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I've been a fan of Annie Dillard forever. She turns woods walking into a profoundly mystical experience. And her prose–her prose hovers always at the edge of poetry. In this slim collection of three connected essays, it slips over the edge. Holy the Firm is purely poetic. Every word seems chosen from a depth of meditation like some bit of mineral from the ocean floor. Dillard uses words as she imagines them, not as we remember them. She makes language into music and ideas into fragments of sky. And she is as ruthlessly brutal as the wonders and horrors she describes.
In Holy the Firm, Dillard watches a moth stick itself into the molten wax of a candle, burst into flame, curl, shrivel, ash apart until it is only a slender husk, a vertical wick for the flame. She reads by its light for two hours. The metaphor is apt for an artist–a writer–and stunning. And terrible. Her cat brings gifts of dead birds. She tosses the cat out the door and a bird over the porch rail for whatever fate of consummation awaits it. And she writes: "Into this world fell a plane…It fell easily; one wing snagged on a fir top; the metal fell down the air and smashed in the thin woods where cattle browse; the fuel exploded; and Julie Norwich seven years old burnt off her face."
Now let your breath out. This is a child, not a moth, and this, too, happened at the edge of the Pacific Ocean where Dillard was holed up in a one-room house with a glass wall facing West. The weight of words is no different for a view of the mountains, a spider behind the toilet, a human tragedy of unimaginable agony. The writer tries to make sense of it, tries for the numinous in all of it, supposes the ruined child will be gifted with a wisdom far beyond her years. Better she should have a face. But how do we comprehend the unapproachable? Where in the sea or sky is there space to contain the unforgivable, the inexplicable?
A moth becomes a wick that contains the flame. The bright hope of a child's life flames out. There are islands hidden behind islands in the mist. Dillard believes in a god who has something to do with all of it. She accepts the hardness of rock, the vulnerability of frailty. And she must wait, at the water's edge, at the place where the land ends, for the exact word, the never-before-used-in-exactly-this-way word, to fit the puzzle of her observations precisely within the frame of a skinny book, page by page.
Holy the Firm Annie Dillard | Harper Colophon 1984


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Marcia Lynn McClure weaves her tales of love, life, laughter and adventure around those compelling, romantic moments which most appeal to a woman's romantic and loving heart. Gazing out her window into the surreal beauty of the New Mexico desert, she writes her stories inspired by the heat and sun, landscape and traditions of her surroundings. Blissful in the company of her wonderful husband, two sons, a daughter, son-in-law and grandson, Marcia continues to captivate readers with her own, unique and beloved stories.
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Books by Marcia Lynn McClure:
A Better Reason to Fall in Love
A Crimson Frost
An Old-Fashioned Romance
Beneath the Honeysuckle Vine
Born for Thorton's Sake
Desert Fire
Divine Deception
Dusty Britches
Kiss in the Dark
Kissing Cousins
Love Me
One Classic Latin Lover, Please
Romantic Vignettes – The Anthology of Premiere Novellas
Saphyre Snow
Shackles of Honor
Sudden Storms
Sweet Cherry Ray
Take a Walk With Me
The Chimney Sweep Charm
The Fragrance of Her Name
The Haunting of Autumn Lake
The Heavenly Surrender
The Highwayman of Tanglewood
The Light of the Lovers' Moon
The Pirate Ruse
The Prairie Prince
The Rogue Knight
The Tide of the Mermaid Tears
The Time of Aspen Falls
The Touch of Sage
The Trove of the Passion Room
The Visions of Ransom Lake
The Whispered Kiss
The Windswept Flame
To Echo the Past
Weathered Too Young

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Large brush fire ignites in South West Area Park
Smoke from south Baltimore fire seen for miles
A large brush fire ignited in the Baltimore Highlands area Friday evening.
The fire ignited at about 5:30 p.m. near the South West Area Park and the Light Rail line at the Baltimore City-County line in the 3900 block of Park Drive just south of Patapsco Avenue.
The smoke could be seen from miles away. SkyTeam 11 reported that the wind was blowing the flames toward a trucking company nearby.
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|Find more snow globe ideas at camillestyle.com
There are so many different ways to make snow globes with preschoolers. Over the years we have made a number of them and we would like to share with you a few of ways to make this delightful craft. Snow globes range from super easy to some that take a bit of prep time. All are well worth the effort when you see the children's faces when they're finished!
Materials Needed for Your Snow Globes:
- Baby food jars
- Distilled Water
- Corn Syrup or 3 drops of glycerin
- Plastic Cake or Cupcake toppers (Purchase at party store)
- Glitter (iridescent or white)
- Silicone Rubber Sealant
- Sand Paper
Adult Prep: Lightly sand the inside of the lid and put a generous amount of rubber sealant over it to hold the figurine in place. Check on the sealant label for proper drying times.
Let the children spoon water in the jars and add a pinch of glitter. You can then have them add a few drops of glycerin with an eyedropper or a splash of corn syrup (This slows the glitter as it falls).
Adults Only: Add a bit more sealant around the lid and screw it on. Give it a day or so to dry.
Now you have snow globes that are sealed and beautiful!
Super Easy Snow Globes For Preschoolers:
Not all of us have the time for projects that take a lot of prep, so here is the super easy version!
- Tap water
- Glitter (Iridescent or White)
- Glue
- Ribbon (Optional)
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Food Network's Melissa d'Arabian Shares Her Favorite Holiday Family Traditions
Food Network's Melissa d'Arabian Shares Her Favorite Holiday Family Traditions
With cooking shows on both the Food Network and Cooking Channel, a cookbook, and four kids under the age of 8, Melissa d'Arabian has her hands full (and then some). But the chef mom takes time out of her busy schedule every year to honor a tradition that she started more than 30 years ago with her late mom.
"I was raised by a single mom. We were on a tight budget, and she was putting herself through college, then medical school. When I was in kindergarten and my sister was in second grade, we invited friends for hot cocoa and cookies. It was just a lovely time to connect with girlfriends. Some years we went all out and did a big buffet. We'd start cooking a week in advance. It was our one party of the year, and we really put all of our energy into it," Melissa said.
She hosted 15 mother-daughter teas with her mom before she passed away. "I always said that if I ever had a daughter, I'd continue the tradition, and now I have four," she continued. "It's part of the holiday season for us. The girls get new dresses for it, they select the invitations . . . we're all in it as a team. It's a real lesson in hostessing."
This year, some 125 lucky little girls and their moms gathered for the d'Arabian mother-daughter tea, which featured delicacies like Melissa's signature potato bacon torte, yogurt granola trifle, cookies, coffee cakes, scones, and her favorite French tea from Le Palais des Thés. Click through for three of Melissa's favorite "tea time" recipes and her best holiday entertaining tips for busy moms.
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| 16°C Belfast
Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini admits his desire for European football means he has not ruled out a move to an "ambitious club".
The Belgium midfielder, who signed a new long-term contract in November, has already been linked with Chelsea this summer but insists he is happy at Goodison Park. However, the lure of continental competition, which Everton missed out on again this season, is a big draw for the 24-year-old.
"If I have got to go, I will go. If not, I repeat, I am at Everton," Fellaini told Belgian radio station RTBF.
"I am ambitious; I want to play in the Champions League or in the Europa League.
"Last season we finished seventh with Everton, and we were not able to qualify for Europe, which was a shame.
"If an ambitious club comes in for me? Why not, just to gain experience but I'm on vacation right now, I do not give [speculation] too much attention.
"Every year they say I'll be transferred to the left or right but I'm still at Everton.
"If it comes, I take, if it does not come, I stay at Everton, where I am happy, and where I still have a four-year contract.
"Everything goes fast in football. You can be transferred tomorrow, as you can be in one or two years."


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Let's go nuclear
By Alan Caruba
How do you know when a Green—hardcore environmentalist—is lying to you? When his lips are moving. Okay, it's a cliché used in other cases as well, but it is especially true when the latest absurd claim comes flying at you courtesy of the mainstream media.
Take nuclear energy as an example. A new survey by Bisconti Research, taken since one conducted in April, revealed "a record-high 74% of Americans favor nuclear energy, with only 24% opposed." That's a big change in just five months and no doubt has a lot to do with the growing public realization that America will have an energy crisis on its hands if it does not permit new plants to be built.
"The unprecedented levels of support for nuclear energy found in this survey," said Ann Bisconti, "can be attributed to growing concerns about energy and focus on energy alternatives." There are few real alternatives. At present, coal-fired plants generate just over 50% of electricity and nuclear represents about 20%. The rest is made up by hydroelectric, and some natural gas. The much touted "clean" energy sources, solar and wind, only 1%.
The Greens have a long history of being opposed to nuclear energy, claiming it is too dangerous and there's no place to put the spent rods. However, they have also been shouting about the need for "clean" energy that does not emit "greenhouse gases." Nuclear does not do that. It emits water vapor in the form of steam and water vapor is a key element of the Earth's atmosphere.
Moreover, there hasn't been an accident since the problem encountered by Three Mile Island in 1979. Even then, no one was harmed. The technology since then has ensured that the nuclear energy industry is astonishingly safe.
There's a billion dollar facility, Yucca Mountain, waiting to receive nuclear waste, but the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, (D-NV) refuses to allow it to begin operation. The facility recently received clearance from the Environmental Protection Agency for meeting a stringent radiation protection standard. You would get more radiation from a CAT scan than Yucca Mountain.
So, while Greens tout wind and solar, two of the least effective and reliable ways to provide for the nation's energy needs, they continue to bad mouth nuclear as a viable alternative. Its popularity is such that developing nations all over the world are seeking to build their own nuclear plants. India, for example, is embarked on an ambitious program.
Greens also are actively opposing nuclear energy. Friends of the Earth, a leading environment organization, is engaged in program to denigrate nuclear energy, calling Yucca Mountain "a false solution that would run trains full of toxic nuclear waste through neighborhoods like yours." This ignores the fact that all manner of toxic materials move around the nation every day for manufacturing and other purposes. And they do it safely.
So what do the Greens want? It's more like what they don't want. They don't want more electricity for Americans no matter what generates it.
They are opposed to all expansion and development even as the population continues to grow. That's why you will find Greens trying to stop any form of development, whether it's more land use for housing or more energy for electricity to light and heat it. That's why they are against any exploration and drilling for oil and natural gas and against coal.
They are against the timber industry, too, and the production and consumption of meat, claiming that raising livestock contributes to global warming.
There is no global warming. The Earth is in a new cooling cycle, but that doesn't slow the deluge of lies.
Alan Caruba writes a weekly column posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center. He blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. © Alan Caruba, October 2008


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Spring Conference
Spring Conference 2007 was held at Elliott University Center in Greensboro, NC. The conference is over, but we have left this conference information on the site so that you can refer to it as a model of what our Spring Conference is like.
Spring Conference 2007
Saturday, June 2, 9:00am - 5:30pm
Elliott University Center, Greensboro, NC
The North Carolina Writers' Network and the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts bring you a full day of workshops on the campus of the University of North Carolina- Greensboro. We're giving you more of what you've asked for -- small classes, top writing faculty, and intensive workshops in fiction, memoir, poetry, and publishing.
Keynote: Fred Chappell
Spring Conference 2007 is made possible with support from the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, UNC-Greensboro, and the North Carolina Arts Council.
Conference Classes
New! All-Day Workshops with
- Quinn Dalton (fiction)
- Marianne Gingher (memoir)
Intensive Half-Day Workshops with
- Michael Parker (fiction)
- James Clark (publishing panel)
- Stuart Dischell (poetry)
- Carolyn Beard Whitlow (poetry)
- Lee Zacharias (creative nonfiction)
Choose one of the all-day workshops, which meet in the morning and resume after lunch.
Choose from among the half-day workshops and select one class for the morning session and another class for the afternoon session.
Either way,
- Morning sessions from 9:00 - 11:00am
- Keynote with Fred Chappell at 11:15
- You have lunch on your own
- Afternoon sessions from 2:00 - 4:00pm
- Faculty readings from 4:15 - 5:30pm
- Publishers Exhibits open all day
See the schedule for more information about the day's activities.
Early registration ended Thursday, May 17. Members may register on-site June 2 for $135.
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|On-site registration as a walk-in:
Cancellations must be made in writing and arrive at the Network office by 4 pm, Thursday, May 17, for you to receive a 50% refund. Send request to NC Writers' Network, Box 954, Carrboro, NC 27510.
No refunds for cancellations received after May 17 or for no-shows.
Nearby Hotels
For favorable rates at the following hotels, mention that you are attending an event at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
- Greensboro Marriott, Downtown, www.marriott.com/gsodt
- Troy-Bumpas Inn Bed and Breakfast, www.troy-bumpasinn.com


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UN Rights Council looking into mass killings in Syria which many believe to be the work of Syrian government.
Obama's role in cyberattacks on Iran.
Motorcyclist killed in hit-and-run on I-25.
Saturday is Free Fishing Day—no licenses or stamps required.
Looks like John Edwards will walk free.
Details on the Seattle man who killed five in a cafe on Wednesday and then offed himself.
Relatives of the homeless (and now faceless) man who was attacked in Miami didn't know he was still alive. In related news, a Baltimore student snacks on a man's brain and heart. Meanwhile, CDC denies Zombie Apocalypse.
Bieber has a thing for walking into plate-glass.
Where to go for free doughnuts on National Doughnut Day.
If you've ever been pissed that your custom-ordered Persian rugs didn't come with the proper cherub imagery, maybe you'll sympathize with these embroidered Kanye tweets.
Invention of the year— spray-bottle Sriracha. Somebody get a patent, stat!
Speaking of inventions, MIT students turn bananas, cat tongues and stairs into computer keys.
This guy should teach New Mexicans to parallel park. Just sayin'.


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Today I wanted to share with you all on how I framed the floor of my house. The framing was done with treated 2×4's placed on 2 foot centers. The trick to framing is to have all your joists designed to both land on 24″ centers (so when you place sub flooring – 4 feet wide – you know exactly where to screw into the floor joists). The other thing you need to consider is the forces that the floor is going to be encountering, this effectively is your foundation, so it's important for this to be really strong.
To add more strength I used corner braces that are used in hurricane prone area building, I also tied the floor joists to the deck of the trailer using high sheer strength screws. I screwed from below the trailer, through the trailer decking, into the joists. In certain key joints I chiseled out notches for the cross members to sit into, this wasn't in the plans, but I thought the potential forces seemed to call for it. Here is a video and then a bunch of photos after that.


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BROOMFIELD — Behind one of the hottest starts of its season Monday night, Holy Family appeared ready to run away with its most recent win. Instead, the team ended up in a mad dash to preserve its victory.
With less than great play in the second half, the Tigers had to stage a late comeback to knock off Pinnacle 46-45. And while the third-ranked Class 3A team was more than happy to survive a late-season test, the victory drew mixed emotions.
The Tigers feel battle tested from their gritty close finishes, but with postseason on the horizon the players are looking for more convincing wins.
"It's tough when you put yourself in that position game in and game out," Holy Family forward Devlin Granberg said. "We need to have a couple crisp game before playoffs."
Granberg gave Holy Family (15-2, 6-0) its final lead of the game with a baseline jumper. David Sommers built the Tigers margin seconds later coming up with a dunk. But the run hardly soothed the players' nerves, given how The Pinnacle (10-7, 10-0) played in the second half.
The Timberwolves were very close to the upset, if it would not have been for a traveling call.
Chase Phillips got an in bounds pass right in the middle of the lane, but the whistle blew before The Pinnacle center had a chance to shoot.
"They had a good post touch, which was definitely not where we wanted the ball at that point in the game," Granberg said.
Phillips was also the right player for the Timberwolves to look for on the last-ditch effort. The 6-foot-4 senior was part of The Pinnacle's inside game that came alive in the second half. Phillips scored 8 of his 11 points in the second half and Danko Kreum hit 12 of his game-high 14 points in the final two periods.
The surge out of halftime was a near role reversal from how the game started. With 19 points in the opening period, Holy Family made the opening appear to be a prelude to a rout.
Even with his team's high energy out of the gate, Pete Villecco knew he was going to have his hands full with a team that is undefeated in conference play.
"They're on top of the Frontier League and we knew they would come in here and compete," the Holy Family said. "We found a way to win."
Even with the strong finishing effort, the coach was realistic about how his team fared in its final home game of the season.
"We told the guys we probably did not deserve to win that game," Villecco said. "But we still found a way."
Holy Family 46, The Pinnacle 45
At Holy Family HS
Gonzales 1 3-4 6, Perches 2 0-0 5, Kreum 7 0-2 14, Ouk 2 0-0 5, Phillips 5 1-4 11, Sandoval 2 0-0 4. Totals 19 4-10 45.
Hollwedel 1 0-1 2, Sprenger 5 0-0 10, Sommers 3 0-1 8, Willis 3 0-0 7, Brown 4 0-0 8, Granberg 4 0-0 8. Totals 22 1-4 46.
Score by quarters:
The Pinnacle 12 6 13 14 — 45
Holy Family 19 9 8 10 — 46
3-point field goals — The Pinnacle (3): Gonzales, Perches, Ouk; Holy Family (1): Golter. Total fouls — The Pinnacle 9; Holy Family 12. Fouled out –None. Technical fouls — None.


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Get Untamed and Go Glamping To Get Away From It All! *Contest*
After all this stress from the election, and the holidays looming on the horizon, wouldn't you like to just escape and get away from it all?
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The grand prize "glamping" trip will include glamorous camping and spa treatments, as well as lavish resort accommodations. The winners will explore some of the Southwest US's wildest and most iconic country, from whitewater rafting in the Colorado River, to hiking in the Grand Canyon and beyond. The experience will be planned by Off the Beaten Path Distinctive Outdoor Journeys to ensure a top-notch experience for Good Earth Tea's "Untamed Moments" winner.
The Good Earth Tea "Untamed Moments" contest runs from October 12, 2012 through December 31, 2012, during which time entries will be accepted through online submission. Judging will take place from January 1, 2013 through January 14, 2013 with the winner being announced in the days following the official ruling. For official contest rules and to submit an entry, visit http://www.GoodEarthTeaUntamed.com
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Nathan Lochmueller has spent his time in the wilderness, and in Brian Kimberling's beguiling debut novel, "Snapper," he invites the reader to join him. When we meet him, Nathan has just landed his first serious post-college job, collecting field data about songbirds in the Indiana woods. He is also madly in love with the elusive Lola, a red-haired beauty who, coincidentally, got him this job. The two pursuits are not exclusive, and both, it turns out, will belong to a period that the narrator looks back on in depth, and fondly, but not without regrets.
Told in vignettes rather than a straightforward narrative, this coming-of-age story darts through time like an elusive thrush through the trees. From the first page, Nathan is already reminiscing. His boss, we are told, "is a Princeton professor now. Back then he was a PhD candidate surveying the effects of habitat fragmentation on neotropical migrant songbirds in south central Indiana." In a similar vein, the book's scenes flit back to boyhood adventures, including one interaction with a snapping turtle, in between his adventures with birds and Lola.
This disjointed structure could be confusing, but Kimberling's keen attention to detail makes it work. When Nathan is caught in a tornado, for example, he notes how comparing the roar of the wind to that of a freight train is akin to "comparing a wolf to a beagle" and then goes on to recall actually sitting under a train trestle, with Lola and "a brace of beer." When called upon to euthanize an injured bird, he describes not only his preferred technique but also his reaction to this necessary procedure. "Ten seconds later it was dead," he notes. "For those ten seconds, however, I did not feel very enlightened or humane." The result reads like a string of vivid short stories, linked by their protagonist.
Uniting them further is the way that Nathan's narrative focuses on the way people speak. At times, he echoes the diction of those around him, as in the case of that pedantic boss and his dissertation-ready job description. Other times he reports on it, as with his Uncle Dart, a rural Texan whose words don't quite mean what they seem to. But the spoken word has its unspoken limits. Nathan's boss, for example, doesn't want to hear about Nathan's affair with Lola, and Lola certainly doesn't want to be questioned about her private life when she's not with him. Even as a boy, Nathan recalls, not everything could be said aloud. When he and his best friend meet up with a newcomer who asks what the two boys are doing, his friend says,
"'We got a boat' " because " 'We talk about poetry' would have been asking for trouble," Nathan remembers.
This attention to speech makes sense in context. Nathan's job, after all, depends on his hearing. But although he becomes quite good at tracking songbirds, the 20-something character suffers from a selective deafness to humans. When meeting new people — strangers in a cafe or a hunter in the woods — he misreads cues, leading to painful regrets. With Lola, of course, he is often intentionally deaf, not wanting to hear that she only intermittently returns his interest.
Ultimately, it is his hearing that forces him to move on, and not until he returns, years later, can he at last acknowledge what he missed before. It's a sad awakening, but it puts the rest of the book into perspective. Youth is beautiful because it is fleeting — and also, perhaps, because we have not yet been forced to face the truth behind that alluring bird song.
Clea Simon is the author of 12 crime novels. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Eichstätt, Germany
Study abroad on this one-of-a-kind exchange! Spend either spring semester or an entire academic year fully immersed as a student at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU). Live in the quaint Bavarian town of Eichstätt, Germany (population 14,000). Eichstätt is a university town, filled with baroque architecture and surrounded by the Altmuhltal National Park, the largest park in Germany. In addition, you are close to some of the most historic, cultural, and scenic areas of Germany. Munich is an easy 1.5 hour train ride away!
Program Highlights
- Perfect your German language skills as you live and study fully immersed in German university life.
- Meet Common Curriculum or Major Specific requirements as you choose courses from across the entire KU curriculum, all taught in German.
- Start your semester with a 3-week intensive language and culture orientation program, including excursions.
- Independent program - you have to the freedom to create your own adventure!
There is not a CSB/SJU faculty director who accompanies this study abroad program. On this program, you directly enroll at KU for either spring semester or the academic year. KU is a private, Catholic university of 4,000 students. All courses are taught in German.
For details on courses and credits please refer to page 2 of the Germany brochure.
Experiential Learning and Activities
Students on this program have many opportunities to get involved on and off campus. University sports, choir, band and orchestra, and a variety of other student clubs and organizations are open to you! In addition, we encourage you to participate in the "Tandem-Program", a language exchange where you can improve your German with a language partner who wants to practice his or her English.
Participants on the Germany program live in furnished student apartments with other international students. The apartments are within walking distance of the University. You will have access to shared kitchen facilities in your apartment to prepare your own meals, or you can join your peers in the student mensa (cafeteria) on campus. At the University you will also have access to libraries, a fitness center, and wireless internet.
Program Dates
The approximate program dates for the Eichstätt, Germany program are: early October to mid-July (academic year) or early April to mid-July (spring semester).
Financial Considerations
For more information on the "Program Fees" for this program, please refer to the Germany Program Brochure. Another great resource is the Financing your Experience brochure. Included in this brochure is information regarding scholarships and financial aid.
See which Scholarships you may qualify for with participating on this program.
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- Program Advisor: Nichole Matuska, Center for Global Education


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One of the first calls to police from the scene of the 2012 schoolhouse massacre in Newtown, Conn. came from a panicked woman inside.
"Sandy Hook School," she told the dispatcher in a shaky voice, according to tapes of the 911 calls released by authorities Wednesday. "I think there's somebody shooting in here."
"OK," the dispatcher replied calmly. "What makes you think that?"
"Because somebody's got a gun," the woman said. "I caught a glimpse of somebody running down the hallway."
And then: "They're still running. They're still shooting. Sandy Hook School, please."
For several more minutes, the woman and other callers flooded the lines of Newtown police and the State Police, pleading for help.
A custodian, Rick Thorne, told a dispatcher that gunshots were coming from the front of the building, down a corridor from where he stood.
With Thorne still on the line, the dispatcher told a colleague: "Get the sergeant. Alright, get everyone you can going down there."
Thorne remained on the phone, providing updates as shots rang out.
"There's still shooting going on," he said, pops audible in the background. "Please."
The dispatchers assured the callers that help was on the way and urged them to take cover, and lock classroom doors. They repeatedly asked about the welfare of the students, not knowing the carnage unfolding.
A teacher hiding with her students in her classroom said she'd heard shots in the hallway.
"OK, lock the door, keep everybody calm, keep everybody down," the dispatcher told her. "Get everybody away from the windows, OK?"
A teacher said she'd been shot in the foot.
"Just keep pressure on it," the dispatcher told her. "We have people heading out there."
Within five minutes from the first call, police were at the school. But by then the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, had killed 20 children and six educators, and turned a gun on himself. Officers, concerned about the possibility of an additional shooter on school grounds, did not immediately enter the school, but it is not clear that the delay made any difference.
The chilling recordings were released Wednesday afternoon, ending a nearly year-long legal fight by the Associated Press, which sought to review them as a way to assess the response of emergency workers.
The tapes covered seven calls made from landlines within Sandy Hook Elementary School. Not included were calls made from cell phones, including those made from victims or witnesses inside the building. Those calls are subject to a separate, pending freedom of information request by the A.P.
Prosecutors opposed making the recordings public, as did many families of the victims, who said they would cause more grief and emotional trauma.
"We know that if graphic images and audio recordings of the events of December 14 are released to the public, they will be used to harass and further victimize the surviving children and teachers who witnessed their friends being killed, and the families of those who lost their lives," Dean Pinto, whose 6-year-old son, Jack, was killed in the school, told the Task Force on Victim Privacy and the Public's Right to Know earlier this year.
Shari Burton, a teaching assistant who called 911 that day, told the task force that "there is nothing to be gained, no arrest to be made" through the tapes' release. She predicted "a lot more hurt and relived heartache."
But Cristina Hassinger, whose mother, Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung, was shot to death, spoke in support of the release. "The more information I have, the easier it is to wrap my brain around," she said.
Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra wrote on her blog a plea "for the media to treat us kindly…to recognize that there is great personal pain in this event and little public good to be garnered through the general release."
Among the last of the tapes is a recording of Thorne identifying himself as a custodian to officers who have just entered the school.
Finally, a man called to say his wife had just texted him that there was a shooting in the school.
"OK, we have officers on scene at this time," the dispatcher told him. "They're clearing the school."
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Syabas Technology Popcorn Hour A-110 full review
Syabas Technology's Popcorn Hour A-110 "networked media tank" is a feature-packed media streamer, but it isn't for the faint of heart.
Strong community support means this media steamer can be expanded through third-party applications, but both the Popcorn Hour A-110 itself and its applications can be difficult to set up and use.
The Popcorn Hour A-110 media streamer is quite small, but it's packed full of connectivity. For audiovisual outputs alone you get component, composite, HDMI, S-Video and optical audio connections. To add to this there is an Ethernet port as well as two USB ports that can connect to external hard drives, USB flash memory and even external optical drives.
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A third USB port connects to PCs, but the media streamer's internal hard drive can't be read by Windows or Mac OS X systems. The only thing this media streamer lacks is Wi-Fi.
The Popcorn Hour A-110 can access media files over a network. It can also play files from an internal SATA2 hard drive, but it doesn't come with one installed. We found the SATA connection occasionally became loose and disconnected the hard drive during use. When this happens the Popcorn Hour A-110 will automatically revert to network-only mode.
Using the Popcorn Hour A-110 as a network media streamer requires you to install the NMT Applications suite. This lets the device use Windows and Apple network protocols, and adds UPnP and BitTorrent capabilities. The applications can be installed either over Ethernet or via a USB flash drive, and the former also allows you to update the media streamer's firmware. The applications are disabled by default and must be enabled individually.
Unlike the Apple TV, the Popcorn Hour A-110 can't automatically sync media like Apple's iTunes. Instead, you can configure shared folders on the network and UPnP-compatible computers as permanent media sources. This allows you to access files as if they were on the device's hard drive.
The media streamer's interface is attractive and generally quite speedy, though it can lag when browsing shared folders on a network. Nevertheless, the Popcorn Hour A-110 is quick to buffer and play media from both the hard drive and over a network. During testing, standard-definition and high-definition AVI and MKV files both played flawlessly.
Several quirks with the remote control may make using it a little frustrating. For example, the remote sometimes won't work (when the Popcorn Hour A-110 is buffering and playing the first few seconds of a file, for example). You can't go to the home screen when playing content; you must first press "Stop" and then "Home" to do this. The remote glows in the dark, which makes it easy use in a room with the lights off (although it can be distracting).
One of the attractive things about the Popcorn Hour A-110 media streamer is the ability to install third-party applications. Like the NMT Applications, they can expand the media streamer's features by adding web services such as internet radio, podcast directories and Usenet compatibility. There is no central repository to find these applications, and they can often be difficult to install. Nevertheless, should you need a specific media function, chances are there is an application for it.
Like the Chumby, the Popcorn Hour A-110 media streamer lends itself to enthusiasts rather than the average consumer. There is plenty to like about this media player, and the ability to expand its features through third-party applications adds to its appeal.
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Syabas Technology Popcorn Hour A-110: Specs
- 132x270x32mm
- 1kg
- Supported Audio File Formats: AAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA
- Supported Video File Formats: AVI, VOB, WMA v9, mkv, H.264, ASF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, WMV, Xvid
- Media Servers
- Hard Disk Drive
- Installed memory (RAM): 256MB
- Remote Control
- Component Video Output, Composite Video Output, HDMI Output, Optical Digital Output, RJ45, S-Video Output, USB 2.0


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Dancing with the Stars pro Anna Trebunskaya and her boyfriend, Nevin Millan, are new parents. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter, on Saturday, Us Weekly reports.
"We're thrilled to welcome our beautiful, healthy baby into the world," Trebunskaya and Millan told Us. "We couldn't be happier."
Trebunskaya, 33, gave birth at home and plans to return to Dancing with the Stars down the road, according to Us. They've named the baby Amalya Millan.
This is also the first time she has named Millan, an actor who has guest-starred on True Blood and CSI: NY, as her boyfriend.


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What is refreshing about the Mobey Forum is the changes that have been made in the past few months. I believe this is a direct result of good leadership and expect the Forum to play an important role to make mobile banking mainstream banking business as it should be. Some of the important advances at Mobey Forum are the following:
- Invitation to other players in the ecosystem to join the Forum. Up to recently the Forum was definitely bank-centric, but some of the leading mobile operators as well as solution providers have now also joined.
- Discussion and communication with the GSM Association is also a step in the right direction.
- The development of specific models, but with sufficient emphasis on bank-robust security requirements is also good. In the end mobile banking and payments is about dealing with client's money and the same levels of security available in other channels should also be made available on mobile phones.


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Badge system design can be considered in a variety of ways. I tried to come up with thirteen ways to discuss them so I could write a poem riffing on one of my favorite poems, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Badge System) but I've had to settle for
seven eight (see addendum below).
Below you'll find the seven different possible categorizations listed with a few representations of each type of thinking. This is not an exhaustive list by any means: it's simply an opportunity to unpack our influences and perceptions as we begin the process of designing badge systems.
The methods outlined below include philosophical, conceptual, pedagogical, visual (aesthetic), technical, categorical, and ownership. The last one, ownership, feels a bit odd because it's not quite parallel to the rest of the bunch. I like a system that has a nice balance and this one has a slight imbalance. Happily, this slightly odd fit serves to emphasize the importance of allowing for an outlier. The outlier will cause you to reconsider your system every time—and that's a good thing. The outlier is the thing that keeps your badge system honest, keeps it moving and evolving. Because if you're designing a system so as to keep everyone within a certain range, you're trying too hard. And you're deep in the midst of a lush forest.
In any case, I'm curious to hear your reaction to these potential sorting efforts. No doubt these groupings can intermixed and most certainly they can be layered, possibly interleaved with one another.
- representation: understood vs. hidden
- social acceptance vs. formal acceptance
- intellectual property vs. copyright free
- cognitive surplus vs. waste of time
- extrinsic vs. intrinsic
- carrot vs. stick
- top down vs. bottom up
- possession
- systems design vs. emergence
- corporate vs. academic
- amateur vs. professional
- rhythmic vs. erratic
- education vs. learning
- assessment
- teaching vs. perceiving/absorbing/
- injection vs. osmosis
- project based vs standards based
- expert-taught vs. peer learned & assessed
- representational vs. abstract
- categorical vs. individual
- siloed vs. shared
- open vs. proprietary
- system vs. single
- formalized vs. free for all
- few categories vs. many
- organizational vs. personal
- owned vs. shared
Are there additional ways to consider the design of badge systems? Do any of these seem innate? Far-fetched? What do we gain by sorting through systems in this way? I continue working on questions like these and look for your feedback (which, according to Donella Meadows, is a good way to ensure that your system is running smoothly).
Still, I have to try it.
With apologies to Wallace Stevens
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the Open Badge is involved
In what I know.
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More soon.
May 23, 2012 addendum: Recent thinking points to the fact that these categories exclude content. So now there are 8 ways to sort through badge system design. Some possible representations of that categorization include: language choice; content-driven vs. context-driven; formal vs. informal; system vs. one-off; single language vs. multiple languages; alliterative vs. rhyming vs. allusion-based, etc.


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Her Honor is headed back to court.
Judge Judy Scheindlin checked out of Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Thursday, after having been hospitalized overnight for intestinal issues, E! News reported.
"See you in court," Scheindlin said in a statement. "Be on time."
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The 68-year-old TV judge fell ill Wednesday while taping an episode of "Judge Judy."
Her rep told Access Hollywood at the time she "was feeling nauseous and had some intestinal discomfort and decided to go to the hospital to get it checked out."
While at the hospital, Scheindlin called TMZ head Harvey Levin to let him know she was okay, the gossip site reported.
"I'm exhausted. I'm just tired," she said. "A lot of things just zoned together, including the bad news of the world."
Scheindlin is expected to return to work on April 12, her rep told Access.


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BRAD NOWELL (guitar, vocals)
It's been a long and wild ride since SUBLIME played their first gig back in the summer of l988. Any local scenester will tell you they were there, and that it was this performance that ignited the infamous "Peninsula Riot" of Long Beach in an explosive July 4th engagement. SUBLIME, once the "below average garage punk band that every kid wants to play his party," has steadily escalated from backyard beer buddies, into a prestigious musical entity. Their underground credibility has landed them slots with everyone from The Melvins and The Vandals to Firehose, HR of Bad Brains and Eek-a-Mouse. They played the "bar-b-que" band on the LA stop of the Butthole Surfers-Stone Temple Pilots "Endless Bummer" tour.
Sublime's recording history began in early '92 when they teamed up with Long Beach's legendary SKUNK RECORDS to create a cult masterpiece '40 oz. TO FREEDOM.' Two years, three vans, and five tours later, the CD has sold in excess of 30,000 units.- without a distributor! The "40 oz" record is still charting at the top of most local alternative retail charts two years after its initial release. Front man Brad Nowell contends, "We practically distributed the thing out of the trunks of our cars." Sublime's new release, 'R0BBIN THE HOOD' sold over 2,000 units in less than two weeks.
Mixing an aggressive blend of thrash punk ethos with ska and dub rhythms, SUBLIME creates their own blend of sonic definition. "Hurtling hard-core punk passages are just the punctuation, not the entire grammar, of a band that also took significant cues from the reggae of Bob Marley," proclaims Mike Boehm in the LA Times Calendar. SUBLIME is on a mad mission of sound, utilizing samples off of everything from old Minutemen records, hip-hop fanfare, and conversations with street denizens, to just plain old bong sessions in the garage. Both albums were recorded for under $l0,000. That they didn't even bother to court the major labels says much for their refreshing, iconoclastic stance. The albums each contain nearly 20 tracks of Sublime's genre jumping "shtick" Some tracks on the new CD were recorded at world famous Westbeach Studios. Others are strictly econo-core 4 track home recordings, invoking the d.i.y. approach of say early Beastie Boys.
SUBLIME have developed a nearly fanatical base of followers since 1989. SUBLIME is not just a band, but a direct representation of a culture inherent to Southern California's beach cities. SUBLIME is a style and a vibe encompassing music, attitude, and alternative meets hip-hop, and surf-skate fashion which remains most apparent in the young and growing audience which the band attracts at every show. Theirs is a definite "scene" taking place at a SUBLIME gig, This scene knows the words to all the tunes, and relates to the many musical voices of this versatile trio SUBLIME is the perfect musical accompaniment to adolescence, just ask your kids.
Blending a love of dance-hall and rock-steady reggae rhythms with an aggressive punk ethic, sublime spread its garage hall gospel all across America, creating a rabid, grass-roots following everywhere they went, especially in the surf/skate/snowboard communities. Their indie debut album, 40 oz. to Freedom, including the edgy morality play "Date Rape," was originally recorded for under $1,000 and is now considered an indie cult classic.
Resistant to being pigeonholed as a certain type of band, the instant hit nature of "Date Rape" (which actually took three years to be discovered by commercial alternative radio) left sublime fighting to let the rest of their music speak for what they were really about. As the band once described themselves, "[we're] not a one-off, blow-up all at once kind of band. Our goal is to create a long career of catalog pieces and a loyal and constantly growing fan base. And, of course, to get lots of free beer."
The tragic death of singer/songwriter/ guitarist Brad Nowell this May cut the band's goal of a long-term career short. But not before sublime (Brad, drummer Bud and bassist Eric) recorded, a true study in versatility. Produced by legendary Butthole Surfer Paul Leary, sublime ranges from dancehall reggae to ska to psychedelic dub to Hendrix-influenced rock to early-'80s hardcore punk to amalgamations of all these styles. sublime's unique brand of genre-shifting musical experimentation yields unexpected--and remarkable--results in these eighteen tracks. Given that, it's no surprise that to date over one million copies of the album have been sold in the United States. sublime is a fitting tribute not only to this band's legacy, but also to the memory of Brad Nowell.
Rolling Stone: Life After Death
The story of Sublime is full of sad, strange twists, but this is perhaps the strangest: Since frontman Brad Nowell overdosed before his band became a phenomenon, before he had a chance to become a bona fide rock star, his death has been oddly free of the mythic impact of so many rock star flameouts. Sublime's success has come as a slow-building surprise, rather than in a rush of mourning, and it's been based on the sweet fun Nowell cooked up during his too-short 28-year love affair with punk, hip-hop, reggae and whatever other music he could lay his hands on.
Bradley Nowell died on May 25, 1996, in a San Francisco hotel room, after shooting up some heroin that was much more potent than the brown Mexican tar he was used to. His death came seven days after his wedding to Troy Denkker, who'd given birth to their son, Jakob, 11 months before the release of Sublime, the album that would make his band famous. The heroin death of the Smashing Pumpkins' touring keyboard player, Jonathon Melvin, got more attention in the press. In fact, plenty of Sublime fans don't even know that Nowell is gone. "We still get lots of letters for him" says Brad's father, Jim, who handles his son's estate. "I have a boxful of them in my office.". At least a boxful.
By April 1997, a little less than a year after Nowell's OD, Sublime had entered Billboard's Top 20, and the album's first single, the breezily grooving, mostly acoustic hip-hop toaster "What I Got", went to No. 1 on the Modern Rock chart. And that was only the beginning. Throughout 1997, Sublime produced hit after hit, and the album has sold more than 2 million copies to date. The follow-up to "What I Got" was the reggae-tinged ballad "Santeria"; then came the shuffling ska of "Wrong Way" and the dance-hall-flavored "Doin' time" which Nowell constructed around the melody of the Gershwin standard "Summertime". Eighteen months after Nowell's death, Sublime sell about 40,000 records every week; in November, MCA released Second-Hand Smoke, a collection of early songs, unissued material, remixes and alternate takes.
Sublime's surviving members recently inked a deal to release at least three more albums of archival material over the next few years. Incredibly, the band that is no longer a band has become perhaps the biggest American rock act of 1997. These are a few of the things Brad Nowell loved: surfing; eating; his dog, Louie; his son, Jakob; his wife, Troy; and music - maybe music most of all.
He grew up gifted and musically inclined: His mother was a singer with perfect pitch, and his father liked to strum folk songs on the guitar. At Christmas, the acoustic guitars would come out and Brad would spend hours playing and singing with his father, grandfather and uncle. He devoured sounds, and could pick out a tune on the guitar after hearing it once. By the time he was 13, he'd started his own band, Hogan's Heroes. Nowell was 10 when his parents split up. He lived with his mom, Nancy, for four years before moving back to his dad's house in Long Beach, Calif., in 1981. He was a smart kid who got good grades and had the brains to make his younger sister, Kellie, do his homework whenever he didn't want to. "He was probably twice as intelligent as I am" she says, "but he just wasn't real school-minded". Guidance counselors had a name for what was wrong with kids like Brad who failed to live up to their obvious potential - attention-deficit disorder - and a drug for it, too: Ritalin.
Unlike the wealthier, whiter suburbs of Orange County, where Brad's mom lived, Long Beach is a funky old port town of 450,000 with affluent bayside communities - Belmont Shore and Naples -and Latino, African-American and Southeast Asian neighborhoods father inland. With cheaper rents than Hollywood and lots of available space, Long Beach had a thriving art underground in the '80s, as well as a music scene in which punk, surf and hip-hop cultures clashed and blended freely. Nowell was a master at melding these sounds into something new. From Sublime's earliest recordings, his combination of ska, dub, punk, funk, rap, reggae and heavy metal seemed less like a synthesis than a natural byproduct of Long Beach's youth culture.
Though there were few local clubs to play, house parties could bring a couple hundred bucks every week-end - enough to buy all the beer, pot and gasoline the band needed. In 1990, one semester before graduating from California State University Long Beach with a degree in finance, Nowell dropped out to devote all his time to the band. By then, Sublime were well-known up and down the coast; from San Diego to Santa Barbara, beach towns were their turf. In photographs from this period, Nowell looks like the prototypical So Cal surf rat: sun-bleached hair, wraparound shades and Hawaiian shirts. With his round face and easy smile, the cherubic singer gave off an air of bemused calm. But behind the mellow exterior, Nowell was troubled. "There was always a part of him that wasn't satisfied" says Troy Nowell. Sitting on the patio of Nowell's dad's house, overlooking the calm waters of Alamitos Bay, she recalls her three-year life with Brad. "As happy as he was 80 percent of the time, there was 20 percent that could not be made happy, and it ate him up.". Nowell battled with his addiction for most of the time Troy knew him, kicking when his record deal with MCA was in the offing, in 1994, and again when Troy got pregnant a year later. But friends say he could never be comfortable without the drug. Troy blames the Ritalin he was given as a child for having created his craving for drugs, but she blames something else as well: "He wanted to be a rock star. He said it was very rock & roll, you know. Perry Farrell and Kurt Cobain and all those guys did drugs, and Brad wanted to see what it was like. Then they honestly begin to think that they write better music! I mean, Robbin' the Hood (Sublime's second album) was written when Brad was at his worst of being strung out. It's a great album, but it's all about his heroin abuse: "Now I've got the needle/I can shake but I can't breathe/Take it away and I want more, more/One day I'm gonna lose the war.'".
Sublime were a party band, they played house parties, beach parties, frat parties; and if there wasn't a party, they brought one with them. They were, people will tell you, lovable, but they were also, the same people will attest, out of control. They loved to get fucked up, they loved to fuck things up, and they had many ways to doing it. Sometimes Nowell hocked the band's instruments before a gig in order to pay for his habit. Other times, the band would party too much on the day of a major gig and squander a golden opportunity.
For instance: June 17, 1995 - Sublime are invited to play the KROQ Weenie Roast in Los Angeles alongside Bush and Hole, at a time when they have nothing more than two indie albums and a hot local single, "Date Rape". They print up 40 backstage passes for their friends, family and dogs. By the end of the day, Nowell's beloved Dalmatian, Louie, has bitten a record exec's little girl, and one of their pals just missed puking on MTV's Kennedy while she was interviewing the band.
Here's the latest variant: In September 1997, Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh - Sublime's bassist and drummer - fly to New York for the MTV Video Music Awards. The band has been nominated for the best alternative video. The duo's been drinking for most of the evening, and by the time their category comes up, Gaugh is melted into his seat and Wilson is sucking down a vodka tonic at the lobby bar. MCA reps corral them just before they win, and they're shoved onstage, followed by Troy Nowell and Marshall Goodman, the group's DJ. Dazed in the spotlight, Gaugh performs a little jig and mumbles a few thank-you's to friends and family. Then, the hulking Wilson holds up the band's shiny statuette, raises a fist and incongruously blurts out, "Lynyrd Skynyrd!" Gaugh, realizing that his band mate's comment might need clarification, adds "for writing the tune 'Workin' for MCA.'" In the midst of this stoned spectacle, Goodman comes to the rescue, pointing out very soberly, "This is all for Bradley Nowell-peace.".
A month later, Wilson and Gaugh are in more familiar environs - sitting with their girlfriends around a picnic table at Long Beach Sport Fishing, a tackle shop, seafood restaurant and boat-charter operation that looks like it's been perched on this rusty waterfront since long before oil refineries dotted the landscape. Wearing wraparound sunglasses, a loose T-shirt, shorts that reveal several tattoos, and a fresh buzz cut, Gaugh is itching to explain his and Wilson's onstage blunders back in New York. "It all started with the tequila," Gaugh begins. The day before the show, the drummer had been fishing with his girlfriend in Cabo San Lucas, a party town at the tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, and he purchased in $85 bottle of tequila as a gift for his dad. But by the time he met up with Wilson the next day in New York, the bottle looked too good to save. So the two decided to "have a little victory shot," as Gaugh puts it. "We thought, 'Fuck it, even if we don't win, let's drink this shit.' So by the time we got onstage, man, we were wasted." He gazes out at the fishing boats swaying by the dock. "I guess we forgot to thank a couple of people.". Wilson, clutching a jet-fueled margarita, shudders at the memory. "See, we were already pretty buzzed back at the hotel when I said to Bud. 'You know, if we win, we should say "Lynyrd Skynyrd!" Bud had mentioned something about the song they did about working for MCA. So when we actually got up there, I was so flabbergasted that I just go, 'Lynyrd Skynyrd!'. That's all I could say.". The conversation drifts to memories of Sublime's early days. "It was [the most] fun for us when we were traveling around in a van and crashing on people's floors," Wilson says wistfully. These days, Wilson and Gaugh start most morning with a bong hit and continue smoking well into the night. Wilson's thrashed two-story Victorian house in Long Beach is their headquarters and the practice space for their new band, the Long Beach Dub All-Stars. It has the feel of a college hang-out, with a revolving cast of characters lounging on the couches and chairs, beer bottles covering every flat surface, bongs on the end tables and three Rottweilers that bark viciously and gnash their teeth at newcomers. Wilson and Gaugh, whose families lived across an alleyway from each other, have been friends since childhood, when they first started playing music together and surfing at nearby Seal Beach. When punk bands like the Minutemen came to town, Gaugh and Wilson were always at the edge of the stage. (In fact, the Minutemen lyric "punk rock changed our lives" was sampled as the first line on Sublime's 1992 debut, 40 Oz. to Freedom.).
Wilson's dad, Billy, a drummer who toured with big bands in his youth and played on a cruise ship during the Depression, was Gaugh's drum teacher. Though Billy Wilson was much older than the parents of Eric's friends, he was also much cooler; it was he who introduced his son to marijuana. "He got into it while he was hanging out with all those jazz cats, I guess," Eric says of his dad. "He smoked now and then, and to hide the odor he carried around a little bottle of Binaca". Wilson played trumpet for a while but says he sucked at it and switched to guitar and then bass.
When he was in sixth grade, he met Nowell. The two began playing music together before Nowell took off for Santa Cruz, to start college at the University of California. During one of Nowell's breaks from school, Wilson introduced him to Bud Gaugh, and the three started jamming together. After recording several DIYX cassettes and selling them at shows, Sublime went into a Long Beach studio in 1992 to record 40 Oz,. to Freedom. The album, which the band released on its own label, Skunk, did well on a word-of-mouth basis.
But by then Nowell had begun experimenting with hard drugs, and by the time Sublime began work on the follow-up, Robbin' the Hood - most of which was recorded in a Long Beach crack house - his addiction was out of control, Gaugh attempted to reach out to his band mate - though often in destructive ways, "I felt like kicking his ass," recalls Gaugh, who himself had been hooked on speed and heroin for years. "I mean, I'd been there and was still struggling with it. So I was all things that I could be to him during that time. I tried to be his conscience; I tried to be his nurse. I even tried to be his drug buddy; I mean, we got loaded together a couple of times."
Nowell met Troy in 1993, at a Sublime show in San Diego. "We were just friends at first and we stayed friends for a long time," she says. "It wasn't until '95 that we started seeing each other." As Nowell alienated his friends, family and band mates, Troy was the one person who was there for him to talk to. "He'd already promised everybody that he would stop doing it and had asked for help," she says. "People would help him and then he'd hurt them. So when I came along, I hadn't been fooled by him yet."
The prospect of signing to a major label was a big deal for Nowell, so when Sublime began talking with MCA, in 1994, he was determined to really clean up. "He decided on his own that he wanted to go to rehab," says Troy. "He knew he had to get clean before the MCA thing could happen." Nowell did get clean for a while, but in February 1996, when the band traveled to Austin, Texas, to begin recording Sublime at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio with producer Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers, Nowell went back to heroin more vigorously than ever.
"They're the sweetest bunch of guys, [but] it was chaos in the studio," Leary says. On good days, they'd show up at 9 a.m. with margaritas in one hand and instruments in the other and go to work; on bad days, they nearly burned the place down. "There were times where someone had to go into the bathroom to see if Brad was still alive," he says. Nowell's drug use became so intense that Leary sent him home to Long Beach before the record was completed. "It took him three days to get back on his feet," Jim Nowell recalls. "It was the worst I'd ever seen him."
The skies above Long Beach are clear today, and Troy Nowell is sprawled on a lounge chair on the back patio of her in-laws' house, a modest yellow-paneled, two-story home in a well-kept neighborhood. She has long, blond-streaked hair and is dressed in black running shorts and a white baby tee that partially exposes a rose tattoo on her right arm. When she speaks, her voice has a coarse, cigarette-wrecked edge. "Did you see the tattoo on my back ?" she asks, turning to reveal a pair of Chinese characters. "The top one means 'to be in mourning,' and the bottom one means 'husband'." She laughs and lights another Marlboro as 2-year-old Jakob runs around in a tiny T-shirt with BIG KAHUNA scrawled across the front.. "He was very bad at the grocery store this morning." she says. "He's acting much better now, aren't you, Jake?" Jakob nods vigorously, and you can see Brad in his face and Troy in his half-moon eyes. "Sometimes Jake will say something that I want Brad to hear so bad"' she says, "but he can't, because he's gone."
Troy Denkker was born and raised in a San Diego household where drugs and alcohol were always around. Her mother was hooked on speed throughout Troy's childhood, and her father was a biker who held frequent parties at the house. "They were wonderful people," Troy stresses. "I loved them all. I mean, they were real." Troy will look you straight in the eye and tell you exactly why she was attracted to Brad Nowell. "I love drug addicts," she says. "I went to see that movie Boogie Nights the other night, and you know, I knew all those people. When it was over, I turned to my girlfriend and that's just what I said: 'I love drug addicts.' I guess they're just the kind of people I'm used to being around. They're great; they're crazy."
Troy, who is studying to be a substance-abuse counselor, says she and Brad spent a lot of time talking about his problems. "I was very understanding." she says. "And Brad was so open about it. He used it as a way of getting attention. That's the sick thing about heroin addicts. They're like, 'Take care of me'. They're like puppy dogs. And I guess I wanted to take care of him." She was also more than ready for him to clean up when he decided to go back to rehab in 1995, soon after Troy found out she was pregnant. "In the beginning I was real accepting of his behavior, but then there was much more a stake," she says. "We'd bought this beautiful house, we had our beautiful son, we were about to get married and it was driving me crazy. I felt like I didn't have anyone to turn to. His whole attitude was, 'Look at everything we've got - I can have reward every now and then.' He wanted to reward himself,. It was like, 'I'm not hurting anyone, I'm just doing it this one day.'".
But one day turned into a week, and pretty soon Brad was in trouble again. "It scared the hell out of me," Troy says. "And the thing that was so horrible is that when he would get high, he'd be so euphoric and so happy. I was like, 'Why can't you be this happy when you're not on it?'" She pauses and looks away. "It got really ugly," she finally says, "and that tore him up. "You know, the one thing that gave me the most peace after Brad died," she continues, "was when his first love, Eileen, came to me and said, 'He did everything that he wanted to do, and he went to sleep. He was tired and went to sleep.' The way she put it was exactly true. Brad was so tired - he really was. He was tired of letting everyone down, of letting himself down; he was tired of trying to stay clean, tired of everything."
Even though Nowell died too soon to experience his band's success, for Troy his death was like the final chapter in a long, exhausting journey. "Brad had accomplished everything he wanted," she says. "He always wanted to have a baby; 'We gotta have a kid,' he said. He wanted to get his family back, 'cause he had hurt them so bad with his drug use. And he did. He wanted to get this album written, and he wanted it to be the best one he ever wrote. And he did. He wanted his band to have glory. And they did." She lights another cigarette. "I'm not saying that it's OK that Brad died, because it's not OK. So many things have happened that I wish he could see - Sublime being nominated for awards and their videos being on MTV all the time and their songs played on the radio. Or things will happen with me, and Brad's the first person I want to tell, 'cause we were best friends. I want to see his reaction to all this.
What's OK is [that] there's no more struggle, no more war. That struggle took up a lot of our energy and our time, and it was horrible. He's at peace now." Jim Nowell and his second wife, Jane, are flipping through a photo album that shows Brad from birth through his teen and college years, his emaciated drug years, and his wedding , a Hawaiian-themed extravaganza in Las Vegas, when he had filled out again and gotten some color back in his face. Him, a burly, affable guy, was a contractor until he retired to manage Sublime's affairs. Last Fourth of July, he and Jane threw a big backyard barbecue and invited Brad's old posse. The Long Beach Dub All-Stars jammed most of the afternoon. When they got around to playing Brad's songs, Jim and Jane were shaken and had to go inside - they didn't want their grief to spoil anyone's good time.
The first time she met Brad , says Jane, she was astonished at his good behavior. "I remember telling Jim, 'Gee, you did something really good with this kid. I've never seen a boy who is so polite and interested in his elders. 'Even when he got into his teens, he would always offer his chair to you." She loved Brad from day one, helping him through his best years as a student and musician, as well as his worst years as a drug addict. Jane defended her stepson's decision to get a tattoo - even when his father opposed it. "It was kind of like an Aztec design that went from his knee to his ankle," she says, remembering the day he came home with it. "Well, Jim's sitting here looking at it, and he says to Brad, 'So, how long is that thing going to be on there?' , 'It does wash off, doesn't it?'" Jim adds. Jane laughs. "Brad and I just look at each other because we're thinking, 'He's kidding,' you know. And then we look at Jim and we see that he's not kidding. So I go, 'Jim that's not the wash-off kind of tattoo.' And Jim goes, 'It's not ?' I mean, it was a huge tattoo!". To prove her loyalty to her stepson, Jane hikes up her pant leg and show me her own new tatto. It's the image of the sun from the cover of 40 Oz. to Freedom.
There's a party going on at Eric Wilson's house, which is on the edge of one of Long Beach's more unsavory neighborhood. Wilson and the Dub All-Stars are jamming on an old Skatalites tune when Jim Nowell drops by for a visit. Before long, Nowell picks up an acoustic guitar and joins in, playing and singing. As the group moves from the Skatalites to a silly version of "Puff the Magic Dragon" and then to a free-form Deadlike jam, everyone in the house - including a gangly couple who'd been playing pool in the front room, a couple of dudes just back from a beer run, and Opie Ortiz, a shirtless tattoo artist who had earlier been working on a customer - pack into the room, listening intently to the deep, warm croon of the elder Nowell's voice.
At one point, Wilson, hunched over his upright bass in a SURF AND SAIL tank top and mismatched sneakers, turns to Nowell and smiles. "Hey, Jimbo," he says, "play some of those real old songs that you know. How 'bout 'Minnie the Moocher?'" Over the next hour, the group runs through a set of pop, folk and country hits, like "Ain't She Sweet?" "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Okie From Muskogee." By the end, the blue-collar cool of this posse of tattooed skate-punks has turned to blissful, drunken, giddy exuberance.
Then, suddenly, the mood turns wistful. "Hey, Jimbo," asks Jack Maness, who's been playing acoustic lead guitar, "what about 'Sunny'?" He is referring to the old Bobby Hebb song that Jim and Brad used to play together at backyard parties at the Nowell's home. "I remember one day Brad said to you, 'I wanna do it like this, Dad', and you told him, 'Yeah, son, but this is how it goes.'" Everyone in the room erupts in laughter. The kind of laughter that brings tears. It's a laughter that has positively conjured the ghost of Brad Nowell - right here, right now, in the wee hours of an October morning in Long Beach. It's a few moments before Wilson's gregarious girlfriend, Kat Rodriguez, breaks the silence: "Now, that's Brad for you - in a nutshell," she says. "He was going to do things his way or no way. That's why no band will ever sound like Sublime."
Bradley Nowell By Melissa Green
Brad's music was truly unique. It was filled with passion and when he sang he would sin his heart out and went for it all the way. He would sit on street corners and just play his guitar and sing. His art and his creativity can only be described as a gift.
Brad was one of those great people that are hard to come by. Kurt Cobain had that same inspiring influence on the world but he did not have the simplicity that Brad had. Brad has so much honesty in his voice. For example in the song "Pool Shark" the very last lyrics of the song are "One day im gonna lose a war." He performed this song with so much emotion that the crowd could feel the pain in his heart as he sang the words. The words of his heart have changed peoples' lives. They have made a few of this generation not want to face the consequenses Brad faced the last few years of his life.
Brad was an inspiration to many of his fans and to many musicians of today. His music, his life, and most of all his passion will never be forgotten.


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Our science program provides opportunities for students to develop understandings and skills necessary to function productively as problem-solvers in a scientific and technological world. Instructional implementation and the support system for elementary school science must include the combined efforts of all aspects of the community: parents, educators, businesses, and other organizations.
The science lab is where curiosity leads you to the passions unknown. When students follow this, they grow strong in skills they never believed they had. The future belongs to the curious. The science lab only opens new doors, and students discover new things.
Second Grade Garden Club: Students help take care of planting, watering, and give ideas of what to add to the garden. They also help maintain the garden throughout the winter months.
Third and Fourth Grade Recycling Club (Green Team): Once a week, students collect recyclable items from designated rooms and empty them into the recycling container behind the school.
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There have been shows about New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and even Miami. But this year, the world got a glimpse into the world of country superstars in the new hit series Nashville.
One of the main characters is played by the cute and sassy Hayden Panettiere, who admitted she based her character, at least in part, on country megastar Carrie Underwood.
But as soon as the first episode aired and viewers got a glimpse at Panettiere's conniving character Juliette Barnes, country fans began to wonder if the comparison was accurate.
During an interview with Catherine Lane of Charlotte station The New 103.7, Carrie opened up about the comparison.
Earlier this month, Hayden had told USA Today about her love for Carrie. "She's one of those girls that doesn't do the whole dancing-around-choreography thing but has that stage presence like no other," Hayden said of Carrie."She can just stand there and be incredibly interesting."
So what did Carrie have to say to being compared to such a character as Nashville's Juliette Barnes?
"She definitely is sparkles and has the big blonde hair going on," Carrie laughs, so she says that's "pretty accurate." She's also, however, quick to address the character's more outrageous aspects.
"As long as she says she patterns her look after me, and not a lot about the rest of the character," the singer jokes, before adding, "She's kind of the mean girl!"
Hayden, for her part, has been quick to defend her character on Twitter, saying that Juliette may not actually–as the story develops–turn out to be as "mean" as viewers initially think.
I know my character seems….nasty, but there's always a story behind it ; )
— hayden panettiere (@haydenpanettier) October 11, 2012
Hear the full Carrie Underwood interview on Charlotte station The New 103.7.
Carrie Underwood is currently on her Blown Away Tour with Hunter Hayes.
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UH Manoa hosts discussions on East Asian culture and peaceUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Center for Japanese Studies
UH Mānoa is hosting two events on November 3 and 4 featuring international scholars, artists and influential leaders from China, Japan, Korea, Hawaiʻi and the mainland U.S. to discuss traditional East Asian culture and its possible role in fostering peace and understanding in Asia and the Pacific.
The events, organized by Chado Urasenke, are annual gatherings being held for the first time in Hawaiʻi in commemoration of the UH Centennial. It was held in 2004 in Tianjin, China, in 2005 in Seoul, Korea, and last year in Tokyo, Japan. Both events are free and open to the public but require advance registration.
· The 4th East Asian Tea Culture Symposium on Saturday, November 3, 9:30 a.m.-4:40 p.m., at the East-West Center's Imin Center, Keoni Auditorium. Dr. Genshitsu Sen, 15th generation Grand Tea Master of Urasenke, Japan's premier school of tea ceremony, will speak about the spirit of Chado or the Way of Tea, and its promotion of world peace.
Other featured speakers will be Dr. Wayne Farris, Sōshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Professor of Traditional Japanese Culture and History;
Tokumasa Miyagi, President of the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, speaking about Okinawan pottery;
Dr. Xiao Li, Assistant Dean, Business School, China University of Political Science and Law, on "Court Tea Ceremony during the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) Dynasties";
Dr. Herbert Plutschow, Professor, Jōsai International University, on "A Ritual Approach to the Study of Chanoyu";
Dr. Jeon-Yull Park, Director, Institute for Korean and Japanese Culture, Chung-Ang University, on "Japan's Tea Culture in the Tearoom"; and
Dr. Yukihiro Kurasawa, Professor, Takarazuka University of Art and Design, on the philosophy of Wabicha.
· 4th Panel Discussion on Culture and Peace in East Asia, on Sunday, November 4, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at the East-West Center's Imin Center, Keoni Auditorium. Keynote address by Dr. Paul Varley, Emeritus Sōshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Professor of Traditional Japanese Culture and History, on "Japanese Culture and Changing World Views of Japan."
Other featured speakers will be Dr. Kent Calder, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University, on "Moving Beyond the Broken Dialogue: Asia's Role and a New Form of Diplomacy. Why is Cultural Diplomacy so Important in Today's World?";
Moon-Doh Huh, Chairman, World Peace and Food Forum;
Panel discussion on the significance of cultural diplomacy, with moderator, Dr. Yong-Woon Kim, Chairman of Korea-Japan Cultural Exchange Council, and panelists:
Dr. Genshitsu Sen, Chado Urasenke 15th Generation Grand Tea Master;
Shiqiu Chen, Council Member, United Nations Association of China; and
Soo-Gil Park, Honorary President, United Nations Association of the Republic of Korea.
The Symposium will focus on traditional arts and culture, while the discussions on the second day will focus on cultural diplomacy (also known as "soft power"), which has become a key element of international relations within East Asia and between East Asia and the rest of the world. Though most of the speakers will give presentations in their native language, all sessions will include English interpretation.
Space is limited and pre registration is required through the Center for Japanese Studies: www.hawaii.edu/cjs
Symposium & Panel Discussion sponsors and supporters: UH Mānoa, Chado Urasenke, Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu, United Nations Association of Japanese, and the East-West Center.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/cjs


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Subway's been taking a whole lot of heat over the past few days after a photo of an 11-inch "footlong" sub went viral.
Lots of angry customers felt like they were getting short changed out of that mysterious missing inch.
But it appears that it's not just the bread that's shrinking.
Kaylee Osowski and Natalie O'Neill at The New York Post spoke with a Manhattan Subway franchise owner who told them that bread's not the only Subway item that comes up short.
The owner told the Post that Subway shops have reduced their cold-cut sizes by 25 percent in the past few months.
"The distributor has increased the food cost on the individual owners by 4 to 5 percent every year and provided the owners with less food," the owner said.
As for that missing inch, Subway said that "SUBWAY FOOTLONG" is just a brand name and is "not intended to be a measurement of length."


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New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.
The proposed ban would affect virtually the entire menu of popular sugary drinks found in delis, fast-food franchises and even sports arenas, from energy drinks to pre-sweetened iced teas. The sale of any cup or bottle of sweetened drink larger than 16 fluid ounces — about the size of a medium coffee, and smaller than a common soda bottle — would be prohibited under the first-in-the-nation plan, which could take effect as soon as next March… New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks


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Vast polar ethane cloud observed on Titan's north pole
Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below.
The cloud may be the clue needed in solving a puzzle that has confounded scientists. In fact, so far they had seen little evidence of a veil of ethane clouds and surface liquids, originally thought extensive enough to cover the entire surface of Titan with a 300-metre-deep ocean.
Before the Cassini-Huygens mission began visiting Saturn's giant moon, Titan, in 2004, "we expected to see lots of ethane - vast ethane clouds at all latitudes and extensive seas on the surface of Titan," said planetary scientist Caitlin Griffith at the University of Arizona (UA), and member of the UA-based Cassini VIMS team.
This is because solar ultraviolet light irreversibly breaks down methane in Titan's mostly nitrogen atmosphere. Ethane is by far the most plentiful by-product when methane breaks down. Scientists theorized that if methane has been a constituent of the atmosphere throughout Titan's 4.5 thousand million years lifetime - and there was no reason to suspect it had not - the large moon would be awash with seas of ethane.
Given the lack of evidence for such seas, the missing hydrocarbon reservoir was expected to reside entirely beneath the surface, until NASA's Cassini spacecraft radar found lakes in Titan's north arctic latitudes on a flyby last 22 July. "However, we now know that Titan's surface is largely devoid of lakes and oceans," Griffith said.
VIMS made the first detection of Titan's vast polar ethane cloud when it probed Titan's high northern latitudes on Cassini flybys in December 2004, August 2005, and September 2005.
VIMS detected the cirrus cloud as a bright band at altitudes from between 30 and 60 kilometres at the edge of Titan's arctic circle, between 51º and 69º north latitude. VIMS saw only part of the cloud because most of the northern polar region is in winter's shadow and will not be fully illuminated until 2010.
"Our observations imply that surface deposits of ethane should be found specifically at the poles, rather than globally distributed across Titan's disk as previously assumed," Griffith said. "That may partially explain the lack of liquid ethane oceans and clouds at Titan's middle and lower latitudes."
"We think that ethane is raining or, if temperatures are cool enough, snowing on the north pole right now. When the seasons switch, we expect ethane to condense at the south pole during its winter," Griffith said. If polar conditions are as cool as predictions say, ethane could accumulate as polar ice.
"In July 2004, the Cassini ISS camera had already observed a big and stormy cloud system over Titan's south pole. This meteorological feature still remains unexplained today," said Athena Coustenis from LESIA (Observatoire de Paris) and co-author of today's results. "It seems that the most interesting temporary features on Titan appear at the poles."
Ethane dissolves in methane, which scientists predict is raining from the atmosphere at the north pole during its cool winter. "During the polar winters, we expect the lowlands to cradle methane lakes that are rich with ethane," Griffith noted. "Perhaps these are the lakes recently imaged by Cassini."
"We may have a way of investigating these possibilities - lake and polar ice contents - with adaptive optics observations from the ground," added Coustenis. "This would allow us to resolve Titan's disk."
If ethane was produced at today's rate over Titan's entire lifetime, a total of two kilometres of ethane would have precipitated over the poles. But that seems unlikely, Griffith said.
Scientists have no direct evidence for polar caps of ethane ice. Titan's north pole is in winter darkness, and Cassini cameras have yet to see it in reflected light. Cassini cameras have imaged Titan's south pole. "The morphology seen in those images doesn't suggest a two-kilometre polar ice cap, but the images do show flow features," Griffith said.
"We're going to start making more polar passes in the upcoming months," she added. "By the end of next year Cassini will have recorded the first polar temperature profile of Titan, which will tell us how cold conditions are at the pole."
"From Voyager data we have indications that the temperatures may drop by as much as 20º Kelvin at the North pole when in winter," concluded Coustenis. "The Cassini extended mission and future in-situ measurements at Titan (with new space missions) should allow us to better comprehend the seasonal phenomena on Titan, where a season lasts 7.5 years."
Note to editors
The findings appeared in the 15 September issue of the journal Science, in an article titled: "Evidence for a Polar Ethane Cloud on Titan", by Caitlin Griffith, Paulo Pinteado, the VIMS team leader Robert Brown of the Univ. of Arizona (UA), Athena Coustenis and other researchers from France, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (JPL), California, the U.S. Geological Survey, Cornell University, NASA Ames Research Center, Portugal and Germany.
Griffith, Pinteado and Robert Kursinski of UA collaborated earlier in studies of the long methane clouds that band Titan at southern latitudes. They concluded from analyzing VIMS images that these highly localized, convective clouds, which are composed of methane, result from summer heating much as thunderstorms form on Earth.
The VIMS instrument is an imaging spectrometer that produces a special data set called an image cube. It takes an image of an object in many colours simultaneously. An ordinary video camera takes images in three primary colours (red, green, and blue) and combines them to produce images as seen by the human eye. The VIMS instrument takes images in 352 separate wavelengths, or colours, spanning a realm of colours far beyond those visible to humans. All materials reflect light in a unique way. So molecules of any element or compound can be identified by the wavelengths they reflect or absorb, their 'signature' spectra.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington D.C. . The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is based at The University of Arizona in Tucson.
For more information
Caitlin Griffith, planetary scientist and member of the Cassini VIMS team, University of Arizona, USA
Email: griffith @ lpl.arizona.edu
Athena Coustenis, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Huygens DISR co-investigator
Email: athena.coustenis @ obspm.fr
Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Huygens Project Scientist
Email: jean-pierre.lebreton @ esa.int


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I am in Italy now and this post is not about art. It is about politics or at least government. And if you want to stay in Italy (or in most parts of Europe) for longer than 90 days, you must obtain a visa (probably from the Italian Consulate in your home country, as I had to do in America) and within eight days of arriving in Italia, you must apply for the "Permesso di Soggiorno" (permission to stay). Over the many years that I have been doing this, the process has become easier – a bit.
For many years it has been possible to go to the postale (post office) instead of directly to the Questura (immigration police). That is wonderful because the Questura is only open in the early morning for this part of the process and if you wait in line for hours, but arrive too late to the door, you get to repeat the experience. The post office has much better hours!
The color for the Postale is yellow. You will see a yellow banner in the signs announcing a post office and the bicycles of the mail carriers are yellow. When you enter the post office, you must take a ticket from a yellow machine and wait for your ticket number to be posted on the board with the number window for you to approach. Which ticket you choose depends on the service you want. For my task this week, I took an "F" ticket. This ticket is for the "Sportello Amico" (Friendly Window) and it is there that I picked up my application packet for the Permesso di Soggiorno.
As with English, legal language is not always clear and I had a friend help me through the forms. I do not understand government much at all. For example, one must buy a Marca da Bollo. That is a special stamp that currently costs 14.62 euros, but you cannot buy it at the Postale. You must go to a tobacco shop to buy one. The only purpose I can see for this is to share the wealth with the little guy. [Tobacco shops are everywhere. Besides tobacco, you may also buy cell phone minutes with most carriers, as well as lottery tickets. They have a decent-sized "T" sticking out from the wall so you may fine them.]
Anyway, the next day, I returned to Firenze, got my F ticket from the machine, verified a question that I had about my application (I had understood the word, but not the question on the form. It simply said: "Frontiera" or "border," which I took to mean that they wanted to know which city I had flown into in Italia. In truth, I did not get the impression the postwoman knew the answer either but she nodded as if my guess was as good as hers), bought my health insurance for one year, and paid the application fee. [I had already attached the purchased Marca da Bollo stamp to the correct position on the application.]
I now am legally here, as long as I bring my original documents with my application receipts to the Questura on my appointment date in February. Whew…
This last image was taken during my reward: a stroll around the Duomo (Cathedral) in central Florence, Italy. So happy to be home! [That is probably a bit premature – ha!]