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This is the fourth consecutive year that Ricoh has been listed in the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World", known as the "Global 100".
Starting in 2005, Corporate Knights Inc. of Canada has selected the top 100 corporations in the world every year by evaluating the sustainability of more than 1,800 large corporations in all business sectors based on research and analysis of data provided by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors Inc. in USA. The 2008 Global 100 was announced on January 23, timed to coincide with the first day of the Annual General Meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland. The companies selected for the Global 100 were analyzed in detail, compared to their industry peers, and evaluated as the global corporations with the best-developed abilities to effectively manage environmental, social and governance risks. Achievement in these three areas, which significantly influences their business results, has been evaluated as a key indicator of management quality and long-term financial performance.
Among the world's leading corporations, Ricoh's aggressive environmental conservation activities along with its long-term vision extending to 2050, was highly regarded. While the rigorous selection process caused more than one third of the Global 100 corporations to be replaced between 2007 and 2008, Ricoh has the honor of being included in the list four times in a row.
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Spring horseracing begins April 5 at Keeneland
Spring horseracing begins April 5 at Keeneland
LEXINGTON, Ky. —
The spring horseracing season in Kentucky begins next week with the opening of Keeneland in Lexington.
The 2013 spring race meeting begins April 5 and goes for 16 days. The signature race is the 89th running of the $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass, a Grade-one stakes race that is a springboard to the Kentucky Derby.
The Toyota Blue Grass is scheduled for April 13.
Keeneland will conduct racing Wednesday through Sunday except for the final week. The last day of the meet is Friday, April 26.
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PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande says he has no information to share about his private life, amid speculation that he could soon formalize his supposed relationship with a French actress.
Hollande broke up in January with his partner Valerie Trierweiler amid reports he was having an affair with actress Julie Gayet, which he has never denied.
A recent book by French journalist Yves Azeroual suggested Hollande's relationship with Gayet could become official this summer.
For the first time since the book was released, Hollande was asked Monday whether he would remain without a first lady until the end of his term.
"Private life must stay private life," he said. "When I have information to share, I will. But I don't have any."
Hollande, who has four children, has never been married.


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This quantitative experiment involves lab teams in comparing a sample of room air with one of the greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or methane - and measuring their heat capacity. The activity requires an infrared heat source, such... (View More) as a heat lamp, two 2L beverage bottles, #4 one hole rubber stoppers, and a thermometer or temperature probe, volumetric flasks, a graduated cylinder, and tubing. Nitrous oxide can be obtained from a dentist, methane from gas jets in a chemistry lab, and becomes CO² can be generated using vinegar and baking soda. A worksheet guides student calculations of heat capacity of the different samples. The investigation s is supported by the textbook, Climate Change, part of the Global System Science, an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
This activity demonstrates Newton's Second Law (F=ma), and helps show the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. Students sit on a skateboard in a sling shot configuration, and are accelerated down the hall. Potential energy from the... (View More) inner tubes (sling shot) is converted into kinetic energy. Materials required for the demonstration include 10 bicycle inner tubes, a helmet, skateboard, stopwatch, and a spring scale. Formulas and a worksheet are provided. The investigation supports material presented in chapter 1, "What is energy?" in the textbook Energy flow, part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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Highway 66
For Okies, the most meaningful story of how the interstate highways impacted existing highways has to be that of "The Mother Road," "America's Mainstreet," Highway 66.
Highway 66
For Okies, the most meaningful story of how the interstate highways impacted existing highways has to be that of "The Mother Road," "America's Mainstreet," Highway 66. In 1921, Cyrus Avery, owner of a service station 7 miles east of downtown Tulsa, was elected head of the Associated Highways Association of America [AHAA]. Three years later he led the AHAA to recommend to the feds the creation of a system of interstate routes. Avery was asked to lead the effort to designate the most important interstate highways. He was responsible for designating the route from Chicago to Santa Monica, the Great Lakes to the Pacific, U.S. Highway 66.
As the interstate system came to reality at the end of WWII, Clinton barber Jack Cutberth was elected head of the Main Street of America Highway Association [MSAHA] to promote the interests of Route 66 and other highways bypassed by the new interstate highways.
Originally, the interstates were supposed to be constructed in 12 years. But, it was built incrementally, one town at a time bypassed by construction. (Oklahoma law specified that no project could exceed 7 miles with the result being all my projects were 6.99 miles. The idea was to pass around construction contracts to persons favored by local politicians.)
Bypassing towns destroyed businesses along the highway being bypassed, energizing the affected owners and their politicians to delay being "bypassed." The last stretch of highway 66 was wasn't bypassed until 1984. [*]
My first job out of OU in 1958 was as an appraiser for the Oklahoma Highway Department [OHD]. In September 1959 I was staying in the Calmez Hotel in Clinton while appraising land for the stretch of I-40 that would "bypass" U.S. 66 from Weatherford to Clinton.
I ate all my meals at Pop Hicks Restaurant. Every evening when the sun blinded west-bound truck drivers, they would park for blocks east of downtown and come into Pop's for dinner and coffee. There I caught up on the gossip about how the interstate was affecting the locals.
One tale described how a rancher west of town had his modest frame house moved directly into the right-of-way, had it clad in brick, then demanded an extortionate price, which OHD refused to pay. The rancher appealed to Governor Gary who was reported to have acceded to his demands. Hearing of this deal, many owners from El Reno to Sweetwater also refused to sell for the appraised value—preferring instead to go to trial in hopes of obtaining a similar deal.
One owner claimed his parcel downtown had commercial value. Seeing his land under red water from the nearby Washita River after a heavy rain , I snapped a few pictures with my new Graflex 35mm camera. He too went to trial, giving testimony that his land wasn't in the flood plain. OHD lawyers used my slides to prevail.
At the time, the heart of the African American community in Clinton was a single East-West street. OHD officials placed the center line of the right-of-way down the center line of their street, effectively wiping out much of their community. Accident? Who knows.
Rumor had it that powerful political forces in Clinton prevailed with state officials to delay I-40 bypassing downtown Clinton for a decade.
Following our move in 1968 to Ann Arbor, Mich., I was to observe the effect of the interstate highway system on Detroit. The interstates relieved congestion by eliminating half its people. Departing residents were those with jobs and cars to commute to them. Those left behind had no jobs, cars, or public transportation. The city was described in this morning's paper as, "83% African-American, fighting for survival in bankruptcy court, and with residents exasperated by high taxes, poor public services, blight, unemployment, and crime." * Forty percent of the city's 139 square miles are back to vacant lots. A hopeful sign: yesterday voters elected a white mayor on the basis of his business ability rather than his party, race or union ties.
The "Giving"
Fed-Ex has revived Memphis, making their airport the second busiest in the world and employing 10,000 to move 1.5 million packages each night. Likewise, UPS has created 9 percent of jobs in its hub, Louisville. Both businesses move packages by land over interstates.**
The "Taking"
OHD appraisers subtracted the estimated value of an owner's land after the new highway clipped or severed it from its fair market value before and tried to settle without going to court under the doctrine of eminent domain. Presumably, owners were thus fully paid for the "taking."
But, an owner forced out of business lost more than his real estate, he lost his or her job, and identity in the community. For every business in the right-of-way who was compensated, there were scores of others outside who were almost as injured by diversion of the traffic outside the community. In Detroit, the interstates effectively took the lives of huge numbers.
• Michael Wallis, "Route 66," NY: St. Martin's Press1990. Compliments of Shawnee historian, Dr. W.M. [Bill] Hogan.
• The Economist, Nov.2, 20`13.
• USA Today, Nov. 6, 2013.


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This page is being used to collate information on how people can add extensions to Tuscany to provide new functions such as support for different implementation languages or network bindings. Once we're happy with the documentation we will transfer this to the main project website.
General Principles
We wanted to make sure that Tuscany could be extended in simple but flexible way. To that end, we based the extension model on the SCA Assembly Model itself and allow extensions to be contributed as Module Fragments. Each fragment contains an XML file containing part of an SCA assembly which can be used to define components and wire them together. This guide assumes familiarity with the SCA Assembly Model.
To separate extension code from application code, we introduced a "system" implementation type for components. This "system" type supports Java components in a way that is similar to the Java programming model from the specification but with a few additional privileges that let them become part of the runtime. For more details on "system" components, including what privileges and limitations they have, please check out /SystemComponents
To extend Tuscany, you simply add system components into the assembly that defines the runtime. This adds functionality, functionality that can be used to support a new programming language for components, new ways of communicating in and out of the system, new services that can be made available to applications, anything really ...
In practice, there are a few well defined types of extension that people typically want to add:
new types of implementations for application components such as JavaScript
new services that can be provided to applications such as a database connection pool
Many of these extensions need to integrate into the process that is used to deploy application components. For example, when a user uses a new implementation type in their assembly file, the extension that provides that new implementation needs to be activated during deployment so that it can create the component they defined.
More detailed information on the general deployment process can be found in /DeploymentProcess but in brief there are three touchpoints where extensions need to interact with it:
by contributing a component that can extract configuration information from an XML stream
by contributing a component that can build contexts that represent application components
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Informed by a tradition of Quaker values, Earlham College provides an educational and working environment from which extraordinary lives begin. Through our interdisciplinary-minded and research-focus education, our open governance and our values, we form a community of Earlhamites — global citizens of strong moral character who see the world with broad, inquisitive minds.
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Our research is predicated on the notion of motor primitives, simple mechanisms that facilitate control and perception for humanoid robots. Specifically, we argue that simple movement primitives exist that serve as the basis for complex movements. By encoding frequently used movements into special data structures, primitives can perform tasks much faster than planning-based methods for controlling humanoid robots. Additionally, primitives provide a means for classifying human and humanoid robot movements.
We define a motion primitive as a system for generating joint-space or operational space trajectories that is bounded by time polynomial in both the number of degrees-of-freedom (DOF) of the robot and the number of obstacles in the environment. Primitives are given the current state and kinematic goal(s) of the robot as well as the state of the environment. A motor primitive is capable of generating an uncountably infinite number of trajectories.
We have implemented a system for forming trajectories from a vocabulary of
motor primitives. A interpolation mechanism is used to mix exemplars of
motion in a non-linear manner. The parameters that drive the interpolator
are intuitively chosen to map from the state and goals of the
robot and state of the environment to viable motion. The image below
shows a single DOF of a motor primitive for a boxing jab parameterized by
target position in Cartesian space. Note the two exemplars as well as the
novel trajectory produced by interpolating evenly between them.
We have developed a movement classifier that aims to improve communication between humans and humanoids via motion. The classifier, which receives human or humanoid joint-angle data as input, uses Bayesian techniques to categorize that input into a motor primitive. These motor primitives are parametric, kinematic models of human and humanoid movement.
Modeling movement has several advantages, especially with regard to classification. Movement models can be transformed into probability distributions over joint-space. As joint-space primitives are multi-dimensional, the overlap between two primitive-derived probability distributions is generally very small. This separability naturally leads to good classification performance.
Some primitive-derived probability distributions do overlap a bit. For example, a semi-supinated jabbing punch and a pulling motion may appear to be the same movement, if a snapshot of the motion is all that is considered. For this reason, it is preferable to use temporal data. Our classifier is able to utilize the temporal dependencies inherent in the motion models to better classify data.
The two images below illustrate the separability phenomenon for two dissimilar punching movements. Samples are taken from only three of the twelve dimensions of the primitives, and are then plotted. The image on the left illustrates the distribution of joint-angles for one primitive. Denser areas indicate higher frequency in joint-space. The image on the right shows the same image, slightly rotated, and superimposed onto another primitive. Even though both primitives are punching movements, the dissimilarities between the models result in a marked difference between the two distributions. Overlap between the two distributions does exist, but typically decreases exponentially with the active number of degrees-of-freedom employed for classification. Additionally, temporal dependencies are not utilized in these plots, and, would improve separation dramatically
in situ.
This work is supported by DARPA Grant 5-39509-Aunder the Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS 2020) program via the NASA subcontract grant NAG9-1444 and in part by the ONR MURI Grant (with UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Caltech).
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McDermott Bridge #18May 23. 2013 3:07PM
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Langdon, NH
Three bridges previously stood on the site of the McDermott Bridge, which is also known as the Cold River Bridge. They were built in 1790, 1814 and 1840 and were all of the pole and plank type. Sandford Granger owned a sawmill on Fall Mountain Brook from 1838 until 1851. Virgin timber removed from the mountain was used in the construction of his bridges. The current structure was built by his son Albert S. Granger. The current bridge is braced by cables and is only open to foot traffic.
Year of Construction: - 1869
Original Cost: - $450
North of N.H. Route 123A, two miles north of Alstead Village in Langdon.
Town lattice truss with light arches. The bridge is 81'0" long with a clear span of 76'0". It has an overall width of 16'6" with a roadway width of 12'1" and a maximum vertical clearance of 11'1". It is braced by cables attached to the new highway bridge which bypassed it in 1964. It is now used for foot traffic only.


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Inter-related sediment trap studies at 9-10°N East Pacific Rise: Larval Transport and Hydrothermal Plume Biogeochemistry
DOEI Funded Research: 2008
AbstractAt mid-ocean ridges, hydrothermal activity discharges chemically-enriched fluids from the seafloor that sustain vibrant and enigmatic biological communities reliant upon the chemical energy available from these systems for life. While individual hydrothermal systems and their inter-relationships with the geologic processes that underpin them and the biologic communities that they host are becoming increasingly well understood, a novel line of research asks: what are the relationships between these seafloor hydrothermal systems and the wider deep ocean? That is the focus of this study.
To conduct such research we have chosen to collaborate at a particularly well characterized vent-area on the East Pacific Rise which, over the past 10-15 years, has become probably the best understood and characterized seafloor hydrothermal field worldwide. Globally, it is believed that, on-average, the entire volume of the world's oceans must be cycled through hot, recently formed oceanic crust at Mid-Ocean Ridges every 10 Million years. Consequently, because the fluids emitted from hydrothermal vents then mix with seawater in turbulent plumes that dilute the fluid in a ratio of ~10,000:1, it follows that the entire volume of the ocean must be mixed through these plumes every thousand years or so. This is the same time-scale for circulation of deepwater around the floor of all the world's deep ocean basins. At any given vent-site we know that the chemical reactions in hydrothermal plumes both modify the chemical fluxes from the vent-fluids (through precipitation) and impact broader chemical ocean budgets (some chemical species become enriched from vent-input, others are removed from seawater through reactions with the vent-products). Consequently, we suspect that processes in hydrothermal plumes may impact global-scale ocean chemical budgets.
We also recognize that the processes in hydrothermal plumes are not purely abiotic. Larvae from hydrothermal communities at the seafloor must disperse away from the source to colonize new sites and also to re-populate sites (as at EPR 9-10°N) after they have been disrupted by episodic eruption events. These recolonization events have the potential to change the community structure from that which existed prior to the eruption. On much smaller length scales, even the plume-particles previously described as minerals or chemical precipitates should more accurately be described as suspended biofilms that support a previously overlooked host of microbial life.
To begin to investigate the significance of plume-processes to the global ocean we have deployed a series of time series sample-collection devices (sediment traps) nested within an array of instruments that measured the flow along and across the EPR mid-ocean ridge over a 12 month period (21 samples from each of 5 different depths and locations). We are now ready to begin to analyze these samples using state-of-the-art biological and geochemical techniques so that, when coupled with the corresponding physical circulation data (already funded as a separate study), we can start to elucidate the impact of this specific hydrothermal system on the wider, open, deep-ocean.


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Patch: Bounty placed on carp in Little Muskego Lake
Patch: Bounty placed on carp in Little Muskego Lake
MUSKEGO, Wis. —
A bounty has been placed on fish, according to WISN 12 News' media partners at the Muskego Patch.
The Department of Natural Resources officials wants fishermen to remove as many carp as possible from Little Muskego Lake.
So DNR officials caught several of the carp, tagged them, and put them back into the lake.
Anyone who catches one of the specially-tagged carp will win $500.
The carp are considered an invasive species, which can damage the lake's ecosystem.
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In 1903 Henry Huntington purchased the "San Marino Ranch," a working ranch with citrus groves, nut and fruit orchards, alfalfa crops, a small herd of cows, and poultry. His superintendent, William Hertrich, was instrumental in developing the various plant collections which comprise the foundation of the botanical gardens. The property—originally nearly 600 acres—today covers 207 acres, of which approx. 120 are landscaped and open to visitors. Over 14,000 different varieties of plants are showcased in 14 principal garden areas.
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In two weeks time, as Claire Underwood puts it, you'll be heading to the ballot box, or more specifically, heading to binge on the latest House Of Cards season.
Within the state of the political agenda, it looks as if Frank and Claire just want to keep you safe. But why does it feel like it's more sinister than that?
The season begins May 30 on Netflix, be sure to mark your calendars.
House of Cards | A Message From the Underwood Administration | Netflix
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The dollar rose against most major peers amid demand for safety as euro-area services and manufacturing output contracted and the U.S. prepared to issue a report forecast to show the unemployment rate rose.
The greenback extended a gain versus the yen after a private report showed U.S. employers added fewer workers last month. The European Central Bank meets tomorrow. Australia's dollar slid to the least in almost a month after the nation had its widest trade deficit since 2008 and data showed China's services industry expanded the least in more than a year.
"The numbers that have come out of the U.S., Europe and China over the last two weeks have been, on balance, disappointing," Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist in New York at Bank of New York Mellon Corp., said in a telephone interview. "The market is beginning to price a further downgrade in the outlook for each of those three regions."
The dollar rose 0.4 percent to 78.50 yen at 10:07 a.m. New York time and touched 78.54 yen, the highest since Sept. 19. It gained 0.2 percent to $1.2896 per euro. The 17-nation currency rose 0.3 percent to 101.22 yen.
The Dollar Index, which tracks the U.S. currency against those of six major trading partners, rose 0.3 percent to 79.97, snapping a two-day decline.
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Implied volatility, which signals the expected pace of currency swings, was at almost a five-year low. It was 7.78 percent, after touching 7.73 percent on Sept. 28, the least since October 2007, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. index for the currencies of Group-of-Seven nations showed. Lower volatility makes investments in currencies with higher benchmark lending rates more attractive because the risk in such trades is that market moves will erase profit.
Private employers in the U.S. increased payrolls by 162,000 workers in September following a revised 189,000 jump in August, figures from Roseland, New Jersey-based ADP Employer Services showed today. The median forecast of 38 economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected a 140,000 advance.
A U.S. Labor Department report on Oct. 5 may show private payrolls increased by 128,000 in September and unemployment rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent the prior month, according to a Bloomberg survey. The jobless rate has been stuck above 8 percent since February 2009.
The dollar remained higher versus most major counterparts even after the Institute for Supply Management's index of U.S. non-manufacturing businesses, which covers about 90 percent of the economy, rose. It increased to 55.1 in September from the prior month's 53.7, the Tempe, Arizona-based group said today. A Bloomberg News survey forecast 53.4.
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A strain of mobile malware targeting Symbian-based phones is "actively infecting" a small number of smartphones, according to security vendor Fortinet.
The worm, dubbed Beselo-A, is capable of infecting Symbian S60 devices including, but not limited to, a range of Nokia smartphones (Nokia 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610, N70, and N72 handsets). The malware is disguised as a multimedia file with names such as Beauty.jpg, Sex.mp3, or Love.rm. Installing these files on devices running Symbian results in an infected smartphone.
After infection, the worm harvests phone numbers located in a user's contacts lists and targets them with a viral MMS message carrying a SIS-packed (Symbian Installation Source) version of the worm. The malware also sends itself to mobile numbers located in China and to a particular mobile phone operator.
If this is part of a money making scam then it's a well disguised one. Fortinet reports that some of these numbers have been verified to belonging to actual customers, rather than being associated with premium rate numbers.
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The Peggy V. Helmerich Library opened on February 10, 1991. The library was named for Mrs. Helmerich, a major supporter of the Tulsa City County Library, The Tulsa Library Trust and Library Commissioner. The expansion from 9,800 square feet to 14,200 square feet was completed in 2003. The grounds are covered with trees and seasonal plants offering library users a park-like setting. The landscape is enhanced with sculptures encouraging the love of reading: Teaching Teddy by Ramon Parmenter; Legacy of Literature by Tulsa sculptor Rosalind Cook; and Little Bookworms bronze sculpture.
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Ark of the Sun God (IT - DVD)
Gabe's pretty sure that David Warbeck could've whipped Harrison Ford's ass
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David Warbeck is Rick Spear, a world renowned safecracker who accepts the impossible task of breaking into the Ark of the Sun God. Soon both he and his lovely girlfriend (Susie Sudlow) are in grave danger, attacked from every side by friends and foes alike as they travel to Istanbul to retrieve a magical sceptre that once belonged to the God Gilgamesh.
I find genuine joy in grindhouse rip-offs, specifically those of the Italian persuasion, and I understand fully that this joy is unnatural. The recent rise in cult interest DVD releases has been a virtual Godsend in feeding this unnatural joy, as most of the companies specializing in this sort of thing are finally running out of gory horror movies and moving on to different genres. I was specifically attracted to Ark of the Sun God (aka: Il Sopravvissuti della città morta ) for three reasons: one, Raiders of the Lost Ark is ripe for mimic, two, David Warbeck was the best poor man's every actor living in Italy, and three, Antonio Margheriti never fails to deliver the low budget entertainment.
The Raiders of the Lost Ark angle isn't quite as obvious as one would assume from the director, release date, lead actor, or country of origin. Ark of the Sun God is obviously 'inspired' by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas' Saturday Matinee throw back, but it doesn't lift the plot or style as specifically as I'd expected. The film features more nods to James Bond than Indiana Jones, and more than a few hat tips to Mario Bava's Diabolik and the original Thomas Crowne Affair. The Raiders elements (temple raiding, snake pits, etc.) don't really kick in until the final thirty minutes.
Warbeck's resemblance to Roger Moore is more than passing. Moore was, of course, the man with two '0s' and a tux to his name at the time. The Bond influences come on heavy during the film's first half. Warbeck's gentlemen thief is a bit annoying early on, but once he gets into a groove his natural charm and tough guy grit are a decent substitute for the young Harrison Ford.
This isn't Margheriti's finest work (apparently he made two other Raiders rip-offs), but it's quite clear he was working with major budget limitations. The scale of the script is just too big for the budget, unlike the director's superior Last Hunter, which could hide its budgetary restrictions with its effectively cheap jungle sets. The Last Hunter script is also just generally more interesting. Margheriti is good and finding the charm in cheap set pieces, but his jarring scene-to-scene cuts are really strange, though not entirely uncommon considering his usual style. The film is entertaining and it moves very quickly, but it never crosses the line into the memorable, save some genuinely clever one liners ("If we English were all impeccable gentlemen Great Britain would still be a Roman province").
The unintentional laughs come hard and fast as well. The cheese begins with a wild and dangerous car chase towards the end of the first act. Margheriti's skills are just polished enough to cover the fact that every dangerous stunt is performed by RC cars for about a minute. The give away is the model train set. Later our heroes fly a helicopter over a miniature set, which includes a swastika shaped mountain range, and land in the Spanish desert. Then a villain rolls a particularly small stone wheel at them, in direct homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark's giant boulder incident. A second miniature car chase is slightly more effective, as is the actual temple set, though we only spend a few minutes inside it.
This Italian DVD release is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, and is overall acceptable considering the source material. The image is a bit on the warm side, and the warmth often invades the transfer's darkest corners, which I wouldn't hazard to refer to as 'blacks'. Artefacts flicker about the frame with regularity, and grain is heavy, specifically in darker scenes. The transfer's biggest problems are video compression effects, like cross colouration noise, blocking, and some interlacing effects. Details aren't too bad though, as long as the frame is relatively bright, but sometimes high contrast flares out far off faces and backgrounds.
The disc carries no English subtitles, so I was forced to watch the film in 2.0 English Mono, rather then the revamped 5.1 Italian. This was fine, however, because the majority of lead actors are actually speaking English. A small sampling the 5.1 track after finishing the feature was unimpressive. Effectively it's almost identical to the Mono track. The English track is flat, and sound levels are inconsistent, but the audio is generally clean and without distortion. Both Italian tracks crackle and pop like a scratched record.
The menu and seller xploitedcinema.com both claim that Italian subtitles are forced while listening to the English track. The disc does prohibit audio and subtitle track switching while watching the feature, but those with auto play abilities and functions set to the correct specifications (automatically selecting English audio and turning off subtitles) may be able to beat the problem.
The only extras are an Italian trailer and Margheriti's biography, which is written entirely in Italian.
Ark of the Sun God is only a minor film in Margheriti and Warbeck's canons, but decent action, some funny dialogue, and some unintentionally cheesy moments make it an entertaining ninety-seven minutes. At the very least, it's just as entertaining as the recent Mummy series, and genuinely better then The Scorpion King. Watch it for John Steiner's fey butler (lover?) badass turn towards the end alone. He sneaks up and shoots up the bad guys, helps the heroes escape, and finds the time to whip out an umbrella to protect his 'master' from falling ash. The theme song's a keeper too.
You can find and many other Italian action rip off favs at Xploitedcinema.com. Check them out and support my sponsor.
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I agree, Warbeck was a very good actor and deserved far more recognition than he got. It's such a shame that he is no longer with us. He should have had many more years left in him. Truly a loss.
Nice review, Gabe!
The late, great Mr Warbeck was such a dynamic & charismatic guy, yet he was so unassuming and utterly charming to meet in person - we ran into him a couple of times during the 90's.
He is sadly missed, but at least his movies are really seeing the light of day on DVD, so he'll always be around.
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The late, great Mr Warbeck was such a dynamic & charismatic guy, yet he was so unassuming and utterly charming to meet in person - we ran into him a couple of times during the 90's.
He is sadly missed, but at least his movies are really seeing the light of day on DVD, so he'll always be around.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 1st January 1995
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono English
Subtitles: English, Italian
Extras: Cast Bios, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: David Warbeck, John Steiner, Susie Sudlow
Genre: Adventure
Length: 98 minutes
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by Manuela Braun
From the ground, the famous Nazca lines in Peru don't look like much. It is only when you look at them from a height that the mysterious drawings on the stony desert floor come to life. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), TerraSAR-X radar satellite has seen them from space, providing a new view of this 2000-year-old World Heritage Site.
The geoglyphs show up as dark grooves in the ground in the vicinity of the small town of Palpa – which can be seen as a set of lighter dots in the picture. They can be seen on the radar images as a dark cross. The desert surface in this area normally consists of loose, rough stony ground, but in some areas this stony cover, coated with a black 'desert lacquer', is missing. In such areas we can see the lighter, finer under-surface. The stone heaps can be seen as a low wall at the edges of the clearings. The picture also clearly shows the town of Llipata to the south, as well as the Pan Americana highway, running as a narrow black line through green fields and the reddish stony desert. The dry bed of the Rio Viscas, through which water flows for only four to six weeks a year, runs almost parallel to the highway.
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It is not known why the Nazcas created these geoglyphs. It is most likely that these areas were used by the Nazcas as ritual grounds," says Dr Jussi Baade, Professor of Physical Geography at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena). How these grounds may have looked back then is being debated. The lines have many different forms: those in the Palpa valley are mostly geometrical, like the lines in the picture, while those in the Pampa de Nazca, 15 to 20 km to the South, depict a man, an ape and a hummingbird. UNESCO designated the Nazca geoglyphs a World Heritage Site in 1994, declaring the desert glyphs a unique testimony to a long lost culture and a masterpiece of human creativity.
TerraSAR-X shows changes in the landscape
The TerraSAR-X image of the Palpa valley is composed of two images taken with an interval of 11 days in October 2008. "You can clearly see that the surface of the land has changed during the period", says geomorphologist Baade. Areas that have changed the most are coloured dark green – these are mostly cultivated fields or areas with vegetation. Red areas have not changed during the time between the two pictures. The glyphs are especially unchanged, since the Peruvian desert is extremely dry. "On average, the region only experiences 10 mm precipitation every year." Erosion due to flowing water is thus almost unheard of. For scientists, the Nazca glyphs are of value primarily as a reference surface: "It helps us determine the effect on the surface roughness with radar very precisely." The scientists use TerraSAR-X to investigate how the dry valleys change from year to year, and how this is related to climate events such as El Nino. "For a geomorphologist like me, the radar images from TerraSAR-X are absolutely fascinating."


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Powell Broadcasting is pleased to announce that Terry "Woody" Gottburg has been hired as News Director of 1360 KSCJ Radio. Gottburg has over 30 years experience in radio and tv news broadcasting and announcing in the Sioux City metro area. He has previously served as news and sports director at other local radio stations, as well as news assignment editor at all three Sioux City tv stations.
He began his career in 1978 as play by play announcer for the Sioux City Musketeers USHL hockey team, and also was their home game public address announcer for several years. He was hired by Waitt Broadcasting in 1999 to help KMEG TV restart their local news operation and served as their assignment editor for over a decade.
Gottburg, a life long Sioux City resident, is married with two sons. He has a degree in Business Administration from Morningside College. He is a board member of the Sioux City Museum and Historical Association. He is past president of the Sioux City Jaycees and also volunteers as a little league baseball and Upward Basketball coach.


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Oracle Corp. is putting the finishing touches on an upgrade to its flagship database that is designed for use on computer grids, giving users higher levels of scalability and management, according to early beta testers.
Oracle 10G, which will be unveiled at OracleWorld in San Francisco Sept. 7, sets the style for computing that will eventually incorporate diverse data elements--including everything from e-mail to mobile devices and enterprise applications--that are distributed across a grid of interconnected servers. Early grid-computing components in the update include integrated messaging, heightened scalability and speed, and self-storage management capabilities.
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Bookstore Finds Novel Ways to Succeed as an Independent
Pete Mulvihill's David and Goliath tale is the stuff of fiction.
Mr. Mulvihill is a co-owner of Green Apple Books, an independent bookstore known for its business savvy and staying power in a shrinking industry. After more than four decades, Green Apple has become a fixture in San Francisco's Richmond neighborhood, with its familiar green awnings and battered wood floors that creak with every step.


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Naples High School receiver/cornerback Tyler Byrd gave his verbal commitment to the Gators as an athlete.
Florida coach Will Muschamp is always looking ahead, whether it be for potential coaching hires or future football prospects.
He got an early start on his 2016 recruiting class Thursday when Naples High School receiver/cornerback Tyler Byrd gave his verbal commitment to the Gators as an athlete.
The 5-foot-11, 185-pounder earned an offer from Muschamp on Saturday after camping at UF.
"Once I got the opportunity to play for them, I didn't need to waste any time," the 16-year-old said.
"They're my childhood team. So I called (Florida defensive coordinator) D.J. Durkin, the person who recruits my area, and he put me on the phone with coach Muschamp. He told me he's excited for me to be a Gator."
With three years of high school still left to play and his recruiting process just beginning, Byrd will inevitably receive more interest and scholarship offers down the road. And although he may check out some other schools, Byrd doesn't plan on changing his mind.
"I might look around just a little," he said, "but I'm definitely on board with Florida 100 percent."
Byrd rushed eight times for 103 yards, and caught 17 passes for 451 yards and eight touchdowns last season. He also starred in track as a long jumper.


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The crews of Discovery and the International Space Station will spend a final full day today packing the Leonardo cargo module on the station before they detach Leonardo from the complex Saturday night and secure it in the Shuttle payload bay for the trip home.
The crew was awakened to the Irish song "The Rising of the Moon" performed by The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem, selected for Discovery's Pilot Jim Kelly by his family in honor of St. Patrick's Day tomorrow.
Two more full days of joint work remain before Discovery is scheduled to undock from the complex Sunday night. Tonight, in addition to packing work, Commander Jim Wetherbee will perform a third and final reboost of the station's altitude, gently firing the shuttle's small steering jets to raise the spacecraft by a little over two statute miles. Altogether, Discovery will leave the station a little more than seven miles higher than when it arrived.
Wetherbee, Kelly, Paul Richards and Andy Thomas will take a break from other activities to field questions from NBC News' Weekend Today Show and ABC News at 5:20 a.m. Saturday. An hour later, at 6:22 a.m., Cosmonauts Yury Usachev, commander of the second International Space Station crew, Yuri Gidzenko, pilot of the first station crew, and Sergei Krikalev, flight engineer for the first station crew, will field questions from media gathered at the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside Moscow.
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Endangered Lost River and short-nose sucker fish in Oregon's Klamath Basin may get some relief, now that the Modoc Point Irrigation District has voted to remove the Chiloquin dam and re-establish access to spawning habitat on the Sprague River, a tributary of the Klamath. The Interior Department will foot the $15-to-$16 million bill to take out the dam and replace it with irrigation pumps. Meanwhile, PacifiCorp continues to drag its feet on removing its four hydropower dams on the Lower Klamath: It wants to truck salmon around the dams.


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This blog post was originally written for Jeanne Meister's blog on Forbes.com.Since the news broke that some employers now ask job applicants for their social media passwords, most coverage has focused on the perceived invasion of applicants' privacy.
But this practice isn't just creepy and illegal in some states, such as Maryland and Illinois; it's also a bad business move.
Here are four ways asking for passwords can harm your company in the long run and what to do instead.
1. You'll lose top talent.
The reaction to this phenomenon has been clear enough: applicants do not want to give up their privacy. "It would be a total non-starter for me," says Michael Aleo, 26, creative director for a California start-up. "I don't have any content on Facebook that I wouldn't show to a prospective employer, but asking for personal login information is crossing the line."
And the company that requests access will not only lose applicants' respect but also miss out on talent. According to the Cisco "Connected World Technology Report," a global survey of nearly 3,000 college students and young professionals, 40% would accept a lower-paying job that offered flexibility regarding the choice of devices to use at work, access to external social media and ability to work remotely, over a higher-paying job with less flexibility.
Giving smart employees the opportunity to work as they wish seems like a small price to pay for obtaining top talent.
2. It's a PR disaster waiting to happen.
All it takes is a glance at Glassdoor.com or Vault.com to see just how much employees and job-hunters share about the job interview process these days – and that's just on a couple of many virtual platforms. Word spreads quickly among the outraged, and an unpopular interview policy will turn off prospective future hires, as well as current candidates.
3. It shows a lack of understanding of what is important to Millennials.
70 per cent of college students and young professionals are already in the habit of "friending" their colleagues, superiors or both on Facebook, according to Cisco's report. So a human resources department that asks for passwords during the interview process not only appears out of touch, it sacrifices a permanent spot in employees' "friend" zones in favour of becoming Big Brother.
Enlightened recruiters at companies know that building personal and professional networks is a sign of a high-performing professional, not an infantile practice that puts the company at risk. Recruiters don't need to peek behind the curtain of password-protected profiles.
4. It's a losing battle.
New generations of job seekers will always come up with new ways to hide aspects of their out-of-work personas. As we speak, Millennials are planning ways to dodge these invasive interview tactics.
"My idea is to completely scrub and sterilize my Facebook account with my real name," says Tom B. Taker, a web programmer who uses this pseudonym on Facebook. "On the real-name account, I'd periodically post positive motivational messages about employment," he says, "and then set up a second account with a pseudonym for the 'real' me."
What Employers Should Be Doing About Social Media Usage
Clearly, a company can never truly know its applicants. So instead of scaring off prospective hires, companies should invest in training employees to use social media responsibly.
Forward-looking companies all over the country are already doing so. Social media training is becoming part of the corporate training curriculum for both new hires and current employees at leading companies such as Dell, Intel, Unisys Gap and PepsiCo.
Last year, PepsiCo created Social Media and Responsibility Training University (SMART U), which covers the PepsiCo social media policy and teaches best practices in using social media inside the company. But PepsiCo doesn't stop there. Based on research done with PepsiCo employees, the average Facebook user has 130 friends. So with approximately 300,000 employees in their force, PepsiCo sees a huge potential audience for responsibly sharing news about PepsiCo, its products and offers. According to the 2011 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, 88% of marketers find training in usage of social media tools, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogs, an effective vehicle to gain business exposure. Clearly, a forward-looking company like PepsiCo is not viewing Facebook as a suspicious underworld of potentially embarrassing behaviour.
Rather, PepsiCo views employee use of Facebook and other forms of social media as training and marketing opportunities. So the next time you read about a company asking for Facebook passwords, think of the missed opportunity this represents to see these employees as potential evangelists of the company brand.
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Does Washington DC's new Sustainability Plan "Sustainability DC" really move the city closer to true sustainability, or is it just a bunch of sustainabbable?
Developed out of inclusive stakeholder deliberations and research into issues surrounding sustainability, the city's plan lists several goals and steps that might collectively help the city reach "true" sustainability—or at least get it one small step closer. The plan builds on ongoing sustainability initiatives and strives to help DC overcome challenges presented by the unsustainable American economy, unhealthy food and lifestyle choices, inequity and a lack of diversity, and climate change and environmental degradation. With 2032 as the deadline for its completion, the plan's most impressive "solutions" for achieving sustainability include: cutting citywide energy usage in half, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and water usage by 40%, increasing renewable energy use up to 50%, and requiring "all new building and major infrastructure projects to undergo climate change impact assessment as part of the regulatory planning process." Other major aspects of the plan include encouraging increased access for residents to healthier food choices and local-food options, reduced wasteful transportation, water, and garbage use, and the establishment of more wetlands along the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers.
Yet the plan falls into several traps. Although the plan defines sustainability at the outset and affirms the need for action, the measures with the greatest potential for making DC sustainable are "long-term actions" that may still lack a specific timeline and "may be five to 20 years away" from implementation. Such long term measures include steps to move away from fossil fuels and high resource usage, to enhance the health of the city's surrounding ecosystems, and to start a District product stewardship program, pay-as-you throw garbage collection, and a bottle-deposit-program. These measures will also "involve active consultation with stakeholders" before implementation to "craft the specifics" despite the urgency of the aforementioned measures' implementation and the low economic costs some of them carry. And even if implemented, there is still a good chance of failure because of the plan's heavy reliance on insufficient "carrots" or "sticks"—such as encouraging individuals to engage in "smarter [and healthier] consumption", measures that will be implemented by community action alone, and increased efficiency standards and technological fixes—without shifting the structures in a way that will sufficiently foster sustainability.
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The plan also perpetuates the myth of limitless economic growth, conflicting with the fact that endless growth is physically impossible on a finite planet. If this were a true sustainability plan, regional economic degrowth would be front-and-center (even if DC itself was growing in total population). For example, as Jennie Moore and William Rees note in their chapter, one planet living means an average of 0.004 cars per person. In a city of 500,000, that means DC would be almost completely car-free, with vehicles constrained to buses, emergency vehicles, and a small fleet of taxis and rental cars.
Without implementing structural and institutional changes, the plan's measures will hardly make DC a sustainable city. Granted, such changes are, for the most part, out of the city's control, since it is still considered a taboo to confront overconsumption and unsustainable economic growth. While not realistic to break through those taboos, at the least planners could acknowledge that the complex realities DC faces–i.e. a pluralistic, consumeristic society entrenched in an incremental political system with unevenly shared power; being locked-in to a fossil fuel based energy infrastructure; and so on—make the plan they have proposed at best a roadmap for a "Less Unsustainable DC".


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Good morning. I'm David Greene. A burglar in the Texas Panhandle blundered after breaking into a vehicle. He doubled back to retrieve the cell phone he left behind. Police tracked him down, but not through the GPS data from his phone. Finding suspect Colin Thomas Ferguson was a decidedly low tech operation. The cops followed the footprints he had left in the snow and found him hiding in another parked vehicle. Ferguson faces drug and burglary charges related to a whole series of break-ins. You're listening to MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Martin Shkreli, the so-called "pharma bro" and former CEO who was recently convicted on securities fraud and wire fraud, has been recently buying up domain names of journalists that appear to have written critically about him.
The list includes Rob Beschizza of Boing Boing, Meg Tirrell of CNBC, Maxwell Tani of Business Insider (who reported Tuesday about the domain buys), and our personal favorite: trashythecat.com.
In at least two cases, he has used those domain names to create websites that mock those reporters.
For instance, MayaKosoff.com, named for a reporter at Vanity Fair, simply reads: "Here we honor one of the most vibrant Social Justice advocates today."
Shkreli has been offering to sell at least one of the domain names for thousands of dollars. In a public Facebook post, Shkreli has offered to sell the EmilySaul.com domain for $12,000. Saul, a reporter for New York Post, declined to comment further on the incident.
"Unfortunately, due to company policy, I'm unable to answer any questions and must decline comment," she e-mailed Ars. "Best of luck with your story."
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures are heading lower along with overseas markets as obstacles blocking the way to a compromise on the U.S. budget grow.
Dow Jones industrial futures are down 34 points to 12,828. The broader S&P futures have slid 4.9 points to 1,392.50. Nasdaq futures are down 7.5 points to 2,633.50.
Senate Democrats are divided over whether programs like Medicaid and Medicare should be part of the discussion as far as cutting the nation's debt load. But some argue that if Republicans agree to raise taxes in some areas, Democrats can't take such benefit programs off the table.
In early European trading, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.3 percent to 5,785.40 while Germany's DAX lost 0.2 percent to 7,320.92. France's CAC-40 fell 0.3 percent to 3,491.36.


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Misquoting King: The truth and MLK's statue
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On June 4, 1940, the British evacuation at Dunkirk concluded. In the preceding three months, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium had fallen to Hitler. The German army was days away from Paris. Britain's new prime minister reached deep within his soul, took to the airwaves, and rallied an island nation on the brink of invasion, saying, "we shall fight on the beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets and hills."
Or that's how the U.S. Park Service might put it were we to erect a Winston Churchill memorial today. Churchill never said that quote. To use the words of numerous stories on last month's decision to change an inaccurate quote on the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Washington, it was a "paraphrased quotation." Never mind that there is no such thing. Just go with it. It's mostly true. Kinda.
The King statue displays these words on one side: "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." They are displayed among real quotes from King. But King never uttered that quote. He said: "Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter."
What a difference. Erased was not only the context, but the eloquence. Martin Luther King Jr. without eloquence is like James Bond without the women, wit and martinis. Bond would be just another spy; King just another preacher. Instead of "Bond, James Bond," it would be, simply, "James Bond." The style makes so much difference.
Even the MLK memorial's official page on the National Park Service website acknowledges that King's message inspired because it was delivered "through the means of his powerful gift of speech and eloquent writings." (That's an actual quote.) As is this, from Churchill: "we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
In presenting a paraphrase as King's actual words, the memorial did more than mutilate King's style. It undermined the truth. King never said those words because he would never say them. To misrepresent the words is to misrepresent the man. And to do so in an official government presentation is to mislead the people.
We rely on the state to be an impartial arbiter of the truth. If the stone-chiseled words on a government monument are no more accurate than what can be found on Wikipedia, it further shrinks our already diminished faith in America's institutions. As Abraham Lincoln said, "Keep it real, yo." Or something like that.


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These one liners come from last night's episode Family Business. Which are your faves?
Harris to Sue Ellen: "When dealing with people, I suggest more carrot, less stick."
Ann, to JR, when he doesn't understand why he can't see Bobby: "Of Course you don't, you're a sociopath."
Ann, pointing a gun at JR: "Since you don't have a heart, it will be somewhere more vital."
JR to John Ross when he moves back: "I'm too old to have a roommate."
JR to Ann: "Well I am back honey, and I am going to be bigger than ever."
JR to Sue Ellen: "Wife No. 3 is at the door and she is packing heat."
Ann to Sue Ellen when she heard she slapped JR: "Well, that deserves a muffin."
John Ross about JR: "He is being pig-headed and selfish." Sue Ellen: "That is so unlike JR."
Bobby to JR: "No, your lapses are not when you do wrong. Your lapses are when you do right. Like the scorpion said to the frog, 'It is just in my nature.'"


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Concordia University's Rho Omicron chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, a national honor society for students studying English, is devoted to promoting scholarship among students of English at Concordia and interest in English language and literature among all students on campus.
Sigma Tau Delta is involved in a variety of activities both on and off campus. The group provides services for the university's annual Gathering of the Talents, particularly in judging student writing. Sigma Tau Delta also takes on service projects such as recording readings of children's books and writing out the stories of nursing home residents. Every year Sigma Tau Delta publishes Potpourri, a collection of poetry and fiction written by Concordia students from all programs of study. The group also holds campuswide literary events such as poetry jams and plays host on trips to theatrical productions.
Students with a major, minor or concentration in any area of English and who meet certain grade point average and class rank requirements are eligible for membership in Sigma Tau Delta. Rho Omicron has about 30 members who meet to discuss issues in English that are both contemporary and timeless. The society is sponsored by Dr. Jenny Mueller-Roebke and Dr. Lisa Ashby.
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Chunmei Chen, a University of Delaware doctoral student in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, was chosen to receive the Dixon Award for best graduate student presentation in soil mineralogy at the recent 2011 Soil Science Society of America meeting in San Antonio.
Chen received a $500 award for being recognized as having the best Division S-9 student presentation, with the selection based on quality of presentation and contribution of the research to advancing the state of knowledge of soil mineralogy.
"I feel very happy and honored to receive the award," Chen said. "It is encouraging and helpful for me because I would like to continue my career in research."
Chen presented her research on the Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory (CRB-CZO), which specifically reports on the interaction of soil organic matter with soil minerals at the molecular scale along landscape redox gradients.
"The research will lead to better soil management strategies that maintain and enhance levels of soil organic matter, which has important implications in addressing soil carbon sequestration and climate change," Chen said.
Division S-9 of the Soil Science Society of America established the Joe B. and Martha J. Dixon Soil Mineralogy Endowment to honor Joe Dixon's career and contributions to soil mineralogy. Each year, two graduate students with projects relating to soil mineralogy are awarded the funding.
Chen earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural resources and environment from the Nanjing Agricultural University and a master's degree in environmental science from the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Chen plans to submit a manuscript based on her presentation for publication. She hopes to finish her doctorate and eventually become a university faculty member.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Like most of the Orlando Magic's preceding road trips, this swing through the West is turning into a road trip from hell.
It didn't have to be that way Saturday night.
The Magic seemed on the verge of a confidence-building, comeback road win over the Utah Jazz until everything went wrong in the final 19.6 seconds. They allowed an easy layup. Then their best player, Arron Afflalo, iced by blunders by the timekeeper and the referees, missed one of two foul shots. And, finally, to cap it all off, they allowed a go-ahead 3-pointer by Trey Burke from the right corner after Gordon Hayward sliced through their defense.
The end result: an 89-88 loss. And more heartbreak.
"It's been tough for us on the road," Magic center Nik Vucevic said. "We haven't been playing very well. I don't know what it is. Maybe the approach? The preparation? We've got to do a better job of that. Unfortunately, a lot of those games were kind of also close to where we could have maybe won if we had made some plays. But we've got to keep learning, keep fighting through it."
What made Saturday's loss so frustrating is how far the Magic had come. They trailed by as many as 14 points early in the third quarter and then 10 points with 8:53 to go in the fourth quarter. But they fought back to take an 83-81 lead on a stepback jumper by Victor Oladipo from the right elbow with 29.9 seconds remaining.
After both teams traded free throws, Orlando held an 87-84 lead with 19.6 seconds to go.
Then everything went haywire for the Magic.
It took 7.1 seconds for Hayward and Derrick Favors to execute a pick-and-roll that ended with an easy layup by Favors.
Only 12.5 seconds remained in the game.
The Magic inbounded the ball to Afflalo, and the Jazz immediately fouled him.
No one immediately realized that no time had ticked off the clock.
Afflalo, an 81.9 percent free-throw shooter, sank his first foul shot, putting Orlando ahead 88-86.
But then the referees realized the timekeeper's mistake. Referee Bennett Salvatore went to the scorer's table to review the film to see how much time had elapsed. He determined that four-tenths of a second should have been taken off the game clock and the error was corrected.
Afflalo then missed his second foul shot off the back of the rim.
Asked afterward if the delay had any impact on him, Afflalo answered, "No. I just missed it."
But the Jazz took advantage of the miss.
Utah corralled the rebound and gave the ball to Hayward, who dribbled the length of the court and through the Magic defense along the left edge of the lane. His penetration prompted Oladipo to slide over from the left side to stand near Favors in the center of the lane and prevent Favors from receiving a pass.
Hayward almost reached the baseline, then hurled a pass to Burke in the right corner.
Oladipo closed out as quickly as he could and contested the shot, but Burke launched a high-arcing shot just over Oladipo's fingertips. The shot sailed through the hoop and put the Jazz ahead 89-88 with 1.9 seconds to go, prompting the crowd inside EnergySolutions Arena to roar.
"It's tough," Oladipo said. "But we played hard and we gave ourselves a chance to win. He made a tough shot at the end. I think I did a great job of contesting it, but he's been hitting big shots like that for a long time."
Magic coach Jacque Vaughn said: "I thought [it was] great team defense by our guys. We came in to help. I'll be interested to look at [Hayward's] drive, but great pass by him. And I think Victor, his contest was unbelievable. Trey Burke gets the shot off with a lot of arc, and I give him credit for making it."
With the loss, the Magic fell to 1-22 on the road this calendar year and lost their eighth consecutive game.
But the defeat brought a potentially positive side effect for the Magic for the upcoming NBA Draft Lottery.
The Magic (19-51) now trail the Jazz (23-47) by four games in the overall NBA standings. Orlando has the third-worst record in the NBA, and now it will be difficult for Orlando to leapfrog Utah in the standings. The worse a team finishes in the standings, the better its odds will be in the lottery on May 20.
Another key game will arrive Sunday night, when the Magic face the Los Angeles Lakers (22-46), who own the NBA's fourth-worst record.
The Magic started Saturday's game poorly.
Not only did the Jazz outscore the Magic 27-16, but Jazz small forward Richard Jefferson outscored the Magic 17-16.
Jefferson sank all four 3-pointers he attempted in the first quarter. Then, with 9.7 seconds left in the quarter, Jefferson received the ball in the right corner; Maurice Harkless, the Magic swingman who was guarding him throughout the period, fouled Jefferson. The foul gave Jefferson three free throws, and Jefferson made them all.
The Magic eventually recovered.
Then they saw their lead fade away.
"There's a lot of things that make up a loss from start to finish," Afflalo said.
"Obviously, you want to make your free throws and be disciplined down the stretch defensively. Those are the two glaring things at the end. But we missed a lot of things throughout the game that allow you to win these games."
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Nine years later, the sister of missing teenager Amanda Berry still waits.
Beth Serrano is waiting for answers about her kid sister's disappearance but even more, she waits for Amanda to walk through the door.
Berry, a teenager, vanished on the eve of her 17th birthday. It was April 21, 2003. She was walking north on W.110th from the Burger King on Lorain where she worked.
"Your sister is suppose to be your best friend. When she left I lost that," sobbed Serrano.
The dig site where investigators acting on a tip, searched for Berry's remains is a place her older sister couldn't even think about visiting.
"I just want someone to help me" Serrano said.
In the dimly lit living room of her house, surrounded by her husband and kids, Serrano talked about her shock when she saw the mug shot of the prisoner that led investigators on wild goose hunt.
Robert Wolford was someone Amanda knew and the reason investigators took his lead so seriously. Her question, if she could ask him, "why would you?"
The devoted big sister says no family should ever face the disappointment from this type of false alarm. However Serrano claims the hurt from not knowing is only made bearable with hope that one day she'll have and answer or even better, her sister.
"Just bring her home," Serrano pleaded."
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