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The decision by Osage Bio to not open their Hopewell, Va., ethanol plant put a big crimp in the plans of grain farmers in Virginia, North Carolina and the Del Marva area.
Many growers are looking for an alternative crop to plant or to augment their wheat production.
Winter canola can be a good fit for small grain growers from a timing standpoint. Planting and harvest are generally in the same time period as wheat, but typically canola can be planted on the front end or back end of wheat planting and harvested on either end as well.
Canola in North Carolina and most of Virginia should be planted six weeks prior to the first hard freeze, typically around Oct. 15. Planting later can be a good gamble, because barring a hard freeze there isn't much else that can damage canola until the springtime.
Harvesting must be timely, because growers are typically docked when more than 10 percent green seed occur in harvested canola. In tests near Goldsboro, N.C., canola was planted Nov. 1 and harvested June 2, with very little green seed in the combine.
The same equipment, with minor alterations, can be used to plant and harvest canola and wheat. One of the alterations has to do with the tiny size of canola seed. Newer combines are sealed properly to handle seed size, but older equipment may require additional sealing to combine and transport canola.
Though canola and wheat are similar in some areas of production, from a biological perspective there are few direct correlations between the two crops.
Canola is a broadleaf crop, which significantly opens up the herbicide options for controlling winter grasses. With all the problems growers in the Upper Southeast are having managing Italian ryegrass, canola in the rotation may make a lot of sense.
Canola and wheat don't have any major diseases in common. So, canola in the rotation will help with disease management as much as it helps with weed and grass management.
Perhaps most importantly to growers, wheat behind canola typically produces 10-15 percent higher yield than wheat behind wheat. With the recent trend toward high wheat prices, bumping yields up can be a significant economic factor for growers.
From a marketing perspective, canola is an oil crop — primarily — and is not tied to the price of grain, which can spread out the risk of price fluctuations from year to year.
Are some production problems
Canola can be a good fit for grain growers, but there are some production problems, primarily on the front-end of production and at harvest time that growers should consider before jumping into production says North Carolina State University Organic Crops Specialist Chris Reberg-Horton.
Horton, who works primarily with organically grown canola, says many of the challenges of growing canola in the Southeast are common, regardless of whether the crop is grown organically or conventionally.
"One of the biggest problems canola growers face in the Southeast is how and when to harvest the crop. With canola it's easy to go from 'we don't think its ready' to 'it's laying on the ground,' Horton says.
In conventionally grown canola, some growers use dessicants, much like cotton growers use defoliants, to get the crop ready for a more uniform harvest. The problem is a lack of labeled materials for use as dessicant.
Reglone, which includes diquat as the primary active ingredient, was recently labeled for use in canola by the EPA and state registrations as of late June were in place in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Kansas. The product is being marketed by Syngenta.
A big issue with canola harvest is whether to straight cut or direct cut, versus using a swather, which is something like a rotary mower that is used to cut canola in Canada and the Great Plains. Swathing leaves the crop on the ground to mature for later combining. The practice is not common in the Southeast.
Having a dessicant available will make straight or direct cutting easier and save growers a lot of time in the overall harvest process. And, using a dessicant and direct combining should produce yields comparable to fields that are swathed.
"Greening is always an issue with canola. If you wait for the green material to go away, the crop is often on the ground. Varieties that are only different developmentally by a few days can still have a big harvest loss, if you wait to combine the crop," Horton notes.
The concave bar on the combine can be set more open for canola than for wheat, though that may sound backwards, Horton adds. Canola is very free-threshing, if you get in the field at the right time. It doesn't take much to open the seed up and you have a tremendous volume of material passing through the combine, he explains.
On the other end of the spectrum, many growers have stayed away from canola because there have been so few varieties available to growers in the Southeast. Most canola varieties were bred for conditions in the Great Plains states and Canada.
New varieties in pipeline
However, over the past few years North Carolina and Virginia, and a number of other Southeast states, have participated in a National Winter Canola Variety Test program (NWCVT).
Objectives of the NWCVT are to evaluate the performance of released and experimental varieties, determine where these varieties are best adapted, and increase visibility of winter canola across the nation, including the Southeast.
In North Carolina, nine canola varieties produced higher yield than the average yield for all tests in NWCVT. The two highest yielding varieties were Visby at 118 percent of the national average and Hybrisurf at 116 percent of the average canola yield in the nationwide test program.
In Virginia, 17 varieties produced more than the national average. Visby and Hybrisurf were among the top yield producers and Hybrisurf produced the highest oil content of all the canola varieties in the test. However, a test variety, MH06E4 topped all yields by nearly 10 bushels per acre.
Yields in the Southeast are already competitive with the Great Plains and Canada. They traditionally shoot for 40-50 bushels per acre and in North Carolina and Virginia 50-60 bushels per acre are possible once growers learn more about varieties and production practices for the crop.
Horton says North Carolina currently produces about 5,000 acres of canola per year. Georgia is the largest canola producer in the Southeast, usually growing 25,000-30,000 acres each year.
The demand for canola as an oil and alternative energy crop are high. There is likewise a big demand for canola for livestock feed. Organic canola is particularly highly sought after as a feed source, because it is much more competitively priced than other organic grains in the Southeast, Horton notes.
Worldwide, Canola meal is the second largest feed meal after soybean meal. Canola meal contains 35 percent protein and is complementary to other sources of protein because of its high levels of methionine and cysteine as compared to soybean meal and feed peas.
Canola meal is also relatively high in fiber (12 percent) and is a good source of essential minerals, with especially high levels of phosphorus.
Canola can be a good niche crop for Southeast growers, but they must have a place to sell it, Horton stresses. There is now a significant amount of information on canola production in the Southeast to help growers get started with the crop, he adds.


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Graziano Marcheschi, M.A. D.Min.,author, lecturer, and storyteller, is Vice President for University Mission and Ministry at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois. Formerly, he served as Director of Ministerial Resource Development and Archdiocesan Director of Lay Ministry Formation for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He has been adjunct faculty at a number of institutions, including the Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University Chicago. He has authored books on Scripture and proclamation skills as well audio and video works and a collection of stories and poetry, Wheat & Weeds and the Wolf of Gubbio,and he contributed commentaries on the Pentateuch, Gospels and Acts for the Catholic Bible, Personal Study Edition (Oxford University Press). He created and presented a major performance-prayer event in Phoenix, AZ during the 1987 pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II. Graziano hosts a local cable-TV program, The Church, the Cardinal and You and co-hosts the Archdiocesan morning radio program Catholic Community of Faith. He and his wife, Nancy, have two daughters and a son.
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is the sentiment King David expresses here that assured his greatness,
that set him apart from his predecessor, Saul, and that enables him to
stand tall among Israel's great heroes despite the grave sin that sits
at the heart of this lament
Miserere… it begins: "Have mercy, God, in accordance with your merciful love." From the start, the speaker, King David, does two things at once: admit his sinfulness and rely on God's mercy. He doesn't rely on previous good deeds or on any extenuating circumstances. He is guilty, and he knows only God's mercy can save him.
David's sin will have far-reaching consequences. The nation will pay for the crimes of their king just as children often suffer for the sins of their parents, employees for the sins of their bosses, and citizens and parishioners for the sins of their leaders.
David has committed adultery with Bathsheba and covered up his sin by ordering the murder of her husband. The prophet Nathan has confronted him with his crime, so now David has nowhere to hide. But David's contrast with his royal predecessor is starkly evident. King Saul hadn't succumbed to temptations of the flesh; he had stopped trusting God. He turned to divination and to mediums, rather than to God, to guarantee his future, so God "repented" of choosing Saul as king. Having lost God's confidence and hearing of his son's death, Saul despairs and falls upon his sword.
And then there's David. Nathan presents David's own story to him as a hypothetical, asking the king's judgment. The ploy works and David unwittingly declares his own crimes to be worthy of death. But when he's identified as the guilty party, David readily admits his guilt and accepts responsibility. And instead of falling on his sword, David falls to his knees and begs God's mercy. Saul and David both shed light on one of the great truths of Christian faith: God will forgive any sin for which we're truly sorry.
But that's not really as easy as it sounds. Those who think "It's not fair that some can sin their whole life through, then say a quick "I'm sorry" on their deathbed and thereby sneak through heaven's gates!" can take comfort (if such a thing is comfort) in the knowledge that it's really very difficult to turn our lives around all at once, especially at the very end. Saul couldn't do it. Fortunately, David didn't have to because he practiced repentance throughout his life. Deathbed confessions are the exception. The psalms show us the better way: we must recognize our sinfulness and practice repentance throughout life. And if we do, it won't be hard to say I'm sorry—and to mean it—when we reach the end.
the story of how Nathan confronted David in 2 Samuel 12: 1-14. Then
recall a time you've been confronted with some sin of your own. Were you
able to recognize and accept your guilt or did you strive to deny it to
others or yourself?
Though Scripture assures us David was forgiven his grave sins of adultery and of causing the death of an innocent man, the child he conceived with Bathsheba died, as the prophet Nathan predicted. That death is presented as the consequence of David's sin. Is God less merciful if he allows us to endure the consequences of our sins?
The prophets Nathan's ministry in this episode of David's life was to confront his King with a hard truth. Today we talk of "speaking truth to power," referring to the responsibility of bringing Gospel values to the marketplace and challenging our leaders when necessary. Do you see this as part of your Christian responsibility? How might you "speak truth to power" in your life or work?
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As a very fair skinned, freckly and tall guy (makes me closer to the sun) I have had my problems beating the heat. One time in college (I went to UNCW so on the beach) I got burnt so bad on my legs it made me get shaky and more loopy than Joseph Gordon-Levitt. My friends thought I pulled an Ewan McGregor and snuck in some heroin. Suffice to say, I got some serious additional freckling on my calves. With their long slender shape and pretty much invisible blonde hairs, I could pass them off as Lindsay Lohan's legs. Enough celebrity mentions already!
Unfortunately for the Celtics, St. Patty's didn't carry on into Monday night as the Heat led by LeBron James' 37-7-12 (including this abuse of Jason Terry) were able to keep the streak alive at 23. Although the city of Boston probably would have gotten blackout drunk again either way. With no Kevin Garnett, the C's gave another start to Jeff Green who exploded his green-ness on the Heat like Nickelodeon gak. He was the Green Monstah last night, going for a career-high 43 with 5 3PTM, 7 Rebs, 2 Asts, 2 Stls, and 4 Blks. Easily one of the best fantasy lines of the year for who is becoming a huge pickup for owners who nabbed him. Speaking of getting nabbed, check out this guy nabbing a few boogers on national TV. Proves you can do anything if you have the charm. Just look at that wink with the debonair of Mark Harmon/Dennis Quaid. I thought no more celebrity references!
Let's take a look at what else went down last night across the NBA:
Kobe Bryant – After trying to pull a Curt Schilling, the Mamba's ankle gave way and now he's got the flu, keeping him out of two straight games. The fact he was back even for a quarter one game after the injury is encouraging, but my extensive medical background reminded me that your joints swell when you have a sickness, so it still might be a little while.
J.J. Hickson – No signs of injury, yet Terry Stotts gave a middle finger to fantasy owners limiting Hickson to 16 minutes and a 4-6 game. A bit concerning if you need the double-double a night.
Jrue Holiday – Your my boy, Jrue! Two straight 27 Pt games going 27-8-6-1-1. And the Sixers won a game!
Dorell Wright – The Price is Wrong bitch! Well even when you go 5-14 off the bench, you can have value as Wright hit 2 3's, scored 16 with 8 Rebs, 4 Asts and 3 Blks. Still in kind of that fringy "to be on my fantasy team or not to be" but if you need 3's and a smatter of other stats, I nab him.
Gerald Henderson – Another big scoring game, which isn't too surprising, but he added in 8 assists to his 27 points in a Bobcats win over one of my best friend's Wizards. I told him break up the elite Bobcats. Plus Bismack Biyombo posterized Emeka Okafor, former Bobcat and former good defender. Ok maybe that's a bit harsh.
John Wall – Continues to play at an elite level, going 25-4-5-2-1. Glad I stashed him on my teams. At the behest of Michelle Pfeiffer, I did get high on my own supply.
Garrett Temple – Remember when he was a flavor of the week in December? With Bradley Beal and A.J. Price out, Temple has very quietly put up double-digit scoring in his last four, averaging 37.5 minutes. Went an uber-efficient 6-8 FG (2-2 3PTM) 17 Pts 5 Rebs 3 Asts 2 Stls and 1 Blk last night. Worth a look if you need minutes.
Trevor Ariza – Probably the most mentioned player since I have taken over the reigns (well maybe besides questions asking when Derrick Rose will be back), and went a decent 7-5-4 with a 3. I know that's not gonna cut it, but coming off an injury and still getting those minutes (29) is encouraging enough for me. Unless there's great options on the wire, I stand pat.
Tyler Hansbrough – With David West missing last night due to a lower back spasm, Psycho-T got the start and got a double-double in only 23 minutes. If you're in a deep league and West is out again tonight, Hansbrough's worth a spot start.
Gerald Green – Put up 20 Pts last night out of nowhere. He's played in only 2 other games in his last 15. I need to see more.
C.J. Miles – Scored 21 Pts off the bench last night as Dion Waiters had to prematurely exit with a sore knee. Can't tell you how many times that happened to me. If Waiters misses any time, Miles could be a 20-a-night kinda guy, but with paltry peripherals.
Darren Collison – Had one of his biggest nights of the season throwing up 24 against the Hawks, but he hasn't scored that much in over 70 days. Still a good fantasy option though.
Devin Harris – Got the start alongside Jeff Teague and promptly did virtually nothing, going 10-1-2-1-1. Not that that's horrific, but he won't get blocks and still only played 23 minutes. Just because he's a "starter" it doesn't boost his value.
Will Bynum – I like Bynum more than Nate Robinson (although that isn't saying much), but Bynum decided to throw up N-Rob numbers going 8-19 18 Pts 5 Rebs 6 Asts and a Stl. Ok so that's not too shabby. With Brandon Knight still ailing with the ankle and post-DeAndre Jordan
PTSD, expect Bynum to continue to have value.
Nate Robinson – I guess after slamming him I do have to mention Robinson's game last night. 34-1-7-2 with 6 3s. Yea if you think that's a typical night he can have, I can sell you this car that's working great, I promise, it just needs a tune-up. Speaking of I have to get my oil changed today and BMW's have to get synthetic. If that's not a wallet rape I dunno what is.
Wilson Chandler – Another huge outburst from Wilson, going 13-21 FG (1-2 3PTM) 35 Pts 9 Rebs 4 Asts and 2 Stls. He's sporadic, but going at Oklahoma City tonight, they'll need his hot hand.
Corey Brewer – One of my favorite under-the-radar guys, C-Brew went 7-13 FG (2-6 3PTM) 16 Pts 4 Rebs 2 Asts and 3 Stls. If you need a guy who can do it all, forget Jason Bourne or Val Kilmer in Spartan, go with Brewer. Speaking of Brewers, go Crew!
Nikola Pekovic – Second game back after missing a few weeks with ab issues, and went an underwhelming 3-9 FG 9 Pts 5 Rebs and a block. I watched this game and he looked fine to me, just needs more minutes (24 last night). A lot of those misses were tough layups inside. I'm excited for playoffs with Peks.
Jarrett Jack – An ugh game for sure. 4-9 FG 9-2-5-1. Wahhhhh I'm Jarrett Jack!
Eric Gordon – Still sitting out the second game of back-to-back matchups. I guess when you're out of it and about to change team names, you might as well not hurt your players on top of your image.
Los Angeles Lakers – No Kobe? No problem! Well that's what the team shrink told them all. Only managed 76 points against the friggin' Suns. Shot 33.3% from the field. Yikes. The Suns starting lineup? Goran Dragic, P.J. Tucker, Wesley Johnson, Markieff Morris and Jermaine O'Neal. If that doesn't instill fear into other teams, I don't know what will.
New York Knicks – Actually won on the road. Might have to reconsider taking Stevie Nicks.
Don't forget to challenge the Razzball Nation with your picks in the Razzball NCAA Bracket Challenge. If I don't win, I will doctor all your brackets to say you all picked La Salle to win it all.
Games Tonight: I've got Magic at Pacers then Clippers at Kings. After filling up Yahoo highlights with Hansbrough plays, I then get to watch the Clippers murder the Kings. Shoot your comments below and I'll throw out a few live tweets tonight (@jbgilpin) following the action. Good luck in the playoffs if they have begun!


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Hieromartyr Athanasius, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, Ven. Anthusa the Nun, and those with them
The Hieromartyr Athanasius, bishop of the Cilician city of Tarsus, who baptized the holy Nun Anthusa, was beheaded by the sword under the emperor Aurelian (270-275).
Saint Anthusa, a native of the city of Seleucia (in Syria), was the daughter of illustrious pagans. Learning of the teachings of Christ, she under pretense of visiting her benefactress, journeyed instead to Tarsus to Saint Athanasius and received Baptism from him.
Her parents were enraged at their daughter for becoming a Christian. She received monastic tonsure from Saint Athanasius, then settled in the desert, where she spent 33 years at ascetic deeds. She died at the end of the third century while she was praying. The Martyrs Charisimos and Neophytus, who had been baptized together with the Nun Anthusa, were her servants, and they too accepted death for Christ.


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Hp White Laboratory Hosting Army's Individual Carbine Familiarization Shoot and Compatibility Check
Baltimore, MD – H.P. White Laboratory, Inc., the world's largest independent ballistics and ballistics resistance test laboratory, is currently hosting (January – May, 2011) the US Army's Familiarization Shoot and Compatibility Check (FSCC) so that carbine vendors competing this summer to replace the Army's venerable M4 carbine have an opportunity to shoot the Army's latest and most advanced 5.56mm ammunition (M855A1). Prospective vendors also have the opportunity to conduct compatibility checks of their carbines with Army enablers such as the under barrel M320 grenade launcher and M26 shotgun.
"Since M855A1 is not available on the commercial market and has different characteristics from other 5.56 x 45mm ammunition, the Army provided the M855A1 so that carbine vendors could shoot it, make changes to maximize their weapons' performance, and then reshoot with M855A1 ammunition to confirm these changes prior to submitting their weapon to the Individual Carbine (IC) competition this summer," said Ray McBride, general manager, H.P. White. "Carbine vendors not chambered for 5.56mm ammunition can participate solely in the compatibility check portion to ensure their carbine's rail or bracket system can successfully attach Army enablers."
Each carbine vendor is allotted 10,800 rounds of M855A1 ammunition to determine their weapon's rate of fire, reliability, accuracy, barrel life, and other attributes. Firing takes place over a four day period on H.P. White's 25 and 300 yard outdoor ranges, and its 100 meter indoor range. Instrumentation such as radar and high speed video recorders capture data and images of the bullet in flight and provide tell tale information to the vendor on their carbine's performance with.
"The FSCC is extremely important; it allows vendors to provide a better weapon to the Army's IC competition and then ultimately to our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq," said Mike Parker, president, H.P. White. "We're honored that the Army placed its trust and confidence in H.P. White to host this event. It's not every day the Army looks to replace its primary weapon; so any organization participating in that evolution has to be on its game. Without exception, our team provides the Army and the gun makers the resources and confidentiality to test the performance of their weapons and ammunition."
H.P. White Laboratory, Inc. was founded in 1936 by Mr. Henry Packard White as a ballistic research and development facility. In its 75th year of operation, HP White is world renowned as the leading ballistic and ballistic resistance test laboratory. The laboratory is located at 3114 Scarboro Road, in Street, Maryland. For more information, email email@example.com, visit www.hpwhite.com, or call 1-410-838-6550.
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A PdF Reader on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom [UPDATED II]
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, December 10 2010
Here's a list of essential posts on current Wikileaks controversy, starting with coverage by techPresident's editors and including posts by the various speakers in Personal Democracy Forum's December 11 New York City symposium on Wikileaks and internet freedom, plus others we've found useful and/or provocative.
Micah L. Sifry, "From Wikileaks to OpenLeaks, Via the Knight News Challenge," December 17, 2010. How a $532,000 grant the Knight Foundation decided not to award fits into a creative split in the WikiLeaks organization and the creation of a less centralized engine for safe leaking, OpenLeaks.
Nick Judd, "The Art of Anonymous," December 16, 2010. How the hive mind recognizes itself, design-wise.
Nancy Scola, "The Web's Social Contract: Does It Exist? Are Wikileaks Takedowns Breaking It?," December 9, 2010. What does it mean "when a platform like a Twitter or a Facebook or a Tableau run[s] away from content that they might find objectionable, unpleasant or inconvenient?"
Micah L Sifry, "After Wikileaks: The Promise of Internet Freedom, For Real," December 5, 2010. "While I am not 100% sure I am for everything that Wikileaks has done is and is doing, I do know that I am anti-anti-Wikileaks. The Internet makes possible a freer and more democratic culture, but only if we fight for it."
Nick Judd, "Wikileaks Has More Google Juice Than Justin Bieber, But what Will Searchers See?" December 5, 2010. "The best way to get people to look at something is to tell them they shouldn't; how the government's reaction to Wikileaks is backfiring."
Micah L. Sifry, "Wikileaks, Cablegate and the Transparent World We Now Live In," December 1, 2010. "Whether you like it or not, raw data dumps (in structured, searchable, mashable form) of previously private or secret information are now part of the media landscape."
Zeynep Tufekci, "WikiLeaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, Not Nerd Supremacy," The Atlantic, December 22, 2010. A great rejoinder to Jaron Lanier's anti-WikiLeaks essay in the Atlantic. She writes, "During these past weeks, rather than a nerd takeover, I saw the crumbling of the facade of a flat, equal, open Internet and the revelation of an Internet which has corporate power occupying its key crossroads, ever-so-sensitive to any whiff of displeasure by the state. I saw an Internet in danger of becoming merely an interactive version of the television in terms of effective freedom of speech."
Jeff Jarvis, "Wikileaks: Power Shifts From Secrecy to Transparency," December 4, 2010. "Governments should be transparent by default, secret by necessity."
Mark Pesce, "The Blueprint," (December 6, 2010). "The failures of Wikileaks provide the blueprint for the systems which will follow it, and which will leave the state and its actors neutered."
Jay Rosen, "From Judith Miller to Julian Assange," December 9, 2010. "To understand Julian Assange and the weird reactions to him in the American press we need to tell a story that starts with Judy Miller and ends with Wikileaks."
Zeynep Tufekci, "Wikileaks is not about secret information; it's about insiders versus outsiders," December 9, 2010. "Rather than expose unknowns, I think it is more accurate to say that Wikileaks has collapsed the distinction between the "front" and "back stages" of the modern state, and exposed the gap between the day-to-day reality of modern statecraft and its civic front."
Rebecca MacKinnon, "Wikileaks, Amazon and the new threat to internet speech," December 3, 2010. "What is troubling and dangerous is that in the internet age, public discourse increasingly depends on digital spaces created, owned and operated by private companies."
Tom Watson, "Assange v. Obama," December 6, 2010. Why Julian Assange is not a harbinger of a new and better age: it is "anti-engagement, anti-development, anti-cooperation, and anti-peace."
Dave Winer, "Wikileaks on the run," December 3, 2010. "The problem isn't that Wikileaks is lying, the problem is that they're telling the truth. This is not business as usual."
Emily Bell, "How Wikileaks Has Woken Up Journalism." It is impossible not to conclude that this is a pivotal moment for journalism, its teaching and practice.
Carne Ross, "How Wikileaks Changes Things for Us All," December 1, 2010. "The presumption that governments can conduct their business in secret with one another, away from the prying eyes of the public, died this week."
Bruce Sterling, "The Blast Shack," December 22, 2010. If you weren't already sure that we are living in some kind of cyber-punk novel come to life, longtime sci-fi author and cultural critic Bruce Sterling puts it all together in this essay. A few snippets: The National Security Agency as the anti-WikiLeaks...Bradley Manning's new "tortured media-freak" condition...Julian Assange as the "one-man global McDonald's of leaks" who "has hacked a superpower"...Sterling broods: "As a novelist, you gotta like the deep and dark irony here. As somebody attempting to live on a troubled world… I dunno. It makes one want to call up the Red Cross and volunteer to fund planetary tranquilizers." Whoa.
Ethan Zuckerman et al, "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites," The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, December 20, 2010. "In this paper, we explore the specific phenomenon of DDoS attacks on independent media and human rights organizations, seeking to understand the nature and frequency of these attacks, their efficacy, and the responses available to sites under attack. Our report offers advice to independent media and human rights sites likely to be targeted by DDoS but comes to the uncomfortable conclusion that there is no easy solution to these attacks for many of these sites, particularly for attacks that exhaust network bandwidth."
Ethan Wilkes, "Generation Wiki's Web Savvy," The Morningside Post (Columbia University), December 11, 2010. "...in the absence of a far more heavily restricted internet we live in a Wikileakable world. No matter how secure our servers, how rigorous our clearance processes or how thorough our legislation, we will never eradicate the human element from security or the technological platforms on which treasure troves of classified documents, corporate secrets or other private data can be obtained and blasted across the public domain. The million-dollar question that nobody seems to be asking is: where do we go from here?"
Jaron Lanier, "The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of Wikileaks," The Atlantic, December 2010. "The Wikileaks method punishes a nation -- or any human undertaking -- that falls short of absolute, total transparency, which is all human undertakings, but perversely rewards an absolute lack of transparency. Thus an iron-shut government doesn't have leaks to the site, but a mostly-open government does.
If the political world becomes a mirror of the Internet as we know it today, then the world will be restructured around opaque, digitally delineated power centers surrounded by a sea of chaotic, underachieving openness. Wikileaks is one prototype of a digital power center, but others include hedge funds and social networking sites."
Josh Halliday and Tom Arthur, "WikiLeaks: Anonymous Hierarchy Emerges," The Guardian, December 16, 2010. Is Anonymous actually run by "a hidden cabal of around a dozen highly skilled hackers co-ordinating attacks across the web"?
FAIR, "What We Learn From Wikileaks," December 16, 2010. While some commentators argue that the released cables mainly show US diplomats in a benign light, here's a list of revelations that may color that view.
David Rieff, "Wikileaks and the Cyber Wars to Come," The New Republic, December 14, 2010. "For better or worse, the Wikileaks model is here to stay."
Roy Revie, "WikiLeaks and 21st Century Statecraft," December 8, 2010. "Have 250,000 leaks sunk the State Department's 'Internet Freedom' policy?"
Jonathan Zittrain, "Wikileaks FAQ" December 7, 2010. Nailing down the facts of the situation.
Aaron Bady, "Julian Assange and the computer conspiracy: 'to destroy this invisible government,'" November 29, 2010. Explores whether Assange is less interested in transparency than in making it harder for centralized governments to function.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, "Prosecute Assange Under the Espionage Act, December 7, 2010. "[The] latest WikiLeaks release demonstrates Mr. Assange's willingness to disseminate plans, comments, discussions and other communications that compromise our country."
See also this compendium from the International Journalism Festival.
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I began to paint a whole Death Korps of Krieg army for the campaign we are going to play between some members of the Raspura Oscura. The campaign consists of painting the army gradually and playing meanwhile with the figures painted. The first round begins with 500 points for the month of February. I decided to write an article about the whole process of painting. It will be posted on the ST forum in Spanish and when I finish it completely I'll post it in the blog, translated into English. Meanwhile, and if you know spanish (or at least know how to use any online translator and understand what they translate) you can check out the process in the ST forum.
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I haven't done any lifestyle posts in ages, so I thought it would be interesting to introduce a new series. Plus you can get to know me a bit better, and to be fair even I was getting tired of review after review haha!
I generally don't get on with Thai mains, especially the curries, the taste just isn't for me. With that in mind, I went for the Chicken stir fry with cashew nuts, does this look like a stir fry to you? Even then it would have been fine but there wasn't much chicken in it, and it was more like a soup with gravy, and I really didn't like the taste of the sauce. The mushrooms and nuts were also too hard to eat, so I didn't really have much of it.
My Sister on the other hand had the spicy fried rice with chicken and basil. Again, there wasn't much chicken in it, and it just tasted of spicy rice (it was a on the greasy side too). The fried egg also tasted a bit too rubbery. Chaophraya is actually more pricier than the other Thai restaurants I've been to, but I really didn't think it was worth it. The starters were mediocre (with the exception of the spring rolls), and I didn't think the mains were up there.


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- I'm not dead.
A dim realization but an important one, because I should have died.
- I remember the shock and...
...and nothing. Just the shock.
- ...bright like a fantastically annoying firefly. Was it a firefly? I couldn't see any wings. I took a step back. It floated forward.
I thought: I am on some terrible drug.
- 'Tell me who I am.'
'Halloween,' she said.
I'd been rooting against it, but when the word came, it was almost a relief...Hell, I thought. A rose by any other name.
'And who is that?'
'You are my Lord Halloween, Prince of the Marshes, King of Kadath, High Sovereign of the Orange and Black.'
- Why did it have to be amnesia? Why couldn't it have been hypermnesia? Or hyperkinesia? Or hypochondria?
- Children know precious little, but that profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived.
- He was the epitome of acting out to get attention. I think everyone acknowledged his jokes as a kind of defense mechanism. ('Humor? That's my lizard tail. You can look at that while I run away,' he'd once said.)
- And love, with a cursive capital 'L,' is merely sleight of hand, doled out by genetic edict in order to keep DNA flowing. It's all genetics. And beyond that, it's all just zeros and ones. But friendship, with an unpretentious lowercase 'f,' is real and right and valuable.
- 'I thought I put a stake through your heart,' he said.
'I don't hold a grudge,' shrugged Doom.
- Of course you think someone's trying to kill you, Hal--death is your favorite subject. Why shouldn't someone be trying to kill you?
- ...and he died for what?--what thrill?--what cause?--tell me what treasure is worth the oxygen in a good man's brain?
- I felt like taking on the world. I felt more in control than I'd ever been.
My partner in this endeavor: the psychotic who just broke my nose.
- I stood in the greeting-card aisle, looking for an appropriate sentiment. Though I searched high and low, there was no "so you're not even human" sympathy card.
- All hail the conquering hero. My best friend betrayed me, so I shot him. Distracted by a kiss, I let the love of my life die.


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Some Black students at Oregon State University are questioning the university's commitment to diversity.
The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports that students are raising the issue with a video posted online. OSU Black Cultural Center President Anderson DuBoise III points out that just over 1 percent of OSU students are black.
Graduate student Dominique Austin says Oregon State doesn't do a very good job of recruiting people from Portland or inner cities and that OSU needs to address the feelings of isolation experienced by black students on a predominantly white campus.
Steve Clark is OSU's vice president for university relations and marketing. He called the student video "profound and provocative." He says several high-level administrators met last week to discuss the issue and plan to meet with the students who made the video after winter break.
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Another day, another mother lode of new restaurants to unearth. Right now the culinary miner can find fresh Mediterranean food, ultramodern Asian fusion from L.A., another restaurant from "Top Chef" alum Brian Malarkey, and even more dining gold.
Bunz: In the shadow of the Days Hotel, this burgers-and-shakes shop comes from chef-restaurateur Jeff Rossman (Terra American Bistro). Grill vapors float through the sunny-colored, simple dining room — perhaps an Angus beef hot dog sizzling on the flat top. There might be some well-sourced, farm-to-table ingredients, but still, Bunz is a little taste of Coney Island in Mission Valley. 475 Hotel Circle S., Mission Valley. (619) 298-6515 or bunzsd.com
Davanti Enoteca & Mia Francesca: Sexy siblings from chef-restaurateur Scott Harris, whose celebrated family of Francesca restaurants started in Chicago. These opened late February and are connected by a single entrance. Small, shareable plates like pork belly and cheese-filled focaccia are in the osteria, Davanti. Mia leans more "alta cocina." Get an Old World wine and the popular Linguine all' Arlecchino (Manila clams, sea scallops and shrimp in a spicy cherry tomato sauce). Finish with a Limoncello. 12955 El Camino Real G-4, Carmel Valley. (858) 519-5060 Davanti; (858) 519-5055 Mia Francesca. miafrancesca.com
Gabardine: Chef-co-owner Brian Malarkey is broadening his restaurant quilt (Searsucker, Burlap, Gingham), this time going with a narrow layout and just one bar. Malarkey brought in executive chef Chad White to do a provencal Portuguese menu with fish stew and whole grilled fish. White has a flair for simple dishes — see the tremoços (Mediterranean yellow beans) and fried chick pea salad with chunks of albacore tuna confit, chimichurri and Parmesan. Watch closely for the moonfish special. 1005 Rosecrans St., Point Loma. (619) 398-9810 or gabardineeats.com
Katsuya by Stark San Diego: Murals of mascara-drenched geisha eyes and a white-on-white design by Philippe Starck. Food-design by master sushi chef Katsuya Uechi and chef de cuisine Adam Cho. And this splashy new import from Los Angeles is clubby: Put your glitzy gear on. Signature dishes include a sweet clump of rock shrimp tempura and a baked, miso-marinated black cod. A sashimi sampler is $35. The Burning Mandarin cocktail's hot ingredient is serrano chili. 600 F St., Gaslamp Quarter. (619) 814-2000 or sbe.com/katsuya
Lucky's Lunch Counter: A hip take on a Jewish deli and the home of the overstuffed sandwich (with pickle spears and house-made coleslaw, naturally). This East Village counter is just a fake-bunt-and-steal away from the ballpark. Lucky's stays open late after Padres games, so warm up with hot corned beef or hearty Mish Mosh soup (chicken and vegetables in a light broth with noodles, a giant matzo ball and kreplach aka dumplings). 338 Seventh Ave., East Village. (619) 255-GRUB (4782) or luckyslunchcounter.com
Panca Peruvian Rotisserie: You've had Pollo a la Brasa in Lima? There's a similar, long-marinated rotisserie chicken (cooked without charcoal) at this 2-month-old, family-friendly, order-at-the-counter location. Try the slow-cooked pork on ciabatta bread with sweet potato slices, salsa criolla and house-made mayo. Get some sugary Inca Kola. 1902 S. Coast Highway 101, Oceanside. (760) 722-3396 or pancaperuvianrotisserie.com
Raglan Public House: Two months old, and all its burger beef is grassfed, ground in house, and organic. Oh, there's burger fillings like chicken, fish and tofu. The lamb burger comes with red onion, mint jam, and beets that are julienned into long thin strips. Raglan's sister is Bare Back Grill in PB. 1851 Bacon St. (619) 794-2304 or raglanpublichouse.com.
Serenity Restaurant & Lounge: It is newly opened across from the Convention Center, and it's where you'll find Asian fusion, specifically filet mignon, seared scallops and crab-and-bacon fried rice made by executive chef Josh Hernandez. And find peace at Serenity's 60-foot bar. 201 J St., Marina District. (619) 450-4201 or serenitysd.com
Urban Eats: For three days, chef-owner Chris Sayre did an "Asian-inspired taqueria" here called Taco Banh. Then he closed and quickly rearranged his concept, aiming for a less exaggerated idea called "gourmet comfort food." Now there's a primo Niman Ranch slow-roasted pork with creamy polenta, bacon, Brussels sprouts and a honey-mustard glaze for $9. Sayre, former chef of the Paradise Grille, also braises Kobe beef, creates a cheese plate, dices a Hillcrest Chop Chop Salad, and puts out paninis. 3850 Fifth Ave., Hillcrest. (858) 729-4588.
Vanoos Grillette: Named after the owners' toddler (Vanoos, short for Vanessa), this month-old upper-Pacific Beach eatery has grab-and-go Mediterranean eats like wraps with house-made baba ganoush and a lamb-and-ground-beef $11.99 Kusta Burger with house-made hummus. Or dine in with a 7-inch roast-beef sub and purple butterfly decorations overhead. 4614 Mission Blvd., Pacific Beach. (858) 270-1101
Woody's Solana Beach: More of a bar scene, and this Blanca-restaurant-replacement has been doing burgers, New York steaks and salads since the beginning of February. 437 Highway 101, Solana Beach. (858) 345-1740.
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Source: LA Times | Published : March 19, 2014 by Neela Banerjee
WASHINGTON — As part of its campaign to address climate change, the White House on Wednesday unveiled a website to serve as a one-stop location for the enormous amount of climate data housed at different federal agencies.
The initiative to make the information easily accessible to communities, researchers and industries trying to adapt to global warming is the White House's latest move to deliver on a pledge President Obama made in June: to use his executive authority to confront climate change in light of congressional inaction.
With climate change fueling storms, droughts and wildfires, "people are going to need to understand what is happening and what is going to happen," said John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are spearheading the new Climate Data Initiative. The beta version of climate.data.gov will provide data sets on rising sea levels and coastal flooding. The site will eventually provide information about the effects of climate change on the food supply, public health and energy sources.
The initiative also will include projects launched by the private sector to provide the data about climate change through apps, cloud computing and Web tools.
The portal will "make clearer what the risks are of inaction," said John Podesta, a senior advisor to the president and former chief of staff for President Clinton. "Localizing this information will give people a sense of how this will affect them."
Over the last few weeks, the White House has rolled out climate change initiatives at a rapid clip.
In February, the administration created so-called climate hubs under the Agriculture Department to connect farmers and ranchers with universities, industry groups and federal agencies to help prepare for disasters worsened by climate change, such as wildfires, pests, flooding and drought.
Obama has also directed the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department to develop a new generation of tougher fuel economy standards for heavy-duty long-haul trucks.
The president also plans to ask Congress for $1 billion in his 2015 budget to establish a "climate resiliency fund" that would finance research, preparation and infrastructure to adapt to extreme weather.
In the administration's most high-profile effort to combat climate change, the EPA in September proposed rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.
Obama plans to talk more frequently in the coming months about climate change, and the White House will probably unveil new efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, said Podesta, who said he was spending about half his time at the White House working on climate change.
NOAA, NASA and other federal agencies provide detailed regular reports about long-term climate trends. NOAA routinely distributes short-term seasonal reports that focus on the outlook for extreme weather events in the U.S. But the Climate Data Initiative aims to host the information in one place where it can be used to create long-term outlooks for the potential effects of climate change, such as estimates for sea level rises that could affect coastal construction.
The cost of the project is "modest," Holdren said, since it mostly involves connecting different agencies' data sets. He could not provide an estimate, but he said the costs had been written into the 2015 budgets of the participating agencies.
The White House announced more than a dozen private-sector initiatives to build tools and create ways to disseminate the data. Google says it is working with the Desert Research Institute, the University of Idaho and the University of Nebraska "to provide drought mapping and monitoring for the entire continental United States in near-real time."
Google previously created a portal called Earth Engine that uses 40 years of satellite imagery to give a time-lapse view of places around the world, such as the Amazon rain forest or the Columbia glacier in Alaska. Traffic on the site has been high, said Rebecca Moore, the site's founder. She expects great demand for the new climate data portal as well.
"People are hungry for this kind of information, if you can give it to them in a way they understand," Moore said. With the data available through the new initiative, it could be "possible to create a living, breathing dashboard of the planet."
The nonprofit Climate Central, which reports on climate change, will offer a free Web tool that will provide "local projections, maps and assessments of exposure to sea level rise and coastal flooding tabulated for every coastal ZIP Code, municipality, county and state in the U.S."
Esri, a Redlands company that specializes in geographic information systems, plans to work with a dozen cities and counties to develop ways to use climate data to address their most urgent climate preparedness concerns.
The company already has an app that estimates how many people in a given coastal area would be displaced by a 1-meter rise in sea level. In New York City, that would be 750,000 people.
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|chocolate chip coconut oat cookies
It's a little harder to find time to blog lately and with vegan MOFO in full swing!! Not wanting to let the vegan team down I thought a simple cookie recipe would do the trick.
I have made these cookies twice this week. The first time I just wanted a classic chocolate chip cookie but realized I didn't have enough flour so I had to add some oats, realizing that I didn't have any rolled oats (we needed groceries badly) I used Leeluu's quick oats that she has for breakfast. Oats in the cookies... at this point I was ready to add other things, so coconut did the job. They didn't last long, that must mean there good.
1/2 cup earth balance
1 1/4 cup organic brown sugar
1/4 cup sunflower oil
2 tbsp ground flax seed mixed with 6 tbsp boiling water
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
2 1/4 cup unbleached flour
1/2 cup quick oats
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut
1 tbsp non dairy milk
Preheat oven to 350
Beat up butter and oil with sugar, add flax and vanilla.
Mix in dry ingredients. Beat until dough forms, add the milk.
Roll into balls and squish down on a foil lined pan.
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Bhutan Travel Information
The Basics
Local time is GMT +6 hours.
Electrical current is 230 volts (50Hz). European round pin attachment plugs and three-pin rectangular plugs are in use.
Dzongkha is the official language, and various Tibetan dialects are spoken. English has recently become the language of instruction in schools but is only spoken fluently by guides and tourist industry professionals.
Travel Health
Ensure you have adequate travel insurance that includes the facility for emergency repatriation. The most significant health risks for travellers are water-borne parasites from unclean drinking water and altitude sickness resulting from exposure to high altitudes. Health care standards are relatively high. For locals all health services are free, and both western and traditional medicine is practiced side by side. In 2004, Bhutan became the first country in the world to entirely ban the sale of cigarettes. Hospitals and clinics are located throughout the country, with excellent facilities available in the capital, Thimpu.
Tipping is not expected in restaurants as your meal would have been prepaid by your tour agency. On treks, it is usual to tip the cook, his assistant, and any porters. Ask your guide for advice. If you hire a driver tip him at the end of your trip. Bhutanese tradition is that one typically refuses a tip the first time it is offered but accepts it the second time.
Safety Information
Bhutan is one of the safest destinations on the planet. There is virtually no crime or violence.
Local Customs
Bhutan is a traditional Buddhist society. Dress conservatively when visiting religious sites, avoid public displays of affection, and never climb or sit on a statue. Do not take photographs within temples unless permission has been granted to do so.
Avoid pointing at people or religious icons with your finger; this is considered very rude. Smoking is banned in all public places, including restaurants and bars. Betel nut is chewed throughout the day by young and old alike and has become an integral part of Bhutanese society.
The royal family is revered and deeply respected so avoid any disparaging remarks or gestures about them. Mountains are considered to be the abode of the gods and hence any recreational activities therein are disallowed.
The international dialling code for Bhutan is +975. The outgoing code is 00 followed by the relevant country code (e.g. 0044 for the United Kingdom). There is extensive mobile phone coverage, which is more reliable and widespread than the landline network. Internet access is available in all main towns and hotels.
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Travellers to Bhutan may bring with them up to 200 cigarettes, one litre of liquor, and goods for personal use. It's illegal to sell tobacco in Bhutan, but import of tobacco is subject to 100% tax. Guns and ammunition, narcotics, antiques, and wildlife products are prohibited.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) Trey Burke scored 19 points and freshman Nik Stauskas added 12 to lead No. 3 Michigan to a 67-39 victory over Binghamton on Tuesday night.
The Wolverines (10-0) are off to their best start since their national title season of 1988-89, and this win was every bit the mismatch it looked like before the opening tip. The Bearcats (2-9) were coming off a 22-point loss to Bryant. They led Michigan 10-8 before the Wolverines went on a 19-2 run.
It was 34-14 at halftime.
Jordan Reed scored 11 points and was Binghamton's only player in double figures. He also had eight rebounds.
The Wolverines were favored by 37 1/2 points, but they got off to a slow start, allowing the Bearcats to match them in the early going. Rayner Moquete's 3-pointer off a Michigan turnover put Binghamton up two, but the lead was short lived.
Tim Hardaway Jr.'s three-point play 23 seconds later put the Wolverines back ahead, and Stauskas and Hardaway made it 21-12 with back-to-back 3-pointers.
Reed gave the Bearcats a brief highlight, dunking back a missed shot to make it 27-14, but Michigan scored the last seven points of the half, capped by Burke's 3 from near the top of the key in the final seconds.
Burke made an alert play in the second half when his pass toward Jordan Morgan was deflected up off the backboard. The ball bounced all the way back to Burke on the perimeter, and the Michigan point guard then drove for an easy bank shot and a 52-27 lead.
It was 62-31 after Burke's steal and breakaway layup.
Binghamton did not shoot a free throw until there was 4:41 to play in the second half. Michigan was whistled for only four fouls all night.
The Bearcats settled for too many outside shots, several of which didn't even hit the rim. Binghamton shot 34 percent from the field, 7 of 25 from 3-point range.
It might have been even more lopsided if Michigan hadn't shot a season-worst 44 percent from the field. Burke was 8 of 12, but Hardaway scored only nine points on 3-of-13 shooting. Freshman Mitch McGary had six points and 10 rebounds.


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Poetry needs no one new party to lead it into the fraying future; if we're to save the world, let's raise a revolution as shapeshifters. In other words, this book is about metamorphosis through a radical cherishing. I am ravished by the world, aren't you?
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"Rarely have the nude and the cooked been so neatly joined" as in Amy King's I Want to Make You Safe. If "us," "herons," and "dust" rhyme, then these poems rhyme. If that makes you feel safe, it shouldn't. Amy King's poems are exuberant, strange, and a bit grotesque. They're spring-loaded and ready for trouble. Categories collapse. These are the new "thunderstorms with Barbie roots."
— Rae Armantrout
Vulnerability, fragility, and anxiety are all flushed out into the open here and addressed with such strong sound and rhythm that we recognize a resilient, defiant strength within them. King puts relentless pressure on forces seemingly beyond our reach and, in bringing them closer, exposes their own vulnerable centers. This is a poetry equally committed to language as a tool with social obligations and language as an art material obligated to reveal its own beauty. King's language does both magnificently.
— Cole Swensen
Amy King's poems seem to encompass all that we think of as the "natural" world, i.e. sex, sun, love, rotting, hatching, dreaming, especially in the wonderful long poem "This Opera of Peace." She brings these abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living: "Let the walls bear up the angle of the floor,/Let the mice be tragic for all that is caged,/Let time's contagion mar us/until spoken people lie as particles of wind.
— John Ashbery
I love Amy King's smile in photos of Amy King, Amy King's exuberance and looping, bashing panache (flamboyant manner, reckless courage) in the poems of Amy King, I'm going to say Amy King every chance I get in this blurb to make you think "I gotta read me some Amy King," especially if you're "looking for anything/that will pull the cork, boil the blood/of displeasure," as only the poems of Amy King can in the world in which Amy King is King (and Queen).
— Bob Hicok
The first poem I read by Amy King was "MEN BY THE LIPS OF WOMEN" and it struck me with a force I had previously felt on encountering masterworks by Lorca and Dylan Thomas. I won't live long enough to see if her poetry will continue to equal the magnificence of theirs, but the fact that she achieved it once (at least) proves to me it could.
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Do you want the good news first, or the bad? The bad news is that Lifetime's made-for-television motion picture "event" is a shallow, narrow view of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's famously tempestuous Hollywood romance. It trades historical accuracy for melodrama and reduces the impressive, philanthropic life of Taylor to a clichéd, drag show caricature of hysterically outlandish proportions.
For the good news, refer to the bad.
Absurd as it may be, Liz & Dick blazes across the HD flatscreen with headless ambition, rendering itself an instant cult classic that is altogether comedic and thusly, not to be missed. Frothy telefilm director Lloyd Kramer treats his leading actors—Lindsay Lohan in the role of Taylor and Grant Bowler as Burton—as a silver screen refraction of two previous subjects, the characters of David & Lisa from his 1998 TV movie of that name, starring Lukas Haas and the late Brittany Murphy, in the roles of two mentally unstable patients finding romance in the psychiatric ward. As Burton, Bowler (most recently known for his quizzical turn as Henry Rearden in a right-wing card-store production of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged) emits an exaggerated Welshness that somehow misses Burton's mark, lacking the late actor's charisma and presence, but nevertheless projecting a sense of his bravado—it's Shakespeare's Hamlet by way of the original Melrose Place.
As Taylor, Lohan is—for better or worse—purely electrifying, delivering the schmaltzy dialogue written for her with a level of camp and blind conviction that is equal parts shocking, sentimental, comic, and…well…cunty. Much will be made in trade reviews of Lohan's failure to embody the essence of the inimitable Elizabeth Taylor—if only because critics and audiences relish any and every reason to skewer the tabloid fixture as punishment for what they perceive as her repeated misdeeds in her personal life. But let it be said, at least by this reviewer, that Lohan's interpretation of Taylor's razor-sharp wit, alcoholism, and titanic emotional tides commands its own level of appreciation. For every moment that she graces—or collapses across—the screen, Lohan is nothing short of magnetic. Regardless of the production's innate quality (or lack thereof), its leading lady manages to thrust herself headlong into the part, proving at the very least that she can still deliver the drama where it counts.
Sure, there is no consideration for things like time (at one point, Lohan's voiceover educates us to the fact that Taylor and Richard had magically made over forty films together between one scene and the next), details (their children are rarely shown, and in one scene when they finally appear Taylor bellows "I'm BORED! I'm SO BORED!"), and sense (see the director's chair interview motif that punctuates the action like interview asides in reality television), but these usual concerns come to be seen as beside the point. This is the golden example of what drinking games were made for. And besides: it's a Lifetime movie. What exactly did you expect?


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A veritable work horse
For all its shortcomings, the Shuttle is still one of the most complex and yet capable space vehicles ever built. It remains the only vehicle in the world with the dual capability to deliver and return large payloads to and from orbit.
"The design, now more than three decades old, is still state-of-the-art in many respects: computerised flight controls, airframe design, electrical power systems, thermal protection system and main engines," says Roger Launius, former Chief Historian for NASA, now Senior Curator at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
"At the same time, it is extremely expensive to fly and has been unable to deliver its original promise of routine access to space."
Michel Tognini, Head of the European Astronaut Centre and Mission Specialist on STS-93, said, "The Space Shuttle is a wonderful 'bird', a remarkable flying machine with a diversity of uses. Soyuz is limited in the orbit inclinations it can fly, but the Shuttle could fly to any inclination needed, to deliver any type of payload and to do any type of repair, to grab satellites, for example the Hubble Space Telescope. It was a special vehicle capable of doing so many different things."
Telescope repair missions
Gerhard Thiele, Mission Specialist on STS-99, said: "I think the missions that stand out the most to me, as a physicist, are those to the Hubble Space Telescope. That doesn't diminish the other missions, such as life sciences missions, or Earth observation missions such as the one that I had the privilege to fly on, but when people look back in many years I think the contributions to Hubble or Chandra will stand out."
French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy has flown three times on the Shuttle. His third mission, STS-103, was to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
"On this flight we were carrying responsibility for the careers of hundreds of scientists whose entire working lives were devoted to analysing the data transmitted by this telescope, still unequalled for the quality of its visible light images of distant parts of the Universe. The discoveries from Hubble are seen as significant today as were the observations of Galileo in their day," explained Clervoy.
"On our return, the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the use of the HST, presented us with the spectacular results of our rescue mission, making us feel that we had performed a really significant service to science. I shall be proud to tell my grandchildren, 'I was there', hoping to inspire in them a taste for adventure," said Clervoy.
Mir and other impressive missions
Looking back at the achievements of the Space Shuttle, there are so many that it is very hard to select just a few highlights. The construction flights to the ISS and the Hubble Servicing Missions have captured the public imagination, but there have been other less well-known but equally impressive missions.
For example, Jean-François Clervoy's first mission, STS-66, studied the atmosphere and the Sun, with the results giving a better understanding of ozone depletion and atmospheric warming.
"During my work shift, I flew each day over the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the whole of Asia, in beautiful sunny conditions without any cloud interference. I brought back more than 8000 photographs, with the most wonderful views of Earth from space: the Great Barrier Reef, Kamchatka, New York, the Caribbean, the Alps, the Nile and the pyramids, Mount Everest and many other views that will stay in my memory for ever," said Clervoy.
But his next mission, STS-84, was even more dramatic: carrying vital supplies to the aging Russian Mir space station.
The Shuttle took experiments and food for an American member of their crew, who was to spend four months in Mir, and then had to return to Earth with a crewmember who had finished his tour of duty.
"We had forged close links with the Mir crew during joint training in Russia, and felt responsible for their safety," said Clervoy.
"The success of their mission depended on our arrival. We brought, among other equipment, a generator that produced oxygen from urine, so economising on the few remaining chemical cartridges that they had on board. We knew how they felt after already three months of isolation.
"Opening the hatchway after our two craft had docked was a truly emotional experience, as were the international meals that we enjoyed together on Mir and the moment when we separated from them again," remembers Clervoy.


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NEW YORK – Major League Soccer officials announced Wednesday that the MLS SuperDraft will return to a three-round event this year, and the following Supplemental Draft will return this year and will also consist of three rounds.
The 2011 MLS SuperDraft will be held at the NSCAA Convention in Baltimore on Jan. 13, and MLS clubs will have the opportunity to make additional player selections in the annual Supplemental Draft, which will be held via conference call on Tuesday, Jan. 18. The Supplemental Draft was discontinued by the league in 2009 and also did not take place in 2010.
The SuperDraft switch to three rounds was made in conjunction with input received from MLS clubs, coaches and players. A league spokesman explained that the change to the SuperDraft takes into consideration the increasing number of selections in each round, which have nearly doubled with the addition of new expansion clubs in recent years. The 10 picks per round back in 2004 have since given way to this year's 18 selections in each of the three rounds.
Next week, each team will have four minutes to make a selection in rounds one and two, and three minutes in the third round. A five-minute break will separate each of the three rounds and every club also has the option of using a single five-minute timeout.
All previous trades that involved a fourth-round pick in the SuperDraft will still be honored, with those fourth-round picks converted into a selection in the first round of the Supplemental Draft.
The first round of the 2011 SuperDraft will be broadcast on ESPN2. Coverage of the remaining two rounds will be carried by MLSsoccer.com.


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Guests can enjoy the fully licensed Gunyah Restaurant and cosy fireside cocktail bar. Catering for special celebrations including weddings and corporate events is their speciality.
The swimming pool is set amongst beautiful award winning gardens. The famous Granite Belt orchards and wineries are nearby for guests to travel to on day trips.
Whether you are staying in Warwick for business or pleasure, the friendly staff are dedicated to meeting your every need.
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Well presented large units with different bedding configuration, King Rooms, Queen Rooms, and Standard Rooms with air-conditioning, tea/coffee making facilities and mini-bar. Austar and free internet Wifi. Close the Warwick Central Business District. Swimming pool and award winning gardens.
Large luxurious spa suites with a separate bedroom. Rooms contain air-conditioning, mini-bar, dining area. Some rooms have a balcony. Free wi-fi. Licensed Restaurant or Room Service.
Large family spa suites with very flexible bedding configurations. Air-conditioned, mini-bar, tea/coffee making facilities. Superb onsite licensed restaurant and room service breakfast available.
Very large unit with separate bedroom with king bed, spa bath and large LCD television. Free Austar and wi-fi.
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The Sony Bloggie Live HD seems like a last-ditch effort to keep the minicamcorder category relevant as smartphones and point-and-shoots and other small video devices squeeze them out of the market.
The Live's big hook: built-in Wi-Fi that let's you live stream video to Qik.com for others to watch while simultaneously recording in full HD to the device. The Wi-Fi can also be used to directly connect to your smartphone so you can view, transfer, and upload clips and photos using your phone's data service. You can also use it to upload to sites like Facebook and YouTube as well as Sony's newest cloud service, PlayMemories Online.
The wireless capabilities are definitely cool (though not without issues), so if all that sounds good and you're after better than "good enough" video results from a shoot-and-share video camera, you'll want to keep reading.
|Key specs
|Sony Bloggie Live HD
|Price (MSRP)
|Dimensions (HWD)
|4.5 x 2.3 x 0.6 inches
|Weight (with battery and media)
|4.8 ounces
|Storage capacity, type
|8GB internal flash memory
|Resolution, sensor size, type
|12.8 megapixel, 1/2.5-inch CMOS
|LCD size, resolution
|3-inch touch-screen LCD, 230K dots
|Fixed focal length, f2.8 37mm (35mm equivalent)
|File format (video, audio)
|H.264 video, stereo AAC audio (.MP4)
|Resolution (highest)
|1,920x1,080 pixels at 30fps (15Mbps; progressive)
|Image stabilization type
|Battery type, rated life
|Built-in lithium ion rechargeable, 80 minutes
|PlayMemories Home (Windows); PlayMemories Uploader (Mac)
The video quality from the Bloggie Live can be very good as long as you and your subject aren't moving much. When shooting at 1080p, video is reasonably sharp and detailed without looking crunchy. Color and exposure are good as well. However, that's when viewed at smaller sizes on a computer screen. Blown up on a larger HDTV, the video is less impressive. Also, it doesn't handle movement--of the subject or of the device--very well at 1080p, creating a lot of judder. That's unfortunately typical of this type of video camera, though. Maximum recording time in full HD is 75 minutes, by the way, with clip lengths limited to 2GB or 29 minutes (which is typical, too).
The Bloggie Live does have a 720/60p setting, which smooths things out some if you're shooting action or doing a lot of panning left and right, but it's at the cost of sharpness and fine detail. Again, it's fine at small sizes, but not good on a large HDTV. The low-light video is noisy and grainy with readily visible artifacts. I've seen much worse, though, so all in all the Bloggie Live does OK indoors and in darker conditions. There is an LED lamp next to the lens that will brighten close subjects some, but don't expect it to light a full scene.
Photo quality is pretty good as long as you have plenty of light. Shooting is completely automatic; just press the shutter release on top and you're done. If you press the release while recording video, it will capture a photo at whatever resolution you're recording at, roughly 2 megapixels at 1080p or 0.9 megapixel at 720p. (Note: You can't capture photos while live streaming.)
The Live does have autofocus and an auto macro mode for both video and photos, but it's a blessing and a curse. You can shoot something as close as 4 inches from the lens out to infinity. But depending on your movement or your subject's, your video might pulse in and out of focus. The AF isn't all that fast, either, and it's even slower in low-light conditions. Also, if you're shooting in complete silence, you will hear a faint ticking sound picked up by the stereo microphone while it's trying to focus.
I know this sounds like a lot more bad than good, but even with all these issues, the video is still better than you'll get from your average--or even above average--smartphone. At least right now.
|Sony Bloggie Live
|None/Mini-HDMI, USB
|White balance
|Scene modes
|Auto (4 inches to infinity)
|Color effects
|Lens cover (auto or manual)
As for the Wi-Fi functionality, it's cool, but it largely depends on where and how you plan to use it. The live streaming requires a strong and reliable wireless connection, and, at least in the case of my review camera, as few other wireless signals as possible.
I tried several times to connect and stream using three public hot spots in New York City (there's a built-in minibrowser for agreeing to terms of service) and almost as soon as I would connect, it would drop the signal. And then pick it up again. And then drop it. This also happened in CNET's New York office where there are more than a dozen networks I can connect to from my desk. I would connect to a network and I could be standing right next to the router and the connection would drop out. However, in my home, where there's just one wireless network, it locked on and stayed connected.
Once you start live streaming, there's a slight delay of a few seconds and, again, as long as you have a solid connection, the video plays smoothly. People viewing at Qik.com can leave comments that appear in real time on the Live's screen. The video is streamed and stored on Qik, but the Live simultaneously captures HD video to the device.


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Bunny's A Swine – Song Ten (TinyRadars)
A trio from western Mass that, because of how shitty I am at writing about "regular" music, pretty much did my job for me. Self described "awk-pop slops-rock." I kinda can't believe they summed up their whole sound with just those two hyphened phrases. So why am I still writing about a band I'm not even going to bother trying to describe? Because they're just that awesome. You know this genre is outside of my blinders, so the fact that I'm making an effort to make sure you know about them should tell you something. These guys are the shit. They nail the garage pop/alt country thing down to a T without the whole order cialis online reviews lo-fi scuzz people rely on nowadays. They've got killer hooks and momentary explosions of frenzy, but the heart of the beast is in their boy/girl vocals. The dude is a madman, squawking and moaning like he's being tortured, flopping all over the place, and the girl is sweet as can be, beautiful and smooth. Instead of creating deluxe seamless harmonies, they're balancing out both ends of the spectrum. It's all about contrast and it works fucking perfectly. They sound incredible together. You'd be doing yourself a great disservice by skipping over them. Also, part disclaimer/part brag, my pal Justin Durand is the one that did the artwork up there. Seriously one of the most talented guys I know.
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The Bucs want Darrelle Revis. That much is certain.
But Tampa Bay general manager Mark Dominik has yet to decide if the recuperating Jets cornerback is worth the asking price of the 13th overall pick in the April 25 NFL draft. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Bucs have "a loose, self-imposed deadline'' of about a week before the draft to trade for Revis, who still is recovering from ACL surgery. The team reportedly is willing to pay him roughly $15 million a year, but the sticking point remains the first-round compensation.
Should the Bucs part with their first-round pick, the Jets would have -- at the minimum -- the ninth and 13th overall selections this year. The Bucs were willing to give them a first-round pick in 2014, but they were "emphatically told that is not an option.''
Although Dominik has not received permission to speak with Revis' agents, the Bucs reportedly have told the agents for available cornerbacks that they are waiting to see whether they can strike a deal for Revis.
Since the Jets can't place the franchise tag on Revis at the end of the upcoming season, general manager John Idzik is hard-pressed to deal him. If Idzik is unable to broker a deal, the Jets have three options: (1) trade Revis by the October deadline; (2) sign him to a long-term deal before the end of the season; or (3) allow Revis to bolt as an unrestricted free agent and recoup a compensatory pick.
Tebow to attend workouts
A source confirmed to Newsday Monday that Tim Tebow will take part in the Jets' voluntary workouts at their Florham Park facility, starting Monday, provided he's still on the roster. It's assumed that the seldom-used quarterback will be released or traded this offseason, although the trade market is particularly slim for the former Heisman Trophy winner.
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West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith will visit the Jets Wednesday and Thursday, sources confirmed to Newsday. The Jets reportedly will bring in Florida State quarterback E.J. Manuel for a visit this week . . . Stony Brook running back Miguel Maysonet will meet with the Giants Wednesday and the Jets on Friday. Maysonet, who was the runner-up for the FCS' Walter Payton Award, clocked unofficial times of 4.45, 4.49 and 4.56 in the 40-yard dash at his March 22 pro day.


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No Shame
December 8, 2011
I've been known to rock the "Canadian tuxedo" from time to time. Fashion faux pas? Whatever.
Avant garde at its best.
These were taken in Downtown last weekend after Unique LA.
Unlike before there were a LOT of jewelry vendors. My friend told me about 85 out of 300 or summat? I'm not much of a jewelry person in that I wear the same things daily but I did end up with something from Spragwerks. It was just too cool to pass up.
I also purchased a gift from a lady who apparently played the crazy nanny on Nip/Tuck. MIND. BLOWN.
Lily sends her regards.
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December 8, 2011 8:47 pm
I love it. Denim for all! Plus, you can't go wrong with a dark wash 🙂


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"I have been given to you by God, as a sort of gadfly attached to the state," Socrates said to the jurors in his defense on that day of his trial. "And I am not going to argue for my sake, as you may think, but for yours, that you may not sin against God by condemning me. I am his gift to you. And if you kill me, you will not easily find a successor." All his life, he informed them, he had been private audience to a personal supernatural voice whose enjoining instructions it would be sinful for him to ignore. "Men of Athens, I honor and love you, but I shall obey God rather than you."
It was too late to talk him out of this conviction that would have led to his being burned as a heretic in those enlightened Dark Ages to come, in which Plato was embraced and absorbed and Aristotle was rediscovered and acclaimed "the Philosopher" by such as Aquinas.
And it was too soon to tell him of the lunatic schoolteacher in Amsterdam with the serrated bread knife, who believed he had been commanded by God to go to the painting of The Nightwatch in the Rijksmuseum directly from the restaurant in which he had eaten his lunch.
"I was ordered to do it," the schoolteacher is quoted as saying. "I had to do it."
To this day, there are superstitious covens in abandoned small churches in Amsterdam convinced the vandal was the reincarnation of one of the discontented musketeers who paid one hundred guilders to be memorialized with dignity and found himself reduced to a detail in oil paint in a garish illustration that could have served as a poster for a comic operetta.
There are others who say it was Rembrandt.
—Joseph Heller, Picture This