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Singing for Pleasure – Maidenhead is a social get together for people with dementia; accompanied by their carers.
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Rinse the beans and put in a large pan with plenty of water to cover. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and cook, partly covered, for about 1 hr until tender. Drain well.
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Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Stir the beans into the sauce, then transfer to a 2.5-litre gratin dish or two smaller ones. Mix together all the crumble ingredients, plus the remaining 2 tbsp oil, then sprinkle over the beans. Bake for 30 mins until the topping is golden and crisp.
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The formation of the vein pattern in one's palm actually predates a person's birth. And like a fingerprint, no two are alike.
Longmont United Hospital has become the first hospital in Colorado to use a vein pattern recognition system for patient identification.
Michael Jefferies, LUH's vice president of information systems, said the hospital installed the PatientSecure Biometric ID system in July and rolled it out first to all its staff members and then to the public a week later.
The system uses a light to scan the vein pattern on a person's palm and an algorithm converts that image into a numerical formula that is forever attached to that individual's medical records.
"The vein pattern is formed in the womb," Jefferies said. "We don't use it for kids until they're 5 years old just because of the size of the scanner. We need a good image."
He said there were multiple reasons why the hospital decided to go with the new system. It solves the problem of duplicate patient records; it prevents medical record overlay — which happens when two people have the same name and birthday — and it streamlines registration.
"It makes it virtually impossible for anyone to come in and pretend to be you," LUH registrar Jessica Sabec told an employee who was part of a film crew Friday, during a demonstration of how the new system works. The hospital intends to use the film as an educational tool for its patients.
Sabec took the man's information, asked a few rudimentary questions and then had him place his palm on a small reader a little bigger than a deck of cards. A near-ultraviolet light scans the vein pattern, he lifts it up, and then it's scanned a second time for confirmation.
For the rest of his life, the man will merely need to give his first and last name and scan his palm and his ID will be confirmed and his medical records come up instantly.
"Even if, God forbid, you're brought into the ER unconscious, we can still scan your palm and identify you," Sabec told the man.
And because the scan is converted to a mathematical formula, rather than the image itself being copied, there is no way anyone could ever reproduce a copy of the vein pattern, Jefferies said.
Fraud prevention is another big reason why LUH decided to go with the new system, he said. And the information is not stored in the "cloud" somewhere, Jefferies added — it's on secure servers on the LUH campus.
"It's stored here at the hospital and we don't share it with anybody," he said.
Self-serve kiosks will be installed at the hospital later this year, where patients won't even have to deal with a registrar directly but can simply scan their own palm to check in, Jefferies said.
The PatientSecure systems will also be rolled out at all LUH clinics, in Niwot, Lyons, Frederick and Berthoud, early next year, he said.
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Often when I think about how much I love my wife, Ginger, I wish I could sing to her. But I cannot sing. Instead, I imagine Whitney Houston singing to Ginger in her incredible soaring voice. Whitney became the voice expressing how much I love my wife. That is how much Whitney came to mean to so many of us who knew her only through her music. She became the music about love we carry in our hearts.
Whitney's passing has raised the specter that she was taking the benzodiazepine Xanax (alprazolam) at the time she died.
If it turns out that Whitney was under the influence of Xanax (alprazolam), then there's a good chance she would be alive today if that drug had never been put on the market.
Although Xanax is the most commonly prescribed benzodiazepine, and in my experience the most dangerous, the same harmful effects can be caused by all benzodiazepines, including Valium, Ativan, Klonopin, Serax, Halcion, Dalmane, and Halcion. When I address Xanax, I'm also talking about all of these drugs.
Reports that Xanax and other benzos are not usually lethal when taken alone are vastly misleading. Xanax is rarely taken alone. Why? Because as much or more than any other prescribed drug, Xanax causes medication spellbinding. It corrupts judgment, memory and self-control, so that individuals have no idea how badly they are being impaired. Eventually it erodes all mental faculties, often without the person fully grasping this loss of function. The impairment of judgment and self-control causes people to overdose on drugs or alcohol without intending to, leading to coma, cardiovascular collapse and death. The Xanax-induced memory impairment causes them to forget how many pills or how much alcohol they have already taken, again increasing the lethal risk.
Xanax has been called "alcohol in a pill" because its effects are so similar to alcohol. However, as will be documented, Xanax can be far more dangerous than alcohol. It should not be prescribed to patients with alcohol problems, because it becomes a powerful impetus for alcohol abuse.
At critical moments in their lives when individuals are suffering from serious emotional problems, their ability to deal with them is further compromised as a result of Xanax-induced medication spellbinding and cognitive deficits. In acute distress, they often have no idea what is happening to them. They have no idea how impaired they have become, they forget what they've already taken, or increase the dose, or increase or add other medications or alcohol.
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Marshall, George Catlett, 1880–1959, American general and cabinet member, b. Uniontown, Pa. A career army officer, Marshall graduated from the Virginia Military Institute. He first distinguished himself as a staff officer in World War I and later (1919–24) was aide to General Pershing . After varied tasks, including service in China (1924–27), he headed (1939–45) the army as Chief of Staff, becoming General of the Army (five-star general) in Dec., 1944. In this capacity, he reorganized and mobilized the military during World War II by coordinating training, planning for rearmament, supplying Great Britain with important material, and finally directing the war. Marshall influenced Congress to change the rules of promotion so that promising officers, regardless of seniority, could be promoted. Among his protégés were Dwight D. Eisenhower, H. H. Arnold, Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, and Joseph Stilwell. During World War II he developed and executed U.S. strategy. Marshall advocated the conquest of Germany through France, and his plan was finally adopted. Many of his wartime tasks were diplomatic. When he resigned as Chief of Staff, he was promptly appointed (Nov., 1945) special ambassador to China by President Truman and was later recalled (Jan., 1947) to be made Secretary of State. After engineering (Feb., 1947) immediate aid to Greece and Turkey, he fostered the European Recovery Program (called the Marshall Plan ) to promote postwar economic recovery in Europe. This plan was a great success and it laid the groundwork for a revitalized Europe and the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization . He resigned because of ill health in Jan., 1949. In Sept., 1950, he was called out of retirement to become Secretary of Defense, but he resigned from this post in Sept., 1951. For the Marshall Plan he received the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize.
See his collected papers (6 vol., ed. by L. I. Bland et al. 1981–2012); biographies by F. C. Pogue (3 vol., 1963–73), Ed Cray (1990), and D. Unger et al. (2014); M. Perry, Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace (2007); S. Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall (2007); A. Roberts, Masters and Commanders (2009).
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SEATTLE -- On Thursday, a close play at home plate in the Orioles' 4-0 victory over the Mariners was upheld following an official crew-chief review of Rule 7.13, which serves as a guideline for home-plate collisions.
With James Jones on third base and one out in a scoreless first inning, Robinson Cano hit a dribbler back toward the mound. Pitcher Wei-Yin Chen charged, fielded and made an impressive glove flip to the plate as Jones rushed home.
Catcher Caleb Joseph caught and tagged Jones out before the speedster could slip his left hand over the plate. But it appeared that Joseph's left foot might have prevented Jones from having a clear path to the plate. After the out call, crew chief Fieldin Culbreth initiated the review using Major League Baseball's new instant-replay policy.
Following a 3-minute, 45-second review, the out call on the field stood.
"I can't go out and argue after the decision's been made, but I'm just a little puzzled with that," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "He didn't have the ball, his foot was in front of the plate, he caught the ball and he blocked it. To me, that's blocking the plate. I don't know how else you can describe it, but it is what it is."
According to Rule 7.13, a catcher can't block a runner's path to the plate unless he has possession of the baseball. If, in the umpire's estimation, the catcher impedes the runner's progress without it, the runner is ruled safe and the run scores.
Jones said he saw Chen get a quick jump off the mound and wasn't shocked when the flip beat him to the plate, though he maintained Joseph was in his way before he caught the ball.
"I was just going on contact. His foot was there. ... I didn't understand the rule, if I could run through him or I didn't know what to do," Jones said. "But he was definitely in front of the plate."


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In light of recent reports that the Obama Administration is considering easing restrictions on travel to Cuba, CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren issued an Open Letter today to President Obama, taking issue with opponents' claims that any such changes would be unlawful.
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"While we applaud the Administration's reinstatement of the general license for family travel and remittances last year, the U.S. has yet to eliminate the irrational and unlawful prohibition against travel to Cuba by non-Cuban Americans. The existing restrictions on travel raise serious constitutional and international human rights concerns. The Administration should take corrective measures which would bring the U.S. closer to compliance with the U.S. Constitution and international human rights law."
In the letter, Warren elaborated on the legal framework surrounding any changes to the current travel licensing scheme that is administered by OFAC:
"The Supreme Court has recognized that the United States Constitution's substantive due process guarantees include a limitation on the government's ability to restrict travel. Among other things, the Fifth Amendment requires that any restriction on a citizen's right to travel must be justified by a government interest important enough to outweigh that right. … [S]ince reimposing the travel restrictions in 1982, the U.S. government has consistently claimed that the restrictions on travel-related transactions are intended to cut off the flow of hard currency to Cuba. Whether such a governmental interest could withstand constitutional challenge under even rational review, given the clear infringement of U.S. citizens' right to international travel, is highly dubious – particularly when considered against the $600 million to $1 billion sent to Cuba in recent years in the form of permissible remittances. While we support the Administration's changes concerning remittances last year as a matter of principle and policy, the reality remains that a portion of that multi-million dollar export to the island nation inevitably returns to the Cuban state. Thus, to limit currency flows to Cuba by strictly limiting travel-related transactions remains irrational and unlikely to achieve even the averred goal of causing regime change within the country.
Finally, allowing permissible travel to Cuba would be one step in bringing the U.S. into compliance with the mandates of international law. The United Nations has passed near-unanimous resolutions condemning the U.S. embargo against Cuba, including its travel ban, as a violation of international law every year since 1992. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ("ICCPR"), to which the United States is a party, recognize the fundamental nature and importance of protecting the freedom of movement."
Warren further corrected several misconceptions surrounding President Obama's domestic legal authority for amending travel licenses:
"Contrary to recent reports, the Executive may tailor the current travel licensing scheme set forth in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations ("CACR"), 31 C.F.R. Part 515. The Executive may, for instance, expand the definition of 'educational travel,' 'journalistic activities,' or 'humanitarian projects' so as to include a wider range of academic programs, group travel, and people-to-people exchanges."
Neither the oft-cited LIBERTAD Act nor the Trade Sanctions Reform & Export Enhancement Act of 2000 eliminate the President's ability to make such changes. Indeed, both the Clinton and Bush Administrations amended the Cuba travel licensing regime, further reflecting that the existence of this authority does not bend with the political winds but is based on clear statutory grounds.
"The Center for Constitutional Rights has long advocated for changes to the U.S. policy toward Cuba, based on international law, constitutional law, and moral principles. Expanding the ability of U.S. citizens to travel to the country would be a first step in reforming what individuals across the political spectrum have acknowledged to be a mistake if not total failure in foreign policy, and in keeping with this Administration's efforts to restore U.S. relations abroad."


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"What is difficult is not to believe in God, but to believe that we matter to Him." ~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
From my collection of mostly pessimistic quotes.
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Il. House Advances Concealed Carry Bill
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says a concealed carry bill that would wipe out all local gun ordinances in the state is "offensive."
Cullerton's comments Friday came after the Illinois House approved such a measure by a vote of 85-30.
The measure brokered by House Speaker Michael Madigan also would allow qualified gun owners to carry their weapons in public, with some restrictions.
Cullerton says another problem with Madigan's bill is that it would allow people to bring guns into some places that serve alcohol.
Cullerton says his Democratic caucus will meet Monday to decide whether to vote on the House's bill.
He says his chamber also is revising a Senate gun bill that would adopt some of the House's suggested restrictions.


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Partnering with ForgeRock to deliver Open Identity and Access Management Solutions
profiq just announeced strategic partnership with ForgeRock for system integration of open-source and standard-based Access and Identity Management (IAM) products. This is a fundamental milestone in fulfilling profiq's system integration and system testing strategy. We have spent the last 8+ years with deploying and testing ForgeRock products and their predecessors and looking forward to offering an extended service to customers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary with ForgeRock.
OpenDJ (aka OpenDS) integration series of articles
Sun Microsystems merger with Oracle has created a gap not only in the identity market but also in the continuity of the Sun identity offerings. Once a market leader (and for the moment being still is), Sun Java System Directory Server (also known under many other marketing names such as SunONE and iPlanet) has uncertain future as the new pricing model (i.e. it is not getting any cheaper) puts the customers in a situation to look for the alternatives. What Sun thought of being it's own open source alternative, OpenDS, does not have a very active development and the users keep asking what is the strategy of Oracle for the ex-Sun products as the roadmap has not been updated ever since the merger. Fortunately, a young Norwegian company called ForgeRock has taken on the task of reviving Sun's open source offering and fill the gap created by Oracle. One of their products is OpenDJ, a living version of OpenDS.


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Today we are sharing a teeny stamp set called "Year One"! Last month Lawn Fawn celebrated their first birthday, and this cutie little set went out with orders over a certain dollar amount. Well, this month it is available for purchase, and it is really the sweetest little birthday set! I am certain it will be very affordable, and would make a fabby addition to your collection of birthday stamps!!
I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #112 for my card, which is an awesome little sketch and was PERFECT for this cute stamp set. I was also inspired by the Off The Wall Craftiness Challenge #50 (pink, yellow, light green) for my color choice. I used more of a sea foam than a true light green...but I think it still fits! ;) Here is what I created!
Julie Campbell
Latisha Yoast
Lea Lawson {You are here!!}
Lynnette Kauffman
Teri Anderson
Tiffany Johnson
And don't forget that the Lawn Fawn blog always has some amazing giveaways during release week!! Here is where you can win so far...be sure to follow the commenting instructions!! ♥♥♥


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after switching to systemd I cannot boot into default level. The problem is with mounting /home which is on software RAID volume.
and boot stops. Then I login into rescue console and type:
Code: Select all
Job dev-mapper-MY1\x2d\x2dNB2\x2d\x2dHDD\x2dlv_home.device/start timed out.
Timed out waiting for device dev-mapper-MY1\x2d\x2dNB2\x2d\x2dHDD\x2dlv_home.device
mount /home <-- this successfully mounts the /home according fstab (mapper volume), no errors
systemctl default <-- starts normally
Do you know where is the issue? Thanks.


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LONDON - Leicester manager Nigel Pearson has been charged by the English Football Association for verbally abusing a spectator during a Premier League game. Willie Aikens Jersey .The FA says on Thursday that Pearson is alleged to have used abusive and/or insulting words toward a fan during the 3-1 loss to Liverpool on Dec. 2.Pearson, who has not apologized to the fan, has until Tuesday to respond to the charge.Leicester is bottom of the league standings. Orlando Cepeda Jersey . On Wednesday night, they showed that stellar defence and a little small ball can get the job done too. With pinch-runner Kevin Pillar aboard after Dioner Navarro opened the bottom of the ninth with a single, Anthony Gose dropped down an excellent bunt along the first-base line. Nicky Lopez Jersey . Olsen, who is 6-foot-3 and 305 pounds, can play either centre or guard. The 25-year-old Olsen played 16 games and made four starts in 2012 with the New Orleans Saints. https://www.cheaproyals.com/1997a-cam-gallagher-jersey-royals.html . Right-hander Todd Redmond took the loss. Jose Bautista hit his second home run of the spring. Here are a handful of tidbits from around camp: Hutchison impressive The Blue Jays are being cautious when talking about their young arms but internally, excitement is building over the way Drew Hutchison is looking and performing this spring. MADISON, Wis. -- Step back, dribble between the legs and fire away. Nik Stauskas played it cool in front of a raucous road crowd late in the second half to hit a clutch shot that helped Michigan hold on for a rare win at Wisconsin. Stauskas scored 23 points, including his key 3 with less than a minute left, and the Wolverines fended off a late surge for the 77-70 victory Saturday over the third-ranked Badgers. Stauskas said his first thought was to go to the rim, but that defender Nigel Hayes was overplaying him. "He kind of slid forward a little bit and I was open for 3 and I just tried to be aggressive and shoot it," Stauskas said. Caris LeVert added 20 for the Wolverines (13-4, 5-0 Big Ten), who celebrated a victory in Madison for the first time since 1999. But wins usually dont come easy at the Kohl Center for any team, and the Badgers (16-2, 3-2) made it difficult for Michigan in nearly overcoming a 15-point deficit. Wisconsin went on a 14-2 run late, and Ben Brusts putback got them within 68-67 with about 2 minutes left. But after whiffing on a 3 from the right wing, Stauskas hit his step-back 3 from the left side to give Michigan a 71-67 lead. "That step back is so fast, and that release is so fast," coach Bo Ryan said. "Hes quick, hes like a cat." Josh Gasser had 16 points for the Badgers, who lost their second straight after a school-best 16-0 start. "Kid just made a great play," Gasser said about Stauskas. Gasser, Wisconsins best defender, said he was supposed to be covering him, but a switch ended up with Hayes guarding on the play. Wisconsins hopes of another nail-biting win over Michigan were dashed. Last year, Brust hit a shot from just inside midcourt before time expired in regulation, then hit a 3 with less than 40 seconds in overtime to give Wisconsin a 65-62 victory. No such luck this year. Stauskas added four foul shots in the final 24.7 seconds to seal Michigans seventh straight win. He had 16 in the second half. "This game wasnt going to be over until that buzzer went off and we had the win," coach John Beilein said. "That was a great shot by Nik, but thats a lot of time left still for them to win the game. Carlos Beltran Jersey. " The Wolverines benefited from the cushion built from a first half in which they shot 60 per cent. Thats especially impressive given it was against Wisconsin, perennially one of the leagues best defensive teams under coach Bo Ryan. But defence was a problem again for the Badgers in their second straight loss after allowing Indiana to shoot 51 per cent earlier in the week. Ryan liked the effort for the most part. The Badgers credited their opponents for making their share of tough shots. Michigan got good looks inside early with crisp interior passing, though Ryan said he was happy overall with his teams ball-screen defence. But it was two 3s by LeVert in the first half that especially frustrated Wisconsins coach. "Sometimes when youre trying to fix something, guys arent quite sure and you just have to keep working through it," Ryan said. Still, the Badgers came back, bolstered by boisterous students back in town for the spring semester. The Kohl Center was rocking after the Badgers late run, during which Michigan at one point missed four shots and committed two turnovers. Hayes short jumper got Wisconsin within six with 4:45 to go before Brust put back his own rebound to get Wisconsin within a point. Thats when Michigan turned to Stauskas. His first 3-point attempt glanced off the rim but Michigan retained possession after a foul was called on Gasser. The ball went back to Stauskas, who shook off Hayes on the perimeter and coolly hit his 3 for a late four-point lead. "Were going to win this game and were going to win the game by being aggressive and if youre afraid to shoot it, youre afraid to take it at them, then lets get (you) out of the game, is the message," Beilein said. "And nobody checked out." Glenn Robinson III added 14 points on 6 of 8 shooting for Michigan, while Brust finished with 14 points and eight rebounds. Michigan also took advantage of uncharacteristically sloppy play by the usually savvy Badgers, stretching a five-point halftime lead to as much as 15 midway through the second half. ' ' '


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Felicia Guidry had a reason to celebrate after crossing the finish line Monday at the Boston Marathon.
Felicia Guidry had a reason to celebrate after crossing the finish line Monday at the Boston Marathon.
Despite falling to the ground and breaking her arm just two blocks before the finish line, the 59-year-old Houma native managed to complete the prestigious 26.2-mile marathon with a personal best time of 3 hours, 45 minutes and 13 seconds.
"I was extremely happy that I crossed the finish line," Guidry said Wednesday. "It was an incredible experience."
But nearly 10 minutes after ending her run, she heard a sound that changed everything.
Guidry was receiving treatment for her injured arm in an ambulance when the first of two explosions occurred near the finish line. She was a short distance down the street from where the bombs went off.
"It sounded like a firecracker," Guidry said. "I didn't know what it was. Then there was this second boom like a big cannon was fired. You could feel the vibration. That's when I knew something was not right."
Moments after the explosions, Guidry said she remembered chaos that followed on the Boston streets.
"When I looked outside the ambulance, people started running around," Guidry said. "There were bodies on the ground. People didn't know what was going on. They didn't know if there was another bomb that was going to explode. You just didn't know what was going to happen."
Monday's explosions killed three people and injured more than 170 others. Authorities are continuing to investigate the attacks.
Guidry and her daughter, Renee Lirette-Williams of Houma, who traveled with her mother to watch the marathon, weren't injured from the blasts.
Guidry, a nurse at the Terrebonne Parish Health Unit said she remained calm during the ordeal, but she was emotionally shaken by the sights and sounds of the many injured, including a spectator who had both of his legs blown off.
"It was a terrible tragedy," Guidry said. "It was surreal. It's something that you never would have thought would happen. It's just so tragic."
With thousands of spectators cheering on the finishers before the attacks, Guidry said the streets reminded her of Mardi Gras celebrations back home. Boston residents were also celebrating Patriots' Day, and many public offices and schools were closed for the holiday. Many of those spectators were victims of the explosions, Guidry said.
"There were people there who were just watching a marathon," Guidry said. "It's really sad what happened."
Guidry said her race-related injury was because of a combination of fatigue and excitement as she approached the finish line. When she fell to the ground, she heard the voices of onlookers encouraging her to get up.
"There was someone who told me, 'If you can walk, then you can finish,' " Guidry said. "So I got up and started walking. And then I saw the clock, and I was so happy with my time. I just ran and finished. I thank God for that."
Lirette-Williams said she was walking toward the finish line when she received a call from her mother. She said the first call was that her mother had finished the race but suffered an arm injury. A short while later, Lirette-Williams said Guidry called a second time to tell her about the explosions.
Guidry was transported Monday evening to a Boston-area hospital, where she received further treatment for her arm. She didn't reunite with her daughter until early Tuesday morning since only injured runners were allowed in the hospital.
Lirette-Williams said she spent most of Monday waiting for Guidry to be released from the hospital. She was advised by local officials to stay in her hotel room because of security reasons.
Cellphone service in the Boston area was also cut off for security purposes. But Lirette-Williams was able to contact her husband, Kris Williams, by text message and on her hotel room telephone, mostly to inform him and other family members they were OK. Lirette-Williams said it was a nervous time, but she managed to keep her composure as she slowly received information on the tragic events of the day.
"There was nothing else I could do but wait," Lirette-Williams said. "I couldn't help it. When the bombs went off, we just knew it would be a long night. We just wanted to get out of there and go home."
After going through intense security checks at the Boston airport, they boarded a plane Tuesday afternoon and arrived at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans and returned to Houma later that evening.
Although the tragedy put a damper on the Boston Marathon experience, Lirette-Williams said she was happy to see her mother finish the race for the third time. Guidry also competed in 2008 and 2009.
"I'm very proud of her," Lirette-Williams said. "She finished the race with a great time. Despite what happened, she was very strong. I'm real proud that she was able to get up and finish the race."
Guidry said she ran the marathon in memory of her mother Maggie Guidry, who died at age 93 in November. Guidry said her mother was an avid marathon fan who loved the Boston area, so it gave her extra inspiration to complete the race.
She was blessed to come away from event with nothing more than a broken arm and is already planning on getting healthy and will consider competing in the race again, she said.
"It was just a great thing to accomplish," Guidry said. ""I'll never forget it. It's the greatest marathon in the world. It was sad to see it end in tragedy. The people of Boston are strong. If they do it again, I know they will come back better than ever."


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This week's issue of The New Yorker contains a long profile of activist and author Naomi Klein by Larissa MacFarquhar that goes all the way back to her grandparents' Communist organizing roots in order to prove... something. But between anecdotes of her parents running away to Canada and trips to their summer home, what comes across is that Klein — like many liberal activists — comes from a background of privilege that allows her to advocate a kind of anarchy from the comforts of a home she's unlikely to even lose in foreclosure.
Klein is introduced to the reader through an introduction to another audience, one which is told
"To a different audience—to those that hold capital and power in this society—Naomi Klein's words and her ideas are seen as a serious threat," she said. "Her words are a source of inspiration . . . for those of us who were and are being radicalized by the anti-globalization, anti-colonial, and anti-poverty movements and the demands to change the system totally and completely."
Although I doubt that "those that hold capital and power in this society" are actually threatened by Klein, she bounds on stage — dressed, it is noted, "for a fox hunt" — and crowing at the failure of the first bailout package.
Klein's happy that the government isn't going to bail out anyone (though it's not said how she feels about the passage of the later package) because it fits into her thesis that the owners of capital use (or manufacture) crises in order to exert more control over that capital by eliminating government interference.
Klein argues that the only circumstance in which a population would accept Friedman-style reforms [like the elimination of public goods and regulation] is when it is in a state of shock, following a crisis of some sort—a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, a war. A person in shock regresses to a childlike state in which he longs for a parental figure to take control; similarly, a population in a state of shock will hand exceptional powers to its leaders, permitting them to destroy the regulatory functions of government.
As far as Klein was concerned, the grassroots outrage at the initial 3-page bailout legislation followed by the (she conveniently doesn't mention Republican) Congressional refusal to go along with it is how she would like to see the progressive movement take the reins of power.
It was passages like these that frankly pushed me over the edge from being annoyed by Klein to actively disliking her. Between a convenient habit of stretching the truth of a case to fit her thesis to advocating, in effect, distant anarchical protests, to then hating on the earnestness of her own audience (and family) and, finally, to claiming a love for M.I.A. on MTV to impress their demographic, I just started to truly wonder if she's in it to change anyone's world but her own. She's into protests for protests sake — as long as they aren't to earnest or too organized — because she wants them to disrupt society long enough to force change, no matter what the cost of that disruption. Worse yet, she doesn't see the irony in writing a book castigating the right for manufacturing or using crises to force their changes on an unwilling society while advocating that protesters and activists create crises to force people to accept the changes to society she's pushing. Her sole purpose appears to be to oppose things — from her mother's manner of dress to the bailout plan to other activists — without any introspection about what she does want, or how she plans to get it.
"I'm not a utopian thinker," Klein says. "I don't imagine my ideal society. I don't really like to read those books, either. I'm just much more comfortable talking about things that are."
What is the point of advocating for change if you don't know what change you want?
Outside Agitator [The New Yorker]
Image by Platon for the New Yorker


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It's always nice to get something for free. That's how I feel about JSLint. Running your JavaScript code through JSLint gives you a few advantages:
- Coding style consistency — always use ; at the end of a line
- Syntax error detection — did you forget that ) ?
- Logical error detection — did you forget that var?
There's a whole bunch of stuff JSLint will pick up for you.
I have talked before about JSLint in the context of SpiderMonkey, but, nowadays, I install node.js for a few things. If I run JSLint through node.js, that means I won't have to install SpiderMonkey anymore.
Installing Node and NPM
I admit, these pieces of software are moving fast and the instructions (or lack thereof) are limited. But these things will vary with your OS and skill level.
I'm going to focus on the Vim integration, but go ahead and install Node and install NPM.
Installing JSLint
I recommend the simply named "jslint". You can look it up on GitHub as node-jslint.
Make sure you don't forget that "-g" flag with NPM. NPM changed a lot in version 1.0.
Vim Integration
The end goal is:
You are in a JavaScript file, you press F4, Vim runs JSLint on your file, parses the errors and puts your cursors on the exact location of the first error with the others one waiting in the quickfix list.
The main part of integrating with Vim to "compile" something is to set makeprg and errorformat (aka efm). If you ever need to integrate with something else, be sure to Google for those.
Since we are going to invoke :make all the time, I'm going to bind it to F4. (put it in your .vimrc)
nmap <F4> :w<CR>:make<CR>:cw<CR>
Step by step:
- :w — save the file, doesn't hurt if it's already saved
- :make — invoke make
- :cw — open the quickfix window if there are errors. Close it if there are no errors.
Next, create $HOME/.vim/ftplugin/javascript.vim. Put these lines into it:
setlocal makeprg=jslint\ %
setlocal errorformat=%-P%f,
\%–G/*jslint\ %.%#*/,
\%*[\ ]%n\ %l\\,%c:\ %m,
\%–GNo\ errors\ found.,
The variable makeprg is just was it invoked when you do :make. The variable errorformat are instructions on how to parse the error messages of the "compiler". That variable and how to configure it are a whole world of complexity.
Now, restart Vim and open some JavaScript file you have lying around. Press F4. Be ready for a lesson in humility.
If things don't work out, try this:
- try to run "jslint" from the command-line, if it doesn't work Vim won't work either
- if the output of "jslint" changes format, you'll have to tweak errorformat


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Actually, I think that my kids were more excited and anticipated it more than I did. I can tell you that I don't "feel" 40 . . .whatever that is supposed to feel like. At least I don't feel like what I thought 40 would feel like.
On the day of my actual birthday we were enduring yet another snow storm here in St. Louis. Little did I know, though, that my husband and friends were scheming and planning. I told Scott that I really didn't want/need anything big but would just like to go out to dinner with a couple of friends. Well, they sure surprised me.
I can't tell you the shock that I had when I saw a room full of my friends. My friend, Janice, is a fantastic party planner so I guess Scott just put her in charge and boy, did she come through.
The room was absolutely beautiful. We had a private room surrounded by natural wood and coolers full of wine.
I "might" like to drink a bit of wine. Loved my "40 and Fabulous" wine gift from some really great friends, Angie and Kori.
I also "might" like to gamble a bit . . .
Janice made tons of picture props . . .cigars, mustaches, glasses. They were so much fun!
Angie and Kori gave me the great wine glass
After party at the casino
Corey (my Sunday Funday buddy) and Ann--great neighbors!
Although you would think that it goes against my personality but I truly am not a "center of attention" person. I always feel like I am putting people out. This is why I really appreciated all of the time, effort, and secret conversations that took place to make this a surprise for me. It was great to celebrate with everyone. It was definitely a birthday to remember!
My sister and me
Hottie Scottie
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A shadow assassin that escaped the Lin Kuei's Cyber Initiative.
Code Name/Nick name: Unknown
Quotes: "The Gods can't save everybody, some have to fight!", "Fear is a luxury."
Realm: Earth-realm
Alignment: Neutral
Fighting Style/ Discipline: Alternative version of the Lin Kuei style mixed with classic ninja stealth techniques.
Allies: None
Enemy: Sektor (Cyber Lin Kuei)
The Lin Kuei is known for abducting children from all over the realm, training them to become the most lethal assassins ever seen by human kind. Deadly, silent and effective, there are few who can face the Lin Kuei and survive. But that's all that Lin Kuei has to give; Lin Kuei trains some of their assassins in the ancient dark arts that exploit the natural powers of Earth. These humans are rare, only a few are able to master these arts and they usually appear each one or two generation. The process is long and painful but in the end they become deadly assassins that master a power fueled by the Earth itself; the most know art taught by the Lin Kuei is the mastery of ice. These assassins are known as cyromancers.
Our character suffered the fate of most of the Link Kuei members. His name remains unknown; he was abducted as a child and trained to kill. The young ninja never got to finish his training to master the arts of ice so his powers never reached full potential, but as he spent more and more time on training his abilities he managed to improve. He wasn't transformed yet because he needed to master his abilities before being transformed.
The Lin Kuei Grandmaster started to implement the Cyber initiative within the clan. While Sub Zero and Smoke were in Outworld, the Lin Kuei sent their Cyber Assassins to retrieve the two and convert them to cyber assassins, who were on a quest of revenge for Sub Zero's fallen brother. As the new time line altered by Raiden shows us that Sub Zero is taken back while Smoke is saved by the Thunder God.
Altering the time line can have massive effects. Among other main effects of the time alteration, was the attack of Sindel and the Cyber Lin Kuei against Earth-Realm's warriors. Of course this action caused the death of most of the warriors of Earth-Realm, but it also had another side effect.
The Cyber initiative wasn't accepted by all the members of the clan so the ones against it were kept prisoners and transformed by force.
The reason they kept them prisoners was a preference system implemented by the Grandmaster. This basically meant that the first to be transformed were the assassins that possessed special abilities, leaving the normal humans and the old assassins kept prisoners, waiting for their transformation after the so called "elite" was transformed. Young assassins that presented the ability to master the dark arts of the Lin Kuei were not transformed right away. They kept them in their human form until they mastered the dark arts and reached full potential with their powers, making their eventual transformation a way bigger success than just a normal ninja transformed into a cyborg.
The transformation process was slowed down because since the Lin Kuei joined Sha Kahn they were asked to send the best of the Lin Kuei's assassins on the mission against Raiden's warriors; that left the clan a bit more insecure giving a chance to the prisoners to make an escape.
A veteran ninja called Shadow lead a "resistance" formed by the captive assasins while most of the clan was away. Shadow was a black skinned ninja wearing plain black quilted costume with a black half mask (similar to the retro ninjas).
Unknown joined Shadow's group; He saw the transformation of faithful members of the Lin Kuei into cyborgs with no soul and decided to join the rebels helping them fight the guards with his abilities. Even if he wasn't as strong as the other cyromancers, Unknown's help .
With Unknown's help, Shadow leads his group of rebel assassins to victory against the guards and they escape the Lin Kuei's settlement.
Shadow and his group took cover in the icy mountains, where he trained them however he could with his knowledge and the few pieces of equipment they manage to steal from the Lin Kuei.
Shadow was no master of the dark arts but he was a veteran ninja who had a lot to teach the young Unknown. Shadow taught him how to make and use smoke bombs, also teaching him how to mix his rather weak cyromacer abilities with normal weapons and techniques becoming as effective as any Lin Kuei elite assassin.
After the fall of Shao Kahn, the Lin Kuei returned, finding out that the prisoners escaped.
Meanwhile Sektor assumed the place of his father as the Grandmaster of the clan and his first assignment for the clan was to find the prisoners that escaped. Eventually they tracked down Shadow's men while they were brining supplies to the group, leading the Lin Kuei to their location.
Unknown saw the Lin Kuei coming and suggested that they should try and retreat to the top of the mountain. Shadow refused and decided to fight the Lin Kuei.
Cyrax, Sektor and other cyber ninjas immediately arrived, attacking Shadow and his men. They fought the cyber ninjas but they were outnumbered and they were defeated; the survivors were taken back to be transformed as Shadow found himself defeated.
As Shadow tried one last attack, Cyrax caught him with his cyber-net while Sketor killed the rebels' leader.
Unknown saw his master die and as the Lin Kuei started to search the place for other survivors he ran to the highest cave in the mountains. The Cyber ninja's system started to interfere with the weather, not revealing Unknown's location. They searched around for a while but Unknown managed to hide himself and used his cyromacer ability to lower the temperature of his body making him invisible to the thermal vision they had equipped.
When the Lin Kuei left, Unknown went back to bury his master's body. He swore on his master's grave that he'll get revenge against the Lin Kuei and so the path of Unknown begins.
He thrown away the old ninja costume and made his own out of whatever was left in the supplies of their hideout taking the codename of "Unknown" since his old life doesn't exist anymore and everything he believed in turned against him. He was a Lin Kuei no more, now he was their most fierce enemy.
He took Shadow's kick and arm pads (as a tribute brought to his master) and painted the symbol the rebels had which meant "soul", simply because they wanted to keep their souls and not become mindless cyborgs. (Using his master's blood to paint the symbol)
He started to track down the Lin Kuei's actions, looking for eventual survivors that were not transformed and mainly he started planning an eventual series of attacks against the Lin Kuei.
His aim is to weaken the clan, and eventually kill the new leader, Sektor and whoever stood before him and his quest for revenge.
Look and Costume:
He has black medium long hair. He used to dress like a normal ninja, but made himself a custom outfit after the defeat of the rebels.
He wears a light gray ninja top with the symbol of the rebels painted in red with his master's blood on the upper left side (the symbol is "soul" written in chineese).
Covering his head and body with a black hooded ninja coat (kind of like Ermac's alternate hood coat) with the sleeves ripped off, revealing his hands with black fingerless gloves covered with Shadow's arm pads (similar to original subzero's metallic pads but without the spikes) where the right pad was carrying a hidden blade, a weapon put together by Shadow for Unknown, which would come off the superior part of the pad.
He had classic black Lin Kuei baggy ninja bottoms and boots which have Shadow's Kick Pads attached with light gray straps. Both the kick and arm pads had the old Lin Kuei logo on them (representing the faith he and the rebels had in the original Lin Kuei before the Cyber Initiative process was implemented).
His face was covered with a black ninja half-mask, with the design of a half skull painted on it with light gray paint. He also wears a long scarf around his neck with the scarf being tight in front and having the straps from where it's tied come down the back.
Alternate Costume:
His alternate would be the classic costume he had as a Lin Kuei ninja. (Similar to the classic quilted ninja costumes with a few gray straps around the top and a gray mask)
Abilities and Power Part 1:
His fighting style is similar to the Lin Kuei one with slight alterations and more stealth based attacks, using smoke bombs, teleporting and other eye deceiving techniques.
Unknown is a cyromancer like most of the Lin Kuei but he didn't get the proper training at using his ice powers so his abilities are kind of weak. The weakness of his powers forced him to learn the stealth arts from Shadow which used a similar style to Smoke's using his crafting skills to make up for the lack of special abilities. He often uses smoke bombs to stun his opponent before teleporting or generates a short lasting smoke clone to get the upper hand over a confused opponent.


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Bond and The Bar
On February 22, while I'll be locked in a lecture hall taking the bar exam, the Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in what may be the most salacious suit of the term. Bond v. United States appears so factually, legally, and politically wild that it almost makes me question my taking that term off during my 2L year: had I stayed at Georgetown rather than go to ABC News, I would have graduated in May, taken the bar in July, and been able to be at the Court in February to hear the lawyers tell the tale of a scorned woman seeking solicitude for her hell-fury under the protection of the Tenth Amendment.
In his brief for Carol Anne Bond, Paul Clement tells the story:
In 1995, petitioner moved with her mother and sister to the United States, where she became very close friends with Myrlinda Haynes, a woman who was also a Barbados native. Haynes owned a home in nearby Norristown, and petitioner came to consider and treat Haynes as a sister.
In 2006, Haynes announced that she was pregnant. Unable to bear a child of her own, petitioner was excited for her closest friend. Her excitement did not last, however, for petitioner soon discovered that her own husband was the child's father. This double betrayal brought back painful memories of her own father's infidelities and caused petitioner to suffer an emotional breakdown…
In the midst of this emotional breakdown, petitioner became fixated on punishing Haynes for her betrayal. Petitioner took a bottle of 10-cholo-10H-phenoxarsine (an arsenic-based chemical) from her employer, the chemical manufacturer Rohm & Haas, and she purchased a vial of potassium dichromate through Amazon.com from a photography equipment supplier. Petitioner knew that the chemicals were irritants and believed that, if Haynes touched them, she would develop an uncomfortable rash. Both chemicals are toxic and, if ingested or exposed to the skin at sufficiently high doses, can be lethal.
According to the government, petitioner went to Haynes's home on several occasions between November 2006 and June 2007 and spread chemicals on Haynes's car door handle, mailbox, and apartment doorknob.
These facts alone are enough to send reporters rushing to the Court, but the love triangle and poisonous revenge are backed up by crazy law and strange meta-bedfellows.
Rather than be subjected to a state charge of assault, Bond's use of toxic chemicals against her now-former best friend got the Feds involved. They charged her with a violation of a federal statute that Congress passed in obligation to an international treaty entitled, "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction." A grand jury indicted her under the statute's sweeping plain language – the chemicals fit the law's definition of banned substances "not intended by defendant Bond to be used for a peaceful purpose" – and she pled guilty after the federal judge rejected her constitutional claims against the law as applied to her.
And it gets weirder. The scorned woman turned terrorist-in-law invoked her Tenth Amendment rights, something that's only recently come back in vogue with the rise of the Tea Party and the Affordable Care Act. Bond argued to the Third Circuit that the federal criminal law used to convict her was beyond Congress's Article I authority and therefore invaded the province of rights reserved to the states and the people. The appeals court did not reach the merits, ruling instead that Bond, as an individual, did not have standing to bring her Tenth Amendment claim absent the state or its officials as parties to her suit.
By the time Bond petitioned the Court for review, however, the United States switched sides, officially telling the justices to let her sue. The Solicitor General urged the Court to GVR–grant, vacate, remand–the case without oral argument. The Court disagreed and ordered oral argument.
With the Tenth Amendment and Article I limits swirling in the air these days, it is striking to see the SG in this case on the same side as Bond's other amici: Alabama, Colorado, Florida, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah (all parties to the health care challenge awaiting decision in Florida); CATO Institute; Gun Owners of America; and the Eagle Forum.
Ultimately, this case is about Bond's standing to bring her Tenth Amendment challenge, not the merits of that challenge. Still, this case is a thorny thicket of jurisprudential themes. Textually, the law does apply to Bond. But will the patent absurdity of this law's use against Bond compel the Court's more textualist justices to put aside their interpretive principles? Perhaps because this question is embedded in a contest between conservative values–deference to federal law and order efforts versus the commitment to a limited federal government–the Court's right flank may with an easier conscience forego the letter of the law for its more equitable spirit towards Bond.
The oral argument itself may simply be a formality so that someone may argue for the wisdom of the position that the United States has since abandoned rather than GVR the case without the dignity of a proper adversarial process. That someone who the justices assigned to adopt the orphaned argument for the Government is Stephen R. McAllister, former state solicitor general of Kansas and dean of the the University of Kansas's law school. Accordingly the advocates, like the arguments they will be making, will embody a clash of legal conservatism: McAllister and Clement launched their careers from clerkships in the chambers of Justices Thomas and Scalia, respectively.
Bond brings layer upon layer of exciting stuff, from its own facts and law to its place in the moment's larger legal-political milieu. I guess in lieu of attending the oral argument, I will just have to inspire myself with Bond's focused rage and sophisticated legal arguments so to unleash the fury on the bar exam.
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Bit strange. Sounds like basically a Art. I case like U.S. v. Lopez where an individual argued Congress overstepped their bounds. Don't know why the 10A was tossed in to complicate matters.
See don't mess with a Bajan (a person from Barbados). lol To the standing merits.. can she demonstrate a distingushible harm? (could have bearing on the gay marriage case in california sinse standing is a big part of that case as well) or would standing be less under the 10 amendment due to the "reserve ..to the people clause"? I must say i have new reading material in these briefs. I will be eagarly anticipating listening to the oral argument when it is released.
I do remember Justice O' Conner almost always bring up the standing part of most cases. As a layman I always wondered why it was so important or what the hell it was actally. But I've come to understand it is one of the limits on judicial power and i hope they don't side step it to get to these juicy facts.
The 10th amendment is a true non amendment ..would be nice to see if it gets some teeth.
Will anohter act of congress join the bunch on the overruled pile like so many?
[…] The Syracuse Post-Standard previews Madison County v. Oneida Indian Nation, while Mike Sacks of First One @ One First discusses Bond v. United States; both are scheduled for argument in […]
Interesting. Was there any harm done to Haynes? Then, lets not waste the precious times of our justices. I am a huge supporter of the 10th amendment punch. I sympathise with bond on a moral, humanistic level. At least bond was kind enough not to have poisoned Haynes by pouring the 'mass destructive chemical' in a delicious welcoming glass of wine.


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We invite chapter-length essays that analyze the American Revolution as a global phenomenon for a volume of essays; we are particularly interested in chapters that examine a range of texts and cultural practices from around the world. A major academic press has expressed strong interest in publishing the volume.
As eighteenth-century Americanist scholars examine the assemblages of peoples and ideas from New England and Virginia to the black Atlantic to the transatlantic to the hemispheric to the transoceanic, their studies widen Anglo-American accounts of the period 1776-1784. This volume seeks to place the American Revolution in a broader geo-political context by tracing the networks of trade, travel, and empire in cultural productions of the late eighteenth century. Recent research has led to new geographic configurations: Ralph Bauer and Caroline Levander on Latin and South America and the Southwest; Michelle Burnham on empires; and Paul Giles on antipodean Americas. In light of this scholarship, we propose to analyze the far-flung events that coincide with the American Revolution. We seek to illuminate this period as a transformational one rather than reify exceptionalist narratives about the war's importance.
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How did writers situate the American Revolution as an event that formed or strengthened transoceanic networks? How did other cultures, such as the Dutch, French, Spanish, Russian, or Celtic Fringe, represent the Revolution? How did it reshape the ways in which different countries practice diplomacy or distribute foreign aid? What impact did it have on how military campaigns were waged or how peace treaties were drafted? How were borders increasingly made permeable, especially across the Caribbean, along the Mississippi River, and in Florida? How did the Revolution change perceptions of the African slave trade or ongoing piracy wars at sea? How was the conflict portrayed in pre-Revolutionary Saint-Domingue? How did foreign mercenaries represent the war in letters or journals?
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Intentionally or not, Volition's 2009 game Red Faction: Guerrilla commented on present-day America in startling, subversive ways. Volition placed players in a populist insurgency that used improvised explosives to beat back wealthy occupiers seeking control of Mars' geological resources. The parallels to the Iraq War infused the game's signature tech feature, a terrific building-destruction effect, with debate-provoking depth. Two years later, scared by Guerrilla's shadow, Red Faction: Armageddon seeks to provoke nothing.
Armageddon's problem isn't that it's different from Guerrilla, but that it's so similar to everything else. In the opening minutes of this third-person shooter, the hero mistakenly unleashes a long-dormant race of lizard-y, insect-y aliens. From there, most of the game is miles of anonymous caves, broken up into a series of missions where the central objective is always the same: advance while blasting away endless waves of insectosaurs.
Armageddon is assiduously generic. There are only a handful of alien species, so players dispatch the same baddies hundreds of times. Amid the variety of guns, there's only one worth noting: a magnet gun that lets you fling enemies around the landscape, like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed in its simpler moments. The vehicle-based shooting exercises near the end of the game seek to break up the monotony, but they only emphasize how predictable Armageddon is. Likewise the meager multiplayer, in which you and your friends try to survive increasingly tough waves of aliens, and then you die.
Armageddon is the first game produced under a partnership between publisher THQ and the cable network SyFy. (A made-for-TV movie, Red Faction: Origins, premièred June 4.) Like an admiring little brother, Armageddon takes the cookie-cutter storytelling approach of SyFy's B-movies to an extreme. The stock characters include a whitebread hero, his gruff-but-loving black friend, and a toothlessly sassy love interest. They all seem to be playing an improv-comedy game where every utterance has to be some shopworn genre cliché.
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Small-scale imaging unlocks nickel ore value
|(Nanowerk News) Researchers are using a unique method of nano-material imaging to more effectively determine the highly variable acid leaching values of Western Australian nickel laterite ores.
|The study ("Acid resistance of goethite in nickel laterite ore from Western Australia. Part I. The relationship between goethite morphologies and acid leaching performance"), a joint project involving the Curtin University Centre for Materials Research and CSIRO Division of Process Science and Engineering, could have a far reaching impact on hydrometallurgical processing for these ores which have previously been difficult to characterise.
|Curtin PhD student and lead author Tony Wang applied his knowledge in materials science and applied material characterisation techniques on mineral analysis.
|Mr Wang used energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging to analyse the ores, a method relatively unfamiliar to metallurgists or geologists.
|Mr Wang also found the goethite-silica cementation structure in some WA laterite ores explained why some goethitic laterite ores did not leach and release the nickel.
|We know that TEM is an analysis tool for nano-materials and it has much better spatial resolution than normal scanning electron microscopy (SEM) based techniques, Mr Wang says.
|In TEM, electrons passing through [the] sample lose energy, different elements in samples grab characteristic amount of energy from the incident primary electron beam.
|By detecting electrons with the amount of energy loss we are able to map where these elements present in a nano-scale particles/sample features.
|Mr Wang says the ores analysed by Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) mass spectrometry or X-ray fluorescence (XRF) methods tell the practitioners how much nickel is present in the ores but not how much nickel can be extracted.
|The difference can be surprisingly huge, he says.
|For example after same acid leaching time some ores can release 90 per cent of nickel while the other types can only give 10 per cent of nickel.
|Therefore mineral processing scientists in CSIRO use X-Ray Diffraction to examine the mineralogy of these ores, hopefully a better correlation between types of ores and the acid leaching rates can be derived.
|This is based on the fact that different minerals in the ore mixture have different chemical properties therefore different acid leaching rates.
|The point I am emphasising in my paper is in the third levels, with the nano scale elemental imaging techniques, we are able to examine how the minerals are linked.
|Mr Wang also found the goethite-silica cementation structure in some WA laterite ores explained why some goethitic laterite ores did not leach and release the nickel.
|These goethite crystals are enveloped or covered by silica inside the cementation structures, he says.
|We found the cementation can be broken down by caustic digestion using potassium hydroxide liquors.
|On the contrary, all the fast leaching ores in my sample suit contains ubiquitous discrete acicular or needle shaped goethite.
|Source: By Hamish Hastie, ScienceNetwork Western Australia
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