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It is an absolute pain not knowing how to sift out the spam emails from the genuine ones, so I would be really grateful for any advice on how I can do this.
I came up with a novel solution that completely got rid of all forum spam registrations and as a happy benefit also seemed to drive the bots away. The problem is that it only works on boards that aren't especially busy or popular.
What I did was simply turn off forum registration altogether. I then redirected the link to register for the forum to lead to a static HTML page I created. On that page it lists instructions to register for the forum (the user simply has to send me an email with a few pieces of information). The email link itself is embedded in javascript and can be changed quickly and easily should the email address get spammed out (so far that address has remained spam free). I then manually register the users.
Why not expand on this idea a bit, which requires JS to run and move the whole form to AJAX?
(If some *major* websites can require JS to register, why can't you?)
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On the Registration Page:
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Click Here to Register

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http://www.example.com/register.js is outlined below:
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function showForm(realClick) {
/* Here's the key I see to making this *way* too much work for most people to bother with writing a bot for: Split the names of the input fields and JUMBLE the response between the php file and the .js file for the names of the input area. The 'real' field names I'm going to use are: VisitorName (= username), FromMailAddress (= email), KeyToLogin (= password) */
var inputField1="Address";
var inputField2="Name";
var inputField3="Key";
/* Make a POST request with "VarName=" + realClick; to 'getfieldnames.php' (or some other server-side script lang) here. */
/* http://www.example.com/getfieldnames.php checks to see if the POST variable matches VarName=LinkClicked, checks to ensure the POST actually came from your website, etc and if everything checks out, echo's "FormMail^ToLogin^Visitor"; */
var phpResult = http_request.responseText;
var fields=phpResult.split("^");
/* Remember:
inputField1="Address"; inputField2="Name"; inputField3="Key";
fields[0]="FormMail"; fields[1]="ToLogin"; fields[2]="Visitor"; */
var realInputField1 = fields[0]+inputField1;
var realInputField2 = fields[2]+inputField2;
var realInputField3 = inputField3+fields[1];
document.getElementById('ClickToRegister').innerHTML = "<form name=\"SignUp\" action=\"\" onSubmit=\"yourProcessingFunctionHere()\">" +
"<input type=\"text\" name=\"" + realInputField1 + "\" />" +
"<input type=\"text\" name=\"" + realInputField2 + "\" />" +
"<input type=\"password\" name=\"" + realInputField3 + "\" />" +
"<input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" />" +
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Put a 2nd POST to PHP Function to Process the Form Below
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function yourProcessingFunctionHere() {
/* Gather the values of the input fields and make a POST request to formvalidation.php, which passes the names and values of the fields in the form... */
/* If the names do not match, you will know someone either: */
/* A.) Tried to assemble your JavaScript and get the names for the form fields from there. */
/* B.) Found the php page, somehow made a post and tried to get the names of the form fields from there. */
/* C.) Just made something up, because the names I used are non-standard. */
/* The only way I can see to get the right names for the fields is to actually both parse the JS, and POST to the PHP, because to get the right names for the fields they have to put both together. (It means unless you've got a really advanced bot you probably can't automate signing up.) */
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I wrote for basic readability and understandability, and of course this is a non-working, and definitely not a copy / paste example. I hope it gives you some ideas, because it's really tough to get past the methods of this one since you have to be able to both parse the JS, and POST to the PHP just to get the fields you need to submit the registration... You can also change any of it to 'unique to you' easily.
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Is there intelligent life on Earth?
I have signed-up as part of Bill McKibbin's 350.org Social Media Team and, as such, have received my first mission objective – to share with you some important facts (numbers) that Bill thinks we should all be aware of… But first some words of introduction from me and the Monty Python team:
The planet Mars is further from the Sun and smaller than the Earth. Its molten core cooled faster and its volcanic activity ceased and then it lost its atmosphere. There is no intelligent life on Mars.
The planet Venus is closer to the Sun and smaller than the Earth. Its volcanic activity did not stop and the de-gassing of its core triggered a runaway greenhouse effect that has left it with surface temperature and pressure 90 times that here. There is no intelligent life on Venus.
The planet Earth is thankfully where it is, its volcanic activity is moderate and it is big enough to retain its atmosphere; containing enough greenhouse gases to keep the temperature above freezing most of the time. Unfortunately, despite realising over 100 years ago that artificially doubling the CO2 content of the atmosphere would raise average temperatures by at least 2 Celsius, humans are not doing anything to stop this happening. Is there no intelligent life on Earth?
Over to Bill McKibbin's numbers – extracted from his article in Rolling Stone magazine – with some additional comments from me thrown-in:
The number 2 – the degrees Celsius temperature rise target we have already missed.
As McKibbin points out, so far we've raised the average temperature of the planet just under 0.8 degrees (causing more damage than expected), which has led many scientists to conclude that 2 Celsius was not a safe limit. Thomas Lovejoy, once the World Bank's chief biodiversity adviser, puts it like this: "If we're seeing what we're seeing today at 0.8 degrees Celsius, two degrees is simply too much."
As David Roberts said on his Grist blog recently, 2 oC is "too low to be safe and too high to be achievable".
The number 565 – the gigatons of CO2 that will push the Earth beyond that point.
As McKibbin points out, the idea of a global "carbon budget" emerged about a decade ago, as scientists began to calculate how much oil, coal and gas could still safely be burned. Since we've increased the Earth's temperature by 0.8 degrees so far, we're currently less than halfway to the target. But, in fact, computer models calculate that even if we stopped increasing CO2 now, the temperature would likely still rise another 0.8 degrees, as previously released carbon continues to overheat the atmosphere. That means we're already three-quarters of the way to the two-degree target.
As McKibbin acknowledges, this is not news. We have known for some time that cumulative emissions are the problem. That is why emissions reductions alone can never work; we must try and stop them. This will probably take decades; but we must start now. We will never eliminate all emissions (unless we can find alternatives for plastics, etc), but we must systematically substitute fossil fuel use wherever it can be substituted. Aviation is one of the most damaging uses of fossil fuels (because emissions are injected where they can do most damage – a bit like intravenous drug use) and is effectively non-substitutable. However, this just makes it all the more important for us all to change what we can change…
The number 2795 – the gigatons of CO2 we will emit if we burn all the Earth's fossil fuels.
As McKibbin points out, this number goes right to the heart of the socio-economic and political problem we face: It was highlighted last summer by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a team of London financial analysts and environmentalists who published a report to educate investors about the possible risks that climate change poses. The number describes the amount of carbon already contained in globally proven coal and oil and gas reserves (including unconventional fossil fuels). In short, it's the fossil fuel we're currently planning to burn; and it is five times higher than 565.
This is why I get so upset by exploration for unconventional fossil fuels (tar sands, oil shale gas and deep-sea oil). Here is what I said in an email I sent to Shell UK yesterday:
Assuming the CEO of Shell would accept – as does the CEO of Exxon Mobil – that burning fossil fuels is damaging the environment, then it is simply illogical to continue to look for additional fossil fuels to burn; rather than investing in alternative energy sources. I should also wish to put it on record that I am extremely uncomfortable with the idea of gambling the entire habitability of planet Earth on our ability to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) work. This is because, in addition to being intrinsically dangerous (i.e. unlike radioactive waste, CO2 has no half-life), CCS is treating the symptoms of our addiction to fossil fuels; it is not addressing the problem.
I hope you will accept that I am not some kind of tree-hugging eco-Fascist; and acknowledge that people with all kinds of political views and academic/professional backgrounds now realise that anthropogenic climate disruption is a real problem that can no longer be ignored. Sadly, I suspect that very little will change until the subsidies that you receive from governments are eliminated (and/or that you are prohibited from spending money on low EROEI* fuels). However, I would also like to think that Shell would recognise that the Carbon Age will come to an end sooner or later; that it would be better for planet Earth for it to be sooner; and that investment in renewable energy is therefore in everyone's best interests (including employees of Shell).
* EROEI = Energy Return On Energy Invested* For Tar Sands = 5 (compared to 20-25 for conventional fossil fuels). This means it costs five times as much to get 1 barrel of oil out of tar sands in Alberta than it does to get it from a normal crude oil well. Is it not time to be investing in non-renewable energy sources instead? Why wait?
I would encourage to all to read the whole of Bill McKibbin's article in Rolling Stone magazine. There is much more in it about the political obstacles to bringing about the required de-carbonisation of our energy production that is so urgently required; more than I could possibly do justice to here… Therefore, I will just conclude with this:
If we burn all the Earth's fossil fuels because we can (i.e. because they are there), significant irreversible change to the Earth's climate is a "dead certainty" (Hansen); and it will not be good news for anybody or anything. Trees cannot migrate; and most life on Earth will not adapt.
If you have not done so already, please join the 350.org campaign to stop this insanity here.
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Excellent article, as is McKibbin's. My suggestion for consideration is related to this line – "Trees cannot migrate; and most life on Earth will not adapt"… That does not even begin to describe what it will be like!
One of the reasons for very low public interest in the climate disaster is that almost no one is describing in vivid detail what "life will not adapt" means for humans. For most people who don't really follow the research, climate change means things get warmer, storms get stormier, and maybe the seas will rise a foot or two. As you and I both know, that would be a miracle if that was all. The chances of hitting the tipping point that takes us to 1,000ppm are getting higher every day.
I'm waiting for some qualified author to write vividly what it will be like during a mass extinction event. What will it mean for the human population to go below, perhaps way below, 1 billion people on a time scale of 100 – 150 years? People can accept that food prices will rise, but they don't comprehend that there may be no food at any price. They don't comprehend the social anarchy of millions on the move and fighting to survive.
Until they do begin to comprehend those events they will not support the serious disruption of their currently comfortable life style. The indifference of many governments to this issue reflects the public ignorance of the real consequences. So… who do you know that is qualified to write that article?
[…] to what people like Richard Lindzen are probably telling him. – 3. The fact that the Earth has five times more conventional fossil fuel than is now considered safe to burn; and therefore now is not the time to be finding a whole load more unconventional fossil fuels to […]

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Now I don't use the machine unless my numbers inch back up. All it takes is once or twice, and the blood pressure goes back down.
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Mentha oil rose by Rs 9 to Rs 1,394.70 per kg in futures trade today, extending yesterday's gains supported by domestic and export demand. Besides, reports of lower output this season also influenced prices.
At the Multi Commodity Exchange, mentha oil for delivery in January edged higher by Rs 9, or 0.64 per cent, to Rs 1,394.70 per kg, clocking a business volume of 116 lots.
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Two stories, one nation
Across Independence Mall on this Fourth of July, storytellers will entertain Philadelphia visitors with tales of the American colonists' struggle for independence. Literally beneath their feet, though, an equally stirring story of another people's quest for freedom waits to be told to a much wider audience.
It's a disquieting narrative about how the first president quartered nine slaves in the nation's first White House, a mansion at Sixth and Market Streets in the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Yet it's also a saga of hope, telling how two of George Washington's slaves escaped. Moreover, the seeds of the 20th-century's civil rights struggle were planted nearby in a colonial-era settlement created by free African Americans.
The little-told chapter in United States history is being uncovered by archaeologists working near Independence Hall. Their legacy will be a fuller picture of the nation's Founders. (That era was detailed this week in several Inquirer articles, now posted at go.philly.com/presidentshouse.)
Two years from now, a memorial to Washington's slaves will rise next to the Liberty Bell Pavilion on the site that was home to Washington and then John Adams. Being built by the National Park Service, the memorial will be a unique and different shrine to freedom than its famous neighbor. It cannot be built soon enough.
Long slighted in the retelling of the nation's birth, the irony of a slave-holding president only became widely reported to historic-area visitors last summer. In what proved to be a genius stroke, then-Mayor John F. Street jump-started the first full-scale excavation of Washington's house. The dig unearthed artifacts the slaves likely touched, as well as exposing the ground they walked.
With good reason, black-history activists such as attorney Michael Coard, head of the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition, now commemorate the ground as sacred in ceremonies like the one held there yesterday. Among park visitors of all backgrounds, though, the dig triggered a sensation that bodes well for the so-called President's House memorial as a compelling tourist attraction.
Philadelphians can take special pride in this update to history. What more appropriate setting? From the mansion, Martha Washington's personal servant, Oney Judge, fled to freedom.
Celebrating that noble desire to break the bonds of slavery all the more poignantly pays tribute to the Declaration's preamble of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" — since the Founders did not extend those "inalienable rights" to all.


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Distributors are starting to actually sit down and watch movies that may or may not be awards worthy. Disney moved "Saving Mr. Banks" into a limited platform release before the holidays; Oscar mavens the Weinsteins are lining up their ducks, from "Fruitvale Station"'s summer launch to likely fall fest entries "August: Osage County" and "Mandela: Walk to Freedom."
But are we ready for B-movie purveyor Relativity to enter the Oscar derby? The distributor is making a significant change in its release plan for Scott Cooper's gritty drama "Out of the Furnace," starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Sam Shepard, Zoe Saldana and Willem Dafoe. Previously scheduled for October 4, the film will now have a limited release on November 27, expanding on December 6, at the height of awards season. This bespeaks confidence, whether deserved or misplaced.
Relativity has reason to believe, as Cooper's last feature, "Crazy Heart," won Jeff Bridges an Oscar. And the "Out of the Furnace" cast is no stranger to the Academy: Bale has his Oscar for David O. Russell's "The Fighter," Affleck was nominated for "The Assassination of Jesse James," Harrelson for "The People vs. Larry Flynt," Dafoe for "Platoon" and "Shadow of the Vampire" and Shepard for "Safe House." Affleck may be competing with himself, as he also stars in awards-worthy "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" (August 16) from IFC Films, and Bale is coming up in Sony's December Oscar play from Russell, "American Hustle."
Cooper co-wrote the film with Brad Ingelsby. Here's the synopsis:
Russell Baze (Christian Bale) has a rough life: he works a dead-end blue collar job at the local steel mill by day, and cares for his terminally ill father by night. When Russell's brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) returns home from serving time in Iraq, he gets lured into one of the most ruthless crime rings in the Northeast and mysteriously disappears. The police fail to crack the case, so - with nothing left to lose - Russell takes matters into his own hands, putting his life on the line to seek justice for his brother.


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Where did your long hair go
Where is the girl i used to know
How could you lose that happy glow
Oh, caroline no
Who took that look away
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You'd never change, but that's not true
Oh, caroline you
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Oh, caroline why
Could i ever find in you again
Things that made me love you so much then
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Oh, caroline no
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Greatest Tearjerkers
Part 8
|Movie Title/Year and Brief Tearjerker Scene Description
E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The most tearjerking sequence of the film was the overwrought death scene of the stranded, odd-looking alien E.T. (voice of Pat Welsh), witnessed by a heart-broken 10-year old Elliott (Henry Thomas) next to him - Elliott's house had been quarantined and scientists had enveloped or enclosed it in an air-tight, cocoon-like plastic tent to either protect or decontaminate it. Both Elliott and E.T. were stretched out on long tables alongside each other within another quarantined and plastic-enclosed room. The two were connected to life-support equipment that registered similar graphing results. Elliott protested: "You have no right to do this. You're scaring him. You're scaring him! Leave him alone. Leave him alone, I can take care of him." As E.T. began to approach death, his blood pressure sank, while Elliott's condition stabilized. Elliott held out his hand to E.T., tearfully asking him to stay connected: "E.T. Stay with me. Please...Together. I'll be right here. I'll be right here." E.T.'s life faded away. Elliott lost his telepathic connection to E.T. as he miraculously came back to full life: "The boy's coming back. We're losing E.T." The boy stretched his arms out to his dead friend, pleading for him to answer. A distraught Elliott screamed to E.T. as doctors and scientists rushed en masse to E.T.'s bedside and tore open the plastic coverings around him. Realizing that E.T. had no blood pressure, pulse or respiration, they made frantic efforts to revive the alien, administer CPR and other life supports - as Elliott reached out: " E.T. Don't go!...Leave him alone. You're killing him. Leave him alone." Tearful and sorrowful, Elliott kept a vigil next to E.T. and spoke lovingly to his dead, extra-terrestrial friend: "Look at what they've done to you. I'm so sorry. You must be dead, 'cause I don't know how to feel. I can't feel anything anymore. You've gone someplace else now. I'll believe in you all my life, every day. E.T. I love you." While viewing his friend for the last time, Elliott's heart-felt love revived his friend, and E.T. was brought back to life. The film's second most-moving scene was the farewell scene of E.T. finally returning home in his spaceship - and his goodbyes with young Gertie (Drew Barrymore) and his advice to her: "Be Good", followed by her good-bye kiss on E.T.'s nose; and E.T.'s reassurance to Elliott before leaving: "I'll be right here" as he touched Elliott's forehead with his glowing finger.
Abra's (Julie Harris) "It's awful not to be loved" speech to bedridden Mr. Adam Trask (Raymond Massey) regarding his relationship with his son Cal (James Dean): ("Mr. Trask, it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. Don't ask me -- even if you could -- how I know that. I just know it").
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The doomed romance between Frankenstein-like, unfinished Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) with unique scissor-hands and suburban teen Kim Boggs (Winona Ryder), told in flashback; the heart-breaking scene in which reclusive Inventor (Vincent Price in his last film role) died before he could install real hands on Edward; also the tearjerking farewell scene between Edward and Kim after the stabbing and fall to his death of her scheming, jealous and insensitive boyfriend Jim (Anthony Michael Hall); and the concluding scene of an older Kim explaining - at the bedside of her grand-daughter (Gina Gallagher) - where snow comes from and how she knew that Edward was still alive creating ice sculptures and causing snow showers: ("I don't know. Not for sure. But I believe he is. You see, before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. If he weren't up there now, I don't think it would be snowing. Sometimes... you can still catch me dancing in it."), with the film's final flashback of a younger Kim dancing in the snowflakes
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
The heart-breaking scene in which script-reader/writer Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) received an impersonal letter in early 1969 informing her that her pen pal Frank P. Doel (Anthony Hopkins) of the rare and used book store Marks & Co. (at 84 Charing Cross Road in London) - from which she ordered rare editions and carried on correspondence with Frank over a 20 year period - had died from complications during surgery for appendicitis: ("It is with great regret that I have to tell you that he passed away on Sunday, 22nd December. The funeral took place last week on Wednesday, the 1st January...Do you still wish us to try to obtain the books you asked for in your last letter?") -- with her realization that as long-distance soulmates, they would never meet in person (although an earlier scheduled trip might have made their meeting possible, but was cancelled due to her emergency dental work); and the subsequent letter from Frank's Irish wife Nora (Judi Dench): ("I miss him so. Life was so interesting"), and the closing scene in which Helene finally traveled across the Atlantic to England to the book store, which was being closed for good -- she walked into Frank's empty office cubicle in the back of the store, and said directly into the camera: "Here I am, Frankie. I finally made it", with a regretful but proud smile on her face.
Electric Dreams (1984)
Sentient computer Edgar's (voice of Bud Cort) simple attempt to win the heart of the beautiful Madeline Robistat (Virginia Madsen), by playing Bach's Suite from Anna Magdalena with an electronic cello, and writing to her with a child's scrawl on the screen" "I LOVE YOU". Madeline was so moved that a single tear flowed down her cheek and chin and dropped onto Edgar's exposed circuitry, causing a burst of color, and left Edgar to ponder his future with her and rival suitor Miles Harding (Lenny von Dohlen) (whom Edgar called "Moles" due to a typo during initial setup) after she fled in this unusual love triangle; and Edgar's poignant suicide speech to Miles: ("Hello... goodbye...I'm leaving...because I finally found out what love is...It's give, and not take. So, I give her to you, and I take myself away...because that's what love is. Besides, it's a game for just two people only") and the touching moment when Edgar begged Miles: "Will you hold me....hold me", and then asked for his name just before dying, so that he could properly bid him farewell: "You never asked me my name."
The Elephant Man (1980)
The scene in which grossly-disfigured Von Recklinghausen's disease sufferer John Merrick (John Hurt) piteously cried out to a mob: "I am not an animal! I am a human being! I...am...a...man!" - referring to the many indignities he suffered from his owner and society at large; and the scene in which he sobbed when meeting Anne Treves (Hannah Gordon), the wife of Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins): ("I'm not used to such kindness from a beautiful woman"); also the moment of the standing ovation that Merrick received at the Christmas pantomime show "Puss in Boots" at the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane; and the scene of Merrick's demise on a bed - stretching out for peaceful, suicidal death in sleep (his normal position for sleeping was sitting up - lying down would suffocate him and prove fatal), followed by a montage of his spirit passing into eternity and being consoled by his mother's words (voice-over), accompanied by Samuel Barber's haunting Adagio for Strings.
The English Patient (1996)
The caring ministrations of nurse Hana (Juliette Binoche) for the disfigured 'English patient' - cartographer Count Laszlo Almasy (Ralph Fiennes) - after a plane crash - and her learning of his tragic romance with adulterous married lover Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas) - including his caring for his severely-wounded love in a cave/shelter after a plane crash and his promise to her: (Katherine: "Promise me you'll come back for me" Almasy: "I promise - I'll come back for you. I promise - I'll never leave you") - and later his return to the cave after she has tragically died - when he sobs as he carries her body out of the cave to an awaiting plane (while Hana reads Katharine's last words in her diary).
�tre et Avoir/To Be and To Have (2002, Fr.)
The tearjerking scene in this documentary in which wise, heroic veteran teacher (Georges Lopez as Himself) in a one-room village school for about a dozen students in France's Auvergne region counseled empathically with one tearful boy whose father was being treated for cancer; and the lingering scene at the conclusion when all the children left the classroom at the end of the term after he wished them good luck and said goodbye (with multiple kisses on both cheeks) - with the image of him standing in the doorway and watching them leave - overcome and subtly feeling a sense of loss (and also knowing that he was nearing retirement).
The segment of Schubert's poignant and "sacred" Ave Maria sequence following after Moussorgsky's "profane" Night on Bald Mountain, featuring a sedate line of candle-bearing, white-hooded worshippers/pilgrims strolling along a pastoral setting on a foggy, dew-tinged morning at dawn -- the powers of light ultimately became triumphant over darkness -- a moving, stark contrast to the disturbing Chernobog's evil.
Far From Heaven (2002)
The very poignant scene of late 50s 'perfect world' Connecticut suburban housewife Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) delivering an inevitable goodbye to her handsome, well-educated black gardener Raymond Deagan (Dennis Haysbert) with whom she had experienced a clandestine love affair, with her last touching words: "You're so beautiful."
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Oscar Pistorius broke down in sobs and howls while testifying at his murder trial Tuesday, forcing the court to adjourn as the star athlete was describing the moments he said he first realized he had shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a toilet door in his home.
''I sat over Reeva and I cried,'' Oscar Pistorius said, telling how he broke open the stall door in his bathroom last year to discover his mortally wounded girlfriend slumped over in the cubicle. ''I don't know how long I was there for.''
Oscar Pistorius has said he shot Steenkamp after mistaking her for an intruder in his bathroom. Tuesday marked the first time he has spoken publicly on the details of the fatal shooting. Prosecutors call Oscar Pistorius' story an intricate lie and maintain he intentionally killed his 29-year-old girlfriend, a model and reality TV show star, after an argument.
The Olympian, 27, is charged with premeditated murder in Steenkamp's death and faces a life sentence with a minimum of 25 years before parole if convicted on that charge.
On the witness stand, he began to cry loudly while testifying, forcing the judge to rule a brief adjournment. Oscar Pistorius didn't stand up when the judge left, and also started to wail as he sat slumped over on the witness stand, his head in his hands. His brother and sister went over to him in an apparent attempt to comfort him and after a while he left the courtroom through a side door, still crying.
When Judge Thokozile Masipa returned, she called an early adjournment. Oscar Pistorius had by that time had returned to sit, jaw clenched, in the witness box. Court was to reconvene on Wednesday.
Pistorius pleaded not guilty to murder at the start of his trial and denied in earlier testimony Tuesday three other charges against him relating to firing a gun in public on two occasions, and illegal possession of ammunition. On one of the counts two witnesses have testified that Pistorius recklessly shot a gun out of a moving car in September 2012, months before he killed Steenkamp. Pistorius said: ''It never happened.''
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International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
Ed. by Andrusyszyn, Mary-Anne / Cragg, Catherine Elizabeth / Goldenberg, Dolly / Maltby, Hendrika J. / McWilliam, Carol
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Bologna Process, More or Less: Nursing Education in the European Economic Area: A Discussion Paper
1Associate Professor in Nursing Science, University of Udine, Viale Ungheria 20, 33100 Udine, Italy
2Director of Nursing at Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain
3Professor, Dean of School of Health Sciences, University of Akureyri, Iceland
4Lecturer in Nursing, Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
5Teacher (adjunct), Medical University of Lublin, Faculty of Nursing and Health Science, Chair of Nursing Development, Lublin, Poland
6Lecturer in Nursing, High School of Health Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Switzerland
7Associate Professor, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
8Principal Research Fellow, Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK
Citation Information: International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 63–73, ISSN (Online) 1548-923X, ISSN (Print) 2194-5772, DOI: 10.1515/ijnes-2013-0022, April 2014
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The Bologna Declaration and the subsequent processes is the single most important reform of higher education taking place in Europe in the last 30 years. Signed in 1999, it includes 46 European Union countries and aimed to create, a more coherent, compatible, comparable and competitive European Higher Education Area. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Bologna Declaration achievements in nursing education at 2010 within eight countries that first signed the Declaration on 1999. Researchers primarily identified national laws, policy statements, guidelines and grey literature; then, a literature review on Bologna Declaration implementation in nursing was conducted on the Medline and CINAHL databases. Critical analyses of these documents were performed by expert nurse educators. Structural, organizational, functional and cultural obstacles are hindering full Bologna Process implementation in nursing education within European Economic Area. A call for action is offered in order to achieve a functionally unified system within nursing.
Keywords: Bologna Declaration; nurse education; European Union; European Economic Area; Nursing
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No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered work in any gainful occupation mentioned in Section 1 of this Act for more than 6 consecutive days in any one week, or more than 48 hours in any one week, 24 hours in any one week when school is in session, or more than 8 hours in any one day, or be so employed, permitted or suffered to work between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., except during the period June 1 to Labor Day, between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. The hours of work of minors under the age of 16 years employed outside of school hours shall not exceed 3 a day on days when school is in session nor shall be the combined hours of work outside and in school exceed a total of 8 a day.
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The Thermals
More Parts Per Million
Sub Pop
ecognized by indie rock sweet boy Ben Gibbard, the Thermals were placed on the indie rock fast track. Additionally, the people that make up this band come from several other indie bands. Honestly, I haven't heard any of these bands, so I can't tell you if their sound translates to this group.
The album opens up with "It's Trivia." There's a lot of shouted lyrics, "go fast go slow go sly go low." They aren't that important, though they do add a lot to the band's image. The song is a lo-fi sounding distorted-guitar-full romp filled with indie pretension. This pretension is best explained through the vocal melody, if you've heard it, you know what I'm talking about. This is typified by a certain type of interval change, a forced jump in the melody placed there to create the illusion of melody. Here's a good test, play the melody on the piano, does it sound believable? When the melodies work anywhere on this album it seems coincidental.
Single "No Culture Icons" is very much like the first song. It opens with the squealed phrase "hardly art, hardly starving." The band does the same "aren't we garage?" deal in the background. The song contains a quaint little breakdown where the nowhere-near-in-tune guitar is struck percussively slightly behind the beat, which is kept up with a recklessly smashed crash cymbal.
When we get to "I Know the Pattern," perhaps coincidentally we've already heard everything the album has to offer us. The music's rollicking starts and stops, the general pep, the megaphone vocals that don't mean anything. "Come on, '02, I know the pattern, 02, I know we'll be here again." Can somebody explain to me what this means? Some sort of cute allusion to rap music by quoting the year? Some sort of attempt at pre-occurrence nostalgia? I'm sure it functions as multiple meaningless things from person to person. And if meaninglessness is the point, then they've done their job quite effectively.
It isn't clear what the Thermals want to accomplish with this album. Perhaps they want to appeal to the Guided by Voices fans that can't wait two weeks until the next Faded Captain release. Surely people will appreciate them, citing their "lo-fi-ness" as some sort of mark of authenticity. But when every band does it, it loses the sense of wonder it once had—making this album sound much like every other garage band to have sprung up in the past year following the commercial break of the Strokes and White Stripes.
And that's how this album sounds: derivative. Distorted guitar, smarter than thou lyrics, obvious lo-fi quality. It's an insult to our intelligence. If you want minimalist punk-like music with better hooks and non-patronizing lyrics, pick up a Green Day album.
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By THOMAS WATKINS, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth places: a Denny's restaurant in Riverside County.
But at the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice and a 74-year-old suspect who was terrified by armed officials.
Five months after NASA investigators and local agents swooped into the restaurant and hailed their operation as a cautionary tale for anyone trying to sell national treasure, no charges have been filed, NASA isn't talking and the case appears stalled.
The target, Joann Davis, a grandmother who says she was trying to raise money for her sick son, asserts the lunar material was rightfully hers, having been given to her space-engineer husband by Neil Armstrong in the 1970s.
"It's a very upsetting thing," Davis told The Associated Press. "It's very detrimental, very humiliating, all of it a lie."
The strange case centers on a speck of authenticated moon rock encased in an acrylic-looking dome that appears to be a paperweight. For years, NASA has gone after anyone selling lunar material gathered on the Apollo missions because it is considered government property, so cannot be sold for profit.
Still, NASA has given hundreds of lunar samples to nations, states and high-profile individuals but only on the understanding they remain government property. NASA's inspector general works to arrest anyone trying to sell them.
The case was triggered by Davis herself, according to a search warrant affidavit written by Norman Conley, an agent for the inspector general.
She emailed a NASA contractor May 10 trying to find a buyer for the rock, as well as a nickel-sized piece of the heat shield that protected the Apollo 11 space capsule as it returned to earth from the first successful manned mission to the moon in 1969.
"I've been searching the internet for months attempting to find a buyer," Davis wrote. "If you have any thoughts as to how I can proceed with the sale of these two items, please call."
Davis told AP the items were among many of the space-related heirlooms her husband left her when he died in 1986. She said she had worked as a lexicographer and he had worked as an engineer for North American Rockwell, which contracted for NASA during the Apollo era.
Davis claims Armstrong gave the items to her husband, though the affidavit says the first man on the moon has previously told investigators he never gave or sold lunar material to anyone.
In follow-up phone conversations with a NASA agent, Davis acknowledged the rock was not sellable on the open market and fretted about an agent knocking on her door and taking the material, which she was willing to sell for "big money underground."
"She must know that this is a questionable transaction because she used the term `black market,'" Agent Conley states in the search warrant.
Curiously, though, Davis agreed to sell the sample to NASA for a stellar $1.7 million. She said she wanted to leave her three children an inheritance and take care of her sick son.
NASA investigators then arranged the sting, where Conley met with Davis and her current husband at the Denny's at Lake Elsinore in Riverside County.
Soon after settling into a booth, Davis said, she pulled out the moon sample and about half a dozen sheriff's deputies and NASA investigators rushed into the eatery.
When officers in flack vests took a hold of her, the 4-foot-11 woman said she was so scared she lost control of her bladder and was taken outside to a parking lot, where she was questioned and detained for about two hours.
"They grabbed me and pulled me out of the booth," Davis claimed. "I had very, very deep bruises on my left side."
Conley declined to comment and NASA Office of the Inspector General spokeswoman Renee Juhans said she could not talk about an ongoing investigation.
Davis was eventually allowed home, without the moon rock, and was never booked into a police station or charged.
The affidavit states authorities believed Davis was in possession of stolen government property but so far they have not publicly revealed any proof.
"This (is) abhorrent behavior by the federal government to steal something from a retiree that was given to her," said Davis's attorney, Peter Schlueter, who is planning legal action.
Joseph Gutheinz, a University of Phoenix instructor and former NASA investigator who has spent years tracking down missing moon rocks, said prosecuting Davis could prove tricky.
Gutheinz said he recently learned that NASA did not always take good care of lunar materials. In some instances, space suits were simply hosed off and any moon dust on them lost forever.
While bigger rocks, such as those given to various countries and museums were carefully inventoried and tracked, it now appears there are unknown numbers of much smaller pieces circulating in the public. Some of these may have been turned into paperweights and informally given away by NASA engineers.
"I have a real moral problem with what's happened here in California," Gutheinz said. "I've always taken the position that no one should own an Apollo-era moon rock. They belong to the people. But if we did such a poor job of safeguarding (lunar samples,) I cannot fault that person."
About 2,200 samples of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust - weighing about 840 pounds - were brought to Earth by NASA's Apollo lunar landing missions from 1969 to 1972. A recent count showed 10 states and more than 90 countries could not account for their shares of the gray rocks.
This image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions, and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In the instruments' combined data, this nearby dwarf galaxy looks like a fiery, circular explosion. Rather than fire, however, those ribbons are actually giant ripples of dust spanning tens or hundreds of light-years. Significant fields of star formation are noticeable in the center, just left of center and at right. The brightest center-left region is called 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, for its appearance in visible light.
This enhanced-color image shows sand dunes trapped in an impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars. Dunes and sand ripples of various shapes and sizes display the natural beauty created by physical processes. The area covered in the image is about six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) across. Sand dunes are among the most widespread wind-formed features on Mars. Their distribution and shapes are affected by changes in wind direction and wind strength. Patterns of dune erosion and deposition provide insight into the sedimentary history of the surrounding terrain.
This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists are discussing whether the circular structure that covers most of this image originated by a collision with another asteroid, or by internal processes early in the asteroid's history. Images in higher resolution from Dawn's lowered orbit might help answer that question. The image was recorded with the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of about 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers). The image resolution is about 260 meters per pixel.
This undated photo shows a classic type 1a supernova remnant. Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the United States and US-Australian Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize on October 4, 2011 for their research on supernovae.
A quartet of Saturn's moons, from tiny to huge, surround and are embedded within the planet's rings in this Cassini composition. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is in the background of the image, and the moon's north polar hood is clearly visible. See PIA08137 to learn more about that feature on Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). Next, the wispy terrain on the trailing hemisphere of Dione (698 miles, or 1,123 kilometers across) can be seen on that moon which appears just above the rings at the center of the image. See PIA10560 and PIA06163 to learn more about Dione's wisps. Saturn's small moon Pandora (50 miles, or 81 kilometers across) orbits beyond the rings on the right of the image. Finally, Pan (17 miles, or 28 kilometers across) can be seen in the Encke Gap of the A ring on the left of the image. The image was taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 17, 2011. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.3 million miles (2.1 million kilometers) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 27 degrees. Image scale is 8 miles (13 kilometers) per pixel on Dione.
Combining almost opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, this composite image of the Herschel in far-infrared and XMM-Newton's X-ray images obtained January 20, 2012, shows how the hot young stars detected by the X-ray observations are sculpting and interacting with the surrounding ultra-cool gas and dust, which, at only a few degrees above absolute zero, is the critical material for star formation itself. Both wavelengths would be blocked by Earth's atmosphere, so are critical to our understanding of the lifecycle of stars . (AFP / Getty Images)
Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters and a glimpse into regions normally obscured by the dust. (NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage)
A bubbling cauldron of star birth is highlighted in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Infrared light that we can't see with our eyes has been color-coded, such that the shortest wavelengths are shown in blue and the longest in red. The middle wavelength range is green. Massive stars have blown bubbles, or cavities, in the dust and gas--a violent process that triggers both the death and birth of stars. The brightest, yellow-white regions are warm centers of star formation. The green shows tendrils of dust, and red indicates other types of dust that may be cooler, in addition to ionized gas from nearby massive stars.
This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151. X-rays (blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are combined with optical data (yellow) showing positively charged hydrogen (H II) from observations with the 1-meter Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma. The red ring shows neutral hydrogen detected by radio observations with the NSF's Very Large Array. This neutral hydrogen is part of a structure near the center of NGC 4151 that has been distorted by gravitational interactions with the rest of the galaxy, and includes material falling towards the center of the galaxy. The yellow blobs around the red ellipse are regions where star formation has recently occurred. (NASA / CXC / CfA / J. Wang)
"These tidal tails are thin, elongated streams of gas, dust and stars that extend away from a galaxy into space. They occur when galaxies gravitationally interact with one another, and material is sheared from the outer edges of each body and flung out into space in opposite directions, forming two tails. They almost always appear curved, so when they are seen to be relatively straight, as in this image, it is clear that we are viewing the galaxies side-on."
This image provided by NASA shows the Solar Dynamic Observatory's ultra-high-definition view of Venus, black dot at top center, passing in front of the sun on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. The next transit of Venus won't be for another 105 years. (NASA/Solar Dynamic Observatory/AP)
WISE, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has a new view of Barnard 3, or IRAS Ring G159.6-18.5, that is awash in bright green and red dust clouds. Interstellar clouds like these are stellar nurseries, where baby stars are being born. (UCLA / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
Feel like you are being watched? This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet notable for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye.
In visible light, the star-forming cloud known as NGC 281 in the constellation of Cassiopeia appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the "Pacman" nebula after the famous Pac-Man video game of the 1980s.
This undated handout image provide by NASA combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86. NASA announced the findings Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, and said the exploded star was observed by the ancient Chinese in the year 185, and visible for eight months.
This image provided by NASA shows a night time image photographed by the Expedition 29 crew from the International Space Station on Oct. 16, 2011. It features airglow, Earth's terminator, Rocky Mountains, Denver-Colorado Springs (center-right), Santa Fe-Albuquerque (low-center-right), US Great Plains cities: Dallas-Oklahoma City, Kansas City and Chicago.
This image provided by NASA shows the image captured by Hinode on June 5, 2012 of the transit of Venus -- the last instance of this rare phenomenon until 2117. Hinode is a joint JAXA/NASA mission to study the connections of the sun's surface magnetism, primarily in and around sunspots. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages Hinode. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., is the lead U.S. investigator for the X-ray Telescope. (JAXA NASA/AP)
The silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour appears over Earth's colorful horizon in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on Feb. 9, 2010.
Messier 78 Nebula brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty nebula with its infrared vision, showing stellar infants that are lost behind dark clouds when viewed in visible light. Messier 78 is easily seen in small telescopes in the constellation of Orion
An image released on October 3, 2011 show the Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038 and 4039) are a pair of distorted colliding spiral galaxies about 70 million light-years away, in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow). This view combines Atacama large milllimetre/submillimetre array (ALMA) observations, made in three different wavelength ranges during the observatory's early testing phase, with visible-light observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Most of the ALMA test observations used to create this image were made using only twelve antennas working together -- far fewer than will be used for the first science observations. The first phase of operations at the ALMA complex in Chile's Atacama desert are underway on October 3, 2011 following ten years of construction. Alma's purpose is to study processes occurring a few hundred million years after the formation of the Universe when the first stars began to shine. Alma consists of an array of linked giant antennas on top of the highest plateau in the Atacama desert. AFP PHOTO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
A swirling a landscape of stars known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this image infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears.
In this undated image taken by the WISE telescope a massive star is shown plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc.
At 5:20 a.m. EDT on March 29,2011, the Messenger probe captured this historic image of Mercury. The image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit of the solar system's innermost planet. (NASA)
The full moon rises near the Lincoln Memorial on March 19 in Washington. The full moon was called a "Super Perigee Moon" since it was at its closest to Earth in 2011. The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March 1993. (Bill Ingalls, NASA / AFP / Getty Images)
This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features a region of star birth wrapped in a blanket of dust, colored green in this infrared view. Designated as LBN 149.02-00.13, this interstellar cloud is made up of a shell of ionized gas surrounding a void with an extremely hot, bright star in the middle. (UCLA / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows portions of the Martian surface in unprecedented detail. The photo shows many channels from 1 meter to 10 meters wide (approximately 3 feet to 33 feet wide) on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin. Some larger channels on Mars that are sometimes called gullies are big enough to be called ravines on Earth. (NASA / AFP / Getty Images)
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, center, is 3,200 miles in diameter. The smaller moon Enceladus, far right, just over 300 miles across, appears just below the rings. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 524,000 miles from Titan. (SSI / JPL / NASA)
The space shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation. During a post undocking fly-around, the crew of each vessel photographed the opposing craft. (NASA)
This NASA image shows what the Hubble Space Telescope revealed in a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in the spiral galaxy NGC 2841. A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's center. Spiraling outward are dust lanes that are silhouetted against the population of whitish middle-aged stars. Much younger blue stars trace the spiral arms. NGC 2841 lies 46 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). (Hubble Heritage / ESA / NASA)
This image obtained by NASA's Stardust spacecraft shows Comet Tempel 1 at 11:39 p.m. EST on Feb. 14, 2011. The NASA spacecraft's flyby of the comet showed erosion on Tempel 1's surface since it skimmed by the sun in 2005 and revealed the first clear pictures of the crater made by a Deep Impact probe. (Cornell / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
A pair of active regions on the sun were captured in extreme ultraviolet light from the Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft over a three-day period. The magnetic field lines above the regions produced fluttering arcs waving above them, as well as a couple of flares. Another pair of smaller active regions emerges and trails behind the larger ones. (Solar Dynamics Observatory / NASA)
This view of the North America nebula combines both visible and infrared light observations, taken by the Digitized Sky Survey and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, respectively, into a single vivid picture. The nebula is named after its resemblance to the North American continent in visible light, which in this image is represented in blue hues. Infrared light, displayed here in red and green, can penetrate deep into the dust, revealing multitudes of hidden stars and dusty clouds.
This still caught the action in freeze-frame splendor when the sun popped off two events at once. A filament, left, became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare and a coronal mass ejection, right, blasted into space. Neither event was headed toward Earth.
This image shows a dramatic view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. Seen in near-infrared light, most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool's skeletal dust structure. This image is the sharpest view of the dense dust in M51. The narrow lanes of dust revealed by Hubble reflect the galaxy's moniker, the Whirlpool Galaxy, as if they were swirling toward the galaxy's core.
While searching the skies for black holes using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a giant supernova that was smothered in its own dust in this image released on Jan. 14. In this artist's rendering, an outer shell of gas and dust -- which erupted from the star hundreds of years ago -- obscures the supernova within. This event in a distant galaxy hints at one possible future for the brightest star system in our own Milky Way.
Mars' two moons have been photographed in the same frame for the first time. The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter snapped this image, which was released Dec. 11, 2009. The larger moon is Phobos. The much smaller one is Deimos.
Scientists said Dec. 8, 2009, that the Hubble Space Telescope spotted several thousand never-before-seen galaxies that were formed 600 million years after the Big Bang. Here, a photo shows some of them. They appear in the image as the faintest and reddest objects.
This is one of the most detailed images to date of the heart of the Milky Way. The galaxy's center is within the white spot near the right edge of the photo. NASA released the image Nov. 10 to mark the 400th anniversary of the telescope. It is a composite of images from three observatories: the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows an object known as both NGC 2623 and Arp 243, which was formed by a collision of two galaxies. The galaxies' cores have merged into one; the tails streaming from the object are full of young stars. NGC 2623 is about 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer.
This portrait of Barnard's Galaxy, one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors, was taken by a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile. The red features in the photo are nebulae where new stars are being born. The galaxy has about 10 million stars; the Milky Way has an estimated 400 billion.
The Cassini spacecraft became the first to photograph an equinox on Saturn, a 15-year event that took place Aug. 11. This photo is a composite of images that Cassini shot over eight hours. New equinox images of the planet show strange formations in its rings and suggest that in some places, the rings are much thicker than expected.
Clumps of debris cast shadows that are visible in the middle of this image of Saturn's A ring. The shadows suggest that the clumps are about 2,000 feet tall. Scientists have believed for years that the rings were about 30 feet thick, but based on the new images, scientists now think that they're more than 2 miles deep in some spots. "Isn't that the most outrageous thing you could imagine? It truly is like something out of science fiction," said Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team.
This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light-years from Earth, shows X-rays from the NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute. Arp 147 contains the remnant of a spiral galaxy, right, that collided with the elliptical galaxy on the left. This collision has produced an expanding wave of star formation that shows up as a blue ring containing an abundance of massive young stars. These stars race through their evolution in a few million years or less and explode as supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars and black holes.
A new photo released in July from the Hubble Space Telescope is the clearest yet of what astronomers are calling a scar on the surface of Jupiter. An object, possibly a comet, struck the planet recently, creating the strange dark patch. It happened on the 15th anniversary of another comet strike.
This planetary nebula, named Kohoutek 4-55, was photographed May 4 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The nebula, dubbed a "giant eye," contains the outer layers of a red giant star that died. The camera, which is the size of a baby grand piano, has captured several memorable images since it was installed in 1993.
In this sequence of photos released in April, a jet of gas spews from a massive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. The gas fades and brightens, with a peak that even outshines the galaxy's core. The outburst is coming from a blob of matter, dubbed HST-1, and scientists are so far at a loss to explain its weird behavior.
This photo was snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope after winning a public competition to determine what the next space portrait should be. It shows Arp 274, a system of three galaxies -- two larger ones on the right, and a smaller and less intact one on the far left.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of three galaxies playing a game of gravitational tug-of-war that could destroy one of them. The galaxies -- NGC 7173, middle left, NGC 7174, middle right, and NGC 7176, lower right -- are about 100 million light-years away. The photo was released March 3.
Our solar system is in the middle of a cosmic dust storm, and some astronomers said they've zeroed in on the possible source: the Red Rectangle nebula, which is 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. A double star system there is spewing the dust, according to findings announced in February.
After transmission problems on the Hubble Telescope weren fixed, NASA in October 2008 provided this undated photograph showing the aftermath of galaxies colliding. In the pair known as Arp 147, a reddish-colored galaxy has passed through an O-shaped galaxy glowing blue.
Photographs taken of Mercury by the spacecraft Messenger in January 2008 were analyzed in the journal Science seven months later. Images like the one above show that volcanic activity played a part in forming plains on the planet.


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Response to question for Jan 7-13: WHAT WOULD BE THE IMMEDIATE BENEFITS, AND FOR WHOM?
One of main aim of bringing FDI is to remove/reduce middle men so that farmers can get best prices for their goods. To make it happen companies will have to set up their own supply chains, shipping, storage and logistical capabilities and so significant improvements can be seen infrastructure capabilities with immediate effects.
And as farmers will get prices for their goods, it will eventually improve their economical condition, which will make them to spend more and as they will spend more money it will help to grow economically as the more than 50% of workforce in India is into farming.
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Fergusson College, Pune
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Hello all, this is my first post to the board. I'm needing some help with picking a bike. What I'm looking for is a bike that will be my all around ride. I'd like to be able to go get groceries, visit freinds, take the dogs in a trailer to vet. and so on.
1st bike: Specialized daily 2 step through
2nd bike: Trek Allant WSD
I was looking in to a couple of schwinns but was told the're just not what they used to be. Thanks for helping.


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Although we specialize in maps of fictional realms, as commonly used in both novels and games (both tabletop and role-playing), many Guild members are also proficient in historical and contemporary maps. Likewise, we specialize in computer-assisted cartography (such as with GIMP, Adobe apps, Campaign Cartographer, Dundjinni, etc.), although many members here also have interest in maps drafted by hand.
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Hey there,
We are starting an old school rpg campaign, so i decided to make the city. I used a simple technique i put online to forum's tutorial section. Planning to finish soon, for it is a quick map. Enjoy.
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Sgt. Steve Jarrett said in a statement that 48-year-old Camilla Allen of Pine Hill and 54-year-old Ronnie Mitchell of Thomasville hit the animal south of Catherine early Tuesday morning, veered from the road and overturned several times before coming to a stop. Catherine is about 35 miles southwest of Selma.
Jarrett says the two weren't wearing seatbelts at the time.
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Paul Greengrass Heads To Chicago
Sometimes I read a piece of movie news and it makes my head go ding-ding in that way when something you see ends up reminding you of something way back in the recesses of your mind. I always liked to play four-square during my recesses .oh wait, wrong recesses. Anyway, when I read something about the movie, The Trial of the Chicago 7, it made me say, to myself, didnt I do a story on this a long time ago? And the answer is, yes, I did. That was over a year ago, though, and things have changed.
Originally, it looked the film about the protests and subsequent trial of anti-war activists at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago would be directed by Steven Spielberg. Steven, however, is busy making his movie based on a Belgian comic stip, Tintin and his other movie about Honest Abe, Lincoln. So, either Chicago 7 was going to have to wait around for a few years or someone else needed to step up. According to the guys at Film School Rejects, it is the latter. If my brother is going to be bound and gagged and chained to a chair, then Paul Greengass is going to direct him doing it.
The Film School Rejects guys got the news from Production Weekly which lists Greengrass as the director, although no formal announcement has been made. I like Greengrass, he directed both films at the top of my best of list in 2007 and 2006, so Ill probably go see this with him behind the camera. I just hope this doesnt delay a possible fourth Jason Bourne movie. I wouldnt want watching a bunch of hippies getting beaten by the man to interfere with Jason Bourne quick-cutting ass kicking.
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Well what people are missing is that Nola Darling [actress Tracy Camilla Johns] is in this film. The Jehovah's Witness, that's Tracy Camilla Johns' character from "She's Gotta Have It." We've done this before in "Jungle Fever," two cops almost arrest Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra and one of them is in "Clockers" and in "Inside Man" Sal's pizza is being delivered to the hospitals [ed. note: we discussed much of this in an article charting the cinematic Spike Lee universe, and note: Isiah Whitlock Jr. aka Clay Davis from "The Wire" also reprises his role of Detective Flood in "Red Hook Summer." He was previously seen in "She Hate Me" and "25th Hour"].
"Mo' Better Blues," Denzel's apartment is by the Brooklyn Bridge, but it's not specifically in Brooklyn [parts are set in Harlem]. "He Got Game" is Coney Island for sure. Here it goes: 1986 "She's Gotta Have It," Ft. Green, Downtown Brooklyn. 1989 "Do The Right Thing," Bedstuy. "Clockers" is Boreum Hill, "Crooklyn" is Bedstuy again.
What about "Jungle Fever"?
"Jungle Fever" is in Bensonhurst, but a lot of it takes place in Harlem too. It's not exclusively Brooklyn.
You knew "Red Hook Summer" was something Hollywood wasn't going to touch?
Yeah we knew that. From the get-go. From the very moment we had the meeting we knew we would do it. I told them I'm financing it myself, that was the whole plan from the beginning. You've got to have money.
Did you consider well known actors?
This film didn't need stars. Who's going to do a better job then Clarke Johnson? He's phenomenal in this film. This is a film that from the outset was made with outside the system. I mean stars ain't doing this. Also we wanted to be under the radar.
You shot this on the sly, why so secretive?
I like it...when people have to know something I'll let them know [laughs]. Because we didn't want any distractions, we just wanted to do the work. We shot this three six day weeks, 18 days, last summer.
I've done a lot of documentaries for HBO and I'm doing another documentary called "Bad 25" which is about the making of Michael Jackson's Bad album and we're going to finish it for the film festival.
And they're giving you a lifetime achievement award.
A nice watch.
How does it feel to be receiving a lifetime achievement award at 55?
[long pause] Better than when I'm dead [laughs heartily].
Speaking of "Bad 25," I noticed some irony. You have this 1986 New York Times profile framed in your offices and in it you give Michael shit for dating Brooke Shields and Elizabeth Taylor and never having a black woman on his arm.
I've always loved Michael. I mean, all the stuff he did never affected my appreciation for his music and that's what the film's about, his music, the Bad album. [Michael Jackons's estate] wanted to do Bad, they're going to do all three eventually... So the great thing about it if the estate comes I have access to Michael's...they're opening up all of his archives, there's stuff in this film that no one's ever seen before, ever, ever.
Is that going to hit theaters in the U.S.?
Well they're still trying to work it out how it's going to be seen.
It's a landmark album, you've got the Scorsese video [he directed the video for "Bad"].
Yeah, we filmed Scorsese watching the video, he hadn't seen it in 20 years.
You shot at least one of his videos.
Two. I did two versions of "They Don't Care About Us," we shot one in Brazil and one here. Then the one after Michael died, "This is it." Not the documentary but the video.
Looking back on your body of work, how do you see it? What are your favorites? What doesn't work for you?
The only thing that makes me wince is "She's Gotta Have It."
How come?
Just some of the acting and stuff. I could see it in someone who's inexperienced. As a director I didn't feel confident until "Do The Right Thing," that was my third film. Even the second one, "School Daze," I didn't feel comfortable doing it.
I was at the 10th anniversary of 25th Hour, that film's grown in stature like none of your films outside of "Do The Right Thing." It was really overlooked at the time.
You mean at Lincoln Center. Ed [Norton] was there, Philip Seymour Hoffman was there. The unfortunate thing is that the marketing of the film was based upon Academy Award Nominations, Golden Globes, when it was released at that time. Once we didn't get that...but people love that film and it's really grown in stature. In fact it went out to Blu-Ray now, I've got to approve it. That came out of nowhere. I just did that commentary.
Do you have a favorite besides "Do The Right Thing"? Are they hard to pick?
For me I just look at it as a collective body of work. It's funny, the more films you make the more films people have had as their favorite. "Do The Right Thing" isn't everybody's favorite, "Malcolm X" isn't everybody's favorite. "School Daze," "She's Gotta Have It," a lot of people their favorite film is "Crooklyn." So it's what people respond to.


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A massive sell-off is taking place at one of Columbus' longtime hotels.
The Concourse Hotel at Port Columbus, located at 4300 International Gtwy., is closed and is slated for demolition. The hotel's furnishings are being sold to prepare for the demolition, 10TV News reported.
Mid American Salvage is helping with the sale of everything that includes furniture, exercise equipment, pool furnishings, bar, restaurant and kitchen equipment.
"Everything to the walls is for sale," Mid American Salvage sales representative Jane Pushee said. "The building is slated to be demolished so door knobs to everything is for sale."
The hotel was refurbished in 2008.
The sale was scheduled from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, or until all items are sold.
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Caribbean Stew Supersized
This is my supersized version of Mary McDougall's recipe.
1 cup dry pinto beans, sorted, rinsed, soaked overnight, & drained
1 cup dry kidney beans, sorted, rinsed, soaked overnight, & drained
1 cup dry black beans, sorted, rinsed, soaked overnight, & drained
14 cups water
3 onions, chopped
3 Bell peppers (any color), seeded & chopped
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and diced
6-8 (depending on size) sweet potatoes or yams, peeled & chopped
10 White potatoes, peeled & chopped
5 Stalks Celery, chopped
2-15 oz cans diced tomatoes (or 1-30 oz can)
½ cup Brown Sugar
2 Tablespoons Chili Powder
1 Tablespoon Ground Cumin
1 Tablespoon Ground Oregano
1 Tablespoon Salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 – 20 oz cans pineapple chunks with juice
4 tart green apples, peeled and chopped
Cook beans & onions in water for 1 hour. Add remaining ingredients except pineapple and apple. Cook 45 minutes. Add pineapple and apple and cook 15 minutes. Serve over brown rice.
Notes: I used fresh pineapple today instead of canned because I had ½ a pineapple left over from another recipe. If you forget to soak the beans as I did today, you can do a quick soak by bringing the beans to a boil, removing them from the heat, and letting them stand for an hour.


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I have a very important race coming on December 4th. In that race, a time trial, I will not only face off against the current national champion in the event, but I want to make a run at the state record. I am in monster shape right now at the final stages of peaking, and want to come to the line that day at my absolute peak. I have tried different tapering strategies, but I would be curious to glean a scientific approach being well aware that each of us is an experiment of one.
To be more specific, I am particularly concerned about the three days prior to the race. The race will be on Tuesday, and on Saturdays I typically ride with a rather fast group which contains everything from an ex Olympian to cat 1 riders. For example, yesterday on that ride, my heart rate averaged 160 to hang with the lead group whereas two weeks ago I won a road race with an average heart rate of 151. I'm wondering if I should participate in that ride on Saturday with the big race three days later on Tuesday?
I don't want to let my body off the hook too much in that I think it is important to allow the body to dissipate lactic acid reasonably close to the race to prepare for battle. On my pre race time trial warmup, I typically warmup for a minimum of an hour, and do some race pace or perhaps slightly faster pickups during the latter stages of the warmup. I find that forcing the body to dissipate lactic acid close to the start seems to allow me to deal with the ensuing lactic acid a bit better.
Anyway, what would be a good taper strategy in the opinion of any coaches hovering about for a very important race? Thanks for your input.


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With temperatures reaching into the 90s and fire danger climbing we decided to check in with area campgrounds to find out if they're allowing campfires.
NBC Montana talked to Tom Mahlum, the owner of Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park outside of Missoula. He tells us he follows county burning guidelines – if Missoula County allows campfires, then so does Mahlum.
Mahlum tells us with a heat wave lingering over western Montana most campers decide to ditch the fire pit and go swimming instead.
"The probability of them having a campfire over the last couple days and the next couple of days will be pretty slim because of the temperature," said Mahlum.
We talked to campers to find out if they were planning to have a campfire over the holiday weekend.
"With the weather and the condition the forests are in it's just not a wise thing to do," said avid camper Michael Hoger. "The west is on fire right now and you don't want to be a contributing factor to it because you walk away for a minute and that minute is when a spark will fly and catch the forest on fire."
Hoger's wife, Jan, says she can live without making s'mores over an open fire.
"It's way too windy and we don't want to start the place on fire, so that's why we're not going to have a campfire," said Jan Hoger.
As for Mahlum, he says they will take extra precautions on the Fourth of July.
"With fireworks tomorrow night right around the corner, we are very cautious on any extra fire activity in our park," he said.
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