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- We've simplified the start page for the PDF Generator to make the process more efficient.
- We've added a Yes/No option, asking if users are interested in contributing the content they are creating to BHL's citation repository, CiteBank http://www.citebank.org. CiteBank is a domain-specific repository of citations and content files about biodiversity. It evolved out of a need to access content from the BHL at a more granular level. CiteBank is a work in progress and continues to develop its collection and services. By contributing title, author and subject data to the PDF you are creating, you will allow other users to gain access to this content through CiteBank.
- Selecting "Yes" will allow you to enter the title, author and/or keyword data we need to index the content in our citation repository. Selecting "No" will skip over this step, eliminating any opportunity for other users to benefit from the content you've already taken the time to create (please say Yes!).
- Drawing from the functionality provided by our colleagues on the BHL-Australia web site, http://bhl.ala.org.au, we have added the ability for you to review your page selections before you generate your PDF. You will also have the opportunity to review the title, author and/or keyword data you've provided and make any necessary corrections/edits.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
New Article Download Features
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
BHL and Our Users: Megan Raby and the History of Biology
What is your title, institutional affiliation (or alternative place of employment), and area of interest?
I am a dissertator in the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My dissertation focuses on the history of American involvement in tropical biology in the Caribbean in the early twentieth century. I'm interested in the intersection of the history of biology and environmental history, and the role of science in the changing relationships between the US and the rest of the world.
How long have you been in your field of study?
I began to get interested in graduate work in the history of science while finishing my BS in Earth Sciences at Montana State University. That would make it about 7 years.
When did you first discover BHL?
I'm not quite sure when I first stumbled upon the site, but certainly over the past 4 years I have begun to use it more consciously.
What is your opinion of BHL and how has it impacted your research?
It has been incredibly helpful. While we have a wonderful library system here at UW, there are times when I just need a quick look at a relatively obscure volume. Checking it online rather than running over to a library or having to ILL saves me a lot of time. Actually though, I have found it most useful to be able to search within texts, in conjunction with the physical book. For example, I went through many decades of the Annual Reports of the Smithsonian Institution while holed up in the Wisconsin Historical Society stacks, but I searched with BHL alongside. It's easier and faster to read the physical copy, and flip between text and contents when you are sure the information you are looking for is in there. But searching the text electronically can help you find references that are not expected from the contents or index. I'll also mention that I found a couple scanning errors while going through the Smithsonian annual reports, and BHL fixed them immediately. It was amazing. One point I want to make is that BHL doesn't replace the original books––but it does make them easier to find and use. I really see physical libraries and BHL as complementary tools.
How often do you use BHL?
Depending on what phase of research I am in, it could be from a few times a month to a few times a day.
How do you usually use BHL (read the titles online/download whole PDFs/Selecting Pages to Download/etc.)
I usually download whole PDFs, because it is easier to search within the whole text, and take notes, this way. If I am looking for a particular piece of information, or just skimming to see if a text might be useful, then I read online. I have sometimes made custom PDFs for articles within larger volumes.
What are your favorite features/services on BHL?
I am just glad that so many of the kinds of texts I need are accessible there, from expedition reports and regional floras, to the bulletins of various botanical gardens and museums. I am happy that they can be downloaded as PDFs which makes reading, searching, and note-taking very easy. I also like the links to BHL from http://plants.jstor.org.
If you could change one thing about BHL, what would it be, or what developmental aspect would you like the BHL team to focus on next?
First, it would be amazing to be able to search in-text across multiple volumes. As it is, I either come to BHL looking for a particular text or else happen upon one through a Google search. Subject terms and titles are useful, but sometimes I am looking for very brief references within the text that would not show up in a subject term. Being able to search across the texts in BHL would help me find surprising and unexpected references. Second, it is currently a bit difficult to find articles within larger volumes unless you already know where they are. You can go through each volume of the Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden individually and search, but you can't see or search the titles or authors of articles within volumes using advanced search. Finally, tools similar to Google Ngrams or JSTOR Data For Research would allow you to take advantage of the texts in aggregate. I would love to be able to graph references to tropical organisms, or to terms related to ideas about tropical "biodiversity," over time using the BHL sources.
If you had to choose one title/item in BHL that has most impacted your research, or one item that you prefer above any other in BHL, what would it be and why?
That's a tough one. Probably the Smithsonian annual reports have been the most useful, as they helped me get a solid chronology for one part of my dissertation when I was just starting. But I will mention another "neat" source I used in the chapter I just wrote: Living Plants and Their Properties: A Collection of Essays, edited by Joseph Charles Arthur and Daniel T. MacDougal, 1898. In it, I was able to find a reprint of a talk, "Mimosa: A Typical Sensitive Plant," that MacDougal, an American botanist, gave to a Jamaican natural history society while in the colony looking for a potential site to establish an American tropical research station. I had not known at the time that a copy of that talk was available in print, and it gave me evidence about why MacDougal thought more research needed to be done on living tropical plants in their own environments, as well as how he interacted with scientists in Jamaica. Also, the book includes some articles in which J. C. Arthur muses about whether plants can feel pain––but that will have to wait for another research project!
Thanks, Megan, for giving us a glimpse into your work and the role BHL plays in your research! You may be interested in some of the work Roderic Page has been doing graphing the occurrence of names in literature over time using BHL or Ryan Schenk's work visualizing taxonomic synonyms over time, as you mentioned that you would love to "graph references to tropical organisms, or to terms related to ideas about tropical "biodiversity," over time using the BHL sources." Additionally, the Code Challenge for the Life and Literature Conference that BHL is hosting (Nov. 14-15, Chicago, IL), which encourages individuals to submit applications that provide new or interesting ways to use or display BHL data, might yield further innovative, graphical interactions with our information. Until then, we hope that BHL continues to meet your research needs as we also continue to develop and improve our services!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Book of the Week: Birds and Their Nests
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Another Way for You to Help BHL: Make a Donation
Funding for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) comes from a number of sources. Over the past few years, we have been reliant on the generous support of a number of different foundations, directly or through grants to individual BHL members. These foundations include the MacArthur Foundation, the Moore Foundation, the Lounsberry Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Keck Foundation. A number of the BHL members have also received grants from the United States government, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Science Foundation.
2011 marked the fourth year since the BHL portal officially went live, and in that time we've made great strides, just recently reaching 35 million scanned pages. Scientists all over the world use the library to identify and classify new species. The student in her backyard, the forestry manager and ecologist, the museum habitat builder, the artist and the designer – whether the need is for a scientific description of a spider or a beautifully illustrated drawing of an amaryllis, all can benefit from being able to search the biodiversity literature.
As part of the initial redesign of the BHL site, we are now offering the ability for individuals to support the BHL. These transactions are processed through the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' (SIL) financial system. The SIL hosts the BHL Secretariat and program staff. The Smithsonian Institution is a tax-exempt organization and gifts are tax deductible.
Click on the button on any BHL page (or click here now!) to add your donation to your shopping cart. You can donate preset amounts, or, using the "other" option, a custom amount of your choice.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Book of the Week: The Memory of a Museum Dissolved but Not Forgotten
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
BHL and Our Users: EOL Rubenstein Fellow, Dr. John Sullivan
Today, we continue with our mini-series featuring EOL Rubenstein Fellows and their research activities. For this installment, meet Dr. John Sullivan, a passionate ichthyologist dedicated to discovering and describing fish species all over the world, but particularly in Africa.
What are your research interests, where you do the bulk of your work (country), and what is your institutional affiliation?
I am an evolutionary biologist who studies the phylogenetic interrelationships and evolution of freshwater fishes. I focus on two groups in particular: weakly electric fishes (Mormyridae and Gymnotiformes) which are found in Africa and South America, respectively, and catfishes (Siluriformes), which are distributed pretty much all over the world. In addition to using molecular techniques to work out phylogenies for these fishes, I describe species and work on the taxonomy of all three groups. My most recent collecting field trips have been to Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gabon. I am affiliated with two institutions, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, where I am a Research Associate, and the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates in Ithaca, New York, where I am a Curatorial Affiliate. I live with my wife in Ithaca.
In the program, Fellowships are expected to serve as a complementary funding source to existing funding you have that supports your primary research activities. Please describe what you primary research activities are.
I used the Rubenstein Fellowship to supplement a nine-month Fulbright Research Fellowship in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. My Fulbright work was to make an inventory of fish species found in the vicinity of Kisangani, a city on the Congo River at the base of the Upper Congo rapids and to help build capacity at the University of Kisangani in ichthyology. As a Rubenstein Fellow, I made creation of EOL species pages for Congo River freshwater fishes a key activity of my time there. And since my return from Congo, I've been continuing to add many of the hundreds of photographs of fish specimens I took as we identify the specimens. We've already found several undescribed species from our collections, and I and my colleagues are beginning work on their descriptions.
Please describe how you use EOL to disseminate or support your primary research activities, or what your primary duties related to EOL are.
Eventually, I'd like to see great photos, descriptions and keys available online through EOL for all African freshwater fishes. We still have a lot of work to do to get there, but one can now see that this is the future. It still takes a lot of time to do careful taxonomic work, but now as soon as it's published, we can get the name into a classification and a picture and description up online. For instance, we got the new mormyrid species Petrocephalus similis into EOL the week it was published in July. Taxonomy is a dynamic discipline: names and classifications frequently change to reflect our improving knowledge of the organisms (a sometime annoyance to end-users of taxonomies, but unavoidable). So static books are in some ways poor repositories of this information. Taxonomy and the Web are really made for each other and in hindsight something like EOL was inevitable.
How has the EOL Fellows program made a difference in your career/research?
The Rubenstein EOL Fellows program gave me an easy way to help make knowledge about African fishes available to everyone, including Africans who often have internet access but nothing in the way of libraries. The more informed my African colleagues are about their own fish fauna, the more effective our collaborations can be. While it doesn't take the place of getting published in the primary literature, contributing to EOL tells your colleagues that you're committed to the "broader impacts" of what we taxonomists do and that you're at the forefront of where the field of taxonomy is headed. I am looking forward to the day when publishing a new species description and publishing content on EOL are one and the same thing. In fact, that future is already here with the journal ZooKeys that automatically exports to EOL. We plan to use that journal for our next mormyrid description.
Who is your Mentor, what is their area of interest (research activities), and how have they supported you throughout your Fellowship?
My mentor is Dr. Melanie Stiassny, curator of fishes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Melanie has really reinvigorated the study of fish diversity of the Congo River over the past few years and has made a number of stunning discoveries in the rapids area of the Lower Congo. She was great at providing me the logistical and moral support I needed for my project in Kisangani.
How does BHL support your Fellows activities, as well as those research activities that fall outside of your duties as an EOL Fellow?
I tend to think of BHL as my personal ichthyology library (although I know there's a bit more archived in it than that). I have retrieved dozens and dozens of species descriptions from it that are now on my personal computer for instant reference and also appended to species pages in one of my two EOL Lifedesks: http://mormyrids.lifedesks.org/ and http://congofishes.lifedesks.org/.
I'll give you a concrete example of how BHL supports my work. In systematics, the old literature is often just as important as the new. For instance, the systematics of a genus of mormyrid fish we work on was really blocked by our inability to establish the identity of Mormyrus sphekodes (now Paramormyrops sphekodes), described in 1879 by French ichthyologist H.E. Sauvage. The type specimen still exists, but is in bad condition in the Paris Museum collection. If we were to describe new species without knowing what P. sphekodes really was, we risked redescribing it under a different name and creating a synonym.
So this past May I arranged to go back to the type locality mentioned by Sauvage, the "Chutes de Doumé" on the Ogooué River in Gabon to make a new collection of it. I'm happy to report I succeeded! Before going there, I had downloaded Sauvage's description of this fish from BHL, published in the Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris. It had taken me just a few minutes to locate this paper and customize the pdf. I had it on my Kindle as I stood at the site, a place I don't think ichthyologists had revisited since the 1870s.
When did you first discover BHL?
Some time before I started my Fellowship, probably in 2008.
What are your favorite features/services on BHL?
I love how it takes me no time at all to find a species description in some old serial like the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and, using the web interface, generate a pdf of just those pages that I want. Even if I lived in a library that had these volumes on the shelf, it would take me longer to locate what I was looking for. I can then take those pdfs BHL generates for me and attach them to the species pages I create on my Lifedesks. Now anybody in the world has instant access to the original species description in a couple of clicks!
If you could change one thing about BHL, or suggest one thing to be the next developmental priority for BHL, what would it be?
It seems like you are doing the right thing: continue to expand and add content. It is great to see a number of biodiversity journals allowing BHL to digitize their back catalog, including material still under copyright, and very encouraging to see BHL go international with BHL-Europe and other initiatives. Now that much of the really old stuff is available, it's the material from the 1930's – 1970's that is notably hard to obtain if you don't have a world-class library, so I hope more of it finds its way onto BHL in the near future.
Please describe why you think services like EOL and BHL are important for today's scientific community.
Science is all about disseminating knowledge and building upon what has come before, yet so much of our knowledge of plants and animals has remained inaccessible to those who could make use of it. This has been a big part of the "taxonomic impediment." BHL is radically changing this status quo and democratizing access to knowledge about biodiversity. Now that access to the works of so many great 18th and 19th Century biologists is an easy affair, I expect we'll see them cited a lot more in the modern literature. In this way, BHL is contributing to the continuity of biodiversity science.
Do you have a favorite book in BHL, or a book that has most supported your research activities or EOL responsibilities?
My favorite book in BHL would have to be the four volumes of George Albert Boulenger's Catalogue of the Fresh-Water Fishes of Africa, published from 1909 to 1916. This work remains the single-most important publication on African ichthyology. While many more species have been described in the subsequent century and generic names have undergone changes, it is still a remarkably useful resource for identifying African fishes. Until BHL made pdfs of all four volumes freely available, you had to pay dearly even for a reprinted version. Now all my African colleagues who never had these advantages have the pdfs on their laptops.
Thank you, Dr. Sullivan, for taking the time to give us a glimpse into your world and research, and for articulating how important BHL has been to your endeavors. As we continue to grow our collection, we hope to be able to establish more and more relationships with publishers and provide access to a plethora of in-copyright materials, freeing, as you so eloquently describe, this information from the static written page to the future of dynamic electronic access for the world.
Information on the photo from Dr. Sullivan: "The photo is of me on the Ogooué River in Gabon, Africa in May of this year. The site is a famous one for African ichthyology: it is the "Chutes de Doumé" from which H.-E. Sauvage described the catfish Doumea typica and the mormyrid electric fish Mormyrus sphekodes - now Paramormyrops sphekodes - (among others) in an 1879 publication published in the Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris, a pdf of which I downloaded from BHL!"
Friday, September 9, 2011
Book of the Week: Mollusks, Naples, and Anton Dohrn
We're all about mollusks in our book of the week this week, with our featured title being one brimming with some really spectacular watercolors by Comingio Merculiano. What, you might ask, is the title of this exceptional work? I Cefalopodi Viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (Sistematica) (1896). While the copy on BHL consists of only the plates from this title, the entire volume (with text) constitutes the 23rd monograph in the series Fauna and Flora of the Gulf of Naples, published by the Stazione Zoologica. This particular monograph, written by Giuseppe Jatta, presents, as the name suggests, detailed information on the Cephalopods of the Mediterranean.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
New and Improved Social Media Interactions
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Primes and Perfect Numbers
Date: 08/08/97 at 13:34:25 From: Nick Younes Subject: Primes and Perfects Are there infinite numbers of prime and perfect numbers? Why? First of all, why is there an infinite number of numbers, period? Is it because there is an infinite number of numbers? If not, then why? To say you cannot interchange the number of prime or perfect numbers with a variable "n", you would have to find a pattern that all prime or perfect numbers follow, such as a number of digits between two prime or perfect numbers. And this number would have to repeat only once for it to be considered a pattern. My question is, if this is all a pretty big supercomputer has to do, why has no one yet written a program that analyzes the difference between the two number's in question? I have heard of a formula that Fermat supossedly wrote that would allow him to instantly decide whether or not any given number was prime. Is there such a formula? If there is, than why is it not used instead of Cray IIa? Rather puzzled, Erwin Schrodinger
Date: 08/14/97 at 12:14:19 From: Doctor Rob Subject: Re: Primes and Perfects There is an infinite number of prime numbers. This was known to the ancient Greeks. The proof goes something like this. Suppose to the contrary that there were only a finite number, which you could put into a list. Multiply them all together and add 1 to give a new number N. N is bigger than any number on the list, so it cannot be prime. On the other hand, it cannot be divisible by any number on the list either (if it were, that divisor would also divide 1, which is not possible). But N, like every number, can be written as a product of powers of prime numbers. This is a contradiction. Therefore any finite list of prime numbers is necessarily incomplete, and there must be infinitely many prime numbers. Perfect numbers are more elusive. They come in two flavors: odd and even. There is no known odd perfect number. If one exists, it must be very large (more than 100 digits) and have lots of known special properties. It is conjectured that there are no odd perfect numbers, but no proof of that yet exists. Leonhard Euler showed in the 18th century that even perfect numbers must have the form 2^(n-1)*(2^n - 1), and 2^n - 1 has to be prime. The numbers of the form 2^n - 1 are called Mersenne numbers. For a Mersenne number to be prime, it is necessary but not sufficient that n be a prime number. For example, if n = 2, 2^n - 1 = 3 is a Mersenne prime and 2*3 = 6 is a perfect number. If n = 7, 2^n - 1 = 127 is a Mersenne prime and 2^6*127 = 8128 is a perfect number, but if n = 11, 2^n - 1 = 2047 = 23*89 is NOT a Mersenne prime, even though 11 is a prime. For more on Mersenne numbers and Mersenne primes, see the following: http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml For every Mersenne prime there is an even perfect number, and vice versa. It is conjectured, but not proved, that there are infinitely many Mersenne primes (and therefore infinitely many even perfect numbers). The use of powerful computers to find new Mersenne primes has been going on since 1952. There is a wonderful test called the Lucas-Lehmer Test which allows a computer to prove or disprove the primality of Mersenne numbers, but it requires a lot of computation time and memory. The pattern, if there is one, of differences between primes is not well understood by mathematicians. For example, it is not known whether or not there are infinitely many "twin primes," that is, primes which differ by 2, so that p and p+2 are both primes. Many examples have been found, but no proof that there are infinitely many, although this is believed to be true. The pattern, if there is one, of differences between primes n such that2^n - 1 is a Mersenne prime, is also not understood. As for Fermat's method of testing numbers, it is properly a compositeness test, not a primality test. To test N for compositeness, pick any number a less than N and bigger than 1. Compute the remainder upon division by N of a^(N-1). If this is anything but 1, the number is composite. If this is 1, you cannot tell if the number is composite or prime. This is not quite "instant", but it is fairly quick, especially on a computer. Unfortunately, it cannot prove primality, only disprove it in many cases. Proving primality for large numbers other than Mersenne numbers is often very difficult. That is why powerful computers are used. I hope this answers your question. -Doctor Rob, The Math Forum Check out our web site! http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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I have read the Steinmeyer book on Alan Wakeling and want to review the music he used in his routine. Unforunately, the book only refers to the title and not the specific version/artist. Does anyone know what versions Alan Wakeling used of "On a Clear Day" and "Ebb Tide" ?
Also - any recommendations on music for the routine?
Speaking of Billiard Ball Routines
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When I saw Alan perform live, he had a pianist on stage play the accompaniment on a baby grand piano. I don't recall what she played, but he was terrific doing the billiard balls in this presentation.
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Let us not forget the Kalanag Multiplying Billiard Ball routine. I know he was unpopular with a number of American magicians of the time but one must learn to separate the artiste from the man when judging him. None of the sleights he used were difficult BUT the musical accompaniment he used was superb, fitting every nuance of the routine. Add in the cigar smoke and it was the most entertaining, full of humour ball routine I've ever seen.Later he added a colour changing lamp which worked with the balls changing colour. This was gilding the lily and unnecessary.And he did milk the final vanish in a champagne glass of water, of the last ball. Unfortunately on my black & white videos of this, the colour changes don;t come over but the audience's obvious enjoyment does.
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NASA Audio - why so bad?
So what's up with the rotten audio from the NASA missions? It has bugged me for years. Ever notice how bad it is? Why?
Now the old moon mission maybe I can understand, but the ISS and shuttle stuff? They are in low earth orbit, for crying out loud. How hard would it be to get pristine audio back down to earth?
A geostationary orbit, where the communication satellites sit, is 35000 Km above the earth's surface, and they can beam 100s of SD and HD video and audio channels. The Space Station is only about 350Km up and they can't get better than 1934 radio quality.
I have a theory. The audio coming fro the astronauts is crystal clear but NASA has a processor box to mess it up and give it that sound. If it sounded too good, no one would believe it was really coming from space.
Good point, LoL. They're probably still using 1960's germanium transistors because no one ever changed the zillion page electronics manual.
Reminds me of the story of the NASA space pen. I don't know if this is an apocryphal story or not, but NASA are supposed to have spent years and a small a fortune developing a pen that would write in the zero gravity of space and under any temperature conditions etc. The Russians used a pencil.
If you've got a budget you'd better spend it on crap if need be or they'll take it off you next year.
Maybe it is something about bandwidth?
The space shuttle was designed in the early seventies. The board computer for example used 256k. Which should give you an indication of the level of technology used.
My point here is that level of technology is not the sole determinant. Are not we all use 30's technology in our tube amps?
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Then again if the audio was as good as a web cast from Max PC, I would think that they were all at some bar in Florida, calling in to report on the fantastic progress of the latest attempt at breeding coccus mockis flagellis.
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AMARILLO - Authorities remained tight-lipped Tuesday on whether they think a man who died during a home-invasion robbery was targeted because of his age. Still, they're urging seniors to be more cautious about answering unexpected knocks at the door.
Detectives spent much of Tuesday interviewing family members of William Hastings. Police say the 76-year-old confronted two men who broke into his Willow Creek Drive home just north of Amarillo early Monday morning and demanded money. A 50-year-old woman who was in the house with Hastings was forced into a closet. His 11-year-old grandson slept through the ordeal in another room.
The crime marked the third home-invasion robbery in as many weeks, two of which occurred on rural county lands and involved victims older than 60.
Lt. Gary Trupe, who heads the Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit, said while there are similarities between two of the robberies, they "are completely separate crimes."
An autopsy of Hastings is expected to be conducted today in Lubbock.
Meanwhile, the Potter County Sheriff's Office released a sketch of a woman who they think may be linked to one of the robberies.
Sheriff's officials say the woman went to a home in the 12000 block of West Interstate 40 on July 14, rang the bell and asked for help. She claimed to have been lost and needed directions to get to Oklahoma City.
The woman was able to lure the couple outside where they were grabbed by masked men and had something thrown over their heads. They were handcuffed, taken back inside the home and robbed.
Taken during the robbery were cash, a large gold ring with 23 diamonds, silver coins and a South African gold coin known as a Krugerrand.
The woman was described as about 18-25 years old, 5 feet, 1 inch to 5 feet, 3 inches and weighing 100-110 pounds. She had blond or sandy blond hair that either was short or pinned up and had blue or green eyes. - Amarillo Globe-News
FARWELL - Investigators reported Tuesday a welder's torch started the fire that killed about 800,000 chickens near Farwell.
The blaze destroyed four buildings housing laying hens at the Cal-Maine Foods egg production facility. Chickens also were killed by smoke in a fifth building.
The company is cleaning up the site and plans to rebuild, said Tim Dawson, chief financial officer.
The National Response Team of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined the Parmer County Sheriff's Office and Texas State Fire Marshals Office in the investigation. They ruled the fire was accidentally ignited by a contract employee doing repair work in one of the buildings.
Firefighters from 16 departments responded to the fire on the 700-acre site near the intersection of U.S. Highway 60 and Farm-to-Market Road 3333 near the New Mexico border. Four firefighters required medical treatment because of heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation. - Amarillo Globe-News
LUBBOCK - Lubbock County commissioners began budget hearings this week shackled by their massive new jail.
The county jail, under construction since August 2005, loomed over budget requests from each department as commissioners worked to keep taxes and the overall budget unchanged.
Lubbock County had hoped to open its more-than-$95 million facility in April. But continued problems with the facility's security system had sheriff's administrators guessing it would not house prisoners until early 2010.
Bonds, not taxes, backed the bulk of the jail's construction. But the county remained in the dark on when to begin paying more than $17 million in salaries and benefits for staff at the new facility and vague on the costs of utilities in a 400,000-square-foot prison.
Commissioners had expected the facility to generate its own revenue from federal and out-of-county inmates at this point. The county instead shipped prisoners to other jails at a cost of $250,000 a month and collected $4,500 a day from the contractor for each day work continued on the building beyond its planned opening date. - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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LGBT Americans stands for Lesbians, Gays, bisexual and transgender Americans. LGBT rights in the United States got legalized on 26th June, 2003.The passing of this right meant that sexual activity between the people of the same gender and having a relationship with the people of the same gender is legally accepted.Though LGBT laws that are related to anti-discrimination and family issues may still differ from state to state. This law was accepted by many people, happily with parades going all over the state, but there are certain issues related to this law that needs to be figured out.
Though marrying in the same gender came as a big victory to all the people around in the world , but, LGBT rights are more than just marrying in the same gender. LGBT Americans still face lots of inequality issues, high rate of violence, poverty and racial discrimination. About 20 states and still counting now have recognized marriages in the same gender, but still LGBT Americans face a number of problems on a daily basis.
Issues that LGBT Americans face
- LGBT Americans, mostly get fired off their jobs
Yes, it's hard to believe, but it will come as a surprise to you that LGBT Americans don't have any employment laws that protect them. They can be fired anytime due to their sexual choices of gender.No Employment Non-Discrimination Act has been passed yet regarding this concern.
- LGBT Americans are denied public accommodations
Due to their gender identity, they are denied certain public accommodations like ordering customized goods for themselves or getting admitted to work in a movie theatre. None of the 29 states have a law to protect the LGBT Americans.
- About more than 20 states still don't have protection against gender identity and sexual preferences
Despite of Hate Crime Prevention Act being passed, in about more than 20 states there is still no protected law for people who are not heterosexual. Non-cisgender.
- Gays that are sexually active cannot donate their blood
The Food and Drug Administration has lifetime banned sexually active gay men for blood band donation.But now, the FDA is considering to remove this ban as two largest blood banks have opposed this act and also because blood banks faces lots of supply shortages.This policy of banning is a very homophobic act.
- Consensual sex is still considered illegal in some states
About 12 states still ban anal sex and some states gay men are still arrested and accused of simply having sex.
- Same-sex parents are not given the custody rights
Most of the states still don't give the custody rights to the second spouse as a parent in a same-sex marriage. Most of the cases this happens because the same sex marriage is still not legally recognized.
- LGBT Americans are not accepted by most of the religions
LGBT Americans are told that their sexual acts, and expressions are against the god and they are boycotted from all the religious practices. Even heterosexual religious leaders that support gay marriages get to face awful consequences.
In most of the schools, the students aren't told about sexual feeling one can develop for the people of the same sex. This in a way portrays that these matters are still a matter of embarrassment for people and can't be discussed in public.
Despite so many laws passed, they are many same gender couples that still struggle daily and face a lot of problems.So, LGBT Americans should be treated like normal persons only and should be accountable for each and every human right.


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The French dominated in the Longines Speed Challenge at the Longines Hong Kong Masters on Friday night, as the top three consisted of Kevin Staut, Simon Delestre and Julien Epaillard. With Patrice Delaveau winning all but one class at the event last year, the French continues in full force this year as well – with two wins on the opening day. Staut came in as nr. 16 of the 23 riders in the class, and produced a super quick and beautiful round on the lovely 10 year old Dollar De La Pierre-daughter Quismy Des Vaux HDC finishing in 65.37 seconds around the fourteen fence track.
With his performance, Kevin pushed his compatriot Julien Epaillard down to second after he had taken the lead on the notoriously fast Mister Davier (Quiniou SF x Leprince de Thurin) despite seeing one pole fall to the ground at 4a and thus two seconds added to his time that ended up at 65.87. Simon Delestre could have taken the win from Kevin, but when Napoli de Ry (Baloubet du Rouet x Silvio I) knocked a pole off the penultimate fence he had to add two seconds to his time of 63.77 to end up on 65.77. It was good enough for runner-up position for Delestre, who squeezed in between Staut and Epaillard in first and third respectively making it all French in the top three in Hong Kong.
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- Alternative Character Interpretation: A lot of memes filter into the depictions.
- The Scrappy: It looks like they're trying to invoke this on Teemo, by giving him a whiny pervy kid voice, being an ATM on Noxus' side (or so Twisted Fate said), his presence was what enables Master Yi to defeat Singed & co., crying on a drop of a hat nearly on Amumu's level, only in the League to take pictures of girls and by the end of Season 3, Tristana announced him 'the biggest bastard in the world'.
- Tear Jerker: Season 2 end gives a soul-crushing separation of Wukong and Ahri with Ahri once again going back to square one in her quest to find true love. Although afterwards, comes a Heartwarming one when turns out Guanyin thinks Wukong hasn't repented fully from his mischievous ways and dumps him into Valoran forever, allowing him to reunite with Ahri.
- The Woobie: Regardless of her positioning as a villain, Leona had it rough, living her life with nothing but insults and no friends except Pantheon. And just when she got her power boost, she ends up on Gangplank's gang and being the bad guy.
- Ahri is also played up more tragically and sympathetically, with her quest trying to seek love becoming very tragic and her tale with Wukong nearly ended tragically and only fixed via Deus ex Machina.
- Woolseyism: The English dub. Even more League terms were thrown in for good measure and it still works. For instance, during Tryndamere-Yi-Xin Zhao vs Sona, they're instead making up euphemisms about 'pushing her turrets' or 'tower dive' in place of groping her or doing perverted things on her, causing even MORE Double Entendre. Or Tryndamere 'For 5 seconds (Undying Rage time limit), I got my first experience (first experience of effing a big boobed lady... or first experience POINT?)' Or extra dialogues when the original was just in silence...
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It's that time again... time for another set of rawhide live images. This is based off of yesterday's rawhide and thus is pre-merge fun. I'm planning to do another set of images once we get a merged rawhide tree, so probably the beginning of next week. You can get the torrent file from http://torrent.fedoraproject.org. Available images are i386, x86_64, i386 KDE and also an x86_64 KDE image. Note that the x86_64 images require DVD media, the i386 images will fit on 700 meg CD media. Please file any issues against product Fedora Core, version devel and against the relevant component or LiveCD if you're unsure.
Would it be possible to list the bugs fixed since the test 4 release? Will the general Fedora 7 release have a x86_64 dvd for KDE? Is there a everything set of DVD's still planned? Rahul


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MIT Researchers integrated a protein complex derived from spinach chloroplasts with organic semiconductors to make a solar cell that could be combined with solid state electronics.
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JOYCE MCMILLAN on AVENUE Q at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, for The Scotsman 14.6.14.
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ARE YOU FEELING down in the dumps – underpaid, overworked, overdrawn? Are you haunted by the suspicion that 21st century capitalism doesn't work for you, without having the slightest idea what to do about it?
Then you should cut along, without delay, to the King's Theatre – or, next week, to Eden Court in Inverness – where the ambitious young UK touring company Sell A Door are co-producing a delightful new touring version of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marks's 2002 musical Avenue Q, set in a grungy street in outer New York where the young and underemployed rent rooms.
Blessed with hugely witty lyrics, Avenue Q certainly takes the American musical to places it has never been before. Half of the characters are played by Muppet-style puppets, all of them are willing and able to have sex and to sing graphic songs about it, and they are all ruthlessly frank about their economic and personal weaknesses, belting out songs like What Can You Do With A BA in English?, and the suspiciously popular Everyone's A Little Bit Racist, with an energy perfectly captured in Cressida Carre's exuberant new production.
What's strange about Avenue Q, though, is that for all its adventurous tone, in the end it's just another American feelgood musical, that makes even the experience of homelessness into a cosy community affair. The wit is glorious, the songs are great; but the final cheesy acceptance of the world as it is is hard to take, from a team with such a sharp insight into what's gone wrong in our society, and what we should be striving to put right.


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Ace IndiaĀhockey player Gagan Ajit SinghĀsaysĀthe players will introspect and discuss with the coaches what went wrong in the Champions Trophy tournament andĀtry to sort out the weaknesses.
"We will be sitting together soon and there will be an open discussion on what went wrong, especially when there were high hopes after our back-to-back wins," Gagan said.
"We have been doing well during the past few months but there are some areas where we need to improve upon. I amĀ hopeful we will overcome our shortcomings and do well in the forthcoming Asia Cup," he said.
Analysing the team's dismal performance at the recently-concluded Champions Trophy, where it finished fourth among six teams, he said, "The team's morale went very low after the shock defeat in the opening match. It was a setback, especially since we had almost won the match."
Gagan also said the forwards need to work on forcing penalty-corners. "This is an area where we have to do more homework," heĀsaid.
HeĀagreed with captain Dhanraj Pillay's suggestion that the team needs the servicesĀof a sports psychologist.
"There is nothing wrong in this. If we have a psychologist it will help us deal with crunch situations in a better way," he said.
The forward dismissed the theory that the camp in Lucknow, just before the Champions Trophy, had taken its toll on the players.
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He also profusely thanked the media and the fans for having fully backed the team.
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Bookaholic? You And Your Bestie Are Now In The (Print!) OED
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Whenever I meet a mom and she finds out that I have three under three (I'm not going to be able to say that starting tomorrow!), her first comment to me is always, "But you look so calm!" Thanks? Not sure how I'm supposed to look. Perpetually wild eyed, gritting my teeth, and a nervous tick? Don't get me wrong, having three children a year from each other is difficult, but it doesn't seem to be giving me mental problems. Heck, mothers used to do it all the time, with a lot fewer conveniences than we have today.
However, there are some days that make me want to get back in bed and never venture out of it again. Today was one of those days.
It all started when my Abuela and I decided to take Rosie to her hair stylist to get her hair cut. Rosie's hair has never been cut, and it is starting to look it. Her bangs are a disgrace, probably because I cut them, and the back of her hair has one extremely long strand and a lot of other disorganized lengths that give it a very disheveled look. I have seen a lot of moms get overly sentimental about their children's hair and don't want to cut it. It is a particularly unusual tendency to me when the child is a boy with long, princess-like tresses that he has to keep pulling out of his eyes while he wrestles around with the other boys and runs around the playground. Or he has it pulled into a top knot like a Samurai (this is less weird because at least he can play around and do boy stuff without it in his face). All because his mother has some sort of emotional attachment to her son's hair. I don't have any sons, so maybe that is why this is so baffling to me. Maybe I will feel different if I ever do? I doubt it because I seem to be missing the emotional attachment to hair mom gene. Exhibit A: Rosie's hair needed to be chopped, and off we went this morning to do it.
Ruth was coughing a bit this morning when she woke up and told me she was very hungry (she is "vewy" everything these days) and needed pickles, bananas, strawberries, and yogurt for breakfast. She said her tummy was rumbling. I can't believe I missed this foreshadowing of things to come! She drank a glass of chocolate milk and ate some Cheerios and we were late already of course and had to run out the door. By the time we reached Abuela's house, Ruth started gagging. I froze in horror and was helpless to stop it as she proceeded to projectile vomit all over herself, her car seat, and the seat in front of her. It was everywhere. I got her out of the car and directed her toward a nearby bush. She asked me to hold her. I politely declined. I stripped off all her clothing and just stood there, trying to process the implications of this. Her birthday party is in two days. Am I going to have to cancel it?
My Abuela (bless her) whisked Ruth away to the bath as my grandfather (bless him) got the other two girls out of the car and fed them some lunch. I resigned myself to the revolting task of cleaning out the car. Nightmares of the last time one of us caught the stomach virus were flashing through my mind. A month and a half of cleaning up vomit every day as all five of us fell victim to it one by one. I cursed the name of that toddler with diarrhea and vomiting at that party for MONTHS after that. My husband said it was unjust to curse the name of an innocent sick toddler, but I did it anyway. You try cleaning vomit out of a crib in the middle of the night every night for a week and see if you aren't cursing germ-ridden toddlers. Anyway, I was praying and praying the whole time I was cleaning out the car that this wasn't the stomach virus. Anything but the stomach virus! (Well, not literally, but you know what I mean).
The car still smelled pretty vomitous, so my kind grandfather offered to take it to a nearby car wash to be cleaned while we ate lunch. I gladly accepted his offer. He took my keys and off he went. My Abuela canceled her hair appointment and we watched Ruthie closely as she ate her lunch. When we put the girls down for their naps, my grandfather returned. I remember thinking that I never noticed my van was so blue. I opened the door and froze, mouth agape. "Papa!", I exclaimed, "This is NOT my car!"
That's right folks. My grandfather had blithely driven the wrong minivan home. But it wasn't his fault. My car is new, we have only had it a few months, and he had never ridden in it before. To the untrained eye, one blue minivan looks much like any other blue(ish) minivan. So naturally when the car wash people had handed him the keys to a similar minivan, he expressed initial confusion, but the car washers had assured him this was his car, and so he drove it home. I grabbed my purse in record time and jumped in the strange vehicle to drive it back. I called the car wash place to inform them they had switched vans and I was driving one back. When we arrived, a very confused and grateful woman accepted her keys back. She said that when she went to pick her car up, the car wash guy had led her to a van that was obviously not hers. When she informed him of this fact, the car wash employees scampered around and then made the remarkable statement that her van must have been stolen. My grandfather explained the mix up to her and she became livid with the car wash place. "Why didn't they just apologize and admit to their fault in the mix up?" She said. We acknowledged this excellent point. She resolved never to patronize the establishment again, and we resolved to do the same. I have noticed this a lot with businesses, and it is a deplorable customer service tactic. People, for the love of God, if you make a mistake at work DO NOT try to lie your way out of it and blame the customer. Heck, don't blame the customer even if it is the customer's fault! Accept the blame and make an effort to make amends. Trust me, you will make a lot more money that way. Prideful practices lose customers. The end.
Anyway, after recovering my van, we went back to the house to rally and shake our heads at the day's bizarre events. Ruth has been feeling normal all day, so prayers that the vomiting was an isolated incident would be appreciated. Spending weeks cleaning up vomit once a year is my absolute limit. I can't do this again!
Luckily, crazy horrible days like this are a rarity. Most days I love my life. Today, I am eating a cookie and going to bed early. I've earned it.


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'Coal Princesses': Inside the World of Coal-Themed Beauty Pageants
Written by Emily Atkin
Even if one day there is no coal industry in West Virginia, there will still be West Virginia coal queens and princesses. Maxine Cole-Tinnel will make sure of it.
"It is my baby. It is like my pride and joy," Cole-Tinnel said of her yearly pageant. "Even if I one day moved south, I would probably still come back up here once a year just to have a coal festival pageant, even if the coal industry's dead."
The decline of the U.S. coal industry has been a hot topic lately, especially with the recent unveiling of President Obama's plan to reduce carbon emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired plants. Conservatives and industry players have called the regulations an attempt to "carpet bomb" and "destroy" the industry — part of a "war on coal" that will cause debilitating job loss throughout the country.
It is my baby. It is like my pride and joy.
But people like Cole-Tinnel, part of a subset of Americans who see coal mining as the backbone of their communities, have been watching their beloved industry decline for some time, and are holding tight to the things that keep their culture alive. One of those traditions is West Virginia's annual Coal Festival, which has featured Cole-Tinnel's beauty pageant for teens, toddlers, and infants, for the last nine years. The participants are dubbed coal queens, coal princes, and coal princesses when they win their crowns.
The pageant is "semi-glam" — light make-up and hair, no huge up-dos — and has categories for best personality, prettiest eyes, and most photogenic. Both boys and girls can participate. Crowns are embellished with black rhinestones in the shape of a diamond.
Pride and Loyalty
Though they may seem unique, coal-themed beauty pageants are not just a West Virginia phenomenon. They are held throughout the country, widely seen as a way to celebrate miners and what they've done for their communities.
The 'Miss Coal Miner's Daughter Pageant' in Jasper, Alabama, for example — an event sponsored by the political advocacy group Friends of Coal — will be held at the end of June. There's also the 'Miss Coal Hearted' pageant in Virginia, the money from which goes toward families affected by recent coal industry lay-offs.
And the practice of celebrating coal through a glamorous women's talent show didn't even start in America. It can be traced back to at least back the 1960s, when girls from the once-thriving mining industry in Northumberland, England, competed to become coal queens, an honor that suited the more down-home girls of coal country.
But notably, America has no annual steel mill beauty queens, or oil and gas princesses — why go to such extravagant lengths to celebrate coal, specifically?
"There's something about the coal community that can't easily be explained to those who are not from it," film critic Mike McGranaghan wrote in a review of 'The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania,' a 2005 documentary about Uniontown, Pennsylvania's famous coal-themed beauty pageant. "The shared experience of darkness, danger, and dirt creates a sense of pride among those special types who have a penchant for that kind of work," McGranaghan wrote. "In other words, you don't live in a mining community; you are a mining community."
You don't live in a mining community; you are a mining community.
And in a mining culture, loyalty and pride are deep-seated sentiments, said Lorelie Scarbro, a lifelong resident of Coal River Valley, West Virginia.
"They love what they do, the contribution that they make, being able to support their families, and the contribution they make to the electricity needs of the nation," she said. "There's a lot of reasons to be proud."
That same sense of pride and loyalty, however, is making it difficult for miners and mining communities to accept a changing reality, Scarbro said. Every year, coal contributes less and less to the electricity needs of the country. With that, miners' jobs have long been declining, due in large part to the mechanization of the coal industry, and are increasingly at risk. Coal companies are pulling promised health benefits out from under their workers' feet. At the same time, the industry spends millions of lobbying dollars to keep other energy options out of West Virginia, leaving coal as the only good job option for many communities.
The problem has plagued West Virginia for years, but many of the state's leaders have been slow and unwilling to support policies that seek to help cushion the blow of a declining industry. Legislation that would advance other industries, such as a tax credit for new solar projects, have been continually shut down, creating a disincentive for those companies to create jobs in the state.
"The people that live here have no choices, and that is by design — by the industry and politicians who are loyal to [coal]," said Scarbro, whose late husband, father, grandfather, son-in-law, and brothers either were or are all coal miners.
The people that live here have no choices, and that is by design…
The industry-sponsored festival that houses the coal queen beauty pageant is just one way the coal industry helps promote that sense of loyalty. And that loyalty, Scarbro says, keeps people from supporting a more diversified job market in the state.
"If you are a loyal soldier, you advance," she said. "If you give resistance to anything at all having to do with the industry, of course you don't."
Supporting Miner's Daughters
The interesting thing about the coal queen pageant, though, is that it's not funded by the coal industry. Cole-Tinnel funds the entire event herself.
"In the past we have had some coal industry sponsors, but this is the thing — I don't ask the mining companies, because they support the festival," she said. "If the mines were booming, it'd be no problem."
The real reason she puts on the pageant every year is because of the girls in the Coal Queen contest, generally teens with family connections to the declining coal industry. Daughters of current and former miners, many of the participants are in dire need of the pageant's scholarship award, Cole-Tinnel said.
"My goal to give them a double scholarship this year," Cole-Tinnel said. "At least give them another 500 dollars — that'd give them their parking passes and their soup cards."
To raise the money for that award, Cole-Tinnel collects entry fees for the children's princess and prince pageant, and receives sparing donations from local vendors. Then, she puts that money aside for the winner of the teen contest.
In Boone County, one of the state's most coal-dependent areas, Cole-Tinnel says industry layoffs have created serious hardships for many of the girls. In the last year, there have been mass layoffs at Boone County mines owned by Alpha Natural Resources and Patriot Coal. Beyond Boone County, the snag is even worse, with coal production in the Central Appalachian region down 20 percent from 1997′s peak regional production, and approximately 38,000 coal jobs lost since 1983.
"It's horrible. It's really bad," Cole-Tinnel said, noting that she does not yet know how much the scholarship will be this year.
But while Cole-Tinnel hails the pageant as an embrace of the girls' roots and a support system for their families, others believe the show represents something more complicated and sadly ironic — how communities are willing to continuously praise an industry that has poisoned their economy and environment, furthering the need for more scholarships and support.
"While politicians and others tout the 'billion dollar coalfields,' obviously, the need to have a coal queen/princess pageant every year to help fund scholarships for girls is not only ironic, but also one more example of the injustice in the coal communities," said Janet Keating, Executive Director of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC). "West Virginia, with all it's abundant natural wealth … sadly is generally last or nearly last on all positive economic and social indicators in the country."
West Virginia … is generally last or nearly last on all positive economic and social indicators in the country.
OVEC member Maria Gunnoe put it more simply: "Anyone who is willing to die in a mine to support their family should make enough money to send their child to any school."
Cole-Tinnel disputes that coal has played a role in the degradation of West Virginia, arguing instead that mining has been helpful for flattening the state's once mountainous land, giving them usable spaces to build. "Down here in Logan, they took a reclaimed mine site and built hospital on it," she said. "We were even able to build a school."
Still, there is no denying that West Virginia as a whole suffers from some of the worst socioeconomic conditions in the country, a fact that many have attributed to its dependence on coal. In rural counties like Boone, which houses the coal festival and many of the state's remaining coal industry workers, the poverty rate is 20.4 percent, five points higher than the urban poverty rate.
But as coal continues its downward trend, there is greater attention being given to the topic of economic diversification in Appalachia. The EPA's new rules for fossil fuel-fired power plants require West Virginia to make a 20 percent reduction in emissions by 2030. If the state chooses to meet that goal by investing in cleaner technology like solar and wind, jobs will be created across multiple sectors — manufacturing, construction, and agriculture — industries which are already in dire need of a boost.
That's not to say there won't be losses for coal, but if federal money could be allocated for worker re-training or infrastructure projects for laid-off coal workers, the transition could be smoothed out more. Even aside from the rules, a small but growing movement has already begun to invest in West Virginia's renewable energy sources — particularly wind, which the state offers tax credits for on an industrial scale — and other industries, such as agriculture and tourism.
Should the switch to wind ever occur, would Cole-Tinnel ever consider putting on a "wind princess" pageant?
"Oh, no," she said, not skipping a beat. "Definitely not."
This post originally appeared on ThinkProgress
Photo Credit: WV Coal Festival Children's Royalty Pageant via Facebook


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Winchester MMA Highlight Video
The Winchester MMA club does not teach UFC or MMA instead, the program introduces students to a variety of martial arts disciplines through certified and accomplished martial arts instructors from a multiplicity of martial art facets; ergo, it is a mixed martial arts club.
This hopefully will spark in students, who otherwise would not have been exposed to martial arts, an interest to train in a particular discipline outside of school whether it is BJJ, Muay Thai or moQ'bara.
MMA will ultimately reach a ceiling given the status quo unless the sport can: (1) develop a farm system composed of constituents from all martial arts disciplines that in tandem will form a deep talent pool for MMA promotions, (2) construct the frameworks for an equable base of support (e.g. baseball will always have fans so long as youth and amateur leagues exist), but most importantly (3) educate the next generation by shedding light on what martial arts is and isnt by cutting through the façade of fallacious myths and stereotypes fostered and publicized by the mainstream media, Hollywood and the uneducated public.
For all intents and purposes, the Winchester MMA club addresses all three impediments for the continued growth of the sport. The prospects and full potential of MMA resides in secondary and post-secondary school students like the ones at the Winchester MMA club.
The next step is to institute high school and collegiate "MMA" clubs across the nation that can introduce students to the various disciples of martial arts. Imagine if Kenny Florian had discovered martial arts while in high school or college and began training then as opposed to playing soccer; or better yet, imagine how many Kenny Florians are out there in high schools and colleges across the nation right now playing football or hockey... there is no dearth of talent, only absence of opportunity.
A submission grappling league/association (a way for MMA clubs to compete against one another) at both the high school and collegiate levels would be the next logical institution to establish.
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The crucial choice for any attack through mass relays is how to divide the fleet for transit. The accuracy of a relay's mass-projection depends on the mass being moved and how far it's going. Any long distance and/or high mass jump will see "drift". That is, a ship may be hundreds or millions of kilometers from its intended drop point, in any direction from the relay.
Distance can't be chosen by admirals, but a relay is told how much mass to transit. For example, if told to move a million metric tons of mass, the relay will scan the approach corridor, find four 250,000-ton freighters, and transit them together, maintaining their relative positions.
A commander has the option of moving his fleet as one large, coherent formation that may be wildly off-position, or breaking it up into many smaller formations that will be individually closer to the intended attack point, but could be widely dispersed.
Conservative assault doctrine holds that fleets should be moved en masse, maintaining concentration of force and reducing the chances of collision. The only time it is reasonable to split up a formation is during blockade running.


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Aggies hope SEC withdraws condition
Fast solution for A&M is if new league risks suit, acts regardless.
Published 11:37 pm, Thursday, September 8, 2011
COLLEGE STATION — No matter Texas A&M's direction from here, there's one place the Aggies won't be after next summer: the Big 12.
Following this school year, A&M intends to be in the Southeastern Conference, and assurances out of Aggieland on Thursday night are that an announcement on that front is simply a "matter of time." If the SEC agreement somehow falls through — and chances are great it won't — the Aggies might go independent for a year.
That's how bad they don't want to be in the Big 12. Multiple A&M insiders have said as much — the Aggies have gone too far to turn around now. And, on Tuesday night, the SEC presidents unanimously approved A&M's entrance into their league in time for the 2012 season. On one surprising condition: the Aggies clear up any sudden threats of lawsuits from Baylor (or anyone else) over their Big 12 exit.
Last January, in a prime example of how Baylor president Ken Starr will do anything for the Bears, Baylor women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey entered A&M's Reed Arena press conference room in search of a seat. Starr, leaning against a wall, quickly hustled her up a chair, prompting a big grin from Mulkey that the university leader would go to such trouble.
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Aggies aren't smiling this week, however, after a troubled Starr stunningly yanked the chair from under their SEC plans — as the SEC cited A&M needing to rid itself of "contractual hindrances" in its Big 12 exit. For now, Baylor refuses to budge from its threat of a lawsuit, in a last-ditch act to save the Big 12 (and primarily itself). Reports surfaced Thursday the Big East might pursue Baylor and other Big 12 leftovers should the league disband, but Bears officials are first going to do all they can to save their current league.
Meanwhile A&M is angling for this sudden solution to its 11th-hour problem: A fed-up SEC accepts A&M unconditionally, on the premise that Baylor doesn't own solid ground for a lawsuit, considering Big 12 laws allow schools to exit provided the sides agree to an exit fee (see Nebraska and Colorado last year).
One A&M insider Thursday night remained confident that the SEC eventually will take that minimal risk, should this drag on, with the idea that adding the Texas market is a bigger plus than the minus of a frivolous Baylor lawsuit. Three A&M insiders said Thursday a resolution might come as soon as today, or this process might drag on for the next few weeks — though A&M would still wind up in the SEC by 2012.
A&M and the SEC, too, are in heavy discussions about the next step, but university presidents by nature are often risk-averse — which is why the SEC didn't just laugh off Baylor's desperate threat of a lawsuit. Leading us to Oklahoma, the school now described by A&M insiders as "driving the train" concerning the Big 12. Should the Sooners affirm a commitment to the league, Baylor likely would rest on the litigation front. Word out of Norman, Okla., however, is that OU intends to explore its options — the primary option being the Pac-12.
Should the Sooners exit, and with Oklahoma State likely in hot pursuit of its Okie brethren out west, the Big 12 is done. From its end, A&M wishes OU president David Boren, who told reporters last week that the Sooners had no intention of simply being a "wallflower" on the league alignment front, had kept his mouth shut until after the SEC presidents voted Tuesday.
The SEC leaders gathered in Atlanta to approve A&M after Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe wrote in a Sept. 2 letter that the Big 12 "and its members" had agreed not to sue anyone over A&M's move east — but Baylor backed out of that written pledge once Boren set the league further on edge.
Bottom line, it appears plenty of sides are waiting for the others to take a next step. As of Thursday night, when that next step occurs — and by whom — is as up in the air as the Big 12's future.


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Release Notes: A bug with nautilus behavior when clicking on a planner file was fixed. A bug where guide lines are painted behind a project start date rather than on top was fixed. -Wno-return-type was added to allow compiling with a database enabled patch. Arabic support was added. A crash in gantt view was fixed.
Release Notes: This release features FF and SF predecessors, simple priority scheduling, the ability to view non-standard working/non-working days, Resource Usage view canvas interactivity. and Gantt chart misalignment with the tree view. In summary tasks, work now equals the sum of child tasks. The effects of resource assignments on summary tasks were eliminated. The user guide was updated.
Release Notes: This release adds better performance and correctness of the task scheduler, improved printing, a simple MS Project XML import filter, and support for remote databases. There are many new and updated translations.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release from the stable branch of Planner. Several small bugs have been fixed, including a problem with assigning resources and printing problems when using older versions of GNOME. Last but not least, the translations have been updated.
Release Notes: This release contains many improvements and fixes, where the most noticeable changes are the addition of undo/redo support and a new view that displays resource usage.
Release Notes: This release comes with an updated user guide and a slew of small bugfixes, including fixing critical path highlighting, resource links, and better theme compliance.
Release Notes: Printing of tasks, resources, and the Gantt chart was added. Resources can now be assigned to tasks by units, and tasks can use a new fixed duration mode. Also added were custom properties for resources and projects, along with the usual amount of updated translations.
Release Notes: Calendar and working time management was added, along with milestone tasks, critical path highlighting, support for project phases, and a "recent files" feature. Translations were updated accordingly.
Release Notes: A user guide was added, as well as support for resource notes, and speed input dialogs for tasks and resources. The usual amount of small bugfixes is also included.
Release Notes: This is the first stable version for GNOME 2. Changes include a new task view, work-based scheduling, non-working time, and custom task properties.


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Magazine article Clinical Psychiatry News
HIPAA Rules Could Put a Chill on Office-Based Research. (Privacy Regulations)
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ARLINGTON, VA. -- The now active privacy rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act may make it more difficult and risky to conduct office-based research.
The privacy rules regarding the use and disclosure of patient health information are less precise for research than they are for situations covered by a provider's Notice of Privacy Practices, Dr. David Kibbe said at a meeting sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network.
The core privacy standard of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) says "all uses and disclosures of personally identifiable health information are prohibited without the individual's written authorization." Written permission is needed to use or disclose such information unless the actions are specially permitted by the privacy rule.
"There aren't any exceptions for [research] that I know of," said Dr. Kibbe, the AAFP director of health information technology.
Things such as case or care management, peer review, and quality improvement are health care operations and not research. This does not mean that a physician can ask to see another physician's charts if they are not his patients and his purpose is not for health care operations, he said.
When practices within a research network seek to collaborate with one another on research projects, they cannot have patients who would be included in various studies sign off on a "blanket release" for all the studies. …


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (WOTV) As we celebrate Earth Day, Maranda discovers how to get creative with "land art." She invited our WOTV 4 Women Crew Member, Michele Fife, in studio to show us how to use items you'll find as close as your backyard.
"Land art" or environmental art, is making designs or projects with items found outdoors. You can use items like twigs or limbs, bark, rocks, leaves or pine cones.
Making "land art" gives you and your family an opportunity to explore the outdoors, it's free and exercises your creativity and imagination.


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|sun tzu OM
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I intend to move Soul to its website in the not-too-distant future. When that happens, it is not entirely impossible that I will be changing the story's title.
I'm generally pleased with the names of individual arcs and chapters, but the name of the story itself strikes me as a bit...generic. Really, it's a name I gave because I couldn't think of anything better.
I realize you guys are even less well placed to think up a good name, since you don't know where the story is headed...But, nevertheless, I'm open to suggestions (even if the suggestions are along the lines of "forget the stupid deal and just call it Soul").12/29/2008 #1
Some idea's:
"Magical girl for Science!", "Scientific magical girl"
"Rewriting Reality", "Rewriting Reality Rationally"
Though others will probably have better idea's. (These names are like a very short summary. )1/1/2009 #2
|Shay Guy
I take it you're planning on keeping Eriko's alias as "Soul?"
If so, how about, say, "Magical Analytical Warrior Soul?"1/3/2009 #3
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