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I'm actually a day late with this one, but better late than never!
After the Argentine invasion of the Falklands on 2 April 1982, we have already heard about how the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Henry Leach persuaded the Prime Minister to launch a task force with a view to retaking the Islands.
By a fortuitous set of circumstances, many of the Royal Navy's Destroyers and Frigates were off Gibraltar exercising. This enabled Britain to attempt to get to the South Atlantic before any diplomatic attempts forestalled a re-possession of the islands. Antrim, Glamorgan; Arrow; Brilliant; Coventry, Glasgow, Sheffield; also RFA Appleleaf, Fort Austin and Tidespring.
In Portsmouth, frenzied preparations took place. Two Aircraft Carriers were immediately available – the old HMS Hermes, and the brand new HMS Invincible. Neither were ready to sail, HMS Hermes in particular was partially destored. At once the Dockyard swung into action, literally working round the clock to prepare the ships to sail. To store, ammunition and ready two big ships for war within three days was nothing short of miraculous.Eyewitnesses remember endless lines of trucks coming off the M275 motorway heading into the Dockyard. My parents, who were living in Stamshaw at the time, a stones throw from the Dockyard, could hear the Sea Harriers coming in and landing on the decks of the carriers. Normally, you would never have seen a fixed wing aircraft land on a ship inside the dockyard – but these were special circumstances, and peacetime regulations went out of the window. The two carriers eventually sailed on 5 April 1982.
HMS Invincible and HMS Hermes sail from Portsmouth
Notice just how many people are on the seafront in Portsmouth to see the ships off. I don't know if its just me, but the images of Invincible and Hermes sailing to war are among the most iconic images of the 1980's. It shows just how closely Portsmouth takes the Royal Navy to its heart, and similar scenes were witnessed – albeit slightly fewer people – when HMS Daring and HMS Dauntless deployed recently. It's something that Portsmouth and its people have seen countless times, over more than 800 years of history.
In the same week that Hermes and Invincible departed, they were joined by Alacrity, Antelope, Broadsword, Fearless and Yarmouth; along with Brambleleaf, Olmeda, Pearleaf, Resource, Sir Galahad, Sir Geraint, Sir Lancelot, Sir Percivale and Stromness. The first Merchant vessels also departed – including Canberra from Southampton, carrying two Royal Marine Commando and a Para Battalion.
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Ok, here is one of the questions I have. I have several but I will just do one at a time. Please reply if you can help me with steps or answer or anything. Like I said, I am new at this but I thought it might be helpful. Thanks in advance for the help.
Use Elementary row operations to write the matrix in echelon form:
[2 4 2 6]
[-2 1 3 4]
[3 2 1 5]
If you know that answer, that is great, I am just really stumped on this weeks work.

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'''Potlatch''' was a science fiction fanzine by [[Joyce Worley Katz|Joyce Katz]], at that time named Joyce Fisher.
'''Potlatch''' was a science fiction fanzine by [[Joyce Worley Katz|Joyce Katz]], at that time named Joyce Fisher.
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Potlatch was a science fiction fanzine by Joyce Katz, at that time named Joyce Fisher.
Published in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., Potlatch was one of the Brooklyn Insurgent fanzines of the 1970s, along with Focal Point and Rats!.
The first issue appeared in December of 1970. Eight issues were released, the last one in February 1972.
According to Arnie Katz in Vegas Fandom Weekly #59, it was during the run of Potlatch that fan Ted Pauls alleged that Joyce Katz was destroying science fiction, and dubbed her "The High Priestess of Brooklyn Fandom". In their counter attack in the pages of Potlatch Terry Carr and Arnie Katz embraced the idea of Joyce as "High Priestess", which seemed to cool down a potential fan feud.
Also in Potlatch was the first appearance of the "Entropy Reprints" columns of Terry Carr, after the success of his publication of the one-issue-only Entropy, devoted to reprints from older, classic fanzines.
Other contributors included Arnie Katz, Bill Kunkel (Rats!), and Bob Tucker (Le Zombie).
Covers were by Jay Kinney (Nope!), and illustrations were by Russ Chamberlain, Jay Kinney, Bill Kunkel, and Ned Sonntag.
Joyce Katz was publishing Potlatch at the same time as she and Arnie Katz were releasing FIAWOL. She had previously co-published the fanzine ODD in the 1950s till 1969,and then What About Us Grils? from 1969 to 1970. She later published Hard Science Tales in the 2000s.


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China's runaway economic boom of the past several years may be hitting some speed bumps, meaning higher prices for toys, clothing, furniture, and the thousands of other products that have been outsourced by American companies taking advantage of cheap labor and lax or nonexistent regulatory controls.
A recent World Bank quarterly report projects a 9.6 percent expansion of China's gross domestic product in 2008, down from its 10.8 percent projection last September, and the lowest since 2002.
This at a time when its best customer, the U.S., is coping with its own economic woes — a slowdown that looks like a recession and feels like a recession (but which government economists assure us is not), and rising inflation (which those same economists contend is minimal, if one doesn't count food and energy).
If the U.S. economy does go into recession, it could put "a significant dent" in China's economic growth, says the United Nations report, "World Economic Situation and Prospects 2008."
The U.N. analysis includes a more dire projection, based on an even more severe drop in the U.S. housing market; such a scenario, it says, could slash China's economic growth to less than 8 percent.
Toss in the ongoing decline in value of the U.S. dollar, rising wages for Chinese labor (now as much as a whopping $125 per month for many factory workers), increasing environmental/regulatory costs, and more costly energy, and analysts say prices of Chinese exports could go up by 10 percent this year — more than four times last year's 2.4 percent.
Products from China represent 7.5 percent of purchases by U.S. consumers, although some categories are much higher, among them, toys, 80 percent, and clothing, 40 percent.
The U.N. report notes that since China's 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization, its trade with the rest of the world has been growing three times faster than the world average. Were it to be able to maintain that pace, it would become the world's No. 1 exporting country in 2009. Last year, the U.S. trade deficit with China was a record $233 billion.
Despite racking up more than $970 billion in worldwide export sales in 2006, China is still a newcomer to the art of industrialization, and being the world's lowest-cost supplier has not been without some major problems — product safety chief among them.
From toys contaminated with lead to pet food laced with pesticides and other product safety issues, many involving deliberate actions by manufacturers taking shortcuts to shave costs, U.S. consumers have become increasingly wary of the Made in China label.
To try and assuage buyers and keep their products flowing into U.S. and other major markets, Chinese factories have had to adopt more stringent quality control procedures, and mounting pressures from the world community are forcing them to adopt environmental protection and human rights measures.
Combined with stratospheric energy costs, huge price increases for raw materials such as steel and copper, rising wages, and higher transportation expenses, it all points to higher prices for all those Chinese goods on Wal-Mart shelves.


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The Avatar wrote:He's playing a fighter! Could that be part of the magic strategy?
Nah, I always clear from fighter, berserk, (classes), (remained badges), to last Vicious Token.
I always think that If I can clear a map as fighter, than I surely can clear the map as all classes except Monster Classes and Monk.
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SANTA CRUZ — A year after 75 River St. was occupied by activists angry about foreclosures, Wells Fargo reports "encouraging numbers" with fewer local homeowners in trouble and plans to increase hiring and small business loans, but its leased space at 75 River St. remains empty.
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About 400 mortgage-holders serviced by Wells Fargo locally are two months" behind on payments and have received a notice of default, the first step toward foreclosure, compared to 1,000 countywide.
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"We"re doing a lot of (loan) modifications," he said, noting 10,000 bank employees nationwide are working on "home preservation."
The 160-year-old bank declined to jump on the adjustable mortgage interest-only payment bandwagon, but in buying Wachovia, which had purchased World Savings, it acquired a portfolio of $120 billion in "Pick-A-Payment" loans, 70 percent of them in California, he said.
The "Pick-A-Payment" portfolio is down to $75 billion, with Wells Fargo forgiving $3.25 billion in principal, according to Rademann, but these loans still have the highest delinquency rate.
"We"re trying to refinance them," he said.
In October, recognizing the impact of foreclosures, he invited 22 local nonprofits to a breakfast at Severino"s in Aptos, providing information on whom to contact for help and presenting each with a check for $1,500.
Wells Fargo ranks No. 1 in bank deposits in the county with $1.1 billion, thanks to its 2008 acquisition of Coast Commercial Bank. It"s second locally for Small Business Administration loans.
The last fiscal year, Wells Fargo made four loans for $2.8 million — including $1.2 million for KC"s Sports Bar downtown remodel — behind Santa Cruz County Bank"s eight loans for $3.77 million.
"We have aggressive goals for next year," Rademann said.
Wells Fargo has senior credit officers in Santa Cruz who can make decisions on loans, he noted, and offers payroll and insurance services to business owners.
Locally Wells Fargo employs 105 people and plans to hire five more bankers next year, Rademann said.
He is planning to launch a "Small Business Renovation" project in the county next year. He tried it in San Rafael two years ago, allocating $3,000 for designers to make small yet significant storefront improvements at three small businesses to improve sales.
Buying Coast Commercial and its parent, Greater Bay Bancorp, boosted deposits, but the deal resulted in branches that duplicated efforts. Several were closed and sold.
Downtown, Wells Fargo inherited a lease for 75 River St., across from the headquarters it owns at 74 River St.
The lease, signed in 2001, runs until April 30, 2016, and contains an "escalator clause" raising the payment every year.
"They"re paying above-market rate," said Owen Proctor of Malek Property Management, affiliated with Malek Living Trust, which shares ownership 50-50 with Barry Swenson Builder.
Wells Fargo proposed an extended lease at a reduced rate, which Proctor said was unacceptable. He said there have been "serious talks" with major retailers and a health organization about subleasing that went nowhere.
"Of course they don"t want another bank going in there," Proctor said.
Rademann said Wells Fargo plans a "big capital spend" to remodel its headquarters at 74 River St. in January and consolidate offices downtown, including 530 Front St., leased from Barry Swenson.
The bank applied for a permit for second-floor improvements, initially valued by building department at $383,000. Since the project is out to bid, according to the permit application, that may not be the final number.
Rademann said Wells Fargo added an ATM kiosk on the Westside after eyeing the corner retail space at Safeway"s Mission Street shopping center snapped up by Chase.
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No, folks, I don't really feel that way. But after an insane morning I needed to vent to someone, and Siri was the nearest listener.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
No, folks, I don't really feel that way. But after an insane morning I needed to vent to someone, and Siri was the nearest listener.
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- MDB said...
I do that starting mid-december through probably mid-january every year when people come in for their scripts and their new insurance. I also tend to do that when the snow birds are migrating to or from Florida if I get stuck working a couple of the stores in my district. Usually I also get the cow-eyed look when they come in and wonder why I couldn't just read their minds and know that their prescription expired and who their new doctor was or know they were out of medicaiton at home and transfered their prescription from some other big-box pharmacy in florida when all I hear on the answering machine is either heavy breathing or "this is edna and I need my prescriptions transfered from florida. I only want the ones I need." Of course, they also don't know the pharmacy name, phone number, what the medication is, and are pissed because they called it in at 9pm on a sunday when the pharmacy is closed at 5pm and the prescription isn't ready 8am monday morning.
- January 10, 2013 at 4:12 AM
- jimbo26 said...
Lucky girl . ;-)
- January 10, 2013 at 5:41 AM
- ER's Mom said...
I asked Siri this and she told me there was no need for profanity. Fuck her!
- January 10, 2013 at 6:52 AM
When did my dad become one of your patients? Because he's being a pretty f'ing stupid patient right now.
- January 10, 2013 at 7:35 AM
"I asked Siri this and she told me there was no need for profanity. Fuck her!"
She told me if I didn't like it, I could suck her dick.
- January 10, 2013 at 8:40 AM
- MDaisy said...
Understood. Have a nice day!
Seriously things will get better they always do.
- January 10, 2013 at 8:56 AM
If they weren't so fucking stupid, they wouldn't need you :) Although they might not express it often enough, I'm pretty sure they're grateful.
Everyone is human and has bad days. I think it's perfectly healthy to take out your frustrations on Siri...better than your family!
Hang in there...for all the stupid people out there, I'm sure you've got some truly wonderful gems in your practice. And, hopefully today is a better day.
- January 10, 2013 at 10:18 AM
- Ms. Donna said...
Take care. Sure it was not the pts (if they are coming to you, there is possibly a problem in hte neurons, after all) or (my favorite) the insurance companies?
- January 10, 2013 at 10:41 AM
- Moose said...
The reason your patients are so fucking stupid is so that you have something to write in your blog.
I thought that was obvious. You started the blog, you tempted Fate, Fate is sending you the biggest idjits in your area.
Say thank you to Fate!
- January 10, 2013 at 11:30 AM
you out to work in a public STD clinic.
- January 10, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Please tell me that all of the medical professionals here have read todays Passive Aggressive note...
- January 10, 2013 at 3:10 PM
A person with an IQ of 100 is not smart at all. Given that 50% of population falls below that line, please EXPECT your patients to be pretty stupid, especially compared to an MD.
All of this would be fine, if only those 50% or so would not be told all their American life how beautiful and smart and wonderful and special they are.
- January 10, 2013 at 3:46 PM
- Packer said...
@anon 3:10--Give us the Oxymoron alert well before you use the "medical professionals" line again.
Go old school IB : Fling , yes fling open the window , or as I like to say the venturana and hang half way out and at the top of your lungs yell: I AM MAD AS HELL AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE."
- January 10, 2013 at 4:12 PM
- a.generic doc said...
Siri should have answered with the Harlan Ellison quote, "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
- January 10, 2013 at 4:51 PM
- Loren Pechtel said...
Did Dr. Pissy post this perhaps?
Given the number of people that fuck her, Stupid is a major league slut. Those that fuck her are liable to catch something nasty.
- January 10, 2013 at 5:10 PM
"Now, Now."
Reminds me of the way to comfort a grammar Nazi: put your arm around them and say gently, "There, their, they're."
- January 10, 2013 at 5:59 PM
Packer - I thought that 'folks who make me slap my forehead laughing' was awfully forward for 3:10 in the afternoon...
And, it was to close to 'co-workers whose forehead needs to be slapped' and I didn't want to confuse the two.
- January 11, 2013 at 6:33 AM
- January 11, 2013 at 2:35 PM
I'm sorry, Ibee. I can't tell you why.
- January 11, 2013 at 2:35 PM
ER's mom - now THAT was funny!
- January 11, 2013 at 8:47 PM


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Is the current Leeds team good enough for the playoffs?
Back on the 16th of September, an article in The Independent declared that "Leeds are finally emerging from the long, unlit tunnel they entered a decade ago"; now we'll be lucky to scrape into the play-offs. Little more than two months later, we seem to have slipped back into that old familiar and unforgiving black hole.
So can Leeds find a way back into the light with a play-off place? And if so, what will it take to get there?
The first nine games
Leeds' season so far has been one of two contrasting halves. The Whites won six of their first nine games. And nothing sums up our form during the first half of this season better than our 5-0 thrashing of Burton Albion.
Holding his hands up to Leeds' sheer quality, Burton manager, Nigel Clough, said "we couldn't do too much about the quality of the goals they scored" – and he was right. We were quite simply outstanding that day and Burton's goalkeeper didn't have a chance.
The 2-0 win away at Sunderland was also a masterly performance that saw the whole team fighting and pushing for a win.
The last nine games
As it stands, the last nine games have seen Thomas Christiansen's men pick up just six points from a possible 27. After topping the table, we've now sunk to 10th place. The fact that we're just three points behind 6th placed Middlesbrough (at the foot of the play-off) shows how our early form is keeping us in contention (in theory, anyway).
This shocking contrast is surely down to consistency. Let's face it - the Championship is a notoriously difficult league in which anyone has a chance to beat anyone else.
While this may sound like a bit of a cliché, a team has to grind out results, even when not at its best, to be in with any chance of promotion. The best teams in this division find ways to get last minute winners, or at the very least, equalisers. With this kind of yo-yo form, no-one would take football betting tips from anyone suggesting Leeds has what it takes to get back into the Premier League.
To highlight the consistency issue, the impressive 2-1 home win over Middlesbrough on the 19th of November suggested our confidence was returning. However, this was quickly followed by a 4-1 drubbing from league leaders, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Wolves are a team that consistently get results. Granted, the West Midlands side did bring in a lot of new players in the summer, but so did we. One of Wolves' best signings was goalkeeper Jon Ruddy on a free transfer from Norwich.
We desperately need a goalkeeper and Ruddy would've been ideal. Leeds are a big club with fanatical support – so aren't we making these kinds of bargain signings? We're clearly inconsistent in the transfer market, as well as on the pitch.
At the time of writing, we're getting reading to play Barnsley tomorrow, so we need to return to winning ways, or else our season will be over. I hate to say it, but I just don't think we're good enough at the moment.
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(a) Studies and investigations; priority and order; report to President and Congress
(1) The Commission shall undertake studies of the ethical and legal implications of—
(A) the requirements for informed consent to participation in research projects and to otherwise undergo medical procedures;
(B) the matter of defining death, including the advisability of developing a uniform definition of death;
(C) voluntary testing, counseling, and information and education programs with respect to genetic diseases and conditions, taking into account the essential equality of all human beings, born and unborn;
(D) the differences in the availability of health services as determined by the income or residence of the persons receiving the services;
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(iii) to ensure appropriate access of patients to information continued [1] in such records, [2] and
(F) such other matters relating to medicine or biomedical or behavioral research as the President may designate for study by the Commission.
The Commission shall determine the priority and order of the studies required under this paragraph.
(2) The Commission may undertake an investigation or study of any other appropriate matter which relates to medicine or biomedical or behavioral research (including the protection of human subjects of biomedical or behavioral research) and which is consistent with the purposes of this subchapter on its own initiative or at the request of the head of a Federal agency.
(3) In order to avoid duplication of effort, the Commission may, in lieu of, or as part of, any study or investigation required or otherwise conducted under this subsection, use a study or investigation conducted by another entity if the Commission sets forth its reasons for such use.
(4) Upon the completion of each investigation or study undertaken by the Commission under this subsection (including a study or investigation which merely uses another study or investigation), it shall report its findings (including any recommendations for legislation or administrative action) to the President and the Congress and to each Federal agency to which a recommendation in the report applies.
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(2) Within the 180-day period beginning on the date of such publication, the agency shall determine whether the action proposed by such recommendation is appropriate, and, to the extent that it determines that—
(A) such action is not appropriate, the agency shall, within such time period, provide the Commission with, and publish in the Federal Register, a notice of such determination (including an adequate statement of the reasons for the determination), or
(c) Report on protection of human subjects; scope; submission to President, etc.
The Commission shall biennially report to the President, the Congress, and appropriate Federal agencies on the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research. Each such report shall include a review of the adequacy and uniformity
(1) of the rules, policies, guidelines, and regulations of all Federal agencies regarding the protection of human subjects of biomedical or behavioral research which such agencies conduct or support, and
(2) of the implementation of such rules, policies, guidelines, and regulations by such agencies, and may include such recommendations for legislation and administrative action as the Commission deems appropriate.
(d) Annual report; scope; submission to President, etc.
Not later than December 15 of each year (beginning with 1979) the Commission shall report to the President, the Congress, and appropriate Federal agencies on the activities of the Commission during the fiscal year ending in such year. Each such report shall include a complete list of all recommendations described in subsection (b)(1) of this section made to Federal agencies by the Commission during the fiscal year and the actions taken, pursant [3] to subsection (b)(2) of this section, by the agencies upon such recommendations, and may include such recommendations for legislation and administrative action as the Commission deems appropriate.
(e) Publication and dissemination of reports
The Commission may at any time publish and disseminate to the public reports respecting its activities.
(f) Definitions
For purposes of this section:
(1) The term "Federal agency" means an authority of the government of the United States, but does not include
(C) the government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the government of the District of Columbia, or the government of any territory or possession of the United States.
[1] So in original. Probably should be "contained".
[2] So in original. The comma probably should be a semicolon.
[3] So in original. Probably should be "pursuant".
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Dickerson is professor of computer science and environmental studies at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. In this book he defends a dualistic view of humanity, that humans are "spiritual as well as bodily beings" (p. xi). He is responding particularly to Raymond Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology [New York: Penguin, 2005]), who predicts that the rapid pace of technological change will result in a transformation of human life. Kurzweil said, "If humans are complex computers, then maybe we can get rid of our current biological mind (and body) altogether" (p. xii). "The biological intelligence we now associate with human intelligence will be indistinguishably merged with computer intelligence. Our future will transcend biology" (ibid.). In short, the world in which "human consciousness is reducible to the bits and bytes that make up computer code and data" will become a reality (p. xiii).
Such a view, Dickerson argues, has "dramatic implications to our understanding of what it means to be human. Proponents of the view that humans are complex computers have argued [that] to reject it . . . is to hamper scientific progress. To view the human as somehow spiritual is like imagining a ghost pushing buttons in a machine. It is superstitious and unscientific. It prevents us from discovering, understanding, and ultimately making use of the real mechanisms of the computational human brain that controls our actions and determines who we are" (ibid.) On the other hand, opponents of this view "warn of the dangers of treating humans as though they were machines. They warn that it is dehumanizing and destructive to try to program, control, or tinker with them through conditioning, drugs, or genetic manipulation, as we might tinker with a car, computer, or DVD player" (pp. xiii–xiv). Dickerson states his thesis clearly: "The basic argument of this book is that a physicalist worldview of what it means to be a human person—a philosophy that says humans are complex computing machines (perhaps with random number generators)—denies the importance not only of creativity and heroism, but also of healthy ecology and (most surprisingly) of reason and science" (p. xxvi).
In the first part of the book, "Implications of a Human Machine," the author examines the effects of physicalism on human creativity and heroism, human ecological viewpoint and practice, and human reason and science. This section concludes that humans normally "act as though our beliefs were not only effects caused by the physical realm, but could also be causes of effects in the physical realm. In which case we must affirm the existence of something more than physical nature" (p. 117).
In the book's second part, "The Spiritual Human," Dickerson uses J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, as well as the Bible, to defend a Christian dualistic anthropology. This view of humanity created in the image of God "affirms both a material body and an immaterial spirit. It understands the body and spirit to be metaphysically distinct from each other, and yet intimately related" (p. 189). This section will leave many readers wishing he had spent more time in the Scriptures and the Christian tradition, building a biblical and theological framework for his position.
This book is helpful for understanding the physicalist worldview and the question of the relationship between mind and body in contemporary discussions. This book distinguishes Christian integrative dualism not only from physicalism but also from other forms of dualism, such as "Cartesian dualism, a ghost-in-the-machine dualism, or Gnosticism" (p. 199). One significant implication of this discussion is found in Dickerson's conclusion. Since the Christian worldview affirms a mind-body dualism of humans created in the image of God, it "affirms the real existence of immaterial spirit (and thus contrasts with physicalism) [and] it also affirms the importance and goodness of the body and of physical reality (and thus differs substantively from other forms of dualism)" (p. 189).
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Although the probability of a meteorite crashing in their backyards shouldn't keep ordinary people up at night, scientists who study such matters are worried.
The meteor that streaked across the Russian sky Friday startled scientists worldwide with its audacity, even as it triggered a window- and roof-rattling shockwave that injured more than 1,000 people in the city of Chelyabinsk.
Astronomers on Friday had their eyes skyward on a separate object, the much larger asteroid known as 2012 DA14. It was coincidence that it came so close to Earth at the same time a meteoroid flamed into the atmosphere over Russia's Ural Mountains, NASA scientists said.
Still, scientists are paying attention to the paths of future near-Earth objects. One nonprofit space research foundation plans an infrared telescope that will be able to detect more meteorites that have potential to inflict damage on world cities.
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"This is public safety. We're doing this because we believe it needs to be done," said former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, the chairman emeritus of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroids. Its name comes from the children's book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. B612 is the asteroid home cared for by the Little Prince.
There is no surefire system to scan the skies for threatening asteroids, particularly ones that came in at the angle of the meteor over Russia. So in the near future, the best hope is better monitoring of the meteorites that, normally, orbit in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Science also has few options for knocking incoming asteroids off course, which was part of the early work done by the B612 Foundation. Scientists are researching how to avoid a major asteroid impact, but they have nothing workable yet.
Scientists, led by NASA, track thousands of such near-Earth objects. They're only a fraction of the asteroids in the solar system, however. There are about 500,000 near-Earth asteroids the size of 2012 DA14. Of those, less than 1 percent have been discovered, NASA said.
Until 20 years ago, there was even less ability to track them – and Asteroid 2012 DA14 itself was discovered by amateur astronomers at the La Sagra Sky Survey operated by the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain.
The gaps in knowledge are precisely why B612 was founded, Schweickart said. They have plans to deploy in 2018 an infrared space telescope; its purpose will be to discover asteroids that could do serious damage to Earth.
Their telescope still would be unable to capture asteroids the size of the one that entered the atmosphere near Chelyabinsk, Schweickart said. But it'll capture many more of those the size of Asteroid 2012 DA14.
"The purpose is to discover most – we're not going to get all – of the asteroids that are out there," Schweickart said. "All of them are much bigger than the one that hit Russia this morning. I'm not counting things that break glass, I'm talking about things that will wipe out cities or more."
There's little appetite in Congress right now to increase spending, but Friday's double-whammy may have changed some minds.
"As the world leader in space exploration, America has made great progress for mankind," the chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said in a statement. "But our work is not done. We should continue to study, research and explore space to better understand our universe and better protect our planet."
It's also a matter of national security, said Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., a physicist and the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
He cited congressional testimony from 2002, when a meteor exploded over the Mediterranean at a time of particularly tense relations between India and Pakistan. If the meteor had exploded over India or Pakistan, one military leader warned, it might have been misidentified as a nuclear attack.
"There should be some tens of millions in annual funding in order to meet the goal that Congress has set, which is to follow anything of significance in the asteroid/meteor category," Holt said. "And we're not doing anything close to that."
And yet, Smith said in his statement, "Fifty years ago, we would have had no way of seeing an asteroid like this coming."
Astronomers were giddy Friday as NASA broadcast live from one of the best space-viewing points in the world, the Gingin Observatory near Perth, Australia.
"What an exciting day. It's like a shooting gallery," said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "We have two rare events of near-objects approaching the Earth on the same day."
The two objects had different trajectories, and the asteroid monitored worldwide on Friday was much larger – about the length of half a football field.
The asteroid was the closest known – or accurately predicted – object of its size to fly by Earth. Unlike the Russian meteor, scientists were aware of it and accurately predicted that it would come closer than some weather and communication satellites but leave them unharmed. Those satellites orbit about 23,000 miles up; the meteorite came within about 17,000 miles from Earth.
There was never a risk the large asteroid would collide with Earth, but if one of its size were to hit here, "its crater would be larger than Monaco," astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of the "StarTalk" radio program, said Friday on Twitter.
Smaller meteorites crash to Earth daily – they can be seen as "shooting stars." But most aren't found, said Marc Fries, a research associate at Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Many fall into the ocean, which covers 70 percent of the Earth. Or they enter the atmosphere in remote places where they go unseen.
Few are as dramatic or as big as the one caught on video in Russia. Thanks to the dashboard-mounted cameras that many Russians use to deter police corruption, the asteroid's meteoric path was filmed from cars.
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I have tried many religions during my life (even satan when I was a dumb ass teen) The most sensible I found was Buddhism where you chant for the things you want (not hard to see what happens there--you stay positive and focused on your goals and magically they are realized hehe along with a bit of hard work too) Anyway-- the last foolishness I fell for was many years ago when I was totally lost and joined a non'denomonational church. I saw incredible and vivid visions and spent time on my back clutching my midsection trying to stop laughing. The last time, I thought to myself--- why am I here? I realized that I just needed something to believe in for a while because my life was out of control. Then I stood up and walked out for the last time. It was healing and probably saved me hundreds on therapy but I could see that 'it was what it was' and nothing unseen and magical about it at all. I just needed my mind to finish growing up so I could deal with what was in front of me. If it weren't for all the drugs and alchohol I'd consumed, I never would have fallen into that silly trap.
Since then, I have been one who believes that if one guy says 'you'll die if you eat this fruit' and another guy says 'you won't die if you eat that fruit' and I live after eating the fruit, I don't find any reason for naming the guy who told me the truth, 'The Deceiver'. I don't even understand the lessons anymore hehe
Ah, the grand story written so long ago...
He was born of the son god Ra and the virgin Isis who was aided by her husband Yuseph in bringing him up.
He traveled through the land with his twelve disciples healing the sick and feeding the multitudes through miracles and even brought a man named 'Al-Lazar-Us' back from the dead and then was crucified around the age of thirty. (Oh it gets very very similar in it's telling) Atleast his name rhymed,.. This was Horus who supposedly lived and died long before the 'Greatest story ever told' atleast twice.
And that--my friend... is what they are using to recruit these people.
How do you begin to fight against such lunacy?
Seems not worth the trouble, only to end up jumping around like daffy duck when it's over and still make no head way hahaha
After years of being agnostic, my sister returned to the dark side. I thought she was a !itch before! Now she's worse than the wicked witch of the west and the east and all their minions put together. Needless to say, I'm not missing anything by having nothing to do with her. I did have a certain amount of anger over it though.
I'm sorry your friend turned to the dark side. That's got to be really hard for you. Perhaps she is just trying to impress some guy and it will pass.
I've had exactly the same experience years ago.
My friend was an atheist like me then made friends with some born agains. Suddenly she was looking things up in the Babble "just to check" some idea she'd got about some possible predictions. Then came a moment in a church where she fell to her knees crying etc. We argued, got nowhere. Then she said to me what I'd been thinking. "You feel bereaved don't you?" Yes!! That was exactly it. She tried to reassure me she was the same person, I could still swear in front of her, speak about anything, and so on. She said her new faith mattered to her for one thing mainly. It told her she could live forever. Quelle surprise. She pleaded with me to attend her baptism. I gave in and went and was pissed off she used things I'd said to her about what religion looked like to me to describe her 'journey'. I knew she was trying to inveigle me along the same route.
Anyway. The upshot. This was many years back. Her marriage to her atheist husband broke up and her daughter grew up to be a militant atheist teenager. She had a relationship with a choir singing fellow churchgoer who beat her up, as a good christian man would. And now she is with a new man. Also an atheist. Church doesn't get mentioned anymore. In the 'born again' couple who are still her friends, the husband has become an atheist. Because I don't want to be disappointed, I haven't asked. But I'm guessing...she's a little outnumbered and in the happiest relationship she's had...if her 'faith' is still there I reckon it's in the backroom of her brain in a box marked 'Throw out sometime'.
Bide your time with your friend. The tide of reason may slowly come back in to lap at her feet. But you may have to wait. Meanwhile, share with her your sense of bereavement. Your old friend is still in there somewhere. x
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Admittedly, the field of wrestlers-turned-thespian is underwhelming, and personal tastes vary (my favourite performance is still Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live).
But while an Oscar is unlikely, Dwayne Johnson -- a.k.a. The Rock -- already has the most solid career among ex-grapplers.
In The Gridiron Gang, one of those true-life stories about wayward youth straightening out via the crucible of sports, The Rock takes on his most demanding role. Though it really only calls on him to yell at a bunch of kids, a la Samuel L. Jackson in Coach Carter, he does it for two solid hours, almost as well as Jackson.
Who knows? With another movie or two under his belt, The Rock might be ready to handle the inevitable sequel Snakes On Another Motherf---in' Plane!
The heartwarming quotient is high in this tale of Sean Porter, an officer at a Malibu youth detention centre who despairs at the recidivism rate among the gang-bangers in his care. Synchronicity being what it is, one of the kid's best friends Willie (Jade Yorker) soon ends up in the youth centre for killing his brutal stepfather -- providing Sean with another chance for redemption.
His new idea: Form the kids into a football team and enter them into the local high school league -- an exercise in collective effort and self-esteem building to overcome their ties to the street. Helping him overcome the bureaucracy is his pal and fellow youth counsellor Malcolm (rapper Xzibit).
Like a "juvie" Longest Yard, minus the jokes, The Gridiron Gang settles into training camp, identifying the natural athletes, sifting out the "trainer" material and the washouts who don't have what it takes. The Rock even gets the odd break from yelling once in a while with a subplot of his own, a dying mom to give the kids something else to rally around.
Soon they're taking out their aggression on snotty rich white kids from local Malibu high schools and becoming better people for it -- the main dramatic hurdle being whether Willie and Kelvin (David V. Thomas), opposing gang members on the outside, will bury their differences and be teammates.
Do they? Hey, I'm tired of being accused of spoilerism.
To its credit, The Gridiron Gang doesn't overstate what Sean Porter did -- admitting in its end crawl that some central characters didn't do too well once the crowd noise died down.
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Taking a proper afternoon tea break may not be part of the daily American routine, but the English ritual of a formal tea, with all its elegant accompaniments—fine china, silver, linens, and beautiful bouquets—so captured the fancy of hostess Rachel Hollis that she adapted the niceties of traditional tea to create a refined luncheon.
"If you don't know the exact protocol, chances are neither do your guests," says Hollis. "Do a little research to get inspired, but feel comfortable incorporating your own twist."
In a dining room by interior designer Chris Barrett, gracious elements include a palette of faint green and ivory, tailored toile slipcovers, and a chandelier that stuns with glamorous crystals. Tabletop finery takes a supporting role, bowing to the rich finish of the mahogany table. White linen placemats with pearl accents anchor each setting. Mint-colored dinner plates with gold flourishes accompany salad plates with ruffled edges that add a shapely twist.
Vintage silver heightens the splendor of the tablescape, as does sterling flatware with elaborately detailed handles. Antique salt and pepper shakers and tea strainers are ornate, but stainless steel platters and hammered napkin rings provide contemporary balance. The centerpiece features an array of flowers in milk-glass vases, lending an impromptu air.
In keeping with the afternoon tea theme, the menu includes dainty sandwiches and desserts, but the foundation of the meal is a chilled crab, mango, cucumber, and avocado salad tower that tastes like summer. A tea bar allows guests to choose favorite flavors; mini-teapots provide each guest with a personal supply of hot water.
"Hostesses are latching onto the idea of individual—rather than group—items," says Hollis. "It's so much fun when you get to select something just for yourself. It makes you feel pampered."
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Tea sandwiches are only limited by your imagination—the combinations are endless. To make the tea sandwiches, choose a firm, thinly sliced white, rye, or pumpernickel bread and cut into circles with a biscuit cutter. Layer the ingredients and serve.
For the cucumber wraps, cut a cucumber lengthwise into thin strips. Spread cut bread with a soft cheese, such as Boursin, and roll into a tube. Wrap bread with cucumber slice (secure with toothpick if necessary); tuck a few watercress leaves into one end.
Strawberries with Chambord, Passion Fruit, and Vanilla Creams Scones with Lemon Curd, Strawberry Jam, and Devonshire Cream & Cherry Almond Tea Cakes
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Small pastries can stand in for tea cakes and a trip to your favorite bakery will save you a lot of time and trouble. A specialty grocer can provide the lemon curd, jam, and Devonshire cream.
Crab Salad Tower with White Gazpacho
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Gazpacho: In blender, put 1 large peeled, seeded, chopped English cucumber, 2 cups seedless green grapes, 1 cup Marcona almonds, 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill, 1 tablespoon minced garlic, and 1/2 small minced shallot. Puree until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add 1 cup vegetable broth. Add 1/4 cup each plain nonfat yogurt and sour cream. Blend until incorporated. With motor running, gradually add 1/2 cup olive oil in thin stream. Puree until very smooth, about 1 minute. Add 3 tablespoons sherry vinegar and 2 tablespoons Spanish sherry; puree 1 minute more. Season to taste with salt and pepper; transfer gazpacho to bowl. Cover; refrigerate until well-chilled, or up to 3 days.
Crab Salad: In bowl stir together 1 pound good-quality lump crabmeat, 1/4 cup diced celery, 2 tablespoons minced fresh chives, 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper, 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, 2 shakes each Worcestershire sauce and bottled hot pepper sauce, 1 teaspoon each prepared horseradish and Dijon-style mustard, and 1/4 cup mayonnaise. Cover; chill until needed.
Mango Salsa: In bowl stir together 1 cup diced mango; 1 tablespoon each diced red onion, diced red sweet pepper, and chopped fresh cilantro; 1 teaspoon minced, seeded fresh jalapeño pepper; 2 tablespoons lime juice; and 1 tablespoon olive oil. Cover and chill.
To Assemble: Seed, peel, and slice 1 mango and 1 avocado. Place one (3x2-inch) ring mold in center of each soup plate. In each ring mold, layer 1/2 cup crab salad, 4 slices mango, and 3 to 4 slices avocado. Cover avocado with plastic wrap. Refrigerate plated molds 1 hour.
To Serve: Pour 1/2 cup gazpacho around ring mold. Slowly remove mold, gently pressing avocado to keep tower in place. Remove plastic wrap. Top tower with mango salsa. Garnish with edible flowers and purchased wasabi caviar. Garnish soup with diced cucumber and fresh chopped dill. Serves 6.
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The third and probably final version came about after I purchased a three-part factory from Railway Design Associates and placed it in front of the original structure, which is connected to the right-hand building by a passageway. Here one sees two of the three buildings that came with the kit, but since the third one, a modern concrete warehouse, didn't fit with my nineteenth-century railroad, I decided I couldn't use it. I then began to play around with it and ended up turning it into the R. I. Dye Works, which appears at the background at right in front of the P.J. Macktez Mill. I scratchbuilt the new wooden loading dock, and if I can fit a railroad siding next to it, I'd like to build a wooden travelling crane, such George Selios created for his brilliant plumbing supply model of many years back. The beautiful details, such as the shelves, oil drums, and sacks, are resin casting that came unpainted from Sierra West Scale Models. [GPL].
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After release of ACORN videos, media conservatives showered O'Keefe with praise
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In light of conservative activist James O'Keefe's arrest on charges related to attempts to interfere with the telephone system in Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, Media Matters for America reviews praise conservatives heaped on O'Keefe for his heavily edited and secretly recorded ACORN videos.
Media conservatives salute a "pioneer in journalism" for producing ACORN videos
Beck: Giles' "partner in crime" O'Keefe is "courageous." Glenn Beck hosted Hannah Giles, who helped produce the videos, during the September 10, 2009, edition of his Fox News program and stated, "I talked to you on the radio program earlier today. I encouraged you not to expose yourself anymore. I think that you are a very courageous person. I think your partner in crime here, or exposing crime is also courageous." (All television transcripts were accessed via the Nexis database.)
Breitbart: O'Keefe "is already well on his way to being one of the great journalists" and deserves a Pulitzer. On the September 10, 2009, edition of Fox News' Hannity, BigGovernment.com founder Andrew Breitbart said of the ACORN videos, "It was two intrepid -- a 25-year-old by the name of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. She wants to be a journalist and I think James is already well on his way to being one of the great journalists." Breitbart added that "I'm just here to tell you that James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles are heroes for doing this because we all knew that this is what happens at ACORN, to a degree." Breitbart further stated of O'Keefe and Giles on the September 14 edition of Hannity, "[L]et me tell you. I've never been more proud of two people in my entire life." In a September 21 Washington Times column, Breitbart further wrote, "At the very least, filmmaker James O'Keefe and actress Hannah Giles deserve a Pulitzer Prize for their expose of deep corruption and unspeakable immorality at the ACORN housing division. But more important, I won't rest until they receive a grant to continue their partisan artistry from the National Endowment for the Arts."
Hannity: O'Keefe is a "pioneer in journalism." Sean Hannity stated during the September 14, 2009, edition of his Fox News program, while hosting Breitbart and Giles, "Hannah, you are -- you have taught the media a lesson. You should be very proud. Andrew, you've always been a brave, you know, pioneer in journalism and same with James O'Keefe."
O'Reilly: "Frank and Conyers should be giving Ms. Giles and Mr. O'Keefe congressional medals." Bill O'Reilly stated on the September 23, 2009, edition of his Fox News program, "Congressman Frank of Massachusetts and Congressman Conyers of Michigan want Congressional investigators to see if the undercover duo broke any federal laws. In addition, they want to find out exactly what ACORN is guilty of and they want to examine the group's housing opportunities agenda." O'Reilly added, "In my opinion, Frank and Conyers should be giving Ms. Giles and Mr. O'Keefe congressional medals for exposing corruption that apparently the Feds were not able to expose."
Michael Flynn agrees O'Keefe is a hero, says O'Keefe is owed "an apology and also a thank you for rooting out these employees." BigGovernment.com editor in chief Michael Flynn stated during the September 10, 2009, edition of Hannity, "You know, it really -- and I really think, I mean, to bill [sic] on what Andrew said about them being heroes, I mean, I really think ACORN owes a big apology to the Mr. O'Keefe. This morning they put out a statement, you know, charging him with gotcha journalism and said he was committing defamation." Flynn added, "And then a few hours later, apparently, doing their own investigation, realizing there was truth to what Mr. O'Keefe reported they fired these employees. So they definitely owe Mr. O'Keefe an apology and also a thank you for rooting out these employees."
Coulter: O'Keefe and Giles are "so magnificent." Appearing on the September 11, 2009, edition of Fox News' Hannity, Ann Coulter said of O'Keefe and Giles, "Those were the two most unbelievable pimps and prostitutes I've ever seen. She has perfect skin, gorgeous hair. Oh, and I really liked the fur coat. I love that." She added, "These young right-winners [sic], they are so magnificent. Why can't they -- they be the Republicans in Washington?"
Lowry: O'Keefe deserves "award for impactful guerilla journalism." In a September 15, 2009, post titled "ACORN" on the blog The Corner, National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote: "If there's an award for impactful guerilla journalism, O'Keefe, Giles, and Breitbart should win it."
Examiner.com's Dupray: "Looks like a Pulitzer might be in order." In a September 15, 2009, Examiner.com post, "DC Republican Examiner" Bill Dupray stated, "The big takeaway here is not even that ACORN is a bunch of criminals, it is that it took two conservative investigative journalists to do the job of the entire main stream media. Looks like a Pulitzer might be in order."
Wallace featured "fascinating character" O'Keefe as "Power Player of the Week." During the September 27, 2009, edition of Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace named O'Keefe the "Power Player of the Week," and stated, "Rarely does a piece of investigative reporting get such a big and quick response, and rarely is the undercover reporter such a fascinating character."
Steven Clark: O'Keefe should be "immunize[d]" for his "heroic efforts" in producing ACORN videos. Attorney and frequent TV legal analyst Steven Clark stated on the October 2, 2009, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, "What I hope the attorney general will do is immunize these two filmmakers for their heroic efforts and put them on the witness stand so at least they can testify as to what's going on out there. I doubt you will see them prosecuted. I hope they look carefully at what they were doing before they did it. They put themselves in harm's way here because of the bigger problem that they saw with ACORN."
Bolling on ACORN videos: "I'm all for this, you know, dressing up and catching them." Fox Business Network Happy Hour co-host Eric Bolling said to O'Keefe on November 20, 2009, "I'm all for this, you know dressing up and catching them doing things that are frankly illegal, immoral and unethical." Bolling went on to characterize O'Keefe as an "investigative journalist, just like, remember, 'To Catch a Predator.' "
Fox Business' Willard: "[E]verybody applauds" O'Keefe. Also on the November 20, 2009, edition of Happy Hour, co-host Cody Willard said to O'Keefe, "[O]ne of the things -- I think everybody applauds you in going after people that are, I don't know, helping prostitutes and pimps and child trafficking happen on the planet instead of, I don't know reporting that type of stuff. But I got to ask you, you know the money that goes into ACORN, we're talking about $100 million here and there, what not, why did you choose ACORN as the target when there are, I don't know, much bigger targets, for example, say Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street bailouts, all kinds of other corruption out there?" Willard later added, "James, I tell you what, man, little brother is watching big brother. Orwell had it wrong. That's the man right there" and told O'Keefe to "[r]ock on, man."
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0485 Friday, 30 November 2012
Date: November 30, 2012 11:55:48 AM EST
Subject: Re: Play Length
Steve Urkowitz's answer to my question—how frequently were Shakespeare's plays played uncut—seems to be "mostly" or "almost always." He only envisions one (type of) situation—a command performance at court—wherein a separate playing version might be prepared. And he doesn't suggest anything about play length in such a situation. A script might be expanded, or re-arranged, or cut.
Steve's personal experience with repertory players and the difficulty of multiple versions carries some weight in supporting that, but absent wider and more systematic evidence from contemporary performance folks, it only moves my Bayesian certainty by a skootch.
Nevertheless, fine.
But I have to wonder how he squares that belief with his long-standing contentions – going back at least to his concluding chapter twenty years ago in The Hamlet First Published – that Q1 Hamlet and other "bad" quartos constitute valid (playing?) versions in their own rights.
And I want to cut to what's really important to me: is there any validity to "literary" interpretations of Shakespeare's plays—interpretations that seem to require understandings which could only be achieved by a careful reader (or a very diligent multiple auditor with a very busy commonplace book)?
I think the common and long-standing rhetorical dismissal of such readings and interpretations ("no auditor would have noticed that") is misplaced. Whether you go all New Critical ("It's there; it doesn't matter if the author 'intended' it."), or Intentional ("S obviously knew that he was being read, and had to have written for those readers."), or some other approach, what I've defined here as "literary" interpretations and understandings are not, IMHO, anachronistic, specious, or misguided. When well-done (feel free to define that yourself), they serve to enrich and illuminate and I would even say expand the plays just as they do Don Quixote or your choice of dense and unpack-able non-dramatic works—without negating (quite the contrary) the play's simultaneous status as theatrical scripts, or the the critical import of that status.
For me, the play-length discussion is mainly about addressing that question.


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Colombia's long-elusive goal: land reform
MORROA, Colombia (AP) — Caught in the crossfire between far-right militias and leftist rebels, 40 families abandoned the farm they shared in the foothills of Colombia's Montes de Maria range. The land repeatedly switched hands before being sold to a businessman.
Nearly a decade later, a court in April returned the 770-acre (310-hectare) farm, called Pechilin, to the families without paying the businessman a penny. But none have gone back to raise cattle and cultivate cassava, corn and tobacco.
"Who is going to guarantee our security?" says Donaldo Ruiz, a tall, burly 54-year-old who does not look like the sort of man who scares easily.
Illegal armed groups believed to be largely in the hire of owners of ill-gotten land are threatening a bold, unprecedented effort by President Juan Manuel Santos' government to return vast expanses of land stolen from poor farmers. They've assassinated at least 55 land reform activists since 2008, human rights groups say.
Santos' land restitution campaign is considered central to peace talks being held in Cuba with Colombia's main leftist rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC. It addresses their central demand for a radical agrarian reform that fundamentally changes Colombia's countryside, so a failure by the government to return the land could undermine what many consider the best shot ever at ending Colombia's half-century-long internal conflict.
Tens of thousands of parcels across rural Colombia, equal in size to the U.S. state of New Jersey by conservative estimates, were stolen by illegal armed groups or abandoned over the past quarter century, often with the collusion of corrupt local authorities or judges.
After Santos took office in 2010, he made returning the land to its rightful owners a hallmark of his presidency.
Pedro Geney, a land reform activist in the regional capital of Sincelejo, said criminal gangs that grew out of the far-right militias known as paramilitaries have created "an anti-restitution army" to resist the return of the lands.
"We are waiting for (the government) to tell us what the security model will be, because it certainly can't be a car and two bodyguards for each person who returns," Geney said.
The killers' latest confirmed victim: Ivan Dario Restrepo, a 44-year-old activist slain May 4 in his home in Bello, Antioquia, also in Colombia's northwest.
Since the paramilitaries emerged in the 1980s, Colombia's land has become concentrated in fewer hands. Drug traffickers laundered profits by buying up vast cattle ranches, and agribusinesses thrived often through shady dealings and land theft.
According to the government, 60 percent of the country's arable land was in the hands of just 14,000 owners in 2011, while 2.5 million families held less than 20 percent.
Colombia's peace commissioner, Sergio Jaramillo, told The Associated Press that authorities can reverse the concentration by "taking some of the best land in the country from those who acquired it illegally and distributing it to those who need it."
On May 26, in Cuba, negotiators from the government and the FARC reached a 20-page agreement, whose details are confidential.
Jaramillo, however, said the agreement is "very precise" about what happens in the countryside if a final peace pact is reached and the estimated 8,000 FARC fighters put down their weapons.
Farmers will get land titles, bank loans, technical assistance, help with irrigation systems and road and school improvements, and the government will conduct a complete inventory of rural lands to ferret out fraud, Jaramillo said. A property tax plan also will be imposed to discourage land from lying fallow, he said. Land reform has always been the peasant-based FARC's central demand.
Jaramillo added that after a peace treaty, the criminals who murder land restitution campaigners will no longer enjoy near impunity because the forces of law and order will have new allies: demobilized FARC fighters and some sort of international supervision.
But negotiators on both sides have made clear that nothing in the peace pact will be agreed upon until the whole deal is finalized, meaning the land deal depends on the signing of the peace pact.
Negotiators resumed talks last week focusing on the issue of rebel leaders' participation in politics. Later on the agenda: weaning the rebels off cocaine trafficking as a funding source.
On land reform, the challenges remain immense.
An estimated 5.7 million people in Colombia have been forced from their homes over the past quarter century, according to CODHES, a non-governmental group that tracks them. The country has long been home to the Western Hemisphere's highest number of internally displaced people.
Land expert Yamile Salinas of the non-governmental group Indepaz says less than half of 1 percent of the estimated 7,800 square miles (2 million hectares) that the government says was stolen or cleared have been ordered returned by court rulings over the past two years. In those rulings, 57 percent of the dispossessions were blamed on paramilitaries.
According to the Agriculture Ministry, of the 35,846 requests it has received nationwide for land restitution, at least one in three is blamed on the rebels, although FARC leaders have vehemently denied stealing land. Another third were blamed on paramilitaries, the rest on unspecified criminal bands.
The government says the FARC stole huge expanses from the state, mostly in remote regions where it held sway.
In Sucre state where Pechilin sits, the thieves were overwhelmingly paramilitaries, and just 20 of more than 1,650 restitution requests have been addressed, officials say.
The Montes de Maria region has long been a key corridor for cocaine traffickers smuggling the U.S.-bound drug by boat along the Gulf of Morrosquillo on Colombia's northern coast near Panama.
Ranchers and drug traffickers first formed the paramilitaries in the 1980s to counter rebel kidnapping and extortion. The Montes de Maria region bore Colombia's most horrific bloodletting from 1996-2001 as far-right militias turned on civilians they suspected of being rebel sympathizers while, along with the military, they tried to expel FARC from the region.
In all, illegal right-wing militias killed 354 people in 42 massacres, according to the Center for Historical Memory, a state-funded public archives project.
Pechilin was caught in the crossfire, and most of its residents fled to Morroa, a nearby town of unpaved red-clay streets and mud-wall homes with intermittent electricity and water services.
Nellis Payares and her mother, Doris, shuddered at the thought of returning to Pechilin, even though they would qualify for government credits to rebuild and replant there.
"After what happened there, it's tough," said Payares, 21.
Her 68-year-old father, Luis, was hacked to death with machetes in September 2005 while trying to prevent the theft of his cows. No one ever determined the killers' identities.
Payares, her mother and her seven siblings had by then already fled the farm. She said she remembered diving under a bed as a child when gunfire broke out nearby.
A smile brightened Payares' face, though, when she imagined buying 10 cows and having them roam the old farm with her children. Her family was cooped up in her mother's cluster of three dirt-floor shacks in Morroa, which have no running water nor electricity.
None of Pechilin's 40 families have moved back to Pechilin even though all have deeds to their pieces of the farm.
"We are not going to fix this overnight," said Elina Rivero, a top official in the state land restitution office. "It's not that easy to erase the truly tragic history these families may have lived."
Associated Presss writer Vivian Sequera reported this story in Morroa and Frank Bajak reported from Bogota, Colombia.
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First Federal pledges 15K to new autism center
Monday, February 18, 2013 7:53 AM
First Federal Savings Bank of Huntington has announced a pledge of $15,000 toward a start-up campaign for the Parkview Huntington Hospital Autism Center.
The donation will be spread out over a three-year period.
The Autism Center, announced last October by the Parkview Huntington Foundation, will provide comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services for autistic patients and their families from throughout northeast Indiana.
It will open this year with offices at Parkview Huntington Hospital and in renovated space that formerly housed the Parkview Home Health Care and Hospice offices at 2806 Theater Ave.
The center will tailor treatment to each child's needs and will provide education to family members.
"We are very grateful for the contribution First Federal Savings Bank has made to support the children of Huntington County," says Kay Schwob, board of directors chair, Parkview Huntington Foundation. "This lead gift is crucial to our goal to raise $45,000 for the Parkview Huntington Hospital Autism Center."
"The Parkview Huntington Hospital Autism Center will be a great community asset," says Michael Zahn, president and CEO, First Federal Savings Bank. "Parkview Huntington is a good community steward and First Federal Savings Bank is excited to partner with them in this important venture."
Work on the facility will begin once necessary permits are secured. Plans call for the facility to be able to treat as many as 40 patients, for up to 40 hours per week. It will be one of the largest facilities of its kind in Indiana.
"Parkview Huntington Hospital is beyond thankful for First Federal's large gift to support the Autism Center," stated Darlene Garrett, COO, Parkview Huntington Hospital. "It's great to see community leaders showing such support of this project, as this will provide resources to many local families."
"The Autism Center is a major step for Parkview Huntington Hospital and Parkview Health to serve these children and their caregivers," said Mike Perkins, director, Parkview Huntington Foundation. "First Federal's generosity is critical to the Foundation's success in supporting this effort."
Complete caption: First Federal Savings Bank President and CEO Michael Zahn (left) and Chief Financial Officer Randy Sizemore discuss plans for the Parkview Huntington Hospital Autism Center with Kay Schwob in the space at 2806 Theater Ave., where the center will open this year. Schwob is chair of Parkview Huntington Hospital Foundation, which has received a lead gift of $15,000 from First Federal for the project.


text: Cuba coach Juan Carlos Gala:"I congratulate Thailand because they played a good match. We knew the match would be difficult because the Thais have improved their technique a lot and they're a team that never gives up. But I also think our team have been improving. The mentality of my girls is that each game is the last one for us. After being 0-2 down and almost out of the tournament, they have strengthened their mentality and now they are showing what they are capable of."Cuba captain Yusidey Silie:"We are very happy as a result of this match today. We made few mistakes, we felt good within ourselves and played as a team. I think these factors led to our victory. And it was a win we needed badly because we want to stay in the competition. But I also want to congratulate Thailand because they played a very good match."Cuba player Yoana Palacios:"We came out with the attitude that we must give it our all because we want to stay in the competition. We gave everything we have – we played like we were playing for a gold medal. The Thais never quit, but in the end we were able to prevail."I'm delighted to be representing my country here. From the first match, I felt confident and I feel very secure in myself."Thailand coach Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai:"I want to congratulate Cuba. They played a very good game, with good preparation and a game plan from their coach and staff to beat our team. They were very successful with their techniques and played with skill. We played with a bit more anxiety today and we found it difficult to control our techniques and skill. On top of that, we made errors, especially in situations that were good for us so we couldn't convert. Also, our key spiker (Onuma Sittirak) was not so good today, so we will have to try and solve these problems. I hope Cuba play well in their next game and I wish them luck in the tournament."Thailand captain Wilavan Apinyapong:"First, I want to congratulate Cuba. Today we tried very hard to get points from them and we tried our best, but it wasn't good enough to win. The Cuban players played very well and they are very strong. All their players are good. In addition, we made too many errors, so we must sort that out for the next match."


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Webinar recording access: Social Networking for Artists and Performers
The latest Traditional Arts Indiana webinar, "Social Networking for Artists and Performers: Developing and Maintaining an Online Presence", is available as a video recording at: http://connect.iu.edu/p6upmf4ohax/.
When you click the link, you will be taken to a new window that shows everything exactly as it happened. You can watch this video at any time to see how social media can help professionalize your folk practice, whether it's weaving, pottery, or – as it is with our friend and host, Geoff Davis – woodcarving.
WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and Etsy: these are just a few of the topics Geoff covered in his roughly 50-minute talk. There's plenty to learn and explore in this presentation, so be sure to take advantage.


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Hi, I am looking at a 2011 6.2 but am worried it might be too long, I could also afford a 5.11 2012. I read a few things here and on the forums but I am still unsure, and it seems like I will not be able to try one.
I am 1m83, 78 kg, confirmed/advanced on a TT, intermediate/confirmed on surf. I am riding strapless on a 5.8 takoon burning 2008 which I like a lot. It is rock solid, quite comfy in chop and also very fast. But I am mostly riding small waves and I am sinking too much, cannot really surf without the kite pulling me. I tried the whip 5.8 and I feel like I want the opposite, it felt fat, slow and very uncormfortable in the chop. Tried f-one signature 5.10 and taht was quite ok, not so sure about the turns though, maybe because I am used to my quad. Tried f-one 2012 SL 6.2 and was a bit confused by the size to start with, ended up enjoying it so so, it feels too fragile. I am jumping higher every day. Also quickly tried a wam 5.8, felt ok but not very fast. Humm, that's not a lot of experience I reckon... I would be glad to hear from you ! cheers


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Circle of Stories
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Exploring the culture and legacy of the rich Native American storytelling tradition, this site features four narratives from different regions of America.
Native American stories are as varied as the tribes and landscapes they come from—yet whether told by the Inuit of Alaska or the Seminole of Florida there are many common themes. Narragansett storyteller Tchin's lesson explains how certain plants and animals came to be while Navajo storyteller Hoskie Benally's "The Five Sacred Medicines" explains ceremony and ritual. Prayers, songs, and dances are all types of stories, which can be offered to honor the earth, or as Western Shoshone elder Corbin Harney describes it, "the Nature Way." Some stories provide practical instructions on traditional living, such as Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Rosella Archdale's lesson about preparing foods with reverence. Each Native story is a part of a greater whole, a continuum of stories that has neither a beginning nor an end. This project was made possible through a special new media venture presented by the Independent Television Service. Unlike earlier public television–sponsored projects, this is not a "companion site"; rather the site is the broadcast. Exploring new distribution models and formats for independent filmmaking, the Electric Shadows initiative blends filmmaking and interactive media in projects that are experienced exclusively online.
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