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It's Miller time – or maybe more precisely it's Romacaca time. At least that's the way veteran Arlington trainer Danny Miller feels as he prepares Frank Calabrese's 6-year-old mare for the Grade I Beverly D. Stakes now just two weeks away on August 18.
It was Danny Miller who first claimed Romacaca for $25,000 for Calabrese back in South Florida during the winter of 2009.
It's been an interesting career for the low-profile, always modest Miller, 59, born in the tiny town of Casey, Illinois, approximately 40 miles west of Terre Haute, Indiana. His father raced horses at the county fairs in central and southern Illinois but after he was killed in an automobile accident when Danny was 12, the younger Miller rode briefly "in the bushes," kept working with horses at Casey Thoroughbred Farm and eventually came on the racetrack with trainer Francis Ball.
"I came to Chicago with (trainer) Bernie Flint in 1979," said Miller. "Patti had her own stable at the time, but we got married in 1980 and have worked together ever since. On paper, she's down as my assistant trainer, but we work together. That's a better way of putting it."
Asked to talk a little more about Romacaca, Miller said, "That's a good subject. I like talking about her. After I claimed her, I brought her up here to Arlington that year and she won three straight races (including the $50,000 Diamond Ring and the $55,000 Hatoof on that summer's Arlington Million Day) and then finished second in the (Grade III) Pucker Up."
Following a runner-up finish by a head in Gulfstream's $100,000 Marshua's River, a fourth-place run in Gulfstream's Grade III Honey Fox, and another fourth-place finish at that South Florida oval later during that winter of 2010, Romacaca was transferred to other conditioners before being returned to Miller's barn this spring.
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"I got her back about six weeks ago, right after her race at Monmouth," Miller said, speaking of Romacaca's fourth-place effort in the Grade III Violet Stakes at that North Jersey Shore oval. "The only race she's run for me so far was her win in the (Arlington's Grade III) Modesty (July 14).
"She's just such a nice mare to be around," Miller said. "She's good around the barn and never gives us any trouble, but when you lead her over she becomes 'all race horse.' I'm going to work her tomorrow (Sunday), and then give her one more easy work going into (the Beverly D.)
"She ran a real nice race for us in the Modesty and I think she'll improve off of that race in the Beverly D." Miller concluded. "To tell you the truth, the way she's training right now, I don't think I'm afraid of anybody in that race coming up."
Venezuelan-born jockey Edgar Perez, riding at Arlington for the first time in his career this season, veteran Arlington-based trainer Joel Berndt and veteran Arlington-based conditioner Dale Bennett all tallied twice during Friday's twilight racing program.
Perez won Friday's sixth aboard Savoy Stable's Foreign Appeal for trainer Dale Bennett and returned to the winner's circle after the finale astride the Enebish Ganbat-owned and trained Exotic Wildcat.
Berndt, who won back-to-back training titles at Hawthorne during the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011, saddled Larry Elenz and Janice Krueger's Prairie Prize to win the fourth with Seth Martinez up and came back to the winner's circle right after the fifth with Alice Mettler's Hogy, who had Florent Geroux in the irons.
Bennett, who finished on the cusp of the top 10 in last year's Arlington standings, saddled The Best Is Yet To Come Stable's At the Finish to win the second half of Friday's Daily Double with apprentice Alejandro Contreras aboard and the sixth with Foreign Appeal with Perez up.


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One of Danica Patrick's army of followers
By Mike Mulhern
This is where Danica Patrick made her claim to fame, in the 2009 Indianapolis 500, finishing third, just months after the historic Indy-car tour win, in Japan.
Now full-time on NASCAR's Nationwide tour, she'll be running in Saturday's 250 (4:30 p.m. ET; qualifying 12:35 p.m.).
But unless she gets in gear and starts doing something out on the track, Patrick is in danger of becoming just another 'all-show, no-game' player.
Patrick is a marketing dream, a real plug-and-play: http://bit.ly/OjuwRj
And she's spent some 10 years racing to get to this point in her career, at 30.
Buy the tee shirts ( http://www.danicapatrick.com/ ), watch the videos ( http://bit.ly/QPEjiY ), ogle ( http://bit.ly/O3ryPS ), sure. It's all good, clean fun.
And admire that she's willing to get out there and mix it up with the bad boys.
There's more to Danica Patrick than just what you see out on the track.... (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
But, after all the hype, promotion and marketing, somebody needs to tell her 'Hey, girl, it's time to start getting the job done out on the track.'
There has been a group of racing purists who have been down on Patrick because they see her as getting breaks in this sport just because she's a woman, breaks that a man might not get.
And on the other side, there is a group of those who fiercely defend Patrick for having the gumption to take on one of the toughest jobs in all of sport -- racing NASCAR.
Yes, NASCAR and her sponsors are shamelessly marketing her, even though her resume really isn't that impressive.
And there are many who have been giving her time to mature into the game, to learn enough to play it at this level.
But that time may be running out.
Danica Patrick has the very best NASCAR equipment money can buy. Rick Hendrick engineering, Dale Earnhardt Jr. marketing, Tony Stewart mentoring.
It's time to produce.
And in NASCAR so far she's just not been much of a player, not really.
Now as confusing and time-limited as practice has been for the 200 drivers at Indianapolis Motor Speedway the past few days, and as tight and tricky as this track is ( drivers need a lot of camber to make it through the corners, and too much camber can lead to vicious crashes), this particular race might not be the best place to put the heat on Danica Patrick.
However, time is running out...and she risks falling into that 'good looks, no talent' category of sportsman.
Whether or not she realizes that is unclear.
At times she seems almost blissfully naive about it all.
The mystique of Indianapolis Motor Speedway -- oddly calming for Danica Patrick (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Maybe NASCAR really is just all about marketing....
The new Miranda Lambert video?
"I can't wait to see it... because I haven't. But it was a lot of fun," Patrick says. "Miranda is a very, very cool girl.
"It was definitely a long day, but she rewarded me with a Randarita at the end of the day, her cocktail: Bacardi, Sprite Zero, and Crystal Light. It just tastes like straight sugar, which is delightful.
"We got to be a couple of kick-ass girls; that's always a fun role."
But Saturday it will be back to business, at this legendary track.
"It did feel a little funny driving through Gasoline Alley. We're used to walking it (Indy-cars are pushed out to the track in May.)
"And I'm used to seeing the Alley Cats. I didn't see any Alley Cats.
"Just the 'yellow shirts.'"
The yellow shirts are the renowned track police force. "They say that the yellow shirts are pretty strict... but I see all the yellow shirts and they all like wave and hug me," she says. "You just have to be really nice to them, smile, wave, just show them some love."
Danica Patrick did well at Darlington, but here at Loudon NH her last time out, things didn't go that well (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Driving the car here, Indy-car or NASCAR, she says the issue is "about finding a balance with the car.
"All you're doing in an Indy-car is trimming it out... and if I could have more downforce in these cars I'd probably take it, because in an Indy-car we learned very quickly it's about how much throttle you could carry around here."
The toughest part of the track for her? Turn one. Possibly because of the huge frontstretch grandstands, that create the sense of racing 200 mph into a very narrow tunnel.
"It has the most issues," she says, "for whatever reason.
"I don't know if it's partly because you get there a little quicker because two, three and four are a little bit more smooth and the arc is nice and smooth.
"But turn one has always been the issue, no matter what car I've been in.
"It always gives you that little bit of a loose feeling getting in at times. And with these (stock) cars especially... you have to set them up for the long haul, for the whole run, as opposed to the Indy-car, which has so much downforce and grip that you could set it up and it'd stay like that through the whole race or the whole run.
"We're going to spend a lot of time focusing on one."
With her double talents, there is the natural question would she attempt the rare Charlotte-Indianapolis double?
"The Indy 500 next year? I would love to do it," she says.
"I love the track; I love the race. I've had really good races.
"I feel it was always one of my strongest races of the year.
"That's something I would like to do... and maybe it will happen, maybe it won't.
"But the only way it's going to happen if it's with someone I really feel I can have a shot to go out there and win. Because it's unfair to the history I've had here, and to my memory, to do anything less.
"On top of that, there are a lot of logistical issues to iron out."
Maybe her detractors are simply too tough on her. But Danica Patrick keeps toughing it out (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
And there have been a lot of logistical issues to iron out right here, with 200 racing teams jammed into the garages and parking lots, and crews forced to tote equipment a far piece from hauler to race car, under brutal heat.
"This is not exactly the best layout for stock cars," she says dryly, "because they use the haulers so much.
"And it's also been like the hottest summer I can remember."
For the stock car crews "it's just a little bit of a pain in the butt," she says.
All in all, though, Danica Patrick seems more comfortable here. This season has been a first for her on the full NASCAR grind, week after week after week.
"The best thing about coming back here is that it feels familiar, and it feels comfortable. I'm always happy," she says.
"I woke up and pushed the blinds up in the bus, and I said to Paul (Hospenthal, her husband) 'It feels good.'
"It sounds like a story you wouldn't believe, but I said 'It feels good to look out the window and see Indianapolis.' I like seeing it. It feels very comfortable, very familiar.
"I've had a lot of different experiences here that can help me.
"And it's just a special place... where I feel like from the beginning I've always really believed that you have to show this track respect, and it will hopefully show you the respect back.
"Especially in Indy-car this place can bite you pretty big. I don't think it's too much different in a stock car, to be honest. I don't want to find the wall.
"I haven't found the wall, and I don't want to."
One of her strongest attributes: perseverance...and the ability to keep on smiling (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
I guess I'm in a minority..I don't think Danica's doing a bad job this season behind the wheel. She had some starts last season..but I barely count them...kinda like taking a car out for a couple road tests before buying it...once you buy the car does it really drive the same as you remember ? I would like a rookie NNS driver to do a season + in an open wheel car..and see comparatively how they fare? I would wager not much better..maybe even worse!
Daphne, I agree completely. Danica has been doing fine. She's been making steady progress. Everyone finds NASCAR is much tougher than it looks. I'd like to see her do a minimum of 2 years full time Nationwide before attempting full time Cup but looks like next year will be her biggest test.
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WKU seniors Katelyn Highbaugh of Glasgow and Andrew Salman of Adolphus will be recognized Wednesday night (Oct. 23) as the first recipients of the Global Pathways to Sustainability Scholarship.
The scholarship is sponsored by the Department of Diversity & Communities Studies' graduate program in Social Responsibility & Sustainable Communities, the Office of Sustainability's Green Fund, and University College.
Highbaugh, a sociology major at WKU-Glasgow, is a member of the WKU-Glasgow Greentoppers, participated in the "Awakening the Dreamer" symposium and conducted research on a feed-in tariff system for solar energy during an internship with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.
Salman, a student in the Honors College at WKU who is majoring in political science and biology, has served as a teaching and research assistant in WKU's Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility and presented his Honors thesis on "Building a Better Office of Sustainability: Documenting Sustainable Change at WKU" as part of the recent Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference.
The scholarship recipients will be announced during the Campus Sustainability Day lecture by Chad Pregracke, founder of Living Lands & Waters and one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2013. The event begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 23) in the Downing Student Union auditorium.
Contact: Christian Ryan-Downing, (270) 745-2508.


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Maine Beer is a favorite of mine in terms of New England craft beer, so when I heard that they were doing another batch of their American Pale Ale, MO, I jumped at the opportunity to grab a bottle. I'm pretty sure I drank a bottle of this brew earlier this year but I don't quite recall if it was great or not. This is fairly fresh, having only been bottled 4 and a half weeks ago, so I'm interested to see how it fares. The Kleban brothers are known for their hop wizardry (their portfolio currently contains more hoppy, light/medium colored beers than stouts/etc.) so if they can pull off some more magic with this I'll be happy.
The pour is a fairly nice looking orange-tinted yellow/gold with a mildly-hazy body and a spectacularly-retentive head of foam which dissipates very slowly leaving generous heaps of lacing. The foam seems to settle down after a few minutes but a large clump still remains in the center of the glass, unwavering and unmoving. The nose is fresh, that's for sure; floral notes, fresh-cut grass, mint, thyme, pine, graperuit, tangerine, ripe honeydew melon and orange peel are all noted in the scent. There's a tiny bit of pale malt character there but it's definitely eclipsed by a very fresh hop aroma. My first sip is a bit surprising; not much bitterness (it's not an "IPA", I suppose) and a very even malt approach that drinks pretty smooth and unassuming.
Now, to the one thing about MBC that keeps me from getting their great beer more often: cost. This seems to be a major point of contention with beer drinkers when it comes to this brewery, and it does have some merit to it. At a price point of anywhere from $7 to $9 for 16.9 ounces of beer, I don't entirely fault people for blacklisting this brewery. I, for one, think that if they can get beer to sell at those prices and see consistent growth (and they continue making good beer, of course), good for them. I will continue to purchase MBC's beer because, on top of making consistently great products, they donate to environmental nonprofits, donate their spent grains/yeast and utilize renewable energy initiatives. These are definitely causes worthy of support, and I admire the guys behind MBC for their dedication to craft brewing. Their prices are indicative of their quality. Unfortunately, this also means I will repeat-buy their beers less often than more affordable brewing endeavors. Not sure whether I consider that a positive or negative, however. Until next time, craft beer lovers!
The official breakdown:
- Style: American Pale Ale
- Appearance: Nice golden yellow that gets hazier as you pour the sediment out. Excellent retention and pretty great lace
- Scent: Complex hop notes including mint, herbs, citrus, pine and floral notes with some light malt. Yeast brings some nuttiness to the table as well
- Taste: Almost like a Lunch-lite if you've read that review of mine. Fairly malty and even with some citrusy hop freshness
- Mouthfeel: On the middling side of thin with a crispness and refreshing quality akin to most good APAs. Nice, even temperament to it
- Drinkability: Probably the easiest beer to drink that MBC makes. Peeper is its only rival in this category but this is higher quality overall


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DIXON – Steven A. Watts, who is accused of murder in Lee County, moved away from Illinois long ago.
For 15 years, he has lived near Berryville, Ark., where he ran a chicken farm, his father, Wilburn Watts, said Wednesday.
Watts, 56, is accused in the 1983 beating death of Gary D. Dawson of Peoria. According to the Lee County Sheriff's Department, Dawson died of blunt-force trauma to the head. Dawson's battered body was found in a hog pen on a farm about a mile south of Franklin Grove on Aug. 29, 1983.
At the time, officials said they believe Dawson had been beaten in Peoria County, although they did not know where he actually died.
Watts lives with his father in rural Carroll County, which is in hilly northwestern Arkansas.
On Monday, Carroll County sheriff's deputies knocked on the Wattses' door. His son answered.
"There were police cars all over, and everything else. They shoved him in the car," his father said. "Then they knocked on the door again to get his boots."
Wilburn Watts, 80, doesn't believe his son committed murder.
"They [deputies] told me, 'We know Steve didn't kill him. We want Steve to help us get to the one who did.'"
The Carroll County News reported this week that police said more arrests were possible in the case.
Wilburn said he is a native of Arkansas, but his family moved to Peoria in 1950, during his senior year of high school.
Steven Watts grew up in Peoria and left for California in about 1990. For years, his father said, his son went around the country as part of a company that built stores and malls.
In 1997, his son moved to Arkansas, where his father already had lived for some years. They ran a chicken business. They got out of that business a couple of years ago, his dad said.
"I helped him, and we lost a considerable amount of money," Wilburn Watts said.
Steven Watts has a bad back and hasn't worked for the past several years, his father said.
Watts' marriage turned sour years ago, and he and his wife have been separated, his father said. They have a son and a daughter.
His son was in the Marines and now goes to college, while his daughter, who is graduating from high school this year, is spending half of her days taking college classes, Wilburn Watts said.
He said the authorities implied that his son had been hiding from them.
"I don't know how they can say he was hiding," his father said. "Everyone around here knew he was here. All the farmers did; they liked him."
In the 1980s, Steven Watts was convicted of obstruction of justice in the Dawson murder case. He was sentenced to probation.
"We thought it was all settled," his father said.
He said he didn't know of any connections that his son had to Lee County.
In Carroll County, Ark., his son apparently has had little trouble with the law. His only known arrest there was in 2010 for a misdemeanor bad check charge, for which he was jailed briefly, according to Carroll County authorities.
At least one Carroll County resident, Lorrena Webber Rayne, a local bartender, had a hard time accepting the news.
"Wow, what a shock," she wrote on the Carroll County News' Facebook page. "I know this man very well. Such a shame!"


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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - The legal problems of current and former SEC players have cast a negative light on the league that has won seven consecutive national championships.
The most high-profile by far has been the murder charges against ex-Florida and NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez. More pertinent to the upcoming Southeastern Conference season, LSU running back Jeremy Hill remains indefinitely suspended while facing a misdemeanor simple battery charge from an April 27 scuffle in a bar parking lot.
Coaches at SEC media days this week insisted they do their best to keep players behaving and recruit players with character.
Florida's Will Muschamp says he can't know what every player is doing every night. He also says coaches "can't stick your head in the sand and pretend everything is OK."
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BOULDER -- All Boulder County regulations dealing with oil and gas drilling and production should be based on "the precautionary principle," the Boulder County Planning Commission says.
"The precautionary principle" isn't defined in the Boulder County Comprehensive Plan policies about oil and gas exploration and development that the planning panel approved last week.
But Planning Commission vice chairman John Gerstle told Boulder County commissioners on Wednesday night that it boils down to a county expectation that oil and gas companies will "first, do no harm" when drilling their wells in unincorporated areas and producing oil and gas from the wells once they've been drilled.
In general, Gerstle told commissioners Cindy Domenico, Will Toor and Deb Gardner, "we want to make sure we don't harm anything" when oil and gas operations get under way -- whether it's the health and safety of Boulder County residents, or the environment.
During a Wednesday night study session, the three county commissioners and members of their appointed planning panel went through a section-by-section review of the comprehensive plan changes the Planning Commission has recommended to update the comprehensive plan's policies about oil and gas exploration -- new policies that will be part of the basis to revised Land Use Code regulations about oil and gas operations that planners and the Board of County Commissioners expect to be drafting and considering over coming months.
Those Boulder County Land Use Code amendments would be part of a multi-pronged approach to controlling oil and gas development outside the boundaries of the county's cities and towns, the county staff suggested. Some of the prongs -- in addition to the Land Use Code's requirements for companies seeking county permission to drill and operate those wells -- could take the form of county agreements with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and the operators themselves, as well as seeking changes in state laws and regulations that sometimes now restrict such local authority and local control.
The county already is studying the possibility of imposing transportation impact fees to offset the costs that oil and gas companies' heavy trucks are expected to have on county roads. At Wednesday night's study session, Gerstle suggested the county also might want to consider charging those companies a "public health impact fee" to offset the county's expenses of making sure well drillers and operators are meeting requirements and standards about air and water quality as well as complying with rules intended to address potential toxic hazards.
County commissioners didn't specify what kinds of proposed new regulations they want the Land Use Department staff to draft and present to the Planning Commission for its review and recommendations this coming fall and winter.
Nor did the planning commissioners nor the county commissioners reveal any legal advice they may have gotten about what regulations to pursue -- and what ones to avoid -- during a behind-closed-doors session the commissioners and the planning panel held before Wednesday night's public study session.
Kim Sanchez, the Land Use Department's Planning Division manager, said the staff's initial draft of proposed updates and changes to the Land Use Code's rules, regulations, restrictions and conditions about oil and gas exploration are expected to be unveiled on about Sept. 10 and reviewed by the Planning Commission on a meeting scheduled for Sept. 19.
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Spinnaker vets win funds for Avere start-up
'Older, wiser and more battle scarred'
Avere, a new storage venture formed by Ron Bianchini and other Spinnaker veterans from NetApp, has gained $15m in Series A funding.
We expect a product announcement next month, one that will feature tiered solid state disk (SSD) and disk drive storage in a single product with a demand-driven aspect, presumably meaning it scales on demand.
The company has gained a Sales VP, Brian Gladden, described as a storage veteran and former NetApp colleague. This is not the Dell Chief Financial Officer Brian Gladden but the previous sales veep of Z Research Brian Gladden. Prior to Z Research, he ran the sales effort at Gear6 and previously served in a number of roles at NetApp including director of OEM sales.
The funding comes from Menlo Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners, which helped fund Spinnaker from its inception. In keeping with the enthusiasm needed by a man investing millions into a startup in a recession, Menlo Ventures MD John Jarve said: "It is with great delight that we rejoin forces to help build Avere. We believe it has the right team, the right technology and the right market focus."
Bianchini, Avere's CEO and founder, said: "(This time around) we're older, wiser and more battle scarred, but we're still focused on our goal to bring game-changing storage solutions to the enterprise."
Getting a product out of the door a year after start-up, combined with an announcement of $15m A-round funding a month before product announcement suggests the technology does not use Avere-developed hardware. If it did we might have expected previously-announced funding north of $30m and a two year-plus timescale. We might be looking here at software that uses commercially-available hardware, with the $15m needed for operating capital as Avere recruits staff and builds up a business infrastructure and initiates sales and marketing activities.
Of course we don't know product availability, so this is just guesswork. Still the timescale is short and the funding relatively small, both factors suggesting a software-based product. ®
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Oh the lovely Sara Luvv. This 19-year-old smoking hot Latina is sure to make your day. When she knocked the door, and Tony answered, we were really taken back by how beautiful this girl was. She said she wanted the Cum Fiesta really bad and showed her tits as the password. They were awesome tits, so she had no problem getting in. Once inside, Sara showed off that ass and pussy. OMG were they nice. Our mouths were drooling seeing what she had in store for us. The this sexy Latina gave an amazing blow job that made us super jealous of Tony. She was so pretty and watching her suck dick was so erotic. Tony banged that tight Latina teen pussy with a fury and had Sara cumming hard as hell. She loved his cock and couldn't wait to receive his cumload. Tony was more than happy to oblige her and pulled out to shoot his load on her gorgeous face. She took a hot shot of jizz and licked it all up.
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Jmac was pretty surprised when he saw the super petite Dakota Skye show up at the door of the Cumfiesta. He really had a thing for petite chicks, and she was so damn cute. Jmac couldn't wait to pull out his cock and show her how it was the size of her forearm. Dakota showed her sweet teen tits, Jmac made sure she was 19-years-old, and she came right in. On the bed, she started licking her own titties. She had a really nice little body and was super flexible.
First thing she did was pull out his big cock and try and stuff her mouth with it. She gave Jmac a good sucking, but he couldn't wait to get in that pussy. So he just picked her up, laid her on her back, and laid into that tight snatch. Jmac lost his mind in that tight teen pussy and pounded Dakota non-stop from multiple angles until she had orgasmed several times. He was running out of steam at that point, so he decided he was gonna let one loose. From above, Dakota sucked his balls until he drained them all over her face. Then she gave the camera a big smile and a wave.
Bailey Bradshaw was a sexy blond babe that had heard about the Cumfiesta from a friend. We were more than happy when she showed up at the door. Tony made quick work of stripping down this sexy lady and showing us her hot tits, nice ass and sweet pussy. After giving that snatch and rubbing and licking, Bailey had her turn on Tony. She took his cock in her mouth and slobbed on it, as she stuffed it down her throat. Then she spread out on the couch, and Tony drilled her pussy deep and hard from multiple angles, as she fingered her asshole. Tony didn't let up until he was sure that Bailey had cum. Then he got his, pulled out, and busted his cum load all over that pretty face of hers.
Jmac greeted Katerina Kay and Sami St Clair at the door. They'd said they showed up for the Cum Fiesta, and he asked them for the password. Their beautiful tits got them right in. Once inside, Jmac planted the seed by questioning the ladies on their lesbian tendencies. It definitely worked because in no time, they were butt-ass naked licking each others pussies. These two blondes were like a dream come true. They both were really pretty and had insanely hot bodies. They went on to give Jmac a two-girl blow job. Once he was rock hard, Jmac wasted no time drilling those pussies deep and hard. The girls love it, and they both came. Jmac had his turn too and busted his load all over their pretty faces.
This week we had the sexy Latina teen Stella May on the Cumfiesta. She'd heard from a college friend who'd been that it was well worth it. Being the freak she was, in search of big cocks and hard knocks, Stella made her way the Cumfiesta door. There she showed her sweet teen tits as the password to gain entrance. Juan asked her a few questions, and this made her hot, so Stella began to fingering her hot college pussy. Stella could see Juan was getting hard through his jeans, and she jumped on the dick. She sucked Juan's cock nicely, bent over and spread her pussy for Juan to enter her from behind. He stroked her pussy deep and hard until she was orgasming and begging for his cum. Juan obliged Stella and blew a huge load of cum all over her pretty teen face. It was friggin awesome!


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Mary Ruth Prather
Mary Ruth Prather of Lubbock, Texas, passed away on Friday, Dec. 23, at the age of 77. She was born on March 10, 1934 to W.B. and Ruth Brown in Longworth, Texas. She attended schools in Sylvester and Roby, graduating from Roby High School in 1951. She attended Draughon's Business College in Abilene, but later found her true calling as an in-home child care provider. She married Gerald Prather on Nov. 23, 1954, in San Angelo, Texas. They moved to Sweetwater in 1958, where they raised their family and lived until 2008 when they moved to Lubbock. Mary's real passion was her family; she loved when all of her children and grandchildren were together. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Sweetwater.She was preceded in death by her parents and several aunts and uncles. She is survived by her husband, Gerald Prather of Lubbock; a sister, Wilda Deel and husband Max of Lubbock; a brother, Bill Brown and wife Susan of Cibolo, TX; three sons, Rick Prather and wife Glenda of Bakersfield, Calif., Jack Prather and wife Resa of Lubbock, Eric Prather and wife Amy of Fort Worth; a daughter, Sheila Adams and husband Derrick of Kermit. She is also survived by granddaughters, Jessica Prather Alvidrez and husband Josh of Bakersfield, Calif., Jennifer Prather and fiancé Caleb Ontiveros of Oakland, Calif., Robyn Prather Woodward and husband Andy of Lubbock and Erinn Adams of Lubbock; grandsons, Ryne Prather of Lubbock, Ethan Adams of Lubbock, Joshua Prather of Fort Worth and Reid Prather of Lubbock; and numerous nieces and nephews.Family visitation will be Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 from 6-8 p.m. at McCoy Funeral Home.Services are scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 28, at 2 p.m. at McCoy Chapel of Memories in Sweetwater, Texas with Rev. Phillip Thomas officiating. Interment will follow in the Sweetwater Cemetery. Pallbearers will be the sons, Ricky Prather, Jackie Prather, Eric Prather and grandsons Ethan Adams, Joshua Prather, Ryne Prather, Reid Prather, Andy Woodward and Derrick Adams.Online condolences may be made at www.mccoyfh.com.


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Constructing Web Services with the Globus Toolkit Version 4
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In the previous step, the
LoanPortType endpoint interface was generated. All remotely available operations must be public and throw
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PortType interface. In this section, we provide a class,
LoanServiceImpl, that implements the
LoanPortType interface. The implementation uses stub classes that were generated from the loan.wsdl file from the previous section.
public class LoanServiceImpl implements LoanPortType
LoanServiceImpl class implement the methods defined in the
LoanPortType interface. The
createLoan method takes a
loanNumber as a parameter in the constructor of the generated
CreateLoan object.
public CreateLoanResponse createLoan(CreateLoan cl)
throws java.rmi.RemoteException
public ProcessLoanPaymentResponse processLoanPayment(ProcessLoanPayment plp)
throws java.rmi.RemoteException
public GetLoanResponse getLoan(GetLoan gl) throws java.rmi.RemoteException
Please refer to the full source code in the Resources section for the details of the methods' implementations.
Build and Deployment of the Loan Payment Processing Web Service
To build a deployable GT4 archive file, we follow the steps described below. The build.xml Ant build file provided with this article contains the tasks to perform these steps. The Ant tasks in build.xml call the following GT4 Ant tasks that can be found in the build files that come with the GT4 distribution:
Building the GT4 Deployable GAR File
To build our deployable grid archive file (GAR), loan.gar, we follow the following steps (these steps correspond to the Ant tasks in build.xml):
- Generate bindings for the WSDL.
- Generate stubs from the WSDL. During the setup, it is important to provide a property file that maps the different namespaces to the packages that correspond to our directory structure in the table.
- Compile the stubs.
- Compile the implementation classes.
- Jar the implementation classes, as well as the stub classes (loan.jar and loan_stubs.jar).
- Create the deployable GAR file loan.gar by bundling the deployment descriptor deploy-server.wsdd.
Please refer to the full build.xml in the source code for the complete list of Ant build tasks for the above steps. The GT4 deployment descriptor deploy-server.wsdd for our web service will look like this:
<service name="loan/impl/LoanService" provider="Handler"
use="literal" style="document">
<parameter name="className" value="loan.impl.LoanServiceImpl"/>
<parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*"/>
<parameter name="handlerClass"
<parameter name="scope" value="Application"/>
<parameter name="providers" value="GetRPProvider"/>
<parameter name="loadOnStartup" value="true"/>
Let's describe some parameters found in the deploy-server.wsdd file:
Service name: Specifies the location where our web service will be found. If we combine this with the base address of our web services container, we will get the full URI of our web service. For testing purposes using the GT4 standalone container, the URL looks like this:
ClassName: Refers to the class that implements the service interface (
WSDL file: Tells the GT4 web services container where the WSDL file for this service can be found. This WSDL file, Loan_service.wsdl, is generated automatically by a GT4 Ant task from loan.wsdl.
Load on startup: Allows us to control if we want the service to be loaded as soon as the container is started.
Deploying the GAR File
The GAR file loan.gar contains all of the files and information the web server needs to deploy the web service. We use the GT4 deployment tool:
%GLOBUS_LOCATION%/bin/globus-deploy-gar $PROJECT_HOME/loan.gar
to copy the archive files (loan.wsdl, compiled stubs, compiled implementation, loan.wsdd) into the appropriate server location directory tree of the GT4 container.


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text: nighthawk V.I.P. Member Posts: 80 (7/11/01 6:44:00 pm) | Del All One night in the HQ MACV compound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, stories were requested, so, me being a man that can't seem to pass up an chance to write something, guess I can try to relate a few stories, for what they are worth. I don't have the horrifying stories to relate that some can, but some of my stuff may be of interest to ya'll. Some of it is down right funny (or silly, depending on your point of view) and some is not, but all of it happened to me, anyway. At the HQ MACV compound when doing guard duty, we were attached to a unit called the Provisional Defense Force. We would pull this duty 2 nights on, 2 nights off, for 2 months, then off for 1 month, etc. This was in addition to our regular REMF dutys. This unit was commanded by a full Col. It gave the staff officers "Combat Command" time, so they rotated every 90 days. (exactly the amount of time needed to get credit for command time) For a few days preceeding Tet, 1969, we had been hearing many rumors, of course, as to the possibilty of an attack. We had even been briefed that their was "a reasonable possibility" of enemy action soon.(More on this another time) The night before Tet began, I was posting the guards around midnight. As I dropped off the crew on a 60 position out on a dark corner, a young PFC asked me what he should do if he heard anything. I could see he was very freightened. (who wasn't?) I ask him if he knew what his special orders and SOP said. He told me he did, but that did not help. Let me regress here and explain the politics in the Siagon area at that time. SOP dictated that "no person shall load a round into their personal weapon at anytime, not shall they fire there weapon at any time, unless ordered to do so by a superior or unless they were unequivocally receiving hostile (as opposed to non-hostile?) fire from an enemy force." Thus, as I posted these young troops, they had to set there in the dark with empty weapons. Thinking what may help the situation, I simply stated the truth. I told the young soldier I would not set out in the dark, after hearing about the "reasonable possibility" of enemy action, with an empty weapon. As I left the area, I heard the sound of one M-60 being locked and loaded. I did not know that I was being followed by a FNG 1LT, who was the officer of the guard. Have no fear, he did his duty. As soon as morning came, he reported me and requested a court martial. Can you believe that?? Off course you can. At least the Col. had better smarts. He told the LT to drop the whole matter, chewed my ass, and kept on truckin'. And, I, having friends in the officers assignment branch, did what???to who??? Like they say, pay-back is a M-F!!!!! Got another story about the Col. for later. Fortunately, nothing happened that night. And I kept my stripes and out of LBJ!!! BTW, I did insure the young troop cleared his weapon when they came in. Now, if this kind of stuff is boring, please let me know. Don't want my friends to fall asleep in the middle of the post!!! dap22 Senior Chief Moderator II Posts: 851 (7/11/01 7:06:46 pm) | Del ezSupporter Re: One night in the HQ MACV compound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawk: Enjoyed the story very much. While you may not have been out in the middle of some jungle, the perceived threat was real and could well have become a reality. Matter of fact, I'm surprised that MACV and where our company was located in Long Binh (next to the 93rd Evac Hospital) wasn't targeted more than it was. I think that stories such as this one are reflective of your experience and should absolutely be posted.....you and your cohorts could have easily been statistics just like anyone else in Vietnam........where you were wasn't exactly a fortress if my memory serves me! LarryJK Senior Chief Moderator III Posts: 368 (7/12/01 4:47:40 am) | Del Re: One night in the HQ MACV compound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just goes to show that it really didn't matter where you were...it could be just as dangerous! TShooters V.I.P. Member Posts: 385 (7/17/01 12:30:06 am) | Del Re: One night in the HQ MACV compound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great story, Stan H.! Sharon homer4 Moderator Posts: 1156 (7/17/01 5:01:54 pm) | Del Re: One night in the HQ MACV compound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawk...I hear MACV and my head turns. This PDU...were they round eyes? My duty station and actual home camp was the Provence MACV MATS at SaDec. We were required to rotate the bush as well with a month in and a month out to bolster the Distict MAT units in Dong Thap Provence. I gladly traded off with others for these District units and was welcomed by them as well...they didn't need the headache of a disgruntled "loaner". Any time with MATS or in the spooky world of CORD's or S-2 ?...there is a real Boogey Man gang. MACV was such an octopus and a shady world with all the differing units, programs and such. ...and two hard boiled eggs. Edited by: homer4 at: 7/29/01 4:43:07 pm nighthawk V.I.P. Member Posts: 107 (7/17/01 5:36:18 pm) | Del Re: One night in the HQ MACV compound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- no, Homer, fortunitly I did not have anything to do with those "spook" type guys, except handling their "classfied" records which is a story in itself. I will try to figure out what I can write about that,,,,coming soon to a BB near you!! BTW, yes, the PDU was just a bunch of us REMF's, trying to act like we knew what the hell we were doing. Edited by: nighthawk at: 7/17/01 6:38:05 pm dirty423 Member Posts: 41 (7/29/01 8:25:56 pm) | Del Re: One night in the HQ MACV compound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We had people get inside the bunker line at Cu Chi and Tay Ninh both. My weapons only got cleared when they left my hands to go to someone else's or were being cleaned, we even kept our fifties half-charged. I was in base camp once, I guess I pissed off the first shirt cause he picked me for bunker guard with two other guys. Any way I get a 60 off my track and we toddle off to this artillery unit on the perimeter. Only time I ever stood a guard mount in country. This FNG 1st Lt. wants to inspect everybody. He gets to me and asks why I brought an M-60, they supplied guns in the bunkers. I said, "well sir, I don't know if yours work, this one does." Then he looks at my M-79, fore-end held on with tie wire, no front sight, chunk missing from the stock and and asks to handle it, I open it up, take out the HE round and hand it over. That got to him good! He then asks me if it shoots, he gets a solid Yes Sir! and reverts to basic training when he asks, "Would you bet your life on it?" My two brothers lost it as he finally spotted the only decoration on my uniform, a CIB. He went from fishbelly white to a nice titty pink in two seconds flat. He handed me back my gun (didn't ask to see my .45) and finished that inspection in less than a minute. The point of the spear Edited by: dirty423 at: 7/29/01 10:25:22 pm


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In his grand confrontation with the Iranian president, President Lee Bollinger of Columbia University did his best to satisfy his American critics. He was tough, not soft; he avoided euphemisms, called the man whom he was addressing a "petty and cruel dictator." President Ahmadinejad had been invited to the Columbia World Leaders Forum, but in the event the neutral term leader was denied him, and he became the first invitee to Columbia's World Dictators Forum. Bollinger further declared that he was meeting with the "mind of evil." Sounds like President Bush! No liberal relativism here.
But Bollinger's critics should not be satisfied, nor should he. Bollinger did not do so well with his toughness as he believes, and he showed a very confused understanding of free speech.
He did not seem to see why President Ahmadinejad came to Columbia. He came there to impress a world audience with a moderate but telling criticism of the United States for trying to "manage the world." He wants to get nuclear weapons for Iran, and for this he needs to disarm and mollify doubtful or neutral powers who might oppose him.
A man who denies the Holocaust and calls for wiping Israel off the map did not need to show that he was tough. He could be moderate in Machiavellian style just by taking the edge off his toughness, just by explaining that in the spirit of inquiry one should always question conventional wisdom and that Israel would be wiped off the map by a free referendum of all Palestinians ("Jewish Palestinians, Muslim Palestinians and Christian Palestinians"). This might be enough to dissuade those many leaders and countries from acting against Iran's nuclear ambitions who rather agree that the United States is trying to manage the world and who in any event are not eager to act. Bollinger's invitation gave him the opportunity to complain in fairly polite terms that the United States, not Iran, is the bully. Ahmadinejad rather adeptly used Bollinger's toughness to align him with American bullying. In a visit to Iran, Bollinger would not be subjected to such abuse, one would suppose.
In his introduction Bollinger hinted openly that Iran might be subject to a "velvet revolution" of the kind that displaced Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. He even suggested that Columbia might facilitate this event by harboring Iranian dissenters. (By doing so, Bollinger did not say, Columbia might begin to make up for all the harm it has done by honoring, and glorifying, Edward Said and other anti-Western professors.) He added that the arrest of possible dissenters by the Iranian government was "unjustified." A dictatorship has no right of self-preservation by dictatorial means, implying that all regimes should be democratic--again a point of contact between President Bollinger and President Bush.
How true! But this suggests that free speech has political consequences in which Columbia as a university is involved. It is not simply a matter of free inquiry but of velvet revolution, at present focused on Iran but in principle worldwide. Columbia, like the United States, seems to want to manage the world.
Bollinger, however, presented his invitation to Ahmadinejad as the occasion for free speech, the particular business of a university. Free speech is "robust debate" over ideas. We must always, he says, restrain our impulses against "engagement with ideas we dislike or fear." Yet, strange to say, Bollinger does not restrain his own impulses of this kind. He has nothing to say about Ahmadinejad's ideas or about any ideas. His reproaches to Ahmadinejad concern his deeds--arrests, executions, denial of the Holocaust, demanding the destruction of Israel, promoting terrorism, advancing a nuclear weapons program. These are matters the Secretary of State or anyone commenting on foreign policy might raise, but one would expect the president of a university, speaking for the university, and claiming that a university stands for ideas, to add something to the debate that is the peculiar contribution of a university. Instead, Bollinger dismissed Ahmadinejad's ideas before he heard them, saying that they will reveal a "fanatical mindset"--which in fact they did not. Imitating Bollinger, the questioners at the speech also avoided ideas.
It was Ahmadinejad who spoke of ideas. He began with the invocation of Almighty God and later said that piety was the only guide to life. Science arises from piety and is not opposed to religion. Science means "illumination" rather than control or command over nature, and so science includes but surpasses the experimental sciences of the West. Bollinger had said to Ahmadinejad that he wanted to express his revulsion "at what you stand for." Well, here it is: what is the basis of Bollinger's revulsion? Here is his chance to show up the "mind of evil," but he has nothing to say.
Ahmadinejad chose to present Iran as one country like all the others, not endowed with fanatical purpose and also not inspired with wrongful ambition like the government of a certain other country he could name. Appropriating the language of American liberals, he maintained it was necessary to look to the "root causes" of the disputes Bollinger complained of. He, the man of science in the expanded sense, could see better than we, who lack a sense of history--the wrong done to the Palestinians is 60 years old!--and are overcome by partiality. In Iran, he said, we respect women as mothers, and accordingly we believe in talk, not guns.
Ahmadinejad had a better understanding of the conditions of free speech than did Bollinger, who thought it was possible to invite and listen to an enemy without honoring him. So Columbia at this time was not guilty of honoring what should be dishonored. Well, yes, if you separate ideas from deeds. But can you do that? Bollinger the velvet revolutionary thinks you cannot, but Bollinger the apostle of inquiry thinks you can. You can refrain from honoring Ahmadinejad while still engaging his ideas by reading his speeches and writings and by listening to him. But you cannot help honoring him if you invite him to speak at a place where ideas are taken seriously for their truth. It's no doubt a good experience for students at Columbia and their innocent professors to spend an hour listening to a man who they have to know is lying to them through his teeth. This will help them learn about politics. But you cannot pretend that no tuition is being paid for what you learn.
Ahmadinejad made another instructive point. He said to Bollinger that in Iran, people don't introduce speakers by insulting them, but rather give them respect. Bollinger, however, seems to think that free speech is quite compatible with offering insults; he gave the impression that insults are speech at its freest and finest. He also believes that freedom of inquiry can go together with the desire to "express revulsion." The latter is the hope of universities ever since the late sixties. But insults harm free speech by drawing attention away from the ideas of speakers, and expressing revulsion harms inquiry by discouraging or preventing cool, dispassionate analysis.
By inviting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia, President Bollinger got himself confused between the business of politics and the virtue of a university. He tried to bring his university into the political arena, and he meant well to our country, but instead of embarrassing our common enemy he embarrassed himself.


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See here [techonthenet.com] for example. It tells how to generate new ISO images from the original ISOs and updated RPMs. I've personally used the tools to build stripped down versions of Redhat/Fedora that include everything I need, but on a single CD. You can also include a kickstart file on the CD so that you can give a "linux ks=cdrom" at the initial install prompt to run a fully automated install. I don't think Redhat would have ever been as useful to corporations had it not had this option. Why install old RPMs? Install the OS with the latest, greatest everything.
Fedora Unity have been doing respins for quite a while. The Revisor [fedoraunity.org] tool makes it possible to this with hardly any trouble at all.
PCtech [pctech101.com] used revisor to create an 11CD install set because although Fedora 7 could be obtained as an installable LiveCD and then packages added over the network, some people didn't have the bandwidth or a DVD, so needed the CDs.
For a large scale roll out this tool is ideal. It is not easy or idiot proof on the admin side, but once you make your custom ISOs, it will be painless on the user side.
From their site: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ [gentoo.org]
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Linux From Scratch [linuxfromscratch.org] guides you through making your own 'distro' from sources.
Its very interesting since it shows how different things work in Linux. However it can be practical for making a minimal system...
For your purpose, Knoppix seems very practical (based on Debian with the easy package management). "Knoppix Hacks" from O'Reilly contains a chapter on remastering the ISO
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HOUSTON (AP) — Brad Davis had a goal and an assist, and the Houston Dynamo set an MLS record for longest home unbeaten streak in all competitions with a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Fire on Sunday.
Houston (4-2-0) has not lost a home game across all competitions in 35 matches. The previous record was set by Real Salt Lake from 2009-11. Houston also tied the MLS record for longest regular-season home unbeaten streak at 29 games set by Real Salt Lake in the same stretch. Houston last lost at home on June 18, 2011, a 2-0 defeat to Columbus.
Davis scored the winner in the 81st minute, sending a line drive from 25 yards out on the right inside the near post.
Chicago (1-4-1) had a chance to tie late, but Jeff Larentowicz narrowly missed converting off a free kick in the 84th minute, heading it off the crossbar from outside the 6-yard box.
Will Bruin gave the Dynamo a 1-0 lead with a header in the 26th minute. Davis juked Chicago's Wells Thompson outside the left box and sent a cross inside the goalkeeper's box that Bruin headed inside the near post.
Chris Rolfe tied it 1-all 3 minutes later. The ball was played to Dan Paladini off a throw-in on the left side and he slipped a pass by two Dynamo defenders as Rolfe charged into the box and sent a one-timer inside the near post from 14 yards out.
Houston missed an opportunity in the 13th minute when Davis' free kick from above the half circle was stopped by a diving Sean Johnson.
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Australian Intervention
UNHCR ExCom Side Event: Launch of the Nansen Initiative
2 October 2012
Thank you Mr Chairman.
Australia welcomes the launch of the Nansen Initiative here at ExCom 2012.
We very much appreciate the effort of the governments of Norway and Switzerland for finding this important and global issue "a home" for now, and for their generous financial support to take it forward. Australia believes that a states-led approach that takes the time to focus on framing the phenomenon, unpacking the key elements and establishing an Agenda is the right way forward at this stage.
The complex relationship between climate change and displacement is front of mind for Australia, and we have been active in the supporting our neighbours in the Pacific through mitigation and adaptation initiatives. For this reason we are pleased to bring this experience and concern to the table as part of the Nansen Initiative Steering Group. We look forward to working with other Steering Groups States in helping guide and shape a process that aims first and foremost to increase our understanding of the phenomenon of disaster-induced displacement and how best to manage it.
We applaud the appointment of Professor Walter Kalin as the Special Envoy for the Nansen Initiative and we look forward to supporting his efforts in the regional consultations processes proposed. The Pacific Island leaders have already done some substantial work in this regard. Their Niue Declaration on Climate Change indicates that the first priority of their people is to continue to live in their own countries, where possible, or in the Pacific region. The Agenda must also be informed by the views of the people most affected.
The partnership proposed with international organisations, including UNHCR, and with academia will bring a much-needed evidence base to any proposed solutions.
We look to the Nansen Initiative to support a process of building understanding and fostering consensus-building between states on how we can best respond to the needs of persons displaced across borders in the context of natural disasters.


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Idaho Congressional Leaders Optimistic on Immigration Reform
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's congressional leaders say they are optimistic that progress can be made this year on reforming the nation's immigration system. U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador spoke about immigration reform last week during a town hall meeting in Meridian, telling the crowd lawmakers must do something about the 12 million people now living in the country illegally. Labrador says the current system is broken.
The Idaho Statesman reports that the optimism is fueled in part by a new framework for legislation released last week and developed by eight Democratic and Republican senators. U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo praised the proposal for its stance on amnesty — an idea that has stalled previous reform efforts. And Republican Sen. Jim Risch says business leaders are eager and anxious for a fix to immigration policy.


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Despite his short career, Piero Manzoni (1933‒1963), who died an early death at the age of twenty-nine, is regarded as one of the most momentous representatives of Italian art after 1945. Manzoni would have celebrated his eightieth birthday on 13 July 2013.
The retrosperctive Piero Manzoni. When Bodies Became Art, on the ground floor of the Städel in Frankfurt, highlights the radical character of the artist's multifaceted position: Manzoni not only submitted Duchamp's concept of the ready-made to a far-reaching revision, but also thought central discourses of Modernism like monochromy through to the end and opened painting into the fields of the everyday world and commodity aesthetics. With works like Merda d'artista – (allegedly) 30 grams of artist's shit in a strictly limited edition – or Socle du monde (Base of the World, 1961) – a pedestal elevating the world to an artwork – Manzoni created two icons within the more recent history of art. More than one hundred works from all phases of Manzoni's productive career will offer complex insights into a still persuasive and influential oeuvre between Art Informel and the emergence of a new concept of art, Modernism and neo-avant-garde, art and the everyday world.Piero Manzoni was born the son of Valeria Meroni and Egisto Manzoni, Count of Chiosca and Poggiolo, in Soncino, Lombardy, on July 13, 1933. He began to study law in 1951 and philosophy in 1955, when he also presented his first solo exhibitionin Soncino. This was about the time he got to know artists of the CoBrA group, of the "Spatialist" movement around Lucio Fontana, and finally the "Arte Nucleare" group he joined in 1957. It was in Rotterdam where he presented his first solo show abroad in 1958. One year after, Manzoni founded the Azimut Gallery in Milan together with Enrico Castellani. The dato Gallery was the first to exhibit his work in Frankfurt in 1961. At the age of twenty-nine, Piero Manzoni died from a heart attack in his studio in Milan.
Manzoni's still unbroken influence on contemporary art production will be illustrated in the exhibition by works of the artists Erwin Wurm (b. 1954), Leni Hoffmann (b. 1962), and Bernard Bazile (b. 1952), which – offering an essayistic introduction to the show ‒ explore central dimensions of Manzoni's oeuvre regarding their relevance to the present.Piero Manzoni: When Bodies Became Art is accompanied by a catalogue, available in German or English, edited by Martin Engler and published by Kerber Verlag. With contributions by Germano Celant, Martin Engler, Massimiliano Gioni, Dominique Laporte, Franziska Leuthäußer, and Francesca Pola.


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Owen Coyle says Bolton will back Fabrice Muamba in whatever he decides to do next after the Trotters midfielder retired at the age of 24 yesterday.
Muamba stunned the football world on March 17 when he suddenly collapsed and lay face down on the turf during Bolton's FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham. The former England Under-21 midfielder was given 15 electric shocks on the pitch as paramedics tried to revive him and doctors later revealed the 24-year-old's heart had stopped beating for a staggering 78 minutes.
"We have spoken with Fab and he knows we will always support him in whatever he wants to do and that we will always be here for him," Coyle told Bolton's official website.
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Wiring red herring's brain? Will it think too?
I thought igNobel prizes were for genuinely useless research. This research is very useful for highlighting some of the problems with fMRI research.
wrong [wikipedia.org]
No, research that absolutely nobody would want to repeat or is so utterly improbable that nobody would THINK of repeating it is all perfectly valid. Such entrants have won awards in the past.
It used to be for research "that cannot, or should not be repeated". Now it's for research "that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think".
I'd say this experiment falls into the latter category.
Wiring red herring's brain? Will it think too?
No, but it can submit stories to slashdot.
This story makes me reconsider my zeal to see Terri Schiavo die. If she was indeed experiencing brain activity despite her handicap, surely she would be considered more alive than a dead salmon.
Our consciousness is all just a series of nerve impulses and chemical reactions. If Terri was experiencing these reactions and impulses, I hate to say it, but we may have killed a human being and not just a vegetable.
God bless you, Terri Schiavo.
God bless you, Terri Schiavo.
Not sure if this was a troll but I'll bite.
This is not about brain activity post-mortem! This is about the stupidity of some fMRI data. This is about the voodoo correlations that come out of fMRI data [slashdot.org] in popular research that is peer reviewed. They did this to prove a point, not claim dead fish think. Even if we did, I could use your logic to claim that every time we bury a dead person we are burying them with cognitive abilities -- obviously not true! I thought the summary covered that very well as the paper being titled "Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction."
"That's precisely what this study is showing: even a dead fish has changing brain-blood oxygenation levels."
No, they're showing that the noise inherent in the scan can be taken for signal if you aren't careful with your stats. The dead fish is NOT exhibiting varying blood oxygenation levels.
Even the worst fMRI experiments that get published use a repetitive design, or equivalent. The simplest setup is to administer a stimulus or have the subject do something then stop, then do it again then stop, then do it again, etc. When you're done, you look for signals that vary in tandem with the stimulus.
A dead fish's brain does NOT have blood oxygenation levels that vary in that way. For the purposes of the experiment they're basically constant. However, if you look at enough different measurements, the noise superimposed on that static signal will correlate with the stimulus.
The fish is just for laughs. They could have easily done the same thing with a jar of agar.
fMRI experiments involve providing a repeated stimulus and then watching to see signals that are present when the stimulus is present, then go away when the stimulus is absent. Over and over.
The composition of a dead fish's brain might change, but it won't change cyclicly, or on the short timescales ( 5 s) that are characteristic of fMRI signals.
The recorded signal is changing due to noise. The point of the experiment is that if you look at enough signals, the noise in one will match the timing of your ex
And yet once again, you live up to your username! Bravo Dude! Bravo!
"The *dead* salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing."
How long until we have undead salmon providing emotional therapy services for humans? Or is Dartmouth employing Aqua Man?
Given that psychotherapists are often accused of having at least as many problems as their patients, and that actually resolving issues cuts off an income stream, there's an argument that undead salmon might be more honest than a lot of practicing therapists.
Yo wombatmobile I know you just posted and all and I'm gonna let you finish... but South Park made the best human fish love [wikipedia.org] this year.
[..] it looked like the dead salmon was actually thinking about the pictures it had been shown.
Looks to me like the dark matter syndrome: "Our theories wrong? Our calculations off by an insane amount? Unpossible! That can never be. Nature must be lying!"
Has anyone even checked if a dead brain can still have flows of energy through its brain? I mean light patterns still reach the retinas, and can still trigger signals, depending on the state of the neurons there. How long was that salmon dead? I know that pigs can be frozen to be clinically dead for long times (90+ minutes), and still be revived without much damage.
I'd at least check if there are actual signals of current going trough the brain (with an OTHER (better) instrument, before dismissing it. Every unchecked assumption is a good chance for flaw in your study. You wouldn't want it to be dismissed by peer review, because of a faulty assumption.
Looks to me like the dark matter syndrome: "Our theories wrong? Our calculations off by an insane amount? Unpossible! That can never be. Nature must be lying!"
I find it amazing that people who haven't even bothered to study the data or the reason for hypotheses like dark matter feel the need to make ass backwards comments about people who've literally dedicated their lives to it. What do you actually know about dark matter and the current state of the evidence? Do you even understand it at a layman's level
What do you actually know about dark matter and the current state of the evidence? Do you even understand it at a layman's level let alone understand the insanely complex math? Have you heard of the bullet cluster? Do you know about the rotation curve of galaxies? Do you understand anything about the cosmic microwave background and its fluctuations? Do you understand the background theories you're ridiculing? Do you know why General Relativity fits the data we have collected so well? Have you even bothered to find out why scientists believe in these things?
NARRATOR: Tune in next week when the physicist says, "Oh shit! I forgot to divide by two!That changes EVERYTHING!"
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
The gravitational models of GR and QM are incompatible. One of them MUST be wrong. Any conclusion drawn from an incorrect theory must also be wrong, although it is certainly possible to draw incorrect conclusions from correct theory. (The latter was responsible for the discrepancy between observed and predicted neutrino counts from the sun.)
Even if we knew which model was the correct one, as was noted by another poster, all the models we have are incomplete. (Well, since models are simplifications of realit
"Do you know why General Relativity fits the data we have collected so well? Have you even bothered to find out why scientists believe in these things?"
One might well wonder, because it's certainly not because GR is philosophically compatible with the rest of 20th century science.
As a matter of hobbyist curiosity, I'm reading up on the life of Einstein and his arguments with the QM people at the moment, and the curious thing that jumps out at me is how much Einstein believed that GR was only a provisional t
You should read through The Feynman Lectures, Vol. 1, where Feynman reminds us that there is no such thing as a 'true' theory in science. All science has ever done is to describe natural phenomena as well as possible. This isn't a flaw of science, and it's not even a shortcoming. The best theories we have are at best approximations, and any new theory we'll ever cook up will only be better, more sophisticated approximations. GR and QFT are as 'true' as we need them to be in the overwhelming majority of case
So yes - why *does* it fit the data?
The bullet cluster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster [wikipedia.org]
A short, probably wrong explanation: two clusters of galaxies collided with each other. By analyzing the emissions of the resultant impact, we can see where all the baryonic (normal) matter went - baryonic matter smacking into other baryonic matter produces energetic particles like x-rays, which we can see. However, by examining the gravitational lensing caused by these two galaxies, we can determine where most of the mass went - and it's really far off from the center of the baryonic matter. Indeed, it looks like most of the mass of each galaxy did not interact electromagnetically with the mass of the other.
The theory of dark matter explains this really well. Baryonic matter interacts electromagnetically with other baryonic matter, and so when the bullet cluster hit, its baryons slowed down (like a bullet flying through water). However, dark matter does not interact electromagnetically with baryonic matter, or very much at all with other dark matter, so the dark matter components of each galaxy just kinda ignored the impact and kept on going.
We have absolutely no direct evidence of either.
Define "direct evidence". There's no "direct evidence" that the wind exists, but you accept it does because you see it's effects. The Bullet Cluster results provide equivalent evidence for the existence of Dark Matter. I mean, you *did* look up the BC results, didn't you?
Similarly, the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating. Period. Of this there is absolutely no doubt, as we actually do have direct evidence demonstrating it. What's causing it?
Keep in mind that until last week, we had no direct evidence of something so basic to modern physics as the Bohr model
Sorry, but this statement alone indicate that you don't know what you are talking about.
First off, the Bohr model is wrong, we already knew that. But if you really mean the model of electron orbits, the means Quantum Electrodynamics, then it has been measured and tested and is correct to umpteenth decimal places, that you would have a hard time finding another theory that was tested even more than QED.
If you insist that only pretty pictures could mean "direct evidence" then you know nothing about actual sci
We have numerous alternative theories that explain, without resorting to saying the universe consists of 96% invisible voodoo, various anomalies such as gravitational rotation and the implied anisotropy of the CMB.
No. We don't. That's the whole point. Dark matter wasn't invented for the hell of it. Astronomers resisted it for decades. It was ultimately accepted precisely because it continued to pass observational tests and other theories didn't.
It's possible to cook up alternative theories to explain individual phenomena such as galactic rotation curves (e.g., MOND). But they all fail when you try to simultaneously explain multiple phenomena such as galactic rotation curves and CMBR anisotropies and early universe structure formation and galaxy cluster dynamics and
I mean light patterns still reach the retinas, and can still trigger signals, depending on the state of the neurons there. How long was that salmon dead?
At least a couple of days, I'd imagine, seeing as they bought it from the fish counter at the local supermarket.
The brain can still function when 'brain dead.' Think about it. Your entire brain doesn't die once you don't get enough oxygen for a few minutes, you just can't maintain the feedback loop called consciousness. Just because of that, doesn't mean the cells aren't still functioning. Since you're unconscious, though, you may as well be dead if you can never recover from it.
Consciousness is a rather circular loop in the brain. Minor damage to part of that loop can ensure that you never wake up, unless a path around that damage is formed, which may or may not happen. We've seen people wake up from comas after years, because their brain has formed pathways around the damage.
Then we get into the whole debate of 'what is death?' True brain death would mean that the entire brain is dead, and can never recover from it. Little pockets of cells can survive for a period of time, but they will always die in the end if they aren't getting the oxygen/energy/minerals they need. So, unconscious is dead? No, it's just unconscious. We can distinguish between coma, sleep, death, etc. Terry Schiavo should have been considered dead, since +90% of her brain was dead, but because she showed some basic brainstem functions, people said she was alive. In reality, she was less alive and less able to be revived than someone who hasn't had a pulse in ten minutes!
and wonders what goes through the salmon's mind whilst doing so.
What goes through the salmon's mind at those times? The pen in the researcher's top pocket.
fMRI is a blunt instrument compared to what ultra high resolution spectroscopic MRI will show us in the future.
Current MRI is tuned to the proton nmr signal (and variations of it). As magnet technology advances and ginourmous gradients are achieved, it will be possible to obtain full spectroscopic data (chemical shift) in addition to positional data. Not only for the proton but for other isotopes that produce an NMR signal (of which all the CHONPS elements have at least one). As aquisition electronics speed
The top MRI used on humans is, I believe, 9.2 T - just good enough to see individual neurons and make out the synapses firing. The top MRI used on animals is closer to 12 T. Provided such high magnetic fields are shown to be safe, you could gather a lot of useful information on the functioning of the brain.
But I see no way of gathering continuous data at high resolution. From radio astronomy through to quantum mechanics, there's always a trade-off between resolution in space and resolution in time. The bett
Can we conclude from this data that the salmon is engaging in the perspective-taking task? Certainly not. What we can determine is that random noise in the EPI timeseries may yield spurious results if multiple comparisons are not controlled for. Adaptive methods for controlling the FDR and FWER are excellent options and are widely available in all major fMRI analysis packages. We argue that relying on standard statistical thresholds (p 8) is an ineffective control for multiple comparisons. We further argue that the vast majority of fMRI studies should be utilizing multiple comparisons correction as standard practice in the computation of their statistics.
And why wasn't this published? The very conclusion is that we should be more careful when trusting fMRI results and conduct more testing before jumping to conclusion.
It's always easier to jump to conclusions than to jump from them.
And why wasn't this published? The very conclusion is that we should be more careful when trusting fMRI results and conduct more testing before jumping to conclusion.
Perhaps because what he's saying isn't new? As far as I can tell he's merely restating a substantive point that was recently made by someone else [wiley.com], which attracted substantial publicity [newsweek.com] as well as sober rebuttals [wiley.com] (along the lines of: nobody actually uses the flawed statistical methods that you're critiquing). All this guy is doing is illustratin
And why wasn't this published? The very conclusion is that we should be more careful when trusting fMRI results and conduct more testing before jumping to conclusion.
Perhaps because what he's saying isn't new? As far as I can tell he's merely restating a substantive point that was recently made by someone else [wiley.com], which attracted substantial publicity [newsweek.com] as well as sober rebuttals [wiley.com] (along the lines of: nobody actually uses the flawed statistical methods that you're critiquing). All this guy is doing is illustrating the point in an absurd and attention-grabbing way.
Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that. In that case, why the hell did I read this nonsense post?
Noundi - It most likely will be published soon. The paper is just working its way through peer review right now. The last set of journal reviewers were quite kind and had very good feedback for us to improve the Salmon story.
Yali - It is a different statistical issue than the Vul et al. non-independence error. While a great many papers have been written on how to complete multiple comparisons correction in fMRI there is still a problem in that not everyone is doing it. This leaves the door open to false
Noundi - It most likely will be published soon. The paper is just working its way through peer review right now. The last set of journal reviewers were quite kind and had very good feedback for us to improve the Salmon story.
Yali - It is a different statistical issue than the Vul et al. non-independence error. While a great many papers have been written on how to complete multiple comparisons correction in fMRI there is still a problem in that not everyone is doing it. This leaves the door open to false positives, the number of which remain unknown.
So basically while the problem has been brought to attention before, it has been ignored by some leaving some studies uncertain but considered as valid. This stunt was to prove that if you trust in the results of such studies, you might as well trust in brain activity in dead fish. I can see why some would ignore, or even get offended by it. Still it's a valid point.
powrogers - Thanks for stopping by our poster last June. I like your comment quite a bit but would add one point. While the correction of multiple comparisons in fMRI has been well understood for quite some time (you mention 15 years) the current problem is that not everyone does it while conducting their research. Having a high p-value and a minimum cluster threshold is an unknown, soft control to the problem. Our argument is that true correction methods that control for the FDR or FWER should be emplo
Well, maybe what they saw wasn't a false positive? Maybe there is residual functionality of the brain some time after death, the same way you can electrically stimulate the muscles of a dead body to make them twitch. Is it that unthinkable that visual impulses have some effect on the brain, that death instantly renders every single braincell inoperable?
Uh, I think I meant the last sentence to read "that death doesn't instantly render every single braincell inoperable?"
Doesn't fMRI measure blood flow through the brain, rather than electrical impulses in the neurons?
Well, it can't measure actual flow unless you stick a mechanical device inside the capillaries. It presumably measures something very indirect (such as change in energy state) which, in a living brain, can be linked more to blood flow than other sources.
However, there will certainly be other sources that generate identical signals. There will also be experimental errors (such as noise in the system) and observer errors (eg: mis-ascribing cause to effect).
Since this is a dead brain, there will presumably be
Ma8thew is correct - the fish had been dead for some time. I purchased it on a Saturday morning, so it was likely from Friday's shipment of seafood.
Very seriously, this is cool research! The really sad thing here is that they have trouble publishing. This shows that the interest in medical research is less on truth and knowledge and more on stunts and commercializable results.
Well we already knew that. There's plenty of research showing journals won't publish negative studies concerning products made by key advertisers and that there's enormous pressure on researchers from the corporate sector to only ever generate favourable studies.
Now we have a paper that disses not one product or one company but EVERY product, EVERY company and EVERY study that falsely assumes a specific cause for a much more general effect. What do you think the journals are going to do? This gets published
gweihir - We are on our second round of reviews at a major neuroscience journal and things are looking good for getting it published. A lot of our trouble has come from individuals who don't want multiple comparisons correction to become a mandatory practice in functional imaging.
joepa - You have a lot of very good points. Most neuroscientists are aware of the multiple comparisons problem and, at minimum, try to control for it using increased statistical thresholds (high p-values) and minimum clustering values (have to have several contiguous voxels). The trouble with this approach is that it is a soft control of the multiple comparisons problem. You still have no idea of what the false positive rate will be across the whole brain, only on a quasi voxel-to-voxel basis. Using tec
I will be at the IgNobels next week, down in the floor seats. Can I stand up and nominate this research from the floor?
Hey guys - I am the first author of the Salmon poster. If you have any questions that you would like us to answer then post it as a reply below and I will do my best to respond as soon as I can.
You can find some more information on the poster at the following link:
http://prefrontal.org/blog/2009/06/atlantic-salmon-index/ [prefrontal.org]
Best ~ Craig Bennett
Thanks for dropping in Craig, but Slashdot tends to move at such a pace that an article, unless it gets hundreds of replies, dies off quite soon. I've had the same experience trying to respond to articles that directly relate to things that I'm an expert on. Most of the time you are too late to add anything to the discussion (well, you can add to it, but nobody will read it).
owlstead - I hear you - I have been a fellow
This is a good example of why one should never use a predefined threshold for significance when measuring a notoriously poorly calibrated and wildly variable biological characteristic.
I'd rather measure the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (any kind)
ardeaem - At face value you are absolutely right. The majority of cognitive neuroscientists do use multiple comparisons correction in their research. Our commentary is targeted at the remainder of researchers who continue to use uncorrected statistics. The percentage is larger than you might believe, and my co-authors and I are of the opinion that we need to get our statistical house in order for the field to mature.
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At the end of the first day's general session at this year's Juniper Americas Partner Conference in Phoenix, Kevin Johnson could be seen relishing the moment.
He and a parade of his top lieutenants had just finished telling more than 1,000 assembled Juniper partners -- 390 in person, and more than double that virtually -- how Juniper Network's recent acquisitions, product releases and marketing exposure are driving partner opportunities and Juniper profitability like never before. Triumph was in the air, and the session's exit music -- "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by the Rolling Stones -- had Johnson visibly fired up enough to be seen mouthing a few, punctuated verses in between pressing the flesh with a steady stream of smiling well-wishers.
The CEO of Juniper Networks is pretty pumped these days. And it's tough to deny the affable Johnson, now deep into his third year at Juniper's helm, his moment.
Juniper is battling for networking, infrastructure and security market share from a nimbler stance than bigger, bulkier competitors like Cisco and HP, and has delivered on some of its most ambitious product releases in years while also fattening up its executive ranks, putting some muscle behind Juniper's marketing, and making strategic acquisitions to complement what Johnson says is an expanding, $1 billion R&D effort.
Johnson joined CRN Senior Editor Chad Berndtson for an exclusive interview in Phoenix earlier this month, tackling everything from Juniper's acquisition appetite to software-centric partnerships, the differences between Juniper and Cisco and HP, the service provider-enterprise mix, and his stacked executive team. Excerpts of the conversation follow.
So, Kevin, one of the busiest years in Juniper history and it seems like it's going to continue to be that way. New products -- QFabric, packet cores -- executive appointments, acquisitions, everything. Partners like it, the aggressiveness of it. But it's a lot for them to absorb all at once. What do you want them to understand about your strategic direction right now?
I think a couple of big takeaways. The market trends of cloud computing and the mobile Internet are creating demands on the network that require architecture changes and a new network approach. And so, number one is understanding the market trends. Number two is understanding the investments we're making. I happen to believe that in these types of transitions and inflection points in tech, that's the opportunity for innovation to have massive impact and help transform the landscape of how computing is done.
The investments we're making in R&D, the investments we're making in sales and marketing, the investments we're making in partners are aligned with these trends in mobile Internet and cloud computing, and add up to massive opportunity. At the end of the day, if partners look and say, 'Wow, we see these market trends and we love what you're doing' and the innovation and architecture and technology and marketing and awareness and investments are there, I think we've accomplished what we hoped to do.
How would you define a strategically aligned Juniper partner? Be it a reseller or integrator or service provider, you have a reasonably broad partner mix now and to judge from the presentations at the conference, you want them to expand beyond what they've been doing -- whether that's as a security specialist, or a networking reseller background or something else -- to do other things with Juniper. Is that what a strategic partner looks like now?
Every partner has their own business plan and their own strategy and that's perfectly fine. The fact that partners understand what's going to make them profitable in their business, we're respectful of the way they want to run that business. The core of what gets us strategically aligned is a common vision sharing of what the new network is and what it can do for customers. From there, some partners might choose to focus on security, or service providers, or data center, and we want to enable them all to be wildly successful.
We're working hard to create opportunities that expand their revenue and profit generation in other businesses. Partners might look at traditional reselling of network technology, and I think the latest surveys show that Juniper provides the best margin and profit opportunity for partners that want to do that. We can also open up services opportunities that add to that. The third element is partners who want to innovate on software. We provide the vision, innovation and a full range of choices that the partner can make.
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According to John Funk of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the Browns are expected to announce this week they have agreed to sell naming rights to Cleveland Browns Stadium to the Akron-based FirstEnergy. The Browns have never sold the naming rights to a building they've played in.
There are only eight stadiums in the NFL that would remain without naming rights deals: Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Chiefs), Candlestick Park (San Francisco 49ers), Cowboys Stadium (Dallas Cowboys), Georgia Dome (Atlanta Falcons), Lambeau Field (Green Bay Packers), Paul Brown Stadium (Cincinnati Bengals), Ralph Wilson Stadium (Buffalo Bills) and Soldier Field (Chicago Bears).


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In what may be the first unplanned arrests during the NATO week of action, two activists were arrested after protesters from an action at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took the streets in downtown Chicago Tuesday. Along with two immigrant rights protesters arrested at a planned civil disobedience action earlier at ICE, it brings the total arrests on Tuesday to four.
Following the immigration protest at ICE headquarters, a group of about 75 marchers marched on the street for two Chicago streets blocks. The arrests took place after most marchers were back on the sidewalk and had made the decision to head back to Occupy Chicago's downtown headquarters, though there were still a handful of individuals that were crossing the street.
Natalie Wahlberg, an activist with Occupy Chicago, said that both arrested protesters were peaceful and on the sidewalk when they were arrested by the Chicago Police Department.
"Police grabbed two peaceful protests while they were on the sidewalk," said Wahlberg, and "started yelling at someone else to get back on the sidewalk as he was standing on the sidewalk."
According to the Chicago Police Department, one of the protesters arrested was charged with two misdemeanor charges - aggravated assault of a police officer and the obstruction of traffic.
"It looks like he was swinging a flag on a large stick during the NATO demonstration and a bicycle officer was struck by that flag," the spokesperson told Truthout. "When the officer told him to get on the sidewalk, he started shouting profanities."
The coming NATO summit is expected to see an escalation of police forces in the city, with the city's 12,000 strong police force to be deployed in riot gear. In addition, 500 state troopers will be deployed as well, the Chicago City Hall told sources in April.
On Tuesday, Chicago police also purchased two long-range acoustic device sound cannons, which "are equipped with a shrieking alarm able to send pain-inducing sound waves of up to 150 decibels that can be heard as far as 1,600 feet away, according to The Guardian. The use of the sound cannon is controversial since the human threshold for pain lies between 110 and 120 decibels," NBC Chicago reported.
"This speaks to the nature of police violence in the city," said Wahlberg. "The peaceful protesters are here to demonstrate against NATO's war machine and it is currently being enforced by Rahm's [Mayor Rahm Emanuel] goon squad."


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Fast-moving, cool air masses often sweep from east to west across North Africa in the winter, sending surges of dry air over the Atlantic Ocean. When this dry air encounters moister and more stable air masses over the water, the clash can yield distinctive and beautiful patterns in the clouds.
On February 18, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this view of a thin layer of marine stratocumulus clouds off the coast of western Africa.
The air mass moving west pushed a wave of cool, dry air ahead of it, much like the bow wave of water that moves ahead of a boat in calm water. When that wave of air met the mass of moist air over the ocean, it pushed the moist air up. As that air rose, it cooled at the peak of the wave, forming a linear wave cloud. As the wave propagated forward, it rose to a slightly lower peak, and so on and so forth, until it eventually dissipated. The series of clouds that formed at the high-altitude peaks produced the rippling pattern seen in the clouds. This type of atmospheric disturbance is known as an undular bore. The air to the east of the bore is almost completely cloud-free because dry air would have eroded any clouds in that area.
The Cape Verde islands had their own noticeable effect on the clouds to the south. Air masses passing over the volcanic islands split into streams, then come back together—a process that creates off-centered areas of low pressure like whirlpools. These low-pressure areas produce thread-like swirls in the clouds downstream of the islands. These are known as Von Karman vortices. The cloud layer is fairly thin in this image, so the vortices are less distinct than they are in other satellite images of the phenomenon.
- CIMSS Satellite Blog (2011, April 27) Undular bore over the Gulf of Mexico. Accessed February 27, 2013.
- NASA GES DISC (n.d.) Science Focus: Von Karman Vortices. Accessed Feb. 22, 2013.
- NASA (2007, Oct. 11) Giant Atmospheric Waves Sighted Over Iowa. Accessed Feb. 22, 2013.
- Washington Post (2010, Nov. 9) The mystery of the von Karman vortex street. Accessed February 27, 2013.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Scott Bachmeier.
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The end of the college-basketball season plays out in football stadiums that seat more than 70,000 people, some sitting so high that the teams below are nothing more than moving specks. But the beginning of the college-basketball season? It's played in hotel ballrooms.
This is the time of year when the best college hoops programs pack their bags and travel to rinky-dink arenas in exotic locales. Some have faced off on aircraft carriers and military bases. This week, No. 2 Louisville and No. 5 Duke are playing in the "Battle 4 Atlantis" tournament at the Imperial Arena, an event space at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas normally known by its other name: Imperial Ballroom.
The wide variety in attendance makes college basketball unlike other major sports. One of college football's opening games this year was a neutral site battle between Alabama and Michigan in Cowboys Stadium that drew 90,413 people.
Meanwhile, the Maui Invitational regularly attracts college basketball's biggest names to the Lahaina Civic Center, a venue with a capacity of 2,400. North Carolina, one of the teams that will pack the tiny gym this week, regularly draws over 21,000 fans to home games at the Dean E. Smith Center. Then there's next year's Maui Invitational, which will bring Syracuse to the pint-size space. If the Orange players feel cramped, that's because they're used to the Carrier Dome, which jammed 34,616 for a basketball game in 2010.
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