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Voters in southern Arizona's 8th Congressional District on Tuesday night chose Republican Jesse Kelly to face former Gabrielle Giffords aide Ron Barber, a Democrat, in a special election to replace the wounded ex-congresswoman.
Barber and Kelly will face off in the special general election in June, but the two opponents have already started the war of words.
Barber said Kelly has "the wrong priorities" for southern Arizona's middle class families and seniors.
"He supports a radical tax plan that would increase taxes by 23 percent for middle class families. He's said that Medicare should be eliminated and Social Security should be phased out," Barber said. "I am running to rebuild southern Arizona's middle class... I think now the race is engaged."
IN PICTURES: Gabrielle Giffords, political survivor
Kelly said Barber is wrong and his focus is on cutting taxes, creating more jobs by building a stronger economy and lowering gas prices by opening up more federal lands to exploration.
He's proposed a 10-percent flat tax and said "every single American should pay the exact same tax rate."
"I think a majority of the voters like our plans," Kelly said after his win Tuesday night.
Kelly had about 38 percent of the vote and the margin was enough for The Associated Press to declare him the winner in the race. He beat three other GOP candidates — state Sen. Frank Antenori, retired U.S. Air Force pilot and political newcomer Martha McSally, and Tucson businessman and longtime sports broadcaster Dave Sitton.
Antenori and McSally both conceded before final results were available.
Giffords tapped Barber as her preferred replacement, and he drew strong financial support and no challengers in the Democratic primary.
Kelly is a businessman and tea party favorite who nearly unseated Giffords in 2010.
The winner of the June 12 special general election will hold the seat until Giffords' term expires at the end of 2012. The race for the full term for the renumbered District 2 kicks off with an August primary.
Giffords resigned from her seat on Jan. 25, slightly more than a year after she was shot at a constituent meet-and-greet in Tucson. Six people were killed and 13 others were wounded including Barber and Giffords.
The 8th District spans parts of Tucson and its suburbs, some of Pinal and Santa Cruz counties and all of Cochise County.
All four Republicans in the race embraced strong conservative issues like enhanced border security before immigration reform, repeal of federal health care legislation and cuts to the size of federal government and of federal regulations. That may be an issue for Kelly since Barber embraces Giffords' moderate Democratic positions, which can be a draw to the independents who decide the general elections in the district.
The 8th District has nearly 425,000 registered voters with 159,000 Republicans, 134,000 Democrats and 128,000 independents.


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Bears Quarterback Jay Cutler and his wife, former "Hills" star Kristin Cavallari, are reportedly expecting their second child.
E! News reported on its website Wednesday morning that the couple is expecting a sibling to Camden Cutler, who was born in August 2012.
"We know we want another one close in age to Camden and we're at the point where we're both ready," the site quoted Cavallari as saying in September. "Before Camden was born, I thought I'd be pregnant again by the time he was six months, but I definitely wasn't ready. Now, I'm finally ready."
In February, Cavallari said Cutler is a really good father.
"He's the best. From day one, he changes diapers, he's very hands-on and incredibly involved. I honestly couldn't ask for a better dad," she said. "It's the cutest thing. There's nothing sexier than seeing your guy with your baby."
The pair married in Nashville in June. They first started dating after meeting at Chicago's Market restaurant in 2010 and were engaged in April 2011. That engagement was called off but they were back together months later.

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Asura's Wrath, a new game (joining Dragon's Dogma) due for a 2012 release, got a showing at the World of Capcom panel yesterday at Comic-Con. Here is a two minute video full of gameplay, showing off the game's beat-em-up adventure cred.
In story and in action, it does seem a little God of War-y but Kazuhiro Tsuchiya, the game's producer, said it combines Asian mythology with science-fiction themes. In the game, Asura, your six-armed main character, is a demigod betrayed by other gods, sending him into a 12,000 year hibernation (of sorts). He awakes, bent on revenge against them.
In a video shown to the panel, Asura confronts his primary antagonist, who tears his limbs off (revealing a mechanical looking endoskeleton at the joints). "Who do you think you are?" Asura demands. "God," is the reply.
A slide then showed an enormous diety of some type, looming over Earth, as an example of the kinds of foes Asura will confront and overcome. I'm guessing it'll take one hell of a Quicktime event to bring him down.


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The killing of activists protecting land rights and the environment has increased dramatically over the past decade, with nearly three times as many deaths in 2012 than 10 years previously, a new report has found.
Deadly Environment, an investigation by London-based Global Witness, documents 147 recorded deaths in 2012, compared with 51 in 2002.
Between 2002 and last year, at least 908 activists were killed in 35 countries — with only 10 convictions. The death rate has risen in the past four years to an average of two activists a week, according to the report, which also documents 17 forced disappearances, all of whom are presumed dead.
Deaths last year are likely to be higher than the 95 documented to date, the environmental rights organization said, with under-reporting and difficulties verifying killings in isolated areas in a number of African and Asian nations.
Reports from countries including Central African Republic, Zimbabwe and Myanmar, where civil society groups are weak and the regimes authoritarian were not included in the Global Witness count.
"Many of those facing threats are ordinary people opposing land grabs, mining operations and the industrial timber trade, often forced from their homes and severely threatened by environmental devastation," the report said
Others have been killed for protests over hydroelectric dams, pollution and wildlife conservation, it added.
Brazil, the report found, is the world's most deadly country for communities defending natural resources, with 448 deaths between 2002 and last year, followed by 109 in Honduras and Peru with 58.
In Asia, the Philippines is the deadliest with 67, followed by Thailand at 16, the report said.
More than 80 percent of the recorded deaths were in Latin and Central America, it said.
There have been only 10 successful prosecutions connected with the killings in Brazil over the past 12 years, the report added.
"What feeds the violence is the impunity," said Isolete Wichinieski, national coordinator of the Brazilian land right group Comissao Pastoral da Terra.
The investigation unearthed information on perpetrators in just 294 of the 448 deaths, of which 54 were identified as police or military units.
In Brazil, the Amazon is the main frontier and most violent conflicts take place in newly deforested areas where communities are first confronted by illegal loggers, closely followed by cattle ranchers and soy bean farmers.
In Honduras, the second-most dangerous country, 93 peasant farmers in the fertile Bajo Aguan region have been murdered since 2010 amid land conflicts with agricultural businesses expanding African palms plantations that are traded globally on the lucrative carbon credits scheme.
The murder of Brazilian ecologists Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo in May 2011 suggests high-profile campaigners are not immune from the violence. Two assassins in this case were convicted.
"There can be few starker or more obvious symptoms of the global environmental crisis than a dramatic upturn in killings of ordinary people defending rights to their environment and livelihoods from corporate and state abuse," Global Witness senior campaigner Oliver Courtney said. "Yet those responsible almost always get away with it, because governments are failing to protect their citizens and the international community is not paying enough attention to their plight."


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Right now, around the world, brave members of America's armed forces are on duty, defending our freedom and upholding our values.
When not laser-focused on the mission at hand, they're looking forward to the day when their service to our nation is fulfilled and they can reunite with their families.
They are also imagining how they can use their hard-earned skills to build an exciting, rewarding and important career when they return home.
I want them to look no further than United Airlines.
That's why we are focused on recruiting, developing and championing veterans across our company, demonstrating to our returning women and men in uniform that United is the best possible place for them to put their training, knowledge, discipline and character to the noblest use.
They've developed their knowledge and skills in some of the worst of times. We hope they will use those skills to keep United performing at our best, all of the time.
That's why we are accelerating our efforts to onboard the best and the brightest, and substantially increasing our overall recruitment numbers each year.
We recently launched a new sponsorship program to support onboarding veterans into United and a new care package program to support deployed employees. It's one more reason why United continues to rank high - and rise higher - as a top workplace for veterans. In fact, we jumped 21 spots this year on Indeed.com's list of the top U.S workplaces for veterans. This is a testament to our increased recruiting efforts, as well as our efforts to create a culture where veterans feel valued and supported.
We use the special reach and resources of our global operations to partner with outstanding organizations. This is our way of stepping up and going the extra mile for all those who've stepped forward to answer our nation's call.
We do this year-round, and the month of November is no exception; however, it is exceptional, especially as we mark Veterans Day.
As we pay tribute to all Americans who have served in uniform and carried our flag into battle throughout our history, let's also keep our thoughts with the women and men who are serving around the world, now. They belong to a generation of post-9/11 veterans who've taken part in the longest sustained period of conflict in our history.
Never has so much been asked by so many of so few.... for so long. These heroes represent every color and creed. They are drawn from across the country and many immigrated to our shores.
They then freely choose to serve in the most distant and dangerous regions of the world, to protect democracy in its moments of maximum danger.
Wherever they serve - however they serve - whether they put on a uniform each day, or serve in ways which may never be fully known, these Americans wake up each morning willing to offer the "last full measure of devotion" on our behalf.
Every time they do so, they provide a stunning rebuke to the kinds of voices around the world who doubt freedom and democracy's ability to defend itself.
Unfortunately, we know there are those who seem to not understand – or say they do not - what it is that inspires a free people to step forward, willing to lay down their lives so that their country and fellow citizens might live.
But, we – who are both the wards and stewards of the democracy which has been preserved and handed down to us by veterans throughout our history – do understand.
We know that inciting fear and hatred of others is a source of weakness, not strength. And such divisive rhetoric can never inspire solidarity or sacrifice like love for others and love of country can.
It is this quality of devotion that we most honor in our veterans - those who have served, do serve and will serve.
On behalf of a grateful family of 96,000, thank you for your service.
Each year around Veterans Day, Indeed, one of the world's largest job search engines, rates companies based on actual employee reviews to identify which ones offer the best opportunities and benefits for current and former U.S. military members. Our dramatic improvement in the rankings this year reflects a stronger commitment than ever before to actively recruiting, developing and nurturing veteran talent.
"We've spent a lot of time over the past 12 months looking for ways to better connect with our employees who served and attract new employees from the military ranks," said Global Catering Operations and Logistics Managing Director Ryan Melby, a U.S. Army veteran and the president of our United for Veterans business resource group.
"Our group is launching a mentorship program, for instance, where we'll assign existing employee-veterans to work with new hires who come to us from the armed forces. Having a friend and an ally like that, someone who can help you translate the skills you picked up in the military to what we do as a civilian company, is invaluable. That initiative is still in its infancy, but I'm really optimistic about what it can do for United and for our veteran population here."
Impressively, we were the only one of our industry peers to move up on the list, further evidence that we're on a good track as a company.
The question of where David Ferrari was had haunted retired U.S. Army Sergeant Major Vincent Salceto for the better part of 66 years.
Rarely did a week go by that Salceto didn't think about his old friend. Often, he relived their last moments together in a recurring nightmare. In it, it's once again 1953 and Salceto and Ferrari are patrolling a valley in what is now North Korea. Suddenly, explosions shatter the silence and flares light up the night sky.
Crouching under a barrage of bullets, Salceto, the squad's leader, drags two of his men to safety, then he sees Ferrari lying face down on the ground. He runs out to help him, but he's too late. And that's when he always wakes up.
Italian Americans from opposite coasts – Salceto from Philadelphia, Ferrari from San Francisco – the two became close, almost like brothers, after being assigned to the same unit during the Korean War. When Ferrari died, it hit Salceto hard.
"After that, I never let anyone get close to me like I did with Dave," he says. "I couldn't; I didn't want to go through that again."
When the war ended, Salceto wanted to tell Ferrari's family how brave their son and brother had been in battle. Most of all, he wanted to salute his friend at his gravesite and give him a proper farewell.
For decades, though, Salceto had no luck finding his final resting place or locating any of his relatives. Then, in June of this year, he uncovered a clue that led him to the Italian Cemetary in Colma, California, where Ferrari is buried.
Within days, Salceto, who lives in Franklinville, New Jersey, was packed and sitting aboard United Flight 731 from Philadelphia to San Francisco with his wife, Amy, and daughter, Donna Decker, on his way to Colma. For such a meaningful trip, he even wore his Army dress uniform.
That's how San Francisco-based flight attendant Noreen Baldwin spotted him as he walked down the jet bridge to get on the plane.
"I saw him and said to the other crew members, 'Oh my goodness, look at this guy,'" she says. "I knew there had to be a story."
The two struck up a conversation and Salceto told Baldwin why he was traveling. She got emotional listening to him talk and made a point of fussing over him, making sure he and his family had everything they needed.
About halfway through the flight, Baldwin had an idea. She and her fellow crew members would write messages of encouragement to Salceto and invite his fellow passengers to do the same.
"We did it discreetly," says Baldwin. "I asked the customers if they saw the man in uniform, which most had, and asked them if they wanted to write a few words for him on a cocktail napkin. A lot of people did; families did it together, parents got their kids to write something. After the first few rows, I was so choked up that I could barely talk."
When Baldwin surprised Salceto with dozens of hand-written notes, he, too, was speechless. He laid the stack on his lap and read each one. At the same time, the pilots made an announcement about the veteran over the loud speaker, after which the customers on board burst into applause.
"It seems contrived, and I hate using the word organic, but that's what it was; it just happened," Baldwin says. "Mr. Salceto was so loveable and humble, and what he was doing was so incredible, it felt like the right thing to do. And you could tell he was touched."
On June 27, Salceto finally stood before Ferrari's grave and said that long-awaited goodbye. As a trumpeter played "Taps," he unpinned a medal from his jacket and laid it reverently on the headstone.
"I had gotten a Bronze Star for my actions [the night Ferrari died] with a 'V' for valor, and that was the medal I put on Dave's grave," says Salceto, pausing to fight back tears. "I thought he was more deserving of it than I was."
For the first time in years, Salceto felt at peace. His mission was accomplished.
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Shooting Star Supper
Discover the origins of a shooting star whilst enjoying a tasty supper from Battlesteads restaurant.
Date & Time
|Wednesday 13th December, 2017
|9:00pm to Late
Age Suitability
Shooting Stargazers from 14 to 100 years old will enjoy this experience.
Equipment Needed
If the skies clear and are ripe for a great shooting star show, then you'll need to keep warm, and perhaps something to sit on, for example a picnic blanket. If you want to try to photograph a meteor then bring your tripod and DSLR for some top tips.
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Shooting stars can be seen at any time of the year, particularly in a Dark Sky Site away from light pollution, so when you're visiting us it's always best to be looking up. Additionally there are several regular meteor showers every year, caused by the orbiting Earth crashing into dust particles left by comets and asteroids that visit our inner solar system.
Battlesteads Observatory is the number one location in Northumberland to enjoy a shooting star supper in style. A perfect compromise between the comfort of award winning, locally sourced food and the dark skies of the Northumberland International Dark Sky Park, it's absolutely second to none.
After a brief introduction in the observatory, the evening begins in the Restaurant with a choice of one of our superb freshly made sandwiches, (hot or cold) and piping hot soup, (be sure to tell us of any dietary requirements when you book.) Then the team will take you up to the observatory for a tour of the astronomical equipment available. During your observatory visit, you'll be treated to an explanation of the origins of shooting stars, meteors, comets, asteroids and learn how to collect micrometeorites in your own back garden.
Finally with the hope of clear skies, our team will guide you around some of the fantastic wonders of the universe that can be seen from the dark skies of Northumberland and we'll settle down to watch the celestial firework show. If you'd like to learn a little bit about how to image shooting stars with a DSLR camera, our team will be on hand to give you some top tips.
During the winter months the observatory warm room is kept cosy and with free hot drinks available all year round; this simply is the best and most comfortable way to be introduced to the dark starry skies of Northumberland and the universe beyond.
It's important to note that most meteor showers fully peak after midnight and so, if the skies are clear, you'll get the best out of the event if you're able to stay up late.
As of yet, we're unable to control the weather, so observing the skies can only go ahead if it's clear but you'll be pleased to know that all events go ahead in any weather conditions.
Event Specific Information
The Geminids - one of the best meteor showers of the year and it produces up to 120 multicoloured meteors during its peak.
It results from an asteroid known as 3200 Phaethon trailing debris through space. The shower is short lived and runs annually from December 7-17. It peaks this year on the night of the 13th and morning of the 14th.
The waning crescent moon will mean a very dark sky this year and the Geminids should put on an awesome show!
Best seen after midnight. Meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Gemini, but will appear anywhere in the sky.
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A few days ago I was speaking at a Financial Literacy conference in Orlando. One of the most interesting contributions came from Chase Card Services - their research had found that "consumers are more optimistic and spending more". This where the President has taken the view that investment in growth rather than tackling the deficit is the priority, in stark contrast to "Austerity Britain".
So I am delighted that today Ed Randall has written this thought provoking piece for Liberal Left responding to the double dip recession, as he points out:
"It isn't any longer good enough to complain that the Coalition was saddled with an almighty Labour mess. It was, but the Coalition government has to look – and be seen to look – to the future and not to the past. It isn't any longer good enough to insist that the Coalition has no alternative but to insist on accelerated deficit reduction, and to go on treating 'deficit reduction [as] the most urgent issue facing Britain"


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Climate change is one of the greatest social injustices in the world today – leaving the people who have the least to suffer the most.
Climate change affects people in poverty all over the world.
Climate change affects people in poverty all over the world and threatens their very survival. During the past 30 years, disasters – including droughts, heat waves, floods, hurricanes and monsoons – have increased in frequency and intensity. People already suffering from poverty are greatly affected by these disasters, and they often do not have the resources to recover from them. CARE works to reduce the vulnerability of people to the risk of disasters and to help people adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Climate change's effects on women and girls
Women often bare the brunt of poverty around the world, and climate change affects them especially. When access to necessary resources, such as water, food or cooking fuel, is limited, women are forced to work harder and longer to provide for their families. We see this time and again in hard-hit areas. In developing countries, more than two-thirds of women in the labor force work in agriculture. When resources are scarce due to retreating glaciers, changes in rainfall or a weather-related disaster, women's livelihoods and the survival of their families is threatened.
When resources are scarce, girls suffer, too. Some girls may not be able to go to school because they're spending time walking longer distances to gather wood or water; their families have less money to pay for their school fees; or they're simply too hungry to attend.
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She wants her job back
Opponents of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy against gays serving in the military are hoping for another major legal victory as a federal trial begins in Tacoma today over whether to reinstate a lesbian flight nurse discharged from the Air Force Reserve.
The trial comes just days after a federal judge in California declared "don't ask, don't tell" an unconstitutional violation of the due process and free speech rights of gay men and lesbians. While the ruling does not affect the legal issues in the case of former Maj. Margaret Witt, gay rights activists believe a victory – and her reinstatement – could help build momentum for repeal of the policy.
"There's already political momentum to do something to repeal this unfair statute," said Aaron Caplan, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who is on Witt's legal team. "Judicial opinions from multiple jurisdictions saying there's a constitutional problem with this ought to encourage Congress to act more swiftly."
Witt was a member of a squadron based at McChord Air Force Base when she was suspended in 2004 and honorably discharged. She challenged the constitutionality of her dismissal, and a federal appeals court panel ruled in 2008 that the military could not discharge service members for being gay unless it proved that the firing furthered military readiness. The case was sent back to U.S. District Court in Tacoma for Judge Robert Leighton to determine whether Witt's firing met that standard.
Several of Witt's former colleagues are expected to testify that she was an excellent nurse, and it was her dismissal – not her sexual orientation – that caused morale problems in the unit.
Justice Department lawyers representing the Air Force note that the case has put them in the position of defending a law neither the president nor the department itself believes is good policy.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates also favors repealing the 1993 law, which prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but allows the discharge of those who acknowledge being gay or are discovered to be engaging in homosexual activity.
Government lawyers nevertheless insist Witt's firing was justified – and that the panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not know the extent of her conduct when it sided with her in 2008.
That conduct included a long-term relationship with a civilian woman, an affair with a woman who was married at the time and two earlier relationships with fellow servicewomen, Witt acknowledged in a deposition in May.
It was a 2004 e-mail from the husband of the married woman to the Air Force chief of staff, Gen. John Jumper, that prompted the investigation into Witt's sexuality.
Witt acknowledged the extramarital affair was not consistent with good "officership."
She also said she told two members of her unit about her orientation – forcing them to choose between loyalty to Witt and Air Force policy, the Air Force argues.
For those reasons, it says, Witt's firing did further military goals, even if 19 current and former members of Witt's unit have submitted declarations saying they had no problem serving with her.
"Those co-workers are not military commanders, and the military cannot operate by a unit referendum process in which disciplinary policies and outcomes are determined by the individual opinions of a few unit members," Justice Department attorney Peter Phipps wrote in a court filing.
The Air Force also says Witt can't be reinstated because she no longer meets Air Force nursing requirements, something Witt's attorneys dispute.
Witt's attorneys, led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, say that it is the Air Force's burden to prove that her reinstatement would be a detriment to unit cohesion. And, ACLU attorney Sarah Dunne says, the Air Force has provided no such evidence.
Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., an expert witness for the government, said in a deposition that he didn't know if Witt's reinstatement would negatively affect military functions, and the current commander of Witt's unit, Col. Janette Moore-Harbert, acknowledged having no evidence to that effect.
The trial is expected to last seven days. Meanwhile, the Senate could take up a defense bill passed by the House that includes a provision to end "don't ask, don't tell."


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Capstone Research Project: Holocene History of Estuarine Environmental Change
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Each time this course is offered, the students collaborate on a semester-long capstone research project that applies paleontological techniques and concepts to some problem associated with environmental management and restoration. Because my research interests are focused upon Greater Everglades' restoration and the history of Southwest Florida estuaries, the project is typically associated with the historical record of estuarine environmental change through the middle and late Holocene with hopes of using that information to either identify pre-altered conditions (for defining restoration targets) or to predict future environmental conditions (as effects future global climate and sea-level change). The project employs multiple topical units covered throughout the course and requires some field and much laboratory time. The project culminates with the class co-authoring an abstract and poster that is either displayed at our institution's Research Day or at a Southeast Section G.S.A. meeting.
In the course's most recent offering (fall, 2008), the project concerned the history of environmental change seen within a ~ 1000 year old oyster reef located in an estuary at the mouth of Shark River Slough, the main flow-way of the Everglades (i.e., the mouth of the "River of Grass"). The study's premise was that the oyster reef presumably recorded the history of freshwater delivery into this estuary and may have documented the anthropogenic alteration of freshwater flow.
This specific project was site specific and depended upon materials collected at a specific geographic location. However, the concept of orchestrating some project involving environmental management could be applicable to any course.
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
For the Fall, 2008 project, students applied their knowledge from a sedimentology and stratigraphy course (taken by most students the previous semester), and from the following topical units in the paleontology course: taphonomy, paleoecology, paleoenvironmental interpretation, and taxonomy and systematics.
How the activity is situated in the course
Content/concepts goals for this activity
1. To assess taphonomic state or taphonomic grade.
2. To relate taphonomic grade to environmental energy and time of exposure.
3. To describe fossil assemblages and use the assemblage constituents to infer paleoenvironmental conditions.
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
- Conduct a complete scientific investigation.
- Hypothesis generation and testing / testing of competing hypotheses.
- Making predictions followed by comparison of data against predictions.
- Analysis of data.
Other skills goals for this activity
- Students work collaboratively to complete all aspects of the project.
Description of the activity/assignment
Field work is accomplished early in the semester and with minimal time invested. Because scheduling field trips that can accommodate everyone is difficult, the field experience is optional. In these situations, someone chronicles the field work with either a digital still camera or digital videocamera and then these are shared with everyone in the class.
All aspects of the project are collaborative; students collect and share data, prepare and share figures and tables, and collectively prepare the poster and abstract.
The following files are uploaded as supportive teaching materials:
1. Geobio Research Project Description F08.doc: This is the project overview that is distributed to students as a handout at the start of the semester.
2. Geobio Research Project Qs.doc: This set of questions is distributed early in the semester to spark a discussion and to aid in the design of the project.
3. Geobiology GSA SE 2009 Abstract.doc: This is a copy of the abstract that was submitted to the 2009 Southeast Section Geological Society Of America meeting in St. Petersburg.
4. Geobio GSA SE09 Poster.ppt: A copy of the poster presentation given at the 2009 Southeast GSA meeting.
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At the moment it's not looking altogether likely that Guillermo Del Toro's mecha-vs-monsters movie Pacific Rim is going to get a sequel - in fact, it might be argued that it doesn't really need one. Nonetheless, it's worth trying to ascertain whether or not Pacific Rim could be considered a financial success, since this could have implications for whether or not future new IPs receive a green light.
First of all, let's take a look at the broader picture. Pacific Rim currently occupies a pretty respectably tenth place in the list of highest-grossing movies of 2013 worldwide. The top four movies - Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2, Fast and Furious 6 and Monsters University, respectively - are all sequels or prequels while the fifth, Man of Steel, is a reboot. The highest-ranking film based on a new IP is The Croods, coming in at sixth place, followed by novel adaptation World War Z in seventh place, Wizard of Oz prequel Oz the Great and Powerful in eighth place and another sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness, in ninth place.
It can sometimes be a little wearying to see theaters flooded with sequels, reboots and remakes, but if this list tells us anything it's that these kinds of movies do tend to make a lot of money. When audiences are familiar with the property and the characters, their likelihood of going to see another movie within a particular franchise increases. This certainly isn't universally true - the two highest-grossing movies are Avatar and Titanic, neither of which were sequels or reboots, and there have been plenty of sequels that did badly at the box office - but it does give studios a little pause for thought when it comes to greenlighting a movie like Pacific Rim.
Del Toro's film has a lot of international appeal, thanks to the inclusion of Jaeger operators from all over the globe and cast members like Japanese actor Rinko Kikuchi and Brits like Idris Elba and Robert Kazinsky. The largest chunk of the box office take came from China, where the current gross is nearly $112 million, but that's followed closely by its domestic gross of over $101 million. The total take is over $407 million worldwide, a respectable profit considering Pacific Rim's $190 million budget and certainly enough to justify a sequel if Legendary Pictures and Del Toro decide to go ahead with one.
As CBM has observed, this makes Pacific Rim the highest-grossing live-action movie based on a new IP of 2013 so far. That might be a little too long a title to fit on a trophy, but it's nonetheless a decent accomplishment considering that the movie had some worthy competition. Other movies that were beaten out for this title include Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi Oblivion, which starred Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, stage magician mystery Now You See Me, twin action flicks Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down, and Neill Blomkamp's recent release Elysium.
With all that in mind, it's pretty safe to call Pacific Rim a success for Del Toro. We already quizzed Screen Rant readers on the subject of whether they want to see more of the Kaiju and Jaegers in a Pacific Rim sequel, but now it's time for a more fundamental question: when you go to the theater, are you more likely to pick an interesting new IP or a sequel within a franchise that you already like?
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Pacific Rim is out on DVD and Blu-ray from October 15th, 2013.
Source: Box Office Mojo (via CBM)


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When BMXers grow up...
Our trip is amazing, we've ridden a ton in spots all over Pennsylvania and have hung out with great people. Computer time is limited, which is a good thing, but not posting photos and stories is an unfortunate part of that. Here's one story:
Last night Steevo fell and his tooth went through his lip (teeth are fine). What would you do if you had no insurance? We went back to where we are staying, looked it up on the internet, found that liquid stitch stuff in hospitals is basically super glue (cyanoacrylate) and then glued it shut. Done. It looks good and we hope for a quick recovery.
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This page describes CHDK Lua functions available on the camera to support control using the PTP Extension.
PTP client applications use the PTP_CHDK_ExecuteScript API to execute Lua code. In chdkptp and ptpcam, this is available through the lua and luar commands.
General information about executing Lua code over PTPEdit
- To execute a Lua script already loaded on your camera (e.g. testprgm.lua), send the following Lua code from your client
- This loads the file and executes it. This is generally preferable to using "require", because it avoids the problems with sleep etc mentioned below.
- If the script uses parameters from the CHDK script menu, set the variables defined in the script header fore loadfile, like a=1 b=2 loadfile...
- In chdkptp 1.2 and earlier, executing a script while another script is already running can cause crashes and memory leaks.
- To check whether your script has terminated, you can use the script status command (script-status in ptpcam.)
- by default, chdkptp checks script status and prevents executing a new script while a script is running.
- If using chdkptp with CHDK 1.3, you can use the killscript command to end a running script.
- Lua return values and errors messages are sent using the message interface.
- Simple tables are returned in a limited human readable string format by default, see [1] for a description. This can be changed by providing your own usb_msg_table_to_string. A replacement that properly serializes Lua tables can be found in chdkptp.
- In CHDK 1.2 and later, CHDK alt mode is automatically entered when a PTP script starts to execute. Unless the alt state is explicitly set with enter_alt() or exit_alt(), the previous alt state is restored when the script ends. In CHDK version prior to 1.2 Lua script execution would CHDK alt mode in a confused state. On these builds you may need to press the alt button a couple times to get the alt menu and buttons to respond as expected.
- While scripts in files already on the camera may be used, functions that yield (e.g. sleep(), wait_click() etc.) cannot be used inside require (or other pcall).
- Any key presses generated by script are released when the script ends. If you want to control key press and releases over PTP, you can use the message interface, or use Logical event functions to send the key presses.
- In CHDK prior to version 1.2, the function switch_mode_usb() should be used instead of set_record to switch between record and play mode when PTP is connected. In 1.2 and later, set_record will call the USB code if a USB connection is detected. switch_mode_usb is still available, and always calls the USB specific code.
- Many shooting override functions (like set_tv*, set_focus, etc) only take effect if the shot is taken in the same script as the override was set. When the script ends, the override is reset. Each lua or luar command is a new script, so
luar set_tv96_direct(1) luar shoot()
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luar set_tv96_direct(1) shoot()
- instead, or use canon manual mode and set USER propcases, or set_config_value with CHDK overrides.
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The following functions are intended specifically for use with PTP. While they are available to all scripts, using them without a PTP connection is not recommended.
Set the camera to play or record mode.
mode is 1 for record or 0 for play.
Forces the Canon firmware to see the USB 5V line as active regardless of its actual state.
- mode = 1 or true for USB 5V power detect forced active
- mode = 0 or false for USB 5V power detect normal
This function useful in multicam scripts that need to maintain PTP communications while the USB 5V line is switched on & off for USB remote shooting - particularly for precision sync.
Returns true if function is implemented, false otherwise.
Note : this function requires the CAM_ALLOWS_USB_PORT_FORCING option to be selected in the platform_camera.h build configuration file for the camera. As of CHDK release 1.4, the option is enabled by default for all cameras.
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usb_sync_wait( mode )
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Causes the camera to wait for a sync signal (USB power going from 5V to 0V) before completing the next exposure.
- mode = 1 or true for wait for sync at next shot
- mode = 0 or false for do not wait for sync at next shot
This function is useful in multicam scripts that need precise synchronization.
Returns nothing.
msg = read_usb_msg([timeout])
Read a message sent from the client program using the PTP_CHDK_WriteScriptMsg API from the CHDK PTP interface (putm command in ptpcam or chdkptp).
Returns the next available message as a string, or nil if no messages are available
If timeout is given and not zero, wait until a message is available or timeout expires.
status = write_usb_msg(msg,[timeout])
Writes a message to the CHDK PTP interface. Client applications can read the message using the PTP_CHDK_ReadScriptMsg API (getm command in ptpcam or chdkptp)
msg may be nil, boolean, number, string or table. Tables will be converted to a string by usb_msg_table_to_string
returns true if the message was queued successfully, otherwise false
If timeout is set and not zero, wait until message is written or timeout expires.
NOTE strings will not include a terminating NULL.
This function is called by the PTP message code when a table is returned from a Lua script, or sent using write_usb_msg. Lua code can override this function to provide different serialization formats. The return value should be a string on success. On failure, a Lua error should be thrown. PTP scripts may override this function to provide their own serialization format.
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Chapel Hill, N.C.—Junior attackman Rob Grimm (Black River, N.Y./Carthage) tied a career-high with five points, but a Retriever comeback fell short, as No. 11 North Carolina (3-1) defeated UMBC (1-2),13-9,at Fetzer Field.
Grimm scored three goals and added a pair of assists, while freshman midfielder Zach Linkous (Jarrettsville, Md./St. Paul's) and sophomore midfielder Scott Hopmann (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) added two goals apiece.
UMBC was 3-for-3 in extra-man opportunities in the game.
North Carolina was paced by attackman Nicky Galasso who scored a pair of goals and added three assists, while midfielder Marcus Holman scored four goals.
Trailing 9-2 at the 9:47 mark of the third quarter, UMBC rallied furiously and closed the gap to 11-8 on a man-up goal by Linkous with 7:09 to play in the game. After killing off a penalty, UMBC had two opportunities to close with a pair of goals, but a Linkous' shot attempt was blocked and Grimm's effort was stopped by Tar Heel netminder Chris Madalon.
Carolina' Will Campbell would restore the three-goal lead on an unassisted goal with 3:07 left, but Grimm netted his third goal with 1:22 remaining to maintain UMBC's hopes. But the Tar Heels won the ensuing draw and Billy Bitter closed the scoring at the 1:06 mark to seal the win for the hosts.
UNC struck for the game's first two goals in the first 5:25 of action, but Linkous and freshman attackman Matt Gregoire (Crofton, Md./South River) responded with scores to tie the game at 2-2 with 1:20 to play in the first quarter. But UNC controlled the ensuing face-off and Galasso netted his first goal of the game seven seconds later and the Tar Heels led, 3-2, after 15 minutes.
For the second consecutive game, UMBC was blanked in the second quarter as North Carolina built the lead to 6-2 at intermission. The Tar Heels outshot UMBC, 24-10, in the first half and extended the lead to 9-2 before UMBC made its spirited rally.
UMBC junior goalkeeper Brian McCullough (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) made a career-high 14 saves, while Madalon stopped 13 in the Tar Heel net. North Carolina outshot UMBC, 48-30, and captured 17 of 26 draws.
Grimm has 15 points in his last four outings and extended his consecutive game scoring streak to eight straight.
The Retrievers return to action on Saturday, March 12 when they face Johns Hopkins in the Konica-Minolta Face-Off Classic. The final game of a triple-header of lacrosse takes place at M&T Bank Stadium at 4:00 p.m.


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Runtime: The On-the-Fly Instrumentation Approach
The additional checking code that the compiler is able to generate can be injected later at runtime, provided that on-the-fly instrumentation of the running program is possible. This is notably the case when the code runs inside a virtual machine or an emulator.
This on-the-fly instrumentation approach leads to diagnostic tools that help uncover numerical problems during the testing and debugging phases. Following this approach, the program would be executed under the supervision of a component that watches every arithmetic operation and signals whenever the operand values are introducing a potential problem into the result. We call this watching component a "numerical problem sniffer." Such sniffers are not a perfect remedy, but they provide two important advantages: They require no modification of the source code, and there is no need to recompile the code under test.
The idea of sniffers is not brand new, but we haven't found complete realizations of this kind of diagnostic tool. The next sections present our contribution, which shows how to design and implement the on-the-fly instrumentation approach — one in the context of Java, another as a Valgrind tool.
Cojac: The Numerical Problem Sniffer for Java
The Java context is especially well suited to integrate the on-the-fly instrumentation approach:
- The target machine language is the bytecode, a very simple stack-based language.
- Great tools are available to manipulate bytecode files and contents (we used ASM library).
- Java offers a way to define a new class loader, so it is possible to perform bytecode instrumentation at class-loading time.
- Java's arithmetic model is fully defined and specifies the behavior in every situation (as opposed to C, which leaves some cases "undefined" as signed integer overflow).
We have developed a full-featured numerical problem sniffer for Java, named Cojac. In 2008, we discussed a first prototype in Dr. Dobb's, which was restricted to the detection of overflows and limited to an offline usage: It took a bytecode file and produced another one with additional instructions wrapped around every integer operation. The current version is a complete solution for the on-the-fly instrumentation approach, able to detect at runtime a wide range of numerical problems on both integer and floating-point numbers.
For the end user, Cojac acts as an easy-to-use Java launcher. It is invoked by simply adding a JVM option in the normal command line, which relies on the Java Agent mechanism to instrument classes at load time.
java -javaagent:cojac.jar[=COJAC_OPTIONS]
Cojac is able to detect the following events in any part of the executed code:
- Any integer overflow in any primitive type with any operation (except shifts);
- Any typecasting that leads to losing the essence of the original value;
- NaN or infinite results of arithmetic operations (operators as well as predefined functions defined in
java.lang.Math/StrictMath) from normal-value operands;
- Smearing when adding/subtracting a floating-point number with an exponent too small relatively to the other operand;
- The comparison of floating-point numbers that are very close, differing only in the least-significant bits;
- Cancellation when subtracting (or adding the opposite of) two close numbers;
- Underflow when dividing (or multiplying) a number so that the result gets rounded to 0.0.
The behavior of Cojac can be adjusted using a set of options. Here are some available parameters:
- Several possible reaction policies: A warning message to
stderror to a log file, exception raising, or user-supplied callback.
- Fine-grained selection of the activated detectors: you can restrict on types (
int/long/float/double), casts, all
Math.*operations, or even a particular bytecode instruction.
- Message filtering: A warning message can be made more verbose with a full stack trace; the log can be shortened so that a problem is reported only once per location (useful in loops). Cojac can display a summary of the encountered problems at the end of the run.
- Class filtering: A list of prefixes can be provided to prevent the instrumentation of the matching class names; the Java standard library is by default trusted.
- The detected events can be accessed by a JMX-based tool such as jconsole. This feature helps monitor long-term running applications.
- On-the-fly instrumentation is the default, but we also provide a batch mode in case you want to get the resulting instrumented bytecode as an output file.
Figure 1 shows the output when running the test case of Listing One in Cojac mode.
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COJAC: Overflow : IMUL HelloCojac.powerModA(HelloCojac.java:158) COJAC: Maths error (Infinity) with Math.pow(DD)D HelloCojac.powerMoB(HelloCojac.java:165) COJAC: Overflow : D2I HelloCojac.powerModB(HelloCojac.java:165) COJAC: Problematic instructions: 1848 times -> COJAC: Overflow : IMUL HelloCojac.powerModBuggy01(HelloCojac.java:158) 1 times -> COJAC: Maths error (Infinity) with Math.pow(DD)D HelloCojac.powerModBuggy02(HelloCojac.java:165) 1 times -> COJAC: Overflow : D2I HelloCojac.powerModBuggy02(HelloCojac.java:165)
An Eclipse plugin is provided to show how Cojac can be integrated in conventional IDEs. Our plugin defines a Cojac Run Configuration as a substitute to "Java Application." When launching a program in this mode, the plugin reports any signalled problems directly in the editor through the Eclipse mechanism of warning annotations.
Cojac-grind: A Lower-Level Numerical Problem Sniffer Based on Valgrind
In the Linux C/C++ programming community, Valgrind is a must-have tool that performs runtime memory checking. It is a free but invaluable companion for the novice as well as expert programmer, and it helps detect insidious memory problems that can creep in C/C++ programs, including double freeing, memory leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, etc. Valgrind in itself is a very general instrumentation framework for Linux, and the Memcheck memory checker is only one example of what can be done with it. The kind of numerical problem sniffer we designed for Java bytecode can be ported to the Valgrind emulator (or other tools like DynInst).
As a proof-of-concept, we have developed Cojac-grind, a first quick-and-dirty prototype of a Valgrind tool that detects a wide subset of the anomalies described for Cojac, on integers (16, 32, 64 bits), and floating-points (32, 64 bits). Like other Valgrind tools, Cojac-grind takes an executable Linux program as a parameter (Figure 2 shows an example).
Figure 2
prompt$ valgrind --tool=cojac HelloCojac ==22322== Cojac-0.0.1, the Cojac-grind numerical problem sniffer ==22322== Cojac: Precision, AddF64 at 0x8048EFB: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:280) ==22322== Cojac: Infinity, AddF64 at 0x8048F01: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:281) ==22322== Cojac: Precision, SubF64 at 0x8048F0C: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:282) ==22322== Cojac: NaN, DivF64 at 0x8048F15: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:283) ==22322== Cojac: DivByZero, DivF64 at 0x8048F1E: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:284) ==22322== Cojac: DivByZero, DivF64 at 0x8048F27: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:285) ==22322== Cojac: DivByZero, DivF64 at 0x8048F30: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:286) ==22322== Cojac: Cancellation, AddF64 at 0x8048F44: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:287) ==22322== Cojac: Overflow, Add32 at 0x8048FA0: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:294) ==22322== Cojac: Overflow, Mul32 at 0x8048FAB: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:295) ==22322== Cojac: Overflow, Sub32 at 0x8048FB2: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:296) ==22322== Cojac: Overflow, Mul32 at 0x8048FBD: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:297) ==22322== Cojac: Overflow, Sub32 at 0x8048FC7: demoFunc (HelloCojac.c:300) ==22322== Cojac instrumentation statistics: ==22322== Add32 239 Sub16 2 Sub32 79 Mul16 1 ==22322== Mul32 6 32to16 4 AddF64 7 SubF64 5 ==22322== MulF64 2 DivF64 6 ==22322== ERROR SUMMARY: 13 errors from 13 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
It is worth mentioning that the "semantic distance" between the source code and the object code is bigger in native code than in Java and its bytecode. This distance causes additional complications for the numerical problem sniffer approach. For instance:
- There are two different 32-bit integer additions in C/C++, corresponding to signed versus unsigned operands. But in the x86 instruction set, they both correspond to a unique machine statement. So there is no way at instrumentation time to detect which phenomenon to watch, unsigned carry or signed overflow. We chose to restrict on signed arithmetic, which leaves the user with an increase of the potentially irrelevant messages.
- On some architectures, the compiler may translate a particular operation (such as one 64-bit
intaddition) into other operations (two 32-bit
intadditions), some of which might erroneously be signalled as suspicious.
Such complications have an undesirable impact on diagnostic accuracy (false positives and false negatives). This suggests that numerical problem sniffing is more relevant when applied on an intermediate language that is closer to the source code. Nevertheless, our Cojac-grind prototype works and can indeed spot numerical problems.


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2012 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards: A Look at Finalist Amway
On May 17, 2012, winners of the 2012 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards will be announced at our annual VolunteerMatch Client Summit in San Francisco, CA.
In this series of posts, we'll introduce you to the facts and folks behind the ten most effective employee volunteer programs in our family of corporate clients compared against our 2011 benchmarks.
VolunteerMatch congratulates Amway for its nomination for Employee Volunteer Program of the Year (Small to Medium Businesses).
Amway's volunteer program, Amway One by One Campaign for Children, focuses on children's issues around poverty, education and special needs. Since its founding in 2003, Amway One by One Campaign for Children has recorded 2.5 million hours and donated more than $166 million to local causes that address the needs of children. Amway's volunteer program has four focus areas:
- LIVE ― basic needs for children, such as food, shelter and healthcare
- LEARN ― educational opportunities for children in underserved communities
- ACHIEVE ― focuses on children with special needs
- PLAY ― foundational recreation and cultural activities, including play spaces
Its national partners are Junior Achievement, Grand Rapids Public Schools, KaBOOM!, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Operation Smile as well as other organizations in the Michigan area, where Amway is based, as well as around the world. Amway even has a volunteer network of 65,000 people in China, the largest of its kind in the country.
Other Amway One by One highlights include:
- Amway One by One Campaign for Children recorded 200,000+ volunteer hours in 2011.
- Through volunteering and giving in 2011, Amway One by One helped 1.5 million children.
- Amway headquarters expanded its "adopted school" partnership program to two more inner-city schools.
- Amway volunteers have helped build 13 playgrounds around the country.
- In 2011, more than 50% of Michigan Amway employees engaged in helping children through programs such as weekly mentoring visits, building playgrounds, holding workshops for high school students and serving as board members for nonprofit organizations.
We commend Amway for its service and for facilitating an excellent volunteer program that benefits the children of its under served communities!
Stay tuned for more finalist profiles in the coming weeks, and announcement of the winners on May 17, 2012 during the 2012 VolunteerMatch Client Summit.


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(White Lines) Visions, dreams of passion
(Blowing through my mind) And all the while I think of you
(High price) A very strange reaction
(For us to unwind) The more I see, the more I do
(Something like a phenomenon) Baby!
(Telling your body to come along, but white lines blow away)
(Blow! Rock it! Blow!)
Ticket to ride, white line highway
Tell all your friends, they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound-for-pound costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein
With nothing to gain except killing your brain
(Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock!)
Higher, baby
Get higher, baby!
Get higher, baby!
And don't ever come down! (Freebase!)
Rang dang diggedy dang di-dang
Diggedy dang di-dang diggedy dang di-dang
(Pipeline) pure as the driven snow
(Connected to my mind) and now I'm having fun, baby!
(High price) it's getting kinda low
(Cause it makes you feel so nice) I need some one-on-one, baby!
(Don't let it blow your mind away) Baby!
(And go into your little hideaway 'cause white lines blow away)
(Blow! Rock it! Blow!)
A million magic crystals, painted pure and white
A multi-million dollars almost overnight
Twice as sweet as sugar
Twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked, baby
It's nobody else's fault, so don't do it!
(Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock!)
(Ahhh) Higher, baby
(Ahhh) Get higher, baby!
(Ahhh) Get higher, baby!
And don't ever come down! (Freebase!)
(Don't you get too high) don't you get too high baby!
(Turns you on) you really turn me on and on
(Cause you gotta come down) my temperature is risin'
(When the thrill is gone) no, I don't want you to go
A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time
He got out three years from now just to commit more crime
A businessman is caught with 24 kilos
He's out on bail and out of jail
And that's the way it goes, raah!
(Cane! Sugar! Cane! Sugar! Cane!)
Athletes rejected, governerds corrected
Gangsters, thugs and smugglers are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided
The women get excited
Now I'm broke and it's no joke
It's hard as hell to fight it, don't buy it!
Little Jack Horner sitting on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This ain't funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose
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(I got China White, Mother of Pearl, Ivory Flake, What you need?)
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Ellie stared at her teddy bears. She collected them and these three were her favourite. She didn't much play with them, but they had a place of pride on her daybed.
Truthfully, Ellie played with other stuffed animals, she didn't care if she wrecked or ripped them a part. Sometimes she even gave a stuffed animal to her family's dog dog Artic.
But Mom said she had too many teddy bears and because she didn't play with these three teddy bears on her bed, she could only keep one of them.
"But I snuggle with them at night, they keep me safe from the monsters. Even a monster can't defend himself against three bears, " Ellie told her Mom who laughed and ran her fingers through Ellie's curly brown hair.
Ellie stared at her three soft bears, unable to choose who would go.
Suddenly, the solution came upon her. If Ellie couldn't have all three bears, the only solution was to get rid of her Mom. She really loved her Mom a whole bunch, but she thought if she sacrificed Mom to the monsters, she would both be able to keep all three teddy bears and the monsters would leave forever too.
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Much to the delight of indiscriminate lightweights everywhere, 84-year-old sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer is coming out with her own label of wine—Vin D'Amour—specially formulated to have a alcohol content of only 6-percent by volume, as opposed to the typical 13-percent ABV.
The reason: "If [the woman] drinks too much, she falls asleep," says Dr. Ruth, "and if [the man] drinks too much, he can't perform." Vin d'Amour—which will be sold for $7.99 to $9.99 per bottle, with a portion of the profits going to the Museum of Jewish Heritage—is meant to be the wine that gets you just the right level if tipsy, so you're never too drunk to fuck. "When people get drunk, there is no way they can be good lovers," the sex doc told the New York Post. "And nobody wants to go to bed with somebody who gets drunk, vomits and wakes up with a hangover.
Yes, what better way to get laid than to pour your date a glass of Dr. Ruth's low-ABV "California wine product." Sexxxxy. [FoodBeast via NYPost - Image via Simon Krzic/Shutterstock]


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That's Lee Sanders, TAR music genius extraordinaire!!Editing is ongoing, it starts as the first footage rolls in.
One thing I don't get about all these texts is people saying "I think this is someone on The Amazing Race...", why don't they just ask "Hey, are you on a race of some sort?" and even offer to help, lol. Or take a picture?
Time/date is often a part of it. EXIF-Exchangeable Image File--are the little bits of data created by the camera and attached to the image file that describes the when and how of a picture (and sometimes--for advanced gear--where). Some picture/picture sites will let anyone examine the exif data. Take this photo, for example; click on the bottom-right "more properties" to call up the exif info. Even if the photog doesn't want to share, there are applets (google online exif viewer to find something you like) that can bring out the data.
is it true that tar16 is in singapore? i saw on amazing race twitter that they wre it was on forumssgclub.com/ singapore'amazingrace
Quick question for me:This is the first time I've been avidly following all the spoilers and I was wondering, around what time period do you excellent detectives expect this race to end filming. I'm not very sure of the length of previous races.Thank you!
It will probably end this weekend. Lately the races have been about 21 days.
It will probably end this weekend. Lately the races have been about 21 days.puddin beat me to it. What she said.
Quote from: georgiapeach on December 15, 2009, 11:04:46 PMIt will probably end this weekend. Lately the races have been about 21 days.Or maybe it will go for another week or so and turn into a 27-28 day race like the old seasons.
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"Is Tatiana Maslany the next big thing?"
September 7, 2012 - Johanna Schneller, The Globe and Mail
New York - Monday, September 17, 2012- Toronto International Film Festival(R)(TIFF) breakout talent, Tatiana Maslany (Picture Day, The Vow), has been cast to star in the new original series Orphan Black, produced by Temple Street Productions for BBC AMERICA and Canadian cable channel, SPACE. The announcement was made as Maslany was feted for her starring role in the feature Picture Day, which made its world premiere at this year's festival. The Genie and Gemini-nominated actor, who received the 2010 Sundance special jury prize for Grown Up Movie Star, is capturing the increasing attention of fans and industry elite alike - including recent critical acclaim from The Globe and Mail, Toronto Sun, and NOW Magazine. Set to begin production in Toronto this October, additional casting for the 10 episode series will be announced soon.
In Orphan Black, Maslany stars as Sarah, an outsider, orphan, and street-wise chameleon who has a murky past and tenuous future after she witnesses a woman's suicide. After deciding to assume the identity of the dead stranger who looks just like her, Sarah learns the dizzying truth - that she and the dead woman are clones. As Sarah searches for answers, she discovers another chilling fact - there are more clones out there. They are all genetically identical individuals who were planted in unsuspecting birth parents and nurtured in completely different circumstances. They have no idea who created them - or why - but they need to discover the reason in a hurry. An assassin is killing them, one by one.
"Tatiana possesses all the intensity, charm and range that this complex role requires," said Perry Simon, General Manager, Channels, BBC Worldwide America. "She has all the makings of a breakout star."
"We are extremely excited about Orphan Black, and as soon as we saw Tatiana perform, we knew she would be perfect," said Corrie Coe, Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media. "Tatiana is an exceptionally fine actor, and her star is on the rise. We are confident that she will excel in this complex and compelling role, and that our audience will be fascinated by the chameleon qualities that she brings to the part."
"We have always recognized Tatiana as an extraordinary talent,"said David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, Co-Presidents of Temple Street Productions. "We have worked with her previously on Being Erica and cast her as the lead in The Nativity for the CBC / BBC. Tatiana embodies all the qualities this unique lead demands and we can't wait to see her bring the role of Sarah to life."
About Tatiana Maslany
Maslany has been acting for more than 15 years in film, television, theatre and radio. In that time, she has an incredibly impressive resume with leading roles in many features. Her starring role in Grown Up Movie Star opposite Shawn Doyle competed at Sundance 2010 and garnered her the special jury prize for 'Breakout Star' at the festival as well as a Genie Award nomination. Her recent feature credits include The Vow, opposite Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum; Geoffrey Fletcher's directorial debut Violet and Daisy, opposite Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel, which premiered at TIFF 2011; a lead role in Sean Garrity's improvisational feature Blood Pressure opposite Jake Epstein; and Entitled with Ray Liotta, Victor Garber, and Kevin Zegers. Some of Maslany's television credits include the upcoming World Without End, based on the novel by Ken Follett; her Gemini Award-nominated performance in The Nativity, directed by Coky Giedroyc for BBC One and CBC; Certain Prey opposite Mark Harmon; as well as her Gemini Award-winning performances on Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures and Flashpoint. She was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and now lives in Toronto, Canada.
Orphan Black is produced by Temple Street Productions for BBC AMERICA and Bell Media's SPACE with Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier (Being Erica) serving as executive producers for Temple Street. The series is co-created and executive produced by Graeme Manson (Cube, Flashpoint) and John Fawcett (Spartacus, The Secret Circle) with Manson also serving as writer and Fawcett as director.
Orphan Black is the latest series to join BBC AMERICA's stable of all-new original programming, along with scripted dramas Copper, and the upcoming competition series, Chef Race: U.K. vs. U.S., executive produced by Jamie Oliver, premiering October 2at 9/8c.
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BBC AMERICA delivers U.S. audiences high-quality, innovative and intelligent programming. Established in 1998, it has been the launch pad for talent embraced by American mainstream pop culture, including Ricky Gervais, Gordon Ramsay, Graham Norton, and successful programming formats including ground-breaking non-scripted television like Top Gear and top-rated science-fiction like Doctor Who. Owned by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, BBC AMERICA has attracted both critical acclaim and major awards including an Emmy(R), five Golden Globes(R) and ten Peabody Awards. The channel attracts one of cable's most affluent and educated audiences and is available on digital cable and satellite TV in more than 79 million homes. It broadcasts in both standard and high-definition, with content available On Demand across all major digital platforms. Online, www.bbcamerica.com is the place to go to dig deeper into pop culture with a British twist.
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SPACE is Canada's national science fiction, horror and fantasy channel. SPACE is truly the station for all those who dare to challenge their imagination. SPACE is a division of Bell Media, which is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada's largest communications company. For more information about SPACE, visit spacecast.com.
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Bobcats snap 23-game slide, beat Pacers 90-89
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The agony is over for Michael Jordan and the Charlotte Bobcats.
Kemba Walker scored a career-high 30 points in Mike Dunlap's coaching debut and the Bobcats snapped a 23-game losing streak with a 90-89 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.
The Bobcats lost their final 23 games last season to finish 7-59, the worst winning percentage (.106) in NBA history prompting Jordan, the team's owner, to proclaim the franchise had "hit rock bottom."
Now they're looking to start a different kind of streak.
"It was something that was in the back of all of our heads," Walker said. "We didn't want that streak to keep on with us, so to get it over with now was extremely important. But now that it's over we don't ever want to get to that point again."
BOX SCORE:Bobcats 90, Pacers 89
The Bobcats, playing with a newfound aggressiveness on defense under Dunlap — they forced 19 turnovers — started the year strong against a Pacers team that won 19 of 33 road games last season.
"They look like a different team out there," said guard D.J. Augustin, who joined the Pacers this offseason as a free agent after four seasons with the Bobcats.
"They came at us with a full court trap and it kind of threw us off our game. They were very intense."
Dunlap has been preaching defense throughout the preseason and hammering his players with 3- to 4-hour practice sessions to build their conditioning.
It seemed to pay off.
"Guys are really, really buying in and that's all it takes," Walker said. "It's about sacrifice. It's about buying into what your leader is preaching. It showed tonight. We made some huge stops at the end."
It was a strange finish as the teams combined to score just two points in the game's final 2:37. Indiana had several chances but turnovers and missed shots proved to be their undoing.
Augustin tried to bury his old team with an 18-foot jumper from the wing as time expired but it bounced away.
"I had a good look at it, but it just didn't go down," Augustin said.
Said Dunlap: "The most important thing was to kill the elephant and that elephant was that losing streak. We had to get that off of everybody's back. It's just one of those marks you want to clean off the board."
Walker was the catalyst all game for the Bobcats, hitting 9 of his first 13 shots — most of those coming on drives to the lane where the 6-foot-1 point guard somehow managed to get his shots above much taller defenders and get them with a soft touch high off the glass.
HURRICANE SANDY: LeBron James, fans torn over playing Heat-Knicks gameWhen asked how he made some of those shots, Walker laughed and said, "I don't know.
"I think I was having a really good night. Coach Dunlap was helping with those kinds of crazy shots all offseason. It's just all of the hard work that has been paying off."
Walker also drew contact along the way, making 9 of 10 free throws, an area where the Pacers struggled all game. Indiana shot just 59 percent from the free throw line.
Gerald Henderson added 18 points for the Bobcats and Ramon Sessions chipped in 11 points, including a big 3-pointer early in the fourth quarter.
Tyler Hansbrough and Lance Stephenson led the Pacers with 15 points each.
The Bobcats were the worst shooting team in the league last season, but they came out strong building a 12-3 lead. That was short-lived as they quickly cooled off going more than 6 minutes without a point. The Pacers grabbed the lead behind 12 hard-fought points by Hansbrough and took a 43-39 halftime lead.
Walker scored eight quick points to start the second half, giving the Bobcats a lead they would never relinquish.
Indiana played without forward Danny Granger, the team's leading scorer the past five seasons, who continues to be sidelined indefinitely with soreness in his left knee. Before the game, coach Frank Vogel said they are still awaiting the medical results of a second opinion on his knee.
The Pacers shot just 36.5 percent from the field.
"It was a tough shooting night but you have to give the Bobcats credit," Vogel said. "Kemba Walker was sensational. We turned the ball over too much and we couldn't knock down our free throws."
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, the No. 2 overall pick in this year's draft, struggled offensively for the Bobcats going 1 for 7 from the field and he didn't play much down the stretch.
However, he played hard with seven rebounds and was impressive at times on defense.
In the second quarter Kidd-Gilchrist skied to block a shot by 7-foot Roy Hibbert in the lane, igniting a fastbreak layup and three-point play on the other end by Walker.
"I was nervous coming into this game," Kidd-Gilchrist said. "I'm a rookie. So, I was just nervous. But I thought I did pretty well."


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CLEARVIEW — Voters could be asked to approve a merger of two south Snohomish County fire districts as early as fall 2013.
Fire District 1 and Fire District 7 have been talking off and on for years about some kind of merger or consolidation.
Earlier this month, District 7 commissioners voted to begin drafting a resolution expressing a commitment to merging, Fire Chief Gary Meek said.
"The board wants to send a message to them that we are interested in merging and let's move forward with it," he said.
The commissioners met Tuesday and went over the draft, Meek said.
"They had a couple of comments to add to the resolution but overall were satisfied with the progress," he said.
The District 7 commissioners plan to review another draft of the resolution at the Dec. 13 meeting. Once it's approved, they'll likely send it over to District 1.
At that point, the two districts could enter formal merger negotiations, likely taking several months.
Fire District 1 commissioners were encouraged to hear about the resolution, board Vice Chairwoman Millie Judge said. They've asked the district's chief, Ed Widdis, to meet with Meek and start sharing preliminary financial information.
"We look forward to hearing more from Chief Widdis after they meet," she said.
Fire departments throughout the county have been meeting in recent years to find new ways to work together and save money. In south Snohomish County, talks of forming a regional fire authority are ongoing, but the issue likely won't get on the ballot anytime soon.
Fire District 1 and Lynnwood are in separate talks about combining services, and Mukilteo also has made inquiries about a contract with Fire District 1.
Fire District 1, based in south Everett, serves about 220,000 people in southwest Snohomish County. Fire District 7, with headquarters in Clearview, serves about 70,000 people in southeast county.
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