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The Prem Rawat Foundation
Linda Pascotto, Chair
Born in San Mateo, California, Mrs. Pascotto attended Girls' Collegiate High School in Claremont, California, where she graduated with honors. She continued her education at the University of Denver, where she received a degree in political science. Mrs. Pascotto has had a lifelong interest in philanthropy and supports directly and through her private foundation many charitable organizations that promote specific cultural, social, and educational work. Married with two grown sons, Mrs. Pascotto lives in Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, Nevada and has taken an active interest in several organizations in that area including Barton Memorial Hospital, Lake Tahoe Community College, and both the Reno public broadcasting station and the Reno public radio station. Mrs. Pascotto travels throughout the world in pursuit of her primary passion of supporting and participating in activities involving Prem Rawat and TPRF. top
Daya Rawat, President
Born in Malibu, California, Daya is the third child of TPRF's founder, Prem Rawat, and his wife Marolyn. Since early childhood, Daya has had the privilege of traveling extensively, visiting cities and villages in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. As she grew up, she cultivated a great respect for people as individuals. Her experience with different cultures has provided her with an understanding that the need for individuals to experience dignity, peace, and prosperity is universal. Daya shares her father's interest in aviation, and in February 2013, she acquired her private pilot's license for small multi-engine airplanes. She is currently working toward her instrument and commercial ratings. She hopes to use this skill in the future to help bring the founder's message of peace to remote corners of the globe. Daya began writing songs and singing publicly as a teenager. Since then, she has performed for audiences large and small on four continents. Passionate about The Prem Rawat Foundation since its inception, Daya has been involved in many different aspects of the Foundation. As president, she is committed to developing a strong and effective management team and expanding the Foundation's outreach and signature programs: the Peace Education Program and the Food for People program. Daya lives in the Los Angeles, California, area. top
Amar Rawat, Vice President
Amar Rawat was born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1981. He is the newest member of The Prem Rawat Foundation's Board and is also the youngest son of the founder. Like his father, Amar has a great passion for aviation. He began flying helicopters at an early age and received his pilot's license at the age of twenty. He then continued to attain additional type ratings and transition trainings in the hopes that some day, he could use these skills to help people in need. He is greatly looking forward to making a difference and taking on the challenges that working with TPRF will present. top
Matt Altman, Secretary
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. Altman attended the University of Arizona, where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Business. Matt began his career in merchandising with the Phoenix Suns basketball team. Over a period of 12 years, he was Director of Merchandise for the Phoenix Suns, Arizona Diamondbacks, Phoenix Coyotes, and oversaw retail operations for what is now US Airways Center and Chase Field. In 2006, Mr. Altman co-founded Sportiqe, a lifestyle clothing company with a niche of providing fashion apparel for the fan. He serves as Principal of the company and has established a brand that not only produces unique products, but also celebrates the uniqueness of each person. Matt has a lifelong passion for helping people—supporting them in realizing their dreams and reaching their best version of self. He is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization Global and was a speaker for TEDx Tempe. Married with a grown daughter, he resides in Phoenix, Arizona. top
Bruce Keenan, Treasurer
Bruce co-founded Prosys Information Systems in 1997 and served as its CEO from 1997 through July 2008. He grew Prosys from inception to $450M in revenue and 420 employees in nine years, using no outside investors or capital and then sold Prosys in 2006 to Bell Microproducts (BELM). In 2006, Prosys was awarded top computer reseller in the US by VAR Business magazine, the foremost publication in the field. Bruce currently works as president of Himalayan Children's Charities (HCC), which he co-founded in 2000. HCC is a 501c3 charity dedicated to the education and support of Nepalese orphans and abandoned children. HCC moves orphaned children out of overcrowded orphanages in Kathmandu and places them in English-medium boarding schools and its own group homes. HCC supports these children through a bachelor's degree at universities in Nepal and currently funds education for over 50 children ranging in ages from 6 to 20. Bruce founded The Keenan Foundation in 2006. The Keenan Foundation is dedicated to the care and education of children throughout the world and to the advance of medical alternatives for people who have exhausted solutions from classical medicine. Bruce graduated from Ohio State University with a BS in Theoretical Mathematics in 1976. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Susan. top
Edd Hanzelik, Director
Edd Hanzelik is a Board Certified medical doctor, with specialization in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine. He attended Columbia College, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and did his training at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He co-authored The Inner Game of Stress, published in 2009 by Random House. His practice of medicine is focused on treating the whole person, using the safest remedies, supporting the body's innate healing, and encouraging the individual's full participation in recovering. Dr. Hanzelik's depth of experience in treating people from diverse cultures and his awareness of the unique needs of individuals led to his interest in TPRF and its commitment to provide fundamental help to people who need it while respecting their intrinsic dignity. top
Stephen Sordoni, Director
Stephen was educated at Canterbury School in New England. At age 17 he joined the US Navy where he volunteered for submarines and received an award for hazardous duty under the Arctic ice cap. Stephen joined the family business upon his honorable discharge from the Silent Service in 1969. He is currently a principal and director of Sordoni Construction Co., which celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2010. A lifelong volunteer, he has served on the board and in executive capacities at United Way of Pennsylvania and United Way of America and was the founding member of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society in Northeast Pennsylvania. He was a trustee of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and Vice Chairman of The Nature Conservancy, Pennsylvania Chapter. He lives with his family in Chester County, Pennsylvania. top
Management Team
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Jake Frankel, Executive Editor
Smita Kalarn, Program Director for Food for People Program
Marci Klein, Development Director
Steve Kowarsky, Social Media Manager
Rosie Lee, Media & Communications Producer
Marcia Leitner, Executive Director
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Mole Fort is a combination of Fort and Mole Shopper played on maps consisting of two separate islands.
In the beginning, each team must teleport its worms onto one of the forts. The starting team is usually the one that chooses the side they want to play on. Each fort belongs to exactly one team. The scheme can be played in 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 variants. The more players participate in the game, the more important cooperation inside individual forts is. The aim of the game is to create space for crates to randomly spawn on your side of the map, but at the same time keep your fort in good condition. As more crates appear throughout the game, the players get access to a huge variety of weapons. Players must generally expect everything from the hostile fort. Invasions of any kind are allowed, as long as all players start the game from the appropriate positions (1 fort = 1 team).
Experienced players will be familiar with the scheme's principle strategies:
- Invasion following Uzi/Minigun/Handgun/Napalm - Some forts are often placed too far to be reached directly by using parachute. In order to climb enemy's fort you can shoot its surface with some dispersed bullets on the upper part of the walls. This would be your landing zone in case of Invasion with parachute. The exposed flaws on the wall enable you to stand on them and climb upwards. If the wind is helpful enough to make you reach this part of the wall, it will help you as well to get to the enemies and attack. Watch out for your time limit!! The single flight may take 25-30 seconds of your turn. Recommended for players who are totally acquainted with the use of parachute. The enemy may as well block the climbing area with a girder, if he feels insecure.
- Arms Race - Turn your fort into your own military factory! Blow big parts of your fort in order to be the first who finds French Sheep, Earthquake or Patsy's Magic Bullet. If you don't find a better use for Old Woman, blow it inside your own fort for more crates.
- Invasion with Mole - This particular type of Invasion must be carried out when you travel to enemy's fort with your head facing the enemy. As you come closer to the walls than the distance of 1 long girder, throw a mole and let him dig your way into the fort. It will build the safe nest for your spy. You don't really need to hurry since you lose your turn within the mole being thrown. It's recommended for people whose "landing zones" were blocked with a girder. The invader who is hidden in the walls is usually not exposed to instant attacks from the enemy.
- Grenade Fireworks - You can try to destroy the roof of the enemy's fort and throw a lot of explosives inside. Sooner or later the enemies may have serious problems with reconstructing their base.
- Bridge - Build at least 1 girder between the forts. Such a platform turns enemy's fort into easily accessible by using parachute. However, the wind may put your position in danger as well.


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Miss Rheingold, the beauty contest that taught American's to vote for style over substance!
This is a photo of the final six Miss Rheingold candidates in the summer of 1963 campaigning to become Miss Rheingold of 1964. That's me Celeste Yarnall, the third girl from the left.
And a voice on the phone said Celeste Yarnall, you've been elected Miss Rheingold 1964!
Our Nation's first lady was front page news nearly every day. For better or worse, we gobbled up everything we could about her; from the outfits Oleg Cassini designed for her including, her signature jewelry, even the length of her kid gloves. And of course there was that Jackie hair! Her famous bouffant styles were re-created by hairdressers all across the country because we simply had to have Jackie's look.
I often find myself wondering why some of us feel we need to emulate some famous persons hair and image.'Could it be that we actually need a role model when we are growing up and that helps us find our way to become our authentic selves?
I must admit that Jackie came a long as a role model for me at just the right time in my life as I was launching my career as a model and actress. This was the time when young women either went to college to look for a husband or got a job as a secretary until the right husband came along. A career in modeling and acting was a pretty revolutionary concept early in 1963. A woman's role in those days was to be the woman behind the man you married and the mother of his children. Jackie would be that role model for me, as she seemed to me at the time to have mastered the best of both worlds, career and family. I hoped I would be able to that one day, too.
Watching that Jackie TV special dredged up in my gut the yearnings of what and who I aspired to be all those years ago. Jackie, although a wife and mother, seemed to be breaking free from that stereotypical female image. But after watching that special and hearing those audio tapes of her expressing her true feelings, exposed an entirely different Jackie than the one we thought we knew. Had her 'image and style' been one of those creations that got its start on Madison Avenue just like Miss Rheingold?
I remember one evening at dinner being seated next to Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee in a swank New York city restaurant. She actually started talking about the Miss Rheingold contest and me, thinking I couldn't hear her, but I heard every word, she mentioned the she and Jackie thought this one or that one was the prettiest. Can you believe Jackie Kennedy knew who we were?
By 1964, Miss Rheingold had gained so much popularity that the contest was being referred to as an election rather than the more sexist term of beauty contest. The people themselves, wherever Rheingold Beer was sold, voted for their favorite of six final candidates for the new Miss Rheingold each year and had done so for 2 decades. That is how the Miss Rheingold election became America's second largest election, next only to our own presidential race and amazingly enough, she would be both associated with the beer but also disassociated from it as a celebrity in her own right. I'd often go to a posh Manhattan restaurant with my friend on my evenings off and there would be a crowd of fans and paparazzi just to get a snap of me going in and coming out! You can bet the columnists of the day would share who I dined with in their column the next day!
Why on earth would I want, in 2012, to resurrect this election and write a book in order to share it with people today? The answer is simple, because this is the very election that taught people to vote for 'looks and style' over substance, for beauty over brains and talent. It was the first time this ever happened and ever since this beer-and-beauty idea became entwined and this 'election' began to work it's magic over consumers, our political elections changed, too. This is when the real 'mad men' learned they could create and control a branded 'image and style' and rule our lives with what they put out through all media sources. And today it's business as usual for them to bring in the stylists, spin doctors, speech writers, and a whole cadre of press agents along with other expensive professionals who groom and package the people we vote for (from the American Idol contestants to the presidential election itself). Remember the Mad Men episodes revolving around JFK's running for office and ultimately winning the election?
Even though Mad Men gave us a glimpse of how it worked in the 60's elections, the precedent was set long before Jackie and Jack made the White House their home. It all really started when the Madison Avenue boys saw what Miss Rheingold's election was accomplishing, most likely as early as 1942 or 43.
The Miss Rheingold election was the first time in American history that people voted in an election solely based on 'style and image' alone. It started with beer and beauty being packaged together for the purpose of selling a particular brand of beer. They saw that a beautifully photographed, wholesome, pretty female face, smiling into the camera and looking at the viewer, sent a powerful subliminal message to that person, which made them actually buy that brand and even vote for the person smiling.
Miss Rheingold garnered over 20,000,000+ votes my year and several other years, and indeed she created big profits for Rheingold– people liked beauty with their beer! Men and women alike would vote for Miss Rheingold and even their kids would sneak up and stuff the ballot box for their favorite of the six finalists.
After the first decade or so of the election the winners prize money each year kept going up until ultimately she got a contract for her entire year's 'reign' worth over $50,000, plus I got a wardrobe designed by Jackie's very own couturier Oleg Cassini. Along with my $50K I got a Manhattan apartment and chauffeur driven limo's to take me every where I went. I got to be the 'first lady' of beer for 1964 and their were all those beautiful women who came before me.
Can we learn anything from this trip down memory lane? Are our elections and selections about who people really are or how they are packaged and 'spun?'
Jackie and Jack Kennedy were certainly given quite a 'spin' in the media back in their day. Her radiant smile, 'image and style' exposed a brilliant actress who was masking powerful opinions of the people she entertained and was so often entertained by and we get to hear them all these years later. A perfect image frozen in time until a tape recorder shows us someone other than who we thought she was. Will time reveal others this way to us?
I'm hoping that by meeting Miss Rheingold we can see where it all began and recognize the contemporary significance of her election to right now. Then, the next time we are called to vote for anyone or anything again, we can truly weigh the value of real substance over 'image and style and truly think for ourselves. Do you think we can do that or have we become just a bundle of belief systems that the news and Madison Avenue have sold us? Can we still think for ourselves even with them 'selling' us someone or something 24/7?


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Timothy Spall admits he's never going to be a romantic hero on screen.
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Alex Tagliani with
all of us that got a ride in Milwaukee that Saturday
Prior to the Champ Car race in Milwaukee, I had the
opportunity to go for a 2-seat Champ Car ride with Alex Tagliani. While I
have driven race cars myself on a few occasions, I never had the opportunity to
drive or be driven in a race car that was so 'bad ass' fast.
When I was asked if I wanted to go for a 2-seat
Champ Car ride in Milwaukee it didn't take more than 2 seconds for me two say yes.
That's like asking a kid in a candy store if he wants candy. Be
ready at 12:15 pm they said. I was ready well before that.
After getting suited up it was off to the pits to get buckled in.
For a guy of my size, that wasn't the easiest thing to do. On the first
attempt I simply would not fit in the small passenger compartment. On my
second attempt I pulled my knees in front of the dashboard and they were able to
shoehorn me in.
Sitting with my knees in front of the dashboard the entire ride
wasn't going to be the most pleasant situation I ever found myself in, but there
wasn't anyone who was going to talk me out of that car.
Talking about the
Since I was the last to go out, the engine and tires were already
warmed up. So when they signaled my pilot, Alex Tagliani, that the track was
green he immediately engaged first, brought the rev's up and popped the clutch.
We burned rubber for about 50 feet down pit road and off we went.
The first thing you notice are the high g's we were going to pull
through the corners. We were still on the pit exit lane, and with
tires already warmed, Alex was on it. As we accelerated down the
back straight I said, oh shit, my helmet is going to fly off. I
guess my head was sticking up too high into the airflow and the helmet
was probably a bit too big for my head because my helmet felt like two
goons were trying to pull it straight up off my head. Warning - if you get a
ride, make sure the helmet is snug and the chin strap is tight around your chin.
At Portland Bruno
Junqueira spins the rear wheels as he takes his father, Jose Alberto
Tavares Junqueira, for a ride on Father's Day
While I was prepared for the acceleration of a Champ Car, I didn't
realize how many g's it could pull or how good the brakes were. Because of
the extra weight of the 2-seat Champ Car, Alex had to apply a pretty healthy dose
of brake just before turn-in for turns 1 and 3. While we didn't scrub off
that much speed, you could really feel the braking power of these cars. My
head almost hit the dash board the first time Alex stabbed the brakes. I was
ready the next time.
Entering a corner Alex would stab the brakes, release,
turn-in and let the car take a set in the beginning of the corner (1 &
3) and then gradually apply power starting about the mid-point between 1
& 2 (and 3 & 4) reaching 100% throttle just before exit of the corner.
Except for the stab of the brakes before turns 1 & 3, Alex was smooth
and precise each lap, never once missing his marks, which is easier said
than done at those speeds.
The cornering power of these cars is just awesome. They are
pulling so many g's through the corner that although not painful, the pressure
begins to wear on you after several laps. Having a helmet trying to yank
your head off your neck the whole time doesn't help matters.
After a couple of laps I became acclimated with the punishment my
body was undergoing and I began to imagine doing this with cars racing all around
me. That must be a real eye opener.
At Portland
Ryan Hunter-Reay prepares to give his father Nick a ride on Father's
I am told we were hitting 180 MPH on the short straights so we were
probably going faster than an IRL car can go around this flat 1-mile track.
I could not help but notice the track had no SAFER Barrier installed so I was glad
I had someone with Tagliani's ability behind the wheel.
I was told before the ride that no one has pushed the panic button
yet. I decided I wasn't going to push it unless we were headed for the wall.
I figured if we were going to slam into the wall and experience a 100 g's or so, a push might be
in order to signify I was saying "oh shit" while I was putting my head between my
legs to kiss my posterior goodbye. Whoever invented this silly oval race
thing anyway? The Europeans realized decades ago racing on ovals was
ridiculously dangerous and costly and abandoned them. Silly
At Portland
all the drivers and their fathers who got 2-seat rides for Father's
I came away with a better appreciation of what it feels like to
oval race at these speeds, because most of my prior experience was on road courses
in an open wheel car, and in a slower Winston Cup car at Nazareth. The
danger and the almost constant g's definitely get your attention.
This 2-seat car is one of Champ Car's greatest assets.
They need another one or two more because the more people (media, fans
and dignitaries) they can give rides to, the more people will become
fans for life. It may appear to be an expensive form of
advertisement, but I suspect word-of-mouth promotion will occur from
anyone who gets a ride.
The only thing better than this ride, was if I was driving myself.
Now if I can only talk a team owner into lending me a car for an hour on a
road course........How about Road America guys?
Hey, I can dream can't I?
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The New York Jets' all-things-listed-above star could line up behind Mark Sanchez this Sunday against the New England Patriots to help a corps of running backs that could be without the injured Joe McKnight and Bilal Powell.
So said Rex Ryan at his press conference on Thursday.
"That's a possibility," Ryan said. "The thing about Tim, with him being a football player like we've always talked about, by playing quarterback he knows all the positions. So can you plug him in at running back? Can you plug him in at tight end? I think the answer is yes."
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Every Wednesday morning in France, rain or shine, half a million people eagerly wait for the satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchainé. Some wait for it nervously. The old-fashioned broadsheet, a venerable media institution that has no real equivalent in other European countries, posts its motto defiantly on its front page: "Freedom of the press wears out only when you do not use it."
And use it it does! Every week it joyfully exposes politicians' peccadilloes, sarcastically sends darts and laurels to their sloppy colleagues in the press and cunningly publishes confidential memos and transcripts of supposedly private political or bureaucratic meetings.
Every now and then it drops a big bomb on Paris' political establishment, whoever is in power, the right or the left. In the 1980s and '90s, its blaring guns were pounding Socialist François Mitterrand. Now it is the turn of the conservative Sarkozy government to feel the heat.
In its latest issue the newspaper has bluntly accused the French president of "supervising the spying of French journalists." Anyone who digs too far into stories that Nicolas Sarkozy considers "out of limits" is a target, writes Le Canard. The hottest item on the list of the president's taboo stories appears to be the alleged illegal funding of the ruling party by the richest woman in France, Liliane Bettencourt, a case that implicates the current labor minister, Eric Woerth. (See my previous blog entry.)
According to Le Canard's editor-in-chief, Claude Angeli, each time Sarkozy is upset by a press story he personally calls Bernard Squarcini, head of the French counterintelligence services known as DCRI, and orders him to swoop in on the sniffing journalists, check their phone calls, and identify their sources inside the administration. The mobile phone companies dutifully provide listings of all of the journalists' phone calls, Le Canard writes.
Squarcini apparently does not enjoy the role. "I am not interested in monitoring journalists," he told a parliamentary committee, "except those that might sleep with the enemy. I have much more pressing issues to follow, like the growing threat of terrorism."
However, whatever his caveats, "he has to comply and act," Le Canard says. "A special team has been set up within DCRI to carry out discreet searches," although the actual "plumbing operations" might have been entrusted, for the sake of "plausible deniability," to private contractors and former members of the "services."
Recently a few journalists known to be in the firing line of the government's sleuths have been the victims of strange burglaries. Their houses or offices have been broken into, computers, GPS, hard discs, and CDs stolen.
These misadventures have affected Le Point, a respected center-right weekly magazine, the "paper of record" Le Monde and Mediapart, a savvy left-leaning online publication directed by Edwy Plenel, a former editor-in-chief of Le Monde and a victim in the 1980s, under François Mitterrand's presidency, of a particularly vindictive phone-tapping operation.
The day after Le Canard broke the story, Mediapart followed up by asserting that two of its journalists in charge of the Woerth-Bettencourt investigation had been monitored by the secret services. In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, Edwy Plenel also denounced that its real estate portfolio had been investigated and Mediapart minority shareholders put under pressure. The online news media also accused Claude Guéant, the powerful and secretive general secretary of Elysée Palace, of overseeing the whole espionage operation.
President Sarkozy and his spokespeople have denied any involvement in these barbouzeries (the French word for spooks' undercover operations) and described the accusations as "grotesque." Two people accused in the media of being the brains of the conspiracy, Claude Guéant and Bernard Squarcini, have announced that they will file a complaint for libel.
The issue has triggered sharp reactions. Many journalists fear that the government wants to intimidate them and force them to stay away from controversial stories. And they are surprised that many in France seem to consider this "affaire" as secondary. "Anything that attacks press freedom, a right of all citizens, should be a national scandal," said Edway Plenel. "In the U.S., it would be."
On Monday French journalists unions asked for the establishment of an independent investigative committee to shed light on the harassments suffered by their colleagues covering the Woerth-Bettencourt story. The left-wing opposition has gleefully jumped into the fray. The Socialist Party, which is already up in arms about the government's pension overhaul, sees this whole pandemonium as a great opportunity to slam Sarkozy and endear itself to the media. It's called for a parliamentary investigation into what it called "sickly interventionism" against journalists.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Pastor Jamie Coots insists he wasn't trying to wriggle out of anything or rattle anyone's cage when he drove five snakes through Tennessee. He just wanted to get the serpents to church in Kentucky.
Coots handles snakes as part of worship services at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro. In this case, the five snakes confiscated last month by Tennessee wildlife officials were bought in Alabama for $800 and intended for use at the religious service. Now, in addition to fighting a police citation, Coots wants the state to return the three rattlesnakes and two copperheads he purchased in Eastaboga, Ala., along with the boxes used to transport the venomous creatures.
"They feel they have a right to take them for whatever reason," Coots said.
Coots is due in court in Knoxville, Tenn., on Feb. 25 to face charges of transporting illegal reptiles and transporting the snakes in improper containers. The charges stem from a pair of traffic stops in Knoxville on Jan. 31.
Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers initially stopped Coots on Interstate 40 for having windows with too dark a tint. After being released with a warning, he was stopped again. This time, wildlife officials were called and the snakes were confiscated. The five snakes are being cared for at the Rainforest Adventure Zoo in Sevierville, Tenn.
WATE-TV in Knoxville reported that Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officer Joe Durnin testified Monday at a hearing on the charges that normally only zoos or other educational institutions will get a permit to have poisonous snakes. He says there are specific requirements for transporting the snakes, including putting them in cloth bags and labeling the containers.
"Even if you are trained and experienced in handling them, there is always the issue of who else is going to be in the home who may be in contact with it," During said in court.
Tennessee bars possession of any type of poisonous snake.
Coots said he misunderstood Tennessee law, otherwise he wouldn't have tried to pass through Tennessee.
"I was under the impression you had 24 hours to transport through or in and out of Tennessee," Coots said.
Coots says his need for the snakes is Biblical. Chapter 16 of the Gospel According to Mark states, in part: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
Coots takes that verse at face value.
"We literally believe they want us to take up snakes," Coots told The Associated Press today. "We've been serpent handling for the past 20 or 21 years."
Owning certain snakes in Kentucky is legal - within limits. The serpents must be a native species and a person can have no more than five of each variety. In this case, the timber rattlers and copperheads would have qualified under the law, said Mark Marraccini, a spokesman for Fish and Wildlife Resources.
"You cannot get permits for exotic species, ones that are non-native," Marraccini said.
Coots had permits for multiple snakes - northern copperheads, southern copperheads, timber rattlers and cottonmouths - until 2012, when the licenses expired. Coots said he let them lapse after being laid off from his job as a surface coal miner.
Snake handling has led Coots into trouble in recent years. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources in 2008 charged Coots with trafficking in snakes. Coots lost his right to get a license for a year, but a family member applied for and received the permits.
Snakes can also be brought into Kentucky, but a separate permit is needed for that.
"That's essentially so we know what's coming into the state," Marraccini said.
Coots buys the snakes from suppliers in South Carolina and Alabama. Getting them may be a challenge in the future.
"If I can find a way around Tennessee, I won't go through there anymore," Coots said. "We're going to have to go pretty quick and get more when a little money comes back in. We need them."
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BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved the nation's parliament Monday and called for new elections.
But the move did little to appease anti-government protesters who remained on the streets by the thousands.
Between 100,000 and 150,000 demonstrators rallied in Bangkok, with protest leaders saying their goal Monday is to storm Shinawatra's office, known as Government House.
The country will hold new elections by February 2, but embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra may not be her party's choice to run, a government spokesman told CNN on Monday.
"I don't know whether the Pheu Thai Party will still vote (for) her to run again or not," said spokesman Teerat Ratanasevi, referring to the ruling party.
Yingluck's move Monday comes a day after Thailand's main opposition party, Democrat Party, said its roughly 150 members would resign en masse from parliament because they could no longer work with the government.
"I don't want our country and the Thai people to suffer from more losses," Yingluck said in a televised address.
But opposition party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said the massive protests leave the government little choice.
"I think the best way for the Prime Minister to show responsibility is by returning power to the people," he told CNN.
Still, dissolving parliament and calling elections appear unlikely to placate protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy prime minister for the Democrat Party. He has called for power to be transferred to an unelected "people's council."
During the weeks of demonstrations, protesters have occupied various government offices. The rallies have been mostly peaceful, but clashes between protesters and government supporters on November 30 left five people dead.
Protesters and police, who had confronted each other with tear gas and rocks in parts of Bangkok last week, agreed to a truce Tuesday in a show of respect for Thailand's revered king, who celebrated his 86th birthday Thursday.
Protest leaders have said they want to rid Thailand of the influence of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the older brother of Yingluck.
That's an ambitious goal in a country where parties affiliated with Thaksin, who built his political success on populist policies that appealed to Thailand's rural heartland, have won every election since 2001.
Thaksin was ousted in a military coup in 2006 and has spent most of the time since then in exile overseas. If he returns, he risks a two-year prison sentence on a corruption conviction, which he says was politically motivated.
The current protests in Bangkok were prompted by a botched attempt by Yingluck's government to pass an amnesty bill that would have opened the door for her brother's return.
That move added fuel for critics who accuse Yingluck of being nothing more than Thaksin's puppet, an allegation she has repeatedly denied.


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So considering my age and heritage, I really should just dispose the NoSQL movement as something for those young kids with earrings and a baseball cap (and to add insult to injury, the cap is worn backwards) and that any serious database dude like myself, with my loads of experience (like the invaluable experience of having run Oracle on a Wang word-processor. Real valuable stuff I tell you). But no, you will not hear me do that. But also, you will not hear me say that NoSQL key-value stores will replace all SQL databases within 5 years (If I worked for an analyst and was paid dearly to say things like that, I might have, though. Any takers?).
My take is actually quite simple. The strength of the relational model is that it is inredibly generic. The lack of a specific order and hierarchy makes it even more generic. I think few people would argue that more or less all applications served by NoSQL could just as well be served by a SQL database, if it wasn't for two things:
- Scalability - The lack of the strict consistency rules of RDBMS heritage in most NoSQL implementations makes them much more scalable. The very nature of most NoSQL stores is distributed, and the lack of strict distributed consistency makes this distribution scalable beyond what is usually possible with an RDBMS, given the same platform etc.
- Performance - This is largely due to the above, i.e. a NoSQL store being more scalable makes it easier to cram more performance out of it.
The strict consistency requirements of an RDBMS is also an advantage. It's not so that, if I understand them correctly, the propoents for NoSQL stores thinks that consistency is bad, it's just that they don't want to pay the price in terms of performance for it. And to be frank, although in many cases data inconsistency is acceptable, it still has to be controlled, an uncontrolled consistency, i.e. you don't know how inconsistent your store is and in what way or anything, is not something we want. So even a NoSQL store is limited.
So it all comes down to performance then. We sacrifice consistency to gain performance through scalability. Right? If you agree to that, then I think NoSQL is not a long term solution. It's not that I am saying that "NoSQL is for kids, real databases needs SQL", that was the argument against SQL based databases in the 1980's largely, where Hierarchical databases still ruled, and SQL just had a too big overhead, or so it was thought. The differerence here is that SQL had higher functionality than the competing technologies of the 1980's, but not enough performance in many cases. But performance is bound to go up. All the time. And for much less money. At least for a while to come. Look at virtualization. I've been a proponent for that for quite a while, and just a few years back, the argument against it was that "performance sux". Well, compared to raw iron maybe it did, but that wasn't the point. The point was, did I get enough performance? And in many cases you did, with an environment that was a lot easier to manage and at a low cost.
What this means to me is that there is a place for NoSQL stores right now, where the performance and size requiements are really high, and where one is willing to compromize consistency. But a technology that limits functionality, features and ease-of-use at the price of performance will continue to be a niche technology. But that doesn't mean it's useless or anything, quite the opposite, I'm a pragmatist at heart, and whatever works, works. But if I had the choise of storing my data in consistent or in-consistent state, and if both solutions provided enough performance for my needs, I'd go consistent any time.
And then there is one more thing. The scalability of the NoSQL stores is largely due to it's distributed nature. And there are arguments out there that says that you cannot create a consistent, distributed, scalable datastore. I think you can, I'm convinced of it actually. There may be other compromises needed to achieve that, but that it can be done I am sure.


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Now that we're finally getting those jetpacks futurists have promised, it's time to update our first-world wish list to include solar-powered smartphones.
The good news is that smart people are working on it -- including Apple. The company recently posted a job listing for an engineer with experience with solar power.
Apple's job opening could be unrelated to any project that even explores solar power -- the expertise required could be applied to other thin-film technologies. But it's clear that Apple is interested in -- and working on -- solar smartphone technology.
In February, Apple filed a patent for a method of integrating solar panels into a mobile touchscreen. The company has older patents for solar gadgets as well.
Now, patents don't always equal intent. But the patents and job listing have rumor mongers speculating about a solar-powered iPhone 6.
Forget about that. It's not going to happen. Solar technology almost certainly won't be built into an iPhone within the next two years.
And if such a phone were to arrive on the market, it's very unlikely to be totally solar powered. Solar panels on phones might extend battery life, but phones will still have to be charged by plugging them in or via wireless charging.
But never say never. In fact, it's very likely that advances in thin solar paneling will make that technology irresistible for extending battery life beyond what batteries themselves can achieve.
Why solar power failed on Android phones
Two low-cost solar-powered Android phones emerged in 2011.
Two years ago, Samsung announced a $350 solar phone called the Replenish, which was advertised as environmentally friendly. (You can still buy the phone for about $99 at Walmart or even less on other discount electronics websites.)
The upside: The Replenish is made from about one-third post-consumer recycled plastic. A solar panel on the battery cover extends battery life when charged in sunlight.
The downside: It's an obsolete throwback that runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo) and has a physical keyboard, a small screen and a 2-megapixel camera. And the solar panel is pretty weak: An hour of charging gives you 20 minutes of talk time. Better than nothing, I guess.
The other solar-powered Android phone was a device called the Umeox Apollo, which launched in February 2011. Counterintuitively, that phone was targeted at the low end of the market. It had a tiny screen, a lousy camera and other limitations. And it didn't gain any significant mind- or market share. That may be why its Chinese maker dropped any mention of the phone from its website.
Between 2006 and 2011, a handful of other solar-powered Android phones emerged; all of them failed in the market.
The failed solar Android products remind me of the failed fingerprint sensor smartphones. Motorola built a fingerprint scanner into its first Atrix phone. The Toshiba Portege G900 and G500 phones had them, too. Hitachi's Japan-only W51H included a fingerprint reader. And there were others. None of them were popular with customers.
All these efforts failed for the same reason the Android solar phones failed: The technology wasn't ready for prime time. The implementations were horribly ugly.
I'm hoping that Apple will eventually do for solar phones what it did for fingerprint readers: Wait for the right technology, then integrate it into a phone in a way doesn't destroy the aesthetics of the device.
Still, there are some interesting Android projects. Take the Earl, for example. It's a $300 solar-powered Android tablet for hikers and campers. It's being self-crowd-funded and has far exceeded its fundraising goals.
Unlike most solar phones and tablets, which seek merely to extend battery life a little bit, the Earl is designed to run entirely on solar power, with no need to ever be plugged into an outlet. It achieves this feat by using a low-energy 1024x768 black-and-white E-ink touchscreen. Five hours of charging gives you 20 hours of use, according to the company.
The tablet has various features that are useful for survival in the great outdoors, including GPS, a thermometer, humidity and barometric pressure sensors, and a compass. It also has a built-in walkie-talkie feature and a radio that can pick up AM, FM and shortwave signals.
Why solar fails on phones
Despite huge demand for longer battery life on smartphones, the challenges to achieving that with solar technology are many. There's a simple reason for that: Smartphones are small; they have only a tiny bit of surface area for collecting light. On top of that, they're energy hogs, with power-gobbling components such as touchscreens, various types of sensors and powerful processors.
You'll note that the Earl device achieves solar self-sufficiency with a tablet-size surface area and a screen that's about the same quality as the ones on older Kindle models.
Smartphones can't be big enough and low-energy enough to viably use solar power and still succeed in the market as popular gadgets. That's especially true because apps are increasingly power- and resource-hungry. Many apps constantly ping for connectivity and location data and make other energy-intensive requests. Games tax graphics and processing hardware.
Still, there's hope. UCLA eggheads are working on a see-through film that functions as a solar panel. This would theoretically enable touchscreens to harvest energy from light. The technology is a long way from being ready for widespread use. It can currently convert only about 7.3% of the energy it receives into usable electricity.
Researchers at several other universities and companies around the world are also chipping away at the problem of integrating solar power into smartphones.
A company called Alta Devices is working on making gallium arsenide cell thin films that could be used on smartphones. It even built a prototype for a Samsung Galaxy phone.
The Chinese telephone giant TCL Communication is reportedly working with a French solar company called Sunpartner to integrate solar panels into smartphone screens. Sunpartner's Wysips technology involves an ultra-thin transparent photovoltaic layer that sits under a touchscreen.
Despite the apparent limitations, I'm very bullish on the use of solar power for smartphones.
Why (and how) your smartphonewill eventually be solar-powered
I believe it's inevitable that within a few years, we'll never have to plug in our smartphones or think about power. Here's how I think that's going to happen.
First, battery technology will keep improving slowly, and cells will charge faster and last longer than today's batteries of the same size.
Second, I believe it's only a matter of time before smartphones have solar panels covering both the front and the back, using different technologies. This will enable your phone to soak up energy no matter which side is facing up when you put it down.
Third, wireless charging technology will take over. Tables, lamps and desks will all have wireless charging capabilities, so phones will pick up juice whenever they're placed on those surfaces.
Fourth, the wearable technology revolution will reduce our use of smartphones. In fact, as a daily Google Glass user, I find that I'm using Glass to check the time, for notifications, to reply to emails and do other run-of-the-mill tasks as my phone spends more time in a deep sleep.
But the biggest gains will come from improvements in power management. Motorola's new Moto X phone -- a device that I also use every day -- is a marvel in power management. It achieves this by using dedicated, low-power processing (originally developed for smartwatches) to listen for voice commands and keep tabs on the phone's location and orientation. It also has an AMOLED screen and is equipped with Motorola's Active Display technology. This combination eliminates the need for users to fire up the full screen and phone for common tasks like checking the time and checking for notifications.
The Moto X is just one example of how an unglamorous aspect of smartphone design can deliver significant improvements: Ongoing advances in power management may one day yield a phone we never have to charge.
Yes, solar-powered smartphones are coming. But by the time they arrive, the technology won't be a big deal. Our phones will use multiple technologies, including solar, that will work together to eliminate the need to ever plug them into the wall.
Self-charging smartphones will be the second most convenient aspect of our lives in the years ahead -- right after commuting to work via jetpack.
Mike Elgan writes about technology and tech culture. You can contact Mike and learn more about him on Google+. You can also see more articles by Mike Elgan on Computerworld.com.


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These days almost all server / laptop / desktop system has a gigabit Ethernet card (NIC) pre installed. Most servers are directly connected to internet using 100Mbps connections. You can save real power on your Linux server or desktop by operating at 100Mbps Ethernet speed. For example 1 gigabit link is going to consume more power than the power used at 100Mbps speed. Also note that not all systems actually use gigabit speed. For example my desktop system only used for browsing or chatting purpose or Linux web server used to display just static web pages. Now just calculate power consumption for 100 servers or 1000 desktop systems. Bottom line use Gigabit Ethernet speeds only when needed. Did you know – you can save 2 watts or more per Linux/UNIX/Windows server/desktop by just setting a correct speed 🙂
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1 pound beef top sirloin or top round steak, cut 3/4 to 1 inch thick or flank steak
1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons stir-fry sauce and marinade, divided
8 rice paper wrappers (8 to 9 inch diameter)
1 cup shredded carrots
1 cup lightly packed fresh cilantro
Additional prepared stir-fry sauce and marinade (optional)
Marinade time: 30 minutes to 2 hours
Total recipe time: 25 to 30 minutes
Makes 4 servings
1. Cut beef steak lengthwise in half, then crosswise into 1/8 to 1/4-inch thick strips. Combine 1/4 cup stir-fry sauce and beef in medium bowl. Cover and marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes to 2 hours.
2. Heat large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add 1/2 of beef; stir-fry 1 to 3 minutes or until outside surface of beef is no longer pink. (Do not overcook.) Remove from skillet. Repeat with remaining beef.
3. Fill large bowl with warm water. Dip 1 rice paper wrapper into water for a few seconds or just until moistened. Rice paper will still be firm but will continue to soften during assembly. Place on work surface.
4. Spoon 1/4 cup beef, 2 tablespoons carrots and 2 tablespoons cilantro evenly in a row across center of wrapper, leaving 1-inch border on right and left sides; drizzle with about 1 teaspoon reserved stir-fry sauce. Fold right and left sides of wrapper over filling. Fold bottom edge up over filling and roll up tightly. Repeat with remaining wrappers and filling ingredients. Cut each spring roll diagonally in half. Serve with additional stir-fry sauce, if desired.
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Rajasri Krishnamurthy, MD is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She visits and accesses her patients not only in the hospital, but in rehabilitative centers and other outpatients' facilities. Dr. Krishnamurthy chose internal medicine because she enjoys dealing with all the body systems and very complex patients. Her professional interests include management of chronic medical problems, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, preventative medicine and education.
Dr. Krishnamurthy knew since she was a little girl that she wanted to be in the medical field. She always knew because of her interests in all sciences in school and the satisfaction of treating and helping patients. She attended medical school at Coimbatore Medical College in Coimbatore, India. After medical school, she practiced in India in primary care and internal medicine at multispecialty hospitals for almost six years. She also received training in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Once she moved to the United States, she did a nine month post graduate research fellowship in neurology at John Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. She also completed a three year residency at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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