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GENEVA (AP) — A last-minute U.N. invitation for Iran to join this week's Syria peace talks threw the long-awaited Geneva conference into doubt Monday, with the U.S. saying the offer should be rescinded and the main Western-backed Syrian opposition group threatening to skip the event entirely.
The surprise invitation, extended Sunday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, set off a flurry of diplomatic activity to salvage the talks aimed at ending Syria's ruinous three-year civil war.
The conference is set to begin Wednesday in the Swiss luxury resort city of Montreux, with high-ranking delegations from the United States, Russia and close to 40 other countries attending. Face-to-face negotiations between the Syrian government and its opponents — the first of the uprising — are to start Friday in Geneva.
But the uproar over Iran's invitation threatened to scuttle the entire event.
The Syrian National Coalition issued an ultimatum, saying that Iran must commit publicly within hours to withdraw its "troops and militias" from Syria and abide by a 2012 roadmap to establish a transitional government. Otherwise, the group said, the U.N. should withdraw its invitation for Tehran to take part.
The coalition, which had voted late Saturday to attend after months of rancorous debate, said if those conditions are not met by 7 p.m. GMT Monday, it would not attend the talks.
But Hadi Bahra, a member of the coalition's political committee, said the group was willing to be flexible, to a degree, with its deadline.
"If there are serious efforts and commitment, then it will be extended, but for sure not beyond midnight," he told The Associated Press.
It is not clear what exactly motivated Ban to issue the invitation, but it came hours after he said he had received assurances from Tehran that it accepted the premise of the talks — to establish a transitional government with full executive powers in Syria, which has been ruled by President Bashar Assad's family since 1970.
Iran is Assad's strongest regional ally and has supplied his government with advisers, money and materiel since the Syrian uprising began in 2011. The Islamic Republic's allies, most notably the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, have also gone to Syria to help bolster Assad's forces.
The last-minute decision appeared to take the U.S. and its European allies by surprise. An Iranian statement said Iran had accepted the invitation "without accepting any pre-conditions."
Senior U.S. officials said Iran has still not met the criteria to participate in the conference and its invitation must be withdrawn unless it fully and publicly endorses the aims of the meeting.
Speaking to reporters in a conference call, the officials said public statements from Iran fall "well short" of what is require for Tehran's participation, adding that they expect the U.N. to reevaluate and reverse its decision unless Iran changes course.
They declined to speculate as to what would happen if Iran does not meet the criteria and the invitation is not withdrawn, adding that the U.S. would not see the point in holding the conference unless all participants accepted its goals.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter using their names.
France, another strong supporter of the opposition coalition, took the same line, with the country's U.N. ambassador, Gerard Araud, saying "the ball is in Iran's camp" and Iran "must accept explicitly" the terms of the 2012 roadmap.
In New York, Russia's U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin said "of course" both the U.S. and Russia were consulted about the Iran invitation, and he said that if the Syrian opposition boycotts the talks, "that would be a big mistake."
Ban's spokesman, Martin Nesirky, said the secretary-general was "urgently considering his options" in light of the "disappointing conduct of some participants" involved in the peace talks after he invited Iran to attend.
Nesirsky told reporters in New York that Ban "is dismayed" at the developments and that despite assurances, Iran "has made disappointing public statements" that suggest Tehran does not accept the terms of this week's peace talks.
In Tehran, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham was quoted by the official IRNA news agency saying that Iran does not recognize the 2012 Geneva roadmap because it did not attend the conference that drafted it.
Saudi Arabia, a main backer of the Syrian opposition and a bitter regional rival of Tehran, also said Iran is not qualified to attend the conference but stopped short of threatening to boycott.
The negotiations aim to broker a political resolution to a conflict that has killed more than 130,000 people, displaced millions and put entire towns and neighborhoods under military siege in the worst humanitarian crisis in decades.
Diplomats and political leaders acknowledge that the prospects of achieving such a lofty goal any time soon are slim at best — with the opposition riveted by internal divisions. Infighting between rebels in northern Syria has killed more than 1,000 people in the past month.
Both the government and the opposition have suffered enormous losses, but even now, neither side appears desperate enough to budge from its entrenched position. At this point, just getting the antagonists into the same room to start what is expected to be a long process that could drag on for years would be perceived as a success.
Invitations to the one-day meeting of foreign ministers had been subject to approval by the initiating states, Russia and the United States, but the two countries had been at an impasse over Iran.
Syria's crisis began in the heyday of the Arab Spring uprisings that swept away authoritarian leaders in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen. Unlike the others, Syria's leadership responded to largely peaceful protests for political reform with a withering crackdown. That slowly forced the opposition to take up arms and gave birth to a civil war that has also spawned a proxy battle between regional Shiite Muslim power Iran and Sunni heavyweight Saudi Arabia.
The cumulative effect of the war has been disastrous. Syria lies in ruins, its economy shattered, its rich social fabric shredded.
Lucas reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Lori Hinnant in Paris, Matthew Lee in Washington, and Anna Cara at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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He played one of the sharks?
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:57 (five years ago) Permalink
He played Samuel L. Jackson.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:37 (five years ago) Permalink
Goldman isn't a fan then..
― piscesx, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:09 (five years ago) Permalink
ha i remember reading that in Premier. pretty OTM to be honest.
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 00:35 (five years ago) Permalink
Janusz Kaminski on 11 shots:
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 18:15 (five years ago) Permalink
Munich"It's almost over-the-top to some degree, right?" admits Kaminski
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:19 (five years ago) Permalink
and all the better for it.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:21 (five years ago) Permalink
What the hell. Ranked my favorite Spielbergs out in response to that Salon ranking and here's what I came up with:
01. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 200102. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 198203. Munich 200504. War of the Worlds 200505. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 198406. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 197707. Raiders of the Lost Ark 198108. Lincoln 201209. Schindler's List 199310. Jurassic Park 199311. Minority Report 200212. War Horse 201113. Jaws 197514. Saving Private Ryan 199815. The Color Purple 198516. Catch Me If You Can 200217. The Lost World: Jurassic Park 199718. Amistad 199719. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 200820. Hook 199121. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989
Biggest blind spots still are Duel and Empire of the Sun.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:41 (five years ago) Permalink
Top 3 are always rotating, tho.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:44 (five years ago) Permalink
I'd place Jaws in the top ten instead of JP and our hierarchy differs but otherwise we're in perfect mind meld.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:46 (five years ago) Permalink
our hierarchy differs
LOL, aside from that.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:00 (five years ago) Permalink
No love for Last Crusade then?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:43 (five years ago) Permalink
The opposite, pretty much.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:46 (five years ago) Permalink
Tho Hook is probably admittedly likely worse.
Hook and Lost World would definitely not place in my top 20. Duel would, though. And Sugarland might squeak in at 20, just because of its look as a document of the 70s to me. I also have a soft spot for 1941, and may be the only person of whom this is true.
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:49 (five years ago) Permalink
kael's doom-is-the-best meme is the greatest trick the devil ever pulled, but jurassic park over jaws is a very very important truth.
― guys! we can keep on spending! (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 15:56 (five years ago) Permalink
the kind of truth that's not actually true?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:44 (five years ago) Permalink
saving Empire of the Sun for a double bill w/ The King of Comedy, eh?
The worst thing I've seen by him is the Twilight Zone movie segment.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:51 (five years ago) Permalink
it is NOT worse than Hook or Always.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:52 (five years ago) Permalink
all yall complaining about bad hacking scenes in skyfall need to appreciate the master of bad hacking scenes in jurassic parkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:52 (five years ago) Permalink
ive given Raiders a bunch of chances and aside from the truck chase i dont think very highly of it. i usually disagree with Kael when it comes to action flicks but she nails that one.
Jaws, ET, Munich, Schindly's, Close Encounters would be at the top of my list; Always, Lost World, Terminal at the bottom (and i can find something to like about all of those anyway)
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:56 (five years ago) Permalink
I have not seen Hook, JP2 or Always.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:57 (five years ago) Permalink
or Joan Crawford's "Night Gallery" which has gotta be better than several of the films
Schindly's Bulletpoints
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:57 (five years ago) Permalink
I've seen Always, but so long ago that I can't even remember it.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:58 (five years ago) Permalink
always is junk but spielberg really pumps that sucker full of movie magic. the filmmaking is virtuosic but there's no restraint (Lincoln really makes you appreciate how far he's come in that respect) - so you're sorta getting his best and worst, in that you see what happens when he uses his full powers on unredeemable material. there's some great, exciting parts that you cant imagine anyone doing better, but the story just doesn't deserve it.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 18:10 (five years ago) Permalink
all yall complaining about bad hacking scenes in skyfall need to appreciate the master of bad hacking scenes in jurassic park
it was the '90s
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 19:27 (five years ago) Permalink
1.5 years after this:
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 19:40 (five years ago) Permalink
she doesn't hack anything in jurassic park she just uses a computer w an admittedly goofy GUI. like, there are no pop-ups where skulls laugh at you. it is in fact a unix system. now there IS that pop-up in an earlier scene where a cartoon of wayne knight laughs at samuel l jackson but that sets up a great slj delivery ("PLEASE!") so it's excused.
― guys! we can keep on spending! (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:22 (five years ago) Permalink
The full quote is, iirc, "PLEASE! God, I hate this hacker crap!"
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:31 (five years ago) Permalink
if spielberg makes a movie about samuel l jackson fighting kid unix hackers, all manner of sins will be excused.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:53 (five years ago) Permalink
SLJ smoking in Jurassic Park was one of the last times we saw anyone do it (a) indoors (b) in front of children
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:45 (five years ago) Permalink
debating his merits.
Tom Carson: If you compare my two pieces, it should be obvious that I think more highly of Schindler's List than I do of SPR. My problems with the former have to do with how the third act does, in my view, shunt aside the horror of mass death in favor of sentimentality about the handful of people Schindler saved. To my mind, there's an equation between that red coat and Dorothy's red ruby slippers—she's The One—and what about the thousands of children sent to the gas chambers who got stuck wearing gray that day? I'm as grateful as anyone that Anne Frank is famous because we have her testimony. But at some level, to single out an individual victim of the Holocaust is to deny the horror of its anonymity. Like, if the kid hadn't been so noticeable—and sorry, but she's as cute and tough as Shirley Temple, guiding our responses somewhat—Schindler's conscience wouldn't have been stirred?
By and large—because I do admire how Goeth is characterized, and we'll get to that—I also don't agree with you that the movie is really all that informative about the nature of anti-Semitism or how the Holocaust came to be, since a viewer without prior awareness wouldn't find much that explains either. Its power comes from re-creating the Holocaust's atrocities so intensely that you feel you're watching—or, if you're susceptible, almost experiencing—the real thing. That bothers me. We have a lot of newsreel documentation of the actual camps, and the paradox is that Spielberg's very scrupulous and horrific facsimile ends up having more authority for the audience because it's superior as filmmaking. There's something disturbing about the fake version replacing the documentary one at that level.
Matt Zoller Seitz: I don't agree. Where Spielberg excels is where narrative cinema itself excels: at helping you understand the physical, visceral experience of going through something, whether it's a mundane contemporary moment or some grand historical turning point. Where Spielberg flounders, I think, is when his films are trying to hard to put things in perspective, to put a frame around it. The strongest section of Amistad for me is that flashback to the Middle Passage, which conveys the full physical as well as moral (immoral) reality of the slave trade better than any mainstream American film or TV production ever had. The lived experience of being under fire and seeing people blown up around you is the most valuable and memorable part of Saving Private Ryan, although that film's "men on a mission" template tends to turn a story with Apocalypse Now/Dr. Strangelove absurdist aspects into something that feels, or plays, much more conventionally. The guys argue about the logic or necessity of saving this one guy, but the movie makes it clear from the very beginning that they're risking soldiers' lives for a symbolic or PR gesture. And even at the end, the film has a deceptively complex/simple way of asking if it was all worth it: it's concluding, I think, "Yes, it was worth it, in that they saved this one guy's life, and that's what you can take out of it—and maybe it's the only unambiguously positive thing to come out of it all."
But you're still aware that almost everyone else in the platoon died, and they all had lives, too, lives that were just as valuable as Ryan's.
The film is bracketed with those cemetery scenes, which are admittedly very sentimental and perhaps unnecessary from a plot standpoint, but even those aren't as straightforward as they initially read. We start and end with an image of the American flag, but it's not a robust, pristine, poster-ready image of a flag. The flag is tattered, and the sun is behind it. You see the flag, but you also see through the flag, a multi-valent image that might be—as odd as this sounds!—too subtle for the intended audience. Visually Spielberg is incredibly subtle, even when he's being loud and spectacular, but those kinds of subtleties tend to get lost in the din.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:30 (four years ago) Permalink
My problems with the former have to do with how the third act does, in my view, shunt aside the horror of mass death in favor of sentimentality
This is the context that makes the ending of AI so powerful and weird.
― ryan, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:38 (four years ago) Permalink
I hope you're not saying that ending is sentimental.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:46 (four years ago) Permalink
it's overtly sentimental, it's certainly framed as sentimental--but it's harrowing and despairing. i think i said elsewhere around here that it falls into the "uncanny valley" of happy endings.
― ryan, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:10 (four years ago) Permalink
i almost feel what MZS is talking about there, Spielberg's great talent for the "qualia" of visceral experience, is what makes that scene (and the rest of AI) so discomfiting and compelling. almost as if kubrick wanted spielberg to direct it just because he knew that quality would put the movie over the top.
― ryan, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:12 (four years ago) Permalink
from the comments:
I found Seitz's comment about Spielberg working in the "Stanley Kramer vein" of "glossy Hollywood entertainment" a bit difficult to understand. Kramer's Holocaust movie, "Judgment at Nuremberg," is a strikingly unglossy film that includes several minutes of actual concentration camp footage. Those images cause the mostly-theatrical violence in "Schindler's List" to fade from memory. But in Kramer's movie the Holocaust footage, however powerfully disturbing, is not essential to the story. It could have been excised without sacrificing any of the script's quality, but what would "Schindler's List" be without the Red Dress girl and the shower scene?
Both films explore issues of collective guilt and individual responsibility, but "Judgment" has the wider, more challenging sample size. The German cast includes uneducated housekeepers, jurists conversant in American legal theory, and an aristocratic widow in addition to unrepentant Nazis. Contrast Marlene Dietrich or Max Schell's characters in "Judgment" with the almost cartoonish depiction of Goeth in "Schindler's List." "Judgment" knows full well the horrors the Nazis committed, and presents them to us in unvarnished fashion, but it also asks us to think about blame. The farthest "Schindler" goes down this road, I think, is to prompt us to wonder what we would have done in the title character's place. How much more true that is of "Judgment," which asks us to imagine ourselves in a variety of different social positions, and as both accused and accuser. Kramer aims for and hits a much higher mark than does Spielberg.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:24 (four years ago) Permalink
TC: But even when people find fault with a particular movie of his, he's on a sort of hallowed plane I mistrust. Interestingly, in my experience, that's especially true among younger movie buffs -- who might be expected to think of Spielberg as an oldie and, you know, chafe a bit. Instead, he seems to be a hallowed figure to them, the guy who defines what movies can be.
carson makes some good points in there, but I don't know what planet he's living on here - Spielberg's probably as uncool now as he's ever been. it was a little aggravating during award season to read so many people dismissing Lincoln as boring manipulative Oscar bait, and then go on to praise Argo in the next sentence. spielberg's style has become increasingly unfashionable, whereas Affleck is tuned into the 'moment' - i think he's a far worse panderer than spielberg (in terms of degree and in terms of ability), but he's one that people just accept at face value right now for whatever reason
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:28 (four years ago) Permalink
― ryan, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:39 (four years ago) Permalink
totes otes
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:48 (four years ago) Permalink
dud beyond dud
― yellow jacket (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:55 (four years ago) Permalink
Contrast Marlene Dietrich or Max Schell's characters in "Judgment" with the almost cartoonish depiction of Goeth in "Schindler's List."
are you fucking serious
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:56 (four years ago) Permalink
at best I would accept (with proof required) that Amon Goeth is as cartoonish as Dietrick and Schell.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:57 (four years ago) Permalink
thinking of 'argo' and spielberg makes me think of 'munich', which has its flaws but is so well-executed and disturbing in places. it makes 'argo' look so lightweight and easy to digest (which it is.)
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:05 (four years ago) Permalink
Munich is dark, majestic, conflicted, difficult and virtuosic.
Argo is a nice, 20-second double dutch routine.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:10 (four years ago) Permalink
i like the neat trick argo pulls of making high-powered producers into heroes and PAs into villains.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:14 (four years ago) Permalink
Union workers literally getting in the way of very important phone calls.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:15 (four years ago) Permalink
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:22 (four years ago) Permalink
that scene... just the worst


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Making, Placing, and Removing Transphyseal Staples
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Many methods have been used to straighten crooked limbs on foals, and in the past staples placed across the "long" side's growth plate have received somewhat mixed reviews. However, some researchers suggest that this was due to poor staple choice and resulting complications. Stephanie Caston, DVM, an equine surgeon at Iowa State University, showed attendees an updated method for making, placing, and removing transphyseal staples at the 2007 American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention, held Dec. 1-5 in Orlando, Fla.
Caston reviewed the success rates of the staple method for 63 foals over the last six years. These included 32 foals with unilateral (in one leg only) carpus valgus, or an inwardly deviated knee; 20 foals with bilateral (in both forelimbs) carpus valgus; three with carpus varus (an outwardly deviated knee); and eight with fetlock deformities.
Rather than using the traditional vitallium staples, which were developed for human use and might not be strong enough for heavier equine use, Caston and colleagues used 2.7-mm Steinmann pins to create sturdier staples. The straight pins are bent at right angles 3 cm apart to create the staples, and the ends are sharpened with a bench grinder. Smaller staples are made for fetlocks and miniature horses.
Examples of commonly used staple sizes.
The incision is offset a bit from the staple, which helps avoid dehiscence (reopening of the incision), and the staple is left slightly "proud" (not flush with the bone) to facilitate later removal. The surgical limb is wrapped with a padded pressure bandage for about two weeks, and the foal is stall-confined until the limb is halfway straightened (small paddock turnout is allowed after that). Once the limb is straight, the staple is removed under sedation or general anesthesia.
Caston noted that all 63 foals corrected completely in an average of 47 days, and only six had minor complications that all resolved with bandaging. One foal (a Clydesdale) had staple spreading, which was corrected with two new staples. The procedure time was fairly quick--32 minutes for bilateral staples, 19 minutes for unilateral staples, 31 minutes for staple removal, and 16 minutes for unilateral removal (all in anesthetized foals). Removal took about 10 minutes in standing foals, and 19 foals had staples removed by the referring veterinarian rather than the veterinary hospital.
"These transphyseal staples are easily made, placed, and removed with minimal equipment, and they're economical, cosmetic, and secure, unlike what was found in previous literature," Caston concluded.
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Some people call a 13.7 billion year old universe ancient, but others think it's held up nicely and doesn't look an eon over five billion. Or in Bobby Jindal's lesser epochs, a day over 5,000 years. But however one mismeasures time, lo those many billennia ago, there was at least one galaxy burning bright, and where there's one modest-sized super massive black-hole embedded in dark matter cloud with a frothy retinue of stars and dust and maybe even planets, there's probably a billion more:
Space.com— A new celestial wonder has stolen the title of most distant object ever seen in the universe, astronomers report. The new record holder is the galaxy MACS0647-JD, which is about 13.3 billion light-years away. The universe itself is only 13.7 billion years old, so this galaxy's light has been traveling toward us for almost the whole history of space and time.
Astronomers spotted the object using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with the aid of a naturally occurring cosmic zoom lens as well. This lens is a huge cluster of galaxies whose collective gravity warps space-time, producing what's called a gravitational lens. As the distant galaxy's light traveled through this lens on its way to Earth, it was magnified.
In case you;re wondering about the billennia, light went very, very fast back then. It has sinced slowed down, a lot, as light grew quite tired from its long journey across the cosmos, without violating half a dozen paradoxes and leaving behind no evidence whatsoever of that magnificent relativistic miracle. QED


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LAKE STEVENS — Sometimes all you need is a little luck.
Down 1-0 with two outs in the top of the fifth inning, the Jackson Timberwolves rallied with two runs and held on to beat Lake Stevens 3-2 in a nonleague baseball game on Friday.
The hit that sparked the rally was nothing more than a bloop-single over that just cleared the head of the Lake Stevens first baseman that Jackson's Keynan Foster appeared to be trying to fight off in order to stay alive in his at bat.
"We got fisted on a really good pitch and it went over the first baseman's head," Jackson head coach Kirk Nicholson said. "We got lucky. It was a really good pitch by the pitcher. We 'excuse me' hit and it goes right over the first baseman's head and we got lucky. That's all that was. That's baseball though."
Tyler Wingert scored on the hit by Foster to tie the score at a run a piece. Foster advanced to second after the Vikings' throw home to get Wingert was late.
Alex Baumgartner scored Foster with an RBI single to straight-away center field in the next at bat to give Jackson a 2-1 lead.
Three of Jackson's eight hits came in the top of the fifth inning.
Lake Stevens answered in the bottom of the fifth inning when Zach Tetrick scored on a wild pitch to tie the game, but the Timberwolves would give themselves opportunities to retake the lead in the sixth and seventh inning.
The Vikings were able to hold off Jackson after back-to-back singles to lead off the top of the sixth inning, though they weren't as lucky in the top of the seventh.
Foster led off the inning and was hit by a pitch by Nick Hoskins, the Vikings' fifth pitcher of the game. After stealing second base, Foster took third on a groundout by Baumgartner and scored on a single by Alex Cheesman.
Hoskins managed to hold the damage to just one run, but it proved to be enough as Jackson's Alec Anderson retired the Vikings 1-2-3 in the bottom of the seventh to earn his first save of the season.
"I thought we made some real positive plays," Nicholson said. "In baseball, that's all it is. Your positive plays have got to overcome your negative plays."
For both coaches, the game served as an opportunity to get their teams ready for the league season. Nicholson and Lake Stevens head coach Rodger Anderson each played all of their players and a total of eight players pitched in the game.
"We wanted to try some guys to see how they respond to the varsity level," Anderson said. "We are just kind of seeing what some of the younger guys can do. We wanted to see today because we knew Jackson would be a pretty good team."
Anderson said the Vikings situational hitting needs work. Without a lineup packed with power, Lake Stevens will rely on a "small-ball" approach to score runs. In the first two games of the season for the Vikings, Anderson said his team's bunting and base running could be better.
"We're substituting a lot of guys," Anderson said. "Everybody played today. In a different situation maybe we would have someone that can pinch hit or bunt.
"I learned a long time ago these preseason games are an opportunity to find out who can do what."
And for Jackson, it's also an opportunity to have a little fun.
"If you can't come out and compete right now then you don't have blood pumping through you," Nicholson said. "This is that time of year that it's fun. There's no pressure here. We aren't playing for a playoff berth or any of that stuff, we're just playing. As a kid, all your life, that's all you really wanted to do, isn't it? So you better overcome it and just enjoy yourself."
Aaron Lommers covers prep sports for The Herald. Follow him on twitter @aaronlommers and contact him at email@example.com.
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It would only be fitting if our vender served at least one German beer. Since our BMWs are made in Germany it would make sense. Rumor has it that they will actually run on a good German beer. Anyone out there tried it?
Personally I am trying to locate a pair of Leiderhosen to wear at the rally.
A good Polka Band would also add some international flavor.
How about an Octoberfest in the fall for Beemer Riders?
Here I go thinking outside the "bun" again. Looking forward to meeting you all and enjoying the rally. CHEERS


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Studies have shown that students who read out loud and then listen back to what they have read improve things like reading and speaking skills and even reading comprehension.
Sheridan County School District No. 2 is using iPad technology to test this theory. School District 2 Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Assessment Tom Sachse explains.
Reading comprehension is one area of improvement that is being addressed in terms of overall student development. Sheridan High School Principal Dirlene Wheeler is on a task force that has worked with studies that say curbing the drop-out rate can begin as early as elementary school, through monitoring third grade reading scores. Read out-loud iPad exercises are just one way they are promoting reading comprehension.
iPads are also being used in certain behavioral improvement strategies. For example, at Highland Park Elementary, students and teachers are using the technology to reduce suspensions. Students use the iPads to film correct behaviors in areas like the playground, the classroom, or the cafeteria. Videos are then reviewed by students about once per quarter, where students write about the behaviors they saw in the videos.
SCSD2 is also using the iPads among administration and district board members in an effort to go paperless.
An Apple retailer in Casper submitted a $71,850 bid to the SCSD2 board at last month's meeting for 150 iPad2s. Sachse said they should receive the iPads later this fall.


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In a legal brief filed for Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA once again stated
its distaste for users who copy CDs for personal, private use.
The RIAA wrote that "it is undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized
copies" – referring to the Howell's collection of mp3 files made from their own
CDs – and noted that "once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings into the
compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer
the authorized copies."
The Judge's question was, "Does the record in this case show that Defendant
Howell possessed an 'unlawful copy' of the Plaintiff's copyrighted material,
and that he actually disseminated that copy to the public?"
Similar sentiments were heard in testimony leading up to the conclusion of Capitol
Records v. Jammie Thomas, where Sony BMG's head of litigation equated
Fair Use to stealing and testified that copying music for personal use is
just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy.'"
Admittedly, the wording in its Atlantic v. Howell brief is vague and
its exact message unclear. Judging purely on the statements expressed in its
brief for Atlantic v. Howell, opinion seems divided on the true intent:
does ripping music to a computer for personal use produce an unlawful copy? Or
is the act of placing said music into a shared folder that makes it unlawful?
As the RIAA chose to use the word "unauthorized" instead of "unlawful,"
interpretation is further complicated; "unauthorized" and "unlawful" have two
very different legal definitions, and many think that the RIAA did not even
answer the Judge Wake's question.
The piracy section on the RIAA's website offers further confusion, with its legal
section making no mention of the legalities of "ripping." The closest
analogue to ripping would be directly copying music to a CD-R, which says that
while users have "no legal 'right'" they can generally avoid legal
confrontation by making sure said music is only copied for personal use.
An official response from the District Court will likely hinge on the RIAA's
distinction between "unauthorized" and "unlawful," and whether or not it feels
Howell is liable for ripping the CDs themselves, or placing them in a p2p
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In order to determine which team shoots first, one representative from each team spins a quarter. Whichever team's quarter spins the longest wins first shot. Players shoot by bouncing a quarter from behind the "mugs" on their side of the table towards the opposing team's cups. If the quarter goes into an opposing team's cup, the cup is removed from play. The beer in the cup is then poured into the center "mugs" in any manner of choosing until all three mugs are full, in which case the beer must be consumed by the opposing team. Should any beer spill over the top of a mug while it is being poured, the "mug" must be consumed. Should the quarter from a made cup fall into a mug while the beer is being poured, the "mug" must be consumed. If a team's shot lands in a "mug", it must be consumed. If a team's shot lands into one of its own cups, the beer in the cup must be consumed. This cup is then refilled and put back into place on the table in an effort to encourage more drinking. Shooting alternates between each team, with each team rotating through its lineup of players.
Play continues until one team makes all of the opposing team's cups in which case the traditional cheer of "MUGS BITCHES!" is exclaimed by the winning team. The losing team is responsible for drinking the remaining beer on the table, including whatever is in the three center "mugs."
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
May 16th, 2010
Sony Ericsson joins the modern era with its Android flagship.
Sony Ericsson's return to smartphones has been a long time in coming: after the low-key launch of the Xperia X1, many had wondered whether the company had simply conceded the market to younger, faster rivals like the BlackBerry and iPhone. But a sudden rush in the past few months has culminated in what should be one of the most advanced Android phones on the market. In our Xperia X10 review, we'll see if Sony Ericsson is back in form or if it still has catching up to do.
Design and the display
It's hard to find a Sony Ericsson phone that could be considered truly ugly, but most of its designs in recent years have been either strictly functional or purposefully flashy: think the utilitarian
or the light-up
. The Xperia X10 is thankfully beyond both of these. It's an attractive but understated design with only a little use of chrome and light. It's even very practical: the back is a rubberized finish that looks attractive but keeps a stable grip.
The navigation buttons and the volume rocker are easy to understand and logically placed, with one exception: search is actually tied to the volume-down control in certain situations. It's not a fatal flaw, but it does mean having to either remember where it is or use the software alternative. We'd also recommend getting the phone in white if you can: like any predominantly black device, the X10 tends to show dust or lint on black where it's hidden with white.
As you may imagine, the design is ultimately dominated by its 4-inch display. It's not the largest ever -- that honor goes to the 4.3-inch screens on the HTC Evo 4G and HD2 -- but it's noticeably larger than on the Milestone, Nexus One or most other Android phones. It's very crisp at 854x480, but we wouldn't say it's the best display either: the Milestone's LCD is on average brighter.
What's most surprising about the X10 is the amount of storage bundled in. Android phones aren't known for having a lot of internal memory, but Sony Ericsson builds 1GB in; that's enough to hold many current apps and a small media collection. Despite the seemingly expansionless design, there's a microSDHC card slot tucked in the back that will usually come with a 16GB card built-in. That won't compete against a 32GB iPhone but, for now, will certainly satisfy most Android phone buyers.
Android, Mediascape and Timescape
The X10 is perhaps the last major smartphone to come with a pre-2.0 build of Android. Here, it's Android 1.6. That puts it above a rash of Android 1.5 devices in some ways -- it has access to the modern Android Market and certain apps like Google Maps Navigation, for example -- but without a newer version, it's missing out on a more advanced HTML5 web browser, more voice commands, Gmail undos, and the hooks needed to run newer apps like the
official Twitter client
. An upgrade to 2.1 or beyond could come as soon as September but won't bring the multi-touch that exists on phones like the Droid or Nexus One. Anyone who has used Android before will be at home with most of the OS and what makes it special: it's a very touch-friendly but powerful platform with simple multitasking and surprising flexibility. Apps can change parts of the core user experience if that's what you'd like, and with about 50,000 or more apps, there are enough titles that you'll find what you need.
With a 1GHz Snapdragon processor inside, the X10 is fairly quick, too. It loads pages tangibly faster than the Milestone and is more responsive overall in some areas.
Things go off the rails, however, with Sony Ericsson's changes to the core interface. We do like a few changes, such as custom clock and wireless toggle widgets on the home screen, but in most cases Sony Ericsson's custom interface, UXP, either provides little advantage or gets in the way.
Timescape is the most conspicuous example: it's supposed to be a timeline of everything of interest on the phone, such as e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and recent media captures, but in practice it seldom proves useful. It's an overly stylized single column and makes it virtually impossible to follow a thread of conversation on a social network with a reasonably large number of contacts; there's also not much point to including recent photo or video captures, since that content is usually easier to find in the media library. We can't even say that it's all that effective, either. It was extremely common to find an error warning that it couldn't update from Facebook or Twitter (whether on 3G or Wi-Fi), and the interface as it is now is fairly slow. It wasn't uncommon for us to simply launch a single-service app like Facebook or Seesmic since they displayed information in an easier-to-read format and were usually much more current with updates.
Mediascape is better. It provides a quick visual view of both recently accessed and recently added content as well as links into online services -- Facebook and Picasa photo shares as well as Rogers' urMusic store, for example. There are some distinct advantages to this for those who consider the web the home to much of their library, but for local content there isn't much of an advantage other than slightly easier control over shuffling songs.
We also have to single out Sony Ericsson's custom on-screen keyboard. Simply put, it's a step back. The keys are spaced apart properly (helped by the large screen), but we've never seen such an unresponsive and unintuitive replacement for Google's own set before. It wasn't uncommon to make major typing errors because the X10 didn't recognize key presses, and the punctuation system is an odd (if still learnable) system that requires quick double-taps to insert a comma instead of a period. It's possible through software installs to override the built-in keyboard, but no one should have to consider installing a basic user interface change just to avoid frustration.
Camera quality
Thankfully, Sony Ericsson manages to make some amends in its choice of camera and the features that back it up. At 8 megapixels with a flash, it overcomes some of the limits of cellphone cameras, even if just through brute force. In daylight still photography, we saw clean pictures where others would have produced noise.There was also minimal softness or chromatic fringing, often the effects of plastic or small lenses. We could even get a mild bokeh (shallow depth of field) effect with the autofocus system. The only problem in regular lighting was color accuracy: hues were sometimes muted in shots compared to the real world.
Low light isn't the X10's strong point, however. While it does have a flash that will illuminate subjects at short range, the camera seems to struggle with in-between shots where it's not quite bright but yet where it's not dark enough to invoke the flash. We took a few shots on an overcast day which came out blurry despite a stable grip and seemingly decent illumination. You can get good results out of Sony Ericsson's camera, but it needs a good light source. Thankfully there is a level of image stabilization, although it's oddly turned off by default.
As you might expect given the camera emphasis, there's a surprising amount of customization for the final shot. You can't change light sensitivity, but you can adjust metering, modify white balance, and even force the flash to become an always-on photo light.
For video, the X10 is also above average compared to most Android phones today. It records at up to widescreen 480p at a smooth frame rate. The bitrate is still somewhat compressed, but it's high enough that it preserves considerably more detail than most Android phones. We noticed too that it's quicker at auto-exposure when shifting between brighter and darker scenes.
What was the most unexpected when shooting movies was the audio quality. Sony Ericsson isn't producing studio-level recording, but the audio isn't muddled or as easily overwhelmed as on many phones we've tried.
Call quality and battery life
Voice calling has been one of the highlights Sony Ericsson could usually count upon for its phones. Here, it's still good but not as clear as we can recall from past tests. Volume is good and listeners very audible, but we noticed a slightly muddled tone from incoming calls; those on the other end didn't report any significant problems. We suspect that none of this will be significant enough to deter a sale -- after all, calls are becoming less and less important on smartphones with each passing month.
How long you can keep using the phone will vary widely. Android's multitasking and notifications cut both ways; the more apps that need to update, the quicker the battery drain. With a standard, though, the X10 is still a typical smartphone. It will last through a work day of typical use, but not much more than that. We'd definitely recommend plugging in every day, and twice a day if you're either a frequent caller or constantly using features like Internet radio.
Wrapping up
In many ways, the Xperia X10 is a classic Sony Ericsson device. As a hardware exercise, it's very well executed: it's a pleasure to hold, it's fast, it has an inviting display, and the camera is one we'd actually expect to use often.
But as is often the case, any custom software touches aren't really needed, and here actually seem to be a drawback. With the exception of some features of Mediascape, a lot of the features tend to make tasks slower and more complicated than they have to be. Much of the beauty of Android comes from loading your preferred apps to get the experience just right; Sony Ericsson's attempt to take care of every task itself spoils that, especially when features like the keyboard have been changed almost arbitrarily. Custom interfaces can make things better -- HTC has had great success with Sense UI in the past year -- but they have to either be very well designed if they exist at all.
This wouldn't be such a concern if it weren't that other Android phones are in striking distance. In Canada, the only North American country with a subsidized X10, the Acer Liquid e should be available at the same time and will bring an uncluttered Android 2.1 along with a lower price tag; we've heard $80. Those who aren't tied to Rogers also have the option of the excellent Motorola Milestone (the Droid on Verizon). Both in North America and worldwide, the X10 also has to fear from the HTC Desire and Legend, which are either at or coming to Canada and many of the other countries where the X10 is on sale.
We'd still call this a success for Sony Ericsson, but a very qualified one. If you value good design and a good camera, the X10 is a solid pick. If you frequently message others or have more than just a casual interest in social networking, however, you'll want to reconsider; especially if you're willing to look at the iPhone or BlackBerry as well.
- Elegant design; large display.
- Fast.
- Good photo and video quality.
- Solid call quality.
- Ample amount of built-in storage.
- Custom UI hurts much more than it helps.
- Initially stuck on Android 1.6.
- Rivals in a similar price range sometimes more compelling.
- Typical smartphone battery performance.


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Hi I was out this evening on a local coal batch in Somerset sifting through some of the brittle slate-like rock when I came across what looks like a bone (see pictures below). I know that coal was produced circa 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period, but does anyone know what this might be? Thanks. Mark
Hi MarkO,
Not sure from the photographs. Please can you confirm that the specimen is grey and similar texture throughout? Does it look like the country rock?
It is difficult to tell from the images, but the features you see may be as a result of brittle fracture.
Rocks can break in fascinating forms due to structural pressures created during the history of the rock. Another type of structure that you may come across is "plumrose structures", you can see what these look like if you google
http://www.earthscienceworld.org/images plumrose structures
Plumrose They record fracture propogation direction in rocks. Feather-like structures which form under extensional rock forces during a rapid pulling apart of the rock.
I look forward to hearing what you think.
All the best,
I think you mean 'plumose' . Plumrose sounds like a tasty fruit bearing plant
Yes - plumose not plumrose; methinks Fiona's spellchecker might be to blame.
I don't think there's a fossil here; the subject looks to be of the same composition as the remaining rock (which is indeed rather slaty). That can happen where the fossil is a cast, but I don't see that here.
I think is it just a quirk of the natural fracturing of the rock. Rocks have various sorts of fractures - joints, cleavage surfaces, faults, tension gashes, etc. Although they may form at somewhat different stages in a rock's history, they can interfere and intersect, producing suspiciously-symmetrical or otherwise-interesting shapes from time to time.


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Pittsfield teen ruled not guilty of intentionally running man down with car
PITTSFIELD -- A teen accused of intentionally hitting a man with his car in August 2011 was found not guilty of a single felony on Tuesday following a day-long Jury of Six trial in Central Berkshire District Court.
While Adam Thomas Liccardi, 18, of New Hampshire Avenue, was found not guilty of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, he is still facing four rape charges for the alleged sexual assault of a University of Massachusetts at Amherst student in her dorm room.
The two cases are unrelated.
On Tuesday, a jury of four women and two men took about an hour to return the not guilty verdict in the trial before Judge Fredric D. Rutberg.
The case revolved around two very different versions of what happened on the night of Aug. 18, 2011.
Richard M. Crapo, the 35-year-old alleged victim, and several other prosecution witnesses told the jury that Liccardi and another man showed up at a get-together in Pittsfield and stole money from Crapo's fiancée. A group of five people went to Liccardi's house on New Hampshire Avenue to get the money back, according to Crapo's testimony.
Liccardi showed up, began walking toward the group, but fled back to his car and attempted to leave, said Crapo.
Crapo was standing in front of the car when Liccardi ran him down, he said.
"I didn't have a chance to get out of the way," Crapo said in court. "The car struck me in the legs. I went up, hit the windshield ... I flipped over and landed on the ground."
Crapo said he suffered a hairline fracture in his right hip and pinched nerves along his spine. The defense provided the jury with a medical report that they said never mentioned any broken bones.
According to Liccardi, who took the stand in his own defense, he and two friends drove to the party to buy some marijuana from one of the people there and drove off without paying for the drugs, believing they had been shorted on the amount.
He told the jury that when he returned to his home there was a group of "six to eight" people waiting there. Liccardi said he was frightened when the group began running toward him so he got back into his car, which was then surrounded. He said Crapo attempted to jump onto the hood of Liccardi's car and then rolled off as a frightened Liccardi drove off, according to the defendant's testimony. His story was backed up by several defense witnesses.
Prosecutor Joseph Yorlano said that Liccardi's version of events didn't make sense, that the defendant and his friends weren't reliable witnesses and that Liccardi "panicked" and hit Crapo with his car.
According to Liccardi's lawyer, Michelle Mechta, the prosecution's witnesses told several differing versions of what happened, none believable, and that the case was about a drug deal gone bad. Crapo, she said, was injured due to his own "foolishness" when he attempted to jump onto a moving car.
Mechta said that her client did what most people in his situation would have.
"They were a bunch of scared teenagers," she told the jury.
Liccardi seemed relieved by the verdict, but he still has one more trial to go.
He, along with three other teens, is accused of raping a female student in her dorm room on Oct. 13 at the UMass campus in Amherst. The defendants' attorneys maintain that any sexual contact was consensual.
Besides Liccardi, 18-year-olds Emmanuel T. Bile and Justin A. King and 17- year- old Caleb M. Womack were charged in the alleged attack. None is a UMass student.
Liccardi is out on $2,500 cash bail in that case. He has pleaded not guilty to four counts of aggravated sexual assault in Hampshire Superior Court.
Police and prosecutors said that Liccardi went back to the dorm room after the initial assault and raped the student again.
He is scheduled to appear in Hampshire Superior Court on March 19 for a pretrial hearing in the rape case.
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The reason for an economy unhampered by national borders is to link demand with the most cost-effective location of construction. Natural resources, geography and workforce conditions and expectations all come into play for the country of origin.
For the country that wants to provide the same goods and services, without the resources and low-cost ingredients, a solution is tariffs. Adding an import fee – a tariff – puts the country wanting to protect its industry on a more even footing with its own consumers.
But that has to be done with a legitimate basis, otherwise the other country responds with a levy of its own on another product. And, the first country responds with its tariff. World economic history has proved that cycle does no one any good.
The core component of solar power, the electrical-generating panel, has largely been built in quantity by the Chinese. Chinese panels have almost consistently sold at a price significantly lower than the cost of panels built in this country or in Europe. The U.S. has claimed unfair competition by the Chinese companies, and the Commerce Department is moving toward placing 26 percent to 42 percent tariffs on some Chinese companies. A few months ago, tariffs of 19 to 35 percent were added to panels made by companies believed to have benefitted from unreasonable Chinese government subsidies.
A story in The Wall Street Journal last week reported the tariff percentages and put the coming tariffs in context, including reporting the possibility that one Chinese company could begin building solar panels in this country. U.S. companies may likely expand their production, too, given the tariffs.
The story makes it clear that it is not just the U.S. that believes that Chinese manufacturers are dumping their product at below cost, or that the Chinese government is unfairly underwriting the cost of Chinese companies' panels in order to grow the market. European manufacturers feel the same.
A third of the panels installed in the U.S. in 2013 came from China, the Journal reported, and total installations measured in megawatts are expected to increase about 30 percent in 2014.
The Chinese companies deny they're selling at below cost or are receiving significant government benefits.
There is no doubt that American manufacturers, and thus American regulators have, in recent years, become much more familiar with how industries in China are structured and their costs of doing business. The American automobile industry has its partnerships with Chinese companies, so do luxury-goods retailers. So, too, clothing manufacturers and retailers, high-tech and communications devices' manufacturers, and a variety of U.S. fast-food franchises. To varying degrees, these business are contributing to what is known about the costs of doing business in China and what the Chinese government's role is, and might be. That is a price of the partnership that, in most cases, the Chinese, and some other countries, require.
It is not difficult to predict that Chinese panel manufacturers could arrive in this country to establish their own factories employing Americans and paying American taxes. The Japanese auto industry and brands from other countries were very successful at that.
As the quality of solar-electric panel performance increases, as it has, expect the demand for panels to increase. American manufacturers should have a fair opportunity to win those orders. American engineering can compete. Negating the lower costs that dumping and government subsidies give Chinese manufacturers is the right step to take.


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Looking across the sea ice to the Barne Glacier as seen from Cape Evans, with a Hagglunds from Scott Base on the right of the picture.
BarneHagglundsPanoramasea iceglacier
From Panoramas
Looking up at the Barne Glacier, standing on the frozen ocean.
From Bases Machines and People
Barne Glacier face.
From Ice Abstracts
Panorama of the Barne Glacier taken from the seasonal sea ice of McMurdo Sound.
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The north face of the Barne Glacier in the afternoon sun
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Standing near the base of the Barne Glacier.


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Organic farming is nothing new in Israel, but given the fact that several Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms have popped up over the last several years and regular supermarkets are pushing organic products, not to mention the Eden Teva supermarket chain, you would think that Israel has just been introduced to the organic way of life.
It is quite the contrary. In 1958, a group of people of various backgrounds decided to create a moshav based on a vegetarian, vegan, and organic lifestyle and ideology. The founders of Amirim were among the pioneers of the vegetarian movement in Israel. The Israel Bio-Organic Agricultural Association (Tuv Hassadeh) was founded in the late 1970s by an 84-year-old farmer, Mario Levy, from Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu in the north of the country. It was quite difficult in the beginning to convince Israeli farmers to forego the use of pesticides, but now there are over 500 farmers who are members of the association and produce 13% of farm products in Israel.
Organic products and produce could always be found in the various health food stores in Tel Aviv, but now there is a dedicated famers market at HaTahana (The Train Station), the beautifully renovated Ottoman-period train station on the Tel Aviv-Yafo border. The Tel Aviv municipality and the Israel Bio-Organic Agricultural Association opened the farmers market as a joint project.
Every Friday, approximately 40 stalls with food growers and manufacturers, all certified members of the association, sell products such as cakes, dairy products, eggs, and of course beautiful seasonal fruits and vegetables.
The vendors at Shuk HaCarmel are always finding clever, but generally noisy, ways to advertise their products to the crowd of shoppers. The organic farmers market, by contrast, was relaxed, peaceful and unpushy.
At Orbanic, the attractive vendors smile and proudly talk about their produce, with passion in their eyes, and visible pleasure, the results of their hard work. Like on the face of Or Glicksman, who gives you a big beautiful smile when he describes his organic vegetables from his father's farm on Kibbutz Gal-On in the southern part of the country.
And the cute guy from the Negev who was selling his sweet and juicy little mangoes and perfectly round cherry tomatoes.
There are vendors selling organic large-leafed purslane, from imported seedlings from France that are acclimated in hothouses at Kardesh Barnea in the Negev, and large shoots of lemongrass, waiting for a Vietnamese stir fry.
You can even take home the much sought after Aba Gil's organic hummous, quiches, and brown rice pilaf. Their quiches are egg, wheat and dairy free.
And you can also take home romaine lettuce seedlings, which I bought for my garden along with 1 kg of spelt flour, 3 desert mangoes, a yellow and green striped pumpkin, olives marinated in red wine and herbs, and pickled baby eggplants.
Mario Levy must be smiling on his cloud as he looks down and sees how even in the big city, the movement that he helped start has achieved so much popularity.
Orbanic Farmers Market
2 Yehezkel Kaufmann Street
Tel Aviv
Open: Fridays, 0800-1500


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Why hasn't my ZoneAlarm Free Firewall detected an update yet? I'm already aware that there is a newer version available. Yet some how when I check for updates it says it already is up-to-date, why? Also, is it urgent that I update to the latest version ASAP or is it fine to wait until it comes in the form of an auto-update?
My current ZoneAlarm version information is as follows...
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Title of your Story: Come Home
Author Name: WrenWinterSong (but only if it looks good on the banner!)
Catch phrase: All Mummies and Daddies come home. Why would his be any different?
Overall look of the banner: Sweet or more like bittersweet; kind of bright and happy but still a little sad. Dunno if that makes any sense or would translate to a banner...
Fonts: Whatever looks best; maybe something child-like?
Characters: Teddy as a three-year old boy (with his blue hair of course) but I don't really have anyone in mind; Tonks and Lupin if they fit in well, if not, that's perfectly all right! Also, if you could incorporate photographs in there as well, that would be peachy!
Story Summary: Three year old Teddy Lupin ponders the photographs on the living room side table.
Banner size: No preference.
Have You Requested This Banner Before?: Nope!
Anything else? Not that I can think of! A big pre-thank you for whoever takes on this request!


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By ROGER MILLS
© St. Petersburg Times, published January 28, 2001
Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper talks with staff writer Roger Mills about adoption, feats of strength and loving life.
DC: I don't know, there's nothing much about me. If I had some secrets, I probably wouldn't tell you anyway. I'm a PlayStation freak. I love PlayStation. All I play is football. All I play is John Madden football games.
RM: What's this about someone making a movie out of your instant impact in the NFL?
DC: I know somebody is already trying to do it. It's some people that I went to school with and they've contacted me and are starting to put things together. It's unbelievable.
RM: Who's going to play you?
DC: I guess, me. Yeah, I can act. I can learn how to act. If you can play quarterback (you can act). ... Nah, I'm just joking about it being me.
RM: Relive that now famous day in the main weight room at the University of Central Florida, when you left a somewhat unbreakable mark.
DC: I came in there and I told coach (Mike Kruczek), "I think I'm going to break the school's clean-and-jerk record today." Now, they knew I was pretty strong but that day I just felt like I was real strong. I did my first lift and it was 315 pounds and I snatched it up like it was nothing. So, I knew after doing that, since my max before that was about 325, once I did that I felt like I could at least do 100 pounds more. I was really feeling it and told myself, "Yeah, I'm going to break the record today."
RM: I heard the weight room slowly started filling with your teammates as you approached the record.
DC: They went and got the whole team from the other weight rooms and facilities, and they started crowding around. The record was like 365 and I put 370 on the bar.
RM: Who held the record?
DC: It was a lineman.
RM: What happened next?
DC: I grabbed it, snatched it (all the way) up.
RM: Are you the strongest quarterback to ever play in the NFL?
DC: Hmm, I know of some guys that were pretty strong. But I'm pretty strong.
RM: Yeah, but how many quarterbacks can snatch 370 pounds?
DC: Not too many. It is a lot (of weight).
RM: Do you feel that strength when you're on the field?
DC: Oh, yeah. It's great. I'm out there to get it done, and I'm going to use every advantage that I can to do that. But, at the same time, while I'm very physical, I also know I have to be smart. I'm not going to go out there and separate my shoulder or hurt myself so that I can't play. But, sometimes, you have to be physical.
RM: Cats or dogs?
DC: Neither.
RM: Don't like pets?
DC: No.
RM: That's kind of cold, man. DC: You know, I had a dog when I was young, but I always said I don't want one when I grow up.
RM: Considering that you were adopted by Emma Culpepper as an infant -- and I know you have two children -- would you consider adopting?
DC: Maybe, further down the road. I would have to talk to my fiancee and find out how she feels. For the most part, obviously, I feel adoption is something special. You're giving kids a chance and that's what it's all about. I'm not planning on it, but I do what I can with my (adoption) charities and try to help every way I can.
RM: What's your relationship with Barbara, your biological mother?
DC: Great! Great!
RM: Granted she was incarcerated at the time, but do you feel any resentment toward her for giving you up for adoption?
DC: No. She's a wonderful woman. She made some mistakes at a young age. A lot of kids, 90 percent of kids, make some mistakes. The main thing is that she turned her life around, she's got a good job. She's got her life straight.
RM: Do you call her mom?
DC: Yup. She's mom. I've got both of them and I love both of them the same.
RM: Why does Dennis Green get the bad rap he does?
DC: I have no idea. I asked him one day, "Coach, what's the deal. Why all the heat?" I don't know. He's done nothing but won. Ever since he's been there, he's done nothing but win games. The only thing he hasn't done is win the Super Bowl and, trust me, that's coming.
RM: Does it bother him?
DC: I think it does. But it keeps the drive. It fuels him to be the best he can be.
RM: What's it like to be Daunte Culpepper, healthy, happy, rich, a starting quarterback in, of all places, Minneapolis?
DC: Well, I'm loving my life. I feel like I'm one of the most blessed guys in the world, to come from where I came from, to be doing what I'm doing. I just have to thank God.
RM: What's your take on the lap dancing controversy?
DC: Really, it's up to the person. Whatever they want to do, if they feel that's what they enjoy. To each his own.
RM: Should you have to be at least 6 feet away?
DC: I really don't care. It doesn't affect me.
RM: Is it difficult to be here in Tampa this weekend, knowing that it could be the Vikings playing in the Super Bowl?
DC: It's hard (to be here). But, it's something I've got to do. It's part of the job.


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He basically admitted the contest as presently constituted is FUBARed because of it.
For eejits like me, its worth the watch, car wreck radio!
He basically admitted the contest as presently constituted is FUBARed because of it.
For eejits like me, its worth the watch, car wreck radio!
Ha ha...now another caller ham boned him into asking the wrong amount of questions so now he has to give him a SB trip. He's all flustered, p*ssed and stammering..... music to my ears.
Francesa is now going on and on and admitting that he destroyed his own SB contest today...
He miscounted the number of questions he asked the contestant and had to allow the contestant to win because of his technical mistake...
What an idiot...
An embarrassment...
hahaha...that's great! Blaming the caller flustered him. He's such a douche!!
I agree with Ira. Lets see how he shapes the roster before we say he is going to bend over for Rex. The proof will be in the pudding. I am sure Rex will be commenting one way or another with regards to him getting his picks.
I get what Francesa means about coming out and declaring that you are going to change the culture. That is what Rex did. I just don't think that is Idzik's personality.
Worst part for me was when Fatty knocked the guy's father. That was a little low.
Carton should have a field day tomorrow.
He obviously needs help managing the amount of questions he has left. He did wonders for Herm.
Was the guy who had 5 question the Colt fan?
That guy really was annoying. He openly told Mike he had the broadcast list in front of him (which was him basically rubbing it in Mikes face that he was on MikeFrancesa.com's cheat thread)
I dont get why he gets mad. Those audios are impossible without community help. They are just throw away lines at media day usually: Jeff Saturday talking about the importance of focusing on the game for example.
EDIT: It was at 1:50, you can hear the guy typing haha
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Did anyone notice he mentioned that Revis should easily fetch 2 first rounders? I mean, REALLY? Because if he could then we should trade him in a heartbeat. Funny thing is he's saying that only so he can come back and talk about how we got raped if we get anything less. What a doosh.


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Colangelo was just on the fan 590 hyping up DeRozan bigtime. Ross isn't going anywhere, but Demar probably will. Demar was asked about playing the 3 last night and wasn't exactly happy about it, but he said he'd do it.
If Demar is dealt, the Ross pick makes sense. If not, it's just a head scratcher.
Do we know what Memphis' opinion of Derozan is?
C'mon Rudy Gay!!!
All I can say is that BC has much redeeming to do this summer or I am off his wagon. Cant fault him for the picks made ahead of us but that he could not/would not pull off something ahead of or during the draft is very disappointing. I am getting less convinced about his deal making the last while...eg that he let Drummond go instead of picking and not having Houston or even Boston bite on him I cannot understand.
I find the quote from BC in the last paragraph of TSN's draft article to be quite telling... this weekend and into early next week should be quite interesting.
LINK: http://www.tsn.ca/nba/story/?id=399479"Within the next 24 to 48 hours we're going to be exploring some conversations that we've been having as the dust settles on the draft," Colangelo said. "Team needs become very apparent but we are still armed with that (salary) cap flexibility that we have."
I can't help but think this kind of talk refers to high priced veteran wings (ie: Gay, Iguodala, Deng, etc..).
I wonder if Barnes and Lillard had been available if BC would have taken them? Maybe he thinks Ross is that good?
I can't say that I am overly excited with the pick. But I don't think that it's a bad pick. Maybe there were no dancing partners for BC.
Here is my reaction after trying to overcome the shock of draft night...
Ross at 8 was a reach, but I'm very happy that he didn't draft Rivers.
With all the trade chatter, the only team that made any kind of move was Houston. In my opinion those trades didn't really do anything for them either. They moved up from 14 to 12, and got #18 from Minny... so they now added 3 rookies to their squad, where no name blows you over (Lamb, White, TJones). I'm sure Bryan was looking at moving the pick.. but nobody else traded their pick.. it was probably a lot harder to move then us fans probably expected.
Ross is going to be a good pick. He has just as much potential as Waiters, and I'm glad he didn't reach for a SF once Barnes/MKG were gone. He went for BPA which I'm cool with. Lamb must have seriously screwed up that workout for Ross to be rated higher than him.
The draft lesson here is that we suck at tanking. If only we lost to Boston or Atlanta.... damn Casey!
Quincy Acy is described as Reggie Evans 2.0. I love that pick. I love having a big on the team that's nasty. I'm a huge fan of guys that tear it up in the paint on defense.. and I think Acy will provide that. Davis/Amir are okay but are not tenacious.. I love a good blue collar player, and I think Acy is going to be great. Acy can also play the 3.. so a lineup of JV/Bargs/Acy could work.
I am extremely disappointed that we did not get Machado. I wonder what happened to him? There weren't many PG's in the draft, but he was considered one of the best in the second round. BC must have made his mind up that he didn't want to use his cap space on another player so he went with a Euro stash. I guess that's alright, but the 'point guard of the future' is going to be a pressing issue through out the year.
Overall I give BC's draft grade a B-. Things could have played out a bit better (drafting Drummond, and trading him; moving down for Ross, etc).. but I think he did a decent job.
The big test now is what he does in the next month. Let's all pray that he doesn't screw the pooch here.
From CNNSI:
Philadelphia -- At No. 15 the Sixers took St. John's forward Maurice Harkless, a raw but extremely gifted small forward. Then the Sixers cut a deal with Miami to acquire Mississippi State big man Arnett Moultrie, a double-double machine with the Bulldogs who can defend and hit the offensive glass. The decision to draft Harkless likely spells the end for Andre Iguodala, who could be moved for a shooter the Sixers sorely still need.
I'll give Matt credit, as he was the first conspiracy theorist on board last night, after the Ross & Harkless picks, so this article seems to only add fuel to the fire, IMO. Iguodala on the way out and a BC favourite (Harkless) on board, while the Raptors have cap space and just happened to draft a shooter (Ross)? Coincidence? Could it essentially become a #8 (Ross) & Davis & JJ (& $9.5M cap savings) --> #13 (Harkless) & Iguodala deal, if it's not just coincidence...
Everyone needs to calm the **** down.
Yes, the pick was a reach but the player we got back was talented enough to make it worth it. I recall people calling Paul George a reach back in 2010 too but look how well he turned out.
For you lot who thought trading down was a option, you don't know jack about the NBA. You can't just compare this to the NHL where trading down is easy as pie--look at what the Cavs had to give up for the #17.
Yes, but the original offer was the three picks in exchange for the #17.
Regardless of how Zeller turns out (whether he's this year's Aldrich or B.Lopez), he's not worth 3 quality players by himself. They added Kelenna Azubuike later on though, which evens the deal out somewhat.
CNNSI's 1st round draft analysis: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...&sct=hp_t11_a1
The Raptors had their pick of shooting guards, from UConn's Jeremy Lamb to Duke's Austin Rivers to Ross. In the Washington product, Toronto gets a player with phenomenal range, size and top-tier athleticism. After improving defensively in coach Dwane Casey's first season, the Raptors were hyper-focused on adding scoring. Ross will push DeMar DeRozan to speed up his learning curve.
Still, seeing Washington take that big step forward has got me envious. They are a playoff team now with a pretty slick line up:
PG Wall
SG Beal
SF Ariza
PF Nene
C Okafur
They need a new coach, but on paper that is a really good team. Sigh
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Kahlil Smith, 33, 4414 Millvale Dr. Sw. Huntsville, Ala. — Failure to Appear.
Jerry W. Settlemire, 31, 501 SW 1st St. 4, Atkins — Appeal.
The following civil cases were filed in Pope County Circuit Court from July 19-26:
Cases assigned to the First Divison:
American Express Centurion Bank v. Michael Clark.
American Express Centurion Bank v. Shane Young.
State of Arkansas v. 2005 Chrysler Sebring (Olivia Schluterman).
State of Arkansas v. 2012 Nissan Murano (Marcia Shinn).
Cases assigned to the Fourth Division:
Ford Motor Credit Company, LLC v. Jimmie Graham.
Dianna Thomas v. First Automotive Service Corporation.
Roy's Heating and Cooling, Inc. v. National Business Advertising Incorporated and Aloysius Gripshover, Individually and d/b/a National Business Advertising Incorportaed also d/b/a NBAI.
Pope County Clerk Laura McGuire issued marriage licenses to the following couples from July 19-26:
Zakcory T. Biddle, 19, and Caitlin B. Young, 18, both of Atkins.
Dustin C. Canady, 32, and Sarah M. Lawson, 28, both of London.
Billy L. Chism, 27, and Jenna L. Hanna, 21, both of Jerusalem.
Noe Correa-Garibay, 38, and Lucrecia Rubio, 45, both of Russellville.
Daniel L. Jackson, 30, and Alina A. Fediaieva, 20, both of Russellville.
Charter D. Lilley, 33, of Morrilton and Amanda Allison Brice, 23, of Russellville.
Charlie Wayne Melton, 67, and Naomi Faye Adkins, 63, both of Grand Saline, Texas.
The following divorces were filed from July 19-26:
Jennie McNeese v. James McNeese.
Kristi Short v. Richard Short.
Tara Bates Laffoon v. Eric M. Laffoon.
Allison Nichols v. Mason Nichols.
Regina R. Tarvin v. Jimmy Tarvin Jr.
Jacklyn McCall v. Dwayne McCall.
Jeremy Cardenas v. Shelly Cardenas.
Kevin Talbert v. Tina Talbert.


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Handling Respiratory Disease Outbreaks at Boarding Stables
- Oct 12, 2012
- Topics:
Watch for clinical signs such as fever, nasal discharge, coughing, depression, anorexia, conjunctivitis, and submandibular lymph node enlargement (seen here) and contact a veterinarian promptly for an examination.
Photo: Dr. Philip Ivens
Respiratory disease outbreaks at facilities such as boarding barns present unique challenges for veterinarians, horse owners, and farm managers. Disease can spread quickly through a property's equine population and beyond, and treating veterinarians must cater services to a diverse group of horse owners and their varying budgets.
To ease the process, Philip Ivens, MA, VetMB, CertEM(Int. Med.), Dipl. ECEIM, MRCVS, with Buckingham Equine Vets, in the UK, presented his suggestions for handling these outbreaks while at the British Equine Veterinary Association's 51st annual Congress, held Sept. 12-15 in Birmingham, UK.
Infectious diseases to watch for include equine influenza, equine herpesvirus 1 and 4, strangles, and equine rhinitis virus. Clinical signs such as fever, nasal discharge, coughing, depression, anorexia, conjunctivitis, and submandibular (under the jaw) lymph node enlargement are often overlooked and are only the tip of the iceberg.
Once a veterinarian identifies an outbreak, he or she must take steps to halt its spread. For instance, Ivens said area veterinary practices must put politics aside and communicate with each other "so that a unified response is seen between different veterinary surgeons/practices." Veterinarians should also alert and continue to update the proper state and national authorities and determine the travel history of each horse on the property.
During the outbreak's acute phase, the veterinarian must identify which animals to sample (using nasal and/or nasopharyngeal swabs or washes, blood samples, or environmental samples depending on the suspected disease) and, with the farm manager/owner's help, try to trace the source of the outbreak to identify chronic cases, latently infected animals, or asymptomatic carriers. Veterinarians can use bacterial and viral cultures, molecular tests (such as polymerase chain reaction), and serology (blood) tests to confirm diagnosis.
In controlling disease spread, Ivens suggested all parties adhere to strict biosecurity measures and continued disease surveillance. "Small measures make a big difference," he said, listing basics such as isolating areas of the farm, wearing protective gear, and using appropriate disinfectants.
He also recommended separating horses on the property into three groups: infected, in-contact, and not exposed.
"Be prepared to move animals between groups based on results of surveillance and testing," he added.
Once surveillance and testing results indicate the outbreak is past, owners and managers should take measures to prevent future events, such as improving biosecurity tactics, segregating incoming horses, and vaccinating regularly.
"For future prevention," said Ivens, "vaccination may be a useful measure but should always be seen as an adjunct to, not a substitute for, management measures and improvements."
In conclusion Ivens emphasized teamwork, transparent communication, and dissemination of information to all involved; knowing the current disease state both locally and nationally; and taking proper biosecurity measures to best handle and halt the outbreak.
About the Author
Alexandra Beckstett, The Horse Managing Editor
Alexandra Beckstett, Managing Editor of The Horse and a native of Houston, Texas, is a lifelong horse owner who has shown successfully on the national hunter/jumper circuit and dabbled in hunter breeding. After graduating from Duke University, she joined Blood-Horse Publications as Assistant Editor of its book division, Eclipse Press, before joining The Horse.
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