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Sunday's state average of $2.59 per gallon is the same as a week ago and 3 cents less than last month, AAA reported. Even so, motorists are still paying 2 cents more per gallon than this time last year.
North Carolina officials said Sunday that large-scale search-and-rescue operations were underway in coastal areas as floodwaters from Florence spread across the state and road conditions worsened. The city of Wilmington has been completely cut off
"Our responders are geared up and ready to go for anything. They do a good job. But we respond to a lot of calls that could have been avoided if the people had been prepared. We're just asking the public to take all necessary precautions." — Hawkins EMA director Gary Murrell
Though there's not a firm number on just how many evacuees from the east coast have come to the Tri-Cities to avoid Hurricane Florence, some folks have already made their way to Kingsport. Visit Kingsport has been fielding calls this week from people who want to help.
An AMBUS, a bus converted to serve as an ambulance for multi-patient transport, from our region has been in South Carolina for two days helping evacuate patients from healthcare facilities.
Even though our region is hundreds of miles from the Atlantic coastline, you might want to keep an eye on Hurricane Florence. As of Monday evening, Florence appeared to be on track to make landfall Thursday somewhere in the Carolinas as a major hurricane, according to its path as projected by the National Weather Service's National Hurricane Center.
Though the National Hurricane Center said it's still too early to predict the hurricane's exact path, a huge coastal area from South Carolina to the mid-Atlantic region should prepare for a major strike late in the week.


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Some, like me, have had traumatic water-related incidents that affect their ability to feel comfortable swimming.
That, plus her concern for drowning prevention and water safety, is one reason Shults started her "40 for 40" Face in Water Project to mark her 40th birthday.
The former Ocean Beach resident was a 12-year veteran ESL (English as a second language) instructor in San Diego schools when she received her annual layoff notice last year. She decided that was one too many layoff notices, and opted not to return to public education — at least now — but to refocus on her first love, teaching swimming. She was determined to use her birthday as a catalyst to examine what she wanted to do in next in life.
"I felt I was supposed to have a greater effect on people than I was and make a noticeable difference in people's lives," she said.
A passionate swimmer since childhood and a swim instructor for 22 years, Shults is happiest in the water. She resolved to honor her birthday by giving 40 people of varied ages and backgrounds a one-hour swimming lesson, teaching breathing techniques and helping them overcome any reluctance to put their faces in the water.
"My intention was to change people's relationship with the water. It's a challenge for me to do it in an hour," she said.
For her project, Shults is using The Plunge, Mission Beach's historic, heated indoor pool, part of the Wave House Athletic Club, now being upgraded under new management. The pool at The Plunge is maintained at about
84 degrees, ideal for swimming.
I was Shults' sixth project participant and her first adult. I had long wanted to learn to swim properly, since I had never learned how to breathe while swimming. I had met Shults at The Plunge while I was "water-walking" with friends and she was teaching charming 3-year-old twins. I was impressed with her easy manner and encouraging approach toward teaching.
Afterward, in the locker room, I asked if she taught adults, too. She explained her project. It was only when I explained that I didn't submerge my face because I didn't know how to breathe that I realized I had had three separate near-drowning incidents by age 6. The last of these was during my final swimming class. None of these affected my love of the water, but they left me a poor swimmer.
I went for my lesson with Shults with great excitement, but minimal expectations. Could she really teach me how to breathe and swim properly in just an hour? Yes, indeed, she could — and did.
For me, it was the most liberating experience. I flew through the pool, especially when she fitted me with fins. I felt as if she had given me back the joy and exhilaration I experienced in the water as a child, but had lost as an adult.
Now, following my water-walking sessions, I return to the pool to practice my breathing and swimming techniques, each time increasing my number of laps. I've continued lessons, learning backstroke and refining my freestyle. Most important, I feel more confident and safer in the water.
My experience is not unique. Through her project, Shults has already taught infants and mature adults, including several who had never swam before, the basics of swimming and breathing.
"I decided to do this project for myself. It's very selfish. I love seeing the looks on people's faces when they do something they didn't think they could ever do. I look at them and know they can do it. I get to spend that time with them pushing them to a level they never thought was possible," she said.
Shults is looking for a few more people, particularly adults, who want to change their relationship with the water and learn or improve their swimming. If you would like to participate, visit www.faceinwater.org, or email [email protected], explaining your story and interest in swimming.
It's never too early or late to learn how to swim.

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Architect: Erdy McHenry Architecture
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Structural Engineer: The Harman Group
Mechanical Engineer: PHY Consulting Engineers
Civil Engineer: Pennoni Associates, Inc.
General Contractor: Intech Construction
Project Area: 170,000sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Erdy McHenry Architecture
The Radian Apartments are a 14-story, 500-bed residential and retail center at the edge of the University of Pennsylvania's rapidly expanding campus. The Radian's name is based on its angular-design feature created by Philadelphia-based Erdy McHenry Architecture, LLC. The project was initiated by a private developer in collaboration with the University, which owns the land. It is built with contested space in mind. It neither belongs to the assortment of retail spaces of West Philadelphia nor to the flat academic buildings that are signature of University City. It gracefully blurs the line between these two opposing landscapes, while upgrading the atmosphere of both.
The modular style of the Radian references the unit construction of dormitories, yet progressively steers away from their trademark rigidity. Apartments range from one bedroom to four, and are arranged differently on each floor. The flexible plan, combines a one bathroom apartment with a four bathroom apartment, creating random junctions and unexpected engagements. The connections made inside the building, expressed outside by windows etched on the facade, are unified by the single white ribbon wrapping itself around the frame of the building.
Ground-level retail pushes back from the street opening a public space for informal gathering. The residential entrance exists along this axis and public activity extends up and under the residential tower via a grand stair. This open court aligns with an adjacent quad on the south side of Walnut Street connecting with Locust Walk. Outdoor dining options are provided at the upper terrace level and allow for glimpses onto the street.
The building's sustainable features include a green roof and a prefabricated rain-screen facade. The 10,000 square foot green roof acts as a storm-water management system, funneling water off impervious surfaces and into the garden, while controlling the release of excess water into Philadelphia's combined sewer system. The retention basin is marked by the landscape above it, a simple grove of trees.


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I have been playing BOA 2 and AJE and really enjoy them both.
I have been thinking of picking up AACW because as on older game, I imagine it plays very well with relatively few issues.
Is it still worth getting this and playing it for a few months before getting CW 2 or has CW 2 made this game obsolete?
EDIT: I just read this thread (http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?38005-Just-played-Shiloh-this-is-still-a-nice-game) and it seems that it is indeed still a good buy.
I saw that it works on Windows 7 so I imagine it will also work on 8.1.


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If you were buying a new vehicle, how important is the results from popular crash test assessments? Keeping in mind that every vehicle made by a major automaker in most developed countries are required to adhere to a set of basic safety standards, many of us want to purchase the safest vehicle possible. Inundated by phases such as "Five-Star Rated" and "Top Safety Pick", car advertisements know what it takes to draw in the safety conscious.
Audi is one of many brands that proudly tout its achievements in safety. Both the 2014 Audi A4 and A6 boasts five-star overall ratings in NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) crash testing. The IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) has recognized the new 2015 Audi A3 sedan as a 2014 Top Safety Pick+ as it gained "Good" ratings in all tests. You can view the details, in depth on onesureinsurance.co.uk. However, in Europe the sale of safety pertaining to some Audi vehicles has gotten the United Kingdom arm of the German luxury car brand into hot water.
A BBC watchdog investigation has gathered several accounts from customers of Audi dealerships in the United Kingdom where some of the car company's product line was misidentified as holding the top safety rating of the Euro NCAP (New Car Assessment Programme). A voluntary safety standard within the European Union, Euro NCAP is considered a valued tool for setting a benchmark in crash protection. Testing vehicles using Euro NCAP standards is not required for all vehicles sold in the United Kingdom. The problem spotted by the BBC is dealerships not only misled about the safety rating of vehicles but also the fact a model was tested at all. The Audi R8 and A5 have never been tested under Euro NCAP despite the claims of retail outlets.
The BBC investigation was started when a man named Daniel Jenkins after discovering truth about his Audi R8 after his father was involved in an accident in the car. Told by a local dealer at the time of purchase in 2012 it the R8 passed the Euro NCAP tests with a five-star rating, Jenkins found out that was not the case. The story also reported he had called up 50 Audi dealerships and received the claim from 48 of the sales outlets that the Audi R8 did possess a Five-Star safety rating through Euro NCAP.
The BBC Watchdog expanded on Daniel Jenkins' original study and inquired about other Audi vehicles through dealerships. Regarding the Audi A5, nine of the ten dealerships approached said the car was tested with Euro NCAP. In fact, no Euro NCAP crash tests have ever been conducted specifically on the Audi A5. Coupled with proving several models were never tested, the BBC Watchdog investigation also kept Audi UK falsely proclaiming their whole vehicle line-up as subjected to Euro NCAP safety testing. According to the Euro NCAP website, the latest Audi vehicle to be tested was the 2012 A3 three-door hatchback (achieving a five-star overall rating as well as four Advanced Rewards with its accident avoidance technology). The Audi A6 sedan also participated in Euro NCAP testing and obtained a five-star rating.
Admitting the claims were not deliberately made to mislead, the Audi UK spokesperson his stated a review is underway to improve the accuracy of claims made related to their vehicles. As of May 15th, the Audi UK website has specifically and accurately identified all the vehicles subjected to Euro NCAP crash testing.
It seems a shame that the United Kingdom entity of Audi has made themselves and their vehicles a subject of this investigation. More than ever due to high-profile mismanagement of safety issues in Toyota and General Motors vehicles in recent years, vehicle safety is an attribute automakers cannot afford to mislead about.
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This is a vented gas log set that must be installed in a fully vented wood burning fireplace. With vented gas logs, you'll enjoy a large, realistic-looking flame that operates with an open chimney flue, or damper. These logs, which simulate a wood-burning fire, are the most realistic type of gas logs but, just like real fires, lose some of the generated heat up the chimney. Vented gas log sets are the most popular type of gas logs sold. Professional installation is recommended.
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This problem description is lifted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance.
The Levenshtein distance between two strings is defined as the minimum number of edits needed to transform one string into the other, with the allowable edit operations being insertion, deletion, or substitution of a single character.
For example, the Levenshtein distance between "kitten" and "sitting" is 3, since the following three edits change one into the other, and there is no way to do it with fewer than three edits:
kitten => sitten (substitution of 's' for 'k') sitten => sittin (substitution of 'e' for 'i') sittin => sitting (insert 'g' at the end).
So when
s1 = 'kitten'
s2 = 'sitting'
then the distance d is equal to 3.
Good question
I really like this problem. So far, this is the one I had to think about most. Mostly because the straight-forward recursive implementation is simply not feasible for longer inputs.
The simplest solution for beginner, now I'm trying to solve in a correct way
Apparently the test suite needs to be augmented!
Done. People never get tired of look-up tables.
Indeed: all of the current supposedly 'top ten' submissions here (by Cody-size) are hard-coded hacks! The Test Suite can be augmented by: (i) adding more arbitrary test cases; (ii) adding test cases in which the first [and last] characters/words are the same as in some other test case(s); (iii) banning mention of numbers that correspond to results and need not be mentioned in legitimate submissions (e.g. 18, 25, 27) [as implemented for Problem 44466]; and (iv) potentially banning other key words appearing in other 'generic' hacks (per Solutions 312146 and 1039520). —DIV
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Matrix indexing with two vectors of indices
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Matrix which contains the values of an other matrix A at the given locations.
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Shoemakes plan reunion
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- Category: Community
- Published on 25 June 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The descendants of David and Mattie Shoemake are planning a family reunion. The event is set for Saturday, July 27 at the Hagansport Community Center. For more information, see the June 20 ediiton of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


text: Hi, everyone, I have posted here maybe twice in over a year, so excuse the intrusion. I'm scheduled to visit next week's admitted students event, but am kicking around the idea of cancelling the trip and putting the money toward my deposit elsewhere. Can you let me know any comments you may have about your experiences? You can PM me if that's better. Also, does anyone know if there's a significant black population there? I know there aren't a lot of black people, but is there a supportive network?thanks,Lory


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Effectiveness of Integrating Prenatal Care in Reducing HIV/STDs Among Young Pregnant Women
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00628771
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 5, 2008
Last Update Posted : April 3, 2020
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|Condition or disease
|Pregnancy HIV Infections Sexually Transmitted Diseases
|Behavioral: CenteringPregnancy Plus (CP+) Behavioral: Usual care
|Phase 4
It is estimated that each year 1 out of 4 teenagers becomes infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), which may include chlamydia, herpes, human papillomavirus, or HIV. Teenagers are especially vulnerable to STD infections because of a lack of education about proper condom use and consequences of sexual risk behaviors, including pregnancy. In addition to the high prevalence of STD infection, teen pregnancy remains a health concern for young women, with 31% of young women in the United States becoming pregnant before the age of 20. Transmission of STDs from a pregnant woman to her baby is possible before, during, and after birth, making it particularly important to inform young pregnant women about STDs. A group prenatal care treatment program that incorporates HIV/STD prevention education, called CenteringPregnancy Plus (CP+), has shown success in reducing sexual risk behaviors in an academic setting, but its effectiveness at Community Health Centers (CHCs) serving women at high risk of these behaviors is unknown. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of CP+ in reducing transmission of STDs and rapid repeat pregnancies in pregnant teens seeking care at participating CHCs in the New York metropolitan area.
This study will involve participants receiving prenatal care at 14 participating CHCs that predominantly serve black and Latina communities in the New York metropolitan area. The CHCs will be assigned randomly to deliver immediate CP+ or waitlist CP+ to women seeking care at the clinics.
A subset of participants at CHCs assigned to hold CP+ treatment groups will first have an individual medical exam. Groups will then be formed based on participants' estimated delivery months and will be led by a trained independent practitioner. There will be ten 2-hour group sessions between Weeks 16 and 40 of pregnancy. At each session, participants will first weigh themselves and take their blood pressure to chart their own progress. Individual prenatal assessments lasting approximately 30 minutes will be conducted by the practitioner. Participants will then have time to complete handouts and self-assessments and engage in discussion with other group members. Discussions will be educational in nature and will focus on building prenatal, childbirth, and parenting skills. Additionally, sessions will include an HIV/STD risk reduction component, which will consist of interactive discussion, exercises, and skill-building activities targeted toward reducing HIV/STD risk behaviors. Participants at CHCs assigned to the waitlist condition will receive standard individual prenatal care and will not initially participate in group sessions. These CHCs will start offering CP+ after the end of the waitlist period.
All participants will complete four 40-minute interviews, occurring when they are 14 weeks pregnant, during their 3rd trimester of pregnancy, and when their babies are 6 and 12 months old. During interviews, participants will listen to questions through headphones delivered on a handheld computer. The questions will concern participants' thoughts, feelings, health, and health care. During the final interview, participants will provide a urine sample for STD testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea and will be referred to treatment if necessary. The results of participants who test positive for either of these two STDs will be sent to the state STD Control Program. Information will also be collected from participants' medical charts on STD history, health history, and babies' health history. Outcome measures will include incidence of STD infection, rapid repeat pregnancy, degree of sexual risk behavior, and perinatal and psychosocial factors.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|1233 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Integrating Prenatal Care to Reduce HIV/STDs Among Teens: A Translational Study
|Study Start Date :
|June 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2012
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2012
Active Comparator: Usual Care
Participants will receive usual care for their prenatal visits.
Behavioral: Usual care
Usual care includes standard individual prenatal care and no prenatal group sessions.
Experimental: CenteringPregnancy Plus
Participants will receive the CenteringPregnancy Plus treatment program, which includes an HIV/STD prevention component.
Behavioral: CenteringPregnancy Plus (CP+)
The CenteringPregnancy model of group prenatal care involves skill-building in the areas of efficacy, risk assessment, negotiation, and prevention. CP+ integrates HIV prevention into prenatal care, builds on motivations for healthy pregnancy, and creates a sustainable model via reimbursement mechanisms for prenatal care. There will be ten 2-hour prenatal group sessions.
- Sexual behavior risk [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters and Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Lab tested STDs [ Time Frame: Measured at 3rd trimester ]
- Rapid repeat pregnancy [ Time Frame: Measured at Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Low birthweight [ Time Frame: Measured at delivery ]
- Preterm labor [ Time Frame: Measured at delivery ]
- Breastfeeding [ Time Frame: Measured at Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Maternal weight gain [ Time Frame: Measured at Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Prenatal care knowledge [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters ]
- Pregnancy risk knowledge [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters ]
- Perceived social conflict [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters and Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Social support [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters and Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Depression [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters and Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Generalized anxiety disorder [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters and Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Acculturation [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters and Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Substance use [ Time Frame: Measured at 2nd and 3rd trimesters and Months 6 and 12 postpartum ]
- Treatment uptake, sustainability, fidelity, and cost-effectiveness [ Time Frame: Measured throughout the study ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|14 Years to 21 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant
- Able to attend group treatment sessions conducted in English or Spanish
Exclusion Criteria:
- Positive HIV infection
- Severe medical problem requiring individualized assessment and tracking as high-risk pregnancy
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00628771
|United States, Connecticut
|Yale University School of PUblic Health
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510
|United States, Massachusetts
|Centering Healthcare Institute
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02111
|United States, New York
|Clinical Directors Network
|New York, New York, United States, 10018
|Principal Investigator:
|Jeannette R. Ickovics, PhD
|Yale University
|Principal Investigator:
|Jonathan N. Tobin, PhD
|Clinical Directors Network
Other Publications:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Yale University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01MH074399 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
R01MH074394 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
DAHBR 9A-ASPC ( Other Grant/Funding Number: Office of AIDS Research )
|First Posted:
|March 5, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 3, 2020
|Last Verified:
|April 2020
HIV Prevention
Teen Pregnancy
Translational Research
Group Care
Prenatal Care
STD Prevention
Adolescent Health
Community Health Centers
CenteringPregnancy Plus
HIV seronegativity
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Virus Diseases
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Diseases, Female


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In July The New American reported an announcement posted on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) website seeking "trailblazers" willing to "take the road less traveled" and "participate in a short-fuse, crucible-style environment to invent new approaches to the identification of people, places, things and activities from still or moving defense and open-source imagery."
On September 28, the super-secret research and development arm of the Pentagon reported some of the early "innovative" ideas being kicked around by the six teams chosen to live and labor in the "DARPA Innovation House." The disclosures, although brief, are very frightening and portend the rapid growth of a powerful federal government able to keep citizens under its watchful eye wherever they go.
Before the big reveal, DARPA program manager Mike Geertsen laid out the program's purpose and procedures:
This experiment allows thinkers from diverse fields to zero in on focused area of research for eight weeks. We are examining how collaboration among different disciplines can yield game-changing technologies. For instance, our participants include computer engineers, data architects and imagery analysts. We have thrown them in with a robotics expert from NASA, visual artists and neuroscientists. If this model proves to be successful, it represents a new means of tackling some of the hard problems in government-sponsored research.
Geertsen then provided brief descriptions of six proposals made by the participants. Those with a background in relevant areas of science are encouraged to click on the hyperlinked titles of the proposals to read more thorough reports on the development of these technologies. Those without such training, however, will benefit from even a cursory reading of these papers.
For example, on the website discussing the visualization of video information, the authors of the article highlighted "a stream-based technique for processing and directly rendering video data in real time. With the aid of several examples, we demonstrate the effectiveness of using video visualization to convey meaningful information contained in video sequences."
The videos to be analyzed, the article says, are obtained from "security and traffic cameras, video conferencing systems, video emails" among other sources. Such collection and analysis seem to potentially violate the Fourth Amendment's restriction against "unreasonable searches and seizures."
And, in the article on geospatial-oriented structure extraction, "public safety" and "international justice" are promoted as the reasons for the research.
The technologies being developed include:
Multi-Modal Approaches to Real-Time Video Analysis
Biologically-inspired, hierarchical neural networks to detect objects of interest in streaming video by combining texture/color, shape and motion/depth cues.
GOSE (Geospatial-Oriented Structure Extraction)
Structure Extraction from Imagery
Automatic construction of a 3D wireframe of an object using as few images as possible from a variety of angles.
Visualization of Video Information
Software that fragments and re-models linear time of video content to cluster big pools of related data in a 3D interactive interface for human analysis.
Inferring Objects in Photos and Video
A system that allows the user to infer the location and structure of hidden object parts from photos and videos as well as provide categorization and recognition via an associative memory framework.
Looking Glass
Focused Sensor Fusion
A new integrated working environment for analysts that presents relevant data from a large variety of geospatial data and sensors, including ground-level video, LiDAR, wide-area airborne full motion video, and unstructured data.
Visualization for Image Analysis
A lightweight virtual world in 3D perspective that would follow the work that an image analyst is performing.
Taking a closer look at the descriptions of the goods being cooked up in the DARPA test kitchen gives a glimpse into the near future, where government agents (or those in local law enforcement attached to them) are able to scan the brainwaves of people in a crowd and detect the presence of a potential threat to homeland security.
Once identified, the target can then be followed anywhere on the globe using an interconnected web of cameras and other recording devices that upload real-time images to an end user.
Within this complex of dormitories and labs near the campus of George Mason University, the embryos of powerful virtual soldiers in the service of the surveillance state are being incubated.
In order to assist these teams of surveillance software wunderkind in their mission to create a more robust recognition application, "DARPA will provide access to unclassified data sets and facilitate interaction with mentors from U.S. Government and academia."
These interactions will "provide teams with context for how their proposed technology could be used by the warfighter or analyst," making it clear that these technologies are not just for use in the waging of war against a foreign foe, but may also be deployed domestically to help target and track those labeled by the government as potential enemies of the state.
Toward that eery end, teams are given access "to mentors and visitors from academia and multiple U.S. Government agencies, including both military and intelligence communities' specialists."
Not surprisingly, DARPA refuses to identify these prospective mentors and visitors. Savvy readers can draw their own conclusions as to who might be interested in overseeing such a special project.
Those vying for the DARPA contract will meet five days per week in an undisclosed "workspace" in Arlington, Virginia. The project lasts for eight weeks, and while it lasts, the developers will be put up in housing provided by George Mason University somewhere in the Arlington area.
And, just in case there's some highly motivated team of college geospatial analysis whiz kids who worry that they just don't have what it takes to compete against other equally ambitious squads of college engineers, DARPA has some words of encouragement:
This effort does not represent a competition between teams. Every team that demonstrates sufficient progress in the first session will continue into the second session. There is no limit to the capabilities that are needed in understanding large-scale imagery and video data, so all teams can be equally successful.
There's room for everybody who's willing to help the government explore all the limitless capabilities of analyzing "large scale imagery and video data." So, anxious but reluctant colleges shouldn't be intimidated by a little healthy competition. The government can use all the help it can get.
Finally, DARPA hints at the variety of media on which the various applications produced by the participating teams could be used:
Except for the requirement to produce software capabilities that obtain understanding from visual, geospatial and imagery-related data, there are no limitations on the applications, products, systems, modules, algorithms or any other software-realizable capabilities that may be proposed. They may run on any electronic systems, including but not limited to computers, tablets and mobile phones.
Again, there's application for every field that might interest an up-and-coming software design genius. Cellphones, computers, and tablets can all be utilized by a government anxious to accelerate the speed of its "obtaining understanding" of its citizens.
Teams have until November 9, 2012 to come up with a "functional software configuration" of their concept.
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Ali Landry: Our New Son's Name Is Inspired by the Pope
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Ali Landry's baby bump was barely noticeable when PEOPLE caught up with the nearly-due TV personality in late June – but as she explains, she owes much of her slim and trim figure to her newly discovered exercise regimen.
"At this point, when you're three weeks away and so uncomfortable, the last thing you want to do is put on spandex and go to a gym," Landry, who is expecting her second son any day now, says.
"I just recently switched to water workouts. I don't feel like I'm pregnant in the water."
The best result of the tri-weekly workout that she calls "insane" is it has smoothed out her cellulite – something the brunette beauty admits affects her lower bottom area.
"[Getting rid of my cellulite] is something I work on even when I'm in really great shape," Landry, 39, says. "But when you're pregnant, there are more hormones and you get more cellulite."
Adds Landry of her aquatic-induced slim-down: "I'm feeling really good. With my other pregnancies, at this point, I would stop working out because it's too uncomfortable. I'm in shock. I can't believe I haven't done this workout before. It's a big revelation for me. I think I'll be able to workout quicker after the baby is born, but it's no pressure whatsoever on your body."
Despite a little cellulite, one issue the pregnant starlet has never dealt with is stretch marks. She says part of having none "whatsoever" is hereditary and the other is because she can't get enough of Palmer's cocoa butter formula.
"I've been using the products forever," she explains, while at Hollywood's Siren Studios, on the set of her shoot for the ad she's filming for the line. "I've never been so moisturized in my entire life."
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Also on hand to shoot were Landry's two little ones, Estela Ines, 6, who recently graduated from kindergarten, and 21-month-old Marcelo Alejandro.
"Estela will be great," Landry predicts of her daughter's little cameo. "Marcelo is a wildcard. I don't know what he's going to do. I'm a little anxious."
As Landry and hubby, Alejandro Monteverde geared up for their third child, they had a tougher time coming up with a name.
"We wanted a worldy set of names, and that has been our challenge with this baby," the former Miss USA explains. "We have to find a name that goes with Marcelo and Estela. I wanted a name that I really like that still had more of a European flair than a Spanish flair."
And while she isn't giving away the decided name just yet, she does tease that there may be some religious affiliation.
"We were in Rome for a trip – we got to meet the Pope and he blessed this baby. So part of the name might have something to do with our new Pope," Landry says. "The other part of the name we came up with on our own. We're excited. My daughter doesn't love it. I love it, but she wanted other things. Sorry!"
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The year was 1950, three teenage boys were severely bleeding from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident, waiting for an ambulance from Sayville (the nearest first aid squad) to arrive and attend to the injuries. Never wanting this to happen again, an organization known as the Exchange Club of the Islips decided as a community project to raise funds for a volunteer community ambulance. A year later, enough money was raised to start the Exchange Ambulance of the Islips.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) Marcus Burton led four Wagner players in double figures with 15 points as they beat Monmouth (N.J.) 60-56 Thursday night in the Northeast Conference opener for both teams.
Mario Moody finished with 12 points and nine rebounds, and Kenneth Ortiz and Jonathon Williams added 10 points apiece for Wagner (7-5).
Trailing by 15, 49-34, with 9:28 remaining in the second half, Monmouth (5-9) cut the lead to just one, 55-54, behind Andrew Nicholas' three-point play with 1:34 left to play.
After Moody made a pair of free throws to extend Wagner's lead to three, 57-54, Jesse Steele's layup made it 57-56 with 47 seconds remaining.
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Roaring stomachs may not be able to satisfy their hunger with lion meat as a proposed bill plans to make the sale of meat from the king of the jungle illegal in Illinois.
The bill, filed in February and sponsored by state Rep. Luis Arroyo, was assigned to Illinois' Agriculture & Conservation Committee Thursday and would make Illinois the first U.S. state to place a ban on lion meat.
The bill would make it illegal "for any person to slaughter a lion or for any person to possess, breed, import or export from this State, buy, or sell lions for the purpose of slaughter." It also declares commcerializing lion meat unlawful.
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Violators of this law could face up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.
The sale of lion meat in Illinois caused a controversy for an Arizona restaurant in 2010, who bought 10 pounds of frozen meat from Illinois company Czimer's Game & Sea Foods.
No law currently prohibits the sale of this animal meat as lions are not currently protected as an endangered cat in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, however, began a study to determine if the animal should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
African lion populations have seen "a substantial decline" over the past two decades and are estimated to be around 32,000, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which monitors species numbers globally.
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Ai Weiwei's citywide exhibition uses existing elements of urban infrastructure as platforms for public art. Lamppost banners display a series of 200 portraits of immigrants and refugees. Unlike typical printed advertisements, the artist created unique double-sided banner portraits by cutting black vinyl to make images appear in the portions that remain. Their play of positive and negative space is analogous to the often-ambiguous status of refugees and migrants. The series encompasses many groups by spanning several periods and locales. It includes historic images from Ellis Island, photographs of notable refugees, formal portraits by Ai Weiwei's studio from the Shariya camp in Iraq, and the artist's cell phone photographs taken at refugee camps and national borders around the world. The banners portray people from varied backgrounds, yet each is presented in a consistent format, emphasizing their shared humanity.
Ai created this portrait from an image taken during one of the artist's team's visits to the Shariya Camp in Iraq, where displaced Christian, Yezidi, Shi'a Turcomen, Arab, and Shabak ethnic minority communities and religious groups have been forced to flee after being targeted by ISIS. His studio's surveys and portraits of over 400 people at the Shariya camp mark the beginning of Ai's deeper involvement with this topic, becoming increasingly involved once able to leave the oppressive conditions he faced in China.
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Georgia Southern University Joins Sun Belt Conference
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One of the most dominant teams in Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) history is making the move to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Georgia Southern University has announced it has accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt Conference.
This is a milestone day for Georgia Southern University, and we are very excited to be joining the Sun Belt conference. As I told the standing room only crowd in the Williams Center during the official announcement earlier this morning, this decision was made with the long-term interest of our University in mind. The Sun Belt will provide our student athletes with an outstanding opportunity to compete at the highest level, and we are excited to contribute to the conference's success both on and off the field. I am equally excited about the opportunity that it will provide Georgia Southern and the more than 75,000 alumni that make up the Eagle Nation.
This morning, I was pleased to welcome Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Karl Benson who welcomed us as we formally accepted the Sun Belt invitation. As our Athletics Director, Tom Kleinlein said today, we have built our reputation around a focus on the student, and this move will allow us to partner to provide our student athletes with the opportunity to compete on a national stage. We invite the entire Eagle Nation to stand up and join us on this journey.
Georgia Southern's football team has been part of the Southern Conference since 1993 and won ten conference titles during that time and six national championships since 1985. The Eagles' football schedule for this fall will not change; however, Georgia Southern won't be eligible for the FCS playoffs. The Eagles will begin playing Sun Belt games and will be a revenue sharing member of the conference in 2014 and eligible for the Sun Belt conference title, but will not be eligible to play in a bowl game. In 2015, Georgia Southern will become a full member of the conference and be bowl eligible. With the exception of men's soccer, all other Georgia Southern teams will begin Sun Belt play in 2014 and eligible for the conference championship. Since the Sun Belt does not field a men's soccer program, Georgia Southern is negotiating to find a conference home for the team.
The move to FBS comes after 65 percent of Georgia Southern University students voted to pay $75 a semester to support the move to a new level of competition for Eagle Athletics. That fee will be collected starting in the fall. Ground will also be broken in a few weeks to add 6,300 additional seats to Allen E. Paulson Stadium and build a new Football Operations Center in the east end zone.
I would like to invite you learn more about Georgia Southern's move to the Sun Belt conference and the FBS by visiting www.georgiasouthern.edu/journey. We will be posting updates about the move at this location as we go forward. In addition, please take a few minutes to view a new video from our Athletic Foundation: CLICK HERE
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Water flows through all of our land. To keep it plentiful and safe for drinking, swimming and fishing, we need clean air, expansive forests, responsible farms, wooded stream banks, and communities and individuals who make choices to avoid pollution.
Conservation easements help ensure that the Virginia Piedmont is always characterized by its open spaces, healthy environment, and cultural resources.
PEC works toward energy solutions that emphasize efficiency first, use appropriate technologies for the 21st Century and respect the scenic and historic character of the Piedmont.
The Piedmont's beautiful vistas also present some of America's most historic terrain-where visionaries, pioneers, farmers, generals, soldiers, slaves and Presidents lived and left their mark.
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If you're new to the world of digital sculpting, Sculptris is the ideal ground on which to get started. If on the other hand you're experienced in CG, we offer you ZBrush.
With our award-winning software, ZBrush, released more than a decade ago, Pixologic, makers of ZBrush and Sculptris, has become recognized for bringing ground-breaking innovations into the world of digital art.
Sculptris provides an excellent gateway into the exciting world of 3D. Its features are easy to learn, even for someone with no experience in digital art, yet robust enough for creating base models that can then be refined in other applications, such as ZBrush.
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ZBrush is the most widely-used digital sculpting application in today's market and is the industry Standard. When you're ready to take your Sculptris creations to the next level for detailing, rendering and integration into even the largest of projects, we welcome you to ZBrush with its host of robust, unique and revolutionary tools.
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Start with a sphere of virtual clay and shape it into whatever you want it to be. This is made possible in Sculptris by its amazing ability to locally redefine the internal structure of the model.
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What does it mean when you dream about killing?
The act of killing in a dream need not be negative. As we grow and change, it often feels like we are "killing off' old parts of our life. Alternatively, killing in a dream may mean that one has murdered the incentive or enthusiasm for life. (See also Murder).
To treat in such a way as to destroy undesirable properties; for example, neutralization of an acid by the addition of an alkali.
To add a strong deoxidizer, such as silicon or aluminum, to molten steel in order to stop the reaction between carbon and oxygen forming gaseous carbon monoxide and dioxide during solidification.
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In drilling, to prevent well blowout by appropriate measures.
In oil production, to halt well production so that reconditioning of the well may proceed.
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RICHMOND, Va. – Marlene Stollings has always been most comfortable in transition. As a player, she was at her best when the court was wide open and the possibilities were unlimited.
Her mindset in her first season as the coach of the VCU Women's Basketball team isn't much different. Stollings, who led Winthrop to an 18-13 record a year ago, will try to guide the Rams through a major makeover in 2012-13.
There has been heavy roster turnover. Four of the Rams' top five scorers have either graduated or transferred, including All-American Courtney Hurt (22.3 ppg, 13.1 rpg) and Andrea Barbour (17.0 ppg, 5.8 rpg). VCU's leading returning scorer is junior Robyn Parks, who averaged 6.6 points per game last season. There are five freshmen on the roster and several others with limited in-game experience.
But Stollings doesn't seem bothered.
"It's been an extraordinary journey so far," she said. "We're just looking and moving forward with all of our thoughts and actions. The transition has been a bit of a whirlwind in terms of our lateness of arriving here, but nonetheless, it's been extraordinary so far."
This year's team will look different, and not just because of who is on the floor. Stollings, a prolific scorer in high school, as well as at Ohio University, calls her style of play "high octane." It's a totally new system, not just for the returning players, but for everybody.
In one season at Winthrop, Stollings was able to increase the Eagles' scoring output from about 51 points per game to nearly 70. The Eagles also transformed from a 13-win team into an 18-win squad. Last year's VCU team was fairly deliberate and built its offense around the playmaking of Barbour and Hurt's toughness on the glass. VCU ranked 86th in the country in points per possession (0.91) and 101st in points per game (65.8). By comparison, Winthrop was tied for 25th (0.96) in points per possession and was 43rd in points scored (69.6).
Stollings says the Rams will push the ball in transition and won't be shy about hoisting up 3-pointers "freely", she says.
It's a big change for a bunch of freshmen and a group of returnees used to a half-court style of play. You'd think there would be some reservations. But then, you'd be wrong.
"I love everything about it," Parks said. "I love the up-tempo style. That's where I come from. That's what I do, so I just love it."
Senior point guard Carleeda Green, who averaged 2.6 points and 1.2 assists per game last season for Beth Cunningham's 19-15 squad, was looking forward to running the open floor.
"I love this style of play," said Green. "It's a little more open for me at the point guard position, and it's something that I've always done. I've always been an up-tempo point guard and player, so it's home for me. I can't wait to get started with it."
Despite the prospect of melding players from an old regime and high schoolers from different programs and different states, Stollings has been pleased with the team's ability to process all the new information.
"I think that it's actually positive that we're all coming in new," she said. "So I think that because of that, yes, there are challenges with implementing a new system, by all means, but I think they're super receptive to it and they're working tremendously hard. That's what we talk about each and every day, just be open-minded and continue to do what we're asking of you and you're going to reap the benefits of it."
Apparently, it's a two-way street. Parks and Green both lauded Stollings' coaching chops at Wednesday's VCU Basketball media day.
"She's a very good coach," said Parks. "She's great communicating with us, which is why I think everybody was so willing and open to learning her new style of play."
The Rams open the 2012-13 season Nov. 12 at Elon, which gives Stollings about two more weeks to smooth out the rough edges. It's unclear what this season holds. There are too many unknowns and hundreds of variables. VCU is a program in transition, but Stollings is perfectly fine with that.


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by Allie Schreffler
As the large crane outside the Chestnut Hill branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia suggests, the branch at 8701 Germantown Ave. is currently undergoing construction.
The library recently announced that it will close for a period of time, beginning on Monday, June 4, in order to update its current air conditioning system. Right now, several large fans are blasting on high power, but the whole building is still hot, even though the weather was only in the mid-'70s this morning.
Since the library plans to replace the system throughout the entire building, branch manager Margaret Brunton said that the library "really can't say" when it will reopen. Even though workers have begun to update the current system, which is at least 20 years old, this will be a large project. In addition, Brunton said the library is hesitant to estimate when it will reopen because it is factoring in the delays and mishaps that often occur during such projects. For now, the staff plans to cancel all of the library's programs throughout June, and they will later assess whether they need to cancel programs for a longer period of time. All they can say for sure is that the library will reopen "whenever the project is finished."
Brunton also emphasized that, although the building itself will be closed, the book drop will remain open so that people can return borrowed library materials. These materials, however, will not be removed for a person's library record until the library reopens, which visitors can explain to staff members at other branches if a problem with overdue items arises at another branch of the Free Library.
During the period of time when the library will be closed, Brunton suggests that local library users visit any of three other nearby branches of the Free Library: Andorra, Lovett, and Wadsworth. For more information about these and other branches of the Free Library, visit www.FreeLibrary.org.


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It's raining where I am, and has been for quite some time, but it's apparently dry at Wrigley as they are underway for the final time this season. Travis Wood gets the ball for the Cubs as they try to end 2012 on a high note, not sure really how high a note it will be, but a win would be nice. The only regular in the Cubs lineup today is Starlin Castro, that makes it 162 for 162 this year, impressive.
Looks at this "lineup" – I predict 10 runs for the Cubs today, because that's how it always works.
1. Campana – LF
2. Cardenas – 2B
3. Castro – SS
4. LaHair – 1B
5. Sappelt – RF
6. Vitters – 3B
7. Jackson – CF
8. Recker – C
9. Wood – P
Go Cubs!
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William Hesmer knows there's something special about setting the Crew mark for career shutouts against the team that discarded him four years ago.
He made six saves and got help from the frame for the second time in four days on Sunday, as the Crew won their fourth straight match with a 1-0 victory over Kansas City at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.
Watch: FULL MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
His fourth shutout of the season was also his 26th in a Crew uniform, breaking a tie with Jon Busch on the club's all-time list. Hesmer, who has been battling back pain, also had one shutout in three starts with KC over three years before being chosen by Toronto FC in the 2006 expansion draft.
He was traded to the Crew shortly thereafter, along with defender Danny O'Rourke.
"I still have a lot of friends on the team," Hesmer said. "It's not bitterness like I want to beat my old team. It's more like you don't want your friends to beat you."
The Crew are 6-0-2 and atop the Eastern Conference with their best start in team history, but the win was not without a cost.
O'Rourke suffered a quadriceps strain and was replaced by Gino Padula in the 49th minute. Holding midfielder Brian Carroll sprained his left ankle and was subbed by Duncan Oughton in the 67th.
Crew coach Robert Warzycha said both are questionable for next Saturday's match against the unbeaten Los Angeles Galaxy (8-0-2) at Crew Stadium.
The injuries forced Warzycha to make substitutions, but the one he planned paid off for the second match in a row.
Emilio Renteria, who came off the bench Thursday at New York and scored his first MLS goal to seal the Crew's 3-1 win, was called upon again Sunady, this time for right wing Emmanuel Ekpo in the 59th minute.
"I don't make substitutions just to be making them," Warzycha said. "You want a guy to come off the bench and give the team a boost and give a team some energy. He did that."
In the 63rd minute, Renteria got on the end of a left corner kick from Guillermo Barros Schelotto and was unmarked to put a header inside the near post for the deciding score.
"He's an animal," defender Jed Zayner said of Renteria. "He comes in, keeps people off the ball, goes for goal and shields the ball. He's giving us a lift right now."
It was a sweet return for Schelotto, who missed the New York match while serving a one-game suspension for throwing an elbow in May 15 match against Chivas USA. In his absence, Eddie Gaven's corner set up Andy Iro for the second goal against the Red Bulls and first of the season for the Crew from a set piece.
Gaven also opened the ledger against New York and looked like he was going to do the same Sunday when Schelotto sent him free on the left side of the penalty area. But Gaven did not have a good angle on the breakaway chance, and goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen made a nice kick save with the left leg.
"It was a really good ball from [Schelotto]," Gaven said. "Unfortunately, I didn't hit it well but I'm glad we got one later."
The Wizards were particularly effective around the halftime break. Davy Arnaud took a layoff from ex-Crew Kei Kamara in the 45th minute and blistered a strike off the left post as Hesmer's good fortune continued: New York was denied by two posts and a crossbar.
"You're not beaten until you're beaten and the ball goes in the net," Hesmer said.


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In DP155, Mamoswine trained with Piplup as a partner but it did not go well. The same went for Pachirisu. Dawn's Cyndaquil was the one to work well the best with Mamoswine. During their practice battle against Zoey, Zoey's Kirlia used Psychic to control her Leafeon's Magical Leaf, defeating both Mamoswine and Cyndaquil.
Moves used
- Mamoswine, as a Swinub, was the first capture Dawn made since Buizel, exactly 50 episodes before. It is also her only capture in which she didn't battle the Pokémon twice, or even at all.
- Mamoswine, as a Swinub, has some similarities with May's Munchlax: Mamoswine loves to eat mass quantities of Poffin; likewise, May's Munchlax enjoys mass quantities of Pokéblock (the Generation III counterpart of the Poffin).
- Mamoswine is similar to Ash's Charizard in several aspects. Both Pokémon began disobeyed their respective trainers after evolution, only to begin following orders after each facing another Pokémon who severely injured them, they were the fifth capture of the trainers, and they evolved to thier last stage 3 episodes after they were at their second stage.
- Mamoswine is Dawn's First dual-type Pokémon, the second being her Togekiss.
- Mamoswine is Dawn's second evolved Pokémon, the first being Ambipom. Both are final forms of a Generation II evolution family. Coincidentally, both need to know a specific move to evolve.
- Mamoswine is the first Pokémon in the current saga to appear evolved in an opening prior to its actual evolution being shown.
- Both of Mamoswine's evolutions happened during a battle with Team Rocket.
- Mamoswine is similar to Ash's Gliscor in several ways. Both of them were their Trainer's fifth capture in Sinnoh and both are part of a Generation II evolution family. They also sat out of exactly three Contests/Gym battles before finally participating.
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I've been keeping the root ends of my scallions, and growing new ones in jars of water! Soon they'll be planted, and I will have a forest of scallions.
Today I made bacon candy. I wanted something easy and sweet and salty, and a little hint of spice. This was it. Yum.
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8 slices bacon
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Maj. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell, commander of Aberdeen Proving Ground, arrived unannounced at an animated gathering of soldiers and veterans at Perry Point Veterans Affairs Hospital in Cecil County.
He immediately mingled with the crowd. During what was his first visit to the hospital this week, he spoke quietly with veterans, thanking them for their service and telling them he was honored to be among them.
He often placed a firm hand on a fragile shoulder or knelt closer so he could be heard.
"I kept trying to see his rank when he was talking to me," said Jeffrey Jones, 59, an Army veteran who is being treated for glaucoma and expects to return to his Salisbury home next month. "Then I saw the two stars and knew he was a general. How nice of him to come here for us! It will make a lot of guys feel better."
For Ferrell, 53, the son of a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars and the father of an active-duty soldier, the task was a welcome one.
"Veterans are No. 1 on my priority list," he said. "Veterans Day is a place marker in our hearts for all the men and women both here and abroad. They have done a lot, and we need to make sure we give them honor and praise."
The get-together among the soldiers and the veterans, a joint operation between APG and the hospital in Perryville, launched a month of activities honoring veterans. The occasion was a chance for the soldiers to mix with men and women who have preceded them in service to the country.
The soldiers, many of whom have recent combat experience, conversed easily with the patients. They paired up and played board games, cards and billiards as they shared pizza and stories of their military experiences.
"Events like this get our veterans out and about," said Rich Maichle, volunteer services specialist at the hospital. "It gives them a chance to share their stories with all these soldiers here today, who will be veterans one day."
The party did wonders for the patients' morale, said Stephen Leighton, a Vietnam War veteran recovering from recent surgery.
"I am the biggest cheerleader for this hospital. It has saved my life many times," he said. "But knowing that people from the outside, especially soldiers, care means so much to all of us."
In a crowd of more than 100 patients, Spc. John Wilcox of Paso Robles, Calif., found himself in a challenging game of checkers with another Wilcox — a Navy veteran named Dan. They quickly determined they had blue eyes in common but were not related. They did discover they were evenly matched in checkers strategy. No winner was declared at day's end.
Ferrell passed out American flag lapel pins and instructed his troops to pin them on the veterans. For William Krauch, 81, Ferrell reserved an additional honor: a commander's coin, given as a thank-you to a soldier who lent his musical talents to the party.
Krauch belted out a lively rendition of "New York, New York" and had the crowd singing. Then the elderly veteran, who hails from Highlandtown, played "For Once in My Life" on the harmonica. He placed Ferrell's coin in a felt-lined case with his harmonica.
APG personnel will participate in several observances on the post, at Harford County schools and other locations throughout the month. Ferrell promised that he and his troops will return often to Perry Point.
Sgt. Maj. Kennis Dent reminded the crowd that Veterans Day — which is on Sunday — is not just a date in November but an homage that should endure throughout the year.
"It is about entire lives of sacrifice," Dent said.


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The Church of Scientology has strayed from principle and devolved into a cash-hungry enterprise that misuses parishioner donations to protect itself from questions and to intimidate its own members, a California couple charged Wednesday.
The couple said in a federal lawsuit that the church had misused about $400,000 of their money, including donations meant for construction projects and for relief from natural disasters.
They also said that church donations had been used to finance a high-priced lifestyle for its leader, David Miscavige.
The lawsuit, filed in Tampa, Fla., by Luis and Rocio Garcia of Irvine, Calif., accuses the church of fraud and breach of contract.
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The church said in a statement that it had not been served and could not comment on the lawsuit.
It added: "We can unequivocally state all funds solicited are used for the charitable and religious purposes for which they were donated."
The Garcias were members of the church for 28 years before leaving in 2010, their lawyer Theodore Babbitt told NBC News.
The church uses "large, high-pressure fundraising drives" as a main source of revenue and has morphed into an organization "whose primary purpose is taking people's money," the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit alleges that the church has used contributions to "stifle inquiries into the Church's activities and finances, to intimidate members and ex-members" and "to finance the lavish lifestyle of Miscavige."
Five Scientology organizations are named as defendants.
The lawsuit focuses on a Scientology building in Clearwater, Fla., that Babbitt said remains unopen. The California couple said that the church had accepted more than $200 million in donations in all for the building, known as "Super Power," and spent less than half on construction.
The lawsuit makes specific charges about how the church misused the Garcias' money. The couple claimed that they gave $340,000 for the building, in more than a dozen donations between 1998 and 2005, and were made promises that the church did not fulfill.
One of those donations came in August 2005, according to the suit, when the Garcias were asked to give $65,000 for a cross to go on top of the building and were told that contractors were ready to do the work. The cross did not go up for five years, the suit said.
The couple also charged that the church had misspent money meant for eradicating child pornography and helping victims of natural disasters.
The Garcias have spoken out against the church before.
Luis Garcia told the Tampa Bay Times newspaper, for a profile published in 2011, that the church had strayed from the teachings of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and had been "corrupted."
The church said that it had expelled Garcia, while he maintained that he resigned, according to the newspaper. The paper did not quote the church as giving a reason for the claimed expulsion.
Babbitt said it was the first time his law firm had been involved in legal action against the church.
Perhaps the highest-profile defection from the church has been that of Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning writer and director of the 2004 movie "Crash." He belonged to the church for 34 years before leaving in 2009.
Haggis, in an interview last week with the NBC program "Rock Center with Brian Williams," described the church as a cult and said he was disturbed by allegations of abuse at its highest levels, including violence and involuntary confinement.
The church said that Haggis is a hypocrite and hasn't been an active member in years. The church said that "no independent evidence exists" to corroborate claims of abuse.
Rock Center takes a look inside the controversial Church of Scientology. Paul Haggis, one of the most famous people to leave Scientology, describes what he discovered moving up the spiritual levels and what drove him to ultimately leave the church. Author Lawrence Wright discusses his new book, "Going Clear." Harry Smith reports.


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Feb 27, 2013
SAO PAULO — The vast majority of the Earth's estimated 13 million species are still unknown and to describe them all would take up to 2,000 years, according to a leading Brazilian scientist.
"We estimate that there are a total of around 13 million species (known and unknown) in the world," says Thomas Lewinsohn, a renowned professor of ecology at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Sao Paulo state.
"Out of these, roughly 1.75 million species, including micro-organisms, plants, insects, bacteria and animals, have been described," he told AFP in an interview.
And there is actually no consensus on the exact number of species, with experts relying on extrapolation based on known data.
Lewinsohn presented his findings at a forum organized here last week by FAPESP, a local research foundation focusing on Sao Paulo state's biodiversity.
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"Back in 2004, a flip on skis gone tragically wrong broke Josh Dueck's back and left him as a T11 -- full paraplegic. For the past 8 years one of his dreams has been to do a flip on snow again. On February 3, 2012, Josh became the first person to perform a backflip on snow in a Sit Ski!"- Salomonfreeski
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With so many different entertainment options out there for your children, we at PopcornBiz thought we'd take a moment each week to dissect one piece of family entertainment strictly from a parent's perspective, so that you know what parts are appropriate for your loved ones, and which are not. This week's COVER YOUR EYES subject: "ET."
Steven Spielberg just pumped out two big family movies for the holiday season with "Tintin," and "War Horse." "Tintin," of course, is the more kid-friendly movie, provided your children are devoted fans of old Belgian comics (and what modern child isn't?). "War Horse" is a much more serious undertaking, but Spielberg took pains to make all of the war violence in the movie implied rather than shown in graphic detail, which is why the movie got a PG-13 rating. More than any other filmmaker, Spielberg excels at telling stories that depict the dramatic transition from childhood innocence to hard-won adult maturity. Spielberg has made so many movies about growing up that the movies themselves have become a milestone of American childhood. Virtually every person my age grew up with "ET" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Personally, I look back at those movies as crucial moments in my personal history, moments that revealed ideas and themes I hadn't thought of before. So, with that in mind, let's look back at "ET," which remains the quintessential Spielberg family film, and see if it's okay for your little kiddies to watch.
The "Will Parents Be Able To Tolerate It?" Factor: Probably. If you're like me, you've seen "ET" enough times to never have to see it again. But if you haven't watched it for a while, it's still as emotionally wrenching as ever. ET looks a little rubbery, but that's a nice change of pace from all the CGI creatures that have invaded your local multiplex of late.
The Fatherless Child Factor: Huge. Elliott grows up in a single-parent household, and "ET" represents Spielberg's attempt to come to terms with his own parents' divorce when he was a child. All of the feelings of alienation and anger in the movie are genuine enough to sting. Children of divorce may be affected by the film in ways they can't express.
The Sexy Sex Sex Factor: Does ET dressing up as a woman count? I feel like that probably shouldn't count.
The Scare Factor: Two-fold. First off, there's the scene where Elliott discovers ET, which scared the living daylights out of me when I was a kid (and scared me again once the movie was released on home video). I think I cried when that happened. I swear I can't remember. I'm not trying to be Mr. Tough Guy. The second reason that "ET" is frightening is more thematic. The scenes at the end, with "ET" dying and Elliott dying next to him, are terrifying. That might be the first time your kid thinks about his own mortality and the mortality of people he loves: family and pets and everyone else. Also, there are the evil men in Hazmat suits coming to take ET away from Elliott. Again, scary. I don't like men in Hazmat suits coming and getting me.
The Violence Factor: When the DVD for "ET" was first released, Spielberg had the guns airbrushed out of the evil Feds' hands, much to the chagrin of purists. Well, Spielberg has said he regrets the change, and the guns will be back in the Blu-ray edition. So you know, hide your kids' eyes from the scary guns that are never used.
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I never used any app on Facebook, but the current (and previous) page for managing friends is not very useful.
I have some friends (~250) and various lists, with different names and privileges. I'm looking for an app that:
- shows me all friends without list
- selecting a lists, shows me friends in the selected lists
- easy way to move friends from one list to another
does something similar exist on Facebook???


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