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UConn men exposed once again in loss to Marquette
HARTFORD -- UConn was hoping for a signature win against 12th-ranked Marquette Saturday afternoon. Instead, the Huskies suffered what could be considered a signature loss.
So many of the things that have plagued the Huskies this season -- poor rebounding, awful 3-point defense, losing too many hustle plays, lack of offensive flow -- were prevalent once again, particularly in the first half.
UConn found itself in a 14-point hole at the break as it was consistently beaten down the floor and on the boards by the much smaller Golden Eagles. To the Huskies' credit, they battled back and got to within four. But an ill-timed technical foul on freshman guard Ryan Boatright, coupled with a host of perfectly-timed 3-pointers by Jae Crowder (game-high 29 points), and even a few questionable calls by the officials, helped Marquette to cruise to victory before 16,294 at the XL Center.
"They're definitely a physical team," junior forward Alex Oriakhi said of the Golden Eagles. "It came down to that. That's something we have to match."
While UConn (16-10, 6-8 Big East) wound up being outrebounded by only three, much of the damage was done in the opening half. Marquette beat the Huskies on the boards 20-13 over the first 20 minutes, including eight on the offensive glass. This despite not dressing a single player taller than 6-foot-7.
It didn't help that Oriakhi, Andre Drummond and Roscoe Smith were all saddled in early foul trouble, but still ...
"They're very athletic," associate head coach George Blaney said of the Golden Eagles. "I've never thought size had anything to do with rebounding."
Meanwhile, Marquette (22-5, 11-3) was running UConn out of its own gym. At one point early on, the Golden Eagles scored three straight fast-break baskets, each less than 10 seconds after UConn had scored.
"Their speed and strength almost blew our doors off," Blaney said.
The Huskies corrected some of their mistakes in the latter half and quickly got to within four (48-44) on an Oriakhi dunk. Marquette called timeout to stem a 10-1 Husky run, but during the timeout, Boatright was hit with a technical foul by referee Chris Beaver, apparently after jawing with a Marquette player.
"It was immature," guard Shabazz Napier said of his teammate. "At the same time, the refs could've closed their eyes, closed their ears. (Boatright) didn't do it on purpose."
Blaney was incensed by the call, but wouldn't elaborate why, only saying it shouldn't have been called.
Marquette took full advantage, as Johnson-Odom hit two free throws and Crowder hit a 3-pointer. UConn would get back to within five (53-48) on a Jeremy Lamb dunk off a behind-the-back pass from Napier, but the Golden Eagles gradually pulled away behind Crowder, Johnson-Odom and a couple of questionable calls by the officials.
Those calls drew the heat of the sellout crowd, but in truth, UConn had no one to blame for this loss but itself.
"I can't use that as an excuse," Drummond said of the Boatright technical. "We've just got to get ourselves together and keep moving."
Crowder and Johnson-Odom combined for 53 points. Marquette hit 10 of 22 3-pointers and 21 of 26 free throws. UConn hit just 12 of 21 foul shots. Lamb led the Huskies with 19 points, Napier added 11 (with eight assists) and Oriakhi and Boatright had 10 apiece.
Afterwards, Lamb looked positively depressed -- "It's frustrating ... real frustrating" -- while Napier called out his teammates
"I've got to question a lot of these guys' hearts," the sophomore point guard said.
And suddenly UConn, despite the toughest schedule in the land and a Top 25 RPI, finds itself inching closer and closer to the NCAA tournament bubble. The Huskies face struggling Villanova in Philadelphia Monday night, host No. 2 Syracuse next Saturday and close out the season next week against two of the worst teams in the Big East -- Providence and Pittsburgh.
"Coach (Glen) Miller always says we're fighting for our lives," Oriakhi said. "We're fighting to make the tournament."
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We're not inherently jaded about politics. You can't have your idealism torn down if nothing was built in the first place. The 2008 election of Barack Obama promoted that idealism and gave people hope (the giant posters emblazoned with the word "Hope" may have had something to do with it). But we were all deceived when reality came crashing in and The Ides of March lays the blame not on our political system or even our politicians but on us. And when we realize that we can't do anything larger than ourselves, we begin to think only of ourselves. Director George Clooney (who also co-wrote the screenplay and co-stars in the film) avoids being preachy or heavy-handed, but his light-touch fails to leave a lasting impact.
Press secretary Steven Myers (Ryan Gosling) is a true believer in his Presidential candidate Mike Morris (Clooney). Steven has worked on numerous campaigns, he's well-liked by the press corps, and he's damn good at his job. Even Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti), the campaign director of Morris' opponent, wants to steal him away. Working alongside veteran campaign director Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Steven is confident they'll get Morris elected and change the country for the better. But when Steven betrays his own ideals, it starts a chain reaction which unravels his faith and makes him choke on the delicious Mike Morris Kool-Aid.
Drawing Morris' campaign so close to Obama's is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, Obama is the perfect representation of how a country can project their hopes and dreams onto a handsome, well-spoken, and intellectual individual. But using the imagery of Obama's campaign, from a riff on the famous Shepard Fairey poster to using the Gotham font of the campaign's banners, makes the film feel dated and confined to a criticism of an individual rather than human condition. Additionally, the Morris/Obama comparison becomes further complicated by the scandalous revelation about Morris which doesn't come close to coinciding with any rumor associated with Obama.
But the idea of losing your belief in a political figure perfectly captures the zeitgeist. At one point, campaign worker Ben (Max Minghella) notes that in the general election, the inexperienced candidate almost always beats out his veteran opponent. The implication is that the American public prefers the devil they don't know because maybe, just maybe, he won't be a devil. It's the inevitable result of identity politics and American reverence of "The Individual": One man can save the country because that's how heroic narratives are supposed to work. Hardly a profound realization, but it's a smart way for Clooney to make his comment without coming off as Redford-esque (i.e. preachy and pedantic).
The Ides of March manages the difficult balancing act of exploring the current state of our politics and seeing how it relates to the American pscyhe. When characters talk about the campaign, they talk about poll numbers instead of policy. At one point, Steven tries to pitch Morris on giving kids a free ride to college in exchange for mandatory two-year service. "Older voters will like it because it doesn't affect them," Steven explains, "and those who would be against it won't be old enough to vote." It's not the policy that gets Steven excited, it's the political victory it could deliver.
But with characters who are supposed to be political sharks, as an audience we must delude ourselves that they would make such obvious mistakes. Steven takes a meeting he shouldn't. Paul believes that he can get senator Thompson (Jeffrey Wright) to deliver his delegates and essentially the White House because if Morris can win the Democratic Primary, he can beat the weak GOP candidate. Morris thinks he's a man of integrity and dignity and doesn't want to make a backroom deal with Thompson in order to win Ohio. Even Clooney gets in on the self-deception as he shows his bias towards journalists. The only character who seems to truly understand politics and getting at the truth is cynical New York Times reporter Ida Horowicz (Marisa Tomei). It's an understandable bias when you consider that Clooney's father is a journalist and Clooney made a loving tribute to Edward R. Murrow with Good Night and Good Luck.
Despite the clever crafting of his central theme, Clooney never quite lands the knockout punch. Gosling, Hoffman, and Giamatti all remind us once again why they're some of the best actors working today, and even Evan Rachel Wood, who usually turns me off a movie, makes her role as an intern on Morris' campaign more than a plot point. The cinematography is sharp, the pacing is lively, and while the dialogue occasionally gets a little Sorkin-esque, it's a well-written drama.
Strangely, these strong elements never come together to deliver the impact that leaves the film spinning in your mind. When I walked out of The Ides of March, I felt it was good, but that the movie contradicted itself. How could Steven criticize the American people's obsession with personality rather than policy when he's just as enamored of Morris' character? But when cast inside the notion of politics, and perhaps even human nature, as the art deceptive, the film gels together.
Or maybe I'm just kidding myself.
Rating: B+
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Issue #2 of Blackburn Burrow, the first comic project from Amazon Studios, has gone live in a variety of venues. Based on a screenplay by Jay Levy, the book is written by me, with art by Matthew Dow Smith, color by Jordie Bellaire, and a cover by Brian Stelfreeze.
As with the first issue, the full issue #2 is being offered up for free as a Kindle download, on Facebook, and on Graphicly. Yes, another 20 pages of comics, completely free. The full details on the formats can be found on the Amazon Studios blog, Hollywonk (I'll also have a post there in the near future):
The mystery in titular town deepens with issue #2, as supernatural hunter Mister and his new companion, Merrin, descend into the depths of the mine. Deadly danger awaits them, as well as revelations neither of them is prepared for. Amazon Studios is very interested in reader feedback for the series, so please take a few minutes to complete the survey that follows the issue.
12 Gauge Comics put together Blackburn Burrow for Amazon Studios, pairing me with and my pal Matt Smith, and bringing in the great Jordie Bellaire for colors. Collaborating with an artistic team like that isn't work, it's a privilege. We're all having a great time, and I hope that comes through in the pages.


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Velociraptor is a genus of dinosaur which was popularized by its appearance in the Jurassic Park film series. In the films, velociraptors are depicted as small (shorter than adult humans) bi-pedal scaled dinsaurs which frequently attacked and killed humans. They were one of the main antagonists in the films. The reference source used by the author of the original novel was somewhat outdated, and the dinosaurs as written and thereafter depicted in the film have some discrepancies with the size and appearance of the velociraptors. For example, scientists have since discovered that velociraptors were likely feathered.
Jurassic Park could have been a scary film for children, and the film appears to have had a strong impact on Randall Munroe. Velociraptors in particular, and the irrational fear of being attacked by them in the modern world, are a subject of (or appear in) several strips of xkcd.
Sonty Mick posits, perhaps facetiously, that velociraptors in xkcd symbolize God.
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Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma, and Empowerment in Post-Transitional Societies
On Wednesday, March 25, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., Dovile Budryte, Lisa M. Vaughn, and Natalya Riegg talk about their book Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma, and Empowerment in Post-Transitional Societies.
Budryte, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College, Vaughn, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, and Riegg, a Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of St. Mary, developed a book that serves as a forum of cross-cultural communication among women from different parts of the world.
Feminist Conversations draws on several disciplines, including gender studies, psychology and political science, to gain insight into the following questions: Do post-transitional societies become more women-friendly as they become more democratic? Which strategies of empowerment can women use to obtain political voice and improve their everyday lives? How do they cope with traumatic experiences and memories?
Women's rights activists and feminist scholars from Lithuania, Armenia, South Africa, Guatemala and the United States reflect on the productivity of different practices for increasing political standing, the efficiency of different methods of dealing with gender violence and the different empowerment mechanisms of coping with trauma. The authors engage in a dialogue about the applicability of these practices, methods and mechanisms to various countries and cultures.
The presentation is co-sponsored by the International Relations Council and the University of St. Mary. A 6 p.m. reception precedes the presentation.
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Maja Daniels, a Swedish photographer based in London, compiled the series "Monette & Mady", a photo collection of identical twin sisters, Monette and Mady.
Daniels approached the identical twins in 2010 after years of watching them from afar in the streets of Paris. The photographer was intrigued by their way of being and coexisting with each other. Neither Mady nor Monette have married or had children, they always eat the same kind of food in identical portions, they dress the same, and they move in similar ways. If they ever go out dressed in different outfits, people stop and ask why they argue- there is no room to be different from each other.
With the beauty of the Parisian sidewalks as her backdrop,Daniels shoots photos of the twins' interactions and eerie resemblance. Some may look at the collection as a classy lookbook, others may find that there is something quite peculiar and surreal about their ways with each other. Many will wonder about the mysterious bonds between twin siblings.
This addition of fiction makes for a dreamy atmosphere, a bit like a mirage that reflects my initial impression of them. The streets of Paris make the perfect backdrop for such ambiguity to be played out, confusing us with its references to fashion, film and art. It makes the documenting of everyday events somewhat surreal.


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Amazon's Earnings and Two Other Stories You Need to Know
Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.
Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Amazon reported mixed quarterly earnings on Thursday — $21.27 billion in revenue was a little short of Wall Street's expectations, but the sting was lessened somewhat by $405 million in operating income. YouTube could be launching a paid video subscription model as soon as April. Finally, Twitter's video sharing service Vine is really picking up speed, with new tools to make sharing easier showing up each day. The latest on this list is Vineit, a browser extension that lets you share Vine videos to Tumblr with one click.
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How do we know about the different climates that Britain has experienced in the past? Geologists find evidence in all sorts of places.
The characteristics of different rocks depend on the environment in which the sediments were deposited.
Some sands and gravels are dropped by glaciers as they melt and they become a distinctive rock called till.
Where till is found there must have been glaciers and therefore it must have been cold.
Rocks that form in a hot desert environment are often coloured red with iron deposits.
Also at high temperatures, sea water can evaporate quickly leaving behind a layer of salt on the ground which becomes preserved in the rocks and is another indicator of a hot climate.
Different species of plants and animals need different conditions to survive. Some plants and animals can be very sensitive to climate and do not adapt easily to change.
For example coral reefs live in tropical waters. They need a particular temperature, a specific depth of water and the right amount of light. If the depth of the water changes just a fraction, they cannot survive.
Therefore where fossil corals are found it is possible to estimate fairly precisely the environment they lived in by assuming that they needed the same conditions as those that thrive today.
Plants produce pollens and spores that are particularly useful in helping to determine climate. They are tiny with a resistant outer case and are produced in millions.
This means that they can be covered in mud quickly and are more easily preserved as fossils than large animals.
Each plant has different shaped pollen or spores so when the fossil is put under a microscope it is possible to identify the type of plant it came from.
Different plants are adapted to different climates therefore looking at all the types of pollen present in a layer of rock can be a good indication of the climate at the time when they were living.
Microfossils are tiny fossils, usually smaller than 4 mm in size.
They can be the remains of minuscule life forms or microscopic parts of plants and animals, for example tiny bones from larger animals.
Like other plants and animals they may require specific living conditions, but they are more abundant and are found in many types of sedimentary rocks. Because of this they can be a useful indicator of how climate has changed over a period of time.
|Diversity trends of Cytherelloidea in the boreal North Sea
Third phase of diversification associated with rising temperatures
Extinction related to the onset of cooler climate
Second phase of diversification during the warmer late Aptian
Extinction related to deteriorating climatic conditions
First phase of diversification during the warmer Hauterivian
First consistent appearance in the North Sea
Earliest appearance in the Cretaceous North Sea
Today's landscape gives clues to the climate of the past. Glaciers for instance, left telltale signs of their activity.
As glaciers moved slowly down river valleys in the UK, they often carved out a semicircular shape, similar to the deep U-shaped valleys of the Norwegian fjords.
Glaciers also pick up pieces of rock and gravel and, as they move forwards, this debris scratches grooves called 'striations' into the rocks on the valley floor.
When the ice melts, the very large pieces of rock they have been carrying are dumped, often many miles from where they were picked up. These abandoned boulders are called 'erratics'. All of these kinds of erosion and deposition, clearly tell of temperatures much colder than our current climate.
There is more than one type of oxygen and these different types are called isotopes.
Some of these isotopes are 'heavier' than others and this mass is determined by the number of neutrons the isotopes contain. Oxygen-16 (containing 8 protons and 8 neutrons in each atomic nucleus) is lighter than oxygen-18 (8 protons and 10 neutrons).
In water the relative amount of each of type of oxygen varies with the temperature.
Rain and ice contain water high in oxygen-16 so when there is lots of ice the ocean water is left with a lot of oxygen-18.
Shells and sediments carry the isotopic signature of the water in which they were formed.
Therefore, by analysing the ratio of oxygen-16 to oxygen-18 recorded in rocks, fossils, ice and sediments we can find evidence of the climate at the time they were formed.


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VANCOUVER — Vancouver Canucks left-winger Mason Raymond has avoided salary arbitration but he hasn't avoided a pay cut.
The 26-year-old forward agreed Monday to a one-year contract for $2.275 million, which represents a $325,000 reduction from his $2.6 million wage of last season. Maybe he'll even have Shane Doan on his line after Canucks assistant GM Laurence Gilman confirmed the team is pursuing the unrestricted free agent captain of the Phoenix Coyotes.
"I have spoken to Shane Doan on behalf of our organization a couple of times," Gilman said Monday. "I spoke with him on July 1 to express our interest in bringing him to Vancouver and subsequently followed up with Shane last night. I know from my experience in Phoenix that he has been interested in Vancouver in the past. He's a western Canadian guy whose wife is from Kamloops. So I think there is interest there. I had productive discussions with both Shane and his agent."
Gilman was quick to note there will be many suitors for Doan, 35, if he opts to leave the Coyotes and their unstable financial situation.
"Shane is a sought-after commodity and there are a number of teams who would be interested in adding him to their roster," Gilman continued. "So we'll see what happens."
On the Raymond front, the Canucks had filed for club arbitration in an attempt to lower the player's salary after his disappointing 10-goal, 20-point season in 2011-12. Raymond appeared in 55 games after missing training camp and the first two months due to a serious back injury suffered during the 2011 Stanley Cup Final.
"I'm happy to get it done," Raymond said. "Vancouver is a place where I started my career and I've enjoyed the heck out of it ever since. As far as the business side goes, every player says it and it's the truth: it's a business.
"At the end of the day, no one should feel sorry for me. I'm doing very well and I'm playing a sport that I love to do for a living."
Raymond has been able to train properly so far this off-season and hopes that will enable him to have a bounce-back year. Last summer, he was in a back brace.
"It's no excuse but going through what I went through breaking some vertebrae, along with other stuff, isn't easy," he said. "But it's in the past and I'm happy to be back and healthy. I'm feeling great. It feels good to be able to get into the gym and get my body to a place where I feel it needs to be for me to be successful. I have a lot to prove. I'm excited to get going and to get the season started."
Gilman, who is the Canucks' chief contract negotiator, was satisfied to compromise with Raymond and avoid an arbitrator's ruling. The Canucks were able to reduce Raymond's salary by 12.5 per cent. The maximum reduction allowed is 15 per cent.
"Our club invoked salary arbitration as a means of maximizing the efficiency of our salary cap and, to that end, we wanted to achieve the maximum amount we could," Gilman explained. "However, there are times when you can win the battle and lose the war. Mason is obviously a very important player to us. We felt that way at the beginning of the process and we feel that way today.
"And you know what? Once you get to a hearing, you never really know what's going to happen. So we felt this was the best solution for us and for Mason going forward."
Raymond, the Canucks' second round pick in 2005, has played five seasons for the club. His best year was 2009-10 when he scored 25 goals and collected 53 points. He dipped to 39 points in 2010-11.
"Quite honestly, we hope Mason comes back and scores 30 goals and tells us it's time to increase his salary dramatically," Gilman concluded.
Raymond stands to become an unrestricted free agent next summer if the current free-agent rules remain in place under a new collective bargaining agreement.
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Nun Maintains Polish Ties Through 100-Year Family Correspondence
Letters' legacy: Sister Nancy Strillacci's grandmother, Rose Wnek, started a long correspondence with her Polish relatives after she moved to America. Sister Nancy visited her Polish family last summer. They have written about world news and a Polish Pope's papacy, among other topics.
When 18-year-old Rose Wnek left her family in southern Poland to come to America in 1913, she didn't know at the time that she would never see them again. Nevertheless, the young immigrant kept up ties to her homeland through a correspondence that has spanned two world wars and communism and a Polish Pope's papacy — and continues nearly a century later through her granddaughter, Sister Nancy Strillacci, and her Polish cousins.
Sister Nancy, a member of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, has roots in both Poland and Italy, but she's especially familiar with her Grandmother Rose's family, who lives more than 4,000 miles away in the area of Kicznia, Poland. For the past 25 years, she has continued the family correspondence with her mother's first cousins and their children through letters, and now emails.
Last summer, Sister Nancy did what her grandmother didn't have a chance to do: She traveled to Poland with her sister, Francine, to visit the family she knew through her correspondence, including her cousin Marek Wnek, with whom she currently exchanges emails.
"I think we shocked the relatives, because after all these years, someone was actually going over to visit," she said. "It was so nice to see them in the flesh."
In her 45 years as a nun, Sister Nancy has taught junior and senior high school in dioceses around the country. She now runs programs for deacons, priests and religious for the Office of Clergy and Religious in the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., and lives with three sisters in Shelton, Conn., as part of the international order.
Like many immigrants, Sister Nancy's grandmother came to the United States to escape poverty and find a better life. Rose settled in Meriden, Conn., where two of her aunts lived and where she became part of the local Polish community, Sister Nancy said. "When she left, she had no idea that she'd never see anybody again, but that's what happened. She never saw her siblings again; she never saw her parents again; never saw the homeland again."
Rose found work and eventually married a Polish man, while maintaining contact with her siblings, especially the family of her youngest brother, Jan. As much as she could, she sent needed items to her family along with her letters. During World War II especially, her relatives asked for medicine. If they requested shoes, Rose sent one shoe at a time, so they wouldn't be stolen by postal workers, according to Sister Nancy.
"If somebody opened that package, what would they do with one shoe?" she asked. "The idea was that the relative eventually would get the whole pair."
Contact during the wars was sporadic, especially World War II, but the letters kept coming. Under communism, Polish family members didn't include their usual greeting of "Praised be Jesus Christ" in their letters for fear of censorship, she said.
Since the end of communism, family members have been more apt to acknowledge their faith, Sister Nancy said. "I guess people worried about whether things were looked at in the mail," she said. "They couldn't really trust the mail system. But now, if you want to talk about religion, certainly on email, it's easy enough to do that."
When Sister Nancy was a girl, her mother took over the correspondence from her grandmother: "Once my mother started writing for my grandmother, when my grandmother got older, I would know more what was happening and who they were talking with still over there."
In 1987, after her mother passed away, Sister Nancy decided to take on the correspondence. But there was a problem: Both her grandmother and mother had written in Polish, a language she hadn't learned. Her overseas family members did not know English either.
"The reason why there weren't too many people speaking English was, during the communist take-over after World War II, it was mandatory [in the schools] to learn Russian," she said. "Out of resistance or spite, they didn't learn Russian."
Sister Nancy asked neighbors and colleagues to translate the letters, and a teacher in Poland translated for her relatives. The family continued to write. "They just kept writing to me," Sister Nancy said. "I think they were happy to keep having contact with someone from my grandmother's family."
The letters contain mostly family news rather than news about current events, she said. "I'd ask about family members by name. I'd ask about work and what they were doing. You get news of new children, new babies in the family or the progress in school, colleges, what majors kids had in college, whether or not they got jobs."
The family also wrote about changing conditions in Poland and about Blessed John Paul II, who spent the early part of his life in their region. On Sister Nancy and her sister's visit to Poland, their relatives took them to the Poor Clare convent where John Paul II canonized St. Kinga in 1999, about 20 miles from their town.
They also exchanged information about the celebration of Church holy days and customs in each country, said Marek Wnek, who is doing postgraduate work at Krakow University of Economics.
For example, they wrote about the Polish custom of placing hay under the dining room table to symbolize the stable and the manger at Christmastime.
Now, as many of her younger cousins have learned English, the correspondence continues through email. When she's no longer able to write to her family members, Sister Nancy said she hopes that Francine or one of her nieces or nephews will keep up the tradition. "It will be easier for her to keep up. I hope she keeps up with it."
Maintaining contact for so long over such a distance has given the family a strong sense of connection with relatives and also curiosity about their lives, Wnek said.
"For many years the correspondence was to keep contact between sister and brother, so the main benefit was the possibility to get information about changes in their lives and, generally, how they were doing," he said. "Nowadays, it's also a great opportunity to know something more about American culture and traditions."
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Julie Payette knows, quite literally, how far science and technology have taken Canada over the last 150 years.
The celebrated Canadian astronaut has soared into space, visited the International Space Station, and operated the Canadarms with their computerized brains, copper nerves, and graphite bones.
Achievements in space and science are an obvious thing to celebrate for Canada's 150th birthday in 2017, but she suggests taking a big view.
The anniversary would be great time to reflect on the remarkable change since Canada's birth in 1867 when people travelled by horse and buggy and railways were just starting to tie the country together.
It would also be an opportunity to fire up Canadians' minds – and imaginations – to explore what the country might look like in 150 years in the future, when Payette expects there may be space hotels and mines on the Moon.
"This is more than just the maple leaf and maple syrup," Payette said in a recent interview from her office in Washington, where she is working with Quebec government to promote the province's science policy and build alliances.
"We've come a long way in 150 years, so let's showcase that," she says. "And then showcase where we think we are going to be in 150 years, or where think the world is going to be in 150 years."
She suggests that schools across Canada could get involved, nominating people and events to celebrate from the arts, the sciences and sport. Public service, politics, education, health care should also be celebrated, she says, as should the country's incredible diversity.
The celebrations could include "virtual" elements, billboards and contests to engage as many people as possible. But Payette says there should also be an event, or events, to draw Canadians together like the Winter Olympics did in British Columbia in 2010 and the World's Fair did in Montreal in 1967.
The 150 anniversary events, and their planning, will have to be able to "transcend the ups and down of politics," she says, as there will be a federal election before 2017. "It can't be upset if there is a change of government."
She suggests one part of the country could showcase the enormous change in the last 150 years ago, while another could bring people together to explore what the world might be like when Canada reaches its 300th birthday in 2167.
How will we live? How will we dress? How will we get around? Will fusion and solar power overtake fossil fuel as major sources of energy? How will minerals and fresh water be shared and how will climate change reshape the Canadian and global landscape? Will Canada welcome people from less fortunate parts of the world who are displaced as the planet warms and sea levels rise?
"If you live in floodable zone you have a choice, you grow some gills or you move," says Payette, an engineer, who has a pragmatic view of global warning. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is important, she says, but the reductions will not happen overnight, warming is already underway and society is going to have to adapt.
When it comes to science, she says there are plenty of obvious contenders for Canadian achievements and advances over the past 150 years.
Alexander Graham Bell, who family lived near Brantford, Ont., uttered the first words into his invention, the telephone, in 1875 setting off a revolution that has transformed human communication.
Frederick Banting and Charles Best, of the University of Toronto, discovered insulin in 1921, a major medical achievement that has saved the lives of millions of people with diabetes.
And Michael Smith's experiments with DNA in the 1970s showed it was possible to rewrite the language of life – a feat that earned the University of British Columbia chemist a Nobel Prize in 1993.
Canada's communication satellites, robotic Canadarms, and BlackBerry cell phones also stand out, says Payette, as do life-altering changes we now take for granted.
She notes that one of the greatest achievements of the last 150 years has been coming up with ways to "vanquish" pain. "Before that humans probably spent most of their adult life in pain of some kind," she says, noting there used to be little relief from toothaches, headaches, injuries, and disease. "And now we can't even stomach a headache, me included."
Gazing into the future, Payette suggests cancer might be cured and there could be tourists and mining on the moon in 150 years creating jobs for lunar miners, spacecraft operators or orbital flight attendants.
"Will we have a colony on Mars?" she asks. "I think so."
Julie Payette, At a Glance
— Flew into orbit on the space shuttle in 1999 and 2009.
— Currently based in Washington where she is promoting Quebec's science and building international partnerships.
— 150th idea: Celebrate the past, but also think about where the country will be 150 years from now, when it turns 300.


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This guide is intended to help you get the most out of the computing environment in the Computer Science Department. If you notice a topic that isn't covered, but you think it should be, please feel free to login and add a comment below, or send your suggestions to http://support.cs.stanford.edu.
The Computer Science Department, via the Computer Facilities group (CSD-CF), operates several large computer systems and clusters for education, research and administration.
These systems, together with many other research computers, are connected to SUNet -- the University's network -- and through that to the Internet.
Laboratories within the department and Individual research groups also operate hundreds of workstations. Intel, Dell, and Sun Microsystems are among the most prominent vendors of the workstations. These systems are all connected by the department's network to the University backbone
New Students
Welcome to the Computer Science department! You can find the slides that was used during your orientation talks on the bottom of this page.
Computer Systems
For general use by CSD students, there is a main timesharing server plus a lab with a cluster of workstations. All of these machines are provided particularly for handling electronic mail, web browsing, and reading Usenet newsgroups. These systems are not for running CPU intensive processes, or for academic use (research or course work).
The primary server is xenon.stanford.edu, a CentOS virtual machine with Quad-core Intel Xeon CPUs, 8GB of memory.
Myth Cluster
The myths are NOT for research or long-running/CPU-intensive jobs. Research should be done on computers and/or compute clusters owned by the professor sponsoring the research. For long-running/CPU-intensive jobs see: http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/sharedcomputing/environments
Myth Lab A
myth1.stanford.edu - myth16.stanford.edu
Gates B08 (Basement)
- Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16 GHz
- Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (64-bit)
Myth Lab B
myth20.stanford.edu - myth32.stanford.edu
Gates B30 (Basement)
- Intel Core2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.16 GHz,
- Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (64-bit)
- myth20 through myth32 also have nVidia GPUs and CUDA installed
Hosting Options
There are several options for hosting computer systems on campus.
|Annual Cost
|Gates B14
|Free (CS only)
|Limited power currently. Good for small or one-off systems. Larger, self-contained clusters are encouraged to use the FRCF below.
|Gates B27
|Free (CS/CSL only)
|Limited power and cooling. Open to lots of students, used mainly for experimental hardware, or systems where frequent physical access is needed.
|Forsythe Research Computing Facility
|$2500-3000 per rack
|Designed for research computer systems. ITS has no sysadmin responsibility over these servers, you must contract separately with somebody like CSD-CF or manage systems yourself. Space is rented in whole rack increments. Space is running out here. They only have space for ~20 more racks. Racks are a max of 20kw.
|Stanford Research Computing Facility
|This facility won't be online until December 2013. Same specs as Forsythe Research Center, with increased power density - racks can go from 20-100kw.
|Forsythe Administrative Data Center
|$10,000 per rack
|Designed for administrative systems. Hosting costs are very high because they assume ITS takes over the system administration responsibilities. Probably not a good option for most department equipment.
|Huang SOE Data Center
|Free (SoE departments only)
|Limited space and power, free to SoE departments but everything that goes in must have an expiration date. SoE requires detailed specs before committing to hosting.


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Wangechi Mutu, A'gave you (2008). Mixed media collage on mylar, 93" x 54".
The violent and ambiguous encounter depicted in A'gave you (2008) encapsulates the force and intent of Wangechi Mutu's collages, the highlight of her ongoing retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. A blue, thick-rooted, and out-sized version of the New World monocot bends to a violated female pseudo-cyborg. Her eyes, cheap black speckled pearls, are replicated in the plant's ovary. The kneeling figure's torso, head, and left arm are thrown back in disinterested submission; her right arm is lost to perspective and/or trauma. Gold sparkle and blood explodes from her chest as she births, or pisses, a long, fat strand of bright yellow-orange which forms a new root-system beneath both her and the plant.
Mutu's strangely lucid mixed-media mylar pieces contort the sexualization of black women in consumer society into glittering, gorgeous grotesques. The twin pieces 100 Lavish Months of Bushwhack (2004) and Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies (2005) feature female figures hobbled with hippo hands, faces stitched together from pornographic images, golden skin, and exploding motorcycle high-heels. They also depict differing levels of power among multiple exploited figures. The End of Eating Everything (2013), Mutu's first foray into film, features the head of Santigold gnashing a gyring flock of black birds with bloody chompers. Slowly, the plane Santigold exists on expands to reveal that her face leads a massive she-planetoid, comprising writhing limbs and embedded, useless machinery, powered by her/its own gaseous effluent. The piece is truly disconcerting and accentuates Mutu's often overlooked theme of ecological disaster.


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tournament! This is a 5 a-side, futsal style, indoor soccer tournament held in the Cory-Rawson High School gymnasiums.
Each team plays a minimum of 4, 20 minute matches
Dates and Divisions:
Saturday, March 18, 2017 – High School Boys, High School Girls, Adult: Under-25
Saturday, March 25, 2017 – Youth: Under-15, Under-12, Under-10 & Adult: Over-25
Where: Cory Rawson High School, 3930 County Road 26, Rawson OH 45881
Cost: $80 per team, due at time of registration
Payment may be made online at: https://www.paypal.me/MBSLaw/80
Or may be mailed, payable to: Hornet Ladies Soccer
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To Register: Complete the registration form at: http://eteamz.com/stingershootout
Roster: 4 field players plus 1 goalkeeper on the field
Max of 8 players per team and players can only play on one team per division
Each team must have an adult coach on the bench at all times
Youth divisions (U15, U12, U10) are co-ed
Deadline: The deadline to register is Friday, March 3, 2017
Brackets are filled on a first come, first served basis
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Security researchers found a serious security glitch in OpenSSL, the cryptographic software library that protects websites, according to reports.
OpenSSL is a way to create SSL and TLS, what's used to provide security for most of the Web, according to TechCrunch. However a glitch was found in OpenSSL that has been around for at least two years which allows anyone on the Internet to find names, passwords and any other content (think credit card numbers) on a "secure" website, Lifehacker reported.
U.S. & World
Not all sites are using OpenSSL, but it's likely that more than 66 percent of the Web does. Unfortunately, the problem lies with the sites and not the users or consumers.
Consumers now must wait until their favorite sites update their security. Until then, most are advising users or consumers to wait for confirmation of the security updates before changing passwords on the sites.


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Not News: Koch Bros. Hit Back at Laughably False Obama For America Email
Imagine if a Republican campaign organization attempted to raise money by going after billionaire Barack Obama fan Warren Buffett by claiming that Buffett is making a lot of money at the pump because of higher gas prices. The press would immediately pounce and say that it's not true, because even though Buffett could be benefiting from the President's cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline, the Odious Oracle of Omaha doesn't own enterprises which sell gas at retail.
Well, Team Obama at the Obama For America campaign organization just did the same thing to the Koch Brothers a couple of days ago, and as expected, we haven't heard a peep from the establishment press about the related blatantly false email. A search on "Koch" at the Associated Press's main national web site returns nothing relevant, which is also the case with the same search at the New York Times. What follows is the text of the email I received on Friday morning (also seen here), plus the Koch Brothers' full response (bolds are mine throughout this post):
In just about 24 hours, Mitt Romney is headed to a hotel ballroom to give a speech sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a front group founded and funded by the Koch brothers.
Those are the same Koch brothers whose business model is to make millions by jacking up prices at the pump, and who have bankrolled Tea Party extremism and committed $200 million to try to destroy President Obama before Election Day.
So in the hours before Romney courts two men obsessed with making Barack Obama a one-term president, let's see how many of us can chip in to the Two-Term Fund.
This number will update every five minutes to show how many people give in the 24 hours until Romney greets the Kochs:
Donate to the Two-Term Fund today.
Here's what Mitt Romney told his supporters just after his victory in the Florida GOP primary:
"We must not forget what this election is really about: defeating Barack Obama."
Pitch in $3 or more over the next 24 hours to show that, while that message may fire up two oil-industry billionaires, it's also one that plenty of us are tired of hearing …
Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
The Kochs' response later Friday absolutely shreds Messina's shrieking claims (reproduced in full):
A Letter to the Obama Campaign
Dear Mr. Messina:
Because every American has the right to take part in the public discourse on matters that affect the future of our country, I feel compelled to respond directly about a fundraising letter you sent out on February 24 denouncing Koch. It is both surprising and disappointing that the President would allow his re-election team to send such an irresponsible and misleading letter to his supporters.
For example, it is false that our "business model is to make millions by jacking up prices at the pump." Our business vision begins and ends with value creation — real, long-term value for customers and for society. We own no gasoline stations and the part of our business you allude to, oil and gas refining, actually lowers the price of gasoline by increasing supply. Either you simply misunderstand the way commodities markets work or you are misleading your supporters and the rest of the American people.
Contrary to your assertion that we have "committed $200 million to try to destroy President Obama," we have stated publicly and repeatedly since last November that we have never made any such claim or pledge. It is hard to imagine that the campaign is unaware of our publicly stated position on that point. Similarly, Americans for Prosperity is not simply "funded by the Koch brothers," as you state — rather it has tens of thousands of members and contributors from across the country and from all walks of life. Further, our opposition to this President's policies is not based on partisan politics but on principles. Charles Koch and David Koch have been outspoken advocates of the free-market for over 50 years and they have consistently opposed policies that frustrate or subvert free markets, regardless of whether a Democrat or a Republican was President.
If the President's campaign has some principled disagreement with the arguments we are making publicly about the staggering debt the President and previous administrations have imposed on the country, the regulations that are stifling business growth and innovation, the increasing intrusion of government into nearly every aspect of American life, we would be eager to hear them. But it is an abuse of the President's position and does a disservice to our nation for the President and his campaign to criticize private citizens simply for the act of engaging in their constitutional right of free speech about important matters of public policy. The implication in that sort of attack is obvious: dare to criticize the President's policies and you will be singled out and personally maligned by the President and his campaign in an effort to chill free speech and squelch dissent.
This is not the first time that the President and his Administration have engaged in this sort of disturbing behavior. As far back as August, 2010, Austan Goolsbee, then the President's chief economic advisor, made public comments concerning Koch's tax status and falsely stated that the company did not pay income tax, which triggered a federal investigation into Mr. Goolsbee's conduct that potentially implicated federal law against improper disclosure of taxpayer information. Last June, your colleagues sent fundraising letters disparaging us as "plotting oil men" bent on "misleading people" with "disinformation" in order to "smear" the President's record. Those accusations were baseless and were made at the very same time the president was publicly calling for a more "civil conversation" in the country.
It is understandable that the President and his campaign may be "tired of hearing" that many Americans would rather not see the president re-elected. However, the inference is that you would prefer that citizens who disagree with the President and his policies refrain from voicing their own viewpoint. Clearly, that's not the way a free society should operate.
We agree with the President that civil discourse is an American strength. That is why it is troubling to see a national political campaign apparently target individual citizens and private companies for some perceived political advantage. I also hope the President will reflect on how the approach the campaign is using is at odds with our national values and the constitutional right to free speech.
The only press coverage I've seen thus far is at the Politico.
That doesn't cut it. The Politico is very often the place where stories the press should be giving general coverage go to die — at which point, the rest of the press says, "See, we don't have to mention it, because it's already at the Politico." Horse manure.
This is an enabling situation. OFA hacks like Messina know they can promulgate anything with little in the way of press repercussions, which encourage them to push the envelope even further.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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As the nation continues its delicate path toward economic recovery, the future prosperity of those living in rural areas remains in question. We take a look at the social and economic situation facing young rural residents. Today's conversation comes on the eve of a public screening on Tuesday of new work in an ongoing collaboration from KBIA and the Columbia Missourian titled "My Life, My Town."
Roger Brallier, technology integration specialist/public relations, Hallsville School District
Shirley LeBlanc, Harrisburg resident featured in the "My Life, My Town" project
Kathleen Miller, program director, Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI)
Dallas LaRoe, Hallsville High School senior (joining the program in the second half)


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I have not always been the best listener. Shhhh…no one knows that. Um, right.
I'm pretty sure that the universe has been clear on that one little factoid from the get, because it's developed some wily ways to hammer ideas into my head. One of my favorites is when something I should be 'getting' keeps popping up into my screen like a ninja. Catching me unawares, hoping that the shock factor will make an impression. It's always when I least expect it, and sometimes the very oddness of the situation has been enough to make it rank highly enough in importance to garner notice.
Another favorite is when it seems like no matter which way I turn, or who I strike up a conversation with, that idea is there – I call that the 'saturation' technique. It's like they (being who exactly – pronouns are tricky in metaphysics) figure if they just tell me often enough, it will finally erode my belligerence enough to get in there and make an impression.
The one that's most apparent is the "I can't get any further" technique. This almost always happens when I'm reading something that will end up being pretty darn important to me – I start, and get only so far. And then I keep picking that book up and reading from the beginning, because a part of me must realize that I need to read it again. And again. And again.
And again.
For the past week, I've picked up Pema Chodron's book Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living about seventy-five times, only to read and reread the first page, and never get any further. I love Pema Chodron. She has a way of phrasing complex and abstract spiritual principles in a way that even the most philosophically stunted or spiritually stubborn among us can access, understand, and implement.
And that simplicity is something that attracts me – because deep down, I know that it doesn't need to be hard. I make it hard.
Here's a little spiritual snack for all of you – and a taste of what I'm hung up on this week:
We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves – the heavy-duty fearing that we're bad and hoping that we're good, the identities we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and addictions of all kinds – never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake. (Chodron, Start Where You Are)
If you knew me, I'm sure you could pick out about fifteen different spots where my brain is getting in the way of this. And that's okay. Because I'll get it when I get it. What she's trying to hand me is easy…and when I get tired of making it hard, it'll finally sink in and I'll be able to read page two.


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NEW YORK (AP) — TJX Cos. is hoping to stand out with a different twist on customer service.
The Framingham, Mass.-based company, is launching its first-ever holiday gift hotline for its TJ Maxx and Marshall stores. The hotline will kick off on Dec. 3 and be live for four days until Dec. 6. A panel of 14 experts, who were selected not only for their fashion expertise but also for being fans of the brand, will share gift suggestions for a broad range of items from cashmere sweaters to gourmet chocolates.
The experts include Michelle Madhok, gift expert and founder of shefinds.com, and style expert Mercedes Sanchez of BeChicMag.com.
"We thought it would be a really great way to help out consumers," said Laura McDowell, a spokeswoman at TJX Cos.
The hotline will be staffed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST during those days. The hotline number is 1-855-404-gift.
TJX, which offers discounts on name-brand merchandise, has resonated well with frugal shoppers in the aftermath of the recession. But even retailers like TJX are facing a challenging holiday shopping season as shoppers worry about stagnant wages and rising health care costs.
TJX reported last week that its fiscal third-quarter net income climbed 35 percent as sales improved at its stores in the U.S. and internationally.
The performance beat Wall Street's view. The company, which also operates HomeGoods, boosted its full-year earnings forecast to account for its strong quarterly results, though the outlook came in slightly below analysts' projections.
Revenue increased 9 percent to $6.98 billion from $6.41 billion, topping Wall Street's estimate of $6.91 billion.


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'You're No Abraham Lincoln'
Politics is always the art of the possible. Compromises are necessary to get candidates elected and legislation passed. The hope is that the dark side of these activities will be justified by the importance of a larger cause. It's often a difficult piece of moral calculus.
Primary Colors is a deft political satire that starts out by tackling these issues head-on. Based on the best-selling novel by New Yorker magazine staffer Joe Klein (who first published the book under the pseudonym, "Anonymous"), the movie claims to be fiction. But, of course, everyone knows it's based on Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Part of the fun is figuring out who the real-life models for each of the characters are and how closely the plot twists resemble actual events. Its scenes about the fallout from the candidate's alleged affair with a very young girl seem to have anticipated the Monica Lewinsky scandal with an eerie prescience.
The story is told through the eyes of Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), who's a cross between former Clinton aide, George Stephanopoulos, and a mythical grandson of Martin Luther King, Jr. The young African-American signs on to be campaign manager of a dark-horse, Clinton-like presidential candidate, Jack Stanton (John Travolta), who's governor of a small Southern state.
Burton's girlfriend, March (Rebecca Walker), describes Stanton as "some cracker who hasn't done much in his own state." But the young idealist explains to Stanton's Hillary-like wife, Susan (Emma Thompson) why he joined up: "You had Kennedy. I want to be part of something that is history."
Stanton has the hubris to see himself as following in Lincoln's footsteps.
From that moment on, Burton is pegged by the rest of the staff as suffering from a case of "galloping true believerism." The movie's dramatic tension comes from the clash between his high hopes and the reality of the campaign. It's a classic tale of innocence betrayed.
Burton first sees Stanton in action at a minority adult literacy class in New York. The candidate is moved to tears by the students' tales of hardship and shares with them a similar story from his own past. But he can't resist seducing the group's female teacher (Allison Janney).
The incident reveals the candidate's greatest strength, his seemingly heart-felt empathy for ordinary people's problems. But it also points to his achilles heel, what's described as "the woman thing" by veteran consultant Richard Jemmons (Billy Bob Thornton), who's based on James Carville.
The New Hampshire electoral primary takes up the first half of the film. The Stanton campaign has to deflect charges that their candidate was arrested during a Vietnam war protest and had the incident illegally expunged from his record. Then allegations are made that he had an affair with his wife's former hairdresser (Gia Carides), a character suggested by Gennifer Flowers, and a tape recording is played which seems to prove it.
Susan Stanton publicly stands by her man and leads the campaign's rapid-response team to media inquiries. But in private, she slaps her husband's face upon learning of his infidelity and later pulls her hand away from his after faking forgiveness during a 60 Minutes-like TV interview. Her attitude toward her husband seems to be an accurate rendering of the combination of true love, anger, and denial that binds her real-life counterpart to the president.
Brought in to counter the dirty tricks of Stanton's opponents is "dust-buster" Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), based on long-term Clinton associate, Betsey Wright. A foul-mouthed homosexual, she's not above using threats of violence to get her way. With Holden's help, Stanton is able to neutralize the allegations made against him and finish second in New Hampshire. When the candidate who beat him drops out for health reasons, he becomes the front-runner.
Then things take a turn for the worse. Rumors surface that he has gotten a teen-age African-American girl pregnant. At the same time a respected party veteran, former Florida governor Fred Picker (Larry Hagman), enters the race to run against Stanton on a good-government platform.
Burton gets his hands dirty dealing with these problems and feels sick about it. Surprisingly, Holden turns out to be as much an idealist as he is. After finding enough skeletons in Picker's closet to force him out of the race, she challenges the Stantons to remain true to their shared McGovernite past and not stoop to their opponents' level by releasing the material.
The problem with Primary Colors is that both director Mike Nichols (The Graduate and Birdcage) and screenwriter Elaine May (Birdcage) are liberal Democrats who've participated in Clinton fund-raisers, and three-quarters of the way through the film they realize the Clinton surrogate they've created is a monster. Jack Stanton is depicted as a charming manipulator who'll use any means necessary to accomplish his goals. He functions as a kind of Mephistophelean tempter with Burton, encouraging the young man to do things that go against his nature. After all this, how are the filmmakers going to be able to justify their support for the movie's real-life model and for the principles they and he claim to hold dear?
In its closing scenes, the movie ceases being funny and bogs down in exaggerated melodrama and unconvincing moral rationalizations. Nichols and May want us to believe that almost all of America's presidents have used dirty tricks. Delivering some of the most offensive lines of dialogue in recent memory, Stanton tries to persuade Burton to stay on board. "You don't think Abraham Lincoln was a whore before he was president?" the candidate asks. "He had to tell his little stories and smile his back-country grin. He did it all just so he'd get the opportunity to stand in front of the nation and appeal to the better angels of our nature." Obviously, Stanton has the hubris to see himself as following in Lincoln's footsteps.
Because Primary Colors shows the Stanton campaign concerned almost exclusively with image and rarely with substance, there's very little sense of a higher cause to justify all the chicanery. In order for the audience to accept Stanton as anything other than a wily corrupter, the filmmakers are forced to fall back on a blanket cynicism about politics that makes their hero look good. Despite all the laughs, it leaves a bitter taste.
Arts & culture correspondent John Prizer writes from Los Angeles.
Primary Colors is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Designer's Tip: I inked the white doilies (direct-to-paper) with the Deep Lagoon Fluid Chalk ink pad for great color that repeats the teal color in the background paper. I layered the silhouette Floral Boutique Foil Die-Cuts embellishment over an inked doily, and added Dazzle stickers to the ends to frame it.


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Forum Post: Proposal: "Catch the Politician" An Easy App to Revel Budget Fraud
Posted 7 years ago on Nov. 8, 2012, 7:19 p.m. EST by 10N
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
"Catch the Politician" Is an App meant to power the people. How would it work?
You see 5 lines of your local Budget? At the end of each line you see several options. OK, I Don't Know, Seems Suspicious, I Caught A Politician. At the bottom you have Next (for the next 5) and a Quit. Tek is the tool to use.
It's Simple, everyone can participate, you can do it while you wait in line....
It All goes to a website, Where you can see the top "hits", globally locally, etc or even on the app.
Your Thoughts...
Line 1: $2000 .00 Coats R Us, Dec 13th 2011, John Smith (followed by 5 buttons)[OK] [DON'T KNOW] [SEEMS SUSPICIOUS] [I CAUGHT A POLITICIAN]You would flag it as Seems Suspicious or I Caught A Politician.
Source Forum: http://occupywallst.org/forum/whats-next-for-the-movement-a-discussion-on-strate/


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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, an early and strong voice for intervention in Libya, is striding tall as a world leader.
But at home his position is less commanding as he faces open dissent in his party over the merits of holding an April 5 debate on secularism and Islam in this nation that strictly prohibits religious talk or religious symbols in state affairs.
The debate follows speeches elsewhere in Europe on the "failure" of multiculturalism by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, as well as President Sarkozy – speeches specifically aimed at Muslim integration.
But now the French president's political allies, among others, are shaking their heads over the April 5 event. Prime Minister François Fillon says he will not participate. An open letter this week from 12 leaders of France's main religious groups called the event mistimed, confusing, and bound to "stigmatize the nation's Muslim community." They questioned the appropriateness of a political party using the state apparatus to hold a debate on religious identity.
Sarkozy insists on forging ahead, though his United Popular Movement (UMP) has not yet announced specifics for the debate.
Like his counterparts elsewhere in Europe, Sarkozy is picking up on mainstream concern about a growing Muslim presence. But he is more precisely concerned with the growing popularity of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, analysts say. Ms. Le Pen hit the airwaves in December with high-voltage criticism of Muslims who, when their mosques spill over on Fridays, "occupy public space" in praying on the street. She compared it to the Nazi occupation.
A likely challenger to Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential election, Le Pen recently rebranded Europe's leading far-right party, the National Front, founded by her father, making it less hostile toward Jews and gays and more focused on Muslims and immigrants. Her National Front routed the UMP in local elections March 27.
Sarkozy faces internal dissent
That outcome, along with the failure of a Sarkozy-led national discussion in 2009 on "French identity," widely seen as code for a discussion about Islam, has led many in Sarkozy's party to say the debate idea either isn't proper or isn't working politically.
This moment pits two wings of the Palace against each other. One side is championed by the party Secretary General Jean-François Copé, a rising figure who engineered France's ban on publicly wearing the Muslim niqab, or full-face coverings. He argues for a fight on Le Pen's far-right ground to show voters the president is listening.
Another wing, which includes the prime minister, says the French center-right must stick to its own mainstream values and not tread the extremes. "We should put an end to these debates," said party stalwart François Barouin, who also happens to be the government spokesman.
On March 11, Sarkozy sacked the Palace "diversity adviser" for criticizing the debate, but the dissension has now gone past that kind of reprimand.
For now, Sarkozy is listening to Mr. Copé. As the debate over the debate began to melt the UMP's reactor core, Copé published a letter "to a Muslim friend" (not an actual person), calling for Muslims to rally with Sarkozy's UMP against Le Pen's National Front.
"You are always the first one to tell me: the practice of Islam in a secular republic cannot condone the burqa, nor the prayers in the street, nor the rejection of gender equality," he wrote, continuing: "The National Front and the Islamists relish our divisions. They arouse them because they live off them. With this letter, I wish to tell you that we can stop them."
Debating the debate
Meanwhile, the actual debate on secularism and Islam almost seems an afterthought. Essentially it hinges on the nation's famed laïcité, or laws forbidding religious expression in public life, that date to a 1905 decree designed to limit the influence of the Roman Catholic Church but that applies to all faiths.
The UMP debate would examine whether the state should help fund mosques or play a role in the training and certification of imams, for example, on the argument that the religious demography of France, which today has some 6 million Muslims, is more diverse than a century ago.
Yet it is the debate about the debate that occupies the public bandwidth.
"The president is hunting on the extreme right margins," says Pierre Haski, editor of Rue 89, an online daily and weekly magazine. "The debate over Islam is not interesting. It is a gimmick to show to National Front voters they can vote UMP."


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Millennium Villages
The Millennium Villages project offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. The Millennium Villages themselves are proving that by fighting poverty at the village level through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and escape from the poverty trap. By applying this scalable model to give them a hand up, not a hand out, people of this generation can get on the ladder of development and start climbing on their own.
With the help of new advances in science and technology, project personnel work with villages to create and facilitate sustainable, community-led action plans that are tailored to the villages' specific needs and designed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Simple solutions like providing high-yield seeds, fertilizers, medicines, drinking wells, and materials to build school rooms and clinics are effectively combating extreme poverty and nourishing communities into a new age of health and opportunity. Improved science and technology such as agroforestry, insecticide-treated malaria bed nets, antiretroviral drugs, the Internet, remote sensing, and geographic information systems enriches this progress.
Over a 5-year period, community committees and local governments build capacity to continue these initiatives and develop a solid foundation for sustainable growth.To date, the Millennium Villages project has reached nearly 400,000 people in 79 villages. Clustered into12 groups across 10 African countries (Ethiopia,Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda,Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda), the villages are located in different agro-ecological zones that reflect the range of farming, water, and disease challenges facing the continent. Success in these different zones shows how tailored strategies can overcome each challenge.
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Mystical House Skincare Giveaway!
Remember when I reviewed the fab line of vegan, all-natural beauty products from Mystical House?! Well, now it's time to give away some of these handmade skin treats so you can enjoy them, too!
The goodies up for grabs (you'll be receiving all 3!):
- Lavender Sea Salt Body Scrub ($10) – This relaxing, aroma-therapeutic salt scrub leaves skin radiant and rejuvenated. It contains fine sea salt, lavender essential oil, and moisturizing sweet almond and grapeseed oils. Get ready to exfoliate, moisturize and detoxify!
- Mocha Face Scrub ($10) – This delish smelling scrub is an invigorating and exfoliating blend of coffee (anti-oxidant-rich, anti-inflammatory), raw cacao (stimulating and restorative), and sweet almond oil (moisturizing and healing). You'll wanna eat it, but save it for your face!
- Anti-aging Facial Serum ($25) – I LOVE this serum like CRAY! I use it at night so I can wake up with supple, soft, smooth-ass skin. It fights wrinkles, too! It contains Argan oil, Grapeseed Oil, Frankincense, Myrrh, and Clary Sage.
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The face scrub looks amazing.
I'd most like to try the Citrus Aromatherapy Hydrating Mist-I love citrus scents! xoxo
Lavender and mocha!! Mmmmm
I would love to try the MOCHA Facial Scrub.
i want to try their anti aging skin renewing serum!
I would most like to try the Mocha Facial Scrub or the Oatmeal Facial Scrub:]
Oh my gosh I SO want to try the antioxidant cell-renewing serum!! I love how all the oils were so carefully researched and that they are helpful with acne, something I struggle with
Their Mocha face scrub looks divine 🙂
I'd like to try the lavender sea salt body scrub. I was pretty excited when I saw the jewelry as well! Thanks for the chance to win what looks like some great skin products!
I'd love to try the mocha facial scrub!
I would like to try the citrus body scrub.
Lavender sea salt scrub.
I'd love to try their lavender sea salt body scrub.
Would love to try to Lavender sea salt scrub! 😀
I tried the link and it doesn't go thru but I would most love to try the facial scrub, I have suffered severe skin trauma from my fight with cancer and thyroid /hormonal balances and I will try anything natural to help rid me of this! But they ALL look great!
I have smelled some of these items and they smell amazing!
Your link of Mystic House for Etsy isn't working… but from the 3 products that you have on the giveaway, I'd love to try the body scrub. I always love body scrubs!
I'd like to try the citrus sea salt body scrub.
Anything with oatmeal in it is super cool with me and my sensitive skin, so the neem oatmeal facial scrub immediately caught my eye, as did your mom's pretty name, Belinda!
The neem oatmeal scrub sounds interesting!
they all sound so great, the serum especially 🙂
Ooh, the Mocha facial scrub looks yummy!
Lavender body scrub!
wow! i would like to try all 🙂
I really want to try the anti-aging antioxidant serum
Citrus Sea Salt Bath Scrub
The serum looks amazing!
Next to their Serum I would love to try their Aromatherapy Hydration Mists. I love to use Mists and currently use the Sheabutter Tonic by Martina Gebhardt.


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From Townsville, jump on the Sealink passenger service for a 25 minute trip to the Island. For those arriving by car, Fantasea Cruising Magnetic is a 45 minute service which runs daily.
Work your camera and your legs on the Forts Walk, keeping an eye out for koalas, WWII military base ruins and views of the island's 23 bays and beaches. Set out on a self-guided snorkelling tour of Geoffrey Bay then hand-feed rock wallabies once back on shore. Venture off the beaten path to some (almost) secret national park beaches including Arthur, Radical and Florence Bay. Prefer a different mode of transport? Feel the wind in your hair behind the wheel of a classic moke or topless car, or set sail on a tall ship. Saddle up for horse riding through Maggie's best beach and bush real estate, or, get your heart racing at Horseshoe Bay with jet-skiing and sea kayaking.


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Lower Sholayar dam or Chalakkudy Dam, one of Kerala's Hydro Electric Dams built in the Chalakkudy river. This dam has another version, the Sholayar Dam of Tamilnadu. Surrounded by the scenic dense rainforest the place is one of the coolest scenic tour spot.
Sholayar Dam which is built in Chalakkudy river which originates from the Anamudi Mountain ranges by the southern part of western Ghats is only one among the many dams built in a series along the river course.The place is not a dedicated tourist spot for the entry to dam site is strictly regulated for outsiders. But the scenic beauty of the place with those extreme greenery of dense forest and the calm lake in the dam catchment area is adorable.
An aerial view of the dam site of Sholayar in Kerala. This place is relatively untouched by tourist and constructive intervention compared to Athirapally region of the river. The forest and river here is rich in rare species of animals plants and fishes.The richness of southern part of Western ghats is somewhat preserved in these forests.This dam site is on the way to Tamilnadu from Chalakkudy town.
Sholayar Lake formed by the dam
The calm waters of Sholayar dam premises. Lakes mountains and forests in a misty tropical climate, the perfect natures blend.
Penstock Pipes of the Sholayar Hydro Electric Dam project-Kerala
On the way to hit turbines!.The three pen stock pipes from the Sholayar hydro Electric Project.At the end of these pipes the generator turbines are fixed which uses the pressure of water coming out for the production of electricity.The pressure of water inside these pipes are huge and if they burst off it can ripoff a vast area of land and life around. A pen stock accident has happened already in Kerala a little time before.
Sholayar dam is situated at a distance of about 65 Kms from Chalakkudy town of Kerala state. The way to this dam ie the Chalakkudy-Tamilnadu route and has much tourist attractions like the waterfalls of Athirapally, Vazhachal, Charpa, Water theme parks,thumpurmuzhy gardens, and the sholayar. The road is cutting through dense rain forests and seeing Wildlife is not a wonder.Night journeys are not that recommended for Elephant herds and leopards are abundant.
Photos taken bu Amit Druvan CWRDM Calicut,
Courtsey- Sreerag As


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During a transfusion, a needle is placed in one of your veins. A bag containing the blood product is hung on a pole nearby, and its contents are dripped slowly, intravenously (through the vein) into your bloodstream. Throughout the transfusion, your temperature, heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure are checked regularly, and you are questioned about pain, itching, or discomfort of any sort. This monitoring is most careful during the first 15 minutes of the transfusion, since most severe reactions occur early in a blood transfusion. Once the bag containing the blood product is empty, the needle in your arm is removed.
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Home of Reid Hearn Cox and Hazel Hall Cox. The Coxes were residents of Ray City in the 1940s
Hazel Jeanette Hall (1918-1974) was a daughter of Lawrence Cauley Hall and Eula Belle Swindle, of Ray City, GA. She was a granddaughter of Mary Etta and Redding D. Swindle, and Cassie Lee and John Lewis Hall. Hazel's sister, Eunice Hall, was the wife of Polk Cheshire Brockman, of Atlanta, who was a pioneer in the recording of country music.
Reid Hearn Cox (1912-1966) was a salesman of music supplies. He originated from Eatonton, GA, a son of Charles Patterson Cox and Mattie Reid Hearn, and studied at Mercer University in 1932.
Hazel Jeanette Hall and Reid Hearn Cox were married in 1937 in Atlanta, GA.
Eatonton Messenger
Thursday, February 18, 1937
Miss Hazel Hall Weds Mr. Reid Cox
The Druid Hills Presbyterian church formed the setting yesterday for the marriage of Miss Hazel Jeannette Hall and Reid Hearn Cox which was a beautiful event taking place at 5 o'clock. Rev. William M. Elliot, Jr., the pastor, performed the ceremony in the presence of a large gathering of relatives and friends of the young people.
The interior of the church was beautifully decorated for the nuptials. Palms and ferns banked the altar, and tall standards of callas with seven-branched candelabra hold-holding white tapers completed the decorations. Preciding and during the ceremony Mrs. Haskell Boyter, pianist, presented a program of music and Le Roy Bledsoe sang.
Acting as bridesmaids were Miss Jane Cox, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Dorothy Brockman, wearing dresses of gold blister satin with short coasts fashioned with repeplums and gold satin sandals. Their flowers were arm bouquets of Pernet roses, snapdragons and delphiniums in pastel shades tied with ice-green ribbon.
Mrs. Polk Cheshire Brockman was her sister's matron of honor. She ware the gold satin dress in which she was married. It was worn with a coat, trimmed with sable fur. Her hat was an off-the-face model of brown maline, and she carried an arm bouquet of talisman roses.
Miss Ann Brockman, niece of the bride, was the ring -bearer. Her dress was a floor-length empire model of ice-green satin and she wore a yellow ribbon in her hair. She carried the ring in a calla, showered with valley lilies.
Jasper Sojourner. Dr. S. L. Morris, Jr., Dr. E. C. Moore and C. Roy Arnold were ushers.
Entering with her brother, Polk C. Brockman, by whom she was given in marriage, the bride was met at the altar by the groom and T. Pitts Davidson, who acted as best man. Her blond beauty was further enhanced by her wedding gown of white satin, fashioned along princess lines with a high cowl neck and leg-o-mutton sleeves which ended in a point over the hands and trimmed with self-covered buttons. The same buttons trimmed the waist at the back and the full skirt flared into a short train. Her long veil of illusion fell from a coronet cap, beaded in seed pearls and crystals and she carried a sheaf of calla lilies.
After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Brockman entertained at a reception at their home on Springdale road for the bridal party and out-of-town guests. Mrs. Swindle Hall, mother of the bride, and Mrs. C.P. Cox, the bridegroom's mother, received with Mr. and Mrs. Brockman and Mr. and Mrs. Cox.
In the dining room the table was covered with a point Venice lace cloth, and the center decoration was a bride's cake placed on a mound of pastel flowers. Yellow candles in pastry candlesticks embossed with orange blossoms, callas and lilies of the valley, were used. Miss Jane Cox kept the bride's book and Misses Dorothy Brockman, Essie Bell Brockman and Mesdames J. B. Sojourner, H. E. Montgomery and H. A. Brockman assisted in entertaining. Roses, snapdragons and delphiniums were arranged throughout the house.
The bride and groom left for a wedding trip. The former wore a two-piece traveling suit of apricot wool with brown accessories. Her flowers were a shoulder corsage of orchids.
Mrs. Cox is the daughter of Mrs. Swindle Hall, of Ray City, Ga. For the past several years she has made her home with her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Polk Cheshire Brockman, on Springdale road. Mrs. R. D. Swindle, of Ray City, grandmother of the bride, was a guest at the wedding. W. H. Hearn, of Eatonton, grandfather of the bridegroom, was also present. – Atlanta Constitution, February 6th.
The newlywed Coxes first boarded with Arlie Guthrie and Marvin Purvis in their home on Main Street, Ray City, GA. Marvin Purvis was a merchant of Ray City, and the Purvis' grocery store was on the south side of Main Street near Lyman F. Gidens' Barber Shop and just east of the tracks of the Georgia & Florida Rail Road. The Purvises were among Ray City's better-off families; the Purvis household had been one of the first in town to acquire a radio.
In 1939, the Coxes built a house of their own on the northeast corner of North Street and Jones Street, Ray City, GA.
Eatonton Messenger
October 19, 1939
Mr. and Mrs. Reid Cox are now building a new home at their home in Ray City. Reid, you know, is the son of Mrs. Charles P. Cox and the grandson of W. H. Hearn.
After the Coxes moved into their new home, the Purvises moved just a block down the street to a home on the corner of North Street and Bryan Street.
Hazel Hall Cox was a woman of fashion, "a real glamour girl, always made up – high heels, fancy hairdo." Hazel Cox took all the women's magazines, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Colliers, Liberty, Life, etc., and after reading she shared them with Arlie Guthrie Purvis.
The Coxes later moved to the Atlanta area where Reid developed and manufactured high capacity dryers used in laundromats all over the country.
Reid Hearn Cox died April 22, 1966, and Hazel Hall Cox passed on November 18, 1974. They are buried at Decatur Cemetery, Dekalb County, GA
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The Audi R8 has offered tuners a near-perfect canvas to work their dark arts, with a pleasing shape that can take a little tweaking, but not too much. German tunerhaus Anderson's Hyper Black R8 V-10 is more dark than art.
The under-hood modifications are a model of restraint, limited to just freer exhaust, new air filters and a software chip that together boosts power to 589 hp. The tires jump up to 19-inchers, and those exhaust changes also shave more than 40 pounds from the already lightweight R8.
But inside, the restraint ends in a mash of carbon fiber, some orange accents and more suede than the 1978 annual meeting of the Flint, Mich., custom van society. Anderson sums up its changes by saying "this all-aluminum flounder is practically sticking on the street." OK, so they're carbuilders, not translators.