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The pressure of stardom and self-consciousness about her body have plagued Disney starlet Demi Lovato for years, but a fight with a member of her entourage prompted her to seek help.
The 18-year-old beauty took a time out from her tour with the Jonas Brothers and entered a center to deal with what her rep described as longstanding "emotional and physical issues," People reported.
"Demi Lovato left her tour early this weekend in order to seek medical treatment for emotional and physical issues she has dealt with for some time," her rep said in a statement on Tuesday. "Demi has decided to take personal responsibility for her actions and seek help. She is doing just that."
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While no one on the record spelled out what kind of treatment Lovato, who rose to fame in the "Camp Rock" movies, needed, a source close to her family told the magazine a fight Lovato had with a female dancer on the tour brought things to a head.
Other sources said Lovato has fought with emotional issues for years.
"She fought through eating disorders and has struggled with cutting," the source told People, referring to the deliberate act of harming one's body. "[She] is taking control by getting help."
"[She doesn't have that same kind of love for life that she at one point had," the source added.
Lovato's estranged father, Patrick, told RadarOnline he has long worried about the stress of Hollywood stardom getting to her.
"There are a lot of pressures," he said. "That is one of the things I worried about when she signed with Disney."
In the wake of a number of teenage suicides, Lovato, who said she was bullied as a kid, promoted a "Teens Against Bullying" campaign last month, and spoke about her own experiences.
"I actually used all of the bullying as a motivation to succeed," she said. "I think I have actually become a stronger person because of it."
Lovato has been in the limelight since she was 10, when she was cast as Angela on "Barney & Friends." She went on to appear on several other TV shows, the first "Camp Rock" movie in 2008 and the follow-up earlier this year. Last year, she was named the Teen Choice Awards "Breakout Star" and toured with "American Idol" star David Archuleta.
In addition to her busy acting career, Lovato has released a studio album in each of the last three years. She signed on as a special guest with the Jonas Brothers for their world tour, which began Aug. 7 and is set to end Nov. 9. The tour was in Peru when Lovato left.


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Readers of this blog may have noticed that there is definitely an Australian theme to most of the articles and pictures that are included. I'm an Australian genealogist who's really interested in Australian genealogy so that's why I've just launched the Genies Down Under podcast for people researching their family history with Australian connections. Here's why ...
I'm also one of those bloggers who love listening to podcasts. Since 2006 when I got my hands on my first iPod, I've been hooked. Listening to podcasts about family history is one of my favourite past times - Lisa Louise Cooke (Genealogy Gems podcast), Michael O'Laughlin (Irish Roots Cafe), Drew and George (the Genealogy Guys podcast), Thomas MacEntee (Geneabloggers podcast), Myrt (Dear Myrtle podcast) and Jon Kay (Artisan Ancestors podcast). These are all podcasts that come out of the US. They're fantastic. Despite the fact they they are produced off the shores of Australia, I've found them to be wonderfully inspiring with loads of practical advice. I wait eagerly for each episode to show up on my iTunes list.
Although I LOVE these podcasts and they've become part of my walking life (literally - I mainly listen to them when I'm walking), I kept wondering when someone was going to produce a podcast that was specifically designed for genealogists with a connection to Australian family history. There are definitely some podcasts related to Australian genealogy, like the National Archives podcast, Ian Kath's Create Your Lifestory podcast and the ABC's Hindsight podcast, but I really wanted a podcast that included lots of practical tips and ideas for Australian family history researchers that were a little more specific to genealogy. Perhaps there is such a podcast and I've not been able to find it. If you know of one, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Anyway, after six years of wondering about this and searching high and low for an Australian genealogy podcast, I decided to get off my bottom and create one myself - it's called Genies Down Under. It's is a podcast about genealogy - with an Australian twist - full of tips, tricks, tools and traps to avoid for family history researchers. My aim is to help people find out more about their ancestors than just names and dates. The podcast is full of stories, lots of stories.
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The Profumo scandal inspired a fascinating book by Sir Ludovic Kennedy and a memorable film starring John Hurt. Now it is to become a West End musical.
Amid great secrecy, Andrew Lloyd Webber is to hold a first reading of the show for an invitation-only audience of leading theatre figures next month.
Sir Richard Eyre, the director of Iris and Notes on a Scandal, has agreed to work on the production, which will have music by Lord Lloyd-Webber, lyrics by the Oscar-winning Don Black, and a story by Christopher Hampton. It will be produced by Robert Fox.
"I must say, this is the best score Andrew's written in years," says Black, who wrote the lyrics for Diamonds are Forever. "We've broken the back of the show, and we're going to finish it next week."
Speaking to the New York Post he adds: "We've been working with Andrew all year in Barbados and Marbella. Andrew doesn't believe in roughing it."
The as-yet-untitled musical will tell the story of the 1963 downfall of John Profumo, who was the secretary of state for war in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government. Profumo resigned after admitting that he had lied to Parliament about his role in the scandal, which contributed to the Tories' election defeat the following year.
Profumo was involved in a sexual relationship with Christine Keeler a showgirl, who was also sleeping with Yevgeni Ivanov, the senior naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy.
They were introduced by Stephen Ward, the society osteopath, who was accused of being a pimp. He killed himself on the last day of his trial on charges of living off the profits of prostitution.
If the reading goes well, Lloyd-Webber will unveil a fuller version of the show this summer at his annual Sydmonton festival.


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In Russia, you don't use toilet. Toilet uses you.
In addition to being known as the city hosting the XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi has drawn attention for its toilet arrangement, particularly it's lack of a dividing wall. The city's side-by-side toilets have drawn plenty of attention worldwide.
Now, Russia is getting the spotlight for its interpretation of bathroom etiquette. Canadian snowboarder Sebastien Toutant tweeted out a picture of a sign showing what was allowed and not allowed on Sochi toilets. Translation: No stand and spray, no vomiting, no "Spider Man"-ing, no fishing and no syringe play anywhere near the commode.
Well that's interesting… Sochi rules in the bathrooms!! #haha #olympics pic.twitter.com/xacSVimwXY
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Alterra Coffee announces name change
A Milwaukee coffee chain announced this weekend it is changing its name.
Owners of Alterra announced at their 20th anniversary party that the company will change its name to Colectivo Coffee.
The company's founders, Lincoln Fowler, Ward Fowler and Paul Miller, said the name Alterra was sold to the Mars Corp. three years ago.
Mars intends to use the Alterra name nationally, so the local company decided to part ways with Mars and change the local company brand's name.
"We value serving all of you and we thank you for all your support over the past 20 years," the company said in an online statement. "We ask you to extend a bit of that faith and trust us when we say we're on the right track."
Officials said nothing related to the business will change except for the name.
The company's first location at 2211 N. Prospect Ave. is expected to be the first to receive the new signage. All current locations will change to the Colectivo name by the end of September.
The colectivo is the name of a public transportation vehicle in Latin America.
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TNA is doing a live pre-game show hosted by Jeremy Borash and Christy Hemme, who previewed the top matches. Hemme looked absolutely awesome. Borash looked like, well, Borash.
They aired a video feature on the TNA championship match.
Devon vs. Anarquia
Devon met Anarquia on the ramp as he made his way to the ring. They started brawling around ringside with Devon working him over with punches and tossing him into the railing. Devon tossed him into the cage but Anarquia crotched him as Devon entered the ring.
Devon was choked against the ropes. He worked over Devon in the corner with shoulderblocks and a series of rights in the corner. He took Devon to the mat and began biting him on the forehead. He used the tape around his wrists to choke out Devon but the referee, Jackson James caught it. Anarquia rained down with punches in the corner.
Devin was whipped hard into the turnbuckles. Anarquia whipped him a second time but Devon came out with a clothesline and a big shoulderblock. He nailed a sideslam for a two count. Anarquia missed a clothesline in the corner but was nailed with another shoulderblock for a two count.
Devon drilled Anarquia to the mat with a one armed uranage and scored the pin.
Your winner, Devon!
After the match, Devin tossed Anarquia out of the cage to the floor, then slammed him into the railing. Devon continued the beating. He nailed Anarquia with a drink and choked him out on the floor. Devon followed him up the ramp and suplexed him onto it. Devon nailed a second one and made the Last Rites signal.
Match was solid but way too short to be anything of consequence. Just an opener to set the stage for the night. I kept waiting for Jackson James to reverse the decision since he's always in the middle of some way to screw the babyfaces subvertly, but it didn't happen.
I spotted Ronnie Lang's Atlas Security in the house.
They aired the Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Jarrett match preview.
Hemme and Borash ran down the details of the Lethal Lockdown match. They do a great job in this role.
They went to a video feature on TNA Lethal Lockdown.
Christy Hemme interviewed Fortune. Chris Daniels said they have had their asses kicked in the past but that pain is nothing compared to being underestimated by people who walk into TNA and act like they are the stars. He said they were the ones who built the company from ground up while they acted like it was beneath them. Then, once they made a name for TNA, people like Ric Flair and Matt Hardy wanted to come and take advantage of their hard work. He said he was tired of dumbasses like them and tonight, Fortune was going to show them once and for all who the real stars of TNA are. Good promo.
The next time TNA does one of these pre-game shows live again, I'd love to see them shoot promos like this on the stage so you can see the crowd in the background. It might give the show a "bigger event" feel.
At ringside, Jeremy Borash gave everyone a close-up look at the inside of the Steel Cage. He then ran down the lineup for the PPV.
Borash pitched it to Taz and Mike Tenay, who discussed the lineup for the PPV, specifically Immortal vs. Fortune. Taz said it was going to be a crazy night and he just hoped that no one was going to be injured.
Borash gave us a look at the live crowd in Cincinnati, then pointed out all the weapons waiting for the Lethal Lockdown match later tonight.
Here we go with the official PPV broadcast.
They aired another really good video opening for the PPV.
X-Division Xscape Match: Jeremy Buck vs. Max Buck vs. Robbie E. vs. Chris Sabin vs. Brian Kendrick vs. Suicide vs. Jay Lethal vs. Amazing Red.
Suicide and E started. Suicide got the better of the exchange and chopped him hard in the corner. Max Buck tagged in but was hiptossed into the corner by Suicide. E and Buck used a double elbow for Buck to get a two count.
Buck nailed a standing dropkick. Jeremy Buck tagged in but Max wanted nothing to do with it, backed off and tagged in Lethal. Lethal and Jeremy showed each other respect. Buck nailed headscissors on Lethal but was caught with a tiltowhirl backbreaker. Buck was caught in the Lethal Combination.
Max Buck tagged himself in but Suicide tagged back in. He drops an elbow on Max Buck. E tagged back in and drilled Suicide to the mat, using his leg as a weapon, then scored the pin.
Suicide is eliminated.
Lethal and E faced off. E dared him to have a fist pumping challenge but tagged out to Sabin. Sabin and Lethal tossed E into the cage. He and Lethal then had a nice back and forth athletic exchange, which Lethal got the better of.
Sabin charged Lethal in the corner for a big boot. Red tagged himself in and nailed a missile dropkick. Lethal went for a handspring elbow but Red dropkicked Lethal as he was upside down. Red drilled him with the Code Red for the pin.
Lethal has been eliminated.
Sabin tried to roll up Red but he kicked out. Red ducked a clothesline. He went for a rana but was caught and tossed into the cage. Red caught himself and kicked Sabin. He went for a DDT but was caught in a suplex mid-move. Red slipped out but was caught with a Fireman's Carry into a Michinoku Driver. Sabin hit him with a huge running clothesline that sent Red upside down for the pin.
Red has been eliminated.
Max Buck attacked Sabin and worked him over. Sabin tripped him up in the corner and nailed a leaping knee strike. He hung up Buck and nailed the hangman's dropkick. He cradled Buck for a two count. Meanwhile, Brian Kendrick has been sitting in the corner meditating the entire match.
Buck came off the ropes with a twist into a Buff Blockbuster and pinned him.
Sabin was eliminated.
Kendrick hit the ring and tried to roll up Buck for a two count. E tagged in and worked over Kendrick, only to eat a dropkick. Kendrick charged E and splashed him against the cage but hit his own head on the steel. Buck went for a moonsault but Kendrick got his knees up in time.
Jeremy Buck finally got his hands on Max and worked him over with rights. Max kneed him hard in the chest and tried to ascend the cage. Jeremy pulled him back down. He ran Max into the cage hard and then did it a second time. He did it a third time and drilled Max with a stiff spinning kick. Jeremy continued beating down Max on the mat. Kendrick and E were still out from the splash into the cage. Out of nowhere, Max caught Jeremy in an inside cradle for the pin.
Jeremy Buck is eliminated.
Robbie E started working over Kendrick. Buck joined in. They picked up Kendrick together and lawn darted him into the cage. Kendrick mounted a comeback against them both. He began stomping on E. He nailed Buck and E with leaping thrust kicks and pinned E.
Robbie E has been eliminated.
The first man to escape the cage is the winner.
Buck peppered Kendrick with punches. He started to ascend the cage. Kendrick stopped him but Buck got the better of him, running him into the cage numerous times. Buck went to the top rope but Kendrick met him. Kendrick slammed his head into the cage a number of times and shoved Buck off. Kendrick started to climb up. Buck staggered into referee Brian Hebner. Hebner slammed into the cage and Kendrick fell off into the ring.
Max Buck escaped and won.
Your winner, Max Buck!
Match was OK and what you would expect but there was no time to really develop anything. Some spots were cool but no flow. The finish with the referee being bumped this early in the card totally reeked over overbooking. If they wanted Buck to go over, they could have done a finish where he was bumped out of the cage door and won, anything else. Doing the referee deal this early doesn't bode well in my opinion.
Eric Bischoff came to the ring to cut a promo. Bischoff said that tonight was a special night and occasion for him personally. He said it was one of the happiest nights he's ever had in the industry and he'll explain why in a few moments. He said that after 25 years in the business, people come to him and ask him what matters most to him in his career – the success, the money, the women (which he said was years ago) or something else. He said that when you are in his position and re-written the book of pro wrestling history, you set the standard so high that it's hard to say what matters most.
Bischoff said that tonight is a special occasion. The fans were on him, chanting that he sucks. Bischoff said he may suck but he has a hell of a lot more money than any of them. He said that tonight Immortal is going to take care of the distraction that Fortune has become. He said that Fortune have a great future ahead of them but they made the mistake of getting into Immortal's business, but that will be taken care of tonight.
Bischoff said that he is proud to be a small part of the vision of Hulk Hogan. Bischoff said that Hogan taught him everything he knows about pro wrestling. He said that he will get to be a small part of Hogan executing his plan to regain the TNA championship tonight. He said that makes him so happy and that's the only thing that matters to Bischoff.
So, unless he is made the guest referee or a major part of the main event tonight, when you think about it, Bischoff said NOTHING OF MERIT. This needed to be on the PPV why?
Christy Hemme interviewed Crimson and Scott Steiner about their four way tag match. Crimson said that there was no one who he wanted to have his back more than anyone else in the world. Steiner was asked if he's evaluated their opponents. He said that they are going to evaluate his fist in their face. He said he wasn't going to be Kobe Bryant and get people upset but they are going to go to the ring and kick some ass, giving what a tough town like Cincinnati wants.
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Graphic Novel Review: Superior Spider-Man: Goblin Nation
PUBLISHED: 06:50 15 July 2014 | UPDATED: 08:26 15 July 2014
This is it true believers! The end of the Superior Spider-Man saga!
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Warning, spoilers ahead…
So did anyone reading comics really expect Peter Parker to remain dead, and for Otto Octavius to retain permanent control over his body? Of course not, but the fun in storylines like this is always seeing how the change in status quo pans out, the way it is eventually resolved, and what the consequences are for the future.
We'll see how Parker deals with the events that took place during the reign of the Superior Spider-Man in the forthcoming revival of the Amazing Spider-Man series, as this book is almost totally focused on the downfall of Octavius.
Otto was convinced he could be a better super-hero and a better person than Peter Parker, and for a while it appeared as though he was actually achieving both – winning the war on crime in New York, becoming best pals with long-term opponent Jonah Jameson, falling in love with a fellow scientist and finally obtaining a doctorate for Parker.
And although behind the scenes the Green Goblin was scheming to bring about his downfall, in the end it was Octavius' arrogance which was to prove his undoing.
He was thrown out of the Avengers, crossed a line and executed a homicidal supervillain, fell out with Parker's friends and family, and ended up having to blackmail Jameson to maintain his support. After rising so high, the descent was fast and brutal…
The clues as to how Parker regains control of his body were established a long while back in this series, and there's a certain degree of satisfaction as Slott's masterplan comes to fruition, with the one-true Spider-Man back at last.
This, then, is the last hurrah for the Superior Spider-Man, a magnificent finale for a controversial, yet ultimately remarkably entertaining saga in the webslinger's career, the repercussions of which will undoubtedly be felt for a long time to come.
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We are using the Easy Lunchboxes system for packing their lunches from home. While they do come in a variety of fun colors, my girls were still looking longingly at the lunchboxes with cartoon characters all over them. So, I decided we could spiff up their lunchboxes a bit.
Mini BeDazzler tool (I got mine from Hobby Lobby with a coupon), and a washable fabric marker.
These two were VERY happy with their new blinged out lunchboxes. I don't think they'll have any problems with getting their lunchboxes confused with a classmate's. :)
Watch out kindergarten, here we come!
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Well, not exactly walking.. More like a Flyabout? So, I already told you I transferred my lock over to the Horde side and got inspired to level her again. I've now gotten her to level 75 and even completed the Wrathgate set of quests! It's a lot of fun seeing the other side of things in a bunch of areas. The only problem I feel is coming is that the quest lines that were split are coming back together. It seems that a lot of the quests are now just "reskinned" versions of the Alliance ones (or vice-versa). I hear Ice Crown gets back to more of the split again, but it might be a while before I get there!
Not only did I catch the questing/leveling bug on my 'lock but I also seem to have picked it up on my Rogue! I spent a large amount of time yesterday questing on him. Enough, in fact, that he is now level 76! I also got MOST of the Wrathgate stuff done. They only thing left is the assault on Undercity. I also want to do the pre-cataclysm events. They are good xp for not much work. I've even managed to find and close 3 (or more, can't remember) portals on my warlock!
That's about it that is going on. We recorded a fun TNB with StealthySlyth from Gaming Angels on Saturday night and tonight is Polygamerous, of course. Tomorrow we do ICC25. Our raid leader only need 8 more shards for the Legendary and, even though he is the one that gets it, we're all excited! Time to get going. I'll try to keep you updated with what is going on. Less than one month until Cataclysm is starting to motivate me I guess.


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Tomorrow, the man in my life turns the big 3-0. This has its pros and cons. Pro: cake. Con: my big 3-0 is not far behind. But lets focus on the the positives shall we?
Turning thirty is supposed to be such a big scary thing. I make jokes a lot about it, and tease him endlessly since he is hitting the milestone before I am, but deep down I don't think either of us really care all that much. Plus, we all become mature, responsible adults when we turn thirty right? Right?? All jokes aside, we aren't big birthday celebrators in the first place, so we tend to keep things pretty low key.
I have learned that it is pretty much impossible to make a surprise cake for someone you live with. I have also learned that when you make a cake for someones birthday without having a party or a bunch of people over, the majority of the cake goes untouched in the refrigerator until it ends up in the garbage. So, I am going to forgo the cake this year (sorry Steve) and hope that the pistachio gelato and half eaten shamrock shake in the freezer will suffice.
I have made quite a few cakes in my day, and lets face it, they were pretty much all for the ladies. Even the wedding cakes I have done, though they were for a couple's celebration, it was mostly the bride that cared about the look of the cake (I find the grooms tend to only care about what is inside the cake).
Obviously there are exceptions to this, but it is always a bit tricky when asked to make a cake for an adult male. It is easy to make a pretty pattern, throw some frilly gumpaste flowers on a cake for any occasion, but that is typically seen as being 'girly', and that usually doesn't fly for the guys.
So what's a girl to do? Beer, baseball, and totally neutral colors and shapes, that's what! Yay gender roles! Actually in full disclosure, the baseball cake turned out to be for a woman, which I didn't find out until the party started and totally made me happy. I also felt guilty for just assuming it was for a man. In general, I am finding it easier to break my habits of always making 'feminine' cakes. Using darker, bolder colors, utilizing more geometric patterns and shapes, bold writing and designs, and generally staying away from flowers seem to be some basic stepping stones for creating a more masculine cake.
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Grasses with Gusto
Grass has always been a part of the landscape. As a groundcover, it provides excellent transition elements between areas of the garden. It also makes a great place to play ball, have a picnic or just walk through barefoot. Since the 1970s, grass has taken on another roll, that of being one of the "stars" in an ornamental role. Ornamental grasses have become popular with landscape designers for their interest, versatility, compatibility with other perennials and shrubs, adaptability and rapid growth.
Ornamental grasses range from low-growing groundcovers to tall towering plants. The foliage color can run from green to variegated yellow or white to red with textures varying from fine to heavy and coarse. These grasses can be used as specimen or accent plants or as the entire focus of a planting, creating large drifts of texture. They are also useful in containers with other annuals or perennials.
Grasses can be selected to fit most any setting. Most grasses are best grown in full sun and well-drained soils. There are, however, several grasses that can provide interest in shady spots as well as wet soils that might be found along water features.
The term ornamental grass can include any number of plants that are either true grasses or grass look-alikes. Many of these grass look-alikes are, in fact, part of the sedge family or rush family. Even though not true grasses, they are a useful group of plants that often find their way into gardens under the title of ornamental grass. Bamboo is another true grass that has unique properties because it is one of the woody grasses. In some cases it can be useful in the landscape, but you have to use it with some caution.
When selecting ornamental grasses for the landscape, the overriding features of color, texture and form take center stage. There are, however, other characteristics you should note before introducing these plants into the landscape. By doing a little research and understanding what certain terms mean, the plants can be put to best use and you can often avoid disappointment, frustration and perhaps even the chance of using the wrong grass in the wrong place, resulting in a horticultural nightmare once it gets going.
You can select grasses based upon growth habit and temperature preferences. Two types of growth habits characterize ornamental grasses: running or clumping.
The running types spread by means of rhizomes or stolons and can become invasive. They have the ability to cover large areas and may not be the best choice for small-space gardens or in combination with less competitive perennials. Some examples include ribbongrass, blue lyme grass and prairie cordgrass. These may be useful in large open areas where a groundcover is needed or as erosion control. Another issue is that these grasses can get invasive because of their seeding potential. Northern sea oat is a grass with a handsome bamboo-like quality. However, it sets a lot of seed that can end up spreading in every direction and coming up everywhere. These grasses are useful but need to be understood. The clump formers, on the other hand, tend to grow in defined clumps or mounds and do not get invasive. These make excellent additions to the mixed perennial border. Some examples include feather reedgrass, blue fescue, autumn moor grass and Miscanthus sp.
Grasses can also be classified and selected based upon when they are in active growth. Cool-season grasses prefer the cooler months of the year and grow best at temperatures of 60° to 70°F. They start growth very early in the year and tend to go dormant when the weather starts to turn hot and dry. If drought conditions prevail, you will need to water these grasses in order for them to remain attractive landscape plants. Otherwise, they will go dormant, and in grass that means brown foliage — not the best look in the landscape. Many of these grasses also tend to be either evergreen or semi-evergreen. They flower very early in the season and may need a little grooming to keep them looking good. Examples of cool-season grass include blue fescue, blue oat grass and tufted hair grass.
The warm-season grasses prefer warm weather and do best during the hotter months of the year. These grasses tend to come up late in the season after the soil starts to warm up and air temperatures become more stable. These grasses will start to go dormant and develop fall color when the cool weather of fall arrives. Grasses that fall into this category include Miscanthus sp., Pennisetum sp., cordgrass and pampas grass.
There are a number of popular grasses that are not hardy in northern climates. Their hardiness ranges from Zone 7 southward. These grasses are still useful, especially when used as annuals and mixed in with container plants or in the annual border. Some of these grasses include New Zealand sedge, red fountain grass, fiber optic grass and Mexican feather grass. These grasses are very useful for their foliage color and texture.
Most ornamental grasses prefer full sun and well-drained soil. There are some grasses that will tolerate partial shade conditions and do very well. If you are faced with such a site, consider things like the sedges (Carex sp.), Sweet Flag (Acorus sp.), Northern sea oats, tufted hair grass, hakone grass, wood rush (Luzula) or millet grass (Milium).
If you are faced with a moist site consider cordgrass, switchgrass, Spartina sp., Typha sp., Miscanthus cultivars, Carex sp. and Cyperus sp.
As with any perennial installation, site preparation is critical to long-term success. Incorporate organic matter to improve soil tilth. Work in 1 to 2 pounds of 10-10-10 fertilizer per 100 square feet of bed during preparation. Good drainage is critical to long-term success with grasses, especially in regard to over wintering in colder climates. If the site is poorly drained, correct the drainage if possible or consider using raised beds.
The availability of ornamental grasses as containerized plants allows them to be planted throughout the growing season. Late fall planting may not be as successful in northern areas because the plants do not get established well before winter. If grasses are planted in the fall, they may benefit from a winter mulch of straw around the roots. Plants should be planted no deeper than they were grown in the container and you should water them well after planting. During the establishment period, you may need to water grasses frequently to allow them to get rooted in the area. Once established, many grasses are extremely tolerant of dry periods, making them useful in landscapes that may get minimal attention.
Grasses are relatively easy to maintain. You may apply fertilizer at the rate of ¼ to ½ cup per plant in the case of larger specimens or 1 pound of 10-10-10 per 100 square feet of bed area. Avoid overfertilization, as it tends to encourage weak stems. Adjust fertilizer rates based on overall growth and appearance. In most instances, you will not need to apply much fertilizer to well prepared beds.
Water newly planted grasses regularly. Established grasses are fairly drought tolerant. Cool-season grasses benefit from additional watering to keep them attractive during summer dry periods.
Ornamental grasses are relatively pest free. There are, however, some things for which you need to be on the look out. During wet, cool weather, the instance of leaf spots and foliar rusts is an issue. Many times it is not bad enough to warrant spraying. Sometimes removing affected foliage and looking at providing better air circulation helps cure the problem. As far as insects are concerned, aphids, billbugs and Japanese beetles seem to be the top three pests. Control is easy with proper insecticides. Check with your local extension agent for recommended materials for your area.
Grasses do not need any special winter protection. Leave the stems standing to help insulate the crown of the plant. The stems also provide a great deal of winter interest. In the spring, just before growth resumes, cut the stems down to about 3 to 4 inches. You can then shred the stems and use them around the plants as mulch.
On occasion, you may need to divide ornamental grasses (see "How To: Divide Ornamental Grasses," Grounds Maintenance, March 2004). The standard suggestion of every 3 to 4 years is just that, a suggestion. Whether a plant needs division will depend on the overall appearance and performance. If the center of the plant starts to die out with only a green ring of growth being produced and flower and foliage quality is on the decline, it's time to divide. Late winter and early spring are the best times to divide most grasses. Large clumps can be a challenge to lift and divide. Make sure you are armed with a strong-handled spade and a strong back. After the clump is divided, cut it up into sections, discarding the dead center. These segments can then be replanted and watered in as well.
Greg Stack is an extension horticulturist for the University of Illinois Extension (Matteson, Ill.).
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The owner of a wild animal park where a woman keeper was mauled to death by a tiger has insisted she died "from her own tragic mistake".
David Gill, the owner and founder of South Lakes Wild Animal Park, said Sarah McClay died because of "keeper error" and a "sad error of judgment".
Ms McClay, 24, was attacked by a Sumatran tiger at the park in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, on Friday afternoon after she went into its enclosure.
Writing on the park's Facebook page, Mr Gill said: "We have made a statement that from the investigations that have taken place it is clear that this tragedy was caused by a sad error of judgment and breach of protocols, in essence, keeper error.
"This is not blame, it is not anything but defining the facts as they appear.
"This does not mean Sarah killed herself on purpose it means simply she died from her own tragic mistake."
Cumbria Police said an elaborate enclosure of gates means the animals and their keepers should remain apart at all times - but this system failed with fatal consequences.
Detectives are now trying to establish whether this was due to a technical fault or human error.
Ms McClay, from the Barrow area, was going about her routine duties in the big cat enclosure at the park when she was attacked.
She was taken by air ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital but died later from her injuries.
Cumbria Police said the tiger was locked in its enclosure following the attack and that members of the public were not at any risk during the incident.
The enclosure concerned consists of a number of compartments both indoor and outdoor connected by lockable doors, police said.
Keepers are required to enter various parts of the enclosures in the course of their routine duties.
However, systems are in place to ensure that animals and keepers remain apart at all times.
But at some stage this failed and the animal and Ms McClay came together with tragic consequences.
Police are now working to establish whether this was a result of human or technical factors.
Mr Gill praised his staff, adding: "My thoughts are purely with Sarah's family and friends and very much with my staff, who have been ripped apart in the past three weeks by the untimely deaths of two of our young female staff."
Ms McClay's death was the second tragedy for the park this month, after another employee was killed in a road accident.


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A plate in light upon a table is not a plate of hunger. Coins on the table have their own innocent glimmer. Everything about coins we obliterate in use and urgency. How lovely the silver dull disk glimmer is. Shells without remorse. The rubd antique nickle dated 1939 Liberty portrait relief of Jefferson and, beyond, darkend with use, a grimy patina beautiful 1929 buffalo head nickle.
Bottles. An aluminum tea pot with wicker handle. A remnant length of Italian shawl worn by my grandmother in the 80s, this too, increasing as beauty in dimness. The reds, ochres, blacks and once perhaps almost white natural cotton yellowd. The wearing, the long use, the discoloring. It would be becoming to beauty in words worn out. As a poetry to be discolord.
It is not the age it is the wearing, it is the reversion of the thing from its values. One nickle, then two dimes brighter, a newness, fresh-minted (yet, when I look -- in god we trust -- it is 1944, the god is Mercury with winged helmet; the other, a bust of Deus Roosevelt roman style with sagging chin and stuck-up defiant nondescript head -- this is 1947 -- in god we trust). Then two nickles, the grimy ones. One shiny fifty cent piece above. (Beyond) a fourth nickle showing Monticello E Pluribus Unum.
This mere ninety cents is more, is all piece by piece in art, as they are here, pieces of glimmer as rare as the mysterious chalice with faces and figures on the casting from the greek house and rider.
Notes on use and values.
.....Then the litter. The gleams of silver and nickle seen as coins of light in the litter. A key, another gleam, an ancient evocation, a coin-silver spoon, a chipt cheap cup-shaped cup with a grey glaze without the imperfections of beauty beautiful because it is a cup. A large brown glass bottle of vitamins that look like beans. Papers. A letter from a friend, a program in my own script black and definite (defiant) arranged over the white paper. Matches. An envelope.
In the late hour left after the history of the day, taken with a will before bedtime -- how transformd the world is! The silence almost reaches us in which an original, all that has been left behind, tosst about, of us remains.
Beautiful litter with thy gleam and glimmers, thy wastes and remains! The tide of our purpose has gone back into itself, into its own counsels. And it is the beauty of where we have been living that is the beauty of the hour.
This post dedicated to Aram Saroyan
Salvages: An Evening Piece: Robert Duncan, 1950 (from A Book of Resemblances, 1950-1953)
Spoon: photo by Ari Abitbol, 2008
Street Item: Garbage, Berkeley: photo by Dorothea Lange, 1945 (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California)


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(CNN) - Former President George W. Bush is back at home in Dallas, following partial knee replacement surgery Saturday in Chicago.
Bush spokesman Freddy Ford told CNN that the former president "had a successful partial knee replacement Saturday and came back to Dallas Monday."
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Ford added that it was not a new injury and that Bush was "up walking around and even went up and down a flight of stairs just a couple hours after the procedure."
Bush, 67, remains active and regularly rides his bike. Earlier this month he led a physically demanding bike ride at his ranch near Crawford, Texas, to honor military members wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last August, the former president had a stent placed in his heart after a blockage was discovered in an artery.
Jake Tapper's interview with Bush
The news was first reported by NBC News in Chicago.
yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada. Yes, I am speaking of those who dishonor the president who served the U.S.A. during one of our most difficult times in history. Very tired of hearing your stuff.
Unlike the current POTUS, Im sure GW won't blame Clinton for his bad knee.
Poor guy should have BRAIN surgery...
It's an old painting injury.
I wonder why he had to go to Chicago to have knee surgery? I thought doctors were going to TX in droves b/c of lower malpractice insurance
Good luck Mr President.
Sillyshock: put down the crack pipe, babe. . .
@essmeier- US citizens? Well, you have no idea what your talking about.
Dear G.W., we're still cleaning up after your hateful gay marriage bans. Special thanks to you and your nasty family for not contributing in any way to the clean up. Your brother, Jeb, is a real nasty bigot too. He should have gone to jail with Anthony Verdugo in 2002.
Great job too on the Florida housing collapse that began the moment Jeb left office in 2006. We're still digging out of that mess. What a life it was, to earn $25k annually, and be offered a .5 million dollar mortgage with zero money down, interest payments kicked in 5 years after inception of loan. Your family is truly awful.
I do sympathize for the pain you'll endure while your knee heals, but your family is genuinely awful.
@willyshock –
Name the exact crime he committed.
I know it's difficult for you liberal sheep out there, but please be specific. List the specific criminal activities for which George Walker Bush is guilty and should be sentenced to prison time.
I can't wait to hear your probably-educated list.
Dear comically misinformed and probably-illiterate liberal drone Quest,
Please use the internet search tool of your convenience and look up which president signed the Defense of Marriage Act (nicknamed "DOMA") into law.
Oh, I forgot to mention... brace yourself for the shock. You're not going to want to do that search standing up.
Dear G.W., we're still cleaning up after your hateful gay marriage bans. Special thanks to you and your nasty family for not contributing in any way to the clean up. Your brother, Jeb, is a real nasty bigot too. He should have gone to jail with Anthony Verdugo in 2002.
In short – hope he suffers.
TOVARISCHS! W has been out of office for over five years. Isn't it about time that you get over your Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS)? It is well past time for you to pull up your "big-boy" pants and start accepting responsibility (a forbidden word for the komrade left) for putting a pathetic little community organizer into the White House.
Good for him. Must be nice to gave the best healthcare money can buy.
Here had better get down on that knee and pray for forgiveness for the over FOUR THOUSAND US personnel who died in Iraq because of his literally hundreds of lies. The fact that he has never been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity is a colossal miscarriage of justice.
I'm starting to wonder if your entire post was satire? It would make for brilliant sarcasm if that were the case.
Just in case, you know which party and which president forced banks to offer risky loans to low-qualified applicants, right? Hint: It was during the late 90's.
What a life it was, to earn $25k annually, and be offered a .5 million dollar mortgage with zero money down, interest payments kicked in 5 years after inception of loan. Your family is truly awful.
I heard it was a jerk's knee reaction.
I wonder if he has free government healthcare.
Defending this war criminal puts you in the same lying hole he is in.
Of course reich wingers are going to defend the worst president this country has ever had. Lying is just one aspect of being a con.
I hope they discover a nice fat tumor in there somewhere. couldnt happen to a better guy.
I hope it hurts like hell. He deserves to suffer for all of the pain and suffering he has caused. No amount of pain he has will come close to equaling the grief he caused to our soldiers, their families and thousands of innocent Iraqi's. Not to mention... lying us into the war, asleep at the wheel for 9/11, squandering the surplus (and created a deficit), politicizing government, hiring a horse expert to run FEMA, flyby over New Orleans, torture, Valerie Plame, pulling out of Kyoto, never attended a soldiers funeral (but he'll ride he's bike for them), cut veterans healthcare, cut Pell grants, cut taxes for the wealthy, No Child Left behind, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, most vacation time of any US President, shot down stem cell research, Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, John Bolton, signing statements, and let's see... what am I forgetting... oh yeah, his policies plunged us into the biggest depression since the 1930's. Get well soon... not.
He doesn't look so good, yes! I'm waiting for the day the earth is rid of his empty soul. Obama's lie of the year was true for 97% of Americans, nah, thry weren't paid to do that.


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It occurs to me that a solid statement of the case against the feasibility of interstellar travel is not easily available, and hence is not well-known to the public. Following on my recent posting Is There a Warp Drive in your Future?, which considers the question of what technologies are or are not likely to exist in the future, let us now examine the general question of the feasibility of interstellar travel. In this inquiry, we are not concerned with technological difficulties or breakthroughs, but with fundamental laws of physics. Even if the only limits we faced were those of physics, not technology, what are the prospects of making interstellar travel a reality?
Stanton Friedman, the "Flying Saucer Physicist," is confident that interstellar travel is not only possible, but likely. In his essay UFO Propulsion Systems, Friedman writes,
a one-way trip of thirty-seven years (the distance to Zeta 1 or 2 Reticuli) at 99.9 percent c would take only twenty months' crew time; at 99.99 percent c it would take only six months' crew time. Thus even a trip to a distant galaxy such as Andromeda, two million light-years away, would take under sixty years' crew time if the intergalactic ship somehow could manage to keep accelerating at one G, using some yet unknown technique.
|various proposals for fusion-powered rockets
Ah, that pesky little "yet unknown technique." Now this is all perfectly true, but it blithely ignores some very fundamental problems that are not related to any level of technology. A trio of "classic" papers written in the 1960s by physicists examine the fundamental physics involved in proposed interstellar travel, and explain the formidable obstacles: obstacles imposed by fundamental laws of physics, not by limits of technology. Note that nothing here rules out the possibility of travel within our solar system, even to its edges, or rules out non-relativistic interstellar travel, taking thousands of years to reach one's destination. But the notion that we will someday travel between stars the way we now sail between seaports is pure fantasy.
These articles sufficed to convince the scientific community that the concept of interstellar travel is utterly implausible, and explanations for UFO sightings must be sought elsewhere, in psychology and sociology, not in physics. However, in recent years these articles have largely been overlooked, so I think it's very important to examine each one in some detail and explain its consequences.
1. Radioastronomy and Communication Through Space by Edward M. Purcell. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Report BNL-658, reprinted in Cameron, A.G.W. (editor), Interstellar Communication. New York: W.A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963.) Purcell (1912-1997) was in the physics department at Harvard University, and shared in the 1952 Nobel Prize for physics. He was a pioneer in radio astronomy, the first to detect the famous 21-cm radio emission line from neutral hydrogen in the galaxy. He also is credited with the discovery of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
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Most of the paper is uncontroversial and explains then-recent discoveries in radio astronomy. But in the section titled Space Travel, Purcell examines claims that someday we will travel to the stars at almost the speed of light. "The performance of a rocket depends almost entirely on the velocity with which the propellant is exhausted," he notes. Thus, "the elementary laws of mechanics – in this case relativistic mechanics, but still the elementary laws of mechanics – inexorably impose a certain relation between the initial mass and the final mass of the rocket in the ideal case… It follows very simply from conservation of momentum and energy, the mass-energy relation, and nothing else." (Emphasis in original.)
"For our vehicle we shall clearly want a propellant with a very high exhaust velocity. Putting all practical questions aside, I propose, in my first design, to use the ideal nuclear fusion propellant… I am going to burn hydrogen to helium with 100 percent efficiency; by means unspecified I shall throw the helium out the back with kinetic energy, as seen from the rocket, equivalent to the entire mass change. You can't beat that, with fusion. One can easily work out the exhaust velocity; it is about 1/8 the velocity of light. The equation of Figure 13 tells us that to attain a speed 0.99c we need an initial mass which is a little over a billion times the final mass."
A billion times the final mass?????!!!!!!! In fact, the exact figure is 1.6 X 10^^9. So in the ideal case, where you had somehow mastered nuclear fusion with 100% efficiency and could control and direct the energy in whatever way you choose, you still will need 1.6 billion tons of fuel for each ton of payload! Surely, such a rocket has never been built, and never will be built, in our solar system, or any other. Thus Purcell has demonstrated, beyond any possibility of doubt, that all proposals to reach near-light speed using nuclear fusion propulsion are complete absurdity.
But supposing some other, more energetic reaction could be found? Nuclear fission produces an even lower exhaust velocity than fusion, so it's less plausible still. Is there any reaction more energetic than nuclear fusion? "This is no place for timidity, so let us take the ultimate step and switch to the perfect matter-antimatter propellant…. The resulting energy leaves our rocket with an exhaust velocity of c or thereabouts. This makes the situation very much better. To get up to 99 percent the velocity of light only a ratio of 14 is needed between the initial mass and the final mass." That sounds very much better. If I can "somehow" procure sufficient antimatter, "somehow" store it, and "somehow" control its reaction with matter, and "somehow" direct the resulting energy where I want it to go, I need only 7 tons of matter, and 7 tons of antimatter for each ton of payload. That sounds almost possible. But Purcell points out that all that buys you is a one-way ticket out of the galaxy: you have no way to slow down and stop when you get where you want to go. So to stop when you reach your destination requires a fuel-to-payload ratio of 196. And if you want to someday return, unless you know of a convenient matter-antimatter fueling station at your destination, you will need to square that again, for a fuel-to-mass ration of almost 40,000.
And even if you could "somehow" construct such a vehicle, your problems are not over. "If you are moving with 99 per cent the velocity of light through our galaxy, which contains one hydrogen atom per cubic centimeter even in the 'empty spaces," each of these hydrogen atoms looks to you like a 6-billion-volt proton, and they are coming at you with a current which is roughly equivalent to 300 cosmotrons per square meter. So you have a minor shielding problem to get over before you start working on the shielding problem connected with the rocket engine." Also, "In order to achieve the required acceleration our rocket, near the beginning of its journey will have to radiate about 10^^18 watts. This is a little more than the total power the earth receives from the sun. But this isn't sunshine, it's gamma rays. So the problem is not to shield the payload, the problem is to shield the earth."
"Well, this is preposterous, you are saying. That is exactly my point. It is preposterous. And remember, our conclusions are forced on us by the elementary laws of mechanics." Nothing else needs to be written about the possibility of relativistic travel – Dr. Purcell has shown it to be completely preposterous. Purcell concludes his paper, however, by demonstrating that interstellar communication using radio waves is perfectly possible. His final words are, "All this stuff about traveling around the universe in space suits – except for local exploration, which I have not discussed – belongs back where it came from, on the cereal box."
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After several pages of equations covering much the same ground as Purcell, Von Hoerner concludes, "there is no way of avoiding these demands [for power], and definitely no hope of fulfilling them…space travel, even in the most distant future, will be confined completely to our own planetary system, and a similar conclusion will hold for any other civilization, no matter how advanced it may be. The only means of communication between different civilizations thus seems to be electro-magnetic signals."
|William Markowitz
3. Physics and Metaphysics of Unidentified Flying Objects by William Markowitz (Science 157, 1274, 1967). Markowitz (1907-1998) was an Austrian-born astronomer who worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory, and also taught astronomy and physics at Pennsylvania State University and Marquette University. He was a pioneer in the use of atomic clocks for astronomy, and specialized in precision time measurement issues. Markowitz wrote, "Aristotle wrote on natural phenomena under the heading 'physics' and continued with another section called 'metaphysics' or 'beyond physics.' I use a similar approach here. First I consider the physics of UFO's when the laws of physics are obeyed. After that I consider the case where the laws of physics are not obeyed. The specific question to be studied is whether UFO's are under extraterrestrial control." By the laws of physics, he is concerned with only the simplest and best-known ones, like those of motion, gravitation, conservation of energy, and the restrictions of special relativity. He points out an obvious but seldom-noted problem: "Apart from propeller and balloon action, a spacecraft can generate thrust only by expelling mass." And something that uses propellers or balloons is an aircraft, not a spacecraft.
UFOs are sometimes reported to land, and take off again. "If an extraterrestrial spacecraft is to land nondestructively and then lift off, it must be able to develop a thrust slightly less than its weight on landing… if nuclear energy is used to generate thrust, then searing of the ground at 85,000 deg C should result, and nuclear decay production equivalent in quantity to those produced by an atomic bomb should be detected. This has not happened. Hence, the published reports of landing and lift-offs of UFO's are not reports of spacecraft controlled by extraterrestrial beings, if the laws of physics are valid."
"We can reconcile UFO reports with extraterrestrial control by assigning various magic properties to extraterrestrial beings. These include 'teleportation' (the instantaneous movement of material bodies between planets and stars), the creation of 'force-fields' to drive space ships, and propulsion without reaction. The last of these would permit a man to lift himself by his bootstraps. Anyone who wishes is free to accept such magic properties, but I cannot."
To those who were following the controversy at that time over the proposal championed by J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee for a "scientific study of UFOs," an 'ulterior motive' for the Markowitz article was immediately apparent. The previous year Hynek had a letter published in Science, arguing that UFOs were worthy of scientific study (Science 154, 329, 1966). Markowitz carefully notes several instances where Hynek and his colleagues were contradicting themselves in their statements about UFOs. For example, in his letter in Science, Hynek wrote, "Some of the very best, most coherent reports have come from scientifically trained people." But Markowitz noted that Hynek had written quite the opposite in his article in the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1964: "It appears unreasonable that spacecraft should announce themselves to casual observers while craftily avoiding detection by trained observers." Markowitz further noted that Vallee's 1966 book Challenge to Science presents the "classic" 1948 sighting of pilots Chiles and Whitted, who reported a dramatic close encounter with a huge metallic object while flying a DC-3; "the book fails to mention that Hynek had identified the object as an undoubted meteor in his report of 30 April 1949 to the Air Force… This omission is curious because Hynek wrote a foreword to Challenge to Science." These and other self-contradictions, carefully noted by Markowitz, showed that the Hynek/Vallee case for the UFO was utterly lacking in intellectual rigor. Markowitz unmasked the real Hynek: disorganized, indecisive, and confused. This revelation, published in the peer-reviewed pages of Science, was fatal to the credibility of Hynek's proposed "scientific study of UFOs." There were, and still are, a few scientists who took Hynek's UFO theorizing seriously, but they have always been a tiny minority.
What About "Wormholes"?
Some theorists of interstellar travel are quite aware of the extreme difficulties involved in actually traveling to interstellar destinations, in the sense of going from Point A to Point B. So they hypothesize easier ways to reach interstellar destinations, without the pesky problem of traversing every point between them. Maybe we can warp space so that the distance between earth and the Andromeda galaxy is not two million light years, as in ordinary space travel, but far, far less? Suppose there is a wormhole with one end where we now are, and the other where we want to go?
The "Bohemian physicist" Jack Sarfatti of San Francisco is a colorful figure. He has written papers claiming that wormholes can be used not only to travel through space, but through time as well. (He has also studied Uri Geller.) He suggests that UFOs are real, and travel through wormholes to reach us from some other place or time.
Unfortunately for Sarfatti, according to Wikipedia,
Wormholes which could actually be crossed, known as traversable wormholes, would only be possible if exotic matter with negative energy density could be used to stabilize them. (Many physicists such as Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, and others believe that the Casimir effect is evidence that negative energy densities are possible in nature.) Physicists have not found any natural process which would be predicted to form a wormhole naturally in the context of general relativity, although the quantum foam hypothesis is sometimes used to suggest that tiny wormholes might appear and disappear spontaneously at the Planck scale, and stable versions of such wormholes have been suggested as dark matter candidates. It has also been proposed that if a tiny wormhole held open by a negative-mass cosmic string had appeared around the time of the Big Bang, it could have been inflated to macroscopic size by cosmic inflation.
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So yes, a wormhole is something that might theoretically exist, although their actual existence is frankly extremely dubious. There is no reason to think that they could occur naturally, and no observational evidence that they actually do exist (unlike Black Holes). Even if they do exist, they may exist only on the Planck scale (subatomic quantum size). It seems extremely dubious that traversable wormholes exist in nature, and even if they do, we still have seemingly insurmountable problems. How do we find wormholes? How do we determine whether they are stable? How do we know where their destination is? If we go into one, is it possible to return? There is also the problem of simply getting to the wormhole's mouth. If a wormhole were near our solar system, we would already detect its disturbing effects of warped space. And if it is far from our solar system, we need to develop interstellar travel simply to travel to the wormhole's mouth!
Can we create a wormhole to go from where we are to where we want to be? Perhaps in theory we might, but the reality of a recipe for creating a wormhole will undoubtedly be something like this:
Take 100 solar masses. Bake at one million degrees for ten thousand years. Stir in 100 solar masses of exotic matter with negative energy density. Stretch out the mix from desired source to destination. Let cool for one million years.
So the idea of using wormholes as a convenient transportation network to wherever in the universe we want to go is, well, fanciful and implausible in the extreme. We can't proclaim it completely "impossible," but the person who proclaims it as a reality had better have extraordinarily good evidence that such a thing exists.


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Microsoft has sent an e-mail to a select number of its previous beta testers regarding the upcoming release of IE8 beta 1
We are nearing the launch of Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and we will be making it available for the general public to download and test. IE8 Beta 1 is focused on the developer community, with the goal of gaining valuable feedback to improve Internet Explorer 8 during the development process.
Microsoft has previously said it is focusing on developers (read: web standards) with version 8, which is expected to be released in the first half of 2008 for both Windows XP and Windows Vista. It is always great to see that the software giant wants feedback from the public, but it is a bit surprising that the company wants to make available the same milestone testers will be getting. Is beta 1 that rock-solid?
After the topic introduction, the e-mail discusses the beta testing process and links to a seven-question survey on Microsoft Connect. The short mandatory survey, meaning its completion gives the user access to the beta program, focuses on whether or not the user works at a large company and whether he or she develops web pages that need to work with Internet Explorer. There is no more information on the new version on the beta program site; there is only a general FAQ page and beta program guideline page.
Microsoft has not given any specific dates to mark on the calendar; the only thing the tester has to look forward to is: "We will send an e-mail out when Internet Explorer Beta 1 launches." Internet Explorer 8 will be demonstrated and discussed in-depth at MIX08.
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- Destruction Holo-gogs
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- Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 29.
Equip: Increases spell power by 64.
Use: Allows you to look far into the distance.
- Sell Price: 3 86 19
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The Christian minority in Syria is crucially important to the peaceful coexistence of the various religious communities. HEKS/EPER therefore supports projects run by Protestant churches in the Fellowship of Middle East Churches (FMEEC). HEKS/EPER supports church life in the parishes, strengthens the churches' social responsibility for the entire population and promotes dialogue with other churches. HEKS/EPER supports 11 church parishes that run recreational programmes for 545 children and young people from various Christian churches and other children from the neighbourhood. The 54 volunteers tell the young people Bible stories, and offer handicraft activities and games to be played together. Church parishes organize holiday camps and other special events about three times per year.
In 2017, some 25000 displaced people received food, mattresses, blankets and toiletries.
1500 children could attend school thanks to HEKS/EPER.


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Donald O'Neal
Donald E. O'Neal, MBA (1990), Ph.D. (1995, Business Administration), University of Illinois, is Professor of Management in the College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois at Springfield, and a visiting professor in the China Executive Leadership Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the UIUC China Executive Leadership Program, Dr. O'Neal teaches workshops for senior business managers, scientists, and municipal officials from the People's Republic of China. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Pearson Faculty Award. The Pearson Faculty Award recognizes a faculty member whose performance exemplifies UIS' commitment to excellence in teaching.
Dr. O'Neal's latest book is People in Organizations: What Every Manager Should Know About Human Resources, Boston: American Press, 2010. He also recently joined other UIS faculty members as one of the facilitators in the UIS/Illinois National Guard Training Collaboration.
After a successful business career (executive positions in Engineering, Sales, and, ultimately, Vice President of Human Resources at DICKEY-john Corporation), he completed his doctorate in Strategic Management in 1995, with a minor in International Business. As a UIS faculty member since 1992 he has taught Leadership and Strategy, Organization Design, Human Resource Management, and Business Ethics. In the UIUC MBA program he has taught Managing Change, and in the UIUC China Executive Leadership Program he regularly teaches Strategic Management, Human Resource Management, and Organization Design.
His research in various areas of strategic management — much of it on boards of directors — has been presented at a number of international conferences and published in professional journals including R&D Management, Long Range Planning, European Management Journal, Corporate Governance, Director's Monthly, and the International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research . He has co-edited six volumes of strategic management papers (John Wiley & Sons), and has written a strategic management textbook, Managing Strategically for Superior Performance (2003, American Press) .
He has consulted with a variety of corporate, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations, primarily in the areas of strategic management, organization design, and human resource management. This includes advising, conducting seminars and workshops, and facilitating committees, teams, and focus groups. Dr. O'Neal served as a Scholar-in-Residence and Senior Member of the Governor's Illinois Strategic Planning Advisory Council, from 1999-2002.
Dr. O'Neal believes that we can do almost anything that we set our minds to, if we dream big, and believe in ourselves. His 2007 publication, If Not Now, When? (AuthorHouse, 2007) is based on the theory that, although most of us are dreamers, not many of us actually achieve our dreams. It encourages people to start doing something about their dreams – not someday, but now – and provides a step-by-step process to guide them.


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Hollywood could not have scripted a better ending to the BCS era in college football. Following great endings in each of the previous BCS bowl games, the BCS Championship Game did not disappoint. Down four points with just over a minute to play, Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Jameis Winston was charged with having to lead the Seminoles 80 yards for the game-winning score, and he delivered. A short pass over the middle to Kelvin Benjamin was held on to for a go-ahead touchdown with just 13 seconds to play. Auburn, the team of destiny heading in to the title game, had seen their magic run out, and Florida State brought a death-blow to the SEC's BCS championship winning streak in the final BCS Championship Game to be played.
Florida State 34, Auburn 31.
So long BCS. Thanks for the memories.
Florida State was down 21-3 in the second quarter, but the game never got away from them. Any question about how this team would handle adversity was answered in most dramatic fashion under the brightest spotlight of the season. Florida State scored a late touchdown in the second quarter when Winston completed the first of his two touchdowns to Devonta Freeman to make it a 21-10 deficit at the half. The Seminoles tacked on three points in the third quarter and set up a one-score game heading in to the final quarter of the college football season.
Florida State continued to carry the momentum in the fourth quarter by pulling to within one point of the Tigers. A Jameis Winston touchdown pass to Chad Abram on the right side of the field made it a two-point game, 21-19, but an unsportsmanlike penalty on Devonta Freeman for taunting the Auburn sideline following the score held Florida State to nothing more than an extra point attempt rather than potentially going for a game-tying two-point conversion. The video replay showed it may have been a tad of an overreaction by the Big Ten referee, but it was still a situation that could have easily been avoided by Freeman.
The penalty was enforced on the ensuing kickoff, giving Auburn a free 15-yard head start on what turned out to be a pivotal possession. Auburn traveled 69 yards and ran just over six minutes of clock but had to settle for a field goal. This gave Auburn a 24-20 lead, but it was short-lived. A 100-yard kickoff return by Levonte Whitfield electrified the Florida State section of the Rose Bowl with the first lead of the night by the Seminoles since a 3-0 lead in the first quarter. Florida State finally clawed all the way back, but the defense failed to come up with a stop.
Auburn, who had come up with late momentum-shifting plays down the stretch of the season with a bit of flair, did so once again by going to their strength, the running game. the Tigers capped a 75-yard drive on eight plays, leaving 1:19 left on the game clock. The final play of the drive came when Heisman finalist running back Tre Mason ran over a Florida State defender and ran 37-yards for a touchdown. The way things had gone this season for Auburn you may have thought that would have been the cherry on top of a miraculous turnaround season for Gus Malzahn's Tigers, but this time it was Florida State who had one last memorable drive in them.
A total of 80 yards separated Florida State from a national title. The team that had been the most dominant team from the start of the season through the conference championships, needed to dig deeper than they had early in the year against Boston College and much deeper than needed against Clemson or Miami. Adversity? Like everything else this season, Winston and Florida State brushed it off their shoulders like it was no big deal. Except that it really was.
Winston completed the first three plays of the drive to move the offense down to the Auburn 17-yard line. The big play was a 49-yard completion to Rashad Greene, but a defensive pass interference on Auburn's Chris Davis in the end zone on a 3rd and eight gave Florida State a free first down at the two-yard line. On the very next play Winston found his favorite target, Benjamin, for the game and championship clinching touchdown.
The college football season is now in the books. Florida State won their third national championship in school history, and brought the BCS era full circle.


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Communiqué de presse | 17.4.2013
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The EPO and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have agreed to work closely together by facilitating the EPO use of IEC's standardisation documents in all phases of its patenting process. The agreement sets another milestone for co-operation between the EPO and Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) to ensure greater legal certainty for patents granted by the EPO.
The agreement is based on the fact that IEC does not accept or allow the use of non-disclosure agreements in the standardisation work in which it is involved, alone or with other organisations, including informal discussions, input contributions and working documents. With this accord, EPO patent examiners will be able to full-text search IEC documents using the same process and tools as they use to search EPO's own patent collections.
"Thanks to this co-operation the examination of the patentability of inventions in a variety of technical fields is expected to yield even better results. This represents a significant contribution to securing quality and legal certainty of patents processed by the EPO," said Raimund Lutz, the EPO's Vice-President for Legal and International Affairs.
The IEC is the world's leading organisation for the preparation and publication of voluntary, consensus-based international standards for the millions of devices and systems that use or produce electricity and contain electronics, collectively known as "electrotechnology". The organisation brings together 163 countries and has close to 7 000 standards in its library.
The IEC together with the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are among the main organisations that develop globally relevant, consensus-based, international standards, as recognised by the WTO (World Trade Organization). The EPO has already signed similar agreements with the ITU, as well as with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA).
The EPO provides a central one-stop service to both individual inventors and companies from around the world. It enables them to obtain patent protection in up to 38 European states through a uniform procedure requiring just one patent application. Today, the EPO is one of Europe's leading international organisations, with 7 000 staff working in Munich, The Hague, Berlin, Vienna and Brussels. The EPO receives some 255 000 patent filings and grants 65 000 patents per year. It is the executive arm of the European Patent Organisation, and is entirely self-financed with an annual budget of EUR 1.8 billion.
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The IEC brings together 163 countries, and nearly 13 000 experts cooperate on the global IEC platform to ensure that products work everywhere safely with each other. IEC work enables global value chains; allows industry and companies of all sizes to access global markets faster and at less cost, and permits nations to better protect their citizens.
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There is now a remarkable mathematical theory of causation. But applying this theory to a Bell scenario implies the Bell inequalities, which are violated in experiment. We alleviate this tension by translating the basic definitions of the theory into the framework of generalised probabilistic theories. We find that a surprising number of results carry over: the d-separation criterion for conditional independence (the no-signalling principle on steroids), and even certain quantitative limits on correlations. Finally, we begin a classification of the causal structures, such as the Bell scenarios, that are "interesting" from this perspective. Joint work with Joe Henson and Raymond Lal.


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Berkeley economist and World War II student J. Bradford DeLong:
And so, 70 years ago [today], the million-soldier reserve of the Red Army was transferred to General Nikolai Vatutin's Southwestern Front, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's Don Front, and Marshal Andrei Yeremenko's Stalingrad Front. They went on to spring the trap of Operation Uranus, the code name for the planned encirclement and annihilation of the German Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army. They would fight, die, win, and thus destroy the Nazi hope of dominating Eurasia for even one more year – let alone of establishing Hitler's 1,000-year Reich.
Together, these 1.2 million Red Army soldiers, the workers who armed them, and the peasants who fed them turned the Battle of Stalingrad into the fight that, of any battle in human history, has made the greatest positive difference for humanity.
The Allies probably would have eventually won World War II even had the Nazis conquered Stalingrad, redistributed their spearhead forces as mobile reserves, repelled the Red Army's subsequent winter 1942 offensive, and seized the Caucasus oil fields, thus depriving the Red Army of 90% of its motor fuel. But any Allied victory would have required the large-scale use of nuclear weapons, and a death toll in Europe that would most likely have been twice the actual World War II death toll of perhaps 40 million.
May there never be another such battle. May we never need another one.
The battle had been engaged a month previously, when 200,000 Red Army soldiers crossed the Volga River at Stalingrad under heavy artillery and aircraft attack (a scene rendered quite faithfully in the movie "Enemy at the Gate") and met the Wehrmacht head-on. Of those initial 200,000, more than 80 percent died. (In fact, of the roughly 40 million who died in the European theater during World War II, 20 million were Soviet. For comparison, perhaps 450,000 U.S. service members were killed in action in all theaters in the entire war.) The fighting wasn't just house-to-house, it was room-to-room, with houses and rooms frequently changing hands multiple times. One Soviet regimental commander, finding his unit surrounded by the Germans, fought until his unit ran out of ammunition, then called in artillery fire on his own position.
From the standpoint of today, knowing as we do what transpired in the Soviet Union under 70 years of Communist rule and knowing as we do (thanks in part to my sister-in-law) what transpired on the Eastern Front during World War II, it is easy to say there were no good guys. But much of the good we and millions of other people on every continent of the world enjoy today was made possible by some of the bad guys at Stalingrad. Such are the ironies of history.


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Q: After applying online to hundreds of jobs and not getting any responses, I have rewritten and tweaked my resume countless times.
My jobs have revolved around varying job titles but were mostly clerk-administrative work. I'm proficient on computers using only the basic programs, but I have not applied to jobs requiring programs I don't know.
I am just plain tired of these fruitless job searches.
What do I do now?
A: Applying online for a job is, perhaps, the most frustrating part of a job search. Resumes are not read personally when they arrive. If an organization uses a jobs-application program, as most do now, it is using a database to filter the incoming resumes.
As with any system, there are pros and cons for both the job hunter and the company. The "con" for job applicants is that they can't change or modify the databases, which means they have "to get with the program." Forgive the pun.
The strongest "pro" for companies is that they don't have to hire a person to read and sort through resumes all day. The program will choose the top 20 resume matches.
One popularly used program is ONET-SOC AutoCoder. Each job title has certain words coded into it. If those words don't appear on the resume, the resume will receive a low score and the company won't see it, even if you have been in a particular type of job for years.
A 70 percent match is considered "positive" and will place your resume in the running. A job hunter's key to success is to use the right code words on the resume, which means customizing every resume before sending it. Yes, the process is time-consuming and requires computer literacy.
Jill Hinrichs, a professional career strategist, asks job hunters to find and forward to her several job descriptions for which they want to apply. A typical job hunter might immediately apply and upload the resume onto that company's website.
Some job hunters don't even spend the time to include cover letters. This is not a good strategy. If you don't care to write about how you are a match to the job, you won't be good at explaining your qualifications and how you will contribute to the company in an interview.
Next, Hinrichs inputs the job requirements into the ONET coder program, at onetsocautocoder.com/plus/onetmatch. This free program digests the requirements and categorizes them under appropriate job titles. She then does the same with the client's resume. This is where code words become critical. You may have been an editor for 10-plus years, but if your resume doesn't use the code words established by ONET for the "editor" job title, your resume will receive a low score and go no further in the application process. Since the program is free, you can test your resume for each job description before you send it.
If your resume has a low score for that particular job, add those code words required under the ONET job title description.
If you achieve a high match, submit your resume with confidence. If you still receive no responses, you may be applying too late in the process.
Email all your questions to workplace expert Lindsey Novak at LindseyNovakyahoo.com. She answers all emails.
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Apple's new iPods may be tricky to get hold of when they officially launch, which could be tomorrow, according to new reports.
Macotakara claims that there are "considerably few numbers of the initial shipment" of the fifth generation iPod touch and seventh generation iPod nano, which Apple has said will be available to buy this month. The Japanese blog believes 9 October will be the official launch day.
MacRumours has noted that some customers who have pre-ordered one of Apple's new iPods have spotted that their order status now reads "Preparing for Shipment," which usually means that the device will be delivered to the recipient within days. One customer has even said that their credit card has already been charged.
Apple's Online Store now has a "Buy Now" button for its new iPods, but the shipping date still just says "October".
In Australia, some users have highlighted that the shipping estimate now reads "3 weeks", and their delivery date says 29 October or 2 November.
Have you pre-ordered a new iPod? Have you received a delivery estimate from Apple? Let us know in the comments section below or on Twitter.
Apple revealed its new iPods alongside the iPhone 5 at a special event on 12 September.
To read more about the new iPods, check out our reviews:
iPod touch review
iPod nano review
See also:
Apple quietly improving iOS 6 Maps
Best ways to listen to podcasts in iOS 6
Foxconn denies strike, says iPhone 5 production is on track


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Acton, Hawkins Selected In NLL Entry Draft
TORONTO – Former Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse All-Americans Reid Acton and Josh Hawkins were selected in last night's National Lacrosse League (NLL) 2013 Entry Draft.
Acton was a third-round selection of the Minnesota Swarm, while the Vancouver Stealth picked Hawkins in the fifth round. They are the first Loyola players to be drafted by a team from the indoor league since current Director of Men's Lacrosse Operations P.T. Ricci was in 2009.
Both players recently completed their first professionals seasons in the outdoor Major League Lacrosse League (MLL), helping both of their sides reach MLL Championship Weekend.
Acton and Hawkins started the season as teammates with the Hamilton Nationals – Hawkins was a first-round selection of the team, Acton a fourth rounder – but Hawkins was traded to the Charlotte Hounds on July 2.
The Nationals finished the regular-season with a 9-5 record and lost in the semifinals to eventual the MLL Champion Chesapeake Bayhawks. Acton played in four games for the Nationals and picked up four ground balls.
Hawkins suited up in three games for the Nationals, scoring a pair of goals and grabbing eight ground balls, before being traded. He then saw action in five games for the Hounds who finished with a 7-7 regular-season mark before beating previously undefeated Denver in the MLL Semifinals.
With the Hounds, Hawkins scored three goals in the regular-season to go with 12 ground balls. He then had an assist in the MLL Semifinals.
Both players were two-time All-Americans for the Greyhound sin 2012 and 2013 and helped Loyola to 46 victories, three NCAA Championships appearances and the 2012 NCAA title during the time at Loyola.
Acton tallied 85 ground balls and 53 caused turnovers, to go with two goals and an assist, as a defender for Loyola, and Hawkins scored 26 goals and had nine assists, 172 ground balls nad 34 caused turnovers on the Greyhounds' rope unit as a short-stick midfielder.