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BAGHDAD (AP) — Three attacks north of Baghdad Monday killed 25 people, including members of a Sunni militia that fights al-Qaida, officials said, in the latest of a growing surge of insurgent strikes that are plaguing Iraq.
The first attack illustrated that while Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence is in a dangerous upswing, there are other forces at play as well. Eight Sunni Muslim militiamen were snatched from their houses in the town of Mishahda and surrounding villages during the past two days and then killed, a police officer said. He said their bodies were left in an orchard on Monday with gunshot wounds. Some had their hands bound behind their backs.
The government-allied militiamen, or Sahwa, joined with U.S. troops to fight al-Qaida before the U.S. pullout in late 2011. Since then, they have been a frequent target for al-Qaida in Iraq, which considers them traitors. The town where the abductions took place, a former insurgent stronghold, is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the capital.
Sectarian violence also erupted Monday.
Shortly after sunset, a suicide bomber set off his explosive belt inside a Shiite mosque where a funeral was taking place, killing nine people and wounding 40 others. The attack took place in the town of Muqdadiyah, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Al-Qaida in Iraq frequently deploys car bombs and suicide bombers, often targeting Shiites and security forces.
Later, police a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a cafe in the restive city of Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 20 others.
Health officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information to reporters.
Also Monday, the United Nations mission to Iraq said last month's violence claimed the lives of 761 Iraqis and wounded 1,771 others. The statement said Baghdad province had the most casualties, with 258 people killed and 692 injured. It was followed by Salahuddin, Ninevah, Diyala and Anbar provinces in central and northern Iraq.
Violence increased sharply in April and May, with frequent bombings in civilian areas raising concerns that a widespread sectarian conflict might once again break out in Iraq. The bloodshed accelerated after a deadly April 23 crackdown by security forces on a Sunni protest in the northern town of Hawija against the Shiite-led government.
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An elderly Madison County man died Friday morning in a house fire.
James Drake was killed in a fire at his 1788 Watson Mill Road home near the Gospel Barn around 8:30 a.m. Friday. His wife escaped the blaze but was treated for burns at Athens Regional Medical Center.
According to Carlton Volunteer Fire Department Chief Terry Kidd, an electric blanket reportedly caught fire at the house. Both Mr. and Mrs. Drake left the house and Mr. Drake went back in with a water hose, but never came back out.
Kidd said the state fire marshal is investigating the blaze and must make an official ID of the body, but he said the deceased is believed to be Mr. Drake.
Kidd said the house was consumed by the fire. Carlton, Comer, Hull, Colbert, Danielsville and Ila volunteer firemen responded to the blaze. The firemen battled the fire into the afternoon.
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- Hot weather can be especially dangerous for babies.Summertime makes it extra important not to leave your kids in the car by themselves.Outside of crashes, more children die in cars each year from heatstroke than any other cause.About 38 kids die every year from heatstroke in cars. "What we like to say in public health is, 'beat the heat, check the backseat'. Create reminders by putting something in the backseat that will help you to remember that you need to get something before you get to your final destination," says Oneida Co. Public Health Nurse Jill Blake.Try putting a purse, briefcase, or cell phone in the backseat with your child.That forces you to go to the back to get your belongings.Then, you'll remember to take your child.Always call 911 if you see a child alone in a different car.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Adrian Peterson was late arriving to the stadium. By the time he settled in, this game was out of reach.
Peterson got off to a slow start, and the Minnesota Vikings got blown away in the first half on the way to a 28-10 loss to the Chicago Bears on Sunday.
"I was (surprised)," Peterson said. "We had a great week of practice. We just came out and couldn't get anything going. We've just got to shake it off and move forward."
Jay Cutler was on target from the start, throwing for 188 yards and a touchdown after missing a game with a concussion, to lead the Bears to a rather lopsided win even though they lost some key players to injuries.
Devin Hester left the game with a concussion. Matt Forte and Charles Tillman exited with ankle injuries, and for good measure, both starting guards went down.
All those injuries tempered some of the good feelings this win created for the Bears.
The Vikings, meanwhile, were left shaking their heads after losing for the third time in four games.
"Very disappointing game," coach Leslie Frazier said. "We did not execute the way we needed to on the road to win against a good football team."
Tied with Green Bay for the NFC North lead and just a game ahead of Minnesota (6-5) coming in, the Bears (8-3) grabbed a 25-3 halftime lead with Cutler connecting on just about every pass. The defense held Peterson in check early on, although he did finish with 108 yards rushing.
Chicago also came away with three more takeaways to increase its total from a league-leading 30 entering the game to 33.
The rather easy win came after back-to-back losses to Houston and San Francisco that left many questioning how good this team really is.
But it also came with a heavy price.
The Bears lost Devin Hester, a receiver and a record-setting return specialist, early to a concussion. And that was just the start.
Matt Forte, their top running back, hobbled to the tunnel midway through the third quarter with an ankle injury. Coach Lovie Smith said star cornerback Charles Tillman also hurt his ankle.
Besides those three, the Bears lost both starting guards in the third quarter to knee sprains, with Lance Louis and Chris Spencer going down. Louis' injury on a blindside hit by Jared Allen as Antoine Winfield returned an interception forced Chicago to go with Gabe Carimi, who lost the right tackle job to Jonathan Scott.
Spencer, meanwhile, was in the lineup after Chilo Rachal left the team.
If the Bears are going to develop any continuity on the line, well, don't expect it anytime soon.
"I don't think it's possible now," Cutler said. "With all the moving parts we have and Lance going down, you're not going to have that. We're going to have to roll with the guys we have and see what we have, lean on our defense as we have before, run the ball well. Be efficient through the air. See how far we go."
As for Cutler, he sure looked sharp after missing Monday's blowout loss at San Francisco.
Back after being knocked out of the Texans game on a helmet-to-helmet hit by Tim Dobbins, he got off to a scorching start and completed 23 of 31 passes with an interception to go with that touchdown.
Brandon Marshall caught 12 passes for 92 yards and became the first Bears receiver since Marty Booker in 2002 to go over 1,000 yards. He now has 1,017 yards this season, his sixth straight with 1,000 or more.
On defense, Henry Melton set the tone by sacking Christian Ponder on the first play from scrimmage. Nick Roach set up the first touchdown by knocking the ball out of Peterson's hands. Chris Conte set another TD with a 35-yard interception return, and Julius Peppers blocked a field goal.
The league's leading rusher, Peterson tied Robert Smith's club record with a 100-yard performance for the fifth straight game even though he managed just 25 in the first half. He also lost two fumbles and had to catch a cab to the stadium and arrived about 90 minutes before kickoff, according to reports.
Ponder wasn't much help, going 22 of 43 with 159 yards and a touchdown along with an interception. His favorite target, Percy Harvin, sat out his second straight game with a sprained left ankle.
"We knew what we were getting into," Peterson said. "They wanted to make a statement. I thought it was more so what we did, giving the ball away, not making routine plays. Can't wait to see them again."
He won't have to wait long, with the Bears visiting Minnesota on Dec. 9.
Cutler completed 15 of 17 passes for 117 yards in the first half, and the Bears jumped out a big lead after a shaky start on offense.
Forte fumbled on Chicago's first play from scrimmage, leading to a 40-yard field goal by Blair Walsh — all the scoring the Vikings did in the half.
The Bears broke it open late in the second half.
Bush scored from the 1 and holder Adam Podlesh ran in for a 2-point conversion that made it 18-3.
Ponder got picked off by Conte and he returned it 35 yards to the Minnesota 13. That led to a scoring strike from Cutler to a lunging Matt Spaeth on the next play.
Notes: Frazier said he and Peterson were going to have a talk about punctuality after Sunday's delayed arrival. "There is something that Adrian and I need to talk about regarding getting to the stadium," he said. ... Allen thought his hit on Louis after Winfield's interception was a clean one. "I turned around, he was running to make a tackle and I threw myself into him to make a block. My condolences to him and his family. I never, ever, try and intentionally hurt anybody."
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The Origin of the Name Sebastopol by John Cummings January 2009 2 All Rights Reserved Signs of settlement in the early 1850s in the area that was to become Sebastopol would have been only the Millar and Walker trading post/store and the two store men's residences. Medical doctor Joseph Morgan Millar (Dr. Millar) died in January of 1875 (McClure, 2005 and 2008) and left his entire estate to John Walker. When John Walker died in mid-February of 1895 (McClure, 2008) he was one of the wealthiest and most benevolent men in the county. The Millar and Walker (M & W) store was originally near an old Native American trail to the coast which crossed the Laguna by a ford. Borba (1936) states that the original location of the M&W store was at the southern limit of Sebastopol in 1936 and was where the Shaw station is. From its original location, the store was subsequently moved to the eastern boundary of Walker hill and when the bridge built on the road to Santa Rosa, the old store was moved again to the bank corner of Main Street in Sebastopol. (The Walker hill site is now occupied by the hospital on Palm Avenue. A concrete bridge crossed the Laguna and was built on the road to Santa Rosa in the summer of 1921.) John Walker was the Bodega postmaster in the M & W store. At the time, the Bodega post office received mail for all of northern coastal California mail patrons to the Oregon boarder. The Bodega post office was moved out of the M & W store Bodega and was combined in the west with the Smith Ranch post office at the corners of the Smith Ranch (Petaluma Journal and Argus, January 23, 1868). Sebastopol was now officially recognized by the federal government, was unique in its name, and John Daugherty was 3 appointed to be its first postmaster. (The Sebastopol in Napa county and its post office became Yountville, leaving three Sebastopols in northern California according to the Petaluma paper. Gudde, [1996] says that there were Sebastopols in Tulare, Sacramento and Nevada counties, but the towns no longer exist and while the Petaluma article says that only the Sebastopol in Sacramento county did not have a post office, the other Sebastopols also probably did not have post offices.) While working as a clerk in the M & W store, Joseph Henry P. Morris homesteaded land for Pine Grove about one mile north of the store. John Daugherty was his first customer, and purchased enough land from Morris for a store on what was to become Main Street in Sebastopol. (It is erroneous to assume that there were major clusters of pines, hence the apt name of Pine Grove, since Douglas firs, a native tree in the Sebastopol area, are commonly called pines.) There is no doubt that the village of Pine Grove was renamed Sebastopol during the Crimean War (October 1953 to its end in a peace treaty at the beginning of April in 1856). In November 1855, ads in the Petaluma paper for the Empire Line of stages from Petaluma to Bodega, stopped in Pine Grove. But by the end of May in the following year the stage line had changed ownership. The ad for the new owner says that Bodega stage now stopped in Sebastopol. Further mention of a local Pine Grove was not found anywhere. Pine Grove was renamed Sebastopol in the about seven month period between November 1955 and the end of May of 1856. 4 Local newspapers at the time of the Crimean War did not openly support the Russians or the siege of Russia's Sebastopol. However, the Petaluma Journal (September 15, 1855) published a letter written about a visit with General Vallejo outside of Sonoma in mid-May of 1855. The writer of this letter noted that the general had strongly opposed the encroachment of the Russians in the county and was of the opinion that if it was not for the actions of Vallejo protecting the land from the "greedy clutches of the Czar" "Americans would likely be like England and France wasting blood and treasure in a protracted siege of Fort Ross, the Sebastopol in America." (The Russian name for Fort Ross was Stawianski.) News that the flags of France (a tricolor) and England (the cross of Saint George) flew on the navy ships of the winners at the end of the siege of Russia's Sebastopol, took nearly two months to arrive by a ship in the nearby port of San Francisco (September 8 to November 3, 1855). While the Russians had bravely defended their port of Sebastopol for nearly a year (September 25, 1854 to September 8, 1855), the "News of the Week" in Petaluma's Sonoma County Advertiser noted that while the Russians had exhibited great valor and nobility in defending their port, their actions were only a slight defeat for the Czar and the Russian spirit would continue. (While technically now in the Ukraine, Sevastopol remains the home port for the Russia's Baltic naval fleet and the Danube is still open international waters. Old local newspapers at the time refer to the Russian port of Sebastopol, but this paper uses Sebastopol only when referring to the village/town in Sonoma county.) 5 In the afternoon of the day following the news brought by ship to San Francisco that the siege of Russia's Sebastopol had ended, the city by the Bay held a picnic to celebrate the event. The picnic was described by a correspondent for the Petaluma Journal (December 1, 1855) and was attended by French, English and Sardinians representing the Turks. While everybody enjoyed themselves immensely, the correspondent described the picnic at South Point as being more like "an Irish Fair." "Torn coats, black eyes and bloody noses were prominent and wine bottles, loaves of bread and fowl flew around among the combatants." "A roast chicken struck Council Dillon in the breast." The activity at the picnic occurred among the flags of the participants. The picnic event committee apologized to the guests in the San Francisco morning paper for the actions of the picnic celebrants, and the apologetic article also stated that a crowd of at least 5,000 people had carried American and Russian flags and to show their sympathy for the Russians by marching to the residence of the Russian consulate and his family in San Francisco. (The estimate of 5,000 people was a very large crowd considering that the stated crowd was about one tenth of the entire population of San Francisco at the time.) The newspaper correspondent was of the opinion that neither of the San Francisco actions at the end of the siege were in "good taste" and "only the full force of pickpockets reaped a rich harvest in watches, etc." Many historians of the area, some old and others more recent, have written with some variation, that a local legend was the event which led to the origin of renaming Pine Grove to Sebastopol. Essentially, they all repeat the legend that Stevens and Hibbs got into a lively argument and when the crowd yelled, Fight, Hibbs took refuge in John 6 Dougherty's store, and since the scene was just like Russia's Sebastopol, the name of the village in Sonoma county got a new name. (Reenactment of the local origin legend is currently often part of many gatherings held in the Sebastopol area.) A very fanciful and elaborate version of the renaming story was part of the winning essay in a PG&E sponsored contest in the mid-1930s (reprinted in the Sebastopol Times on July 30, 1937). The author of the essay, Lucille Rood Kelly, writes about "old Jeff Stevens" and "Pete Hibbs" providing first names for the two participating men. Lucille stated that Stevens was enthusiastic about the many changes to the town coming in the future and the town should have a new upscale name like Sebastopol to provide for the additional changes coming in the next 50 years. But Hibbs expressed caution, having read the old San Francisco newspapers and was familiar with the wars in Europe. While Hibbs supported renaming the town he argued with Stevens. But both men had gathered as part of a crowd on the stoop of John Daugherty's store, and when Hibbs argued violently with Stevens, the rest of the crowd on the stoop yelled, Fight, Fight, Fight!. The remainder of Lucille's essay essentially follows the local legend of renaming Sebastopol and is a delightful bit of local history. The first mention of the word, Sebastopol, in the Petaluma newspapers was in early April of 1860 (Sonoma County Journal, April 6, 1860) in which Petaluma readers could get off the stage in Sebastopol and continue with their journeys by taking the "little steamer Georgina." About three months later, Petaluma readers were invited to recreate and relax in the adequate offerings of Sebastopol (Sonoma County Journal August 3, 1860) As in all good newspapers, Sebastopol is mentioned in the Petaluma newspapers in subsequent 7 years for every drowning, untimely death, or for any news worthy event which occurred in the vicinity of Sebastopol. Especially germane to this paper was a letter to the Petaluma and Argus in 1865 (July 13) from Sebastopol in which the writer describes the Fourth of July activities of the community. The letter also states that Sebastopol owes its name to "Russia's renowned Fortress." Having spent much time on historical research, verification and writing of this paper, the author favors the solution of the Sebastopol 1865 writer since they would have been alive at the time of the name change, but concludes that there is no clear answer to the question about the origin of the name, Sebastopol. Without question Sebastopol is one of the many Russian names we have today (the Russian River, for example,) which are remnants of the county's Russian heritage. However, having the Russian name of Sebastopol does not prove it is the origin of the name of Sebastopol. The local legend of Hibbs taking refuge in a store does not explain the origin of the Sebastopol name since apparently they were going to change the name anyway and the siege of Russia's Sebastopol had been followed in the news for nearly a year and the alternative name of Sebastopol for the town was in the air, so to speak. America had recently fought a civil war and relearned that American democracy relies on a one-man, one-vote system. Many newspaper articles at the time clearly express distain for undemocratic Europe and assert that if left to the people, there would have been no Crimean War and siege of Russia's Sebastopol. So Pine Grove became Sebastopol. What better way to show a one-man, one-vote system in action. 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY Borba, W. (Bill) S. 1936. "Sebastopol Told At Meeting – Group of Relics To Be Gathered on City History" Sebastopol Times April 3, 1936. Gudde, Edmond G. 1991. California Place Names, 4th Addition, 467 pp. McClure, Evelyn. 2000. Sebastopol's Historic Cemetery. Thomas Shore Inc. Bell View Press. McClure, Evelyn S. 2005. "Keeping Time – a mistaken identity" Sonoma West Times & News July 21, 2005. McClure, Evelyn. 2008, personal communication. 9


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The rankings outside of the top 20 or so are irrelevant. Nobody cares if you went to the 34th or 82nd best school, but Hamilton is right about the extreme costs. If you do a decent job on the LSAT and have a solid undergraduate GPA you can get a huge scholarship at a lower ranked school. If you want to practice pharmacy type law simply getting a J.D. from any ABA school would likely do. The costs are outrageous at any school for what you get at sticker price, but if you can get a huge scholarship law school is worth it.
Evening all. Looking for a few opinions here. I am a recent PharmD graduate and am currently working as a Pharmacist for a major retail pharmacy chain. I started developing an interest in law school in my last two years of pharmacy school. I am quite interested in pharmacy practice type law and have at least a passing interest in corporate representation. I am interested to see if anybody out there has looked into the PharmD/JD combination. Is there much demand out there for someone with those credentials? I also keep reading that law school ranking is important when entering the job market, does anybody know how much impact a school's ranking really has on the ability to land a decent job? I'm sure I'll have more questions later as I dig deeper into the idea of going back to school. Any insight the collective may be able to provide would be most helpful.


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Yankees star relief pitcher Mariano Rivera and Mets slugger David Wright bolster the lineup for the newest "I Love NY" advertising campaign to encourage summer tourism in New York.
They're among the Yankees and Mets who are featured in short TV ads to run on the Yankees' YES Network and SportsNet New York, which carries the Mets' games.
The ads will include Yankees manager Joe Girardi and relief pitcher David Robertson as well as Mets' second baseman Daniel Murphy and pitcher Matt Harvey.
The ads seek to entice New Yorkers and out-of-state tourist to plan summer vacations that include Mets and Yankees games and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
But the spots also promote New York attractions from Niagara Falls and the Adirondack and Catskills mountains to the beaches of Long Island.
Wright, the Mets third baseman, urged tourists to visit New York's vineyards, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and lakes while Girardi extolled the virtues of "more than 38 dazzling waterfalls" and 5,500 national historic sites. Murphy urged tourists to visit beaches, hiking trails and attend more than 70 festivals and balloon rallies.
The 15-second spots end with tag line: "And you thought you knew New York."
The ads will run through July and August on the cable television networks as well as at the Mets' Citi Field and at Yankee Stadium on the scoreboards. The ads direct tourists to the iloveny.com website for tourism information.
The spots are paid for from the state economic development budget. The teams and players weren't paid.


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Earlier this week, we ran a story on GoboLinux, and the distribution's effort to replace the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard with a more pleasant, human-readable, and logical design. A lot of people liked the idea of modernising/replacing the FHS, but just as many people were against doing so. Valid arguments were presented both ways, but in this article, I would like to focus on a common sentiment that came forward in that discussion: normal users shouldn't see the FHS, and advanced users are smart enough to figure out how the FHS works.


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Mexico falls 8-7
Bulldogs soccer lost a close match Thursday to former NCMC foe Helias, 2-1.
"This game had to be the most physical game we have played," head coach Grant Johnston said. "We really focused on physicality during this week's practice; the benefits showed today. Although we were not able to get the result we wanted, we felt as though we were stepping in the right direction."
The game remained scoreless through the first half, before the Crusaders jumped to a 1-0 lead in the second. Mexico senior Christian McKeown responded shortly, tying the game on a free kick from striking range.
"Christian scored what might be the best free-kick I've ever seen a high school student-athlete score," Johnston said. "This was incredibly encouraging considering we have tried different set plays in practice to increase our production from free-kicks. We felt as though we might need a gimmick to score rather than one swift boot from a player. Christian silenced those conversations with a perfectly struck goal."
The Crusaders would score again in the 65th minute, to take the lead and secure the victory.
"We are still making costly mistakes on defense, which is resulting in goals scored against us," Johnston said. "We possessed the ball much better today, as that has also been a focus in practice. Unfortunately, we are not getting the quality looks on net we need. This is still a work in progress. We have a streak of conference games approaching, and we need to get in our top form to find success."
The Bulldogs fall to 8-7 with the loss.
In junior varsity action, the Crusaders beat the Bulldogs 3-0.
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Two of college football's most storied programs will meet for the national championship in South Florida.
With the final BCS Standings released Sunday night, it is no surprise that No. 1 Notre Dame will face No. 2 Alabama in the 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 7 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens.
Notre Dame, which is making its first BCS National Championship Game appearance, finished the regular season with a perfect 12-0 record after a win last week at USC. The Fighting Irish last won a national title in 1988.
Alabama (12-1) beat Georgia 32-28 in the SEC Championship Game Saturday to secure its spot in the national championship game. The Crimson Tide is making its second consecutive trip to the BCS National Championship Game and third trip in four years. Considered to be a rebuilding year, Alabama spent most of the season ranked first in the major polls and could become the first team in the BCS era to repeat as champions.
This marks the seventh all-time meeting between the two programs — Notre Dame leads the series 5-1. But none of the games stand out quite like the first two meetings in the 1973 Sugar Bowl and the 1975 Orange Bowl.
Third-ranked Notre Dame knocked off No. 1 Alabama 24-23 in the Sugar Bowl to capture a share of the national title. The Crimson Tide was declared the national champion by the coaches poll. The following year in the Orange Bowl, No. 9 Notre Dame upset first-ranked Alabama 13-11 in Ara Parseghian's final game as Notre Dame head coach.
"It's always a special occasion to play against Notre Dame," Alabama coach Nick Saban said, "especially in a bowl like the Orange Bowl and especially for the national championship."
The BCS National Championship Game will feature two of the top defenses in the country. The Crimson Tide rank first nationally in total defense (246 yards per game), while the Irish rank first in scoring defense — allowing 10.33 points per game. Alabama ranks second in scoring defense, allowing 10.69 points per game.
Leading Notre Dame is middle linebacker Manti Te'o. He has a team-high seven interceptions and 103 tackles. Offensively, quarterback Everett Golson has passed for 2,135 yards and 11 touchdowns. He has also rushed for 305 yards. In the backfield, the trio of Theo Riddick, Cierre Wood and George Atkinson III have combined to rush for 1,981 yards and 14 touchdowns.
"This is just a good all-around football team with tremendous balance on offense and a very physical defense," Saban said.
For Alabama, junior quarterback A.J. McCarron ranks first in the nation in passing efficiency. He has thrown 26 touchdowns with only three interceptions. Behind a traditional run-offense, the Crimson Tide is averaging 224.62 yards rushing per game and proved to wear down the Georgia defense during its comeback late in the game. Alabama ended up 350 yards rushing against the Bulldogs.
Alabama's backfield has two 1,000 yard rushers in Junior Eddie Lacy and freshman T.J. Yeldon. Lacy has rushed for 1,182 yards with 16 touchdowns and Yeldon added 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns.
When Notre Dame and Alabama convene in South Florida in less than a month, one team will look to add to its recent legacy, while the other attempts to return to the top of college football.
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Kate Bosworth & Amanda Seyfried Take Off for Sundance!
Kate Bosworth and her fiance Michael Polish hold hands while they head into LAX Airport on Monday afternoon (January 21) in Los Angeles.
The 30-year-old actress and her love will be premiering their film Big Sur during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
"hold on darlin' we're headed up the mountain. #bigsur #sundance2013," Michael tweeted, to which Kate replied, "Away we go!"
Also pictured: Amanda Seyfried making her way through the airport to catch a flight to Park City, where she will be premiering her film Lovelace.
FYI: Amanda is wearing The Frye Company boots.
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New understanding about past learning – it doesn't get better than that!
Susan Hess Logeais, an Interdisciplinary Studies major at Marylhurst University, recently completed a 45-credit portfolio through Prior Learning Assessment — Congratulations, Susan! She challenged a number of college courses that matched the knowledge she's acquired through her career as an actor, screenwriting and film director, as well as through her personal life as a wife, mother, and social activist:
Public Speaking
Metamorphosis: The process of change within human cultures and individuals
Acting for the Camera
Advanced Screen Writing
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Filmmaking
Digital Video Editing
In her final PLA Reflection essay, Susan commented on new insight she gained through this process of critical reflection and discernment: "When looking back over the subjects I wrote about, I see a clear pattern of deep inquiry and a strong sense of social responsibility. [This] has helped me narrow my thinking on the kind of senior film project I want to create."
In this video, you can learn about Susan's unique experience in the PLA program, and how she was able to translate her extensive professional learning into 45 college credits!


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I have been working on a blog post, but before I post it, I thought I would explain why it has been so long since my last post. It is not because I have nothing to say, or that I have been too busy. I have written at least a dozen blog posts. They have been funny, sad, and I think, relatable. But you're going to have to take my word for it. The thing is this...the boys are getting big and there is so much less I can share. I think (hope, pray) that they will one day appreciate the stories that I have told about them up to this point. They are now about to turn 9 and 12, they continue to be interesting and funny, giving me awesome material, I just can't use it.
If I told you some of our best stuff, they might end up in the news for divorcing me. They would show the judge my blog, and she would bang her gavel and grant their divorce from me. Then she would order me to pay for therapy, for the rest of my life.
There have been conversations about deodorant, body hair, girls, mean kids, and how dogs have puppies without even being married. There have been moments of profound sadness as they begin to understand the depth of what was lost in Ethiopia. We have talked a lot about race and belonging, fitting in and standing out, and what it really means to be a family. First crushes have been revealed. I have answered questions about boob jobs, finances, the elderly, and why you absolutely must not believe everything that you hear on the school bus, especially if it makes you feel kind of weird inside.
I have answered the question, "What exactly is sex?" by using my hands as visual aides. They may never look at my pointer finger the same way. I know I don't. I wish I could have a do over.
So, I hope that explains my absence. I will continue to blog. There is still a lot to share. Just know that if weeks on end go by, and you haven't heard from me...it is not because my life suddenly got boring.


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Chickpea Salad & More: Top 10 Recipes of July 2011
Popular recipes in July included a warm chickpea salad, lemon braised chicken with mint pesto and beans, and a dish of old-fashioned strawberry shortcake.
• 1 Warm Chickpea Salad with Cumin and Garlic
• 2 Lemon Braised Chicken and Beans with Mint Pesto
• 3 Cheesy Corn Bake
• 4 Old-Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake
• 5 Grits with Corn, Goat Cheese and Roasted Tomatoes
• 6 Carrot Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
• 7 Beet-Pickled Deviled Eggs
• 8 Chocolate Chip Muffins
• 9 Simple Summer Squash Soup
• 10 Vegan Vanilla Almond Sandies
Welcome to The Kitchn's Best of 2011 roundup! From December 19 through January 1 we are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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Twins Rained Out Friday
The Twins had their game rained out in Detroit Friday night. The game will be made up with a day/night doubleheader on Sunday. The first game will start at 12:05 and will air on AM 1390-the Fan. The 2nd game will air Sunday night at 6:05, 5:35 pregame on WJON. The Twins play the Tigers in Detroit today at 3:05, pregame on WJON at 2:35.
Minnesota is 62-88 and will begin a series at home against the New York Yankees on Monday night at 7:10, pregame on WJON at 6:40.


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Mathematician tips blueprint for invisibility tunnels
Keywords:metamaterials? 3D display? Allan Greenleaf?
Metamaterials use composite resonators that can bend light any which way, potentially cloaking regions of space from visibility by diverting light around them. Now a mathematician has offered a blueprint for casting metamaterials into hollow fibers to create cloaked tunnels, each of which masks the light ascending from a planar pixel array to illuminate a 3D display. By arraying the tiny cloaking tunnels in 3D, light from the planar pixel array would travel up through the fibers unobserved except for their glowing ends, which would appear to be floating in space.
"Pass an object into one end, watch it disappear as it travels the length of the tunnel, and then see it reappear out the other end," said Professor Allan Greenleaf, a mathematician at the University of Rochester.
Applying that principle to a 3D display requires the light from planar arrays of pixels to travel up thousands of fibers to their assigned position in space. Being cast from hollow fibers made from metamaterials, ambient light diverts around the tunnels, making them invisible. Light from the planar array of pixels, on the other hand, travels unobserved up to each fiber's end, which is assigned a specific position in 3D space. Arraying thousands of these pixels in space would enable 3D displays to simply float in the air, according to the researchers.
Medical applications
Greenleaf and colleagues cautioned that 3D displays using metamaterial tunnels is a long-term goal many years into the future, but that shorter-term applications could be found in medicine. For instance, metamaterial tunnels could mask the long endoscopic extensions that hold a surgeon's tool. By passing the tool through a metamaterial tunnel, surgeons could effectively hide everything but the tip of their tool from their vision, greatly facilitating quicker, more accurate endoscopic procedures.
Greenleaf and his collaborators have not yet constructed a metamaterial tunnel, but they claim to have created a mathematical blueprint for others to follow when constructing their own. In particular, a metamaterial needs to be designed with a negative index of refraction so that it can divert light from one side of the tunnel to the other, where it emerges as if the cloaked tunnel were not there. The researcher's blueprint includes a variety of parameter settings for necessary metamaterial coating on the inside of the tunnels.
Greenleaf's collaborators include Matti Lassas, a professor at the Helsinki University of Technology; Yaroslav Kurylev, a professor at University College, London; and Gunther Uhlmann, a professor at the University of Washington.
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STS-96, Mission
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During their final full day in orbit, Discovery's astronauts released a small student satellite high over the Indian Ocean and prepared for a Sunday morning landing at the Kennedy Space Center.
Mission Specialist Julie Payette of the Canadian Space Agency deployed the spherical, mirror-covered STARSHINE satellite at 2:31 a.m. CDT. The satellite rose slowly out of its payload bay and entered an orbit two miles below Discovery. At 6 a.m. CDT, the two spacecraft were 26 miles apart, with the distance between them widening by 10 miles each orbit.
STARSHINE project officials at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center report they have already been able to see the bright satellite. More than 25,000 students from 18 countries are participating in the project. As the students track the satellite - which is visible to the naked eye - they will calculate the density of the Earth's upper atmosphere by recording changes in STARSHINE'S orbit. The satellite is expected to remain aloft for about 8 months, re-entering the atmosphere in January.
Earlier in the day, the shuttle crew successfully verified the performance of Discovery's small steering jets and flight control surfaces, ensuring their readiness to support landing. The crew also tested all the necessary communications channels, and stowed away some of the equipment and hardware used on board over the past several days.
With favorable weather conditions forecast for the primary landing site, mission managers decided not to activate the back-up landing site at Edwards Air Force Base in California. There are two landing opportunities at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday. For the first, Commander Kent Rominger would fire Discovery's engines in a deorbit burn at 11:54 p.m. Saturday with a landing following at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility at 1:03 a.m. Sunday. The second landing opportunity calls for a deorbit burn at 1:30 a.m. Sunday, resulting in a landing at 2:38 a.m. This will be the 11th night landing for the shuttle program.
Meanwhile the International Space Station continues to circle the globe at an altitude of 246 miles, trailing Discovery by 210 miles, with the distance increasing 10 miles each orbit.
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Pope Benedict says he's "deeply shocked" by the "senseless violence" in the Colorado movie theater shootings and is praying that God will give comfort and strength to the survivors and relatives of the victims.
In his traditional Sunday blessing, Benedict said he shared the distress of the families and friends of the victims.
The pope spoke from the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, in the hills south of Rome.
Benedict also said he's praying that the London Olympics will promote world peace and friendship.
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Remembering a Miracle in the Early Days of Sports Video Games
The score was 4 to 3, two outs in the ninth, when I woke up on the couch. No one was on base. "I don't need to see this," I said. "Nah, stick around," Dad said. I had two games that day, the World Series on TV, and Hardball! on my Commodore 64. If the Los Angeles Dodgers didn't win one, I'd make them win the other.


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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Yeah, yeah, everyone seems to be waiting for Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans. Me, too! I'm officially tossing my hat into the waiting pile.
In stores January 2013
In this gripping exploration of a futuristic afterlife, a teen discovers that death is just the beginning.
Since her untimely death the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in Level 2, a stark white afterlife located between our world and the next. Along with her fellow drones, Felicia passes the endless hours reliving memories of her time on Earth and mourning what she's lost—family, friends, and Neil, the boy she loved.
Then a girl in a neighboring chamber is found dead, and nobody but Felicia recalls that she existed in the first place. When Julian—a dangerously charming guy Felicia knew in life—comes to offer Felicia a way out, Felicia learns the truth: If she joins the rebellion to overthrow the Morati, the angel guardians of Level 2, she can be with Neil again.
Suspended between Heaven and Earth, Felicia finds herself at the center of an age-old struggle between good and evil. As memories from her life come back to haunt her, and as the Morati hunt her down, Felicia will discover it's not just her own redemption at stake… but the salvation of all mankind.
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After immersing myself for so long in the wonderful 70s witchcraft films of Europe such as Crypt of Horror, Horror Hotel, and the great witchy elements of Mmmmmovie icon Paul Naschy's films (Curse of the Devil, Horror Rises from the Tomb, etc.), it's refreshing to have a chance to look at an American take on the subject from roughly the same period. Enter the 1969, Louisiana-filmed rarity, The Witchmaker (aka The Legend of Witch Hollow). While perhaps not equalling its European kinsmen in the realms of cinematography, gore, and nekkid witch-flesh, this entertaining little slice of history still manages to give the Old World witch story a fascinating New World spin.
The Witchmaker differentiates itself right off the bat, eschewing the traditional period setting and time-honored "witch gets burned at the stake and curses her Inquisitors' ancestors" set-up for a modern-day cult killing in the thick of the Louisiana swamp. As we open we spy on a young woman (Susan Bernard of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) going for a skinny dip--well, a bra-and-panties dip...this IS an American flick after all!--in the swamp, apparently all by herself. (Always a good idea.) Before you can cluck your tongue at the hedonistic ways of those long-haired American kids, she's attacked by a maniac in the bushes, strung up by her ankles, and bled like a Louisiana hog into a waiting receptacle! Her murderer uses her blood to paint a strange hex symbol on her exposed midriff (an ankh, also called the Ansate Cross), which itself becomes the "t" in the title card for a nice segue into the opening credits. As a fan of cult movies and a long-time navel fetishist, I was riveted.
Next we meet a crew of Yankees being ferried to a cabin in the midst of the swamp by Mr. Leblanc, comic-relief rube and exposition-delivery device. We learn that there have been 8 ritual murders in the town in the last 2 years (I like those odds!), and that many of the townsfolk are saying there might be "a witch in the swamp again!" Pressed for details by the condescending Northerners, Leblanc explains, "Some towns is famous for their rhubarb; we was famous for our witches." You don't have to have seen The Blair Witch Project to know that this is probably not something the Chamber of Commerce is seeking to capitalize on.
Actually the "Witch of the Swamp" legend is a fairly common one in Southern United States folklore, and Leblanc goes on to lay out The Rules of the Movie, explaining that a real witch--male or female, it doesn't matter--can actually survive for hundreds of years as long as he can get blood for his evil rituals. He then drops the group off at a pier, promising to return in a week. When the old man offers to come by sooner than that to make sure the city slickers are doing all right, he is rebuffed with extreme condescension and departs. This is the kind of urban hubris that you just know is going to come back to bite in a reel or two.
a squad of psychic researchers who've come to the swamp to investigate the possible supernatural aspects of the murders. (They didn't tell the boatman for fear of publicity; presumably they didn't inform the local authorities, either.) There are six people at the cabin altogether, three men and three women. The leader, Dr. Hayes (Alvy Moore of TV's Green Acres!) is an expert on witchcraft and psychic phenomena. He's brought his star pupil, Tasha (the lovely Thordis Brandt) is a "sensitive" who has witches in her family line. Also along for the ride are story-seeking journalist Victor Gordon (Anthony Eisley) and the Doctor's secretary Maggie (Shelby Grant), with young stud Owen and engenue Sharon filling the "expendable extras" slots.
I really liked the set-up here, which struck me as The Haunting meets The Evil Dead (researchers in the supernatural in creepy cabin setting). As the crew gets settled in we see they're being watched from the bushes by the as-yet-unnamed maniac from the credits.
So what's the most logical thing to do when you're getting ready to summon the evils of the swamp for scientific purposes? Why, go sunbathing of course! Tasha and Sharon lay out in the swamp while the men get everything ready inside, giving us as much flesh as the censors would allow with some nicely placed shrubbery completing the tease. Sharon leaves Tasha alone, and the blonde's witchy blood attracts our bush-inhabiting maniac, LUTHER THE BERSERK. Yes, Luther is the Sabbat Master of a coven of witches, and makes his home in the very swamp the researchers are searching. He puts a spell on her ('cause she's his!), which makes the topless Tasha flee in terror back to the cabin, in slow motion, her hands cupped over her bountiful breasts! This flick may not have the free-flowing nekkidity of an Italian witch-flick of the same vintage, but they make do with what they got, and it's pretty nice.
Helene Winston) to inform her of his plan to make Tasha the 13th member of their coven. Jessie agrees to help, but for a price. "There are some rituals," she leers, suggestively touching Luther's hand, "best performed by two!" They divvy up the projected profits--Luther will get Tasha's body, Jessie will get youth, and Satan will get some souls. It's win-win-win.
Back at the cabin, Dr. Hayes is getting ready to get the research started, and here we get one of the interesting and endearing things about the flick as the doctor explains that electricity and radio waves can interfere with the ability of a "sensitive" to sense supernatural stuff, necessitating the remote location and lack of electric lighting. It's a small thing, but the effort to explain why they have to shut all the lights off was appreciated, and something far too few movies go the extra mile for. (Later, the need to bury some bodies is also explained with a short but convincing line of dialog--a nice touch that made me wonder why other movies don't do it.) Of course Luther's machinations blow things up real good, and pretty soon the somewhat-reduced group figures out they're in real trouble in the swamp, leading to the expected showdown between good and evil.
The final confrontation is well-done too, as Luther summons his coven for an impromptu orgy and the increasingly evil-influenced Tasha is brought in for initiation in a pretty intense ritual, complete with the application of the Mark of the Devil, some invocations of Satan which must have been fairly shocking for the time, and some nice belly-dancing from one of the witches. (Apparently many of the coven were Playboy playmates, which is also nice.) Dr. Hayes uses his knowledge of arcane lore to good effect, giving Victor a wreath of garlic that makes him invisible to witches and allowing him to cold-cock Luther and replace the coven's expected vat of human blood with that of a pig.
As you can probably tell, I was very entertained by The Witchmaker, a movie I feel is ripe for rediscovery (bootlegs are available and it shows up on cable and satellite every now and then, but as far as I know there's yet to be an official, extras-laden release). The witchcraft lore presented here is intriguing even if not entirely accurate (I admit to my ignorance there), and it adheres to the first commandment of Mad Movies by never being boring. And though William O. Brown's direction is fairly static for the most part, there are some nice images--the strung-up victims, the midriff-ankh, and some pyrotechnic witch-power displays among them (not to mention that slow-mo running scene...I think a young Hasselhoff must have been watching!)--and the coven orgy and wild finish are well-staged.
The acting is pretty good too. Alvy Brown acquits himself well as the stodgy but knowledgable scientist, and the juxtaposition of his 50s newsreel announcer voice with the strange arcane lore he spits is particularly entertaining. Thordis Brandt is captivating as the psychic whose fate hangs in the balance, and is pretty easy to look at. But it's John Lodge as Luther the Berserk who really owns the movie--his measured, evil performance makes you buy him as the all-powerful Sabbat Master, a role he eats up in every frame. (Note--though some web sources claim Lodge later went on to become governor of Connecticut, a little time-line verification shows this to be impossible...would that it were not!) And the bit players, from Jessie of Coventry to Leblanc the boatman, all add spice to the already tasty souffle.
The Witchmaker 2.25 thumbs, leaning toward more. While not exactly audacious, it's very entertaining, and worth a look for students of the cinematic unusual. In short, if you get a chance to check this one out, take it.
And thanks to Karswell of The Horrors of It All! for loaning me a copy of this flick!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Witchmaker (1969): or, Swimmin' in the Swamp O' Satan!
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 4:25 PM
Labels: '60s, 2-3 thumbs, Witchcraft
5 comments:
- Shweta Mehrotra Gahlawat said...
I just "discovered" your blog and i am properly awed and addicted! That said, I am compulsively adding you to my blog roll...
- March 18, 2008 at 9:20 PM
- Karswell said...
>And thanks to Karswell of The Horrors of It All! for loaning me a copy of this flick!
My pleasure Vicar! You know, I've lent this movie to 4 or 5 people over the years and you're the first one to truly appreciate it for what it is.
- March 19, 2008 at 10:42 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Sorry you can't say the same about Cemetery of Terror. ;) No me gusto, que lastima.
- March 19, 2008 at 10:44 AM
- Karswell said...
>Sorry you can't say the same about Cemetery of Terror.
Taquito Terror!
- March 19, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Wheres the download link?
- June 27, 2010 at 10:31 AM
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Charity gala set to shine brightly on the Hotel @ The Lafayette the evening of Oct. 17
Suneel's Light Foundation has announced that "A Night to Shine" charity gala, the foundation's annual fundraiser, will "shine brightly upon" downtown Buffalo for the first time, Thursday, Oct. 17, from 5:30-9 p.m. at the Hotel @ The Lafayette, 391 Washington St., Buffalo.
The local nonprofit foundation has the sole mission of raising funds for research that will lead to a cure of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and to increase public awareness of the genetic disease. "A Night to Shine" invites the community to spend an evening mingling with celebrity stars from the worlds of science, media, sports, entertainment and politics, while enjoying delectable fare and delicious cocktail as delightful live music fills the ballrooms with light, classical favorites.
"A Night to Shine" 2013 will make its debut at the Hotel @ The Lafayette's historic, grand ballrooms after three years at the Hauptman Woodward Life Science Building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The event's growing popularity has necessitated a move to provide for additional space to comfortably accommodate all of the supporters and celebrity stars. This year's gala will feature live music by High Horse and themed raffle packages. In addition, the gala will have even more celebrity guest stars attend than the list that attended in 2012, which featured more than 30 popular local celebrities.
"A Night to Shine" will feature benefit auctions with items from both the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, as well as numerous items from some of Western New York's favorite restaurants, shops and companies. The event will be brought to a conclusion with a professional auctioneer holding a live auction of unique auction items. Attendees will also be able to participate in a first-class silent auction and a raffle for themed packages, such as technology, sports and wine, with all proceeds from the entire event going toward finding treatments and a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Tickets for the event are $75 or $135 per couple, and $80 or $140 at the door. For more information on "A Night to Shine" or learn either how to purchase tickets or make a donation, visit www.suneelslight.org or call 716-504-5761.
Established in 2002, Suneel's Light is a charitable foundation whose namesake is a teenage boy from Amherst who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The foundation was established to fund critical research for treatments in search for a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the most lethal genetic childhood disease, which targets young boys, without regard to ethnicity, and leads to death from respiratory or heart failure by their early 20s. Without a breakthrough in ongoing medical research and treatment, there is little hope that Suneel, and other children like him, will live to adulthood.
At present, more than 20,000 children in the U.S. suffer from this fatal disease, and more than 100,000 worldwide, with a statistically higher number of identified cases in Western New York than the national average.
For more information about Suneel's Light or Duchenne muscular dystrophy, visit www.suneelslight.org or www.Facebook.com/suneelslight.


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The West's dams share a dirty secret
Soon after I moved to Colorado from the humid Midwest 20 years ago, I learned that a reservoir is not a lake. My family and I were eager to test our new canoe on the local reservoir, which I'd driven by a month earlier. Its dark waters lapped against a thick conifer forest. I couldn't wait.
But by the time we got there in late summer, those waters had receded 20 yards from the shore. We had to slog through sucking layers of muck just to launch the boat. The canoeing wasn't great, either: no branches over the water, no quiet little coves with minnows below and birdsong above, just bathtub rings of barren rock and soil and numerous silt bars that grounded the boat. Every time we got out to push, we sank up to our thighs.
Eventually, I learned that this is how many Western reservoirs work: They fill up with runoff in the spring, only to be drained by late summer, when farmers downstream call on the water to irrigate late-season crops.
I also learned that reservoirs are filling up with silt. Surveys of 35 dams and reservoirs operated by the federal Bureau of Reclamation in the West reveal that they have lost some 4.6 million-acre-feet of their original storage capacity to the lowly dirt particle since they were built, most in the middle of the 20th century. That's about 8 percent of their storage capacity, or enough water to serve at least 9 million households. And these surveys vastly underestimate the problem because many were done two decades ago, and they include less than 10 percent of the dams managed by the Bureau of Reclamation.
At New Mexico's Elephant Butte Reservoir, built in 1915, sediment from the Rio Grande has already claimed a quarter of its capacity, while clogging canals, pipelines and farm fields. The irrigation district that manages the project maintains a fleet of dump trucks and dozers to remove the silt, but it is running out of places to put it.
Dredging reservoirs is always the last resort, the most expensive solution to removing sediment, says George Annandale, a South African-born dam expert who has consulted on projects around the world. The least expensive, he says, is to design dams so that sediment-laden waters can be easily diverted around them or flushed through. Many new dams incorporate these features, but unfortunately, silt was only an afterthought when the federal government went on its dam-building binge. Most of our dams were built with the expectation that silt would kill them in a century or two.
For environmentalists who want to see Glen Canyon on the Colorado River come down, sedimentation may seem like a gritty ally. Day by day it is reducing the useful life of Lake Powell for power production and water storage.
Meanwhile, Lake Powell holds a two-year supply of water for the states of Arizona, California and Nevada. Without Powell, the amount of water available for human use would depend entirely on the Colorado River's highly variable yearly flows -- flows that many scientists predict will diminish in the coming era of climate change. Though we may find alternative energy sources to replace Glen Canyon's hydropower, we won't be so lucky when it comes to the water supply itself.
Though few of the West's reservoirs are on their deathbeds yet -- water analysts predict Lake Powell could survive anywhere from 100 to 1,000 more years -- no one denies that a day of reckoning is coming. Annandale believes society has a moral imperative to plan now for its future water supply. At the least, he says, each generation should be investing in a fund for decommissioning silted-up dams, so that future generations aren't stuck with the bills. At the most, we should be installing sediment-reducing retrofits to existing dams, and in some places, even building more dams.
The small farmers that rely on my local, little water project in western Colorado -- Paonia Dam and Reservoir -- don't have much time. Since the dam was built just 50 years ago, sediment has reduced the reservoir's capacity by about 19 percent. In those ever-building deposits, future paleontologists might find the fossilized bones of the 29 elk that, in the winter of 2008, plunged to their deaths through a thin ice layer. When state wildlife officials walked the reservoir's dry bottom the following fall, they found no trace of the animals.
Paul Larmer is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the magazine's executive director in Paonia, Colorado.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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By Karan Kumar — Exclusive to Resource Investing NewsMark Twain once said that a mine is "a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it." If he were alive today, one wonders what he would say of a US startup's plan to mine asteroids in space for precious and rare metals and bring the bounty back to Earth.
The media has, naturally, been sceptical, and has raised the question of whether the endeavour is possible. But with Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, filmmaker James Cameron, Ross Perot Jr., son of the former electronics executive turned presidential candidate, and Charles Simonyi, an early manager at Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) who led the team that devised Microsoft Office, backing Planetary Resources' space mining venture, the project at the very least deserves some measure of seriousness.
"Many of the scarce metals and minerals on earth are in near-infinite quantities in space," Peter Diamandis, co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources, said in a statement. "As access to these materials increases, not only will the cost of everything from microelectronics to energy storage be reduced, but new applications for these abundant elements will result in important and novel applications." He added that a single 500 meter platinum-rich asteroid contains the equivalent of all the platinum group metals mined in history.
A recent feasibility study by the Keck Institute for Space Studies reported that the retrieval of a single 500 ton asteroid to the moon would cost $2.6 billion.
Mineral rich near-earth asteroids
Earlier research has suggested that, to have any chance of success, an asteroid-mining venture would need to be capitalised to the tune of $100 billion, The Economist reported. Further, several new technologies will be required, including more powerful solar panels, electric-ion engines, extraterrestrial mining equipment, and robotic refineries.
Most asteroids are between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But near-earth asteroids (NEAs), pieces of small planets that crashed into each other over the past few billion years, are at the top of Planetary Resources' list because they could contain high amounts of platinum group metals and other elements, such as gold. Planetary Resources explained at a press conference last month that the inaugural step, to be achieved within two years, is to launch the first in a series of private telescopes to search for the right type of asteroid. Then, the idea is to build robotic spaceships to squeeze rocket fuel and valuable minerals out of the rocks that routinely whizz past the Earth. Space gas stations could be ready by 2020.
Expense out of this world
Currently about 9,000 NEAs are known to exist. Setting up the telescopes is the easy bit; the tough part starts if the company finds valuable asteroids. How will the resources be brought back to Earth? The Economist reported that the options include mining an NEA in orbit, which will require intelligent robots that can work by themselves. The other option is to bring smaller asteroids into Earth's orbit. "But that limits the value of the haul and risks a catastrophic impact if something goes wrong while the asteroid is being manoeuvred," the magazine reported. "Either way, the expense involved promises to be out of this world."
Planetary Resources' co-founders Diamandis and Eric Anderson declined to discuss how much money has been raised for their venture so far. The company has also declined to discuss specifics about how and when asteroid mining will begin. A 30 meter asteroid can hold as much as $25 billion to $50 billion worth of platinum at today's prices, Diamandis said.
Eric Andersen has said the company will prove naysayers wrong. "Before we started launching people into space as private citizens, people thought that was a pie-in-the-sky idea," Anderson was quoted as saying in the Telegraph. "We're in this for decades. But it's not a charity. And we'll make money from the beginning."
Hot air and gobbledegook
However, Javier Blas, commodities editor of the Financial Times, believes Planetary Resources' space mining talk amounts "to no more than hot air and gobbledegook."
Quoting research from two Barclays Capital commodities analysts, the newspaper reported that NASA's forthcoming OSIRIS-REx mission, which aims to launch a probe in 2016 to take samples from an asteroid called 1999RQ36 and bring them back to Earth, is expected to cost about $1 billion. "Using the metrics proposed by Barclays, the Financial Times commodities team estimates that copper prices would need to rocket from today's $3.81 an ounce to $476 million for a similarly-funded space mining project to cover its costs. Clearly, it does not look like base metals from space are likely to provide a good return on capital."
The newspaper added that it searched for past space missions that have successfully returned samples back to Earth. "Apollo took material from the moon, but sadly its sample did not contain any valuable commodities…But the Japanese Hayabusa probe did return samples from the near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa. The probe cost about $200-million and brought home 1,500 microscopic dust particles, totaling less than a gram, in 2010. Using Hayabusa as a base to calculate break-even prices, we estimate that the cost of gold needs to rise to about $6.2-billion per ounce troy to make asteroid mining economical."
Securities Disclosure: I, Karan Kumar, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
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Clemson will travel several times to Fluor Field as well as J.B. "Red" Owens Sports Complex in Easley, SC to hold practices in the fall due to the ongoing renovations at Doug Kingsmore Stadium, which includes a resurfacing of the field and reconfiguration of the bullpen areas. Until the renovations are finished, the Tigers will hold their Doug Kingsmore Stadium practices on the field behind the batting cages at approximately 2:30 PM.
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Coolest hack/trick ever!
February 17, 2011
Some time ago, I wrote about lguest, a minimal x86 hypervisor for the Linux Kernel, which is mainly used for experimentation, and learning stuff about hypervisors, operating systems, even computer architecture/ISA(x86 in particular).
Today I cloned the git repo for the lguest64 port, and I started browsing through the documentation and the code. In the launcher code(the program that initializes/sets up and launches a new guest kernel), I saw the coolest programming hack/trick I've seen in a long time. 😛
/*L:170 Prepare to be SHOCKED and AMAZED. And possibly a trifle nauseated. * * We know that CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET sets what virtual address the kernel expects * to be. We don't know what that option was, but we can figure it out * approximately by looking at the addresses in the code. I chose the common * case of reading a memory location into the %eax register: * * movl <some-address>, %eax * * This gets encoded as five bytes: "0xA1 <4-byte-address>". For example, * "0xA1 0x18 0x60 0x47 0xC0" reads the address 0xC0476018 into %eax. * * In this example can guess that the kernel was compiled with * CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET set to 0xC0000000 (it's always a round number). If the * kernel were larger than 16MB, we might see 0xC1 addresses show up, but our * kernel isn't that bloated yet. * * Unfortunately, x86 has variable-length instructions, so finding this * particular instruction properly involves writing a disassembler. Instead, * we rely on statistics. We look for "0xA1" and tally the different bytes * which occur 4 bytes later (the "0xC0" in our example above). When one of * those bytes appears three times, we can be reasonably confident that it * forms the start of CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET. * * This is amazingly reliable. */ static unsigned long intuit_page_offset(unsigned char *img, unsigned long len) { unsigned int i, possibilities[256] = { 0 }; for (i = 0; i + 4 < len; i++) { /* mov 0xXXXXXXXX,%eax */ if (img[i] == 0xA1 && ++possibilities[img[i+4]] > 3) return (unsigned long)img[i+4] << 24; } errx(1, "could not determine page offset"); }
It's very well commented, and so I don't think there's something I could explain any better.
Very very nice trick!
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Barrack Obama made many promises as he campaigned to sell the American public on HIS anti-constitution "Affordable" healthcare plan. He sold this new program as something that would be perfect for America but, it has proved not to be so. And, that is without including the pathetic start of "Obama Care" on October first and hundreds of waivers and the feds doing their best to not take Obama Care.
But, what about the promises Obama, Reid, and Pelosi made for example; Obama said "If you like your doctor, You can keep him." It is now clear he lied and knew he was doing so. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi echoed all of his lies. Pelosi had the arrogance to say, " Pass it and then you we can see what's in it."
At this point, all who voted for Obama to be the first black, "African American" President are beginning to clearly and loudly state their disappointment in lack of quality in the man they sought to make President. For those that voted twice, a willful intent to remain ignorant of the facts makes them doubly guilty of willfully pursuing evil and anti-American goals.
So, what does this have to do with the "Un-Affordable Care Act", everything. Obama, and the Liberals running the USA knew that Obama Care was going to be a disaster from the beginning. They wanted to take over 1/6th of the national economy. They knew and were accepting the destruction of private ownership of businesses and property. They accepted and encouraged the destruction of the best medical system in the world. The Federal Government is the reason medical care and health insurance cost continued to increase in cost. Obama care is the culmination of years of government mandated insurance cost increases.
Nearly all in favor of Obama Care have lied in order to get it passed and will continue to do so, to protect it. Now, it must be discovered who gains in profit and power, while all others lose their private insurance, their private doctors, their private property rights and their constitutional rights through the (IRS).


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I began collecting wrappers in 1977 with an eye toward the unusual, ironic, and aesthetic, although I also collected "classic" but more mundane wrappers for posterity's sake. I haven't yet counted all the wrappers in my collection, but it's HUGE. It's stored in a stack of boxes nearly 4 feet high and about 1.5 feet x 2 feet wide. (Physics majors - you tell me how many that probably is!)
As frightening as it may seem, I've eaten most of the candy in my collection, and yet I'm not (yet) overweight. I'm sure I owe this to countless intense walks and aerobics sessions. And no, I'm not a diabetic. Perhaps this can be attributed to good genes, although knowing my family, this theory is doubtful. Maybe it will catch up with me and I'll decompose all at once, like aged candy. (See below.)
One thing I learned the hard way is that no matter how chemically inert or unresembling food a candy product might be, it will eventually become molecularly unstable and turn into a hideous, sticky goo. For this reason, you'll see precious little candy in this museum. However, amazingly enough, the candy I kept actually held up for twenty years before I had to throw most of it out. Based on this experience, I'd say 25 years is the point when you've kept the candy too long.
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John Hughes has been an endurance cyclist since 1975, spending 15
of those years as a coach and trainer. For 12 years he served as the
managing director of the UltraMarathon Cycling Association (UMCA), the
founding organization of the transcontinental Race Across America
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In this unique dialogue, Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and Victoria Sambunaris, photographer, discuss their photographic practice and shared interest in landscape as a photographic subject. After individual presentations of their work, Coolidge and Sambunaris converse and take questions from the audience. Founded in 1994 and based in Culver City, the Center for Land Use Interpretation exists to stimulate discussion, thought, and general interest in the contemporary landscape. The Center develops exhibitions and other resources to increase understanding of the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface. Matthew Coolidge serves as project director, photographer, and curator of exhibitions organized by the Center. He has taught at the California College of the Arts and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. Photographer Victoria Sambunaris, who participated in the Wendover Residence Program operated by the Center for Land Use Interpretation in 2004, has been interested in landscape ever since she became a photographer. A nomad of sorts, Sambunaris structures each year of her life around a photographic journey crossing the American landscape. These journeys have taken her throughout the Northeast, across the western plains, to the Salton Sea, Petrified Forest, and around the mines of Nevada. She has traveled to Alaska and through the Arctic Circle to reach Prudhoe Bay. Most recently she followed the United States—Mexican border photographing the intersection of geology, politics, and culture. Complements the exhibition In Focus: Picturing Landscape.
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Adrian Sutil will test for Force India in Barcelona this week as he vies for the remaining seat on the 2013 grid with Jules Bianchi.
Confirmed race driver Paul di Resta will test for the first two days on Tuesday and Wednesday before Sutil gets his chance on Thursday and test driver Bianchi returns to the cockpit on Friday. Both Sutil and Bianchi are in the running for the second Force India drive, with the team yet to confirm di Resta's team-mate just one month ahead of the opening round in Australia.
Sutil went to Force India's factory last week for a seat fitting in the new car and is familiar with the Silverstone-based squad after driving for it between 2007 and 2011. He lost his seat to Nico Hulkenberg in 2012, but Hulkenberg left for Sauber over the winter leaving a vacancy for the team to fill.
A Force India spokesperson has denied this week's test is a direct shootout between the two, but early this month deputy team principal Bob Fernley said both drivers are in the running for the race drive.


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