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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
Sept. 11, 2008
Commemoration Activities and Memorials by State
Sun Lakes
The Interfaith Council of Greater Sun Lakes will host a service of remembrance Sept. 11, the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The service will begin at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary of the Sun Lakes United Methodist Church, 9248 E. Riggs Road. Clergy and laity representing a variety of faiths will participate in remembrance, unity and intercultural bridge building. The public is invited to stay for refreshments and fellowship. Information: 480-895-8766. http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2008/08/26/20080826cr-sloane0827.html
A multifaith prayer service to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York and at the Pentagon will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at Temple Emanu-El, 225 N. Country Club Road. The event will include a "fellowship dessert reception." "The measure of our character is in part the way in which we remember those who have died tragically," said Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon, in a news release inviting the public.
There will be a memorial softball tournament at Kit Carson Park from 9AM to 6PM on September 6th. On September 11th, the annual name reading event will take place at Grape Day Park at 5PM. Contact Mike O'Connor at email@example.com.
7th Annual 9/11 Remembrance and Patriotic Rally - all groups welcome. Join us on the El Curtola Boulevard overpass across Highway 24 in Lafayette, California, on Thursday, September 11th, 2008, from 3-8pm to commemorate the seventh anniversary of September 11th, 2001. For more information go to call (925) 212-9260.
Palm Springs
The Palm Desert Sister Cities Foundation will play host to The September Concert, a music event held in hundreds of U.S. and world cities. Scheduled at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center Park Amphitheater, the event will feature performances by the Palm Desert High School wind ensemble and Darlene Romano and Dan Waddell.
Sponsor: The Palm Desert Sister Cities Foundation
What: A free concert to honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedies
When: 7- 8:15 p.m. Sept. 11
Where: Civic Center Park, northeast corner of Fred Waring Drive and San Pablo Avenue.
Information: 779-5900
San Diego
On the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center we will pay tribute and honor to our fallen heroes. We will have a reading of the names accompanied by a tolling of the bells, along with additional tributes. The ceremonies will begin at 2:30 PM on September 11, 2008 on the flight deck of the USS Midway, 910 North Harbor Drive, alongside Navy Pier. Services will include: Presentation of the Colors, Pipes and Drums, Honor Guards from the San Diego FD, Orange County FD, US Marine Corps, and the US Border Patrol, Singing of the Star Spangled Banner, the reading of the names, SDFD Helicopter Flyover, 21 Gun Salute, and taps.
A dinner reception will be hosted by the FDNY Retirees of California immediately following the memorial event (approximately 5:00 PM) at the Old Firehouse Museum, 1572 Columbia Street (Columbia & Cedar Streets)one block up from Little Italy on India Street. Families and friends are invited to the memorial and reception. Contacts: All those that wish to participate in the reading of the names (a minimum of 85 readers required) please contact Jack Toale at (858) 451-2902 or by email at email@example.com
San Diego will host three additional memorial services. For information go to: http://www.publicsafety.net/PDF/9_11_08_CEREMONY_INVITE.pdf
Sherman Oaks
The seventh annual "We Remember Walk". Honoring victims, families, survivors, and responders of the September 11th attacks as well as military and first responders nationally. On Sept. 7th assemble at Sherman Oaks Galleria (Sepulveda and Ventura) at 10AM. The walk begins at 11AM to the 9/11 Memorial at Fire Station 88.
On the seventh anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks the 9/11 Memorial will serve as an appropriate backdrop for reflection and community gathering. A brief ceremony will be held by the 9/11 Memorial Committee, North Metro Fire Rescue District and the City & County of Broomfield. All events are open to the public. The ceremony will take place on September 11th from 6 - 7PM at Broomfield Outdoor Amphitheater & 9/11 Memorial -- 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, CO. http://denver.yourhub.com/Broomfield/Events/General/Event~513299.aspx
New London
A 9/11/01 remembrance ceremony will be held at fire headquarters at 289 Bank Street in New London, ct on 9/11/08 at 11:30 am. The ceremony will be followed by a luncheon inside the firehouse. All emergency service members and members of the public are invited to attend. All off-duty NLFD members who attend are requested to dress in full class a uniform. It is anticipated that the ceremony will last about 30 minutes. http://www.newlondonfirefightersunion.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=73604
New Milford
You are cordially invited to participate in the seventh anniversary of Voices of September 11th Memorial Ceremonies to be held on Thursday, September 11, 2008. The ceremonies will take place at Patriots Way Plaza in the New Milford Railroad station parking area. We will assemble around the 9-11 Monument at 8:00 AM and the service will commence at 8:48 AM. RSVP by August 31st, 2008.
Telephone Number (860) 354-4913
A traveling exhibit about how Connecticut's citizens have responded and reflected to 9/11. It includes the "Connecticut Remembers" Memorial Board, photographs, memory objects, audio/video stations, and Connecticut's 9/11 Memorial Library. It will be open to the public on 9/11/08. It is located at: 205 Bridge Street Suffield, CT 06078 and is wheelchair accessible. http://www.chs.org/911.htm
Martin County
This year marks the Seventh anniversary of the murderous attacks on our Country that occurred on September eleventh. As a memorial to our fallen comrades, the civilian victims, and those who have sacrificed in the military, both past and present, The Professional Firefighters & Paramedics of Martin County in partnership with Martin County Fire Rescue are hosting a month long tribute. Exhibit opens September 11th at 1:00 PM and runs daily through September 30th 2008. Open to the public Monday through Friday 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM (last admission at 7:30).Saturday 10:00 Am to 7:00 PM (last admission 6:30 PM).Sunday Noon to 5:00 PM (Last admission 4:30 PM). There is no charge for this event. http://www.martincountyremembers911.com/
Point Vedra Beach
The 7th Annual Patriots Memorial Bike Ride Saturday, September 13, 2008, 07:00 AM
Departs Nease High School in Northern St. Johns County 10550 Ray Rd. This bicycle ride is to honor the victims and heroes of September 11th 2001. It is 91.1 km on four lane highways and scenic country roads. Please wear red, white & blue to honor the day. We will have a short Memorial Ceremony starting at 7:00 a.m. Please be parked and ready to roll by that time. Email: email@example.com http://www.codyschallenge.com/patriots.htm
Dawson County
Dawson County Emergency Services and the Dawson County Sheriff's Office invite the public to attend a 9/11 service of remembrance on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 8:30 am at the Law Enforcement Center. The service will be given by Rev. Chad Rogers, Chaplin for Dawson County Public Safety, in honor of the sacrifices made seven years ago as we reflect on the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Please show your support and appreciation as we honor our first responders, past and present, on this special occasion.
Date: September 11, 2008
Time: 8:30 am
Place: Dawson County Law Enforcement Center
Des Plaines
Des Plaines public-safety officers and veterans at 8 a.m. Sept. 11 will host a 9/11 Memorial "Patriot Day" Ceremony outside Des Plaines Civic Center, 1420 Miner St. Members of the Des Plaines Fire and Police departments, American Legion Post 36, Veterans of Foreign Wars 2992 and the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 311 will participate. VFW Post Commander Steve Schaefer, Des Plaines Police Commander Nicholas Treantafeles, Deputy Fire Chief Scott Small and media specialist William Soderberg will coordinate the event, which is expected to last a half-hour. Schaefer will serve as master of ceremonies. The program will include Mayor Anthony Arredia, James Prandini, Fire Chief Randy Jaeger and Police Officer Matthew Jones, who recently returned from duty in Iraq. Police and Fire Department representatives will conduct a presentation of wreaths. Vocalist Becky Danegger will sing the National Anthem and members of Bugles Across America will play "Taps." A bagpiper will play "Amazing Grace."
The American Legion Family is organizing a Legacy Walk to reflect on the lives lost on Sept. 11, renew our commitment to freedom and the values of our country and to honor our veterans, past and present. The Legacy Walk is open to the general public. It will be a non-competitive walk from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 11 at the War Memorial Plaza. There is no registration fee to join the walk. We will be accepting donations to benefit The American Legion Legacy Scholarship, which benefits children of military personnel killed since 9/11/2001, and the American Legion Auxiliary's National President's Scholarship fund, which provides assistance to children of any service member. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080818/LOCAL180201/808180421/1274/LOCAL06
Fort Riley
Fort Riley and 1st Infantry Division leaders will hold an observance Sept. 11 to mark the 2001 terrorist attack on the United States. The event begins at 7:46 a.m., the moment the first aircraft struck New York's World Trade Center towers. Army leaders will remember the 155 soldiers, sailors and airmen deployed from Fort Riley who have been killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The names of the dead will be added to Fort Riley's Global War on Terrorism Monument near the U.S. Cavalry Museum. Brig. Gen. Perry Wiggins, commander of the 1st Infantry, is scheduled to make remarks followed by the ringing of a bell in honor of all who died during the 2001 attacks. There also will be a laying of a wreath at the monument and a 21-gun salute.
The Patriots' Run is an annual event held to commemorate the tragic events of September 11th 2001. With this event we remember, not only those victims who were lost, but also those soldiers, police, firefighters and others who served this country both on that day and every day thereafter. In this way we honor all the people who work to insure that this tragedy never repeats itself. http://www.patriotsrun.us/
This coming September 11th it will be 7 years since the Freeport Flag Ladies began holding their flags every Tuesday morning in honor of our troops and first responders at home. They invite anyone who is able to come to join them for the Annual 9-11 Tribute to be held from 7:30 to 9 am on the corner of Main and School streets in Freeport, Maine. http://www.freeportflagladies.com/
Ocean City
9/11 A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE presented by the Red Knights Motorcycle Club of Maryland, Chapter 3. Thursday, September11, 2008. All of the day's events are open to the public. For more information please see our website at http://www.redknightsmd3.org Click on the 9-11-06 Day of Remembrance Page or call 443-783-3289
Thursday, September 11th 7:30a-12:30pm
Seventh Annual Commemoration Services
State House, Boston, Massachusetts
More information to come. http://www.massfund.org/
Local police and firefighters will observe the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a ceremony of remembrance Thursday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m. The event will commemorate the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and the losses suffered at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. It will be part of a nationwide salute to fallen firefighters, police officers and civilians and the extraordinary response to tragic events that have changed all our lives. Police and firefighters are asking local leaders and community members to participate in the remembrance. Further information is available at the Marblehead Fire Department, 781-631-0142. http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/articles/2008/08/27/news/news16.txt
Lake Orion
This year's Patriot Day Ceremony will be on 9-11-08 at 7:00PM in the evening at The Orion Veterans Memorial (312 S. Broadway Lake Orion, MI 48362 Phone: (248) 693-6636) http://orionveteransmemorial.com/Remembering%209-11_Orion_Veterans_Memorial_Lake_Orion_MI.html
Linden Hills
The 7th Annual 9-11 Tribute will again take place on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lake Harriet Band Shell. Join us for another evening of music and remembrance of the events that took place on 9-11-2001. We will again have a march for the young people. All that participate will receive an American Flag to wave.
Click here to help with the 2008 event - our 7th Annual 9-11 Tribute Concert
View WCCO TV's News Report on 9-11-07
View a slide show of the 2007 event
If you have questions or comments about the 9-11 Tribute e-mail at: email@example.com
Jersey City
On Thursday, September 11, 2008, the New Jersey 9/11 Memorial Foundation will be holding a brief ceremony at the Central NJ Railroad Terminal in Liberty State Park. The ceremony is scheduled for 1:30pm and is expected to draw friends, colleagues, family members, survivors, and legislators to the site where the NJ 9/11 Memorial "Empty Sky" will be built.
Mantua Township
The Gloucester County Board of Freeholders, Mantua Mayor and Township Committee will hold a Patriot Day Ceremony on Thursday, September 11, in remembrance of the attacks on the United States. The 7th anniversary memorial will be held at the Place of Reflection, inside the Chestnut Branch Park on Main Street, and will be open to the public. The memorial will be a tribute to all those who lost their lives in the September 11 attacks, most especially Gloucester County residents John Rodak, Nicholas W. Brandemarti and Perry Thompson.
Morris County
The Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders will observe the 7th anniversary of the tragic events that took place Sept. 11, 2001, with a public Remembrance Service and Candlelight Vigil on Sunday, Sept. 7. The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. at the Morris County September 11th Memorial on West Hanover Avenue in Parsippany-Troy Hills, across from Morris View Healthcare Center, formerly Morris View Nursing Home. http://www.co.morris.nj.us/asp/morris/press.asp?link=1197
Las Cruces
The City of Las Cruces and the international fraternal organization, Woodmen of the World, will hold a remembrance ceremony to mark the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. The ceremony will include the raising of the American Flag on a 40-foot flag pole obtained by Woodmen of the world through a private donor. The ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 in Club Fusion, 101 E. Union Ave. in Las Cruces. http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_10334914
A memorial service will be held by the Village of Angola on 9/11/2008 at 6:30 PM at the William G. Houston Gazebo. http://www.villageofangola.org/newsandevents.html
Babylon Township
The seventh annual "We Remember Walk". Honoring victims, families, survivors, and responders of the September 11th attacks as well as military and first responders nationally. On Sept. 6th assemble at the golf course at Cedar Beach (Town of Babylon) at 5PM. Walk begins at 6PM to the Babylon Hometown Memorial.
Western New York Families of September 11th will hold its annual Remembrance Tribute on September 10th at 6 pm at the American Red Cross, 786 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo New York. Each year, we install a Flag Tribute as part of our commemoration. We will prepare the flags on Monday, August 25th and Tuesday, August 26th at 6 pm at the Red Cross. We will install the flags on Saturday, September 6th. Volunteers are welcome to assist on these dates. If you would like to volunteer or if you have any questions, please contact Kathleen Lynch at email@example.com or 716-713-2581.
Deer Park, Orange County
A memorial service, featuring the Color Guard and Brass Quintet from United States Military Academy, will be held on September 11th at the Town Hall. http://www.townofdeerpark.org/
A memorial 5k run will be held on September 11th by the Centerpointe Community Church of Lancaster that will also serve as a fundraiser for the Volunteer Fire Fighters, Ambulance Corps and Police Benevolent Society and finally Centerpointe Community. The location will be Combo Park.
Long Beach
Sunday, September 7th, 12 – 4PM
As we remember the events of 9/11, please join us in this special annual event to honor those lost and those left behind. We will pay tribute to our Armed Forces, Fireman, Police, EMS, Construction Workers & Clean-up crews, many of the unsung heroes and ordinary individuals who came together and did the extraordinary. The flying of colorful kites respectfully recognizes all those who survived, and those whose spirits have soared. We hope this event will foster unity, hope and healing. 2008 will be our 6th year; the Tribute has grown in size and scope. Sponsors and volunteers are welcome.
Location: City of Long Beach (near Riverside on the beach) Anyone interested in obtaining further information, please call 516-456-1039 or e-mail email@example.com
New York City
Passes are required for attending the official ceremony. If you will be attending we need to provide the Mayor's Office with a list of names. Please RSVP by August 21st. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
12:30-1:30 pm -- Survivor Tree Visit
Directly following the official ceremony, we will meet at the Survivor Tree for our own moments of reflection. We will again be joined by our friends from Oklahoma City.
Location: Living Memorial Grove, near City Hall
1:30-whenever... Lunch
Location: to be announced. We will be informally gathering at a nearby restaurant, payment on our own.
We look forward to seeing you again, and to meeting those of you who may not have attended previously.
World Trade Center Survivors Network - Executive Board http://www.survivorsnet.org/
The seventh annual Concert for Remembrance, 9/11 will be held Sunday, September 14, 5 pm at Grace Episcopal Church, 130 First Avenue, Nyack, NY. Sponsored by the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust, the concert is given in memory of all of the victims and heroes of the attacks against our country on September 11, 2001. There is no charge for admission and the public is warmly invited. http://www.gracechurchnyack.org/
Valatie, Columbia County
A memorial at Volunteer Town Park that will have one hand painted tile for every life lost on 9/11 will be unveiled on 9/7 at 1PM and a vigil will be held there on 9/11. http://columbiacountysept11memorial.org/
City police Chief Ed McSheffery will be the keynote speaker as the Connellsville Veterans Commission pays tribute to those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, and those who responded to the tragedies. The program will honor the passengers and crews of American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 93 that were overtaken by terrorists and then crashed into the North and South Towers of the World Trade center in New York; the Pentagon and a Shanksville farm field, killing those onboard the aircraft and others in the buildings.The ceremony will take place Sept. 11 at 10 a.m. at the Veterans Plaza adjacent to the city municipal building. http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20100122&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6
Local interfaith groups will commemorate Sept. 11, 2001, this year with "Appreciating America's Diversity," a ceremony to be opened by a Buddhist teacher and closed with a traditional Muslim meal. Other sponsors include the Institute for Cultural Partnerships, the Religion and Society Center, the Red Rose Foundation, the InterReligious Forum of Greater Harrisburg, the Sikh Society of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Nonbelievers, Unitarian Church of Harrisburg and the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Harrisburg Jewish Federation. Contact: MARY WARNER: 255-8267 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Location: St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral, 221 N. Front St., Harrisburg WHEN: 6:15 p.m. Sept. 11
The Wayne County 9/11 Memorial Committee would like to remind area residents that Thursday, September 11, 2008 is the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. All are encouraged to observe this somber yet important anniversary.
September 11th has been proclaimed Patriot's Day by the United States Congress and they have declared that all flags be flown at half-staff that day. The committee would like to ask that you observe a moment of silence at 9 a.m. to honor those who perished in the attacks. Please wear red, white and blue to work or school to show support for those who lost their lives on 9/11/01 and to honor the heroes who worked to save them.
In addition to the personal observance, the Committee will hold a silent gathering at the site of the Wayne County 9/11 Memorial located at the corner of Court and 9th Streets, Honesdale at 9 a.m. on Thursday, September 11, 2007. If you can not attend the morning gathering, you are invited to visit the memorial at any time to honor these very special people on this very memorable day.
Flight 93 Memorial Chapel (Flt 93 Memorial Chapel is located at 1790 Coleman Station Rd Friedens, PA 15541-6516). 9/10/08 – peace vigil at 6:00 pm 9/11/08 – various events throughout the day
Summary: Events include: Community Day Hoss's Steak and Sea House, Sounding of Thunder Bell & Declaration of Names of Heroes, Formal Ceremony in honor of Flight 93, MASS –in memoriam – Flight 93, Interfaith Religious Ceremony, Candlelight Service http://www.flt93memorialchapel.org/Schedule2008/2008schedule.html
A memorial service will be held on September 11th by the Warrington, Fire Dept. at Station 93 at 6PM. http://warringtonfire.com/officers.htm
Big Spring
Big Spring's first responders and military personnel will get a heartfelt thanks Sept. 11, as officials with the Hangar 25 Air Museum join forces with local residents for a special ceremony commemorating the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001.
Meghan Bias, director of the local air museum, said the event will be Hangar 25's second effort at the memorial ceremony, which will offer a much-needed thanks to the men and women who keep us safe. The ceremony will be held at the Big Spring Mall, near the entrance to Sears, at 6 p.m. For more information on the ceremony, contact the Hangar 25 Air Museum at 264-1999. http://www.bigspringherald.com/content/view/136073/60/
The Pentagon Memorial will be open to family members and their guests only on the following dates and times:
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- 1 large lemon, cut into 1/3-inch-thick slices
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 large shallots, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
- 10 large fresh sage leaves
- 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2/3 cup dry white wine
- 1/3 cup lemon vodka
- 2 cups beef broth
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Small-Town Story
By Brian Hayes
What factors arrange cities and towns on a map?
What factors arrange cities and towns on a map?
It's human nature: We huddle together in densely packed communities and then complain, Yogi Berra–style, that it's too crowded here. The vast rural-to-urban migration of the past two centuries has left much of the countryside all but vacant. And yet people have also been fleeing the central cities; places such as Buffalo and Cleveland have lost almost half their population. The majority of Americans now live neither in the country nor the city but in the suburban areas of metropolitan counties. It's a slightly puzzling pattern: If we all choose to live near a big city but not in it, who will make the city big?
The waves of population sloshing back and forth between farm and city also wash over the smaller towns and villages of the rural landscape—and perhaps threaten to wash them away. The market towns of the agricultural Midwest and Great Plains are considered especially vulnerable to these demographic tides. A recent series of articles in The New York Times discussed the fate of four such towns under the heading "Vanishing Point: The Empty Heartland." Those articles were hardly the first to note the plight of rural towns; indeed, an essay by Henry J. Fletcher was already predicting "The Doom of the Small Town" in 1895. It's another puzzle: If the towns were doomed 100-plus years ago, how is it they are still in the process of vanishing today?
Some quantitative insight comes from American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost, a 2002 book by Bruce L. Gardner of the University of Maryland. Gardner summarizes data from several studies of incorporated communities with a population of 1,000 or less. (Only incorporated towns are included because that's what the Census Bureau counts.) It turns out the number of such towns was roughly the same in 1990 as it was in 1910—about 9,500. Of course they are not all the same towns; many have come and gone, and the total number has fluctuated to some extent over the decades. Another study gives a more detailed view for the years from 1940 to 1960, which was the era of steepest decline in farm population. Of 10,099 towns in the under-1,000 category at the start of this period, 8,363 were still on the list at the end, for a loss of 1,736. But only 303 of those missing towns dwindled away to nonexistence; the rest departed the data set not by shrinking but by growing beyond the 1,000-person cutoff. Meanwhile, another 271 towns crossed the boundary in the opposite direction, declining from a larger population to under 1,000. And 1,236 towns in this size class were newly incorporated during the period. The net change resulting from all of these events was a loss of 229 towns, or about 2 percent. These numbers don't seem to support the notion that the small town as a social institution is about to dry up and blow away. If anything, what needs explaining is the remarkable stability and resilience of these communities. In the aggregate they seem to have survived almost unchanged through an unprecedented demographic upheaval.
Threats to the well-being of small-town America certainly seem plausible enough. As the surrounding farmland is drained of population, merchants on Main Street lose their customers. When those businesses close, jobs go with them. The tax base erodes, so that schools and other services deteriorate, causing still more people to move away. The mobility provided by roads and automobiles is another often-cited factor. Because people can travel farther for routine errands, local shops find themselves in competition with the Wal-Mart in the larger town up the road.
Some of the same developments that put small towns in jeopardy, however, might also sometimes work to their benefit. With all those millions of people leaving the farm, a few might be expected to settle in nearby towns; after all, not every former farmer goes off to Silicon Valley to be a dot-com entrepreneur. Improvements in communication and transportation could also cut both ways; people can live farther from their work and may be enticed by outlying villages. Jobs themselves have also diffused beyond the urban core; thousands are employed in places like Georgetown, Kentucky, and Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Even cultural attractions are no longer so centralized; you can live in the sticks and still get to the multiplex. And market economics is surely at work: A four-bedroom house with Victorian gingerbread trim is more affordable in a Minnesota village than in Boston or San Francisco. Finally, there is the indefinable matter of preferences: Even though most of us now live in metropolitan areas, opinion polls indicate that a majority would prefer rural or small-town life.
A coherent interpretation of all these conflicting trends and forces is not something that's likely to emerge from casual computer modeling. Rural sociologists have been striving to understand the situation for 50 years and more. (In particular, I would call attention to the work of Glenn V. Fuguitt of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and his students and collaborators.) In spite of extensive fieldwork and careful analysis, there is no consensus about what's in store for America's small towns, and there is no predictive theory.
Although computer simulations will not explain human settlement patterns, perhaps such models can reveal something about what needs to be explained. There may be murky psychological forces at work, but before invoking them it would be useful to know whether any of the observed patterns of migration might be accounted for by simpler mechanisms. An analogy from animal behavior comes to mind: the ant graveyard. Some species of ants tend to gather all their dead in one place, a practice that might seem to require considerable planning and organization. But simulations show that a simple two-part rule will suffice: If you see a dead ant and you're not already carrying one, pick it up; if you see a dead ant and you are carrying one, put yours down near the other. The rules that govern human decisions about where to live are surely not as simple as these, but it's worth seeing what can be accomplished with the most obvious algorithms.
Population change has two components: natural increase (the excess of births over deaths) and migration (the number of people moving in minus the number moving out). For the purposes of this article, however, I shall ignore natural increase altogether and pretend that total population is a conserved quantity. Thus only migration matters, and one town's gain is necessarily another's loss.
The simplest of all migration models sets people wandering randomly from place to place. But what does it mean, exactly, to move randomly? Here's one algorithm: From the set of all towns, choose one in such a way that every town has the same probability of selection; call the chosen town the source, S. Now pick a second town, the destination, D, in the same way. Move one person from S to D. (Occasionally S and D will turn out to be the same place, but that's okay.)
When you repeat this process many times, what happens? Looking at the distribution of places according to size, the result is more realistic than we have any right to expect from such a primitive model. In round numbers, the U.S. has 20,000 incorporated places, which are home to 250 million people. If that population sorted itself out according to the algorithm above, the largest cities would have roughly 100,000 residents, and a fifth of all the places would be villages of 1,000 people or less. The actual distribution is steeper—with bigger big cities and more small towns—and yet the overall shape is similar. Even this partial success is something of a surprise, because the underlying assumptions of the model are quite implausible. In choosing a source or destination, it assigns the same probability to a North Dakota hamlet as to New York City.
A remedy for this distortion is to weight the probability of selecting each town according to its population. An equivalent way of formulating the same process is to choose a person—rather than a town—randomly and with uniform probability. The selected person will be the migrant. Now choose a second person in the same way, and let the migrant move to wherever this second person resides. Under this procedure, people everywhere have the same probability of moving, which is surely closer to the truth than the heavily biased scheme of the first model. But now another peculiarity turns up. If the population of a town ever falls to zero, that place can no longer be chosen either as a source or as a destination; in effect it is permanently removed from the model. What's more, such extinctions are inevitable. If you track the evolution of any one town's population, it executes a random walk on the integers, moving up or down by one step each time someone arrives or departs. Any such random walk must eventually reach the zero point. Thus the unavoidable outcome, if the model runs indefinitely, is that every town but one will shrink to nothing, and the entire population will be crammed into the one surviving Omniopolis.
In a 1965 paper Fuguitt analyzed another probability process, which is quite different in detail but has a similar end point. Instead of directly simulating movements of people, he took as a fundamental event a town's transition from one size class to another. Using probabilities derived from Census data (and allowing for natural increase as well as migration), he found that eventually all towns would grow until they entered the largest class.
The runaway behavior of these models could be avoided in various ways—by a mechanism for creating new towns to replace those that dwindle away, by introducing subpopulations with different preferences in residence, or perhaps by building in an economic incentive favoring less-crowded areas. But such embellishments also bring more adjustable parameters, and the models no longer look so simple.
Something missing from all the models above is geography. There is no concept of distance; each town interacts with all the others on the same basis. On a real landscape, nearby towns are surely coupled more tightly than distant ones. A strong hint of spatial organization in the distribution of town sizes comes from the dramatic nighttime photographs of the Earth's surface made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. The instrument that records these images is a sensitive photodetector meant to measure cloud cover by moonlight, but it can also record city lights. A study of the photographs done by Paul Sutton of the University of California, Santa Barbara and three colleagues failed to establish a precise calibration of pixel brightness to population density, but distinguishing large and small towns is easy.
In a satellite image of the upper Midwest and Great Plains, it's obvious that the scattering of towns and cities is anything but random. In some areas, strings of towns seem to radiate from major population centers. Elsewhere the pattern reflects the rectilinear network of roads, which in turn derives from the early surveys of the territory based on uniform square townships six miles on a side. Of course the lattice of towns is nowhere perfect, but there's enough regularity that it leaps to the eye.
There is more to the spatial distribution of towns than just the latticelike arrangement of sites. Each category of settlement—the hamlets, the villages, the towns, the cities, the conurbations—appears to have its own characteristic scale of distance. Progressing from smaller to larger settlements, the spacing increases. At the same time the lattice structure becomes less regular.
There's an easy hypothesis to account for the general features of this pattern, assuming that the siting of towns and cities is determined mainly by their role as service centers for a dispersed population. People want someplace nearby where they can mail a letter or pick up a quart of milk, but they are willing to travel farther for less-frequent errands, such as shopping for clothing, and they'll go farther still to buy a new car or see an art exhibit. Thus each category of settlement competes mainly with others of similar size, and the interstices between major centers can be filled in by smaller towns. Ecologists have observed a similar pattern in the distribution of desert plants, where the largest shrubs maintain a fixed distance from one another, determined by the size of the catchment basin needed to sustain their growth; smaller plants can survive in the open areas between the bigger bushes.
This biological analogy suggests one way to model the spatial distribution of towns: Let people be sprinkled over the landscape like rainfall and drain into the nearest basin; then each basin's radius of attraction grows along with its population. Another approach takes its inspiration from physics rather than biology. The geographic distribution of towns looks a little like the arrangement of atoms or molecules in a mildly disordered material, such as a glass. This observation suggests the metaphor of a repulsive potential between towns, as if there were springs holding them apart. From any starting configuration we can then allow the network of springs to relax to a state of lower total energy.
Yet there's something odd about this idea. In a model of a solid, the network of springs relaxes by adjusting the positions of the atoms. Towns and cities, however, seldom get up and move. Even if, say, Austin and Rochester, Minnesota, would both be better off if they were a few miles farther apart, there's no convenient way to slide them across the landscape. Instead, the towns stay put, and all adjustments have to be made by having people migrate from place to place.
Here is an algorithm (one of many possibilities) for constructing such a model. At each step, choose two towns at random with uniform probability. Calculate the repulsive interaction between each of these towns and all the other towns in the sample, using some sort of potential in which the repulsion increases with population and diminishes with distance. The sum of all these interactions can be interpreted as an energy. Now move a person from one town to the other in whichever direction lowers the overall energy. Then start over by choosing two new cities.
The details of the inter-town potential are where the model gets messy. An obvious starting point is "antigravity": The force between two towns is directly proportional to the product of their populations and inversely proportional to the square of their distance. (It is antigravity because the force is repulsive rather than attractive.) Unfortunately, letting the system evolve under such a potential does not yield a realistic geography. The problem is that large cities not only repel one another but also strongly suppress the population of nearby smaller towns and villages, creating a vacant buffer zone that has no counterpart in the real world. A straightforward correction is to include another factor in the inter-town potential, namely the ratio of the smaller to the larger population. If this ratio is 1 (that is, the two towns have equal populations), then the repulsion will take its full strength. As the ratio approaches 0 (for the case of a one-stop-sign hamlet and a metropolis), the two places become almost oblivious of each other's presence.
The device of scaling the repulsive force according to the ratio of populations has a curious mathematical consequence. The force becomes proportional to pq x p/q (where p and q are the two populations, and p ≦ q).
This expression immediately simplifies to p2; that is, the larger population drops out of the calculation altogether, and the force between the towns depends only on the smaller population. Viewed in terms of a physical force law, this irrelevance of the larger population seems strange; it's certainly nothing like gravity. But it makes sense if we return to the original motivations for the model. We assumed that a hamlet can survive if and only if it is the closest place to buy milk or mail letters for everyone within a certain radius. Beyond that distance, it doesn't matter whether the next-nearest town is another tiny village or the city of Chicago.
A model constructed on these principles can be made to yield landscapes that visually have many of the same properties as real town-and-city distributions. A convenient starting configuration is a rectilinear grid of town sites, "jiggled" slightly to break the symmetries, with all the sites assigned the same starting population. Of course the towns never move; only their populations change as people transfer from site to site to reduce the energy of the system. After running the simulation for a few thousand steps per site, migration has altered the populations in such as way that villages, towns and cities are all distributed at the appropriate length scale. The smallest places are densely packed, whereas larger ones keep a greater distance between them.
It should be pointed out that this model is susceptible to the same demographic black-hole problem seen in the random-walk models. The lowest-energy state of the system is the configuration that packs everyone into a single city, since that eliminates all forces between towns. But the relaxation algorithm described above is unlikely ever to find this solution; it is a "greedy" algorithm that almost always becomes trapped in a metastable state. Here is a case where a "better" algorithm—one that converges to the true optimum—would not necessarily improve the model.
Could migration models as simple as these ever be made to give reliable and accurate predictions? This is a question not just about the models but also about the system being modeled. Similar techniques work quite well in the physical sciences and in some areas of biology—such as the case of the ant-graveyard problem. But we tend to see human habits as more complex and more contingent than any behavior of atoms or ants, and therefore beyond the scope of algorithmic or mathematical rules. After all, ants have been following the same basic impulses for millions of years, and furthermore they don't read American Scientist articles about ant behavior. Our own actions, in contrast, are influenced by familial, social, economic, historical, technological and cultural forces—not to mention sheer orneriness and whim. Whatever brings people to small towns today, it seems unlikely to be the same factor that acted on their parents or grandparents.
And yet the very survival of all those out-of-the-way communities from one generation to the next argues that human actions are not quite as fluid and contingent as they seem. There must be some regularity or consistency in our choices, even if we are not fully aware of it. A conservation law seems to be at work, or at least a stabilizing feedback principle. Computational models may offer our best hope of discovering the structure of such laws.
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An asteroid will buzz Earth next week, missing our planet by only 27,700 kilometers, making it the closest flyby in history. Asteroid hunters are trying to save our lives. But whenever I hear that an asteroid is coming towards us, I close my eyes and see that 'dense clouds of dust blocking the sun's rays, darkening and chilling Earth to deadly levels for us. The frigid and sweltering climatic extremes are causing the extinction of humans and almost all plants and animals.'
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Maintaining exercise when the cardiac rehab is complete
Researchers from The Miriam Hospital have found that patients who have completed cardiac rehabilitation and who receive telephone counseling that supports exercise are more likely to adhere to an exercise program. Results of the study, funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, are published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Traditionally, patients who complete Phase II cardiac rehabilitation often have low rates of maintaining exercise after program completion. If patients who have completed cardiac rehabilitation do not maintain regular exercise, they are at risk for repeated cardiac events and hospitalizations. Lifestyle changes such as staying regularly active, along with prescribed medications, are important for preventing future hospitalizations in this high risk population.
With that in mind, researchers at The Miriam Hospital developed a randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy of a home-based intervention to support exercise maintenance. Patients who completed cardiac rehabilitation were randomly chosen to receive phone interventions with exercise counseling (maintenance counseling group) or to receive only telephone support (contact control group) that did not focus on exercise. Data was collected over a period of five years and included 130 patients.
Bernardine Pinto, Ph.D., a researcher at The Miriam Hospital and a professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, led the study. She reports that when the data was analyzed, they found that the maintenance counseling group reported they were exercising at or above the weekly recommendations, were more motivated to stay active, and had better physical functioning than the control group at 12 months. There was a significant drop in weekly exercise in the control group over time. The researchers found that at six months, the counseling group's weekly exercise was approximately 32 minutes more than that of the control group. By 12 months, patients in the counseling group reported an average difference of 80 minutes of exercise per week compared to those in the control group.
Pinto explains that both groups received the same number of support calls; however, the patients in the control group did not receive focused exercise phone support. She adds, "It was also very encouraging to find that even patients with lower levels of exercise at the time of cardiac rehab discharge were particularly helped by the telephone counseling.
The researchers are greatly encouraged by the positive findings of the study. Pinto says, "While patients benefit from taking part in cardiac rehabilitation programs, six months after discharge, only 30 to 60 percent of patients report regular exercise. Our study shows that specific support for exercise is important if we want cardiac patients to stay active over the long-term and can easily be delivered through a telephone-based intervention. In the absence of such support, gains in exercise that patients have achieved while participating in cardiac rehabilitation may be lost with time."
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Virginia, House Republicans battle Obama and EPA
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli joined 14 other states in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of greenhouse gases.
Attorney Generals are challenging the EPA's rule on greenhouse gases. In discussing the EPA rule Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli referred to the EPA as the "Employment Prevention Agency" and voiced concern that the EPA's policies could cost every American household thousands of dollars per year. Virginia is joined by Texas, Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee also sent a letter to the OMB. In this letter 221 Bipartisan House Members ask the OMB to Stop EPA's Costly Regulation on Power Plants.
Dick Morris also agrees with Cuccinelli and Commerce Committee. "Many people believe that our great nation will be energy independent in the next several years" he said while speaking to Tea Party Coordinators from across the country in January. "We have the capability to be independent of the need for foreign oil. We need to allow production of our country's resources in order to reduce the dependency on foreign oil." Morris went on to say he believes the US can be energy independent as soon as 2016.
House Speaker John Bohener has also renewed calls for the Obama Administration saying, the fact that Transcanada is moving forward on part of the pipeline means Obama should just approve it." House Republicans have launched The American Energy Initiative, a plan that proposes to save taxpayers money by increasing the production of oil and energy in the United States. The Keystone XL Pipeline is part of that plan.
A recent Huffington Post article reports that Transcanada announced plans to begin building the southern part of the pipeline from Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico. Transcanada states that this portion of the pipeline would be used to ship oil overseas.
Despite the Obama Administration's stance on the Keystone Project, Former President Bill Clinton is on record as supporting the pipline, saying "We should embrace it."
He's not alone. Union leaders like Terry O'Sullivan of LIUNA (Laborers' International Union of North America) and William P. Hite (The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry) have both blasted President Obama for "letting job-killers win."
"We had hoped the decision would have been made on the basis of economics, facts and the best interests of the nation, not on the basis of a political calculation."
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Thursday, walk/run 2 miles (45 second run /1 minute walk)
Saturday, walk/run 2.5 miles (45 second run / 1 minute walk)
Sunday, Cherry Blossom 10 Miler!!! Yay!!!
Monday, swim 600 meters
Race recap:
Settle down. I was only spectating while NOD's (for the uninitiated, that's Number One Daughter's) boyfriend ran under someone else's number. Out of 20,000 runners he came in 3200, bringing it home in 1:20.
Going to this race a spectator brought it all back for me. I was kind of bummed out just to be watching. I vividly remembered my two tries at this race—and it made me nostalgic!
Although, it was once again was confirmed for me that spectating is not for the weak.
Number One Boyfriend and I got up at 6 a.m. Sunday morning and rode bikes down to the Washington Monument where the race started. (That felt oddly familiar. And wrong! So very very wrong!) It was cold -- 44F. But thinking hey, it's April, we counted on things warming up, so dressed lightly. That was wrong! So very very wrong!
Cuz it turns out that when you ride a bike downhill? It makes everything colder!
Who knew??
I never thought I'd utter these words, but it's true: I miss running!


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Belgian economic growth accelerated to 1.0% in 2014 after two years of weak performance. This improvement is expected to continue in 2015, with 1.2% growth in GDP forecast.
The insolvency environment
Corporate insolvencies finally decreased in 2014
As a consequence of the recession triggered by the global credit crisis, the number of Belgian corporate insolvencies rose by more than 10% in 2008 and 2009, and continued to increase even during the economic rebound of 2010 and 2011. This was in stark contrast to its neighbours - France, Germany and the Netherlands - where business failures reduced during 2010 and 2011. With low GDP growth rates in 2012 and 2013 the worsening trend in Belgian insolvencies continued. However, in 2014 business failures finally decreased by 8.6%, to 10,700 cases. That said, insolvencies remained high, especially in the construction, hotel/restaurant and transport sectors. In 2015 business insolvencies are expected to decrease further, by 11% year-on-year.
Economic situation
The rebound is set to continue in 2015
Belgian economic growth accelerated to 1.0% in 2014 after two years of weak performance. This improvement is expected to continue in 2015, with 1.2% growth in GDP forecast. In 2014 net exports again contributed positively to Belgium's economic performance, while domestic demand rebounded, growing by 1.7%. Real fixed investment increased after two years of contraction.
Consumer confidence is increasing
Private consumption growth remained subdued in 2013 and 2014. This is partially due to increased unemployment (8.5% in 2014), which increased due to a number of closures – the main one being the shutdown of the Ford plant in Genk. 4,000 employees were directly affected, but the total impact is estimated to be 10,000 jobs. However, unemployment is expected to decrease slightly in 2015, and consumer confidence has steadily improved since the end of 2014. With private consumption expected to increase 1.9% in 2015, this rise in consumer confidence could bring about an increase in spending to support the future rebound. This is also helped by very low consumer price inflation.
Investment growth set to continue
Business confidence remained volatile in recent months, but overall, it increased in 2014 compared to 2013. Real fixed investment grew 4.8% after two years of decreases, with business investments increasing by more than 6%. Real fixed investment growth is expected to continue in 2015, although at a lower rate.
Exports will increase further
As Belgium is an export-driven economy, its balance of trade should be structurally positive. Net exports increased from EUR 8.8 billion in 2013 to EUR 11.1 billion in 2014, helped by lower costs for energy imports such as petrol. Export growth is expected to increase 2.2% in 2015.
Government debt remains above 100% of GDP
The yearly fiscal deficit is expected to decrease further in 2015, helped by austerity measures passed in 2013. However, government debt will increase to above 100% of GDP in 2015.


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Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli has revealed he would like the show's stand-in host Claudia Winkleman to replace Sir Bruce Forsyth.
He said he would like to see her continue her on-screen partnership with Tess Daly when the BBC One programme returns in the autumn.
Sir Bruce announced earlier this month that he was stepping down from the live shows after a decade-long reign on the contest, presenting alongside Tess.
His departure has prompted speculation about the long-term replacement, but Bruno - who has been with the programme since the beginning - backed Claudia and Tess, although he was unsure what BBC bosses had in mind
The duo have been presenters on the Sunday night results show and have shown off their sparkling chemistry when Sir Bruce has taken a rest or been ill.
Speaking as he attended Brit Week in Los Angeles, Bruno said: "Personally, when Tess and Claudia did the show they know how it works, they are part of the family.
"Strictly Come Dancing is almost like an institution itself now in Britain, and I would be very, very happy for them, but it's not my show. I don't have any power and it is the big bosses that will make the decision. But I'll be delighted to have Tess and Claudia - they are fantastic, they work very well together."
He went on: "The show is very, very strong. I don't know what is going to happen. I'm sure the replacement will be as good, as entertaining as Bruce but Bruce is such a legend especially in Britain, he's a national treasure, so y ou can never try to be another Bruce.
"I think it has to be something completely different. The girls did very well. Tess and Claudia did a fantastic job."


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Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) is best known for his attempt to reform Renaissance Florence society and the Catholic church from the vices of modern life as he knew them. He was a gifted orator before he became the reformer of Florence. Under his leadership a republican form of government was instituted, tax reform was introduced, and moral laxness was legislated against. Savonarola set an important precedent for later religious reformers who stressed traditional moral teachings and Christian simplicity.


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Elisabeth Luard is a much acclaimed food writer with a long list of books, memoirs and journal articles, and a former Trustee Director of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. In 2016 she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Guild of Food Writers.
Elisabeth visited Talking Of Food recently to record extracts from her latest book Squirrel Pie and Other Stories. She also talked to Anne Dolamore, and their conversation ranged from her childhood abroad and her years spent in Andalusia with a young family, to her perception of the current state of cookery in the UK.
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I have the feeling of butterflies in my stomach. I also have the feeling that I'm swimming and about to be eaten by a shark. I don't know how those mix, but it leads to some crazy thoughts. Well you all know what I'm wearing this weekend. You know what music I'll be listening too, and how I'll be wearing my hair. You all know what race I'm running, and pretty much what my weekend will revolve around. It's time to run Long Beach for round dos! I'm so excited and nervous all at the same time. I haven't raced in a long time and I feel ready for this race. So you all want to know my goals, don't you, and I'm sure you all feel that you deserve a goal oriented post, don't you. Well.. shocker upon shockers, I'm not giving that to you today, or ever for that matter. I'll let you know if I hit my goals in my race recap, whenever that goes up. My number one goal is to have fun. It sounds SO cliche, but if you all remember, my last official race of this size wasn't the most fun for me, so I'm calling for a redo! Then we have the fact of getting to the finish line, which, obviously, it WILL happen, but my goal is to enjoy it this time. Another good one is to try not to find myself in the porta-potties as much as I did last time. That would equal a huge success for me! I've worked hard at switching things up this training round and I am just hoping my PB&Js will suffice and I will be golden in that area. Another AMAZING thing is that the twilight zone of mile 8 is SURELY not going to happen this marathon! Win for me, without even starting the race! If you want to be a complete stalker freak, you can follow me on twitter where I'll be updating, perhaps even during the race, or at least after. Also, I just found out that there is athlete tracking. If you have nothing to do with your life on Sunday morning and want to see my miles get progressively slower over time, you can track me here, and my bib number is 1804. Silently cheer for me in church too, if you are going, we all know I'll be needing it. :)
So besides the whole like, oh my gosh I'm running pretty far this weekend feeling, it should be pretty relaxing. Sadly, when I woke up this morning, I felt more sick than yesterday. I have been eating tons of vitamin C, drinking Tea, gargling salt, everything, and I know this is just how I get sick. Right now, I'm realizing that basically, what is going to happen, is going to happen and I can suck it up and be a big girl or I can mope around and think of the worst scenarios. I choose the first. Relax, drink tea, and just do my thing is all I can do at this point. Tonight, I'm grabbing dinner with a friend, and tomorrow I'll be relaxing, figuring out race logistics, doing some laundry, getting lots of ice, heading to the expo and doing a little pre-race dinner with some friends, which now sounds like a ton of stuff once I type that out, and then Sunday is race day! Hopefully I will be functional for the remainder of the day, but I will be taking two ice baths for sure. Believe me when I say it people, I WOULD NOT be doing it if I didn't feel exponentially better afterwords.
Anyways, for some funny race videos I found these. They are pretty epic!
That's after an Ironman, so don't freak out! Well unless your doing an ironman…
This one isn't as funny but it's just crazy that it actually happened.
And this guy… 200 meters from the finish, and can't continue!
Then here's an inspirational Nike commercial that stars Kara. :) Enjoy!
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Todd Akin's bizarre theory of rape and pregnancy has been getting brutal reviews. Perhaps the most succinct is that of Dr. Michael Greene, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, who said, "There are no words for this — it is just nuts."
There are a lot of crazy people saying crazy things on the internet and there is no sense in wasting time combating all of them. But Erick Erickson is employed by CNN and his defense of Todd Akin's bizarre comments sheds light on how low the standards of the mainstream media have become when someone whose views are not only hateful but are devoid of logic is given a platform by them.
Here is what Erickson said, following some religious drivel about us coming from dust and babies being stitched up by god in their mothers' wombs.
Congressman Akin said something dumb and inarticulate. But God bless him for trying to explain why so many Christians do not believe in an exception for rape and believe that to have one could see an increase in the number of claims of rape that are not actual rapes ("legitimate" rapes in his words), but are claims of rape used to justify an abortion when abortion is otherwise prohibited.
This typifies the mindset of those who are so crazily religious that reason fails them. False allegations of rape, like false allegations of any other crime, have been known to occur. But to take that as the norm is crazy. Never mind the reality that women who allege rape have a really tough time proving it, even if they are willing to suffer all the trauma and indignities that accompany making such a charge. To think that women will causally toss out a false allegation of rape (for which they face serious legal consequences) and put someone else, perhaps even someone they know, at risk of jail because they seek an abortion reveals a level of warped thinking that is frankly incomprehensible.


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- Zest of 2 lemons
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 3 teaspoons powdered gelatin
- 8 whole eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 12 ounces (3 sticks) butter, diced
- 8 sheets fillo pastry, each at least 16-inch by 11-inch in size
- 4 ounces (1 stick) butter, melted
- 8 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- Half pint fresh blackberries
- 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
Step 1
Place the lemon zest in a medium bowl and set aside. Spoon 4 tablespoons of the lemon juice into a very small bowl, sprinkle with the gelatin and set aside to thicken and almost set.
Step 2
Place the eggs, egg yolks, sugar, salt, and remaining lemon juice in the bowl with the lemon zest and whisk together. Pour into a saucepan, add the butter and cook over med-low heat, whisking constantly, until the custard begins to thicken. Just before boiling remove from the heat and add the now thickened lemon gelatin mixture. Pour the whole mixture through a fine mesh strainer set over a medium bowl. Cover the surface directly with plastic wrap and chill overnight until set quite firm.
Step 3
The next day, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 4
Unwrap the sheets of fillo and cover with damp cloth or a piece of plastic wrap. You should work quickly to avoid the fillo drying out. Lay two pieces of parchment paper measuring about 16 by 11-inches out on large chopping board. Brush each piece of paper with a thin layer of butter and sift two tablespoons of confectioners' sugar onto each one.
Step 5
Lay a sheet of fillo onto each of the papers and now brush that with butter also. Continue to layer the fillo and butter on each stack to give 4 fillo layers in total, finishing with a butter layer. Finally, sift 2 tablespoons of confectioners' sugar on top of each. Lay another sheet of parchment paper measuring 16 by 11-inches on top and use this as a guide to trim the pastry edges using a sharp knife.
Step 6
Next, remove the top sheet of parchment and using the knife, divide each fillo stack in half down the length (to give four 5.5-inches wide and 16-inches long rectangles). Make light score marks (not cutting through) with the knife across the opposite way and at 2-inch intervals to give 8 portion marks when serving. Slide each stack onto a sheet pan, butter the top sheets of parchment paper and place them butter side down on top. Finally, place another sheet pan on top of each stack (which will ensure the pastry will cook thin and crispy).
Step 7
Bake for 15 minutes, until crisp and golden brown. Remove the top sheet pans and allow the pastries to cool completely.
Step 8
To assemble, set one long rectangle onto a large platter and spread over 1/4 of the lemon cream evenly. Continue to layer up the fillo and lemon cream ending with a fillo top, to give 4 fillo layers and 3 lemon cream layers. There should be a remaining 1/4 of lemon cream still in the bowl to make a sauce with. To do this, add a 1/4 cup of hot tap water and whisk until smooth and drizzly in consistency.
Step 9
Finally, prepare the blackberries. Tip them into a small bowl and lightly crush them with a fork to bring out their juices. Add 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar and toss together.
Step 10
Using a very sharp knife carefully cut the Napoleon into 8 portions using the score marks as a guide. Drizzle some lemon sauce on each serving plate and place a portion of Napoleon in the center of each one. Spoon the crushed blackberries around and serve at once.


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A native of New Orleans, who endured 20yrs cruel Minnesota Cold, I decided at 42yrs old it was time to pack up my then 6yr old and come back to my roots. I am all things that would challenge the belief of growing up in New Orleans.
I was a 16yr old teen mother of a preterm 2lb baby girl born with a disability. With the help of my mother who had her struggles. We survived the obstacles laid before us.
I'm the proud mother of three children with two failed adoptions, as well as a grandmother of three, two grandsons and a granddaughter. I survived two abusive marriages.
I successfully ran a soul food restaurant and catering company in Minnesota for 12 years. I started creating custom cakes after the murder of my beloved cousin Melvin Paul. He survived Katrina only to go to Minneapolis six months later to be murdered over a parking spot dispute. I put my all into my cake business over the years as House of Cakes was started right out of my house in honor of him.
I thought by having the big house on the hill, a husband, having a family, foster/adoptive mother at that, being involved in all things that matter, plus having the funds to match would cure me in a sense; but most of it poisoned my heart and soul.
I had a broken heart, and I felt deep down the only way to repair it was to get back to my roots, my soul, my home, myself, my New Orleans. I'm here, and I love it. Even being in the so-called Blighted Area of New Orleans and not having all the financial and material security, I'm happy.
I am determined that She, yes New Orleans is a woman is just like me; together we will overcome and will rise from all that tried to kill our spirit. Nothing like starting from the bottom and making your way back up! I'm down in the boot, but I know I have a cute floppy hat awaiting my destiny…
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Videos | June 4, 2012
What's Up for June 2012?
It won't happen again until December 2117. On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit(pass in front of) the face of the sun in an event of both historical and observational importance.
Jane Houston Jones: What's Up for June? The transit of Venus.
The dark disk of Venus crosses the sun on June 5 in the Western Hemisphere and on June 6 in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Hello and welcome. I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Did you catch the transit of Venus in 2004? If you lived in western North American, you missed it because the transit had ended before the sun rose.
Venus frequently passes nearly directly between the Earth and the sun.
That's when Venus appears closest to the sun from our vantage point on Earth.
But 'nearly' means the planet passes above or below the sun, not across the sun's disk.
A 'transit' of Venus happens when Venus passes directly between the Earth and the sun.
The side of Venus facing us will appear as a small black dot.
It will take about 6 hours and 40 minutes for Venus to pass completely across the disk of the sun.
Only 6 Venus transits have occurred since the invention of the telescope and no one saw the first one in 1631.
Two British astronomers, Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree, saw the next transit in 1639.
Transits occur in pairs, with more than 100 years between each pair.
For safe transit viewing, in addition to solar telescopes and pinhole projection methods, you can use number 14 welder's glass from a welding supply store.
If you want to join a group of observers, you may find one near you on this world-wide event location map.
Or check with your local astronomy club, science center or planetarium.
You can read about how NASA spacecraft, like the Kepler mission, use transits around distant stars to discover new worlds at solarsystem dot nasa dot gov slash y s s, for Year of the Solar System.
And you can learn about all of NASA's missions at w w w dot nasa dot gov.
That's all for this month. I'm Jane Houston Jones.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology


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text: I traveled to Japan three times in 2011 to shoot the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. My initial efforts to get to the disaster area were a failure. In a last chance act of desperation I called a friend living in Sendai who happens to be a former member of a notorious outlaw biker gang. Due to his vouching for me, several motorcycle clubs that organized a grassroots relief effort allowed me to join them. I was only able to take these photos thanks to their kindness and sense of brotherhood.


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Workday IPO: Shares soar 74% on debutOctober 12, 2012: 5:40 PM ET
Share of Workday soared 74% as they made their stock market debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
The company provides a cloud-based software for companies to manage human resources functions like payrolls, time tracking and employee expense management. It raised $637 million in its initial public offering after pricing 22.8 million shares at $28 a piece, $2 above the high end of its estimated range. That makes it the largest public offering for any technology company since Facebook raised $16 billion in May.
The strong debut is a big win for Workday (WDAY) founders Aneel Bhusri and David Duffield, who was also the founder and CEO of PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle (ORCL) for more than $10 billion in a hostile takeover in 2004. The sharp increase also made Workday among the top five first-day gainers so far this year.
Workday's IPO has been one of the most anticipated since Facebook's. It's yet another sign of the strength of cloud-based enterprise technology companies that have gone public this year, including Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and Eloqua (ELOQ).
During the six months ended in July, Workday's revenue more than doubled -- to $119.5 million -- compared to the same period a year earlier. But the company posted a net loss of $47.3 million during the period, as it made "substantial investments" to draw new customers and develop its applications. As it continues to invest in its business, Workday said it does not expect to be profitable "for the foreseeable future."


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as promised, thrifted
I mentioned earlier that I went thrifting with my sister and would share what I found
this week. She found a pair of tops for work and I found this Braun aromaster coffee maker
for $4! It's in great condition and works perfectly. The base doubles as a warmer so it
keeps the coffee warm for a long time. We had a porcelain carafe which is supposed to
insulate and keep the fluid hot for long but the warmer on this glass carafe actually keeps
the heat much better.
I also found this tiny Viking creature, small pottery and blouse for $6. It's hard to tell
in the photo but the top half of the blouse is a solid black silk and the bottom is a
sheer, swiss dot type of fabric.
I think I can pat myself on the back for not breaking the $10 rule. I had a little bit of
anxiety about going on a spending freeze for a whole month but it's been easier than I
first thought. We've spent a little more time keeping up with grocery shopping and
reading more books.
Did you see my new blanket? My grandparents, who are from Guatemala, gave this to me
for Christmas. It's big, and wool and warm and I love the pattern so much!
I also wanted to mention the fabric print in the background, behind the chair, is from here!
Amy was kind enough to send one to me a while ago and I keep forgetting to mention it.
The thin fabric lets you frame or stretch the print around a canvas. Very cool.
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9 comments:
I've been thinking about buying that coffeemaker on ebay! $4?! JEALOUS.ReplyDelete
Great finds! Love that pillow on your chair as well.
that little viking is WAY too cute! love your new blanket...excellent picks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2011
Will you please tell me where you got that cushion cover? Love it!ReplyDelete
I love the pattern on your blanket too - your grandparents have great taste!ReplyDelete
I love to thrift but NYC thrift stores are usually so expensive! When I go back home to visit, my mom and I take one whole day and hit up as many as we can.ReplyDelete
PS: I love the small skillet from a few posts back. I received a full sized one for Christmas from my parents and I love it.
Anonymous-the pillow cover is from ebay, here is the store http://stores.ebay.com/breezeofanatoliaReplyDelete
I adore your Xmas blanket :o) / J'adore ta couverture de Noël ....ReplyDelete
Beautiful blanket,cute viking : ) .ReplyDelete
Oeeehhlala, great finds! I love that little viking: very cute!ReplyDelete
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Photo: Lots of standing water on the way home. No big deal. Click for album.
I had to drop some stuff off at the doctors' office before 5:00, which meant I needed to get home with The QuicknessTM. 3:00 hit and I was the hell out of the office. Sun occasionally prying through the overcast skies kept things near 50°F, and an ever-so-slight nudge was given to me out of the north. The 14 mile ride home was blissful. Big storms cells are brewing south of here but never quite made it up to my neck of the woods today. The only moisture I had to contend with was under me. Nothing more than a fine spray ever hit my shoes. I'm very pleased. I've also amassed about 20 miles on these fenders now, and not once have my toes hit the fenders nor have I heard any noise from them. I've strapped the bike to the bus a few times as well, so the fenders don't keep me from using the bus in a pinch, either.
You can check out my first impression of the SKS Fenders on CBB.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Great afternoon!
Photo: Lots of standing water on the way home. No big deal. Click for album.
2 comments:
- Chris said...
Personally, I LIKE the looks of those fenders on the 12; I think the black color gives the added stealth look. Although I don't ride a bike WITHOUT fenders so who am I to judge. ;)
- March 18, 2008 6:39 PM
- Apertome said...
I'm glad they're working out well for you. I sure was glad to have my fenders today!
- March 19, 2008 9:43 AM
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This is not part of my assignment, but I would like to figure out how to test the user input to be sure it is an integer. Is there a native function that I can use? If not can some one point me in the right dirrection because I am drawing a blank. At first I thought I would do this by comparing the ascii values but I did not figure out how to implement it. Here is the assignment that is actually finished and working. It compares two arrays to figure out the taxrate of an income. Would like to test the variable aswer.
#include <iostream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
const int max = 5;
int answer = 0, counta = 0, countb = 0, index = 0;
int income[max] = {0,10000,20000,50000,100000};
int tax[max] = {0,5,10,15,20};
cout<<"What is your income? ";
cin>> answer;
for (counta = 0; counta < max; counta++) {
for (countb = 1; countb < (max + 1); countb++) {
if ((answer >= income[counta]) & (answer <= income[countb])) {
index = counta; }
cout<<"Your taxrate is "<< tax[index] << "%" << endl;
cout<<"Your taxes are $"<< (tax[index]*.01)*answer <<
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HTC has started rolling out a new, relatively minor, software update for its first ever-3D phone on Sprint's network – the EVO 3D. No, its not the Ice Cream Sandwich update which the EVO 3D owners might be hoping for. The new software update carries the version number 2.17.651.5 and does not bring any major changes, except for a new radio/baseband, improving the battery life and perhaps, most importantly removing the Carrier IQ spyware.
Below is the full change-log of the update -:
+ Removes Carrier IQ
+ Updated Baseband
+ Minor performance improvements
+ Improved battery life
The update is being rolled out via OTA and in stages, so you might not get the update immediately.
An official spokesperson from HTC has also confirmed that the Taiwanese handset manufacturer will be releasing software updates for all of its handsets available under the Sprint network in the coming weeks that will remove the Carrier IQ app. Sprint also confirmed the same and said that software updates to remove Carrier IQ for other handsets under its network are also coming soon.


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Once an event_wait_list pointer is passed to a clEnqueue* function (and the function returns CL_SUCCESS) can the cl_event objects pointed to by event_wait_list be re-assigned to new events, or should none of them be touched until all commands enqueued with that wait list have finished?
For example, say I wanted to enqueue pairs of kernels in a loop (kernel B depends kernel A):
cl_command_queue queue;
size_t gws, lws;
cl_kernel kernel_A, kernel_B;
cl_event e;
for(int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
clEnqueueNDRangeKernel(queue, kernel_A, 1, NULL, &gws, &lws, 0, NULL, &e);
clEnqueueNDRangeKernel(queue, kernel_B, 1, NULL, &gws, &lws, 1, &e, NULL);
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text: Penn State's environmental center, Shaver's Creek, is on a zero waste mission. The group removed the facility's dumpster and is recycling everything except diapers. In order to fulfill the mission, they have had to change their trash habits and embrace a series of recycling bins. With help from the Penn State Office of Physical Plant the folks at Shaver's Creek have been very successful.


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Warmer temperatures call for a wider leg. Introducing our gazebo pant, featuring a cropped. Wide-leg silhouette that's easy, comfortable and flattering. We crafted it in luxe herringbone linen that has a slight sheen to it for a polished look that's appropriate for wherever you're going this summer (including the office). Linen. Dry clean. Please note: The white colorway comes fully lined (for a little extra coverage), while all other colours are unlined. Sits above hip. Fitted through hip and thigh with a wide, cropped leg. 23" inseam. Colour: orange


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