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SCSU Night at Target Field
Thursday, May 6, 2010
View of the Minneapolis skyline from the upper deck of Target Field.
Join alumni, students and friends of the university for SCSU Night at Target Field, a Minnesota Twins event June 8 in Minneapolis.
The pre-game Alumni Social is 5 p.m. at Epic Center, 510 N. 1st Ave., Minneapolis. The 7:10 p.m. game features the Twins and the Kansas City Royals.
View the event flyer (PDF).
The $45 per person cost covers the picnic buffet and Home Run Porch admission to the game. Non-alcoholic beverages will be provided. Cash bar will be available.
Twin Cities comedian, C. Willi Myles, a former St. Cloud State University football player and coach, will throw out the first pitch.
Register through May 14 by contacting the St. Cloud State University Alumni Relations Office at 320-308-3177 or toll free at 1-866-464-8759.
For an additional $14, ride a chartered coach bus from the St. Cloud State to Target Field. The bus leaves 3:30 p.m. from M Lot, which is south of 5th Avenue and University Drive. Free parking is available in same lot.
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Pittsford lineman did heavy lifting to become all-star
Joe Graen, at 6-feet-2 inches tall and 270 pounds, is a good-sized high school football lineman.
A senior who graduates from Pittsford Sutherland on June 23, Graen won't be the largest player in the 2012 Eddie Meath All-Star Football Game, but he might be the strongest.
Graen (prononced grain) is a two-time national high school power clean weightlifting champion, who was named to the 2011 Democrat and Chronicle All-Greater Rochester Football team after his final season at center for the Pittsford Panthers.
The last high school game for the three-year starter will take place with a familiar coach on the sideline, Pittsford's Keith Molinich, who will lead the East all-stars on July 7 at Saint John Fisher College. Kickoff is 7 p.m.
Graen, who helped Pittsford reach two consecutive Section V finals, is among 80 members of this year's senior class invited to play, including AGR picks Pancho Barnwell (East High), Cory McNamara (Wayne), Dominic Scavo (Hornell), Brandon Fuentes (Avon) and Ryan Owens (Letchworth).
Rush-Henrietta's Derick Peters and Chrisitan Harris, plus AGR player of the year and Pittsford teammate Dominick DeLucia could be among the ballcarriers that Graen blocks for.
"It would be a pretty nice three-headed monster to tell you the truth," Graen said. "I've gone to a couple of these. I like to see all of the top players one last time.
"I was surprised with how well the teams meshed. I was amazed at that. I know it's going to be a great atmosphere, it's going to be pretty awesome."
A group of 21 cheerleaders competed to take part in the 30th edition of the game. The week of practice begins July 2, and includes the Eddie Meath All-Star Banquet, 6:30 p.m. July 6 at the RIT Conference Center on West Henrietta Road. Cheerleaders and players will visit the Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center on July 5 with gifts, for an ice cream social sponsored by Abbott's Frozen Custard.
Admission to the game is $6. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the practice sites, McQuaid Jesuit and Gates Chili. Proceeds raised go to Golisano Children's Hospital. Section V football already has presented hospital officials with a check for $5,000.
"We've been able to do that the last six or seven years," state and Section V football chairman Dick Cerone said.
The power clean is one large reason why Graen is in this all-star game, he said.
Graen was in the eighth-grade when he began to lift weights. The season after his sophomore year with the Pittsford football varsity, his first, Graen began to go to power clean competitions, which are divided by sex and weight divisions. The object is to raise the barbell from the floor and rest the weight on your shoulders.
"It is intense," Graen said. "I almost feel like the coaches are more intense than the guys.
"As long as you hit (the weight) you hit before you feel good about it. It feels a little bit like a wrestling tournament. As a heavyweight, I'm at the end. We'd weigh in 8:30 a.m and lifting at 1:30, 2 o'clock."
Graen completed a clean of 340 pounds to win his division's 2011 national high school championship, and vowed to equal the national record of 350 this year.
"You get four attempts," Graen said. "I hit 340 during my first two. I went up to 350, and on one of my last two attempts, the bar slipped out of my hand. I think I would've done it.
"That haunted me a little bit, had a couple of nightmares."
Graen won his second national championship with a gap of about 35 pounds.
Three years ago, Pittsford coaches decided to promote Graen to the varsity, as the team toyed with a spread offense. In additon to the muscle Graen provided on the field during the team's drive to back-to-back sectional finals, he has performed enough community service for recognition at graduation.
The National Honor Society member has an unweighted 4.0 grade point average. He will major in engineering at Princeton, where he will continue to play center.
"He's been unbelievably reliable," Molinich said. "Never missed a down in three years of varsity football. His training regime is ridiculous, a dedicated kid.
"He has a very quiet strength. You always know he's going forward."
Eddie Meath East All-Stars: Poncho Barnwell (East High) defensive lineman; Justin DiBernardo (Webster Thomas) receiver; Tim Johnson (Rush-Henrietta) defensive back; Shawmik Johnson (East Irondequoit Eastridge) running back; Miles Young (East Irondequoit Eastridge) linebacker; Theo Ekiyor (McQuaid) running back; Max Gorton (Dundee) linebacker; Michael Collichio (Webster Schroeder); Tyler Graham (Wayne) receiver; Ethan Printy (East Irondequoit Eastridge) quarterback; Charles Meagher (McQuaid) defensive back
Jesse Moore (Marcus Whitman) defensive back; Sergio Ruffolo (Webster Thomas) linebacker; Collen Hollenbeck (Wayne) quarterback; Kyle Covley (Penfield) defensive back; Connor O'Dell (Irondequoit) defensive back; Dominick DeLucia (Pittsford) running back; Derick Peters (Rush-Henrietta) running back; Dale Mattice (Victor) linebacker; Christian Harris (Rush-Henrietta) receiver; Peter Diak (Rush-Henrietta) linebacker; Cory McNamara (Wayne) defensive back; Robert Miles (Brighton) defensive back
R.J. Morrow (McQuaid) running back; Mark Guarino-Hyde (Webster Schroeder) defensive lineman; Oliver Oswald (Marcus Whitman) defensive lineman; Louis Testani (Pittsford) offensive lineman; Derrick Dickerson (East High) defensive lineman; Jacob Altmire (Webster Thomas) offensive lineman; Nathan Chilbert (Geneva) offensive lineman; Steve Link (Wayne) offensive lineman
Nicholas Moore (Victor) defensive lineman; Bruce McKenty (McQuaid) offensive lineman; Tahji Jones (Brighton) defensive lineman; Joe Bodine (Victor) offensive lineman; Tyler Kowalski (Penfield) defensive lineman; Joe Graen (Pittsford) offensive lineman; Reid Castner (Penn Yan) offensvie lineman; Mitch Ford (Victor) offensive lineman; Tyler Fisher (Midlakes) tight end; Coaches: Keith Molinich (Pittsford); Kali Watkins (Webster Schroeder), Bobby Bates (McQuaid); Steve Lian (Brighton); Chris Urban (Webster Schroeder); Jason Bernas (Pittsford).
Eddie Meath West All-Stars: Marcus Smith (Greece Arcadia) defensive back; Miikel DeMonte (Brockport) defensive back; DaQuan Burroughs (Wilson) defensive back; Chase Tascone (Wellsville) defensive lineman; Zack Pumputis (Avon) defensive back; Owen Peters (Brockport) linebacker; Nolan Jessup (Churchville-Chili) receiver; Evan Englert (Wayland-Cohocton) quarterback; Matt Hartford (Caledonia-Mumford) defensive back; Dominic Scavo (Hornell) quarterback; David Ross (Greece Arcadia) linebacker
Markell Collins (Brockport) receiver; Chris Coniglio (Letchworth) receiver; Dave Van Auker (Greece Arcadia) linebacker; Brandon Fuentes (Avon) receiver; Jon Cappotelli (Caleodonia-Mumford) linebacker; Tom McQuillen (Le Roy) running back; Josh Marx (Greece Olympia) running back; James Zobel (Greece Athena) kicker; Michael Berardi (Wellsville) defensive back; Ryan Owens (Letchworth) receiver; Kacee Sauer (Holley) running back; Jacob Duppensiesser (Perry) linebacker
Dorne McCulley (Batavia Notre Dame) defensive back; Jesse Kozub (Brockport) offensive lineman; Ron Mathis (Wilson) defensive lineman; Denzell Failey (Edison) offensive lineman; Kyle Gensler (Aquinas) offensive lineman; Jordan Andrews (Letchworth) offensive lineman; Slavic Huley (Churchville-Chili) defensive lineman; Levi Wormuth (Wayland-Cohocton) linebacker; Tyler DelCorvo (Gates Chili) defensive lineman; Emiliano Acosta (Elba) offensive lineman; John Kolankowski (Attica) defensive lineman
Jeremy Dyer (Greece Olympia) defensive lineman; George Spezzano (Avon) offensive lineman; Jacob DeRooy (Spencerport) defensive lineman; Joseph Duermeyer (Pembroke) offensive lineman; Josh Daggs (Greece Athena) offensive lineman; Pete DiLaura (Aquinas). Coaches: Gene Mastin (Hornell), Erik Werner (Hornell), Steve Donlon (Hornell), John Walther (Caledonia-Mumford), Matt Walther (Caledonai-Mumford), Chris Koehler (Hornell).
Eddie Meath All-Star Cheerleaders: Evelyn Alexander (Greece Arcadia), Suzie Bernhardt (East Irondequoit Eastridge), Stephanie Caito (Greece Olympia), Kristina Cook (Gates Chili), Brittany Curreri (Spencerport), Alexandra Dayton (Greece Athena), Mikayla Dennis (Bishop Kearney), Petra Dietrich (Batavia), Tiara Frazier (Greece Arcadia), Jamie Fritz (Bishop Kearney), Megan Gooding (Spencerport)
Bridget Morgan (Aquinas), Alyssa Murgillo (Gates Chili), Danielle O'Donnell (Marcus Whitman), Sarah Ozzello (Livonia), Alexa Panepinto (Gates Chilli), Lexany Rivera (Bishop Kearney), Tielyer Trybus (Hilton), Olivia Kachel (Palmrya-Macedon), Taylor Wegman (Webster Thomas), Heather Yaniga (Greece Athena).

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More: Watch live webcasts from the U.S. Center at COP-16.
About the Author: Sarah Goldfarb serves as DipNote's Associate Editor. Sarah will be providing information from presentations about key climate programs and scientific research at the U.S. Center at the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-16) in Cancun, Mexico, from November 29 through December 10, 2010.
The United States is supporting climate change mitigation programs in developing countries through the Global Research Alliance (GRA) Borlaug Fellowship Program. The program sponsors scientists from Chile, India, Malaysia, Ghana, Mexico, the Philippines, and Vietnam to come to the United States to conduct agricultural mitigation research. At the U.S. Center on December 8, William Hohenstein of the U.S. Department of Agriculture introduced some of the Fellows and highlighted how the GRA Fellowships increase international cooperation, collaboration, and investment in research activities to find ways to produce more food with fewer emissions.
Dr. Adlul Islam, a GRA Borlaug Fellow from India, stressed that climate change is one of the biggest issues confronting humanity in the 21st century. He first highlighted some basic statistics about India, which has slightly more than two percent of the world's land, four percent of the world's freshwater resources, 16 percent of the world's population, and 17 percent of the world's cattle population. He referred to several studies that show temperatures, as well as the number of hot days and heat waves, have increased in India. In addition, droughts and heavy precipitation events like floods have become more common.
Dr. Islam's research focuses on the impacts of climate change on basin hydrology and regional water availability on Indian agriculture. His proposed study aims at developing a model that integrates hydrology, crop growth, water demand, and socio-economics under a unified set of climate change scenarios for water management. He believes that this framework will assist policymakers and other stakeholders to understand the impact of climate change on water resources availability and agricultural production, as well as prepare appropriate adaptation strategies.
In closing, Dr. Hohenstein said the USDA is excited about this program. He said, "It's only fitting that we're using this fellowship to collaborate with other countries by bringing scientists together to work in partnership to improve food productivity and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions." Dr. Keith Paustian of Colorado State University said, "The program facilitates knowledge and the cross-fertilization of ideas. The understanding of this knowledge will help us meet these pressing, global challenges."
Click to learn more about the Global Research Alliance and the Borlaug Fellowship Program.
Become a fan of the Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science on Facebook and follow all of the action at COP-16. You can find press releases, program events, transcripts, presentations from the U.S. Center and more on state.gov/cop16.
Tsimba R. in Madagascar writes:
Because of climate change, if every year the first rain started to fall from September, now even on December in one month only two days of from the beginning of the month. The destruction of environment is so important because slash and burn still exist. There also fire every where. The problem is that no one could understand of attitude of some people. The analysis has been made but no concrete solution on that. We think then that the main thing to do is that to make people aware of the link between household income and environment.
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The future is bleak without these encouraging research fellowships. These countries will be able to use these new ideas to help develop a plan for the future.


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Week 5 | Lori Painter Raw Food Diet Bikini Challenge
Contributing Monkie Lori Painter
Topics of Interest bikini challenge, Raw Diet
Published on June 18, 2009
Section Fitness/Diet, G/Videos, GreenChef Foodie Talk
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Week 5 of my Raw Food Diet Bikini Challenge. (See all the weeks on Lori's Section on G Living)
What is this bikini body challenge all about? Lori said: "I am documenting my weight loss bikini body journey with a motivation to look good naked. My desire for a lean green clean machine is through raw foods and fun balancing workouts. Looking good naked may seem superficial, however our bodies are a reflection of self love and respect. Making the world a better place starts within us. Cleaning up the planet starts with clean people. How can we create a clean green planet if we don't do the same with our own bodies? My aim is to inspire others to act in ways that honor their bodies and the planet at the same time. A clean body clears the mind to conscious growth and a healthy planet."
Weigh In
Weigh In : 127.2 lbs
I have been missing my greens this week. Not too sure why, just been eating mostly fruit & laying low on the overt fats. Friday Evening to Saturday Evening water fast for 24 hours. I broke the fast on red wine (biodynamic, organic) not a great way to break a fast. Then had dinner: salad, sauteed carrots & broccoli, a 1/2 C of a rice dish
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by Anton Shilov
Rambus, a leading memory and interface technology company, said recently that shipments of XDR memory it developed had reached 50 million units. Even though this is a respectable amount, the latest progress of Sony PlayStation 3 video game system on the market indicates that the game console is still the main consumer of XDR output.
Every Sony PlayStation 3 game machine features four 512Mb XDR memory chips or 256MB of XDR memory in total. According to Vgchartz.com market tracker, so far Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has sold through 11.41 million PS3 systems, which means that even more have been made so far. Therefore, no less than 45.64 million of Rambus XDR memory chips were installed into PlayStation 3 consoles and less than five million were utilized in other applications.
Rambus has pinning a lot of hopes on its XDR memory since the introduction back in early 2005. In particular, the technology company said that its XDR was memory of choice for a wide variety of applications, namely high-definition TVs, high-definition video players, network equipment as well as other products that require high memory bandwidth amid low pin-count. Moreover, once Rambus even indicated that its XDR might allow it to jump back into the market of personal computers due to higher memory bandwidth requirements of multi-core microprocessors and advanced graphics processors.
In fact, numerous leading consumer electronics companies, such as Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba said they would adopt Rambus' XDR memory for their devices, however, no commercially available product use XDR memory apart from PlayStation 3.
"The XDR memory architecture is an ideal solution for advanced consumer and computing applications," said Sharon Holt, senior vice president of worldwide sales, licensing and marketing at Rambus. "Our complete XDR memory solution and comprehensive engineering services minimize risk and help our customers bring breakthrough products to market."
XDR DRAM can operate at 3.20GHz to 6.40GHz clock-speeds, providing industry leading bandwidth per pin, which is a benefit for networking and consumer applications. The XDR memory architecture features a number of advanced technologies built on patented Rambus innovations that include low-voltage, low-power differential Rambus signaling level (DRSL), octal data rate (ODR) technology that transfers eight bits of data each clock cycle, FlexPhase circuit technology for precise on-chip alignment of data with clock and dynamic-point-to-point (DPP) for both enhanced signal integrity and scalability.


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Initial sales (week of October 18 – 24, 2009 and include Windows 7 pre-sales) of Microsoft's Windows 7 boxed software surpassed those of Vista's first few days on the U.S. market, according to NPD Group, a leading market research company. While the success is obvious, the actual popularity of Windows 7 could be accelerated by relatively wide negative attitude towards Windows Vista.
"Microsoft's program of early low-cost pre-sales, high visibility marketing, and aggressive deals helped make the Windows 7 software launch successful. In a slow environment for packaged software Windows 7 brought a large number of customers into the software aisles," said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD.
According to NPD's weekly tracking service, Windows 7 software unit sales in the U.S. were 234%higher than Vista's first few days of sales. Revenue growth wasn't as strong though. A combination of early discounts on pre-sales and a lack of promotional activity for the Ultimate version resulted in dollar sales that were 82 percent higher than Vista.
While boxed software sales were up compared to the Vista launch, PC hardware sales had more of an uphill battle. PC sales growth was higher than any week during the high volume back-to-school third quarter, but was not as strong as growth during the Vista launch, according to NPD.
Total Windows PCs, however, were up 49% in units year-over-year and were up 95% over the week prior to launch. But, PC sales growth during the Vista launch was stronger, soaring 68% over the prior year's sales and 170% over the week preceding the launch. Windows PC sales were down 6% compared to PC sales during the Vista launch week.
"A combination of factors impacted Windows 7 PC sales at the outset, but the trajectory of overall PC sales is very strong leading into the holiday season. Vista had a slight advantage at launch, as January traditionally has a bigger sales footprint than October. The other hurdle Windows 7 faced was sales of PCs with older operating systems (XP and Vista) were high, making up 20% of sales during the Windows 7 launch, compared to just 6% of older operating sales during Vista's launch week," explained Mr. Baker.
Top-Selling Windows 7 SKUs (based on units week ending 10/24) are the following:
- Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade with $76 ASP
- Windows 7 Pro Upgrade with $147 ASP
- Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack 3 User Upgrade with $149 ASP


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An East Coast restaurateur explains how to best eat this delectable dish.
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Watch and Slurp Linguini with Shrimp Scampi in 1 minute.
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If you have only one recipe for shrimp scampi, make it the Ultimate.
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These clam bellies are battered and fried and will melt in your mouth.
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Addi Smith is currently a senior at 5A Mayfield High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico where she is the incoming Senior Class President and has been elected class president each year since her sophomore year. She is a merit scholar recipient for mathematics, a member of the National Honor Society, and has been on the honor roll throughout high school. She is captain of her state runner-up varsity cheer squad. She has lettered in cheer since her freshman year and is a two year back-to-back All-American Cheerleader. She volunteers her time with several New Mexico basic needs charities and has helped to raise monies for the American Heart Association and Hearts for Autism Fund. She was a Jr. Camp counselor at Camp New Amigos for autistic children and has volunteered for the Special Olympics as well.
After meeting the Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez, Addi decided to make reading her focus. She has helped her state by promoting and supporting the Governor's "Read to Lead" early childhood reading initiative. She has promoted the state's reading initiative to over 7,000 New Mexico children and was honored to work with the Governor's administration including Secretary of Education, Hanna Skandera. She was honored that the Governor took notice of her efforts and awarded her a certificate for promoting the state's "Read to Lead" initiative.
Most fulfilling to Addi is the direction of her honors and achievements. They were selected by a variety that includes her classmates, her teachers, coaches and the Governor of New Mexico. Her classmates selected her as Class President, her teachers for a merit scholar award, her coaches as Team Captain and the Governor for her contribution to the state. She feels blessed to be able to interact with and to be respected by such a varying group of individuals.


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Telling a tale of travel
While everyone back home in Minot was freezing one January, Daniel Gerszewski spent his Martin Luther King Jr. Day swimming in the ocean with dolphins.
Gerszewski, a 2002 Minot High School graduate, was a Peace Corps business volunteer in Alack Village on Epi Island in the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. It took him 18 hours to fly to the country.
He returned home late last fall, bringing assorted mats and turtle shells and other gifts presented to him by his host family and friends. Last Thursday Gerszewski visited Bel Air Elementary, his old elementary school, and talked with fourth-graders there about his experiences.
Gerszewski explained that Alack is a fairly poor village, where people who have managed to graduate from high school are viewed with great respect by the villagers. There are no stores or industries per se, so almost everything the people own they have to grow on the island or make. Gerszewski's host family earns money by selling coconut to coconut oil factories.
The concept of financial management is fairly new to some of the residents; Gerszewski gave presentations on budgeting and setting up savings accounts.
The villagers were as interested in stories about North Dakota as the Bel Air fourth-graders were about Vanuatu. Gerszewski said people living in the tropical environment have never seen snow or people skiing and were surprised by how cold North Dakota gets.
Gerszewski told the children at Bel Air that families in Alack Village often have several structures on a property. People sleep in one structure, cook in another and have bathing facilities in another. The villagers built Gerszewski a house with bamboo walls, one of the nicer homes in the village.
"It seems like you had a mansion in tiny pieces," said one of the Bel Air students.
Gerszewski explained that he learned how to take his shower in a bath house with a bucket of water and to wash his clothing by hand, first soaking the clothing in the water and then scrubbing them on a board. It took him half a day to do his laundry when he first started and some of the villagers wondered why he was so slow, he said.
Kids there wear school uniforms.
"That's not so bad," commented one of the Bel Air students. "At least you don't have to spend 30 minutes picking out your outfit every day."
Gerszewski said that's true, but his host sisters also had to wash their school uniforms out by hand each day.
People there cook food over a wood fire, using a pile of heated volcanic stones that they have collected over the island. Food is wrapped in large leaves that are placed over the stones.
Family ties are important there and everyone older looks after the younger ones. Gerszewski said there always seem to be children around, sometimes including kids who don't actually belong to the family. When he joined his host family, other villagers soon came up to him and introduced themselves as his cousins because they are related to the host family. He called his host parents "Papa Daniel" and "Mama Susan" even though they are not much older than he is.
Woven mats are particularly important in the culture of Alack Village, explained Gerszewski. He said they are given as gifts for important life events such as the birth of a child, the marriage of a couple or graduation from school. People sleep on them, sit on them and do everything else on them.
"Your whole life there, there are mats," said Gerszewski.
The people of Alack Village gave him several mats as farewell presents. His young host sisters translated a farewell message into English, which was inscribed on the mat they gave him. They asked him to hang it in his home in America so it is the first thing he sees when he comes into his house.
Gerszewski, a graduate of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., said he had always wanted to join the Peace Corps and this was the perfect time in his life since he is still unmarried and doesn't have children. He was also qualified to serve as a business volunteer because he has worked in the financial consulting area before joining the Peace Corps.
Now that he has returned to the United States, Gerszewski is looking for his next job opportunity. He said he would be happy to give a presentation on his experiences in Vanuatu to other schools or groups. People can contact him at 852-8446.


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Claus-Peter Lumpp presents his sublime, flavour-laden classic cuisine at the legendary Hotel Bareiss in Baiersbronn-Mitteltal.
As with many other top German chefs, when Claus-Peter Lumpp achieved his third Michelin star in 2007, it kick-started a tremendous development in which he updated his classic cuisine in many exciting ways. Lumpp's à la carte dishes now focus on the facetted flavours of his outstanding main ingredients, which he views from different angles in order to build up a harmonious circle of flavours. One example is his sole with pumpkin, which he serves in three ways: baked with croutons, as a ragout with verbena and pumpkin seeds and pan-seared with macadamia & barley risotto and red wine shallots. This combined dégustation creates multilayered sweet-sour interactions, allowing the fish to shine in different lights and introducing an element of fun.
The dishes on the tasting menu, however, are more accentuated and reveal a judicious gastronomic drama. The starter of goose foie gras with wild figs and sweetcornis a triumph that is followed by a intensely flavoured lobster with cauliflower, egg and an intense Noilly Prat jus . A Provençal brandade with beurre noisette foam and white alba truffle then adds a further crescendo, which is reinforced by a cassolette of poussin with sautéed lamb's lettuce and quince in preparation for the main event, a Bareiss-hunted saddle of venison. Head pâtissier Stefan Leitner's sweet creations then provide a wondrous climax to this superb interpretation of classic cuisine.
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Use the Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency (CSA)
1. Overview
Child maintenance is financial support towards your child's everyday living costs when you've separated from the other parent.
You and your ex-partner can arrange child maintenance yourself if you can agree. This is called a 'family-based arrangement'.
A family-based arrangement is a private way to sort out child maintenance. Parents arrange everything themselves and no-one else has to be involved.
Talk to Child Maintenance Options to get impartial information.
If you can't agree
The Child Maintenance Service is for when you and the other parent can't agree to a family-based arrangement.
You must talk to Child Maintenance Options before you can apply to the Child Maintenance Service.
The Child Maintenance Service can:
- try to find the other parent if you don't know where they live, to sort out child maintenance
- sort out disagreements about parentage
- work out how much child maintenance should be paid
- arrange for the 'paying' parent to pay child maintenance - the parent who doesn't have main day-to-day care of the child
- pass payments on to the 'receiving' parent - the parent who has main day-to-day care of the child
- look at the payments again when changes in parents' circumstances are reported
- review the payment amount every year
- take action if payments aren't made
On 30 June 2014 the Child Maintenance Service introduced application fees and enforcement charges. From 11 August, if you decide to use the Collect and Pay service, you'll also have to pay fees for collecting and paying out child maintenance.
You won't have to pay any fees if you choose a family-based arrangement.
You won't have to pay collection fees if:
- you choose Direct Pay where you make your own payment arrangements
- your case is handled by the Child Support Agency (CSA)
Moving to Direct Pay
If you already have a Collect and Pay case you must contact the Child Maintenance Service to change to Direct Pay and avoid collection fees. You should make any outstanding payments before you call.
Call the number you were given over the phone if you've recently made an application. You can also find the number in your welcome pack or at the top of any letter they have sent you.
Manage your Child Maintenance Service case online
You can manage your case online by setting up a self-service account or logging into an existing account.
CSA child maintenance arrangements
The CSA only handles existing cases. New applications are dealt with by the Child Maintenance Service.
Child maintenance arrangements made through the CSA will be ending between now and 2017.
Get someone to manage your case for you
You can ask someone else to deal with your Child Maintenance Service case for you.


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From the U.S. State Department:
The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the high security threat level in Yemen due to terrorist activities and civil unrest. The Department urges U.S. citizens to defer travel to Yemen and those U.S. citizens currently living in Yemen to depart. …
The U.S. Embassy in Sana'a is located at Dhahr Himyar Zone, Sheraton Hotel District, P.O. Box 22347. The telephone number of the Consular Section is (967)(1)755-2000, extension 2153 or 2266. For after-hours emergencies involving U.S. citizens, please call (967)(1)755-2000 (press zero for extension) or (967) 733-213-509. From time to time the Embassy may temporarily close or suspend public services for security reasons. Emergency assistance to U.S. citizens during non-business hours (or when public access is restricted) is available through Embassy duty personnel.
For the latest security information, U.S. citizens living and traveling abroad should regularly monitor the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs website where the current Worldwide Caution, Travel Alerts and Travel Warnings, and Country Specific Information for Yemen can be found. Up-to-date information on security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll free in the United States and Canada or, for callers in other countries, by calling a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).
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Hudson throws a fastball that tops out around 93 miles per hour, but Triple-A pitching coach Richard Dotson said the fastball seems harder, given Hudson's "closed-off" delivery. Hudson mixes in a slider and changeup to keep batters honest. I can't really see Hudson dominating in the majors with just three pitches. And it's great that his delivery is "closed-off" but he needs three above-average pitches to succeed at the major league level. I'm not sure he has that repertoire yet. …
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quote Agent MoYour sipping tea watching your favorite TV show. Your a manager at the local grocery shop, your heritage is of Puerto Rican descent but you and your parents where born here in the U.S. Your an all around average guy, drink every weekday, sleep with your wife (no not Ditno) and neglect little Joey.Wait, why did 9/11 strengthen their political power?
quote Agent Mo9/11 changed a shitload of things. Without 9/11 the Patriot Act probably wouldn't have passed, which changed alot of laws, giving more power to the government. Without 9/11 there wouldn't be a war in Iraq, and the US would be running pretty damn low on oil.Wait, why did 9/11 strengthen their political power?
quote Agent MoExcept that's not a theory, its TRUE. Damn little African kids asking for food on twitter posting their pictures with their new 32gb iPad mini.There aren't actually any starving kids in africa. It's the governments bullshit trying to get more money from you in the form of 'charity'.
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More:FY 2012 State and USAID - Core Budget | FY 2012 State and USAID - Overseas Contingency Operations
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified today before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. The Secretary said:
"...I want to join my voice to those of the Chairwoman, who has made it very clear that the American people have a right to be justifiably concerned about our national debt. I am, too. But I know that we have so many tough decisions that we're facing right now, that the American people also want us to be smart about the decisions we make and the investments that we are making in the future. Just two years ago, I asked that we renew our investment in development and diplomacy, and we are seeing tangible results.
"...The FY 2012 budget is a budget that will allow us to continue pressing forward. We think it is a lean budget for lean times. I launched the first-ever Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review to help us maximize the impact of every dollar. We scrubbed this budget and we made painful but responsible cuts. We cut economic assistance to Central and Eastern Europe, to the Caucasus, to Central Asia. We cut development assistance to over 20 countries by more than half.
"This year, for the first time, our request is divided into two parts: Our core budget request is $47 billion for the State Department and USAID. That supports programs and partnerships in every country but North Korea, and it is essentially flat from 2010 levels.
"The second part of our request funds the extraordinary, temporary portion of our war effort the same way the Pentagon's request is funded: in a separate Overseas Contingency Operations account known as OCO. Instead of covering war expenses through supplemental appropriations, we are now taking a more transparent approach that fully reflects the integrated civilian-military efforts. Our share of the President's $126 billion request for exceptional wartime costs is $8.7 billion. So all told, we have a $47 billion operational account and an $8.7 billion Overseas Contingency Operations account.
"...I know that 2011 is a tough time. And I sent Chairman Rogers a letter. I've spoken to Speaker Boehner. It will be very difficult for us as we are now planning our civilian efforts in an ongoing way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to absorb a 16 percent cut that passed the House last month. We've got to do our part with the military. And I know that what is often the case is we talk about non-defense discretionary. And of course, that leaves out State and USAID. It includes the Department of Homeland Security. It includes Veterans and includes Defense. But here we are; I've got diplomats and development experts in Helmand Province, I've got them going in with the Marines into Kandahar, I've got them trying to figure out how we're going to have a strong, robust presence in Iraq to stand against Iran and to support that Iraqi Government. We cannot plan what we are expected to do if we can't get the budget for '11 that we have premised the planning on.
"Now, finally, I know how tough these decisions are. I was here in the '90s, not in this capacity, and I saw the difficult decisions we made then which put us on a path to having balanced budgets, surpluses, and frankly, being on the road to actually balancing our budget; 9/11 happened, a lot of other things happened in the following years. We are trying to get ourselves back on a strong fiscal footing. Unfortunately, the world hasn't stopped while we do that. And so as I look at the challenges for global leadership from the United States, I know we are tempted to try to step back from these obligations. But every time we've done that, it's come back and hit us right square between the eyes. We left Afghanistan after we pushed the Soviet Union out, and now we're paying a terrible price for that.
"Generations of Americans have grown up successful and safe because we've stepped up. We think that in the world today we have more than we can say grace over, but we are positioned to try to deal with it. And we cannot do it unless we remember that our national security depends not just on defense, but on diplomacy and development working together unlike anything we've ever done historically today, to really deliver on America's security, our interests, and our values. Thank you."
You can read the Secretary's full remarks here.
Related Content: Video of Deputy Secretary Thomas Nide's statement before the Senate Budget Committe on the President's FY 2012 Defense and International Affairs Budget
Eric in New Mexico writes:
It's disheartening to think that there is much political stupidity afoot in desperate measure to balance the budget that folks seem completely willing to lose a war over it by not funding the winning of the peace.
While Iran once again has been caught red-handed supplying arms to the Taliban by our friends the Brits.
And how many years has this nation of ours invested trillons of dollars in the rest of the world's peace and security and economic well-being because it was deemed to be rightfully in our national interest to promote the peace and prosperity of nations?
Let me then offer a suggestion that we have this 14 trillion dollar cluster-#$@@! because no one was willing to bill our antagonists for the trouble they've cost us, let alone those who's economies have prospered becuse of our massive investment over decades in their well-being as nations.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me my government's whole approach to resolving our debt has been without a thought of calling in the markers owed to us.
By friend and foe alike.
Once opon a time we built a road through Burma to arm and supply China in its struggle to defend itself against Japan, and when the Communists took power refused to recognise the debt owed by the former gov.
A rough estimate of the principal and the interest owed on the cost of their independance as a nation from direct US efforts in WW2 building that road through the worst terrain imaginable, is today about a trillion dollars.
The State dept has the ability to do its own research into it, and it might be worth doing as succesful collection on this account would fund State/USAID for some years to come without a hassle from Congress.
I've asked this question before and can't seem to get an answer to it on this blog, so again,
"Who do we owe a debt to?"
And maybe someone will be kind enough to explain why.
If a government is going to arm our enemies, does it not stand to reason we have the right to rob them blind to pay for the cost of defending against them, and fighting the war they wish us to lose?
If we must engage in "regime replacement therapy" in Iran to put a halt to that government's activities, then the nation of Iran can, will and should pay for the cost of doing so for decades to come, in hard currency.
Having siezed 30 billion in Ghaddafi's assets, the like minded nations willing to do so with UN mandate or the legitamacy of the will of nations and the evidence on the ground as legal grounds to do what needs to be done, can pay for the removal of Ghaddafi without touching their own coffers.
Military action I agree opens a door to unintended concequences, but we didn't open that door, Ghaddafi did when he went to war on his people.
Iran's leadership did when they declared us "the great Satan" and devoted themselves to our demise as a nation.
Time for some pay-back.
What is knowable by all acounts is that doing nothing physical to stop Ghaddafi and the government of Iran will result in an ever expanding humanitarian crisis, which we the Ameican people through our government have the power to prevent, regardless of whether we go it alone or not, and preferably not...
Is my government commited to sitting by and being witness? I think not when all is said and decided upon.
The opportunity the Sec. spoke of in MENA, with all the change occuring is in essence to be in a position to win the lasting respect and thanks of the people of the region for furthering their claims to liberty in every facet imaginable, including stepping into the unknown with uncertain returns percievable at present.
When has this nation ever shied away from a fight for the right reasons.
I can understand if after 10 years of war folks generally are a little gun-shy of getting involved in the direct armed liberation of another nation, and the removal of yet another tyranical regime by the force of arms.
But folks are looking to us for many things, and we best be getting creative about balancing our budget in order not to disapoint the future we've promised ourselves.
'cause the rest of the world is counting on us to keep it.
They may not like how we go about it in every aspect, but results matter, and that's what people remember and base their opinions on.
Nipping al-quaida's and Iran's intent in the bud will depend on the swift resolution of people's uncertainty in the region, both from a peace and security standpoint as well as economic.
Sieze the moment and sieze the assets of ethical infants.
And if you're going to call for Ghaddafi to leave, might as well tell that to Amanutijob and the grand poobah of Iran too, since you have them placed in such good company as the taliban.
The war on terror is still being fought on many fronts in mutiple theaters and within international fora.
As was told to us years ago, "This is an evolving struggle."
Let's not fail to win this.
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I recommend that the State Department look to garner buy in from the Karzai Administration concerning women's issues. If not, the State Department's efforts to improve women's issues likely will not be lasting or effective.


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Northern cardinals appear to have increased in number and geographic range over the last 200 years. This is probably the results of increased habitat due to human activities. There are an estimated 100,000,000 individuals worldwide. This species protected under the U.S. Migratory Bird Act. (Halkin and Linville, 1999)

IUCN Red List: Least Concern

US Migratory Bird Act: Protected

US Federal List: No special status

CITES: No special status

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Decade: 1870-1879
Tractatus de musica
Date: 1875
Creator: Tinctoris, Johannes, d. 1511.
Description: The present volume is a 1875 compendium of various Latin music treatises by Johannes Tinctoris gathered from manuscript sources from Brussels, Bologna and Gand. The present edition, edited by Charles Coussemaker, comprises ten of the twelve surviving manuscripts of Tinctoris's theoretical works. According to Oxford Music, these were written in the first few years of his employment at Ferrante's court and demonstrate Tinctoris's intellectual and pedagogical mastery of music theory. They also demonstrate his acquaintance with contemporaneous composers of the early Renaissance Burgundian composers like Antoine Busnoys, as well as with the music of Franco-Flemish composers such as Johannes Ockeghem. Below is a table of content listing the titles of each treatise and a brief description of the concepts they treat. Treatises and Description: "Expositio manus" - this treatise is divided in 10 chapters consisting of: definitions, places, clefs, voicing, properties, deductions, mutations, conjunctions, conclusion; "Liber de natura et proprietate tonorum" - this treatise is divided in 51 chapters containing: definitions and name of tones, concerning the species diatessaron and diapente, formation of first throughout the eighth tone, authentic and plagal modes, ascending and descending perfect/imperfect tones; "Tractatius de notis et pausi" - this treatise is divided in two books. ...
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Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 1
Date: 1879
Creator: Grove, George, Sir, 1820-1900.
Description: This is a copy of the first volume of "Dictionary of Music and Musicians," edited by Sir George Grove. This volume, published in 1879, is an encyclopedic work that contains the biographies of well-known composers as well as articles contributed by various authors on music topics, concepts and definitions starting alphabetically from: "A" (i.e., the sixth note in the scale of C major) to "I" (impromptu). The names of contributing authors appear in a list on pp.[vii]-viii), signed "Bedford Street, Covent Garden, April 1, 1879." The titles of volumes I and II, indicate that the dictionary was issued in three volumes. However, the titles of the third and fourth volumes changed that statement to indicate that the publication of the dictionary was in four volumes.
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U.S. Women Prepare to Open FIVB World Grand Prix
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 18, 2008) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team will utilize a young roster dotted with veteran leadership for the opening preliminary weekend of the 2008 FIVB World Grand Prix, which begins this weekend in Japan, China and Italy.
Team USA faces Turkey on June 20 at 3 p.m. (midnight Mountain Time), Kazakhstan on June 21 at 3 p.m. (midnight Mountain Time) and host Japan on June 22 at 6 p.m. (3 a.m. Mountain Time) at Kobe, Japan. Also this weekend, China hosts Brazil, Germany and Thailand at Ningbo. Italy hosts Cuba, Poland and Dominican Republic at Alassio.
The U.S. 12-player roster for the opening weekend at Japan will feature a core of veterans, alongside younger players. Middle blocker Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) is gearing up for a possible fourth Olympics and middle blocker Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) has appeared in two Olympic Games, while setter Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) and Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) were on the 2004 Olympic Games roster. In addition, libero Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.), middle blocker Jennifer Joines (Milpitas, Calif.) and outside hitter Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.) were on the FIVB World Cup roster that qualified Team USA into the 2008 Olympic Games.
Younger American players on the opening weekend roster include outside hitter/opposite Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) and middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), who will be collegiate seniors at Stanford University this coming fall. The roster is rounded out by outside hitters Kim Willoughby (Napoleonville, La.) and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), along with setter Angie McGinnis (Fraser, Mich.).
The U.S. has won the World Grand Prix in 1995 and 2001, along with bronze medals in 2003 and 2004. Brazil has won the most World Grand Prix gold medals with six championships. Netherlands, which ended Brazil's three-year reign as tournament champion in 2007, failed to qualify for the 2008 tournament.
Team USA holds a 5-1 record versus Turkey since 1983, including a four-set victory in the last meeting on Nov. 16, 2006, at the FIVB World Championship. Turkey, which did not qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games, is making its first appearance in the FIVB World Grand Prix. The U.S. will meet Turkey also in the third preliminary round weekend on July 5 at Chinese Taipei.
The U.S. has won both its meetings versus Kazakhstan, including a four-set victory during last year's World Grand Prix on Aug. 12. Kazakhstan qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games as the top Asian country in the World Olympic Qualification Tournament, despite losing five of seven matches. Kazakhstan placed 10th at last year's World Grand Prix, its first appearance in the annual event.
Team USA and Japan have had a storied history. The teams have played each other 202 times since 1983 with Japan holding a 111-91 edge. Japan qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament. Japan, one of three teams to have competed in all 16 Grand Prix events, finished ninth at last year's event.
Team USA travels to Wroclaw, Poland, to play three matches at the Centennial Hall as part of Group E on June 27-29. The U.S. challenges Thailand on June 27 at 8 p.m. Poland Time to start the weekend. The Americans play NORCECA rival Dominican Republic on June 28 at 5:30 p.m. Poland Time before wrapping up the weekend against host Poland at 3 p.m. Poland Time.
The U.S. concludes the preliminary round matches in Group H at Hsinchuang Gym in Taipei, Chinese Taipei. Team USA takes on Poland for the second time in the tournament on July 4 at 3 p.m., followed by a rematch with Turkey on July 5 at 3 p.m. The Americans conclude the preliminary round against Italy, gold medalist at the FIVB World Cup, on July 6 at 5 p.m.
The FIVB World Grand Prix finals, a round-robin format of the top five teams from the preliminary round plus host Japan, will be played July 9-13 at Yokohoma, Japan. The overall ranking in the preliminary rounds is decided by the total number of World Grand Prix Points (GPP) gained by the teams in the preliminary matches. A team will earn two GPPs for a win, one for a loss and none if they forfeit the match.
Rosters can be changed prior to the start of each weekend of the World Grand Prix. Teams qualified for the Olympic Games will be using the World Grand Prix as a tool to evaluate players and making final roster decisions.
Team USA recently completed a three-match, 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Exhibition for Volleyball series with top-ranked Brazil last week. The U.S. lost the opening match in five sets on June 11 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, but the Americans flipped the score on June 13 at the same location. Brazil concluded the exhibition series with a 4-1 victory (predetermined to go five sets) at the Air Force Academy on June 14. Team USA suited up 16 different players for the series with the younger players getting tested by Brazil.
The 2008 World Grand Prix has the top four teams in the world participating. Brazil, which won the 2007 FIVB World Cup silver medal, leads the FIVB World Ranking, followed by second-ranked Italy and third-ranked Cuba. The U.S. ranks fourth in the world, while 2008 Olympic Games host China ranks sixth. Japan, the 2008 World Grand Prix final round host, is ranked eighth and Poland is slotted in the ninth position. Dominican Republic is ranked 14th in the world, Germany positioned in 15th and Kazakhstan placed in the 16th spot. Rounding out the World Grand Prix field are 18th-ranked Thailand and 22nd-ranked Turkey.
Team USA will face an average world ranking of 13.22 during the three-week preliminary rounds. The Americans will face only one team – Italy – ranked among the top seven teams in the current world ranking during the preliminary rounds.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for Opening Weekend World Grand Prix
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
2 - Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)
3 - Tayyiba Haneef-Park (OPP/OH, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 - Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Minnesota)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawai'i)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH/OPP, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
9 - Jennifer Joines (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
10 - Kim Glass (OH, 6-2, Lancaster, Pa., Arizona)
14 - Kim Willoughby (OH, 5-10, Napoleonville, La., Hawai'i)
17 - Angie McGinnis (S, 5-11, Fraser, Mich., Florida)
18 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
19 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
Head Coach: "Jenny" Lang Ping
Assistant Coaches: Sue Woodstra, Li Yong, Tom Hogan (not traveling)
Technical Coordinator: Diane French
Technical Consultant: Gen Kawakita
Team Leader/Manager: Joan Powell
FIVB World Ranking of 2008 World Grand Prix Participants Brazil – 1st
Italy – 2nd
Cuba – 3rd
USA – 4th
China – 6th
Japan – 8th
Poland – 9th
Dominican Republic – 14th
Germany – 15th
Kazakhstan – 16th
Thailand – 18th
Turkey – 22nd
Pool A: Kobe Japan, Green Arena
June 20: Turkey vs. USA, 3 p.m.
June 20: Japan vs. Kazakhstan, 6:30 p.m.
June 21: Kazakhstan vs. USA, 3 p.m.
June 21: Japan vs. Turkey, 6 p.m.
June 22: Kazakhstan vs. Turkey, 3 p.m.
June 22: Japan vs. USA, 6 p.m.
Pool B: Ningbo, China, Beilun Sports Centre
June 20: Brazil vs. Thailand, 3 p.m.
June 20: China vs. Germany, 7:30 p.m.
June 21: China vs. Thailand, 3 p.m.
June 21: Germany vs. Brazil, 7:30 p.m.
June 22: Germany vs. Thailand, 1:30 p.m.
June 22: China vs. Brazil, 5 p.m.
Pool C: Alassio, Italy, Palavavizza Hall
June 20: Cuba vs. Poland, 5:30 p.m.
June 20: Italy vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m.
June 21: Dominican Republic vs. Cuba, 4 p.m.
June 21: Italy vs. Poland, 6:30 p.m.
June 22: Poland vs. Dominican Republic, 4 p.m.
June 22: Italy vs. Cuba, 6:30 p.m.
Pool D: Vinh Phuc, Vietnam, Vinh Phuc Hall
June 27: Brazil vs. Kazakhstan, 2 p.m.
June 27: Turkey vs. Germany, 4:30 p.m.
June 28: Kazakhstan vs. Germany, 2 p.m.
June 28: Brazil vs. Turkey, 4:30 p.m.
June 29: Turkey vs. Kazakhstan, 2 p.m.
June 29: Germany vs. Brazil, 4:30 p.m.
June 27: Poland vs. Dominican Republic, 5:30 p.m.
June 27: Thailand vs. USA, 8 p.m.
June 28: Poland vs. Thailand, 3 p.m.
June 28: USA vs. Dominican Republic, 5:30 p.m.
June 29: Poland vs. USA, 3 p.m.
June 29: Dominican Republic vs. Thailand, 5:30 p.m.
Pool F: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Coliseum
June 27: Italy vs. Japan, 5 p.m.
June 27: China vs. Cuba, 8 p.m.
June 28: Cuba vs. Italy, 1:15 p.m.
June 28: China vs. Japan, 3:45 p.m.
June 29: Japan vs. Cuba, 1:15 p.m.
June 29: China vs. Italy, 3:45 p.m.
Pool G: Bangkok, Thailand, Huamark Stadium
July 4: Thailand vs. Kazakhstan, 2 p.m.
July 4: Cuba vs. Germany, 5 p.m.
July 5: Germany vs. Thailand, 2 p.m.
July 5: Kazakhstan vs. Cuba, 5 p.m.
July 6: Thailand vs. Cuba, 2 p.m.
July 6: Germany vs. Kazakhstan, 5 p.m.
Pool H: Taipei, Chinese Taipei, Hsinchuang Gym
July 4: USA vs. Poland, 3 p.m.
July 4: Italy vs. Turkey, 6:20 p.m.
July 5: USA vs. Turkey, 3 p.m.
July 5: Italy vs. Poland, 5 p.m.
July 6: Poland vs. Turkey, 3 p.m.
July 6: Italy vs. USA, 5 p.m.
Pool I: Macau, Macau Forum
July 4: Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, 6 p.m.
July 4: China vs. Japan, 9 p.m.
July 5: Brazil vs. Japan, 2 p.m.
July 5: China vs. Dominican Republic, 5 p.m.
July 6: Dominican Republic vs. Japan, 1 p.m.
July 6: China vs. Brazil, 4 p.m.
Final Round: Yokohama, Japan
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Getting There. Located 120 miles southeast of Tucson off Interstate 10. Turn off at the town of Wilcox, take Highway 186 for 35 miles to Highway 181 and head five miles east to the park entrance.
Seasons. Like most of southeast Arizona, summer is suited only for Gila monsters and rattlesnakes. The best season is early spring and late fall when 70-degree temps are the norm. Winter is fickle as warm, sunny days can quickly turn bitter cold with a brisk wind. Afternoon thunderstorms are common July through September.
Permits. The entry fee charged at the gate is $5 per visitor and is good for seven days. Camping is available at the Bonita Canyon Campground; tent sites are $12 per night. Water is available in the campground. A free shuttle is offered between trailheads; check the visitor's center for a current schedule.
More Info.www.nps.gov/chir; 520-824-3560.
Seeking Balance in the Chiricahuas
The Park's three best running trails begin at the Echo Canyon Trailhead (6780 feet) near the top end of Bonita Canyon Road. All are well signed at the junctions with directions and miles.
:: Echo Canyon Loop (3.3 miles). Best 5K ever! Start with a left turn that leads to the Massai Point Nature Trail, which quickly meets a pine-forested canyon sprinkled with the occasional spire on the Ed Riggs Trail. Continue the route clockwise on the Hailstone Trail. The final 1.6-mile section weaves around rock formations and into deep tunnel-carved grottos.
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Skip to comments.US planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over USSR
Posted on 11/25/2012 4:28:28 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union
- Scientists were hoping for giant flash on the moon that would intimidate the Soviet Union
- Aim of mission was to launch the nuke by 1959
- Plan was later scrapped due to possible danger to people on Earth
It may sound like a plot straight out of a science fiction novel, but a U.S. mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s.
At the height of the space race, the U.S. considered detonating an atom bomb on the moon as a display of America's Cold War muscle.
The secret project, innocuously titled 'A Study of Lunar Research Flights' and nicknamed 'Project A119,' was never carried out
However, its planning included calculations by astronomer Carl Sagan, then a young graduate student, of the behavior of dust and gas generated by the blast.
Viewing the nuclear flash from Earth might have intimidated the Soviet Union and boosted U.S. confidence after the launch of Sputnik, physicist Leonard Reiffel told the AP in a 2000 interview.
Reiffel, now 85, directed the inquiry at the former Armour Research Foundation, now part of the Illinois Institute of Technology. He later served as a deputy director at NASA.
Sagan, who later became renowned for popularizing science on television, died in 1996.
The author of one of Sagan's biographies suggested that he may have committed a security breach in 1959 after revealing the classified project in an academic fellowship application. Reiffel concurred.
Under the scenario, a missile carrying a small nuclear device was to be launched from an undisclosed location and travel 238,000 miles to the moon, where it would be detonated upon impact.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I suppose just as long as your gyroscope is big enough to handle that much instantaneous energy release. "Where are we headed?" "How the F*** would I know?"
We wouldn't do much more than leave a shallow scorched crater on the moon that probably wouldn't be visible with the naked eye.
what if the big day arrives and its cloudy over the soviet union and no one can see? ever think of that?
I am guessing that thousands of tons of fine ejecta would circulate around the Earth and Moon for many years, with a small percentage getting captured by Earth and its atmosphere every year, day, week, hour, or what have you. It is not clear to me if this would be a significant loading of our exoatmosphere with radionuclides. It would lose its radioactivity at about the speed of any Earthbound nuke site.
Heh-heh-heh, you sly dog. That was on Mars, silly!
Thanks DogByte6RER. This story is bullsh!t. There was never a "plan" to do this, but some jackass or small number of jackasses in the Pentagon suggested this as a really good idea. It was roundly rejected at the time because it was both stupid and counterproductive. And in 1959, Eisenhower was still in his "everything is provocative" mode; in 1960 he kiboshed the US' orbiting a probe, requiring that the top stage was non-functional. As if a suborbital rocket was less provocative. What a Peter Principle Success Story that guy was.
Sidebar — Von Braun's F1 engine was developed for the DoD, as a delivery system for the Teller H-Bomb, which was a huge-assed design. The B-52 was also conceived as a delivery system for the Teller bomb. Turned out that a smaller H-bomb design was successfully tested and developed instead, but the B-52 went into production. The successfully engineered F1 was cancelled, but Von Braun managed to take it along with him as he sought support for a Moon program. He didn't get it until JFK got tired of being shown up by the "(blankity-blank) Russians". Not long after, Von Braun said in an article or interview that the upper stages of the Apollo would be 100% cryo, and the Soviet rocketmaster Sergei Korolev scorned the idea, claiming that the problems would be too much for Von Braun to solve.
The next time Korolev read about Von Braun's 100% cryo engines, they were being successfully tested on the test stand. The USSR had lost the Moon race, just like that, even assuming that their approach would have worked. Korolev died in 1966; his N-1 booster with its dozens of engines never had a successful flight test, and according to one guy involved in the project, never even made it to the test stand most of the time.
The public should laugh the author of the article and the tabloid right off of the Internet for their sheer mendacious stupidity and scaremongering tactics.
As the article noted, the proposal is supposedd to have been a fission atomic bomb and not a fusion hydrogen bomb, because the missiles of the time were incapable of launching the extremely heavy hydrogen bombs of the day. This means the explosion would have been a sub-megaton yield similar to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki detonations. Such explosions would have been detectable on the Earth, but only by observers ready and waiting to observe a flash nearly too small to see and lasting for little more than a second in time. Since the Moon has practically no atmosphere, the blast effects would have been far less than those which occurred on the Earth. There would have resulted a very small crater, barely detectable with telescopes from the Earth.
The headline's scaremongering about "blowing up the Moon" is as outrageous as it is utterly ridiculous. The Moon is routinely punished with impacts releasing far more explosive energy than such a small atomic bomb, and no one ever notices those explosions. The Moon far from being blown up or destroyed would hardly notice such an insignicantly tiny event in comparison to its history of impacts.
Everyone needs to laugh the author out of the business.
Of course poets would have been upset, along with other earthlings, if the moon had disappeared from the sky.
Sound like BS to me. Its like news report that say US have plans about invading Australia
To paraphrase Bugs Bunny; "What a Maroon!"
OK, that is a nice over-the-top hysterical hyperbole even for a London tabloid. Start with simple physics, it takes a great BIG ROCKET to get anything to the Moon. The Soviets did hit the Moon with Luna 2 in 1959 and that weighed 860 lbs. but we have to remember the fact that the USSR did have better throw-weight rockets than we did. Our best rockets at that time were the Atlas and Titan series and it took until 1962 for the Ranger 4 (806 lbs.) to actually hit the Moon [Atlas-Agena Rocket]!
Anybody care to guess what the lightest A-Bomb was at that time? I don't know but I am willing to guess it was far more than 500 lbs. and then add G-Force resistance and an instrument package capable of controlling even a ballistic radar fused bomb would put it over the top there for that time period.
So what we have is an idiot newspaper looking at an old "blue sky project" and an even greater idiot writing the headline and introduction. Really stuck on stupid!
The first nukes that were exploded on Earth in July and August 1945 were bright enough to cause a reflected flash on the Moon visible to Earthbound observers.
I don't know if the Moon was in the right position to catch the flash on those particular occasions, but Richard Rhodes in The Making of the Atomic Bomb wrote about it as if this had indeed happened. I have not seen it recorded that anyone was actually looking at the Moon at those instants; possibly on some of the later scheduled tests.
FAKE!!!! Project A119 wasn't the moon....It was Venus! Everybody knows it was Project A118 that was the moon. After John Glenn planted the bomb on the moon he returned and was fished out of the Pacific by that German aircraft carrier, (the one that had just launched the 1922 attack on Pearl Harbor). He filled FOX news in and so there ya go. THAT is how Project A118 was first known about. (Also, project A119 is still classified top secret so don't blab it to any of those screwball FReepers, you know how they are!!).
Ever hear of a "Blue Sky" Project? It starts by imagining infinite money and ability thrown at a given goal - "Can it be done?" This is what "A Study of Lunar Research Flights" was and is. Every government has these and they are great fun and serve a useful purpose of challenging assumptions and old dictums.
As for this, it enables the Daily Mail to have its own fun and games about those evil/criminal crazies over the pond! Catering to their clientele so to speak.
Methinks we didn't have the throw weight to get any of our nukes to the moon without an Apollo like effort.
This smells like bull Obama to me.
Blow up the moon? Nonsense. A hundred nukes would stir up the dust but have little effect otherwise.
Carl been doin' too much pot even then.
The fission detonations would only begin once Orion was above the atmosphere.
What killed it was a failure of political will. Otherwise, we would have been to Mars by 1965 and Venus by '73. An interstellar version was also planned with a crew of 265 or so.
We would have had successful colonies on both the Moon and Mars by now.
Instead we settled for third or fourth best alternative and ended up with the dangerous antiques: the Apollo and Space Shuttle. Both now dead.
As for blowing up the Moon - now or in the 50s - not a chance.
The largest fusion bomb ever detonated was by the Russians yielding 90 plus megatons. Many craters on the Moon were created by detonations in the millions of megatons for comparison. And the Moon is still there ...
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--Cornell BlakeleyDon't Touch the Moon--Cornell Blakely, 1958
If we focus on warheads, then the lightest one in 1959 was the W-25 which weighed between 218 and 221 pounds; however, it had a yield of only 1.7 kilotons (much lower than either Fat Man or Little Boy). Lager yield warheads ranged in weight from about 900 pounds to over 6,000 pounds - the US nuclear bombs were even heavier (the Mk.24 bomb weighed over 40,000 pounds).
Ah man, those WERE the days...sigh....
The American Werewolf Society stopped it.
No one was going to blow up the moon. It may be smaller than Earth, but it's still pretty darn big. As someone else said, we could put a decent crater in it. Even the biggest nukes ever produced (by the Soviets, who else) barely scratch the Earth's surface. Of course they destroy the heck out of stuff within 10 miles and will leave a big crater with a huge scar....but it's still no more than a scratch in our planet's crust.
Not even Tzar Bomba (designed for 100 megaton yield but tested at 50) would have done much more than made a light show and kicked up the dust.
Our largest thermonuclear weapons were developed and tested prior to 1959.
With the increasing accuracy of our delivery systems we were able to reduce the yields of the weapons and thus the requirements for the huge quantities of fissile materials needed to build them. The people who were responsible for the development and employment of nuclear weapons did not want massive weapons, only ones big enough to perform required tasks needed to fight a war and thus deter our enemies from starting one.
Then, we would have had to rename Moon Pies. And I ain't taking a bite out of anything called a Uranus Pie.
Thank you - I was hoping that pic was here. :o)
Seemed perfect. Funny thing is, last night I was thinking of this picture.
Ever see the movie? I watched it for the first time today:
The entire nuclear arsenal of the planet at the heighth of the cold war (~50,000 Mt) fabricated into one bomb would hardly make a noteworthy new crater on the moon aside from the fact that the surface in the blast area would be vitrified and reflect some more light.
Major extinction events here have been in association with energy releases on the line of 200,000,000 Mt, and while it screwed the earth up, it came no where near destoying it, or all life on it for that matter (which would actually probably take reliquifying the lithospere to a depth greater than 1 mile).
I believe that's closer to 16 or 17%, I think you lost a decimal place there. If it was 1.2%, tides would be a few inches...
Damn, you appear to have been right, 1/6th volume and yet that much less mass... It must have a creamy filling!!!
They say 1/4 the diameter, so if the densities were similar that is a ratio of 4 cubed, or 64. A bit under 2% by volume, and then the creamy filling factor (actually the moon does not boast a dense iron core as best we know).
The danger would have come if the rocket somehow did not make it to the moon, especially if it failed in low trajectory. Presumably the bomb would be set not to go boom in such an event, but it would be a source of radioactive dirt.
That wouldn't be the first catastrophe to result from it. Without the Moon we'd have no tides on Earth, the oceans would stagnate, and Earth would slowly die.
I suspect if we put a crash program on it we could develop a bomb that would do more than that. I'm not saying we've got one ready in the garage.
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be a Moon-shattering kaboom!"
And we just voted these nitwits in charge of our health care.
Actually The smallest US warhead was the W54
These were subkilton, but in the Nagasaki range was the W44/Tsetse at 175lb. The Brits considered using an anglised version of Tsetse (Tony) as a primary for their 60s bombs, but eventually decided on UK designed Katie, which was even lighter
These all date from the early 60s
All that radioactive dust would have floated around and eventually got back into the Earths atmosphere...maybe years later.
Most of the dust it kicked up would have fallen back to the moon. Besides tons of naturally occurring radioactive space dust falls to the earth every year.
Yup, we think we would do "so much damage" to the moon by putting a nuke on the moon....
Hubris, thy name is humanity!
Maybe the concept was that the Soviets would see us attacking the moon for no discernable reason, and conclude that we were so deranged, that they should just stay very far away from us.
The B-52s did.
There's a moon in the sky
It's called the moon
And everybody is there, including,
Saturn, Mercury
Saturn, Venus
Saturn, Mars
OK, you're right, it doesn't rhyme.
That's a LOT of beer!
Not many are aware of the Lager Bombs. The trick was to shake them violently before lobbing them at the target.
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Dr. Coleman earned her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed Ob/Gyn residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed a fellowship in reproductive infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco and received a Masters of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Coleman lived in Kenya, where she led research projects among women living with HIV. Upon returning, she joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and established a pregnancy and infectious disease clinic that delivered the largest number of pregnant women living with HIV in the city.
Dr. Coleman joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2010 to further her research. Her research interests include safer conception among HIV serodiscordant couples, cervical cancer prevention in resource-constrained countries, contraception in HIV infected women, STD prevention and management, surgical site infections, HIV prevention technologies including pre-exposure prophylaxis and microbicides, and the interaction between violence against women and STD/HIV. She has published numerous articles, written several book chapters, and presented her research in national and international settings.
- Associate Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Departments / Divisions
Centers & Institutes
- MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1999)
- MPH, University of California at Berkeley (2005)
- University of California Los Angeles (now David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) / Obstetrics and Gynecology (2003)
- University of California San Francisco (2005)
Research & Publications
Selected Publications
Selected Peer-reviewed Publications
Coleman JS, Hitti J, Bukusi EA, Mwachari C, Muliro A, Nguti R, Gausman R, Jensen S, Patton D,Lockhart D, Coombs R, Cohen CR. Infectious Correlates of HIV-1 Shedding from the Female Upper and Lower Genital Tracts. AIDS. 2007 Mar 30;21(6):755-9.
Mmeje O and Coleman JS. Concurrent Patient-Partner Treatment in Pregnancy: An Alternative to Expedited Partner Therapy? Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2012 Sept; 39(9): 665-670.
Coleman JS, Chaturvedula, A.; Hendrix, C. Method of hormonal contraception is associated with lower tenofovir concentration in healthy women (MTN-001): implications for pre-exposure prophylaxis. J Intl AIDS Soc 2012 Oct;15:139-140.
Coleman JS, Gaydos CA, Witter F. Trichomonas vaginalis vaginitis in Obstetrics and Gynecology Practice: New Concepts and Controversies. Obstet Gynecol Survey 2013 Jan;68 (1): 43-50.
Coleman JS, Mwachari C, Balkus J, SanguliL, Muliro A, Agnew K, Coombs R, Cohen C, Hitti J. Effect of the levonorgestrel intrauterine device on genital HIV RNA shedding among HIV-infected women not taking antiretroviral therapy in Nairobi, Kenya. JAIDS 2013 Jun; 63(2):245-8.
Coleman JS, Green I, Scheib S, Sewell C, Lee J, Anderson J. Surgical Site Infections after Hysterectomy among HIV-infected Women in the HAART Era: a single institution's experience from 1999 – 2012. AJOG 2014 Feb 210(2):117.
Jackson J, McNair T, and Coleman JS. Over-screening for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea among Urban Women Age 25 and Older. AJOG 2014 June 28[Epub]
Sheth S, Coleman J: HIV in Pregnancy. In John Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 5th edition, edited by Jessica Bienstock, Edward Wallach, Harold Fox. 2013
Sangini S. Sheth, Jenell Coleman, Tirza Cannon, Mariam Fofana, Lorraine Milio, Jean Keller, Jean Anderson, Cynthia H. Argani. History of depression and non-adherence to HAART in pregnant women with perinatally acquired HIV. AIDS Care 2015 Mar;27(3):350-4
Sampah M, Blankson J, Siliciano R, Coleman JS. Medroxyprogesterone Increases HIV infection of PBMCs in-vitro. AIDS 2015 Jun 19;29(10):1137-46.
Coleman JS*, Boelig RC, Keller J, Sewell C, and Anderson J. Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of HIV-infected Women and HIV-affected Couples Seeking Preconception Counseling. Infect Dis ObGyn 2015, Article ID 240613
McNair T, Roberts E, China, W, Coleman JS. Cost-Effectiveness of Baltimore City Health Department's Expedited Partner Therapy Program to Reduce Chlamydia Reinfection. In revision AJPH
Liao C, Wahab M, Anderson J and Coleman JS. Reclaiming Fertility Awareness Methods to Inform Timed Intercourse for HIV Serodiscordant Couples Attempting to Conceive. J Int AIDS Soc 2015 Jan 9;18(1):19447
Coleman JS, Cespedes MS, Kosgei RJ, Maloba M, Cu-Uvin S, Anderson J, Wools-Kaloustian K. Capacity for Cervical Cancer Prevention at Select HIV Care Programs in Resource-Limited Settings: Implications for Expansion. Under review
Activities & Honors
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Infectious Disease Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- International AIDS Society
Videos & Media
Lectures and Presentations
HIV in Women
http://ehivreview.org/newsletters/2014/volume02_issue02.html (01/01/2014)