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New movies — especially sequels — hit theaters so quickly these days, it can be hard to tell what's worth checking out. So we thought it would be fitting to call upon the Boston-based, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Wesley Morris for some clarity.
Morris chats with host Ophira Eisenberg about whether it was hometown bias that led him to predict that Argo would take home the Oscar for Best Picture, and exemplifies how difficult it can be for a lifelong film scholar to narrow down an answer to the question, "What is your favorite movie?"
Then, house musician Jonathan Coulton pits Morris against a fellow film fanatic for "Plus One," a game in which the opponents must add "1" to a numerical movie title to create its fictitious sequel. For instance, Molly Ringwald's Sam Baker is shocked when her family forgets her birthday, again, in Seventeen Candles.
About Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris is currently a staff writer, with a focus on film, for Grantland. Previously, he was a film critic at the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Globe, where he won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His writing has also appeared in Film Comment, Slate, and Ebony.
As I mentioned, we have three special guests on this show. Because so many amazing people live in Boston, we had to take advantage of it. So right now, we're going to bring out one of them, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Wesley Morris.
WESLEY MORRIS: Hello.
EISENBERG: Welcome. Wesley. Wesley, you predicted that "Argo" was going to win this year for best picture over "Lincoln."
MORRIS: Yes.
EISENBERG: Was that anything to do with any favoritism towards Boston on your part, or did you really think Ben Affleck deserved it?
MORRIS: Okay, so there's two things. The first thing is no, he - I mean, deserve? I don't know. Was "Argo" the best of the ten movies? No. Or the nine movies? I don't think so. But it was this sort of like Hollywood rallying around this guy for having this perceived tragedy happen to him.
EISENBERG: Right.
MORRIS: The tragedy of not making the best director cut, when the other five guys were like Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg and a couple other people.
EISENBERG: Do you have a favorite movie?
MORRIS: That is my least favorite. It's just a hard question to answer.
EISENBERG: Do you have a favorite movie in the last year?
MORRIS: In the last year? My favorite movie in the last year, I like "The Paperboy" from last year. That might not be my absolute favorite. I'm now blanking on what my first favorite movie from 2012 was.
EISENBERG: Just so you know, my favorite movie of all time...
MORRIS: Yes.
EISENBERG: ...is "Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark."
EISENBERG: "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the first one.
MORRIS: Lost Ark, okay.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
MORRIS: It's never going to change?
EISENBERG: Don't think so.
MORRIS: Wow.
EISENBERG: This is going to be a fun game. So, Wesley, we have found someone to play against you. Please welcome Dan Katz.
DAN KATZ: Hi there.
EISENBERG: Hi, Dan. Now, Dan is a math teacher, he's a film fanatic. He's also written a play about love.
KATZ: Love and crosswords.
EISENBERG: Love and crosswords.
EISENBERG: Okay, so this is your chance to pitch the movie version of your play to a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic. You have one sentence to do it. Give him what it's about.
KATZ: One sentence?
EISENBERG: Yeah, that's what you got.
MORRIS: Elevator pitch, give me.
KATZ: Well, to quote my theater adviser at the time, it's a piece of self-indulgent wish fulfillment.
KATZ: In which a man discovers that his girlfriend, who's not really that into crosswords probably shouldn't be his girlfriend.
MORRIS: Oh.
EISENBERG: Sounds perfect. What do you think, Wesley?
MORRIS: I'm going to call the people at Sundance right now.
EISENBERG: There you go.
EISENBERG: So this next quiz is called Plus One, because we're going to a special event, I hope, a movie screening. Jonathan?
JONATHAN COULTON: No. No. You know very well, Ophira, we are never invited to any special events.
EISENBERG: True, that's true.
COULTON: This game's about fictional movie sequels. We will describe a fictitious sequel to a movie. You tell us the title of the new film, which is made by adding one to all of the numbers appearing in the original title.
For example, if we said in this Ron Howard sequel, tom hanks tells Houston "we have another problem," as he once again fails to land on the moon, you would say Apollo 14. Whoever wins this round will move on to our Ask Me One More final round at the end of the show, and that includes you, Wesley.
In this dramatic sequel, Henry Fonda's character meets a forensic scientist who reconvenes the jury and convinces them that the defendant actually was guilty.
COULTON: Dan?
KATZ: Thirteen angry men.
COULTON: You are right.
COULTON: After all the brouhaha last year with her sister's wedding and the underwear, high school junior Sam Baker is shocked when her family forgets her birthday again.
COULTON: Dan?
KATZ: Seventeen candles.
MORRIS: Mine keeps locking.
COULTON: Wesley is already blaming the buzzer. You're right, Dan. At the start of this epic sequel, Moses has just led his people to the Promised Land, when god summons him back to the mountaintop for one more rule: beer before liquor, never sicker.
COULTON: Wesley?
MORRIS: The eleventh commandment. Sorry.
COULTON: That's right.
MORRIS: I almost said eleven angry commandments. That's redundant.
COULTON: You're mostly right, yeah. As if the 2010 original wasn't quite grueling enough, this sequel brings James Franco back and pins his left arm under a rock for 60 minutes longer than the right one was.
COULTON: Dan?
KATZ: 128 hours.
COULTON: That's right. In this rom-com sequel - that means romantic comedy you guys - Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell try to recapture the old magic by attending even more nuptials and memorial services together.
COULTON: Dan?
KATZ: Five weddings and a funeral.
COULTON: We need you to add one to both numbers in the original title.
KATZ: Can I do it?
COULTON: Wesley?
MORRIS: Five weddings and two funerals.
COULTON: That's right.
MORRIS: I would have said the same thing he said. Thanks, Dan.
COULTON: Luckily, you're slower on the buzzer, Wesley.
COULTON: Unable to secure Macy's as a filming location, producers decided to shift the action one block uptown for the sequel to a holiday classic about a girl's belief in Santa Claus.
COULTON: Dan?
KATZ: Miracle on 35th Street.
COULTON: That's right.
EISENBERG: That is correct, Dan, and that is the final clue, so you will be moving on to our Ask Me One More final round at that end of the show. How about a huge round of applause for Wesley Morris?
(APPLAUSE) Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Here's a really easy recipe for those of us who don't know how to boil eggs. Just because you "don't know how to cook", is no excuse to not to have German food. Technically sausages would be "German". You can start with the Bratwurst. Now don't say "I don't know how to cook." because if you can eat hot dogs, you can definitely cook Bratwurst. It's the easiest way to enjoy Oktoberfest. It's made out of pork, beef and sometimes a bit of veal.
The first thing to do is to get enough Bratwurst for everyone. If you're having guests, make sure you have at least one for each person. Keep in mind they might want seconds. Have a side dish of salad. The accompaniment can be rye bread or German bread roll. You'll also need a skillet and water for cooking.
Once you're ready to cook, make small holes in the Bratwurst by pricking it with a fork. This is so that the pressure won't build up inside the sausage and burst during cooking.
Pour water about half inch into the skillet along with the Bratwurst and cook it in medium heat. Keep the skillet covered. Cook until the water is evaporated. You don't have to boil it, just let it simmer and evaporate -- some oil should come out of the Bratwurst and it'll cook itself, so don't put more oil in. It should be a bit golden brown. It'll give off a nice delicious smell.
If you like onions, you can slice them and put them in the skillet and make them brown. When the onions are translucent and a bit brownish, they'll be ready. If you want you can add a cup of white wine or beer (I recommend Pilsener or any other pale lager) and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Some people don't like the taste/smell of cooked beer smell so ask your guests first if they like that or if they're adventurous enough to try.
Have your Bratwurst with Rye bread or German roll and salad with beer of course! Now wasn't that easy? So don't tell me you can't cook German food. Have great fun this Oktoberfest.
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Time Warp
Hosted by: Grove City Library
The event will start on: Feb 26, 2013 5:30 PM
And will end on: Feb 26, 2013 6:30 PM
Location: Grove City Library
Address: 3959 Broadway Grove City, OH 43123
Time Warp!
Travel with us back in time for an adventure that includes games, crafts, fun and more.
Ages 5-11. Grove City, Tuesdays at 4:30. Register by calling the Grove City Youth Services Department at 875-6716, ext 146 or register online.
Grove City Library
January 29 - Great Depression: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
February 26 - Designs of the Future
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It's fall, and for theater fanatics, that means just one thing: the 2012-2013 theatrical season is finally underway.
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket will close their first show, Amy Herzog's "After the Revolution" on Oct. 14. The drama, about a leftist family whose world is shaken up when a secret is revealed, has been enjoying the acclaim of local reviewers.
Next up, they have "Red," which runs Nov. 8 to Dec. 16.
The U.S. premiere of "Anne Boleyn," from Jan. 7 to Feb. 17. The late winter brings "The Real Thing" from March 14 to April 14, and the season closes with "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," which runs from May 2 to June 2.
Visit www.gammtheatre.org for tickets and more information, or call the box office at 723-4266.
Trinity Rep's production of Shakespeare's tragic "King Lear" will play in full force until Oct. 21.
"The How and the Why" will follow, opening on Nov. 29 and running through Dec. 30.
Of course, their annual production of "A Christmas Carol" will play through the holiday season.
"Crime and Punishment" will start the year, playing from Jan. 17 to Feb. 24.
"Social Creatures" plays from March 14 to April 21.
Trinity promises "the theatrical event of the season" as they stage a pair of interlocking plays, "House" and "Garden." It's two plays performed simultaneously by the same cast in the upstairs and downstairs theaters from May 16 to June 30.
Visit www.trinityrep.com for tickets and more information or call the box office at 351-4242.
Warren's 2nd Story Theatre's production of "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?" will run until Oct. 21.
Next, they'll stage "An Inspector Calls" from Nov. 11 to Dec. 2., followed by "Lost in Yonkers" from Nov. 16 to Dec. 16. The new year brings "Amadeus" from Jan. 18 to Feb. 17, followed by "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" from March 8 to April 7. 2nd Story closes out their season with "The Rose Tattoo" from April 26 to May 26.
Visit www.2ndstorytheatre.com for ticket and more information or call the box office at 247-4200.
Warwick's own brand new Ocean State Theatre will inaugurate their first season with "The Winter Wonderettes," playing Dec. 5 through 30.
"The Santaland Diaries" play from Dec. 12 to 30.
Neil Simon's "Fools" will be staged from Jan. 23 through Feb. 10.
The award-winning musical "Rent" from Feb. 22 to March 17.
"Race" will open on March 27 and run until April 14.
The season closes with "The King and I" from April 24 to May 19.
Visit www.oceanstatetheatre.org for tickets and more information or call the box office at 921-6800.
The Providence Performing Arts Center's Broadway Series includes "Catch Me If You Can," which opens this month, "Elf," "Memphis," "Jekyll and Hyde," "Million Dollar Quartet," "Sister Act," and "War Horse."
Their Contemporary Classics season includes "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Peter Pan," and "American Idiot" will play at PPAC as well.
Visit www.ppacri.org for tickets and more information or call 421-2787.


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October 13, 1936 - March 12, 2013
Town of Newburgh, NY
Deno Salvatore Infante, a retired field engineer for 30 years at IBM, of the Town of Newburgh, entered into rest Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at St. Luke's/Cornwall Hospital - Newburgh Campus. He was 76.
Deno is the son of the late Salvatore and Philomena Ortland Infante, he was born October 13, 1936 in Newburgh. Deno was a veteran serving in the U.S. Army.
Survivors include his loving wife of 43 years, Virginia Taddei Infante at home; sons, Matthew D. Infante of Newburgh, Christopher A. Infante and wife, Marisa of Hartsdale, NY; daughters, Linda DiBella and husband, Joseph of Orlando, FL, Alicia Marie Eletto and husband, Joe of Egg Harbor, NJ; sisters, Mary Stewart and Anita Eckard both of Newburgh; grandchildren: Brenden, Salvatore, Anthony, Christina, Anna and Angelo, and a grandchild on the way; as well as, nieces and nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by a sister, Sylvia Mannese.
Visitation for family and friends will take place Friday, March 15th from 3 to 7 p.m. at White & Venuto Funeral Home, 188 North Plank Rd. (Rte 32) Newburgh. A Funeral Mass will be held March 16th, 1:30 p.m. at St. Joseph's Church in New Windsor, NY, with Father Dennis M. Dinan officiating. Cremation will take place at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Burial of ashes will take place in Wallkill Valley Cemetery, Walden, NY at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Deno's memory for his grandson, Brenden Infante to The Center for Discovery, 31 Kinnebrook Rd, Monticello, NY 12701.
Funeral Arrangements under the direction of White & Venuto Funeral Home, 845-562-6550, for condolences or directions please visit www.WhiteandVenutoFuneralHome.com .


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NEFA- Membership Has Its Privileges
1/7/2014 by mcmanus
When you're thinking about whether or not to join a particular club or organization, first and foremost, you will want to know what the membership benefits are. Additionally, you'll want to know what the organization does, not only for its members, but for the activity itself, the community at large and any educational and charitable endeavors it may support. Indeed, these criterion are essential when considering what, where and how your membership dollars are spent.
The New England Flying disc Association (NEFA) is a non- profit organization dedicated to promoting disc golf and other frisbee related sports throughout the New England, New York and New Jersey areas. As a member, you will be eligible to earn points in the NEFA Disc Golf Points Series (see 2014 Points Series Charter HERE) as well as a chance to compete in the annual New England Disc Golf Championships. Membership with NEFA not only provides you with an opportunity to play disc golf competitively through an established point series system, it also means you will be part of an organization that is dedicated to supporting, promoting and growing disc golf and other disc related sports throughout the region. NEFA is managed by hardworking and dedicated volunteers who all share the same passion as the members. This passion is revealed in the partnerships and public outreach activities that NEFA has established and fostered since its inception. NEFA membership dues breakdown as follows:
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Once processed, you will see your membership updated online (including your NEFA member # and expiration date) at http://nefa.com/Membership/Active_Members.asp We produce the NEFA bag tags in batches, so it may be a month or more before you receive your membership materials. If you have questions or problems with your membership, use the form http://nefa.com/ContactForm/default.asp and indicate Membership under Reason for Submission.
**As a NEFA member, you will quickly realize the tangible sense of satisfaction that goes along with supporting the growth of disc sports in our area. Support that includes the administration of NEFA grants, involvement with the E.D.G.E Program (Educational Disc Golf Experience), the availability of loaner baskets for emerging disc golf courses and participation in outreach events like the New England Special Olympics.**
NE Special Olympics DG demonstration day
NEFA partnering with the Educational Disc Golf Experience
Once again, NEFA is encouraging all of our tournament directors to take part in a fundraiser for the EDGE program (http://www.edgediscgolf.org/). The EDGE program focuses on educating the youth on the sport of disc golf. This is a ground up approach to growing the sport that falls directly in line with NEFA's mission. If you are a TD for an upcoming tournament, NEFA sanctioned or otherwise, and want to learn more about how partnering with EDGE as a fundraiser can help enhance your players' tournament experience, please review the following document: http://www.edgediscgolf.org/files/EDGE_Tournament_Charity_Info.pdf
Matthew DeAngelis has been running the EDGE fundraiser at his clubs annual NEFA event, the Borderland Fall Finale, for several years. Matt has this to say:
"The EDGE fundraiser just makes sense as a tournament director and someone that wants to see the sport grow. For very little output of effort on my end, I am able to add value to the player experience. EDGE sends along a box of disc golf related merchandise, as well as a generous coupon for Keen products. In turn, I have a volunteer at the event run a CTP contest for players to buy in and win those prizes! The money raised then goes right back to EDGE to fund school initiatives in our state. My players get an extra event to take part in and the money they raised goes towards growing the sport with the youth. It's a win-win!"
For anyone interested in partnering with EDGE to bring this fundraiser to one of their events, feel free to contact Matt DeAngelis at firstname.lastname@example.com or reach out to Jay Reading at EDGE, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Vibram Sponsors the NEFA Point Series and NEDGC
The point series and NEDGC will once again be sponsored by our friends at Vibram Disc Golf! This year, we are bringing back the Vibram CTP at every NEFA tournament. Players will now be allowed to use a disc other than Vibram, but that choice will cost extra. Here are the details:
At every NEFA event, players will be able to compete in a CTP contest for a $25 Vibram online store Gift Certificate and a free tee with their order. Players will be able to purchase throws for $1 if throwing a Vibram disc or $2 for any other manufacturer. The winner will not only receive the gift certificate, but also be entered into a raffle for a brand new Discatcher 28 2014 NEFA Points Basket, Presented by Vibram! Raffle tickets will be available for purchase separately at a later date.
A huge thank you to Vibram Disc Golf for once again showing their support for our organization, our players, and dedication to growing the sport!
NEFA would not exist without the support of its members and dedicated volunteers. Support local disc golf and disc related sports. Join NEFA today and be a part of it!
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Masterpiece Classic "Downton Abbey (S2 E6)" The Spanish flu strikes Downton, disrupting one match, hastening another and transforming the fortunes of all. Mary, Sybil and Robert each confront a moment of truth. Anna and Bates know a moment of happiness. Part 6 of 7G
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New Tricks "Ducking & Diving" A ransacked armored security van is found at the bottom of a lake. The van is linked to a man who disappeared 17 years ago, coinciding with the murder of Marie Sinclair. Chief suspect and former owner of the security firm, Marie's husband maintains his innocence. The team sets out to learn the truth.G
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Lark Rise to Candleford Dorcas hires a maid for widower Amos and his son. The new hire soon drives a wedge between the two men of the house. In Lark Rise, Reverend Ellison organizes a concert. Robert, Laura's father, falls out with Ellison over the Timmins children's musical contribution.G
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Midsomer Murders "Who Killed Cock Robin, Part 1" A horse whisperer disappears in Newton Magna and a long-standing adversary of Barnaby reappears - ex-con Melvyn Stockard, who claims to be a reformed man only concerned with his daughter's impending marriage. Then a member of the wedding party is found dead in a nearby well. Part 1 of 2G


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Well, you didn't think they'd lose them all, did you?
The Mets snapped their seven-game losing streak this afternoon behind the strong pitching of Dillon Gee and timely hitting of Josh Thole to beat the Braves, 3-2.
Gee was brought up from Triple-A Buffalo and Thole was elevated to second from eighth in the batting order, and for one afternoon at least all seemed right in the Mets' universe.
Gee had a rough travel day that included his luggage not arriving, so he had to borrow a glove and spikes. He was called up to replace the disabled Chris Young, and given the state of the Mets' pitching he should get another start Friday in New York against Arizona. Thole will likely stay in the two hole for a while.
One of the interesting things to come out of the day was the news the Mets considered bringing up Jenrry Mejia to start over Gee. Mejia has been pitching well in the minors, but wisely GM Sandy Alderson eschewed the temptation of Mejia's crackling fastball to allow him to continue to grow on the farm.
Using Mejia for this start would have come across as a panic move and been reminiscent of a decision from the Omar Minaya era. As bad as the Mets have been lately, it's still only April and way too early to bag their building plans regarding Mejia.
On another positive note, word is Jason Bay is making progress and could be activated from the disabled list Tuesday.


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AlMac wrote:The Ultremo rides and rolls better than the GP, but the gains are marginal.
The Pro Race rolls smoother than both, but are too hard to get on and off.
You will need to buy Ultremo at roughly twice the rate of the GPs, as the Ultremo wears much faster.
I would argue that the GP is more equivalent to the DD than the ZX.


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EPA, State and City Launch Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off in New York City
Release Date: 12/07/2012
Contact Information: Elias Rodriguez, 732-672-5520, firstname.lastname@example.com or Sophia Kelley, 212-637-3670, email@example.com
- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York City Department of Sanitation are collecting and properly disposing of potentially hazardous common household products from flood-damaged homes and residences in New York City. Beginning on Dec. 10 and continuing through Dec. 21, residents of the five boroughs of New York City may bring household products, including solvents, paints, cleaners, oil, propane tanks, batteries, petroleum products, weed/bug killers, car batteries, bleach and ammonia, to a drop-off location at Jacob Riis Park. The drop-off address is:
Jacob Riis Park, 14899 Beach Channel Drive, Rockaway Park, NY
Hours: 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Enter through main entrance and follow cones and flag men to the staging area. Drive carefully and please refrain from smoking in the vicinity of the collection area.
- "Household hazardous waste, such as petroleum products, old paint and pesticides can be dangerous and should be disposed of properly to protect people's health and the environment," said EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "The EPA is urging people who were impacted by the flood waters from Hurricane Sandy to separate potentially hazardous products from their regular trash and bring them to our collection area."
- Oil-contaminated debris or material contaminated by other petroleum or chemical products should be separated and stored in a well-ventilated area. If stored outdoors, the piles should be covered to keep rain from contaminating nearby soil and water. Any chemical or oil spills, such as from home heating oil tanks, must be reported to DEC at 1-800-457-7362.
It is also important to clean and disinfect everything touched by flood waters as quickly as possible, since they may contain bacteria or toxic chemicals from sources as varied as pesticides, heating oil and sewage.
Porous items need to be dried right away to prevent mold. If possible, household furnishings should be cleaned or disinfected. If they cannot be cleaned, they should be discarded. Hard, non-porous surfaces should also be cleaned. For detailed advice, see the State Department of Health's website http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/emergency/weather/hurricane/ and https://www.epa.gov/sandy/factsheets.html
The New York City Department of Sanitation will be picking up white goods, such as refrigerators and other appliances, and will remove the refrigerants from refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners. Refrigerants include chlorofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons, which are greenhouse gases. These refrigerants will be removed from appliances by the city using EPA certified recovery systems before the items are crushed or taken apart for recycling.
The New York City's Department of Sanitation offers updates at: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/html/home/home.shtml.
More information can be found at https://www.epa.gov/sandy.
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Consensus Report
Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds: Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment (2006)Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for assessing health risks from dioxin and related compounds, which are chemicals that are unintentionally released into the environment from many industrial processes. Public concern over dioxin began when it was found in Agent Orange, an herbicide widely used during the Vietnam War. Dioxin and related compounds persist in the environment and build up in the food chain. People are exposed primarily when they eat beef, pork, fish, and dairy products, although occupational or accidental exposure are typically much higher. Efforts to reduce dioxin and related compounds in the environment in recent years have resulted in an almost 90% decrease in emissions. This report evaluates EPA's latest draft "Reassessment" of the health risks from dioxin and related compounds. The report finds that EPA comprehensively reviewed the available scientific literature, but it did not adequately quantify the uncertainties associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them. Using different assumptions may result in a lower estimated cancer risk for humans exposed to low doses of dioxin and related compounds. The report also encourages EPA to further address health risks other than cancer by establishing a "reference dose" below which it anticipates no adverse effects--information valuable for establishing risks faced by populations, including workers, who may be exposed to more than the reference dose. This study was sponsored by EPA, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Key Messages
- EPA did not adequately quantify the uncertainty associated with responses at the estimated value of the POD. The estimated value of the response at a particular effective dose (like the ED01) is typically uncertain for a variety of reasons related to the challenge of conducting an epidemiological study or an animal study.
- EPA's decision to rely solely on a default linear model lacked adequate scientific support.
- Although EPA addressed many sources of variability and uncertainty qualitatively, the committee noted that the Reassessment would be substantially improved if its risk characterization included more quantitative approaches. Failure to characterize variability and uncertainty thoroughly can convey a false sense of precision in the conclusions of the risk assessment.
- Even with the inherent uncertainties, the committee concludes that the toxic equivalency factor methodology provides a reasonable, scientifically justifiable, and widely accepted method to estimate the relative potency of DLCs. However, the committee noted that the Reassessment should acknowledge the need for better uncertainty analysis of the toxicity values and should provide at least some initial uncertainty analysis of overall toxicity of environmental samples.
- The committee finds that the recent dose-response data released by the National Toxicology Program after submission of the Reassessment represent good examples of new and compelling information that warrants consideration in a revised risk assessment.
- The committee identified three areas that require substantial improvement in describing the scientific basis for EPA's dioxin risk assessment to support a scientifically robust risk characterization:(1) Justification of approaches to dose-response modeling for cancer and noncancer end points; (2) Transparency and clarity in selection of key data sets for analysis; (3) Transparency, thoroughness, and clarity in quantitative uncertainty analysis
- To assess the total magnitude of emissions of TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs, EPA used a bottom-up approach that attempted to identify all emission-source categories (such as combustion, metal processing, and chemical manufacturing and processing) and then estimated the magnitude of emissions for each category. The committee concludes that a top-down approach would also provide useful information and could give rise to significantly different estimates of the historical levels of emissions of TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs. A top-down approach would account for measured levels in humans and the environment and consider the emission sources required to account for these levels.


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The Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-wide initiative that aims to accelerate understanding of genetic and environmental contributions to health and disease. There are two components to GEI: genetics and exposure biology. The genetics component currently consists of eight programs including the Gene Environment Association Studies (GENEVA) consortium. GENEVA was initiated to: identify genetic variants related to complex diseases; identify variations in gene-trait associations related to environmental exposures; and ensure rapid sharing of data through the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP). GENEVA is led by NHGRI, and consists of multiple academic institutions, including a coordinating center, two genotyping centers and 16 studies of various phenotypes, as well as several Institutes and Centers of the NIH. GENEVA was funded in two rounds: the first round of GENEVA was funded in 2007 in response to RFA-HG-06-033 and the second in 2008 in response to RFA-HG-07-012. In 2009, existing GWAS studies joined the GENEVA consortium to take advantage of the consortium expertise and participate in the collaborative aspect of the network.
The coordinating center for GENEVA is headed by Bruce Weir of the University of Washington. The Coordinating Center assists with genotypic data cleaning and analysis, phenotype data organization and coordination of the logistics and administration of the study. The Coordinating Center serves as an internal data repository for GENEVA and also assists in phenotypic data harmonization across multiple studies.
|Principal Investigator (PI)
|Sample Size
|Study Population Description
|Chris Amos, Ph.D.
|University of Texas
|High Density SNP Association Analysis of Melanoma
|European Ancestry
|Kathleen Barnes, Ph.D.
|Johns Hopkins University
|Genome-Wide Associations Environmental Interactions in the Lung Health Study
|European Ancestry
|Terri Beaty, Ph.D.
|Johns Hopkins University
|International Consortium to Identify Genes and Interactions Controlling Oral Clefts
|European Ancestry, Asian/Pacific Islander, African Ancestry, Other
|Laura Bierut, M.D.
|Washington University
|Study of Addiction: Genetics and Environment
|European Ancestry, Asian/Pacific Islander, African Ancestry, Other
|Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D.
|University of Texas
|GWA for Gene-Environment Interaction Effects Influencing CHD
|European and African Ancestry
|Neil Caporaso, M.D.
|National Cancer Institute
|Population-based Lung Cancer Study
|European Ancestry
|Myriam Fornage, Ph..D
|University of Texas
|GWAS of longitudinal blood pressure profiles from young adulthood to middle-age
|European Ancestry
|David Ginsburg, M.D.
|University of Michigan
|Genes and Blood Clotting
|European Ancestry, Asian Ancestry, Other
|Christopher Haiman, Sc.D.
|University of Southern California
|A Multiethnic Genome-Wide Scan of Prostate Cancer
|Asian Ancestry, African Ancestry, Hispanic/Latino
|John Heit, M.D.
|Mayo Clinic
|GWAS of Venous Thrombosis
|European Ancestry, Other
|Frank Hu, M.D., Ph.D.
|Harvard University
|Genes and Environment Initiatives in Type 2 Diabetes
|European Ancestry, African Ancestry, Asian Ancestry, Hispanic, Other
|William Lowe, M.D.
|Northwestern University
|GWA Mapping: Maternal Metabolism-Birth Weight Interactions
|African Ancestry, European Ancestry, Hispanic
|Mary Marazita, Ph.D.
|University of Pittsburgh
|Dental Caries: Whole Genome Association and Gene x Environment Studies
|European Ancestry, African Ancestry, Other
|Braxton Mitchell, Ph.D.
|University of Maryland
|Genetic Risk to Stroke in Smokers and Nonsmokers in Two Ethnic Groups
|European Ancestry, African Ancestry, Hispanic, Asian Ancestry, Other
|Jeffrey Murray, M.D.
|University of Iowa
|Genome-wide association studies of prematurity and its complications
|European Ancestry, African Ancestry
|Louis Pasquale, M.D.
|Harvard University
|Genes and Environment Initiative in Glaucoma
|European Ancestry, Other
There are two laboratories that conduct the genotyping for GENEVA studies: the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) at Johns Hopkins University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
PI: David Valle, M.D.
Co-PI: Kimberly F. Doheny, Ph.D.
Co-PI: Elizabeth Pugh, Ph.D.
PI: Stacey Gabriel, Ph.D.
Co-PI: Daniel Mirel, Ph.D.
The GENEVA program officials at the NHGRI Office of Population Genomics facilitate the achievement of scientific goals and provide institutional oversight and guidance to the project.
The data from each individual study will be deposited in the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), which is housed at NCBI.
The Expert Scientific Panel provides input to the NHGRI director about the progress and direction of the network.
The Steering Committee is responsible for the coordination of all activities conducted by the network.
Steering Committee Chair: Bill Lowe, Northwestern University
For each phenotype category of interest, the Phenotype Harmonization Subcommittee has convened a Working Group, led by an investigator from one of the studies, to identify and define specific variables to be shared in cross-study analyses.
GENEVA Website [genevastudy.org]
To view the PDF document(s) on this page, you will need Adobe Reader.
Last Updated: September 30, 2013


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Rio Rancho: Innovations for Voice
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For an intro on Rio Rancho, New Mexico's citywide VoWi-Fi, check out part one.
One of the companys VoWi-Fi innovations is to bundle a stripped-down, small office version of Broadsofts software PBX with its business phone service. The business service costs $44.95 a month and includes unlimited long distance calling within the U.S. and Canada, and mobile service within the coverage area. The software PBX, which typically runs on a secretarys or receptionists PC, provides basic PBX features, including voice mail, call forwarding and conferencing. The receptionist can also transfer calls and see who is on the phone.
In its current configuration, the PBX will support up to 15 lines, but the city of Rio Rancho, a partner in the project, is now requesting that the soft PBX be available to larger businesses as well. Azulstar founder and CEO Tyler Van Houwelingen thinks it will be possible to do this.
Residential phone service, which also includes unlimited long distance calling in the U.S. and Canada and mobile service, costs $29.99. Internet access service, required to get phone service, costs $19.95 for a 256 kilobits per second (Kbps), $29.99 for 768 Kbps and $39.95 for 1.5 Megabits per second (Mbps).
One of the most interesting developments in the Rio Rancho market is a possible deal with a private builder to build Wi-Fi connectivity into new homes. Rio Rancho is in the midst of a building boom. It was Americas fastest growing city last year in terms of new home starts. The deal may block the telephone company from laying copper in the development of 100 homes, Van Houwelingen says, although a cable TV company will be allowed in. Home owners would be able to choose between the Azulstar phone service or any VoIP service running over either the Wi-Fi or cable network.
That to me is just phenomenal, Van Houwelingen says of the possibility of locking out the phone company. The builder wants to do it hes gung-ho. I think it would be an historical event. No such deal had been signed at the time of writing, however.
Private investors in Michigan and New Mexico funded the build-out of the networks in Grand Haven and Rio Rancho. The Grand Haven network has now expanded to take in two nearby communities, Spring Lake and Ferrysburg. In all of these cities, the municipality provides rights of way for installing access points. In return, Azulstar shares revenues.
Rio Rancho is also a major customer. It uses the network to link the LANs in different city buildings and to provide communications for mobile workers. It is piloting a system that allows police to accept credit card payment for traffic violations on the spot and immediately transmit transaction data over the network to a data center. It is also exploring the idea of installing video cameras in police cruisers as an officer safety measure. The cameras could continuously transmit video back to a dispatcher showing what the officers were seeing.
The police and other city applications run on separate reserved spectrum licensed by the FCC for use by emergency response organizations 50MHz in the 4.9GHz band. Wi-Fi 802.11a radios can be configured to work in this band.
Van Houwelingen is non-committal about the possibility of Azulstar lighting up other municipalities in the short term. There is no impediment, he explains other than money. Theres a couple of million bucks youve got to spend [to build a network like the one in Rio Rancho], he points out. The implication is that Azulstars investors are unwilling to sink any more money into metro-wide deployments until the first ones begin to bear fruit. Van Houwelingen says Grand Haven is already breaking even on an operational basis, but is not close to paying back the investment yet.
In the meantime, the company has a few other irons in the fire. It is bidding against heavy-hitters such as IBM and Siemens on an RFP (Request for Proposal) from Oakland County in Michigan to provide a county-wide Wi-Fi network. The network would cover 1,000 square miles.
Azulstar is also working with the Department of Transport in New Mexico on an initiative to link traffic signals using Wi-Fi, both to each other and to a central control point. The state currently uses dial-up connections to traffic signals. As well as providing more efficient, higher-bandwidth links for controlling signals, the Wi-Fi connections would make it possible to stream video from the scene of an accident or show traffic conditions. The first pilot will link six traffic signals on a highway leading into Rio Rancho.
The traffic signal project is appealing not just because it could be lucrative in its own right there are a lot of traffic signals out there, Van Houwelingen points out but also because it would allow the company to build out its network faster in areas not now covered.
Azulstar is an at the very least an interesting company to watch. Can it make metro-wide VoWi-Fi a profitable proposition. Well keep a watch and report back.


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Well, welcome to our new trimester... this is for level 3 students... on your first lesson you will learn about personal descriptions. The following video will help you learn to describe people.
Now, this is a challenge ...Make a video of yourself describing what people look like. You must have pictures of at least 4 different people. Describe what each person looks like.
This is an example...
have fun.. upload your video to you tube... smiles
Keep on shining love and peace!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Carolina's Pod Blog: A Venezuelan stuying English in the UK
Newcastle, in the north-east of England. She has been writing in her blog about her life there. Visit her blog HERE and read about how it is for her to live in the UK. We have to be very proud of her, because her blog is posted at the British Council Learn English Site. In her first post back in Sepember 2009, she wrote:
Well, hope you go and visit Carolina'a blog and leave her a comment... we are very proud of her...
Hello, I'm Carolina del Barco and I'm from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. My city is about 4 hours drive from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, but it is only one and half hours from the beach!! The most beautiful thing about my city is sunset because almost everyday you can see different colours on the sky like red, pink, yellow, green..!Here you can read more about her:
On the cultural aspect Barquisimeto is call the "Musical Capital" of Venezuela. Music is very important in our education, it is even taught in schools as a compulsory subject. About 30 years ago a program to establish a youth orchestra in every state around the country founded by Jose Antonio Abreu (who by the way is going to get a Grammy soon due to this). Many important musicians were born there. Actually, Gustavo Dudamel, who was born in Barquisimeto was the Director of the "Simon Bolivar" Youth Orchestra. He is one of the youngest directors in the world with only 28 years old. His success is difficult to measure with words, you have to go and see it... I guess some of you have probably seen it because he was in London a couple of months ago!!
I speak English because my mother is English and grew up in England before going to Venezuela after she finished university. She was teaching English when she met my father, who is Venezuelan.
I am now living in the UK, in Newcastle, in the north-east of England, and studying at the university there. Newcastle is a very welcoming city. People from here (also called Geordies) have a quite strong accent which even native English speakers find it difficult to understand!! But I most say that they are some of the friendliest people I have ever met!! Plus the city is not too big, not too small but has all the facilities you need, even great nights out and is full of students which makes it a comfortable place to live in.
I am studying Environmental Science and I really enjoy my course, which is about how we, people, effect the natural world we live in, and what we can do to make things better. I think this is very important in today's world, because of all the problems with global warming and things like that. Most of the processes carried out to obtain food, technological equipments, electricity and other different things take raw materials from the Earth and/or produce waste, but not many disciplines take into account the consequences on the environment of doing this. It is a great subject because it gives me the opportunity to discover all the wonderful things that our planet offer us and at the same time I feel I can do something to keep it so that future generations can enjoy in in the same way as us.
I'm living in an apartment on the university campus with four other girls: Emily, Charlotte, Jenny and Beth, who are all really nice. We all have our own rooms but we share a kitchen. That's OK, though, because it's really big and we share some things and have other things of our own and plus it give us the opportunity to get to know each other whilst having our own privacy. The girls are all lovely and funny people although I still have to work on trying to follow Charlotte when she's telling a story, her Irish accent is just too fast!! Back home people tell me that I speak quite fast, and when I'm talking to my friends no one can understand us... but doing it in English is a different story!
The day I arrived in England I travelled up from London to Newcastle on the train, and I was sitting next to a boy called Jamie. It was a strange thing – a coincidence – because he was also a student at the university. He was really nice and made me feel 'at home', bought me lunch on the train and we agreed that I would get him lunch some time in Newcastle.
When I'd been in Newcastle for a short time I wanted to join the Conservation Society, because I thought it might help me with my course and also because I think it's good to do things that help the environment. Anyway, I went to the Societies Bazaar, which is a meeting where you can join the different student clubs at the university, and – another coincidence – Jamie was the Conservation Society president! So I took him to lunch, as we'd agree, and since then we've been out together a few times and have become really good friends. So far, life at Newcastle has been better than expected. At the beginning I was a bit scared about missing home, about coming to another country with different language, culture and even different weather than where I come from but it is definitely a unique experience to be here.
So, now you know a bit more about me. I'll be writing this blog regularly, so I hope you'll come back and read it again and find out more about what it's like living and studying in the UK. Also, if you have any questions you'd like to ask me, or comments about anything I've written, please send them to me and I'll try and answer them.
Well, hope you go and visit Carolina'a blog and leave her a comment... we are very proud of her...
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Friday, April 9, 2010
Always keep the faith! Benefits of Learning a Foreign Language
She's on the 8t level and wrote the following:
Always keep the faith!
It's been kind of a long time since my last post... but here I am again! This time the post is about writing a complete three paragraph essay following an outline, this is a practice before the final essay so I hope I can do it properly in order to write a good one at the end of this trimester
Title: Benefits of learning a foreign language
I. Languages connect people
A) Socially
B) Professionally
II. They make people more open minded and culture sensitive
A) Enables the achievement of a more profound cultural understanding
B) Makes a difference in the way of seeing the world
C) Makes people more open toward ideas and ideologies
III. Helps people develop their mental ability
A) Accelerates cognitive development
B) improves analytical and interpretative capabilities
C) Turns people into more effective problem solvers
At one point or another we have all faced interacting with someone in a different language than our native one, taking myself as an example I realized that I have never really taken any time to analyze just how important it is, and so I came up with a very important question, how can learning a foreign language benefit you?
Well first of all, languages, what is language? we can establish that language is the systematic use of sounds or symbols in order to communicate with other people, so one of the most important reasons to study and learn a second language is obviously because it connects people, they connect us not only in a social way but also in a professional way; they connect us in a social way as well , because when looking for ways to practice the new acquired language we might meet people who speak it as their native language, we can also socialize with the group of people who are also new to the language and try to learn it together!, there is always need for practice so the interaction with others is practically inevitable: In the professional sense having knowledge of a foreign language will always give you the upper hand when it comes to competing for a work position, professionals who speak a second language are called for travel and business purposes . Moreover such people also get to use new technologies and ideas; speaking a second language also helps you gain the trust of international business people making the job of convincing them into a business venture all the more simple. If one speaks in native language to a foreigner then it's easy for the foreigner to get comfortable with such sales or business person
Following this train of thought, we can name another benefit of learning a new language, and that is that it makes you more open minded and culturally sensitive. How does learning a new language change you way of thinking?, well it does, first by allowing you to experience another culture and enabling people to achieve a more profound understanding of their own; nowadays the new generations have become more and more interested with traveling and experiencing different parts of the world, which is something our forefathers couldn't have even imagined!, certainly there is no need and it would be basically impossible for people to learn the language of every place in the world they wish to visit but it's an undeniable fact that the traveler who knows the language of their travel destination has an easier time solving everyday problems associated with the travel , but they will most likely have a more pleasant experience and greater understanding of the foreign country and their culture, therefore there will be no frustrations or isolation as you travel around the world, in the end it's just more fun to vacation somewhere and know the language, not only do the locals treat you better , because they see that you made an effort to learn their language but you end up getting better service in shops and restaurants because you can read the signs, understand the menus, and converse with the staff. this learning process also makes a difference in the way you see the world and the way you see other people, of course that knowledge of a foreign language is not guaranteed to create empathy with the native speakers of the language, however the desire to understand and empathize with the members of a certain society is greatly facilitated by language study. Furthermore, foreign language study helps dissolve misconceptions and often leads to the creation of feelings of sympathy for native speakers of the language especially if the study is begun early and continues for a long period of time. Another popular believe is that bilingual people are more open minded towards ideas and ideologies this is based in the fact that people take interest in the customs and rituals of the culture to which the language they study belongs to, there's also the case when people take interest in the culture of a certain country in the first place, and after being fascinated by the music, the literature, their history and culture, wish to learn the language in order to have a deeper knowledge in all aspects of such a culture.
The benefits of learning a foreign language are not limited to social aspects such as socializing and learning about culture, there's a more scientific and physical benefit to it and that is that it helps to develop an individual's mental ability. It is said that studying a foreign language accelerates the cognitive development of the brain; there was a time when learning a foreign language was regarded primarily as a mental discipline for developing intellectual capacity. Even though it is now clear that learning a new language has numerous applications of both a practical and a humanistic nature, researchers recognize that it is also helpful for other academic areas, for many decades researchers have tried to find evidence and there have been studies that show how students in elementary, middle, and high school as well as those in college that study a foreign language have a tendency of having a higher average score than those students who do not take any sort of additional study, the average level of grades would increase depending on the time they had been studying a certain discipline .For example if they had dedicated special studies to certain areas such as math, biological sciences, physical sciences, and social studies, the average score would be higher but with the difference that with each additional year of language study brought a further rise in scores, so the scores of students who had taken four or five years of a foreign language were higher than scores of students who had studied any other subject for an equal length of time. Impressive isn't it? But that is not all when it comes it the mental development that comes with language studies. It is also said that people become more effective problem solvers ; bilingual subjects in various tests have outperformed similar monolingual subjects on verbal and nonverbal tests of intelligence; this discovery has led some researchers to speculate that bilinguals may have a language ability that enables them to achieve greater mental flexibility, this , along with the certainty that people who know more than one language and culture can communicate more effectively with people of other countries and cultures, it is indeed possible that through learning another language and culture, people gain the ability to solve problems in an easier and more logical manner and are closer to achieving solutions to social problems because of an increased awareness of a wider set of options.
Whatever may be the reasons to learn a foreign language the bottom line remains that second language acquisition is an incredible experience, with incredible benefits, this learning process is one of the most satisfying ones because you can use it on your day to day activities, not only for understanding what a block of text says but it changes you as a person not only in the cognitive and perceptional way but it makes you aware of other cultures and other people.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Final Project January-April 2010
Hello, there! Well, we have got to the end of the trimester and it's time for us to find out how much we have achieved during our time together. Our final project is an interesting assessment exercise... Where we will working different skills:
Visit these links to see some examples of students work...:
- How to work in groups to collaborate, cooperate, share, teach and learn together.
- How to integrate different technological tools: creating and designing a power point presentation, audio recording, power point uploading, posting to a blog,
- Transferring the knowledge got during our classes and using it to talk about different topics from the ones discussed in class.
- Reflecting on what we have achieved.
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Visit these links to see some examples of students work...:
- Carlos http://efluniversity.ning.com/xn/detail/2266407:BlogPost:13381
- Dayana http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/final-project-student-dayana
- Ana Rivas http://efluniversity.ning.com/xn/detail/2266407:BlogPost:12750
- Rossani http://efluniversity.ning.com/xn/detail/2266407:BlogPost:13128
- Saul http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/final-project-3
- Stephano http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-final-project
- Eliel http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-final-project-1
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day
April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day is a day celebrated in various countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on a fool's errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. Traditionally, in some countries, such as the UK, Australia, and South Africa the jokes only last until noon, and someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool".[1] Elsewhere, such as in France, Ireland, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Russia, The Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, and the U.S., the jokes last all day.
Iranians play jokes on each other on the 13th day of the Persian new year (Norouz), which falls on April 1 or April 2. This day, celebrated as far back as 536 BC, is called Sizdah Bedar and is the oldest prank-tradition in the world still alive today; this fact has led many to believe that April Fools' Day has its origins in this tradition.[4]
The April 1 tradition in France and French-speaking Canada includes poisson d'avril (literally "April's fish"), attempting to attach a paper fish to the victim's back without being noticed. This is also widespread in other nations, such as Italy (where the term Pesce d'aprile (literally "April's fish") is also used to refer to any jokes done during the day). In Spanish-speaking countries, similar pranks are practiced on December 28, día de los Santos Inocentes, the "Day of the Holy Innocents". This custom also exists in certain areas of Belgium, including the province of Antwerp. The Flemish tradition is for children to lock out their parents or teachers, only letting them in if they promise to bring treats the same evening or the next day.
Taken from: wikipedia
Iranians play jokes on each other on the 13th day of the Persian new year (Norouz), which falls on April 1 or April 2. This day, celebrated as far back as 536 BC, is called Sizdah Bedar and is the oldest prank-tradition in the world still alive today; this fact has led many to believe that April Fools' Day has its origins in this tradition.[4]
The April 1 tradition in France and French-speaking Canada includes poisson d'avril (literally "April's fish"), attempting to attach a paper fish to the victim's back without being noticed. This is also widespread in other nations, such as Italy (where the term Pesce d'aprile (literally "April's fish") is also used to refer to any jokes done during the day). In Spanish-speaking countries, similar pranks are practiced on December 28, día de los Santos Inocentes, the "Day of the Holy Innocents". This custom also exists in certain areas of Belgium, including the province of Antwerp. The Flemish tradition is for children to lock out their parents or teachers, only letting them in if they promise to bring treats the same evening or the next day.
Taken from: wikipedia
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Level 4 Unit 12 Movies (workshop)
Hi, there! Level 4 students.... will be working on their unit 12 lesson. The topic is Movies. For this lesson they are supposed to work in groups and have fun researching ad putting together an oral presentation. What do they have to do? well, here we have the checklist: (make sure you include all of these in your presentations))
- Get in groups of 4, 3, 2 or just 1 student.
- Go to www.imdb.com and select a movie that your gruop like.
- Get the poster of the movie and the trailer.
- Get the facts fact of the movie:
- Director,
- Release Date,
- Genre (key words),
- Tag line
- Plot,
- Cast (the main actors and actresses, short description of the character in the movie)
- Fun stuff
- trivia: some interesting fact about the movie
- quotes: Select a scene of the movie and write the dialog of the scene... be ready to perform the scene in class.
- soundtrack. Get the lyrics and the song of the movie. Point out what part of the song do you like the most and how the song relates to the movie.
- trivia: some interesting fact about the movie
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Amelia Earhart
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Virginia, Age 11
Who was the first woman pilot?Amelia Earhart was.In March 1937,Amelia wanted to be the first to go around the world.She was going to ride with her husband,George.Two months later,Amelia and Fred Noonan flew west-to-east course,starting from Miami,Florida.They left Miami on June 1,1937.They left the telegraph key,trailing communication anntena,and survival equipment.They flew to San Juan,Peurto Rico on the first day.At 4:53a.m.,a radioman on the Itasca thought he heard Amelia say ''partly cloudy.''At 8:47a.m.,Amelia's voice came in loud and clear,but hurried and panicked.Her sister Muriel believed that Amelia was ''a tragedy of the sea.''Amelia disappeared on July 2,1937.
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image - Part D
No Princess is sending holographic help messages. No Han Solo is warming up a Millenium Falcon to jump into hyperdrive. We don't even have a Death Star waiting around the corner. But, what we do have is evidence that astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits and have seen further back in time than ever before. "We are looking back through 96% of the life of the universe, and in so doing, we have found just one galaxy, but it is one, but it is a remarkable object. The universe was only 500 million years old at that time versus it now being thirteen thousand-seven hundred million years old. " said Garth Illingworth, Ames Research Scientist. We know about the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, but we invite you to boldy go on...
While studying ultra-deep imaging data from the Hubble Space Telescope, an international group of astronomers have found what may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, about 13.2 billion light-years away. "Two years ago, a powerful new camera was put on Hubble, a camera which works in the infrared which we had never really good capability before, and we have now taken the deepest image of the universe ever using this camera in the infrared." said Garth Illingworth, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "We're getting back very close to the first galaxies, which we think formed around 200 to 300 million years after the Big Bang." The study pushed the limits of Hubble's capabilities, extending its reach back to about 480 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just 4 percent of its current age. The dim object, called UDFj-39546284, is a compact galaxy of blue stars that existed 480 million years after the Big Bang, only four percent of the universe's current age. It is tiny. Over one hundred such mini-galaxies would be needed to make up our Milky Way.
The farthest and one of the very earliest galaxies ever seen in the universe appears as a faint red blob in this ultra-deep–field exposure taken with NASA\'s Hubble Space Telescope. This is the deepest infrared image taken of the universe. Based on the object\'s color, astronomers believe it is 13.2 billion light-years away. (Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz, and Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team)
Illingworth and UCSC astronomer Rychard Bouwens (now at Leiden University in the Netherlands) led the study, which will be published in the January 27 issue of Nature. Using infrared data gathered by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 3 (WFC3), they were able to see dramatic changes in galaxies over a period from about 480 to 650 million years after the Big Bang. The rate of star birth in the universe increased by ten times during this 170-million-year period, Illingworth said. "This is an astonishing increase in such a short period, just 1 percent of the current age of the universe," he said. There were also striking changes in the numbers of galaxies detected. "Our previous searches had found 47 galaxies at somewhat later times when the universe was about 650 million years old. However, we could only find one galaxy candidate just 170 million years earlier," Illingworth said. "The universe was changing very quickly in a short amount of time."
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field WFC3/IR Image. This Region of the Sky Contains the Deepest Optical and Near-Infrared Images Ever Taken of the Universe and is useful for finding star-forming galaxies at redshifts 8 and 10 (650 and 500 million years after the Big Bang, respectively). At UCSC and Leiden, we are using these data to better understand the properties of the first galaxies. Credit: Bouwen
According to Bouwens, these findings are consistent with the hierarchical picture of galaxy formation, in which galaxies grew and merged under the gravitational influence of dark matter. "We see a very rapid build-up of galaxies around this time," he said. "For the first time now, we can make realistic statements about how the galaxy population changed during this period and provide meaningful constraints for models of galaxy formation." Astronomers gauge the distance of an object from its redshift, a measure of how much the expansion of space has stretched the light from an object to longer ("redder") wavelengths. The newly detected galaxy has a likely redshift value ("z") of 10.3, which corresponds to an object that emitted the light we now see 13.2 billion years ago, just 480 million years after the birth of the universe. "This result is on the edge of our capabilities, but we spent months doing tests to confirm it, so we now feel pretty confident," Illingworth said.
The galaxy, a faint smudge of starlight in the Hubble images, is tiny compared to the massive galaxies seen in the local universe. Our own Milky Way, for example, is more than 100 times larger. The researchers also described three other galaxies with redshifts greater than 8.3. The study involved a thorough search of data collected from deep imaging of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), a small patch of sky about one-tenth the size of the Moon. During two four-day stretches in summer 2009 and summer 2010, Hubble focused on one tiny spot in the HUDF for a total exposure of 87 hours with the WFC3 infrared camera.
"NASA continues to reach for new heights, and this latest Hubble discovery will deepen our understanding of the universe and benefit generations to come," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, who was the pilot of the space shuttle mission that carried Hubble to orbit. "We could only dream when we launched Hubble more than 20 years ago that it would have the ability to make these types of groundbreaking discoveries and rewrite textbooks."
To go beyond redshift 10, astronomers will have to wait for Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which NASA plans to launch later this decade. JWST will also be able to perform the spectroscopic measurements needed to confirm the reported galaxy at redshift 10. "It's going to take JWST to do more work at higher redshifts. This study at least tells us that there are objects around at redshift 10 and that the first galaxies must have formed earlier than that," Illingworth said.
"After 20 years of opening our eyes to the universe around us, Hubble continues to awe and surprise astronomers," said Jon Morse, NASA's Astrophysics Division director at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "It now offers a tantalizing look at the very edge of the known universe -- a frontier NASA strives to explore." How far back will we go? If you sit around a campfire watching the embers climb skywards and discuss cosmology after an observing night with your astro friends, someone will ultimately bring up the topic of space/time curvature. If you put an X on a balloon and expand it - and trace round its expanse - you will eventually return to your mark. If we see our beginnings, will we also eventually see our end coming up over the horizon? Wow... Pass the marshmallows, please. We've got a lot to think about.
Reader Info: Illingworth's team maintains the First Galaxies website, with information about the latest research on distant galaxies. In addition to Bouwens and Illingworth, the coauthors of the Nature paper include Ivo Labbe of Carnegie Observatories; Pascal Oesch of UCSC and the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich; Michele Trenti of the University of Colorado; Marcella Carollo of the Institute for Astronomy; Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University; Marijn Franx of Leiden University; Massimo Stiavelli and Larry Bradley of the Space Telescope Science Institute; and Valentino Gonzalez and Daniel Magee of UC Santa Cruz. This research was supported by NASA and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image and Video courtesy of NASA/STSci.


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Lego MINDSTORMS have long been the subject of big geek love, giving us the ability to build and control our own robots. With EV3, they get even better for iOS users, since the control part can now be done with -- wait for it! -- our iPhones, iPads, and iPods.
There will be 17 models offered initially. The only bad news? It doesn't ship until later this year. We'll keep you updated, of course, and in the meantime Mobile Nations's own Ashley Esqueda braved snake bites and robot roulette at CES 2013 to capture the video proof above, so check it out.
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A fabulous, chunky superwash yarn from Cascade. Great shades to choose from and you can machine wash this yarn in warm water and tumble dry it on cool!
Cascade 128 Superwash Multis Yarn is a similar yarn: machine wash, bulky (12-15 sts/4 in), 3.5 sts / inch, 100 gram, 100% superwash merino wool, on size 10 US needles, and 128 yards. You may also like Madelinetosh Home Yarn, which is another similar yarn: merino wool, machine wash, bulky (12-15 sts/4 in), 3.5 sts / inch, 100 gram, and 100% superwash merino wool.
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I just stumbled upon a very good Italian version of Diederich's Basic Vocabulary. Although this site's language is English, its visitors seem to be fairly cosmopolitan, so I thought it worthwhile to mention.
The Dizionario Frequenziale Latino (PDF, 3.6 MB, Creative Commons Licence) by Grifoni & Bucci presents Paul B. Diederich's Basic Vocabulary in 4 formats:
- Latin-Italian (alphabetically)
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Ya Gonna Learn To Stop Eating Free Samples: Lady Straight Ate Yogurt With Semen Because This New Mexico Man Handed It To Her In The Grocery!
"A grocery clerk in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is currently facing up to 5 years in prison after allegedly ejaculating into a sample of yogurt and then forcing it upon a woman in his store. Anthony Garcia, a 32-year-old man with a history of sexual crime charges, was handing out yogurt samples at Sunflower Farms Market when he apparently took interest in a woman who was shopping with her daughter. According to the victim, Garcia seemed "pushy" about her trying to yogurt sample, and when she finally did, she noted that it tasted "gross and disgusting," and even mentioned that it tasted like semen. Garcia of course denied tainting the yogurt sample, but a DNA test proved otherwise. Anthony Garcia did in fact splooge into a tiny cup of yogurt and then make an innocent bystander eat it. GAG."
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| April 23, 2009, 3:31 pm
Despite a mediocre season, the Colorado Rockies still posted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of $24.5 million in 2008, according to Forbes magazine.
The Rockies operating income, on revenue of $178 million, ranked 10th in the 30-team league. Forbes valued the Rockies at $373 million, up $1 million from a season ago. The team's value ranked 20th.
The Colorado Rockies are owned by the Monforts, who bought them in 1992 for $95 million. The Denver Newspaper Agency holds an 8 percent stake in the team.
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If House Republican leaders wanted to further alienate the Cuban people, they couldn't have done a much better job of it than they did in the fiscal 2001 agricultural appropriations bill.
The bill, which passed the House and Senate by overwhelming margins, makes the sale of food and medicine exempt from U.S. unilateral embargoes for the first time since 1962. While the bill's language is aimed at Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Libya and North Korea may also benefit.
But it also bars U.S. government or private financing for sales of food to Cuba. And it restricts the ability of U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba, even for legal or humanitarian reasons.
The language, which was left in the bill at the insistence of congressmen representing Miami's Cuban refugees, prompted one Cuban official to issue a statement saying his government would not buy "one aspirin nor a grain of rice nor wheat or corn under these conditions."
Cuba's government reportedly staged massive demonstrations against the United States on the day that the Senate was scheduled to debate and vote on the spending bill.
Republican senators like Pat Roberts of Kansas and Thad Cochran of Mississippi and representatives like Jay Dickey of Arkansas fought hard to remove the travel restrictions from the conference report on the bill.
In the end, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas threatened to hold up action on the entire $78 billion appropriations bill if the language was not retained, apparently to appease the Florida congressional delegation. Fellow Texan and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush has said he is opposed to lifting trade sanctions against Cuba.
DeLay's intransigence threatens a market USDA analysts say could reach $1 billion over the next five years. But, more importantly, it threatens to further alienate many Cubans, according to U.S. observers who have visited Cuba.
"The Cuban people don't hold Fidel Castro responsible for the conditions they face," said Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who along with fellow Arkansan Rep. Marion Berry, traveled to Cuba last May. "They hold us responsible."
A group of U.S. farm leaders who were in Cuba earlier this month said Cuban leaders left little doubt about their annoyance when the appropriations bill language came up in conversations.
"While the practical effect may not be large, it certainly looms large to the Cubans, for whom tourism is the leading source of foreign exchange," said Alan Tracy, president of U.S. Wheat Associates. "We spent a lot of time trying to convince them to give us a chance."
While most analysts have said sales would be slow initially because of Cuba's depressed economy, some, like Riceland Foods President Richard Bell, think exports could eventually be much higher than anticipated because of the potential lowering of prices the U.S. entry into the market could bring.
Bell, who was in Cuba in early September, believes Cuba's annual imports of milled rice could reach 550,000 to 600,000 metric tons, rather than the 400,000 metric tons the industry has been forecasting "if annual rice consumption is allowed to reach its full potential."


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Sunday, November 1, 2009
6 pm
IMPROV EVOLUTION vol. 2
*also please see workshop information below
On Sunday, November 1st, EDE presents IMPROV EVOLUTION vol.2. The program begins with music improvisation and introduces three different group improvisations lead by dance artists coming from outside of Chicago. The works will exhibit varied approaches and philosophies to creating improvisations.The performance will conclude with post-show dialogue.
Music Improvisation Duo by Josh Berman (cornet) & Keefe Jackson (tenor saxophone)
Dance Improvisation by Jennifer Monson, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, Asimina Chremos, Ayako Kato
COMPOSED by The Architects (Michael Chorney - musician, Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, Jennifer Kayle,Pamela Vail)
Their lifelong research of compositional improvisation reveals discovering and organizing a dance as each moment unfolds as a structuring process.
Like You Mean It by Like You Mean It (Noelle Chun, Adriana Durant, Annie Kloppenberg, and DJ Ed Luna)
Like You Mean It creates improvisational performance piece that focuses, at once, on choreographic thought and movement redefined. For Like You Mean It improvisation IS choreography.
Addmission: $12 Suggested Donation
$10 Suggested for Students/Seniors(Tickets are available at the door)
Epiphany Episcopal Chicago 201 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL (SE corner of Ashland and Adams) map
Photo (from the top): Jennifer Monson by Kenta Nagai, Like You Mean It by Kate Enright, The Architects by Stephen Aubuchon
Jennifer Monson
Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2009
Time: 2-5 pm
Place: Outer Space, 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave. #3F, Chicago, IL
Instructor: Jennifer Monson
Class Fee: $35
Class Description: In this workshop we will use concepts generated from phenomenon around us both in the urban and less urban environment to explore choreographic approaches to place. We will drift through movement and ideas, arriving in eddies and pools that allow us to deepen into different states of awareness and consciousness. Form will arise for movement explorations and from this we will create choreographic systems that respond to our own personal sense of place and the inherent relationships we create as we transmit experience through dancing. www.ilandart.org
Like You Mean It
Date: Sun, Nov 1, 2009
Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Place: Epiphany Episcopal Chicago, 201 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL
Instructor: Like You Mean It (Noelle Chun, Adriana Durant, and Annie Kloppenberg)
Class Fee: $20
Class Description: Conscious Trip: Not Just Dancing Around
In the daily "performance" of living, we all compose our own experiences in real life in real time. A coherent performance of group improvisation, however, is a complex task that must be informed by rigorous physical investigation and shared inquiry as a part of that group. In this class we will engage in such rigorous practices. We stumble into improvisational dance-making in a series of scores designed to facilitate both nuanced attention and collective authorship.
The Architects
Date: Sun, Nov 1, 2009
Time: 12:45 - 2:45 pm
Place: Epiphany Episcopal Chicago, 201 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL
Instructor: The Architects (Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, Jennifer Kayle, Pamela Vail) with musician, Michael Chorney
Class Fee: $20
Class Description: Cultivate awareness as an entry point to movement improvisation and discover how composition emerges from an attuned group. This workshop balances in-depth solo exploration with rigorous practice in spontaneous ensemble dance-making. Fresh perceptions and new choices are set in motion through provocative open-ended questions; each kinesthetic/conceptual proposition creates windows into authenticity, connection, depth, and range.
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It looks like that big Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception multiplayer news Naughty Dog has teased for what seems like forever will finally be revealed next week.
"Something new" suggests that it won't be a standalone release.
I don't have time for multiplayer! I'm still looking for Easter eggs!
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The One & Two collection re-invents fine watchmaking codes with openworked and three-dimensional dials.
The Haute Horlogerie collection is dedicated to high complications and Art series.
Speake-Marin goes one step further with its very exclusive on demand service: the "Cabinet des Mystères".
Speake-Marin is a Swiss watchmaking brand created in 2002. Since this date, the brand presents its creations which are a combination of know-how and excellence of Swiss watchmaking. Furthermore the Swiss brand possesses something unique: an English touch. There is found the quintessence of Speake-Marin.
Speake-Marin is a byword for high-end horological savoir-faire. Speake-Marin uses time-honoured artistic techniques harnessing the best of traditional craftsmanship
Since 2015, Speake-Marin initiated a movement strategy to fully develop and assemble in-house manufacture movements within its atelier in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland.
A complicated watch is not necessarily a high-end watch. Way and beyond the complex and reliable techniques, it is the degree of the finishing that makes the difference. To judge the perfection of a watch, care must be taken at every stage and for every detail.
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About 10 years ago I basically LIVED in this forum. Now I'm returning to web development for a small project of porting my application that I've written in LabVIEW to be used over the web. The fact that I am using LabVIEW isn't really important. What is important is that my LabVIEW application is running a REST service on my port 8080, and I'm trying to consume that service using some Jquery in an html page running on IIS on port 80.
The service I'm using to get things going is a simple adding service that takes the form:
Where the output is the summation of the two inputs. So for example if I were to do a GET request for http://localhost:8080/add/1/2 the return would look like:
<Response> <Terminal> <Name>Output</Name> <Value>3.000000</Value> </Terminal> </Response>
I can't even get this basic checkout to work:
$.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "http://localhost:8080/add/1/2", success: function(data){ alert(data); } });
Doing some searching reveals that I'm up against the old "Same Origin Policy" because my script is being accessed through port 80 (where IIS lives) and is trying to place a call to port 8080 (where my web service lives).
So many friggen solutions out there! But I'm having trouble getting any of them to work. It would be great if my alert box would popup and give me the correct response. I think that some kind of reverse proxy might be a good solution, but the manner of setting that up in IIS 7 on Windows 7 Pro isn't sitting well (I'm thinking of switching to Apache just because it does this more gracefully I think).
Ultimately I do not think a reverse proxy will work on the production server because I am not the admin. And what I give them as a web service installation will be running on a different port (and possibly a different domain) than the front end javascript client.
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