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Cyclist Lance Armstrong has admitted to talk show host Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs in a lengthy interview to be aired later this week, USA Today reported Monday.
Although Winfrey did not reveal details of the interview ahead of its Thursday night air date on her OWN cable network and its website, she took to Twitter to say the exchange had lasted more than two and a half hours.
"He came READY!" she tweeted.
For years, Armstrong has repeatedly denied taking performance enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France and other big cycling events.
Any confession by Armstrong could have legal or financial ramifications, particularly among big-name corporate sponsors such as Nike that had loyally stood by him even as doping allegations grew.
Reporters, photographers and TV crews took up positions earlier across the street from Armstrong's opulent Austin home, where the interview took place and which is surrounded by an eight-foot (2.4-meter) high stone wall.
Winfrey was set to appear on CBS television's "This Morning" on Tuesday to promote the interview.
It was Armstrong's first interview since he was stripped in October of his seven Tour de France titles after the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said he helped orchestrate the most sophisticated doping program in sports history.
The announcement that Armstrong had agreed to an interview had sparked widespread speculation that he might finally confess to being a drug cheat after years of strenuous denials.
USA Today, which cited an unnamed person familiar with the interview as saying Armstrong had admitted to doping, had earlier indicated that the cyclist did not plan to go into great detail about specific cases and events.
Before the taping, Armstrong personally apologized to staff members at Livestrong, the charity he founded to support cancer survivors.
"Lance came to the Livestrong Foundation's headquarters today for a private conversation with our staff and offered a sincere and heartfelt apology for the stress they've endured because of him," Livestrong spokeswoman Rae Bazzarre told AFP.
She added that Armstrong -- a cancer survivor who founded the charity in 1997 -- urged Livestrong staffers "to keep up their great work fighting for people affected by cancer."
Since the International Cycling Union effectively erased Armstrong from the record books, The Sunday Times of Britain has sued him for more than £1 million ($1.6 million) over a libel payment made to him in 2006.
It had paid Armstrong £300,000 to settle a libel case after publishing a story suggesting he may have cheated, and now wants that money, plus interest and legal costs, repaid.
On Sunday, The Sunday Times took out an ad in the Chicago Tribune newspaper setting out 10 questions that Winfrey, whose OWN media network is based in the Midwestern metropolis, should ask Armstrong.
"Is it your intention to return the prize money you earned from Sept. 1998 to July 2010?" read one question. "Did you sue the Sunday Times to shut us up?" went another.
A Texas insurance company has also threatened legal action to recoup millions of dollars in bonuses it paid him for multiple Tour victories.
Armstrong's years of dominance in the sport's greatest race raised cycling's profile in the United States to new heights.
It also gave the Texan -- diagnosed in 1996 with late-stage testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs -- a unique platform to promote cancer awareness and research.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised almost $500 million since its creation 16 years ago.
In the wake of the allegations, several top sponsors dumped Armstrong, and on November 14, Livestrong dropped his name from the foundation.
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I was horrified by recent news referring to U.S. Sen. John Kerry's education platform. The newsflash reported that if elected president, Kerry would reward teachers for increased student achievement. The news media may have over-simplified a more comprehensive policy statement or the Kerry campaign may have distributed this bumper sticker slogan for its own purposes. Either hypothesis is plausible since there is so little thoughtful discourse on the status or future of public education.
In his book, [easyazon_link identifier="0787940615″ locale="US" tag="neweasyazon-20″]Political Leadership and Educational Failure[/easyazon_link], Seymour Sarason reminds us that although we expect that our elected officials will be briefed by the best and brightest experts when concerned with issues of taxation, highway resurfacing or sewage, no such expectation exists for discussions of education policy. Members of both parties seem to increase in ignorance proportionate to their proximity to schooling decisions. After all, U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy cosponsored No Child Left Behind.
Taken at face value, reports of the Kerry proposal could suggest either a generous desire to increase teacher pay or a cynical scheme to pander to the electorate. While I'm supportive of dramatic increases in teacher compensation, merit pay is a mischievous idea that continues to plague public education.
In a Harvard Business Review article, Alfie Kohn states, "… at least two dozen studies over the last three decades have conclusively shown that people who expect to receive a reward for completing a task … simply do not perform as well as those who expect no reward at all. … Incentives [or bribes] simply can't work in the workplace." You don't have to agree with fuzzy teacher lovers like Kohn. The week of the Kerry announcement I read articles in Business Week and Business 2.0 stating unequivocally that incentive pay does not work in the workplace. W. Edward Demings opposes the destructive effects of merit pay as do [easyazon_link identifier="0321934113″ locale="US" tag="neweasyazon-20″]Peopleware[/easyazon_link] authors Lister and DeMarco. They detail how extrinsic rewards and performance reviews contribute to teamicide, the unintentional destruction of well-jelled teams. Most people believe they do the best job possible and reviews that merely reflect this fact lead to disappointment, lower morale and drive a wedge between colleagues. Even seemingly innocuous schemes like "employee of the month" do little to motivate excellent employees, but can increase resentment.
Countless psychologists have demonstrated how extrinsic rewards are unsustainable since the bribe must be continuously increased in order to maintain the same level of performance.
Making Enemies
Perhaps teachers are different. Could it be that they are more mercenary than Enron employees or waiters jockeying for tips? If it doesn't work in industry, why is it constantly touted asthe cure for all educational ills? Merit pay is a ridiculous idea for improving teacher quality for a number of reasons. Let me share a few:
Teachers are not in it for the money. Remuneration is low on the list of reasons why people become and remain educators. While all teachers would prefer to earn more money, it is not a high priority.
Merit pay shifts all responsibility to teachers. Teachers would like to be treated more professionally and have their judgment trusted. Merit pay denies teachers autonomy through a top-down manipulation, yet holds them responsible for student performance.
Student performance is based on multiple factors. A good teacher can make a huge impact on the life and development of a student. However, human development is complex and learning is not merely the result of being taught.
Merit pay makes students the enemy. Linking teacher pay to test score increases invariably leads to teacher resentment of the very kids they are employed to serve.
Will Teach for Bonuses
The message implicit in political demands for pay linked to accountability is that teachers are failing to assist students until they get an extra food pellet. Demonizing teachers is so much easier than assuming responsibility for meaningful education policy.
According to his campaign Web site, Senator Kerry appears to offer a more comprehensive, less punitive vision for public education. Regardless of this November's election results, I hope public policy will lead a serious national effort to benefit children without scapegoating teachers.
Gary Stager, email@example.com, is editorat- large and an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University.
Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, and the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute. He led professional development in the world's first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about Gary here.

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Ever wondered what Mac Dock and Exposé look like with 150 apps running? Well, wonder no more, friend. Wonder no more. Rest assured, however, everything gets ludicrously tiny. Now, we're not too sure who'd be using 150 apps simultaneously, except for maybe that dude at the end of The Matrix who manages to confuse the crap out of everyone. Damn, he sure was crazy. Anyway, the sight is quite impressive nonetheless, so jump in for a screen shot.
The Mac in question is a 2.2GHz MBP with an undisclosed amount of RAM installed. The user, Flickr member burnflare92, stated no slowdown was detected at all. I find that a little hard to believe, as mine lags a bit with a mere 20-plus apps running, even if it is a 2.16Ghz, 2GB RAM MBP. What do you guys reckon: is zero lag with 150 apps running total BS? [Flickr]


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2017 AGU Fall Meeting Session - V036: Volcanic Ash—Generation, Transport, Impacts, and Applications
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New Methods and Computer Codes for Volcanic Modelling
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This workshop was undertaken before the IAVCEI conference in July 2013, complementing the session on "Stress, strain and mass changes at active volcanoes. It brings together seismic and geodetic methods and computational approaches for modelling volcanic processes.Material presented includes:1....
An assessment of hydrothermal alteration in the Santiaguito lava dome complex, Guatemala: implications for dome collapse hazards
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A combination of field mapping, geochemistry, and remote sensing methods has been employed to determine the extent of hydrothermal alteration and assess the potential for failure at the Santiaguito lava dome complex, Guatemala. The 90-year-old complex of four lava domes has only experienced...
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OMIplot is a software package that can be used to ingest, visualize and analyze sulfur dioxide (SO2) data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) aboard NASA's Aura satellite. The OMI SO2 measurements can be used to track drifting volcanic eruption clouds and study volcanic degassing. OMI...
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A collection of reactions to Whitney Houston's death:
— "First of all, I want to tell you that I love you all. Second, I would like to say, I love you Whitney. The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this stage." — Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown, performing a show in Southaven, Mississippi, hours after her death.
— "I am devastated by the loss of Whitney. We have lost a true angel. My prayers, my heart goes out to her family. We have lost an extraordinary voice to the world." — singer Lionel Richie.
— "This is a sad day today, all I want to talk about is her music. She was the most beautiful woman I think I ever saw .... Thank you for giving us your talent, and one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard." — Elton John, from the stage at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, before dedicating the song "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" to Houston.
— "Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed." — Dolly Parton, who wrote the original version of "I Will Always Love you," which Houston later sang for the film "The Bodyguard."
— "She had everything, beauty, a magnificent voice. How sad her gifts could not bring her the same happiness they brought us." — Barbra Streisand.
— "She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth." — Mariah Carey.
— "As a spokesperson for the Academy, the industry, I guess I would sum it up by saying, there's only one Whitney Houston. There will probably never ever be another." — Neil Portnow, president and CEO of the Recording Academy
— "I truly, truly adored Whitney Houston. Her album 'I'm Your Baby Tonight' was the very first album I ever bought." — Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child
— "I can't believe that Whitney is gone. My heart goes out to her family, to Clive (Davis), and to everyone who knew and loved this amazingly talented and beautiful artist. I will always love her." — Barry Manilow
__ "My friend Whitney sang better than anyone. She was magnificent. She gave us everything she had. May she rest in peace and may we let her memory rest in peace." — Liza Minnelli
— "Without a doubt, her voice, for me, and for the world, was the gold standard. She had it all, she broke all barriers." — Tommy Mottola, former chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment
— "Whitney Houston was the greatest singer I've ever heard and she will be truly missed." — Tony Bennett in a post on Twitter
— "The morning of the Grammys, the world should pause and pray for the memory of a gifted songbird." — Rev. Al Sharpton, who called for a national prayer to honor Houston and support her family
— "I've known Whitney since she was a little girl and I loved her. She was like family to me. I will miss her." — Smokey Robinson
— "Whitney was the reason many of us do what we do." — Pink, in a Twitter post
— "At the apex of her career, Whitney had no peer, with a voice that shaped a generation. She has left behind a musical and film legacy that will endure.... she will be sorely missed by us all." — Bishop T.D. Jakes, producer of Houston's final film project, a remake of the movie "Sparkle."
— "I think her contribution was her excellence of all levels. She was outstandingly gorgeous, an excellent performer ... Excellent vocalist. She was excellent on so many levels, and set the standard for what it is to be a great female artist." — India.Arie
— "She blessed us with so much greatness in songs that we can never ever forget her." — Producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, who worked with Houston
— "Her music inspired millions and the power of her voice was hard to match in its depth and crystalline beauty." — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who knew Houston.


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oh lame. I don't have a Discover card. They keep on spamming me with their applications, and then finally I gave in and applied for one and they rejected me. How lame is that?
Quick, simple deal for all you movie fans out there (which is most of you I presume). FANDANGO is once again doing a BOGO offer on movie tickets, which means you can get a free ticket to a certain upcoming movie featuring that bat fella. It's a small, independet film with no real budget for advertising, you may want to check it out.
So all joking aside, I want to see The Dark Knight. I'm no fan of standing in line though, so I'll probably see it a few weeks after the initial release (but on IMAX for the best viewing experience for my money). I will, of course, be seeing it with a friend and we'll basically be paying half price thanks to FANDANGO .
The deal: All you have to do is add a minimum of two tickets to your cart and then pay using your Discover Card. The cost of one ticket will automatically be deducted from your cart. Fandango ran the same promotion last year and it worked great. But get your skates on, the deal ends 8/31/08. Thanks to The Bargainist for pointing this one out.
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oh lame. I don't have a Discover card. They keep on spamming me with their applications, and then finally I gave in and applied for one and they rejected me. How lame is that?
I am going to see The Dark Night in about 10 hours. I found a great way to save on movie tickets. Either go on tuesday 'tightass tuesday' and save about $5/head or we get discount coupons in the mail for the movies which we use and we agian save about $5/head. This means I can go to the movies more often
Thanks for the hot tip. I can't remember the last time I went to the movies... actually, it was last week, to go see Wall-E with our kids, which BTW I loved. Can't say I'll be seeing Dark Knight any time soon, though I'm hearing all the accolades of Ledger's standout performance.
I called Fandango, because I couldn't get this to work for me. Apparently this was limited in the amount of BOGO tx they would give out and they met their quota already. Oh, well!
We did as instructed to see The Dark Knight and were charged the entire price of both matinee tickets and the $2.00 convenience charge for a total of $18.00. With a recent layoff we wouldn't have gone if we'd known we'd have to pay for both tickets. "Good through 8/31" and "limited number" are different things - just wanting to vent.


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Down New Mexico, up Tunlaw and down 37th. Along 37th, I was passed by a taxi driver who was in SUCH A HURRY that he revved and revved and
Then it was over R and down 34th, which was my old route to Arlington. Heady days, which I believe is a prequel to Hedda Gabler. If I've learned anything about car driving from my time as a bike commuter, it's that it's essentially impossible to keep one's car out of a bike lane. Must be some kind of forbidden fruit thing. The lure of transgression. I wonder what kind of fish the lure of transgression catches.
And then it was M street, which was crowded, but only around the intersections. If you've spent any time as a pedestrian in Georgetown, you'll know that the sidewalks are too narrow and you'll know that the many, many drivers who reside thereabouts or pass through thereabouts would rather pedestrians suffer the fate of sardine-itude (not even close to a word) than accept a road diet (a road diet of sardines might be one of many healthy fatty acids) that makes the place an overall better place to be. I know of very few people who spend money in the shops of Georgetown (or the Shops at Georgetown) from the security and safety of their luxury sedans, but nonetheless, I doubt this considerable problem will be addressed any time soon.
M to Wisconsin to K under the Whitehurst Expressway. Almost got doored by a teen exiting the passenger side of a car stopped about four cars back at a stop sign. I said "whoa" and she pulled back the door quickly and that was rather good for me. Perhaps it was my mistake for trying to filter past the cars on the right side between the curb. I don't know if the habit of flinging open car doors with reckless abandon is peculiar to any kind of age group, class or cohort, but it's awfully dangerous, even if rare.
I rode down the Rock Creek trail. Behind me were two police motorcycles. Vroom vroom.
Virginia Avenue is amply wide, and would be a good bike route if there weren't tunnels along the way and if various left turns weren't prohibited by fiat or by wrong-way-for-me roads. I got stuck behind a bus at 23rd. Unpleasant. It was sort of hassle to get over to E Street. E Street is something of an abomination, since it's kind of highway that abruptly terminates, though the mentality of the drivers who frequent it fails to adjust as quickly as the roadway designers might have intended. Almost got rear ended when I slowed for a yellow.
17th street might be the worst street in DC. All I did was cross it. I don't think I'd ever really want to ride a bike on it, especially near the Mall.
Through the security checkpoints on the Mall and then through the Ellipse parking lot and out the other side back on sidewalk, where I slowly rolled behind a family ambling through the grounds. This was the patient decision. Some guy on a mountain bike rode on the grass next to sidewalk and nearly bent down to touch his toes to avoid an overhanging tree limb. I think he had a tattoo on his calf. A lot of people who ride bikes have calf tattoos. I think if I were to have a calf tattoo it would be of a calf tattoo, namely a bunch of baby cows have a military tattoo because I wouldn't be able to resist the horrible word play of it all and that's why I don't go to tattoo parlors, drunk or sober. That and because needles make me a little squeamish. I'm terrified of pine trees.
And then shit started getting crazy. At 14th, some guy in a pickup tried to turn onto Penn and got a badass finger wag from a lady crossing the street. "Oh no you didn't," she might have said were it a 90s sitcom. The driver behind the pickup, of course, honked, like an asshole. Then I saw a police car parked in the bike lane. It looked like this:
There were approximately zero police officers in sight and I sincerely doubt it was because they were off chasing criminals. This is ridiculous inconsiderate behavior and it does nothing to endear me to people who hold a profession that I consider rather valorous. I'd love to hear an explanation as to why the cruiser needs to be parked there. It's not Occupy. They're gone.
A little later down the road, a 39 bus veered into the bike lane to avoid a Maryland commuter bus. To the best of my knowledge, the cycle track is not a bus overflow lane, but maybe this is some sort of really messed up BRT that I'm just not hip to. That was frazzling. Then the guy on the CaBi in front of me must have noticed someone littering because he shouter (sanctimoniously?) "You dropped your paper back there!" Now, I get it. I'm always judging people and I often feel that people are jerks and I wish I could summon the self-satisfied smuggery to actually shout what I'm thinking, but I don't do this because, really, why? To castigate a stranger? If it bothers you that much, go back and pick up the litter.
On East Capitol, I stopped for a pedestrian to cross the street. Three drivers elected to not do this. I stopped in the bike lane, so the travel lane was free and clear to let them by. When that traffic stopped, I said "You can go" and she pointed to the car about to make a left turn across her path, perhaps as a rebuke to me. Then she crossed. Maybe I should've just ridden past. Trying to do the right thing can be exhausting sometimes.
I saw the Israeli lady I sometimes see in the morning and she was biking down my black with the whole family in tow. I wonder where they're heading. She talks to the kids in Hebrew. The kids mumble to themselves in English.She bikes in the street, littlest kid in the trailer behind. The boy and girl each have their own bikes, and ride on the sidewalk. They're a cute little family.


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You are not likely to learn this from "mainstream media," but WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence award for their resourcefulness in making available secret U.S. military documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars.
If the WikiLeaks documents get the attention they deserve, and if lessons can be learned from the courageous work of former CIA analyst Sam Adams-and from Daniel Ellsberg's timely leak of Adams' work in early 1968-even the amateurs in the White House may be able to recognize the folly of widening the war from Afghanistan to adjacent countries. That leak played a key role in dissuading President Lyndon Johnson from approving Gen. William Westmoreland's request to send 206,000 more troops-not only into the Big Muddy, but also into countries neighboring Vietnam (further detail below in the description of SAAII).
This year's award was presented Saturday, with the customary "corner-brightener candlestick," by SAAII awardee, and former UK ambassador, Craig Murray, after Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg discussed WikiLeaks' release of almost 400,000 classified battlefield reports from Iraq. The award reads as follows:
It seems altogether fitting and proper that this year's award be presented in London, where Edmund Burke coined the expression "Fourth Estate." Comparing the function of the press to that of the three Houses then in Parliament, Burke said:
"… but in the Reporters Gallery yonder, there sits a Fourth Estate more important far then they all."
The year was 1787 – the year the U.S. Constitution was adopted. The First Amendment, approved four years later, aimed at ensuring that the press would be free of government interference. That was then.
With the Fourth Estate now on life support, there is a high premium on the fledgling Fifth Estate, which uses the ether and is not susceptible of government or corporation control. Small wonder that governments with lots to hide feel very threatened.
It has been said: "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." WikiLeaks is helping make that possible by publishing documents that do not lie.
Last spring, when we chose WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for this award, Julian said he would accept only "on behalf of our sources, without which WikiLeaks' contributions are of no significance."
We do not know if Pvt. Bradley Manning gave WikiLeaks the gun-barrel video of July 12, 2007 called "Collateral Murder." Whoever did provide that graphic footage, showing the brutality of the celebrated "surge" in Iraq, was certainly far more a patriot than the "mainstream" journalist embedded in that same Army unit. He suppressed what happened in Baghdad that day, dismissed it as simply "one bad day in a surge that was filled with such days," and then had the temerity to lavish praise on the unit in a book he called The Good Soldiers.
Julian is right to emphasize that the world is deeply indebted to patriotic truth-tellers like the sources who provided the gun-barrel footage and the many documents on Afghanistan and Iraq to WikiLeaks. We hope to have a chance to honor them in person in the future.
Today we honor WikiLeaks, and one of its leaders, Julian Assange, for their ingenuity in creating a new highway by which important documentary evidence can make its way, quickly and confidentially, through the ether and into our in-boxes. Long live the Fifth Estate!
Presented this 23rd day of October 2010 in London, England by admirers of the example set by former CIA analyst, Sam Adams.
What Is Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence?
SAAII is a movement of former CIA colleagues and other associates of former intelligence analyst Sam Adams, who hold up his example as a model for those in intelligence who would aspire to the courage to speak truth to power. Sam did precisely that, and in honoring his memory, SAAII confers an award each year to a member of the intelligence profession exemplifying Sam Adam's courage, persistence, and devotion to truth – no matter the consequences.
It was Adams who discovered in 1967 that there were at least 500,000 Vietnamese Communists under arms – more than twice the number that our military in Saigon would admit to in the "war of attrition." Gen. William Westmoreland had put an artificial limit on the number that Army intelligence was allowed to carry on its books. And Gen. Creighton Abrams specifically warned Washington that the press would have a field day if Adam's numbers were released, and that this would weaken the war effort.
Westmoreland's figures were shown to be bogus in January/February 1968, when Communist troops mounted a surprise countrywide offensive in numbers that proved that Adams' analysis had been correct. But because Sam was reluctant to go "outside channels," the CIA and Army were able to keep the American people in the dark.
After the Tet offensive, however, Daniel Ellsberg learned that Westmoreland had asked for 206,000 more troops to widen the war into Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam – right up to the border with China, and perhaps beyond. In his first such act, Ellsberg leaked Sam Adams' data to the then-independent New York Times on March 19, 1968. Dan's timely truth telling, and that of the Times' Neil Sheehan, won the day.
On March 25, President Johnson complained to a small gathering, "The leaks to the New York Times hurt us…We have no support for the war. This is caused by the 206,000 troop request [by Westmoreland] and the leaks…I would have given Westy the 206,000 men." On March 31, Johnson introduced a bombing pause, opted for negotiations, and announced that he would not run for another term in November 1968.
Sam Adams continued to press for honesty and accountability but stayed "inside channels" – and failed. He was not able to see that the supervening value of ending unnecessary killing trumped the secrecy agreement he had signed as a condition of employment. Nagged by remorse, Adams died at 55 of a sudden heart attack. He could not shake the thought that, had he not let himself be diddled, the entire left wall of the Vietnam memorial would not exist. There would have been no new names to chisel into such a wall.
In the past, the annual Sam Adams Award has been given to truth tellers Coleen Rowley of the FBI; Katharine Gun of British Intelligence; Sibel Edmonds of the FBI; Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan; former US Army Sgt. Sam Provance, who told the truth about Abu Ghraib; and Maj. Frank Grevil of Danish Army Intelligence, who exposed his government's eagerness to conspire with the Bush administration in advertising non-existent weapons of mass destruction in order to "justify" the invasion of Iraq – and went to prison for it; and Larry Wilkerson, Col., US Army (ret.), former chief of staff to Secretary Colin Powell at the State Department, who exposed the powers behind many of the crimes of the Bush administration – first and foremost what he called the "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal;" in Washington, DC.
An earlier version of this article ran on Consortiumnews.com
Ray McGovern was a colleague of Sam Adams and witnessed the gyrations Sam went through to get the truth out about Vietnam (sans the option WikiLeaks now offers)-in vain. Ray has acknowledged that, in 1967, he, too, blew a golden opportunity to "do a Dan Ellsberg" on Vietnam.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. During his career as a CIA analyst, he prepared and briefed the President's Daily Brief and chaired National Intelligence Estimates. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).


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Out of this World
The superb flavors at Raga will transform your view of traditional Indian cuisine.
You might be perfectly content ordering tandoori chicken and curried lamb at an Indian restaurant, but there is literally an entire world of flavors and dishes you may have never tried.
India is an enormous subcontinent with dozens of regions and a very long history of colonization and conquest by various Chinese, Portuguese, Indonesian, French, Persian, Hindu, Muslim and Arab visitors, each one influencing the local foods. Yet just a tiny slice of this vast culture ever makes it to our plates
Executive chef Dominic Sarkar creates Indian dishes with a French flair.
Opened last October in the second-floor space formerly occupied by Antonio's, Raga is an atypical Indian restaurant. Reached by elevator (or stairs if you're not a lazy dining critic), Raga opens into a multi-roomed white space with curved barrel ceilings, white and gold linens and wall-length banquettes in green velvet. Not a sari cloth or Taj Mahal image in sight, just a restaurant that puts a contemporary spin on well-executed fare.
The current American view of Indian food was formed when curry houses first sprang up in the 1960s, and a now-familiar menu has been cloned across the country ever since; stews, naan bread and lots of sauces. There's a joke that the dozen or so Indian restaurants along Manhattan's 6th Street are all supplied by one underground kitchen.
But a new generation of chefs, trained in an increasing number of culinary academies and 5-star hotels in India, are creating a sophisticated view of Indian cuisine that is taking hold in London, New York and Los Angeles. And, possibly, in Orlando.
As is common these days, Raga's menu proudly lists local purveyors of its ingredients—vegetables from Tomazin Farms, meats from Pasture Prime. There's also a "global fusion" page with dishes from Morocco, Spain and Greece, but I was so taken by the Indian selections that I never got to those items.
Executive chef Dominic Sarkar comes from a career in high-end hotels and restaurants in New Delhi, Dubai, Philadelphia and San Mateo, Calif. "My style is elegant and different," he says, and the proof is on the plate. Sarkar creates authentic regional Indian dishes with a classical French flair, serving scallops, sliced into thin, one-bite wafers, coated in rice flour and pan seared, as his version of bhuna rattan ($9), a dish from Kolkata that disappears far too quickly.
The Goan crab cake ($9) is less the chunky patty of seafood we expect and more a croquette, the lump crabmeat blended with masala (which means a spice mix, of which there are hundreds) to form a smooth interior, heady with cumin and mustard seed, the outside crunchy in contrast. I ordered the jahangiri jhinga shorba soup ($9) as much for the bouncy name as the taste—tomatoes cooked with fragrant cardamom and a hint of clove and served with chili-dusted tandoori shrimp in a combination found from Algeria to Kashmir.
There are menu items familiar enough to the casual diner that you won't be intimidated. Plain and garlic naan bread (plus a terrifically hearty one stuffed with fresh herbs and goat cheese); tikka masala ($17), a dish invented in Newcastle and Glasgow in the UK (Britain's most popular restaurant item); and butter chicken ($16) are available. But what superb butter chicken it is, shreds of tandoor-roasted meat slowly simmered until they melt as easily as the namesake ingredient, the super-rich sauce of butter, tomato and more butter enhanced with yoghurt, ginger, coriander and the nutty, sweet taste of fenugreek.
Two particular dishes stand out. Baingan ka bharta from northern India ($14), is eggplant roasted in the clay tandoor oven and mixed with a thick and spicy tomato, onion and lemon sauce (I took some home and ate it the next day as a cold chutney—delightful and even spicier). And chef Sarkar is justly proud of his biryani rice dishes ($14-$22), the murgh version layering saffron chicken (the "murgh"), firm Basmati rice, crunchy fried onions and a complex blend of spices that can be traced to the descendants of Genghis Khan who conquered the Indian city of Lucknow. The serving is enormous and you'll be quite amazed at how much of it you'll eat.
"Indian delivered in the French style," chef Sarkar calls Raga, and like a blend of spices, it is a masala worth trying.
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Entrees: $10-$35
Melting Pot
Raga's menu travels as far as its staff, who hail from India, Morocco, South America, Mexico and Turkmenistan. Try the whole Afghani chicken ($18), baby eggplant from Kashmir ($14) or coconut shrimp from Fiji ($12) for worldly treats.
Sweet Somethings
There's no need to decide between chocolate and wine for Valentine's Day when you can give both. From the vineyards of Chile's Rapel Valley comes Canto de Apalta ($19.99; en.lapostolle.com), a luscious red blend from Lapostolle, the same family that created Grand Marnier in France. Hand-harvested Carmenère, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah grapes give the wine a deep color, spiced fruit taste and aroma of ripe berries and chocolate, a perfect complement for Taza Chocolate Mexicano Discs ($4.50 each; tazachocolate.com). Whole organic Dominican cacao beans are hand ground on authentic Oaxacan stone mills in Somerville, Mass, to capture the vibrant flavors, then mixed with cane sugar and Guajillo chili powder made from the berry-like Mirasol pepper. The wine's beautiful bouquet and the warm kick of spicy chocolate will wake up your partner's taste buds, and perhaps a little more. Taza is available locally at Whole Foods Market; the wine can be ordered there as well. —J.H.


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LeVar Burton -- 'Django Unchained' Is NOTHING Like 'Roots'
LeVar Burton 'Django Unchained' Is NOTHING Like 'Roots'
"Django Unchained" is NOT a movie that's based in reality ... and should NEVER be compared to real depictions of slavery like "Roots" ... so says LeVar Burton.
LeVar -- who played Kunta Kinte in the 1977 miniseries -- was in New York yesterday to participate in a PBS special about important TV programs ... when we asked him about comparisons between "Roots" and "Django."
"Here's what I want folks to understand," Burton said ... "'Django' is a fantasy, it's not history ... 'Roots' is history ... and that's the difference."
Side note -- Our photog couldn't have been LESS articulate in delivering the question ... and as a consequence, the entire newsroom banned together to shame and taunt him without mercy.


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M. Night Shyamalan
Review by Rumsey Taylor
Posted on 28 August 2013
Source Fox DVD
Categories Favorites: The Apocalypse
Seated at press junket for his 2010 film The Last Airbender, director M. Night Shyamalan eyes the journalist who asks the following question:
[Your career] had a very strong start. However, the audience has lost its faith in your work, with [the unenthusiastic reception of] Lady in the Water and many of your more recent productions. Airbender feels like you want to captivate the audiences again by becoming more commercial. Am I right?
Without so much as a blink he retorts, "I think if I thought like you I'd kill myself."1
Shyamalan's combative response reads petulantly given the nature of his 2008 film The Happening—the last film that bears his triumviral contributions as writer, director, and producer. The Happening exhibits a clearly pornographic interest in suicide and depicts it in a medley of forms: a man enters a lion exhibit at a zoo and approaches its felid inhabitants until they become agitated and yank off his limbs; another man comes upon an industrial lawnmower, starts its ignition, and lies down determinedly ahead of its path; finally, and absent a more immediate and elaborate means with which to end her life, a woman bangs her head along the outside of her house until she bleeds to death out of her face.
These scenes are complemented by the score, which is of a piece with Bernard Hermann's brand of cyclonic string arrangements and blasts of woodwinds. The music is intent to compel the viewer's astonishment, which is ostensibly the correct response considering the events that contrive the film's violent moments: mysteriously, entire arrays of mentally sound people have begun to kill themselves without a word of warning. In accordance with the same influences as its score, The Happening is a depiction of the sort of unknowable environmental threat that comprises Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, only without the birds.
At his best, Shyamalan demonstrates a Spielberg-like faculty in honoring a child's capacity for imagination, and has rendered child characters that are central, if not essential, to his narratives. The Happening, approached as a sort of response to his downplay in acclaim, was for Shyamalan far more brutish than his previous efforts. It lives solely in the world of adults, in which children are rendered - in the eyes of Elliot, the science teacher who is the film's primary character - naifs that must be towed through the abstract natural disaster that lends the film its suspense.
Shyamalan has also elicited strong, pathos-invested performances from the adult actors in his movies, most specifically Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Mel Gibson, and Paul Giamatti, who in sum comprise a singular characterization: a mid-life, blue-collar male who must confront some sort of supernatural threat only after the more grounded and tragic circumstances of his life are established—divorce, estranged or perished loved ones. Add to this roster Mark Wahlberg, who plays the aforementioned science teacher. He's playing essentially the same role as Willis, Gibson, et al., only he's handicapped by the lack of a tangible threat to him and his family. Much of the film hinges on his expression of total and constant incredulity. It's a response that Shyamalan would prefer his audience to share, and it is certainly available to the viewer set aghast by the film's numerous and operatic deaths. The film is replete with characters gazing in disbelief at each other and at nothing in particular, and when they do see something, it is often grievous in a manner that wouldn't be out of place in a slasher movie without any famous actors. The events that astonish Elliot are so elaborate, so exaggerated as to border on ridiculous, that our response, contrarily, is a gathering desire to laugh.
As a result The Happening, however pitiable within Shyamalan's oeuvre - of which I am admittedly a fan, if only for my great esteem for Signs - is an estimable work of camp because its maker is so self-serious and its material so unbecomingly inept. The title, for example: it's a sufficiently mystified description of the circumstances in the film, but it plays comedically each time it, or some conjugation thereof, is reiterated in dialogue. The dialogue, in whole, becomes increasingly exclamatory, a barometric measure of the characters' excited disbelief, as when Elliot and his wife witness a mass suicide firsthand:
We can't just stand here as uninvolved observers!
I need a second okay? Just give me a second!
We're not gonna be one of those assholes on the news who watches a crime happen and not do something! We're not assholes!
If The Happening is to be construed as a continuation of Shyamalan's brand of suspense and preoccupations - which is pronounced in his name, emblazoned upon the film's poster like the author of a checkout aisle fiction novel - then it fails to incorporate the one element that granted him renown in the first place: restraint. For all the flack he's encountered as a practitioner of twist endings, Shymalan has proven adept at sustaining suspense before the twist is revealed, propelling his narratives on only a modicum of information and investing his narratives with uncertainty. The Happening, however, is jolted forward with jack-in-the-box suspense, traipsing from one garish death to another in a parade of cartoonish terror. The film has an appreciable and macabre ingenuity in this light, a modern exploitation film and honest, if miscalculated, in its intention to frighten.
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MAILHOT (Maillot, Malhiot), NICOLAS-FRANÇOIS, innkeeper; b. c. 1776 at Quebec, son of Joseph Maillot and Madeleine Levasseur; d. there 11 Feb. 1834.
At the time of his marriage, which was solemnized at Quebec on 10 Nov. 1801, Nicolas-François Mailhot was a servant in the town; he had no personal possessions and could not write his name. His wife, Marie-Marguerite Roussel, a maidservant from Saint-Michel, near Quebec, brought as her entire dowry a bed, bed-linen, and clothes. Four years later Mailhot was keeping a tavern on Rue Saint-Jean, in Upper Town. In 1812 he opened a luxurious hotel, which also served as a coffee-house and tavern, at no.40 of the same street. The three-storey stone hotel, which had been built in 1810 and 1811 by contractors John, Laurence, and Edward* Cannon and carpenter Jean-Baptiste Chamberland, cost more than £3,000.
In December 1818 Mailhot expanded his enterprise by putting up behind the hotel a house with public baths, a novelty that caused a sensation at the time. Frequented by the hotel's guests as well as by townspeople, it had three baths on the first floor and sitting-rooms and bedrooms on the second. Four years later Mailhot converted another house behind his hotel into an exhibition hall called the Royal Circus. In October 1824 a troupe under the management of William West and William Blanchard of Montreal began giving performances, putting on equestrian displays and a melodrama. The public paid from 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. to attend the various entertainments – theatre, ballet, opera, and acrobatics. The enterprise was not a success, however, and in the autumn of 1826 Mailhot turned the hall into a theatre, in which several companies performed. Plays by Shakespeare, Sheridan, and Sir Walter Scott, concerts, pantomimes, and equestrian displays were put on.
For 20 years Mailhot's hotel was one of the best of its kind at Quebec. It was famous for the way it was run, the quality of the various services it provided, and its table. Many notable events were held in it, particularly balls, banquets, shows, and concerts of classical music. The Quebec Education Society met there, and auctioneers used it to display and sell their merchandise. In the summer of 1831 the public could view the living skeleton Calvin Edson, the Canadian giant Modeste Mailhot, an exhibition of live snakes, and even a performing goat.
Despite this reputation, Mailhot had difficulty making his hotel and theatre pay. On many occasions he had to appear in court. He took action against insolvent clients and was himself sued by numerous suppliers whom he could not pay. In 1829 he put a notice in the Quebec Mercury stating his intention to retire from business and lease his enterprise, but the endeavour proved unsuccessful. It was announced in March 1832 that "this sound, comfortable, and elegant building known as 'Mailhot's Hotel'" and the bath house would be sold by the sheriff of the district of Quebec to meet his creditors' demands. Chief Justice Jonathan Sewell* acquired it for £3,025 in order to secure his debt. The sale followed that of the Royal Circus, which had taken place in September 1831 under similar circumstances.
Nicolas-François Mailhot probably retired to the property he had bought at Jeune-Lorette (Loretteville) in 1823. He died at Quebec on 11 Feb. 1834 and was buried two days later in the Cimetière des Picotés. By his marriage with Marie-Marguerite Roussel he had had three daughters and a son, Robert-Léonard, who became a lawyer and practised at Quebec.
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A newly published roster spotlights the "global marketplace of ideas," and the thinkers behind them, including more than a few New York University scholars.
Six scholars at New York University have been placed on Foreign Policy's list of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012," the magazine announced in its December issue. They include: danah boyd, research assistant professor of Media, Culture and Communication at the NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Chen Guangcheng of the NYU's School of Law; Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU's Stern School of Business; Beth Noveck, visiting professor, NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Paul Romer, professor of economics, NYU Stern, and director of its Urbanization Project; and Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics and international business, NYU Stern.
The following are excerpts from the magazine's portraits of "2012's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them":
* "dana boyd (not a typo: she stripped her name of capital letters in 2000) … warns Big Data isn't necessarily better data. 'Will large-scale search data help us create better tools, services, and public goods?' boyd and a co-author inquired in a paper this year. 'Or will it usher in a new wave of privacy incursions and invasive marketing?' "
* "…Chen [Guangcheng] has embraced his new role as an evangelist for human rights, making the case that incremental change -- one village or even one person at a time -- can eventually transform a superpower."
* "A leading member of a new generation of psychologists applying the insights of evolutionary theory to morality, [Jonathan] Haidt argues that we form political opinions not through simple reasoning but based on moral preferences humans have developed to reinforce ties to larger groups or tribes."
* "…[Beth Noveck] has … arguably done more than anyone to lay the foundations for a Washington that feels less like a cloistered village and more like an online public square."
* "[Paul] Romer deserves credit for showing the power of even an outlandish idea to make us reimagine the world's poorest places."
* "[Nouriel] Roubini is more than just a bearer of bad news: He has become the gloomy bard of this age of financial upheaval."


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If you're unpleased with the news that Facebook has bought Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, you're not alone. Many Oculus devotees think Facebook will mine their user data and fill their virtual landscapes with ads.
Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of the insanely popular indie game "Minecraft," revealed on Twitter that he was in talks to port the game to be compatible with the Oculus Rift. But he canceled the deal because "Facebook creeps [him] out."
So what's a VR enthusiast to do if they love VR and don't like Facebook? Check out these Facebook-free Oculus Rift alternatives below.
Durovis Dive
This compelling take on a VR headset repurposes your Android or iOS smartphone as the display, holding it inches from your face and using lenses that magnify your field of view to make the image occupy your vision. As your phone already has the gyroscopes and accelerometers for detecting head movements, the processor for running apps, and its own screen, it's an obvious entry point for those wanting to experience virtual reality.
At less than $80, this is a tremendously affordable alternative to the Oculus Rift.
If it looks big and clunky, it's only because the Infiniteye makes use of four individual screens — two for your eyes, amd one for each of your eyes' peripheral view. This combination of screens makes for a sweeping, immersive experience that gives you access to some 210 degrees of vision. Compare that to Oculus Rift's 90 degrees.
While this is not yet available for sale, the creators go into all kinds of technical detail on how the Infiniteye works over at RoadToVR.
GameFace Mark IV
This is a battery-powered wireless VR headset that can connect to a Bluetooth controller to make for a pretty uninhibited self-contained virtual experience. It runs Android internally, so there's no input device required (as is the case for an Oculus Rift, which must be connected to a PC or other device feeding it data). It won't be able to outdo your PC's graphics, so there's a calculation to be made: Do you want something powerful or something self-contained?
Once again, this is unfortunately still in prototype mode and is not yet available for sale. There are still plans for improving the graphics and for setting up a VR-specific Android app store.
Sony Morpheus
Sony announced its entry to the VR market at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Called "Morpheus," it will soon put you inside your Playstation 4 games. While you'll need Sony's $60 PlayStation camera for it to work, it features the same 90-degree field of view and 1080p resolution as the Oculus Rift.
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Storage and data transfer technologies were in abundant display at CES, but a couple of new technologies attracted significant interest and crowds.
Data Drive Thru demonstrated a product to conduct simple file transfer from PCs to Macs at CES this week, allowing connections between the two without the need for software on either computer.
The product, called iTornado, will be available from retailers March 1 and is priced at $79.95. It consists of a micro-computer inside a case smaller than a pack of cards, which also includes two retractable cables to connect to the Mac on one side and the PC on the other, according to a spokesman who demonstrated the product in a CES show booth.
View more stories from 2008 International CES In the demonstration, split screens loaded on both machines within a few seconds so that a user could drag and drop files easily. The technology relies on USB ports and transfers data at 25 Mbit/sec., according to a spec sheet from Data Drive Thru in Dallas.
The spokesman said the PC-to-Mac capability follows up the successful PC-to-PC file-transfer micro-computer called the Tornado.
At the Intel Corp. booth, an Intel-brand solid-state drive prototype was being demonstrated that will be used to replace hard drives in laptops and PCs. It boasts much faster read and write speeds and will be shown at the Intel Developer Forum in April, said Chris Saleski, a manager in Intel's storage group.
Called the High Performance Solid State Drive, the driver relies on serial reads and writes according to Saleski. Solid state means no moving parts, which improves durability. The technology also requires less power than a traditional disk-based hard drive. Intel is making a 1.8-in. drive that's expected to offer capacities of between 40GB and 120GB, and will also offer a 2.5-in. drive, he said.
Intel has not decided whether it will sell the product through retailers or sell to laptop and PC makers. Saleski said the drive technology will be a candidate for use in a coming class of small PCs that Intel refers to as mobile internet devices, he said. Several of the new ultramobile laptops already on the market, such as AsusTek's Eee, employ solid-state flash drives.
In a short demonstration of an Intel solid-state drive at work in a laptop, Saleski showed that the drive could read and write 680MB of data and related storage in 24 seconds. The read and write speed of the solid state drive will be three to four times faster than that of most hard drives, and it will initially cost as much as three times as much as a hard drive, he said.
The Intel branding on the new drive means it will be eligible for a five-year guarantee for users, Saleski said.
Solid-state drives for laptops and other devices were also being shown at CES by Toshiba, SanDisk and Samsung.


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Over the last year, Dell acquired clustered storage vendor Exanet , data compression vendor Ocarina and SAN vendor Compellent . Those latest acquisitions add layers on top of Dell 's buyout of midrange storage vendor EqualLogic.
Now Dell's working to pull its acquisitions together under a single management layer, allowing file migration, replication and deduplication between storage platforms.
"What our vision is ... with Exanet and Ocarina is to layer in that technology to serve as the linkage to bring all these other technologies to life," said Travis Vigil, Dell's executive director of product marketing for enterprise storage.
Specifically, Dell hopes to announce by the time of its June user conference in Orlando an integration of Exanet's scalable file system with its homegrown PowerVault entry-level storage systems and Compellent and EquaLogic storage area network (SAN) products. That would allow Dell to use Ocarina's appliances in front of its arrays to perform deduplication/compression on unstructured data such as e-mail. Dell expects to complete that integration in the second half of this year.
"So step one is getting a common file system across the portfolio. Once you get that, you can start to do interesting things in terms of the life-cycle management of data," Vigil said. "You can use that common context to put in an overarching architecture to manage that data from primary storage, to secondary storage to archive, like with our DX [object storage] products."
Dell plans to drive its Compellent SAN technology up the stack to the enterprise market, while EqualLogic will remain focused on the midsize storage market. One feature Dell acquired with Compellent was data tiering , or the ability to move data internal to the array between different classes of disk drives.
Compellent's "Fluid Data" technology is being rolled into what Dell calls its Fluid Data Architecture, which it hopes will allow its customers to move data between platforms and eventually archive data off site via a public cloud , according to Scott Horst, Dell's vice president of corporate marketing. "It would be another tier of storage," he said. "Compellent also gave us chargeback and multitenancy capabilities."
Brian Babindeau, an analyst with research firm Enterprise Strategy Group, said integrating Exanet and Ocarino's technology into its storage products may take longer than Dell plans.
"There's a lot of technology integration work required to add deduplication and an expanded file system across both Compellent and EqualLogic. It is doable," he said. "I think the one question mark ... is getting Exanet to work across those platforms so that they actually have a file storage offering."
Dell is looking to compete against top file storage vendors such as EMC, which recently purchased Isilon and its clustered NAS , NetApp with its Data ONTAP GX operating system, and Hewlett-Packard, which is working on integrating its 2009 acquisition of clustered file vendor Ibrix with its the StorageWorks division.
Dell has done a good job in filling out its portfolio of storage products with its acquisitions over the past four years, Babineau said.
"The really glaring hole from a storage system perspective is a purpose-built solution for data protection," Babineau said. "Something like a Data Domain system. Will they be able to make Ocarina, Compellent and EqualLogic optimized for backup workloads?" Dell made
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|The Monastery of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Reichenstein: Saturday will see the re-settlement of a former cloister by a Society of Tradition
Monschau is located in the Eifel south of Aachen and borders directly on the territory of the German-speaking community in Belgium (Eupen).
In 2007, the German District Superior of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X, Father Franz Schmidberger, announced the intention to found a traditional Benedictine monastery on German soil in which the sacred liturgy will be celebrated in the Immemorial Mass of All Ages. In 2008, after the purchase of the historical monastery by the St. Benedict Society, the key handover of Reichenstein to the Benedictine monks took place.
After 200 years of revival of an old monastery
In the 11th century, the counts of Limburg had erected Richwinstein Castle on a hill on the upper Rur. Having ascended to dukes, they donated the castle in 1131 to the Premonstratensian Order, which had just been founded by St. Norbert of Xanten. The castle was converted into a double monastery, as was customary in the early days of the Order. When this practice was abandoned, the Premonstratensians, Choir Nuns, remained in Reichenstein. Since 1487 it was then a principal choir house. The buildings, including the monastery church, originated in their present form in the late 17th century.
When in 1794, the French revolutionaries occupied Germany on the left bank of the Rhine, the conquest of the Premonstratensian monastery also began its decline. In 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte, in the course of secularization, abolished the monastery together with many other monasteries.
After several changes of ownership, the lawyer Ernst Wilhelm Handschumacher, the Grand Officer of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, bought the former monastery together with his wife Helma in 1973 and renovated the complex in the 1970s. It was the couple's endeavor that the buildings be returned to their original purpose.
The twelve monks who will settle the monastery next Saturday, come from the Benedictine monastery of Notre-Dame de Bellaigue, built in 2001, connected to the Society of St. Pius X. The monks speak of the "reawakening of the monastery". In 2009, Dom Matthäus Haynos, the priest of the convent in Bellaigue, was given the name of the monastery church and celebrated the first Holy Mass by a new priest of the monastery. To this end, it had been re-established with a neo-Gothic high-altar with a statue of the Immaculate.
Bellaigue is a subsidiary of the Benedictine monastery Santa Cruz in Brazil. The first four monks came to France in 1999. After ten years, 25 monks were already living in the Auvergne, so a daughter-foundation could be established. For several years, a Benedictine convent has been built, a few kilometers from Bellaigue.
For years there have been urgently needed renovations in Reichenstein, as well as modifications and new buildings. The monks will supply their own heating with 36 hectares of forest belonging to them. The construction of the new cloister was started in 2015. 2017 saw establishment of a provisional central chapel. It will serve the monastic community in the coming four years for the liturgy "in order to be able to reconstruct the monastery church into the central, worthy and sacred space of the entire monastery."
This coming Saturday, Reichenstein will be officially established as a subsidiary of the monastery of Bellaique and be populated by a monastic community.
The program
At 10:30 am Solemn High Mass in honor of the patroness of the monastery, the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
At 12.30 pm, Sext with welcome and luncheon for the faithful gathering to celebrate this memorable day with the Benedictines.
At 2.30 pm None and then coffee and cake.
At 4 pm Vespers and Sacraments.
At 5 pm, is the establishment of the cloister with the main gate closed.
The Society of St. Benedict, which is legally responsible for the repair of the buildings, regularly informs about the developments and the progress of the construction work with the "Monastery News." They will be occupied with the young monastic community for several years, as the actual monastery with cloister must be rebuilt (see plan).
"We want to build a school for the Lord's ministry. Everything without exception is to be done in this monastery for the glory of God, so that in all God God may be glorified."
This is how Br. Bernhard OSB writes in the latest edition of the "Klosternnachrichten."
Since 1 October 2017 Holy Mass in Reichenstein has been celebrated every day on workdays, Feast Days, Saturdays and Sundays at 7:20 am and 11:15 am in the Immemorial Roman Rite.
All of the faithful are invited to blessing and settlement of the monastery on 14 October.
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More memorablilia on city's glass era
Pix #1 - Fostoria glass workers photographed in 1951 having served in that industry in their younger years. Back row, left to right: Cling Johmnson, Louie stiger, Al Bristo, "Wish" Sertel, Marty Mabus, Guy Kaiser. front row: ? Snyder, Herb England, Ray Coburn, John vanoni, Bob Fry, Sr. With the death of Bob Fry, Sr., Ray coburn is the only know survivor of the "glass days' in fostora.
Pix #2 - Bob Fry, Sr., photographed before this death.
All good things, including lengthy Potluck articles must have an ending. today's article was intended to be the last in the series, but with the ingfromation still available, is is evident that there must be a fifth one. And, I am sure there may be readers who will still have contributions to make. don't hesitate to call or write if you have something to tell.
I spent some omore time with Ray coburn after the third in the series was published, and he still had much to talk about "glass," the glass workers etc.
As a slidelight I should mention coburn is also sought by outner writers. He told me that recently a trade paper representative wated an audience, for information about the glass industry of years ago.
\tjhe group photo of glass workers, with today's collumn, taken in 1951 will interest readers especially older ones, and will be remembered by them.
The one photo of Bob Fry, Sr., with today's article was taken dirung his last years, when he was still residieng in fostoria. The photo was loaned by Bob Fry, Jr. who, with his wife, resides at 10282 W. louden TR 116.
Reader Feedback
Bob harley, former fostorai resident and employee of The Fostoria Daily Review, dropped me a note after receiving his copies of The Review Times and here with quoted: "Paul...glad to see your column is back. You have a good source of information in Ray coburn. I remember him when he frequented Vic Schyuh's print shop on East North Street. Regards -- Buckeye Bob."
Yes, I remember those days of the past, like Harley does, because I often got in on some of the ocnverstaions that were exchanged back then many years ago. I was working as one of the printers at The Review Times back then, and at the end of the work day at the newspaper would join whoever might be at Schuh's print shop, where many subjects about Fostoria were discussed pro and con.
Shcuh and Kru[[ worked at Review
Before Vic Schuh had his own print shop, he too was a printer at the Daily Review, and I worked with him. Schuh spent many years as a printer at The Review when it was located in the old Foster Home Building on south main Street. At that period in time, I was a carrier boy for The Daily Reivew and a helper in the bindery and amiling room.
When the newspaper moved to the present location on East Center St., I helped them move and ocntinued to work full time after graduation from Fostoria High School, continuing iwth them until I joined fostoria Press ed Steel in their sales and advertising department.
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"for God so loved the oworld that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
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"The fooll hath said in his heart. There is no God." (Psale 14:1)
Too smyg?
"They which when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and reiches and pleqasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection." (Luke 8:14)
Too late?
"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." (Hebrews 9:27)


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August 5, 2011
By Shane "The People's Chemist" Ellison
I wish medicine wasn't so darn complicated. If it weren't, people would see how Big Pharma cleverly plays prescription cupid to hook the masses into an antidepressant romance. Fueled by dreamy ads, sexy actors, and medical experts who get paid by Big Pharma, the romance has grown into a full-fledged orgy.
Antidepressants are among the best selling drugs, yet not one single diagnostic test supports their effectiveness. Romance makes for great business. But, are patients getting the love they deserve or are they facing another life threatening disaster akin to the Vioxx fiasco (killing an estimated 30,000 people who could have just used aspirin)? Perhaps the chemical facts behind antidepressants will give way to reality and help Americans sever ties to the deadly affair.
Life can be hard at times. Everyone knows it and Big Pharma profits from it. To answer our cries for happiness, they sell us a slew of molecules ripe with supposed happy atoms purported to elicit wanton pleasure. It's a pipe dream. Like a parent who doesn't like their daughter dating drug reps or psychiatrists, the FDA started using Black Box Warnings to inform us that, "Antidepressants, compared to placebo, increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children in short term studies." Psychiatrists quickly refuted this.
Massaging our fears, Dr. McAllister-Williams of the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University publicly insisted that "I believe they work andhave an acceptable risk: benefit ratio for many patients." Taking his cue, psychiatrists from around the world did what they do best: Ignore scientific ethics and get on their knees for Big Pharma.
In a vulgar display of medical ineptitude, prescribing habits surged. From 1996 to 2006, use of antidepressants increased 50% among children, 73% among adults and a ghastly 100% among the elderly – so much for Black Box Warnings. Why not rename them Profit Warnings?
As prescribing habits have surged, so has antidepressant reality.
The so called disease of a "serotonin" chemical imbalance among depressed patients has never been proven. The Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience recently reminded doctors that, "Brain serotonin cannot be directly measured" and that even in the deceased, "Serotonin levels are unstable, within 24 hours of death." Therefore, "direct evidence that serotonin is low in depressed persons is unavailable."
Panicked, psychiatry hypothesized yet another cause of a chemical imbalance: Bad genes. Apparently, select people (basically anyone with a heartbeat) have a defective gene that makes them susceptible to depression – and drugs, drugs and more drugs can save them from the scourge of sadness. Bio-babble like "alleles" and "transporter genes" were thrown around like condoms at a high school pep rally. The jargon confused everyone. And in their dizzy stupor, most were convinced that it must mean one thing: antidepressants are the Holy Grail to attaining happiness. Psychiatry was once again renewed with the stench of pharmaceutical pheromones. But it didn't last.
Thanks to scientific methodology, the industry was slapped with the facts. The New York Times delivered the blow and wrote, "One of the most celebrated findings in modern psychiatry — that a single gene helps determine one's risk of depression in response to a divorce, a lost job or another serious reversal — has not held up to scientific scrutiny."
You don't need science to disprove the antiquated, reductionist propaganda surrounding the chemical imbalance theory. You only need the common sense of a child.
The human brain floats in thousands, billions or maybe even trillions of brain chemicals – all working in orchestra like unison to confer proper brain function. Even serotonin exists not as a single molecule, but instead as an ever changing chemical cascade of 5-htp, niacin, L-tryptophan, quinolinate, kynurenine and more. You'd have to be Paris Hilton or a psychiatrist to miss this logic and adhere to the simplistic serotonin imbalance theory.
With no such thing as a chemical imbalance or "depression inducing genes," psychiatry did what any organization would do in the face of impending demise: Get the U.S Government to do their dirty work.
Today, an insidious collusion between Big Pharma and Big Government is doling out drugs paid for by our tax dollars to foster children, to our U.S. Troops, and to the elderly at breakneck speeds. With so many being drugged, a harsh reality is emerging: Antidepressant romance fuels "premedicated murder.", While researching my new book, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, I uncovered stories of horrific suicide and rage that occurred after being medicated with antidepressants. But none more disturbing than the Chris Wood story. Doped up on his prescribed cocktail of antidepressants – all three of them – he shot his 33 year old wife Francie and their three children – Chandler, 5, Gavin, 4, and Fiona, 2. Shockingly, in his drug damaged mind, they weren't "dead enough" and gruesome decapitation followed. Afterwards, he picked up a shotgun and killed himself. This isn't an isolated incident., Among our US troop, suicide and rage is at an all time high – in direct correlation to mass prescribing. The same trend exists among teens as seen by the ever growing act of spraying classmates with bullets. Psychiatrists don't seem to be alarmed with these trends, or at all interested in seeing the obvious correlations. In an attempt to "leave no American un-medicated," they encourage subjective mental screening tests for the rest of us as a means of converting healthy people into psychiatric patients.
Pyschiatry wants to position antidepressants as the cure for the premedicated violence. So to counter the growing evidence that their drugs are the cause, they insist that, "The only evidence that would be acceptable is the demonstration in a double blind trial that a difference in suicide rates was consistently seen. There is no evidence at all for a differential suicide attempt rate with antidepressants. Suicidal thoughts are an integral part of depression." Here comes the backhand.
Writing for the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Joel Kauffman elucidates that combined clinical trials on antidepressants show five times the risk of suicide among the treated compared to placebo.
The suicide/aggression trend is not inexplicable from a chemistry viewpoint. Using the latest cloning techniques and laboratory methods, it's been shown that antidepressants elicit "neurotransmitter hijacking." This may be partially responsible for the mental state that causes a person to gruesomely murder their loved ones, then put a shotgun to their chin and pull the trigger.
Once swallowed, antidepressants sail past the blood brain barrier and congregate on top of "neurotransmitter recyclers." This can prevent the cellular "recycling factories" from activating previously used neurotransmitters like serotonin or any of its chemical cousins. With nowhere to go, the inactive brain compounds get "hijacked" by recycling facilities found in other regions of the brain. This would be similar to a square peg being shoved into a round hole. As shown by Baylor College of Medicine, the recycling facilities of key neurotransmitters, like dopamine (round), begin to retrieve serotonin (square) into dopamine vesicles. A dastardly consequence ensues.
Commenting on the hijacking, CNN publicized that, "Antidepressant drugs actually create a perilous brain imbalance." And Psychiatric Times hypothesized that blocking transporters on cell bodies could drop neurotransmitter levels in the synapse. Is it true?
To measure if neurotransmitter hijacking leads to an empty synapse, you can simply look for clinical manifestations of poor neurotransmitter function (like Parkinson's disease, which is due to poor output of dopamine) among antidepressant users. As far back as 1995, the American Journal of Medicine showed that 37% of all prescriptions for the treatment of Parkinson's disease are due to Psychiatric drug use. Case closed. These antidepressant actions are the exact opposite of the claimed "neurotransmitter boosting" actions purported by most doctors! , Once neurotransmitter hijacking takes place, pharmacopossession (due to poor neurotransmitter function) may also set in. As patients come fully under the spell of antidepressants, the brain can become so scrambled that all normal reality and reason are overwritten by a new confusing and violent agenda. A new personality arises – one with homicidal and suicidal tendencies. And for an ever increasing number of antidepressant users, these tendencies are manifesting as premedicated murder – the deliberate killing as a result of being medicated in advance.
Unbalanced by drugs, the brain of an antidepressant user faces a slew of mind altering outcomes. What kind? What was Chris Wood thinking and feeling prior to committing premedicated murder of his family while pharmacopossessed? To answer these questions just go back to the beginning of this article and read the "profit warning" that comes with every Prozac prescription. It's all there in black and white.
Even though the FDA "compels" drug companies to warn the public about antidepressant risks, their "death grip" on the medical industry has kept doctors and patients from knowing the real extent of the danger. Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association said that "Pharma's influence on medicine is so blatant now you'd have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to see it." I guess psychiatrists are all three since they continue to ignore science and romance the masses with promises of happiness courtesy of antidepressants.
Before your doctor gives you an antidepressant, ask him to read you the Black Box Warning that comes with your prescription. This will ensure that the potential romance quickly gives way to reality and that you don't succumb to premedicated murder. , About the Author
Ellison's entire career has been dedicated to the study of molecules; how they give life and how they take from it. He was a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his research in biochemistry and physiology. He is a bestselling author of Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, which helps you live healthier and pay less with $10 lifesaving supplements for under $10! Get a free chapter now – cancer truths that will save your life – at .
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Guidelines of several cancer organizations have recommended that men with a rapid rise in PSA have a biopsy for prostate cancer, even if there is no other indication and the PSA is within the "normal" range. But change in PSA – known as PSA velocity – is a poor predictor of prostate cancer, and may lead to many unnecessary biopsies, according to a study published online February 24 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Researchers have known for many years that PSA velocity is statistically correlated with prostate cancer risk. But little is known about how much PSA velocity adds to the value of other indicators or how useful it is to men and their physicians in making decisions about biopsies. And there has never been a study of PSA velocity in men who have had biopsies in the absence of a high PSA or a positive digital rectal exam.
Andrew Vickers, Ph.D., at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and colleagues assessed how well PSA velocity predicted cancer (positive biopsy results) in 5,519 men who took part in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. The men in this analysis were all in the group that received a placebo, so their prostate cancer risk was not influenced by the drug finasteride (Proscar), which was tested in that trial. All had a biopsy at the end of the study, regardless of their PSA levels, PSA velocity, or other indicators.
As expected, the authors found a statistical association between PSA velocity and biopsy outcome. But when they adjusted for other risk indicators, such as age, race, PSA levels, and digital rectal exam, there was virtually no association between PSA velocity and biopsy outcome.
"There was little evidence that PSA velocity adds an important level of predictive accuracy to either standard predictors or to PSA alone," they write.
The authors also evaluated guidelines stating that men with a rapid rise in PSA should have a biopsy even if their PSA is low and there are no abnormal findings on a clinical exam. The vast majority of the men who fell into this category (about 80%) did not have cancer, suggesting that use of PSA velocity would lead to many unnecessary biopsies. PSA alone was a better predictor of biopsy outcome in these men than PSA velocity.
"In other words," they write, "if a clinician feels that the current PSA thresholds are insufficiently sensitive, he or she would be better off identifying patients to biopsy by using low PSA thresholds than by adding PSA velocity as a criterion for biopsy."
The authors conclude that PSA velocity should not be included in prostate cancer screening guidelines.
In an accompanying editorial, Siu-Long Yao, M.D., and Grace Lu-Yao, Ph.D., of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey agree that the findings suggest that PSA velocity does not help doctors and patients decide what to do about screening results.
"PSA velocity measurements take time to acquire, and recognizing that such data add relatively little information may help prevent inappropriate postponement of follow-up in affected patients," they write. "Avoiding the wait to acquire subsequent PSA values may also help reduce some of the anxiety associated with testing." They go on to say that the results of this study serve to "remind us that the use of PSA as a screening tool still leaves much to be desired."
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Feel like curling up by the fire with a good book? Or sitting on the balcony sipping lemonade while reading an intriguing story? Feel free to browse through our selection of books.
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ABRSM releases new resources for singers
ABRSM has today (26 October) expanded its Songbook Series with the addition of five Songbook Plus books for Grades 1 to 5. Complementing the existing Songbooks, the five new books contain a diverse selection of songs, from core classics to songs from stage and screen. They Include fresh new arrangements, newly commissioned editions and English singing translations, plus notes on the songs to aid practice and performance. The books give teachers and candidates access to even more ABRSM repertoire in one place and songs from both the Songbook and Songbook Plus series feature on the ABRSM Singing Syllabus from 2018. The Songbook Plus books are available online from www.abrsm.org/songbooks or from local music retailers. Prices range from £8.95 to £10.95.
Practice app
ABRSM will also add to its Practice Partner series with an app for singing. The app is a useful motivational tool for students to use in lessons or practice sessions, and will be available for Grades 1 to 5. Singing Practice Partner allows users to transpose all 66 piano accompaniments from the new Songbook Plus series into all 12 keys and practice at a tempo that suits them. The Singing Practice Partner app is available to download for free, with in-app purchases of the accompaniment tracks on both Apple and Android devices.
Audio downloads
All 66 piano accompaniments from the new Songbook Plus series are available to download in the published key from www.abrsmdownloads.org, iTunes or Google Play. To find out more about the ABRSM Singing Syllabus from 2018, visit www.abrsm.org/singing2018