out, and swimming pool decks turned into a tent city.
"I just wanted to vomit, like every second probably," said 12-year-old passenger Allie Taylor.
But most passengers said the one thing that kept their sanity was the professionalism of the crew.
Built in 1999, the Triumph spans three football fields, weighs 102,000 tons and covers 13 decks, complete with four swimming pools, seven whirlpools, a giant casino and a relaxing spa. Passengers could dine at an array of restaurants, from the South Beach Club to the Paris Dining Room. They could lap up drinks in many of the ship's bars, including the Big Easy.
On such a massive ship, the jobs of the 1,086-member crew vary widely. But when emergency calls, their duties shift to make the best of a bad situation. At least two passengers were evacuated, including one for dialysis treatment.
The ship had reached its destination of Cozumel, Mexico, and was en route back home when a fire broke out in the engine room early Sunday, and then power was lost. Every time the boat tilted with the wind, toilets overflowed and spilled into halls, seeping through walls to floors below.
Without functioning toilets, passengers were given red biohazard bags to use -- and it became the crew's duty to pick up the used ones.
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A man wanted for a violent assault on a 17-year old girl in Weare is back in New Hampshire.
Jonathan Maguire, 22, of Groveland, Mass., made a court appearance Tuesday.
Maguire is facing a number of charges, including sexual assault, physical assault and preventing the victim from getting help, after police said he violently attacked a teenage girl.
Court records showed that Maguire was at his family's summer home in Weare and planned on taking his own life. According to the documents, Maguire reached out to the victim for help, but then he turned violent.
"He attacked her, knocked her out by choking her violently and she ended up on the pool table at the house and she awoke to being sexually assaulted," said Lt. James Carney of the Weare Police Department.
Police said Maguire stole the girl's car and was arrested three days later in Massachusetts. As of Tuesday, he was being held on $100,000 cash-only bail. | <urn:uuid:28ff1eca-947c-4f0b-84a8-b476744b9bc0> | 2013-05-18T17:20:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Named to the Eastern Conference All-Star Team…Set a career-high with 12 rebounds on July 24 at Cleveland…Recorded the fifth double-double of her WNBA career with a season-high 27 points and 10 rebounds on June 19 vs. Washington…Notched a new career best and team best for field goals made (12) on June 19…Led Charlotte in scoring for the sixth straight season…Led the Sting in scoring 11 times, in rebounding 14 times and in assists six times…Playoffs Averaged 15.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in two games…Shot 48.0% from the floor during the playoffs.
Named to the Eastern Conference All-Star Team . . . Led Charlotte in scoring for the fifth straight season . . . Finished fifth in the league in three-point field goal percentage, tenth in field goal percentage and 11th in scoring . . . Scored in double figures 24 times and scored 10+ points nine times tying her own franchise record . . . Led the Sting in scoring 15 times, in rebounding five times and in assists six times . . . Named WNBA Player of the Week for the week ending August 12 . . . Became the fourth player in league history to score 2,000 career points . . . Picked up the fourth double-double of her career with 10 points and a career-high 11 rebounds at Portland on June 22 . . . Playoffs Led the team in scoring (12.0), rebounding (6.1) and steals (1.63) while hitting 38.5 percent of her three-point field goal attempts.
Led Charlotte in scoring (17.7) setting team records for points and field goals made and attempts in the process . . . Finished seventh in the league in scoring, ninth in assists (3.8), 19th in three point field goal percentage (36.5), 15th in steals (1.72), and seventh in minutes played (35.1) . . . Established a Sting record by scoring 33 points vs. Washington on July 26 . . . Opened the season by scoring in double figures in 18 straight games and in a team-record 20 straight games dating back to the 1999 season . . . Following a four-point performance at Cleveland on July 10, she ended the season by scoring in double figures in 13 straight games . . . Led or tied for the team lead in scoring on 20 occasions, in rebounding five times and in assists four times . . . Scored 20 or more points on nine occasions.
Ranked 14th in the league in scoring (13.6), 15th in assists (2.9), 17th in field goal percentage (46.0) and 17th in minutes played (32.5) . . . Scored the 1,000th point of her career at Orlando on July 3 . . . Led or tied for the team lead in scoring on 12 occasions . . . Reached double figures in scoring 26 times . . . Led the team in scoring, was second in assists, blocks and minutes played, and was third in steals . . . Scored a season-high 27 points at Detroit on July 28 . . . Playoffs Averaged 20.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.75 steals while hitting 50-percent of her field goal attempts (32-of-64) in four games . . . Grabbed 14 rebounds at Detroit on August 24, adding 16 points, five steals and four assists . . . Averaged 22.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists while hitting 52-percent of her field goal attempts (26-of-50) during the three game Eastern Conference Finals series against the New York Liberty . . . Scored a Sting playoff record 27 points at New York on August 29.
Named to the All-WNBA Second Team . . . Ranked seventh in the league in scoring (15.0), 25th in rebounding (4.6), seventh in assists (4.5), 20th in three point field goal percentage (28.2), 23rd in free throw percentage (75.0), seventh in steals (1.80), 20th in blocks (0.50), third in minutes played (34.9) and seventh in assists-to-turnover ratio (1.74) . . . Led team in assists for the second straight season . . . Only player in the league with 400 points, 125 rebounds and 120 assists (accomplished this feat in 1997 as well). . . Named WNBA Player of the Week for games played June 21-28 when she averaged 20.0 points, 7.7 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.67 steals as the team went 3-0 . . . Playoffs Averaged 14.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 2.00 steals in Charlotte’s first-round playoff series with Houston.
Finished second to Cynthia Cooper in the WNBA MVP voting . . . Named to the All-WNBA Second Team . . . Ranked seventh in the league in scoring (15.7), 13th in rebounding (5.5), seventh in assists (4.4), 11th in three-pointers made (25), eighth in blocks (0.71), second in minutes played (36.1) and eighth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.25) . . . Named WNBA Player of the Week for games played July 7-14 when she averaged 18.8 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.8 assists . . . Set what was then the WNBA single-game scoring mark with 29 points vs. the New York Liberty on July 9 . . . Playoffs Scored eight points and handed out three assists at Houston on August 28.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
A veteran of nine seasons of European professional basketball (1992-97, 1998-2002)...Played for Galatasaray in Istanbul, Turkey for the past three seasons...Made the finals in 1999-2000 and the semifinals in 1998-99...A three-time Italian League All-Star for Parma (1994-95), Cesena (1995-96) and Thiene (1996-97)...Played two season (1992-94) for Tarbes in France...Selected to play on the 1989 World Championship qualifying Team, the 1990 and 1992 USA Select National Teams, the 1991 bronze-medal winning Pan American Team and the 1992 Olympic Trials Team.
Led team and Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring for three straight seasons (1998-91) . . . Finished her NC State career third in scoring (2,136), third in field goals (917), third in steals (286), sixth in assists (402) and sixth in blocked shots (84) . . . Holds school records for most points (50) and field goals (21) in a game (vs. Providence on December 3, 1989) and most points (752) and field goals (320) in a season . . . Selected to the 1989 All-Mideast Regional Team and the 1990 All-Midwest Regional Team . . . Other honors include 1990 and 1991 All-ACC, All-ACC Tournament and Kodak All-America Teams and 1990 ACC Player of the Year and Tournament MVP . . . Majored in communications. | <urn:uuid:ac56609b-4c86-4211-8cd8-aa1bd8d179eb> | 2013-05-18T17:28:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Two Home Invasions In One Lansdale Block
The first one happened shortly before 11:00am Friday, October 19, when a 23-year-old man told police he was awakened from his sleep when he heard someone prying a door open with a crowbar.
He said two men showed a handgun and asked him questions about someone he did not know. They left with several electronic items.
The second one happened around 10:20 Monday morning, when a 24-year-old woman told police two men broke in, threatened her with a gun and took several electronic items after asking questions about a man who lived there.
Lansdale Police say the men who committed the robberies were apparently targeting a specific person, and they were not random acts. | <urn:uuid:1370a9b8-2a83-47ce-9e67-e6fd6bee1716> | 2013-05-18T17:38:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Posts from May 2012
Thursday 31 Brain Strain
On average, women have ten of THESE, men have only six.
Incorrect Guesses: pairs of shoes, scars, different jobs over their career, credit cards
Correct Answer: pairs of jeans.
Wednesday 30th Brain Strain
You're in an average American household if you buy a jar of THESE every 7 weeks.
Correct Answer: Pickles
Tuesday 29 Brain Strain
Experts predict that because of the expanding use of cell phones, ten years from now, most people will never use THIS.
Incorrect Guesses: stationery, answering machine, pay phone, land line, instant messaging on line, record players,post office, I Pod, computer, watch, map
Correct Answer: cash.
Friday 25th Brain Strain
Twice as many women do THIS today for money than a decade ago.
Incorrect Guesses: strip, work
Correct Answer: rob banks!
Thursday 24th Brain Strain
More than five billion of THESE are sold worldwide every year, the majority of them in the U.S.
Incorrect Guesses: balloons, hamburgers, cars, pair of shoes, bottles of water
Correct Answer: pizzas
Tuesday 22 Brain Strain
A new study has revealed that one-third of all 9 1 1 calls come in for this reason.
Incorrect Guesses: a fight between spouses, stove fire, car accident
Correct Answer: butt dials
Monday 21 Brain Strain
Research says kids think adults who do THIS are much more trustworthy.
Incorrect Guesses: sit down and talk to them and tell the truth, buy chicken nuggets, go to church, text, drive a mini-van, lie, listen, swear, discipline them, smile, wear a uniform, hug them, play with them, ask them questions, do as I say, one on one time
Correct Answer: point
Friday 18th Brain Strain
What will 50% of women pay more than $100 for?
Incorrect Guesses: shoes
Correct Answer: a swimsuit
Thursday 17th Brain Strain
Doing THIS greatly increases your happiness in the workplace.
Incorrect Guesses: take a break, bringing in treats
Correct Answer: leaving the building for lunch.
Wednesday 16th Brain Strain
Coffee is the most recognizable smell in America. What's #2?
Incorrect Guesses: skunk, gasoline, bread, cookies, fish, freshly cut grass, roses, microwave popcorn, vanilla, bacon, toast, hot dogs, hamburgers, jelly, steak
Correct Answer: Peanut Butter
Tuesday 15th Brain Strain
17% of women say they can't live without their hair dryer. 16% said they couldn't live without THIS.
Incorrect Guesses: make-up, lipstick, black purse, microwave, I Pod, better half, perfume, curling iron, sex, charge card, dance partner, pets, being alone, close personal friend, their mother
Correct Answer: their kids
Monday 14th Brain Strain
7% of women love THIS, 55% think it's ok, and 30% hate it.
Incorrect Guesses: work, watching sports on tv, foot massage, perfume, the death penalty, fixing things around the house, wearing a dress, chest hair (on a man?)
Correct Answer: their hair
Friday 11th Brain Strain
31 million households in America do THIS, and spend an average of $449 a year doing it.
Incorrect Guesses: bbq, movies, ordering out, mini golf, dry cleaning
Correct Answer: gardening
Thursday 10th Brain Strain
What will the average person do 23 times this year?
Incorrect Guesses: shovel snow, get a haircut
Correct Answer: break the law (hmmm, speeding, jaywalking, taking a grape from the produce section)
Wednesday 9th Brain Strain
88% of people say that their date's BLANK makes a bigger impression on them than what they are wearing.
Incorrect Guesses: car, attitude, manners, smile
Correct Answer: laugh
Tuesday 8th Brain Strain
One quarter of women have lied to their partners about THIS.
Incorrect Guesses: how much $ they spent shopping, their weight, age, cheating, hair color, how much $ they make, past boyfriends, the mileage on their car.
Correct Answer: said something was old when it was actually new.
Monday 7th Brain Strain
87% of men do THIS on a daily basis
Incorrect Guesses: shave, comb their hair, shower, swear, kiss their wife good bye every morning, tell their spouse they love them, call their Mom.
Correct Answer: compliment their partners
Friday 4th Brain Strain
Nearly 20% of men say THIS about their patner.
Incorrect Guesses: best friend, depend of them, they're taller, they need to lose weight, they cheat, anal, shop too much, smarter, more common sense, stand by their man
Correct Answer: they're not as good looking as them.
Thursday 3rd Brain Strain
What do Americans hang on to for an average of 5.2 years before getting a new one?
Incorrect Guesses: cell phone, vehicle/car, t.v., wife, coat, underwear, furniture, camera, house, wardrobe, computer, watch
Correct Answer: job
Wednesday 2nd Brain Strain
Parents Magazine says a baby's first words are Mommy and Daddy. What is the THIRD word.
Incorrect Guesses: please, bye, up, yum, kitty, cookie, no, dog, bottle, mine, don't, good
Correct Answer: more
Tuesday 1st Brain Strain
There are 78 million of THESE in America. You may have one in your house.
Incorrect Guesses: t.v., back massager
Correct Answer: dog | <urn:uuid:d8852ecf-997e-43a7-99f3-173db9d27d06> | 2013-05-18T17:28:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process: drained water from the sink.
- v. To cause liquid to go out from; empty: drained the bathtub; drain the pond.
- v. To draw off the surface water of: The Mississippi River drains a vast area.
- v. To drink all the contents of: drained the cup.
- v. To deplete gradually, especially to the point of complete exhaustion. See Synonyms at deplete.
- v. To fatigue or spend emotionally or physically: The day's events completely drained me of all strength.
- v. To flow off or out: Gasoline drained slowly from the tilted can.
- v. To become empty by the drawing off of liquid: watched the tub slowly drain.
- v. To discharge surface or excess water: The Niagara River drains into Lake Ontario. When flooded, the swamp drains northward.
- v. To become gradually depleted; dwindle: felt his enthusiasm draining.
- n. A pipe or channel by which liquid is drawn off.
- n. Medicine A device, such as a tube, inserted into the opening of a wound or body cavity to facilitate discharge of fluid or purulent material.
- n. The act or process of draining.
- n. A gradual outflow or loss; consumption or depletion: the drain of young talent by emigration.
- n. Something that causes a gradual loss: interruptions that are a drain on my patience.
- idiom. down the drain To or into the condition of being wasted or lost: All of our best laid plans are down the drain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To draw off gradually, as a liquid; remove or convey away by degrees, as through conduits, by filtration, or by any comparable process: as, to drain water from land, wine from the lees, or blood from the body; to drain away the specie of a country.
- To free, clear, or deprive by degrees, as of a liquid; empty or exhaust gradually: as, to drain land of water (the most familiar use of the word); to drain a vessel of its contents; to drain a country of its resources.
- To flow off gradually.
- To be gradually emptied, as of a liquid: as, the cask slowly drains.
- n. The act of draining or drawing off, or of emptying by drawing off; gradual or continuous outflow, withdrawal, or expenditure.
- n. That which drains, or by means of which draining is immediately effected.
- n. Specifically— A passage, pipe, or open channel for the removal of water or other liquid; especially, a pipe or channel for removing the surplus water from soils. Drains may be open ditches or sunken pipes or conduits. Those for wet lands are so made as to permit the percolation into them of water from the adjacent soil, as by the use in a covered conduit of porous earthen pipes or tiles, or of a filling of small stones, of an open cut where there is a sufficient slope, etc. See sewer.
- n. The trench in which the melted metal flows from a furnace to the molds
- n. In surgery, a hollow sound or canula used to draw off purulent matter from a deep seated abscess.
- n. Pl. The grain from the mash-tub: distinctively called brewers' drains.
- n. In ship-building, a large pipe which runs through or above the double bottom of a war-ship and is connected with the principal pumps to remove water from the various compartments. The main drain is from 12 to 15 inches in diameter, has openings into the large compartments controlled by valves, and is intended to pump out the water in case of damage by grounding, collision, etc. The secondary or auxiliary drain is also connected with all the large compartments and is used for all ordinary pumping.
- n. A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.
- n. Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- n. vulgar An act of urination.
- n. electronics The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- v. intransitive To lose liquid.
- v. transitive, ergative To cause liquid to flow out of.
- v. transitive, ergative To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- v. transitive To deplete of energy or resources.
- v. intransitive, pinball To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
- v. To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like.
- v. To filter.
- v. To flow gradually.
- v. To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping.
- n. The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal.
- n. That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
- n. engraving The grain from the mashing tub.
- v. empty of liquid; drain the liquid from
- v. flow off gradually
- n. a pipe through which liquid is carried away
- n. emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
- v. deplete of resources
- v. make weak
- n. tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
- n. a gradual depletion of energy or resources
- Middle English dreinen (verb) from Old English drēahnian ("to drain, strain, filter"), from Proto-Germanic *draug- (“dry”), akin to Old English drūgian ("to dry up"), drūgaþ ("dryness, drought"), Old English drȳge ("dry"). More at dry (Wiktionary)
- Middle English dreinen, to strain, drain, from Old English drēahnian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“Brain drain is still claiming Canadian doctors, but not our doctorals.”
“She noted that the more typical "brain drain" is to the US, as Canadian professionals leave for greater income potential.”
“If there is brain drain from a particular country, it can scarcely develop.”
“That a slip-slide into banality leads to forum brain drain is a sort of Catch-22 given.”
“The brain drain is not the consequence of some sort of collective despair.”
“Hong Kong's brain drain is both a myth and a reality -- a myth in that its proportions tend to be wildly exaggerated, and in that its existence is attributed to a largely imaginary state of panic supposedly to be found in Hong Kong.”
“Highly educated women’s abandonment of the workplace is not an extension of the centuries of upper-class arm candy; it’s a sex-specific brain drain from the future rulers of the society ....”
“Ainalem puts it this way: One potential solution to Africa’s brain drain is virtual participation.”
“America's loss may be India's gain, analysts say, pointing to a 'reverse brain drain' that may see India reaping benefits for years to come.”
“Watch the water drain from the roof of the greenhouses.”
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drain’.
The path of least resistance, watercourses, plumbing....
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
Words that make me think of Vampire: The Requiem
Grateful credit to http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
Very basic words for ESL students.
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
Words that mean drink.
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- What strategies do you use to save money over the holidays?
- When do you start talking to your kids about money?
- Do you have a set budget for holiday gifts or just try to generally not overspend?
- Do You Plan To Spend More Or Less This Holiday Season?
- Tell us your best money-saving strategy?
- So How Often Do You Check Your Credit Report?
- How do you feel about coupon clipping?
- Rent or Buy?
- What's one money mistake you regret making?
- What is the most important money lesson you're teaching your kids?
- Popular posts (10-25 comments)
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Audi hasn't had the best of luck getting their electric vehicles to market, but that hasn't stopped Yema Auto from filling the gap by introducing an electrified rip-off of the A4 Avant.
Dressed in taxi livery, the Mustang F16 clearly evokes its four-ringed counterpart as it has a virtually identical front fascia which is only distinguished by a revised logo. Unfortunately things get a little ugly further back as there's window vents, tacky side skirts and uninspired wheels. Elsewhere, there's an increased ride height, a tailgate-mounted spoiler and a revised rear fascia.
While the exterior is all Audi, the cabin is heavily influenced by the Subaru Legacy. The dashboard is a dead-ringer for the Subie, but the cheap shifter and over use of metallic trim are definitely Yema's additions.
Little is known about the car's powertrain, but it reportedly features lithium-ion batteries and an electric motor that develops 80 HP (59 kW). This setup could enable the model to hit a top speed of 110 km/h (68 mph) and travel up to 260 km (162 miles) on a single charge. | <urn:uuid:e8ae299d-59b1-4544-b05a-85a2435d3b9e> | 2013-05-18T17:17:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- WFN has been providing DNA Information, Websites, and Administration to FTDNA Surname DNA Projects since 2004 (About Us).
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The Light of DawnDefeat the forces of the Argent Dawn and uncover the Light of Dawn.
Report to Highlord Darion Mograine should you survive.
|The Light of Dawn Uncovered|
DescriptionThe Argent Dawn stands defiantly against us at Light's Hope Chapel. They dare oppose the Scourge and for that reason alone they must be destroyed!
The mighty armies of the Lich King stand at the ready as the final battle for the Plaguelands approaches. Today we ascend into the immortal realm of Scourge heroes!
When you are ready for battle, report to Highlord Darion Mograine. It is the highlord who will issue the final march orders and command our armies at Light's Hope Chapel.
We must make amends in the only way we know how: Death...
I ask you now to join me in Acherus as a Knight of the Ebon Blade. Together we will destroy the Lich King and end the Scourge.
RewardsYou will be able to choose one of these rewards:
|Greataxe of the Ebon Blade||Greatsword of the Ebon Blade|
GainsUpon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 16,340 experience
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A West Palm Beach woman faces child neglect charges after she left her five children home alone so she could go shopping, police said.
Shanara Jackson faces five counts of child neglect and one count of providing false information to law enforcement.
West Palm Beach police said Jackson left her children home alone Thursday morning while she went shopping.
It wasn't immediately known how long the children were left alone or who found them.
Jackson was being held at the Palm Beach County Jail.
The Florida Department of Children and Families is also investigating. | <urn:uuid:7d6419e4-ca30-48d1-9abd-233ff4cff714> | 2013-05-18T17:21:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Frequently asked questions about pancreatic cancer
By Pure Matters
These are some answers to frequently asked questions about pancreatic cancer.
Q: What is the pancreas?
A: The pancreas is a glandular organ, located deep in the abdomen. It is behind the stomach and in front of the spine. The pancreas is about 6 inches long and has a wide head with a body that tapers to a narrow tail. The pancreas makes enzymes and hormones. The enzymes mix with bile to help with the digestion of food, especially fats, sugars, and proteins. The pancreas makes the hormones insulin and glucagon. These hormones help the body control the level of sugar in the blood. Both of these hormones help the body use and store the energy it gets from food.
Q: What is cancer of the pancreas?
A: Pancreatic cancer is cancer that starts in the pancreas. No one is entirely sure why people get this type of cancer. It is thought that normal cells undergo a series of changes, leading to permanent cell changes, and eventually cancer.
Q: What are the different types of pancreatic cancer?
A: Most cancers of the pancreas start in the ducts that carry pancreatic juices. They are called adenocarcinomas. These are less common types of pancreatic cancer.
- Mucinous cystadenocarcinomas
- Acinar cell carcinomas
- Large cell carcinomas
These types are named after the way they look under the microscope. A rare type of pancreatic cancer starts in the cells of the pancreas that make insulin and other hormones. These cells are called islet cells. Cancers that begin in these cells are called islet cell cancers, or endocrine tumors of the pancreas.
Q: What are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer?
A: Pancreatic cancer can grow inside a person's body for a long time before symptoms appear. These are the most common symptoms.
- Yellow eyes, skin, or nails (jaundice)
- Pain in the abdomen or back
- Weight loss over several months that is unexpected
- An enlarged abdomen, from a swollen gallbladder
Digestive problems often happen if the tumor blocks the release of pancreatic juices into the intestines. If this happens, people can have problems digesting fatty foods. This can cause stools to be pale, greasy, bulky, and foul smelling. The stools may also float in the toilet.
Q: What is the treatment for pancreatic cancer?
A: Doctors treat pancreatic cancer in these three ways.
- Radiation therapy
People may have these treatments alone or combined.
Q: What is a pancreaticoduodenectomy?
A: This is the most common type of surgery used to remove tumors from the pancreas. It is also called the Whipple procedure. The surgeon removes all of these during the procedure.
- The head of the pancreas (the body of the pancreas may also be removed)
- Distal common bile duct
- Part of the stomach (possibly)
- Lymph nodes near the pancreas
After surgery, bile from the liver, food from the stomach, and digestive juices from the remaining part of the pancreas all enter the small intestine.
Q: Should everyone get a second opinion for a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer?
A: Many people with cancer get a second opinion from another doctor. There are many reasons to get a second opinion. These are some of the reasons.
- The person is not comfortable with the treatment decision.
- The type of cancer is rare.
- There are different ways to treat the cancer.
- The person is not able to see a cancer expert.
Q: How can someone get a second opinion?
A: These are some ways to get a second opinion.
- Talk with a primary doctor. He or she may be able to recommend a specialist. This might include a surgeon, medical oncologist, or radiation oncologist. Sometimes these doctors work together at cancer centers or programs.
- Ask the Cancer Information Service (800-4-CANCER) for help. It can provide treatment facilities, cancer centers, and other programs supported by the National Cancer Institute.
- Get names of doctors from other sources. Check with a local medical society, a nearby hospital, a medical school, local cancer advocacy groups, or other people who have had pancreatic cancer.
- Consult The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists. This book from the American Board of Medical Specialists lists doctors by state. It gives their specialty, background, and training. It is available at most public libraries or on the Internet at www.abms.org.
Pancreatic Cancer Statistics
These are 2011 statistics from the American Cancer Society’s Facts & Figures about pancreatic cancer:
- About 44,030 people will be told they have pancreatic cancer this year.
- The rate of pancreatic cancer in both men and women has decreased slightly over the past 15 to 25 years.
- Nearly 90 percent of people with cancer of the pancreas are age 55 and older, and more than 70 percent are ages 65 and older.
- African-Americans are more likely to develop pancreatic cancer than whites - the reasons for this are not clear.
- Smokers are two to three times as likely as nonsmokers to get pancreatic cancer.
- An estimated 37,660 Americans will die of pancreatic cancer this year, making it the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in both men and women.
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After assessing various concepts from competitors, the Chinese developer decided to award the construction of the track to WSP. Our company played a significant role in the development of the concept, which was initially to be implemented on a 30 km, two-track stretch between the new Pudong Airport and Long Yang Road Station in the outskirts of Shanghai.
The German and Chinese head of states took part in the maiden voyage on 31 December, 2002. One year later, normal customer transportation began.
In an early phase of the project, intensive training was held in Germany to introduce the Chinese engineers to the topic of track construction and assembly. Until the track was commissioned, WSP employees were permanently on site in China to oversee the project. The tasks also included monitoring the execution of the work and sensitizing the Chinese to the special requirements of the project.
As the developer decided to carry out construction planning and the construction works itself, WSP assumed higher-level project management. Alongside the training, WSP was also responsible for feasibility studies and project and quality management.
Building owner: SMTDC Shanghai
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While there were many other parts to the deal, it is the Oswald-for-Michaels trade that people remember
"Oswald is definitely worth more than a fourth-round draft choice," Michaels said. "I'm going to be a trivia answer someday."
Oswald also, for the first time, gets a voice in "Epic Mickey 2." Famed voice actor Frank Welker, who did the voice of Fred in the Scooby-Doo cartoons and was a voice double for Leonard Nimoy in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," was chosen to be the voice of the Lucky Rabbit.
"I think he's probably the greatest living voice artist in the world," Spector said. "When it came to Oswald, (begins to mimic Oswald's voice) I hear Oswald in my head all the time, and he sounds sort of like this (normal voice) and they said what do you think about Frank Welker, and I just said yes."
For all his modern tendencies and techno toys, Spector wants people to just look at how "cartoony -- that's really the only word I can think of" Oswald is, a throwback to the old days of cartooning and cartoon characters.
"People have a tendency to think of Disney cartoons as being more realistic or more grounded and less anarchic and crazy and cartoony than some other studios," he said. "Oswald puts the lie to that. In every way that matters, Walt got there first." | <urn:uuid:42b38b0b-1bbf-4fde-8482-f4b76f3bcae5> | 2013-05-18T17:18:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Elaine Goncalves was able to locate her injured son as he was being transferred to a hospital, but she could not accompany him because she had to go claim the body of her other son.
"It's terrible, very sad," she said. "My sons left the house looking nice, happy, playful, the two brothers together. My son left to go to a party and now he is here, inside a box. I demand justice."
President: 'Indescribable' pain
Brazil's minister of health, Alexandre Padilha, said the most serious cases involve patients who require permanent dialysis, medications to maintain blood pressure, and assistance breathing.
Many of the injured were transferred to hospitals in bigger cities, while others were kept in Santa Maria.
"The transfer was for patients with serious burns because our specialized centers are in the city of Porto Alegre and also in order to free up beds in the intensive care unit here in Santa Maria," Padilha said.
Some were in such critical condition that it was not believed they could survive the trip to another facility.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff honored the victims during a meeting with newly elected mayors on Monday.
"The pain which I witnessed is indescribable," Rousseff said. "I speak of that pain to remind us all about our responsibility, the executive branch, with our population. In the face of this tragedy, we must make a commitment to ensure that it will never happen again." | <urn:uuid:c7b36873-0a3e-4d54-b985-edba1c688a2d> | 2013-05-18T17:19:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Pyongyang didn't say when it intends to carry out the nuclear test, which follows previous underground detonations in 2006 and 2009.
Satellite imagery shows activity at the Punggye-ri site, where those previous nuclear tests were conducted. The images were analyzed by 38 North, a website maintained by researchers at the U.S.-Korea Institute at John Hopkins University. According to their analysis, the roads surrounding the site have been kept clear of snow for the past month and suggest that the North Koreans may have been sealing the tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device would be detonated.
Officials say they, too, have also seen the imagery, but say it does not indicate whether the activity is a "real" intention to test, or how soon it could be done.
The administration is not sure if Pyongyang's announcement threatening further tests is an official announcement of an impending launch or a preliminary statement to be followed by announcement of a window of time during which the test will be conducted.
Even announcements of such windows are not always reliable. Last month North Korea extended its original window for the rocket launch, only to launch it before the new time frame.
"The North Koreans are experts at keeping the world guessing," one senior official said. "It's really impossible to tell beforehand" when they will act.
The North Korean's recent launch of a satellite into space caught U.S. intelligence somewhat off guard in that they were under the belief North Korea had delayed the launch a bit for technical reasons.
It is believed that North Korea put out the story of technical issues in order to throw off monitoring of its activities.
But knowing the exact timing of the nuclear test, while helpful, is not critical from a strategic or tactical point of view, given the United States is not trying to physically stop the test, some in the U.S. government argue. | <urn:uuid:88027862-fdad-4d13-8ba1-077f35ba9a9c> | 2013-05-18T17:19:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Like other pigs, Zorro can't fly. But with the help of owner Matthew Bell, he sure can ride waves.
The two-month-old pig has been trotting to the beach with Matt since he was 3-weeks-old, and although he doesn't like big surf, he loves being in the water
"He's a phenomenal swimmer," Matt says.
The family pet is a mix between a wild boar, kunekuke, domestic pig and socialite.
Matt says, "He's extremely friendly so he likes to visit children, grandparents, anyone really. Anyone that wants to give him a pat, he'll go up and say hello."
So what does the future hold for the surfing sensation?
"We'll keep surfing until he gets to a size where he's unmanageable, and yah, see what happens after that," says Matt.
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Obama's campaign quickly accused Romney of "playing politics" with abortion as it continues to try to question his convictions on issues that helped him earn the Republican nomination but have shifted more to the center in the general election campaign.
After Romney's remarks were published online, Romney's campaign spokeswoman reiterated that he is opposed to abortion.
"Mitt Romney is proudly pro-life, and he will be a pro-life president," Andrea Saul said in a statement.
Earlier Tuesday, the conservative site National Review Online published a different statement from Saul: "Governor Romney would of course support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life."
Obama's campaign said Romney's "statement contradicts his pledge to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade," the 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming a woman's right to have an abortion.
The Democratic National Committee pointed reporters to a June 2011 opinion piece published in the National Review Online in which the candidate identifies a piece of legislation for which he would advocate as president.
"I will advocate for and support a Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion," Romney wrote in the piece, headlined "My Pro-Life Pledge."
In that piece, Romney also expressed his support for overturning Roe v. Wade, disavowing federal funds from being spent on abortions, and said he would nominate judges in line with his views.
Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in a statement, that "women simply can't trust (Romney)."
"It's troubling that Mitt Romney is so willing to play politics with such important issues. But we know the truth about where he stands on a woman's right to choose - he's said he'd be delighted to sign a bill banning all abortions, and called Roe v. Wade 'one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history' while pledging to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn it," she said. | <urn:uuid:1ec3c960-8966-4686-8cf1-3c50c73563b1> | 2013-05-18T17:29:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Charles Elliott (Chuck) Wicks (born in Smyrna, Delaware) is an American country music singer-songwriter. He was one of the cast members of the American reality/soap series Nashville, which aired on Fox Networks for two episodes before its cancellation in mid-2007. He is currently signed to RCA Nashville Records as a recording artist; his debut single, "Stealing Cinderella", was released in September 2007. Starting Now, his debut album, was released on January 22, 2008.
Chuck Wicks was born on a farm in the community of Smyrna, Delaware. Wanting to pursue a career in country music, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee after graduating from college in 2002. He then began to hone his songwriting skills, penning more than one hundred songs per year at one point; one of his songs, "Lead Me On", was cut by Steve Holy on his 2006 album Brand New Girlfriend. Eventually, Wicks caught the attention of RCA Records executives, who signed him to a recording contract in 2007.
While he was working on his debut album, Wicks was also picked as a cast member for Fox Networks' short-lived reality TV series Nashville. Due to poor ratings, however, Nashville was cancelled after its second episode. He was also cast in the ABC show Dancing with the Stars and was partnered with then-girlfriend Julianne Hough who is also a rising country music artist.
Shortly afterward, RCA released Wicks' debut single, a ballad entitled "Stealing Cinderella"; he debuted the song at his first Grand Ole Opry appearance in August 2007. The single produced the biggest debut for any new country artist in all of 2007, with fifty-two of the stations on Billboard's survey adding it in its first official week of airplay. A month after the song's release, he was invited by University of Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer to perform it at the wedding of Fulmer's daughter Courtney. "Stealing Cinderella" has since gone on to become the fastest-rising single for a new country act in all of 2007; it can be found on Wicks' debut album, Starting Now, which was released January 22, 2008.
Charles Elliott "Chuck" Wicks (born June 20, 1979 in Smyrna, Delaware) is an American country music artist. He was one of the participants on the American reality series Nashville, which aired on Fox Networks for two episodes before its cancellation in mid-2007. In late 2007, he signed to RCA Records Nashville as a recording artist, with his debut single "Stealing Cinderella" being released in September of that year. It served as the lead-off to his debut album Starting Now, which was released in January 2008. "All I Ever Wanted" and "Man of the House" were released as the album's second and third singles, respectively, and both have charted in the Top 40 as well. In addition to his musical career, Wicks has appeared alongside then-girlfriend Julianne Hough on Dancing with the Stars. | <urn:uuid:9456dfaf-5c26-4198-b6aa-f0fff882e0ba> | 2013-05-18T17:56:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Lemon Curd in Mini Pastry Shells
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1/4 pound unsalted butter, room temperature
4 extra-large eggs
1/2 cup lemon juice (3 to 4 lemons)
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Store-bought mini pastry shells
Lightly whipped cream
Candied lemon peel or whole raspberries (optional)
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Cream butter and beat in sugar-and-lemon mixture. Add eggs, one at a time. Then add lemon juice and salt. Mix until combined.
Pour mixture into a 2-quart saucepan and cook over low heat until thickened (about 10 minutes), stirring constantly. Lemon curd will thicken at about 170°, or just below simmer. Remove from heat and cool or refrigerate.
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The definition of maintenance is providing support or upkeep to something.(noun)
An example of maintenance is a janitor keeping a school clean.
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Origin: ME maintenaunce < OFr maintenance
See maintenance in American Heritage Dictionary 4
Origin: Middle English maintenaunce
Origin: , from Old French maintenance
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Over the years, US Presidents have been celebrating Cinco de Mayo at the White House with music, dancing, food, and other cultural festivities that recognize the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla in which the Mexican army beat the odds and defeated the French. Yesterday would have been Obama's "cinco" celebration, but the president nixed the partying this year, instead releasing an official statement honoring Cinco de Mayo following his trip to Mexico and Costa Rica last week. It read in part:
On Cinco de Mayo we celebrate the contributions and heritage of Mexican Americans and we recognize the strong cultural, familial, and economic ties that bind the United States and Mexico. . . . Cinco de Mayo reminds us that America's diversity is America's strength. Today, as we celebrate the contributions and history of Mexican Americans and Hispanics in America, let us celebrate the larger story of America and our unique immigrant heritage.
This change of plans could possibly be due to the sequester that has resulted in other White House events getting cut such as the Jewish American Heritage Month celebration. It's too bad culturally significant soirees at the White House are being canceled, as there have been some funny and sweet moments at these celebrations over the years. So in honor of yesterday's holiday, let's take a look back at how our recent presidents and first wives have celebrated Cinco de Mayo. | <urn:uuid:1df24d38-d741-4130-bbaf-1099ee27cb9b> | 2013-05-18T18:08:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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IN THIS EPISODE (in order of appearance):
[upbeat electronic music]
(Jennifer): Hello, there. I'm Jennifer Pulley, and welcome to another edition of NASA 360.
Today we've got so many things lined up for you. We're going to talk about technology. We're going to talk about exploration. And we're going to talk about dinosaurs and how they're all related.
But first, let's talk about where I'm standing. Get this: I'm standing inside a fort. That's right, and it's not just any fort. This is Jamestown fort. It's the site of the first permanent English colony in what was then called the new world. Today, of course, we know it as America.
Now think about this: from this starting point, people spread out all across the country and eventually populated the entire United States. So I guess we have to say that this landing's spot's a pretty big deal in American history.
Over time, though, the original fort that the English settlers built fell into disrepair. And believe it or not, for many years, it was lost to history. That all changed in 1996 when archaeologist Dr. Bill Kelso rediscovered the original fort.
It began a whole new era of understanding what life was like for those first Jamestown settlers. For the first time, they had proof. Using old writings, drawings, and now a handy trowel for digging, Dr. Kelso and his team discovered where the old fort was. And they began excavating the artifacts.
To date, he and his team have found over 1 million artifacts from the original fort. And they expect to find many more in the next few years. In a little while, we'll catch up with Dr. Kelso and dig a little deeper into the history of Jamestown.
But first, do you know the difference between an archaeologist and a paleontologist? Well, let's see. They both dig in the ground looking for things in the past, right? Well, it's the type of things they're looking for that make them different.
You see, archaeology is the science of understanding human cultures, while paleontology is the study of prehistoric life-forms. So basically, then, archaeologists spends their time trying to understand human history, while paleontologists generally look for fossils from before human history, like dinosaur bones. Got it?
Luckily for archaeologists and paleontologists, tons of help is now coming from NASA. How? Well, one of the ways is through the use of remote sensing techniques.
Remote sensing? Well, in the broadest sense, it's the use of a device to collect information without actually physically touching the object.
Now, a great example of a remote sensing device we use every single day? Our eyes. Think about it. You can detect objects around you without physically touching them. You simply use your detectors, or your eyes, to see the object, gather information about it. You're using remote sensing.
There are many forms of NASA-sponsored remote sensing devices that are being used to help in archaeology and paleontology.
Like, for example, there's something called ground-penetrating radar. This unique type of radar system can actually see objects in the ground without anyone having to dig them up. By using this in combination with aerial photography and historical documents, NASA can help give researchers a much better indication of where to dig, what to preserve, and what areas to avoid.
Satellites are another type of remote sensing tool being used by NASA researchers to help archaeologists and paleontologists. In fact, NASA archaeologist Dr. Tom Sever has been using satellite data to help us understand why the Mayan civilization in Guatemala collapsed and how current populations may be able to prevent future disaster. Let me try to break it down for you.
Between the third and ninth century, the Mayan civilization in Central America flourished. But after about the ninth century, they collapsed, leaving archaeologists few clues as to why this once-mighty civilization disappeared.
This is where NASA comes in. Our remote sensing satellites can detect even small changes within the electromagnetic spectrum. So sand, cultivated soil, vegetation, and rocks, each have distinctive spectral signatures which are easily distinguished from each other. So archaeologists can use info from the remote sensing satellites to quickly target specific areas of interest then send teams to that area to validate the findings.
Dr. Sever and his team have already found several previously undiscovered sites and feel confident that they know where others are, thanks to NASA's remote sensing satellites. That is how NASA is helping researchers find old ruins. But remote sensing satellites are also helping us understand why the Mayan civilization may have disappeared.
Today, the Peten rain forest in Guatemala is covered with trees and is not heavily populated. But it was not like this during the peak of the Mayan civilization. In fact, during that time, this region had a population of about 2,000 people per square mile, which is about the same as current-day Los Angeles.
With a population that large, the Mayans had to farm huge areas of land. To do this, they employed a technique called slash and burn, which eventually destroyed virtually every tree for hundreds of miles. Computer models show that as the trees disappeared, so did the rain, which caused temperatures to increase by five to six degrees. All of these shifts may have caused malnutrition and disease, which, in turn, contributed to its collapse.
This information is especially important for us today because slash-and-burn techniques are once again being used in the areas that were once Mayan strongholds. Understanding what happened to the Mayans may dissuade current generations of farmers from following the same destructive path.
So as you can see, NASA technology is being used for a lot more than just to help us in space. It's being used to help save lives back here on Earth too.
Hey, in a little bit, we'll swing back out here to Jamestown to talk with Dr. Kelso. But first, let's head to North Dakota. Johnny Alonso's there to see what a mummified dinosaur and NASA have in common.
Hang on tight. You're watching NASA 360.
(Johnny): Hey, how's it going? Let me ask you something. Have you ever seen a real dinosaur?
And I'm not talking about one of those dinosaurs you might see in the movies or even the skeletons in the museums. I'm talking about a real dinosaur with skin, muscle, and bones. Yeah, it might be hard nowadays, considering the fact that dinosaurs lived, what, hundreds of millions of years ago.
But what if I told you that researchers found a dinosaur just like that? Would you believe it?
Well, if you said no, you'd better start believing, because a few years ago, researchers found an actual mummified dinosaur that was still intact, from the skin to cartilage to muscle. A mummified Hadrosaur named Dakota is so unique in its discovery that it's changing what researchers thought they knew about dinosaurs.
I rolled out to Bismarck, North Dakota, to speak with my buddy Dr. John Hoganson about this amazing discovery and to find out how NASA is helping unearth more clues.
Oh, wow, are you kidding me? Yeah, this is... Oh, this is so cool!
(Dr. John Hoganson): This is the tail section of the duckbilled dinosaur called Dakota. And it's being prepared here at the North Dakota Geological Survey Preparation Laboratory here at the Heritage Center here in Bismarck.
(Johnny): This is something else. Wow! So, doc, how was this dinosaur found?
(Dr. John Hoganson): Well, this fossil was found in 1999 by Tyler Lyson down in Marmarth, North Dakota, which is in the southwest corner of the state.
He was only a sophomore in high school at the time but was out exploring for fossils, actually, on his uncle's property down in the badlands.
Now, this is a Hadrosaur called Edmontosaurus. That's the scientific name for this particular species of dinosaur. Hadrosaurs were duckbilled dinosaurs. They're a group of dinosaurs that were referred to as duckbilled dinosaurs because their snouts were compressed very similar to a modern duck.
(Johnny): So what is so unique about this fossil?
(Dr. John Hoganson): Well, you know, generally, paleontologists, when we're out exploring for fossils, will only find individual bones or fragments of jaws or things like that.
This particular dinosaur, called Dakota, is not only a complete skeleton but it's very unique, because the skin is actually preserved on this animal. So the entire skeleton appears to be wrapped in the skin that it was enclosed in.
This is called a mummified dinosaur, but it's not a mummy in the sense of what we generally think about, like an Egyptian mummy that has been embalmed for preservation. The skin on this animal is actually preserved because it's been replaced by a mineral called siderite, which is an iron carbonate kind of mineral which is very hard and has preserved the skin.
(Johnny): All right, so how did NASA get involved with this dinosaur discovery?
Well, researchers needed a way to scan through all the layers of rock to see all the dinosaur. And since this thing weighs about ten tons, they needed a really, really big scanner.
(Dr. John Hoganson): Well, you know, when we usually find these fossils in the field, we generally just find the bones, the skeletons.
And it was determined early on during the excavation process that this particular dinosaur was covered in skin. So it was decided to take these skeleton blocks out still entombed in the rock.
So big blocks of rocks were removed. And at that point, it was decided that the best technology to use to determine the position of the bones in the rock and the completeness of the skeleton was to use C.A.T. scan technologies.
And that's where NASA was asked if they could help with this. And it's been a very good approach, because with this tail block that we're working on right now, we, through the C.A.T. scan technology, are able to know where the bones are before we actually start digging through the rock matrix.
(Johnny): Luckily for these guys, NASA operates the largest CT scanner in the world. Located at a Boeing facility in Canoga Park, California, this scanner's first priority is to inspect large space shuttle parts.
Well, the task for Dakota was not all that different. So they loaded Dakota on a truck and shipped it off to California. When it arrived, the scanner was able to penetrate the dense iron carbonate that surrounded the dinosaur's tail section. And right away, researchers saw bones, tissue, and cartilage.
(Dr. John Hoganson): Well, since I've been a paleontologist, which has been a few years, there's been a lot of technological changes and advancements that have really helped the science.
In addition to the C.A.T. scan technology that we've been talking about here, there's a lot of remote sensing types of technologies that are available to us now.
Global position systems, mapping, lidar, kinds of laser mapping, various other kinds of technologies that assist us in the field actually locating and positioning the fossil finds, because it's very important to us to know where in the rock column the fossil is found and also, of course, the geographic position of the fossil.
We also use, you know, C.A.T. scans for determining the bones structures of skulls and also the size of the brain cases and skulls, fossil skulls, that have been found.
So technology is used extensively now in paleontology.
We're preparing this for exhibit. The tail and one of the arms will be prepared and put on exhibit here at the North Dakota Heritage Center, which is open to the public. So we plan to have it here for quite some time if people are interested in coming and seeing it.
(Johnny): Good. Absolutely. Well, doctor, thank you so much for having us here.
(Dr. John Hoganson): Sure, it's really good to have you here.
(Johnny): Most definitely. Thank you.
Hey, in a little bit, I'm going to tell you how NASA's bringing history to life on the Lewis and Clark trail. So don't go anywhere. It's coming right up. You're watching NASA 360.
(Jennifer): Okay, so the first English settlers landed here in Jamestown in 1607. But the first years, oh, they were rough. In fact, for many years, there was question as to whether the small fort would actually survive.
There was starvation and a lot of sickness. But thanks to some local indians and some resupply from England, this small, little fort held on, and it began to flourish.
In fact, from 1612 to 1698, Jamestown was the capital of the whole country. That changed when a fire swept through the state house and it forced the capital to be moved to Williamsburg. Just a few years later, Jamestown was gone, both physically and in memory.
Over the centuries, people believed that the old fort and all of its artifacts had actually washed away into the James River. But that all changed in 1994, when the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, or, for short, the APVA, commissioned an archaeological dig in the area where the original fort was thought to be.
Why? Well, APVA lead archaeologist Dr. Bill Kelso believed the original fort had not been washed away at all. He had a hunch that he knew where to find the fort. And this old church had something to do with it.
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Reason that I started digging where I did was that, there's a church tower here that's the only original above-ground part of Jamestown, 17th century.
And the church was originally in the midst of the fort. One of the records said this, you know? I said, "Well, it ought to be around here somewhere." So starting near the church was the key.
And it was an area that had never really been looked at before, ironically enough. It's high ground. It really made sense, now that we know where the fort is.
(Jennifer): Can you walk me through kind of the excavation process, the recording -- we were talking a little bit about the technology -- and then where do the artifacts go from there?
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Well, artifacts are removed from the soil. Once we understand the context, we call it, where they're found, they're taken to a lab, and they're washed. And then some of these -- like these iron objects would have to be conserved.
Some things, probably 1% or 2% of what we have here, will go on exhibit. We have, you know, a museum here. And there are other traveling exhibits and other things that we do just to tell the Jamestown story.
(Excavator): Would you believe that?
(Excavator): How are we going to do this?
(Man): What is that?
(Woman): Oh, my god!
(Excavator): It's all metal down here. That's why it's rusty.
(Man): That's Lord Deleware's.
[end excavation footage]
(Jennifer): Dr. Kelso, how long have you been an archaeologist?
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Well, I started probably 1607, something like that.
(Jennifer): [laughing] Why, you look great!
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Thank you very much.
(Jennifer): Well, you're over 400 years old!
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Gosh. It's been a while. 45 years, I guess, I would say.
(Jennifer): All right, so in that time, in those 45 years, tell me, what have you seen? What changes have you seen -- technology -- technological advances in archaeology?
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Well, the major technological advances -- you would think that we would've invented X-ray vision. You know, we would save a lot of digging. But that hasn't happened.
There are certain machines that can give you some reading belowground without digging, remote sensing.
But what I think the breakthrough has been has been in recording, the record of archaeology, 'cause archaeology, I think, in the past, is something that's viewed as destructive.
But now we have the technology, through a GIS Program, that we can record almost in three dimensions. And we're close. And if you can record in three dimensions, then you can actually replicate the site again, digitally, and, you know, relook at it.
That still doesn't replace just, you know, blood, sweat, and tears. I mean, it's just down. It's digging. It's scooping. It's using -- our main instrument here is just this small shovel.
And, you know, it takes a long time to dig out a hole like this with something like this. But we have to do that so that we don't disturb artifacts.
(Jennifer): So tell me about some of the amazing things you've found.
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Well, we've found over a million artifacts in this project. But there are certain things that really do stand out.
(Jennifer): One of those things that stands out is a lead luggage tag with its destination stamped on it, "Yamestowne."
This tag made the long journey from England to the new world on a wooden ship then was discarded into the bottom of a well. After its rediscovery 400 years later, it would again be making a long trip, this time into space.
To help celebrate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, this lowly luggage tag was placed aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, where it traveled nearly 6 million miles around the Earth.
After the space flight was over, the tag was returned to Jamestown, where it went back on display in the Jamestown Archaearium with other artifacts from the old fort.
(Dr. Bill Kelso): I think it really highlights the... sort of age-old exploration process, that, in 1607, you had to get the vehicles. You had to raise the money. You had to get the political things in order, the charter, to come to Virginia, and dress appropriately with armor and closed helmets, because it was an alien environment, you had to put some kind of a…
It's almost like a -- it is almost like a space station. You know, here in -- or an outpost -- to begin to explore an unknown environment in Virginia, and that's –
(Jennifer): and NASA's continuing to do that.
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Right, and here's the colonization of the moon. And what are the problems? Well, you got to get there. You got to have the right vehicles. What do you take with you? You know, how do you survive in this alien environment?
You put in artificial surface around you, you know, and you dress appropriately. So it is -- it's really an age-old thing. This whole psychological need to explore, spiritual need to explore, I think, is still today just as it was at the time of Jamestown.
(Jennifer): All right, so let's talk a little bit about this correlation between the early explorers, yourself, you're an explorer, and then the future explorers.
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Well, I'm kind of an explorer of explorers, the recent explorers. I mean, they -- we're trying to figure out what it was like to explore and to discover. And our project's called "Jamestown Rediscovery" you know, we're not discovering Jamestown. We're rediscovering it.
And a good example is this space here that -- this was used as a laboratory to study the minerals and the iron ore of this new land to see if it could be profitable to come here.
So, yeah, this is very similar to what I've read about explorations, especially on mars. They send out vehicles, and they do drilling, and they look at the material. And that's what was going on here.
And so this space was where -- I'm sure people that you've heard of before -- Captain John Smith walked around in here. You know, maybe Pocahontas checking out the blacksmith shop.
(Jennifer): That is so cool. That's… I mean, that's -- what an amazing job you have.
(Dr. Bill Kelso): Well, that's what… that's the payoff, is to feel… to walk the places, to be in the places where these historical events happened. So then the events take on much more meaning than if you just read them in a text book.
(Jennifer): Earlier, Dr. Kelso mentioned the similarities between the 1607 Jamestown explorers and NASA's future space explorers.
What about all the explorers in between? Guys like Daniel Boone, Neil Armstrong come to mind, as well as many countless others who have helped broaden our knowledge through exploration.
Perhaps two of the most famous names in American exploration history are Lewis and Clark. You ever heard of them? They blazed a trail through the American west, mapping out their path as they went.
So what do you think? Did NASA have anything to do with the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Well, not the original trip, but NASA is helping out now. Johnny Alonso will tell you all about it.
(Johnny): All right, so we've seen a lot today how NASA's helping archaeologists and paleontologists through remote sensing. These remote sensing devices have helped us unearth some really cool findings in places like Cambodia, Central America, and the American southwest. And they've also helped along one of the most famous trails in American history, the Lewis and Clark Trail.
To find out how NASA helped map this 200-year-old trail, I rolled up to Fort Mandan in North Dakota, where Lewis and Clark spent their first winter.
Before we get into NASA's involvement, let's go back a few hundred years to the beginning of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Back in 1804, when the expedition began, we knew almost nothing about what was to the west of St. Louis. So president Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead an expedition west to find the first all-water route to the Pacific Ocean.
This was an epic journey, taking several years and 3,700 miles (5,955 km) to complete. During this trip, they collected samples of plants and animals, met many of the different Indian tribes of the west and brought back detailed data about the route that they had taken.
But even though they brought back some pretty good maps and data, they still weren't 100 percent accurate. That's because most of these journals weren't written right away, or they were written after a hard day's travel. And many of the entries contain geographical inaccuracies.
So… this is where NASA comes in. Researchers from NASA's Stennis Space Center took the maps of Lewis and Clark and combined them with high-resolution images taken from satellites and aircraft.
They created maps with a 360-degree view of an area where the explorers traveled. From that view, archaeologists could follow the trails as if they were flying over the actual landscape in real time and in any direction or angle they chose.
Researchers pored over these maps looking for telltale signs of human disturbances unique to the Lewis and Clark expedition. With this technique, archaeologists were able to narrow down some of the possible sites from many miles to a few acres.
This information is helping to find Lewis and Clark artifacts that provide a clearer understanding of the expedition and what the lives of those early explorers had been like.
And don't forget, NASA has a new generation of explorers too that will soon be going back to the moon and on to Mars. So in the future when we talk about great explorers, there's no doubt that NASA's astronauts will be on the list.
It's amazing, isn't it? Just when you thought you knew everything about NASA, we throw something else at you.
So as you can see, NASA's not only trying to help shape our future. It's also making the past clearer.
That's it for this episode. For Jennifer Pulley, I'm Johnny Alonso. I'll catch you next time on NASA 360.
(Johnny): …dinosaur. I'd say it was still in -- [laughing].
(Johnny): These remote sensing devices will help us on -- two.
(Jennifer): Why? Well, APVA lead archaeologist Dr. Bill Kelso believed -- he thought – [smiles].
(Johnny): …to find out how NASA helped -- two.
(Johnny): That's right, a mummified Hadrosaur named Dakota [stops, snaps fingers]
(Jennifer): Let's head out to North Dakota. Johnny Alonso is learning how NASA technology was used to unearth some really cool -- really unique… eh.
(Jennifer): Guys like Daniel Boone and Neil Armstrong may come to mind, as well as many countless oth…
(Jennifer): …it's doctor – bill-la-la-la-la…
(Johnny): I rolled out to Fort Mandan, North Dakota, for... Damn! That was it. That was it. I'll say it right this time.
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LJWorld.com weblogs First Bell
Pauls now second on LHS all-time speech and debate points list
Lawrence High School senior Lauren Pauls became the school's number-two all-time National Forensics League point earner on Saturday after winning two first-place medals and one second-place medal at the Olathe Northwest speech and debate tournament.
Pauls took first in original oratory and informative speaking. She previously qualified for the 6A state tournament in those events after placing first and second respectively in them at the Free State High School tournament Feb. 22-23.
She also won second in congressional debate, Senate.
Debate and forensics students earn NFL points every time they compete or give a performance. More points are earned for wins and high place showings. Lawrence High coach Jeff Plinsky said Pauls' performance this weekend put her at 1,840 NFL points, second on the LHS all-time list behind 2007 graduate Brandon Schwager who earned 1,933.
Meanwhile, Clara Cobb, sophomore, qualified to the state tournament with a third-place finish in humorous interpretation.
Julia Silverstein, junior, won first place in Lincoln-Douglas debate, open division. Haley Luna, sophomore, won first in congressional debate, House.
Other top finishers included:
• Katie Gaches, junior, second place, congressional debate, House.
• Ellis Springe, freshman, third place, Lincoln-Douglas debatre.
• Phoebe Clark, junior, fourth place, Lincoln-Douglas debate, novice division.
• Hannah Lee, sophomore, fifth place, informative speaking.
• Drew Bryant, junior, sixth place, Lincoln-Douglas debate, novice division. | <urn:uuid:23798409-d7da-4a79-be44-1bd24c449ca1> | 2013-05-18T17:28:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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HAHA Andy and Ashley know about Andley!
OMG I love this!!!
Fix you-JahvieWhen you try your best but you don't succeedFix you-Jahvie by ~xxperfectweapon714xx
A 30 year old, Sally Stitches giggled as she wrote on the piece of lined paper. The room was black and the only source of light was coming from the T.V which was playing Juno and Sally's phone was an extra source of light which caused her Rainbow haired friend Dahvie vanity to grumble.
"Sally, Phone! OFF!" Dahvie hissed at her. Sally rolled her eyes. "Oh Dahv's, Just let me finish!" She replied.
When you get what you want but not what you need
"Ugh, Dahvie She'll be like another minute." Jayy Von Monroe, Sally's other friend and Dahvie's Boyfriend said to Dahvie with a reassuring smile and kissed the top of his head. Sally smiled. "Fine, but hurry!" Dahvie said snuggling into Jayy's side on the love seat. The two were covered by a blanket as Sally sat on the loveseats matching recliner with a blanket covering her legs. She looked down at the puzzled paper and at the two young boys watching the movie together all snuggled up.
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I stalked past, dumping a stack of plates in the sink and turned the tap on.
"Thanks, you're not exactly so fabulous yourself."
Andy knocked my elbow gently and I flinched, batting his hand away, slightly harder than I'd intended. Andy's concerned expression fell along with his coffee.
The cup hit the floor and shattered. I wriggled my bare toes and resisted the sudden urge to walk across the white shards.
I let out a huff, stepping over the worst of the mess. No doubt there would be bits of mug stuck in my foot later on.
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OK, here's the info on this batch:
Hop Project 60, bottled 10/21/11
First wort hopped with Perle, then Magnum at 75 min, Cascade at 30 min, Warrior at 15 min, Columbus at 5 min, and dryhopped with Columbus.
Can't wait to try it!
An excellent brew!
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Tell Everyone About It!
• Tell us about what's going on in your local community.
• What's going on this weekend at your favorite places?
• Was your physician voted best in the city?
Let us know all about what's happening with your favorite businesses.
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The West Coast rap legend’s son has just landed himself a three and a half year sentence.
Grtis Ivey will be serving a three and a half year prison sentence after agreeing to the terms of a plea agreement, resulting from a number of 2011 felony charges.
Despite the current sentence of three and half years, the 22 year old could still receive a ten year sentence.
According to TMZ, Coolio’s eldest son agreed to a plea deal earlier this week, which stemmed from a robbery felony charge. The requirements of the deal meant that the prosecution would drop the four remaining charges in exchange for a guilty plea for the robbery charge in question. The minimum prison sentence Grtis Ivey could receive is three and a half years, but a judge could potentially see fit to give him the maximum sentence of ten years behind bars.
Grtis Ivey has been in prison since mid-November 2011, when he was arrested for conducting an armed robbery with a Las Vegas prostitute. He and Vegas hooker, Shantrice Wilkerson, burst into a man’s Vegas apartment and robbed the place whilst holding the owner at gunpoint. Ivey was held without bail.
Grtis Ivey will have to wait until September 12, 2012, for a formal sentence to be passed on this recent plea deal.
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Jerusalem: Israel's military has picked a new
Air Force Chief at a time of growing tension with Iran.
The military said Maj Gen Amir Eshel, 52, was appointed
Sunday and takes over in April.
US officials say Israel might be planning to attack
Iran's nuclear facilities in the spring.
Israel and other countries believe Iran is developing
nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies. Israel views Iran as a
threat because of its nuclear and missile programs, references
to Israel's destruction by it leaders and Tehran's support of
violent groups in Gaza and Lebanon.
Defense officials said Eshel is considered "less
enthusiastic about a possible attack on Iran" than the current
air force chief. They were speaking on condition of anonymity
due to the sensitivity of the issue.
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Pipelining is a technique you can use to increase the throughput of the FPGA VI. In a pipelined design, you take advantage of the parallel processing capabilities of the FPGA to increase the efficiency of sequential code. To implement a pipeline, you must divide code into discrete steps and wire the inputs and outputs of each step to Feedback Nodes or shift registers in a loop.
In the following block diagram, subVIs A, B, and C execute in sequence within a single-cycle Timed Loop. As a result, the clock rate of the single-cycle Timed Loop must be set to accommodate the sum of the running times of all three running subVIs.
When you wire the inputs and outputs of the subVIs to Feedback Nodes, as shown in the following block diagram, LabVIEW pipelines the subVIs. Now, the subVIs execute in parallel, all within a single cycle, and the maximum clock rate is limited only by the subVI with the longest combinatorial path. By implementing a pipelined design, you might be able to increase the clock rate of the single-cycle Timed Loop and increase the throughput of the FPGA VI.
You also can use shift registers to implement a pipeline, as shown in the following block diagram.
When you implement a pipeline, the output of the final step lags behind the input by the number of steps in the pipeline, and the output is invalid for each clock cycle until the pipeline fills. The number of steps in a pipeline is called the pipeline depth, and the latency of a pipeline, measured in clock cycles, corresponds to its depth. For a pipeline of depth N, the result is invalid until the Nth clock cycle, and the output of each valid clock cycle lags behind the input by N-1 clock cycles.
Because there are three steps in this example (subVIs A, B, and C), the improved code results in a pipeline of depth 3. Therefore, the output is not valid until the third clock cycle, and the output of each valid clock cycle C always corresponds to the input from clock cycle C – (N – 1), as shown in the following illustration.
In this example, subVI A processes measurement 1 during clock cycle 1, while subVIs B and C both process the default value of the shift register, yielding invalid output. During clock cycle 2, subVI A processes measurement 2, subVI B processes the output of subVI A from clock cycle 1, and subVI C processes an invalid value, yielding invalid output. During clock cycle 3 the pipeline finally fills and the output from subVI C becomes valid for the first time. SubVI A processes measurement 3, subVI B processes the output of subVI A from clock cycle 2, and subVI C processes the output of subVI B from clock cycle 2, yielding the output that corresponds to measurement 1. After the pipeline is full, all subsequent clock cycles yield valid output, with a constant lag of 2 clock cycles.
|Note You must use caution to prevent undesired behavior due to the invalid outputs that occur at the beginning of pipelined execution. For example, you can use a Case structure to ensure that a control algorithm enables actuators only after N clock cycles elapse.|
You can use pipelining to increase throughput by compiling a single-cycle Timed Loop in a faster clock domain. For example, the top section of the illustration below shows the execution timing of a non-pipelined loop consisting of three subVIs, each of which requires a propagation delay of 12.5 ns. The total propagation delay from subVI A to subVI C is 37.5 ns, which is too long to compile at 40 MHz. The middle section of the illustration shows how pipelining the code reduces the propagation delay to 12.5 ns, allowing the loop to compile at 40 MHz. Because the propagation delay of the pipelined loop is only 12.5 ns, the loop can compile at a clock rate as high as 80 MHz, as shown in the bottom section of the illustration.
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INGREDIENTS: Crust: 9 whole rectangular graham crackers (for about 1 1/2 cups crushed) 5 tablespoons butter, melted 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
Lemon Curd: 1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk 1/4 cup sugar pinch salt 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon heavy cream
Filling: 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice, from about 2 lemons 1 envelope (2 3/4 teaspoons) unflavored gelatin 1 1/2 pounds (3 bars) cream cheese, softened to room temperature 3/4 cup sugar pinch salt 1 1/4 cups heavy cream, room temperature
DIRECTIONS: For the crust: preheat the oven to 350 degrees and adjust an oven rack to the middle position. In a food processor, pulse the graham crackers until they are finely ground. Add the butter and lemon zest and pulse until combined. Alternately, the graham crackers can be crushed in a resealable bag with a rolling pin and then poured into a bowl where the zest and butter can be stirred in. Press the mixture onto the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan. Bake the crust until it is lightly golden brown, about 8 minutes. Cool the crust completely on a wire rack before filling.
For the curd: while the crust is cooling, whisk the egg, egg yolk, sugar and salt together in a small saucepan. Whisk in the lemon juice and cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is thick and pudding-like, about 3-4 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the butter and cream. Press the mixture through a fine mesh strainer or sieve into a small bowl and refrigerate until needed.
In a small bowl, put the 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice. Sprinkle the gelatin over the top and let it stand until the gelatin softens, about 5 minutes. Microwave the mixture until it is bubbling around the edges and the gelatin dissolves, about 30 seconds. Set aside.
For the filling: In a large bowl with a handheld mixer or in the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the cream cheese, sugar, and salt until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the bowl, about 2 minutes. Slowly add the cream and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the gelatin mixture and 1/4 cup of the refrigerated lemon curd. Beat until the mixture is smooth and airy, about 3 minutes.
Pour the filling into the cooled crust and smooth the top. Following the photos below, pour thin lines of remaining curd on top of the cake and lightly drag a pairing knife or skewer through the lines to create a marble appearance. I found it wasn’t quite as easy as I thought to “pour” the lemon curd into lines. I kind of scooped it out of the cup onto the cheesecake and spooned it into lines. It doesn’t have to be perfect since the imperfections are somewhat hidden after you drag through the lines.
Refrigerate the cheesecake until set, at least 6 hours. Remove the sides of the pan, cut into slices and serve. | <urn:uuid:7e1dbe22-7f5d-459f-ad45-9e259472f91b> | 2013-05-18T17:48:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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7) Lila Says (Movies - Runtime: 1 hr 29 min - Full Sources)
Vahina Giocante played as Lila
Release: Sep 11, 2004
In a poor Arab neighborhood, the nineteen years old Chimo lives alone with his mother and is a talented natural writer. His school teacher offers him the chance to study in Paris, inclusive with a letter of recommendation, but his mother can not afford and Chimo stays. His three best friends are completely losers and scoundrels. When the shy Chimo meets the gorgeous and sexy new-arrival in the ghetto Lila, who lives with a deranged aunt, his gross friend Mouloud falls for her. However, Chimo becomes close to Lila, who seduces him with her sexual games, telling him about her perverted sexual experience. The inexperienced Chimo falls in love for her, but he does not know how to declare his love for the girl. When Mouloud sneaks and listens to a private conversation between Lila and Chimo, he concludes that the girl is a whore, with tragic consequences. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies. | <urn:uuid:183c3c69-a930-44ec-aacd-b1ebc49174cb> | 2013-05-21T17:44:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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“I raise this question: can it be doubted that three kilogram brains were nearly fatal defects in the evolution of the human race?
A second query: what source was there, save for our overelaborate nervous circuitry, for the evils we were seeing or hearing about simply everywhere?
My answer: there was no other source. This was a very innocent planet, except for those great big brains.
During my lifetime, there wasn’t a day when, somewhere on the planet, there weren’t at least three wars going on.
And the Law of Natural Selection was powerless to respond to such new technologies. No female of any species, unless, maybe, she were a rhinoceros, could expect to give birth to a baby who was fireproof, bombproof, or bulletproof.
The best that the Law of Natural Selecion could come up with in my time was somebody who wasn’t afraid of anything, even though there was so much to fear.”
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Having trouble writing your social media plan? Start by answering 10 simple questions:
- What audience do I want to communicate with?
- What is the compelling story of my brand that I want to share with them?
- What type of social content will I provide? (Conversational, Informational, Helpful, Promotional, Listening, Aggregate)
- Who will manage my social media marketing?
- How will the social workload be shared within my organization?
- Does my entire staff, including senior management, understand and use social media?
- Am I personally using or experimenting with any social channels?
- Have I developed a social media policy?
- How much effort am I planning on putting into my social media campaign? (Listen, Maintain, Engage)
- What goals or metrics am I considering to measure the effectiveness of my social media campaign?
Now that you’ve gotten the building blocks, use these 5 resources to help you write your social media strategy:
- How to write a social media proposal
- How to create a social media strategy
- How to write your social media plan in 8 steps
- How much should a social media strategy cost
- How to write a social media policy
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- Does social media really work for marketing leisure brands?
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T. Janhunen, E. Oikarinen, H. Tompits, and S. Woltran
Practically all programming languages allow the programmer to split a program into several modules which brings along several advantages in software development. In this paper, we are interested in the area of answer-set programming where fully declarative and nonmonotonic languages are applied. In this context, obtaining a modular structure for programs is by no means straightforward since the output of an entire program cannot in general be composed from the output of its components. To better understand the effects of disjunctive information on modularity we restrict the scope of analysis to the case of disjunctive logic programs (DLPs) subject to stable-model semantics. We define the notion of a DLP-function, where a well-defined input/output interface is provided, and establish a novel module theorem which indicates the compositionality of stable-model semantics for DLP-functions. The module theorem extends the well-known splitting-set theorem and enables the decomposition of DLP-functions given their strongly connected components based on positive dependencies induced by rules. In this setting, it is also possible to split shared disjunctive rules among components using a generalized shifting technique. The concept of modular equivalence is introduced for the mutual comparison of DLP-functions using a generalization of a translation-based verification method. | <urn:uuid:8d2cd8b3-1a90-41d9-91b6-1a5c17097f84> | 2013-05-21T17:24:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A British teacher charged in Sudan with inciting religious hatred was spared the maximum sentence of 40 lashings with a bamboo cane Thursday, but will spend 15 days in jail before being deported.
Gillian Bibbons was charged after she allegedly allowed her her young students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, the name of the Muslim prophet.
The one-day trial came just one week after a Saudi Arabian court increased the sentence of a 19-year-old rape victim to 200 lashes and six months in prison. According to a Justice Ministry statement, the woman invited the sexual attack by seven men because she was in a parked car with a man who was not a relative.
The two highly publicized cases of women facing the ancient and painful sentence of flogging have aroused an outcry in the West, but the practice is common in some parts of the world, and such sentences aren't extreme examples, experts say.
Human rights organizations describe corporal punishment as a violation of international bans on torture and call these sentences cruel and arbitrary. But academics say the practice is deeply ingrained, particularly in Gulf states, and local support increases in parallel with Western condemnation.
By Saudi standards, the sentence of 200 lashings for the 19-year-old rape victim, known in the Saudi press as the Girl From Qatif for the crime of "illegal intermingling," is not very high, said Chris Wilcke, the Saudi Arabia researcher at Human Rights Watch.
Wilcke said that flogging is almost always a component of any Saudi sentence, and some lashings can number in the thousands.
Last month two gay men in the Saudi city of Al-Bahah were convicted of sodomy and sentenced to 7,000 lashes each.
Floggings in Saudi Arabia typically take place Thursday nights outside of prisons or marketplaces. The accused is shackled and sometimes permitted to wear a single layer of clothing, like the popular Saudi tunic or dishdash.
A police officer administers the lashes with a bamboo whip about 7 feet long. Under his arm, the officer will typically hold a copy of the Koran in order to regulate the power with which he can whip the accused.
"In the sentence a judge will specify three things: One, the amount of lashes; two, whether the flogging will be held in the prison or publicly; and third, what portions are to be administered at one time," Wilcke said. "No more than 60 to 70 lashes are administered at any one time with usually one to two weeks between floggings. Women will get 10 to 30 lashings a week; a man might get 50 to 60 per week."
If a complete sentence was administered at once, the accused could potentially die. Doctors in Saudi Arabia examine prisoners before each flogging to determine if they are healthy enough to withstand the lashes.
In 1993, British citizen Gavin Sherrard-Smith received 50 lashes for allegedly breaking an alcohol ban in the Gulf country of Qatar.
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A friend of mine shared this with me. I hope anyone who watches this video learns as much as I did from it. What a powerful message. So, go out and cultivate a good day. And if you're not having a good day, try your hardest to make it a good day.
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Associated Press | 23 July 2011
Nguyen Cao Ky dies at 80; wartime leader of South Vietnam
The former general, who sometimes took ruthless action, lived in Southern California after Saigon fell to North Vietnam.
Ky, who split his time between Southern California and Vietnam, died at a hospital where he was being treated for a respiratory complication, said his nephew, Peter Phan.
One of his nation’s most colorful leaders, Ky served as prime minister of U.S.-backed South Vietnam in the mid-1960s. He had been commander of South Vietnam’s air force when he assumed the post in 1965, the same year U.S. involvement in the war escalated. In power during some of the war’s most tumultuous times, he was a sometimes ruthless leader.
From 1967 to 1971, he was vice president under his frequent rival, Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu.
When Thieu’s government in Saigon fell to North Vietnamese troops in 1975, Ky fled by piloting a helicopter to a U.S. Navy ship. He and his family eventually settled in the United States, where he led a quiet life largely away from politics. He made headlines in 2004 when he made a controversial visit to his homeland, praising the communists, his former enemies.
Born in Son Tay province west of Hanoi on Sept. 8, 1930, Ky grew up under French colonialist rule and became involved as a youth in the national liberation movement led by Ho Chi Minh.
He left the movement, however, when he fell ill with malaria. He eventually enlisted in the army, where he trained as a pilot and rose through the ranks during the French fight against the insurgency. He was one of the roughly 1 million who fled south after France’s defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The French withdrawal divided the country into the communist North and noncommunist South.
Ky rose steadily in South Vietnam’s fledgling air force and was chosen as prime minister by a junta of generals even though he had no political experience.
He was able to end a disruptive cycle of coups and countercoups that followed the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, whose repressive regime was overthrown by military generals in 1963.
Saying he wanted to end corruption, Ky threatened to shoot merchants manipulating the country’s rice market. A businessman convicted of war profiteering was executed by a firing squad in March 1966; Ky attended the trial’s opening session.
During a Buddhist-led uprising in Da Nang that same year, Ky moved troops in and suppressed the demonstrators. He then placed the country’s leading Buddhist cleric and his most vocal critic, Thich Tri Quang, under house arrest.
In his memoir, Ky said he did not regret taking action in Da Nang despite efforts by Americans to use diplomacy. By crushing the revolt, he said, he helped prolong South Vietnam’s stability for a few more years, something he considered his biggest achievement.
But when it came time for the country’s presidential election in 1967, Ky yielded power to his longtime rival, Thieu, who at the time held the ceremonial post of chief of state. Ky served as Thieu’s vice president until 1971, when he was briefly a rival candidate to Thieu’s reelection as president.
He went on to watch Thieu preside over the fall of Saigon. Thieu was forced to step down as North Vietnamese troops closed in. He eventually left the country and died in Boston in 2001 at 78.
Ky, who was married three times, is survived by six children and grandchildren. One of his daughters, Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen, is a prominent Vietnamese-American entertainer.
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Source: Los Angeles Times
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Elizabeth Ballroom E (Hyatt)
Island (or Dokdo in Korean; Takeshima in Japanese; Liancourt Rocks in French/English) consists of a group of disputed islets in the sea between Korea and . Although Japan South Korea currently controls the islets has claimed the contested territory. While Korean claim is based on its historical records dating from the sixth century, Japanese takes the records of the seventeenth century, the era of its colonial rule over Japan Korea (1910-45), and the document at the end of WWII. More recently, the U.S. Library of Congress faced much challenge from within and without both academia and popular media as it tried to make a change in the current library subject heading concerning the disputed territory as of 2008. How have the controversial archival records on the island constructed subjective and contradictory historical interpretations and imagination? What kind of geographical and historical narratives do these changing maps of the island reflect? This poster session introduces the changing cartographical practices over the disputed borderland between U.S. Japan and Korea, and brings to light the genealogy of the controversy over the name and citizenship of the island in the context of the rise of colonialism, imperialism, and Cold War in twentieth-century East Asia. | <urn:uuid:40519207-288c-420b-be97-cd5b991778ef> | 2013-05-21T17:16:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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An old Afghan proverb states: “There is a path to the top of even the highest mountain.” Four Afghan Ismailis took it literally. Together with a team of Frenchmen, they set out to climb Noshaq — the country’s highest mountain.
Louis Mernier, a Frenchman, had been living in Afghanistan since 2002. In 2007, during a commercial trek in Wakhan, a mountainous corridor in the northeastern part of the country, he met Malang, a poet; Amruddin, a farmer; Afiat Khan, a mason; and Gurg Ali, a teacher. Ranging in age from 25 – 35, they shared a passion for climbing; but they also harboured a common desire to offer a message of peace and hope to their countrymen.
Together, over a cup of chai, they conceived their vision, and called their expedition Afghans to the Top. At 7 492 metres, Noshaq is the highest peak in Afghanistan and had never been scaled by an Afghan. It was a feat, they hoped, that might become a symbol of the heights to which their country could once again aspire. Their motivation and ambition earned them the moniker The Four Tigers of Wakhan.
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Israeli Army Injured Over 1,000 Palestinian Demonstrators in 2010
A report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) states that during the last week of 2010, Israeli forces injured 38 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, more than half of whom were participating in weekly demonstrations against the Separation Wall, settlements and land confiscations.
The report further notes that during 2010, Israeli forces injured 1,145 Palestinians in the West Bank, a 45% increase over 2009.
In confrontations that broke out on 27 December between Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan and Israeli forces, eight Palestinians were injured. The report also notes a number of injuries due to tear gas inhalation and the detention of five Palestinians, including a 13 year old child. The confrontations broke out as a result the large number of Israeli forces stationed in Silwan prior to a visit by Israeli Knesset members, who came to express solidarity with the settlement building Beit Yonathan, established in the middle of Silwan and part of which is supposed to be sealed by order of the court.
The report also details that 20 Palestinians and one international activist were injured in the weekly demonstrations in the West Bank against the Wall, settlement expansion, the total closure imposed on the main commercial road in Hebron and the uprooting of olive trees.
Five Palestinians and two international activists were injured in two additional demonstrations against restrictions on freedom of movement into East Jerusalem and Ramallah.
As a result of Israel’s violent policy of demonstration dispersal, on the first day of 2011 36 year old Bil’in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmah died from inhalation of tear gas.
According to demonstrators who were there, Israeli soldiers shot tremendous amounts of tear gas which was particularly strong. After breathing it Abu Rahmah choked, and was brought to a Ramallah hospital where it was diagnosed that she was suffering from gas poisoning. The doctors told her family members that she was not responding to treatment. Overnight her condition worsened and at 9.00 a.m. the next morning she was pronounced dead.
This is not the first time that a person is killed due to tear gas in 2010. On 24 September Mohammed Abu Sneneh, a 14 month old baby, died in the East Jerusalem village of Issawiya after he inhaled tear gas. The baby had been inside his house, into which tear gas shot by the Israeli police penetrated.
Activists in various Palestinian popular committees complain that in numerous cases, Israeli forces fire expired tear gas and that breathing this causes more damage.
Jawaher is the sister of Bassem Abu Rahmah, who was killed when Israeli soldiers shot an extended range tear gas canister directly at him during a demonstration in Bil’in on 17 April 2009.
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I'm a linguistics grad student at McGill University.
The Kinyarwanda word gusoma means both “to read” and “to kiss”. I always knew I loved going to the library.
Kinyarwanda is a Bantu language spoken mostly in Rwanda. More information from Ethnologue, Wikipedia.
Yep…I think Kinyarwanda and I should get along splendidly. If only for this fact.
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Well well. Rudy was "kind of your favorite at one point"? What a surprise. What changed your mind? Are you having second thoughts about his blurring the line between fearmongering and self-parody? Or is it just the stink of impending defeat that turns you off?
Paul's campaign correlates inversely with the value of the dollar.There is a lot of that inverse correlation afoot these days.
2 tower Rudy, that's what some farmers over there were calling him - they didn't cotton to a man having fame attached to him over the misfortune of others. Other farmers saw him as some kind of fancy-schmancy New York lawyer unable to navigate through a common cornfield.
Ron Paul's quote in the article sounds like it ought to be followed by "YEAAAARGGHH!"PS Doyle should be banned.
That is funny.This is even funnier."2 tower Rudy, that's what some farmers over there were calling him - they didn't cotton to a man having fame attached to him over the misfortune of others. Other farmers saw him as some kind of fancy-schmancy New York lawyer unable to navigate through a common cornfield"If that's true, how did those Iowa farmers cotton to Edwards??
Pardon me, thread jack, I'm writing from a rather common looking cornfield and fast losing battery. Can someone please help me navigate out of here? Thanks.
Can someone please help me navigate out of here? Thanks.10:18 AM You go ahead fer a spell til you git to a ferk in the corn row. Take the left side of the ferk and foller it til you git to the pond. When you git to the pond there will be a path. Foller that til you git to the house. Open the winder and go in. Find an outlet and charge yer battery. Beware of the farmers daughter.
Ron Paul is certainly my candidate, though it was stupid of him to speak of evolution as only one "theory" among others.As a physicist, I can forgive him, since all of the other candidates show less sophistication in science and math then he.I want gummint out of my hair, my life, my liberty and my property, and Ron Paul is the only candidate that promises to hold to even the sorry nanny-state status quo.
"Guiliani was kind of my favorite at one point"When do you think the big change happened? When he took that phone call from Judith? When Bernie got indicted? I suspect she talked to a few New Yorkers and found out what we all thought about him.
Considering that Guiliani ignored Iowa, deeming it a lost cause from jump, whilst Paul poured everything he had into it, making his very best shot, I'm thinking Paul was the bigger loser by far.Guiliani is still a candidate who can win the long race. Paul isn't. Paul is a kook fringe candidate with no chance except as court jester, except he isn't funny either.
Tightspotkilo is right -- Rudy ignored Iowa. He didn't campaign there or, so far as I know, even run commercials there. It is hardly surprising that Paul beat him in the state.Now, it could very well be that this was a mistake on Rudy's part. But he still seems to be winning a number of the big states with large numbers of delegates. That seems to be his strategy; whether it works or not remains to be seen.
I suspect she talked to a few New Yorkers and found out what we all thought about him.Er... Giuliani is 22 points ahead of his challengers in the New York primary race.
revenant...if he keeps that up he'll only loose NY 60:40. Not bad for the second best mayor in the past dozen years...(to the rest on the board, there has only been Rudy and Mike and Mike plays pretty well in these parts).
revenant...if he keeps that up he'll only loose NY 60:40.Huh? What Republican candidate is going to get 60% of the New York primary vote, if not Rudy?
This is a pet peeve of mine since his surname and mine are just one letter different. It starts with "G," not "J", there are two dipthongs, five vowels, three "Is" and only one "L" in Giuliani. (I know that most of those rules were not violated in this thread - but they often are, everywhere.) "Gui" is pronounced "Gwee." "Giu" is pronounced "Joo." All my life people have massacred the pronounciation and spelling of my name. My maternal grandmother fixed the problem with the first dipthong by writing the name in cursive, and throwing the dot over the "I" between the "I" and "U," since she could never remember which came first. I was once told (by my then-boss) that the reason I didn't deserve promotion was that I have too many vowels in my name. I suspect that might be Rudy's problem too? (BTW, Mike v. Rudy plays differently to those of us whose ancestors had their lands stolen and now live on the banks of the upstate NY Reservoirs.)
Bloomberg is a technocrat who has bribed his way out of a lot of trouble. If he enters the race and the lazy press does any looking around at all, they will see how strategic "contributions" to various “Charities" kept the problem children quiet. His selling off the city to his real estate cronies will be felt for years to come and is not apparent to most people just yet. Wait till gigantic developments blot out the sun and then people will look around and ask what happened. Just wait. It will hit the fan in the next administration when the crooked deals are exposed as the protest mount and people wonder how the deals went down.
"Er... Giuliani is 22 points ahead of his challengers in the New York primary race."First, when I say "New Yorker" I'm referring to someone within the 5 boroughs, not some guy up in Buffalo. In other words someone who actually lived under the Rudy regime.Second, the fact that Rudy is leading some guy from Arkansas or an actor on Law and Order in the New York Republican primary is not an exact test of his popularity.
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Sitting in the outdoor café of our Ouray, Colorado hotel this morning, my husband Meade — who's very friendly (I call it "Hoosierly") with strangers — got into a conversation with a couple at the next table, and, naturally, one item of information exchanged was where we all are from. They were from Texas.
When we got up to leave, Meade leaned over to the man and said: "When you go back home, say hi to my favorite Texan."
You should have seen the man's reaction. It was as if someone had suddenly sprayed water in his face.
ADDED: Later in the day, we got into a tour vehicle (a 4x4) for a ride up into the San Juan Mountains, and the lady in the seat in front of us started up a conversation, immediately volunteering that she was from Texas. Meade said, "That's great, but I need to be careful. I'm afraid I offended some Texans earlier this morning when I told them who my favorite Texan is." And she said, "Oh? And who is that?" And Meade, "Well, I like President Bush." "He's my favorite too!" she said, giving him a high five and getting her whole family to turn around and meet him. | <urn:uuid:256a26c6-482c-478d-bccc-d7c1ac2496c0> | 2013-05-21T17:47:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - With defenders swarming around him, Terrell Owens rose up and made one of the NFL's great catches. Only then could he let go.
Owens lay for a moment in the end zone as the crowd's crescendo washed over him, and then he cried for joy, embracing the ball and his teammates and hugging his coach.
The San Francisco 49ers third-year receiver was overcome by the drama of his game-deciding catch and the redemption it provided him and his team.
"I had already thought, `How was I going to live with myself, knowing that I let this team down,' " said Owens, who fumbled and dropped four passes before catching Steve Young's 25-yard throw with three seconds left, giving San Francisco a 30-27 NFC wild-card victory over Green Bay on Sunday.
"But I visualize big plays all the time and this was a vision that finally came true," Owens said. "I knew I had to make something happen for this team."
The reception ended San Francisco's three-year run of playoff defeats to Green Bay. And because of its impact and decisive nature, it immediately drew comparisons to some of the NFL's fabled catches: Franco Harris' "Immaculate Reception" for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Clarence Davis' "Sea of Hands" catch for the Oakland Raiders and the 49ers' previous entry, Dwight Clark's "The Catch."
"He made the play to win the game," San Francisco coach Steve Mariucci said of Owens. "Steve threw it in there, and we protected and all of that, but boy, he made a great play. It's one of the big catches in this organization's history."
And the Packers felt the impact as well.
"The way this one ended was startling," Green Bay coach Mike Holmgren said. "When the ball goes down the middle like that, you don't think the ball's going to be caught, ever. I think it was a marvelous catch. It was the perfect throw and he (Owens) made the play."
There were several plays leading up to the Catch II, the first coming from the Packers. On a play improvised in the huddle, Brett Favre hit Antonio Freeman with a 15-yard touchdown pass to put Green Bay in front 27-23 with 1:56 remaining.
After R.W. McQuarters returned the kickoff to the San Francisco 24, the 49ers had to travel 76 yards and had 1:50 to do it.
Young had two straight completions to J.J. Stokes for 26 yards and fullback Marc Edwards, breaking LeRoy Butler's tackle behind the line of scrimmage, added a 3-yard catch for a first down.
After a timeout, Young threw incomplete and then Jerry Rice caught his only pass of the game, a 6-yarder that triggered controversy when it appeared he fumbled and the Packers recovered.
Officials ruled he was down and the 49ers retained possession, still 41 yards away with 46 seconds remaining.
Terry Kirby then caught a 9-yard pass for a first down and Garrison Hearst added a 7-yard catch to the Green Bay 25.
The 49ers called a timeout.
Young's next pass, intended for Stokes, was broken up and nearly intercepted by Craig Newsome.
Given life again, the 49ers sent Owens down the middle on a post pattern. Young threw a bullet, threading the ball among three defenders and Owens jumped at the goal line to latch onto it.
The instant Owens caught the ball, Darren Sharper and Pat Terrell decked him even as linebacker Brian Williams coiled to add another shot. But there was no dislodging the ball, no taking away the catch and no end zone dancing.
"Man, after that kind of catch, you don't need to dance," Stokes said. "He just laid there. I don't know, I think he was paralyzed with happiness."
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'Because of the tender mercy of our God, the Dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those who sit in the darkenss and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace' (Luke 1,78-79). In his famous Spirit-inspired hymn Zachary praises God, first, for sending a savior to His People. At first blush, this is a military figure who will defeat Israel's enemies, with purpose and result that Israel might worship God in holiness and justice all the days of her life. Then Zachary changes imagery; the figure of might give place to a figure of light. Light in no longer a person of power; rather, he is a person of warmth and illumination - characteristics of the Dawn. Light, unlike military power, is silent, but o so powerful. Whoever is this light is not described as saving from enemies; rather, he is described as showing Israel the way to peace. For Israel, there can be only one meaning of peace: it is peace with God. The Dawn will lead Israel to union with God, and there will no more separation from the creature from his Creator. It is perhaps jarring that the creature is described as 'in the dark' and 'in the shadow of death'. These terms are meant to describe the essential, fundamental existential situation of every human being. No matter one's 'feeling good', or being 'in top form', or joyful and happy - the truth is that by himself the human being is in the dark; in biblical terms, this means that one by himself unable to see the truth about life and hence the truth about how to conduct his life. Traditionally for the Old Testment, the gentiles were quintessentially 'in the dark', for they did not know the bedrock of all reality: the true God. Other meanings are included in 'darkness': ignorance, sin, humiliation, self-destruction. Further, one is, without the light, in the shadow of death. This means that death is so near that its shadow is upon every human being. This death is physical, which meant for Israel the entry into at best a shadowy existence with the hope of someday the resurrection from the dead and eventual happiness (or punishment). In this shadowy existence there is not the happiness that each human being knows he or she should have. Death is another form of darkness, a separation from what a person senses to be the Truth, but cannot see or find it. One comes to the end of this life with no knowledge of how to reach Truth. And so, it is with great joy that Zachary announces the plan of God: that God would send that warmth illumination which will heal doubt and overcome the effects of death. Jesus is this Radiant Joy, for who coming we wait in darkness and in the shadow of death. | <urn:uuid:f9bf5e95-0bdb-4e84-8e11-d6bb3bba187d> | 2013-05-21T17:41:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The contamination of the archaeological site by non-professionals, the removal of artefacts, the transporting of those artefacts to other countries - without the endorsement of DRAC would be illegal in France. Unless permission was granted by DRAC for that to have happened. Where is the official documentation?
The location of the tomb is currently remaining discreet, as has been said by Ben several times before, and for more than obvious reasons.
So all attempts to identify the landowner, and whether he is dancing with his spade on top of the tomb, or dynamiting it into oblivion in an anti-DRAC rage are pointless - he sure won't be giving out statements on the matter.
Leo Vinci has asked a very serious and pertinent question. That was: if the removed artifacts have been legally or illegally taken out of the country, meaning if DRAC has supplied a document through which they approved the "journey" of the artifacts to other countries?
Nicole, as you are directly implicated as an intermediate of the relations with DRAC, you should know if this happened or not. From your answer two possibilities emerge. The first one would be that you are avoiding a concrete answer and this accentuates the suspicion that the objects were illegally taken out of the country and the second is that you answered directly to the question but in this case you are talking about objects "removed from the tomb (?)" (others that the officially presented ones). In the second case your answer could make sense because the site's location must be protected and the documentation could not be made public.
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Congressman Tanner's Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act (H.R. 2642)The Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act, introduced by Representative John Tanner, would make important improvements to our congressional elections. The Act would require state legislatures to appoint independent commissions that would be responsible for redrawing district boundaries. These commissions would draw district boundaries in accordance with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act, and could not draw lines based on partisanship alone. As a result, the redistricting process would become independent of partisan manipulation. In addition, the Act would only allow redistricting to occur once every ten years.
The United States Constitution requires congressional seats to be reapportioned among the states after each decennial census in order to ensure compliance with the one-person one-vote criteria, the federal Voting Rights Act, and traditional redistricting principles such as compact and contiguous districts. Redistricting, however, has often turned into a means to further political goals as boundaries have consistently been drawn that tend to protect incumbents and reduce competition.
Generally, state legislators and governors re-draw the boundaries of the US House districts, but the process varies among states. In twelve states, the legislature does not have final authority to redistrict. Alaska, Idaho and Arizona recently became part of these twelve states as they used a redistricting commission for the first time in 2000. Only six states – Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Jersey, and Washington – give authority for congressional line drawing to a commission. Iowa uses an independent commission to develop plans which are later approved by the legislature. The Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act would bring uniformity to the way in which districts are redrawn. Clearly some states have implemented fairer processes, while other states continue to use redistricting to solidify the governing party's grasp on power. The way in which legislative lines are drawn has a major impact on who wins and who loses. As a result, it is only logical that such authority by delegated to independent commissions.
In 2001-2002, nearly every political jurisdiction in the nation adjusted its legislative district lines based on new information provided by the U.S. Census. In addition, Texas re-adjusted its districts in 2003. The Tanner bill could end such blatant partisan manipulation of the redistricting process by prohibiting mid-decade redistricting.
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At first, it seemed like a mariachi version of Bush v. Gore. On July 2, the Mexican presidential election ended in a teeth-chatteringly close final result: 35.89 percent of the vote for winner Felipe Calderon to 35.32 percent of the vote for loser Lopez Obrador.
As in the United States, the left-of-center loser had started with a big lead over the eventual right-of-center winner. As in the United States, the loser disputed the result and demanded a recount. As in the United States, the loser lost the recount, too. As in the United States, the loser then demanded a new kind of recount, one more favourable to himself. And as in the United States, the courts told him he could not have it.
But here's where the Mexican story begins ominously to diverge from the American.
Bush v. Gore went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Dec. 8, 2000, that court delivered a ruling that finished Gore's hopes. Gore privately reviled the decision. But nonetheless, within a very few minutes he stepped before the television cameras to deliver a gracious speech accepting the result. The United States lives by law, and no politician can hope to survive outside the law.
In Mexico, however, the rule of law is newer and weaker. Undaunted by his legal defeats, Lopez Obrador has launched a struggle for power in the streets of Mexico.
From the 1930s until the 1990s, Mexico was governed by a single political party, the Party of the Permanent Revolution (PRI). In the 1990s, a modernizing faction within the PRI led a transition to a more open economy and to multi-party democracy. Along the way, they reformed Mexico's once fraud-plagued electoral system. Today, Mexico can claim one of the most sophisticated and honest voting systems on earth, overseen by an independent election tribunal of unquestioned integrity.
Under these new rules, the PRI lost the presidential election of 2000 to Vicente Fox, the candidate of the right-of-centre National Action Party--and the PRI modernizers triumphantly surrendered power. Their defeat was their greatest achievement.
But not everyone within the PRI supported this move to modernity. Many still cherished the party's nationalist, populist, and authoritarian traditions. They split off to form a new party, the Party of Revolutionary Democracy, or PRD.
They found a leader in Lopez Obrador and elected him mayor of Mexico City.
As mayor, Obrador showed himself to be a classic Mexican caudillo, or local boss. He engaged in showy displays of solidarity with Mexico's poor--while doing nothing about the governmental incompetence and corruption that keeps Mexico in poverty.
Under Obrador, Mexico City has become one of the most dangerous and lawless metropolises on earth. Underpaid cops and corrupt officials look the other way as gangs rob, steal, and kidnap; as business is frightened away by shakedown rackets; and as municipal funds are wasted and stolen. Obrador himself defied courts and laws when they got in the way of his vision of social justice or limited his own power.
And now Obrador is bringing his caudillo methods to national politics. For weeks, he has been calling out his supporters in waves of increasingly menacing protest.
Last Sunday, he summoned a huge crowd to Mexico City's central square, the Zocalo, to urge a campaign of civil disobedience. The next day, his followers closed Mexico's grand boulevard, the Paseo del Reforma, to traffic. All week, they have launched rotating street protests. On Thursday, they blocked the entrance to Mexico's stock market. On Friday, they tried to close two of the most important international bridges that span the Rio Grande.
Obrador says that all he wants is one more recount, a national recount this time. But even without the benefit of the count, Obrador has begun to describe himself in television interviews as Mexico's elected president. He has produced videotape that purports to show ballot stuffing by his opponents. But when examined by outside experts, it was the tape itself that turned out to have been faked.
Mexico's institutions are probably strong enough to resist Obrador. A survey conducted in the third week of July by Ipsos-Bima found that 52 percent of Mexicans believe that Calderon won the July 2 vote.
But Calderon had campaigned on pledges to resume Vicente Fox's stalled campaign to open Mexico's over-regulated economy. Will Obrador's threats and protests now frighten Calderon away from the path of reform?
Mexico's economy has performed miserably over the past decade. Despite NAFTA, Mexico remains a protected, regulated, backward economy. The crowds Obrador has summoned into the streets are demanding more of all that impoverishes Mexico--and less of everything that could save it.
Those crowds may not succeed in imposing their bad leader upon Mexico. But they may well succeed in imposing his bad policies.
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The following editorial appeared in Tuesday's Washington Post:
There is one overriding task for President Obama and the Democrats at the convention in Charlotte this week: to give substance to the vision of a second Obama term. The president accomplished more in his first term than Republicans in Tampa last week gave him credit for. But he also has disappointed in ways that we, like many voters, hope a second term could overcome.
Embedded in this convention mission are numerous tasks. One is defending the achievements of the first term. Despite the difficulty of answering the are-you-better-off question in the midst of a sluggish recovery, Obama needs to explain how his actions eased the economic crisis and took on long-standing challenges such as extending health-care coverage to millions of uninsured Americans.
At the same time, Obama must explain why he was unable to fulfill his promise to overcome the "broken politics in Washington." Many Republicans were determined from the start to derail his agenda and prevent his re-election. Yet an implacable opposition is hardly the whole story. At key moments of his presidency, Obama ducked the duty to lead in forging bipartisan solutions to the nation's biggest problems. Seeking re-election, he needs to explain to voters fed up with Washington gridlock and bickering why they should expect the next four years to be different.
Romney's acceptance speech was disappointingly light on agenda. Obama similarly should explain where he would take the country if given a second term. So far, he has been better at criticizing Republicans for wanting a return to what he describes as the failed policies of George W. Bush than in framing his own.
Specifically, what would Obama do to restrain health-care costs and entitlement spending? How would he reduce the national debt to a sustainable level, where would he find revenue beyond taxing the rich, and can he enlist at least some Republican help in either goal? How would he ensure that the war in Afghanistan ends in a way that protects U.S. security interests as well as basic human rights in that country, and how will he prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon?
Obama rightly promises to rebuild the nation's economy and bolster its middle class by investing in education, science and infrastructure. But that will be an empty promise if the nation cannot get a handle on its long-term finances.
Republicans in Tampa, Obama said, offered "a lot of talk about 'hard truths' and 'bold choices,' but the interesting thing was nobody ever bothered to tell us what they were." Fair enough. We hope he will do better. | <urn:uuid:33d2e3d1-cc05-44d6-acdd-e3f8246f7323> | 2013-05-21T17:44:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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According to the Global Language Monitor, the English language this week crossed a threshold as the "one millionth word" entered the lexicon. That word? "Web 2.0."
Global Language Monitor has a methodology by which it measures "new" words entering into English. Though "Web 2.0" has been around for years, GLM's method of counting requires "a minimum of 25,000 citations with the necessary breadth of geographic distribution and depth of citations."
"Web 2.0" met that test this week, as did "n00b" (word 999,998). Both words passed into mainstream usage today, according to GLM. Also on the listed of official new words this week: slumdog, cloud computing, Octomom (seriously, Octomom), sexting, defriend, and recessionista.
The very precision of the "one million word" claim is patent nonsense, of course, depending entirely on how you count words, what's excluded, and what the criteria is for something going "mainstream." GLM does not count, for instance, "the 600,000 species of mold" as separate words, nor do "the tens millions of lesser known chemical substances" make the list.
Stung by criticism from linguists, GLM's FAQ includes the question, "A number of linguists disagree with the Million Word March. Why?" And, in case the answer to that one doesn't clear things up, there's a second question: "Every so often, we hear arguments about the insurmountable obstacles in the path of estimating the number of words in the English Language. How do you answer these arguments?"
So, even if we English speakers are saddled with terms like "Web 2.0," "Octomom," and "Brangelina," we still have the privilege of working with one of the most supple languages in the world.
The answer to both questions is that estimates are used in everything from astronomy (how many stars are there?) to climatology (how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere?); language should be able to use the same techniques.
Which is all true, of course, but the cautious language of approximation and guesswork is totally absent from the announcement. "As expected, English crossed the 1,000,000 word threshold on June 10, 2009 at 10:22 am GMT," said Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor. One is reminded of history's repeated prognostications about the year, month, and hour of the world's end.
But the larger point, one that goes far beyond the Million Word March, is that the vibrancy of English, which began in the late 16th century, continues undiminshed. The language has seen an explosion of words ever since the "new learning" of the Renaissance imported thousands of Greek and Latin terms into English, and a massive stock of French words still lingers in the language thanks to the Norman Conquest.
So today's international linguistic diversity is nothing new for the language. Many of the most recent words are American rather than from the UK, while others are Indian ("slumdog" and "Jai Ho!" were just behind "Web 2.0"). By some measures, English now has more words than any other in the world.
Simon Winchester, who wrote a wonderful book about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary and the mad, American, penis-slashing Civil War vet who made such a tremendous contribution to the work, celebrated English diversity this week in a fine Telegraph essay.
"I just cannot imagine any other language offering such opportunities for gaiety and fun," he said. "Reading recently that both the Germans and the Chinese have cracked down on the names people are allowed to have, and knowing that the French and the Italians still have gloom-laden academies to protect the so-called purity of their languages, strips out all the amusement and joy that is so very apparent in the tongue we speak so happily. I feel for them, poor deprived purists."
So, even if we English speakers are saddled with terms like "Web 2.0," "Octomom," and "Brangelina," we still have the privilege of working with one of the most supple languages in the world. Want to write entirely in English but adopt a Latinate vocabulary? You can. An Anglo-Saxon vocabulary? You can. French? Mais oui. An Indian vocabulary? We're getting there—and have been ever since "pyjamas" and "mulligatawny" entered the language.
So here's to English in all its crazed, orthographically challenged, multinational glory; may it live long and prosper, like some open source wiki run amok across the earth. | <urn:uuid:50c9ed51-0398-4b21-b768-7b59f2d253f4> | 2013-05-21T17:45:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Recently discovered malware circulating online gives miscreants a small arsenal of denial-of-service attack tools, including a relatively new one that allows a single PC to take down an Apache webserver, a researcher said.
MP-DDoser, as documented in a blog post by Arbor Networks researcher Jeff Edwards, implements an exploit known as "Apache Killer," which first came to light last August. Researchers said then that it worked by sending Apache servers multiple GET requests containing overlapping byte ranges, consuming all memory on a target system. The Arbor post suggested the technique worked against other webserver applications.
"The core of the attack involves the sending of a very long-range HTTP header that is intended to bring webservers (especially Apache) to their knees by forcing them to do a great deal of server-side work in response to a comparatively small request," Edwards wrote. "It is therefore one of the more effective low-bandwidth, 'asymmetrical' HTTP attacks at the moment."
MP-DDoser, aka IP-Killer, also contains other denial-of-service exploits, including one that closely resembles "Slowloris," another attack that allows a single PC to bring large websites to their knees. Apache Killer has also been incorporated into another DoS bot known as Armageddon.
In addition to its high-functioning DoS tools, MP-DDoser is also notable for multiple layers of encryption used to secure communications with command-and-control servers.
"All in all, MP-DDoser uses some of the better key management we have seen," Edwards wrote. "But of course, at the end of the day, every bot has to contain—or be able to generate—its own key string in order to communicate with its C&C, so no matter how many layers of encryption our adversary piles on, they can always be peeled off one by one." | <urn:uuid:52a025c6-c23c-4396-a09f-d6727291751c> | 2013-05-21T17:12:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Researchers have detected a new espionage campaign that uses Mac- and Windows-based malware to snoop on Chinese dissidents.
Both pieces of malware target Uyghur activists, who have reportedly clashed with the Chinese government in the past. Both malicious programs connect to the same command and control channel—physically located in China—and allow the attackers to take control of infected machines. Researchers from antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab spotted the Mac version on Friday morning. A few hours later, researchers with security firm AlienVault uncovered Windows-based malware that is part of the same campaign.
Kaspersky researchers detected the campaign on Wednesday. It arrives in e-mails that attempt to trick the receiver into installing a new variant of the MaControl backdoor and works on Macs that are powered with processors from Intel, as well as older PowerPC CPUs. The malware appears to be a newer version of Mac-based espionage malware discovered in March by AlienVault, company researchers said. They added that the Windows malware they found also uses e-mail-based social engineering to infect users. The malware has ties to Gh0stRat, a huge malware-based spy network uncovered three years ago that infiltrated government and private offices in 103 countries. | <urn:uuid:bf11cc6f-ae83-4dfc-b26c-63342026a9c8> | 2013-05-21T17:12:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Wichita school board members approved a name for a new elementary school. The school will be built at 3361 N. Arkansas at the site of the former Arkansas Avenue School.
Board members approved the name recommended by a committee.
The new school will be called Martin Ortiz Elementary.
Ortiz was born in Wichita in 1919. He was the oldest of 12 children. At the age of 13, during the Great Depression, Ortiz ran away from home in search of work.
He returned to Wichita when he was 16 and graduated from North High School. He was the first Hispanic to serve as student council president.
Ortiz went on to Whittier College after serving in the Marines during World War II.
He worked for the east Los Angeles YMCA as a youth director, earned a masters degree, and founded the Center of Mexican-American Affairs at Whittier to provide support for Hispanic students. | <urn:uuid:57f04e0a-752e-4e35-8737-364af59bf420> | 2013-05-21T17:43:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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(SOUTH HUTCHINSON, Kan.) — It happened on Monday night at approximately 9pm. A woman was pulled over on Yoder Rd just south of US 50 HWY by someone she believed to be a Law Enforcement officer. The person flashed his headlights multiple times to get the woman to stop. Once stopped the "Officer" told the woman she matched the description of an earlier reported gas drive-off and that she needed to accompany him back to the gas station.
After some argument, the woman agreed to return to the Kwik Shop on the south end of South Hutchinson with the "Officer". The "Officer" had her stand outside with her car while he went inside for a short time. After returning to the vehicle the "Officer" told her he was sorry for the trouble and returned her to her car.
The Reno County Sheriff's office are actively working on this case and believe this is not an actual officer but someone posing as one for some reason. The vehicle was described as a white mid-sized car with black wheels and a spotlight on the left windshield pillar. There were no markings or decals on the vehicle. The woman driver said the "Officer" was dressed in clothing that appeared to be a uniform however had no patches and the badge used was hanging from a breast pocket in some type of wallet. | <urn:uuid:d4f0bc74-facb-4c49-99f4-17745462365f> | 2013-05-21T17:30:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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China's premier, Wen Jiabao, comes to Washington this week with a tough item atop his agenda: to tell the United States to rein in Taiwan's democracy and keep the island republic from replacing its constitution, which proclaims Taiwan as the legal government of all China -- or risk war in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan is a multiparty democracy with a popularly elected president. Its people go to the polls in March to reelect their leader or select a new head of state. This is something the people of China don't get to do. But that's not what upsets Beijing. China's current saber rattling arises because the major political parties on Taiwan are discussing constitutional changes.
When Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in 1949 after losing to Mao Tse-tung's communist armies -- but still claiming to be China's rightful ruler -- he brought along the constitution he had pushed through in Nanking in 1947. So the Legislature he set up on Taiwan had seats for all the mainland constituencies, filled by those elected in 1948. If an elected official died, the runner-up or the runner-up's runner-up took over. As late as 1990 you could still meet some oldster in Taiwan who introduced himself as the member from Shanghai or Chungking, because no new elections could be held until the mainland was recaptured.
That farce ended in the early 1990s after Chiang and his son and successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, died. Martial law was gone, the secret police was disbanded and political were prisoners released. Slowly but surely, those who had retreated with the Chiangs lost influence over the Taiwanese, whose ancestors had settled the island before the American Revolution.
The reformed Legislature now represents only constituencies in Taiwan. Direct, popular election of the president began in 1996, something new in all the millenniums of ethnic Chinese political practice. But all of this comes about under a constitution that still proclaims the Republic of China -- Taiwan -- as the sole legal government of all of China.
You would think dropping that claim would please Beijing. But you would be wrong because a constitution written for a Taiwan that lays no claim to rule all of China, that admitted it does not control Canton or Shanghai, would be a constitution for ... Taiwan. A constitution for a Taiwan that might even say the island republic is an independent nation and not a part of the People's Republic of China.
Never mind that this happens to be fact or that the PRC has never controlled Taiwan. Wen and the PRC hold to an often- repeated formula: There is only one China in the world. Taiwan is an inseparable part of China. And China's only legal government is the people's government in Beijing. Beijing calls this "the sacred One China Principle."
So what's the U.S. role in all this? Because President Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing to gain an ally against the Soviet Union, successive administrations have said the U.S. follows a "one-China policy."
But our "policy" is not at all like Beijing's "principle." Washington's "one-China policy" says we have diplomatic relations only with Beijing, though we maintain all other relations with Taipei, and we "acknowledge" China's claim to the island, but we make no statement about Taiwan's status. There is one stipulation: We insist that any change in that status must be accomplished peacefully, and with the consent of Taiwan's people. In fact, we have a law that says these things: the Taiwan Relations Act, passed by the House and Senate in 1979.
So now we have China's premier, in office only a few months and with the old guard peering over his shoulder, coming to demand that the U.S. warn the Taiwanese they're playing with fire if they proceed to dump the 1947 constitution. Otherwise, Wen will say, if war comes to the Taiwan Strait, it will be America's responsibility. That Washington last week pressured Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian to back away from a referendum on independence apparently wasn't good enough.
In reply, President Bush should quote to Wen the words of the Taiwan Relations Act: The United States will "consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States." He might replay his April 2000 statement about doing whatever it takes to help Taiwan defend itself if attacked.
But in any case, the president should add: "It really is time, even past time, for your government to sit down and talk directly to the government on Taiwan -- without preconditions, without threats. And without expecting the United States to carry your water for you."
Harvey Feldman is a retired ambassador who was one of the authors of the Taiwan Relations Act. He is now senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Asia Studies Center. | <urn:uuid:a63a4c2f-b42e-420c-9889-5b0939d5e083> | 2013-05-21T17:45:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Daniel's learning problem, says the creepily calm recorded voice, will cost him a school grade. As he absorbs this memory of a younger self, Daniel Stein is wearing a lounge-chair mask. His neck is drooping, his shoulders are squared, his body looks ceramic.
About two hours later, the movement-theater artist is discussing "Windowspeak," his "travelogue of the soul" installed in Touchstone's theater space. The conversation turns to facial furniture created by Stein's wife and designer, Paule. Stein notes that the chair mask physicalizes balance advice given by Etienne Decroux, one of his mentors and the cornerstone of corporeal mime.
"The fish has no neck to separate intelligence from emotion," Stein paraphrases during dinner. "For Decroux the head and chest are all the same. The fish seeks to go with emotion, and the head wants to go where emotion goes. The fish can't lie."
Unlike humans. With a neck swivel they can speak to and look through a subject. "Intelligence and emotion go hand in hand in the play," says Stein. "When they're separated, you get stupid children."
Throughout "Windowspeak" Stein acts off statements from those who considered him a dunce. In the play's "American" crannies, there are murmurs about dyslexia, faggotry, artistic sellouts. These routines unfold over and under, around and through, a flexible suburban window.
" . . . (T)he fact that the American window opens and closes like a guillotine," writes Stein in the program notes, "has something to do with our sense of looking in and looking out."
So the chair headpiece has another intimate meaning for Stein. It localizes his "overstuffed" upbringing in White Fish Bay, Wis. "Young suburban Daniel found that so little of what he read in the paper corresponded with what he saw or experienced," explains the Paris resident.
In the United States, Stein's career and his Caesarean/Washingtonian nose - a mask itself at certain angles, in certain lights, with certain barriers - stuck out. In France he stuck out. The French window here opens toward the room, just as Stein believes the room's residents are unusually introspective.
Etienne Decroux was more unreachable than anyone. In one of many impersonations, Stein plays his 1973-1976 teacher as a sloshing, slack-jawed, knifing taskmaster. What sounds like a mild tracheotomy is a take on Decroux mouthing hard rum candies or prune pits. "As long as there was no noise, you were OK," Stein recalls of improvising for Decroux. "But if he bit into it, you had to stop immediately in your tracks." And give way to another performer.
Stein devotes much of the French nooks to jiving at Decroux's gospel. In one of the most harrowing channels he reads Decroux's letter banning the budding commercial pantomimist from his non-objective school. The chastisement leads Stein to model a mini-refrigerator mask - a locker of "frozen emotions and frigid ideas," he points out.
"Windowspeak," in fact, could be viewed as a challenge to - or leap beyond - Decroux's notion of classical mime. Stein toys with the teacher's speech boycott during his first onstage appearance. Drawing a horizontal line across his lathered face, he reveals what Samuel Beckett might call an "organ of emission." Here is a visual announcement that "folks, Daniel has a mouth: I'm going to talk." But then the lips rumble without sound.
Teacher and student made up, sort of. "As hard as he was, (Decroux) always used compassion," Stein explains. "He always called a spade a spade . . . I think he threw me out because he knew that I needed to be thrown out . . . "
Stein's next life-flipping teacher punished with whispers, aphorisms, riddles. Thanks to a 1985-86 federal grant, Stein studied in Japan with Ume Waka-san, who instructed him to bodily "push" thoughts. Such exercises were perplexing: even when he wraps himself in a fan-like mat or imitates a bow and arrow, Stein remains a prop.
"Decroux was more blunt: " 'You're going to fix it now or later,' " claims the performer. "With Ume Waka-san, a problem could ride for weeks. You would tell him that you felt that something was wrong and he would say: 'Well- l-l-l.' It was very frustrating because you get used to that corrective way of learning."
A sliding gate decorates the Japanese set piece in "Windowspeak." Although Stein moves it as gingerly as china, it somehow controls him. A paper screen and dull light, he admits later, tend to block a Westerner's perceptions.
"Windowspeak" opens officially with Stein hauling stacked windows on his back, belly-inching like a tortoise or a snail. He eventually wears the flats like a playpen, a costume, a mask. Near the end of the work he examines thoroughly a wall of interlocking set pieces. Each beam of the flashlight, each pane, changes his appearance, not to mention his kinship with his three environments. He is a burglar, a "voyeur," a soloist touring his life in public.
"Where's home?," Stein asks. "Paris or Milwaukee? Pittsburgh (location of Stein's alma mater, Carnegie-Mellon University)? It's impossible to keep such an important notion arbitrary. It's much easier to have home as a sensation rather than a particular place."
Stein orients himself by living Decroux's ideal performer - acrobatic body, actorly mind, poetic manner - within his own zone. By writing, receiving, and playing letters. By embracing his wife.
Daniel Stein continues in "Windowspeak" through Nov. 11 at Touchstone Theatre, 321 E. 4th St., Bethlehem. Performances start at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Stein will direct a master class from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 11. For information, call 867-1689. | <urn:uuid:cecf8753-5854-41a9-9f6c-06c02cc4fcd9> | 2013-05-21T17:39:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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For $25 admission, you could take whatever you can carry in one load, said Ike Richman, a spokesman for Spectrum owner Comcast-Spectacor. He recommended that people come in teams of two or more to cart away larger items. Anyone who wanted to return for a second load will have to pay another entrance fee.
Standing on the Spectrum's cement floor Friday, Richman, who has worked there for more than 20 years, lapsed into sentimentality. He looked up to the stands, from which most of the seats have already been removed, and said: "We're selling everything we can because the Spectrum meant so much to so many people."
The estimated 2,000 folding chairs, once used as concert seating on the floor, are expected to be the hottest items.
"This is what everybody is looking for - folding chairs," said Richman. "There's a limit on those. You can only take up to four."
Fans of the Grateful Dead, which performed at the Spectrum 53 times - more often than any other group - will no doubt covet the chairs. But, Richman said, "every group out there, with the exception of the Beatles, played the Spectrum."
On Monday, the arena, with a capacity of 17,000-plus, will be surrounded with protective fencing in preparation for demolition.
The demolition will begin inside the arena and is expected to be completed by the end of the month. The Spectrum is to replaced by a large entertainment complex.
Richman recalled the arena's rich sports history, including NBA and NHL championship seasons.
"The greatest basketball players of all time - Dr. J., Wilt Chamberlain, Charles Barkley - played in the Spectrum," Richman said. "And the greatest hockey players - Bob Clarke, Bernie Parent. This building meant so much to so many people."
On Friday, Bob Kelly, who played for the Flyers from 1970 to 1980, brought his 10-year-old daughter, Lindsay, to the Spectrum. There, he and fellow Broad Street Bullies won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975.
"I am glad to see the seats flying out of here," said Kelly. "I came here in 1970 and the building was up for only three years. It was a shrine. It was a mecca. . . . There are a lot of memories here."
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The D-4 submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) system, using the R-21 rocket, used storable liquid-propellants, which were toxic and corrosive - clearly not the best thing to be carried in the sealed environment of a submarine. The concept of the follow-on D-6 system, to be installed on series 629 and 658 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, was to use safer solid propellants.
Decree 1032-492 of 5 September 1958 authorised research and development of the D-6 solid propellant SLBM system, to be armed with the Article 'R' rocket. The missile was to have a range of 800 to 2500 km, but the D-6 launcher had to have the same external dimensions as that used for the D-2/R-13 liquid propellant SLBM.
Two propellants were considered for the rocket: Nylon-B, a double-based ballistic powder, and Nylon-S, a composite propellant consisting of ammonium perchlorate, a furfuryl-acetate binder, a titanium oxidiser developed in the US by Thiokol, and nitroguanidine. Altogether seven variants of the rocket were studied, two using Nylon-B, and five using Nylon-S. Nylon-B had a specific energy of 40 kg/kW-cm, and a specific impulse of 200 seconds. The motors were built in diameters of 0.70 to 0.85 m, and four motors were clustered per stage. Hydraulic gas vanes were used to steer the rocket. Nylon-S had a specific impulse of 200 seconds, and variants were studied using gas vanes, steerable nozzles (made of composite plastics and molybdenum, or chrome steel).
The draft project was completed in November 1959, and flight trials were to commence in 1960. At Rzhevsk Field and Leningrad test motors of up to 500 kg mass were tested. At the end of 1959 the draft project for the 629D6 launch container for the the series 629 submarine was issued by Ya E Yevgrafov. All drawings were released to Factory 444 for start of construction in December 1960.
Based on the findings of tests on the P5D-4 test stand, decree 38-145 of 18 March 1959 ordered construction of a new test stand for D-6 development. During the course of 1960 the technical project for the P5D-6 test stand for mock-up trials of the missile and container-launcher was completed.
The 613D6 derivative of the 613 nuclear submarine was developed for naval tests of the missile. The decree 141-64 of 9 February 1959 called for design of this submarine to be completed by November 1960. In January 1961 construction of four submarines of this series began at Factory 444.
Decree 656-267 of 18 June 1960 called for further development of the D-6 using Nylon-S propellant for submarine series 629, 658, and 667, the submarines to be designed by Chief Designer A S Kassatsiev. The technical projects for these boats were to be completed by the fourth quarter 1962. Flight trials of the 1100-km range missile aboard a 629B test boat in the third quarter of 1962.
A variant of the rocket was also considered for mobile Army use. It was also planned to replace the liquid-propellant D-4 in the 667 SSBN's with the D-6.
The nuclear device in either missile was to have a mass of 500 kg and a variable yield of from 300 kt to 1.0 MT. The inertial navigation system was to be designed by Semikhatov at NII-592. The missiles would be cold launched from the submarine, igniting above the surface - the Nylon-B version at 30-50 m altitude, and the Nylon-S version at 40-80 m. Two different re-entry vehicles would be used to, that of the Nylon-B version being 1.8 m long.
All of these plans came to a halt on 27 April 1961 when the D-6 was cancelled in favour of the D-7 system, which was to use an RT-15M derivative of the land-based 8K96 solid propellant missile being planned by Korolev. At the time of cancellation, the test stand at Factory 444 was 47% complete. D-6 technology was however used in Korolev's RT-1 test missile, including engines from NII-125.
Boost Propulsion: Solid rocket.
Stage Data - D-6
AKA: Article R; D-6.
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I continue to see atheists attempt to answer the question, "How do we motivate people to do good and to not do evil without appealing to some type of God?" by saying, "We are biologically disposed to be motivated to do good and not do evil."
Which doesn't answer the question.
In fact, it misses answering the question by such a huge margin that it legitimately causes those who ask the question to wonder as to the mental competence of those who provide this answer.
"Well, thank you for that piece of information. You have now demonstrated that you suffer from a complete disconnect from reality."
People who are interested in the motivation to do good and avoid doing evil are not interested in in motivating people to do good that we are biologically compelled to perform, or the evil we are biologically incapable of performing.
They are concerned with the very real goods and evils that surround us every day and that can be found in huge quantities by any study of history. They are concerned about the evils that we are clearly biologically capable of committing because we have historical examples of people committing them.
The question is, "How do we motivate people to do good deeds that they are clearly capable of not performing?" and "How do we motivate people to avoid doing those evils that people all to often do to each other?"
The claim is that a God can give the people a motivation to do these goods and avoid these evils and that no other effective method exists.
To answer this question by saying that, "Biology compels us to do good and avoid evil," then gets answered with, "What? You're telling me that slavery, genocide, murder, child rape, spousal abuse, tyranny in all of its ugly forms . . . that none of these things ever happened because biology makes it impossible for humans to do evil?"
Well, clearly, you don't mean that.
However, because you don't mean that, any appeal to the biology of altruism . . .
DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION.
The question is - the legitimate real-world worry is - how do we prevent these things from happening without appealing to a God? | <urn:uuid:029d05af-a4f4-42ef-bf41-a54a4e802150> | 2013-05-21T17:45:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I was getting the following error:
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Procedure Product_Audit_Update, Line 460
error in [dbo].[Product_audit_update] trigger
Msg 3616, Level 16, State 1, Procedure ProductSave, Line 126
Transaction doomed in trigger. Batch has been aborted.
Turns out the following line of code was causing the problem:
AND isnull(Inserted.[guidColumn],'') <> isnull(Deleted.[guidColumn],'')
As as example:
declare @guid uniqueidentifier
declare @guid1 uniqueidentifier
if (@guid <> isnull(@guid1,''))
print 'this works'
Causes this error as well:
Msg 8169, Level 16, State 2, Line 6
Conversion failed when converting from a character string to uniqueidentifier.
I would suggest removing the isnull(,'') and allow the column values to compare by themselves.
AND Inserted.[guidColumn] <>Deleted.[guidColumn] | <urn:uuid:2097f388-599d-4cf7-86f9-9cd75e380c0d> | 2013-05-21T17:45:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Beschrijving:Flight 901 departed Vienna for a flight to Warsaw and Moscow. The aircraft was approaching runway 07 of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport when it contacted trees and crashed 11km short of the runway.
|Datum:||26 SEP 1960|
|Type:||Vickers 837 Viscount|
|Motoren:|| 4 Rolls Royce 525/01 Dart|
|Bemanning:||slachtoffers: 5 / inzittenden: 6|
|Passagiers:||slachtoffers: 26 / inzittenden: 31|
|Totaal:||slachtoffers: 31 / inzittenden: 37 |
|Gevolgen:|| Written off (damaged beyond repair)|
|Plaats:||11 km (6.9 mijl) W of Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) (Rusland)
|Fase:|| Nadering (APR)|
|Soort vlucht:||Internationale lijnvlucht|
|Vliegveld van vertrek:||Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW/EPWA), Polen|
|Vliegveld van aankomst:||Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE), Rusland|
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The investigations revealed that there were no technical deficiencies in the aircraft itself or an meteorological phenomenon involved in the accident. The Austrian observers participating in the investigation of the accident were of the opinion that the accident was related to altitude measurement, inasmuch as it was apparent from radio communications as well as from the examination of the wreckage that that the crew believed that they were flying at the normal approach altitude. The erroneous altitude measurement may be attributed to: a) a technical deficiency of either of the two altimeters.; b) the divergent settings of the altimeters; or c) mission of altimeter reading or erroneous reading of altimeters. The internal mechanism of both altimeters was so heavily damaged that it could no longer be ascertained whether, at the time of the accident, the altimeters were functioning accurately. Both altimeters were set to the correct atmospheric pressure but their settings differed, namely the left altimeter was set at QFE 0990 mb and the right altimeter at 1013 mb, which in view of the prevailing atmospheric pressure conditions, could have corresponded both to QNH and to the standard pressure setting. Such divergent settings are at variance with the usual procedure of Austrian Airlines. The reasons prompting the flight captain to depart from the usual practice could not be ascertained. It was not possible to reach a categorical conclusion as to which of the three causes were responsible for an approach below the minimum flying altitude."
Deze kaart geeft het vliegveld van vetrek weer en de geplande bestemming van de vlucht. De lijn tussen de vliegvelden geeft niet
de exacte vliegroute weer.
De afstand tussen Warszawa-Okecie Airport en Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport bedraagt 1142 km (714 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Networkĺs opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time. | <urn:uuid:c752ca41-6762-47c7-9778-634d56b4ec0b> | 2013-05-21T17:09:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Czech soprano, Venceslava [Cĕnceslava] Hruba-Freiberger, attended the Conservatory in Prague.
After graduating from the Conservatory, Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger joined the operatic chorus of the Prague National Theatre. Her first solo performances took place in Plzen. She was then engaged by various operatic companies in the former GDR and went on to make successful appearances in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany and elsewhere.
Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger, who holds the honorary title of Kammersängerein, devotes much attention to lieder, oratorios and orchestral works with vocal parts. A performer of international standing, she sees the interpretation of works from age of J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel as one of her greatest artistic challenges. Apart from working with the world-renowned St Thomas Choir, she has made highly successful appearances with the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum at concerts in St Cecily, Rome, and at La Scala, Milan. | <urn:uuid:d70b7ea7-b8d3-445d-bf9e-258467af583f> | 2013-05-21T17:30:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Christ Raises the Daughter of Jairus, Friedrich Overbeck, painted 1815.
Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA)
Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa)
Gospel Mark 5:21-43 (Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition)
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him; and he was beside the sea. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, and besought him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live." And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.
And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well." And immediately the hemorrhage ceased; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him, immediately turned about in the crowd, and said, "Who touched my garments?" And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ' Who touched me?" And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had been done to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease."
While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?" But ignoring what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not fear, only believe." And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. When they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, he saw a tumult, and people weeping and wailing loudly. And when he had entered, he said to them, "Why do you make a tumult and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside, and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. Taking her by the hand he said to her, "Talitha cumi"; which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise." And immediately the girl got up and walked (she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.
St Mark, Donatello, c.1411
Lyn was someone I met when she was about 15. Three years later, when she was only halfway through her four-year college course, she quit to marry Roberto. (I’m not using their real names). Lyn was madly in love with Roberto, who had a good job and came from a relatively wealthy family. Lyn’s family could not be described as poor either. I celebrated the wedding Mass and attended the reception in a classy hotel. Here in the Philippines it’s the groom’s father who foots the bill for the reception. the young couple went to live in Manila, where Roberto was from. About a year later a daughter, whom I’ll call Gloria, was born. She had a mental disability. Another daughter, ‘Gabriela’, arrived a year or two later.
Then tragedy struck. Roberto discovered that his kidneys weren’t working properly and that he needed dialysis. Over the next couple of years Roberto and Lyn spent practically all they had on this and it ended in Roberto’s death. Meanwhile, Lyn’s parents both had serious illnesses and had to spend most of their resources on treatment.
Lyn returned to her own city with her two young daughters. She couldn’t find a job and had no qualifications since she hadn’t finished in college. With much embarrassment she came to see me and asked if I could give her an ‘allowance’. She was able to survive the next few years with help from her siblings and friends and eventually remarried.
I’ve met so many ‘Lyns’ in the Philippines who are like the woman in today’s gospel, who have spent all their resources on doctors and medicine and are still sick. I’ve met families who have pawned their little bit of land in order to enable an aged parent to have surgery that ultimately leaves the whole family impoverished and the person on whom, out of a perhaps misplaced love, they had spent the money ending up in the cemetery.
Most Filipinos have little access to good health care. Even those who have government health insurance, unlike in Ireland or the United Kingdom, have to come up with ready cash if they go to hospital. They are eventually reimbursed but have to pay interest on money they have borrowed in the meantime. I’ve heard people in Ireland and in the UK complain about the poor health services they have and their complaints are often justified. I have also heard many unsolicited words of praise for nurses from the Philippines working in hospitals in those countries.
Bu the sad reality is that most of those nurses, if they were still in the Philippines, wouldn’t have access to the kind of care they provide in Ireland and the UK. They would be like the woman in the gospel.
I met a Filipina in Reykjavík in 2000 who told me that she had had a kidney transplant in Denmark, paid for by the taxpayers of Iceland, a country of only 300,000 people or so. Had she been at home she would probably have ended up like Roberto.
19 years ago in a parish in Mindanao I buried Eileen, like the daughter of Jairus, a 12-year-old. Again, poverty was a significant factor in her illness and death, despite the efforts of the doctors and nurses in the small government hospital where she died.
So the two stories interwoven by St Mark are stories that many Filipinos have lived or are living.
But sometimes persons experience healing. I once gave a recollection day to a group of 11- and 12-year old children. We reflected on the story of Jesus staying behind in the Temple when he was 12 and that of the daughter of Jairus. Before the afternoon session a group of the boys and girls came to tell me that Maria, one of their classmates, had a bad toothache and asked if we could pray with her. Maybe Jesus would heal her as he had healed ‘Talitha’. They thought that that was the name of the girl in the gospel! We prayed with Maria – and her toothache disappeared. The children were delighted.
St Mark gives us illustrations of the humanity of Jesus more than do St Matthew and St Luke when they recount the same stories. Scholars tell us that St Mark’s was the first gospel to be written and that the other two drew on his in writing theirs. St Matthew omits the detail of Jesus perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him. This shows us that Jesus wasn’t a ‘magician’. When he healed a sick person he gave of himself.
Both St Matthew and St Luke leave out another beautiful detail about the humanity of our Saviour. Jesus says to the people in the house, Give her something to eat. I can imagine the joy of everyone, including Jesus. I picture him with a smile on his face, a smile that reflects his joy – and his awareness that the girl’s family had forgotten the very practical detail that she was starving, as is anyone who has come through a serious illness. This detail of St Mark brings home to me the great reality that St John expressed in his gospel and that we pray in the Angelus, The Word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14).
Missa Papae Marcelli (Mass of Pope Marcellus) by Palestrina
Kyrie (Lord, have mercy)
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|Affiliation:||The Joker (Boss)|
|Portrayed by:||William Smillie|
|Appearances:||The Dark Knight|
Happy and Dopey travelled from a neighboring building to the roof of Gotham National Bank with a cable gun. After helping Dopey to disable the bank's alarm system, Happy shot him in the back with his handgun, killing him, then made his way to the safe and started to open it, receiving a jolt of electricity from the security system.
Happy finished opening the safe by wearing his shoes over his hands to turn the lock. Happy, like Dopey, was considered expendable by the Joker after he had done his job, and Grumpy came into the vault and killed him, although not before the latter learned Happy killed Dopey under similar orders.
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- Happy took his callsign from one of the Dwarfs in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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ingredients 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
2 teaspoons Ground Ginger
1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
2 teaspoons Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Ground Cloves
1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup Unsalted Butter (room temperature)
3 tablespoons Dark Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Unsulphured Molasses
instructions For the Gingerbread Cookies: In a bowl, mix together the dry ingredients: the flour, spices, baking soda and salt. Set aside. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until smooth, then beat in the molasses and egg. To prevent the molasses from sticking to the measuring cup, spray with nonstick spray before measuring out the molasses.
instructions Beat in the dry ingredients, and beat only until a dough forms. Divide the dough in half, and wrap each half in floured plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least two hours, or up to overnight.
instructions Preheat oven to 350F. Roll dough out to a thickness of about 1/4" on floured parchment paper. Using the templates on the chew.com, carefully cut out the dough. Transfer the parchment paper with the cut outs to a baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack, let cool completely.
ingredients 1 pound Confectioners Sugar
5 tablespoons Meringue Powder
1/4 cup Water
instructions For the Royal Icing: In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together sugar and meringue powder until combined. Add the water and beat at a medium speed until very glossy and stiff peaks form. If the icing fails to create the right consistency, add more sugar or water. Add food coloring and stir until the desired color is reached. Place into a pastry bag and use immediately.
ingredients 2 tablespoons Butter
5 ounces Marshmallow
Brown Food Coloring
3 cups Rice Puff Cereal
instructions For the Rice Crispy Treats: In a saucepan, melt the butter stir in the marshmallows over medium low heat. Stir continuously until melted. Add 2 to 3 drops of brown food coloring and stir until incorporated. Add the rice cereal in batches and stir until all the cereal is coated in marshmallow. Press into a rimmed baking sheet and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
ingredients 2 cups Shredded Coconut
instructions For the Colored Shredded Coconut: Place shredded coconut into a ziptop bag, add food coloring and seal shut. Shake until the food coloring is evenly distributed. Be careful, this will stain.
ingredients 2 batches Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
Clean firm base for gingerbread house
Wooden skewers or cans
instructions For the Gingerbread House: Gather all the materials. On a clean firm base, begin building the gingerbread house. Pipe the frosting onto the shortest side of one of the triangular pieces, and place it onto the base. Use a wooden skewer or can to hold it in place until the icing firms up.
instructions Next, pipe frosting onto the other two sides of the triangle and attach the short side of each of the rectangles to each side of the triangle to create the roof.
instructions Pipe a line of frosting onto the top of the roof to seal the gap. Finally, pipe icing around each side of the remaining triangles, and place it onto the open end of the house. Using an offset spatula or butter knife, smooth out any excess frosting.
ingredients Rice Crispy Treats
Ice Cream Cones
instructions For the towers, using a 2-inch ring mold, cut out rounds of brown rice crispy treats. Stack them to your desired height, and then cut out triangles to attach the towers to the angle of the roof. Use royal icing to adhere the triangles to the roof and towers. Place an upside down ice cream cone on the towers.
ingredients Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
instructions For the Assorted Candies: Allow the house to set for about 3 hours. Use candy and colored icings to decorate the house! | <urn:uuid:536b38c8-2921-4e63-affa-5eb378b384f5> | 2013-05-21T17:10:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Two years ago, a scientist named Onur Hamzaoğlu began finding arsenic, mercury and lead in the women and children who live in Turkey's Kocaeli Province, the country's second biggest industrial zone.
Hamzaoğlu, the head of the public health department at the local university, encountered these heavy metals in infants' feces and mothers' breast milk in the course of a three-year research project that began in 2009 and will end later this year.
When he told a journalist about his findings in early 2011, however, Hamzaoğlu triggered a government campaign aimed at discrediting him and his research.
The mayor of Kocaeli, a member of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) dismissed Hamzaoğlu as a "charlatan" in the media, and sued for Hamzaoğlu's imprisonment on the grounds that he was "inciting fear and panic in the public". Turkey's Ministry of Health sent a similar complaint to the AKP-controlled Council of Higher Education, provoking Kocaeli University's president to launch disciplinary and ethical investigations against him.
On March 15, Kocaeli's Basic Criminal Court awarded Hamzaoğlu and his supporters a small victory. For insulting Hamzaoğlu in the media, the Kocaeli mayor will have to pay a fine of approximately $2,000.
If the mayor wins his suit, however, Hamzaoğlu could still face up to four years in jail for going public with his research. Hamzaoğlu's employer, Kocaeli University, will have to give permission before he can face the criminal trial that could result in his imprisonment.
In most countries with advanced systems of higher education, he wouldn't need to worry about his university selling him out that way. But in Turkey, Hamzaoğlu says, "Politicians in local governments and the Council of Higher Education put pressure on universities," preventing scientists from exercising full academic freedom.
Hamzaoğlu's case is just one instance of political interests trumping scientific integrity. But a larger shadow of government intervention is creeping over Turkey's entire scientific community.
Surrounded by the smell of fresh paint and the echo of still-empty office space, Mehmet Ali Alpar explains why he and 66 others resigned from Turkey's twenty-year-old national science academy (TÜBA) in November, and helped found an alternate academy, the BA, whose headquarters we are now sitting in.
"The government's perception was that TÜBA was prejudiced," says Alpar, who was part of TÜBA's first assembly in 1993 and now chairs BA.
The AKP, which is the most religious of Turkey's major political parties, was uneasy with TÜBA's wholehearted endorsement of Darwinian evolution, Alpar suspects.
"All members of TÜBA, like scientists anywhere, are not creationists," explains Alpar. "I suspect this is a reason for the government seeing us as biased. The dangerous step is when the politicians say, 'Well, since we won a majority in the elections, we can decide on all issues, including scientific issues.'"
That's what happened to TÜBA last autumn. Using a controversial procedure for making "law by decree", Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's cabinet issued two decrees fundamentally altering the structure of TÜBA.
Rather than appoint its own members internally - established practice in every other international science academy - two-thirds of TÜBA's membership would henceforth be candidates selected by two government bodies: the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).
Nearly half of TÜBA's 138 members resigned in protest.
"Before the decrees were announced, TÜBA was never consulted, and nobody ever asked for any information from TÜBA," says Yücel Kanpolat, the president of TÜBA and a former professor of neurosurgery at Ankara University.
"Myself and the remaining members are all waiting, hoping that the government will finally understand its mistake and take a step toward reversing the new procedure."
But many former TÜBA members don't share Kanpolat's optimism. At the end of February, Alpar says, he learned that universities had already been asked to nominate TÜBA member candidates for YÖK's consideration. Neither YÖK, TÜBİTAK nor the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology returned calls for comment on this article.
Shortly after stepping down from TÜBA, Alpar and sixteen of the academy's other former members founded the BA. Now 52 members strong, the new academy received a one-year donation of free office space from Turkish businessman Izzettin Silier, and has already started a conference series and begun planning educational initiatives.
"We want to raise religious youth. Do you expect the conservative democrat AK Party to raise an atheist generation? That might be your business, your mission, but not ours," said Prime Minister Erdoğan in a parliamentary address at the beginning of February.
While the AKP has certainly become more outspoken about its intent to assert influence over Turkey's academic institutions, it has been doing so behind the scenes for several years now.
YÖK itself was a fiercely secular institution until 2007, when Turkish President Abdullah Gül appointed a new president from the AKP's ranks to bring YÖK's aims and activities in line with AKP ideology. In the same year, Gül appointed a new president to TÜBİTAK, and the next year, the government amended the charter of formerly autonomous TÜBİTAK so that Erdoğan would select half of its 14-member board.
In 2009, as TÜBİTAK's magazine was preparing to release an issue centered around the 200-year anniversary of Darwin's birth, the cover story on Darwin was pulled at the last minute and the magazine's chief editor fired.
"The way that TÜBİTAK has been increasingly brought under the control of the AKP is emblematic of the way that the AKP and the bureaucracy have become increasingly interwoven," says Howard Eissenstat, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at St. Lawrence University and Amnesty International's Turkey specialist.
The degree to which the AKP has now become synonymous with the Turkish state hasn't been seen since the Turkish Democrat Party enjoyed single-party power in the 1950s, according to Eissenstat. In the half century following the Democrat Party's fall from power, a handful of parties wrangled for their place in Turkey's government, each with a separate constituency to protect.
"In a typical university, you used to have departments that were typically affiliated with one party or another," says Eissenstat.
But now, he explains, "we're seeing more and more administrators who are sympathetic to the AKP, who see themselves as representatives of it, and they are making it difficult to do work and be promoted if you're not following the party line."
Alpar agrees that the AKP's effort to exert its influence over Turkey's educational institutions highlights a deeper, more sinister trend.
"This is part of a recent political climate in this country. It boils down to a mistaken interpretation of what democracy is. Democracy doesn't say that a majority vote gives the government infinite wisdom and the mandate to decide on all technical matters."
Since news first broke of the lawsuit and investigations against Hamzaoğlu, his situation has attracted considerable attention in Turkey and beyond. The International Association of Health Policy called for scientists around the world to sign a petition of support. Hamzaoğlu's case was reported in The Times of London and mentioned in a recent post on The New York Times's website.
TÜBA has also received letters from science academies all over the world, expressing dismay at the change in its membership process.
"A loss of autonomy would diminish [TÜBA's] effectiveness, both within Turkey and the international scientific community," wrote Ralph Cicerone, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in an open letter to President Gül.
Over the long term, sacrificing scientific integrity and academic freedom to the ruling party's increasing need for control will ultimately make Turkey less competitive, says Eissenstat.
"There are real costs to this sort of repression. There's almost certainly going to be a greater brain drain in Turkey. There's almost certainly going to be a drop in its scientific productivity." (JH/HK) | <urn:uuid:df4e974b-6cc2-4cb3-b54f-6b37e5e2fcec> | 2013-05-21T17:43:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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and Peter said to him, 'Aeneas, heal thee doth Jesus the Christ; arise and spread for thyself;' and immediately he rose,
Acts 9:34 Additional TranslationsClarke's Commentary on the Bible
Jesus Christ maketh thee whole - Not Peter, for he had no power but what was given him from above. And, as an instrument, any man could heal with this power as well as Peter; but God chose to put honor upon those primitive preachers of his word, that men might see that they were commissioned from heaven.
Arise, and make thy bed - Give now full proof that Jesus Christ Has made thee whole, by arising, and by making thy bed. He was at home, and therefore was not commanded, as the paralytic person, to take up his bed; but he was ordered to make it - strew it afresh, that all might see that the cure was perfect.
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Matthew 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be you clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
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John 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
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Amy Farrah Fowler, Ph.D., is a neurobiologist whom Raj and Howard discovered as a possible match for Sheldon through an Internet dating site (without Sheldon's knowledge). Amy is from Glendale, as revealed by Sheldon in "The Weekend Vortex". By Sheldon's own admission, she is most like him by any standard. Like him, she has previously avoided relationships (whether romantic or otherwise is entirely unclear), and only participated in online dating herself to fulfill an agreement with her mother that she dates someone at least once a year.
Though Amy and Sheldon are very similar, they have some notable differences. She does not, for example, share his love of Star Trek, considering it "cheap science fiction" (nor familiar with Star Wars), and also does not share Sheldon's other love of comic books. Also, she does not believe in wearing costumes for unspecified reasons, though she does change this resistance over time. Amy is more willing to socialize with others than Sheldon. While Sheldon generally refuses to accept the need for intimacy, Amy appears to desire the kind of friendships she was denied as a child. She is capable of acknowledging that she is part of a group, as shown in "The Zazzy Substitution" when she uses the phrase "my colleagues and I." She also finds people of the opposite sex attractive, although she is initially unable to understand her physical desire towards Penny's ex-boyfriend Zack Johnson until it is explained to her. Additionally, she has less of a problem with physical human contact than Sheldon, regardless of their sex, as seen in "The 21-Second Excitation" when she, without hesitation, attempted to engage in "harmless experimentation with lesbianism" with Penny, in "The Love Car Displacement" when she willingly offered Penny to share a room with her and in "The Cohabitation Formulation" when she willingly hugged Penny to comfort her, when Penny got upset over Leonard finding a new girlfriend. In "The Agreement Dissection", she, albeit under the influence of alcohol, kissed Penny on the mouth and later did the same to Sheldon. The next morning, a hung over Amy calls Sheldon via webcam and the two agree to go back to the way their relationship was before the previous night. Amy also has not shown an interest in toy trains, like Sheldon does.
In her early appearances, Amy is ambivalent and often condescending towards Penny. After inviting herself to a slumber party with Penny and Bernadette, their relationship grew closer and less awkward with Amy no longer being condescending to Penny and eventually grew to the point where Amy considers Penny to be her best friend (or "bestie" as she takes to referring her). Penny is the person mainly responsible for Amy's improving social skills, introducing her to drinking and other normal activities such as dancing, shopping, hanging out with friends, and gossiping or trash-talking.
Amy values her relationship with Penny very highly, and in The Infestation Hypothesis, after Penny found out that Sheldon had manipulated Amy to influence her to get rid of her chair and got mad at Amy, she desperately attempted to take it all back by sitting in the chair and was promptly bitten by a an unknown creature living in it. Penny herself is quite fond of Amy and has even managed to influence Amy to the point that at times, Amy would rather hang out with the girls than Sheldon himself. Amy admits that her whole female social life revolves around Penny and that even if she gets mad at her, it wouldn't last. On one occasion, when Penny accidentally offends Amy by hiding a gargantuan and rather unflattering painting of hers, Penny rushes over to Amy's apartment to rescue their friendship and rehangs the painting in her apartment. In The Speckerman Recurrence, Amy expressed her delight at being best friends with a bully, namely Penny, when the latter was revealed to have been a bully during her high school days. Penny decided to make amends by apologizing to the girl she once bullied, but was unsuccessful in ganing the apology. In the end, it was Amy who suggested a way for Penny to make amends, by showing altruism in the form of donating her clothes to the needy. However, upon donating her clothes, the girls found out that there were many nice items of clothing donated by other people available and they ended up taking some for themselves. When Amy told Penny that, should they get caught for stealing the clothes, she does not mind their sharing the same cell, Penny came to her senses, and they drop the idea of stealing the clothes completely. In The Weekend Vortex, after Sheldon upset Amy by choosing an intensive weekend of gaming over accompanying her to her aunt's birthday party, despite already giving his word that he would, Amy confided in Penny and Penny gave her advice on confronting Sheldon. When Amy proved to lack the necessary self-esteem with which to confront him, Penny stood up for Amy herself and confronted Sheldon for being a bad boyfriend.
Despite their closeness, Amy occasionally displays signs of a bisexual infatuation or curiosity with Penny, often making inappropriate comments to this degree. For instance, when Penny, in an effort to persuade Sheldon to let her cut his hair in The Werewolf Transformation, asked Amy for her opinion, Amy's response was "There is not a hair on my body that I wouldn't let this woman trim," resulting in discomfort on Penny's part. In another occasion, after kissing Penny on the lips (Amy was drunk) when discussing it with Sheldon, he overheard her singing from Katy Perry's song, "I kissed a girl, I liked it." In The Pulled Groin Extrapolation, when Amy and Penny were discussing Amy's theory that Leonard had fallen in love with her, Amy told Penny that Leonard did not get her "motors running" and that Penny had a better shot than Leonard.
Amy is also close to Bernadette, though not as close as she is with Penny (of the three, Amy considers Bernadette to be "the least cool"). Amy and Bernadette are both biologists and possess doctorates, making them able to converse intellectually. Amy had once called Bernadette a wildebeest but quickly adds "with hair that smells of strawberries" after Bernadette's reaction showing that Amy cares enough about her to try and compliment a positive quality after insulting her, and is very excited to be a bridesmaid at Bernadette's upcoming wedding. Bernadette, though she at times feels that Amy is creepy, values her enough and to make it up back to her for not asking her to join her bridesmaid dress shopping session with Penny, made her the maid of honor. Bernadette is more uncomfortable with Amy's "outside of the box" comments, while Penny is more used to them having been friends with Sheldon.
In "The Speckerman Recurrence", Amy and Bernadette shared the stories of how they were bullied during their school years, with Bernadette's involving a case of having her clothes taken away by Tammy Bockneck and replaced with an elf costume that turned out to be too big for her, and Amy's with having hairy knuckles due to applying hand lotion that had secretly been tampered with Rogaine by her bullies. It was not surprising when they found out that out of the three girls, Penny was the only one who left high school unscathed, since she was the one doing the bullying. Bernadette also acts as a kind of translator, translating Amy's words such as "assuage" and "altruism" to versions that are much simpler that Penny can understand. There are often times where her closeness with Penny overshadows Bernadette.
Amy and Leonard did not have good first impressions of each other, with Amy always seemed to look down on Leonard and Leonard called her judgmental, sanctimonious, and just obnoxious. However, their relationship improves gradually and in "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation" where Amy asked Leonard to be her date to a wedding instead of Sheldon. They ended up enjoying each other's company at the wedding and Leonard commented that Amy really knows how to make a guy loosen up and have a good time. When Amy called Sheldon while drunk in "The Isolation Permutation", Leonard and Sheldon went to see her at the parking lot in front of the liquor store. Leonard ended up being the person helping Amy up and walked with her as they made their way to send her back to her apartment. Amy giggled when she said that he had found second base. In "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition", Stuart asked Leonard to be the guy who checks in with Sheldon regarding his response to him asking Amy out.
Amy's relationship with Howard is somewhat complicated exactly the same way as it is with Sheldon. She, like Sheldon and Dr. Gablehauser, makes fun of Howard for lacking a doctorate and for his other idiosyncrasies.
Amy's relationship with Raj is kind of complicated, but they remain friends. Her relationship with him can be described the same way it is with Sheldon. In "The Santa Simulation", the guys choose to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons over plans with their girls, prompting Amy, Penny, and Bernadette go to a club for a ladies night. Raj tags along with them after his D&D character dies within the first five minutes. At the club while the girls are trying to help Raj find a girl, Raj reveals to them that he had a thing for Penny and Bernadette but always tries to like a friends girlfriend one at a time. Amy then says that Raj must have had a thing for her, but he responds with a no. Hurt by the comment, Amy reveals past sad experiences about guys, like how one time she passed out at a frat mixer and woke up with more clothes on her, Raj then empathizes with her about his troubles with girls and they smile a little at each other with Amy commenting on her current relationship with Sheldon and how it could happen with a Raj and a girl. When they all are about to leave, Amy says that she's good now that she knows Raj likes her and Raj follows out with Penny saying that he kind of likes her now that he knows she's not into him. Improving on the relationship between Amy and Raj now that they both know they are together in the overlooked department of the opposite gender.
Main article: Sheldon and Amy
Amy first met Sheldon in the final episode of season 3, "The Lunar Excitation", when they were both matched from an online dating site, though the event triggered as a result of Howard and Raj's prank of using Sheldon's profile for the dating site. Though Sheldon disapproved of the reliability of dating sites, he changed his mind upon meeting Amy and the two have been close ever since. It has been revealed at the beginning of season 4 that Amy and Sheldon have been communicating daily with each other for about four months, yet they have not met yet, other than the first encounter at the end of season 3. Amy and Sheldon regularly interact via the many different technological portals such as Facebook, Twitter, texting, and video chatting. Their relationship grew stronger throughout the entire season 4. For example, Sheldon knew when Amy was at the dry cleaners, they have met each other's mothers, they have meals together, either alone or with the rest, she got him engaged in social science experiments which involved them spreading a gossip that they have slept together, and later that she was carrying his child, he was there when she had to make a quick stop to buy feminine hygiene supplies, and many more. Throughout the entire season 4, Sheldon described Amy as his friend who is a girl but not his girlfriend while Amy described their relationship as boyfriend-girlfriend. Their closeness has earned them the title "Shamy" from their friends, a combination of both their first names. As the series progresses however, it is implied that their relationship has evolved into non-platonic yet non-romantic.
In "The Alien Parasite Hypothesis", Amy became attracted to Penny's friend Zack. She could not figure that out in the first place so she and Sheldon analyzed the symptoms she had when encountering Zack. One of the conclusions was sexual arousal but Sheldon refused to believe that and would rather believe in other illogical answers such as Amy was going through menopause. When Amy pointed out that Sheldon could have been jealous which resulted to his denial, he refused to answer her and decided to finish his lunch at home. He mistakenly took the cadaver brain specimen Amy was slicing instead of his lunch along the process.
In "The Agreement Dissection", a drunken Amy kissed Sheldon, and although the kiss was short, Sheldon commented the kiss as fascinating. She also gave him the perfect advice as to how handle the problems he was having with Priya regarding her meddling in his Roommate Agreement with Leonard.
In "The Zazzy Substitution", Sheldon revealed that Amy had licked her thumb to remove a raspberry jelly from the corner of his mouth. When they later disputed over whose area of expertise is more superior and terminated their relationship, Sheldon started hoarding cats, possibly to fill in the empty space in his life with Amy being gone. He even commented that cats make great companions since they do not argue or question his intellectual authority. His mother tells them through reverse psychology that they shouldn't be together, so Sheldon negotiates reconciliation with Amy.
In season 5, their relationship seems to have grown even stronger. While in season 4's "The Desperation Emanation", Sheldon gave his blessings to Leonard to date Amy since Amy wanted to be someone's girlfriend and Leonard wanted a girlfriend, a statement he uttered after he freaked out when she asked him to meet her mother and told Leonard that he liked his current relationship with Amy to remain the same, however, in season 5's "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation", when Leonard said that Amy knew how to make a guy loosen up although his groins were a little bit worse for wear, a misunderstood Sheldon karate-chopped Leonard on the shoulder and repeated twice "She is not for you!" Amy is also worried that Leonard has fallen in love with her, but Penny insists that she can take care of Leonard's hurt.
In "The Isolation Permutation", Sheldon grew extremely worried when he could not reach Amy and discovered that she was upset at being left out by Penny and Bernadette on their bridesmaid dress shopping expedition. Sheldon, however unwillingly, ended up cuddling on the couch with Amy after an exchange of counter-offers which included sex, a pat on the head, French kissing, and neck massage.
In "The Ornithophobia Diffusion", Amy hinted jealousy at the sight of Sheldon being all sweet and infatuated with a bird he called his "little Lovey-Dovey". Amy also suggested early on that in order for Sheldon to get over his fear of birds, he needed to interact with it, just like how he did with the mailman, showing how familiar she is with his personal life.
The highlight of their relationship is in "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition" when Stuart asked her out for coffee, Amy agreed since she found Stuart nice, funny, and he has an indication of overactive thyroid gland which she thought was completely hot. She was also influenced by both Penny and Bernadette; Penny advised her that after over a year being with Sheldon and nothing really going on, it is fine for her to look around, and Bernadette agreed since Amy and Sheldon are not engaged. Her action prompted more jealousy from Sheldon and after talking with Penny, Sheldon ended up interrupting her and Stuart's date at the movies. Amy told Sheldon that given their relationship status, she is free to do whatever she wants, even if her actions get Sheldon's disapproval. Sheldon responds that he is willing to change their relationship status, with the exception that nothing changes in terms of physical or otherwise. Amy told him to ask her again without the negative aspects; Sheldon refuses. She in response moved towards Stuart and said hi to him. Sheldon immediately relented and asked Amy directly whether she is willing to be his girlfriend, and she agreed. Sheldon left them alone immediately afterwards. Later, outside Amy's apartment, and without her knowledge that Sheldon was waiting for her in there, she had a nice conversation with Stuart. Sheldon knocked from inside and told them to wrap things up out there. She and Stuart hugged and said goodnight and Sheldon told Stuart out loud that since Amy has said good night, Stuart should get the hint and leave. Sheldon ended up introducing the Relationship Agreement to her and though she thought it is romantic, she did find the terms as restrictive, at which Sheldon told her to get a lawyer if she wants to. Amy agreed to the terms and as of that point, they are officially a couple.
In "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver", Sheldon and Amy revealed that their date night is once a month on every second Thursday or the third one, in a one with five Thursdays, as per The Relationship Agreement. They had their first "couple's fight" when Sheldon did not show any interest in Amy's big news, an article that she solely authored will be featured in Neuron, a distinguished journal, and that she is very happy since she has been waiting for something like this for a long time. Instead, Sheldon was more invested on the fact that he just reached 100 followers on Twitter. Upset, Amy left the date. Sheldon was oblivious to what happened until Penny told him that as Amy's boyfriend, he needs to be excited by the thing she is excited by, even if he is not. Sheldon dismissed the importance of biology by referring to it as "yucky and squishy". Sheldon then noted that he did have a soft spot for koalas and showed Penny his his "koala face". He also noted that Amy was familiar with it.
Penny tells Sheldon that he needs to buy Amy's affection, to which Sheldon agrees. He gets Penny to help him pick the perfect gift, at a jewelry store. Once they bought it, Sheldon had Penny call Amy over to her apartment so he can talk to her. When Amy arrived, she was still upset and voiced out that she does not want to talk to him. However, upon opening her gift, which turned out to be a tiara, Amy went giddy and excited and asked Penny to put it on her. She was ecstatic that she looked like a princess and kissed Sheldon before hugging him tightly, signalling she was no longer upset. Sheldon hugged her back, but acknowledge that tiara was a bit too much.
In "The Beta Test Initiation", Sheldon decided to create his own podcast show on vexillology, the study of flags and related paraphernalia. Amy voluntarily agreed to be his assistant on the show, acting alongside him, providing ideas to better the show, and dressing up as a pretzel where Sheldon was explaining the Bavarian flag. Though their actions earned eyebrow-raising looks from Leonard, Amy had never expressed any sign that she thought Sheldon's idea was weird. There was a part during the recording of the first episode of Sheldon's show that Amy patiently acted her part over and over again, since Sheldon mentioned Take 47 at one point. When Amy made a suggestion to put a face on her "surrender" flag to attract younger viewers, Sheldon called her idea brilliant. Normally he would dismiss anybody else's ideas if they contradict his own, showing that he does care for her, and values her opinion.
In "The Vacation Solution", Sheldon decided to spend his forced vacation working with Amy at her laboratory, after being inspired to do so from Richard Feynman. Despite his intelligence, and her excitement at being able to work with him, calling it romantic, Amy remained professional and gave Sheldon simple tasks that could be done by an average person, simply because Sheldon has no previous exposure to biology, and is not used to working in a laboratory like hers. Sheldon however, failed to perform any of the tasks satisfactorily, despite complaining that those tasks were below his ability. He even, at one point, accused Amy of purposely giving him menial tasks for fear that he could easily be better than her, since he is smarter. The two got into a heated argument, with Sheldon being his usual condescending self. Annoyed, Amy let Sheldon attempt the work she was doing, which is slicing the locus coeruleus, which had the width of a strand of hair. Sheldon trembled nervously, accidentally cutting his finger instead, and passed out. He was kicked out from the laboratory. Later, after talking to Penny, Sheldon came back to the laboratory and apologized for his behavior, though he attempted it several times since Amy wanted a real apology and he refused to do so. He finally gave in and she allowed him to work back in the laboratory, asking him to continue washing the beakers since they were still dirty. Sheldon will compromise more with Amy than with anyone else even to the point of apologizing hinting that is a possible romantic bond between them.
In "The Weekend Vortex", Sheldon promised to go to Amy's Aunt Flora's 93rd birthday party. However, when the guys announced that they will be having a 48-hour Star Wars online gaming marathon, which included light sabers, Sheldon had a change of heart and wanted to stay instead. Amy demanded he kept his word as she followed all the protocols stipulated in The Relationship Agreement regarding traveling: she gave a 72-hours notice, checked the tires pressure, and called the CDC to check for the suitable shot needed when traveling to Orange County. Sheldon tried to wriggle his way out by saying that their agreement did not exist for either of them to get their way, though when Amy pointed out he used it to get his way all the time, Sheldon reasoned he used it to get the right way, and coincidentally, his way was the right way. Eventually, Sheldon agreed to join Amy. The next morning, before they departed, Amy told Sheldon how grateful she was that he decided to honor his commitment to her. Instead, Sheldon told her to thank the technologies, and that he found a way to be there at her aunt's party but still could game. He planned to join the online gaming while at the party, and to avoid being rude to her family for not responding to them, he would wear his headset so he could not hear them. Upset, Amy said sarcastically that if gaming was more important to him than accompanying her to avoid the embarrassment she would face should she came alone, he could stay. Sheldon did not get her sarcasm and used it as an out to stay, even telling her to bring back a slice of cake for him. Amy went ahead and as expected, had an awful time with her family regarding her absent boyfriend. She sought Penny's advice on the matter and they ended up barging into Sheldon and Leonard's apartment while they were gaming, to create a scene (Her first suggestion of withholding sex would not work with Sheldon). Amy told Sheldon that if he could not treat her better she would leave him for Arman, the fictitious miniature horse breeder. Sheldon asked her about Arman, but she failed to continue the ruse. Eventually, Penny told him the truth about how he stood her up and hurt her. Sheldon came to his senses, but only because he thought that since Amy is lucky to have him as her boyfriend, it would only made sense if he were present when she showed him off. He offered her Cooper Coupons to make it up back to her. Penny had been offered them earlier and found them to be of no value. Amy got excited at one of the offers, a trip to the California Science Center (where Sheldon would explain their mistakes), and immediately forgot about being angry.
In "The Launch Acceleration", Amy, inspired by the progress of the relationships of her friends, decided to get their own relationship progressing, by having Sheldon develop feelings for her. Knowing Sheldon and his personality, she decided to use her skills in neurobiology and knowledge of humans' emotional attachments, as well as her knowledge of Sheldon's likes and dislikes to her advantage, by devising the perfect experiment to achieve her goal. She started off by deciding to have her monthly date night with Sheldon at her apartment. Sheldon was surprised by her suggestion, especially since his idea of a hot date is crossing the road and going to the LEGO store to buy tiny LEGO Indiana Jones. When Amy voiced out her desire to progress their relationship, Sheldon was quick to refuse it, since he thought they cannot go faster than they are. Sheldon also did not expect Amy could pull off changing his mind regarding their relationship. Amy did not appear dejected since she anticipated his reaction. She started off their date night by turning on a romantic music, which happened to be a Super Mario Bros' theme tune, Sheldon's favorite from his childhood. He told her it was not going to work but could not help himself from humming along to the tune. Amy then offered him a drink, which turned out to be Strawberry Quik, Sheldon's favorite pink fluid, and spaghetti with hot dogs cut up in it for their main course. Sheldon became extremely excited and started scooping the spaghetti into his plate. He commented that they should do it more often, only to catch himself off guard, and realized what he just said. Amy just grinned widely at him. Not long after that, Sheldon confided in Leonard, after he started getting distracted to the point where he was losing out on 3D chess on his own accord, that among Amy's efforts to get him to increase his feelings for her included getting him to be an Amtrak junior conductor for a day (which was meant to be for children only). He even got to blow the whistle. As a result, Sheldon started to think about Amy affectionately at inappropriate times, like during work, when he imagined the particles he was working on as Amy's dandruff gently cascading down her pale and slightly-hunched shoulders. He wondered if such thoughts can be stopped. At the end of the episode, Leonard caught Sheldon and Amy playing doctor, Star Trek-style. Amy even dressed up in a Star Trek medical uniform despite her previous rule against dressing up in costumes, and Sheldon told her to not stop what she was doing.
In "The Countdown Reflection", Amy told Bernadette that she thinks Sheldon's eidetic memory is sexy and even made him recite the ingredients in Pringles. Later when Howard and Bernadette tried to get married at the City Hall, Amy asked Sheldon if being there makes him thinking, an innuendo that, naturally, he missed entirely. She was also shown to be disappointed when Sheldon was addressing the bride and groom and told them he hopes that they will find happiness together just as he has found happiness alone. However, his actions contradicted his words when he, much to her surprise, grabbed her hand as Howard was being launched into space. During Howard and Bernadette's wedding ceremony, Amy dressed up in her maid of honor dress while wearing the tiara that Sheldon gave her.
At the beginning of season six, Amy and Sheldon are shown regularly dating each other. In "The Date Night Variable", Sheldon invites Raj along for their second anniversary dinner much to Amy's annoyance. After Raj leaves, Amy demands a statement from the heart from Sheldon or she was leaving him. Sheldon provided some paraphrased romantic dialogue from the first Spider-Man movie. Amy says that she'll "take it". In "The Decoupling Fluctuation", Amy confides to her girlfriends that she has a plan to marry Sheldon in four years, but don't tell him that because he is still a flight risk. Also while at the movies, Amy requires Sheldon to now hold her hand though Sheldon thinks the idea is silly and unhygienic. In "The Habitation Configuration", Amy is directing an episode of Fun with Flags guest starring Wil Wheaton. While not liking his acting, the two get into an argument and Amy leaves. Sheldon is first caught in the middle and then naively thinks that Amy is solving the problem by leaving. He eventually learns that he should support Amy in disagreements.
In "The Parking Spot Escalation" Amy backs up Sheldon in his fight for Howard's parking place, helping him put his name back on the space and leaving her car parked in it. After she finds it towed she confronts Bernadette and ends up smashing her bestie, Penny, in her face breaking her nose. The next episode, "The Fish Guts Displacement", Sheldon finds Amy has the flu and she asks him to take care of her per The Relationship Agreement. First Sheldon says that that is meant for her to take care of him and then leaves. Moments later Sheldon has a change of heart and tells her that they have a written agreement and that he cares about her well beings so he will take care of her though he wants to get through it quickly. Later when he finds that her temperature hasn't gone down, he tells he that she isn't trying. Amy complains about his bed side manner and just wants to go to sleep. Sheldon says that that is not acceptable because he isn't through taking care of her. He has to put a rag on her forehead, sing to her (probably "Soft Kitty") and rub Vicks vapor rub on her chest. Sick Amy sits up surprised and wants to start with the Vicks with Sheldon not realizing the sexual implications. Sheldon tells her that it may tingle and Amy replies that she is counting on that. A few days later Bernadette visits her and learns that Amy is feeling fine and is enjoying Sheldon taking care of her especially since he has started bathing her. A couple of days later Sheldon has the results of a throat culture which says that she is no longer sick. Amy apologizes. Sheldon is disappointed because he thought their relationship was based on trust and mutual respect. He says that she needs to be punished so that that doesn't happen again. She thinks she should not be allowed to see the next Star Trek movie, but Sheldon feels that that is too harsh a punishment. He prefers being put in the stocks in public, but thinks that he needs a permit for that. Instead, he decides to spank her, which she seems to enjoy. Someday Amy hopes to have a full relationship with Sheldon including physical intimacy. In "The Bakersfield Expedition", she develops an interest in comic books and debates the physical properties of Thor's hammer with the other girls. Her, Bernadette's, and Penny's interest in comic books excites the boys.
In "The Cooper/Kripke Inversion", he and Kripke exchange papers concerning a theory they are both researching. Sheldon is distraught to find that Kripke's paper is much better than his and allows Amy to physically comfort him. When Kripke explains that the reason his paper is better than Sheldon's is because Sheldon is having sex with Amy and, therefore, has less time to work on the research, Sheldon doesn't correct him. He even begins bragging about his sexual exploits and later admits to Penny and Leonard that he does not rule out the idea that he might engage in coitus with Amy sometime in the future. Also, Sheldon enjoys being held and consoled by Amy when he is very upset about Kripke.
In "The Spoiler Alert Segmentation" Leonard moves out and Amy tries to convince him that she would be his ideal new roommate. She is familiar with all his habits and his personalitiy quirks that others find rave inducing, she thinks are cute as a button. Sheldon is uncomfortable with this much increased intimacy with Amy and also learns from Penny that she doesn't want Leonard to move in with her. Sheldon finally tells Amy that she can't move in and that it's Penny's fault. Amy confronts Penny who tells Sheldon why he didn't tell Amy that he didn't want her to move in instead of blaming it on her. Amy calls Sheldon a coward, which he agrees with and Amy goes off to live with Penny. In "The Tangible Affection Proof" Sheldon has Alex buy Amy her Valentine's Day gift and she does such a great job with the third option, the signed brain cell print, that Sheldon keeps it. Amy shows up after canceling their romantic dinner and tells him that they'll eat pizza and watch one of his Star Trek/War movies since that is what he really loves. Sheldon shows Amy that she is now his emergency point of contact at the university which sends Amy into tears. He really trusts her.
Stuart Bloom is the owner of the comic book store that the guys frequented. He is geeky, timid, and has troubles with the ladies. Stuart first met Amy in season 5's "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition", when Amy followed Sheldon to the comic book store on a Wednesday night since it is New Comic Book night. Stuart asked her if she needed help with comic books and Amy wanted to see a comic book that depicts a woman whose bosoms cannot be used as a flotation device, but Stuart said there is none of that sort since guys like big boobs and some even have them. The two had a friendly conversation, which ended well. Stuart then proceeded to ask Leonard whether Amy and Sheldon are an "item" (couple), prompting a surprise reaction from Leonard, Howard, and Raj. Howard asked whether he is interested in Amy and Stuart revealed that he is, since Amy did not look at him with hatred and contempt, which he finds likable in a woman. He asked Leonard to check with Sheldon if it is fine for him to ask her out. Sheldon was fine since he never thought Amy would even look at someone like Stuart so Stuart texted her, asking her out for coffee.
Amy was hanging at Penny's with the girls when she received the message and was pleasantly surprised, especially at being teased about being a vixen by Penny. Bernadette asked Amy on her opinion of Stuart and Amy sincerely answered that Stuart is nice and funny and has an indication of an overactive thyroid gland that she finds as hot. Bernadette asked her what she will do about the invitation and proceeded to ask whether Stuart is aware that Amy has a boyfriend. This prompted a quick reply by Penny who said Amy does not have a boyfriend, but she has a Sheldon. Penny told Amy that as much as they all love Sheldon, she has been with him for over a year and if their relationship is not going anywhere, it is fine if she goes and look somewhere else. Bernadette agreed with Penny by adding that Sheldon and Amy are not engaged like her and Howard. Amy agreed to go out with Stuart for coffee, which was later revealed to be pumpkin lattes, when Stuart posted on his Facebook the details of their date. The date went well since Amy agreed to go out with Stuart again, this time to the movies. As they were watching, Stuart told her that if she is bored she could leave but Amy refused and told Stuart that she is having a nice time. Their date was interrupted however by a jealous Sheldon who commented that the thought of Amy with Stuart is repellent and proceeded to finally ask her to be his girlfriend. Amy agreed, and Stuart sat in silence next to her, watching the exchange between her and Sheldon. Sheldon left as quickly as he came and gave Stuart a dollar to make up for ruining his date.
Amy and Stuart continued their date and later were seen walking back to her apartment. Despite Amy having just upgraded her relationship with another man, Stuart seemed to harbor no hard feelings and even commented that their date was nice. Sheldon interrupted again from within Amy's apartment and told them to wrap things up so they said good night and gave each other a friendly hug. Sheldon again, yelled from inside and told Stuart to go back since they have said good night so he left. Stuart is the first character on the show to have directly expressed his interest in Amy, an action which became a catalyst for the progress in Sheldon and Amy's relationship instead. As of now, Stuart remains single (unless counting Raj) but nonetheless on good terms with Amy. Amy gets tobbecome Snow White in "The Contractual Obligation Implementation" when the girls go to Disneyland and get Disney Princess makeovers. She really wanted to be Cinderella. She tries to get Sheldon to wake her up with a kiss, but he doesn't co-operate.
So far, the only member of Amy's family who has been seen on-screen is her mother. She was seen via webcam in "The Desperation Emanation" when Amy asked Sheldon to meet her when she got him to pretend he's her boyfriend, which he was reluctant to do. Her father has never been seen or mentioned and it's unknown if she has any siblings.
In "The Isolation Permutation", she mentioned that a cousin of hers named Irene and her entire family was killed in a horrific carbon monoxide accident the night before Irene's wedding. She mentions in "The Weekend Vortex" that she has an Aunt Flora whose 93rd birthday party she would attend with Sheldon but she is never seen. It was also revealed that she had a cousin named William who was somehow ground to death in an accident at a pepper factory. She also has an uncle that smokes a pipe. In "The Cooper/Kripke Inversion" Amy had a monkey in her smoking study that had taken up pipe smoking and he reminded Amy of him.
- Mayim Bialik, the actress who portrays Amy, was first mentioned in "The Bat Jar Conjecture", when Leonard, Howard, and Raj discussed who would replace Sheldon on the team for the Physics Bowl and Raj suggested "You know who’s apparently very smart, is the girl who played TV’s Blossom. She got a PhD in neuroscience or something." This reference occurred about 3 years before Mayim joined the show. Amy's profession as a neurobiologist is a reference to the actress who portrays her, who actually graduated with a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA in 2008. Mayim Bialik herself revealed in an interview that the writers made Amy a neurobiologist after she was cast on the show.
- Amy has a Ph. D. in Neurobiology. Sheldon revealed this in "The Roommate Transmogrification". She believes Neurobiology is superior to both Microbiology and Theoretical Physics.
- Amy is 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) tall – the height of Mayim Bialik.
- Ever since "The 21-Second Excitation", Amy considers Penny her best friend and claims that their "mensies" are synchronized. She even calls her "bestie".
- Amy becomes constipated when traveling.
- Amy wears menstrual pads all the time to avoid "surprises".
- Prior to "The 21-Second Excitation", the closest she ever had to a slumber party was a night she spent at a hospital with a Vietnamese girl after having her tonsils removed. The girl did not survive the night, but their dalliance was, as Amy puts it, "up till then, it was kinda fun!".
- Amy is pseudo-engaged to a Saudi prince named Faisal. She met him at a fundraising trip to his country. He funds her laboratory. In return, she has a place to stay in Riyadh during the winter.
- Amy is very prone to night terrors.
- Amy has volunteered for scientific experiments in which orgasms are achieved by stimulating the pleasure center of the brain; hers was stimulated at least 128 times, in an unspecified number of experiments.
- She claims to have perfected many "tension-relieving techniques for ladies" over the years.
- She has an electric toothbrush she uses for masturbation named "Gerard".
- She claims Sheldon to be the most fun person she knows.
- In "The Zazzy Substitution", Sheldon claims that Amy is the most similar person to him by any standard.
- She was in the Cub Scouts for two years until they discovered that she was a girl.
- The closest thing to a friend Amy had in high school was the janitor with whom she regularly lunched with, until his wife found out and called her a "puta" (Spanish for whore) and made her stop. She also claimed that she had no friends in kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, college, and during her advanced college studies.
- Her first appearance is in "The Lunar Excitation", which happens to be the final episode of season 3.
- She can play the harp, as shown in "The Infestation Hypothesis" and claimed to know only two songs: a bossanova standard and the Diff'rent Strokes theme song. Although since then, she seems to have learned other songs as well, playing "The Girl from Ipanema" in "The Infestation Hypothesis", R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" in "The Isolation Permutation", and Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive" in "The Werewolf Transformation".
- She has her own secret language, Op, formed by appending -op to consonants, i.e., "pack a bag" becomes "pop a cop kop a bop a gop".
- She wears hand-me-downs from her grandmother, except for a pair of leopard-spotted panties she bought from Victoria's Secret.
- Unlike Sheldon, Amy has no interest in model trains.
- Due to her lack-of-friends situation in high school, the only person who signed her high school yearbook was her mom, who wrote: "Dear Amy, self-respect and a hymen are better than friends and fun. Love, Mom".
- Amy has hinted that she may be bisexual, or bicurious, especially around Penny. During "The Robotic Manipulation", she asked Penny whether she is a homosexual after Penny complimented her hair, and later attempted to engage "in harmless lesbian experimentation" with her during the girls' slumber party. In "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation", she told Penny that Penny would have a better shot with her than Leonard. She also enthusiastically defends Penny whenever anyone insults her. She also said that there wasn't a hair on her body that she wouldn't mind her cutting.
- When she was 14, she severed the webbing between her own toes by just using nitrous oxide from cans of whipped cream as anesthesia.
- Amy's apartment number is 314. Surely, that is no accident since the number represents the number of pi, which is roughly 3.14.
- Ever since "The Flaming Spittoon Acquisition", she and Sheldon officially became a couple. They are each other's first boyfriend and girlfriend respectively.
- Amy thinks comic books are "lame-o".
- She used to play Travel Twister alone to spend her evenings.
- She is the co-creator of the game "Counterfactuals" with Sheldon. Surprisingly, despite it being a brain-teaser type of game, only the two of them could play, as even a genius like Leonard failed miserably in the game. Understanding the concept of the game reveals how much Sheldon and Amy think alike.
- She had an agreement with her mother to go on a date at least once a year, in return for her mother's silence on the matter and being able to occasionally use her mother's George Foreman grill that "seals in the flavor without the fat". This led to her signing up on a dating site that matched her with Sheldon. Amy also had a similar agreement about shaving her legs.
- Amy has been a Maid of Honor twice in her life. The first one was for her cousin Irene's wedding, though it did not materialize when Irene died of carbon monoxide poisoning before the wedding. The second was during Howard and Bernadette's wedding in "The Countdown Reflection".
- Despite her many similarities with Sheldon, she thinks he has a focus on cleanliness bordering on the psychotic, as according to "The Infestation Hypothesis".
- She revealed in "The Speckerman Recurrence" that among her nicknames during high school were "Gorilla-Fingers Fowler" and "Fuzzy-Fingers Fowler", a result of her having hairy knuckles from using her hand lotion that her bullies had spiked with Rogaine.
- She does not mind being Penny's cellmate should they be caught for breaking the law.
- According to Bill Prady through Twitter, Amy is a fan of Downtown Abbey.
- Amy is shown to be more interested in physical contacts and social conventions than Sheldon is.
- Amy has been in the field of neurobiology for 12 years.
- Amy had a make-believe boyfriend named Arman, the miniature horse breeder, whom she used to tell her family when they asked her about her boyfriend.
- She revealed in "The Weekend Vortex" that, as a child, she used to toss coins into "wishing wells", wishing for friends. Eventually, she started making trick shots, just to keep the activity interesting.
- Amy is a bad liar, just like Sheldon.
- Mayim Bialik's (the actress who plays Amy) first name can be anagrammed as "I'm Amy".
- Sheldon revealed that Amy is allergic to penicillin in "The Shiny Trinket Maneuver".
- Amy, along with Penny, Sheldon, Raj, and Leonard, were all ordained as ministers in order to wed Howard and Bernadette in "The Countdown Reflection".
- In the "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation", Leonard is Amy's date to a wedding reception. The two actors also dated in one episode of Mayim Bialik's series Blossom.
- On July 19, 2012, Mayim Bialik received her first ever Emmy nomination in the "Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series" category for her portrayal of Amy.
- Just like Kaley Cuoco's leg injury back in season 4, the writers did not include Mayim Bialik's injured hand into Amy's storyline.
- Amy is the only person among the gang whose father has never been mentioned.
- Amy had a cousin named William who was somehow ground to death in an accident at a pepper factory.
- Among Amy's choices for couple Halloween costumes with Sheldon include "Blossom and Joey" from Mayim Bialik's previous television series.
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During the conference, APD said they have identified three suspects and five victims.
Officers did admit to interviewing some children without the knowledge of the parents, but explained this was done because some of the parents were suspected of being in compliance with the alleged abuse.
Officers described the device allegedly used on the victims as a form of discipline, explaining that it was not a Taser as has been reported, which only delivers 50,000 volts. Rather, the electronic control device allegedly used on the victims delivers up to 1.2 million volts.
APD said that the parents signed forms authorizing the use of force on their children. Whether or not signing the forms will result in an investigation against the parents is yet to be seen, and based on whether the force used is considered excessive and the allegations are accurate.
Police did say, however, that some of the victims did have marks that were in accordance with the use of the electronic control device described.
The evidence will be presented to a grand jury.
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Hummingbirds are attracted to a good nectar recipe, but so are ants, bees and wasps. Fortunately, there are many easy ways to control insects on hummingbird feeders to eliminate these pests without harming the birds.
Hummingbird Feeder Pests
Several types of insects find hummingbird nectar irresistible. Bees, wasps and ants are the most common uninvited guests, but other insects such as moths and earwigs may also be attracted to the nectar. When too many bugs are feeding on the sugar water, it becomes contaminated and less attractive to hummingbirds. In extreme cases, dozens or hundreds of insects may be monopolizing a feeder, preventing the birds from visiting it at all. By knowing the proper ways to control these insects, birders can manage their hummingbird feeders and reserve the nectar for the birds.
Ways to Control Insects on Hummingbird Feeders
There are many ways to control insects on nectar feeders, but the first thing that birders need to realize is that it is quite impossible to remove 100 percent of the insects that are attracted to a feeder. By using multiple methods, however, it is possible to encourage most bugs to dine elsewhere without harming the hummingbirds.
Effective and safe ways to control insects on hummingbird feeders include:
- Choose No-Insect Feeders: Some types of hummingbird feeders are less insect-friendly than others. Saucer feeders, for example, position the nectar away from the feeding port and insects are unable to get to it, while hummingbirds with their long tongues have no trouble. Other feeder designs include ant moats or bee guards that are designed to keep insects from accessing the nectar without impeding hummingbirds.
- Relocate the Feeder: Once hummingbirds find a food source, they will visit it frequently. Insects are only likely to visit convenient food sources and are less inclined to search for relocated feeders. Moving the feeder by just a few feet can minimize the insect visitors without discouraging the hummingbirds.
- Avoid Yellow Feeders: Wasps and bees are attracted to the color yellow but do not find red appealing. Avoid feeders that have yellow insect guards or flower accents to minimize the feeders’ attractiveness to insects. If your feeder comes with yellow accents, repaint the accents with red, non-toxic paint.
- Keep the Feeder Clean: As birds feed, drips of nectar will inevitably fall from their bills onto the feeder. Feeders can also drip if they are filled too full, as the air pressure inside the feeder will force the nectar out the feeding ports when it heats up. Each time the feeder is refilled, carefully clean the outside and around the feeding ports to remove spilled nectar.
- Use Insect Traps: Commercial insect traps and feeder accessories are available to minimize insects’ access to nectar feeders. While these can be effective deterrents, use them sparingly so you do not disrupt the insects’ place in your backyard ecosystem.
- Hang Feeders Carefully: Ants may climb a pole to reach a nectar feeder, so choose to hang the feeder from a branch or gutter instead. Using fishing line to hang the feeder is another option, as the line is too thin for most ants to climb to access the feeder.
- Keep the Feeder Shaded: Most flying insects prefer to feed in full sunlight, so make nectar feeders less attractive by hanging them in a shadier spot. This will also keep the nectar cooler and slow fermentation.
- Offer Substitute Feeders: If you want to minimize insects on hummingbird feeders but still want the bees around for your flowers or garden, offer them a substitute feeder with a sweeter sugar water solution. Place the diversion feeder in an obvious, sunny location, while using additional techniques to protect the hummingbird feeder.
- Avoid Other Attractions: Bees, wasps and ants are naturally attracted to other features of your yard, including plants and flowers. This is highly desirable for a healthy garden, but avoid uncovered trash, soda cans and other things the insects may find attractive to minimize their unintended food sources and keep their populations under control.
How Not to Remove Insects
It may take several different techniques to completely minimize the appearance of insects at your hummingbird feeders. There are two techniques, however, that should not be used because they are potentially destructive to hummingbirds.
- Insecticides: Even a small amount of pesticide chemicals near the hummingbird feeder can be devastating to small birds. Do not use any sprays near the feeder, and if you do choose to use insect traps, be sure they are positioned away from the feeder.
- Oils: One home remedy for insects on hummingbird feeders is to use olive oil, cooking spray, petroleum jelly or similar substances around feeding ports or on the poles or chains supporting feeders. While this can deter insects, it can also harm the birds by sticking to their feathers and making it more difficult for them to preen and fly.
Not All Insects Are Bad
Not all insects are bad in a hummingbird garden, even if they do occasionally visit nectar feeders. Bees help pollinate flowers that can attract even more birds, and all these insects can be valuable food sources for other backyard birds. Using simple, safe techniques can manage insects so they do not bother hummingbird feeders and can remain a valuable part of a backyard ecosystem. | <urn:uuid:c0360200-66da-4a0f-a553-c209d6baaa31> | 2013-05-21T17:31:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Crunchy Primal Crackers
2 cups raw blanched almond slivers
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp dried dill
1 egg whisked
2 tbsp olive oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a food processor mix nuts, salt and dried dill until nuts reach desired consistency. For textured crackers, leave nuts in tiny pieces. For smooth crackers, blend until nuts reach a flour-like consistency.
Add egg and oil and pulse just until incorporated.
From here, you can shape the crackers in one of two ways:
For a thin, crunchy cracker flatten the dough between two sheets of parchment paper (sold in the same aisle as plastic wrap and aluminum foil) then use a rolling pin to get the dough as thin as possible. Remove the top sheet of parchment paper and set the other (with the dough on top) on a cookie sheet. Use a knife or pizza wheel to cut cracker shapes.
Or, for a thicker cracker with a rounded shape, wrap the dough in a large piece of parchment paper and shape it into a log about 9 inches long and 1-2 inches tall. Use a knife to slice thin pieces of dough into crackers. If the dough is too soft, put it in the freezer for 10 minutes, then cut.
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The game begins with you choosing your favorite team and pits your pick against with the team it's slated to play next in the NFL season in a game of "Boost" -- essentially a poll that can be revisited every six hours. The team with the most Boost wins, though it's hard to say what happens other than proof that said team has more fans.
Since this game doesn't seem to have any real consequences or rewards, we can't say what happens after a team wins more favor than the other. Fans of the winning team will receive Fan Points (think experience points) and Tickets, the game's main currency, which can be used to buy items for a virtual tailgating party. Some examples of items you might buy include drinks, snacks, hotdog cart, lounge chair, an inflatable pool -- pretty much anything you need to make your tailgating party over the top. Users can rate each others' tailgate parties, which increase both users' Fan Points so that they can pimp out their parking lot parties even more.
Ultimate Fan's biggest draw will most likely be the Prediction feature that allows players to guess the outcome of the NFL season games (down to final score) for Fan Points. EA Sports' Madden NFL Superstars on Facebook also has a similar prediction feature, which will (if FIFA Superstars was any indication) grow more popular as the football season continues.
While Ultimate Fan does a good job with building team pride and good-natured competition among NFL fanboys, we'd still like to see more of a 'game' evolve, especially in the Boost voting experience. If you're looking for a more robust football experience, we'd recommend EA Sports' Madden NFL Superstars, which has many similar features and gives you the chance to test you skills managing a football team, which, IMHO, is a helluva lot more fun than manning your own virtual tailgate party.
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Professor and Chair of Art and Art History Department
Since 1973, all of my work has been about making visible the invisible in nature and in culture. Initially, I used many light sensitive emulsions and technologies to reveal the infinite potential for form in nature and the landscape of my imagination. After 1980, as I became increasingly concerned about the growth of the military industrial complex, my work included themes related to the nuclear industry, foreign military sales and the destructiveness of war.
In 1990, after learning that half a million people were in refugee camps in Thailand, I photographed in five Cambodian and Hmong camps in Thailand and began a longitudinal project on the aftermath of war and its effect on the peoples who survive. This project, “Indochina Document� includes two large works, “Remember Cambodia� and “Hmong In Transition.� Since 1994, I have also done numerous documentary projects including photographing museum guards, tribal peoples of Balochistan, Pakistan, the garment industry in Los Angeles and Bangkok, Thailand.
Most recently I have done a large body of work about the growth of incarceration in the United States and the loss of civil liberties. I have come to think of all of my work as “Site Unseen� and have titled all of these bodies of work using this term: “Site Unseen: Light Works�; “Site Unseen: Incarceration�; “Site Unseen: Museum Guards�; �Site Unseen: The Garment Industry�, etc. In this way, not only do I reference realities we normally can’t see, but I invite viewers to imagine their own.
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Last year's eventual Best Picture winner 'Slumdog Millionaire' had a 65% increase in sales during the three weeks after it scored 10 Academy Award nominations in late January. When this year's nominees are announced Feb. 2, 'Avatar' will be on at least that many ballots and besides threatening 'Titanic's' domestic record, it will have certainly passed 'Titanic' as the biggest worldwide blockbuster. It has taken James Cameron's 'Avatar' just 38 days to reach the $550 million mark in domestic ticket sales -- and if it can average $6.3 million a day over the next eight days, it will have eclipsed 'Titanic's' record by the morning of the Oscar nominations. Not that 'Avatar' will need any further assistance, but most Best Picture nominees see huge boosts in attendance immediately afterwards.
Last year's eventual Best Picture winner 'Slumdog Millionaire' had a 65 percent increase in sales during the three weeks after it scored 10 Academy Award nominations in late January. When this year's nominees are announced Feb. 2, 'Avatar' will be on at least that many ballots and besides threatening 'Titanic's' domestic record, it will have certainly passed 'Titanic' as the biggest worldwide blockbuster.
As expected, 'Avatar' sailed through its sixth straight weekend atop the box office chart, grossing an estimated $36 million, doubling the ticket sales of its nearest rival, the horror film 'Legion.' Despite -- or thanks to -- having no advance critics' screenings, 'Legion' grossed at estimated $18.2 million, enough to displace 'The Book of Eli' in the No. 2 spot. Business for the Denzel Washington spiritual thriller dropped nearly 50 percent, from an opening weekend of $31.6 million to just $17 million over its second weekend.
Fox's family comedy 'Tooth Fairy' opened to even less enthusiasm than expected, grossing an estimated $14.5 million and settling into the fourth spot behind 'Eli.' The weekend's third new release, the Harrison Ford medical drama 'Extraordinary Measures,' was D.O.A. at the box office, taking in just $7 million from 2,549 theaters to finish eighth.
Despite lukewarm to ice-cold reviews, Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones' continued to do well with teenage girls. The movie, adapted from Alice Sebold's novel about the ghost of a teen girl who narrates the story of her murder and of her family's pursuit of her killer, added about $8.8 million over its second weekend in wide release. It finished fifth on the chart and now has more than $30 million in total grosses.
For the first time since its opening nine weeks ago, 'The Blind Side' slipped out of the top 10 into eleventh place, but Sandra Bullock's Best Actress SAG award -- and the most excellent acceptance speech she gave in receiving it Saturday night -- ought to give the movie enough of a bump to put it back in the top 10. 'Blind Side's' running total now stands at $234 million, a staggering sum for a movie that cost less than $30 million to make.
No other movies in wide release got help from the SAG awards. No. 9 'It's Complicated,' a comedy about a romantic triangle among aging Baby Boomers, failed to convert its only nomination, for Meryl Streep, and the fortunes of No. 12 'Up in the Air' fell further as its three nominated stars -- George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick -- were overlooked.
Once considered the Oscar front-runner in several major categories, 'Up in the Air' now needs all the help it can get when those nominations announced next week.
Estimated grosses for the weekend of Jan. 22-24:
1. 'Avatar,' $36 million (3,141 theaters), $552.8 million total.
2. 'Legion,' $18.2 million (2,476), new release.
3. 'The Book of Eli,' $17 million (3,111), $62 million.
4. 'Tooth Fairy,' $14.5 million (3,344), new release.
5. 'Lovely Bones,' $8.8 million (2,571), $31.6 million.
6. 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel' (2,973), $204.7 million.
7. ''Extraordinary Measures,' $7 million (2,549), new release.
8. Sherlock Holmes,' $7 million (2,670), $191.4 million.
9. 'It's Complicated,' $6.2 million (2,301), $98.6 million.
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BY STEPHEN WHITTY
"This is not about hitting it big," Laura Linney insists. "This is about a life of work."
Yet she seems to have quietly managed both.
Her name may not have the immediacy of some stars -- Julia! Nicole! -- and the nominations she's received haven't led to Oscars ... yet. But Linney's done Broadway, hit TV shows and major movies. She's acted with veteran stars like Richard Gere and Clint Eastwood, and great actors like Sean Penn and Edward Norton.
If she hasn't hit it big, she's certainly come pretty close.
And then there's the work itself. Name some of the smartest indie movies of the last decade -- "You Can Count on Me," say, or "The Squid and the Whale" -- and she's had a central part. Look at the some of the more ambitious studio pictures over the last dozen years -- from "Primal Fear" to "Mystic River" -- and she's there in the ensemble.
"It's all about having the opportunity and the privilege to be able to work for a long period of time," says the 43-year-old actress, sitting in a New York hotel room. "So you'll do a small part because it's interesting, or it's a chance to try something new. Everyone does this for very different reasons and finds happiness in different places. But I feel very, very, very lucky to be able to work the way I do."
Nothing explains the way she works better than the work itself.
On the indie front, currently she's promoting "Jindabyne," an Australian drama, and looking forward to the autumn release of "Savages," a dysfunctional family story with Philip Seymour Hoffman. "Jindabyne" is based on a Raymond Carver story populated with secretive characters, and contains the kind of challenge -- complicated story line, a hectic shooting schedule -- that only a pro like Linney would pronounce "great fun."
"I mean, this is the sort of material that an actor just loves, or certainly which I love, anyway," she says. "Every single line, you have to think -- what is this line telling me? What is in this line that looks back to what happened to them in the past? You have to figure that all out."
On the bigger-budgeted side of things, she's working on a huge HBO miniseries about John Adams -- she plays wife Abigail -- and looking forward to the September release of "The Nanny Diaries," in which she's the sitter's erratic employer. "She's just a mess," Linney says about the woman. "Neurotic and vain and terrified and swinging between low self-esteem and high self-esteem -- just a whirling dervish. And great fun to play."
Fun is an important concept to Linney. And it's one she brings to every project she takes on -- even when the subject is as serious as the shattered marriage of "Jindabyne."
"Laura was just a joy to be around," director Ray Lawrence says. "She's very dedicated, very professional -- she did her homework, you know -- but she's a regular person. It was a pretty rough shoot, but we had a good time."
Lawrence wanted to make the movie quickly, to preserve the immediacy of the actors' performances. "When actors know you're going to do 20 takes, they hold back," he explains. "So I did as few as possible. After all, most of the actors I work with are theater actors, and when they go onstage, they're only doing one take, anyway -- it's just two hours long. So we just ripped along. And later Laura told me that was the way that Clint Eastwood worked, too."
"Working that way, you'd think you have to be very alert and on your toes," Linney says. "Actually, it's sort of the opposite. You just have to trust it, and give yourself the permission not to be result-oriented -- oh, I'm going to cry here -- and just let go. I love working that way, because you can really test yourself. How low can I go? How much can I let go? You just have to open your hand and let the sand fall through your fingers."
Linney grew up in New York, where her mother was a nurse, and her father was Romulus Linney, a busy off-Broadway playwright. But her parents divorced while she was young, and while Linney remains close to her father, and describes his influence as "huge," she insists her path to acting was her own.
"Yes, fortunately," she emphasizes. "Certainly my father was an enormous influence -- as was my mother, who would take me to museums and plays. But their real influence was that they gave me permission to explore the arts. I found my own way there, luckily. Because if your whole career is going to be about trying to get the attention of somebody else, it's not going to be terribly fulfilling."
Linney started doing plays in high school, and summer stock, and even though she was privately amazed by people who had the audacity to declare they were going into acting, the dream was already there. She went to Brown, and did more plays, then enrolled in Juilliard to study drama.
"And it was fantastic," she says. "It was hard, sure, it was overwhelming -- I hit a wall at one point that I didn't think I'd get over. There were tears and all that sort of stuff. But I always had a sense that these people really wanted me to be better, and I wanted to be better. .¤.¤. It was very intensive, but there's a sense that when you go through Juilliard, you leave it as prepared as you could be. Of course, then you leave, and you realize there's still an enormous amount to learn."
Linney learned. She was an understudy in the Broadway production of "Six Degrees of Separation" for a year, then began getting small parts in movies like "Searching for Bobby Fischer." Her big break was playing opposite Gere in the legal thriller "Primal Fear," which led to Eastwood casting her in "Absolute Power" (and, years later, remembering her for a crucial part in "Mystic River"). She added a recurring role in the various "Tales of the City" miniseries to her resume, as well as a co-starring part with Kevin Spacey in "The Life of David Gale."
"I was thinking about this the other day, just the unbelievable people I've gotten to work with," she says. "It's gotten to the point where, it almost feels like it's not quite me. I mean, I look at that list and I think, 'Wow. Wow.'"
Not every part was quite so challenging -- she once spent six months on location running away from apes in "Congo" while "The Mothman Prophecies" didn't offer much beyond a chance to work again with Gere. And although she seems perpetually upbeat and alert and joyful -- Linney is the sort of person who uses words like "wow" and "thrilling" a lot -- she's more than once found herself on sets where the director was worrying only about the next setup, or even the next coffee break.
"Sometimes you have directors who are cool, who get it, and then everyone works together," she says. "And then there are the ones who don't want to hear from you. They do not want to hear from you. You talk to them, and it's as if you're speaking Mandarin. They just have no idea what you're saying. Their eyes glaze over. And I realize, I have to shut up now. I'm just scaring them."
Still, she admits, she's scared a few, when she's had to.
"You have to know what you can fight for, and what you have to let go, but I will really, really fight for the work," she says. "I don't care if I have a big trailer, or I have to sit on the sidewalk, if someone drives me to the set or I have to take the subway. I don't care. But I will really fight for the work. I can be very stubborn, believe me. I think I've given some directors a real headache."
Her agents, too, probably.
"It drives them crazy," she says with a smile. "There are lots of times when I've not taken a big-money job and gone for some small little movie instead. But this works for me. It's the kind of stuff I should be doing, and I'm happy. And I think they know that by now. We just look at things from different perspectives. .¤.¤. There are parts that are actable, and there are parts that are written solely to be green-lit. And I can see it on the page."
Sometimes, as in "The Nanny Diaries," the two sides coincide; the actress gets a nice check and a good part, the movie gets made and everyone ends up happy. But more often, it seems, the financial rewards are small, and the projects themselves take time. And Linney ends up being not only the star, but the cheerleader.
"Laura and I made nothing on 'Squid,'" co-star Jeff Daniels reveals. "We were all there for only one reason -- to get it made."
"She committed as soon as she read the script to 'Jindabyne' and then stayed with it for two years while I tried to raise the money," Lawrence says. "Her enthusiasm was just inspiring."
"'Squid and the Whale,' I got a script very early on, and I thought this is going to be terrific and signed on immediately," she says. "But for years, no one else wanted to do it. There were different men who wanted to play the part, but they wanted to change it; they wanted to make him more 'sympathetic.' They were scared of it.
"'Kinsey' was the same way. These kinds of movies take years, because the actors just don't trust the material. And when it does come together, it's reassuring. It sort of confirms your faith -- no, this was really good, this did have potential."
Linney isn't crying poverty, at all. She doesn't have extravagant tastes -- this afternoon, her hair is simply done and she's wearing a plain denim dress -- and she's well aware that she's had far more commercial success than most. Divorced from stage actor David Adkins, she has a home in Connecticut, and no time for regrets, or fondness for self-pity. (She is crisply blunt, for example, about the young and tormented method actors who make every performance all about them, forgetting "it's not about their pain -- it's about the character's.")
Still, there is something a little ironic about her situation. In any other profession, you get more money for doing the more challenging and difficult work. In the arts, though, it seems as if you're rewarded for doing the simple stuff. It's the hard and risky jobs you're expected to do for love.
"I guess it's a balance with money, isn't it," Lawrence wonders aloud. "Ironically, the more money you get, the less opportunity you're allowed to do interesting things. Higher budgets only bring more restrictions, because the more money, the more nervous people get."
But then it's all a gamble, even the most obviously commercial projects. And, as Linney would say, that's what makes it all such great fun.
"Great work -- what makes it work?" she asks. "You can have material that's just sort of slight and silly and it will just pop, and be delicious. Or you can have this great big serious thing and it just lies there. Why? I tell you, I love actors. I just love watching them, the choices they make. Like Johnny Depp -- fantastically creative, risky, wonderful choices that work like gangbusters. I just find the whole process fascinating."
Even after more than a decade of small plays and indie movies and projects that barely get made and parts no one but she and the writer seemed to believe in.
"Oh, I'm still fascinated by it," she says. "By all of it -- I see a beautiful painting, or watch a dancer or hear a piece of music and I'm floored. Floored. I just feel like I'm a complete student all the time, of everything. It's an endless, bottomless, wonderful area to explore.
"And everything I've learned, the most valuable lessons I've learned about everything in life -- relationships, responsibility, discipline, faith, wit, endurance -- everything I've learned, I've learned from the arts."
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DENVER - Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, just a few months from leaving public office, is starting to talk up his plans for a much bigger office: the governorship.
Bradbury, a delegate to the Democratic convention, said he will likely run for governor in 2010, particularly if the state's voters reject an initiative that would create a non-partisan primary system. Gov. Ted Kulongoski will be ending his two terms in office and cannot run again.
"It's really a slam dunk if we keep our current primary system and it's a very strong possibility if we move to a different primary system," said Bradbury, who believes he has particularly deep support among Democratic voters.
Bradbury, 59, is finishing his second term in statewide office and is a former state Senate president who served in both houses of the legislature representing the Southern Oregon coast. In 2002, he ran a losing campaign for the U.S. Senate against Republican Sen. Gordon Smith.
One of the things that voters would immediately notice about his candidacy is that he now uses an electric scooter to get around because of multiple sclerosis, which affects the central nervous system. He said that while the chronic disease has limited his mobility he said he is still capable of handling the rigors of a campaign and the governor's office.
"My entire career in public life has served with multiple sclerosis," he said, noting that he was first diagnosed with MS in 1980 and that it appears to have progressed slowly. "...I'm quite confident that MS won't interfere with my ability to govern. It has interfered with my ability to schmooze at cocktail parties."
Bradbury said he is particularly interested in promoting Oregon's green economy and he said he thought he would be able to bring the state together because of his experience representing a rural area.
The secretary of state could face a crowded field of contenders. He noted that he would have to assess the impact on his chances if one of the Democratic members of Congress got in the race or if House Speaker Jeff Merkley lost his U.S. Senate bid in November and turned his attention to the governorship.
Bradbury has faced heated criticism from Republican activists who think he has politicized the secretary of state's office. He denied the charge and noted that when he for reelection in 2004, polling showed he had strong favorability ratings.
"I'm not really feeling done" with political life, Bradbury said. "I still feel like I have contributions to make."
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By: Clemente Rendón de la Garza
He was born in Villa de Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon in 1639. He was the son of Alonso de Leon y Josefa Gonzalez. His occupation was agriculture and livestock. He married Agustina Cantu and they had seven children, Alonso, Juan, Santiago, Ines, Mateo, Juana and Andres. In 1667 he was named Mayor of Cadereyta, position that he served for eight years. After that position Alonso was named “Encomendadero”, in which he help in the transformation of Indians to the catholic religion. During the period of 1668-82 he was known for the pacification of indians. In 1682 Alonso was named Sargento Mayor and by the end of that year governor of Nuevo Leon, position that he served until 1684. “El Mozo” wrote the book “Derrotero Diario y Demarcacion del Viaje”, in which he described the trip to the Bahia del Espiritu Santo looking for French settlers. In 1687 the Viceroy named Alonso governor of the Coahuila Republic with the mission to start new towns and once again help in the indian pacification. “El Mozo” headed other expeditions looking for French settlements and during those trips he named Rio Nueces, Rio Hondo, Rio del Leon, Rio Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe and Rio San Marcos. General Alonso de Leon died on March 21, 1691. The first exploration of “El Mozo”was the south of the Rio Grande. He was one of the first explorers in San Juan de los Esteros Hermosos (Matamoros) and the one that brought Fray Diego de Orozco who made possible the first mass in Matamoros.
Don Jose de Escandon y de la Helguera was born in Soto de la Marina, Santander in March 19, 1700, being the son of don Jose de Escandon Rumoroso y de doña Francisca de la Helguera. At the age of 15, he migrated to New Spain and enrolled with the army (Caballeros Montados de Merida). In 1721 he moved to Queretaro as Teniente de Infanteria y Caballeria. Don Jose married doña Maria Antonia Ocio y Ocampo in 1724 and they had two children, Jose and Ana Maria. Doña Maria died in 1736 and in 1737 he remarried doña Maria Josefa Juana de Llera y Bayas. They had seven children, Manuel, Ignacio, Vicente, Mariano, Francisco, Josefa Maria and Maria Josefa.
During the period of 1727 through 1734 he served in the indian pacification. In 1736 he started his pacification work in the Sierra Gorda region. With his work in Sierra Gorda he gained the title of Teniente de Capitan General de la Sierra Gorda.
On September 3, 1746 Viceroy Juan Francisco de Guemes y Horcasitas, Conde de Revillagigedo gave don Jose the rights to colonize Nuevo Santander. After some planning, in January 7, 1747 don Jose started his project. He left Queretaro with Fray Jose Velasco, Fray Lorenzo de Medina Captain Maldonado, two sergeants, 10 soldiers and some servants. Along the trip some other people joined him from San Luis, Nuevo Reino de Leon and Coahuila. Don Jose arrived to the Rio Grande on February 24, 1747 and established a camp named Real del Rio del Norte, currently known as El Soliseño. This camp served as based for Escandon’s inspection of the area. After three months, the expedition ended and by October 1747 he wrote a report about the expedition and future plans for settlement. On May 31, 1748 Conde Revillagigedo authorized Escandon to start his settlement plans. Don Jose de Escandon founded 22 towns in 3 periods:
First Period 1748-49
Original Name Actual Name Date
Santa Maria de la Llera Llera December 25, 1748
San Francisco de Guemes Guemes January 1, 1749
Padilla Viejo Padilla January 6, 1749
Santander de los Cinco Señores Santander Jimenez February 17, 1749
Burgos Burgos February 20, 1749
Santa Ana de Camargo Camargo March 5, 1749
Reynosa Reynosa March 14, 1749
San Fernando de Presas San Fernando March 19, 1749
Altamira Altamira May 2, 1749
Horcasitas Magiscatzin May 11, 1749
Santa Barbara Ocampo May 19, 1749
Real de los Infantes Bustamante May 26, 1749
Second Period 1750 - 51
Original Name Actual Name Date
Santa Maria de los Dolores Rancho Dolores, Texas August 22, 1750
Soto la Marina Soto la Marina September 3, 1750
Santa Maria de Aguayo Cd. Victoria October 6, 1750
Revilla Guerrero Viejo October 10, 1750
Escandon Xicotencatl March 15, 1751
Third Period 1752 - 57
Original Name Actual Name Date
Santo Domingo de Hoyos Hidalgo May 19, 1752
Santillana Abasolo December 26, 1752
Mier Cd. Mier March 5, 1753
Laredo Laredo, Texas May 15, 1755
Real de Borbon Villagran May 8, 1757
By the end of 1749, Escandon was called back to Queretaro to help again in the indian pacification in Sierra Gorda. Discontent from Nuevo Santander settlers turn into removal of settlement rights. He died in Mexico City on September 10, 1770.
Fray Manuel Julio de Silva was born in Zacatecas in1736, he was the son of don Joaquin de Silva and doña Ana Maria Caballero. He received the Franciscan votes on May 2, 1754. In 1790 Fray de Silva was designated to be commissioner of the Texas Missions. He travel to San Antonio with father Francisco Mariano Garza and they visited
Mission San Antonio Valero and Espiritu Santo. Fray de Silva was called to go back to Mexico and there he proposed to the Viceroy the founding of missions along the cost to control Karankawas and Comanche indians.
Father de Silva organized two groups, the first one headed by him and Fray Francisco Puelles to work in Texas and the second one, headed by his brother Father Joaquin Maria de Silva to work on the Pacific Coast. Fray de Silva got founding from Spain to start the Nuestra Señora del Refugio mission at north of Rio San Antonio. On his way back to San
Antonio, Fray de Silva and his followers passed through the congregation San Juan de los Esteros. As they found out that San Juan did not had religious services, they stayed there some days. The residents from San Juan decided to change the name of the congregation to Nuestra Señora del Refugio de los Esteros.
Fray de Silva and Fray Puelles continued their trip to San Antonio. When they learned about missing or lost funds, Fray de Silva returned to Mexico. During this time, Karankawa indians destroyed Refugio Mission. Fray Puelles had to relocate the mission and when Fray de Silva returned they relocated the mission one more time to Rancho Santa Gertrudis. After two years of hard work, Fray de Silva went back to Zacatecas due to poor health. He died on December 3, 1798 in Zacatecas.
Mariano Antonio Matamoros Guridi was born on August 14, 1770 in Mexico City, he was the son of don Manuel Matamoros Salazar and doña Mariana Guridi. Mariano got a Bachelors of Arts Degree in 1786 and a degree in theology in 1789. He got license to say mass in some churches. He had a son, Apolonio, before he became a priest and he raise him as his adoptive son and a daughter with her cousin Catalina Salazar.
Mariano believed in the Mexican revolutionary movement and although he didn’t participated actively, his beliefs got him in trouble. Once Matamoros beliefs were public, he joined father Jose Maria Morelos. He was named “Coronel” and after proving his ability in some battles, Morelos made his “Mariscal” being second in command. He was sent to jail and had a trial, and on February 3, 1814 was killed. Several cities had been named after Don Mariano Matamoros and one of them is Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
Father Balli was born on 1768 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, he was the son of don Jose Maria Balli Fuera and doña Rosa Maria Hinojosa Benavides. Father Balli became priest in 1796. After serving in a chapel in Reynosa, he became the priest at Nuestra Señora del Refugio de los Esteros in Matamoros in 1800. The original site of the church was about 200 meter from the actual one (5th and Matamoros), but after a Rio Grande flood, Father Balli relocated it to the present site. He received a lot of land on both sides of the river and money as inheritance, and part of that inheritance he used to build the church in 1820. Isla de Santiago was also part of his inheritance, which is known as Isla del Padre. Father Balli died August 16, 1829 in Matamoros, four years before the completion of his project, the church of Nuestra Señora del Refugio.
General Mier y Teran was born in Mexico City on February 18, 1789, he was the son of Manuel de Mier y Teran and Maria Ignacia de Teruel y Llanos. He joined in 1811 the revolutionary revolt with general Rayon. Later Mier y Teran joined his childhood friend in the battle, Mariano Matamoros. His main role during the was the construction of arms. Once Morelos died, Mier y Teran took control of the independence revolt. Several defeats plus the need of food and arms made him to back out of the battlefield and began a more pacific life. Iturbide was the next independence leader and once the proclamation of independence was a done deal, Mier y Teran return to the politics taking an active role in congress.
Mier y Teran started a school to teach how to make arms and prepare the army. His poor relations with president Guadalupe Victoria, made him accept Victoria’s proposition to go to the border and try to set the border limits between Mexico and the United States. The border commission travel all the way to the Rio Rojo, and analyzed the boundaries. By march 1829, Mier y Teran was order to come back and stay in Matamoros. During his time in Matamoros, Mier y Teran had the opportunity to study the Rio Grande all the way to Camargo. He knew that Texas was in problems and that the Mexican government needed to do something about it if they didn’t want to lose it. When Mier y Teran saw that nothing could be done to retain Texas and that the Mexican government kept fighting between itself, he committed suicide in San Antonio de Padilla. Since December 5, 1972 his body lays down in Matamoros.
Juan Jose de la Garza was born in Villa de Cruillas, Tamaulipas on May 6, 1826, he was the son of Juan B de la Garza y Maria Eusebia Galvan. He became governor of Tamaulipas for the first time in 1852. De la Garza supported the “Plan de Ayutla” against Santa Ana dictatorship. After some battles and the fall of Santa Ana government, Juan Jose de la Garza became governor again and moved the state government from Matamoros to Tampico. He served eight times as governor of Tamaulipas. De la Garza founded the Instituto Cientifico y Literario San Juan in Matamoros. The school closed for a period during the Mexican revolution, but was later reopen as a middle school and currently as a high school with the name of his founder.
After the decline in popularity on his eighth period as governor, De La Garza moved to Mexico City. There he became minister of the supreme court and law teacher. Juan Jose de la Garza returned to Tamaulipas after 20 years where he died on October 16, 1893.
Manuel Gonzalez Flores was born in Matamoros on June 17, 1832, being the son of Fernando Gonzalez y Eusebia Flores. He joined the armed forces in Matamoros in 1853. He participated in the Puebla Battle of 1862. Benito Juarez, as Mexican president, named Gonzalez governor of the national palace. Manuel Gonzalez was a supporter of Porfirio Diaz and those beliefs made him resign from Juarez government to help Diaz and his Plan de la Noria and Plan de Tuxtepec. He also supported Diaz in his attack to Brownsville and Matamoros against president Lerdo de Tejada. Once Diaz became president, he named Manuel Gonzalez chief commander and governor of Michoacan. Gonzalez hold several positions in the army during Diaz presidential period. At the end of Diaz term, he helped Manuel Gonzalez to become the next Mexican president (December 1, 1880 – November 30, 1884). During Gonzalez time in office, he extended the railroad from 1073 km to 5731 km, increased the telegraph to 30,000 km, reformed the postal service and ended the problem on the border of Guatemala and Chiapas. Also, he implemented the decimal system, organized the army college, reestablished relations with England, changed the silver coins to nickel, and founded the Mexican National Bank (BANAMEX). On the other hand, the economy was having a recession and the debt with England increased. At the end of his days in office, Gonzalez was not real popular. Diaz became president again and Gonzalez was named governor of Guanajuato. He remained as governor with great popularity until his death. General Manuel Gonzalez died in Mexico City on March 8, 1893.
Lucio Blanco was born in Nadadores, Coahuila on July 29, 1879, he was the son of don Bernardo Blanco and doña Maria Fuentes. He met Madero and supported his revolutionary movement. He fought against Diaz until he resigned as president. He helped Madero throughout his presidential period and after he was assassinated, he joined Carranza. He fought against Huerta in Matamoros, and took over the city. This was the first important battle won by the constitutionalists. From Matamoros, he organized the ceremony to give agriculture land property titles to people from Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. At the end of Carranza period in office, Blanco had to leave to Laredo, Texas due to his decline in popularity. Although Carranza did not support Obregon, he became the next president. Blanco returned to Mexico, but once again had to leave due to rumors about him being against Obregon. Lucio Blanco was found dead at the Rio Grande on July 7, 1922.
Maria Lorenza Hinojosa was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas on August 10, 1864, being the daughter of Don Victor Hinojosa Longoria and Maria Rosa Garcia de la Garza. She developed an inclination towards the music. Maria Lorenza composed her first song at the age of eight. She graduated for the “Conservatorio Nacional de Musica de la Ciudad de Mexico” and after that, she gave concerts in Mexico and the US. Maria Lorenza returned to Matamoros in 1904 were she composed many songs like the one for Lauro Villar. Her eyes saw the entrance of Lucio Blanco to Matamoros during the Mexican revolution and that event made her compose songs to generals and revolutionary events. Also, she composed a hymn to celebrate the first hundred years of the independence. Maria Lorenza Hinojosa died in Matamoros on January 19, 1936.
Jose Maria Barrientos was born Cadereyta Jimenez, Nuevo Leon on November 19, 1891, being the son don Francisco Barrientos Gonzalez and doña Trinidad Garza Zambrano. He joined a school band were he learned to play the cornet. During the first century celebration of independence, he started a band to participate in the festivities. Jose Maria Barrienato composed several songs during revolutionary period. He was taken by Carranza’s supporters to a military base to play. Later, he joined the revolution in Matamoros with General Lucio Blanco. He retired from the army in 1915 and went to New Mexico were he joined a band. By 1916 he returned to Matamoros and founded the Municipal band. In 1925, Barrientos also founded the Brownsville band. He formed part of the Matamoros first century festivities (1926) and his main contribution was to give the music to the words of the Matamoros hymn. Governor Portes Gil was really pleased with the hymn that ask Barrientos to transform it into the Tamaulipas Hymn, only three words were changed. During the foundation of first secondary school of Matamoros, Barrientos was part of the founding teachers. The work with the students was far beyond his duties, Barrientos was always willing to help in the creation of new bands. After a life full of great compositions, Barrientos died on August 3, 1965.
Manuel Feliciano Rodriguez was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas on February 15, 1897, he was the son of Manuel Rodriguez Uresti and Adelaida Brayda Treviño. Dr Manuel married Raquel Herminia Longoria Guerra and they had three children, Raquel Herminia, Adela Aurora and Manuel Feliciano. He became a doctor in Mexico City during the period of the revolution of Agua Prieta. He returned to Matamoros to work as a doctor and also made his certificate valid in Texas. Besides his work as a doctor, he became a teacher and made possible the reopening of the Instituto Cientifico Juan Jose de la Garza as a middle school and later as a high school. His contribution to the Matamoros society included the foundation of the Rotary Club, and his great literary work. Dr Manuel Feliciano Rodriguez died on September 6, 1976.
Eduardo Chavez was born in Mexico City on May 6, 1898, being the son of Engineer Agustin Chavez Pedroza and Juvencia Ramirez de Chavez. As a high school student he joined the armed forces with Carranza during the Mexican revolution. He joined the National Irrigation Commission and work on the irrigation systems and in the rectification of the Rio Grande. Chavez was sent to Matamoros by president Cardenas with the mission to build a levee to prevent flooding problems. Once he finished the levee project, Chavez discovered the possibility of an irrigation system by gravity. Although the poor support of Cadenas advisors, Chavez got the authorization to start his irrigation project, El Retamal. That project gave the possibility to increase the agriculture production and in order to do it, he brought people from Nuevo Leon. The new residents founded several towns near Matamoros. Irrigation District 25 brought prosperity to the region. Chavez knowledge about the region and water treaty between Mexico and the US, gave him the opportunity to create important water dams (Presa Falcon and La Amistad). During the period of president Ruiz Cortines, Chavez as a cabinet member, headed important projects on the Gulf of Mexico, Rio Yaqui, creation of Mozucari water dam and irrigation district to name a few. Eduardo Chavez died in Mexico City on May 28, 1982 and his body was buried in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas. One of his projects, “Del Panuco al Bravo”, could and still can be the solution to the present irrigation problems of Matamoros and neighbor regions, but even know, the project do not have the necessary support.
Eliseo Paredes was born in “Rancho La Esperanza” (Matamoros, Tamaulipas) on December 8,1899, he was the son of don Justo Paredes Cisneros and doña Clotilde Manzano Vidal. He was a businessman and historian. During the 20’s, he established a business in the Juarez Market. He married Maria Guadalupe Rangel and they had seven children, Sergio, Eliseo, Josefina, Graciela Irma, Isaura, Maria Guadalupe, and Sara Alicia. Eliseo Paredes actively participated in different civic and cultural associations in Matamoros. He founded a historic society in Matamoros, formed and organized the Museo Casamata and became the first historian of Matamoros. Eliseo Paredes died in Matamoros on July 11, 1988. | <urn:uuid:522add1b-32ba-4d93-8b6d-47d59f3dc676> | 2013-05-21T17:10:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Unfortunatly no one seems to have any info regarding my grandfathers siblings. Maybe they settled in Denmark.
It was 1901 he was born but still a 5 month gap from March to August.
I do have a link to a Danish website, so will persevere.
Thanks for all your help. | <urn:uuid:bdb5c815-adb9-4226-a195-73ba8d14e0ca> | 2013-05-21T17:10:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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MCA wrote:This picture should be the quitessential beer goggles photo. Every one of these chicks would look like a 10 if we were lit.
On here, they're really not that good.
Let's say...hypothetically, someone put a gun to your head and made your rank them? Similar in many ways to the whole point of the thread.
In that scenario, how would you rank them? | <urn:uuid:2cde8fe4-9f30-4aa6-b132-ec7604d218e5> | 2013-05-21T17:37:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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until in Afrikaans is totdat, tot, tot by
until in Dutch is tot, totdat, binnen, voor
until in Finnish is saakka
until in Latin is insquequo, dum, donec
until in Norwegian is til
until in Spanish is hasta, hasta que
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I have a bag of hundreds of classic light grey 2x4 bricks, and 2x1 bricks.
How can I use these to make some interesting castle walls?
Considering the very limited choice of bricks, I don't think you have much options.
The first is the obvious stacking of 1x2 bricks, which the added bonus that it can bend (slighly).
The second is the obvious stacking of 2x4 bricks, which is equally boring.
What I would suggest is to build windows in it, which you can easily achieve by mixing the two bricks. My LDraw PC is dead, so I'll need to explain this otherwise. Let's say that the wall depth is 2L, so basically from the front you'll see either bricks of 1 or 4. Let's represent these by "1" and "4444". What you can do is as follows:
Notice that there is a window every 5 studs, which is exactly the same as you would have if you were using the castle wall panels.
For the top, you can have a layer of 2x4 bricks in the other direction, so that they go one stud further in front and in back. End with a parapet build of 1x2 bricks. | <urn:uuid:4e463677-30a2-4690-a32d-b4929048b595> | 2013-05-21T17:10:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Bob Keane was born Robert Kuhn on January 5, 1922, in a Manhattan Beach, California. His
parents, Benjamin Walker Kuhn and Gladys Cobb, were from New York and Cambridge,
Massachusetts, respectively, and migrated to California before their son Bob was born.
Bob Keane was a clarinet player who started performing as a teenager in the late 1930s. From 1948-1953 fronted his own dance band. In 1953, he started leading the Artie Shaw band. He had albums under his own name on the GNP and Whippet labels. When the big band business declined, Keane started getting into Latino music and rock and roll.
Keane was associated with the Keen label for a short time in 1957. When he left the Keen label in late 1957, Bob Keane started Del-Fi Records. This label specialized in recording "pachucos," as local Mexicans in Los Angeles were called. Keane recorded Ritchie Valens and had a minor hit in 1958 with "C'Mon Let's Go," but at the end of the year, Valens had a #2 record with "Donna," a song Valens reportedly wrote for his girlfriend. The flip of "Donna," "La Bamba," only made it to #22 when released, but since 1959 has widely surpassed "Donna" in popularity. When Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash in February, 1959, Keane lost his biggest star. Later he had hits with Little Caesar and the Romans, with "Those Oldies but Goodies (Remind Me of You)" and Chan Romero with "Hippy Hippy Shake," the latter more through being the original of an international hit cover version by a British band, the Swinging Blue Jeans.
By 1963, Del-Fi was concentrating on guitar-based surf/drag-racing music popular in southern California; Del-Fi released at least 19 albums of this genre. Donna Records was a subsidiary label to Del-Fi, obviously named for Keane's biggest hit record.
1965, Bob Keane started a label called Mustang, which recorded a band from Texas, the Bobby Fuller Four. Bobby Fuller was an admirer of Ritchie Valens and sought out Keane to record him when he moved to Los Angeles. Fuller had a smash hit with "I Fought the Law" and two albums for Mustang records before dying in a controversial suicide in July, 1966.
Although "Keane" is the way he spelled his name starting in the late 1950s, on the early albums of his own music such as DFLP-1202, his name is spelled Keene, which is how he spelled it when first changing over from Kuhn. We use Keane in this biography, but in the discographies his name is spelled as on the albums.
The material Bob Keane recorded was reissued on Rhino Records in the 1980s. Because of a increased interest in surf music and the use of two Del-Fi songs, ("Surf Rider" by the Lively Ones and "Bullwinkle, Part II" by the Centurions) in the movie "Pulp Fiction", a reactivated Del-Fi released many of the original albums on CD with the original artwork starting in the mid-1990s.
Bob Keane had a close relationship with Rhino Records starting in 1981, when Rhino started reissuing Del-Fi albums. Rhino was subsequently purchased by Warner Bros Records, and in November, 2003, Bob Keane sold Del-Fi and its subsidiaries, some 1,500 masters, to Warner Strategic Marketing (Rhino's parent) for an undisclosed sum. Bob Keane died of renal failure in Los Angeles on November 28, 2009.
We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publications is an information web page. We are not a catalog, nor can we provide the records listed below. We have no association with Del-Fi, Donna, Mustang, or Selma Records, which are currently owned by Warner Bros. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in this discography (which with a few exceptions are all out of print), we suggest you see our Frequently Asked Questions page and follow the instructions found there. This story and discography are copyright 1997, 1999, 2011 by Mike Callahan. | <urn:uuid:145f780b-f5b0-4685-85e3-3ebb0c0c1e69> | 2013-05-21T17:17:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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