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The inaugural Grace Kelly Film and Cultural Festival, being held in Newport, County Mayo, this weekend, will honor the life and career of 1950s film star and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly. The festival will be dedicated to her memory on the 30th anniversary of her death.
Newport, which does not have its own cinema, will bring in a mobile 100-seat cinema and will also use the local National school. The festival started on Friday with a "Red Carpet Gala Night" with VIP guests in attendance and a screening of "High Society". Movie screenings throughout the weekend include "Dial M for Murder," "Rear Window," and "The Swan," and a number of her other iconic films.
There will also be a Grace Kelly look-alike competition, a guided historical walking tour, and a movie quiz. The Tourism Office will host exhibitions of memorabilia of Kelly and her husband, Prince Rainier III's visits to Newport. The festival will end Sunday evening with a screening of "To Catch a Thief."
Monaco's royal family, the Grimaldi's, cannot attend the festival because of prior engagements, "but Prince Albert has given the festival his blessing," said Regina Callaghan, one of the organizers of the festival, according to the Irish Times.
Kelly's paternal grandfather, John Kelly, was from Drimurla, a town near Newport, and he emigrated in 1887 to Philadelphia, where he made his family's fortune by founding a leading construction company.
Kelly visited Newport in 1961 with her husband, Prince Rainier Grimaldi III of Monaco. She visited County Mayo during trips to Ireland in the 1960s and 70s and during one of these visits she purchased her family's homestead. Many Newport residents have great memories of meeting her when she visited.
Kelly was tragically killed in a car crash on a downhill hairpin road in Monaco on September 14, 1982. Her daughter Stephanie, who was also in the car, survived the crash.
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(Wednesday, March 19, 2014) -- Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is today announcing that Arizona has won a significant victory in the legal battle to require voters to provide evidence of U.S. citizenship as mandated by Arizona law.
Arizona joined Kansas in a federal lawsuit against the Federal Election Assistance Commission, which had denied requests by both states to vary the federal election registration form to include proof of citizenship. The court ruled today that the Election Assistance Commission exceeded its authority in denying those requests, and ordered the Commission to help Arizona and Kansas enforce their voter identification laws.
"I personally argued this case, before the United States Supreme Court. The language of that Supreme Court case dictated today's result in the District Court. The victory was really won at the level of the United States Supreme Court. There's been a media cover-up of the seriousness of voter fraud in Arizona. In an earlier trial, a Federal District Judge in Arizona found that voter fraud is a serious problem in Arizona."
Horne continued: "Today's decision is an important victory for the people of Arizona against the Obama Administration, assuring that only Arizona residents and not illegals, vote in Arizona elections."


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Luis Suarez tipped to stay by Liverpool legend
Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher believes striker Luis Suarez may yet decide to turn down Real Madrid and stay at Anfield.
Suarez has been heavily linked with a move away from Liverpool after revealing he was finding life difficult in the Premier League.
Reds manager Brendan Rodgers has insisted Liverpool are in total control of the Uruguay international's future and would do everything they could to keep him.
Despite Rodgers' assertions, Suarez's interviews while away on international duty have led many to expect him to switch clubs this summer.
However, Carragher does not think it is that straightforward and insisted it is quite possible that Liverpool will hang onto the 26-year-old.
"I think he might stay. Some big clubs will be interested in him because he is such a top player and that is something we have to accept," he said.
"We can't complain about that, we bought him off Ajax. He signed a contract last summer and he has a few years left and hopefully we can keep him."
Carragher also believes Suarez was the Premier League's best player last season, despite finishing second in the Golden Boot race and Liverpool finishing outside of the Champions League places once again.
"He is very important. He was probably the best player in the Premier League last season and you want to be keeping your best players, which is what he is," he added.
Liverpool have been recruiting early in the summer and will be well covered, in numbers if not quality, should Suarez leave.
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Numbers increase for girls' track team
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Last year's 1A state track meet qualifiers Tia Goertzen and Ali Buller return to the Goessel High School squad for the 2013 season, bolstered by increased numbers from the freshmen class.
Goertzen, hampered by an injury in the first part of the season last year, still qualified for state in the two hurdling events by the end of the season. She finished 10th in the 100-meter hurdles and 11th in the 300- meter hurdles.
Ali Buller competed in the 800-meter run and missed a medal by one spot, finishing eighth at the state meet in Wichita. Buller also ran cross-country in fall and earned the 31st spot at the state meet.
Thirteen other girls have signed up for track this season. Those that lettered last year, include sophomores Erin Brubaker and Makayla King. Eight freshman girls will compete this year, giving Coach Curtis Guhr hopes that Goessel may pick up some points in relays.
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OneMoreNameless wrote:Tower of Gaan-Telet is broken. I went in purist, leveled a while, cleared out the first subdungeon, which opened the second, cleared out the second dungeon, and then nothing. The presumed third subdungeon did not appear. I rather suspect it was due to one and only one of the Ying / Yang enemies spawning in the second subdungeon and some scripting breaking there ... they had no visible level in the main view, though had scaled to 9 upon viewing their profile, and died as a normal foe. The special condition for that subdungeon was 'no monster exp'.
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High-speed internet links southern African universities
[LILONGWE, MALAWI] The first high-speed Internet link between national research networks in Sub-Saharan Africa was launched last month (17 July) when Zambia was linked up to South Africa by a cable passing through Zimbabwe.
It will allow Zambian scientists to join Géant, a European high speed internet network dedicated to researchers, through the SEACOM submarine cable node in South Africa, opening the door to them to participate in advanced regional and global research collaborations.
The link connects higher education institutions within the Zambia Research and Education Network to those in South Africa's Tertiary Education Network (TENET), using internet infrastructure supplied by the UbuntuNet Alliance — a Malawi-based association of research and education networks covering southern and eastern Africa.
The link will in particular enable Zambia's researchers to participate in global e-learning schemes, and help them share large datasets with colleagues around the world.
"Medical researchers will be early beneficiaries, as high definition images can now be shared and investigated collaboratively," Margaret Ngwira, UbuntuNet Alliance's special projects coordinator, told SciDev.Net.
"Research and education data can now be shared nationally, regionally and globally on a high quality secure network," she said, adding that this brings the "Zambian research and education community into the global community, permitting their participation in cutting edge research".
Moffat Nyirenda, a professor at the University of Malawi's College of Medicine, hopes the initiative will allow regional universities to move away from using satellite-based connections, which experience long transmission delays.
"As researchers, we produce large amounts of data, and to be able to communicate within groups you need a secure and reliable means of communication," Nyirenda said. "This new link will help to develop regional teams of researchers."
Ngwira said the link is the first building block in a regional southern African network.
She added that the EU-funded AfricaConnect project — a four-year programme that aims to establish a high-capacity Internet network for research and education in southern and eastern Africa — is expected to be rolled out later in the year.
This should allow most other countries in the region to link up through a high speed network, Ngwira said.
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"Unit costs will continue to drop, except in those countries where the traditional telecommunications operator continues to have a monopoly," Martin said.
The Zambian link was funded by a €2.25 million (US$2.8 million) grant from the Netherlands Initiative for Capacity development in Higher Education, and a €350,000 (US$432,294) grant from the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority.
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How did dinosaurs get miles under the earth?
Book deflates traditional theories about 'fossil fuels'
The Bakken formation in North Dakota, Montana and Canada now is estimated to hold up to 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil, only it's available primarily when the price of oil is above a bargain rate – as the oil is located miles deep and drilling costs are substantial.
So a new book about oil, "The Great Oil Conspiracy: How the U.S. Government Hid the Nazi Discovery of Abiotic Oil from the American People" by New York Times bestselling author Jerome Corsi, asks how did the dinosaurs that died and became part of those "fossil fuels" get to be tens of thousands of feet under the surface?
That's just one of the many questions addressed in the book that takes many traditional beliefs about oil – it's finite, it's made through the process of various life forms dying and decaying, and others – and explains that they are just wrong.
How do we know? From government documents.
Corsi explains that at the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence agents confiscated thousands of Nazi documents on what was known as the "Fischer-Tropsch Process" – a series of equations developed by German chemists unlocking the secrets of how oil is formed.
He reports when the Nazis took power, Germany had resolved to develop enough synthetic oil to wage war successfully, even without abundant national oil reserves.
After the war, while the Russians saw through the technical equations and realized that the process for making synthetic oil is the same process that nature uses to make oil deep inside the earth, U.S. scientists buried the documents and hid them from the public.
For decades, the confiscated German documents remained largely ignored in a United States where petro-geologists and petro-chemists were convinced that oil was a "fossil fuel" created by ancient decaying biological debris.
Not without reason, Corsi explains, since big U.S. oil companies had no financial interest in explaining to the American people that oil was a natural product made on a continual basis deep within the earth. If there were only so many fossils in geological time, there could only be so much oil. Big oil could then charge more for a finite, rapidly disappearing resource than for a natural, renewable and probably inexhaustible one, he writes.
Corsi took to the airwaves last night, on "Coast to Coast AM," which airs on more than 560 stations in the U.S. and others in Canada, Mexico and Guam, to explain the evidence he has uncovered.
His interview has been posted on the show's website.
The Bakken Formation, which was found in the 1980s and 1990s, initially was thought to have only a minor quantity of oil between layers of shale and sandstone.
"The U.S. Geological Survey estimated in 1995 that the Bakken Formation had only about 151 million barrels of recoverable oil," Corsi reports. "Then, with advances in drilling technology, the U.S. Geological Survey reassessed the quantity. … A USGS assessment released in April 2008 concluded the Bakken Formation may have an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil."
The issue, he said, is not that the National Archives in Washington contain documentation on the Nazi Fischer-Tropsch process for making synthetic oil from coal, as well as suggestions that oil is a renewing resource that could power the world far into coming generations, but that the U.S government has known about the information for years and has kept it concealed.
"The … 'conspiracy' at the heart of the book is not that the Nazis learned how to make synthetic fuel, but that the Fischer-Tropsch equations (that the Nazis developed to produce synthetic oil) unlocked the secret of abiotic oil and explain how the earth produces oil naturally, without organic material, at deep earth levels on a basis that is continuous, even today," Corsi said.
"The Nazis understood that oil is a renewable resource, and the U.S. government and Big Oil hid that from the U.S. public – fostering on an uneducated U.S. population the idea that oil is fossil fuel that eventually will be gone — the 'peak oil' theory," he said.
A series of recordings of Dr. Corsi's interview with George Noory:
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Part 2
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There wasn't a unanimous opinion about the process and its benefits after World War II. The secretary of commerce in 1950 wrote to the U.S. attorney general advocating for the admission to the U.S. of a scientist who had worked on the process.
"The Fischer-Tropsch process for the production of synthetic fuels, in which [Leonard] Alberts is expert, may be a significant item in our national defense," the official wrote then.
"Normally it would appear that the significance of the Fischer-Tropsch development to our economy would be adequate to request a careful consideration of Mr. Alberts' application for immigration, based on facts furnished herewith," the commerce secretary wrote. "The critical national situation would seem to reinforce this request. Synthetic fuels are vital to military operations, also Mr. Alberts' fund of information would seem to make it more desirable for him to stay in this country."
That argument, however, was not persuasive enough to convince the U.S. to take the German work and build on it immediately.
"Rather than study the Fischer-Tropsch equations to unravel the code of how hydrocarbons are produced, U.S. petro-scientists and petro-geologists remain happy … to [consign] the Nazi documents to obscurity because they consider synthetic oil production basically a waste of time," Corsi said.
Corsi also cites the work of author Thomas Gold, who wrote "The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels," and noted the idea received additional confirmation when Gold reported that a spacecraft landed on Titan, a giant moon of Saturn, and found "abundant methane."
"We have determined that Titan's methane is not of biological origin, so it must be replenished by geological processes," wrote Dr. Hasso Niehmann of the Goddard Space Flight Center.
"If Peak Oil theories are right, why do we have more worldwide oil reserves today than ever before?" Corsi's book asks.
He notes the Department of Energy and others assessed in 1980 the worldwide proven oil reserves were about 645 billion barrels; but by 2005 the total was 1.28 trillion barrels.
So what are the geological processes?
Corsi explains that when hydrogen and carbon are added to coal, with various catalysts under intense pressure and heat, hydrocarbons are produced.
That's what the mantle of the Earth does, he said.
He said it doesn't take dead plants or animals, dinosaurs, plankton, algae or former living matter to produce oil, and the Nazis understood this.
"Today Nazi synthetic oil secrets remain hidden from the public view because that's exactly the way U.S. oil companies and the U.S. government want it," Corsi wrote. "The true secret of Nazi synthetic oil had nothing to do with liquefying coal."
"Committed Nazis … might have been quietly pleased when American scientists saw nothing more in the Fischer-Tropsch process than how to make gasoline and diesel fuel out of coal."
The controversy is heating up. Last year, Goldman Sachs "issued a report predicting the United States will be the world's largest oil producing country by 2017," Corsi wrote. "The report was a shock to peak oil believers … who had been conditioned to expect that the United States would have completely depleted all available oil resources by the third decade of the 21st century."
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The fall 2012 film season has finally arrived. The summer blockbusters have come and gone. During the next few months, viewers will now be treated to some of the smaller movies that could win big come awards season - though films like The Hobbit and James Bond's Skyfall will still deliver the blockbuster experience.
Two of the most highly-anticipated movies of the year will arrive in September with director Paul Thomas Anderson releasing The Master, his first movie since the Oscar-winning film There Will be Blood (2007), and Clint Eastwood returning to acting in Trouble with the Curve. Eastwood hasn't appeared in a film since Gran Torino in 2008, so there's much anticipation about his new project. PTA's return to the director's chair and Eastwood's return to acting are only two of the many reasons we at Screen Rant are looking forward to going to the movies next month.
With that in mind, here's our list of the 10 movies we're looking forward to seeing in September 2012.
'The Master'
Over the past fifteen years, director Paul Thomas Anderson has delivered an incredible array of movies. From Boogie Nights (1997) to Magnolia (1999) to There will be Blood (2007), the director has consistently and creatively engaged audiences.
The Master looks like it will continue the Oscar-nominated director's streak of unique projects. The controversial film - which has a very loose connection to Scientology - focuses on a young veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) returning from war, who becomes involved with a religious leader, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film features Phoenix's first onscreen performance since his big publicity stunt about "quitting acting" a few years ago. Early reviews are already in and it looks like The Master could offer viewers a strong story and great performances from Phoenix, Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
Fifteen years after director Simon West and star Nicolas Cage collaborated on the action thriller Con Air (1997), the two have now worked together a second thriller, arriving in theaters next month. Stolen stars Cage as a former thief whose daughter is kidnapped. While his daughter is held in the trunk of a car, Cage's character must steal ten million dollars in a matter of hours to save her innocent life.
While Cage has had a rough couple of years at the cineplex, his reunion with West could be an improvement. It was only a few weeks ago that West's latest film, The Expendables 2, was released to solid ratings from critics and a solid run at the box office. Could this Con Air reunion mean that Cage's action career is back on track?
Even though the film isn't releasing for a few weeks, Richard Gere is already receiving a lot of positive buzz for his performance as a hedge fun manager in the new thriller, Arbitrage. Gere stars opposite Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon and rising star Brit Marling (Sound of My Voice) in the film.
Nicholas Jarecki wrote and directed this movie about a man whose secrets - both personal and professional - threaten his way of life. Not only is Gere's character under financial distress at work, a car accident leads him to face questioning from the police as well. The movie premiered at Sundance to strong reviews and could capitalize on the down economy with a main character who was reportedly inspired by real-life businessman Bernie Madoff.
'Resident Evil: Retribution'
At their Comic Con panel this year, the cast and director of Resident Evil: Retribution talked about the fifth installment of this long-running franchise. Director Paul W.S. Anderson even noted that this chapter is the beginning of the end of the story, while star Milla Jovovich added that Resident Evil has a life before and after Alice.
For fans curious about this installment, the plot reportedly focuses on Alice's attempts to find out who was in charge of the outbreak that has transformed millions of people into the Undead. In this installment, Alice travels the world trying to find answers and reportedly discovers some secrets about her past during the proceedings that will surprise both her and audiences who are clamoring for another action-packed adventure.
'Finding Nemo'
In 2003, Pixar had another huge hit on its hands with the release of Finding Nemo. The animated movie was critically-acclaimed and grossed over 300 million dollars domestically. The film also went on to win the Oscar for best animated movie of the year.
Now, with talk of a sequel - which will feature the return of director Andrew Stanton and star Ellen DeGeneres - the original will soon return to theaters in 3D. If you haven't seen the movie, the plot focuses on a clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) as he tries to locate his young son Nemo, who has been captured by scuba divers. DeGeneres voices Dory, the lovable fish that partners up with Marlin to help him rescue his son.
'Dredd 3D'
It's been seventeen years since Sylvester Stallone put on the helmet and starred as the title character in the 1995 film, Judge Dredd. Now, Karl Urban takes on the role in the highly-anticipated Dredd 3D which - accordingly to Urban - stays closer to the 2000 AD source material than its predecessor.
The movie itself features a futuristic world where cops are given the power to act as a judge, a jury and an executioner for the criminals on the street. But despite their abilities to fight crime with deadly force, these officers are still being killed on the streets by violent thugs wanting to control the area. Judge Dredd must fight against such criminals, as he seeks to shut down the production of a new deadly drug that is quickly spreading throughout the city.
'End of Watch'
In End of Watch, writer/director David Ayer brings viewers into the criminal world of south central Los Angeles. The film tells the story of two cops who face off against a violent drug cartel after a traffic stop puts them in the crosshairs. Ayers, who previously wrote Training Day, knows how to tell a gritty cop story - so this movie could prove to be a worthy successor to that gritty drama.
At their Comic Con panel earlier this year, the cast and the director spoke about the unique camera angles in the film, and the training that stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena went through to prepare for the intense experience. If the movie's violence doesn't turn audiences off, this film could prove to be a dark but engaging cop drama.
'House at the End of the Street'
Earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence starred as the lead character in the blockbuster Hunger Games, a film that quickly catapulted her onto the Hollywood rising star list. Now, the Oscar-nominee is trying her hand at the horror genre in the new thriller The House at the End of the Street.
Lawrence plays Elissa, a young woman who moves with her mother (Elisabeth Shue) into a new house, but the duo quickly realize that a neighbor's home has a mysterious past that is coming back to haunt them. The trailer shows the story taking place backwards, a format that offers viewers an interesting look at a familiar concept.
If the movie maintains an intriguing format that keeps viewers engaged, this could turn out to be a horror movie that pleases even hardcore fans of the genre.
At a Comic Con panel earlier this year, Emily Blunt stated that she believed Looper - the new sci-fi drama from Brick director Rian Johnson - is the best film she's been a part of. Her co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt added that he believes that he disappears into this role better than he ever has. That's high praise coming from two rising young Hollywood stars who have both have starred in many worthy projects over the past the few years.
Their new film finds Gordon-Levitt playing an assassin who must kill an older version of himself, sent back in time by a future mob. That older version is played by Bruce Willis, who faces off against JGL head-trip thriller. With the help of a make-up team, JGL reportedly attempted to transform himself into a young Willis for the film, so we'll have to see if all of the work was worth it when it arrives on the big screen.
'Trouble with the Curve'
In Trouble with the Curve, Clint Eastwood returns for his first acting role in four years. He stars as an aging Atlanta Braves baseball scout checking out a new young prospect. With his eyes failing him, however, his daughter Mickey (Amy Adams) is forced to follow him along on a road trip to help him decide the worthiness of a potential major league player.
First-time feature director Robert Lorenz has a long history of working with Eastwood. He previously served as an assistant director on over half a dozen projects that involved Eastwood as either a director or writer. Those projects include Million Dollar Baby (2004), Mystic River (2003), and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). That connection could help make this movie into more than just a baseball film, and help establish this Trouble with the Curve as the Moneyball of 2012.
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Did you know that 94% of consumers research products online before buying? Or that 3 out of 5 people use search as their go-to shopping resource?*
The fact is, in order to compete in today's digital world, businesses must be online to reach their customers. Moving towards marketing yourself online can be daunting, but don't worry – there's no wrong place to start! Here are Google's top 5 tips for taking the online leap.
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Start by choosing one or two objectives. For example, do you want to drive visitors to your website, generate more foot traffic to your store or restaurant, or gather emails for a newsletter?
Be as specific as you can about your goal. Putting numbers and targets to your goals will help you stay focused (and feel great after you meet or even beat those targets!).
2. Get to know your customers
Talking to your customers can be the best research you'll ever do. Learning how they found you, or what they think about your website, can help you understand what you can improve your marketing techniques.
Putting a survey on your website or using social media sites to connect with your prospective or current customers are ways to get a feel for what types of people may be looking for your product or service.
3. Check out the competition
Ask yourself this question – how are your competitors reaching customers online?
– Do they have a website, social media profile, or online yellowbook listing?
– How are they marketing to customers – search advertising, group buying programs or post online videos?
Research can help you think about how to differentiate yourself from the crowd. No two businesses are the same, so don't feel that you need to copy what others do online, but do use it as a benchmark while your create your own strategy.
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Taking time to think through your plan before you begin can dramatically improve your results. Create a budget, find tactics that work within your budget and commit a certain amount of time to your goals.
Many successful online marketers take a "test and refine" approach, which is just a fancy way to say, don't be scared to fail and learn. The best thing about online marketing is that nothing is printed and hard to change. For example, you can alter the text of an online ad almost instantly if it isn't performing well. With online marketing, experimenting is key.
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Online marketing makes it easy to measure program performance, so learn how to track and understand your results. Most online marketing programs, such as search or social media advertising, provides you with analytics or measurements of your ad campaign. Read the results, then revise which programs you spend money on depending on performance.
Once you've set the goals to create a website, list your business online or start placing ads, your business is on the fast track to reach more customers. As with anything, practice and persistence will lead to online marketing success. And remember, it isn't how fast you get online, but getting there that counts.
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* Army council ran Egypt during messy 16-month transition
* Mursi replaced top generals in August
* Military has influence through security role, businesses
By Marwa Awad and Edmund Blair
CAIRO, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Protesters are back in Tahrir Square and the new president is in the firing line, but the military that until earlier this year was at the centre of Egypt's turbulent politics is staying out — and is likely to keep it that way.
The army has kept a low political profile since President Mohamed Mursi sacked top generals in August, including Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi who led the military council that was in charge of a 16-month transition after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow.
There is no sign this will change even as Egypt faces a new political crisis after another audacious move by Mursi, this time seizing extra powers. That action has set off a storm of criticism and protests by opponents to rule by the Islamist.
"The military council and the armed forces have left the political scene after handing power to the elected president," one general said to Reuters, declining to be named because the army wanted to avoid making any public political pronouncement.
"The armed forces have now gone back to its natural role of protecting the nation," he said, adding that the army would only step in "if called upon to protect the people" in a crisis.
That echoes a line often repeated by the army, that it will protect the nation and would only intervene if requested, which analysts and diplomats say the military is likely to stick to for fear of further damaging a reputation that took a beating during the messy transition period when it was in charge.
Many officers in the military became increasingly worried when the army was in power because mounting opposition to its role was both undermining their prestige and threatening to damage huge business interests, analysts and diplomats said.
That may have encouraged the second tier generals to back Mursi when he pushed out the top officers in August. Those new generals owe their promotions and loyalty to Mursi.
"The military is now out of the picture. They are not interfering in these political issues," said Mohamed Kadry Said, a former general and head of the military studies unit at Cairo's Al Ahram Center of Political and Strategic Studies.
He said matters changed when Tantawi and chief of staff, Sami Enan, were pushed out. Tantawi had been in the post of defence minister for two decades under Mubarak.
"The armed forces' loyalty is to the people and the nation," General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who now heads the military and is the new defence minister, told a graduation ceremony.
"The armed forces role is to protect the stability of the nation internally and externally," he said in comments carried by the official news agency during the latest political crisis.
Diplomats and analysts suggest the army would only act if Egypt faced unrest on the scale of the revolt that toppled Mubarak. Protests and violence now are nowhere near that stage.
Hundreds were killed in the anti-Mubarak uprising as protesters battled police until the army moved into the streets with tanks. So far, there is only one fatality in this crisis.
"The strong impression I have is that the military is really out of domestic politics, and the only way I would expect them to get involved is if there is really serious unrest, and even then probably only at Mursi's request," said Elijah Zarwan, a fellow with The European Council on Foreign Relations.
Perhaps indicating how much the military wants to distance itself, when warplanes buzzed Cairo on Sunday in a way eerily like a moment at the height of the uprising against Mubarak, the military quickly reiterated that it was a training exercise.
"I suspect that many officers were uncomfortable with the military continuing to take a direct role in the country's politics and felt it was dangerous for the country and harming the military's prestige," Zarwan said.
The army still retains hefty influence. It has taken a leadership role in a crackdown on militants in Sinai, a lawless area near the sensitive border with Israel, and controls a business empire that ranges from weaponry to bottling water.
Those interests could have faced more unwelcome scrutiny from civilians if it had clung on to power longer, say analysts.
Now, rather like under Mubarak, it is showing no overt role in politics although this time it no longer has a former commander, like Mubarak and his predecessors, in top office.
"The armed forces is a neutral institution meant to serve the nation and protect its borders," said Seif el-Din Abdel Fattah, an analyst and one of Mursi's advisors.
"A new leaf has been turned since the military council has handed power to an elected president."
Additional reporting by Tom Perry; writing by Edmund Blair; editing by Philippa Fletcher


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Thursday, July 11, 2013
July 11 - Benedict of Nursia, Monastic, Abbot, Disciplined
Benedict never thought he'd become a hermit or a monastic but he did both. All he meant to do when he left Rome around the year 500 A.D. was to leave behind a society that simultaneously repulsed and enticed him.There was much left behind in Rome that called out to him and offered him a life of relative ease and comfort instead of a life of discipline in the wastes.But, Benedict knew the comforts of that world for what they were--the wreckage of a society adrift from God--and he knew the voices of his friends and colleagues calling him back to Rome for what they were--sirens leading him back to the rocks that had wrecked so many before--as well. So, although he was the son of Roman nobility and, therefore, in line for a career as a man of influence and prestige, he took stock of what the world had to offer and weighed it against what the Kingdom of God had to offer. On one side he saw a life that included not only the free pursuit of pleasure but, also, the ever haunting possibility of heartache. He knew well the pleasures and joys of the life of an affluent young man but on the other side he saw a life of discipline and renunciation with the pervasive promise of life. He didn't think the decision was very hard to make and so he set out for the desert to escape temptation and discover life more abundant. Later, he would be followed by his twin sister Scholastica, but that first day he went out alone into the unknown in pursuit of God's wild call and furious love.
Benedict found a home in a cave near some monasteries populated by more spiritually mature leaders and one of these men eventually brought to him a habit so that he might officially take up the life of a monk. He spent three years in seclusion and solitude learning the way of the Kingdom of God and developing himself spiritually. Often, he would break solitude to meet with the other monks in the area. Over these years of intense spiritual development he developed a reputation as a disciplined teacher and teacher of discipline. When a local abbot died the monks of the community approached Benedict with the request that he would become their abbot and leader. They recognized that they were in need of spiritually mature and disciplined direction but it seems that this recognition was not enough to tame their wild spirits, though.
After Benedict agreed he began to impose an ordered and disciplined life upon the monks who had requested his guidance and teaching but they chafed under his rigorous schedule and high expectations. He reminded them that the path he had always followed to understanding of God's high calling was a narrow one and was often uncomfortable--after all, discipleship is an uncomfortable process that winnows away from us that which must be abandoned. Eventually, one of the monks conspired with others to poison Benedict at their evening meal. They slipped the poison into his cup and into the bread before their evening meal and waited to see him die. Before the meal, though, he offered prayer and blessed the cup. As if the cup itself was unwilling to be a part of the monks' dark conspiracy, it cracked and spilled its venom harmlessly on the table. Remarking on the oddity of this moment and considering what it might mean, Benedict went on to bless the bread that they prepared to break together. When he lifted up the bread a raven flew in through the window and snatched it away. Benedict realized that God was protecting him from what the monks were trying to do and so he left them to their own devices and returned to his solitude.
Benedict's fame only spread further into the surrounding countryside and soon there were monastics and lay people seeking to become novices seeking him out at his cave. Benedict knew that God had placed a call upon his life and so he submitted once again to the mantle of leadership and spiritual direction. He founded twelve different monasteries--each group having twelve members and one prior--of which he was the abbot. He built a smaller thirteenth monastery where he remained with a small collection of followers who received their instruction directly from Benedict. This small group changed often since the men and women who came into contact with Benedict's disciplined spiritual life found themselves propelled into disciplined ministry of their own--it was as if his "Rule" was contagious and proximity to Benedict developed spiritual leaders. He taught his many disciples to follow a rule that was easily summarized by the phrase ora et labora--pray and work. He spent the remainder of his life passing on the life of disciplined adherence to Christ's calling and devotion and loyalty to the Kingdom that had called him out of Rome.
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Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) is an approach for determining how well a website conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
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Other aspects of evaluation are addressed in related pages of the Evaluating Web Accessibility resource suite. For example, guidance to help you better understand real-world accessibility issues and evaluate effective accessibility solutions is in Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility.
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America's College Kids Are a Bunch of Mollycoddled Babies
It ought to terrify us that they'll be running the country someday.
It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry over the demand by U.S. college students for "trigger warnings" to alert them that something they're about to read or see in one of their classes might traumatize them—apparently a new trend, according to the New York Times. Ditto for off-beat campus sculptures, placards displayed by protesters and more.
Poor dears. These are the same kids who would riot in the streets if their colleges asserted any form of in loco parentis when it comes to such old-fashioned concerns as inebriation and fornication. God forbid they should be treated as responsible, independent adults! After all, they're old enough to vote, to drive, even (though it's unlikely) to join the army.
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Yet they want their professors to shield their precious eyes from anything potentially offensive. In the words of a course-syllabus guide produced by Oberlin College's Sexual Offense Policy Task Force, that means flagging "all forms of violence" and examples of "racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism, and other issues of privilege and oppression." Although the Oberlin faculty has temporarily tabled the document, the school's Office of Equity Concerns already admonishes instructors to "take steps to make the classroom more inclusive for … individuals of all genders, gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations."
Just how, aside from inviting all of one's students to take their seats, is a teacher supposed to manage that? Does the history professor refrain from mentioning that Hitler killed homosexuals as well as Jews? Does the English teacher shun James Baldwin and George Eliot because one was gay and the other was a woman using a man's name? Avoid Toni Morrison because one of her books includes a rape scene? Not teach astronomy because just two of the 23 best-known constellations are recognizably female? When you think about it, almost any subject, perhaps save for pure math, could make some student feel less than fully included on grounds that have something vaguely to do with gender.
And that's not the end of it. In March, a pregnant prof at the University of California, Santa Barbara tried to wreck signs wielded by anti-abortion protesters showing aborted fetuses. The professor was charged with vandalism—but then was supported by 1,000 student petitioners who demanded the university crack down on "potentially trigger-inducing content," according to the Times. Meanwhile, hundreds of young women at Wellesley College asserted this past winter that a piece of art—a statue of an underwear-clad man—should be removed from the campus because it "has triggered memories of sexual assault amongst some students."
For Pete's sake.
Yes, obviously, abortion and sexual assault are serious, delicate issues, but part of going to college and becoming an adult is learning to deal with different points of view, unfamiliar kinds of art, conflicting opinions on the human condition. As a Wall Street Journal columnist reminded us the other day, "No consequential idea ever failed to offend someone." Should colleges exclude such ideas in favor of political correctness?


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On education, the legislature gets a B+. 2008 was a banner year for education reformers, led by a coalition of Republicans and inner-city Democrats. This combination of reform-minded legislators proved to be the catalyst for several key bills putting the interests of kids ahead of special interests.
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Lumbar radiculopathy occurs when the spinal nerve roots in the lower back are compressed or inflamed. This can lead to pain, numbness, or weakness in any area from the lower back to the feet.
Lumbar radiculopathy may be the result of a herniated disc , spinal stenosis , bone spur, or injury affecting the nerve. This causes inflammation or compression of a spinal nerve .
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase the risk of lumbar radiculopathy include:
- Birth defects in the structure of the disc
- Strenuous activity, especially heavy lifting
- Overstretching
- Overweight
- Injury
- Diabetes
- Previous spinal surgery
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Tests may include:
- Physical mobility tests
- Pain sensation tests
- Reflex tests
- Electrodiagnostics to test nerve conduction speed
Imaging tests evaluate the spine and other structures. Imaging test may include:
In most cases, lumbar radiculopathy goes away when the cause of the symptoms improves. If problems persist, symptoms can be managed.
Options include one or more of the following:
Non-surgical Treatments
Corsets and back braces support posture and may reduce pain.
Spinal decompression, or traction, relieves pressure around pinched nerves in the spinal column. Spinal discs are slowly pulled apart allowing for blood and nutrients to heal the spine.
Medications used to treat lumbar radiculopathy include:
- Over-the-counter pain relievers, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen
- Prescription pain relievers
- Antidepressants
- Muscle relaxers
- Corticosteroid injections into the spine
If the lumbar radiculopathy is caused by a bacterial infection, antibiotics will be prescribed.
Continue normal activities unless it causes pain. Staying active helps maintain muscle strength and flexibility.
A physical therapist can advise specific exercises. Exercises also improve range of motion. Physical therapy may also include other techniques such as massage, manual therapy, heating, cooling or ultrasound treatments. A therapist can also provide back care education including proper posture and body mechanics.
Counseling will help manage chronic pain through single or group therapy.
If no other treatments work, surgery may be an option. The goal of surgery is to relieve nerve compression and reduce pain. Surgical procedures may include:
- Laminectomy —an open procedure to remove a portion of the bony arch of the spine
- Microdiscectomy —a portion of the herniated disc is removed with instruments or a laser
To help reduce the chance of developing some causes of lumbar radiculopathy:
- Maintain proper weight with a healthy diet and regular exercise.
- Learn how to properly lift heavy items.
- Exercise your back to keep muscles strong and flexible.
- Use proper technique when playing sports to avoid back injury.
- Avoid excess straining or stretching of your neck and back.
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When we try to download Netbeans or Virtualbox from the Oracle/Sun site, our firewall warns us that some suite called EdgeSuite tries to obtain information from our machines. I don't know what information it is gathering, but I can't download any of them because our firewall categorizes its actions as a violation of privacy.
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While many see the 1960s as the era of a ''rights revolution'' in American law, this article looks back from the present moment of conservative legal dominance to better understand the ways in which conservative ideas began to grow during the heyday of legal liberalism. Using recent histories of post-1945 grassroots conservatism, the author argues that conservative rights claims – while often legally questionable – constituted for many a powerful and persuasive understanding of the Constitution. Due to this popular conservative jurisprudence's endurance and influence, its existence in the 1960s forces reconsideration of understandings of the 1960s as the era of the ''rights revolution.''
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Hilbink on Conservatism and the Making of Rights in Modern America
The Right's Revolution?: Conservatism and the Making of Rights in Modern America, is a new article by Thomas Hilbink, Open Society Institute. It appears in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (2009). Here's the abstract:
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No more "I" in NYC: How the city is changing whether you like it or not/
Seemingly overnight, a bunch of parking spaces disappeared in New York City--replaced by bike share racks. Lots of car owners aren't happy about it. For that matter, lots of people in the city have argued against bikes for years. Residents of Vinegar Hill signed a petition to prevent a greenway from going through their neighborhood--citing that "The Greenway would bring thousands of bikers from all over that would add noise, traffic hazards, and garbage to a neighborhood that currently has none of that."
And garbage.
Yeah, because all those bikers are usually seen tossing styrofoam cups off their bike as they ride--blasting boomboxes like it was 1985.
But it doesn't really matter, folks, because this is happening. Oh, it might not be your particular street and you may be able to fight off a particular lane or particular parking spot--but the bike thing? It's now. When 10,000 shared bicycles hit the streets of NYC, the flow of the Big Apple and the battle for street supremecy between cars and bikes will have shifted for good. And it's never going back. You better start looking both ways before you step off the curb and start watching to see if you're standing in a green bike lane.
You see, cities can no longer survive being congested by cars with one person in them and a billion parking spaces being taken up by cars that rarely get driven. We've lived as pretty selfish individuals--taking up way more space, creating way more garbage and casting a much bigger carbon footprint than the planet can handle. Things have to change.
We're being shoved, kicking and screaming, into a city that favors the greater good. Want to drink all the soda you want? Sorry, because the rest of us need to pay for your health care. Want to park your car on the street? Sorry, we need that spot for a bike share program. Don't like the Second Avenue construction? Sorry, new subway line being built in the name of improved public transportation. Broadway becoming a pedistrian plaza and car lanes disappearing--tough luck my driving friend. You just wait until 42nd street is next.
It's all moving towards a more sustainable city--one where shared resources and health are being prioritized over the individual. We're becoming more and more of a collective. Even the fight to hail a cab using your phone--it's all about efficient use of resources. If we can match one more empty cab with a passenger, and tip the balance of making it reasonable for one less person to own a car, it's going in that direction, and there isn't a union, interest group, historical stone or neighborhood organization that can stand in the way.
The balance in New York City has shifted my friends. I'm not trying to advocate for it--I'm just telling you how it is. You can fight it or join it, but it isn't turning back.
Welcome to "we".


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