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Igoe, Damien and Parisi, Alfio and Carter, Brad (2012) Characterization of a smartphone camera's response to ultraviolet A radiation. Photochemistry and Photobiology . ISSN 0031-8655 (In Press)
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As part of a wider study into the use of smartphones as solar ultraviolet radiation monitors, this article characterizes the ultraviolet A (UVA; 320-400 nm) response of a consumer complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based smartphone image sensor in a controlled laboratory environment. The CMOS image sensor in the camera possesses inherent sensitivity to UVA, and despite the attenuation due to the lens and neutral density and wavelength-specific bandpass filters, the measured relative UVA irradiances relative to the incident irradiances range from 0.0065% at 380 nm to 0.0051% at 340 nm. In addition, the sensor demonstrates a predictable response to low-intensity discrete UVA stimuli that can be modelled using the ratio of recorded digital values to the incident UVA irradiance for a given automatic exposure time, and resulting in measurement errors that are typically less than 5%. Our results support the idea that smartphones can be used for scientific monitoring of UVA radiation. A smartphone camera image of an ultraviolet-A (UV-A) beam from an irradiation monochromator. The smartphone camera CMOS sensor can detect the UV-A irradiance, providing measurable responses from the red, green and blue pixels. The addition of neutral density and narrow bandpass filters ensure that the UV irradiance do not cause saturation within the smartphone image sensor.
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Hi, i have the same problem of Denisse, Battery lasts only 2 hours. I install Mint.
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Name | Dell Inspiron 14z | |
Processor | Intel®Core™ processor i3-2330M (2.2GHz) Intel®Core™ processor i5-2410M (2.3GHz) | Core i5 2340 2.4 Ghz/3MB L2 |
Screen | 14" (1366×768) Widescreen | |
RAM | Up to 8GB | 8 GB |
HDD | up to 640GB | 750 GB |
Optical Drive | DVD+-RW | |
Graphics | Intel HD Graphics/HD Graphics 3000 | |
Network | 10/100 Ethernet Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1030 (1×2 bgn + Bluetooth) Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 (1×2 bgn + WiMax) | |
USB | 1x 2.0 2x 3.0 |
Device | Compatibility | Comments |
Processor | Works | |
Screen | Works | |
HDD | Works | |
Optical Drive | Works | |
Graphics | Works | |
Sound | Works | you need to specify "dell-vostro" as model in sound setup (openSuSE) |
Ethernet | Works | |
Wireless | Works | |
Bluetooth | Works | |
Modem | Not applicable | |
USB | works (3.0 and 2.0) | bootable key on 2.0 only (so far) |
Card Reader | Works | (tested 4 GB SDHC) |
Webcam | Works |
You can enter any specific notes with running Linux on the Dell Inspiron 14z here.
- bootable USB keys do currently not work properly on the righthandside USB 3.0 connects.
use the USB 2.0 on the lefthandside
- To get the microphone to work (skype, audacity) ( It sits next to the webcam)
you need to have "dell-vostro" as model in the soundcard setup:
in openSuSE, go yast→hardware→soundcard→edit
change modelname into dell-vostro
(my soundchip is a conexant: find out this way from a terminal window)
#: grep -i codec /proc/asound/card0/*
/proc/asound/card0/codec#0:Codec: Conexant CX20590
/proc/asound/card0/codec#3:Codec: Intel CougarPoint HDMI
for other distro's: this is my sound.conf in the /etc/modprobe.d directory
options snd-hda-intel bdl_pos_adj=128 model=dell-vostro
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.o+O_+r79S88:Intel Corporation
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
You can enter a summary of how well the Dell Inspiron 14z works with Linux here.
Very good, works out of the box.
battery life good (4-6 hrs when actively working), I am using standard openSuSE setup + laptop_mode tool.
using OpenSuSE 11.4 and 12.1, did NOT test any other distro
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In Dell Inspiron 14z
- Wired network does not work, need this solution:http://askubuntu.com/questions/184483/ethernet-not-working-on-a-dell-inspiron-14z
- Overheated. Battery lasts only 2.5 hours
Hi, i have the same problem of Denisse, Battery lasts only 2 hours. I install Mint.
Hi, i have an Inspiron 14z ultrabook, i erased Windows and installed Fedora but is really hot, what can i do?, i know that i must to change the energy configuration, and process… but i don't know how to do it?


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In a paper recently published in Economic Modelling (28) 2011, pp. 1163-9, Professor Pasquale Sgro and his colleague Dr Gianluca Lagana (Ministry of Economics and Finance & CREI University of Roma Tre, Italy) estimate a factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model to characterise the dynamic effects of shocks in the personal income tax rate in the United States (US) and Canada.
The representation and the estimate of the FAVAR model is based on Stock & Watson (2005). The shocks are recovered applying the identification scheme proposed by Bernanke et al. (2005). This allows impulse response functions to be generated for all variables in the dataset and provides a description of the domestic and international transmission mechanisms of US movements in personal income tax rate.
A distinguishing feature of Sgro and Lagana's model is the disaggregation of traded goods sector where imports and exports are disaggregated into 12 and 13 industries, respectively. This provides extra information on the domestic and international transmission mechanism across two countries.
The results of Professor Sgro and Dr Lagana's estimation show that the FAVAR approach generates a reasonable characterisation of the effects of movements in the US personal income tax rate on the US economy and its transmission to the Canadian economy.
The journal Economic Modelling is ERA listed and is A-ranked in the ABDC list. The paper can be accessed at the Economic Modelling Journal.


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About the Artist, List of publications. Download as pdf
By the Artist, List of publications. Download as pdf
To see books and DVDs by Kiranada please click here
The following selected articles are available to view in pdf format and/or online:
"Journeys of the Soul: Betsy Sterling Benjamin," Katherine Aimone. FiberArts, April/May 2007. Download as pdf
"Kiranada Sterling Benjamin: The Art of Contemplation," Tuniszia Abdur-Raheem. Silkworm, Vol. 19:1, 2012. Download as pdf
"Radiating Light: The Auspicious Path of Kiranada Sterling Benjamin," Leanne Jewett. Fiber Art Now, Winter 2012. Download as pdf
"Rozome in the Land of Batik," Dh. Kiranada Sterling Benjamin. From the catalogue Transcendence: Japanese Batik in Bali, 2011. Read online
"Rozome Robes for Global Healing," Julie Kornblum. Surface Design Journal, Fall 2002. Read online
"Visual Meditations: A Collaboration," Jorie Johnson. Surface Design Journal, Winter, 2007. Read online
© All images are the property of Kiranada Sterling Benjamin and may not be reproduced in any form without her permission.


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Full speed ahead: Alpine ski teams excel at Welch Village Invitational
All in all, it was a very successful day Friday for the Hastings Alpine ski teams. The Raiders competed at the Welch Village Invitational in Welch. There were two boys teams, and two girls teams, and highlights were found on all those teams.By: Chad Richardson, The Hastings Star-Gazette


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Trilby Johnson
What kind of a relationship do you have with yourself? It has been said time and time again that to change anything, you must begin with yourself. Why you may well ask? The way in which you relate with you will determine how everything shows up in your life. Your relationship with you will impact on your health, wealth, relationships, work and spirituality.
A lot of people are feeling overwhelmed and isolated by what show up as external events - break down of relationships, financial issues, health challenges, loss of direction or purpose, job loss - and then global events. Whilst you may recognize that you have to change something, my role is to provide and give you the tools on how to do this and in a way that is empowering and authentic. Sounds interesting? Seeing the bigger picture - Many times people can feel overwhelmed by events in their lives. So standing back and looking at the bigger picture is often the most important step. Awareness is the first step to creating change. I believe choice is the second. So by looking objectively at the bigger picture, allows us to de-personalise a situation and remove the knee-jerk emotional or mental re-action. Once this re-active behaviour is neutralised, one can come from a place of choice and respons-ability. As the facilitator, I hold the space, to stop and breathe and to disentangle oneself, and then to look and see and to choose from a new place of conscious choice. Choosing Clarity - When you lose balance and focus, everything in your life suffers. Having strong energy and clarity is essential for personal success and fulfillment. If you'd like more success and abundance to show up in your life, your health, your business or job, your relationships, the best place to begin is with you. Honouring your Body - As Human Beings, our physical bodies play an essential and vital role in our lives. Our bodies are vehicles of communication and it is important to learn to listen and interpret the sensorial information they are continually giving us. Failure to do so may cause health and other life challenges that could have otherwise been prevented. Prevention is the best cure and a nurturing of the body is a sign of Self-Love. I can support your relationship with your body in five ways to clear any limitations, conscious or unconscious, that are preventing you from loving yourself more and living the successful, fulfilled and abundant life you desire and know is possible.
Apres avoir soignee une mauvaise angine, me voila une amigdale gonfllee qui apres deux mois reste toujours dans le meme etat, et accompagnee de maux de tete, de tres tres gros maux de tete!!!
Trois fois je serais allee chez le medecin pour savoir ce qu'il m'arrivait. Et je n'ai eu aucune reponse. J'avais des douleurs dans le corp, au niveau de la nuque et toujours dans le crane! Mon medecin decide de m'envoyer voir un ORL, car il n'avait aucune solution pour moi, surtout que mes resultats singuins etaient parfait. Mais la, pareil, tout va bien me dit l'ORL, vous etes en bonne santee!!! Une blague pour moi qui souffrait le martir!!! C'est la que mon amie trouva l'adresse de Trilby sur internet, un micracle, je pris rendez-vous toute de suite. Voila, apres deux seances avec Trilby je me sentais de nouveau vivre. Toute mes douleurs avaient disparues. Et apres 5 mois de problemes. je peux vous dire que j'etais tres tres heureuse, un vrais bonheur. Merci de tout mon coeur Trilby, merci encore. You are amazing!!! English translation - After treating a bad sore throat, I found myself with a swollen tonsil that after two months was still in the same state, accompanied by terrible headaches - very severe headaches!! I went to the doctor three times to find out what was happening to me. And I got no answer. I ached in my body, in the neck area and always in the skull! The doctor decided to send me for an ORI, as he didn't have a solution, especially since my blood tests were perfect. But there too, the ORI showed everything as good and healthy!!! It was a joke as I was suffering terribly!!! It was then that my friend found Trilby's address on the internet, a miracle, and I immediately made an appointment. After two sessions of energy healing with Trilby I felt alive again. All my pains had disappeared. And after have had health problems for 5 months, I can only say that I was extremely happy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Trilby, thank you. Lucie Cochennec (France), Blenheim New Zealand - March 2013 ****************** Well here I am a couple of weeks after my healing with Trilby and I am still pain free in my back. I was extremely amazed at the immediate relief when working with Trilby of back pain that I had been carrying for many years. I had been able to release some of it through Spiritual healing previously, but I still kept re-injuring my back. Now, not only is the pain gone, but I feel that the need to hold on to that pain has gone, the fear of re-injuring and the need to re-injure has melted away. Yes I still have tightness that my chiropractor is helping me with, but the actual pain is no longer there. This is all quite overwhelming as I had accepted that I would be in pain for the rest of my life. Healing with Trilby has changed my future for the better. Love and light LM Lynda-Marie Greenland, Auckland - July 2012 (listen to the replay of the radio show THE LANGUAGE OF PAIN AND HOW TO UNDERSTAND IT) ----------------------------------- To read more testimonials, click here |
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are you really bisexual?
Prove it, complete this bisexual obstacle course
omg can I please?
that sounds fun
Like some kind of bisexual Wipeout
You get home from a long day at work and turn on the TV. It's been a long week, so you think to yourself- maybe i'll take the family to a movie on Saturday. Maybe we'll even go on a vacation soon! We could visit museums and go to plays and see all sorts of fun attractions.
When you turned the TV on, nothing happened. There are no actors to entertain you.
When you went to the movie theater, nothing was showing. There were no advertisements to tell you that anything was showing, so you went to the theater to find out. Nothing playing. There is no one to film and create movies for you. Well at least your vacation will be fun, right? Not like there will be any plays to see and there won't be anything in the art museums.
Well at least you have the shack you are living in that you made out of cardboard and sheets.
Not like you could find an architect to build you a house with all the money you're making as an engineer.bless.
Harbored within this image is a stirring elegy to despair of the human condition. The voluptuous form of the buttocks is rendered with naive, jejune lines, and drips with Freudian connotation. This symbolic rendering of the young anal-fixative mind serves as an eloquent metaphor for life in the modern age. The viewer is confronted with a disturbing representation of childlike innocence focused on intensely sexual emotions, paralleling our times' mix of rampant industrialism and undeveloped social impulse. Yet there is still a strong sense of hope about this striking image, particularly in regards to the upwardly inclined cheeks which seem almost to stare longingly into the aether. Heroic, Randian, this youthful Übermensch seeks transcendence through self-empowerment. Yet the future of the Modern Man is still uncertain, a fact which is highlighted by the innovative composition. The figure is suspended in an ambiguous void wherein it is uncertain whether it is falling into the black pitch of Nihilism at the bottom of the frame or lifting itself up from that Blackness unto Paradise. "It is up to you", the artist seems to tell us, "to decide your own fate!"
People Like Us (2012) HD Official Trailer (source: chrispineweb.com)
Reblogging again because there are some new ones and put them together in one post.
I think you're both fucking idiots.
Conservatives: "Having sex a lot" doesn't make birth control more expensive unless you're a guy. Condoms are the only current, preventative form of contraceptive that only lasts for one fuck. All the shit the girls have is generally time-based, meaning that no matter how many times she gets laid, she's paying the same amount. Also, don't forget that many times, birth control is used to straighten out hormonal imbalances in women, whether or not they're actually having sex. That's right, folks—I know LOTS of girls who are virgins that are on birth control to stabilize their shit. STFU, you know shit about the situation.
Liberals: The government has no right to force anyone to do anything against its religion. The United States made that clear with the "Establishment" and "Free Exercise" clauses of the First Amendment. Nobody is going to remake their religion in your image. Come to terms with this now, and save yourself a lot of fucking trouble. If you want a birth control script filled, don't go to a Catholic pharmacy. If you want your employer to pay for your birth control, make sure you don't work for a religious organization that doesn't support birth control. If you're gay, and you want to be married, don't demand that a minister who doesn't believe that's right marry you when there are many other ministers that feel it's your right to be wed. Go hire one of them, instead. STFU, you're being dumbasses.
Wow, so you don't even understand what the issue is, do you? I'm going to have to break this one down.
"If you're gay, and you want to be married, don't demand that a minister who doesn't believe that's right marry you when there are many other ministers that feel it's your right to be wed. Go hire one of them, instead"
Please, please show me when at any time during this debate about church v. state has anyone demanded that Catholic priests marry gay people. Show me. Oh wait you can't show me because THAT'S NOT WHAT LIBERALS WANTS. Why would gay people want to be married in a church that says their existence is an abomination to God? Nobody, anywhere, ever, is demanding that churches marry gay people against the minister's will. Moving on."Nobody is going to remake their religion in your image."
Another straw man — nobody wants this.
"If you want a birth control script filled, don't go to a Catholic pharmacy."
Right now, the law allows a "conscience clause" that says ANY pharmacist at ANY pharmacy can refuse to fill a birth control prescription if the medication conflicts with their morals. It's not only happening in pharmacies inside of Catholic hospitals (because BTW "Catholic pharmacy" is not a real thing, unless the church has expanded their rectory quite a bit since my last visit). If you need birth control, and there's only one pharmacy within a reasonable distance of where you live, you can have the prescription refused because the pharmacist says his (or her, but usually his) religion conflicts with it. You don't even understand the laws, why are you trying to defend them?
"If you want your employer to pay for your birth control, make sure you don't work for a religious organization that doesn't support birth control."
Again, you have NO. IDEA. what you are talking about. Nobody wants their employer to pay for their birth control. What we want is for our insurance companies - the ones we pay a monthly premium to, just like you men - to cover all of our medication, including birth control. Currently, religious leaders and Republicans are trying to make it so that any employer, even ones who aren't religiously affiliated, can refuse to have their private insurance company cover birth control on the basis of their personal morals. In other words, the CEO of your investment banking company can decide his religion doesn't condone birth control, so he can tell YOUR insurer to stop covering it. Again: you just have no idea what you're talking about.
Furthermore, remember the whole economy no-jobs-thing? It's difficult for someone who can't afford birth control to say, "You won't pay for my medication? I QUIT!" and pluck another job from the job tree. You're being ignorant of other people's situations, which isn't surprising given your complete ignorance of what liberals actually want.
So STFU and sit down until you know what the hell you're talking about. Please refrain from giving advice to an entire political group before knowing what they are even talking about.
I know exactly what I'm talking about: everybody wants to point fingers and demonize their political opposites instead of shutting the fuck up long enough to make this world livable.
So like
The fact that you don't even have a basic understand of the laws you're trying to defend qualifies as "knowing exactly what you're talking about"
and also
if we all shut up and stop talking about problems like, say, a political party dedicated to taking away medication coverage, the world will be more livable?
Because political and ideological problems are generally solved by SILENCE.
Got it.


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A holiday card detailing the meaning of each gift ! Please read it completely, this is the ultimate proof of how much care was taken when putting together this gift.
Awesomeness Overload !
The already infamous hand knitted ÜberSocks !
How to make an AwesomeSocks gift even more Awesome ? (hint: add dragons)
Code Monkey Socks ... in a bucket ? :)
OMGSharksAreEatingMyFeetSocks ! *faints*
These hand-knitted socks fit perfectly !
Added bonus: a unit of Space Marines and large variety of brushes ! (you have no idea how usefull this is, my current brushes are in urgent need of replacement)


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Home » News » Politics » Granite Status
John DiStaso, the New Hampshire Union Leader's senior political writer, began writing "Granite Status" in 1982. His influential reports on behind-the-scenes politics in the first-primary state are must reading every Thursday for insiders from Concord to Washington, D.C. Watch for "Granite Status" updates on UnionLeader.com whenever New Hampshire political news breaks.
Recent Granite Status
0 John DiStaso's Granite Status: NH Dems 'welcome' back Scott Brown with 'Desperado' web ad
0 John DiStaso's Granite Status: Equipment manufacturers hire prominent NH attorney to fight dealers 'bill of rights'
7 John DiStaso's Granite Status: Just who is looking to build a New Hampshire casino?
0 John DiStaso's Granite Status: Gabrielle Giffords' gun control advocacy group critical of Ayotte in new radio ad
2 Granite Status: Guinta visits Washington as he weighs 2014 options
3 John DiStaso's Granite Status: Gatsas makes it official: seeking 3rd term as Manchester mayor
John DiStaso's Granite Status: Van Ostern says he's the first Executive Council candidate ever to reach 1,000 donations
Van Ostern tells us he is now the first Executive Council candidate on record, and probably in state history, to report receiving more than 1,000 individual donations, and there are still six months to go before the election.
Van Ostern says his campaign has raised over $100,000 with an average contribution of roughly $100 and more than three-quarters of the funds coming from New Hampshire voters. No donor to his campaign has yet given the maximum contribution, he says.
He said he is not sure precisely how many individual donors have given to him but said the number is near 1,000. He said he's sure a "handful" of donors probably gave more than once.
But Van Ostern said he checked and found that even the venerable Ray Burton has never, so far at least, reached 1,000 individual donations and had a high water mark of 962 donations in 2004.
"This overwhelming grassroots support is a clear signal that New Hampshire voters in every corner of the state are rallying behind our call for more focus on jobs and the economy, and less government interference in our personal lives," Van Ostern says in a statement. "Other campaigns may have bigger bank accounts in this election, but I am proud of the widespread, grassroots support that is reflected in the historic number of voters investing in our campaign."
Van Ostern opposes Republican efforts to de-fund Planned Parenthood and last week delivered a petition to Gov. John Lynch signed by nearly 2,500 voters calling for an end to that legislation, which was tabled in the state Senate.
(Earlier updates and the full April 26 Granite Status follow.)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, UPDATE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, UPDATE: LANDING THE GREGGS. Ovide Lamontagne will add to his list of big name endorsements later today when he announces he is being backed by Judd and Kathy Gregg.
It's the first time the former senator and governor has endorsed Lamontagne, who has run in the past for the U.S. House (1992), governor (1996) and U.S. Senate (2010). During those races, Gregg was in office and made no endorsements.
Gregg said he understands what it's like to serve in the "challenging role" of governor, calling Lamontagne "a trusted conservative and tested leader with the experience to get our economy moving again."
He said Lamontagne "has distinguished himself as a leader in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, and it is this diverse leadership experience that has prepared him to serve with distinction as our next governor."
Lamontagne said he was "honored" to earn Judd and Kathy Gregg's support.
Gregg became the second former governor to endorse in the gubernatorial primary. Lamontagne's Republican foe, Kevin Smith, picked up the backing of his former boss, former Gov. Craig Benson, last month.
The Greggs join a diverse group of conservatives, moderates, Tea Party, senior elected and newly elected officials who are backing Lamontagne.
Judd Gregg will join Lamontagne for a tour of the Sig Sauer manufacturing plant in Exeter on May 21.
(Earlier updates and the full April 26 Granite Status follow.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, UPDATE: THE HUCK'S RETURN. The New Hampshire Republican Party has landed Fox News talk show host and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to headline its upcoming annual dinner.
The Granite Status has learned the former Arkansas governor will be announced as the headliner for the event, scheduled for May 30 at the Radisson Center of New Hampshire hotel armory.
Tickets and ticket packages range from $100 to $2,000.
It will be Huckabee's first return visit to New Hampshire since his third place finish in the 2008 first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
Huckabee's win in the 2008 Iowa caucus and third place finish in the New Hampshire first-in-the-nation primary that year launched him into serious contention for the GOP presidential nomination, which was eventually won by John McCain.
Since leaving the presidential race, Huckabee has formed a political action committee, HuckPAC, to promote conservative views and candidates. He has also become a media personality, hosting Fox News' top rated weekend talk show, "Huckabee," and syndicated radio programs. He is also the author of nine books.
Recently, Huckabee has been mentioned along with many others as a potential running mate for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
He's also an accomplished guitarist.
"It will be great to have him back," said former state Sen. Bob Clegg, a key Huckabee backer in 2008.
Clegg said that for Romney to choose Huckabee as a running mate "would definitely be a uniting factor" for Romney.
(An earlier update and the full April 26 Granite Status follow.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, UPDATE: FEC ADVISORY OPINION. The Federal Election Commission voted 5-1 Thursday morning to issue an advisory opinion that New Hampshire's controversial push poll law is preempted by federal law when it comes to candidates for federal offices.
While saying that ultimately, it is a question for the courts to decide, the commission gave its opinion that the state cannot force federal candidates to identify themselves to voters when they conduct push polling calls against their opponents, as required by the state law.
The calls would be subject only to the Federal Election Campaign Act, which requires no such disclaimers on polling calls, the commission said.
The opinion would presumably carry some weight in a court challenge of the law. The state Attorney General's Office is reviewing the opinion.
The advisory opinion was requested by Democratic pollster Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, which intends to conduct polling for federal candidates and nonprofit special interest groups in New Hampshire this year.
The commission reached no conclusion on whether the state statute is preempted with respect to telephone surveys made on behalf of nonprofit organizations which "do not contain express advocacy," but said it does apply to "federal candidates' authorized campaign committees" and "other federal political committees."
The opinion may help U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass' defense of a lawsuit filed by the Attorney General charging him with violating the state push poll law.
The Attorney General has been aggressively enforcing the push poll law with respect to federal candidate for the past several years.
Today's action is an advisory opinion and does not have the direct force of law, but could be used to bolster arguments against the state statute in court challenges. In that sense, it could be a major blow to the state statute.
To read the advisory opinion click here.
See our full updated story on the FEC opinion elsewhere on UnionLeader.com.
(The full April 26 Granite Status follows.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 26: SO LONG, NEWT. With Newt Gingrich expected to leave the Republican presidential campaign next week, efforts are intensifying in New Hampshire and nationally to unify the party behind presumptive nominee Mitt Romney.
"Newt Gingrich will suspend his campaign next week," Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond confirmed to the Granite Status on Wednesday.
Hammond said reports that the Gingrich announcement will come next Tuesday are "not accurate. 'Next week' is as specific as he's gotten."
Hammond said Romney called Gingrich on Wednesday morning.
"They had a very good conversation, building upon several conversations they've had throughout the campaign on how Newt is committed to helping Governor Romney become President," said Hammond. "They are laying plans out right now on what is the best role for him to play to help him do that.
"Newt is also committed to helping win a majority for Republicans in the United States Senate and helping Speaker (John) Boehner maintain a House majority as a governing coalition is as important to the next President as it is to replace Barack Obama in the White House," Hammond said.
Gingrich finished fifth in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary on Jan. 10, a handful of votes behind fourth-place finisher Rick Santorum.
Hammond said Gingrich "intends to commit his talents and resources to making sure that Republicans have every advantage in the fall election."
He said Gingrich, Romney and Santorum "began talking several months ago. They made a pact that whatever happens in the race they were committed to supporting each other as the nominee. There have been open lines of communication at the candidate level for some time. They were frank and cordial exchanges."
Hammond said Gingrich "will do what he can to make sure conservatives are mobilized to vote for Mitt Romney this fall. They are an important coalition for the Republican Party. With them, we win."
MITT THE UNITER? The question now is whether Romney can truly unite Republicans - not just the former candidates and their top followers - behind him. That's not only a nationwide question, it's a New Hampshire question as well.
The WMUR Granite Poll conducted by the UNH Survey Center and released on Monday showed Obama leading Romney 51 to 42 percent in the Granite State and Romney still a bit scarred from a tough primary fight.
Obama received a 91 percent favorable rating among self-identified Democrats in the poll, but Romney was viewed favorably by only 66 percent of self-identified Republicans, with 23 percent of Republicans viewing him unfavorably.
While Obama beat Romney 40 to 35 percent among New Hampshire independents in a head-to-head match-up, neither candidate is viewed favorably by that all-important group.
Obama's favorable/unfavorable rating among independents was 34/54 percent, while Romney's was 30/49 percent.
Two top state Tea Party leaders say that eventually, the base will rally behind Romney.
"Tea Party voters and conservative voters in general are still not convinced that Mitt Romney is going to govern from the right," said former Gingrich New Hampshire campaign manager and Tea Party activist Andrew Hemingway.
"They have questions about him, but coming into the general election, they'll rally around Mitt for the same reason they rallied around Santorum and Newt. They were the 'not-Romney' candidates and now Romney is the 'not-Obama' candidate."
Hemingway said conservative voters "may not necessarily get excited about Mitt Romney because there is not a lot to get excited about, but they'll get excited about how bad Obama is and about having a chance to remove him from office."
Jack Kimball, a former GOP candidate for governor and current chairman of the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC, said he will personally "enthusiastically get behind Mitt Romney because the alternative is unacceptable.
"There are a lot of Tea Party and liberty-oriented folks who are upset and may not jump on board because they feel Mitt is not conservative enough," Kimball, who supported Herman Cain and then Gingrich, said. "But for me, I'll work as hard as I can to bring these folks to the fore. I'm going to take Mitt Romney at his word."
Romney senior adviser Jim Merrill said there are signs of unity.
He said supporters of the other primary candidates have come on board and some appeared at the Tuesday night speech by Romney in Manchester, which Merrill said was a "pivot point" in the campaign.
Merrill said that while the Democrats have had no primary and have begun organizing for Obama, "What they fail to realize is that for the last year and a half Mitt Romney has organized in New Hampshire town-by-town and county-by-county. That team is still in place. Those people we organized and identified are ready to go. In the near term, there will be a campaign staff and office in New Hampshire."
The Republican National Committee is also expected to make an announcement of key "victory" operations staffing in the next several days.
"Polls are a snapshot in time," said Merrill. "We aren't governed by the poll. We had a broad coalition in January and I expect we'll be able to build a similar coalition here for November because the survey also shows that far and away the biggest concern is jobs and the economy.
"And you've got a very stark contrast" between Romney and Obama, "and we're looking forward to making that contrast day after day."
THE POLITICAL PENDULUM. Is the political pendulum swinging back in a "left-ward" direction again?
Polls so far this week conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center for WMUR indicated that, as poll director Andrew Smith says, "legislative overreach" is having a negative impact on the GOP, just as it did on the Democrats two years ago.
It's still very early but besides the poll showing Obama with a 9 percentage point lead over Romney, another showed Democratic candidates for governor either tied with or slightly ahead of their Republican counterparts, albeit with a large number of voters undecided.
It's no surprise that about 80 percent of those surveyed said they did not know enough about the newcomers to statewide elective politics - Maggie Hassan, Jackie Cilley and Kevin Smith - to say whether they had a favorable or unfavorable impression of them.
But it was a bit of a surprise that only about half of all those surveyed and half of self-identified Republicans said they did not know enough about Ovide Lamontagne, despite his two past runs for statewide office, to say whether they have an impression of him.
But UNH poll director Andrew Smith says it should be no surprise.
"He's well-known within the party leadership but not so much among the rank-and-file," said Smith. "He did well in a small-turnout election (2010 U.S. Senate primary), but that was a couple of years ago. These people are out of the sight of the voters between elections.
"Every candidate ought to run as if nobody knows who they are and they're behind," said Smith. "This gives you an indication of where you stand with the voters."
Smith said it should be "absolutely expected that there would be a shift from what we saw in 2010," when Republicans were swept to huge majorities in the House, Senate and Executive Council and in the U.S. Senate race and two U.S. House races.
"In every election, one side is more energized than the other side, and the energized side gets their people to the polls while the dispirited side does not. The energized side's candidates win up and down the ticket and then that party in power always seems to engage in legislative over-reach.
"Then, people get angry and they get out and vote for the other guys in the next election. Democrats did the same in 2006 and 2008 as Republicans did in 2010," said Smith. "I think we'll get back to more of an equilibrium this year."
Although the pendulum may be swinging, "Republicans still have an overall advantage going into this election because of the state of the economy," said Smith. "The large-scale factors are really what's important and the economy is always the biggest factor," he said. "When the economy is bad, even if you're not responsible for it, you're going to lose."
LEDBETTER IN NH. The Obama campaign is bringing equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter to New Hampshire next week.
Ledbetter, the namesake of the Fair Pay Act, appeared on a conference call with Granite State Democrats last week criticizing Romney and the NHGOP, but next week she will appear in person at house parties in Hanover, Nashua and Concord.
MANNEY FOR OVIDE. Lamontagne this week picked up the endorsement of Pam Manney, the immediate past vice chair of the New Hampshire GOP.
She called him "a proven leader whose business acumen and a long-time advocacy for low taxes and smaller government will serve New Hampshire well."
SMITH'S TOWN HALLS. Kevin Smith has announced he will answer voters' questions at 14 town halls over all 10 counties during the next two months.
The first three are on May 7 at Seacoast Charter School in Kingston; May 15 at the American Legion in Hudson; and May 21 at the Dover Public Library, all at 6 p.m.
The full schedule is listed on KevinSmithForGovernor.com.
Smith told us, "This is an opportunity to engage with the voters, not just Republicans but also independents and maybe some Democrats, to hear what's on their minds and it's an opportunity for me to talk about my plan, 'New Hampshire's Future is Now.'"
Smith said this week's poll "showed if nothing else, that this race is wide open and no one has locked down anything."
MORE UNIONS FOR MAGGIE. With the addition of two more union endorsements in the past week, Hassan's campaign for governor has now picked up the backing of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Council No. 35, Carpenters Local 118, Iron Workers Local 7 and United Food and Commercial Workers Locals 1445 and 791.
HODES BACK AT THE FIRM. The Shaheen and Gordon law firm announced Wednesday that it has been rejoined by former U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes, who was previously with the firm from 1996 to 2004.
John DiStaso is senior political reporter of the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. Follow him on Twitter @jdistaso.


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The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more they examine all angles of a gruesome cultura
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November 28th 1997
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(first published October 1st 1996)
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Well, this man is such an awesome writer that I had to start a shelf of ONLY his books!!! I plan to read each book that Mr. Schechter writes and am currently reading both Deviant and Psycho USA - Famous American Killers you Never Heard Of. This man, Schechter, has a way of uniting you with eras long lost and forgotten. You empathize with the murdered, revolt at the very thoughts of the killer, and just wish it were all set to music.
I think that, as a student of psychology, this is a must read!...more
I think that, as a student of psychology, this is a must read!...more
• This was a really nice change from all the fiction I've been reading lately. Now, the subject matter of this book was a little odd, but it was still very interesting. I like it because first and foremost, it didn't try to glorify serial killing. It did tell of some gory details but it always made sure to treat them simply as fact and not objects of sick fascination. There was also a ton of information in this book. I was always able to read it at a pretty steady pace when I had time to read be...more
This is a nice read if you're into this kind of stuff. However, it is also often very repetitive. You'll find the same killer, and his story, listed in four, five, or sometimes more areas of the book. For ex: William Heirens, the Lipstick Killer, was quoted to have said-- "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself."-- in 9 different areas of the book. With that sentence was a mini repeat of his transgressions. If you took out the repeated parts of the book it wouldn'...more
Not bad for what it is, great range of serial killers throughout history. Although brief descriptions on some leave you wondering what else is known about the crimes and killers. Not necessarily for the faint of heart since this is real crimes commited against real people not just something an author with an excellent immagination brewed up.
Certainly not spectacular, but excellent reference book/starting point for those interested in true crimes and their further exploration. While I was reading it, I couldn't help thinking that horror and thriller writers could never surpass the real murderers, whose imagination is often terrifying. Definitely NOT for the faint of heart.
Probably not something I should have read at like 12 years old, but I was riveted. Well horrified, but also riveted. Not as much discussion as I would have liked on why they went off the reservation, more about the ways they were cracked. Still interesting though. And I still remember the title over a decade later.
Very Very Gross in some ways and UN-imaginable the things some serial killers did to there "victims". zvery interesting in the psychological aspect of how they came to doing this (childhood abuse, mental problems,raped or molested as a child)
I haven't finished it all because I need a break from this............
I haven't finished it all because I need a break from this............
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Dec 08, 2008
H.K. Barclay
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3 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Female College Students
Startling tales of brutal depravity that will shock and disgust.
Some of the facts contained in this book are so horrific and disgusting they make most horror fiction seem unimaginative.
My only issue with this book is all the cross referencing and repetitive text.
Not for the squeamish.
Some of the facts contained in this book are so horrific and disgusting they make most horror fiction seem unimaginative.
My only issue with this book is all the cross referencing and repetitive text.
Not for the squeamish.
This book is a great reference if you're writing a paper or have some the lesser known serial killers mixed up, and as an introductory book for someone curious. But I got bored quick, and ended up skipping sections at a time. The level of repetitiveness got on my nerves, but I guess you aren't supposed to read an encyclopedia cover to cover, right? There is some great information in here though, I would probably recommend this book to someone like my boyfriend, who just looks at me with a blank...more
Feb 15, 2009
is currently reading it
It's sickenly fascinating true stories.
Gives you the meat and potatoes on the heavy-hitters of this delightful topic, but doesn't get the 5th star because of the weird choices he made on picking words to alphabetize. You can't just look up certain killers by name, because some are listed under different topics, like alligators and lime and stuff. That's kind of annoying, but it's good otherwise, and has plenty of non-extraneous information.
This "encyclopedia" is okay, not really great and not really bad. It's somewhere in the range of being mediocre. The entries on the killers was great, but putting in the methods and themes the killers used? It seemed like filler to me. I was left empty when it came to appreciating the book. I would rather buy full biographies on the killers than read short entries about them.
This book was really fun to read and I finished it in two days. I liked the way it was organized and it also recommends films that are based on each case. It has good information and profiles, although it does not have many case overviews. It's a great book for someone who is interested in true crime but isn't yet familiar with all the key players and cases.
This book is not really an encyclopedia of information on serial killers, but more of an overview of the more notorious. The format was somewhat lacking; not in a manner that one would take very serious (there's not even an index). It is a quick read and does provide entertainment; as long as you have a twisted couriousity (which I do).
Jul 06, 2007
Dustin Underwood
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
bed wetters, torturers of small animals, and collectors of obscure leather goods
coffee table/toilet book. I read it cover to cover over the course of a few days, but that's me. I love serial killers; I love this book. I still go back to it regularly to check facts during conversations with friends and family about serial killers.
Aug 02, 2010
rated it
4 of 5 stars
review of another edition
My mother saw me reading this and asked if I was planning on being a serial killer, and if I was, to let her know.
I'd rather know than not know, you know?
I'd rather know than not know, you know?
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Harold Schechter is a professor of American Literature and culture at Queens College, the City University of New York. Among his nonfiction works are the historical true-crime classics Fatal, Fiend,Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved. He also authors a critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Edgar Allan Poe, which includes The Hum Bu...more
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Harold Schechter is a professor of American Literature and culture at Queens College, the City University of New York. Among his nonfiction works are the historical true-crime classics Fatal, Fiend,Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved. He also authors a critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Edgar Allan Poe, which includes The Hum Bu...more
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Everett rail summit: plenty of vision, but money is still down the line
A funding bill will come before lawmakers in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, there might be a thawing of the chilly relations between advocates of rails vs. bike trails.
C.B. Hall
Speaking at a gathering of some 120 elected officials, administrators and interest-group representatives, Larsen praised the high-speed rail initiative (HSR) that has thus far brought Washington state $781 million in federal funding for improvements to Amtrak's Cascades service. The sum includes $161 million refused by three other states whose governors sent the money back to the feds, calling the program a waste of money.
"If Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida don't want the money, we'll take the money," Larsen (D-2nd) said, to warm applause from the clearly pro-rail audience gathered at the Hansen Conference Center for the meeting, titled "On Track: The Future of Rail in Snohomish County." The session, hosted by Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon and Seattle's Cascadia Center for Regional Development, formed part of a day-long program of rail-oriented events, with two subsequent gatherings taking place in Kirkland.
Larsen, whose district encompasses northwest Washington, including much of Snohomish County, discussed a six-year surface-transportation reauthorization bill about to come before the House of Representatives as the focal point for advocacy efforts, as the recession's economics and politics cut into support for transit across the country.
Interviewed as he left the hall, Larsen said that the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, on which he sits, would begin looking within three weeks at a bill authorizing some $210 billion for surface transportation. The sum, he said, "sounds like a lot, until you spread it over 50 states — then it's not much." He compared it to the $300 billion in the last six-year authorization, which recently expired. The Obama administration has meanwhile been seeking an authorization of $556 billion.
Asked about the $50 billion or so that the Obama Administration has sought for HSR as part of the authorization, Larsen commented drily, "You'll have to get back to me on that." Republicans in Congress recently stripped all HSR funding from the Obama request for the current federal budget.
Subsequent speakers and panelists addressed the meeting on such things as the addition of a third Amtrak trip between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.; expansion of Sound Transit's light-rail system into Snohomish County; co-development of rail lines and bicycle trails; and the potential of the so-called Eastside rail corridor, which runs from Snohomish to Renton, for both passenger and freight rail. The speakers included Sound Transit CEO Joni Earl, Snohomish Mayor Karen Guzak, Cascadia director Bruce Agnew, and spokespeople for a California rail-with-trail project being developed by Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART).
The political agenda needed little further clarification once Earl, prefacing her remarks, noted that she had driven up to the meeting from her home in Tacoma, taking two hours and 10 minutes for the I-5 slog rather than using Pierce Transit and her own agency's buses — which would have taken roughly two hours and 52 minutes and gotten her to Everett 50 minutes late.
Reacting to the pro-transit tenor of the proceedings, and perhaps to Earl's comment, an audience member subsequently asked how many people had taken public transit to the meeting — no one volunteered an affirmative — and decried transit as accounting for no more than a tiny segment of the nation's travel. "How are we going to partner with cars instead of making this look like a coalition against cars?" the man asked.
From the speakers' table, Everett Transit's Tom Hingson responded that transportation planning's idea was "a balance of choices." The growth Snohomish County is seeking, he said, "is not going to happen with more roads."
The speakers did not lack visions of what Snohomish County and the rest of the Puget Sound region might expect instead of those roads. Earl said Sound Transit's light-rail trains would reach Lynnwood by 2023 and Everett by 2030, while Agnew and Cascadia consultant Tom Jones proposed a regional, "interurban" train between Whatcom County and Everett.
The interurban idea has been the subject of several studies over the last half-dozen years. Cascadia is "suggesting," Agnew said, that the state launch the service by buying six of the same diesel multiple units — self-propelled rail coaches — to be built by Japan's Nippon Sharyo for SMART. The manufacturer's contract with SMART allows other public-transportation providers to buy the same "incredibly inexpensive" equipment, Agnew added in an interview after the meeting.
"There's a window of opportunity here," he said, in the context of constrained funding for transportation and public services generally. "We're asking the state to think about getting into the regional rail business with new money." He alluded to the possibility of a new transportation tax package, supported by the Legislature's transportation committee chairs, Judy Clibborn (D-Mercer Island) and Mary Margaret Haugen (D-Camano Island), that voters may be looking at in 2012.
SMART was represented at the meeting by planning manager John Nemeth and board member Debora Fudge, and what the start-up provider is doing north of San Francisco served as a point of reference for what Puget Sound transit providers could be doing north of Seattle. In their remarks, Nemeth and Fudge focused on how SMART is turning its 70 miles of abandoned railroad into a multimodal corridor, with freight and passenger trains running alongside a bicycle-pedestrian pathway through suburban communities choking on automotive traffic. Nemeth put the total price tag for the system's 2014 launch at a bargain-basement $9.9 million per mile.
Agnew's Cascadia Center has championed the rail-with-trail concept for the Eastside line, whose fate has remained uncertain since the BNSF Railway divested itself of the 42 miles of track in late 2009. Many bicyclists have envisioned the railroad's level grade as a bicycle trail par excellence — once the rails are ripped out — while rail advocates have pointed to the difficulties of putting the rails back once they are removed, should the need for commuter rail grow with the region's population. At the Everett meeting, Snohomish County public works director Steve Thompson and Snohomish Mayor Karen Guzak were among those joining Cascadia's call for coexistence between rail and foot power on the Eastside route.
Steve Schweigerdt of the D.C.-based Rails to Trails Conservancy's San Francisco office, reported that 166 rail-with-trail corridors have been successfully developed nationwide; trail users walk and pedal alongside trains moving at up to 150 mph, with separation between pathway and rails sometimes as little as a few feet. Fudge noted that local bicycle coalitions had provided the "boots on the ground" in the 2008 political campaign that won SMART its funding through a sales-tax increment.
Collaboration with bicycle advocates has, by contrast, been slow in coming on the Eastside, as some from the bicycling community have called for a trail that would replace, rather than supplement, the rail infrastructure. Reportedly only one of the Eastside bicycle advocates invited to the Everett meeting attended, but several came to a session at Google Kirkland and an evening reception at a Kirkland hotel, and it appears the train-bike tension may be nearing an end.
At Google, Agnew reported, the bicycle advocates on hand "flocked" to Schweigerdt after his presentation, to get briefed in detail about how to implement the rail-with-trail idea.
"Lots of business cards were exchanged. For us, that was a breakthrough — having the rails-to-trails people saying the wave of the future is rails with trails.
"They want to work with us," he added, referring to the Seattle-based Cascade Bicycle Club, formerly cast as an opponent of the "coexistence option." The bicycle club could not immediately be reached for comment.
Disclosure: C.B. Hall has performed work for the Cascadia Center.
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Posted Thu, Jun 9, 12:09 p.m.
While I am four-square behind more efficient passenger rail AND non-motorized transit as well, I wonder if folks looking at these options are considering the potential impacts of this Cherry Point coal terminal proposal and its 26-30 miles of additional trains traversing this corridor daily and derailing this opportunity and others. Washington residents and transit advocates seem to be unaware of this looming threat to these project and our quality of life.
Bob Ferris
Executive Director
RE Sources for Sustainable Communities
Posted Thu, Jun 9, 3:29 p.m.
Be VERY wary of SMART, they've shown an incredible amount of shortsightedness in their northern California operation, or better yet, lack of. They have possibly misled their own ridership base, put impossible restraints on other collaborating partners, and seem not to care what the populace thinks of their over-inflated plans.
We can have a transportation system that will work here, but its going to take coordination among groups and cities who normally otherwise don't want to. Looking at SMART is the wrong way to go, and fast.
Posted Sun, Jun 12, 8:30 a.m.
Comments like your just drive me nuts.
"incredible amount of shortsightedness". Based on what? How about one little tiny shred of evidence that you have any idea you know what you're talking about?
Take a lesson from Bob Ferris. While I personally think the impacts of coal trains are overblown (pollution, traffic impacts, corridor saturation), at least he backs up what his point is with some evidence. Many corridors have both freight and passenger rail sharing tracks, with far higher daily volumes than the worst case scenario he paints. (BTW, I live in Bellingham)
There are many ways to increase the capacity of a corridor, and reduce the headways between trains that can and should be considered as mitigation, just like we make shopping centers build freeway on/off ramps to accommodate their operations.
It's not a matter of freight or passenger. It's a matter of how many of each, and how much more infrastructure is needed to accommodate both, and still have room to grow - and we will grow.
Posted Mon, Jun 13, 2:20 p.m.
"championed the rail-with-trail concept for the Eastside line"
This bit of single track with a large number of un-gated crossings is not suitable for rapid transit on the Eastside. The track is rated at 25ph, which many days is faster than the auto traffic but those crossings are a huge problem. An elevated system on that same right-of-way may work, but no studies have been done yet.
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The coolest rides have made their way to the big screen and now it is the NSX Roadster of Acura set to appear in the upcoming The Avengers movie. The hybrid roadster was spotted last year during the filming of the Avengers but Acura recently shared that the NSX Roadster will be the ride of Tony Stark portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in The Avengers film.
The Acura NSX Roadster is in every angle and every inch perfect for Iron Man, the alter ego of the character Tony Stark. The design lines of the car are perfect for the adventurous and powerful suit of the Iron Man who is among The Avengers.
Acura does not have any clear plans of producing the NSX Roadster bu the NSX Coupe will be rolled out by 2015. The movie though might be used by the car manufacturer to gauge the pulse of the market if the roadster should hit the production line.
Like the hard topped sibling, the NSX roadster will feature the Sport Hybrid Super Handling AWD system which combines the powerful V6 running on gasoline and 3 electric motors. The setup guarantees that the Acura NSX hybrid will be among the greenest sports cars in history.
The NSX also has a pure electric mode with the gasoline engine kicking in when more power is required.
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Alumnae/i Days 2013 Photo Gallery
Seminary Hosts Pittsburgh Pastoral Care Conference
PTS Receives Grant for Worship Renewal Project
Series Explores the Idea of Spiritual But Not Religious
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Names Assistant Professor of Homiletics
PTS Welcomes Associate Professor of Leadership and Ministry
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"I stay in touch with my fellow alums. In particular, a few of them are still my prayer partners, and they are people I can go to with anything and know I have their loving support, confidence, and advice in any situation."
How often in a job can you focus on only one area? You may want to be a chaplain, campus minister, pastor, or missionary. Or you may want to minister in a single area—pastoral care, counseling, preaching, administration, evangelism, or teaching. Life, however, is rarely so neat. To prepare for her multifaceted ministry, Elizabeth Trexler '05 earned her joint Master of Divinity/Master of Social Work degrees from Pittsburgh Seminary and the University of Pittsburgh. "Strategic planning is key when working with any organization, and the M.S.W. program prepared me for that in so many ways," says Elizabeth. "Add that to a theological background, and you have a great combination."
Following her call to Seminary, Elizabeth explains that she did not choose Pittsburgh Seminary; God did. Elizabeth says, "I listened to His call and for more than a year didn't know why I was here. Then I went on a mission trip through the Seminary's World Mission Initiative and found my calling as a missionary. I saw God move mountains in people, saw prayers answered immediately, and saw that our God is a global God and cannot be fit into a box." After graduation, Elizabeth became a full-time missionary in Southeast Asia. She now serves as Associate Director of Catholic Campus Ministry at Bloomsburg University.
As a Catholic at a predominantly Protestant seminary, Elizabeth worked with faculty to personalize her education. "I was able to do many independent studies, find alternative books for class, and dive into my own faith while learning Protestant theology," she says. "Professors were invested in my education and took time to foster it."


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This concept gives free rein to the imagination of Alessandro that modulates the space, creating unique pieces of furniture: bookcases, chests, coffee tables, desk, shelves, kitchen plan …
The kitchen and guest bedroom are separated by the stacked wooden crates. Slipped in the middle of this accumulation, a bright orange 50′s cabinet and on top his glass collection from the 50′s and 70′s.
Despite this mixture of styles and materials, the architect Alessandro Capellaro wanted to keep the soul of the place: "I avoided the excesses of materials for free circulation and preserve the memory of the place. "
"I like the idea of movement (…), the modular furniture. I want to move any item and recreate the space in the blink of an eye."
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In Florence, the architect Alessandro Capellaro conceived an unusual place, entirely flexible, in an old carpenty with exceptional volumes. When he discovered the woodwork at the back of an alley, Capellaro had a click. He immediately knew and saw what he could imagine for the place: "I transposed myself immediately. The images of the place transformed into a home superposed over the unromantic setting of this workshop." What for him is obvious, for us is like a stroke of genius: structuring the space with 300 wooden crates, found in a flea market.
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I like it. And it grabbed your attention esp. if you posted a comment below. whether you love it or hate I don't see anything where it promotes violence or degrading women.. what i see is government taking away the rights of a citizen n the rights away from people. Failure to follow instructions will land us in prison like the model. Now if steven photographed the same concept with average shmucks would we pay much attention to it? i dont think so. it'd be just another political journalistic photograph.3
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Lovely inspirations <3www.whitebluebird.com5
Perfect inspiration for our soon to be flat : )6
This list is one of the best of restaurants around England.7
... Tilda is like kristen mcmenamy - magic in everything8
the tilda shoot is magic.9
LOL this is such a frumpy campaign. Raquel Zimmermann looks so awkward dancing those bad bad moves. WWTT??? a.k.a What Were They Thinking?Jun 20 13 @ 6:00 PM
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Clovis' Best Kept Secret!. Tucked away inside Peachwood Medical Group is a nice litte skincare center with a full-time M.D. as medical director and offering comprehensive skincare treatments and products! All cosmetic injectables, such as Botox, Juvederm, Restylane, Radiesse are injected by the doctor who is thorough, detailed, caring and a perfectionist! They also offer facials, chemical peels, laser hair removal, laser spider vein removal, waxing, microdermabrasion, eyebrow & eyelash tinting! They carry mineral make-up, Clarisonic Skin Care brush, Latiesse, complete line of physician-grade skincare products, sunscreens, etc. All their staff are friendly, warm and extremely helpful. Go & check it out! You'll love it!
Poor Bedside manner. Up until the last time I had gone to Peachwood with my husband, I would rather go no other place. But upon our last visit, my husband was very sick, and the doctor that met with him had poor "bedside" manner. Instead of comforting the patient, he used poor sarcastic humor about dying and such. It was ridiculous!
Great place. Great place. We have dr. summeral and have had nothing but positive experiences with him and his PA Leta. Sometimes the wait can be a little long though even when you have an appt.
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Both Sides React to Complaint Filed Against WCS, Urging the Feds to Step in
By: Stephanie Sobic
Updated: August 12, 2010
Some environmentalist groups want the Federal Government to come out and investigate the Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews County. The groups actually filed a complaint with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency saying the site has a lot of potential risks like groundwater contamination.
When finished, this Waste Control Specialist site will dispose of low-level radio active waste. According to WCS, anytime �nuclear anything� is involved there will be groups opposing it. On the flip side, one Andrews�s resident says it has nothing to do with nuclear from his point of view. He just wants more research done before any kind of waste is disposed of in his backyard.
"EPA and TCEQ are having a big fight over air emissions which has nothing to do with WCS, so these folks are trying to jump on that news story and say TCEQ isn't doing a good job on the low-level radio-active waste either. So they want the Feds to come in here," explains Spokesperson for WCS, Chuck McDonald.
"I don't think it's fair to select the site and over rule scientists and engineers who have spoken out against this and issue licenses anyways. And, I think a national agency or organization is the best way to go about that," says Concerned Andrews Citizen, Timothy Gannaway.
TCEQ is the regulatory body that issued WCS the license to dispose of low-level radio active waste. And since the EPA is already looking into the TCEQ for faulty air permits. Gannaway thinks the EPA or the NRC should also take a look at the WCS license too.
"We think this is the same thing, endangering our environment, perhaps even a water supply the Ogallala Aquifer, which serves 8 states," says Gannaway.
"The current chairman of the NRC has been out the site, 5 of the 6 NRC Commissioners have been out the site they pay pretty close attention to the WCS licensed to handle low-level radio active waste," says McDonald.
We asked McDonald why he thinks so many people go after WCS and this Andrews County disposal site?
"The reason the attacks are coming against WCS is because these are organizations that have a state public agenda that oppose the generation of nuclear powered electricity in the United States," says McDonald.
McDonald believes those organizations hope, if you take away a place to store nuclear waste�that could get rid of all nuclear waste. However, for the time being, McDonald says there's got to be a place to put it for now. So, what WCS is trying to accomplish could even be considered helpful to the environment.
"We just need to be concerned and sure here. We don't want to see human error cause any kind of disastrous effect or cause this area to be uninhabitable. This is our home, we need to be careful," says Gannaway.
On a side note, TCEQ is expected to be at the WCS site tomorrow.


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Our Commitments
Opéra national de Paris
Vacheron Constantin has been a patron of the Opéra national de Paris since 2007, and shares with this institution the art of precision, renewal and wonder: an art whose mastery, both technical and esthetic, is orchestrated by myriad trades. So, the first years of our commitment serve to ensure the long life of the Art Workshops and to support the Opéra national de Paris' productions. In both watchmaking and the Opera, accomplishment is a human story, rich in expertise that is perpetuated and shared.
Key dates in our patronage:
October 2007:
Vacheron Constantin gave to the Opéra national de Paris a monumental clock called "Laudator Temporis". This work composed of 56 hand-blown colored glass panels was designed by the Neufchatel artist and painter Ivan Moscatelli and constructed by master glassworker Werner Weyhe. The clock is currently on display at the Opéra Bastille.
December 2008:
Vacheron Constantin received several hundred guests at the Opéra Bastille for the premiere of "Hommage à Maurice Béjart". The manufacture is proud to have this opportunity to honor the memory and talent of this exceptional dancer and choreographer who revolutionized dance in the 20th century. The movement lies at the heart of a clock and movement is also the centre of the choreographies of Maurice Béjart who said: "Thought is movement. A ballet is actually a thought structure. Music is thought made audible, and dance is thought made visible…"
November 2010:
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the AROP (Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet) organized a grand gala evening at the Palais Garnier with the support of Vacheron Constantin. On this occasion, the manufacture put its craftsmen to work to create a unique piece that reproduced in its entirety the over 2100 square feet and more than 180 characters of Chagall's ceiling using the ancestral Geneva technique of miniature "grand feu" enamel painting. This clock, entitled "Tribute to illustrious composers" is the first in the Métiers d'Art collection - Chagall and the Opéra de Paris.
2011-2012 season:
In February 2012, Vacheron Constantin sponsored the "Dîner des Etoiles" organized by the AROP (Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet ) at the Palais Garnier, in order to support the return of the Paris Opera Ballet to the United States after a ten year absence.
Twenty-five exceptional performances are scheduled in Chicago, Washington and New York for the months of June and July 2012.


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Behind each of these dates is a story. A story told by our truthiness expert Chuck the Squirrel. He'd like to share a few words with you so please feel free to dig into our Warped Timeline of Lunar Exploration. We won't call it edutainment because only people we hate use that awful term.
In positively prehistoric times, people looked up at the Moon and said, "Would you look at that brilliant object that changes shape in a regular cyclical pattern?"
The Moon was critical to pre-historic cultures around the world as a timekeeping calendar.
We do know that early Egyptians (and maybe the neolithic people who built Stonehenge) used the Moon's changing phases as a monthly calendar to keep track of the seasons. Moon phases are still used for the Islamic, Christian, and Jewish calendars; for instance, Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after spring equinox.
Well, before 1,000 BC, anyway, many Asian cultures worshipped the Moon (as did pretty much everyone else at the time), and created an annual mid-autumn festival. This tradition is centered around the story of Chang'e, a woman who floated up to live on the Moon. Festival customs include eating mooncakes.
Many ancient cultures associated the Moon with fertility -- for instance, before becoming the Greek virgin goddess of the hunt, a 7th century BC version of Artemis was the Moon "Mother" goddess of fertility.
These various fertile Moon goddesses were also called upon (or blamed) for childbirth. But despite the stories you've heard from your friend's sister's cousin who changes light bulbs at the hospital, the full Moon is in no way correlated with a freakishly high number of babies being born. Extensive scientific investigation3 also debunks the theory that there are more animals biting people during a full Moon.
In the 2nd century BC, Hipparchus - an ancient Greek astronomer -- used observations of a solar eclipse documented in two cities to triangulate the distance to the Moon.
Hipparchus' estimate was close; and he later refined it to a more accurate value of 61 times the Earth's radius.
According to legend, in the 15th -16th centuries a Chinese official named Wan Hu strapped 47 rockets to a chair, wanting to go to the Moon.
This may in fact be a modern legend masquerading as an ancient story, but we decided to include it.
Galileo Galilei observed the Moon with a telescope and in 1610 wrote about the hills and deep valleys he saw on its surface, and suggested that the large dark areas were smooth and possibly oceans. This was one of the first pieces of evidence that objects in space might not be perfect ⦠rocking the foundation of the traditional views of the Universe.
Galileo widely shared his findings. Actually Thomas Harriot saw and drew telescopic observations of the Moon first, but never published them.
Later astronomers (dudes such as Hevelius, Beer, and Schmidt) created detailed illustrations and photographs of the Moon's front side. Most astronomers actually find the Moon's presence in the sky to be profoundly annoying--making it difficult to observe fainter celestial objects.
After debunking Galileo's ocean theory, scientists debated just what the heck the circular features on the Moon were. In 1667, Robert Hooke suggested the Moon's craters formed when enormous bubbles in lava burst. Later scientists agreed that the craters were formed by volcanos.
By the 1870's, a few scientists suggested that the round features on the Moon might be made by asteroid impacts. In 1969, the rocks returned by the Apollo missions were shown to include shattered and partially melted crystals, from the tremendous heat and pressure of impacts.
Faced with the hideous prospect of having nothing to argue about, scientists rapidly turned to debating whether most of the impacts were made by asteroids or comets.
So why on Earth should we care about the Moon's craters? Well, in part because they aren't on Earth; Earth's dastardly geologic processes continually wear away its rocks, and with them, the craters. The Moon has been geologically inactive for billions of years. Its well-preserved ancient crust and its craters tell scientists the history of Earth and the early solar system. More here.
18th century tall tales by Baron Munchhausen include trips to the Moon, where the Moon is ruled by a divided maniacal leader, whose head has abandoned his body for more celestial pursuits.
Beethoven completes the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, later renamed the Moonlight Sonata by music critic Ludwig Rellstab who compared it to moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne.
In 1865, Jules Verne wrote "From the Earth to the Moon" in which three men build an enormous space gun and launch themselves to the Moon.
Ya gotta see the French movie Le Voyage dans la Lune based loosely on Verne's book and another by HG Wells.
The beloved children's story, Goodnight Moon, was penned by Margaret Wise Brown to coax small children to go to sleep by repeating tedious "good nights" to inanimate objects, thus allowing their weary parents to get a few minutes of peace and quiet...
The USSR startled the world by launching Sputnik, the first satellite, into Earth orbit in 1957. In retaliation the United States launched its own satellite (Explorer I) AND created a new agency - NASA.
This was the starting shot of the space race, a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who could walk on the Moon first
Fleets of unmanned probes from the Soviet Union and the United States were sent to the Moon between 1959 and 1976, studying its gravity, temperature, magnetic fields, radiation, and more.
There are now hundreds of thousands of objects orbiting Earth; ranging from satellites to loose screws.
Because the Moon rotates at the same rate that it orbits the Earth, we only see one side. The first image of the Moon's backside ever was taken by Luna 3 in 1959; until then, no one had ever seen the far side.
On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy addressed Congress, announcing a national goal of sending a man safely to the Moon. 16 months later, Kennedy motivated Americans during a speech at Rice University, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,..." Check it out.
When first elected, Kennedy was concerned by the finances of planning human missions to the Moon. Between 1960 and 1974, NASA's budget averaged about 2.3% of the federal budget, with a high in 1966 of 5.5% (~35 billion dollars adjusted for 2007 dollars).
Beginning in 1962, NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs studied how to launch and keep the astronauts alive for several days while in orbit, how to rendezvous and dock with other spacecraft, how to move about outside of the spacecraft, and how to land safely on Earth.
These were followed by the Apollo Program (1961 until 1975) which focused on sending astronauts to orbit, land on, and explore the Moon.
While wireless headphones and microphones were invented earlier, the first headsets were created for and worn by the astronauts in 1962.
While international pressures jump-started the Apollo missions, really cool and useful stuff resulted -- like cordless power tools, water filters, and foam insulation.
While the song was written in 1954, Frank Sinatra recorded his famous version in 1964. Astronauts on both Apollo 10 and Apollo 11 chose to play Sinatra's recording.
Piere Boulle, author of Planet of the Apes and The Bridge Over the River Kwai, publishes Garden on the Moon. This fictional telling of the space race ends with Japan landing the first man on the Moon.
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon. The initial Soviet reaction was that if they could not be first, they could still be best. Unfortunately, faced with a variety of challenges, they never were able to successfully land a man on the Moon.
The six Apollo landings which took place between 1969 and 1972, fulfilled the goals of establishing the United States' preeminence in space. Apollo also initiated scientific exploration of the Moon and began to develop and test the human capacity to work in the lunar environment.
During Apollo 11's mission, Pink Floyd was inspired to perform "Moonhead" in a live broadcast. In 1972, Pink Floyd recorded their most successful album, "The Dark Side of the Moon," with uplifting themes such as conflict, greed, and mental illness.
The Moon in fact has no permanently dark side, just a far side.
Apollo Experiments studied the Moon's surface and environment, lunar quakes, the solar wind, and the Moon's magnetic field. Among other experiments, the astronauts deployed a laser reflector; measurements using it have shown that the Moon is moving away from Earth about 1.5 inches a year. Which means Earth is slowing down. Which means days are getting longer.
The Apollo landings provided scientists with huge amounts of lunar data in the form of photography and orbital experiment results, sample collections and surface operations. Altogether, the Apollo missions returned 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil.
Budget constraints ended the Apollo program in 1972. NASA's budget returned to 1% or less of the federal budget. Which is still a lot of money.
One of the most widely distributed photographic images, this was the first clear image of an illuminated Earth. Taken by the crew of Apollo 17, the photo has been used to depict Earth's frail vulnerability, and became the poster-child for Earth Day.
Prior to the mid 1970's, competing hypotheses had the Moon forming by being "spun" off the Earth, Earth capturing a wandering Moon, Earth and Moon being "born" at the same time, in the same place. All of these theories had flaws. A new theory proposed that the Moon formed from the debris created by a collision between early Earth and smaller planetary body.
By 1984, enough data - in a large part provided by the Apollo rocks - existed for this theory that it replaced the earlier theories. Scientists still have unanswered questions and continue to test their findings against this model, so stay tuned for further tweaking!
In 1979, The Police released "Walking on the Moon," filmed at the Kennedy Space Center. It appears to be about the reduced gravity on the Moon's surface (which allowed astronauts to jump high in spite of heavy spacesuits), but was actually about the feeling of being in love.
A Grand Day Out: Wallace and Gromit travel to the Moon in a really cushy rocket, to have a picnic that includes lunar cheese.
The first evidence of water on the Moon came from the 1994 Clementine mission's radar observations of permanently dark craters near the Moon's south pole, suggesting icy surfaces. In 1998, NASA launched the Lunar Prospector to map the Moon's poles, gravity, and to search for ice deposits; data collected by Prospector suggested the Moon may have water ice.
Japan's 2007 Kaguya probe didn't find any signs of water ice at the poles, but in 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 conclusively detected water on the Moon's surface! Its findings were confirmed by the NASA LCROSS mission in 2009 when the spacecraft impacted a polar crater, sending up a plume of ejecta that was analyzed by spectrometers aboard the shepherding spacecraft, LRO, and in telescopes on Earth.
Scientists, left with nothing to argue about, turned quickly to hotly debating the source and history of this water.
Water on the Moon may serve as a valuable resource to any future human stations on the Moon, removing the need to ship tons of water to the Moon.
Data from computer models suggest that some of the planets, and asteroids and planets have migrated, and even swapped places. The data suggestions that about 3.8 billion years ago the inner planets and moons, were bombarded, by comets or asteroids flung in by migrating planets. In some models, Jupiter migrated, but there are actually many different scenarios.
The debate continues, more samples from the Moon may hold the key to the answer to this interplanetary game of muiscal chairs.
In response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, and as a way to regain public enthusiasm for space exploration, President Bush announced a new Vision for Space Exploration, which would serve national scientific, security and economic interests. The VSE (yes, you are in NASA-acronym-land, or NAL) proposed to return astronauts to the Moon no later than 2020, in part, in preparation for further space exploration beyond the Moon.
NASA turned again to the Moon with a budget that was about half that of the Apollo days (in 2007 equivalent dollars) and the charge to "pay as you go."
Driven by the quest for scientific knowledge, the search for economic benefits...or just plain ol' competition, 2007 to 2009 saw a flurry of activity as China, Japan, India, and the United States each launched a robotic mission to orbit and study the Moon.
NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009 (it is currently in orbit around the Moon) to collect detailed information about the lunar environment in preparation for future exploration. LRO has captured some truly amazing images, including trails left by the Apollo astronauts on moonwalks.
As NASA struggled with balancing incremental steps in space exploration with an end goal of "to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond," it became apparent that the exploration infrastructure (things like rockets) would cost more money than NASA had in its future budget - about 0.6% of the total federal budget.
NASA needed a course correction or a budget adjustment. In 2009 the Augustine Commission suggested NASA either explore "flexible" paths to get to Mars or get a budget hike from Congress. This ushered in yet another period of fist-fights and name calling among the pro-Moon, pro-asteroids, pro-Mars factions.
In spite of statements by talk show hosts who shall remain nameless, NASA's cratering experiment on October 9, 2009 was not about "bombing the moon" -- it was about analyzing the materials in permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's south pole to see if water ice existed in these super cold places.
The experiment didn't create much visible debris, but did provide scientists with detailed spectra that enabled them to identify the fingerprints of water.
Mix a lonely helium-3 miner on the Moon and a talking computer named "Gerty" that sounds like Kevin Spacey and what do you get? The movie Moon. Released in 2009, Moon was directed by Duncan Jones, the son of rock icon David Bowie.
In February 2010, President Obama proposed to cancel the Constellation program that would return humans to the Moon. No replacement human destination has been officially determined at this point in time. The proposed NASA budget includes funds for continued robotic missions to the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and more, to identify hazards and resources for future human exploration.
Proponents of human space exploration point out that our nation needs a space exploration program to maintain our global economic and technological edge and that advancing humans across the solar system and beyond is our only real strategy for survival as a species.
Pro-asteroid factions clammer that understanding Near Earth Objects (NEO) better will help us prepare for possible future asteroid impacts on Earth - and there may be some nifty resources on asteroids.
Pro-Moon tribes counter that the Moon is a much closer, safer target to learn about living in space, and it has plenty of information about asteroids on its surface.
Current plans still include missions to orbit and study the Moon. GRAIL is due to launch in Sept. 2011, to study the Moon's interior, and LADEE should launch in 2012, to study the Moon's very thin atmosphere and dust, caused by the constant sand-blasting of solar particles.
As scientists better understand the Moon's properties and its history, they will be able to apply that knowledge to Earth's own history, and to our solar system.
Will a New Moon rise? Stay tuned!