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What got you interested in programming?
I grew up near the University of California at Irvine. I would ride my bike there and hang out in the computer science lab. I bought punch cards, put them in a punch card machine and typed on them. I had no idea how to write programming code. I just mimicked what I saw others doing. I was probably 13 at the time and why no one chased me out of there still surprises me to this day.
My father spent his career as an electrical engineer mostly creating communications equipment for the military. One day he brought home a Texas Instruments portable terminal. It had no screen, just acoustic couplers that held the telephone handset for communication with the VAX mainframe at his work. A thermal printer was the only output device and of course when we would run out of the special thermal paper, that was a problem. My dad taught me to program in the original BASIC and we played the original text adventure game (called "Adventure") as well.
When the Apple II came along I wanted one but being in high school at the time, I certainly couldn't afford it. My dad was unwilling to pay extra for the Apple brand so instead purchased a Franklin ACE 1000, which was an Apple II Clone. The Franklin's motherboard failed several times, and I'll bet my dad ended up paying far more for it than he would have paid for an Apple II to begin with! He bought me a book that taught Applesoft BASIC and 6502 assembler. One look at the pages about assembler and I knew right away that I was going to stick with BASIC.
Programming for me became a terrific outlet where I could create anything I could imagine. That's what got me interested in programming.
What got you interested in programming? Share your story.
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- Stephen said...
Those sweet, sweet arcade games of the early 80's.
I would go home and cut up cardboard pieces of space aliens and write up pages of complex paths for them to follow on graph paper. I had no home computer and only vaguest fantasies of how they might operate inside. It never occurred to me you could have a variable or a conditional branch so I wrote all these games based on static patterns. I could never figure out how they managed to make Pac Man so dynamic!
When I got my first Commodore 64 (we couldn't afford an Apple) I immediately wrote the most complex games I could imagine in Basic. They would operate at about one frame per 5 seconds which was a little dissapointing.
Still love coding. My games have just got more complex and involve time and expense management rather than space aliens.
- December 20, 2011 at 5:20 PM
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- December 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Keir Wells said...
I remember clearly the first program I wrote - it was a simple BASIC program that displayed a blue box on the screen hooked up to my brand new TI-99/4a. From that point on I was hooked! BASIC, Pascal and Assembly. C? Who needed it, when you had the incredible ease of developing in Turbo Pascal combined with the raw speed of Assembly for the "it's gotta be fast" routines.
I remember slogging away for a solid four weeks, using Borland Turbo Assembler to create my own Ultima-style game. I even hand-coded the tools required for it - a 16x16 tile maker, a map constructor and palette mixer. I was in heaven!
It was the realisation that I could get a computer to do whatever I wanted that blew my mind - and it still does.
My programming focus is a bit different nowadays - using Real Studio to develop database-centric applications for my business. But has the wonder and awe of those early days (30 years ago) even slightly faded? No bl**dy way!
- December 20, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Jason said...
When I was 11 the internet was starting to pick up a little bit. It still more or less resembled a giant fireworks show, with unbelievable colors, text chasing the mouse hungrily, and frames which said, "I'm complex and awesome!" I started to get curious how all this worked, as I'd grown up the son of a Trekkie engineer, and curiosity was in my veins. So one day I went to one of my favorite sites, right-clicked, viewed source, and stared at it until it made sense.
From here I got into web development using the most powerful programming tool of all: Notepad. I simultaneously discovered one of the early versions of Photoshop (while simultaneously learning about internet piracy... ahem... I stopped when I was 18, I promise).
From there it was a blur of HTML, ASP, QBASIC, C++, and on. :)
- December 21, 2011 at 10:52 AM
- Dale Arends said...
I started out as a hardware geek but soon discovered that I liked writing the controller software and test routines more than I liked the hardware. I actually wrote 4 different boot loaders for my old Altair (with the toggle switches on the front, you geezers know what I'm talking about) just for the fun of it.
One thing led to another and after years of programming in many different languages, I've finally slowed down to Real Studio and an occasional C routine, just to keep my brain and fingers active in retirement.
- December 21, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Norman Palardy said...
Some of these replies make me feel very old.
We lived near the University and friends& I would always go over & hang out in the CompSci building.
They had all the punch card machines & stuff.
In grade school we never had computers.
By high school I took an accounting course & we had to do some work on computers at the University for that. Now I realize we were supposed to start writing a program to DO accounting.
Moved to a different high school & they had an Apple.
I never used it but it was interesting to watch others.
When we moved back I worked for a company and we had to use a mainframe to update records. I made more money than I knew what to do with so I bought a computer - Tandy Color Computer.
Learned basic and started writing some D & D like programs on it.
Took a couple night school classes & found I did pretty well at them (2 years with a perfect GPA)
The professors there said that if you REALLY wanted to learn you should go to University.
So I went and have been writing programs since the early 1980's. It's been in assembler, Pascal, C, basic, Adabas/Natural, Cobol, C++, VB, RB, and several others along the way.
- December 22, 2011 at 7:22 PM
- Jeremy said...
For me, I was 10 yrs old walking through another boring yard sale with my mom, but what did my eyes see? This large box with a cord going to a keyboard and TV (I thought). It had a price tag of $40. I wasn't totally sure what it was, but for some reason it just looked fantastic.
I talked my mom into purchasing it. We were told it worked great. Coming home, it did not. All it did was a solid beep when you turned it on. The monitor didn't even do that. There was a computer consultant who went to our small church, my mom reached out. After changing memory and getting a new monitor, I had a working 8086 computer. After getting borde with typing DIR and CLS, I picked up the IBM manual on BASIC that came with it. From that point on I spent more time programming that I did riding my bike.
Still love programming just as much to this day.
- December 26, 2011 at 7:59 AM
- Fernando Ferreira said...
Please, can you help me?
I need to parse a XML where nodes have attributes.
My problem is how to take the XMLAttributes if what I get from XMLDocument.Child is a XMLNode and only XMLElements have GetAttribute and GetAttributeNode.
- December 27, 2011 at 4:22 PM
- Norman Palardy said...
Fernando I'd say you'd be much better off trying either the Real Software Forums (http://forums.realsoftware.com/) or joining the NUG (http://realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/)
The blog is really not a support forum
- January 3, 2012 at 9:52 PM
- MacATDBB said...
Thanks for the insight Geoff. Nice to find someone else who spent time around 6502 assembly back in the day.
I started fiddling with basic at about the age of 11 on a ZX81 (zilog80 based 1k RAM) because there was only so much fun you could have fiddling with the program settings buttons of a radio alarm clock. Besides which my folks were getting fed up of the 3am wake ups. After realizing that the ZX81's 1024 bytes of RAM was a bit limiting I shifted to a BBC Micro (a classic 6502 platform) in about 1983/4. BBC basic was great and allowed the hardware to be easily accessed - this in turn led me to 6502 assembly which I think of as one of the first RISC ISAs (compared to Z80!). I'm not sure basic was easier by comparison - 6502 assembly was very elegant - writing a fractal generator in 6502 assembly took only a few hours and was marvelously fast (a mandelbrot in only half an hour :).
While I moved on in college years to C, I missed the simplicity and speed of basic and eventually found RealBasic (with Andrew Barry leading the way back then) which I've been very happy to call home ever since. PowerPC assembly was in many ways similar to 6502 assembly. So much so that one of the first projects I wrote in RealBasic was an assembler that would compile PPC assembly, put it into the resource fork of the assembler app, flush the code out of the dCache and allow it to be executed.
I'd never try that now intel variable length assembly code .. more's the pity :( Though I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has tried!
Looking forward to the LLVM future!
- January 18, 2012 at 1:12 PM
- Software Maniac said...
Long story. In the old days there were no PCs - I read books in high school about computers and COBOL/FORTRAN and paper tape readers, card decks in school was the only way to do it.
After school worked on DEC minis, DG (Data General - who I joined in the "Soul of a New Machine" days in North Carolina), and fell in love with the PC, but always liked the idea of developing portable, efficient code. I've been lucky to become a leader with software companies (VP of engineering at Software Publishing - remember Harvard Graphics???) and others -- still on the side, I built small projects and sold them. What other industry allows you to create things that help automate and simplify mundane activities and all it takes is some skill (ok, endurance), an idea, and a personal computer?
Now, all you need is the right tools...
Thus, Real Software caught my attention several years ago and I've been an avid fan ever since.
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Initially I assumed Israel would time their ground invasion portion of the Palestinian genocide in Gaza to coincide with the Final match of the World Cup. It appears the apartheid, rogue, nuclear armed, terror State has instead chose to step up aggression under the cover of the shoot down of a Malaysia Airlines 777 over the Ukraine. Whether the shoot down was a false flag to be blamed on Russia in order to push us ever closer to another Rothschild bankster World War remains to be seen; But the timing seems rather convenient for the Zionist regime.
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If lovable old Mickey came from Disney World to live at your house, you and your kids would be delighted. But when Mickey's real-life cousins move into your kitchen cabinets, well, that's another story.
Same for the squirrel that thinks your attic is a great place to raise a family, or the raccoon that turns your chimney into a condo. They're not so cute when they're on your turf.
Mice, squirrels, raccoons and bats are the most common fur-covered pests that invade our homes (often when the weather starts turning cool). They really don't mean any harm. They're just looking for food, water and shelter. We'll tell you how to keep your home from becoming a varmint's dream house.
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- Store food, especially grains, pet food and birdseed, in rodent-proof metal or heavy plastic containers.
- Store grass seed in sealed containers.
- Put away any uneaten pet food.
- Rodent-proof your garbage cans by setting them on 6-in. high wood platforms. Make sure lids fit tight; use rubber cords to fasten them down if necessary. Replace garbage cans that have cracks or holes.
- Pick up any fruit that has fallen from trees in your yard.
- Search out holes (even small ones) around your foundation, eaves and soffits and fill them with steel wool, cover with sheet metal, or fill with caulk, plaster or cement.
For tips on keeping critters from entering your home, see the Additional Information at the end of this story.
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How to get rid of mice
Photo 1: Bait the traps
Set snap traps with the baited trigger end of the trap tight against the wall, because mice usually run along walls. Wherever possible, use two traps. Dispose of a dead mouse in a plastic bag in the garbage, then reuse the trap. The scent of the dead mouse will help attract any other mice in the house.
Photo 2: Place the traps against the wall
An alternate trap position puts the traps parallel to the wall with the bait at opposite ends. Place traps under sinks or appliances, and in closets or behind furniture, since mice tend to avoid open areas. Chocolate, nutmeat or cheese makes good bait. The expanded-trigger type traps shown in these photos work best.
Photo 3: Live traps
Live mousetraps allow mice to get in, but they can't get out. Place the trap so the tunnel is against the wall and parallel to it. A large baited compartment allows you to catch two mice at a time, so they won't get lonely. You can release the mice outside.
Live mousetrap in the closed position
These traps catch mice without killing them so you can release them outside.
If you get a mouse in your house, trap it as soon as you can. There's no such thing as only one mouse! And don't get upset about killing a few mice. A female mouse can have up to 10 litters a year with six or more babies per litter. (That's why there's no such thing as only one mouse.) However, if killing mice bothers you, there are live traps available, as shown in Photo 3.
Photos 1 and 2 show the most effective way to position the ordinary, super-cheap snap trap. One trap will do the job, but you'll double your chances by using two traps together. A mouse can jump over one trap, but not two.
There's no problem reusing a mousetrap either. The scent of the captured mouse that remains on the trap actually attracts other mice.
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Poisons are another option for mice, including closed, baited containers with a small opening for the mouse to enter. But we're not recommending poisons. They're a danger to kids and pets. Plus, since poison doesn't work immediately, the dying mouse crawls off somewhere to die and decompose, leaving a smell you will never find, but will always remember. If you need more tips on how to get rid of mice, check out these ideas.
How to get rid of squirrels
Photo 4: Trap squirrels in the attic
Place a live squirrel trap in the attic near the nesting area or entry point. Peanut butter on a cracker makes good squirrel bait. Check the cage daily and release the squirrel outside as soon as possible. Use caution and wear heavy gloves, since the squirrel will not be happy.
If you get a squirrel in your house, it'll usually be in the attic. So you've got to get it out, and the only sure way to get it out is to trap it. Then seal up the openings so it doesn't come back.
Begin by keeping watch around the soffits and eaves for a few days to see if you can spot the squirrel entering. If that fails, check the attic to find out where it is nesting; the entry point will probably be close by, and from a darkened attic you may be able to see daylight through the opening.
If both these methods fail, you'll just have to check out the possible entry points suggested in our illustration and seal them up with pieces of wood or small strips of sheet aluminum after trapping the squirrel. For squirrels, live traps (Photo 4) work best. They use a spring-loaded door with a trip lever. Peanut butter on a cracker, set at the back of the cage, works well for bait.
Check the cage every day, although when you do catch the beast, you'll probably know it by the racket it makes. Wear heavy gloves and use caution when moving the trap and releasing the squirrel. Then cover the entry opening. See what happens when a pest problem gets ignored.
How to get rid of raccoons
Capturing and removing raccoons from your chimney (one of their favorite places to live) is probably best left to a pest control professional. Raccoons are very strong, smart, difficult to trap and when cornered, dangerous. They can easily kill a small dog, so don't mess with them.
If you do trap a raccoon, local ordinances may require releasing it and any of its young right where you captured it, so check with local animal control authorities before taking it out to Uncle Fred's farm. Here are more tips on how to get rid of raccoons.
How to get rid of rats
When rats show up, it's bad news, since they can carry fleas and disease. You can trap them with a snap trap for rats (like a mousetrap, but much bigger). Watch that snap. It could break your finger! And dispose of dead rats carefully. Wear plastic gloves, watch out for escaping fleas, and put the body in the garbage inside two zipper-top plastic bags.
How to get rid of bats
If a bat gets into your house, don't panic. Just remember that bats are our friends in spite of all their bad press. A small brown bat can eat 1,000 insects a night. They're usually easy to get rid of, since they want out even more than you want them out. Turn off the lights and open the doors and windows. Once their panic subsides, they'll follow the fresh air current out.
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$$ H\left(\frac{\partial S_1(Q, q)}{\partial q}, q, t \right) ~=~ K(Q, t). $$
However, this is different from what I've seen in other physics texts. For example, Goldstein uses the generating function $S_2(q, P, t)$ to get the equation
$$ H\left(\frac{\partial S_2(q, P, t)}{\partial q}, q, t\right) ~=~ - \frac{\partial S_2(q, P, t)}{\partial t}. $$
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The 2014 Winter Olympic Games are a prime target for terrorism, say Stanford scholars. The proximity and intensity of the neighboring Chechen separatist threat as well as the Russian handling of the security issue are heightening fears about possible attacks.
The possibility of a terrorist attack at the upcoming Winter Olympics is high due to a confluence of risk factors, according to Stanford experts.
It is difficult, they say, to thwart terrorism at such a large-scale event. The Olympics open Feb. 7 and run through Feb. 23, with hundreds of thousands of people visiting multiple sites as spectators. And never before have the Olympic Games been held so close to a regional conflict zone – the North Caucasus.
"Russia is using stringent security measures, including missile defense systems, but there is always the possibility that Chechen and Islamist groups can circumvent them," said Martha Crenshaw, a terrorism expert and senior fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).
In the past, she pointed out, terrorists have attacked "soft targets" where it is logistically complex to protect everyone and everything. As for Russia's security approach, she said that "cooperation could be better" with U.S. intelligence agencies offering to help. As a result, there is inefficiency and confusion in the Russian efforts. Security would be a daunting challenge for any government given the nature of the Olympics.
"I don't know if there is an ideal approach," said Crenshaw, "because the higher the level of security, the greater the inconvenience for the games themselves."
In the long run, she suggested, understanding the root causes of Chechen terrorism might be the best – if perhaps unlikely – solution. "It is a complex problem and one Russia has not wished to address."
The Chechens harbor a long history of grievances against Russia, and their nationalistic cause has merged with extreme Islamism to produce an especially virulent – and coldly effective – strain of terrorism, she said.
On top of this, in recent weeks the threats against the Sochi Olympics have been unusually specific and come from groups other than the Chechens, including threats from Ansar al-Sunna, which is mainly composed of Iraqi Kurds.
"There is no reason to believe there will be any restraint," said Crenshaw.
Separating the real from the unreal
Amy Zegart, a co-director of CISAC and a professor of political economy, said the Russians face a monumental task trying to detect legitimate terrorist threats.
"They have to find the true signals of a possible impending attack amid a crushing amount of 'noise' – literally millions of intercepts and reports conveying false leads, hoaxes and information that turns out to be irrelevant or deceptive," Zegart said.
History has shown that surprise attacks are rarely surprises, she noted. "The signals are almost always there. But locating and putting those signals together in time to prevent disaster is incredibly hard."
Will Sochi be safe? "No one really knows, but the risks of attack there are certainly much higher than normal."
The Olympic Games, Zegart said, are attractive terrorist targets. There were incidents at the games in 1972 and 1996. What makes Sochi worse is its location.
"Sochi's proximity to Chechen terrorist strongholds ups the risk factor beyond this baseline for a witches' brew of terrorists – from established groups to lone wolves," she said.
Last month, an Islamist group claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in the Russian city of Volgograd that killed 34 people, and explicitly threatened more attacks at Sochi. News reports in recent weeks have warned of "black widow" attacks from female suicide bombers avenging the death of a husband or boyfriend.
Moreover, the Russians are not exactly inspiring confidence in the upper echelons of the American government, Zegart said.
"The fact that U.S. naval ships are now on standby to evacuate Americans while Russian officials are resorting to handing out fliers of a suspected black widow operative suggests that Putin's vaunted security 'ring of steel' is not so steely," she said.
'The world is watching'
Kathryn Stoner said both the high visibility of the Olympics and their location makes them difficult to defend. "The world is watching," said the FSI senior fellow. "And as we saw tragically in Munich in 1972, the Olympics tend to be a target for terrorists to publicize their missions. Beyond this, though, it's hard to think of a more difficult venue in Russia for the Olympics."
The Chechen-Russian issue dates back hundreds of years but was exacerbated, Stoner said, when Vladimir Putin became the Russian President and then sent Russian troops back into Chechnya, which is about 500 kilometers from Sochi.
"The conflict in Chechnya has been largely but not completely resolved and separatist fighters continue to conduct terrorist attacks in other parts of Russia," Stoner said, pointing to bombing incidents in the Moscow metro and at a school in Beslan in southern Russia where hundreds of children and parents were ultimately killed in a botched rescue attempt.
She said that the Russian government is very aware of the risk of terrorist attacks in the Sochi region. Reports on the ground in and around Sochi are that it is now virtually impossible to enter the city without proper identification documents.
"That said, the sealing of Sochi has only happened within the last few weeks. The danger, I think, is that a determined terrorist attacker, or group of attackers, could have already been in Sochi for several months, posing as construction workers, retail workers or the like. In the last several days, there have also been reports of a known and aspiring black widow bomber who was spotted supposedly on a street in Sochi," said Stoner, deputy director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
What is the bottom line for Russia? Stoner said the country has a tremendous stake in seeing that the games are safe.
"President Putin wants to use the Sochi games to show off how far his country has come since the collapse of the Soviet Union. He has invested a tremendous amount of time in giving his personal attention to the planning and execution of a successful games," she said.
As for U.S. intelligence or even military assistance, she said the Russians are "understandably hesitant" to provide the CIA or FBI with too much information regarding their domestic communications systems.
With all the security attention, Stoner said, these Olympic Games might turn out to be the safest ever. "Terrorists may choose instead to attack targets on the way to Sochi."
And for those attending Sochi or participating as athletes, the advice rings familiar, she said: "If you see something, say something."
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Painted houses
Modernist Vancouver house of the painter BC Binning, who painted his own interior and exterior murals. Photo by Arne Haraldsson. See here for more information on this heritage-protected house.
In my neighbourhood there's a heritage program called True Colours wherein you can receive a pat on the back from heritage types and sometimes free paint if you agree to paint your house in the original house colours circa 1901. Unfortunately, most True Colours are the official colours of depression: muddy hunter green, dark drab maroon, watery urine-sample yellow, sickly ivory. Before the creep of drabness extends any further, I'm planting my flag for Untrue Colours and championing these exuberant and adventurous feats of house and door painting. If we can't have innovations this exciting here, maybe we could at least have more true colour. One old heritage neighbourhood in Vancouver is already heading in a more cheerful, anti-rainy-day-blues direction. If you've been to Vancouver in February, you'll know how crucially important some form of cheerful intervention is. Beautiful photo of house in Indiana, above, by i am krisan on Flickr.
London house decorated by the painter Stanley Donwood, photo by artofthestate.
Painted facade in Sydney, Australia, by loveroni.
Painted house in Basel, by m.a.r.c.
Psychedelic house in Leiden by Karl O'Brien.
Rainbow house on Clipper Street, San Francisco, by jordanpattern.
Old mural on a housing building by the Polish art group TWOŻYWO, which turns 20 this year. "Dom" means house or home. By zorro za trzepakiem on Flickr and see also misiekgreen.
Doors in Soho, NYC, taken last week.
Final note: I'm not against heritage preservation; on the contrary. But I'm against slavish, unimaginative heritage preservation. Sarah adds that around 1900 "houses were originally painted those ugly dark colours because the air was so choked with coal pollution it was the only way to hide the dirt and grime. Why continue with an idea based on something that is no longer relevant?" I would also like to add the salient fact that many of the European settlers here were Scots Presbyterian, and since that's my own heritage I know of what I speak concerning its dour aesthetics. To read about San Francisco's painted houses, see an interesting entry on Wikipedia.


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Puppies up for adoption in Southern California got their big break as stars of a People Magazine photoshoot with the Rio 2016 USA Olympic Team.
The pups, all between 8 and 10 weeks old, hailed from local shelters and were all later adopted, according to a representative from Good Dog Animals, the service that provided the dogs. One lucky puppy, a Maltese-Shitzu mix named Gibson, went home with Olympic gymnast Ally Raisman.
The Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics will air on NBC Friday, Aug. 5. The Games conclude with the Closing Ceremony on on Sunday, Aug. 21.


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Wineries of Southern California – with Moraga Vineyards
Moraga Vineyards is a wine growing estate in the Santa Monica Mountains at an elevation of 600 to 900 feet, five miles from the Pacific Ocean in the Los Angeles community of Bel Air. Owners and native Californians, Tom and Ruth Jones have lived on the 16-acre Moraga Canyon property since 1959, purchasing a small horse ranch originally built by Victor Fleming, director of Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
Wineries and vineyards have a rich history in Southern California. Wild grape vines were reported by the de Portola expedition in 1769, and the missionaries planted throughout the region along the mission trail. Were that not enough, there was a time when the largest vineyard in the world was located in Guasti (aka Cucamonga), in San Bernardino County.
Join us, as we talk with Scott Rich, winemaker for Bel Air's Moraga Vineyards. You'll find that some basic assumptions made about wine growing in the Los Angeles basin may be not be quite true.
(Note: since the time of this interview in June 2013, billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch has purchased the Moraga Vineyards estate for $28.8 million.)
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. security officials face a grilling from lawmakers on Tuesday over whether authorities who have charged one man with the Boston Marathon bombings may have overlooked warning signs two years ago flagging the other suspect.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was formally charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting in death at a bedside hearing on Monday in his hospital room, where he was recovering from gunshot wounds suffered in shootouts with police.
Prosecutors say he and his elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, carried backpacks containing pressure cooker bombs that ripped through the crowd near the finish line of the world-renowned race on April 15, killing three people and wounding more than 200.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot in an exchange of gunfire with police and run over by his younger brother early on Friday, police said. He later died at a hospital. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev fled on foot but was captured later that day following a massive manhunt.
Russian authorities flagged the elder Tsarnaev in 2011 as a possible Islamist radical, and some lawmakers have accused the FBI of failing to act thoroughly enough after Russia's security services raised their concerns. The FBI questioned him in 2011.
Top investigators were slated to brief the full House of Representatives on Tuesday about the failure to spot the danger.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators in his hospital room that he and his brother acted alone, without any help, according to reports by CNN and the New York Times. He said his older brother was the driving force behind the bombings, according to CNN.
The Times reported that he admitted to the bombings in questioning by investigators on Sunday. These reports could not be independently confirmed.
The younger Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, will be tried in a civilian rather than a military court. Some Republican lawmakers had called on the Obama administration to designate him as an enemy combatant, which would have restricted his rights.
Evidence against him is now likely to be presented to a grand jury by prosecutors who will seek a formal indictment.
Both charges against Tsarnaev carry the possibility of the death penalty. Given the apparent evidence against him, plea negotiations are likely, legal experts said.
He can be seen in video taken by security cameras placing a backpack near the finish line of the marathon, according to the criminal complaint that alleges he acted in concert with his older brother.
The complaint drew from video and still images captured by security cameras, the media and the public at the race before and after the bombing.
The complaint, which did not mention a motive for the bombings, said that 30 seconds before the first explosion, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev started fidgeting with his cellphone. After the blast, virtually everyone around him turned toward the blast "in apparent bewilderment and alarm," while he appeared calm, it said.
He then left his backpack on the ground and walked away, the complaint said. About 10 seconds later the second explosion ripped through the crowd.
The Tsarnaev brothers emigrated to the United States a decade ago from Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim region in Russia's Caucasus.
The elder brother, a legal U.S. resident, visited relatives in the volatile region of Chechnya for two days during his six-month trip out of the United States last year, his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva and aunt, Patimat Suleimanova, told Reuters in Dagestan on Monday.
U.S. authorities were investigating whether he became involved with Chechen separatists or Islamist extremists there.
In his hospital bed, the younger Tsarnaev, a local college student, was alert and nodded on Monday when questioned by federal Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler, according to a transcript of the bedside legal proceeding.
The bombings killed Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager, Chinese graduate student Lingzi Lu, 23, and 8-year-old Martin Richard. A campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shot and killed by the two brothers on Friday, police said.
As of Monday, Boston-area hospitals were still treating at least 48 people, with at least two listed in critical condition.
Ten people lost limbs from the bombs packed with nails and ball bearings.
One of them, dance instructor Adrianne Haslet-Davis, interviewed from her hospital bed by CNN, lost her foot in the blast but vowed to dance again.
She said she never lost consciousness and following the blast crawled on her elbows to seek help. "I remember everything," she told CNN.
Prosecutors will be deciding whether to seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev, and that decision is expected within weeks.
His capture capped a tense 26 hours after the FBI released the first pictures of the two bombing suspects, who were still unidentified, on Thursday.
(Additional reporting by Patricia Zengerle in Washington and Jessica Dye in New York; Writing by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Eric Beech)
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Find Kits
Hi there, my friend Jen Agosta designed a fancy new site for us with a shopping cart and everything. There's still good info. on this site but you will find all this and more on the new one. I will not post here any more after today. See you at www.urbancheesecraft.com!
Thank you friends, Claudia
You may purchase cheese kits and supplies easily by clicking the kit to your right. It will take you to our Shop.
We're incredibly lucky to attract amazing people and businesses to our kits. See below for extraordinary shops in Portland and beyond who order kits from us (or our equally delightful distributor, Provvista).
Alberta Coop Grocery is a great neighborhood market as well as Urban Cheesecraft's very first wholesale account in Portland! They are so supportive to local businesses that they have a special place in my heart. Pick up a kit, along with milk and a great bottle of wine to go with your cheese!
Urban Farm Store is an awesome store that sells chicks, feed, and all kinds of other urban homesteading supplies. They carry the kits and go beyond by offering our refill supplies (citric acid, rennet, salt and cheesecloth).
Food Front Co-op's two locations now sell kits and since they also sell Sunshine Dairy and Organic Valley milks, it's one stop shopping!
Eight out of nine New Seasons Market locations in Oregon now sell the Mozzarella and Ricotta kits! The location that will not sell them quite yet is Concordia.
Foster and Dobbs sells over 100 cheeses, saffron pollen, smoked salt and cheese kits! Stop in for a fruit and cheese platter, umm.
Mirador Community Store will inspire many kitchen projects after your visit there, it's my kind of store! They sell sprouting supplies, juicers, bread making supplies and now, cheese making kits and refill supplies- yayy!
Cheese Bar is a fancy cheese and fancy beer but with no attitude type of place- I love it! If you haven't stopped in and met Steve, do. He's a very cool guy and oh so knowledgable about cheese! He has stocked all kits off and on, including the deluxe kit so stop in asap!
I can't believe I'd never been to Elephant's Delicatessen in NW Portland! They now carry cheese kits but do yourself a favor, go get a delicious crusty pizza (and some spicy salami) with a chocolate dipped macaroon for dessert!- To. Die. For.
For some people, "making it" in business means Oprah, for me it's Powell's Books in Portland, OR! Find cheese kits in the gifts in the unique gift section at the W. Burnside location!
Portland and Tigard, OR
Several Whole Foods Market locations in the Pacific Northwest now carry kits. I'd call ahead to make sure your store has them.
Cannon Beach Cooking School in Cannon Beach, OR is creating more cheese makers with our kits- yay! Salt water ricotta like mama used to make anyone?
http://allysonskitchen.com/">Allyson's Kitchen, a specialty cookware and cooking class locale in Bend, OR now carries kits as well.
The very cool Central Co-op's Madison Market in Seattle carries the mozzarella, chevre and paneer cheese kits and was our first account in Washington! I just read their newsletter and it seems they are allowing customers to order 5 gallon buckets of local milk! That's a weekend of cheese making…I hope someone in Portland starts offering this!
Whole Foods Market locations in Washington have joined the party! Find kits at the Westlake, Interbay, (Seattle), Redmond and Bellevue, stores in Washington.
De'Laurenti in the famed Seattle Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA now carries kits- can you believe I haven't been there yet!? It's a crime really.
Specialty grocer chain, Metropolitan Market in Washington carries kits now!
Our first California shop is the amazing Home Ec in Los Angeles. Jenny features crafty classes and cool handmade wares. I believe Home Ec is the only other place to get our kits online beside our site (an important type around holiday season when we sell out!).
It's was only a matter of time before cheese kits made it to Sonoma, California right? Stumble into the neat, Junipero and Co. and pick up a delectable gift or two.
The Steel Fork is a neat online store run by Ben and Kate Gatski. They also make really cool sculptures from recycled farm machinery. Ben used to be an organic dairy farmer so they both make cheese! They now carry our mozzarella kits.
If your shop, cooking school or other cheese-loving venture is interested in creating a wholesale account, email Ben at Provvista, bens at provvista.com (when sending him an email, just replace the 'at' with the @ symbol, this prevents him from getting spam :)). He'll get you all set up. Thank you and check back for updates in your area!
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Scenes from the 7th Annual Taste of Long Island City
It stopped raining just in time for last night's 7th Annual Taste of LIC, a benefit event for The Chocolate Factory Theatre. Nearly 50 Long Island City-based restaurants and vendors assembled under a huge white tent on the waterfront at Gantry Plaza State Park. There was a gorgeous view of Manhattan, but the view was the last thing hungry attendees were interested in. With so many spots sampling their most popular items, it was quite difficult to navigate the crowds and taste everything offered (turns out we sadly missed M. Wells), but we tried our hardest, and among the great food, here are some of our standout bites of the night. Check out the slideshow above to see them all.
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Downloads hint of PowerShell's powerhouse potential
Although the PowerShell scripting language might be tricky for IT managers at first, early adopters say learning it is well worth the effort.
For IT managers, this summer's big blockbuster could come in the form of a command line scripting tool called PowerShell that promises to cut or at least greatly reduce the job's many mundane tasks.
So far, Microsoft has said that since it released the free tool in November, it has tallied about 800,000 successful downloads of PowerShell. At the Microsoft Management Summit 2007 in March, however, Microsoft said the number of downloads was closer to 400,000. Now, the company calls that figure conservative.
Microsoft doesn't know exactly who is doing the downloading but, presumably, interest is coming from IT professionals, developers and hobbyists, for which the tool is intended, according to Jeffrey Snover, who is a Windows Management Partner Architect at Microsoft as well as the inventor of PowerShell.
Some early adopters are saying that Microsoft's PowerShell scripting language is a hit for its potential to automate and whittle down -- from months to hours or less -- the time it takes to do a job such as adding new users or updating mailboxes, This flexibility to write scripts in applications is something Unix and Linux programmers have been able to do for a long time.
'IT guys are not monkeys'
One IT expert who has already taught himself how to use PowerShell is Scott Hanselman, chief architect at Corillian Corp., a Hillsboro, Ore.-based company that makes software for banks. "IT guys are not monkeys but are treated as such because the job is repetitive," he said.
Hanselman pointed to the recent Dell Inc. battery recall in August, when IT managers had to go to each desktop or email all the end users to check individual serial numbers.
Instead, said Hanselman, managers could have written a script that requested the information from each laptop and PC. "Let the computer do the work," he said. "People aren't going to work with [PowerShell] because it's sexy. They will use it because it makes their job easier."
It's crucial that Windows shops get on board with PowerShell because by 2009, all of the Microsoft platforms must support PowerShell, Microsoft's Snover said.
"All of our admin GUIs will go to this architecture," he said. Although PowerShell is a separate download, it is a prerequisite for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, System Center Operations Manager, Windows Vista, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager, the Lotus Notes Migration Tool. PowerShell was just added to Beta 3 of Windows Longhorn.
There will be a learning curve, and IT managers will have to invest some time with the shell programming language. The first five to 10 minutes are confusing, said Corillean's Hanselman. But after a bit of a learning curve, the tool's potential will become clear.
Some PowerShell training available
Some third parties do offer PowerShell training. Microsoft hasn't announced plans to offer training right now, but Snover did not rule out that possibility in the future as PowerShell gains popularity. Languages and tools often take many years to catch fire, he said, citing Perl and Python, the open source programming languages that have been around for decades.
Managers who do take the time to learn often find themselves writing computer programs without realizing it. The command line script may look like DOS, but, essentially, it's a program framework hidden underneath a familiar-looking shell. For example, there is an add-on data visualization tool for PowerShell made by PowerGadgets LLC. in Boca Raton, Fla., that helps IT managers author "gadgets," or mini applications.
"If you are in charge of managing a Web server, you can write a script that lets charts and graphs leap out of the DOS prompt," Hanselman said. "You are writing cmdlets, but you don't know you are doing it. Next thing you know, your IT pro is more effective."
PowerShell-enabled technologies highlighted
Developers are also using PowerShell to build tools, to prototype .NET code, to manage and test software processes or simply to make their own tools more manageable. A handful of software companies -- such as F5 Networks, FullArmor, PowerGadgets and Quest Software -- showed off PowerShell-enabled technologies at this year's Microsoft Management Summit.
Danny Kim, chief technology officer at FullArmor Corp. and a Microsoft MVP, is developing a workflow technology around Group Policy that sits on PowerShell. The company said it expects to commercialize the software.
"One of the neat things about PowerShell is it has its own set of cmdlets, which lets you call any .NET or COM API," Kim said. "It's as powerful as VBScript or C# but as simple as a scripting language."
Microsoft's Snover said it's likely that Microsoft will be discussing the future of PowerShell at its Professional Developer's Conference this fall. Some features planned for PowerShell 2.0 may include improvements to its remote capabilities, as well as some added support tools, he said.


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JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The Georgia College softball squad (23-19) split in a non-conference matchup at the Carson-Newman College Eagles (22-16) Wednesday afternoon, losing the first 16-8 and taking the second 3-0.
The game one fireworks started early with the Eagles jumping out to a 5-0 lead, aided by a Caitlyn Lance home run to left field bringing in two Eagles. The Bobcats would answer in the third with a Haley Burnett (Columbus, Ga.) three-run homer to the gap in left.
After adding two in the third and three in the fourth GC would answer with five in the fifth, when Frankie Walls (Dahlonega, Ga.) singled, driving in two Bobcats. Carson-Newman pushed four across in the fifth to eight-run rule the Bobcats.
Sabrina Chandler (Covington, Ga.) drew the short end of the stick giving up six runs, only two earned. Chandler's record evens out to 8-8. Burnett finished 1-for-2 with three RBI, one run scored and one home run. Walls finished 1-for-3 with two RBI.
In game two, freshman Erica Bell (Fayetteville, Ga.) pitched an unbelievable game, scattering two hits over seven innings, fanning five. The rookie's record advances to 8-2. Bell's help didn't arrive until the fifth inning when Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) singled up the middle plating the eventual game-winning run. The Bobcats would add two more in the sixth on a two-RBI single by Walls.
Okvist finished 2-for-4 with one RBI and a stolen base. Walls' single came on a pinch-hit at-bat, her only one of the game. Okvist's single-season stolen base mark increases to 48. Already the GC record, that total ranks third, passing USC Aiken's Sara Donnelly from 2000. Second place is owned by Danielle Peters of UNC Pembroke, swiping 53 in 2006.
Burnett is currently fourth on the all-time home run list at GC with 22, two behind first place in GC history.
The Bobcats pick up Peach Belt Conference (PBC) play against Columbus State University Thursday, April 5 set to begin at 4 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Fields of Study Curricula at Greenspoint and Victory Centers
Do you want to obtain a bachelor's degree at a Texas college or university, but save money on tuition and housing, enjoy small classes, and stay close to home, family, and friends for the first two years? You can do all this by enrolling in one of the several fields of study curricula at the LSC-Greenspoint and Victory Centers. These fields of study are designed for students who are going to transfer to a four year institution to obtain a bachelor's degree.
Since 1997, all Texas state supported four year colleges and universities are required to accept the lower division courses completed at community colleges offering Fields of Study curricula. Successfully complete one of the Field of Study programs and any of these colleges or universities will accept your first 66 semester hours.
Beginning in the summer of 2010, the LSC-Greenspoint Center will offer all the coursework leading to the completion of Fields of Study in Business and Criminal Justice. The LSC-Victory Center will offer coursework leading to the completion of a Field of Study in Speech Communication. Each of these programs can be completed in as little as two years, but can also be taken at a slower pace if you work or have family responsibilities that limit the time you can attend classes. As soon as you complete the required coursework, you will be ready to transfer to a four year institution to complete your bachelor's degree.
Coursework and Employment Opportunities
Once you are enrolled in any of the Field of Study programs offered at Greenspoint and Victory Centers, you will be able to take the basic coursework required of all students who wish to obtain a bachelor's degree from a Texas state university. These include courses such as Government, History, English, and Mathematics. However, as part of the Field of Study, you will also be able to complete and transfer coursework that is specific to the bachelor's degree you plan to obtain.
Field of Study Curriculum in Business: Students will be able to enroll in transferable Business, Accounting, and Economics courses. They will learn about management, ownership, marketing, budgeting, taxes, legal aspects of business ownership and/or management, payroll, and recording business transactions.
Students who earn a Bachelor of Science in Business pursue a variety of careers, including accounting, management, finance, operations, entrepreneurship, sales, banking, and many other related professions. Salaries for careers in business range from $30K to $100 depending on yo0ur area of concentration.
Field of Study Curriculum in Criminal Justice: Students participating in the Field of Study in Criminal Justice will be able to enroll in courses such as Introduction to Criminal Justice, Court Systems and Practices, Fundamentals of Criminal Justice, and Correctional Systems and Practices, among others. In these courses, students will learn about the definition of crime and its nature and impact, the right to counsel, the grand jury process, and the organization and structure of the correctional system.
Graduates with a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice work in municipal, state, and federal law enforcement. Others work in courts, probation departments, or law offices. Some pursue careers in community organizations or in security firms. Salaries depend on the competencies that graduates acquire while earning their degree.
Field of Study in Speech Communication: This Field of Study enables students to participate in courses such as Interpersonal Communication, Voice and Diction, Discussion and Small group Communication, among others. In these courses, students learn the skills of verbal and non-verbal communication, the elements that affect the delivery and reception of oral communication, as well as the techniques involved in excellence of voice and diction.
Students who earn a Bachelor's degree in Speech Communication pursue employment in such fields as public relations, broadcasting, and journalism, or eventually become journalist, attorneys, announcers, or lecturers. There is a broad salary range for among all of these occupations
Beginning a Field of Study Curriculum at LSC-Greenspoint and Victory Center
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After nearly a year in the making, my new CD is finally available!
This album, State of Joy ~ A Celebration of North Carolina through Piano and Ambient Sounds from Historic and Scenic Locations. combines two of my lifelong loves: playing classical piano music, and the state I call home, North Carolina.
Blending field recordings from across North Carolina with ten original compositions for solo piano, I have created an audio journey for your relaxation and enjoyment.


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Pictured: McDonald scored her first two collegiate goals (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Harvard field hockey team came back from three different one-goal deficits, but No. 10 New Hampshire scored last to defeat the Crimson, 4-3, in overtime Sunday on Senior Day at Jordan Field.
On a sunny afternoon celebrating the careers of senior co-captains Carly Dickson and Georgia McGillivray, Dickson scored a goal and McGillivray played her usual solid defense. They were aided by two goals from freshman Catriona McDonald, 14 saves by Cynthia Tassopoulos and three defensive saves by Carly McNeill.
Whitney Frates scored her second goal of the game 95 seconds into overtime, shooting to the top right corner of the goal after a penalty corner to give the Wildcats (15-4) the win and hand Harvard (8-8) its first loss in four overtime games. Frates also netted the game's first goal, eight minutes into the opening half.
In what would become a recurring theme, Harvard bounced back after giving up a goal. At 14:54 of the first half, McDonald scored the first goal of her career, banging in the rebound from in the left side after UNH goalie Katherine Nagengast stopped a shot from Kaitlyn Boudah. Casey Pohlmeyer put UNH back on top, 2-1, 10 minutes before halftime, when she redirected a penalty-corner shot high and into the goal.
Harvard again rallied in the second half. Barely four minutes had elapsed when Dickson scored. After the ball was loose in the midfield, Caitlin Rea pushed it ahead to Dickson. The senior stepped into the circle and ripped a low, hard shot beyond the reach of Nagengast's stick.
New Hampshire earned its third lead of the game about 11 minutes later, when Hayley Rausch scored following a centering pass from Pohlmeyer. Great goal-line defense limited the lead to one goal, as Tassopoulos made save after save and McNeill and Molly Stansik logged consecutive defensive saves. Stansik also intercepted four passes, matching Morgan Powell for the team lead for the game.
McDonald made that defense pay off. After Katelin Wahl threw the ball toward the net, Noel Painter collected it and shot. Nagengast got a pad on it, but McDonald was there to put it away with less than five minutes remaining in regulation. Tassopoulos helped force overtime with a huge save on Frates on a breakaway with barely a minute left. McGillivray also slid to make a key tackle in the final five minutes and had a key intercept to prevent a scoring chance early in overtime.


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For the last year and a half, the five liberal arts colleges known as MnObe (pronounced min-OH-bee and derived from Minnesota Oberlin Group Libraries) have been thinking collectively about our library catalogs. We started at very different points (ranging from "what we've got works pretty well" to "what is this thing we're using and where are the punch-card computers it seems to match?"). Then Roy Tennant came and talked to us and everybody got pretty excited about the idea of a next generation catalog. And I was pretty sure we'd stay that way… excited about the idea of change.
But then we held a "debate" between five teams of librarians each proposing an alternative to our current systems. Our biggest surprise that day was the amount of agreement between groups and audience members about a) the need for change and b) the types of things that need to change. (Here's a quick list of features and functions we liked, none of which are surprising.) At the conclusion of that meeting, the directors of our libraries charged a group of volunteers to actually map out our movement forward.
Well, a couple of weeks ago, this group of volunteers met, thought, discussed, and drafted a report. You can read it on the wiki if you want, or the PDF (which is prettier). It's definitely a first step, but the group felt that we needed to clear up the first step first. You'll notice, though, that we clearly and explicitly state that we want some kind of drastic change in the near future, and we map out a few key actions that will start us moving toward that change.
Now it's been delivered to the MnObe directors. We'll see what happens. I'm having to work a lot harder to keep from getting too excited now that we've actually formally recommended action.


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Obituary: Mark Andrew Smoot
Mark "Andy" Smoot, 40, of Inyokern Calif., passed away following a motorcycle accident on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. He was born in Bellflower, Calif., Feb. 7, 1972.
Mark resided in various cities along the West coast, all the way up to Eagle River, AK. Mark was a graduate of University of Reno in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He was working as a Performance Engineer at Terra-Gen Power in Ridgecrest, Calif.
Mark was a loving father and husband. He was an avid outdoorsmen. He also enjoyed riding his motorcycle. Mark is survived by his children Christopher M. Smoot and Emily M. Smoot, his wife Marlena L. (Van Meter) Smoot, his mother Susan L. (Lunsford) Smoot and his sister Rachel E (Smoot) Foti, as well as other family.


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On Exhibit: Splash Zone & Penguins
Animal Facts
Scientific Name
Tethya aurantia
Animal Type
bacteria, tiny particles, and dissolved organic matter
to 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter
red volcanic sponge, cobalt sponge, boring sponges; Phylum: Porifera
southeastern Alaska to central Baja California, from low intertidal to 1,460 feet (440 m)
Natural History
The puffball sponge is spherical, with a flat bottom and a rough outer surface that's orange to yellow in color. The body surface contains many tiny pores called ostia, where water carrying oxygen and small food particles enter the sponge. Waving flagella (whips) create a current that keeps the water moving. The water and waste exit the sponge through one or more much larger openings called oscula. On most species of sponges, the oscula are clearly visible, but you need to look closely at the orange puffball sponge to see them.
The body of a sponge is supported by a matrix of fibers made of spongin (a structural protein) and an interlocking skeleton of spicules. High powers of healing and regeneration are within this sponge's sphere. When parts become infected, the puffball uses its spicules to isolate and shed the infected parts, then regenerate the lost parts.
Sponges are an important part of the ecosystem; they're a source of food for nudibranchs, chitons, sea stars, turtles and some fishes.
Cool Facts
A sponge's body is a collection of loosely connected, nearly independent cells—it has no organs and no tissues. These are the only animals that if broken into cells can put themselves back together again.
Many biologists have been seeking an animal group that is the ancestor of all animals. When Mitch Sogin, a biologist at the Marine Biology Lab at Woods Hole, compared the genetic blueprint of a sponge with those of other animals, he discovered that all animals with more than one cell are based on a sponge's genetic blueprint.
Scientists have described and named more than 5,000 of the probable 10,000 to 15,000 species of sponges, which come in various shapes and sizes.
Adult sponges are sessile (unable to move about). They produce potent chemicals to defend themselves against other animals that try to overgrow, poison, infect or eat them. These chemicals don't harm the sponges themselves, having the same properties of anti-bacterial and anti-cancerous drugs that don't kill healthy cells. Scientists are researching these chemicals in hopes of finding new disease-fighting drugs.


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People are often far too eager to claim police brutality. I've seen false claims happen right in front of me. What happened yesterday in Pittsburgh appears to be one of those instances – a young woman claiming police brutality to save face.
It helps her cause that she's a lesbian who was taking part in Pridefest. Because homophobia.
During the gay pride celebration in Pittsburgh yesterday, several Christian groups were protesting within legal parameters. Ariel Lawther was engaged in a heated argument with 36-year-old protester Eric Moure. Lawther's age has been reported at somewhere between 19 and 22 years of age. According to Moure, Lawther became physical, shoving him – that's when rookie officer Souroth Chatterji intervened. Both Moure and Officer Chatterji told the same story: upon the officer's intervention, Lawther turned on him, hitting him with her fists and kicking him in the groin.
That was when things got hairy. Only ten seconds of video was recorded by a bystander. That was of Officer Chatterji pulling Lawther out of the crowd by her hair and punching her in the abdomen.
The video really doesn't tell us much. It was captured at the end of the altercation and shows nothing of what was going on between Lawther and Moure. Officer Chatterji says he had already admonished Lawther and her friends not to engage in an argument with the protesters as it would lead to a fight. Officer Chatterji also says he clearly heard her tell Moure, "I will f—ing kill you!"
First things first. The protesters.
I do not give a damn how angry you may be at any protesters. I don't give a damn what they are saying. Christians are going to protest outside of gay pride parades and festivals. It's going to happen. We all know what those protesters are going to say. It is nothing new to anybody. You need to let them do what they'll do and say what they'll say. The instant you talk smack, issue threats, or get violent, YOU are the one in the wrong – it matters none what they have said or done. You deserve to go to jail. You are wrong and should be ashamed of yourself. I grew up in Evangelical Christianity and I know perfectly well how unpleasant those protesters can be; know now that nothing they do or say can ever excuse your boorish behavior if you refuse to control yourself.
You need to walk away and leave them alone. If they put their hands on you, attract all the attention you can before you fight back. Unless they do intend to do physical harm, you have no business at all engaging in any argument with them. WALK AWAY. That is what adults in the real world do.
Second…the arrest.
She clearly assaulted a protester and needed to be arrested. According to her own statements to officers after her arrest, she knew she was being violent and that it was wrong. She apologized to the officer and told him, "I didn't know you were a cop." She admits to assaulting him in that phrase. If an officer is being assaulted, he has every right to use force to subdue his attacker. Period. The teenager (yes, she was 16 years old) who took the video with a cell phone (who can be heard screaming "what are you doing?!?") claims that she didn't see Lawther get violent with the officer; she's probably telling the truth. She also probably didn't see what precipitated the moment she filmed. There was a pretty good-sized crowd there and the video shows that crowd getting in the way just before the officer throws punches.
Incidents like these do not help the cause of gay rights. They only serve to thoroughly embarrass us. Young gay people are essentially being taught that self-restraint is a thing of the past – you should express yourself regardless of how negative your emotions are.
Learn now a very important lesson, kids. Self-restraint is very important in the real world. You are going to hear people say things that offend you or otherwise hurt your feelings. No amount of offense will ever excuse losing your temper, starting an argument, or becoming physically violent in any way, shape, or form. I have had members of the Phelps clan say things far worse than anything those protesters were saying to you in Pittsburgh. I never yelled, never spit, never shoved, and never hit. You need to learn to tolerate people you don't like…just like you're demanding of the extremist religious types you can't stand.
Don't get into those kinds of altercations and you won't have to deal with the police.


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During a pap smear, your physician will collect and examine cells from your cervix, the opening to the uterus. This test is performed to screen for cervical cancer and other problems.
It's important to talk with your physician about when and how often you should have a pap smear. Experts base screening guidelines on your age and risk factors for cervical cancer.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), guidelines include:
A pap smear, along with a pelvic exam, is an important part of your routine health care; it can find abnormal cells that can lead to cancer. Your physician can find most cancers of the cervix early if you have regular pap smears and pelvic exams. Cancer of the cervix is more likely to be successfully treated if it is found early. In addition, the pap smear is useful for finding cancerous cells, and other cervical and vaginal problems such as precancerous cells and inflammation.
Your physician may use a pap smear to diagnose the following conditions:
Your physician may do a test for the human papillomavirus, HPV, at the same time as a pap smear. Infection with HPV is the most important risk factor for cervical cancer in women over age 30.


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Years ago I was persuaded to be included in an Alzheimer's "safe return" program that is now run in conjunction with a widely known medical alert program. Initially the program seemed foolish for me at my state of the game, but not knowing how the disease would progress and feeling the pressure to be a poster child for all things Alzheimer's, I did eventually enroll and after some significant delay, received my bracelet. It was dutifully fastened on my wrist with its patient-proof latch and we assumed that were I ever to be in an accident or wander that it would help first responders. My experience has been different than our expectations.
My bracelet does have the "medic alert" symbol on the front. The back side has only "Memory Impaired. My name is Diane" across the top is a "Call 800---------" Perhaps the wording is vague because the bracelet is intended mainly for wandering, and not emergency situations. I was in rehab and having seizures. Policy dictated that a first responder was called if I seized longer than three minutes or was unresponsive after a seizure. One the first occasion it seems the responders got most of their information from the rehab, but I was new and they were even unclear on my medical history without getting my chart. A responder complained that my bracelet told him "nothing" and no one ever bothered to call the 800 number. I was transported to the hospital.
The next transport was at a different facility and with the support of wonderful, knowledgeable staff who understood my physicians limits on seizures (only transport if seizing and unresponsive for 15 minutes). The staff member was my physical therapist and also a dear friend. She handled everything very well and alerted my spouse. She gave information to the EMTs. Later I heard, again, that the medic alert bracelet was not helpful.
Since I am not crazy about the bracelet for aesthetic reasons and now practical reasons, I began to discuss getting an alternative. The chain of the current bracelet is long enough to leave impressions on the heel of my hand when I am making bread or some other activity. The wording did not help me, or responders in an emergency. I searched online and found a location that made custom medical bracelets. I was able to get four lines front AND back. I chose to put Alzheimer's: Seizures and my ICE contact number on the front. I listed allergies on the back (I think). This should help if I am ever in a first responder situation again. Before considering enrolling in a yearly fee-for-service program for yourself or a loved one, consult with your doctor and local fire department and police (first responders) as to what is most helpful to them. In my situation it has proven that a simple bracelet labeling my diagnosis, allergies and person to contact in case of emergency is more expedient than calling any 800 number.


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This is my first tutorial so I hope that it is not too hard to follow. The jet is just something I sketched, it isn't really meant to look like any one particular airplane. Enjoy!
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Adjacent to Montrose Park is Dumbarton Park, a wilderness area of 27 acres that was established by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss who purchased Dumbarton Oaks House in 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss hired Beatrix Ferrand to create the masterful 10 acre formal gardens around the house. The Blisses gave a majority of Dumbarton Oaks to Harvard University in 1940.
Montrose and Dumbarton Parks are public parks accessible to the public. Dumbarton Oaks is located at 1703 32nd St., N.W. From March 15 through October, the gardens are open daily, except Mondays,
from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm; November-March 14: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. They are
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A cold front will march towards South Florida Wednesday evening, kicking off shower and thunderstorm chances for the area after lunch.
Once the initial front passes, drier air will filter into the region Thursday, setting up a wonderful weekend weather pattern.
While temperatures won't fall dramatically, lower humidity will make for an enjoyable stretch of weather in the days ahead.
For Wednesday, expect partly sunny conditions with scattered showers and highs around 87. Thursday will be partly sunny with isolated morning showers and highs around 84.
By Friday, there will be lower humidity with highs around 82.
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Red Wings' quick burst downs Blackhawks
- Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller score 31 seconds apart as Detroit takes 2-1 series lead
- Pavel Datsyuk also scores for Detroit
- Apparent tying goal waved off
DETROIT - Before the Chicago Blackhawks-Detroit Red Wings series started, the question was whether Detroit's power play would work against top-seeded Chicago's effective penalty killing.
The Blackhawks have indeed shut down Detroit's power play, but inexplicably they haven't been able to out-produce them at full strength.
"Detroit doesn't surprise anybody anymore, I don't think," Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook said. ''They know how to win. They've been there before. They've won a lot of games. They've won a lot of big games. We've got to come out with a better effort."
Third-liner Gustav Nyquist and fourth-liner Drew Miller scored goals 31 seconds apart in the second period to break a scoreless to spark the No. 7-seeded Red Wings, who lost all four games to the No. 1 overall Blackhawks in the regular season.
BOX SCORE:Red Wings 3, Blackhawks 1
The Red Wings hold a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal, which resumes Thursday in Detroit.
"I feel like we can play with these guys," said Detroit role player Patrick Eaves, who assisted on Miller's goal. "We know they're a great team and we have to respect that, respect their skill. But we've been getting better."
After struggling in five-on-five situations in the playoffs over the first eight games, the Red Wings have outscored Chicago 7-2 at full strength over the past two games.
"We probably had one of our better game of the playoffs tonight, even though we lost," said Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith. "I think we're going to take some confidence away."
Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard made some big stops among his 39 saves, including a memorable one against Patrick Sharp on a breakaway early in the third period.
"That was probably the fastest playoff game I've ever been a part of," said Howard.
Not long after that save, Niklas Hjalmarsson checked Johan Franzen from behind into the boards. There was no penalty called. As Franzen lay on the ice, the puck quickly was turned up ice by Chicago and Patrick Kane scored on a breakaway.
MORE:Quenneville says ref blew call
Right after that play, the Blackhawks appeared to tie the game, but the goal was waved off because Chicago's Andrew Shaw was judged to be in the crease.
At 6:46 of the third period, Pavel Datsyuk beat Chicago goalie Corey Crawford with a quick-release laser blast that went in and out of the net before Crawford could react.
"We have really good leadership … and a lot of kids who work hard," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said.
The Blackhawks did stop Detroit's four power-play opportunities, meaning they are 28-for-28 in killing penalties during the postseason.
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Nyquist scored at 7:59 of the first period on a play that brought together both speed and patience. Taking Damien Brunner's lob pass in stride, Nyquist cut inside past Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook and waited until Crawford made his move. When Crawford was sprawled, Nyquist calmly fired the puck into the empty net.
A short time later, Chicago defenseman Michal Rozsival made a poor clearing pass that went directly to Detroit forward Cory Emmerton. He got the puck to Patrick Eaves, whose shot was stopped by Crawford. The rebound ended up in the crease. Miller crashed the net and drove the puck over the line.
"I think this series is a long way from over," Toews said. "And they know it, too."


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Covering Dixie Like Mildew - SEC news and notes.
The Lion in Winter.
Team Speed Kills wonders how much longer South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier will remain in the coaching came.
Obligatory Johnny Manziel-related item of the day.
Texas A&M starting quarterback Johnny Manziel's Heisman win resulted in the equivalent of $37 million dollars in media exposure. (The Dallas Morning News)
The only easy day was yesterday.
Team Speed Kills wonders if Texas A&M can repeat it's blockbuster debut season in the SEC in 2013 with significant losses to its defense.
Tray Matthews will be Georgia's next "playmaker."
Because Tray Matthews says so. (The Athens Banner-Herald)
Dubious achievement of the day.
Missouri head football coach Gary Pinkel finds himself the only SEC representative of Roger Sherman's list of "the 10 college football coaches with the highest cost-per-win ratios in 2012. (SB*Nation)
Lawing Order.
Former South Carolina defensive line coach Brad Lawing is hired to become Florida's DLC. (The Gainesville Sun)
As for South Carolina....
South Carolina hires former North Carolina DLC Deke Adams to replace Lawing. (Garnet and Black Attack)
Do you come from the land Down Under?
Australian-born JUCO player punter Sam Irwin-Hill commits to Arkansas' 2013 recruiting class. (Arkansas Expats)
Two for the road.
Auburn gets commitments from Florida high school senior wideout Tony Stevens, and Oklahoma HS senior safety Khari Harding for its 2013 recruiting class. (The Opelika-Auburn News)
LSU recruiting.
Louisiana HS wide recriver Kevin Spears commits to LSU's 2013 recruiting class. (And the Valley Shook)


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So yummy! 5h and fav!
i love the vibrancy of these colors... great job! :)
very nice =)
I have found a recipe for this - Watermelonade! I LOVE IT
that's a pretty interesting idea. love this pic 5/5 and favs.
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the drink is so delicious! thanks for drawing this!
This looks wonderful. I absolutely love the colors and it looks very realistic. Fav!
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100 hearts if i could .. i'm like inlove with watermelon !!!