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Parent-Teacher Conference night is a strange and mysterious event for teachers, parents, administrators, and students.
It is a tremendous amount of work for teachers. They prepare weeks and days in advance, only to have meeting after meeting with moms and dads (best case scenario- everyone shows up at the proper time….. better case scenario- the mom voted most likely to scream at you in front of other parents doesn't show up at all).
Parents hope that they hear good things about their child (nothing ruins an evening like finding out the 3rd grade teacher is convinced that your kid is headed for prison… likely after a lengthy crime spree).
Administrators hope that everything goes smoothly and they don't have to mediate a dispute between a parent and teacher (nothing like being in the middle of an argument that 9 times out of 10 ends up with both sides questioning your manhood/womanhood/sanity).
Students with good grades and behavior love conferences (1%), other students consider it much like a trip to the dentist (other 99%). As a kid, you hope that you can keep your worlds separated… nothing worse than seeing your teacher and dad sharing information about you (nothing good can come out of this awkward and uncomfortable situation).
As a parent I don't mind going to my child's conference, but I do have a question. I go to talk about my kid, so why did the teacher babble on and on about this other student that I have never met?
Is the teacher making stuff up about this mysterious kid? Does she think I won't notice the difference between my kid and this superhuman, overly polite, academic machine that she is telling stories about?
I say this not to question the teacher's honesty or integrity. I say this because the child the teacher describes during our conference doesn't bear any resemblance to my evil spawn who sleeps/eats/watches TV/and mooches off me in my house.
After sitting through 10 minutes of stories about this wonderful child I don't know, I begin to wonder if the teacher has forgotten to take her medication.
Then it hits me like a ton of bricks. There can only be one answer. It is so obvious. I don't know why I didn't think of it 9 minutes ago. Aliens.
Evidently, somewhere between the junkyard she calls her room and the door of school; some sort of creature invades my daughter's body and then spends the day making her do strange things in a sad attempt to impress people she hardly knows.
Examples of these strange things she is doing include: listening, being polite, getting her work done in a timely manner, sharing, playing with others, and raising her hand to gain permission before she speaks.
I found all of these things both strange and disturbing (I can assure you this is not how she was raised). I could go into more detail about her odd behavior, but it makes my head hurt and brings shame to the entire family.
The only consolation is that the aliens leave everyday about 3:10; they return her back to our family, unharmed and back to "normal".
Maybe one day, these aliens will miss their bus and the teacher will actually get to meet my child and not this strange creature that sits in the back row of the classroom and quietly does her assignments.
Then we can actually have a Parent-Teacher Conference where we talk about my kid (and then if things go well, we could go out for ice cream).


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Download the dkLab Apache:
The dkLab Apache is a patched Apache distibution for those who plan to use Apache web-server in Unix (Linux, FreeBSD etc.) to serve multiple separated sites working under different, fully separated and independent Unix users. It does not have some lacks of analogs, e.g.: does not require to install any OS kernel modules nor disable setuid; works correctly and intelligently with KeepAlive turned on and MaxRequestsPerChild > 1.
Practically it is the Apache 1.3.34 with "by hand" patched core. Here is some abilities of these patches:
This distribution also includes the following popular modules:
In the !CONFIG subdirectory inside the distribution you may find useful utilities and configuration examples for mass hosting. E.g. it is handy to use !CONFIG/configure to build the Apache; this script asks some questions and configures all the modules above.
Attention! If you find a bug in the dkLab Apache distribution or have a note for the author, please read Known bugs and notes below before reporting a bug. Possibly your problem is described already. If you are a professional C-Unix programmer and have any idea how to improve the distribution, I am glad to colloborate and (especially) - receive some code.
The dkLab Apache does not define any additional configuration directives, its usage should be clear by intuition. Here is a sample how one could create 2 virtual hosts working under separated Unix users (including mod_php permission separation, of course):
# Limit by-clients resource usage .
RLimitCPU 12 12
RLimitNPROC 15 15
RLimitMem 20000000 20000000
# You may freely enable these directives, wow!
MaxRequestsPerChild 100
KeepAlive On
# Limit the number of connections (standard mod_limitipconn directives).
<Files ~ ".*">
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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dklab.ru
ServerAlias dklab.ru *.dklab.ru
User dklab
Group dklab
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DocumentRoot /home/dklab/domains/$-3+
ScriptAlias /cgi/ /home/dklab/domains/$-3+/../../cgi/
ErrorLog /home/dklab/account/log/error_log
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ServerAlias denwer.ru *.denwer.ru
User denwer
Group denwer
DocumentRoot /home/denwer/domains/$-3+
ScriptAlias /cgi/ /home/denwer/domains/$-3+/../../cgi/
ErrorLog /home/denwer/account/log/error_log
CustomLog /home/denwer/account/log/access_log common
The above sample demonstrates 2 operations: VirtualHost to user binding and definition of a "dynamic" DOCUMENT_ROOT calculated based on the host domain name. Here $-3+ means "get a part from the right ($-) of the third (3) part of a domain name and further (+) insert it to the specified position". Thys syntax is described more detail in the mod_vhost_alias documentation (but note that instead of % you should use $ in the dkLab Apache).
Please note that if the expression $-3+ does not match any part of a domain name, it is replaced by "www" substring, not "". E.g. it is correct for the name dklab.ru in samples above - this name has no "third part from the right", that's why requests to dklab.ru will go to /home/dklab/domains/www - the same as for www.dklab.ru.
Of course the dkLab Apache is not perfect. It just works fine without any warranty. Here are some problems known at the time.
If you plan to create your own shared hosting but do not want to get problems from cPanel or other systems which separate different virtual hosts very foozle, the dkLab Apache allows you to do it easily. It will also be useful if you have a number of different projects inside one machine and do not want to take the risk of all projects when one of them is hijacked.
Practically, the dkLab Apache is stable enough for production version: it is used many years in a couple of heavy loaded servers.

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This is an announcement rather than an action request, and it would not have happened without action from a lot of people all over the state.**************FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
from the California Clean Money Campaign
June 23, 2014
Contact: Trent Lange, (310) 428-1556
California makes an official call for a U.S. Constitutional Convention to overturn Citizens United
California passes AJR 1, joins Vermont as the second state to call for an Article V Convention
SACRAMENTO Today, the State Senate passed AJR 1, making California the second state in the union to officially call for an Article V constitutional convention for the sole purpose of passing a United States constitutional amendment that would effectively overturn Citizens United v. FEC and limit the corrupting influence of money in our electoral process.
After passing the State Assembly earlier this year 51 to 20, AJR 1 passed the State Senate 23 to 11 with thunderous applause from the gallery. Because its a joint resolution, it takes effect immediately without the signature of Governor Brown.
The most common way to propose a U.S. constitutional amendment is by a 2/3 vote of Congress. But the U.S. Constitution also provides another way: A constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution can be called by 2/3 of the states. If 32 other states join California and Vermont, a convention will be triggered without any action from the U.S. Congress. In addition, Congress will not be able to prevent it.
"If our democratic system of representative government is to survive, the Supreme Court's deeply damaging campaign finance rulings must be overturned", said Trent Lange, President of the California Clean Money Campaign. "By passing AJR 1, California shows Congress that if they don't act to put forward an amendment to say that money isn't speech, they won't be able to prevent the states from taking the matter into their own hands."
That's what AJR 1, authored by Assemblymember Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles), does. AJR 1 makes California the second state to officially call for a constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution "for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that would limit corporate personhood for purposes of campaign finance and political speech and would further declare that money does not constitute speech and may be legislatively limited."
AJR 1 passed after thousands of supporters from the California Clean Money Campaign, Wolf-PAC, Money Out Voters In Coalition, 99Rise, and others called their legislators. There was even a "March for Democracy" led by 99Rise that marched 480 miles over 37 days from Los Angeles to Sacramento. Passage of AJR 1 was their top demand.
Some people are concerned that a constitutional convention couldn't be limited to a specific purpose, as AJR 1 requires. But many constitutional law scholars think it can. Most importantly, an amendment must be ratified by 3/4 of the states, whether it was proposed by Congress or by an Article V convention. This makes the chances of a damaging amendment actually making it into the constitution exceedingly small.
"Passage of AJR 1 may mark a turning point in our nation's history," explained Lange. "Until now, the Supreme Court has made ruling after ruling empowering the wealthy to spend unlimited amounts on campaigns, and drown out the voice of regular people. Theres no evidence that 2/3 of any Congress elected with this corruptive system would ever vote to change it. Now, if other states follow California and Vermont's lead, we have the hope of bringing sanity back to our democracy whether Congress acts or not."


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I dare you to think of any commercial product in the world where if you purchase the product, and then the company producing that product makes a mistake that benefits the consumer then any consumer seen to be taking advantage of said mistake has their purchased product confiscated with no financial restitution, and the consumer is banned from buying any further products.
I dare you to think of just one, except for online videogames. Because in the online gaming world not only can you do this, but other customers who missed out on the opportunity will sing the company's praises at doing such a wonderful job of catching nasty evil-doers, apparently blissfully unaware that they too could one day find themselves thrown out for a similar reason.
The story is that in Guild Wars 2 a valuable item was listed in a NPC vendor shop at a very small fraction of its actual price. Players naturally purchased the item, until Arenanet found out about their own mistake and reacted by banning 3000 accounts and temporarily suspending another 1000. They recently backed down a little and said that players that wished to have their ban overturned could begin the process by publicly begging for forgiveness on Arenanet's own forum. In other news at Guild Wars 2, people caught botting receive a 72 hour ban.
There are a few points here. Number one, this was not an exploit. An exploit would be discovering that if you danced seven times counter-clockwise around the vendor while singing "Ave Maria" then the NPC would sell you the item at 1/1000th of its value. In other words, the software is not performing as intended. But purchasing an item from a vendor at the listed price? Software operating perfectly well. In the real world, if I walk into a store and purchase an item at 1/1000th of its value because the store made a mistake and listed it at the wrong price, well guess what … tough fucking luck for them, and you can bet someone in the store is going to get their butt kicked. Not only that, but in some jurisdictions if that store even advertises a product at the incorrect price then they are legally obliged to sell it to me even after discovering their own mistake.
But in MMO land the consumer gets their product confiscated and banned for life for a developer's own mistake.
Number 2, this is all about Arenanet's cash shop and protecting it from their own stupid mistakes. This goes back to my post earlier this week on why cash shops and free to play models are just plain bizarre. Bizarre in the sense that once again, no other commercial industry in the world uses this model that I am aware of. Defenders of Arenanet's actions have been talking this up by way of Arenanet defending the in-game economy. There is no in-game economy at the moment; there isn't even a working auction house. But the cash shop is working.
All of this mess goes back to the fact that the online videogaming industry has no standards to adhere to in a commercial sense. As a consumer of Steam products I dread the day when the owners decide that they've made enough money and the operating costs to keep all our games accessible online aren't worth the investment any more. As a blogger though … well, it will be sweet mana from another world.


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AT&T might want to keep an eye on what apps Apple allows onto the iPhone. Some of them might cost the cell phone provider major money.
On Tuesday the wildly popular Internet calling service, Skype, will give iPhone users everywhere the chance to use WI-FI to make cheap calls across the globe, according to our friends at The New York Times.
The free software will be available for both iPhones and the iPod touch and it will also become available to BlackBerry users in May.
The mobile service will work exactly the same as the computer service, which boasts more than four million users worldwide. Users will be able to send instant messages for free and pay a low rate when they call other phones. But Apple will limit the service so it only works over WI-FI and not over AT&T's data network, according to The New York Times.
The move is still seen as a direct threat to cell phone providers everywhere, according to several experts.
"The carriers are in the business of selling voice minutes," Ben Wood, director of Research at the London-based CCS Insight, a market research firm told the Times. "For a long time they saw products like Skype coming along and they were concerned. But it turned out a little bit different than they expected."


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It seems to be a popular marketing move to have actors and sports figures align with watch brands to sponsor and promote their brand. For example, Roger Federer represents Rolex, Andy Garcia Baume & Mercier, Rafael Nadal has a watch made special for him by Richard Mille and Chopard gets their name out front by draping the winners of the Best Actor and Actress award at the Academy Awards with their watches and jewelry.
Now Italian watchmaker Anonimo, based in Florence, has added the young 20-year-old Grand Prix motorcyclist Axel Pons to their stable to be the new face of the company in Spain.
Pons is quite an impressive rider, taking up racing at the age of 14. He has competition in his blood, as his father, Sito Pons, is the two-time 250cc world champion. A setback in 2008 sidelined Pons and another unfortunate accident two years later plagued the competitor. And yet Pons wasn't going to let these reversals stop him. Spurred on by his father's records, he strives to achieve the mantel of world champion.
Pons fined his life view and Anonimo's a good fit. The company manufactures precise watches in a timeless and classic style that suit Pons's competitive spirit. Pons explains his affinity for the brand: "Precision is important in motor racing. Riders have to be highly accurate in their steering, and the motor must be tuned to perfection. It is the details that make the difference. Anonimo shares this philosophy: they make watches that will never let you down, even under the most extreme conditions. I have been an Anonimo fan ever since I found out about them!"
Anonimo's sales director David Cypers concurs, "Axel Pons enjoys a challenge, and always strives for excellence. We are honored that he has agreed to work with us, and we hope that his new Anonimo Militare Vintage will prove a hardy companion in his efforts to make his dreams come true! Pons is not only a talented rider: he is also a stylish young man. And for an Italian brand such as us, with design and style high in our priorities, that is a big consideration."
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Apart from the hibiscus, there's perhaps no other flower that says beach wedding than gorgeous fragrant frangipanis. Frangipanis or plumeria as they are also known are blooming everywhere along our beaches at the moment. One of our iconic beach flowers, they make the perfect beach wedding decoration or flower motif for Australian weddings.
Here are our top tips for using frangipanis to theme your Australian beach wedding:
- Bunch them closely. Frangipanis in tight formation are simply chic. Look at our gorgeous frangipani bouquet above – chic and gorgeous!
- If you choose yellow frangipanis, your best colour choices for ribbons, accents, glassware, napery and decor is buttercup yellow, ivory, crisp white, black or sand.
- Frangipanis work beautifully with massive blossoms such as fully blown roses, hibiscus or lillies. We're not fans of frangipanis and other waxy flowers such as orchids, but they can look lovely together if you use a master florist.
- Generally, frangipanis don't need foliage to complement them. Think of the flower in its natural state – the flowers are clustered and the branches are fairly sparse. Take your cue from the flower in its natural environment and don't use leaves as part of your table decorations, aisle decorations or bouquets.
- Frangipani leis are so easy to create. It's a fun way to spend your night before the wedding with your best girls – simply use fishing line and a large needle to thread frangipani blooms. A beautiful favour for your guests.
- Incorporate frangipanis into your wedding ceremony with large garlands of frangipani flowers laced together like a long leis. Such a versatile idea – you can then loosely hang them between your chairs down your aisle or decorate a garden trelise with them behind the bride and groom. Also, give your flowergirl frangipani flowers to toss when she walks down the aisle.
- Create a heart using frangipani flowers for the bride and groom to stand in when they marry. This simple but beautiful idea works a treat on the beach or on grass in a garden wedding.
- For table decorations, choose faux frangipani flowers and either scatter your frangipanis loosely around the table, lay one on each table setting for a contemporary chic look, or use miniature beach buckets filled with starfish, sand and frangipanis (see the beautiful beach buckets by Pink Frosting above – we also used Swarovski crystal encrusted starfish to complement the yellow frangipanis).
- You can incorporate frangipanis in your wedding theme in many ways. Here are some other ideas:
- Your wedding invitations – frangipanis on the beach or in a heart make a glamorous stationery idea. Some gorgeous styles from Dream Day Wedding Invitations and Alannah Rose make a real statement;
- Your wedding accessories – use frangipani flowers in your bridesmaid's hair and in your groomsmen's buttonholes;
- Your parasols – choose a plain wedding parasol and glue on frangipanis around the centre and border to create a unique wedding day accessory for photographs
- Your wedding bombonieres and favours – choose a favour with a frangipani motif such as personalised candy jars (yummy filled with yellow jelly beans), flip flop candles with a frangipani toe; or a photo frame with a frangipani flower attached to the swing tag – gorgeous!
Image credits: Frangipani wedding cake, photo by Nicole Pearce. Frangipani bouquet and aisle decoration images from Lindsay Van Roy Photography for Brett and Erin's wedding. Frangipani beach aisle by Aloha Island Weddings at Simply Chic Wedding Ideas. Frangipani link ring by Stasita New Zealand. All stationery by Alannah Rose at Pink Frosting's beach wedding shop. All beach collection wedding accessories and decorations at Pink Frosting's beach online wedding shop.
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There are so many ways to use these gorgeous flowers in your beach wedding. I'd love to see your photos if you have some to share!
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My husband's fate was sealed at age 11, when he smoked his first cigarette. As he put it, "I got hooked that very day." Although he tried repeatedly to quit, he rarely abstained from nicotine longer than a tortured week or two.
Finally, with the help of a hypnotist and nicotine gum, at age 61 he quit for good. But 50 years of smoking took its toll. Emphysema limited his stamina for a decade, and lung cancer killed him 15 years after he smoked his last cigarette.
That's the bad news. The good news is that he repeatedly told our sons, "Learn from my mistake if you never start, you'll never have to quit," and they never started. Nicotine is a legal but pernicious addictive drug, likened in its tenacity to heroin and cocaine. Recent studies have shown how it hooks so many people especially adolescents and why those who smoke have such a hard time giving it up, even when they know the risks all too well. One woman I know has had lung cancer twice and is still smoking.
After several decades of decline in the prevalence of smoking, fostered largely by clean-air regulations and public stigma, it has now leveled off at around 20 percent of Americans 18 and older, said Dr. Neal L. Benowitz of the University of California, San Francisco, author of a recent report on nicotine addiction in The New England Journal of Medicine. As older smokers quit or die, Dr. Benowitz said in an interview, more youngsters start. That keeps the number of smokers at 45 million, and the number of smoking-related deaths at 435,000 a year.
An Early Start
The studies have clearly shown that those who first smoke as adolescents (or younger) are more likely to become regular and heavier smokers as adults. Furthermore, studies in adolescent animals found that nicotine can induce "permanent structural and chemical changes in the brain that affect behavior and foster addiction," Dr. Benowitz said.
Still, the improved understanding of nicotine addiction, including evidence of a genetic influence, has offered new avenues for prevention and treatment. First and foremost, of course, is to keep youngsters from starting. Those who make it to 18 without inhaling cigarette smoke are least likely to become regular smokers.
As Dr. Chyke A. Doubeni and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School reported in June in Pediatrics, a four-year study that followed 1,246 children starting in sixth grade showed that an adolescent need not smoke daily to get hooked. As with my husband, in some youngsters, a dependence on nicotine developed after their very first cigarette.
Those who inhaled tobacco smoke at least once a month, the researchers reported, were 10 times as likely as less frequent smokers to develop symptoms of nicotine dependence, including a strong desire to smoke, withdrawal symptoms, feeling addicted and having difficulty controlling their smoking.
The more often they smoked, the more dependent they became, and vice versa. Even one symptom of dependency was enough to lead to daily smoking.
Dr. Benowitz expects that New York's new $4.35-a-pack cigarette tax (by far the highest in the nation) will deter adolescent smoking by raising the full price to about $10. But more can be done through taxation, especially if tax dollars are directed toward tobacco control.
In The New England Journal of Medicine this month, Dr. Steven A. Schroeder and Kenneth E. Warner note that European tobacco taxes tend to be much higher; in Norway, for example, they exceed $11 a pack. The writers suggested extending smoke-free zones to vehicles in which children ride, apartments and condominiums, and public parks and beaches, as well as more public financing of cessation programs.
Nicotine's Hook
Nicotine provides a quick fix. With each inhalation, it is carried into the lungs, where it rapidly enters the circulation and moves quickly to the brain. There it binds to receptors and facilitates the release of various brain chemicals, especially dopamine, which induces feelings of pleasure that in turn reinforce the desire for more nicotine.
Dr. Benowitz explained that over the course of a day, as the brain continues to be exposed to nicotine, partial tolerance develops and each subsequent cigarette produces less of an effect. But during sleep, nicotine comes off the receptors and smokers awaken with an intense craving for a cigarette.
"That first cigarette in the morning has the biggest kick," he said, and the vicious cycle resumes. He reported that as tolerance develops, the number of binding sites for nicotine in the brain increases, enhancing symptoms of craving and withdrawal and the desire for the next cigarette.
New drugs, like varenicline (Chantix), have been developed that block nicotine receptors and make smoking less satisfying; other drugs under development have nicotinelike effects that can lessen withdrawal symptoms. A nicotine vaccine is also being tested.
To be sure, cravings for nicotine go beyond its chemistry. As Dr. Benowitz reported: "Nicotine induces pleasure and reduces stress and anxiety. Smokers use it to modulate levels of arousal and to control mood. Smoking improves concentration, reaction time, and performance of certain tasks."
He added, however, that "relief from withdrawal symptoms is probably the primary reason for this enhanced performance and heightened mood." In other words, if they had never started smoking, most people would never know the difference.
The main exception, perhaps, may be people who suffer from depression, other mental ills, and substance abuse disorders. They are more likely to smoke and much less likely to quit because nicotine acts as a form of self-medication.
When addicted smokers try to quit, they experience irritability, depressed mood, restlessness and anxiety, symptoms typical of psychiatric patients. Many in withdrawal say they feel that there is little pleasure left in life.
Added to the brain effects of nicotine withdrawal are behavioral and environmental cues to smoke the feel and taste of a cigarette; the association with certain moods and activities like drinking, partying, or relaxing after a meal; a habit of smoking on the job, or being with someone who is smoking and you can see why it can be so hard for a smoker to quit.
Dr. Benowitz noted that women who smoke are more strongly influenced than men by "conditioned cues" and negative emotions. Women also metabolize nicotine more quickly, which can make them more dependent on nicotine and explain in part why it is more difficult for women to quit.
"If we understand the reasons different people smoke, we can provide specific behavioral skills to deal with them instead of smoking," he said. "Smoking cessation has to be individualized."


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- Popular museums in Amsterdam attract a lot of tourists but there are some lesser-known ones worth your time, too, such as: The Tulip Museum and The Houseboat Museum.
- Amsterdam is ideal for just walking. Or biking. Or taking a boat on the canals.
- See a small replica (1:25) of the Netherlands at Madurodam.
- Cycle or hike through Nationaal Park Zuid Kennemerland.
Why you should add the Netherlands to your RTW travel listOf course, visiting the Netherlands won't be complete without seeing some of the major sights that make the country famous. Here are some ideas on what to do if you've never been there or plan on staying for a while.
- Coffee shops, Red Light District and canals…the three things I am sure you won't miss experiencing in Amsterdam.
- Rent a bike in Amsterdam.
- Enjoy nature in Amsterdam's Rembrandt Park.
- Alkmaar is a small town in the north known for its cheese market.
- Visit the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
- Floriade. Every 10 years, though and it happens in 2012.
- Visit the historic center of Haarlem, a short train ride from the capital.
- See the medieval architecture of Maastricht.
- Visit the bustling port of Rotterdam.
- The old center of Utrecht is charming. See it from above. Or walk on its streets.
- Spend some time in the The Jordaan district of Amsterdam, sipping a coffee .
Why you shouldn't add the Netherlands to your RTW travel list
- The high prices are going to put you off visiting Netherlands. But there are always ways to cut down costs.
- Some areas , especially in Amsterdam, are too touristy and you'll feel tired very easily.


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From the beginning, your education will be infused with critical thinking and problem solving — first through broad-based learning in our liberal arts core that will make you a well-rounded, educated citizen, and then through focused study in your major. But it gets even better. You'll be focused on your major, but not limited by it.
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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, October 31, 2009—THING IS, LIMA BEANS were always one of those vegetables not to my taste. Partly that chestnutty texture (though in fact I do like chestnuts), partly the faintly grassy flavor, mostly the fact that Mom always burned them without, somehow, altering the mushy texture she'd given them by boiling the bejeezus out of them first.
Along came Nancy Skall and her beans. Two varieties are particularly wonderful: willowleaf and musica. These are the musicas, very flat and thin, beautifully smooth, a little bit grainy on the tooth, deep with flavor. Lindsey cooks them in olive oil; I'd swear she put a bit of butter in with them too. It takes longer to shell them than to cook them.
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Teddy Lupin's first year at Hogwarts. Canon-compliant. Nominated for a 2008 QSQ for best Post-Hogwarts story.
The war is over, and all is well, they say, but the wounds remain unhealed. Bitterness divides the Houses of Hogwarts. Can the first children born since the war's end begin a new era, or will the enmities of their parents be their permanent legacy?


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A legend of Chicago soccer, Fire Technical Director Frank Klopas remains an enigma for a rising generation of fans around the country. Born in Prosimna, Greece, Klopas seemingly had a ball at his feet since he learned to walk, though when his parents decided to emigrate to the United States when Frank was eight-years-old, his life took a big turn.
"We all know the story of soccer in the United States during the seventies and eighties," said Klopas from Phoenix on Thursday afternoon. "It just was not anywhere near where it is today. It was difficult for me to come here at first because from a young age I knew I wanted to be a pro and developing in the environment that existed during that time was very, very tough."
Settling in Chicago in 1974, Frank did his best to develop his game through his formative years, continuing to keep a ball at his feet throughout. A known prodigy in the Chicago soccer community during the early eighties, Klopas scored 70 goals during his prep career, leading Mather High school to the 1983 Public School League championship his senior year.
Following graduation Klopas signed with the North American Soccer League's Chicago Sting, but an injury kept him from playing in the club's 1984 championship season, a campaign that coincided with the collapse of the once powerful league. The Greek-American striker stayed with the Sting for five seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League, impressing enough to begin earning invitations to national team camps in 1987, eventually staking claim to a spot on the 1988 U.S. Olympic team.
"At that time indoor was all we had at a professional level to play competitively. I loved going to the national team to play good opponents outdoors. The situation wasn't conducive to preparing players for a high level though. Whenever I'd come back to the Sting from the national team, my game would stagnate a little bit because of the transition-back and-forth, so my desire was to go back to Greece and get the chance to play the game the way the rest of world did on a full-time basis."
After going to Seoul for the 1988 Summer Olympics, Klopas became one of the first Americans to sign a professional contract in Europe during the modern era of American soccer, inking a deal with Greek giants AEK Athens later that year.
When speaking about Americans that paved the way abroad, names like Harkes, and Keller are more commonly mentioned, however Klopas predated them both with his move.
"I didn't think much about being a pioneer for Americans in Europe, I was just happy to earn the opportunity to go and improve as a player. At that time it was just where you had to go to develop. It was a very different experience at a young age -- learning to have the right attitude towards training and taking care of myself. I became a student of the game, taking a deeper understanding from a tactical standpoint while bringing more skills back to the national team as the program started to improve. The whole experience has helped me throughout my career and even into the role that I have now with the Fire."
While at AEK, Klopas appeared in 49 matches, scoring six goals and helping the club win three consecutive Superliga titles, from 1989-1991. During the '91 season, Klopas tore his anterior cruciate ligament. That, combined with a subsequent infection kept the striker out for nearly two years.
After recuperating from the injury, Klopas signed a contract with the United States Soccer Federation and became a resident player in the national team. As there was no full-fledged professional league in the United States, the Federation turned the side into a quasi-club team.
"After my injury I was a different player but I was still good enough for the national team. My time playing for the U.S. was an honor and an amazing experience in my career. We got to travel all over the world and play a lot of different teams with different styles. That combined with the '94 World Cup was the starting point for the exposure that the players and the sport as a whole have today."
Though he made the 1994 World Cup roster, Klopas didn't appear in any matches during the tournament as the United States advanced from the group stage for the first time since the inaugural World Cup in 1930. In total, Klopas made 39 appearances, scoring 12 goals for the United States, in an international career that spanned over ten years.
"The difference with the national team between the early 90s and today isn't necessarily about the talent level, but about depth. The team is miles ahead because the dependence is no longer solely on a small number of players, but a strong player pool. MLS has done a great job in developing the American player for the national team and careers in Europe."
Following the tournament, Klopas made a brief return to Greece with Apollon, playing 10 matches before returning to the United States to launch Major League Soccer in 1996. With Chicago not being named among the original 10 MLS cities, Klopas was allocated to Kansas City and played for the Wizards during the league's first two seasons.
"To be honest I was really disappointed Chicago wasn't one of the original MLS cities, but I went to Kansas City, joined a team with great players and enjoyed myself. For 1998 though, I wanted nothing more than to come back to Chicago and really the rest is history."
After playing 54 matches and scoring seven goals for Kansas City over two seasons, Klopas was traded to the Fire, joining the team that would eventually win "the Double" in their expansion season -- winning the MLS Cup 2-0 over D.C. United and then the U.S. Open Cup 2-1 in extra time over the Columbus Crew, with Klopas scoring the 99th minute winner.
"It was a special team, with guys like Nowak, Kosecki, Razov and young players at that time in C.J. Brown and Josh Wolff all coached by Bob Bradley. That was definitely one of the most memorable of my career and really hit home my love for this city and this team."
Klopas played his final season in 1999, making 45 appearances and scoring six goals for the Fire over his two years with the club. Klopas spent 2000 in a coaching role with the team before leaving the club. Following two years spent as head coach of the MISL's Chicago Storm, Klopas returned to the Fire in 2008 as the club' s first-ever Technical Director and as he enters his third season in the role, his goals for the team are clear.
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Did Earth rumble after the Rio+20 climate conference? Or was that the roar of a billion citizens letting go the expectation that polite dialogue and political process would restore Earth's ecological balance?
In any case, the global Zeitgeist shifted, at least within environmental discourse. Future historians may mark the period from BP's 2010 oil spill disaster, through Fukushima, to the 2012 Rio failure as a state shift in ecological awareness.
Fifty years ago, in 1961, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, launching a new public discourse about ecology that reached an early zenith in 1972 at the first UN ecology conference in Stockholm. Today, we have armies of environment groups, swarms of ecology PhD graduates, Environment Ministers, conferences, science summits, green products, green travel, banners and blockades. But we are less sustainable than we were in 1961.
After fifty years of environmental efforts, the most troubling trends – Earth's temperature, species diversity, soil health, toxic dumps, shrinking forest, expanding deserts – appear worse. The testimony of our collective failure blows around us like a chilling polar wind. It is too late to save the 25,000 species that blinked from existence, or the 300,000 people who perished from climate-change impact, last year, and will again this year. We have not yet turned the empires of humanity back toward the paradise from which they were born.
Moving Beyond Hope
After Rio, a collective "gulp" rose among ecological scientists, journalists, bloggers, and commentators. Maybe we can't stop global heating or bee colony collapse. Maybe the systems feedbacks are more complex than our engineering can fathom. Maybe it's time for adaption.
The new mood arises from many events – BP, Fukushima, Occupy, Arab Spring, Rio+20, and so forth – but Rio signaled a tipping point for believers in the political process. UK's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg pronounced the agreements "Insipid." Former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, called the results "a failure of leadership." Ecology groups walked out. Indigenous leaders held their own meetings and called the official Rio "green economy" plan "a new wave of colonialism."
Writer/farmer Sharon Astyk wrote in Scienceblog, "Most of these events are about feeling good about pretending. …[The] fundamental policy changes that would be necessary … aren't even on the table… caring is not enough."
At a rally in Canada to save a river from another dam, scientist David Suzuki said: "In elevating the economy above everything else, we fail to ask the most elementary questions: What is an economy for? How much is enough? Are there no limits? We're not asking the critical questions."
George Monbiot lamented in The Guardian, that the "promise to save the world keeps us dangling, not mobilising… Hope is the rope on which we hang." University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen went even farther in Counterpunch: "to be a hope-peddler today is … laziness… We have to believe in something beyond hope."
Urgent critiques of business-as-usual are attracting larger audiences. "My beef with the whole 'solutions,' thing," writes James Kunstler in Rolling Stone, is that "the subtext to that particular meme is, 'Give us the solutions that will allow us to keep running our stuff the same way.' … The mandates of reality are telling us something very different."
After Rio, ecology writer Chris Hedges wrote "Time to get Crazy," warning that "Civilizations in the final stages of decay are dominated by elites out of touch with reality… [The] failure to impose limits cannibalizes natural resources and human communities. … It all will come down like a house of cards."
Annie Leonard – whose "Story of Stuff" remains one of the most-watched (relevant) videos on the Internet – released "The Story of Change," in which she critiques "green" consumerism: "Can shopping save the world? No. Put down your credit card and exercise citizen action." She notes that successful social change campaigns focus on: 1. big ideas (like "changing economic priorities"); 2. working together; and 3. direct action.
"When will ordinary people rise up?" asks Share the World's Resources, a UN consultation group. "Leaders and policymakers [are] paying merely lip service." They now advocate "public uprisings and mass occupations."
Bill McKibben, who helped introduce global warming science to the public in 1989, observed that Rio "accomplished nothing." Like others, McKibben has embraced direct action and last year, he helped organize a mass protest of tar sands pipelines in the US, leading to 2,000 arrests. After Rio, in Rolling Stone magazine, McKibben demonstrated why 80-percent of the known hydrocarbon reserves will have to remain in situ if we have any hope of keeping global heating below 2C°. He advocates divestment from oil corporations – similar to anti-apartheid strategies successful in South Africa, but laments, "we may have waited too long."
The fact that two of the examples cited above appeared in Rolling Stone music magazine is itself an indication that a zeitgeist shift is underway. We hear a return to urgency, to fundamental values, indigenous voices, limits to economic growth, and genuine ecology as the context for any authentic or enduring solutions for humanity.
Gulp! Fifty years of "environmentalism" and we are less sustainable. So what do we do now?
Make fun, make trouble
Artists usually lead social zeitgeist changes. Rouget de Lisle's La Marseillaise rallied Eighteenth-century French revolutionaries just as Tunisian hip-hop artist El General's O Leader! became the soundtrack for an uprising that toppled a regime and sparked a democracy movement. Virginia Wolff anticipated modern psychology and women's rights; the Yes Men brought street theatre back to activism, and Adbusters magazine aroused the Occupy movement.
Accepting bad news honestly appears part of the new mood. In the US, Justin Ritche and Seth Moser-Katz post the Extraenvironmentalists podcast, which they call "Doom without the Gloom," the tough love news with a sense of irony. "Is sustainability a farce," they ask, "when associated with a way of life that is out of touch with reality?"
Twenty-four-year-old singer Cold Speck from Etobicoke, Canada writes "doom soul" music, realism with rhythm. "We fall from a dying tree," she sings in Winter Solstice, and her claim in the song Holland, "We are many, we are many" rings convincingly. A fresh spirit moves globally, seeks a new way to live. The youth feel it instinctively. Witness eleven-year old Ta'kaiya Blaney warn "if we do nothing, it will all be gone," from Shallow Waters, a song she wrote and sang in the indigenous camp at Rio.
How to Boil a Frog, the funniest film ever made about collapsing ecosystems, advises people who care: "Make friends, make fun, and make trouble." Writer/actor Jon Cooksey plays half a dozen characters, including a lab scientist, who warns the audience, "This is the scary part. Are you ready? Global warming isn't a problem. It's a symptom of a much bigger problem."
Three years ago, Earth systems scientist Johan Rockström and colleagues published "Planetary Boundaries" in the journal Nature, showing that human activity has pushed seven critical systems – biodiversity, temperature, ocean acidification, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, land use, fresh water, and ozone depletion – near or beyond critical tipping points. Furthermore, the report cautions, natural system feedbacks drive additional change and endanger other limits.
This year, Nature published "Approaching a state shift in Earth's biosphere," by 22 international scientists led by bio-paleoecologist Anthony Barnosky from the University of California. The team warned that human activity is likely forcing a planetary-scale transition, far beyond simple global heating, "with the potential to transform Earth rapidly and irreversibly into a state unknown in human experience." Averting a planetary ecological crisis, they warn, now requires unprecedented human effort. "In a nutshell," said Canadian co-author, biologist Arne Mooers, "humans havenot done anything really important to stave off the worst. My colleagues … are terrified."
In "the Way Forward" in Solutions Journal, William Rees, creator of "ecological footprint" analysis at the University of British Columbia, reminds readers: "Climate change is just one symptom of generalized human ecological dysfunction. A virtual tsunami of evidence suggests that the global community is living beyond its ecological means." Rees shows that the human ecological impact (utilizing the production from 2.7 global hectares per person) annually overshoots Earth's productive capacity (1.8 global hectares) by 50 percent. "The human enterprise has already overshot global carrying capacity," says Rees, "and is living, in part, by depleting natural capital and overfilling waste sinks," including Earth's atmosphere. "Solutions," writes Rees, require that we "rewrite global society's cultural narrative" to replace a "culturally constructed economic growth fetish."
Double bind
Former World Bank Senior Economist Herman Daly proposed an ecological economics in the age of Rachel Carson, and published Steady-State Economics forty years ago. In a recent essay," Daly critiques the IBM notion to "build a 'smarter planet' – one that is 'smart' enough to obey our mindless command to keep growing." Rather, Daly suggests, "Let's make a smarter adaptation to the wonderful gift of the Earth, out of which we were created."
A decade ago the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Antwerp, Belgium, calculated: "Industrialised world reductions – in material throughput, energy use, and environmental degradation – of over 90% will be required by 2040 to meet the needs of a growing world population fairly within the planet's ecological means."
Human enterprise finds itself in what ecologist and systems theory pioneer Gregory Bateson called a "double bind." Our economic system demands growth, but Earth's capacity requires restraint. If we shrink our economies, we face hardship, but if we keep growing, we face ecological collapse, a classic double bind. Bateson pointed out that when such an impasse occurs in nature, communities of organisms get creative, pulling options from the random, to evolve a radical new way of living. Those not up to the creative task, simply perish.
Whatever the environment community does at the next "summit," it might as well be new and creative. Joining the charade won't likely help. Perhaps it is time for a boycott or a counter-summit in a separate location, guided by indigenous leaders.
Moving beyond hope to action is a good sign for our social movements. Hope is a useful frame of mind, but not a strategy. Systems ecologist Pille Bunnell, a professor at Royal Roads University in Canada, says hope must be activated: "Hope is a manner of living and acting in the present that does not foreclose the future we desire." Farmer-writer Wendell Berry takes up the question of appropriate hope in the poem "Sabbaths 2007":
hope must not depend on feeling good ... stop dithering.
The young ask the old to hope. What will you tell them?
Tell them at least what you say to yourself.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Deep Green is Rex's column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
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Good work, Rex.
8 August, 2012 at 10:02
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(Unregistered) Philip
I've personally had to let go of protest politics, Rex, after noting our lack of success trying to get those more powerful than ourselves to respo...
I've personally had to let go of protest politics, Rex, after noting our lack of success trying to get those more powerful than ourselves to respond to our exhortations, our pleading and our threats. There's too much of value to be plundered for "the powerful" to respond to the legitimate needs of the populations.
On the other hand, "real power" is, as it has always been, already in the hands of the people – when we reach out and take it. I believe that the non-confrontational way to do so in wealthy countries involves normalising food cultivation in organic urban farms. http://www.homeharvestfarms.com/CHANGE%20Presentation.pdf
When millions of people are growing a meaningful proportion of our own food, we've radically shifted the power balance and we've made ourselves more resilient. We've also begun to radically reduce our carbon emissions, established local trade and commerce, repaired a part of the damaged social fabric, and sent a message that clearly says that we are changing the way that we live and we're voluntarily reducing our carbon footprints.
I challenge thought leaders like yourself, Bill McKibben, Richard Heinberg, David Suzuki and others to lead your audiences towards this shift in food sovereignty and to engage millions of people in developed countries to take back our power by growing food together.
8 August, 2012 at 10:38
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Rex Weyler
Good point, Philip, and thank you for the home harvest link.
Yes, growing food locally is one of the most radical & important things...
Good point, Philip, and thank you for the home harvest link.
Yes, growing food locally is one of the most radical & important things anyone can do. Local food. Local energy. Local supplies. Building communities that can endure. That's sustainability.
Here's an interesting piece along the same lines by Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabeg: http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-08-06/our-home-earth
8 August, 2012 at 19:49
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(Unregistered) Anita M
The intervention can not be done at the large scale political level - it is too corrupt. The intervention will come from one backyard agraian connecte...
The intervention can not be done at the large scale political level - it is too corrupt. The intervention will come from one backyard agraian connected to another. Think - if all the activism energy was redirected towards living the solutions instead of banging on doors that have no motivation to change.
Bummed about plastic in the oceans = stop using it
Pissed at Chevron for blowing up their refinery in Richmond - stop buying gas
Horrified at fracking - stop driving and put solar on your house.
HATE GMO's - grow a garden in your front yard
Tired of all the waste - stop buying shit
Negotiating at a policy table that is stacked from the get go is a waste of time... be the change ... it really is that simple!
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(Unregistered) Jack Alpert
You have created a compilation of people's communication who agree that the discussion of the human predicament 1961 to 2012 is...
You have created a compilation of people's communication who agree that the discussion of the human predicament 1961 to 2012 is so weak the system never stopped deteriorating.
Everyone in your list agrees that they have not accomplished their environmental objectives. Many agree that their actions have actually created a negative contribution by squandering human energy that might have done some actual good if it had been used to understand physical reality and changed human behavior to address it.
I suggest we are not in overshoot because our homes are not insulated, our cars are not bicycles, and our meat are not tofu. We are in overshoot because there are too many of us. If our numbers were small enough all these consumptive sins would be meaningless. Conversely, if we resolved all our consumptive sins we would still be in overshoot by factors or tens or hundreds. That is we would still be deteriorating what we want to keep well.
My number (global population of below 100 million) could be incorrect, even by a factor of 10, but even at a population of a billion, each living at 40% present consumptive levels would not create a world where the environment would not be under stress.
So i suggest that you rewrite the present blog article and this time include the environmentalists who have been working as hard and as long as you on resolving the human predicament, who's efforts define it in terms of overpopulation.
8 August, 2012 at 20:43
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Jack Alpert,
I would agree that not producing more consumers than our Earth can sustain is the number one environmental conservation acti...
Jack Alpert,
I would agree that not producing more consumers than our Earth can sustain is the number one environmental conservation action that we can do, but which should we address first, the global aspect of procreation or the personal aspect ?
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(Unregistered) Jan
"To be a hope-peddler today is...laziness...We have to believe in something beyond hope." (R. Jensen) Yes, I feel almost a sense of resignat...
"To be a hope-peddler today is...laziness...We have to believe in something beyond hope." (R. Jensen) Yes, I feel almost a sense of resignation, a sense that, for so many things, it is truly too late. But regardless of what the future holds, I want to live in a way that is respectful of this beautiful earth and its inhabitants, even including people, many of whom are doing such terrible things to the earth and each other.
So yes, let's not pretend that some "earth summit" will negotiate us out of this mess. But I still want to support Elizabeth May, who knows that her current efforts are not enough, but who never ceases to appeal to what is good in everyone, even those currently in power, who are wreaking such devastation, even those blissfully unaware of how dire our situation is.
In her "Great Turning" interview in 2000, Joanna Macy encouraged us to leave behind the "dead argument" over which things are most important - working on our consciousness, mounting the barricades, building alternative structures - we need it all. And then she spoke these beautiful words: ">From our own life experience, we know there's never a guarantee -whether we're falling in love, or going into labor to birth a baby, or devoting ourselves to a piece of land, turning the soil and watching for rain. We don't ask for proof that we'll succeed and that everything will turn out as we want. We just go ahead, because life wants to live through us! "
There is a certain freedom that comes with giving up on facile hope. It's really worth reading that whole interview, available at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/new-stories/the-great-turning
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(Unregistered) Rivera Sun
Thank you for this thought-provoking article. It gave me shivers and chills, not just for the dire environmental warnings, but also because, out here...
Thank you for this thought-provoking article. It gave me shivers and chills, not just for the dire environmental warnings, but also because, out here in the desert of New Mexico, I just finished writing a social protest novel that explores so many of the themes you just mentioned. Action, radical social change, personal accountability, and the spirit of fearlessness and fun run as themes through out the novel. As a youngish person in this time of change, I agree with your comments about the intuition of the youth. We know. I also agree that artists are radical leaders, when they chose to be. Singers have a long history of this work, and writers as well. I am honored to be writing at the edge of the wave of change, and I hope that my novel can help catalyze popular awareness of the themes you and I are both speaking of. It is sorely needed. Sincerely, Rivera Sun
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Thank you for your enforced ideas. World needs many people like you.
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Plane crashes into US building housing tax agency
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A low-flying small plane crashed into a seven-story building that houses an office of the federal tax agency on Thursday, and at least one person was missing, witnesses and officials said.
Assistant Austin Fire Chief Harry Evans said two people have also been taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known.
A law enforcement official said the crash did not initially appear to be the result of a crime or terrorism. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the crash.
Thick black and gray smoke was billowing out of the second and third stories of the building Thursday as fire crews using ladder trucks and hoses battled the fire. Dozens of windows were blown out of the hulking black building, which houses offices of the Internal Revenue Service. Vehicles traveling on a nearby highway paused to look.
Peggy Walker, an IRS revenue officer who works in the building said she was sitting at her desk when the plane crashed.
"It felt like a bomb blew off. The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran," she said.
Matt Farney, 39, who was in the parking lot of a nearby Home Depot, said he saw a low-flying private plane near some apartments and the office building just before it crashed.
"I figured he was going to buzz the apartments or he was showing off," Farney said, adding that the plane dipped down. "It was a ball of flames that was high or higher than the apartments. It was surreal. It was insane. ... It didn't look like he was out of control or anything."
Sitting at her desk about a half-mile (a kilometer) from the crash, Michelle Santibanez said she felt vibrations. She and her co-workers ran to the windows, where they saw a scene that reminded them of the 2001 terrorist attacks, she said.
"It was the same kind of scenario with window panels falling out and desks falling out and paperwork flying," said Santibanez, an accountant.
Fire crews were inside the building battling the blaze and looking for survivors, Evans said.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the agency was investigating but had no immediate information on the type of plane or how many people were on board.


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(Originally released in Australia by Candle Records in 2001.)
1) Music to Hold Hands To
2) Synchronised Sinking
3) The Great Dividing Range
4) Beach Boys Medley
5) Broken Bones
6) First Cousin
7) Don't Bring Your Work to Bed
8) Fear of Rollercoasters
9) Harmonicas and Trams
10) The Forgetting of Wisdom
11) Self-Preservation
12) How to Tie a Tie
13) All the Recipes I've Ever Ruined
14) The Year of Driving Languorously
Evening news got you down? Life giving you a few rough turns lately? What you need is a healthy dose of pleasant love songs with clever lyrics. Take two listens of Why That Doesn't Surprise Me and call me in the morning.
The latest long-player from this Melbourne-based trio, their sixth official release, offers up more of the same, a fine thing considering how adept The Lucksmiths are at what they do. If you adore sunny twee pop with lyrical twists, then this is a classic worth your attention.
The Lucksmiths are comprised of guitarist Marty Donald, bassist Mark Monnone and percussionist/vocalist Tali White—who all write, although Donald pens the majority of the songs. Schoolmates who first joined together over a common love of The Smiths, their music covers some of that similar Morrissey terrain, pleasant melodies with poetic lyrics that run contrary to what you'd expect. They've built a devoted cult base to date, having toured far and wide, but this collection should bring more widespread notice and deservedly so.
The Lucksmiths' music is a happy amalgam of many influences—The Smiths, The Housemartins, The Wedding Present, The Pastels, Jonathan Richman, The Magnetic Fields, Belle & Sebastian and even some Kinks thrown in for good measure. Their specialty is catchy love songs, upbeat and slower tempo, with simple yet beautiful arrangements at once easy and familiar. Many of these 14 tracks grab you immediately at first listen, then continue to hold you with the power of their lyrics. The savage lyrics are what propel The Lucksmiths' above the fray.
Cynical and witty and poignant and fun, these gents have a way with the wordplay, often bordering on the verge of "too clever". In the opening track "Music to Hold Hands To," we get the following: "If you arose by any other name / You'd smell as sweet / And you'd look just the same / I could never understand you / Hating music to hold hands to / Sometimes something you can dance to is the last thing that you need."
In "Synchronised Sinking", we're offered a tale of barroom confession via wordplay like "Something's obviously wrong / Your face is all day long / It was lovely when you laughed / Come on, please get it off your chest / It's a commonplace but I'd suggest / A problem shared is a problem halved." The lyrics play on nautical themes ("Why don't you let go of your boy and see / You've lost none of your buoyancy?"), as the woman in question is "going down with the relationship".
Another great track "Broken Bones" tells the unlikely tale of a lover who fell so hard from his lover's clutches that he wound up on crutches—hence the catchy refrain "Coffee cups, promises, sure, but I've never broken bones before." While "Don't Bring Your Work to Bed" is solid advice for anyone in this new millennium.
As thrilled as I am with these lyrics, let me not understate the music. This time The Lucksmiths have draped their romantic folk-rock offerings in tasteful strings and horns, with spare, clean production. "First Cousin" is a gorgeous yet simple ballad that holds its own with any Magnetic Fields' offering. "Self-Preservation"—perhaps the catchiest track of all—could be an upbeat offering from The Housemartins of way back when. While Tali White's voice fall a little short of Paul Heaton's, the addition of guest voice Kellie Sutherland (of Architecture in Helsinki) on tracks like "How to Tie a Tie" invites comparison with The Beautiful South as well.
Why That Doesn't Surprise Me doesn't change the world, but it hearkens back to twee-pop classics of years past while also providing intelligent songs for today's audience. As such, it is the perfect pop prescription for these postmodern times—defying popular conventions with songs that are stunning in their beauty and powerful in their simplicity.
While this music doesn't have a fashionably commercial following at present, The Lucksmiths' talent and charm demand more attention. These Australians make music they like, and seem content not to compromise their pop-indie standards along the way. The many gems to be found on Why That Doesn't Surpise Me explore love and love lost in ways that aren't cliché-ridden. As such, this latest release might just be what the doctor ordered to get them that larger audience. As Tali White once put it: "The Lucksmiths are just friends you haven't met yet." If you like The Smiths or The Housemartins or Belle & Sebastian, I urge you to make their musical acquaintance now." Gary Glauber, Pop Matters


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Overturned call seals Brewers' victory in ninth
Giants win earlier challenge in third inning to give Pence an infield single
MILWAUKEE -- A successful challenge from Brewers manager Ron Roenicke in the ninth inning sealed a 4-3 victory over the Giants on Tuesday night as the overturned call produced the final out of the game.
The challenge came with two outs and Hunter Pence on first base after drawing a walk from Brewers closer Francisco Rodriguez. Joe Panik hit a ground ball to second baseman Rickie Weeks, but with Pence advancing from first to second, Weeks was unable to charge the ball and had to wait for it to reach him, resulting in a close play at first.
First-base umpire Hal Gibson initially ruled Panik safe, but after a review, the call was overturned to end the game.
"I thought he was definitely out, but with replay, you can't see everything clearly, you don't make the call," Roenicke said. "They got the call right. He was out. But you couldn't see, in slow motion, his foot touching the bag when the ball was in the glove, but you could see in one of the angles that he was out."
Had the "safe" call on Panik remained intact, the Giants would have had runners on first and second base with Brandon Belt due up.
"I just don't see how it got overturned. It was so close," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "... But they did, and that's the game."
Bochy believed that none of the multiple replay angles definitely proved Panik was out. "You always hear that word 'conclusive,'" Bochy said.
It marked the second time this year that an overturned call concluded a Giants defeat. On May 6 at Pittsburgh, umpires overturned an initial "out" ruling when Buster Posey tagged Starling Marte at home plate.
The Brewers' replay came after the Giants had successfully challenged a third-inning call, resulting in an infield hit for Pence.
Facing Brewers right-hander Jimmy Nelson with two outs, Pence hit a grounder up the middle that shortstop Jean Segura managed to grab. Segura whirled in a 360-degree motion and made a one-hop throw to first base, prompting an out call from umpire Hal Gibson.
The call was overturned when a video review showed that Pence's foot hit the bag at about the same time Segura's throw hit the dirt.


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In this 21st century, we humans are trying to explore every part of the Earth. There's plenty to discover on our peculiar planet. Many of the earth's secrets have been revealed by researching and many places can be explored nowadays with ease, thanks to the improving infrastructure and technology. There are many places on Earth, which are still unexplored.
Let's check out some of these unexplored places around the world. Next time when you are planning for an adventurous trip, include this in your list
- Greenland Ice caps
Even though we are aware of the largest island in the world – Greenland, the climatic condition and the ice at Greenland are not suitable for human life. That is why it is listed at top in the least explored places around the world. It is likewise assessed that Greenland ice sheets are aged somewhere around 400,000 and 800,000 years. It is believed that 81% of the land is enclosed with ice in Greenland.
- Gangkhar Puensum
A mountain, which falls between the borders of Bhutan and China, is Gangkhar Puensum. It is reported as the world's highest unclimbed mountain. It is believed that four unsuccessful expedition attempts have been made till date. Presently, the legislature of Bhutan has restricted climbing the mountain because of religious convictions.
- Deep Caves
In recent articles, it is stated that from the list of world's topmost caves, we have not even explored 10%. Isn't it strange? Across the world, there are many caves, which are yet to be explored. The only reason for this is the conditions inside the caves. Most of the times, they are slippery and the rocks are very sharp with awful climatic conditions.
- South America: Amazon Rainforest
The risky Amazon Rainforest is the least explored place on the earth. Almost more than 10% of species are found from this place. In addition, a number of new species are regularly being discovered. This is the main place for the scientific discoveries, but the most dangerous place to be traveled and explored.
- Mariana Trench
Most of the Earth is covered by oceans. Do you know the deepest ocean in the world? It's the Mariana Trench, which is situated in the western Pacific Ocean. If you want to discover all unique, creative and strange creatures, then you should explore this place. But keep in mind that water pressure is intense and climatic conditions are extreme.
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Shantara City is an epic fantasy city for both Poser and DAZ Studio that has been designed, built and refined over several years. No detail has been spared in developing this amazing city that is a total and versatile environment for your DAZ/Poser virtual 3D model worlds. It is scaled perfectly for all DAZ/Poser figures, plus all of the many highly detailed high rise buildings can be re arranged by the user in endless variations.
Included in Shatara City are areas under the buildings with seating places, walk throughs, pathways, shelters, decorated tiles, upper stairways, balconies and much more, plus the incredibly detailed high-rise buildings that make up the bulk of Shantara-City. On top of this, there is a series of included props: seats, paths, bridges, shelters, deco tiles, bins, street lamps, etc., and all of these can be positioned by the user in any part of Shantara City they wish. There is even a special view camera tool provided for this. Many 3D lighting sets and camera sets are also provided in the package for both Poser and DAZ studio users to make it easy to light and view the city.
On top of this, if you have WorldBase-XT (by Magix-101) installed, then Shantara City is designed to fit and work perfectly in this environment, so you can then have moody sweeping skies, ground planes, mist and much more. If you need even more realism, than WorldTrees (by Magix-101) can also be used seamlessly with Shantara City and Worldbase-XT. (See Images).
Shantara can be used as a standalone or with other 3rd party sky domes, but they will need to be large, because Shantara City is very large and very detailed. Shantara City will also have many add-ons coming in the near future, starting with sky villages, airships and more to follow. Now is the time to open up your DAZ/Poser worlds to incredible new dimensions with Shantara City by Magix 101.
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