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Volunteers work on the Qapac Ñan Inca road network in the Andes
Tim DeWinter, Director of our projects in Peru, fills us in on some Inca history and updates us on the work of our Inca Project volunteers.
The famous Inca road network, the Qapac Ñan, was a major road system integrating what are today Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the North of Argentina and Chile. This system was the spinal column of the empire, with Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire at its centre. Traversing the Andes and reaching heights of over 5,000 m (16,500 feet) above sea level, the Inca road system covered approximately 22,500 km (14,000 miles) and provided access to over three million km² of territory.
Because the Incas did not make use of the wheel for transportation, the trails were used almost exclusively by people walking, sometimes accompanied by pack animals, like the llama. The trails were used by the Inca people as a means of relaying messages and for transporting goods. Messages could be carried by chasqui runners, working in relay fashion.
There were approximately 2,000 inns, or tambos, placed at even intervals along the trails. The inns provided food, shelter and military supplies to the tens of thousands who traveled the roads. There were corrals for llamas and stored provisions such as corn, lima beans, dried potatoes, and llama jerky. Along the roads, local villagers would plant fruit trees that were watered by irrigation ditches. This enabled chasqui runners and other travellers to be refreshed while on their journeys.
With the help of Inca Project volunteers we have been able to recuperate over 1 mile of the Qapac Ñan running into the Antisuyo, one of the four quarters of the Inca empire, also known as the Tahuantinsuyo, land of 4 quarters.
Because of our location in the heart of the cloud forest and the good relationships we build up with the locals, our team has successfully investigated and recuperated this piece of history. Hard work, but very rewarding and a good combination with the explorations of the newfound site of Cochapata and the community work in the area. Recently volunteers have also discovered a stone cutting site were the Incas had worked. Jhon Valencia, our archaeologist, has his work cut out for him as volunteers seem to find new ruins every week.
Volunteers are also about to undertake two expeditions to the Lauramarca mountain from where a trail supposedly leads to Machu Picchu, who knows what these expeditions may reveal.
Inca Project volunteer, Harjit Dhillon tells us:
"The Inca Project was one of the best experiences of my life due to the variation and exciting nature of the project. The combination of walking up mountains to uncover new Inca ruins to the community work we do within the town. Whilst uncovering Inca roads, I found tool marks on stones so we were able to determine how they were cut. I would love to one day return to the project to see how things have progressed as more things are discovered on a weekly basis."
Thank you!
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Conan O'Brien made a triumphant return to television after a nine-month absence Monday night and apparently it wasn't a moment too soon for his fans, who gave the red-headed comic a rousing ovation as he bounded on to the set of his new late night digs in California.
"That was longer than my last job," he joked as the crowd settled in for a fast-paced first night of the show simply known as "Conan." The opening featured an extended monologue that touched on the comic's transition to a new late-night landscape on the occasion of what he called his "second annual first show."
"People ask me why I named the show Conan. I did it so I'd be harder to replace," he said. "I'm glad to be on cable. The truth is, I've dreamed of being a talk show host on basic cable ever since I was 46. And things are going well already. I'm happy to report that we're already No. 1 in TBS's key demographic — people who can't afford HBO."
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He even managed to throw a stinging jab at his old employer.
"I'm going to be honest: It's not easy doing a late-night show on a channel without a lot of money and that viewers have trouble finding. So that's why I left NBC," he joked.
"But the weird thing is this," he continued. "I put myself and my staff through a lot because I refused to go on at midnight," referencing the schism that lead to his departure from the peacock. "So I get this job at eleven. Then, yesterday, Daylight Savings Time ended — so right now it's basically midnight. In fact, it's 12:05."
Another source of controversy with NBC surrounded a potential intellectual property lawsuit over the use of certain characters and recurring bits that O'Brien developed on "Late Night" and the "Tonight Show." In recent days, the comic expressed his desire to employ those gags on his new show.
"If there's something we did for a long time that we've established as ours, we'll figure out a way to do it," he said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. "I won't be denied my Masturbating Bear!"
And he was not denied, as the bear appeared in a skit as a lotto ball selector for a mock NBC news station.
O'Brien was joined onstage by faithful side kick Andy Richter, who got in a shot at the host's expense during a discussion about Conan's "lowest low" over the last nine months: finding out that a Halloween costume made to look like his face had been named "Ex Talk Show Host."
"It looks like an Asian Val Kilmer," O'Brien said, staring at his rubbery likeness.
"Inside it smells like tears," Richter quipped as both men wore the mask during a brief exchange.
Fellow comedian Ricky Gervais taped a congratulatory message of sorts for the host. After wishing Conan well, he rehearsed several other versions of his missive in case the TBS show goes under.
"Maybe I'll bang out a few more," Gervais said. "Conan, I'm really sorry about TBS, but know you're going to fit in great at the Food Network."
In typical Conan fashion, the first guest was an offbeat selection, picked by fans in a "rigged first guest contest." The winner? Arlene Wagner, the owner and curator of the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum in Washington. She never said a word as she walked through and across the set, stopping only briefly to present the host with an Irish-inspired Nutcracker figure.
The first guest who actually spoke to O'Brien, "Knocked Up" star Seth Rogen, chatted about his recent engagement, his disappointment over California's failed proposition to legalize marijuana, and his background in karate that came into play while filming the forthcoming action-comedy, "The Green Hornet."
"What kind of moves did you learn at the Vancouver Jewish Community Center?" Conan asked.
"A lot of guilt-driven moves," Rogen replied. "The problem is, they only work on other Jewish people."
"They also work on Catholics," O'Brien deadpanned. "There's a wide berth there."
"Glee's" Lea Michele followed and talked about her recent, controversial cover shoot for GQ.
Conan then rocked out with White Stripes front man Jack White. During a break from his "Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television" tour last summer, O'Brien spent a day in Nashville with White and the duo cut a few songs together. They performed a blistering duet of a rockabilly tune with the backing of the in-house Basic Cable Band to close out the evening.
Selected Reading: CNN, Huffington Post, Entertainment Weekly

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If we don't come in first place ... [makes throat-slash gesture] ... The series we have to play the Yankees here at the end, that's going to be World Series [stuff].Indeed. ... Dan Shaughnessy talks to Carl Yastrzemski about Ortiz.
Paul Doyle (Courant) notes: "Ortiz says he studies Ramirez more than anyone and he had a suggestion Thursday. He told Ramirez he was too far from the plate and missing pitches he should have been crushing." ... That may be, but moving closer to the dish has been suggested to Manny by Ron Jackson for many weeks, and has been written and talked about at length.
Kevin Youkilis may have broken his right ring finger on a groundball yesterday. Initial x-rays did not show a break -- he had stitches under the nail -- but more x-rays will be taken today. Yook: "We're not 100 percent sure [it's broken]. There might be a slight crack. But even if it's not broken, it's pretty bad. It hurts. ... The doctor couldn't believe I was able to throw the ball across the diamond."
Despite a nice outing for Portland in the EL championship series Friday night, Wade Miller may need right shoulder surgery. ... Portland lost the series to Akron, so Craig Hansen could join the Sox in Tampa, possibly "as early as tonight".


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I recently moved into a newly re-wired house where the electrician terminated the ethernet wiring outside of the house. Wires are coiled/zip tied into a box on the exterior wall. The same box that the cable company patches their coax into.
What is the best way to activate this wiring? There isn't currently power available outside, so patching them all into a switch seems like it is going to be a, well, challenge... :-)


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By: Chloe Monte
This fall hike was had at Hurricane Creek Park Trail. This area is known for its summer splashes in Hurricane Creek where families and friends alike gather in the peaceful flowing water to beat the heat. The area is also known for its amazing trail system that loops through the cascading hills.
The trails are open to both mountain bikers and hikers; however, the trail system tends to be peaceful and low in traffic. It's the perfect trail to hike when one wants to feel in touch with nature and to get away from the noise of town.
The trail has both North and South loops. The North loop is 4.3 miles long and the South loop is an extra 1.1 miles. This is the perfect length to feel like you've gotten away, yet it is short enough that it can be done without giving up your entire day.
During my hike this past weekend, I found myself enjoying the trickling sun that danced upon the colorful fall leaves and beautiful birds that cascaded between the branches. It was truly a pleasure to experience this.
Hiking during the fall is one of the best times to hike in Alabama because the weather is often dry and temperate. In other words, Alabama is not making it difficult to have an amazingly relaxing day. Football season often competes with the call of the trail, but the die-hard outdoorsy people know that this often works to their advantage. And no worries, though, if game day cannot be missed to enjoy the tranquility of the trails, simply go on another day. It will be win-win! (Pun intended.)
Happy trailblazing!
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Bama's Haunted Houses22 Oct 2015
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By Chloe Monte
Haunted houses are everywhere in Alabama and we put together a list of ones to visit if you dare!
Atrox Factory
- 8404 Parkway Drive, Leeds, Alabama
- Parking is free / $20 general admission
- http://www.atroxfactory.com
Columbia Manor
- 306 South Main Street, Columbia, AL 36319
- $13 general admission
- Doors open at 7:30 pm
- http://www.columbiamanor.com
Haunted House of Horrors
- 1205 Tennessee St., Courtland, Al 35618
- Parking is free / $20 general admission
- Generally open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights in October
- http://www.hauntedhouseofhorror.net/haunted-house-calendar.shtml
Haunted Lester Hospital
- 30338 Lester Road, Lester, Alabama 35647
- $10 general admission
- The Hospital is open from 7 pm to Midnight
- http://thelesterhauntedhospital.com
Hollis Haunted Chicken House
- 7522 Hwy 431, Heflin, Alabama 36264
- $15 1 Token / $25 2 Tokens / $40 3 Tokens
- Open every Friday and Saturday from 7pm – 12am.
- http://hauntedchickenhouse.net
- 5320 Miles Spring Road, Pinson, AL 35126
- $10 general admission
- Open each Friday and Saturday evening at 7pm until midnight starting September 25
- http://www.catacombproductions.com/faqs
Popes Haunted Farm
- Lee Rd 724, Salem, Alabama 36874
- $13 per event / $30 three event combo
- They are open from 7:30 pm until 11 pm on Friday and Saturday nights or 10 pm on Thursday
- http://www.popeshayride.com/sites/popesfarm/index.html
Sloss Fright Furnace
- 20 32nd Street North, Birmingham, AL 35222
- $20 - $24 general admissions
- All ages can take the furnace tour. The trail tour is restricted to age 14 and up unless accompanied by adults
- Open every day of the week
- http://www.frightfurnace.com/index.asp
Spook Trail Maze of Monsters & Mayhem
- 17347 Highway 269, Quinton, Alabama
- $15 general admission or $10 with a canned food item
- The trail is open every Friday and Saturday night. It opens at 7pm and closes at 12am.
- http://spooktrail.tripod.com/spooktrail2.html
- 25 West Chocolocco St., Oxford, Alabama
- Enjoy 16 nights of frights on weekends in 2015 starting on September 25th
- Doors open at 7 pm
- https://www.facebook.com/The-Terrortorium-Haunted-House-132673176782173/
Twysted Souls Haunted Trail
- 1789 Odom Loop Road, Dozier, Alabama
- $5
- They open at 7 pm every Friday and Saturday night.
- http://hammettcaleb.wix.
Warehouse 31
- 3150 Lee Street, Pelham, Alabama 35124
- VIP pass $49.95
- Gates are open 6:30 pm to midnight on Friday and Saturday and until 11 pm on other nights.
- Free parking is available.
- http://warehouse31.com
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Art lovers will descend on Kentuck Park this weekend to enjoy one of the premiere art festivals in the country. The 44th annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts will be held this Saturday and Sunday, October 17 and 18. More than 270 diverse artists will present their work and interact with festival-goers at Kentuck this year.
Nationally recognized for its quality and diversity, a stroll through the Kentuck Festival brings visitors eye-to-art with a variety of artistic styles ranging from folk to contemporary art and craft. Traditional and heritage craft artists such as basket weavers, blacksmiths, potters and quilters invite visitors to watch them demonstrate their skills and share the secrets of their craft.
Kentuck will feature a variety of live music and spoken word performances on two stages. This year's lineup includes Debbie Bond and the Trudats, the Steel City Jug Slammers, The Bear and The Mulligan Brothers.
An interactive art environment in the center of the Festival entertains both young and old with an invitation to befriend a tuba at the musical petting zoo, squish clay, or indulge in fabric fantasies at the tie-dye area.
Free, continuous shuttles provide transportation to the park from downtown Northport. Advance purchase only weekend tickets are available online through Oct. 17 for $15 for ages 12 and up. Children under 12 are admitted free. Daily tickets are $10 per person per day. Tickets can be purchased online or at the gate. No pets, alcohol or smoking are allowed in the park.
The 44th annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts hours are Saturday and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For additional information on the 2015 festival, including the full artist lineup and the schedule for each day, visit www.kentuck.org or call (205) 758-1257.
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Movies to See with Your Kids This Fall05 Oct 2015
By: Zani Polk
Pan (releases October 9, 2015): No one wants to grow up, which is why the Peter Pan story never gets old. In this new movie, learn about the origins of Peter Pan and how he became the legend we know him to be today.
Jem and the Holograms (releases October 23, 2015): Four sisters are flung into fame after a video of their music is posted on the internet. But with the fame, the bonds and relationships they hold closest are tested. This movie takes you on a journey that will make you rethink who you are and what you choose to be.
Goosebumps (releases October 16, 2015): Back in the early '90s R.L. Stein'sGoosebumps series was the biggest thing at school book fairs and library trips. Maybe you read some, maybe you remember reading them to your siblings, or maybe you helped your kids pick them out. Regardless, this Halloween season, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Jack Black bring the spookiness ofGoosebumps to life. It's a great alternative to a scarier movie on Halloween night.
The Peanuts Movie (releases November 6, 2015): For Thanksgiving you may be ripping out the old classic, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, but you don't have to wait that long to see Charlie Brown in action. In this 3D film, a new kid moves to town and Charlie Brown gets another chance to prove he's a winner. Join in to watch all of your favorites—from Lucy and Snoopy to Peppermint Patty.
My All American (releases November 13, 2015): It may not be the Crimson Tide, but it is football. Catch this heartwarming movie about sportsmanship and determination, as a young athlete—seemingly too small to compete—makes it in college football.
The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay—Part II (releases November 20, 2015): In the fourth and final movie of the series, Katniss Everdeen brings her fight to the Capitol. Finally she must take on President Snow and defend the current and future freedoms of the people of Panem.
The Good Dinosaur (releases November 25, 2015): Pixar has done it again! Imagine a world where humans and dinosaurs existed together. Imagine dinosaurs replacing dogs as man's best friend. In this heartwarming tale, see a young boy bond in friendship with a good dinosaur and combat the elements of earth's earliest periods.
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Moundville Archaeological Park is celebrating its annual Native American Festival this weekend, and if you're looking for something exciting and unique to do with the whole family in our area, this is it. The four-day event, which begins on Oct. 8, is one of the premiere tourism events in the state of Alabama, drawing thousands to the Park in Moundville each and every year.
Visitors to this year's Moundville Native American Festival can enjoy performances, browse wonderful arts and crafts displays and watch great demonstrations designed to entertain and educate everyone about the rich culture and heritage of Southeastern Indians. Children are invited to get hands-on by playing native games and making crafts in the special Children's area.
"Moundville Archaeological Park is undoubtedly the most important prehistoric site in Alabama," said Betsy Irwin, education outreach coordinator for the park. "The massive amount of labor and skill involved in leveling the plaza and constructing the mounds reflects the sophistication of the ancient people who once lived here. Less than 15 percent of the site has been excavated, making Moundville the best preserved site of its kind."
One of the highlights of any visit to Moundville Archaeological Park is the University of Alabama's Jones Museum.
"This is very important to Native Americans, many of whom consider these mounds to be sacred," Irwin said. "In close consultation with Southeastern Indian tribes, we developed the Jones Museum exhibits to reflect their culture from the past as accurately as possible. Moundville and the Jones Archaeological Museum are both treasures that belong to everyone."
Festival admission is $10 for adults and $8 for children.
The Festival will take place October 8 and 9 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and October 10 and 11 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
For more information on the Moundville Archaeological Park, including more information about the 2014 Moundville Native American Festival, visit www.moundville.ua.edu
Photo: Jeff Perrigin
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Perfect Gameday Dips28 Aug 2015
By Tori Linville
The best game days are marked by the football and the food. If your last tailgate wasn't one that your taste buds remember, it's time for a change. Revamp your table with these classic dip recipes on us.
The Perfect Guac
(photo/recipe: gimmesomeoven.com)
What you'll need:
3 ripe avacados
1 minced jalapeno (stem and seeds removed)
1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
1 tbsp. lime juice
1/4 cup cilantro leaves, finely chopped
1/2 tsp. coarse sea salt
dash of cumin
(optional/: 1 roma tomato, cored and chopped)
What you'll make:
Mash together ingredients. If you're adding tomatoes, stir those in at the end. Cover with plastic wrap so that the wrap directly touches the guacamole, and refrigerate.
The Best Bean Dip
(photo/recipe: the-girl-who-ate-everything.com)
What you'll need:
1 can refried beans
1 cup picante sauce
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
3/4 cup sour cream
1 pckg. cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
tortilla chips
What you'll make:
In a bowl, combine first eight ingredients and serve with chips and salsa.
Ways to cook it:
Slow cooker: cover and cook on high for two hours
Oven: bake dip at 350 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes
Microwave: heat in bowl for five to eight minutes
Mississippi Sin Dip
(picture/recipe: amandajeanbrown.com)
What you'll need:
1 loaf French bread (Italian loaf)
1 8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1 1/2 cup sour cream
2 cups shredded sharp Cheddar
1/2 cup chopped smoked ham or prosciutto
1/3 cup green onion, chopped fine
4 oz. can of chopped green chilies, undrained
1/4 cup jalapeno pepper, chopped fine
couple shakes of Worcestershire sauce
What you'll make:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare the bread by cutting off the top of the bread 1/2 inch deep. Hollow out the bread, leaving about a one inch shell. Set top aside and cut inside bread into cubes for toasting and dipping later. Mix all ingredients in mixer until blended.
Place a piece of aluminum foil large enough to wrap around the whole loaf onto a baking sheet. Pour cheese mixture into hollowed-out bread. Sprinkle top with meat if desired. Return the top piece of bread to close the bread bowl.
Wrap completely in foil and place baking sheet in oven. Bake for one hour.
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Best Museums to Check Out in Alabama24 Aug 2015
Check out some of the best museums in the state.
Cheap, Fast Water Fun09 Aug 2015
A summer past time everybody remembers is taking a huge, refreshing swig of water from the water hose while playing outside. Nowadays, there's more than one way to catch that refreshing swig all over again. We've listed some virtually inexpensive water games that don't even require you leaving the driveway to cure the summertime boredom we all face. Other than slip 'n slides and water balloon fights, these fast and easy games will offer a quick way to cool off without breaking the bank.
Cold Potato
Unlike hot potato, cold potato is considerate of the summer heat. Using a pin to poke a small hole in a water balloon, the 'cold potato' is passed around in a circle before it runs out of water. The idea is that every one cools off, but not too much.
Add a twist: The player who catches the balloon as it runs out of water gets an entire leaky water balloon squirted at them.
Marco Polo – without the pool
The idea is the same but instead of treading water, the infamous Marco is blinded and strapped with a water gun to seek out his or her Polos. Mixed with a bit of hide and seek, Marco counts to ten with his or her back turned, and then calls Marco. When a Polo is successfully drenched, switch roles.
Add a twist: Add some water balloons to the Marco's arsenal.
Maybe one of the easiest water games ever. The goal? To make the biggest splat with water balloons. Just throw them in the air. The higher the throw, the bigger the splat. Winner is the player with the biggest splat.
Add a twist: Challenge players to create a shape from their splats.
Bobbing for Apples
A carnival tradition, bobbing for apples is a perfect way to chill down. Just stick your face in the water and try your best for a fruity prize.
Add a twist: Switch up fruits and turn the edible prizes into smoothies.
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Live Music Options for August08 Aug 2015
By Tori Linville
Headphones are in and the world is blocked temporarily. In your head, you're dancing all-out to your favorite artist. No one can stop you. Really, you're probably doing dishes. Or yard work. So why not actually live your dream for one night? Narrowing down the best live music options in your area is always a toughie. So much music, so little time! Now there's no need to worry because we've got you covered right here.
Great music is known to find its way to Tuscaloosa and this August is no different. While there isn't much floating around now, keep your ear to the ground and more acts will line up soon.
August 20: Alabama Shakes with Drive-By Truckers – 8 p.m.
Birmingham's centers and arenas always attract big names. Country, alternative and pop have all made a name for themselves in the Birmingham area.
August 10: My Morning Jacket at the Legacy Arena in the BJCC – 7 p.m.
August 14: Tim McGraw, Billy Currington and Chase Bryant at the Oak Mountain Amphitheatre – 7 p.m.
With a music scene that's been growing rapidly over the years, Mobile isn't short of a variety of acts to hear around the city. New and upcoming acts are spread all around and artists from rap to rock to EDM find different venues to showcase their talent.
August 13: SoMo at Vinyl Music Hall – 7 p.m.
August 29: The Molly Ringwalds at the Soul Kitchen Music Hall – 11 p.m.
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Netflix Movies to Watch28 Jul 2015
By Tori Linville
While it's just a car drive away to visit the movie theater and watch the latest blockbuster, there are some serious downsides that have more people staying at home. Sites like Netflix have more and more people dodging the crazy concession prices and forgoing the buckets of popcorn for a more relaxed experience. If you're one of these people, we've got some suggestions for you. Check out these movies that don't disappoint and don't come with the couple making out two rows under you (thankfully).
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (PG-13)
Why start with a movie you've probably already seen? Because, it's a classic. And you cannot go wrong with Ferris Bueller played by a young Matthew Broderick. Maybe this time you'll be able to figure out just what Ferris does to get away with all his stunts. Maybe not.
Django Unchained (R)
This 2012 blockbuster was one that people just wouldn't stop talking about. Freed from slavery, Django (Jamie Foxx) travels cross country in search of his wife. Leonardo DiCaprio didn't get an Oscar from this movie either, but he does play an evil plantation owner. Graphic but gripping stuff.
Jumanji (PG)
The title should be enough to grab a popcorn bowl, but we'll elaborate. Two children discover a magic board game, Jumanji. They meet a crazy guy who has been trapped in the game for years. He's played by Robin Williams. Now go, watch (again, probably)!
In A World… (R)
Carol Soloman (Lake Bell) is a vocal coach, but her dad's already made a name for himself in the industry, and she's just getting started. Overshadowed and unappreciated, Carol's big gig finally comes and it's everything she's ever wanted. As an indie rom-com, this movie ain't half bad.
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (PG)
This cute animated movie features a super smart dog, Mr. Peabody, and Sherman his human companion. The two time travel and find adventure along the way. Inspired by Rocky and Bullwinkle, there's enough cuteness and happenings going on here for the whole family to enjoy.
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20 Year Old Montana Man Who Died at North Dakota Oil Rig Identified
WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) - Authorities have identified a Montana man who died after an incident at an oil drilling rig in western North Dakota.
Forum Communications reports that 20-old Kyle Winters, of Kalispell, Mont., died Thursday.
The initial report from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration says he was crushed by a set of power tongs, which is equipment used to handle pipe going in and out of well holes.
The incident happened at a rig north of Watford City. OSHA says Winters died while receiving treatment from paramedics who were preparing to fly him to a Bismarck hospital.


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This post is to cover conneg, or Content Negotiation.
TL;DR - use HTTP as designed and follow the rules.
Alice tries to access http://example.com/ on her iPhone. She gets back some HTML which references some images.
The markup returned to Alice contains references to 3 images. I'll just look at the first one.
Alice's iPhone made a request for /images/1 and got back a 320x80px PNG image, since we have a clever server-side component which knows about different user-agents and tries to serve the most suitable version of an image for each client.
Along comes Bob. Bob is using a Google Nexus One. He similarly requests our home page and gets back a link to /images/1. When the Nexus One requests that resource though, it gets back a 420x120px PNG, again thanks to our fancy server-side detection.
What does this do to our caching? Well, it stuffs it up completely.
- We're using a canonical URI for the image - /images/1.
- We're serving different representations of the image from the same URL.
- We cannot easily specify good HTTP expiration directives.
- There are many thousand User-Agent strings in existence.
- How different are these 2 anyway?
- Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko)
- Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7A400
So alternatives to conneg?
- Use a distinct URI for every bag of bytes that the application can serve. This means that your server-side markup generation needs to be a little smarter, so that you render markup containing /images/1/320x80 and /images/1/480x120 for example (see the point in my CloudFront post about not wanting to use query string parameters for this information).
- It's still possible to support the old canonical URLs, either by continuing to perform conneg, or redirecting appropriately.
- Rev your URIs so that you can happily set Far Future Expires directives on these resources; i.e. if the image changes, give it a new URI.


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I'm writing about a subject that may not be too appealing or romantic, but it's something that pretty much affects all of us. I recently wrote about hearing loss and mentioned that a frequent cause of this was from blockage due to ear wax, also called cerumen.
Ear wax is actually not a wax but a mixture of skin cells and oil secreted by glands in the ear canal. Its purpose is to lubricate and protect the sensitive lining of the canal. It has some antimicrobial properties which means it can help to fight off infections.
Most of the time cerumen has a tendency, due to chewing and jaw movements, to move to the opening of the ear where it dries up and flakes out of the ear and disappears, causing us no problems.
When an ear canal is blocked up with cerumen, it is called an impaction. This can occur when one produces an overabundance of ear wax.Another cause of impaction is from the use of a Q Tip which more often than not forces the cerumen deeper into the ear canal rather than cleaning it out. The use of a Q-Tip can also scratch your ear canal and cause an infection. This is why it's often said not to stick anything in your ear "smaller than your elbow".
With a cerumen impaction, you will most likely feel a pressure sensation in your ear canal and usually some degree of hearing loss. These are the symptoms that will usually cause a patient to see their doctor.
Once your doctor looks in your ear and verifies the wax blockage he or she has several options to remove it. The most common method used is to flush out the ear with pressurized water. Another method your doctor may use is to take a small wire instrument and, under direct vision, remove the wax manually
There are ear wax removal kits found at pharmacies that contain wax softening drops and a bulb syringe to flush out the ear. Although not always successful, they're probably worth a try.
I advise my patients after the wax has been removed, to do some home therapy to prevent further wax buildup. Once a week, perhaps when bathing, they should flush out their ears with luke warm water, using a common rubber bulb syringe found at any pharmacy. This method should clean out any wax before it accumulates.


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On the "Most popular topics" lists at the top of the main forums page, shouldn't there be some sort of exponential decay built in so that old threads with lots of posts but with little recent activity drift to the bottom? Otherwise, the Duke thread is going to be at the top of both lists for a long, long time even when no one is talking about it anymore.
Would something like exponential smoothing work here? Do something like:
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When Parenting Goes Wrong Pt. II: Some Little Girls Curse Up A Storm! (Airing Out A Chick From Myspace)
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According to a report last week, leaked documents hint at a coming assault on education and the environment in state legislatures:
Conservative groups across the US are planning a co-ordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, income tax, workers' compensation and the environment, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as "free-market thinktanks", includes … school voucher schemes to counter public education, … and a campaign against regional efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
These proposals are fairly run-of-the-mill, but these documents are notable for revealing the coordinated networks that push such bills through legislatures.
We know that the Discovery Institute promotes model legislation opening the door to creationism in schools, and that similar bills have become law in two states. There's radical religious right groups across the country have joined in advocating for that model legislation, but no one has revealed how coordinated those efforts might be. We only see the effect, such as the dozen anti-evolution and anti-climate education bills filed just last year (six of them variants of the Discovery Institute's model). We expect at least as many bills in the legislative sessions starting in January.
Next Wednesday, December 18, NCSE will run an on-line training to help you learn how to be an effective advocate in legislatures and other halls of power.
Stopping such bills requires the committed work of local citizens, reaching out to lawmakers and finding ways to block or rework these bills. To see the power of citizen lobbying, look at the video above, where a crowd of Montanans turned up to stop an anti-science bill last spring, and how effectively they stopped that bill in its tracks by turning up and speaking powerfully against the bill. But there's more to lobbying than public hearings, and we'll cover that in the training.
I'll be leading the training, with co-panelists Dena Sher of the ACLU (and previously Americans United for Separation of Church and State), and Vic Hutchison of Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education. It should be a grand time, and I hope you'll register and attend.
And if you missed our first on-line training, you can watch the video and download the slides I showed from the Taking Action part of the NCSE website.


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Earlier this week, I brought you the story of a good friend who gave me his original Xbox without wiping its contents. From the data, I was able to piece together a sentimental portrait of my friend as he and his wife started their new lives together.
If there was an irony there, it's that only in my hands could such information become personally revealing. A stranger buying the Xbox off Craigslist or inheriting the data as a used GameStop purchase would not understand the significance behind of any of the gamesaves.
However, it doesn't take a New Yorker profile writer to understand the significance of a picture of someone taking a ripping bong hit, left on a used 3DS. This chuckleworthy tale from the U.K. should reinforce the modern necessity of wiping all gaming devices of their data before you give them up for sale. And if you buy a used device from a retail outlet and come across this sort of thing, definitely complain about it. It's supposedly store policy to wipe the devices, and if they don't, they'll usually give you store credit or a partial refund.
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Dean Michael Schill announced today that Dr. Richard Sandor, Chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial Products LLC, and his wife Ellen are the principal donors to a $10 million endowment in law and economics at the University of Chicago Law School. The Sandors made the gift in honor of Richard's mentor, Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase, Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Law School.
In honor of Coase's path-breaking work and Sandor's own extraordinarily important innovations in the world of finance and the environment, the Institute for Law and Economics will be renamed the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics. Current and future work of the Coase-Sandor Institute will focus on the role of law, private property rights and transaction costs in promoting efficient markets. Scholars at the Institute also will study the appropriate relationship between transactions, government regulation, self-regulation and economically efficient outcomes in such disparate substantive areas as climate change, water, endangered species, health care, education, housing and corporate restructuring.
"Over half a century, Ronald Coase's pioneering work has exemplified the distinctive and powerful nature of University of Chicago scholarship. By transcending the traditional boundaries of two disciplines, Professor Coase helped shape a new field of thought in law and economics," said University President Robert J. Zimmer. "It is fitting that the inquiry he helped spark continues in an institute that bears his name, and we are grateful to Richard and Ellen Sandor for making that possible."
"Richard Sandor has been an extraordinary innovator in the financial world for decades and is also an intellectual heavyweight on matters of economics," said Michael H. Schill, Dean of the Law School and Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law. "His generous gift to the Institute for Law and Economics celebrates the tradition of innovation that Ronald Coase began and Richard has continued here at Chicago Law. It has been such a boon to our students to have Richard teach in our classrooms and become an important part of our intellectual community. His gift shows his extraordinary commitment not only to the future of one of the most important ideas in the history of legal scholarship, but also to his mentor, Ronald Coase. It was very important to Richard to name the Institute for Ronald Coase and very important to us to recognize Richard and Ellen in the name of our Institute as well."
Sandor is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Environmental Financial Products LLC, which specializes in inventing, designing and developing new financial markets. EFP was established in 1998, and was the predecessor company and incubator to the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the European Climate Exchange (ECX) and the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE). Ellen Sandor is an internationally acclaimed artist and founder of (art)n. She is currently an Affiliate of eDream, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mrs. Sandor has had work displayed in galleries and museums throughout the world, including the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the Museum Victoria, Australia, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Art in Embassies Program (Germany and Zimbabwe), and the Musée Carnavalet, Paris. She recently received the Thomas R. Leavens Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts through Lawyers for the Creative Arts. She is currently co-editing a forthcoming book that chronicles the oral history of pioneering, female, new media artists. Ellen and Richard are both major philanthropists who support a wide array of institutions, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Center of Photography, and the Gene Siskel Film Center.
The Sandors are also major philanthropists to the University of California – Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, the University of Oklahoma, and the City University of New York – Brooklyn College.
While on sabbatical from the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1970s, Richard Sandor served as vice president and chief economist of the Chicago Board of Trade. It was at that time that he earned the reputation as the principal architect of the interest-rate futures market. Sandor was honored by the City of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade for his contribution to the creation of financial futures and his universal recognition as the "father of financial futures." In October 2007, he was honored as one of Time Magazine's "Heroes of the Environment" for his work as the "father of carbon trading." In addition to his service as a lecturer at the Law School, Sandor is a distinguished professor of environmental finance at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and a member of its International Advisory Council. In 2012, he authored a book entitled Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation.
Sandor said that Coase shaped his thinking throughout his career.
"Professor Coase has had a profound impact in my career as an academic and practitioner. His clarity of thought and intellectual honesty have been critical to my understanding of what it takes to create, build and nurture new markets. The importance of his work will continue to be felt in areas such as the environment, health and entrepreneurship. Ellen and I are proud and humbled to make this contribution to help ensure that Coase's legacy will continue to have an impact on scholars, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the United States and around the world."
Coase has served on the faculty of the Law School since 1964. His impact on the fields of both economics and law has been profound. His 1937 paper, "The Nature of the Firm," established the field of transaction cost economics. "The Problem of Social Cost," published in 1961, set out what is now commonly called the "Coase Theorem" and pioneered a new field in economic research, "law and economics." Professor Coase was the editor of the University of Chicago's Journal of Law and Economics from 1964 to 1982. Among his many publications are The Firm, the Market and the Law (1988) and Essays on Economics and Economists (1994). Professor Coase was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991, the first and only time that award was given to a professor whose primary appointment was in a law school. His current work, including the book How China Became Capitalist (with Ning Wang, PhD'02) continues to use the tools of law and economics to understand the modern history of China.
"I am very grateful to both the University of Chicago Law School, my academic home for many decades, and to Richard and Ellen Sandor for this honor," said Coase. "It is wonderful to know that after all these years and all the work that has been done, that ideas are still, and ever will be, paramount at Chicago. I am delighted that law and economics has a secure future at the Law School, and cannot wait to see the new scholarship that comes from the Institute."
Building on a long tradition of excellence as the birthplace of law and economics, the University of Chicago Law School launched the Institute for Law and Economics in 2011. The goal of the Coase-Sandor Institute is to promote the understanding and dissemination of the economic approach to law, including transaction cost economics, empirical analysis and economic theory. It supports research and learning by students, faculty, and fellows, and organizes events and activities in Chicago and beyond. Sandor's gift will support all facets of the Coase-Sandor Institute's mission, including research, teaching, scholarships and conferences. Additional gifts over the past year have included two research chairs for young scholars.
"The Institute for Law and Economics is founded on the intellectual legacy of Ronald Coase, who demonstrated how economics can reshape our thinking about the law," said Omri Ben-Shahar, the Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law and Kearney Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute. "Richard Sandor's financial innovations and entrepreneurship exemplify the enormous practical value of Coase's insights. In naming the Coase-Sandor Institute, we celebrate 50 years of law and economics at the University of Chicago and its deep influence on both legal thought and public policy."


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February 13, 2013
During his State of the Union address last night, Obama called for universal preschool education "to ensure that all 4-year-olds have access to quality preschool," according to ABC News.
The plan builds on Head Start and state pre-K programs that target low-income children. It will dish out government largess to middle-income families to entice participation.
"The objective clearly is to get as many children into the clutches of the state educational system as early as possible," Michael Tennant wrote on Sunday.
Obama's proposal to extend the reach of government into the lives of young Americans was cooked up by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the Democrat think tank funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute and the Democracy Alliance, a Soros and Drummond Pike outfit staffed by former Clintonistas. It also funds ACORN and other "progressive" organizations.
"All children ages 3 and 4 should be able to voluntarily attend a full-day public preschool program," the CAP website states. "Preschool should be free for children from families at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty line ($46,100 for a family of four). Children from families above 200 percent of the poverty line should be charged a sliding tuition co-pay, ranging from about 30 percent of the cost to 95 percent of the cost (for families above 400 percent of the poverty line)."
The offer to subsidize the tuition of families 400 percent above the poverty line is clear evidence that CAP and the Democrats are serious about directing the "cognitive and emotional development" of all children.
Additionally, CAP wants double the funding of Early Head Start, a federal government program designed to "support the physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and language development" of infants and toddlers. The program calls for "home-visits" by government employees, "especially for families with newborns."
The government admits Head Start is a dismal failure. "With only a few exceptions, teacher and classroom characteristics did not differ significantly between children in the Head Start group and those in the control group," the Department of Health and Human Services discovered in 2010.
In fact, children fared worse with government meddling in education — a DHS follow-up study found that "the parents of the Head Start group children reported a significantly lower child grade promotion rate than the parents of the non-Head Start group children."
Head Start and so-called universal preschool is not about "child grade promotion" and quality education as Obama, CAP and the Democrats claim. It's about indoctrinating and socializing children from the earliest years and training them to be obedient citizens later in life.
Education "is being surreptitiously converted from academics to socialist work force training necessary for the United States imminent merging into a global, collectivized economy," writes Charlotte Iserbyt, who worked for the U.S. Department of Education during the Reagan administration.
"Public education, in its current state, is based on the idea that government is the 'parent' best equipped to provide children with the values and wisdom required to grow into intelligent, functional adults," adds Karen De Coster.
"The confinement of children on the part of authoritarian figures who demand mandatory attendance illustrates how the federal public school system has become a security garrison with satellite detainment facilities. Moreover, yanking children from their parents and assimilating them into dumbed-down, draconian learning pools based on age and collectivizing their learning experience in a quasi-prison environment hasn't worked, and it will never be ideal for the vast majority of the children."
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Our Fresh Thoughts sustainable seafood dinner with PABU's Jonah Kim is next Tuesday, March 25th!
In advance of his upcoming dinner, we chatted with Chef Kim about how the sustainable seafood movement is influencing Baltimore's dining scene:
What's your favorite sustainable seafood ingredient to prepare?
Oysters—I love oysters. Every oyster is different; you can source them from various regions and they come in different tastes and textures. I showcase my love for oysters in PABU's signature dish, the Happy Spoon. This dish features a raw oyster in ponzu-flavored crème fraîche, topped with fresh uni and two types of fish roe. The combination of sweet and salty makes this one of our guests' favorite dishes.
How is sustainable seafood playing a role in Baltimore's dining scene?
We're definitely lucky to be based in the mid-Atlantic region where you can find rockfish, oysters, crabs and more right in our backyard. I think the sustainable seafood movement is gaining momentum in the area, but continuing to grow the public's awareness of and demand for sustainable seafood is key to growing it in the local dining scene.
What's your biggest challenge when it comes to cooking sustainably?
Cooking sustainably is challenging in Japanese cuisine. Very few Japanese chefs are aware of whether or not ingredients are sustainable. Our goal at PABU is to offer the freshest product to our guests, but sometimes it's difficult to find sustainable ingredients that are readily available. Hopefully soon, this will change.
What is one sustainable seafood ingredient you hope to see more of in restaurants (including your own) this year?
Clams. Right now we don't have any menu items featuring clams due to the lack of availability. I'm hoping to get ahold of some in the summer. I'd love to do a fish pairing featuring spicy pork and clams.
Tell us a little bit about PABU and how your team is always churning out such delicious meals!
As the only izakaya in the Baltimore region, PABU's concept was built from offering small plate menu options highlighting authentic Japanese flavors and local ingredients. At PABU, we pride ourselves on serving our guests the freshest ingredients from all over the world. I believe it's the balance between texture and sweetness and spice that makes our dishes so unique and memorable.
Where do you get the seafood you serve at PABU?
PABU sources its seafood from all over the world: from the mid-Atlantic all the way to Japan. Our menu items vary according to seasonal availability of ingredients. For example, our soft-shell crabs come from the mid-Atlantic region, but we can only get our hands on those in the summer months.
If everyone could walk away from our Fresh Thoughts dinner knowing one thing, it would be…
By making the choice to dine at restaurants that support sustainable seafood, one person can make a change in the health of our oceans.
Can't wait for the night of the 25th to see Chef Kim in action? He recently stopped by WBAL-TV to share his special Fresh Thoughts recipe for Asian Clam Chowder! Watch his segment here:


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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has been out and about promoting the fact that specialists can meet requirements for the "meaningful use" incentive payment program as provided by the HITECH Act by taking advantage of exceptions in the final rule.
At a recent meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmologists, David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator of health information technology for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), pointed to exceptions to the meaningful use final rule that can enable specialists to qualify for incentive funds.
These exceptions were put in place because some meaningful use objectives are not applicable to every provider's practice. As a result, when choosing which of the "menu item" objectives to focus on, those that are not applicable to that specialty are counted as meeting meaningful use requirements. For example, dentists do not perform immunizations. Therefore, under the exceptions rule, a dentist who is an eligible provider would be recorded as meeting the meaningful use of the menu item "Immunization Data to Registries."
Some other exceptions include ones that apply to using computerized physician order entry systems and e-prescribing tools for ordering medications. Physicians write fewer than 100 prescriptions during the 90-day reporting period are excluded from those two rules. Another exception applies to the rule that physicians must supply patients with electronic copies of their health records. An exception applies if no patients ask for the records.
Still, some specialists would like to see separate requirements for them as part of the Medicare and Medicaid EMR incentive program. Many groups have weighed in on the topic including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons which published a position statement after the preliminary rules were released that supported the use of EMRs for improving the quality of patient care, safety and outcomes. But the statement also added, "Orthopaedic surgeons will have great difficulty in meeting the current 25 meaningful use standards."
To date, the ONC has not issued a formal statement for specialists aiming to meet the standards. However, Blumenthal has spoken publicly a number of times stating that specialists could claim exceptions to rules that do not apply to them and that claiming exceptions is acceptable to meeting the requirements to qualify for EMR stimulus money.
The EHR stimulus programs were established to implement a national strategy for using health IT (HIT) to drive quality improvement and delivery of more efficient and patient-centered healthcare. The common definition of meaningful use for both Medicare and Medicaid means that a wide variety of providers will be focusing their reporting efforts on required data points to receive the incentive payments.


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For my project today, I die cut burlap with NinaB Designs' Home Sweet Home dies. I combined the diecut burlap with Glitz Design's "French Kiss" collection...and it was the perfect match! Here is what I created:
Diecut Machine: Cuttlebug by Provo Craft
Dies: Spellbinders (Home Sweet Home set)
There will be 5 prizes offered for this blog hop, all of which can be seen on Nina's blog. Winners will be picked randomly from 5 of the designers' blogs:
Everybody is welcome to comment and be eligible to win. Nina will announce the winners on May 22 on her blog. Be sure to check out her blog for all the winning & shipping details!
Finally, please consider liking the following Facebook pages that are represented on today's hop, so you don't miss the latest news and happenings:


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Amazonas Regnskogbevaring - Frivillig Arbeid i Peru: Månedlige Oppdateringer
Månedlige Oppdateringer fra 2014
As 2014 comes to a close it is time to reflect on some great progress on our pioneering conservation project deep in the Amazon rainforest. But before I look back on all the successes of the year, the last couple of months have been outstanding in their own right.
What a great report I can bring you all this month. Our baby turtles have started hatching, we have successfully released our fourth group of spider monkeys, the capuchin monkeys are entering their final pre-release phase and our biodiversity studies continue to amaze and produce surprises.
What a busy summer we have had this year. Once again the lodge was packed to capacity for several weeks and with over 40 volunteers on site we were able to get huge amounts of work done.
The last few weeks at Taricaya have been busy as usual and with the floods a distant memory we have been able to push on in many of our projects and the results have been very rewarding.
It seems just a few days ago that I was writing my latest from the jungles of Amazonian Peru but two months have just flown by and it is time to give you all the latest from Taricaya and our recovery from the disastrous floods of February this year.
My apologies for the delay in getting you the latest news from the Peruvian Amazon but as you will soon discover 2014 has not been the kindest to us over the last few weeks. However before I talk about the freakish storms and torrential rain I would like to start on a great high and a fantastic way to start the New Year….


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ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Cory Schneider, making his first start in 11 days, carried a shutout into the third period Thursday and boosted Vancouver to a 4-1 decision over Minnesota.
The Canucks built a 4-0 lead and extended their winning streak to four games.
Daniel Sedin and Chris Higgins produced first-period goals, followed by scores from Mason Raymond and Jannik Hansen in the second.
Schneider had not been given a start since he suffered a 4-1 loss at the hands of San Jose on Jan. 27. Roberto Luongo has been in goal since then.
Tom Gilbert ruined Schneider's shutout bid 7:25 into the third with a power-play goal.
Niklas Backstrom let in four goals on 16 shots in what was the Wild's second home loss of the season.


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Counting kicks
Few pregnancy milestones are as exciting as feeling your baby's first kick. While you may not recognize that funny feeling at first, when you do, those kicks sure can put a smile on your face.
When you reach your third trimester, we recommend counting your baby's kicks. Tracking your little one's activity can tell us a lot about his or her health. If we give you a kick count card, fill it out daily and bring it to your prenatal visits. If we don't give you one, you can download a kick count card here.
How to use your kick count card
The best time to count kicks is whenever your baby is typically the most active. Do you feel your little one moving around a lot at a certain time each day? If your baby doesn't have a predictable pattern, after dinner is a good time to try.
To fill out your card, follow these steps:
- Lie down on your side or relax in a comfortable chair.
- Make a note of the time.
- Pay attention only to your baby's movements. Count any movement that you can feel (except hiccups). Any twist, kick, or turn is 1 movement.
- After you count 10 movements, check the time and record on the card how many minutes it took
If your baby does not kick or move within 1 hour
Do some or all of these things and then try again:
- Eat or drink something, like fruit or juice.
- Lie on your left side.
- Walk around for 5 minutes.
When to call us
Call us right away if your baby:
- Has not moved 10 times by the end of 2 hours
- Has a sudden decrease in normal activity
If we think something might be wrong, we'll give you a simple test to make sure everything is OK.


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Prince Charming, The Lone Ranger – whatever the square-jawed character, Armie Hammer's ready to put a unique spin on it.
Hammer's latest role is as the not-quite-so-stalwart object of Snow White's affection in the deconstructionist romp "Mirror Mirror." Here's what he has to say on his rocketing career, which has shot up faster than a silver bullet.
Were you game for going all out for this, to bring the sillier side of this charming prince to light?
Yeah, it was fun, man. It was fun just to get to go to that place where it's not like you're doing a heavy drama, where you have to show up on set in the right headspace and focused on your work. You're making a movie where you're play-fighting and you're playing with swords and dwarves and giants and this and that. It was like a fun escape for the kids.
When you read the script and saw that you literally had to lick Julia Roberts' face, what did you think?
I don't remember if licking her face was actually in the script or something that we just kind of came up with on the day, but either way that was the first day of work and my first day of working with her. So, I was like, 'Yeah. Nice to meet you. Are you ready?' That was basically it.
A good ice breaker?
A good ice shatterer. I remember the first time that I licked her she threw her heard back and did that iconic Julia Roberts laugh and I remember just being, like, 'Wow. OK.'…I think if you're intimidated by her it's because you look at her and you think of everything that she's done, all the movies, all the accolades, all the this and that, everything she's earned which is great. She has earned them all, most definitely, but when you work with her she's just professional, she's sweet, she's on it, she never didn't know her lines. She always knew exactly how she wanted to stand and how she wanted to do this. She was specific about everything. It was like watching a professional who's been doing something for a long time, but actively perfected what they were doing. She's smart. They'll put a lens on and she'll go, 'What size lens is that? Oh, okay, so I have to hold this up here instead of down there. Got it.' You're like, 'Wow, she really just knows everything.' She's just paid attention since she's been doing this.
What's it's been like for you in the last year, year and half going from one phase of career to this other level?
Well, fortunately I've been so terrified by the work that I've had to do, like in terms of not messing up when I'm standing next to Johnny Depp, or not forgetting this, or doing a good job on this line. I've been so distracted by that I haven't been able to get caught up in all of that. So fortunately I've just been motivated by the fear of failure, to not be distracted and just focus on the work.
You seem to have a healthy attitude towards Hollywood, as if this business is a fairy tale and it's not real. Can you talk about that?
I was having a conversation with someone on set about this, where it's like if you're an actor on set someone will come up to you at some point during the day – it's a given – and go, 'Can I get you anything?' And they're not coming up to you to say, 'You're so special. You're so awesome. What can I, a humble servant, do for you?' What they're saying is 'Look, as soon as they're ready to shoot this scene if they have to wait five minutes because you ran off to get a sandwich, that's going to cost them $35,000 for just not shooting when they could be shooting.' There's a number for how much it costs per second and it's really high, so you get these people on set who go 'Can I get you something, because you can't leave this spot?' Someone will bring you a water or something like that. It's easy to lose track of the fact that they do that because they need to keep track of you, and not because you're 'special.' Then all of a sudden these people get off the set and they realize, 'Everybody should ask me if I want something! I want a Perrier – not a Pellegrino!' or whatever it is. It's easy to see how these monsters are kind of created. So I try to just step back from all of that and just keep it as a whole, a whole thing.
What's it like being first on the call-sheet for a $200 million western like "The Lone Ranger?"
You'd have to ask Johnny Depp. [Laughs] But I can tell you that to play the title character, at first it was a ton of pressure, I'll be honest. I remember nights before we started shooting just laying in bed, going, 'How much does this cost? What's it called? Oh, man – that's me. What about this…?' You just kind of work yourself into these ridiculous tizzies, but that's only because you're doing it to yourself. As soon as I got on set for the first day and we got the first day of shooting out of the way, I remember at lunch going back to my trailer after eating and just kind of going, 'This feels just like making a movie. This is what I love. This is no different,' and it's really not. It's a bunch of dudes in a room with a camera doing what they love. It's the smallest feeling big movie that I've ever been a part of. This feels smaller in scale because of the attention everyone is putting into the most minute detail than even 'Snow White' did. It's at least twice the size, but it feels like a small, big movie.
Is the Lone Ranger just far enough in the back in pop culture consciousness that you can invent a lot of new stuff, or are you sticking to a template that's been established?
I'll say this: diehard fans of 'The Lone Ranger' will be happy because the story is there. Everything that you remember, the details about where this might've come from or why this came to be, all of that is there. But it's also now put into a package that a kid who has never seen Clayton Moore rear up on a horse will go, 'Whoa – The Lone Ranger is really cool!' It's going to make everyone happy, but more than that, it's the relationship between Tonto and The Lone Ranger and the sometimes rub and the sometimes odd couple…it's a buddy comedy. It's like a huge action/adventure buddy comedy.
Johnny, like Julia, has become iconic as well. Was he intimidating to work with at all, or did you have an easy chemistry with him right away?
Yeah. He's just a fantastic guy. He's Johnny Depp. He's one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, but at the same time he's great. He's there for the work. He's there because he's excited about the movie.
Have you enjoyed learning the daring do, the fencing for this and the shooting for that?
Yeah, that's one of the perks of this job – not only do you get to go to amazing places all over the world, but I was learning to sword fight and now I'm learning to throw lassos and shoot pistols and ride horses. Who knows? On the next one maybe I'll learn something new. It's fun. You get to be a jack of all trades, master of none, but you still get to jack around a bit.
Last year you got to be a part of the long awards season march with 'The Social Network.' This year you had your own personal nomination for 'J. Edgar.' How was it different to have the spotlight on you?
It didn't feel too different, other than the fact that it was incredibly encouraging and it was an honor to be nominated by my peers from SAG and stuff like that. That was fantastic, but I was equally excited when our whole movie got nominated. There was a whole group of us, the whole thing. So, it didn't feel too differently. It still felt great to be noticed and included. But I'd be fine having a January or a February where I don't have that much to do.
Is it easier now since you did, say, 'The Social Network,' which was your first big thing? Doesn't it get easier?
No. You'd think it would, but it doesn't get easier at all. If anything it gets more difficult. Before 'Social Network' nobody knew who I was. If I messed something up, it was like, 'Oh, yeah. He wasn't very good in that.' And you move past that. If you were an artist, the bigger the show the more people are going to see your art and the more people have a chance to critique your art. That's why when I did 'Mirror Mirror' I was really nervous because I was branching out and doing something that I hadn't done before, just being goofy on camera. Whereas I looked at it just like having fun and being goofy someone else might look at it and go, 'Bad acting.' That's a possibility. Compared to Sir Laurence Olivier maybe this wasn't an acting masterpiece from anybody, but that's not what we were going for. We were making a fun movie. I mean, it's still more pressure. Every project is more and more pressure. I remember the first audition that I ever got nervous for was because I was scared about the outcome. It's kind of like you get more and more scared about the outcome the bigger it gets and the more important the outcome gets.
How gratified are you that the Winklevii are a part of the culture now?
I can sleep better at night now. Honestly, I have not really thought about those guys since 'Social Network,' except when I saw that pistachio commercial. Then I just kind of went, 'Huh?' That's really about it.
From Charming Princes to Lone Rangers, "Mirror Mirror" Star Armie Hammer Is an Off-Kilter Hero
What it was like licking Julia Roberts' face on his first day of work
Prince Charming, The Lone Ranger – whatever the square-jawed character, Armie Hammer's ready to put a unique spin on it.


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Flooding and fire damage cancels classes at UH Manoas Edmondson HallUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Gregg Takayama, 382-3212
Communications Director
Communications Director
Posted: Oct 21, 2007
Classes scheduled for Edmondson Hall at UH Mānoa will be cancelled on Monday due to damage to the building's classrooms, labs and offices.
Damage stems from a 3rd-floor office fire that apparently started sometime Saturday evening and caused a water pipe to burst. Water from the pipe extinguished the fire but continued to flood the building until it was discovered at about 8 a.m. Sunday morning.
Departments affected by the damage in Edmondson Hall will have further information Monday on future class scheduling.


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Part 3, otherwise known as The Neurotic Pally and the Evil Windows. If you want to get caught up on the earlier parts, the beginning of the story is here and the middle of the story is here.
Software; or How I discovered that I prefer Hard Things
I'm out of pictures, so I'm going to recycle the "Computer is complete and running" photo.
Last post we ended with me powering up my computer for the first time, after a smooth hardware assembly process. I'm the queen of hard.
What you want to do as you power up your computer for the first time is access your BIOS. To access your BIOS, you hit "delete" shortly after you turn the computer on.
I give it a try.
I hit "delete".
Nothing happens and my computer stalls, trying to find an operating system.
I restart my computer.
I hit "delete".
Nothing happens and my computer stalls, trying to find an operating system.
I restart my computer.
I hit "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete".
Nothing happens and my computer stalls, trying to find an operating system.
I'm freaking out here. Panicking, crying, threatening to throw my computer through the wall. I turn to Twitter and 5-6 people scramble to find a solution to my problem.
They link me tech support thread after tech support thread. They share their own computer building problems history. They do everything they can to lend me some insight into what's going wrong.
It took about an hour of ripping my hair out (hey, I promised hair-pulling drama!) to find the solution. In the end, I found it on my own. Not because I was smart, but rather because of the opposite. No one else thought of the solution because they overestimated me.
As I was browsing through a tech support thread (that I pulled up on my own), I came across this: "I've tried everything," the poster wrote, "delete, F12, even escape…"
I blame it on the long day (or if you want some encouragement: if someone who confuses "delete" with "escape" can build a computer, you can build a computer too. If you don't get the joke, you forgot to read part 1).
More Problems with Going Soft
The next step is installing Windows. I set my BIOS to boot from CD, I pull out my Pirated copy of Windows, plop it in the CD drive, restart my computer. And nothing happens.
Off to Twitter I go.
Fannon gives me a call. "When using a Pirated copy, you need to make an ISO image you can boot from. Copy it onto a DVD and use that as your boot disk."
I own no blank DVD. It's 8:45pm. Walmart closes at 9pm. I can totally do this.
I get home with my blank DVDs (after getting pulled over by a cop… he must have sensed I was about to engage in illegal computer activity). I do the disk copying. It doesn't work. Fannon calls again. After a 50$ conversation (I have a pay-as-you-go phone. Long distance calls are about 6$ a minute), we come to the conclusion that illegal software isn't for me and that I should go out and buy Real Windows.
Walmart opens again at 9 am. I'm there, ready to purchase my Real Windows.
I plop Real Windows in the CD drive and it all works brilliantly. I'm overjoyed.
Until Windows couldn't find my hard drive.
Stupid Windows. My hard drive is RIGHT THERE. You know, like, right under my CD/DVD drive. How can you miss it?
I try to fix it on my own. First, I look in the Windows manual.
Have you ever looked in the Windows manual? One would THINK that most of it would be about "How to install Windows". And it would include a section on "How to install Windows when Windows doesn't want to be installed". And it might also have a section about "What to do when Windows is about to cause you to throw your brand new computer out the Window, then rip off all your clothes and run out onto the street screaming."
But noooooooooo. The Windows manual is all about "Windows is wonderful and lovely. Look at all these happy families sitting together, looking at Windows 7 and its heartwarming new features."
It's frustrating that there are so little options when it comes to operating systems. Rich non-gamers can use Mac systems. Programming geeks can use Linux. And for the rest of us, there's Windows. Windows, which kind of does what it wants, when it wants.
It was someone on Twitter (I can't remember who for the life of me, which I'm hugely apologetic for because I probably owe them my life) who found the answer for me. I had to do this "part disk" command to make a partition on my hard drive. Now, WHY that's not in the Windows manual or on the Windows website, I have no stupid idea. But, yeah, "part disk".
After that, Windows booted up just fine.
No, wait, I lie. Windows found my hard drive, but refused to do anything with my hard drive. I solemnly make my way to the closet and close my hand around the hammer hilt. Thankfully, at that moment, Vosskah calls me on Skype.
Vosskah: Take a deep breath, it's ok, lets go through it together.
Me: *sob* Ok.
Vosskah: Let start over from the beginning so I know exactly what you're doing at each step. I don't want you to feel like I'm underestimating your-
Me: You realize you're talking to someone who mistook "escape" for "delete" right?
Vosskah: … It, um, happens, now lets take it from the beginning.
Obviously, AS SOON AS I'M ON THE PHONE WITH SOMEONE WHO CAN HELP, Windows works just fine. It installs itself, I can use my computer, I download SWTOR (yay!) and I redo my WOW UI.
Don't Worry, The Soft
Tails Tales Go On
I bet you thought I was home free, you did you did you did!
I did too. Until I turned my computer off for the first time. Ok, no, that's not true. It turned off just fine. Turning it ON again…
Apparently Windows lost my hard drive again. Desperately wanted to boot from the Windows CD. No matter what I did to my BIOS, it wanted its CD like a baby wants its mommy. Yet, when I gave it what it wanted, it tried to install Windows again.
Install Windows again, AFTER I spend 2 days downloading SWTOR and getting WoW ready?
I think not.
As usual, I turn to Twitter. "Very weird," the experts tell me.
Some suggest disconnecting my CD/DVD drive, other recommend fiddling with my harddrive connection.
My dad was a computer geek and computer destroyer. After watching him wreck several machines in attempts to "fix them", I learned that the solution rarely involves disrupting sleeping wires. Deep in my soul, I knew my CD/DVD drive AND my hard drive were fine. Google led me to believe that it was a partition priority problem. However, I did not know what partition priority was, or how to fix it. My thoughts returned to the hammer in the closet.
Before I could destroy my property, it was time for work. I turned off my computer again, and marched out the door.
The End
When I came home from work that day, I tried turning my computer on again. And Windows loaded normally. As if it hadn't taunted me to destroy it earlier.
I then realized that my computer was male. Because when an inanimate object gives you grief and seems to do what it wants, when it wants, it is a sign. A sign that said object is of the opposing gender.
I don't usually name things, but I'm thinking of "Joel". It's a guy, so it needs a guy name. My latest infatuation is JL – Jaime Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire (most of the crushes I've had in my life have been on fictional characters. Fake people are so much more alluring than real ones). JL sounds a little like Joel. So Joel it is. Even if my internet connection thinks the computer is named Eloise, after my WoW mage.
I never got my computer bug free. It still refuses to load sometimes.
But, you know, when it happens, Joel and I sit down and have a talk about our feelings. Usually, all he's asking for is to be turned off, to be allowed a minute to prepare himself to be turned on again. And I'm ok with that. Our relationship. It isn't perfect, but it works. I listen to him, and in return he lets me run WoW and SWTOR with the settings on ultra.
I'd say our relationship is pretty healthy, would you not?


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A Newton, Massachesetts parents group concerned about inaccurate and biased content in the Arab World Studies Notebook, a supplemental text used in high school history courses funded by Saudi Arabia, has succeeded in its effort to gain support of school officials to remove the flawed text from public school classrooms. The group also succeeded in having a website, www.flashpoints.info, removed from a list of resources that appears on a school library website.
One section had already been removed from the curriculum in November, 2011 due to its anti-Semitic content. The Notebook was previously removed from public schools in Alaska and Oklahoma.
The Notebook has been the subject of intense criticism by numerous educational and civic groups. The Association of American Educators described the book as "a vehicle for disseminating disinformation, including a multitude of false, distorted, or utterly absurd claims that are presented as historical facts …"
The American Jewish Committee says that the book contains "historical distortion as well as uncritical praise, whitewashing and practically proselytizing…"
The Notebook is published by the Middle East Policy Council (MEPC), and Arab World and Islamic Resources (AWAIR), whose director is also the editor of the book. Both organizations are funded by the government of Saudi Arabia. The MEPC came to public attention in 1998, when Charles Freeman, the then-head of the MPEC, was nominated to chair the National Intelligence Council. Concerns about payments to Freeman from Saudi Arabia and China played a major role in the decision to withdraw the nomination.
The Flashpoints website was removed on October 10th, 2012 from a list of resources provided by the Newton North High School library. The website, which purports to "provide the information needed to make informed judgments", describes "Fundamental Judaism" as the reason "Israeli Defense Forces feel free to invade and re-occupy Palestinian territory at will, or that Zionist settlers feel justified in driving Palestinians from the land...they've also pulled off some high-profile terrorist attacks." The school explained that at the time the website was added to the resource list, it had a different owner.
Kerry Hurwitz, president of Parents for Excellence in Newton Schools (PENS), said, "We'd like to thank Superintendent Fleishman, and the librarians and teachers who took these matters seriously. Newton prides itself on excellent schools, which should also use excellent material. Removing the Notebook and Flashpoints is a good first step in ensuring that students learn from accurate and non-biased sources."


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clash against (someone or something)(redirected from clash against us)
clash against (someone or something)
To fight against someone or something. The two sides have been clashing against each other in the streets for weeks—when will the fighting stop?
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clash against something
to wage a battle or attack against someone or something. The troops clashed against the enemy. We clashed against the opposite side for over three days.
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Conn-Selmer instruments are helping students on the small island of Loboc in the Phillipines make music in times of adversity. Students ranging from 3rd to 12th grade on this island nation have the opportunity to participate in the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band, a poverty-reduction project of the Loboc Youth Education Association. The program was developed by local music educator, Mr. Argeo Melisimo, and is conducted by another local conductor/arranger, Rene Balbin.
The band project began in 2007 and currently has 495 students participating. A physical school of music in Loboc has been established for the program, and the band performs every Friday and Saturday at the Loboc Children's Theater. The project, through education and performance, allows the community to preserve its cultural heritage while providing educational opportunities to its young students.
The group has also performed throughout communities in the Philippines and China. Their travels to Shanghai, China in 2008 and 2o09 were by invitation to perform in the International Children's Choral Contest and Shanghai Tourism Festival. In 2010, the group represented the Philippines in the World Expo in Shanghai. Their performances, which incorporate popular music and dance, can be seen on YouTube . A sample of their musical performances is featured on the following link at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ye1PjnePXQ.
About Conn-Selmer
Conn-Selmer, under a portfolio of brands, is the leading manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments for student, amateur, and professional use. With a tradition of innovation, and superior musical performance, brands such as Vincent Bach, CG Conn, King, Holton, Selmer, Armstrong, Leblanc, Ludwig, Musser, Scherl & Roth, Glaesel, and William Lewis have earned a legacy of respect unparalleled by any other builders. Conn-Selmer is also the North American distributor of Selmer Paris woodwinds, the US distributor of Yanagisawa saxophones, and the global distributor of the Jiggs pBone (the world's only plastic trombone). With a focus on quality craftsmanship, Conn-Selmer operates US production facilities in Elkhart, IN, Cleveland, OH, Eastlake, OH, Lagrange, IL, and Monroe, NC. Through its educational outreach team, led by Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Conn-Selmer is the industry leader in providing support and advocacy tools specifically tailored to music education. For more information on the complete line of instruments, services, and support available from Conn-Selmer, visit www.conn-selmer.com.


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