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with 'Devel::REPL::Profile';
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DESCRIPTIONFor particular projects you might well end up running the same commands each time the REPL shell starts up - loading Perl modules, setting configuration, and so on.
A mechanism called profiles exists to let you package and distribute these start-up scripts, as Perl modules.
USAGEQuite simply, follow the ``SYNOPSIS'' section above to create a boilerplate profile module. Within the "apply_profile" method, the $repl variable can be used to run any commands as the user would, within the context of their running "Devel::REPL" shell instance.
For example, to load a module, you might have something like this:
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As you can see, the "eval" method is used to run any code. The user won't see any output from that, and the code can ``safely'' die without destroying the REPL shell. The return value of "eval" will be the return value of the code you gave, or else if it died then a "Devel::REPL::Error" object is returned.
If you want to load a "Devel::REPL" plugin, then use the following method:
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Celebrity trainer Bob Harper, of the weight-loss TV show "The Biggest Loser," has built a career putting very obese people through some grueling fitness paces but if he's learned anything from the experience, it's that diet trumps exercise every time.
The Los Angeles-based trainer, who was born on a cattle farm in Tennessee and arrived in California some 20 years ago, said gone are the days when he believed it was possible to just exercise the pounds away.
"It is all about your diet," Harper, 48, said during a break from filming Season 15 of the long-running U.S. show. "I used to think a long time ago that you can beat everything you eat out of you and it's just absolutely not the case."
Harper has spun his TV fame improving the fitness of people who are 100 pounds (45 kg) or more overweight into an empire with DVD workouts and the best-selling book "The Skinny Rules," which offers tips to drop excess weight.
He said if the 'Skinny' of his book titles and fitness DVDs is meant tongue-in-cheek, it is also the word that his morbidly obese clients attach to most.
"People say, 'Shouldn't I be fit? Shouldn't I be healthy?', and I say 'Yes, absolutely. But what I always hear from my contestants on the show is, 'I just want to get skinny.'"
In addition to promoting a healthy diet, a big part of his exercise routine includes lunges and other core-strengthening moves to burn enough fat to let the inner six-pack shine through.
Harper said the workout is aimed at getting the heart rate up because that's when people are going to be able to burn fat and when fat is burned off, the abdominal muscles are exposed.
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"I'm working with people who are 500 pounds (227 kg) and doing Crossfit on a regular basis," said Harper, who described the approximately 20-minute workout as well-balanced.
"To me Crossfit just completely makes sense (as long as) you work at your level doing the things you can do with proper coaching," he explained.
But Dr. Mark Kelly, an exercise physiologist at the American Council on Exercise, said that even with supervision, Crossfit can be risky if the fitness groundwork isn't in place.
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He cited the National Weight Control Registry, a research study that includes people 18 years or older who have lost at least 13.6 kg (30 lb) of weight and kept it off for at least one year. Ninety percent of those in the study exercise regularly.
"They're the biggest losers across the nation," Kelly said. "And the No. 1 thing they did was exercise on a regular basis. Many simply through walking."
Harper said he values working with people who have gotten far off the diet and fitness track more than the celebrity status conferred upon him by reality TV.
"Of course with everyone being on a television show, from people working on fishing boats to people being interior designers, you get this platform," he said. "But I think for me, celebrity trainer is not who I am."
He is, he said, someone who has found what he loves to do.
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Iron Heel, The

 CHAPTER XVI

 THE END

When it came time for Ernest and me to go to Washington, father did not accompany us. He had become enamoured of proletarian life. He looked upon our slum neighborhood as a great sociological laboratory, and he had embarked upon an apparently endless orgy of investigation. He chummed with the laborers, and was an intimate in scores of homes. Also, he worked at odd jobs, and the work was play as well as learned investigation, for he delighted in it and was always returning home with copious notes and bubbling over with new adventures. He was the perfect scientist.

There was no need for his working at all, because Ernest managed to earn enough from his translating to take care of the three of us. But father insisted on pursuing his favorite phantom, and a protean phantom it was, judging from the jobs he worked at. I shall never forget the evening he brought home his street pedler's outfit of shoe-laces and suspenders, nor the time I went into the little corner grocery to make some purchase and had him wait on me. After that I was not surprised when he tended bar for a week in the saloon across the street. He worked as a night watchman, hawked potatoes on the street, pasted labels in a cannery warehouse, was utility man in a paper-box factory, and water-carrier for a street railway construction gang, and even joined the Dishwashers' Union just before it fell to pieces.

I think the Bishop's example, so far as wearing apparel was concerned, must have fascinated father, for he wore the cheap cotton shirt of the laborer and the overalls with the narrow strap about the hips. Yet one habit remained to him from the old life; he always dressed for dinner, or supper, rather.

I could be happy anywhere with Ernest; and father's happiness in our changed circumstances rounded out my own happiness.

"When I was a boy," father said, "I was very curious. I wanted to know why things were and how they came to pass. That was why I became a physicist. The life in me to-day is just as curious as it was in my boyhood, and it's the being curious that makes life worth living."

Sometimes he ventured north of Market Street into the shopping and theatre district, where he sold papers, ran errands, and opened cabs. There, one day, closing a cab, he encountered Mr. Wickson. In high glee father described the incident to us that evening.

"Wickson looked at me sharply when I closed the door on him, and muttered, 'Well, I'll be damned.' Just like that he said it, 'Well, I'll be damned.' His face turned red and he was so confused that he forgot to tip me. But he must have recovered himself quickly, for the cab hadn't gone fifty feet before it turned around and came back. He leaned out of the door.

"'Look here, Professor,' he said, 'this is too much. What can I do for you?'

"'I closed the cab door for you,' I answered. 'According to common custom you might give me a dime.'

"'Bother that!' he snorted. 'I mean something substantial.'

"He was certainly serious—a twinge of ossified conscience or something; and so I considered with grave deliberation for a moment.

"His face was quite expectant when I began my answer, but you should have seen it when I finished.

"'You might give me back my home,' I said, 'and my stock in the Sierra Mills.'"

Father paused.

"What did he say?" I questioned eagerly.

"What could he say? He said nothing. But I said. 'I hope you are happy.' He looked at me curiously. 'Tell me, are you happy?'" I asked.

"He ordered the cabman to drive on, and went away swearing horribly. And he didn't give me the dime, much less the home and stock; so you see, my dear, your father's street-arab career is beset with disappointments."

And so it was that father kept on at our Pell Street quarters, while Ernest and I went to Washington. Except for the final consummation, the old order had passed away, and the final consummation was nearer than I dreamed. Contrary to our expectation, no obstacles were raised to prevent the socialist Congressmen from taking their seats. Everything went smoothly, and I laughed at Ernest when he looked upon the very smoothness as something ominous.

We found our socialist comrades confident, optimistic of their strength and of the things they would accomplish. A few Grangers who had been elected to Congress increased our strength, and an elaborate programme of what was to be done was prepared by the united forces. In all of which Ernest joined loyally and energetically, though he could not forbear, now and again, from saying, apropos of nothing in particular, "When it comes to powder, chemical mixtures are better than mechanical mixtures, you take my word."

The trouble arose first with the Grangers in the various states they had captured at the last election. There were a dozen of these states, but the Grangers who had been elected were not permitted to take office. The incumbents refused to get out. It was very simple. They merely charged illegality in the elections and wrapped up the whole situation in the interminable red tape of the law. The Grangers were powerless. The courts were in the hands of their enemies.

This was the moment of danger. If the cheated Grangers became violent, all was lost. How we socialists worked to hold them back! There were days and nights when Ernest never closed his eyes in sleep. The big leaders of the Grangers saw the peril and were with us to a man. But it was all of no avail. The Oligarchy wanted violence, and it set its agents-provocateurs to work. Without discussion, it was the agents-provocateurs who caused the Peasant Revolt.

In a dozen states the revolt flared up. The expropriated farmers took forcible possession of the state governments. Of course this was unconstitutional, and of course the United States put its soldiers into the field. Everywhere the agents-provocateurs urged the people on. These emissaries of the Iron Heel disguised themselves as artisans, farmers, and farm laborers. In Sacramento, the capital of California, the Grangers had succeeded in maintaining order. Thousands of secret agents were rushed to the devoted city. In mobs composed wholly of themselves, they fired and looted buildings and factories. They worked the people up until they joined them in the pillage. Liquor in large quantities was distributed among the slum classes further to inflame their minds. And then, when all was ready, appeared upon the scene the soldiers of the United States, who were, in reality, the soldiers of the Iron Heel. Eleven thousand men, women, and children were shot down on the streets of Sacramento or murdered in their houses. The national government took possession of the state government, and all was over for California.

And as with California, so elsewhere. Every Granger state was ravaged with violence and washed in blood. First, disorder was precipitated by the secret agents and the Black Hundreds, then the troops were called out. Rioting and mob-rule reigned throughout the rural districts. Day and night the smoke of burning farms, warehouses, villages, and cities filled the sky. Dynamite appeared. Railroad bridges and tunnels were blown up and trains were wrecked. The poor farmers were shot and hanged in great numbers. Reprisals were bitter, and many plutocrats and army officers were murdered. Blood and vengeance were in men's hearts. The regular troops fought the farmers as savagely as had they been Indians. And the regular troops had cause. Twenty-eight hundred of them had been annihilated in a tremendous series of dynamite explosions in Oregon, and in a similar manner, a number of train loads, at different times and places, had been destroyed. So it was that the regular troops fought for their lives as well as did the farmers.

As for the militia, the militia law of 1903 was put into effect, and the workers of one state were compelled, under pain of death, to shoot down their comrade-workers in other states. Of course, the militia law did not work smoothly at first. Many militia officers were murdered, and many militiamen were executed by drumhead court martial. Ernest's prophecy was strikingly fulfilled in the cases of Mr. Kowalt and Mr. Asmunsen. Both were eligible for the militia, and both were drafted to serve in the punitive expedition that was despatched from California against the farmers of Missouri. Mr. Kowalt and Mr. Asmunsen refused to serve. They were given short shrift. Drumhead court martial was their portion, and military execution their end. They were shot with their backs to the firing squad.

Many young men fled into the mountains to escape serving in the militia. There they became outlaws, and it was not until more peaceful times that they received their punishment. It was drastic. The government issued a proclamation for all law-abiding citizens to come in from the mountains for a period of three months. When the proclaimed date arrived, half a million soldiers were sent into the mountainous districts everywhere. There was no investigation, no trial. Wherever a man was encountered, he was shot down on the spot. The troops operated on the basis that no man not an outlaw remained in the mountains. Some bands, in strong positions, fought gallantly, but in the end every deserter from the militia met death.

A more immediate lesson, however, was impressed on the minds of the people by the punishment meted out to the Kansas militia. The great Kansas Mutiny occurred at the very beginning of military operations against the Grangers. Six thousand of the militia mutinied. They had been for several weeks very turbulent and sullen, and for that reason had been kept in camp. Their open mutiny, however, was without doubt precipitated by the agents-provocateurs.

On the night of the 22d of April they arose and murdered their officers, only a small remnant of the latter escaping. This was beyond the scheme of the Iron Heel, for the agents-provocateurs had done their work too well. But everything was grist to the Iron Heel. It had prepared for the outbreak, and the killing of so many officers gave it justification for what followed. As by magic, forty thousand soldiers of the regular army surrounded the malcontents. It was a trap. The wretched militiamen found that their machine-guns had been tampered with, and that the cartridges from the captured magazines did not fit their rifles. They hoisted the white flag of surrender, but it was ignored. There were no survivors. The entire six thousand were annihilated. Common shell and shrapnel were thrown in upon them from a distance, and, when, in their desperation, they charged the encircling lines, they were mowed down by the machine-guns. I talked with an eye-witness, and he said that the nearest any militiaman approached the machine-guns was a hundred and fifty yards. The earth was carpeted with the slain, and a final charge of cavalry, with trampling of horses' hoofs, revolvers, and sabres, crushed the wounded into the ground.

Simultaneously with the destruction of the Grangers came the revolt of the coal miners. It was the expiring effort of organized labor. Three-quarters of a million of miners went out on strike. But they were too widely scattered over the country to advantage from their own strength. They were segregated in their own districts and beaten into submission. This was the first great slave-drive. Pocock* won his spurs as a slave-driver and earned the undying hatred of the proletariat. Countless attempts were made upon his life, but he seemed to bear a charmed existence. It was he who was responsible for the introduction of the Russian passport system among the miners, and the denial of their right of removal from one part of the country to another.

* Albert Pocock, another of the notorious strike-breakers of
 earlier years, who, to the day of his death, successfully
 held all the coal-miners of the country to their task. He
 was succeeded by his son, Lewis Pocock, and for five
 generations this remarkable line of slave-drivers handled
 the coal mines. The elder Pocock, known as Pocock I., has
 been described as follows: "A long, lean head, semicircled
 by a fringe of brown and gray hair, with big cheek-bones and
 a heavy chin, . . . a pale face, lustreless gray eyes, a
 metallic voice, and a languid manner." He was born of
 humble parents, and began his career as a bartender. He
 next became a private detective for a street railway
 corporation, and by successive steps developed into a
 professional strikebreaker. Pocock V., the last of the line,
 was blown up in a pump-house by a bomb during a petty revolt
 of the miners in the Indian Territory. This occurred in 2073
 A.D.

In the meantime, the socialists held firm. While the Grangers expired in flame and blood, and organized labor was disrupted, the socialists held their peace and perfected their secret organization. In vain the Grangers pleaded with us. We rightly contended that any revolt on our part was virtually suicide for the whole Revolution. The Iron Heel, at first dubious about dealing with the entire proletariat at one time, had found the work easier than it had expected, and would have asked nothing better than an uprising on our part. But we avoided the issue, in spite of the fact that agents-provocateurs swarmed in our midst. In those early days, the agents of the Iron Heel were clumsy in their methods. They had much to learn and in the meantime our Fighting Groups weeded them out. It was bitter, bloody work, but we were fighting for life and for the Revolution, and we had to fight the enemy with its own weapons. Yet we were fair. No agent of the Iron Heel was executed without a trial. We may have made mistakes, but if so, very rarely. The bravest, and the most combative and self-sacrificing of our comrades went into the Fighting Groups. Once, after ten years had passed, Ernest made a calculation from figures furnished by the chiefs of the Fighting Groups, and his conclusion was that the average life of a man or woman after becoming a member was five years. The comrades of the Fighting Groups were heroes all, and the peculiar thing about it was that they were opposed to the taking of life. They violated their own natures, yet they loved liberty and knew of no sacrifice too great to make for the Cause.*

* These Fighting groups were modelled somewhat after the
 Fighting Organization of the Russian Revolution, and,
 despite the unceasing efforts of the Iron Heel, these groups
 persisted throughout the three centuries of its existence.
 Composed of men and women actuated by lofty purpose and
 unafraid to die, the Fighting Groups exercised tremendous
 influence and tempered the savage brutality of the rulers.
 Not alone was their work confined to unseen warfare with the
 secret agents of the Oligarchy. The oligarchs themselves
 were compelled to listen to the decrees of the Groups, and
 often, when they disobeyed, were punished by death—and
 likewise with the subordinates of the oligarchs, with the
 officers of the army and the leaders of the labor castes.

 Stern justice was meted out by these organized avengers, but
 most remarkable was their passionless and judicial
 procedure. There were no snap judgments. When a man was
 captured he was given fair trial and opportunity for
 defence. Of necessity, many men were tried and condemned by
 proxy, as in the case of General Lampton. This occurred in
 2138 A.D. Possibly the most bloodthirsty and malignant of
 all the mercenaries that ever served the Iron Heel, he was
 informed by the Fighting Groups that they had tried him,
 found him guilty, and condemned him to death—and this,
 after three warnings for him to cease from his ferocious
 treatment of the proletariat. After his condemnation he
 surrounded himself with a myriad protective devices. Years
 passed, and in vain the Fighting Groups strove to execute
 their decree. Comrade after comrade, men and women, failed
 in their attempts, and were cruelly executed by the
 Oligarchy. It was the case of General Lampton that revived
 crucifixion as a legal method of execution. But in the end
 the condemned man found his executioner in the form of a
 slender girl of seventeen, Madeline Provence, who, to
 accomplish her purpose, served two years in his palace as a
 seamstress to the household. She died in solitary
 confinement after horrible and prolonged torture; but to-day
 she stands in imperishable bronze in the Pantheon of
 Brotherhood in the wonder city of Serles.

 We, who by personal experience know nothing of bloodshed,
 must not judge harshly the heroes of the Fighting Groups.
 They gave up their lives for humanity, no sacrifice was too
 great for them to accomplish, while inexorable necessity
 compelled them to bloody expression in an age of blood. The
 Fighting Groups constituted the one thorn in the side of the
 Iron Heel that the Iron Heel could never remove. Everhard
 was the father of this curious army, and its accomplishments
 and successful persistence for three hundred years bear
 witness to the wisdom with which he organized and the solid
 foundation he laid for the succeeding generations to build
 upon. In some respects, despite his great economic and
 sociological contributions, and his work as a general leader
 in the Revolution, his organization of the Fighting Groups
 must be regarded as his greatest achievement.

The task we set ourselves was threefold. First, the weeding out from our circles of the secret agents of the Oligarchy. Second, the organizing of the Fighting Groups, and outside of them, of the general secret organization of the Revolution. And third, the introduction of our own secret agents into every branch of the Oligarchy—into the labor castes and especially among the telegraphers and secretaries and clerks, into the army, the agents-provocateurs, and the slave-drivers. It was slow work, and perilous, and often were our efforts rewarded with costly failures.

The Iron Heel had triumphed in open warfare, but we held our own in the new warfare, strange and awful and subterranean, that we instituted. All was unseen, much was unguessed; the blind fought the blind; and yet through it all was order, purpose, control. We permeated the entire organization of the Iron Heel with our agents, while our own organization was permeated with the agents of the Iron Heel. It was warfare dark and devious, replete with intrigue and conspiracy, plot and counterplot. And behind all, ever menacing, was death, violent and terrible. Men and women disappeared, our nearest and dearest comrades. We saw them to-day. To-morrow they were gone; we never saw them again, and we knew that they had died.

There was no trust, no confidence anywhere. The man who plotted beside us, for all we knew, might be an agent of the Iron Heel. We mined the organization of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organization. And it was the same with our organization. And despite the absence of confidence and trust we were compelled to base our every effort on confidence and trust. Often were we betrayed. Men were weak. The Iron Heel could offer money, leisure, the joys and pleasures that waited in the repose of the wonder cities. We could offer nothing but the satisfaction of being faithful to a noble ideal. As for the rest, the wages of those who were loyal were unceasing peril, torture, and death.

Men were weak, I say, and because of their weakness we were compelled to make the only other reward that was within our power. It was the reward of death. Out of necessity we had to punish our traitors. For every man who betrayed us, from one to a dozen faithful avengers were loosed upon his heels. We might fail to carry out our decrees against our enemies, such as the Pococks, for instance; but the one thing we could not afford to fail in was the punishment of our own traitors. Comrades turned traitor by permission, in order to win to the wonder cities and there execute our sentences on the real traitors. In fact, so terrible did we make ourselves, that it became a greater peril to betray us than to remain loyal to us.

The Revolution took on largely the character of religion. We worshipped at the shrine of the Revolution, which was the shrine of liberty. It was the divine flashing through us. Men and women devoted their lives to the Cause, and new-born babes were sealed to it as of old they had been sealed to the service of God. We were lovers of Humanity.

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Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas, the bearded breakout star of last year's Stanley Cup playoffs, has enjoyed the afterglow of his team's championship. His kids have gone bobbing for apples in the Cup. Thomas has thrown a couple of Stanley Cup parties. "It's like planning two weddings," he says. When he went to a Red Sox game last week, David Ortiz made a special request to see him. "When I was around the other Boston teams, it was always a little bit awkward," says Thomas, in an interview during the NHL's preseason media tour in New York City. "We were one step below. Now, we're on the same playing field. I felt more comfortable talking to David Ortiz than I was talking to those type of guys in previous situations. I didn't feel like I was better than him. I felt like I was on the same level."
As if leading the Bruins to their first Cup in 39 years wasn't surreal enough, at the NHL awards show in Las Vegas a few days after Boston's victory, some skinny guy with long hair approached Thomas on the red carpet. "He was like, 'hey, congratulations," says Thomas, who was MVP of last season's playoffs. 'I followed your career the whole way, this and that.'" I was like, 'thanks.' He was like, 'you don't remember me, do you?'" I'm like, 'no.'" He goes, 'I lived on your floor freshman year, at the University of Vermont, two doors town from you.'" I was like, 'Tex?' And I never put two and two together that this guy was Dierks Bentley, the country singer. It was pretty cool.'"
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While Thomas is reveling in his new fame, he's not immune to the shocks hitting hockey. During the 2011 offseason, tragedy marred the sport. Wade Belak, a recently-retired defensemen for the Nashville Predators, died of an apparent suicide on August 31. Just two weeks before that, Rick Rypien, the former Vancouver Canucks player who had just signed a contract with the Winnipeg Jets, and had a long struggle with depression, also killed himself. In May Derek Boogaard of the New York Rangers, who had a history of substance abuse problems, died of an accidental of painkillers and alcohol. All of these players were all 'enforcers," the tough guys tasked to protect the more skilled players, and to get into frequent fights.
To make things worse, last Tuesday an airplane carrying Lokomotiv Yaroslavi, a team in the Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), crashed shortly after takeoff in western Russia. Only two people survived: 43 people, including several ex-NHL players, died.
When Thomas heard the horrible plane crash news, he immediately scanned the roster, looking to see if he knew any of the players personally. He did not, but found out that one Lokomotiv Yaroslavi player was close with Bruins captain Zdeno Chara. "I immediately thought of the impact of something like this must have on Zdeno," Thomas says. "And I put myself in his shoes, trying to relate. It's a mixed jumble of emotions, it is a tragedy, it's terrible."
Thomas revealed that many years ago, his agent has actually talked to Lokomotiv Yaroslavi officials about the goaltender joining the team. "I had heard stories about guys who played in the KHL, about the type of planes they were flying around on," Thomas says. They were subpar: the doomed jet was part of an aging Soviet-era fleet.
(READ: Russian Plane Crash Kills 43 on Board, Including KHL Hockey Players)
The deaths of the three enforcers have forced hockey to think hard about redefining that role. In May, Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) discovered that former enforcer Bob Probert had CTE, a degenerative brain disease found in victims who have suffered repeated blows to the head. (Probert died of heart failure in July of 2010). The Boston University center is also studying Boogaard's brain. Symptoms of CTE include depression and memory loss. If hockey violence is possibly linked with brain damage, shouldn't the NHL try to eliminate fighting, and the "enforcer" position, altogether?
Thomas, however, cautions against immediately overhauling the game. "I think it's important not to draw any conclusions from these incidents," Thomas says. "Those are three separate cases. I mean, MMA fighters get hit in the head on a consistent basis. Not just in their main fights, but on a daily basis. And there hasn't been a run of tragedies in that field. The reality is that you may never know what happened from those individual cases."
Once the pucks drop, maybe hockey will start healing. The NHL season starts on October 6 If the NBA is still mired in a work stoppage, the NHL has a chance to win over some basketball fans. Not that Thomas is keeping an eye on hoops. "I hadn't really thought about it," Thomas says. "Because, you know, the reality is they might be back and playing in time. I don't think that's as a player, as a league, the focus should be on taking advantage of this opportunity. I think we just need to kind of go along the road we've been going on along. The popularity of our game, our overall revenue has been increasing every year over the past few years, even in a down economy. We've been fortunate enough to have had a good Olympics in North America. The last few Stanley Cup finals have been very exciting. Last year was a very exciting, very entertaining playoffs. I just think we need to focus doing well on what we're doing well, rather than what the NBA is doing."
Sean Gregory is a staff writer at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @seanmgregory. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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March 15, 2010
Google Book Search's Irrelevant Suggestions
Google Book Search seems to be the only Google service that shows irrelevant suggestions. When you type "shak", the top suggestions are "shakira" and "shake weight", even if "shakespeare" would be much more appropriate. Obviously, Google uses suggestions from the web search engine and "Shakira" is a more popular query than "Shakespeare".
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action." (Hamlet)
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Interesting observation! I'd like to see Google sort this out in the future.ReplyDelete
Hey, this is Rajib. Your observation is really thought-provoking and minute as well as important to consider. Like in case of typing 'shak' as you have shown in the screenshot, typing 'word' does not suggest Wordsworth but 'wordpress' or typing 'george' suggests george washington instead of George Bernard Shaw or typing 'Da' shows david's bridal at the top of the query suggestions instead of Da Vinci Code. This shows that Google gives much importance to current popular topics rather than the old classic ones. However, in such vertical search queries Google may re-think it's query suggestions algorithm.ReplyDelete
- Tim GossettMarch 16, 2010 at 5:40 AM
Or it could be that a lot of people are looking for books on Shakira and the Shake Weight...ReplyDelete
Of course not. The suggestions for Book Search are identical to the ones for Google Web Search. Try a few queries and you'll notice that they're the same.
Yeah I have faced it as everyone and I found it very funny sometimes and sometime annoying also. Specially when you try to search something with question like how to or what then very funny suggestions came and that's too funny and I really don't want Google to sort it out as it really give me fun.ReplyDelete
I posted a comment then lost it. My latest novel, Birthing the Lucifer star can not be found on google, not yet anyway come visit me here http://publishitorbust.blogspot.com/ can't wait to find my book in the google search engineReplyDelete
Of course, Shakespeare wrote plays, not books...but I don't think that renders your argument invalid.ReplyDelete
- no1compdocApril 5, 2010 at 7:16 PM
GoogleBooks should create citation capability for EndNote similar to what other Journal databases do.ReplyDelete


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TiVo Premiere 4
The Premiere 4 has all the features of the XL4, but with a quarter of its storage space.
If you like the sound of a four-tuner TiVo, but $400 plus a $14.99 monthly service fee is just too steep, you're in luck.
The new Premiere 4 has almost all the same features as the Premiere XL4, including the capability to record four programs at once even while you watch something previously recorded. But to get the XL4's $400 cost down to $250, TiVo slashed the storage from 2TB to 500GB for the Premiere 4, or from up to 300 hours of HD programming down to 75 hours.
The Premiere 4 comes with a standard TiVo peanut remote and isn't THX-certified; the XL4 includes a TiVo Glo Premium backlit remote and is THX-certified for audio and video.
The other features appear to be the same, though, including access to on-demand streaming services from Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and Amazon Instant Video; eventual Comcast Xfinity On Demand support; and MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) networking in addition to Ethernet (wireless still requires an add-on adapter). MoCA will let you network this TiVo over your home's coaxial wiring, perfect for places where you don't have easy Ethernet access.
The addition of the Premiere 4 brings TiVo's DVR lineup, for the time being at least, to four models. The $150 TiVo Premiere and $250 Premiere XL are two-tuner models with storage for up to 75 or 150 hours of HD shows and support for digital cable, HD and standard-definition over-the-air broadcasts (ATSC), and Verizon FiOS.
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It doesn't make sense…
Apparently exoplanet is BAFFLING astronomers for this reason. This thing is as big as Neptune and it is made of pure rock. Almost always when a planet reaches this size, or at least those observed by astronomers it involves some or all parts gas. Here is a bit more about this find:
BD+20594b sits about 500 light-years away in the constellation Aries. The planet is about 16 times as massive as Earth but just a little over twice as wide, making its density about 8 grams per cubic centimeter, Néstor Espinoza, an astrophysicist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, and colleagues report. Earth's density, by comparison, is 5.5 grams per cubic centimeter.
The fact that it takes 42 days to orbit around its star may make a bit more sense here but it is still surprising to the team who spotted it.
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Brian Long said:
We can tell.
Brian Long said:
Kelvo McClain Jr. said:
Damn, you found my stash planet. Tell the Space Police I have papers for that planet..!
Ryan Eckard said:
Richard Winslow
Lester Brown said:
Miss Lippy's car, is green.
Morgan S Beatty said:
So of the sum 2000 plants and stars discovered…..roughly 200+ are habitable…….but yet were alone in the universe, god created us and nothing else, and everything being discovered is simply fake. Stars aren't real. Neither is space……or dinosaurs, poison, evil people, murders, rapists……..$#%&!@*people on this planet are so stupid. If you honestly believe we are alone in the universe you should just kill you self now…….or at the very least do not reproduce. Please.
Kent Douglas said:
DEFIES!! Ooooo
Kenny Bird said:
So dey can see 23 trillion light years away. Why is it homeless people begging to eat a T.V dinner…
Joefenech Montalve said:
Well it does if you give up the idea that space and time is spread out uniformly across the universe and start thinking about the possibility that space and time are more or less dense in certain areas. I mean a black hole is supposed to be an object so dense that it breaks the fabric of space and time so why couldn't the opposite be true?? Places in space that effect the "normal" behavior of matter.
Joseph Jacobs said:
When scientists discover God they will freak out
Eric Elliott said:
I once skipped over a universe and planted a bomb in alternate Eric's basement. When I came back, my house blew up!
Keith Krohn said:
Wow…the level of ignorance in these comments is astounding
Mason Helms said:
Either bring something to the table kick rocks man. We're here to build, not cause strife and division. "The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God."
Mason Helms said:
If anybody wants to understand science and where it came from, read the book of Enoch.
Steve Melone said:
When will we learn not everything is nit like earth or this galaxy.
Allen Sabio said:
Yes very weird universe, especially considering we can only observe 4 percent of it. The rest is invisible dark matter/energy. 96 percent of the universe is invisible to us, a mystery.
Madea Walker said:
What evidence points to a finite universe?
Ken Sacco said:
Which god out of the 3600? And why are you right, and all other religions are wrong? Simpleton.
Ken Sacco said:
God I hope you just forgot to add the #sarcasm tag…
Gary Brown said:
The arrogance of humans, always thinking we know what the hell is going on.
Allen Sabio said:
The Big Bang, the fact that the universe has an age of 13.77 billion years old as measured by the WMAP which also discovered Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Place that alongside the second law of thermodynamics and apply simple logic, points to a finite universe.
G. Aaron Heryford said:
It don't make no sense they say.
Juan Carlos said:
What if there are some gigantic beings the size of our skyscraper on these gigantic planets, and everything on those planents were built on a bigger scale? If we had gigantic dinosaurs, why not?
Anonymous said:
Matt 24:31, 1 Cor 15:51-52, 1 Thess 4:13-18
Marthy Wren Jr. said:
Might sound crazy but its planet gallifrey. The planet of time travel lords. Jesus is said to be from here. Yes a time travler.
Bruce Golland said:
Everything in nature makes sense.Nature is reality
Eric Mantia said:
This just tells us that in this case, that planet formed close in to where it now sits in its orbit, as opposed to migrating in from farther out in that star's system. It means that a planet CAN reach that mass and size as a rocky planet, so long as it forms close in, and there is enough material in its orbital path or other path-crossing proto planets that end up colliding with it to enable it to reach that size.
R Daniel Golden-Castaño said:
This page was not liked, nor followed, but is now blocked for its stupidity in writing and journalism.
Karl Rogers said:
Usually when something doesn't make sense, one of the assumptions or preconceptions about it is wrong.
Jeff Dahlstrom said:
The devil tricks you, there is no planet but earth. Earth is flat and sits in the father almightys hands. Demons work for nasa to stray you from the path of God!
Maurice Powers said:
Please go back to the nut house where your dumb$#%&!@*belongs. Please captain dumb$#%&!@*explain why we can see mars, Jupiter and so on through a telescope? Also please provide evidence that supports the earth is flat. I'm 100% sure a airplane pilot would tell you otherwise. This is why religion needs to die because it spawns idiot's like you.
Maurice Powers said:
This guy above me is clearly a nut case and belongs in a home^
David Williamson said:
ANSWER = GOD CREATED !!! he deliberately placed ALL these inexplainable mysteries that defy known laws of science and Physics just so you would at last conclude,,, science is not the answer !!! BUT GOD AND HIS WORD THE HOLY BIBLE IS !!!
Maurice Powers said:
Please go back to the nut house where your dumb$#%&!@*belongs
David Williamson said:
why when I feel so much at home right here amongst my fellow nuts
Maurice Powers said:
Lol if you really trust an ancient old religion that should've died out a long time ago then you're an idiot. Science is the answer to everything in the universe.
David Williamson said:
stop … stop … please tooo funny
David Williamson said:
"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."
Jeff Dahlstrom said:
Maurice Powers I must be speaking with Satan himself
Felita Marie said:
I'm crying laughing!!
Andrew Jojola said:
You font know$#%&!@*about science so your ANSWER is about as valid as you are ugly I can only assume as much seeing as you have no photos of your self just god bull$#%&!@*what happened four eyes? Your pizza faced fat Albert look was so horrible the only one you could turn to was god cause you knew the only person who would look at you is the imaginary friend billions of people are comfortable sharing? I'm sure every sunday the congregation is just so pleased with your I can has cheeseburger$#%&!@*wheelin in on your rascle only to block the isle while you weeze up storm the pastor has to speak over cuz you just HAD to sit at the front so the church saw how CLOSE to Jesus your fat is? Beat it shuka this a place of science their is no space for you here.
Larry Laundre said:
If there is a God, when I meet him, I will give him a chance to explain himself.
Kyle Judge said:
Trolling troll is trolling
John Usery said:
God. Made Adam and eve. Brother and sister had 2 sons. I assume we are all people of$#%&!@* Killed everybody and we are all from noah ,his sons ant their wives. More$#%&!@* I'm lucky I don't have 2 heads.
David Williamson said:
well John ,,, here is an interesting scientific study … Genetics !!! I am sure you are a smart cookie … so I am going to let you answer this one ,,, why is not good for us today to not enter into an incestuous relationship, as opposed to back in the days of Noah?
Joey Jordan said:
Actually there is no proof they are habitable the theory is that they may be but no one knows for sure.
Edwin Wito Herrera said:
There's a reason why put them in air quotes.
Edwin Wito Herrera said:
Astronomers and astrophysicists are currently in the process of determining whether or not these planets are habitable for organic life that is here on Earth but we are not certain if there's even life on those planets. It could be even more revolutionary if they have it life on those planets right now.


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The nefarious Pat Robertson continues to inhale air and exhale laughing gas. His latest act of saying something outrageous to get headlines and attention is this little gem: he thinks jillions of us are going to be kilt by terrorists this year, and Da Big G gave him the lowdown himself!
"The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."
Robertson said God told him about the impending tragedy during a recent prayer retreat.
God also said, he claims, that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
It is, perhaps, the greatest thing in the world for atheists when fundamentalist nutbars go off on one of these "God spoke to me" benders. The creativity value is literally boundless. Sure, I know it isn't nice to mock the mentally handicapped, but then, this is Pat "God's sending a tsunami" Robertson we're on about here. I feel I can bend the rules of common decency just a wee bit. So! Let's start with the whole thing about how he got this breaking news about our national security from God Himself! The scene fades in on an average, sunny Tuesday morning in the CBN offices...
An elderly, avuncular man, PAT ROBERTSON, in an immaculate business suit, sits at a sprawling mahogany desk decorated with family photos. The wall behind him features more photos of himself, posing with politicians and presidents, and a massive portrait of Jesus Christ, autographed, "To Pat, from your pal, J., Xmas how bout that eggnog! Wooo! XXOO"
The intercom buzzes. Robertson, who has been muttering to himself under his breath, looks up, startled. Wiping a string of drool from his lower lip, he flicks the button with a shaky hand.
ROBERTSONUh...yes? VOICE
(V/O intercom)Mr. Robertson? God. Line one.
ROBERTSONOh...! Ah, yes, I'll...take it right away.
Robertson flicks another switch, activating a speaker-phone.
(clearing throat)Ahem...this is P...uh, I mean, my Lord...?
(V/O speaker-phone)Pat! Buddy! What's up? How's the "little steeple"?
(embarrassed)Oh! Uh...heh heh. Just, uh, just fine, Lord, heh...
GODAw, don't be such a prude! It's your own damn fault. Always told you you should jack off more.
Robertson blushes deeply, is too embarrassed to speak.
GODAw, I'm just messin' with ya. Don't take it personal. Listen, can't talk long, I just wanted to drop a line and give you a heads-up on the next terror attack. ROBERTSONOh dear. Oh dear dear dear. Will it uh will it be...big? GODHmmm...yeah. Pretty big. Good size one, anyway. ROBERTSONOooh dear. I knew it. Those Muslims...if they would only confess their sins, give their hearts to your Son... GODYeah, it's a pisser. What can you do, eh? ROBERTSONSo...another attack. I just know there's a scripture pointing right to this, but in Your wisdom, Lord, it's up to me to study Your word and find it myself. And I will, Lord, I will. GODRight, right. Good plan. What I like to see. Some real word-studying. That old Bible of mine won't interpret itself, you know! ROBERTSONWill it be nuclear? GODWill what be nuclear? ROBERTSONThe, uh, attack, Lord. GODOh yeah! That. Uhhh... no comment. ROBERTSONI beg y...I mean, I'm sorry Lord? GODI just think I'd rather not say. About the whole nuclear part. ROBERTSONBut...why? I mean, I know I'm not supposed to question you, don't think that! I'm just... GODCurious, sure, I gotcha. Well, you know how it is. I just better not say. Can't be seen interfering with that whole "free will" thing. ROBERTSONThat's true, very true. But...well, no. It's a sin to question you, Lord... GODNaw, go ahead, ask me. It's cool. ROBERTSONI was just thinking a hint would be nice. I mean, the, heh heh, the Orlando thing was a little embarrassing, you know. Not that I'd ever let on... GODYeah, that one was pretty fuckin' stupid even for you. Okay, hint. Let's say... sometime this fall, definitely not September this time, how about after. And, um, big major American cities, millions dead, all that good stuff. ROBERTSONOh, goodness. Oh, dear. But...Lord, wouldn't it be best to tell, you know, Mr. Bush, the CIA...they could get organized, prevent the attack this time... GODPat, sweety, you and I both know Bush and his boys couldn't organize an orgy in a whorehouse. I mean, even you were able to figure out the Iraq war was stupid, which puts it right at the top of the list of stupidest things of all time. And besides, it's you who is my most trusted spokesman and representative on Earth. You're the man I trust most with the most solemn duties in My Holy Name. None other has what it takes to do his duty by Me.
A tear falling from one eye, Robertson sits up tall in his chair.
ROBERTSONI hear and obey, Lord. You are the truth, the way and the light, and in Jesus' precious name, I promise I will not fail you. I will do what must be done to warn humanity. GODYou da man, Pat. Look, gotta run. Always enjoy our little chin-wags. Give the wife a kiss, and tell Falwell to lay off the fuckin' eclairs. I don't want his fat ass up here that soon. Shit. ROBERTSONHallowed be thy name, o Lord, I...
The line clicks dead. Robertson clicks his intercom. No sign of the physical frailty he possessed minutes ago is present.
ROBERTSONGet me the news desk, right away.
GOD snaps shut his flip phone and smiles. Camera pulls back to reveal a poker table, around which sit JESUS, LUCIFER, and THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER. There is a moment of quiet, then all of them burst out laughing.
LUCIFERGod, you asshole! GODHey, it's Pat. You gotta love the guy!
SAINT PETER enters, carrying a case of Heineken and three extra-large Domino's pizzas.
SAINT PETERWhich one of you guys had the hand-tossed with extra pepperoni? FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTERHey, none of those better be anybody I know!
GOD looks over to JESUS and LUCIFER.
GODSo...a little bird tells me you crazy kids are getting married!


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The beauty of autumn in southern Utah
Story and photos by Ray Boren
For the Deseret News
Published: Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 12:00 a.m. MST
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Southern Utah, that geologic and scenic wonderland, is dazzling in every season — but in autumn the annual invasion of sightseeing visitors from around the world drops to a trickle.
As desk manager Ron Stensfors notes from behind the service counter at Zion Lodge, seasoned (so to speak) American travelers, especially savvy locals from Utah and the rest of the West, know fall is a great time to take in Zion National Park.
And that's equally true for Utah's four other national parks (Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon), national monuments (Grand Staircase-Escalante, Natural Bridges, etc.) and the autumn-tinged highlands, canyons and pioneer communities all around them.
"Southern Utah," says Riley Mitchell, chief of interpretation at Capitol Reef National Park, "is often synonymous with red rock, but if you are lucky enough to encounter the areas along streambeds or the higher elevations during a good spring or fall season, the variety of colors can be amazing, especially against the backdrop of the dramatic sandstone landscape."
"Color, history, solitude, beauty — it all converges on an autumn day in canyonland," Ben Guterson observes in his pleasurable book, "Seasonal Guide to the Natural Year," which spotlights "natural events" in Utah and the other states of the Four Corners region.
Autumn usually gains a foothold in mid-September in places like the Tushar Mountains, above Beaver and Junction, and the LaSal and Abajo mountains, looming over southeastern Utah.
Golden aspen groves blanket entire mountainsides. Intermittent storms — as has been the case this year — bring early snows that frost peaks towering more than 12,000 feet above sea level and add yet another transitional, pre-winter, flavor to the landscapes just below.
Utah's famed "Highway 12" — the awe-inspiring National Scenic Byway between Red Canyon near Bryce Canyon National Park and Torrey, Capitol Reef's gateway — is a much-recommended drive. The rise over Boulder Mountain, in particular, is "really terrific in autumn," Joe Bensen writes in his Falcon Guide, "Scenic Driving in Utah" — with Bensen emphasizing "terrific" in italics.
Then, by mid- to late October and into November — depending upon where you are — the lower-elevation Colorado Plateau canyons are speckled and streaked with dazzling variations on red and yellow and orange as presented by the scrub oak, willow, ash, alder, box elder and cottonwood trees.
The canyons of the Southwest "are cooler and crisper in fall, allowing the visitor to enjoy their color without the glaring summer sun that seems to blister the sandstone," Guterson says in his "Seasonal Guide."
At its most pleasant — when storms aren't parading across the countryside — and even into November, temperatures often rise to the gentle 60s or 70s, with nighttime lows in the 40s.
Autumn can be a wonderful time to visit Bryce Canyon National Park and vicinity, says Brady Syrett, manager of Ruby's Horseback Adventures and the rodeo at Ruby's Inn.
He and his team continue horse-riding excursions, of one hour along the plateau rim or a full day in the Paria River drainage, as long as the weather holds out.
By contrast, Ruby's outfitters host a whole range of activities in summer, from ATV and horseback rides to the rodeo and cookout dinner. "And we're trying to get more people here in the winter," for sleigh rides, cross-country skiing and the Presidents Day Winter Festival at Bryce, Syrett says.
Autumn displays are variable in Capitol Reef, the park's Mitchell says, but "this year has been an exceptional exception! What brilliant fall colors over an extended time." Late September through mid-October offers the best opportunity to catch the colors there, she says.
However, take note: Because of mild temperatures and the promise of autumn along the Fremont River corridor, Sulphur Creek, Pleasant Creek and the washes, September and October are among the busiest months of all in the park, she says.
Besides the usual array of coloring trees, shrubs and grasses, Capitol Reef is home to Fruita, a one-time pioneer community — and nearly 2,700 fruit trees, including heritage and heirloom varieties, Mitchell says.
"The peach trees seem to have the best color, turning bright orange to red. Fruit trees turn colors about the same time as all of the rest," Mitchell says. Other fruit varieties include cherries, apricots, peaches, pears, plums, apples, mulberries, pecans, walnuts and quince.
October seems the ideal time for an autumn visit to Arches and Canyonlands national parks, as well.
The sculpted sandstone plateaus, cliffs, hoodoos, fins and arches of these great parks often seem kin to a moonscape, whatever the season. But autumn shades sneak in as plateau-top grasses and rim-edge brushes make subtle changes.
And trees and tamarisk along the Colorado and Green river canyons, most accessible at the town of Green River and along the Colorado near Moab, can shimmer with color.
Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park is also supremely accessible, and the box elders, cottonwoods and other trees extending beyond the bridge over the wash along the park's main roadway offer bright contrasts to the red-spectrum Navajo and Entrada sandstone cliffs nearby, as well as the white-tipped LaSal Mountains to the southeast.
The end-of-October Halloween holiday, and shortly thereafter, is actually a reliable target date to drop by Zion Canyon, as evidenced this past week.
The usually vibrant under-shrubbery was tempered a bit this year, Stensfors acknowledged. But color was still eye-catching in places along the upper elevations of state Route 9, while the golden trees — mostly Fremont cottonwoods — along the Virgin River were just getting a good start.
The park lifts the car-banning, shuttle-buses-only system in Zion Canyon proper at the end of October, and room rates drop for the season, he notes.
Autumn — and its pleasant temperatures — usually continues, with a gradual decline in color, right up to Thanksgiving in Zion, which has been celebrating its 100th anniversary as a national park unit this year.
"And Thanksgiving is very busy" at 122-room Zion Lodge, "largely a local tradition," Stensfors says. "It's our favorite food and beverage time of year," a great time for families to get together.
Then, the year-round park prepares for winter, and this year that means the loss of some rooms: Zion's 40 cabins will be closed for remodeling in January, February and March, he says.
Of course, the challenge every year is to catch southern Utah's fall phenomena at their mercurial peak.
"All too frequently, the leaves turn pretty quickly and fall off with the first big wind," Mitchell observes. "This year's display has been fabulous and long-lasting" in Capitol Reef, "with trees turning throughout a two-week period. This last storm has been the death knell, however."
And remember, not all of the season's wonders are in national parks, by any stretch of the imagination.
There's always state Route 12, as mentioned. But also consider such routes as state Route 279 (the Potash Road) and state Route 128, along the Colorado Riverway near of Moab, which can be spectacular, as can cottonwood-filled red-rock ravines along Utah's Bicentennial Highway, state Route 95, between Hanksville and Blanding.
State Route 14 east of Cedar City offers not only access to hoodoo-filled Cedar Breaks National Monument, many roadside aspen groves rise dramatically upon or beside fields of gray-to-black volcanic boulders.
And pastoral U.S. 89 offers one of the great autumn drives in southern Utah, from the Arizona border and Kanab north toward Richfield. The route, through historic pioneer villages like Orderville, Panguitch and Circleville, has been officially designated the Utah Heritage Byway.
The fact is, almost any road or side-canyon is southern Utah is going to offer a memorable patch of fall-spangled scenery somewhere along the way.
One of Utah's most seasonally striking (and park-like) routes is along U.S. 89 between Marysvale and I-70, south of Richfield, where cottonwoods and oaks add yet more color to the steep mountainsides' igneous grays, purples, burgundies and sulfur-yellows.
One of the route's most famous attractions is Big Rock Candy Mountain, famed in song for its "lemonade springs" and other hobo wonders.
As the song says, with any luck, "I'll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains."
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An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce -- at times even stop -- arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border.
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever told FoxNews.com that a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol told him as recently as this month that the federal agency's office on Arizona's southern border was under orders to keep apprehension numbers down during specific reporting time periods.
"The senior supervisor agent is telling me about how their mission is now to scare people back," Dever said in an interview with FoxNews.com. "He said, 'I had to go back to my guys and tell them not to catch anybody, that their job is to chase people away. … They were not to catch anyone, arrest anyone. Their job was to set up posture, to intimidate people, to get them to go back."
Dever said his recent conversation with the Border Patrol supervisor was the latest in a series of communications on the subject that he has had with various federal agents over the last two years. Dever said he plans to relay the substance of these conversations when he testifies under oath next month before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
"I will raise my hand to tell the truth and swear to God, and nothing is more serious or important than that," he said. "I'm going to tell them that, here's what I hear and see every day: I had conversation with agent A, B, C, D and this is what they told me."
Dever's charges were vigorously denied by a commander with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"The claim that Border Patrol supervisors have been instructed to underreport or manipulate our statistics is unequivocally false," Jeffery Self, commander of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Joint Field Command in Arizona, said in a written statement.
"I took an oath that I take very seriously, and I find it insulting that anyone, especially a fellow law enforcement officer, would imply that we would put the protection of the American public and security of our nation's borders in danger just for a numbers game," he said. "Our mission does not waiver based on political climate, and it never will. To suggest that we are ambiguous in enforcing our laws belittles the work of more than 6,000 CBP employees in Arizona who dedicate their lives to protect our borders every day."
In recent days, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said the U.S.-Mexican border is more secure than ever, and Homeland Security officials have used recent statistics to support those claims.
"There is a perception that the border is worse now than it ever has been," Napolitano said at the El Paso border crossing last week. "That is wrong. The border is better now than it ever has been."
Dever doesn't agree.
"Janet Napolitano says the border is more secure than it's ever been. I've been here for 60 years, and I'm telling you that's not true," he said.
The sheriff of Santa Cruz County, which borders Dever's Cochise County to the west, said, "This is news to me," when asked about reports that border agents were being told to turn illegal immigrants back to Mexico rather than arrest them.
"It comes as a complete surprise that that would be something that's going around," Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said. "I meet with Dever all the time and I have great respect for him, so I expect he'd come forward and say what he knows and give the source.
"Not knowing who the source is, how reliable that source is, I really don't have much of a position," Estrada said. "I've been around a real long time and haven't heard anything like this. By the same token, you learn new things every day."
Both sheriffs are elected officials. Dever is a Republican, Estrada, a Democrat.
Others have questioned the methodology and conclusions of the Homeland Security numbers showing the border is more secure.
Mark Hanna, CEO of Real Life Enterprises, a Phoenix-based technology integration and security company, has testified before the Arizona Senate about what he called Homeland Security's flawed methodology used to compile border security statistics. Hanna maintains the numbers are dangerously misleading.
Hanna, who is currently working on a private/public partnership pilot program along the Arizona border, said he attended a February conference at which Michael Fisher, chief of the United States Border Patrol, and Mark S. Borkowski, assistant commissioner for technology and innovation acquisition, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, showed off charts indicating arrests were decreasing and argued the border was more secure. The charts also showed an increase in marijuana seizures along the border and an increase in Border Patrol agents.
But those charts left out crucial data, Hanna said.
"Since we don't know how many illegal crossings are occurring, then a decrease in apprehensions might mean that there are fewer illegal crossings, and the border is more secure. But it could also just as easily mean that more illegal border crossings are occurring, and we're just not catching as many. In order to know how secure the border is, you need to know how many are crossing and the threat level of those who are crossing illegally," he said.
"It is a very dangerous condition for the secretary of Homeland Security to be using incomplete data to form such a conclusion, and then repeatedly announce these conclusions as fact," he said.
The Department of Homeland Security did not return repeated requests for comment on Hanna's specific challenges to the agency's methodology.
Whatever the methodology, Dever said the numbers don't accurately describe what's happening on the ground.
"We do not know who's crossing that border, but that anyone who wants to can. That's the message our nation needs to hear, that anyone who wants to can, and is. And our own Department of Homeland Security does not have clear definition of what securing the border even means," Dever said.
"People are disgusted, the smiles are gone off their face, their general sense of welfare been taken away from them and until that's returned you can throw all the numbers on the board. … I'll tell Napolitano, in spite of all of your declarations and efforts to the contrary, things are not safe. No, they are not secure.
"You can use your numbers to say it's more secure, but it does not define a sense of safety or well-being. You can say it's more secure, but it's more dangerous than ever."


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Special Ops Envisions 'Iron Man'-Like Suit To Protect Troops
Special Ops Envisions 'Iron Man'-Like Suit To Protect Troops
In the Iron Man movie series, Robert Downey Jr. plays a billionaire working with his trusty robot to build a protective suit that will help him battle evil.
Now, the U.S. Special Operations Command is teaming up with industry, universities and laboratories to see if such a suit can be created for the real world of combat.
Adm. Bill McRaven, who unveiled the idea at a conference in May, says it was inspired by the death of one of his troops in Afghanistan.
"One of our folks going through the door was killed by the Taliban on the other side in an attempt to rescue a hostage," McRaven, the command's top officer, says.
So McRaven challenged those at the conference to come up with better body armor. And he posed this question: "Why haven't we put effort into ensuring particularly that guy going through the door ... is protected to the maximum capability that we can provide him, as a nation?"
That effort is now underway. The Special Operations Command held something of a science fair last month in Tampa, says Jim Geurts, who buys high-tech equipment for the command. At the conference, dozens of technologies were shown off, he says, including "advanced body armor, advance power supply, practical exoskeletons ... [and] different display technologies."
It's all just a concept now, Geurts says. But it's a concept with a name: TALOS, short for tactical assault light operator suit. It will take a year to even select which technologies to use.
"We're not at the Iron Man flying suit, you know, flying at 50,000 feet level," he says.
So, a flying suit is not part of the plan. But the first challenge is to come up with stronger body armor so a commando can survive once he kicks in a door.
Norman Wagner, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, is working the problem. He's looking to nanotechnology to create a solution that contains particles smaller than a single red blood cell.
"We're starting with the material that's almost a liquid ceramic," he says.
A liquid that can be dipped in Kevlar fabric — the current building block of body armor and helmets — and make it even tougher, literally the moment a bullet strikes.
"It transitions when you hit it hard," Wagner says. "These particles organize themselves quickly, locally in a way that they can't flow anymore and they become like a solid."
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So a liquid becomes a solid to make better armor protection. But the military wants to do more. It wants to make the soldier faster and stronger.
Gareth McKinley, a professor at MIT, works on liquid armor, among other things. He says the suit could include attachable frames on the arms and legs that use hydraulics to greatly increase strength and speed.
"They typically consist of an external skeleton that's attached or bolted onto the human's either upper torso or lower torso," McKinley says.
Sounds a bit like Iron Man, doesn't it?
"It sounds exactly like Iron Man," McKinley says. "The other kind of things that you see in the movies I think that would be more realistic at the moment would be the kind of external suit that Sigourney Weaver wears in Aliens, where it's a large robot that amplifies the motions and lifting capability of a human."
Another function: The commandos need a more complete picture of the battlefield.
So, the suit will likely include a wearable computer, like Google Glass, says Geurts of the Special Operations Command. Instead of a handheld display, commandos could simply look into the corner of their glasses and get updates on things like the location of enemy forces.
But, Geurts cautions people not to expect any of this anytime soon,
"The hope is that we would have some working full-up prototypes in the two- to three-year time frame," he says.
In the meantime, that kind of suit can only be seen at a theater near you.


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When the larger narrative is articulated, as I have tried to do above, the particular argument that Muslims are overreacting to "just a few cartoons" becomes much more complex because of the context in which it circulates. In fact, the outrage of Muslims does not stem from a response to just a few cartoons, but rather to an entire visual economy which dehumanizes Muslims, and specifically, Muslim bodies, as a means of expressing and visually reinforcing western dominance. We need only to think back to the torture photos for another example in which the argument that the photos were the result of "a few bad apples" seems strangely familiar. It's only a few cases, we were reassured. Muslims have no need to get upset. And after all, there is a cost to freedom. The visual representation of what that cost is, and what it is has historically been, was hardly interrogated. It fit quite well into a narrative that relies on such logic for its continuation.
Though I agree with this particular point, I actually differ with Mano on the broader question of how to read the ongoing


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Guest poem submitted by J.T. Tatur :
(Poem #1531) Past One O'Clock
Past one o'clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I'm in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love's boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then to balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.
Comment: This poem is for all those who have recently been through a break-up. When my girlfriend split up with me, a dear friend of mine sent me this poem. She explained that it had been Mayakovsky's last poem; he had it in his pocket when he committed suicide. But unlike Mayakovsky, she assured me, I would get over it. Biographical point: Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky born July 7, 1893 in Bagdadi, Georgia; died April 14, 1930 in Moscow, Russia (U.S.S.R.) What matters to me most: When the Russian Revolution broke out, Mayakovsky was wholeheartedly for the Bolsheviks. Later, he grew disillusioned as the Revolution's ideals were smashed 'against the daily grind' and criticised the Party aggressively. He took his own life at the age of 36.


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The results of this latest research into robotic arm control were reported in the scientific journal Nature. Two study participants were able to control a prosthetic limb to reach and grasp. One used the arm to take a sip of coffee from a bottle with a straw.
The report's authors are affiliated with a half dozen medical research centers, including the Department of Veterans Affairs' Rehabilitation Research and Development Service. The research was partly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The VA and the Department of Defense are investing in the research and development of brain-controlled prosthetics because war-related amputations have reached the highest level in 10 years. Last year, 240 deployed troops lost an arm or leg, or multiple limbs, according Stars & Stripes, citing Pentagon data. Many of the injuries were the result of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
DARPA established its Revolutionizing Prosthetics program in 2006 with a goal of creating advanced mechanical arms and control systems and exploring the viability of using the brain to control the arms. Last October, DARPA reported that a volunteer who had been left paralyzed by a motorcycle accident had successfully done that.
According to DARPA, some of the capabilities developed under the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program have been applied to small robotic systems used for manipulating IEDs.
The DARPA program also led to the development of a robotic arm by DEKA, one of the contractors in the program. The internal control framework of the DEKA arm was used in the study described in the article in Nature. Last month, DEKA sought approval from the Food and Drug Administration to make its prosthetic arm commercially available.
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Join me for with a little woodland tabletop and dish fun in the Potting Shed and to escape the heat, if only in our imaginations. . .
My inspiration came from our Blue Ridge Getaway over the 4th of July holiday, where we escaped to North Carolina's High Country, enjoying delightful 70 degree days in contrast the our 90+ degree temperatures here at home.
A jute runner provides a foundation for a mossy runner for a little woodland landscape on the Potting Shed countertop, with sprigs of fern, ivy and tree slice chargers.
Twig flatware is set for woodland dining. . .
A cluster of wild mushrooms have sprung up on an ivy leaf plate . . .
Edith Holden's The Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady is a treat with its illustrations of flora and fauna if you enjoy nature and gardening, best enjoyed in the comfort of your A/C!
I picked up a copy of The Country Diary, along with The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden, from a used book seller several months ago. Beautifully illustrated, her "nature notes" from 1905 chronicle months of the calendar year with anecdotes, folklore, and poems, and are accompanied by her watercolor paintings of flowers, plants, birds, butterflies and landscape scenes of the British countryside.
Have a virtual seat and watch the Watauga River stream trickle by. . .
Johnson Brothers Friendly Village 'Willow by the Brook' salad plates provide a pastoral setting to pair with barns, farms and bucolic scenery of the High Country.
Linen lace trimmed and green foliage napkin are nested together with woven rattan napkin rings . . .
And a cloche tops the plates and nest.
A mossy runner in the window ledge provide a spot for green and brown transferware . . .
And limelight hydrangeas blooming by the Potting Shed are filling in for rhododendron in bloom in the mountains along the woodland trails.
A blooming Johnson Brothers Staffordshire Bouquet teacup is filled with fern fronds and moss for a little woodland setting.


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U.S House Committee Blames Everyone For MF Global's Collapse
Regulators, credit rating agencies and MF Global itself were all to blame for the brokerage's collapse last year, a U.S. congressional committee found.
The panel also said in a report that Congress should look at merging two the main U.S. financial supervisors - the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
It said the agencies "failed to share critical information" about MF Global.
Congress should explore whether it would be better for the two agencies to "streamline their operations or merge into a single financial regulatory agency that would have oversight of capital markets as a whole," the report said.
(Reporting by Douwe Miedema and Emily Stephenson; editing by John Wallace)
Copyright 2010 by Reuters. All rights reserved.


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As every week, today we are announcing next monday's Hamar Experience session, which is a live broadcast made by de Ecosistema Urbano team, full with stories and updates about the dreamhamar project. There goes the original text (by Marisa):
dreamhamar is focusing on green an environmental matters these days and that includes Hamar Experience 14. Don't be surprised at the title, it is one of the many possible and impossible ideas we get for the future Stortorget. What do you think? Are mangos good for the environment?
Send us your ideas and questions to email@example.com and Belinda will answer them on Hamar Experience 14.
Belinda Tato will talk about the latest activities going on in Stortorget, Hamar, Norway. For instance, on Saturday 22nd there will be an event called greenhamar. From 13h, Naturvernforbundet, Natur og Ungdom, and Hexeringen mushroom gathering group will be offering free home-made local mushroom hot soup, smoothies at a new looking Stortorget square, courtesy of VEA School (Statens fagskole for gartnere og blomsterdekoratører). The weather forecast is 10ºC and a bit cloudy but there is not such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes, as a Hamar neighbour said once.
Join us at our Livestream channel on Monday at 18:00h to have fun with Hamar Experience from your computer!
Meanwhile, you can have a look at the video of the latest session: