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Photo by Torin Halsey/Times Record News
Windthorst cornerback Hayden Hoffman (7) breaks up a pass intended for Throckmorton's Adam Hernandez (9) in the end zone Friday night in Windthorst. The exhibition game was played as 11-man football during the first half and six-man football during the second half. Throckmorton defeated Windthorst, 46-21. Throckmorton is the defending state champion in six-man football. | <urn:uuid:696fdb1e-ff79-4f36-9b2f-6663dfcf7452> | 2013-05-21T17:45:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If you look at a modem, with it's small central processing unit and special-purpose digital signal processor, and then look at a modern PC, with it's large CPU and general-purpose DSP on the sound card, you may wonder if the hardware duplication of an external modem is necessary.
A "WinModem" incorporates the CPU and DSP of the modem into the slightly-enhanced fabric of a PC. They are called "WinModems" because they originally only shipped with Microsoft Windows device drivers. These device drivers presented the illusion of a serial port attached to a Hayes AT-style modem. For a long time only Windows versions of these drivers where available. Some manufacturers now provide Linux versions of their device drivers as well, these modems are jokingly called "LinModems".
It is probably possible to use a LinModem as a Linux console. At the most this would require altering the source code to dumb-down the AT command emulation of the modem and recompiling the kernel.
Boot loaders, however, work in a very confined software environment and struggle to support a simple serial chip. Considering that some boot loaders do not even handle interrupts, handling the complex DSP of a LinModem is well beyond what is practical. | <urn:uuid:90eab6ae-0878-46ae-82ea-f8db97f171ce> | 2013-05-21T17:45:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Gallery: Most twisted Halloween costumes of 2010
Video: Gaga, JetBlue steward Halloween’s hottest
Transcript of: Gaga, JetBlue steward Halloween’s hottest
ANN CURRY, co-host: So what are you going to be for Halloween ? It's less than two weeks away, and Ricky 's here in New York sent over five of this year's hottest costume ideas. We're going to get a clue what everybody's going to be wearing.
MATT LAUER, co-host: I think these are pretty spot-on in terms of what people have been talking about. You're going to see an awful lot of this first one.
CURRY: That's right . This first one is Lady Gaga . And I think, Matt , you would look very good in this costume if you haven't chosen yours yet.
LAUER: No. But, I mean, if you think about all the pictures we've seen of her over the last year in all the crazy outfits, people have a lot to choose from.
CURRY: Exactly. And you can go really crazy because she is Halloween , as one of the experts had to say about her and the -- all her getups. And the second outfit is...
LAUER: This is the guy who was in the news a few months ago, got a lot of attention for a short period of time, that flight attendant on JetBlue who had had enough apparently and he deployed the chute, cursed out the passengers and took off.
CURRY: That's right , Steven Slater .
LAUER: This is -- yeah, Steven Slater. This is...
CURRY: And the great news about this is that, you know, you never have to go without having a beer. It's always -- you're going to be carrying beers all night, so that's good.
LAUER: All right. Hey, if you look at this next one, you -- I mean, people might not realize -- you have to kind of stop and think for a second.
LAUER: Looks like one of the founding fathers. And in fact...
CURRY: It's the tea party , you know? And I think that maybe if you were doing this, maybe you would want to wear a tea bag on your -- on your lapel.
LAUER: There you go. Just so -- because there's nothing worse when you're on Halloween and people walk up to you and go, 'What are you supposed to be?'
CURRY: 'What are you supposed to be? Thomas Jefferson ?' Exactly.
LAUER: That doesn't work.
CURRY: But this one, I think, is pretty obvious.
LAUER: That's right .
CURRY: We're talking about " Snooki " and -- with a wig.
LAUER: " Jersey Shore ."
CURRY: So you just get a wig and a tight dress and you're Snooki , right?
CURRY: And then this is " The Situation ." But here's this really funny -- you know some of the other ones? I don't get this one, but Kim Jong Il is one of the hot ones as well, as well as Avatars . And that's pretty funny.
LAUER: What was it -- what was it Jon Stewart said? And Kim Jong Il 's successor, Kim Jong Not-So-Ill ? Is that what he called it?
CURRY: The younger Il guy.
LAUER: . Yeah, anyway.
As stories of survival emerged from sites devastated by the Oklahoma tornado, so did accounts of the heroic actions of teachers who risked their lives to save students.
- Crews comb rubble for survivors; death toll lowers to 24
- Okla. tornado injuries: Even the doctors are crying
- Nate Billings / AP
In the aftermath of one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history, many are desperately trying to reach loved ones in areas affected by the disastrous event. Google and the Red Cross are helping confirm the safety of tornado survivors.
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This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the rules which apply to use of our dial-up and broadband internet connection services including your responsibilities, and permitted and prohibited uses of those services. Compliance with this Policy ensures you may continue to enjoy and allow others to enjoy optimum use of our Internet Services.
You are responsible for your actions on our network and systems you access through your Internet Service. If you act recklessly or irresponsibly in using your Internet Service or your actions endanger any person or the integrity or security of our Network, systems or equipment, your access may be restricted, suspended or terminated, without prior notice. In particular, you agree that you will not use, attempt to use or allow your Internet Service to be used to:
2.1 store, send or distribute any content or material which is restricted, prohibited or otherwise unlawful under any applicable law or which is likely to be offensive or obscene to a reasonable person;
2.2 store, send or distribute confidential information, copyright material or other content which is subject to third party intellectual property rights, unless you have a lawful right to do so;
2.3 do anything, including store, send or distribute material which defames, harasses, threatens, abuses, menaces, offends, violates the privacy of, or incites violence or hatred against, any person or class of persons, or which could give rise to civil or criminal proceedings;
2.4 do any other act or thing which is illegal, fraudulent or otherwise prohibited under any applicable law or which is in breach of any code, standard or content requirement of any other competent authority;
2.5 do anything, including store, send or distribute material, which interferes with other users or restricts or hinders any person from accessing, using or enjoying the Internet, our Services, Network or systems;
2.6 forge header information, email source address or other user information;
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Also known as junk mail or Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), the term "spam" refers to submitting a commercial email to a large number of recipients who have not requested or opted to receive it and have no reasonable expectation to receiving email from the sender.
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As a user of a Tollon email service platforms
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3.4 Process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after the sending of the commercial email and stop sending email to the requestor within 10 business days upon request;
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3.18 send emails with added words/characters in an attempt to bypass Bayesian filters
3.19 Send, or attempt to send, Spam of any kind from third-party networks using a return email address that is hosted on the Tollon Network, or referencing an email address hosted on the Tollon Network
3.20 Send email messages which result in complaints from the recipient or from the recipient's email provider, or which result in blacklisting of the sender's email address or mail server
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In the absence of positive, verifiable proof to the contrary by a Customer, Tollon will consider complaints by recipients of emails to be conclusive that the recipient did not subscribe or otherwise request the email(s) about which a complaint was generated.
4 Bulk Email
The use of our network to send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise, and the use of bulk email to promote a site on our network is strictly forbidden. Only users with a valid email account are permitted to send "opt-in" bulk email. If such email is reported to us as being spam, we will take appropriate action as described above.
Our bulk mail rules also apply to mailing lists or mailing services you may contract with. The policy is stated as follows:
An acceptable mailing list will be focused at a targeted audience that has voluntarily signed up for your e-mail information or that has made their e-mail address available for distribution of information from you. The list must also allow for automatic removal by all end Customers with non-distribution in the future.
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If Tollon determines that excessive bandwidth, disk space utilisation or high CPU loads are adversely affecting Tollon’s ability to provide service to other users, Tollon may take immediate action. Tollon will attempt to notify the account owner as soon as possible.
6 Illegal Use
The Tollon network may only be used for lawful purposes. For example, Customers may not use the Tollon Network to create, transmit, distribute, or store content that:
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College essays are mostly written on controversial topics, or on ethical debates. It plays a key role in accepting or denying an idea, query or issue. The college essay questions are mostly technical or logical which emphasize on giving your view point about it.
A college essay needs to be backed up with facts, evidences and proofs to defend your views. The significance of college essay does not only depend on arguing or defending your viewpoints, but also your writing does matter. Arguing in a calm way is much effective than writing in an aggressive tone. Using a correct tone at correct timings may influence the writers. A college essay should not be written too long or too short. It may not exceed more than 5 pages and should not be less than one and a half page. Always patronise your work using facts and figures that can be rechecked.
A college essay may not be copy pasted from any source, i.e., plagiarism is a serious crime which can result in your termination from educational institution or you may be “black listed”. It should be understood that plagiarism is a serious crime which may cause serious damage to your academic career.
Getting admitted in a college depends on GPA, SAT results, interview and your writing abilities that may lead to successful career pathway.
A college essay must be edited and proofread according to the requirement of the institution. If they are strict to their rules, then follow what they have asked from you. The referencing should be cited in the required format.
Article lesson: College essays are the true reflection of your mind-set and thinking. The basic concept behind it is to check students ‘abilities and calibre by knowing their point of views regarding a certain controversial topic. | <urn:uuid:72d5f381-6383-4471-a780-1acccfd4a585> | 2013-05-21T17:38:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In Esquire's "Women Issue," Lady Gaga's old friend Brendan Sullivan chronicles the singer's rise to monster fame, giving us a glimpse into her pre-Gaga days as Stefani Germanotta. Sullivan says:
The difference between Lady Gaga and every other young singer is that most of the others ask the world, "Do you like the way I sing? Will you buy my record and come to my show?" Gaga tells the world, "I am famous. I was famous before even I had heard of me." She didn't dream of fame. She announced it.
Think you know the pantless pop icon? Here are five Lady G tidbits from the article you may not have known.
- Prior to stardom, she was a go-go dancer sewing her own costumes.
- When she first played "Just Dance" for Interscope Records in early 2008, she danced on a boardroom table.
For the final three Gaga factoids, read more.
- She's a Bruce Springsteen fan and used to enjoy listening to The Boss while drinking wine from pint glasses.
- She creates mood boards for her outlandish outfits and shows.
- Eventually, she wants to be a producer — the "grandmother of pop music." | <urn:uuid:d7469a74-9f58-4d21-8033-5b46ebc19dc1> | 2013-05-21T17:32:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Contemplative psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and groups in New York City.
According to the Asian News Network, China's oldest temple aims to position itself as a major Buddhist hub. Built in 68 CE, the White Horse (Baima) Temple, in Luoyang, in China's Henan province, has a colorful history. The ANN reports:
According to legend, the Eastern Han Emperor Yongping (reign: AD 57-75) dreamed of a golden figure with a halo, which his advisers assumed was the Buddha, in India. Emissaries were sent abroad to learn more about Buddhism and they returned years later with two Indian monks on white horses, bearing sutras and statues....
In light of its history, Baima aims to become a leading center of Buddhism in Asia and has an Indian Buddhist shrine made entirely of Indian materials, a gift from the Indian government that was completed last year. Nearby, a Thai Buddhist shrine, built in 1992, is being expanded.
The temple has been rebuilt, and little remains of the original. Also, the original temple lacked air-conditioning, but that has been remedied.
You can read the ANN report here.
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NORTH BOSQUE RIVER
NORTH BOSQUE RIVER. The North Bosque River, the ninety-seven-mile main branch of the Bosque, rises at the conjunction of two branches north of Stephenville in central Erath County (at 32°14' N, 98°13' W). The South Fork North Bosque River rises near Lingleville in north central Erath County (at 32°19' N, 98°22' W) and flows for fourteen miles to its confluence with the North Fork North Bosque River, which rises near Huckabay in north central Erath County (at 32°19' N, 98°13' W) and flows for eleven miles. The North Bosque River then flows south, cutting across the extreme northeastern corner of Hamilton County and continuing into northern Bosque County, where it is joined by the East Bosque River south of Walnut Springs. From that point the North Bosque continues its southeasterly course across central Bosque County and into central McLennan County, where it is joined by the Middle and South Bosque rivers as it flows into Lake Waco on the northwest edge of Waco (at 31°34' N, 97°12' W). Along its course, the river flows past Clairette, Hico, Iredell, Meridian, Clifton, and Valley Mills. Its principal tributaries include Live Oak, Duffau, Honey, Meridian, Neils, Spring, Sims, and Green creeks, several of which have been dammed. The river flows through flat terrain with local shallow depressions surfaced by clay and sandy loam that supports water-tolerant hardwoods, conifers, and grasses.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article."NORTH BOSQUE RIVER," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rnn05), accessed May 21, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. | <urn:uuid:cbdf9288-3358-46fb-8f43-7a3aee0c202a> | 2013-05-21T17:13:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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MADRID, Spain -- Cristiano Ronaldo scored with a spectacular header Wednesday as Real Madrid was held to a 1-1 home draw by Manchester United in the last 16 of the Champions League due to a dominant performance by visiting goalkeeper David de Gea.
After Danny Welbeck gave United the lead against the run of play with a header from a 20th-minute corner, Ronaldo rose high to meet Angel di Maria's swinging cross 10 minutes later for his 183rd goal for Madrid -- and first against his former club.
Ronaldo's goal in the first leg at Santiago Bernabeu stadium allowed him to eclipse Francisco "Paco" Gento to become Madrid's sixth most prolific scorer.
"We began very strong and suddenly they scored and the match took on another form for us," Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said.
The result means Madrid is now unbeaten in 34 consecutive home matches (27 wins, seven draws) since a Copa del Rey loss to Barcelona on Jan. 18, 2012.
De Gea made several impressive saves, including a fingertip effort onto the post to deny Fabio Coentrao in the first half as well as holding a firmly struck bouncing shot from Sami Khedira after the break.
"Fortunately, David De Gea made some very good saves. He's been improving all season and he made an absolutely superb save there," United manager Alex Ferguson said of his oft-maligned goalkeeper's stop on Coentrao's attempt.
"The first half I was a bit disappointed by how deep we defended and gave Real a lot of opportunities for crosses and shots."
The match had been built up as Mourinho against Ferguson and Ronaldo versus Robin van Persie, but the United striker failed to take advantage of several good opportunities. He struck the crossbar with a fierce right-footed strike and forced a save with a low drive late on, however a mishit volley that was cut out by Xabi Alonso as it neared the goal line proved to be his most glaring miss.
By contrast, Ronaldo was a constant menace without ever really threatening to cut loose. He sent several shots passed De Gea's posts and even landed a 35-meter free kick on the top of the goalkeeper's net.
"Manchester is a very strong team defensively and they created a few problems for us," Ronaldo said. "But we really needed to have scored one or two more goals."
The last time these two teams met at the Bernabeu was in 2003 when Madrid emerged 3-1 winners. But it has been 11 years since Madrid played a knockout Champions League match without goalkeeper Iker Casillas, who was out because of a broken hand and replaced by Diego Lopez.
Mourinho also chose 19-year-old French centre back Raphael Varane following his great performance against Barcelona in which he almost single-handedly rescued Madrid in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals that ended in a 1-1 draw.
First-choice centre back Pepe was on the bench as has been recovering from surgery on his right ankle in early January. He came on late Saturday to take part in Madrid's 4-1 trouncing of Sevilla, a match in which midfielders Mesut Oezil, Alonso and Khedira were rested in anticipation of United's visit.
Ferguson opted to start Jonny Evans alongside Rio Ferdinand in defence with club captain Nemanja Vidic failing to even earn a place on the bench due to his recent lengthy layoff. Shinji Kagawa was also promoted but proved ineffectual against Madrid's bustling midfield and was replaced in the second half.
United's European campaigns in the previous two seasons have been ended by Spanish sides, going out in the Europa League to Althletic Bilbao last year and losing the Champions League final to Barcelona in 2011.
Madrid started the match looking sharp, with Khedira shooting wide from a second-minute pass by Ronaldo in his team's first attack. Two minutes later, Di Maria also shot wide and Coentrao sent the ball across De Gea's goalmouth after a probing run from left back.
United's defence looked more solid after the break, allowing the team to counter with Van Persie making a searching run that was only ended in the box by Varane's timely intercepting tackle.
Gonzalo Higuain came on for the anonymous Karim Benzema in the 60th, and a minute later De Gea stretched athletically to save with his right foot after Coentrao, sliding forward, connected with Khedira's pass.
The 39-year-old Ryan Giggs came on for Kagawa, making his 133rd appearance in the Champions League and steadying United by sitting deep to help soak up the pressure ahead of the second leg on March 5.
"They came here to defend well," Mourinho said. "They came here to not concede spaces and goals, and they did not play to win. But they know they have in attack very important players with great potential that out of nothing can create chances and score goals."
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Atkinson: The Patriot had originally been developed as an anti-aircraft missile to shoot down enemy jets as they were coming in. And it had been adapted to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles, which is a much different process. A warhead that is coming in at mach 6 at 4,000 miles an hour is much more difficult to shoot down, it's much smaller among other things than an airplane that's coming at Mach 1 or Mach 2. Unbeknowst to the Americans the SCUDS had been modified in a way that made them much more difficult than anyone had anticipated to shoot down. In order to extend their range, the Iraqis had basically eviscerated the missiles and had welded in another section to give them more fuel, and it had been done in such a ham-handed manner, it was so clumsy that the stresses, the aerodynamic stresses of the missiles reentering the atmosphere caused them to break apart. And in effect, instead of having just one warhead plummeting down you had pieces of junk. It was almost as though they had deliberately designed decoys similar to the sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Russians and the Americans had done, where all kinds of decoys would come out and make it difficult for radar to tell which was a decoy and which was the actual warhead. When the first SCUDs started falling, the Patriots would fire at a target, the Patriot missile would see a bunch of different things coming down and many Patriots would be fired to the point where first the Americans weren't certain what was being hit and secondly there were large numbers of Patriots being expended, 31 on one particular day early on. This caused concern first about the effectiveness of the Patriot and second about the stocks of Patriot missiles.Q: What's the difference between what the public is being told about the performance of the Patriots and the reality?
Atkinson: Well, the public was being told that the Patriot was in fact, infallible. At one point, Bush went to the Patriot factory in Massachusetts and said, there have been 42 Patriots fired and 41 of them have been intercepted, virtually 100 percent. Schwarzkopf at one point said, of 33, 33 have been destroyed. 33 SCUDs. In fact, there was a recognition that they didn't quite know what the Patriot was doing. First there was confusion over the debris that was falling with the warhead as the SCUDs were breaking up. Secondly it was impossible to determine exactly what was happening high in the atmosphere, at these tremendous speeds, exactly what was being destroyed. It was considered prudent in the long run to keep this hidden from the public. I believe that the public was best served, particularly in Israel, by having great faith in the Patriot.Q: What about the bitterness of the Israelis about the performance of the Patriot .... in the end how did this work out?
Atkinson: The Israelis believed that the Americans didn't fully understand the deficiencies of the Patriot. That the Americans were being willfully blind about it. And there were bitter complaints. Moshe Arens came to Washington in February and had a meeting with Bush and his senior advisors in which he said, the Patriot is not working... We believe that only 20 percent of the SCUDs that are attacked with the Patriot are in fact, destroyed. Cheney at the same meeting spoke up and said, there is a fundamental disagreement over how effective the Patriots are. Nevertheless, the Israelis recognized that a belief that the Patriot was effective was almost as important as the effectiveness of the missile itself. It helped to calm the Israeli population. It helped to prevent the Israeli government, the Shamir government from coming under pressure to actively leap into the war. It was a very effective propaganda tool. And whenever suggestions were made within the Israeli government that the truth about the Patriot as seen by the Israelis be made public other voices prevailed saying, why would we tell Sadam that the Patriot is not working when in fact it's in our best interest to let him believe that it's infallible. | <urn:uuid:a71e42a6-6ae4-45aa-aeba-8e2cc4987d8f> | 2013-05-21T17:18:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Lois (and various)
Meg (season 2+)
Peter / Stewie / Brian / Quagmire / Tom Tucker (and various)
Mayor Adam West
When Stewie is playing electronic "Simon Says", the sequence goes, "red, green, blue, green, blue, blue". But when Stewie makes his song & hits the buttons again, he makes the sequence, "red, green, blue, green, red, green, blue, green, red, blue". Then the game blinks twice, telling him that he's correct, even though he wasn't.
When Peter loads the shotgun at the beginning of the episode he puts in four shells yet he fires five times. Also, the gun appears to be a double barreled shotgun which can only fire two shells at a time.
Brian didn't seem to check the date on thet tape Stewie shows him. It could've been recorded a year before, for all he knows.
The depiction of Brian and Lois as a married couple but in separate beds is a nod to the comedies of the 50's 60's. During that era, couples were depicted in separate beds to placate censors and not give any hint of a sexual situation.
Peter: Boy I really appreciate you helping me out on this.
Joe: Peter, we're your friends. We're always there for you in your time of need.
Cleveland: Especially when you provide the free beer (Cleveland laughs).
Peter: Hey, hey I got an idea. Let's play "I Never." You got to drink if you did the thing the person says they never did.
Cleveland: Oh I got one. I never slept with a woman with the lights on (Quagmire, Peter and Joe drink to this).
Joe: I'll go next. Uh, I never had sex with Cleveland's wife (Quagmire and Cleveland drink to this).
Peter: Alright let's see. Uh, I never did a chick in a Logan Airport bathroom (Quagmire drinks to this and moments later, a lot of beer bottles are in front of a nearly-drunk Quagmire) God! Let's see, what else is there? Um, I never gave a reach-around to a spider monkey while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Quagmire: Oh god! (Quagmire drinks to this)
Joe: I uh, I never picked up an illegal alien from Home Depot to take home and choke me while I touch myself.
Quagmire: Oh come on! (Quagmire drinks to this)
Peter: Uh, I never did the same thing, but with someone from Jo-Ann Fabrics.
Quagmire: Oh god! This is ridiculous! (Quagmire drinks to this and passes out)
Peter: Oh boy he's out cold. Hey let's write on him (Peter, Cleveland and Joe giggle to that).
Peter: Oh guys, I don't know what I'm gonna do. Lois is the only woman for me.
Joe: Well it sounds like you've gotta find a way to win her back.
Quagmire: Yeah, like, like we could get her drunk and take turns having sex with her.
Peter: How would that help me?
Quagmire: Oh, help you? Oh oh, yeah yeah, then no... no then, then that wouldn't help you.
Peter: I'm home!
Stewie: What's your name? Is it Alan?
Joe: Well, that was a great cruise.
Peter: I loved the buffet!
Cleveland: And I enjoyed shooting Skeet.
(Two doctors carry Skeet Ulrich out on a stretcher)
Doctor: You're going to be okay, Mr. Ulrich.
Skeet Ulrich: (To Cleveland) You bastard!
Cleveland: There's nothing good about who you are, or what you do.
Peter: Alright fellas, we've been out her for months and we all know that men have certain needs. And being that there's no women around, we're going to have to have an orgy (cuts to the scene where he, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe are lying naked in a pile). Uh, anybody horny?
Peter: Me neither! And whoever's toe that is, I appreciate you enthusiasm but I think you should stop.
Joe: Boy, I'm sure glad nobody's here to see this (they then hear a passing cruise ship pull up as the people take pictures of them).
Cruise Annnouncer: And if you look off the left side of the ship, you'll see a bunch of homosexuals (starts to speak Spanish). A la izquierdo del barco podemos ver los 'fanny bandits'.
(The guys are adrift on a makeshift raft of blowup dolls)
Cleveland: Good thing you packed so many blowup dolls, Quag... Quag... Quagmire.
Quagmire: Be careful. Even the tiniest prick can pop these things... giggedy.
Peter: You know what? Maybe I'll just go take up my old job as a construction worker in New York! Although I never did get the cat-calling right.
(Cutaway. A pretty blonde woman passes by)
Man #1: *whistles*
Man #2: Yeah baby!
Man #3: I wanna piece of that!
Peter: You suck!
Peter: All men have certain needs, and as there are no women on this island, we're going to have an orgy.
Tom Tucker: In local news we have more on the approach of Hurricane RuPaul.. which is working his or her way up the coast, lets go live to Ollie Williams with the blacky weather report , Ollie?
Ollie Williams: It's raining sideways!
Tom Tucker: Sounds rough Ollie, you have an umbrella?
Ollie Williams: Had one!
Tom Tucker: Where is it?
Ollie Williams: Inside out , 2 miles away !
Tom Tucker: Is there anything we can do for you?
Ollie Williams: Bring me some soup...
Tom Tucker: What kind?
Ollie Williams: CHUNKY!!!
Lois: Oh hunny, how was your day? Did you catch any fish?
Peter: No, but I caught this turtle; named him Terrence...then killed him and hollowed him out into an ash-tray for Stewie.
Brian: I'll be in the basement.
Lois: Doing what?
Brian: What do you think?
Tom Tucker: Coming up next, A pig who refuses to eat jews? After this.
The inflatable dolls of Quagmire's that the guys are floating on look very similar to Francine Smith, a character on Seth MacFarlane's other show American Dad!
This episode was supposed to air as the season premier but was pushed back because of the devestation of Hurricane Katrina. FOX thought the premise of Peter getting washed away by a hurricane would be too insensitive to show at the time.
The scene in which Peter covers his private parts with whipped cream is taken from this 1999 film.
Peter's saying of "Hefty hefty hefty! Wimpy wimpy wimpy!" is a parody of the ads for this line of garbage bags.
Rupaul The approaching hurricane is named after this androgynous actor.
The farting contest is a parody of the dueling banjo scene from the movie Deliverance (1972).
The song Herbert wants his ice cream truck to play is Scott Joplin's 'The Entertainer'.
On the island Peter looks at the picture of Captain Caveman in his watch. Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels was a mystery solving cartoon in the 70s, starring the world's first superhero.
This episodes title is a comination of the film titles "Perfect Storm" and "Castaway."
Peter mentions building a time machine out of a DeLorean. A similar time machine was the invention of a pair of time traveling men from Back to the Future. In this case, they were mimicing the first movie where Doc was shot and Marty drove through the past in front of a mall, ending up in a barn.
When Brian goes to the motel to confront Lois and Peter, he sees them in silhouette. Then you see a different person come into silhouette with a specific music. The person is Alfred Hitchcock, and the music is the theme from his TV show (Alfred Hitchcock Presents). The silhouette is his trademark introduction to the show.
The joke about the two girls talking real fast was a spoof of the hit WB show Gilmore Girls. Alex Borstein was originally a cast member on Gilmore Girls but had to drop out at the last minute. She does guest star from time to time. Seth MacFarlane has also made an appearance on the show before. Just on a side note, on Gilmore Girls they talk so fast the script is twice as long as the average one hour drama.
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Greg and Tamara use the curse's failsafe trigger to begin the destruction of Storybrooke, and Regina finds herself cast in the unlikely role of savior. Meanwhile, in Neverland, Bae meets Hook and the Lost Boys.
While David, Mary Margaret, and Emma try to find Regina after the destruction of the bean field, Gold considers telling Lacey about his magical abilities. Meanwhile, in the past after Bae falls through the portal, he arrives in 19th century London and befriends a young girl named Wendy Darling.
With Hook by her side, Regina comes up with a plan that she believes will transport her and Henry back to the Enchanted Forest. However, her plan revolves around a fail-safe in the curse that could destroy Storybrooke. Meanwhile, in the fairytale world, Regina disguises herself as a peasant so that she can find and then murder an unsuspecting Snow White.moreless
David reluctantly agrees to help Gold reconnect with Belle, who has been given a false set of memories by Regina. Meanwhile, when Emma learns that Anton has the means to take everyone back to the Enchanted Forest, she must decide which world to live in. In the fairy tale world, Rumplestiltskin forces Belle to accompany him on a hunt for a thief that she freed.moreless
While Mary Margaret attempts to come to terms with her part in Cora's death, she finds August. Meanwhile, Neal's fiancee Tamara comes to Storybrooke. Meanwhile, in the past, August tries to find a way to prevent himself from turning back into a wooden boy.
Regina sets out to kill Mary Margaret, and Henry tries to stop the struggle between his relatives by ending magic. Meanwhile, 28 years earlier, Regina discovers intruders have entered Storybrooke as she tries to cope with her newly-cast curse.
In the fairytale world, Rumplestiltskin tutors Cora in magic, but the king demands that she prove her abilities to spin gold from straw.
Mary Margaret, David, and the Mother Superior try to find Rumplestiltskin's dagger before Regina and Cora do. Meanwhile, Hook travels to New York to find Gold and kill him. In the fairytale world, the Blue Fairy offers Snow White a chance to save her dying mother.
In Storybrooke, Regina and Hook try to track down Gold's most prized possession. Meanwhile, Gold goes to Manhattan with Emma and Henry to find Bae. In the fairytale world, Rumplestiltskin fights in the Ogre Wars and discovers his destiny.
While Gold, Emma, and Henry leave Storybrooke to find Bae, Anton the Giant goes on a rampage and Greg asks Belle what happened to him on the night of the accident. Meanwhile, in the fairytale world Anton climbs down to meet humans, only to discover that they're not all as friendly as Emma.moreless
While Dr. Whale treats the outsider, the townspeople decide what to do with the man who may know Storybrooke's secret. Meanwhile, Cora meets with her daughter and Gold tries to meet with Belle. In another world, Victor tries to convince his father Alphonse that he can bring back the dead.
Gold conducts an experiment to see if he can find a way across the town border without losing his memory. Meanwhile, Mary Margaret and David go house-hunting and Belle finds Hook in Storybrooke. In the fairytale world, Belle and Mulan meet for the first time as they try to stop a beast ravaging the land.moreless
When Regina is accused of murder, everyone assumes the worst... except for Emma. Meanwhile, in the fairytale world, Snow and Charming must decide what to do with the Evil Queen once they've brought her to justice.
After Emma's betrayal, Hook allies himself with Cora to recover the compass from Emma and Mary Margaret. Meanwhile, Regina and Gold learn that Cora plans to open the portal and prepare to do whatever it takes to stop Cora and Hook from coming through to get their revenge.
While Regina and Gold put David at risk in the hope that it will lead them to Mary Margaret, in the Enchanted Forest Emma and Mary Margaret must stop Cora from taking the recently-acquired compass from them.
A vicious killer is loose in Storybrooke and Ruby is the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Leroy makes a discovery that could help Emma and Mary Margaret return home.
In the Enchanted Forest, Emma teams up with Captain Hook to find a magic compass that could help her and Mary Margaret return to Storybrooke. In the past, Emma is still on the streets, steals a car, and meets a lover,
In Storybrooke, Regina is haunted by a figure from her past while trying to resist the temptation to use magic. Meanwhile, in the Enchanted Forest, Emma and Mary Margaret investigate an ogre massacre, while in the fairytale world of the past, Regina discovers that she can't master the dark arts.
While the dwarves try to find fairy dust in the Storybrooke mines, Belle gives Gold an ultimatum. Meanwhile, in the fairytale world Rumplestiltskin goes after a band of pirates that have abducted his beloved.
Emma and Mary Margaret join forces with Aurora, Mulan, and Lancelot to find a way back to Storybrooke. Meanwhile, in the fairytale world, King George poisons Snow White and Charming must go to the Lady of the Lake for a cure.
After the disappearance of Mary Margaret and Emma, David seeks them out. Regina attempts to recover her magic powers while the seven dwarves go on a quest of their own. In the fairytale world, Regina makes a deal with a sorcerer who offers her the power to free herself from Cora.moreless
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Greg asks Laura to become his wife. Peter is fired by Greg. Eric is ill with arsenic poisoning. Abby discovers that Galveston dumped acid and arsenic into Empire Valley. When Abby offers to sell Greg Empire Valley he is suspicious. Peter's furious with Sylvia for telling Abby everything and ends up threatening her. Peter is blackmailed by Abby. Jill ends up agreeing to work with Peter to get Empire Valley away from Abby. Jill later tells Peter she has changed her mind as she has fallen in love with Gary. Peter ends up reminding her that Galveston killed their parents and that they've come too far to stop now.
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Unlike the AMD Athlon processor, the Intel Pentium 4 has received a considerably colder reception. This was mainly due to the fact that one could obtain an AMD Athlon Thunderbird processor that was faster, yet much cheaper than the Pentium 4. Intel have worked to rectify this problem by continually reducing the Pentium 4's price. However, Intel's biggest hurdle was their use of RAMBUS. Intel's current flagship Pentium 4 chipset, the i850 requires the use of RAMBUS memory modules. These cost almost double the price of an equivalent DDR module and triple the price of a similar PC-133 module. It is because of this that many consumers have not been able to purchase a Pentium 4 based system and have opted to go with an AMD based system or a lower range Intel alternative (e.g. Pentium !!! or Celeron).
VIA, a large Taiwan based chipset manufacturer realized this and set out to produce a DDR chipset for the Pentium 4. They called this chipset the P4X266. Just as the P4X266 chipset was released, Intel filed a law suit against VIA, claiming that they did not have a license to produce a chipset for the Pentium 4. However, VIA purchased S3 and in theory acquired an Intel Pentium 4 license that S3 previously signed with Intel. This was to form the basis of VIA's counter argument. In order to not sour relations with Intel, many of the larger motherboard manufacturers (e.g. Asus, Abit, etc) have opted not to produce motherboards based on the P4X266 chipset until Intel give them the green light. This left a huge chance for the smaller motherboard manufacturers to gain a small market share by releasing P4X266 chipset based motherboards as there was no competition from the larger manufacturers. At the time of writing this review, three motherboard manufacturers have produced P4X266 based motherboards that are for the consumer market. These are ACorp, Azza and Shuttle.
Some people believe that Intel should not have filed a law suit against VIA because the P4X266 chipset would largely increase Pentium 4 processor sales. Intel was actually quite logical in doing this because they have a DDR Pentium 4 chipset of their own being released in the first quarter of 2002, called the i845-D. If Intel manages to eliminate the P4X266 they will have a monopoly over Pentium 4/DDR sales.
Recently, Intel have taken a step in the right direction by releasing their i845 chipset that combines the Pentium 4 with the rather slow, yet cheaper SDRAM. This solution was found to be quite inadequate because SDRAM does not offer enough bandwidth to make the Pentium 4 excel. Read on as we determine if RDRAM's huge amount of bandwidth is necessary or if the cheaper DDR alternative is more than adequate.
* Table taken from the VIA website.
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View Earthquakes in East Texas in a larger map
That 4.1-magnitude earthquake is one of the latest to hit the Timpson area in the last year.
A 3.9-magnitude earthquake occurred on May 10, and on May 17, there was a 4.8-magnitude earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Those were followed by a 2.7-magnitude on May 20; a 2.5-magnitude on May 26; a 2.1-magnitude on June 16; a 2.8-magnitude on Dec. 7; a 2.6-magnitude on Dec. 22; and Friday's earthquake. The most recent earthquake — a 2.8-magnitude — occurred about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Timpson court clerk Paula Mullins said Tuesday's earthquake wasn't as bad as Friday's.
“It just kind of felt like a sonic boom,” she recalled.
She said residents discuss earthquakes when they come, and everybody wonders why.
“Everybody's got their own idea of fracking or God giving us a wake-up call,” she said. “It's just happening, and we don't know (why).”
Cliff Frohlich, associate director at The University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics, said Tuesday there is a fault system in East Texas called the Mount Enterprise fault system, which has been known for a long time.
He said faults there can get reactivated by stresses of various kinds, and some people say the fault system may be related to a 1981 Center earthquake and an 1891 Rusk earthquake.
Frohlich said there's been a lot of interest in human causes of Texas earthquakes in relation to the injection of fluids into the ground.
He said there are wells near where Timpson earthquakes were the strongest, and it's possible that the injection of disposable fluids played a role.
“Sometimes when you inject fluids you get earthquakes, (and) in Texas there are (numerous) disposable wells,” he said.
Frohlich noted that faults are also everywhere, and some might be as small as a football field or garage.
He said there is friction to help prevent faults from slipping, but if fluids are pumped in, it can become “like an air hockey table.”
“If mankind is causing them, it's triggering faults that were stuck…,” he said. “If conditions are right for a fault to move, it moves.”
He said it is also possible that earthquakes are natural.
Typically, if one earthquake occurs in an area, more are likely there, Frohlich said.
He said small earthquakes also are more common than big earthquakes. According to a U.S. Geological Survey earthquake calculator, a 4.1-magnitude earthquake is nearly 20 times bigger than a 2.8-magnitude but more than 89 times stronger.
Frohlich said he's never heard of a 2.8-magnitude earthquake like Tuesday's doing much damage.
“Something might fall off a shelf or a window might be cracked, but you're not getting chimneys falling down,” he said.
Shelby County Sheriff Willis Blackwell said there were no reports of damage Tuesday morning. He said there was some structural damage to maybe two or three homes on the fault line last week, but other than that, there were only minor things such as items falling off the wall.
Frohlich said the Timpson area could have more earthquakes in the near future, but he would be surprised if they were much different than the earthquakes that already have occurred.
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Landscape, Water and Religion in Ancient India
Ritual sites and water resource structures in their archaeological landscape
project is geared towards building integrated models of religious, economic and
environmental history in central and western India through the documentation of
ritual sites and water-resource structures in their archaeological landscape.
central question is how did the spread and institutionalisation of Buddhist and
Brahmanical religious traditions between c. 3rd century BC and 6th century AD
relate to other important processes such as urbanisation, state-formation and
innovations in agriculture?
There are two major interrelated research themes: Religion in the Landscape; and Water and Civilisation, with three main geographical zones of application: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
- Religion in the Landscape
The study of ancient Indian religion has long since been dominated by textual scholarship which has given priority to the Sanskrit tradition, and drawn on archaeology largely for supplementary evidence. Furthermore, until recently the site-based focus of South Asian archaeology has meant that ritual sites have tended to be studied in isolation from wider patterns in the landscape. This project has sought to build a more integrated approach to textual and archaeological scholarship on early Indian religion, focussing in particular on the following questions: What was the changing relationship between the state and religion? How did the different religious traditions attract local patronage networks? How did they relate to local agricultural communities? What was the nature of inter-religious dynamics?
- Water and Civilisation
The development of advanced irrigation systems has been seen as a major factor in the rise of complex, urban societies in ancient India. However, a number of questions regarding the history and chronology of irrigation technology and its role in the wider economic, political and religious landscape, have remained unanswered. The traditional view, based largely on readings of problematically dated texts such as the Arthasastra, is that the building and management of irrigation works was dependent on centralised state administration. Marxist-inspired models such as Wittogel’s ‘Hydraulic Civilisations of the Orient’ have led to similar notions regarding Asian economic systems as a whole. In recent years, these have undergone major revision following studies of more devolved systems of irrigation management in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia involving village councils and religious institutions. In India, however, traditional models have until recently remained unchallenged due in part to the paucity of archaeological research on irrigation.Steps towards redressing this problem have been taken in relation to a group of dams documented during the Sanchi Survey Project (Madhya Pradesh) with comparative studies in Gujarat and Maharashtra. Datable to the early centuries BC, the Sanchi dams appear to have been central to the development of sustainable exchange networks between Buddhist monks and the local laity, just as contemporaneous irrigation systems in Sri Lanka formed the basis of monastic landlordism and a distinctly ‘Buddhist economics’.
- Shaw, J. (2011). 'Monasteries, monasticism, and patronage in ancient India: Mawasa, a recently documented hilltop Buddhist complex in the Sanchi area of Madhya Pradesh', South Asian Studies 27 (2): 111-130.
- Sutcliffe, J., J. Shaw, and E. Brown (2011). 'Historical water resources in South Asia: the hydrological background', Hydrological Sciences Journal 56 (5): 775-788.
- Shaw, J. (2009). ‘Stūpas, monasteries and relics in the landscape: typological, spatial, and temporal patterns in the Sanchi area', in A. Shimada and J. Hawkes, eds., Buddhist Stūpas in South Asia: Recent Archaeological, Art-Historical, and Historical Perspectives. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
- Madella, M., R. Osborne, and J. Shaw, (Eds.) (2009), The Archaeology of Water. World Archaeology, vol. 41.1.
- Shaw, J. (2007). Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi hill and archaeologies of religious and social change, c. 3rd century BC to 5th century AD. London: British Association for South Asian Studies, The British Academy.
- Shaw, J. (2007), ‘Landscape, Water and Religion in Ancient India’, Archaeology International 2006-2007, 43-52.
- Shaw, J., J. V. Sutcliffe, L. Lloyd-Smith, J-L. Schwenninger, and M.S. Chauhan, with contributions by E. Harvey and O.P. Misra (2007), ‘Ancient Irrigation and Buddhist history in Central India: Optically Stimulated Luminescence and pollen sequences from the Sanchi dams’, Asian Perspectives 46(1): 166-201.
- Shaw, J. (2005), 'The archaeological setting of Buddhist monasteries in central India: a summary of a multi-phase survey in the Sanchi area, 1998-2000', in C. Jarrige and V. Lefèvre (eds.), South Asian Archaeology 2001: proceedings of the 16th international conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, ADPF, Vol. 2, 665-676.
- Shaw, J. and J.V. Sutcliffe (2005), ‘Ancient Dams and Buddhist Landscapes in the Sanchi area: New evidence on Irrigation, Land use and Monasticism in Central India’, South Asian Studies 21, 1-24.
- Shaw, J. (2004), ‘Naga sculptures in Sanchi’s archaeological landscape: Buddhism, Vaisnavism and local agricultural cults in central India, first century BCE to fifth century CE’, Artibus Asiae LXIV(1), 5-59.
- Shaw, J. (2004), ‘Early historic landscapes in central India: recent archaeological investigations in districts Raisen and Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, 2003-4’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Archaeology 1, 143-150.
- Shaw, J. and J.V. Sutcliffe (2003), ‘Ancient dams, settlement archaeology and Buddhist propagation in central India: the hydrological background’, Hydrological Sciences Journal 48 (2), 277-291.
- Shaw, J. and J.V. Sutcliffe (2003), ‘Water management, patronage networks and religious change: new evidence from the Sanchi dam complex and counterparts in Gujarat and Sri Lanka’, South Asian Studies 19, 73-104.
- Shaw, J. and J.V. Sutcliffe (2001), ‘Ancient irrigation works in the Sanchi area: an archaeological and hydrological investigation’, South Asian Studies 17, 55-75.
- Shaw, J. (2000), ‘The sacred landscape’, in M. Willis, with contributions by J. Cribb and J. Shaw, Buddhist Reliquaries from Ancient India, London: British Museum Press, 27-38.
- Shaw, J. (2000), ‘Sanchi and its archaeological landscape: Buddhist monasteries, settlements and irrigation works in central India’, Antiquity 74, 775-776.
Shaw, J. (1999), ‘Buddhist landscapes and monastic planning in eastern Malwa: the elements of intervisibility, surveillance and the protection of relics’, in T. Insoll, (ed.), Case Studies in Archaeology and World Religion: the proceedings of the Cambridge conference, Oxford: Archaeopress, 5-17.
Publications in preparation
- Shaw, J. (Ed.) Archaeology of Religious Change. World Archaeology, vol. 45.1
- Shaw, J., ‘Introduction’. Archaeology of Religious Change. World Archaeology, vol. 45.1
- Shaw, J., ‘Archaeologies of Religious Change in South Asia’. Archaeology of Religious Change. World Archaeology, vol. 45.1
- Shaw, J., ‘Archaeologies of well-being and suffering: environmental ethics and Buddhist economics in ancient India’ (2013)
- Shaw, J., ‘Buddhist mortuary rituals in ancient India’. Invited paper for pre-circulation in seminar to be held at the McDonald Institute, Cambridge in April 2011. Papers will be peer reviewed and published in a single volume by 2013. Seminar title: Death Shall Have no Dominion. Organisers: Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd, and Ian Morley
- Shaw, J., and A. Beck, ‘The archaeological application of satellite remote-sensing in Central India' 2012/3).
- Shaw, J., J. Sutcliffe, and E. Brown. ‘Irrigation and complex society in ancient India: an archaeo-hydrological assessment’. Water History(journal). (2012)
- Shaw, J., J., Sutcliffe, E. Cork, and H. Bakker. ‘Archaeological landscapes at Ramtek and Mansar: religion, politics and water in the Vakataka empire’, South Asian Studies (2012)
- British Association for South Asian Studies (2006-8)
- Department of Archaeology, Museums and Archives, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal (PI)
- John Sutcliffe, Reading
- Religious change
- Social & economic change
- Landscape archaeology
- Water management
- Ancient irrigation
- Patronage & kingship
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Gaiar Alata, also known as Paradise, is a realm of Oblivion created by Mankar Camoran. It was designed by Camoran to be a side dimension for the Deadlands. It is a Paradise only for Camoran himself; for his followers, it is a prison and torture chamber.
There are four things needed to open a portal to Paradise. The first is the blood of a Daedric lord, which is imbued in the artifacts that they give mortals for doing them favors. The second is a Great Welkynd Stone, an artifact created by the Ayleids before the beginning of recorded history. Third, they need the blood of a Divine; the only known sample of such blood is on the armor of Tiber Septim himself, who became a Divine when he conquered Tamriel in the beginning of the Third Era. Lastly, one needs a Great Sigil Stone, which can only be obtained from a Great Oblivion Gate.
Once inside Paradise, there is said to be only one way out: That is through the Forbidden Grotto. To enter the Forbidden Grotto, one must be wearing the Bands of the Chosen; however, those who Camoran gives the bands to, thinking they were freed from Paradise, can in fact never exit the other side of the Forbidden Grotto, and unless they remove the bands (which cannot be done without magical assistance), they will be forever trapped in the Forbidden Grotto, to be tortured by the Dremora for eternity (since they are already immortal, they cannot die, no matter what happens to them). A common method of such torture is being locked in a cage and being dunked in a river of lava. If the prisoners die from this torture, they are resurrected and killed again.
There is supposed to be no way out of Paradise once inside (the exit of the Forbidden Grotto was merely a ploy to trick the prisoners into entering the Grotto), yet the Champion of Cyrodiil was able to escape Paradise by killing Camoran (presumably, since Paradise's creator no longer existed, neither did the dimension). | <urn:uuid:cce849a7-1a86-48ed-9098-6f98966ad9eb> | 2013-05-21T17:39:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This is a Dove approved family action comedy for children
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Information for Parents
What your child may experience:
For your son or daughter, college will likely be a period of intellectual stimulation and growth, career exploration and development, increased autonomy, self-exploration and discovery, and social involvement. During this period, your children may forge new identities or seek to clarify their values and beliefs. This may require an examination of self, friends, and family. It may also be a time for exploration and experimentation, and a period in which your children may question or challenge the values you hold dear. The changes your son or daughter may experience can occur quickly, as they begin to develop new peer relationships, gain competence in new areas, and learn to manage their independence. It is important to recognize that every child will experience his or her own unique set of challenges and adjustments, just as every parent will have different expectations for and reactions to their child's college experience.
What parents may experience:
Often overlooked is the fact that the college experience is a significant transition for parents as well as their children. As parents, you may experience feelings of happiness, excitement, and pride when your child leaves for college. At the same time, you may feel a sense of sadness and pain and have understandable fears and concerns about your child's future and well-being. You may worry about your child's safety and ability to care effectively for him or herself. You may fear losing your child as he or she begins to function more independently and form deep attachments with peers. You may be concerned about how your child will deal with alcohol, drugs, and sexual relationships. You may also wonder how your child's performance in college will reflect on you as the parent.
Recognize that feelings of conflict, happiness, excitement, sadness and ambivalence about your child's leaving home are normal. For most families, this step can seem like a dramatic separation of parent and child, although it is usually the separation of adult from almost-adult. It is normal, too, to look forward to the relative peace and quiet of having your active older adolescent out of the house and having the place to yourself, or being able to spend time with your younger children.
Allow yourself to feel whatever emotions come up. There is little benefit in pretending that you don't feel sad, guilty, relieved, apprehensive, or whatever feelings you have. You probably aren't fooling anyone by trying to hide your reactions; a healthier approach is to talk about them-with your family, friends, clergy, or other sources of support.
Tips on how to support your child:
Be sure to keep open communication going on a regular basis. Pick a regular time to talk that fits both schedules. Creating a routine is good for you because you will feel less intrusive. It may be good for your child because if they stay out of touch for long periods of time and then need your help, it might feel awkward to break the silence. It is important to maintain regular contact with your child, but also to allow space for your child to approach you and set the agenda for some of your conversations.
Let your child know that you respect and support his or her right to make independent decisions and that you will serve as an advocate and an advisor when asked. Let your child know that they do not have to protect you from their problems. Engage in active listening. Be patient; allow them to finish their argument or point before formulating a response. Finally, recognize that it is normal for your child to seek your help one day and reject it the next. Such behavior can be confusing and exhausting for parents, so make sure to take care of yourself by talking about your feelings with your own support system.
Be realistic and specific with your child about financial issues including what you will and will not pay for, as well as your expectations for how your son or daughter will spend money. Most students come to school with a fairly detailed plan about how tuition, fees, books, and room and board will be paid for, and what the family's expectations are about spending money. Being specific at the outset may help avoid misunderstandings later.
It is also important to be realistic about your child's academic performance, recognizing that not every straight-A student in high school will be a straight-A student in college. The University attracts bright students from all over the world, and not every freshman who excelled academically in high school will be an all-A student here. Developing or refining the capacity to work independently, consistently, and to demonstrate mastery can be more important than grades, as long as the student meets the basic academic requirements set out by the University. Help your children set realistic academic goals; encourage them to do their best and to seek assistance if needed.
Know the warning signs. You know your child better than anyone, and it is important that you still keep alert to the signs of change, upset, and distress. If you notice symptoms of depression, substance abuse, anxiety, eating disorders, or suicidal thinking - start a dialogue with your child that will facilitate support and help.
The fact that your child has left home does not necessarily prevent family problems from arising or continuing. Refrain from burdening your children with problems from home they have no control over and can do nothing about. Sharing these problems with your children may cause them to worry excessively and even feel guilty that they are away from home and unable to help.
If your child does experience difficulties at UGA, encourage him or her to take advantage of the wealth of resources available for students. For academic issues, talking with the professor, teaching assistant, or academic advisor is probably the first step, but the Academic Enhancement and Career Center are also both available to help. The Office of the Dean of Students can assist with a variety of concerns. If your son or daughter could benefit from counseling, Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) is located in the Health Center and can be reached by calling 706-542-2273. UGA is a big place, but you can help your child by reminding him or her of the many resources available on a large campus.
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PREVIOUS WINNER:Perdono-Tiziano Ferro (Italy)
Crazy4Brit welcomes you to Milan, Italy
RULESMilan (Western Lombard language: [mi?lan]; Italian: Milano [mi?la?no] ( listen)) is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza (created in 2004 splitting the northern part from the province of Milan itself), is one of Europe's largest with an estimated population of over 4 million spread over 1,980 km2 (764.48 sq mi), with a consequent population density of more than 2,000 inhabitants/km². The growth of many suburbs and satellite settlements around the city proper following the great economic boom of the 1950s–60s and massive commuting flows suggest that socioeconomic linkages have expanded well beyond the boundaries of the city proper and its agglomeration, creating a metropolitan area of 7.4 million population expanded all over the central section of Lombardy region. It has been suggested that the Milan metropolitan area is part of the so-called Blue Banana, the area of Europe with the highest population and industrial density.
The city was founded by the Insubres, a Celtic people. Milan was later captured by the Romans in 222 BC, and later was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 286 until 402 AD. Milan became one of the most prosperous Italian cities during the High Middle Ages, playing a primary role in the Lombard League. Later Milan became the capital city of the Duchy of Milan, being ruled by the Visconti, the Sforza, the Spanish and the Austrians. In 1796, Milan was conquered by the French troops of Napoleon I, who made it the capital of the puppet state of the Kingdom of Italy in 1805. Later Milan became the capital city of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, which was part of the Austrian Empire. In 1859 the city was unified with the Kingdom of Sardinia, which later became the Kingdom of Italy. During the Romantic period, Milan was a major cultural centre in Europe, attracting several artists, composers and important literary figures. Later, during World War II, the city was badly affected by Allied bombings, and after German occupation in 1943, Milan became the main hub of the Italian resistance. Despite this, Milan saw a post-war economic growth, attracting thousands of immigrants from Southern Italy and abroad.
Over the years, Milan has had an increase in the number of international inhabitants, and 15.2% of Milan's population is foreign born. The city remains one of Europe's main transportation and industrial hubs, and Milan is the EU's 10th most important centre for business and finance (2009) with its economy being the world's 26th richest by purchasing power. Milan ranks highly in both national and international rankings in terms of GDP per capita, average income rates, cost of living, and quality of life. Its economic environment has made it, according to several studies, the world's 20th and Europe's 10th top business and financial centre, having been highly successful in terms of city branding.
Milan is recognised as a world fashion and design capital, and it has thus been ranked by GaWC as an Alpha world city in 2010, as well as the 42nd most important global city. An important centre of the international arts and musical scene, the city holds several renowned institutions, theatres and museums, as well as important monuments, including a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Santa Maria delle Grazie); the metropolis also hosts several important events and fairs, including Milan Fashion Week and the Milan Furniture Fair, the largest of its kind in the world, and will host the 2015 Universal Exposition. The city is also home to two renowned football teams, A.C. Milan and F.C. Internazionale Milano. Euromonitor International ranked Milan as the world's 63rd most visited city in 2009, with 1.894 million arrivals.
Inhabitants of Milan are referred to as "Milanese" (Italian: Milanesi or informally Meneghini or Ambrosiani). Milan, for its pivotal economic role and its fervent political and cultural activity that often anticipates national trends, it is often nicknamed as the "moral capital of Italy".
01. This is a monthly contest.
02. You can pick ANY country in the world.
03. The song cannot have been a UK/US Top 40 hit, as it would give it an unfair advantage.
04. PLEASE try and choose a song not everyone would know, the point is to discover new artists.
05. The song cannot have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest.
06. The song can be a remix.
07. At least HALF of the people from your act must be from the country you are representing.
08. The song cannot be a cover version.
09. The song should be from 2000 to the present.
10. Everyone MUST vote, anyone who doesn't will be disqualified.
11. Discussion about one's favourites during the contest is NOT ALLOWED as it has the potential to influence the voting.
01 - 09 | Choose your country
10 - 15 | Present your entry
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01. ITALY (Crazy4Brit)
02. AUSTRALIA ((Virgostar)
03. KOSOVO (mondflug)
04. CROATIA (jio)
05. SWEDEN (naughty)
Albania (Nanda) | Afher dhe Larg-Elvana Gjata
Algeria (jio) | Yeppa Mama-Cheb Bilal feat. Leila Rami
Argentina (HC55555) | Esta Saliendo El Sol-Intoxicados
Australia (Virgostar) | Way Back Home-Bag Raiders
Benin (Wardo) | Le Temps S'Enfuit (Jahriki Remix)-Dibi Dobo
Brazil (KevinScream) | Acelera Ae-Ivete Sangalo
Canada (FreakyFlyBry) | Paper Dolls-Stef Lang
Croatia (theArmy) | Dat Ce Nam Bog-Nina Badric
Czech Rep. (nekoo3372) | Hey Boy-Verona
Denmark (chris975) | Lost In The Fire-The Storm
Finland (Dumheten) | Ways To Be-Villa Nah
France (Vindrag) | Pepito Bleu-Sebastien Tellier
Germany (mondflug) | Du Bist So Gut Fur Mich-Nena
Greece (Grybop) | Mono Mprosta-Demy
Hungary (vercotti) | Vizio-Caramel
Iceland (jafetsigfinns) | Eg Er Farinn-Ulfur Ulfur
India (Star) | Barso Re-A.R. Rahman & Shreya Ghoshal
Indonesia (abdeeaikawa) | Oh Baby-Cinta Laura
Japan (Mylostlenore) | Oboro-Kou Shibasaki
New Zealand (ThomyX) | Something In The Water-Brooke Fraser
Philippines (xtofer) | Hot Couture-Manila Luzon
Romania (Shortie) | Cerul-Proconsul
Russia (jzsmiles) | Hikikomori-Zola Jesus
South Korea (porriel) | Hoot-Girls' Generation
Sweden (naughty) |Not Helpless (Rink's If Only You Knew Remix)-Rebound
Ukraine (marat2408) | Okolo Tebya-Elka
UK (kirill) | Bloodstream-Stateless
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Master of Science in Athletic Training (M.S.A.T.)
The mission of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Entry-level Master of Science in Athletic Training (M.S.A.T.) degree program is to produce a highly functioning Certified Athletic Trainer who possesses the desired knowledge and skills to be distinctly competitive in the job market, and who appreciates and values their role as a contributing professional in the athletic training and sports medicine community at large.
Goals and Objectives
Goal #1. The student will become a competent and skilled Certified Athletic Trainer.
1. The student will demonstrate mastery of the NATA Educational Competencies.
2. The student will demonstrate the athletic training foundational professional behaviors.
3. The student will be able to translate didactic knowledge and skills into clinical decision making.
Goal #2. The student will demonstrate knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes to achieve optimal health outcomes in diverse patient populations.
1. The student will be able to adapt patient care decisions in the unique context of the college/university, high school, and rehabilitation intensive settings.
2. The student will be able to adapt patient care decisions for the unique needs of male, female, adolescent, and lay populations.
3. The student will be able to adapt patient care decisions in upper extremity, lower extremity, and equipment intensive clinical experiences.
4. The student will be able to effectively and respectfully provide patient care for people of diverse cultural backgrounds.
Goal #3 The student will be able to critically analyze the athletic training body of knowledge and interpret its impact on the profession.
1. The student will be able to utilize evidence based practice when making clinical decisions.
2. The student will be able to critique athletic training related literature and disseminate its findings to a variety of audiences including professionals, peers, and patients.
3. The student will be able to articulate the role of research in clinical practice.
Goal #4 The student will be able to promote the athletic training field as a contributing member of the profession.
1. The student actively participates in the state, district, and national associations for athletic trainers.
2. The student will contribute to the field through professional presentations.
3. The student will be able to defend a position on current professional and employment issues impacting the athletic training profession.
4. The student will gain an understanding of the role of athletic training within the interdisciplinary fields of Exercise and Sport Science and Sports Medicine.
The Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP) earned initial accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Professions (CAAHEP) in April 2003 and was granted continuing accreditation status in January 2004. Effective July 1, 2006, the new accrediting agency for the ATEP became the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). The ATEP is fully accredited by the CAATE; and therefore, students graduating from the CAATE accredited program are eligible to sit for the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board of Certification (BOC) examination.
The program is designed as a traditional 2 year M.S.A.T. program for those students who have already completed a Bachelor's degree and have taken the prerequisite courses listed under admissions.
We also offer sports medicine/athletic training graduate programs of study through our Applied Neuromechanics Research Laboratory for students who are already BOC certified. Please click here for more information | <urn:uuid:4bc18c70-b703-4ae7-8472-56a08e43caed> | 2013-05-21T17:23:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A judge finally made Tony and Tracy Danza's divorce official after more than six years of separation.
According to TMZ, the Danzas have been separated since 2006, though Tony didn't file divorce papers until 2011 after 24 years of marriage. He cited "irreconcilable differences."
The 62-year-old Danza has two daughters with Tracy and two more children from a previous marriage to Rhonda Yeoman.
Danza recently starred in "Don Jon's Addiction," a Sundance film written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. | <urn:uuid:7cc8cf03-67d0-42b3-b8e4-b06f0898c5b7> | 2013-05-21T17:24:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A T.V. show or movie involving animals, that is setup to look like a reality show.
A few prime examples of this includes Meerkat Manor, Orangutan Island, Dark Days in Monkey City, and March of the Penguins.
Guy 1: "Dude are you watching Discovery Channel?"
Guy 2: "Yeah! Meerkat Manor is on! It's about the Whisker Family's trouble and struggle."
Guy 1: "Wait... Are those actual animals, WTF are you watching?"
Guy 2: "BeastReality."
Noun; When you're at the animal exhibit at the local zoo, and the rhinoceros' are aggravated, taunting each other - and immedietly break out into wild sexual intercourse.
Offset of 'The Hills'...
Lauren Conrad: Can you like, believe this beastreality bullshat?
Stephen Colletti: I know. They like, fight like animals then spontaneously fuck!
Lauren Conrad: Stephen, O-M-G, they are animals.
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The feeling of euphoric happiness or sexual pleasure that occurs when a Craig Ferguson fan sees him do or hears him say something very sexy. This feeling is most often felt by cougars and teenaged girls. Something that is prone to give someone Fergasm is said to be Fergasmic.
"OMG, Craig's monologue last night was so hot!"
"I know, I almost had a Fergasm."
"But that part at the end where he opens his shirt and has his legs up on the desk always gives me Fergasm."
when you get a sudden orgasm from a boy named fernando,or named ferdinand who is an extreme cutie
you usually end up falling madly inlove with him afterwards :)
girl 1:omg! look at fernando
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adjective: something awesome or cool
verb: being awesome or cool
adverb: an awesome or cool verb
Adj: That chicken is so wofting.
Verb: I'm wofting.
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A: What have you been up to?
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A: How was the party last night?
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Noun. Portmanteau of "street" and "road": it describes a street, er, road, built for high speed, but with multiple access points. Excessive width is a common feature. A common feature in suburbia, especially along commercial strips. Unsafe at any speed, their extreme width and straightness paradoxically induces speeding. Somewhat more neutral than synonymous traffic sewer.
Did you see what the traffic engineers want to do to our street? They're going to turn it into a total stroad!
The word Stroad orginates from the last name of Stroud, it is a word that is mixed with choad and stroad. also stroudem is the word stroud and scrodem mixed
Hey doctor dont tought my stroudem
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Defined as the change in position of an object (displacement) per unit of time. Velocity, unlike speed, takes into account the direction of travel relative to a base point.
v = s/t (where v and s are vectors)
Where (using SI units):
v is the velocity of the body in metres per second (ms^-1)
s is the displacement of the body in metres (m)
t is the time taken to travel from the initial point to the final point in seconds (s)
1. (One dimension) If you start at point A and travel directly north to point B which is ten metres away, and it takes you five seconds to get there, your velocity will be 2ms^-1 due north.
2. (One dimension) If you travel west for a ten seconds at 1ms^-1, take a break for twenty seconds and then travel for another ten seconds at 1ms^-1, your velocity for the trip will be .05ms^-1 due west.
3. (Two dimension) If you start at point A and travel north at 3kmh^-1 for two hours, and then instantaneously change direction and travel due east for four hours at a speed of 2kmh^-1 to point B, your velocity for the trip is 10kmh^-1 N53°E (53°T)
Change in position over change in time. A measure of how fast something is moving. Measured in m/s, ft/s, mph or km/h.
The velocity of the roller coaster is 20 meters per second.
Smackdown's version of Heat where it mostly features Cruiserweight action with such cruiserweights as Paul London, Billy Kidman, Spike Dudley, Funaki, Akio, etc.
Chavo Guerrero vs. Billy Kidman is gonna be on Velocity this Saturday night! | <urn:uuid:4c29bbfe-16b4-49fb-8ceb-feedbeebdcba> | 2013-05-21T17:23:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assists a community's Brownfields and other livability efforts through its Civil Works and Support for Others authorities. The majority of Civil Works authorities -- with the exception of small projects that come under the Corps' Continuing Authorities Program (CAP) -- require special Congressional authorization and appropriation, while the Support for Others program allows the Corps to work for other agencies on a reimbursable basis.
Continuing Authorities Program
Congress has delegated to the Corps the general authority to study and, if proven feasible, approve and construct certain water resources development projects. The Continuing Authorities Program involves small water resource development projects and allows the Corps to respond quickly to community needs. The links below give more information on the Corps' Congressional authorities and how they can help your community: the U.S. Army Engineer District in Mobile, Alabama, offers an On-Line Customer Guide that contains brief descriptions of the authorities, how-to information for initiating a project, and provides sample letters to request Corps assistance (simply substitute the appropriate names and addresses for your district).
Support for Others
The Support for Others program allows the Corps to provide reimbursable technical services to other federal agencies as well as to states, local municipalities, international governments, and Native American Tribes. The program provides services to federal, state, and local agencies that do not have the technical engineering expertise. The U.S. Army Engineer District in Jacksonville, Florida, maintains an Interagency and International Services page that contains an overview of its Support for Others activities, while the Corps Headquarters Web site contains more detailed information about Interagency and International Support. | <urn:uuid:e315f051-be3d-457f-903b-3b05d120b7b5> | 2013-05-21T17:24:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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GNU Fortran Command Options
The `g77' command supports all the options supported by the `gcc'
command. Note: GNU CC Command Options, for
information on the non-Fortran-specific aspects of the `gcc' command
(and, therefore, the `g77' command).
All `gcc' and `g77' options are accepted both by `g77' and by `gcc'
(as well as any other drivers built at the same time, such as `g++'),
since adding `g77' to the `gcc' distribution enables acceptance of
`g77'-specific options by all of the relevant drivers.
In some cases, options have positive and negative forms; the
negative form of `-ffoo' would be `-fno-foo'. This manual documents
only one of these two forms, whichever one is not the default.
- * Option Summary
- Brief list of all `g77' options,
- * Overall Options
- Controlling the kind of output:
an executable, object files, assembler files,
or preprocessed source.
- * Shorthand Options
- Options that are shorthand for other options.
- * Fortran Dialect Options
- Controlling the variant of Fortran language
- * Warning Options
- How picky should the compiler be?
- * Debugging Options
- Symbol tables, measurements, and debugging dumps.
- * Optimize Options
- How much optimization?
- * Preprocessor Options
- Controlling header files and macro definitions.
Also, getting dependency information for Make.
- * Directory Options
- Where to find header files and libraries.
Where to find the compiler executable files.
- * Code Gen Options
- Specifying conventions for function calls, data layout
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Mindy McCready "Happy" After Custody Battle Victory
Good news for Mindy McCready.
The 36-year-old country star told reporters Monday outside an Arkansas courthouse that while she couldn't talk specifically about the custody hearing for her son, she was "a happy girl."
Inside the closed door session, a judge determined whether McCready, who is pregnant with twins, would reclaim custody of her 5-year-old son Zander. (It's unclear whether the judge granted her permanent or temporary custody.)
She first made headlines last week when authorities said she and her son -- whose legal guardian is McCready's mother -- disappeared from her father's Cape Coral, Fla., home Tuesday evening.
After she and her son were declared missing; she was then been ordered by a judge to bring the child back to Florida, which she was unable to do.
In an interview with the Associated Press, McCready accused her mother of abusing Zander; the child's grandmother said the claims are "absolutely not true."
After McCready and Zander were found, the singer's publicist quickly refuted claims that she abducted her son, adding that both she and Zander were "safe, healthy and comfortable."
Following Monday's closed hearing, McCready's camp issued a statement to E! News confirming that "Mindy and Zander both remain in Arkansas at this time" and that "Zander remains with a foster care family" there. | <urn:uuid:d725497e-b038-4bcd-b073-fc50792482f0> | 2013-05-21T17:38:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Serena Williams is returning to the WTA Tour at next week's Generali Ladies Linz after being sidelined since July by a cut on her right foot.
Organizers said the Wimbledon and Australian Open champion confirmed her entry Thursday, the same day she lost her No. 1 ranking.
Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki will take over the top spot when the rankings are released Monday.
Williams had surgery after cutting her foot on broken glass at a restaurant after winning Wimbledon. She returned to practice in September but twice put off her comeback, withdrawing from the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and this week's China Open in Beijing.
Linz will be only the seventh tournament of the year for Williams, who already had qualified for the end-of-season championships in Doha.
She also has made herself available for the U.S. Fed Cup team that is playing Italy in the final Nov. 6-7 in San Diego.
Williams' sister Venus said Tuesday she would not play again this year because of a left knee injury that has sidelined her for most of the second half of season.
Serena Williams has played in Linz once - in 2004, when she lost in the second round to Russia's Alina Jidkova.
Former champion Daniela Hantuchova at No. 26 is the second-highest ranked player at the $220,000 tournament. U.S. Open quarterfinalist Dominika Cibulkova and last year's runner-up Petra Kvitova are also taking part.
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GRASS VALLEY, Calif.
Nevada County authorities are investigating the death of a 52-year-old Grass Valley man who died after police used a stun gun to subdue him.
The Sacramento Bee (
) reports that Grass Valley police were responding to a report of a man yelling at people around 4 p.m. Sunday. Officers attempted to talk to the partially clothed man, but he didn't comply with their commands and then struck the driver of a passing vehicle.
Police say officers then fired a Taser stun gun at the man and took him into custody.
The man identified as Bruce Chrestensen of Grass Valley became unresponsive and was taken to a hospital where he died.
The Nevada County District Attorney's office is investigating the incident.
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On the way to school this morning we were discussing where the various characters on Sponge Bob Squarepants live - pineapple, statue, rock, etc. C said that Mr. Crab lives in an anchor.
Me: You mean he lives on an anchor.
C: No, in an anchor.
Me: You can't live in an anchor.
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Royal Carribbean's Oasis of the Seas
The world's biggest and most expensive cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, is docked at the STX Finnish shipyard in Turku on Oct. 28, 2009. The ship was handed over to the Royal Caribbean cruiseline. The $1.3 billion cruise ship, which can accommodate a 6,360 passengers and 2,160 crew members, will leave Turku on Oct. 30, setting sail for a two-week voyage to its U.S. home port Fort Lauderdale. | <urn:uuid:7323d6a3-8a1a-4819-a43b-4acef5156a49> | 2013-05-21T17:37:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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117 m² del condominio Le.Ru.
The condominium Le. Ru in Treviso was built in the '60s and it contains 28 made by the same structure. I considered only 5 of them and I interviewed the families living in each one.
I established the first shooting picture in my living room and i repeated it in every other appartment.
Just to see how people could differently live their private space. | <urn:uuid:cfc2f149-6ffb-4b9f-b9a2-f5328074164f> | 2013-05-21T17:31:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Seem like you never stop cleaning? Follow these tips to make short work of your housework.
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Most of us are cooking more to save money. Unfortunately, that means that the kitchen can get dirtier than ever faster than ever. But you can easily bring it back to its former sparkle with a little prep.
Every year, much of the food we prepare ends up in the garbage. Make sure your family isn't throwing food -- and money -- away.
Does your family have quality bonding time? If not, here's some advice on how to make that happen.
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Don't cook from scratch every weeknight! Short ribs make a great base for a week's worth of family-friendly meals.
I always have trouble sleeping when I travel, and it makes it harder to enjoy my vacation. Any tips?
If you're sick of serving chili, chips and brownies, check out these winning new menu ideas.
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Faculty involvement in students' career development is invaluable. Many students never need to come in to our office, largely as a result of the mentoring and guidance they receive from specific faculty members. Our aim is to support faculty's existing efforts to positively impact their students' career planning and development, and collaborate on events and programs that support each academic department on campus.
We believe that career development is essential to students' overall wellbeing, increases academic engagement, and positively impacts retention; for this reason, we are constantly looking to strengthen our partnerships with Valpo faculty. Below is our mission statement, and to the left are various ways to partner with us to better serve our students.
Career Center Mission Statement
To encourage lifelong career development by empowering students to identify, visualize and pursue their vocational interests and passions.
This is accomplished by interacting with students individually and in small groups to help them identify their interests, values and skills. Subsequently, we help them further discover occupational options and build professional relationships en route to a job, career and/or graduate or professional school. | <urn:uuid:20503c2a-e2d3-4fe4-afab-39d35c4f0c1f> | 2013-05-21T17:46:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Men's Cross Country » Schedule » Roster » News » Coaches » 2012 Season Statistics||VALPOATHLETICS.COM|
February 12, 2013
The Valparaiso men’s cross country squads from 1963, 1964 and 1965 put together perhaps the most impressive run of high finishes in national competition in Valparaiso athletics history, and on Saturday, February 16, the group of three teams will be inducted into the Valparaiso University Athletics Hall of Fame.
February 10, 2013
Valparaiso placed a league-high ten student-athletes over five sports on the Horizon League's 2012 Fall Academic All-League Teams, as announced by the league office.
November 09, 2012
The Valparaiso men’s cross country team saw its top three runners finish within 17 seconds of each as the Crusader men concluded the 2012 season at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional in Madison, Wis. on Friday, finishing in 27th place.
October 27, 2012
The Valparaiso men’s cross country team ran to a sixth-place finish Saturday afternoon at the 2012 Horizon League Cross Country Championships in Kenosha, Wis.
October 13, 2012
The Valparaiso men’s cross country team competed in its final race prior to the league championship meet on Saturday, running to a fifth-place finish at the Evansville Invitational in Evansville, Ind.
September 28, 2012
The Valparaiso men's cross country team continued its 2012 slate on Friday afternoon, finishing in 14th place in the Gold Race of the Notre Dame Invitational in Notre Dame, Ind.
September 14, 2012
Led by senior Wally Bradford (Mukwonago, Wis./Mukwonago), the Valparaiso men's cross country team ran to a 12th-place showing Friday afternoon at the Indiana Intercollegiates in Terre Haute, Ind.
August 31, 2012
Senior Wally Bradford (Mukwonago, Wis./Mukwonago) opened the season for the Valparaiso men’s cross country team with a 16th-place finish at Friday’s Crusader Open.
July 26, 2012
Four races within the state of Indiana, including the season-opening Crusader Open at Sunset Hills Farm, will prepare the Valparaiso cross country teams for the Horizon League Championships as head coach Mike Straubel announced the Crusaders’ 2012 schedule today. | <urn:uuid:a69ec369-d219-4662-a44f-778e342bc75e> | 2013-05-21T17:11:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How to Groom a Cat- Bathing & Brushing
The general condition of your cat's skin and coat are good indicators of its health. A healthy coat should be shiny and smooth and healthy skin should be supple and clear. Although health and nutrition influence the luster and texture of your cat's coat, regular grooming and skin care will help keep your cat's coat clean and free of tangles, no matter what type of hair coat he or she has.
All cats benefit from regular brushing to remove loose hairs and dead skin cells. Brushing helps keep the coat free of dirt, debris, and to distribute natural skin oils along the hair shafts. Cats with long coats require daily brushing to keep their hair from becoming tangled or matted. Cats with short hair coats may require less frequent brushing.
Grooming a cat daily will cut down on the amount of hair that a cat swallows during the course of self- grooming with its tongue, thus helping to reduce the number of hairballs your cat may develop. In addition to benefitting your cat, daily brushing will cut down dramatically on the amount of loose hair and pet dander floating around the home. | <urn:uuid:bd6d77d4-8737-4172-a2ac-e42c2865effc> | 2013-05-21T17:11:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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LA PAZ, Bolivia — LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - A dispute over ethnicity marked census-taking day in Bolivia as the landlocked Andean nation's population submitted Wednesday to its first national head count in 11 years.
The controversy revolved around a decision by the government of President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, not to include "mestizo" as a category.
It might not have been an issue - "mestizo" never appeared as an option on previous censuses - had not Bolivians been given the option Wednesday of declaring themselves members of one of 40 ethnic groups, including Afro-Bolivians.
Critics of Morales say he is afraid people would check "mestizo," or mixed-race, so as not to identify themselves with a particular indigenous group, thus delegitimizing the government.
"I'm not Aymara. I'm not Quechua. I'm a mestizo," read graffiti painted on walls around La Paz, the capital.
"The government wants to put on display an indigenous country, and if 'mestizo' turned out to be the majority identity its entire indigenous routine gets sunk," said Victor Hugo Cardenas, a former vice president and, like Morales, an ethnic Aymara.
More than 60 percent of Bolivians are of native descent and Morales, who grew up in poverty and became a coca-grower's union leader, has solid support from the Aymara and Quechua, the two principal ethnicities centered in the highlands.
The Morales government rewrote Bolivia's constitution to give native groups political autonomy, naming it a "plurinational state."
Interior Minister Carlos Romero said the result of Wednesday's census would help the government construct such a state. And he noted that people who did not wish to identify an ethnicity could simply check "Bolivian" on the census form.
In practice, the autonomy of the country's native groups has been very limited and Morales has alienated many indigenous Bolivians, especially lowlands Indians, by insisting on plans to build a highway across a nature preserve that would link La Paz with Brazil.
The census aims to provide the government with hard data on who lives where and who has moved around to help it make decisions on distributing resources and providing basic services such as health, education, electricity and water.
Expected to be well-detailed in the census is the economic primacy of the lowlands state of Santa Cruz, seat of opposition to Morales. Although La Paz and the Andean highlands are home to most Bolivians, Santa Cruz produces 70 percent of the country's food and accounts for 27 percent of gross domestic product against 25 percent for La Paz.
Administering the census was estimated to cost $50 million.
Bolivians were obliged to stay at home on Wednesday to participate, silencing the usual cacophony on the streets of the major cities in the country of 10 million.
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“If God is all-powerful and all-good, it would have created a universe in the same way it created heaven: with free will for all, no suffering and no evil. But evil and suffering exist. Therefore God does not exist, is not all-powerful or is not benevolent (good). A theodicy is an attempt to explain why a good god would have created evil and suffering. The most popular defence is that it is so Humans could have free will. However the entire universe and the natural world is filled with suffering, violence and destruction so any Humanity-centric explanation does not seem to work.”
The most common theodicy is the free will theodicy1. This is that God created evil so that we could then choose between good and evil, and make moral choices. If all choices result in good, there would be no moral choices. If love is acceptable, it must be chosen over hate and therefore evil and suffering result when we make morally poor choices. However this classical theodicy does not hold up, for many reasons. Although many believers adhere to the free will theodicy, it is not preached in the holy books of the main monotheistic religions. See: Monotheism and Free Will: The Christian Bible and the Quran both teach strict determinism - that God decides all of our fates, and our own choices and decisions cannot change God's plan for everyone. Prominent historical Christian theologians who have rejected the free will theodicy include St Augustine, Martin Luther and John Calvin2. The arguments on this page are thousands of years old, but, many continue to believe in the simplicity of the free will theodicy, so, it does no harm to state the arguments against it again.
The fact that there is both free will and no evil in heaven tells us that evil and suffering are not a requirement of free will. If there is no reason for suffering in heaven, then, God should instantly put everyone in heaven, where we would all continue to have free will, but also not suffer.
“Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods and disease affect human beings indiscriminately and result from geological factors not from free will. Unborn babies lay amongst the victims. Animals and humans alike suffer as a result of natural evil. These disasters have been prevalent for all of Earth's history so have nothing to do with human agency. Not only that, but the entire universe is steeped in large-scale destruction and violence as part of the very design of the physical world. None of this indicates that there is a 'good' design behind it all, and it especially indicates that there is no good god.”
God not only created the possibility of suffering, pain and sin, but it appears that it made us with a strong inclination towards it. Life being "unfair" is a symptom of pain or suffering, of inadequacy or feelings or even sinful emotions such as greed. God created these emotions, we do not choose to accept them, they are inherent in our nature. God could have created us so that we do not feel these emotions, that they simply don't exist. It would eliminate a lot of evil, and would not take away our free will - we'd just have a different range of emotions that we didn't choose to have. The fact that God has created our nature and instincts to be geared towards sin and imperfection means that it wants us to choose evil over good. It has created evil, and created us so that we will mostly "choose" it.
God sometimes creates people with (for example) genetic diseases that predispose them to paranoid schizophrenia, violent crime, sexual abuse and amorality and other inherited personality defects. Other people are born with a predisposition to calmness, subordination and pacifism. Both types of person have free will. God could easily create the majority of humanity so that our personality is much better and kinder in general and not just in outstanding individuals. It seems that the actual quantity and evil and suffering could be much less, and free will would still exist.
Suffering is not required for free will. When someone commits a crime or otherwise causes suffering, why does the victim suffer? The victim has not chosen evil, they are merely the unfortunate victims of someone else's choice. If justice or morality exist, and come from God, then only those acts that are evil should be punished. When someone is a victim, God itself should put the crime right, and avoid the innocent suffering. The person responsible for the evil may still suffer punishment or retribution, but why does the victim need to suffer? If suffering and evil are the result of free will, then, why is it that much suffering is caused by outside agencies?
This transmission of the effects of one person's bad choices to another's experience is unnecessary for free will. In a society where there are no victims, punishment would be unnecessary. If our nature was geared towards good, there would be no need for punishment to be used as a terror tactic to reduce crime. That punishment is necessary means that God cannot be all-powerful. It is not an effect of free will that we should suffer the consequences of each other's bad choices, it is an effect of a universe operating under a different, amoral sense of justice, and not under the care of an all-powerful, just God.
Free will is the ability to make choices. This means, we must have options. What these options are is irrelevant. A saint, Jesus, Muhammad, etc, had free will. These people also did not (perhaps) ever commit a sin. Nevertheless it is ludicrous to say that because a person does not choose evil that they have no free will. In other words, it is possible for a person never to accept evil, and still have free will. This means that we could have a nature that never wills transgression, and we could still have free will. There are many millions of choices and paths you can take in life, there is no requirement for "cause evil" to be an effect of them. Free will still exists without it.
If God was good, we would all exist (as those in heaven do) in a situation where we all continually have the free will to choose between different good courses of action. Evil simply isn't required for free will.
When a person chooses evil, God could rectify the real life effect of it, and simply let the perpetrator feel its effect. There is no need for evil to manifest outside of a person's own choices. Evil, in short, could be chosen, but not realized. There is no reason for evil to cause suffering. If we had a choice between doing something good or bad, if we chose bad, why does it cause suffering? Why must it? It seems we could chose bad, and for it to have no effect other than to prevent us feeling that we did good. That is enough for free will. A forgiving God would note that someone just chose badly, and rectify their mistake and forgive them. No suffering would result. If it means that those who choose badly fail to get to heaven then so be it, but, there is no need for actual suffering to occur. "Evil begets evil" is not the fruit of a good god; bad choices by us needn't result in the punishment of pain or suffering for anyone. The lack of separation of evil from its effects shows that God is not interested in preventing evil.
Some monotheistic religions such as Christianity and Islam preach that Adam and Eve were the beginning of mankind rather than our evolutionary predecessors (which was a whole species rather than two individuals). In these religions, Adam and Eve are said to have been created in paradise, but banished for committing the original sin.
The Original Sin is the reason Christians say that Human Beings experience suffering - as a result of Adam and Eve's actions. Humankind was created in, and was supposed to exist in, a state of immortal paradise. But as a result of Adam and Eve's original sin, we have all been punished with our earthly existence, completely with suffering, pain and death (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:21). Genesis 3:14-19 describes some of the punishments in more detail. The reason there is any death at all is because Adam and Eve disobeyed God.
The story in the Qur'an, Sura 7:24-27, tells of when Adam and Eve are punished and banished from paradise, and must thereafter live on the Earth complete with its suffering, pain and death. This however, makes all their children and descendents suffer from the same punishment. This is despite the Qur'anic statement that "none shall bear the burden of another's sin" (35:18 and 53:38).
Before Augustine coined the phrase original sin it was known simply as ancestral sin. It is a feature of Christianity that been much criticized. Famed antagonist Richard Dawkins asks "What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor?"4.
Is it is really moral to punish someone for someone else's actions? All good parents teach their children that that is not fair and unjust. Hence, the story of Adam and Eve teaches us that God is unjust or at least, not always just, and therefore is not perfectly benevolent.
The story teaches us that it is divine will that sometimes the relatives of sinners can be punished for the guilty.
The story teaches us that free will is not the cause of the suffering of mankind. We are all born in a world of pain and death because someone-else committed a crime, which was nothing to do with our own free will to choose wrongly.
The free will justification for evil does not work. Free will does not require the existence of evil or suffering - Heaven is a place where there is free will, and no suffering. There is a lot of suffering and evil that is not the result of free will such as from natural disasters, so free will could not actually account for all suffering, only some of it. The question of why God creates additional suffering would still exist. Also, the free will of one person can cause suffering for another innocent person, God should not allow the moral choices of one being affect other beings as this goes against accountability, which is the whole point of free will. In short, it seems that the existence of pain and suffering contradicts the existence of a good god.
“To the present day, all theodicies have failed to explain why a good god would create evil, meaning that the existence of evil is simply incompatible with the existence of a good god. After thousands of years of life-consuming passion, weary theologians have not formulated a new answer to the problem of evil for a long time. The violence of the natural world, disease, the major catastrophes and chaotic destruction seen across the universe and the unsuitability of the vastness of reality for life all indicate that god is not concerned with life, and might actually even be evil. Failure to answer the problem of evil sheds continual doubt on the very foundations of theistic religions.”
The Koran. Translation by N. J. Dawood. Penguin Classics edition published by Penguin Group Ltd, London, UK. First published 1956, quotes taken from 1999 edition.
The Bible (NIV). The NIV is the best translation for accuracy whilst maintaining readability. Multiple authors, a compendium of multiple previously published books. I prefer to take quotes from the NIV but where I quote the Bible en masse I must quote from the KJV because it is not copyrighted, whilst the NIV is. [Book Review]
The Encyclopedia of Religion (1987, Ed.). 16 volumes. Eliade is editor-in-chief. Published by Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, USA.
The Devil in Early Modern England (2000). Sutton Publishing Limited, England. | <urn:uuid:79dfa149-f3b7-4316-b5e3-5f20a27df503> | 2013-05-21T17:38:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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VGPRO's catalog of over 20 thousand downloadable games files was acquired in January of 2009. The site has since been closed down.
We want to give our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to the VGPRO community and helped make this site one of the top online destinations for gamers for over five years.
Thanks and game on!
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Draft sentencing guidelines give welcome focus on impact of sex offences on victims
Published: 06 December 2012
- 06 December 2012
Judges are being urged to take into account the psychological and long-term effects on victims
Victim Support welcomes the new draft sentencing proposals on sexual offences, which show a clear shift towards emphasising the harm caused to victims.
The Sentencing Council's draft sentencing guideline covers a number of offences including rape, child sex offences, indecent images of children, trafficking and voyeurism.
They propose a variety of changes to how offending is dealt with by the courts.
Javed Khan, Chief Executive of Victim Support, said: "We're pleased that the proposals better reflect the needs of victims of these traumatic crimes. The new guidance allowing a single rape to fall in the highest sentencing category is a huge step forward.
"However, the final guidance also needs to include clear information about victim personal statements, which are the main way for victims to tell the court how the sexual offence has psychologically affected them. Judges can't just guess this information."
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Library Vision and Mission
Todd Wehr Memorial Library is an integral part of Viterbo University. Grounded in Franciscan values, this vital information services center develops, coordinates, and promotes dynamic services designed to enhance learning and anticipate the needs of a diverse Viterbo community.
Todd Wehr Memorial Library is a key partner in fulfilling the mission of Viterbo University by educating students and enhancing the scholarship of the institution. The library:
- Engages students in a variety of learning activities through formal and informal teaching forums.
- Promotes and develops an information literate community through instruction, faculty partnerships, and learner-focused information services.
- Enhances the university’s scholarly culture by connecting researchers to scholarly information and engaging in ongoing dialogue with faculty partners.
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PC Magazine Names VMware Workstation Best Utility of 2003
Largest Technology Publication Bestows Top Honors on Powerful Desktop Virtualization Software
PALO ALTO, Calif., February 18, 2004 — VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced that PC Magazine has named VMware Workstation the best utility of 2003.
"VMware Workstation is the Superman of virtual machine software. It's able to build complex, enterprise-level virtual networks with a few mouse clicks and is capable of running virtual SCSI disks and real USB-based hardware. An optional tabbed interface switches among multiple guest machines quickly," noted Edward Mendelson, contributing editor at PC Magazine. "Only VMware Workstation has a time-saving 'snapshot' feature that restores a virtual machine to an earlier condition while an application is actually running. VMware Workstation supports vastly more complex virtual networks and lets you modify them through an easily navigable control panel."
Since its introduction in 1999, VMware Workstation has revolutionized software development by dramatically simplifying and accelerating the way software is developed and deployed. Users run multiple operating systems, including Windows and Linux, simultaneously and independently on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines. Today VMware Workstation is used by more than 2.2 million people worldwide for software development, testing, deployment, application compatibility, operating system migration, training, sales demos, help desk support and technical support.
"We're honored that PC Magazine has named VMware Workstation the best utility of 2003," said Michael Mullany, vice president of marketing at VMware. "As we move to a world where multiple operating systems are a fact of life, Workstation will be there to provide huge time-savings for technical professionals who need to do more with less."
Past industry recognition of VMware Workstation includes the CNET Editor's Choice award, Delphi Informant Readers' Choice award, Linux Magazine Editor's Choice award, PC Magazine Linux award, PC Magazine Technical Excellence award, Software Development Magazine Jolt Product Excellence award, Software Development Magazine Jolt Productivity award, Visual Studio Magazine Editor's Choice award and Windows & .NET Magazine Readers' Choice award.
About PC Magazine
PC Magazine, the independent guide to technology, delivers comprehensive labs-based reviews and the most trusted recommendations for buyers of technology products and services. Reaching highly engaged technology influencers, PC Magazine provides product reviews, first looks at emerging technologies and products and opinionated columns from renowned technology pundits.
VMware, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC), is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.vmware.com or call 650-475-5000.
(C) 2004 VMware, Inc. all rights reserved. VMware is a trademark of VMware, Inc. All other trademarks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. | <urn:uuid:665acd0a-e16b-42dd-b1de-797697c6a0f1> | 2013-05-21T17:18:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A French academic arrived home from Iran on Sunday, after being detained for 10 months on spying charges. The French government denies any bargaining to secure her release.
French academic Clotilde Reiss was welcomed home Sunday by President Nicolas Sarkozy, shortly after arriving on a French government jet. She spoke briefly to reporters after the meeting.
The 24-year-old researcher thanked Mr. Sarkozy for claiming her innocence and paid tribute to two colleagues who were executed in Iran. Both had appeared at her trial last year on spying charges.
Reiss was arrested in Iran last July after attending anti-governnment protests. She had spent a year in the country as a university teacher. Iranian authorities convicted her of spying and imposed a 10-year prison sentence. Her lawyer says she was released after payment of a fine of about $300,000.
The Reiss case had complicated French efforts to back tougher international penalties against Tehran over its nuclear program.
The release comes just five days after a French court rejected an American request to extradite an Iranian businessman suspected of violating a U.S. embargo by sending restricted technology to Iran. The businessman subsequently returned to Iran.
Last fall, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had suggested France and Iran should exchange prisoners held in each other's jails.
But on Sunday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner denied any trade had taken place.
Kouchner said the government did not influence the decision of French judges to release the Iranian. He said no bargaining took place to secure Reiss' release. Opposition politicians have called on the French government to offer a clearer explanation of the events. | <urn:uuid:30295a48-034e-484b-97d6-7337797fa8f7> | 2013-05-21T17:11:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Assault Weapons and Accessories in America
Across America, the firepower in the hands of gun owners of varying stripes is increasing dramatically. The reason: assault weapons. Drug traffickers are finding that assault weapons—in addition to 'standard issue' handguns—provide the extra firepower necessary to fight police and competing dealers. Right-wing paramilitary extremists, in their ongoing battle against the "Zionist Occupational Government," have made these easily purchased firearms their gun of choice. And rank and file gun aficionados—jaded with handguns, shotguns, and hunting rifles—are moving up to the television glamour and movie sex appeal of assault weapons. The growing market for these weapons—coupled with a general rising interest in the non-sporting use of firearms—has generated an industry of publications, catalogs, accessories, training camps, and combat schools dedicated to meeting its needs.
Assault weapons are growing in popularity for a variety of reasons. For manufacturers, assault weapons are a necessary new product line in the wake of the mid-1980s decline in handgun sales. Yet, manufacturers didn't create a market, they recognized one. For criminals, the weapons look intimidating, have increased firepower, and can be purchased under the same controls as a hunting rifle or shotgun: that is, virtually none. For survivalists who envision themselves fending off a horde of desperate neighbors from their bomb shelters, the high ammunition capacity and other anti-personnel capabilities of assault weapons are exactly what is needed. And for fans of Rambo and "Miami Vice," assault weapons offer the look and feel of the real thing. Not surprisingly, this shift to increased firepower—in both criminal and law-abiding hands—has law enforcement worried.
The assault weapons threat is exacerbated by the fact that the weapons are difficult to define in legal terms. Legislators and members of the press have proposed placing increased restrictions on all semi-auto firearms, which would include some hunting rifles. Whether these proposals are merely the result of ignorance of the wide variety of firearms that are semi-automatic, or misguided efforts in the face of definitional problems, they only lend credence to the gun lobby's argument that restrictions on assault weapons are merely the first step toward banning all semi-automatic guns.
Assault firearms are semi-automatic (firing one bullet per trigger pull) and fully automatic (the weapon will keep on firing as long as the trigger is depressed) anti-personnel rifles, shotguns, and handguns that are designed primarily for military and law enforcement use. With muzzle velocities that are often greater than standard long guns and high-capacity ammunition magazines, assault weapons are built to kill large numbers of human beings quickly and efficiently. In tests at their firing range, San Jose, California police found that a fully automatic UZI could fire its 30-round magazine in slightly less than two seconds. A semi-automatic version of the weapon required only five seconds for the magazine to be emptied. Most assault weapons have no legitimate hunting or sporting use. Assault rifles and shotguns often have pistol grips and folding stocks and are typically lighter and more concealable than standard long guns. Some assault pistols have threaded barrels for the easy attachment of silencers. Many assault weapons are merely semi-automatic versions of military machine guns, making them easier to convert to fully automatic machine guns.
The number of assault weapons in civilian hands—both criminal and law-abiding—is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions. No exact figures are available. An unknown number of these weapons have been illegally converted to full-auto. (For an explanation of the different categories and types of firearms, please see Appendix I.)
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Social Protocols: Enabling Sophisticated Commerce on the Web
Audience: Students of HLS and MIT 6.805: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier
Goal: Present ideas about social protocols, abstract on technical and
legal design principules and rules of thumb, frame analaytical questions for student
5 Key Points
- web interactions can be as sophisticated as those found in the real world
- but the web requires mechanisms of trusted abstraction, assurance, redirection, and
- the key components of this are meta-data, negotiation, and signatures.
- social cues are meta-data! <exclaim>
- meta-data is RDF, based on XML
Abstract: Social Protocols: Meta-data and Negotiation in Digital
On the foundations of basic network, meta-data, and negotiation protocols, a
"new" set of protocols, "social protocols," are being built. They are
in fact applications of meta-data and negotiation in order to mimic the social
capabilities people have in the real world: capabilities to create rich content, make
verifiable assertions, create agreements, and to develop and manage trust relationships.
- Introduction, what is a social protocol
- Methods of exchanging social cues, and negotiation: Anecdote about interacting with
others (talking to Richard at CFP)
- Real world examples
- <smile> (emoticons) XML markup that is a social cues, so is CSS (visual cues)
- Generations of Protocols
- Meta-Data and Negotiation
- Example of a Social Protocol, P3P
- Social Protocols Introduction
- 3 Generations of Protocols
- Negotiation and DSig
- P3P and PICS as Social Protocols
- At the last CFP, someone asked me what I do, I said "policy analysis," they
said, "you don't look like a policy analyst, where's your suit?"
- the real world has mechanisms for exchanging meta-data about real world objects
(people), and data (the things people state)
this includes the social cues and body language that we take for granted
- Web interactions could be as sophisticated as those found in the real world
- "technical protocols" typically serve to facilitate machine to machine
- "graphical user interfaces" serve to facilitate machine to human
- "social protocols" mediate interactions between humans using
or computer agents acting on behalf of human concerns.
- enable the creation of rich content, verifiable assertions, decisions, and agreements --
to develop and manage trust relationships
- often driven by explicit policy requirements
- the web requires mechanisms of trusted abstraction, assurance, redirection, and cues
- the key components of this are meta-data, negotiation, and trust mechanisms.
Real World Examples
In today's world we use a number of "tools" to create and maintain
- value added services
- information seeking and filtering (NYT, CNN)
- assertion systems that are verifiable or even legally binding
- actionable policies (2 out of 3 bank officer signatures required for loans > 50K)
- price lists (LL Bean catalog)
- contractual agreements (employment contract)
- relationship and trust management systems
- reputation and brand creation (seal of approval)
- trusted third parties (letters of credit)
Three Generations of Protocols
Web protocols can be broadly classified into three "layers":
- architectural protocols: HTML and HTTP
- meta-data, negotiation, and signature protocols: annotations, PICS (as spec'd),
XML/CSS/RDF and JEPI/PEP
- social protocols: PICS (as applied), P3P
2nd Generation: Meta-Data Protocols
Meta-data: "data about data" (Web resources).
All of these systems provide some "data about data."
- SGML/XML (structure meta-data)
- CSS/Aural-CSS (presentation meta-data)
- PICS (numerical annotation meta-data)
- RDF (assertions/descriptions meta-data)
(Any data that has a referent is meta-data. The definition of meta-data and semantics
are dependent on the application and respective position of other layers.)
Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
- a machine understandable Web annotation system
- an assertion system
- multiple "rating" systems (referred to as assertion systems, schemas, or
- multiple distribution mechanisms, including third party label bureaus
XML and RDF
XML is document structure/syntax
- used for creating structured elements beyond those provided in HTML:
- one could create an emoticon DTD, with documents having actual <smile>,
<frown>, and <grin> tags!
- this could be complemented by style sheets (including aural) which present further
information on how those tags should be rendered (bright, loud, muted, etc.)
XML and RDF
RDF is meta-data about Web resources (anything referable by a URI)
- constrains the XML syntax according to a specified data model, semantics are explicit
- assertions about other documents
<BIB:Phone>+1 (555) 123-4567</BIB:Phone>
2nd Generation: Negotiation & DSig Protocols
Negotiation protocols allow two agents to flexibly communicate about how they wish to
- Joint Electronic Payment Initiative (JEPI)
- negotiate which payment system to use between a client and server
- Protocol Extension Protocol (PEP)
- allow client and server to negotiate about how to use HTTP extensions.
- couples an assertion with a cryptographic signature block
- bridges the gap between second and third generation. First it is an assertion system,
but the semantics of the assertion and the associated "trust" models can be
tailored towards specific applications.
- signed PICS labels, and signed RDF
Third Generation: Social Protocols
Social protocols are the application of second generation protocols towards problems of
social relevance like content regulation, IPR, and privacy.
These tools enable others to create new applications, offer sophisticated services and
to build Web markets.
No complete list of applications, but the determining factor for analysis is the degree
to which the semantics and operation of social behavior/structure are captured within
the data structures and protocol of the application.
It is at this point that social/legal concerns and methods have a critical relationship
to technical design.
Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)
Sites make assertions about their privacy practices.
Users express their privacy preferences over those practices.
Negotiation between the site's supported and user's desired practices results in an
The interaction between the site and user is flexible. Users can find the level of
privacy most appropriate for their sense of privacy and the type of interaction they wish
to have with that site.
- A user sets generic preferences, upon which her agent (browser) automatically acts.
She can now browse the Web seamlessly.
- She encounters a site with "exceptional" practices outside her generic
Perhaps a sports news site wants to collect her favorite teams for a customized news
- The user is prompted if she wishes to consider other alternatives, consent to the
exceptional practice, or to go elsewhere.
She can develop a one-to-one relationship with a site she trusts.
To simplify the experience, users also have the option to download recommended settings
from a trusted source.
The users could go to a trusted organization that present practices they feel, if
followed, will keep users safe.
Conclusion: Social Protocols
- A social protocol is not so much an "Internet Control," but a way of using
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Memorial a lasting tribute to heroes who saved the world and changed it
The World War II Memorial, sober and sunk low in a long frame of elms,rests between the two structures that anchor the Mall.The monument to America's first great warrior, George Washington, towers over it on one side. The statue of America's great uniter, Abraham Lincoln, looks on from the other.
In such company, the location and initial look of the new memorial to those who fought in World War II had its doubters. It would trample on ground consecrated by the civil rights movement, some said. Its design smacked of imperialist architecture, others said.
The controversy, settled in granite and bronze, came down to this: Was World War II -- the lives lost, the victories gained -- a hinge event of American history, on par with the founding and the Civil War? Or not?
Historians say it was: The war transformed America, and, in turn, America transformed the world.
"World War II was the seminal event of the 20th century," says Victor Davis Hanson, military historian and classicist at the University of California in Fresno and author of "Carnage and Culture," a study of the military pre-eminence of Western civilization. "Quite literally, Western civilization as we know it hung by a thread -- and was saved by the efforts of Americans."
"The totality of it is what made it unique for the American experience," says Edward J. Drea, a historian of World War II who lives in Fairfax. "It affected everyone, of every class."
From December 7, 1941, to Aug. 6, 1945, America spent 400,000 lives beating back German dictator Adolf Hitler's march across Europe and Japanese Emperor Hirohito's advance in the South Pacific.
Sixteen million Americans served during the war, fully 10 percent of the population at the time. The movement of so many young men and so much materiel radically reshaped our society.
The country literally was in flux, its industrial capacity energized like never before, its agrarian roots fading further from view. The population migrated northward and, drawn by a humming new industry centered on construction of aircraft, to California.
Global war demanded a rapid acceleration in the technology of weaponry and medicine. Mr. Drea, who focuses on the South Pacific theater in books such as "MacArthur's Ultra: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan," notes that the war led to wider use of malaria suppressants such as quinine and the insecticide DDT, which helped stop typhus epidemics.
The United States devoted all its energies to the war, rationing meat, sugar and metals on the home front.
A shortage of shellac, used to manufacture phonograph records, stunted the recording of new music. Short supplies of rubber and gasoline -- and trains filled with soldiers -- knocked touring musicians off the road. Popular bandleader Glenn Miller sent his own musicians packing to form the Army Air Force Band and died in 1944 when a military flight disappeared over the English Channel.
Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio and movie star Jimmy Stewart joined the war effort at the height of their careers by serving in the Army and Army Air Corps, respectively, and Mr. Stewart became a decorated pilot.
Up to 40 percent of the movies Hollywood cranked out between 1941 and 1945 propagandized for the war. Hum-phrey Bogart squared off against the Nazis in 1943's "Action in the North Atlantic"; Cary Grant captained a submarine in "Destination Tokyo" the same year; and future president Ronald Reagan teamed with Errol Flynn in 1942's "Desperate Journey."
Women flocked to jobs in the men's absence. Teenagers too young to fight also took jobs, setting in motion a new youth culture that would flourish as veterans and their wives created waves of new children for the next 20 years.
After vanquishing European fascism and Japanese militarism, the postwar nation assumed the leading role in defending the world against the other great poison of the 20th century, the menace of Stalin and expansionist Soviet communism.
"The self-destruction of Europe created the conditions for the ascendancy of the U.S. in world affairs," Mr. Hanson says, "and, tragically but necessarily, demanded a new responsibility to expend blood and treasure -- immediately after our greatest sacrifice -- to prevent the Soviet Union from capitalizing on the ruin of Europe."
Other reverberations were no less significant, from the invention of modern Japan to the reconstruction of Europe, unprecedented acts of statecraft both.
A broad American middle class arose at home, elevated by the GI Bill of Rights and linked, eventually, by a new interstate highway system and the commercial airline industry.
American GIs helped saved the world, and those who survived came home still young men, in their early 20s. They were just getting started.
In the 59 postwar years during which the Mall had no World War II memorial, modern America itself was their legacy.
The good war
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously said he "slept the sleep of the saved" after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. A reluctant America, with all its potential industrial might and manpower, finally would tip the balance in the Allies' favor.
Yet Arnold Krammer, a history professor at Texas A&M University, says it was no sure thing. After World War I, America, isolationist in outlook, dramatically scaled back its standing army and produced little in the way of new weaponry.
"We were unprepared," Mr. Krammer says. "The American military had 183,000 men and 488 machine guns in 1940."
Mr. Drea says, "It wasn't inevitable; no one knew what would happen."
The number of American conscripts would bloom to 8 million, culled from what Mr. Krammer calls, in a slightly irreverent tweaking of NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw's tribute book, "the bored generation."
"They were coming out of the Great Depression," Mr. Krammer says. "Here was an opportunity for excitement. It was a chance for most boys to see what the rest of the world looked like. We were, after all, quite a rural country, no matter how many people lived in big cities."
"We were still boys; that's the crazy thing," says M.D. Elevitch, 79, a native of Duluth, Minn., who fought in the 94th Division under Gen. George S. Patton. A volume of his correspondence, "Dog Tags Yapping: The WWII Letters of a Combat GI," was published last month.
"I was totally innocent, inhibited," Mr. Elevitch recalls.
Still, he adds, in words that might epitomize the mood of the country, "We knew right from the beginning what we needed to do."
Peter Kuznick, a historian of the 20th century at American University, actively opposed the Vietnam War and remains a fierce critic of nuclear weapons. World War II, he says, is nonetheless unimpeachable.
"If there's ever been a war in history in which one can identify good guys and bad guys, it's World War II," Mr. Kuznick says.
Mr. Drea adds: "There was never a direct [foreign] threat to the survival of the republic before. At Pearl Harbor, there sure seemed to be one."
Japan's surprise attack on the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor mobilized a "sleeping giant," in Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto's prophetic phrase.
"It felt to people at the time that this was a great war," Mr. Kuznick says. "It had to be won, and they were willing to sacrifice."
'A giant step'
The approximately 400,000 U.S. troops killed in World War II are second only to the 620,000 of the Civil War, in which, of course, there was no foreign enemy.
Mr. Elevitch was wounded by mortar fragments, his lungs taking in blood, and he underwent an emergency operation in a tent on a German battlefield. Like many other veterans, he did not speak of his experiences for decades. He broke his silence with a short story, "The Finger," published in 1989 and inspired by the sight of a disembodied digit.
Reticent and scarred by battle, the soldiers came home feeling purposeful, at the least with a hopeful drive to "go on with our lives," Mr. Elevitch says. "We had a sense of confidence if we survived."
"In some communities," President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in a 1942 "fireside chat" heard on radio, "employers dislike to employ women. In others they are reluctant to hire Negroes. ... We can no longer afford to indulge such prejudices and practices."
Practically and morally, the war forced a re-examination of the treatment of blacks in America.
Actor Ossie Davis, 86, who served as a surgical technician in the Army Medical Corps in Liberia, remembers segregated accommodations at the Army hospital there. Black servicemen protested, and the arrangements eventually changed.
"The minute we came back, there was a feeling in the country that racism was a horrible disease and we had to move fast to get rid of it," says Mr. Davis, who will emcee the National Memorial Day Concert May 30 on the West Lawn of the Capitol.
Roosevelt in 1941 had issued Executive Order 8802, a significant forerunner of the Civil Rights Act that prohibited racial discrimination in the defense industry and in government jobs.
"We took a giant step toward civil rights," Mr. Krammer says.
Two years after the war ended, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, changing the face of the country's most popular sport. A year later, President Truman ended segregation in the military and the civil service with another executive order.
Women go to work
The war also drew women into the work force as a practical necessity.
Historian David M. Kennedy, in his book "Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945," notes that "three-quarters of all women of working age were 'at home' as the war began."
By war's end, about 19 million were in the work force, nearly 1 million of them here in Washington.
Filmmaker Leslie Sewell's "Government Girls," showing May 30 at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, interviews several of those women, who worked in jobs from clerking to code breaking.
"They changed Washington a lot, and they changed the whole idea of women's equality in work," Ms. Sewell says. "It also opened the door for black women. All of a sudden, they were able to become secretaries and administrative assistants and on up the ladder."
Though such women were planting the seeds for permanent changes, they weren't aware of it then; their focus was on winning the war. When it ended in 1945, many left the work force.
"They say, 'The war was everything, and we were doing our part to help the guys who were fighting overseas,' " Ms. Sewell says.
"It seems so strange to people who didn't live through it, who can't appreciate the enormity of the effort," Mr. Drea says of America's determination to see World War II through to victory.
Americans, by and large, were united in purpose and passion. The nation won great victories in Europe and the South Pacific. The war generation's reward was prosperity: college degrees paid for by the federal government; higher salaries; new homes in the suburbs outfitted with modern appliances.
Events didn't stop churning, however.
Mr. Kennedy writes of the year 1948: "The Russians had just exploded their own atomic bomb, and the Communists had recently taken power in China. Somehow the good war had not settled things to the degree that Roosevelt had promised."
Today, World War II seems distant to, and perhaps unappreciated by, the children and grandchildren of the war generation.
Mr. Hanson, the military historian, worries about how the war is taught in schools: with laserlike focus on the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the internment of Japanese in the United States, to the neglect of climactic battles.
"Very little actual military history is being taught," he says, "and, thus, most of our youth know only the social or cultural consequences of the war but almost nothing about the war itself.
"A very sad development, given the amazing sacrifices and skill shown by an entire generation of Americans."
Even after the battles at the Bulge (December 1944-January 1945), where 19,000 U.S. troops died in the Ardennes forest of the German-Belgian border, and at the island of Okinawa (April-June 1945), where 13,000 died fighting the Japanese -- even after these staggering losses, which came at a time when the country was being told the war was almost over, the American public, already tested by a long Depression, didn't falter.
Has the nation lost the energy -- the singleness of purpose, the resolve, the willingness to sacrifice -- that marked the World War II era?
"None of us knows," Mr. Hanson says. "We are in year three of the so-called war on terror, so I suppose we shall soon find out."
By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
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Independent voices from the TWT Communities
As Americans seek to find an alternative to the stark and unappetizing choice between acceptance of Iran's rabid leadership having nuclear weapons or pre-emptively bombing its nuclear facilities, one analyst offers a credible third path.
Iraqi Shiites increasingly fear that their Muslim sect and holy sites could be targeted in neighboring Syria as the civil war there takes on increasingly sectarian overtones, and Iranian-backed militants are girding for violence in both countries, according to Shiite leaders and government officials.
Iraqi Shiites increasingly fear the Muslim sect and its holy sites could be targeted in neighboring Syria as the civil war there takes on increasingly sectarian overtones, and Iranian-backed militants are girding for violence in both countries, according to Shiite leaders and government officials.
After years of rising influence, a new sign of Iran's presence in Iraq has reached the streets.
After years of growing influence, a new sign of Iran's presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iran's supreme leader gently smiling to a population once mobilized against the Islamic Republic in eight years of war.
A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent shot and killed a suspected drug trafficker during a raid near a tiny Honduran town, U.S. officials said Sunday.
Iran has played many political roles in Baghdad since the fall of Saddam Hussein: spoiler to American-crafted administrations, haven for Iraqi political outcasts and big brother to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-led government.
Thousands of demonstrators staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey's Islamic-rooted government to curb abortion, which critics say will amount to a virtual ban.
Two political leaders who put Iraq's prime minister in power met Thursday to discuss whether they should withdraw their support, now that a bitter sectarian political deadlock has led to calls for secession.
Iraq's former prime minister says the United States is ignoring an "emerging dictatorship" in his country, telling The Washington Times that Iran is "swallowing" Iraq and dictating its strategic policies.
Wearing a U.S. Army uniform and flanked by Iraqi lawmakers, an American citizen announced Saturday that he was being released from more than nine months of imprisonment by a Shiite militia that for years targeted U.S. troops.
The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis.
Now that the last U.S. troops have withdrawn from Iraq, the question of how to deal with Iran's aggression and its drive to develop a nuclear weapon remains less than clear. At the White House meeting on Dec. 12 between President Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, only passing recognition was given to these two issues.
Iran's presence is already visible in Iraq, from the droves of pilgrims at Shiite holy sites to the brands of yogurt and jams on grocery shelves. That could change when the U.S. military leaves at the end of the year.
Palestinian efforts to join U.N. agencies beyond its cultural arm are "not beneficial for anybody" and will lead to cuts in funding sure to affect millions of people, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday.
As a result, and to jump-start the nation's all but paralyzed government, Mr. al-Sadr said he is prepared to direct his party's 40 lawmakers to support a "no confidence" vote against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - as long as he is assured other political blocs in parliament provide the rest of the 163 votes needed.
A day earlier, Sheik al-Sadr urged Mr. al-Maliki to "do the right thing" and resign, but it remains unclear whether Sheik al-Sadr will bow to Iranian pressure in the end. | <urn:uuid:a3bfcc6b-224c-494b-8991-586d49b310aa> | 2013-05-21T17:24:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What is a Mystery/Thriller story? A Mystery is a puzzle or a secret that is solved by characters in the story. Clever plotting, interesting clues, detective reasoning skills ? all of these are important elements. Similarly, Thriller stories involve a threat or imminent danger that must be overcome or resolved and often involves mysterious elements. | <urn:uuid:c68aeab0-f0de-49db-8c85-d35f64c6928d> | 2013-05-21T17:32:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A plain clothes policeman watches Francesco Zanardi. As he waits for his moment just outside the Vatican in St Peter's Square, Zanardi's intention is clear. So is the policeman's.
The 42-year-old from Savona has traveled 550 kilometers [342 miles] to Rome, determined to make a delivery at the Vatican.
The policeman, however, is just as determined to stop him. Zanardi clutches a red case, emblazoned with a picture of Domenico Calcagno -- one of the cardinals who will elect a new pope in the conclave this week -- across it are the words, "Fuori Dal Conclave" or "Out of the Conclave."
It's stuffed with thousands of signed letters all claiming that Calcagno covered up the serial sex abuse of a priest in northern Italy. They want the cardinal to be disqualified from voting in the conclave. But no one is more insistent than Francesco Zanardi.
When he was an 11-year-old altar boy in 1981 at the Santissime Anunziate church in the town of Spotorno, Zanardi says he was raped by Father Nello Giraudo at least once a week for 5 years. He says many of his school friends also suffered repeated abuse at the hands of Giraudo.
"I didn't have [consensual] sex until I was 26," Zanardi says in Italian. "I was using drugs, I used to inject heroin. I went into rehab and had counseling, and later realized I was taking drugs because of the abuse."
His quest to reveal the truth behind what happened to him eventually uncovered a cache of damning documents that went all the way to former Pope Benedict XVI.
First Zanardi attempted to prosecute Giraudo for the abuse he suffered but the statute of limitations had expired in his case. So he had to pursue other means of gaining justice. Only last year, Giraudo was convicted for sexually abusing a boy at a Catholic boy scouts retreat in the Piedmont Mountains in 2005.
Giraudo pled guilty and Zanardi was instrumental in the trial. He gave evidence and convinced four boys, who were allegedly sexually abused by Giraudo, to do the same and prove the former priest was a serial abuser. Despite the long pattern of behavior, Giraudo was sentenced as a first-time offender and given a suspended one year prison term. As a witness, Zanardi was allowed to request all the evidence from the court. He was astonished by what he discovered.
On 8th September 2003, Calcagno, who was at the time the Bishop of Savona, wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger who was then the Vatican's enforcer of church doctrine and responsible for investigations into the sexual abuse of minors by clergy. | <urn:uuid:5ee4f900-991b-4f20-b990-6821f12b3a74> | 2013-05-21T17:39:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mourinho: 'World will stop to watch us'
Not given to understatement, Jose Mourinho says the "whole world will be watching" when his Real Madrid side play Manchester United in their crunch Champions League last 16 second leg tie at Old Trafford Tuesday.
With the scores tied at 1-1 from the first leg in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, Mourinho knows that the outcome is finally balanced, increasing the interest for the committed and neutral fans.
"Tomorrow the world will stop to watch this tie," Mourinho told gathered reporters.
"They are on a fantastic run, better than ever this season. FA Cup quarterfinal, the (English) Premier League is theirs in March.
"We are also in good form in 2013. We have lost one match. It doesn't look a tie, it looks a final. Let's see which teams are at Wembley but I doubt the expectation can be bigger than this," added the Portuguese who celebrated his 50th birthday last week.
Mourinho forged his reputation when his Porto side famously knocked out Manchester United in the semifinals at Old Trafford in 2004, running down the touchline to celebrate the late clinching goal.
He said he had calmed down a little in the intervening period but was still has hungry to win as ever.
"The approach is completely different though. That match was my first season playing Champions League football, now I have played more than 100 matches and I can control my emotions.
"If I lose tomorrow I won't cry and if I win I won't run 100m again!"
Mourinho confirmed that his captain and experienced goalkeeper Iker Casillas would not be returning despite traveling with the team and training Tuesday at the Etihad Stadium, home of United's great rivals Manchester City.
Spain international Casillas has not played for Real since being injured in January, but in his absence the reigning Spanish champions have been on a fine run, beating Barcelona in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey and in their 'El Clasico league clash Saturday, winning 2-1.
Cristiano Ronaldo's second half substitute appearance changed the course of the match for Real and they will be hoping he can work his magic again against his former side United.
Legendary home manager Alex Ferguson is well aware of the threat posed by his former charge and when asked about it by reporters responded with humor.
"My biggest concern is that he turns up!" he quipped.
"What do you expect when you play against a team with Ronaldo in it? You expect problems during the night. We have to try and curtail that as best we can.
"It won't be easy because he does it every week. The experience young Rafael had in the first half in Madrid hopefully helps him because he'll be getting the same task again.
"I don't think it's one we should fear. If we go in worrying about the damage Cristiano can do then we'll forget some of the things that we can do ourselves."
United will go into the tie as marginal favorites with the bookmakers and off the back of a thumping 4-0 win over Norwich in the EPL, but they will be missing utility man Phil Jones, who has failed to recover from a thigh injury.
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A suburban Chicago police officer used a $132 speeding ticket he issued to track down a woman and ask her for a date, saying the least he could do for costing her so much money was to buy her dinner, a lawsuit filed by the woman alleges.
Evangelina Paredes accuses Stickney cop Chris Collins of violating her privacy by searching motor-vehicle records for her address, then leaving a handwritten note on her car windshield outside her apartment two days after she was ticketed.
A copy of the alleged note was attached to the lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Chicago. It starts with an attempt at self-deprecating humor, saying, "It's Chris ... that ugly bald Stickney cop who gave you that ticket."
"I know this may seem crazy and you're probably right, but truth is I have not stopped thinking about you since," it continues. "I don't expect a girl as attractive as you to ... even go for a guy like me, but I'm taking a shot anyways."
The note goes on to say he would understand if Paredes did not get in touch.
"But hey," it continues apologetically, "I did cost you $132 — least I can do is buy you dinner."
Collins, 27, told The Associated Press by phone on Tuesday that he hadn't yet hired an attorney and couldn't comment.
According to the lawsuit, Collins pulled Paredes over on Oct. 22 in Stickney, a village just southwest of Chicago. The note allegedly appeared on her car in a parking lot next to her apartment.
"The letter caused plaintiff to suffer great fear and anxiety," the lawsuit says. "Plaintiff could not believe that a police officer would use his access to her personal information to find her home and stalk her."
The suit, which seeks unspecified payments in damages, also accuses Collins of using his "authority and position as a police officer not to protect the public, but to attempt to manipulate the plaintiff into going out on a date with him."
The lawsuit also names Stickney Police Chief Joseph Kretch and the village of Stickney. A message left on Kretch's voicemail Tuesday was not immediately returned. Stickney Mayor Daniel O'Reilly also didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment. | <urn:uuid:3e882318-5c10-41c4-b6ca-fe9450d39f20> | 2013-05-21T17:26:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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As I walked out of the house this morning I noticed my husband's truck was glowing orange! I took a few more steps and peeked around the side of the house to see this glorious November sunrise! I always have my camera and it only took a second to drop everything and capture this beautiful sky.
November Sunrise on the Mountain
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Posted: Nov 8, 2011 5:37 PM
Updated: Nov 8, 2011 5:37 PM
Source: Associated Press
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A defiant Herman Cain declared today he would not drop his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in the face of allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Cain says it "ain't gonna happen."
Cain denied anew that he had ever behaved inappropriately and said the alleged incidents "simply didn't happen." He said he would be willing to take a lie detector test if he had a good reason.
Earlier in the day, Cain sought to undercut the credibility of the latest woman whose accusations are threatening his Republican presidential campaign. At the news conference, Cain said he doesn't ever know Sharon Bialek, who says Cain reached under her skirt when she met with him in Washington about getting work.
His chief rival, Mitt Romney, weighed in for the first time, calling the allegations "particularly disturbing." | <urn:uuid:0ea0ae8c-cc40-4d74-9ee2-def80d93fc7e> | 2013-05-21T17:24:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A Winston-Salem police officer has been arrested and charged a second time with assaulting his girlfriend.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported (http://bit.ly/10eBw95) that 34-year-old Rudolfo Zermeno of Winston-Salem is accused of pushing and threatening to kill his girlfriend.
He had been arrested on a charge of assaulting the woman earlier, though that charge was dismissed last year.
He was arrested Saturday on a charge of assault on a female and communicating threats. He was not armed when he was arrested.
He had been with the Winston-Salem Police Department for three years. Zermeno is on administrative leave.
It was not clear if he has an attorney.
Zermeno had been charged with assault on a female in May, but the charge was dropped in November.
Information from: Winston-Salem Journal, http://www.journalnow.com
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During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passed laws promising pensions or grants of government-owned land to officers and soldiers who served in the war, as well as to the survivors of those killed. This illustrated family record in the German Fraktur script, hand-colored with large birds, is a birth and baptismal document submitted as part of the application for a pension by Anna Margaretha Kolb, wife of Revolutionary War veteran Philip Frey. From Pennsylvania, Frey served between April 1776 and January 1778. He fought in the battles at Long ... | <urn:uuid:9d3b7e5c-b130-419e-854f-7220b1a7fb25> | 2013-05-21T17:44:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Plan Your Visit|
Fort Parker State Park includes 1458.8 acres (758.8 land acres and a 700-acre lake); between Mexia and Groesbeck, in Limestone County. It was opened to the public in 1941.
The State Park was created in 1935 on land donated by the City of Mexia and three local landowners. The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed all the recreational facilities in the late 1930s, and built a dam across the Navasota River in 1939, creating Fort Parker Lake.
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How can I easily make a "custom product" application?
Take a look at sites like Zazzle - http://www.zazzle.com/cr/design/pt-mousepad. Business card companies have them too.
You can lay out elements on a screen and upload images to make a custom product.
I am interested in creating an application like this. Is there a way I can do it with relative ease? Will it require thousands of programming hours, or is there an app or prebuilt script out there I can use to create similar applications? I am very interested in doing this. | <urn:uuid:e84a3d30-32c2-4af3-92e5-62e4efd199d0> | 2013-05-21T17:11:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I'd like to have a sliding transition between different pages of a website.
Basically what I want the script to do is:
- when the user clicks a link, create a new div (e.g. #next-page) at left:100% and load the target there.
- when the load is complete, animate the current page (e.g. #cur-page) to left:-100% and #next-page to left:0
- when the animation is complete, remove #cur-page and rename #next-page to #cur-page.
Would be awesome if somebody could help me out!
Thank you in advance!
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Make the Most of Your Metabolism
From supermodels who douse their food with red pepper, to movie stars who swear by green tea, there's no shortage of claims for foods that are said to increase metabolism. But do any of them work?
"Actually, any food will increase your metabolism, mostly in the first hour after you eat -- that's when your system is most revved," says Kimball.
Further, she says, protein generally requires about 25% more energy to digest. So -- at least theoretically - a high-protein snack might rev metabolism a little more than a carb-heavy food with the same number of calories. That said, it's not clear that any food has special powers to boost metabolism significantly.
"Some studies have shown hot pepper and very spicy foods can increase metabolism by about 20% for about 30 minutes, but no one really knows if the extra burn lasts any longer than that, " says Kimball.
In a small study on Japanese women published in the British Journal of Nutrition, researchers found red pepper caused the body to heat up and revved the metabolism following a meal. But the most effects were seen primarily when the red pepper was eaten with high-fat foods (which are also higher in calories).
Another small study, published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, reported that male athletes who added red pepper to high-carbohydrate meals boosted both their resting and active metabolic rates 30 minutes after the meal. But there was no evidence this burn power was lasting.
The same appears true for green tea, which contains a substance called EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), a powerful antioxidant that some believe can bring about the same kind of calorie-burning effect as hot pepper.
In a study of 10 men published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers found that 90 milligrams of EGCG and 50 milligrams of caffeine taken with meals boosted 24-hour energy expenditure by 4% (caffeine alone did not show a similar effect).
But it's not clear whether this effect would be enough to boost weight loss. And that, says Radbill, is precisely the point.
"Essentially, you would have to drink so much of it in order to see even a small effect, that I don't think it's really worth it," says Radbill. "Drink green tea for other health-giving properties, but not to lose weight."
The bottom line, she says, is this: "All these foods may have a slight impact on metabolism, but the increase is still insignificant compared to what you need in order to lose weight."
Your best bet for keeping metabolism revved: Build muscles, snack on low-calorie, high-protein foods, and keep moving! | <urn:uuid:ee905016-1e27-42af-a0c5-09151fc1784f> | 2013-05-21T17:30:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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CNN has obtained detailed photographs of a new stealth fighter being tested in China.
It is the second such stealth fighter China has tested in as many years and appears destined to become the communist nation's future aircraft carrier-based fighter jet, according to weapons analysts.
The plane, dubbed by outsiders as the J-31, was test flown Tuesday in Shenyang. According to the analysts, the two photographs obtained by CNN appear to have been leaked by officials in China.
"It has to be an official photographer because nobody else can get that close to the airplane," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org. "These are all publicity photos from the factory, and I could not imagine that the factory would publicize these things without somebody higher up in the food chain authorizing it."
Richard Fisher, a senior fellow in Asian military affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center (IASC), agrees these are not pictures sent out surreptitiously by some Chinese aviation aficionado. "The Internet censors are controlling this process, have no doubt that."
But Fisher said the reason for the release may not be as threatening as some might imagine.
"It's being done in a way to help promote pro-military nationalism in China. There's just a huge, large audience in China for this kind of information. It's kind of like NASCAR."
No matter who let the pictures go public, they won't answer all the questions surrounding China's fighter program. "They don't want to reveal anything that's truly useful to a foreign military or intelligence service," Fisher said.
In January 2011, China tested the J-20, a fighter jet with stealth characteristics, much like the American F-22.
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Down To The Sea In Ships
Starring Clara Bow.
This silent movie was made in New Bedford about the lives of the people in a small Quaker community and the adventures of a whaling ship.
The movie was filmed in New Bedford, and the world premiere was held here at the Olympia Theater on September 25th, 1922.
We are lucky to have a copy of the original booklet from the film.
Some of the actors and actresses stayed in the city at Audena Audette's rooming house during the filming.
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Title: Sisters Red
Author: Jackson Pearce
Page Count: 336 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown
Genre: urban fantasy, remade fairy tale
Copy for review provided by Book it Forward ARC Tours in anticipation of an honest review
50 words or less: After a brutal attack takes their grandmother, Scarlett and Rosie commit themselves to ridding the world of the Fenris, brutal werewolves who prey on pretty young girls. Until Silas, a fellow hunter, comes back on the scene and makes the girls wonder if life is really as good as it's going to get.
Sisters Red is a creative reimagining of the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood that weaves the elements of that story into the story of Scarlett and Rosie's quest to exterminate werewolves without losing themselves in the process. I was immediately sucked into this book from the moment I laid eyes on the Gestalt-esque cover, and was satisfied by the end of the book, for the most part.
The story revolves around the feelings and actions of the three main characters and is told, in alternating chapters, from the perspectives of Scarlett and Rosie. Scarlett is definitely the alpha female here; after saving Rosie from an attacking Fenris but losing her grandmother in the process, Scarlett feels personally responsible for the physical safety of the people she loves. Her hunting partner, Silas, felt the same way, until he went on a trip to San Francisco to deal with some family issues. He came back wondering if hunting was enough to sustain a person, or if there was more to life than just shedding blood to preserve the safety of others. He also had fallen in love with Rosie, the younger sister, who, although a hunter in her own right and more than capable of taking care of herself, was a much softer, gentler person than Scarlett. Scarlett bears the scars from her first encounter with the Fenris and the incident also cost her her eye; Scarlett's wounds are out in the open for all to see.
There's a saying that goes something like, once I save your life, I'm responsible for you forever, and that's definitely an issue in the relationships between Scarlett and Rosie and Scarlett and Silas. For all of her kick-ass abilities and passion about killing the Fenris, Scarlett is pretty clueless about people and how to maintain relationships with others. She's completely focused on exterminating the Fenris and doesn't understand if other people don't always share her devotion. There were times when I felt that Scarlett's attitude of "we can't EVER DO ANYTHING ELSE because IF WE DON'T HUNT, PEOPLE DIE" came across like kids who refuse to eat their meatloaf because people are starving in other countries- the sentiment is definitely heartfelt, but the approach is kind of futile.
Which brings me to the one thing that rubbed me the wrong way about this novel. I totally understand that Scarlett and Rosie shared a horrible ordeal that completely changed them when they were way too young to even have to know that such violence existed. I get that Scarlett saved Rosie from a horrible fate, is extremely disfigured from the ordeal, and feels a tremendous responsibility to keep that fate from falling on anyone else. I get that the Fenris are evil and unredeemable and will only keep killing and maiming if left to their own devices. Even in the face of all that, there were definitely times when Scarlett was emotionally abusive to Rosie, and to Silas, to a lesser extent. She held even the slightest show of independence against people; it was her way or the highway- if they weren't hunting werewolves, they were wasting time- half hour classes were out of the question and personally offensive to her. Boyfriends? Not a chance. The idea that, when the three of them dropped dead of exhaustion, there would be nobody to mourn the loss, never really occurred to her. Conveniently, Scarlett flipped out about the half hour personal improvement classes, but didn't seem to mind when Rosie wasn't hunting because she was cooking or cleaning or grocery shopping or doing all those other necessary tasks that she didn't personally have the time or focus to do. Scarlett was very possessive of Rosie- she wanted them to be connected forever, but only as long as Rosie did things her way. The whole "you can have a life but only if I approve of it" attitude definitely rubbed me the wrong way. I feel like if it were a male character trying to control a female character's life and choices like that, the response would be "blech," not "how sweet." Ultimately, the issue does get explained adequately in my opinion and the ending is a satisfactory resolution of that situation, but there was definitely a section where I was definitely concerned about this.
Excluding that element, Sisters Red is a great addition to paranormal YA literature and asks a lot of interesting questions about the difference between passion and obsession, the difference between living and existing, and the need that all people have to feel connected and understood. The kind of questionable relationship dynamics between the trio of main characters could definitely open the door to a good discussion of boundaries in relationships, protectiveness versus controlling behavior, and, ultimately, what to do when people just don't see things the same way. I'm definitely interested in reading more titles in this vein by this author.
Overall Grade: B+
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A digital camera is a type of camera that takes photographs or videos with the use of an electronic image sensor. This device has the capacity to display photographs on the screen several seconds after the image has been recorded. Other brands of the cameras can edit the layout, color as well as the entire appearance of the picture. Because of the popularity and wide use of the device, it is incorporated in other devices like mobile phones and PDAs. To learn about the history of the device, it is best to start with the person behind the development of the digital camera.
Who invented the digital camera? This device was first created by Eastman Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975. The camera used a solid state CCD image sensor chips manufactured by Fairchild Semiconductor. The device weighed 3.6 kilograms and it took above 20 seconds to capture an image. This camera was developed as a prototype and it is not intended for mass production. However, this device has the capacity to record black and white pictures. Additionally, the first digital camera has a resolution of 10,000 pixels or 0.01 megapixels.
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Eastman Kodak launched the first professional digital camera named as the Kodak DCS-100 in 1991. In order for the product to be used in special events, it featured a 1.3 megapixel sensor. The device was offered at $13,000. After the release of this model, many companies featured different models of digital cameras. In 1996, Kodak launched the first digital camera that has CompactFlash.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, Cleveland Browns linebacker D'Qwell Jackson and Indianapolis' T.Y. Hilton have been selected as the AFC's top players for Week 12 of the NFL season.
Rice picked up the offensive award after totaling 67 receiving yards and 97 yards on the ground as the Ravens rallied to beat San Diego in overtime. He helped force overtime by taking a short pass and converting a 4th-and-29 late in the fourth quarter. Six plays later, Justin Tucker nailed the game-tying field goal.
Jackson garnered the defensive honor after posted a team-high nine tackles, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in the Browns' 20-14 win over Pittsburgh. He was part of a unit that registered eight takeaways.
The rookie Hilton was recognized as the top special teams performer after returning a punt 75 yards for a touchdown in the Colts' 20-13 victory over Buffalo. He also recorded an 8-yard touchdown reception in the game, becoming the first player in Colts history to have a punt-return TD and touchdown reception in the same game. | <urn:uuid:26c6bf97-ce2a-4dc9-83ee-77b8056f53a2> | 2013-05-21T17:11:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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First, it was student athletes. Now, the Supreme Court has ruled that other high school students may be subjected to random drug tests.
The ruling now covers students who join any competitive after-school activity. The court says it's a reasonably effective means of fighting drug use. A former Oklahoma high school honor student had challenged the drug testing policy.
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(1881 - 1973)
Regarding the canon of art history, no other artist has exerted such influence as Pablo Picasso.
Frequently dubbed the "dean of modernism," the Spanish artist was revolutionary in the way he challenged the conventions of painting. His stylistic pluralism, legendary reconfiguration of pictorial space and inexhaustible creative force have made Picasso one of the most revered artists of the 20th century.
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Getting to the Heart of a Healthy Diet: Alcohol
There is no doubt that drinking large amounts of alcohol is bad for your health. But, given the potential health benefits of drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, the
American Heart Association recommends that adults should consider drinking some alcohol. However, it is important that adults who drink should do so only in moderation. Women should have no more than one alcoholic drink per day and men should have no more than one to two drinks per day.
If you are considering beginning or continuing to drink alcohol, you should:
- Consult your physician to discuss its benefits and risks given your family history. Certain people should not consume any alcohol, such as pregnant women, people with liver disease, or those who are on certain medications.
- Limit your alcohol intake to one drink a day if you are a woman and one to two drinks a day if you are a man.
- Periodically review your use of alcohol with your doctor. You may need to change your drinking behavior if you begin to consume too much or experience harmful consequences as a result of drinking alcohol.
- Never drink alcohol if you are going to be driving or operating machinery.
People who drink moderately have heart disease less often than nondrinkers. Alcohol appears to increase HDL, the good form of cholesterol. Some other ways that researchers believe alcohol may help protect the heart include:
- The alcohol or some other substance in alcoholic drinks may prevent platelets in the blood from sticking together. This, in turn, will reduce clot formation and the risk for heart attack or stroke.
- Flavonoids and other antioxidants in red wine may protect the heart and arteries.
However, there are many negative health effects associated with alcohol intake, as well. This is especially true with heavy alcohol consumption. These include:
Moderation is essential with alcohol because many chronic health problems can develop, or be exacerbated, from alcohol abuse. One drink equals no more than 1/2 ounce of pure alcohol. For example:
- 12 ounces of beer
- 4 ounces of wine—It is important to note that a "glass" of wine usually means 8-12 ounces for most people. However the official size of a glass of wine is 4 ounces or 1/2 of a cup. Measure it once, into your wine glass to see what that amount actually looks like.
- 1-½ ounces of 80-proof spirits
- 1 ounce of 100-proof spirits
If you choose not to drink, you are not missing out. You can get antioxidants from fruits and vegetables, and the flavonoids in red wine are also in red grapes and grape juice. Regular exercise increases HDL levels, as does alcohol consumption. And, if blood clotting is a concern for you, talk to your doctor about taking aspirin on a regular basis. | <urn:uuid:4b523632-7db2-40d4-9261-85614049697b> | 2013-05-21T17:30:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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LONDON - Royal Mail should have sponsored London's synchronized swimming events, seeing how every competing nation could have mailed in their performances and saved themselves the expense of coming to England to actually perform their routines.
Canada finished a familiar if puzzling fourth in Friday's team free routine, their challenging, acrobatic, circus-themed, Cirque de Soleil-assisted routine lifting the roof off the aquatic centre.
The Canadian team was fourth after Thursday's technical routine, and there it stayed Friday.
Russia, China and Spain were first, second and third in technical; that's where they stayed, to finish on the podium.
Japan, Great Britain, Egypt and Australia were 5-8 in technical. They were 5-8 after the free routine.
This was Russia's fourth consecutive Olympic team gold, its 197.030 points giving it a 3.020 lead on China. Spain's 193.120 led the Canadians' 189.630.
The only who-finishes-where? drama came when there was a delay posting Spain's score. There might have been a thought that a swimmer had touched pool bottom, a deduction of two points, but that wasn't the case.
One wag on Twitter cut to the chase, suggesting the judging panel couldn't find the envelope in which the results had been mailed.
Canada was fourth at the 2008 Olympics, fifth in 2004, a bronze medalist in 2000. At the worlds: fourth in 2001 and 2009, then fifth, fifth and sixth from 2003-07.
You thought that professional wrestling was rigged? It's a mere pretender to synchro's throne.
You expect such judging ugliness in this glittery sport, as you used to expect bogus, corrupt judging in ice-dancing. When faced with an IOC threat of removal from the Olympics, the International Skating Union made changes to dance that has largely cleaned it up.
Maybe it's time for the IOC to have a chat with FINA, aquatic sports' world governing body, to address synchro's obscenely predictable judging.
“That can be good,” veteran Canadian coach Julie Sauvé said of such a meeting. “Sure, they have to.”
It's the lack of judging transparency that most troubles Sauvé, who's been in this game for 35 years. Individual marks aren't posted, just final scores; no one except the referee knows how, say, the Russian or Chinese judge is marking up or down a team.
“We had eight or nine European judges of 14 on the panel today,” Sauvé said. “That's very much. We'd like to see more fair play. We have five continents, we should try to balance the judges. This is big work to do.”
Sauvé was thrilled with the Friday performance of her athletes, who showed an acrobatic style and charismatic flair matched by none of the others.
But the coach also was “shocked” when her team was judged to be 1.8 points behind Spain following the technical routine.
Sauvé didn't let her athletes see her displeasure, knowing she must always project calm and complete control. But she believed that the soccer-themed technical deserved better than it got, and likewise of Friday's free.
“Honestly, if the girls fell in a lift, you could say, ‘Okay, we shouldn't score well,'” Sauvé said. “But they performed so well. We know we have a program so good that when we came here the first day, other countries came to look at us.
“We have new stuff here. Our program is really unique and doesn't look like any other. We are very creative to be different. One leg move took three months of training for its five seconds in the routine.”
But here's where synchro athletes and coaches become almost willing victims: they love their sport so much, they're willing to turn the other rosy cheek to the pool-deck judges who are making a mockery of it.
“We've been in fourth place and had the same mark for a long time,” admitted swimmer Tracy Little of Pointe-Claire, Que., who was beaming after her team's superb performance. “We can just control what we can do out there. Who knows if they'll give us the same mark if we swim perfectly or not?
“When we were finished swimming, I couldn't have been more proud. I knew during the swim how focused and how good it was going. When I finished, I didn't care what the heck judges were going to flash. I didn't care what the scores were for the first time in my synchro career.
“For me, waking up with each girl coming out there and saying how hard we worked, they can't take that moment away from us. No matter where I finished, I'm going to have this forever.”
Of trying to make changes in the boardroom, Little said, “As a swimmer, I'm not concerned about that. It's just me going out there and having fun with my team.”
Synchro pretty much eats its own, allowing judges to drop in on teams, look at their routines, and give feedback and offer suggestions to make their work more palatable.
“That's a job we have to do [more of] in the future,” said Sauvé, who denied this was lobbying favours. “You need it. They're the ones who judge you and give you scores.”
The coach said she believed in her heart that Canada could claw its way onto the podium, hoping for a miracle, as it were.
“You never know to the end. You can never give up,” she said. “You work four years with these girls, you have to encourage them to keep going and fight, fight, fight. They're trained for that, since 6, 7 years old. Today isn't the first bad judgment for them. Even when you're 10, you can think you deserve a score that you don't get. The girls are used to it. We don't swim only for the score. We swim because we love it.”
And therein is a large part of the problem. Knowing that they'll be hosed by judges, they simply plunge into the pool and long minutes later bubble to the surface with a radiant smile. | <urn:uuid:42bb5197-3e32-42bf-808a-39b363cd970c> | 2013-05-21T17:27:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Mahabharata - First Book
"Sauti continued 'The Dundubha then said,
'In former times, I had a friend Khagama by name. He was impetuous in his speech and possessed of spiritual power by virtue of his austerities. And one day when he was engaged in the Agni-hotra (Fire-sacrifice), I made a mock snake of blades of grass, and in a frolic attempted to frighten him with it. And anon he fell into a swoon.
On recovering his senses, that truth-telling and vow-observing ascetic, burning with wrath, exclaimed,
'Since thou hast made a powerless mock snake to frighten me, thou shalt be turned even into a venomless serpent thyself by my curse.'
O ascetic, I well knew the power of his penances; therefore with an agitated heart, I addressed him thus, bending low with joined hands,
'Friend, I did this by way of a joke, to excite thy laughter. It behoveth thee to forgive me and revoke thy curse.'
And seeing me sorely troubled, the ascetic was moved, and [Page 53] he replied, breathing hot and hard.
'What I have said must come to pass. Listen to what I say and lay it to thy heart. O pious one! when Ruru the pure son of Pramati, will appear, thou shall be delivered from the curse the moment thou seest him. Thou art the very Ruru and the son of Pramati. On regaining my native form, I will tell thee something for thy good.'
"And that illustrious man and the best of Brahmanas then left his snake-body, and attained his own form and original brightness. He then addressed the following words to Ruru of incomparable power,
'O thou first of created beings, verily the highest virtue of man is sparing the life of others. Therefore a Brahmana should never take the life of any creature.
A Brahmana should ever be mild. This is the most sacred injunction of the Vedas. A Brahmana should be versed in the Vedas and Vedangas, and should inspire all creatures with belief in God. He should be benevolent to all creatures, truthful, and forgiving, even as it is his paramount duty to retain the Vedas in his memory.
The duties of the Kshatriya are not thine. To be stern, to wield the sceptre and to rule the subjects properly are the duties of the Kshatriya. Listen, O Ruru, to the account of the destruction of snakes at the sacrifice of Janamejaya in days of yore, and the deliverance of the terrified reptiles by that best of Dwijas, Astika, profound in Vedic lore and might in spiritual energy.'"
And so ends the eleventh section of the Pauloma Parva of the Adi Parva. | <urn:uuid:cdb12833-b91b-4a2b-ad11-a49d21ab4b91> | 2013-05-21T17:31:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A teenager has been charged in a robbery of a man on the same day the victim was found shot dead. Greenville Police have not said if the victim, 36-year-old Anthony Johnson, was killed during the robbery.
Greenville police say they arrested 16-year-old Jahrheel May Friday for felony conspiracy of robbery with a dangerous weapon. An arrest warrant says the victim was Anthony Johnson, the man gunned down outside a home on Westridge Drive Wednesday night.
Court documents say the alleged robbery happened the same day of the murder and that May conspired with an unknown person to rob Johnson. So far police have not made any arrests for Johnson's murder, and haven't said what, if any, part May played in the homicide.
May remains in jail on a $100,000 bond. | <urn:uuid:a8cde292-311c-451f-b93f-25fe7489c2b5> | 2013-05-21T17:25:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"Dragonslayers? Pah, any fool can call himself a dragonslayer. Most get themselves killed within a few days, which is probably for the best. No, the real skill isn't in walking into the dragon's cave and challenging it to a duel -- it's in tracking it across a hundred miles of wilderness, sneaking up close and killing it before it even knows you're there."
-- Deirdre Firewalker, dragonstalker
The dragonstalker prefers a much more subtle approach than the dragonslayer. She uses stealth and guile to track her prey, striking with skill and uncanny accuracy when the time is right.
Rangers and rogues are the most common dragonstalkers, since the two classes share a predilection for the subtlety and patience the prestige class requires. Barbarians, particularly those from dragon-terrorized areas, often take up this class. Bards also make reasonable dragonstalkers -- certainly, the profession makes for many great tales told around the fire. Most other classes are better off pursuing the path of the dragonslayer.
NPC dragonstalkers are loners, since they rarely trust others to hold their own in a hunt. When tracking a particularly formidable foe, a dragonstalker might recruit other stealthy characters, such as rangers or rogues, for assistance. Once or twice in a generation, a hunt of great significance may arise that brings together a team of dragonstalkers from various backgrounds. In such a case, the dragon has little chance of escaping.
Hit Die: d8.
To qualify to become a dragonstalker, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.
Base Attack Bonus: +5.
Feats: Blind-fight, Track.
Skills: Gather Information 4 ranks, Hide 6 ranks, Knowledge (arcana) 4 ranks, Move Silently 6 ranks, Search 6 ranks.
The dragonstalker's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Craft (Wis), Diplomacy (Cha), Disguise (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Hide (Dex), Jump (Str), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Knowledge (local) (Int), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Search (Int), Spot (Wis), and Survival (Wis). See Chapter 4: Skills in the Player's Handbook for skill descriptions.
Skill Points at Each Level: 4 + Int modifier.
All of the following are class features of the dragonstalker prestige class.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: A dragonstalker gains proficiency with the longbow, longspear, net, shortbow, and all simple weapons. Dragonstalkers are proficient with light armor and with shields.
Hunting Bonus (Ex): Starting at 1st level, a dragonstalker gains a bonus equal to her class level on Bluff, Listen, Search, Sense Motive, and Spot checks when using these skills against dragons.
Sneak Attack (Dragon): Beginning at 2nd level, if a dragonstalker catches a dragon when it is unable to defend itself effectively from her attack, she can strike a vital spot for extra damage. Basically, any time the dragonstalker's target would be denied its Dexterity bonus to AC (whether it actually has a Dexterity bonus or not), the dragonstalker's attack deals an extra 2d6 points of damage. This extra damage increases by 2d6 points every other level (4d6 at 4th level, 6d6 at 6th level, and so on). Should the dragonstalker score a critical hit with a sneak attack, this extra damage is not multiplied.
It takes precision and penetration to hit a vital spot, so ranged attacks can only count as sneak attacks if the dragon is 30 feet away or less.
With a sap or an unarmed strike, a dragonstalker can make a sneak attack that deals nonlethal damage instead of lethal damage. She cannot use a weapon that deals lethal damage to deal nonlethal damage in a sneak attack, not even with the usual -4 penalty, because she must make optimal use of her weapon to execute the sneak attack.
A dragonstalker can only sneak attack living dragons with discernible anatomies. Any dragon immune to critical hits is similarly immune to sneak attacks. Also, the dragonstalker must be able to see the target well enough to pick out a vital spot and must be able to reach a vital spot. A dragonstalker cannot sneak attack while striking at a dragon with concealment or by striking the limbs of a dragon whose vitals are beyond reach.
If a dragonstalker gets a sneak attack bonus from another source (such as rogue levels), the bonuses to damage stack when the ability is used against dragons.
Ignore Natural Armor (Ex): Once per day, a dragonstalker of 3rd level or higher can ignore a target's natural armor bonus (including any enhancement to that natural armor) for one attack (melee or ranged). You must declare that you are using this ability before you make the attack roll. At 7th level, a dragonstalker can use this ability twice per day.
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Foil Blindsense (Su): Once per day, a 9th-level dragonstalker can render herself completely imperceptible to blindsense. This requires a standard action, and the effect lasts for 10 minutes. This ability has no effect on other forms of vision (whether mundane or magical). For instance, it doesn't keep someone from spotting or hearing the dragonstalker with normal senses, or from noticing an invisible dragonstalker by means of a true seeing spell.
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The film starts with a plane accident in which a small child narrowly escapes. He is then looked after by his maternal uncle, Vijayaraghavan and all the family's wealth will be inherited to him. But in the future he should marry a girl whose star is Chothi nashatra (superstitious beliefs) only then will he prosper in life. The boy grows up to be a young man Balakrishnan, who is unsuccesfull in anything he does. He falls in love with Maya, the daughter of a wealthy businessman named Patella, who is settled in Mumbai. He then takes her with him and marries her. In the meantime Lakshmi, a friend of Balakrishnan tries to convince and Balakrishnan's uncle about the marrige and the uncle agrees to visit the couple. But then, on the second day of the marriage Maya leaves him. Balakrishnan did not want his uncle to know that his wife left him, so he hires a girl Mayamohini to act as his wife. The story continues with many twists and in the later it is revealed that mayamohini is actually a man named mohan, Dileep who the Kerala Police had been searching for so long. He had been put into a trap by Patella and his men, who killed Mohan's father to get hold of their property. Balakrishnan agrees to help him in his quest, meanwhile mohan falls in love with the daughter of a police officer. Later Patella is killed by Mohan. | <urn:uuid:b4f552c1-ca59-4e66-aa20-a6a60b66a8a7> | 2013-05-21T17:25:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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When you have a great point guard, and a outstanding shooter you end up with college scholarships. Kyle Crowley and Brady Sanders will move on with their careers in college basketball. Kyle will hea..
Trent Smith went 7 strong innings to help the Indians knock off the Tigers 6-4 yesterday. Herscher scored 3 runs in the fifth, and Pontiac scored three in the sixth, and one in the second, fourth... | <urn:uuid:23c11d1a-2a0e-44db-b609-aefbae8392d8> | 2013-05-21T17:38:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Three of the four semi-finalists in the 2012 season playoffs will receive the most compensatory picks in the NFL Draft according to selections announced by the league Monday.
The Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens and the NFC finalist Atlanta Falcons each received four compensatory picks while Super Bowl runner-up San Francisco 49ers and the Tennessee Titans picked up three extra picks.
Under the rules for compensatory draft selections, a team losing more or better compensatory free agents than it acquires in the previous year is eligible to receive compensatory draft picks. The number of picks a team receives equals the net loss of compensatory free agents up to a maximum of four. The 32 compensatory choices announced will supplement the 222 choices in the seven rounds of the 2013 NFL Draft (April 25-27).
Although this is a case of the rich getting richer this year, it is nothing new for the Ravens to get a good share of compensatory picks. Since this system was installed in 1994, the Ravens collected 37 compensatory picks, six more than any other team.
The Ravens earned their haul this year because last year they lost six players to free agency and signed only two. The Falcons lost four and signed none.
In all, a total of 32 compensatory selections in the 2013 draft were awarded to 16 teams.
The full list of awarded selections:
ROUND, ROUND CHOICE/OVERALL SELECTION, TEAM
3. 33-95, Houston
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OK, My entries have been narrowed down since I created them (ah, poor sad rejected ones, which should actually include 2 more...)
So, here we go for your voting pleasure:
When is a door not a door? When it's ajar! So when is a foot not a foot? When it's an alien masquerading as your foot.
(props to my 4yo for the phrase)
Want More Bacon!
Why should you have to stop eating your yummy breakfast just to ask for more bacon? Wear the shirt, instead!
So, does "Kiss me, I'm Irish" not work for you? Is it too perky? Instead, impress all your goth friends with this "Kiss me, I'm a Vampire" shirt!
Welcome to the Big Dipper Bar! Serving the best in celestial spirits!
What should you do if you're at a party and a guest brings up politics, religion, or another uncomfortable topic? Just smile and pass the bean dip, of course!
Apathy & Irony
There are subtle differences between Apathy and Irony. If you don't try, it's Apathy. If you win, it's Irony. get it? got it? good.
In the children's novel "Caddie Woodlawn", one of the boys needs to recite "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again". After he is teased by his brother, he ends up saying "if at first you don't fricassee, fry, fry a hen".
& the Gaggle of Girls
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A form or part that is folded or coiled.
- n. One of the convex folds of the surface of the brain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of rolling. or winding together, or of winding one part or thing on another; the motion or process of winding in and out.
- n. The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or wound together.
- n. A turn or winding; a fold; a gyration; an anfractuosity; a whorl: as, the convolutions of a vine; the convolutions of the intestines.
- n. In anatomy, specifically, one of the gyri, gyres, or anfractuosities of the brain, especially of the cerebrum. See cuts under brain and corpus.
- n. In mathematics, such a connection between the relations of any asyzygetic system that each is applied alternately in the aggregate of the remaining relations.
- n. Something that is folded or twisted.
- n. Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
- n. The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
- n. mathematics A form of moving average.
- n. computing A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.
- n. The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself.
- n. (Anat.) An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part.
- n. a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain
- n. the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
- n. the shape of something rotating rapidly
- From Latin convolutus ("to roll together"), past participle of convolvere, from con- + volvere ("to roll"). (Wiktionary)
“It was in 1861 that he announced his discovery of the seat of articulate speech in the left side of the frontal region of the brain, since known as the convolution of Broca.”
“It is of small size, and consists of a square-shaped convolution, which is termed the precuneus or quadrate lobe.”
“In front of this precentral convolution are the three frontal convolutions, and it would seem that the functions of these convolutions are higher movements and attention in fixation of the eyes; moreover, in the lowest frontal region, indicated by fine dots, we have Broca's convolution, which is associated with motor speech; above at the base of the second middle frontal convolution is the portion of cortex in which is localised the function of writing.”
“M. Alain's expensive way of life, his clothes and mistresses, his dicing and racehorses, were all explained: he was in the pay of Buonaparte, a hired spy, and a man that held the strings of what I can only call a convolution of extremely fishy enterprises.”
“The interior portion of the convolution is the more intellectual portion of the organ, while the exterior portion is that which holds the closest relation to the fibres of the _corpora striata_ in the middle lobe, and may therefore most properly be called the organ of language or of speech, the impairment of which produces aphasia, or loss of speech.”
“In particular, Fourier analytic methods are particularly useful for studying operations such as convolution in frequency space (the domain of the frequency variable”
“He looked again and decided that it was the purple haze of the hills made dark by a convolution of the cãnon wall at its back.”
“At some length and terminological convolution on their part, making these exact same points to them, even that one about the computer program, with little effect … it is the most bizarre thing.”
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-a unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.
Derivatives from Chapter 19 of Part One of English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
"cerebral" cerebral terms
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“Annette looked at first puzzled and doubtful, then suddenly recognized the good taste which had dictated the attire, and exclaimed — “You are right — you are right — it is best to meet him as a free-hearted Swiss maiden.””
“The Town perhaps have been as much obliged to me, for recruiting it with free-hearted Ladies, as to any Recruiting Officer in the Army.”
“The truth, as I came to know afterward, was that a large, free-hearted, and determined man was at the head of every thing.”
“So they took a fancy to him, and, being free-hearted sort of fellows, asked him to keep them company in the drag, and let one of the grooms ride his horse.”
“And how does that honourable, complete, free-hearted gentleman of Athens, thy very bountiful good lord and master?”
“The ever-increasing cost of food with us makes free-hearted hospitality an impossibility, and withers up all those kindly instincts which find expression in housing and feeding both friends and strangers.”
“He breaks loose gladly from the cold formalities and negative civilities of town; throws off his habits of shy reserve, and becomes joyous and free-hearted.”
“I don't see how he stayed in business, but he was mighty free-hearted. [unclear] late hours at night, and he was right across in front of the school.”
“Well, he shall see that country people can be happy and free-hearted, if they have _not_ the city refinements.”
“Kindly and more free-hearted you grow in the sphere of Julia”
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Flights to Lagos
Flights to Lagos from the UK
There are regular direct cheap flights to Lagos, operating from
the major UK airports to Murtala Mohammed International Airport
(which is the most important airport in Nigeria and is located 10km
north of Lagos Island). Flights from the UK take approximately 7
Which airlines fly to Lagos?
The main airlines flying to Lagos are British Airways, Arik Air and Aero. Other airlines operating flights at least once per week are Virgin Atlantic, Air France, Royal Air Maroc, Emirates, Ethiopian Airlines, Iberia, KLM, Kenya Airways, Lufthansa, EgyptAir and Turkish Airlines.
Flights to Lagos from the USA
There are direct cheap flights to Lagos from the USA, arriving at Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport (which is located 13 miles or 22km northwest of Lagos).
Which airlines fly to Lagos from the USA?
Delta offers direct cheap flights to Lagos from Atlanta.
Airports in Lagos
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One third of Bulgarian households affected by the crisis
May 13, 2010
Almost one third of Bulgarian households are affected by the global economic crisis. Many of them are forced to limit expenses for food, medical services and education, which create future risks. These are the main findings of the Bulgaria Crisis Monitoring Survey done jointly by the Open Society Institute and the World Bank. The survey follows a nationally representative sample of 2400 households over time, with interviews in February 2010, September 2010 and February 2011. The first wave of the survey, implemented in February 2010, has collected information from about 2400 households with 6600 individuals.
The Bulgarian economy was moderately affected by the global economic crisis in 2009, experiencing a 5% decline in GDP. The impact of the crisis, however, tends to be felt by households after the peak of the macroeconomic contraction. Thus, the World Bank has partnered with the Open Society Institute (OSI) Sofia in late 2009 to assess impact of the crisis on households.
The primary tool by which this assessment is conducted is a Crisis Monitoring Survey, which quantifies the economic impacts of the financial crisis on households and individuals. The survey focuses on:
- Assessing the main transmission channels of the crisis (such as labor markets, access to credit, remittances/informal transfers, relative prices, government services) through which it is affecting household welfare;
- Determining the impacts on welfare that cannot be quantified through administrative data, including on: expenditures, health, education, food security, indebtedness
- Understanding coping strategies of households and the extent to which existing safety nets (including government assistance and informal transfers) allow families to cope effectively.
The Bulgaria Crisis Monitoring Survey follows a nationally representative sample of 2400 households over time, with interviews in February 2010, September 2010 and February 2011. The first wave of the survey, implemented in February 2010, has collected information from about 2400 households with 6600 individuals.
KEY PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
Who has been affected and how?
- Approximately 30% of households reported a decline in income between March 2009 and February 2010.
- These income shocks primarily through lost or reduced employment or wages —approximately 34% of workers reporting an income shock through their primary job.
- Job loss that results in unemployment is the most severe type of labor market shock and has affected 5% of workers. Reductions in wages and work hours, a more moderate shock, are more widespread, affecting close to 30% of workers.
- Workers from the most vulnerable groups — those with a primary education or less, and Roma — are the most likely to suffer from the most severe labor market shocks, particularly unemployment.
How have they coped?
- Most households try to cope with a reduction in income by sending non-working family members to look for work or by seeking additional part-time work—but only the better educated and richer individual succeed to find additional work. Of households that are crisis-affected and poor, 60% looked for additional work, and failed to find any.
- Only 22% of Bulgarian households reported having any savings, and X% of crisis-affected households have no savings and are also indebted.
- Key social assistance programs (child allowances, heating allowances and the guaranteed minimum income program) are responding to the crisis— 60% of the households from the poorest quintile who suffered an income shock are receiving at least one benefit from the three programs mentioned above.
What are the impacts?
- Households responded to the economic contraction by reducing expenditures on basic necessities: 41% reported reducing use of basic utilities, 29% reduced consumption of staple foods, and 8% reported skipping meals.
- As in other Central and Eastern European countries, crisis-affected households significantly reduced expenditures on health, including stopping use of regular prescribed medications, and skipping doctors visits.
- Crisis-affected households were more likely to stop paying social contributions and health insurance—increasing their vulnerability if exposed to additional shock (falling ill or becoming unemployed).
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Ants Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
4 Ants Quotes
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 6)
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags
with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she
is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
[Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris
Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo
Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Satires (bk. I, I, 33)
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of
Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who
in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
Marcus Valerius Martial
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Birds of a FeatherTravel to the Den of Haal'esh in Hellfire Peninsula and search the Kaliri Nests for a Female Kaliri Hatchling. Use the Empty Birdcage to capture it and bring it to Falconer Drenna Riverwind at Falcon Watch.
|Caged Female Kaliri Hatchling|
DescriptionThe Haal'eshi arakkoa have domesticated a beautiful bird species called the kaliri.
I've managed to capture a young male and they appear to be trainable. The females are much rarer, but if I had one I could attempt to breed them. She has to be young, though... a hatchling. An older wild bird wouldn't survive in captivity.
Take this cage and travel south, to the Den of Haal'esh. Search the nests for eggs that are ready to hatch. If you bring me back a female hatchling, I'll reward you handsomely.
She's precious. You have my thanks, <name>.
RewardsYou will receive: 2 70
GainsUpon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 10,050 experience
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The Nebraska assault trial for New England Patriots rookie Alfonzo Dennard has begun.
Dennard, a former Nebraska cornerback, was arrested April 21 outside a bar in Lincoln, accused of punching a police officer in the face during a fight. Dennard is charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest and third-degree assault and faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
Dennard's trial in Lancaster County District Court started Monday. Dennard's lawyer said in his opening statement that Dennard hit the officer in self-defense.
On Tuesday, Officer Brian Kopsa testified that Dennard hit him in the jaw after Kopsa told the football player he was under arrest.
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Or'kaos the Insane
|Location||Netherwing Ledge, Shadowmoon Valley|
- Originally Toranaku was supposed to give a quest to kill Or'kaos upon a player reaching Exalted with Netherwing in order for him or her obtain a netherdrake mount; but the idea was replaced with .
- Currently serves no useful purpose, including lacks loot.
- Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007): Added. | <urn:uuid:6159b1cd-4649-468c-b295-d1dafb26adc3> | 2013-05-21T17:45:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Level||60 (Requires 55)|
|Rewards||, , , , or|
Slay Highlord Omokk, War Master Voone, and Overlord Wyrmthalak. Recover Important Blackrock Documents. Return to Warlord Goretooth in Kargath when the mission has been accomplished.
By order of Warlord Goretooth, the following inhabitants of Blackrock Spire must be destroyed:
The rotund menace, Highlord Omokk.
The cruel and ruthless troll, War Master Voone.
Overlord Wyrmthalak, taskmaster of the lesser city.
You will also be required to return any important documents that you may find.
Succeed and be honored.
Fail and be forgotten.
Warlord Goretooth salutes.
Warlord Goretooth's dull green skin turns a pasty white for a brief moment.
The lowest level that you can should attempt this quest is Level 58. The quest is a 5-man run through Lower Blackrock Spire. The main targets are Highlord Omokk, War Master Voone, and Overlord Wyrmthalak. You must also obtain the Important Blackrock Documents, which spawn randomly in one of four places.
When you enter the instance, walk up the ramp, kill the orcs sitting on either side, and then the patrol. Continue up the ramp again and make a right out of the doorway, killing a second patrol on the way. Near the doorway to the left are two mobs. It's possible to Mind Soothe them and hug the far wall to avoid fighting them. Once out of the S-shaped hallway, you find yourself on a large platform with some Orcs. Instead of fighting them, hug the wall to your right and jump off the edge. You'll see two ledges sticking out of the wall further down, so make sure you aim for these. After reaching the bottom, the next area if full of spiders. Careful pulling and stopping any runners is the key here. After the spiders, make sure you look for the documents by the pile of skulls on the Ogre platform.
Soon afterwards you should run into Overlord Wyrmthalak. Once Wyrmthalak is dead, check for the documents and head back to the previous room that was full of Orcs. Jump down the first crack and Omokk should be nearby. After ridding yourself of Omokk, check for the documents again.
Fight your way out of Omokk's area, continue across the bridge, and jump down the first crack you see. Bijou should be nearby. Fight your way down to the main floor of the Troll area and make sure you take a right at the bottom fork of the ramp down. Hugging the wall should get you to Voone in a total of 6-7 pulls from Bijou. If you have not yet found the documents, they should be near this last boss.
This rather roundabout way will save you some time and prevent a lot of unnecessary fighting.
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That concern grew after talking to doctors and players haunted by gnarly hits for a six-part documentary series, "The NFL: The Gift Or The Curse," which he is producing.
He felt his worries were founded when he learned that star NFL linebacker Junior Seau -- who took his own life last May -- suffered from a neurodegenerative brain disease that can develop from concussions known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
At that point, Jones said he decided to donate his own brain to the Sports Legacy Institute -- which studies the link between sports and brain trauma -- for research upon his death.
Jones said he hopes that research will help bring more understanding of the brain disease so future football players are informed when they decide to take the field.
"CTE didn't just pop up. It's been around," he said. "But unfortunately it took a couple of big-name guys to take their own lives to bring attention to it."
Seven months after Seau's death, another NFL player's life came to a violent end, stunning the sports world once again and raising concerns about the mental health of football players.
On December 1, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend in the same home as their 3-month-old daughter before heading to team's practice facility, thanking his coaches, and turning his gun on himself.
Yet, in the wake of Belcher's murder-suicide, the nationwide discussion turned away from mental health and toward guns. NBC sportscaster Bob Costas fueled the firestorm with his comments just one day after the incident.
Referencing a piece written by Fox Sports' Jason Whitlock, Costas said, "'Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.'
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1: Bruno Thiry
From 1994 until the end of the 1996 season, Thiry and Ford were inseparable with the Belgian impressing on a number of occasions, most notably in Corsica in 1995 when wheel bearing failure forced him to retire on the final day while he was heading for victory. He returned to Ford in 1998, by which time M-Sport had taken over the running of the Blue Oval factory team, and scored a season-best third in Great Britain.
2: Francois Duval
Ford handed the young Duval his big break in the world championship but he walked away on a long-term deal to sign for Citroen for 2005. Despite claiming his maiden victory in Australia, there were more downs than ups and Duval was left without a drive. M-Sport handed him a career lifeline for 2008 and he was twice nominated as a Ford victory driver that season. Frustratingly, however, Duval never fulfilled his potential, despite M-Sport head Malcolm Wilson’s unwavering support.
3: Christian Loriaux
Loriaux is one of the most successful Belgians to be associated with Ford although he prefers to do his stuff behind the drawing board rather than the steering wheel. As M-Sport’s technical director, Loriaux is the man responsible for a number of the firm’s recent creations, from several Focus variants to the current Fiesta RS WRC.
4: Gregoire De Mevius
De Mevius relied on Ford technology in the world championship in mid-1990s when he made several appearances in a privateer Escort. His son, Ghislain, began his career driving Ford Fiestas.
5: Stephane Prevot
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To start, I'd like to say upfront that I've already read the only other post that deals with this subject (http://wrensoft.com/forum/viewtopic....light=line+586). I haven't yet taken steps with my host to resolve this problem as I want to verify that this is definitely the problem.
You can view my search (and the related problem) at www.rndpig.com/ISA. What you'll see is that the search works correctly (of course), but at the top of the search page, I get the infamous error that the search_template.html file failed to open stream, etc.
If anyone has any suggestions for me to try, I'd love to hear them. I've purchased a professional license for Zoom because I love the software. I just need to figure out this perplexing problem before I can move on!
In this case the problem is a fairly simple one.
In the directory http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/pages/ you don't have a search_template.html file.
All the search files need to be in the same directory.
But search.php in directory http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/pages/ is only 1KB, not the 58KB you would expect were it the Wrensoft script. Also,there is no settings.php in the directory, which would have triggered an error before the attempt to read search_template.html. So I think http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/pages/search.php is embedding http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/scripts/search/search.php .
If so, maybe $TemplateFilename in http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/scripts/search/settings.php needs to point to http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/scripts/se..._template.html rather than http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/pages/search_template.html ? How would you do that within Zoom?
quintic, you've got it exactly right: http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/pages/search.php is embedding http://www.rndpig.com/ISA/scripts/search/search.php. Therefore, you have perfectly framed the question I should have asked in the first place: How do I put all the search files in one directory and embed search.php in a file located in another directory?
I would save myself the grief and put all the search files in the same directory (including the search wrapper file).
Otherwise you could move the template file to the same directory as your wrapper script.
Thanks for the advice...I went ahead and just put everything in the same directory.
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The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 1
29 September 2008
The Socialist Equality Party (US) today begins the publication of The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party. The document was discussed extensively and adopted unanimously at the Founding Congress of the SEP, held August 3-9, 2008. (See “Socialist Equality Party holds founding Congress”) The WSWS will serialize the publication over two weeks. (Click here for parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11)
Download the entire Historical and International Foundations of the SEP in pdf format here.
To find out more about how to join the SEP, contact us here.
The Principled Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party
1 The program of the SEP is of a principled, not of a conjunctural and pragmatic character. It is based on an analysis of the crisis of world capitalism and an assimilation of the strategic revolutionary experiences of the working class and the international socialist movement. The world economic and political system is, in its fundamental characteristics, imperialist. Despite the advances in technology, the growth of the productive forces, and the expansion of capitalist production relations throughout the globe, the world capitalist system is beset by the same insoluble contradictions that produced the 20th century horrors of two world wars, fascism, a virtually endless series of regional military conflicts and innumerable brutal political dictatorships.
2. The main features of imperialism identified by Lenin during World War I (the monopolistic concentration of production, the domination of finance capital and economic parasitism, the great power striving for global geo-political and economic dominance, the oppression of weaker nations, and the universal tendency toward political reaction) define the present world economic and political order. As in 1914 (on the eve of World War I) and in 1939 (on the eve of World War II), the basic contradictions are between the global economy and the nation state system, and between socialized production and private ownership of the means of production. From these contradictions emerge not only the danger of another catastrophic world war, but also the objective conditions for the overthrow of capitalism—the socialization of industry and finance, the globalization of economic life, and the social power of the working class.
3. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the ideologists and apologists of the bourgeoisie proclaimed “The End of History.” By this they meant “The End of Socialism” and the final triumph of capitalism. Subsequent events have demonstrated that the obituaries for revolution, not to mention for history itself, were premature. The 21st century will be no less tumultuous than the 20th. The international working class will be confronted with the historical problems that previous generations were unable to solve.
4, Revolutionary socialist strategy can develop only on the basis of the lessons of past struggles. Above all, the education of socialists must be directed toward developing a detailed knowledge of the history of the Fourth International. The development of Marxism as the theoretical and political spearhead of socialist revolution has found its most advanced expression in the struggles waged by the Fourth International, since its founding in 1938, against Stalinism, reformism, the Pabloite revisions of Trotskyism, and all other forms of political opportunism.
5. Political agreement within the party on essential issues of program and tasks cannot be achieved without a common evaluation of the historical experiences of the twentieth century and their central strategic lessons. Rosa Luxemburg once described history as the “Via Dolorosa” of the working class. Only to the extent that the working class learns from history – the lessons of not only its victories but also its defeats – can it be prepared for the demands of a new period of revolutionary struggle.
The Origins and Development of Marxism
6. The imperialist epoch emerged in its modern form during the last decades of the 19th century. The expansion of capitalist industry brought with it the growth of the working class and eruption of class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the new industrial proletariat in Europe and North America. This historical process had been theoretically anticipated in the development of Marxism. The Communist Manifesto was published in November 1847 on the eve of the first revolutionary struggles of the working class. Through the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, utopian projects for the general improvement of the human condition were superseded by the discovery of the objective laws governing the historical process. The materialist conception of history established, as Engels explained in his classic work Anti-Dühring, that:
...the production and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or estates is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged. From this point of view the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men’s brains, not in man’s better insight into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange. They are to be sought, not in the philosophy, but in the economics of each particular epoch. The growing perception that existing social institutions are unreasonable and unjust, that reason has become unreason, and right wrong, is only proof that in the modes of production and exchange changes have silently taken place with which the social order, adapted to earlier economic conditions, is no longer in keeping. From this it also follows that the means of getting rid of the incongruities that have been brought to light must also be present, in a more or less developed condition, within the changed modes of production themselves. These means are not to be invented, spun out of the head, but discovered with the aid of the head in the existing material facts of production.
7. The publication of Capital in 1867 provided the working class with an understanding of the laws governing the capitalist mode of production. Though several years were to pass before Marx’s masterwork gained the attention of a significant working class audience, Capital established the scientific foundation for the development of the modern socialist movement. As wider sections of the working class, especially in Germany, came under the influence of Marxism, the social and theoretical foundations emerged for the establishment of mass socialist parties throughout Europe. The formation of the Second International in 1889 was a milestone in the struggle for the political unity of the international working class. It rested on objective foundations far more mature, in terms of the development of capitalism and the industrial working class, than those that had existed when Marx and Engels founded the First International in 1864. The period between 1876, when the First International was dissolved, and 1889 witnessed an immense growth in capitalism and the industrial proletariat. The next quarter century was characterized by contradictory tendencies in the social, economic and political development of capitalism and the international workers’ movement. On the surface, economic growth and political stability were the dominant features of the period. Within this framework, the growth of the organized workers’ movement, especially in Western Europe, proceeded along parliamentary and trade union lines. However, beneath the apparent stability of the political and economic order, immense internal pressures were building up. The development of imperialism in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century was accompanied by an escalation of dangerous rivalries among the major capitalist states. At the same time, economic strains were undermining the foundations of class compromise and causing an intensification of social tensions.
8. This contradictory development underlay the tensions within the Second International, and the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in particular. The official doctrine of the SPD was that of class war, but its growth was bound up with the expansion of German capitalism and national industry, which brought with it the strengthening of the proletariat and the trade unions. The period of capitalist growth allowed the bourgeoisie to cultivate a section of the working class and trade union bureaucracy (what Lenin later called the “labor aristocracy”), integrating its interests with the capitalist system. This was the foundation for the growth of opportunism within the Second International, manifested in every country. This opportunism found its most developed theoretical expression in the writings of Eduard Bernstein, who rejected the Marxist analysis of the contradictions of the capitalist system and their revolutionary implications. Bernstein also rejected the scientific basis of Marxist theory, and argued that socialism should be viewed as a moral ideal that had no necessary material relationship to the laws of capitalist development. These arguments reflected the widespread influence of various forms of subjective idealist philosophy, especially neo-Kantianism, which opposed Marxian materialism.
9. The strength of the revisionist anti-Marxist tendencies did not reflect the intellectual power of their arguments, which were inconsistent and impressionistic. Rather, revisionism developed in a period of rapid economic expansion and rising living standards in Europe that provided the working class, though led by socialists, with no opportunity for a revolutionary assault on capitalist society. Thus, a strange dualism arose within the social-democratic movement, especially in Germany. Its leaders employed the language of revolutionary Marxism, but the daily practical work of the party proceeded within the boundaries of reformism. Bernstein’s formulations reflected and justified this reformist character of the daily practice of the German Social Democratic Party and the trade unions. The political implications of his theoretical revisions found expression in France, in 1899, when the socialist leader Millerand became a minister in a bourgeois government.
The Origins of Bolshevism
10. The Bolshevik tendency emerged out of the struggle led politically by Lenin (and, in the sphere of philosophy, by Plekhanov) against revisionist and opportunist tendencies within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Lenin (basing himself on the position developed earlier by Kautsky, the principal theoretician of the SPD) insisted that socialist consciousness did not develop spontaneously within the working class, but had to be brought into the workers’ movement. In his seminal work, What Is To Be Done? Lenin cited the following critical passage from the program of the Austrian Social-Democratic Party:
...Modern socialist consciousness can only arise on the basis of profound scientific knowledge. Indeed, modern economic science is as much a condition for socialist production as, say, modern technology, and the proletariat can create neither the one nor the other, no matter how much it may desire to do so; both arise out of the modern social process. The vehicle of science is not the proletariat, but the bourgeois intelligentsia: it was in the minds of individual members of this stratum that modern socialism originated, and it was they who communicated it to the more intellectually developed proletarians who, in their turn, introduce it into the proletarian class struggle where conditions allow this to be done. Thus, socialist consciousness is something introduced into the proletarian class struggle from without, and not something that arose within it spontaneously.
11. The central task of the revolutionary party was to saturate the workers’ movement with Marxist theory. “Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves in the process of their movement,” Lenin wrote, “the only choice is – either bourgeois or socialist ideology. There is no middle course (for mankind has not created a ‘third’ ideology, and, moreover, in a society torn by class antagonisms there can never be a non-class or an above-class ideology). Hence, to belittle the socialist ideology in any way, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology.” Lenin opposed all tendencies that adapted their work to the spontaneous forms of working class activity and detached the daily practical struggles from the historical goal of social revolution. Lenin recognized more clearly than any other socialist of his time that the development of Marxism within the working class required a persistent struggle against the political and ideological pressure exerted by bourgeois and middle class tendencies. Herein lay the significance of the fight – conducted over issues of theory, political strategy and party organization – against diverse forms of revisionism and opportunism.
12. The 1903 Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party ended in a split between the Bolshevik and Menshevik tendencies. It marked a turning point in the history of the revolutionary socialist movement. Though the split occurred unexpectedly, over what at first seemed to be secondary issues relating to party rules and organization, it gradually became clear that the conflict was tied to the larger problem of political opportunism in the RSDLP and, beyond that, to issues of political perspective and program. In relation to the organizational question, as Lenin explained in One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, “Opportunism in program is naturally connected with opportunism in tactics and opportunism in organization.” He noted further, “The opportunist wing of any party always defends and justifies all backwardness, whether in program, tactics or organization.” Lenin concluded his analysis with a memorable declaration:
In its struggle for power the proletariat has no other weapon but organization. Disunited by the rule of anarchic competition in the bourgeois world, ground down by forced labor for capital, constantly thrust back to the “lower depths” of utter destitution, savagery, and degeneration, the proletariat can, and inevitably will, become an invincible force only through its ideological unification on the principles of Marxism being reinforced by the material unity of organization, which welds millions of toilers into an army of the working class.
13. Following the Second Congress, Lenin’s uncompromising stance came under bitter criticism within many sections of the RSDLP that held him responsible for the split. His approach to the inner-party struggle was harshly criticized by the young Trotsky (who was only 23 at the time of the Congress) and Rosa Luxemburg. These outstanding revolutionists did not yet understand Lenin’s insight into the material relationship between theoretical, political and organizational disputes within the party and the objective social process of class realignments and class conflict developing on a mass scale outside the party. While most socialists of the day tended to interpret the conflict within and between factions of the RSDLP as a conflict of tendencies competing, in a subjective sense, for influence over a politically uncommitted working class, Lenin interpreted the conflict as an objective manifestation of real shifts in class relations – both between the working class and the bourgeoisie and also between different strata within the working class itself. Lenin studied the struggle of tendencies within the party as a “key indicator” of the development of the revolutionary epoch. In relation to the conflict that erupted at the Second Congress, the issue concealed within the constitutional question was the relationship of the Russian working class and the RSDLP to the liberal bourgeoisie and its political parties. Underlying the opportunist attitude of the Mensheviks toward organizational issues, such as the definition of the responsibilities of party membership, was a conciliatory orientation toward Russian liberalism. Over time, as the political situation in Russia matured, the immense implications of the organizational issues became more apparent. As Trotsky later acknowledged, his understanding of Lenin’s political methods deepened as, against the backdrop of cataclysmic events, he “worked out a more and more correct, i.e., Bolshevik, conception of the relations between class and party, between theory and politics, and between politics and organization...What had seemed to me to be ‘splitterism,’ ‘disruption,’ etc., now appeared as a salutary and incomparably farsighted struggle for the revolutionary independence of the proletarian party.”
The Theory of Permanent Revolution
14. The split at the 1903 Congress anticipated social upheaval in Russia. The Russian Revolution of 1905 raised crucial problems of strategy for Russian Social Democracy. Despite the defeat of the revolution, the events of 1905 demonstrated the immense social power of the working class, which played the leading role in the struggle against the tsarist regime. Prior to 1905, revolutions were seen as national events, the outcomes of which were determined by the logic of their internal socio-economic structures and relations. Marxist theoreticians had assumed that the socialist revolution would begin in the most advanced European capitalist countries (Britain, Germany and France), and that the less developed countries (such as Russia), would have to pass through an extended stage of capitalist economic and bourgeois-democratic political development before they were “ripe” for a proletarian socialist revolution. In the latter countries, it was generally maintained that Marxist parties would be obligated to limit the revolutionary struggle to the establishment of a democratic republic under the political leadership of the national bourgeoisie. This traditional perspective guided the work of the Russian Mensheviks, following the political strategy developed by Plekhanov. In the 1905 revolution, however, the bourgeoisie proved unwilling to carry through the democratic revolution against the Tsar, and instead sided with the Tsar against the working class.
15. Lenin, in opposition to the Mensheviks, argued that because of the political weakness of the bourgeoisie, the revolution would be led by the working class in alliance with the peasantry. This alliance would establish a “democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.” This formulation expressed Lenin’s determination to impart to the democratic revolution the most radical character possible (i.e., the uncompromising destruction of all remnants of feudal relations in the countryside and the resolute destruction of autocratic rule). But it did not define in socialist terms either the revolution or the state that was to issue from it. The democratic dictatorship did not necessitate an encroachment on bourgeois capitalist property. Moreover, it remained ambiguous on the distribution of power between the proletariat and peasantry.
16. Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution presented a bolder solution to the problem of the democratic revolution in Russia. His conception was without the ambiguity, relating to the class nature of the state power that would issue from the overthrow of tsarism, which characterized Lenin’s formulation. Trotsky predicted that the revolution would not be limited to democratic tasks, that it would assume a socialist character, and that the working class would take state power and establish its dictatorship. The nature, tasks and outcome of the Russian revolution, Trotsky insisted, would be determined by international rather than national conditions. Though the immediate tasks that confronted the Russian masses were of a bourgeois-democratic character – the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy and the liquidation of the remnants of feudal relations in the countryside – they could not be realized either under the political leadership of the national bourgeoisie or within the framework of a bourgeois-democratic republic. The changes in world economy and the emergence of the working class as a powerful social force meant that the democratic revolution in the 20th century would develop very differently than in the 19th. The Russian bourgeoisie, having been integrated into the world capitalist system, was weak and dependent upon imperialism. The democratic tasks could be realized only through a revolution led by the working class with the support of the peasant masses. Having taken power, however, the working class could not limit itself to democratic tasks and would be compelled to carry out measures of a socialist character. Moreover, the social revolution in Russia could not maintain itself within a national framework. Its survival depended upon the extension of the revolution into the advanced capitalist countries and, ultimately, throughout the world. Trotsky wrote in June 1905:
Binding all countries together with its mode of production and its commerce, capitalism has converted the whole world into a single economic and political organism...This immediately gives the events now unfolding an international character, and opens up a wide horizon. The political emancipation of Russia led by the working class will raise that class to a height as yet unknown in history, will transfer to it colossal power and resources, and make it the initiator of the liquidation of world capitalism, for which history has created all the objective conditions.
Lenin’s Defense of Materialism
17. In later years, Trotsky commented that Lenin’s work was distinguished by the highest level of theoretical conscientiousness. This found particular expression in Lenin’s defense of Marxism against different forms of philosophical idealism and subjectivism that threatened to disorient the socialist movement. Lenin’s decision to devote an entire year to the writing of Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908-09) reflected his awareness of the immense danger posed by the widespread influence of philosophical idealism within the socialist movement, not only neo-Kantianism – often associated with efforts to base socialism on ethics – but also openly irrationalist conceptions, expressing the influence of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, which glorified voluntarism and the subjective will to action. Lenin opposed idealist subjectivism as incompatible with a scientific understanding of the laws governing capitalist society and the revolutionary struggle.
18. Lenin insisted, “The philosophy of Marxism is materialism.” He stated that materialism “has proved to be the only philosophy that is consistent, true to all the teachings of natural science and hostile to superstition, cant and so forth.” He explained that Marxism had developed materialism beyond the form in which it existed in the eighteenth century, by enriching it “with the achievements of German classical philosophy, especially of Hegel’s system, which in its turn had led to the materialism of Feuerbach.” The great contribution of German classical philosophy was the elaboration of dialectics, defined by Lenin as “the doctrine of development in its fullest, deepest and most comprehensive form, the doctrine of the relativity of human knowledge that provides us with a reflection of eternally developing matter.” Writing on the eve of World War I, Lenin provided this concise explanation of the philosophical standpoint of Marxism:
Marx deepened and developed philosophical materialism to the full, and extended the cognition of nature to include the cognition of human society. His historical materialism was a great achievement in scientific thinking. The chaos and arbitrariness that had previously reigned in views on history and politics were replaced by a strikingly integral and harmonious scientific theory, which shows how, in consequence of the growth of the productive forces, out of one system of social life another and higher system develops – how capitalism, for instance, grows out of feudalism.
Just as man’s knowledge reflects nature (i.e., developing matter), which exists independently of him, so man’s social knowledge (i.e., his various views and doctrines – philosophical, religious, political and so forth) reflects the economic system of society. Political institutions are a superstructure on the economic foundation. We see, for example, that the various political forms of the modern European states serve to strengthen the domination of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat.
Marx’s philosophy is a consummate philosophical materialism which has provided mankind, and especially the working class, with powerful instruments of knowledge.
19. After the publication of Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness in 1922, numerous efforts were made by academically-trained intellectuals, schooled in idealist philosophy, within and on the periphery of the socialist movement, to counterpose dialectics to materialism; and even to discredit works such as Materialism and Empirio-Criticism as examples of a “vulgar materialism” that Lenin supposedly repudiated once he undertook a systematic study of Hegel’s Science of Logic in 1914-15. Such claims, which were (and continue to be) based on a gross distortion of not only Lenin’s Philosophical Notebooks but also of his intellectual biography, played a major role in the bourgeois assault on the foundations and heritage of classical Marxism that gathered strength against the backdrop of the triumph of Stalinism in the USSR, the rise of fascism in Germany, and the physical liquidation of large sections of the theoretically-educated revolutionary cadre of Europe. The “dialectic” to which the idealists paid a purely rhetorical tribute has nothing whatsoever to do with the “doctrine of development” referred to by Lenin, let alone with the genuinely scientific method, described by Engels, which “comprehends things and their representations, ideas, in their essential connection, concatenation, motion, origin, and ending.” It was, rather, a “dialectic” from which nature, the material universe existing prior to and independent of man, was excluded. It was (and is) the pseudo-dialectic of a subjectively-conceived interaction of the discontented petty-bourgeois intellectual and his environment, in which that individual – unbound by objective laws that govern the development of nature, society and consciousness – is free to “create” the world as he or she sees fit.
To be continued
1. Frederick Engels, Anti-Dühring, in: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 25 (New York: International Publishers, 1987), pp. 254-55.
2. “What Is To Be Done?” in:V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 5, (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961), pp. 383-84.
3. Ibid., p. 384.
4. “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” in: V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 7 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1965), p. 398.
5. Ibid., p. 395.
6. Ibid., p. 415.
7. “Our Differences,” in The Challenge of the Left Opposition (1923-25) [New York: Pathfinder Press, 2002), p. 299.
8. Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution (London: New Park, 1971), p. 239-40
9. “Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism,” in V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 19 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1968), p. 24.
10. Ibid., p. 25.
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Jamaat-e-Islami said its members would continue to protest; many of its leaders are behind bars facing charges of murder, arson, looting and rape stemming from the war of independence in 1971.
They said the war-crimes trials, which began after more than 40 years of independence, was done with "ill political motive."
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showed no sign of backing down, saying the trials would be completed at any cost.
The government, which promised in its election pledges in 2008 to complete the war-crimes trials, set up the tribunals in 2010.
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Mollah, 64, was found guilty of five of six charges, including murder.
They included crimes against humanity, tribunal Chairman Justice Obaidul Hassan said.
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Menendez talking points: 'Stop the rush to judgment!'
Sen. Robert Menendez has denied wrongdoing regarding several recent claims, including that he partied with prostitutes while on trips to the Dominican Republic.
A memo of talking points sent to supporters by his communications director Tricia Enright after those claims and others surfaced calls for his supporters to "step back, take a breath and look at the facts." The memo of talking points was obtained by CNN.
The memo questions both the source - "the right wing blogosphere" - and the timing - "the first attacks were unleashed just days before the November elections" - of the claims.
Menendez, a Democrat, denied the claims last year and did so again in an exclusive television interview with CNN on Monday.
Since then, additional elements have since emerged, including that the senator questioned federal officials' probes into a friend and campaign donor's financial affairs. A source close to Menendez confirmed that claim is true but did not elaborate. The senator addressed that claim with reporters Thursday, saying that he had "raised concerns ... over policy and over ambiguities that are difficult for medical providers to understand and to seek a clarification of that."
Claims have also arisen that Menendez advocated for a port company in which he owned stock.
The talking points generally rebut the claims, reading, "Let's start by considering the source of these attacks: the right-wing blogosphere has spread these smears from the beginning."
"There is not one source who has come forward to back up the claims and not one piece of evidence that has been produced to back up the right wing machine's smears," the memo continues. "All of the stories lead back to one anonymous "tipster" who spent seven months before the elections peddling unsubstantiated smears to the FBI, and when that didn't work, set up his own website to repeat them... That's it -- no evidence, no sources speaking to major news outlets, nothing. Just anonymous smears on right-wing blogs."
The memo suggests further claims may be unsubstantiated because, "Targeting Menendez on prostitutes didn't work. Targeting him on the flights has been easily corrected."
Last month, Menendez paid approximately $58,500 to a friend and campaign donor for several flights he took in 2010, chalking up the lapse in payment to his busy schedule.
The friend and donor, Salomon Melgen, is the same friend Menendez intervened with federal authorities on behalf of.
"Many of the questions being asked of Sen. Menendez were answered months ago," the memo reads. "Shouldn't we be asking who is behind this right wing and/or Republican coordinated effort?"
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Lance Armstrong's attorney denied his client was in discussion with the U.S. or world anti-doping agencies following a report by The New York Times that the disgraced cycling icon was contemplating publicly admitting he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Attorney Tim Herman in an email to CNN Sports late Friday did not address whether Armstrong told associates -- as reported by the newspaper -- that he was considering the admission as a way to restore his athletic eligibility.
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life last year after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency found there was overwhelming evidence that he was directly involved in a sophisticated doping program.
Armstrong has repeatedly and vehemently denied that he used banned performance-enhancing drugs as well as illegal blood transfusions during his cycling career.
In the past, Armstrong has argued that he took more than 500 drug tests and never failed. In its 202-page report that detailed Armstrong's alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions, the USADA said it had tested Armstrong less than 60 times and the International Cycling Union conducted about 215 tests.
The agency did not say that Armstrong ever failed a test, but his former teammates testified as to how they beat tests or avoided the tests altogether.
The New York Times, citing unnamed associates and anti-doping officials, said Armstrong has been in discussions with USADA officials and hopes to meet with David Howman chief of the World Anti-Doping Agency. The newspaper said none of the people with knowledge of Armstrong's situation wanted to be identified because it would jeopardize their access to information on the matter.
Under World Anti-Doping Agency rules, an athlete who confesses to using performance-enhancing drugs may be eligible for a reinstatement.
Armstrong has been an icon for his cycling feats and celebrity, bringing more status to a sport wildly popular in some nations but lacking big-name recognition, big money and mass appeal in the United States.
He fought back from testicular cancer to win the Tour from 1999 to 2005. He raised millions via his Lance Armstrong Foundation to help cancer victims and survivors, an effort illustrated by trendy yellow "LiveSTRONG" wristbands that helped bring in the money. | <urn:uuid:97af9eab-84df-434a-b341-059a8715ad0b> | 2013-05-21T17:32:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) -- A Columbus man has lost his attempt to have a portion of the sentence given him reduced.
Johnny Lewis Washington, 58, is serving life in prison plus 60 years for capital murder, armed robbery, and aggravated assault.
Washington was indicted for his role in the armed robbery of Wood's Quick Pick convenience store in Columbus on March 26, 1977.
Authorities say during the robbery, Washington shot and killed the store's owner, J. K. Woods.
He was convicted of capital murder following a trial and sentenced to death.
Washington's sentence was later commuted to life in prison.
He was later indicted and pleaded guilty to armed robbery and aggravated assault in connection with the holdup.
He was sentenced to serve a 60 year sentence following the completion of his life sentence.
Washington appealed the sentence on the aggravated assault charge after a judge refused to grant a motion for post conviction relief filed in 2011.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied his request saying the filing was outside the time frame allowed.
The court also ruled the trial judge was correct to dismiss the motion because Washington had not followed the proper remedies set forth in law, which was to contest them with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. | <urn:uuid:797f06bc-bea9-4973-8344-4165b9502be0> | 2013-05-21T17:31:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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WebMD Medical News
Louise Chang, MD
Jan. 22, 2008 -- Drinking more than a few cups of coffee or other
caffeinated beverages a day may
increase a pregnant woman's miscarriage risk, new research
Women in the study who consumed more than 200 mg of caffeine a day -- the
amount found in about two 8-ounce cups of regular-strength coffee -- had twice
the risk of miscarriage as pregnant women who consumed no caffeine.
Researchers say the study offers some of the strongest evidence to date
linking caffeine and miscarriage. But an expert who spoke to WebMD disagrees,
saying the jury is still very much out on the issue.
"The evidence just isn't there to say that caffeine is a risk factor for
miscarriage," says epidemiologist Lisa B. Signorello, ScD, who has studied
caffeine and miscarriage. "This is a very difficult thing to investigate,
and there is simply no gold-standard study that answers the question."
The new study included 1,063 women followed from early in their pregnancies
until up to 20 weeks of gestation by researchers from the Kaiser Permanente
Division of Research.
The women were interviewed at study entry about their caffeine consumption
and other factors known to be risk factors for miscarriage.
A total of 631 women (79%) reported reducing their caffeine consumption
after becoming pregnant, while 152 (19%) said they did not change their
Overall, 172 women (16%) in the study ended up having miscarriages.
According to the March of Dimes, about 15% of diagnosed pregnancies end in
The researchers concluded that consuming more than 200 mg of caffeine a day
doubled the risk of miscarriage, compared with consuming no caffeine at
Researchers cited their attempt to control for the confounding effect of
caffeine aversion during pregnancy as a major strength of
Early-pregnancy nausea and vomiting has been
linked to lower miscarriage risk, according to the researchers. Nausea and
vomiting may also contribute to caffeine aversion.
So women who are more likely to have a miscarriage might also be more likely
to continue drinking coffee, and this could explain the link between caffeine
and miscarriage seen in earlier studies.
But Signorello says there were not enough women in the study who did not
change their caffeine consumption to conclude that caffeine was a risk factor
in the miscarriage.
And the women who consumed the most caffeine were also more likely to have
other risk factors for miscarriage, including being over 35 years old, having a
history of miscarriage, having no morning sickness symptoms, and
smoking and drinking
Signorello is a researcher and epidemiologist with the Vanderbilt-Ingram
Cancer Center and the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville,
"These women were very different from people who didn't consume
caffeine, and they were different in all the ways that are associated with
miscarriage," she tells WebMD.
Kaiser Permanente Director of Women's Health Tracy Flanagan, MD, tells WebMD
that she does discuss limiting caffeine with her pregnant patients.
She says that other than not smoking and avoiding drugs and alcohol, there
are few lifestyle interventions that have been shown to affect miscarriage
"The fact is, the vast majority of pregnancies that miscarry do so
because of chromosomal abnormalities," she says. "From a clinician's
standpoint, it is nice to be able to tell a patient that limiting caffeine just
may positively impact their pregnancy."
It is a message that financial planner Tammy Plotkin-Oren took to heart
after her first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.
"I was a big coffee drinker, but I went totally cold turkey when I got
pregnant again," she says.
Now the mother of three young girls, Plotkin-Oren says she has no idea if
drinking coffee contributed to her miscarriage.
"For me, giving up caffeine was a no-brainer," she says. "I knew
it was something I needed to stop during pregnancy. Whether or not it made a
difference, I don't know."
SOURCES:Weng, X., American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, online
edition.Tracy Flanagan, MD, director of Women's Health for Northern California,
Kaiser Permanente, Richmond, Calif.Lisa B. Signorello, ScD, International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville,
Md; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tenn.Tammy Plotkin-Oren, San Francisco.March of Dimes: "Miscarriage."
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SPRINGFIELD, Va. (WUSA) -- Detectives have released a new composite sketch of the infamous "Springfield Groper" who presumably assaulted his 18th alleged victim on Wednesday.
Officials report that the suspect approached the victim from behind, grabbed her rear end and fled.
Officials are describing the victim as a white or possibly Hispanic man, weighing about 180 pounds and ranging from 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 8 inches in height. The suspect was a wearing a gray T-shirt with blue sleeves, dark sweatpants, white sneakers and a cloth partially covering his face.
The suspect has acne or shaving bumps on his facial cheeks, which is consistent with previous descriptions given by victims of past assaults, according to officials.
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