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These days, baseball's sun rises in the West Momentum has shifted in both leagues as competition intensifies, spending increases By Lyle Spencer/MLB.com | January 08, 2013 10:00 AM ET The East is still a beast, and the Central always keeps the heartland humming, but the West -- until proven otherwise -- is the best. San Francisco is envisioning a third World Series championship in four years. Oakland, across the bay, is intent on proving that its 2012 rags-to-silk rise was no fluke. Down south, Dodgers and Angels fans are ecstatic over winter moves that created the very real possibility of a first Freeway Series in October. Images of Zack Greinke in a Dodgers rotation with Clayton Kershaw, and Josh Hamilton hitting behind Mike Trout and Albert Pujols, superstars all, have the faithful buzzing throughout the Southland. Beyond California's golden borders, Texans are convinced that the restructured Rangers still have the goods to challenge, and Arizonans believe it's just a matter of time before the D-backs' youthful collection of arms take them where the Giants have gone. Colorado, San Diego, Seattle and new American League West entry Houston understand there is ground to make up as their young talent matures. The West clearly is in the middle of a renaissance. It is rooted in bold management decisions, new cable-TV riches on the horizon and, crucially, a return to a time when pitching, defense, timely hitting and speed were the decisive elements, not swinging for the upper deck. Is there any other way to explain the Giants winning another World Series a few months ago after hitting fewer home runs than any team in the Majors? This dramatic shift westward in Major League Baseball's power structure has been three years in the making, dating back to the winter following a 2009 World Series in which Hideki Matsui and the Yankees lowered the boom on the Phillies in an East showdown. Since then, the Giants -- featuring a superb rotation and lights-out bullpen -- have put their stamp on two of the past three World Series for the revitalized National League. The West could be working on three in a row if the Rangers had managed to produce that elusive final out in memorable Game 6 of the 2011 World Series in St. Louis. Since 2010, four of the six Fall Classic teams have come out of the West. The other two have been from the Central divisions. The East has been shut out. While audacious acquisitions by the Angels and Dodgers has kept Los Angeles at the forefront of the winter dialogue, the champions in San Francisco have been content to keep the winning chemistry intact in pursuit of a repeat. The Giants' neighbors in Oakland, having stepped out of the shadows in the dream season of architect Billy Beane, quietly added another talented member to the cast in center fielder Chris Young, who will be applauded by the young, gifted pitching staff. "It's going to come down to pitching and defense, and it always does in the postseason," said Oakland's Bob Melvin, the 2012 AL Manager of the Year. "That's how you win games. Good pitching usually will keep the hitting down. We feel like as far as that goes, we're ahead of the game. That's where our strength is, [in] our pitching." Southern California might be monopolizing the offseason with the mega-deals for Greinke and Hamilton, but the Bay Area is the sports' rightful focal point. The champion Giants and A's are defending division titlists, with Oakland's out-of-nowhere crown ranking among the most stunning in decades. The balance began to tilt with the 2010 World Series, seized by the Giants at Texas' expense. The Rangers, strengthened by the addition of free agent Adrian Beltre, came achingly close in 2011 before the Cardinals staged their Fall Classic rally for the ages in Game 6 and rode the resulting momentum to the Series title. In 2012, the West was simply dominant, regular season and postseason alike. Once again, the Giants owned the Fall Classic with a sweep of the Tigers, bringing manager Bruce Bochy's troupe to 8-1 in World Series games. A calm leader always thinking of the big picture, Bochy clearly knows how to bring a team to peak form when it counts most. While the Giants were distancing themselves from the heavily fortified Dodgers in the NL West with a 48-28 second half, the AL West was proving to be the best of the six divisions, its .542 overall winning percentage trumping the AL East (.519) and NL East (.514). Prevailing with a remarkable late kick, Oakland displaced two-time defending division-champion Texas. Third in the AL West, the 89-73 Angels would have won the Central, taken by the eventual league-champion Tigers. Cellar-dwelling Seattle had a better record (75-87) than three Central clubs and two from the East. The arrival of Houston, bringing balance to the six divisions and two leagues, figures to be of immediate benefit to the four AL West holdovers in winning percentage. If the Astros approach their 29-50 intradivision record of 2012, it will enhance the possibility of as many as three division teams reaching the postseason. "We know it's a difficult division, maybe the most difficult in baseball," said Astros GM Jeff Luhnow. "But the NL Central is no pushover, with the Reds, Cardinals, Milwaukee. [Astros owner and chairman] Jim Crane said it best: For us to win the World Series, we've got to beat everybody. You play up to your competition." continued... .
continued... Like the summer and autumn, the winter has fallen under the spell -- fiscal, not physical -- of West titans. The Dodgers and Angels, sharing Los Angeles in name if not geography, continue to spend freely in anticipation of the influx of cable-TV riches in the billions. The Dodgers, under Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter, have supplanted the Yankees with the sport's highest payroll. It is currently at $209.6 million, according to Cots Baseball Contracts, and projected by Baseball-Reference.com to reach about $214 million by Opening Day. The Yanks are at $189.45 million, projecting to $206 million. "We're going for it now, of course, but we're in it for the long haul," said Magic Johnson, the most visible partner in Guggenheim Baseball Management. "We want the Dodgers to be champions again for years to come. I'm really happy to be part of an organization that is this committed to winning and doing it the right way, with good people." The Angels, investing a total of $442.5 million the past two winters in Pujols, C.J. Wilson and Hamilton alone, backloaded those deals and are at $126 million for 2013, on their way to an estimated $149 million. That would put them in a virtual tie with the Tigers for third, with the Phillies' payroll expected to reach about $160 million. The Red Sox, thanks largely to the Dodgers taking on the hefty contracts of Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett in August, are projected to come in at about $145 million. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly, given his Yankees roots, is aware of the heightened expectations created by a star-studded cast such as his, led by Matt Kemp, Kershaw, Greinke, Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez and Andre Ethier. "Any time you have a payroll that's going to look like ours, people are going to put a lot of pressure on you, a lot of expectations," Mattingly said. "We've got to be willing to live up to that. "Obviously, the Giants had a great year last year. Watching them play through the playoffs, that was a very special group. I think you always have to have an eye on 'How did they do it? How did all the teams do it [that] end up winning?' They kind of do it with pitching. I think you always start there. You say it every year. You're going to try to build it with pitching. "We've got to be accountable to play the game the right way, being ready, being prepared, knowing that it's going to be a tough road. And we don't want to be in the situation we were in last year, where we were coming down the stretch having to win every day just hoping for a Wild Card one-game playoff." Kershaw and Greinke form as dynamic a tandem as the game offers, but an erratic offense was the Dodgers' undoing in 2012. Their 3.34 team ERA was eclipsed only by the Rays' 3.19 and Nationals' 3.33. The Giants, owing in large part to the baffling struggles of Tim Lincecum, came in at 3.68. A return to form by The Freak would make the Giants all the more imposing, with the lineup returning intact. What we've learned over these past three seasons is that when 2012 NL MVP Buster Posey is healthy, San Francisco wins. He's as valuable as any player in the sport. After the Dodgers signed Greinke, who was his No. 2 starter behind Jered Weaver, Angels owner Arte Moreno once again shocked insiders with his stealth move on Hamilton. On paper, the slugger gives his new club a lineup without equal. The Angels also made moves to shore up their bullpen with free agents Ryan Madson and Sean Burnett. A deep relief corps could be essential for a newly designed rotation, with Tommy Hanson, Jason Vargas and Joe Blanton replacing Greinke, Dan Haren and Ervin Santana. Weaver is due for a Cy Young Award, and Wilson vows to have a more consistent, injury-free second season in Anaheim. Weakening the Rangers, who also lost Mike Adams and Mike Napoli to free agency and traded Michael Young to the Phillies, had to be part of Moreno's motivation in landing Hamilton. Pending a big deal -- Justin Upton and Giancarlo Stanton are intriguing names -- the Rangers will have a different look in 2013, sacrificing thunder for lightning. Jurickson Profar might get a chance to show he can be Texas' answer to Trout, and other valued talents, such as Craig Gentry, Mike Olt and Leonys Martin, figure to get a crack at more playing time. Whatever the lineup eventually looks like, the Rangers will have quality pitching supported by players who know how to win. The cupboard is hardly bare. The Mariners have added some thump in Kendrys Morales and are looking for more in support of Felix Hernandez and an impressive group of arms. The NL West has the resources to be just as loaded as the AL West. With one bold move for a booming bat, such as the Marlins' Stanton, the youthful Padres could jump right into the conversation with the big guys. "I remember when I came over to Arizona, in 2007, and the perception was that the West was very weak," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "That's obviously not the case now. The Giants have won the World Series [twice in three years]. We've been competitive. The Dodgers, they're obviously very motivated and have great resources to do so. The Padres have certainly turned it around. "The whole league is obviously very strong. It's challenging every series that you play. But the West is certainly very formidable. We played [well] against the Giants last year. We were 9-9. They beat us the last two games. It's a lot of fun playing against the teams out west. A lot of fun." Bochy, never one to overreact, is up for the latest challenge. "I think clubs are really trying to build up their bullpens in particular to improve their pitching staffs, but also their defense -- there's more attention paid to that," Bochy said. "The last thing you want to do is give up more than three outs in an inning. I think really in our division, too, with the bigger ballparks, it just seems like teams have gone more toward pitching and defense. I know that's what we wanted to do, and it's worked well for us. "Instead of trying to slug it out with the other team, play the game -- and, hopefully, you've got a pitching staff that's going to keep you in the game, give you a chance to win. The more often you do that, chances are the more games you're going to win. I think Atlanta showed that in the '90s, all the success they had when you look at the pitching. They caught the ball and won a lot of ballgames." The champs are not old and fading. The Giants' marquee players are in their prime. They already own one more World Series title than Bobby Cox's dynastic Braves. If more are on the way, they'll be pressed every step of the way in the Wild, Wild West.


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Sol 3217: Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm, on August 24, 2021, Sol 3217 of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, at 12:04:53 UTC.
When this image was obtained, the focus motor count position was 14002. This number indicates the internal position of the MAHLI lens at the time the image was acquired. This count also tells whether the dust cover was open or closed. Values between 0 and 6000 mean the dust cover was closed; values between 12500 and 16000 occur when the cover is open. For close-up images, the motor count can in some cases be used to estimate the distance between the MAHLI lens and target. For example, in-focus images obtained with the dust cover open for which the lens was 2.5 cm from the target have a motor count near 15270. If the lens is 5 cm from the target, the motor count is near 14360; if 7 cm, 13980; 10 cm, 13635; 15 cm, 13325; 20 cm, 13155; 25 cm, 13050; 30 cm, 12970. These correspond to image scales, in micrometers per pixel, of about 16, 25, 32, 42, 60, 77, 95, and 113.
Most images acquired by MAHLI in daylight use the sun as an illumination source. However, in some cases, MAHLI's two groups of white light LEDs and one group of longwave ultraviolet (UV) LEDs might be used to illuminate targets. When Curiosity acquired this image, the group 1 white light LEDs were off, the group 2 white light LEDs were off, and the ultraviolet (UV) LEDS were off.
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This months Sugar High Friday theme is sweets with an Asian twist. I could could not resist participating with a theme like this. I really enjoy using Asian ingredients like matcha (powdered green tea), azuki beans, black sesame seeds, in sweets. I particularly like the matcha and white chocolate combo. Recently I have not been able to get the images of these chocolate mascarpone brownies out of my head. They just looks so dense and moist and chocolaty and good. I thought that a matcha and white chocolate version would be really nice. (I am not really sure if they were still brownies at this point or if they become blondies or something else…) I decided to go with a straight dark chocolate ganache to contrast the flavours a bit but I was thinking of that a white chocolate and green tea ganache would also be nice.
The only changes that I made to the recipe were replacing the dark chocolate with white chocolate and replacing the cocoa powder with matcha. I was not sure how much matcha to use so I started with one tablespoon. The batter looked nice and dark green and I could really taste the green tea so I stopped there. The matcha white chocolate mascarpone brownies came together easily and tasted really good. They were nice and dense and moist and fudge like in texture. Matcha is slightly bitter and it tempered the sweetness of the white chocolate and the brownie had the perfect amount of sweetness. Unfortunately the nice dark green colour faded with baking and the green tea flavour was not strong enough to stand up to the chocolate ganache topping. The next time I make these, and I will be making them again, I will use two tablespoons of matcha and I will either use a thinner layer of chocolate ganache or skip the ganache entirely. Of course the the rich, dense brownies went well with a glass of milk or a cup of green tea.
Green Tea White Chocolate Mascarpone Brownies with Chocolate Ganache
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 3 ounces white chocolate (chopped)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon matcha (green tea powder)
- 1/2 cup mascarpone cheese (softened)
- 3 large eggs (room temperature)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Melt the butter and chocolate in a double boiler.
- Mix in the sugar and matcha.
- Beat in the mascarpone, eggs and vanilla.
- Fold in the flour and salt.
- Pour the batter into a greased 8×8 inch baking pan.
- Bake in a preheated 325F/170C oven until a toothpick poked into the middle comes out clean, about 55-60 minutes.
- Pour the ganache over the brownies and wait until it is firm before cutting.
Chocolate Ganache
- 6 tablespoons heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 6 ounces dark chocolate (chopped)
- Heat the cream and butter in a small sauce pan until just before it boils.
- Pour the cream and butter over the chocolate in a bowl.
- Stir until smooth.
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You find out so much about a country, you know, when it's hosting the Olympics. It's almost as if the games lay bare a nation's soul. NPR's Philip Reeves says that is what's happening in Britain. He's finding the experience unnerving, as he explains, in this letter from the Olympics.
PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: Shortly before these Games began, I saw an unusual interview on TV. It was with a middle-aged Englishman, wrapped in a British Union flag. He was very excited. He said he's going to spend the entire Games at home on his sofa with his wife, watching them on TV. This would be their summer vacation. Why are you so interested in the Olympics, the TV reporter inquired. Is it track sports you like or maybe gymnastics or rowing? No, it's not that, the man replied. It's because my wife and I, we both like crying.
Not so long ago, I returned to Britain after 20 years away. When I left this country, there wasn't a lot of crying. Teachers at my schools, in the '60s and '70s, never cried. I never saw my father cry. We cried as children, of course, in pain and protest. But the adults made it very clear to us that tears were a worthless currency, about as welcome in Britain as the euro is today. Sporting triumphs were rewarded with a firm handshake, a pat on the back and a small silver cup.
The last time the British wept like this, I was overseas. That was when Princess Diana died. They had good cause. Now, the Olympics have set them off again. British tears are flowing faster than their summer rain. I don't blame the athletes. They put themselves through hell. They're entitled to a little weep when they win or lose. But what about all those Brits, happily weeping away in the crowd? And what about all those sports commentators, who, when a Brit wins a medal, start tearing up, who are constantly asking people about how emotional they feel, about how much they're crying? It's as if these Games are a gigantic TV reality show, which I suppose, in a way, they are.
There's more to this, though. I suspect the British are crying in relief. Over the last few years, they've watched one villain after another parade across their TV screens - rotten bankers, thieving politicians, wicked media barons, incompetent cops, dishonest journalists. What a relief to find the country actually has some sporting heroes, even if, a week ago, most of us had no idea who most of these athletes are, and in a couple of months, we'll have forgotten their names. What's wrong with that? Nothing. But I find it disconcerting. You see, the English have a skeptical streak I rather like - an ability to raise an eyebrow, to exchange meaningful glances and wry smiles when they catch the whiff of something bogus. Where are all the skeptics now? The answer is they saw these Olympic Games coming. Being skeptics, they concluded - wrongly, as it's so far turned out - that London would be unbearably congested during the Games. They took off on vacation abroad, leaving all the bawlers behind on the sofa - and the bawlers are having a ball. Philip Reeves, NPR News, London. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Frag is a 3D first person shooting game written in Haskell, by Mun Hon Cheong. It is licensed under the GPL. The design and implementation of Frag is described in Mun's 2005 undergraduate thesis, Functional Programming and 3D Games. An AI system for Frag is described in Jayatheeban Soundararajan's 2007 undergrad thesis, also titled Functional Programming and 3D Games.
- Yampa, a domain-specific embedded language for the programming of hybrid systems that using the concepts of Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) was used to program the game entities.
- The Quake 3 BSP level format, Q3Map2, and the MD3 format for models and animations are used in this game.
- Sven Panne's OpenGL binding, HOpenGL is used to render graphics.
- GHC 8 (2017 fork) or GHC 6.8 or greater, providing HOpenGL-2.0.
- OpenGL drivers that support the vertex array and multi-texture OpenGL extensions
- Frag has portability problems. It is known to work on i386 and AMD64, and known not to work on big-endian systems.
See the blog article A Haskell eye for the windows guy for the list of requirements and how to install for Windows users.
The original code can be downloaded from Hackage; it is also distributed via a Darcs repository:
darcs get http://code.haskell.org/frag
A port for GHC 8 is available: https://github.com/rainbyte/frag
Frag needs contributions from the community! Submit pull requests to https://github.com/rainbyte/frag
(Note that these screenshots are of the old level, which was replaced for copyright reasons.)
BibTeX Entry
@mastersthesis{Frag, author = {Mun Hon Cheong}, title = {Functional Programming and 3D Games}, year = {2005}, month = {November}, school = {University of New South Wales}, address = {Sydney, Australia}, abstract = {Games are commonly programmed in imperative languages. Functional languages have been known to have benefits but have rarely been used to program games. In this thesis we implement a first person shooting game in Haskell and Yampa. The merits of this approach are examined.} }


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Speed Racer: The Birth Story
The first contraction hit at 7:46 pm. I know this, because I checked the time. I was pretty sure that it was just more false labor, but still. One always hopes. So I checked the time, and then went back to eating my fajita.
Ten minutes later another contraction hit. Ow, I said to no one in particular. That hurt.
Was that one different? HBF asked. Is it time?
Probably not. I'll just wait and see.
Eight minutes later I was doubled over. Emilia pulled out her doctor's kit and held the stethoscope to my belly. Baby brother wants to come out now?
I don't know sweetie.
HBF: Should we go in?
I don't know. It might be another false alarm.
HBF: I think we should go in.
I don't know. (*doubles over*)
HBF: Seriously.
Fifteen minutes later we were in the car, no thanks to me. I dawdled, even as the contractions sped up, reluctant to go in to the hospital and face another round of eye-rolling if these were, as I thought, just another bout of bad false contractions. HBF prodded and pushed until I relented and buckled into the passenger seat. We drove away at 8:26pm, just as another bad contraction hit.
And then another.
And another.
We were barely fifteen minutes from home - and still probably some thirty minutes from our downtown hospital - when it became apparent that whatever was happening was happening quickly. Very quickly. Since we'd left home, the contractions had gone from eight minutes or so apart to barely a minute apart to not apart at all. HBF called 911; 911 patched him through to an ambulance; the ambulance advised that we pull off the highway and wait for them.
HBF: Pull off and wait?
(Me: GAAAAAR-OHMYGOD-GAAAAAR-NOTGOINGTOMAKEIT-GAAAAAR!!!)
(Emilia: WHAT'S MOMMY YELLING 'BOUT DADDY?!)
HBF: I really don't think we have time to stop and wait.
Ambulance Dispatch: We can't chase you down, sir.
HBF: Then I'll just keep driving.
Mad vehicular dashes to hospitals with women in labor are usually played for laughs on film and television. Let me tell you: there is nothing funny about racing toward a hospital that seems to recede ever further into the horizon as you speed forward in excruciating pain, your body completely out of your control, medical disaster ever more imminent with every passing second. Even when the toddler in the back seat starts shouting MOMMY YOU NEED MEDICINE YOU NEED MY TOADSTOOL? it's not funny. It's stone-cold terrifying.
And when your body just starts bearing down and pushing and you cannot stop it and then you're still like ten minutes away from the hospital and the baby starts shoving its way out of your parts and OMG YOU CAN FEEL IT COMING OUT? Then? Your mind kind of snaps.
(So does the mind of your husband, who at this point is simultaneously driving a speeding vehicle with one hand on the horn and the other trying to feel for baby's head between your legs while shouting into his phone-headpiece to someone at the ER that the baby's coming the baby's coming you need to be ready when we get there!)*
We arrived at the hospital at about 9:05pm. At the wrong entrance. Which was locked. Sufficient banging and the luck of some random guy wandering through the lobby got us in, and much shouting from HBF brought the medical team that had been waiting for us running. I was already mid-delivery: the bag of waters was being involuntarily pushed out - intact - and the baby was crowning. Eleven minutes later, at 9:16pm - after much horror-movie-worthy screaming - Jasper was out.
90 minutes from start to finish of active labor. Eleven minutes after stepping out of the vehicle. Fourth degree tearing (borderline) requiring on-the-spot surgery which, you know, without epidural or spinal anaesthesia or anything more significant than local anaesthetic and an extra-strength Tylenol? Almost as hair-raising as the near in-vehicle delivery. Almost.
It was terrifying. The most terrifying experience of my life, bar nothing.
But still, still... after all that - there's him. Big and hale and hearty and a joy - an infinite joy - to behold. Worth any measure of terror, worth any measure of pain.
And the best birthday present ever.
HBF broke, like, a zillion traffic laws, but he was a hero, he really was, getting us to the hospital in the nick of time. We found out immediately after the birth that we couldn't have delivered Jasper safely without help - the cord was wrapped around his neck. There was, quite literally, not a second to spare. My mind snaps a little bit more every time I think about this. Which is why I'm going to try to not think about it anymore.
I bitch about the gods a lot, but someone or something was looking out for us. And for that - for everything - I am deeply, deeply grateful.
Now, am going to rest. Really.
Because you asked: he weighed 9 lbs 2 oz - just a hair under what the ultrasound indicated. Around 20 inches long with a VERY big head (and chubby cheeks with one dimple).
And Emilia was right there until the gory parts, at which point she was enlisted by nurses to help supervise the nursing desk until it was slightly less terrifying for her to enter the room. When she did rejoin us, she was all smiles - huge smiles - and bursting with pride for having helped bring her baby brother into the world.
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So the references here: this Japanese street style photo, this cigarette carton, this girl's pink hair and cat and pink dress with cats on it, Ouija boards, this creepy cat, and CL's dress and pink fairy guitar strap on a seafoam green guitar. I guess like...fairy incense-smelling witch satanic cat hippie granny? Sounds about good to me.
Oh, this is random, but my talk at IdeaCity from back in June is now up. I'm afraid to watch it but if you're interested, it's here. I wrote about it a while ago, here.
And now the longest outfit credit list/breakdown ever:
This brooch used to be my grandma's and was added because it kind of reminds me of that cigarette carton. Same with the vintage bolero. The pearl necklace, which also used to be my grandma's, is for the sake of the granny vibe, and the Forever 21 feather necklace is for the hippie.
T-shirt is from the folks at Blood is the New Black. Satanic kitty! That sounds like an awful band name, but is not bad in t-shirt form. It was a bit too oversized for my liking so I cut a bit off the bottom.
This hairclip Monsoon Accessorize sent me is to counter the feather necklace and the colors are right. This coin purse thingy is from a family friend from a market and I added the ribbon.
The mint green shirt is a hand-me-down, added for Courtney's guitar. That off-white pleated dress is a gift from Fred Flare and is one of the only simple things I can wear without guilt because it's just so prettyyyy. Added with Courtney's dress in mind. The bow skirt is a gift from the ladies at Polly Sue's Vintage, added because its colors sort of tie in all the other ones in the outfit, and for the layering proportions. The print is kind of rad with the clogs, too. The pink mermaid-ish dress is vintage.
Miu Miu clogs from Bergdorf Goodman, added for the hippie vibe, the colors, and to counter the illustration from the bow skirt. I can't remember where this horn bracelet is from but I added it to make the outfit more gritty and less saccharine. The watch, like all my watches, doesn't work, and I got it at a local store when I was little.
That was so exhausting that I'm going to use it as an excuse to do nothing for the rest of the day.


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The Chilterns covers an area of outstanding natural beauty and is a nationally-protected area containing some of the finest countryside in the UK.
You can discover beautiful ancient woodlands, from carpets of bluebells in the spring to the golden colours of autumn, rare chalk streams, rolling downland and gorgeous panoramic views of the Vale of Aylesbury. There are miles of public rights of way for all to enjoy, including footpaths, open access routes, bridal ways and National Trails such as the ancient Ridgeway, part of the oldest road in Britain that follows the chalk escarpment of the Chiltern Hills.
Discover the many hidden treasures that lie within the Chilterns. The ancient landscape has traces still visible today of many previous settlers and is littered with Bronze Age barrows, archaeological remains, Iron Age forts, medieval churches and deer enclosures, 18th Century sawpits and 20th Century military trenches.
For a fantabulous day out or short stayover why not combine your visit to the Railway with a visit to some of our Nearby Attractions or see the historic houses of Hughenden, Chenies and Cliveden, or perhaps see the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, and much more.
Experience the rich wildlife in the Chilterns by walking through the ever-changing flora and fauna including orchids and butterflies, or spend some time at The Horse Trust.
The Chilterns played an important role in one of the greatest conservation success stories of the 20th Century; the reintroduction of the Red Kites, that were driven to extinction in England at the end of the 19th Century. In the early 1990s Red Kites were imported from Spain and released into the Chilterns and since have slowly been reintroduced into other areas of the UK. Why not have a picnic overlooking a stunning viewpoint and watch these majestic birds soaring over the rolling hills.
Find out more about the Chilterns Area of Outstanding National Beauty or see Visit Buckinghamshire for further inspiration please.


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Topic: Arts and Humanities, Music and Art
Tag: application, Audio, digital, knowledge, Music
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Price: USD 50.00
The new version of Introduction to Ableton Live featuring Ableton Live 10 will launch on April 20! In the past, Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) were programs used only by audio engineers with a highly specific knowledge base, on machines inaccessible to most people.
But over the past 10-15 years, DAWs and the act of recording music have evolved from being a luxury of the few to being available to the masses. Ableton Live is one such application. Used by an extremely broad range of music creators, Ableton Live not only facilitates the work of engineers, producers, and writers in professional, home, and mobile studio settings, but it is also a powerful platform for musicians on stage, in the DJ booth, and elsewhere.
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include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <firstname.lastname@example.com> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <firstname.lastname@example.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <firstname.lastname@example.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <email@example.com>


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In the news business, an evergreen is a story that doesn't have to run on a particular day, but can stay fresh for a long time.
This is an evergreen story about an evergreen. In particular, a group of plants called bryophytes. Turns out they may be evergreen quite a bit longer than most people thought.
The most famous bryophyte of them all is moss. "After a hundred years, a moss may look perfectly natural and even retain its green color," says Jonathan Shaw, a scientist at the bryology lab at Duke University.
But a hundred years is nothing compared with the bryophytes Catherine La Farge and her colleagues found on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. The Teardrop Glacier on Ellesmere Island has been receding rather rapidly recently. "We were aware that there was vegetation coming out from underneath the glacier," La Farge says. "But we had no idea that there was such a diversity of bryophytes that were coming out from underneath the glacier."
But if the diversity was impressive, even more so was what they saw when they brought the bryophytes back to their laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta.
"The material actually looked quite green when we examined it underneath the microscope. And in examining it in more detail, there was actually growth coming from the material," La Farge says. In other words, not only were the plants still green, they were green and growing, something La Farge says is pretty amazing.
She says bryophytes don't typically get a lot of attention from botanists, compared to the gaudier seed plants most people are familiar with.
As La Farge and her colleagues write in the current issue of the journal PNAS, "Our results emphasize the unrecognized resilience of bryophytes, which are commonly overlooked vis-a-vis their contribution to the establishment, colonization and maintenance of polar terrestrial ecosystems."
In fact, as glaciers around the world continue to recede, we may be hearing a lot more about bryophytes.
(Update at 8:45 a.m. ET, May 29: We're adding the audio of Joe's report for Morning Edition, which aired earlier today.)
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Is Slow Tourism a Way out of the Crisis?
31 Oct 2012
Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain have been ignominiously lumped together as the "PIGS," Europe's toxic, debt-ridden encumbrances. But three Taste Workshops held on Sunday October 28 at the Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre 2012 offered a new perspective on three of these countries' efforts to find a way out of the economic crisis, with a return to the countryside, a focus on typical, historic products and the promotion of tourism that goes beyond the usual sun, sand and sea clichés.
Greece has been the most high-profile victim of the crisis, and its wine industry has been suffering. Antonios Kioseoglou, an enologist with the Kir-Yianni winery and a member of the Slow Food Thessalonika East convivium, speaking during the workshop "Terra Madre Network: Wine and Cheese from Northern Greece," said that Greeks had effectively stopped buying wine. "Sales are down 20, 30 percent," he said. While there had been a rise in exports, perhaps because of all the publicity surrounding the country, he said it hadn't been enough to make up for falling domestic sales. "We're trying very hard to get wines out of Greece and let people know what's happening with Greek varieties."
For example, Xinomavro, a native grape variety, is incredibly versatile, able to produce sparkling white, sparkling rosé, still rosé, still red and sweet wines, examples of which were tasted during the workshop. "If we go to Merlot and Shiraz," said Kioseoglou, "we'll lose our identity and our heart and the things that make us different." He hopes that the wine industry can help boost tourism beyond the familiar Greek islands, with a well-developed network of wine routes in the inland areas.
Like the Greek islands, Spain's Canary Islands, a few hundred kilometers off the northwest African coast, are primarily known for mass tourism, with 12 million visitors a year (the population of the archipelago is 2 million). The huge development of the tourism sector from the 1970s led to a change in the islands' economy, with the abandonment of fishing, agriculture and other traditional activities, which now make up just 5% of the GDP, explained Jorge Manuel Zerolo Hernández, an agronomist, winemaker and member of the Slow Food Tenerife Convivium, during the workshop "Terra Madre Network: Wine and Cheese from the Canary Islands." He said that in the past few years, tourists have been arriving in the same numbers, but that they stay for a shorter time and spend less money. "So we are trying to show the other side of the Canary Islands, combining tourism and agriculture," he said. Gabriel Morales Frances, a winemaker and the Tenerife convivium leader, said that the wines and cheeses being tasted during the workshop were "an exemplification of the fact that the islands are not just sun and beaches."
Carlo Catani, the former director of the University of Gastronomic Sciences, was leading the workshop. "This crisis is reducing the number of jobs linked to tourism," he said, "but it can also bring some people back to the fields, and their extraordinary work can make the tourism much richer. Then it is no longer just 10 minutes on the beach. The tourists can go inland, get to know the landscape and the history and have a better experience."
The Canary Islands have a rich history of traditional products to draw on, produced in the varied microclimates around the islands. Cheeses are made from the raw milk of native goat, sheep and cattle breeds, like Queso Palmero, made from Palmera goats on La Palma island, or a sheep's cheese curdled with vegetable rennet made from a type of cardoon specific to the islands, both of which were tasted during the workshop.
Malvasia wines were among the first products to be exported from the Canaries, brought to the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors and mentioned by Shakespeare, John Locke and Kant, who used Canary wine as an example when exploring the concept of pleasurability. Different varieties of Malvasia grapes can be vinified to make a fresh, dry white or a complex, Solero-method sweet wine, able to age for decades.
Like the Canaries, the Algarve in southern Portugal has long been associated with mass tourism: package holidays, golf resorts and beaches lined with high-rise hotels. But the arid region is also a rich treasure trove of traditional products, many of which were tasted during the workshop "Terra Madre Network: Cheeses, Cured Meats and Wines from the Algarve." Sea salt, sweet potatoes, extra-virgin olive oil, blood sausage, chouriço, cured ham and goat's cheese were tasted, along with wines from native grapes and liqueurs flavored with almonds, honey and carob.
Rosa Dias, from the Quinta da Fornalha organic farm, exemplifies the new trend towards sustainable agriculture, ecotourism and organic products that is helping revitalize Portugal's quintas, small-scale farms. Using carob, almonds and figs, the young farmer makes truffles, jams, spirits and chutneys, focusing on quality ingredients and added value as a way to compete with large-scale industry.
"Only old men were left in the countryside," said Otília Eusébio, the president of Slow Food Algarve. "But now with the crisis, young people are returning. I think this crisis can be positive. Now for the first time young people are proud of tradition. They are leaving behind this disaster of globalization." Like the Canary Islands and Greece, the Algarve is also trying to move beyond the mass tourism model. "We don't want the Algarve just to be this stressful, exploited tourism destination. We want it to become slow touristically." Now, she said, "People are coming and discovering the genuine Algarve instead of the artificial Algarve."
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The Board of Directors of Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today declared a quarterly dividend on the company's common stock of $0.075 per share, payable on March 30, 2012, to holders of record February 29, 2012.
About Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy, and metrology.


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A meteor that scientists estimate weighed 10 tons streaked at supersonic speed over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured almost 1,000 people and frightened countless more.
The Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement that the meteor over the Chelyabinsk region entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of at least 54,000 kph and shattered about 30-50 kilometes above ground.
The fall caused explosions that broke glass over a wide area. The Emergency Ministry says more than 500 people sought treatment after the blasts and that 34 of them were hospitalized.
"There was panic. People had no idea what was happening. Everyone was going around to people's houses to check if they were OK," said Sergey Hametov, a resident of Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometers east of Moscow, the biggest city in the affected region.
"We saw a big burst of light then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud thundering sound," he told The Associated Press by telephone.
Another Chelyabinsk resident, Valya Kazakov, said some elderly women in his neighbourhood started crying out that the world was ending.
Some fragments fell in a reservoir outside the town of Cherbakul, the regional governor's office said, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. It was not immediately clear if any people were struck by fragments.
The agency also cited military spokesman Yarslavl Roshupkin as saying that a six-meter-wide crater was found in the same area which could be the result of fragments striking the ground.
Meteors typically cause sizeable sonic booms when they enter the atmosphere because they are travelling much faster than the speed of sound. Injuries on the scale reported Friday, however, are extraordinarily rare.
Interior Ministry spokesman Vadim Kolesnikov said that about 600 square meters of a roof at a zinc factory had collapsed. There was no immediate clarification of whether the collapse was caused by meteorites or by a shock wave from one of the explosions.
Reports conflicted on what exactly happened in the clear skies. A spokeswoman for the Emergency Ministry, Irina Rossius, told The Associated Press that there was a meteor shower, but another ministry spokeswoman, Elena Smirnikh, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying it was a single meteor.
Amateur video broadcast on Russian television showed an object speeding across the sky about 9:20 am local time (0320 GMT), leaving a thick white contrail and an intense flash.
Donald Yeomans, manager of US Near Earth Object Programme in California, said he thought the event was probably "an exploding fireball event."
"If the reports of ground damage can be verified, it might suggest an object whose original size was several meters in extent before entering the atmosphere, fragmenting and exploding due to the unequal pressure on the leading side vs. the trailing side (it pancaked and exploded)," Yeoman said in an email to The Associated Press.
"It is far too early to provide estimates of the energy released or provide a reliable estimate of the original size," Yeomans added.
Russian news reports noted that the meteor hit less than a day before the asteroid 2012 DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid — about 28,000 kilometers.
But the European Space Agency, in a post on its Twitter account, said its experts had determined there was no connection.
Small pieces of space debris – usually parts of comets or asteroids – that are on a collision course with the Earth are called meteoroids. When meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere they are called meteors. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere, but if they survive the frictional heating and strike the surface of the Earth they are called meteorites. [AP]


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I haven't said anything about this, because I've been waiting for the dear officials at the Turkish embassy to send me a document promising they'll allow me into their country, but I'm going abroad on June 2.
My job is not heavy with perks, but when they do come along they're big. I'm being sent on a tour with a bunch of the university's high rollers, which happens roughly once a year. I have to smile and make chitchat, provide an arm to lean on as we walk across cobblestones, host a cocktail party, and make sure all the ladies get to dance. All these things are, for me, quite a pleasure.
I've seen my list of 11 travelers and it's a comparatively youthful crowd, average age somewhere in the early seventies. That's nice, because it means that chances are we all listen to the same kind of music, and there are usually at least two other knitters.
It's not exactly a vacation. Although there are travel directors and guides to do the heavy lifting, as it were, on these trips I'm expected to be always "on" and usually find that by the return flight my face hurts from looking pleasantly interested in everything being said to me.
The Itinerary
We leave Chicago and fly to Istanbul by way of Munich. Munich is always fun because even when changing planes you get a full pat-down by a burly Teutonic security guard in tall boots.
After two days in Istanbul, we embark on the Minerva II for a two-week tour entitled "Islands of Antiquity." These will be our ports-of-call:
- Rhodes
- Crete (Ághios Nikólaos)
- Malta
- Sicily (Catania and Palermo)
- Sardinia
- Minorca (Mahón)
- Corsica
- Civitavecchia
- Rome
Travel Knitting
This paramount question is already settled. Susan's Maine stole, for the rare moments when I'm alone and can concentrate. And a Koigu vest (just begun) for the rest of the time. The Koigu was a rather stunning birthday gift from Kathy Merrick, the lady who changed my mind about crochet. (She'll change yours, too, if you check out her designs in Interweave Crochet.)
Travel Hostess
Except for my very first university tour, when my brother-in-law assisted as able co-host in the English Lakes, I've always been solo. Not this time.
I've finally faced facts. It's easier to drag her fleece-covered butt along than try to deal with the City of Chicago Police Department via ship-to-shore lines. Besides, her game of bridge is better than mine, which will take some of the pressure off me.
When I extended the invitation, instead of gratitude I got a startled gasp and a poke in the chest with a sharp hoof.
"Shit," she said. "You're giving me two lousy weeks to get ready for this?"
"What exactly do you need to do?"
"I have absolutely nothing to wear, shortcake. Zilch. One Diane von Furstenberg isn't gonna get a girl through two weeks on a lah-dee-dah cruise. Where's my purse? I need to get to Barneys."
"It's almost midnight."
"And I have to call my girlfriend Menekshe and let her know I'm coming through Istanbul–"
"Not Constantinople!"
"That wasn't funny the first time. And if we're going to be in Greece, I want to look up some old Navy buddies."
"I was in the Greek navy for a couple of weeks back in the seventies. Or should I say vice vers–"
"I can't hear you I can't hear you I can't hear you."
But she was already burrowing through the pile of clothes on the floor of her closet.
"I know I still have that Dolce and Gabbana thong in here somewhere. It was a big hit at Cannes a couple years ago. You think the Minerva has a topless sunbathing deck?"
"I rather doubt it."
She paused in her rummaging and frowned. "Cannes. Goddamn. You don't think Catherine Deneuve might be on the ship, do you?"
"I have no idea. Should I even ask why you're concerned?"
"Nah. It's ancient history. But of course she's got a memory like a elephant, that one. With hips to match."
Ms. Deneuve, I thought you were wonderul in Belle de jour. On the off chance that you might be joining us, will you please accept my apology in advance?


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Federal money for active-duty students is particularly attractive to for-profit schools, which have been signing up members of the services in record numbers.
So the Pentagon has developed new rules to ensure that service members are treated fairly when they use government money to attend college. Those rules are set to go into effect Jan. 1, but many of the nation's best-known schools say they cannot accept those requirements.
The dispute puts at risk millions of dollars in federal assistance.
At a hearing in September, Sen. Jim Webb said colleges need to provide more information so these students know what kind of school they are attending, and whether they can succeed there.
"Total cost of program, transfer ability of credits, default rates, graduation rates, job placement rates upon graduation are a few ways to ensure transparency," the Virginia Democrat said.
The Defense Department says they've been listening — and they're cracking down.
Starting in January, schools will have to sign a special memorandum before they can receive what's known as "tuition assistance" for active military. Schools must charge military and civilian students the same tuition. They have to give students a clear education plan. And, they have to try to give students academic credit for some of their military training.
That last point raised eyebrows at places like the University of California, where Lawrence Pitts is provost.
"UC has a very careful process for reviewing courses taken outside of UC," Pitts says.
He says he cannot promise in advance that University of California campuses will give credit for military training, as those schools want to review training courses one by one.
So, like other prestigious public and private universities, he says, the University of California will not sign that memorandum.
"If we did that on a regular basis," he says, "we would have a number of students ill-prepared and not be able to take full advantage of university education."
Many for-profit schools, however, have signed up. They say this shows they are more in tune with the needs of non-traditional students, like those in the service.
Brian Moran of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities says his for-profit members are happy to recognize military training.
"It's something that we feel is important to these service members, and we embrace seamless transferability of credit in recognition of the experience of active service military, as well," Moran says.
The fact that military money might be headed to more for-profit schools is particularly annoying to people like Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat. Harkin's committee has held hearings highlighting what he says are aggressive recruiting practices by for-profit schools, some targeting more than $500 million annually in tuition assistance.
"One has to ask: Why is it that all the good schools are not signing the memorandum of understanding, and all the bad actors are?" Harkin asks.
The Defense Department would not comment.
Military service groups have been outraged at the idea that students could not use their tuition assistance dollars at hundreds of recognized colleges. They've written to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, asking him to put these new rules on hold. They've been joined by 52 senators from both parties.
Some colleges say that if the issue isn't resolved, they will try to find money elsewhere so members of the military can stay in school.
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(Updated at 5:57 pm ET)
A day after Senate Democrats' chances of keeping control of the chamber seemed to improve with the news that Maine Republican Olympia Snowe was retiring from a seat Democrats seem likely to gain, they got apparently more good news — Bob Kerrey finally decided to run for the soon-to-be-vacated U.S. Senate seat from Nebraska.
Finally is the key word there because Kerrey had indicated he was considering a run before he indicated that he wouldn't run, only to later signal that he would run for a seat that would return him to the Senate where he served two terms before leaving in 2001.
Kerrey filed paperwork Wednesday to run for the seat now occupied by Sen. Ben Nelson, a Democrat who is retiring.
Before Kerrey's announcement Wednesday, the seat was seen as a highly likely pickup for Senate Republicans, getting them closer to their goal of gaining the four seats needed to take over running the Senate which currently has 51 Democrats, 47 Republicans and two independents.
Democrats hope that Kerrey, who was popular in Nebraska politics before he left the Senate, will still have enough luster to allow them to keep the seat. Kerrey, who was president of the New School in New York City from 2001 to 2010, won the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War.
Kerry has, fairly or not, been tagged as something of a political Hamlet because of how much he seems to deliberate over some decisions. (The Omaha World-Herald provides a list at the end of a story. The news outlet also has an informative piece on what Kerrey's entry into the Senate race means, especially since others entered the race after he earlier said he wouldn't.)
Kerrey will find a significantly different political climate than the one he left, however. Partisan polarization is even more intense than it was over a decade ago when he left Washington.
And earmarks have become a dirty word if not for lawmakers for many voters, especially in a red, conservative state like Nebraska. While Kerrey doesn't have a bridge to nowhere to his name he does have a bridge bearing his name.
And what a beautiful bridge it is. The Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge, dedicated in 2008, spanning the Missouri River and connecting Omaha, NE to Council Bluffs, IA was mostly funded by a $19 million earmark Kerrey secured in 2000 before he left the Senate.
It doesn't take much imagination to envision the bridge starring in a negative political ad by an opponent or superPAC.
And not all of the opposition will come from political right of center. Some progressives are already putting Kerrey on notice that he isn't their preferred candidate.
From a statement attributed to Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder Adam Green:
"Before leaving Nebraska, Bob Kerrey voted to deregulate Wall Street, voted for NAFTA, and voted for the Iraq War. Since leaving Nebraska, he's supported cutting Social Security benefits, raising the retirement age, and lowering corporate tax rates. Kerrey will clearly not be a priority for those looking to support populist candidates in 2012 — and Chuck Hassebrook will likely get a lot of attention."
Hassebrook entered the Senate race and decided not to stand for re-election to the University of Nebraska's Board of Regents when he, like many others, believed Kerrey would not run. After Kerrey made it clear he was in the race, Hassebrook said he would stay in too.
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France is known as a tolerant country on many social issues, yet the country is embroiled in a debate about same-sex marriage and adoption.
President Francois Hollande is following through on a campaign promise to bring full rights to gay couples. France legalized civil unions more than a decade ago, though same-sex couples must still go abroad to marry or adopt.
But opposition to Hollande's measure has been unexpectedly fierce, something the Socialist government wasn't expecting.
Thousands of supporters of same-sex marriage took to the streets in Paris last weekend in support of the government's plans to legalize marriage and adoption for gay couples.
But they were playing catch-up.
In October and November, groups opposed to same-sex marriage staged several large demonstrations across France, attracting tens of thousands of people. The new measure has highlighted the divide between urban and rural France.
Treading Carefully Around Religion
But rarely do demonstrators wave signs with Bible verses.
It's not about religion, at least not on the surface, says Gilles Wullus editor-in-chief of Tetu, a magazine for homosexuals.
"There is a kind of taboo in France for using religion in the political debate. There is a strong tradition of avoiding religious arguments in politics. That's French history," says Wullus. "So even for the conservatives it's very delicate to use religious beliefs. But that doesn't mean that religion is out of the mind[s] of these people."
In a rare move, and to the surprise of many, the French Catholic Church has become involved in the debate. Since the separation of church and state in France more than a century ago, the church rarely injects itself into political and societal matters.
But this time the archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Andre Vingt-Trois, spoke out on TV and radio, saying that society was threatened by such changes in the family structure. Many believe the Vatican is behind the church's rare outspokenness because France is a large and strategic Catholic country.
Other European Catholic countries, like Belgium and Spain, have already legalized gay marriage and adoption. Analysts say one reason France has not is that it was the first to adopt civil unions for same-sex couples in 1999.
A Debate About Parenting
Opposition to the new measure seems mainly centered around children.
Parisian Eric Robichon voices a commonly heard viewpoint: "I think gay couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples, like in matters of inheritance. After all, they pay taxes too. But I draw the line there. I think a child needs a father and a mother, and this could open a Pandora's box."
Wullus says the declining status of marriage is another reason the opposition is focused on children.
"Marriage is not a big institution in France. Most couples aren't married," Wullus says. "They have pacts, civil union or nothing. Unlike the U.S., marriage is not very well considered here, except in the bourgeois families."
The absence of a religious tone to the French protests seems strange to someone used to the Bible-centric, American opposition to gay marriage.
Recently in the city of Lyon, hundreds of people acted out a scene with a person dressed in a butterfly suit, with one wing that said "papa," and the other "maman."
As the newly hatched butterfly staggered to walk and stretch its wings, hundreds of men and women seated on the sidewalk on different sides of the creature reached out to prop him up, alternately screaming, "Mama! Papa!"
The message was clear — a child needs both parents to fully develop. But the scene was more than just bizarre.
The French government has been caught off guard by the strength of the opposition. After an outcry from a group of rural mayors who said they didn't want to marry same-sex couples, Hollande said they could call in their deputies to do it.
Hollande had to backtrack amid an uproar over whether people would now be able to choose the laws they wished to obey.
The bill legalizing gay marriage and adoption will go before parliament this spring. There is likely to be a contentious debate over whether it will include the right to assisted reproduction.
With or without this component, the law is set to be promulgated by June just ahead of Paris' annual gay pride parade.
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The "Liz & Dick" star must meet with a therapist at least three times a week until November 2014, Superior Court Judge James R. Dabney said, following the treatment recommendation of Richard Taite, founder and CEO of Cliffside Malibu, the rehab facility where Lohan was recently residing.
Taite wrote Dabney a letter stating the need for Lohan to remain in therapy.
"Our entire clinical team is in unanimous agreement that if these sessions are not required by the court and attendance verified once a month to ensure accountability, it is a setup for almost certain failure," Taite wrote.
The judge's ruling calls for Lohan to receive 18 months of therapy and gives her credit for the three months of rehab that she has just completed.
If the actress is traveling, she can meet with her therapist via videoconferencing software, the judge said.
Lohan, 27, was not present at the hearing meant to update Dabney on her progress.
The actress remains on probation for a pair of cases involving the theft of a necklace and lying to police about driving when her sports car slammed into a dump truck on Pacific Coast Highway in June 2012.
Taite praised Lohan's progress in recent months.
"We couldn't be happier with the progress Ms. Lohan has made in building a solid foundation from which to continue the excellent work she has begun here at Cliffside Malibu," he wrote.
Lohan started her treatment at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage and was later transferred to Cliffside Malibu. Her next court date is scheduled for November 2014.
The actress's latest film, "The Canyons" will have a limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles in August. She has signed a deal on OWN to appear in an eight-part series based on her life and will be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in August.


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Once the late-afternoon thunderstorm that blew through Alexandria on Thursday was out of sight, it became quite clear that the weather event was far from ordinary.
Focusing its rage on the eastern half of the city, the storms severe winds downed what was likely hundreds of trees though no official estimate has been released that in turn took out power lines en masse and blocked dozens of city streets at the height of rush hour.
This storm produced hurricane-force winds and Alexandria sustained a direct hit, Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille said at a press conference on Friday afternoon, with the Del Ray, Old Town and North Ridge neighborhoods experiencing the worst of the damage.
At the height of the thunder-boomer, roughly half of the city was without power, according to David Koogler, a spokesman for Virginia Dominion Power, which supplies electricity to the city.
A day later, that number was down to about 20 percent including the mayor, a Del Ray resident but many residents power did not return until Sunday.
We had Hurricane Agnes when I was a kid and Isabel in 2003, and I thought Isabel was the mother of all storms, said Euille, a city resident for 60 years. But this one I think was at the magnitude that you can take everything and combine it.
When Isabel hit, yes, we had power failures and outages and fallen trees, but nothing like the magnitude of yesterdays storm, he said.
The city government opened its emergency operations center by early evening to manage the response to the severe weather and declared a local emergency late Thursday to expedite the recovery process.
However, no serious injuries, accidents or deaths were reported, according to city officials.
City officials anticipated the cleanup effort would take at least a week or more, and trucks tasked with removing tree debris were still stationed in areas of Del Ray and North Ridge as late as Tuesday.
Alexandria was the hardest-hit locale in our entire service area, Koogler said Friday. Other areas Warrenton, Leesburg, Fairfax they were impacted, but not as significantly.
According to Koogler, hundreds of thousands of Virginia Dominion customers in Northern Virginia and elsewhere lost power at some point during Thursdays storm, but more than 10 percent were found in Alexandria alone.
The outages left many Old Town businesses in the dark albeit intermittently along King Street and also knocked out traffic signals throughout the eastern half of the city.
The severe storm also featured a remarkable electric display: More than 180,000 lightning strikes hit Virginia Dominion equipment over an eight-hour period during the storm an average of 300 lightning strikes per minute Koogler said.
Its an amazing statistic, he said.
Downed trees blocked portions of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in both directions for a time, but radio reports said the northbound section had reopened by 6:30 p.m.
As of 2 p.m. on Friday, 49 roads were still closed because of fallen trees, according to city spokesman Tony Castrilli. Many more were closed following the storm, but had already reopened.
Oddly enough, the storms path left the southwestern corner of the city unscathed, Euille said, without any of the complications found closer to the Potomac River.


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In stark contrast to last year's Stitches Midwest, at which Jon and I were two of the four knitting men in attendance, this year we've also got Lars coming in from New York and Sean traveling from Boston. And if our little tribe has thus increased, who knows how many other men will be coming?
Who else is going to be there, male or female? Speak up.
Here's my schedule:
Morning. Jon arrives at my apartment while I'm at work, signs standard non-disclosure statement that will be waiting on dining room table, makes self comfortable.Friday
Evening. Students' Market Preview. Not buying anything. Just going to look.
All day. No classes. Knit and schmooze, knit and schmooze. May visit Market, but won't be buying anything.Saturday
Afternoon. "Spinning for Knitting" with Merike Saarniit. [Author's note: Ill-judged diatribe deleted. So sue me. Merike turned out to be one of the most inspiring, masterful teachers I've ever encountered. I need to be more aware of how my own insecurities affect my writing. Lesson learned: experience first, evaluate after. More about Merike in my full report.]Sunday
Totally not buying anything at the Market.
All Day. "Knitting Ganseys" with Beth Brown-Reinsel. Jon's in this one, too. I can't wait. If Beth's as good as her book, this should be a treat.I'm skipping all the other muck - the fashion show, the dinner, the Big Lecture, etc. I suffered too much last year.
No time to buy anything at the Market.
The Big Lecture is on "Victorian Lace Today." The title puzzled me when I first saw it. A discussion of modern usages of lace patterns created between 1837 and 1901? Would that hold enough general interest to draw a large audience?
Then I saw the announcement of the new XRX book, Victorian Lace Today, and the motive became clear. I won't be buying the book. If they didn't catch the honking typographical error on the front cover, I'd hate to think what quality control was like for the interior.
Not to mention that I suspect the XRX idea of "Victorian" must be about as historically accurate and thoroughly researched as a Harlequin Romance novel.
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2013 NFL Week 17 Preview — 5 Intriguing Storylines to Watch
It's the final week of the 2013 regular season in the NFL. By Sunday night, we'll know which teams are moving on to the post-season, and which are not. Here are five storylines we'll be watching:
The Muddled AFC Wild Card Race
Various sites — Sun. Dec. 29
The Ravens, Dolphins, Chargers and Steelers are still alive for the AFC's sixth and final playoff spot. Each contender has a crucial intra-divisional game to win before claiming the conference's second wild card spot. Miami (8-7) hosts the N.Y. Jets (7-8). The Dolphins need a win and a loss by San Diego or Baltimore to lock up the playoff spot. Baltimore (8-7) plays at Cincinnati (10-5), but the Ravens must beat the AFC North champs and hope for a loss by San Diego. The Chargers (8-7) host Kansas City (11-4) and need a win, plus losses by Miami and Baltimore to advance to the post-season. Pittsburgh (7-8) hosts Cleveland (4-11). The Steelers must win and hope the Dolphins, Ravens and Chargers all lose. Miami advances if all four teams win; Baltimore advances if all four lose. Confused? Just wait until Sunday.
The NFC North Race Rests on Aaron Rodgers' Shoulder
Soldier Field, Chicago — Sun. Dec. 29 at 4:25 p.m. (ET)
Green Bay (7-7-1) travels to Chicago (8-7) where the Packers will welcome back quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who hasn't played since breaking his collarbone in his team's Nov. 4 loss to the Bears. The winning team captures the NFC North crown and a playoff spot; the loser goes home. Chicago blew a chance at winning the NFC North title outright last weekend when the Bears lost to the Eagles, 54-11.
The Seahawks Chase Home-Field Advantage
CenturyLink Field, Seattle — Sun. Dec. 29 at 4:25 p.m. (ET)
The Seattle Seahawks (12-3) host the St. Louis Rams (7-8) with a chance to clinch the NFC West and home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs with a win (or a loss by San Francisco). A Super Bowl favorite for weeks, the Seahawks are at risk of falling to the No. 5 seed — and having to play on the road — in the event of a loss and a 49ers win over the Cardinals.
Can the Saints March Into the Playoffs?
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans — Sun. Dec. 29 at 4:25 p.m. (ET)
New Orleans (10-5) hosts Tampa Bay (4-11) on Sunday with an opportunity to wrap up an NFC playoff spot. Drew Brees and the Saints' high-powered offense will be heavily favored over the Bucs, but they only squeaked out a 16-14 win over Tampa in Week 2. If New Orleans wins and Carolina loses at Atlanta, the Saints would claim the NFC South and the No. 2 seed.
The NFC East Title Game
AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Tex. — Sun. Dec. 29 at 8:30 p.m. (ET)
Philadelphia (9-6) visits Dallas (8-7) for a game that will decide the NFC East title. If the Cowboys can duplicate their 17-3 win over the Eagles in Week 7, they'll capture the division crown. If not, they'll sit home for the playoffs. Dallas may have to do so without starting quarterback Tomy Romo, who may be out with a back injury. If Romo can't go, backup QB Kyle Orton will get the start against a Philadelphia defense that has been solid recently save for an ugly loss at Minnesota in Week 15.


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Dental Amalgam
Dental Amalgam is a commonly used dental filling that has been used for over 150 years. It is a mixture of mercury with at least one other metal. Amalgam has many advantages over other restorative material, such as low cost, strength, durability, and bacteriostatic effects.
Amalgam is used in dentistry for a number of reasons. It is relatively easy to use and manipulate during placement; it remains soft for a short time so it can be packed to fill any irregular volume, and then forms a hard compound. Amalgam possesses greater longevity than other direct restorative materials, such as composite. On average, most amalgam restorations serve for 10 to 12 years, whereas resin-based composites serve for about half that time. However, with recent improvements in composite material science and a better understanding of the technique-sensitivity of placement, it should be noted that this difference is decreasing.
There are circumstances in which composite (white fillings) serves better than amalgam; when amalgam is not indicated, or when a more conservative preparation would be beneficial, composite is the recommended restorative material. These situations would include small occlusal restorations, in which amalgam would require the removal of a more sound tooth structure, as well as in "enamel sites beyond the height of contour."
The American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs has concluded that both amalgam and composite materials are considered safe and effective for tooth restoration.