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And the Sochi Crowd Goes Mild
Russians Have Been Subdued in Praising the Home Team; More Bolshoi Than Boston Garden
Sochi, Russia
Russia built a "fans house" the size of a warehouse near the entrance to Olympic Park to get the home crowd for Team Russia fired up. Just not too fired up.
"We don't want people to be too active and bother the athletes or the fans from other countries," said Yevgeny Tkachev, spokesman for the fan house, where visitors can meet former Olympians and test their own fitness. "We're not trying to turn people into sports fanatics."
The hundreds of thousands of Russians with tickets to the Winter Games have so far been more stoic than stoked, more Bolshoi than Boston Garden.
Tkachev wants fans warmed up but not noisy. Horns? That would be a nyet. "We don't give out anything that makes noise," he said.
In Sochi, there is little to rival the earthshaking "U-S-A" chants of big American crowds, or the deafening vuvuzela horns that blared at the South African soccer World Cup in 2010. Even the British overcame their stiff-upper-lip DNA with effusive, often emotional outpourings at the 2012 London Olympics.
The Russian crowd occasionally chants "Ros-see-ya," Russian for Russia, but rarely for more than a few beats.
At some venues, they are drowned out by smaller groups of fans from rowdier countries, including the Dutch. The biggest ruckus supported by the Russian fan house is the quiet thumping of the inflatable red, white and blue sticks it gives away.
Russians tend to be more restrained because "it's seen as indecent to highlight joy about your own victory if it's been won at someone else's expense," said Vladimir Aseyev, a psychologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences. "That's the way people have always been brought up."
In Russian culture, open displays of emotion are strictly regulated.
"Emotions definitely run high, but we do not jump up and down like the Japanese or the Chinese," said Alexei Musharin, academic director at the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture and Sport. "Our pride for our athletes does not depend on how we show it. If a Russian is sober, then he can be quite reserved in how he expresses emotions."
And sober is the word at the Sochi Olympics, where most beer is nonalcoholic and stronger stuff is harder to find than tickets to the hockey final.
Hometown fans are expected to be on their best behavior.
Vladimir Pozner, a popular TV journalist, complained to a Russian radio station this week about fans hitting the exits before visiting athletes finished their events: "Not everyone leaves, but the stadium empties out noticeably. That's disrespectful to the others."
Locals attribute the relative reserve to the fear of making a bad impression before a global audience. "One should behave in a dignified way," said Sochi resident Larisa Merkulova. "We've been waiting so long for this and we want to show ourselves in the right light."
Merkulova arrived Monday at Olympic Park to root for Russian speedskaters. She carried a flag, and wore sparkly red, blue and white flags painted on her cheeks and a colorful antennae on her head.
"We're feeling good," she said, but promised nonetheless to maintain her composure.
The Russian crowd has had its moments. At Monday's short-track speedskating competition, fans greeted Viktor Ahn, a favorite from the Russian team, with a roar that drowned out the bell for the start of the final lap.
In 2012, hundreds of people took to Moscow streets to celebrate Russia clinching the World Ice Hockey Championships with a victory over Slovakia. Crowds waved flags and shouted "Russia! Russia!" while cars sounded horns through the night.
Fans also flooded the streets in 2009 when Russia beat Canada to win its first hockey championship since 1993.
Some Russians say the Sochi crowds are just warming up.
"The Olympics just started," said Grigory Byrukov, a 25-year-old resident of Voronezh, who watched a curling match. "When Russians start to win many medals, I think we will root more."
He chalked up the quiet crowds to inexperience. "For many people, it's their first Olympics," Byrukov said. "They've never been here. They don't know how to root."
Byrukov predicted that would soon change.
"Wait until hockey," he said. "That will be one hell of a show, for sure. Just wait."
—Olga Razumovskaya, Brian Costa and Nonna Fomenko contributed to this article.
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TORRANCE >> The walls of the half-empty, second-floor garage in an anonymous office condominium that once housed Parnelli Jones' private racing car collection are stripped bare.
Gone are about 1,800 pieces of memorabilia and artwork, along with 10 of Jones' most prized and valuable race cars.
They were shipped to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum, where they occupy an entire wing. The famed racetrack was the scene of Jones' greatest triumphs as a driver and team co-owner.
It's where the long-time South Bay resident, considered one of the giants of Southern California's rich motor racing heritage, won the Indianapolis 500 in 1963, just two years after he was named the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year.
And it's where the Torrance-based Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing team, named after himself and his late business partner, won back-to-back Indy 500s in 1970 and 1971, further cementing Jones' place in the lore of one of the world's great racetracks.
So it was natural that Jones should see cars he drove and built end up at Indianapolis, where he was honored earlier this year on the 50th anniversary of his Indy 500 victory.
"I thought, I'm 80 years old, eventually where do I want my cars to go?" Jones said earlier this week as he sat behind the desk of his Torrance office, which remains jammed with artifacts from his racing past.
"I thought the right thing to do was to send them to Indianapolis. So that's what we did."
But before that occurred, Jones wanted to retain something more concrete than mere memories of objects that represented a lifetime of work. So he had the racing cars professionally photographed in a studio set up in his warehouse.
The result is a just released 200-page coffee table tome titled "The Cars of Vel Miletich and Parnelli Jones."
"I'm proud of it,' Jones said. "Each one of them, I lived them. A picture is worth a thousand words, but I lived each one of them."
Jones will sign copies of the book from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Burbank's Autobooks-Aerobooks, 2900 W. Magnolia Blvd. Founded in 1951, the store is as much an institution in Southern California automotive circles as Jones.
"He was here a couple of months ago (signing) his autobiography," owner Tina Van Curen said. ""We sold out (of over 100 copies). It was a mob scene.
"He's a very popular guy and he's a really nice guy," she added. "He's probably one of the most famous American race drivers that's alive — anyone who knows anything about cars and racing knows Parnelli Jones."
Part artwork, part historical document, the lavishly illustrated work traces the rise and fall of a team that dominated American motor sports for about a decade in the late 1960s and early 1970s until its major sponsor pulled out.
The team won three national driving championships and nurtured the early careers of household names such as Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt and Al Unser.
And it raced in a dizzying and unprecedented variety of motor sports, as Tony George, former president and CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, noted in the book's foreword.
"The Vel's Parnelli Jones team eventually encompassed so many different disciplines of motorsport at the same time as to boggle the mind," he wrote. "In addition to running what was then the USAC National Championship circuit, they were also fielding cars in the USAC Silver Crown dirt events, Formula 5000 events on road courses, NHRA drag racing, off-road racing and even Formula one — all at the same time.
"It is unlikely we will ever see anything like that again."
Jones, who lives in the exclusive, gated Palos Verdes Peninsula city of Rolling Hills, became a successful businessman, dabbling in real estate development and building a chain of 47 eponymously named tire stores.
But racing, as both a driver and team co-owner, remains his passion.
"They're both very thrilling," he said. "You put your heart, soul, money in a program like that so you become part of it.
"I've always prided myself as not so much having talent, but having a desire, a being able to kick ass kind of attitude. Nobody gives you anything, you have to take it."
It was a philosophy that served Jones well on and off the track and was reflected in the cars he created that meant "we were ahead of our time," he said.
Innovations included using talent and materials from the South Bay's aerospace industry to create lightweight racing cars, for instance.
His personal favorite remains the blue and yellow 1970 PJ Colt Ford Johnny Lightning Special Unser drove to the team's first Indy 500 win. Car and driver set a track record in qualifying en route to pole position and led 190 of the 200 laps in what Jones still marvels was a "dominating" performance.
"We really cleaned the clock," Jones said. "The only time we lost the lead was when we made the first pit stop."
But the most popular car now residing in the Indianapolis museum is Jones' "Big Oly" 1969 Ford Bronco that he drove to several victories in notable off-road races, including the 1973 Baja 500. Kids, he said, love the distinctive yellow overgrown convertible.
Jones still has plenty of memorabilia lining the walls of his offices: letters from the likes of President Ronald Reagan and speed freak Steve McQueen, the late actor, as well as the cowboy hat he lost during his Indianapolis victory lap and was reunited with this year.
Sometimes, it all seems a little surreal, even to Jones.
"I've had a wonderful racing career, not only as a driver" he said. "Racing has been part of my life. I look back on it and say, 'That wasn't really me.' I can't believe I did all those things. It's like somebody else did it."


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Aphids alone cause tens of millions of dollars of damage to crops worldwide every year; because of this, aphid-eating hoverflies are being recognized as important natural enemies of pests, and potential agents for use in biological control. Some adult syrphid flies are important pollinators.
About 6,000 species in 200 genera have been described. Hoverflies are common throughout the world and can be found on all continents except Antarctica. Hoverflies are harmless to most other animals, despite their mimicry of more dangerous wasps and bees, which wards off predators.
The size of hoverflies varies depending on the species.[1] Some, like members of the genus Baccha, are small, elongated, and slender, while others, like members of Criorhina, are large, hairy, and yellow and black. As members of the Diptera, all hoverflies have a single functional pair of wings (the hind wings are reduced to balancing organs).[2] They are brightly colored, with spots, stripes, and bands of yellow or brown covering their bodies.[2] Due to this coloring, they are often mistaken for wasps or bees; they exhibit Batesian mimicry. Despite this, hoverflies are harmless.[1]
With a few exceptions (e.g.[3]), hoverflies are distinguished from other flies by a spurious vein, located parallel to the fourth longitudinal wing vein.[1] Adults feed mainly on nectar and pollen.[2] They also hover around flowers, lending to their common name.[1]
Bee flies of the family Bombyliidae often mimic roar Hymenoptera and hover around flowers as well, rendering some bombyliid species hard to tell apart from Syrphidae at first glance. Hoverflies can nevertheless be distinguished in the field by anatomical features such as:
- The legs and mouthparts of hoverflies are usually not particularly long and thin (some bombyliids have a long and needle-like proboscis, many have legs that are noticeably longer and thinner than in similar sized syrphids)
- Their facial cuticle often has prominent bulges and/or beak- to knob-like projections (most bee flies have an evenly curved or sloping face)
- The wings are often clear or have smooth gradients of tinting, their veins merge posteriorly into a "false edge" that runs parallel to the wing's true rear edge and extends along half or more of the wing length (bombyliid wings lack a "false rear edge" and often have large dark areas with sharp boundaries, or complex patterns of spots)
- The abdomen and thorax often have glossy cuticular body surfaces, abdominal colors are usually mainly due to cuticular pigments (bee flies are usually very hairy, their abdominal colors are almost always due to pigmentation of hairs and not the underlying cuticle).
Reproduction and lifecycleEdit
Unlike adults, the maggots of hoverflies feed on a variety of foods; some are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant or animal matter, while others are insectivores, eating aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects.[1] This is beneficial to gardens, as aphids destroy crops, and hoverfly maggots are often used in biological control. Certain species, such as Lampetia equestris or Eumerus tuberculatus, are responsible for pollination.
An example of a well-known hoverfly maggot is the rat-tailed maggot, of the drone fly, Eristalis tenax. It has a breathing siphon at its rear end, giving it its name.[1] The species lives in stagnant water, such as sewage and lagoons.[4] The maggots also have a commercial use, and are sometimes sold for ice fishing.[5]
On extremely rare occasions, hoverfly larvae have been known to cause accidental myiasis in humans. This occurs when the larvae are accidentally ingested from contaminated food.[4][6]
Distribution and habitatEdit
Hoverflies are a cosmopolitan family found in most biomes, except deserts, tundra at extremely high latitudes, and Antarctica.[7][8] Certain species are more common in certain areas than others; for example, the American hoverfly, Eupeodes americanus, is common in the Nearctic ecozone, and the common hoverfly, Melangyna viridiceps, is common in the Australasia ecozone. About 6,000 species and 200 genera are in the family.[9]
While some hoverfly larvae are aquatic and are often found in stagnant water, those of species which prey upon aphids and other plant pests are usually terrestrial, residing on leaves.[10] Adults are often found near flowers, their principal food source being nectar and pollen.[2] Some species are found in more unusual locations; for example, members of the genus Volucella can be found in bumblebee nests, while members of Microdon are myrmecophiles, found in ant or termite nests.[1] Others can be found in decomposing vegetation.
Hoverflies are important pollinators of flowering plants in a variety of ecosystems worldwide.[11] Syrphid flies are frequent flower visitors to a wide range of wild plants, as well as agricultural crops, and are often considered the second-most important group of pollinators after wild bees. However, relatively little research into fly pollinators has been conducted compared with bee species.[11] Bees are thought to be able to carry a greater volume of pollen on their bodies, but flies may be able to compensate for this by making a greater number of flower visits.
Like many pollinator groups, syrphid flies range from species that take a generalist approach to foraging by visiting a wide range of plant species to those that specialize in a narrow range of plants.[12] Although hoverflies are often considered mainly nonselective pollinators, some hoverflies species are highly selective and carry pollen from one plant species.[13] Cheilosia albitarsis is thought to only visit Ranunculus repens.
Specific flower preferences differ between species, but syrphid fly species have repeatedly been shown to prefer white- and yellow-coloured flowers.[14] Nonvisual flower cues such as olfactory cues also help the flies to find flowers, especially those that are not yellow.[15] Many syrphid fly species have short, unspecialized mouth parts and tend to feed on flowers that are more open as the nectar and pollen can be easily accessed.[16]
Also, a number of fascinating interactions occur between orchids and hoverflies. The orchid species Epipactis veratrifolia mimics alarm pheromones of aphids to attract hoverflies for pollination.[17] Another plant, the slipper orchid in southwest China, also achieves pollination by deceit by exploiting the innate yellow color preference of syrphide.[18]
Case study – New ZealandEdit
More than 40 species of syrphid flies are found in New Zealand[19] in a variety of habitats, including agricultural fields and alpine zones. Two hoverfly species in Switzerland are being investigated as potential biological control agents of hawkweeds in New Zealand.[20]
Native hoverfly species Melanostoma fasciatum and Melangyna novaezelandiae are common on agricultural fields in New Zealand.[21] Coriander and tansy leaf are particularly attractive to many species of adults, which feed on their pollen.[22] In organic paddocks, hoverflies were found to feed on an average of three and a maximum of six different pollens. M. fasciatum has a short proboscis, which restricts it to obtaining nectar from disk flowers.[23]
Syrphid flies are also common visitors to flowers in alpine zones in New Zealand. Native flies (Allograpta and Platycheirus) in alpine zones show preferences for flower species based on their colour in alpine zones; syrphid flies consistently choose yellow flowers over white regardless of species.[24] However, syrphid flies are not as effective pollinators of alpine herb species as native solitary bees.[25]
Relationship with humansEdit
Larvae of many hoverfly species prey upon pest insects, including aphids and the leafhoppers, which spread some diseases such as curly top. Therefore, they are seen in biocontrol as a natural means of reducing the levels of pests.
Gardeners, therefore, sometimes use companion plants to attract hoverflies. Those reputed to do so include alyssum, Iberis umbellata, statice, buckwheat, chamomile, parsley, and yarrow.
Fredrik Sjöberg's book The Fly Trap concerns his enthusiasm for hoverflies on the island of Runmarö in the Baltic Sea.[26] The island is a hotspot for hoverflies and other insects; Sjöberg has collected 58 species of butterfly there, and (in seven years of hunting) 202 species of hoverfly, including 180 in his garden. He estimates that in 2014, there were only 25 hoverfly enthusiasts in the whole of Sweden.[27]
Identification guidesEdit
- Stubbs, A.E. and Falk, S.J. (2002) British Hoverflies An Illustrated Identification Guide. Pub. 1983 with 469 pages, 12 col plates, b/w illus.British Entomological and Natural History Society ISBN 1-899935-05-3. 276 species are described with extensive keys to aid identification. It displays 190 species on colour plates. 2nd edition, pub. 2002, includes new British species and name changes. It includes European species likely to appear in Britain. Additional black and white plates illustrate the male genitalia of the difficult genera Cheilosia and Sphaerophoria.
- Vockeroth, J.R. A revision of the genera of the Syrphini (Diptera: Syrphidae) Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, no. 62:1-176. Keys subfamilies, tribes and genera on a world basis and under regions.
- van Veen, M.P. |(2004) "Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae". KNNV Publishing, Utrecht. ISBN 9050111998
Regional listsEdit
See alsoEdit
- Episyrphus balteatus – marmalade fly (worldwide distribution)
- ^ a b c d e f g "Hover fly". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Hoverfly". Hutchinson Encyclopedia. Helicon Publishing. 2009. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
- ^ Reemer, Menno (2008). "Surimyia, a new genus of Microdontinae, with notes on Paragodon Thompson, 1969 (Diptera, Syrphidae)" (PDF). Zoologische Mededelingen. 82: 177–188.
- ^ a b Aguilera A, Cid A, Regueiro BJ, Prieto JM, Noya M (September 1999). "Intestinal myiasis caused by Eristalis tenax". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 37 (9): 3082. PMC 85471. PMID 10475752.
- ^ Dictionary of Ichthyology; Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister Archived 2009-12-06 at the Wayback Machine at ww.briancoad.com
- ^ Whish-Wilson PB (2000). "A possible case of intestinal myiasis due to Eristalis tenax". The Medical Journal of Australia. 173 (11–12): 652. PMID 11379520.
- ^ Barkemeyer, Werner. "Syrphidae (hoverflies)". Biodiversity Explorer. South Africa: Iziko Museum. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
- ^ Thompson, F. Christian (August 19, 1999). "Flower Flies". The Diptera Site. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on December 11, 2009. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
- ^ Philip J. Scholl; E. Paul Catts; Gary R. Mullen (2009). "Myiasis (Muscoidea, Oestroidea)". In Gary Mullen; Gary Richard Mullen; Lance Durden (eds.). Medical and Veterinary Entomology (2nd ed.). Academic Press. pp. 309–338. ISBN 978-0-12-372500-4.
- ^ Laura Smith. "Syrphidae, hover flies". bumblebee.org.
- ^ a b Larson, B.M.H; Kevan, P.G.; Inouye, D. W. (2001). "Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophiles and pollinators". Canadian Entomologist. 133: 439–465. doi:10.4039/ent133439-4.
- ^ Van Der Kooi, C. J.; Pen, I.; Staal, M.; Stavenga, D. G.; Elzenga, J. T. M. (2015). "Competition for pollinators and intra-communal spectral dissimilarity of flowers" (PDF). Plant Biology. doi:10.1111/plb.12328.
- ^ Haslett, J.R. (1989). "Interpreting patterns of resource utilization: randomness and selectivity in pollen feeding by adult hoverflies". Oecologia. 78: 433–442. doi:10.1007/bf00378732.
- ^ Sajjad, Asif; Saeed, Shafqat (2010). "Floral host plant range of syrphid flies (Syrphidae: Diptera) under natural conditions in southern punjab, Pakistan". Pakistan Journal of Biology. 42 (2): 1187–1200.
- ^ Primante, Clara; Dotterl, Stefan (2010). "A syrphid fly uses olfactory cues to find a non-yellow flower". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 36: 1207–1210. doi:10.1007/s10886-010-9871-6.
- ^ Campbell, Alistair, J.; Biesmeijer, J. C.; Varma, V.; Wakers, F. L. (2012). "Realising multiple ecosystem services based on the response of three beneficial insect groups to floral traits and trait diversity". Basic and Applied Ecology. 13: 363–370. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2012.04.003.
- ^ Stokl, Johannes; Brodmann; Dafni; Ayasse; Hansson (2011). "Smells like aphids: orchid flowers mimic aphid alarm pheromones to attract hoverflies for pollination". Proc. R. Soc. B. 278: 1216–1222. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1770. PMC 3049078.
- ^ Shi, J.; Luo, Y.B.; Ran, J.C.; Liu, Z.J.; Zhou, Q. (2009). "Pollination by deceit in Paphiopedilum barbigerum (Orchidaceae): a staminode exploits innate colour preferences of hoverflies (Syrphidae)". Plant Biology. 11: 17–28. doi:10.1111/j.1438-8677.2008.00120.x.
- ^ "Diptera: Syrphidae". Landcare Research. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
- ^ Grosskopf, Gitta (2005). "Biology and life history of Cheliosia urbana (Meigen) and Cheilosia psilophthalma (Becker), two sympatric hoverflies approved for the biological control of hawkweeds (Hieracium spp.) in New Zealand". Biological Control. 35: 142–154. doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2005.06.013.
- ^ Morris, Michael, C. (2000). "Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) "companion plants" can attract hover flies, and may reduce infestation in cabbages". New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science. 28: 213–217. doi:10.1080/01140671.2000.9514141.
- ^ Hickman, Janice, M.; Lovei, G. L.; Wratten, S. D. (1995). "Pollen feeding by adults of the hoverfly Melanostoma fasciatum (Diptera: Syrphidae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 22: 387–392. doi:10.1080/03014223.1995.9518057.
- ^ Holloway, Beverley, A. (1976). "Pollen-feeding in hover-flies (Diptera:Syrphidae)". New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 3 (4): 339–350. doi:10.1080/03014223.1976.9517924.
- ^ Campbell, Diane; Bischoff, M.; Lord, J. M.; Robertson, A. W. (2010). "Flower color influences insect visitation in alpine New Zealand". Ecology. 91 (9): 2638–2649. doi:10.1890/09-0941.1.
- ^ Bischoff, Mascha; Campbell, D. R.; Lord, J. M.; Robertson, A. W. (2013). "The relative importance of solitary bees and syrphid flies as pollinators of two outcrossing plant species in the New Zealand alpine". Austral Ecology. 38: 169–176. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2012.02389.x.
- ^ Sjöberg, Fredrik (2014). The Fly Trap. Particular Books. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-84614-776-0.
- ^ Barkham, Patrick (14 June 2014). "Fredrik Sjöberg: 'I realised I had to write my book for people not interested in flies'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Syrphidae.
|Wikispecies has information related to Syrphidae
- Hoverfly – index to scholarly articles
- All About Hoverflies
- Syrphidae [it] in Italian
- A web-site about Dutch hoverflies
- Hoverfly Recording Scheme – UK Dipterists Forum
- Syrphidae species in Europe and Africa, with photos, range maps, checklists and literature
- Family Syrphidae at EOL Image Gallery
- Northwest Europe Hoverflies – archived at The Wayback Machine
- Photographs of World Hoverflies from Japan, in English
- Diptera.info Picture Gallery
- "A hover fly, Allograpta obliqua". Featured Creatures. University of Florida / Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | 11:11 a.m.
The Nevada Supreme Court is calling for quick briefings on a request to stop trial for former endoscopy clinic owner Dipak Desai in a 2007 Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak.
A trio of justices set deadlines of Wednesday and Friday for prosecutors and attorney Richard Wright to submit written arguments.
The justices noted that jury selection already began Monday in state court in Las Vegas.
Wright argues that Desai is too incapacitated by strokes to assist in his defense.
Prosecutors allege that Desai is exaggerating his ailments.
Desai and former nurse-anesthetist Ronald Lakeman have pleaded not guilty to charges including murder, fraud and criminal neglect of patients at a Desai clinic where health officials determined nine people contracted incurable hepatitis C in 2007.
One former patient later died.


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Death to the Dictator!
A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price
Afsaneh Moqadam
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 150 pp., $22
After a botched election last year decried as fraudulent by the opposition, millions of Iranians eager for change poured into the streets in largely peaceful protests that rocked the nation's leadership, challenged Western conceptions about the Islamic Republic and dramatically increased international interest in Iran.
In response, the government imposed a massive and violent crackdown to end the demonstrations, made thousands of arrests, locked down information flows in and out of the country, pushed out or restricted longtime Iran journalists and created a tense calm.
Countless purveyors of facts and analysis have poured into the gap between actual information about Iran and heightened interest. Careful consumers of news have learned to sift through sources, ignoring certain analysts, reading others for historical insight and paying close attention to a select few on the ground in Iran or who have good sources there.
Of course, no one bears more responsibility for the dearth of credible information than the Islamic Republic's policymakers, who have systematically barred responsible, accountable and independent seekers of truth. The government's unwillingness to compromise with its domestic opponents has sent tens of thousands abroad over the years in an exodus of talent.
Just as Picasso showed "Guernica" in Paris, so too have Iranians turned abroad to offer totems of anger. "Death to the Dictator!" is the story of a young man who joined the protest movement, and was imprisoned and tortured by authorities. The names of the young man, here called Mohsen Abbaspour, and others in the book have been changed. So has the name of the author, who uses the nom de plume Afsaneh Moqadam.
Described as not particularly politically inclined, Abbaspour experiences the weeks-long buildup to election day on June 12, 2009, and the letdown and eruption of fury afterward. During one protest, he's arrested and hauled away to an unnamed prison, perhaps Evin in Tehran, where he's interrogated and beaten, and then to another facility, perhaps the Kahrizak detention center, where he's raped.
Abbaspour's tale is interspersed with relatively sound analysis of contemporary Iran's political and social mechanics. "Until recently internal enemies were tactfully unnamed," Moqadam writes of hardliners' shifting rhetoric toward their opponents. "Now for the first time, the schisms have been acknowledged and the reformists are publicly accused of being counterrevolutionaries."
A 13-page account of infamous protests in which the activist Neda Agha-Soltan died, allegedly at the hands of a Basiji militiaman, rings particularly true.
Perhaps the book's greatest flaw is the black-and-white picture it paints of Iran's kaleidoscopic social tapestry. Iran is enormously dynamic and complex. But the author draws emotionally charged and distorted caricatures of the hardliners and their minions who have the upper hand:
"He's a squat, muscular man of about 45, bearded and covered in sweat, wearing a white shirt, and his forehead has a perfectly centered disk of calloused skin from excessive prayer," goes the description of one of the regime's enforcers. "He inhabits a constellation of atmospheres … that consists of the Revolutionary Guard, the Basij, the police, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the judiciary."
In reality, the Basiji militiaman's cousin might be one of the protesters, whose father works at a Revolutionary Guard-linked firm where he socializes with a hard-partying tech guy who just returned from a couple of years in Dubai, where his best friend was the son of a monarchist who hobnobs in Los Angeles with Iranian Jews who give to AIPAC.
In fact, one of the survivors of Kahrizak was a photojournalist who covered the Iran- Iraq war, where he met and befriended the then-president who would become Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Another was the son of a prominent scientist who served as a campaign advisor for a former Revolutionary Guard commander and conservative politician. And yet another was the nephew of one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's security chiefs. You get little sense of that in "Death to the Dictator!" Much of the narrative, though often compelling, demonizes a government that is already among the most despised on Earth, adding to an atmosphere that could potentially cloud policy decisions on Iran.
And sometimes the book offers blatantly questionable assessments about a people who can't speak for themselves. "The more they think about Russia's alliance with the Islamic Republic, the more the people find that it stinks," Moqadam writes. "The Russians use their status as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council to prevent the imposition of effective sanctions." In fact, many Iranians, including those in the opposition, believe that economic sanctions will neither improve human rights nor convince the government to give up its nuclear enrichment program.
There are quibbles with the facts. Fear, not anger, was the palpable emotion at opposition campaign offices as election day drew to a close, as it became clear that something ugly was underway. And Abbaspour was supposedly arrested at a small Aug. 5 demonstration, taken to a prison where he was beaten and interrogated and then to another facility where he was raped before being released Aug. 29.
But by Aug. 5, Khamenei had already ordered the shutdown of the infamous Kahrizak facility, where rapes had allegedly taken place, and officials had announced the arrest of three prison employees on abuse charges. Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi had already caused a sensation by alleging rapes inside Kahrizak. Was the facility used after Khamenei's announcement? Did rapes continue after Karroubi's explosive disclosure, perhaps at a different facility?
The reader never learns why a pseudonym was "adopted to protect the identity of the author." The book reveals nothing that has not already been reported by news organizations and human rights watchdogs. Does the author live in Iran? Travel frequently there? All these are relevant factors in evaluating the text.
Though flawed nonfiction, "Death to the Dictator!" will shape the image of Iran for the billions who don't live there. Iranian authorities dismiss such tomes at their own peril.
Daragahi is The Times' Beirut bureau chief.


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Bisons soccer team places nine on A-Sun All-Academic Team
April 13, 2006
The Bisons soccer team placed nine players on the Atlantic Sun Conference All-Academic list.
To be named A-Sun All-Academic a student-athlete must achieve a 3.0 or higher in the classroom during their semester of competition.
The list of players is:
Jacob Goergen
Timothy Hunter
Christopher Lucas
Alexander Vooys
Nathan Warren


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As the 2008 Summer Olympic Games get underway in Beijing in August, Ithaca College students will experience the action on two continents. One group from the Park School of Communications will intern with NBC Sports: 11 in China plus another 12 at NBC headquarters in New York City. In addition, another 21 students from the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance (HSHP) will intern with the Olympic News Service in Beijing.
Ithaca is one of only seven American colleges and universities sending students to the Olympic News Service (ONS) during the 2008 Olympics; one of only seven where students were recruited to intern for NBC Sports; and the only college or university to send students through both programs.
"Imagine traveling to China, living in the Olympic Media Village, working with the most accomplished journalists in the profession, and spending six weeks in a community of the most extraordinary athletes in the world," says Dianne Lynch, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications. "And," she adds, "how often does a college student get to spend the summer in New York City, working at 30 Rock with the best television producers in the business on one of the greatest events of the year?"
Stephen Mosher, professor of sport management and media, is similarly excited about his HSHP students' upcoming work with the ONS. "Being housed at Ithaca College's partner Beijing Sport University, the country's leading institutions for training athletes, physical educators, and sport industry professionals, will allow Ithaca students to experience Chinese university culture up close and personal," Professor Mosher says.
The 44 students involved with the Olympic Games this summer are about to embark on a truly unique experience -- one that's perhaps best summed up by this year's Olympic slogan: "One World, One Dream."


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In 2010, director Evan Jackson Leong approached a relatively unknown Harvard University Taiwanese American basketball player seeking to document his life on film. Little did he know that Jeremy Lin would experience a meteoric rise to athletic stardom.
By 2012, Lin had created an unexpected public frenzy—garnering the moniker "Linsanity" after scoring more points in his first five starts for the New York Knicks than any other player, before joining the Houston Rockets as a free agent. Prior to this now-legendary ascent, Lin had faced major adversity at every turn in his career, almost quitting his NBA dream when he wasn't drafted, despite a standout season at Harvard.
Featuring rare home footage and interviews with Lin's family and friends, Linsanity is more than just a film for sports fanatics. It's a story of how race is perceived in the media and an inspirational account of how a strong work ethic and devotion to faith and family are what counts amid fan hysteria and fame.
Evan Jackson Leong (in attendance)
Christopher Chen, Allen Lu, Patricia Sun, James D. Stern, Sam Kwok, Brian Yang
Jeremy Lin, Daniel Dae Kim (narration)
Director's Bio
Evan Jackson Leong
Evan Jackson Leong is a director and documentary filmmaker based in New York City. He has worked with director Justin Lin on Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006). He was co-producer of Lin's Finishing the Game which opened Reel Asian in 2009. In 2010, he directed 1040: Christianity in the New Asia.
Sundance 2013, CAAMfest 2013, SXSW 2013, Hong Kong International Film Festival 2013


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"Takes Direction Well"
Ever feel like you've lost your direction in life?
Do you find yourself wandering aimlessly through bakery aisles and back alley icing parlors*?
* I don't actually know if back alley icing parlors exist, but a girl can dream.
Are you stuck in the hangar bay of life, waiting for the pod bay doors of opportunity to open up and spit you out into the sucking black void of PURPOSE?
If the answer is yes, maybe, or "huh?", then have I got the job for you!
That's right, my friends, the time has never been riper to be a Wreckerator! Or a person who likes to mix metaphors badly, like a withered, overripe tree in space.
But let's focus on the wrecking thing for now, shall we?
We're looking for a few good pairs of hands (preferably attached to still-functioning torsos) that can follow directions TO THE LETTER.
And by "we" I mean "me."
And if you see something grammatically wrong with that statement, then I'm afraid you're already disqualified. Kindly collect your complimentary "Prefessional Baker" buttons at the door and show yourselves out.
Now, for the rest of you, just LOOK at all the exciting things your future could have in store!
The glamor! The excitement! The satisfaction of giving a customer EXACTLY what they ask for!
But the REAL cherry on top? Someday you, too, could write, "cherry on top" on one of your orders!
Consider this something to work toward.
Now, who here failed Biology?
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Beachy Keen
Ah, the heady, celebratory days of summer:
Say this with your teeth gritted, and you'll sound like Sean Connery.
Ohh, and while you're at it, repeat after me:
Ha! Although really it should sound more like, "Schuck it, Trebek."
(Don't get it? This should help.)
Where was I?
Oh, right.
So, school's out, and it's time for that quintessential summer activity:
Fun and sun at the beach!
Gee. Way to sell it, bakers.
Mmmm. Radioactive wasteland has never looked so...mildewy.
Uh, guys? Is this what I think it is?
Black "water," two plastic ships, found on the shelf in August of 2010...
(Yep, I really waited two whole years to post this wreck. The first person to cry "too soon!" has to eat it. :D)
Well, if an edible oil spill isn't your thing, then how about an edible hurricane?
(If you get that reference you win two gold stars and a 'nother cow.)
You know, on second thought, I think I'll just stay inside this summer. Seem safer that way. Y'all have fun out there, y'hear?
Thanks to today's wreckporters Hillary I., Audrey P., Kristen S., Jessica N., Hope R., & Thia S. for reminding me why I don't leave the house.


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ANZ goMoney launches for Android smartphones
Press Release – ANZ Bank
ANZ's popular goMoney mobile app will be available for Android-supported smartphones today. Media Release
30 November, 2012
ANZ goMoney launches for Android smartphones
ANZ's popular goMoney mobile app will be available for Android-supported smartphones today.
The ANZ goMoney for Android app will enable Android users to access a wide range of ANZ services from their phone. The app can be downloaded from the Google Play Store from this afternoon.
"GoMoney allows customers to monitor their accounts, make payments and check balances anytime and any place there is mobile phone coverage. It's like having an ANZ branch on their phone," says Kerri Thompson ANZ Managing Director for Retail.
"Since ANZ National launched goMoney for iPhone, 100,000 customers are performing an average 2.5 million transactions a month.
"Now we've adapted it specifically for Android phones so that it's just as secure, easy to access and easy to use."
The Android app will allow internet banking through Android supported smartphones so customers can:
• view account balances
• View up to 30 days worth of transaction history
• transfer between accounts
• make bill payments and view upcoming payments
To use ANZ Mobile Banking, customers must be registered for ANZ Internet Banking and have a 3G-enabled Android smartphone (Android operating system 2.2 (Froyo) or above) or device that is enabled for cellular or wireless internet connection and have an active mobile phone number.
There is no monthly account fee for using ANZ goMoney for Android.
Further information about the ANZ goMoney for Android is available online at: www.anz.co.nz/android
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- 教程
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- A guide to optimizing Unity UI
A guide to optimizing Unity UI
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Optimizing a user interface driven by Unity UI is an art. Hard-and-fast rules are rare; instead, each situation must be carefully evaluated with the system's behavior in mind. The core tension when optimizing any Unity UI is the balancing of draw calls with batching costs. While some common-sense techniques can be used to reduce one or the other, complex UIs must make trade-offs.
However, as is best practice elsewhere, attempts to optimize Unity UIs should begin with profiling. The primary task before attempting to optimize a Unity UI system is to locate the precise reason for an observed performance problem. There are four common classes of problems encountered by users of Unity UI:
- Excessive GPU fragment shader utilization (i.e. fill-rate overutilization)
- Excessive CPU time spent rebuilding a Canvas batch
- Excessive numbers of rebuilds of Canvas batches (over-dirtying)
- Excessive CPU time spent generating vertices (usually from text)
It is, in principle, possible to create a Unity UI whose performance is constrained by the sheer number of draw calls being sent to the GPU. However, in practice, any project overloading the GPU with draw calls is more likely to be bound by fill-rate overutilization.
This guide will discuss the fundamental concepts, algorithms and code underlying Unity UI as well as discussing common problems and solutions. It is broken into five chapters:
- The Fundamentals of Unity UI chapter defines terminology specific to Unity UI and discusses the details of many of the fundamental processes performed to render the UI, including the building of batched geometry. It is strongly recommended that readers begin with this chapter.
- The Unity UI profiling tools chapter discusses gathering profiling data with the various tools available to developers.
- The Fill-rate, Canvases and input chapter discusses ways to improve the performance of Unity UI's Canvas and Input Components.
- The UI controls chapter discusses UI Text, Scroll Views and other component-specific optimizations, along with some techniques that do not fit well elsewhere.
- The Other techniques and tips chapter discusses a handful of issues that do not fit elsewhere, including some basic tips and workarounds for "gotchas" in the UI system.
UI Source Code
Always remember that Unity UI's Graphic and Layout components are entirely open source. Their source code can be found on Unity's Bitbucket repository, under UI.


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Sleep deprivation and other "invisible" factors may put teens at high risk for serious mental health issues - and most adults are missing key signs, according to researchers.
A new study has found that lack of sleep and exercise, combined with heavy use of computers, television and video games, puts teens at just as high a risk of developing serious mental health disorders as do risky activities such as binging on alcohol and drugs, according to Time. The study, one of several released recently on sleep deprivation, was conducted by Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institute and published in the February edition of World Psychiatry. Researchers called the sleep-deprived teens "invisible" because parents and teachers may not realize that these behaviors are associated with mental illness. After following nearly 13,000 adolescents in 11 European countries, the study revealed that almost a third were "at greater risk of falling through the cracks," researcher Vladimir Carli of the Karolinska Institute told Time. These "invisible" teens "showed similar levels of suicidal thoughts, anxiety, subthreshold depression and depression as adolescents in the 'high-risk' group," according to a report on the study in Medical News Today. The report identified three main factors that put "invisible" teens at high risk, including spending at least five hours each day watching television, playing (not working) on the Internet and playing video games; sleeping far less (six or fewer hours each night) than recommended; and having a sedentary routine that avoids activities such as sports. "It is likely that adults won't see these behaviors as risky or as reason for alarm," Carli told Time. "But the truth is, they are. It doesn't mean that every teenager who doesn't get enough sleep or plays too many video games is at risk. But it is something we need to pay close attention to." NPR writes about a separate study published this month in the journal Sleep that indicated that teens who get too little sleep are at serious risk of psychiatric disorders, particularly major depressive disorder (MDD), according to researchers at the University of Texas in Houston. As many as 11 percent of teens develop major depressive disorder (MDD) by the time they're 18, NPR notes. Sleep-deprived teens are four times more likely to develop MDD than peers who sleep six or more hours per night. The inverse is also true: adolescents who suffer from MDD are four times more likely to have sleep problems. Lead author Robert E. Roberts told NPR, "That's a pretty strong reciprocal relationship." The Huffington Post reports on a third study out this month that used adult twin pairs of the same gender to determine what role heritability plays in the symptoms associated with poor sleep. Twenty-seven percent of participants who slept within the "normal" range of 7-8-9 hours a night reported depressive symptoms. By comparison, 53 percent of participants who slept less than seven hours and 49 percent of those who slept nine or more hours experienced one or more symptoms linked to depression. The study was conducted by the universities of Washington, Pennsylvania and Texas. While there is no "blanket recommendation" for how much sleep adults should get each night, the Huffington Post reports that most individuals need between seven and eight hours to feel rested. NPR recently reported on yet another study on sleep. This study, from the University of Cincinnati, found that "teens who had very warm relationships with their parents - who said they felt supported, for example, and could talk to their folks - tended to sleep better." The National Sleep Foundation recommends daily exercise and sleeping in a dark room to maximize sleep efficacy. Falling asleep and rising at the same time each day is one of the most important ways to help optimize regulation of hormone levels, brain activity and other critical functions. It is also important to avoid use of televisions, phones and other electronics within two hours of lying down to sleep. Many electronics and some lightbulbs emit a blue light that activates the brain in ways that boost attentiveness and disrupt sleep, according to the foundation. It may be wise to use red lights at night and maximize exposure to blue light during the day, according to research from the University of Toronto reported in the Chicago Tribune.%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D147380%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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HIV/AIDS News
NIAID Scientists Discover HIV Disease-Slowing Mutation
A common genetic mutation significantly delays the progression of HIV disease, scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have found.
Philip M. Murphy, M.D., and David H. McDermott, M.D., of NIAID's Laboratory of Host Defenses, led a research team that screened blood samples from HIV-infected individuals for mutations in the gene for CCR5, a key HIV co-receptor. The CCR5 gene encodes a protein on human immune cells that helps HIV enter and infect those cells. Recent studies have shown that individuals who produce mutant forms of CCR5 protein are more likely to resist HIV infection or have slower HIV disease progression than individuals who produce normal CCR5 protein.
This time, the researchers wanted to see if mutations in the promoter, a region of the CCR5 gene that regulates the quantity, rather than quality, of CCR5 protein, might also influence HIV disease progression. Their suspicions that such mutations would slow disease progression were confirmed. The scientists discovered that individuals with promoter mutations in both of the CCR5 genes they inherited developed AIDS almost four years later, on average, than HIV-infected individuals who lacked the mutation. Laboratory analyses showed that the mutant promoter was 45 percent less active, and thus less effective at promoting CCR5 protein production, than the normal promoter.
Approximately 20 percent of the HIV-infected individuals in the study possessed two copies of the mutant CCR5 promoter. Since the vast majority of these individuals were Caucasians, the researchers screened random blood samples from healthy donors to get an estimate of the promoter mutation's prevalence among the general population. They found two copies of the mutation in 32 percent of African Americans, 28 percent of Asians, 18 percent of Caucasians and 10 percent of Hispanics in the sample.
This is the first HIV disease-modifying genetic variant found in a regulatory region of the CCR5 gene," notes Dr. McDermott. "It is extremely common, has a broad racial distribution and exerts a strong protective effect against disease progression."
In addition to providing an important new piece to the puzzle of genetic protection against HIV disease, the finding could point to new opportunities in HIV treatment research.
The information may have a therapeutic application if methods can be developed to block specific regulatory factors at this or other sites that affect CCR5 production."
A report of the study, titled "CCR5 promoter polymorphism affects HIV-1 disease progression," was published in the Sept. 12, 1998, issue of The Lancet.
To arrange an interview with Dr. McDermott, or to obtain more information about this study, contact the NIAID Office of Communications at 301-402-1663.
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID conducts and supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as HIV disease and other sexually transmitted diseases, Tuberculosis, malaria, asthma and allergies. NIH is an agency of the U.S.
For more information on CCR5 and other HIV co-receptors, see the following press releases on the NIAID Web site:
- Sept. 15, 1997, Mutant Gene Not Sole Explanation for HIV Non-Progression
- January 23, 1997, Scientists to Discuss Chemokine Receptor Research.
- June 19, 1996, NIAID Researchers Identify Second Fusion Cofactor for HIV.
- May 9, 1996, NIAID Researchers Identify Cofactor for Entry of HIV into Cells.
Press releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the Internet via the NIAID web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.


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"Storm" first appeared in Silk Road (2007).
My dog runs circles in the backyard.
The sky suddenly the color of rotting meat.
Lightning a quick switch, welts of clouds.
A flock of robins blasts from the weeping willow.
My house lights cut out all at once.
A garbage can bangs down the street.
Has my father kept his angry promise
and come back? I lock the door. Listen
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Yowling at the front door. The tom cat runs,
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MARYVILLE, Tenn.—After trailing by nine at the half, the Birmingham-Southern men's basketball team was unable to overcome Guilford College at the Maryville Classic, Saturday, falling 88-85.
The Panthers now stand at 6-3, while the Quakers move to 9-2.
BSC held a very early lead, going up 4-2 less than two minutes in, and the teams played to three ties after that before the Quakers pulled ahead for much of the rest of the half. The Panthers pulled ahead by one at the 7:48 mark, 27-26, but it would be their last lead of the game. The Quakers led 50-41 at halftime, and never relinquished the lead in the second half, although BSC came close, cutting it to one, 73-72, with 6:31 left to play. Down the stretch, Guilford led 86-78 with 1:19 left, and the Panthers were able to cut it to three, 88-85, thanks in part to a three-pointer from senior Kevin Kegarise with 10 seconds left. BSC had a chance to tie it up at the buzzer but missed the long three, allowing the Quakers to come away with the three-point victory.
Sophomore Larry Thomas led the Panthers with a career-high 27 points as well as eight rebounds, while Kegarise and senior Zac Richards each had 17 points. Senior Blaise White and Richards also led with six assists apiece, and Thomas had five, and White and Thomas also led with four steals each.
Guilford out-shot BSC in every category, hitting 32-62 (.516) from the field, 12-21 (.571) from three-point range, and 12-15 (.800) from the free throw line. The Panthers shot 30-65 (.462) overall, 15-32 (.469) from beyond the arc, and 10-14 (.714) from the line. The Quakers also out-rebounded the Panthers 38-32.
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Move over Manolo Blahnik. From the looks of the CMT Artists of the Year red carpet, Italian designer Giuseppe Zanotti is the new shoe king in town. Zanotti's shoes were everywhere Monday night (Dec. 3) as celebs strolled the carpet on their way into the taping. Carrie Underwood wore a red and black pair with her Katherine Kidd jumpsuit, Miranda Lambert wore some gold Zanottis with her champagne long-sleeved Jovani Couture backless dress and Judith Leiber clutch and actress Hayden Panettiere paired hers with a gorgeous Cavalli gown. (And while Eric Church's wife Katherine wasn't wearing those shoes, I think she had the most stunning look of the night in a deep plum leather J Mendel dress.) But on the very opposite end of the price spectrum from all those high-end designers was the studded and rhinestoned bodycon dress Kacey Musgraves wore on the red carpet and during her duet with the Eli Young Band. It was only $96, and it's from Topshop . By the way, the 2012 CMT Artists of the Year special premieres Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CMT.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Explore and write about what kinds of plants and animals robins eat.
Ask questions before reading about how robins build nests, revisit the text for details, reflect on what's learned and get Writer's Woskshop ideas.
Read about how the way robins lay eggs is different from other birds.
Read and write about the place where nesting and mating occurs.
Use brass and aluminum cylinders while controlling for mass and volume to make the property of density more obvious.
Demonstrate the invisible role of decomposers in a food web, using glass worm tank and bread mold activities.
Manipulate aluminum foil and clay to make shapes that sink slowly.
Record student observations on the similarities and differences between plants and animals on a Venn diagram and determine the basic needs of each.
Dissect a "mystery object" – an owl pellet with bones in it. After studying the human skeleton, students can begin to identify the bones in the pellet.
Weigh amounts of baking soda and vinegar then mix them together. Weigh them again afterwards. Try this with open and then closed containers.
Compare a sugar cube and an equivalent amount of granulated sugar, each dropped in an equal volume of water. Mix granulated sugar with cold and warm water.
Simulate the wave movement caused by earthquakes with a Slinky®, use Silly Putty® to show the qualities of both liquids and solids and illustrate convection currents with a specially designed fluid.
Rub a clear plastic tube with different kinds of cloth to see how many Styrofoam chips can be picked up or moved around.
Begin a simple terrarium and maintain a Communities Chart to track the feeding relationships inside. Each time something is added, the impact is recorded on the increasingly complex chart.
Take two wet paper towels and enclose one. What will happen the next day? Watch as water droplets condense on the outside of a plastic cup filled with cold water.
Use all five senses and observation skills to explore a familiar location.
On a class field trip to historic Bartram's Garden, pupils learn how the local watershed area of the Schuylkill River has changed over time.
Explore how whales adapt to their environment as mammals in the sea.
Read and write about the animals that hitchhike on whales and why they hitchhike.
Go on a virtual whale watching tour. Generate ideas for writing using the "Questions for Details" strategy.
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LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., March 26 (UPI) -- A bulldog belonging to the daughter of former astronaut Mark Kelly fatally attacked a sea lion on a California beach, a YouTube video shows.
The incident occurred at 1:40 p.m. Saturday at Goff Cove Beach while Kelly's 18-year-old daughter was walking the 65-pound bulldog on a leash, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles, reported. The dog ran off and attacked the sea lion, the TV station said.
The video shows the teen screaming while the dog holds the sea lion by its neck. Two women tried to help the teen before Kelly arrived and forced the dog off the animal but the sea lion later died, KCBS-TV said.
Nathan, who declined to give the TV station his last name, was having lunch nearby and took the video of the attack. He said he didn't know the incident involved Kelly's family when he posted it online. Kelly is married to former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
"It was pretty much just panic. People didn't know how to act when a dog of this size just locked down [and didn't let go]," Nathan said.