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Annual, perennial herb, shrubs, generally bristly or sharply hairy
Stem prostrate to erect
Leaves cauline, often with basal rosette, generally simple, alternate; lower sometimes opposite, entire
Inflorescence: cyme, generally elongate, panicle-, raceme- or spike-like, coiled in flower, generally uncoiled in fruit or flowers 12 per axil
Flowers generally bisexual, generally radial; sepals 5, free or fused in lower half; corolla 5-lobed, generally salverform, top of tube generally appendaged, appendages 5, alternating with stamens, sometimes arching over tube; stamens 5, epipetalous; ovary superior, generally 4-lobed, style generally entire
Fruit: nutlets 14, smooth to variously roughened, sometimes prickly or bristled
Genera in family: ± 100 genera, ± 2000 species: tropical, temp, especially w North America, Medit; some cultivated (Borago, Echium, Myosotis, Symphytum ).
Almost all genera may be TOXIC from alkaloids or accumulated nitrates
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Hydrophyllaceae [Olmsted et al. 2000 Mol Phylog Evol 16:96112]
Family description, key to genera by Timothy C. Messick.
Annual, biennial, perennial herb
Stem simple or branched; branches generally ascending to erect, hairy
Leaves strigose, rough-hairy, or bristly, largest bristles (especially lower surface) bulbous-based; basal whorled; cauline generally opposite below, alternate above
Inflorescence generally terminal, generally elongated in fruit, open (flowers in fruit not overlapping or touching side to side) or dense (flowers in fruit overlapping or touching side to side)
Flower: sepals ± free; corolla generally white, tube generally 113 mm, appendages 5, white to yellow, limb 15 mm wide in annual, 612 mm wide in per; anthers included; ovary generally 4-lobed,
Fruit: nutlets 14, back generally grayish brown, smooth and shiny or granular, tubercled, or rough at 10X , margin rounded, sometimes sharp-edged, groove on inside surface narrow, open to closed, sometimes raised, edges inrolled to sharp-angled, generally forked or flared open at base
Species in genus: ± 160 species: w Am
Etymology: (Greek: hidden flowers, from cleistogamous flowers of some species)
Reference: [Higgins 1971 Brigham Young Sci Bull Biol Ser 13(4):163]
Annual species generally self-pollinating; per species homostylous or heterostylous. Many annual species difficult to separate; observation of nutlets and hairs requires magnification at 20X.
Annual 560 cm
Stem simple to branched throughout, strigose and rough-hairy to bristly; hairs spreading
Leaf 14 cm, linear to oblong; bristles spreading
Inflorescence dense to open below in fruit
Flower: sepals 12 mm, 2.54 mm and ± linear in fruit, densely spreading-bristly; corolla unscented, 13(4) mm wide
Fruit: nutlets 4 (1 slightly > other 3), ± 1 mm, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, back brown, white-granular, dull, groove ± open throughout to flared open at base
Ecology: Sandy to rocky soils, creosote-bush scrub, desert woodland
Elevation: < 1400 m.
Bioregional distribution: East of Sierra Nevada, Desert
Distribution outside California: to Texas, n Mexico
Flowering time: MarMay
Synonyms: C. inaequata I.M. Johnst


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Crown Royal Maple Finished
Elisabeth and I need guitar lessons, stat!
But, more on that later…
Crown Royal is the classic Canadian whisky. Think about it. There are others, but I dare you to name three. Okay, thought experiment over. I've always viewed Crown Royal with a slight air of mystery. You see, as a kid, my grandfather always had the draw-string bags filled will all sort of odds and ends. I don't recall him drinking it often, but I knew by the way he kept those bags that it was something special. Crown also holds a bit of special spot for me. It reminds me of fishing trips to Canada with my dad. Then, for my 30th birthday my cousins gave me a bottle of Crown Royal Special Reserve, which holds a place of honor on my top shelf and gets consumed, one small dram at a time. This trip down memory lane does have a meaning and I appreciate you sticking with me.
When I got word that Crown Royal was bringing a whisky out to compete in the flavored whiskey market, I was a bit concerned. Don't get me wrong, I like flavored whiskies, but in some cases they're a bit gimmicky. The whiskey flavor dialed down to allow for a strong punch of flavoring. My first sniffs of Crown Royal Maple Finished had me a bit concerned they'd gone down that path, but I really shouldn't have been. The aroma is of pure clean maple, much like you're sniffing good maple syrup, but the flavor isn't nearly as sweet as you'd expect. Rather it's a solid base of whisky flavor with a natural maple notes layered on top. Better yet, the sweetness isn't syrupy or cloying. It's subtle and mellow. This is a flavored whiskey that's absolutely meant to be mixed into cocktails.
There are two quotes from Steve Beal (Crown Royal Master of Whisky) that I think really sum up this spirit succinctly. "Started as whisky…still is." and "Not a whisky liqueur." The key point of this spirit is that it truly is a flavored whisky that remains true to it's whisky roots. Bottled at a solid 80 proof (40% ABV) Crown Maple stands with its whisky brothers a step above liqueurs at lower proof.
Which brings us back to the guitar. Elisabeth and I went to a Crown Maple event last Tuesday at the Double Daughter's Salotto. When we entered we were served a couple of tasty cocktails (recipes at the bottom), but the real fun came when they announced the shot recipe contest. The idea was simple, come up with an original shot recipe based on Crown Maple and enter for the chance to win a not yet released Gibson maple wood guitar. Elisabeth and I had done some playing around the night before and entered two recipes we thought were solid and sat back, never expecting to win a thing.
Suffice to say, when Steve Beal announced the shot I entered, the Eh, Eh? as the winner, I was beyond floored. You may note I appear a bit distant in the picture at the top of this post. So, on to the recipes.
|Eh, Eh?
1 oz Crown Royal Maple
1/4 oz Chocolate Liqueur
1/4 oz Orange Liqueur
1 Dash Barrel Aged Bitters
|Canadian Smoke Jumper
1/2 oz Crown Royal Maple
1/2 oz Laphroaig Cask Strength
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
|Maple Old Fashioned
1 1/4 oz Bulleit Rye
3/4 oz Crown Royal Maple
1 tsp Simple Syrup
2 Dashes Barrel Aged Bitters
1 1/2 oz Crown Royal Maple
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
Top with Ginger Beer
Another place I see this spirit really shining is in cocktails to add light maple notes without being overpowering. In some cocktails you add just a splash of a spirit or even a wash to add flavor (think absinthe in a Sazerac). I think Crown Royal Maple could be great in this role.
PS – We decided the guitar needed a fittingly regal name, so we proudly introduce "Royal Pancake". Thank you, Crown Royal for a great event and an amazing prize.
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A trio from Vanceboro is in Craven County Jail in connection with a breaking and entering and attempted larceny Easter Sunday on Aurora Road near Ernul.
A trio from Vanceboro is in Craven County Jail in connection with a breaking and entering and attempted larceny Easter Sunday on Aurora Road near Ernul.
Robert Joseph Galloway III, 26, Megan D. Koonce, 19, and Zachariah Andrew Thomas, 21, all of 6090 U.S. 17 North, Vanceboro, are being held on $10,000 secured bail each on charges of felony breaking and entering and felony attempted larceny. All three made initial court appearances Wednesday in Craven County District Court.
Their arrests by Craven County Sheriff Detective Mike Sawyer stem from an incident reported by Tammy Wetherington about 12:50 p.m. Sunday when she came home from church. Investigators say she saw two young men running from her backyard storage shed into a nearby wooded area.
Sheriff Jerry Monette said that she also saw a car in a neighbor�s driveway and asked the female passenger if she had noticed anything unusual. The woman said she had not, but then got into the driver�s seat and drove away, the sheriff said.
Wetherington found tools stacked by her backyard shed doorway, but discovered nothing missing, Monette said.
Deputy D. Moore and Deputy David Langston, who came to investigate and called for the assistance of search dog handler J. Lee, followed the trail into the woods, but the fleeing men eluded them.
Monette said, �There was some good, solid detective work done, and we were able to make this arrest. Investigator Sawyer has shown a lot of promise and he was very fortunate to have some good leads early from the deputies who investigated.�
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Reading 3: Moravian Town Planning
The Moravian's belief system produced a closely knit community structure that dictated the way people lived, studied, worked, and worshiped. Every member recognized that they belonged not only to the Bethlehem community, but to the larger Moravian community around the world. The town of Bethlehem was not founded or settled by chance. In fact, the planning for all Moravian settlements took place at the headquarters in Herrnhut and included plans for individual settlements as well as plans for the larger network of all of the settlements in a specific area.
Bethlehem was designed to be "the nerve center of the North American empire" and the industrial center. As the nerve center, the community of Bethlehem had to provide economic support for the headquarters in Herrnhut as well as spiritual and economic support for the outlying missions. As the industrial center, Bethlehem's residents worked at crafts and industries that turned raw goods into finished products for themselves and the nearby agricultural Moravian settlements of Nazareth, Nain, Lititz, Emmaus, Lebannon, and Hope. Each community was an important part of the larger network laid out by the Moravian headquarters.
The design for Bethlehem reflected Moravian religious beliefs. Streets, residences, community buildings, and industrial sites were carefully located according to their function. Allowances were made for growth as well as accommodations for the traveling missionaries and visitors. Bethlehem, like Herrnhut, was organized around a central square (Der Platz), which was intended to remain as open space. The first buildings in Bethlehem were constructed of wood because timber was readily available, and it was necessary to provide shelter quickly. Imitating a practice found in Germany, the first log structure was built to house the settlers as well as their animals. Within a short time, work began on the Gemeinhaus, one of the largest log structures ever erected in the country. A gemeinhaus, or community house, was a central part of 18th-century Moravian settlements.
Built in 1744, the original Single Brethren House was the first individual choir building as well as the first stone building in Bethlehem. Almost all buildings after this were constructed out of local stone. The structure exhibits features typical of Moravian architecture in America such as red brick window arches, small windows, herringbone patterned wood doors, and roof dormers. In 1748, the Single Brethren moved into a larger building, and this structure became the home of the Single Sisters' Choir.
While most Moravian communities in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia, produced agricultural products, Bethlehem produced finished goods. In 1750, almost one half of the labor force worked at an industrial craft, while only about a quarter worked in farming. The importance of industry to the Moravians in Bethlehem was readily apparent in the priorities for building construction--industrial buildings such as the tannery were built at the same time as the first residential buildings. By the 1750s, approximately 40 different types of crafts and industries operated in Bethlehem including a blacksmith, locksmith, millwright, tailor, carpenter, clockmaker, cabinetmaker, and tanner.
From 1741 to 1762, Bethlehem operated as a cooperative, communal society referred to as "The General Economy." Under this system, individuals did not own their own land or businesses. After 1762, members were allowed to operate their own businesses and build family homes by leasing land owned by the church. In 1844, the lease system was abolished, and church land actually could be purchased.
The tranquil, isolated lifestyle of the Moravians in Bethlehem was occasionally interrupted and eventually altered permanently. During the American Revolution a temporary hospital was established there for the wounded from battles at Morristown, New Jersey, and Brandywine Creek. British prisoners were housed in Bethlehem for several months during the war. In 1829, the Lehigh Canal opened and traffic in coal began. Soon bridges were built over the Lehigh River and south Bethlehem began its growth as an industrial center, first with a small iron factory and then with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The town grew when production rose during World War I, and newcomers began to dilute traditional Moravian society.
Today, Bethlehem remains the northern seat of the Moravian community in the United States. Although many of the industrial buildings later erected along Monocacy Creek were destroyed by fire or demolished in the 19th century, four of the original structures survive and are being, or have been, restored to their original appearance. The original church and choir buildings not only exist but have been in continuous use since their construction.
Questions for Reading 3
1. What responsibilities did the settlement at Bethlehem have to the larger Moravian congregation?
2. How did the Moravians' belief system affect the way they planned their communities?
3. What type of economy determined the organization and planning in Bethlehem? How was this different from other colonial towns?
4. List some of the external events that affected the Moravian community in Bethlehem.
Reading 3 was adapted from Gilliam Gollin, Moravians in Two Worlds: A Study of Changing Communities (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967); Joseph Mortimer Levering, A History of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: 1741-1892 (Bethlehem, PA: Times Publishing Company, 1903); William J. Murtagh, Moravian Architecture and Town Planning (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1967); Ralph Grayson Schwarze, Bethlehem on the Lehigh (Bethlehem, PA: The Bethlehem Area Foundation, 1991); and T. Vadasz, The History of an Industrial Community: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741-1920 (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1975).


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50 Great Works of Video Art That You Can Watch Online
There are several reasons why video art is underexposed. Part of it has to do with the hard-to-shake reputation that video art is just too campy and esoteric — an opinion espoused by Jack Donaghy and anyone else who believes that art is exclusively paintings of men on horses. Another reason is the attitude that of a lot of influential, opinionated video artists share: they simply aren't comfortable offering their wares to just anyone, and would rather sell the things they've made on glitzy-looking DVDs to a few collectors and museums, as they would a painting or a sculpture.
Still other video artists are concerned that their work might be misidentified as films. This anxiety leads them to seek out venues for their work (warehouse art galleries and hard-to-find back-room viewing rooms) that will grant them the power to have it appreciated on its own terms. Artists may care about a disembodied feel of a projected work in a more open-air setting, or they may want to take advantage of the sculptural qualities of placing one or many TV monitors in the gallery space. For genuine aesthetic reasons, many great works of video art are not meant to be seen on someone's TV or laptop at home.
But a lot of them can be. For anyone who is enamored with film or remains a devotee of performance, video art can be like a happy marriage between the two. The great works of video art that are available to watch online are like a never-ending museum that is always growing and never closes. This collection should serve as a compact introduction to video art for anyone who's uninitiated or a handy compilation for anyone who loves the medium but has some trouble finding the good stuff online. Enjoy!
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Emmanuel College is pleased to announce Hello, Dolly! as this year's spring musical on April 4, 5, 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. and April 13 at 2:30 p.m. in the John W. Swails Center on campus.
In this very silly musical, Dolly Levi is a nosey, bossy matchmaker who wants to marry a rich man, she claims only for his money, even as she sets up other couples in the midst of the story.
Mrs. Stephanie Garrett, director, describes the play as having the feel of a modern day romantic comedy.
This production also includes more dancing compared to previous productions at EC.
"When we think about what we want to perform, we consider several important things," Garrett says. "One of those is what challenges us, and Hello Dolly! has a lot of dancing, something we normally don't have in our productions."
Not only that, but Garrett also faced another challenge in casting a young lady to play Dolly Levi, a most difficult musical theater role, especially for a young woman.
"It was hard," she says. "Any of the ladies who auditioned for Dolly could've played her very well and would have given us a different Dolly."
That lead role will be played by Chloe Payne, a senior majoring in vocal performance at Emmanuel and a 2009 graduate of Franklin County High School.
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This project is about hacking the Voltcraft CO-100 CO2-sensor, such that we can read the exact ppm value as displayed on the LCD.
This particular CO2-sensor is present in the klusbunker at RevSpace and is currently used to control the ventilation in a crude manner (by monitoring the warning LEDs on the display module). Having the CO2 ppm value available as a number allows for nice things such as logging the levels over time, announce them on IRC, show them on the LedBanner , etc.
The user manual of the Voltcraft CO-100 says "Attention! The RJ45 connection (see chapter 7, item "K") must not be used. The connection is only intended for the manufacturer". Of course, a claim like that can only be interpreted as a challenge! :)
Investigation & findings
The CO2 sensor inside the CO-100 (in the left of the picture) has a sticker saying ZGw063RY. Googling for this number reveals a CO2 module that looks just like the Voltcraft CO-100, so it appears that the CO-100 is basically just a rebranded ZyAura ZGw063RY module.
The CO-100 seems to miss a bunch of components that can be mounted on the PCB, close to the RJ45 connection (most likely an RS232 chip with charge pump capacitors).
The CO2 sensor in the CO-100 is a ZyAura ZG-01 module. This sensor uses the ZyAura protocol, which vaguely resembles SPI, see File:ZyAura CO2 Monitor Carbon Dioxide ZG01 Module english manual-1.pdf.
On the bottom left of the PCB is a set of pads that are marked with G, C, D, V, meaning Ground, Clock, Data, Voltage of the ZG01 sensor. The voltage level on the clock and data pins is 3.3V (the voltage on V pin is unknown).
The ZG-01 sends 5-byte frames containing measurement values:
- byte 0 is an identifier for the measurement item, e.g. whether it is a CO2 ppm value or a temperature.
- byte 1 and 2 contain the value of the item (byte 1 is the MSB, byte 2 is the LSB)
- byte 2 is a checksum over bytes 0-2, just the sum modulo 256.
- byte 3 is always 0x0D
Besides the CO2 ppm value and temperature, it also sends various other (so far unknown) measurement items.
Measurement items encountered so far:
|0x41 'A'
|0x42 'B'
|Temperature in hexi-degrees Kelvin
|0x43 'C'
|0x46 'F'
|0x4F 'O'
|0x50 'P'
|CO2 ppm value
|0x52 'R'
|Barometric pressure?
|0x56 'V'
|Barometric pressure?
|0x57 'W'
|0x6D 'm'
|Seems to always have same value
|0x6E 'n'
|0x71 'q'
|Always close to value of item 0x50
Software has been written to interface an arduino to the clock and data lines of the ZG-01. It consists of an finite state machine (FSM) that processes the data line on each falling edge of the clock line. The FSM assumes that a new frame is starting when the time between bits is more than 3 milliseconds. Measurements of the CO2 ppm level are sent over the air using a 2.4 GHz NRF24L01+ module.
Arduino pin mapping:
- digital pin 2 (PD2): ZG01 clock signal
- digital pin 3 (PD3): ZG01 data signal
- TODO: pin mapping of the NRF24L01+ module.
The source code can be found on github.
The plan to integrate the CO2 sensor into the space infrastructure is as follows:
- Attach an arduino to the G, C, D, V lines. The arduino takes power from the V-line and decodes the SPI-like signals from the ZG-01 on the C-line and D-line.
- Connect an NRF24L01+ module to the arduino SPI port and send the CO2/temperature frames over the air to a central NRF24L01+ receiver (e.g. the one which handles the SkipButton, Nomz Bell). The unique 4-character id for the CO2 sensor is "CO_2".
- From there on, the CO2/temperature data can be further processed (to be logged, sent to the ledbanner, announced on IRC, etc.)
This requires only minimal modifications to the CO-100 modules itself and makes uses of the existing wireless infrastructure.
Future work
Future investigation:
- consider powering the Arduino from the 3.3V line coming from the CO2 sensor
- fix the wireless RF24 based protocol, it seems to work sometimes, but not all the time
- investigate further into the unknown measurement items sent by the ZG01


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El Rudo wrote:The initial idea of the OR designers was to put the vents more towards the LE. Tell tale testing showed that they would be more effective towards the TE, to suck the flow back on to the canopy at higher AoA's, like Bille describes above. Airplane wings are designed to perform with AoA's differing only a few degrees. Kites fly with way bigger AoA variations depending on what you do with them.lobodomar wrote: Exactly. Even in the closed position, the vented canopy (net+outer ripstop) adds extra drag and weight.
BTW I own a 2011 OR razor, so had my share of first hand experience with the venturi system. It's a nice kite, but in my opinion the venturi is a marketing thing, something to stand out from the crowded kite market. Think about airplane slots: they are close to the LE, not to the TE like on OR kites. It's close to the LE that you need to energyze the boundary layer so that it keeps attached to the wing along the chord. Plus most of the lift is produced in the first half of the kite (center of pressure is usually at about 1/4 of the chord).
But of course OR didn't put the vent in the front, I doubt that a naturally vented (instead of mechanically open-close) slot would not screw up the kite's aerodynamics in a such a critical zone. They put it in the back, where it can do neither harm nor good.
The extra drag and weight you mention are there in deed, but we're talking a few grams and only very little drag.
Even if it's true that the vents manage to reestabilish a less turbulent flow between their location and the trailing edge, it really doesn't matter much if there is any separation between the vent and the front of the kite.
To be fair, because of interference of the leading edge tube, the center of pressure of kites is probably more than 25% of the chord like on regular airfoils. But still, most of the lift is generated before where the vents are located. I still think that OR placed them where neither much harm nor good can be done.


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Cerebral Ambient is Studio Wormbone's latest supple and serene downtempo collection. Like the dual halves of the brain it's comprised of two seperate regions:
The first is a folder entitled "Left Side" packed with 40 soothing washes of shifting aural backdrop colors. These long sedate samples are softly flowing and enriched with feeling. The moods are varied - evolving uneasy tones mingle with tranquil pastel drones. They all ride the undercurrents of thought.
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A note about the demo songs:
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For years I have talked about the similarity of mediation with both photography and music, particularly jazz. I have been clearing out my inbox and came across an hilarious email trail between some of the UK's top mediators. The topic – songs for mediators, parties and mediation! I thought I would share …
Thank to David Cornes, Mark Jackson-Stops, Bill Wood, John Sturrock for their contributions. I have added some more to their original choices.
Conway Twitty recorded a number of songs which seem perfect for mediation:
- Don't Take It Away
- It's Only Make Believe
- Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie
- Fifteen Years Ago
- How Much More Can She Stand?
- You've Never Been This Far Before
- I See The Want To In Your Eyes
- I Can't Believe She Gives It All To Me
- Ain't She Somethin' Else
- Don't Call Him a Cowboy
- That's My Job
- Goodbye Time
- After All the Good Is Gone
- Lead Me On
- Oh What A Dream
- Somebody Lied
- All I Have To Do Is Dream
- Let It Be Me
- Like Strangers
- Problems
- Devoted To You
- Take A Message To Mary
- Walk Right Back
- Don't Blame Me
- Don't Ask Me To Be Friends
- When Will I Be Loved?
- I Wonder If I Care
- I'm Not Angry
- Somebody Help Me
- It's All Over
- Cathy's Clown
- Crying In The Rain
- I'm On My Way Home Again
And Daron Norwood has the album and the song: Ready, Willing and Able is the album and Bad Dog, No Biscuit the song.
Pre-mediation: I Can't Get No Satisfaction.
In the middle of a mediation: River Deep, Mountain High.


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|This week, news emerged of a self-driving car being researched by Google. It's certainly not the first futuristic car to capture the popular imagination. The archives of magazines such as Popular Science and Popular Mechanics are littered with other cars that seemed like science fiction when first described in print -- and still do today. We'll talk about the Google efforts, and look back at other 'cars of the future' from years gone by that were designed guided by sound beams and magnets. What happened - or didn't happen - to them?


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Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 19 - 25, 2014 in PDF format
Hollywood Hillbillies Michael Kittrell gets a manager in Hollywood and his entire family leaves Georgia to go with him in this fish-out-of-water unscripted series premiering with two new episodes. 6 and 6:30; 7:30 and 8; 9 and 9:30 REELZ
The Biggest Loser Tim Gunn and hairstylist Ken Paves help with makeovers for the remaining contestants in this new episode. 8 p.m. NBC
New Girl Nick (Jake Johnson) tries to plan the perfect birthday party for Jess (Zooey Deschanel) in this new episode. 9 p.m. Fox
American Masters Although he was notorious for his reclusiveness, "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger had a sizable circle of friends and colleagues and Many of them speak on the record for the first time in this profile of Salinger, which also includes archival photos and film footage. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Danny DeVito, Tom Wolfe and Gore Vidal. 9 p.m. KOCE
Klondike Food and supplies run low during the winter; a murderer stalks the miners at their claims in this new episode. 9 p.m. Discovery
Person of Interest Reese and Finch's (Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson) search for six persons of interest lands them in a coastal town during a raging storm is raging. Dan Lauria and Luke MacFarlane guest star. 10 p.m. CBS
Justified Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) is king for a day in the seized mansion of a mob accountant, while Boyd (Walter Goggins) tries to regain his stranglehold on the heroin market in this new episode. 10 p.m. FX
Opposite Worlds This new game show divides 14 contestants into two teams and sends them to live in very different environments — one with a prehistoric theme and one with a futuristic theme. An online interface allows viewers at home to influence the game with the results in a live episode airing on Wednesday. Luke Tipple ("Capture") hosts. 10 p.m. Syfy
CBS This Morning Bill Gates. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS
Today Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller; Andy Garcia; George Kotsiopoulos; Yvonne Strahovski. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC
Good Morning America Aaron Eckhart; A Great Big World performs; Antoinette Tuff. (N) 7 a.m. KABC
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The View Guest co-host Mario Cantone; author Antoinette Tuff. (N) 10 a.m. KABC
The Wendy Williams Show Pete Wentz ("Best Ink"); LeToya Luckett. (N) 11 a.m. KTTV
The Talk Dean Cain; Thea Andrews; chef Lorena Garcia. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS
The Queen Latifah Show Jacqueline Bisset; Lupita Nyong'o; Sam Fine; Kim Snyder; Hiatus Kaiyote performs. (N) 2 p.m. KCBS and 7 p.m. KCAL
The Dr. Oz Show A food that fights fatigue; an ancient cure for allergies; jaw pain. (N) 2 p.m. KABC
Dr. Phil A woman's marriage is on the verge of divorce because of her many addictions and illnesses. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS
Katie Drones; Jason Hawes, Samantha Hawes and Steve Gonsalves ("Ghost Hunters"); James Dyson. (N) 3 p.m. KABC
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The Doctors Tyrese Gibson; sinus pressure; chef Jeff Henderson. (N) 5 p.m. KCAL
The Arsenio Hall Show Kathy Griffin; Kenya Moore; Sky Blu performs. (N) 11 p.m. KTLA
Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m. KVCR; 11:30 p.m. KOCE
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Author Theresa Payton. (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central
Chelsea Lately David Spade. (N) 11 p.m. E!
Conan Kristen Bell; Alana Nichols; Sarah Jarosz performs. (N) 11 p.m. TBS
The Colbert Report Michael Chabon and Mariel Hemingway. (N) 11:31 p.m. Comedy Central
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Adam Sandler; Ali Wentworth; Sheryl Crow performs. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC
Late Show With David Letterman Andy Samberg; Michael B. Jordan; Ellie Goulding performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS
Jimmy Kimmel Live Greg Kinnear; Emily Deschanel; Young the Giant performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC
Tavis Smiley MLK: A Call to Conscience. (Part 2 of 2) (N) 12:30 a.m. KOCE
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Obtain a Replacement Driver's License While Outside of Virginia
Requesting a Replacement Packet
- You may request a replacement driver's license packet. This packet will include:
- Complete and sign the application enclosed in the packet. For your convenience, you may apply to register to vote, change your voter registration address, or become an organ, eye and tissue donor by mail when you complete the application.
- Return the application in the return envelope, along with a check or money order for $20 or the completed credit card charge request.
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Franklin Graham backs universal background checks
'There needs to be an all out effort to curtail the culture of violence that effects all of us'
(TIME) Rev. Franklin Graham and other leading evangelical figures are publicly backing efforts to require background checks for all gun purchases, providing a shot in the arm to stalled congressional efforts to enact elements of President Barack Obama's gun control plan.
Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and the president of Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse, and Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission told TIME they have agreed to back universal background check legislation put forward by the administration in the wake of last year's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
"As ministers, we agreed together that we could stand on a united front for universal background checks," Graham told TIME, noting he had many conversations with civil rights leader Rev. Amos Brown on the subject. "We think that's reasonable and responsible."


text: A native Texan, Robert Rauschenberg served in the U.S. Navy before studying art at the Kansas City Art Institute, Academie Julian in Paris, and Black Mountain College in North Carolina. In 1949 he moved to New York City and challenged the status quo with his Combines. Rauschenberg continued to break the mold throughout his career.


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Consider it the ultimate tennis bitch slap. Sure, Novak Djokovic is by far the hottest thing on the tennis circuit right now, but for Anna Wintour to go as far and shoot the world no. 2 for a spread on the mag's website and a bikini shot worth two (three if you want to study hard) glances, is so … un-Federer.
Is Mirka seething? Well, we can't quite know. But Djoko looks fantastic in the black swim trunks, seen above on the entrance of Vogue.com today and below in the image, which was taken by Norman Jean Roy. Roy has plenty of high-quality fashion accolades to his name, including Vanity Fair and Details alongside Vogue, of course. He took this well-known image of Lindsay Lohan for the cover of Vanity Fair.
So is Anna over Rog? Naw. We doubt it. But would he ever pose in a tiny black swimsuit like that? We sort of doubt. Below, another look at the bikini and after the cut, Djoko wears … clothes. The shoot took place in Miami during the Sony Ericsson Open.


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Macon Police Searching for Shooting Suspect | News
An argument late Friday night escalated into a shooting and now has police on the lookout for a 49-year-old Macon man.
Police say they're looking Anthony Green who they believe shot a 15-year-old girl in the buttocks.
According to a news release, Green got into an argument with a woman on Patton Avenue and was asked to leave the home.
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These days, you can't turn around without hearing something else about display advertising – in fact, the search industry seems positively abuzz with talk about display advertising topics. So, should search agencies ignore the noise or listen more closely?
Search agencies need to tune in to the display advertising opportunity. Let's look at the size of the display opportunity, why search agencies are in a unique position to offer display services, and the evolution of display advertising – from the direct-to-publisher approach of the past to the more effective demand-side platform or ad exchange approach preferred by most agencies today.
Display is On its Way to Being a $200 Billion Dollar Industry
In our work with advertising agencies, we've seen a growing number beginning to offer display advertising services to clients — and with good reason. Research firm Forrester believes that by 2016, spend on display and search marketing will be nearly identical, thanks to display growing at a rate of more than 20 percent each year.
Similarly, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt predicts that display advertising is on its way to being a $200 billion dollar industry across the globe. Suffice it to say that the display opportunity is huge, and continuing to grow.
Agencies that have excelled at search advertising are in a great spot to take advantage of the display opportunity. Why is that? Because the skill set necessary to succeed in search is one that can also help you succeed in display.
The Evolution of Display Advertising
Consider this: display used to work much like traditional advertising, where you needed to research potential advertising channels, negotiate rates with a publisher, then sign off on an insertion order — but it doesn't work like that anymore.
To do a great job of managing today's display campaigns, you need to know how to set up a campaign, how to review the data and analytics associated with it, and how to optimize or tweak the campaign based on what the data shows — which is exactly what you need to do when you're managing search campaigns. It's not surprising that many traditional agencies are recruiting for candidates with search experience when looking to fill positions that will manage display.
The way display used to work and the way it works today are on two different ends of the spectrum.
Let's take a closer look at how display advertising has evolved, and the factors that have led to this evolution.
Direct to Publisher
When display advertising first started, the only option was to go directly to the publisher and negotiate a rate for display advertising on their site. For example, if your target audience was women with young children, you might have negotiated a display deal on Parents.com.
This kind of approach would give you the opportunity to take advantage of some custom options — like a full day where every front-page ad space showed your brand's ads — but wouldn't be without its downsides. For one, think about how much work would go into getting your campaign negotiated and running on this single site — and then think about having to replicate the entire process for every site on which you wanted to advertise.
Additionally, with this sort of approach, there typically isn't much room to further target visitors who meet specific criteria. Not only is this a time-consuming and less-than-transparent approach, but it's also one that has proven to be the most expensive way to buy display.
Ad Networks
As display advertising evolved, so did the way you could purchase display ads. Ad networks began as a way to alleviate the frustration that agencies were feeling as the result of having to go from publisher to publisher to set up a campaign.
Instead of going to each publisher individually, you could go to an ad network and say, "I want to spend $50,000 to reach women aged 24-29 who are also mothers", and your sales rep would place your ads on sites within their network.
Ad networks certainly simplified the display process by allowing agencies to go to a single place to buy advertising on a number of different sites. But, with the relatively high cost and the lack of transparency (most ad networks won't specify exactly which sites/placements your campaign will receive), many agencies continued to feel frustrated.
Ad Exchanges & Demand Side Platforms (DSPs)
Continuing to improve on the display advertising process, ad exchanges offer the best of all worlds. They offer:
- Incredible reach: Ad exchanges typically represent thousands or millions of publishers, and allow you to select location-specific criteria across sites, meaning you can exponentially increase the power and reach of even local campaigns
- Impressive precision: Ad exchanges let you target impressions to meet very specific criteria, allowing you to select page placement, time of day, day of week, etc.
- Extremely cost-effectiveness: By using a DSP to set your criteria, you're cutting out the middle man and enjoying significantly lower CPMs.
The only downside we've found to ad exchanges is that there can be some initial confusion, especially if you've always gone directly to the publisher to buy display — but even this is something that can be overcome with a bit of practice and education.
Ad Exchanges Offer a Smart Investment in Display Offerings
Has your agency been considering adding display advertising to your service offerings? If so, what are you waiting for?
Display advertising is enjoying incredible growth that is expected to continue for years to come. Agencies are leveraging their search knowledge to make smarter display decisions for clients.
Choosing to purchase display through an ad exchange or DSP is a safe and smart investment in your display advertising offerings both now, and in the future.
Related reading
Traffic forecasting: Predicting potential return from the 87% of buyers who start with search
Traffic forecasting is one of a CMO's best resources to allocate marketing spend across the most useful tactics. Here's how traffic forecasting could mean smarter ad spend.
Making the case for more non-brand funding in paid search
We neglect non-brand CPC advertising because, clients think it's too expensive, too competitive, and a lot of work for a little payoff. How to make it work?
Five things to do on a small digital marketing budget
I'll walk you through a few important tactics like retargeting site visitors and purchasers, mid-funnel remarketing, and more of these tips to utilize.
The fall of ad copy, long live ad copy
Average users only spend a few seconds to navigate SERPs. They won't spend time reading your ad copy specifics, regardless of how fascinating it might be.


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Target Hackers Used Stolen Vendor Credentials
The hackers who stole 40 million credit- and debit-card numbers from Target Corp. appear to have breached the discounter's systems by using electronic credentials stolen from a vendor.
The finding will help to start unraveling the riddle of how the software that carried out the attack got into Target's systems. It also underscores the risks companies face as they operate vast, interconnected business systems.


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Howard and Shirley Klein
Couple married in 1953
Howard Klein and Shirley Kaiser married on June 17, 1953 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Durham.
Since their wedding, they have lived in New Mexico, Tonkawa, Okla., Meade, Caldwell, Abilene, Wellington, and Herington, where they currently reside.
Howard was born and raised in Marion. He was a depot agent for the Rock Island Railroad and clerk for the Cotton Belt/Southern Pacific Railroad before his retirement.
Shirley was born and raised in Durham. She is a homemaker.
They have three daughters, Joreen Jones of Aurora, Colo., Sandra Sutton of Abilene, and Diana Klein of Wellington. They have four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Their children request a card shower in honor of Howard and Shirley's 60th anniversary. Cards may be sent to 520 S. E St., Herington, KS 67449.


text: Hi, Andy That's strange. It looks like the card type was not accepted. Can you please check this in the kernel log? It is mentioned in the initialization messages of the saa7134 module. Pleas ensure also that the new dvb module got compiled and installed. Best regards Hartmut Andy wrote: > Hi Hartmut, > > Thanks for checking. I finally worked out it's a weird Fedora issue - the kernel-devel package does *not* put the kernel source > in /usr/src/kernels/xxxx, but just the directory tree and Makefiles. After installing the kernel source I then had to copy it into > the /usr/src/kernels/xxxx tree. After that, compiled fine (bar a few warnings). > > I'm still having issues with the detection of the card... I do a "modprobe saa7134" and the module sucessfully loads. I have "options saa7134 > oss=1 card=71" in my modprobe.conf and if I look at /var/log/messages I see the module is loading for my T200 card. The problem comes when > loading saa7134-dvb, thats when I get: > > Sep 24 11:30:46 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: Huh? unknown DVB card? > Sep 24 11:30:46 alpha kernel: saa7130[0]: frontend initialization failed > > It's silly - this worked fine a week or so ago when I first tried it!!! > > Any ideas what's wrong? > > Thanks, > > Andy > > > > On Fri Sep 23 22:41 , Hartmut Hackmann hartmut.hackmann at t-online.de> sent: > > >>Hi, Andy >> >>I just cross checked: >>- fresh download of video4linux and dvb-kernel from anonymous at linuxtv.org >>- cd video4linux >>- scripts/merge-trees.sh >>- make >>It compiles cleanly with just 2 warnings about unused symbols in tda8290.c. >>I run a kernel 2.6.12 and a gcc 3.3.3. >>Could it be that your gcc 4.0 resp. its specfile causes the problems? >>Regarding the card detection: I know that there is an issue. It seems to >>have 2 eeproms that might collide both on address 0xa0 unless some gpio >>magic is done. But not sure yet. >>The effect is that the card detection only works after a boot from power >>up. As a workaround, please force the card type: >>modprobe saa7134 card=71 >>modprobe saa7134-dvb >>(this assumes that the modules are installed). >> >>Good luck >> Fartmut > > > > >


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How has US airlines' consolidation push of recent years changed the makeup of the world's largest air transport market?
Not nearly as much as one might think. At least in terms of domestic passenger market share, the US remains a relatively fractured market.
Eric Amel, formerly the chief economist for both Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines and now a vice president with the Compass Lexecon consulting firm, provided a breakdown at the recent FAA Aviation Forecast Conference of US airlines' domestic market share post-consolidation compared to 2007 (before the Delta/Northwest, United/Continental and Southwest/AirTran mergers).
Pre-consolidation, here's how things broke down in terms of US carriers' domestic O&D passenger market share (circa 2007): Southwest (19.8%), American (13.2%), Delta (11.5%), United (10.9%), US Airways (10.8%), Northwest (7.3%), Continental (7.2%), JetBlue (4.2%), AirTran (4.2%), Alaska (3.1%) and others (7.9%).
Here's how the domestic market breaks down now: Southwest (25.9%), Delta (18.9%), United (15.6%), American (11.5%), US Airways (10.6%), JetBlue (5.1%), Alaska (3.4%), Frontier (2.6%), Hawaiian (1.5%), Spirit (1.4%) and others (3.5%).
Even after consolidation, no airline controls more than a quarter of the domestic market and only three carriers have a market share of 15% or more. In 2007, the top 10 carriers controlled 92.5% of the domestic market; now they control 96.5%. The top five US carriers went from controlling 66.2% pre-consolidation to 82.5% post-consolidation.


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Postcards from VoyagerSuzanne Dodd is project manager for NASA's twin Voyager probes.
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Nobelist's Cancer TheoryExcerpt from the July 13, 1963, issue of Science News Letter
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Billion-Dollar Fish
From imitation crab to McDonald's Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, Alaska pollock is ubiquitous. American fishermen haul in more than a billion dollars' worth of the flaky white fish annually. Yet just a century ago, Americans had no interest in pollock. Bailey, a fisheries biologist, documents the fish's rise in popularity over the last 60 years, interweaving the scientific, political and economic forces that shaped the "most lucrative marine fish harvest in American waters."
Japan became the first coun
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Brilliant Blunders
Even brilliant scientists have bad days. Consider chemist Linus Pauling, who described the alpha helix structure of proteins in 1951. When he attempted to do the same for DNA, however, he botched it — badly. Among other problems, he flubbed the basic chemistry, proposing a structure for deoxyribonucleic acid that wasn't an acid.
When asked about Pauling's faulty DNA model, one of his contemporaries commented, "You could not have written a fictional novel in which Linus would have made an error like thi
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I was fascinated by the article "Sweet confusion" (SN: 6/1/13, p. 22) about the ambiguous health effects of high fructose corn syrup. I was surprised, however, to find little mention of taste, flavor and satiety. I can clearly recall from my childhood the satisfaction from a bottle of Coca-Cola. The transition in America in the 1970s from sucrose to corn syrup as a sweetener in soft drinks was brought home to me in my travels to Central America in the '80s and '90s, where cane sugar was still used as a sweetener. Drink a soft drink with cane s
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Cicadas' odd life cycle poses evolutionary conundrumsScientists are getting an idea about the odd family tree of periodical cicadas, how the insects synchronize their life cycles and why they breed side-by-side with others unsuitable for mating.
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When the atom went quantumBohr's revolutionary atomic theory turns 100.
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Satellite captures Earth's greeneryOrbiting camera detects reflected light to determine the extent of the planet's vegetation.
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Here is some exciting news for 80s music fans! Remember the Britpop synth band New Order, who recorded the chart-topping song "Blue Monday"? Well, they are back in the studio getting ready to record their 10th studio album.
If you grew up in the 80s, you will definitely remember hits like "Karma Chameleon", "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" and "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" from the Boy George-fronted '80s group Culture Club. They are also currently in the studio recording their first album as a band in more than 15 years!
Faith No More, the band behind 1989's hit "Epic" are back together and in the studio getting ready to release their first full-length album in 18 years. Their album will be available sometime in 2015.
The English synthpop duo Erasure, who saw their biggest hits like "Oh, L'Amour" and "Ship of Fools" reach their peak in the mid to late '80s are also gearing up to release an album this fall.
If you didn't grow up in the 80's, don't fear… There are also a few '90s acts that will be dropping albums in 2015. Music artists such as: En Vogue, Counting Crows, Limp Bizkit and Smashing Pumpkins.


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Orlando's myList Launches with IRONMAN
The new myList app was utilized by tens of thousands of users at the IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawai`i
Orlando has made its mark in the tech world again with the launch of myList, a Facebook social application that helps users discover, save and share things that matter among their Facebook friends. As presenting sponsor this past October of the IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i, the company is off to a successful start: over 40,000 Facebook users, and several brands and retailers, are already using the app, which is available for personal computers, Apple and Android devices.
Rob Wight, Chief Executive Officer of myList, tells us, "While myList was born from our 14-year ecommerce business, Channel Intelligence, it takes a completely different approach. myList focuses on the Facebook user, allowing them to personalize their experience to what matters to them – an online world of things that have been filtered through the collective lenses of the people and organizations that they know and trust."
Wight continues, "We launched myList with IRONMAN's passionate fan community because of their insatiable need to learn more about the sport of triathlon, and their natural desire to share that learning with others. We have been blown away with the results: triathletes immediately began interacting with the things in myList, with many individual items (including everything from products, services, quotes, and more) already in thousands of users' lists. myList users are sharing, recommending, and commenting on the things in their lists, creating new connections among the people, businesses and other key influencers like IRONMAN within the triathlon community."
"This partnership has exceeded our expectations and we are pleased with what myList has been able to do for the IRONMAN community," said Erik Vervloet, Chief Marketing Officer of IRONMAN. "Our athletes are some of the most passionate people out there and myList's ability to connect the triathlon community with the latest and greatest news and information about the sport is something that adds great value to our brand. Our partnership is special because it not only encourages fan engagement across our social media channels, but more important, it fosters a deeper interaction among athletes, supporters and our fantastic IRONMAN partners."
Learn more about myList at www.mylist.com. For more information on IRONMAN, visit www.ironman.com.
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Some of you have already noticed, but I uploaded a whole lot of photos yesterday. About 250 actually were in the batch. It includes the rest of the photos from Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France. I did not upload any photos from Scotland or England. They will have to wait for the next chance I get.
We are now staying with the Byrom family in Runcorn, England. Today we went to Chester and walked the walls. We went through the cathedral and went down the main shopping streets. It was a beautiful day for what we were doing. We quite enjoyed ourselves. We each had a pasty and a vanilla finger. She liked it but it was too much.
We stopped by Ellesmere Port on the way home at a outlet mall. We picked out a couple of suits and bought them. However, we were not convinced we had the best deal so we took them back. For as much money as we were paying, I didn't absolutely love the suits. With our buyers remorse, we took them back. Interestingly, on the way out, we stumbled upon another store. I found better quality suits that were on sale for almost half of the cost for the other two suits. Hands down, Amanda and I both liked the second store over the first. Now I have some new suits, one of the reasons I wanted to come back to Europe.
We had dinner this evening, some amazing lasagna. Rose has always made great lasagna. Afterward, Rose, Amanda, and I went to visit an older lady I taught on the mission. She was such a sweet soul and she proved to be the same. We have all aged, but the sociality has not diminished or changed with time. I think Amanda quite enjoyed Jane Young and her quaint little home in the English countryside.
Yesterday, we had dinner with Jack and Brenda Millington from Howe Bridge. Jack used to cook us as missionaries some wonderful homemade pot pies. Visiting with him on Sunday, he offered to make me and Amanda one. We agreed and met with them yesterday. The pot pie was as wonderful as ever, boiled cabbage, and homemade trifle. We really had some good laughs. Jack even sent us off with a couple of parting gifts.
There are so many people that nearly 10 years have changed nothing. We don't always remember each other's names, but the feelings are still the same. Memories seem to come back quickly, surprisingly. What will heaven be like?


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Israel hasn't given up on persuading Russia not to send air defense system to Syria
They're on their way. They're already there. They won't be there for months. They're on board ships soon to dock. They haven't been sent. They may never be sent.
In the past few weeks all those descriptions have been used to say what has happened – or not – to the much-discussed but so far unseen, at least in Syria, S-300 anti-aircraft missiles that Russia has sold or deployed to 13 countries around the world.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that while his country had every right to sell arms to the Syrian government, Moscow had not yet delivered the advanced S-300 air defense system to Damascus.
But that has not cooled a war of words over the S-300s that some say could threaten an outright war between Israel and Russia over the sophisticated missile defense system.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to warn that should Russia deliver the system to Syrian President Bashar Assad, the S-300 "is likely to draw us into a response, and could send the region deteriorating into war." Some Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and Minister of Intelligence Yuval Steinitz, have made more explicit threats, telling diplomats and reporters that Israel would not hesitate to destroy the S-300 system rather than see it in Syrian hands.
But the exact scope of the weapon, and why Israeli officials consider it a "game changer," has remained largely outside of the debate.
The Syrian government calls the system "defensive" and says it is meant to protect Syria from air attacks. Israeli officials argue that the weapon could easily turn offensive, if Syria's military chooses to launch it against Israeli aircraft that fly within a few hundred miles of the Syrian border.
Most sources on the S-300 system say it's designed to shoot down aircraft and missiles within 150 kilometers, about 90 miles. But Israeli defense officials insist the actual range is greater – 200 kilometers, or 125 miles. Given Israel's small airspace and the trajectory most Israeli planes take when flying in and out of the country through Ben Gurion, Israel's international airport near the urban center of Tel Aviv, the longer range would place most aircraft within range.
The system can launch six missiles at once and engage 12 targets simultaneously, at both high and low altitude. Weapons experts in Russia have said that the missile interceptors can outmaneuver many modern jets including the F-15s and F-16s currently being used by the Israeli air force.
The exact details of the S-300 system being sold to Syria have never been made public. Since it first came into service in the mid-1980s, the S-300 has been upgraded dozens of times and now comes with a variety of missiles and launchers.
"The S-300 is a very complicated system and we still don't know what elements of this system are being offered to Syria. So a lot of the speculation of details over what it can and can't do is really just speculation," said Yiftah Shapir, head of the Military Balance Project at the Institute for National Security Studies, a think tank in Tel Aviv.
Syria already has the S-200 system, which has a range of up to 60 miles, though with far less sophisticated machinery. Shapir said that what the S-300 adds to Syria's arsenal is an ability to keep unwanted planes out of Syria's airspace as well as Lebanon's.
"The thing that this will definitely give Assad that he doesn't currently have is the ability to stop outside involvement in Syria," Shapir said. "He can ensure that his airspace stays free of U.S. or Turkish planes that might want to get involved. Basically he is trying to make sure that everything that happened to (former Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi does not happen to him."
He pointed out that the timelines and expected delivery dates for the S-300 are impossible to confirm, but that what sounded most plausible was that it would take up to a year to deliver the system and set it up.
"In the beginning it will probably be the Russians who are operating the system. So there is not really any chance that it will be turned into an attack system as long as it is operated by the Russians," he said.
Beyond worries that the system could be turned on planes flying in Israeli airspace, Israeli officials say they are concerned that Iran or the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon will get their hands on the weapon.
"Maybe, because of the disorder in Syria, of the very heavy dependence of Syria on the Iranians' assistance, some of those weapons might unfortunately find their way to the Iranians. This is very bad, and against the weapons embargo on Iran," Steinitz, the intelligence minister, said at a recent conference in Jerusalem. Israel, he said, "doesn't understand Russia's position" on the S-300. He hoped Israel "still has room to convince Russia on this matter."
In briefings for reporters conducted on the condition that their names be withheld, Israeli officials have said that they had tried to bring a great deal of pressure on Russia not to move forward with the deal.
"They could find a way to delay or to deliver a less sophisticated system than what the Syrians want," said one Israeli official. "There are a lot of options on the table and a lot of incentives we can give the Russians not to go forward with this very dangerous arms transfer."
The official noted that in the past, Israel had persuaded Russia to renege on a pledge to provide Iran with the S-300 system by offering a quid-pro-quo deal: Israel would stop supplying arms to Russia's neighbor, Georgia.
"Diplomacy is complicated and it takes time, but nothing is ever a done deal until the weapon is on the ground," he said.
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BCG Treatment for Bladder Cancer and Hepatitis
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 1990, and had two transuretheral removals of tumors. After the second recurrence I received BCG treatment and had good results. This year I was diagnosed with Hepatitis C.
A friend of mine, who is receiving the BCG treatment directed me to OncoLink Web site where he had read that one of the possible side effects to BCG may be Hepatitis. Not being a drug user I been wondering how I may have contracted the Hepatitis C virus. I was wondering if you could send me any information concerning the BCG treatments and how it may relate to me contracting Hepatitis C.
Thank you,
Li Liu, MD, Editorial Assistant for OncoLink, responds:
Dear M:
Thank you for your interest and question.
Hepatitis C virus can be detected in serum of infected individuals. The viral concentrations in other body fluids, e.g., saliva, semen, urine, stool, and vaginal secretions, are much lower or undetectable. Therefore, blood transfusion, either whole blood or component, is the most common route of transmission. Intravenous drug use and sexual transmission are the major routes of spread of hepatitis C virus.
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is a modified form of the tubercle bacillus. It is not a blood product, and does not transmit the hepatitis C virus. However, some case reports of granulomatous (non-viral) hepatitis have been reported to be associated with BCG therapy. Here are some of the reports.
- Granulomatous hepatitis following intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy for bladder carcinoma
- A case of granulomatous hepatitis after intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin administration
- Granulomatous hepatitis as a complication of intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy for bladder carcinoma


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Sarah Palin topped off the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference with a speech that, while light on substance, roused participants, slammed the Obama administration and called for conservatives, Republicans and Tea Partiers to work together.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee energized the audience and received multiple standing ovations. When several protesters got into the room and began to shout over Palin, the audience quickly began chanting "USA! USA!"
The speech was filled with colorful images, metaphors, alliteration and rhymes. But some in the audience felt the substance was thin and some of the statements were inaccurate.
Scott Carcetti, an attendee at the event who works for a radio show in Rhode Island, said many of Palin's talking points "sound cute." But when Palin began to speak about the "cesspool of corruption" of Washington politics and alluded to President Obama being ashamed of America, Carcetti didn't buy it.
"Some of the stuff she said was a little out of touch with reality," he said.
At another point in the speech, Palin compared America to a sinking ship and targeted "Candidate" Obama's background as a community organizer.
"When a ship is going down, the last thing you need is a community organizer reorganizing the deck chairs while singing 'Let's Stay Together,'" she said.
Palin did briefly touch on issues such as the recent debate over whether religious employers will be required to provide contraception and the Keystone pipeline, but most of the references did not directly mention the issues.
Also slightly vague was Palin's choice of candidate — she stressed the importance of backing a conservative candidate with a conservative background.
"Our candidate must be someone who can instinctively turn right to constitutional, conservative principles," she said. "It's too late in the game to teach it or spin it at this point, it's either there or it isn't."
This is Plain's first time speaking at the conference — not that the invitation hasn't been extended before. The former Alaska governor was invited to give the keynote speech in 2008 and 2009, but canceled each time a few weeks before the event.
Palin ended the speech by placing a vote of confidence in the continuing competition for the Republican nominee, and urging the conservative movement to stand together "for the sake of our country."
Bobby Coffey, another attendee, said while he didn't believe her call for more unity would stop the negative ads, he was glad to hear her say it regardless.
"She has a way of communicating issues to the conservative base that motivates," Coffey said.


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Thirty years ago, NBC aired a two-hour TV movie called "Miami Vice" — the start of a show that would change its hometown, and America's pop culture, forever. The weekly episodes began Sept. 28, 1984, and aired through May 1989.
Lots of action, great music, beautiful women, handsome men and plenty of guest stars. "Miami Vice" had it all…
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Corey Perry scored two goals, his team-leading 19th and 20th this season, and extended his goal-scoring streak to six consecutive games. Daniel Winnik added a career-high three assists. Ryan Getzlaf chipped in an assist to give him a point in his last 14 contests.
The Ducks then seized a 5-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Monday night at the Honda Center, tying them with the Chicago Blackhawks for the lead in the NHL's overall standings. They also improved to 11-0-2 on home ice, the only team without a regulation defeat.
All of which might have made it seem as if the Ducks (21-7-5) played flawless hockey from start to finish while handing the lowly Islanders (8-18-5) their 10th consecutive defeat.
Sorry, but it didn't happen that way. No how, no way. Not even close.
After running a gauntlet of the Sharks, Kings, Blackhawks and Blues and going 2-0-2, the Ducks returned home to find an unimpressed group of Islanders awaiting them. New York was the aggressor early and held leads of 1-0 and 2-1.
The Ducks were in trouble until Andrew Cogliano, Cam Fowler (shorthanded) and Perry (twice) scored during an electric stretch that spanned the closing minutes of the second period and the opening minutes of the third. The Ducks turned a 2-1 deficit into a 5-2 lead.
"It was definitely not our best game," said Ducks goaltender Jonas Hiller, who made several quality saves to keep the early deficit to only one goal. "We played probably two of the best teams in the league on the road and then you come home and you play a team that hasn't been playing well."
Winnik jump-started the Ducks with a no-look backhand pass from the left faceoff circle to Cogliano, who was stationed near the right goal post. Cogliano slammed the pass into the back of the net to tie the score at 2 at 12 minutes, 41 seconds of the second period.
Fowler put the Ducks ahead to stay 3-2, shoveling home a rebound of Matt Beleskey's shot off a 3-on-1 rush while shorthanded at 19:27. Perry added insurance goals at 19:58 of the second and 7:40 of the third, making it seem by game's end that it might have been an easy night.
Perry's first goal, while sliding on his knees after New York winger Josh Bailey tripped him, sent an unmistakable jolt of energy through the Ducks and a crowd of 14,830. Somehow, Perry managed to lift the puck over Islanders goalie Anders Nilsson's left leg and into the net.
"We knew last week was a big emotional week for us," Perry said of the games against the Sharks, Kings, Blues and Blackhawks. "We had to get ourselves up for this one, as well, coming off a high on the weekend (with back-to-back road wins over the Blues and Blackhawks).
"Those were big games for us. We knew what we had to do coming into today. We knew we couldn't have that letdown. The first period wasn't what we wanted, but we turned it around in the second and the third."


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101 Ways to Flirt: How to Get More Dates and Meet Your Mate
Plume, Jan 1, 1997 - Family & Relationships - 193 pages
Since the publication of her first book, How to Attract Anyone, Anytime, Anyplace, love guru Susan Rabin has heard from hundreds of people who have used her innovative flirting techniques to enhance their lives. In this delightfully instructive guide, she draws on their fascinating front-line experiences, as well as her own professional expertise as a therapist, communications consultant, coach, lecturer, and writer to provide 101 foolproof techniques for meeting people. Included are:
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Despite the fact I'm nursing a hangover, I love wordplay.
This is the thread for all paronomasia; homophony, homography, homonymy, polysemy, metaphors, spoonerisms, paraprosdokia (although there's already a thread for that), and general pundigriony.
Dire "Heard 'em all before" Jokes:
'I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you all to leave,' he said.
'Why?' Asked the grandmasters.
'Because,' the manager said, 'I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.'
So we'll never known For Whom The Tells' Bowled.
It nearly spelled disaster.
I didn't know what to make of it.
But I broke it off.
The following headlines read: "Arty Chokes Two For A Pound In Tesco's"
He had to quit as his career was in ruins.
He didn't suffer, and died in his own arms.
I ended up dicing with death.
Apparently, there's a nasty bug going around.
I can hardly contain myself.
Bit obvious, I thought.
It was a wookiee mistake.
Wordplay Phrases:
- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotomy
- A good pun is like a good steak; a rare medium, well done.
- I've got the first twenty letters of the alphabet down to a 't'
- My favourite biblical weapon has to be the axe of the apostles
- Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
And some smutty puns for pornographic movies
- Terms of Endowment
- Glad He Ate Her
- Erectnophobia
- Cheaper by the Cousin
- The Legend of Teabagger Vance
- Whore of the Worlds
- Shaving Ryan's Privates
- Brassiere to Eternity
So, yeah. Wordplay.