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Tysons Corner, one of Virginia's busiest retail and business districts.
The aerial guideway makes up three miles of the 11.7-mile alignment in Phase 1. It was constructed by connecting more than 2,700 reinforced precast concrete segments, each weighing between 25 to 40 tons. The segments were engineered for their specific location on the guideway to ensure a custom fit. The segments were installed by the bright blue and yellow trusses. The giant 365-ton, 360-foot-long trusses were used because of their 'top-down' construction method, which has little impact on the traveling public and is ideal in an urban area like Tysons Corner. The last of the three trusses will be demobilized over a period of five to eight weeks.
Completion of the guideway marks a milestone in the project. Work will now focus on the completion of the stations and their associated pedestrian bridges and pavilions, as well as on the process of connecting the Dulles extension to the existing WMATA system.
Phase 1 of the Dulles Corridor extension project began in 2009 and is managed by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The project is currently on schedule for completion in late 2013.


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Ma Vie Française
Sarah Rubinstein
When people think of Paris, a carefully curated group of images runs through their minds: lovers strolling along the quais of the Seine, la tour Eiffel sparkling across the river from the Palais de Tokyo, the long lines for falafel in le Marais, the view from the top of the esplanade leading up to Sacre Coeur cathedral. This idea, this vision of Paris, is anything but an accident; instead, it is the hard work and tireless effort of executives to create ad campaigns showing the art and fashion capital of the world and films showing Catherine Deneuve, Audrey Tatou, and Romain Duris playing up to the sophisticated, reserved Frenchie intellectual/bombshell that we all dream of being/being with through our childhood and into our adulthood.
As the green tour buses pass by me everyday, I only wish to scream GET OFF GO EAST SEE PARIS, but I know that is not what people want. Millions come to Paris every year, but few truly see it, and that is, frankly, exactly what they want. Few want to speak in French (they have heard Parisians are awfully cold) and few want to see the city's eastern side (isn't that…the ghetto…). I, for one, wanted none of that.
"You're So Brave!"
Victoria SImons
You're so brave to do that!" This is a phrase that I've heard countless times during the past year, and every time I do I'm a little startled. Spending two semesters in a comfortable, adorable English town at a large and vibrant university, and two summers working on a historic preservation project in Northeast Germany, has never felt dangerous. And I haven't felt particularly brave for spending twelve months away from home because I've been prepped by moving half-way across the country to go to Goucher.
I have had a wonderful year's worth of travel, self-discovery, and some truely spectacular experiences, and I don't write this now as a sob story about my failed and lonely study abroad. It hasn't been easy, but it has been a process that I have undoubtably benefitted from, and will continue to draw meaning and inspiration from for the rest of my life. I write this in the hopes that those who will study abroad sometime in the future can learn from my lack of courage. Perhaps there is an element of bravery in leaving home to live and study in a foreign country, but remember that that is only the start. The challenge to make the most of a study abroad experience is in facing the small, daily fears of participating in a foreign culture.
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Allison Tolman Helps Take 'Fargo' to TV (Video)
Frances McDormand won an Oscar for best actress for her role as Marge Gunderson in the 1996 Coen brothers film "Fargo"; now newcomer Allison Tolman faces the daunting task of making a mark in a similar role in FX's 10-episode limited TV series "Fargo."
The new "Fargo" features new characters (Tolman plays a dogged deputy named Molly Solverson), a different storyline, and moves much of the action from Brainerd, Minn. (where some of the movie was set) to the small town of Bemidji. The new series premieres on April 15.
Tolman, who hails from Sugarland, Texas, stopped by the Wall Street Journal to talk about learning a Minnesota accent, working with co-stars Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman, and the possibility that FX might do a follow-up series.
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text: Home > Sports Mild-mannered Flacco lets his arm do the talking By Steve Ginsburg, Reuters Posted at Feb 04 2013 07:09 PM | Updated as of Feb 05 2013 03:09 AM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn NEW ORLEANS - Joe Flacco put an exclamation point on his amazing playoff run and proved he belongs in the fraternity of the National Football League's elite quarterbacks by leading the Baltimore Ravens to a Super Bowl title. After out-duelling Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady to reach the Super Bowl, Flacco proved to be the steady hand in a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. Flacco has had his share of critics despite leading the Ravens to the playoffs each year since arriving in the league as a first-round draft choice out of tiny Delaware in 2008. The Ravens would win a game or two in the postseason but failing to reach the Super Bowl was a black mark on his quest to be considered in the same class as the league's top guns. But Flacco's postseason credentials this year put him in that category: Eleven touchdown passes, zero interceptions. He might be soft-spoken but his numbers were loud. In Sunday's victory over the 49ers, Flacco completed 22 of 33 passes for 287 yards and three touchdowns but another number was even more telling of his performance. The Ravens' third down efficiency was nine of 16 (56 percent). That is where games are won and lost. San Francisco was two of nine on third downs. On the drive that ultimately won the game for the Ravens, Flacco decided to roll the dice and won. "We are sitting at third and six-inches (for a first down)," said Ravens coach John Harbaugh. "Joe has three play options and decides to throw a fade to Anquan (Boldin). "Throws it right on the money and Anquan goes up and makes the play. To me it shows you he has guts. He has got the guts of a burglar. He was doing it all night, making plays." Ultimately, Justin Tucker's field goal on that drive provided the game-winning points. Flacco, justifiably, wins the Most Valuable Player award. Ravens running back Ray Rice is convinced Flacco is "the best quarterback in football." Future first-ballot Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis is always having to defend Flacco. "I am a Joe Flacco fan. For him to come in and do what he did today, make some of the throws he made, that's what we've always seen," he said. The 28-year-old Flacco is now a free agent and the Ravens organization has said it will do whatever it takes to keep him in Baltimore. In an age of chest-thumping athletes, Flacco is quiet. "I've never cared," Flacco said after the Super Bowl of his naysayers. "I don't ever want to feel like I'm in a position to (have to) defend myself. It's just not right." Lewis, perhaps the NFL's most inspirational player ever, retired after the Super Bowl. He said Flacco has the ability to become the team's new leader but he would be better served by being a little more vocal. It is not likely to happen. Flacco's reaction to being named Super Bowl MVP: "They have to give it to one guy and I'm glad that I got it." If you ask the 49ers, they would likely say Flacco's numbers did the talking on Sunday. (Editing by Frank Pingue) Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Read More: nfl mvp Baltimore Ravens super bowl joe flacco /life/05/27/18/troubled-exhibits-5-disputed-museum-treasures/sports/05/27/18/watch-another-game-6-explosion-from-klay-thompson/news/05/27/18/barangay-kagawad-patay-sa-pamamaril-sa-laguna/life/05/27/18/watch-fil-italian-celeste-cortesis-miss-earth-ph-qa/news/05/27/18/joint-exploration-with-china-would-somehow-give-up-arbitration-ruling-analyst


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August 2006, Vol. XXIII, No. 9
According to DSM-IV,1, diagnosis of bipolar disorder (BP) II requires the presence of major depressive and hypomanic episodes. DSM-IV further characterizes hypomania as requiring (a) periods of elevated or irritable mood (mood changes), which must always be present and must last at least 4 days, different from the usual mood; (b) 3 of the following 8 symptoms if mood is elevated, 4 if mood is irritable: inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, more talkativeness, racing thoughts, distractibility, increased goaldirected activity, psychomotor agitation, and excessive involvement in risky activities; (c) change in functioning; (d) observable mood and functioning change; (e) no marked impairment of functioning, no psychotic symptoms; and (f) symptoms must not be caused by substances, drugs (including antidepressants), or medical disorders.
This article will focus on 3 issues of current concern: diagnostic criteria for hypomania, diagnosis of mixed depression, and management of mixed depression.
Prevalence of BP II
A recent series of studies has found that BP II is much more common than the 0.5% community prevalence reported by DSM-IV: the current estimate of community prevalence is about 5%.2-4 However, clinical studies in different settings have found a much higher prevalence of BP II among depressed outpatients, reporting an equal number with major depressive disorder (MDD) in a ratio of 1:1.5-13
In comparison to previous studies, 4,8,10-15 the much higher prevalence of BP II found in these studies is related to the following methodologic advances:
- Use of semistructured interviews by trained clinicians.
- A minimum duration of hypomania of 2 or more days.
- Bypassing the stem question of DSM-IV to assess the history of hypomania.
- Focusing the probing for history of hypomania on overactivity.
The use of fully structured interviews by lay interviewers, which used yes/no questions and did not provide for clinical evaluation, often led to underdiagnosis of BP II or misdiagnosis of BP II as MDD. The use of semistructured interviews by trained clinicians provides a clearer diagnostic perspective and consequently, a smaller margin of error.
Using the criteria of a minimum duration of hypomania of 2 or more days rather than the DSM-IV 4-day cutoff may increase accurate diagnosis. Unlike the 4-day cutoff, the 2-day cutoff is based on data that show no difference on bipolar measures such as family history, age at onset, and number of recurrences. When DSM-IV criteria are strictly followed, BP II is often (at least 30% of the time) misdiagnosed as MDD.
Because the DSM-IV stem question requires remembering periods of elevated or irritable mood, the response to this question by patients with BP II is frequently no, since these periods may be seen as normal mood fluctuations. If the wording of the question includes much more than usual, this may be perceived as a sign of a severe mental disorder, and is often denied. Bypassing the stem question of DSM-IV to assess the history of hypomania can provide a more accurate diagnosis.
Overactivity (increased goal-directed activities) is an observable behavior, easier to remember than the mood state required by DSM-IV. During the initial interview, relatives and friends can report on mood changes that are more easily recalled after remembering a period of overactivity. Overactivity has been found to be the core feature of hypomania, and it can have at least the same priority as mood changes for the diagnosis of BP II.4,11,13,16
Factor analysis studies and clinical studies have supported the upgrading of overactivity. Factor analysis studies have shown that activation is the core feature of hypomania. Many DSM-IV symptoms of hypomania (7 of 9) could be considered to be the result of an activation/excitement state of the brain: increased goal-directed activity, psychomotor agitation, decreased need for sleep, more talkativeness, racing thoughts, distractibility, and excessive involvement in risky activities.
In 1913, Kraepelin17 described 3 basic domains of mania/hypomania and depression: excitement or inhibition of mood, thinking, and behavior. He did not set any priority among them, but stated that increased busyness, ie, overactivity, was the most striking feature of hypomania. His predecessors, Falret (1854) and Hecker (1898) noted the diagnostic utility of behavioral activation for the diagnosis of disorders similar to BP II, ie, cyclothymia and circular insanity.18,19 Actually, in Kraepelin's view, there could be a manic state even without an elevated mood, as in the mixed state depressive or anxious mania. According to DSM-IV, elevated mood is the prototypical symptom of hypomania. This may mislead clinicians into believing that the basic feature of hypomania is elevated mood and that the other symptoms are secondary and less important.
The major depressive episodes of BP II, and not uncommonly those of MDD, may have concurrent hypomanic symptoms but cannot include elevated mood and the related inflated self-esteem. These mixed depressions thus become missed depressions. Mixed depression misdiagnosis impacts negatively on the treatment of depression. Clinical studies have shown that BP II diagnosed by setting overactivity, and not mood changes, as the priority symptom of hypomania is similar on diagnostic measures to DSM-IV BP II, which requires mood changes for the diagnosis of hypomania. Diagnosing hypomania by requiring overactivity does not lead to overdiagnosis of BP II, and most DSM-IV BP II (approximately 80%) is included.
The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID)20 has the disadvantage of having the stem question for hypomania based on mood changes, if the response is negative, assessment must move to nonbipolar disorders. Another important disadvantage of the SCID is that it does not assess hypomania/hypomanic symptoms in a major depressive episode, leading to missing mixed depressions, especially in outpatients.
Two recent studies have reported on mixed hypomania, which is a combination of hypomania and depressive symptoms or a major depressive episode. 21,22 This diagnosis also will be missed by the SCID. Patients with BP II may not seek treatment for hypomania, because it is frequently seen as a period of improved functioning. Impairment in hypomania, when it occurs, is mild, and is seen more often by relatives and friends than by patients with hypomanic BP II.
Basic data support distinction between BP I and BP II
The basic data supporting a distinction between BP I and BP II23,24 are presented in the Table. In comparison to BP I, there are many fewer studies of BP II and there is little evidence to support the treatment guidelines. Compared with BP I, patients with BP II are more prone to episodes of depression, higher Axis I comorbidity (especially panic disorder), a higher suicide risk, and a high incidence of substance abuse.9,25-28
Distinction between BP I and BP II
|Diagnostic stability23
|Bipolar family history24
|More BP I relatives
than BP II relatives
|More BP II relatives
than BP I relatives
|Equal in men and women
|Higher in women than men
|More likely psychomotor retardation27
|More likely psychomotor agitation38,39
|Rapid cycling14,28
|Less common
|More common
|Risk of suicidality26


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Earlier this year, we became enamored with a wacky Dreamcast title called Dynamite Cop. Its predecessor also made it stateside, although it came under the name of Die Hard Arcade. You won't find many real ties to the awesome action series, however, and the protagonist looks nothing like Bruce Willis. What it does have is plenty more ridiculous brawls and silly interactive cutscenes.
Watch below to see Andrew Reiner, Jeff Cork, Jason Oestricher, and myself dive into this Saturn title.
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Earlier today, I challenged Paul Allen of KFAN to get something fresh from NFL MVP Adrian Peterson during a visit from Peterson to Allen's weekday radio show.
Allen delivered.
He asked Peterson about Percy Harvin, specifically whether the Vikings will or should trade the 2009 NFL offensive rookie of the year. Peterson said he's not sure what the team will do, but that he never would do that deal.
"To be honest with you, I don't know if we will or not," Peterson said. "But me, individually, and giving you my opinion, I wouldn't trade him. I wouldn't trade him. But that's just me and my opinion. To do the the things that he's able to do, I don't think there will be a player able to do it better than him. Ever. He does so much, and there will never be a player who will do it better than him."
Still, it's clear that Adrian doesn't know what will happen, primarily because he doesn't know what Percy is thinking. "I haven't really had the opportunity to talk to him much," Peterson said. "But I always look at what you can get from a person, and I know it comes with, 'OK, you gotta deal with this, or deal with that,' but I always feel like that person can overcome whatever it is that they might be struggling with."
That implies plenty. Percy Harvin, in Peterson's view, apparently is "struggling with" something that Peterson believes Percy can overcome. If that something with which Percy is struggling is a desire to play for a new team, whether or not Percy overcomes it will go a long way toward resolving this specific situation.


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Latest Westport property transfers: $46M total
Published 11:18 am, Sunday, June 16, 2013
The Town Clerk's office reports the following property transfers took place May 27-May 31:
12 Pier Way Landing, sold to Donna P. and Sacha M. Bacro by Alexander T. Vanrensselaer, trustee, $3,775,425.73
Lot 72A Pier Way Landing, sold to Donna P. and Sacha M. Bacro by Sally D. Vanrensselaer, $124.574.27
34 Silent Grove North, sold to Carol Buettner Sherts by Wendy F. Tyler, $760,000.
1 Wynfromere Lane, sold to Robert J. and Valerie G. Newman by Marlene J. Wehmhoff, trustee, $950,000.
1 Hillandale Road, sold to John J. Moranski, trustee, by Stephen and Susanne Bookbinder, $960,000.
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14 Old Hill Road, sold to George A. Frank by Joanne M. Sutphen, $860,000.
9 Sugar Maple Lane, sold to James Richard and Erin Bormann by Daniel Colombi and Lisa Anne Bergstrom, $2,250,000.
1 Little Lane, sold to Christopher and Christina Langone by Sir-1 Little Lane LLC, $2,070,000.
12 Harding Lane, sold to Mattera Construction 12 Harding Lane LL by Margaret G. Yingling, $1,180,000.
32 Grassy Plains Road, sold to Grassy Plains Development LLC by Grassy Plains LLC, $475,000.
3 Flower Farm Lane, sold to Chong Hyok Kim and Ju Young Seo by RB Properties LLC, $4,300,000.
49A Old Hill Road, sold to Kevin L. Rodman by Thomas and Marcie Gow Pajolek, $2,075,000.
11 Twin Falls Lane, sold to Robert and Meghan Rice by Lametta Exchange LLC, $1,700,000.
1 Lantern Hill Road, sold to AMP investments LLC by Philip Amarante, $1,100,000.
78 Hillandale Road, sold to National Residential Nominee by Peter Kim and Alan L. Turri, $699,000.
78 Hillandale Road, sold to Noah and Lydie Schwartz by National Residential Nominee, $699,000.
122 Beachside Avenue, sold to Andrew Bentley trustee and Andrew Bentley 2010 Revocable Living Trustee by 112 and 2 Copper Hill Estates LLC care of Berkowitz Trager and Trager LLC, $18,000,000.
120 Beachside Avenue, sold to Andrew Bentley and Fiona Garland by 114 and 6 Copper Hill Estates LLC care of Berkowitz Trager and Trager LLC, $2,000,000.
301 Post Road East Unit 19 50 percent interest, sold to Nathaniel and Rebecca Kohl by Jane Johngren, $177,500.
301 Post Road East Unit 19 50 percent interest, sold to Nathaniel and Rebecca Kohl by Susan B. Schaefer trustee and Jeffrey B. Schaefer trustee, $177,500.
73 Clapboard Hill Road, sold to Paul W. and Claudia P. Shaum by Scarlet F. Deford, $1,712,500.
Total value of the properties sold is $46,045,500, generating conveyance taxes of $113,366.25.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. – Freshman forward Olivia Murphy (Canton, Mass.) has been named the Little East Conference Rookie of the Week for women's basketball after leading the Beacons to the UMB Tip-Off Classic tournament title on Sunday.
The honor, which is the first of the year for Murphy, comes less than 24 hours after the freshman guided UMass to a 66-61 overtime win over Middlebury College and a 67-62 win over Manhattanville College.
For her standout play in the two-day tournament, Murphy was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Murphy closed out her first weekend averaged nine points and 15 rebounds per game, while also handing out 3.5 assists per game.
In the win over Middlebury, Murphy posted her first career double-double as she finished with 11 points and 15 rebounds. In the championship game against the Valiants the Canton native recorded 15 rebounds, five blocks and eight points.


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Formula 1 revs engines through Virgin Media
Smiles for Sky Sports subscribers
Virgin Media has announced that Sky Sports' new Formula 1 channel will be available this March for those subscribed to the Sky Sports package already offered.
Sky Sports F1 is set to be a dedicated racing channel, showing live coverage of every Formula 1 race, practice and qualifying session.
BSkyB upset millions of racing fans in 2011 when it snatched the Formula 1 broadcasting rights away from the BBC in a lucrative six-year deal. As a result, Auntie was forced to halve its coverage and slash production costs.
While World+Dog barked viciously at the new arrangement, die-hard fans of the sport will no doubt stump up the cash regardless, reluctantly piling their pounds into Murdoch's packed pockets.
Those already paying for football broadcasts through their Virgin box will be chuffed at the news, though, as they'll be getting full F1 coverage at no extra cost when the dedicated channel is added to the roster this March. ®
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CHICAGO (AP) — A Taiwanese man who the U.S. government links to supplying weapons machinery to North Korea has been arrested along with his son.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago announced the arrests Monday. The men are accused of conspiring to thwart U.S. laws on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Prosecutors say the father, Hsien Tai Tsai, resides in Taiwan. He was arrested Wednesday in Tallinn, Estonia. The 67-year-old man remains in custody in the Baltic-coast country.
The son, Yueh-Hsun Tsai, is a legal permanent resident in the U.S. He was arrested the same day at his home in the Chicago suburb of Glenview. The 36-year-old was due to appear in federal court in Chicago on Monday.


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The just-in-time budget deal Congress passed on New Year's Day calls to mind Samuel Johnson's observation about dogs that walk on their hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
The same could be said of U.S. lawmakers. For more than a year, the conversation in Washington focused on achieving a Platonic grand bargain to overhaul the tax code, reform entitlement programs and reduce the national debt.
We have supported a compromise that would trade Medicare reforms for higher tax rates and a tax-code overhaul. It would have been grand if the package sent this week to President Barack Obama accomplished even a bit of that. It doesn't; Congress is too polarized to reach such a deal. Still, this week's agreement doesn't deserve the derision it's getting from some economists and fiscal policy experts.
For now, Congress has found enough common ground to defuse a $600 billion fiscal time bomb, no easy feat considering our divided government and the deep ideological differences between the parties. The combatants will have to summon the courage to do it again in two months, when the Treasury will have depleted its borrowing authority, the deadline for stopping $110 billion in automatic spending cuts arrives, and the law that funds the government expires.
At that point, with the United States on the verge of default, a painful sequestration and a government shutdown — fiscal cliff doesn't seem adequate to describe it anymore — we'd love to see the elusive "grand bargain." But another round of successful small-ball will suffice, thank you.
The last phase of the negotiations should serve as a guide, starting with one of the agreement's biggest lessons: Cross- party personal relationships matter. When Obama and House Speaker John Boehner failed to work out a deal after repeated attempts spanning 18 months, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell turned to Vice President Joe Biden. The two 70-year-olds served together for about a quarter-century in the Senate, almost always on opposite sides of the issues yet never forgetting the validity of the other's political imperatives or point of view.
In less than two days, they worked out the deal Congress just adopted. "Simply put," said Jared Bernstein, the vice president's former chief economist, "they remember a day when politicians compromised."
The agreement's economic effects could surprise the naysayers. It sensibly retains some short-term fiscal stimulus while increasing revenue in the long run. The measure, for example, extends unemployment insurance for about 2 million jobless people whose benefits have ended. It also continues refundable tax credits for low-income families and college students.
True, the payroll tax cut was allowed to lapse. Its absence could pull more than $100 billion out of the economy in 2013, and is the primary reason that an estimated 77 percent of taxpaying households will face higher levies this year. But losing the two-percentage-point tax break, which was never meant to be permanent, is a small price to pay for avoiding income-tax increases for more than 99 percent of taxpayers.
Many a commentator has pointed out that the federal budget will be $4 trillion bigger than projected, even with the deal. That analysis, however, is based on the assumption that all the Bush-era tax cuts, along with numerous other annual patches, would have expired as scheduled — a remote possibility at best. The view among the deficit hawks at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is that the national debt will shrink by $650 billion over 10 years, using more realistic assumptions.
Obama can take pride knowing that the agreement improves inequality somewhat. The burden of higher taxes will fall hardest on the top 1 percent, and particularly on the top 0.1 percent, of income earners. Those making more than $2.7 million will pay an average of $443,910 more in 2013, or 26 percent of the additional burden, according to the bipartisan Tax Policy Center. Households with income between $500,000 and $1 million will pay an average of $14,812 more.
Republicans — and the rest of us, too — can take heart knowing that the deal ends uncertainty about the fate of the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush. Much of the reason the fiscal cliff existed in the first place was that Republicans, using budgetary sleight-of-hand, put a 10-year limit on the tax cuts, yet had no intention of letting them expire. No longer will Congress keep taxpayers guessing whether the tax cuts will survive or die.
With the federal government having hit its debt ceiling, Republicans hope to replay their 2011 demand that debt-limit increases be matched dollar-for-dollar with spending cuts. Obama laid down a "no hostages" marker on Jan. 1 when he said future deficit-reduction deals must balance spending cuts with further tax increases. At the same time, Obama said he's open to compromise. Medicare spending can be reduced, he said, perhaps by limiting cost-of-living increases. We agree that hostage- taking is unacceptable and that Obama's Medicare offer is a good place to begin the next round of negotiations. Now it is House Republicans' turn to name the revenue-raisers they can accept, or the spending cuts they want.
Lest we forget, Congress already made more than $1 trillion in spending cuts in 2011. An additional $1.2 trillion could be saved or raised later this year. When added to the just-concluded pact, the total could come close to $3 trillion in spending cuts and tax increases over the coming decade. Deficit reduction in fits and starts is still deficit reduction.
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Former England Under-21s manager Stuart Pearce believes unless young players are given experience of tournament football they will continue to risk being hit with nerves in the pressure environment of the World Cup finals - just as he was in 1990.
Pearce - who left his role at the Football Association after a disappointing 2013 Under-21 European Championships finals in Israel - constantly found himself fighting battles to get key members of his squad like Arsenal trio Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain released to boost the Young Lions' squads for the summer tournaments.
It is a scenario which Pearce - part of the England side which reached the semi-finals of Italia 90 before losing on penalties to Germany, the left-back missing a spot-kick in the shoot-out - believes will continue to hamper the long-term chances of the England senior team if the cycle is not broken.
"We have probably not put the foundations in place to go and win the World Cup, we have to be a bit more akin to trying to win things at the under age groups before we can be going and thinking we can win, like Spain or Germany have done over the years," said Pearce, who was speaking at the Rileys signing day for the Men United v Prostate Cancer campaign in central London.
England manager Roy Hodgson is set to name his World Cup squad on May 12, following the end of the Barclays Premier League season.
While Tottenham winger Andros Townsend and Walcott have seen their hopes of making it on the plane to Brazil dashed by injury, promising talents such as Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling, as well as Southampton duo Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana, are expected to feature.
"Players like Sterling and one or two others are having a particularly good time at the moment, but we have to support these players to make sure they don't end up as just squad players and not being used," he added.
"The importance for young footballers is making sure you have as many 90 minutes as possible and gaining as much tournament experience as possible.
"You have only got to look at Theo Walcott - he went to the 2006 World Cup, and since that time we have had the 2010 tournament and now 2014, which he won't be fit for, a couple of European Championships, an Olympic Games, three under-21 tournaments, two under-20 World Cups, and out of all that, I think his total of summer tournament football is about three-and-a-half matches at all age groups. That is not what we want from our top stars and is the one thing we are historically bad at."
Pearce told Press Association Sport: "Qualification for England's teams is second only to Spain, it is when we get to these major tournaments the majority of our better players do not turn up at the younger age groups to play and get that tournament experience. Unless you do that, you can't step into the senior squad and know (what it is all about).
"How many of our senior players will go to Brazil this summer with very limited tournament experience?
"The idea is to make sure that when they end up going, someone like Daniel Sturridge or James Milner, then they have that tournament under their belt, so they know what it is all about.
"It is not the same as qualification, as I found out to my cost at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, when the nerves and pressure took over, even though I had earned 20 caps over a three-year period going into it."
Rileys are committed to raising £100,000 through specific themed events and initiatives, backing the Men United v Prostate Cancer campaign and joining an army of supporters fighting against the biggest killer amongst males in the UK.
"A lot of men don't like to reach out and come forward to ask for help, and have that big bravado of 'there is nothing wrong with me," said Pearce, who will return to club management with former team Nottingham Forest next season.
"It is really important that we all make people aware and raise the profile."
:: Men are being asked to sign for Men United by visiting www.prostatecanceruk.org/menunited.
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bogging acceleration after adding weber
Posted 27 May 2004 - 12:53 AM
Also the car wont idel until it warms up. I has the electric choke. I conected the origonal hitachi wires to the weber, but the hitachi had two extra wires that went to a triangle shaped piece that actuated some sort of plunger. I couldnt find anywhere those might attach to the weber. That is my only idea on why the idle is bad.
Posted 27 May 2004 - 01:19 AM
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Posted 27 May 2004 - 02:26 AM
I'm definatly no expert, but you might try advancing the timing up to 10 to 12 degrees and then retuning the carb. Also might check to see if there was power to the electric choke or not. Did you buy the redline kit (K730 I believe) that is properly jetted for our application?
Also might look into getting an electric fuel pump as well, if you dont have it already. Webers like to have ~3.5psi as opposed to the stock hitachis' 1-2 psi(i think). May need a AFPR depending on the pump. Just hook it inline to the Weber and use the stock pump to feed it.
Webers dont like to be cold, but they can idle no problem when there cold. They just work better when warm . I dont know how the electric chokes work on the webers' as Ive always been fond of pulling the handle to start .
Hope this helps,
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Temple-based Scott & White Healthcare announced Thursday it is launching a tobacco-free hiring policy for all new hires on January first.
News 3 has been looking into this story and learned this policy will also affect candidates applying to work at the new hospital being built in College Station.
You already can't use tobacco while on the Scott & White campuses, but now new employees will have to declare they are tobacco-free during the pre-employment period.
Smokers are finding fewer and fewer places to light up or even chew tobacco.
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Some workers did say they aren't pleased with the company dictating personal choices.
Scott & White officials tell us only about five percent of its workforce are tobacco users.
Company officials say employees caught violating the new policy could face disciplinary action including possible termination.


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Cincinnati police say 29-year-old Brandon Thomas was arrested Monday following a traffic stop in Granville County, N.C. Police said in a release Tuesday that no other information was immediately available.
Police were seeking him on aggravated murder warrants in the slayings of a man and a woman found bound and shot to death inside a home Jan. 9. Police said at the time that there were two young children in the home, but they weren't harmed.
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- President Obama says sanctions will hit Russian arms, energy and finance sectors
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- EU official: Some of the individuals affected are Putin 'cronies'
- Investigators are prevented from reaching the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site again
Russia became more isolated Tuesday than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War after new, hard-hitting sanctions were announced by the European Union and the United States, U.S. officials said.
U.S. President Barack Obama said the measures would take an "even bigger bite" out of the stagnant Russian economy than sanctions Washington and the EU had already implemented against Russia over its disputed annexation of Crimea and its support of pro-Russian rebels fighting the Ukrainian government.
"The major sanctions we're announcing today will continue to ratchet up the pressure on Russia including the cronies and companies supporting Russia's illegal activities in the Ukraine," he said from the White House South Lawn. "In other words, today Russia is once again isolating itself from the international community, setting back decades of genuine progress."
He said the EU sanctions showed to him a waning patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the impact of the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which had many Europeans among the 298 people on board when it exploded over volatile eastern Ukraine.
Some of the new EU sanctions target eight "cronies" of Putin and three "entities" by limiting their access to EU capital markets, an EU official said on condition of anonymity. The people and entities will be named Wednesday, the official said.
Three state-owned banks named Tuesday by Washington means five of the top six financial institutions in Russia were on the sanctions list, according to a senior Obama administration official. Four-fifths of their debt is in U.S. dollars, the official said.
New sanctions will also impact the future of Russia's important oil businesses with technology licensing restrictions, another senior administration official said. Restrictions will affect Russia's ability to produce oil from deep-water wells and shale fields, sectors it is only beginning to explore.
The sanctions, however, are not part of a new Cold War, Obama said.
"What it is, is a very specific issue related to Russia's unwillingness to recognize that Ukraine can chart its own path," Obama said.
The EU sanctions also will block new arms contracts between Europe and Russia, prohibit the export of European goods that can be used for both civilian and military purposes and limit the export of energy-related equipment, the EU said in a written statement Tuesday evening.
The European Union had previously been reluctant to issue harsher sanctions against Russia because both regions rely on one another for about $500 billion in trade and investment each year, according to CNNMoney.
"It is meant as a strong warning: Illegal annexation of territory and deliberate destabilization of a neighboring sovereign country cannot be accepted in 21st century Europe," the European Council's statement reads.
One of the senior administration officials said Russia hasn't been this isolated "since the end of the Cold War."
Obama said Russia could choose a different path.
"It didn't have to come to this. It does not have to be this way," Obama said. "This is a choice that Russia and President Putin in particular has made. ... The path for a peaceful resolution to this crisis involves recognizing the sovereignty, the territorial integrity and the independence of the Ukrainian people."
Investigators thwarted again
Meanwhile, international investigators and observers were prevented for the third straight day from reaching the MH17 crash site.
The Dutch Justice Ministry said its team was unable to leave the city of Donetsk because of violence.
The 50-strong team of Dutch and Australian experts, accompanied by monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, was also forced to abandon its attempts to reach the site Sunday and Monday.
Dutch investigators have yet to lay eyes on the wreckage or the human remains believed still to be strewn across the huge debris field near the town of Torez.
U.S. and Ukrainian officials have said that a Russian-made missile system was used to shoot down MH17 from rebel territory. Russia and the rebels have disputed the allegations and blamed Ukraine for the crash.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte asked Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in a phone call Tuesday morning to halt the fighting around the crash site so that investigators can access it, Rutte spokesman Jean Fransman said.
Reports of ballistic missiles
The United States and others say Russia has provided arms to rebels in eastern Ukraine, including heavy weapons such as a missile system like the one believed used to down the Malaysian airliner 12 days ago.
Despite previous sanctions, the flow of weapons continues and on Tuesday the fighting appeared to have entered a dangerous new phase. There were reports that Ukraine's government in the past 48 hours used short-range ballistic missiles against the rebels, three U.S. officials told CNN.
The weapons have a range of about 50 miles (80 kilometers) and pack up to 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) warheads. If the reports are accurate, they are the most deadly missiles used in the conflict to date.
The U.S. officials did not specify where the missiles hit or what damage they caused.
One U.S. official said there has been no reaction from Russia so far.
Another of the U.S. officials said using the missiles is "an escalation, but Ukraine has a right to defend itself."
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin acknowledged that his country's military has short-range missiles, but denied that the military fired any.
In a joint news conference with Klimkin, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised Ukrainian officials for proposing a peace plan that includes "serious and substantive dialogue with the Russian-backed separatists."
Russia: Checkpoint came under fire
Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website that a Russian checkpoint had come under fire from Ukrainian forces.
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On Tuesday, Klimkin, the Ukrainian foreign minister, denied that Ukrainian forces had fired into Russia.
The defense minister for the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, Igor Strelkov, said that there had been "extremely severe" battles between his rebel forces and the Ukrainian military in the area of Shaktarsk and Torez.
He said a number of injured rebel fighters, as well as some medical personnel, had been evacuated from Donetsk to Russia. Moscow has denied arming and supporting the rebels, but Strelkov's words indicate that Russia is serving as a kind of haven for the rebels.
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As we approach what would have been Dad's 85th birthday, we are reminded what a wonderful sendoff the community gave to our dad, Rod Hartman. The tears still come as we think of the fire trucks, ambulances, police cars sitting patiently by, waiting to escort Dad to his final resting place at Spring Canyon Cemetery. Maybe you were able to attend. Maybe that day you were there in spirit or thought. To all of you who shared with us that day, thank you! What an escort Dad had! Thank you for honoring him in such an amazing manner; not just on the day of his service, but for the respect and caring shown to him for the 71 years he lived in the Grand Coulee Dam area. We know that dad was humbled and proud to have the community he loved so much send him on his way.
Maybe our dad was your bus driver, or your first employer, or you were the kid that had your birthday party at the theatre watching a weekend matinee! Maybe he was involved with you receiving a scholarship through Rotary. Or maybe he was an EMT on an ambulance run when you were hurt or ill. Many were blessed by his kindness. Many admired his business sense and toughness. We are grateful every day we had the opportunity to see what a kind, special man he was.
We are so grateful for the support shown to us in so many ways. Thank you to all the people and organizations that showered us with affection. This note is for everyone who helped us along our journey. The Coulee Dam Community Church has always been a Hartman love; your help, caring thoughts, cards and phone calls, the service and luncheon after were wonderful! A big thanks to all who were involved in putting that together!
An extra special thank you to Pastors Kevin and Bob Jackson for the nice services. Thanks to Diane Babler who did a wonderful job as organist, with her ability to incorporate the awesome chimes into the service. Many of you may not know that those chimes were given to the Coulee Dam Church by the Hartman family in memory of Dad's two brothers.
A special thanks to Roger, Gwen and Scott at The Star for going that extra mile to help gather information for the obituary and services, as well as writing an article and holding up deadline for us! The military rites were very moving and appreciated, thank you. John Francis provided beautiful flowers, thank you. To all the coulee crew who opened their homes to us and graciously provided us with food and a place to stay, there will never be the right words to thank you all for your kindness. A special thanks to James and his wife at Strate Funeral Home for their guidance.
We do know how blessed we were to have Dad with us for nearly 85 Years. We had the adventure with him in recent years of getting to know and honor the caring, sweet nature of the man on the inside. We were able to view for ourselves the true meaning of unconditional love.
As the lights were flashing and cars respectfully pulled aside for our procession to Spring Canyon, we know Dad was smiling down on us all. Thank you from us, and from Dad.
Thank you to all the people that were touched by his life and his passing.
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This stunning house was baked by Te Papa's Executive Chef, Bernd Lippmann. It's the biggest ever made in Wellington! Check out the time-lapse video to see how it was done.
The tradition started in Germany, where witches have long used gingerbread as a building material. In 1812, the brothers Grimm broke this news when they wrote the fairytale Hansel and Gretel. This story offered useful tips about:
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- the clever use of a bone to prevent consumption by witch.
All this seemed perfect for an opera, and soon German opera houses were busy making replica gingerbread houses for their performances. Bakeries were quick to join the craze. Gingerbread houses are now part of Christmas menus across Europe.
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- Water 74 litres
- Butter 44.4 kilograms
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Mike Groves starts off this month's art contest with a bang. He has several very cheap prints on sale at Etsy, including Zombie Bert. (But his site and store are both NSFW.)
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Kalamazoo police officers on routine patrol said they encountered a suspicious person sitting in a parked vehicle behind a hotel around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Officers said they had a brief conversation with the man and their attention was drawn to the car's trunk when the man unexpectedly hit the trunk release and stated, "I hit a deer, I figured you would want to see it."
The man, a Kalamazoo resident, told police he had a dead deer in the trunk which he had accidentally hit with his car on an outlying area road. The man said he wanted to use the meat from the road kill to feed his family. When officers asked to inspect the deer to see if it had been properly tagged, the man agreed.
As one officer cautiously opened the trunk, he was surprised to find the deer very much alive.
Sensing freedom, the young deer sprang from the trunk, quickly acclimated itself with it's new surroundings and made a run for it. The deer fled into a nearby wooded area and wasn't seen again.
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Officers said the man was at a loss for words, as the deer was not as mortally wounded as he initially thought.
Authorities are reminding Michiganders that vehicle-deer crashes are a year-round problem, especially during the spring and fall as the state's estimated 2,000,000 deer are most active during these times.
Each year there are more than 60,000 vehicle-deer crashes reported in the State of Michigan.
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An Argentine judge Thursday tossed out a criminal case against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner that had been brought by a prosecutor who later died under mysterious circumstances.
The prosecutor accused the president of conspiring to protect Iranian officials from prosecution in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas determined that the case, which has roiled the country for weeks, lacked sufficient evidence to warrant further investigation of the president, the Argentine judiciary said in a statement.
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Just a year after its centennial celebrations, the Girl Scouts of the USA finds itself with fewer members nationwide, a huge pension deficit and declining revenues.
Just a year after its centennial celebrations, the Girl Scouts of the USA finds itself with fewer members nationwide, a huge pension deficit and declining revenues.
The Girl Scouts have 2.2 million Scout members, down from more than 2.8 million in 2003, according to data provided by the organization.
Donations also declined from $148 million in 2007 to $104 million in 2011. Nationwide, cookie sales dipped 4.5 percent between 2012 and 2013. But Girl Scout membership dues went from $12 a year to $15.
Fewer women are offering to volunteer their time with the Girl Scouts, regional leaders say, leaving some potential Girl Scouts on the waiting list.
The biggest issue, though, is a pension plan with a $347 million deficit.
In spite of the organization's nationwide woes, leaders at Girl Scouts Louisiana East, a newly realigned Girl Scout council formed in 2008, is working to expand existing programs. Still, declining money, volunteers and members remain an issue.
Girl Scouts Louisiana East, which is responsible for 23 southeast Louisiana including Terrebonne and Lafourche, saw 500 fewer members and 200 fewer volunteers in 2011 compared to 2012.
However, 750 campers have participated in sleep-away camps so far this year, up from 463 in 2012.
The goal of Girl Scouts Louisiana East is to better align resources and enable the national movement to offer more variety, said Zandria Pinkney, a volunteer support coordinator for Girl Scouts Louisiana East.
In other words, Girl Scouts Louisiana East wants to offer more options for its members.
Through a new program called Pathways, girls can participate without having to dedicate themselves full time to the Girl Scouts.
Still, as is the case nationwide, Pinkney said the biggest problem they face is getting adult volunteers to help the Pathways program expand.
Pinkney explained that fewer parents are signing their children up for Girl Scouts because they have to compete with other after-school programs that don't require as serious of a commitment.
"At the end of the day, it's about parents not having enough time," she said. "That's why we offer Pathways. They can still get girls involved, but not have to dedicate that much time."
The camps associated with Pathways have been successful this year, said Marianne Addy, vice president of communications and marketing for Girl Scouts Louisiana East.
The program offers an option to girls who may not be able to participate over nine months to a year, she said.
Pathways offers options such as a LEGO League Robotics team. Girls who are interested in travel can prepare, plan and participate in excursions.
"In Girl Scouts, we recognize that girls have different interests, and as they grow older, they may wish to spend more time doing one particular activity, whether it's participating in our Wrangler horseback riding program or science-related activities," said Robin Guillmette, chief operations officer at Girl Scouts Louisiana East.
"While joining a Girl Scout troop is still a tried and true approach to Girl Scouting, we want to attract girls who may wish to pick and choose from a menu of events and activities," she said. "The possibilities are endless."
Girl Scouts still play a significant role in the development of young girls, said Linda LeRay, a local camp coordinator.
"The Girl Scouts is not a babysitting service," she said. "These girls learn things and do things that they wouldn't normally have the opportunity to do.
For instance, LeRay said, during the five-day annual Girl Scouts Day of Discovery summer camp held earlier this month, about 40 girls took pretend trips across five states to learn about arts and crafts, sports, dance and special programs.
Lessons on Texas, for example, included churning butter, a sack race and learning Dallas Cowboy cheerleading moves.
Adult volunteers provide training and support, and LeRay said it's rewarding to work with the girls.
"It's the best time you could ever spend with your child because you can watch them grow and develop independently."
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OMCA encourages the public to submit their films for screening at Home Movie
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|As You Can See from Google News, People that Don't Ride Want Us to "Dust Off" and "Pump Up"
Dust Off the Bike
|600 Miles of Grime on Buddy. Yuck! Note the Sidewall on the Soon-to-be-Retired Conti
|Dusty Rear Hub - That Simply Would NOT Do! That Thread is From the Rear Tire
|Simple Green, Water, Eezox and Soon the Dusting was Done
However, the advice from the news was also to "pump up" that bike's tires. And, I do confess, I haven't pumped up Buddy's tires in nearly a week. Like as documented here, when I pumped up the rear several times on that last mile home. Looking at the old tire, I've concluded that 6000 miles was a decent life for the Continental 4 Season tire. Conveniently enough, I've had one hidden away in the closet for the better part of a year. You can see the comparison between old (2 years) and new. I didn't bother with the front tire. On the new commute, I've spaced out tire pressure topoffs to biweekly unless something looks suspicious. Since it was a touch high, I'll probably wait and simply top it off the first time I do the rear one.
|Sidewall Coming Apart. No Doubt Some of that Occurred in the Last Mile of the Tire's 6000 Mile Life
|Tubes are $6 Nowadays. Patches Keep Them Rolling on the Road Bike
Anyway, "Bike Month" has taken on a new significance for me and I think it's a better reason to celebrate than most of the hokey news blurbs on the subject. It seems like a good time to take care of that overdue cleaning and maintenance, and to put the bikes into summer trim. I haven't finished redoing the bag transport configurations yet, but I'd hate to run out of things to cover this month. I'm undecided whether to go to downtown Fort Worth on "Bike Day" this year. This would be the first time it might actually be practical. Perhaps I'll have to see what sort of enticements are offered. To get there, I'd ride to work, take the early TRE train into downtown Fort Worth. Festivate, and then ride the TRE back to work. Simple, if a little extreme.


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This practical challenge invites you to investigate the different
squares you can make on a square geoboard or pegboard.
This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
If you had 36 cubes, what different cuboids could you make?
What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to?
How many other numbers have digits with the same total if we
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Masters in typography & type designSubmitted by Ruxandra Duru on 28 June 2010 - 12:09pm
I have recently graduated from a design program (Concordia University, Montreal) and I am looking for masters abroad that would combine both type design and typography (preferably a one-year program).
I was wondering if anyone has information about the quality of the masters in Advanced Typography taught at the EINA school in Barcelona. Apart from their official website, I have trouble finding extra information and comments about this program.
I am also considering KABK's "Type and Media". However, from the information I have been able to gather, it seems like it much more focused on type design, and much less on typography, am I correct?
Finally, any thoughts about the Centro de Estudios Gestalt (Veracruz, Mexico)? Or other suggestions?
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- African culture is evident in Brazil's carnival, music, dance food and religion
- It was the last country to abolish the slave trade, with an estimated four million slaves shipped over 300 years
- A Historical Circuit of African Heritage in Rio de Janeiro helps to connect the past and present
From samba and carnival to food, music and religion, African culture is everywhere in Brazil.
The cultural heritage stems from the estimated four million slaves who were brought to the country over a 300-year period, at least four times as many as to the United States.
Brazil was the last country to abolish the slave trade in 1888. More than half of Brazilians now identify themselves as black or of mixed race, according to the latest census.
Rio de Janeiro now has the most famous carnival in the world, attracting an estimated 1.1 million visitors to the city this year and with 5.3 million people taking part in street parties, according to the English language newspaper The Rio Times.
Carnival, which is celebrated across Brazil, combines samba -- music and dance which grew out of Brazil's black neighborhoods -- and the Catholic tradition of celebrating the run-up to Lent brought by Portuguese colonialists.
After the abolition of slavery, the rituals of the Catholic former colonialists and their former slaves merged to form the origins of modern carnival, according to the Rio Times.
One explanation for the origins of carnival is that it began in a Catholic church, Our Lady of the Rosary, built by slaves in the 1700s whose masters wanted them to convert to Catholicism.
"The black people that were part of this congregation, most of them came from Congo," said Joao Carlos Desales, a tour guide who took CNN around Rio de Janeiro.
"So they were able to organize a celebration where they would choose a man and a woman, and they would be the king and queen of Congo. That celebration turned out to be the beginning of carnival celebrated in Brazil."
Even many of Brazil's Catholic saints are said to have African heritage.
St Benedict, whose name is remembered in Our Lady of the Rosary church, was a slave from North Africa, who promised to devote himself to Catholicism if he became a free man, Desales said.
Brazil's patron saint, Our Lady of Aparecida, a black clay statue of the Virgin Mary, was -- according to some -- found by runaway slaves on their way to Quilombo, a community of runaway slaves.
Quilombo communities continue across Brazil to this day.
Luis Sacopa, president of the association of Quilombos, runs a restaurant with his 17 members of his family in a piece of jungle in what is now an expensive suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
His grandparents found this piece of land after escaping slavery.
The family has fought a legal battle to hold on to its land against the threat of eviction, and now has official protection for their right to remain.
"Thanks to god we have had success and we're still here at the end of our dispute," said Sacopa. "Thanks to god, the family has united, we're fighting and we're winning the fight against the elite in this expensive neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro."
Sacopa said he was able to resist eviction with the help of his Orixas, gods of the Yoruba people of Southwest Nigeria, Benin and Togo.
In Brazil, the religion is known as Candomble, and it has a large following in some Afro-Brazilian areas, particularly Salvador in Bahia state.
Candomble was prohibited in Brazil up until the 1950s, but influenced much of the country's food and music.
In Sacopa's restaurant he serves feijoada, a typical Brazilian dish originally created by slaves from their masters' leftovers.
A new Historical Circuit of African Heritage opened in Rio de Janeiro in 2010 to help tourists and descendants of slaves reconnect with the past slavery.
The project began after workers installing a new drainage system in the central districts of Saude and Gamboa discovered hundreds of personal objects belonging to African slaves, according to the Rio Times.
Archaeologists established that this was the site of the 19th century slave trading complex, the Cais do Valongo, or Valongo Quays.
Many of the discoveries are now on display in the Valongo Gardens, the newspaper reported.
Another discovery of recent years is the remains of a squalid slave cemetery in the courtyard of a home in central Rio de Janeiro.
Renaldo Tavares, an archeologist who has been studying the discovery, said: "These are human remains mixed in with the garbage from the city. It shows how society in the 19th century treated slaves.
"Bones, pieces of ceramic, bits from construction, tiles, animal remains, bits of food, society threw all sorts of things in here. Slaves were considered garbage by society."
Ana de la Merced Guimaraes, the homeowner who discovered the bones in her courtyard, said: "When we started a reform in our house, we found all these bones. We thought it was a family grave, but there was so much we thought maybe it had been a serial killer.
"But then we calmed down and talked about it and called a lawyer and the police. And he said don't worry, we aren't going to accuse you, it's probably something very old.
"A neighbor told us, a long time ago, your street was a slave cemetery."
Brazil's third city Salvador, in Bahia state, northeast Brazil, has some of the strongest links to Africa.
Salvador was the first colonial capital of Brazil and its central district, Pelourinho, now a UNESCO world heritage site, was the New World's first slave market from 1553, according to UNESCO.


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Hello all,
The kittens are so cute they are both male, black with white faces and socks.
They are so funny to just sit back and watch them play. I ended up getting two they are sweet harts,
Not the spitting, snarling maniacs I thought I'd get, They just love them some luvin'
On a side note, A dog who I've walked for the last 7 years, but was brought up badly.
Was put to sleep today as she attacked and killed a 9 month old kitten.
Real shame. she was a real sweet hart that just had a lot of issues, due to being locked up in a shed 24 .7 with no socialization with dogs or people for just over two years. Then she was kept as a personal guard dog to one guy who made her go nuts at anything that came close to him. <Little dick big attitude.
She was so afraid of people, i had to put a muzzle on to wash her as she would strike out for fear of being hit or whatever .
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TORONTO – Victoria-raised pop star Nelly Furtado says she loves playing gigs on New Year's Eve — even if it means having to freeze in icy climes, which will be the case Monday night when she takes the outdoor stage at Niagara Falls, Ont.
"It's fun and you get to be onstage and you get to serenade all the couples that are kissing at midnight. It's a great vantage point," she said in a recent interview, noting she was shopping for a coat that was warm enough for the gig.
Plus, New Year's Eve revellers who brave the cold weather and in a group setting are usually "there to party, they're there to have a good time, so you know what the MO (modus operandi) is, right?" she added with a laugh.
"It's an easier gig that way in terms of meeting expectations, I guess. But no gig is easy, because you've got to bring the party."
Furtado plans to bring the party by singing a mix of new and old tunes from her five albums at "Entertainment Tonight Canada"'s fourth annual "New Year's Eve at Niagara Falls." The two-hour show, hosted by Cheryl Hickey and Matte Babel, starts at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Global.
Other acts on the bill include electro-pop trio Dragonette and Vancouver rockers Hedley, Furtado's fellow Free the Children charity ambassadors.
Hedley lead singer Jacob Hoggard is known for pulling pranks and Furtado is bracing for a surprise of some sort.
"I'm sure his prank will be showing up with, like, no shirt on. Like, Niagara Falls in the freezing, sub-zero temperatures and somehow being able to sing, without a scarf on," she said.
"That's what rock stars do."
Furtado plans to deliver a high-energy set with songs including "Parking Lot" and "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" from the recently released "The Spirit Indestructible," her first English-language album in about six years.
"It's always challenging when you're playing for an audience in front of you and you're also playing for an audience at home, watching it on television," said Furtado.
"You have to kind of be engaged in many different ways, and they break it up for commercial breaks, so we're going to be out there for a while and the audience will be freezing along with us. So we'll be unified in spirit, I think."
The event is a far cry from Furtado's most memorable New Year's Eve gig: a spontaneous set at a bar in Victoria just before she got her big break with the 2000 album "Whoa, Nelly!"
"My band that I used to jam with, Velvet, were playing this gig at this club and I kind of dressed up and showed up at the club and bum-rushed the stage and did a little mini improv set. It was really fun," she said.
Furtado's end-of-year celebrations are typically much more low-key these days, though, given that she has a young daughter now.
"My most memorable New Year's Eve was maybe last year, I got together with the whole family and we just had a huge food fest and we popped all these balloons at midnight and it was just about 30, 40 people all crammed into my aunt's house," said the 34-year-old.
Furtado said she hadn't crafted a New Year's resolution for 2013 yet. But if/when she does, she won't be keeping it a secret.
"I believe in making a testimonial-style resolution, where you might be amongst family or friends and you say out loud maybe one thing around the dinner table, maybe at Christmas or something," she said. "Because then you have somebody holding you accountable to your resolution."
Furtado's never played in Niagara Falls before. It's an area she's been fascinated with since she was a child, though.
Growing up on the West Coast, Furtado never got to visit the roaring waters, but she heard about it from her Portuguese relatives who always stopped by the tourist destination during their visits.
"I remember looking at pictures of Niagara Falls as a child, of other family members on vacation, and thinking 'Wow,'" she recalled.
"I was mesmerized by this one photo of my brother and sister in the barrel looking like they were about to tumble over Niagara Falls and I thought it was real, as a child, and I'm thinking, 'Wow, my brother and sister really went down Niagara Falls in a barrel!'"
Furtado kicks off "The Spirit Indestructible" tour in Canada at the beginning of the New Year, starting with Jan. 8 in Victoria.


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Scottish independence would damage the United Kingdom's influence in international security decisions, William Hague warned today.
The Foreign Secretary told MPs and peers that breaking away would have "strategic and security implications" for each of the four nations.
He said Scotland would suffer most by terminating its links with the "most capable" diplomatic network on earth.
The potential problems have been discussed at length twice in recent months by the whole Cabinet, he told the joint committee on national security strategy.
He added: "It would be damaging to some extent, it's hard to define that extent, to the ability of all the component parts of the United Kingdom, including that part that was no longer in the United Kingdom, to achieve the enhanced or maintained influence I'm talking about.
"It would be particularly damaging to the part of the country that was no longer part of the United Kingdom because here we are with that permanent membership of the (UN) Security Council, with 260 diplomatic posts around the world, one of the largest and most capable diplomatic networks on earth and they would be excluding themselves from that.
"Of course it would have strategic and security implications for the whole of the UK but I think it would be particularly damaging for Scotland."


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He may crack Ansel Adams jokes and have a soft spot for Zelda 2, but photographer Eric Ray Davidson is living proof that adhering to your obsessions, nerdy or not, can be a recipe for a wildly successful life.
After spending his formative years voluntarily sequestered in a homemade darkroom, Davidson now passes the time jet-setting between New York and LA, working for top magazines, and photographing some of the world's most gorgeous women (and dashing men).
You've likely seen his work already—he shoots the five featured looks at the top of our GQ Selects page each month. But as the samples above indicate, he's as skilled shooting stunning portraits as he is in the wilds of Fashion Week, documenting the streets and the shows.
Davidson was kind enough to answer a few questions for us (despite being on vacation in Yosemite National Park this week):
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How did you get started in photography?
"My father gave me his Nikon F3 when I was 14, and it instantly became my obsession. I built a darkroom in my basement at home and basically lived there. In high school, I made a habit of getting notes from my photography teacher, so I could be excused from my other classes to go down to the lab and work."
Do you prefer shooting in a studio, or on the fly?
"Studio is great because you have so much control. I love being able to build an environment where everyone is enjoying themselves—that puts your whole team in the best possible space to create. Being in the field, in a documentary-type environment, is so completely different. There's so much that's out of your control. You're really a nature photographer at that point—you have to be aware of everything that's going on around you."
What are some of your current inspirations?
"Movies with beautiful photography, like Beasts of the Southern Wild [cinematographer: Ben Richardson]. If ever there was an example of how to make a killer movie on a small budget, that's it. Just beautiful available light. I also spend quite a bit of time on Tumblr. It seems like everywhere you go on there, you've got some 16-year-old kid putting together the coolest curation of photography and art. It's got its own visual culture going on—I just can't get enough of it. Just an endless amount to look at and live through."
Your subjects always seem super comfortable—what do you do to create the right atmosphere on-set?
"Easy—I never stop talking. When things get quiet, people start to think they're doing something wrong—or that you don't like what you're looking at."
Who has been a fantastic subject to work with?
"That's a tough question. I've been fortunate enough in my career to work with a lot of amazing people from all different walks of life. For me, really, the best person to photograph is the person who wants to be photographed. It becomes a collaborative experience between you, and then you really have no idea where it's going—and that's the most exciting part of photography."
Your wife is celebrity stylist Ilaria Urbinati. What's it like being married to someone who dresses leading men for a living?
"Ha, where to begin with this…Ilaria's always got an opinion, and it's always spot-on. She's not the wife/girlfriend trying to get you into that ugly sweater that all your buddies are going to make fun of. I'd like to think, every once in a while, I teach her a new thing or two—but don't tell her I said that."
What are you up to in Yosemite this week?
"Getting back to nature! We just got back from a horseback trail ride. Tomorrow, we're doing a big hike through the park to try and get a good view of Half Dome. I'm sure I'll be able to hear Ansel Adams rolling over in his grave when I bust out my iPhone to take a photo of it. That's a serious photo-nerd joke there, by the way."
[Photos © Eric Ray Davidson. View his full portfolio at ericraydavidson.com, and follow him on Instagram and Twitter. Individuals pictured do not endorse Nordstrom.]


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Family Day at CCHS
The Chester County Historical Society will hold its Family Day at the Museum on Monday, Feb. 18, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
There will be plenty of old fashioned family fun including crafts, toys, dress up and stories. All museum exhibits and the History Lab will be open.
At 11 a.m. meet children�s author Jen Bryant, author of �A Splash of Red, The Life and Art of Horace Pippin.�
Admission is $10 per family. Benefits the New Horizons History Education Scholarship Fund.
The Historical Society is located at 225 N. High St., West Chester. For information call 610-692-4800 or visit www.chestercohistorical.org.
Winter wildlife
Wildlife in Winter Series will be held 10 a.m. to noon at the Bucktoe Creek Preserve, 432 Sharp Road, Avondale.
Part II: Camouflage -- Saturday, Feb. 16
Part III: Migration -- Saturday, March 9
During this series, learn about what changes an animal must make to ensure survival during the winter months.
For ages 6 to adult.
The cost is $5 for TLC members; $10 nonmembers. For questions or registration, call 610-347-0347 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Learn about Horace Pippin
On Feb. 24, the Brandywine River Museum celebrates West Chester artist Horace Pippin (1888-1946) with a story reading and art activity. Pippin is the subject of a new children�s book, �A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin,� written by local author Jen Bryant.
The day�s activities include:
11 a.m. -- Book reading, �A Splash of Red�
1 p.m. -- Presentation by Jen Bryant about researching and writing her book
Horace Pippinis regarded as one of the most important black artists of the 20th century. He was a self-taught artist who made art as a form of therapy for injuries sustained during World War I.
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin ($17.99) is available for purchase in the museum shop and online.
Brandywine River Museum, located on U.S. Route 1 in Chadds Ford, is open daily (except Christmas Day) from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free admission until noon on Sundays.
It�s �Curtains� for Henderson
Henderson High School in West Chester presents the musical comedy whodunit �Curtains� from the creators of �Cabaret� and �Chicago.� Performances are Feb. 14-17 with show times on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30p.m. and Sunday at 4p.m. Adult tickets are $10 and student tickets are $8 and for Sunday only senior citizen tickets are $8.
For more information, call HHS at 484-266-3300.
Amusement park designer
On Saturday, Feb. 16,10 a.m. � 2 p.m.�Build Your Own Amusement Park� will be held at the Chester County Government Services Center in West Goshen. Become an amusement park designer and give passengers (marbles) the most exciting ride possible while keeping them safely on the ride.
This is a free program for middle school age youth. Pre-registration is required by Feb. 13. For more information on this program or other programs offered by 4-H, contact Penn State Extension at 610-696-3500 or http://extension.psu.edu/chester/programs/4-h
Books & Boots Club
The Brandywine Valley Association, in partnership with Baldwin�s Book Barn, is seeking inquisitive 3- to 5-year-olds to participate in a story time and outdoor adventure club.
Held at the Myrick Conservation Center, Potter the Otter reads a book provided by Baldwin�s Book Barn. Then pull on your boots as the story unfolds into a real-life, outdoor adventure.
Programs run the third Friday of every month from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Feb. 15, March 15 and April 19.
Space is limited. Register by the Wednesday before each class by visiting www.brandywinewatershed.org or call 610-793-1090 for more information. Adult participation is optional. A snack will be provided. Dress for the weather and bring your boots. Each session costs $6 for BVA-RCVA members and $8 for nonmembers.
The Myrick Conservation Center is six miles west of West Chester on Route 842. The address is 1760 Unionville-Wawaset Road, Pocopson. Call 610-793-1090.
Need to refresh your own book adventures? Participate in Baldwin�s �Books & Boots� Book Swap by bringing in a gently used book to exchange.
Collect Cans Contest
Kindergarteners throughout Chester County are asked to collect as many aluminum cans as possible in an attempt to win various cash prizes with a top prize of $300. In addition, each child in the top winning class will receive a bean bag replica of Chester County�s recycling mascot, Reecie Recycle.
The contest ends Feb. 28. Entries are due March 8. A contact person is required to be designated to coordinate the contest within the kindergarten program at each school.
Call Chester County Solid Waste Authority Recycling Center at 610-273-3771 for an official entry form and contest guidelines.
Library book clubs
Two new Book Clubs will be starting at the Downingtown Library in February. On the first Wednesday of each month, boys and girls in 4th and 5th grade who enjoy reading and discussing books are invited to join this new club. On the second Wednesday of each month, a similar club will be open to boys and girls in 6th and 7th grade. Book lists will be determined at the first meeting. Both meetings will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. For more information or to register, stop by the library or call 610-269-2741.
The Downingtown Library is located at 330 E. Lancaster Ave.
Sprout your scraps
Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens will hold a Vegetable Potting Workshop on Feb. 18 (President�s Day), 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Did you know that many vegetable scraps can be sprouted and grown into new plants? Join in on the race to sprout your kitchen scraps! First, spend President�s Day morning at Jenkins learning about the growth cycles of plants and potting up our own vegetable scraps to bring home. In this hands-on workshop, explore the growth process of many vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, and beans. Four weeks later, Participants are invited to bring their sprouts back to Jenkins to be put on display for a weekend show and contest.
With categories like �Longest Sprout,� �Biggest Leaves� or �Sturdiest Sprout,� there will be many winners. Children of all ages are welcome to join with adult accompaniment.
The program is free. All are welcome. No pre-registration required.
Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens is located at 631 Berwyn Baptist Road in Devon. For more information or directions, visit www.jenkinsarboretum.org.
Resource parents needed
Permanency Partners a division of the Children�s Home of York, is a nonprofit organization based in West Chester, that is looking to better serve the local population. The organization provide the following services: Foster care, Kinship Care, Adoption and Respite Care, and is seeking new resource parents. Training, support and knowledge to assist families with this process is provided.
Pre-Service Training will be held Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16-17, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
The programs will be held at Children�s Home of York, 845 West Chester Pike, Suite 202, West Chester.
For information, visit www.permpartners.org; call 610-431-9933, ext. 1412; or email email@example.com.