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By Joe Palazzolo
In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a federal judge in Boston has ordered Massachusetts authorities to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation for a transgender prisoner
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf said he based his ruling on the recommendations of doctors at the commonwealth's Department of Correction who prescribed sex-reassignment surgery as "the only form of adequate medical care" for Michelle Kosilek.
Kosilek, who used to go by "Robert," is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 1990 murder of his wife.
Judge Wolf, describing his 126-page order as "unprecedented," said that denying Kosilek the surgery was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
Prison officials opposed the operation, saying they couldn't provide security for Kosilek were he to receive a sex change — an argument Judge Wolf described as "pretextual." Several state legislators publicly opposed using taxpayer funds to pay for the sex-reassignment surgery.
Specialists have diagnosed Kosilek with severe gender identity disorder, and since 2003 he has been receiving female hormones. Kosilek lives in the general population of an all-male prison in Norfolk, Mass.
Despite the hormone treatment and psychotherapy, Kosilek has attempted to castrate himself and twice tried to commit suicide, according to court documents.
"It is unusual to treat a prisoner suffering severely from a gender identity disorder differently than the numerous inmates suffering from more familiar forms of mental illness," wrote Judge Wolf, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan. "It is not permissible for prison officials to do so just because the fact that a gender identity disorder is a major mental illness not understood by much of the public and the required treatment for it is unpopular."
Judge Wolf acknowledged that Mr. Kosilek, a convicted murderer, may receive better care for his disorder than many law-abiding Americans.
"It may seem strange that in the United States citizens do not generally have a constitutional right to adequate medical care, but the Eighth Amendment promises prisoners such care," he wrote, pointing to a 2011 Supreme Court decision that said providing anything less was "incompatible with the concept of human dignity."
Judge Wolf said correction officials, not himself, should decide where the surgery should take place, who should perform it and where Kosilek should be incarcerated after the surgery.
A spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, Diane Wiffin, said, "We are reviewing the decision and exploring our appellate options."
Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) called the decision "an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars" and encouraged state officials to appeal the decision.
A lawyer for Kosilek, Frances Cohen of Bingham McCutchen LLP, said she was "pleased and gratified that we got such a thoughtful and full decision from the chief judge."
Ms. Cohen said federal courts have considered about two dozen requests by prisoners for general treatment to gender identity disorder. Only a handful of courts have considered sex-reassignment surgery, she said.

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A heart-shaped box of chocolates may be a common way we choose to say, "Be Mine, Valentine," but here's a case where form follows function: What looks like a heart is good for the heart. That box is bursting with a variety of beneficial bonbons that can do everything from giving your loved one an energy boost to helping them stick around a bit longer (on the earth, not just with you—although there is that, at least if they love cocoa and chocolate as much as I do).
So, go ahead and treat your Valentine to chocolate. Cocoa beans are among the richest sources of antioxidants called flavonoids and polyphenols—similar to those found in wine—which benefit both your physical and mental health. I absolutely love to bake for friends and family, and how truly sweet it is when those recipes contain cocoa—and all its many benefits.
Protect your heart: The flavonoids in cocoa can lower your risk of heart attacks and stroke by helping to reduce the blood's ability to clot. [1]
Quell stress: In a 2009 study conducted by Swiss scientists, eating dark chocolate daily reduced stress hormone levels. [2] Researchers measured stress levels of 30 healthy adults daily over two weeks and found that eating 1.4 ounces of dark chocolate daily reduced stress hormone levels in those who had high anxiety levels. (Just be sure to account for the 235 calories that 1.4 ounces of chocolate delivers—or you may be stressed to see extra pounds creeping on.)
Fight fatigue: Cocoa may help ward off fatigue as well. A small 2010 study in the UK found that polyphenols—the group of antioxidant class that includes flavonoids—helped sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome combat symptoms, including anxiety and depression. [3]
With Valentine's Day right around the corner, why not give your loved one a special treat made with cocoa. Not only will it liven the taste buds, but it will provide so many other benefits as well! Nothing better than the delicious, loving gift of health!
Chocolate Almond Pudding
There are a variety of ready-to-drink nut milks on the market, which are made by soaking nuts or seeds in water, blending, and then straining the liquid. Served warm or cold, this silky crowd-pleaser takes just minutes to prepare. If you have a nut allergy, you can also prepare the pudding using low-fat milk or soy milk.
- 1/4 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups unflavored almond milk, preferably unsweetened or sweetened with brown rice syrup (or low fat or reduced fat milk)
- 1⁄3 cup agave nectar
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
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In a 1-quart saucepan, combine the cocoa, cornstarch, and salt. Add just enough of the milk to make a smooth paste. Gradually stir in the agave and the remaining milk.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture begins to thicken. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Pour into 4 serving dishes and cool. Sprinkle with the almonds just before serving.
167 calories, 3 g protein, 2 g carbohydrates, 4 g total fat, 1 g saturated fat, 2 g fiber, 20 g sugar, 218 mg sodium
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Lawrence Summers and the uselessness of learning foreign languages
English is the dominant language of the Internet, business, and world trade. Do we need another? This column applies an economist's rationale to the question.
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English is the dominant language of the Internet, business, and world trade. Do we need another? This column applies an economist's rationale to the question.
"I don't speak English. Kurdish I speak, and Turkish, and gypsy language. But I don't speak barbarian languages."
"Barbarian languages?"
"English! German! Ya! French! All the barbarian".
—Yasar Kemal, a Turkish writer whose words are quoted by Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar
In 2005, Larry Summers, then President of Harvard University, outraged 50% of the world by claiming that women are not as talented as men in science and mathematics. This time, he has outraged some 94% of the world's population by suggesting that native speakers of English should forego learning other languages since, anyway, the rest of the world will soon become fluent in English (Summers 2012). English is indeed the native language of some 400 million people (that is 6% of the seven billion living on our planet) and is "spoken" by another billion, whatever "spoken" means (Crystal 2001).
Language is an essential expression of culture (and culture is, according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, shaped by one's native language). Read Shakespeare's Richard II to see what happened to Thomas Mowbray whom King Richard exiled to Venice ("Have I deserved at your Highness' hands/The language I have learn'd these forty years/For my native English, now I must forego;/And now my tongue's use is to me no more/… What is thy sentence, then but speechless death,/Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?"). Check Fernando Pessoa and his "my homeland is my language", or Ngugi wa Thiongo: "The choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to a people's definition of themselves in relation to the entire universe" (Thiongo 1986).
Remember Sri Lanka, and the many lives it cost because one language group (out of the two main ones) decided that its language would become "more important" than the other. The reverse is also true, and the European Union is ludicrous in its defence that 24 languages (including Croatian, spoken in the recently admitted 28th member) are official, and that all official documents should be translated into all 23 other languages. This is by the way not the case in practice, but the EU still spends over $1.4 billion every year to interpret and translate from one language into all others. Just walk in the corridors of the many buildings of the European institutions in Brussels, and you will realise that the non-native English that is spoken is hardly understandable by a native English speaker, and that English native speakers lose others when they go into somewhat deeper discussions (Wright 2007). Is this what Professor Summers would like?
Worldwide, English is indeed the language that is most often used in international contacts and trade. But it is not the only one, as shown by Jacques Melitz (2008) who uses two measures of linguistic distances between trading partners and tries to estimate their effect. 'Open-circuit communication' (OCC) demands that the language be either official or widely spoken (at least 20% of the population knows the language). Spanish, for instance, will be an OCC between Bolivia (where 44% of the population knows Spanish) and Mexico (88%). A 'direct communication' (DC) language is any language common (that is, spoken by at least 4% in each country) in a pair of countries. In short, Melitz suggests distinguishing between two channels through which the trade-enhancing effect may take place: OCCs that depend on translation (which can be produced as long as there are enough people who can provide it in both countries) and DCs (which enable traders to communicate directly). He finds that 'direct communication' has the largest positive effect on trades: A 10% increase in the probability that two citizens, one in country A, the other in B, speak the same language increases their trades by 10%. Other European OCCs also contribute, but somewhat less. However, and interestingly enough, Melitz also shows that English as an OCC is no more effective than other European languages in promoting trade.
It is thus difficult to point to the number of languages that are needed, as well as to which ones are needed. There is no unique solution. It is clear today that globalisation has taken its toll, at least on some, if not on many of us. Do we need more of it by going to a unique language, whichever it is?
Editor's Note: Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber are the authors of How Many Languages, Do We Need? The Economics of Linguistic Diversity, Princeton University Press, 2011.
ReferencesCrystal, David (2001), A Dictionary of Language, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Melitz, Jacques (2008), "Language and foreign trade", European Economic Review, 52:667-699.
Summers, Lawrence (2012), "What you (really) need to know", The New York Times, 20 January.
Thiongo, Ngugi wa (1986), Decolonizing the Mind, Oxford: James Currey.
Wright, Sue (2007), "English in the European Parliament: MEPs and their language repertoires", Sociolinguistica, 21:151-165.
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Timothy is a bunchgrass that grows 2-4 feet tall. It grows best in cooler climates. Timothy is used primarily as a hay crop. When planted in the majority of Tennessee conditions, summer droughts cause stand reduction. Stands are not expected to last more than 3-4 years. It is a popular hay crop for horses, although orchardgrass and tall fescue can also be used successfully.
Timothy was introduced to North America by seed carried from Europe by early settlers in hay, litter, manure and ballast cleaned from ships. It was found growing in New Hampshire in about 1711 and was named "herdsgrass". It was first given the name timothy in 1747 and soon became an adapted, high-quality hay plant. It spread from New England into eastern Canada before 1800, and then westward as the country was settled.
Timothy is a rapidly-developing, short-lived, perennial bunchgrass with shallow, fibrous roots extending downward to about 4 feet. Its crown consists of a group of bulb-like sections called corms. These produce a mass of basal leaves and usually one leafy stem of 20 to 40 inches that ends in a seed head. All leaves are soft, light green and 2 to 6 inches long. The single seed is small and is enclosed in an awned, urn-shaped husk. Individual timothy shoots are typically biennial, but the plant maintains itself as a perennial through the development and growth of new shoots from bases of older culms.
Timothy volunteers readily and is adapted to the cooler, moister areas of Montana, especially the poorly-drained alluvial soils, where it grows vigorously. As it is very tolerant of acidity, withstands some spring flooding and does well on waterlogged soils, it is well suited for use in low-lying, peaty areas. Timothy also thrives on clay, silt and sandy soils in cool climate regions with precipitation greater than 15 inches per year. It is winterhardy, persistent and fairly free from problems caused by insects, diseases and other pests. It is widely adapted and can be grown successfully under a wide range of soil and climatic conditions. Timothy is hardy at elevations up to 9,000 feet. Timothy survives a few weeks of flooding during the winter, but only a few days in the growing season. Seedling vigor is good and stand establishment usually is rapid. It ranks high in productivity among the grasses.
Use for Hay
Timothy is well suited to hay production, and timothy hay is especially desirable for the horse hay market. Growth is erect, easy to harvest and a full yield is normally possible in the first production year after seeding. Because of its bunch growth habit, it is less competitive for nutrients when grown in mixtures with legumes. Bunch growth also allows for alternate-row seeding which makes it ideal for mixtures with alsike and red clover and, in some cases, it is preferred for use with alfalfa.
Its main drawback is the serious loss of quality (protein) experienced if it is not harvested for hay before the bloom stage. Growing timothy in mixtures with legumes and harvesting early will overcome this problem. Although timothy is fairly tolerant of low fertility, the application of fertilizer, especially nitrogen, increases both yield and protein.
Timothy has been the standard hay for horses. When cut in full bloom, its high energy and low protein content were ideal for working stock. Its popularity is due to the fact that the grass seldom lodges, and is easily cured into bright, clean hay that is free from dust or mold and which can be handled with little waste.
Use for Pasture
Where adapted, timothy is commonly used for pastures. Spring growth is not too early although yield and palatability are very high. Leafy shoots are of excellent quality. Like smooth bromegrass, however, the main growth occurs in early summer and the tall shoots are easily overgrazed. Pasture rotation is critical and a much greater area is required after mid-July to compensate for decreased growth rate.
This grass is palatable to cattle and horses at all stages of growth. Deer and elk appear to only graze mature timothy plants after other grasses have been used. As a pasture plant, it is relatively short-lived and stands are soon depleted unless provision is made for natural or artificial reseeding. It produces an open sod that is easily weakened if heavily grazed.
Timothy is recommended to be planted at a rate of 10 - 15 lbs per acre.
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I was tempted to speak without slides yesterday, and I must offer my apologies to anybody trying to read them now, as I'm not sure how the slides make sense without the context of my speech. On that point, it's worth knowing that Lichen did an outstanding job liveblogging the event, despite struggling with a blown tire earlier that morning.
It's probably well understood by anybody reading this that most library services are at the web 1.0 stage. My slides show a number of screenshots of our current library catalog, but my speech went something like "I'm not here to tell you how we re-painted, re-wallpapered our catalog…." So, skip past those slides, and read here for context.
My following points were about some of the hacks I'd put into production to bring our library services up to about web 1.5 status. They include an awareness that library services include not only the OPAC, but also our website and a number of databases. We've all encountered difficulty trying to describe the different reasons to use each of these resources, but our patrons have less and less patience for it. Among the barriers to use is access. Even when our databases are freely available on campus, off-campus use often requires a special password for one stage or another of the process.
The slides demonstrate our current solution. By integrating our resources into the university portal and leveraging the authentication service it provided, I was able to hack single sign-on access to our databases and patron self-service module. This lowered the barriers to access, and we saw our usage of those resources increase dramatically.
All this was good, but it still wasn't web 2.0, and it revealed a larger problem looming ahead: identity management. The more we try to provide individualized, customized, targeted services, the more we'll bump into that issue of how we identify our patrons.
Moving forward to our web 2.0 future, I wanted to posit the idea that one of the most useful recent developments is the way we can now separate the tools that store and manage our data from the tools that display and manipulate our data. Yes, I'm talking about APIs, Webservices, XML, RSS, REST, SOAP, et all.
As examples, I offered a personal vacation map (using Google Maps), the Colr Pickr (using Flickr), our reviews and bookjacket pages (using Amazon), and this silly home made search engine (using Yahoo, Technorati, Amazon, Flickr, and Wikipedia).
Even more specific to libraries, I offered my OPAC suggest, A9.com integration and this functional (but not pretty) prototype of how I'd like to make subject headings a more prominent part of the search process.
So, you're free to go through my slides, but you might do better to read around here and at LibDev. If you do go through the slides, be sure to follow the links out to websites. I didn't visit even half of them during my talk, but I put them there to offer some redeeming value on review.


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One of electronics giant Samsung's suppliers in China used child labor to meet the South Korean company's production targets, a labor watchdog said in a report Thursday.
New York-based China Labor Watch says the Shinyang Electronics factory in Dongguan, China, hired child labor and underage student workers, altering "the strictness of hiring practices in order to adapt to Samsung's demands."
"These minors will usually only work for a period of three to six months, toiling for 11 hours every day without overtime pay, and the factory does not purchase social insurance for them as required by law," the group said in a statement. "These young workers usually leave when the factory ... enters the off-season, and the factory does not need to provide any sort of severance pay."
In a statement on its website, Samsung said it was "urgently looking into the latest allegations and will take appropriate measures in accordance with our policies to prevent any cases of child labor in our suppliers."
The company's own recent report on conditions at about 100 Chinese suppliers' factories, based on an external audit, found no child labor. That report did, however, find that more than half the facilities surveyed did not provide safety equipment to workers, and most didn't comply with China's law on overtime hours.
A China Labor Watch report in 2012 also alleged violations at facilities run by Samsung's suppliers in China.
Samsung's rival Apple has also been criticized for labor violations at its supplier in China.
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4.5 foot White Salem Pencil Unlit Tree. it is going to be a sheer white Christmas when you bring home this beautiful White Salem Pencil tree from Artificial Plants and Trees. The PVC branches are all white, and are draped with twinkling lights in most sizes. Light choices are multicolored, clear, and white, LED or Dura-lit. The largest sizes of this artificial tree come with a rolling metal stand for your convenience.


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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the full lineup for the city's big upcoming "Homecoming Concert." The list covers a range of artists from classic rock mainstays to contemporary rap stars: Patti Smith, Paul Simon, Lucky Daye, The New York Philharmonic, Polo G, Carlos Santana, Rob Thomas and more.
The concert will be held in Central Park on August 21st. A proof of vaccination will be required to enter, and masks will be optional. 80 percent of the tickets will be made available for free.
"This is a celebration of our city, of every working family who faced incredible challenges last year and overcame," said Mayor de Blasio in a statement. "This is a celebration for you."
The announcement is coming at the start of a delayed summer-music festival. The Newport Folk Festival is currently happening in Newport, R.I. Lollapalooza is this weekend in Chicago, Il. But it's also happening as increasing concerns over the delta variant has the Centers for Disease Control revising its guidance on some fully vaccinated people wearing masks.
The concert is being billed as a part of New York City's "Homecoming Week," promoting movie screenings, concerts, restaurants and more to help boost beleaguered businesses hit hard by the pandemic closures. One of the concert's producers, music industry titan Clive Davis, said the show will celebrate "the reopening of New York City."
The show will also be broadcast live on CNN, if you don't live in New York City or just want to skip the crowds all together.
The full list of performers is below:
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A renaissance man is a person (man or woman) who is skilled in multiple fields or multiple disciplines, and who has a broad base of knowledge.
The term renaissance man is largely based on the various artists and scholars of the European Renaissance (starting in about 1450 CE), who pursued multiple fields of studies. Perhaps the quintessential renaissance man of this period was Leonardo Da Vinci, who was a master of art, an engineer, an anatomy expert (for the time), and also pursued many other disciplines with great success and aplomb.
The Stack Exchange network contains a very broad range of studies. What if there were a cross-site gold badge awarded for someone who has at least a 1000 reputation on 10 network sites?
Beta and meta would not count for the badge.
Naming it the da Vinci badge is another option for the name.
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The Day Van Halen Reunited With David Lee Roth
It took David Lee Roth just a little more than two minutes to utter his usual "Look at all the people here tonight!" line at his first concert with Van Halen in 23 years. Sept. 27, 2007, was an epic night in Charlotte, N.C., for fans who had been longing for the band's original singer to reaffirm his position at the mic.
Saddled with fits and starts over the years, the reunion between Roth and the Van Halen brothers, Edward and Alex, was first teased in 1996 at an ill-fated MTV Music Awards appearance, followed by a rumored but abandoned 2001 attempt. There was even an earlier try in February 2007, when the band announced a summer tour that was accompanied by a quote from Eddie: "I am very excited to get back to the core of what made Van Halen." But the guitarist then entered rehab, ostensibly for his documented alcohol problems, and the jaunt was scuttled until he completed the program.
In March, Van Halen were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but only Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony showed up at the ceremony -- and neither was a member of the group at that point. (Longtime bassist Anthony had been controversially jettisoned from the band in favor of Eddie's 16 year-old son Wolfgang, who would be handling bass duties on the upcoming tour.)
The show at Charlotte Bobcats Arena kicked off with the band's high-octane cover of the Kinks' classic "You Really Got Me," which found an ear-to-ear grinning Roth and Eddie exchanging a high-five at the song's conclusion, followed by the doo-wop shimmy "I'm the One," during which the singer noted, "It only took 20 years to get this f—-ing far." It was a testimony said in good fun, and somewhat surprising for a pair that had had so many acrimonious exchanges since Roth exited the group more than two decades earlier.
The shows featured an expansive S-shaped ramp that wound behind Alex's drum riser and into the audience. Roth, sporting a matador-style jacket, delighted fans with his ridiculously over-the-top cowboy-style riding of an inflatable microphone during the set closer "Jump" as barrels of confetti dropped over the audience.
As Roth promised in the August press conference that announced the reunion, Van Halen seemed like a "new band." With Wolfgang on board, the sound was going to incorporate a certain youthful infusion. And even with Anthony's absence, the old songs were welcomingly restored to the set list after being largely ignored during the Hagar era. Classics like "Hot for Teacher" and "Ice Cream Man" were brought back for the first time since Roth's initial run, while deeper cuts like "Little Dreamer" and "Beautiful Girls" reappeared from way back too.
Ultimately, it was a gleeful return, it quickly began to seem like a permanent one. Roth and Van Halen mounted massive subsequent tours since this initial reunion, and even made another album together, 2012's A Different Kind of Truth.
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Herbal Infusions and Caffeine
All real tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant, which contains caffeine. However, herbal infusions (often referred to as "herbal teas" or "tisanes") are not true teas. While herbal teas or infusions are packaged like tea, infused like tea and enjoyed like tea, they do not actually contain any tea leaves.
Typically, herbal infusions are simply the combination of boiling water and botanicals like fruits, flowers, barks, herbs, mints, spices, roots, berries and seeds.
Note: Herbal infusions are naturally caffeine-free, with a few notable exceptions (e.g. Yerba Mate and Guayusa).
What Determines Caffeine Levels?
Contrary to the popular belief that caffeine content can be categorized based on tea type (for instance the idea that black tea has more caffeine than green tea or white tea and other similar comparisons), recent studies have shown that caffeine content can and does vary—sometimes quite significantly—among even one type of tea. If you would like to learn more about what makes tea, tea, read our Tea 101.
Studies also show that the amount of caffeine in tea depends on a number of factors:
- The variety or cultivar of tea leaves (C. sinensis var. sinensis and C. sinensis var.assamica)
- The cultivating age (e.g. the bud and the two youngest leaves versus the fifth toseventh leaves)
- The growing environment
- The growing methods
- The manufacturing conditions
- The preparation of infusion (e.g. ratio between tea and water used, brewing time, water temperature and the amount of agitation)
All these factors will greatly influence the caffeine level [1, 2].
Decaffeinated Teas
Our black, green and white teas are decaffeinated using a chemical-free CO2 process, known as effervescent decaffeination. It ensures that the tea is decaffeinated very gently, preserving the majority of the tea's flavor.
Our decaffeination process does not employ harmful chemicals and the CO2 is recycled afterwards. This method is considered natural and removes most of the caffeine.
[1] Astill, C.; Birch, M.R.; Dacombe, C.; Humphrey, P.G.; Martin, P.T. Factors Affecting the Caffeine and Polyphenol Contents of Black and Green Tea Infusions. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2001,49,5341,5346.
[2] Lin, Y.S.; Tsai, Y.J.; Tsay, J.S.; Lin, J.K. Factors Affecting the Levels of Tea Polyphenols and Caffeine in Tea Leaves. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2003, 51, 1869.


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NFL: Road warrior Bucs win at Green Bay
Published 9:33 pm Sunday, January 24, 2021
By Steve Megargee
AP Sports Writer
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Tom Brady has a new team, in a new town. The destination is the same: another Super Bowl.
At home, too.
The man with six NFL titles will become the first quarterback to play a Super Bowl on his team's home field. He owes the Tampa Bay defense that sacked Aaron Rodgers five times, and a curious late call on fourth-and-goal by the Packers as Brady and the Bucs beat top-seeded Green Bay 31-26 for the NFC title Sunday.
"It's great to get another road win and now we got a home game, and who would have ever thought a home Super Bowl for us," Brady said. "But we did it.
"I thought the defense was spectacular. They've done that all year."
The Bucs (14-5) will face either the Kansas City Chiefs or Buffalo Bills at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium on Feb. 7. No, a host team in the Super Bowl has never happened in 54 previous games.
"We're coming home," said Bucs coach Bruce Arians, whose first NFL coaching job was as an assistant in 1989 with Kansas City, and won two league Coach of the Year awards, with Indianapolis in 2012, Arizona in 2014. He will make his first trip to the Super Bowl as a head coach. "We're coming home to win."
Brady is back in his first year at Tampa Bay after reaching this stage nine times with the New England Patriots. He went 20 of 36 for 286 yards and three touchdowns, but also threw three interceptions as Tampa Bay squandered most of an 18-point lead. Shaquil Barrett and Jason Pierre-Paul combined for five sacks to help the Bucs hang on for their franchise-record eighth consecutive road victory.
It's quite a step up for a team that had one winning record in the last nine seasons.
"Tom is the GOAT (greatest of all time)," said Bucs receiver Scotty Miller, who caught a 39-yard touchdown pass with 1 second left until halftime. "Last year, we ended 7-9. This year, we're going to the Super Bowl. He's the biggest reason."
The Bucs snapped Green Bay's seven-game winning streak. They were aided by a strange decision from Packers coach Matt LaFleur with just over two minutes remaining in a 31-23 game.
After three straight incompletions had the Packers facing fourth-and-goal from the 8, the Packers elected to kick a field goal to get within five.
"Anytime it doesn't work out you always regret it, right?" LaFleur said. "It was just circumstance of having three shots and coming away with no yards. And knowing that you not only need the touchdown but you'd need the 2-point. The way I was looking at it is we essentially had four timeouts with the 2-minute warning, we knew we needed to get a stop."
Tampa Bay then ran out the clock on the Packers (14-4).
"I understand the thinking — above two minutes with all of our timeouts — but it wasn't my decision," Rodgers said.
The Packers lost in the NFC championship game for the fourth time in the last seven seasons. Green Bay hasn't reached the Super Bowl since its 2010 championship season.
Rodgers went 33 of 48 for 346 yards with three touchdowns and one interception, but fell to 1-4 in conference championship games as a starting quarterback. The Packers had the NFL's best red-zone offense this season, but they twice settled for field goals after having a first-and-goal Sunday.
"I'm just pretty gutted," Rodgers said. "It's a long season. You put so much into it to get to this point. We had our chances."
Tampa Bay took command in the middle portion of the game.
After Sean Murphy-Bunting intercepted a Rodgers pass and Tampa Bay converted a fourth-and-4, the Bucs were at Green Bay's 39 while leading 14-10 with 8 seconds remaining in the second quarter The Bucs passed up a long field-goal attempt, and Brady found Miller down the left sideline for a 39-yard touchdown with just 1 second remaining.
"We didn't come here to not take chances to win the game," Arians said. "Love the play we had. Got a great matchup and got a TD. That was huge."
The Packers got the ball to start the second half, and Aaron Jones caught a short third-down pass. He took a huge hit from Jordan Whitehead that knocked the ball loose. Devin White recovered and ran 21 yards to the Green Bay 8.
One play later, Brady found a wide-open Cameron Brate to extend Tampa Bay's lead to 28-10.
The Packers rallied as Brady threw interceptions on three straight drives for just the second time in his career. Green Bay cut the lead to 28-23 late in the third quarter on Rodgers' touchdown passes to Robert Tonyan and Davante Adams.Twice in the fourth quarter, the Packers got the ball with a chance to take the lead after Jaire Alexander picked off Brady passes deep in Green Bay territory. Both times, the Packers went three-and-out.
"I felt like we had plenty of opportunities tonight to take advantage of and get the job done," LaFleur said. "We didn't do it, and that falls on me and that's a tough pill to swallow when you're responsible for everybody in this organization to make sure that you're on your `A; game, and I don't feel like I was tonight. I'm just pretty disappointed that (I) let a lot of people down."
It's been quite a ride for Brady and the Bucs. Brady moved to Tampa as a free agent and brought star tight end Rob Gronkowski out of retirement to join him. But with limited practice time with his new teammates because of coronavirus protocols, the Bucs didn't get rolling until after their bye week.
Now look where they are.
"It's been a great journey this far," Brady said.
And it's taking them right back home.
The Buccaneers are the third Tampa team to play for a championship during the pandemic. The Lightning won the Stanley Cup in 2020, and the Rays lost to the Dodgers in the World Series.
Jones hurt his chest and Whitehead injured his shoulder on the third-quarter play that resulted in a Jones fumble. Packers defensive lineman Tyler Lancaster (ankle) and linebacker Krys Barnes (thumb) left in the second half.
The Bucs played the entire game without wide receiver Antonio Brown (knee) and safety Antoine Winfield Jr. (ankle).
The Bucs return home to play in the Super Bowl.
The Packers' season is over.


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"And lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him."
So that worked out pretty well. I wanted to run a grim, darkly complected game with veins of humor in the Warhammer 40K universe. Good match of setting and mood there. I got pretty much what I wanted. It took a bit of adjusting and shuffling and learning and talking to nail the mythos, but by the time we hit our stride it was awesome.
The goal was to do a tight series of self-contained missions. I knew this was going to be a short term game, but I didn't want to run a whole story arc in three months, so I tried to treat it as a series of modules so that the end wouldn't feel like we'd stopped in the middle. Also, I wanted to be able to pick it up again and run another one or two session bit sometime.
This sort of failed for two reasons. First, I couldn't resist picking up some of the pieces of the first mission and turning them into an ongoing story. The spiders wanted to come back, and thus they did. The players should count themselves fortunate that I didn't dump the Baron's ghost on them, but frankly, he's out there.
Layering in ongoing story elements also meant that I didn't have to scrape to engage six players in the details of each mission. If the acolytes were heading to a feudal planet, say, I could drop in scenes growing out of the previous mission to give our tech priest some spotlight rather than carefully inserting a techie bit directly related to the matter at hand.
And the secret third reason is that I just couldn't help it; it's my best technique for giving a game texture. C'est la vie.
Six players is a lot, though. I should have run for five or four. On the other hand, if I ask myself who I'd leave out? Well, none of them. Er, none of you. Whichever. I enjoyed running for everyone and everyone liked playing. No good answers there.
Anyhow, the upshot is that I think I cut it to a fairly abrupt close. I thought about regearing for a story arc; I know where certain things are going. Perseus has a hopefully disturbing bit of news about the extent to which the five that is four has infested the Inquisitor's Library and the denizens therein, for example. Also, to the best of my knowledge, the acolytes left Acreage without turning over some drugs to a certain person.
But I think it'd take another few months to play to a conclusion point. You don't want to build the corruption too quickly. So cutting it now is the right move.
Also, I emphasize that the game was in my eyes a success. The system is a cranky old antique from the 80s that nonetheless works. Tweaking everyone's weapon to be superior quality and reminding people of the aiming rules fixes combat ineptitude; treating failed rolls as successes with consequences takes care of the rest. And the combat is simple enough so that we could memorize how it works. I may have been getting a rule about Toughness wrong for the entire run, but if I did, I just made things more deadly.
The first mission hit an appropriate level of scariness. The second mission wasn't meant to be scary, it was meant to be grueling. I think we got that nailed as well — the final combat sequence, when I just kept throwing waves of a few thugs at the PCs one at a time, with some PCs falling over into drugged hallucinations — that was meant to be grim and long and painful and I think it worked well without keeping our combat monsters from being scary. Hopefully it worked for the players as well.
All in all? Success. I am nothing but happy with the players, cause they gave me awesome stuff to work with. Discussion, feedback, and comments are welcome.


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Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Andy LaVerne, born Dec. 4, 1947, in Brooklyn, NY, studied at The High School of Music & Art, Ithaca College, Juilliard, Berklee, the New England Conservatory, and took private lessons from pianists Jaki Byard, Richie Beirach, Don Freidman, and jazz piano icon Bill Evans. The list of musicians with whom Andy has worked reads like a Who's Who in jazz: Frank Sinatra, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Dave Brubeck, Branford Marsalis, Lionel Hampton, Michael Brecker, Elvin Jones, Miroslav Vitous, Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Stitt, Benny Golson, Eddie Gomez, Mel Lewis, Mel Torme, Randy Brecker, Jerry Bergonzi, Dave Samuels, John Abercrombie, & numerous others.
A prolific recording artist, his CD projects as a leader number over 60. LaVerne's lastest CD's are, Live From New York (SteepleChase), a duo with longtime collaborator John Abercrombie, Three's Not A Crowd (SteepleChase), with Mike Richmond and Billy Hart, and I Have A Dream (SteepleChase) with Gary Versace and Anthony Pinciotti. He has recorded three disks for Yamaha PianoSoft, By Name Only, Why Ask Why? and In Walked Bud. Andy served as the music director and pianist on 21 volumes of the critically acclaimed SteepleChase Jam Session CD series. LaVerne appears on over 100 recordings as a sideman. His original compositions have been recorded on his leader and sideman projects.
Andy is also a prominent jazz educator, having released a series of instructional videos, Guide to Modern Jazz Piano, Vols. 1 &, 2, and Jazz Piano Standards (Homespun Tapes), featuring the Yamaha Disklavier, as well as the performance videos, In Concert (Homespun), and The Art of The Duo (Mel Bay), both with John Abercrombie. Andy also has done two projects for Band In A Box (PG Music), Andy LaVerne Mainstream Soloist, and Andy LaVerne Pentatonic Soloist. He is the author of Handbook of Chord Substitutions, Tons of Runs (Ekay), The Music Of Andy LaVerne (SteepleChase Publications), and Bill Evans Compositions 19 Solo Piano Arrangements (Hal Leonard). Countdown To Giant Steps (Aebersold Jazz) is a two CD playalong with companion book, of which LaVerne served as player/producer & writer. Tunes You Thought You Knew (Aebersold Jazz) is a LaVerne playalong CD/book set of reharmomizations. Secret of the Andes, a new Aebersold playalong is a collection of Andy LaVerne compositions. He heads the rhythm section on the Hal Leonard playalong of The Music of Chick Corea. His newest books are QuickChords and Chords In Motion (Aebersold Jazz).
Andy is a contributing editor (since 1986) for Keyboard Magazine. His articles have also appeared in Piano Today, Down Beat, Jazz Improv, Piano Quartely, Piano Stylist, Jazz and Keyboard Workshop, and JazzOne.
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NASA's Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns On A Super-Earth
RELEASE 16-040 (Click here for the full article) – 30 March 2016
Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet — a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours. The map reveals extreme temperature swings from one side of the planet to the other, and hints that a possible reason for this is the presence of lava flows.
"Our view of this planet keeps evolving," said Brice Olivier Demory of the University of Cambridge, England, lead author of a new report appearing in the March 30 issue of the journal Nature. "The latest findings tell us the planet has hot nights and significantly hotter days. This indicates the planet inefficiently transports heat around the planet. We propose this could be explained by an atmosphere that would exist only on the day side of the planet, or by lava flows at the planet surface."
The toasty super-Earth 55 Cancri e is relatively close to Earth at 40 light-years away. It orbits very close to its star, whipping around it every 18 hours. Because of the planet's proximity to the star, it is tidally locked by gravity just as our moon is to Earth. That means one side of 55 Cancri, referred to as the day side, is always cooking under the intense heat of its star, while the night side remains in the dark and is much cooler.
For more information about Spitzer, visit: www.nasa.gov/spitzer
NASA To Attach, Test First Expandable Habitat On International Space Station
RELEASE M16-039 (Click here for the full article) – 12 April 2016
The first human-rated expandable structure that may help inform the design of deep space habitats is set to be installed to the International Space Station Saturday, April 16. NASA Television coverage of the installation will begin at 5:30 a.m. EDT.
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be attached to the station's Tranquility module over a period of about four hours. Controllers in mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will remove BEAM from the unpressurized trunk of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, using the robotic Canadarm2, and move it into position next to Tranquility's aft assembly port. NASA astronauts aboard the station will secure BEAM using common berthing mechanism controls. Robotic operations begin at 2:15 a.m. and are expected to be complete by 6:15 a.m.
BEAM launched aboard Dragon on April 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At the end of May, the module will be expanded to nearly five times its compressed size of 7 feet in diameter by 8 feet in length to roughly 10 feet in diameter and 13 feet in length.
For coverage times and to watch the BEAM installation live, visit: www.nasa.gov/nasatv
For more information about BEAM, visit: www.nasa.gov/beam
For more information about the International Space Station, visit: www.nasa.gov/station
NASA Works To Improve Solar Electric Propulsion For Deep Space Exploration
RELEASE 16-044 (Click here for the full article) – 19 April 2016
NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. of Redmond, Washington, to design and develop an advanced electric propulsion system that will significantly advance the nation's commercial space capabilities, and enable deep space exploration missions, including the robotic portion of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) and its Journey to Mars.
The Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) contract is a 36-month cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a performance incentive and total value of $67 million. Work performed under the contract could potentially increase spaceflight transportation fuel efficiency by 10 times over current chemical propulsion technology and more than double thrust capability compared to current electric propulsion systems.
"Through this contract, NASA will be developing advanced electric propulsion elements for initial spaceflight applications, which will pave the way for an advanced solar electric propulsion demonstration mission by the end of the decade," said Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington. "Development of this technology will advance our future in-space transportation capability for a variety of NASA deep space human and robotic exploration missions, as well as private commercial space missions."
For more information about NASA technology, visit: www.nasa.gov/technology
NASA To Provide Coverage Of May 9 Mercury Transit Of The Sun
RELEASE M16-050 (Click here for the full article) – 3 May 2016
NASA is inviting media and viewers around the world to see a relatively rare celestial event, with coverage of the Monday, May 9 transit of the sun by the planet Mercury. Media may view the event at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Agency scientists will be available at the Goddard viewing event for live media interviews from 6 to 11:30 a.m. EDT. To attend, media must contact Michelle Handleman. To schedule an interview with a NASA scientist at the event, contact Claire Saravia.
Mercury passes between Earth and the sun only about 13 times a century, its last trek taking place in 2006. Due to its diminutive size, viewing this event safely requires a telescope or high-powered binoculars fitted with solar filters made of specially-coated glass or Mylar.
NASA is offering several avenues for the public to view the event without specialized and costly equipment, including images on NASA.gov, a one-hour NASA Television special, and social media coverage.
To view a NASA ScienceCast video on the rare opportunity the Mercury transit poses for professional astronomers and backyard sky watchers alike, go to: youtu.be/Gibaxh9x7O0
Images and animations for b-roll are available through NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at: go.nasa.gov/1X51Duz
For fast facts about Mercury, and more information on the 2016 transit of the sun, visit: www.nasa.gov/transit
NASA To Announce Latest Kepler Discoveries During Media Teleconference
RELEASE M16-051 (Click here for the full article) – 4 May 2016
NASA is inviting media and viewers around the world to see a relatively rare celestial event, with coverage of the Monday, May 9 transit of the sun by the planet Mercury. Media may view the event at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 10 to announce the latest discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.
The briefing participants are:
* Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
* Timothy Morton, associate research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey
* Natalie Batalha, Kepler mission scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California
* Charlie Sobeck, Kepler/K2 mission manager at AmesFor dial-in information, media must e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Felicia Chou at firstname.lastname@example.com no later than 11 a.m. Tuesday. Questions can be submitted on Twitter during the teleconference using the hashtag #askNASA.
The teleconference audio and visuals will be streamed live at: www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
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Riding motorcycles has seemingly cultivated a love for freedom within me. It's either that, or I've always had a love for freedom, and naturally gravitated towards riding motorcycles.
In any case, it's no wonder why I love motorcycles that get lots of range on a tank of gas. I like to keep riding and riding and riding.
But where is the freedom in an electric motorcycle if only gets 40 miles range on a charge?
Not all electric motorcycles are so limited, the Mission One, produced by Mission Motors, can go up to 150 miles range on a charge. However, it takes about 2 hours to recharge. Not quite practical when doing a month-long trip to Alaska and back.
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Today the California Energy Commission reported that it awarded $9.6 million to eight different companies, which includes $505,000 to the said Mission Motors to help bring its electric motorcycle to market.
The California Energy Commission, is of course, a California State agency funded by taxpayer dollars.
Perhaps there's a market for electric motorcycles as a commuter vehicle, but until technology can improve to a point where electric motorcycles can get 200+ miles range, and recharge in the same amount of time it takes to fill a tank of gas, there just isn't going to be a market for such vehicles for touring, or even weekend joy riding.
And if I pull into an electric charging station, will it cost me more recharge than to buy a tank of gas?
And are electric motorcycles truly "green" if it requires electric utilities to burn more diesel and coal to generate more electricity?
I don't know.
At this stage of my riding interest, I don't care about exhaust sound anymore. I can accept an electric motorcycle, as long as it contributes to my enjoyment of freedom. But a 2 hour recharge? Not likely.


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Underwater Mission by Jacques Cousteau's Grandson Postponed
A monthlong underwater research mission led by Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the celebrated oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, has been postponed until the spring.
Cousteau's expedition, named Mission 31, was scheduled to begin tomorrow (Nov. 12), but officials decided late last month to delay the trip, after some of the necessary science and film permits were held up during the recent shutdown of the federal government, which lasted from Oct. 1 through Oct. 16.
"Much like a NASA launch, a mission of this magnitude has so many moving parts that one ripple can set off an entire schedule of events," Cousteau said in a statement. "It was not an easy decision to make, but in the end, I believe it will benefit everyone even more in the long run."
Mission 31 will be rescheduled for spring 2014, but specific dates have not yet been released.
The privately funded excursion will take place at Aquarius Reef Base, a seafloor habitat located roughly 63 feet (20 meters) underwater in the Florida Keys. Cousteau and a team of scientists and filmmakers will live aboard Aquarius for 31 days, testing new technologies and conducting research on the effects of climate change on corals, sponges and other sea life.
The researchers will also study the physiological and psychological impacts of long-term saturation diving and the effects of living in prolonged confinement, Cousteau has said.
If successful, Cousteau's Mission 31 will surpass his grandfather's famous 30-day stay aboard the Continental Ice Shelf Station Two (Conshelf Two) in 1963. During that underwater mission, Jacques Cousteau experimented with living in a habitat located 30 feet (10 m) beneath the Red Sea, off the coast of Sudan.
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The unique Aquarius laboratory is the only underwater marine habitat in the world. The facility is owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and is managed by Florida International University. Cousteau's 31-day mission will be the first time an expedition of this length has taken place at Aquarius Reef Base, according to the Mission 31 website.
Follow Denise Chow on Twitter @denisechow. Follow LiveScience @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience.
Denise Chow was the assistant managing editor at Live Science before moving to NBC News as a science reporter, where she focuses on general science and climate change. Before joining the Live Science team in 2013, she spent two years as a staff writer for Space.com, writing about rocket launches and covering NASA's final three space shuttle missions. A Canadian transplant, Denise has a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto, and a master's degree in journalism from New York University.


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62For Zions sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalems sake I will not rest,
until her vindication shines out like the dawn,
and her salvation like a burning torch.
2 The nations shall see your vindication,
and all the kings your glory;
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
3 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken,*
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate;*
but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,*
and your land Married;*
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
so shall your builder* marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you.
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