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When, in the 1920s, the pioneering Southern California social critic Louis Adamic called Los Angeles "the enormous village," he didn't mean it as a compliment. Rather, he was referring to L.A.'s insularity, its status as what Richard Meltzer would later label "the biggest HICK Town (per se) in all the hick land," a city of small-town values and narrow vision that "grew up suddenly, planlessly."
For Adamic, Los Angeles was defined by individual, as opposed to collective, passions, starting with its architecture. His idea of the place as a "garden city," in which identity was less an expression of the public square than of the private home, has been echoed by nine decades of observers, from Nathanael West ("Only dynamite would be any use," he sniffs in "The Day of the Locust," against L.A.'s "Mexican ranch houses, Samoan huts, Mediterranean villas, Egyptian and Japanese temples") to Norman Mailer, who, in "Superman Comes to the Supermarket," grouses about the "pastel monotonies" of this "city without iron, eschewing wood, a kingdom of stucco, the playground for mass men."
A similar sensibility underpins "Never Built Los Angeles," a compendium of more than 100 architectural projects — master plans, skyscrapers, transportation hubs, parks and river walks — that never made it off the ground. Edited by former Los Angeles magazine architecture critic Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell, West Coast editor of the Architect's Newspaper, and accompanied by an exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum, it's a lavish counter-history of the city as it might have been: a literal L.A. of the mind.
"Los Angeles," Goldin and Lubell explain in an insightful introduction, "lacks the grand gestures of urban innovation. Several of the best houses of the twentieth century were conceived and built here, but the same cannot be said of civic buildings or parks or plazas or monuments. With a few notable exceptions — Los Angeles City Hall, Disney Hall, the Bradbury Building, the Department of Water and Power building, Griffith Park Observatory, and Griffith Park itself — a gift for public architecture and planning is missing. These scattered, almost accidental urban triumphs are so singular that they underscore how little has been done, and how little they alone can do, to piece the city together into a compelling whole."
The irony, of course, is that it didn't have to be this way, which "Never Built Los Angeles" embodies at the core. Beginning with Charles Mulford Robinson's 1907 "City Beautiful Plan" — featuring parks and boulevards around "a new 'administrative center,'" modeled on Daniel Burnham's plan for Chicago and Baron von Haussmann's for Paris — the book traces a century of innovative thinking: some good, some bad.
There's Robert Alexander and Richard Neutra's 1950 Elysian Park Heights development, which would have mixed high-rises and garden apartments to provide housing for more than 3,000 families in a pre-Dodger Stadium Chavez Ravine. Or Lloyd Wright's famous Civic Center plan of 1925, an "acropolis for the city" in the form of terraced walkways amid a complex of massive structures in the middle of downtown. What these projects had in common is a sense of the city as somehow centered, which has been, perhaps, L.A.'s most abiding issue all along.
Nowhere does this resonate more fully than in the Maguire Partners' 1979-80 proposal for Grand Avenue, "a $700-million architectural exquisite corpse" made up of nine individual projects, designed by, among others, Frank Gehry, Lawrence Halprin and Charles Moore, that "would have connected upper Grand Avenue to the city's historic core through a series of intersecting parks, plazas, fountains, and promenades, an outdoor theater, and a variety of pavilions for restaurants and cafes."
As compelling as this sounds, Goldin and Lubell never let us forget the converse: that for every dream, there's a monstrosity. One of my favorites is an offshore freeway called the Causeway, which would have run along a six-mile chain of artificial islands between Santa Monica and Malibu had Gov. Edmund G. Brown not vetoed it in 1965. Another is Donald Trump's plan for a 148-story gold skyscraper on the Ambassador Hotel site, which he acquired in 1989. Ultimately, LAUSD took over the Ambassador after a 12-year legal battle.
And yet, despite his New York arrogance (build the world's tallest building on Wilshire and Alexandria?), is Trump really so different from the tycoons who built Los Angeles? "There's space here," Goldin and Lubell argue, "for … reckless self-invention," which, in many ways, is what "Never Built Los Angeles" is about.
"In the end," they continue, "cities are never complete, even when they perish. Ghosts of cities past inhabit the ruins and affect us across the ages. Crumbling Mayan temples made converts of Robert Stacy-Judd and Frank Lloyd Wright. The frayed and faded notions of countless others who have sketched and doodled may, in turn, stir new generations to toy with the boundaries of artistic and urban expression and to rethink a place that, to this day, is trying to solve the riddle of what it wants to become."
Never Built Los Angeles
Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell; Foreword by Thom Mayne
Metropolis Books: 376 pp., $55


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After more than 40 best sellers, James Patterson is just getting started.
He has agreed to a 17-book deal with his longtime publisher, the Hachette Book Group - an unthinkable commitment for most writers, but for Patterson a mere three years worth of work.
"Jim has all of these incredible franchises," says his literary representative, Washington attorney Robert Barnett, who cited such popular series as "Maximum Ride," "Daniel X" and the Alex Cross detective stories. "And when you put all of those franchises together, that's a lot of books."
Hachette announced Tuesday that the ultra-prolific novelist will turn out 10 adult thrillers, one nonfiction work and six novels for young people by the end of 2012. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Patterson will have help with those books. His co-authors have included Maxine Paetro and Andrew Gross and he will continue to use collaborators, Barnett says.
"Whenever he works with a co-author he fully discloses it," Barnett says. "There's no secret he works with collaborators."
A Reader's Respite just loves the way Patterson's literary representative refers to the author's different series of books as "franchises." Really? Franchises?
Is Patterson now the Golden Arches of the publishing world?
And if so, can we expect the prices of his books to drop considerably to reflect the quality?
Bye bye, Mr. Patterson. You've been voted off our bookshelves.

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Long Sentences For Counterfeiters
Gray-haired Mother Only One in Whole Gang That Escaped Sentence
Leader is Given Ten Years at Leavenworth
Woman Who Was Alleged Instigator in Plot Gets Two-year Sentence.
September 23, 1911
Long Sentences For Counterfeiters
Gray-haired Mother Only One in Whole Gang That Escaped Sentence
Leader is Given Ten Years at Leavenworth
Woman Who Was Alleged Instigator in Plot Gets Two-year Sentence.
There came to an end in Federal court yesterday, the most interesting series of counterfeiting cases ever tried in the southern district of West Virginia, resulting in six persons indicted for that offense being given sentences aggregating 30 years in confinement. Embodied in the cases were men of mature years and mere children; women, young in years but old in experience and one women old and gray-haired and the mother of a large family. Fortunately for the latter District Attorney Ritz was lenient and she was sent home, the shame and disgrace of the prison shadows being kept from her.
Jack Wilson is an old and hardened criminal, his very talk betokening long years in the under world of crime. His punishment comes to him as nothing new for he has served time before for the same wrong doing. When Judge Keller imposed upon him the penalty of the law yesterday, his gray, lined face expressed no emotion - not the least. He had known all along what was coming and was not surprised.
Mercer M. Leonard, just budding into young manhood, strong, well built and with a long life before him will spend five years of it back of prison bars. His case is rather sad when it is considered that his downfall may practically be attributed to the evil influences of one man and that one and old and hardened criminal.
Mrs. Esther Folden, daughter of a prominent Mercer county family, who was sent to Moundsville for two years, is still a young woman, strong and healthy and yet alleged to have been one of the strongest supports of Jack Wilson in the making of spurious coin, selling her poultry to secure the money with which to purchase the machine used in plating the "queer," and aiding him in making bogus $5 gold pieces and silver dollars, a large number of both of which were exhibited in court.
Riley Folden, husband of Esther, who was sentenced to four years at Leavenworth, is a middle- aged man never before engaged in criminal calling so far as could be learned. He too had fallen under the spell of promised wealth held out by Wilson and will soon begin the payment of the penalty.
Little Jim Leonard, about three feet tall, red haired and eleven years old, but with plenty of shrewdness, was sentenced to two years in the National Training School for Boys. It may be that the training there will help him if the guesses of those who heard him talk and saw the shrewd little face with outcropping ears and knobby head, are anywhere near right it will take more than two years' training to change him, child though he is.
John Cooper Leonard, soft of eye, unshingled and quiet spoken, was given the same sentence as his brother Jim - two years in the National Training School.
All of these out of one little country community in Mercer county, sent to prison because they took into their midst a hardened criminal who led them on and on until the gates of the penitentiary swung open before them. There's something pitiful about the weakness of human nature and the fact couldn't well be more clearly shown than here.
When the case of Mrs. Isabelle Leonard was called, Judge Ritz addressed the court in regard to her. A little bit of a woman, gray haired and lonely, she sat through it all, a pathetic figure. The district attorney said that circumstances surrounding her particular case, called for the leniency of the court and that the government did not feel like going further into the prosecution of her. He said she had unquestionably tried to raise her children right, from all he could learn, and that she had been dragged into this affair through those children who had disregarded her teachings. After Judge Ritz had closed, each count on which Mrs. Leonard had been indicated [sic] was nollied[?] by Judge Keller.
The government found it very easy to secure convictions against those members of the alleged gang that had entered pl[e]as of not guilty to the indictments found against them. The trials were taken up yesterday morning at the opening of the court and in every case the jury quickly returned a verdict of guilty.
The evidence against the accused besides that of the secret service officers, who rounded up the gang also included the confession made by Jack Wilson the self-confessed chief of the band of counterfeiters. Wilson recited the story of the whole affair and indicated by his testimony that one of the instigators of the plot was Mrs. Ester Folden. The trials of the defendants took up only a brief time, the evidence in each one being practically the same.
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Sonoma County's top prosecutor has joined with advocates for the developmentally disabled in calling for local police to take charge of criminal investigations of patient abuse at California's board-and-care institutions.
Cases involving reported assault and negligence have long been left to the Office of Protective Services, the police force at the five state-run developmental centers. The force's detectives and patrol officers have routinely failed to do basic police work even when patients die under suspicious circumstances.
The force has performed especially poorly in sexual abuse cases, California Watch reported in a story published Thursday.
Patients have accused caretakers of molestation and rape 36 times since 2009, but the Office of Protective Services did not order a single hospital-supervised rape examination for any of the alleged victims. "Rape kit" exams are routinely used to collect evidence at most police departments.
Eleven of the sex abuse cases were reported at the Sonoma Developmental Center, all from female patients living in the Corcoran Unit.
"The local law enforcement agencies have better tools than (the Office of Protective Services) does to handle those kinds of investigations," Jill Ravitch, Sonoma County district attorney, said in an interview Friday. She has recommended that the county sheriff's office take over responsibility for potential abuse cases, including sex assaults.
The centers house roughly 1,600 patients with cerebral palsy, severe autism and intellectual disabilities in Sonoma, Los Angeles, Riverside, Tulare and Orange counties. The state spends more than $300,000 a year to care for each patient.
The Arc and United Cerebral Palsy in California, an advocacy group for the developmentally disabled, has argued for months that city and county police agencies should investigate patient abuse allegations at the institutions. Greg deGiere, public policy director for the group, said the Office of Protective Services mishandled sex assault investigations, making outside police involvement urgent.
"This problem is out of control and warrants a much stronger response," deGiere said.
State officials have documented hundreds of cases of abuse and unexplained injuries, almost none of which have led to arrests, California Watch has reported in a series of stories this year. The Office of Protective Services has failed to collect physical evidence in numerous potential violent crime cases.
And in the three dozen cases of sexual abuse, internal records reveal that patients suffered molestation, forced oral sex and vaginal lacerations. But for years, the state-run police force has moved so slowly and ineffectively that predators have stayed a step ahead of law enforcement or abused new victims, records show.
In response to reporting by California Watch, state lawmakers in August ordered the California State Auditor to examine the force's handling of criminal investigations and overtime spending. Gov. Jerry Brown signed two laws that require the centers to notify outside law enforcement and Disability Rights California, a protection organization, of alleged patient abuse and certain serious injuries.
The state Department of Developmental Services operates the centers and the police force. Terri Delgadillo, the agency's director, said Friday in a written statement that the measures improve patients' safety.
"The department welcomed the passage and signing of SB 1051 and SB 1522, that will further ensure developmental center investigators and outside law enforcement agencies work more collaboratively to investigate unexplained injuries or allegations of abuse," Delgadillo wrote.
It is unclear how prepared, or willing, local city police and sheriff's departments are to shoulder the additional caseload from the centers. Local law enforcement agencies across the state have long deferred allegations of abuse at the centers to the Office of Protective Services.
Sonoma County Sheriff Steve Freitas could not be reached for comment on Friday.
Going forward, deGiere said the onus should be on outside police agencies to head up investigations of crimes against developmental center patients.
"If they don't get involved, it's because they choose not to get involved," he said, "not because they can't."
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CoPI: Eric Stahlberg, OSC
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Duration: 09/2002 - 09/2005
Description: Proteins containing long coiled-coil domains have been found in animals and yeast to be involved in attaching signaling molecules to the large, solid-state components of the cell, such as membrane systems, centromeres, centrosomes, or the nuclear scaffold. There is growing evidence that they play an important role in the spatial and temporal regulation of protein positioning in the cell. In contrast, this group of proteins has been barely investigated in plants. The goal of this Arabidopsis 2010 project is to identify all Arabidopsis proteins that contain long stretches of coiled-coil domains, and to functionally characterize a subgroup that has been implicated in plant nuclear envelope targeting. Preliminary research has identified over 1000 predicted coiled-coil proteins in the Arabidopsis genome, almost 70% of which are "unknown proteins". Examples of coiled-coil proteins with sorting signals for all major compartments of the plant cell have been identified.
To begin a functional investigation of this large and uncharacterized protein class in Arabidopsis, a twofold approach will be taken: (1) An automated computational platform will be established on a multi-processor cluster that will allow: (a) to identify all long (50 amino acids or longer) coiled-coil proteins in Arabidopsis by structural prediction algorithms; (b) to integrate the output with a battery of sequence and structure analysis programs to establish predicted nuclear, organellar, and membrane localization, family relationships, functional domains, and other relevant features; and (c) to create a publicly available, searchable database of Arabidopsis coiled-coil proteins, to which experimental data such as subcellular location, protein-protein interactions, and mutant phenotypes will be added. (2) A group of 16 coiled-coil proteins of unknown function, which bind to Arabidopsis WPP-domain proteins, will be functionally investigated. The WPP domain is a nuclear envelope-targeting domain unique to plants, which is involved in positioning Ran GTPase activating protein (RanGAP) at the nuclear rim. A group of coiled-coil proteins has been experimentally identified, which specifically recognize the WPP domain. The hypothesis is that some of the identified proteins are specific subcellular anchors for WPP-domain proteins. This will be tested by investigating: (a) the in vitro and in vivo binding specificity of the full-length proteins; (b) their subcellular localization; (c) knockout or RNAi phenotypes; and (d) the effect of coiled-coil protein knockouts on the subcellular positioning of WPP-domain protein-GFP fusions.


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Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim have written a book for sports fans that, as its subtitle says, explores "the hidden influences behind how sports are played and games are won." Scorecasting does pretty much deliver the goods, but some of what is revealed is at times a bit underwhelming since common sense and careful observation tell much the same story without all the stats.
There is something in the book for fans of both professional and amateur sports - and everything in between, such as our semi-professional college sports programs. The authors take a hard look at football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, and soccer and use statistics, personal observation, interviews, and speculation to make surprising points concerning what is really happening out there.
I suspect that most fans will be least surprised by the book when it comes to whatever sport they spend the most time following. In my case, that sport is baseball. While the authors spend a substantial number of pages explaining what goes on in the head of a major league umpire when the game is being played in a loud and hostile ballpark, little about "makeup calls" and special treatment for star players, especially in late innings or in crucial situations, will surprise baseball nuts.
The chapter on the use of steroids in baseball did, however, give me something new to think about. Ever wonder why most of the players caught using steroids are minority players from poor countries? Moskowitz and Wertheim will fill you in.
There are chapters on home field advantage, the relative value of blocked shots in basketball, the situational pressure of putting, the "myth" of the hot hand and momentum, icing the field goal kicker in game situations, why early draft choices are so overvalued and, among a few others, whether or not defense really wins championships.
There really is something here for everyone, regardless of how rabid a sports fan one might be, and there are some surprises and observational gems to be found. If you enjoyed Freakonomics or SuperFreakonomics, the odds are pretty high that you will love this one. If you hated those two books and dislike sports, run away from Scorecasting.
Just remember, sports fans, as one of the book's chapter titles puts it, "There's no I in team, but there is an "m" and an "e." Or as Michael Jordon once said when a team owner chastised him by using the "there's no I in team," thing, "There's an I in win. So which way do you want it?"
This one will make you chuckle a bit while it presents you with a new way to look at something you've been watching your entire life. It might even make you feel a little smarter because you already knew some of this stuff.
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I think that the author Ann Cameron wrote the story because she wants kids to see how lies only lead you to other lies and get you in more trouble. For example, Julian tells one lie and that lie leads to lots of other lies.
Once I acted like Julian in the story. When I was in Orlando, Florida, I was learning how to swim. I said that I already knew how. So when I swam, I almost drowned. I learned that telling a lie can cause trouble. This is the same lesson that Julian learned.
I recommend this book because I like the illustrator?s sketches. I think kids would like this book if they like reading chapter books. I also think kids would like the moral, which is that telling lies usually doesn?t help.


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CARY – Petitions for candidacy for three Library Board of Trustee seats in the Cary Area Public Library District are available at the Cary Area Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road.
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The term of office for two of the positions is six years. The third office is a four-year unexpired term.
To qualify to hold office, a candidate must be a registered voter and must reside in the Cary Area Public Library District.
Petition filing will begin at 9 a.m. Dec. 17 and will close at 5 p.m. Dec. 26; this reflects a recent change in the filing deadline.
The Cary library will accept filings from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 17 through Dec. 21 and on Dec. 26.
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EAST STROUDSBURG — East Stroudsburg University's Brendan McKeown has been named the PSAC Co-Wrestler of the Week after going 3-0, including a win over the defending regional champion in his weight class, at the Super Region 1 Duals at Newberry College.
EAST STROUDSBURG — East Stroudsburg University's Brendan McKeown has been named the PSAC Co-Wrestler of the Week after going 3-0, including a win over the defending regional champion in his weight class, at the Super Region 1 Duals at Newberry College.
McKeown, a redshirt junior and returning national qualifier at 174 pounds, improved to 11-1 on the season and 7-1 against Division II competition.
He won a 9-5 decision over Newberry's Travis Sheehy on Saturday in a rematch of last year's regional final, which Sheehy won by an 11-4 decision. McKeown entered the weekend ranked fifth in the region at 174, while Sheehy was ranked second.
McKeown opened the SR1 Duals with a technical fall (17-1) over Kobina Henriques of Ohio Valley on Friday night and a first-period fall (1:51) against Jacob Allen of Anderson on Saturday morning.
His 11 victories include seven by bonus points — one fall, two technical falls and four major decisions. His only loss this season came by injury default in a dual at Pitt-Johnstown on Dec. 4.
McKeown shares this week's award with Bloomsburg's Justin Grant, who is ranked No. 18 in Division I at 285 pounds and won a 9-4 decision over Edinboro's Ernest James in a dual win on Friday.
He is the third ESU wrestler to win the award in the last 10 years. Adam Hluschak (141) was recognized last season (Jan. 16, 2012) and John Carr (174) was recognized during the 2004-05 season (December 15).
ESU is in action twice this week, hosting Millersville on Wednesday at 7 p.m. and traveling to Centenary (N.J.) on Friday at 7 p.m.
TOWSON, Md. — Senior guard D.J. Strayhorn of the Moravian College men's basketball team was named the Landmark Conference Player of the Week announced Monday.
Strayhorn, a Pocono Mountain East gradute, averaged 21 points and four rebounds a game to go with his seven assists and six steals in two games last week. He also shot .500 (15-for-30) from the field and .900 (9-for-10) from the charity stripe.
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This winter, Strayhorn is averaging 15 points a game to go with his 63 assists, 51 rebounds and 30 steals.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. May, 3 2010) - Fresh off earning its eighth trip to the NCAA Tournament the 62nd-ranked ETSU men's tennis team and the ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced Monday that the University is set to host a Selection Show party for the Bucs starting at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon inside the Humphrey Academic Center.
The Humphrey Center is located on the second level of the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. Fans can access the entrance by walking up the ramp on the west side of the Mini Dome.
The Bucs and ETSU invites all fans to take part in the celebration. Part of the festivities include free drinks for the public, interviews from coaches and players and much more. ESPNEWS will broadcast the announcement of the field live for the second straight year starting at 5 p.m.
ETSU (15-7) won its fourth straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship two weeks ago over host and second-seeded Stetson, 4-2.
For more information of the ETSU men's tennis team please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis is a natural phenomenon that can paint the night sky with unearthly, surreal color. To observers at far-northern latitudes, they're a frequent occurrence, but many who live in more temperate climates have never seen them, even though they're sometimes seen as far south as 35 degrees north latitude. This article will help you improve your chances of seeing the Lights if you journey north.
Contrary to intuition, seeing the Northern Lights isn't just a matter of heading "north." The Lights usually circle the globe in a circular or elliptical band centered on the earth's North Magnetic Pole, which is not at the same location as the North Geographic Pole, but rather is offset in the direction of northern Canada. Furthermore, auroral displays aren't strongest at the North Magnetic Pole; the band of greatest auroral activity is usually offset from the Magnetic Pole by 20 degrees or so.
The Northern Lights oval, meaning the area with the highest probability, covers most of Alaska, northern parts of Canada, the southern half of Greenland, Iceland and Northern Norway and the northernmost areas of Sweden and Finland, as well as the western half of the Russian north (with the Kola Peninsula of Murmansk Oblast being the most popular viewing spot).
Regions such as central and southern Scandinavia and the north-central United States as well as Scotland also frequently see Northern Lights, but not as often as directly under the Northern Lights oval. Svalbard sees less Northern Lights than Northern Scandinavia, but is a place to observe the fainter Day Northern Lights during its long Polar night.
A curiosity is that the exact location of the North Magnetic Pole varies from year to year, sometimes by tens of miles. The Pole has been moving north for a few years now as of 2006; it's now near Ellesmere Island in the nearly uninhabited far north of Canada. As a consequence, the advantages of being on the "right side" of the earth are not as pronounced as they were some years ago. Still, there's a slight North American bias even today in your chance of seeing the Lights.
This said, the actual latitudes of the Lights vary considerably. In times of high solar activity (more on that later), the Lights may be seen in North America at latitudes as low as 35 degrees north, meaning that all but the southernmost parts of the United States may get a display. The offset of the Pole keeps solar storms from benefiting Europe quite as strongly, but most of the countries of northern Europe will get displays during periods of solar storms.
Planning to see the Northern Lights
There is no guarantee to see the Northern Lights, even if you are in the best areas. However, a bit of planning will radically increase your chances. In short, come between late September and late March!
What time of the year
Darkness is required. Most Northern Lights locations are found at high latitutes, meaning there is no darkness from mid-April until mid-August (even more in far northern locations like Svalbard). In this period of time, no Northern Lights can be observed.
In the most intense Northern Lights area (notably Alaska, Yukon, Iceland and Northern Scandinavia), the lights are observed from late August to mid April. However, from late September to late March, it is dark after 6pm, and one enjoys maximum chances.
On a yearly basis, the Lights are at their peak in September and March. The reasons for this trend aren't fully known, but it's definitely real, not just an artifact of the weather or other viewing conditions.
What time of day
The time between 6pm and 4am is the most intense period of the day. The highest probability within this timespan is between 10 and 11pm. However, this is a guideline, and during the Polar night auroras can be observed as early as 4pm, and all through the night. In periods of strong activity, one can expect several flares starting at around 6pm, peaking around 10pm, and going on until 1pm.
11-year cycle
In the longer term, auroral displays are correlated with an 11-year cycle in sunspot activity and other perturbations of the sun; the more restless the sun, the more aurorae. 2006-7 corresponded to a minimum in solar activity, and the next maximum in solar activity will be around 2013, with frequent Northern Lights displays likely for another two or three years after that.
Solar storms
In addition to these more or less regular variations in frequency of the aurora, there are also less predictable, erratic displays resulting from solar storms. Some of these, particularly near solar-activity maximum, can lead to visible Northern Lights remarkably far south, if you're in an area with clear, transparent night skies. The "Alerts" section below will help you stay on top of solar activity and prepare for some viewing when a solar storm does occur.
Clear skies
Last but not least, don't forget the weather forecast — aurora occur very high up in the atmosphere, and if there are clouds in the way you will not see anything. In Northern Scandinavia, the weather is notably better towards the end of the Northern Lights season (February-March), than in the beginning. The weather is probably the most important success factor in the areas under the Northern Lights oval, where there is visible Northern Lights up to 80% of all clear nights.
If you have the luxury of being able to travel into aurora-viewing territory on short notice, you can improve your chances of seeing something by being aware of "space weather," the things going on beyond the earth's atmosphere as a result of solar activity. A good site for this information is http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ operated by the (US) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, precisely for the purpose of keeping up on space weather. (The commercial site http://www.spaceweather.com/ presents much of the same information in digested, more accessible form.)
The University of Alaska Fairbanks maintains an Aurora Alert website at http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/.
If a major solar storm develops that is forecast to have a good chance of producing Northern (and Southern) Lights, your time to respond will be measured in hours to a few days, rather than either minutes or weeks. The forecasts will usually include some indication of how far from the magnetic poles the activity is expected to extend. For purposes of travel planning, it's a good idea to plan conservatively and go to a locale somewhat closer to the pole than the maximum extent of the aurora; things don't always work out as forecast, and the Lights may be relatively weak and/or confined to the northern horizon if you're at the southern edge of the activity, either limitation possibly creating difficulties for you in viewing owing to light pollution.
Into the wilds
Taking good pictures of the Northern Lights is very difficult, since they're fast-moving, often faint and against a pitch-dark background, all of which befuddles consumer point-and-shoots. Here's what you need for a sporting chance:
Observing sites
Northern Lights usually form 60mi/100km above the surface of the earth. This means that an eruption is visible over large tracts of land. In principle, all areas under the Northern Lights oval are good observation points. However, most of these areas are remote and inaccessible, suffering harsh climatic conditions. The mentioned locations provide some kind of infrastructure, like tours, observation points etc.
Okay, so how about the Southern Lights?
Aurorae happen in a circle/ellipse about the South Magnetic Pole just as they do about the north one, and the South Magnetic Pole is similarly offset from the geographic South Pole. Would-be observers of the Southern Lights or Aurora Australis benefit from the happy accident that the offset of the South Magnetic Pole is generally in the direction of Australia, although the Pole itself is still in Antarctica like the geographic one. Tasmania is therefore relatively favored for the Aurora Australis, and southern Australia gets more than its share of Lights relative to latitude. All of the considerations about maximizing your chances of seeing the Northern Lights apply equally to seeing the southern ones.
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Marcelo Calbucci needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
Startupday is a conference being put together by the Seattle 2.0 site (http://www.seattle20.com). Is the first of its kind because it targets only pre-entrepreneurs (people not doing startups right now) and all the speakers will be successful entrepreneurs themselves.
The Seattle 2.0 site is a hub for all technology entrepreneurs in Seattle, with a strong brand around community, bringing visibility to Seattle-based startups and entrepreneurs, and helping educate tech entrepreneurs.
The conference itself will be like a book on startups. From how to define your idea, to how to fund your business, to how to find customers.
The primary audience are technology people (software developers, program managers, general managers) working on large technology companies that have a dream of someday founding or joining a startup.
These are well-educated, mostly male, in their mid-20s to their late 30s.
We need a logo with the phrase "Startup Day". It can be together, as in "StartupDay" or with a space "Startup Day".
We also want to incorporate the words "by Seattle 2.0" using our original brand (see http://www.seattle20.com).
This logo should be independent brand from the Seattle 2.0 brand, but it would have to be used with the Seattle 2.0 brand without the feeling of disconnect. The colors can be different, but again, most have harmony with the colors on the Seattle 2.0 blue and orange.
I like simple logos with few elements. It should be a logo that can be resized to a small resolution to fit on a website (200-300px wide), but also used on a large banner at the event.
It has to be an horizontal logo (wider than taller)
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COLLIER, PA -- The LA Fitness club in the Pittsburgh suburb of Collier, PA—scene of last week's shootings in which a gunman killed three women and wounded nine others before turning the gun on himself—could reopen in the next two to three weeks at the earliest, a representative at the club said today.
Club staff was told two days after the Aug. 4 shootings that the Collier club would reopen in a minimum of three weeks—perhaps longer.
Members at the Collier club (also called the Bridgeville, PA, club) can work out free of charge at neighboring LA Fitness clubs in Pleasant Hills, PA, and Monroeville, PA, the Collier staff member said. Other competing clubs in the area may be taking Collier members in, but that has not been confirmed. Collier members will not be billed while the club is closed.
Counseling sessions began Saturday at a hotel in Pittsburgh and continue today. LA Fitness also provided a phone number for further counseling: 1-888-293-6948.
The funerals for two of the victims, Heidi Overmier and Elizabeth "Betsy" Gannon, were held Saturday. The funeral for the third victim, Jody Billingsley, is scheduled for Wednesday.
In other developments today, Pittsburgh police say they questioned the gunman, George Sodini, a week before the shootings about an incident involving a hand grenade Sodini allegedly had with him on a bus, according to multiple reports. Police received a call from a man who had ridden the bus with Sodini claiming that he saw him with a grenade in his hands. Sodini then allegedly asked the man if he wanted to hold the grenade.
When Sodini was questioned about the incident by police on July 30, he denied having the grenade. The passenger who initially made the call was unable to identify Sodini.
However, after the shootings, police later discovered writings in Sodini's home in which he referred to the grenade incident on the bus.


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Timothy Berners-Lee, the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Berners-Lee is also director of the World Wide Web Consortium.
The distinction is yet another of the many laurels accumulated by web-pioneer Berners-Lee. He is credited with "inventing" the world wide web for his early work on hypertext and client/server communication and is considered the "father" of the Semantic Web. Berners-Lee received the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2008, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004, received the first Millennium Prize from Finland also in 2004, and received the Computer History Museum's Fellow Award in 2003.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.
Along with Berners-Lee, the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members and 17 other foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Other notables elected to the Academy this year include Thomas Hughes, Jr., the Mathematics Chair III at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) and professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at the University of Texas, Austin; John E. Hopcroft, professor in the computer science department at Cornell University in New York; and Christos Papadimitriou, the C. Lester Hogan Professor in the computer science division at the University of California at Berkeley.
The recent election was held during the business session of the 146th annual meeting of the Academy. Those elected this year bring the total number of active members to 2,150. Berners-Lee was elected as a foreign associate. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States (Berners-Lee is British). Today's election brings the total number of foreign associates to 404.


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Murphy beds are usually used in tight spaces or small rooms that need to serve multiple purposes: an office and a guest room, for example. At the same time, the underside of a Murphy bed can be a little ungainly: just a big wooden wall. What better way to hide that unsightly wood than to turn it into a Tardis?
That's what one enterprising geek did to enter the Where's The Tardis contest. The contest, designed to challenge Doctor Who fans to a DIY, Tardis-building challenge, will earn the winner of the contest a private screening of Doctor Who with 50 guests of their choice, courtesy of BBC America. The contest is over now and there's nothing left to do but judge the winners, but the entries are remarkable: there are birthday cakes, hand-carved Tardis models, huge Tardis replicas, and more – but the Tardis Bed stands out a bit, partially because its so quirky and interesting.
The bed looks like the classic blue British Police Box from the outside when the bed is up and flat against the wall. When you open the doors and drop the bed down, aside from getting a place to sleep you also have a view inside the Tardis itself, complete with the center controls and all of the other rooms and space inside. After all, the Tardis is bigger on the inside.
According to the contest entry, the whole project didn't take too much to make: some paint, lumber, vinyl, and the image required for the inside view of the Tardis on the interior. That's about it. There's no guarantee the Tardis Bed will win the contest, but even if it doesn't, it's probably one of the most unique ways of hiding a Murphy bed ever. Sure, any Doctor Who fan will see it and immediately recognize it, but it's also a really cozy bed.
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BBC, Open University and Jerusalem Productions.
The story of the world's most successful religion by one of the leading Church historians.
A History of Christianity, a six-part series presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford history professor whose books about Cranmer and the Reformation have been acclaimed as masterpieces. A History Of Christianity will reveal the true origins of Christianity and delve into what it means to be a Christian. Intelligent, thought-provoking and magisterial in its scope the series will uncover how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world. Most Christian histories start with St Paul's mission to Rome, but Diarmaid MacCulloch argues that the first Christianity stayed much closer to its Middle-Eastern roots. He describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organization and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society.
The series includes subjects from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. MacCulloch is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is one of the world's leading historians and Professor of History of the Church and Fellow at St. Cross College Oxford. A History of Christianity is a BBC co-production with the Open University and Jerusalem Productions.
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- Episode 1: The First Christianity
Running Time: 58 minutes 57 seconds
When he was a small boy Diarmaid MacCulloch's parents used to drive him round historic churches. Little did they know that they had created a monster - the history of the Christian Church became his life's work. Now, no other subject can rival its scale and drama. In the first of a six part series sweeping across four continents, Professor MacCulloch goes in search of Christianity's forgotten origins. He overturns the familiar story that it all began when the apostle Paul took Christianity from Jerusalem to Rome. Instead, he shows that the true origins of Christianity lie east, and that at one point it was poised to triumph in Asia, maybe even in China. The headquarters of Christianity may well have been Baghdad not Rome. And if that had happened Western Christianity would have been very different.
- Episode 2: Catholicism: The Unpredictable Rise of Rome
Running Time: 59 minutes 3 seconds
Diarmaid MacCulloch's grandfather was a devout pillar of the local Anglican church and felt that any dabbling in
Catholicism was liable to pollute the English way of life. But now his grandfather isn't around to stop him exploring the extraordinary and unpredictable rise of the Roman Catholic Church. Over one billion Christians look to Rome - that's more than half of all Christians on the planet. But how did a small Jewish sect from the backwoods of 1st century Palestine, which preached humility and the virtue of poverty, become the established religion of Western Europe - wealthy, powerful and expecting unfailing obedience from the faithful? Amongst the surprising revelations, MacCulloch tells us how confession was invented by monks in a remote island off the coast of Ireland, and how the Crusades gave Britain the university system. Above all, it's a story of what can be achieved when you have friends in high places.
- Episode 3: Orthodoxy: From Empire to Empire
Running Time: 58 minutes 24 seconds
Today, Eastern Orthodox Christianity flourishes in the Balkans and Russia with over 150 million members worldwide. It's quite unlike Catholicism or Protestantism: worship is carefully choreographed, icons pull the faithful into a mystical union with Christ, and everywhere is a symbol of a fierce-looking bird - the double-headed eagle. What story is this ancient drama trying to tell us? In his third journey into the History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch charts Orthodoxy's extraordinary fight for survival. After its glory-days in the Eastern Roman Empire, it stood right in the path of Muslim expansion, suffered betrayal by crusading Catholics, was seized by the Russian Tsars and faced near-extinction under Soviet Communism. MacCulloch visits the greatest collection of early icons in the Sinai desert, a surviving relic of the iconoclastic crisis in Istanbul and Ivan the Terrible's Cathedral in Moscow to discover the secret of its endurance.
- Episode 4: Reformation: The Individual Before God
Running Time: 58 minutes 55 seconds
he Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. They were radicals - Protestants - who tore apart the Catholic Church. In the fourth part of his History of Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch makes sense of the Reformation, and of how a faith based on obedience and authority gave birth to one based on individual conscience. He shows how Luther wrote hymns to teach people the message of the Bible, and how a tasty sausage became the rallying cry for Ulrich Zwingli - a Swiss Reformer - to tear down statues of saints, allow married clergy and deny that communion bread and wine were the body and blood of Christ. "Jesus ascended into heaven" declared Zwingli, "he's sitting at the right hand of the Father, not on a table here in Zürich."
- Episode 5: Protestantism: The Evangelical Explosion
Running Time: 58 minutes 42 seconds
In his fifth part of A History of Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the growth of an exuberant expression of faith that has spread across the globe - Evangelical Protestantism. Today, it's associated with conservative politics, but the whole story is not what you might expect. It's easily forgotten that the Evangelical explosion has been driven by a concern for social justice and the claim that you could stand in a direct emotional relationship with God. It allowed the Protestant faith to burst its boundaries from its homeland in Europe. In America, its preachers marketed Christianity with all the flair and swashbuckling enterprise of American commerce. In Africa it converted much of the continent by adapting to local traditions, and now it's expanding into Asia. But is Korean Pentecostalism and its message of prosperity in the here and now an adaptation too far?
- Episode 6: God in the Dock
Running Time: 58 minutes 58 seconds
Diarmaid MacCulloch's own life story makes him a symbol of a distinctive feature about Western Christianity - scepticism, a tendency to doubt which has transformed Western culture and transformed Christianity. In the last program in the series he asks where that change came from? He challenges the simplistic notion that faith in Christianity has steadily ebbed away before the relentless advance of science, reason and progress and shows instead how the tide of faith perversely flows back in. Despite the attacks of Newton, Voltaire, the French Revolutionaries and Darwin, Christianity has shown a remarkable resilience. The greatest damage to Christianity in fact was inflicted to its moral credibility by the two great wars of the 20th century and by its entanglement with Fascism and Nazism. And yet it is in crisis that the Church has rediscovered deep and enduring truths about itself. And that may even be a clue to its future.
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"Anyone having second thoughts about wading into Oxford professor Diarmaid MacCullough's New York Times bestselling doorstop (nearly 1,200 pages) A History of Christianity will be delighted (and perhaps relieved) to discover this six-hour BBC adaptation filmed in high-definition and amiably hosted by the author himself as he follows the path of Christianity through the ages and around the globe... An enlightening and often entertaining survey that mixes trenchant observation with beautiful on-location footage shot in some of the world's most luminous places of worship, A History of Christianity is highly recommended." (3 1/2 stars)- Video Librarian
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"Anyone having second thoughts about wading into Oxford professor Diarmaid MacCullough's New York Times bestselling doorstop (nearly 1,200 pages) A History of Christianity will be delighted (and perhaps relieved) to discover this six-hour BBC adaptation filmed in high-definition and amiably hosted by the author himself as he follows the path of Christianity through the ages and around the globe... An enlightening and often entertaining survey that mixes trenchant observation with beautiful on-location footage shot in some of the world's most luminous places of worship, A History of Christianity is highly recommended." (3 1/2 stars)- Video Librarian
- From Gillean Craig...Church Times(UK)
"Diamaid MacCulloch has a remarkable ability to shape huge amounts of disparate material into a single and comprehensive narrative arc-- and excite our attention as he does so. We see how dynamic and unpredictable Christianity's story has been, how infinitedly varied its expressions and styles! MacCulloch stresses the adaptablility of our faith, its ability to assimilate and mould cultures and context, to present and live out the gospel in astonishingly disparate ways. It's a magnificent achievement, a gift to the church and to society, reminding us how central the story of Christianity is to any understanding of the last two millennia, challenging prejudice and provoking deep thought. And it looks absolutely beautiful."
"Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch's history of the Christian Church is clear, erudite and full of surprises ... The Christian Church is almost as rich and diverse as humanity itself."
"Oxford University history professor Diarmaid MacCulloch hosts this six-part history of Christianity. The first episoded, "The First Christianity," begins in Jerusalem to highlight significant sites of early Christians. MacCulloch shows that 'the true origins of Christianity lie east' as Christianity took a path through Turkey, Iraq, and China. These eastern Christians survived for centuries living peacefully with their Islamic neighbors. Next in 'Catholicism: The Unpredictable Rise of Rome,' MacCulloch visits cathedrals, catacombs, the Vatican, and universities to trace the origins of Catholicism in Rome, touching upon such topics as confession, purgatory, indulgences, and the Pope. In the remaining programs, film crews travel to Moscow to explore Eastern Orthodox Christianity; to Germany to chart the Reformation; to America to follow Evangelical Protestantism; and back to Europe to study the influences of science and war. A solid library purchase, this enlightening program is filled with wonderful location footage and thought provoking concepts."- Booklist


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A.J. Caro needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
This logo is for a brand new business in the tactical training field. It must look corporate in quality but, impactful and exciting at the same time. Below is an idea of the website template we are considering so, you can get an idea of look, feel and colors.
Tac House
Tactical training upstart business needs to establish a great logo for branding efforts. Multi color is fine. The primary audience is 20-35 and the look and feel is police and military. Although there needs to be colors try to limit it to a few since the logo will be embroidered on merchandise. I will also need it in a wireframe or black and white for faxes etc.
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- Strong police/military look and feel
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- black and white version/wireframe for faxes etc.
- crazy pictures
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text: British forces occupied New York in August 1776, and the city would remain a British stronghold and a major naval base for the duration of the Revolutionary War. Though getting information from New York on British troop movements and other plans was critical to General George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, there was simply no reliable intelligence network that existed on the Patriot side at that time. That changed in 1778, when a young cavalry officer named Benjamin Tallmadge established a small group of trustworthy men and women from his hometown of Setauket, Long Island. Known as the Culper Spy Ring, Tallmadge's homegrown network would become the most effective of any intelligence-gathering operation on either side during the Revolutionary War.


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The Wright Institute Recovery Clinic (WIRC)
This practicum is designed for first year doctoral students in clinical psychology furthering the overall mission of The Wright Institute to prepare psychologists to function effectively in a diverse society and to understand the social and cultural context of their work.
The practicum training at WIRC has the main objective of providing students with an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills to work with a diverse population comprised largely of homeless criminal offenders and the underserved MediCal and uninsured local population. Students will be exposed to a complex multicultural context in which they will experience and learn the intricate relationship between drug addiction, crime and poverty.
During a two-semester period students will provide intake assessment and individual psychotherapy to individuals challenged by drug addiction and trauma, as well as comorbid mental disorders. By the end of the first semester students will be able to formulate cases and apply those formulations in developing a treatment plan based on clinical assessments. Through the practicum year students will deepen their knowledge of psychopathology and acquire basic notions of psychopharmacology which will guide them through the process of diagnosis, treatment planning and note writing, including instructions on using MediCal billing forms.
Practicum students will provide the following services:
- Intake assessment
- Individual therapy for dual diagnosis clients with substance abuse and diverse mental health concerns
- Participant observation of agency's activities (12-step groups, small group counseling, seminars)
Practicum students will participate in the following training activities:
- Seminar training with the agency's staff (1-2 hours per week): students will acquire knowledge of 12-step model in treatment of drug addiction as well as discuss with supervisor specific clinical cases they will have observed while participating in Options' activities
- Individual supervision (1 hour per week)
- Group supervision (3 hours per week). Divided in two periods: 90 min. of lecture by supervisors or invited guests on themes such as socio-cultural and gender issues in addiction, the use of psychiatric drugs with drug addicts, comorbid personality disorders, suicide, brief therapy approaches and techniques, family systems: the family of addicts, etc.. 90 min. of clinical encounters which will include brief case presentations and discussions.
The Wright Recovery Clinic provides an extremely affordable sliding-scale fee in order to provide services to as many people in the community as possible. The Clinic also bills MediCal for individuals who are covered.
Work with motivated, empathic, attentive clinicians
Unlike other community mental health centers with few resources and clinicians forced to see too many clients, our training clinicians have smaller caseloads and extensive support to provide the appropriate care and attention clients need.
Treatment for other issues
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israel's largest daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot has a photo of US President Barack Obama published with the comment "From threats to words." In Jerusalem, we are disappointed by Obama's behavior.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued veiled criticism of the White House: "If we do not help ourselves, no one will." According to Netanyahu, the world needs to see: "Anyone who uses weapons of mass destruction, has to pay the price."
If Syria used chemical weapons against its own people, there is no doubt it would do so against Israel. Therefore, America's reluctance to act now is being heavily criticized in the Israeli media, and Israelis are once again realizing they cannot truly rely on America to have their backs.
The Russian initiative to control the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal and to destroy these weapons (in a period of up to ten years!) provided Obama with a way to back down while still saving face. From an American perspective, the hesitation is understandable, after the heavy cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. From the Israeli perspective, the situation is dangerous, because Syria has a common border with the Jewish state.
In a speech to new Navy officers in Haifa, Netanyahu signaled that he believes Obama is making a mistake: "This will send a clear message to Syria and Iran that there are no consequences for using weapons of mass destruction."
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned in a column for the New York Times that US military action in Syria would trigger a new Islamic terrorist campaign against the West. Fears of such terrorism in Europe and America often intimidates governments and prevents them from standing with Israel. Meanwhile, Putin has offered new weapons and even a new nuclear reactor to his friends in Syria and Iran.
Asked by Israel Today to comment on the situation, a young Palestinian Arab by the name of Amshad noted: "It looks like the Russians are making good on their friendship with Syria and Iran. But where is the United States, which constantly speaks of its unshakable support for Israel?"
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Garman hosts annual pitching camp
Sports Editor
While snow and ice blanketed the region, a sport played exclusively outside on local fields was being practiced by kids inside this weekend, as the 4th Annual Brian Garman Pitching Camp was held Saturday and Sunday at Wapakoneta Elementary School.
The two-day camp for youth in grade 3-12 was hosted by Wapakoneta native Brian Garman, a professional pitcher in MLB's minor leagues.
Garman, a 2006 graduate of Wapakoneta High School, explained some takeaways he hopes the youngsters retrieve after all of the camp's instruction.
"I want them to show up and have some fun," Garman said. "I want them to understand the importance of doing the small things right, because I think that carries over, not only in baseball, but, obviously, in life. If we can emphasize the small things and make the smaller things a bigger deal and let them understand why the little things turn into big things, on a philosophical level."
The camp participants were split into two sessions, with grades 3-6 going from 9 a.m. to noon and grades 7-12 going from 1-4 p.m.
Garman reeled off a list of thank-you's upon the camp's conclusion.
"The weather was obviously was not real favorable but I appreciate everybody making it out for the camp," he said. "The effort and enthusiasm for baseball in the month of December is a big deal. "It's nice to see enough kids in town show enthusiasm during the month of December having that kind of excitement for baseball year-round.
"I'm thankful for the sponsors. I'm thankful for everybody who put this thing together and make it happen."
Garman said it was difficult putting the camp together amid his recent wedding and its preparation on top of trying to deal with his injury.
Assisting with the camp were two other professional baseball players (aside from Garman), a few area coaches and one recent Wapakoneta graduate.
Camp assistants included:
—Caleb Thielbar, pitcher for MLB's Minnesota Twins
—Tony Pechek, catcher, MLB's Milwaukee Brewers draft pick
—Jason Brandt, Wapakoneta head varsity coach
—Gabe Coil, Wapakoneta varsity coach
—Doug Whitmore, Wapakoneta varsity coach
—A.J. Etzkorn, Wapakoneta High School graduate, current Ohio Northern University player
—Jason Campbell, current Ada varsity baseball coach, former Wapakoneta varsity pitching coach
Pechek and Garman were teammates on two different teams in the minor leagues.
Garman said the number of participants was lower than usual.
"Wrestling and basketball really took away from my first session," Garman said. "In years past I've had up to 46 in that session. I only had 14 sign up and two or three walk in. That's where we suffered the most.
"Next year we'll reschedule it and make sure we're not scheduling it with wrestling and basketball."


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Communication Studies is the intellectual home of Ithaca College's liberal arts approaches to communication. We offer two majors and a minor, each of which allows you to make many important choices about what you study and how you learn. All our students and faculty share an interest in human interaction in its many fascinating forms and the elements of culture that both affect communication and result from communication.
Our outstanding undergraduates are actively engaged across the College as they seek to better understand a diversity of communication forms, practices, and organizations in an increasingly complex global culture. They are student leaders, community leaders, and emerging scholars. Our wonderful alumnae use their communication ability to make a difference. They are successful professionals in law, education, business, hospitality, politics...the list is long and varied (see below).
The Communication Studies Department is proud of our small, very active classes, strong advising, and close student-faculty interaction. We offer a wide range of courses and co-curricular opportunities to provide a strong foundation in communication theory and skills, as well as multiple avenues for each student to find his or her own passion and craft a meaningful academic experience.
The Communication Studies Major:
The major program titled Communication Studies focuses on how, why, and with what effects people communicate through language and associated nonverbal messages. A communication studies major develops competence in theoretical analysis, as well as the practical implementation, of communication. The program is recommended for students who want a broad liberal arts background as preparation for careers in such fields as public relations, business, government, social services, and law, or for graduate study.
The Culture and Communication Major:
The major program in Culture and Communication is offered in cooperation with our colleagues from across the College, but especially those in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Culture and Communication students and faculty join forces in a unique critical studies program in order to discover connections between two related areas of inquiry: how culture informs and shapes communication and how communication creates, modifies, and challenges culture. A degree in culture and communication provides excellent career preparation, as well as a great foundation for graduate level study in law, business, and/or critical studies.
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Agostino Berti wrote:Il Mimo is a good Rose' . But Arnt, when you said "some people consider it the best Rose' in the world", who was that? I don't know if its that good!!?
I thought the Lagrein Rose by Colterenzio was deliciously drinkable, as a Rose' should be.
The Cerasuolos from Abruzzo are also very good.
Well some norwegian writer (Quite good) said it was one of the best roses of the world once. I really like it a lot, but it is a little exaggerated. I Still wrote that?? I have to stop write such things. I have not tasted the lagrein, but Colterenzio can make some tasty wines. From Abruzzo I liked the Villa Gemma cerasuolo from Masciarelli a lot, although closer to a light red than rose.


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Presenter: Patti Duncan
Date: November 11, 2013 Time: 1:00 PM Duration: 1hr
we will highlight the many features of the DE Science Techbook for HS
Chemistry and Physics. We will overview the model lessons, additional
content via the 5E tabs and Core Interactive Text available to the
students. We will also take a close look at the variety of resources
available with a special emphasis on Chemistry and Physics related
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israeli army chief Gen. Benny Gantz on Monday warned that the Syrian rebel groups that America and Europe are now helping to arm and train might turn their hostility toward Israel after ousting the regime of dictator Bashar Assad.
"The situation in Syria has become unstable and incredibly dangerous," Gantz said at the 2013 Herzliya Conference. "Although the likelihood of war with Syria is low, the terrorist organizations fighting against Assad may see us as their next challenge."
Since the start of the Syrian civil war, Israel has warned that most of the rebel groups are backed by or branches of radical Islamist groups, including Al Qaeda, and their victory would only increase tensions along the Israel-Syria border.
Indeed, just last week Syrian rebels abducted 21 of the UN peacekeepers deployed to keep the Israel-Syria border quiet for the past 41 years. Those peacekeepers were subsequently released, but many more fled into Israel before they, too, could be taken.
On Saturday, Syrian rebels opened fire on UN troops, prompting a "very active review" into the safety of UN peacekeepers in the area. Israel's concern is that the UN will decide to pull the peacekeepers out just when they are needed most.
The entire situation is being viewed in Jerusalem as just another example of how Israel cannot trust international guarantees regarding its security, and therefore must not make major concessions that would compromise the safety of its citizens.
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