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Glitz, acrobatics, and sex. Zumanity combines these elements and presents an exciting, titillating and totally entertaining show for adults.
It's fascinating how every hotel in Las Vegas seems to have its own personality. From the moment you walk into New York New York, you sense a high level of energy.
On our way from the parking lot to the Zumanity Theatre for the 10 pm late show, there was an overwhelming sense of exhilaration all through the casino. As we roamed the faux New York City streets serving Nathan's Hot Dogs, Manhattan-style pizzas, Italian Ices and Chinese Food, we saw loads of smiling couples and chatty groups enjoying the food and ambience. The noise and excitement crescendoed as we passed a wildly cheering audience packed around the dueling pianos at the Irish pub.
Arriving at the Zumanity Theater, we were impressed with the sumptuous décor, as well as the statuesque women in corsets and men in tight shorts displaying rippled muscles and tight six-packs. They greeted guests entering the theater and, as we later learned, these same gorgeous hotties were the performers soon to entertain us onstage.
Cirque du Soleil shows are known for their artistic acrobatics, and Zumanity not only lives up to its tradition, but goes much further. This is an adult-themed show, and the performances are designed to both entertain you and stimulate your sensual taste buds.
The evening's "hostess" is a tall, buxom beauty who opens the show. Only after hearing her voice and listening to her seductive comments and off-color jokes do you realize "she" is a stunning drag queen!
One of the first acts features a duo of nearly-naked women sharing a giant, see-through Waterbowl and doing aquatic acrobatic feats inside. Their bodies move like graceful sea nymphs gliding in and out of the water. It is beautiful, creative and sensual.
Another exciting act is a man who hand balances on a pole, an incredible feat of strength made to look almost easy by this stellar performer. Dima Shine starts out alone then meets a lovely contortionist who seems to fit into his world. She brings him back to earth in this striking act.
In "Straps" a female performer, Louise Yorath does an auto-erotic aerial number. Trapped in her leather bonds, she acrobatically turns and flips high above the audience, with sounds of heavy breathing and ecstasy that may excite some and embarrass others.
One of the most unusual and scintillating acts is when performing artist Jonas Woolverton spins inside a huge wheel. As his "mistress" cracks her whip, he does tricks inside the large wheel that are truly amazing. It is breathtaking when he puts on a blindfold and continues spinning around the stage.
There's also a tumultuous tango with two men in a cage who are fighting for the affection of a woman; then, through their intensely choreographed fight, they wind up realizing they are in love with each other.
When the little person in the company does his acrobatic flights on a silk, it is dazzling and special. Although he is small in stature, his strength, talent and skills are enormous.
Other numbers include a "Midnight Bath" where Vanessa Convery and Ed Bohlen use milk to caress each other and an "Orgy" with the entire ensemble dancing and flying with acrobatic feats as they engage in hedonistic play.
Zumanity is a seductive twist from the usual Cirque du Soleil fare that includes sensational acrobatics with some naughty fun. It is highly recommended for those seeking a night of entertainment with a sexy flair. It's fascinating, provocative and playful, and raises a serious question. Can you focus on the complicated acrobatics when the performer is topless? You should go and find out for yourself. It's worth the trip!
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Invitation Obsession: Gold Foil
by Amanda Black
In case you hadn't noticed, gold foiling has become a staple, not just a trend, for wedding invitations. Here are three completely different invitations all using the stylish printing method.
East Six is the stationer behind this first design. Perfect for a classic yet glamorous affair, the ornate belly band and elegant gold script make this invite oh-so elegant.
Next up, Invitations by Ajalon's ferrari-red invite is so eye-catching and because of the gold-on-red contrast, all you really need to add is a cool geometric design at the bottom.
Lastly, Bella Figura used a modern icicle design and a combination of both gold and silver foiling to make this invite stand out.
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The Berks-Mont News (http://www.berksmontnews.com)
Friday, April 18, 2014
A tractor trailer truck crossed into the path of a Honda Accord on Route 737 in Greenwich Township at 10:53 a.m. April 18, leading to major injury for the woman driving the car.
Marley Stalker-Stempel, 23, Doylestown, was extricated from her Accord by Kutztown firefighters. She was transported via medical helicopter to Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest.
The truck driver and the driver and passenger of a third vehicle were not injured.
"At this time, speed appears to be a factor," according to the investigating state police officer Joshua Lacey in a police release. "An investigation continues."
A 2005 Freightliner Truck Tractor was traveling south on Route 737 in Greenwich Township when Steve Marseille, 27, Temple, failed to maintain control around a left hand curve north of Wiltrout Road and entered into the northbound lane. The truck's left rear tires struck the front left corner panel of a Honda Accord which sustained heavy, disabling damage.
A Volkswagon Jetta, following behind the Honda Accord, was struck by a loose tire that came off the truck. The Jetta sustained minor damage to the front left corner panel.
All drivers and passengers were wearing seat belts. Paul Klee, 77, Douglassville, and his passenger Janet Klee, 76, were not injured.
The truck and Accord were towed from the scene by Wensel's Towing. The Jetta was able to be driven safely from the scene.
Assisting at the scene were Kutztown EMS, Kutztown Fire Company and Fire Police, and Kempton Fire Company.


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Many Colorado bands that are rooted in bluegrass are self-consciously on a boundary-breaking mission, but The Railsplitters tread lightly beyond the genre's borders. Their music is sometimes universal enough to qualify the Boulder-based Railsplitters simply as a band, rather than a bluegrass band. But they have no problem playing good ol' bluegrass music.
Why not? Few bands in the state do it better. That's what we learned when The Railsplitters visited Second Story Garage last week. And that's what the audience at the RockyGrass bluegrass festival learned in July. The Railsplitters took top honors in the RockyGrass band competition. They join Spring Creek, Hit & Run Bluegrass and other top bluegrass acts that won the competition in years past.
The Railsplitters' sound is exquisitely balanced — the quartet brings together the time-tested instrumentation of guitar, mandolin, banjo and bass (sometimes Dusty Rider — yup, an incredibly fortunate bluegrass name — trades his banjo for a pedal steel), and their two-guy, two-girl lineup allows for some candy-cake harmonies on their songs, especially the ones they played for us: "Boarding Pass," "My World" and "Jackson Town." Their personalities also shine in their interview with Quentin.
What they brought us: A copy of their self-titled new album.
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Against Modern Slavery by Dr Virginia Mantouvalou
By Virginia Mantouvalou, on 26 September 2012
On Tuesday 25 September, US President Barack Obama gave a powerful talk on human trafficking, describing abuses of workers' rights as modern slavery. Obama undertook the commitment to make this a matter of priority for his administration. 'We see you', he said. 'We hear you. We insist on your dignity'.
Setting workers' rights at the top of the agenda and classifying their abuse as modern slavery has much symbolic power. This is particularly so when coming from the President of a country that has been scarred by slavery historically. 'I do not use the word "slavery" lightly', Obama said. And he went on to explain: 'When a man, desperate for work, finds himself in a factory or on a fishing boat or in a field, working, toiling, for little or no pay, and beaten if he tries to escape — that is slavery. When a woman is locked in a sweatshop, or trapped in a home as a domestic servant, alone and abused and incapable of leaving — that's slavery.'
Obama is not alone in classifying present-day labour abuses as slavery. Organisations such as the International Labour Organisation and the Council of Europe have also adopted this position. The European Court of Human Rights itself brought the issue to the forefront of discussions in Europe. In Siliadin v France (2005), the abuse of a young migrant woman employed as a domestic worker was held to be servitude. In Rantsev v Cyprus and Russia (2010), the abuse of a young migrant woman, victim of sex trafficking, was held to be slavery. The position of the Court is that state authorities have a duty to criminalise this behavior, to protect and support victims, to investigate allegations, and other such issues. Against this background, the European Union adopted a Directive on Human Trafficking, and issued a Strategy towards the Eradication of Trafficking by 2016. The UK enacted legislation criminalizing human trafficking and modern slavery.
That grave labour exploitation of workers has been set at the top of the agenda, in Europe and the US, can only be welcomed. The recognition that workers' rights are human rights, and that their breach is an affront to dignity, is an important start. The political will seems to be there. Yet the eradication of modern slavery will be no easy task. Present-day slaves are hidden. They work in private homes, in isolated agricultural areas, in factories in remote countries. They may wish to remain invisible to the authorities. They are in desperate need of jobs and may be fearful of deportation. We have to take firm steps to discover the victims and help address their abuse. But the recognition that the problem exists is no small achievement, so it is rightly celebrated as such.


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Jaisal Noor, TRNN Producer: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. And welcome to our continuing discussion with James Boyce.
He is the director of the environment program at the PERI institute. So, Professor Boyce, we're talking about the economics of global climate change; we're talking about cost-benefit analysis, some of the problems with it. I wanted to ask you: is cost-benefit analysis democratic? That is, does cost-benefit analysis treat everyone equally?
James K. Boyce, Prof. Economics, UMASS Amherst: Well, the short answer to that, Jaisal, is no, it doesn't. As I mentioned, in addition to the problem of putting dollars and cents values on things that many would regard as priceless, there are also problems with the methodologies that are used to ascribe those monetary values to things like clean air, clean water, or the future of the planet's climate.
And in the weighing up costs and benefits to different individuals, it's not the case that cost-benefit analysis typically treats everyone individually. The damage that is done to one person isn't necessarily treated the same as the damage done to others, one of the main reasons being that what's added up is not effects on different individuals, but rather dollar amounts are added up. So instead of treating people equally, it treats dollars equally, and the more dollars a person has, the bigger their weight in the cost-benefit decision-making process.
It's kind of like what happens in markets, actually. You know, if we ask, how much purchasing power do you bring to the market, that is based on how much money you've got, and some people have more purchasing power than others. Well, in the similar fashion in the shadow markets of cost-benefit analysis, some people, because they have more dollars than others, have more weight than others in the decisions that are reached. So that's one of the troubling things about cost-benefit analysis.
Put bluntly, a dollar is assumed to be worth the same whether it's a dollar in my pocket, in your pocket, in the pocket of Bill Gates, or in the pocket of someone who is living right at the margin of survival and in danger of starvation. They're all dollars, and no differentiation is made in terms of who gets what.
Noor: And finally, how does cost-benefit analysis handle the question of environmental quality for future generations?
Boyce: Well, just as cost-benefit analysis doesn't treat every individual who's alive today equally (it treats our dollars equally), it also doesn't treat the lives of people today equal to those of our children or our grandchildren or their children after them. Instead what cost-benefit analysis uses is a technique called discounting. Discounting is used to convert future values, future dollar and cents amounts into what are called present values. It's basically just running the opposite way from an interest rate, with which many of your viewers will be more familiar. If I put $100 in the bank and it pays 5 percent interest at the end of ten years, 15 years, whatever, I'll get back more than $100. Well, discounting is doing the same thing in reverse. It's saying if there is a cost to future generations equivalent to, let's say, $1 million, how much is that worth today in terms of present dollars? And the answer is: it's less than $1 million because it's been discounted away.
It turns out that when we're talking about environmental problems that have long-lasting effects--and many forms of pollution, including global warming pollution, certainly fall within that category--the choice of the discount rate makes a really big difference, just like the choice between getting an interest rate of half a percent versus 5 percent makes a big difference.
So, as you mentioned in our first segment, the U.S. government's new estimates of the so-called social cost of carbon vary dramatically. And one of the reasons for those variations is that they look at what happens with different discount rates. If they use a relatively high one of 5 percent, they get numbers as low as $11 per ton of carbon. That is to say, it's only efficient to spend up to $11 to reduce a ton of carbon emissions; beyond that, it would be inefficient to reduce them any further. If instead they use a discount rate of 2.5 percent, which is still not zero, then suddenly, just from that change alone, the social cost of carbon goes up to $52. So it'd be worth spending four or five times as much to prevent climate change if we use 2.5 percent as the discount rate.
Now, even 2.5 percent is a little bit debatable in terms of what we ought to be using here. I mean, there's a real difference between how individuals think about the passage of time and how we ought to think about that as a society. Right? As an individual it may well be true that $100 today is worth a lot [incompr.] than $100 in 20 years, because who knows if I'll be here in 20 years, etc. But when we're thinking about society, we're talking about people who haven't even been born yet. We're talking about future generations who aren't here to vote for themselves.
And so does it really make sense to say, well, $100 is worth a lot more to me than it would be to my children or to my grandchildren or to their children? I don't think so. You know. At 2.5 percent, which is the low-end discount rate used in the U.S. government's estimates of the cost of carbon, $1 million in damages 300 years from now would be worth about $600 today. So it would say, well, it's efficient for us to spend up to $600 to prevent imposing a $1 million cost on those future generations. Think about that. And here we're not talking about inflation. These are inflation-adjusted dollars. So we're talking about a $1 million cost in today's dollars.
Now, is it really reasonable to say that, oh, well, we shouldn't worry about that 'cause it's--you know, they're future generations and we should discount their well-being? I think there are really profound ethical questions on the table here when we're thinking about how to use economic analysis to think about problems like global climate change. And while I think a good case can be made for using the cost-effective means to reduce global warming, I don't think a very strong case can be made for using economic analysis to decide whether or not we ought to do it or how much we ought to do it. I think we have a moral obligation. We ought to honor that obligation to future generations and figure out how to make it work, rather than asking if it's really worth it to us to honor that commitment.
Noor: James Boyce, thank you so much for joining us.
Boyce: Thank you, Jaisal. Nice to be with you, as always.
Noor: Thank you for joining us at The Real News Network.


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Details of wastewater project presented to residents
SOUTH WHITLEY — A full house greeted South Whitley Town Council members Tuesday evening for a public hearing regarding Phase II of the wastewater treatment facility project.The town has applied for a $600,000 grant from the Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA), which is the maximum amount allowed by Region-III-A.The town's grant administrator and Region-III-A representative Angela Hoffman told those gathered that the preliminary engineering report is in the finishing stages and the proposed cost of the project is $3.5 million.Phase II includes upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant by enlarging the main water inceptor along Water and Main streets, constructing a headwaters work building, and a new electrical building on an adjacent property. With a financial plan for the project already developed, the town plans to apply for a $2.9 million loan from the State Revolving Fund.Hoffman also noted that there was a change in costs from what was in the published legal notice. The town will be seeking bonds for $2,980,000, according to Hoffman. According to past rate studies, Hoffman said a 4,000 gallon average (water) user is currently spending $36.28 with the town's current ordinance for a monthly billing. With the grant the town is currently applying for, there would be a 52 percent increase in billing bringing this total to approximately $55.32 a month for sewage services. "Without the (OCRA) grant, an average user is looking at somewhere between 65 to 78 percent rate increase on sewage services," Hoffman said. Hoffman also reminded resident that the project is an unfunded mandate from the state, and if the town does not comply it will face significant fines. "What is going to determine whether we get the grant or not?" South Whitley resident Jim Howard asked.Hoffman explained that across Indiana there are regional districts, numerous towns and cities who apply for these type of grants, all based on various factors. One example is low- to moderate-income families with South Whitley rated at 65 percent in this category which is a contributing factor in the grant application."The sewer alone just being at $55 a month pulls a lot for the grant," Hoffman said. "When will the town know if the application was accepted?" South Whitley resident Jack Thomson asked. Hoffman said awards are determined in May with two months processing and construction to begin in August."Does the contractor have the right to increase the price?" Thomson asked.Project manager David Harvey with Fleis and Vandenbrink was in attendance and explained how the contingency costs are built into the budget."It (monthly sewerage billing) could also be lower?" Thomson asked."Yes, it could also be lower," Harvey said. Engineer Nathan Anderson, also with Fleis and Vandenbrink, explained funding details on the Phase II project."We have a partially combined sewer system that storm water flows and sanitary flows go into and currently during storm events, raw sewage is discharged into the (Eel) river," Anderson said. "Although this was an acceptable practice previously, IDEM is mandating closure of all these overflows."If overflows are closed, storm water goes through the wastewater treatment plant (or a storm water system) for larger storms which creates improvements for the treatment plant facility."When you close overflows during storm events, all that water has to go somewhere so it has to go through the plant for treatment," Anderson said. "Depending on whether it's a large storm or a small storm, dictates the level of that treatment."If the project is not completed by Oct. 31, 2012, IDEM will then issue penalties."In the past, long-term control plans, the town has looked at this over time and various solutions were identified to minimize that storm flow going through the system that would ultimately go to the treatment plant," Anderson said. "The more you reduce the storm flow coming into the collection system, that is the less you have to treat at the treatment plant and the smaller improvements at the treatment plant, the lower your (town's) rate increase."Phase I of the long-term control plan separated some combined sewer which will lessen the amount of water that will need to be treated at the wastewater plant. "The storm waters could then go into the river and not the wastewater treatment plant which minimizes the upgrades," Anderson said. "What is proposed includes disconnecting all downspouts and storm inflow connections if there were like private yard drains which greatly reduces the storm flow to the plant."IDEM also requires disconnection of any downspouts to the system which the council is currently modifying in the sewer ordinance."Generally, if the downspouts disappear into the ground, that means they are hooked directly into the storm system, or combined sewer system," town attorney Greg Hockemeyer said. Assisting with the town's funding for Phase II is Jeff Rowe with Umbaugh and Associates who provided historical documents to council members showing the last rate adjustment in 2008."I feel the existing rates are adequate," Rowe said. "So over the last three years the utility generated enough revenue to meet the current operating expenses and to also pay the debt service payments on the outstanding bonds."Rowe said the town is in a good strong cash position with notice of bids to be published at a later date and awarded to the lowest bidder. Total non-construction costs range from $502,000 to $542,000. These costs include engineering inspection, preparation of the preliminary engineering report, grant administration, bond council and financial advisory."So the project is estimated at anywhere from $3.541 to $3.581 million, depending on the outcome of the grant," Rowe said. In conclusion, bond counsel Sue Beesley, a partner with Bingham and McHale attorneys-at-law, provided standard forms for the State Revolving Fund (SRF) which outlined all the parameters of the loan."The forms have a lot of words, but simply say we (the town) want a loan," Beesley said. "I have heard a lot of numbers thrown out here tonight and with the SRF you only pay for what you borrow, if bids come in lower, you only pay that amount.Bond approval was unanimously approved by all three council members.


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The students of Newton First Assembly will be participating in World Vision's 30 Hour Famine this weekend. They will be spending 30 hours going without food in order to experience what it is like to feel hunger. On Saturday, the students will canvas the town to collect non-perishable items for Grace Food Bank. At 6:30 p.m., a local worship band, Vertical Soul, will be performing in the sanctuary. This time is open to the community.
For any questions or more details, call youth pastor Alisa Jordan at (641) 831-4982 or (641) 792-4365.


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Dec. 7, 2012 01:36 PM
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/07/12 -- Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz today unveiled three new federal programs under Canada's new agricultural policy framework Growing Forward 2 that will streamline investments in the agriculture and agri-food sector. The new programs will focus on strategic initiatives in innovation, competitiveness and market development to further strengthen the sector's capacity to grow and prosper.
"These new Growing Forward 2 programs will build on the success of existing programs to provide more streamlined support to the sector to help it remain a world leader in agricultural innovation and trade," said Minister Ritz. "We are making sure farmers and the entire sector have the tools and resources they need to stay ahead of the ever-changing demands of consumers."
Three new federal programs will come into effect on April 1, 2013:
-- The AgriInnovation Program will focus on investments to expand the sector's capacity to develop and commercialize new products and technologies. -- The AgriMarketing Program will help industry improve its capacity to adopt assurance systems, such as food safety and traceability, to meet consumer and market demands. It will also support industry in maintaining and seizing new markets for their products through branding and promotional activities. -- The AgriCompetitiveness Program will target investments to help strengthen the agriculture and agri-food industry's capacity to adapt and be profitable in domestic and global markets.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is proactively providing information to farmers and the industry so that they are familiar with the kind of support that will be available and so they may plan their applications well in advance. The AgriInnovation Program will begin accepting applications immediately, while AgriMarketing and AgriCompetitiveness will begin accepting applications early in the new year.
Growing Forward 2 represents a $3 billion investment over five years in strategic initiatives for innovation, competitiveness and market development, in addition to a full and comprehensive suite of business risk management programs that will continue to help farmers withstand severe market volatility and disasters. Investments in the three priority areas are critical to facilitating the sector's expansion and leveraging of provincial-territorial and industry investments to increase productivity, growth and jobs.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is also improving service delivery through better program design and streamlined administration, as promised in Economic Action Plan 2012. This will make it easier for applicants to access programs and report results from federal investments.
For more information on Growing Forward 2 and the three new federal programs, please see the attached Backgrounder or visit www.agr.gc.ca/GrowingForward2.
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The AgriInnovation Program is designed to accelerate the pace of innovation by supporting research and development activities and facilitating the demonstration, commercialization and/or adoption of innovative products, technologies, processes, practices and services. The AgriInnovation Program supports the following industry-led streams:
-- Industry-led Research and Development:
The objective of this stream is to support pre-commercialization research, development and knowledge transfer leading to innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based practices, processes and products. This stream may provide non-repayable contributions to approved applicants, and/or access to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research scientists and experts for knowledge transfer.
The stream provides non-repayable support for two types of projects:
i. Agri-Science Cluster: an agri-science cluster aims to mobilize and coordinate a critical mass of scientific expertise in industry, academia and government (referred to as a Cluster). The agri-science cluster would be national in scope. ii. Agri-Science Project: a single research project or a smaller set of projects that would be more focused in scope than an agri-science cluster. The scope may be national, regional or local. -- Commercialization:
The objective of this stream is to facilitate the demonstration, commercialization and adoption of innovative agri-based products, technologies, processes or services, through repayable investments. Funding is designed to support and reduce the financial risk associated with late-stage activities on the innovation continuum.
For more information on how to apply, visit www.agr.gc.ca/Agri-Innovation, call 1-877-246-4682 or email email@example.com.
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-- Projects that enhance the sector's access to international markets by differentiating and promoting Canadian products and sectors, and providing market development tools that are critical to competing in an ever-changing global marketplace; and -- Projects that help the sector develop assurance systems and standards that give Canadian products a competitive advantage through credible quality and health claims, including food safety and traceability systems.
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The Women's Dream Conference will take place on April 13, 2012 in the West Loop of Chicago at , the Centered Chef (177 N. Ada Street). This conference has been a dream of mine since 2009, when I realized I needed to shift gears in my career and create a new life.
**Includes early morning workout class, light breakfast, networking lunch with speakers.
My vision was to create a women's conference for business professionals, bloggers, aspiring career seekers and those who needed a rejuvenating change to help them create their dream life. We can all use a little insight these days in getting ahead in business, understanding the impact and success of social media as well as developing our own personal brands and health.
Networking and coaching events like the Women's Dream Conference provide those insights. Combining forums and interactive workshops on Career & Social Media Development, Personal Confidence & Relationships, and Healthy Mind & Body sessions is sure to create inspiration and impact on those that attend. The Women's Dream Conference brings all aspects of life together for a blended, revitalizing weekend in Chicago.
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DENVER - The Colorado Rockies announced their much anticipated 2014 promotions and special events lineup today. The schedule features the "Retire 17" weekend August 15-17, bobblehead gnomes, Rockies collectible jerseys and the second Country on the Rox post-game concert. Opening Day at Coors Field with the popular Rockies magnet schedule giveaway is set for Friday, April 4 at 2:10 p.m. versus the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Highlights from the 2014 schedule of events, as well as details on some of the club's special ticket opportunities, are listed below. The complete promotions and special events schedule is attached and can also can be viewed by visiting www.rockies.com/promotions. Please note all dates and times are subject to change.
"RETIRE 17" WEEKEND Rockies fans will want to celebrate franchise icon Todd Helton's career and retirement with a full weekend of activities August 15-17 when the Rockies host the Cincinnati Reds. The celebration begins on Friday night when the first 15,000 fans will be given a Todd Helton "Farewell" bobblehead and then continues on Saturday when the first 15,000 fans through the gates receive a Todd Helton Collectible Jersey. The three-day celebration concludes on Sunday with a pregame ceremony to formally retire Helton's number 17 plus a Todd Helton bobblehead gnome presented to the first 15,000 fans attending that day.
BOBBLEHEAD GNOMES Bobblehead gnomes will be given away on nine different Sundays throughout the season. These truly unique collector's items featuring Helton and several of the Rockies current players will be presented to the first 15,000 fans on nine designated dates.
ROCKIES COLLECTIBLE JERSEYS Five different Saturday games will feature Rockies collectible jerseys to be given away to the first 15,000 fans at Coors Field. Among the five replica player jerseys to be distributed will be those of fan favorites Nolan Arenado, Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki.
PURPLE MONDAY T-SHIRTS Continuing to paint the town purple, the Rockies will bring back "Purple Monday" by giving away purple tees to the first 5,000 fans every Monday home game, and great prizes will be given out throughout these games to fans wearing purple.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CAP Fans will receive a collectible MLB branded cap given to the first 15,000 to attend the May 2 game vs. the New York Mets.
FIREWORKS GAMES Three games featuring the spectacular Coors Field fireworks show are set for Thursday, July 3 and Friday, July 4 when the Rockies host the Los Angeles Dodgers and then again on Friday, September 19, when the Arizona Diamondbacks come to Denver. Rockies fans should plan ahead to purchase their tickets for Colorado's best fireworks show because these games will sell out.
COUNTRY ON THE ROX Rockies fans of Country Music Superstar Sara Evans should get their tickets quickly for the game on Sunday, July 27. This Country on the Rox post-game concert at Coors Field will follow the 2:10 p.m. game between the Rockies and Pittsburgh Pirates. An award-winning singer and songwriter, Evans brings her chart-topping Country hits to the infield at Coors Field.
FAITH DAY The 2014 Faith Day at Coors Field will be Sunday, August 24, and features the return of BEC recording artist with 32 Number 1 Radio Hits, Jeremy Camp. For group sales information call the Rockies at (303) ROCKIES (762-5437).
Dollar Hot Dog Nights: Dollar Hot Dog Nights are back and better than ever! For six select dates throughout the season, the first 10,000 fans can receive a coupon to purchase a hot dog for just $1 each. Dollar Hot Dog Nights are scheduled for April 8, May 6, June 10, July 8, August 19 and September 16.
Photo Day and Team Poster: One of the most exciting promotions of any season is the Fan Photo Day when all fans are allowed onto the field prior to the game to snap photos with their favorite Rockies players. In addition, all fans attending the game on July 12 vs. the Minnesota Twins receive a 2014 Rockies Team Poster.
Fan Appreciation Day: Sunday September 21 vs. Arizona is the final scheduled 2014 regular season game and the club will celebrate their fans with the annual Fan Appreciation Day. The day includes a bevy of promotional items and the players' annual lap around the Coors Field warning track.
Fans can take advantage of all the great promotions and special events planned for 2014 by becoming a Rockies Season Ticket Holder. Fans can guarantee Opening Day tickets with any Full Season, 25 or 20-game Mini-Plan. Plans start as low as $220 per seat and are available to fit every budget. Plus, all Season Ticket packages are available online at Rockies.com or by calling (303) ROCKIES (762-5437).
Single-game tickets for all 2014 regular season home games, including a very limited number of Opening Day tickets, go on sale Saturday, February 8 at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available online at Rockies.com, by phone at (303) ROCKIES, in person at the Coors Field Ticket Office, Rockies Dugout Stores, Kings Soopers and select City Market stores.


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It would have been better, and more grand and crazy, as Muse are prone to be, to book-end their sixth album with the two-part title track.
So put the Cylon-powered dubstep track The 2nd Law: Unsustainable - that acted as a kind of promotional trailer in the lead-up to the release of the album - at the beginning of the record and then the pulsing, politically-infused oonst of The 2nd Law: Isolated System as a fitting end.
Although it's a bit late now, since the album is out tomorrow after much hype and hoopla, given the clamour that always seems to build up among devout Muse fans and followers of lead man Matt Bellamy. But anyway, just a suggestion, Matt.
As it is, the opening pomp and stomp of Supremacy is a typically dramatic way to start proceedings. But one thing is clear, Muse sound less musically restless than they ever have before, which makes it all a little, well, normal.
Maybe it's because leading man and head creative Bellamy is a daddy these days and in a long-term relationship with actress Kate Hudson. Though that sounds as though it's had some rocky moments, which he writes about in Madness, a heartfelt serenade with lovely, liquorice-like oscillations.
So it's a different Muse - and it's on standout Animals where they are at their new-sounding best. It's a song that escalates over the course of four minutes, with a simmering, swinging beat and a hint of Carlos Santana guitar before breaking out halfway through for the most thrilling two minutes of the whole record.
The band's Olympic song, Survival, sounds better immersed among its own kind. As a sports anthem it wasn't that great because you want something more straightforward, like the Foo Fighters rather than Queen doing The Omen theme.
And then there are the copycat moments, like Panic Station, which - initially at least - sounds like INXS' Suicide Blonde, then at various times Stevie Wonder's Superstition and even Michael Jackson's Thriller when Bellamy bellows "it is chaos, it defies imagination". And on Follow Me, which admittedly is an impassioned, rousing song, Bellamy's high, quavering holler could be mistaken for Bono.
Explorers is in the beautiful-but-dreary realm, and bass player Chris Wolstenholme's quota of two songs, Save Me and Liquid State (about his battle with booze), could have been halved.
So while there are many moments when it whips you up into a strutting and posturing frenzy, which is what you want Muse to do, and there is no denying the band's ambition to try something different, The 2nd Law leaves you wanting a few more wild and over-the-top Plug In Baby and Hysteria moments.
Stars: 3/5
Verdict: It's Muse, but not as we know it.
Click here to buy Muse's new album The 2nd Law.


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All Invited to Farewell Reception for Vice Provost Michelle B. Larson
Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
The Utah State University campus community is invited to say farewell to outgoing Vice Provost Michelle B. Larson as she leaves to become president of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Ill. All are welcome to join in a celebration hosted by USU's office of Executive Vice President and Provost, Friday, Jan. 4, from 3:30-5 p.m. at the USU David B. Haight Alumni House.
Larson was named as the ninth leader and first female president of Adler. Her appointment begins January 1, 2013.
As president, Larson will oversee a 21st century space science center that includes the institution's landmark museum complex, exhibition galleries and three theaters; a robust research enterprise; one of the world's leading collections documenting the history of science; and an award-winning education and outreach program. Annually, more than 470,000 people visit the Adler, making it one of Chicago's leading tourist attractions.


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VANCOUVER — The former foster son of Vancouver's mayor, Jinagh Navas-Rivas, was sentenced to four years in prison in Richmond provincial court Wednesday for his role in a dial-a-dope operation two years ago.
Navas-Rivas, 22, who lived with Gregor Robertson, his wife Amy and their three children for two years until 2009, pleaded guilty in December to one count of drug trafficking and one count of transferring a firearm.
The four-year sentence was jointly agreed to by Crown and defence in pre-trial submissions to Judge Patrick Chan.
Before sentencing, Navas-Rivas apologized for his actions, saying he was "deeply sorry for the mistakes I've made."
He also said, in a breaking voice, that on reflection he saw how depressed and sad he was at the time of the offences, and that he hopes to continue school in jail, focusing on mathematics.
"I want to be a better person, through and through. I have a renewed interest in school. I believe some good can come from this."
Chan sentenced Navas-Rivas to six months for the drug charge and 3 years, six months for the firearm charge, to be served consecutively. He will be eligible for parole after serving one-third of his sentence, or 16 months.
Navas-Rivas was also banned from owning firearms for the rest of his life.
In sentencing, Chan noted that Navas-Rivas was a small player in the operation, had no prior criminal record, pleaded guilty at an early opportunity and remained drug-free while complying with strict bail conditions.
"He was abandoned as a child, (so) it's not surprising that would lead to low self esteem," Chan added. "On the other hand, he has a loving foster family and friends."
However, Chan also noted that aggravating circumstances included Navas-Rivas's intention to embark on a life of crime and that he made a number of calculated decisions to break the law over a period of time.
Before sentencing, Crown counsel Ernie Froess told Chan that Navas-Rivas played a partial role in selling a Ruger .22 handgun and ammunition to an undercover police agent during a six-month investigation into a dial-a-dope operation, and helped broker a cocaine deal.
The court was told that during the sting that began in the summer of 2011, Navas-Rivas boasted to an undercover officer that he was busy with a new drug operation and had four kids just out of high school running drugs in their cars. He told the officer he had plans to start an escort service, and could get the officer larger quantities of cocaine.
Both the Crown and defence agreed that Navas-Rivas's comments amounted to bravado.
But in outlining aggravating factors, Froess said that Navas-Rivas was involved in cocaine trading as a business and he aspired to sell more drugs.
Froess said he was also involved in the sale of a gun, which is "a grave risk to the citizens of the Lower Mainland."
Defence lawyer Emmet Duncan said Navas-Rivas got into crime mainly to fuel a cocaine addiction and has now realized that cocaine is dangerous and self-destructive.
He said Navas-Rivas has made remarkable changes in attitude since he has been out on bail and living with the foster family of Peter Noble. He said both the Robertson and the Noble families have written letters of support outlining his change in attitude, including taking part in studies and athletics.


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Old English bendan "to bend a bow; confine with a string, fetter," causative of bindan "to bind," from Proto-Germanic base *band- "string, band" (cf. Old Norse benda "to join, strain, strive, bend"), from PIE root *bhendh- "to bind" (cf. Gothic bindan, Old High German bintan, Sanskrit badhnati "binds," Lithuanian bendras "partner;" Old Persian bandaka- "subject").
Modern sense (early 14c.) is via notion of bending a bow to string it. Cognate with band, bind, and bond. Related: Bended; bent; bending.
"a bending or curving," 1590s; "thing of bent shape," c.1600, from bend (v.). Earlier "act of drawing a bow" (mid-15c.). The bends "decompression pain" first attested 1894.
"broad diagonal band in a coat-of-arms, etc.," c.1400, from earlier sense of "thin, flat strap for wrapping round," from Old English bend "fetter, shackle, chain," from PIE *bhendh- (see bend (v.)).
bend (běnd)
v. bent (běnt), bend·ing, bends
To incline the body; stoop.
adjective phrase
Insane; bonkers: Around-the-bend views from the nation's top critics
adverb phrase
With most or the hardest part done; over the hill: Two more days and we'll be around the bend on this project
Related Terms
bender (1870s+)
To slur a note: They alter pitch and they call it ''bending'' (1940s+ Jazz musicians)
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Holding the parade over for a week due to the threat of rain turned out to be a great idea, allowing the Holiday Lights Parade and to happen under clear, cool skies Friday night. Fort Bragg Fire Department and North Coast Rodders made the decision last week to hold the events over, due to the threat of bad weather, which arrived as predicted. Fire Chief Steve Orsi spoke to business owners after the event. He said that while most favored having the evening festivities on First Friday, some did not. He said in the future, having the parade on a second Friday may work better for all.
Inside the Guest House Museum, Santa's lap hosted a long parade of good boys and girls, even if some were a bit scared to meet him in person.
Out front, the Mendocino Women's Choir, Jamie Peters and Hugh Connolly and the Gloriana Carolers performed before the tree lighting. Those waiting along Main Street could not hear Mayor Dave Turner announcing the lighting of the tree and were surprised to hear the countdown begin. Despite some local controversy over the replacement of the tree on the Guest House lawn by volunteers the day before the parade, most seemed happy with the tree and how it was decorated.
While many were expecting the parade to first head south on Main Street, it instead went east on Pine and turned south onto Franklin Street. While many simply walked from Main to Franklin, most waited on Main for the parade to come around via Oak Street. Chief Orsi said the clockwise direction works better for safety reasons because in past years, officials found it hard to keep traffic off Main Street as the parade was returning on Franklin.
If any one entry was a hit with the kids, it was the City's Public Works truck, which featured an operational toy train set with lighted buildings, a ski tram and even a miniature lighthouse. Frank & Lynda Davis controlled the trains by remote. When the truck passed the Guest House, driver Crystal Prairie and navigator Rosana Cimolino had to stop for a few minutes to allow crowds of kids to get a closer look. The entry took first place in its category, followed by Redwood Children's' Services in second and the Fort Bragg Veterans of Foreign Wars taking third place.
In the large commercial truck category, Rossi's Building Materials took first place.
Mike's Classic Car Wash took first place honors in the medium commercial category, followed by Branesky Sheet Metal in second and Fort Bragg Fire Department in third.
Footlighters was awarded First Place in its category and Mike's Classic Car Wash took Best in Show.
More photos can be found on the Advocate-News' Facebook page.


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For those of you aspiring to make your own video game music, here are a selection of old video game music that are all great examples of how to make an engrossing tune.
Not to say these are the best songs, or that you should like them, but if you listen to the structure of them, you can learn a lot.
Note there are no zelda/ff/castlevania etc. tracks on the playlist because you've already heard all of those. These are from games many of you haven't played before.
Enjoy, I hope you get something good from this.


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LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (WKYT) - An undercover operation helped police bust a meat delivery man they say was using his job to sell drugs.
Police say Kerry Thompson, 34, was delivering meat for Frankfort-based company, Holy Cow Steak Company, but Lawrenceburg police say, along with steaks, he was serving up heroin.
Tammy Purvis is the owner of the company and says she was shocked to learn about her employee getting arrested.
"We sell wholesale meats. We've also recently serve ice cream," says Purvis.
Purvis tells WKYT that she started Holy Cow Steak Company about three years ago,"We do steak, chicken, pork, and seafood wholesale to put food on the table for you know, people who have a hard time being able to go to the grocery stores."
She has several employees who drive decorated delivery trucks.
It turns out Lawrenceburg Police had a bone to pick with one of Purvis's employees. Police say for several months they have received tips about Thompson dealing drugs on the street.
It was on US 127 South, where Lawrenceburg Police say they spotted the Holy Cow Steak Company van. After pulling the vehicle over, police say they found Thompson and that he was serving up much more than meat.
"He seemed to be a very loyal, you know, employee," says Purvis.
Police say they caught Thompson in the middle of a drug transaction selling heroin to one of their confidential informants.
" I was shocked. I was very unaware that he was doing anything like that. I was really, it really upset me," Purvis says.
Police believe this is an isolated incident. Purvis says she is determined to make sure nothing like this ever happens again, "Anybody that I hire, we do do drug testing when we do hire people. And we do do background checks. But I think I'm going to be a whole lot more strict now. I think I'm going to do the drug testing a whole lot more often."
Thompson is listed in the Shelby County Detention Center. He faces a first degree trafficking of a controlled substance charge.


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Hello. Ma name's Larry. This is ma brutha Daryl and this is ma utha brutha Daryl!
I'd prefer something more eponymous, such as "Slashdotter" or just "Slash". <BFG>
Just like calling someone here on
/. "Anonymous Coward" is a sign in itself of the general view on anonymous people which is quite immature, and ready for a change into something more neutral like "Anonymous".
My real name is not ultranova. Yes, shocking I know. But really, my real name is not ultranova. It's just an online pseudonym I use here, which lets me create a narrative about my posts here, and lets other people judge that narrative as they will. And it also allows me to see how that reaction is going, and should it turn unanomously negative - should I be modded down constantly - I could perhaps analyze the criticism and see if it has a point.
So no, the thing about "Anonymous Coward" is not that anonymity is bad in the sense that you all should know my real name, no, it's about establishing an indentity within this forum and using that to have a debate. The day might come that ultranova disappears to the annals of history, but I, the real human being behind it, will still be here. And I'll remember all the criticism ultranova encountered, whether I agree with it or not. Contrast this with the Anonymous Coward, who can't learn for the simple reason that he can't easily track answers to himself.
Anonymity is good, but pseudonymity is even better, at least as far as the purposes of Slashdot and public debate in general go.
Bullying/extorting money & hiding in Matoshree is Bal Thackeray strategy.
His contribution to development of India is zero.
Yes, I hope it never gets to the point where we're so inundated with examples that we can't even muster a little outrage.
....only exists where blood was shed to obtain it, and blood is shed to maintain it.
Most people are far too chickenshit for the pursuit of freedom, unfortunately.
Ben Franklin described them best with his famous quote about liberty.
Lots of groups and countries are pushing for laws against the defamation of religion and blasphemy.
But when you lose the right to say "well, see, I don't believe in your god, and I see no evidence for it" -- then society has been taken over my the most vocal (and in some cases violent) people.
But, in some places, if I said "show me the evidence that Jesus was at least a historical person, let alone the son of god"
We will be seeing more attempts by people to enshrine in law respect for their imaginary friend.
But, in some places, if I said "show me the evidence that Jesus was at least a historical person, let alone the son of god"
You don't need to go far for that. Right here on Slashdot it happens. Granted it's only modding down, no actual burning occurs, but "Troll" is a label that appears to be applied quickly to someone who says things like: "did Obama and Gore really deserve a Nobel prize", or "if global warming is man-made, how come it also happens on Mars" even when the questions are completely in line with the thread. Same used to apply to someone saying that Apple is anything but perfect, however in recent years as it became
Moderation on slashdot allows me to ignore stuff. It doesn't remove it. Everything is still there to see. I fully support moderation as long as people still have the option to see stuff that was downmodded.
If there is a discussion about the theory of evolution and someone says: "carbon-14 dating is not reliable evidence because test results that don't fall in the range expected by the scientists who made the hypothesis are typically rejected" he will get modded down just the same as someone who goes on a long, weird diatribe about extra-terrestrials sex experiments and african-american homosexuals (usually in less politically-correct lingo).
That is the flaw of the moderation system; it's mostly statements tha
Again - modded down comments are still visible if one chooses to read them. And that makes all the difference in the world. Mod points preserve choice. Censorship doesn't.
That is the flaw of the moderation system; it's mostly statements that make consensus among the voting crowd that remain visible, everything else is modded down with no distinction between actual trolls, obvious spammers and dissenting voices. This is no different from Putin sending those rocker girls to the same jail where they hold common criminals and actual terrorists.
Well, no different except that no one is sent anywhere and nothing is removed. In other words, extremely different.
Maybe there is a miss
Maybe there is a missing dimension in the moderation system so people who just want to read comments from people who think exactly like them can do so without preventing actual discussions to go on.
That's a feature, not a bug. The whole point of a discussion forum is to discuss, not stroke anyone's ego with confirmations about how correct they are.
Try to ignore the reference in this thread that is making you so emotional (Obama? evolution? global warming?) and read my comment again. This time maybe you will understand that I was not advocating having only consensual comments appearing in the forum, but rather the opposite.
The problem that I describe about the moderation system is that people have no way to express their dislike about a comment that is different from flagging a comment that is purely junk. If there was a way to say: "this comment is j
Try to ignore the reference in this thread that is making you so emotional (Obama? evolution? global warming?) and read my comment again.
Ah, condescension. Is it there as an attempt to provoke, or purely to prop your self-esteem?
This time maybe you will understand that I was not advocating having only consensual comments appearing in the forum, but rather the opposite.
Bullshit. The whole point of your proposed system is, according to yourself:
If there was a way to say: "this comment is junk" (like rude ho
Bullshit. The whole point of your proposed system is, according to yourself:
I've seen know-it-alls before, but it's the first time I meet someone who thinks he knows the meaning of a comment more than the person who made it (in this instance: me). You must be a hoot at dinner parties.
Since you bring again the concept of censorship in the discussion it is obvious you miss the whole point so I'll be the bigger man and concede that you are in your right to be wrong.
I still dislike not being able to post AND use mod points on the same article.
Where, oh where, have the good-ol-days of Usenet and divine news clients like Forte Agent gone...? And why has no one been able to copy/create a similar quality threaded news/forum viewer as a browser plugin to date...? *sigh*
Hang on - I still have v5 of Agent installed I think...[RDPs off to home PC to take a look
A bit off topic, but on the point of evidence showing that Jesus was a historical person... There is reason to believe he is a historical person, even if there is a lot of evidence to discount the stories about him.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence_for_the_historical_existence_of_Jesus_Christ [rationalwiki.org]
Answer is in the link. The short version is that there are references that lead scholars to believe that there was a spiritual leader named Jesus. We do not have corroboration for much of what happened in the bible, however.
Personally, I would just like a clear distinction to be made between organised religion and personal beliefs/faith/spirituality. One no longer has anything whatsoever to do with the other (in most cases I see), part of the reason I abandoned the institutional church many years ago.
Freedom of speech, thought & expression should never be limited or stifled in any way by anyone else's religious beliefs or political agenda/views, more like. Separation of church and state must remain inviolate & fundamen
The more restricted the speech, the more violence that comes of it. Censorship actually foments a culture of violence and hate. People will be offensive no matter what. I prefer they do it verbally. The physical alternative is much uglier.
(1) I'm outraged that people are being arrested for shit they say on Facebook.
(2) I'm outraged that the entire world seems so stupid as to think it's a good idea to tie real identities to everything they say online SO THAT people who want to use that speech against them are able to. (Never mind that the stupid shit you might have said at 17 will still be there nice and searchable when you are 52 and trying to become mayor).
Report: Every Potential 2040 President Already Unelectable Due To Facebook> [theonion.com]
RE (2): we should actually be able to live in a world as an enlightened species, where our real names/identities never need to be hidden, for fear of any persecution, whether it be religious, political, occupational, media-related or other. So I kinda agree & disagree at the same time, but I have no practical solutions as to how our race gets from A to Z where this is possible.
RE (1): ppl should be arrested in 2012/13 just for still being on Facebook I say!
At 17 you can drive. If you're reckless you can do some damage, for example running a red light or writing that Mr. John Doe is a mass murderer, and that will remain searchable. I'd rather protect Mr. Doe than the young idiot. I have to admit I'd be tempted to vote for a guy who wasn't a total jerk even at 17.
I have to admit I'd be tempted to vote for a guy who wasn't a total jerk even at 17.
Oh, come on. Who wasn't a total jerk at times when he was 17? I was, and I'm absolutely positive you were too. Most seventeen year olds eventually grow up.
(2) I'm outraged that the entire world seems so stupid as to think it's a good idea to tie real identities to everything they say online SO THAT people who want to use that speech against them are able to. (Never mind that the stupid shit you might have said at 17 will still be there nice and searchable when you are 52 and trying to become mayor).
They call you Anonymous Coward for a reason. You're outraged that some people in the world seems to have more guts than you do.
They call you Anonymous Coward for a reason. You're outraged that some people in the world seems to have more guts than you do.
Mighty words for "sydneyfong".
Report: Every Potential 2040 President Already Unelectable Due To Facebook
Haha, and I'll become President by default simply by not having a Facebook account.
No ???, pure profit.
Religion. Religious practice. Religious law. Theocracy.
If you practice it, you are being told what to think and what to believe. And if religious power is also the power of government, you've ALWAYS got a real problem on your hands *even* in cases where you are a practicing member of the established ruling religion.
On top of that, religion seeks to be the presumed origin of morality and that without religion, there would be no morality. This is demonstrably false, but as with nearly everything else ass
Hmmm....not to be argumentative with your inferential logic, but just a couple points:
1. there are some well known Commies who virtually abolished religion in their very large countries and the question worth asking is, did it make those a better place to live & exist...?
2. As far as biblical 'morality' goes, I keep trying to re-educate people on this: the Holy Bible, as far as Christianity is concerned, is not a book of life or any set of teachings on morality or right vs wrong (though it has sections/
"Commies" or "Nazis" is not the opposite of religious theism. Just be clear on what you're trying to say because it really sounds like it. The absense of religion helps. Even in religious countries, the less they actually practice the better.
I was referring to Stalin & Mao more specifically. "Religion is the opiate of the masses"...ring a bell?
Then that makes your argument completely non sequitur and irrelevant. To be more clear, I said "religion bad" and you countered with "anti-religion bad/worse."
Religion harms humanity. I can think of no single instance where that statement doesn't apply. Before the 1960's, Christian theism was pretty much all hellfire and damnation. People got into peace and suddenly, god became a loving god. Before that, holidays were largely just church services and they pulled in and adjusted for some really nice hum
I do not think "non sequitur" means what you think it means. I was merely pointing out that the alternative examples from history shows us 2 of the greatest mass murderers were in fact trying to stamp out religion in their countries (not that that says anything at all about communism or religion necessarily). Whether Stalin was going to be a priest (as someone else pointed out) or not is only relevant if we know his motivations, fears & underlying ideological driving forces. But hey, I only grew up next
For the average person, living in communist Russia was much better then living under the Czars. Now if they had banned religion sooner it would have even been better as the real nutcases like Stalin were religiously raised. Of course it could be argued that if they hadn't banned organized religion then Stalin would have just been another priest.
Bal Thackeray chose fascism/bigotry/politics as a career to make money for his family.
In 1970's I've seen him roaming without slippers in Bombay streets.
His contribution to development of India is zero.
"I will make no bargains with terrorist hardware." -- Peter da Silva


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While the economic challenges facing our state and country remain daunting, we are pleased to see some positive economic news here at home.
This week, among other things, the Alaska Journal of Commerce reported that employment in the health care industry in Alaska is booming, and should continue to provide steady job growth for the forseeable future. In fact, the state labor department's 10-year forecast, from 2008 through 2018, estimates that health care employment will grow 27 percent, compared to overall state job growth of 11 percent. That's on top of 51 percent growth in the past decade. Currently, employment in the health care field accounts for about one in nine jobs around the state.
The factors behind the increase aren't entirely clear, though the aging of Alaska's population may be a big part of it — and we're certainly graying here on the Kenai Peninsula.
But for all those entering the workforce, looking to rejoin the workforce or looking for a new career direction, the numbers indicate a huge opportunity. There is — and will continue to be — a strong demand for qualified people to work in health care. In a time where the job market is otherwise tight, that's a wonderful piece of information to know.


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Dez Bryant Retweets Draya's Vagina Photo and Cowboys Fans Aren't Pleased
It came as a surprise to no one that Dez Bryant didn't do any of his classwork at Oklahoma State, because he isn't the brightest guy around. With that being said I am going to cut him a little slack here.
While on Twitter last night this exchange took place between Bryant and Basketball Wives Draya courtesy of The Big Lead.
Now, I am not going to post the Vagina in question and I would advise you not to go searching, but as you can imagine Cowboys fans were up and arms.
Bryant didn't see the big deal.
Bro its a damn retweet i didnt tweet shit calm downRT @BkBryant23: @DezBryant bro are you kidding me w that tweet?
— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) September 17, 2013
Now, in general I agree with Bryant it isn't a big deal, but Bryant isn't smart enough to understand why people would make it into a big deal and that is what always gets him in trouble (eventually he did delete the tweet).
The person who should be nervous is Draya's boyfriend Orlando Scandrick, why is Dez following your girl?
Oh those silly Cowboys and their Twodel Draya, it is the gift that keeps on giving. If Dez wants to see Draya naked he can just look at the NSFW photos below.
She also likes to hit the pole from time to time.


text: I have a miller 200LE aead welder, the first problem started with low AC power output 50 volts. Next was real low weld output, after doing some troubleshooting I put new brushes and cleaned slip rings (3). Still had same trouble,next I found two blown diodes on regulator circuit card. After repairing that my AC output was OK 120 volts, now the weld output is still real low same as when this problem started.


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Mainstream Audience 'Noticing' Games Again 58
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Shigeru Miyamoto makes it plain that he's extremely pleased with the way the Wii has changed the face of gaming. He says that he gets the feeling that 'because of the Wii, people ... are finally taking notice of videogames again.' The interview goes on to discuss some ways in which Miyamoto hopes to capitalize on that 'notice', including the possibility of introducing new Nintendo characters sometime next year: "For characters, we came up with the concept of the Miis and that allows people to come up with their own characters. Maybe next year sometime, we may have new characters in the same way we came up with Pikmin when we introduced the GameCube."


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Arkansas County Health Administrator Wanda Vester offers tips for keeping your kids safe during summer heat.
Summer is here with temperatures already nearing 100 degrees.
Everyone wants to make sure that children have a happy and healthy summer while playing or being in the sun with their friends or family, and there are tips to ensure their safety.
"It is up to parents or older adults to make sure children are safe in hot weather," Wanda Vester, Arkansas County Health Administrator, said.
Several summer weather tips to remember are:
• Drink lots of fluids, especially water.
• Wear lightweight breathable clothing and especially a hat.
• Use sunblock or sunscreen.
• Try to have children avoid the sun between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
• Stay away from streams and ponds, because of potential flooding from rainstorms.
• Eat lighter meals.
• Stay inside when it is lightning.
• Wear shoes to protect feet.
"Do not leave a child in an automobile," Vester said. "The hot automobile will be hot as an oven."
Keep kids safe in the car by:
• Place an item that is to be carried from the car, such as a cell phone, purse, briefcase or gym bag in the backseat to remind drivers that the child is there.
• Schedules are off during the summer and if your child is late, call within a few minutes to let the daycare know.
• Set your cell phone to remind you to drop your child off at daycare.
• Set your computer calendar program, such as Outlook, to ask "Did you drop off your child at daycare today?"
These tips are also available at the Arkansas County Health Department in either Stuttgart at (870) 673-1609 or DeWitt at (870) 946-2934.


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Chuckles08 writes: I'm about to complete a purchase of an electric scooter that is worth over $5k. Since I'll be parking it on a college campus, it will be vulnerable to theft. I'd like to install some kind of tracking device on it but the solutions I've seen so far seem quite expensive. Are there any reasonably priced and effective solutions out there? Ideally, I'd like to be informed by text message if my scooter moves without my knowing. I'd like to then track the scooter's movements.


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Nuix Launches Nuix Luminate Platform to Bring Light to Dark Data
By: Business Wire
Jan. 28, 2013 06:44 PM
Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, today launched the Nuix Luminate platform to help organisations proactively govern the vast and growing quantities of unknown, unstructured data in archives, email and collaboration systems, file shares, hard drives and other repositories.
"Nuix Luminate is designed to help organisations search and govern all this 'dark data' consistently and repeatably," said Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix. "It provides rapid and deep visibility into the risks, value and worthless filler hidden in unstructured data, so organisations can make informed decisions and take defensible actions, at any scale.
"That means they can reduce storage, eDiscovery and investigation costs, fix records management shortcomings, minimise business risks and open up new sources of value."
Nuix Luminate combines the patented Nuix indexing engine with dashboards, taxonomies and workflows built around real-world use cases. Alongside the platform, Nuix has launched three packaged solutions for common information governance tasks:
Each solution includes a professional services component that can be delivered through one of Nuix's information governance partners. Partners can apply their in-depth industry and customer knowledge to deliver high-value customised services.
"Nuix is once again leading the trend in using technology to leverage the value and minimise the risk of dark data, taking what we've learned from eDiscovery search and analytics and applying it to the larger problem of information governance," said Bennett B. Borden, Chair of the eDiscovery and Information Governance group at legal firm Williams Mullen. "I look forward to using Nuix's new platform and solutions to solve my clients' most pressing information governance challenges."
Throughout 2013 Nuix will expand its range of information governance solutions enabled by the Nuix Luminate platform to address customers' business needs.
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Hugh Taylor's war on trachoma began 35 years ago. As a young doctor, he travelled the red dirt roads of the Tanami desert in a beat-up Land Rover with the late Fred Hollows, dispensing medical help to an estimated 10,000 vulnerable Aboriginal men, women and children with the catastrophic eye disease.
''We slept in a swag, usually at the side of the road, washed each day out of jerry cans. Conditions were tough, temperatures in the 40s and no air-conditioning,'' he says. ''Rates of trachoma then were between 40 per cent and 50 per cent. In the worst communities they were 75 per cent.
''Almost all the kids had snotty noses, dirty faces and perforated ear drums with pus running out from infections. Alcohol was not the problem then that it became later. We treated people with sulphur-based antibiotics that had to be administered twice a day for 21 days which created big logistical problems.''
Families endured harsh summers and freezing winters and infant death was commonplace - a shocking fact Gough Whitlam reminded voters of in Labor's historic ''It's Time'' 1972 election. Taylor says Hollows and his volunteer team of helpers made a significant impact, with the number of trachoma cases falling despite the wretched conditions and limited medical understanding of what they were dealing with.
''People lived in tin sheds and humpies made of iron and branches. Life was grim wherever we went, whether it was the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia, Papunya in the [Northern] territory or the gold fields of Western Australia. We did not fully appreciate the importance of clean hands and faces in controlling infection,'' Taylor says.
Hollows, who went on to become Australian of the Year and internationally celebrated for his efforts to eradicate preventable blindness in the Third World, badgered the Fraser government and the College of Ophthalmologists to launch a national campaign to eradicate trachoma.
Alerted to the disease by Frank Hardy - the outspoken communist and best-selling author - Hollows spearheaded the campaign enlisting the help of 80 medical interns across the country.
Thirty-five years on, Professor Taylor is now the Harold Mitchell chair of the indigenous eye health unit at Melbourne University and a persistent public advocate and thorn in the side of government. Taylor's unit, established five years ago, produces an indigenous eye health survey that benchmarks progress and maps out a national strategy, with some 42 recommendations for closing the gap on a range of issues including trachoma, diabetes-related blindness, cataracts and vision loss.
He says the Third World disease remains as deeply embedded as ever in the desert dust, human grime and impoverished lives of indigenous Australians. A recent survey conducted by the unit estimated that nationwide there are 20,000 men, women and children at risk of trachoma. About 5000 are children.
Australia is the only developed country - among 57 - with ''endemic blinding trachoma'', a disease eradicated from mainstream society 100 years ago. The doggedness of a disease so easily cured in remote communities (yet common in failing African states such as the Sudan and Somalia) is hard to explain given the general level of health care.
In the Northern Territory, West Australia and to a lesser extent South Australia, appropriate health strategies encouraging personal hygiene and targeting infected children with new-generation six- or 12-monthly antibiotics are having a significant impact. Older patients are regularly operated on when eyelashes turn inwards because of infection, which devastates corneas. In communities around Ali Curung, near Tennant Creek in the Barkly Tablelands, infection rates are falling for the first time in years. But that is not the full picture.
Despite the recent advances, the overall trachoma statistics are a source of national embarrassment. Six out of 10 remote communities are afflicted even though children begin life with generally superior eyesight to non-indigenous kids. According to ''The Road Map to Close the Gap for Vision'' produced by Taylor, the rates of preventable eye disease remain at alarming levels. Two-thirds of remote communities surveyed have endemic trachoma. Blinding cataracts are 12 times more common in indigenous adults, 40 per cent of whom have not yet had corrective surgery.
Professor John Funder, an eminent medical researcher and former director of the Baker Institute, says it is not medical science that has betrayed trachoma sufferers, but deeply troubling systemic mid-level bureaucratic indifference. Of some $16 million set aside by the Rudd government for trachoma eradication in 2008, a significant amount remains unspent. NSW, with numerically the nation's largest indigenous population, has sat on its hands for three years while health bureaucrats haggled with Canberra over the scope and timing of screening programs. Queensland, where trachoma was recently rediscovered, is home to the second-biggest indigenous population and has been equally indolent.
Funder, also a senior fellow at Prince Henry's institute of medical research and a professorial fellow at Melbourne University, is scathing in his assessment of the health bureaucracy, believing Kevin Rudd should have stuck to his ''word'' in wanting the federal government to take over state health services. ''It was unfortunate that he got rolled before he could do it.'' Under the Prime Minister Julia Gillard progress has been incomprehensibly slow with other priorities getting in the way.
The ''appalling'' federal-state relationship has been an impediment to forging an effective national trachoma strategy, Funder says. ''The duplication, but more importantly the stagnation, is terrible. Progress is glacial. NSW has not got off its arse. Blockages occur at the mid level where bureaucrats meet every three months, fail to resolve their differences and then agree to meet in another three months.''
One positive, he says, has been the appointment of Jane Halton, the straight-talking secretary of Health and Ageing who is reported to be equally frustrated by the lack of progress and has taken a deep interest in trachoma, seeing it as an important marker of indigenous health, a cause she has championed in closing the health gap between mainstream and indigenous Australia.
Taylor is more diplomatic than Funder, attributing the slow progress to systemic failings in accountability and national oversight. ''A champion like Fred Hollows comes along and the situation improves for a bit and then slips back when the champion disappears.'' After the promising start, Hollows efforts were lost in a bureaucratic maze when the states and fledging indigenous health services cornered control of the trachoma effort.
Since the mid 1970s there have been 11 health ministers, nine heads of the federal health department, seven formal reviews of indigenous health and constant department name changes. The changes resulted in more confusion than progress. ''When we did an indigenous eye health survey five years ago, we found that, over 40 years, indigenous blindness rates had fallen from being 10 times higher than the mainstream society to six times higher and 94 per cent of blindness and bad vision is preventable,'' Taylor says.
There is a further explanation for the low priority accorded trachoma. Dr Tim Henderson, an ophthalmologist and director of eye health at Alice Springs Hospital, who grew up in central Africa, points out that trachoma is a long-term ailment that starts with infections in young children and teenagers and only becomes a serious medical issue 20 or 30 years later when the eye lashes turn in and scrape the cornea.
Henderson's team covers 1 million square kilometres. With health resources stretched, other eye complications such as cataracts, diabetes-related blindness and renal failure, which strike Aboriginal people in their 20s and 30s, get priority. ''Resources tend to go to immediate problems. At a local level there is a sense of dealing with issues that will blind people now. People don't die from eye problems, so funds and resources gravitate to acute care.''
He has also noticed a striking difference in the priority placed on eye care between African and Aboriginal people he has worked amongst. ''In central Africa, people will walk all day, then queue for days, offer their last goat only to be told there is nothing that can be done. In desert communities where people are highly mobile, they are reluctant to wait 10 minutes when they have pressing cultural obligations such as 'sorry business'.''
But perhaps the greatest pointer to national indifference is the fact that the future of Taylor and his highly accomplished indigenous eye unit is in doubt. After five years of snapping at the heels of recalcitrant bureaucrats and government ministers, developing screening techniques and advocating reform, the unit's survival is under a financial cloud. If Taylor and his unit disappear, Funder, who is prepared to donate $100,000 of his personal savings to keep it going, believes the fight against trachoma may be lost.
''It is crucial that Hugh keeps going in this role, he and his unit remain a focal point,'' Funder says. ''There are people who depend on him for moral support; there are people he animates in places like the NT Health. If trachoma can be beaten in the next five years it would mitigate the general sense that indigenous health is an area where there is little progress and not much hope.''
The Indigenous Eye Unit operates on a budget of $1 million a year and was started with donations from the Harold Mitchell Foundation, which contributed $1 million, the Ian Potter Foundation, a range of private donors and matching funding from Melbourne University. Mitchell, a Melbourne businessman who is beating the bushes for new donors, believes trachoma could have been defeated in five years ''but Hugh and his team ran into a great big bureaucratic wall''.
Mitchell says it was easy for him to make the initial financial commitment, which runs out in June, because it was a ''disgrace'' that after all these years, trachoma remains a significant public health issue. ''It is inconceivable to me that Australia has something that only seven other Third World nations have got, that when it comes to trachoma we are ranked with the worst of the worst.''
But Mitchell, the nation's largest media buyer, believes the cause is not without hope. ''Jane Halton is genuinely committed, she wants to move it along and knows that as a nation we need to put an end to this preventable disease once and for all.''
Taylor believes with comprehensive screening, the promotion of face washing and super antibiotics, new cases of trachoma could be wiped out over five years, (those who have the disease severely now would, of course, still develop complications later in life).
He sums up the situation this way. Vision loss accounts for about 11 per cent of the health gap between mainstream and indigenous Australia. ''Closing the gap is a 25-year process, yet we estimate trachoma and [related] blindness can be virtually eliminated in five years. That would cost the community around $90 million.''
''If we fail to act now, in 20 years the number of blind or visually impaired Aboriginal people will double from 15,000 to 30,000. It is that simple and that tragic.''


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Is IP Rewarding Wrong Part of Drug Discovery Process?
By Anette Breindl
Science Editor
Intellectual property (IP) is a cornerstone of the drug discovery industry. But as that industry is changing, some are questioning whether that cornerstone is starting to do more harm than good, at least the way it currently is constructed.
Though it is not the only type of patent, composition of matter patents are a major kind.
Most patented chemicals, though, never see the light of a pharmacy shelf, creating a mismatch between where value is realized, and where it is rewarded by the patent system.
In the era of vertically integrated pharmaceutical companies, that mismatch didn't matter, because in the rare case where a patented chemical made it to approved blockbuster, "everyone in the company benefited, not just the chemists," Garret Fitzgerald told BioWorld Insight.
Today, though, with drug discovery fragmented between academia, biotech and the pharmaceutical industry, those patent rights as often as not create a monkey trap of sorts. Holding onto a chemical compound for dear life makes it unlikely that its value will ever be realized.
"We have huge amounts of patented material sitting in freezers," Fitzgerald said, stuck in limbo because of its patent protection.
Fitzgerald said the situation is also hindering the repurposing of drugs, which is one way that industry is trying to improve its batting average. (See BioWorld Insight, Oct. 22, 2012.)
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, for example, has a pilot program for discovering new uses for existing therapeutic molecules, where eight pharmaceutical companies have agreed to make patented compounds available for testing in new indications – but "there's no commitment by anyone as to what happens afterwards."
In the Oct. 26, 2012, issue of Science, Fitzgerald has published a suggestion for how to deal with the mismatch. The value of the compound, rather than being concentrated in the chemical compound by way of a composition of matter patent, should be allocated among all its developers depending on where the biggest challenges in its development turn out to be.
Where those challenges are, of course, is not clear in advance. Fitzgerald said that the best way to deal with the uncertainty is to estimate where roadblocks will lie, and divvy up the hypothetical spoils at the beginning of the process, but then keep refining that division as actual data come in.
The current system, of course, tries to do something of the sort, with investments at different stages of drug's life cycle bringing different returns in the event of success. But Fitzgerald said that given the many places where unexpected challenges can crop up, allocating value in advance introduces precisely the sorts of uncertainties that keep development from going forward at all.
In his model, "you postpone the allocation of resources until value is realized," he said. "But you buy into this process on the front end."
Fitzgerald said that this approach would have several advantages. For one thing, a version of this system has worked in nonprofit drug development. In his paper, he gave Medicines for Malaria and the nonprofit drug development company Institute for One World Health as examples. Both of which, he wrote, "the collapse of IP barriers, adherence to timelines, and hand-off of results to the next partner in the chain of production" have enabled several drugs to advance rapidly into the clinic.
Focusing on the approved drug and the actual challenges along the path also offers a way to navigate the more fragmented drug discovery process that is replacing integrated development by one large company.
It answers the question of "how do you engage the best people to work with you? They do not work in one company, or one university, or, usually, in one country." And they are not motivated solely by money. "Their priorities lie elsewhere," he said – most often in the wish to do challenging and/or important work.
Finally, the suggestions can be implemented under the current patent laws. Fitzgerald said it would be better if those laws were changed. "I'm not saying the patent laws shouldn't be rewritten," he said. But if that's not in the cards, "you don't actually have to rewrite the patent laws for this to work."
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MSU Law Hosts Public Arts Collaboration "Art@Work"
Michigan State University College of Law will host "Art@Work," a dynamic public arts collaboration between Michigan State University and Peckham, Inc. The exhibit featuring a display of 25 paintings in the third floor gallery area and the board room of the Law College Building will be on display from October 11—November 30, 2013. A meet-and-greet will be held on Wednesday, November 13, 2013, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Law College Building and is open to the public.
The result of a collaborative effort with MSU's Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH), the College of Engineering, and Peckham client artists with a wide range of abilities and cultural backgrounds, hundreds of self-portraits were created to relay the stories and lives of the individuals that created them. The mosaic represents both Peckham's client artists' and the organization's sense of community, and serve as a source of reflection, inspiration and imagination.
Students from RCAH worked with a visiting artist to create the portraits through a series of art-making dialogues, and students from the College of Engineering developed ideas for the design framework and partnered with RCAH to prototype and implement viewing technology for Art@Work's installation.
In early 2013, more than 100 self-portraits were installed on the center of a large wall on Peckham's work floor. As the collaborative art-making continues, the final Art@Work display will grow to include enough artwork to cover a 200 by 40-foot wall.
This dynamic art installation is accessible and promotes dialogue across cultural lines and backgrounds, and represents the diverse groups of people who work and learn together at Peckham.
Peckham, Inc. is a nonprofit vocational rehabilitation organization that provides job training opportunities for persons with significant disabilities and other barriers to employment. As part of the Peckham Community Partnership program, Peckham is presently in collaboration with MSU's Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and the MSU College of Engineering.


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Cheong, McClintock Continue to Shine
NEW HAVEN, Conn —Saturday at the Brady Squash Center the No. 3-ranked Yale men's squash team defeated No. 11 Columbia 7-2 to kick off the Ivy League season. The Bulldogs move to 5-0 (1-1 Ivy) with the win.
Yale's victory can be attributed to the team's depth, a strength that head coach David Talbott has emphasized on numerous occasions. While the Bulldogs dropped matches at the Nos. 1 and 2 spots, where brothers Ramit and Rishi Tandon handed senior Neil Martin and sophomore Sam Fenwick losses in three and five games, respectively, the team swept Columbia through the rest of the lineup. Freshmen Kah Wah Cheong and Liam McClintock continued their strong play at Nos. 4 and 5, where each had won Wednesday in Yale's victory over No. 6 Franklin and Marshall. McClintock's match Saturday was the only one of Yale's seven wins to extend beyond three games.
Yale will be back in action Sunday at 12 p.m. against No. 8 Cornell. The Big Red are 3-0 on the season and defeated Columbia 5-4 on Dec. 7.
Report by Joe Giammittorio '15, Yale Sports Publicity


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Here's a chance to work with large numbers...
My measurements have got all jumbled up! Swap them around and see if you can find a combination where every measurement is valid.
In the ancient city of Atlantis a solid rectangular object called a Zin was built in honour of the goddess Tina. Your task is to determine on which day of the week the obelisk was completed.
Can you explain what is happening and account for the values being displayed?
My average speed for a journey was 50 mph, my return average speed of 70 mph. Why wasn't my average speed for the round trip 60mph ?
An environment that simulates a protractor carrying a right- angled triangle of unit hypotenuse.
A conveyor belt, with tins placed at regular intervals, is moving at a steady rate towards a labelling machine. A gerbil starts from the beginning of the belt and jumps from tin to tin.
Swimmers in opposite directions cross at 20m and at 30m from each end of a swimming pool. How long is the pool ?
We had a lot of interest in this problem and over 200 correct solutions!
Noticing the regular movement of the Sun and the stars has led to a desire to measure time. This article for teachers and learners looks at the history of man's need to measure things.
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.