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ROME (AP) — A fugitive Italian mobster, who allegedly arranged major shipments of South American cocaine to Europe each month and was one of the world's most powerful drug brokers, has been captured in a Colombian shopping mall, authorities said Saturday.
Roberto Pannunzi "at the moment is the most important broker for cocaine trafficking from South America to Europe," Gen. Andrea De Gennaro, an Italian anti-drug customs police official, was quoted as saying by the Italian news agency ANSA.
De Gennaro described Pannunzi as being able to "move thousands of kilos of cocaine — out of every 10 shipments, eight passed through" Pannunzi's hands, De Gennaro said, as Italian law enforcement officials and prosecutors rejoiced over his capture.
Italian news reports said the fugitive, who fled while under arrest in a private Rome clinic in 2010, was captured Thursday.
Colombian police said Pannunzi had a false Venezuelan ID when nabbed earlier in the week and alleged that he imported two tons of cocaine every month from Colombia to Europe.
Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri told reporters that Colombia had agreed to deport Pannunzi, and the convicted drug dealer's arrival aboard a flight to Rome was scheduled for Saturday night.
Pannunzi, 67, had fled twice from arrest in Italy, including the 2010 escape from the hospital, where he had been admitted after telling authorities he felt unwell. In 1999, Pannunzi also escaped from yet another Italian clinic while under house arrest, which had been permitted for purported health reasons. The first spell on the run ended with his arrest in Madrid in 2004.
When Colombian and Italian authorities captured him in Bogota, Pannunzi immediately told them he had heart problems, Gratteri told Italian state TV.
Gratteri also described how Pannunzi repeatedly managed to avoid capture — until this time.
"He traveled for years with a suitcase full of money" to corrupt would-be captors, Gratteri said. "And he had a backup 'safe-conduct' instrument — a diamond necklace around his neck" that he could use to buy his freedom, the prosecutor said.
Prosecutors said Pannunzi, while born in Rome, is a Calabrian engaged by the 'ndrangheta," an organized crime syndicate based in Calabria, southern Italy.
Italian investigators say the 'ndrangheta has eclipsed Sicily's Cosa Nostra in power and influence thanks to aggressive efforts to dominate cocaine trafficking from Colombia.
Gratteri said Pannunzi was such an influential trafficker "he was the only one able to succeed in selling (cocaine) both to the 'ndrangheta and to Cosa Nostra" as well as to the Camorra, a Naples-area based crime syndicate.
The Mafia in Sicily dominated heroin trafficking to Italy a few decades ago. But defections among Cosa Nostra's ranks helped Italian authorities to capture the mob's top bosses. The 'ndrangheta, more organized around tight-knit family clans, has suffered from far fewer setbacks from turncoats.
While the Sicilian mob was taking its blows from the state, the 'ndrangheta rapidly muscled in on much of the lucrative cocaine trafficking between South America and European markets to the point where their mobsters live in Colombia and cut deals directly with local drug lords, Italian prosecutors say.
Gratteri said Pannunzi organized purchases of 3.5 tons of cocaine at a time.
The LaPresse news agency reported that in earlier decades, Pannunzi had lived for about 10 years in the U.S. and also had dealings with U.S.-based Mafiosi.
AP writer Vivian Sequera contributed to this report from Bogota, Colombia.


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Spectacular View of Race Track, Richmond Taking ShapeShare
The unseasonably warm weather in Richmond has the construction of the new Commonwealth grandstand moving along at an excellent pace. The grandstand, which is comprised of three levels, the Mezzanine, Tower and a Club level called Torque, is on schedule to be completed in time for the track's NASCAR doubleheader weekend May 4-5.
Fans lucky enough to have seats in the new Grandstand will be treated to a spectacular, birds-eye view of the track and a breathtaking view of downtown Richmond and the surrounding counties. The 180-foot high grandstand is the largest structure in Henrico County, topping the tower at Richmond International Airport by two feet! Fans will have a tremendous view of both the track and the downtown skyline.
As of the first week in January, the framework is completed, the seats in the Mezzanine and Tower levels have been installed and the inside area of Torque is beginning to take shape.
Additional updates will be provided weekly, so stay tuned to www.rir.com for all the latest news!
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text: Student Profiles Katie Swan '06 Katie Swan '06 Hometown: Ipswich, Massachusetts Major: Biology Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? As a triple legacy of Williams College graduates, I realized the impact that a liberal arts education has had on my relatives. But, in growing up on the coast of northern Massachusetts, I had the feeling that the Berkshires and purple cows were not for me! I was looking for the same well-rounded educational experience and strong sense of community that the small-college NESCAC continent offered. Upon my visit to Bowdoin, I realized that this was exactly the college I was hoping to find. Why did you choose your major? I have been interested in biology for as long as I can remember. Much of my life has centered on my interaction with nature. I recall going frog hunting with my mom in first grade, collecting sea critters every summer at the beach, and even rehabilitating a baby squirrel I found in my backyard. One summer in high school, I sailed from Baltimore, Maryland, to Salem, Massachusetts, on a schooner and studied humpback whales. With all of these experiences behind me, I had no doubt that biology was the major I was destined to pursue. What has been your favorite course at Bowdoin? During sophomore year, I took a course in Contemporary Chinese Society with Sociology Professor Nancy Riley. This course was different from most at Bowdoin. The first half of it was a semester-long lecture course about the different aspects of Chinese society, including topics in gender inequality, the one-child policy, the effects of tourism and public health concerns, to name a few. The second half of the class, funded by a grant, brought us to Asia. The trip began in Shanghai and took us down the western edge of China and further south through Vietnam, where we visited numerous historic temples and museums and were hosted by local families. This eye-opening course gave me the chance to take the seemingly abstract concepts I had learned in class and see their true existence in a real setting. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? Music was my true passion at Bowdoin. As a percussionist, I took part in the Bowdoin College Concert Band conducted by John Morneau. I also played in the pit orchestra of the musical production of Into the Woods and played African drums and marimba in the World Music Ensemble. I have also worked with professors and fellow students to premiere pieces they had written. To take my playing to another extreme, I was also a member of the Bowdoin African step-dance team, Unity. As a member of the team, I both performed and choreographed steps. In addition, I am a member of the Residential Life staff and have done a number of volunteer activities, including working in the Emergency Department of Mid Coast Hospital, organizing blood drives through the American Red Cross and participating in Common Good Day. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? I studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain, an experience that was both wonderful and difficult. Surrounded by the architecture of Gaudi and the artwork of Picasso, Dali and Miro, all while living with a senora was an incredible experience! It is hard to summarize four months living in another country in only a few words. Though the experience was extraordinarily difficult at times, reminding myself that I was opening my mind to another culture and pushing myself out of my comfort zone made it all the more powerful. What is your best Bowdoin memory? With numerous impromptu study break activities and silly moments that I could mention, one that most stands out in my mind was the going-away party for [former Dean of Student Affairs] Craig Bradley and [sociology professor and former Dean for Academic Affairs] Craig McEwen. I will never forget dancing the conga line with my biology professor Anne McBride and psychology professor Suzanne Lovett and swing dancing with President Barry Mills all to the rock-star voice of music professor Vin Shende singing "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder. It was a moment when I realized the true sense of community at Bowdoin where students and faculty work and live together and support one another as a family. What are your plans for after graduation? I am hoping to take a hiatus from academia and do a few years of clinical research in Boston. From there, I intend to go to nursing school and become a nurse practitioner. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Try everything! If there is one thing I regret about my first year, it is being overwhelmed with the number of activities available at Bowdoin. Students at Bowdoin are notoriously overcommitted and, I believe, happily so! Try something completely different that you could not imagine yourself enjoying. You may just learn something new about yourself. Story posted on August 21, 2006 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


text: National brands to invest heavily in local marketing Published on November 08, 2012. Boise, Idaho—National brand advertisers intend to ramp up their local marketing efforts in 2013, with digital tactics leading the way, according to a study from marketing technology company Balihoo Inc. According to Balihoo's "National Brand Use of Digital in Local Marketing" study, 47.3% of marketers surveyed expect to spend more on local marketing in 2013 than they did this year, with 44.0% planning to spend the same; 67.5% said digital marketing would be "extremely" or "very" important to their success. Respondents ranked the use of social media channels, and Facebook in particular, as their top local digital tactic, followed by search engine optimization, digital display ads and pay-per-click search ads. Balihoo's online study was conducted in August and September and drew 384 respondents. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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Crosswalking is a concise book for library programmers who want to learn to use MARC4J to process bibliographic data. MARC4J is an open source software library for working with MARC, MARCXML and related bibliographic standards in Java. The library is designed to bridge the gap between MARC and XML.
It is divided into the following chapters:
- Chapter 1, Reading Data
- Chapter 1 provides a short introduction about MARC formats and then focuses on reading MARC and MARCXML data. This chapter also explains how to create and update records and it demonstrates how to pre-process the input to convert MODS to MARC.
- Chapter 2, Writing Data
- Chapter 2 concentrates on the details of writing MARC and MARCXML data and how to post-process the output to convert MARC to MODS.
- Chapter 3, MARC4J and JAXP
- Chapter 3 explores integration with some important Java XML API's including JAXP, SAX and DOM. It demonstrates how to write the result to a DOM document, how to format XML output using a dedicated XML serializer, how to build pipelines using XSLT and how to use the SAX interface as an alternative to XSLT.
- Chapter 4, Indexing with Lucene
- Chapter 4 concentrates on indexing and searching MARC data with Apache Lucene using the MARC4J Lucene API.
- Chapter 5, Putting It All Together
- Chapter 5 focuses on building an SRU Search/Retrieve Web application using the various MARC4J interfaces and classes to process MARC data and using Lucene for indexing and searching.
- Appendix A, MARC4J API Summary
- Appendix A provides a summary of the core MARC4J interfaces and classes.
- Appendix B, Command-line Reference
- Appendix B documents the command-line programs included in the MARC4J API.
This book provides useful information for both developers learning about MARC4J for the first time and developers returning for reference and more advanced material. The chapters provide many reusable examples, while appendixes provide a reference to the API and the command-line utilities.
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Two weeks ago I ended my blog by saying, "Buckle up your safety harness because things are about to get exciting." Well, the rut in the North has gone viral. The accompanying photo is a prime example of what is going on in the deer woods across the whitetail's northern range. Simply put, the chase is on and breeding is cranking up.
Right now a myriad of rutting behaviors are going on. In any given area of the North you can expect to see bucks cruising, scraping, rubbing, chasing does, breeding does or locked down with an estrus doe. There is no telling what you will encounter on your next trip to your favorite stand.
When I took this photo I actually felt sorry for the doe. I also felt fortunate to be in the right place at the right time. I was walking along a fencerow when I heard deer running in a creek bottom, about 50 yards from me. Before I knew it the doe bolted out of goldenrod cover and ran parallel to me along the field's edge, with two mature bucks in tow. I was so focused on getting the photo that I really didn't have time to think about what was taking place. In a matter of seconds the threesome covered the length of the 100-yard field before disappearing into a stand of timber. How far the bucks chased the doe after entering the woods is anyone's guess. When chases like this take place it's not uncommon for the doe or one of the bucks to get gored.
In my mind the chasing behavior that takes place when the rut goes hot-to-trot is one of the most spectacular aspects of the rut, and you never know what you might see when in the woods at any time of the day.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday he hopes to name a replacement in the next several days for the state treasurer, who resigned over accusations she took cash bribes from a bond broker.
Beebe said he already has spoken with some candidates about filling the unexpired term of Treasurer Martha Shoffner, who resigned on Tuesday. Shoffner, a Democrat, stepped down amid federal charges that she accepted at least $36,000 in cash in exchange for steering state business to a bond broker.
"We're going to act quickly, within the next several days, but we're going to be deliberate about the process to the point that even though we're acting expeditiously it's not going to be hastily," Beebe told reporters at the state Capitol.
The governor would not say whom he's considering for the post.
"There are several that would meet the criteria that I'm looking for, and that's a good manager, honest, relatively apolitical, understanding of money and some of the duties," Beebe said.
Whoever Beebe names will serve the remainder of Shoffner's term, which ends in January 2015, but is barred from running for the post next year. Shoffner, a former state representative, was re-elected in 2010.
Shoffner was under pressure from both Democrats and Republicans to step down after the FBI arrested her Saturday in a sting operation. She spent the weekend in Pulaski County Jail and made her initial court appearance Monday. She didn't enter a plea, but her attorney has said she'll plead not guilty at the appropriate time.
An FBI affidavit filed in federal court alleges that a broker – unidentified in court documents – would roll up cash in $6,000 increments and have it delivered to Shoffner's office every six months. At least two of the payments were delivered in a pie box with a pie. The broker "recognized his/her bond business with the state grew because of the payments," the affidavit said.
Shoffner, 68, was released on her own recognizance but ordered to surrender her passport. A federal grand jury will decide whether to indict her. She's charged with attempt and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right under the Hobbs Act, a federal law used to prosecute public officials accused of taking bribes.
The charges carry maximum penalties of 20 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine. A next court date was not set.
House Speaker Davy Carter said one of the top jobs for Beebe's choice will be to restore confidence in an office rattled by the federal charges and audits that have questioned Shoffner's investment practices.
"The goal is to turn the office over to the next elected treasurer in good order," Carter, R-Cabot. "That's going to take a lot of hard work. Frankly there's going to be a lot of attention on it."
Carter said he thinks the typically low-profile race for treasurer next year will likely get more scrutiny because of Shoffner's resignation and the accusations. Saline County Clerk Dennis Milligan has said he plans on seeking the Republican nomination, and GOP state Rep. Duncan Baird said he's considering running. No Democrats have announced a bid.
Senate President Michael Lamoureux said he doesn't have any specific recommendations for Beebe, just that the governor find someone who would focus on "just doing the job and not being a subject of news."
"There's nothing exciting about being the treasurer, if you just go about your business," said Lamoureux, R-Russellville.
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text: No recent wiki edits to this page. OriginIt all began during the cavemen period. A caveman was angry that he was banished from his tribe. He encountered a woman who offered him some compassion. Later, she was murdered which was the first woman murdered by man's hatred. During 1300 BCE, the goddesses of Greece organised a meeting and discussed the creation of beings that would fit under their ideals. Zeus and Ares did not approve of this, and Hera, not wanting to go against her husband opted not to involve herself. So it was left to the other five goddesses to decide. They travelled to the Well of Souls, which is the place where the souls of all women murdered by man's hatred were placed. They gathered these souls and dropped them into Greece's lake. The souls were then mixed with clay and stone from the lake bed and thus the Amazons of Themyscira were born. Hippolyta was first to emerge and then her sister Antiope. The five goddesses decided that the Amazons should spread the message of peace, tolerance and equality. Hippolyta and Antiope were each given a Golden Girdle.CreationHippolyta was created by William Moulton Marston and was first penciled by Harry G. Peter up until his death. The character first appeared in All Star Comics #8, in December of 1941.Character EvolutionThe Golden and Silver Age version of Hippolyta differs little from the classical Greek myths. She is shown as a benevolent leader of the Amazons, although her personal story is rarely referred to. The modern era reboot of Wonder Woman in 1986 gave a substantially more fleshed out background for Hippolyta, and Hippolyta would come to play a larger role in Wonder Woman stories. She is constantly seen being torn between her role as Diana's mother and her role as Queen and leader of the Amazons which requires that she appeases the gods.Major Story ArcsEarly YearsFrom evidence derived of Antiope's daughter, Pythia, it seems as if at least 20 years has gone by. Hippolyta and Antiope lead for some time and built the city Themyscira. Their job to spread the message of Gaea (peace, tolerance and equality) was difficult however, because few men ever trusted the Amazons and Ares kept creating trouble for them. As time goes on, they become more isolated and their population grows due to the freeing of women from slavery. Zeus had a son called Hercules and he travelled to Themyscira with his friend Theseus. Arriving in Themyscira, Hercules demanded that Hippolyta give him the Girdle of Hippolyta. She refused, and offered to do battle for ownership of the girdle. Hippolyta won the battle and Hercules offered an alliance with them. The Amazons allowed them to stay as Antiope fell in love with Theseus and Hippolyta with Hercules. However, in his madness, Hercules drugged Hippolyta who found herself in chains the next day. Hercules' army pillaged Themyscira and stole their treasures, including the Girdle of Hippolyta. Hercules left leaving some of his men behind to keep an eye on the city. One of the goddesses granted Hippolyta strength which allowed her to break free of the chains and free the Amazons around the city. All of the Amazons fought until every single man was dead. Antiope on the other hand was still angry. She swore to kill Hercules and take back the Girdle of Hippolyta. Hippolyta on the other hand saw things on a different level, explaining that this was not the way of the Amazons. Doing so would only bring them to Hercules' level. Antiope threw her Girdle at Hippolyta's feet, she then left, half of the Amazons choosing to leave with her and the rest staying with Hippolyta. It was the last time these two sisters would ever see each other again.Paradise IslandThe goddesses appeared again, displeased that the amazons had failed in their mission to spread peace. The goddesses decided that the word Amazon would, from now on, be associated with death and not peace. As penance, each of the Amazons were give a pair of steel bracelets to wear forever, to remind them of their humiliation. They then began a new journey, and Poseidon parted the sea so they could travel. They found an island called Paradise Island and on that island they built a new city, called Themyscira once again. As long as they were on the island, they were immortal. There, Hippolyta ruled for three thousand years.From time to time, people would be able to get through the mists that shielded Paradise Island from the rest of the world. One of these people was Diana Trevor, a World War II pilot who had crash landed on the island. During that time, she battled together with the Amazons against the evils of the island. During one of these battles she fired an important shot from her gun, and gave her life in doing so. Some time after the battle, Hippolyta had a strange feeling about that woman. The Oracle explained to Hippolyta that she was the reincarnation of the first woman murdered, though she was pregnant. The strange feeling that Hippolyta was having was that she wanted a daughter, and so the Oracle and goddesses granted her wish. Hippolyta moulded a baby from clay and the last soul from the Well of Souls. A true baby, a baby of flesh, was born. Hippolyta named her Diana, after Diana Trevor in her honour.Diana grew up with many sisters, though none of them were her age. Magdala, a sorceress, created an identical playmate for Diana; whom would be known as Donna Troy. One of Hippolyta's enemies; Dark Angel planned to kidnap Diana, but ended up kidnapping the playmate instead. When Diana turned twenty two, the gods demanded that a champion be sent to Man's World. Hippolyta forbade Diana from competing, but since the competitors were required to wear masks and hence could hide her identity, she did so anyway. Diana won and after completing one more test, she was made the champion and given a costume, based on Diana Trevor.Wally West and Wonder Woman go on a journey to restore the Donna Troy that they knew. Hippolyta reveals that it was Donna Troy who was kidnapped by the Dark Angel, thinking that it was Diana. She was cursed to live multiple lives, all which in ended in tragedy. Hippolyta and Jay Garrick go back in time to fix the problems with Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) and some problems caused by Dark Raven. During this time, Hippolyta became the 1940s Wonder Woman and joins the Justice Society Of America. With their help, Hippolyta defeats the Dark Angel. Hippolyta remains there, in the past for some time, but eventually she returns to the present. When Hippolyta returned to the present, she discovered that the Amazons had broken up. While the general public believe that they all live in one group, the truth is that they live in different tribes. One tribe, the Bana Mighdall, felt that Hippolyta had given up on her role as queen because she fought in Man's World, even though it was because of the gods that she was forced to fight. Even her Themyscira Amazons felt she wasn't doing her job as Queen. With the Amazons losing their respect for her and wanting to battle, she abdicated and went to fight alongside her daughter. Diana and Donna Troy both were offered rule, but both of them turned it down. The Amazons then abolished their old way of rule and opted for individual self-rule. Hippolyta continued fighting in Man's World alongside the Justice Society. During the " Our Worlds at War" story arc, an enemy called Imperiex attempted to destroy Earth, the Amazons were also involved. While Hippolyta was fighting Imperiex, Diana came to fight as well. Diana ordered her mother to leave, but Hippolyta still wanted to fight. She saved her daughter's life by pushing Diana out of the way when the Imperiex probe was about to kill her. The explosion killed only Hippolyta.Some time later Hippolyta was resurrected by the witch and long time enemy of the Amazons; Circe as a part of a wider scheme. Enraged that Diana was being detained and tortured by the Department of Metahuman Affairs, Hippolyta rallied the Amazons and invaded Washington D.C. in an effort to free her daughter and take revenge on those responsible. The discredit the invasion brought the Amazons was the ultimate goal behind Circe's spell casting and the ire of Athena (Granny Goodness in disguise) left Hippolyta almost completely alone on Paradise Island as most of her people had been robbed of their memories and powers.During this time, she would not receive any visitors, not even Diana. But she would release four imprisoned Amazons, who had once attempted to murder Diana while an infant, deeming her an abomination and a dire threat to the Queen they held in so high regard.When the Gods returned to Earth, Zeus found the Amazons failing his expectations, so he created a new type of male amazons who would share Paradise Island with the older Amazons, who eventually regained their memories and returned home. The Manazons leader, Archillies, would favor Alkyone, leader of the four imprisoned Amazons, effectively replacing Hippolyta as Queen. For her own safety, Hippolyta was placed in house arrest somewhere on the island as Alkyone also relieved Diana of her titles and rank, before intending to return Diana's clay body to the dark creature that made up the heart of Paradise Island.Hippolyta was freed with the aid of Donna Troy in time to hear Alkyone boast that she would gladly sacrifice the entire island if she had to, if it meant Hippolyta would endure. Hippolyta respectfully renounced Alkyone's actions, after planting three arrows in her, fatally wounding her.New 52With the reality changing effects of Flashpoint affecting DC, Wonder Woman, as with all DC titles, were renumbered and rebooted.Hippolyta appears in the DCnU looking closer to her pre-Crisis incarnation, as she is once again blond. She is still Queen of the Amazons, who generally appears more scrapped down than previous incarnations, and she commands instant respect from her subjects, Diana included. It has been revealed that Hippolyta once had an affair with Zeus, King of the Gods, and that the product of the union is Diana. However, knowing Hera and her vindictive streak, Hippolyta chose to leave Zeus, who did not follow her, and raise Diana on her own, concocting the story of Diana having been a clay sculpture that was brought to life. Whenever the rest of the island knew the truth or not is not known. When Strife revealed the truth of Diana's birth, Hippolyta knew Hera wouldn't be far behind, and when the two Queens finally met, Hippolyta asked for forgiveness, some Hera couldn't give and turned the Queen of the Amazons into a stone or clay statue and her people into snakes.It is suspected Hippolyta will be the target of Diana's upcoming journey into the underworld for a loved one.Amazon FamilyPrincess Diana , Wonder WomanNubia, is Wonder Woman's TWIN SISTER Queen Hippolyta's daughter.Antiope, Hippolyta's sister, later Queen of the Bana.Phillipus, general and former co-ruler of Paradise Island.Artemis, of Bana-Mighdall, Bana warrior, former co-ruler of Paradise Island and former Wonder Woman.Donna Troy, the first Wonder Girl and member of the Titans of Myth, Queen Hippolyta's adopted daughter.Cassandra Sandsmark, the second Wonder Girl, daughter of Zeus.The Olympian, Achilles Warkiller became the King of the Amazons, later gives Queen Hippolyta back the throne.Steve Trevor, love interest to Wonder Woman, first man on Themyscira and honorary Amazon.The Amazons, of Themyscira.Powers and AbilitiesHippolyta possesses the standard abilities of the Amazons, she is immortal and possesses great superhuman physical strength, speed, durability, healing, and enhanced senses.Hippolyta is around 3,000 years old and has been a warrior for most of her life. She has nearly unparalleled combat training and has even defeated Ares the God Of War in battle.Alternative UniversesAme-Comi:The story starts in the white house, with Steve Trevor briefing the president about the ancient island of Themyscira and the imminent attack on the island by the nation of Kasnia. The president seems indifferent to the attack. Meanwhile in Themyscira Princess Diana is practising combat with three minotaurs when Queen Hippolyta shows up the summons the princess as she was visited by the oracle, who informed her of "pressing matters". However at the same moment the forces of Kasnia mount an attack on Themyscira. As the Amazons prepare to defend their home against the invaders, Princess Diana is forbidden by her mother to take part in the battle. She leaves an Amazon to watch over her and to make sure that she doesn't get involved in the battle. However Diana manages to knock out her watcher and escape. Although the Amazons fight valiantly they are hard pressed by the modern technological weapons of the Kasnians. Just as the Kasnians gain the upper hand and the Amazons are about to retreat Princess Diana arrives in complete battle attire.Other MediaFilmWonder Woman (1974 film)Charlene Holt as Hippolyta in Wonder Woman (1974)She was in the 1974 Wonder Woman movie played by Charlene Holt. Wonder Woman (2009 animated film)Hippolyta in Wonder Woman Animated FilmHippolyta appeared in film again in the animated Wonder Woman movie, which was released in 2009. Like in the comics she was strongly against Diana traveling to Man's World, but didn't fight Diana after Diana won the challenge to got to Man's World.DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the YearHippolyta DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the YearWhen Wonder Woman's shield is broken, she (With Supergirl, Bumble Bee and Batgirl) returns to Themyscira to get it fixed. She presents her mother, Queen Hippolyta to her friends, and is embarrassed by the excess of proud her mother has on her. Hipollyta (With Martha and Jonathan Kent, and James Gordon) is captured by Eclipso in order to force Supergirl to give to the villain the crystal in her necklace. After being rescued, the Queen and the other prisioners helps the heroes against the shadows in the final battle against Eclipso and Dark Opal. After defeating the villains, Bumble Bee is crowned Hero of the Year. Afraid to dissapoint her mother, Wonder Woman is glad to hear that Hippolyta will always be proud of her. She is voiced by Julianne Grossman. DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic GamesHippolyta in DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic GamesHippolyta appears in the movie supporting Wonder Woman during the Intergalactic Games. She is thrilled when Wonder Woman receives an Invitation from Ambassador Bek to spend one week with them.When Lena Luthor attacks, Wonder Woman joins the battle insted of continuing the game and protect the Bek, which infuriates the Ambassador.Wonder Woman thinks she dissapointed her mother, but Hippolyta cheers her daughter's heroism and her willingness to stand for what she believes in.She is voiced by Julianne Grossman. Wonder Woman (2017 film)Connie Neilsen as Hippolyta in Wonder WomanHippolyta will be portrayed by Connie Neilsen. TelevisionWonder Woman (1975-79 television series)Hippolyta in Wonder Woman TV SeriesHippolyta makes several appearances throughout the series. She is played by three actresses.Cloris Leachman in the pilot episode (see pic)Carolyn Jones in three episodes, "The Feminum Mystique" parts 1 and 2 and "Wonder Woman in Hollywood".And Beatrice Straight in two episodes, "The Return of Wonder Woman" and "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis". 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Trajectory, Inc. announced today that the iconic Classics Illustrated comic graphic novel series is now available on the Apple App Store. The series consists of over 120 digital graphic novels presented in a comic book format with robust color illustrations that introduce great literature to readers of all ages. Trajectory is collaborating with iVerse Media and Apple, Inc. the leading provider of smartphones and tablets to deliver the series on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
The Classics Illustrated digital comic app is free to download and features an extended preview of several issues at no additional cost and offers Classics Illustrated regular series for $3.99 each and Classics Illustrated Junior series for $1.99 each. The Classics Illustrated app is shipping with over 30 digital comics available and more will be added every week on "Classic Wednesday". Also included in the app is the acclaimed Classics Illustrated Special Interest series and introductory 'discovery pricing' at $.99 cents for featured Staff Favorite titles.
Classics Illustrated are illustrated adaptations of traditional literature, non-fiction and biographies. The CI series includes folktales, myths, epics, legends, fables that have been passed down by storytellers for hundreds, even thousands, of years to enlighten and entertain generations of listeners, young and old. According to William B. Jones, Jr., author of Classics Illustrated A Cultural History, "Classics Illustrated was the most successful series of its kind, outdistancing all competitors and successors in terms of print distribution and circulation. It was considered one of the largest children's publication of any kind in the world."
Trajectory is a Cambridge, Massachusetts based technology and marketing oriented publishing company that has close collaborations with many celebrated authors, artists and publishers in America and Europe. Its illustrated adaptations include a collection of more than 130 titles, including world classics "Snow White", "Alice in Wonderland", "Hamlet" and many more. "We are at the dawn of a digital revolution as a new generation of children from around the world engage with the myths, legends and great stories on their digital devices," said Jim Bryant Trajectory's CEO. "We are thrilled to make these titles available through the Apple App Store worldwide – as it gives us yet another way to provide children, parents, and teachers with access to illustrated adaptations of some of the greatest works of Western Civilization."
The digital comic series features the world's greatest stories by the worlds greatest authors including: Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, "The Last of the Mohicans," "War of the Worlds," "The Pearl Princess," "Treasure Island," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Robin Hood," "Snow White", "Jane Eyre", "The Three Musketeers" and over one hundred more. These comics are also available for purchase and download from iVerse Media IOS apps, Comics Plus and Comics+ Kids, found in iTunes.
From the perspective of an educator I foresee limitless potential in bringing Classics Illustrated into the classroom. Probably well known to teachers, parents, and librarians the Classics Illustrated titles are sure to be engaging and exciting comic book stories for an entirely new generation of readers. An A+ idea and comic book execution eBook format, I highly recommend these titles make their way into your child or student's hands. Trajectory, Inc. has diversified and strengthened its already solid reputation as a thoughtful, intelligent publisher of canonical, traditional titles" said Dr. Katie Monnin, Professor of Literacy, University of North Florida.
Novelist Anne Rice stated in Publisher's Weekly, "I remember reading Jane Eyre in the Classics comics and how much I loved the details and seeing the madwoman in the attic in those little panels and seeing the whole novel play out. What always drew me were very detailed, representational drawings, rather than something abstract. I wanted to see a lot of richness and a lot of depth." Classics Illustrated graphic novels, she said, "Have a freedom that is all their own to create an entire universe in detail fairly inexpensively, compared to a film."
Making the Classics available in digital form brings these brilliant works to where people live now, on their mobiles. The iPad and iPhone are great for interacting with one of the most beloved comics and graphic novel series of all time." said Jim Bryant, Trajectory CEO.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Amanda Peet has managed to lure Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner to share a stage again with her first play.
The Manhattan Theater Club said Monday it will stage the world premiere of Peet's "The Commons of Pensacola" this fall at New York City Center. Lynne Meadow will direct.
Producers said the play "is an incisive and funny new play about trying to love your family even when you hate what they've done." Previews begin Oct. 22 with an opening on Nov. 21.
Danner and Parker will reunite onstage, having previously starred together in MTC's 1995 production "Sylvia" by A.R. Gurney. Peet, known for roles in "Saving Silverman" and on TV's "The Good Wife," will be making her professional playwriting debut.
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Because tangible book value is equivalent to the replacement cost of a company - IE, what it would cost to buy all the company's properties, buildings, factories, and machines, hire all its workers, etc. - you might think an acquiring company would never pay more than tangible book value. After all, the acquiring company could simply build the acquisition target company from scratch for the price of its tangible book value.
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VANCOUVER — While the holding the stick penalty Brad Marchand took late in the first period of Wednesday night's Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final was admittedly dumb, there was no harm done.
The Bruins killed off the penalty and kept the game scoreless until just 18.5 seconds were left in regulation.
However, the positive result of the penalty was Marchand's first opportunity to interact with the "Green Men" who reside next to the visitor's penalty box and come up with creative taunts of opposing players.
"I think they're just a little embarrassed how they look so they wear those masks," joked Marchand today after the Bruins practiced at the University of British Columbia in preparation for Saturday night's Game 2 of the series.
On a Boston radio station earlier in the day, Marchand said the "Green Men" made fun of him because they met a girl he once had an "encounter" with. He got his revenge Nathan Horton style.
"I tried to squirt some water in my mouth. I might've missed a bit. It might've got on them," he said with a wry smile.
Now that Marchand's first encounter with the "Green Men" is over, he can concentrate on not getting near them again in this series. Vancouver's power play is too dangerous for the Bruins to take penalties, and Marchand is too valuable to be spending time in the box.
"You've got to watch your emotions and keep them in check," said Marchand. "That penalty I took, I was a little rattled. I think it was [Vancouver's Christian] Ehrhoff that hit me when I was going to the bench. I've just got to keep my emotions in check."


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Plans by the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation to keep money flowing to the city's five commercial districts have been dashed by the U.S. Treasury Department.
This news comes at a time when these commercial districts are being forced to slash services and popular community programs due to funding cuts associated with the state's phase-out of the Urban Enterprise Zone Program. The news also comes at a time when residents of downtown and the Jersey City Heights have started a letter writing campaign imploring city officials to dedicate more money to the city's commercial districts.
While the City Council last week approved a $397,049 six-month administrative budget for the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation, which will be effective from July 1 through Dec. 31, the long-term survival of the agency and the programs it supported through the state Urban Enterprise Zone Program is tenuous at best.
Program provided loans, job training
Launched in 1983, the Urban Enterprise Zone Program was started to stimulate the local economies of the state's once-blighted urban areas. Businesses located in a designated Urban Enterprise Zone could charge a sales tax that is half of the usual state sales. (At present, businesses in Urban Enterprise Zone can charge a sales tax of 3.5 percent.) A portion of this tax money was then returned to the city for local economic development, including capital improvements, and salaries for public safety workers. Through loans, grants, and other resources, Jersey City, like other enterprise zones, used its Urban Enterprise Zone money to attract small businesses, help small businesses get started, assist businesses make improvements, and train residents for jobs. The program has also supported street fairs and farmers' markets, in addition to business improvement measures and safety initiatives.
For example, Urban Enterprise Zone money that was funneled back to Jersey City has in the past enabled the city to make significant financial contributions to each of its Special Improvement Districts. The SIDs have in turn used this money to finance street fairs like the annual Everything Jersey City Street Festival, outdoor theater events, and other community initiatives that proponents say attract customers and improve business in the city's commercial districts.
The Central Avenue Special Improvement District Management Corporation has discontinued its sidewalk sweeping program due to a lack of funding.
Statewide, the program has been credited with funding start-up loans to micro-businesses, improving commercial districts, and offering new job skills to unemployed workers since the 1980s.
Two years ago, however, Gov. Christie began to close out the funding portion of the Urban Enterprise Zone Program. Christie and his allies in Trenton have maintained that some of the efforts supported by Urban Enterprise money did not specifically meet the stated goals of the program.
Feds to city: No go
In an effort to salvage some of the work once done through the Urban Enterprise Zone Program, the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation, which administers the city's Urban Enterprise Zone Program, applied to the federal government last year to become a community development financial institution (CDFI).
Run by the U.S. Department of Treasury, the CDFI Fund allows designated local agencies to use federal money to give loans and other financial support to small businesses that may have difficulty getting loans from conventional banks.
To participate in the program, the Economic Development Corporation first needed to be recognized as a CDFI by the U.S Department of Treasury. Then it could have applied for funding from the federal government.
A CDFI designation would have enabled the city's Economic Development Corporation to use federal dollars to continue some of the work the agency previously did with Urban Enterprise Zone money from the state. The agency had hoped to restore as much as $2 million in lost Urban Enterprise Zone funding this year.
The city's CDFI application was, however, rejected by the U.S. Department of Treasury in December, according to officials with the Economic Development Corporation.
"One of the reasons we were given for why we did not receive the CDFI designation was that our governance structure was not considered to be autonomous enough from the city," Economic Development Corporation CFO Cliff Adams explained to the City Council last week.
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The loss of the CDFI designation is another blow to the city's business districts that are now struggling to make ends meet.
Last month, the Central Avenue Special Improvement District Management Corporation announced that it would discontinue its longstanding sidewalk sweeping program, effective Jan. 28, due to a lack of funding.
The organization has also said it probably will not have the resources to host the annual Everything Jersey City street fair this year.
A group of residents launched a letter writing campaign to pressure the city to find the resources to support the city's commercial districts. Dozens have thus far signed a form letter that was started last month by the Central Avenue Special Improvement District, which read, in part: "We, the undersigned, demand the City of Jersey City continue to invest in its commercial districts and main street neighborhoods…Funding cuts to Jersey City's main street areas have negatively affected neighborhoods across the city…Jersey City residents deserve quality main street living. The city's commercial districts are still the face of city neighborhoods. The importance of their prosperity to property values, better quality of life, and the city's future growth demand the attention and investment of local government. Main street events like the Everything Jersey City Festival must continue. Economic development must happen beyond Jersey City's waterfront. Jersey City cannot afford to allow its commercial districts to deteriorate. Economic development resources and taxpayer dollars must be used efficiently in neighborhood main street areas to ensure that Jersey City's economy expands and diversifies."
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(Reuters) - AT&T said on Friday it will contribute a stake in its wireless business to the company's pension plan worth $9.5 billion in an effort to secure the fund, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
AT&T filed for approval for the proposal with the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday. It said the move would not significantly affect company earnings.
AT&T's pension plan was underfunded by about $10.2 billion at the end of 2011, a company spokeswoman said.
"We're making this contribution, which is many times above our estimated required funding for 2013, at a time when many companies have eliminated their pensions," the spokeswoman said.
The proposal comes after rival Verizon Communications Inc said on Wednesday that it will transfer $7.5 billion in pension obligations to insurer Prudential, removing a quarter of its long-term employee retirement burden with a single upfront payment.
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My core objectives with Deduplication experiments in Pcompress has been to achieve large-scale data handling capability using tiny chunks (4KB and even 2KB). This has traditionally been extremely difficult to the point of being nearly impractical. The algorithms in Pcompress can now achieve this without loss of performance, at least for archival data streams. Read on to find out more.
I have in the past alluded to a an indexing algorithm in Pcompress that allows me to deduplicate large data using only a tiny memory-resident index. I finally found some time to write about it. The basic idea is quite simple and is not entirely new. What is new, is the way certain components of the approach are implemented. The steps are simple:
- Break dataset into large segments, such that each segment is a collection of adjacent variable-length chunks as derived using a chunking algorithm.
- For each segment create a chunk-list file on disk which contains the list of chunk hashes.
- For each segment compute one or more similarity identifiers and store in an index.
- If one or more similarity identifiers for two segments match then we know that the segments have at least a few chunks in common. In that case load the chunk lists of the segments from disk and deduplicate the chunks.
If the segments are large enough then a relatively tiny similarity index can address large amounts of data. This scheme requires one disk read per bunch of chunks reducing lookup and access times. Also each chunk list is one file and is read sequentially improving read times. The chunk list files can also be stored on SSDs to speed up even more. The similarity index can be a RAM-resident hashtable giving the fastest possible lookup times. Since each segment is a collection of chunks, I experimented using different chunk counts and found excellent results having 2048 chunks per segment. Thus the segment size is of variable length. For an average chunk size of 4KB we get 8MB segments on average, for 8KB chunks we get 16MB segments and so on.
Many Similarity based Deduplication approaches use files as the objects for checking similarity. However this suffers from a problem that very large files can give rise to loss of accuracy and poor deduplication ratio. Conversely too many tiny files can bloat the similarity index. The approach described above avoids these extremes. A somewhat similar approach has been described in the SiLo scheme.
The old guard – MinHash
The effectiveness of the approach described above hinges on the effectiveness of the similarity indexing scheme. Here I based my implementation on the good old MinHash technique. This technique has been used commonly in data mining and web search to determine similar documents, detect plagiarism, perform clustering and so on.
Essentially we break up a document into a set of semantic pieces, compute multiple hashes per piece and identify a subset of pieces that possess the numerically lowest hash values. If such k-min subsets of two documents match then we can say that the documents are somewhat similar to each other. In this deduplication use case a document is nothing but a segment. Since each segment is a set of chunks, each sematic piece is a chunk as determined by the chunking algorithm. The question is what hashes to compute for each chunk in order to apply the MinHash algorithm? (See MinHash for Dummies for a layman's explanation of MinHash).
After lots of experimentation and head scratching it turns out that the cryptographic hashes computed per chunk can themselves be used via truncating. Truncated cryptographic hashes are themselves independent hashes. I took this idea to its logical extreme and split each cryptographic hash into a set of smaller hashes. These can be thought of as the permutations of the hash function. Then I can sort these hashes numerically and select the K lowest values to get my K-min-values sketch. If one or more elements of the KMV sketches of two segments match then the segments are deemed to have at least a few chunks in common. How small to truncate a hash? It turns out that 64-bit hashes provide a good approximation. So if we are using, say SHA-256, then we get 4 smaller hashes from each chunk hash. These are then numerically sorted and the 20 lowest unique values are chosen. Pictorially this approach can be depicted as below.
The number 20 and other thresholds were arrived at experimentally, to give a good balance of memory usage vs deduplication effectiveness. Increasing beyond 20 hashes, results in diminishing returns on dedupe effectiveness while linearly increasing memory consumption. The point of inflection actually comes at 16 hashes, below which, dedupe effectiveness falls rapidly. The chart below shows the results of testing on a 360GB dataset that I have used in previous occasions.
The interesting thing here is that this approach results in high deduplication effectiveness to the extent of 90% to 95% of the effectiveness of straight forward exact dedupe using a simple chunk index. The choice of the hash function (SHA2, SHA3, BLAKE2 etc) has little bearing on the outcome. Here is another chart showing a comparison of this similarity based deduplication (using various datasets and hash funtions) with the exact deduplication baseline.
Memory Usage
Lets consider the case of 4KB average chunk size. Each segment contains 2048 (approx) chunks, which gives us 8MB average segment size. For each chunk we derive a 256-bit crypto hash which results in 4 64-bit similarity hashes per chunk. We select the lowest valued 20 unique hashes per segment which form the similarity indicators. So we need 160 bytes of similarity indicators per segment. In addition to this we need to store 64-bit pointers to the actual segment data on disk. The segment data is basically the chunk hash and data pointer list stored on disk. So the storage requirement is doubled to 320 bytes. The similarity indicators for a segment are kept in a hash table. So we need to consider some data structure overheads as well. Assuming 4 bytes of overhead on average we have a final storage requirement of 400 bytes per segment.
Now assuming 8MB segment size and one Petabyte of 100% random data where no duplicates exist (worst case), we would need 134217728 segments. This translates to 50GB of worst case memory usage. If we use 8KB chunk size, then the calculations lead to 25GB RAM requirement for the worst case. These memory values are not too much by present day standards and typically data will have duplicates. So RAM requirement will come down by the extent of duplicates present, especially when using the deduplicating storage architecture I had described earlier. If we limit data handling to say 500TB, then even smaller 2KB chunks can be used. These are practical resource limitations. The algorithm does not have any inherent limitations. If we use a well-endowed server with say 256GB or more of RAM then petascale data can be handled using 2KB chunks as well. Performance will be lower of course.
To the best of my knowledge there is as yet no dedupe product that can handle a petabyte of data using small 4KB chunks and an in-memory index. I may be wrong, so please add comments if you know of another such system. If you are looking at less than a Petabyte then even 2KB chunks are possible – virtually no one does this today.
This indexing scheme is actually implemented in Pcompress today and works quite well. It can actually reach raw a dedupe processing throughput of upto 500MB/s (discounting I/O) on my average laptop. Of course there are many other optimizations both algorithmic and architectural some of which I have posted about earlier. I am presently working on the persistent similarity index part which would allow creating versioned incremental archives.
Related Posts
- Efficient Deduplication is all about Tables – Yes so true but Permabit Albireo is still talks about large 64KB chunks.
- Architecture for a Deduplicated Archival Store Part 1.
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I been re-watching Outlaw star this week and I am reminded of what a good series this is. I just finish Ep20 "Cats and Girls and Spaceships" and i am struck by how different this series is form almost any other show out there.
This ep impress me so much that I just had to post it. Really glad i start re-watching my older anime collection. It is going to be while befire i start watching anything new with so much so old stuff on my shelf.
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l'homme de lommm
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and the music in that episode is so great also! it's all that blues-y harminica! so sad! but so great!!
that's the best of the "one-off" type of episodes in the series (ie, the eps that aren't exactly furthering the overall plot of who is after Jim and his brother)
|2006-10-15, 11:35
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Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 42
Too bad a couple of years back the firector was interview and he said they plans for 2nd Outlaw Star series but was scrapped by the company
|2006-10-15, 12:57
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|2006-10-15, 15:57
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l'homme de lommm
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: 34 3 118 15
yeah, this sold much better in the US than in Japan... i think it was due to Cartoon Network. they aired it a long time ago and the English dub was actually much better than most... though all American dubs sound too happy and upbeat to me... let the animation and story be exciting, don't force it with the voices...
|2007-01-10, 13:05
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I'm a sucker for Harem
Join Date: Aug 2004
It's really about Big boobs and swords.
|2007-01-10, 15:17
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: London
|2007-01-14, 06:28
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Location: Leeds, England
Yes, to watch Outlaw Star again is like revisiting a good old friend. Everytime I watch it I really enjoy how the story unfolds, the characters, the settings, the music and the different types of battles.
Oh, if only Sunrise would make another show as good as this (not that Sunrise don't make good shows and if Gundam allows them to get and use that money, then roll on the next Gundam rendition!)
|2007-01-17, 23:09
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Was Outlaw Star continued past Ep 26?
Outlaw Star was made to be continued, you can just tell if you watch the ending and pay attention to things.
But yes I heard a rumor a while back about a continuation where they changed the name and storyline, but it has the same organizations and weapons and the like.
|2008-05-19, 13:27
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Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
Watching the remastered 20 ("Cats, Girls and Spaceships") today for some reason put me in mind once again how much I loved this series generally, and that ep specifically. It's one of my "formative" series and no matter how long I can go without thinking about it, I always love it when something does pull me back in. Too bad OS2 never saw fruition - there was so much more that could have been mined from these characters.
|2008-05-20, 23:20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
I know this is kind of off topic, but does anyone know the name of the song that plays during the 1st episode and the "hot springs of planet Tenrei" episode?
In the first episode, it plays while Gene is staring out a window after sleeping with some prostitute.
It plays again as the wizards who've made the caster rounds witness Gene leaving the planet Tenrei with the rest of the crew.
I'm sure the song is played a few more times throughout the series, but that's all the comes to mind at the moment. After going through every song on the ost, I can't seem to find it. So if anyone can confirm whether or not this is just an unreleased track, I'd appreciate it.
Last but not least, roughly when were the remastered episodes released?
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Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, was reported tense Thursday ahead of two major rallies called for Friday, one to show support for the United States and its slain ambassador, who died last week when gunmen stormed the U.S. consulate compound, and the other by the Ansar al Shariah militia suspected of involvement in the attack.
Ansar al Shariah called its rally for the same time and the same place as a group of moderate Libyans who call themselves "Save Benghazi."
"Ansar al Shariah has done this deliberately," said Bilal Bettamir, one of the organizers of the Save Benghazi rally, which in addition to marking the passing of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens is intended to call for freedom of expression and religious moderation. "We have been planning our march for the past week, and they made their decision yesterday. They knew all about it."
The stark differences between the two sides were evident in an interview with the head of Ansar al Shariah aired Thursday by the United States' National Public Radio network. Mohammed Zahawi showed nothing but contempt for Western ideals.
"As for those bankrupt calls for Western democracy, liberalism and secularism, what did democracy give to the West?" he said, according to an account of the interview posted on the NPR website. "Social collapse, moral collapse, economic collapse?"
Ansar al Shariah is by far the dominant armed group in eastern Libya, where the national government in Tripoli has so far been unable to establish a security presence. The group has denied that it is responsible for the assault on the consulate, but witnesses have told McClatchy that the 100 to 125 gunmen who stormed the consulate compound with grenades, rockets and automatic weapons fire were carrying the Ansar al Shariah flag.
"The liberals and secularists were all raised in the West," Zahawi told NPR. "They were raised in openness, nakedness and decay. They know that in an Islamic state, they can't get to their vices. That's why they are waging a war against Islam."
In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the formation of a panel to investigate the deaths of Stevens and the three other Americans: computer expert Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Greg Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who were working as security contractors at the consulate.
The panel – the formation of which is usually pro forma in such cases – is to be chaired by Thomas Pickering, a retired diplomat who served in the third highest post at the State Department and as a U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel and the United Nations.
Clinton made the announcement before going to Capitol Hill to provide closed-door briefings to the Senate and the House of Representatives on the consulate attack. She was joined by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other senior officials.
A House subcommittee chairman, meanwhile, informed Clinton that his panel would conduct its own investigation, and he cited the differences in the U.S. and Libyan versions of what happened.
"The universe of known facts . . . remains small and confusion has overshadowed certainty in this matter," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign operations, wrote to Clinton in a letter. "The American people have a right to know precisely what happened."
Chaffetz asked Clinton to provide the committee by 5 p.m. on Oct. 4 all classified and unclassified analyses and other assessments of the security situation in Benghazi, the preliminary findings of an FBI team that is due to inspect the consulate compound, and other materials, including documents on which the administration based its public assertions that the attack appeared to be a spontaneous action and not a long-planned operation.
There is little doubt that the security situation has been deteriorating for months in Bengahzi. The U.S. consulate was the target of a bomb June 6, and there were subsequent attacks on British and Tunisian diplomats that same month. In August, the offices of the Red Cross were hit with a rocket-propelled grenade. Benghazi has been the scene as well of a wave of kidnappings, bombings and assassinations.
Save Benghazi has called on Libya's central government to withdraw the authority it's given to militias in police matters and has called on the General National Congress to pass a law criminalizing armed militias.
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Nevertheless, other chief suspects who haven't escaped don't appear to be fazed about being arrested, further underlining the government's unwillingness or inability to take strong action against well-armed militias.
Ahmed Boukhatala heads the Abu Ubaidah Brigades in Benghazi, a sub-group of the larger Ansar al Shariah militia. He was interviewed by CNN in a Benghazi restaurant where he appeared relaxed. When told he was one of the main suspects in the Benghazi attack, he replied that if the Libyan authorities wanted to arrest him they could try, but it would be a losing battle for them.


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Austria places a minimum stockholding obligation on industry.
The Stockholding and Reporting Law obliges all importers to hold emergency stocks equivalent to 25% of their previous year's net imports, plus an additional 10% to account for unavailable stocks. Thus, the actual stock obligation effectively amounts to 27.5% of the previous year's imports.
Stocks counted towards meeting the obligation can be crude oil or oil products, and must be owned by the stockholder. Oil products covered by stockholding regulations are divided into three groupings: gasolines; kerosene, jet fuel and gas oils; and fuel oils.
All importers (also distributors and consumers where applicable) of crude oil and/or oil products (including biofuels) are subject to stockholding requirements. In order to guarantee electricity supply, operators of fossil fuel power stations with a generating capacity of at least 50 Megawatt (MW) are also obliged to hold fuel stocks. These stocks must be sufficient to continue supplying electricity at maximum capacity for 30 days or to cover internal consumption needs. Such stocks must be held on site, unless government permission is granted for use of a nearby storage site with adequate transport facilities.
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Greetings Seekers, I remember it well! October 10th, 1962, when the Good Pope John XXIII called the bishops from across the world to gather in St. Peter's Basilica. There within the ancient eternal city – shocking at the time- not only clerics, but religious brothers and sisters, as well as lay men and women, even non-Catholics gathered to dialogue and pray to bring the Roman Catholic Church into the 20th century. No one could have imagined the outcome.
We watched the Vatican on TV, heard the rumors of change and as the years went on, felt the fallout from those who feared what was to be a metamorphosis for Catholics world wide. It's fair to say that we all still are wrestling with the meaning and implications of the Vatican II Council.
Sixteen documents were the literary tribute of the Council, documents that changed the Catholic governance structures, our relationship to one another, how we celebrated Eucharist and understood what was meant to be members of this most ancient family of Christ. 16 documents of Vatican II Council
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New York Times Opinion Page
By JOHN W. O'MALLEY
Published: October 10, 2012
Olimpia Zagnoli
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The church validated for the first time the principle of religious freedom and rejected all forms of civil discrimination based on religious grounds. Thus ended an era of cozy church-state relations that began in the fourth century with Emperor Constantine.
Before the council, Catholics were not only forbidden to pray with those of other faiths but also indoctrinated into a disdain or even contempt for them. (This was, of course, a two-way street.) Now, for the first time, Catholics were encouraged to foster friendly relations with Orthodox and Protestant Christians, as well as Jews and Muslims, and even to pray with them. The council condemned all forms of anti-Semitism and insisted on respect for Judaism and Islam as Abrahamic faiths, like Christianity.
John W. O'Malley, a university professor at Georgetown and a Jesuit priest, is the author of "What Happened at Vatican II" and the forthcoming book "Trent: What Happened at the Council."
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Benefit One: Avoid Muscle Loss
Adults who do not strength train lose between 5-7 pounds of muscle every decade (Forbes 1976, Evans and Rosenberg 1992). Although endurance exercise improves our cardiovascular fitness, it does not prevent the loss of muscle tissue. Only strength exercise maintains our muscle mass and strength throughout our mid-life years.
Benefit Two: Avoid Metabolic Rate Reduction
Because muscle is very active tissue, muscle loss is accompanied by a reduction in our resting metabolism. Information from Keyes et al. (1973) and Evans and Rosenberg (1992) indicates that the average adult experiences a 2-5 percent reduction in metabolic rate every decade of life. Because regular strength exercise prevents muscle loss it also prevents the accompanying decrease in resting metabolic rate.
Benefit Three: Increase Muscle Mass
Because most adults do not perform strength exercise, they need to first replace the muscle tissue that has been lost through inactivity. Fortunately, research (Westcott 1995) shows that a standard strength training program can increase muscle mass by about 3 pounds over an Week training period. This is the typical training response for men and women who do 25 minutes of strength exercise, 3 days per week, and represents an excellent return on a time-efflcient investment.
Benefit Four: Increased Metabolic Rate
Research reveals that adding 3 pounds of muscle increases our resting metabolic rate by 7 percent, and our daily calorie requirements by 15 percent (Campbell et al. 1994). At rest, a pound of muscle requires about 35 calories per day for tissue maintenance, and during exercise muscle energy utilization increases dramatically. Adults who replace muscle through sensible strength exercise use more calories all day long, thereby reducing the likelihood of fat accumulation.
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Campbell and his co-workers (1994) found that strength exercise produced 4 pounds of fat loss after 3 months of training, even though the subjects were eating 15 percent more calories per day. That is, a basic strength training program resulted in 3 pounds more lean weight, 4 pounds less fat weight, and 370 more calories per day food intake.
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The effects of progressive resistance exercise are similar for muscle tissue and bone tissue. The same training stimulus that increases muscle myoproteins also increases bone osteoproteins and mineral content. Menkes (1993) has demonstrated significant increases in the bone mineral density of the upper femur after 4 months of strength exercise.
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Hurley (1994) has reported a 23 percent increase in glucose uptake after 4 months of strength training. Because poor glucose metabolism is associated with adult onset diabetes, improved glucose metabolism is an important benefit of regular strength exercise.