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Flickr Finds: Weird Pizza Around the World
Elsewhere in the world, pizza isn't always the pizza you know. It might have a crust, it might be round, but sometimes that's where the similarity ends. Here's a glimpse at some unusual — and occasionally tasty-looking — pizzas from around the world.
(Of course, I should note that "weird" is a relative term. One photo of a Hawaiian-style pizza I found on Flickr had a comment, "Pineapple on pizza...weird!")
• Japan: This Pizza Hut ad boasts a pizza topped with hamburger, edamame, corn and more, surrounded by a wiener-stuffed roll crust that is meant to be topped with a "fruity ketchup."
• Scotland: What does a "pizza crunch supper" look like? It's a couple pieces of pizza, battered and deep-fried, and served with a side of chips.
• Norway: Speaking of chips, here's a pizza topped with french fries.
• Australia: And if you prefer your chips in tortilla form, you might like this "Mexican" pizza topped with tortilla chips, pickled jalapenos, and massive gobs of sour cream.
• India: A pizza topped with the spicy Indian dish called butter chicken actually sounds (and looks) really good.
• Korea: Back to Asia and its wiener obsession again with this pizza, which includes a cheese-stuffed roll crust and a healthy spiral of mayonnaise on top.
• Germany: A thin-crusted pizza topped with rich curry sounds intriguing, but the comments about it are unambiguous: "Was weird. Not bad. But weird."
What's the weirdest pizza you've ever eaten?
Related: Slurping Ramen: Unexpected Table Manners Around the World
(Images: Flicker members Aaron Olaf, JaredEarle, remysharp, aus_chick, Premshree Pillai, riacale, atubbs licensed under Creative Commons)


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Florida's Hannah Rogers pitched shutout while Kelsey Horton hit a walk-off homer in the 7th inning to seal a sweep of Arkansas.
Lightning struck twice at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium Saturday.
The first time, it came from the sky just three-pitches into the series finale between Florida and Arkansas, causing an hour delay to a game that had already been delayed three hours by bad weather.
The second time, it came off the bat of Florida senior Kelsey Horton and ended the contest.
Horton smacked a 1-2, two-out pitch from Razorbacks' starter Chelsea Cohen for a long, walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the third-ranked Gators (31-3, 7-2) a thrilling 1-0 win before a damp but happy crowd of 552.
"I felt pretty good all night," said Horton. "I was seeing her (Cohen) pretty well even though I wasn't having good results, so I just went to my slap with two strikes and I hit one good. It was exciting."
The win was UF's fifth straight and capped the Gators' first Southeastern Conference series sweep of the season.
"It feels great," said junior All-American Hannah Rogers, who tossed a three-hit, complete-game shutout to improve to 17-2 on the mound and finish the series with two wins and a save.
"It was the third game they've seen Hannah, so you didn't know what kind of adjustments they would make," head coach Tim Walton said. "I thought Hannah did a really good job. Her stuff was really good this weekend and really this whole week. I'm proud of the way she competed.
"She's constantly gotten better with her pitches, and she's featuring a couple of new pitches this year that she's going to a lot. She loves to compete. Sometimes when she puts a runner on base, she takes it to another level, which all the great ones do. She's really establishing herself as one of the best pitchers that we've had night in and night out."
Despite giving up a lead-off double in the top of third and again in the top of the fifth, Rogers kept Arkansas (21-13, 0-6) off the scoreboard, finishing with six strikeouts and no walks while notching her 11th complete game of the season.
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Sal - I think we are in agreement more than you realize....There just is no need for the Legends line to exist. NONE.
Legends would not be that bad if they repacked some new figure like:Evo Maul2 Part Helmet VaderResurgence LukeTin Pack Chewbacca in non snow decoDewback SandtrooperDewback Sandtrooper as a plain StormtrooperGeo Kit FistoEvo EmporerEvo Qui-GonUtupau Trooper with darker orange colorClone PilotThey can repack some of the best broad appeal figures that would sell and get many collectors to buy more of. Instead we get a 90's Maul with worse deco than before, Sae See Tinn again, Plo Koon when the new one is out at the same time, the 2006 Sandtrooper, 2001 Bespin Han. Legends would not be that bad if they reshuffled the mix more often. I am fine with repacks or having core characters just have the better versions of them. I would buy so much more for custom purposes alone.
The problem with a lot of those is their relative obscurity... I'd buy various ones you listed too Jman, but Hasbro's repacks are more of a thing for the casual buyer, or army builder... more than something for the collectors.
I actually think these would do really well with casual buyers and army builders.
I think that TIE Pilot has a good chance at coming back in some capacity at some point though...
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We analyzed both ancient and modern texts in order to better understand the Indian perception of the self, and at the end of the semester, Professor Sturman invited us all to her home for a homemade Indian dinner! I developed a love of Gandhi from the course (as my roommates can attest to), and ended up taking another class on the history of India. Although I had never taken an art history class, I was intrigued by the course description of Women and Art, which stated that the class focused on the role of women as both producers and objects of art. Taking the class was a great decision, as Professor Pamela Fletcher was fascinating; I didn't want her lectures to end! I wish now that I hadn't waited so long to take a course in the art history department, as the class sparked a new area of interest. I am currently enrolled in Introductory Dance Technique/Repertory and Performance taught by the infectiously energetic Gwyneth Jones. We just finished our run of spring performances, where we incorporated sculpture with wooden I-beams into the dances. It was such a unique and fun experience, and it was so gratifying to show my friends and family what we had been working on for the past several weeks. I would definitely recommend taking a dance class if your schedule allows it; you'll have a blast! What professor or professors have especially inspired you during your time at Bowdoin? Again, it's too difficult for me to pick just one. My advisor, Professor Sarah McMahon, has provided me with so much guidance and encouragement over the years. Whenever I walk into her office, I know I will be greeted with her cheerful demeanor, which always brightens my day. I also thoroughly enjoyed having Scott MacEachern of the Anthropology department as a professor. His enthusiastic lectures were infused with discussions of his own research in Chad and Cameroon, which really brought the material to life. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? During my first couple of years at Bowdoin, I was involved in a variety of extracurricular activities, from intramural soccer to the Meditation Club. Currently, I am the co-President of Bowdoin Students for Peace (co-founded by fellow profiler and all-around awesome person Sara Schlotterbeck '08). Even though it's a relatively small group, the members are really active and involved. In the coming weeks, we will be attending a rally against the genocide in Darfur and are working to establish a meditation/reflection room on campus. Before coming to college, I never would have imagined that I would be involved in an activist group to this extent, but I am very fortunate to be a part of it. I also work part-time at the Office of Communications as a publications assistant. It has been both enjoyable and eye-opening, and I have been given the opportunity to work on a variety of projects. Some days, I conduct photo research for Admissions or other departments; other times, I type up programs or posters for various events. One of my favorite projects was making the first-year Facebook and Orientation packet for the incoming class. It was exciting to work on a publishing project from start to finish and seeing the final printed product was rewarding. In addition, the staff at the Office of Communications is so friendly, which makes working there even better. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? I spent the spring 2007 semester in Melbourne, Australia, which was just incredible! Living with a host family in a foreign country provided an opportunity for growth and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with them. Having lived in Maine almost all of my life, it was refreshing to live in a vibrant city and have a change of pace. In addition, I was able to attain a more international perspective and see the ways in which Australians view the world. My program culminated with a five-week research project on a topic of our choice and I had the chance to discuss Aboriginal affairs with several local leaders, an experience that truly would not have been possible in the U.S. Plus, I was introduced to these amazing cookies called "Tim Tams" that I still find myself craving. As much as I love Bowdoin, deciding to study abroad was one of the best decisions I have made during my time here. I would highly recommend studying abroad to any student; it is an excellent way to gain independence and will make your remaining time at college even more satisfying. What have you done during your summers? I worked in the microbiology lab at Poland Spring Bottling after freshman and sophomore year, assisting with water testing on both the sensory and microbiological levels. Working in the lab environment was quite rewarding, as I was able to connect with a small group of people, one of whom was a Bowdoin alum. I also learned practical lab techniques and gained a better understanding of the quality assurance component of the company. Last summer, I stayed on campus and began working at the Office of Communications. I was so lucky to get the job (particularly because it involved scheduling a phone interview while I was in Australia!). I'm very glad I had the chance to be at Bowdoin during the summer. My roommates were fantastic and we shared many great times, like going to the farmer's market in town and watching the Fourth of July fireworks in Freeport. What is your best Bowdoin memory? I have so many; it's tough to pick just one! Some of my favorites are stargazing with my roommates, seeing the newly refurbished Museum of Art, taking late night trips to L.L. Bean, and going to concerts in Boston. I think my favorite, though, is learning a choreographed dance with my roommate and close friends sophomore year (have you seen OK Go's "A Million Ways" video? Yes, we learned that dance). We spent many weekend hours trying to get the moves just right and even performed it for our parents. All of my best Bowdoin memories have involved my friends, who have made my four years here wonderful. At the end of the day, after all of the papers and exams, they're the ones who are there to laugh with while you're brushing your teeth. What are your plans for after graduation? Everyone's favorite question! I am still looking for a job, ideally in the publishing industry. In the meantime, I am hoping to travel and will be training for a couple of 10K road races and a half-marathon in the fall. Eventually, I would like to attend graduate school and study science journalism. As I was saying to a good friend the other day, the thought of graduation is a little scary, but I'm excited and optimistic about the opportunities to come. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Don't hesitate to try different things and become involved in activities! It can be a little intimidating to be in a new place with unfamiliar faces, but the Bowdoin community is very friendly and accepting. Join the club you always thought sounded intriguing, or sign up for that intramural sport. You never know what you might end up loving! Also, don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it. That's the nice thing about a small school; professors are usually more than willing to meet with you to discuss questions, or just to talk. Finally, find the thing that makes you happiest, whether it's running in the woods behind Farley Field House or reading The New York Times at breakfast, and find time to squeeze it into your day. What quirky or fun thing did you wish you knew before you came to Bowdoin? There are so many eclectic places to go on Maine Street — Frontier Café is the perfect place to grab a cup of tea, and Grand City Variety is, well, you'll just have to go there and experience it for yourself. Also, I wish I'd known to bring my skates after Thanksgiving break! During the winter, part of the Quad is turned into a skating rink and it is great fun to slide around on the ice. And, as a final note, the view from the top of Cole's Tower is just beautiful. I'm lucky enough to be living on the fifteenth floor this year, and I can't tell you how calming it is to watch the sunset. Story posted on May 01, 2008 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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The Fort Hill Clemson Club invites Tiger fans to join Head Football Coach Dabo Swinney at the Wendy's Recruiting Wrap-Up on Wednesday, February 6. The event will be held in Jervey Gymnasium on the Clemson University campus, and will begin at 6:00 PM.
At the event, Swinney will introduce his staff and discuss each member of the Tigers' 2013 football signing class. The program will include dinner, highlight videos and time for a Q&A session with Swinney. There will also be door prizes and a live auction that will include items such as dinner with the football team, a round of golf with Head Men's Basketball Coach Brad Brownell, and dinner with Offensive and Defensive Coordinators Chad Morris and Brent Venables.
Where: Jervey Gym at Clemson University
When: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Time: Doors open and dinner begins at 6:00 PM
Cost: $30 at our distributors or $35 online
Tickets are now available for purchase at the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative offices in Pickens, Westminster and Anderson, at Mr.Knickerbocker's in Clemson and Greenville or online via the Fort Hill Clemson Club Facebook page. There are a limited number of seats available for this event.
All proceeds from the event go directly to scholarships for local high school students attending Clemson University.


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Allowing an agency's mobile users to securely access data that resides on network servers is one of the greatest challenges of any BYOD or mobile device management policy. In order to maintain the security of the data a user is accessing, some sort of secure container needs to be implemented.
Although some operating systems, such as BlackBerry 10 on the Z10 smart phone, do this natively, not all do — and even if they did, they'd all do it differently. A single, enterprise-wide platform is often the best way to go.
NetApp recently announced the release of NetApp Connect, a way for mobile users to get secure and instant access to data stored on NetApp systems. It comes in the form of a network appliance that fetches documents from various servers and sends them out, on-demand, to devices that are running the NetApp Connect app. It is fairly seamless to the user while keeping files in the encrypted space in case the device is lost or stolen.
It keeps data behind the corporate firewall and out of the cloud, allowing users to stream, view, download, edit and pass on information securely, whether the data is on file shares, Microsoft SharePoint or served by Intranet web applications, the company said.
Connect currently is available for iOS devices from the Apple App Store, and NetApp said it will soon be available for other devices.
Many federal, state and local governmental organizations are already running NetApp services, and are planning to add NetApp Connect, such as the city of Melrose, Mass. "Our police force, fire department, school system, and other municipal services all run on NetApp, and all require mobile access to data that sits behind the firewall," said Jorge Pazos, the city's CIO. "However, the solution we're forced to employ today to ensure data security to remote users is less than elegant, to say the least. NetApp Connect promises to streamline mobile data access and reduce the pain points our users are experiencing today. We look forward to exploring a proof of concept this summer."
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Netapp Connect is a great app, but should have built in some more security functions like application management (white list, black list) and even device control to avoid abusing specific device features, otherwise you still need another app "type MDM" to do that management ...
BYOD will continue growing as mobile devices continue to play a greater role in our lives. That's why so many IT vendors, including VMWare, are positioning their solutions to address such BYOD challenges as security and device management.
There are many approaches to managing BYOD. This white paper - "BYOD is Here to Stay, But Organizations Must Adapt" - discusses some of these approaches:
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Penn State has lost another of its high-profile commitments, with offensive tackle Dorian Johnson of Belle Vernon High School near Pittsburgh having informed head coach Bill O'Brien that he will look elsewhere.
The 6-foot-6, 285-pound Johnson, whom Rivals rated as a four-star recruit and No. 23 among offensive tackles in the freshman class of 2013, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review he called O'Brien on Tuesday night to inform him of his decision.
"It was a real short conversation," Johnson said. "He didn't really say much. He did say he respected my decision and wished me luck."
Johnson is the fifth member of Penn State's anticipated class of 2013 to withdraw his commitment to the school, as players weigh their options given the harsh sanctions handed down by the NCAA to the university in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Those penalties included a four-year bowl ban, scholarship reductions and a $60 million fine.
"I wasn't expecting all that," Johnson told the Tribune-Review about the Penn State penalties. "The top two things were the bowl ban and the scholarship offers."
Johnson said he will reconsider Pittsburgh and Ohio State, two of his original finalists, as well as Virginia Tech, according to the newspaper.
On Monday, wide receiver and linebacker Zach Bradshaw of Damascus, Md., notified O'Brien that he was decommitting. Bradshaw later committed to Virginia.
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Footloose (2011) (US - BD RA)
Gabe refuses to cut loose with this dumb and generally boring '80s remake...
Three years after a tragic and deadly, post-dance party car accident, Boston-raised Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormald), moves to a still mourning town called Bomont to live with his uncle Wes (Ray McKinnon), aunt (Kim Dickens), and their family. Though an outsider, Ren is charming enough to makes friends with Willard Hewitt (Miles Teller), a fellow senior at Bomont High, and develops a romantic in Reverend Shaw Moore's (Dennis Quaid) rebellious daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough). Ariel's dirt-track driver boyfriend Chuck Cranston (Patrick Flueger) doesn't appreciate the attention, and starts a feud with Ren. Meanwhile, Ren is troubled by Bomont's strict, post-tragic car accident ban on dancing, and takes up the pro-dance cause while wooing Ariel.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say we have enough cool kid fish out of water high school movies (staring people in their 20s), and that we never really needed a direct remake of one of the genre's originators, Footloose. But apparently director Craig Brewer ( Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan) was convinced enough of his childhood favourite's modern relevance to revisit its charmingly outdated themes. The concept is precious, but I remain unconvinced that there's anything relevant about this remake. Had Brewer placed his film in the years following the Rodney King riots, or the months following the Columbine shooting I'd understand the comparative relevance of the subject manner. I'd even understand Brewer using the themes as a not so thinly veiled condemnation of post-9/11 Christian conservatism, but the time for that would've been something like five years ago. This updated version takes place in an unintentionally comedic world where toothless Christian Right types vaguely lament the dangers of shockingly tame teenage lifestyles. There's nothing threatening about the adult authority figures beyond the fact that they're terminal buzzkills. Brewer starts off on a good foot, subversively dunking the audiences' heads in an ocean of tragedy right after fulfilling their basic expectations of the fluffy original film. As a fearful Yankee, I kept waiting for a horror movie to break out, the kind here the big city kids are stalked and eaten by crazy backwoods cannibals. It never quite happens, but I held out hope.
Dennis Quaid's performance and presence is so neutered watching him will make the spot between your legs ache. These characters were heavy handed years ago, haven't aged well, and leaving them generally untouched is the wrong move. Not a single person on screen, outside of perhaps Ren's Uncle Wes (Ray McKinnon), is relatable. I found the High School Musical troop more human and realistic. Lead Kenny Wormald has a dash of charm, but he can't keep up a Boston accent to save his life, and I more or less couldn't tell the difference between Ren and the film's supposed villain. Well, no, the villain is the particularly whiney one, not the one that dances out his frustrations like a 10-year-old girl. And I see absolutely no reason anyone should want anything to do with Ariel. She's the most unlikable character in the entire film, which is a terrible place for a love interest to be. I understand that she's meant to grow with the story, and represent something of a strong heroine, but she really does little outside of the kind of self-destructive stuff seen in hard R-rated movies about drug addicts. I understand the purpose of the character, but don't have any patience for her.
Despite all my whining, I'll admit Brewer knows how to cut a dance sequence, and he doesn't let the droning, inconsequential plot get in the way of a two-step or crunk. The dances are well framed, capturing the acrobatics better than the shaky, over-cut Step-Up movies. Slow motion isn't over used, and when it is used it works with the rhythm of the scene. I admit I sort of forgot about how much I hated the characters most times they were awing me with their foot-tapping abilities, but the second they started talking I was thrust back into Angerville, population: me. The one genuinely unique and joyful sequence in the film features little girls teaching Willard to dance to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy', and this leads me to admit that Brewer also has an incredible eye for montage, no matter how silly and cliché they may be. And when people aren't dancing they're aimlessly racing school buses in one of the more pathetic Rebel without a Cause shout-outs I've ever seen, but again, Brewer shoots this stuff well, with an eye for weight, impact, and movement. Perhaps someone can hand him the Fast and Furious flicks when Justin Lin finally quits and makes some kind of B-superhero movie for Marvel (I'm gonna guess Luke Cage). So long as there aren't any court sequences, which appear to be Brewer's kryptonite. Any air left in the film is entirely deflated during this particular court pre-climax, and the final dance suffers as a result.
Footloose was filmed using standard 35 mm film, which was then digitally treated to bring out certain vibrancies and contrasts (the deleted scenes are not digitally graded, and are generally much softer). This 1080p, 2.35:1 transfer captures everything I'm assuming director Craig Brewer and cinematographer Amy Vincent meant to put visually into their film. Details are sharp, but not expressly and overly-impressively so. The contrast levels are ratcheted pretty high, which leaves some of the textures and background complexities somewhat flattened in some cases. But generally speaking there's plenty of detail to enjoy and all the edges are sharply cut, despite the generally gritty grain levels. The problem I have with the style is that the high contrast black levels are rarely true black, and this is as obvious of a stylistic choice as the similar looking release of Martha Marcy May Marlene. Colours are quite vibrant, leaving skin tones a bit on the orange side, and darker hues a bit on the blue side, but generally this is a hyper-real hue mix that pushes natural colours to somewhat neon degrees. The colours run into each other a little bit, but are largely sharply separated, and gradations are smooth without obvious banding or edge halo effects.
Seeing that Footloose is, effectively speaking, a musical, music plays the strongest role of any aural element on this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. Music changes tone and volume depending on type and source. A good example of this is a sequence towards the beginning of the film where Ren fixes a Volkswagen Beetle and plugs his music in from his iPod speakers, where they whistle softly, into a loudspeaker where they blare throughout the front channels. The popping bass during hip-hop sequences is standout, but there's also plenty of LFE support on line dancing sequences as big boots hit the wooden floor. Basic dialogue sequences don't feature much in the way of ambience outside the basic noise of center channel actions, but there are other standout moments outside the music, including noisy racing sequences with expressive directional movement throughout the stereo and surround channels. The crashes during the school bus race rival just about anything heard on the latest Fast and the Furious disc, there just aren't as many of them.
The extras begin with a commentary track featuring director Craig Brewer. Brewer is a wonderfully engaging commentator, and does a fantastic job telling the story of the making of the film in relatively chronological order, with a pleasantly personal twist. He stops his narrative at appropriate times to flip out a few factoids pertaining to the on-screen action, and mostly avoids blank spots and self-congratulatory side-quests. The track also acts well to point to the differences between this and the original film. He hasn't convinced me his film was worth making, or at all relevant, but I actually enjoyed this commentary, and assume fans will love it.
Jump Back: Re-Imagining Footloose (14:50, HD) is a relatively fluffy EPK featuring interviews with director Craig Brewer, producers Craig Zadan, Brad Weston, and Neil Meron, production designer John Gary Steele, costume designer Laura Jean Shannon, original co-writer Dean Pitchford, and actors Dennis Quaid, Julianne Hough, Kenny Wormald, Miles Teller, Andie MacDowell and Patrick Flueger. Subject matter quickly covers the original film, the want to re-imagine it, Brewer's strange interest in the project, costume and production design, and the film's final message (bleh). Everybody Cut: The Stars of Footloose (13:00, HD) focuses on the casting process, and the members of the cast, including more interviews with the same folks seen on the previous featurette. Dancing with the Footloose Stars (12:40, HD) covers the film's eclectic choreography, including interviews with choreographer Jamal Sims, along with the other featurette folks. The disc is completed with five deleted scenes featuring optional director's commentary (6:50, HD), three music videos, and the Footloose Rap (2:00, HD).
Craig Brewer's Footloose remake is well made, but not really any good thanks to an anachronistic and dull script, and lack of remotely likable characters. I kind of hate this movie, but don't begrudge its fans one bit. The colourful photography looks very nice in 1080p video, and the musically driven DTS-HD MA soundtrack features some surprisingly potent car smash-ups. The director's commentary is charming and informative enough to make me wish I liked his film more, but the addition extras are fluffy, made-for-TV EPK junk.
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Release Date: 6th March 2012
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Spanish and Portuguese, 2.0 English Audio Descriptive Track
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Extras: Director's Commentary, Jump Back: Re-Imagining Footloose, Everybody Cut: The Stars of Footloose, Dancing with the Footloose Stars, Deleted Scenes, Fake ID Music Video, Trailers, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Craig Brewer
Cast: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Miles Teller
Genre: Drama and Musical
Length: 113 minutes
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The following review of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich's Voices From Chernnobyl was published in the April 17, 2006 issue of The Nation.
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In the spring of 1986 the English language, and nearly every other, acquired a new word for catastrophe: Chernobyl. On April 25, 1986, when Reactor No. 4 at the nuclear power station near a leafy village some eighty miles north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev began to melt down, the world had no notion of the disaster about to unfold. Neither did Moscow. In a classic confusion of priorities that would open the floodgates for glasnost and, in due time, a rethinking of the Soviet nuclear landscape, the Politburo was concerned above all with bad press. A year earlier a new general secretary had arisen, Mikhail Gorbachev. Yet even as word spread that the accident at the station had already reached an unprecedented scale, with the specter of a radioactive Armageddon rising over Europe, Gorbachev and company seemed less concerned about the damage issuing from Chernobyl than the damage to Moscow's reputation.
Having entered the English vernacular, "Chernobyl" has gained currency in the twenty years since the accident. "To go Chernobyl"—whether it be a relationship, teakettle or political career—is to melt down. Yet as scientists will tell you, what is commonly called the "accident" at Chernobyl was anything but. For this disaster was born of human decisions. The engineers at the plant had long been eager to test a theory. Those on the night shift decided to conduct an unauthorized test. Not specialists in nuclear science, they powered the reactor down, disabled emergency backup systems in order to see how long the turbines could operate and, hoping to learn how the reactor's coolant system would function on low electricity, instead learned how its core would melt. The explosion tore off the reactor's 1,000-ton steel-and-concrete roof, spewing the now famous radioactive maelstrom into the heavens. In all, Chernobyl released 100 times more radiation than the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The true death toll will never be known. The government of Ukraine has tallied more than 8,000 dead, nearly all victims of the fire and cleanup. The toll, in environmental and chromosomal damage, continues today and will for generations.
The Kremlin's first reflex was to try to conceal the mess—even from rescue workers. Firefighters and thousands of other local workers were dispatched to the burning station with no warning. The scientists who flew in from Moscow came with only their razors. (They imagined they would stay just a couple of days.) No special clothing was distributed. No one was immediately evacuated from the nearby settlements, the so-called nuclear villages where the station's workers and their families lived. Thirty-one workers died immediately from exposure. Hundreds more fell violently ill in the first hours. Only after the Swedes detected the fallout did Moscow admit that Chernobyl had become a man-made nuclear Vesuvius. Finally, more than thirty-six hours after the fire broke out, villagers were evacuated. The 48,000 inhabitants of Pripyat, the settlement in the woods closest to the plant, left their homes with as much as they could carry. By May 5, anyone living within twenty miles of the station was evacuated. The marshes and woods around Pripyat were cordoned off from the rest of the world. The region, comprising some seventy-six villages and settlements where more than 100,000 people once lived, has been known ever since simply as "the Zone."


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Hearing Scheduled for December 19, 2007
In accordance with the authority granted to the Commissioner of Insurance under Chapter 175E, Section 7 of the Massachusetts General Laws and 211 C.M.R. 79.00, et seq, and at the request of the Attorney General, the Division of Insurance ("Division") will hold a pre-hearing conference at 10:00 a.m. on December 19, 2007 at its offices at One South Station, Boston, MA, regarding the private passenger motor vehicle rate filing of the Commerce Insurance Company ("Commerce") dated November 19, 2007. A hearing of this matter is scheduled for January 9, 2008. The purpose of the pre-hearing conference is to identify all discovery and miscellaneous issues and to schedule dates for the submission of testimony and documents. The following issues and dates will be addressed at the pre-hearing conference.
The Parties, who are the Attorney General and Commerce, are required to submit to the Commissioner of Insurance (the "Commissioner") at the pre-hearing conference a list of all discovery requests, if any. Requests should not be made for documents or information already in the possession, custody or control of a Party. Furthermore, Parties will be expected to articulate the basis for any such requests. The Parties will be ordered to comply with any and all discovery no later than the close of business on December 31, 2007.
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Laura Marano Finally Gets Over Stage Fright in This Weekend's 'Austin & Ally'
Ross Lynch hops up on stage with Laura Marano in this new still from Austin & Ally.
In this weekend's episode "Chapters & Choices," When Ally's (Marano) mom (Julia Campbell) comes home to host a book release party, Ally works up the courage to finally conquer her stage fright and performs a duet with Austin (Lynch) at the event.
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One variation or another of the estate tax repeal legislation now wending its way through Congress has popped up and been shot down any number of times in recent years.
The ongoing efforts are always couched in terminology implying a primary, noble goal of preventing thousands of family farms from being lost to the tax collector.
Stories are legion of grieving widows and sons/daughters forced to sell off farms that had been in their families for generations in order to pay the burdensome estate tax. The chambers of Congress have echoed with impassioned speeches bemoaning these tragic episodes — which the media have further perpetuated.
Thing is, nobody seems able to substantiate that there is today a significant problem of farms being lost because of the tax. Says Neil Harl, Iowa State University ag economist and an expert in estate tax planning for farmers: "This is a myth that has been well-spun."
In fact, say a growing number of opponents of repeal, under current, more generous tax rules, only a handful of the very largest farming operations would conceivably be subject to estate taxes, and anyone in that category would have made adequate provisions through insurance and other measures to cover any tax liability.
A recent Congressional Budget Office study reported that since Congress has more than doubled the threshold at which the tax applies, the number of farms on which estate tax was owed when the owners died fell by 82 percent since 2000, to just 300 farms. Maybe.
All but a handful (less than 30) had enough liquid assets to pay the taxes owed, the CBO said, and if all the facts were known, the number might actually be zero.
How's that for irony: A tax repeal measure being promoted because of a supposed threat to family farms, when in fact few, if any, farmers are affected?
So then, who stands to benefit from this measure if Congress succeeds in ramming it through?
"Multi-millionaires and billionaires — fewer than 1.5 percent of estates each year," writes Chuck Collins, senior fellow at United for a Fair Economy, an independent national organization promoting awareness of the damaging consequences of concentrated wealth and power.
Collins and Bill Gates Sr. (father of Microsoft mogul Bill Gates, the world's richest man) are co-authors of a book, "Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes."
With the national debt soaring and the cost of U.S. military involvements skyrocketing, they say, "If there ever was a time to limit tax breaks" for these super-wealthy, "this should be it."
Repeal would cost almost $1 trillion over the next 20 years, Collins and Gates say. "Giving such a tax break to wealthy heirs would only shift the burden" to everyone else, including the farmers that repeal would supposedly help.
Further, a House Ways and Means Committee study points out that the repeal legislation substitutes a carryover basis regime that "would place burdensome compliance and reporting requirements on all estates with gross assets of over $1.3 million." An estimated 70,000 estates would be subject to the rule, including a lot of farm operations.
That's progress?
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Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
— Sir Francis Bacon.
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is almost here once more and it is still seeking submissions for tomorrow's edition of this blog carnival! Can you help by sending URLs for well-written blog essays to the host?
Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a traveling blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing targeted specifically to the public that has been published in the blogosphere within the past 60 days.
The most recent edition of Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) can be read here: Scientia Pro Publica — 14th edition.
The host for the upcoming 1 February edition will be John at Kind of Curious. To send your submissions to Scientia Pro Publica, either use this automated submission form or use the cute little widget on the right (sometimes that widget doesn't upload when the mother site is nonfunctional) or send your submission directly to Scientia's email address at Scientia Blog Carnival at gmail. Be sure to include the URL or "permalink", the essay title and, to make life easier for the host, please include a 2-3 sentence summary. If you wish to read the archived issues to see those contributions that were included previously, visit the Scientia website for links to archived carnivals. Please note that all essays must be written for the purpose of communicating with the public and non-specialists, and all submissions that qualify as either advertising or pseudoscience will be rejected.
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Color Scheme Ideas to Give your Living Room a Great Color
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Wall Colors impart a beautiful effect in your every room if choose perfectly. But sometimes the excessive use of bold paint colors on walls makes your living room disturbing and you can get irritated with the bold paint color. So it is better to choose paint colors by knowing their effects on your living environment and body. When you are going to choose paint color, then always consider the amount of sunlight entering into your living room. The paint colors also depend on the style of your room.
Neutral paint colors for living room are always calm and elegant, so a palette of white, cream, taupe, grey and brown is a classic option for a living room that has to please everyone. Select any of paint color themes such as monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triad, split-complementary, warm, cool or neutral colors. You can apply paint colors that will highlight your living room color design. Go through the article to know the latest paint color trends for walls to update your living room.
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Green Color Paint
Green color imparts a fresh feel to your living room. You can make your living room relaxing by using green paint colors. It is better to use light hues of green color so that you feel comfortable in your living room. If you use a little amount of white or yellow color with green color paint, then it will give a dashing look to your living room. If you are a true lover of natural beauty, then you can add some fresh plants or flowers to accentuate your living room. Add wood furniture pieces to enhance the look of your living room interior.
Yellow Color Paint
Yellow color offers a welcoming look to the living room. When you apply yellow color paint in the living room, then it will give a haunting look to the interior theme. You can also apply yellow paint color in poorly lit foyers or dark hallways. You can try a medley of yellow and violet color which will give a superb contrast, but use one color as a dominating color and the other as an accent.
Blue Color Paint
For a cool and refreshing look, you can choose blue color paint. If you apply blue, red and yellow triadic color paint, then it will create a wonderful atmosphere in your living room. For a different feeling, you can use a tint of blue color paint with white color.
Brown Color Paint
Brown color paint gives a classy look to your living room. Mostly furniture such as wood furniture etc. comes in deep brown color. You can match this scheme with a dark green wall paper for a different look. The hues of brown and green paint get match with the natural wood accents. The contrast color paint looks pleasing to eyes.
Red Color Paint
If you want to add luxurious feeling to your living room, the red color paint works better. Red color paint gives you energy to do work throughout the day. But use red color paint either on one or two walls of your living room. If you use too much red color in your room, then you will definitely get feel restless after sometime. A combination of red and green color paint or green and black color paint looks fantastic but use one color as a dominating color and the other as an accent.
Grey Color Paint
For a modern and sober look, you can use grey color paint. Grey color is dull as well as cold. But for a different look, you can combine two or more colors paint from your living room scheme. Being a neutral color, you can combine grey color paint with almost any colors. You can try greyish yellow or red color paint to perk up the look of your living room interior. If you opt for simple furniture and accessories, then the modest grey color paint offers a graceful and sophisticated look to the living room.
Orange Color Paint
Orange color gives a warm feeling to your living room. But it is more friendly and welcoming color as compared to the red color. Orange color paint will absolutely add interest and zest to your living room design.
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You can paint one wall of your living room with a bold color and make this wall the focal point of the room. If you choose any contrast color for the rest walls of the room, then it will give a tempting look to your living room.
Avoid monotonous atmosphere of the living room by adding a few notes of energetic colors such as green or cobalt blue if you are using white color for decorating whole room.
Use energetic colors for furniture if you want to paint your living room with single soft tone such as off white.
Paint one wall with indigo, dragonfly green or scarlet color paint and use the same shade on a few accessories like flower pots or cushions to create a sense of continuity.
Never apply dark colors of paint for small rooms as they make the rooms look smaller.
Use soft color to make the space look larger.
You can create a serene and tranquil atmosphere by applying soft tones of blue with white, beige and ochre shades.
For a new look, you can add fresh flowers and plants to your living room.
Paint your ceiling with white color paint to maximize the sense of light and space.
Special lighting effects can change the entire atmosphere of your living room.
You can choose a table lamp with stained glass lampshade for providing an astonishing look.
To complement your living room style, you can place a large mirror with golden or silver metallic frame and try to match it with the rest color scheme.
If you are using your living room for multiple uses, then keep the overall effect neutral and add luxurious accessories when you want to make more of a splash.
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STOCKTON - Twelve months ago, it was abundantly clear Stockton was on its way to shattering the record for homicides in a single year.
STOCKTON - Twelve months ago, it was abundantly clear Stockton was on its way to shattering the record for homicides in a single year.
2012 ended with the violent deaths of 71 people - one killing almost every four days - the third-highest homicide rate in American large cities, behind only Detroit and Oakland.
But homicides in 2013 are down 60 percent and nonfatal injury shootings are down 50 percent.
What's happening here now, considered a multifaceted success story, was the focus Friday of a unique hearing in Stockton convened by the California Assembly Select Committee on Gun Violence in the East Bay.
The strong similarities between the violence occurring in Oakland and Stockton prompted the committee's chairman, Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, to invite Stockton's Democratic assemblywoman, Susan Talamantes Eggman, to join the committee. But she said she would accept only if Bonta agreed to hold a hearing in Stockton.
Eggman, a city councilwoman before she was elected to the Assembly in November, felt that perhaps Stockton's efforts at reducing violence - especially in light of its severe financial constraints - should be shared with the East Bay Area and the rest of California.
"In the city of Stockton, we have a history of guns and gangs. When we are looking at a model of what is working (to reduce violence), I think we have done very well," she said in opening up the hearing.
While scheduled testimony at the hearing came from a wide range of sources, one concept was constantly touted.
"There is a strong sense of collaboration and agreement in Stockton," Bonta said.
"What's notable here is that there was agreement on the themes. When you have that buy-in, it can be effective," he said after hearing from all the speakers.
One theme that stood out was the effort put into simple communications - often just one mentor taking the time to sit down with a violent offender, listen to their story, get to know them and their family, and discuss the risks they pose to themselves and their loved ones if they continue down a violent path.
"It is about building relationships," said Jaime Constantino, an outreach worker with Operation Peacekeeper, who spends his time going out onto the streets looking for gang members and at-risk youth. He helps them get back into school, get a job, even get their gang tattoos removed.
Peacekeeper coordinator Ken Praegitzer, a retired police officer, said it's not enough to just keep arresting people. "This is an outreach program to identify kids involved with guns, gangs and violence. We have six outreach workers who have identified over 1,000 kids," he said. "The important thing is that when these kids are ready to change their lives, we provide an avenue for services," including such things as anger management and counseling.
Another retired police officer, Ralph Womack, now on the Lodi Unified school board and head of the city's Operation Ceasefire, explained how the Ceasefire model has effectively identified the small group of violent offenders who are creating the most havoc. They recently came together during a voluntary "call-in."
"Some will get it and some won't. Now when we go to the call-in when some young men say they don't know how to get help, we have (the service providers) here. It isn't so much change as it is about getting them to put the guns down," Womack said.
"Many of these young men have children and have younger brothers. There needs to be a parallel effort for the next generation coming behind them," he said.
City Councilman Michael Tubbs addressed that same need, an effort to alter the path to violence by reaching children at an ever younger age.
He was struck by that dramatically when, last year, he spoke to a first-grade class in Stockton about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After King's assassination came up, one youngster noted that his own uncle got shot, and before Tubbs knew it, he learned that all 30 students had been affected by gun violence.
"Stockton is at a moment when we are finally turning a corner. I would like to thank those who are out on the streets. All of this is making a difference as to why homicides are down," Tubbs said.
Focusing on the successes of collaboration, Police Chief Eric Jones noted that circumstances converged in 2012 to move his department toward "a more progressive model." What's worked has been the pursuit of the worst violent offenders in the city, preventing them from reoffending, predicting when and where crimes might occur, and partnering with county, state and federal agencies as well as the community. Jones calls it his "Four P's" strategy.
"We are the most understaffed police department in the nation considering our population and the type of crime we have," he said. "We also know that a high, visible police presence can deter crime."
He noted that many city residents "really felt under siege in 2010 and 2011. Working with the California Highway Patrol helped us take back the streets."
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Back in a former life, I was really into radio and music. Such an existence calls for many lists of rankings: "Best albums of 2004", "All time greatest soul singers", "Worst album covers of the 1980s". And, although I love a list as much as the next person, I tend to find lists appalling. Why?…


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Milk & Cookies, the Aquarium & More
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Most people day dream on breaking into the hunting industry and making hunting their job. It is a lottery dream, and only a lucky few who have the drive and determination to "make it" ever make it. They get discouraged and they give up. I never have been much of a quitter. I am definitely a dreamer. Always have been and will be. In order for dreams to come true you cannot be a quitter. If one door closes, look for another. Successful people don't quit and turn bad experiences better.
I have been a wildlife photographer for over 20 years. Every year I take a trip to Colorado to photograph monster mule deer on their winter range. Big mule deer have always been my favorite subject and November's deer rut is always a welcome break from working in the office. While I was relaxing on my uncle Brent's couch, my wife called and asked me what kind of bucks I was seeing. I had heard about a new website called Facebook and decided to look into to it.I "Googled" it, signed up for an account and bounced around the website. After much trial and error, I was able to create a fan page, called it the Big Buck Club and upload a few images. I immediately called my wife and told her to go check out the new images. She responded by "Becoming a Fan" (now the equivalent of "Liking" the page). Her friends saw that she was a Fan and some of them became Fans and started to follow my adventures with a camera. It wasn't long before I had 500 Fans. I was amazed that these people were interested in what I was doing. Still not realizing what was about to happen.
Over time I continued to grow-sometimes spending 4 hours a day on Facebook, creating new images, and asking my fans questions. I quickly learned interactive posts were one of the keys to making my posts and pics go "viral". Fans starting coming to the Big Buck Club and the page started to explode organically.
One of the keys to building a fan page on Facebook is to always ask a question rather than make a comment. Questions evoke responses. Responses create more interactions and lead to their friends seeing their comments. People are curious and want to click and see what their friend is talking about so they visit the page. If they Like it, they join the club and continue getting club updates and pics.
I remember one day my wife walked into my office and asked me what I was doing. I told her I was "working" on Facebook. She said, "Do I have anything to worry about?…you are spending a lot of time on Facebook". I said, "No". I went on to tell her-stealing the line from Kevin Costner's movie Field of Dreams-that if I build it they will come.
That has always been my goal with the Big Buck Club. I am not a movie star or own a large corporation able to pay Facebook $1,000's of each month to advertise and build fan page following. I knew If I was able to build a huge fan base that doors would begin to open and opportunities would present themselves. After a lot of hard work, determination and perseverance, 3 years later we have grown to over 586,000 fans/hunters. I simply learned how Facebook virility works, have thousands of big buck pictures to post and I understand hunters like to look at. Trophy pictures are what they want.
The Big Buck Club is literally jammed packed with thousands of hunting photos from hunters from North America. The fan has grown into one of the largest hunting pages on Facebook. Go check it out at www.facebook.com/thebigbuckclub. You can also checkout our latest project called the BOOK-the Official Hunting Yearbook at www.BradGarfield.com The BOOK is the first State by State Hunting Yearbook and is a photo essay with captions of trophies taken in each State and Province.https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/big-game-club/id489249288?ls=1&mt=8