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Luella Stevens, 88 - June 14, 2011
Luella Elaine Stevens, 88, of Gothenburg passed away Tuesday, June 14, 2011, at her home north of Gothenburg.
Services were conducted at the American Lutheran Church of Gothenburg on June 18 with the Rev. Matthew Groenke officiating. Interment took place at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
Stevens was born April 13, 1923, at Farnam to James L. (Lonnie) Teel and Lula L. Heath Teel. She attended schools near Farnam and graduated from Farnam High School.
She taught at rural schools near Cozad, and also clerked at grocery stores and restaurants.
On May 26, 1946, she was united in marriage to Edward Stevens at Christ Lutheran Church in Gothenburg. The couple resided northeast of Gothenburg.
Stevens became a member of Christ Lutheran Church and the American Lutheran Church, where she taught Sunday School and Bible School. She was also a member and officer of ALC Women of the Church, and was one of the founding members of the Nebraska Chapter of Women Involved in Farm Economics, serving as a state and national officer.
She enjoyed family, church and friends as well as traveling, gardening, reading and writing, according to family members.
Stevens was preceded in death by: her parents, James and Lula; two brothers—Carroll D. Teel and James L. Teel; three sisters—Nona Cooper, Ethel Hardee and Gladys Harwood; son-in-law, Bruce Tomrdle; a great-grandson, Michal Rosner.
Survivors include: her husband, Edward; two sons—Kenneth (Barbara) and Ronald (Connie Jo); two daughters—Kathleen (Terry) Williams and Jacqueline Tomrdle; four grandsons, six granddaughters, 13 great-grandsons and 10 great-granddaughters; numerous nephews and nieces.
For a complete obituary, see the print edition of the Gothenburg Times or purchase an e-subscription for only $25 per year for the complete paper on-line each Wednesday afternoon.
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Amy Poehler: Memoir in the Works!
Amy Poehler holds hands with her cutie pie son Archie as the two run some errands together on Tuesday (January 29) in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
The 41-year-old Parks and Recreation actress just announced that she is writing a memoir!
The untitled memoir will be published by It Books in 2014, according to the LA Times.
Here's a synopsis of what to expect: "An illustrated, non-linear diary full of humor and honesty and brimming with true stories, fictional anecdotes and life lessons, the book will be a unique and engaging experience from one of today's most talented and beloved stars." We can't wait to read it!
Amy will be featured in Best Buy's Super Bowl commercial this weekend. Check out a preview below!
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Münster is the ideal destination to combine sightseeing and shopping with outdoor activities. Discover the city and its anecdotes on the double-decker Münsterbus, go shopping on the pedestrian streets of the market districts or enjoy the city's cultural and historic backgrounds. The hotel is situated near the Aasee Lake, a great place for outdoor leisure activities from sailing to walking and jogging. The Solaaris boat will take you to the top four attractions such as the all season zoo during the summer month.
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A new biomarker for retinal degeneration: vitreous body neurofilaments
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Purpose: An important cause for loss of visual function is thinning of the retinal nerve fibre layer due to loss of axons. Degenerating axons release cell–type specific proteins such as neurofilaments into the adjacent compartment. Here we tested whether the phosphorylated neurofilament heavy chain (NfH-SMI35) could be measured from human vitreous body homogenate or anterior chamber fluid using a standard ELISA technique.
Methods and Results: We found NfH-SMI35 to be quantifiable from the vitreous body homogenate, but not from the anterior chamber fluid. Patients suffering from retinal detachment had significantly higher vitreous NfH-SMI35 levels compared to those suffering from epiretnial gliosis or macular holes, but not compared to organ donors. This suggests that some of the patients with retinal detachment may already have suffered from considerable axonal loss prior to surgery. High vitreous body fluid NfH-SMI35 levels in retinal detachment may therefore represent a poor prognostic sign.
Conclusions: The presented method may be useful for testing new neuroprotective strategies in a range of models developed to study the loss of retinal axons and their ganglion cells experimentally, as well as serving as a biomarker for future human studies.


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* Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. * Fedora Infrastructure Security Officer * Fedora Release Engineering Team * Fedora Security Response Team * Fedora Python SIG * Fedora XO Performance and XFCE teams * Fedora Scholarship Selection Committee
The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing Fedora to USB keys.
Bodhi is a modular web-system that facilitates the process of publishing updates for Fedora. This entails interacting with the Koji buildsystem, Bugzilla, packagedb, and uses mash to compose repositories. It is written in Python and utilizes the TurboGears web framework.
* IRC log and slides of a bodhi presentation given during the VirtualFUDCon 2007
Moksha is a platform for creating live collaborative web applications. It is still in very early stages of development, but is currently being used to build the Fedora Community dashboard, among other upcoming projects.
Fedora Community Portal
MyFedora is a project focused in increasing the cohesion between our tools by developing a framework for wielding our infrastructure.
I hack on the yum backend of PackageKit.
I've been known to hack on various parts of yum, and have written some plugins for it as well, such as yum-fastestmirror.
I help develop and maintain the TurboGears web framework stack. You can find my slides from the TurboGears session at FUDCon 2008 here.
func is the Fedora Unified Network Controller. I've hacked on some of the guts of this project, various modules, and created a TurboGears-based web prototype, FuncWeb.
sigul is a GPG signing server that is in the works.
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I created a minimal, openbox-based livecd based on Fedora for use in security auditing, forensics research, and penetration testing. See the SecuritySpin for more details.
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I haven't had any luck in my area with these, I am looking forward to gettting 10 or so, but as of yet all my normal toy stops have been empty, nodda, none to be found. I will keep looking... these look and sound great!
Tarantino-style poseable!
A guy at Scum posted tonight that you could only get maybe 3 good poses out of them...
ps.The lack of peg holes doen NOT bother me! If you can't get this guy to stand, you're just not trying. Also, the lack of holes looks cooler on those kneeling/laying poses (wher you can see the bottom of the foot). Also, I'd MUCH rather have the fancy ankle joint (the reason there is no peg hole) that the peg hole!
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Tony Danza and Vince Vaughn Making an ABC Show
About three older guys who move into a bachelor pad together.
Days after being cast as the dad in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, Tony Danza is being mentioned as the star of a new ABC comedy from his and Vince Vaughn's production company. Variety says a working title is The Guys, and that it "revolves around three old friends whose lives have taken them down very different roads, leading them to begin new chapters as they enter their golden years." Then the Men of a Certain Age similarities evaporate when the fellows relocate to a bachelor pad close to their kids and grandkids. Now might be an apt time to warm up your best "welcome back, Tony Danza!" sentiment.


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How to File a Complaint
The Midwives Association of Washington State (MAWS) is aware that some healthcare providers, mothers or family members may have concerns about the care provided by a Licensed Midwife who is also a MAWS member. For that reason, we would like to make you aware our Quality Management Program as well as our state sanctioned and approved Incident Review Process.
Any patient, client, family member, healthcare provider, allied birth professional, or facility may File a Complaint against one of our midwives to the Quality Management Program (QMP). Click here to download the Complaint Form.
Once a complaint is received, the QMP Committee reviews the information and begins a review if the case meets criteria for investigation. Review panels are convened and the findings are reported back to the MAWS QMP committee. If any laws have been broken we are obligated to notify the Department of Health.
As a statewide midwifery organization, we appreciate your feedback in order to identify practice trends or any gaps in education. We organize bi-annual Continuing Education Conferences for our members based partly on incident and peer review data. MAWS members are committed to the continuous improvement of maternity care services in Washington State.
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Thelma Vogel, 97 - May 29, 2012
Thelma Marina Lehmkuhler Vogel, 97, of Gothenburg died Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at Hilltop Estates in Gothenburg.
A memorial service will take place on Saturday, June 2, at 11 a.m. at the Tallin Church with the Rev. Gene Purcell officiating.
A private family burial will be conducted at the Arnold Cemetery.
Vogel was born June 10, 1914, to John and Anna Marie Christensen Lehmkuhler at the family home near the Methodist Church on Garfield table southwest of Arnold.
She resided at the Arnold, Tallin and Gothenburg area, and graduated from Arnold High School in 1934. She then taught school at the Hall School north of Arnold.
On May 24, 1936, she was united in marriage to Leslie Vogel. The couple made their home south of Arnold. To this union, three daughters and one son were born.
Vogel was active with the Tallin Church where she served for many years as a Sunday School teacher and held various offices in ladies' group. She was also active in 4-H and Home Extension.
She was a gifted seamstress and an excellent cook, and tackled many home remodeling projects, said family members. Family dinners were a special time for her and she kept a big garden.
Vogel enjoyed reading her Bible and was involved with Bible studies even after moving to the nursing home, according to family members.
She was preceded in death by: her husband, Leslie, on their 70 wedding anniversary; a daughter, Carmen Vogel Ondrak; grandson, Marc Petersen; sons-in-law—Paul Hudson and Harold Birkey; her parents, John and Marie; two brothers—Henry and Lloyd; a sister, Mary Mills.
Survivors include: her daughters—Carol Birkey of Gibson City, IL, and Doris (Mike) Petersen of Council Bluffs, IA; a son, Leon (Janie) of Gothenburg; son-in-law, Floyd Ondrak of Arnold; grandchildren—Allan (Robin) Birkey, Tim Birkey, Lucinda Ondrak (Chris) Radebaugh, Denise Ondrak (Phil) Kass, Jeff (Julie) Ondrak, Karla Petersen (Ivan) Zeitz, Connie Petersen (Christian) Bateson, Carrie Vogel (Jamie) Kimmerle, and Alisa Vogel (Rick) Crown; great-grandchildren—Christy (Carlos) Calderon, Bobby (Kayla) Styck, Abby Birkey, Lynette Radebaugh (Josh) Carpenter, Hannah Radebaugh (Scott) Hochstein, Jennifer Radebaugh, Aaron, Austin, Alex Kass, Patrick, Joy Ondrak, Gavin, Matthew Zeitz, Nicholas Bateson, David, Olivia, Hailey, Hannah, Hazel Kimmerle, Madelyn Vogel and Rebecca Crown; six great-great-grandchildren—Grace, Atticus Hochstein, Zachariah Carpenter, Mateo Calderon and Bobby and Zach Styck.
Memorial are suggested to the Tallin Church and to the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, National Headquarters Donations, 6520 North Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309-2130.
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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Pace University football has added four new coaches to its staff.
The new coaches are include Conor Gilmartin-Donohue (tight ends), Eric McCarthy (running backs), Stephen Gruber (defensive line) and Robert Maffei (wide receivers).
Gilmartin-Donohue played for White Plains High School and was a three-sport standout in football, basketball and lacrosse. He went onto play at the Division I level with stops at Northeastern for three seasons and North Texas for his senior year. Gilmartin-Donohue returned to his alma mater in 2011 as an assistant coach for the White Plains football team.
McCarthy has served the past four seasons on the Plymouth State coaching staff, worked with the quarterbacks, wide receivers, tight ends and linebackers with the Panthers. He coached a pair of all-conference linebackers on a defense that was sixth in the nation in total defense. Prior to Plymouth State, McCarthy was a student-assistant coach for the University of Connecticut staff.
Gruber served as the JV coach for the Mount Pleasant School District in 2013. He was the defensive coordinator and special teams coach for the JV squad, and also assisted with film breakdown and game planning for the varsity teams. Prior to Mount Pleasant, Gruber was the assistant JV coach for the Katonah-Lewisboro School District, and worked with the linebackers and wide receivers in 2012.
Maffei comes to Pace after working on the Central Connecticut State University staff for the past three seasons in a variety of roles. He was the director of football operations from 2011-13 and he organized recruiting and coordinated team travel. He was the defensive quality control coach in 2011, and he analyzed the opponents' offense and created weekly scouting reports. He worked as the wide receivers coach in 2012 and 2013 and added special teams coordinator to his duties in 2013.


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How do you think your guy would deal with the pain of childbirth? Dutch talk show hosts Dennis Storm and Valerio Zena decided to find out on their show "Guinea Pigs," where they simulated labor pains with electro-stimulations, reports the Huffington Post.
"Jesus Christ!" Zena shouted as the fake contractions hit, around the 3:35 mark. Storm cracked up with laughter as he watched his co-host, but his laughter soon turned into screams.
Plus: The Real Scoop on Labor
The simulation lasted for two hours, a far shorter time than what most women experience when giving birth, according to the Mayo Clinic. Early labor can last for hours or even days, particularly for first-time moms. Active labor typically lasts up to eight hours but can go longer, especially if a woman has never given birth before.
Plus: Labor-Pain Control: Weighing Your Options
Dads, would you do an experiment like this to experience what labor pain is like? Or is ignorance bliss? Leave a comment.


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You don't need a permit if you're building a fence 8 feet high or lower that doesn't have masonry or concrete pieces over 6 feet.
If you're building a taller fence, you need a construction permit. Most fences require only a construction subject-to-field-inspection permit, which is issued over the counter, typically on the day you apply. For your permit application, you'll need to submit an application and 2 copies of scaled plans, including 1) a site plan, 2) section and detail drawings, and 3) construction notes.
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Greece is broke. But there's no blueprint for a country to declare bankruptcy, so Greece's creditors are sort of making things up as they go along.
"You're taking some sort of loss," Hans Humes of Greylock Capital Management told me. "But it's like, how much of a loss do you take? There's this thing called sovereign immunity. You can't go in and take the Acropolis."
Greylock Capital Management is a hedge fund company that holds Greek bonds. So Humes is sitting across the table from Greece. There are lots of other creditors — people sitting alongside Humes — and they all want different things.
Hedge funds want as much money as they can get back. European banks want their money back, too, but they also want the euro to stay strong. Greek banks just want to make sure the Greek government doesn't implode (but they also need some money back).
And the European Central Bank wants all of its money back, so far, and doesn't want to take a loss at all. All of these people are on the same side of the table, but they have vastly different motivations.
The Greek side is just as diverse. It's the European Commission, it's Germany, it's the IMF — it's a whole slew of people, way beyond the Greek government that did the original borrowing.
"I've had the feeling a couple times," Humes says, "when you'll be making progress, really tangible progress, and something will come out from somewhere, and you sort of have to go back to the drawing board, you know, we have to check with so-and-so."
This happens on both sides of the table.
Humes' side did come to a consensus, as announced Monday night. They put a 50 percent loss on the table. They agreed to accept 50 percent of the money they are owed — to be paid out over a period of time.
The other side of the table? The Greek side? They sent it back. Discuss. Start over.
The stakes are huge. If they resolve this amicably, then business might be able to continue as usual in Europe: countries borrowing money, people showing up to lend it to them.
But if they don't, Greece will have a hard, chaotic default. The kind of default that could mean a halt to business all across Europe.
Greece only has enough money to make it until March 20. It needs the next round of bailout money. But in order to get that money, Greece has to cut a deal.
Now to a different story of two sides pitted against each other. We know Greece is broke. It's been surviving on bailouts since last May. But Greece still owes money, lots of it. And those who lent Greece that money haven't forgotten. For weeks now, both sides have been seated across the table from each other, trying to figure out how a country that is broke can pay people back. But with so many different voices at the table, making a deal is nearly impossible. Here's Joanna Kakissis in Athens and Zoe Chace with NPR's Planet Money in New York.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: First: the lenders. Who in the world would loan Greece money, a country with a known proclivity to spend more than they have? I went to find that person, a person who knows he's not getting paid back in full.
HANS HUMES: Well, I mean, you're taking some sort of loss. But it's, like, how much of a loss do you take.
CHACE: This is Hans Humes. He runs a hedge fund in New York City. He won't tell me how much the Greeks owe him. But he says everything about this deal, it's like the lenders are making it up as they go along.
HUMES: It's like anything else. If someone defaults on a mortgage and the bank takes a loss, should they get zero?
CHACE: They get the house.
HUMES: There's this thing called sovereign immunity. You can't go and take the Acropolis, right? You know, what do you get back?
JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE: They won't get the Acropolis, and they won't get Mikonos, either.
CHACE: Hey, Joanna. What's the scene on the Greek side of the table?
KAKISSIS: In Athens, ordinary people are worried, of course. But the Greek government won't tell us anything about the talks, knowing full well how sensitive they are.
CHACE: Well, the stakes are huge, right? If they resolve this amicably, then business might be able to continue as usual in Europe; countries borrowing money, people showing up to lend it to them.
KAKISSIS: But if they don't, Greece will default. It only has enough money to make until March 20th. They really need another loan.
CHACE: Then they better work this out. Here's the problem in New York: this side of the table is just not on point.
KAKISSIS: Well who's over there? All of you guys are pretty much the same, right?
CHACE: Not, at all. You have hedge funds; they like risky investments, but they need some kind of payment in order to want to lend money to other European countries again. You also have European banks. They want their money back too, but they also want the euro to stay strong, so they don't want to take too hard a line.
KAKISSIS: Same goes for Greek banks. They loaned the most money to the government but they're the most forgiving because they want the Greek government to be OK more than they want to make their money back.
CHACE: So who's on the Greek side of the table - a bunch of Greeks?
KAKISSIS: I talked to economist Michael Masourakis in downtown Athens. He says it's more than just the Greeks.
MICHAEL MASOURAKIS, CHIEF ECONOMIST, ALPHA BANK: Well, obviously it's the Greek government and anybody who finances the Greek government - the IMF, Germany, the European Commission. So it goes all the way to the top.
CHACE: Hey, Athens. All these different voices on the Greek side are making it hard on investors in New York.
HUMES: I've had a feeling a couple times where you're making progress, really tangible progress, and something will come out from somewhere and they say, up, OK, we need have to check with so-and-so. All right, let's hold on, we may need a few days to get this together. And it's like, ugh.
KAKISSIS: I thought Athens would be frustrated about this New York attitude. Like, why can't the lenders just take the hit for the sake of the global economy? Here's my Greek economist, Masourakis again.
BANK: The Greek side cannot say to the bondholders you made a bad decision. When you issue debt obviously you intend to repay the debt.
CHACE: Greece is willing to pay something. The lenders are willing to give a bit, too. And if they don't get a deal and there's a messy Greece default, then it opens the door for more countries to possibly default.
KAKISSIS: Lending in Europe could freeze up entirely.
CHACE: So the New York side did come to a consensus, offering to take something like a 50 percent loss. They would get paid back 50 percent of the money that they are owed over a period of time.
HUMES: This is OK enough. We don't love it.
HUMES: But it's OK enough and it's worse than the alternative.
CHACE: Better.
HUMES: Huh? Oh, sorry. It's better than the alternative. Sorry, Freudian.
KAKISSIS: Bad news: The Greek side, or whoever's in charge here, sent that proposal back. Both sides are back at the drawing board.
CHACE: The risks of failure at the negotiating table are enormous. And everyone at the table knows that. But that doesn't mean they can agree.
KAKISSIS: For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis in Athens.
CHACE: And I'm Zoe Chace, in New York.
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November means more mythmaking for the DDT-lobby
It's that time of year again. Twice a year the global community — and the media — focus in on the perpetually devastating disease of malaria. World Malaria Day, marked in April, is one such time, and the other is this month, on Malaria Day in the Americas. Unfortunately, these events also provide an opportunity for the pro-DDT lobby to re-circulate disingenuous talking points about DDT, environmentalists and malaria. This handful of advocates work tirelessly to create a debate where there is none.


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The University of South Australia is committed to providing and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace and study environment for our employees, students, contractors, labour hire, volunteers, visitors and others associated with university business. This commitment is expressed in the Health Safety & Injury Management Policy.
The University is a self insured employer and we endeavour to continually improve our processes through regular monitoring and review. Our University Council, Audit and Risk Management Committee and Senior Management Group provide leadership, direction and oversight of our safety system and injury management program.
The Safety and Wellbeing web pages are designed to assist University personnel through the provision of information on a broad range of subjects. Some of the key subjects include:
- the harmonised Work Health and Safety legislation enacted in South Australia from 1 Jan 2013
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- the inherent hazards associated with University business and ways to manage the risks
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- what to do if an injury is sustained
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- who can help with your health and safety queries?
Health and Safety Priorities
A set of five (5) health and safety strategic priorities have been set for the University for the period 2016-2018, they include:
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The health and safety local action plan template reflects the strategic priorities for focus at the local level. Heads and Directors consider how they can address these priorities within their area of responsibility.


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- "The timer must have got screwed. That place was wired to go up like a firework factory. Then somebody tipped off the cops."
- ― Mike
Mike is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Mike was a member of Diaz's Gang who joined the Vercetti Gang after Ricardo Diaz is murdered by Tommy Vercetti and Lance Vance.
Mike is a parody of the character "Ernie" from the 1983 film Scarface, a film that GTA Vice City was heavily based on.
Most of Mike's life is unknown. Mike was born in Vice City. Sometime prior to 1986, Mike joined to Ricardo Diaz' drugs cartel gang, becoming Diaz' bodyguard.
Events of GTA Vice City
Mike is seen in one of Colonel Cortez' parties where he and another gangster accompanies Ricardo Diaz to the boat party. Mike is also seen near Diaz, who ordered Tommy to chase down the leader of the Sharks.
Mike also accompanied Tommy to extract protection money from the Front Page Café and take out a group of men from the Patrol Invest Group during mission Bar Brawl. He is later sent by Lance Vance to blow up the Tarbrush Café during mission Cop Land; however, the bomb failed to detonate. Tommy and Lance then go to finish the job. Following this mission, Mike makes no further appearances in the storyline.
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Exoplanets [1]
Are we alone in the universe?
This question has captured the imaginations of scientists, theologians, and philosophers for millennia. And while we don't know the answer yet, we do know that our solar system is not unique.
Current theories of how planets are born indicate that planet formation is a natural and almost necessary result of the process of star formation. There are billions of stars similar to our Sun in our own galaxy. How many of these other stars host planetary systems? And how many of these planets might harbor life? Such questions have motivated astronomers to conduct many searches for extrasolar planetary systems over the past decade. These searches have discovered hundreds of giant planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, as well as a large number of intriguing puzzles.
Detecting extrasolar planets is not simply a matter of aiming a telescope at nearby stars and taking pictures. The amount of light from a planet is minuscule compared to the amount of light from its parent star. Seen in optical wavelengths (the kind our eyes can detect), a typical star is about a billion times brighter than its planets.
So instead of trying to detect planets directly, most astronomers take advantage of the fact that the star and planet both orbit an imaginary point between them called the center of gravity. Astronomers deduce the planet's presence by observing the tell-tale signs that the star is orbiting a center of gravity. Either they watch the star change position with respect to background stars (called the astrometry method), or they measure the change in the line-of-sight speed of the star as it orbits (called the radial velocity method). Another technique looks for transits -- a tiny drop in a star's light caused by a planet passing directly between Earth and the star.
So far, the radial velocity technique has been the most successful. Its first catch came in 1995, when Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered a planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi. The planet, which is about half the mass of Jupiter, takes only 4.2 days to orbit the star. And the planet is much closer to its star than our models of planet formation (based on our own solar system) predicted. Since then, other teams have discovered many other "hot Jupiters."
All of these systems were found by radial-velocity measurements, which are most sensitive to massive planets that orbit close to their parent stars. Using this technique, astronomers are just now detecting systems with "Jupiters" like our own, which at its distance takes nearly 12 years to orbit the Sun, or with planets that are close in but that are much less massive than Jupiter. It may take many more years to find planets similar to Earth, which exert a much smaller gravitational tug on their parent stars.
The many "hot Jupiters" indicated that current theories of planet formation may be incomplete. Jupiter-like planets may always form far from their parent stars in nearly circular orbits. However, in the systems discovered to date, the giant planets may have migrated inward soon after they formed. As astronomers discover more planetary systems, they will adapt their theories to understand how the planets formed and evolved, and how our own solar system fits into the overall puzzle. Only then will we have a true understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems.
Listening for Neighbors
In 1992, NASA launched a search for extraterrestrial intelligence — an effort to detect radio waves from other civilizations. The project lasted only a few months, but it soon rose from the ashes — this time sponsored by the privately funded SETI Institute.
Project Phoenix scanned its first star in 1994. It started at a radio telescope in Australia, then moved to West Virginia, and finally to the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, in Puerto Rico. In all, Phoenix scanned about 800 stars within 250 light-years of Earth. All the target stars were considered relatively hospitable systems for life. The stars are the right type and age, and many of them have confirmed planets. One sentimental target was Altair, which is about 17 light-years away in the constellation Aquila, the eagle. The star was the setting for Forbidden Planet, a popular 1950s movie in which explorers from Earth find the fantastic remains of a dead civilization.
The Phoenix receivers scanned millions of radio frequencies, hoping to find either a steady signal or one that repeated at regular intervals. The detectors were sensitive enough to pick up any signal as powerful as a military radar here on Earth. Interesting signals were followed up with additional observations.
None of the interesting signals panned out. But scientists hope to conduct more-sensitive searches in the future.
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|Pierre Simon Laplace proposes that planets form from disks of gas around newborn stars
|Frank Drake uses a radio telescope to conduct the first search for extraterrestrial life
|An orbiting infrared telescope sees a possible planet-forming disk around the star Beta Pictoris
|Alexander Wolszczan discovers the first confirmed extrasolar planets, orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12
|Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discover the first confirmed planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi


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Brave new L.A.
Los Angeles is an unlikely model of urban sustainability for the West and the world.
In 1913, Los Angeles' legendary chief engineer William Mulholland watched water flow from the L.A. Aqueduct for the first time and proclaimed, "There it is. Take it." The project drew water from the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, more than 200 miles away across deserts and mountains, drying up the Owens River and the once-vast Owens Lake, and dangerously lowering eerily beautiful Mono Lake. Over time, it also made modern Los Angeles possible in all its awful glory: sprawling suburbs linked by clogged freeways underneath a blanket of smog.
Later, L.A. tore out its rail system to make room for a booming car culture. And even today, despite the dramatic natural setting – 10,000-foot mountains, 30 miles of Pacific beaches and one of the nation's largest urban parks smack-dab in its middle – many of L.A.'s 4 million residents have no easy access to nature, making the city one of our most park-poor.
And yet, last year, as the city celebrated the centennial of its original sin – that Owens Valley water grab – it also marked a turning point in its history. Under cover of one of the worst environmental reputations on the planet, Los Angeles is becoming an unlikely model of sustainability.
This coincides with a political transition. In 2013, L.A. elected Mayor Eric Garcetti, 42, who as a city council member was a strong advocate for localizing water sources, cutting energy use, promoting efficiency, confronting climate change, and providing access to parks and nature. His first official mayoral portrait, taken in a kayak on the Los Angeles River last summer, will greet visitors at LAX. That the L.A. River – a trash-strewn, concrete-lined channel famous as a backdrop for murders and movie car chases – has become an official symbol of Los Angeles says a lot about the city's transformation. The river, like its city, is slowly but surely being rehabilitated.
Los Angeles has a solid foundation for this effort. Its 329 days of sunshine a year and ocean breezes give it an advantage, making heating and cooling more energy-efficient. The sprawling city is also, paradoxically, already the nation's densest, with more people on average living in every square block than even New York, thanks to the number of duplexes and apartments in what you might call the suburbs. And it has not one downtown, but many – 88 cities altogether in Los Angeles County, a sort of new urbanist's dream.
Meanwhile, California's overwhelmingly Democratic political landscape is famously friendly to environmental initiatives. The state has moved well beyond debates about whether climate change is happening to begin implementing the country's most progressive policies. Locally, decades of grassroots advocacy to restore the L.A. River – initiated by poet Lewis MacAdams – have been embraced by the political mainstream. The city is also home to RePower L.A., a coalition of environmentalists, labor unions and economic justice activists that works with the city-owned Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to train workers to retrofit homes at no cost to homeowners.
L.A.'s bid to become a 21st century sustainable city starts where its environmental sins began, with water. Despite their hot, dry climate, Angelenos use less water than residents of any other American city with more than a million people, according to the Water and Power Department. Aggressive conservation measures during droughts have led to savings in wet times, too: The metropolitan area currently uses the same amount of water that it did in 1970, even though several million more people live here. Still, L.A. imports approximately 89 percent of its water from hundreds of miles away – the Owens Valley, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Colorado River. But the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been forced to leave more water in Owens Valley, raising the level of Mono Lake, returning water to the Owens River, and keeping down dust at dry Owens Lake. With other imported supplies likely to be pinched by climate change and increasing environmental demands, the municipal utility is working to capture more stormwater and store it in depleted groundwater basins, clean up contaminated groundwater, and recycle and reuse wastewater.


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Stupak, who has been nationally ranked all spring season, defeated Maria Maggiorini of FGCU 6-3, 6-0 in Johnson City before flying to Louisiana and defeating Julie Mazinova of No. 72 Louisiana Lafayette, 6-1, 4-6, 11-9 only 24 hours later. In doubles action with Olya Batsula, the sophomore defeated Maria Braniecka and Jordan Vaughn 8-4 of FGCU, and dropped Kim van der Horst and Briggitt Marcovich of Lafayette 8-6. The business major is on an eight-match win streak in singles has won seven of the last eight matches in doubles
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The further back you can get the lights the more even the fall off; that's just simple physics.
You can help yourself by aiming the left side light at the right edge of the painting and vice-versa.
I don't always use stripboxes, but when I do, it's because I like the way they seem to reduce hot spots and spill--and to spread the light vertically but not horizontally.
I think grids, like those from Lighttools = http://www.lighttools.com/ - on standard light banks might work better for you . They will limit the spill and even out your horizontal illumination distribution. However they are not cheep. If yo uuse Chimera they make barndoors that fit their Lightbanks http://www.chimeralighting.com/Products/Light-Modifiers/Barn-Doors
Although it seems counter-intuitive to me I will try that approach. Thank you for recommending it.


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The other evening in Bellows Falls, Vermont, Beausoleil sang "The Problem," a song JJ Cale wrote and recorded in 2004, long before the BP oil spill: "Have you heard the news that's going 'round here/The man in charge has got to go/Cause he dances 'round the problem, boy/And the problem is the man in charge, you know."
I could go on, blah blah blah, about the despicable bottom-line rule over our lives by corporations.
But James Surowiecki summed it up pretty well in the last issue of The New Yorker:
"It's hard to think of a recent disaster in the business world that wasn't abetted by inept regulation. Mining regulators allowed operators like Massey Energy to flout safety rules. Financial regulators let A.I.G. write more than half a trillion dollars of credit-default protection without making a noise. The S.E.C. failed to spot the frauds at Enron and WorldCom, gave Bernie Madoff a clean bill of health, and decided to let Wall Street investment banks take on obscene amounts of leverage while other regulators ignored myriad signs of fraud and recklessness in the sup prime-mortgage market. These failures weren't accidents."
Throw in the Pentagon budget and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and you've got the picture.
So what is our government doing about it? Well, according to President Obama's speech on Tuesday night, it's going to form committees and pray.
Yes, his speech was that disappointing. Given the stirring oratory that Obama has been capable of in the past, he looked wooden and detached in the Oval Office.
He'd just come back from the Gulf, where he saw glop on the beaches and maybe an oil-covered pelican or two, but it was hard to imagine that he cared. There was no mourning in his eyes, no sadness. Maybe he's bored with being president.
The rest of us? The bird pictures alone break our hearts.
Obama spoke about how much his administration has done. "(Deployed) nearly 30,000 personnel across four states to clean up and contain the oil ... 17,000 National Guard ... millions of gallons have already been collected."
Today is Day 59 of the well explosion that killed 11 people and is sending an estimated 2.5 million gallons of crude oil each day gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
In terms of the U.S. addiction to oil, it's a miniscule amount. According to ABC News, U.S. motorists burn roughly 400 million gallons of gasoline every day, and "the BP leak (if estimates of its size are right) would need to bleed on, unfettered, for three more years to equal America's daily consumption."
Obama used a lot of war language in his speech: "Make no
mistake, we will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long
as it takes."
But aggressive talk doesn't inspire much confidence, given that the United States has not fared well when it abdicates intelligence and feeling and goes directly to bombing. Cases in point: the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the War on Drugs, etc.
Another part of Obama's plan is "to focus on the recovery and restoration of the Gulf Coast."
That, my dear young president, will take decades and might never happen. The irreparable damage to birds, ocean life, marshes, wetlands and to the human beings whose way of life depends on the Gulf -- just to squeeze out a few more days of driving time -- may be permanent. The effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound are still ongoing; the herring have never returned.
So what's the president's plan here? Another committee, gosh darn it.
Then BP will pay out lots of dollars, as if that will make everything cleaner and better. And then, in this fairy tale world, Americans will eat oysters again as they wean themselves from fossil fuels.
When Obama started to rhapsodize over "clean energy," I waited for him to tout nuclear power, as he has often done in the past. But at least he left that part of the picture vague. Otherwise, we'd have to send him a scrapbook filled with pictures of nuclear waste stored above ground in almost every state with a plant -- including ours, which sits on the banks of the lovely Connecticut River -- and ask if that looks "clean" to him.
For his big finish, Obama brought in the God stuff: "Pray for the people of the Gulf."
Speaking of God, to quote the Web site The Awl, "A bolt of lightning struck the ship capturing oil from the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, igniting a fire that halted containment efforts in another setback for the embattled company... BP expects to resume operations later this afternoon, unless it is confronted by boils, locusts, lice and darkness."
I don't know where or when or in which industry the next disaster will strike -- maybe on the banks of the lovely Connecticut River? -- but I know Cale got it right: "The problem is the man in charge of you."


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It was her own experience with debilitating side effects after cancer treatment that led Dr. Julie Silver to realize that there is a huge gap in care that keeps cancer patients from getting the rehabilitation services that could help them.
Silver was 38 in 2003 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Even though she is a physician, she was shocked at the toll chemotherapy and radiation took on her body. Silver was dealing with extreme fatigue, weakness and pain.
"I was really, really sick — sicker than I ever imagined," says Silver, who is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. "I did some exercise testing and I tested out as a woman in my 60s. So I had aged three decades in a matter of months through cancer treatment."
Silver went to her oncology team for help. They told her to go home and heal. "The conversation should have been, 'We're going send you to cancer rehab to help you get stronger,' " she says. But that's not what happened, and after Silver came to realize that her experience was typical, she set out to change the system for other patients.
In 2009 she started a program designed to offer cancer survivors rehabilitation therapy after treatment. It's called STAR — for Survivorship Training and Rehab — and is now offered in nearly all U.S. states. The program is growing, as is research showing that many of the quality-of-life problems cancer survivors have are physical and can be helped with rehab.
Physical therapist Jennifer Goyette is a STAR-trained therapist who works with cancer patients in Westborough, Mass.
"I've seen cases where someone has had a lot of pain, and they've done scans and it's not a malignancy. And maybe they have done exploratory surgery to see what is happening and not really finding much except a lot of scar tissue," says Goyette. "I am able to get a lot of relief and a lot of times patients don't need to have further intervention. They don't want to be on the narcotics for the pain management. They would rather come here."
One of Goyette's clients is 56-year-old cancer survivor Deborah Leonard. For two years after her treatment for early stage breast cancer, Leonard had swelling, pain and a large mass in her breast — which was not cancer.
"Clearly I didn't have that before the surgery because the tumor was so small and this was much bigger, and it just kept getting bigger," says Leonard. "By nighttime my breast was extremely swollen and very painful."
At first doctors thought Leonard might have an infection and gave her antibiotics. When that didn't work they did another surgery to remove scar tissue. But the problem returned. Her doctors were suggesting a third surgery when Leonard finally found Goyette.
After three sessions with Goyette doing what is called lymphatic drainage, Leonard felt much better. Goyette uses manual pressure to clear Leonard's lymphatic system, allowing the buildup of fluid causing Leonard's pain and swelling to subside.
"I had a 6-inch mass that is now down to half its size," says Leonard. "I'm sleeping at night. I have energy again. More people need to know about this because you don't have to be a martyr and grin and bear it. This works."
The issues are different for every type of cancer: Head and neck cancer patients may need swallowing and speech therapy. Blood cancer patients may need therapy similar to cardiac rehab to rebuild their strength and stamina. Patients treated for colon cancer can get help from physical therapists with back pain and abdominal swelling.
Most insurers do cover rehab for cancer patients, but sometimes patients must battle to get more than the standard nine to 12 sessions.
Another barrier to care is that too few oncologists and cancer surgeons refer their patients to rehab.
The Commission on Cancer, the arm of the American College of Surgeons that accredits cancer programs in U.S. hospitals, however, recently announced new requirements aimed at improving care for survivors of cancer, including better access to rehabilitation therapy.
More than 12 million people in the United States are living with cancer. Treatment often causes debilitating side-effects. Many people who suffer are told that nothing that can be done.
But as Rachel Gotbaum reports, rehab after treatment is being offered more often and can make a difference.
RACHEL GOTBAUM, BYLINE: At 38, Julie Silver was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her treatment included surgery and chemotherapy. Then she became very ill.
DR. JULIE SILVER: I was really, really sick. I mean sicker than I ever imagined. I did some exercise testing and I tested out as a woman in my 60s and I was in my 30s so I had aged three decades through cancer treatment.
GOTBAUM: Silver, who is an M.D. herself, says she was so fatigued and in so much pain after treatment that she went to her oncology team for help. They told her to go home and recover. But she says just as patients who've had a stroke need rehab therapy, so do patients who undergo toxic and invasive treatments for cancer.
SILVER: For example, a woman who has a mastectomy, she might have chemotherapy. She may have radiation therapy too. To reconstruct the breast she may have muscle transplant, so she is going to have a lot of scarring. She's going to have weakness. She'll probably be in a lot of pain. Lots of issues.
GOTBAUM: The issues are different for every type of cancer, for example people treated for head and neck cancer may need help speaking or swallowing. Blood cancer patients may need help rebuilding strength, and those treated for colon cancer may need rehab for back pain and abdominal swelling.
DR. REBECCA LANSKY: Patients are getting stuck and they don't know where to go.
GOTBAUM: That's Dr. Rebecca Lansky, a rehab specialist at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
LANSKY: I have a patient who had squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, had radiation to the whole jaw and neck. And so he couldn't open up his mouth for six months and he basically kept going to his oncologist saying, how can I get better? What I can do? How can I get better? What I can do? And he finally got referred to me and so we're now opening up his jaw six months after he's been unable to move his jaw.
GOTBAUM: One study found that 90 percent of cancer patients should be referred to rehab, but only about one third are. There are signs that is beginning to change.
Dr. Julie Silver, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, created a program that provides rehab for cancer patients after treatment. It's called Star and is now offered in almost all 50 states.
JEN GOYETTE: You weren't sore?
DEBORAH LEONARD: No, surprisingly.
GOTBAUM: At South County Physical Therapy in Worcester Massachusetts physical therapist Jen Goyette greets her client, Deborah Leonard.
LEONARD: I was really swollen and puffy here. That's gone and it hasn't come back.
GOTBAUM: Two years ago, Leonard - who is 56 - was treated for early stage breast cancer. She had surgery to remove the small tumor, followed by several months of radiation. Soon after she finished treatment, Leonard realized something was wrong.
LEONARD: I had this lump inside my breast. And clearly, I didn't even have that before the surgery because the tumor was so small and it just getting bigger. In the morning I would start out fine, a little sore. By night time my breast was very swollen and extremely painful.
GOTBAUM: The lump was not cancer. Thinking it might be an infection, Leonard's doctors prescribed antibiotics. When that didn't work, they tried other invasive treatments - including surgery - but the problem quickly returned. And then Leonard discovered physical therapist Jen Goyette.
GOYETTE: All right. Well, come on up.
GOTBAUM: As Leonard lies on the table, Goyette places her hands gently on Leonard's shoulders. It doesn't look like much is happening.
GOYETTE: I'm doing manual lymphatic drainage. We're going in and clearing out routes so that we can have more lymphatic fluid go through those same routes.
GOTBAUM: Most health insurers cover rehab for cancer patients, says Goyette, but she must often fight with companies to get more than the average nine to 12 sessions reimbursed. Breast cancer survivor Deborah Leonard says cancer rehab is worth it.
LEONARD: I had a six-inch mass that is now down to half its size. I'm sleeping at night. I have energy again. More people need to know about this and more people need to use it, because you don't have to be a martyr and grin and bear it. This works.
GOTBAUM: Leonard says she just wishes she had known about cancer rehab sooner.
For NPR News, I'm Rachel Gotbaum in Boston.
WERTHEIMER: This piece was produced in partnership with Kaiser Health News.
WERTHEIMER: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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FOLLOW all the scores from regional Queensland in today's comprehensive XXXX Statewide Score Wrap.
Saturday 23 May
REDCLIFFE DOLPHINS 16 (Alwyn Simpson, Tim Yee, Danny Burke tries; Liam Georgetown 2 goals) drew with EASTS TIGERS 16 (Joe Richards, Isaac Kaufmann, Ben Vaeau tries; Wade Liddell 2 goals) at Dolphin Oval.
CENTRAL COMETS 42 (Tom Hewitt 2, Karl Johnson 2, Jade Williams 2, Mick Esdale tries; Nat Bowman 7 goals) def BURLEIGH BEARS 8 (Adam Fielder, Chris Enahoro tries) at Pizzey Park.
TWEED HEADS SEAGULLS 26 (Ben Jeffery, David Mead, Cameron White, Tim Maccan, Josh Graham tries; Brad Davis 3 goals) def MACKAY CUTTERS 20 (Daniel Flynn, Anthony Perkins, Donald Malone, Ben Harris tries; Daniel Abraham 2 goals) at Mackay Juniors.
Sunday 24 May
PRIDE 30 (Germaine Paulson 2, Chey Bird, Rod Jensen, Mark Cantoni tries; Chey Bird 5 goals) def SOUTHS LOGAN MAGPIES 16 (Shea Moylan 2, Sam Huihahau tries; Josh McCrone 2 goals) at Davies Park.
NORTHS DEVILS 27 (Georg Kepa 2, Brendon Gibb 2, Gideon Mzembe, Jay Aston tries; Ryan Hansen goal; Matt Gillett field goal) def IPSWICH JETS 16 (Ramon Filipine 2, Luke Walker, Brendan Marshall tries) at Bishop Park.
SUNSHINE COAST SEA EAGLES 22 (Jack Pearson 2, Dennis Sandow, Andrew Gray tries; Trent Hodkinson 3 goals) def WYNNUM MANLY SEAGULLS 18 (David Georgiou 2, Aoterangi Herangi tries; Matt Seamark 3 goals) at BMD Kougari Oval.
Saturday 30 May
BURLEIGH BEARS v WYNNUM MANLY SEAGULLS PIZZEY PARK 2.00pm*
SOUTHS LOGAN MAGPIES v CENTRAL COMETS BLACKWATER 4.00pm
NORTHERN PRIDE v TWEED HEADS SEAGULLS BARLOW PARK 7.00pm
MACKAY CUTTERS v IPSWICH JETS MACKAY JUNIORS 7.00pm
Sunday 31 May
NORTHS DEVILS v EASTS TIGERS BISHOP PARK 3.00pm
REDCLIFFE DOLPHINS v SUNSHINE COAST DOLPHIN OVAL 3.00pm
* ABC Television match
Saturday 23 May
REDCLIFFE DOLPHINS 22 (Phil Daisy, Josh Hoffman, Allan Heldsinger, Chris Borgese tries; Jed Fuller 3 goals) def EASTS TIGERS 16 (Junior Ahio, Paul Peterson, Wallace Solomona tries; Nathan Pill 2 goals) at Dolphin Oval.
BURLEIGH BEARS 38 (Casey Lyons, Grant Purdon, Ben Baggott, Marty Paulson, Ryan Wilson, Dennis Gordon, James Hill tries; Marty Paulson 5 goals) def TWEED HEADS SEAGULLS 12 (Ben Puia, Craig Wallace tries; Joel Brown 2 goals) at Pizzey Park.
Sunday 24 May
WESTERN DISTRICTS PANTHERS 23 (Tere Kaue, Graham White, Andrew McCrohon, Dean Sheppard tries; Matt Church 3 goals; Matt Church field goal) def SOUTHS LOGAN MAGPIES 16 (Matt Templeman, Paul Stanley, Chris Daly tries; Adam Wright, Paul Stanley goals) at Davies Park.
NORTHS DEVILS 32 (Asher Elemani 2, Scott Hurrell, James Api-Ulugia, Blake Harwood tries; Scott Hurrell 6 goals) def IPSWICH JETS 16 (Aaron Morris, Tyne Owen, Dan Fullarton tries; Jay O


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Spanish dancer
The Spanish dancer, scientific name Hexabranchus sanguineus (literally meaning "blood-colored six-gills"), is a dorid nudibranch, a very large and colorful sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Hexabranchidae.[3]
This species of very large, strong-swimming nudibranch is one of the largest of all nudibranchs: specimens of well over 40 cm in length have been reported.[3]
The species name, sanguineus, refers to its bright red coloration, but a yellow variant also exists.
This nudibranch has two very different modes of locomotion: crawling and swimming. When it crawls, the wide edges of the mantle (the parapodia) are rolled up close to the body. When the animal swims however, the red parapodia unfurl, and are whirled through the water in a spectacular undulating motion, propelling the animal forwards.
The animal was given the common name "Spanish dancer" because the whirling swimming movement, and the red color of the mantle, are reminiscent of the skirt movements of a flamenco dancer.
The Emperor shrimp, Periclimenes imperator, is a commensal that is commonly found living on Hexabranchus sanguineus.
This species is found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea.[3]
The egg ribbon of Hexabranchus sanguineus in the northwest Hawaiin Islands
Spanish dancer photographed in daylight, Dahab
Spanish dancer, a posterior view showing the gill rosette
Encountered at night on the North coast of East Timor
- ^ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (March 31) Hexabranchus sanguineus (Ruppell & Leuckart, 1828). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Valdés Á. (2002). "How many species of Hexabranchus (Opisthobranchia : Dorididae) are there?". Molluscan Research 22(3): 289-301. doi:10.1071/MR02012, PDF.
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She was born on July 29, 1937, to Elmer and Alberta Butterfield. She married Ronald Hoffman on June 3, 1955, after graduating from Hood River High School. Together, they had two sons, Brad and Brian.
Louise loved to travel and spend time with family and friends. She worked as a bookkeeper for Paris Fair and Mid Valley Market, was involved in the Hood River Lioness Club, American Legion Auxiliary and the Wy'east Whirlers.
Louise was preceded in death by brother Steve Butterfield.
She is survived by four grandsons, James, David, Ricky and Erick Hoffman; granddaughter Mikala Hoffman; great-granddaughter Kadence Holmes; daughter-in-law Mary Hoffman; and a whole community of friends who will miss her greatly.
Memorial services will be held at the Hood River Alliance Church, 2650 Montello, Hood River, on Nov. 3 beginning at 1 p.m.
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A textbook for upper-undergraduate and graduate courses in international
sport management; a reference for study abroad courses and libraries.
Ming Li, EdD, is professor in sports administration and chair of
the department of sports administration in the College of Business at
Ohio University, USA. Li received his doctorate in sport administration
from the University of Kansas. His research interests are in financial
and economic aspects of sport and management of sport business in a
global context.
Li is a former president of the North American Society for Sport
Management (NASSM) and currently is serving as commissioner of the
Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA). He is a member on
the editorial board of the Journal of Sport Management and Sport
Marketing Quarterly and has coauthored two books in sport
management. He is guest professor of six institutions in China,
including the Central University of Finance and Economics and Tianjin
University of Sport.
Li served as an Olympic envoy for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. He
also served as a consultant for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games
Organizing Committee.
Eric W. MacIntosh, PhD, is an assistant professor in the faculty
of health sciences, School of Human Kinetics at the University of
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Previously, he was assistant professor at
Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
MacIntosh earned his doctorate in kinesiology from the University of
Western Ontario with a specialization in sport management. His research
focuses on organizational culture theory, and he is a frequent
consultant to sport organizations regarding organizational culture. He
has presented his research at sport management conferences both national
and internationally and has been published in sport management journals.
MacIntosh serves as the division chair of sport and tourism for the
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and is a member of the
North American Society for Sport Management. He is the former student
president of the North American Society for Sport Management.
In his free time, he enjoys hockey, exercise, and adventure racing.
MacIntosh resides in Orleans, Ontario, Canada
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at West Virginia University, USA. A native of Santiago, Chile, Bravo
completed a master's degree in sport administration from Penn State
University and a PhD in sport management from Ohio State University.
Before joining academia, he worked as sport director in a large sport
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His research interests focus on issues in organizational behavior and
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speeches in Brazil, Chile, China, Japan, Mexico, and Venezuela.
Bravo is member of the North American Society for Sport Management and
the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. He also serves as
the vice president for the Latin American Association for Sport
Management and scientific director for the Latin American Association
for Socio-Cultural Studies in Sport.
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What IS so funny about truth, justice and the American way? When you ask Joe Kelly that question, he could easily respond "asked and answered", twice. Joe Kelly's seminal story "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?" originally saw print in Action Comics #775 and addressed Superman's place in a growing culture of jaded heroes and anti-heroes. Joe has returned to his tale for Superman Vs The Elite, a new DC Comics Premiere Movie available on Blu-ray and DVD combo pack tomorrow. Nerdist News is giving you the chance to win a signed copy of the film. Two Blu-ray combo packs signed by writer Joe Kelly and two script covers signed by actress Pauley Perrette (Lois Lane, and NCIS, too) can be won by entering Nerdist News' ever-so-Elite giveaway, with additional chances to enter at the Nerdist News Facebook, Twitter, and Google + pages. We spoke with Joe about his return to his previous efforts, his thoughts on the current state of comics and more.
Nerdist: What challenges does adapting a comic book into a feature film pose? Is it easier since they're essentially already storyboarded for you?
Joe Kelly: Ha! There's nothing easier about transforming a comic into a film than there would be for any other medium. I re-read Action #775 a few times, and then pretty much put it aside for the writing of the script. Having images already in print didn't really help much. As it was, we had to construct a lot of new material for the film so even if I did look at the comic as a "storyboard," a lot happened between the panels that had to be built from scratch.
For me, the easiest part about translating a comic into a film is that by their nature, the stories are visually driven in either medium. So the thought processes are similar on that level. On the other hand, you get away with a lot in a comic as far as dialogue because time is not an issue. #775 is pretty wordy, so a lot of trimming was in order to do short punchy scenes for the film.
N: You also wrote the source material. Does that make it easier to adapt into other formats or harder because you feel more connected to your work?
JK: In this case, it made my life a lot easier. I'm extremely proud of Action #775, but I also wrote it a long time ago. So while I had a close emotional connection to the source material, it was almost as if somebody else wrote it, which makes it easier to dissect. I knew the story backwards and forwards, and I also knew all the stuff that we were not allowed to put into the comic, some of which made it into the film. I'm not precious about any of it, though. I understand the differences between animation, live action and comics, and I always tailor my writing to fit the project.
N: How did the film change from its original form?
JK: This was the first time (I believe) that Warner Bros. took a single issue and expanded it to feature-length animation, so we had to figure out a way to make it all work. Also, since the comic was written as a love letter/message directly to comic book fans, it was important to expand the story for a casual viewer or a new audience member. This meant externalizing the conflicts in a different way and personalizing them for Superman (and the audience) because we didn't have the advantage of the common shorthand that we did in Action #775. So you'll see in the film that the Elite are less interested in taking out DC style super villains and much more interested in having a global impact. This is probably the biggest change from the original story. I think it works well given most people's perceptions of what's going on in the world today as well as their relationship to these characters.
N: You wrote "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" in part as a response to a trend towards darker, anti-establishment antiheroes and an general backlash against so-called traditional values. Do you still think that is the trend in the comics industry? Why is that the case?
JK: It's hard for me to talk about the comics industry as a whole in such broad terms. Even though superheroes dominate the American market, there's so much interesting stuff going on in other genres and indie books that I don't think it's fair for me to identify a "trend." That said, I think that the big companies certainly know who they're marketing their books to, and a large segment of that audience tends to like their heroes a little edgier. I certainly fall into that land. So if there is a trend towards anti-heroes or darker material, it's almost explicitly market-driven, not to mention shortsighted. We're not going to get new readers (a/k/a kids) if every book is about classic superheroes being dissected and darkened. By no means do I think every superhero book should be vanilla ice cream, but there's a reason that we all fell in love with comics when we were young. They addressed plenty of social issues and had a lot to say about the world at large, but as a whole they weren't bleak. It's that lack of hope that I find troublesome, and the idea that superheroes and the ideals they represent are "corny." Fiction can serve many functions, and doling out hope and inspiration 22 pages at a time isn't a bad thing at all. But again, there are plenty of books to check out that embrace an optimistic take on the world, super or otherwise.
N: Have you talked to Warren Ellis about The Elite at all? If so, what was his reaction?
JK: No, I've never spoken to Warren about the Elite – I think we've only met very briefly once a con. At the time that I wrote Action #775 I think Millar was on The Authority, actually.
N: Manchester Black reminds us a lot of Johnny Rotten, but with murderous superpowers. What inspired you in the creation of the Elite?
JK: Manchester was directly inspired by my perception that a lot of the anti-establishment/anti-hero/post-modern comic books were being written by English authors. So I thought the leader of the Elite had to be English. After that the characters mostly came from the idea of taking stereotypes and exploiting them. For example, Coldcast, especially in the comic, is an "angry black man" and he wears it on his sleeve like a badge of honor. I guess that was my post-modernizing of the post-modern anti-heroes: to take these outrageous stereotypes and lay them onto a superhero team.
N: The film deals with some real-world issues like America's role as a global supercop, but refracts them through the prism of the DC universe. In an election year, many of these issues must be on a lot of people's minds. How do you address touchier subjects without coming off preachy?
JK: It's a real fine line. Like any good genre, superhero stories allow us to analyze real-world issues with a little bit of abstraction while still entertaining the audience. As a writer, I personally feel a responsibility to try to do this whenever I can. I know some people don't like politics mixed in with their superheroes and I'm not really a political guy, but once in a while I get a thought in my head that has to get out. When you work on a character like Superman or the Justice League of America where the United States is so closely tied to their DNA, it seems irresponsible not to address some of these themes. So long as the story stays entertaining or at least thought-provoking and isn't just one long diatribe, I think the field is pretty wide open for a story that carries a message.
One of the highlights of my career was when we did a story in JLA that was held up on the Joe Scarborough show because I essentially had Superman questioning whether not we should be going to Iraq. In the story, he was branded as un-American for asking questions. The goal of that story was to ask the question, stimulate conversation, and point out that questioning authority is quintessentially "American." Now remember, this was written during the U.N. hearings where we were being shown fuzzy pictures and told they were "weapons of mass destruction," but the comic came out months later, a few weeks after George W. hung his "Mission Accomplished" banner and said the war was over. Scarborough called DC Comics the "rat of the week" for using Superman as a liberal mouthpiece suffering sour grapes. That was a happy day for me.
N: You must be buried in books. What comics are you reading and enjoying right now?
JK: Yeah, I read all the time. I'm loving Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and I just read a cool book that's coming out called Dengue by Rodolfo Santullo and Matias Bergara. I'm catching up on Osamu Tezuka and Urazawa all the time. I just finished the Stephen King book about the JFK assassination, and before that a non-fiction book about the power of habits.
N: Any word on the rumored Deadpool movie? What if we said, "please?"
JK: If the Deadpool movie were actually to go, I would love to participate in any capacity. I hear there is a great script by the guys who wrote Zombieland, but I would still happily sink my teeth into a script anytime. What I need is for someone with global reach and their finger on the pulse of pop culture to let the "Powers That Be" know that I'm the right guy for the gig… If only there were someone like that, interviewing me now… : )
N: Apart from Superman vs. The Elite, what other projects are you excited about that you can share with us?
JK: Man of Action Studios, which is my company with Steven T. Seagle, Duncan Rouleau and Joe Casey, is neck deep in a lot of animation and development of new properties. We're doing Ultimate Spider-Man for Marvel (which has been a blast) and a few international projects as well. On the comics side I have a lot of independent books in the works, including getting back on track with Four Eyes and Bad Dog. The fifth issues of both are actually finished, I'm just waiting until I have more in the can before we solicit. I learned my lesson the hard way.
I admittedly got sidetracked by the demands of the animation side of our business. Going into the tail end of 2012 and trying to refocus my efforts on original IPs and feature writing. Hopefully, fingers crossed, I'll be able tell you guys some news about other adaptations soon… But nothing I can say yet! Stay tuned!
Don't forget to enter the Nerdist News contest to win an autographed copy of Superman Vs. The Elite and get bonus entries via the Nerdist News Facebook, Twitter, and Google + pages. For more on what Joe Kelly and the other members of Man of Action have on the way, check out their website.


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