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(MCT) — SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Inspired by the violent pre-Christmas massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, Illinois Senate Democrats on Wednesday advanced bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips.
The assault weapons bill, backed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, drew heavy debate as about 150 gun-rights advocates led by Illinois gun makers and the National Rifle Association registered their opposition at a committee hearing.
NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde said the proposal went far beyond the Clinton-era federal ban on assault weapons and put the prohibition "on steroids."
The ban, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Tony Munoz, moved to the full Senate on a 6-4 party-line vote won by Democrats on a public health committee.
"The Newtown shootings have had some impact" on the decision to move on the long-stalled legislation now, said Munoz, a Chicago policeman on leave. But Munoz added that city drug dealers increasingly are using assault weapons.
The measure generally bans possession, delivery, purchase and sale of military-style, semi-automatic assault weapons. People who already have the weapons would not be required to give them up.
But Vandermyde, pointing to a requirement that those who have assault guns would have to register them, said proponents of the assault weapons ban "want to treat gun owners like sex offenders."
The Illinois Firearms Manufacturers Association called the legislation a threat to the state's half-a-billion-dolllar gun-making industry and argued it would cost Illinois jobs. Jay Keller, representing the group, called the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings "senseless" and unimaginably horrific, but maintained an assault weapons ban is a "knee-jerk" reaction.
Separately, the Senate committee advanced a ban on high-capacity clips on a second 6-4 party-line vote. The proposal would outlaw the use of clips that carry more than 10 rounds. "Our children's lives are at risk," said sponsoring Democratic Sen. Dan Kotowski.
Sen. Kwame Raoul, a Democrat, called for a comprehensive approach toward gun laws in Illinois but supported the bill. He cited the recent federal appellate court decision that directed Illinois to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons as a reason to take a far-reaching approach on gun control.
Raoul said he doesn't know whether there will be enough votes in the Senate to pass the assault weapons ban. "It's one of those lame-duck roll calls where you don't know what is going to happen," he said.
The assault weapons ban is a perennial issue in Springfield, pushed repeatedly by former Mayor Richard M. Daley and now by Emanuel, who plans to hold a Thursday afternoon photo opportunity at St. Sabina's Church to drum up public support for the bill. It has been a tough sell in a state divided by regional politics and ideologies, where the gun-control tendencies of Chicago area lawmakers are generally canceled out by the gun rights stances of Downstate hunters.
This time out, the question is whether the Newtown massacre, with innocent children gunned down by a shooter who killed himself, is enough to garner a few more votes from those who would typically oppose an assault weapons ban.
The Senate could vote on the assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition bans on Thursday or Friday before senators are scheduled to leave town for the weekend. Should it get out of the Senate, the measure also would have to pass the House, which is scheduled to come back Sunday.
Time is running out at the Capitol for major legislation as a new General Assembly is set to be sworn in next Wednesday, meaning proposed measures have to be refiled and start the approval process from scratch.

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The rock that Joy Redstone held aloft was dark, with rough edges, like the life experiences of the homeless men and women that several dozen people had gathered to remember. Inside the stone, gold-colored crystals sparkled.
This was the rock that people would hold as they remembered the homeless people who have died already this year in Boulder.
"We are all broken," Redstone had said as she opened the mid-year homeless memorial. "And we are all sacred."
But finding words was not always easy.
"I've been to so many of these," said a man who gave his name as Bruce. "I've had so many friends pass. I don't know what to say. It's hard to live like this."
Bruce said Janice "CJ" Adams, whose body was found April 4 in the area of the Boulder Creek Path underpass near Arapahoe Avenue and Broadway, was his girlfriend, but he was in jail the night she died.
Recent Boulder homeless deaths
Janice 'CJ' Adams: Adams, 53, was discovered April 4 in the area of the Boulder Creek Path underpass near the intersection of Arapahoe Avenue and Broadway. She died of alcohol poisoning.
Ralph Devore: Devore, 51, was found April 5 just east of the intersection of College Avenue and Broadway on the University of Colorado campus. He died of blunt-force injuries, but the manner of death is undetermined.
Thomas Cornell: The body of Cornell, 32, formerly of Colorado Springs, was found in a drainage ditch behind the Boulder Target store at 2800 Pearl St. on April 15. The cause and manner of his death are undetermined.
Kathryn J. Fishman: Fishman, 59, died during the night of May 10 sleeping alongside a building at Scott Carpenter Park. She died of multiple drug intoxication.
Daniel Kitlitz: The body of Kitlitz, 27, was found June 14 in an alley off the Pearl Street Mall. The cause of death was heroin intoxication.
"If I had been there, I could have helped her," he said.
Adams was one of five people who died outside in Boulder this spring and one of nine members of the homeless community remembered Saturday.
Typically, activists and homeless people hold a memorial in late December in the Glen Huntington Bandshell in Central Park.
Redstone, a social worker and activist, organized the mid-year memorial after a spate of deaths left many people in the homeless community shaken.
Roughly 40 people gathered in the plaza in front of the old Boulder County courthouse under a blazing sun Saturday afternoon. A hundred feet away, a street preacher on the Pearl Street Mall yelled about damnation.
Pastor Phil Day of Living Waters Church said he was going to out-preach the other man and then said that while he believed many of the same things about hell and heaven and judgement, he also believed in love.
But Day's message of praise and thankfulness for the services that Boulder does provide was tough to swallow for some of the participants.
When Day referred to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless as "the nicest shelter I've ever seen," David Prowell, in the audience, said quietly, "when it's open."
The Boulder Shelter has 60 beds available year-round in its transitional program, but another 100 beds are only available from October to April.
Activists have said a year-round shelter would save lives. None of those who died outside were killed directly by exposure. The causes of death include drugs, alcohol and blunt force trauma. But if people had an inside place to sleep, other people could intervene in medical situations and people would be less vulnerable to accidents and violence.
Gaya Kirk, who was homeless and then housed and is now homeless again because her Social Security check repeatedly did not arrive on time, said people knew Kathryn Fishman was sick. Some mornings, she couldn't even stand to leave the shelter for the day.
The Boulder County Coroner's Office gave her cause of death as multiple drug intoxication, but Kirk, who uses oxygen and has significant health problems, including cancer, said Fishman's ongoing illness had to contribute to her death.
"Women in my condition and in Kathryn's condition and CJ's condition are very vulnerable," she said.
A man who gave his name as "Breezie" remembered his wife, who died two years ago from throat cancer that was misdiagnosed as strep throat. With early detection, she might be alive. Instead, he has to carry on without her.
"The phrase 'homeless disabled American' should not exist," he said.
Lexi Delgado, a homeless woman who knew several of the people who died, said those who drink are often seeking to numb the pain of very difficult events in their past.
"It's tragic that people have to resort to that to care for themselves because no one else cares for them," she said.
At the end of the memorial, she gathered a smaller group in a circle to let out a primal scream.
"Sometimes you feel like crying," she said. "And sometimes you don't feel like crying. Sometimes you feel like screaming out all your frustrations."
Redstone said every person who died this year was precious to someone.
"I want people to understand that homeless people are human beings, and it's important to mark their passing," she said.
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LONDON — Marion Bartoli wasted little time in advancing to her second Wimbledon final, dancing and grunting her way to a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Kirsten Flipkens on Thursday.
The 15th-seeded Frenchwoman led 3-0 in both sets and took 62 minutes to wrap them up. Flipkens, a Belgian seeded 20th, was in her first major semifinal.
"I was hitting the ball very cleanly from the start, right away," Bartoli said. "I had some great passing shots and some great lobs. Everything was working so perfectly. To do that in the semifinals of Wimbledon was an amazing feeling."
Bartoli also reached the final in 2007, losing to Venus Williams in straight sets. She next faces the winner of Thursday's other semifinal between fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland and No. 23 Sabine Lisicki of Germany. Lisicki eliminated defending champion Serena Williams in the fourth round.
None of the four semifinalists has won a Grand Slam title.
Amelie Mauresmo, the 2006 Wimbledon champion who coaches France's Fed Cup team, was in the stands for the early match and had plenty of praise for Bartoli.
"She just played a great match, definitely the best match of the tournament for her," Mauresmo said. "Marion put huge pressure on her right from the beginning, first of all returning very well, serving better, which she had to do today."
Bartoli was pumped from the start on Centre Court, mixing two-handed backhands and forehands with little hops between points, as she usually does.
In the first set, she faced only one break point, nearly putting Flipkens back on serve in the third game. But despite a double-fault and a backhand into the net to eventually get behind 30-40, Bartoli dug herself out of the hole and finished the game with the first of her five aces.
Flipkens, who again took the court with her right knee taped, called for a trainer after being broken for the second straight time at the start of the second set. The trainer added tape to the knee while Bartoli sat in her chair sipping water.
Whatever she needed, it briefly worked. Flipkens, after the medical timeout, broke for the first and only time, making it 3-1. But a few minutes later Bartoli broke again and held to make it 5-1.
"I think maybe she was a bit injured today," Bartoli said. "It must be hard for her to be injured in the semifinal of Wimbledon, but she deserved a lot of respect."
Bartoli is now 2-1 in Grand Slam semifinals with both wins at Wimbledon. Six years ago, she beat another Belgian, top-seeded Justine Henin, in the semifinals. But then she ran into Venus Williams, who that year won the fourth of her five Wimbledon titles.
On Saturday, Bartoli will be on relatively equal footing against another player — Radwanska or Lisicki — looking for a maiden major title.
"It's a good opportunity. She has experience at least," Mauresmo said, referring to Bartoli. "Maybe it's going to help her for the final."
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We arrived in Flint, MI on Wednesday in order to do some work in the area schools with the Hocus Focus project. Christi Lackey at The Whiting worked very hard to make these arrangements, meeting with the Director of Special Education for the county. In the end, her hard work paid off and we spent two incredible days working with some amazing students!
It all started on Thursday morning. Watching students become engaged and excited about the learning process is "magical." Watching teachers change their attitudes about arts integration is fantastic!
After a morning of workshops, I met up with Wendi (also from The Whiting) and we drove over to ABC12 for a noon news interview. I'm always amazed at how quickly 3 minutes goes on television but we did have a chance to talk about Saturday's show at The Whiting and get in a word or two about the Hocus Focus work in the community. You can click the image below to watch the interview.
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Services for Linn David Taylor, 51, of New Braunfels, will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, at Highland Heights United Methodist Church in Sweetwater with Rev. Don Boren officiating. Interment will follow at the Sweetwater Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home in Sweetwater.Visitation will be held Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, from 6-8 p.m. at McCoy Funeral Home.Taylor died on Saturday, July 27, 2013, as a result of a motorcycle accident at University Hospital in San Antonio.He was born on Aug. 9, 1961, in Abilene. He married Lisa Councilman on Dec. 14, 1984 in Sweetwater.He grew up in Sweetwater and was a graduate of Sweetwater High School in 1979 and also from Texas State Technical Institute. He was employed by Freescale as a Service Engineer in Austin. He had lived in New Braunfels for the past 15 years, moving there from Dallas. He was an avid motorcyclist.Survivors include his wife, Lisa Councilman Taylor of New Braunfels; daughter, Callie Taylor of New Braunfels; sons, Cameron Taylor of New Braunfels and Colton Taylor and Brittany of New Braunfels; mother, Peggy O'Neal Armstrong and Jerry of Odessa; father, L.B. Taylor and Martha Sue of Sweetwater; three sisters, Renee Taylor of Ringling, Okla., Annette Haynes and Kyle of Hobbs, N.M., and Melissa Jordan and Kyle of Houston; brother, Mark Taylor of Lubbock; mother-in-law, Estelle Councilman of Sweetwater; sisters and brothers-in-law, Shay Bullard of Sweetwater, Kelle Councilman and Regina of Pflugerville, Randy Councilman and Kelli of Mertzon, Lynette Palafox and Dominic of San Angelo and Ryan Councilman and Gina of San Angelo; and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, and other loving family members.Pallbearers will be Kelle Councilman, Randy Councilman, Ryan Councilman, Dominic Palafox, Donny Baker and Robert Doshier. Honorary pallbearer will be Elias Chavez.Online condolences may be expressed at www.mccoyfh.com.


text: Piper Boogie 2011Hamline student leaders know how to lead discussions, play icebreakers, and show their Piper Pride. They also know how to bust some moves.The Piper Boogie, an annual tradition, is an intricately choreographed dance performed on the first night of the Piper Passages fall orientation by over 50 new student mentors and residence advisors. This year's iteration included a medley of songs from Survivor, Lady Gaga, and Michael Jackson.Ben Honda, a lead new student mentor, was in charge of the boogie's development and the committee that brought the ambitious dance to fruition. "I wanted the new students to laugh and enjoy themselves," said Honda, a junior international business and Spanish major. "The point of the boogie is to show them this is a fun, welcoming place."The process of creating the dance sequence was long and arduous, requiring countless hours. Once the committee decided on the songs, they spent two full days on choreography and recording instructional videos for student leaders to practice with during the summer. "We had to figure out the mood of each song," Honda said. "Barbara Streisand, for instance, was supposed to look like a cheesy workout video, while Eye of the Tiger was meant to be a rousing fight song."During fall training, student leaders spent several hours each night practicing in small groups, then focusing on large-group choreography. Anna Gresser, a junior social justice major, said the experience was intense but forged close bonds. "While practicing I worked with student leaders I didn't know very well, but now we're friends," Gresser said. "Also I learned that there are pretty awesome, talented dancers in the group."Honda agrees, adding that he believes new students will feel inspired to get involved with the Hamline community."The big message is that leadership at Hamline is fun and you get to do some awesome things," Honda said.See the Piper Boogie for yourself by clicking on the video below. Don't forget to check out Hamline's YouTube channel to check out what our students, faculty, and staff are up to throughout the year.


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To the mixed martial arts fans across the globe that have been watching, waiting and wondering about the possibility some combination of a Georges St-Pierre/Anderson Silva/Jon Jones superfight, the picture has become a bit clearer.
Well, sort of… if you read between the not so blurry lines.
At the UFC 159 post-fight press conference at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on Saturday night, a battered and bruised Chael Sonnen sounded off on a potential superfight between his recent conqueror, Jon Jones, and his former nemesis, Anderson Silva.
"If you're gonna go fight a guy, go fight a guy. It drives me crazy, man. People are out talking about Anderson and Jon – these guys, right now, should be begging (Dana White) to fight each other," proclaimed a heated Sonnen.
"But it's not gonna go that way. You got these two guys, and they're great, but they're a couple of chickens. They should be calling each other out.
"They should be grabbing the mic and saying, 'Hey, I want to fight that guy! I don't want the debate. I want this figured out. Dana, give me a date. I want this figured out. Give me the fight.'
"But it won't happen that way. Dana's gonna have to call these guys, and they're gonna have to dangle a carrot. And then they're gonna want to negotiate. We're in the fight business, if you don't want to fight, then don't raise your hand."
And that's when UFC president Dana White dropped a bomb.
"It actually did happen tonight. Anderson called and he wants the fight tonight."
Wait, what?
"It did happen. Anderson called and he wants the fight, and I'm not going to tell you which one it is, but I'm going to get to work on it as soon as possible."
In typical Dana White fashion, he left out whom "The Spider" asked for, but any astute MMA fan could deduce that it may be more than just common coincidence that Silva was calling his boss on a night when the consensus rival "GOAT" was fighting in the main event.
Earlier this week, UFC welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre all but nixed any possibility of a superfight – at least in the near term – leaving the door wide open for discussion of a Jones vs. Silva super showdown.
Jones and Silva are often referenced as the two greatest fighters ever. Silva has built an enduring legacy with his matrix-esque fighting style and undefeated reign as the UFC middleweight champion. Jones, meanwhile, is the UFC's youngest champion in company history. He has a terrifying blend of new-breed skills that has left a litany of past champions laying in his wake.
It's easy to make a substantial argument for either fighter as the mythical pound-for-pound greatest.
But should Anderson Silva defeat Chris Weidman at UFC 162 in July, it's also easy to see a superfight between Silva and Jones coming together rather quickly. And there is little question that Silva vs. Jones would be the biggest fight in mixed martial arts' 20-year history.
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Northborough police and Massachusetts State Police successfully located three children Wednesday who had gotten lost after being separated from their adult relatives while hiking the Jubilee Trail in Northborough, State Police said.
The children, two 8-year-olds and an 11-year-old, were found about two hours after they became lost, said Northborough Police Lieutenant William Lyver. They were evaluated by paramedics, but they had no injuries or signs of hypothermia, he said.
The 11-year-old and one of the 8-year-old boys are brothers, and the other boy is their cousin, who is visiting from Chicago. The boys ran ahead of the adults on the trail and ended up getting separated.
The brothers set off to find their parents, while the Chicago boy continued through the woods until he came across a home adjacent to the trail. A State Police trooper soon found him there, Lyver said. The search was prolonged because the two brothers stayed on the trail.
State Police also sent an air wing unit and a K-9 trooper to assist in the search.
"Due to the weather and since it gets dark early, we had a little more urgency to bring in assets," Lyver said. "We didn't let the daylight get away from us."
Lyver said that police were concerned about watery areas surrounding the trail.
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The pressure continues to mount on Bristol City boss Derek McInnes after his side slipped to a seventh successive npower Championship defeat, going down 2-0 to Charlton.
The Robins are rooted to the bottom of the league and rarely looked like climbing off as Charlton coasted to the three points at Ashton Gate.
Danny Haynes put Chris Powell's side in front in the 20th minute after he was on hand to clear up after Dale Stephens' shot had hit both posts and bounced out. The damage was doubled 11 minutes after the restart when Michael Morrison struck his first goal of the season from inside the penalty area.
McInnes' men, who have not won since beating Peterborough in September, enjoyed a brief spell of domination in the first half, but their inability to at least make a game of it meant the Addicks picked up a second win on the bounce to sit comfortably in mid-table.
City created an early chance when Albert Adomah sent in a low cross that Martyn Woolford got on the end of, but Chris Solly was in the right place to block.
Charlton responded, though, and after Salim Kerkar had forced Tom Heaton into a smart parried save they took the lead in the 19th minute. Rob Hulse fed Stephens and his shot came off both posts before leaving Haynes with the easiest of tap-ins from close range.
It was almost double trouble for City just two minutes later when the woodwork was rattled again from Haynes' shot, but they rallied and missed two good opportunities. First Addicks keeper Ben Hamer did well to save at the feet of Adomah and then Sam Baldock wasted a glaring chance when he failed to connect properly and his shot went safely to Hamer.
Charlton did well to get to the half-time break with their lead intact, but they could have been further ahead soon after the restart when Haynes was put through on goal, but he went wide and sent his effort over.
The Addicks had built up a head of steam and, after Stephens' long-distance effort had been tipped over by Heaton, Powell's men were rewarded with a second goal. A loose ball fell to Morrison in the area and he slotted home in the 56th minute to give his side a cushion.
Adomah had an effort saved by Hamer and Solly was forced to clear off the line as City tried to cut their deficit, but it was a familiar story for City fans.
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Three days after a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the situation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex has turned into the biggest uncertainty of the crisis. Recovering from the seismic event will take tens of billions of dollars and years of work — but if the nuclear situation goes the wrong way, that would add dramatically to the disaster's cost.
How did all this happen, and how could it end? Different folks have different answers, depending on how they feel about nuclear power. Here's a roundup of the best answers I've been able to put together — accompanied by an invitation to add your own sources and perspectives as comments below:
Has there been a nuclear meltdown?
Authorities say partial meltdowns have probably occurred at three of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plants.
To understand what a "partial meltdown" means, we need to discuss how the reactors are constructed. Under normal conditions, the plants produce power by sustaining a controlled nuclear reaction inside a pressure vessel. Chain reactions in the nuclear core's uranium-filled fuel rods heat up water, generating steam that turns turbines to generate electricity. That steam is circulated through a cooling system and returned to the pressure vessel as water to keep the cycle going. The uranium oxide fuel is contained inside sheaths of zirconium metal that can withstand temperatures of 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit (1,200 degrees Celsius).
Control rods can be inserted between the fuel rods to shut down the main chain reaction in the uranium. But the water-circulating cooling system is needed as well to bring the temperature down while the radioactive decay subsides.
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The problem is that the power for the cooling system was cut off when the earthquake hit. Then the backup diesel generators were knocked out of commission by the tsunami. Backup batteries could keep the cooling system going for only about eight hours more. The plant's operator tried to bring in mobile generators to restore power, but the connections reportedly didn't match up.
Meanwhile, residual heat from radioactive decay continued to build up, and water continued to turn to steam. Eventually, the fuel rods became exposed. The temperatures apparently reached the melting point for the fuel rods' zirconium sheaths. That can result in uranium oxide fuel falling to the bottom of the pressure vessel — which is what some experts mean when they talk about a partial meltdown. Other experts, however, would reserve that term for a situation in which the nuclear fuel makes its way out of the pressure vessel but stays within a steel-and-concrete containment shell that surrounds the reactor.
Is that why radioactive material escaped?
At the three Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors that are apparently experiencing partial meltdowns, the nuclear fuel is still contained within the pressure vessel. The radioactive material is not coming from the core itself. At reactors No. 1 and No. 3, the material is contained in steam that has been released from the vessels. Plant operators opened the steam valves to reduce the risk of a high-pressure explosion inside the vessels — in effect, letting off steam to keep the lid from blowing off a pressure cooker. The steam contains radioactive cesium-137 and iodine-131, which are byproducts of the uranium reaction. The authorities said the radioactivity in that steam is still below regulatory limits and should not pose any health risk.
Despite those reassurances, authorities ordered an evacuation of the area within a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, and have distributed stable iodine to evacuation centers as a precaution. If people are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive debris, taking doses of iodine can prevent the uptake of radioactive iodine and reduce the risk of thyroid cancer.
Right now the radioactive plume is blowing out to sea, which means it's not wafting over Japanese population centers. It is wafting over the Pacific, however, and the U.S. Navy found that air crew members from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan were exposed to low-level contamination. The Navy says the crew members were decontaminated with soap and water, and all U.S. ships have been moved out of the downwind direction. Apparently, no harm was done.
Nevertheless, the contamination incident was worrisome to nuclear physicist Frank von Hippel, a former Clinton administration official who is now co-director of Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security.
"I was surprised how high the radiation levels are," von Hippel told me.
So what's being done?
Plant operators have been pumping cool seawater into the pressure vessels to replace the water that's being lost as steam, in an effort to keep the fuel rods from heating up further. They've added boric acid to the seawater, because boron suppresses the nuclear reaction and could accelerate the cooldown. Authorities were reluctant to turn to this strategy because the seawater is so corrosive that it ruins the reactors for future power generation. But that's better than having the meltdown progress to an even worse stage.
What about these hydrogen explosions?
When the seawater hits the hot zirconium rods and uranium fuel, some of it is broken down into hydrogen and oxygen gas. Venting the steam allowed that hydrogen and oxygen to escape and build up between the pressure vessel and an outer structure that protects the reactor from the elements. At reactors No. 1 and No. 3, the hydrogen ignited, blowing the roof off the outer structure in each case. However, the pressure vessel and the steel containment shell remained intact. It's important to note that the hydrogen blast was not the result of any sort of atomic or "H-bomb" explosion, but was a purely chemical reaction.
Is the situation getting worse?
Yes. Authorities say another blast has been heard at reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. Details are sketchy, but the plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said the explosion occurred near the reactor's suppression pool, a water reservoir that's part of the cooling system. A government spokesman said the pool was damaged, and there was concern that the No. 2 containment shell may have been breached. "A leak of nuclear material is feared," The Associated Press quoted Shinji Kinjo, a spokesman for Japan's nuclear safety agency, as saying.
Kinjo said radiation levels rose from 73 microsieverts before the blast to 11,900 microsieverts (11.9 millisieverts) three hours afterward. To put that figure in perspective, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says that occupational exposure for adults working with radioactive material must be limited to 50 millisieverts per year.
In a nationally televised statement, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said "the level seems very high, and there is still a very high risk of more radiation coming out." Kan told people living within 19 miles (30 kilometers) of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex to stay indoors to avoid radiation sickness.
AP also quoted Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano as saying that a fourth reactor at the complex was on fire and that more radiation had been released. "Now we are talking about levels that can damage human health. These are readings taken near the area where we believe the releases are happening. Far away, the levels should be lower," Edano said. Later, AP reported that the fire at reactor No. 4 was extinguished.
What about the nuclear fuel stored at the site?
The spent fuel rods at the Fukushima facility are stored in pools of water above the reactor. Plant operators have signaled that water levels were falling at reactor No. 1's storage pool, suggesting that the cooling system is failing. "It's on a slower fuse," von Hippel said, "but on the order of a week or so, it could boil down to the level of fuel."
What's the best-case scenario?
The seawater gambit keeps temperatures inside the pressure vessels under control for the next few days. During that time, the residual heat of radioactive decay dissipates, and operators no longer need to release steam from the vessels. Eventually, electrical power is restored to the cooling system, and each vessel's core can be removed.
What's the worst-case scenario?
Authorities can't cool down the cores, and temperatures rise to the point that the uranium fuel melts into a mess on the bottom of the pressure vessel. The concrete-and-steel containment floor beneath the vessel has been built to contain a full core meltdown — but experts can't completely rule out the possibility of a breach that causes the highly radioactive material to escape into the environment.
Right now, the situation at Fukushima Dai-ichi is analogous to the Three Mile Island incident of 1979, which involved a partial core meltdown and a release of radioactive gases — but no breach in the reactor vessel. "It's at least as bad as Three Mile Island," von Hippel said. But if the nuclear fuel breaks out of the vessel, the situation could turn into something more like the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine, which sparked fatal cases of radiation sickness and spread contamination across a wide swath of Europe.
How long will this go on?
Even under the best-case scenario, it will take years to clean up the mess. "When you're dealing with spent fuel, you don't put it in cool, dry casks until three years after the reaction has stopped," von Hippel said.
More explanations of the nuclear situation:
- Radiation health risk remains low, experts say
- BoingBoing: Inside the 'black box' of nuclear power
- Brave New Climate: Fukushima accident explained
- Scientific American: Beware the fear of nuclear ... FEAR!
- The Great Beyond at Nature: Anatomy of a meltdown
- Cosmic Log archive on the earthquake and tsunami
Princeton physicist Frank von Hippel answers your questions about the nuclear situation in Japan during an online chat at 4:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, March 15. Click here to submit your questions in advance and participate in the chat.
Have you found some particularly good explanations for what's going on, or are there some burning questions yet to be addressed? I've purposely stayed away from discussing the potential health risks in depth, because my colleague JoNel Aleccia is handling that important angle. But if you'd like to shed more light (rather than heat) on the situation at Fukushima or Japan's other stricken reactors, please feel free to add your comments below.
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Australia blew the chance to take an iron grip on the third Test against Sri Lanka and instead scrabbled to a 48-run first-innings lead after reaching 342 for six at the close of the second day's play yesterday.
Phil Hughes and David Warner got the hosts off at a canter on a glorious morning with half-centuries in a partnership of 130, as Australia looked to build a big total in their bid to sweep the series 3-0.
However, two run-outs, including one for Mike Hussey in his final Test, and a couple of soft dismissals left Sri Lanka bowling at Matthew Wade, who had survived a good few scares to reach 47, and Peter Siddle (16) when stumps were drawn.
Australia captain Michael Clarke also made 50, but will probably remember the day more for having given the call for the risky single that saw Hussey dismissed for 28 by Dimuth Karunaratne's direct hit.
Sri Lanka, who made 294 in their first innings, showed considerably more fight than they had in the innings-and-201-run defeat in Melbourne last week and they were only a couple of dropped catches from being right back in the match. Hughes, who carved out a stylish 87, and Warner, who hit a more pugnacious 85, had plundered runs in the opening session against a patched-up pace attack in almost perfect batting conditions.
The only wicket to fall before lunch was that of opener Ed Cowan, who gave a precursor of what was to come when he ran himself out for four.
Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene finally introduced spinner Rangana Herath after the break and the most prolific wicket-taker in Test cricket last year almost had an immediate impact with a strong LBW appeal against Warner.
It was turned down and a TV appeal showed the ball was turning too much to hit the leg stump, but 30 minutes later the opener was heading back to the dressing room.
The 26-year-old, who had reached his half-century off just 37 balls, could not resist a slash at a Tillakaratne Dilshan delivery, only for the ball to balloon up into the air for Dhammika Prasad to take the catch backtracking at long-on. Hughes had shown that for all the rebuilding of his technique he could still cut the ball like few other batsmen, but on 87, traditionally considered the unlucky number for Australian batsmen, he tried another and was caught behind off Herath.
Hussey, who is to retire from international cricket after this match, received a huge ovation from the crowd as he came out to bat and was welcomed to the crease by a guard of honor from the Sri Lanka players.
However, it was Clarke who caught the eye and he punished anything loose from the Sri Lanka bowlers, most notably when he hit a towering six and a lofted four off Herath in consecutive balls just before tea.
The 31-year-old turned villain in the fourth over after the break when he called for the single that resulted in Hussey's dismissal and put a dent in the 37-year-old's previous average of 117.75 against Sri Lanka and 100 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Clarke, the most prolific batsman last year, reached his 25th half-century with a single through the covers, but an over later his first innings of the year was ended when he misfired a sweep off Herath and Karunaratne took a good catch on the run.
Wade was dropped, then survived a Sri Lanka TV appeal for a catch which was ruled out for a no ball and was finally forced to resort to the TV umpire himself to overturn a decision that he had been caught out — all while he was on 22.
Nuwan Pradeep grabbed the final wicket of the day when he had Mitchell Johnson caught behind for 13 — only the second Test wicket for the Sri Lanka seamer, whose average had soared above 400 during the day's play.


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Old English freosan "turn to ice" (class II strong verb; past tense freas, past participle froren), from Proto-Germanic *freusanan (cf. Old Norse frjosa, Old High German friosan, German frieren "to freeze," Gothic frius "frost"), from Proto-Germanic *freus-, equivalent to PIE root *preus- "to freeze," also "to burn" (cf. Sanskrit prusva, Latin pruina "hoarfrost," Welsh rhew "frost," Sanskrit prustah "burnt," Albanian prus "burning coals," Latin pruna "a live coal").
Transitive sense first recorded 14c., figurative sense c.1400. Meaning "become rigid or motionless" attested by 1720. Sense of "fix at a certain level, make non-transactable" is 1922. Freeze frame is from 1960, originally "a briefly Frozen Shot after the Jingle to allow ample time for Change over at the end of a T.V. 'Commercial.' " ["ABC of Film & TV," 1960].
c.1400, from freeze (v.).
freeze (frēz)
v. froze (frōz), fro·zen (frō'zən), freez·ing, freez·es
To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
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2.2 legacy bucking in low rpm's
Posted 11 February 2005 - 07:37 PM
i bought some spark plugs but havnt got to change them yet
anyway sometimes its really bad other times it works fine, at around 2300-2800 rpms the car just loses guts and has no pull, giving it some gas does nothing, then at around 3300 it just picks up and goes full power, also if i downshift to cruise i can feel the power fall when this happens.
the car also had way to high oil level when i got it, and a cam seal is gone, but i cant get that fixed for a few weeks...
my friends father manages a suby dealer, and he will replace whatever cam seals are gone and the timing belt for free labour because he likes to work on subarus
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Same thing was going on with my 99' 2.2L Legacy!
NGK Laser Platinum Plugs, new wires, fuel filter, 5w 30 AMSOIL w/ filter... Solved the problem & gave her balls!
I think the "bucking" problem was cuz of the FUEL FILTER &/OR PLUG WIRES! Wires were rusty & I noticed on my plug contact points there was an irregular arce looking contact spot!
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how much would a set of 4 cost, and how hard are they to change, is there anything very strange about them compared to changing plugs
can you do it all at once or does it double the time
Posted 12 February 2005 - 10:15 PM
ive never in my life changed plug wires before
how much would a set of 4 cost, and how hard are they to change, is there anything very strange about them compared to changing plugs
can you do it all at once or does it double the time
A set at NAPA costs about $50!
EASY to change.. nothing special to it.. except you feel or here a lil' tiny pop when it seats on the plug.
yeah you can do it all at once and it'll add about 3 minutes to the entire PLUG CHANGE!
GET AFTER IT BRO! Hope it helps!
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George Bellows is hardly known nowadays, but in America in the 1920s he was far more famous than his exact contemporary and friend, Edward Hopper. Hopper's vision of cinematic stillness and urban alienation has grown ever more popular but Bellows, as a member of the 'Ashcan' group of painters, was attracted to a very different side of American city life. He was drawn to the energy and tumult, the crowds and clamour – from throngs of tenement kids bathing in New York's muddy East River through heaving midtown traffic jams where horse-drawn carriages jostled the newfangled automobiles, to the picnicking middle-classes flocked across Central Park lawns. Indeed, if Bellows is remembered at all today, it's for 'Stag at Sharkey's' – one of several thrillingly action-packed paintings of boxing matches that made his name in 1909.
Certainly, it's a doozy of a painting, capturing the pulsating violence of the clandestine prize-fighting scene (boxing was illegal at the time), with the pugilists reduced to sinuous, twisted knots of meat. No wonder Francis Bacon was such an admirer. Not just the boxers, but the baying and leering spectators, the thick, gestural paint handling – the whole thing radiates a kind of warped, exhilarating energy. Later on, too, in numerous lithograph commissions for left-wing magazines, Bellows displayed an almost Goya-like ability for caricature and physical depiction, portraying the demented fury of rabble-rousing Evangelist preachers, or the awful inhumanity of Southern racists burning an African-American man alive at the stake.
Even when he wasn't painting crowds of people, there was often still a lurking sense of violence or chaos to his work.
In his studies of Penn Station being built, the construction site becomes something hellish and nightmarish – a blasted wasteland, a gaping, fiery wound in the surface of New York. And there's a similar sense of confronting the raw face of nature, peeling back the veneer of civilization, in his numerous paintings of the limits of Manhattan island, looking off into the snowy wilds just beyond the Hudson River.
Yet, oddly, when it came to depicting the greatest violence of all, World War I, the results are something of a disappointment. Perhaps because he never actually visited Europe, instead basing his work on foreign accounts and propaganda reports, his quartet of vast war paintings is pure grand guignol – aiming to shock America into support for the war with images of evil, spike-helmeted Huns maiming helpless Belgian prisoners and civilians. Today, though, the pieces simply come off as a weird combination of stilted grandiosity and over-the-top schlock.
There's a return to form towards the end of his life – or rather, to a completely different sort of form. His late, bucolic scenes, painted in high-register colours and with strange perspective effects, feel woozy, ethereal, even slightly surreal. Though he declared himself baffled by European modernism, it's tempting to speculate where his art might have led – had he not died of peritonitis aged 42. Still, there's more than enough in this fantastic exhibition to rehabilitate him, and to surely establish his status as one of America's greatest and most visionary artists.
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Rundown on Rauner
Bruce Rauner has closer ties to top Democrats in this state and nation than many Democrats do, is pro-choice and reluctant to say where he stands on gay marriage, so you wouldn't think he'd have much chance at winning a Republican primary for governor.
But the retired multi-millionaire is running a pretty smart campaign and raising tons more money than his opponents, so nobody can really count him out.
Bill Brady told the Chicago Sun-Times he'd raised a mere $75,000 this past quarter, which ended Sept. 30. The Tribune reported that state Sen. Kirk Dillard had raised just $239,000 in large contributions during the third quarter, but he's still carrying quite a lot of debt from his failed 2010 governor's race. Treasurer Dan Rutherford says he raised $333,000 and has $1.2 million in the bank. Rauner, on the other hand, raised over a million dollars during the quarter and about $3 million since he kicked off his campaign. And he has so much personal wealth that he could spend lots, lots more.
More than a few Democrats and even some Republicans wary of Rauner are saying that somebody else with deep pockets may need to step in to snuff out Rauner's campaign before he makes it out of the primary. And Democratic-affiliated groups appear to be the most logical source of that cash.
As polling has shown, Rauner has some serious negative issues in a GOP primary that might be OK with voters in a general election.
His close affiliation to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, for instance, has killer negative numbers among Republicans, but it won't exactly be easy for Gov. Pat Quinn to use that against the guy in the general election.
Rauner and his wife have both supported Democratic candidates, which isn't good in a Republican contest, but a nice positive once the primary is over.
As noted above, Rauner is pro-choice and won't say where he stands on gay marriage, and he has left himself more than enough wiggle room to pretty easily pivot toward support for gay marriage once the GOP primary is over.
In other words, if Rauner wins the primary, he could be a nightmare for the Democratic Party.
Rauner is strongly anti-union and has all but vowed to break the public employee unions, so it seems only logical that those unions, or the Democratic Governors Association, and/or someone else, would decide that beating Rauner in a primary would be way more cost efficient than letting him out of that tight ideological Republican pen and into the wide-open spaces of a general election.
This sort of thing has never been done statewide here before, but it was pulled off last year by Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and the national Senate committee when they spent a combined $1.7 million in the Republican primary to help nominate the far-right tea partier Todd Akin, who then went on to self immolate in the fall campaign. The Democrats spent more money on Akin's behalf than Akin spent on his own campaign.
So, could it happen here?
Well, nobody's talking yet, but it sure looks like a good investment, particularly for the public employee unions. Rauner has talked openly of shutting down the state government in order to bring AFSCME to its knees. His pension reform ideas include tossing out the defined benefit program and switching to a defined contribution. He opposes teacher tenure, the right of teachers to strike, and on and on and on. He also favors "right to work," which all of labor hates.
And Gov. Quinn would probably prefer it as well. The wealthy Rauner could wind up spending a king's ransom in the general election. He's also close enough to Mayor Emanuel to make Quinn more than a little nervous.
So, spending a few million dollars before next March to expose Rauner's more liberal Democratic side to Republican primary voters would be a whole lot cheaper than the tens of millions it could cost to defend the slot in the November general election.
It's not that Quinn would get off easy with any of the other three Republicans.
And it's not that Rauner would be a slam-dunk winner, either.
Quinn could use the playbook that Obama used against his wealthy GOP opponent last year (a playbook that Obama borrowed from Quinn's own 2010 race against Brady).
But Rauner appears to pose the biggest risk to the Democrats because of his moderate stances on social issues, his Chicago ties and, most of all, his money.
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"A bag is full of 20 bananas and no other fruit. Rajeev draws a fruit from the bag. What is the probability that he will draw a banana?
An embarrassing 30 per cent of the country's engineers cannot solve a problem as simple as the one above, a study has found. Their ineptitude, however, is not limited to just sums of probability.
It's worse as over one-third engineers do not possess mathematical skills needed in day-to-day life for doing simple transactions, counting and arranging. In other words, they have a weak understanding of concepts as elementary as decimals, powers, operations, ratio, fractions and the ability to apply these concepts to real-world problems."
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A sperm donor who sent gifts signed "Dad" to his biological son has been slapped with a child-support order, 18 years after helping his friend get pregnant.It seems that you can be either a sperm donor or a father, but if you go into the gray zone between the two, the child gets a father.
The Nassau County man donated his sperm to a work colleague, and included his name on the child's birth certificate, saying it would give the boy an identity, courts documents revealed.
He then blurred the lines between donor and full-time father by sending money, presents and cards signed "Dad" and "Daddy," and having phone chats with the now college-bound teen.
But the man's goodwill backfired: A court ruling says he is now liable for financial support of the 18-year-old, who lives with his mother in Oregon.
"He was assured that he would have no responsibility on his part and of course 18 years has elapsed where there hasn't been responsibility," [the man's lawyer] said.Assured? By whom? Surely not by the baby — unborn or born — and not by the little boy who was led to think he had a daddy.
"He did not anticipate this would happen now, when the child is almost an adult, that the mother would come forward for child support."Did not anticipate that an 18-year-old would perceive a strong need for money and remember that there was a man — a doctor — who called himself Daddy? Just outright forgot about the whole notion of college? Never contemplated the prospect that the boy would develop a mind of his own and be capable of analyzing his own needs and interests?
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The dusty protoplanetary disk around the young star HL Tau.
Updated animation of multi-planet solar systems discovered by
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There have been two different sets of physical processes that
astronomers have proposed for forming planets around stars.
Recently a third possibility has appeared.
Animations showing the possible multi-planet solar systems
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New Hubble Space Telescope image of colliding galaxy pair Arp
The core of the starburst galaxy M82 has been revealed at
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Here's a project that explores and maps the topology of wifi
A 600 year old book may contain the earliest description of
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All sky surveys provide a sort of fundamental baseline to
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understood. (The latter occurs in the case of surveys from
the ground, where different telescopes located at observatories in
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coverage over the entire sky.) The observations from such a
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By uniformly observing the sky without concentrating on one part
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Interesting objects discovered in the survey can be probed in the
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WISE has instruments covering four wavebands.
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will be targets for future James Webb Space Telescope
The two shortest wavelength bands at 3.4 and 4.6 microns, are
just beyond the "near-infrared," a part of the electromagnetic
spectrum accessible from ground-based telescopes. Stars emit
enough light at these wavelengths that they will still show up in
the WISE images. The longer bands at 12 and 22 microns reveal
light that is dominated by emission from cool dust and gas in the
interstellar medium. We can see this in the following four
images, taken in each of the four wavebands, from shortest to
In the two pictures on the left, the field is dominated by
countless stars. However for the two images on the right, the
stellar point sources drop from the thousands to just a few
dozen. The "nebulous" emission is also more prominent in the
longer wavelength images on the right, with the frilly feature in
the bottom center showing up only in the longest 22 micron
image. When combined together, so that the 3.4 and 4.6 micron
data is colored blue, the 12 micron image green, and the 22 micron
data red, we get the following composite:
The arcing wisps showing up only in red is the Puppis A
supernova remnant. This was a massive star that exploded and
became visible in our night skies 3,700 years ago (although there
is no historical record of it being observed). The expanding
shockwave from the original explosion is heating up the
interstellar dust in the general vicinity, as well as gas that was
expelled by the progenitor star before its final death
throes. This has resulted in the rosy rosette visible
There are lots more images of objects within our galaxy that
WISE has observed in the process of making its all-sky that are
highlighted here at
the mission website. If you want to explore the entire
all-sky dataset, I'd recommend playing with World Wide
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from Microsoft Research (available for install on Windows PCs, but
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I think the GQ Madonna entry above is more insulting to Katy, Kesha and the 800 female artists than Madonna.
As for Madonna, well, does she even fucking care about GQ? Good or bad, they are still talking about M.
A League Of Their Own is on TV right now. Such a great movie and Madonna was fantastic in it.
"This Used To Be My Playground" is my favorite of M.'s ballads. It's wistful, sweeping, nostalgic, and simply gorgeous.
^ I don't have a blu-ray player yet, but I may have to get one just for the MDNA concert.
This is for "Elton" who's a regular here on the Madonna thread.
Billboard 25 Top Tours from from Nov. 9, 2011, to Nov. 13, 2012
1. Madonna (72/72 shows sold out, gross = $228 million)
2. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (54/72 shows sold out, gross = $199m)
3. Roger Walters (51/72 shows sold out, gross = $186m)
4. Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour by Cirque Du Soleil (9/183 shows sold out, gross = $147m)
5. Coldplay (56/67 shows sold out, gross = $147m)
6. Lady GaGa (65/65 shows sold out, gross = $124m)
7. Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw (9/23 shows sold out, gross = $96m)
8. Van Halen (9/46 shows sold out, gross = $54m)
9. Jay-Z & Kanye West (15/31 shows sold out, gross = $46.9m)
10. Andre Rieu (2/99 shows sold out, gross = $46.7m)
Wow. Madonna beat out the Boss! Comfortably at that!
No idea who Roger Walters is.
Lady Gaga, 6th place. Surprising actually. I thought she'd be higher up.
Van Halen still tours?
Pretty sure that's supposed to be Roger Waters, who was part of Pink Floyd.
FanofFiction are you so out of touch that you actually posted that response. It sure gives no credibility to anything you post that's music related.
Roger Walters is the leader of Pink Floyd.
Madonna is high because of her catalog and ticket prices.
Anywho, Lady Gaga being low surprised me. Her tickets have rocketed in price from her other tour. Nosebleed shit tickets for the ACC in February here in Toronto start at an even $50.00. I can buy two Bon Jovi tickets for the price of one Lady Gaga ticket. Crazy.
Madonna is the queen.
I guess I apologize for not knowing a guy from a band I never really enjoyed? Not really no.
She needs to add more Canadian dates. She needs to come to Atlantic Canada. She'd sell out here too, so it wouldn't be like she's taking a loss by coming here. One big show in Moncton or Halifax would do it. Everyone from the region would go. Moncton has hosted some huge artists! Surely Madonna could at least consider it...
I'll see her live one day.
whats the total gross of this tour? Billboard listed the gross to cover 72 out of the 80 plus at 230 M
God love you, man. I love that you loved American Life. For me, it just wasn't one of her better albums. But it did have a few great tracks. Your review was great though. I love your insight.
There was a guy that used to review Madonna music videos on youtube. This would have been three years ago or more. He was pretty spot on with my opinions. But listening to other people ramble on about Madonna the way I do is so enlightening. If you ever decide to dissect her videos or more albums, I'd love to hear.
Thinking about "classic" Madonna ballads, give me the unabashed, heart-on-sleeve "Crazy For You" over "This Used To Be My Playground" any day! How could you not love it? With those retro 80s power-drums, straight-ahead bass line and accessorized in the arrangement/production with that oboe (Madonna's own suggestion) and often nonsensical backing vocals ("Bop, bop, bop, bop, ahhhh-ahhh") that seem to reflect back to older girl-group or Motown background vocal lines, I thought everything came together for that track. It's interesting to me that it is years older than "This Used To Be My Playground" but seems to hold up better - maybe a good melody is more timeless, and the arrangement definitely has those 80s touches (like that highly reverbed drum attack sound) but it's not overwhelmingly thick and textured like a lot of 80s songs were so the leaner production maybe helps it. Any 80s touches on it now sound retro-cool.
I love both Crazy for You and This Used to be My Playground (the former more than the latter), but let's be real, THE hit Madonna ballad is Live to Tell.
I prefer Take A Bow or Rain. Two of my favorites.
Rain is so good! You know it! I may have also shed a tear during a listen or two.
She really thinks she's royalty or something.
Team Kylie!
Hmmm... well 30 minutes into the interview and Madonna actually warmed up to the woman. I think she was being really defensive in the beginning.
Perhaps Madonna didn't like being interviewed by a younger woman whose skirt was so short you could see her underwear.
she is a bitch
and a Hypocrite. She's smokes in many of her famous pictures and Lourdes smokes too.
In his autumn, before the winter, comes man's last mad surge of youth
I laughed. I think Madonna was just bored to death with amateurish style and questions asked by the interviewer.
She was actually still pretty back then. Now she looks absolutely horrible -- she looks like a middle-aged drag queen caricature of herself.
no surprise. most of these stars are gassed off of their fame. a lot of them forget when they were nobodies struggling to make it to where they're at. they also forget that the higher up the ladder they get, the harder they fall.
I don't really think she is a bitch...I like her independent nature and I like that she says what she is feeling versus being phony.
Was there ever any doubt?
this video of Madge is hella old! like her.
She's "keeping it real". Which, as eden said, is "refreshing". Because she can get away with that shit when we couldn't.
Also let's not underestimate how much someone you think is super sweet in interviews and in front of the camera may be fantastically fake. Martha Stewart for example.
Strong, confident woman? Must be a bitch.
A diva oblivious to their audience is as foolish as Maria Antoinette saying 'Let them eat cake'!
My 4000th post! Dedicated to the queen!
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CDC Releases New HIV PSA Campaign Aimed At Gay Men
Nigel Campbell | May 22, 2014
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a series of 30-second public service announcements aimed at gay men in an effort to encourage discussion about HIV!
Some of these ads also allude to PrEP, which the CDC publicly came out in support of last week.
Check them out and tell us what you think!
We like the tone of these ads! They're pro-gay, pro-sex, and informative.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) appears to agree, saying:
"We commend the CDC for launching this campaign and look forward to working with them and others to raise awareness about HIV prevention and treatment and to end the stigma fueling this epidemic."
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Fresh from the heaping pile of accolades that The Walking Dead received in Game of the Year lists that stretched across all corners of the industry, one hopes that developer Telltale Games isn't taking its success for granted. At last week's DICE summit in Las Vegas, Telltale co-founder and CEO Dan Connors revealed a bit more about his company's plans for another season of episodic zombie avoidance and drama, and shared some more info about the upcoming Fables-based project. He also shared some insight into the role of puzzles in traditional adventure games, and how that relationship might not be the same as it once was.
The Walking Dead is far from Telltale Games first release, but according to Connors, it exemplifies what what the developer has been striving to achieve. "In my mind, this is what we've been working toward for a long time," he told IGN.
Connors admits that no-one predicted the game would be such a runaway success, but feels the game is ultimately a product of the developer staying true to itself. "We've never strayed from who we are," he said. It makes sense then, that Telltale is keen to leverage The Walking Dead's brand of storytelling in its other properties.
"We've pushed and worked our asses off to do this. Now it's a really good template," Connors said. "All that work paid off. When executed well, with the right franchise, with the right gameplay mechanics, with a great story, with great writing, this is what it can be. It's really powerful and really compelling."
Connors also agrees that adventure games were indeed making a resurgence, but asserts that definition of adventure shouldn't be bound by the mechanical tropes of yesteryear. "It's so hard, because what is an adventure game? Does it have to be an inventory-based game with puzzles and dialogue? Or is it anything where you have dialogue and puzzles," Connors asked. "There's parts of adventure games in every game out there. In a way, adventure games started the idea of graphics in games. They're like the blues of the whole thing. Every game has some adventure game mechanic in it. So resurgence-wise, it's great that Ron [Gilbert] and Tim [Schafer] are working on it." Making the genre more of a "storytelling medium" and less of a "puzzle-based" medium is Connors' ultimate challenge to makers of adventure games.
"Hopefully they continue to push mechanics forward as well and don't retreat back to the known 1992 or 1993 vintage of adventure game mechanics, which can be something that people have clung to for a long time," Connors said. "It hasn't had the ability to go outside of the people that really like it. It's like a really good wine or something that some people really love and other people can't drink."
Granted, The Walking Dead is certainly a solid answer to that challenge. Even so, Connors seems to think that part of this evolution of adventure games is necessary to reach a new, nontraditional audience. "I don't know if the people that played Walking Dead on XBLA are ready for an adventure game that comes out that is 'walk around the world, pick up objects, use them on other objects, put them back in your inventory, combine two items, solve the puzzle,'" he said. "I don't know if that's a direct link."


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Discerning Justice: Yes on 34
October was Interfaith Month for Prop 34, a time set aside for leaders of faith traditions to address the question of California's death penalty and advocate for its replacement. Hundreds of faith community's have endorsed Proposition 34 because we believe the best way to do justice in California is to replace the death penalty with life in prison with no possibility of parole.
The will to see justice done is deep within the human spirit. We may not always agree on what "justice" looks like, but the belief in a just and fair society — and the desire to bring it about — are at the heart of how we live together and form a community. In religious traditions like Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and countless others, doing justice is a calling to enact God's will.
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Phil Lesh to Play Free Turtle Rock Show at Terrapin Crossroads
Phil Lesh has confirmed a free show at his San Rafael, CA Terrapin Crossroads venue. Tomorrow, the bassist will play a free show at the club billed as Turtle Rock. Music will start at 4pm and stretch late into the night. Lesh and the rest of Furthur were slated to perform at Napa, CA's Bottle Rocket Festival tomorrow but cancelled after Bob Weir cleared his schedule following an incident at Port Chester, NY's Capitol Theatre last month.
Lesh's Turtle Rock show will feature Furthur's John Kadlecik,
Jeff Chimenti and Joe Russo and as well as Ryan Adams & the Cardinals/Chris Robinson Brotherhood guitarist Neal Casal, guitarist Stu Allen and members of the Terrapin Family Band. This evening the Terrapin Family Band will play the music of the Rolling Stones at their home venue.


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TEL AVIV — The Israel Air Force will host nearly 1,000 officers and air warriors from three nations for desert-based training in a debut Blue Flag air drill scheduled here for next month. Patterned after the US Air Force's annual Red Flag desert exercise, the two-week Blue Flag at the Air Force's Ovda training range north of Eilat marks Israel's first multinational training event.
It will involve more than 100 aircraft performing Israeli-planned air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, with participating forces operating against Israel's Flying Dragon aggressor squadron in simulated aerial engagements.
Due to diplomatic and security concerns, Israel is withholding the identities of participating air forces until their personnel and aircraft are safely in country. Aside from the US Air Force, sources here cited Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Poland as possible participants. All have trained with Israel in the past two years.
Since losing Turkey as a joint training partner in 2009, the Air Force has cultivated cooperation with Cyprus and Greece. In the past four years, both nations have repeatedly offered their airspace for long-range patrols and aerial refueling. The most recent involved a weeklong drill this month.
The Turkish Air Force severed ties with the Israel Air Force following Israel's Cast Lead incursion into Gaza, abruptly disinviting Israel from taking part in Anatolian Eagle, a multinational exercise also patterned after Red Flag.
Brig. Gen. Amikam Norkin, Israel Air Force chief of air operations, said the service plans to institutionalize Blue Flag as a biennial event for showcasing capabilities, strengthening diplomatic bonds and preparing for future scenarios involving coalition forces.
"We could find ourselves involved with other international interests in this region ... not for joint planning or coalition-scale coordination, but for purposes of deconfliction," he said. "The subject of training, using the same language and the same terms, will help enormously in such scenarios."
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Former TV newsman Chris Heinbaugh left the mayor's office to return to his roots in the arts community
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Chris Heinbaugh will not soon forget his first day working for the AT&T Performing Arts Center as its external affairs director. A "patio session" live music show preceded the opening night of Billy Elliot at the Winspear, the Mavs hosted one of their home games on the way to the NBA title, and there was an after-party at Jorge's where he needed to make an appearance. All without an assistant. Jorge's is where he is sitting now, margarita in hand, after work.
All that might sound like the kind of first day that might also be your last, but for Heinbaugh, it was completely manageable. As the openly gay chief of staff to Mayor Tom Leppert (and briefly Mayor Dwaine Carraway), Heinbaugh was a fixture in the media, at council meetings and throughout the community; Day 1 at ATTPAC was just another example of doing what needs to be done.
"You hit the ground running in both jobs," he says with a sly smile. "People ask me, 'Do you miss City Hall? Do you miss the politics?' There's still politics in what I do, interacting with the city, the chambers [of commerce], other arts organizations." He shrugs and takes another sip of his margarita.
Now, instead of working for the man who runs a huge city, he work for an entity that manages, operates and programs the Wyly, Winspear, Strauss Square and Sammons Park (there are no plans for ATTPAC to operate the City Performance Hall currently under construction, "though we are supportive of what they want") — also a breathtakingly expansive job.
But working for an arts organization isn't as far a cry from Heinbaugh's prior life as it may seem. Before he started working for Leppert, Heinbaugh was on-air talent for WFAA-TV. Although he was hired to be a political reporter, Heinbaugh says he made it a condition of his employment that he got to dip his toe occasionally in arts coverage to "keep my creative juices working."
"Ray Nasher was one of the first stories I did when I moved here," he says. "He got me a full tour of his house and he was so passionate about every piece — every piece had a story. And the [performing arts center] was something I started covering immediately. It was a great way to get to know the arts community."
That was back in 2000, and Heinbaugh ended up in Dallas almost by accident. After 18 years in television journalism, he was ready to quit and start a different career when WFAA tapped him. The flagship station of the Belo Corp., being asked to work for Channel 8 is to TV journos what being called to the majors is for a minor league pitcher:The juiciest plum in his profession. He couldn't turn it down.
But even journalism was a second career in itself. In a prior life, Heinbaugh received his college degree in theater from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and made his living (barely) as actor for more than a decade.
"That was a long time ago," he sighs. "Although there's an episode of Divorce Court out there with me in it. Every so often I still get a residual check for two bucks." (He also appeared as a bachelor on The Dating Game and won the vacation with the bachelorette, though it was platonic and they stayed in separate rooms.) Eventually Heinbaugh craved the regularity of a steady paycheck and went back to school to study journalism.
Now all those careers are behind him, though his position at ATTPAC didn't come as a surprise to him, or even feel like much of a change.
"The job was something on my radar," he admits. Even before Leppert's sudden resignation as mayor so that he could run for U.S. Senate, Heinbaugh planned to switch careers, and something in the arts seemed a natural extension of both his theatrical and political lives.
"I loved all the things going on in the city, from the Calatrava bridge to the Performing Arts Center, so now I just get to be an advocate."
Heinbaugh works for ATTPAC, which is a separate entity from the Arts District neighborhood, headed by Veletta Lill.
"I work closely with Veletta," he says. "I've known her since I've lived here and she has such a great appreciation for the arts community and the gay community."
They work together in trying to turn Downtown into its own destination, with sunset movie screenings, outdoor concerts and festivals. Something is working.
"When I moved here there were maybe 200 people living Downtown; now there are 7,000 to 8,000," he says. "Museum Tower is coming. It's just a matter of time."
But he also know what really will serve the ATTPAC is the programming at the halls.
"What's the real challenge for the resident companies is, they have this tremendous space and the question is, what do they do with it? I think [Dallas Theater Center artistic director] Kevin Moriarty has pushed the envelope, and that's good for the arts. That's what's really exciting. And we're getting the word out."
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition August 26, 2011.


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12/24/2012 1:33:44 PM - emi - united kingdom
invited my neighbours over for a christmas eve tea party
12/24/2012 4:07:33 PM - Brianna - Lewistown
very nice Emi from United Kingdom!?
12/24/2012 11:19:27 AM. - Marisa b - Jacksonville NC
I helped in toys for tots by donating 20 toys.
12/24/2012 1:34:56 PM - emi - united kingdom
that is so nice i hope tyhey like the toys :-)
12/25/2012 1:27:54 PM. - Rev. Stone - Grants Pass/Selma, Oregon
growing up in poverty I can really appreciate the implications of your kindness, its acts like these that bring a tear of joy to an old Fireman's eye & I Thank You so much & encourage you to continue giving throughout the New year. Pay It Forward ROCKS!!! & FEELS GOOD TOO!!!
12/24/2012 11:18:20 AM. - Diane - Kingman, AZ
Went thru a fast food drive thru, I paid for the meal that the car behind me ordered.
Gave a ride to someone that was planning on walking several miles in the cold weather, gave him a blanket also.
12/24/2012 4:09:27 PM - Brianna - Lewistown
I am sure they appreciated that Diane from Kingman,AZ!?
12/24/2012 8:55:15 AM - Amy - GTA
I decorated my house with my parents. I made a Christmas Marble Cake all by myself, I was scared it will burn, luckily, it turned out good to eat. Also, I learned how to sing the Christmas Carol, "Here Comes Santa Claus." I helped organizing a Christmas party in my community. I also made food in Polish Style. I feel proud that I did something this year.
12/24/2012 9:36:36 AM. - sharon - mo
that is so sweet....Jesus bless you as you share His love...
12/24/2012 11:15:16 AM - Marisa b - Jacksonville NC
That is so nice of you.
12/24/2012 4:10:24 PM - Brianna - Lewistown
How sweet of you
12/24/2012 4:23:03 PM - Brianna - Lewistown
You must have good cooking skills!! And also Good Job Amy from GTA!??
12/24/2012 6:30:15 PM. - Emily - Canada
so nice of you
12/26/2012 6:24:05 PM - pounds - usa
hey really sweet
12/24/2012 7:49:00 AM - Diane - South Portland, ME
Giving money to a homeless person on a street corner.
I believe that no matter what they do with the money, I am still helping out someone who is worse off than I. After all, I am the one in a warm car with a warm home and a loving family to return to.
12/24/2012 1:37:21 PM - squems - united kingdom
that is so lovely i hope he uses his/her money to buy something nice for christmas
3/21/2013 10:43:15 AM - Alcia - England
that is so lovely i hope he uses his/her money to buy something nice for christmas
12/24/2012 7:26:49 AM - big rob - skegness
gave pesents to elderly in nurseing home have a happy christmas everyone
12/24/2012 9:22:18 AM - madisyn - heath ohio
I love giving
12/24/2012 7:04:56 AM - mary - pittsburg
helped my neabor shelvel snow
12/24/2012 4:12:26 PM - Brianna - Lewistown
That's very nice of you Mary from Pittsburg!?
12/24/2012 6:30:19 AM. - Claire - Allen
I played piano for my grandparents:)
12/24/2012 9:03:04 AM. - Mary - Acworth
I bet you got lots of compliments.
12/24/2012 4:35:24 PM - Brianna - Lewistown
I bet you got a lot of "congratulations" and "well done" Claire from Allen
12/24/2012 5:10:40 AM - Star - That State Where All the Cool People Live (begins with a c and isnt cali)
Today im singing silent night at my moms party
12/25/2012 4:42:13 PM - Liz - Connecticut
I like singing because everybody really enjoys it, it's nice, and it's fun! Also it makes you proud to know you have courage to show your skills to people.
12/24/2012 5:07:50 AM - Star - That State Where All the Cool People Live (begins with a c and isnt cali)
Once my friend was upset at a school social and she was crying so i spent the whole social with her. At the end we all danced our hearts out where everyone could see us.
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Sugi (Sugriwa): Male, born at the St. Louis Zoo on December 31, 1995. Sugi arrived at the Philadelphia Zoo on December 15, 2006.
Batu: Female, born on October 2, 2009 to Tua and Sugi.
If you see a pile of sheets or cardboard start to move in the orangutan exhibit, it's probably an orangutan.
PECO Primate Reserve. The orangutans and gibbons currently take turns on exhibit, so try looking outside if you don't see them inside, or vice versa. In cooler weather, only one species is visible at a time.
The highly-intelligent orangutan is the largest tree-living mammal in the world.
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Sumatran orangutans are one of the great apes and are among the largest of all living primates. They are also among the most critically endangered - an estimated 80% of orangutan habitat has been destroyed in the last 20 years and there are only an estimated 14,000 individuals left in the wild, with numbers continuing to drop at an alarming rate. Read more about how Philadelphia Zoo is helping wild orangutans.
Orangutans exhibit a pronounced physical difference between males and females. This male/female difference is called sexual dimorphism. Male orangutans exhibit a little understood phenomenon known as "bimaturism" This means that there are two types of mature male orangutans: flanged and unflanged males. Flanged males have big cheek pads on the sides of their face and a large throat sac under the chin, which aid in vocalizing. Unflanged males have neither cheek pads nor throat sacs, although they are sexually mature and able to father offspring.
Orangutans are covered with a sparse, coarse, long, shaggy hair which, in adults, can be maroon or dark reddish brown to burnt sienna in color. An adult orangutan's face is mostly bare with dark skin. Sumatran orangutans tend to be slimmer than Bornean orangutans, with longer faces, and the fur is usually longer and lighter.
Orangutans in both the wild and in zoos may live into their late 50s, with Guarina and Guas, a pair of orangutans at the Philadelphia Zoo, holding the longevity record for orangutans at 57 and 58 years old, respectively. Wild orangutans face many threats and so their average lifespan varies widely, and most individuals do not reach the maximum lifespan.
Care of young orangutans is given exclusively by the mother. Female orangutans invest a lot in each infant. Gestation is about 9 months and the infant nurses for 4-5 years. As the infant grows, it becomes less and less dependent on its mother, but because of its heavy investment in each infant, female Sumatran orangutans may go 7-9 years between offspring.
Wild orangutans are primarily arboreal—they spend most of their time high in the trees. They are the only members of the great ape family to spend most of their time off the ground. Their legs are short, but they have long, muscular arms to help them climb. They use their hands and feet to climb, grasping and swaying their way between trees. Orangutans can also walk on two feet, but locomotion on the ground is usually quadrupedal (on four feet). They build a nest of branches and leaves in a tree each evening and also sometimes during the day.
Orangutans are the most solitary of the great apes, but they exhibit a wide range of sociality across their range and may be extremely social when they do associate with other orangutans. Generally, flanged male orangutans spend most of their time alone, while females usually travel with just their dependent infant or juvenile offspring. However, female orangutans do spend some time with other adult females, often relatives. Unflanged males (males that have not developed cheek pads) also associate with females and other unflanged males in times of food abundance. Male orangutans hold large territories that may overlap the territories of several females. Flanged males use their throat sacs to make long calls, a distinctive vocalization that can carry for almost a mile, which announce territory and attract females. Orangutans, like chimpanzees, have been shown to exhibit innovative behavior and social learning.
Male orangutans are much larger than females. Males measure, on average, 3.18 ft (970 mm) and females average 2.56 ft. (780 mm).
Males weigh, on average, 192 lbs (87 kg); females weigh an average of 81.6 lbs (37 kg).
In the wild, orangutans consume mainly fruit when it's available, but also regularly eat insects and flowers and fall back on less favored foods when fruit availability is low. Fallback foods include inner bark, young and mature leaves, and non-leafy vegetation. At the Zoo, orangutans are offered a base diet of primate biscuit. Several types of primate biscuit are included. The enrichment portion includes a variety of familiar fruits as well as seasonally available Asian fruits similar to those consumed in the wild. Vegetables, nuts, leafy greens and seasonal browse are also in the diet.
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