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1. How can I volunteer at Reel Asian?
Reel Asian is always looking for committed, enthusiastic, energetic and friendly volunteers to help out. In the lead-up to and during the festival, we need people to help with special events, mailings, tickets, act as ushers, etc. Volunteering with Reel Asian is a great way to meet others who are interested in film and Asian culture and get a closer look into the production of a community-based film and video festival. To learn more about volunteering, please visit our volunteer opportunities section or contact email@example.com.
2. How can I volunteer for a Special Committee?
Reel Asian is also looking for volunteers who can share their expertise and skills by joining special interest committees. Special committee members should have a demonstrated interest in the area and/or previous experience in a relevant field. All committee members participate as volunteers, and will be asked to attend a brief interview prior to joining. Calls for committee members are sent out in our bi-monthly eNewsletters.
- Programming Committee volunteers are dedicated to supporting the selection of films and videos presented at the annual festival. The primary role of the Programming Committee is to consider submission from the annual open call for entries, to provide feedback to the Artistic Director on the final selection, and give general input on special curated programs.
- Special Events Committee volunteers are responsible for planning, organizing and implementing Reel Asian special events. The Committee will bring creative input in the design of events, as well as provide important logistical support to the Operations Manager and staff.
- Marketing Committee volunteers are an integral part in creating public awareness and attracting audiences to attend the festival. The Committee will work closely with the Marketing Committee Chair and Director of Marketing to develop and implement marketing strategies for the festival.
- Education Committee volunteers will provide strategic advice and outreach for Reel Asian's Youth programs, annual festival Industry Series, and year-round Industry events.
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Reel Asian looks for community and industry leaders who are interested in advancing the mandate of Canada's largest Pan-Asian international film festival. Reel Asian welcomes enthusiastic Board candidates who have an interest in Asian film and previous experience in any of the following areas: corporate development, board governance, finance, marketing, events management, community partnerships, programming and film distribution. All interested Board candidates can submit their CV to the Chair of the Board of Directors at email@example.com. Learn more about the current Board of Directors and Advisory.
4. Do I have to be Asian to work/volunteer at Reel Asian?
No! We hire the best candidate for the position based on your skills and experience. Cultural and linguistic skills and knowledge of the Asian arts community can be assets, but these considerations are more relevant for some positions than others.
5. How do you choose the films you show at the festival?
The Programming Committee meets regularly with the Artistic Director to review all submissions and curated films and makes decisions together.
6. Can I get a copy of a film I saw at Reel Asian on DVD?
Not all films that are screened at Reel Asian are available on DVD. Some films will get Canadian distribution, and be available in theatres, on DVD, or on-demand. In many cases, however, the films shown at Reel Asian will not be distributed in Canada so the festival screening is often the only time the film will be shown in Toronto.
7. How can I submit a film to the festival?
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Rackspace, NASA Partner on OpenStack Cloud Computing Install
More on cloud computingNew open source software effort is set to deliver technology for enterprise clouds, building on separate efforts currently under way at Rackspace and NASA.
Cloud hosting vendor Rackspace is teaming up with NASA to launch a new open source effort for building large enterprise clouds. Officially called the OpenStack project, the effort will involve both compute and storage elements, enabling users to build large distributed pools of connected resources.
The OpenStack project builds on efforts already underway by both Rackspace and the space agency. Rackspace had been developing its own cloud storage technology, while NASA, by way of its Nebula project, was building out a distributed compute fabric.
The OpenStack effort will hit the market as a new challenger to Amazon's cloud and S3 services, while also providing another option for open source users.
"From NASA's perspective, having the broader community of developers and organizations using this technology means that NASA will have more choices too," Chris Kemp, NASAs chief technology officer for IT, told InternetNews.com. "We haven't had the resources to add VMware, Xen or Hyper-V support to the Nebula computing engine, but now that this is going to be worked on by a larger community of developers, we'll have those options now and taxpayers won't have to give us a penny to have that flexibility."
The NASA Nebula project is currently built with the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and uses the KVM virtualization hypervisor. Kemp explained that the decision to partner with Rackspace in the OpenStack effort has to do with the flexibility of storage choices, since NASA's large images and datasets make its storage requirements immense.
"The Nebula code orchestrates the interface between end users and the actual underlying infrastructure," Kemp said. "There are hypervisors, virtual networks and filesystems and the computing engine is orchestrating all of that."
Kemp added that an end user could request a new virtual machine and then the Nebula code in turn figures out which physical hardware it should run on, how much memory to use, how the network endpoints are set up and how the filesystems are set up and located. He added that the system is hypervisor agnostic at this point, as are the choices for filesystems.
"We want to see standards emerge in the stack so that components are interchangeable and that gives us the flexibility to solve different problems," Kemp said.
NASA did look at other open source and commercial technology, including Eucalyptus, to help solve its cloud-computing needs. The open source Eucalyptus project is part of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) offering.
"We did look at Eucalyptus [and] tried to make it work, but it wasn't built for very large infrastructure," Kemp said. "So we ended up rolling our own and now we want to share what we've developed and build a robust community around it."
The storage perspective is where Rackspace's open source contributions come into play. The OpenStack object-storage component is derived from software that runs Rackspace's Cloud Files storage offering.
"Cloud Files is roughly equivalent to Amazon's S3 storage system, and it's meant for storing objects or files in a redundant way so there is low risk of data loss," Jonathan Bryce, cofounder of the Rackspace Cloud, told InternetNews.com.
The OpenStack object storage is not a filesystem itself, but rather a complement to the filesystems that an enterprise user already has in place.
"It uses filesystems that are available on Linux. This is not a separate filesystem -- it sits on top of a filesystem," Bryce said. "It uses the filesystem to store the blocks of data."
He explained that each device inside of a server is managed independently. When a new object is uploaded to the OpenStack object store, it gets logged, tracked and copied across the cloud network resources. He added that the system does the work to ensure that the data is always replicated and available.
The OpenStack components are being licensed through the Apache open source license, and they aren't going to be directly monetized by either Rackspace or NASA. Both groups are aiming to grow an ecosystem of developers and users for the technology.
"We as a hosting company don't have a desire to build a software business and we're not pursuing a dual-licensing strategy," Jim Curry, vice president of corporate development at Rackspace, told InternetNews.com. "We want to make this technology widely available and hopefully have it emerge as a standard. We then hope to win customers based on our support and value proposition for it."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.


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Family studies is one of the fastest growing programs at OC. Our academic programs equip students to serve in careers that support and nurture families. Whether in family counseling, child care, or social services, a graduate of the Family Science program is prepared to make a difference.
Oklahoma Christian offers two major programs in family studies. The B.S. Degree in Family Science is a pre-professional degree that emphasizes the preparing of students for graduate school. Those students who wish to pursue advanced degrees, at either the master's or doctoral level, are encouraged to pursue this degree. With the growth of marriage and family graduate school programs and the increasing influence of systems theory in psychology, the need to prepare students for study as marriage and family counselors is increasing.
The B.S. degree in Family Science/Child Development provides students with a broad, general approach to the study of the family. This degree is primarily intended for those students who do not wish to pursue graduate school. It examines family issues across the lifespan but adds emphasis in early childhood education.


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Dune Novels will be at booth space #1318 this year at ComiCon. Come by for some Dune freebies, to buy books, or to just hang out with fans and friends. Hope to see you all there!
When: July 21st through July 24th.
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The signature L'Arc de DAVIDOR Bangle MM in 18k Yellow Gold with Palais Diamonds. This handcrafted stackable bracelet features the iconic repetitive DAVIDOR Arch pattern with diamonds on every arch and all borders, a double secure clasp and hinge closure. The MM Bangle is DAVIDOR's medium width bracelet in the L'Arc de DAVIDOR collection. Crafted by hand in DAVIDOR's Paris Atelier.
Inspired by the architecture of Italy's Palladian villas and France's Place Vendôme, the arch is the emblematic symbol of DAVIDOR®. The unisex collection features the arch pattern repeated ad infinitum in gold cloisonné and Lacquered Ceramic in a variety of colors: Davidor Bordeaux, Caviar, Neige, Cognac, and so on. With the addition of sparkling diamonds, L'Arc de Davidor becomes a high jewelry collection.


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Oct. 13, 2009) - The ETSU volleyball team dropped its third straight match Tuesday night as the Bucs fell to USC Upstate at the Hodge Center in Spartanburg, S.C., 3-1 (13-25, 16-25, 25-17, 18-25).
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Play was back and forth to start the first set until the Spartans took four-straight points to take a 10-6 lead. USC Upstate went on to close out the set on a 13-2 run, 25-13. Morgan Thomas led the Spartans with five kills in the set.
In the second set, USC Upstate jumped out to a 7-4 lead. The Spartans used a 10-4 run to take a 17-8 advantage. The Bucs cut the Spartan lead to six points at 18-12, but USC Upstate went on to win the set 25-16 taking a 2-0 lead into the break.
ETSU answered in the third set as the Bucs jumped out to an early lead and never went down in the set. With the score tied 11-all the Buccaneers went on a 7-3 run to go in front 18-14. The Bucs got kills from Jamie Stancliff (Advance, N.C.) and Long to take the set 25-17.
The Spartans regained momentum in the fourth set as they got out to an early 7-2 lead. ETSU rallied to narrow the USC Upstate lead to 10-8, but the Spartans went on an 8-2 run to extend their lead to 18-10. USC Upstate went on to win the set 25-18.
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Hope College will present its annual Concerto/Aria concert on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concert features students, who were selected through a competition held last November, performing with the Hope College orchestra. This year six students were selected to perform.
The program will open with the orchestra performing the overture to "Candide," by Leonard Bernstein.
The first soloist will be soprano Hillary Byker, a senior from Hudsonville, singing "Elle a fui, la tourterelle," from "Tales of Hoffmann," by Jacques Offenbach.
Flutist Rachel Daley, a senior from Cleveland, Ohio, will perform the "Ballade for Flute and Orchestra," by Frank Martin.
John Donkersloot, a freshman from Zeeland, will perform the "Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 16," by Edvard Grieg.
Senior Joe Stodola of Jenison, viola, will perform the "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra," by Béla Bartók.
Soprano Kay Gillette, a senior from Grand Ledge, will sing "Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle," Stephano's aria from Charles Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet."
The concert will close with junior Alexandu Hamzea of Brasov, Romania, performing "Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77," by Johannes Brahms.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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As you read contemporary accounts of everyday life in Victorian-era New England, a few things gradually become clear. 1. Burglary was quite common. 2. Gun ownership was also quite common. Sure, there's a lot of truth that Victorian-era New Englanders spent considerable time riding through snow-covered landscapes on one-horse open sleighs while caroling. (Think Currier & Ives lithographs). While they were away in the sleighs, however, burglars eyed – and in some cases entered – their homes. While today's burglars target easy resellers like electronics and jewelry, burglars in the late 19th century were not nearly so selective. Accounts of stolen furniture, livestock, and equestrian supplies are common.
C.E. Horne, who lived on the outskirts of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was a sensible homeowner. Just days before the Fourth of July in 1897, he and his family left Dora Dow, a servant in his household to watch the house while they went out. Soon after the family left, two men came to the door.
"We've come to take the furniture," one told Dora, aged 15 years at the time.
Something about the men didn't feel right and she wished that they would leave. She told them. They didn't.
"Let's get a rope and tie the little vixen." the man said and left the house to get a rope.
This, of course, was alarming to Dora. The other man stayed behind and quickly learned that Dora was not to be easily subdued.
Her eyes searched the kitchen and found a bread knife, on the kitchen table, behind the man.
She waited for her moment. When it came, she pushed him away, reached for the knife. Seeing her holding the knife, the man tried to make a run for it. And quickly felt a knife burrow deep into his back.
The man kept running, out of the kitchen, out of the house, and into the team (wagon) that his partner had slowed in front of the house. The wounded man jumped into the team and the two vanished, never coming back for the furniture.
Dow, for her part, waited for her employer to come back. And when he did, of course, she learned that no one was to come for the furniture. C.E. Horne alerted the police and hopefully gave his servant a well-deserved raise.
Our Victorian-era predecessors may have have fewer tools than we have today to combat crime, but they were quick to use the resources at hand. While the images preserved in Currier & Ives lithographs do provide a window into Victorian-era life as Victorians would like to present it, stories preserving the other, also true, elements of society must also be considered when creating a complete representation of Victorian era life.
- "Stabbed Robber." The Lowell Sun. 2 July 1897: 1.


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Providing care will become more challenging as the disease progresses and the person you are caring for becomes more dependent on you. If you are caring for the person at home, you will need to work more closely with a physician, visiting nurse, social worker, occupational therapist and home support services to create and carry out a plan for the best care possible through this stage of the disease.
As the person's disease progresses and both of your needs change, you may need services such as home care, respite care, community programs like Meals on Wheels, and long-term care homes. Talk to your local Alzheimer Society to learn about the services that are available in your community. This can be a difficult time when you need more support for yourself. Try to carve out some time to take care of your own physical and emotional health too.
"Because my parents took care of me for at least the first 18 years of my life, it felt right to me to take care of them in the final years of their lives. Being their caregiver was tremendously rewarding. But I couldn't have done it all on my own. I was lucky to find some great volunteers to help out." – Barbara Dylla, a former caregiver in Montreal
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Arizona Breakfast Hash
Serves 1. Vegetarian
1 cup tater rounds
1/2 green pepper
2 cloves garlic
1 veggie sausage (I used Trader Joe's brand)
1 medium tomato
1 tsp ground chipotle powder*
1/2 tsp oregano
Olive oil
Green Tabasco sauce (optional)
Chop the green pepper and dice the garlic. Slice the veggie sausage into 1/2-inch pieces.
In a saucepan, sauté the tater rounds, green pepper, garlic, veggie sausage, chipotle powder, and oregano in olive oil over medium heat.
Stir occasionally and cook for five to seven minutes until the potatoes have softened and the onions are translucent.
Chop the tomato and add to the pan. Cook for three to five minutes longer, stirring occasionally.
Pour into a bowl and add some Tabasco, if you like it spicy!
Enjoy with a cup of hot coffee, tea, or a big glass of OJ.
* The ground chipotle can be replaced with chili powder. Be careful if you're thinking of increasing the amount of chipotle powder; it is very spicy. The only thing keeping this from being vegan is the veggie sausage I used (which had egg whites). It's easily made vegan if you use vegan sausage.
Slow Cooker Steel Cut Oats with Maple Syrup & Bananas
Serves 4. Vegetarian
Skeptical about steel cut oats? So was I — I put off trying them for years. It only took one bite to convince me. They couldn't be easier — make them in your crockpot before going to bed and wake up to a cozy, filling breakfast.
1 cup steel cut oats
4 1/2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter
Maple syrup
Mix oats, water, salt and butter in your slow cooker. Cook on low for six to eight hours. Spoon the oatmeal into bowls. Slice bananas and drizzle maple syrup over to your liking. Try other toppings like fresh and dried fruit, nuts and honey! My other favorite at the moment is pineapple and coconut.
Nicole Navratil is a local blogger devoted to creative meatless recipes. Find her blog, "Pepperoni Is Not a Vegetable," at pepperoniisnotavegetable.com. Do you have good seasonal recipes you want to share with Journal readers? Email them to email@example.com.


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Foreign Policy in Disguise
Tonight's foreign policy debate promises a healthy dose of the Middle East and what each candidate thinks the other one should do or should have done with respect to places like Libya, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Romney will hammer Obama on Benghazi, completely ignoring the reality of the situation and the fact that a President should not be micromanaging things like security at a small consulate. Obama will talk about energy independence while choosing to continue ignoring our infatuation with the Saudis and their oil despite that country's status as serial human rights abusers and traffickers in persons.
It's too bad we can't focus on some of the good things. Like the baseball diplomacy program that uses MLB players as ambassadors to baseball crazy countries in Latin America and attempted to use the game to thaw relations between the US and Cuba. Or how about the exchange programs where female American athletes travel all over the world to teach basketball and soccer clinics to young women in other countries?
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This article is part of the Mtbr's Enduro Compare-O. See all the stories in this special section here–https://reviews.mtbr.com/category/enduro-compare-o-2014
If your idea of buying a bike includes heaping helpings of bleeding-edge technology, revised frame designs, hot trends, and a cool new name, then stop reading right now. The $9000 Specialized S-Works Stumpjumper FSR EVO 29 is not for you. The FSR suspension design carries over from last year. The wheels are not 27.5. They're 29. And the name, well that's been around since 1981, when it was given to the world's first mass-produced mountain bike.
However, if you're simply looking for one bike—albeit an expensive one—that does a lot of things very well, then read on. For the Specialized S-Works Stumpjumper FSR EVO 29 is one kick ass piece of two-wheeled machinery that can climb with the grace of a mountain goat, and descend like an Austrian ski racer. And that's why it was such a hit in Mtbr's Enduro Compare-O bike test.
"This was one of the most plush, stable, predictable and endearing bikes in the test," gushed one tester, echoing a sentiment held by nearly everyone who rode the bike. "It's so capable, so forgiving, and so smooth. It rewards anyone regardless of skill level."
This is exactly what Specialized had in mind when it concocted the EVO designation, which essentially means that the bike takes a normal model and gives it a gravity-friendly make-over. In this case, that means wider bars, Avid XO Trail brakes, and the much-loved, 35mm-stanchioned RockShox Pike RC 29 fork. For a full preview click over to our First Look from a couple weeks ago.
If It Ain't Broke, Why Mess With It?
Thirty-three years ago, when the Stumpjumper debuted, it was a mountain bike suited for anyone looking for a mountain bike. Today, that mandate is more refined, residing at the mid-point of Specialized's expansive fat tire line, between lithe XC race steeds and gnar-munching downhill demons.
The four-bar FSR suspension design remains unchanged from year's past, utilizing a concentric link and shuttle that propel the Fox Float CTD Kashima-coated rear shock. Other features of the FACT 9m carbon front triangle/M5 alloy rear triangle frame include an efficiency-enhancing PressFit30 bottom bracket, ISCG 05 tabs, full cartridge bearing pivots, and a tapered head tube.
The net effect is a bike our tester's found to be imminently capable of dealing with just about anything you could throw at it — including user error.
"The bike rewards everyone regardless of skill, but I felt like I had plenty of room for mess-ups in technical downhills," wrote one tester. "I could make mistakes and get away with it. It's so smooth and stable at high speeds that even bonehead lines can be navigated by someone with minimal skill."
This is in part due to the slacker 68-degree headtube angle and 5mm difference between rear and front travel (135mm rear/140mm front), which conspire to keep you in attack mode. The Specialized S-Works Stumpjumper FSR EVO 29's downhill handling also benefits from a low 13.2-inch bottom bracket height—and its Pike fork, which was universally loved by our testers.
"I'm still scratching my head at how good this bike descended," added another tester. "I guess the Pike IS as good as everyone says, and 29-inch hoops DO flatten out the sharps, though on the Stumpy these parts transcended their individual attributes. Braking bumps—erased. Drops and jumps—bottomless landings. Rough patches and roots—just point-and-shoot."
Multi-Talented Machine
That point-and-shoot ability was not limited to the downside of this equation. At 26.16 pounds (size Large), the Specialized S-Works Stumpjumper FSR EVO 29 proved to be a capable climber as well. Multiple testers commented on how well it ascended, though in some cases it took a little getting used to.
"Lifting the front wheel up on ledges/logs was a little more difficult than other bikes I tested—the Bronson Carbon and Ripley in particular," explained one tester. "But rear wheel performance was excellent even under uneven power input. Given the way the bike handled in almost every other condition I'd chalk up the wobbly performance to lack of familiarity."
Fire road climbing produced more of the same anecdotal evidence, with testers calling the Stumpy "sprightly" with no noticeable bob and virtually no performance variation whether the bike's rear shock was in Climb, Trail or Descend mode. "Even with the shock wide-open the bike remained very neutral," said one tester. "It took some intentional erratic pedaling to induce detectable bob."


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FALL RIVER — A Bristol County grand jury has indicted Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace, two of Aaron Hernandez's co-defendants, on murder charges stemming from the June 2013 homicide of Odin Lloyd.
Ortiz and Wallace were previously charged with accessory to murder after the fact, and both are already being held on $500,000 cash bail.
Both will be arraigned on the murder charges at a later date in Fall River Superior Court. The Bristol County District Attorney's Office said it would have no comment on the indictments prior to the arraignment.
Ortiz's lawyer, John J. Connors, said he was angry that he learned about Friday's murder indictments from reporters. He said the district attorney's office did not inform him ahead of time.
"They decided they were going to put out a press release and make this political, to the detriment of my client," Connors said.
"It's crazy. As far as I know, there is no new discovery as to why he would be charged with this," Connors added. "If they were going to charge him based on whatever evidence they have, they should have charged him months ago instead of having him sit in jail believing he was there on a gun charge and then as an accessory after the fact."
Wallace's attorney, David Meier, did not return a phone call or email message seeking comment. Hernandez's lawyers also did not return messages Friday.
The new murder indictments may be evidence of a new strategy by the district attorney's office, which until now had decided to seek a murder indictment against only Hernandez, 24, the former Patriots star tight end.
"I'm surprised the prosecution didn't charge Ortiz and Wallace from the very beginning with murder," said Steven Sabra, a Somerset trial attorney and local legal analyst.
The indictments of Ortiz and Wallace, Sabra said, could mean prosecutors are pursuing a joint venture theory, in which co-defendants can be prosecuted if they know someone is going to commit a crime, if they share that person's intent and are willing to assist in the offense. Sabra said the prosecution may have held out charging Ortiz and Wallace with murder in the hope that they would cooperate against Hernandez.
"This might mean that they are not cooperating," Sabra said.
Prosecutors have said Hernandez orchestrated Lloyd's murder in the North Attleborough Industrial Park after a disagreement the two men had a few nights earlier at a Boston nightclub.
Prosecutors said Hernandez called Ortiz, 27, and Wallace, 45, from Bristol, Conn., to meet him at his North Attleborough home on June 17, 2013. They then picked up Lloyd, 27, in Dorchester and drove to the industrial park.
A few minutes later, surveillance footage shows the three men leaving the industrial park without Lloyd, whose body was discovered the next morning, according to court documents.
Until a few months ago, it appeared that Ortiz would be the prosecution's key witness against Hernandez. Ortiz told investigators after his arrest last June in Connecticut that Wallace and Hernandez exited the vehicle with Lloyd in the industrial park. He also recounted conversations between Hernandez and Lloyd in the vehicle, told police that he saw Hernandez carrying a handgun and made apparent references to Hernandez's alleged "flophouse" in Franklin, which "other football players used" and where investigators said they found evidence, including clothing and ammunition, according to court documents.
However, Ortiz later changed his story to say Hernandez was alone with Lloyd outside the vehicle. Court records indicate that Ortiz made a preliminary offer to cooperate with prosecutors but that they ultimately decided not to call him to the witness stand because they saw him as too unreliable.
In a previous court filing for discovery, Hernandez's defense team also requested information about police telling Ortiz last June that his hair and DNA were found on a white towel that investigators located near Lloyd's body in the industrial park.
A bill of particulars filed last month also alleges that Ortiz helped Hernandez and Wallace escape arrest "through flight from the scene" and that he took possession of a firearm that was not the murder weapon. Prosecutors also allege that Ortiz lied to police, disposed of his phone and clothing and helped Hernandez return the rental vehicle used in Lloyd's murder.
Connors disputed that account, saying that Ortiz went along for a ride with a friend he admired and that he got caught up in the "wrong place at the wrong time."
Connors also hinted at the possibility that he may have to recuse himself from the case because of "some of the things (law enforcement) made (Ortiz) do.
"I may end up being called as a witness," said Connors, who declined to elaborate when pressed.


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The Emperor's New Pedagogy
The False Dichotomy
There is a modish crowd abroad who believe that psychology is the cloth of gold from which pedagogy is to be spun and tailored. While it is true that psychology informs good pedagogy, wanton appeal to it as a cover for self-promotion, private consultancy and pedagogical reform should not go unchallenged.
To give an opening example, decades worth of very significant research by leading psychologists into the role of memory in learning processes has been used to persuade hundreds of people teaching thousands of pupils across the country that a flashcard scaled to A4, laminated and called a "knowledge organiser" is the ultimate product of cutting edge cognitive science and every pupil's passport to Oxbridge. Persuaded of this, you are claimed as a "traditionalist", a champion of knowledge and all-round good sort. Sceptical and you are damned as a "progressive", brainwashed by Marxist constructionist ITT mandarins you abjure knowledge in favour of discovery learning and "21st Century skills" (21CS). It's a false dichotomy, obviously, but it's central to the "traditionalist" message and evident in their writing.


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Child care services, enabling parents to commit themselves to paid employment while providing a supervised environment for their children, have a long and complex history in the United States. Child care services can provide children with educational and other advantages, as well as custodial care. In fact, the United States has multiple kinds of services providing child care and early childhood education. Publicly funded services have concentrated on care for impoverished children and those facing other risks or disadvantages, but many of these children and their families remain unserved because of gaps in programs and lack of support for subsidies, while other families purchase the services they need.
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+Solid metal construction
+Elegant battery solution
+Superb attention to detail
+Smooth operation
+Accurate and Powerful
+Night sights
-Not entirely ambidextrous
-Not all markings present
A certain hit by G&G's, with superb detailing and excellent performance. It is unquestionably a gun for both the collector and the skirmisher.
The G&G GS-550 is a replica of the SIG SG 550. It's real steel counterpart is an assault rifle developed in the 90s by SIG for the swiss army. It is gas piston operated automatic rifle based on the earlier Sig SG 540, while the replica is an electrically operated automatic airsoft gun. But aside from that, how close does the G&G GS-550 come to the gun it aspires to be?
Overall construction is exceedingly solid, with all parts metal where they are on the real gun, and OD (Olive Drab) ABS plastic furniture comprising the foregrip, pistol grip, and folding skeletal stock. The metal receiver is made from stamped steel which is securely welded together and then joined with a front pin and a hidden screw in front of the stock hinge. The spot weld marks on the receiver imitate the real thing and are very convincing. The receiver is finished in a gun metal grey powdercoat almost exactly like the real steel.
On the receiver are markings showing the gun's serial number which is unique for each individual gun from G&G. Some of the markings from the real steel (Restricted for law enforcement... etc) are missing since this is not a licensed replica (hence the name 'GS' 550) but the gun still looks good with the fire mode markings 'S' in white symbolizing 'safe', and '1' and '20' in red symbolizing 'semi' and 'auto'.
The bolt itself shows off G&G's superb attention to both aesthetic and functional detail. It bears the weapon's unique serial number here too that matches with the number on the opposite side of the receiver. The bolt handle can be removed by pushing down on the lever at the back of the dummy bolt, which is used for stripping the gun on the real steel. The bolt has a full travel distance of 10cm and the rubber dust cover on the receiver's slot peel away from the cocking handle smoothly. On the opposite side of the receiver, the bolt catch can be pushed down to lock the bolt in a rear position and make adjusting the hop up easier.
Adjusting the hop up is a breeze, due to the large ejection port and a well designed knobbed dial, hop up is easily adjusted even with thick winter gloves. The Hop up direction is clearly labeled on the hop up chamber with an arrow and 'up' written below it.
There are two additional features on the GS-550's receiver. The trigger guard can swivel and lock in either direction allowing gloved users to operate the trigger with ease. This was important on the real steel as the swiss army regularly fought with gloves due to the cold climate there. The other feature on the receiver is the ambidextrous fire mode select lever. The selector is nice and stiff on the GS-550 so there is no risk of accidentally changing modes. However there are no audible or tactile clicks when the lever switches into position so finding 'semi' can be difficult without looking.
Attached to the rear of the receiver is a plastic skeletal folding stock. It feels exceedingly solid, robust, and can take quite a bit of abuse before it will break, not that we recommend abusing the stock. The stock folds to the right and the release to fold it is on the left of the gun, when the stock is folded it locks very tightly into place on a knob on the foregrip of the gun and takes a solid yank before it comes back off. However, when folded, the stock blocks the right side fire mode selector. This may be a problem for some left handed users as they will find folding the stock to be awkward and the fire mode selector on their side blocked, but this is a small concession to what is a great gun with many ergonomic features.
One of the more impressive features of this gun is the battery solution. The battery is stored inside the long foregrip and above the barrel. Normally you would expect to see the battery through the vents in the foregrip but G&G has come up with an ingenious solution for disguising the battery. To prepare the battery, first we must remove the upper foregrip. to do that we must first unlock the foregrip by rotating the gas choke knob at the front of the gun clockwise by about 30 degrees. This allows the upper foregrip to be pushed forward by about 1cm and then lifted up. Next you push the dummy gas piston housing forward to disconnect it from the battery connection at the back, and lift that out too. If you look up the bottom of the gas piston housing you will see that in this completely separated housing is the battery connector. Remove the front cover from the gas piston housing and insert your favorite 7-cell 8.4v stick type battery into the tube. Connect the wiring and you're done. The gas piston housing is now the battery. The battery doesn't even have to be removed from the housing to be charged. All you need is a charger that uses a large Tamiya plug. Reinsert the now disguised battery, close the foregrip and now you're ready for some skirmishing.
Attached to the foregrip is a removable folding bipod. The bipod legs are 30cm long and when extended provide the perfect height for prone supported firing. The bipod legs neatly tuck away into recesses in the long foregrip when not in use and the gun is still comfortable to hold with the bipod folded. The bipod can tilt due to the grove mounting and removable. To remove the bipod, you must first remove the upper foregrip, then rotate along the grove until it slips out. Then replace the upper foregrip.
Another cool feature on the GS-550 is the sights. The rear sight is a drum diopter type sight similar to those found on MP5s and G3s. The main difference between the Heckler & Koch sights and the GS-550 sights is the elevation and windage adjustment. On the GS-550 it is much more obvious how to zero the sights. An interesting feature is the dummy night-sights on the GS-550. There are two clear plastic dots on the rear drum on the open sight setting, and a flip-up large sight with a white dot on it. An idea would be to buy a glow-in-the-dark marker and mark these dots to make them even more practical for nighttime skirmishing.
So how does this beautiful gun perform in a skirmish?
It has one of the longest barrels of any AEG at a whopping 530mm making this one accurate gun, coupled with a muzzle velocity of 380fps this makes this gun outrange most other stock guns on the field. We tested the accuracy from 10m using 0.20 gram BBs from a bipod down supported prone position. The result was a 1 inch grouping well above the bulls-eye which is not bad considering the barrel and hop-up hasn't been broken in yet.
For skirmish purposes the GS-550 comes with a 30BB low-cap magazine with an extra-long follower so it feeds every last BB, a godsend for people who like realism in their guns. This may not be enough to compete with some high-cap spray and pray players on the field but the power and accuracy of this weapon more than make up for this. In addition the magazine looks convincing and have clips to stack together several magazines for additional ammunition. If that's not enough, tokyo marui magazines also fit and feed well.
G&G has released yet another beautiful replica, faithful to the original real steel, with excellent performance right out of the box in both accuracy and power, and laden with features that makes this a gun for both serious collectors and avid skirmishers.


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The Alcovy Tigers clinched a spot in the Region 2-AAAAAA postseason tournament championship game Wednesday night, defeating rival Newton High 5-1 at home.
The Tigers scored three runs in the opening frame and never looked back, surrendering just one run to the Rams late in the game.
Nesha Morris led the Tigers at the plate with a 2-for-3 performance, while Raven Smith paced Alcovy with two runs scored in the 4-run victory.
"Anytime we win, I am certainly proud of how the girls played," Alcovy coach Russell Brock said. "Newton is a great team and there is certainly a little added to it because the girls have played with and against each other their entire lives. They put up a good fight and gave us a good game. We were just lucky to come out on top."
Alcovy jumped on the scoreboard early with three runs in the bottom half of the first inning, sending two runs home on a Kayla Johnson triple to center field. Johnson's blast scored Morris and Smith, giving the Tigers a 2-0 lead.
Alcovy plated a third run in the frame on a Newton throwing error, extending the Tigers' advantage to 3-0 heading into the second inning.
The Tigers notched another run in the second inning on their fifth hit of the contest, sending Aleizha Wilson home on a Chelsie Nolley single up the middle.
With a 4-0 lead heading into the third inning, Alcovy plated its final run on a Kayla Johnson groundout to second base, scoring Smith on the second out of the inning. Smith's second run of the game gave the Tigers a commanding 5-0 edge with four innings left to play.
Newton's offense found its groove in the fifth inning, plating its only run of the contest in the top half of the inning.
With short stop Ciara Bryan on third after the sophomore reached base with a triple, Maddie Cronic skied a fly ball to third base. Cronic's hit fell between two Alcovy defenders, scoring Bryan for the 5-1 final.
Bryan and Cronic finished with two hots apiece for the Rams, but the bottom six batters for Newton went a combined 1-and-18 at the plate in the loss.
Despite the lopsided offensive production, the Rams put balls in play in 18 of their 27 at-bats.
"I'm ok with how we played tonight," Newton coach Virginia Waters said. "We played really well. We made some ridiculous defensive plays in the outfield and we hit the ball against a great pitcher. We just have to put it all together. I feel like we've played well in the tournament and I hope they continue it.
"We could have a chance to see them again if we get past Luella," she said. "We have to be ready to play them again and step our game up."
Johnson earned the win on the mound for the Tigers, pitching seven complete innings while giving up one run on six hits. Johnson also had seven strikeouts on the mound.
Cronic took the loss on the mound for the Rams, giving up five runs in six innings on seven hits with one strikeout.
With a win over Luella, the Rams would face the Tigers Friday in the tournament final at 4:30 p.m. at Alcovy.


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On Saturday, I was in my father-in-law's backyard with my father-in-law and my 2 year old son. My boy was busy pulling small slate-like pieces of rock off of a landscaped wall one by one, dewalling it, if you will. So, I set about putting the pieces back in place while telling my father-in-law about how the value of a bachelor's degree nowadays doesn't come close to matching the price charged for it by private colleges. Just then a bee came out of the wall and stung the %#&# out of me. (I would later learn that I essentially stuck my hand into a beehive…adding more evidence for my argument that a private college education isn't all that). Man it hurt and man was I angry.
You see, I'm allergic to bees – and I absolutely hate them. I've been stung three times before, once on my lip (face swelled up like Martin Short in the movie Pure Luck), once on my chest and another time on the hand. Each time I had allergic reactions. Whenever a bee is near, I'm that guy who stands still nervously until the bee gets too close (within 5-10 feet typically) and then I'm that guy running away wildly swatting at the air and yelling incoherently. And it wouldn't matter if I were in the middle of a profoundly important moment (like Brother Steve's wedding years ago for example). If it's too close, I will assume the role of massive, flailing coward instantly.
For me, whenever I get stung, a whole process is set in motion. First, I panic. I am good at panicking. On Saturday, I yelped when the actual sting happened and then immediately turned my focus to "awfulizing" and "worst-case-scenarioing" as much as possible. "What if I start having breathing problems?"; "what should I tell my father-in-law now about how long I'd want to remain in a coma etc?"; "what if Aaron Rodgers gets hurt tomorrow?". I went into the house to get some ice and follow my father-in-law's suggestion to sit and try to relax. Then, I started thinking about where I put my epi-pen which I'd been told to take with me pretty much everywhere. Then I started thinking about how I'd rather not use the epi-pen considering the needle is huge and I'd have to inject myself. Only after worrying about having to self-inject did I realize that I didn't have my epi-pen.
So, I decided to panic some more figuring that perhaps if I panicked more, my natural adrenaline flow would increase and function like the adrenaline (epinephrine) in the epi-pen, relieving all symptoms. I tried this for a while but it didn't seem to be working as I started to notice the next phase of the process was kicking in – hives. Sure enough, my right forearm was swelling like Popeye with 2 hives and I also watched a hive develop on my chest giving me an asymmetrical and frightful triple man-boob look. Not pretty. One thing I'd like to know is how hives themselves settle on where to locate. Seems very random. Fortunately, I did not experience any difficulty breathing despite being so conscious and panicked about the whole thing and so aware that breathing difficulty was likely the next symptom – in fact, in a weird way it almost seemed like I was trying to have trouble breathing.
I knew the symptoms were getting more serious when I also noticed that I was beginning to develop a redness on my face and neck. So I figured it was time to go to Urgent Care. My father-in-law took me there right away along with my 2 year old son (whose facial expressions throughout told of a new level of curiosity – and this for a child I thought may have already maxed out on curiosity). When we got there, the nurses were being very casual and I was not being very casual. Eventually, a nurse actually looked up (nurses at front desks spend so much time looking down it's strange) and saw my face and made the sensible decision to postpone the petty paperwork process.
I'm pretty sure that it was the first day for the nurse who came and got me. The first thing she did was weigh me – because that's apparently a critical piece of info when treating a bee sting with rapidly progressing and obvious symptoms. (Look, there may have been a medical reason for weighing me at some point, but I think that it could have been done after getting a shot – I had more pressing concerns at that time than confirming that my lack of exercise and poor diet weren't paying off.)
Once in the consult room, the nurse was clearly focused on the "talk slowly and overly-deliberately with patients who are anxious" part of her recent training. Or, she may have just been related to Paul Harvey or Elaine from Airplane!. I told her about having been prescribed an epi-pen for years, the growing outbreak of hives and the fact that with every other bee sting, I was given a shot of epinephrine, which has always worked well. She wasn't sure this was needed because you see, I didn't have hives, I had just been stung in multiple places. She was thinking just some ice and maybe, just maybe benadryl would work. I disagreed strongly because I knew that I'd been stung just one time and that my allergic reaction was progressing. And, I'd experienced this before. So I asked her to get the doctor, neglecting the impact this almost immediate "let me talk to your boss" plea might have on her budding nursing career. Of course, the doctor came in and recommended an epinephrine shot immediately. (In hindsight, I guess I wouldn't be surprised if upon interviewing this nurse now, she revealed that she was reluctant to give me the epinephrine right away simply because I presented like a crazed drug addict desperate for a fix – especially considering my over-the-top push for the shot). Anyway, things didn't end there.
Once the adrenaline from the shot kicked in, I sat there shaking considerably while waiting for the symptoms to subside. Meanwhile my son, again, was just so curious about the whole thing: watching the doctor look at daddy, seeing daddy's strangely massive hand, and of course watching daddy unable to sit still, just like him. The symptoms did start to very gradually subside and we were all relieved (including the nurse). Upon being discharged, I was told to sign and fill out a bunch of paperwork. Asking a patient to sign and fill out forms after having a shot of adrenaline is ridiculous – not one word/signature was legible and the forms had to be re-written by the nurse after I gave the answers verbally. It was odd, standing there, involuntarily fidgeting and unable to keep my head still no matter my effort, I felt like a bird (ever notice, by the way, that all birds have ADD).
So finally, I had to go to Walgreens to pick up another epi-pen and some benadryl. As I was standing in line at the pharmacy behind people who seemed to be there for mostly unimportant things, I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror and had a quiet chuckle to myself. Here I was, shaking uncontrollably, still flush in the face from lingering panic with weird red bumps on my arm, chuckling audibly for no apparent reason and perhaps most frighteningly, holding out a hand so swollen that that it looked like one of those inflated clown-balloon hands. Let's just say skipping ahead to the front of the line has never been so easy.


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Dear Em,
Just as I sat down to write this, your letter of Nov. 5 was handed to me in which was inclosed the Last Will and Testement of Gott, and I must say its pretty good and shows that you folks knew this thing was going to end long before we did. I havent written since Nov. 12, in which letter I spoke of the end and how we felt towards it. Must say that we have been very buisy ever since having completed a hike lasting ten days and covering a distance of about 150 miles.
About a month before the end we were put on the Verdun Front where there was plenty doing until the last second beleive me. Our unit started an attack two or three days before the 11th and were driving at the eleventh minute, (then Peace). We held the lines for two days and were releaved by a new division. Then the hike started. We were a days hike beyond Verdun and now we are ten days hike this side of it. Some walk.
Im feeling fine as are the rest of the boys and we are all wondering now when they will send us home. We are in a small town outside of Langres, but only expect to stay here long enough to get cleaned up, some new cloths and kind of reorganized. Then I hope it is home for us. Expect to spend Thanksgiving here in this little town and take it from me we have got a lot to be thankful for. My hopes are high for a Christmas Dinner at home this year and say, won't that be great? As soon as I get a bath, and change of cloths Ill be joly and I hope its not far off.
Well Em, trusting this finds you all well and hoping to see you Christmas Ill close remaining
S. E. Avery #69762, Hdq Co. 103rd Inf.
Dear Pa,
This letter will be somewhat of a surprise to you I know, but I guess I have kept Em pretty well posted when ever it was posible and these letters were of coarse as much for you as the rest. The idea of this being received by you on Christmas day has prompted me to scratch you a few lines.
Of coarse you know it is all over. The next thing is Homeward Bound. It sure will be a beautiful, beautiful sound to us all right. I have just finished a few lines to Em, and Im wondering if these two letters will both get there the same time.
After a long hike (we have been on the go for the last ten days) we are now resting in this small French Town. Im feeling O.K. and hope to see you soon in this condition. Id even like to beat this letter home.
Well Pa I knew when I started that I wouldn't say much but it is something for you on this Daddy's Day from one that went through this jam without a scratch. Ive been very lucky and will sure remember you folks Thanksgiving Day.
Hoping you enjoy this day I remain your
S. E. Avery #69762, Hdq Co. 103rd Inf.
© Copyright 2009 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.
[Unfortunately Sam's letter of Nov. 12th regarding the end of hostilities and how the men felt has been lost to history and never was received at home.]


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Bruno Sammartino inducted into WWE Hall of Fame
Pittsburgh strongman sold out Madison Square Garden 187 times
The "living legend" got his due Saturday night in the Big Apple, as Pittsburgh's Bruno Sammartino was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Madison Square Garden -- a venue he has sold out more times than any other celebrity.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who calls Sammartino his champion, introduced him at the ceremony in New York. Sammartino received three standing ovations while he told stories from his childhood and his career as the longest-reigning champion in the history of the World Wide Wrestling Federation, which is now the WWE.
Photos: Bruno Sammartino through the years
"I can take a lot of physical pain, but emotionally, I am not the strongest guy. I can get emotional very easy. I am hoping that night I can hold my emotions, because I have to make a little speech," Sammartino said during a February interview with WTAE.
But that "little speech" has been a long time in the making, about 25 years since he parted ways with the WWE. The native of Italy and longtime resident of Ross Township repeatedly turned down the company's invitations to be enshrined in its Hall of Fame.
After years of entertaining sellout crowds, Sammartino said he no longer liked what he saw on TV. "I see these guys, they're all 'roided up. Steroids were ridiculous and, unfortunately, not only steroids, but they were using other drugs as well. When I saw this, it really disturbed me," he said.
Sammartino said he tried his best to inspire change, but that he thought his efforts were futile. "Naturally, I became a pariah to the wrestling world, but after I did everything I felt in my power to bring attention to it, I felt I failed because nothing happened. It continued on its merry way, so I said, 'Well, I gave it my best shot and it's time for me to bow out,'" he said.
So why the change of heart? It started with a call from WWE Chairman Vince McMahon's son-in-law, Paul Levesque, better known by his wrestling name of Triple H. He told Sammartino it was time to turn the TV back on.
"When I looked at the wrestling end of it, the wrestlers, I thought, 'Wow, there is a change,'" said Sammartino.
WWE also brought in UPMC neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Maroon as its medical director. Maroon happens to be Sammartino's surgeon.
"After everything that they told me, I said, now that I know Dr. Maroon is in charge, now that all these things are done and I see it with my own eyes -- I watch it week after week purposely to see if this was the way it was -- then I told Paul Levesque, I said, 'OK, you guys have done all the changes. I'm so grateful you people have done all that and I will do my part. I will accept your Hall of Fame,'" said Sammartino.
And so it came to be that the man who sold out Madison Square Garden an unprecedented 187 times would once again headline the marquee at the world's most famous arena.


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Bake the Book: Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook
"Who does that? Just opens a bakery?" So begins the introduction to the Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. While neither Cheryl nor Griffith Day possess the requisite several generations of deep South lineage to vouchsafe the validity of their recipes, they have instead proven themselves and their prowess with an awareness of and respect for the Savannah community to which they cater.
The eager storytelling in the introduction imbues the rest of the book with the sort of enthusiasm that is extraordinary, yet necessary, for a brand-new bakery to succeed. And succeed they did: Back in the Day Bakery has now been around for ten years. That combination of fresh energy underlaid with a decade of experience is what makes this cookbook shine.
Cheryl and Griff have inducted themselves into the sugar canon of the South with recipes that show a keen awareness of their surroundings, and a cleverness that sometimes surprises. A fine example of this is their Creole Brownies, topped with a New Orleans style chicory coffee-infused ganache. Playfulness is evident with names like Drunk Blondies and Almond Crunchies, and things take a turn for the delectable with Bourbon Bread Pudding.
With desserts good enough to inspire odes (Don't believe me? Check page 168) and having earned their rightful place in Georgia's sweet kingdom, the Back In The Day Bakery Cookbook is a loving testament to sugar and the South.
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By Russell D. Longcore
The Nation: The mainstream media all have their panties in wads because Texas Congressman Ron Paul is surging in Iowa polling. Even in polls that are unfriendly, with carefully crafted poll questions, Doctor Paul is at the top of the list of Republicans. The GOP bosses cannot abide this, and will do whatever it takes to derail Paul's candidacy. As I have said previously, if Ron Paul continues defying the power brokers and winning, he had better stay out of airplanes between now and November 2012. The power elite have no compunction about arranging an airplane crash to look like an accident. Ask John F. Kennedy, Jr. or Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone or Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald. Oh, wait. They died in highly suspicious plane crashes.
The Nation II In San Francisco, a group of strippers donated $20,000 to a local firefighter's toy program. Of course, they had to deliver the donation in a garbage bag since it was 20,000 one-dollar bills. (just a joke. The girls presented a check)
International: This one's kind a blend of national and international. Remember seeing the news stories of the last of the American military personnel leaving Iraq last week? Well that was just eye candy. The largest American embassy on the planet is in Baghdad, and who do you suppose is guarding it? Mercenaries! Or, "security contractors," as they like to be known. There are still thousands of "mercs" on the ground in Iraq. But America's perception is that the troops came home. Washington is incapable of telling the truth in any subject.
International II: Another blend. Washington announced that it is selling Saudi Arabia $30 BILLION worth of upgraded F-15 fighter jets. Think about this. Boeing delivered the first F-15s in 1972. So DC is selling fighter jets of a 40 year-old design to our buddies in the sandbox. Just how many planes in this deal is not known. Does Saudi Arabia have any enemies? Can't think of any. But you do realize that this has little to do with Saudi security concerns and is primarily a planes-for-oil deal. I wonder if either side feels like they got a good deal? Arabs love to haggle, and Americans don't.
Business: First, big banks announce that they are going to assess fees for using debit cards. Then this week Verizon announced that they planned to charge their own customers a $2.oo fee to pay their bills online. When the customers howled loudly enough, both banks and Verizon cancelled their plans. Even though the free market ain't free anymore, it still speaks. Would to God that Washington listened to taxpayers like business listens to its customers. What's the difference? The number one difference is violence. Government gets its money from you with a gun in your ribs. Businesses have to compete.
Economy: The new unemployment claims jumped back up to 381,000 this week. Last week Washington and the media were crowing that a two-week drop in new claims was the beginning of a trend. You didn't hear dick about the increase this week, did you?
Sports: The college football bowl games have gotten entirely out of hand. This year, there are 35 bowl games between December 17th and January 9th. Have you seen the hilarious sponsorships for these mediocre matchups? Some of my favorites are: Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, R+L Carriers Bowl (a trucking company), The San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, Beef O'Brady Bowl, Belk Bowl (department store), Valero Alamo Bowl (chain of gas stations), Mieneke Bowl (auto repair shops), MAACO Bowl (body shop chain), GoDaddy.com Bowl (webhosting company), Kraft Bowl (mac 'n cheese)…and my favorite, the Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl. When I was a kid, there were the Cotton, Sugar and Rose Bowls, and they all were played on New Year's Day. Those were the days.
Entertainment: Pop singer Katy Perry and British stringy-haired not-funny beanpole Russell Brand have announced that they are ending their barely-one-year marriage. Brand is the one who actually filed for the divorce. This is a perfect example of the inherent downside in a life of pursuing women. What do you do once you inadvertently catch one? Kind of like a dog that chases cars. Actually, they are divorcing for religious reasons. Brand thought he was God and Katy didn't.
DumpDC. Six Letters That Can Change History.
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For years, many security consultants and well-meaning guidelines have recommended completely disabling ActiveX in Internet browsers (mainly Internet Explorer) to prevent a particular type of Web client-side attack. Running a browser without ActiveX enabled can be a frustrating experience for end-users, as many popular and legitimate Web sites use ActiveX to enhance the user's overall experience.
Barely a week goes by without one or more ActiveX controls from various vendors being declared unsafe, so I can understand the caution. You should always disable unneeded and unauthorized software, but running a browser without ActiveX enabled when other more reasonable alternatives exist is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
(Disclosure: Although I work full time for Microsoft, everything I say here could equally apply to Sun's Java.)
Yes, hundreds of ActiveX controls have been found, over the last decade, to contain buffer overflows or to allow malicious behavior. But with a few exceptions, the problem isn't with the ActiveX platform itself, but with insecure program code passed along using ActiveX mechanisms. Sometimes the ActiveX controls are downloaded by users, but problematic controls are just as likely to be preinstalled by hardware and software vendors.
ActiveX is a platform, not a language. No one codes in the ActiveX language. ActiveX is a popular way for a software vendor to transport its program (normally in .CAB, .DLL, or .OCX file formats) from a Web site, then install and launch it in a user's browser session in an almost seamless manner.
There are many other methods to download and install Internet-based code, but ActiveX is fairly easy to use, integrates well with multiple Internet browsers, and contains many native security mechanisms. For one, vendors can sign their ActiveX controls with a publicly trusted digital certificate to confirm to the end-user that the program they are receiving is indeed from the purported vendor. There have been a few malicious uses of digital certificates over the last decade, but the inappropriately used certificates are quickly revoked when discovered. Overall, the publisher identity system works pretty well in identifying the originating software publisher, when users pay attention to it.
But unfortunately, a digital signature doesn't guarantee that the control won't do something unauthorized to the user's system or that it doesn't contain an exploitable vulnerability. No programming language or Internet transportation method can do that. ActiveX gives vendors one way to transport their program from source to destination, but it doesn't absolve the vendor of using SDL (secure design lifecycle) programming.


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One of the things to do when giving physics talks at the American Association of Physics Teachers Meetings is not to violate the precepts of Special Relativity, nor of General Relativity, nor of the Hierarchy of Conservation Laws that govern the interaction of matter and energy. In each of the talks I've given, I would preface my remarks with that comment, and have tried to stick to that general principle in my posts here over ~14 years.
So, after waiting 38 years to prove a particular point, it is finally true, at > 7 sigma....(7.2 according to Kate Scholberg). SEE:
Emergent Quantum Theory of Gravitation Predicts at 7 Sigma
by George Peterson June 6, 2019
1. In the early eighties, the Standard Model of Particle Physics still had no firm attachment to gravitation. In Howard Georgi s article in April of 1981 in Scientific American, the SU(5) symmetry, held sway with a unification of the electroweak forces, culminating shortly thereafter with the discovery of the necessary W+, W-, and Z bosons at CERN, and Fermilab. Gravitation was still holding out. SEE: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2496437...n_tab_contents
2. There was a clue, though. In the Georgi article, the three right-handed quarks, and the positron, and the electron-type anti-neutrino all coupled to the Z. That interaction was universal, as are gravitational effects. The Z as a neutrino/antineutrino pair had been identified by George Gamow in the 1962 reader Gravity for the Project Physics Course, SEE: https://archive.org/details/Gravity_857 as a candidate with the characteristics for a graviton, and the Key to the Universe text by Nigel Callder identified the Z as any particle/antiparticle pair. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=book...o6VNwC9U9DF1M:
3. So, a simplistic unified field theory, incorporating the Z as a graviton, was constructed during the subsequent year (1981-1982. AER LLC.) Realizing that accelerating a mass in Minkowski space-time should cause a gravitational wave in GR, but, that that same acceleration should change the isotropy of an ambient isotropic neutrino sea by blue shifting the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the fore hemisphere vs redshifting the SED of the trailing hemisphere, a prediction that a change in the relative isotropy of the ambient neutrino sea would be felt simultaneously as a gravitational wave by a sensitive gravimeter. At the time the choice was a Mossbauer detector, used in the Harvard Towers experiment @ Lyman Lab by Rebka and Pound for the first gravitational redshift experiment, circa 1962. SEE: http://www.mrelativity.net/Papers/29...ound_Rebka.pdf A visit to the Department of Energy Office, Boston, then under Duane Day, and the Small Business Innovative Research Program showed that peer review was summarily unimpressed, and uninterested in Phase 1 funding for a feasibility study. Such is the life of many a new idea.
4. Fast forward to 1988, Tufts University, The Neutrino 88 Conference. Supernova 1987A had occurred in February of 1987 as Sanduleak 69 202, a blue supergiant , had gone off in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The MIT lecture by John N. Bahcall shortly after the event showed coincidences between the neutrino detectors at the IMB, and Kamiokande neutrino detectors . At Tufts, a talk by Guido Pizzella, pointed out additional coincidences between the Rome and Maryland , (Joseph Weber),aluminum bar gravitational wave detectors, and the neutrino detectors. Much controversy arose as to whether the bars provided sufficient sensitivity to claim the coincidental detections at 3.2 sigma, then the gold standard for a peer-reviewed publishable result. Although the Boston Globe carried it in its Sci-Tech section, professional acceptance for Pizzella would be a tougher road. Eventually he published in Il Nuovo Cimento C, and, over the years, in other physics journals, including the Astrophysical Journal. Part of the issue at the time was journals switching over to 5 sigma requirements for their gold standard, and a minimal of 10 seen events for particle physics for publication.
5. The other part was that Pizzella et al also found anomalous events in the near- term hours leading up to the explosion of SN1987a, and that those events confounded theorists who had at the time no expectation of a preliminary interaction before a prompt neutrino burst, and commensurately, a gravitational wave with explosion. Pizzella stuck to his guns he had seen something. He republished statistical coincidences at 5 sigma, took some more flak from skeptics, as is their just do to do so in science circles for being a skeptic makes for good science . SEE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.05076.pdf
6. Now a peer reviewed article on Signals events during the final stages of nucleosynthesis leading up to a core collapse supernova, predicts the detection of presupernova events that were seen by Pizzella in the few hours before SN1987a, and were recently republished in cohorts with Palleotta at 5 sigma.. SEE: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.01877.pdf
7. Enter COHERENT, the experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source Center, Oak Ridge, TN. After using an accelerator to generate a spray of neutrons, that then decay to yield a predictable, repetitive, utilitarian flux of electron-type antineutrinos in a region known as Neutrino Alley, analysis of the bumps indicated successful detection of coherent, elastic, neutrino/nucleus scattering. During her talk at MITs Thursday Physics Colloquiem, APRIL 26, 2018. SEE: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/worl...ions-particles
Previous detector size SEE: SuperK SEE: https://phys.org/news/2016-11-super-...supernova.html Principal Investigator Kate Scholberg found coherent scattering of neutrinos occurs at cross-sections 6 orders of magnitude above standard forward scattering, confirming the predictions of :
A. coherent scattering of Daniel Freedman (1974)
B. gravity waves coincident with neutrino bursts of..Guido Pizzella and Palleotta
C..that a burst of neutrinos is coincident with a gravitational wave and a change in the ambient neutrino sea, respectively @ 7.2 sigma proving the first Unified Field Theory to predict a physical effect detected at six major independent experiments around the world in February of 1987, during SN1987a. Those labs were the Rome and Maryland (Joseph Weber) aluminum bar gravitational wave detectors, and the Mont Blanc, IMB, Kamiokande, and Baksan Neutrino Detectors. 7.2 Sigma, from the talk of Kate Scholberg, April 26,2018, and published by Akimov et al. SEE: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09459
SEE: Seven Sigma : https://calendar.mit.edu/event/physi...g#.XPllTf57ncs
8.Gravitation is then seen as an emergent phenomenon from the ambient neutrino sea and searches for the neutrino floor indicating the higher coherent and incoherent, elastic and inelastic contributions can unify the forces in nature, by showing that gravity is actually an emergent form of the weak interaction. This result bears out the recent work of Vadim A. Bednyakov and Dmitry V. Naumov on the Coherent and Incoherent, Elastic and Inelastic Scattering of Neutrinos off Nuclei.
The coherent cross-sections are six orders of magnitude larger than the forward scattering cross-sections (a million times ) and the incoherent cross-sections are about 10-15% of that, so about 100,000 to 150,000 times the forward scattering rate.
SEE: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08768
SEE ALSO : https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03119


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Nice job, Craig.What's different on the mushroom pie? The mushrooms look a little rawer than usual.
Outstanding as always Craig. Those certainly do look like your finest work. I love the way your sauce looks. Do you use any of the puree that comes in the can or just the tomatoes? Also do you add any water to the sauce at all?
I personally want to thank you for posting your entire method including the cooler proof. People are rightfully wooed by the results, but only members such as yourself, help us newbies move foreward. STFD, STFU and all kudos to you.
You are killing me with those pictures! I haven't had pizza for a few days and those pies sure do look like some of the finest pies I have seen. Great job!
Thanks, Chau.My youngest son always makes the sauce, and he can do it better than I can. Little turd won't tell me his secret either. I know he pulls the stems and any skin off, takes out all the basil, and adds all the puree from the can. He doesn't add any water. Then he hits it with the stick blender lightly and seasons with a little sugar and salt. For a 35oz Cento Italian can (our favorite), he uses ~1Tbsp sugar and 1tsp salt. I think it tastes best if made a couple hours ahead. CL
Absolutely gorgious. You....the....man.Among other aspects of your perfection, the basil looks just perfectly wilted on that last margarita.are you oiling the basil before or after dressing the pie?AZ


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March 28, 2013
By Nicole Williams
LAWT Contributing Writer
A picture couldn't tell you a thousand words when it comes to Roberta Baskett's art, unless you peered inside her mind and soul. Once you unveil the visionary tactics of the 87-year-old artist, you will have the pleasure of experiencing unique art creations that may never have been duplicated. Using the naked eye, you will pick up the vivid, colorful and intricate details and 3-D designs, all made with different types of paper, an art form known as Baskart. The copyrighted name is taken from Roberta's last name, Baskett and is used to describe the artwork that she says you can personally experience.
"It's just as real as you taking a trip to go there. I take a trip in my art and I live there until it's finished. I remember one time when I made snow in a piece of art and I had to put on a coat," she said.
I was able to take that trip as I listened to Baskett's descriptions of each piece as we navigated throughout her home. Each story advanced from what she says are "visions from God." A woman deep in her faith, she creates inspirational and positive art to allow people to do what she says, "focus on God and what He can do through us if we remove self from the statics of life, so that we can have a clear channel to God."
"It made me a true believer in God. If we relax and let go and let God and wait on the Lord, He will, His plans for your life as he did for me and my art. I sit down until something comes to me and then it stops and I wait until God tells me what to do next. And so each piece of art is actually representing God manifesting His love through me for our pleasure," she said.
Baskett has always had a calling to be an artist starting from the age of six, but didn't necessarily realize it. As a child she would make crafted flowers and sell them to her peers and continued making random crafts throughout her childhood.
She never had an interest in what school had to offer, until the death of her mother when she was 17- years old that she decided to focus more on school. She attended UCLA and majored in Interior Design. The class was assigned to often create models of houses out of paper, where cutting and putting together creations that she says was an emergence of an art form. From then she was asked by her church to make a poster to get more children to attend Sunday School.
"In Interior Design, you cater to the 5 senses. So when I was doing this poster to try to attract children to the Sunday school, I thought, they won't read, so I've got to make this poster read to them. I decided to make it in texture, so I drew Jesus and cut him out, cut the grass, the flowers and everything," she said.
I asked Baskett, "Do you ever get amazed by your own artwork?" She said, "I'm just as in awe as you are."
The humble and gentle spirit of Baskett can tell one that she is truly a woman who follows her heart. From her college days, she would even tell you she never followed the rules. She attended Bluefield State College in West Virginia, Joseph Academy of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, PA where she studied newspaper illustrations and UCLA where she studied Interior Design. After hopping around different schools, that's when she realized she wasn't attending school to get a degree, but instead to just do art.
In fact, Baskett has experienced a lot in her lifetime. She worked at the Aerospace Industry where designed panels for the Apollo spacecraft. To add to her list of talents, she has also orchestrated music. She has even had one of her pieces of music played by a Symphony Orchestra and a church hymn sang by recording artists. She continues to wait on messages from God to determine what her next piece of art will be. She hopes to leave a legacy by teaching young people Baskart. A piece of her art titled "Psalms 23" and "The Rooster" is now at the Smithsonian Art Museum, which she expects to be shown sometime this year.


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Settlement pattern studies are concerned with relics of human occupation in the past. In an archaeological record, these relics either appear in clusters or individually in the form of pestholes, house floors, house foundations or as middens. On aerial photographs and topographic maps relics of past human occupation can be identified by the presence of circular or rectangular depressional features and stunted vegetation cover in the midst of a flourishing vegetation community. Past human settlements can also be identified in actual field observation as ruins: building structures, walled fortresses, moats, monuments and mounds.
Irrespective of their nature and conditions of preservation, past settlements are a reflection of human behaviour through time and space. The archaeological evidence that is found preserved in them can shed much light on our knowledge of past culture. The essential archaeological problem in the analysis and interpretation of settlement, however, is that architectural remains and other settlement data cannot be understood simply by their description, distribution, cultural attribution and chronology - as they have been from the early anthropological work of Morgan (1881) and Mindeleff (1890) through the first large-scale regional archaeological syntheses, such as Childe's (e.g. 1934) in Europe and Willey (1953) in South America up to the common archaeological survey work of today.
With the influence of modern cultural ecology, geography and sociobiology, settlement analysis has been transformed into a concern with environmental and ecological processes. Settlements are part of a complex integration of culture and ecology within a regional environment. As a result, settlement analysis in archaeology must attend not only to the physical layout of the environment, but also to the social and historical aspects of environmental interaction.


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