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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Wildfires burning in California, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are taxing national firefighting resources and helping to push spending past $1 billion for the year.
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise upped the national wildfire preparedness level Tuesday to the highest level for the first time in five years.
The center lists two central Idaho wildfires as the country's top priorities, helping provide crews and resources for the Beaver Creek fire, which forced the evacuation of 1,250 homes in the resort area of Ketchum and Sun Valley and has cost nearly $12 million so far.
President Barack Obama was briefed Tuesday on the wildfires by his homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco. The White House said the administration's focus is on supporting state and local first responders and that Obama's team is in ongoing contact with federal and local partners.
More than 40 uncontained, active and large wildfires dot the U.S. map from Arizona to Washington state and Alaska, the White House said. About 17,800 people have been dispatched to the fires.
Steve Gage, assistant director of operations for the fire center, said they can't fill all the requests for crews and equipment from the 48 fires that remain uncontained around the country.
Gage said as fire season progresses, the center moves crews around to where the greatest assets like houses are threatened, and tries to have crews positioned to catch new fires when they are small.
In California, a wildfire on the outskirts of Yosemite National Park threatened more than 2,000 structures and forced the evacuation of camps and remote rural homes. In three days, the fire has surged to more than 15 square miles and has destroyed two residences and five outbuildings, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jerry Snyder said.
In Oregon, winds that draw windsurfers to the Columbia Gorge have doubled the size of a wildfire to 10 square miles. The Government Flat Fire has burned three homes and threatens dozens more on the northern flanks of Mount Hood, a fire spokesman said. About 50 homes have evacuated in the area of canyons 10 miles southwest of The Dalles.
Four days into the battle, the cost has topped $1 million, said Oregon Department of Forestry spokesman Dave Morman.
"That's one of the challenges when the fire gets into these long canyons, it's very, very difficult for firefighters," he said.
The boost in priority for Idaho's Beaver Creek fire gave fire managers resources they needed to start attacking the fire more directly, said fire spokesman Rudy Evenson. Weather conditions were also improving. The fire was 9 percent contained after burning 160 square miles and had 1,750 personnel. The cost through Monday was $11.6 million.
Nationally, federal agencies have spent more than $1 billion so far this year, about half last year's total of $1.9 billion, according to the fire center. There have been 33,000 fires that have burned more than 5,300 square miles — an area nearly the size of Connecticut.
Whether costs top the 10-year average of $1.4 billion or the $1.9 billion spent in 2012 and 2006 will depend on the rest of the wildfire season, which traditionally gets very active in Southern California as late as October, Gage said.
Professor Norman Christensen of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, an expert in the environmental impacts of forest fires, said fires have been particularly intense in Colorado, California and Idaho this year.
"Certainly drought in some areas has contributed to the number and intensity of fire events," he said in an email. "But many of the fires have been in highly populated, wilderness-urban interface areas such as Colorado Springs, Sun Valley, Idaho, and the west slope of the Sierra Nevada. That adds greatly to costs since so many more resources are required to protect built structures."
Jason Sibold, assistant professor of biogeography at Colorado State University, said since the 1990s, the climate has been changing, producing hotter, drier and longer summers in the West. That combined with more people building vacation homes in the woods pushes up costs.
"The societal demand to try to control and fight these fires is escalating at the same pace as the climate's warming," he said.
Despite firefighting efforts, more than 960 homes and 30 commercial buildings have burned this year, according to the fire center. And 30 firefighters have died in the effort, including 19 hotshots at Yarnell, Ariz. The annual average over the past 10 years is 17 dead.
The high monetary costs come despite a 5 percent cut in firefighting budgets due to the federal spending cuts known as sequestration, which eliminated 500 firefighters and 50 wildland fire engines this year. Meanwhile, the U.S. Forest Service has yet to activate a new generation of air tankers provided by private contractors, intended to deliver bigger payloads faster.
In Montana, Gov. Steve Bullock declared a state of emergency for 31 counties, allowing the use of National Guard resources.
Wind gusts pushed two lightning-caused fires to a combined 7,500 acres, or roughly 12 square miles near Lolo in southwestern Montana. A state fire official said those fires have burned at least four homes.
Associated Press writers Keith Ridler in Boise, Idaho, and Josh Lederman in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.


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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Six Weeks
In the end Bear Mountain turned out to be a perfect long "training run" for Western States. I feel really good about where I'm at with 6 weeks to go before what will be my first 100 in 9 months. I find myself thinking a lot more about this race then I have leading up to any race in awhile. On most of my runs this week it was hard not to end up with my mind wandering to thoughts about crew/pacer logistics, heat/elevation acclimatization, and especially about the exciting race at the front of the pack that I hope to be a part of. Something's going to have to give in this one. Hal has won this race two years in a row; Tony has never lost any ultra that he's finished; I've set a course record on every single 100 mile course I've run; and most people in Europe believe that Killian is unbeatable in this one. And then beyond this there are half a dozen or so other guys who could also find a way to scratch and claw their way to the finish in Auburn before everyone else.
It should be really fun to be a part of this. I like my chances of having a satisfying race. I'm stronger, smarter, and more confident as a competitor than I've ever been. I feel very optimistic that this will be one of the most fun races I'll ever be a part of. And perhaps the best part is that as excited as I am for June 26th, I'm just as excited for the training runs that I'll be doing between now and then.
33 comments:
It's going to be a great race, I wish I could be at the finish to see everyone come in. Best of luck! You will need it, alot of fast guy's!
- May 16, 2010 at 4:03 AM
- Rogue Valley Runners said...
I don't think you can call your blog "fumbling" anymore........
- May 16, 2010 at 8:09 AM
- Tucker Goodrich said...
As a spectator, I can't wait for this race. Pity it's not televised!
Good luck to you, and may the best man win. It's going to be a mighty exciting race. - May 16, 2010 at 10:37 AM
In your Miwok race report 2 years ago you wrote,
"I'm sure Western States is an amazing race, but I have never been one to choose my races based on how much other people want to do them. I get goose bumps thinking about riding The Great Divide Race next month. Western States on the other hand kind of seems a little too hyped for me. When you finish The Great Divide Race in Antelope Wells, New Mexico you are greeted by a border agent (if it's during the day, there's no one there at night) and then you ride your bike back 80 miles to get somewhere that you can actually get on a bus back to reality. When you finish Western States you are greeted by thousands of cheering fans and media with cameras and microphones. This is not a bad thing. It's just not so much for me."
What has changed for you in the last couple of years? Have you succumbed to the hype? - May 16, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- Collin said...
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- May 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Collin said...
Anonymous, while the hype surrounding WS100 is not necessarily what Geoff looks for typically, something has to be said about the opportunity for Geoff, Hal, Killian, Anton, and Tsuyoshi to all test themselves against each other. I'll be racing there myself, but after seeing this kind of field, I'd almost rather be at home looking at live updates to see who can edge out who.
- May 16, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- Geoff said...
of course i've changed in two years. who hasn't? and as collin correctly presumed my excitement about this one has a lot more to do with the other runners that i hope to be fortunate enough to compete against, than with all the attention that everyone else will be paying to this race.
- May 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- Will Cooper said...
Guys, what is wrong with "hype"? Just like the heat, its another factor to deal with at WS. The only way to succumb to it is to race poorly because of it. Sports is littered with those who can't handle "hype". Did you see Lebron the other day? Geoff, rip it up out there! In the mean time, don't forget to get your fill of the Grateful Dead to keep it real.
- May 16, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Matt said...
Great point, Anonymous.
What a troll. - May 16, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- boyd7 said...
Geoff This will be an exciting race and good luck to you. When Mike Morton set A course record in 97 I thought it was the greatest thing ever in ultrarunning, because eastern runners did not get much respect out west. Jureks (Ihope I spelled it right) record is only 4 minutes faster. In 13 years! The only course you have run that I know is Mt.Masochist, after that race I think you can do anything!
- May 17, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- leo said...
enjoy it Geoff and good luck!
My Kruger Rands are on you!
This will be an exciting round 1 with round 2 at Mont Blanc. hmm to be a little bird and look down at the action going down! - May 17, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Uli Steidl said...
NOBODY is unbeatable.
Before my CR at Way too Cool all the folks from Colorado said that Mackey is going to win it. Three years ago at the first NF San Francisco race I was told that everyone in Colorado has their money on Carpenter, everyone in the Northwest was betting on me.
Of course all the Europeans bet on Killian....
May be Killian is as good as advertised. May be not.
I mean, Karl was considered by many unbeatable at Wasatch.
And don't listen to the anonymous dude and "Matt". If you are one of the best you should go to the races where the best run. And in the US for the 100 mile distance it's at Western, whether you like it or not. Some hype is good for the sport. Hope the live webcast will actually be updated LIVE and not with a 2-3 hour delay as sometimes in the past.
I'd say you've got as good a chance as anyone to break the CR.
I know you're a better 50 mile runner than Scott J, and you can obviously handle 100s.
Go kick some butt! - May 17, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- Matt said...
The great Uli missed the sarcasm. Indeed, anonymous is the troll. He made a terrible point. There now.
Geoff, I hope the preparation is going well, heat training and all.
Good luck! - May 18, 2010 at 7:32 AM
- Kieran McCarthy said...
If you, Tony, Hal,and Kilian all arrive on June 26th healthy and in good form, it's going to be among the most competitive ultras ever, if not the most competitive ever. As a neutral spectator, I only hope that everyone is able to perform to the best of their abilities. Good luck!
- May 18, 2010 at 2:29 PM
- Charlie said...
Geoff can you and Hal give Tony a bit of a gee-up. It doesn't sound like he is fully motivated for WS worrying about his knee.
It will still be a great race without him but Tony will certainly increase the chances of a race to the wire.
Uli, when are you stepping up to the 100 milers? That would be something to see! - May 18, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- Olga said...
Don't drop. My only asking. No matter what envelops at the front. Stay on top of it. Don't even allow yourself thinking about it. I can't wait to witness this whole thing!
- May 18, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Andrew said...
thinking Karl may have a harder job of figuring out the odds for this one than you guys will racing it ;)
really wish I could have made it out to Bear Mt but Ashley's first Mother's Day and her Master's graduation trumped the trip. - May 18, 2010 at 7:01 PM
- Uli Steidl said...
Matt: Yeah, I missed that. Should have read it more carefully.
Charlie: Leaning towards running Berlin this fall to make one more run at the German marathon team for Worlds next year.
And I have to figure out how to eat during ultras without throwing up.... used to do that with no problem, at least on long training runs. May be at the slower pace of 100s I'd be fine. - May 18, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Collin said...
Yeah, man, I want to see Uli at 100s as well. Maybe the all gel and liquid diet would prevent throwing up, it usually works well for me, though I think it would be harder to keep stuff down at the type of pace Uli runs.
- May 19, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- Charlie said...
Uli have a go at taking Ginger to prevent throwing up. Ginger cordial or flat ginger beer works really well.
- May 19, 2010 at 11:41 PM
- Eric@URP said...
Who's left to pace these speedsters?
- May 20, 2010 at 4:04 AM
- Speedgoat Karl said...
ahhhh, the pressure, run only to win, don't think record. Good luck man!
- May 23, 2010 at 6:55 AM
Geoff, it would appear from your training logs that you get most of your mileage from a single run per day. Or are there some doubles?
- May 28, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- Geoff said...
lately mostly single runs. sometimes a do a lot of doubles but not much lately.
- May 28, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- Craig Redfearn said...
I'm with Karl. Who gives a rat about the record. Records don't matter as long as you get the win or put yourself in a position to be there in the end. The focus of a CR takes away what is really at stake and that is to show up on race day, relaxed and ready to crank it. Only a few more weeks boys and one of the most competitive ultras in years will start. Let's make everyone gets there first.
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What in heaven's name is happening here?
We're in McGregor, Texas, surrounded by farms (and the ghost of Johnny Cash). There, on a launch pad, is a 10-story rocket ready to take off. Its engines ignite. Up it goes, higher, then higher, then higher still, until at 820 feet, something weird happens. It stops moving, hovers in the sky for about 15 seconds as if wondering what to do next. The wind is blowing, (you can see the smoke blowing off in one direction, so there's definitely a breeze up there) but it doesn't wobble, doesn't tilt, it just hangs there like a candle in the sky, and then, suddenly, it switches direction, and looking down, you can see it heading unerringly for a pinpoint spot on the ground below. It's going back to the exact spot where it began, hits its mark, "legs extended" and turns itself off, like a shy student going back to his seat in a classroom.
Why Build A Rocket That Goes Nowhere?
It's such an odd idea, a rocket ship that behaves like an elevator, an elevator, by the way, that doesn't go as high as the one they've got in the Empire State Building. What's being accomplished here?
Well, first off, this is a "student" rocket. It's practicing. On its first launch last year, it went up just eight feet; more recently it reached 262 feet, now 820, so it's doing better and better.
Second, it's a bottom stage booster. It's not the part of the rocket ship that goes into orbit; it's the part that gets things off the ground. In a normal launch, it would detach from the payload (and upper parts that might be carrying people) and either fall into the ocean and have to be retrieved, or drop down softened by a parachute to the ground, where it would be fetched and repaired. This one, as you've just seen, doesn't hurt itself. It just goes back home.
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It takes more fuel to power the booster to the ground. Up untill now, boosters just fall for free. What does it cost for the extra rocket fuel? SpaceX isn't saying, but common sense says when the rocket comes down, most of that fuel has been burned, so it is much, much lighter. I couldn't find any numbers, but I did find this bit of accounting from a self-described rocket engineer in the comments:
To put it in perspective, the cost of one of these rockets is about $60,000,000, and the total fuel cost for one trip is about $200,000. That means the cost of fuel is 0.3% of the vehicle.
Let's say you spread the vehicle cost over 100 launches in its working life (all LEO launches with 29,000lbs payloads) . That averages out to $20.76 per lb cargo (Space Shuttle was $8200 per lb).
If that's true, SpaceX is on its way to making routine space voyaging much cheaper. As for environmental costs, I worried a little about rocket exhaust. Burned rocket fuel throws off CO 2 and water vapor, I don't know how much, but on this second video, it looks like a lot. The underbelly view of the rocket rising and landing is pretty wild. Especially the elegant finish.
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Local farmers, I figure, have to live with these launches; they might even love them. (I think I would. I imagine myself sitting in the living room and out the window there's a ten story object hanging in the air, slowly sinking down behind the cottonwoods. Most people have sunsets. I'd have rocket-sets, a rich roar followed by a deep quiet. I think I could get used to that.)
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We spent most of the day doing what visitors do in Cambridge. College, college, college, Trinity Street (I bought a beautiful English-made bow tie at Arthur Shepherd), college, college, church, church, church, lunch.
It was mid-afternoon, the clock was ticking, and I had not yet set foot in a bookshop.
Working on a hunch that an ancient center of learning might yet have one or two of these to root around in, I asked Liz.
"Yes," said Liz. "I will point you at two. Tom and I can go have a drink at the pub while you browse."
(Liz has done this before.)
After some negotiation it was agreed that I should have one hour, thirty seven minutes before presenting myself at the pub.
"Now," Liz said. "Over there is the larger shop. Over here is the smaller shop, but they specialize in antique children's books."
I'll repeat that.
"They specialize," said Liz, "in antique children's books."
I think Tom said something after that, but I was already at one hour, thirty six minutes and ten seconds and didn't have time to fool about. I can talk to Tom any time.
The children's bookshop was the size of four phone booths. For those of you too young to remember phone booths, it was the size of those four retro novelty photo booths at Jerusha and Skylar's wedding in Williamsburg, the one your whole dodge ball team went to.
I walked in, and the first thing that hit me in the face was a shelf crammed with titles I have read about but never seen in person. This place is the physical embodiment of my lifelong wish list. Within seconds, I was confronted by four linear feet of what I gauged to be turn-of-the-century Caldecott.
"May I help you find anything?" said the nice lady at the desk.
"Gasp," I gasped.
"Well, do please let me know," she said.
I stared dumbly at the row of Caldecott for a moment. I tried to reach for a book and realized my fingers had gone numb.
Then, much as those who have survived environmental catastrophes say that an inborn, automatic survival instinct pulled them through, I heard a voice that was not quite my own say,
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She sprang into action.
"Needlework. Hmm. Now, that's a tough one." But she had that look in her eye, the one book people get when presented with a novel challenge.
"I know," I said. "There really isn't much."
"Well, have a look at these." They were crochet books from the 1950s, aimed at the plucky post-war girl of twelve to fourteen.
"Sweet," I said. "But I don't really crochet."
"Hmm. Well, I'm afraid aside from those all we have at present would be some Girl's Own annuals with needlework patterns..."
"I like the sound of that."
"...and then there's that."
Up on a top shelf, cover facing out, leaning casually against a row of who cares what, was this.
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Jane Gaugain, in case she's not a household name for you (yet), is the woman you might call the mother of fiber arts publishing. She ran a haberdashery business in Edinburgh with her husband, she wanted to sell wool yarns from Germany, and she realized that you sell more yarns with pattern support. So she began to circulate patterns by request and subscription. (There is a wonderful article about her in this issue of Twist Collective.)
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So for me, standing face-to-face with the first widely acclaimed, best-selling collection of knitting patterns was a little overwhelming.
But not so overwhelming that I didn't check the price. I was afraid to look.
It was really good. More than I'd normally drop on a single book–but really good. There aren't piles of knitting titles from this era lying around. Think about it. What do you usually do with outmoded books of knitting patterns? You throw them away, that's what you do. Or you donate them, or trade them, so that others may throw them away. And so it has always been.
It means that when you do find Mrs Gaugain for sale, she's pricey. But this shop was not a specialist in this topic, and though they did note "scarce" on the front flyleaf they didn't price it to keep it lying around in space that could be better occupied by, say, a nice first of Wind in the Willows.
So I bought it, with a beating heart and just one sad glance at the big, blue, oblong, I'd-never-even-heard-of-it album of Caldecott illustrations that's still sitting there, probably, and she said they would ship it to me if you haven't yet bought my Christmas present.
When I left the shop, I checked the time. I had been inside for exactly ten minutes.
While strictly speaking I had another hour and twenty-seven minutes allotted to book shopping, I found myself unable to go on. After you find the book at the top of your Life List just sitting there, what's the point of trying to beat that in a second venue?
I didn't know what to do, honestly. I felt like a dog that had spent his life chasing cars, and then caught one.
I stumbled toward the pub, clutching Mrs Gaugain to my palpitating chest.
Liz and Tom weren't there, of course. They weren't expecting me for more than an hour. In fact they were probably expecting me to forget them entirely, then scream NO NO LEAVE ME HERE IN PEACE as they attempted forcibly to extract me from the stacks.
(Liz and Tom have done this before.)
I turned around and ran smack into them on the street. They were startled.
"What happened? Did you find something?" said Tom.
"Mmrrbrblp," I said.
It was all I could do to get the book out of my bag and show it to them. They, being kind people, did not even make fun of me (much) when I started to cry.
The copy's in beautiful shape. Sound and complete, right down to the hand-colored plates demonstrating netting.
Note the errant smudge of red left by the colorist, who was probably a tubercular orphan, aged four, or similar. Poor kid.
This is not, I hasten to add, a first edition. It's a third edition (1842) as shown by Mrs Gaugain's preface.
She notes:
Inaccuracies corrected? Does this mean–can it be?–that am I holding the corrected version of the Pineapple Bag?! Did she fix the decreases at the bottom?!!


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The mxge driver provides support for PCI Express 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Myricom LANai Z8E chip. The driver supports Transmit/Receive checksum offload, Jumbo Frames, TCP segmentation offload (TSO) as well as Large Receive Offload (LRO). For further hardware information, see http://www.myri.com/. For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation supplied with your Myri10GE adapter. All hardware requirements listed apply to use with FreeBSD. Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames. The maximum MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 9000. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). HARDWARE
The mxge driver supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Myricom LANai Z8E chips: o Myricom 10GBase-CX4 (10G-PCIE-8A-C, 10G-PCIE-8AL-C) o Myricom 10GBase-R (10G-PCIE-8A-R, 10G-PCIE-8AL-R) o Myricom 10G XAUI over ribbon fiber (10G-PCIE-8A-Q, 10G-PCIE-8AL-Q) LOADER TUNABLES
Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or stored in loader.conf(5). hw.mxge.flow_control_enabled Whether or not hardware flow control is enabled on the adapter. The default value is 1. hw.mxge.intr_coal_delay This value delays the generation of all interrupts in units of 1 microsecond. The default value is 30. hw.mxge.skip_pio_read This value determines whether or not the driver may omit doing a PIO read in the interrupt handler which ensures that the interrupt line has been deasserted when using xPIC interrupts. A non-zero value may result in lower CPU overhead, however it may also result in spurious interrupts. The default value is 0. This tunable has no effect when the device is using MSI or MSI-X interrupts. hw.mxge.max_slices This value determines the maximum number of slices the driver will attempt to use. The default value is 1. A slice is comprised of a set of receive queues and an associated interrupt thread. When using multiple slices, the NIC hashes traffic to different slices based on the value of hw.mxge.rss_hashtype. Using multiple slices requires that your motherboard and Myri10GE NIC both be capable of MSI-X. Older Myri10GE NICs can be field upgraded to add MSI-X using the "10G NIC Tool Kit" for FreeBSD which is available from http://www.myri.com/scs/download-10g-tools.html. hw.mxge.rss_hashtype This value determines how incoming traffic is steered to different slices. This tunable is ignored when using just a single slice. The legal values for this tunable are: 1 Hash on the source and destination IPv4 addresses. 2 Hash on source and destination IPv4 addresses and if the packet is TCP, then also hash on the TCP source and destination ports. 4 Hash on the TCP or UDP source ports. This is the default value. DIAGNOSTICS
mxge%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory A fatal initialization error has occurred. mxge%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt A fatal initialization error has occurred. mxge%d: Could not find firmware image %s The appropriate firmware kld module was not installed. This is a non-fatal initialization error, but will result in running in a reduced performance mode. SUPPORT
For general information and support, go to the Myricom support website at: http://www.myri.com/scs/. If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the issue to <email@example.com>. SEE ALSO
altq(4), arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The mxge device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.3. AUTHORS
The mxge driver was written by Andrew Gallatin <email@example.com>. BSD
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Margaret Martonosi, a Princeton professor of electrical engineering, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the IEEE, an international professional association for the advancement of technology.
Martonosi was one of 47 ACM members elected fellows "for their contributions to computing and computer science that have contributed fundamental knowledge to the field and generated a broad range of innovations in industry, commerce, entertainment, and education," the society wrote in a Dec. 1 statement announcing the appointments. The society will formally recognize the 2009 fellows at its annual awards banquet on June 26, 2010.
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Following on the heels of the ACM honor, the IEEE announced on Dec. 3 that Martonosi was among 309 of its senior members appointed fellows as of January 2010. In naming Martonosi, the society cited her contributions to power-efficient computer architecture and systems design.
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Firearms police have been investigating after a machine gun was spotted inside the London home of Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson.
Police were called to her home in Primrose Hill late in the evening of Thursday 28 August 2014 when a passer-by spotted a machine gun on a desk inside the house.
The gun, a deactivated M16 assault rifle, had been given to the film-maker and photographer as part of an art project.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed officers from the firearms unit were called after the gun was spotted through a window of the north London house shortly before midnight.
Taylor-Johnson (pictured), who is currently working on the film version of the erotic best-seller, met her actor husband Aaron when he played John Lennon in her Beatles film Nowhere Boy.
A spokeswoman for the couple said: "We can confirm that early this morning police were called to the London home of Mr and Mrs Taylor-Johnson following a report of a firearm on the premises by a concerned passer-by.
"The family were not present in the property at the time but the police gained entry via a key holder.
"The firearm was located in Sam Taylor-Johnson's basement studio and has been confirmed as a certified and fully decommissioned M16 assault rifle that was provided to Mrs Taylor-Johnson by the international charity Peace One Day as part of an art project entitled 'Peace One Day M16'.
"The project, curated by Jake Chapman, consists of new works by some of the most celebrated names in contemporary art all of whom are transforming fully decommissioned M16 assault rifles."
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Taylor-Johnson is not the first celebrity to attract police attention in this fashion.
Spaced actor Nick Frost, who played Territorial Army obsessive Mike in the Channel 4 comedy, sparked a police raid when he took a gun home to practise a scene.
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In Skippy Dies, Paul Murray goes back to school to give a crash course on bullies, boredom and the power structures of society.
In 2003, Paul Murray published his debut novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, to critical acclaim. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and nominated for the Kerry Irish Fiction Award, An Evening of Long Goodbyes was described as both hugely original and a comedy of the highest calibre. This month sees the long-awaited publication of Murray's second novel, Skippy Dies. Touted as a tragi-comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies is set in a grand old Dublin public school, Seabrook College for Boys. Tackling a broad range of hard-bitten subjects including family breakdown, teenage drug abuse, education and the role of the Catholic Church in society, the novel resonates with the issues of modern life. Comic and tragic in equal measure, Murray in turn wraps the reader in warm laughter and then pours cold reality over their head.
Unusually, Skippy Dies will be published in three paperbacks boxed together in a single slipcase. Murray explains that the novel had always been divided into three parts, but that presenting those as three individual books was the publisher's idea, based on the success of Steve Toltz's Fraction of the Whole, which had been published the same way in the United States. Given the size and scope of the novel – over 600 pages – this decision makes sense. Surprisingly, Murray says Skippy Dies started out as a short story: "It began as a story about a teacher who starts to suspect that all is not well with one of his students. It ran long almost immediately – as soon as the teacher left the classroom after the first scene, every little detail I'd put in as background or scenery would suddenly develop a life of its own."
These little details soon became full-blown characters with their own issues, secrets and desires, set against a backdrop of adolescent angst and dysfunctional adult relationships. The setting, that of a school as a microcosm of society, is nothing new, but as Murray points out, school is an ideal environment for exploring every aspect of life. "Early on one of the characters compares school to the universe right before the Big Bang – it's the future, essentially, like the next generation's firemen and tennis coaches and bus drivers and stockbrokers and drug dealers, all cooped up in one small space, giving each other wedgies. Each one has his back-story; each one has his interests and idiosyncrasies. Which means that you're able to take a wider-angle picture of society in a way than wouldn't be possible in another setting."
This throwing together of dramatically different personalities and forcing them to live together day in day out is particularly apparent when the school takes boarders. Skippy (or Daniel Juster to give him his proper name) and his entourage are members of the small group of boys who live at Seabrook. Nicknames abound in a world where teasing, taunting and bullying all play a part in the boys' daily lives – how well they cope with their given place in the hierarchy typically shapes their acceptance by the others. This proximity of male adolescent hormones also allows Murray to display his talent for comic writing. There are frequent laugh-out-loud moments, some of which verge on the puerile, but in Murray's hands they are presented in such a way that it's hard not to giggle at the wedgies and of 14-year-olds witticisms. Murray has a gift for amusing anecdotes, but believes that writing humour is a different process from writing "straight" prose. "The jokes just appear in your head. I'm not sure if you can produce a joke by working intensively. You hear about sitcom writers sitting around a table together for 16 hours, trying to think of funny lines – that just makes no sense to me. I don't know that you can make something funny by refining it intensively. It's either funny or it's not."
Another talent Murray has is for making enormously complicated theoretical physics accessible and science experiments seem hugely exciting. Some of the real page-turning moments come when a group of the boys set out to prove a scientific theory led by Skippy's uber-bright roommate, Ruprecht. One of the more upbeat unifying themes that weaves itself in and out of the narrative is that of Ruprecht's obsession with M-theory. M-theory is an extension of String Theory, which deals with the existence of other dimensions – an interest Murray shared in his youth. "I used to read a comic called 2000AD, which had several stories based on the idea of intertwining parallel universes. They were often quite complex and brilliantly done. It's not hard to see how the concept of other worlds might appeal to a teenager when you crave adventure, but you're stuck out in the suburbs with no money." Ruprecht, when musing on the lack of symmetry in the world, also manages to present M-theory as an analogy for life and love and a yearning for perfection, which itself reflects the common aim of all the characters – that of escape.
There are multiple themes and ideas in Skippy Dies, but as Murray explains one concept did emerge as a central one. "The idea of escape, the grand, distorting narratives we adopt in order to avoid reality. A lot of the other themes, drug abuse, anorexia, romance vs. commitment, even the role of the Church, related back to that idea." All of the central characters – pupils and teachers alike – feel trapped, either by their situation or by their choices. How each deals with those feelings of suffocation is explored in different strands of the narrative, which eventually collide with tragic results. Underneath the humour and the science experiments lurk shocking episodes involving teenage sex and drug abuse, heart-wrenching scenes of families in meltdown and tragic moments that stay with you far longer than any of the laughter. Although Murray did not plan to write a zeitgeist novel, by setting his story in a school in the modern day, it's easy to see how these issues arose when developing the characters. However these are not kids from the local estate, they are not society's dropouts, they are public school boys and girls simply living their lives as best they can with the usual props of mobile phones and whatever means of escape they can lay their hands on – from the innocent (computer games, fantasies, frisbees) to the alarming (alcohol, drugs, self-harm).
Murray doesn't set out to shock; these issues are part and parcel of daily life for so many of today's teenagers. The results from an annual survey of secondary school pupils (mostly aged 11 to 15) in 2008, carried out on behalf of the NHS, revealed that 52% of pupils have tried alcohol at least once and 22% of pupils have tried drugs. According to a report from the Office of National Statistics (2004), suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people. It was found that almost all of those who take their own lives suffer from one or more psychiatric disorders complicated by substance abuse. More significantly, most adolescent suicides appear to be impulsive, triggered by stress events such as a disciplinary crisis or the breakdown of a close relationship. The same report reveals that 2% of 11-15 year olds try to harm themselves and the prevalence of self-harm was also associated with exposure to adverse life events and parental psychological distress.
In Skippy Dies, Murray translates these facts and figures into harsh reality. One character self-harms as he watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, another develops an eating disorder as she struggles to cope with the consequences of her actions, most of them take drugs – from medication stolen from other pupils with ADHD to heroin. By giving each statistic a name and a story of their own, Murray, whether he meant to or not, has produced a novel that represents a very real side of our society at the start of the 21st century. As a result, one of the over-riding themes that echoes throughout the whole book is that of communication, or more precisely, lack of communication. What happens to friendships, relationships and families when those involved don't talk to each other is painfully apparent. If ever there was a book to persuade parents to talk to their children, for children to talk to whomever they feel safe with, Skippy Dies is it. All too often, in a bid to escape the perceived hardships of their lives, teenagers can find themselves in an escalating spiral of self-abuse, from which there is only one way out.
Skippy Dies was published by Hamish Hamilton in February 2010. www.penguin.co.uk.
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(TheBlaze/AP) -- Jerry Sandusky was sentenced Tuesday to at least 30 years in prison - effectively a life sentence - in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall.
A defiant Sandusky gave a rambling statement in which he denied the allegations and talked about his life in prison and the pain of being away from his family.
Three victims spoke, often fighting back tears. One looked Sandusky in the eyes at times during his statement.
The 68-year-old former Penn State assistant coach was found guilty in June of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, convicted of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. Witnesses said Sandusky used the charitable organization he founded for troubled children as his personal hunting ground to find and groom boys to become his victims.
His arrest 11 months ago, and the details that came out during his trial over the summer, transformed Sandusky's public image from a college coach who had been widely admired for his work with The Second Mile charity into that of a reviled pervert who preyed on the very youngsters who sought his help.
Eight of the boys he was found guilty of molesting testified at his trial, describing a range of abuse that included fondling, oral sex and anal intercourse. One of the prosecution's star witnesses, former graduate assistant Mike McQueary, testified that he saw Sandusky raping a boy in a locker room shower.
Sandusky has consistently maintained his innocence and plans to appeal.
In a three-minute monologue aired Monday night by Penn State Com Radio that used some of the same language as his courtroom statement, Sandusky said he knows in his heart that he did not do what he called "these alleged disgusting acts" and described himself as the victim of Penn State, investigators, civil attorneys, the media and others.
His statement in court lasted 15 minutes.
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Judge John Cleland sentenced him to 30 to 60 years in prison. Under Pennsylvania law, Sandusky cannot be released on parole before the minimum term is up.
"The tragedy of this crime is that it's a story of betrayal. The most obviously aspect is your betrayal of 10 children," Cleland said before the sentencing. "I'm not going to sentence you to centuries in prison, although the law will permit that." Still, Cleland said, he expected Sandusky to be in prison for the rest of his life.
The scandal brought devastation in State College that will take years to fully assess, as Sandusky's victims are pressing civil claims and a January trial is pending for Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, two university administrators charged with failing to properly report suspicions about Sandusky and lying to the grand jury that investigated him.
Soon after the three were arrested in November, the board of trustees fired Paterno, the school's most famous figure and a man who won two national college football championships in the 1980s. Paterno died of lung cancer in January.
Over the summer, an investigation commissioned by the university and led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh concluded that Paterno and other top officials covered up allegations against Sandusky for years to avoid bad publicity.
The scandal also toppled university President Graham Spanier and led to crippling NCAA sanctions against the football team that included a $60 million fine, a ban on postseason play and a reduction in the number of football scholarships the school can award. The NCAA also erased 14 years of victories for Paterno, stripping him of his standing as major college football's winningest coach.
At least four young men have sued Penn State over the way the university responded to disturbing complaints about Sandusky.
Eight legal teams representing at least 20 young men have surfaced, and the school recently announced an effort to settle as many claims as possible by the end of the year.
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UNSW researchers have found that cyclists who do not wear helmets are more likely to engage in risky riding behaviours and be involved in more severe crashes than those who wear protective headgear.
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The large study, of 6745 cyclists injured in collisions with motor vehicles in NSW during a nine year period, also showed that helmet use reduced the risk of head injury by up to 74 per cent.
The case-control study was carried out by linking detailed information on admissions to all hospitals in NSW with police reports on road traffic collisions in which cyclists were injured or killed.
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The study, by researchers in the UNSW Transport and Road Safety Research group and School of Mathematics and Statistics, was published today in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention.
Study co-authors, Dr Jake Olivier and Chair of Road Safety, Professor Raphael Grzebieta, said there had been debate in Australia and internationally about the effectiveness of bike helmets in preventing head injury, and about the need for mandatory helmet laws.
"The study evidence presented scientifically dismisses the absurd suggestion by anti-helmet law lobbyists that mandating helmet wearing makes cycling more dangerous overall, with no significant improvement in head injury rates or severity." Professor Grzebieta said. "It is a 'no-brainer' that helmets are very effective in preventing head injuries in cycle related crashes."
Dr Olivier said: "The benefits of helmets were clear in this study. Cyclists without helmets had up to 3.9 times the risk of sustaining a head injury, compared with those who wore helmets. The more severe the injury, the greater the benefit: Helmet use reduced the risk of moderate head injury by 49 per cent, of serious head injury by 62 per cent, and of severe head injury by 74 per cent"
They both noted there has also been speculation that wearing helmets is associated with riding more recklessly, because cyclists feel protected, but the study found the opposite was the case.
"Non-helmeted cyclists were almost three times as likely to have disobeyed traffic controls as helmeted riders, and more than four times as likely to have been above the blood alcohol limit," Dr Olivier said.
About half of the children and adolescents less than 19 years old who were injured in a collision were not wearing helmets, compared with only 15 per cent of 30 to 39 year olds.
"This issue needs to be addressed through much stronger enforcement of the helmet law and wider education in light of the demonstrated effectiveness of helmets," Dr Olivier and Professor Grzebieta said.
The UNSW study was led by Dr Mike Bambach and Dr Rebecca Mitchell.
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Fun times with SummerTimes
More than 1,200 students have made the most of their summers by learning new skills and making friends in the St. Stephens / St. Agnes SummerTimes program.
For 30-plus years, SummerTimes has offered area children a variety of camps during the summer months to match their interests. This years program started June 14 and runs through August 27, featuring more than 60 different types of camps.
Its about respect
The City of Alexandria's Expect Respect program is looking for a group of volunteers to present an educational program promoting healthy relationships to Alexandria youth.
Volunteers will present to 7th-graders and high school students throughout the school year. The expected commitment is four to six hours per month and volunteers must have the flexibility to present during the school day.
Volunteers are required to complete a one-day training session, which will be held this year on August 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. In-class observations will be scheduled after training is completed. For more information, please contact Kim Hurley at 703-746-5030 or email@example.com.
New faces in the halls
Three city elementary schools George Mason, William Ramsay and Mount Vernon begin the 2010-2011 school year with plenty of new faces, including new principals.
At Mount Vernon, which already began its modified-calendar school year on August 2, Tina Radomsky has taken over for Scott Coleman as school chief. She comes to Alexandria from the Elgin, Ill., school system, where she spent four years as executive director of elementary education.
Kevin West takes over the reins this month at George Mason, replacing Dawn Feltman who moved across the city to take the principal job at Patrick Henry. West was most recently the principal at Canyon Ridge School in Surprise, Ariz.
This Monday, Dr. Rosario Casiano begins as principal at William Ramsay and is the most recent addition to the citys contingent of school leaders. Prior to the Alexandria post, she was an elementary school teacher in Trenton, N.J.
"We are fortunate to bring to Ramsay Elementary School someone with the experience and success of Dr. Casiano," said Morton Sherman, superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools. "Her many successes focus on creating opportunities for students to learn and grow in remarkable ways.
T.C. student recognized at Junior Law Cadet Program
T.C. Williams High School senior Damba Koroma was recognized as the Outstanding Female Cadet of the Junior Law Cadet program last month. Koroma was one of 37 high school students from across the state who received graduation certificates on July 16 at the Virginia State Police Academy in Chesterfield County.
The 21st annual Junior Law Cadet program is a week-long training curriculum for high school students. It is designed to introduce students who are interested in a career in law enforcement to the rigors and challenges of the job.
The cadets experienced a life similar to that of a trooper-in-training, complete with daily room inspections and instruction by state police troopers on department operations, crime scene investigations, officer survival, undercover operations, driver improvement, scuba training, defensive tactics and firearms safety.


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By Donald Kursch, Senior Advisor
American and German delegates to the Winter Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) recently hosted a special forum in Vienna during which more than 75 parliamentarians from 17 countries expressed their support for efforts to combat anti-Semitism in the OSCE region.
The forum was organized by the cooperative efforts of United States Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman and Chairman of the US Delegation to the OSCE PA Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) and German Bundestag Member Dr. Gert Weisskirchen. Helsinki Commission Members Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) and Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL), as delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly, actively participated in the discussions.
The forum also included parliamentarians from Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom. OSCE PA President Bruce George and Secretary General Jan Kubis also attended the meeting.
Participants expressed their readiness to support the Parliamentary Assembly's Berlin Declaration of July 2002 denouncing anti-Semitic violence and agreed that a pro-active approach by parliaments and governments are essential to counter anti-Semitism throughout the 55-nation OSCE region. That measure, based on a draft introduced by the U.S. delegation, was unanimously adopted in Berlin.
Dr. Weisskirchen and Rep. Smith obtained substantial support for the German-U.S. joint action plan of December 2002 to combat anti-Semitism which encourages "all OSCE countries to enact appropriate criminal legislation to punish anti-Semitic acts and ensure that such laws are vigorously enforced." The action plan also addresses the need for renewed educational efforts to counter anti-Semitic attitudes and stereotypes, and the proliferation of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi material via the Internet.
Dr. Weisskirchen opened the Vienna meeting by recalling Germany's experience and stressed the importance of preventive action. He said that anti-Semitism is a virus that may appear small in the beginning but can quickly gain momentum, poison the body of state institutions and destroy democracy itself.
Co-Chairman Smith cited the need for collective action and referred to a resolution he and Commissioner Cardin introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to combat anti-Semitism that places particular emphasis on law enforcement and education.
Mr. Michel Voisin, head of France's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly, described a new law passed unanimously by both houses of the French Parliament that doubles penalties for anti-Semitic and racist violence. He cited the law as an example of decisive action parliaments can take. Voisin noted that prior to the approval of this law on February 3, 2003, anti-Semitic and racist motives were not taken into account when punishing perpetrators of violence. According to Voisin, France is vigorously tackling the problem posed by proliferation of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi material over the Internet and stressed that providers who knowingly promulgate such material will be held responsible.
Austrian journalist and human rights activist, Marta Halpert, addressed the gathering as an expert witness. Citing the Austrian experience, she underscored how political populism was breaking old taboos in many European countries. Populists sought to fill gaps in the political spectrum by appealing to frustrated voters seeking simple solutions to complex problems, according to Halpert.
Halpert said politicians such as Jörg Haider in Austria and Jürgen Möllemann in Germany used language to encourage those in the electorate who assert that "the Jews encourage anti-Semitism themselves." She noted how Haider's high profile has enabled individuals with extremist views to "enter the mainstream" and cited the example of an Austrian neo-Nazi who writes a regular column for a high circulation national newspaper. Halpert stressed the importance of politicians in all parties to vigorously denounce those who use xenophobia and anti-Semitism to appeal to the base fears of the electorate.
Parliamentarians from several other OSCE participating States, including Canada, the Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden and Denmark, expressed their support for the joint German-American efforts. Canadian Senator Jerry Grafstein, OSCE PA Treasurer ,strongly endorsed the German-American initiative and praised the OSCE for leading international institutions in combatting anti-Semitism. He reminded his colleagues that "silence is acquiescence" and stressed that all parliamentary bodies of the OSCE participating States should take a strong, public stance condemning anti-Semitism in all its forms.
Members of the Canadian, French, German, Italian and Swedish delegations signed formal statements of solidarity with the German-American initiative.
Canadian MP and Third Committee Vice-Chair Sven Robinson said the fight against anti-Semitism attracts support across party lines in his country where efforts are underway to formulate a stronger response to those responsible for hate crimes.
Czech MP and head of delegation Petr Sulak expressed solidarity with the initiative and recalled the immense suffering that anti-Semitism had brought to his country and elsewhere in central Europe. In his country alone, more than 300,000 had perished in the Holocaust.
Italian Senator Luigi Compagna and MP Marcello Pacini highlighted proposals introduced into Italian legislative bodies to condemn anti-Semitism. According to Compagna and Pacini, such proposals are unprecedented.
Various speakers raised the need to counter the proliferation of racist and anti-Semitic material through the Internet and endorsed the French delegation's call for restrictions.
Canadian MP Clifford Lincoln asserted that Internet service providers had to assume a greater sense of responsibility and questioned why measures to accomplish this would be a restriction on freedom of speech. Germany's head of delegation, Bundestag Member Rita Süssmuth, said that speech should not be permitted to "ignore the dignity of others."
Rep. Cardin noted the need to trace material transmitted by the Internet more easily, but noted the delicacy involved in finding ways to do this that respect the right of freedom of expression.
Rep. Cardin also congratulated the French on the passage of their new law and particularly endorsed its emphasis on motivation for a criminal act. This distinction was of great importance. He added that we also needed to increase the capability of schools and teachers to instruct the next generation to be fair minded and tolerant. Echoing this sentiment, Mr. Smith pointed out that youth are not inherently inclined to hate, but needed to be "taught by their seniors to hate." He advocated that more resources should be devoted to promoting Holocaust awareness.
Danish MP Kamal Qureshi also recommended better education and training for police, who needed to learn how to distinguish between anti-Semitic and racist motivated crime and common criminal acts. U.S. Helsinki Commission and OSCE PA Vice President Rep. Alcee Hastings suggested the OSCE consider granting a special award to individuals who had done the most in the region to combat anti-Semitism.
U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE, Stephan Minikes, spoke of plans by OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, to hold a special conference on anti-Semitism. The date for such an OSCE conference has not been announced, but officials anticipate the two-day Vienna meeting will precede the Parliamentary Assembly's July 2003 Annual Session to be held in Rotterdam. Topics will likely include the role of governments in monitoring anti-Semitism, appropriate legislation, education, law enforcement training and the role of civic leaders and NGOs in combatting anti-Semitism.
Russian Duma member, Elena Mizulina, noted that some progress has been made in her country. She hailed a new law condemning racism and extremism as a "milestone," and praised the efforts of President Vladimir Putin in supporting the legislation. However, according to Mizulina, much work remains.
Mizulina said that anti-Semitic attitudes in Russia are much too common among the general population as well as elected officials. She said such attitudes are particularly common in Russia's provinces where even certain state governors were still not embarrassed to express anti-Semitic views openly. Mizulina said that representatives from Russia and other CIS countries need to speak out more forcefully to condemn anti-Semitism and racism. She added that the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has not done enough and strongly endorsed the notion that anti-Semitism be considered as a separate agenda item at the Rotterdam meeting.
Delegates also welcomed the decision by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, to convene a special OSCE meeting on xenophobia and anti-Semitism in the coming months. At the same time, they agreed that the Parliamentary Assembly needs to remain actively involved and that continuing the fight against anti-Semitism must be a high priority item at the Assembly's Annual Session.
The United States Helsinki Commission, an independent federal agency, by law monitors and encourages progress in implementing provisions of the Helsinki Accords. The Commission, created in 1976, is composed of nine Senators, nine Representatives and one official each from the Departments of State, Defense and Commerce.


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Weekend Box Office: 'Cars 2′ Cruises to Victory
As expected, Pixar's 'Cars 2′ easily took first place at the weekend box office, netting a healthy $68 million. That's about $8 million higher than the original 'Cars,' which opened to $60.1 million in 2006.
Also opening strong this weekend was the R-rated comedy 'Bad Teacher.' The Cameron Diaz vehicle exceeded all expectations to gross an astonishing $31 million.
Meanwhile, last week's champ, 'Green Lantern,' dropped a dangerous 65 percent to earn just $18.4 million, presumably due to bad buzz and word of mouth.
Rounding out the top five were 'Super 8,' which grossed a steady $12.1 million, and 'Mr. Popper's Penguins,' with $10.3 million.


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A bizarre mass stabbing at a southern China rail station on Saturday that killed at least 29 people and wounded 143 others is being blamed on Muslim separatists.
As we reported on Saturday, the 10 knife-wielding assailants randomly stabbed people at the Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province.
Xinhua citing city officials says the attackers, who were shot or subdued by police, are thought to be affiliated with Xinjiang (province) separatist forces, an allusion to Muslim Uighurs, and that authorities consider the incident "an organized, premeditated violent terrorist attack."
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post:
"The attack came ahead of the opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on Monday and the National People's Congress on Wednesday."
"This is traditionally the most politically sensitive time of the year, with the government eager to maintain stability and paint a rosy picture as thousands of delegates and government leaders head to the capital."
Bloomberg reports that China's state media "have already labeled it a terrorist attack and referred to the incident as "China's '9-11.'"
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