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Do artists do their best work before they get clean?
Of course they weren't going to allow Arthur to stay drunk. What were the chances that the new Arthur, starring Russell Brand as the billionaire lush who loses his butler, keeps his millions, gets the girl, wouldn't end with him in an AA meeting, knees clamped meekly together, learning how to take it a day at a time? The studio didn't even allow any alcohol in the trailers. The original film, in which Dudley Moore did all this and stayed drunk the whole time, looks more and more radical with every passing day, a capsule from another era, before Dr. Drew and Celebrity Rehab arrived on the scene, a time before Lindsay and Paris and Britney, a Land That Oprah Forgot, otherwise known as the inside of Charlie Sheen's head.
Dudley Moore based his beautifully sozzled performance on his partner Peter Cook, the doyen of Cambridge's Beyond the Fringe and star of the satirical shows That Was The Week That Was and Not Only But Also, whom Stephen Fry called "the funniest man who ever drew breath." You've probably never heard of him. Cook's Hollywood career was a nonstarter, and the BBC managed to wipe the entirety of his work for them, leaving his status as the Withnail of English comedy—the genius underachiever, whose gifts for sodden surrealism seem forever intertwined with his gifts of lurking self-sabotage—resting on a series of dazzling chat-show appearances and phone-ins to local radio stations, in which Cook, battling sleeplessness, pretended to be a Norwegian fisherman named Sven. ("Sven explains his delight in finding not all British radio 'phone in's are about fish," runs the summary for one such call, preserved at the Peter Cook Appreciation society. "Unlike Norway, where the fish phone in's have become so bad, Sven's wife, Yuta has left him.")
Curiously enough, it's a TV tribute to Cook—and Cook was exactly the kind of comic's comic, like Bill Hicks, to whom others were always paying tribute—that was playing on TV when the 27-year-old Russell Brand checked into a cold, damp rehab in Suffolk in 2003, to be weaned off a $150-a-day crack-and-heroin habit, in Brand's 2009 memoir, My Booky Wook. "I've always favored Peter Cook over lovely Dudley Moore," he writes, with that unerring instinct addicts have for sniffing one another out. "I suppose I must be more strongly drawn to the romantic Don Quixote archetype than the Sancho Panza Realist."
The difference between Cook and Brand, like that between the 1981 Arthur and the 2011 remake—we are all Sancho Panzas now, longing for the days of Don Quixote—helps explain the strangely ghoulish cult that has sprung up around Charlie Sheen, as he turns resistance to recovery into an existential act reprising the best parts of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with Sheen as McMurphy duking it out with Dr. Drew and other assorted cable yakkers in the Nurse Ratchett role, humorless in nursing whites. "You're completely missing the point if you think the Charlie Sheen moment is really a story about drugs," wrote Bret Easton Ellis in Newsweek recently. "It's thrilling watching someone call out the solemnity of the celebrity interview, and Sheen is loudly calling it out as the sham it is. He's raw and lucid and intense: the most fascinating person wandering through the culture."
Ellis, ever the Zeitgeist Whisperer, was right to catch wind of a backlash against the current prominence of recovery in pop culture, from Lindsay Lohan's neverending courtroom drama to Karl Lagerfeld's "quotation" of alcohol-detector ankle bracelets in a recent fashion show. The transformative storyline of recovery, so perfectly attuned to the rhythms of modern-day fame, not to mention the crash-and-burn arc of VH1's Behind the Music, has become the most prominent celebrity narrative, a myth of hubris and redemption, in which the modern-day Prometheus is struck down at the height of their acclaim, spirited down to the underworld to do battle with their demons, before emerging victorious and chastened, a new album clamped under their armpit, with liners notes that thank God and say things like "Here are the songs that mark my journey."
Some skepticism is to be expected. The critics were not kind to Eminem's 2010 comeback album, Recovery, in which he sought to combine old-school rap disses with a more inspirational message of 12-step togetherness, a contradiction he resolved primarily by taking out some of his ire on his previous comeback albums. "The last two albums didn't count / Encore, I was on drugs/Relapse, I was flushing 'em out/I've come to make it up to you now/No more f---in' around," raps Mathers, revealing that in his darkest hour he considered dissing Kanye West and Lil Wayne, the two rappers who gained the most during his absence, but resisted the impulse. "Thank God that I didn't do it / I'da had my ass handed to me."
For some, the idea of a kinder, gentler Eminem was no Eminem at all. "At this point, the number of times he's sounded rudderless on record are catching up to the times he's sounded alive," wrote one reviewer. "Recovery is a morose picture of an artist grappling, and often losing his grip," another, recalling the cruel notices that John Berryman received for his poems to his higher power ("Under new Governance your majesty") or for the novel he wrote in rehab, also entitled like Eminem's opus, Recovery, and which was to have incorporated "a bloody philosophy of both history and Existens, almost as heavy as Tolstoy." It remained unfinished; within weeks of leaving rehab, Berryman threw himself from the Washington Avenue bridge in Minneapolis.
You cannot write any books if you are dead, of course. It may seem a little impertinent to apply aesthetic criteria to a life or death battle—a version of that cruelest of taunts, "I liked him better when he was drunk." That there is a mellowing, though, is undeniable. Martin Scorsese put down drugs and made two comedies and a film about Jesus. Raymond Carver quit the booze and produced Cathedral, an unexpectedly redemptive volume of stories, complete with allegorical blind men, praised by critics for the luminosity of its prose. Damien Hirst got sober and produced a version of the Last Supper featuring ping-pong balls and a series of dazzlingly colorful butterfly paintings. Even Charles Bukowski, briefly sober to battle tuberculosis, found himself composing a series of poems about his cats and one about the "little bluebird in my heart."
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The headaches are biggest for the bad boys, whether bad-boy poets (Bukowski), bad-boy painters (Hirst), or bad-boy actors (Sheen). Theirs is the most humiliating of climb-downs. Dark sides tend to shrivel beneath the pitiless fluorescent glare of the rehab; nothing shrinks the gonads more than the prospect of drawing up an amends list to the bats whose heads you've bitten off. Stephen King used to drink a case of 16-ounce tallboys a night—he can barely remember writing Cujo, he was so loaded—but after a family intervention in 1987, he finally sobered up, although arguably his work knew before he did. One of the things that makes The Shining one of the best books ever written about alcoholism is that it doesn't know what it is about. It was an act of urgent self-diagnosis, conducted in the pitch dark. Once King shone a light into the closet and found out what the real monster was, his work took on a much baggier, more therapeutic feel, with less overly supernatural elements and more in the way psychological demons, metaphorical ghosts. His work self-exorcised.
There is more going on here than just booze and drugs, of course. Most pop careers, with some notable exceptions, are not designed to last much longer than the five-year mark. It's one reason why the fast-burning metabolism of the average drug career has found such a snug fit in the world of rock-n-roll, where longevity is least expected or rewarded. The anesthetic vocabulary of AA meetings and rehab centers, meanwhile, poses translation problems to anyone with aspirations toward mainstream success. "Apart from anything else, I think doing that puts a barrier between you and those people who had had the self restraint to keep their indulgence in those pleasures within socially acceptable limits," worried Brand in his memoir. In other words: I'll lose my audience.
Arthur may do that all on its own, of course, but as the box office receipts for that film trickle in, Brand, unlike his predecessors in the crash-and-burn generation, can blame neither booze nor the lack of it. He's part of a new breed in show business: the sober young professional who gets sober at his agent's behest and sits in rehab taking notes for his comedy routine. Self-destruction is, like, so last century. The hoary old shibboleths linking creativity and self-obliteration simply haven't been able to withstand the mounting evidence of great works completed while stone-cold sober: Cheever's Falconer, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Goodfellas, maybe Scorsese's best film, and certainly his druggiest, a jonesing, jitterbugging masterpiece which almost exactly reproduces the arc and fall of a three-day cocaine jag. Arguably Scorsese's films have got more druggy—which is to say, high on the self-intoxication of their own style—not less, since their director quit the junk. But then maybe we knew this already: Art is the biggest drug of all.
New York, New York—Martin Scorsese
The Shining—Stephen King
The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs—Eric Clapton
Blue Poles: Number 11, 195 —Jackson Pollock
Dream Song —John Berryman
The Scarlet Letter—Gary Oldman
Honky Chateau—Elton John
Poesies—Arthur Rimbaud
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Cathedral—Raymond Carver
The Blue Mask—Lou Reed
The Greatest—Cat Power
Raging Bull—Martin Scorsese
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Falconer—John Cheever
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It can be challenging as a parent to find the balance between being involved with and supportive of a child's science fair project and helping too much. As your child works on his or her project, he or she will likely face stumbling blocks. To help, ask questions to help your child figure things out; don't just provide the answers. Open-ended questions, such as "What else could you try to solve this?" or "What is stopping you from going on to the next step?" are best (Fredericks & Asimov, 2001). Sometimes, just talking it out can help children get unstuck. If not, ask the teacher for help. Respect your child's independence in learning by helping at the right level.


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Affiliated Faculty: Jason Alicea, Michael Cross, Jim Eisenstein, Manuel Endres, David Goodstein, David Hsieh, Alexei Kitaev, Ken Libbrecht, Olexei I. Motrunich, John Preskill, Gil Refael, Tom Rosenbaum, Michael Roukes, Axel Scherer, Sandra M. Troian, Nai-Chang Yeh
Condensed Matter Physics research includes correlated electron systems, 2-D matter, phase transitions, atomic and excitonic Bose condensation, nanomechanical and nanoelectronic systems, biosensors, quantum electromechanics, phonon physics, high-temperature superconductivity, graphene and carbon nanotube systems, quantum entanglement, dynamics of disordered systems, chaos, pattern formation, and systems far from equilibrium. Resources include numerous labs in the Caltech physics department, at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech, and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The observational cosmology group explores the structure and dynamics of the early universe using precise measurements of the cosmological microwave background radiation. The formation of the early galaxies is being probed using new 'intensity mapping' methods that trace galaxy clustering with dark matter.
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Activities in the elementary particle physics group are aimed at understanding the fundamental constituents of matter and searching for signatures of physics beyond the Standard Model. Current experiments include CMS at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, directly probing electroweak symmetry breaking and potential new physics accessible at high energies; the NOvA and DUNE long-baseline neutrino experiments, exploring the physics of neutrino mass and mixing and searching for leptonic CP violation; the BABAR experiment at SLAC, searching for new physics in CP-violating and other rare processes in B meson and tau lepton decays; the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab, searching for charged lepton flavor violation; SuperCDMS at SNOLAB, reaching new sensitivities for direct detection of dark matter; and precision atomic/molecular/optical spectroscopic experiments with sensitivity to new sources of CP violation and other physics beyond the Standard Model.
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Observations from the LIGO and LISA projects seek to use gravitational radiation to study a variety of astrophysical sources. Theoretical studies are aimed at developing sensitive data analysis techniques and calculating G-wave signals from sources such as coalescing black holes and neutron stars.
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Caltech is host to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory, which is constructing advanced detectors that will begin data-taking in 2015; we expect to make the first detections of GWs in subsequent years. We work closely with the Caltech Theoretical Astrophysics group and several Caltech precision measurement groups, and with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
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The Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) investigators span Caltech's departments of physics, applied physics, and computer science, and are interested in a wide spectrum of both experimental and theoretical research topics. These topics include, but are not limited to, quantum information science, quantum many-body physics in condensed matter and atomic gas systems, topological states of matter, quantum optics and light-matter interactions at the quantum level, quantum cavity-optomechanics, and quantum metrology.
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The nuclear physics group is focused on performing precision nuclear physics measurements to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Precision measurements of free neutron decay allow sensitive searches for deviations from the Standard Model, while measurements of the neutron electric dipole moment provide access to new sources of Charge-Parity (CP) violation and may help explain the dominance of matter over antimatter in the universe.
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Research in this area covers a broad range of topics using observational tools covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
The high-energy astrophysics group at the Space Radiation Laboratory (SRL) uses X-ray and gamma-ray detectors aboard spacecraft and balloons to investigate energetic processes from compact astrophysical objects, including gamma-ray bursts from neutron-star and black-hole systems, supernova and hypernova dynamics, and the development of stars and galaxies in the early universe.
The cosmic ray group at SRL uses data from a variety of spacecraft to study the composition of energetic particles arriving from the sun, the local interstellar medium, and beyond, in order to understand the origin and acceleration of energetic particles in space.
The ultraviolet astronomy group uses satellite observations, such as from the GALEX spacecraft, to explore the ultraviolet sky. Studies include the birth and death of stars, galaxy dynamics and evolution, and other areas.
The submillimeter astronomy group studies star formation, interstellar gas, galaxies, and quasars using the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory and other facilities. An active program is also under way to develop new superconducting detector technologies for use at these wavelengths, in collaboration with scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The infrared astronomy group studies a host of astrophysical phenomena using Caltech's Palomar Observatory, the twin10-meter optical telescopes at the Keck Observatory, and observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Caltech also manages the Spitzer Science Center on campus.
Physical Biology
Affiliated Faculty: Michael Dickinson, Michael Elowitz, Lea Goentoro, Markus Meister, Lior Pachter, Rob Phillips, Michael Roukes, Matt Thomson, Sandra M. Troian
One of the most exciting frontier areas in modern physics is the study of living matter. Because of spectacular advances in technologies such as microscopy and DNA sequencing, it is now possible to have the kind of dialogue between theory and experiment in the study of living organisms that is the life blood of traditional physics. Research in physical biology at Caltech focuses on a broad array of topics ranging from the development of new technologies for single-cell mass spectrometry to the use of statistical mechanics to describing signaling and regulatory networks to quantitative approaches in neuroscience.
Quantum Optics and Information
Affiliated Faculty: Fernando Brandao, Manuel Endres, Nick Hutzler, Jeff Kimble, Alexei Kitaev, Oskar Painter, John Preskill
Research on campus and at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech includes studies of the nature of quantum computation and quantum information, cavity quantum electrodynamics, algorithms and error correction techniques in quantum computation, and generally how quantum physics can be harnessed to improve the acquisition, transmission,and processing of information.
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The TAPIR (Theoretical Astrophysics Including Relativity) group carries out research on an ever-changing list of topics, including high-energy astrophysics and the physics of black holes and neutron stars, gravitational-wave astrophysics, cosmology, the formation of stars and galaxies in the early universe, and general relativity.
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Physics Research Centers & Institutes
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Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS)
Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics
Space Radiation Laboratory (SRL)
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics (WBITP)
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UDP-GlcNAc : lysosmal enzyme GlcNAc 1-phosphotransferase, which defects or partially expresses the activity in Mucolipidosis type II (I-cell disease) or type III, respectively, has not yet been analyzed for the biochemical property, since the enzyme is much less expressed and unstable in many mammalian tissues such as liver, kidney, etc. Furthermore the enzyme requires[beta -^<32>P]UDP-GlcNAc for assay of the activity as a donor, which is not available commercially and needs to be synthesized. These disadvantages, therefore, delay to investigate above diseases in detail. This project aims to analyze immunologically the enzyme protein and further clarify a mechanism of the defect in the Mucolipidosis after purification of the human enzyme.(1991) 1. The activity of the enzyme was much higher in human leukemic' enzyme and the serum, and human hepatocellular carcinoma tissue as compared to their normal control. Furthermore, rat fibrosarcoma cell KMT-17, established in this university, and the ascites cells demonstrated the highest activity, suggesting better source of the enzyme to purify. 2. The enzyme has been purified from rat liver Golgi membrane by us, and poly clonal antibody against the enzyme has been prepared by rabbit. However, the antibody has not reacted immunologically to human enzyme, showing different protein between rat and human (in preparation to be submitted).(1992) 1. The purification methods of the rat enzyme has been applied for the human enzyme, however, resulting low purification fold (10^4-fold), since fresh or unfrozen tissue from human has not been available. 2. Since the enzyme catalyzes the phosphorylation to mannan from UDP-GlcNAc, the analogues of these substrates might be employed as a photoaffinity probe. In fact, azidosalycilate derivatives of[beta -^<32>P]UDP-GlcNH_2 and mannan has been synthesized)and the derivatives are appling for detection of the enzyme in several cells.
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Morocco Amethyst (Wholesale Flat) - 18 Pieces
While we are almost exclusively a retail seller of fossils and minerals, on occasion acquire large quantities of certain material at steep discounts to typical wholesale prices. This leaves us with an excess amounts of certain types of material or items we don't typically sell. We are in the process of listing a limited quantity of this material for sale at wholesale prices by the box, flat or weight.
This is a wholesale flat of 18 plates of amethyst crystals from Tarazout, Morocco. They range from approximately 2.2 to 3.7" wide and you will receive the exact group pictured.
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We are waiting for our used Weinig Profimat 23 5 head molder and used Rondamat 925 to arrive. We plan to have a molder guru come and train us on our machines (probably early December, maybe late November) but right now while waiting I am trying to learn about the world of Weinig molders and begin to form our tooling strategy. We are moving from a Wm & Hussey which has been a faithful tool for over a decade to a "big boy planer" and have a lot to learn. A few general tooling questions:
1. What is the normal kind of knife run on Weinig molders in general
a. is it HSS corrugated knives ground by the woodwork factory itself on a Rondamat or equivalent? From looking at Weinig USA online tooling catalog it seems corrugated knives are normal.
b. Is it welded carbide knives custom ordered from tooling companies like those commonly used on shapers? How often are these welded shaper cutters used on Weinig molders?
c. Is it solid carbide insert tooling like Leitz, Vortex, Garniga, Leuco, etc?
d. When would I choose one of these over the other options? I am planning to use insert tooling for flooring and cabinet and passage door sticking profiles that have precision mating profiles Id be afraid to try to have our guys consistently grind these accurately.
2. These two profiles shown below what kind of knife do you recommend for the 127mm crown and the 70mm door casing? We run these often, but in small quantities. 100% of our production is for a single home or project at a time made to order. So a typical run on the molder might be anywhere from 5 to 200 meters of stock on a given profile, and always in hardwoods such as walnut, cherry, oak or alder.
Especially interested in response from people who have Weinigs or are very familiar with them.
Corrugated knifes are the most common type of tool for in house grinding. The use of carbide inserts is also very common.
The brazed on tools are still used on moulders but are not as common as the corrugated version.
I use the carbide insert tooling for the straight tools and sometimes for the angle cuts. The profile tools I recommend either M2 steel unless the rums are long or out of maple, then I recommend DGK knife steel.
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I went through the same thing your going through about seven years ago. I have a Weinig Unimat 23 and a R934 grinder. It took a little while to work everything out but we now run around 150,000' through it a year. I run a spiral insert head on my first head for "hogging" off the excess wood. The rest of the heads are corragated M3 HSS. We run anything from shoe mould to 8" crown. I've tried Terminus straight knife heads but it is easier and cheaper to grind your own straight knives, at least in my opinion. The biggest learning curve for me was learning the grinding process. I happened upon Jim at Alliance Knife Grinding and actually visited him at his shop. He gave me a crash coarse on grinding and that was a huge help. I still get all my grinding supplies from him and he is awesome. Hope this helps a little, if you ever want to talk shoot me your number.
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Justin Bieber dropped his latest single, 'Bad Day' on Monday (November 4) but it sounds more like a description of his concert in Sao Paolo, Brazil on Saturday. While singing his hit 'Boyfriend' Justin was hit in the face by a water bottle that a fan threw onstage.
According to reports, the singer stared intently into the crowd for a few moments and then stormed off the stage. The crowd chanted for thirty minutes for the Biebs to return and finish the show, but he never did and the concert was cut short. See the video below.
See also: Justin Bieber: On The Road To 'Recovery'
The critics were not kind to the 19-year-old. "A night of fun was overshadowed by a few seconds of anger and immaturity," a Brazilian critic wrote.
But it sounds like Justin had already built up some ill-will with the fans; he reportedly showed up an hour and twenty minutes late to the concert arena, and was three hours late to a meet-and-greet with fans who had paid $1,000 to meet him.


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Saltwater Aquariums For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Table of Contents
Author Information
Part I: Getting to Know Your Fish and Invertebrates.
Chapter 1: Your First Salty Steps.
Chapter 2: Some Things Fishy.
Chapter 3: Choosing the Best Fish for You.
Chapter 4: About Invertebrates.
Chapter 5: From the Dealer to Your Home.
Part II: Setting Up Your Aquarium.
Chapter 6: Choosing the Best Aquarium.
Chapter 7: Figuring Out Filters.
Chapter 8: Heating and Lighting Your Aquarium.
Chapter 9: Fishy Furnishings and Finishing Touches.
Chapter 10: Partial to Salt: The Brackish Aquarium.
Chapter 11: Getting Your Aquarium Up and Running.
Part III: Taking Proper Care of Your Aquarium.
Chapter 12: The Nitrogen Cycle.
Chapter 13: More Chemistry: Salt, Acidity, and Gases.
Chapter 14: All About Algae.
Chapter 15: Keeping Your Aquarium Clean.
Part IV: Taking Proper Care of Your Fish.
Chapter 16: Feeding Your Fish.
Chapter 17: Preventing Stress.
Chapter 18: Diseases and Treatments.
Chapter 19: Observing Your Fish.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 20: Ten Fish to Avoid.
Chapter 21: Ten Invertebrates to Avoid.
Chapter 22: Five Simple Metric Conversions.
Chapter 23: Ten Great Public Saltwater Aquariums.
Part VI: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Resources.
Appendix B: Glossary.


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The Evening Sun asked readers if they thought the United States was doing the right thing in the Persian Gulf crisis.
Callers were nearly evenly divided on whether multinational forces should attack. Of 526 callers, 266 said yes and 260 said no. Most favored continuing economic sanctions against Iraq to force Saddam Hussein to leave Kuwait, with 329 out of 528 (62 percent) in favor; 199 said sanctions should be lifted.
A narrow majority said the United States should negotiate the release of hostages held by Saddam; 274 out of 525 (52 percent) said yes, while 252 were opposed to negotiations.
Only 30 percent (158 of 523) said multinational forces should be withdrawn from Saudi Arabia. Most callers -- 365 -- said the forces should not be withdrawn.End of story


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Diane Kruger is a New York City Tourist in the Wrong City!
Diane Kruger seems to be a tourist stuck in the wrong city while wearing an "I Heart Nueva York" t-shirt while shopping with a gal pal on Thursday (February 20) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 37-year-old actress was seen out and about the day before getting some groceries at her local Gelson's Market.
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Disney After Dark
Publisher: Hyperion (August 29, 2005)
Paperback: 324 pages
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park "guides" find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI–which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging–Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, and four other kids are transformed into hologram projections that guide guests through the park. The new technology turns out, however, to have unexpected effects that are both thrilling and scary. Soon Finn finds himself transported in his DHI form into the Magic Kingdom at night. Is it real? Is he dreaming? Finn's confusion only increases when he encounters Wayne, an elderly Imagineer who tells him that the park is in grave danger. Led by the scheming witch, Maleficent, a mysterious group of characters called the Overtakers is plotting to destroy Disney's beloved realm, and maybe more.
Have you ever imagined being able to have the run of the Disney World theme park after close? No long lines. No giant crowds of people. It's just you and the theme park. Or that's what people like to think. Finn Whitman, and four other teens, land the job of being a DHI, Disney Host Interactive (or Daylight Hologram Imaging, as others call it). Somehow the technology goes wonky when, after falling asleep, Finn and the others wake to find themselves the DHI's in the theme park at night. Throw in an old guy (Wayne) to lead them to saving the park, a few Disney baddies trying to take over (oh, Maleficent), and you've got yourself an adventure any kid (or older person) would enjoy.
This first book was definitely a fun time in the Magic Kingdom. It had a good steady pace and decent amounts of character development. (Especially considering this is a series and there are five DHIs to account for.) The focus is mostly on Finn, but he's a likable, easy to sympathize with protagonist.
Disney At Dawn
Publisher: Hyperion (August 26, 2008)
Paperback: 384 pages
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
It's supposed to be a happy day at the Magic Kingdom–the return of the teenaged holographic hosts. But things go very wrong when a sudden lightning storm disrupts the celebration, and Amanda's mysterious sister, Jez, disappears. The only clue is the sighting of a wild monkey in the Magic Kingdom during the storm. The mystery deepens as Finn is contacted by Wayne, an old man he hasn't heard from in months. Wayne tells Finn that there's trouble at the Animal Kingdom: the evil Overtakers have gained control of one of the computer servers that will be used to operate Daylight Holographic Imaging there. That means that if any of the holographic hosts fall asleep, they will go into comas–permanently.
This one takes place in Animal Kingdom. And it's the first indication that I, as a reader, had to the fact that each book would take place in a different area of Disney World. (How cool is that??) Rumors of what happened in Disney After Dark has spread, and the DHI's are being called Kingdom Keepers by their fans.
Jess (the nice and no-longer-controlled-by-Maleficent version of Jez from Disney After Dark) has been taken for reasons the Kingdom Keepers aren't too sure they believe quite yet. But they're still willing to help her. (Especially considering Amanda and Finn's almost-but-not-really-sort-of relationship.)
The characters who really came to life in this book, for me, were Charlene (Charlie) and Philby. They really showed their individual strengths well. But as a team, they're starting to really gel well together. The first book they were all just thrown together. With this book, they've had time together and are now really being able to accommodate for all their individual assets.
Disney In Shadow
Publisher: Hyperion (April 6, 2010)
Paperback: 576 pages
Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
The five teens, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck, search for Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer who has mysteriously gone missing. Concerned Wayne has been abducted by the Overtakers—Disney villains, who along with other Disney characters, take over the parks when the turnstiles stop spinning, and want desperately to steer the parks to a far darker place—the five kids pick up a major clue from a close friend, Jez, whose dreams (nightmares, really) often accurately predict the future. The very few clues from Jez's dream lead the kids into Disney's Hollywood Studios and Epcot–through imaginary worlds that become real, by imaginary kids who are real. Each clue seems tied to the last, and with the stakes growing ever higher, what starts out as a puzzle ends up as a fight for their lives.
After the last book, it's obvious where the Kingdom Keepers' focus would be: rescuing Wayne. He's been their mentor (of sorts), and the one to introduce them (or drag them forcibly) into this unseen world of Disney after hours. And he's been taken. So it's up the kids to save him. And, to make things interesting, it takes place in Epcot.
My favorite part about this book is that Finn finally grows to accept his role as Leader of the Kingdom Keepers. Throughout the first, second, and most of this third book, Finn has shied away from outright calling himself the Leader. But as time went on, it was obvious the others looked to him as that person. With this third book, he finally accepts his role and, with that, his responsibilities.
It's not just Finn though. With the third book, we're finally seeing a lot more character development. It's like the first two books were setting the stage and getting them altogether. With this book, they're now growing used to one another and their own places within the group. Another really fun adventure that keeps the reader hanging on until the last page.
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"At the end of your life you will want to know if you really lived your life fully." – Brendon Burchard
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…they just need to get by. I sympathize with them; It is not easy to make ends meet these days. Now has it ever been easy to make ends meet at all? There will be contrasting answers to this but my point is, you do not have to settle for less forever. There is always a way to lead the life you would enjoy (fully). You can't do anything about outside factors. You have no power over them but there is something you have power over
The only power you have, which no one can take from you,
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If you take nothing else from this site today, at least take this with you: reasonably you control your mind. Therefore, you control your thoughts. It means you can decide which way to take your life if you want to because your thoughts are a major part of what you become in life.
What you think about the most is what WILL become real in your life. Obviously, we all face situations and circumstances that can slow our progression down, but if we don't nurture our mind with positive thinking, then these circumstances will hold us still. Here is my philosophy:
Whatever you want or desire, can be yours if you do what it takes.
What it takes is the control of your mind. Watch and check the thoughts you put in your mind. They can control your entire life. People have died just because they believed there was nothing else to do. Luckily, people have survived unexplanable trials just because they believed they had the right to live.
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My last blog of 2011 showed how warm and dry much of the West was in December. The calendar may have been chanted, but the weather pattern certainly hasn't. If the long-range models are right, we may see no appreciable change over the next two weeks.
So. Oregon and California have virtually no snow. Compare this to a year ago when there was at least 50-75 inches in the Cascades and sierras. From Jan 4-12, southern Oregon prediction was for .o001 and California.00. The week of jan. 12-17 both areas can expect no precipitation,
I will remind you that there can be errors, and sometime huge errors, in computer models that go out this far. However, given that pattern we have been in for the last five to six weeks, it is certainly conceivable.
According to just released snowpack study of the Sierra, the snowpack is only 19 percent of normal for the date and 7 percent of April 1 normal. Right now, officials are not overly concerned about these exceptionally low numbers. Quoting DWR Director Mark Cowin, he says, "fortunately, we have more of winter ahead of us, and our reservoir storage is good."
I think the second part of his statement may be more valid than the first. I see no reason why there is much to be optimistic about seeing a major recovery in the snow deficit the rest of the winter as we remain in a La Nina that has been quite dominant. However, I will say that he has a point about the reservoirs. After last year's huge increases in the reservoirs, one year of drought may not bring massive changes in water allocations. I say may not because this seems tied to politics as much as reality. We will see how his statement holds as we go longer into the rest of this winter and coming spring.
The big impact in the short term is on the ski industry. The lack of nature's snowfall has to be having an effect on the turn out on the slopes. Even though resorts have been able to make snow (that costs lots of money), people that live in the lowlands that visit the resorts are just not as motivated to ski or board when they look up into the mountains and see a lack of snowfall except on the slopes. Of course, this snow drought not only affects the ski resorts but also the resort towns who rely on people to flock to the mountains for their livelihood.
The importance of this story will mean I will leave this posted for at least an extra day, so more people can read it. This is the number one weather story in the West so far this season. And it very well may be the weather story of the entire winter.


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Repeatedly performing the same task can result in a number of work-related injuries over a period of time.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common repetitive stress injury that is linked with the overuse of the wrist. There are many types of repetitive stress injuries and workers ranging from baggage handlers and nurses to retail workers are prone to these injuries. (Be informed – Receiving Workers Comp for Repetitive Stress Injuries)
Serious Injury Develops Over Time
Small injuries can worsen over time and turn into something more serious that requires medical attention and time off work. Repetitive stress injuries include more than 100 different types of conditions and injuries and are primarily caused by the wear and tear of a body part over time.
Repetitive stress injuries (RSIs) are also known as continuous motion injuries and are caused by repetitive stress and strain to muscles, ligaments, spinal discs, nerves, and tendons. A worker suffering from an RSI will experience recurring and continuous pain in the hands, neck, wrists, back, shoulders, and lower limbs. Any worker can develop an RSI when his or her job involves repetitive motion of a set of muscles. A worker who performs the following activities every day are more prone to developing RSIs.
- computer typing and mouse use
- moving heavy objects
- digging and landscaping
- lifting hospital patients
- stocking inventory
- using machinery and power tools
- standing in the same position
- lifting heavy weight
Common Repetitive Stress Injuries
- Carpal tunnel syndrome: Damage to a specific nerve in the wrist causing pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness in the fingers and hand. This injury is commonly reported in jobs that require prolonged joystick or computer use.
- Tearing and irritation of the tendons: Associated with overuse or over-stretching specific muscles.
- Irritation and inflammation of a bursa: A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that provides cushion to a joint. It causes pain and swelling in the affected joint and this condition is common in workers that have to constantly reach overhead or carry heavy items.
- Patellofemoral syndrome: A condition characterized by the weakening of kneecap cartilage caused by squatting, climbing, or kneeling.
- Stress fractures: Repetitive and rhythmic actions such as jumping, walking, or running can cause minute bone cracks.
- Epicondylitis: Commonly known as tennis elbow, this condition causes pain and swelling in the elbow and is caused by joint strain and overuse.
Symptoms of Repetitive Stress Injuries
Each RSI has a unique set of symptoms; however, common symptoms that may indicate an RSI are:
- joint or muscle weakness
- tingling or numbness
- hypersensitivity
- clumsiness
- lack of endurance
- coldness in the hands that will not go away
- adopting "awkward" posture to make common actions more comfortable
- using your non-dominant hand to avoid pain in your dominant hand
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Repetitive stress injuries are covered by workers' compensation. However, it can be difficult to prove that the injury is work-related and not a result of normal wear and tear. Speak to a Chicago workers' compensation lawyer for legal help. Call Willens Law Offices at (312) 957-4166 for a free consultation.


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Set any living area a light in 2014 with the addition of an ambient fireplace. Gone are the days of the necessity of a fireplace to keep a room warm … fireplaces are now being installed in the most elaborate of all places around ones home and back yard, creating dynamic interest and awe. Check out the latest designs below to inspire your new home plans.
Fireplaces, no matter where they are, have an ability to draw people in and create the perfect space for gathering and entertaining, creating a focal point in anyone's home. Whether displayed in a central hearth, running linear beside your pool or situated halfway up the wall above your bath, its time to start getting imaginative about where your next fireplace is going to go!
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The Fire Ribbon
With the phasing out of traditional grand fireplaces, 2014 see's the continuous introduction of quirky, modern and sophisticated fireplaces in places never heard of before. Why must a fireplace be square? Why must it be on the ground? On trend in 2014 is the fire ribbon, which as its name suggests, is a long rectangular shaped fireplace that can stretch to any desired length and act as a border, wall or fence. The fire ribbon is often installed low to the ground, below cabinetry or set within a plain wall to accentuate a minimalist look. Although normally installed horizontally, vertical linear fireplaces are always an option!
Why to switch to a gas fireplace?
Nothing beats the smell of rustic wood and popping kindling as you snuggle up on the couch beside your traditional wood-burning fireplace. However, in this growing age where spare time is hard to come by, its hard enough finding time to enjoy a wood-burning fire let alone finding time to collect wood, set it, maintain it and then clean up the mess. This is why gas fireplaces are the way of the future, not to mention that it's better for the environment and economically cheaper! Gas fireplaces are cleaner, cheaper and easy to control. With the amount of options available for gas fireplaces, you can choose your flame colour, height and warmth all from the couch with the push of a button.
Outdoor fireplaces that create outdoor living areas
Nothing quite compares to the luxury of an outdoor living area nor does anything quite compare to the ability of an outdoor fireplace to anchor an outdoor living area. As Australians are shifting more and more towards outdoor lifestyles and backyards are becoming extra living spaces, the addition of an outdoor fireplace will add value and luxe to your property! Whether it be a traditional fireplace that doubles as a pizza oven, a modern gas fire set into a wall or a central fire pit surrounded by lounges and the pool, the outdoor fireplace trend is surely taking off! Jump on it while its hot!


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With the first week of Worlds' main event in the books, keep track of some of the top players at the event with this infographic.
RELATED: The top 20 players at Worlds 2017
While Royal Never Give Up's Shi "ming" Sen-Ming received the highest KDA in the event at 33.0, it bears mentioning that it's because the player garnered 33 assists in three games to go along with no kills or deaths.
Three players at the event currently field 100 percent kill participation, however Samsung Galaxy's Kang "Haru" Min-seung only played one game while SwordarT and Crash played the full three games.
One notable thing is that players from 1907 Fenerbahçe Esports garnered some respectable stats, despite not winning a single game so far. For instance, ADC Ege "padden" Acar Koparal who had the third-fourth highest creep score per minute at 10.5, tied with G2's Luka "PerkZ" Perković. Meanwhile the team's support Bahadır "JAPONE" Çolakhad the second highest wards placed per minute at 1.4.
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SXSW Is a Secret Libertarian Utopia
Hear me out. SXSW is young and hip and progressive — sure, whatever. I have a theory.
It's not that easy to get lost at SXSW, but I did. Not lost lost, just a little off-track; I took the wrong street on the way to Google's strange little "Village" and ended up next to a highway.
I had barely realized my mistake when a car pulled up next to me. A woman shouted from the driver's seat, "Need a ride?" I didn't — I could see the giant Google Maps pin — so I waved her off. "It's free!" As she pulled away, a man ambled over from the I-290 onramp to ask for few bucks.
This wasn't a taxi or a shuttle, exactly. It was a private, free, sponsored car service called "Catch a Chevy," reserved exclusively for people with orange SXSW lanyards. That's when it hit me: I'm pretty sure South by Southwest is a libertarian utopia. WAIT WAIT WAIT, hold on, bear with me.
In favor of SXSW being a Randian utopia:
Everything is free: If you've got a badge you can expect to spend very little money at SXSW. Food trucks with corporate banners dole out BBQ sandwiches, gratis, and drinks flow freely from sponsored bars. Same for transportation, ponchos, clothes — you could probably show up at SXSW Interactive without any clothes.
You get this free stuff because the sponsors think you're worth something to them and because of the kinds of people that are allowed to come to SXSW — people who work at startups, people who have money for startups, people who work in the media, and people who spent a bunch of money to be around all of the above — you probably are. It's not altruism, it's pure capitalism.
It's self-sufficient: When you fork over your entry fee for SXSW, they offer to take care of everything for you: hotels, cars, whatever. You still end up paying for everything but you kind of have to try to leave the bubble. Same is true when you're here: You're really in Austin unless you try. SXSW is like a city unto itself, except the government is an events company.
It's in Texas: One of the top five states for "personal and economic freedom," according to a 2010 study by "market oriented" (read: libertarian) Mercatus Center.
It's actually full of libertarians: Startup culture has a well documented libertarian streak, and SXSW Interactive is all about startups. There are Thielians everywhere, and they all enjoy talking about money and markets and meritocracies and whatnot.
It appears to be lawless: From the street: "Hootsuite blocks traffic by firing tshirts into a crowd, who flood the street like Walking Dead zombies."
Is this Mogadishu?
It's all about money: Almost everyone at SXSW Interactive here to invest, get investment, network, hire, sell, partner or announce. It's a trade show.
Against SXSW being a Randian utopia:
It's not all about startups: While SXSW Interactive is all about startups and tech, the rest of the show is about the arts. (In fact, SXSW was a music festival waaayyy before it became a tech thing.) I don't think anyone would call the SXSW music festival a libertarian utopia. It's just a bunch of cool concerts.
It bears a striking resemblance to the Gathering of Juggalos: As thoroughly explained here.
So there it is: Six to two, SXSW is an objectivist paradise, more or less.
What's a libertarian utopia actually like to live in? It's pretty rainy. Lots of white people. There's sponsorship everywhere. It's fine, I guess?
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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About HeartQuotes about: Heart
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.
Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.
Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it.
"Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking
great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.
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- Born: July 29, 1805
- Died: April 16, 1859
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They pledged to look at further tightening up the rules on the therapeutic use of anabolic steroids at a special executive council meeting of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities in Paris on Tuesday.
The BHA had asked for the special meeting in light of the Al Zarooni case earlier this year when the disgraced Godolphin trainer was banned for eight years after admitting doping some of his horses with steroids. The meeting was an attempt to harmonise the rules on anabolic steroids in racing jurisdictions around the world. Australia, New Zealand and Dubai have fallen into line with Britain during the past couple of months.
At the conference the IFHA reiterated its position that there is no place for anabolic steroids in horse racing either in or out of training. After the meeting finished Jamie Stier, the BHA's director of regulation, said: "Britain already meets the minimum standards on the use of anabolic steroids, but we have committed to exceed those where possible. We will work through a consultation process looking specifically at the therapeutic use of steroids and tightening those controls."
At the moment it is not illegal to use steroids on horses out of the control of trainers, indeed it would be hard to police such a rule. The only stipulation is that there must be no trace of the drugs in a horse's system when it is in a licensed yard.
"We'll consult, have a good look at it, arrive at an agreed position for British racing, and report back to the IFHA in early 2014. It's a commitment, another step and it should be a worthwhile exercise," said Stier
While there is no instant sign of America changing its stance, complicated by the fact that each state has its own racing jurisdiction, Stier added that even countries with "particular positions" on the subject had pledged to look at their rules. "The USA agreed with most things in principle. What they action is up to them, but it was a fruitful meeting."
Meanwhile Gerard Butler, the Newmarket trainer at the centre of the Sungate controversy, will finally face a BHA hearing on Nov 18. Three days have been put aside for the case.
Seven of Butler's horses failed dope tests for the anabolic steroid Stanozolol when they were sampled at his yard on Feb 20. The trainer admitted administering the controversial joint treatment Sungate, which contains a small amount of the steroid, initially on the advice of his vets. Other Newmarket trainers who were similarly advised by vets were given a rap over the knuckles by the BHA, but no more.
However by admitting that he injected it himself, potentially a far more serious offence as it is against the law of the land, let alone the rules of racing, Butler could find himself facing a lengthy ban. He also failed to keep the requisite medical records.
Another eight-month saga, for Derby winning jockey Martin Dwyer, will reach a conclusion of sorts on Wednesday when the BHA's Disciplinary Panel hear his application not to replicate in Britain a 56-day ban imposed by the Royal Western India Turf Club. When Richard Hughes made an application in similar circumstances last year after receiving a lengthy ban in India, it was turned down by the BHA and his ban was reciprocated.


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Bald Eagle
Bald Eagles are large and dangerous predatory birds of North America. They used to be found throughout the US and Canada, but they are now most commonly seen in the northern forests and Arctic regions. Bald Eagles are very sensitive to disturbance of their feeding and breeding areas by humans, and it is only in isolated or protected regions where they now occur in large numbers. Bald Eagles make very large nests at the tops of trees close to water where they can get fish to feed their chicks. Bald Eagles prefer to catch fish from streams and shallow water by flying low and snatching them out of the water with their feet!
Early Eskimo and Indian hunters would look for flocks of eagles to tell them where the salmon were swimming, because eagles have better eyesight than we do. When they see many fish close to the surface they will flock together to catch them. Bald Eagles also will eat dead fish on the shore, and many good places to find them now are near fish canneries and city dumps. Early Arctic people would make traps for eagles using dead fish and a hidden net to trap them. Bald Eagles leave the arctic in fall and migrate south to warmer climates because they find it difficult to find food in winter.
Bald Eagle Nesting
19th Century Naturalist
"Bald Eagles are very abundant throughout the Aleutian chain, where they are resident. In summer they feed upon fish and the numerous wild fowl, which breed among these islands. In winter they feed upon ptarmigan and the seafowl, which reside there during this season. When at the salmon run in Sanborn Harbor, Nagai, Mr. Dall saw seventeen eagles within 100 yards. During winter he found many eagles dead, but they were too fat to have starved, and he was unable to account for the mystery. When he left the islands in October, he found the young still unable to fly, and remarks upon the great length of time they remain in the nest.
Eagles are well known to be extremely common on the entire Aleutian chain, and thence along the south coast of Alaska throughout the Kodiak and Sitkan region. In the latter part of its range it is mainly a fish-eating bird. Throughout the northern portion of the Territory, where it is widely distributed, it is not uncommon to find a pair of eagles frequenting the cliffs in the interior, where they rear their young. Here they prey upon the young reindeer and smaller game, and the natives accuse them of even carrying away children.
The following is a good specimen of Eskimo animal myths, and records the belief that long ago the eagles were larger and fiercer than they now are. The story is current among the Eskimo along the Lower Yukon and neighboring coast:
In ancient times there were eagles of tremendous size frequenting the tops of the highest mountains in the interior and preying upon whales, and full-grown reindeer, and even upon men. A volcanic crater of very regular outline, situated upon the summit of a mountain near the Lower Yukon, was pointed out to me as the nest of the ancient Mutughowik. Around the rim of the crater are differently-colored stones, which, the natives claim, were gathered by these birds to ornament their nest. When the birds sat here, overlooking the Yukon on the one side and the sea far away to the horizon on the other, their screams could be heard for miles, and many luckless creatures were caught in their talons and carried swiftly to their eyrie, and there torn into fragments to be devoured. Year after year these birds remained, until men were afraid to go out on the broad bosom of the Yukon for fear of being caught by these evil guardians of the mountains overlooking their village. Each year the young were raised and flew away, none knew whither; so that never more than two old birds inhabited the mountains.
One spring, after the birds, as usual, had hatched their young, a famous hunter of the village went out alone to attend to his fish-nets. While he was out one of these eagles soared high over the village, and seeing the hunter's wife outside of the house, swooped with a mighty rush of wings and carried her off to feed the nestlings. Ere long the hunter returned, and with wailing cries his friends told him of his loss. For a time he was inconsolable, but at length he seized his bow and examined it carefully, then he selected a quiver of his best arrows and heedless of remonstrance began climbing toward the nest of the eagles. When he had nearly reached his goal he heard the whistling of great wings, and crouching behind a huge boulder, with an arrow drawn to its head, he waited. In an instant the female bird was seen descending, her terrible eyes fired with rage; but just as she was about to grasp the hunter in her talons he buried an arrow under her wing and she fell far down the mountainside mortally hurt. He then advanced and in a short time reached the summit of the mountain finding the young so large that they entirely filled the enormous nest. All about were strewn fragments of men and animals, among which were seen the frames of many kayaks. With vengeful heart he shot arrow after arrow until the last of the brood lay dead. He had scarcely finished, when a wild cry was heard close by, and he saw the male bird approaching. At the same instant the bird caught sight of its slain young and of the hunter. A still 1ouder and more terrifying cry was heard, which made the villagers below shudder for their friend. The eagle darted at its enemy. With unshaken courage the hunter met each assault with a well-directed arrow until the bird, pierced with many wounds, turned, and, upon outspread wings, slowly glided away and vanished far off to the north. Since then none of its kind has ever been seen, and men have been able to hunt without fear. The villagers afterwards visited the nest with their deliverer and found many relics of friends who had perished, and it was only a few years ago that the remains of the kayaks were still to be seen about the nest.
This story is implicitly believed by the natives of the Lower Yukon and adjacent sea-coast, and the Bald Eagle is known by the name which they apply to the bird of their legend."
Bald Eagle subadult
Bald Eagle nestling
Several years ago an archeological site was discovered and excavated in an old volcano core in the Yukon Delta. Perhaps the old village inspired the Eskimo myth.
- Bill Fitzhugh
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How to get to NgateaFly in to Auckland (AKL-Auckland Intl.), 42.5 mi (68.4 km) from downtown Ngatea.
What to see around NgateaIt's recognized for its parks, and top places for nature lovers include:
- • Ngatea Water Gardens
- • Miranda Hot Springs
- • Butterfly and Orchid Garden
- • Karangahake Gorge
- • Hauraki Rail Trail Thames
- • Goldfields Shopping Centre
- • School of Mines & Mineralogical Museum
- • The Treasury
- • Thames Historical Museum
When to visit NgateaCurious about when's the best time to visit? Here are the seasonal norms to help with your planning:
Seasonal temperature averages
- January-March: 73°F day, 57°F night
- April-June: 68°F day, 47°F night
- July-September: 61°F day, 46°F night
- October-December: 71°F day, 50°F night
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- July-September: 14.13 inches
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Hi, Dev: From geronimo 2.1 doc: https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/connectors-and-transaction-management-jdbc-jms-j2ca-datasource-connection-pool-eis.html Security (Credentials) In the J2CA 1.5 spec security considerations are confined to providing the credentials for outbound connections. There is no provision for credential inflow for inbound messaging. This hole is being addressed in the next spec revision. There are three possible sources for credentials for outbound connections: 1. ManagedConnectionFactory configuration. Most ManagedConnectionFactory implementations include user and password config-properties. In the absence of other credentials these are used to authenticate to the resource manager. The values of these properties are generally difficult to conceal securely as they are in some geronimo configuration files on disk and need to be accessible to geronimo in order to create connections. However, this is by far the most frequently used option. This will result in all work in your e.g. database being done by the same user, which basically represents the identity of the geronimo server. 2. Application managed security. Many connection factories such as DataSource provide a way to request connections with a particular security context, such as dataSource.getConnection(user, password). This requires your app to have detailed knowledge of the credentials needed which is rarely appropriate. 3. *Container managed security.* With this scheme you deploy a LoginModule specific to the connector you are using that installs suitable credentials into the Subject on login. When a connection is requested these credentials are extracted from the Subject and used in obtaining the connection. A wide variety of schemes can be used here including - Fixed credentials. Every subject gets the same credentials. This has the same effect as the default credentials scheme except that the credentials may be stored in an external more secure location more easily. - *User credentials. The credentials are the user and password of the user themselves. In this case the work will be done in the resource manager (database) as the user themselves. Unless the connector supports reauthentication (changing the user on an existing connection) this will prevent effective connection pooling.* - Mapped credentials. The credentials for the resource manager are determined from the user identity. For instance the resource manager user could depend on the user being a member of a particular enterprise role or group. In this case without reauthentication support connection pooling should be set up so each resource manager user gets a separate pool. Seems there is Container Managed Security function in security part of connector, i checked the code, currently, we all use ManagedConnectionFactory to do security authentication. not container-managed security. So the feature of user credetials of container managed security. And if we plan to implement this function, any suggestion of tech details of geronimo-connector module change? Appreciate your help! -- viola Apache Geronimo
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The fifth match of T20 Ram Slam Challenge 2015 Friday, November 6, 2015 between the double winner of the Cape Cobras and Warriors are played once winners. The match will be played at Boland Park, Paarl, which has a capacity of 10,000 people. It is a day-night T20 game is from 18:00 clock after starting local calendar and after 16:00 GMT. This small complex is when played at home, the Cape Cobras Stadium Cape Cobras, and it will be difficult for the Warriors, win the game easily.
Team colors: blue and yellow. Defending champion and three-time winners with the Titans. The Cobras have lost only once – Lions – on the way to the title last year, and won in the last two years is losing, in fact, that keep the Dolphins in 2013/14. Each following: A full of stars in order to make their selection with Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander any representation of the Cobras list. There are some familiar faces in the form of Richard Levi – scorer socialite international express T20 – Bowling deadly duo Wayne Parnell and Rory Kleinveldt and former "Frog in a blender" turned to head coach, Paul Adams.
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Match: COB vs WAR, 5th Match, Ram Slam T20 Challenge, 2015
Date: Friday, November 06, 2015
Time: 04:00 PM GMT
Venue: Boland Park, Paarl
Stadium: Boland Park
City: Paarl
Capacity: 10000
Ends: Riebeeck Kelders End, Stables End
Hosts to: Boland
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Playing XI:Colin Ackermann, Gihahn Cloete, Ayabulela Gqamane, Colin Ingram, Sisanda Magala, Thandolwethu Mnyaka, Somila Seyibokwe, Rusty Theron, Basheeru-Deen Walters, Andrew Birch, Clyde Fortuin, Christiaan Jonker, Lundi Mbane, Michael Price, JJ Smuts, David White, Jerry Nqolo, Yaseen Vallie
Cobras (From): Richard Levi, Andrew Puttick(w), Justin Ontong(c), Omphile Ramela, Kieron Pollard, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Rory Kleinveldt, Robin Peterson, Wayne Parnell, Mthokozisi Shezi, Beuran Hendricks, Justin Kemp, Dane Paterson, Keegan Petersen, Clyde Fortuin, Aviwe Mgijima, Lizaad Williams, Shaheen Khan
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Does Romance lead to Marriage? Turgenev's Spring Torrents
Several of you took issue with my Valentine's Week post about Pride and Prejudice, saying that I was unjustly dismissive of Austen only because the romances in P&P lead to happy marriages. Isn't that where romance is supposed to lead, to a happy marriage? What's wrong with a happy ending?
There's nothing wrong with happy endings. Personally, I like happy endings. But Romance does not lead to happy marriages (at least, not in literature), and if you see a happy ending, you'll know that something other than true Romance is really happening.
Romance in literature is, by its very nature, against marriage. In fact, even the "romantic" stories that end happily in marriage end with the wedding: these "happy ending" novels and plays and movies have no interest whatsoever in the married couple or their happiness, since there is no drama in marriage, no ideal of longing—all these stories care about is the obstacles to love. The happy ending wedding brings characters who have been in defiance of community morals back into line with accepted codes. We don't go to romances for happy endings, because that's not what they're designed to deliver: we go to romances because we want rapturous longing that doesn't care about society's rules, the superiority of noble feelings to everyday morality, and the exaltation of the individual over the community. When they end happily in marriage, these stories reaffirm a basic covenant that they've spent their entire length contradicting.
Great romances always make their protagonists contend against arranged or loveless marriages, hypocrisy, duty and necessity; they are in favor of a transcendent emotion that cannot be contained by society. When a great romance ends in marriage, the great romance itself ends and the lovers are absorbed back into society; when a great romance ends in death or exile, the great romance lives on past the lives of the lovers, as a grand, swooning ideal of love superior to the mere laws of the community (or physics). In the story of Romance, the lovers must die so that Romance itself can live.
Ivan Turgenev's curious little novel Spring Torrents is an excellent example of the great love that refuses to end in marriage. It's especially telling that there are no good reasons in the story of the novel for the protagonists not to have a happy ending—the main character, Sanin, simply chooses not to marry his beloved. This choice is represented as an unhappy one, made seemingly against his will, but in fact he must choose not to marry his beloved in order to prolong his romantic feelings for her and not ruin them with the less dramatic comforts of marriage.
As Jane Austen captures the plight of middle class Englishwomen with wit and clarity, Turgenev describes the stranger in a strange land with insight and sympathy. The protagonist of Spring Torrents is Sanin, a minor Russian aristocrat traveling abroad for the first time, having adventures and falling in love. (Here's a clip of Timothy Hutton as Sanin in the 1989 film, doing a Russian mating dance for Gemma). Through a series of mishaps, he is stranded temporarily in Frankfurt, where he falls in love with Gemma, a clerk in her family's pastry shop. Gemma is already engaged to another man, Herr Kluber, but Sanin falls instantly in love with her, anyway (why not?). In the course of events, Sanin saves Gemma's brother's life; and, more importantly, when a soldier insults Gemma, Sanin defends her honor when her fiance will not. Eventually, Gemma rejects Herr Kluber and agrees to marry Sanin. Sanin is overjoyed, the family is happy, Gemma is happy: cue music, roll credits.
Not so fast! Jane Austen might have Sanin marry Gemma, now that the obstacles to their love have been examined and exorcised, but Turgenev is not interested in affirming the basic structure of marriage or society's rules. He's so interested in keeping his Romance between Gemma and Sanin alive that he subverts it with a ruinous, unmotivated, even cruel plot twist. In order to pay for the wedding, Sanin agrees to sell some land in Russia to an aristocratic Russian woman, Polozova, who is sojourning in a nearby town. While away from Gemma transacting this business, he has an affair with the woman (who is married!), and then he abandons Gemma and follows Poozova and her husband to Paris. There, he is tormented by both Polozova and his love for Gemma and ultimately returns to Petersburg a broken man. In a coda, we learn that Sanin loved Gemma for the rest of his life; in his old age, he travels back to Frankfurt to find her and learns that she is happily married. Gemma forgives him for abandoning her.
If we didn't understand that Romance is about eternal longing rather than happy marriage, the plot of Spring Torrents would be incoherent. As an instance of Romance, though, it's perfectly realized. Sanin himself doesn't even understand why he chooses to undermine his great love for Gemma, but we as readers know it is because, in the myth of Romance, great love is always opposed to marriage. Sanin chooses to desperately desire Gemma forever rather than have her because by doing so he may pine for an ideal that is always alive in his heart rather than live in an untranscendent reality.
Despite the fact that I've just spilled the plot to Spring Torrents, I would still recommend it, because, like all great literature, its value is not in its plot, and there is one sublime extended scene near the end of the book that will stay with you long after you finish reading this slender volume.
Romance is an ideal of passionate desire. Marriage is a reality of devotion. Romance places the lover's own satisfaction above everything—God, family, law. Marriage places the partner's well-being above one's own. Are these two kinds of love mutually exclusive? Maybe not in life, but in literature?
If you know a passionate novel of romance whose main couple is already married to each other at the beginning and stays together through the end, please let me know.


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- Member of National Educated Elites Foundation of Iran, 2011.
- One patent is awarded the first level prize form Iran patents congress, 2012.
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- 5 registered patents (4 patents are commercialized and being used in industry), 2007 to 2009.
- Member of Special Talent society of Isfahan University of Technology, 2004.
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Register of members' interests
The code below was adopted by the Town Council on Thursday 19th July 2012.
To see information on individual members, click on the links on the right.
You are a member or co-opted member of the Brightlingsea Town Council and hence you shall be committed to behaving in a manner, which is consistent with the following principles: -
• Selflessness
• Integrity
• Objectivity
• Accountability
• Openness
• Honesty
• Leadership
You must, when using or authorising the use by others of the resources of your authority, ensure that such resources are not used improperly for political purposes (including party political purposes) and you must have regard to any applicable Local Authority Code of Publicity made under the Local Government Act 1986.
You must promote and support high standards of conduct when serving in your public post, in particular as characterised by the above requirements, by leadership and example.
Registering and declaring pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests
You must, within 28 days of taking office as a member or co-opted member, notify your authority's monitoring officer of any disclosable pecuniary interest as defined by regulations made by the Secretary of State, where the pecuniary interest is yours, your spouse's or civil partner's, or is the pecuniary interest of somebody with whom you are living as a husband or wife or as if you were civil partners and of which you are aware.
Even if an interest has been entered in Brightlingsea Town Council's register of Members' Interests or formal notification of the interest has been given to the Monitoring Officer of Tendring District Council (TDC) via the Town Clerk, then you must disclose the interest to any meeting of the authority at which you are present, where you have a disclosable interest in any matter being considered and where the matter is not a 'sensitive interest' (*).
Following any disclosure of an interest not on Brightlingsea Town Council's register or the subject of pending notification, you must notify the TDC Monitoring Officer via the parish clerk of the interest within 28 days beginning with the date of disclosure.
Unless dispensation has been granted, you may not participate in any discussion of, vote on, or discharge any function related to any matter in which you have a disclosable pecuniary interest as defined by regulations made by the Secretary of State. Additionally, you must observe the restrictions Brightlingsea Town Council places on your involvement in matters where you have a pecuniary or non pecuniary interest as defined by your authority.
If you are at a meeting of the authority and the business or matter under consideration involves another organisation in which you have a decision-making role or where you can influence its finances, you are required to disclose the nature and extent of your interest in it so that the public and others present at the meeting have confidence in the fairness and transparency of the proceedings.
If you are at a meeting of the council and have a pecuniary interest in the business under consideration, which is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an interest which a member of the public with knowledge of the relevant circumstances is likely to consider would distort your judgement of the public interest, you must disclose the interest.
(*) A 'sensitive interest' is described in the Localism Act 2011 as a member or co-opted member of an authority having an interest, and the nature of the interest being such that the member or co-opted member, and the authority's monitoring officer, consider that disclosure of the details of the interest could lead to the member or co-opted member, or a person connected with the member or co-opted member, being subject to violence or intimidation.