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KING FAMILY CELEBRATES—Bernice King, center, and Christine King Farris, left, the daughter and sister of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., applaud while watching a broadcast as President Barack Obama is inaugurated following the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemorative service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 21. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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(RTNS)—President Barack Obama and the first family on Sunday visited Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Washington, D.C., known as the "National Cathedral of African Methodism" to worship.
About 1500 congregants and senior pastor Rev Ronald E. Braxton jubilantly welcomed the president on the eve of his inauguration, which is also the birthday of Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The church also sang happy birthday for First Lady Michelle Obama who turned 49 on Jan.17.
President Obama's visit to Metropolitan AME is significant because it also marked the eve of the church's historic 175th anniversary and underscores Obama's faith posture, which came under fire during his first term in office when some on the religious right were questioning his faith.
"It was beautiful and it was spiritual," said Tijuana Morris who attended the service. "I took pride in the service that our president was in the church."
The church beautifully decorated to honor the president's visit according to Rev. Dr. Garland-Hill, a minister at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit sends a strong message that "Obama is not only the president of all of us but he remembers his roots and his ancestors and the role they played for us to be where we are today."
The AME church which grew out of the anti-segregationist movement in 1787 has since been a major spiritual denomination for African-Americans when it was first founded by Richard Allen.
The Metropolitan AME has had a revered history and distinguished record of notable African-Americans and transformational leaders who either spoke at the church or attended regular Sunday service there.


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On any given day, Old Town Temecula draws crowds of youthful revelers, antique enthusiasts, window shoppers and sidewalk strollers.
The crowds not only bring in highly valued sales tax, they also bring in cars.
Old Town Front Street is perpetually packed with vehicles. Yet there is no requirement that commercial buildings in Old Town provide parking, meaning regular and handicapped spaces are in short supply.
Temecula offers free parking in a city garage at the Civic Center, and officials are considering running a trolley to shuttle the public to the main drag in Old Town.
"On Saturday mornings (when the Farmers Market is held) I think we've just about maxed out on the traffic and the parking," said Councilman Ron Roberts, who serves on the Old Town Local Review Board, which in the coming weeks will begin researching a trolley program.
"If we can work it out to get a street legal trolley car — they have private ones that are out there that look pretty cushy — we can utilize our parking facilities here at City Hall."
Apart from street parking, Old Town is home to several quirky lots.
One, at Starbucks, leaves drivers in the dust. Half of that lot is a traditional station with marked spots, but the other half is dirt. Moving around can be confusing as drivers, in the absence of marked spots, leave their vehicles wherever they find room. That site, Community Development Director Patrick Richardson said, will one day be developed into an office and commercial building.
Some lots are for customers only, such as the one at Rosa's Cantina. It's manned by a security guard on weekends. Others charge for parking, like a lot at the Chaparral building across from The Swing Inn.
A shuttle, officials said, would help drivers avoid the traffic of Old Town while promoting business. That position also is supported by Old Town merchants, who are now involved in the trolley discussion.
City Manager Aaron Adams said this week that the Old Town Temecula Association has expressed interest in partnering with the city on a trolley. The group, Adams said, has looked at electric vehicles to keep gas costs at a minimum, as well as a plan to establish several stops along Old Town Front Street to shuttle people to and from the city's garage.
In the coming weeks, Councilman Jeff Comerchero said, officials will release their first report on such a program. It will outline cost estimates to begin service and an estimated annual budget, he said.
Although the trolley would be for everyone's use, officials want to make sure those with disabilities have access.
"I have a handicapped sticker now and I use it," Roberts said. "A lot of times you can't walk three or four blocks."


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The case at issue is Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association & Entertainment Software Association. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Nov. 2.
The legislation in question was sponsored by state Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), approved by the General Assembly in October 2005 and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It prohibited the sale or rental of "violent" videogames to anyone under the age of 18 and required a label affixed to all games falling into this category. It also would have imposed a fine of up to $1,000 on anyone who sells or rents violent videogames to minors.
Because it was immediately challenged by the home videogame industry and blocked by a district court, the law was never enforced. The U.S. District Court for Northern California declared the law unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds in 2007. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled the same in February 2009. Soon after, Schwarzenegger filed for Supreme Court reconsideration.
AMOA said it is asking the Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision that California's videogame law, Assembly Bill 1179, is unconstitutional.
AMOA joins a of a coalition of more than 180 organizations and experts ranging from First Amendment authorities to social scientists. It also includes attorneys general from 10 states and U.S. territories. They are from Arkansas, Georgia, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah and Washington State. More states may join by the time the case is argued in the nation's Capital.
About a dozen of these organizations have filed their own amicus curae (friend of the court) briefs opposing the California law. In addition to the First Amendment argument, a novel argument is being advanced by the state attorneys general. Their brief argues that California's law would make it easier for violent criminals to employ a "videogames made me do it" defense, in addition to wasting law enforcement resources on policing the games industry. A comprehensive review of amicus curae briefs opposing the California law can be found here.
The American public strongly supports the California law, according to a poll conducted in mid-August by Zogby International. According to Zogby, 72% of adults support a ban on the sale of violent videogames to minors.
So far, 11 states -- Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia -- have submitted an amicus brief in support of California´s law.
Additional briefs favoring the California law were filed by the California chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the California Psychological Association and Sen. Yee, the bill's original sponsor.
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Knight Capital shares are climbing, slowly, toward the $3.75 offer price after the trading firm officially announced the previously reported deal it struck with rival Getco.
Knight's valuation took a major hit last August, when shares were trading over $10, after faulty trading software drove a sudden $461 million loss for the firm, forcing it to seek rescue investment from a group of six financial firms, including Getco.
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They ridicule one another without remorse, but Gretchen Bleiler, 20, and Kelly Clark, 18, are close: Close enough to finish each other's sentences, and just a couple podium placings from the Olympics. With Clark in first, Bleiler, second, and teammate Tricia Byrnes third at Mt. Bachelor's Grand Prix, a changing of the guard in women's halfpipe is on. Clark's McTwist and Bleiler's Crippler make them dangerous?going huge and getting inverted. Listen as they take over.
Did you meet before you were on the U.S. Team?
Gretchen: She was fifteen, I was seventeen, and she was jealous of me.
KELLY: I couldn't go out and she could. I was like, ?That bitch.?
GRETCHEN: Then the next time we met, I still hated her laughs. Last year was our first traveling together. And she's a real pain?
KELLY: ?And she's really anal.
GRETCHEN: I am. I?m anal. I like to fold my clothes, make my bed?and Kelly is a slob! laughs
KELLY: I'm getting better. She's rubbing off on me.
GRETCHEN: She's getting better.
KELLY: A lot better. Tricia's Byrnes a slob, too. laughs
GRETCHEN: I'm transforming everyone on the team to good, clean people.
So Gretchen gets into a hotel room, takes her stuff out ?
KELLY: ? And puts it into the drawers immediately.
GRETCHEN: Oh immediately! Immediately.
KELLY: imitating Gretchen "Want to go eat?" "No one second, I?ve got to finish folding!"
And Kelly throws her bag on the floor?
KELLY: ?Pick and choose right out of the bag.
GRETCHEN: But you should see our condo?spic and span. Shining. Gleaming.
You room together when you're traveling?
GRETCHEN: Tricia, Kelly, and I, we pretty much spend all our time together and it's getting really old?just kidding!
KELLY: We all get along great.
GRETCHEN: We all placed first, second, and third today and no one was like ?
KELLY: ? Bitch!
GRETCHEN: We're all happy for each other. It's not cutthroat. We like to help each other out.
KELLY: We all push each other, we're good friends and there's no hostility.
GRETCHEN: Trish came down and landed a big McTwist and we were like?
KELLY: ?Whoo!
GRETCHEN: ?Gotta do my Crippler. Did it. Landed it. Kelly came down, did her McTwist. Landed it.
KELLY: It's great to have the opportunity to have actual girls to ride with. I rode with guys and if you didn't try any tricks you were a dork.
You teach each other?
GRETCHEN: Yeah, because we all have?
KELLY: ?Different strengths in different areas.
When one of you stomps a trick there's no jealousy?
GRETCHEN: KELLY: in unison What?
How about the level of competition this season?
GRETCHEN: I think this Mt. Bachelor was one of the best competitions we?ve seen this year for women. Everyone was throwing inverts and landing them with amplitude and riding out of them.
Why do you think that is?
GRETCHEN: The Olympics! laughs
KELLY: That was what they wanted to hear!
GRETCHEN: It's definitely in the back of everyone's mind. And in order to get there, you're going to have to do your absolute best.
KELLY: You?re going to have to go for it. I think it's good to see young people like ourselves stepping it up. And it was good to see Trish throw a "Mc" today. It all goes around.
How about international contests?
GRETCHEN: All last year we traveled to the World Cups, all the Grand Prixs ?
KELLY: Can I add a "whoo!?"
GRETCHEN: ? Vans Triple Crowns. U.S. Open. We've definitely done tons and tons of international competition. We know what to expect.
It seems like in competition, Euro riders totally go for it?Nicola Thost, Stine Brun Kjeldaas, Natasha Zurek ?
GRETCHEN: I think there's definitely some good riders from all over the world. But I have to say, in the U.S. we have a huge group of women who are definite contenders for Olympic medals.
KELLY: There's a lot of us here ?
GRETCHEN: ? Whereas in some countries you only have a couple girls and they're automatically in. In the U.S. you have to fight for it more.
KELLY: It's too bad the selection process only allows four. It's too bad we couldn't have more because there's a lot of good Americans. Then it wouldn?t be so neck-and-neck between us.
So if you do go to the Olympics ?
GRETCHEN: Once we get there?if we get there?it's on!
How about if you both get there?
GRETCHEN: I might do a Tonya Harding on this girl. laughs Eliminate the competition.
KELLY: So you want to go ice skating later? Play some baseball? laughs
GRETCHEN: Slowly, the girls all get sick. laughs
KELLY: Food poisoning. Hmm.
GRETCHEN: Right now my main goal is to get there.
KELLY: I think the Grand Prixs are a lot more high pressure because once you get there, you?re like, "I made it. Whatever. It's awesome." These contests are fighting for spots. Every one can affect how you end up.
GRETCHEN: Once you're there, you're good to go.
And you'll be able to root for one another?
KELLY: Yep. Well, maybe. laughs
GRETCHEN: If Kelly's not in the hospital by then. laughs


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Vermont House committee raises taxes, while Gov. Shumlin objects
MONTPELIER -- Vermont lawmakers appeared headed for a budget showdown with Gov. Peter Shumlin after money committees on Friday raised several taxes he didn't want to raise and trimmed back on some of his spending priorities.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted to raise $27 million in new taxes in the coming fiscal year, and an additional $20 million -- mainly in income tax increases for upper-income earners -- in fiscal 2015.
The state's 6 percent sales tax would be imposed for the first time on soda, candy, bottled water and dietary supplements.
The meals tax would go from 9 to 9.5 percent and apply to vending machine sales.
Shumlin said he was disappointed with the actions, which followed House passage of a tax increase he supported: raising the state's gasoline tax by about 7 cents to an estimated 33.6 cents per gallon in 2015.
Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee approved a spending package that cut Shumlin's hoped-for $16.7 million in increased childcare subsidies to about $3.3 million.
Lawmakers engaged in a bit of a dance through the afternoon, with the Appropriations Committee making its spending decisions in its room on the third floor of the Statehouse, while the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee figured how much their colleagues would have to spend in its room a floor below.
Legislative fiscal analysts and lobbyists got a workout walking briskly between the two rooms, leading Appropriations vice chairwoman Rep. Mitzi Johnson, D-Grand Isle, to joke that the budget could have been funded by setting up a toll booth on the stairs.
Shumlin issued a statement saying he disagreed "strongly with the manner in which the Ways and Means Committee has chosen to raise revenue. I have repeatedly opposed increases to income, meals, and sales taxes, and yet this proposal hits all three."
Democrats who dominate the Legislature have never warmed up to Shumlin's proposal to fund increased childcare subsidies by cutting money that goes to low-income working people through the earned income tax credit. And that proposal was nowhere to be found on the menu of items approved by the Ways and Means Committee on Friday.
"Rather than reallocating existing funds more efficiently to achieve better outcomes as my budget recommends, the committee proposal increases Vermont's already high tax burden," Shumlin said.
Lawmakers also have dismissed Shumlin's plan to pay for energy programs through a new tax on charitable betting tickets called break-open tickets. While the Appropriations Committee approved the governor's request for $6 million for heating assistance to low-income households, it did not fund an additional $6 million the governor had planned to put toward helping Vermonters cut heating bills by tightening leaky homes.
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Is the foyer of a home just an entrance or can it be considered a room? It's both, although as a room it may be quite small in some cases. But as the place that gives a new visitor his or her first look into the one's home, the way it's decorated is as important as other areas of the house.
The ideal flooring for an entryway will be able to withstand the traffic going in and out of the house, but retain its good looks. One wonderful addition in cold regions is the installation of infloor heating, which provides radiant heat that keeps the entryway toasty with just the flick of an electric switch.
Radiant heating works with a wide variety of building materials in addition to the wood floors that are very common in foyers and nearby stairways. In addition, entry areas should have appropriate lighting, window treatments when applicable and furnishings that are both useful and attractive.
A Well-lit Area
If the foyer has a high ceiling, a large hanging light should be installed to cast a soft glow throughout the space. It also meets a functional need to light what may be a dark interior near the doorway.
In entries that have windows, part of the design should include a window treatment that ties in with the nearest room by incorporating colors or materials that are found there. The right choice will also allow in light during the day and control privacy as needed. Soft sheer shades are a good choice for a foyer window because they let in filtered light or can be raised for a full outdoor view.
Color Sharpens the Look
Repainting the walls and trim in a foyer gives it an instant makeover and frequently brightens an otherwise darkened space. A bold color for the front door with new hardware often sharpens the look of an entry from the outside and can do the same on the inside.
If neutrals are used throughout the entry, home decorators may consider using a patterned runner on the stairs. If the stairway is located within instant eyeshot when someone enters, a pattern gives a lively feel to their first view of the home's interior.
Entry Display
A salon-style wall of striking artwork or photographs can showcase homeowners' special interests, and one that will capture visitors' attention immediately.
A grouping of mirrors in frames of different sizes and shapes is another approach and one that looks best on a dark-colored wall.


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RIVER CLUB — Aliana Diaz knows exactly what bullied victims go through. When the "I Hate Ali" Youtube video and the frizzy hair jokes became too much, she almost reached her breaking point.
Her stubborn, shy silence, and the anger it caused, pushed the then 13-year-old to rush for the kitchen, grab a knife and hold it to her stomach, before her mother intervened.
River Club's Christina Meiser, 16, also has dealt with bullying firsthand, and has even stopped bullies from taunting victims.
"I don't have a problem getting in a bully's face," Meiser said. "If they have a problem with a friend, they have a problem with me. They (the bullies) shut up after I talk to them."
Last month Diaz, a 17-year-old at Sarasota Christian School, and Meiser, a student at Sarasota Military Academy, created a Facebook page called "You're Not Alone," on which bully victims can tell stories, get advice and find inspiration through like-minded peers.
On it, the friends post uplifting quotes, such as one from Harvey S. Firestone, the founder of Firestone Tires, who warns, "Never be bullied into silence."
Diaz and Meiser also reference national stories meant to broaden the group's appeal.
The impetus for the 45-member group came when the teens read about the story of Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old Canadian whose suicide was attributed to cyber-bullying through Facebook. But Diaz and Meiser point to a bigger problem that circulates in schools — and, increasingly, across the Internet — everywhere, even in Manatee County.
"The bullying problem is in schools all around us," Meiser said. "Kids are more likely to hold it in and not tell anyone. They try to handle it themselves. Schools need to try harder to make it OK for kids to talk to them."
Local schools have been working to address the issue.
In 2005, for example, the Manatee County School District Office of Safe Schools installed "Not in My School," a comprehensive bully-prevention framework to make it easier for students to report bullying.
The district defines bullying as the mistreatment of an individual or group due to a perceived advantage in power and a willful intent to cause harm. These acts can be socially, emotionally or physically damaging in nature and include teasing, rumor spreading, intimidation, pushing or shoving and more.
Skip Wilhoit, coordinator of Safe Schools, said the district got ahead of the bullying problem by creating a method to grasp the complexity of it and surveying students about the issue.
At the end of the 2004-05 school year, the district formed a middle school committee to study bullying and to help provide its schools with a common set of strategies to address it. By the beginning of the 2005-06 year, an elementary committee was also formed to look at the specific dynamics of bullying in the kindergarten through fifth-grade setting.
By 2006, the district began to encourage all schools — from elementary to high school — to participate in bullying surveys.
The numbers tell part of the story.
In a 2008-09 district-wide survey, 29.4% of 2,903 middle school student respondents said they had been bullied at school before. Of those bullied, 22.2% said they did nothing about it. More than 26% of students admitted to bullying another student.
All of those figures dropped slightly in a 2010-11 survey, the last year of available district-wide data.
But in the three years, the number of middle-schoolers who reported being bullied online doubled from 4.9% to 10.3%.
High school survey results are slightly more alarming.
In 2010-11, the number of Manatee County highschoolers who said they'd been bullied at school (21.6%) reported a bullying incident to no one (40.7%); of those students surveyed, 24.6% had bullied another student. All three instances had increased from the year before.
Additionally, 25.9% claimed to be the victim of online bullying, up more than 4% from 2009-10.
Wilhoit keeps data for elementary schools, as well. Of 5,366 respondents from Manatee County elementary schools, 43.9% of students surveyed said they'd been bullied in 2010-11. Of the students bullied, 11.3% failed to report it.
"The data we get is really consistent and we know we're getting truthful data because the surveys are anonymous," Wilhoit said. "There's really no significant trend up or down, and that closely follows national data."
As much as Wilhoit believes in numbers and considers the survey results favorable compared to other districts, he admits the data fails in assessing the scale of bullying.
Wilhoit says about 10% of bullying situations are brought to the attention of adults.
"There's a disconnect with reporting bullying," Wilhoit said. "It's a largely clandestine behavior. Kids don't think adults can help. They don't want to be branded as a snitch."
The district teaches Manatee County school staff to make sure nothing goes unseen.
Teachers roam the halls in between classes and monitor basketball games at recess. Students who misbehave — behavior not limited to bullying — are sent to the office, where school psychologist Ginny Marmo steps in.
Marmo, who represents five schools in the district, stages small-group interventions with bully victims and bullies.
She also scans the data each week to see which students have racked up three to five office discipline referrals and groups together the citations related to bullying.
Marmo will take those children — and others referred by teachers, administration members and even other students — and run social-skills groups intended to boost the action of the bystander, the figure in a bullying situation with the power to stop it, but who are often too scared to take action.
Before the session, students' parents must fill out a consent form that allows Marmo to take kids out of non-core classes.
"I'll tell one of the students outside the classroom, 'I'm going to pick on you. I don't really mean it,'" Marmo said. "I start talking junk to them. The other kids usually just sit shocked around the table. I then stop and ask, 'What were you guys thinking about?' They say, 'We couldn't believe you were doing that.' I say, 'Well why didn't you stop me?'"
Marmo believes that Diaz's and Meiser's Facebook group can make a difference, citing the success of her intervention groups.
"It sounds like a great idea what they're doing," said Marmo, who helped get the Jeffrey Johnston Stand-Up for All Students Act passed after a friend's child committed suicide because of cyber-bullying. "We know that talking with like-minded people who support you helps."
Diaz and Meiser said they started their Facebook page because they're tired of keeping quiet.
"I'm a typical shy girl who doesn't want problems," Diaz said. "I mean, people would make fun of my hair. It's just hair. It made me upset, sad and angry. I can't stand bullying now. It should be stopped. We started this page so people know they're not alone."
The girls, who have felt helpless themselves at the hand of bullies before, now say they understand how important it is to confront bullying head-on and also to encourage victims of it.
"We can't sit by and let things happen," Meiser said. "Every person in life has been in a place where they feel like they can't talk to anyone. If our page can stop one person from doing something terrible that is enough."
Contact Josh Siegel at [email protected].
RIVER CLUB — Aliana Diaz knows exactly what bullied victims go through. When the "I Hate Ali" Youtube video and the frizzy hair jokes became too much, she almost reached her breaking point.


text: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:46:17PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: > > On 23 Jun 2008, at 7:41 pm, Kyle Spaans wrote: > > >On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:33:19PM -0400, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > >>More specifically for HPC, linux seems designed for the desktop, and > >>for small memory machines. > > > >That's funny, because I've heard people get scared that it was the > >complete opposite. That Linux was driven by Big Iron, and that no > >one cared about the "little desktop guy" (Con Kolivas is an > >interesting history example). > > I think it depends on which bit of "Linux" you're talking about. Doesn't it always? > Even now, our little HPC community are probably pretty much the only > people who really care that much about the performance of the OS > kernel itself. Oh, OK, maybe some of the embedded guys do as well, > given they're trying to run it on really tiny hardware. HPC use very few system calls and make little use of those calls beyond large-block sequential I/O and our application networks; there are few execution threads to stress the scheduler and memory is usually very carefully managed. Transaction workloads--think TPCx--spend a LOT more time in the kernel than pretty much anything HPC. Also consider the IOPS (I/O per second) metrics that the transaction and non-HPC storage providers live and die by, and that we just don't care about. -- David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.


text: Despite the glitches during Saturday night's Georgia Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony, moving the festivities hardly makes any sense. Next year, the induction ceremony will be held in Marietta, much to the dismay of long-time supporters. The city of Macon treats the Hall of Fame induction night as if it was the Academy Awards. Inductees stayed at the former Crown Plaza, are taken in a police-led motorcade to the beautiful, historic Macon City Auditorium for dinner and speeches. The Hall of Fame museum is only a block away. Macon just seems the perfect place for this event.


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2012 Pigasus Awards Announcement.
Since 1997, the JREF's annual Pigasus Awards have been bestowed on the most deserving charlatans, swindlers, psychics, pseudo-scientists, and faith healers—and on their credulous enablers, too. The awards are named for both the mythical flying horse Pegasus of Greek mythology and the highly improbable flying pig of popular cliche. These are the awards for 2012.
Source: JREF
Watch the video here:
Winners were:
Scientist: Daryl Bem (parapsychological research)
Funding: Syracuse University (support of facilitated communication)
Television: TLC
Performer: Teresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium
Refusal to Face Reality: James Van Praagh
I do like the idea of calling people out for the public to notice their questionable status in society. Not everyone will agree on the picks or the idea of putting certain people on the spot with a bit of ridicule. Some people, like Van Praagh especially, do deserve the criticism. Just can't feel sympathy for him.
UPDATE (5-Apr-2012): Researcher Stuart Richie, whose results did not confirm Daryl Bem's results shared this on Twitter:


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Invite AFFA to Land
On February 20, 1954, according to a story that has been told and retold in the United States, President Dwight Eisenhower slipped away from a winter vacation in Palm Springs to be secretly driven to nearby Edwards Air Force base, and then known as Muroc field. There, in a prearranged meeting, he met with live aliens who landed to talk to him. In the same year the story is that prince Philip of the British Royal family also met with an extraterrestrial through the efforts of a retired general.
The year seemed to be the year for the meeting of planetary cultures, because there is also a story about Canada trying the same thing. The difference with the Canadian story is that the Canadian government actually admits part of their role in the Canadian effort to land an alien for a meeting. In fact, the initial announcement of the affair came not from some researcher leak, but from the Canadian government itself.
The year was 1967, and it was the 100th anniversary of Canada as a country. Many cities and towns built special buildings and tourist attraction to celebrate the centennial. In St. Paul, Alberta, their idea was to build a UFO landing base. When the day came for it to be opened, none other then the then Minister of Defense showed up to cut the ribbon.
During his time at the opening Defense Minister Paul Hellyer would tell a story that would go down as one of the best UFO stories ever. Through a defense department official (identified by Hellyer as the Department expert on UFOs) tell as story that would turn out to be pretty accurate.
In the Canadian government version of the story
a Top Secret Project had been set up, in which UFOs would be allowed to land at the
Defense research Board experimental Station at Suffield, Alberta. The base is the Canadian
equivalent to Area-51. Here in a one thousand mile restricted tract of land the Canadian
carried out chemical weapon tests and all other forms of secret things. The base was
completely isolated and like Area-51 had a restricted no fly zone over it. As it was on
flat ground there was no worry of people getting up in top the mountains to look down at
what they were doing.
There was according to the Canadian government story, as told by Minister Hellyer, a special committee attached to a Top Secret UFO project. This is a revelation, as Smiths Project Magnet was always seen as the official top government program, but was only classified at the secret level. It appeared that the committee referred to by Hellyer had to be independent of Magnet.
Project Second Storey, the Department of Defense Investigation into UFOs was also only classified at the Secret level. It appeared that it too could not be the committee Hellyer was referring to. Further prove that this was not the committee came from Dr. Peter Millman who was the chairman of the Second Storey committee, denied he was involved. He told me in a letter, I certainly have heard vague rumors about some attempt to build a UFO landing site in western Canada, but that was absolutely all I knew about it.
The actual identity of the committee will probably always remain as mystery, as the Canadian government claimed the committee records were destroyed in 1957. In 1979, despite the 1967 declaration of the landing base by the Defense Minister, even the story itself disappeared. Yurko Bandarchuk, a Canadian researcher, was told, we have no record of any such project and from the information I have, we never had one.
The Canadian government version of the story is as follows. Several groups became convinced that some unknown beings were trying to make contact with the Earth. One group made a strong representation to the committee . . .because there had been attempts made by Canadian and U.S. Air forces planes to shoot down the UFOs the flying saucers were reluctant to land.
It was argued, continued Hellyer, if there was ever to be any contact, the hazards had to be removed. The UFOs had to be provided with a safe place. Accordingly, in an effort to give the believers a chance to demonstrate the existence of the flying saucers trying to make contact with the earth, the defense Research Board was designated as a landing area. The step brought no results . . . insofar as the committee was concerned no evidence had been produced to prove their existence.
The story printed in many papers in July 1967 brought almost no reaction from the UFO community. Not until the late 1970s did people start to chase down the story. I picked up on the story and began to put the story in front of Smith inner circle members as well as writing to Paul Hellyer. Unknown to me was the fact that Arthur Bray, the man who held the smith files, was also writing Hellyer asking him for a full explanation of what had occurred.
Of the many people that I put the story to, only Mrs. Smith knew the story fully and was prepared to talk about what had really happened. During my 1978 interview of Mrs. Smith I showed her the Winnipeg Free Press article telling of the statements that had been made by Minister Paul Hellyer at the UFO base opening in St. Paul in 1967. I asked Mrs. Smith if Wilbert had been involved.
She read the article over carefully and then said, Yes, Wilbert was involved.
In her version of the story this is what happened. Smith had always wanted a chance to convince the government that the aliens existed, and he believed strongly that the government should talk to the aliens face-to-face to learn all the elements beyond the simple reality of the aliens, such as where they are from and what they are doing here.
Smith believed that if the government would stop shooting at the objects he might be able to get AFFA to land for a meeting. He approached what Mrs. Smith identified as the government. The three members according to her were the R.C.M.P., the department of Defense, and the Prime Minister. This may have been the Top Secret committee referred to by Hellyer.
In contacts that were made through Mrs. Frances swan, a contactee in Elliot, Maine, Smith was informed by AFFA that in order to land he would have to have protection against being shot down. This part of the story is actually told in an FBI document detailing the FBIs investigation of Mrs. Swan.
According to Mrs. Smith, Wilbert Smith put this demand to the government or committee, and the committee agreed no one would shoot AFFAs ship down. Up to this point both sides were telling the same story, and there are documents to prove these events did occur.
Following this AFFA, through Mrs. Swan, demanded that once he had landed and talked to whoever was there to meet him, he would be allowed to take off without any interference. The R.C.M.P. agreed to this, but when Smith approached what was described to me as the government a cabinet meeting was held to discuss AFFAs demand. When the meeting was over the government could not give a 100% guarantee that AFFA would be allowed to take off once he had landed at Suffield. Smith immediately called off the planned landing. That is the story Mrs. Smith told.
I placed many requests to the R.C.M.P. and the defense department for requests for information or documents on the Top Secret UFO committee. All requests came back that they had no information. I requested a ministerial inquiry from parliamentary representative Lloyd Axworthy. Axworthy never did spell out what actions he had taken to force action, but stated to me on two occasions, I cant help you.
In order to resolve the story both Arthur Bray and myself pursued Mr. Hellyer for further details. Some of the questions we wanted answers for were:
In reply to the many requests for information, Hellyer did confirm that he had told the story in 1967. He further remembered the top defense official who had told him the story and who had created quite a UFO file for Hellyer. He, however, could not remember his name, and he could not find the UFO file.
The cat and mouse game with Hellyer continued for years. Hellyer claimed at one point that he had even searched his files in vain at the national Archives in Ottawa searching for the UFO file. Try as he might, he could also never remember the name of the official who had told him the story.
In a letter to me Paul Hellyer concluded the affair this way, I can assure you there is no UFO cover up, at least on our side of the border.


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Rocky Mountain National Park > Flattop Mountain > Climber's Log
Flattop Mountain Climber's Log
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|Date Climbed: August 3, 2004
|Great moderate half day hike!!! Going the additional .3 miles and 400 ft elevation to Hallett Peak is very well worth the effort. The tundra is EXPANSIVE in this area of the divide!
|Posted Sep 25, 2004 6:17 am
|Route Climbed: Bear Lake/Flattop Trail Date Climbed: June 28, 2004
|Beautiful hike!
|Posted Jun 30, 2004 10:53 am
|Route Climbed: Dragons Tail Couloir Date Climbed: 5-21-04
|A friend and I went up this for his first snow climb of the year. What a great route! We carried only crampons and ice axes. There is no need for any pro as long as you feel comfortable with your snow climbing skills. I am already excited to do the dragons tooth next
|Posted May 21, 2004 9:06 pm
|Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: April 1st 2004
|We reached the summit after battling through waist deep snow on the way up. Did not use any snowshoes due to our experience on the way to Glass Pond 4 days earlier. When we reached the summit the weather seemed to turn bad for a short time. However, once we started to descent, the sun returned. Great day!!
|Posted May 4, 2004 11:11 pm
|Route Climbed: standard route Date Climbed: 5-1-04
|Intended to solo hike Flattop and Hallett. Got to summit of Flattop, about 3:30 or 4:00 , wind and cold began to assault summit.Took some pictures and turned around. Once back down to the rock outcropping, that is the 12000 ft point, the weather improved. Did not feel like repeating the postholing procedure.
|Posted May 2, 2004 2:33 am
|Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: 9/03
|Easy hike in the summer. Tried the Ptarmigan fingers during the winter, high winds forced retreat.
|Posted Apr 14, 2004 6:40 pm
|Route Climbed: Part of divide traverse Date Climbed: July 2002
|This was kind of an afterthought on the way down to Bear Lake after a 4-day Continental Divide traverse from Milner Pass to Bear Lake.
Nice views of Hallet and Notchtop.
|Posted Mar 22, 2004 9:53 pm
|Brent D
|Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: July 11, 1992
|Had a great day climbing the standard route up Flattop, and also decided to head over to Hallett Peak. It was a great warmup for my first 14er the next week (Quandary).
|Posted Mar 21, 2004 11:30 pm
|Route Climbed: Dragons Tooth Couloir Date Climbed: Decamber, 2002
|Foregone summit proper due to inclimate weather. Climb was awesome!
Sorta-kinda-trip-report here ---> Flattop
|Posted Jan 29, 2004 11:53 pm
|Route Climbed: standard route Date Climbed: January 19, 2004
|I hiked it with my baby sister. It was cold and windy and we shared the summit with a herd of bighorn sheep. I brought a pair of snowshoes but didn't use them at all -- I ended up carrying them (and my sisters) the whole time.
|Posted Jan 19, 2004 6:27 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: 19 January 2004
|I climbed this mountain as an overnight trip with my friend. we started around 6:00 at night and had a hard time navigaiting the maze they call a trail. I think we walked about 2 miles before we saw the sign that said "Flattop 4 miles". other wise this was a fairly easy hike up.
|Posted Jan 19, 2004 5:27 pm
|Route Climbed: Std Route from Bear Lake Date Climbed: Summer 2002
|This hike is so easy you can do it in Tevas! I forgot my boots the day we did this hike. I thoroughly enjoyed hiking uphill in the Tevas. The downhill wasn't so pleasant down the Tyndall Gorge.
|Posted Jan 7, 2004 5:20 pm
|Route Climbed: Flattop Trail, Dragon's Tooth Couloir Date Climbed: November 2002, March 2003,March 2004
|Although non descript from afar, Flattop holds some great easy to moderate alpine routes. Highly recommend either the Dragon's Tooth or Dragon's Tail for beginning alpine climbers. The Flattop Trail makes an easy summit hike for any fit person.
|Posted Jan 3, 2004 10:20 am


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Newly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Change North Atlantic Climate Picture
ScienceDaily (Aug. 21, 2011) — An international team of researchers, including physical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland that could significantly influence the ocean's response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways.
The current, called the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ), contributes to a key component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as the "great ocean conveyor belt," which is critically important for regulating Earth's climate. As part of the planet's reciprocal relationship between ocean circulation and climate, this conveyor belt transports warm surface water to high latitudes where the water warms the air, then cools, sinks, and returns towards the equator as a deep flow.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Voyager' started by Dal Rassak, Apr 29, 2013.
Doesn't he just have another gonad between his ears?
Every time someone uses the word gonad I have to look it up again because I'm never too sure what it means.
Doesn't it just mean balls? At least in human males, anyway.
It also means ovaries!
A less well travelled road is that definition.
So who is this Vulcan female? (From Repression, Season 7)
Even if she were married, wouldn't the crew Vulcans create a "logical" solution to their mutual problem? It's not as if they were obeying a sanctified religiously-decreed union; to a Vulcan, marriage is surely a logical arrangement - subject to changing circumstances?
I know, I know, then there's no plot point.
She wasn't mentioned by Kashyak in Counterpoint, although we did see all the Vulcan's on Board in Transporter suspension hiding from the Devore, but Janeway asked why Tuvok didn't ask to meld any of the other Vulcans onBoard in Flash back when he gave her syphilis, and the phrase "None of the other Vucans n Board were compatible" to ease Tuvok's space crazies with a healing meld.
Vulcans are basically massive bigots right?
There is no frakking way that they would have settled on the 37s planet.
Stacking the deck somewhat, no?
Not a Vulcan. A human caught in the Vulcan weeaboo craze.
Poor thing. All those bad hair cuts and no one to appreciate it.
Like that cosplay Orion slavegirl in Who God's Destroy who was shedding green paint on everything she touched?
Don't you go mocking Marta like that! It still makes me cry when she blows up
Who's mocking?
I think it's amazing that there's a human being so criminally batshit that she thinks that she's an Orion Slave Girl WHILE COMMITTING CRIME.
That is kind of awesome
Eh, I like Vorik and even I don't really understand half the stuff that goes on in Blood Fever. He's pretty naive for a Vulcan, but I find it hard to believe he'd be so naive as to believe Torres would want him. By then it was pretty obvious she was into Paris anyway.
With no Vulcan females on the ship and knowing he was likely to endure several pon farrs during the 70 year trip home wouldn't it have made more sense to learn how to date and cultivate a serious relationship that the other females would recognize as such? Vorik went about it in such a Vulcan way (not concerning himself with the pon farr until it was upon him, expecting Torres to respond as a Vulcan female would, etc) that no one else on board knew what the heck was going on.
Part of why Vorik was rejected was because of cultural miscommunication. A Vulcan female might have seen that proposal coming. Torres and most of the other non Vulcan women on board, no way.
I seem to recall there are more men than women on the ship and I'm thinking Vorik is really not going to get anywhere unless there's some gal with a Vulcan fetish. Really awkward teenager is how he comes across.
So true! He's in total denial whereas he should have broached the topic with the EMH ages ago. And really shouldn't the EMH have brought it up during a routine physical?
Seven years and a walking talking hologram isn't enough?
Probably the heat coming from a plasma junction would also suffice.
This would have been a fantastic loophole for Janeway to have sex with a crewman.
"Never send a hologram to do a woman's job."
Savvik had Bloodfever sex with Spock when his anatomy had the characteristics of 14 years old, 21 years old, 28 years old, 35 years old and 42 years old (give or take depending on when puberty started.)... Which should have no emotional effect on Spock after McCoy gave his marbles back or Saavik who took at least 5 for the team.
Considering in the Books they get married, you have to wonder when she began to think of him as a suitor rather than a mentor?
Although in alternate edit of the 4th movie, Saavik is clearly pregnant but it's still decades before Picard attends Spocks wedding, as mentioned in TNG Sarek.
You would think someone would have broached the subject at some point. The instant Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Vorik should have been concerning himself with his options when his Pon Farr came around. To delay that was illogical really. No Vulcan females on board means that he really needed to learn how to romance the human females. Awkward because he didn't grow up learning those social skills, but he didn't have much choice left.
His other mistake was the one most Vulcans make; they keep their mouths sealed about it. He proposed to Torres before being honest that it was a matter of life and death. Granted, she wouldn't accept based on that, but he might have incurred some sympathy rather than her wrath.
And you'd think Tuvok would be of some help, but again typical Vulcan "we don't talk about it" nonsense. Their attitudes toward the pon farr leave very little leeway for consideration of circumstance.
As for Vorik coming across as an awkward teenager, non canon sources put him at about 22 years old at the time of Blood Fever. That's pretty darn young for a Vulcan. It would have been interesting to see what Vorik would have tried the second time had Voyager still been in the DQ.
It's possible that the Doctor (in the beginning with basic factory settings.) may not have been able to initiate anything to do with Pon far, which if that was programmed badly enough as some politically correct protocol to spare the Vulcans any shame or embarrassment, he may not have even been able to think about Pon Far or be aware that it exists until a patient "asks" for help.
Thinking is not singing.
I notice he did not use the same tactic he used on Zimmerman to heal his patient. Disguising himself as an alien masseuse (Lifeline).
Do you think Vorik resented Miral?
"Ungrateful snotty little ####! It's my DNA you should be made out of, not that #### Paris! I bet he can't even add... SEE! Flawed weak human DNA has made you a ####y Mathamatician, you blunt eared little Baby ####! I should be your daddy! Not that blond pretty boy ####!"
Okay, maybe I meant, does "drunk" Vorik resent baby Miral Paris?
In the original (Admiral Janeway ) timeline, unless Vorrik was one of the 20 who died, this Vulcan did spend 14 years watching Miral grow up under foot.
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SALISBURY — In October of 2010, 20-year-old James Cook suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident while riding as a passenger with members of his battalion to a Virginia Tech ROTC event. Advised by doctors that he will never be able to walk again, his strength of character and positive attitude have kept him from accepting the prognosis that his injury is permanent or an inhibition to achieving his life goals.
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A personal trainer is celebrating after completing the Lakeland 50 Ultra Marathon – a 50-mile course over some of the toughest terrain in the UK.
Sally Salter finished the gruelling challenge in a staggering 18 hours and 18 minutes.
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Newly added LaRoche to start for Bucs
Infielder given third-base job; Bautista relegated to utility role
By Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com
Apparently, the two didn't need long to make up their minds.
"Right now, LaRoche is our third baseman," Russell said before Friday's game. "We're going to see what he can do at third. We want to give him every opportunity to play and get comfortable in our system. He's going to be our third baseman now."
For Bautista, that means a few things. Obviously, his opportunities to start at third are now going to be limited. His versatility, though, has Russell anticipating the ability to use him in a utility role.
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In 27 games with the Dodgers this season, LaRoche hit .203 with two homers and six RBIs.
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