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Throughout our history, many individuals have left a legacy, or something for which they will be remembered. For instance, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is known for his leadership in the civil rights movement. John Marshall is remembered for the landmark decisions he made while Chief Justice of the United States—decisions that have shaped the country in important and historic ways. Many of those key decisions are summarized below.
In this activity, you will create a poster or brief PowerPoint presentation in which you use words or images to summarize:
Then, evaluate Marshall's legacy. In what ways, if any, do you think Marshall's decisions have influenced history? Are they relevant today? Explain your opinions.
Your poster or presentation should be visually appealing and the messages should be clear and organized.
At the end of his term, President John Adams appointed William Marbury as justice of the peace for the District of Columbia. The Secretary of State, John Marshall (the same person who later became Chief Justice) failed to deliver the commission to Marbury and left that task to the new Secretary of State, James Madison. Upon his inauguration, Adams's political enemy, Thomas Jefferson told Madison not to deliver the commissions because he did not want supporters of Adams working in his new government. Marbury filed suit and asked the Supreme Court to issue a writ of mandamus, or a court order which would require Madison to deliver the commission to Marbury.
Chief Justice Marshall wrote the opinion in the case. He said that while Marbury was entitled to the commission, the Supreme Court did not have the power to force Madison to deliver the commission. He reasoned that the Judiciary Act of 1789, the act written by Congress which authorized the Supreme Court the to issue such writs conflicted with Constitution so the law was unconstitutional. He said that when ordinary laws conflict with the constitution, they must be struck down or made "null and void." This is called judicial review. In effect, he wrote that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and the courts — especially the Supreme Court — are the ultimate "deciders" of what is constitutional.
Through this decision, Marshall established the judicial branch as an equal partner with the executive and legislative branches of the government.
In the early years of our country, there was disagreement about whether the national government had the power to create a national bank. The first president, who believed in a strong national government created a national bank. The third president, who believed states should have more power closed the bank. The fourth president opened a new national bank in 1816.
Many state banks did not like the competition and the conservative practices of the national bank. As a way to restrict the national bank's operations or force the banks to close, the state of Maryland imposed a huge tax on the national bank. After the Bank refused to pay the tax, the case went to court. Maryland argued that the federal government did not have the authority to establish a bank, because that power was not specifically delegated to them in the Constitution.
The Supreme Court reached a unanimous decision that upheld the authority of Congress to establish a national bank. In the opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall conceded that the Constitution does not explicitly grant Congress the right to establish a national bank, but noted that the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to do that which is required to exercise its enumerated powers. Thus, the Court affirmed the existence of implied powers.
On the issue of the authority of Maryland to tax the national bank, the Court also ruled in the Bank's favor. The Court found that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy ...If the states may tax one instrument [of the Federal Government] they may tax any and every other instrument ...the mail ...the mint...patent rights ... judicial process? This was not intended by the American people…" Furthermore, he said, "The Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof are supreme; they control the Constitution and laws of the respective states and cannot be controlled by them."
The Cohen brothers sold Washington D.C. lottery tickets in Virginia, which was a violation of Virginia state law. They argued that it was legal because the (national) U.S. Congress had enacted a statute that allowed the lottery to be established. When the brothers were convicted and fined in a Virginia court, they appealed the decision. In determining the outcome, the Supreme Court of Virginia said that in disputes that involved the national and state government, the state had the final say. The Cohens appealed to the Supreme Court.
The (national) Supreme Court upheld the conviction, saying that the lottery was a local matter and that the Virginia court was correct in allowing the Cohens to be fined.
However, the most important part of this decision is what Marshall and the Supreme Court had to way about which court has the final say in disputes between states and the national government. The Supreme Court said if had the right to review state criminal proceedings. In fact, the Court said that it was required to hear cases that involved constitutional questions, including those cases when a state or a state law is at the center of the case.
Aaron Ogden held a license to operate a steamboat on the well-traveled route between New York and New Jersey. The State of New York gave him the license as a part of a monopoly granted to Robert Livingston and Robert Fulton. The route was so successful financially that competitors wanted to be able to operate there, too. When competitors could not get a license from New York, they got licenses from the U.S. Congress.
Thomas Gibbons held such a license from Congress. At issue in this case is whether New York's monopoly over steamboat passage in the waters between New York and New Jersey conflicted with Congress' constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.
Ogden argued that the New York monopoly was not in conflict with Congress' regulation of commerce because the boats only carried passengers between the states and were not really engaged in commerce. The Supreme Court disagreed. Justice Marshall, who wrote the decision, ruled that the Constitution gives Congress power to regulate commerce among several states. He said that commerce was not just about exchanging products. In his opinion, commerce could include the movement of people, navigation, as well as the exchange of products, ideas, and communication. Since the (national) Congress could regulate all of these types of interstate commerce, the New York monopoly was illegal.


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What should you do when you have a fierce craving for something sweet?
My advice is:
You should feed your craving
I hope you didn't think this blog would be a list of suggestions for substitutions to curb your cravings. I'm a firm believer in eating what you want because the more you resist and substitute, the more power you give to the food you crave. It's the power you take away from yourself and give to food that upsets your weight and fitness goals. And let's face it, if you crave it, you will eventually give into the craving.
Physical activity makes your muscles stronger and you get fitter. Eating your crave foods in balance and moderation is a kind of strength training too. The more you do it, the better able you will be to navigate a world full of tempting foods and maintaining your weight and fitness goals simultaneously.
The reality is that sweets and food are a major part of our environment. They're in our houses, offices, and automobiles. Images of food are almost always in front of your eyes. TV, magazines, billboards, and on signs in front of fast food restaurants and convenience stores. It's everywhere and we can't hide. Learning how to manage it is your best defense. Have your cake and your healthy weight too!
You might be making your "molehill cravings" into "weight-gaining mountains"
The more you deny a craving, the larger it grows. Trying to assuage it by feeding it something else doesn't work, it backfires. As you eat everything but what you crave you eat calories from foods you didn't really even want. Then when you give into the craving, you don't eat just a little, but too much! Your calorie deficit necessary for losing weight turns into a calorie surplus, which is what causes weight gain.
Generally a craving is for a food that makes you feel uncomfortable in some way.
You crave it because you think about eating it often and think you should not to eat it ever.
It could be guilt because you think you shouldn't eat junk food. It might be fear because you think it's a red-light food that will trigger an out-of-control eating episode that could last for a day, several days, or months or even years.
So there are two things that need to be addressed. (1) is feeling guilty about eating certain foods and (2) is fearing some foods have a supernatural power over you to make you do things you don't want to do.
Let's start with guilt associated with eating certain foods.
I really hate the food labels "junk food." I discuss real junk foods in my blog, 5 Foods You Should Never Eat. If food isn't spoiled, it's not junk! Your food choices don't reveal your moral character. Eating foods loaded with sugar and added fats isn't wrong, bad, weak, and it's not unhealthy when eaten as part of a healthful diet. But if you have been conditioned to think that it is, it's hard to indulge without guilt.
It's the guilt that's wrong, not eating things you enjoy.
What about trigger foods?
Do you think eating some foods is a sure way to know you're going to get in trouble with overeating?
You are a living being with thoughts that drive your actions. Food is an inanimate object (that tastes delicious but nonetheless is inanimate.) You can decide when and how much food to eat. The food can't force you to do anything against your will. Overeating isn't triggered by the food but rather by your expectation that you will overeat.
You may already have discovered that ignoring cravings often has an unwanted side effect – a huge binge. Eating a calorie-reduced version doesn't work well either.
Your best bet could be a small amount of the real thing. If it was chocolate you crave try eating a small bit of your favorite chocolate.
Here are 4 steps that lead to managed cravings
1. Usually cravings aren't about being hungry so much as identifying a certain food "have to have for no other reason than you really enjoy it."
Take your time to identify exactly what you're craving. If it's vague, you may be craving something other that food such as a way to deal with an emotion. Emotional driven eating and cravings are not the same thing.
2. Eating a balanced diet of nutritiously dense foods that have a low energy density you are in a good position to indulge a craving without an adverse effect on your weight-related goals.
You might be aware of what happens when you go grocery shopping on an empty stomach. You're more likely to be tempted to buy things that weren't on your list. Food looks tastier and it's harder to resist temptation on an empty stomach. The principle is similar with cravings. If you're not hungry you can stop after a small serving, but when you're very hungry you may eat fast and much more than you needed to satisfy the craving.
3. Planning to indulge your craving can make it even more satisfying because you're eating what you want and feeling strong, powerful and capable of controlling the episode.
Decide what you want. Know how much you need to be satisfied. Figure out how it will fit into your food plan. Eat it in slowly, in control and with confidence.
4. Giving into a craving as an impulse is possible, especially if you aren't very hungry or feeling deprived.
You'll use the same strategies as a planned indulgence, but you do it on the fly. That means you need to review what you already ate so far and what you will be eating later. Then you make your plan to slip in the indulgence. Don't forget that you can make more room for an unplanned indulgence by increasing your physical activity.
So next time you crave something sweet, figure out what that sweet thing is your craving and go for it as part of your overall healthy diet.


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Author Notes: I moved from Portugal to Brasil in 1975 and a whole new food world opened to me… São Paulo had at the time 15 million inhabitants, of which 60% are Italian descendant, plus a huge community of Japanese and Arab descendants.
You can find these communities in established areas where they have restaurants, supermarkets and shops with their own produce.
I had only travelled in Europe at the time and knew little about food outside my little world. Oriental and Arab food were a totally mystery as was Brazilian food.
The fruit and vegetable market were out of this world. Fabulous fruit, smelling of ripe fruit.I became totally addicted to avocados which I had never eaten before, huge and just ripe enough, with an outstanding taste.
The curious thing about cooking with avocados then was that it was only used in smoothies and desserts. The savoury version would only appear in fancy restaurant menus.
Avocado Cream quickly became my favourite dessert. It was a dessert everyone made at home, as easy as 1-2-3. I learned that recipe from my in laws cook. Today, you can find recipes for this dessert but they are mainly sweetened with concentrate milk which I don't like.
This is the 1975 version (am I getting old or what?!)
—Maria Teresa Jorge
Serves: 6-8
avocados, semi soft to the touch
1 1/2
cups milk
medium yellow lemon – juice
lime – grated for decoration
Sugar to taste
- Cut the avocados lengthwise around the seed. Open the two halves to expose the pit. Cut the halves in half again, exposing more of the pit. Discard the pit. With a spoon, scoop out the avocado's flesh.
- Put the avocado, 1 cup of milk and juice of 1 lemon in food processor and beat until creamy – ice cream consistency. If needed, add more milk, it depends on the size of the avocado and weigh of flesh. As I say previously, you want the consistency of ice-cream.
- Add sugar to your liking – it should be sweet, it's a dessert. Again here, it's your call, I like mine sweet as I like the taste of the avocado, the acidity of the lemon and the sweetness of the sugar.
Divide in bowls or put the cream in one big bowl. Decorate with zested lime.
Refrigerate at least 1/2 hour.
- Note: Even though the cream has lemon juice, it will darken slightly with the oxidation of the avocado, so better eat as soon as possible.


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The Social Life of Responsibilization
Marriage as a 'Life-Project' in Botswana
This project aims at researching the ways in which the allocation and acceptance of social responsibilities appears as a dynamic process. The term 'responsibilization' allows for the recognition that this allocation may shift across generational, class, gender and ideological divides. Across a life-span, the allocation of responsibilities may shift according to growing age, or may be relocated from one generation into another or may become differentially located in relation to social mobility. In addition, the term 'responsibilization' draws attention to the rise of new pedagogies and institutional practices and discourses aiming at instilling a changing level of personal and social responsibility in view of particular concerns. Here responsibilization indicates the production of particular (moral) teachings, trainings, communication of messages and instructions that have the explicit intention of imparting (new) notions of responsibility to subjects. Thus, by bringing a Foucauldian perspective on the rise of social techniques of responsibility together with a social-structural approach concerning the shifting allocations of responsibility, the project aims at mapping the various trajectories that 'responsibilization' as a social phenomenon can take.
This 'social life of responsibilization' across time and space can profitably be studied for the institution of marriage, which in the African context in recent years has become the subject both of new relocations of responsibilities, and of new pedagogies of responsibility that are often of a religious and moral nature. Taking Botswana as a case in point where marriage is perceived as an institution in an oxymoronic state of 'constant crisis', the project will explore how marriage has become – partly due to the AIDS-pandemic – the object of a new pedagogies of responsibility through the rise of a range of 'life-skills' oriented discourses and practices. These 'life-skills' pedagogies include behavioural change-related programmes (especially in the context of HIV/AIDS), moral/religious messages and education, as well as counselling in which the reformulation of the marital relationship and the reformulation of the gendered roles of the couple are often framed in terms of 'becoming responsible' for the marriage – financially, emotionally, sexually or otherwise. In this context, marriage appears as an individualized project, that is, as an institution for which responsibilities are now devoluted onto the person, including the individual pursuit of a greater emotional commitment to the relationship.
Yet, at the same time, marriage in Botswana has undergone major changes in the allocation of responsibilities in socio-structural terms. The arrangement of marriages has now squarely moved into the hands of the younger generation. Their location in the new economy of Botswana has meant an emplacement of this relocation of marital arrangements in rising consumerist desires, styles and appetites that often mark upward social mobility. While in the historic shift away from arranged marriages the elderly generation has become increasingly de-responsibilized, the marriage itself has become an important status-marker for which the younger generation has become fully responsible, yet one which at the same time becomes increasingly exclusionary for the few that can afford the enormous expense that is involved in becoming married. While both dynamics of responsibilization turn the marital relationship into a 'life-project' that requires planning, consultation, and careful decision-making when starting a family and developing its resources through initiating various (business-)projects, the two dynamics of responsibilization, outlined above, are at odds with each other. Saving marriage from (financial, emotional) crisis yet having to live up to (often globally inspired) consumerist ideals and expectations, and being responsible for safeguarding status, respect and prestige in this regard, create new and often unexpected dilemmas.
Taking marriage in Botswana as a case for the study of the social life of responsibilization will contribute to a further comparative understanding of how the allocation and acceptance of social responsibilities appears as a dynamic process in Africa and beyond.


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Jamie Dornan Films 'Fifty Shades of Grey': First On Set Pics!
Jamie Dornan looks super dapper during the first day on set for his upcoming film Fifty Shades of Grey on Sunday (December 1) in Vancouver, Canada.
These are the first on-set pics of the 31-year-old actor in his role as Christian Grey – we can't wait to see this film!
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Also starring in the flick are Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, as well as Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes, Jennifer Ehle, Victor Rasuk, and many more. Be sure to check out the movie on February 13, 2015.
10+ pictures inside of Jamie Dornan in these first pictures on set of Fifty Shades of Grey…


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2013 Biological Photo Contest
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This page showcases the entries to the 2013 Biological Photo Contest. Voting will commence in the week preceding the Grad Symposium with winners announced at the end of the Symposium. To enter, send your full resolution photo and caption to firstname.lastname@example.com and it will be put on this page.
|Phylogenetic tree of tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum), drawn using neighbor-joining method. The tree illustrates the evolutionary history of tomatoes in the simplest form ever, so that even Bill Ryerson will understand (in response to his picture caption in Grad Symposium 2012) - Hamid Razifard
|From one of the miniature plants of South Africa's Knersvlakte, these immature leaves stand less than 2 inches tall. Yet as they mature, they transform from folded ribbons to crimped extensions to long and flattened, fully-expanded leaves with only an occasional wrinkle, pointing out from the quartz gravel like TV antennae! - Kerri Mocko
|Flying along the dog sled paths of McCarthy, Alaska, a tiny fly is attracted to the enticing sulphuric odors, of which it expects will lead to a fresh pile of dung. Upon arrival, disappointment settles in as the fly realizes it has been duped by some stinky plant, the common dung moss, or Tetraplodon mnioides. A quick rest atop the dark purplish-red sporophytes of the dung moss, and the fly is off to find a real pile of dung. Little does the fly know, that it has been recruited for the dispersal of the bright yellow spores of the common dung moss. - Lily Lewis
|I don't know what Hamid is going on about. THIS is neighbor joining, and now its a party. - Bill Ryerson
|A sally light-foot crab (Grapsus grapsus) living a very comfortable life in the Galapagos Islands. - Colin Carlson
|Bill, please enter my photo in the 'Plant' category. Thanks, Kurt - Kurt Schwenk
|If zoo pictures count, is this mammalogist studying Gorilla or Gorilla studying mammalogist - Laura Cisneros
|An Acronicta afflicta caterpillar adorably chewing on an oak leaf. - Brigette Zacharczenko
|"Wait a sec, that's not a snake!" – This spotting was the icing on the cake, of one of my most memorable day hikes in Goose Creek State Park, NC. After crossing paths with a copperhead, a pair of mating racers, an otter, a black bear and a bald eagle I figured there was nothing left to see so I decided it was time to head home. However, just 100 yards from my car, I stumbled across this Eastern glass lizard. He froze and posed nicely for a few pics! - Jason O'Connor
|Meet the Great One. Hand raised with puppets in the San Diego Wild Animal Park, the Great One is now one of central California's ~50 wild Condors (his left wing tag is visible here). I spotted him on a ridge in Andrew Molera State Park in the Big Sur. We had a moment. - Jon Velotta
| Bromeliad on a Mountain: A "Home" Plant
Here at Cuerici Estación Biológica, bromeliads are not just house plants, they are at home, in their native ranges. - Holly Brown
|In Maori, the name for New Zealand is Aotearoa, or "Land of the long white cloud." After seeing more rainbows during a year in New Zealand than during the rest of my life combined, I got the sense that the name could aptly be "Aotearainbow," instead. - Alyssa Borowske
|Remember in the 90's when MTV had an entire show called "Spring Break" that was just kids dancing on the beaches for hours? These Big Sur elephant seals attempt to reenact it, with far less commercial success. Next up: Elephant Seals Gone Wild. - Jessie Rack


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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010: This is the day we found him.
That day is a blur; it was supposed to be my day of rest, after going out to Union to search for Dad on Saturday, Sunday, Monday. I had set Wednesday as my return to work, if we didn't find him. I had very mixed feelings about going back to work. I couldn't stay out indefinitely; what if we never find him? Sometimes, people who go missing are never, ever found. They just disappear without a trace. How does a person just disappear? The laws of physics tell us that matter cannot be created or destroyed in a closed system; therefore, he can't just be gone. He is somewhere in the Escheresque universe in which I've been living since 8:40 Friday morning; I just can't find my way to him. The angles are all wrong, they are impossible, incomprehensible.
I've been saying: "My dad is missing". I could just as easily say: "I'm missing my Dad" and mean it in all its double-entendred glory; he's missing; I miss him; oops, have I missed him? What am I missing?
When someone goes missing, what happens to the people who are missing them? What do they do? Do they return to their jobs? Do they shop for groceries on the way home from work? Do they still buy Metrocards, and make sure that there's milk in the refrigerator for breakfast the next morning? Do they plan their meals for the coming week? What about the laundry? Do they carry on, do they do all of these things, all the while waiting for a call from the police or the FBI or a hospital or a morgue that their loved one or their loved one's body has been found?
Or do they simply sit still? Do they wait by the telephone, or stake out a spot in front of the computer, searching, researching, unable to move? Do they take their cellphones into the shower? Do they take showers? Whatever I am doing, I feel like I should be doing something else instead. What if I'm doing the wrong things, and that's why I can't find the right angle? Is my approach all wrong?
I don't know how to do this. If we don't find him, I don't know what we will do.
I've never known anyone else who had this happen. I have no experts to consult. I need a roadmap for this terra incognita where we are marooned.
My plan for Tuesday was to talk to the detectives in the morning and get them to set the bloodhounds looking for my father. We were in Day 5; Dad had been missing for ninety-six hours (I had decided that, when we got to one hundred hours, I would switch to counting days). Frank and I awoke to the alarm, took our showers, ate our breakfast, drank our coffee, shared the New York Times, watched Weather Channel, just like we do every day. It was all so nice and normal.
I turned on my computer to check email. I had messages from my friend Janice asking if there'd been any word (no); from my friend Peg, who pointed out how easily the elderly become invisible to the rest of us, allowing as how if Dad had gone out in his pajamas, someone might remember having seen him (he had done that already, the week before); from Nancy, letting us know that she, Chris and Grant would be in New Jersey by around 2 that afternoon. She added that Chris suggested that one way to get Dad back would be to buy and install an air conditioner in his dining room (Dad was legendarily spartan about heating and cooling).
The detectives called me while I was still at my computer, sometime after 9AM.
Det. Moutis confirmed to me that today was the day that the bloodhounds would search the woods while the helicopters flew over.
Today was the day that Dad would be found, but I didn't know that yet.
The search had become its own creature, apart from Dad; Dad and the search for Dad were two separate beings. There had been moments when I felt we were searching just for the sake of doing something. It wasn't that I thought our efforts were useless or hopeless; there was a small (and shrinking) part of me that thought we might yet find him, and find him alive. Surely there was a reasonable explanation for him being missing; the Laws of the Conservation of Matter decreed that he was still somewhere in the known universe.
What I would say, or do, if I saw my father sitting on a park bench, or walking down a side street?
Would I run up to him, hug him and kiss him and ask him if he was hungry, thirsty, tired?
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Would I just stand there, mouth agape, unable to speak?
Would I even believe my own eyes?
Would I yell at him for putting us through this living hell for almost five days?
Or would the stress of all of it, combined with the shock of seeing him again, cause my body to crumble into a pile of dust and blow away on the wind?
I do not know how to do this.
Since Friday, I had been dealing with the unknowingness of my situation by trying to control those things I could. To be effective, to move forward, I had to be dispassionate about the alternatives that lay before us. I had to be on task, I had to manage time well, I had to ruthlessly prioritize. It was like managing the store (people/product/operations), except this really was life and death. I wasn't alone; I had lots of help, all the help I could ask for; my husband, my siblings and sibs-in-law, their children, our friends were living through this with me; but I felt so terribly alone.
These were the things I could control at this moment: I could check email and respond; I could talk to people on the phone; I was home this day, so I could do research online to find something, anything; there had to be something, and I was just missing it.
I had promised Frank I would try to rest, just this one day; I planned to take a nap at some point, lie on the couch with the windows open (the weather had been so gorgeous since Friday) and let myself drift…
But first… I had to…
Okay, so the detectives would have dogs and helicopters … Det. Moutis said that we should register for a Silver Alert. I said I'd set it up if he sent me a link.
As soon as we got off the phone, I followed up with him by email, confirming the details of their plan for the day, and copying my sibs; I asked if the police had issued a general press release yet, because some news outlets would do nothing without something from the police.
Monday night, when I got home from New Jersey, before we had dinner, Frank and I were talking about places that George and Barbara and Alyssa and Kevin and Glenn and the neighbors and I couldn't get into to search on our own. Frank had made a list of the kinds of places that should be searched; abandoned buildings within a reasonable radius; houses that had been foreclosed upon, and were vacant; garages, sheds, outbuildings, even on occupied properties—we'd had a cat years ago who had gotten locked in a neighbor's garage by accident, and he'd been missing for three days before the neighbor returned, opened the garage, and out came our Patch. Maybe Dad crawled into or under an abandoned car in a foreclosed garage and has been unable to get out and come home. Maybe he fell through a rotted floor in a vacant, derelict house. Maybe he got lost again, and went into a house that he thought was his, except it was empty, and now he thought we had sold all of his things or that he had lost the house to taxes. When we had his income taxes done earlier that spring, he got confused, and thought the new accountant was there to take his house away. Maybe he was looking for Mom.
I asked Det. Moutis if anyone had searched abandoned buildings in the area, homes that were vacant due to foreclosures, sheds, outbuildings, anywhere where someone who was tired, lost, and scared might crawl in to get some rest.
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
I asked Det. Moutis if we should hire a private detective. Would that help or hinder the police effort?
I told Det. Moutis that Nancy and her family were coming in that afternoon, that John would be arriving Thursday, and that my siblings and I had decided that I would be the point of contact in order to streamline our communications.
My email to Det. Moutis crossed with his email to me giving me the web address for setting up a Silver Alert. I should have guessed it—www.silveralert.org – and I can't remember now why I couldn't. I registered my dad for the Silver Alert and uploaded the picture that we'd used on his flyers. I emailed the link to Det. Moutis and all my sibs with the login and password. For some reason—and I don't know if it still works this way—the login and password were only good for an hour, and I had to re-log-in and re-upload his picture once the hour was up.
How do people who really are alone in their search for their missing loved one manage the logistics? You have to be at least three people at the same time to do everything that needs to be done; one to be out in the world, searching, one to be researching new places to search, and one to be the operations point person coordinating the searches and eliminating time-wasting redundancies and duplications of effort.
It helped me to try to think of all of this as a management problem, which could be broken down into small, discrete components, and thus be solved.
I called my contact at Union's Channel 12 to give her Dad's information and the Facebook page URLs so she could do a screengrab of the flyer. I promised to follow up with a flyer by email, in case the screengrab wasn't sufficiently clear. Lexi promised to get the information on the air that day.
Janet and Wally were at Dad's, getting ready to leave for Maryland, since Nancy was coming up. Someone had to be in Maryland to take care of the total of five cats and one dog between the two households, so Janet and Nancy tag-teamed. I think that George and Barbara were both back at work—it's so hard to remember now, and my cell phone and text records aren't clear. Alyssa had finals coming up, so she was back in school. John was planning to arrive on Thursday. Maybe we'd find Dad by then.
At the same time we were searching for Dad, we each had to consider the possibility of needing to take time off from our jobs to plan and hold a funeral.
We had arranged for Glenn to be at the house to meet the detectives and the canine unit, so that the dogs could start the search and (we hoped) find Dad. I texted Glenn to let me know when the police arrived.
Done with email, done with the phone, I turned up the ringer on the answering machine in the studio, left my computer, turned on the television to a channel that only played New Age relaxation music, and I lay down on the couch.
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
I drifted in and out, aware of the music and the traffic noise from Northern Boulevard, coming and going.
The phone rang: it was Glenn.
The detectives had arrived, with the bloodhound and his handler from the Essex County Canine Unit. It was mid-day. They'd had to wait for the bloodhound to come from the next county, because Union County didn't have one of their own.
This is what Glenn told me:
The handler needed a scent article for the dog. They used the pajamas that Dad had left on the dining room chairs.
The handler, wearing latex gloves, took my father's old worn pajamas outside, and spread the top and bottom out on the lawn in front of Dad's house. (The image I conjured for myself of my father's nightclothes spread out on the lush grass is indelibly imprinted on my mind's eye.) The handler wears gloves so that he doesn't transfer his own scent particles to the scent article.
The dog sniffs and paws at my father's garments on the grass not too far from the huge oak tree; the dog gets Dad's scent.
After a minute or two, the leashed bloodhound pulls back from the pajamas, excited, hyper, panting, wanting to go. His handler settles him, looks the dog square in the eyes.
"Do you wanna go find him, do you wanna go find him?"
The bloodhound—his nose to the ground—and his handler quickly turn and head down Huntington to the corner of Livingston; they turn left, and go down the incline (it is not quite a hill).
(Glenn didn't see this next part. He will recount this to me in our next conversation, after he speaks with the detective by the park:
The dog and handler crossed Forest Drive, and approached the shortcut path that cuts through the woods to Salem Road.
The dog veered left at the head of the path, into the woods, without hesitation.)
Glenn stays at my father's house. He is waiting.
I am in my living room. I am waiting, too. I text Glenn (not wanting to tie up the phone); he has heard nothing, and is getting anxious. They have not been gone long.
Sometime, not too much later, one of my father's neighbors, a woman, tells Glenn that there is a police car and an ambulance at the little park across the street from Union Hospital.
Glenn thinks he knows what that is about, and he drives down to see. He meets the detective where the park's grassy half-circle meets the woods.
They have found a body deep in the woods. Glenn wants to go, but the detective shakes his head, tells him he won't be able to identify him.
The bloodhound veered left at the head of the path, into the woods, without hesitation. They went deep, deeper, following my father's scent, over brambles, and weeds, and thickets of vines, into the heavy brush. They found him lying on the ground.
Glenn comes back to Dad's and calls me and tells me what he saw and heard.
I thank him.
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
I don't remember the details exactly. I think at some point, not too long after, Det. Moutis called me.
They found the body of an elderly man, a man they believed was my father, in the woods, about fifty yards from where the grassy half-circle of park begins.
He said it would have been impossible to find him without the bloodhound. The brush and tangles of vines and weeds were more than two feet high; Dad had sat down on a log, taken off his shoes, and either lay down or fell back. He was on the ground, his glasses and tan hat were off to the side, his watch still on his wrist. He was clothed except for his shoes, which were on the ground next to the log.
They would have to confirm his identity with dental records. He had been out in the elements for more than one hundred hours. The coroner would later say that he had almost certainly died the first day. That would account for the lack of sightings, I thought to myself.
Nancy, Chris, and Grant arrived at Dad's house at about the time that the detectives were calling me. I must have called Janet and Walter, John and Cheryl, Barbara and George, but I don't remember doing so. Frank came home sometime in the late afternoon and I told him. I am sure I was crying, but I don't remember. I texted my friends. I called the store and told Emery that they had probably found my father, and I wouldn't be coming in on Wednesday after all.
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SAN MATEO — Tens of thousands of people descended on the San Mateo County Fairgrounds on Saturday for the eighth annual Maker Faire, the enormously popular Do-It-Yourself festival that features everything from bicycle-powered sculptures to Tesla coils to stilt walkers.
Billed as the "Greatest Show (and Tell) On Earth," the event draws garage hobbyists and engineers, regulars of the Burning Man festival and a growing number of families with young children.
"Makers" of all ages and stripes are everywhere. One woman wore a green T-shirt that said "Talk Nerdy to Me."
The event is a visual smorgasbord that can be overwhelming and overstimulating. Organizers urged attendees to take public transportation or shuttle buses from remote parking lots, including some miles away at the College of San Mateo. Organizers estimate that more than 120,000 people will attend the event, which continues Sunday.
Mark Cruz, a 38-year-old Oakland architect, said of all the things to see and do Saturday, his favorite was an "art car" known as the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir. It features 250 electromechanical fish and lobsters bolted to an old blue Volvo. The fish and lobsters dance to music play lists.
"It's the perfect combination of art and ingenuity," Cruz said.
The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir's "maker" is Richard Carter, 54, of Houston, Tex., who made the vehicle 10 years ago and regularly brings it to festivals. But this year marks his first Bay Area Maker Faire.
The car has batteries weighing more than 300 pounds, a computer, 31 custom circuit boards and five miles of control system wire.
"This is called an art car, but I don't consider it art," said Carter, a mathematician by training. "It's just something I do for fun. I'm a smart aleck with technical skills."
The multitude of exhibits are both outside and in large event halls, and the sheer volume of things to see–along with the beeping sounds of so many robots–can exhaust even the most die-hard fans. Veterans of the Maker Faire advise first-timers to wear sunscreen and a hat and to carry a water bottle.
Hundreds of artists and inventors shared their creations this year, and many crowd-pleasing favorites were back. The life-size "Mousetrap" game — an interactive kinetic sculpture atop a 6,500-square-foot game board — was a huge hit.
In recent months, a film called "Caine's Arcade," featuring an East Los Angeles boy who made arcade games out of cardboard, went viral on the Internet. So cardboard creations are a big theme this year. One entire area of the Maker Faire was devoted to a "Cardboard Challenge."
While parents relaxed in the cool evening breeze, many kids were still actively working on their projects.
Daniela Obringer, 11, was among dozens of kids sawing through cardboard boxes. Some made houses, others cardboard costumes.
"I don't really have a goal in mind yet," said Obringer, a sixth-grader at Valley Christian Junior High in San Jose. "I'm going to see what develops."
Diego, another 11-year-old who only gave his first name, proudly showed off the shield and sword that he'd made out of cardboard.
"I made it at the DIY place," he said, as a pink, motorized, all-electric cupcake zipped past him.
"This is my robot suit," chimed in a 7-year-old named Nicholas. "We used straps with duct tape for the shoulders. When I get home, I'm going to play in it more."
Contact Dana Hull at 408-920-2706. Follow her at Twitter.com/danahull.
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The Maker Faire continues Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are $35 for adults, $25 for students and $20 for youth.
Alternative transportation is strongly encouraged. Ride sharing, train, bike and bus route information is available at http://makerfaire.com.


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Imagine this, or maybe you don't have to imagine. Maybe you have an experience, a point of reference that allows you to dive into this story, in heart, in spirit.
Imagine you are peering into a window of a door that you have been invited to open. The brush of a cool wind, and the smell of the fall season's leaves entertain your senses. You lift your hand to the door knocker, grasp the brass bar. And halt.
You see through the window a table set for two. But not just a table, but one laden with colors. You see so many jewel colors of blue, red, green, yellows that they blur in a melody like a rainbow in motion!
Your eyes focus in on the beauty of the details: a vase chock-full of your favorite blooms, a table draped in a yellow linen cloth that drips off the edges to a glistening tiled floor, pure white china plates etched with blue delicate vines, two wine glasses with tinted strawberry red stems, and two vine-patterned napkins garnished with a gold rose.
What is this feast, you ask yourself? Why has my friend gone to this extravagance?
And you let go of the knocker, look down at your empty hands. I have not brought anything, you think to yourself. You turn, look behind you to the shadows of trees on the street. I have not done anything to deserve this extravagance, you think to yourself.
And you begin to take a step away when you hear the door open behind you. There you are! the familiar voice hails. Come in, come in! the recognizable voice summons.
You turn to your friend.
I've been waiting for you. So glad you're here to join me, and do I have a feast for us!
Would you hesitate to join your friend, as she intimately grasp a hand of yours in both of hers and ushers you into her home? Seeing her joy that you are just there, would you shy away or would you accompany her to the feast she has prepared for the two of you?
My guess is, my gosh, you would weave into her presence, ravish in her happiness and gratitude that you are there. And you would lavish in the festivities she is offering you as it is in the receiving of her gifts that you participate and give her joy!
And now I must ask you, my friend, if you have ever turned away from the feast that you are always being beckoned to, as His beloved? The invite is endless. The invitation always there.
Or have you turned away because you believe you have not brought anything to offer? That you have not been good enough, pure enough, obedient enough? Or maybe, like the second son of the prodigal, you have been out serving and working for your Father thinking it is the work to be done first and forever? The feast is there for you but you do not open the door?
"My son (my daughter)," the father said, "you are always with me, and everything I have is yours…(Luke 15:11)
Everything I have is yours. There is nothing you need to do.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God. who loved me and gave himself for me.
By grace you have been saved. There is nothing you need to do.
Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved—
Are you feasting at His table today, Beloved?


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Most of David Taylor's weekends as a kid were spent in his family's purple suburban, driving to various wrestling tournaments. The two-time NCAA champion recalls the countless road trips and the most important rule he had to follow: keep an A average in school if you want to wrestle.
"My family has played a very important role in my success," Taylor said. "And my dad's No. 1 rule growing up was I couldn't compete unless I had an A average. Since second grade that's something I held myself accountable for and did all through middle school, high school and college."
By the time the Penn State grappler went on to win his second NCAA title, he had already completed his undergraduate degree. The four-time, first-team National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Academic honoree chose to pursue graduate school following the completion of his undergraduate degree in recreation, park and tourism management in spring 2013. Now Taylor is working toward his master's degree in higher education administration and keeping with his high academic standards by maintaining a 3.67 GPA.
"I tried to take advantage of every moment I've been here and try to get the most out of every time I step on the mat or into the classroom," Taylor said. "The combination of the two have really created some great memories for me."
His dedication in the classroom goes hand in hand with his dedication on the mat. The four-time All-American never missed a practice or match during his entire five-year career as a Nittany Lion. He was a reliable leader for the team, and his routine dominance is evident by his 134-3 career record.
Academic success is equally as important as athletic success. We are all STUDENT- athletes!
— David Taylor (@magicman_psu) May 14, 2014
Many wrestlers refer to the sport as a "lifestyle," and Taylor is no different. He credits his success in the classroom to the wrestling mindset and persona he brings into all aspects of his life.
"I take pride in my wrestling, and I take pride in my academic accolades," Taylor said. "It's a lifestyle choice, and that's what I'm trying to apply in every aspect of my life."
Taylor's immediate aspirations still include the sport he loves. He has already begun training for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janerio, where he hopes to fulfill one of his many lifelong dreams of competing in the Olympics. Taylor will continue to complete his graduate program work, with plans to finish as early as fall 2014.
Taylor will reassess his future and begin setting his next set of goals following the Olympics to determine whether he will pursue coaching or a career in athletics administration. If he chooses the latter, he has the tools to do it.
"Someday down the road I may want to pursue something outside of wrestling, and I have these academic degrees to help me do that," Taylor said. "One way or another athletics is something that's been important to all aspects of my life, and in order to work in athletics administration you need an undergraduate degree and a master's at some point."
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During evolution, the insulin/IGF1 pathways have diverged from a single receptor in invertebrates to multiple receptors and more complicated pathways and regulatory networks in mammals. IGF-1 binding proteins are important is regulation of the IGF-1 axis that also regulates peripheral glucose metabolism28 and body fat distribution (Cohen, Muzumdar, Barzilai).
Those studies coincide with the cloning of humanin (HN), a mitochondrially derived peptide that decreases with aging and binds IGF-1BP3 (Cohen). HN regulates peripheral glucose metabolism through central29 and peripheral (in ß cell) mechanisms (Muzumdar, Barzilai, Cohen). Of particular interest is IGF-1 signaling in aging brain that is important for cognitive30 and numerous other functions (Etgen), including in control of female reproductive aging (Neal-Perry)31,32. IGF-133 and insulin induce inflammation and cancer (Yakar), while insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia34 causes tumorigenesis in aging rodents (LeRoith). Mechanistically, insulin receptor transmembrane downstream intracellular signaling pathways are impaired with aging (Pessin), and in addition to insulin, serotonin, also modulates FOXO35 with aging (Sze). Human genetic studies have led to identification of novel functional mutation36 in the IGF-1 receptor (Suh, Cohen, and Barzilai), and the search for additional mutations in the GH/IGF-1 signaling pathway and longevity, and also in FOXO3 gene37 and its function (Brunet). Collection of IGF-1/insulin phenotype and DNA from Ashkenazi Jews (Rajpathak) and Hispanics (Kaplan) in the Bronx will lead to elucidation of genomic mechanism38,39 controlling the GH/IGF-1 system.
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The restaurant is located along the main road M-17 (E-73) in the settlement Brankovići, located 8 km from Žepče in the direction of Maglaj. The restaurant has been operating since 1997 and is one of the oldest restaurants in the area of Žepče. Although located along the main road, the restaurant attracts travelers by its peaceful surroundings, hidden in the shadows of tall pines and willows.
This family restaurant has a successful long-term business due to the efficiency of its personel which involves promoting energy conservation among employees, and loyalty to local products, ie acquire meat and vegetables locally. In this way the restaurant helps promoting local producers and provides a controlled descent quality food for its guests. Another form of promotion of local area are handicrafts made by the local population and exposed in the restaurant so that guests can stay familiar with the cultural and natural heritage of this region.
AROUND THE TABLE - The restaurant offers a wide selection of grilled dishes, steaks, various prepared foods, fish, but its popularity among the faithful guests is due to local specialties such as veal and pork knuckle (ham), by which is especially famous among gourmets. The standard range of different drinks and aperitifs highlights several types of traditional local spirits - brandy and homemade wine from around Čitluk.
SURROUNDING - situated halfway between Žepče and Maglaj, the restaurant provides guests easy access to all facilities and tourist attractions such as the Church of Sv. John the Baptist in Brankovići, only 500 meters from the restaurant, or Maglaj medieval fortress, which is located just 6 km from the restaurant. If you are more interested in sport and recreation facilities and exploring the natural beauty of this area, the Pazarić Recreation Centers and the Gromilice Recreation Center are only a 15-minute drive from the restaurant.
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Description: Well Halloween is over and today is a new day that will be filled with some sweet tutorial lessons. For my first tutorial I will be showing you "how to draw lightning", step by step. Now I made sure that this tutorial was going to be as simple as possible that requires little or no effort. All I did was draw a big bumpy or puffy looking storm cloud and then I added three strikes of lightning that are coming out from under the dark cloud. I figured since there was a bunch of tutorials up that were kind of tricky, I should do some drawing lessons on five tutorials that are pretty simple. For those of you that love drawing lightning and different types of clouds, this lesson will easily show you how to accomplish the task very quickly and easily. But what is lightning bolts and how to they accrue? Well that is an age old question that has been asked by adults and children alike. And if you didn't pay attention in science class when the teacher explained to you how lightning electrifies the skies, than you must be asking that age old question today. Luckily I did pay attention to my science teacher and because of that I learned how these bolt so electricity form. First off these bolts are nothing more than rods of energy that produces a bolt of lightning that carries an electric current of 40 kilo amperes. Now of course the kilo amperes naturally get higher with each more powerful charge. Lightning storms usually accrue with thunderstorms, volcanic eruptions and other anomalies that form these powerful electrifying rods of energy. When drawing lightning all you have to do is make a series of sharp pointed lines that are joined together in a straight fashion. This tutorial will show you "how to draw lightning", step by step with easy steps and instructions. I will be back with more drawing fun in a bit so stay tuned DragoArt members and visitors, there is more on the way.


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Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesTM and ChaoticTM Highlight Fan Expo Canada
TMNT 25th Anniversary Panel & Screening and Chaotic Gaming Tournaments Provide Exclusive Fan Opportunities
TORONTO, August 28, 2009 – 4Kids Entertainment, global licensing agent for Chaotic and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT), will be showcasing these two brands this weekend at Fan Expo Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from August 28-30. This three-day event promises to be bigger than ever as Fan Expo Canada celebrates its 15th Anniversary.
"The TMNT and Chaotic brands have evolved in no small part thanks tor their dedicated fans across Canada," said Al Kahn, Chairman and CEO, 4Kids Entertainment. "We look forward to bringing them the new TMNT video games and feature film as well as the new Chaotic beverage, trading cards and TV series."
Attendees can quench their thirst by heading over to the Chaotic booth (#546) to sample Chaotic's new nutrient-infused beverages. There will also be exciting raffles held each day of the Expo, providing fans the chance to win Chaotic trading cards, t-shirts, card accessories, and copies of the Chaotic: Shadow Warriors video game from Activision. Raffles will be held on Friday, August 28 at 6 PM and 8 PM, Saturday, August 29 at 12 PM, 3 PM and 6 PM and Sunday, August 30 at 1 PM and 3 PM.
In addition, fans should be ready to get their "game on" at the following tournaments in the Gaming Area in room #808.
iPod Touch Challenge: Friday, August 28 at 4 PM, Saturday, August 29 at 3 PM and Sunday, August 30 at 12 PM
• Play for a chance to win an iPod Touch 8GB in these Sealed Deck Tournaments (Twenty dollar entrance fee)
Playmat Challenge: Daily, check times in the Gaming Area
• Win three matches to win a custom Chaotic Playmat in these 8-person Single Elimination Tournaments (Ten dollar entrance fee)
Championship Challenge: Saturday, August 29 at 10 AM
• Compete for a laptop and an invite to the 2009 World Championship (Twenty-dollar entrance fee)
Youth Challenge: Sunday, August 30 at 12 PM
• Players 13 years old and younger can compete for booster packs and a custom Chaotic playmat (Twenty dollar entrance fee)
For Turtle enthusiasts, a special TMNT panel will be held on Sunday, August 30 from 2- 4 PM in the Convention Centre in room #717. The diverse panelists, who will discuss the long history of the brand and the Turtles' popularity over the past 25 years, include:
• Gary Richardson (moderator), CEO of Mirage Studios (owners of the TMNT property)
• Lloyd Goldfine, supervising producer, 4Kids Productions
• Randall Lobb, producer of the TMNT documentary
• Mike Dooney, TMNT artist
• Eric Talbot, TMNT artist
• Steve Lavigne, TMNT artist
Fans will also get a sneak peek of the "Turtles Forever" animation special and never-before-seen footage of the upcoming TMNT documentary. In addition to the Chaotic booth, attendees should head to Mirage Studios booth (#543) for TMNT giveaways, autographs and much more. Chaotic is a revolutionary trading card game which integrates a collectible in-person card game with an online multi-player experience.
Each Chaotic trading card is printed with a unique alphanumeric code that enables players to upload their personal card collection onto www.chaoticgame.com. Chaotic connects traditional trading card elements with state-of-the-art technology to create an interactive gaming experience like no other.
Complementing the Chaotic Trading Card Game is the Chaotic animated TV series, whose second season, entitled "Chaotic M'arrillian Invasion," currently airs in Canada on TELETOON and in the U.S. on Cartoon Network, Disney XD and on TheCW4Kids, the five-hour Saturday morning children's programming block on The CW Television Network.
Visit www.tmnt25.com and www.chaoticgame.com for additional updates.
About 4Kids Entertainment
With U.S. headquarters in New York City, regional offices for its trading card business in San Diego, California and international offices in London, 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: KDE) is a global organization devoted to the creation, development, production, broadcasting, distribution, licensing, and manufacturing of children's entertainment products.
Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, 4Kids produces animated television series and films, distributes 4Kids' produced or licensed animated television series for the domestic and international television and home video markets, licenses merchandising rights worldwide to 4Kids' owned or represented properties, operates Web sites to support 4Kids' owned or represented properties, and produces and markets collectible trading card games. Additionally, the company programs and sells the national advertising time in TheCW4Kids five-hour Saturday morning block on The CW television network.
Additional information is available on the www.4KidsEntertainment.com corporate web site and at the www.4kids.tv game station site.
About Mirage Studios
Mirage Studios, Inc. is part of the Mirage Group, a group of companies located in Northampton, Massachusetts that owns, manages, nurtures and protects the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property.


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China's territorial disputes with its neighbors are nothing new, but Beijing has found a new way to infuriate its neighbors with its latest passport for Chinese citizens. The new passports feature a map that gives China ownership of highly disputed territories in the South China Sea — prompting concerns among its neighbors that stamping the passport would be seen as tacit approval of China's territorial claims.
(MORE: Big Exercise, Low Profile in Japan-China Dispute)
The map, which takes the form of a watermark on the passport's visa pages, features a dotted line extending Chinese sovereignty out into the South China Sea, home of rich oil and gas reserves, to encompass several hotly disputed areas — not least of which is Taiwan, which China has considered to be a renegade province since the Chinese Revolution of 1949.
Taiwan immediately condemned China for its "ignorance of reality" over the passports. Vietnam insisted that Beijing remove the "erroneous" drawing, the Associated Press writes; refusing to give China the satisfaction of seeing its stamp on the disputed map, Vietnam announced that it will issue visas on separate papers, according to Voice of America.
(MORE: As Islands Disputes Simmer, Hu Calls for China's Rise as Maritime Power)
India, which has its own border disputes with China, found the new passports "unacceptable," the Guardian reports. New Delhi has retaliated by stamping Chinese passports with a map of its own devising, claiming disputed areas of the India-China border — including the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed territory of Aksai Chin — as its own. The Guardian reports that India and China have tried to resolve the issue of the undemarcated region to no avail, even after 15 rounds of meetings.
Japan, which has feuded with China for decades over the Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku in Japanese), has stayed unusually quiet this time. According to the Financial Times, the Japanese government looked into the map controversy but decided to stay out of it. The islands in question are so tiny they cannot even be seen on the Chinese passport map.
(MORE: Tensions Increase as China Sends Patrol Boats to Disputed Islands)
China's response so far has essentially been that its neighbors should not take the offense personally. "The outline of China's map in the passport wasn't targeted at specific countries," the Foreign Ministry said, according to Bloomberg. "China is willing to communicate with relevant nations and promote the healthy development of contact between China and foreign personnel."
The affront has prompted Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines — four countries whose coastlines touch the South China Sea — to call a meeting in December to discuss the issue, the Associated Press reports.


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As you look for ways to contribute positively to the global economic and environmental crisis, getting an eco-friendly job provides a two-prong solution. Green Careers For Dummies introduces you to the wealth of opportunities in the rapidly expanding sustainable career genre.
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I compile winvnc with visual studio 2010 with "error C2065" (undeclared identifier) in vncproperties.cpp and vncpropertiespoll.cpp in several lines. Many identifiers, such as "IDC_CONNECT_SOCK", couldn´t be found. I think, they couldn´t be found because they are defined in the resource.h in the directory ...uvnc_settings... and not in the winvnc-directory. In older versions the identifiers used in the vncproperties.cpp stood all in the resource.h in the winvnc-directory.
Is it only a problem of the project settings? (paths?)
Thanx for help!


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Two men were arrested on suspicion of stealing three bright orange Volkswagen minibuses that were customized to look like cheese loafs from an Oregon-based cheese factory.
The Associated Press and KCRA report that police said Brian Lancaster, 32, and Ryan Monaco, 38, both of Sacramento, were taken into custody during a traffic stop.
The vehicles were stolen Saturday from a hotel parking lot in Manteca, California where they had stopped on a tour promoting the company's dairy products.
A tip led investigators to a storage locker about 50 miles away from Manteca, where the vehicles where discovered.
Lancaster and Monaco were being held for investigation of auto theft, possession of stolen vehicles, conspiracy and arson.
Each custom-made minibus is worth $100,000 each, which is why Tillamook was offering a $10,000 reward their safe recovery.
The Tillamook County Creamery Association released a statement on their website, which read (in part): We are thrilled with this news and extremely pleased to be able to recover our beloved cheese buses. Tillamook would like to express sincere appreciation to the law enforcement agencies who have been tirelessly working this case over the past few days, as well as to all of the media outlets and loyal Tillamook fans that helped spread the word about our missing vehicles. While this kind of senseless crime is shocking and saddening, we are grateful for this happy ending.


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So do they scale the newer games back (resolution etc) to work on existing xbox 360 machines? or are those dedicated boxes equivalent or very close to a PC version on a fast pc? Just wondering if I should consider an xbox or go with my fastest pc.
... the community will release higher- rez texture packs and the game will look even better.
Personally I have a big interest in the medieval period. Weaponry, armour, castles, untamed wilderness... And most RPGs are based on these periods with added fantasy elements, which I love as well. Monsters and such.The exploration aspect of these games are a huge appeal to me as well, and the elder scrolls series of games are all about roaming off the beaten path and exploring hidden ruins, caves, forests.Like Mike said: escapism and fun.These games aren't for everyone though. There are a lot of people who hate the fact that the game says: "Ok, here's a world to explore. Have fun!" Some people need a bit of direction, and don't enjoy the aimless wandering.


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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation of Sunnyvale, Calif., manages to stay on the analyst radar screen for server sales but only just. According to the Framingham, Mass. research firm IDC, the vendor maintained fifth place in terms of factory revenue in worldwide server sales in the third quarter of 2006. But its 5.3 percent market share declined 9 percent in terms of revenue, compared to the same quarter in 2005.
The company has plans to change that. It has refreshed all three of its server lines in recent months and incorporated dual-core, as well as virtualization technology, into many of its models.
"We are seeing a lot of sales for virtualization purposes," says Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing of Fujitsu Computer Systems. "But there are still plenty of people with high-end big SMP needs that aren't interested in virtualization. And the fact that scale-out and scale-up are both big demonstrates that there is never going to be one size fits all in the server marketplace."
PrimeQuest is characterized as Fujitsu's mainframe-class platform for Linux and Windows. It uses dual-core Intel Itanium 2 (Montecito) processors. Several PrimeQuest models are available, scaling from 1 to 32 sockets (2 to 64 cores) for a price that ranges from $75,000 to more than $1 million.
"All PrimeQuest machines have gone to dual-core," says McCormack. "We moved from the Itanium 2 Madison chip to Montecito at the end of last year."
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In addition to shifting to the new processors, Fujitsu has changed the system board, sped up the bus and doubled the amount of memory as much as 2 TB RAM is now available. It has also been freshened up in terms of power draw and cooling demands.
"We can now fit more power into a smaller footprint than before and also draw less power," says McCormack. "PrimeQuest has also achieved a record-breaking score on a TPC benchmark for an Itanium platform running Oracle."
On the Transaction Processing Performance Council's (TPC) OLTP benchmark, the Fujitsu PrimeQuest 540 server achieved 1,238,579 tpmC (transactions per minute) with a price-performance ratio of $3.94/tpmC. The tested server had 16 Intel Itanium 2 1.6 GHz processors running Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition and Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4.
Who uses such systems? McCormack says he's noticed many customers moving from OS390 to PrimeQuest. The company partners with Intel, Oracle and EDS on legacy modernization. Due to the high-end qualities of this server line, McCormack says it is well-suited as a destination for ported legacy applications.
While the most expensive servers are PrimeQuest, the volume sales come via Fujitsu's Primergy server line. These 1-way and 2-way boxes have all been upgraded recently with the latest dual-core and quad-core Xeon processors, as well as the newest Opteron dual-core chips.
Although this is technically Fujitsu's low-end line (the RX100 is priced at $1,000), it runs as high as $245,000 for the RX800. Like the PrimeQuest line, Primergy servers run on Windows and Linux. It is the company's largest range of servers from small blades to 16-socket systems.
The RX100 rack server is a 2-way unit in a 1U box. It also has up to 8 GB of RAM, integrated remote management, and a RAID 0 or 1 capable controller. It has optional hot-plug Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) drives.
The RX800 is another rack server, but it is capable of handling more demanding applications. It uses dual-core 64-bit Xeon MP processors. As needs grow, this Primergy unit can be expanded via 4-processor base units up to a maximum of 16 processors.
In addition, Fujitsu has been working to improve the cooling and power attributes of its servers via its CoolSafe airflow system.
"We've made cooling enhancements that have been added to many of our rackmount and blades models," says McCormack.
All Intel 2-socket systems now come in quad-core versions. According to McCormack, the bestseller is the RX300, which comes in single-core and dual-core versions.
"The RX300 is a good workhorse server which is used for database, file/print, e-mail, and other processor-intensive applications," he says.
On the blade front, the BX630 is available with a dual or quad processor in a 7U form factor. Its flexible design allows blades with Xeon or Opteron processors to coexist in the same chassis. These can be arranged in a variety of ways: up to 10 2-processor, up to five 4-processor, or up to two 8-processor blades per chassis.
In our last server snapshot, it looked like PrimePower was disappearing. Fujitsu announced that the PrimePower line was being integrated with Sun's Sun Fire servers. Yet, eight months later, sales are still going strong, and McCormack says these models will continue to be available in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, the company has made small incremental changes to PrimePower, including small bumps in processor speed.
But big news on PrimePower is coming soon very soon. Watch out for an announcement this quarter from Sun and Fujitsu about their joint server venture.
"We are launching a new platform under the code name APL Advanced Product Line this quarter," says McCormack.
North American Conquest?
Fujitsu has traditionally been stronger overseas. If its aspirations to climb the server sales ladder are to come to fruition, it will have to achieve more success in the North American market.
"Fujitsu offers solid technology products, but its presence in the U.S. market has been a major hindrance," says John Enck, an analyst at Stamford, Conn. based Gartner. "Fujitsu is strong in AsiaPac and parts of EMEA. It has tried various attempts to expand into North America, but thus far, that expansion has been problematic."
McCormack counters this by saying the company is expanding its American sales, particularly of its PrimePower and PrimeQuest models.
"Though PrimeQuest is a higher-end machine for the x86 market, we are experiencing good growth in this area," he concludes.
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PrimeQuest Mainframe-class platforms for hosting Linux and Windows environments, they combine Fujitsu mainframe design disciplines with the Intel Itanium 2 processor to deliver a server with high performance, availability and flexibility. Dual Core Itanium 2 1 to 32 sockets, 2 to 64 cores Windows Server Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Novell SUSE Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 520
From $75,000 to more than $1 million for large configurations PrimePower Servers that combine fast bus technology and the latest in SPARC processor development to provide value, performance, and scalability in a Solaris environment, as well as flexible partitioning and ECC across all data paths for reliability SPARC64 V-1.3+GHz, 1.8+ GHzm, and 2.+GHz processor speeds 1 to 128 SPARC64 Solaris 8, 9 and 10 Workgroup Servers
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$6,400 (for the 250) to more than $1 million (for any of the Enterprise systems) Primergy High-performance and reliable servers for mainstream Windows and Linux deployments available in a wide range of products from blade servers to 16-socket systems for database or virtualization applications Pentium D, AMD Opteron, 64-bit Xeon, Xeon MP and Itanium-2 1- to 16-way and 1 to 32 cores, depending on the processor type Windows, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux and VMware ESX Server Rack (RX)
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Today the U.S. House's Ways and Means Committee will convene the first hearing since an inspector general's report stated, unequivocally, that the Internal Revenue Service used "inappropriate criteria to identify organizations applying for tax-exempt status."
Expect expressions of outrage and calls for accountability. Anticipate even more questions about which IRS agents did what (and why) and who knew what (and when).
All of the above are warranted, especially in light of a report, released Tuesday, by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
The report made clear that the IRS division responsible for assessing applications for tax-exempt status -- particularly 501(c)(4) -- used political names and policy positions to determine whether applicants should be subject to additional review. What's more, the report found that applications from certain groups -- namely those with the labels "tea party" -- were overtly delayed and subject to "unnecessary" questions.
Furthermore, there is credible evidence that higher-ranking IRS officials failed to advise -- or deliberately misled -- Congress about the practices uncovered in the report.
None of this is acceptable.
IRS agents and officials, and anyone who was part of this ham-handed scheme, should be held accountable. Period.
It's important to note two points, though:
• During the years in question, the vast majority of applications for 501(c)(4) status were approved expeditiously -- by IRS standards, at least -- and with few, if any, questions. A few were denied and a small percentage were held in limbo.
• A wide range of applicants -- including those with no links to tea party activists or conservative causes -- were subjected to additional review by teams of IRS "specialists." But, the report added, all of the applications with "tea party," "patriots" or "9/12" in the organizations' names -- reviewed by the inspector general -- were given additional scrutiny and most likely delayed.
Compelling reason for scrutiny
The fact that the tea party and similar groups were targeted for intense review, delays and unwarranted inquiries will heighten partisan tensions in Congress and lead to questions about whether this was the work of rogue agents or part of an effort orchestrated from above.
Certainly the House Ways and Means Committee should seek to determine the origins of decision-making and examine the reasons for a troubling failure of administrative oversight.
Yet, as the inspector general's report noted, there was -- and still is -- a compelling reason for the IRS to vigorously review applications for tax-exempt status.
After all, applications for tax-exempt status have increased substantially since 2010, when a U.S. Supreme Court decision expanded the rights of corporations, groups and individuals to contribute to groups involved in politics.
Applications from organizations seeking tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code nearly doubled after the ruling in Citizens United.
Organizations that qualify for this status include social welfare groups, civic leagues and local associations of employees. The organizations are supposed to be "primarily engaged" in promoting "the common good and general welfare of the community." Involvement in political campaigns is not banned, but it is not supposed to be the "primary purpose" of an exempt group.
Yet many 501(c)(4) organizations -- including some of the largest and richest -- have been overtly political or are closely tied to so-called "super PACs" that raise funds to influence elections.
Identifying donors
Despite the tax-exempt status of 501(c)(4) groups, contributions to them are not tax deductible. So, what is the attraction?
Unlike the super PACs, the 501(c)(4) organizations can engage in politics without disclosing the identity of its donors.
So, the IRS faces the difficult task of trying to determine whether or not applicants for this tax status are primarily attempting to promote social welfare or to influence elections. At stake is whether or not the identities of donors must be disclosed.
The inspector general's report asserted that the IRS erred by using groups' names and policy positions, rather than the organizations' activities and structure, to decide whether additional review of applications was warranted.
Why IRS agents took that approach should be a focus of today's hearings and subsequent investigations, which should go wherever the evidence leads.
But the ambiguity in federal law and IRS guidelines for determining whether organizations deserve 501(c)(4) status, with its cloak of anonymity for donors seeking to influence elections, is also worthy of attention from Congress.
The use of selective criteria -- whether it discriminates against conservatives, liberals or centrists -- is unacceptable. But so is an ambiguous tax code that allows the IRS to grant special status and anonymity to political organizations under the guise of promoting social welfare.
Politics and the IRS
Today the U.S. House's Ways and Means Committee will convene the first hearing since an inspector general's report stated, unequivocally, that the Internal Revenue Service used "inappropriate criteria to identify organizations applying for tax-exempt status."


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Daniel McGowan may have been the first person thrown in solitary confinement for writing a HuffPost blog. Now he'll be the first person to sue the Bureau of Prisons over it.
The environmental activist and former prisoner filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the prison system over an April 2013 incident in which U.S. Marshals threw him in a Brooklyn federal jail — ironically, for criticizing earlier violations of his free speech.
"The Bureau of Prisons does not like criticism and their reaction was unsurprisingly to try and crush someone who stepped out of line," McGowan told HuffPost Tuesday in an email.
After a federal judge labeled him a terrorist in 2007 for arson committed with the Earth Liberation Front, McGowan spent years in some of the federal prison system's most restrictive prisons, the communication management units (CMUs). The Bureau of Prisons denies it, but internal prison files strongly suggest McGowan was placed there because of his continued outspoken association with the environmental movement. (more…)


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