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I don't know anything about them, but I have to ask why anything is too heavy in space? Is it too heavy when assembled on earth?
Mass doesn't disappear just because something is in outer space. That mass carries with it a certain amount of inertia, and the heavier something is on earth, the more energy will be required to manipulate it with any kind of acceleration, even in space.
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Twasn't an apostrophe, ye dog. It be the stray mark of a sharp cutlass.
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Two issues
1) You have to get the things into space
2) Stuff still has mass in space and thus a higher mass requires a higher force to accelerate compared to a less massive object.
Hope that helps.
Yes, lifting facilities like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl off the ground takes a bit of effort
A design concern for nuclear reactors is cooling. Nuclear subs are conveniently surrounded by an infinite heat sink of cold water, so cooling them is easy. A nuclear reactor desgined for space would need a completely different cooling system, which is a major part of the design.
They would, most of those facilities is dedicated to cooling and shielding. They may not be able to use the reactor from a sub, and I'm pretty sure they couldn't, but that's merely because they're designed for terrestrial use and aren't designed to be put onto a rocket.
The other issue is that putting nuclear things into orbit is something that has to be done cautiously. If they blow up or fail to make it into orbit, they'll spew tons of radioactive particles all over the place. And paranoid states might thi
Probably not; a sub's reactor would likely depend on the presence of the ocean for part of its cooling system (cooling is always a big problem in space -- basically it can only be done with radiators, which isn't very efficient), and is surely way overpowered for most missions.
The US and Russia have sent up actual reactors before. The US had SNAP [wikipedia.org] and the USSR had BES [wikipedia.org].
But you really don't need nuclear power sources at all unless you're either far from the sun (beyond the orbit of Mars, usually), have serious power needs that modern solar power isn't sufficient for (the recently landed Curiosity rover on Mars uses an RTG for main power), or need heat to keep systems from getting too cold (the solar powered Mars rovers had small RTGs in them for heating purposes, IIRC).
Likely because they need to be wrapped up in so much stuff so they're not killing everyone nearby.
And as far as I recall, you essentially need lead to block the radiation.
Why not shield the humans instead? Then just keep them away from it during launch. Not like irradiating space is a concern.
Stop it! you'll give the climate change denialists ideas.
"It's not a tragedy - it's a MARKET OPPORTUNITY for radiation shields!"
You know, my practical experience in nuclear shielding is non-existent. My theoretical knowledge only slightly less non-existent.
But I should think the minimum safe distance from an unshielded reactor would preclude anybody actually getting near enough the spacecraft to prep it for launch.
I also don't know enough about them to say if an unshielded reactor is essentially a bomb.
I'm sure if it was a viable alternative, someone at NASA would be considering it.
But I should think the minimum safe distance from an unshielded reactor would preclude anybody actually getting near enough the spacecraft to prep it for launch.
A fission reactor that has been assembled, but never operated, does not produce much radiation. Enriched uranium and/or pure plutonium are not particularly dangerous (unless inhaled or ingested). It is the fission byproducts from actually operating the reactor that are dangerous. Even this minimal radiation could be avoided by using temporary shielding that is removed (possibly by a robot) immediately before the launch.
The safe distance for plutonium before it is being used is that you can hold it in your hand. I have handled Uranium, been there when Plutonium was handled (although not 238). If they transport the reactor into space conventionally and build it up there the only problem is the weight. There are lots of viable options available for consideration, I think that this is just smoke to prepare us for another round of unnecessary weapons building.
I also don't know enough about them to say if an unshielded reactor is essentially a bomb.
It isn't.
What it is is unsafe to stand near, where "near" is any closer than several hundred yards.
And as far as I recall, you essentially need lead to block the radiation.
Actually, water works quite well to block neutrons (better than lead, in fact), alpha and beta radiation. The lead is mostly for the gammas.
But it's the gamma radiation which is the one we're most concerned about, no?
Blocking the least dangerous stuff isn't the issue.
But it's the gamma radiation which is the one we're most concerned about, no?
In a space-borne system? I would think that neutron-embrittlement of your spacecraft would be more a concern than a few more gammas.
Admittedly, the gammas might interfere with those excrutiatingly sensitive sensors you're using in your deep-space probe, but a patch of lead between the power source and the sensor would deal with that nicely - you don't need spherical coverage of the power source, unless it's the center of the pro
No, Plutonium is an alpha emitter. When it goes bang it gives off gamma, quite a lot.
Nah you could block the radiation with any number of materials, its just that lead happens to be dense enough to do it reasonably. Little is to be gained by pushing concrete walls several feet thick into space.
Frankly I think its as much about complexity as anything. an RTG is fairly simple, basically a nuclear battery, with radioactive materials as a stand in for chemical bonds... when they break down, they cause heating, which is harvested for energy...simple.
Now a nuclear fission pile can be simple too..
And as far as I recall, you essentially need lead to block the radiation.
Not necessarily. Instead of shielding, you can use distance. Fission reactors produce little radiation until they start operating. So you launch into space, then separate your main payload from the reactor using a long conductive tether. Then fire up the reactor.
"Dehydrate them as much as possible, because we need to get the water back. Those solid waste products get put into a bag, put right back against the wall,"
Huh? Isn't the very reason its a good radiation shield because...it contains a very high percentage of water...which is an excellent radiation shield? It seems to me that when you dehydrate it, you would lose that.
I don't know anything about them, but I have to ask why anything is too heavy in space? Is it too heavy when assembled on earth?
A very long time ago I was in the Navy, sailing about in a nuclear submarine.
The power plant of that submarine outmassed the ISS.
That's not surprising, the components are heavy and dense. Whereas the ISS is mostly air.
0 G doesn't mean 0 Mass. The correct term would have been Nuclear Fission is too massive.
I imagine it is because of the shielding required.
Pu-238 decays to uranium-234 via an alpha particle emission
uranium-234 decays very slowly to thorium-230 via an another alpha particle emission
Alpha emissions are really easy to shield against because they are charged particles. They don't even penetrate skin.
Fission, on the other hand produces abundant neutrons and gamma rays. The only way to stop them is with a lot of mass.
Still, it shouldn't be all that bad. A yet to be started reactor doesn't produce
Consider it costs from $2000 (Falcon 9) to $30,000 (Pegasus) per lb. to launch a payload from Earth. And the present maximum launch capability is, IIRC, about 150 tons. Anything bigger has to be launched in pieces. For probes going anywhere besides Earth orbit, that 150 tons has to include the additional rocket stage to push the probe out of the Earth's gravitational influence. So the probe itself is likely to be under 1/2 ton. Now, make a reactor that fits.
Having said that, I've been casually wondering if a small MSR (Thorium) reactor could be used. It provides both heat and power, and its characteristics make it plausible that an under-10-ton reactor could be made. Such a reactor could provide the heat for propulsion of the probe, plus lots of electricity, and it can be turned on and off at will, or throttled. So this might work in a large vehicle. Of course nobody has even started on the engineering required to make a liquid reactor work in microgravity (no convection, no heat conduction to dump waste heat).
As others point out, things don't lose their mass just because they're in space.
However, the problem with reactors isn't that they're "too heavy", they're lighter than an RTG with equivalent power output would be. The problem is that they're too big. An RTG is a lump of passively decaying material surrounded by thermoelectric converters and heat sinks, there's no hard lower limit in size. A reactor has to have enough material to sustain a chain reaction, which imposes a stricter minimum mass.
If your mission
I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 2014, it's a little hard to come by.
beautiful BTTF reference. I applaud you, sir!
But the zombie apocalypse is still ok, right?
eh? we're maintaining thousands of bombs for just that
While you are correct that maintaining them doesn't, dismantling them does.
While you are correct that maintaining them doesn't, dismantling them does.
Not correct - the plutonium in nuclear weapons is Pu-239, not the Pu-238 that we desire for RTGs. You can't extract useful quantities of Pu-238 from a nuclear weapon. Conversely, you can't use Pu-238 to make a nuclear (fission) weapon. You could make a dirty bomb, I suppose, but that's more due to plutonium being a toxic heavy metal than its radioactivity.
We could have mined plutonium on Pluto, but they went and demoted it to a dwarf planet.
Apparently Philo gives the secret of how to make plutonium from common household objects.
One of the helpful byproducts of a Liquid Floride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) is Pu-238
Source: http://flibe-energy.com/?page_id=64
there are alternative isotopes, with much longer half lives even if battery weight is three or five times what a pu-238 one would be. not the heaviest thing in a spacecraft...anyway, the equipment to make the pu-238 exists, just a matter of getting serious about making the stuff
there are alternative isotopes, with much longer half lives even if battery weight is three or five times what a pu-238 one would be.
Longer half-life = heavier battery. More or less in direct proportion. If you use something with a 1000 year halflife, the battery will mass 11+ times as much, for a given power output.
The Russians always used strontium 90. Slightly lower heat output and shorter (~30 vs ~90 yr) half life. Much cheaper.
Of course the reduced half life means power will drop off sooner, but I'd think thermocouple aging factors weigh more heavy anyway (for the first decade or two, at least). Maybe not?
So for long missions You'd want something else, I guess.
There are other isotopes that have longer half-lives, but they are not alternatives.
In order to be a decent RTG power source, and isotope needs to have:
1. Good power density
2. Good half-life
3. Require little to no shielding
Plutonium 238 is the ideal fuel because it is the best (or close to it) in all three categories. Strontium-90 has a much shorter half-life and lower decay energy. Polonium-210 has a high power density but comes at the cost of an extremely short half-life (138 days). Curium-242/244 is a gamma and neutron emitter so requires heavy shielding.
The only reasonable alternative at this time is the same material they put into smoke detectors: Americium-241. It has a much longer half-life than plutonium, however due to that half-life it only has about 1/4 of the power density. It does emit more penetrating radiation but doesn't require a lot of shielding.
Fire up Rocky Flats [wikipedia.org] and Hanford [wikipedia.org] again to start building the next generation of nukes! That way we can get enough Pu-238 to power our deep space ambitions! I read on "The Onion" that the North Koreans are already building their deep space probe Kim Il Wang 1 which will reach out and spread communism to our neighboring galaxies! We can't afford to have a deep space probe power gap! We must contain the Red Menace!
Frankly with all the carcinogens in our air [yahoo.com], amoebas [go.com] in our water and a third of us with Toxoplasmosis, [wikipedia.org] what's a little radiation folks?
If we start filtering that water over by their nukes, we can create a number of batteries that can provide power for mars and the moon.
Except we don't want our first probe to make contact with an alien civilization to be powered by radioactive sea bass. There's just no good explanation for that.
By 2005, according a Department of Energy report (.pdf), the U.S. government owned 87 pounds, of which roughly two-thirds was designated for national security projects, likely to power deep-sea espionage hardware.
What on earth do they need deep sea espionage for? Are they trying to spy on Cthulhu or something?
What on earth do they need deep sea espionage for?
Tapping submarine cables.
Tapping submarine cables.
I've heard of those drive-by-wire systems! What an ingenuous way to steer a military submarine!
What on earth do they need deep sea espionage for? Are they trying to spy on Cthulhu or something?
Phone cables don't cut and splice themselves, pal.
Problem solved.. Actually, multiple problems get solved with this one.
Reprocess existing spent fuel rods that are soaking away in cooling pools world wide. We literally have tons of this material if we would just go process the spent fuel we already have on hand.
As a bonus, we will get a lot of useable fuel out of the process PLUS drastically reduce the size of the high level radioactive waste we have to store...
b-b-b-but what about those super insightful laws that prevent breeder reactors needed to reprocess spent fuel rods.
It would take a-lot of money to out-"lobby" nuclear industry insiders to change those laws.
The way I see it, we just need to shave one of those neutrons off. Like, say, with another neutron. What could possibly go wrong?
* Build a moon base
* Setup solarpanels for lots of power generation
* Build infrastructure
* Extract lots of Helium 3
* Build a monorail assisted launch system
* Build space ship parts
* Build a Tokamak in parts, small enough to assemble in space
* Launch all the s#!+ into space and assemble all the parts
* Remember to launch a couple of tons of H3 too
* Go!
It might help if we figured out how to make a working fusion reactor on Earth first. The problem with an 3He reactor is not simply a shortage of 3He.
There are lots of uses for RTGs (including medical devices), but they have been hamstrung by anti-nuclear hysteria. If Pu 238 was more widely adopted commercially, these shortages would disappear.
If you go through the link you posted to one more deep you get this statement, "The administration of President Barack Obama asked for $20 million for the Pu-238 program in 2012, split evenly between NASA and the Energy Department. Lawmakers also denied funding for the program in the Energy Department's 2010 and 2011 budgets."
The most recent setback for efforts to restart Pu-238 came Sept. 7 when the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee followed the example set by U.S. House of Representatives appropriators in June and approved a 2012 spending plan without any mo
This is fear-mongering. We are restarting production, and the new Advanced Sterling Radioisotope Generators we have developed produce three times the electricity for the same amount of Pu-238.
I thought NASA struck a deal with DOE back in March to do 2 kilos per year of Pu-238 back in March. Did it get de-funded or something? http://www.universetoday.com/100875/u-s-to-restart-plutonium-production-for-deep-space-exploration/ [universetoday.com]
So what they're saying is, "No war - No fun."
Isn't that the way it's always worked?
why a square mile of reflective mylar and a high efficiency panel won't power a satellite for a good long while?
Ignoring all the challenges of creating an parabolic shape a mile across, have you seen what the sun looks like from Voyager 1?
Many other isotypes and generator types.
Strontium-90 is a good substitute for shorter trips. Americium-241 is very close to being a reality for longer trips. There is also the Safe Affordable Fission Engine project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Affordable_Fission_Engine [wikipedia.org]
But there is another type of electro-mechanical rotating generator designed for Russian craft, TOPAZ-II, but, unfortunately, it's far too heavy.
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Jaromir Jagr scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lift the Dallas Stars over the Phoenix Coyotes, 4-3, in the opener of a home-and-home series.
Brenden Dillon had a goal and an assist for the Stars, who snapped a four-game skid. Antoine Roussel and Michael Ryder also scored.
Kari Lehtonen made 31 saves for Dallas, which posted a 4-3 home win over the Coyotes to open the season on Jan. 19.
"We still have areas we have to clean up in our game, the turnovers and we need to play the game the right way," Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. "I think that's important for us moving forward, there is still some clean up that has to happen here regardless if we got two points."
Martin Hanzal had two goals for Phoenix, which fell to 2-4-2 on the season. Radim Vrbata added a goal and an assist.
Mike Smith stopped 21-of-24 shots for the Coyotes, who played Friday's game just hours after the franchise's latest prospective buyer fell through. Greg Jamison, who had a provisional deal in place to purchase the Coyotes, missed Thursday's midnight deadline to officially buy the club from the NHL.
Roussel, making his NHL debut, made it 1-0 Dallas at the 9:53 mark of the first period. The 23-year-old skated in on a breakaway and put a backhander past Smith.
Dillon's slapper from the left point at the 12:03 mark gave the Stars a 2-0 lead.
The Coyotes got on the board with six minutes remaining in the opening frame. Oliver Ekman-Larsson's shot from the left point was deflected in by Vrbata.
Phoenix tied the game just 45 seconds into the middle stanza. Ekman-Larsson's shot from the right point was blocked and the puck ended up on the stick of Hanzal, whose backhander beat Lehtonen.
At the 14:14 mark, Ryder's shot from the top of the left circle put Dallas back in front.
The back-and-forth battle continued as Hanzal's shot from the slot tied the game at three with 1:34 to go.
Lehtonen combined to make 14 saves in the third period and overtime. Smith stopped 10 shots over that span.
Vrbata started the second round of the shootout with a goal. Smith then stopped Ray Whitney to keep Phoenix ahead. It came down to Jamie Benn, who beat Smith to keep the Stars alive.
Lehtonen stopped Ekman-Larsson's shot to start the fourth round. Jagr then beat Smith with a wrister to give Dallas the victory.
"I thought our team hung around the game, competed really hard and gave ourselves a chance to win, but in the end gave a point up," Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said.
Game Notes
The clubs will meet Saturday at Jobing.com Arena ... Stars defenseman Jamie Oleksiak had one shot in his NHL debut ... Smith returned after missing the previous four games with a groin injury ... Phoenix forward Steve Sullivan missed the game with a lower body injury ... Dallas was without defenseman Aaron Rome (flu-like symptoms).

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(CBS/AP) Penn State's internal investigation into the Jerry Sandusky scandal found that senior leaders at the university displayed "total disregard" for the children victimized by the former assistant football coach, according to a report released Thursday.
A team led by former federal judge and FBI director Louis Freeh interviewed hundreds of people to learn how the university responded to warning signs that its once-revered former defensive coordinator -- a man who helped Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno win two national titles while touting "success with honor" -- was a serial child molester.
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"Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State," Freeh told reporters during a morning press conference. "The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized."
After an eight-month inquiry, Freeh's firm produced a 267-page report finding that Paterno, athletic director Tim Curley, university vice president Gary Schultz, who oversaw the campus police department, and university president Graham Spanier "never demonstrated, through actions or words, any concern for the safety and well-being of Sandusky's victims until after Sandusky's arrest."
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Sexual abuse might have been prevented if university officials had banned Sandusky from bringing children onto campus after a 1998 inquiry, the report said. Despite their knowledge of the police probe into Sandusky showering with a boy in a football locker room, Spanier, Paterno, Curley and Schultz took no action to limit his access to campus, the investigation found.
The May 1998 complaint by a woman whose son came home with wet hair after showering with Sandusky didn't result in charges at the time. The report says Schultz was worried the matter could be opening "Pandora's box."
Officials later did bar him from bringing children to campus.Karen Peetz, the chairwoman of Penn State's board of trustees, said the panel believes Paterno's "61 years of excellent service to the university is now marred" by the scandal and how he handled the accusations. Peetz also said the board"accepts full responsibility for the failures that occurred," but that no board members would be stepping down. Another trustee, Kenneth Frazier, said, "Our hearts remain heavy and we are deeply ashamed."
Freeh called the officials' disregard for child victims "callous and shocking."
Inside Penn State's decision not to report Sandusky abuse
Freeh: Paterno failed in "actions and words"
Penn State trustees: "We are accountable"
Freeh also said Sandusky's conduct was in part a result of the school's lack of transparency, which stemmed from a "failure of governance" on the part of officials and the board of trustees. He said the collective inaction and mindset at the top of the university trickled all the way down to a school janitor who was afraid for his job and opted to not report seeing sex abuse in a school locker room in 2000.
The report also singled out the revered Penn State football program for criticism. It says Paterno and university leaders allowed Sandusky to retire in 1999, "not as a suspected child predator, but as a valued member of the Penn State football legacy, with future 'visibility' at Penn State,'" allowing him to groom victims.
Investigators, however, found no evidence linking his $168,000 retirement package in 1999 to the 1998 police investigation. Freeh called the payout unprecedented but said there was no evidence it was an attempt to buy Sandusky's silence.
In 2001, Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant, told Paterno he saw Sandusky with a young boy in the football team shower. Paterno, in turn, alerted Curley, who investigated the report along with Schultz. Curley and Schultz ultimately decided not to alert law enforcement or child welfare authorities.
Curley, who's on leave, and the now-retired Schultz, are awaiting trial on charges they lied to a grand jury investigating Sandusky and failed to report the McQueary complaint to civil authorities as required.
Curley and Schultz declined to be interviewed by the investigators on the advice of counsel, according to the report. They stated through their attorneys that the "humane" thing to do in response to the incident McQueary witnessed was to "carefully and responsibly assess the best way to handle vague but troubling allegations," according to the report.
The report found that Curley, Schultz and Spanier initially planned to report the 2001 shower incident to the state Department of Public Welfare only to back off after Curley had a conversation with Paterno. The three officials then agreed to tell Sandusky "we feel there is a problem" and offer him "professional help." The officials also agreed to report Sandusky if he didn't cooperate.
"I didn't know exactly how to handle it and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was," Paterno told The Washington Post after the scandal broke, according to the report. "So I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn't work out that way."
More than 430 current or former school employees were interviewed since November, including nearly everyone associated with the football program under Paterno. The Hall of Fame coach died of lung cancer in January at age 85, two months after being fired as coach following Sandusky's arrest, without telling Freeh's team his account of what happened.


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- Marshall Sonenshine: Equality won for same-sex marriage, but it was far from a slam dunk
- In 1967, court ruled 9-0 in Loving that interracial marriage ban was unconstitutional
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Champions of equal protection had their day in court -- but it was a highly politicized day in the Supreme Court. Unlike the 1967 interracial marriage case of Loving v. Virginia, the gay rights decision in United States v. Windsor, while also a victory for civil rights, is not a moment of legal clarity or coherence. In court politicization, Windsor is closer to Bush v. Gore.
How cases end matters. The Loving case, at 9-0, was a victory for civil rights wrapped in a moment of Supreme clarity; 5-4 Windsor is a victory wrapped in a Supreme food fight.
Almost a half-century ago, Chief Justice Warren delivered a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court, invalidating state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Sixteen states maintained such laws, including Virginia.
Loving invalidated laws banning interracial marriage. Windsor invalidated federal law denying benefits to homosexual couples married in states permitting same-sex marriage. A comparison of the two cases reveals how divided and divisive our court is today.
Richard and Mildred Loving were a mixed-race couple validly married in the District of Columbia, who upon returning home to Virginia faced continuing arrest and harassment by local police for violating Virginia's miscegenation laws.
After a decade-long cat-and-mouse game with the local authorities and a parallel odyssey through Virginia courts, the Lovings were vindicated when a unanimous Supreme Court held that state miscegenation laws were unconstitutional since they "rest solely on distinctions drawn according to race" and have "no legitimate overriding purposes independent of invidious racial discrimination which justifies this classification." The court held marriage to be among the "basic civil rights" that no state can infringe. Doctrine was born.
Several years ago, the documentarian Nancy Buirski asked me to executive produce "The Loving Story," a documentary film chronicling a civil rights story and a love story. HBO co-produced the film. America loved Loving, with its legal and moral clarity. The film was a top performer at the 2011 New York Tribeca Film Festival. HBO began airing it on television on Valentine's Day 2012. This year the film won a Peabody.
Loving v. Virginia was notable for its coherence as the court's resolution of a legal odyssey. Today's legal culture includes conservative judges accusing jurists of partisanship at every turn, even the hardest cases. Call it Supreme Gridlock.
The dissent in Windsor excoriates the majority as "hungry" to grandstand in a case it claims was never properly before the court -- ignoring that Edith Windsor had won a judgment for an estate-tax refund that the U.S. government refused to honor unless the Supreme Court would invalidate the Defense of Marriage Act. Justice Antonin Scalia was wedded to his technicalities and indifferent to Ms. Windsor's equities.
The dissent slams the majority for "rootless and shifting" reasoning and claims the majority views DOMA's supporters as having "hateful hearts," a politicized barb at odds with the muted language with which the majority duly inspected the legislative purpose of DOMA.
Scalia is erudite but dead wrong in claiming, "In the majority's telling, this story is black and white. Hate your neighbors or come along with us." Come again? DOMA said the federal government could declare the validly married same-sex couple next door unqualified for any federal benefits extended to married heterosexual couples. And the court's majority is mongering hate?
Joining the politicized dissent is Justice Samuel Alito: "The family is an ancient and universal human institution" and "changes in family structure and in the popular understanding of marriage and the family can have profound effects." One struggles to rest much on these generalities. Similarly one would struggle to rely much on the broad intonations of the overruled state court judge in Loving:
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
The entire 1967 court could spot poppycock when it saw it. Chief Justice Earl Warren, concerned with precedent more than politics, probably nonetheless had to do some arm twisting to get unanimity, but he got it. In 2013, by contrast, a virulent dissent offers new polemics -- and then accuses the majority of being politicized.
Loving ended with legal and moral clarity. The New York Times headline read, "Justices Upset All Bans on Interracial Marriage, 9-0 Decision Rules." Windsor ended with, well, democracy still working its virulent ways, including at the court, whose members of its right flank were knitting angrily in their chambers. The dissent reaches for judicial temperament but unleashes judicial temper.
Perhaps it is time for a new documentary, "The Windsor Story." This one too will have a happy ending for the original petitioners, but this time told through the lens of Supreme Gridlock.
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Villa were comprehensively brushed aside 8-0 at Chelsea last weekend - their biggest-ever defeat in the Premier League era - before being outplayed 4-0 at home by Tottenham on Boxing Day. The double whammy, which came after a solid six-match unbeaten run that included a 3-1 win at Liverpool, leaves Villa in 19th place in the table at the halfway stage of the season, just three points above tomorrow's opponents Wigan, who currently occupy the final relegation spot. But Lambert, as positive as ever, insists the only way is forward and not back.
"I think I have always said that even when you win you let it go as quick as you can. You have to get it out of your system - the two defeats - as best we can," he said.
"If someone had said you'd take three points from Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham I think everyone would bite your hand off.
"But because you've been smacked twice everyone thinks 'oh, here we go' but I can't let two games distract from what we are trying to build here." Lambert added:
"You have to respond. There's no point in going out there and feeling sorry for yourself given the amount of people who come and watch us.
"We have to to try to rectify it and that's what we'll do. We are hurt like anyone else but you try not to beat yourself up about it."
Villa are certainly facing a defining month-long period in their season with their next four league games against Wigan, Swansea, Southampton and West Brom coming amid a two-legged Capital One Cup semi-final versus Bradford and an FA Cup tie at home to Ipswich. But, as far as the immediate short-term is concerned, Lambert is happy to see the games coming quickly as the club look to respond to embarrassing back-to-back defeats.
"That's the good thing about it, you've only got a couple of days before you go again," he said.
"And after this one (Wigan) it's the same for the Swansea game.
"The games are on you thick and fast."
The midlands outfit have undoubtedly struggled due to injury this season, with defender Nathan Baker the latest to enter the treatment room after he was forced off with a hamstring problem just before half-time against Spurs. Baker joins captain Ron Vlaar (calf), Gabriel Agbonlahor (thigh), Charles N'Zogbia (knee), Darren Bent (hamstring), Richard Dunne (groin) and Andreas Weimann (calf) on the sidelines. It has meant Lambert, in his first season at the helm, has ever-increasingly had to turn to youth, but the Scot is adamant that is not the reason for his side's struggles this term.
"As I've said before, over the last few years this club has had loads of experienced players and the situation has not really changed," he said.
"Experienced players won't always take you where you want to go. I know that from my own experience, I've got a belief in the way we are doing it in the long-term this club will be great.
"There's no point me saying we're down there because of inexperience. This club was battling against relegation last season."
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November 22, 2012 - Huffington Post - Jonathan Greenberg
The big problem that we, the American People, now have is that big money has come to dictate political speech in America. Like a cancer spreading across our nation's body politic, the mega-corporate financing of deceptive TV ad campaigns has become the predominant manner in which a majority of voters are "educated." Or, more frequently, mis-educated.
The populist campaign to label genetically modified food was successfully Swift-Boated by Monsanto and the largest pesticide and junk food companies on earth. Outspent by$45 million to $7 million. Our consumer movement made the costly mistake of arming itself with peace signs and love beads for what turned out to be a gunfight with a ruthless, assault rifle-equipped enemy.
What can we do about it? We can learn from our mistakes for the next necessary round in our struggle for food safety and environmentally responsible agriculture....


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"So far, so good," trainer Luis Ramirez said of the early stages of Where's Sterling's cross-country trek. "He went to Fort Lauderdale airport and from there we put him on a plane to California. He should get there around five-thirty Del Mar time, and I'll join him in 10 days."
"For a race like this, I think you have to go early," Ramirez said. "That way, he has time to get used to the weather, and it lets him get used to the track too."
And the track Where's Sterling will encounter in the Pacific Classic is Del Mar's Polytrack. The son of Northern Afleet has run over a synthetic surface just once in his 14-race career, and that came nearly two years ago in just his second career start.
"He ran on it once before at Arlington," Ramirez said, referring to the August 2010 maiden race in suburban Chicago. "He was second to Pacific Ocean, and that horse is a stakes winner now. And he worked good over that track that whole summer. I've heard Del Mar is a little different, but they're both Polytrack, so I think he'll be okay."
The Pacific Classic will mark Where's Sterling's second attempt at conquering a Grade 1 as earlier this year the 5-year-old finished a troubled fourth in the Donn Handicap at Gulfstream. Since that race, Where's Sterling has returned to win both the Memorial Day Handicap and the Mecke Stakes by a combined 10 ¾ lengths, thus making now the opportune time to aim ambitiously at the Pacific Classic.
"We looked at a few other races, but he's doing so well right now we decided to take a shot," Ramirez said. "I don't think he's ever been better."
While the spotlight race at Calder Casino & Race Course on Sunday is the $55,000 Barb's Dancer for filly and mare sprinters, the nine-race card will also feature an intriguing second-level allowance that goes as race four and has drawn a field of seven where the likely favorites are a pair of 3-year-old colts in Ravelo's Boy and Azafran.
Trained by Manny Azpurua, Ravelo's Boy last met allowance rivals back in early December 2011 at Gulfstream Park, a race where the colt was victorious. The son of Lawyer Ron has since gone to battle in six straight stakes events, three of them graded, and boasts second-place finishes in both the $55,000 El Kaiser Stakes and the $55,000 American Dreamer in addition to a close fourth in the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis at Tampa.
While Ravelo's Boy was running with some of the better horses of his generation, his chief combatant in Sunday's race, Azafran, was just starting his career as a race horse. The Agustin Bezara trainee crossed the wire second in his May 28 unveiling, and has since returned to post a pair of open-length victories, breaking his maiden by 5 ½ lengths on June 17 before coming back less than three weeks later to topple entry-level allowance foes by that same margin.
Leading local rider Luis Saez will once again be aboard Azafran, while Ravelo's Boy is to be ridden by Jesus Rios, who was aboard the colt last time out in the American Dreamer.
Leading the list of older horses looking to upend the flashy sophomores is the recently claimed Dream Maestro, a 7-year-old career-earner of over $596,000, and Riversrunrylee, an 8-year-old that has banked over $352,000 during his career and exits a third-place finish in a tough allowance race on July 21.
Shadybrook Farm and Robert Eversole's speedy Cajun Breeze, last seen finishing sixth in the Grade 2 Smile Sprint Handicap, will invade Saratoga on Sunday with hopes of taking down an entry-level allowance.
The son of Congrats is listed as the 3-1 second-choice in the morning line for the six-furlong race, which has attracted a field of eight. Jockey Juan Leyva will forego a day of riding at Calder to travel north and ride the Michael Yates trainee.
Earlier this year, Cajun Breeze finished second in the $150,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Sprint and was a respectable fourth in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap.


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What, exactly, makes a human being a "pixie"? Apparently, Cecil Suwal was "petite" and "bubbly."
And how did the "tax specialist" get "rejuvenated" — by going into the prostitution business?
[The] boss was Mark Brener, 62. He dealt with a stack of medical bills for his late wife by starting the escort service, an idea that dawned on him several years ago as he surveyed sex-related advertisements in the weekly newspaper The Village Voice....So there's your "rejuvenated." He dyed his hair and got a leather jacket — and entered the prostitution business.
The venture reinvigorated Mr. Brener. He dyed his hair black, donned a leather jacket and recruited three women to help him. The four seemingly had little in common beyond a desire for extra money and a willingness to earn it in alternative ways.
Then there's "Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, whom friends describe as a reserved and bookish graduate of the University of Virginia, scheduled meetings between willing young women and wealthy men." So you graduate from a fine college and you become a secretary... for a prostitution business?
The "clog-wearing nutritionist" — get it? Each member of the unlikely foursome in our new sit-com has a different kind of unlikeliness. This one, Tanya Hollander, has kitchen shelves that "brim with spices and herbs" and a table "strewn with grapefruit and books of holistic and organic recipes."
"I'd like to help people heal through food, to use food as medicine and to take the time to choose the right meals."The comic dialogue will practically write itself. She can be like Saffy on "AbFab."
Now why do these 4 mismatched characters come together in their ridiculous enterprise? The Times delves into the mystery:
For decades, studies have tracked the forces that drive people into prostitution. Few, though, have reviewed what, beyond money, propels someone toward a life as a pimp or a madam.What, beyond money.... I love that.
"We don't know much about people who run brothels, massage parlors or escort agencies," said Ronald Weitzer, a sociology professor at George Washington University who has written about the sex industry.Call up the expert and learn... we don't know much.


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SPRINGFIELD – The union representing Illinois prison workers is denouncing what it says is a return of "circuit riders" – hardcore, sometimes brutal inmates shipped from prison to prison to keep them out of trouble – after prisoners suspected in an attack last week were transferred to less-secure lockups, The Associated Press has learned.
In a letter Wednesday to Department of Corrections Director S.A. "Tony" Godinez, a regional director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees demanded an end to transfers until Godinez negotiates safety concerns with the union.
The AP obtained a copy of the letter which traces several violent incidents to the closure of the Tamms high-security prison that housed violent troublemakers and gang leaders, and what the union claims are "deplorable, crowded conditions" in the prisons.
A Godinez spokeswoman said recent inmate transfers are temporary and routine during internal investigations into trouble inside prison walls.
After one incident last week, AFSCME regional director Eddie Caumiant said as many as 15 inmates implicated in an attack on two Menard maximum-security prison officers and a chaplain were moved to "lower-rated facilities" accompanied by no information on the risks they pose to receiving institutions and their employees.
"Despite assurances to the contrary from the state during the litigation around the Tamms closure, it appears you are returning to the risky, discarded practice of treating the most dangerous offenders in the system as 'circuit riders' ... " Caumiant wrote. "As you know, this practice proved so ineffective and unsafe that the state built a dedicated facility for these offenders rather than continue it."
It's especially dangerous, Caumiant said, when the prisons are overcrowded and have too few employees guarding them. Illinois' adult correctional facilities have more than 49,000 inmates in space designed for 33,000.
Corrections spokeswoman Stacey Solano said some Menard inmates were transferred, but to secure segregation units in other facilities, not to general population wards.
"It is typical when multiple offenders are involved in an incident to separate them while the department conducts its investigation ... " Solano said. "Segregation units at all facilities are governed by the same department rules. The department only moves inmates into facilities or units where appropriate security can be maintained."
Prior to the 1998 opening of Tamms to house "the worst of the worst" – violent offenders or gang leaders exiled in nearly around-the-clock isolation to sever communication lines and reduce other troubles – the separation occurred through "Temporary Disciplinary Detention." Past DOC officials say participants earned the moniker "circuit riders" because they didn't stay in one penitentiary for more than a month.
AFSCME lost a lawsuit last year against Gov. Pat Quinn to halt Tamms' closure. Quinn said the state couldn't afford the expensive prison in a budget crisis and human rights advocates protested the treatment of inmates there.
Since then, in addition to the chapel assault at the maximum-security penitentiary in Menard, a Pontiac prison inmate beat a guard so severely he needed facial reconstructive surgery and another prisoner at Menard died in what the local prosecutor says is a suspected murder by another inmate. Some prison employees claim inmates are more inclined toward violence because they no longer face the threat of a Tamms trip.
Caumiant's letter said it's a violation of Corrections' administrative guidelines to move maximum-security inmates to facilities with lower levels of security.
"What's more," Caumiant said, "it is the height of irresponsibility to put employees of the receiving facilities in the position of taking inmates with no immediate knowledge of the violent crimes they have committed against employees and other inmates."
Solano said Corrections is reviewing Caumiant's letter, has met with the union on the matter and "will continue meeting to further discuss their concerns."
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Does anyone know any good computer programs for learning English
I am looking for a program that i can use to teach English from Spanish.
to be used as a re-enforcement of classes
I work in an institute and we have a program in our English lab but it's a bit slow.
I used a program for learning Spanish before, by "transparent language", which used immersion technique.
The program gave a phrase in Spanish, in both written form and over headphones,
you could record the phrase and the program checked your pronunciation.
I basically need the same thing turn inside-out (from Spanish to English).
Does anyone know any good programs like that, that use immersion technique (so that my students can make good gains in fluency)?
It doesn't need to be exactly like I described, i just want them to learn to speak. "just" haha
any help appreciated,
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Living Together
My boyfriend just got a new job and will be moving to my city. He says that it's time we start living together. The idea seems to have advantages – shared expenses, and we can spend more time together. But I'm wondering if there is a downside to this as well?
The Aish Rabbi Replies:
Living together is a bad idea. It is a convenient way for a man to have all the "benefits" with none of the responsibilities. Then when he gets tired of you, he will move on. I've seen it dozens of times, with women who come crying to me because they have been hurt in this way. (For this and many other reasons, Judaism frowns on this arrangement.)
Even in the event you do get married, studies show that couples who lived together before marriage were more likely to get divorced early in their marriage than couples who did not live together. There is a simple reason for this. When a man and woman live together, they approach their relationship very differently than they would as a married couple. Finances, household chores, social lives, major decisions, minor decisions, resolving conflicts, give and take, and expectations about the future are all executed by two individuals who lack a basic long-term commitment.
When they get married, what usually happens is that their expectations change. The rules are now different, only the couple is now set in a previous mode of relating, and cannot handle the transition. It's a prescription for disaster.
I recommend the book, "The Case for Marriage," which has a chapter discussing this phenomenon.


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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
But the woman was told that the letters are an abbreviation for "Now what the fuck" and thus the license plate is obscene.
Niple plans to appeal and has tempory tags in the meantime. Shown below, her temp plates are considered less offensive as they display the official state greeting of Ohio.
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- Ashutosh said...
I have a friend who graduated from Michigan that resided in Cincinnati for a few years...as a result he had to get Ohio plates for his car. He applied for a vanity plate that read "IH8 OSU." The state denied his request stating that it was a threat to public safety.
- August 08, 2006 1:13 PM
I love this blog, and am posting after weeks of lurking!
I'm a U-M alum living in Columbus who at first used to respect OSU's consistently strong teams (having previously lived in Ohio) and with time and first-hand exposure to OSU fans has grown to loathe the Buckstaches and all things related to An Ohio State University.
Anyways - to get to the point... to be fair... in the Columbus Dispatch a few weeks ago they had a feature on Ohio's vanity plate review board, and... to be fair, the board also nixed a license plate saying "IH8 BLUE"
- August 08, 2006 5:17 PM


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Hello Johnnie: Would it be OK to thank someone for his military service in your column?
I would like to honor and thank my dad, Harry Fryar. He lives here in Longmont and is a World War II veteran who was the belly gunner in a B-24 bomber that flew 50 missions over Italy and Europe in 1944. Dad was part of the 451st Bombardment Group H of the 724th Squadron.
Dad kept a journal and recorded, in an 18-year-old man's words, the horrific, yet patriotic reasons why he and so many did what they did in 1944. Dad never talked about that time in his life until a few years ago when his next-door neighbor, Michael Roush, and Dad put together a detailed account of why-where-when he served. This needed to be done, to have Dad say it in his words and to give my two sisters and two brothers and me an account of our dad during those years. My family is really grateful to Mike Roush.
His two B-24 bombers were named SAKINSHACK and JESSE JAMES, and I had the wonderful experience of going to the Loveland airport several years ago and walking through a B-24 with my dad.
I cannot put into words how proud and amazed I was seeing that tiny, cramped space he was in, to man that belly ball turret.
He is still in contact with the only surviving crew member -- radio operator Guy Shipe of Pennsylvania -- and they enjoy talking. I wish I could write down their conversations.
Dad finished serving in the Army Air Force at Lowry Field and at that time met my mom. She was working with the government at Union Station.
Dad is proudest of the fact that his squadron won two Presidential Unit Citations. From a farmboy in Ravenwood, Mo., to a wise great-grandfather in Colorado, he truly is a wonderful example of "The Greatest Generation."
Again, many thanks to him and to all who have served or are serving! -- Rick Fryar
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RENO, Nev. – Season tickets for the 2012-13 University of Nevada women's basketball season are on sale now.
A new option for fans this season is the "Family Pack". The plan costs $99 and includes two adult season tickets along with two youth season tickets. Regular season tickets are $60 for adults, $40 for seniors 65 and older, and $35 for children eighth grade and under. Each youth season ticket comes as a Pup Club Membership which includes a t-shirt, membership lanyard as well as free admission to football, volleyball, soccer, softball, baseball and discounted admission for men's basketball. Season tickets are good for any seat in the lower bowl of Lawlor Events Center, including the cushion seats on the floor, on a first-come first-serve basis.
Nevada's 2012-13 schedule features 15 home games, including the annual John Ascuaga's Nugget Classic.
"I am very excited about the upcoming season and the challenge of competing against our new Mountain West opponents," head coach Jane Albright said. "The schedule is a perfect blend of what we need to get ready for a strong conference. I look forward to seeing all of our great fans back at Lawlor Events Center."
The Wolf Pack will host a free exhibition game against San Francisco State on Nov. 4 at 2:00 p.m. The team will open the 2012-13 regular season with a home game against Cal State Fullerton on Nov. 9 at 6:30 p.m. Nevada's annual John Ascuaga's Nugget Classic will take place Nov. 23-24 at Lawlor Events Center. The Pack will take on Cleveland State in the Nugget Classic opener at 2 p.m. Santa Clara and Toledo will square off in the second game at 4:30 p.m. The championship and consolation games will be played on Nov. 24 at 2 p.m., and 4:30 p.m.
Nevada will kick-off its inaugural season in the Mountain West Jan. 9 at home against Air Force at 6:30 p.m. The Pack will battle Fresno State, which made the NCAA Tournament after winning the Western Athletic Conference title last season, at home on Jan. 19 at 4 p.m. UNLV and Nevada will square off for the season's first showdown at home on Jan. 30 at 6:30 p.m. The regular season will conclude on March 9 with a home game against Colorado State at 4 p.m.
Fans are invited to meet both men's and women's basketball teams at the annual Hoops and Treats event on Oct. 26. Children are encouraged to come in costume, as the teams will be on hand to pass out candy on the court of Lawlor Events Center. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.
Season tickets can be purchased by visiting or calling the Link Piazzo Ticket Office at Legacy Hall at (775) 348-PACK (7225) or visiting nevadawolfpack.com.
2012-13 Nevada Women's Basketball Home Schedule
Date Opponent / Event Time
11/04/12 San Francisco State # 2:00 p.m.
11/09/12 Cal State Fullerton 6:30 p.m.
John Ascuaga's Nugget Classic 11/23-24
11/23/12 Cleveland State 2:00 p.m.
11/24/12 Consolation/Champ. 2/4:30 p.m.
12/02/12 Cal Poly 2:00 p.m.
12/12/12 Cal State Los Angeles 12:00 p.m.
1/05/13 CSU Bakersfield 4:00 p.m.
1/09/13 Air Force * 6:30 p.m.
1/19/13 Fresno State * 4:00 p.m.
1/30/13 UNLV * 6:30 p.m.
2/02/13 New Mexico * 4:00 p.m.
2/13/13 Wyoming * 6:30 p.m.
2/23/13 San Diego State * 4:00 p.m.
2/27/13 Boise State * 6:30 p.m.
3/09/13 Colorado State * 4:00 p.m.
*Mountain West Game | #Exhibition (FREE)


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Happy birthday you sonofa*****. I'm still unemployed. Get me a job please.
Raise a glass and toast to Tokyojet on his birthday.
Good poster, awesome signature.
Happy birthday you sonofa*****. I'm still unemployed. Get me a job please.
Happy BD Tokyo
Happy BDay and thank you for keeping Godzilla at bay.
Awesome ! Happy Bday!
Happy Birthday Tokyo!!!
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy birthday Tokyo
Happy Birthday Man!
PS, He's the one drinkin beer through his nose...
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Happy Birthday, Tokyo. Many, many more.
See other thread.
mine's in the other thread
Bon's Eye!!!!!!!!
Happy Bday, loony.
I liked him better when he was in Tokyo.... this San Diego bull$hit is hard to figure out.
Happy Birthday!!!!!
Thank you all very much for the irthday wishes and all the laughs you provide during the year.
....and I just realized my drivers license expiired. Rageface.
Happy 50th Tokyo!


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Release Notes: This version adds an alternate WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) and new File Manager (elFinder). It also adds Twitter Bootstrap v3 support which includes a new admin user interface. Many mobile/touch enhancements were made, along with greater SEO integration, plus a new Workflow feature for managing multi-user Web sites. There are too many new features and fixes to list. This is considered a major upgrade.
Release Notes: This version addresses a privacy issue and changes the role of the 'create' permission to become more flexible. Group global permissions are now offered, as are a new summary type determined by an editor entered page break, new slide show options, a refined flyout sidebar view, form data view filtering, and a new option PDF engine.
Release Notes: OOTB SEO has been greatly enhanced across the entire system, with specific default metadata being pulled and no longer requiring individual SEO settings on each module/item before defaulting to site-wide metadata, though specific SEO settings are still available. Social Media interaction has been expanded with optional auto-posting to Facebook and Twitter on Blog, News, and Event items. There are numerous other tweaks and fixes.
Release Notes: This release further refines the many changes implemented in 2.2.0, adds a new Facebook module and better Twitter integration, adds paged forms (wizards), along with many other new features, tweaks, and fixes, and temporarily re-implements theme 0.9x compatibility, now with correction messages to help admins update their custom themes.
Release Notes: This major yet incremental update fully removes all 'old school/1.x' code. Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery are now used as the primary framework libraries, though YUI3/YUI2 are still supported. HTML5 form fallback features were provided for all browsers. New Forms features for importing CSV to create a new form or adding to an existing form were added, with the option to change the form control type. More Blog views were added along with new Blog and e-Commerce site sample installation content. LDAP server user authentication was implemented. The e-Commerce function was greatly enhanced.
Release Notes: This release contains the final feature additions prior to the release of a stable version. No features will be added until after that release. This version marks the return to naming the new container 2.0 controller simply "container" instead of container2, adds a new sample e-Commerce store database (available during installation), and adds many enhancements to the online donations and event registrations modules, including the new option of single or multi-person registration using site forms to collect data.
Release Notes: This update focused on the implementation of HTML5 form fallback code. This makes it possible to offer form features found in newer browsers to users of older browsers. You may now switch a control in the forms designer to a similar type. More control types are available within the forms designer. There were many tweaks and new features in e-commerce, especially the online donations and event registration modules.
Release Notes: This version adds all of the fixes found in version 2.1.4 plus many others. Many features were added to online donations and event registrations, making them more robust and polished. Event registrations now abide by 'options'. A new forms showall portfolio view for multi-record custom view was added (fixes custom single record view). Broader use of Ajax paging was implemented along with new HTML 5 input types. Additional date/time form designer controls were added.
Release Notes: This release only fixes bugs found in 2.1.3, everything else is destined for the soon-to-be released 2.2 major version update. This release updates EQL file exportation/importation to also include table definition for future proofing backups, adds a new "Exponent as a Service" module for JSON service calls, fixes Online Event Registrations activating many features, adds email registrants, and fixes over three dozen issues found in 2.1.3.
Release Notes: This version included a new HTML5 media player module (Flash not required), the ability to import CSV into an existing form or when creating a form, and enhanced importing of EQL. Many anomalies were fixed and many minor new features were added.


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Unauthorized Remix Improves On Landmark Unauthorized Mashup, The Grey Album
from the look-how-culture-works dept
Jay-Z has since referred to it as "genius" and expressed how honored he was to see it happen. EMI, which controlled the Beatles' rights, felt differently, sending cease-and-desist letters to tons of sites that had the mp3s. In response, folks on the internet planned Grey Tuesday for February 24th, 2004 -- a day of digital civil disobedience, where lots of sites would distribute the mashup album. EMI, still not understanding what it was dealing with, sent off more cease-and-desist letters to any site that had indicated that it would participate. End result? Even more interest in the whole thing.
Of course, since then, Danger Mouse has gone on to be an in-demand guy in the recording industry (among other things, he's one-half of Gnarls Barkley, who of course had a massive hit with the song "Crazy" a few years ago). EMI later admitted that The Grey Album didn't "harm" them at all, but still defended the decision arguing, pointlessly, "it's not a question of damage, it's a question of rights."
Given all that, one has to wonder what EMI thinks of another top industry guy, recording engineer John Stewart (who's worked with Kanye West, Big Boi and John Legend), who has remastered the audio on The Grey Album, arguing that he could do a better job -- and the early reviews seem to agree. As noted in the Forbes article linked above:
Revisiting The Grey Album with an expert ear gave Stewart the ability to pinpoint its audio flaws, and his professional experience gave him the agency to do something about it. Stewart says he first got the idea to remaster The Grey Album on Wednesday, Nov. 21, but it didn't really click until that Saturday. On Sunday he set out to improve the album's audio, tinkering with various faders in ProTools until he achieved the desired effect: "I just kind of put the sonics on steroids," he says.He then put the whole thing up on SoundCloud and Mediafire, where it's getting plenty of listens and downloads.


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Happy Friday! I hope you had a lovely week, though for me it felt like the longest week ever! I guess that's what I get for having way too much fun last weekend at the Oyster Festival and Apple Picking Farm!
What did I do with them apples? Well, remember my previous post? I made Apple Pocket Pies! Yes, we even went to Williams Sonoma to get these adorable pocket pie molds:
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For the crust, I followed recipe I got from Smitten Kitchen. The crust turned out super nice – buttery & flaky. I don't think I will even attempt to modify the recipe a slight bit because it was simply perfect, even for first-time pie-maker like me!
For the pocket pie filling, I cubed granny smith apples (4-5 of them which was WAY too much, so I'd use 1-2 apples if I were you), and cook them with 1 tablespoon of butter over medium heat. Introduce some water and corn starch, and cook until soft/your desired crunchiness. Season with brown sugar (about 2 tablespoons… okay maybe more like 4.. adjust to your liking), and a few dashes of cinnamon and nutmeg. Remove from heat.
Roll out your dough about 3-4mm thick (yes, I estimate using the metric system), cut the individual pie crusts using the pocket pie molds (or you can just use a cookie cutter with at least 2.5″ diameter, but be sure to make a small hole to vent on one of the sides!), fill with the apple filling, seal, brush the top with some egg wash, and bake for 25 minutes in 400F oven.
Mmmmm super amazing flaky crust…. yes, not the best picture ever, but they were delicious! I did wish we had some vanilla ice cream to go with them. Oh well! next time!
I hope you enjoyed my pie-making post. This was definitely a great first experience for me especially in terms of making the crust. I was a bit intimidated at first and seriously followed the Smitten Kitchen recipe and lo and behold, perfect crust!
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The looming matchup with top-ranked Young on Saturday wasn't Jabari Parker's biggest distraction Friday night.
The Simeon forward said he was more preoccupied by senior night activities during the Wolverines' 73-54 home victory against Harlan.
"The thing that did distract me is it being one of my last games here," Parker said. "My career is coming to an end, and I really haven't been focused on that because I've been so focused on returning (from a foot injury), coming back and playing with the team, trying to get ready. So I'm trying to cherish the moment and have gratitude for my team and being here with Simeon."
The Duke-bound Parker had 27 points, nine rebounds and two blocks, and Illinois-bound Kendrick Nunn added 17 points, five rebounds and three steals in a win that clinched the outright Public League Red-South title. Simeon (17-2, 9-0) surprised the pair at halftime by announcing their jerseys will be retired and presenting them with framed uniform tops while they stood at midcourt with their parents. Simeon honored seven seniors with framed posters.
"It's definitely an honor," Nunn said. "It's just a blessing. I have to keep working hard and hopefully will get to the next level."
Parker and Nunn are the only current Simeon players to be members of the last three state championship teams. They also played for the USA Basketball junior national team together.
"They're special, real good kids," said assistant coach Leonard Thomas, who is filling in for Robert Smith while Smith serves a four-game suspension. "It's been a great four years coaching those guys. They make me proud to be a Simeon coach."
Simeon seniors Russell Woods and Rickey Norris each added 12 points for the Wolverines, and Torian Pearson scored 16 for Harlan (8-12, 3-3). Norris played much of the second half for point guard Jaylon Tate, who rested because of headaches from hitting his head during a fall against Bogan on Wednesday. Thomas expects Tate to be ready for Young.
No. 2 Simeon meets No. 1 Young at Chicago State at 8 p.m. Saturday in game that will be televised on ESPNU.
"It was just getting prepared," Nunn said of Friday's game. "We were working on little things, boxing out, working on the defense we're going to play. We've just got to stay consistent."
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Player of the game: Jabari Parker, Simeon, 27 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks.
Key performers: Simeon — Kendrick Nunn, 17 points, 5 rebounds, 3 steals; Russell Woods, 12 points, 4 rebounds, 2 blocks; Harlan — Torian Pearson, 16 points; Perry Willis, 12 points, 7 rebounds.


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Mondial River West, which we recently toured in the sponsored video above, is offering six months of free parking (normally $175 a month), waiver of the normal $400 move-in fee, and a waiver of pet rent for the term of the lease (a savings of $300). The offer only applies to six-month or longer leases starting on or before January 20, and only on two 2-bedroom, 2-bath units renting at $2,670 and $2,960 for 12-month leases.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – A second half rally came up short for the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team on Tuesday afternoon as it fell, 11-9, to No. 16 Hofstra in non-conference action on James M. Shuart Stadium.
The Big Green (2-5) dropped their third straight, while the Pride (6-3) snapped a two-game skid with the victory.
The woes continued against ranked opponents for the Green and White as they have now lost seven consecutive contests to top-25 programs.
Hofstra got off to a quick start scoring just eight seconds into the contest as Ryan Reilly found the back of the net to give the Pride the early advantage.
The two squads traded goals throughout the first two quarters, before Hofstra scored five unanswered from the 8:02 mark of the second to the 8:34 mark of the third to stretch its lead to 10-4.
Late in the third quarter, the Big Green answered with a scoring run of their own, netting four straight to cut the Pride lead to just two. Senior quad-captain Nikki Dysenchuk started the surge with an unassisted marker and freshman Cam Lee followed suit less than a minute later. Sophomore Jake Weil capped the run with a pair of goals.
With 2:30 remaining in the game, Hofstra's Adrien Sorichetti scored an insurance goal to bring the Hofstra advantage back to three. Dysenchuk brought the Big Green back within a pair with 25 seconds remaining tallying his second goal of the game, but it was too little too late as Hofstra held on for the win.
Offensively, Weil paced the Dartmouth attack netting his first hat trick of the season, while senior quad-captain Chris Costabile scored two goals for the sixth straight game. Dysenchuk had his first multi-goal game since Feb. 26 against Vermont as Lee and Adam Fishman capped the scoring for the Big Green.
Costabile had his first multi-assist game of the 2013 campaign, while Dysenchuk and Adam Hull also picked up a helper each.
Bernie Susskind (2-5) made seven saves in a losing effort for the Big Green and Chris Selva (6-3) picked up the win for the Pride turning aside 14 shots.
Dartmouth returns to action this weekend traveling to Ithaca to square off with Ivy League rival, No. 3 Cornell March 30 at 1 p.m. The Big Green are looking to avenge a 7-5 loss last year.


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Jake Tapper, now with CNN, said he wanted to not only recognize soldiers who served but put their stories in the hands of Americans who have all but forgotten about the war that continues.
Kyle Tucker hasn't read through the new book detailing the experiences of soldiers stationed at Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan.
He doesn't really have to. He lived it.
And because of that he already knows what readers of The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor realize quickly enough.
"It's not pleasant," he said.
Sitting in his Sylvania home thousands of miles and several years removed from his service in Afghanistan, Tucker said he hasn't spoken much about his months spent in a combat zone. But upon learning that the camp where he was stationed in a remote expanse of Afghani mountains was to be the subject of a book, he offered to share stories of his deployment.
Tucker was among more than 225 people interviewed for the 673-page book written by journalist Jake Tapper and released in November. Starting at the creation of the outpost, Tapper tells the story of sacrifice made by men stationed there and culminates with the deadly attack in October, 2009, that claimed the lives of eight soldiers.
Kyle Tucker in the Afghan mountains above Combat Outpost Keating.
"You find out as a member of the military that there is an unwritten rule that people don't ask you about your deployment. I think many people don't know how to approach you," Mr. Tucker, 28. "This [book] has got a lot of people talking."
Located in a valley and surrounded by mountains, Combat Outpost Keating was created by the military in the summer of 2006 to both stop Taliban fighters flowing in from nearby Pakistan and to "win over the locals," Tapper writes in the book's opening pages. But while the intentions may have been good, the location appeared to be terrible — a seemingly indefensible outpost surrounded by higher ground.
In fact, "It was madness," Tapper writes in his opening line.
The senior White House correspondent for ABC News — and starting next month anchor and chief Washington correspondent for CNN — Tapper said he was in the hospital welcoming his newborn son when he first learned of the small outpost halfway around the world. He saw a news story about the base located at the bottom of three steep mountains, just 14 miles from the Pakistan border.
"On Oct. 3, 2009, just over 50 U.S. troops serving in this vulnerable outpost faced an overwhelming enemy force — up to 400 Taliban — all of whom had the advantage of the high ground," Tapper explained in an email interview.
"And as I held my son, I heard about eight other sons, eight American troops, taken from the world that day," he said. "There was something poignant about that moment that made me want to learn more about the news report I was hearing: Why would anyone put an outpost in that spot? Who were these troops who had been killed? What was it like to face such daunting odds?"
These questions coupled with what he believed was inadequate media coverage of the war in Afghanistan compelled him to seek out the soldiers who lived for months in the crosshairs of enemy weapons.
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Kyle Tucker, of Sylvania, poses with a picture of himself during his 2008 deployment to Afghanistan.
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First Lieutenant Tucker was a fire support officer with Blackfoot Troop, 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, when he was sent to Combat Outpost Keating on July 4, 2008. About two years into his three-and-a-half-year commitment, Tucker found himself blinking in the hot Afghani sun surrounded by mountains full of hiding spots for insurgents.
A 2002 graduate of St. John's Jesuit High School, Tucker had not initially planned to join the military and went on to college at the University of Illinois where he earned a degree in advertising. When thinking back on what prompted him to apply to Officer Candidate School, he pinpoints a 2005 advertising internship at National Geographic in Washington.
While in the nation's capital, Tucker decided he wanted to serve his country.
"He announced in May, 2006, that he was going into the Army," recalled Tucker's father, Toledo attorney Theodore Tucker, III, noting his surprise at the decision. "…The most important thing is that he got home safely."
After completing basic training and Officer Candidate School, Tucker was commissioned on Dec. 7, 2006, as a second lieutenant.
Just prior to his 24th birthday in the summer of 2008, he was sent to Afghanistan.
'A bad area'
Chosen in part for its location near a road, Combat Outpost Keating was seemingly vulnerable — an observation shared by all who called it their home. Tucker was no different.
"I thought, 'Why is there a base at the bottom of this valley?'" he said in a recent interview. "…I gave them the benefit of the doubt, that it made sense. We inherited it and we knew we would be there the next 12 months.
"…We knew we were in a bad area, we knew we were going to get attacked, and we knew it wasn't going to be easy," he said.
As fire support officer, Tucker was in charge of coordinating mortar fire from the base. He also inherited the job of coordinator for all U.S. development projects being funded in the area.
"There were a lot of highs and a lot of lows. We had success and setbacks," he said. "My main objective was projects. There were about 20 projects being funded with millions of American dollars."
Detailed in about 80 pages, Tapper describes the time spent by Blackfoot Troop at Combat Outpost Keating, including the targeting and subsequent death of their commander, Capt. Robert Yllescas. Tucker said it is the brevity of that section and the omission of several of the troop's successes — including the creation of a radio station — that disappointed some his fellow soldiers regarding the book.
Coming home
But what is evident in The Outpost is the sacrifice made by dozens of men who answered the call of their country.
Tapper said that he wanted to not only recognize those soldiers who served but put their stories in the hands of Americans who have all but forgotten about the war that continues overseas.
"Most of us can name more Kardashians than troops who have been killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. There's something wrong with that," he said. "As a member of the media, I am part of that problem. So the book is a small attempt to rectify it."
When his deployment was coming to an end, Tucker said he was ready to leave. Believing as though he did his part but feeling worn down as well, Tucker said he decided not to recommit.
"We just wanted to make it out unscathed at that point," he said. "...The last night I was there we were attacked again."
Upon returning home, Tucker enrolled in the University of Toledo College of Law. On target to graduate with both a master's degree and law degree in May, he said he plans to pursue a career in estate planning and tax law.
Tucker said law school commitments and an internal hesitation has kept him from reading the entirety of The Outpost. One day he plans to read it, but he's not exactly sure when.
Family and friends have read the book and now Tucker said he notices more questions about his service. He's proud to oblige with answers.
But he understands if others don't read the book. The way he sees it, he went to war so that others don't have to.
"It's a documented account of an important time in my life but also an important story for Americans to be aware of," he said. "...I'm proud that I did it and I served."
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The Supreme Court, in a surprisingly unanimous decision, has ruled that states may refuse to release public records to residents of other states. The ruling affects only three states at the moment, but it allows other states to follow suit should they wish to do so.
The case, McBurney v. Young, involved Virginia's law limiting access to public records to state residents. One of the plaintiffs, Roger Hurlburt, is a Northern California resident who makes his living helping clients obtain hard-to-find real estate records. The other plaintiff, Mark McBurney of Rhode Island, sought records regarding child support payments he was owed by his ex-wife, a Virginia resident.
By itself, this ruling is not a huge blow to the cause of open government because both plaintiffs were able to get the documents they needed through other means, and most states do not restrict records to their own residents. But the justices' cavalier attitude toward the principle of freedom of information is troubling nonetheless.
The plaintiffs argued that Virginia's policy violated their constitutional rights under the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV, which says, "the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states."
Justice Samuel Alito said the clause refers to "fundamental" rights, not "incidental" privileges such as access to real estate assessments and other information. The high court also found that the Virginia law was intended to give the state's residents information about how their government functions, not to exclude residents of other states.Therefore, the justices reasoned, the law did not violate anyone's rights because it was not intended to discriminate.
The court also declared that there is no constitutional right to the existence of freedom of information laws.
Regardless of a lack of intent to discriminate against out-of-state residents, the effect of the Virginia law is to do just that. McBurney, who had been a Virginia resident and who obtained his divorce and a child-support decree while living there, ought to be able to obtain records regarding the state's enforcement of that degree no matter where he chose to live.
The most annoying argument Alito made was that the Virginia law had only the "incidental" effect of preventing Hurlburt from "making a profit by trading on information obtained in state records." Because state taxpayers pay for releasing public information, Alito said, it is reasonable to limit the privilege of access to them.
That just means Virginia's law is badly written. Oregon's public records law allows the state to charge fees for retrieving and copying public records to reimburse the taxpayers for the expense. Many other state laws do the same. If Virginia did as well, that argument would be null and void.
Besides, Hurlburt's initiative in making a profit by providing a service to his clients is in the grand tradition of American capitalism — something it seems Alito ought to embrace.
If government records are public for residents of that jurisdiction, they ought to be public for everyone. The high court had the opportunity to make that clear. Instead, it muddied the water.
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The Supreme Court, in a surprisingly unanimous decision, has ruled that states may refuse to release public records to residents of other states. The ruling affects only three states at the moment, but it allows other states to follow suit should they wish to do so.


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For the third time in as many pro seasons, Muse began at the ECHL level, this time with Fort Wayne after the Carolina Hurricanes declined an opportunity to extend his contract over the summer. Though injuries or, in one rare case, the end of a lockout, saw him gradually make his way back into the fold in previous years, his latest reappearance was his quickest and most successful yet.
Immediately upon signing a professional tryout contract on Oct. 23, just one game into his tenure with Fort Wayne, Muse set a new team record with a shutout streak over 154 minutes long, including perfect performances in each of his first two games. He would go on to become the winningest goalie in team history, both single season (27-18-0) and all-time (44), earning a pair of AHL Player of the Week awards and cementing himself as the clear No. 1 option along the way.
Season Highlights
- Posted franchise records for wins in a single-season (27), all-time wins (44) and longest shutout streak (154:04)
- Tied Justin Peters for most all-time shutouts in team history (7)
- Ranked tied for fourth in AHL wins and fifth with 1,305 saves
- Two-time AHL Player of the Week
- Five shutouts ranked tied for third in the AHL and were the second most by a Checkers goalie in a single season
- Four separate winning streaks of five or more games
- Won all four of his shootouts, stopping 16 of 20 shots
"He's a perfect example of what you can do with an opportunity," said coach Jeff Daniels.
The question now is if his standout season earned him the opportunity to finally start a season as a Checker. It's a process that's likely to take some time, depending on the organization's fluid goaltending structure and the subsequent falling of dominos from the top down.
There's little question that the Checkers will need at least one experienced goalie next season, with Daniel Altshuller, a third-round pick in 2012, the only goaltender currently under contract aside from Cam Ward and Anton Khudobin. Could that be Justin Peters, if he re-signs as an unrestricted free agent and the Hurricanes hang on to both Ward and Khudobin? If so, there may not be as much room for Muse. Mike Murphy, set to become an unrestricted free agent for the first time, is also in the picture, though he's struggled to get in a rhythm for one reason or another over the last two seasons.
If Peters is unavailable, either because he becomes the Hurricanes' full-time backup or signs elsewhere, Muse could be an ideal fit to hold the No. 1 job in Charlotte while Altshuller's development continues. The only question would be whether or not the Hurricanes are comfortable having him as their No. 3 option within the organization – a position that has held particular importance due to injury struggles in recent years. Though recalled to provide backup two seasons ago, Muse has yet to play an NHL game.
If he doesn't end up being the right fit for what the Hurricanes and Checkers need in this particular summer, Muse's track record should at least be enough to secure him an AHL job somewhere else, whether it's on a two-way contract at the NHL level or another strictly AHL deal. It's easy to forget now, but the Checkers were probably lucky to snap him back up from the ECHL as quickly as they did, before someone else had the opportunity.
"Going forward we'll see what happens," said Daniels. "He proved that he's a capable goalie at this level."