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HANOVER, Germany Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Germany on Sunday to protests over his human rights and democracy record and a warning from German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Russia needed an active civil society to flourish.
Putin's visit to Germany and the Netherlands, Moscow's biggest trade partners in Europe, was supposed to focus on trade but comes at an awkward time after a wave of state inspections of foreign-funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Russia, much criticised abroad.
In her address at the opening of an industrial fair spotlighting Russian business, Merkel told Putin Russia was propped by its raw material deposits and huge investment in infrastructure but Germany could help it in its aims to innovate and diversify.
"We believe this can happen most successfully when there is an active civil society," she said.
"We must intensify these discussions, develop our ideas, and we must give the NGOs, who we know as a motor for innovation, a good chance in Russia," she added to strong applause.
Germany and the Netherlands need Russia for energy and as a market for exports ranging from Volkswagen Touaregs to tulips, but are uneasy about the influence its oil and gas give it and about Putin's treatment of opponents and activists in his new Kremlin term.
Merkel had come under pressure at home to voice her concerns to Putin, not only on the inspections of NGOs, but also on their differences over Syria's civil war and Russian criticism of the German-orchestrated financial bailout of Cyprus. Her talks with Putin would include "controversial subjects" she told reporters on the sidelines of the fair.
In his address to the trade fair Putin focused on Russia's economic strength, noting, "despite global disarray and the global financial crisis, our country has continued to develop positively."
Outside hundreds of protesters gathered, many carrying Syrian flags, others wearing devil masks or waving images of Putin dressed in a prisoner's striped uniform. "Stop political terror," read one banner.
In an earlier interview with German broadcaster ARD, Putin had dismissed criticism of the NGO inspections and said they would not cast a shadow over the visit, echoing his repeated rejection of Western worries about his domestic policies.
Putin - a former Soviet KGB officer who was stationed in East Germany, where Merkel grew up - has accused Western states of using NGOs to spy on Russia and influence politics.
He said in the interview that Russians have a right to know which NGOs are foreign-funded "and for what purposes".
He sent warmer signals on economic issues, expressing confidence in the euro and toning down criticism of the Cyprus bailout by saying he hoped more money would flow into Russia as a result.
(Writing by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Stephen Powell)
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lol anybody else have a story to share? or better yet, helpful tips for everybody?
So tonight I decided to paint my toenails. They were looking crazy bad lol. I'm talking chipped to the point of no return red-brown paint! So disaster number one, couldn't find nail polish remover. Okay, I think, I can just get one of the thicker polishes and paint over what's there. No biggie. Then I attempt to put foot up on edge of the couch, you know, bent knee, sorta behind my butt...yeah, that's NOT happenin. So I decided to sit in dh's broken recliner that if you sit on the edge sorta sits you like a frog (I feel I looked like one of those peace frogs--you know, that you see on the back of the cars--with my giant belly, legs out to the side, all smushed down lol). So I painted my right foot, because I'm right-handed, that went well, but when I get to left foot, there's no painting that with my right hand!! So I got to paint it with my left hand. All in all, I guess it was successful, but I wanted to share with folks who would sympathize!


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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 8, 2005 NBA Legends Julius Dr. J Erving, Clyde Drexler, George Gervin and Hakeem Olajuwon as well as current Seattle Sonics guard Antonio Daniels will join Emmy Award winning broadcaster Ahmad Rashad as special co-hosts on NBA TVs pregame show, "Live at the Finals with Ahmad Rashad" beginning on Thursday, June 9 at 8pm ET prior to ABC's live game coverage beginning at 8:30pm.
Complementing ABC's coverage of games in San Antonio and Detroit, NBA TV will be the only outlet for viewers to get every postgame interview from start to finish. For the ultimate behind-the-scenes experience, multiple cameras will be used from behind the stage and inside the interview room during the sessions including showing the event from the player's perspective with a reversal cam. NBA TV will also carry live coverage of the daily media sessions, and give viewers access to the most immediate breaking news and information updates. Interview highlights will air throughout the night and morning as part of "NBA TV Daily".
NBA TV, beginning its sixth Finals coverage, will air more than 100 hours of special programming including:
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A particle gas consists of N monatomic particles each of mass m all contained in a volume V at temperature T. Your answers should be written in terms of the Boltzmann constant kB and Avagadro's number NA rather than R=NAkB
Find , the internal energy of the gas.
Express the internal energy in terms of the gas temperature and any other given quantities.
Given: K=
Where m= mass
N= number of particles
v= velocity
Kb= Boltzmann constant
K= Kinetic Energy
T= Temperature
NA= Avagadro's number.
I dont know where to start. Any other equations i need to introduce?


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I found it to work pretty well, people just need to read the instructions first. Also you should definetly read the review at todaysreview.org/slice-o-matic/ there are a few things you need to look out for.
My son bought this for me since I am disabled. I read every detail, watched the online video, and followed the directions exactly...OMGoodness! It mashes up what you are trying to slice, won't keep the thickness locked...it varies on each slice as well as inconsistent with the other slices, slight pressure or no pressure didn't help the mechanism to glide without catching, and HORRIBLE to clean up. It took 3 hours what used to take 1 hour to slice with a knife or 30 minutes with my old mandolin!!!
It's being taken back to Walmart and I will get another PLAIN flat mandolin slicer that I used to have or just use an ordinary knife...either one works FASTER and BETTER than this over-advertised horrible piece of JUNK! BEWARE!
Don't bother with this, it is faster to cut your veggies with a knife, I bought this as they no longer had the onion chopper that I had for a few years and loved. I used it once and took it back. I am going to look for the chopper I used to have as I used it to chop everything.
Plastic parts continually jammed and stuck, way too aggravating,didn't work as shown on t.v. Took it back to store,but didn't get refund for shipping cost.
Mine works great for slicing potatoes for scalloped potatoes and apples for pie. This is what I bought it for. Bought another one for my daughter.


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Dirt Cup week is heating up and so are the bonus purses! Dirt Cup has always been known for its hefty purse as $20,000 will be handed over to Saturday night's Dirt Cup Champion. It doesn't stop there; Shark Racing Engines has stepped up to double the 360 bonus money that will now top $4,000.
"We want to support local racers and make Dirt Cup special for them," said Marc Huson, owner of Shark Racing Engines. 360 bonus money will be paid to entries that compete all three nights of the 43rd annual event this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday - June 26-28.
"It is awesome when sponsors step up to help out with events, that's the magic of Dirt Cup," said Steve Beitler.
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there is a script that expects keyboard input, i can call that script with os.system('./script') in python,
how is it possible to send back an input to the script from another calling script?
the script is:
$ cat script
for i in range(4):
name=raw_input('enter your name')
print 'Welcome %s :) ' % name
when i try without a for loop, it works but it shows the output only when the script quits.
>>> p = subprocess.Popen('./script',stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
>>> p.communicate('navras')
enter your nameWelcome navras :)
when i try it with the foor loop, it throws error, How to display the statements interactive as and when the stdout is updated with new print statements
>>> p.communicate('megna')
enter your nameWelcome megna :)
enter your nameTraceback (most recent call last):
File "./script", line 3, in <module>
name=raw_input('enter your name')
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Smuggler Jim's is a newly established enterprise, but is already gaining a reputation for outrunning the competition (and the law).
My second entry to the Threadless & Dribbble t shirt playoff, creating a fake company name and logo for a t shirt. You can see a larger version here:
Works well on most light coloured shirts, and particularly on silver and heather grey.
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Freight House mastermind to revive a Kansas grain mill
December 25, 2015 CEDAR POINT, Kan. — The back side of the abandoned limestone mill soars four stories into a tree canopy from the tea-colored Cottonwood River that laps at its base. more »»
Thinking outside the bow this season: tassels and other gift toppers
December 25, 2015 It's the year of the tassel in gift wrapping. more »»
Replace a giant tree with a giant-to-be
December 25, 2015 Nothing like some strong winter winds to remind one of mortality — tree mortality. No tree lives forever. Nothing does. more »»
Defying Fed hike, 30-year mortgage rate slips to 3.96 pct.
December 25, 2015 WASHINGTON — What Fed rate hike? One week after the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates slightly from record lows, the average on a 30-year fixed mortgage went the other way: It dipped... more »»
Holiday tradition: National Candy Cane Day is Dec. 26
December 25, 2015 The actual origin of the candy cane is much debated and no one has actually provided proof of the legends that exist. more »»
To-do lists turn creative with stickers, tape and colors
December 25, 2015 NEW YORK — Keeping a to-do list or a schedule is much more than time management for a dedicated group of calendar keepers. more »»
Berkeley County Deed Transfers
December 25, 2015 ¯ Pennymac Loan Trust 2012-NPL1 to Jeanette Zimmer, $216,900, Falling Waters ¯ Robert Williamson to Pamela Abston, $219,000, Falling Waters ¯ JMS Ventures LLC to HUB Co-Op LLC, $180,000, Martinsburg... more »»
Home & Garden Briefs
December 25, 2015 Recertification deadline is Dec. 31 The Berkeley County Pesticide Recertification Program was offered Dec. 1. more »»
Agricultural Outlook Forum slated Feb. 25-26
December 25, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S Department of Agriculture will host the 92nd Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum on Feb. 25-26, 2016. more »»
Regional conservation workshop set for Jan. 15
December 25, 2015 MARTINSBURG — The West Virginia University Extension Office will host a regional conservation workshop focusing on corn and soybean Jan. 15 at the Comfort Inn, 1872 Edwin Miller Blvd. more »»
Jefferson County Deed Transfers
December 18, 2015 ¯ Ellen Allen to Donald Orser, $13,500, Harpers Ferry Dist. ¯ K. Hovnanian at Huntfield LLC to Richard Billok, $321,959.31, Charles Town Corp. ¯ K. more »»
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December 11, 2015 ¯ Collis Holdings LLC to Dewey A. Whitmore Contracting LLC, $40,000, Hedgesville ¯ J Hess Group LLC to Ross Eddy, $109,555, Mill Creek ¯ Collis Holdings LLC to Dewey . more »»
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November 20, 2015 ¯ Martin Lookingbill Sr. to Primax Properties LLC, $1,010,000, Charles Town Corp. ¯ Dan Ryan Builders Inc. to Igor Sapotko, $322,633, Harpers Ferry Dist. ¯ Dan Ryan Builders Inc. more »»
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Join us on Thursday, November 5th, 2015 at Tundra Lodge in Green Bay to hear about exciting developments in type 1 diabetes research.
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Andrew Rakeman, Ph.D., is the director of discovery research for JDRF, where he develops key industry partnerships and executes the strategic framework for the Beta Cell Regeneration and Immune Therapies Programs. He is primarily responsible for addressing scientific gaps in the drug discovery and development pipeline in order to bring the most promising and innovative therapeutics to market as quickly as possible. He also manages a portfolio of academic research grants for JDRF, and leads strategic partnerships with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly and Company, and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation.
Dr. Rakeman holds an undergraduate degree in biology from Boston University and a doctorate from Weill Cornell Medical College. His graduate training was conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Kathryn Anderson at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, studying the genetic and cellular regulation of axis formation and patterning in the mouse embryo. He has authored and coauthored several papers in the areas of developmental biology and cell biology. Dr. Rakeman is frequently invited as a speaker to meetings and symposia for both scientific and lay audiences.
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The Kimberton Krush will host tryouts for 16u and 18u girls on the following dates.
Sat. August 11, 18 and 25, 18u at 12:00 and 16u at 2:00.
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Ailey Dancers Dish on What Moves Them
When Robert Battle became the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in July, he set a clear goal: to broaden the repertory. Now, in his first season at the helm, he's delivering.
At New York City Center from Nov. 30 to Jan. 1, the Ailey dancers will perform the company premiere of "Arden Court," by modern dance great Paul Taylor. And in a sharp departure from the norm, the company will dance the aggressive, multifaceted "Minus 16," by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. Also on tap is a new offering by hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris, plus Mr. Battle's all-male "The Hunt" and the beloved classics by company founder Alvin Ailey.
For the performers it means working with an array of techniques—but that's a talent that defines Ailey dancers. Here, four company members discuss how they approach the studio, the season, the art form and their careers.
Kelly Robotham
Ms. Robotham has a mega-watt smile for good reason: The 2010 Juilliard graduate has only been with the Ailey company since May. "We had the audition, and at the end there were about 15 girls left. They called four of our numbers and said, 'Welcome to the company,'" she recalled. "It's a life-changing thing in two hours."
But the pressure for her lies in being one of Mr. Battle's new hires: "Because we're the first batch, everyone's eye goes to us—'Oh, that must be what he's looking for.'"
And what is it about her dancing that landed her the job? "I have a lot of fire, this ball of energy. Sometimes they ask me to calm down."
Kirven James Boyd
Mr. Boyd's entry into the Ailey company came seven years ago at age 19, an early success that informs his work every day. "There was a lot of growing that I felt I needed to do as a dancer, as an artist, as a person," he said. "I thought to myself, 'This came earlier than you ever imagined, so this is a time to learn as much as you can.'"
Even with a jump as fierce as his (he's the brochure cover boy) Mr. Boyd says learning Mr. Naharin's, technique—a fast, physical style known as "Gaga"—was intimidating. "You want to do it well and give it exactly what it needs," he said. "It's so different from what we're used to. There's no time to think about how you feel about it."
So he focuses on the small details. "I really try to figure out, step by step, what it was [Mr. Naharin] had to say. From that, I start trying to piece together everything. It's not going to happen right away. We would all love it to."
This coming season, Mr. Boyd also dances in "The Hunt," which he calls one of the most exhausting pieces he's ever attempted. "You get to what you think is the end of what you are capable of, then you're asked to dance for 10 more minutes. It never gets any easier."
Glenn Allen Sims
Even after 15 years in the company, Mr. Sims is constantly discovering the impact that his life experiences have on his dancing. "When you're 21, you are just getting the steps through. It's not until you get older that it's really you," he said.
For years, he has danced the intense, prayerful solo "I Wanna Be Ready," in Ailey's 1960 master work, "Revelations." Then last March, Mr. Sims's grandmother—who was instrumental to his career—passed away. "When I lost her, the lyrics really made sense to me, even though I'd heard them over and over. From that point on, it's like a light switch has gone on," he said.
Mr. Sims is married to another company dancer, Linda Celeste Sims, and when the two can perform together, it's an elating and symbiotic feeling: "You know the person's heartbeat. You have that innate connection and energy. With other dancers, you have to prepare for that."
Renee Robinson
In the "Wade in the Water" section of "Revelations," a couple is blessed by a woman dancing with a white umbrella. If you're lucky, you'll see Renee Robinson in the role. She's unforgettable.
After 30 years in the company, she's found that fellow dancers renew her: "As different generations come into the company, they go into the 'Wade' couple and I have a new reason to ask who I am carrying the umbrella for—how I am going to be when I do that blessing."
When learning new choreography, she takes it home. "Sometimes you have to do a lot of investigation on your own."
But there have been seasons when she was cast only in dances she had already tackled: "It gave me a chance to bring a more mature person to the role—and sometimes you don't get that opportunity."
Her secret to longevity? Vegetable juicing. "I'm really into the hard-core green juices. But I don't use juices as a meal replacement. I eat!"


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OUR TERRORISTS by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
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October 2009 • Issue 426
OUR TERRORISTS: Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments, right? Think again. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reports.
Once upon a time, the CIA trained, financed and supported Osama bin Laden and his mujahidin networks in Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the end of the Cold War, bin Laden turned against the West and we no longer had any use for him. His persistent terrorist attacks against us for more than a decade, culminating in 9/11, provoked our own response, in the form of the 'War on Terror'. This is the official narrative. And it's false. Not only did Western intelligence services continue to foster Islamist extremist and terrorist groups connected to al-Qaeda after the Cold War; they continued to do so even after 9/11.
The CIA's jihad
Article about Who Really Calls the Shots
I (Student) found this at Truthout. It speaks of 'deep' politics -- even if in a mild way -- more clearly than usual whether in mainstream or more alternative news.
What Obama Is Up Against
Monday 02 November 2009
by: Russ Baker, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
The first anniversary of Barack Obama's historic election finds many of his supporters already grousing. Fair enough: Obama has been more vigorous in some areas than others. But one essential question goes unasked: How much can any president accomplish against the wishes of recalcitrant power centers within his own government?
CIA to start spying on social media?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they're already spying on social media...
Visible Technologies, a company that monitors online social activity and packages the findings for clients, has forged a "strategic partnership" with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's not-for-profit investment arm, to give the organization insight into social media.
The deal was first reported on Monday by Wired.
According to Visible Technologies, In-Q-Tel is also investing in the company through a "technology development agreement." It did not release more details than that.
However, examining Visible Technologies' work may offer insight into what In-Q-Tel has in mind.
C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery
C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: October 16, 2009
WASHINGTON — Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Probably not. But you would not know it from the C.I.A.'s behavior.
For six years, the agency has fought in federal court to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Castro Cuban group it paid clashed publicly with the soon-to-be assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The C.I.A. says it is only protecting legitimate secrets. But because of the agency's history of stonewalling assassination inquiries, even researchers with no use for conspiracy thinking question its stance.
The files in question, some released under direction of the court and hundreds more that are still secret, involve the curious career of George E. Joannides, the case officer who oversaw the dissident Cubans in 1963. In 1978, the agency made Mr. Joannides the liaison to the House Select Committee on Assassinations — but never told the committee of his earlier role.
Is Amy Goodman a CIA Agent?
The Wonderful World Of Unbalanced Media,
Is Amy A CIA Agent?, BECK BLASTS FREE PRESS
by Danny Schechter
Beckian demagogues on the Left too: New Pacifica Mishigas' attack on Amy Goodman as a CIA agent.
Goodman: Paid by CIA to cover-up 9/11 Truth?
Christopher Condon, an ally of Pacifica's interim director Grace Aaron, last month introduced a resolution at a meeting of the Pacifica National Board's Governance Committee targeting Democracy Now! over allegations that is is being secretly funded by the CIA.
The action, which would require every Pacifica programmer to disclose all sources of funding above $5000 and related contracts, passed the Committee and is before the Pacifica National Board, meeting in Houston this weekend, for approval.
Judge Hellerstein: CIA can keep 9/11 videotape info secret
NY judge: CIA can keep 9/11 videotape info secret
By LARRY NEUMEISTER (AP) – 4 hours ago
NEW YORK — A New York City judge says he won't order the release of hundreds of documents the CIA has refused to make public regarding the destruction of videotapes of detainee interrogations following the Sept. 11 attacks.
Manhattan federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled Wednesday after viewing a few of nearly 600 documents related to the CIA's 2005 destruction of videotapes documenting new harsh questioning techniques.
He said a federal judge must defer to the CIA director in assessing information related to such an issue of national security.
The judge also said he probably would have ruled on the same grounds that the videotapes would not have to be released if they had not been destroyed.
A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union says he doesn't know if he'll appeal.
Italy Ex-President - CIA And Mossad Ran 9-11
Source: Auburn Journal
Submitted: 9/18/09 03:27 PM
Url: http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/130016.html
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies. In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera:
"All the [intelligence services] of America and Europeknow well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part in Iraq [and] Afghanistan."
Cossiga was elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he remained until 1992.
Identity Of CIA Officer Responsible For Pre-9/11 Failures, Tora Bora Escape, Rendition To Torture Revealed
The name of the CIA officer who ran Alec Station, the agency's bin Laden unit, in the run-up to 9/11 can be revealed. Known by a variety of aliases in the media until now, such as "Rich" in Steve Coll's Ghost Wars, "Richard" in the 9/11 Commission report and "Rich B" in George Tenet's At the Center of the Storm, his real name is Richard Blee.
Blee was a key figure in the pre-9/11 intelligence failures, the CIA station chief in Afghanistan when Osama bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora and instrumental in setting up the Bush administration's rendition and torture policies.
I confirmed Blee's identity in this document, notes drafted by a 9/11 Commission staffer, apparently in preparation of the drafting of the final report. The notes were found along with thousands of other 9/11 Commission files at the National Archives by History Commons contributor Erik Larson, who uploaded them to the 9/11 Document Archive at Scribd. I previously blogged other interesting aspects of the notes here and here.
Blee is mentioned several times in the 9/11 Commission's files, but his name is always redacted, as it has been in the media until now. However, in one case the people doing the redactions let it slip past them.
Hunt for Bin Laden "largely run by the ISI"
Former CIA agent's eight years hunting bin Laden in Pakistani badlands
Tim Reid in Washington
Art Keller, a blond, blue-eyed CIA agent, sits inside a decrepit building deep inside al-Qaeda territory, staring at his computer screen. He is forbidden by his Pakistani minders from venturing out into the badlands of Waziristan to help to find and kill the world's most wanted man.
He is sick and exhausted, and suffering from food poisoning. Back home in the US his father is dying of cancer. The plumbing is basic, the heat intense — the generator has failed again. He pores over cables looking for any scrap of information — an intercepted phone call, an aerial photograph — that might finally end the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
The fruitless search has essentially been outsourced by the US to a network of Pashtun spies run by the Pakistani intelligence services.
Taliban's Bombs Came From US, Not Iran
Gall, hypocrisy, disinformation, war mongering
Middle East - Sep 5, 2009
Taliban's bombs came from US, not Iran
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON - In support of the official United States assertion that Iran is arming its sworn enemy, the Taliban, the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Dennis Blair, has cited a statement by a Taliban commander last year attributing military success against North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces to Iranian military assistance.
But the Taliban commander's claim is contradicted by evidence from the US Defense Department, Canadian forces in Afghanistan and the Taliban themselves that the increased damage to NATO tanks by Taliban forces has come from anti-tank mines provided by the United States to the jihadi movement against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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Who Is the Mysterious CIA Interviewee?
One of the biggest pieces of news in the last couple of weeks has been the release of the CIA inspector general's report into the usefulness, or rather lack thereof of its torture techniques. It has been practically everywhere, but one thing that has been lost is that there were a whole bunch of supporting documents released from the inspector general's investigation. One of these caught my eye in particular.
It is a memorandum drafted by an inspector general employee about a 16 July 2003 interview of a female CIA officer who appears to be very involved in the agency's rendition and torture programme.
The officer said the agency judged the success of the programme by "the quality of the information" detainees provide. The report adds:
Newly Discovered Document: CIA Station in Yemen Knew of Khallad Identification
A document recently found in the National Archives shows that the CIA station in Yemen knew that al-Qaeda leader and USS Cole bombing mastermind Khallad bin Attash had attended the organisation's Kuala Lumpur summit. However, other information proves that the Yemen station never communicated this to the FBI, even though it was working closely with FBI investigators into the Cole bombing. This raises questions as to why the CIA station in Yemen failed to pass this information on and whether this failure was part of a wider agreement to withhold information from the bureau.
How a Detainee Became An Asset
How a Detainee Became An Asset
Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding
By Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, August 29, 2009
After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called "terrorist tutorials."
In 2005 and 2006, the bearded, pudgy man who calls himself the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks discussed a wide variety of subjects, including Greek philosophy and al-Qaeda dogma. In one instance, he scolded a listener for poor note-taking and his inability to recall details of an earlier lecture.
Top Sunni Rebel On Iran Death Row Says U.S. Ordered Attacks
Please read my article entitled, "A "Working Relationship To Fund, Train, And Use Terrorists For Terrorist Activities?" Also, here's a small collection of articles I've collected with regards to the below article. - Jon
Source: www.dawn.com
Tuesday, 25 Aug, 2009 | 09:34 PM PST |
ZAHEDAN: A top Sunni rebel who is awaiting execution in Iran said on Tuesday that his militant group received orders from the United States to launch terror attacks in the Islamic republic.
Abdolhamid Rigi, brother of shadowy Jundallah (Soldiers of God) group leader Abdolmalek Rigi, told reporters his brother was an Al-Qaeda point man in Iran six years ago but that later the group broke off ties with him.
Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions
Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions
A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists.
A Torture Timeline
For hundreds of years, atrocities have been committed in the name of empire-building, religion or national security
By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Aug 21, 2009 | Updated: 6:58 p.m. ET Aug 21, 2009
A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency's post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.


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In 1977, graduate student Irene Pepperberg walked into a pet store and bought a year-old African grey parrot. Because she was going to study him, she decided to call him Alex--short for Avian Learning EXperiment. At that time, most scientists thought that the bigger the brain, the smarter the creature; they studied great apes and dolphins. African greys, with their walnut-sized "birdbrains," were pretty much ignored--until Alex.
His intelligence surprised everyone, including Irene. He learned to count, add, and subtract; to recognize shapes, sizes, and colors; and to speak, and understand, hundreds of words. These were things no other animal could do. Alex wasn't supposed to have the brainpower to do them, either. But he did them anyway.
Accompanied by Meilo So's stunning illustrations, Alex and Irene's story is one of groundbreaking discoveries about animal intelligence, hard work, and the loving bonds of a unique friendship.
About the Author
Margaret Landon first became interested in Anna Leonowens' story, when a friend recommended to her "The English Governess at the Siamese Court" which was published in 1870. Fascinated with the story and its potential, she contacted one of Anna's grandchildren, and in 1941 began to seriously research writing an updated (and vastly more entertaining) version of the book. "Anna and the King" is the product of her efforts.
MEILO SO is the illustrator of such beautiful, award-winning books such as Moonbeams, Dumplings, and Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities, and Recipes and The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption. She lives in the Shetland Islands, UK.
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Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, September 24, 2012:
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That test was a ball eater. That hydrolysis reaction ate my balls. Repairing that engine ate my balls.
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BATON ROUGE, La — Nobody won the $725,000 Louisiana Lotto jackpot, $20 million multi-state Powerball or $50,000 Easy 5 drawing Saturday night.
The next Louisiana Lotto drawing will be worth an estimated $775,000 and Easy 5 will be worth $60,000, while Wednesday's Powerball jackpot goes up to $25 million.
The Louisiana Lottery Corp. said Sunday that 22 Louisiana Lotto tickets had five of the six numbers drawn Saturday and won $1,652.
Powerball tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $200,000 each, and there were three of those. Two were sold in Florida and one in Kentucky.
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Channel Tunnel gets £20m fire protection system
- 1 February 2011
- From the section Kent
A £20m fire protection system has been installed inside the Channel Tunnel.
Eurotunnel developed the water mist system following a major fire on a freight train a few miles from the French coast in September 2008.
The sprinklers, which starve fires of oxygen and prevent them from spreading, have been installed in one safe area, with three more to follow.
Chairman of Eurotunnel, Jacques Gounon, said they were customised specifically for a working railway tunnel.
Work to build three other safe fire extinguishing areas will be completed by the end of the year.


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This combination of three photos released by freethehikers.org shows, from left, Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd. The three Americans, who were detained on the border in Iraq earlier in July, were accused of espionage by Iranian prosecutors Nov. 9.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's envoy to the United Nations has confirmed that a female American held for more than a year will be released.
Iran had earlier announced that one of the three Americans captured by Iran in July 2009 would be released to mark the holidays at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Bak Sahraei, second counselor of the UN mission confirmed Thursday in an e-mail that Sarah Shourd would be the one set free on Saturday.
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Crocheted Necklace-Athena by CharityKWatch
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Settings crocheted with cotton thread around jagged sea glass and embellished with hand-sewn beading.
This necklace is currently for sale in my easy shop here
This necklace is currently for sale in my easy shop here
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Agency as a Sociological Variable: A Preliminary Model of Individuals, Situations, and the Life Course
Version of Record online: 30 JAN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00189.x
© 2009 The Authors. Journal Compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Sociology Compass
Volume 3, Issue 1, pages 137–160, January 2009
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Hitlin, S. and Long, C. (2009), Agency as a Sociological Variable: A Preliminary Model of Individuals, Situations, and the Life Course. Sociology Compass, 3: 137–160. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00189.x
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- Issue online: 30 JAN 2009
- Version of Record online: 30 JAN 2009
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This paper reviews social psychological measures that might usefully be employed within sociological treatments of human agency. Sociologists have engaged both (a) the structural constraints and opportunities that channel individual action and (b) the subjective sense individuals develop reflecting beliefs about their ability to affect those structures and their life courses. We briefly spell out the well-trod agency vs. structure debate before exploring six concepts that have or could be used in organizing and theorizing empirical research on the subjective version of agency: self-efficacy, locus of control, personal control, mastery, planful competence, and ego-depletion/self-control. For each concept, we provide brief descriptions and representative findings. Taking a life course perspective, we briefly sketch out a series of concerns that scholars engaging in the agency concept should take into account.


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The purpose of this article is to give the reader an idea of how the RAM Rich Client fits into the RAM framework, where it can be found, and how it should be used. The following story illustrates the importance of being able to access assets in a timely manner during software development. This ties into the whole idea of asset based development which is especially important in the context of SOA.
I live a charmed life where my wife and I get to drive to work together. The drive is about 40 minutes from where we live to where we both work in Cambridge Boston. Because of all of this quality time we often get to talk about what we are doing. So one day last week I was trying to explain to her some of my ideas around mapping of consumability of assets. My wife does not suffer my nonsense easily and told me that this statement made no sense to her. In an effort to explain I gave her a driving analogy since we were already is an automobile.
Behind the wheel of a car I am in a driver context and in this context I need access to driver related information and tooling such as my speed, the condition of my engine, weather conditions, a GPS device, road conditions, including this particular road's speed limit (i.e. the car's context) etc. In this driving context I need access to the driver relevant and related content i.e. I need to be able to consume these assets.
As a Software developer or a consultant on an engagement I am again in a certain context. The context is now given by the scope of the project and the functional and non-functional requirements for that particular project. This context can also be mapped to content to better help me do my job. For example on an insurance project there may be a functional requirement around creating a claims system. Here the functional requirement can be mapped to reusable software assets such as an insurance UML model of a claim system. A nonfunctional requirement on the other hand such as a transactional claims system can maps to another type of reusable software asset such as a software pattern assets to help me make consistent architectural decisions.
The question now becomes how we do automate this context to content mapping for developing software in a consistency manner to allow better consumability of reusable asset such as models and patterns?
The asset graveyard
One of my favorite movies of all time is the Sergio Leone spaghetti western classic: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Part of the appeal of this movie is the simplicity of the plot; at its heart it is, a treasure hunt, with the three main characters, the good, the bad and the ugly hunting for confederate gold. Between them they know the location of the treasure, buried in a grave in a cemetery, yet only their combined knowledge will lead them to the prize. Towards the end of the film the Ugly, a character called Tuco, played by Eli Wallach, comes upon the graveyard, called Sad Hill, and here in one of cinema's truly great moments, backed by a unforgettable score, he begins his frantic and haphazard search for the grave of Arch Stanton.
What is impressive about this scene is the sheer scale and size of the graveyard itself, a conservative estimate would put it at over 2000 graves, arranged in a circular fashion. Tuco starts from the center of Sad Hill, where the graves are oldest, and works his way outward initially in concentric circles but soon his search becoming more haphazard as he despairs at the magnitude of the task. Finally, after a dizzy and Groundhog Day like scene of multiple graves passing by he come upon the grave of Arch Stanton, only to find it devoid of any gold, indeed all that remains is a rotting corpse.
Today, this story is echoed in every IT projects I have ever been a part of, one of my favorites is from within my own group in IBM. It should be noted here that our team is geographically dispersed so, although we talk on the phone regularly,we do not get the chance to chew the fat at lunch or around a water cooler. A good friend and colleague of mine on our team, lets call him Bob, was leading the engineering of one the first SOA service registriesy for an automotive customer in California. One requirement the customer had for the service registry was that it performs within certain limits. Unknown to Bob, our group has tackled a very similar problem a couple of years earlier on another engagement. We realized the importance of this work and created a number of assets around it. These assets feell under the broad classification of the requester side caching pattern of which we created pattern specifications, pattern implementation, pattern documentation (including, dW articles, flash movies and a detailed case study). A full listing of all of these and other pattern asset related articles can be found on my home page.
Bob was unaware of the previous asset work we had done in this space and having I am sure ran in circles around his own repository graveyard a number of times, he did what any other good architect would do, he started from scratch and reengineered the exact same asset as we had two years earlier.
Just like Tuco desperately searching Sad Hill for the confederate gold, Bob too faced the same dilemma, in fact I have witnessed that same dilemma on every IT engagement and software project I have been involved in. I dare say that this dilemma is not even exclusive to IT but that you will find the exact same problem is almost every human endeavor, from an engineer building a rocket to put a man on mars to a lawyer drafting claims for a patent application,. How do we provide the right assets, the content, to help solve the problem at hand, the context. In other words, how do we automate a context to content mapping to suggest the best assets to our architects, engineers, lawyers to help them?
RAM to the rescue
IBM Rational® Asset Manager (RAM looks to address the problem of having valuable assets scattered across the enterprise. RAM is a realization of a standard specification called the Reusable Asset Specification. RAS, which is an OMG specification and was developed by IBM and others. Inside. The RAS defines a format for the descriptive metadata, the classification metadata, and the usage metadata of an asset, as well as a layout for the content and the content's metadata.
IBM flag ship modeling product Rational Software Architect 6.0 (which is a full fledged successor to Rational Rose) was the first IBM product with a realized implementation of the RAS specification. There was support for Workgroup and Local repository storage in that implementation, but no scalable enterprise repositories. The problem of harvesting, storage, and consumption of reusable assets is really, however, an enterprise problem. Small-scale reuse is not as difficult, or as demanding of good tooling.
To address this problem IBM has engineered an enterprise-enabled asset repository called Rational Asset Manager (RAM). RAM was designed to access enterprise-scale repositories from its inception.
Details of RAM
The repository data is stored in either a DB2 or an Oracle database. The web application runs in either Websphere Application Server or Tomcat. The web client can be viewed with most contemporary browsers. The RAM Rich Client runs in any Eclipse-based IDE. These are the architectural components of RAM.
In the RAS specification, the RAS metamodel is expressed in UML. The Asset is the highest level object. It contains a number of sections, the Solution, the Classification, and the Usage. The Solution contains a hierarchy of the actual files and folders included in the Asset. Each file and folder is represented by what is known in the specification as an "Artifact".
An artifact is like an atom of content within the Asset. An Artifact corresponds to a file, a folder, a project, or some specific item actually contained within the asset. If we consider again The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, if the cemetery on Sad Hill were a single Asset, each gravestone would be represented as a single artifact.
The specification allows for defining an artifact that is specified by reference, which means it is merely referred to, rather than contained within the archive. The RAM tooling does not yet support this sort of artifact, but later in this article, we'll discuss a mechanism for emulating an artifact that is a URL reference.
The need for a Rich Client
The RAM Rich Client integrates with Eclipse. Through that integration, the Rich Client incorporates Eclipse-specific concepts (projects, plug-ins, and features). Thus, the Rich Client offers a means of packaging more complex and developer-centric Assets than the web client. This facilitates the harvest and consumption of Assets associated with software development.
The RAM Rich Client in action
Information on getting a copy of RAM, including the Rich Client, is available here. The following are User Stories for Software Development Assets in RAM
- Harvesting a Java Asset: The developer creates a Java project in Eclipse. These projects are packaged into an Asset in the Rich Client. The developer classifies this Asset into appropriate categories, and adds any desired tags. Then, the developer submits this Asset into the repository.
- Searching for an Asset: A developer searches through a repository for a specific category of Asset, a specific tag, or a keyword. The categorization is what makes searching for an Asset less haphazard than Tuco's search through the graveyear on Nob Hill. Through the hierarchical organization of Assets, searching for Assets specific to the developer's task is simplified. Tags are an additional dimension of filtering on the results of a search. The keywords can be searched for within the Assets, as well as within artifacts contained within them. Once the developer runs the search, the tooling returns a result set into the Search Results View.
- Consuming an Asset: Having found the desired Java Asset in the repository, the developer downloads that Asset into their workspace, and works with itbuilds it. The developer adds functionality to the Java Asset.
- Updating an existing Asset: After adding functionality to the Java Asset, the developer updates the Asset in the repository with those changes.
Getting Started with the RAM Rich Client
To begin exploring the RAM Rich Client, first examine the views that are a part of the Asset Management Perspective in Eclipse.
The Views of The Asset Management Perspective in Eclipse
There are three views that are an essential part of the RAM Rich Client. These views are visible by default when the user is in the Asset Management Perspective in Eclipse. They are the Asset Explorer View, the Repository Explorer View, and the Search Results View. The Asset Explorer displays all of the Assets that have been created in, or downloaded to, the Eclipse workspace. The Repository Explorer displays the connections to RAM repositories that have been created in the workspace. The Search Results View, as the name implies, displays the results of searches that are executed against any RAM Repository. See the image below.
Figure 1. The Views of the RAM Rich Client
Connecting to a Repository
Before you create an or download an asset, you need to add a connection to a RAM server. You can go to My Repositories view, right click and choose New Repository Connection. The New Asset Repository Repository Connection wizard will pop up. Fill in the attributes Name, URL, User Name and Password.
Figure 2. The New Repository Connection Wizard
Creating the Asset: The New Asset Wizard
You can create the new asset using menu: File => New => Asset Management => Asset. The easiest way to create a new asset is to use the New Asset Wizard. Right click in Asset Explorer view, and then choose New => Asset. The New Asset Wizard will pop up as shown below.
The next step is to identify and describe the asset's Name, Short Description, Version, Community, etc.
Figure 3. Page One of the Asset Creation Wizard
You then need to categorize the asset in the next screen. The classification of the Asset is one of the most important tasks for the Asset creator. It is the categorization that converts the repository from a random collection, like the graves on Sad Hill, into an easily searchable library. It is the Dewey Decimal system for the repository. Expand categories and check applicable ones. Note the asset taxonomies (i.e. categorization) are populated based on the configuration of the RAM repository. Since it is usually an administrator's task to configure and manage enterprise taxonomies, you cannot add or modify these taxonomies in RAM Rich Client. If you want to add or modify taxonomies, you need to log in as an admin and use RAM web client.
Figure 4. The Categories Page of the Asset Creation Wizard
After you finish the categorization of assets, you will need to identify the asset's content. You can pick up any artifacts (files, folders, projects, etc.) that are part of your current workspace.
Figure 5. The Content Page of the Asset Creation Wizard
Finally, the tooling will create the asset in your local workspace after you click on Finish. Note the asset is not in the repository yet at this point.
Once the Asset is created, the Asset Editor will display. The editor contains a button that will perform the submission. There is no need to select a repository, because the Asset is already associated with a specific repository. The information model is stored in the repository, so creating an asset and classifying it requires a repository association.
Figure 6. The General Page of the Asset Editor, Showing the Submit Button
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A sweet and tangy apricot-mustard glaze makes this 30 minute meal taste as if you've slaved in the kitchen all day.
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- 2⁄3 cup apricot preserves
- 3 tablespoons low-sodium teriyaki sauce
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 4 (4 ounce) boneless pork chops
- 1 dash salt
- 1 dash black pepper
- 1⁄2 lb snow peas, trimmed
- 1⁄2 lb angel hair pasta
- 2 green onions, sliced thin
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
- In a small bowl, stir together the preserves, teriyaki sauce, mustard and ginger.
- In a large non-stick skillet, heat the oil over medium-high flame.
- Season chops with salt and pepper and cook for 2 minutes on each side or until lightly browned.
- Spread 1 tablespoon of the preserves mixture over each pork chop, cover and cook over medium-low heat for 6 minutes or until cooked through.
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My vision is, and has always been, to produce a soy candle that is as fragrant when you burn it to the bottom as when you opened the lid. 1803 Candles is a cottage industry candle company founded in 2006.
2016 Harvest of Quilts and Textile Art Show
The DeKalb County Quilter's Guild invites you to our biennial quilt show, October 1-2, 2016. Enjoy this year's expanding our offerings to other textile and fiber arts, such as weaving, spinning, knitting, crocheting, wearable art and more. The featured artist will be Lorraine Torrence, who makes wearable art and quilts, and will be presenting three lectures, "Design Principles for Quilters," "Finding Your Voice," and "Creative Clothing for Everybody." In addition to 300+ quilts on display, there will be exhibits in other disciplines and special exhibits including the Hoffman Challenge and a trunk show by SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates.) There will be demonstrations, workshops, lectures, and a vendors mall with new and longtime favorites. Food will also be available to purchase.
2017 NCAA National Golf Championships at Rich Harvest Farms
The 2017 NCAA National Golf Championships will be held at Rich Harvest Farms and hosted for the first time by Northern Illinois University, with play taking place from May 19-24 (women) and May 26-31 (men). Sugar Grove will be only the third Illinois city to host the Division I Golf Championships. Cook County's Olympia Fields Country Club hosted the men's championship in 1943, while Conway Farms Golf Club outside of Chicago played host to the men's as well in 1997.
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42nd Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show and Sale
Sat. 10-5; Sun. 10-4. Authentic antiques exhibited indoors at the Kane County Fairgrounds. Catered lunch is available. Plenty of free parking. Admission $8 benefits local historical, educational endeavors.
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Since 1979, 5-B's has served over a million meals in the Greater Chicago Area and surrounding suburbs. This long tradition of food service has allowed them to be a part of many special events and activities. Through these events they've have met wonderful people and grown in their desire to serve their customers with the best food around with service that is second to none. Their style of food and service can be defined as a taste of old fashioned home cooking with a country flair. Their specialty is outdoor grilling, but their menu can accommodate any tastes or style. Whether your event is large or small, the staff will work with you to formulate the best food and presentation to meet your needs and exceed your expectations.
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A' Salute is a high class lounge featuring entertainment every Friday and Saturday night with room for dancing. The menu will feature a selection of small sandwiches called "trios" which are served in threes.
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Enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables and bakery. Shop pumpkin/harvest decorations, U-cut and Pre-cut Christmas trees in season.
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Wine tastings, delicatessen meats, cheeses, craft beers, wine bar. Inside and outside garden seating. Enjoy a glass of wine or beer with friends in a relaxing atmosphere.
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Acquaviva is a family-owned vineyard and winery that includes a tasting bar, Neapolitan-style pizza bistro with foods paired to accompany the wines, retail market place, private event space and a visible winemaking production center.
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Air Classics Museum of Aviation
Air Classics is an aviation museum located at Aurora Municipal Airport - ARR where the aircraft actually fly. You can climb into the pilot's seat of a UH-1 Huey helicopter. The museum's collection includes aircraft, vehicles, uniforms and other aviation memorabilia from the 1930s to the present time. General Admission: Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Group Tours: Tuesdays through Fridays by appointment.
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A fun and exciting play land offering 10 inflatable play structures, four party rooms and two age-appropriate play areas.
Alan Jackson with Lauren Alaina at RiverEdge Park
Alan Jackson ranks as one of the 10 best-selling male vocalists of all-time in all genres. He is one of the most successful and respected singer-songwriters in country music. Jackson's current album, Angels and Alcohol, topped the country album charts when it was released last summer. Lauren Alaina captured America's hearts when she appeared on Season 10 of American Idol. Recently Lauren released a self-titled five-song EP including her latest single, "Next Boyfriend." Lauren regularly appears on the Grand Ole Opry, is one of CMT's "Next Women of Country" and returned to American Idol for its farewell season as a mentor to this year's contestants.
Italian food with friendly, fun service and an local, comfortable atmosphere. Starting with the roasted garlic served with fresh bread, followed by homemade dressings for the salads, great pastas and a huge portion of fish.
This local theater troupe is located in the "attic" of Batavia's Government Center.
Culinary Champion for Best Seafood! Served in a traditional Italian American atmosphere, a night out at Aliano's makes for a special dining experience. Every item on Aliano's extensive menu is made from classic, favorite recipes that have been delighting diners for years.
Located in the heart of downtown St. Charles, Alibi offers a variety of food, beer, wine, and cocktails. Live entertainment to suit everyone. Tell' em you were here!
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Chef Alain Roby, a three-time Guinness World Record holder, prepares exquisite desserts and truffles from the finest grand cru-quality Belgian and Swiss chocolate, as well as authentic Italian Gelato, just like in Rome! The Devil's Food cake he prepared as a guest star on The Martha Stewart Show also can be enjoyed while admiring the life-sized chocolate sculptures that are seen on many Food Network specials.
16 guest rooms conveniently located at the corner of Route 71 & 47.
All Spoked Up has the best variety of kids, cruisers, road, mountain, fixed gear and BMX bicycles, along with the highest quality and best price service/rep. Ask them about renting a bike for a day and take a self-guided tour or hit the trails.
This free, family-friendly event celebrates the Aurora community and its burgeoning arts and cultural scene. The art festival turns Water Street Mall, the brick alleyway between Downer Place and Galena Boulevard, into a vibrant city center featuring more than sixty local artists, crafters, and artisans. Free music on the lawn, a creative children's booth, delicious food, and so much more is offered to create a fun and exciting day for everyone.This outdoor, grassroots art festival is from noon to 5 p.m. on the last Saturday in August.
Historic home's 14+ rooms filled with affordable antiques, primitive to Victorian. Relaxed, kid-friendly, hometown atmosphere.
Oswego 's newest lodging facility is the AmericInn Lodge & Suites featuring the unexpected charming lodge feel thought-out. Conveniently located in Mason Square on Douglas Road . Whether on business or pleasure the high quality beds and pillows to the INN-hanced Continental Breakfast Buffets big Belgian Waffles to the "Bears" will capture your attention. Other amenities include the large vaulted ceiling pool area, FREE high speed internet throughout with wireless option, fully supplied Business Center and Fitness Center, conference ability all enhanced with natural Hickory woodwork and Amish handcrafted accent furniture in all public areas and sleeping rooms. The (14) different room styles such as Business King, Deluxe Double Queens some with spa's, fireplaces, extended stay, two rooms or oversized rooms will meet any and all needs
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President Obama says that children should spend more time in school to make U.S. education globally competitive.
State Superintendent Joe Morton says it's a good idea, but the timing is bad.
Four years ago, Alabama increased its school year from 175 day to 180.
That cost 90 million dollars including higher teacher salaries.
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"Mom?" said Seymour, "look at this newspaper. It says there is life on Mars."
Seymour's mom took a sip of coffee. "Life on Mars? Really?"
"Sure," nodded Seymour with wide eyes. "This says the Martians are running out of water. They only have the frozen polar caps. So they built viaducts… and they farm, too."
Seymour's mom moved to his chair, reading the article over his shoulder.
"Mom, I don't understand how the writer knows all this. Isn't Mars a really long way away?"
His mom pursed her lips and began nodding her head. "Yup. Mars is a long trip. But this man – Percival Lowell – is a scientist. You know, it's 1895 and scientists are discovering all kinds of important stuff. He wouldn't lie, would he?" She scratched the top of her ear. "Nope. The scientist says there are farmers on Mars. It's printed in the newspaper. I'm calling Lois; she'll want to know."
The Truth About Mars … So Far
Percival Lowell, a famous astronomer who helped look for Pluto, wrote a book called MARS in 1895. In his book, he described "canals" on Mars that he saw from Arizona's Lowell Observatory. Lowell decided that these canals were complex, engineered viaducts. He was certain they were built by Martians to supply themselves with water. In fact, he was sure he could see vegetation growing alongside the canals.
Scientists argued over Lowell's findings until NASA's Mariner 4 rocket passed Mars in 1965. The pictures Mariner 4 sent back showed that Mars is a dead planet. Not only is it full of craters, but there is no vegetation. In fact, there are no canals. Percival Lowell imagined the canals, and he invented a whole society to go with them.
Other False Scientific Guesses
Percival Lowell wasn't the first scientist to be wrong. Scientists have made mistakes before:
- Phrenology Scientists thought human personality and character were linked to the size of different areas of the brain. They felt the bumps in people's skulls to predict who they would become, who they should marry, and even whether they might murder someone.
- Alchemy For about 4,000 years, alchemists in Europe, Africa and Asia tried to change metals into gold and silver. They also hoped to find a secret medicine to allow people to live forever. Alchemy itself turned out to be a poor scientific guess, but it did lead to the discovery of gravity and to the study of chemistry.
- Hollow Earth Many scientists have argued that the earth is hollow. In fact, some people still believe it is; scientists now believe our planet is solid, with different layers.
- Geocentrism For a long time, astronomers believed Earth was at the center of the universe. The sun, stars and planets all revolved around us.
- Plum Pudding Atoms Scientists used to think atoms were like a messy soup with electrons in the middle, surrounded by a positive "pudding".
- Spontaneous Generation 300 years before Jesus was born, scientists believed life could spring forth from inanimate objects. In fact, scientists are still trying to figure out how this could happen. I have never seen a pencil become a cat… have you?
How Science Began
Our God is very orderly. His creation is amazingly complex and intricately arranged. Much of modern science began as Christian men strove to understand the world God created. There are thousands of scientists throughout history who have loved Jesus. You might recognize a few of them: Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Nicholas Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, and Johann Kepler were all Christians. (For a great book about some of them, check out Henry Morris' Men of Science, Men of God.)
What Good is Science?
Albert Einstein once said, "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
The study of science helps us see the majesty of our Creator. What a great and amazing God we serve! There is not a human alive who could design your body to function in the marvelous way God has made it.
Technology is only due to science. Electricity, running water and vaccines have not only increased our quality of life, they have also saved lives.
Besides, how would you watch Dr. Schniffenhousen on Jelly Telly without the internet?
What God's Word Says About Earthly Wisdom
1 Corinthians 1:20-21 says, "So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish."
Science is the study of God's great creation. Humans can't create anything new, but we can learn more about God through his design. We often misunderstand what we think we've discovered. So what's real?
God loves each of us so much that He sent His one and only Son to die for our sins so that we can be forgiven forever and ever, to the end of time, which never ends. We can be sure of that.
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The Mozambican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front or FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), and Portugal. The war officially started on September 25, 1964, and ended with a cease fire on September 8, 1974, resulting in a negotiated independence in 1975.
Portugal's wars against independence guerrilla fighters in its 500-year-old African territories erupted in 1961 in Angola. In surprise attacks, rebels killed Portuguese farmers and their families, including women, children and their black employees, on remote Angolan plantations. In Mozambique, the conflict erupted in 1964 as a result of unrest and frustration amongst many indigenous Mozambican populations, who perceived foreign rule to be a form of exploitation and mistreatment, which served only to further Portuguese economic interests in the region. Many Mozambicans also resented Portugal's policies towards indigenous people, which resulted in discrimination, traditional lifestyle turning difficult for many African indigenes, and limited access to Portuguese-style education and skilled employment. As successful self-determination movements spread throughout Africa after World War II, many Mozambicans became progressively nationalistic in outlook, and increasingly frustrated by the nation's continued subservience to foreign rule. (Read more...)
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