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This weekend marks the first anniversary of the murder of Dr. George Tiller. A recent report is further proof that it will be extremely difficult to fill his shoes.
A report in the September issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health indicates that ob-gyn residents who are trained in abortion "often do not ultimately do so."
The study involved indepth interviews with 30 graduates of residency programs that had been trained 5-10 years before in performing abortions. 18 said they'd planned on offering abortions, but only 3 did. They gave varied reasons, including
formal and informal policies imposed by their private group practices, employers and hospitals, as well as the strain that doing so might put on relationships with superiors and coworkers... Several physicians mentioned the threat of violence as an obstacle to providing abortions, but few considered this the greatest deterrent.
The authors conclude, "The stigma and ideological contention surrounding abortion manifest themselves in professional environments as barriers to the integration of abortion into medical practice."
Earlier this week, I attended a fundraiser for Trust Women, a PAC created to honor Dr. Tiller's legacy. Listening to Emily Lyons, a nurse who was severely injured by a clinic bomber in Birmingham, whose attacker coldly watched it happen, who has been hospitalized ever year since the 1998 bombing, it was hard to believe that violence wasn't a deterrent. A police officer also died in the attack. And though Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who also spoke, was matter-of-fact and cheerful, he has also been targeted by the anti-choice movement.
Trust Women, named for one of Tiller's slogans, was founded Julie Burkhart, who worked with Tiller for 8 years. Looking over the past year, Burkhart writes,
The climate in state legislatures was frustrating, to put it mildly. Both Kansas and Nebraska tirelessly worked to ban late termination of pregnancy, Oklahoma cranked out a plethora of punitive anti-choice bills and Utah sought to criminalize certain actions of pregnant women - these bills only scratch the surface of restrictive legislation proposed across the country.
Here's what she proposes:
The pro-choice community has to reevaluate the way in which we approach activism across the country, especially states that are all too often written off as "red" states or "fly over" states," when in fact, these are the areas of the country that need the pro-woman movement the most. We cannot abandon the women in any state, nor in any corner of this country if we're going to have equal rights for ALL women in this great nation.
The time has come for us, as a movement, in our own collective ways, whether it's through education or activism or political engagement, to meet the anti-woman forces on their "own" turf. We must not cede any section of this country.
Trust Women also works to defend the legal rights of abortion providers — that is, the ones who have decided to push past the obstacles and become them.
Obstacles to the Integration of Abortion Into Obstetrics and Gynecology Practice [Guttmacher]
Trust Women PAC [Official Site]
In Memory of Dr. Tiller: Reflections on the Death of An American Hero One Year Later [RH Reality Check]


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February 6, 2012
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Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) is proud to announce a record turnout of more than 300 participants at its 6th Organic Seed Growers Conference held in Port Townsend, Washington, on January 19 – 21, 2012. An additional 200 participants joined the conference via live webinar.
Despite a snowstorm in the area, organic plant breeders, farmers, researchers, seed producers, certifiers, policy experts, retailers, students, and processors from across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia gathered for two days of workshops and networking events. More than 50 speakers presented on organic plant breeding; seed production, harvesting, and distribution; enterprise development; and policy. OSA's biennial Organic Seed Growers Conference is the only event of its kind in North America.
OSA chose this year's conference theme – Strengthening Community Seed Systems – to acknowledge the groundswell of activities happening in communities of all sizes – from urban seed libraries to participatory plant breeding projects spanning five states. The conference provided a timely and unique opportunity to trade knowledge, philosophies, techniques, and ideas that strengthen the larger organic seed community.
"We've reached a tipping point where diverse members of the organic community are working together to ensure organic farmers have the seed they need to be successful," said Micaela Colley, OSA's executive director. "OSA remains committed to building organic seed systems through collaborative research, education, and advocacy."
In conjunction with eOrganic, the plant breeding sessions were offered free and open to the public as live webinars. More than 200 participants joined the webinar series throughout the weekend. The recordings will soon be available through eXtension (www.extension.org). In addition, the "Breeding for Nutrition" session will be repeated as a live webinar broadcast on March 23, 2012, at 11 am Pacific time. Registration is required through eXtension.
Proceedings from the 6th Organic Seed Growers Conference are available for free download on OSA's website at www.seedalliance.org.
Be sure to follow updates on planning for the 2014 Organic Seed Growers Conference, and other upcoming events, by visiting OSA's website, Seed Broadcast blog, Facebook page, and Twitter.

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Nokia unveils Lumia 625
The Lumia 625 is a low-spec, low-cost oversized handset that could well have mass appeal. Lumia 625, which will come in a range of colors including orange, green, yellow, white and black.
The Lumia 625 is a low-spec, low-cost oversized handset that could well have mass appeal.
Rumors and, of course full-blown leaks -- including press shots and specification sheets -- hinted strongly that the 'Something Big' that Nokia was set to launch was an affordable Lumia phablet. And low and behold, at 9am UK time Tuesday morning, the Finnish phonemaker unveiled the Lumia 625 -- the world's first Windows Phone phablet.
Despite being the biggest Nokia to date, the 625 will sit rather low in the deck in terms of performance. This is a low-to-mid-range device with a large 4.7-inch IPS LCD (i.e., low resolution) display, a dual core processor, half a GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage -- which at least can be expanded to 64GB via microSD card (7GB of free SkyDrive cloud storage also comes as standard).
The phablet's 5-megapixel rear-facing camera will still pack quite a punch though, and results will be even better still thanks to Nokia' suite of apps, features and supporting technologies. What's more, it also supports 4G LTE for the fastest mobile internet connections.
The comparatively low specs suggest that Nokia is dipping its toes in the phablet pond: the device won't cost curious consumers an arm and a leg and if the device doesn't catch on in the way that Nokia hopes, it won't be too much further out of pocket.
The latest rumors point to Apple also getting ready to explore larger iPhone and even iPad screen sizes.
It's only 11 days since Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop took to the stage in New York to wow the assembled crowd with the photo-taking capabilities of the Lumia 1020, the world's first 41-megapixel camera smartphone and one that redefines smartphone photography.
In recent days, though the company reported further financial losses, it has also shown that there is clearly space for a third operating system when it comes to handheld mobile devices. Nokia's range of Windows 8 phones are outselling BlackBerry, with 7.4 million in the last quarter compared with 6.8 million for the Canadian firm (and Nokia's figures don't include HTC's and Samsung's Windows Phone handset sales), and almost a year after their launch, some of the bigger app developers are finally coming on board.
There still may be no sign of Instgram or any of Google's services, but a number of big names, including Flipboard have confirmed that Windows Phone 8 apps will be coming shortly, while earlier this month Bloomberg announced that it has launched an exclusive 'hub' app for Nokia's Lumia range, giving users access to everything from news and video to tips sharing and stock market analytics tools.
With the Lumia 625, which will come in a range of colors including orange, green, yellow, white and black, the company now has yet another flavor of Windows Phone to offer potential consumers from China to the US to Europe who are willing to make the jump from Android or Apple or who are moving from feature phones to smartphones for the first time.
And while potential owners will need bigger hands and deeper pockets to carry the device, they won't need to be particularly strong as it only weighs 158g. Although final prices will depend on network carriers and contracts, the device is valued at €220 and is set to launch in China, Europe, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East, Africa and Latin America in Q3 2013.
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Report: Impounded SUV was rented to Hernandez
It's generally a bad sign for a pro athlete (or, really, anyone) when a murder case is referred to as the "other" murder case.
For Aaron Hernandez, the "other" murder case arose today, and it seems to be moving fairly quickly.
From the FOX 25 report that Hernandez is being investigated in connection with an unsolved double murder that happened in July 2012 to the Boston Globe report that Odin Lloyd may have been killed because he knew about Hernandez's involvement in the unsolved double murder to the CNN report that police have impounded a silver SUV that is believed to have been involved in the unsolved double murder and that police believe was rented to Hernandez, Thursday was another day of non-stop, negative, troubling news for the former Patriot.
Now, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports more definitively that Hernandez indeed rented the now-impounded SUV. However, Schefter calls it a red SUV; all prior reports indicated it was silver or gray.
The speed with which Hernandez has been attached to an 11-month-old double homicide suggests that something has happened recently to help prosecutors crack a case that was cooling off considerably. Quite possibly, one of the two men who were with Hernandez and Odin Lloyd in the hours preceding his death has been apprehended -- and has been providing information not only about the Lloyd case but also about the "other" murder case that suddenly involves Hernandez.


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Why Judas Priest's Fifth LP Was Released Under Two Names
Judas Priest released their fifth album on Oct. 9, 1978. But what it was called depends on where you live.
In the U.S., the LP was titled Hell Bent for Leather, a fitting choice given the band's newly acquired leather-and-studs image. But almost everywhere else the album was known by its original title: Killing Machine. In a curious move, the States chose sex over violence – a rarity in the U.S. marketplace.
But the music on Priest's fifth release was the same, and it firmly announced to fans that the British metal champions were finding new ways to both streamline and modernize their sound by dispensing with most of the lumbering tempos, protracted song lengths and unnecessary complexities typical of the proto-metal and prog rock found on their earlier records.
Songs like "Delivering the Goods," "Rock Forever," "Hell Bent for Leather" and "Running Wild" are short, fiery and to the point. Perhaps inspired, in part at least, by punk's relative simplicity, the tracks retain the undiluted metallic power and sheer sonic weight of the group's earlier cuts, but bolster the overall pace, energy, and melody – ultimately expanding their commercial appeal.
Once Priest perfected their new musical and visual direction, initially on tour (documented on 1979's Unleashed in the East) and then on the 1980 follow-up album British Steel, heavy metal was ready to be embraced by mainstream radio, paving the way for its rise toward global domination throughout the '80s.
And some of that progression (not to mention the steep spike in leather-jacket sales) can be traced back to the confusingly twin-titled album Judas Priest released in 1978. No matter what you call it, Killing Machine / Hell Bent for Leather was a pivotal record in the band's career and, eventually, the history of metal.
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CHICAGO – Jay Cutler insisted his groin was OK. It was the left ankle injury that really bothered him.
Cutler was pulled before Chicago's final drive and the Bears' rally ended when Matt Forte was dragged down in the backfield on a pivotal 2-point conversion attempt, sending the Detroit Lions to a 21-19 victory on Sunday in a key matchup of NFC North rivals.
"We didn't execute offensively the way we needed to execute, particularly in the running game," Bears coach Marc Trestman said. "We just didn't get it done."
Cutler threw for 250 yards and a touchdown in his first action since he injured his groin last month. He hurt his ankle in the second quarter and looked progressively worse as the game wore on.
Trestman finally decided to put in Josh McCown when the Bears (5-4) got the ball back with 2:17 left.
"I just felt really restricted in the pocket in what I was able to do and it wasn't getting out as quick and some of the throws didn't have as much on them as I wanted," Cutler said. "And I knew Josh was ready to go and I just didn't want to get to a point where I was hurting us more than I was helping us."
Cutler said he isn't sure if he will be able to play next Sunday against Baltimore.
McCown drove the Bears down the field, throwing an 11-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Marshall with 40 seconds left. After a roughing penalty on Willie Young gave the Bears another chance at the tying 2-point conversion, Nick Fairley threw Forte down to preserve the win for Detroit.
"I just figured it would be a run or a play-action pass," Fairley said. "I just scouted out the ball real good and it was just happy I made the play."
Calvin Johnson had two second-half touchdown receptions and Reggie Bush rushed for 105 yards as Detroit (6-3) swept the season series against Chicago for the first time since the 2007 season. The Lions lead the Bears and Packers by a game in the division.
"We came out with a victory on the road against a really tough team," coach Jim Schwartz said. "It was a hard-fought win. Proud of the players, but that's the only thing that means (anything) today.
"I mean first place, you don't get any prizes for first place there nine games into the season."
Johnson's touchdown grab with 2:22 left was the 63rd of his career, breaking a tie with Herman Moore for Detroit's franchise record. Moore still leads with 670 career receptions for the Lions, but Johnson might take that record down at some point, too.
"To be a part of history for the Lions, that's a big deal," Johnson said.
The Lions were clinging to a 14-10 lead when Chris Conte intercepted an overthrown ball by Matthew Stafford and returned it 35 yards to the Detroit 9.
Forte then had a touchdown run negated by a holding penalty on left guard Matt Slauson and an apparent scoring pass to Alshon Jeffery was overturned when a replay showed he lost control of the ball when he hit the ground.
Robbie Gould's 32-yard field goal trimmed the Lions' lead to one with 9:17 remaining, setting the stage for the frantic finish.
"For the offense and really for our team it was really a day of missed opportunities," Trestman said.
It was Cutler's first game since he was sacked by Redskins nose tackle Chris Baker in the first half of Chicago's 45-41 loss at Washington on Oct. 20. He had to be helped off the field, and an MRI revealed a torn groin muscle that was expected to sideline the quarterback for at least four weeks.
Cutler had other ideas.
The Bears had a bye week after the Washington loss, and Cutler watched while McCown led Chicago to a big 27-20 victory at Green Bay last Monday. Cutler then was cleared to play on Thursday and made the start against Detroit with the Lions, Bears and Packers all tied for the NFC North lead entering Sunday.
He insisted he was 100 percent, but it was clear his groin was bothering him more and more as the game wore on. He grabbed his groin area and dropped to the ground after one third-quarter throw. He then popped right back up and remained in the game.
"It held up OK. It's all on the same leg so I think that was a problem," said Cutler, referring the groin and ankle injuries. "But the groin, you take the ankle out of the equation and I would have been fine, I think.
Cutler threw a 32-yard touchdown pass to Marshall on the first drive of the game. But he also had a pass tipped by Ndamukong Suh and grabbed by DeAndre Levy in the end zone for the linebacker's fifth interception.
NOTES: Levy began the day tied with seven other players for the NFL lead in interceptions. ... Each team played without a key defensive end. Detroit rookie Ziggy Ansah was out with a left ankle injury, and Chicago's Shea McClellin tweaked a hamstring during practice after he had three sacks in the victory at Green Bay. ... Lions RB Montell Owens left in the first quarter with a knee injury and did not return.
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Pet owners in Seattle are furious over the actions a property manager has taken to keep dogs off her lawn. Cayenne pepper was intentionally dumped all over the lawn to send a message to pet owners that failure to pick up after their dogs would not be tolerated. The problem is that the pepper , in such quantities, is quite dangerous for dogs and has resulted in at least one dog sustaining burns to the pads of her feet that required veterinary attention.
Fredda Starr is the property manager of the "Greenwood Court Manor" apartments, and she says she did not mean to hurt any animals. "I do love dogs, but I don't like all the poo that they leave over the ground," said Starr, who did agree to stop and to dilute the pepper avoid harming the dogs. In addition to spreading the pepper, Starr left the empty containers scattered around the area rather than putting them in the trash.
Pepper is not a toxic substance but can cause problems for animals who ingest or walk on it. "It upsets the stomach, burns the inside and may cause a little diarrhea," said Dr. Zile Singh, a veterinarian at Greenwood Animal Hospital.
Gujral Wallace, the owner of the dog that was harmed was outraged, saying "It's absolutely despicable, their intentions is what scares me," and asking "How does that even get into your head? Are you that evil?" Her dog, who is named Buddha, suffered burns on her legs and incurred several hundred dollars in vet bills. If this had happened to a smaller dog, it could have been much more serious. Wallace says she is going to rally local residents to do a better job of keeping the area clean of pet waste.


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I had fun this week looking through my collection seeing what I had to fit the collection. Here are a few favourites.
I especially like the Antarctic stamp, which I had forgotten I had. Apologies, it seems to be slightly blurred!
I love the Australia set produced celebrating the First Fleet and the UK fish set.
Submitted as Sunday Stamps hosted by Viridian's Postcard Blog


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A Tale of Magic, Adventure, and Fate: Unlocking the Legends, the Mysterious Quest for Baxcalibur
Mythical Sword The legend of Baxcalibur has persisted through the ages, and its name has become synonymous with mystery. For generations, people have been captivated by tales of its might and glory, and its history has been recorded in innumerable written works, musical compositions, and epic poetry. But what truth, if any, is behind this legendary blade? Why is Baxcalibur such a hot topic right now, both in history and in the media.
Unraveling the Mystery
The Story Behind Baxcalibur
Baxcalibur's backstory is clouded in mystery, with multiple versions and legends developing throughout time. Legend has it that whoever wields the legendary sword Baxcalibur will be endowed with godlike strength, agility, and intelligence. Others think it was made by a renowned blacksmith who employed powerful and exotic materials sourced from faraway lands to imbue it with magical properties.
The Legend of Baxcalibur
The story of Baxcalibur is told by people of many various backgrounds and cultures. Legend has it that the sword has been instrumental in the discovery of priceless goods, the vanquishing of evil, and the turning point of countless battles. Legend has it that whomever wields Baxcalibur can command the elements of fire, water, air, and earth. It can supposedly cure illness, safeguard the owner from harm, and even make them immortal.
History of Baxcalibur
Baxcalibur was first mentioned in long-lost scrolls and manuscripts from forgotten ruins and libraries. Baxcalibur is described as the most beautiful sword in the world in these literature, with a blade that emits an otherworldly light and a hilt set with priceless gems. Conflicting accounts and omissions in historical documents make it difficult to pinpoint the true beginnings of the sword.
Lost for Ages
Baxcalibur has been lost to history for ages despite its mythical significance, sparking endless debate and mystery. It was widely believed that the sword had been lost or destroyed, or that its last known owner had hidden it away to prevent its dangerous power from falling into the wrong hands. The absence of Baxcalibur has just added to the intrigue surrounding it.
Rediscovery of Baxcalibur
An adventurous explorer from centuries ago discovered a hidden room full of artifacts and relics from the distant past in a previously uncharted region of the earth. Among them was an old, rusty sword that looked much like the mythical Baxcalibur. The finding shook the world of archaeology and rekindled the search for the legendary blade.
Legendary Powers
Myths and folklore attribute remarkable abilities to Baxcalibur. It is stated that the sword's blade never dulls or fractures, and that it can easily slice through any substance. Legend has it that whomever wields Baxcalibur will not only be safe from harm but will also vanquish evil. Legend has it that the sword may share wisdom and insight with its owner at critical moments. Its purported abilities make it a highly sought-after and priceless weapon.
The Quest for Baxcalibur
Adventurers, treasure hunters, and those looking to gain influence have all gone crazy since Baxcalibur was found again. Many have embarked on dangerous missions to get the sword and harness its fabled abilities. Some want to use it for good, while others are more interested in cashing in on its influence. The search for Baxcalibur has become an urban legend in its own right, with heroes traversing perilous terrain, terrible adversaries, and the unknown to recover the famous sword.
Legendary Heroes
Legendary heroes throughout time have been said to have been hand-picked by Baxcalibur to wield its power. These special individuals have supposedly been endowed with superhuman abilities and have used the sword to accomplish incredible exploits. These heroes have become legendary for their deeds throughout history, from toppling rulers to rescuing kingdoms. People are still moved and fascinated by the tales of these deserving bearers of Baxcalibur.
Baxcalibur in Pop Culture
Not only has the story of Baxcalibur captivated ancient cultures, but it has also made its way into modern popular culture. The story of the missing blade has sparked innumerable books, films, and video games. Baxcalibur is a symbol of valor, adventure, and the ultimate weapon against evil, appearing in works of epic fantasy and Hollywood blockbusters alike. Its legend lives on thanks to the many media adaptations that have capitalized on its success.
The Enduring Legacy of Baxcalibur
People of all ages are fascinated by the story of Baxcalibur, the legendary sword that was thought to have been lost forever. It has become a symbol of heroism, adventure, and the pursuit of power because of its unknown origins, fabled powers, and stories of its selected wielders. Baxcalibur is one of the greatest sword and sorcery legends, and its legacy lives on in a variety of forms, including ancient literature, archaeological finds, and contemporary popular culture. The legend of Baxcalibur will definitely endure as long as its story is told and repeated.
A Story About Sitting Next to a Scary Yakuza
A story about sitting next to a scary yakuza. It may sound like the premise of a Hollywood drama to be stuck on a plane next to a menacing Yakuza member, but sometimes reality throws you a curveball. This fascinating story takes place on a typical evening in Tokyo and tells of my meeting with a member of the Yakuza, a Japanese organized criminal organization.
Unusual Beginnings
My adventure in Tokyo began when I went to a ramen place for lunch. The shop's delicious bowls of noodles attracted both residents and visitors. I had no idea that tonight would be anything but typical.
A Seemingly Ordinary Encounter
A tall man stood next to me as I waited in line to place my order. A black suit, sunglasses despite the late hour, and complex tattoos on his bare arms gave him away. His presence was menacing, and it didn't take me long to figure out who he may be: a Yakuza member.
A Nervous Exchange
I was frightened, but I couldn't help but be intrigued, so I decided to talk to him. In an effort to initiate conversation, I inquired as to his preferred ramen. Surprisingly, he smiled and answered with a recommendation for the shop's specialty dish. Astounded, I found that our conversation went along like it would with anyone else.
Breaking Stereotypes
The interaction with this Yakuza member showed me the importance of avoiding hasty judgments. In spite of his scary outward aspect, he turned out to be a kind and interesting guy. It was a sobering reminder that first impressions aren't always accurate and that it's best to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Shared Laughter
Throughout our conversation, we shared a lot of laughs over anything from our favorite movies to the difficulties of learning a new language. Finding a shared interest with someone I would have avoided in any other setting was a bizarre experience.
A Memorable Evening
After a while, our ramen arrived, and we enjoyed our dinner while continuing our conversation. The kind service and delicious meal at the ramen cafe made for a great experience. I will never forget that night.
Parting Ways
We said our goodbyes and swapped phone numbers as the night drew to a close. I made a buddy who just so happened to be in the Yakuza, and I gained a whole new outlook on life as a result of that encounter.
Sometimes the most unexpected things happen in life. The intimidating Yakuza member I met turned out to be a very nice person who helped me reevaluate my assumptions. It showed me that good people may be discovered in the unlikeliest of places.
- Is this story real, or is it a work of fiction?
This story is entirely real and based on my personal experience.
- How did you know the person you met was a Yakuza member?
Despite my lack of absolute certainty, I assume the man I saw to be a Yakuza member based on his look, manner, and several subtle indicators.
- Did you ever meet the Yakuza member again?
We did keep in touch for a while, but then our lives took different turns and we drifted apart.
- Were you scared during your encounter?
I was anxious at first, but as we talked, my nerves calmed down and I began to feel more at peace.
- What life lessons did you learn from this experience?
Not judging others by their outward looks has helped me make unexpected acquaintances and relationships.
Unveiling the Mystique: Exploring the Wonders of Arcoiris
In this essay, I'd like to take you on a magical adventure into the fantastical realm of "arcoiris." As we explore this phenomena, we'll learn about its history, its scientific explanations, and the various ways in which different cultures have interpreted it. Prepare to have your mind blown by the rainbow's enchantment.
The Allure of Arcoiris
As "arcoiris" in Spanish, rainbows have fascinated people for millennia. Numerous legends, anecdotes, and scientific investigations have been dedicated to these brilliant arcs of color painted over the sky. But what is the actual scientific explanation for this amazing show?
The Science of Rainbows
Dispersion of Light
The spread of light is the essence of every rainbow. This may be explained by studying the relationship between sunlight and atmospheric water vapor. The development of arcoiris relies on this mutual stimulation.
Refraction and Reflection
When sunlight travels through raindrops, it is refracted and bent, creating rainbows. The beautiful range of colors we associate with rainbows is produced in part by this refraction of light. Not only that, but the ability to reflect is also crucial.
Multiple Reflections
Light is reflected many times inside a raindrop, which greatly increases the contrast between hues. The classic seven-color pattern that we see in the sky is the outcome of this complex process.
The Significance of Arcoiris
Cultural Interpretations
Rainbows have been given symbolic significance by many different civilizations throughout time. We'll go into the many cultural contexts in which arcoiris has been given new meaning.
Mythological Connections
The rainbow is a recurring motif in ancient literature, from Norse mythology to indigenous folklore, frequently serving as a metaphor for a gateway to new beginnings, a symbol of change, or a connection between realms.
Chasing Rainbows: Real-Life Adventures
Rainbow Photography
Both professional and amateur photographers alike pursue the elusive arcoiris in search of the ideal snap. Learn how to take photographs of rainbows and preserve their colorful splendor forever.
Weather Forecasting
Did you know that a rainbow's appearance may tell you a lot about the weather? Discover the role that arcoiris play as natural indicators for meteorologists.
Modern Interpretations
LGBTQ+ Symbolism
As time has progressed, the rainbow flag's significance as a symbol of LGBTQ+ pride has grown exponentially. Learn more about the background of this recognizable symbol.
Art and Inspiration
Artistic expression in many fields, from painting to music to fashion, continues to be stimulated by arcoiris. We're going to explore artworks that include rainbows as a central motif.
As we draw to a close, it becomes abundantly evident that arcoiris are more than simply a meteorological phenomenon. They serve as cultural ambassadors, scientific messengers, and aesthetic unifiers.
Q: What causes the formation of arcoiris?
Arcoiris, also known as rainbows, are created when sunlight is scattered and reflected by rainfall.
Q: Are there different types of rainbows?
Primary rainbows, secondary rainbows, and even circular rainbows all exist. Each one is special in its own way.
Q: What is the cultural significance of arcoiris in different societies?
Rainbows have many meanings in different cultures, ranging from emblems of optimism to ties to old tales.
Q: How can I capture a rainbow in a photograph?
In this post, we'll go through the lighting conditions, equipment requirements, and photographic methods necessary to snap a picture-perfect rainbow.
Q: Why has the rainbow flag become associated with the LGBTQ+ community?
The LGBTQ+ community has adopted the rainbow flag as a sign of pride and acceptance. It was initially developed in 1978, also in San Francisco.
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We've heard it from the street machine crowd on several occasions: Pro Street is dead! Oh yeah? Street machining is evolutionary, and judging by the quality of Pro Street cars still emerging from garages everywhere, the car hobby is going through another process of growing and evolving.
Mild-looking street machines, which have become restomods, have become all the rage. But when it comes to wild street machines, Pro Street has restomod by the short hairs. Greg Bagwell of Fair Oaks, California, built his '64 Falcon Sprint into this exotic bird of prey using all of the more traditional Pro Street parameters, while cranking in a few of his own thoughts and ideas.
The Falcon hardtop is perched on a custom 2x3-inch Chris Alston chassis with a 12-point rollcage on a 108-inch wheelbase. The front end is set with an Alston tubular upper/lower A-arm independent suspension, Pinto/Mustang II spindles, 600-pound coils, Monroe shocks, and 11-inch Granada disc brakes. The rearend is centered around a 9-inch Ford housing narrowed by Moser. Inside is a 3.50:1 gearset with 31-spline Moser axles, a Traction-Lok differential, 200-pound Alston springs, and 32-inch ladder bars.
Under the bonnet is a '68 vintage Ford 460ci big-block that Greg bumped out to 495 ci. The stock crank sports an offset grind, with Childs & Albert 6.535-inch rods and custom pistons yielding an 8.0:1 compression ratio. The oiling system is revised with a Milodon high-flow oil pump and deep sump pan. The rotating, reciprocating mass down under has been balanced and blueprinted by Mark Hall in North Highlands, California.
On top are ported and polished iron heads equipped with Crane 1.7:1 roller rockers and heavy-duty valvespring retainers. In the middle of the Vee is an Engle .541-inch/268 degree duration camshaft and lifters bumping Milodon pushrods. Greg has chosen to light the mixture with an Electromotive HPU-1 electronic pick-up ignition with a Boost/Retard amplifier and map sensor.
The induction system consists of a Weiand 6-71 supercharger mounted via a Mickey Thompson manifold, topped with a pair of 600-cfm Carters. This manifold (located at the Pomona Swap Meet in 1992) is extremely rare-it is one of three manifolds made for the late Mickey Thompson for his Bonneville LSR car that was blown and alcohol-injected. According to Thompson's old race car partners, the blown Ford project racer was never completed.
The 6-71 blower is underdriven 9-percent off a 3-inch beltdrive. Greg set up the exhaust with a really slick Tim McDowell-built stainless header system that exits via a set of 3-inch Supertrapp mufflers. This engine is believed to produce a solid 730 hp at 6,500 rpm.
The Falcon body is superbly restored, modified, and repainted featuring a fiberglass tilt front end and bumpers modified for the huge 6-71 blower. Greg had Troy Edwards of Citrus Heights, California, apply the gorgeous Bright Calypso Blue paint (actually a '93 Ford Ranger pickup color).
Doc's Graphics did the colorful overtones.
Inside, the interior is equally finished out in custom gray textured tweed and cloth fabric over Pontiac Fiero seats, new door panels, and a black custom dashboard fitted with Auto Meter instruments and a Grant steering wheel.
Anyway you look at this exotic Falcon, it is an outstanding heavy hitter with plenty of horses to smack you back in the seat and set this bird flying.
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Instant Brake. The factory incandescent 3rd brake light bulb on the Dodge Sprinter lights up in a glow, which takes a moment to turn on. A modern LED upgrade provides instant response, which can alert other drivers on the road earlier, while also providing a modern LED appearance. This third brake light LED is a great upgrade in both style and function.
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Tiburon is a tree transducer package written by Jonathan May at USC/ISI. You may also be interested in Carmel, the very fine finite-state (string) transducer package written by Jonathan Graehl, which was the inspiration for Tiburon, and can be found here
Tiburon is designed to handle weighted regular tree grammars, context-free grammars, and both tree-to-tree and tree-to-string transducers, and can perform composition, intersection, application, determinization, inside/outside training, pruning, return k-most likely trees, Viterbi derivations, and other useful things.Tiburon is written in java, and thus should be able to run on your machine. However, if you don't have java, you should get it first, from here (at least version 1.5 is required).
Here is a PDF tutorial on Tiburon.
Active users of Tiburon are strongly encouraged to subscribe to the Tiburon notification mailing list by following the link here, or by sending an email containing the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body to [email protected]. This is an extremely low-traffic list. It will only contain messages about new releases of Tiburon and is likely to be the most up-to-date source of information of changes to the system.
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After downloading, to install the software do the following:
1. Rename the file tiburon-tar-gz.pl as tiburon.tar.gz (% mv tiburon-tar-gz.pl tiburon.tar.gz)
2. Unzip and un-tar the software (% tar -xzvf tiburon.tar.gz) OR (% gunzip tiburon.tar.gz; tar -xvf tiburon.tar).


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Dr. J. James KIM is the director of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC and research fellow of the Center for American Politics and Policy at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies (Seoul). He is also a lecturer in the Executive Master of Public Administration program at Columbia University. Previously, Dr. Kim was an assistant professor of political science at the California State Polytechnic University (Pomona). He also served as a summer research associate at the RAND Corporation and as a statistical consultant for the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Planning at the School of International and Public Affairs in Columbia University. His primary research interests include political economy, energy, security, public opinion, democracy, methodology, and media. Dr. Kim received a B.S. and M.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.


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China devalued their Yuan. Freight transportation indexes have collapsed. Idiots in the EPA 'accidentally' released a mountain of poison into the Animas River. Syria has continued to collapse, and Islam rises in the West. And, as if that wasn't enough, we have racist idiots fouling the efforts of those of us trying to get the truth into your hands.
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By Samuel Francis
Printed in Practical Homeschooling #18, 1997.
When historians look back on the decade of the 1990s, they may describe it as the period when Americans began to take back their country and its institutions. One of the characteristics of this decade is that all over the country, average citizens are beginning to rebel, quietly and legally, against the giant organizations that have come to dominate our national life. The homeschooling movement is one of the main features of this rebellion, but there are several others. Grassroots activism for immigration control, against affirmative action, in support of traditional regional and cultural symbols like the Confederate Flag, and for several other causes have all blossomed in the last few years. Even the citizens' militias, which mobilize citizens in support of their constitutional right to keep and bear arms, are part of this trend, and at the national level candidates like Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader and Howard Phillips, have challenged the dominance of our political system by the two mainstream parties that increasingly resemble each other and leave average citizens with little real political choice.
These trends are strongly in keeping with the way of life and the political ethos of the United States from its founding. Active and continuous participation in public life is the essence of a republic, the foundational form of government that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution intended us to have; and throughout this century, that form of government has been all but obliterated by the rise of massive and anonymous organizations in the state, the economy, and the culture that prevent participation of the average citizen in the way they operate and in the direction that they push the country.
The New Bureaucratic Empire
These organizations - schools and universities, governments at both the state and local as well as the federal level, the courts, mass labor unions and gigantic corporations, and media empires that distort news and public opinion and spew out fashions and ideas that are often repellent to the religious and moral beliefs of most Americans - are profoundly incompatible with the way a free people should and must govern itself. Controlled by professional bureaucracies, often funded or granted legal privileges by the state, unresponsive to the market or popular political control, and irrelevant or actually hostile to the beliefs, interests, and preferences of most of the people whose lives and futures they influence, such organizations in effect have pulled off a revolution against the original form of our government and subverted much of the institutional and moral basis of American life. The fact that an increasing number of Americans now see through what these organizations and their elites have done and are rebelling against them is an encouraging trend and one of the strongest signs of health in our society.
The clearest indication of what has happened to our foundational republican way of life and the ideal of self-government (not just in the political but also in the personal, moral sense) comes from government itself. At the beginning of this century, wrote the late sociologist Robert A. Nisbet, the only regular contact that the average American had with the federal government came at the post office. Beginning with the administration of Woodrow Wilson and continuing through those of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, however, the federal government initiated a course of enlargement so that it has now become an empire that wraps itself around and winds itself into virtually every aspect of our lives. Taxation is the most obvious means by which the federal state enlarges itself and extends its control of its citizens and the economy, but so is the Federal Reserve System, which determines what our money is worth and manipulates its values at will, without restraint or influence even by elected officials, let alone by the citizens.
The regulation of business by the federal state is now familiar to every small businessman, and historians have shown that the first to beat the drum for more regulation, for mandatory labor unions, and for more control have been not the open socialists but Big Business itself. Big Business knows that nationally uniform regulations make its own operations easier, because it doesn't have to alter its products or the ways they are made and marketed to accommodate local variations in regulation. It also knows that it can pass the increased costs of regulation on to the consumer, while its small business competitors lack the margin to do so and must absorb the costs themselves. It's hardly surprising, therefore, that such leaders of Big Business as General Electric's Gerard Swope were in the forefront of New Deal regulation of business and that Big Business lobby organizations like the Business Roundtable and the Business Council have consistently pushed for more active federal intervention in the economy.
Today, just as Big Business used to push for national regulation of the economy by the state, it now pushes for "globalization" of the economy through support of international trade agreements like NAFTA and the World Trade Organization and the construction of transnational authorities like that of the European Union. The transnational corporate elite has increasingly disengaged itself and the corporations it runs from the underlying nation-state and the national culture and no longer feels any loyalty to or identity with the very people who work for its companies, invest in them, and depend on them for their economic futures. The executives of many corporations now boast that they no longer consider their companies to be American companies at all but "global" corporations, and that they regard national sovereignty as an impediment to their profits.
What Kenneth Boulding called the "organizational revolution" and James Burnham the "managerial revolution" - the process by which giant, bureaucratic organizations like the modern federal state and the giant corporation displace the limited government and small, owner-operated family businesses and farms of the old republic - is not confined to government and the economy, however. One of the most important methods by which this revolution has gained power and for many years was able to gull the American people into believing that it was perfectly normal was through the court system. Throughout this century, the courts - the Supreme Court especially but also the federal courts in general - have systematically invented false interpretations of the Constitution and twisted its meaning in favor of enlarged, centralized government and business. Thus, the courts have concocted what is known as the "Incorporation Doctrine" - the claim that the 14th Amendment somehow "incorporates" the Bill of Rights and thus applies limitations to the states that the framers of the Constitution intended to apply only to the federal government - to justify striking down virtually any local or state law that displeases them. Under this doctrine, which cannot bear scrutiny as a serious interpretation of the original meaning or intent of the Constitution, constitutional provisions such as the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, intended to protect states' rights, have virtually vanished from constitutional law and political discussion. States' rights, however, are the very soul of self-government and of republicanism, because they ensure that most governmental functions are established and carried out at the local and state level, where average citizens can learn about them, debate them, and approve or reject them. Once all government functions are transferred to Washington, only elites can have the time or specialized training necessary to pay attention to them, and only elites will be able to decide what government does and in whose interest it does it. Under the Incorporation Doctrine, the courts have forced busing on the schools; legalized pornography by striking down state and local censorship laws; dictated to states and cities how they must be governed; taken over entire school systems, local jails, and mental hospitals; ordered local authorities to turn loose convicted criminals; limited the methods of law enforcement used by local police; and excluded prayer and any vestige of religious expression from public education as well as from other public institutions. Yet most Americans to this day know nothing about the Incorporation Doctrine and believe that what the courts have imposed is perfectly consistent with the principles of constitutional government.
The Cultural Battle
Even more striking is the evolution of the modern culture of America. The term "popular culture" used to refer to cultural activities and beliefs that were produced by the people themselves - one thinks of songs and music, community holidays, sports and games, public religious observances, and artistic and intellectual life. Today, of course, "popular culture" means culture that is produced by elites for the people. Television sit-coms tell us when we're supposed to laugh or feel sad by the canned laughter and limp violin music played to elicit the appropriate emotional responses. On live programs, tele-prompters feed the hosts their scripts, while messages ordering the audience to applaud are flashed when approval is needed for the tasteless jokes and politically slanted monologues of the hosts. News broadcasts use wording as well as pictures to convey the attitudes that those who listen or watch them are supposed to feel.
The sewers of sexuality and violence that Hollywood now regularly cranks out are in fact only the tip of the mass cultural iceberg; they would not be possible had the American audience for films not been long habituated to accepting everything the movies told them to accept - trivia about the luxurious and glamorous lives of the mediocrities and sociopaths who become stars, the improbable (and increasingly fantastic) plots and characters that are now routine in every production, the depiction of an entire fake society utterly devoid of morals, religion, tradition, history, and character.
Not only is our "popular culture" now in the firm control of elites of screenwriters, directors, and producers that no one outside the industry recognizes but also it has been imposed uniformly throughout the nation and indeed the planet. Go to any middle-sized town or city in the United States and visit the bookstores. There you will find the same books and magazines as were being offered in whatever place you just left. You will see the same movies at the local theaters and of course the same television programs on the idiot box. Fast-food chains now offer exactly the same food in exactly the same restaurants all over the country, regardless of regional tastes, styles, and cuisine. Don't expect Texas barbecue at the McDonald's in Houston or fried clams at the Wendy's in Providence. The same uniformity is clear even in the newspapers as media chains buy up local papers, replace their staffs of local reporters and editors who have known their communities all their lives, and serve up wire stories and canned editorials and opinion pieces written in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. News stories are kept shorter to retain the attention of the virtually illiterate readers, and unconventional opinions and ideas that don't fit the editorial and mass marketing formulas are discouraged.
The revolution by which a self-governing, decentralized, diversified, and participatory republic (such as the one that the U.S. Constitution and its drafters originally founded) is replaced by an elite-ruled, centralized, uniform state, economy, and mass cultural empire - this is exactly what Americans now involved in grassroots protests are rebelling against. They may not have yet grasped the full scope of what they and their fellow citizens have lost and stand to lose, but in the areas with which they are particularly concerned they are beginning to see that something is seriously wrong, that they and their friends and neighbors no longer have control over the organizations that rule them, and that without such control they are no more than serfs on a medieval plantation. The legal, peaceful, and democratic rebellions that they are organizing in their own communities to take back their country and their culture are merely the first sounds of the coming battle to create a new republic on the ruins of the old one that we have lost.
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Bohemia, Erik and Harman, Kerry (2006) Boundary crossing: negotiating learning outcomes in industry based student projects. In: Innovations 2006: world innovations in engineering education and research. Aung, Win, Crossthwaite, Caroline, Espinosa, Ramon Vasquez, Moscinski, Jerzy, Ou, Shan-Hwei and Ruiz, Luis Manuel Sanchez, eds. International Network for Engineering Education and Research, Arlington, VA, USA, pp. 179-192. ISBN 0974125253. [Book Section]


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Harry Strausser III owns a successful small business with 25 employees in Bloomsburg, Pa. As an undergraduate, he was a national champion in several forensics categories, and represented the Boy Scouts of America in national competitions sponsored by the Reader's Digest. As a graduate student, he coached a college forensics team. He has never been arrested or suspected of any crime.
Strausser is an Eagle Scout.
He is also gay.
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America says he doesn't have the right "core values" to be a Scout leader.
Denny Meyer, who lives in New York City, wasn't a Scout, but often tagged along with his older brother to Scout meetings. During college, Meyer, the son of Holocaust refugees, enlisted in the Navy in 1968 "to pay my country back for my family's freedom." After four years, he had quickly advanced to Petty Officer Second Class (E-5), got a job as a civilian with the Department of the Army, and enlisted in the Army Reserve, rising to the rank of Sergeant First Class (E-7). He later worked in international sales and office administration.
Meyer had to pass rigorous background checks to serve in two branches of the Armed Forces, but he can't pass the background checks become a Boy Scout leader because he's gay.
Gregory Bourke is a mainframe computer programmer and analyst in Louisville, Ky. He had been a Scout for almost three years. His 15-year-old son is a Life Scout who has finished most of his requirements to be an Eagle Scout. His 14-year-old daughter is a Girl Scout. He has been a leader in her troop for eight years; he had been an assistant Scoutmaster for five years. Last September, he received a special Legislative Citation from the Kentucky House of representatives honoring him for his community involvement and dedication to Scouting.
Bourke is no longer with the Boy Scouts. His local Council, against strong opposition from his troop and the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church, which sponsors both the Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops, ordered him to resign because he's gay, and threatened to pull the church's Scouting charter if Bourke didn't resign. The Girl Scouts, like the 4H Club, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and numerous other organizations, has no discriminatory policies, and Bourke's church is pleased he continues as Girl Scouts leader
In contrast, the Boy Scouts have a long history of allowing local councils to discriminate against racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. It wasn't until 1974 that the national organization finally ended racial discrimination. In 1991, with the emergence of a "family values" conservative movement, the Boy Scouts formalized a policy to exclude gays from membership and leadership positions. The existing position is that the BSA believes "homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the requirement in the Scout Oath that a Scout be morally straight and in the Scout Law that a Scout be clean in word and deed, and that homosexuals do not provide a desirable role model for Scouts." Nine years later, the Supreme Court, by a 5–4 vote largely along political lines, said that the Boy Scouts of America was a private organization and had every right to discriminate.
Several Fortune 500 corporations—including Alcoa, Caterpillar, CVS, Dow Chemical, General Electric, General Mills, Intel, Levi Strauss, 3M, UPS, and Verizon—have suspended funding to the BSA.
Although local United Way agencies have the autonomy to decide whether or not to continue to provide funds to the BSA, the national organization has reaffirmed its principle that "embraces inclusiveness, diversity, and equal opportunity as part of our core values, Code of Ethics, and human resource policies." Keri Albright, president of the Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way (Pa.), like more than 50 other United Way local organizations, has suspended Boy Scout funding, and argues that "accepting gays is not in conflict with having good values."
Faced by significant income loss, the Boy Scouts last Summer rethought their position about excluding gays from membership. A backlash by the right-wing, which also threatened to pull funding and membership, slapped them back into their policy of discrimination.
A petition with 64,000 signatures opposing the Boy Scout policy of exclusion was delivered to the United Way; several petitions, with about 1.4 million signatures opposing the Scouts' anti-gay policies, were delivered to its national headquarters in Irving, Texas.
And so the flip-flopping Scouts decided to survey its members and sponsors. From surveys filled out by more than 200,000 Scouts and their leaders, 50,000 alumni, 270 councils, and about 100 religious and community organizations, the surveys revealed, according to the National Council, that "a majority of adults in the Scouting community [about 61 percent] support the BSA's current policy of excluding open and avowed homosexuals [but] younger parents and teens tend to oppose the policy." The Los Angeles Area Council, and several others in Southern California, proposes to disregard National policy and to admit to membership and leadership roles anyone who meets Scouting standards, whether gay or straight.
Among those who oppose inclusion of gays as members or leaders are several churches. Franklin Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, says he's "gravely distressed" that the Scouts are even considering revising their policy, and if they allow gays as members his churches are likely to sever ties with the Scouts. The Latter Day Saints and Roman Catholic churches also oppose removing barriers to permit gays to become Scouts and leaders. In contrast, the United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, and the Unitarian Universalist Association, among other religions that sponsor Scout packs and troops, demand discriminatory policies be eliminated. About two-thirds of all Scout groups are sponsored by religious organizations.
The 70-member executive committee is now recommending to the 1,400 voting members of the National Council that gay youth under 18 be allowed to be Scouts, but to continue to exclude gay adults from becoming leaders.
This Swiss-hole plan, which could be approved by the National Council, May 20, perpetuates the Scouts' image as an organization that openly discriminates. It would allow a gay youth to pass the rigorous tests to become an Eagle Scout, including a requirement to "serve six months in a troop leadership position," yet not be allowed to become an adult leader. Such a decision perpetuates stereotypes and shows that the national leadership is buried in a morass of homophobic fear.
The proposed policy revision implies that youth are still exploring their worldviews and beliefs, and that being gay is a choice that gay youth make, and one they can "outgrow" if they wish to have the BSA "core values."
If there was a Pathfinder merit badge, the Scout leadership would be unable to earn it—they've been wandering the wrong trail for many years.


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Tome of Fiends (3.5e Sourcebook)
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Tome of Fiends[edit]
This is the second entry in our line of articles begun with the the Tome of Necromancy, which is a reflection of how the rules for fiends ought to function. This is distinct from a rumination on how the rules for conjuring and alignment subtypes actually do function, which is a whole different discussion entirely. Again, we feel there is a need for this because despite (or let's not kid ourselves, because of) the great wealth of publication devoted to fiends, our favorite villains remain completely outside the realms of that which is understood by players or dungeon masters. While many people are able to parrot a vague game mechanical definition of what a fiend is (an extraplanar creature with an origin in the lower planes or an extraplanar creature with the [Evil] subtype), almost no one can agree on what exactly it is that a fiend does. And therein lies the heart of the problem, and the reason this series has taken upon itself to address this nest of serpents.
Chapter 1: Morality and Fiends
- Morality: How Black is the Night?
- To Triumph Over Evil
- Law and Chaos: Your Rules or Mine?
- I Fought the Law
- Beating Back Chaos
- Base Classes
- Prestige Classes
- No Wishing for More Wishes!
- Damage Reduction and Special Materials
- Putting the Prime Back in Prime Material Plane (Alternate Prime Material Plane Rules)
- Practical Demonology: Additional Rules for Summoning
- Weapon Proficiencies? You've got to be kidding me!
Chapter 5: Campaigning on the Lower Planes
- High Adventure in... Acheron!
- High Adventure in... Pandemonium!
- High adventure in... Carceri!
- High Adventure in... Hell!
- High Adventure in... The Abyss!
- High Adventure in... Gehenna!
- High Adventure in... Hades!
Chapter 6: Gaining Influence in the Lower Planes
- Ascended to Godhood
- Slaying the Gods
- President of the Corporation
- Powerful Adventurers
- Rulership of the Lower Planes
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Two weeks in the West
Imagine you're taking in the view from a national park overlook: The red cliffs, blue shadows, and cottonwood bottoms of Zion; the jagged upsweep of the Tetons from Jackson Hole; the weird snaking remains of ancient trees at Petrified Forest. True, there are also oodles of lollygagging tourons, a remuda of RVs, and some faux-woodsy park infrastructure, but what's this? Trophy mansions sprawling beside the entrance road? A private lodge abutting a hiking trail?
Such development might be closer than you think, according to a recent report by the National Parks Conservation Association. Nationwide, there are about 4.3 million acres of private inholdings within National Park Service boundaries, but the federal funds set aside to buy them have decreased by more than $100 million over the last decade. Of the 55 highlighted parks with the most pressing acquisition needs, 16 - including Petrified Forest, Zion, Grand Teton, Redwood, Mount Rainier and North Cascades - are in the West, according to the report, with more than 38,000 private acres vulnerable to development.
The specter of development also looms over private inholdings in the West's national forests. Plum Creek Timber Co. (now a real estate investment trust that owns more than a million acres in Montana alone), is making preliminary moves to subdivide some of its massive timber holdings near ritzy Whitefish. Company officials there are consulting with the state about residential road access and have jumpstarted discussions with Whitefish business leaders, though they're mum on definite plans.
Meanwhile, a handful of bills that would open some public lands to development and protect others are moving through Congress. A measure that would create a 167-square-mile wilderness north of Sultan, Wash., just passed the Senate (on its fourth trip) and is now headed for the House. Another that would create a 21-square-mile wilderness in Oregon is moving through the House. Two other bills - one that would create an 807-square-mile wilderness in Idaho's Owyhee Canyonlands, authorize land swaps and open some wilderness study areas to grazing and motorized access, and another that would create 200 square miles of wilderness and sell off 14 square miles of federal land in Utah's booming Washington County - are back in the Senate for their second go-round. After foundering amid controversy in 2006, the new versions of both are enjoying broader support (if still spotty, in the case of the Washington County bill). Supporters credit significant reductions in the amount of land to be sold off in Washington County and stricter management guidelines set up for lands to be opened to multiple use in Owyhee, among other measures.
A land rush of a different kind is proceeding apace in some of the West's other wide-open spaces. Thanks in part to skyrocketing prices, 25 times more oil than previously thought may be recoverable from a shale formation under eastern Montana and western North Dakota. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that 3 billion to 4.3 billion barrels of oil - about half of what the U.S. consumes in a year - could be pumped from the area with existing technology. And a recent report by the Environmental Working Group shows that active mining claims on Western public lands have jumped from 207,540 to 414,228 in just five years thanks to booming metal prices, with more than 16,000 filed within five miles of Western communities. Mining giant Kennecott, for example, is currently laying out plans to explore for minerals under Salt Lake County open space in Utah's Oquirrh Mountains, irking some county officials who spent $8.7 million to purchase the 1,700-acre parcel for recreation.
Even as companies push for new projects, victims of one of the West's most environmentally disastrous mines are finally getting some measure of justice. After weeks of negotiation and seven years of litigation, W.R. Grace & Co. set up a $3 billion trust to compensate the families of thousands of people who were sickened or killed by its Libby, Mont., vermiculite (essentially asbestos) mine and its products.
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The ambitious, ground-up rebuild of Microsoft Office Standard 2007 presents drastically different interfaces and new file formats. The new Office looks so unlike its predecessors, it's likely to spark intense love-hate responses from users. This upgrade isn't for everyone: If you're patient, eager to try the latest tools, and willing to relearn most of what you already know about Office, then you may relish the challenge of Office 2007. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 can produce more-polished documents and presentations, and Outlook's new scheduling abilities make it a handier communications hub. Professionals who want to impress clients and co-workers with attractive reports, charts, and slide shows will find this a worthy upgrade. First-time Office users may have an easier time than veteran users getting their bearings.
However, if you only use a small fraction of what Office offers or you felt that getting the hang of Office 2003 was painful enough, then you might want to leave Office 2007 on the shelf or try it free for two months first. We imagine that power users who have mastered the nooks and crannies of the older versions will curse the steep learning curve. But take heed: The new era of Office affects even those who don't upgrade, and a conversion tool is needed to let older Office versions open Office 2007's default, Open XML files.
Office 2007 does offer complex features that you can't yet find elsewhere. However, it also falls short in key areas. Integration among the applications isn't as thorough as we'd hoped, and there's no one-click way to collaborate with others on an edit without buying Microsoft's Groove online collaboration tool or working within a server setting. The advent of Office 2007 comes as a growing number of competing tools are simpler, cost less (if they aren't free), and handle the same core features. Oddly, despite its bevy of Windows Live and Office Live services, Microsoft chose not to build a bridge to the Web for all Office users.
Office editions
We reviewed Microsoft Office Standard 2007, which costs a substantial $399, or $239 to upgrade. This suite includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook in addition to Office Tools that manage language settings and pictures and include a diagnostics tool for use in the event of a crash. Households that don't need desktop e-mail should opt for Office Home & Student at $149 (no upgrade option), a new suite roughly equivalent to Office Student and Teacher 2003 but with OneNote instead of Outlook. The Basic package, with Word, Excel, and Outlook, only comes pre-installed on computers sold by manufacturers that have Microsoft software licensing agreements. At $449 ($279 upgrade), Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 costs $50 less than the Professional edition that includes the Access database program. Only the Enterprise and the $679 ($539 upgrade) Ultimate editions include the new Groove tool. And oddly both the Enterprise and Professional Plus editions lack the Business Contact Manager component of Outlook, which corporate users might want for their marketing efforts.
Breezing through the options, our fastest installation of Microsoft Office Standard 2007 took no more than 20 minutes on a Windows XP computer (see our installation slide show). However, settle into your chair if you're curious about the fine print. We spent 40 minutes just skimming the 10,379-word End User License Agreement and stopped before we could understand it all. Here are some of the highlights: You're allowed to install Office 2007 software on two computers; you must agree to download updates whenever Microsoft decides you need them; and Microsoft may verify your license key at any time to make sure that you're not using pirated software. We wished that Microsoft better explained the Internet-based services Office 2007 can connect to.
When we chose to Customize the installation on another PC, the process was more involved. It's too bad that while this process lets you handpick which items to install, it doesn't explain what you'll miss if you reject, say, Office Tools. And while Microsoft displays your available hard drive space as well as how much of that is needed by your selected set of applications, there's no indication of the size of each individual application and you're left to your subtraction skills here. In the end, we installed everything available.
From that point on, loading the Office suite onto our hard drive took 15 minutes flat. Office Standard 2007 is smaller than its predecessors, at about 3GB. Unlike the Windows Vista operating system, the new Office does not demand the newest hardware. Office 2007 is supposed to work the same whether running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. At a minimum, you'll need to have Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or Windows XP SP2 on a 500MHz processor with 256MB of RAM (512MB or more for Outlook with Business Contact Manager, which comes in the Small Business, Professional, and Ultimate editions). However, of course, this rules out those still using older versions of Windows.
Although the terms of the EULA were less than transparent, we were pleased that Microsoft offered the least intrusive installation settings by default. For example, Privacy Options leaves it up to users to hook up to online Help automatically, as well as to download a file that continually tracks system problems. No Office 2007 shortcuts appeared on our desktop or in our system tray, either. The Office Shortcut Bar--a feature that disappeared in the 2003 version--is back, located within the Office Tools menu.
Once you open each Office 2007 application, you'll see a radically different, blue interface that's brighter than in the past. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint arrange features within a tabbed Ribbon toolbar that largely replaces the gray drop-down menus and dialog boxes from a quarter-century of Office software. The Office logo menu, docked in the upper left corner, bundles many commands from the old File and Edit menus. Outlook lacks the logo button and adopts the Ribbon only within its message composition and scheduling windows. There's a core set of always-on tabs, as well as contextual tabs that hide until the software detects that you need them. For instance, the Picture Tools Format tab only shows up when you click on an image. We were stumped at first about how to format images, tables, and charts until we got used to clicking on them first.
The Office 2007 programs, which share a new graphics engine, strongly emphasize ways to decorate documents. Pull-down Style Galleries let you preview how new fonts, color themes, chart styles, images and such appear before you apply the change. This is great for selecting from menus of fonts or page templates. At the same time, however, the "intelligent" shape-shifting may bewilder those who don't realize that they must click a style to apply a formatting change. In most cases, the preformatted styles only present colors within the same range already used by your document. And sometimes the pull-down galleries jut into the document and obscure the charts or images you're trying to change, and you can't turn them off.
Nor do the dynamic previews apply to all style elements. For example, from the Page Layout tab of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, you can preview Themes of colors and templates by mousing over them. But the Page Borders option takes you to an unhelpful, old-school pop-up box without dynamic previews.
On the one hand, newbies to Office software, particularly young, visual learners, may find the 2007 interface easier to master than Office 2003. Icons label most of the commands, and many expand into pull-down menus. There are inconsistencies, though, such as buttons that open older dialog boxes. And many items have moved to places that we don't find intuitive. For instance, the dictionary and thesaurus in Word are under the Review tab, not References near the footnote and bibliography buttons. And the Insert Rows command in Excel 2007 is located beneath the Home tab, not the Insert tab. Likewise, PowerPoint's New Slide button is under Home instead of Insert. Notice a pattern? Although the Home tab houses many frequently used features, it's not the first place we look for them.
After more than a year of alternating between Office 2003 and test versions of Office 2007, we still found it hard to break old habits. Microsoft advertises the Ribbon's ability to help you "browse, pick, and click." If you're upgrading, though, you could get stuck in the "browse" stage longer than you'd like, slowing your work.
Rather than piling on more features--Word 2003 alone had some 1,500 commands--Microsoft attempted to better show off functions that already existed. To some extent, the Ribbon meets this goal, as it's easier to find Conditional Formatting in Excel, among other sophisticated tools. And the View tab in Word and Excel better provides options for viewing two or three open documents at once.
You can customize Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to some extent, such as by adding buttons to the small, Quick Access Toolbar, but not as much as with their predecessors. Luckily, keyboard shortcuts remain the same; just press ALT at any time to see tiny "badges" that label the quick keys for the Ribbon's commands. We like that you can hide the Ribbon by double-clicking on any tab. Plus, Microsoft has killed Clippy, the annoying animated pop-up assistant that would interrupt your work in Office 2003. A subtle new quick formatting toolbar in Word 2007 fades in and out near your cursor. Overall, our favorite interface tweak is the slider bar in the lower right corner that lets you zoom in and out with ease.
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