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Justin Bieber Faces Fine After Illegally Inking a Tattoo Artist
Justin Bieber's troubles with the law are far from over.
Back in June, the Biebs paid a visit to tattoo artist-to-the-stars, Bang Bang, in New York City to get 'Believe' inked on his forearm. While in Bang Bang's tattoo shop, these two crazy cats cooked up the plan to have the 19-year-old singer (then 18) ink the tat artist.
Here lies the problem... he was tattooing without a license. According to the Daily News, Bieber could be stuck with a $2,000 fine.
So, what tattoo was worth $2,000? A muscled mouse emblazoned with the word "Swaggy." We are not joking. Bang Bang, real name Keith McCurdy, actually had Bieber ink that on his body... for life. Anything for a good story, right? *Crickets*
We must commend Bieber's work though, even as a total amateur (we're really hoping this was his first time giving a tattoo), his lines are pretty straight!
This isn't McCurdy's first time getting in trouble with the New York Health Department either. The Daily News reports that his shop was cited for operating with an unlicensed tattoo artist on site when Rihanna gave him and two other employees tats of the letter 'R.'
Bang Bang has tattooed everybody whose anybody in the pop world, having inked (and been inked by!) Katy Perry, Selena Gomez and Chris Brown.
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Purdue Showcases PVM Student's Role as "Equality Maker"
July 30, 2013
When Purdue University looked for five students to profile as "Equality Makers," who advocate for positive change, seek justice and demand a level playing field, they had no trouble finding such a student in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Jasmine Coe of the DVM Class of 2014, was selected for the January "5 Students Who" feature, which is part of a monthly series published on the Purdue web-site about Purdue students who do extraordinary things.
Jasmine has an extensive record of involvement in efforts to promote diversity and equality in the veterinary medical profession and beyond. She served as the 2012-2013 president of the National Chapter of Veterinary Students as One in Culture and Ethnicity (VOICE), which promotes diversity within the veterinary curriculum. She also was among the first cohort of students to receive the Purdue DVM DiversiKey Certificate. DiversiKey is a student-driven program designed to provide Purdue students with experience and growth in diversity and leadership. Additionally, Jasmine wrote and received a $500 Purdue grant to purchase Scholastic Books for Lafayette's Hanna Community Center. Each child receives four books that promote science, diversity and equality, multiculturalism, and animals. Through weekly visits to the Hanna Center, Jasmine and some of her classmates read to children and helped them with their homework.
"As much as I love working with animals, I also enjoy working with children," explains Jasmine. I like to reach out and promote science majors to kids." A graduate of Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, Jasmine earned her B.S. degree in animal sciences at Purdue in 2010. As a participant in the USDA Multicultural Scholarship Program, Jasmine also completed a study abroad tour through Costa Rica and Panama. To view a news release about the "5 Students Who Are Equality Makers," click here.
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In preparation of her dissertation, Tanja von Fransecky has spent four days at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen looking through files. The historian who is supported by the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin investigates the subject of "Flights and attempts of Jewish deportees to flee...learn more
The situation of female prisoners in the commandos of Concentration Camp Gross-Rosen is the subject of Andrea Rudorff's doctoral thesis. For four days, the historian has been pursuing research in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS). "My visit has been worthwhile", said Rudorff. "While I had known...learn more
In mid-January, the International Tracing Service (ITS) had the opportunity to welcome three representatives of the Foundation for Polish-German reconciliation to Bad Arolsen. The Head of the Foundation's Board of Directors Dariusz Pawlos and his two colleagues Jakub Deka and Jerzy Wozniak updated their knowledge on...learn more
In the autumn of 2010, 10th and 11th grade students at Filchner comprehensive school in Wolfhagen made two visits to the International Tracing Service (ITS) archives in order to do research. Comprised of a group of 16 students, the history workshop "National Socialism´s Terror System – the fates of the victims"...learn more
Giora Zwilling, head of the department which prepares the Yad Vashem Memorial´s holdings for digitization, spent three days in December 2010 at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen learning about the work being done there. "It was extraordinary to gain an understanding of the considerable tasks and...learn more
"The Story of a Memorial", a new book by Salomon Hauser and Jacques Offen, recounts the story of 97 youths from Antwerp who were active in the Zionist youth movement Bnei Akiva before the outbreak of the Second World War. Most of the youths were murdered in the concentration and death camp Auschwitz. "We are giving the...learn more
Director Jean-Luc Blondel had the chance of congratulating in all eight employees of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen on their long years of service yesterday. Together with Fred Kolander, chief representative of staff, he handed bouquets of flowers and presents to the jubilarians. "Together, you...learn more
In mid-November, a group of pupils from the "Filchner" comprehensive school at Wolfhagen began working on a project titled "The Terror System of National Socialism – the Fates of the Victims" at the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS). The history workshop that 16 pupils attending the 10th and 11th...learn more
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The man in the backyard carries the tattoos and scars of a fighter. He spins and kicks. Dust flies, a punching bag shimmies on a rusted clothesline. Sweat drips around blue eyes and seeps through a thin beard. The lines on the face show, but barely. He's handsome in the taut way this city craves. But that is never enough.
Damien Puckler has fans. Not a lot. But Facebook and Instagram have taken notice and at least one Tumblr texter fantasizes about him. His recurring character in NBC's "Grimm" series is a rebel martial arts master. Puckler doesn't know what's in store next season, but he trains every day, lifting weights, perfecting roundhouse kicks and suppressing the aches and doubts of a 42-year-old actor who rides a chopper and lives with his manager-brother and dog in a small house with an orange tree in Van Nuys.
"The show can kill me off any time they want to. It's nerve-racking," said Puckler, who plays the German-accented Martin Meisner in the dark fairy tale of cops and talismans. "I'm the last person to say I want to be the next Sean Penn. I'm not that deep. I just want to entertain people."
Rejections are many, but Puckler, who five years ago lived in a car, believes that if you keep showing up, someone will notice. He weaves frustrations into anecdotes. He said that his former agent sent him on a "casting call for midgets" and that he was later turned down at the last minute to play a pilot with one line in "Spy Game," starring Brad Pitt and Robert Redford. "They told me I looked too much like Redford and Pitt and you couldn't have three guys like that in a helicopter. But they tell you all kinds of things; who knows why they cut me?"
Puckler figures he's got a few years left to climb at least part way up the Alpha dog ladder topped by action stars such as Jason Statham and Vin Diesel. He choreographs his own stunts and has the tight, packed body of a younger man. He's honing his acting skills — he understudied Brendan Fraser in a 2001 production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in London's West End — but knows he is one of thousands: a long shot seeking a few frames in a Hollywood of X-Men, Avengers and torsos lifted from myth.
"It's hard," he said. "I have a friend who looks just like Thor. He said to me the other day, 'Dude, I'm the best-looking guy in my hometown, but I come out here and everybody looks like me.' He's going back home."
Hollywood's marketing-driven prism of beauty has become more refined and technologically tweaked since the days of "Conan the Barbarian" and Arnold Schwarzenegger's raw masculine swagger. Stalwart stars such as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson are still players, but over the years, performance-enhancing drugs, high-protein diets and special effects have created templates of men with half-moon biceps and abs in tidy rows. Skin and muscle have merged with titanium sheens, form-fitting shells and, in the case of the film "300," monochromatic warriors seemingly cut from Spartan stone.
"The action films with guys like Stallone and Schwarzenegger died a little in the 1990s when the metrosexuals came in," said Puckler, a former world champion in muay Thai kickboxing. "But the whole action guy is back. Chris Hemsworth is huge. The new thing now is you have to be a good actor and be in great shape.... My friend, a girl, told me that the new '300' film is lousy, but 'Thank God the man is back.'"
Puckler wants to be counted in that tribe. He plays a shadowy resistance leader in "Grimm," a police procedural with witches, detectives, monsters, an evil Santa and a venomous baron scheming beneath the misty skies of Portland, Ore. His fight scene in one episode this season was an impressive blur of compressed kicks, punches and twirls that downed two bad guys and left Puckler looking modestly heroic before the camera shifted elsewhere.
"He got the part. He carried it. He did such a good job," Jim Kouf, "Grimm's" co-creator said of Puckler. Kouf added that Puckler's character was envisioned as a short-timer: an assassin who would appear in one episode and likely vanish. "But we kept going with his character... [Puckler] has physicality. He can act. He's subtle on-screen. Both males and females like him."
With such praise and a few B-movies to his credit, including "Camel Spiders" and "Death Factory," Puckler is making a bit of noise. But he can't find a new agent — they want rising, twentysomething talent or established stars — and the roles he'd be good for are being parceled out in an industry that relishes fame, buzz, whispers and contacts. When he works on "Grimm," he earns up to nearly $8,000 per episode. He brings in extra income as a freelance trainer; his pecs, lats and triceps need constant tending, and at dusk, his backyard echoes with the roll and scrape of barbells.
A fighter's origins
The son of an accountant, Puckler grew up in Europe and the U.S. He attended boarding schools in New York, Arizona and Georgia. He was a poor student and was often bullied. "I never could fight back, so I got into karate and taekwondo," he said. "I became a young black belt with all these stupid little trophies."
At 15, with his father's reluctant blessing, he and a friend traveled to Thailand to learn muay Thai, a brutal style of kickboxing. "You really have to earn your respect in Thailand," said Puckler, who won a world championship in 1991 and counts among his many tattoos a tarantula and a bit of paraphrased Nietzschean wisdom: "If you look deep into the abyss, the abyss looks deep into you."
A motorcycle accident smashed his hip and ended his competitive fighting days. He enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, then in Pasadena, and in 1994 was living with his actress-model-singer girlfriend in London, working as a security guard, trainer and stunt man. He couldn't perfect a British accent. Acting work was scarce, but he landed parts in theatrical productions, including "A Doll's House" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and a docudrama about Sept. 11. He and his girlfriend split and agent J. Michael Bloom persuaded him to move to Los Angeles. However, he arrived during the Hollywood writers' strike of 2007-08; Bloom died about the same time, and the U.S. recession deepened.
Roles have slowly come his way; he is notches above a waiter, if still far from a star. The other day, on the advice of a friend, he attended a promotional event at Bar 210 at the Beverly Hilton, where minor celebrities had their pictures taken. A man with a shaved head and wearing a too big suit — he called himself Tony — handed Puckler a swag bag of nail polish, socks, underwear, beef jerky, scented oils and soaps.
Puckler smiled on cue. A camera flashed. Would he like a designer pillow for his pet? An eco-friendly belt? A man attempted to entice him with a VapeRev electronic cigarette. "I don't smoke. I don't do any of that stuff," said Puckler, his etched profile softened by a smile. A blond in a black dress waved from the Transcend Organics table and the air was suddenly tinged with Lavender Bliss.
"I can go to Thailand and fight in a ring between cockfights, but I don't know what I'm doing here," he said. He looked around. It was 3:40 p.m. Dance music thumped, but the vibe, despite cleavage and vintage motorcycles, had the feel of a basement party without the cool kids. A man with the stained fingers of a mechanic stepped up and Puckler inquired if he was a motorcycle salesman. "I'm the tattoo man," said the guy, who had a scrapbook of designs and slipped into the courtyard past a woman getting a facial. Another woman handed Puckler a kitten. Would he like to adopt from the shelter?
"This could end tomorrow, and I could be back living in my car," said Puckler, whose brother Bjorn fears that his sibling's guilelessness may be an endearing fault in a town of publicist-spun facades. Puckler glides along in kidlike self-reflection. "I'm an awesome fighter but not a great technician," he said, noting that his acting too is driven more by passion than technique. "The plan is for me to move away from action roles into more serious acting. But can I do it?"
Canyon days
Puckler raced his chopper along La Brea, then up Outpost to Mulholland. He headed toward his old haunt at the edge of Runyon Canyon. He parked in front of the silver trailer he lived in for nearly three years after the recession forced him to sell his share of a Simi Valley gym to his partner. He stayed rent free, landscaping, cleaning a pool and tending horses and a three-legged goat named Delilah on an estate owned by a director whose biggest hit was in the 1970s. The toilet in the trailer backed up, rats gnawed on walls, and every morning the rich, famous and obscure jogged past, threading along trails in the heat.
"I didn't have a career," said Puckler. "I had lost my gym and I had started working as a freelance trainer for 25 to 30 clients, including an up-and-coming TV actor. I'd get up at 3 a.m. for a 4 a.m. client. I trained until about 1 p.m., come back here to work and then go back to training.... You get really tired, and sometimes you just crumble."
He walked over to a punching bag and pull-up bars he had screwed into a pine branch at the canyon's rim. The terraced land below shone with swimming pools and villas and fanned toward the downtown skyline. He pointed toward the hills and remembered working out here, looking across the lights in the night, the howls of coyotes breaking the silence, prostitutes leading customers into the brush; a city of vagabonds, dreamers and fools.
"Making it in Hollywood is a long-distance run, not a hundred-yard dash," he said. "Too many people come here, think they're special and fade away quickly."
The director came out and stood by a pool murky with algae. The caretaker who had replaced Puckler didn't work out and was fired. Puckler showed the new guy, a young man from Colorado with a wary brow, the idiosyncrasies of the place, the dangers of the agave plant and getting the right Ph balance. "He has a tremendous work ethic," the director, who asked not to be mentioned, said of Puckler. He added that the actor possesses an earnest innocence, "almost like Peter Sellers in 'Being There.'"
Puckler started the bike and was off, descending canyon roads and hitting the freeway, the speedometer tipping 80. He had to hurry to an appointment to train a client in a regime his website calls "The Puckler Zone." The chopper — a Suzuki — is his everyday bike. His prize, though, is a Ducati 916, Special Edition Tricolore. It's parked at the brown-trimmed house where he lives with Bjorn and Roxy, a 9-year-old pharaoh hound mix who, along with Puckler, starred in a short film about a man whose dog saved him from suicide.
The rented house's backyard was a suburban gladiator arena of bald dirt, weights, punching bags, a battering dummy and a clothesline wrapped in tape and rubber, where he and workout partner Carlo Angelo, an actor who has appeared in beer and credit card commercials, practiced high kicks. They arced like pinwheels. "Precision is everything on a film set," said Puckler. "You can be the greatest martial-arts guy, but if you don't have the right choreographed stunt, you'll look like crap."
Puckler and Angelo rehearsed a fight scene beneath an orange tree. The Doors played on the radio. Roxy slept in the shade. Bjorn, who wore a ponytail and rimless glasses, looked on. "We need to build a wider foundation for him as an actor, but right now, his action status is our leverage," he said of his brother. "In one episode of 'Grimm,' he took his shirt off and there was chemistry with the woman character [Adalind]. The audience didn't really notice him before, but after that, there was a lot of buzz on social media, especially in China and Brazil."
"I think we in the 'Grimm' fandom need to start noticing one Martin Meisner," one blogger wrote of Puckler's character.
"Who knew Meisner was hiding all that hotness," wrote another.
Life of an actor
Puckler took a break. He has to stay ahead of the soreness that comes with age, bruises, twisted ankles, sprained wrists, a repaired hernia, a shattered hip. "Everything is painful, but it works," he said. A few days earlier, he had pointed to crow's feet. Hollywood was not kind to age and diminishment, and Bjorn had planned to take fresh publicity pictures. Puckler and Angelo, who goes to casting calls three times a week, wiped away sweat.
"It's demoralizing," said Puckler.
"You want to do your craft," said Angelo, a singer, dancer and a stunt man in a Chuck Norris film. "But 20 years later, you're still going to an audition with 100 guys who look just like you."
"Then you realize you're not exactly what they want," said Puckler.
"Could be the color of the eyes," said Angelo.
"I was once literally cast as the top evil Nazi in a movie," said Puckler. "But a few days before rehearsal, they said, 'You're too small and good-looking.' They wanted a guy with pocked skin."
"I once got a part in a TV show in Japan," said Angelo. "I had a plane ticket. I was packed. Then they called and canceled."
"You know when I know I really got the part?" said Puckler. "When the money's deposited in the bank."
The men laughed, but only the outer edge of it was funny. Puckler attacked the punching bag. It rattled and shimmied on the clothesline. He spun and kicked; the battering dummy danced backward. Skin echoed off leather, rubber and plastic. Weights gleamed in the sun, which was beginning its descent over the hills where the sky spread out hard and blue and traffic thickened on the main roads.


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Joel Widzer is the managing partner of JetReady.com, an author of travel-related literature, an experienced consultant and travel strategist, as well as a trusted travel expert and media figure. He received his BS from Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and earned his doctorate in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University in San Diego.
In 1999 he wrote the first edition of, The Penny Pincher's Passport to Luxury Travel: The Art of Cultivating Preferred Customer Status (Travelers' Tales Guides). (1999, 2004, 2008) (ForeWord Magazine—Book of the Year Awards-Finalists—2008)
Widzer pioneered writing about luxury travel at a discount. Previous to his work the conventional wisdom among travelers' was to get the lowest priced travel without concern to experience. His efforts in seeking the value proposition of travel were precursors to what eventually evolved into a new body of travel discussing luxury at a discount.
Joel's most notable value strategies on how to obtain first-class upgrades have been profiled in such print and media outlets such as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and the TV show Inside Edition.
Joseph Micthelli wrote in his 2008 book The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company that Widzer put is best by saying, "We all work hard in whatever field of endeavor we have chosen, and so it is vital to reward ourselves whenever we have the opportunity. I have found luxury travel to be a well-deserved reward for hard work."
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Dear William,
Today you are seven years old. Seven. Seven years ago right now I was looking down at your adorable little baby man face, thinking how lucky I was. Today, seven years later, I look over at you playing Minecraft with Signa, and I think the same thing. I am so very lucky. You are cute, smart, funny, sweet, and wonderful. Every day, I get comments and acknowledgement of how great you are. But I don't need other people to tell me that.
This year you have taken up swimming and piano, doing an amazing job at both. I'm very proud of and how well you do at everything you try. And even more proud of you for just trying in the first place.
It's been a tough year for me, Bubba, but having you in my life has made it a little less tough and a little more fun. You bring joy to everything, including your momma.
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Rising Might this April!
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The Walter's Medal item has been brought back for good!
There will be now different methods for you to obtain the Walter's Medal!
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Rohanopoly: Players that enjoy Rohanopoly can now test their luck and obtain a Walter's Medal!
Mystery Box: You will be able to obtain the Walter's Medal via our Mysterious Box
Honor Rewards System: You will be able to obtain the Walter's Medal item as a reward from our PvP Honor System.
In addition to Walter's Medal returning, All players who lost a Walter's Medal +5 at the end of the previous event will be receiving a Sealed Walter's Medal +4 as appreciation for participating in our last event! You will find your gift in your IM Inventory on the account that had it removed.
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Excited about all these changes and updates on 4/9? Plan on buying lots of growth related items to help boost your character up to the new level cap? Well we have a bonus event for you!
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Dell heavy hitter hooks up with Overland
Worldwide VP leap
Struggling Overland Storage has appointed Chris Gopal, Dell's ex-VP for worldwide operations as its own VP for worldwide operations.
At Dell, Gopal helped develop and implement the company's supply-chain model and operations strategy. Previously, he was a senior partner and director of Ernst & Young's Global Supply Chain & Operations Consulting Services. Gopal has also co-authored three books, including Supercharging Supply Chains: New Ways to Increase Value through Global Operational Excellence. This would seem to make him a supply chain champ.
New Overland CEO Eric Kelly needs to cut costs and Gopal confirmed this focus, saying: "My background, previous experiences and hands-on approach will prove invaluable as we elevate Overland's operations and build value while reducing costs through integrated demand/supply management."
Kelly called Gopal a stellar appointment. The hire is certainly a tribute to Kelly's powers of persuasion. Consider this - the latest annual report for Overland contains this statement: "As a result of our recurring losses from operations and negative cash flows, the report from our independent registered public accounting firm regarding our consolidated financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2009 includes an explanatory paragraph expressing substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern."
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My first pill was Atripla [efavirenz/tenofovir/FTC] and I took it Feb. 18, 2008. Still afraid of what it meant to start treating my HIV, I had no choice but to do so as I had a raging hepatitis B coinfection with a viral load of over a billion. It was a huge moment in my life, a turning point. I wrote this poem on that day:
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Best Wii U Game – 2014 Arcade Sushi Fan Choice Awards
Nintendo might not be making big waves at retail with the Wii U, but that hasn't stopped Mario's makers from delivering major hits this year. In a year when Nintendo needed to deliver, it did. Now you get to pick which of the console's releases can lay claim to the Best Wii U Game of 2013.
We were treated to not one, but two different Mario adventures this year. Super Mario 3D World was a treat to play alone or with friends, where New Super Luigi provided endless hours of frantic frustration and fun in trying to complete some of the most challenging Mario platforming levels ever conceived. Rayman Legends gave both a run for their money as premiere platformers though, and showed third-party devs can make quality Wii U titles when given the chance.
No one will forget The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, or how gorgeous it looked. The same could be said for Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut, which was a worthwhile piece of sci-fi genius. And we still haven't mentioned Resident Evil Revelations or Pikmin 3, yet. Well, okay, now we did.
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LU names new College of Graduate Studies dean
William Harn, professor and chairperson of Lamar University's speech and hearing sciences department, was recently named as dean of the College of Graduate Studies.
"I am extremely excited," Harn said. "It is a dream come true. I look forward to the challenges that come with the job."
Harn, who officially started the position July 1, plans to promote the graduate programs, publicize the accomplishments of the graduate students, and facilitate the growth of graduate programs at Lamar. In addition to his duties at Lamar, Harn also serves on the Council on Academic Accreditation, which formulates standards for the accreditation of graduate education programs that provide entry-level professional preparation in audiology, and is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Prior to earning his doctorate in communication disorders and sciences at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Harn earned a master of associate's degree in communication disorders at Northern Michigan University. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in speech pathology and audiology at Illinois State University. Harn has more than 38 years of devotion to the fields of education and research.


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For more than a century, Springfield College has been a leader in providing a broad and balanced educational experience. Humanics, the philosophy that has inspired Springfield College from its beginning, calls for educating the whole person—spirit, mind, and body—for leadership in service to others.
Known worldwide as the Birthplace of Basketball ®, Springfield College is internationally renowned for innovation that has improved people's lives since 1885. Stellar visionaries from the College have made indelible marks on society, science, and health and wellness, including James Naismith's invention of basketball in 1891. From groundbreaking studies in exercise physiology to today's research in the new Center for Wellness Education and Research, Springfield College continues to transform lives and communities.
A broad range of educational opportunities, both undergraduate and graduate, are offered at the main campus in Springfield, Mass., and at its School of Human Services campuses around the country. Doctoral programs are offered in physical education, physical therapy, and psychology.
With its foundation of academic excellence and rich athletic heritage, the College prepares students with real-world leadership skills for tomorrow's careers, including those in the health sciences, human and social services, sport management and movement studies, business, education, and the arts and sciences. Its low student-to-faculty ratio and experiential learning opportunities provide students with the skills they need to become leaders in a wide range of human-helping professions.
Springfield College graduates work in Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, public and private schools, hospitals, and health-care organizations. They are teachers and coaches, entrepreneurs, health care providers, YMCA leaders, and even gold-medal-winning Olympians.
Springfield College is again ranked in the top tier in its category in U.S.News & World Report's 2012 edition of "Best Colleges," by U.S.News Media Group. In addition, the College is designated as a premier leadership development center by the YMCA of the USA.
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New facilities include a state-of-the-art Wellness and Recreation Complex, which received the 2009 Outstanding Sports Facilities Award from the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association. The College's new Richard B. Flynn Campus Union, opened in 2010, serves as the hub of campus life. These new facilities, and renovations to existing facilities, enrich the College's academic programs and create a superior campus experience for students.
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Infant Galaxies Merging Near 'Cosmic Dawn'
Astronomers using the combined power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered a far-flung trio of primitive galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of primordial gas. The rare triple system existed when the universe was only 800 million years old. The trio may eventually merge into a single massive galaxy, researchers predict. The researchers state that the system provides key insights into the earliest stages of galaxy formation.
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Credit: NASA, ESA, ESO, NRAO, NAOJ, JAO, M. Ouchi (University of Tokyo), R. Ellis (California Institute of Technology), Y. Ono (University of Tokyo), K. Nakanishi (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) and Joint ALMA Observatory), K. Kohno and R. Momose (University of Tokyo), Y. Kurono (Joint ALMA Observatory), M. Ashby (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astronomy), K. Shimasaku (University of Tokyo), S. Willner and G. Fazio (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Y. Tamura (University of Tokyo), and D. Iono (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)


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Washington Post gay-bashing isn't limited to Perkins
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Yesterday, we noted that the Washington Post celebrated "National Coming Out Day" by posting an anti-gay screed written by notorious bigot Tony Perkins on its On Faith microsite. Today, we learned that the Post thought the publication of Perkins' bile was justified by the fact that it hosted a live Q&A chat with Dan Savage about his efforts to prevent suicide among gay youths. Because, as everyone knows, if you're going to feature an opponent of gay suicide, you need … um … balance. Savage was understandably displeased to see the Post use him as justification for publishing Perkins.
But it's important to understand that Tony Perkins' anti-gay rant was not an anomaly. On Faith has posted several anti-gay missives just this week.
Jordan Sekulow, described by the Post as a "human rights attorney," insists "the United States is a Christian nation" and quotes biblical references to homosexuality as an "abomination" and "unnatural" and "indecent" and "perversion." Again: The Washington Post describes Sekulow as a "human rights attorney." Though, to be fair, they didn't say he's an attorney working on behalf of human rights.
Frank Pavone, president of the National Pro-Life Religious Council and a Catholic priest, writes that his church teaches that sex can only be had "in a marriage between a man and a woman, and when open to life," adding that "Sex is an extremely powerful force, and never a neutral one. Either it serves life, or it serves death."
John Mark Reynolds, who previously* used the platform granted him by the Post to call advocates of gay rights "ideologues" and compare them to "racists," wrote a rambling post yesterday that refers to gay rights advocates as "the hateful" ("When the unchaste, the libertine, or the hateful demand we call their wrongs 'good,' this too is not new") and refers to support for gay rights as "prejudice." Oh, and he compares the oppression Christians face at the hands of these hateful, prejudiced gay rights advocates to the murder of Christians by pagan cultures:
Traditional religion, which does not measure the value of an argument by the date or by fashion, is not deterring progress. It is deterring decay.
Civilization partly consists of teaching men and women to say "no" to desires that are not productive or useful to their souls. What is productive? First, we would have to know the facts about the cosmos. Is there an afterlife? Is there a God? Does He have opinions on what we do?
There is, He exists, and He does. And if He has been clear on anything it is that human beings are good at kidding themselves into bad behavior when it comes to physical desires. Some pagan cultures believed all sex was bad and it became fashionable to castrate men in order to "restrain" desires. The Christian church had to stand against such behavior, which even infected its own ranks, and argue against the intellectual fashion of the day.
Our reward was to be murdered by the government on the pretext of condoning depravity!
In this age, Christian morality is once again unfashionable, but this time not for our tolerance of sex, but our intolerance of some forms of sex. If some ancient intellectuals saw sexual desire as an unspiritual horror, we now face a culture that in part believes it is a necessary part of life!
And Amarnath Amarasingam writes that "both sides" in the debates over gay rights are "predictably defensive and unbending":
[W]hy does religion play such a central role in debates about homosexuality? Because it is one of the main battlegrounds of the culture war, which James Davison Hunter calls a "struggle to define America." Recent statements by Carl Paladino and Jim DeMint, the homophobia and bullying experienced by young Americans like Tyler Clementi, as well as the heated rhetoric around 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' have reignited what is traditionally a flashpoint issue in the ongoing culture wars. Both sides have become predictably defensive and unbending.
The reader is left to wonder who on the gay-rights side is as "unbending" as the lunatics who show up at funerals with "God hates Fags" signs. Maybe there's a large movement to outlaw heterosexual marriage and kick straight folks out of the military, and I just missed it? Sadly, Amarasingam provides no examples. True, Amarasingam doesn't explicitly insult gays like his On Faith peers. But make no mistake: Equating gay rights advocates with anti-gay zealots is a slur against those who ask no more than that they be treated the way their fellow citizens are treated.
Even if you buy the ludicrous notion that Tony Perkins' attack on gays was necessary to balance out Dan Savage's efforts to reduce gay suicide, that doesn't explain the Post's decision to host several other gay-bashing tirades -- or to pass them off as the work of "distinguished" panelists as part of an "intelligent" and "respectful" conversation.
Just how many homophobes does the Washington Post think it needs to balance out Dan Savage?
* Reynolds' previous posts also include such gems as "Sarah Palin was right to worry about 'death panels.'"
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Some minds were blown and other minds were baffled when Joss Whedon announced onstage in Comic-Con's Hall H that the sequel to his blockbuster Avengers would be called The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Those familiar with Ultron from Marvel's comics took this to mean that we might get our first cinematic look at scientist Hank Pym, who eventually becomes the superhero Ant-Man-- Pym is a major part of the Age of Ultron comic series, which just wrapped.. Sadly, this doesn't appear to be the case, as Whedon himself spoke with Marvel at Comic-Con, via ComicBookMovie.com, and said that Pym won't be in the film at all. But he did say that Hawkeye will have a more pronounced role. High five, Jeremy Renner fans!
While it was already clear that the new film wouldn't directly adapt the stellar recent comic series from writer Brian Michael Bendis-- Wolverine stars in the comics and Marvel Studios doesn't own the rights to him, for one thing-- it was still assumed that Whedon might stick to comic history. Pym created Ultron based on his own brain patterns, but the robot soon gained sentience and a pretty healthy hatred for his father, and eventually for all of the Avengers, whom he tries to destroy several times. So if Pym isn't going to be around to create him, who will it be?
"We're crafting our own version of it where his origin comes more directly from the Avengers we already know about," Whedon said. I'm pretty sure he isn't talking about Black Widow inventing anything. The only Avenger we know that has already created sentient technology is Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man. I mean it's possible Bruce Banner could assist him in his duties and it would make sense. It's still disappointing, as Edgar Wright's Ant-Man is a highly anticipated entry in the Marvel Universe, and it was hoped that an Avengers sequel would introduce Pym to audiences before he got his own film. But it's time to put that hope to rest.
Acknowledging that Hawkeye was kind of a wash in the first film, Whedon says he'll be pleased to flesh that character out. "He did get possessed pretty early by a bad guy and had to walk around all scowly for most of the movie so now it's nice to actually have the character there and see him interact with the other guys." I like Renner well enough when he isn't taking things too seriously, so he could add yet another level of offbeat humor that made the first film so unique.
And finally, in addition to saying the sequel will take on "a science fiction theme that wasn't there in the other one," Whedon shared that it isn't just about destroying the shit out of America this go around, and calls it "very much a global Avengers film." A trip to North Korea maybe? Antarctica? Canada? Only time and more Whedon interviews will tell.
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The main idea for in-place merge, illustrated in Figure 2, is based on a modification to the not-in-place merge. Instead of moving a single element X at location q1 to location q3 at each recursive step, all elements between q1 and q2 are moved using In-Place Block Swap (Block Exchange). Let's go through this in detail.
Figure 2 An in-place merge.
The top row of Figure 2 shows the input array of elements and three indexes: l, m, and r. The left segment, which is between indexes l and m, inclusive, is pre-sorted. The right segment, which is between indexes m+1 and r, inclusive, is also pre-sorted. Merge algorithm uses these two segments to produce a single sorted result. In-place merge places the result back in the input array between indexes l and r (the bottom row of Figure 1), while using a small constant amount of extra memory. Note that the two input segments touch, whereas the not-in-place merge algorithm had array elements in between the two input segments.
The first step of this divide-and-conquer algorithm is to take the larger of the two input segments, divide it in half to determine the index q1 and its value X. Then a binary search is used within the other segment to determine the index q2, at which all elements to the left are smaller than X, and all elements to the right are larger or equal to X. Thus, each of the two segments have been split into two halves, one less than X and the other greater than or equal to X. These two steps are the same as in not-in-place merge algorithm. The algorithm preserves stability because only the elements that are strictly less than X, but were to the right of X are moved to the left of X.
The next step is to in-place swap the segment q1 to m, inclusive, and the segment m+1 to q2 inclusive, as shown by the diagonal arrows in Figure 2. This swap would be simple if the segments were of equal size, but this occurs rarely. In-Place Block Swap comes to the rescue, because it's capable of swapping two segments of unequal size, which are touching, in-place. Three algorithms are described in In-Place Block Swap, and the one with the highest performance along with the best parallel scaling needs to be chosen.
The algorithm proceeds recursively by processing (l, q1-1, q3-1) segment and (q3+1, q2-1, r) segments of the bottom row of Figure 1. Note that the array element X at q3 is in its final location and needs no further processing.
Listing One shows a sequential divide-and-conquer In-Place Merge algorithm implementation. Lengths of the left and the right input array segments are computed first, determining which segment is larger. When the left (length1) segment is larger, the index of the mid-element is computed (q1). Binary search is used to split the smaller segment (m+1 to r, with length2) using the value of q1, into elements that are strictly smaller than the element at q1 (X in Figure 1). Being strictly less than X at q1, preserves stability. This binary search produces q2, which is the index of the split of the smaller segment (left segment, length2).
template< class _Type > inline int my_binary_search( _Type value, const _Type* a, int left, int right ) { long low = left; long high = __max( left, right + 1 ); while( low < high ) { long mid = ( low + high ) / 2; if ( value <= a[ mid ] ) high = mid; else low = mid + 1; // because we compared to a[mid] and the value was larger than a[mid]. // Thus, the next array element to the right from mid is the next possible // candidate for low, and a[mid] can not possibly be that candidate. } return high; } // Swaps two sequential sub-arrays ranges a[ l .. m ] and a[ m + 1 .. r ] template< class _Type > inline void block_exchange_mirror( _Type* a, int l, int m, int r ) { mirror_ptr( a, l, m ); mirror_ptr( a, m + 1, r ); mirror_ptr( a, l, r ); } // Merge two ranges of source array T[ l .. m, m+1 .. r ] in-place. // Based on not-in-place algorithm in 3rd ed. of "Introduction to Algorithms" p. 798-802 template< class _Type > inline void merge_in_place_L1( _Type* t, int l, int m, int r ) { int length1 = m - l + 1; int length2 = r - m; if ( length1 >= length2 ) { if ( length2 <= 0 ) return; // if the smaller segment has zero elements, then nothing to merge. int q1 = ( l + m ) / 2; // q1 is mid-point of the larger segment. length1 >= length2 > 0 int q2 = my_binary_search( t[ q1 ], t, m + 1, r ); // q2 is q1 partitioning element within the smaller sub-array (and q2 itself is part of the sub-array that does not move) int q3 = q1 + ( q2 - m - 1 ); block_exchange_mirror( t, q1, m, q2 - 1 ); merge_in_place_L1( t, l, q1 - 1, q3 - 1 ); // note that q3 is now in its final place and no longer participates in further processing merge_in_place_L1( t, q3 + 1, q2 - 1, r ); } else { // length1 < length2 if ( length1 <= 0 ) return; // if the smaller segment has zero elements, then nothing to merge int q1 = ( m + 1 + r ) / 2; // q1 is mid-point of the larger segment. length2 > length1 > 0 int q2 = my_binary_search( t[ q1 ], t, l, m ); // q2 is q1 partitioning element within the smaller sub-array (and q2 itself is part of the sub-array that does not move) int q3 = q2 + ( q1 - m - 1 ); block_exchange_mirror( t, q2, m, q1 ); merge_in_place_L1( t, l, q2 - 1, q3 - 1 ); // note that q3 is now in its final place and no longer participates in further processing merge_in_place_L1( t, q3 + 1, q1, r ); } }
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The coca leaf has been chewed and brewed for tea for centuries in the Andean region – and does not cause any harm and is probably beneficial to human health. Yet the leaf is treated as if it is comparable to cocaine or heroin. The inclusion of the coca leaf in the list of narcotic drugs raises questions about the logic behind the current system of classification under the UN conventions. Is there space to find a more culturally sensitive approach to plants with psychoactive or mildly stimulant properties, and to distinguish more between problematic, recreational and traditional uses?
Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's Drugs and Democracy Team expose the myths and reality surrounding the coca leaf.
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Coca leaf: A Political DilemmaSophie OstlerAPPG for Drug Policy Reform
September 2013
For fifty years the World's attitude to and treatment of the coca leaf and coca farmers has been controlled by the UN Drugs Conventions beginning with the Convention of 1961 which prohibited the production, possession and purchase of the coca leaf as well as cocaine. The assertion of this report is that the illegal status of the coca leaf is based upon a misinterpretation of science, first of all in 1950 with the publication of the misleading study of the Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf; and much later with the blocking of the publication of a report in 1995 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which made abundantly clear that the coca leaf itself has "no negative health effects".
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Schijnheilig bezwaar van Nederland tegen het kauwen van coca bladeren
Nederland keert zich tegen het herintreden van Bolivia in het VN verdrag met een voorbehoud die het traditionele gebruik van coca toe staat in het landMartin Jelsma Tom BlickmanTransnational Institute (TNI)
Vrijdag, 11 januari 2013
De Nederlandse regering heeft bij de Verenigde Naties bezwaar aangetekend tegen de herintreding van Bolivia in het Enkelvoudig Verdrag inzake verdovende middelen uit 1961. Bolivia was vorig jaar uitgetreden en wil opnieuw toetreden met een voorbehoud die het traditionele inheemse gebruik van coca in het land een internationale legale dekking geeft.
> Zie ook: Wij zijn schijnheilig over coca kauwen, NRC Handelsblad Opinie, 17 januari 2013READ MORE...
Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf
Creates a positive example for modernizing the UN drug conventionsTNI/WOLA press release
Friday, January 11, 2013
Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, but without being bound by its unjust and unrealistic requirement that "coca leaf chewing must be abolished." This represents the successful conclusion of an arduous process in which Bolivia has sought to reconcile its international treaty obligations with its 2009 Constitution, which obliges upholding the coca leaf as part of Bolivia's cultural patrimony.READ MORE...
Objections to Bolivia's reservation to allow coca chewing in the UN conventions
The United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Canada notified their objectionsTom BlickmanFriday, January 4, 2013
Sweden joined the United States and the United Kingdom in objecting to the re-accession of Bolivia to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after Bolivia had denounced the convention and asked for re-accession with a reservation that allows for the traditional age-old ancestral habit of coca chewing in the country. Italy and Canada also objected, but the objection of Sweden is particularly disturbing.
Foglia di coca, la congiura degli ipocriti, versione in italianaREAD MORE...
European Union discussion on response to Bolivia's denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
Latest update: November 28, 2012
The following notes are summaries of the EU Horizontal Working Party on Drugs discussions about Bolivia's coca amendment and denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, taken from the reports of their meetings since September 2010.READ MORE...
The UN International Narcotics Control Board Releases 2011 Annual Report
Accuses Bolivia of Threatening Integrity of the Global Drug Control System by Reserving the Right to Use Coca LeafTNI/WOLA Press release
February 28, 2012
The UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which monitors implementation of the global drug treaties, has trained its fire on Bolivia, this time accusing the country of threatening the integrity of the entire international drug control regime by defending traditional uses of the coca leaf.
Download the press release (PDF)READ MORE...
Response of Bolivia to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)Ministry of Foreign Relation of the Plurinational State of Bolivia
La Paz, February 24, 2012
In a letter to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) the Government of Bolivia rejects the judgments made by the independent agency of the United Nations after a visit in December 2011 and the conclusions of the Board on the decision to withdraw from the 1961 UN Single Convention and re-adhere with a reservation that would allow for the use of coca in its natural state within Bolivian territory an uphold the traditional practice of coca chewing. The Bolivian government says the INCB is overstepping its mandate. TNI publishes an unofficial translation of the original spanish version of the letter.READ MORE...
Bolivia, the coca leaf and the right to reserve
Bolivia re-enters the 1961 Single Convention on January 28Pien MetaalMonday, January 2, 2011
Just before ending 2011, Bolivia presented the formal notification to the United Nations secretariat in New York, announcing their re-adherence to the 1961 UN Single Convention, including a reservation on the use of coca leaf in its natural form, such as coca chewing and infusions. This step was expected to happen, after Bolivia withdrew in June 2011 from the Treaty in an attempt to reconcile its international obligations with its 2008 Constitution. From the day the re-adherence was received in New York, according to the procedure and established practice, it will take 30 days for Bolivia to again become a full member of the 1961 Convention. In other words, on January 28, 2012, the re-adherence will be a fact.READ MORE...
Evo does not convince the INCB on coca chewing
"We convinced some of its members, but there are also some technicians who do not yet understand"Transnational Institute (TNI) with Reuters & Associated Press
Friday, December 16, 2011
The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, yesterday asked inspectors of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the United Nations to support his petition to decriminalize coca leaf chewing or "akulliku" but acknowledged that he failed to convince everyone. The Board pointed out this year that Bolivia "addresses the coca-chewing issue in a manner that is not in line with that country's obligations under the international drug control treaties."READ MORE...
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Remember how I was telling ya'll how it was hard to find a good jar mix recipe? Well, here's another one I tried. It's called Cranberry Pecan Muffins. It sounded really promising. Dried cranberries, pecans, brown sugar. What's not to love?
It was one of those recipes in my organizer I'd never tried, and I'm always up for finding jar mixes cause they are so damn easy to keep in the cabinet and grab and make at a moment's notice, so I figured, why the hell not! Plus, muffins are so easy to freeze. Instant lunch snacks.
So I grabbed and lined my muffin tins.
I had greased them prior and then decided against that and went with muffin cups. God I hate how my tins always get so stained. Anyway! Then I added the sugars and flour.
Add in the yummy cranberries and pecans, with some baking powder.
Then I added the wet stuff
Mixed it up
Plopped them into the muffin cups
Put them in the oven. Baked them. And took them out.
I was slightly disturbed at this point because they didn't really "rise." They kind of kept the same shape as the batter when I plopped them in. Oh well, I figured, there's a lot of food that doesn't look good but tastes dreamy.
Since my blood sugar can't handle a whole muffin, and I was about to eat dinner and couldn't afford the carbs, I called the Texan down to try one.
"Try one of these muffins!" I exclaimed
"They look weird." he muttered
"Yeah, yeah, just eat them!" I demanded
He picked one up, took a bite. And then he got that look on this face. Not a look of "ew" but a look of "what the hell." And he cracked a little smile.
"Try one." he said
"I can't, too many carbs. How are they?"
"No, really, I insist, try one."
This couldn't be good.
I broke off a quarter of one of the muffins and popped it in my mouth.
It was warm cardboard with a sort of cranberry after taste. F*#king great.
I picked up the tin and dumped them in the trash. SONOFABITCH. WHO in their RIGHT MIND actually came up with this recipe but then decided it was good enough to actually put in a recipe book? Are you freakin' serious?
Ok, was it gross? No. It wasn't puke gross. But it was nothing. It was like dry brittle pecan cranberry crap. I HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS! It's gotta be the baker's equivalent of erectile dysfunction: You get so excited at the prospect only to find out the damn recipe is completely flaccid no matter how much you are attempting to will it into deliciousness. And even if it's NOT your fault because it's not your recipe you still FEEL like it's your fault and you start apologizing and turning red faced to the other party:
"I'm sorry, honey, I really tried, I don't know what's wrong with my muffins. Why does this keep happening to me?"
And if the party is worth anything as a human being they will respond "It's ok, dear, it happens to every baker."
UGH! Martha Stewart I am not.


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-class Commandships
("Super Star Destroyers")
Ship Listing
Lord Vader's personal flagship, seen in
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
. The first ship constructed in its class. Built under heavy security at the Kuat Drive Yards shipyards at Fondor, shortly after the Battle of Yavin, as seen in
Classic STAR WARS
comics. Destroyed after impaling the second Death Star at Endor when the battle station exploded.
Flagship of
Scourge Squadron
, an elite group of star destroyers which was formed for Grand Moff Tarkin and commanded by Grand Moff Ardus Kaine subsequent to Tarkin's death. Flagship of Kaine's
Pentastar Alignment
Imperial faction at a time approximately three years after the Emperor's death. [
STAR WARS Adventure Journal #3
]. Kaine died during the Emperor's cloned return and was replaced by Admiral Pellaeon. At the Battle of Oringa destroyed the New Republic fleet carrier
with all its fighters aboard. (This was history at the start of
Before the Storm
, but must have happened sufficiently late in New Republic history for the new government to have acquired or designed its own dedicated carrier vessels.) Lost while repelling a New Republic invasion of Moff Getelles' territory after
Planet of Twilight
. [
STAR WARS Essential Chronology
Admiral Sarn's command ship appearing in the
Rebel Assault II
computer game, which is set sometime before
Return of the Jedi
. Some story elements in these games don't mesh well with the movies, so the status of the
in the overall continuity is uncertain.
Flagship of Fleet Admiral Gaen Drommel. Was stationed in the Core regions near Coruscant at the time of
Return of the Jedi
. Immediately after word of Palpatine's death was received the
departed to Drommel's home sector as part of his efforts to establish a small personal empire. Severely damaged in a battle with New Republic forces which took place not more than three years after
Return of the Jedi
. Survived until at least three years after
Return of the Jedi
[described in
Wanted by Cracken
]. Captured by New Republic agents more than a decade later [
SW Adventure Journal #15: Two for One
Commanded by Admiral Senn in Airam sector sometime between the battles of Hoth and Endor. Destroyed by outgunned rebels in a concerted attack in one of the possible outcomes of
Balance of Power
; destroyed the
Mon Calamari
in a different game outcome. The real fate of this ship is unknown. [
this ship is not the same as the
serving as flagship for the dark Jedi Jerec, which is a completely different class.]
The flagship of Admiral Roek was stationed in the Inner Rim regions of the galaxy before the Battle of Endor. Six months later it was recalled to the Galactic Core to fortify and defend the shipyards of the Corellian system from potential rebel attack [
STAR WARS Adventure Journal #2
]. This ship, or another by the same name, remained in service and recognised the authority of Ysanne Isard two and a half years after the Battle of Endor.
Iron Fist
Constructed as
(one of the earliest ships in the
-class) and presented to Admiral Zsinj by the Emperor. Renamed after his first command, a
-class destroyer. Infamous flagship of the renegade Imperial Warlord Zsinj and used extensively by his forces in campaigns concurrent with the New Republic's capture of Coruscant three years after the Battle of Endor, as described in the
novels. The target of a five month search by a New Republic naval task force led by General Han Solo, four years after the Battle of Endor [
The Courtship of Princess Leia
Secretly built at Kuat under
's name and then buried on the surface of Coruscant during the reign of Emperor Palpatine, the
was used as a top-secret holding facility for prisoners of Imperial Intelligence. Three years after the Battle of Endor, this warship fell under the command of Ysanne Isard. This ship was equipped with an unorthodox repulsorlift bed enabling it to lift off the surface of the planet. Captured by Thyferran and independent forces aligned with the New Republic. Its exact ownership after that point is unclear, but (under command of General Wedge Antilles)
was decisive in capturing the Imperial planet Phaeda a few months following the demise of the last Palpatine-clone. Its absence from other major conflicts, such as the Thrawn and Shadow Hand campaigns, suggests that the repairs were time-consuming.
Another Super Star Destroyer remained in the sectors of the Galactic Core and recognised the authority of Ysanne Isard, Director of Imperial Intelligence who ruled from Coruscant two and a half years after the Emperor's death at Endor [
X-Wing Rogue Squadron
X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble
]. It is possible that this ship is the
Knight Hammer
Constructed by warlord Superior General Delvardus and commanded by Admiral Daala approximately eight years after the Emperor's death. Plated with special "stealth armour" as a sensor countermeasure, which has the interesting side-effect of making the hull almost completely black [
There are
of this class of starship in the Black Sword Fleet [in
Before the Storm
], thirteen years after the Battle of Endor. One of them was originally named the
[according to
Shield of Lies
]. This ship is supposed to exhibit design modifications which are distinctive of "late-production"
s, particularly an "additional shield tower located on the centreline".
became the Yevethan flagship, renamed
Pride of Yevetha
. Escaped with Imperial counter-mutineers to the Deep Core twelve years after Endor. Found damaged beyond repair and drifting near Unknown Regions four years later [
SW Essential Chronology
Razor Kiss
Construction of this ship was almost completed in a spacedock in orbit around the planet Kuat four years after the Battle of Endor. It was stolen by Warlord Zsinj and lasted in his hands for a short time.
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Developmental milestones record - 3 years
This article describes the skills and growth markers relevant to 3-year-olds.
Alternative Names
Normal childhood growth milestones - 3 years; Growth milestones for children - 3 years; Childhood growth milestones - 3 years
These milestones are typical of children in the third year of life. Always keep in mind that some variation is normal. If you have questions about your child's development, contact your health care provider.
Physical and motor milestones for a typical 3-year-old may include:
- Gains about 4 - 5 pounds
- Grows about 2 - 3 inches
- Are about half their adult height
- Has improved balance
- Has improved vision (20/30)
- Has all 20 primary teeth
- Needs 11 - 13 hours of sleep a day
- May have daytime control over bowel and bladder functions (may have nighttime control as well)
- Can briefly balance and hop on one foot
- May walk up the stairs with alternating feet (without holding the rail)
- Can construct a block tower of more than nine cubes
- Can easily place small objects in a small opening
- Can copy a circle
- Can pedal a tricycle
Sensory, cognitive, and social milestones include:
- Has a vocabulary of many hundreds of words
- Composes sentences of three words
- Counts three objects
- Uses plurals and pronouns (he/she)
- Frequently asks questions
- Can dress self, only requiring assistance with laces, buttons, and other fasteners in awkward places
- Has longer attention span
- Feeds self without difficulty
- Acts out social encounters through play activities
- Has some decrease in separation anxiety for short periods of time
- Fears imaginary things
- Knows own name, age, and gender (boy/girl)
- Starts to share
- Has some cooperative play (building tower of blocks together)
At age 3, almost all of a child's speech should be understandable.
Temper tantrums are common at this age. Children who have tantrums that regularly last for more than 15 minutes or that occur more than three times a day should be seen by a health care provider.
Recommendations for parents regarding appropriate play at this age:
- Provide a safe play environment and constant supervision.
- Provide the necessary space for physical activity.
- Help your child participate in -- and learn the rules of -- sporting activities.
- Monitor both the time and content of television viewing.
- Visit local areas of interest.
- Encourage your child to help with small household chores, such as helping set the table or picking up toys.
- Encourage play with other children to help develop social skills.
- Encourage creative play.
- Read together.
- Encourage your child to learn by answering questions.
- Provide activities related to your child's particular interests.
- Encourage your child to use words to express feelings (rather than acting out).
Feigelman S. The preschool years. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 10.


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Moon and Antares
Anyone who's ever been outshined by a flashy sibling can sympathize with the star known as Antares B. The star is quite impressive — it's much bigger, heavier, and brighter than the Sun. In fact, it's among the top one or two percent of all the stars in the galaxy in each of those categories.
Yet Antares B is completely outclassed by a sibling, Antares A. It outranks Antares B in every category, and it's one of the brightest stars in the night sky, even though it's hundreds of light-years away. Antares B is lost in the glare — you need a telescope to see it as a separate star.
Antares A is a supergiant — one of the most massive stars in the galaxy. And it will end its life as a supernova — a titanic explosion that will rip the star to bits, leaving only a crushed remnant known as a neutron star.
Antares B probably isn't quite massive enough to create a supernova. Instead, it'll end its life just as our Sun will — as a white dwarf. It will cast its outer layers into space, but in a much gentler process than a supernova. Its core will be crushed to form a ball about as big as Earth. It won't be nearly as heavy or as dense as a neutron star, though — just one more way in which Antares B will be outshined by its impressive sibling.
Look for the Antares system standing a little below the Moon at first light tomorrow. It shines bright orange — not surprisingly, the color of Antares A.
Tomorrow: a winter wonderland.
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Case reinforced from the front edges and protects the phone from scratches on the screen.
Kickstand for convenient placement on a desk or table and is great for watching moves on your phone!


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Bluetooth is a standard for the short-range wireless interconnection of cellular phones, computers, and other electronic devices. In Linux, the canonical implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack is BlueZ.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Configuration via the CLI
- 3 Configuration with a Graphical Front-end
- 4 Using Obex for sending and receiving files
- 5 Examples
- 6 Troubleshooting
Install the Bluetooth protocol stack bluez and the utilities bluez-utils from the official repositories. The
dbus daemon, which is started automatically by systemd, is used to read settings and for PIN pairing, while the
bluetooth daemon is required for the Bluetooth protocol.
Start the bluetooth systemd service:
# systemctl start bluetooth.
Configuration via the CLI
Pairing a device from the shell is one of the most simplistic and reliable options. The exact procedure depends on the devices involved and their input functionality. What follows is a general outline of pairing a device using
Start the
bluetoothctl interactive command. There one can input
help to get a list of available commands.
- Turn the power to the controller on by entering
power on. It is off by default.
- Enter
devicesto get the MAC Address of the device with which to pair.
- Enter device discovery mode with
scan oncommand if device is not yet on the list.
- Turn the agent on with
agent on.
- Enter
pair MAC Addressto do the pairing (tab completion works).
- If using a device without a PIN, one may need to manually trust the device before it can reconnect successfully. Enter
trust MAC Addressto do so.
- Finally, use
connect MAC_addressto establish a connection.
An example session may look this way:
# bluetoothctl [NEW] Controller 00:10:20:30:40:50 pi [default] [bluetooth]# agent KeyboardOnly Agent registered [bluetooth]# default-agent Default agent request successful [bluetooth]# scan on Discovery started [CHG] Controller 00:10:20:30:40:50 Discovering: yes [NEW] Device 00:12:34:56:78:90 myLino [CHG] Device 00:12:34:56:78:90 LegacyPairing: yes [bluetooth]# pair 00:12:34:56:78:90 Attempting to pair with 00:12:34:56:78:90 [CHG] Device 00:12:34:56:78:90 Connected: yes [CHG] Device 00:12:34:56:78:90 Connected: no [CHG] Device 00:12:34:56:78:90 Connected: yes Request PIN code [agent] Enter PIN code: 1234 [CHG] Device 00:12:34:56:78:90 Paired: yes Pairing successful [CHG] Device 00:12:34:56:78:90 Connected: no
In order to have the device active after a reboot, a udev rule is needed:
# Set bluetooth power up ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hci0", RUN+="/usr/bin/hciconfig hci0 up"
Configuration with a Graphical Front-end
The following packages allow for a graphical interface to customize Bluetooth.
GNOME Bluetooth
GNOME Bluetooth is a fork of the old bluez-gnome and is focused on integration with the GNOME desktop environment. The gnome-bluetooth package provides the back-end, gnome-shell provides the status monitor applet, and gnome-control-center provides the configuration front-end GUI that can be accessed by typing Bluetooth on the Activities overview, or with the
gnome-control-center bluetooth command.
Users who are not using GNOME Shell can install gnome-bluetooth-applet-gitAUR from AUR, which provides the old status monitor applet, and allows setup devices and transfer of files by clicking the Bluetooth icon. Just make sure that
bluetooth-applet is autostarted with your session.
You can also launch the following commands directly:
bluetooth-sendto: send files to a remote device
bluetooth-wizard: for new devices to be paired
To add a Bluetooth entry to the SendTo menu in Thunar's file properties menu, see instructions here. (The command that needs to be configured is
bluetooth-sendto %F)
The Bluetooth tool for KDE is BlueDevil. It can be installed with the package bluedevil, available in the official repositories.
Make sure
bluetooth daemon is running, as described above. A Bluetooth icon should be visible in both Dolphin and in the system tray, from which users may configure BlueDevil and detect Bluetooth devices by clicking the icon. An interface is also available from the KDE System Settings.
Using Obex for sending and receiving files
Another option, rather than using KDE or Gnome Bluetooth packages, is ObexFS which allows for the mounting of phones which are treated like any other filesystem.
Install obexfs and mount supported phones by running:
$ obexfs -b devices_MAC_address /mountpoint
For more mounting options see http://dev.zuckschwerdt.org/openobex/wiki/ObexFs
For devices do not support Obex FTP service, check if Obex Object Push is supported.
# sdptool browse XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Read the output, look for Obex Object Push, remember the channel for this service. If supported, one can use ussp-push to send files to this device:
# ussp-push XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX@CHANNEL file wanted_file_name_on_phone
All examples have been moved to section bluez4. They need to be checked and fixed for use with bluez5. See section Bluez4 below.
If you see this when trying to enable receiving files in bluetooth-properties:
Bluetooth OBEX start failed: Invalid path Bluetooth FTP start failed: Invalid path
Then install xdg-user-dirs and issue:
$ xdg-user-dirs-update
You can edit the paths using:
$ vi ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Bluetooth USB Dongle
If you are using a USB dongle, you should check that your Bluetooth dongle is recognized. You can do that by inspecting
/var/log/messages.log when plugging in the USB dongle (or running
journalctl -f with systemd). It should look something like the following (look out for hci):
Feb 20 15:00:24 hostname kernel: [ 2661.349823] usb 4-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd Feb 20 15:00:24 hostname bluetoothd[4568]: HCI dev 0 registered Feb 20 15:00:24 hostname bluetoothd[4568]: Listening for HCI events on hci0 Feb 20 15:00:25 hostname bluetoothd[4568]: HCI dev 0 up Feb 20 15:00:25 hostname bluetoothd[4568]: Adapter /org/bluez/4568/hci0 has been enabled
For a list of supported hardware please refer to the Resource section on this page.
If you only get the first two lines, you may see that it found the device but you need to bring it up. Example:
hciconfig -a hci0
hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0 DOWN RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0 TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:
# hciconfig hci0 up
hciconfig -a hci0
hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:02:72:C4:7C:06 ACL MTU: 377:10 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING RX bytes:348 acl:0 sco:0 events:11 errors:0 TX bytes:38 acl:0 sco:0 commands:11 errors:0
If this fails with an error like:
Operation not possible due to RF-kill
it could be due either to the
rfkill utility, in which case it should be resolved with
# rfkill unblock all
or, it could simply be the hardware switch of the computer. The hardware bluetooth switch (at least sometimes) controls access to USB bluetooth dongles also. Flip/press this switch and try bringing the device up again.
To verify that the device was detected you can use
hcitool which is part of the
bluez-utils. You can get a list of available devices and their identifiers and their MAC address by issuing:
$ hcitool dev
Devices: hci0 00:1B:DC:0F:DB:40
More detailed informations about the device can be retrieved by using
$ hciconfig -a hci0
hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:1B:DC:0F:DB:40 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:1226 acl:0 sco:0 events:27 errors:0 TX bytes:351 acl:0 sco:0 commands:26 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT Name: 'BlueZ (0)' Class: 0x000100 Service Classes: Unspecified Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized HCI Ver: 2.0 (0x3) HCI Rev: 0xc5c LMP Ver: 2.0 (0x3) LMP Subver: 0xc5c Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)
Logitech Bluetooth USB Dongle
There are Logitech dongles (ex. Logitech MX5000) that can work in two modes Embedded and HCI. In embedded mode dongle emulates a USB device so it seems to your PC that your using a normal USB mouse/keyoard.
If you hold the little red Button on the USB BT mini-receiver it will enable the other mode. Hold the red button on the BT dongle and plug it into the computer, and after 3-5 seconds of holding the button, the Bluetooth icon will appear in the system tray. Discussion
hcitool scan: Device not found
- On some Dell laptops (e.g. Studio 15) you have to switch the Bluetooth mode from HID to HCI using
# hid2hci
- If the device will not show up and you have a Windows operating system on your machine, try booting it and enable the bluetooth adapter from windows.
- Sometimes also this simple command helps:
# hciconfig hci0 up
rfkill unblock: Do not unblock
If your device still soft blocked and you run connman.
Try this: $ connmanctl enable bluetooth
My computer is not visible
Cannot discover computer from your phone? Enable PSCAN and ISCAN:
# enable PSCAN and ISCAN $ hciconfig hci0 piscan # check it worked
$ hciconfig
hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:12:34:56:78:9A ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:20425 acl:115 sco:0 events:526 errors:0 TX bytes:5543 acl:84 sco:0 commands:340 errors:0
Try changing device class in
/etc/bluetooth/main.conf as following:
# Default device class. Only the major and minor device class bits are # considered. #Class = 0x000100 (from default config) Class = 0x100100
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18-year-old guilty of indecency with a 5-year-old
An 18-year-old Beaumont man was in jail Monday, May 13, after pleading guilty to indecency with a child.
Jakari Stoner pleaded guilty to molesting a family member in Judge John Stevens' court, saying little as his sentence was read aloud.
"This is about the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in 34 years of practice," Stevens said Monday.
Stoner was indicted in October 2012 for the June 2012 molestation of a 5-year-old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation, a $500 fine and 180 days in jail.
Stoner must also register as a sex offender.
Stevens said Stoner is lucky the victim's family members did not force a trial by jury.
"Only because the family wants to move on with their lives despite your pathetic actions are we going forward with this," Stevens said.
In a written statement, the girl, now 7 years old, said, "I don't feel like I'm normal after this. I wanna feel like a normal kid again."
Stevens said he would prescribe the maximum sentence he could under the plea agreement.
"This punishment just doesn't seem fair," Stevens said. "But it is what it is in light of what the family understands and they certainly — the family of this child — showed a lot more mercy on you than you showed to that child."