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A once-prominent defrocked Bronx priest is suing the Archdiocese of New York for libel, claiming the sex abuse allegations he once faced are false, and that church officials knew it when they repeated them in a public news release.
In his court filing, Charles Kavanaugh says his chief accuser recanted allegations he made in 2002 that Kavanaugh molested him when he was a teen during a church trip to Washington, D.C.
Donohue had accused Kavanaugh of jumping into his bed in the D.C.-area hotel room and rubbing against him. Donohue also said that when Kavanaugh held his hands during prayer, it made him uncomfortable.
Donohue said in court earlier this year that the D.C. trip actually took place when he was a college sophomore and not a minor, according to the New York Times.
Kavanaugh was convicted at a church trial. In May, Catholic church spokesman Joseph Zwilling said in a news release that Kavanaugh deserved to be kicked out of the church because there were "multiple counts" of sexual abuse.
"That is a flat-out lie. There are not multiple counts of sexual abuse of a minor," said Kavanaugh's sister and attorney Ann Mandt. "And that's why we sued them. Because it is a lie."
Zwilling said Wednesday that church attorneys are now reviewing the defamation lawsuit.
"I stand by the truthfulness and accuracy of my May 1, 2012, statement," he said.
Kavanaugh had been Vicar of Development for the Catholic Church in New York and served for more than 40 years as a priest. His last post was head of St. Raymond's Church in the Bronx before he was defrocked.
For the last decade, Kavanaugh has called allegations against him "false" and repeatedly has demanded a "full and fair hearing" in public. His attorneys say they in part blame former Cardinal Egan, who they said was under scrutiny for allegations he mishandled abuse charges by other priests when he led the church in Connecticut.
Kavanaugh lost his job, his home and his pension and now counts on friends help and support in Florida where he now lives.
His onetime accuser Donohue did not return calls for comment, but his wife called the court filing "outrageous" in the Daily News.
"What a crazy fellow," D.C. Donohue told the News.
Kavanaugh's lawsuit seeks damages against the Archdiocese and Zwilling, as well as the "Catholic New York" publication and its editor, which published Zwilling's comments.
"We have evidence that this man is innocent. The accuser admitted it," said Mandt. "We're not asking for the benefit of the doubt … we're asking for justice. Give an innocent man justice."
Kavanaugh's attorneys claim after a decade of being falsely scorned, he still wants his old job back.


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Span Extension in Animals
In my introduction, I discussed the experiment by Maestroni and colleagues, published in 1988, that found an average 20% increase in longevity in middle-aged, male mice when they were given melatonin in their nightly drinking water. The researchers state, "To our surprise, chronic, nightly administration of melatonin resulted in a progressive, striking improvement of the general state of the mice and, most important, in a remarkable prolongation of their life. In fact, starting at 5 months from the initiation of melatonin administration, the body weight of the untreated mice still surviving started to decrease rapidly, and also astonishing differences in the fur and in the general conditions of the 2 groups (vigor, activity, posture) became increasingly evident. Melatonin treatment preserved completely optimal pelage (fur) conditions."
A similar experiment on middle-aged, male mice, done in 1991 by Pierpaoli and colleagues, also found a 20% increase in life span.
What would melatonin do in the young? To find out, Pierpaoli and colleagues gave melatonin every night to young, female mice (strain C3H/He) starting at age 12 months until death. (There are various strains of laboratory mice and the effect of a particular substance may be different on each strain. That's why it's important to mention which one.) The average life span in this strain of mice is about 24 months. The age of 12 months (pre-menopause) would correspond roughly to age 35 in humans. To the surprise of everyone, melatonin shortened life span by 6%. A high rate of ovarian cancer occurred in these young mice. Apparently there are cells in the ovaries in this strain that overgrow when stimulated by melatonin, causing tumors. Another strain of young, female mice (NZB) was also given melatonin nightly starting at age 12 months, and they lived longer than the untreated group. A third group of NZB strain female mice was given melatonin at 5 months of age (Pierpaoli, 1994). They also lived longer than those not on melatonin. Obviously, different mouse strains respond to melatonin differently.
It is possible that if the mice who developed ovarian cancer had been given a lower dose of melatonin, they may have fared better. Based purely on a weight ratio, the amount of melatonin given the mice was many times the dose a human would normally use at night for sleep.
How did melatonin affect female mice who already had reached menopause? In one study, when 18 month old post-menopausal mice (strain C57BL/6) were given melatonin nightly, ovarian cancer was not detected. They lived 20% longer than those who were not given melatonin.
How can we interpret these animal studies in order to make practical recommendations for us humans? First, we have to realize that rodents and humans may respond differently to the same medicine. We have seen that even different strains of mice respond differently. We know by experience, however, in countless other studies and with various other medicines that there is often a similarity between the effects of a substance on rodents and that on humans. We should also consider the possibility that while one person may benefit from a medicine, another may be harmed. Just as there are differences in response between different strains of mice, there may be differences in response between different human beings.

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Britney Spears Makes a McDonald's Run With Her Boys
Britney Spears and her sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, made a McDonald's run in Calabasas, CA, yesterday. They wrapped up their weekend with fast food as Britney preps for another exciting week on the small screen. The X Factor contestants will be divided into groups and visit their judges' homes, including Britney's in LA, as they continue boot camp in the coming episodes. It's all leading up to the live portion of the competition, which kicks off in November. The show is never far from Britney's mind, though, since she tweets about it each week and shared birthday wishes for fellow judge Simon Cowell yesterday. Britney also talked about her experience during a recent interview with our I'm a Huge Fan Winner — watch the whole I'm a Huge Fan: Britney Spears series now!


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Masterful Horny Fist is a Restoration spell in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind that temporarily increases the value of the hand-to-hand skill. The skill returns to its original value when the spell ends. The magnitude is the value of the increase in the skill.
- Fortify Skill: Hand-to-Hand – 15 points for 60 seconds on self.
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Choux Pastry – How to make Choux Pastry? Learn the EASIEST, fastest way to make cheesy puffs with this fool-proof recipe!!
Choux pastry is a pastry dough used in many desserts, for example: cream puffs, profiteroles, French beignets, and gougères (cheese puffs) and beignets.
I have loved choux pastry since I was a child, snacking non-stop on cream puffs, not knowing that it was called choux pastry until much later in life.
Now that I have a son, I often make choux pastry for him and offer it to him during snack time.
He absolutely loves it, even though he is a picky eater.
What's not to love about these light, fluffy, airy, buttery, and eggy pastry?
What I love about choux pastry is that it's so easy to make, takes only five (5) ingredients that you will always have, and the baking process takes only 10 minutes.
What's more, once you make the choux pastry, you can easily make them into cream puffs, profiteroles, ice cream dessert (just add a scoop of ice cream), etc.
You can also be creative and stuff savory filling (think chicken salad) into the puff pastry and make it into a light meal.
If you love cheese, add some cheese and you have the addictive gougères.
The possibilities are endless!
For baking, you can use a pastry bag for piping. However, you can easily pipe the dough using a plastic bag such as Ziploc bag.
Just cut off a small corner at one of the bottom sides and transfer your dough inside the bag.
Anyway, in warmer countries, the pastry dough might be too "runny" and hard to form a shape when you're ready to bake the choux pastry.
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Obama meets with Central American leaders on border crisis
President Barack Obama pushed the leaders of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador on Friday to find ways to keep their country's children from fleeing here illegally and creating a crisis on the southern border.
Obama invited the presidents of the three Central American nations to the White House to debate possible solutions to the growing number of children traveling to the United States illegally and alone.
"I emphasized that the American people and my administration have great compassion for these children," Obama said as the nearly two-hour meeting in the Cabinet Room closed. "But I also emphasized to my friends that we have to deter a continuing influx of children putting themselves at risk."
The four presidents pledged cooperation but didn't make any announcements about programs or assistance.
One option they did discuss was a possible pilot program to allow children from Honduras into the U.S. without making the journey through Mexico. It could later be expanded to Guatemala and El Salvador.
The proposal calls for screening children who are fleeing dangerous street gangs in Honduras to determine whether they could enter as refugees or on emergency humanitarian grounds, similar to past efforts in Haiti and Vietnam. The White House said the program could be enacted through executive action without congressional approval.
"There may be some narrow circumstances in which there is humanitarian or refugee status that a family might be eligible for," Obama said. "But I think it's important to recognize that that would not necessarily accommodate a large number of additional migrants."
The number of unaccompanied children traveling from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, most through the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, has surged this year despite an increase in deportations.
About 52,000 minors traveling without their parents have been caught at the border since October, according to the Obama administration. But that number has slowed in recent weeks _ from more than 350 per day in June to about 150 daily the first two weeks of July _ likely due to many factors, from the weather to a media campaign urging parents not to send their children to the U.S.
Presidents Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala and Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras have stepped up criticism of the U.S. government, saying it's failed to help their governments battle drug trafficking that's partly to blame for the surge in child migrants..
"We are working very hard. But it would be far easier if we had aggressive cooperation from the United States," Perez Molina said Thursday at a forum organized by the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington.
Hernandez said vast U.S. anti-narcotics programs in Colombia and Mexico had pushed drug traffickers to Central America, creating havoc in countries such as his.
"The Colombia plan . . . worked very well for Colombia and for Mexico," Hernandez said. "But we're picking up the pieces, because they all came home to roost in Central America."
Honduras has become a crucial transshipment point for cocaine smuggled to the U.S. The State Department estimated last year that 87 percent of the cocaine-smuggling flights that depart from South America land in Honduras, a country that now boasts the highest homicide rate in the world. Some 80 percent of the cocaine that moves through Central America goes through Guatemala.
Obama recently asked Congress to approve $3.7 billion to help pay for additional Border Patrol agents, more beds at detention centers and an increase in prosecutions of smuggling networks, but lawmakers so far have balked. He also wants Congress to let his administration treat unaccompanied children from Central American countries the same as those from Mexico and allow them to be returned swiftly.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told lawmakers Friday that the chamber will vote next week on a package designed to stem the flow of children, which includes recommendations from a working group led by Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, to treat children from Central America the same as those from Mexico.
"The revisions to the '08 law will enable quick processing by putting them on the same level as those from Mexico," Granger spokesman Steve Dutton said.
President George W. Bush signed an immigration bill in 2008 _ intended to prevent child smuggling _ that requires children who aren't from Mexico to go through deportation proceedings, while Mexican immigrants could be sent back immediately.
The package would also authorize sending National Guard troops to the border, give the Border Patrol access to federal lands that have become havens for smugglers and increase the number of immigration judges.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, who represents Laredo, right on the border, said some money must go to Central America to bolster U.S. efforts. "How do we address the issue of improving the economy and reducing violence?" he said. "They need the money to receive the kids and help their integration into society."
Administration officials say the money is urgently needed, but they don't have much hope that the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate will agree on a bill before their five-week recess begins at the end of next week.
"What we've seen from Congress is a lot of talk but not really any action," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
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Foursquare Update For iOS Adds Ratings to Locations
To compete with location services like Yelp, the latest Foursquare update for iOS has added ratings to its locations to give users a better idea of places others like the most. By simply tapping the Explore tab to search for a place to visit, users will now see a 1-10 rating next to the location.
According to the Foursquare blog, the ratings aren't jaded (or fanboy/girl) one-time user experiences one would find on other services. Foursquare has come up with its own rating system based on the tips, dislikes, popularity, from all of the location's past check-ins of over 25 million Foursquare users.
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Well, we went to the pool yesterday and that slut look a like was there again, of course. I just can't deal with it.
When we left the pool. I was getting changed and my stupid husband asks to get it on. I said, "Oh hell no. This isn't going to be some sick habit of getting it on after seeing that chick at the pool." He got all offended, and first said "She doesn't really look like her" but then thought about it and said "okay yeah she does..." I tried to explain the pain I had inside of me and instead, ended up in the closet in fetal position crying. The cries come from deep down inside of me. I mean these are cries that come from my core.
My stupid cheater husband basically shuts down now whenever I bring up the affair. He said sorry that I was upset and walked away. He came back to TRY to console me but when I started wailing WHY and HOW he could have hurt me so much, he walked away from me. Yes, you are thinking the same thing I am... What an ass.
My kids were of course concerned about me. They wanted to know why their mom went from seemingly being okay to sobbing like a baby on the floor. Very unmotherly like....
My precious daughter who is 7 put her arms around me and I swear she was like an angel placing a hand on me. Almost immediately I felt as though the pain eased. I thanked her... And we hugged... She felt good and I felt better. My baby girl...
The pain runs deep. My stupid husband talks about having another baby and if it wasn't for the affair, we probably would have done it. I just can't do that now.
It's such a shame how the person who does the damage doesn't feel the damage as much as the person affected by it. It's unfair.
I don't think I'll ever be over the pain. It's changed me. Our 10th wedding anniversary is coming up and I dread that day. I hate that day. I can't stand how he took that special day away from me. He's made me believe what my mom had said to me for years about how not to get married and that all men are the same. I now tell my daughter not to get married. Of course, I tell her it's her decision someday and I will be with her no matter what, but that is what I believe now and if she wants to follow that advise that will be her decision
I know many of you are probably like "Oh don't tell her that." But if you were betrayed, you know that marriage is a sham. Vows mean nothing anymore, and no one ever respects their spouse as they should. People who remain married for 50 years are like me who gets slapped in the face and turns the other cheek. Doesn't seem awesome or how marriage should be...
Well, I guess that's all I wanted to write now. The pain.... 3 long years andthe scab was scratched off and I'm bleeding again.


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The encryption that we rely on to secure network transactions is based on a simple computational challenge: it's hard to find two prime numbers when you're only given the big number that they produce when multiplied. Although the growth in computer processing power means we've needed to shift to bigger numbers, we can continue to do so as needed. This leaves eavesdropping as the biggest risk; to secure communication, each partner needs to get a copy of the relevant keys. If someone can break in on the key distribution process, they save themselves the need to do any math.
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is intended to be a way around this problem. By exchanging bits encoded in a quantum system—typically a photon—two parties can generate a unique key that can be used to encrypt communications. If anyone tries to eavesdrop on the process, their measurement of the photons used will leave a mark on the process that's easy to spot. (We have a more detailed description of the process in a past article.)
So far, QKD has largely remained a research project, although some progress is being made. Just last week, some researchers from Los Alamos National Lab described a system they've had working for almost two years. It's not especially novel (which is why it actually works), but it uses some clever tricks to shift most of the burden to a central server while putting less expensive hardware into the clients.
The basic idea behind the Los Alamos solution is that creating single photons for use in the key distribution has become relatively easy, and it can be done on inexpensive hardware. So the team built a bit of hardware slightly larger than a house key. It contains a true random number generator to set the bits it transmits and a single-photon source to produce them and send them directly into an optical fiber.
In contrast, detectors sensitive enough to measure individual photons tend to be expensive and bulky, so the authors used only one set of receivers, hooked up to a trusted server that, in traditional encryption speak, gets a name (Trent, in this case). That setup measured the individual bits coming in from the receiver and then publicly disclosed which ones it had measured. If there were no signs of interference with the transmission (caused by an eavesdropper), Trent used the bits to build a key, which it and the transmitter could then use to encrypt data broadcast over normal channels.
The best part is that it all works. One of the nodes that successfully negotiated encryption did so over a 50km long fiber optic link, and when the fiber isn't being used to negotiate keys, it could be used for regular networking traffic. Trent easily handled three nodes at the same time. The authors estimate that by scaling up the hardware they could get Trent to exchange keys with up to 1,000 clients.
In most circumstances, this sort of network topology—individual clients connected to a single server—isn't the sort of communication that most of us engage in. Still, the authors note that this is exactly the sort of thing electric utilities need in order to have a centralized control system talk to various grid components.
The system could still be used to negotiate encryption for two clients to talk directly to each other as well. If each client negotiates a set of three keys with Trent, then Trent can publicly reveal enough information to allow the two clients to calculate an encryption key that's secure. (Basically, by revealing a number that's the product of two clients' keys, the clients can use what they know about their own keys to calculate the other client's.)
The authors clearly worked to miniaturize the hardware involved, and they are already talking about further steps to shrink its size ("an order of magnitude in each dimension") and boost its performance. The Los Alamos team even suggests it might be possible to use their setup for "handheld security," although it's not entirely clear how much value there is in a handheld device that needs to be plugged into a fiber optic cable for security. What's never mentioned, however, is how much it might cost to mass produce the client hardware. Ultimately, that will determine what sort of devices this system will find a home in.
The arXiv. Abstract number: 1305.0305 (About the arXiv).


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The 50th anniversary of the Birmingham church bombing
JAY REEVES | 9/23/2013, 2:36 p.m.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Hundreds of people Black and White, many holding hands, filled an Alabama church that was bombed by the White supremacist Ku Klux Klan 50 years ago Sunday to mark the anniversary of the blast that killed four little girls and became a landmark moment in the civil rights struggle.
The bombing became a powerful symbol of the depth of racial hatred in the
South and helped build momentum for later laws, including the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Rev. Arthur Price taught the same Sunday school lesson that members of the 16th Street Baptist Church heard the morning of the bombing – "A Love That Forgives." Then, the rusty old church bell was tolled four times as the girls' names were read.
Bombing survivor Sarah Collins Rudolph, who lost her right eye and sister Addie Mae Collins in the blast, stood by as members laid a wreath at the spot where the dynamite device was placed along an outside wall.
Rudolph was 12 at the time, and her family left the church after the bombing. She said it was important to return in memory of her sister, who was 14, and the three other girls who died: Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley Morris, both 14, and Denise McNair, 11.
"God spared me to live and tell just what happened on that day," said Rudolph, who testified against the Klansmen convicted years later in the bombing.
Congregation members and visitors sang the old hymn Love Lifted Me and joined hands in prayer. The somber Sunday school lesson was followed by a raucous, packed worship service with gospel music and worshippers waving their hands.
"God said you may murder four little girls, but you won't murder the dream of justice and liberty for all," the Rev. Julius Scruggs of Huntsville, president of
the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. said during the sermon.
Later Sunday, attendees of an afternoon commemoration included Attorney General Eric Holder, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Joseph Lowery and director Spike Lee, who made a documentary about the bombing.
The church was full, with the only surviving mother of one of the girls, Maxine McNair, sitting in the front row.
Holder called the girls' deaths "a seminal and tragic moment" in U.S. history and recalled gains that followed their killings like the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Alluding to the Supreme Court decision this year that struck down a key part of the voting law, Holder said the struggle continues decades later.
"This is a fight that we will continue," Holder said.
The dynamite bomb went off outside the church on Sept. 15, 1963. Of the Klansmen convicted years later, one remains imprisoned. Two others who were convicted died in prison.
Two young men, both Black, were shot to death in Birmingham in the chaos that followed the bombing.
Birmingham was strictly segregated at the time of the bombing, which occurred as city schools were being racially integrated for the first time. The all-Black 16th Street Baptist Church was a gathering spot for civil rights demonstrations for months before the blast.


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Miami filmmaking scene lures Sundance
Outside of Hollywood and New York, the biggest nexus for movies in the United States is the Sundance Institute, which presents its film festival each January and holds intensive workshops and labs for aspiring and established filmmakers and playwrights year-round.
But whereas before you had to travel to Park City, Utah, to take advantage of Sundance's resources, the Institute is now taking its show on the road — and Miami is one of the first stops.
Armed with a $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and organized locally by the Miami Filmmakers Collective, the institute will present two one-day flash labs that are free and open to the public. Two other flash labs will be held in Philadelphia as part of the grant.
"I believe that Miami is having a movement in independent film like it had in the visual arts a decade ago, where all of the factors that make for a great scene and suddenly everyone is watching," says Dennis Scholl, vice-president of the Knight Foundation, who spearheaded the idea. "It's not just Miami talking about Miami. On an international level, people are starting to look at Miami's film scene, the way it happened with Art Basel. When you are building a movement, external validation is meaningful. That encourages further creativity. Last year, films from Miami played at over 100 film festivals around the world."
The first flash lab, "New Frontier," will explore the convergence of technology and storytelling, and takes place Saturday from 4-6 p.m. at the New World Center SunTrust Pavillion, 500 17th St., Miami Beach. Presenters will be:
• Susan Bonds, a pioneer in experiential storytelling and founder of 42 Entertainment.
• Jonathan Harris, an artist and computer scientist who used multimedia to convey the complexities of contemporary life.
• Jigar Mehta, a digital entrepreneur, journalist and documentary filmmaker.
• Kamal Sinclair, a producer, theatrical director and senior manager of the Sundance New Frontier lab.
• Scott Snibbe, a media artist specializing in interactive art who has collaborated with Björk and James Cameron, among others.
The public portion of the event will be preceded by an intensive daylong private workshop with 50 Miami artists working one-on-one with the artists.
The Sundance lab is hosted by the Miami Filmmakers Collective, which was co-founded 2 1/2 years ago by several local artists including Ali Codina (whose documentary Monica & David aired on HBO and won Best Doc at the Tribeca Film Festival) and Juan Carlos Zaldivar, a teacher at Miami's International Art University and director of several films (including 90 Miles, The Story of the Red Rose and Soldiers Pay).
"We were all friends and professional collaborators and we were always talking about the need for a filmmaking community in Miami," Codina says. She took notice of the rise of the Borscht Corp., which mounts a popular and eclectic film festival every other year and has had a short accepted into Sundance for the last four years (including Bernardo Britto's Yearbook, which won the Short Film Jury Award: Animation in January. There was also the Indie Film Club Miami, a membership-based organization that hosts a monthly screening of locally made shorts called "I'm Not Gonna Move to L.A." and recently presented this year's Film Gate Miami Interactive Festival, designed to help filmmakers via interactive screenings and master classes.
Codina and her collaborators decided the MFC could help bring those and other groups together via monthly events — screenings, seminars, workshops — in which people could network and learn about each other's work.
"Our approach is more about the intellectual side of filmmaking — the craft and storytelling side, talking directly to filmmakers directly with an audience present and having conversations that benefit us all, then adding a social aspect after each event so we can expand the conversation. Now that visual technology is much more accessible, there are a lot of individual storytellers who didn't know each other, so we wanted to provide a platform for them to meet and cross-pollinate."
The second Sundance flash lab, to be held on March 22, will focus on short-film making. But this Saturday's lab is designed to attract all kinds of artists, not just those who work in film.
"There are real pockets of talent out there around the country, especially now that the means of production have become more accessible and we see collectives popping up," says Keri Putnam, executive director of the Sundance Institute. "With Miami, it was an ideal moment to take advantage of that. This is part of a broader effort to be a home for artists from all over the world to celebrate creative excellence. With the New Frontier program, we're looking at the convergence of art and technology in a new way and artists working in film and media on the cutting-edge. Since Miami is such a vibrant arts town across the board, you have so many art makers and so many disciplines that launching the program there seemed like a perfect idea."


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It's Christmas time, and Little Rabbit has his little bunny eyes on a beautiful red sled that goes,"Whoosh!"
In Little Rabbit's Christmas, by Harry Horse, The Christmas Rabbit (a rabbit's version of Santa Claus) grants Little Rabbit's wish and leaves a red sled for him on Christmas morning. Little Rabbit shows his precious red sled to all his friends and family and they love it. They want to ride it, too, but Little Rabbit can't seem to make himself share.
"You're too big," he tells some of his friends. "You're too small," he tells others.
At last, selfish Little Rabbit takes his precious sled far away so no one will ask for a ride. But when he takes a breathless ride down a steep hill and the sled goes, "CRASH," Little Rabbit is in big trouble. The sled is broken and there's no one around to help him fix it. What will happen now? How will he get it home? Oh, if only Little Rabbit hadn't been so mean to his friends!
The late Harry Horse had a wonderful knack of capturing the loves, joys and mishaps of very young children. In addition, his illustrations were (and still are) wonderfully sweet, colorful and full of the perfect amount of cotton-tailed goodness to round the story out.
For a wonderful and enduring tale about sharing and understanding, be sure to read Little Rabbit's Christmas.
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Missouri will host this year's Big 12 Men's Golf Championship. The event will take place at Prairie Dunes Golf & Country Club for the 10th time in conference history on April 27-29, 2009.
Prairie Dunes opened its first nine holes in 1937 and 20 years later completed the back nine holes. Located in Hutchinson, Kan., this course has played home to many major events since its grand opening 71 years ago, including the PGA.
The tournament features a 72-hole format on the 72-par, 7,480-yard course. A total of 36 holes are played on the first day followed by 18 holes on each of the final two days of competition.
Last season, Oklahoma State earned a Big 12-leading sixth conference title at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity, Texas. The Texas Longhorns are next with three league championships, followed by Baylor, Kansas and Oklahoma with one title each. The top 10 individual finishers each season are named to the Big 12 All-Tournament Team.
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BlueSalamander wrote:Hello Sheepyhead, sorry for the really late reply.
The elementals are an optional fight. For a level-1 party, it's difficult.
Concerning the orcs, there is a chance to lose, of course, but I do not consider it to be a very difficult battle. You just need to use spells like Bless and Sleep and have your characters flank the enemy. Also, buying a magic wand before going into the fight will help. Giving a Greatsword to your high-strength fighter helps.
You are not supposed to flee. There are some hard parts in the game but mostly it gets easier once your characters gain levels.
BlueSalamander wrote:On level design, I guess I wanted to avoid the somewhat boring start of many other CRPGs where there is no chance to lose in the beginning.
Also, I think it's better to play through the demo before playing the main game. It's a different adventure. There are much easier fights and it gives you a good training.
Yup, you can use the consumables readily. There's a lot of gold in the game and also you can craft your own stuff.
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STRATHAM — Police had a bear of a problem on their hands last month after investigating what looked like a human foot on the banks of the Squamscott River.
STRATHAM — Police had a bear of a problem on their hands last month after investigating what looked like a human foot on the banks of the Squamscott River.
Police Chief John Scippa said police received a report on Oct. 7 that someone found a human foot near the bridge at the Chapman's Landing boat launch on Route 108. Scippa vividly described the night in question, recalling it was a "driving rainstorm" and multiple officers responded to investigate the report.
The chief said it was clear the foot had been there for some time and the level of decomposition was such that it was mostly bone with "some putrefied flesh."
Scippa said the foot was clearly of biological origins, but police could not immediately determine whether it belonged to a human or some other creature. Since it was not clear whether it was in fact human remains, Scippa said investigators decided to do their due diligence and sent the foot to the state medical examiner's laboratory.
A report back from the medical examiner revealed the foot belonged to a bear, Scippa said.
The chief said the foot was found in the seagrass close to the water and hypothesized that the bear had been picked apart by other animals or was carried away by the river current.
He said extremities like the foot would be first to fall off in the decomposition process, which could explain why the lone foot was the only body part found.


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New York's offense was the catalyst in their 118-110 victory over the Celtics on Tuesday night. The Knicks shot 56.8% from the field, and a whooping 59.4% from downtown. In breaking down the film from the game, you can see why the Knicks were so dominant offensively. As opposed to the Miami loss on Sunday, the Knicks offense was very fluid. They were fluid moving the ball, as well as moving off the ball. Instead of running nothing but Melo isolations , New York did a nice job of cutting and setting screens. Their offense was multidimensional and the results showed on the final scoreboard. In this post, I am going to break down four plays I loved from the game as the Knicks used motion to execute offensively.
The first play I am going to analyze is a great spot up three by JR Smith. This play begins as a Carmelo Anthony isolation on the right elbow. What I love about this play is how the other four Knicks move without the ball. After passing the ball, Baron Davis fades to the top of the key. Tyson Chandler, Iman Shumpert and JR Smith clear out the other side of the court. However, as Anthony drives to the baseline, the Celtics defense collapses. Rather than standing around and doing nothing, Chandler and Shumpert collapse into the paint. By doing this, they bring Brandon Bass, who was guarding Smith, into the paint as well. If you observe at the 0:09 second mark, Bass sees Chandler and Shumpert collapsing and totally leaves Smith unguarded. Seeing the open space on the floor, Smith does an excellent job of sliding to the open corner and presenting himself. Anthony makes a fantastic pass to kick the ball out to Smith and he buries the three. I love this play because I think the Knicks offense gets stagnant at times. Often times when Anthony isolates, the rest of the Knicks stand around and watch. I like how all five Knicks played a role in getting Smith the open spot up three. Here is the play:
The next play, a Steve Novak three, was probably my favorite play from this game. The Knicks begin the set with Mike Bibby running the point out by half court. If you observe the beginning of the play, you can see how the Knicks do a great job of spacing the floor. By placing shooters (Novak, Anthony) outside the arc on both sides of the court and burying Iman Shumpert basically out of bounds, the Knicks completely open up the paint. Tyson Chandler and Bibby run what looks like a typical screen and roll. If you pause the video at 0:07 seconds, you can see that the play looks like a typical pick and roll. This motion forces Kevin Garnett to over play Chandler in the paint which ends up being the most important part of the play. Rather than cut to the hoop, Chandler breaks off his route to screen Brandon Bass, who was guarding Steve Novak. Because Garnett is playing the pick and roll, he is too far in the paint to get back into the play. This can be observed at 0:09 seconds. Chandler sets an excellent screen and Novak knocks down the open three. I really loved the pick and roll action in this play, as it took Garnett totally out of the play and allowed Novak to have a wide open look. Here is the play:
The third play, a JR Smith three, also comes off of a Chandler screen. There was nothing fancy going on in this play, just a great screen by Chandler. Carmelo Anthony initiates the play at the top of the key. The Knicks do an excellent job of spacing the floor on this play. This is a very simple play. Tyson Chandler sets an excellent down screen on Paul Pierce. Celtics center Greg Stiemsma makes no effort to step up and challenge Smith's shot. As a result, Smith has a wide open three and knocks it down with ease. Why is this a play worth analyzing? This was Smith's second three point shot of the game. He had hit another three, two possessions earlier (as shown above). We all know that Smith is an incredibly streaky shooter. I like how the Knicks worked to get Smith a rhythm three. Once he caught his rhythm in this game, he buried the Celtics shooting 7/10 from downtown in the game. I think it is imperative for the Knicks moving forward to try and get Smith going early in games. They do a good job of it here.
The last play, a Tyson Chandler dunk, is a great example of how the Knicks use Carmelo Anthony as a decoy. Before I analyze this play, I have to say that Boston's defense on this play is atrocious. I give the Knicks a lot of credit for executing this play, but I the Celtics did defend this poorly. The Knicks begin this play by having both Tyson Chandler and Landry Fields posting up in the high post/elbow area. Under Mike Woodson, the Knicks actually do this a lot. On this play, New York gets Chandler the ball to initiate the offense. Landry Fields pops up to the top of the key and receives a pass from Chandler. Iman Shumpert comes across the court to the opposite corner of Chandler in order to pull Rajon Rondo away from the play. Shumpert and Baron Davis run a decoy screen to keep Rondo and Avery Bradley from recognizing what the Knicks are doing. Carmelo Anthony and Chandler begin to run a screen motion themselves. Chandler looks to set a screen for a popping out Anthony. Instead of setting a solid screen, Chandler sets what I call a "brush screen" to give Kevin Garnett the idea that he is, in fact, setting a screen. Rather than pick off Pierce, the Knick center cuts to the wide open paint and dunks an alley oop pass from Fields. The key to this play is Anthony as a decoy. Obviously, Anthony had a dominant performance in this game. By using him as a decoy, the Knicks are able to completely catch Boston off guard. New York does an excellent job of pulling Kevin Garnett out of the paint. He believes the ball is going to Melo. He steps up to help defend Anthony and completely leaves Chandler open. Chandler cuts to the paint and it is an easy 2 points for the Knicks. It was a great play design by Mike Woodson and even better execution by the Knicks.
In conclusion, I love the way the Knicks played offense in this game. I have been critical about the stagnation of the Knicks offense at times, but I thought they were excellent against Boston. Sure, they shot the lights out, but I thought they did a lot of nice things with motion. They moved the ball well, as well as moving well off the ball. New York finished with 28 assists in the game which was a huge part of them winning the game. I hope this post helped recognize some of the things the Knicks were doing.Follow @tarmosino


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The mock object approach to test-driven development
Editor's Note: Jordan Schaenzle provides a guide to implementing test-driven development methods for your embedded systems using mock objects, whether or not you are doing your design in the C language or in C++.
Test Driven Development (TDD) is growing in popularity as developers realize they produce better code and have greater confidence in their work when using TDD. Project managers are also discovering that TDD allows teams to maintain a more predictable, stable pace and greatly reduces the debugging phase that typically occurs at the end of the development cycle.
Unfortunately, in the embedded software world TDD practices aren't gaining much traction. This is a concern as the nature of embedded devices makes good coding practices all the more important. One "minor" bug could result in inconvenient firmware updates or a product recall, putting a significant scar on a company's reputation.
Some embedded developers believe it's not possible to use automated testing because their code has to interact with hardware peripherals. Also, a large percentage of developers are not actively writing new code, but instead are updating and improving existing code bases. They often believe that it's too late in the game to implement a testing process or that doing so would require them to change the entire structure of their project.
In reality, these worries are not based in fact and can be solved by an important piece of TDD called 'mocking', which enables developers to easily write tests that verify isolated chunks of code. Several excellent testing frameworks exist that are custom tailored to embedded development and facilitate the use of mocks.
As embedded applications grow in size they are often broken into subsections that we call modules (Figure 1). In many cases, a given module will make calls into one or more neighboring modules. Those modules, in turn, make calls into other modules and the chain continues all the way down to the lowest-level hardware interactions.
This chain of interaction poses a problem when writing unit tests. How do you test to ensure a single module is doing what is expected, without also testing all of the modules that it touches? Attempting to specify a state for every module in the chain, for every test, is a huge undertaking. Tests would be lengthy, extremely brittle, and would need to be refactored every time something in the chain changed. 'Mocks' were invented to solve this problem.
What is a Mock?
A mock is a stand-in for a real module. It doesn't contain any real functionality but rather imitates a module's interface. When used in a test, a mock intercepts calls between the module under test and the mocked module (Figure 2). If the function being called has a return value, the mock for that function will also return a value as specified in the test.
Additionally, mocks have a special feature that keeps track of the number of times each function is called, and the order of those calls. If function calls occur in an unexpected order, the problem is detected and failure is triggered. Mocks are able to break the chain of interaction and isolate a given module so that it can be easily tested.
Figure 2. Mocks act like a ping-pong paddle by intercepting the function call and immediately returning execution to the calling function.
How are Mocks Created?
Right now, you might be thinking that creating these mocks would mean a lot of additional work. This is where mocking frameworks come into play. A mocking framework is a tool that generates mocks for you. The beauty of it is that you don't even need to write a module's implementation to generate a mock.
CMock, for example, is a free mocking framework (Figure 3) that is designed for use with C. To generate a mock, all it needs is a header file. CMock parses the function declarations in the header file and generates mock functions based on the prototypes. GoogleMock and CppUTest are also available for generating mocks for C++ projects.
Testing frameworks and mocking frameworks are generally used together within a build automation environment. This integration allows for efficient use of these tools in an automated fashion. The tools work together to automatically detect when a mock is needed and generate it on the fly, during the build process. The mock objects and real objects can then be linked together to create test executables.
How are Mocks Used?
A mock by itself is not very useful. The true value is realized when you use a mock in a unit test. We'll walk through a simple demo, using TDD, to see how mocking comes into play. Explaining the entire TDD process is outside the scope of this article so I will focus primarily on how mocks fit into the overall process. I will be using a C unit testing framework called Unity for the tests, and CMock for the mocking framework. For a good primer on unit testing and an introduction to Unity and CMock, have a look at throwtheswitch.org. Also, to download the source code for the complete example see the References section below.
For this example, we'll use an LED controller module. To start out, we'll implement a single function that simply turns an LED on. The function will take a single parameter to indicate which LED should be turned on. When called, it will invoke a function in a GPIO module to set the correct GPIO pin state.
// test_LedControl.h
#include "LedControl.h"
#include "mock_Gpio.h"
void test_LedControl_TurnLedOn_should_set_GPIO_pin_1_when_turning_on_
// Setup expected call chain
// Call the function under test
Listing 1 - Unit Test
Listing 1 is a simple unit test but it illustrates some important points. First, notice that we included mock_Gpio.h rather than the real Gpio.h. This tells the test framework to use a mock (fake) version of the Gpio module. Next, notice the first line of code in the test. This line tells CMock it should expect function GPIO_SetPin will be called with a single argument equal to 1 (the GPIO pin to set). The last line of code in the test tells the testing framework to call the function under test, LedControl_TurnLedOn, with a single argument equal to LED_RED.
It's important to note that we didn't check the state of the GPIO pin to verify that it actually changed state. This was intentional, as we are not testing the functionality of the Gpio module in this test. We are isolating the LedControl functionality and verifying that it interacts with other modules correctly.
The test in Listing 1 is complete but will most certainly fail for several reasons. First, the compiler doesn't know what GPIO_SetPin_Expect is, because a mock cannot be created yet. In order for CMock to generate one we need to create a header file. Let's do that now, as shown in Listing.
// Gpio.h
void GPIO_SetPin(uint8_t pin_num);
Listing 2 - GPIO Module Header File
That's it! This function definition is all CMock needs to create the mock implementation of our GPIO module. The last thing we need to do is implement the LedControl module to satisfy the test.
// LedControl.h
#define RED_LED_PIN 1
#define BLUE_LED_PIN 2
typedef enum {
void LedControl_TurnLedOn(LED_T led);
Listing 3 - LedControl Header File
// LedControl.c
#include "LedControl.h"
#include "Gpio.h"
void LedControl_TurnLedOn(LED_T led)
if(LED_RED == led)
Listing 4 - LedControl Source File
In Listing 3 and Listing 4 we have the header file and source file for the LedControl module. The header file contains an enumeration to represent the LEDs on the board, a couple of define statements to correlate a GPIO pin to each LED, and a prototype for the function under test. The source file contains the actual definition of the function under test.
When the testing framework builds the test in Listing 1, it will use the real LedController module. However, because we included mock_Gpio.h in the test file, it will link in the mock version of the Gpio module generated by CMock. When the test runs, the real LedControl_TurnLedOn function is called. This function calls GPIO_SetPin, which exists in the mock object. Because we set up the expectation in the first line of our our test, the mock object will validate that the argument used in the call matches that which was specified, and return happily. If the LedControl_TurnLedOn function were to call into the GPIO module again, or if the argument's value was something other than 1, the mock object would produce an error and the testing framework would report it in the test summary.
This example demonstrates the TDD process for developing entirely new code. If you are working on legacy code, TDD can still be used effectively. Write a test to the existing code and make sure it fails. Then, change the code as needed until the test passes. Use mocks to isolate the module you are updating in the same way we did above. Occasionally, this will require some refactoring but as a side benefit you will end up with a better, object-oriented program structure.


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Orange County killers Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins checked into a motel on Panama City Beach Friday for a two-day stay.
Their plans were cut short Saturday when about 20 law officers swarmed Coconut Grove Motor Inn and arrested the men about 5:30 p.m. local time.
Over a loudspeaker, they ordered Walker and Jenkins to surrender.
They came out of Room 227 with their hands up about a minute later, the Bay County Sheriff's Office said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will brief the media at 10 a.m. today in Tallahassee. Walker and Jenkins were booked into the Bay County Jail in the panhandle and will have their first appearance before a judge today at 11 a.m. eastern time.
The peaceful capture Saturday evening happened about four hours after a news conference in which relatives of the two men, who were serving life sentences at Franklin Correctional Institution, implored them to turn themselves in.
"We want you to return home safely," Walker's mother, Lillie Danzy of Orange County said. "We love you. We believe in you. We just want you to surrender yourself to someone you trust, who will bring you back in safely."
The U.S. Marshals Service Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement took Walker and Jenkins into custody, and the men were booked into to the Bay County Jail.
The Marshals Service, FDLE, the Bay County Sheriff's Office, Panama City police and the Florida Department of Corrections found out Thursday that Walker and Jenkins were staying near the beach, the Sheriff's Office said. They narrowed down the search Saturday afternoon.
Usha Patel, the motel desk clerk, said only one of the men checked in Friday afternoon but she did not recognize him. The men's pictures have been on billboards all over the Orlando area, where they lived and committed their crimes. A $10,000 reward was offered for each.
Sheriff Jerry Demings and Chief Orange-Osceola Judge Belvin Perry issued statements congratulating law enforcement and applauding the capture.
"I am pleased to know that they have been recaptured and that no one was harmed physically as a result of their escape," Perry said.
After he left prison Oct. 8, Walker spent time with family and went to church. Jenkins returned to Orange County with relatives wearing new clothes they bought on the way to pick him up from the prison Sept. 27.
Their release, triggered by falsified court paperwork, led to changes in the way the Department of Corrections verifies documents that change inmates' sentences.
Walker was convicted of a 1999 second-degree murder. Jenkins was imprisoned for the 1998 first-degree murder of a father of six.
Both men registered as felons at the Orange County Jail three days after they were set free. Registration is required of newly released inmates.
At Saturday's news conference, Henry Pearson, described as a father figure to Jenkins, said the family received a call from the prison about 3:30 p.m. Sept. 27.
Jenkins was being released. Would they like to come and get him or have him put on a bus?
"We took off immediately," said Pearson, who is related to Jenkins through marriage and referred to him as a "our nephew."
They arrived about 9:30 p.m. and handed over the clothes they had bought. About 11 p.m., Jenkins walked out wearing them.
His first stop was his grandmother's house. The next was his mother's place. Then he went to Pearson's house.
Relatives planned a birthday party Oct. 1, but Jenkins never showed up, Pearson said.
Danzy's attorney, Rhonda Henderson, said Danzy received a call from the Franklin Correctional Institution Oct. 8 notifying her that her son would be released immediately. She called the prison back twice to be sure and got the same information.
There wasn't enough time to drive from Orlando to Carrabelle, a trip of about 275 miles, so corrections workers took Walker to the bus station in Tallahassee and sent him back to Orlando, Henderson said.
Relatives rejoiced.
"The family believed that their prayers had been answered," Henderson said.
Walker went to church on Sunday and to other public places before disappearing.
FDLE is investigating whether the men worked together to gain their release and exactly how the scheme worked.
Orange-Osceola State Attorney Jeff Ashton said he found out about Jenkins' release after his victim's family told prosecutors. That led to the discovery that Walker also was out of prison.
Richard Piccininni, FDLE assistant special agent in charge, said they may have had help forging the release documents — a theory espoused Thursday by Perry.
Ashton's and Perry's signatures were forged on the phony court orders, court officials said.
From now on, the Department of Corrections will contact a judge to verify that inmates' sentences have been reduced instead of relying on paperwork as in years past, department Secretary Michael Crews wrote last week in a letter to the state's chief judges.
After the news conference, Walker's cousin Walt Lee said Walker has been unfairly portrayed in the media. The man Walker shot to death, Cedric Slater, 23, had been bullying him and anyone would get tired of it, Lee said. Walker told investigators after the shooting that he intended only to scare Slater.
"He's not a vicious person," Lee said of Walker. "He's a good man."
Nearly 50 supporters — many of them family members — attended the news conference. A Twitter campaign was launched to try to free Walker.
Jenkins broke into the home of a suspected drug dealer in Pine Hills and shot him in the leg with an AK-47. He and his cousin Angelo Pearson were convicted of first-degree murder, armed robbery and armed burglary. Pearson, 39, is serving a life sentence.
Walker and Jenkins also have been convicted of drug offenses. Jenkins was convicted in 2000 of grand theft auto and in 1998 of fleeing and attempting to elude.
Staff writers Desiree Stennett and Jerriann Sullivan contributed to this report.


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Chup here -
So, c jane ("mom" to us) was called away on some hoity-toity bloggeriffic trip to Chicago for two days and I (chup) was called upon to sit on the kiddies.
2 year-old: no problem. 6 month-old: terrifying.
So, I immediately called my parents who were going to be in town (see below for important event) to see if they'd stay a couple extra days. Unfortunately, Grandma had previous commitments...but Grandpa said he could help out.
Day One:
After dropping Mom off at the airport, we met everyone at Denny's (it was close to the freeway, ok?) to celebrate. My little bro MD, and his wife Kentucky had just finalized their little Peanut's adoption. Congrats to them and big brother Phun!
Kentucky and Peanut. It's OFFICIAL! (snap by MD)
The Phun.
Grandpa and I had to get some errands done, and enlisted the help of Little Einsteins, Wall-E, lots of books and maybe a McDonalds Playland to fill the day.
Day Two:
More Little Einsteins, Smashburger and an epic walk.
New Obsession: huffing and puffing after watching The Three Little Pigs on Little Einsteins.
Grateful for; Grandpa and his baby-whispering gift, Johnny Jump-up, baba-na-night, and Mom coming home safe tonight.
BIG thanks to BlogHer for the invite and amazing trip!
- Chup


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Our youngest daughter is being an absolute trouper at the moment. She has stopped wearing her pull up nappies during the day. And although I have had to deal with a fair few accidents. I strangely get the accidents when we are at home and not when we are out and about. Perhaps because I am overly conscious of the need to visit a toilet whenever there is one nearby when we are out, but at home we just kick back and relax and everyone forgets to go.
Either way, she's doing much better than her sister did at this stage in the process and I put most of that down to the age that we've done it.
Our eldest started Nursery at 2 1/2 years old. Nursery, at that time, required children to be, wherever possible, toilet trained. So we attempted to stop wearing nappies and placed a potty in the corner of the room when she had only just turned 2. It was quite hard work. She regularly had accidents at Nursery, which went on for months. And having a portable potty didn't seem to help, as there was no requirement for her to 'hold it' long enough to walk through to an actual toilet.
With our youngest I deliberately waited until she was nearly 3 years old. And although she hadn't started telling us she needed to go, we found ourselves with three clear days at the end of the summer holidays when her sister was off on a vacation with Grandma and Grandad and I was off work. So I thought I'd give it a whirl. The pull ups came off, and I began to ask her regularly if she needed to go. Though I don't subscribe to the "put them on the potty every 15 minutes" method. Come on! You're bound to get lucky doing that. No one learns anything and it's frankly a pain. Do it at sensible times. Often if your child eats and drinks when you do, your schedule will be not far off hers!
I quickly discovered that she always needed to go half an hour after having a drink, and then again 10 minutes after that. The regularity of it helped me, and her. But when I took her to Nursery that first day in September I was under no illusions that she'd be able to stay dry all day. She'd managed it at home really quickly (and surprisingly), but there'd be too many distractions surely? Apparently not. The first few days at Nursery she came home dry. I was amazed. We have had accidents, but they are less than once a day. And she's improving all the time. And strangely she's only now starting to shout out "I need a wee-wee" when she disappears into the toilet, rather than just going. This helps (as I often need to run to the bathroom to check that the step is in the right place for her to get up, and the child seat is on. It seems that she was ready to get on with it, but wasn't interested in telling us before now!
My recommendation is not to rush. Leave 'toilet training' as long as you can. Don't feel pressured to do it. After all, is not you that's doing it, it's your child. Let them tell you when they are ready, and it'll be far easier than you'd expect. Or at least leave it until they have half a chance, as many children simply don't have that kind of control physically until they are at least 2 and a half, if not older. The worst move is to do it too early and end up upsetting your child, who will try there best, but just not be able to comply.


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Ranching groups are asking for a suspension of the renewable fuels standard. What will that mean for corn demand and prices?
U.S. ranchers and livestock producers urged the Obama Administration this week to suspend the nation's renewable-fuels standard (RFS) for the rest of the year and into 2013.
The livestock and ranching groups argued that demand for corn used to make ethanol is reducing available corn supplies for feed and food production. The time has come to wean the ethanol industry off government mandates, said J.D. Alexander, president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
The mandate requires gas refiners to use 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol this year and 13.8 billion in 2013. To meet that requirement, ethanol plants would have to grind 4.7 billion bushels of corn in 2012 and 4.9 billion bushels next year. The request to waive the RFS came when December corn futures were testing the all-time record high of $8.245 on the Chicago Board of Trade.
"It is abundantly clear that sufficient harm is occurring now and that economic conditions affecting grain supplies and feed prices will worsen in the months ahead," the petition stated. "Both conditions provide an independent basis for a waiver of the RFS."
Even if the Environmental Protection Agency were to waive the mandate, regulators would first need to prove that keeping the mandate in place would cause serious economic harm. "They would have to do some economic analysis first," says Bruce Babcock, agricultural economist at Iowa State University. The last time EPA looked at the issue was in 2008, and the agency's economic workup took 3.5 months, Babcock notes.
Waived RFS Would Cut Corn Prices by 28 cents
Babcock ran 500 scenarios on average 2012 corn yields that fell between 120 and 148 bu./acre. Using the average across all 500 yield estimates and eliminating the mandate for all of 2103 results in a 28-cent drop in the average annual price of corn.
The lower the corn yield actually is, though, the bigger the price decline would be if EPA decided to waive the mandate. In mid-July, forecasters had already reduced their expected corn yield to about 140 and 146 bushels per acre. Since then, corn conditions have deteriorated further.
"Ethanol plants probably cut production by 10 to 15% in June and July. The ethanol price relative to gas has thus gone up a bit, but refineries are finding ethanol is still a good octane source and are willing to pay for it," says Babcock. "Ethanol is bringing value to the market independent of any mandate." Babcock adds that the value proposition of ethanol makes it a strong competitor with livestock producers for corn—regardless of the mandate.
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Kate Winslet Vacationing With Richard Branson's Nephew, 'Ned Rocknroll'
Remember how Kate Winslet had to escape from Richard Branson's private Virgin Island after it caught ablaze during Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene? Well, it appears that the blaze was caused by all the hot hot passion between Winslet and Branson's nephew, Ned, who was also on the scene.
According to Us, Winslet had actually brought along her "model beau"—plus her ex-husband—for that fateful and fiery visit to Branson's Necker Island. But the model-man must have underperformed, because she and Ned—who changed his lackluster birth name of Ned Abel Smith to Ned Rocknroll—are supposedly shacked up somewhere in the English countryside at this very moment. Hopefully they took their fire extinguishers.
Even though Ned's only two years younger than Winslet, a source describes him as her "boy toy." When your last name is Rocknroll, nobody wants to take you seriously.


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by Clark Groome
I believe it was Walter Kerr, the distinguished theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune and later the New York Times, who wrote, after seeing a less-than-terrific musical that was beautifully mounted, "You don't leave the theater whistling the sets."
Germantown residents Janet and Nick Embree, two of the Philadelphia theater community's busiest designers, couldn't agree more.
Both agree that their designs — Janet is a lighting designer, and Nick designs the sets — are secondary elements in the production. The play and the actors should be the principal focus of any theatrical event. "What you're doing with the lighting," Janet says, "is creating an atmosphere. That atmosphere is influenced by the tone of the play. If it's more serious, the atmosphere's a little darker than a comedy, which may be brighter."
While the sets are generally more apparent to the average audience member, Nick says, "Sometimes design that calls attention to itself can be recognized for that, like 'Wow, that was really great.' The reason people notice it is sometimes it has bells and whistles."
Think of a typical farce with all those doors that need slamming to get an idea of when a set can almost become a character in the play. "Generally, however," Nick says, "some of the best design comes in under the radar. The audience may not even be aware that a sound cue, for instance, has been playing that made them feel cold. But they really felt that moment. It touched them emotionally. They felt empathy with the performers. It made the play work."
While the Embrees work individually, they also often team up on a production. Their current assignment is the Lantern Theater Company's production of "The Island" by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Nishona, which runs through June 10 at St. Stephen's Theater, 10th and Ludlow Streets.
Nick and Janet have done a lot of work for Lantern. Janet is an artistic associate, and Nick served as Lantern's resident set designer for many years. They have also designed for most of the area's major theaters. Nick has worked at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Arden Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Delaware Theatre Company, 1812 Productions, InterAct Theatre, Freedom Theatre, Bristol Riverside Theatre and the Philadelphia Theatre Company among them. Janet's work has brought light to productions at 1812, Freedom, Act II, Bristol and the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3.
Now married for 15 years — Nick is 43 and Janet is "over 40" — they met while both were students in the Masters of Fine Arts Theatre program at Temple in the late 1990s.
Janet is a native of southern New Jersey and a graduate of Pfeiffer University in North Carolina (a B.A. in English writing in 1987). Nick was born in Berkeley, California, moved to Mississippi with his college professor father when he was 8, studied abroad and then attended Dartmouth, where he earned a B.A. cum laude in studio art and drama in 1991.
He studied in the graduate design program at New York University's Tisch Scholl of the Arts before enrolling at Temple. During their time in school, and for Janet in the interim between Pfeiffer and Temple, both worked on shows, sometimes doing grunt work, others actually helping with the design.
After graduating from Temple, they decided to stay in Philadelphia for a year. They had developed local contacts and wanted to get some experience before making the move to New York. One year led to another, and they decided after three years to remain here. "We decided," Janet says, "that unless something changed drastically, we'd stay in Philadelphia. It's a great community to be working in." Nick notes that "the cost of living is much lower than in New York," which has allowed them to have a house in Germantown, a car and still work with people they describe as great theater artists.
As part of the creative team for a production, the designers meet with the director well in advance of rehearsals. The process of designing a show varies. "The director has the opportunity to talk about what is different about this production," Janet says. "Depending on the director, that vision can be something very concrete or something very abstract.
Sometimes they want to get in the room with designers and shoot ideas back and forth for them to come up with the concept together. It's a different process every time."
Nick notes "The director is the captain of the ship. How much authority he gives to the rest of the [design team] is really up to him."
While both Embrees began their careers as freelance designers, both are now faculty members at the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at Philadelphia's University of the Arts.
Nick, an associate professor, has been there since 2004 and is now the head of theater design and technology B.F.A. program. Since 2009 Janet has been the UArts' production manager. For the school's 18 annual productions, she schedules all auditions, oversees all the designers and stage managers, and generally makes sure the details of the productions run smoothly.
The Embrees often work seven days a week. Whether teaching about it or actually designing a show, their philosophy is the same. "At the minimum," Nick says, "you want the design to not get in the way but rather enhance what's going on onstage without people knowing that's happening.
"It's not about us. It's about the play and the production. The actors are the ones out there having to live that script. A set designer who makes it about his own work — and there are some — does so at the expense of the production. What we want is for people not to think about the parts (of the play), just about the production as a whole."


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It's best to know what Emona activities you'd like to do when you visit Emona, Bulgaria. But if you haven't planned beforehand, here are some possible Emona activities which could include visits to a number of Emona attractions:
Chateau Medovo is a ethnographic tourist complex built in authentic Bulgarian style, which includes a boutique winery, small hotel area, outdoor and indoor restaurant, handicraft artisan shops and more. Chateau spans 9,000 m2 and is located west of Sunny Beach and north of Burgas, near the Black Sea coast and the mountain skirts of Stara Planina. The Chateau brings together elements of Bulgarian architectural design, authentic artisans and handicrafts, traditional cuisine, exclusive folklore spectacles, and excellent Bulgarian wine. Mineral spring water great for drinking and suitable for balneological spa procedures runs through the complex. Chateau Medovo is affiliated with a group of Bulgarian wineries of high quality reds and whites. These include the brands of Vineks Preslav, Khan Krum, Chateau Rossenovo, and others, as well as the Bulgarian cognac brandies Pliska and Preslav. A large portion of the production comes from private vineyards. The products of the holding group are well known in Russia and parts of Western Europe.
Restaurant "Golden Barrel" is a bit-attraction facility with 250 seats inside. When cold weather is burning fireplaces. Dance floor is 12 meters long, 6 meters wide, located in the center of the house and allows visitors to observe the folklore program from their seats. Walk around the dance floor beautifully decorated with a donkey cart and donkey saddled, which are available for children to walk. By old Bulgarian custom, guests are welcome at the door with bread and salt, and the sounds of bagpipes are housed in specially arranged for them masses. A rich dinner of dishes and drinks will reveal another secret of Bulgarian cuisine. A special place lined barrels are filled with red and white wine, from tourists who pour their own wine with a bit inviting. For young visitors there is a children's program, games and animation. Bulgarian famous characters from fairy tales and Penda Pijo small little ruffians engaged in 4 languages. Diverse program of folk ensemble and singers, and the whimsical "mummers" help the foreign tourists can touch the rich Bulgarian folklore. For lovers of strong sensations - authentic fire dancing. The evening ends with a dance. First-class orchestra playing a dance genre. The house has a corner bit and folklore collection, loom, weave in which a woman dressed in Bulgarian national costume. Optionally, the tourists also wear traditional costumes for photographs. Souvenir shop offers visitors interesting objects of pottery, porcelain, wood and copper. Many more surprises await our guests who relate with you a pleasant experience in the restaurant "Golden Barrel" in the village of Bata and a lasting memory of Bulgaria.
The foundation of the Sea Garden is laid with the first general plan of Burgas in 1891. 72,000sq.m of land with desolated vineyards were transformed into a beautiful public garden. The Sea Garden acquired its modern look during 1910. At this time in Burgas, Mr. George Duhtev, who graduated with honours in Gardening in Austria, started work on the design and landscaping of the park. By 1912 the garden was already fenced. Along the path-ways appeared flower beds and the main areas were planted with cultivated shrubs and park trees. In 1924 the Sea Garden is fully completed. Afforestation material introduced from Hungary, Istanbul, Italy, France, Syria and Lebanon, contributes for the botanical wealth of the park. The Sea Garden is located on high coast and is full whith flowers, trees and sculptures. The Open Summer Theater is located there. The international folklore festival and the Music Festival "Burgas and the Sea" are hosted there each year.
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SPARM Supermarket is the largest supermarket in Obzor. With its rich assortment of excellent conditions and facilities for customers, service quality and operational standards established supermarket SPARM is a leader in business.
The antique beehive tomb in the town of Pomorie is a cultural monument of national and world significance. It was built back in II – III century and represents an original combination of a typical Thracian beehive tomb and a Roman mausoleum (specialists believe it served as something like mausoleum of a rich Anhiali family). It is located among gardens. It reaches 8 m in height and 60 m in diameter. A corridor leads to a vast round premises, in the center of which a hollow pillar is rising, opening in its upper end like a mushroom passing into the walls. (therefore some people call the tomb - The Hollow Mound). The monument is open for visitors in the summer season.
Ravadinovo Castle is a unique attraction for Bulgaria. It is located left on the road, before village of Ravadinovo when comming from Sozopol. This is not an authentic historical building (even it is still in process of completion), but it was built with understanding and with attention to the all small details, so it looks like a real medieval knight castle. It is built of stones and the total area of the site is around 30 000 sq.m. Front of the castle is situated an artificial lake.There are many gardens and green areas and the building is overgrown with ivy. The castle hosts an art gallery, wine cellar and several large halls. The building has very beautiful night lighting, which makes the place fabulous.
The cathedral St. St. Cyril and Methodius is the biggest Orthodox Church in the city of Burgas. This is the most important Bulgarian Orthodox church in Burgas. It was built during the period 1894-1907, according to plans of the Italian architect Ricardo Toskani. The church is a three-nave basilica. The great hall of the cathedral is divided by five coupled marble columns. The main dome stands over the twelve-walled drum with small windows. The beautiful stained glass at the main entrance portrays the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius. Authors of the unique frescoes here are the famous Bulgarian painters Prof. Gyudzhenov and Kozhuharov, best known for their work in the cathedral St. Alexander Nevski in Sofia.
Art Gallery Petko Zadgorski is one of the oldest in the country. It is an important cultural hub of the town. Here numerous lectures, creative meetings, recitals and chamber concerts are held. It is located in the former Jewish synagogue - a remarkable architectural monument of the city, built in 1905-1910 by the Italian architect Ricardo Toskani. Its top goes with the total involvement of Burgas prominent public figures, artists and cultural figures. From September 1966 the Art Gallery has been housed in the building of the Jewish synagogue. Until 1952 it is enriched with 85 new artworks, including paintings of: Vladimir Dimitrov-Maistora, Dimitar Gyudzhenov, Ilia Petrov. Today the exposition, located on three floors, presents the best of its funds, consisting of about 2000 works - paintings, sculpture, graphics. Pride of the gallery is Strandzhanskata collection of icons, dated from XVII through the beginning of XX century.
The Armenian Apostolic and Orthodox Church Surp Hach (the Holy Cross) was built in 1853, which is stated on the stone over the inside gate and on the marble of the Baptist dome. The temple construction is a one-nave monolith building with basic characteristics of the Armenian Church architecture. Armenian Apostolic and Orthodox Church Surp Hach is among the eldest religious edifice in Burgas, also declared for a cultural heritage.
Orthodox Temple St. Virgin Mary is the eldest among the churches in Burgas. It was built in the middle of the 19th century (1840-1860). The liturgy in Greek language was held up to the year 1906, when the church was renamed from "The Assumption of Mary" to "The Lord's Transfiguration". The church is a three-nave basilica with 12 marble columns on the inside holding the roofing and the wide balcony construction. The church preserves valuables icons painted by monks in the Holy Mountain, Athos peninsula. In the years 1927-28 the church obtained two new towers with bells fitted in. After World War II this religious building was declared for cultural heritage. On the 3rd of March 1952 the Church trustees voted over revealing the old name of the church – "The Assumption of Mary". During the years 1957-58 the master of iconography Mr. Nikolai Evgenievic Rostovcev painted the entire temple inside new.
The church was built in place of the Old Catholic Church in 1936 according the project of architect Svetoslav Slavov. The architectural plan is a single nave and apse basilica with a strict interior and fine decoration.
Note: The distance is straight line distance (may be called as flying or air distance) between the centre of Emona and actual activity. Distance calculation is based on their latitudes and longitudes. This distance may be very much different from the actual travel distance. The approximate travel/road distance also can be very much different than the actual.