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Watch U2 Perform 'Ordinary Love' at The OscarsThe 2014 Academy Awards are well underway, with several musical performances dotting the filmic night, including, but not limited to, Bette Midler.
Watch U2 Perform 'Invisible' on Fallon's 'Tonight Show' PremiereThe Irish band chose to leave the comforts of Studio 6B for the chilly Top of the Rock.
Bono Teases New U2 Album Release Date, New Single 'Invisible'"We're still working some things out," Bono said of the group's thirteenth studio album, which he said was being prepped for a June release date.
U2 Wins Golden Globe for Best Original SongThe Irish band won for their song "Ordinary Love," their first song in three years, from the Nelson Mandela biopic, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
U2 Nominated For Golden Globe Against Justin Timberlake, Taylor SwiftU2 won a Golden Globe ten years ago for "The Hands That Built America" from Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York.
U2 Release 'Ordinary Love' - First New Song In Three YearsThe band's first new song in three years is featured in the upcoming Nelson Mandela biopic, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, and the lyric video, which premiered today (Nov. 21) on Facebook, honors the man with a little harmless vandalism.
U2 To Release 'Ordinary Love' On Vinyl For Record Store DayU2 will release the song as a limited edition 10" single.

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Will Ferrell visited his alma mater Monday for a talk about "careers, friendship, and life philosophies." But that somehow spiraled into something more Ferrell-esque.
In a video posted on YouTube, Ferrell is seen donned in a full set of Trojan Armor leading the University of Southern California marching band, The Spirit of Troy, according to The Huffington Post.
Ferrell visited the school along with fellow alumnus and friend, Craig Pollard, for the talk with students. Ferrell supports and is a celebrity spokesman for Pollard's charity, Cancer for College.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A man who climbed the Golden Gate Bridge and eluded police Thursday night was found at the top of the south tower and taken into custody shortly before 10 a.m. Friday, authorities said.
The man survived cold and fog overnight, and had climbed to the very top of the tower, about 500 feet above the bridge and 750 feet above the bay.
A standoff began early Thursday evening after police received reports around 6:15 p.m. that the man had climbed a portion of the south tower.
There had been some confusion over whether the man had a gun when negotiators last spoke with him at about 8 p.m. Thursday, California Highway Patrol Officer Diana McDermott said.
Heavy fog made it impossible to search effectively overnight.
The CHP shut down all traffic in both directions on the Golden Gate Bridge starting at about 8:30 a.m. Friday, when fog at the north tower lifted. Traffic reopened about 10 minutes later, McDermott said.
About an hour after that, the fog had lifted at the south tower, allowing officers to safely climb it, she said. They discovered the man at about 9:50 a.m., she said.
Medics were on the scene to see if the man needed any care, either physical or mental, she said. It was not immediately clear whether he will face charges.
The man had told police by phone that he was armed, San Francisco police Officer Gordon Shyy said. When the man had climbed down Thursday night, close enough for officers to approach him, their own guns drawn, the man climbed back up. The officers did not see the man brandish a gun, Shyy said.
No gun was recovered when the man was found, McDermott said.
Check back for updates to this story.
Contact Sean Maher at 925-943-8013. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/OneSeanMaher.


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h4x0rpenguin wrote:Steam id? (so I can send it to you).
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Just watched the clips from this game. Simply embarrassing.
This team would be a better fit in the WNBA and even though I don't think we win a championship
Just watched the clips from this game. Simply embarrassing.
This team would be a better fit in the WNBA and even though I don't think we win a championship
One very positive note....
Dolan was at the OKC game......So he must feel like a schmuck watching the Knicks look like amatuers.....
Anyway to trade for Mo williams...
D'Antoni is a lucky guy, today is Sunday, tomorrow is a holiday, so there won't be even an article bashing his coaching. And if we somehow win against Orlando, and if that will be a good game, all the media will be prasing the Knicks on Tuesday which is the next buisness day counting from now...
Hopefully if Dolan was at the game he might have seen, first hand, that our moron of a coach has to go. Have you seen D`Antoni in the post game video on Knicksnow.com. He is completely clueless.
When asked what do we do to improves he just says:
We have to work hard and get better . . . Really? No ****.
Dolan doesn't care just wanted a big name player so he could sell more tickets
Dude raised ticket prices 59% soon as we got Melo
As long as we have him as a owner we won't get far
Knicks 2012
MSG did not raise the price of any seat that was not renovated.
Most of the 200's and all of the 300's and 400's were NOT RENOVATED.
The 59% figure is based on them including those seats...
The real figure is 120% plus.
Seats in 120 that were 95 are now 230
seats in 210 that were 80 are now 160.
I do beleive he cares....Dantonio will be fired


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i was an HP fan, then lost it to twilight for a while. now im back, thanks to my friends, and wanted to start my own fanfiction. im a HUGE Dramione fan, and wasn't one until i started reading fan-fiction.
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HOUSTON - Local 2 Sports Analyst and former Houston Texans player Chester Pitts tied the knot Wednesday night with his longtime girlfriend LaToya Hutchins.
The two exchanged vows in a surprise poolside wedding at a boutique hotel in Houston's Museum District.
"Today has been a long time coming. The first day I met you, I thought, 'Who is this guy?' but you and your dimples made your way into my heart and have stayed there ever since," Hutchins said during her vows.
The two kissed for the first time as a married couple to an NFL theme song.
Chester Pitts planned the whole wedding with his friends and surprised Hutchins. Pitts proposed on Tuesday and Hutchins did not know she was getting married the very next day.
Pitts and Hutchins picked out the wedding dress on Tuesday.
Hutchins walked down the aisle with a string quartet from the Houston Symphony playing in the background.
Nineteen people were in the wedding party, including their adorable 6-year-old son, Chester III. He was the ring bearer.
The groom and bride's friends flew in from around the country. About 85 guests were on hand for the ceremony.
"I had no idea. I wasn't expecting this. I was expecting to go to the court house," said Hutchins.
The wedding ceremony was accented with light shades of pink and lavender. The flowers were pink and lavender roses, hydrangeas and orchids.
The guests' chairs were also draped in lavender satin and tiny silver bells.
"I had mixed emotions. At first, I was happy because I don't have to deal with the stress of putting together a wedding and then I was angry because of the purple gowns. But you know, they did a great fabulous job, no stress. I just basically had to show up." said Hutchins after the ceremony.
The couple was asked how it felt to finally be Mr. and Mrs. Pitts. "Totally elated very happy," Chester said.
"I'm on top of the world," said Mrs. Pitts.
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Calorie counting has long been touted as an effective tool for losing pounds or maintaining a healthy weight. But new research published in the British Medical Journal shows many of us are underestimating the calories we're eating, especially when we visit fast food restaurants.
The study
Researchers interviewed more than 1,800 adults, 1,100 adolescents and 330 children at several fast food chains in New England. The interviews were done at McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, KFC, Dunkin' Donuts and Wendy's around dinnertime and lunchtime.
Study participants were asked to estimate their meal's calorie count. Researchers then collected the bill to later tally the correct amount of calories using nutrition info posted on the chain's website.
The results
At least 40% of the study participants reported eating at the restaurant where they were interviewed at least once a week. More than 20% of the adult participants noticed posted calorie information, but only 5% said they used that information when purchasing food.
The mean calorie count for adults' meals was 836 calories; teens purchased 756 calories and children ordered 733 calories. "At least two-thirds of all participants underestimated the calorie content of their meals, with about a quarter underestimating the calorie content by at least 500 calories," the study authors write.
Adults tended to underestimate their meals by about 175 calories, the same as children. Adolescents were more likely to underestimate by about 250 calories. Adults with a higher BMI were less likely to underestimate than their normal weight counterparts.
The restaurant most likely to confuse calorie-counters? Subway. Adult diners there underestimated their consumption by an average of 350 calories and teen diners underestimating by an average of 500 calories. Most of Subway's 6-inch sandwiches contain between 350 and 500 calories; consumers must double that if they order a foot-long sub and factor in extra calories for sides and/or drinks.
More than half of the people researchers approached were unwilling to participate. Researchers also did not interview anyone going through the drive-thru. The people they did not talk to may have estimated their calorie counts differently than the study population.
The researchers also did not weigh each participant's food to determine its exact calorie amount, instead relying on generalizations from the restaurant's website.
The takeaway
The study authors are hopeful that listing calorie counts on menus in these establishments will encourage consumers to make healthier choices. But research on the effect of calorie displays has been mixed.
More important may be the sheer number of calories consumers are eating in a typical fast food meal. Depending on their age, children need between 1,200 and 2,000 calories per day. Eating more than 730 in one sitting (and remember, that's the mean -- others ate up to 350 calories more than that) could lead to weight gain over time.
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Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
I was horrified to find endless amounts of Wisconsin hate in the comments of yesterday's edition of The Queue. Come on, Wisconsin rules! Well, no, the few bubbles of real civilization in Wisconsin rule. Milwaukee, Madison, and maybe (maybe) the Green Bay area. Everything in between those points are like something out of a horror movie. In transit from Milwaukee to Madison, all of the passengers in the car keep their eyes squeezed shut while the driver breaks out in a cold sweat. Packers fans fling themselves at your vehicle like the undead, crying out for your blood and pounding their fists on your windows. The only thing that you can do, the only thing you want to do, is keep driving.
Milwaukee, though? Totally rules.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek Movies I-X' started by Gotham Central, Oct 7, 2013.
Yes. Really, I never cared for any of ILM's Trek ship or station designs.
I thought of something along those lines, too, that it would have been difficult to stage an exciting escape scene from the office-station. I suppose a good writer could have done it. That would not be me. I suppose I just go for the right-on-the-edge-of-believability of the office.
The ST3 spacedock didn't really start to bother me until years after the fact. It just seemed too fanciful for the time. 27th century or something, maybe...but not 23rd.
Pretty fair chance in my mind that they were basically running away from anything TMP...
Plus, they'd already flipped the orbital office upside down and used it for Regula One in WoK.
Hmm, that is true, drt. Time for something new by 3, I guess. But then they went and used it in that Next Generation episode, which by the scale of the ship would make it even larger! Just imagine if it popped up in the new movies: darn thing grows by leaps and bounds!!
I'm watching TMP Director's Edition right now. The Ilia theme is 3:01 at the very beginning of the disk. The Paramount logo doesn't appear until 3:05, and the opening credits after that.
Politics... It wouldn't surprise me if Nogura was so mad that he made Kirk take a demotion. Kirk, in turn, said that Decker had to take a demotion.
I don't know that Kirk would have been able to make that call. It's always been my impression that Kirk had give up a great deal to get the Enterprise back. We don't know that he would have been allowed to keep the vessel had Decker remained aboard following TMP. Nothing's explicitly stated in the script, but I think he was on an extremely tight leash. Any decision regarding rank changes would have been Nogura's rather than Kirk's.
The period for awe was TMP, when the refit 1701 was new. Starfleet is more than just large ships, so it was sensible to show how far space station tech advanced in the late 23rd century. Personally, I thought the SfS additions only added to a sense that it was more than one type of vessel serving every purpose, or the K-7 for every kind of station.
That's interesting. I didn't even think that this could be just a temporary structure built solely for the refit. I thought it was just another starbase.
Then again, there's the image on the cover of the Typhon Pact novel Raise the Dawn...
Spoiler: novel
which many people thought was Deep Space Nine mark II, but it wasn't the new station itself - just the temporary habitat intended for use by the construction workers who were building it.
In this link, the new DS9 is the top image, the construction habitat is the bottom one.
... so I guess it's not entirely without precedent.
^We never see it used that way again after TMP. The model is reused and flipped upside down to pose as the Regula I space laboratory, as well as several small starbases during TNG and DS9. But the idea of the floating office isn't used a second time that I'm aware of.
I doubt it was a temporary structure built solely for the Enterprise refit. I imagine it's the office complex for whichever dockyard did the refit (San Fransisco Fleet Yards?) and is therefore a more-or-less "permanent" structure.
It makes sense that they might need a temp structure for building a space station, as in your novel cover example, but the infrastructure for ship-building would be more long-term, I would think. Building and dismantling a dockyard to build or refit a single ship doesn't sound like it would make much sense.
^Agreed. The Enterprise was commissioned from the San Francisco Fleet Yards. I'd imagine that any other ships that were built there probably had access to the station just as the Enterprise refit team did. Given the way the structure is organized, I wonder it had living quarters in addition to the office space we saw when Kirk beamed to the station. There would have been a point in time during the refit when the Enterprise wasn't habitable. It would have made sense for members of the crew to be stationed nearby in the event of an emergency. I suppose some of them could have stayed on Earth, but the station would have been another option.
Considering the office complex itself is not complete, what with all those half-finished sections, I'd guess it is pretty new. Probert's idea for the dock was that it was very old, possibly a century, so it would contrast with the refit, and I guess with the complex as well.
But the dock does have an area on the port side (where the travel pods and work bees can dock) that could be used as a conference area, going by the amount of space it takes up. The office complex would then be more like an on-site hotel for the workers, if you assume they don't beam down to Earth each day.
I love the look of TMP tech, including Epsilon 9, especially compared to the very earthbound look of the ILM SFS stuff like the mushroom dock, which just looks like a glorified blimp hangar to me, and always has. I find the latticework of a zero-gee structure with all the filigree to be pretty exotic, whereas the spacedock of ILM's is just bulk.
FWIW I think Andy dislikes Epsilon 9. I believe the design was farmed out to Apogee and wasn't his cup of tea. Personally, I like it for the most part, even though we never get a good look at it.
I've never really thought about it over the 34 years since TMP, but, it makes sense that the office complex is the "construction trailer" for the space dock. You tow it to whatever wet dock a large refit is underway, and tow it away to another site when the refit ship leaves.
I always thought Epsilon was too much the design child of a "what would present day NASA (1970s) build?" The erector-set structure is not at all in line with anything seen on TOS, and does not look like it would fit in the evolutionary deign period between TV and movie.
I thought it was fine for what it was: a freaking huge antennae array.
I don't remember getting a good sense of what Epsilon 9 actually looked like from afar, I just recall fairly close up shots of a latticework type structure. Which, oddly, was the same sense I got from Vger itself. There was no instance in either case of getting a "reduce magnification, let me see all of it" type shot, so to speak.
The first shot you see of it is the whole thing.
Ah, thank you, Closed Caption. I'd completely forgotten about that one!
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Monterey Institute Community Mourns Loss of Dr. Peter Grothe
June 18, 2012
Dr. Peter Grothe, emeritus director of International Student Programs and longtime instructor, mentor and supporter passed away on Saturday, June 16, following a serious illness over the past five months.
Peter's dedication to international students over the years was exceptional, as evidenced by the ongoing accolades Peter has received from former students. His cross-cultural lunches, Big Sur hikes, Institute ski trips where he gave lessons to beginner skiers, and his successful recruiting for MIIS in over 40 countries, are among the most visible of Peter's contributions.
More importantly, he was there for Monterey Institute students, especially international students, when they needed a friendly conversation, help understanding American culture or a solid dinner. In recent years Peter also made an extraordinary financial commitment to enable 145 international students to pursue their education at the Institute.
Peter enjoyed a long and distinguished career in international policy and higher education. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Communications, Political Science and History at Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science at George Washington University. He earned an honorary doctorate from the Monterey Institute in 2005. He served as foreign policy advisor to Senator Hubert Humphrey and as deputy director of the United Nations Division of the Peace Corps.
The family would like to pass along their warmest regards to the many alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends who sent Peter well wishes, cards and letters during his illness, and would like the senders to know how much they meant.
A memorial service will be held at the Monterey Institute in September, when faculty and students return to campus. More information is forthcoming. In lieu of flowers, the family has suggested a donation of any size to the Peter Grothe Scholarship Fund for Women in Developing Countries. You can make a donation by filling out the Institute's online giving form or contacting the Institutional Advancement Office at (831) 647 3523.
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RIP Peter
It was sad to learn of Peter Grothe's passing. He was truly an inspiration to me as a minority and non-traditional student at MIIS. He was my first contact with faculty and my last since graduating in 2000 in the MPA program.
Peter was truly a man of this world and was always willing and able to stop to talk with me even after so many years have passed. He was my mentor and friend. I will miss him terribly. My thoughts and prayers go out to his soul and may he rest now for all the hard work he did to make and change our lives.
Peter, on behalf of my daughters, Samantha and Olivia, we mourn your passing but sincerely appreciate your help in enriching our lives for the better. Because of you, we are all on to bigger and higher things in life - giving back to the community as you so generously did.
You will be missed by the MIIS community! Your life impacted many for the better.
Rest in Peace, my friend,
Miriam R. Aguilar
A very special person
Dr. Grothe was an incredibly kind man with a heart of gold. Anyone who was in need of a kind word, support, or guidance, he was there. I am privileged to be able to say that Peter was my friend, and I regret that I did not say "thank you" to him before he passed.
Peter helped me much more than I ever helped him, though I enjoyed my time being a student employee for him. I laughed then (and still!) at some of the silly things he asked me to do! For example he was determined to find a way to stop junk mail from coming to his mailbox - and damned if I didn't make a hundred phone calls to those miscellaneous solicitors!
He always had a smile for me and asked how I was (and asked the question with sincerity). It is a small act I try to replicate.
He will be greatly missed, but not forgotten. He made a difference to me, and I know to so many others.
Rest in peace, Peter, Dr. Grothe.
Jennifer Green
It was such a heartbreaking
It was such a heartbreaking news to hear about Dr. Peter Grothe's sudden death. May his soul rest in peace. He was like a father to me and he was the only reason I could finish my education in the US. Words can't describe how sad I feel about his death.
I send thoughts of sympathy and condolence to his family, and MIIS community. I hope we can follow his footsteps in giving back to our community and the world in general. He was so humble that he didnt even take the credit for all the help (monetary and non monetary) and comfort he provided to others. He used to tell me that when he gives to people, he feels happy and that keeps him healthy because when we give to others, our bodies create a chemical compound that is good for health, so "I am actually helping myself by giving to others," he said.
May he be blessed by God, the almighty.
Nadia Hashimi
Nadia -- We are all saddened
Nadia -- We are all saddened by the loss of Dr. Grothe. He's been an inspiration, a supporter, and an advocate for so many! You were very special to him and his legacy will continue to bear fruit in the leadership and commitment of so many former students and now leaders like you! (You may recall that he always descibed you as a future leader of your country!)
Thank you for all you gave to Peter by doing so well as a student and being such a great example. All the best! -- Dennis
Your presence will always be missed Prof. Grothe
Dear Prof. Grothe, MIIS will never be the same without you. You have left a void which cannot be filled!
Shekaar Subramanian
MBA (Class of 2005)
Rest in Peace Prof. Grothe
I am most pained hearing the loss of Prof. Grothe. Without prof. Grothe's generosity towards me, I am not sure I would have been able to afford tuition at MIIS. To think that I just walked up to him and told him about my tuition condition and he agreed to award me that scholarship was an amazement to me.
Aside from awarding me the African national scholarship which helped covered my tuition, he made sure that all was well with me by occasionally checking in on my living condition.
He had this saying that stuck to me "...MIIS will have a candle burning just for you on the window in case you decide to return and visit as an Alumni" I pray that the angels have ensured that there is a candle burning awaiting your arrival at the gates and windows in heaven so you too can enjoy the generousity of your creator.
My only wish and prayer is that someday, I am able to make a difference in the lives of total strangers as he made in mine.
I sure will miss you Sir.
Esther Ikomi
If not for you, Uncle P
So so sad to learn about the passing on of my dear Professor, Father and brother in the Lord, Jesus Christ. I cannot really say how much I miss Doctor Grothe. He was so approachable, so humble, so willing to help. How can I describe his good and very kind heart...Thanks to him for the African National Scholarship. I only needed to share my need, and he came to the rescue; if not for Uncle P, (as I fondly called him) how could I have completed my studies at MIIS? Thanks to him, once again. He has done well, greatly well. He made many things in my life possible, empowering me to impact my community for the better too.
Not only about tuition, many times, he would ask how I am doing, with my son? so caring.
Even upon my return to Africa, he still took time to keep in contact, providing counsel, guidance through exchange of emails. I could never thank him enough...even upon his passing on, I look back and say Dr. Grothe was truly generous. Your generosity has made it possible for me to attempt things bigger and more noble then me...rest in Peace, Uncle P.
Upon learning about this transition, I have been looking at my album again...His kind smile He would always welcome us to his office with that smile. Smile on, Uncle P. Lay down thy head upon your Savior; we love thee well, but Jesus loves you best. Smile on, smile on.
Patience Ogele
Godspeed and Clear Horizons, Friend
One of my first MIIS memories during new student student orientation in Fall of 1994 was of Professor Peter Grothe. I warmly recall his kind, gentle, and humble personality. Yet I also remember that he was one of the most brilliant and knowledgeable people I have ever met. He always had an "open office" to all, readily willing to offer not only his expertise, but also a kind word of encouragement when we all were dealing with the "crunch time" of finishing up research papers, projects, and exams. Whenever I remember the wonderful times I had as a graduate student at MIIS, I also remember Professor Grothe being such an intrical and inseparable part of MIIS and my education there. In a way, it was as if what MIIS was and what defined MIIS were never fully complete without him. You could not have one without the other. True, lide moves on, and we experience change and transition. Yet, our memories of Peter Grothe will never fade away. Yet, I also realize now that MIIS will indeed never be the same.
Godspeed and Clear Horizons, Friend
- Jevan Ellis
MAIPS Class of 1996
I will be loving you till i disappear and join you.
From the day, Peter was hospitalised, the day was never passed without his thought and
kindness in my heart. Our wonderful realtionship of American father and Bhutanese daughter dates back to 2005. He has been vsisting us all this 8 years to Bhutan to meet us (his three wonderful Bhutanese daughters) I feel like a dream, just this year january only, we met in Bhutan and had a nice time with him, having dinner together and sharing our life with him. He has been very kind to me for all those years and to hear his demise is very heavy news for us. Infact, he is the light of all our family. He have such a great soul that no one will be equal to him. We are very lucky to have him as our Dad.Maybe in the past generation, i did very good things so that god has blessed with me with such a great human, Peter Grothe as my Dad.
He has such a wonderful soul and he treat eveyone as his child and has a love for all. His book with the theme "every child is my child" encapsulate the whole peter's heart. Infact, Sonam, Sangay and myself, we are three wonderful daughters for Dad, we are very grateful and thankful to him.
i know we cannot see him and hear him but he can see us and hear us, i am definate that his soul is very happy with what we all are doing for him and remembering him as a wonderful soul.
I am praying that let his soul reborn in the land of God called God of limitless light (Sangay Yepamey) that is the highest place of rebirth we as a buddhist aspires to reborn after our death.Till i depart from this earth, i will be dedicating all my prayer to him and his kindness. All his goodness and kindness is engraved in all our heart, it will remain forver with me and go with me when i die.
I can never forget his two kind words i.e ''No Tobacco and No Wild Disco" I love you 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, unlimited times, infinites times and unconditionally.
Nothing more to write as my heart is filled with love and tears at the moment.
anyways, billion times.... OM Mani Padme Hung! Om Mani Padme Hung!........for his soul.
He once showed me a picture
Dr Peter Grothe AFS -American Field Service Volunteer
My wife and I met Peter the Spring of 1996 at MIIS when he was volunteering for his annual AFS pre-departure orientation for area high school students and their parents. Our daughter was about to leave for her exchange year to Argentina and his "Green Banana" presentation reinforced the fact that the students' center of the world was about to change forever.
Our subsequent volunteer work with AFS was greatly influenced by Dr. Grothe and his many contribtutions to the AFS organization. We later learned that Peter was a volunteer with AFS for more than 30 years.
For the past 15 years I've had the privilege of helping Peter coordinate the annual pre-departure orientation. This last orientation we greatly missed the knowledge and large presence of this kind and generous man.
Peter, thanks for all you have done to make the world a better place.
Roy and Sharon Michaels,
AFS volunteers
Thank you
I will also extend my sincerethanks to all for the AFS volunteers, it makes me smile that there are still loving people out there who are willing to help out others.
Dr. Peter Grothe, forever friend, a great human beiing
Dear ones, Peter has the largest family I have notice of.
Once he told me he was a collector and had a dispute with a Russian friend of who visited more countries. True, what a traveler he was, but I think his biggest collection was of people he cared about.
I met him in 1986, in the AFS bus trip, before going back to Brazil. He influenced my life since we met and became a very good friend.
He introduced me to so many people, that I had the pleasure to receive in Brazil. I consider these new friend a gift form him.
I am sure that everyone that had the life touched by him will, somehow, keep his work alive for generations to come.
Peter Grothe teve enorme influência em minha vida, e ainda mais na vida de tantas pessoas. Em 1986 foi o líder da AFS bus trip que finalizou o intercâmbio que fiz. Desde então estivemos sempre em contato. Peter era um colecionador,coleciona ciidades e amigos internacionais. Não casou, não teve filhos de sangue. Não conheço ninguém que tenha tido mais filho do que ele. Dezenas de pessoas, jovens e já mais velhas, o chamam de pai pelo mundo afora. Usou toda a sua herança no Instituto que fundou para financiar estudos no Monterey Institute para mais de 140 mulheres vindas de países aonde eram oprimidas. Hoje uma amiga, apresentada por ele, me deu a notícia de seu falecimento. Estou triste, como tantos, mas tenho a certeza que através daqueles a quem uniu ele continuará a ser lembrado. Sua obra também continuará através de nós. Descanse em paz, dear Peter.
Ciça Roxo
AFS bustrip 1986
My Heart Hurts So Deeply.
Dr. Grothe was the angel sent to me straight out of heaven, when I neither expected it nor deserved it.
How truly deeply my heart hurts ... words just cannot express enough.
We love you, deeply, Peter - the twins and I mourn your loss and the void you have left will simply never be filled!
Until we meet again ...
Rest in Paradise, Peter.
He is that kind of man with
He is that kind of man with open eyes for life.
Who had the great pleasure to meat his soul,
new how especial is to be looked by somebody that captures the best qualities in each humam beeing among him.
Dear friend, even whitout seeing you on these last years, be in GOODs peace!
passing of Dr. Grothe
My heart still hurts. Uncle Peter (as I and many of my friends called him) was a great man and my mentor. May his spirit for learning and excellence live on. RIP Peter Grothe.
Special Guardian Angel
It is with great sadness to hear the passing of a great Man. Peter came into my life when I was a young AFS student from Malaysia to USA in 1981, His presence at UCLA filled the whole gym. He made each one of us feel special when it mattered the most during the year being away from home;
Peter kept close contact with me in Malaysia thru letters (prior to emails technology), visits to Malaysia and few years ago in UK. He always takes a keen interest to what is happening in my life and had a fatherly advice on hand.
I only knew Peter but reading all the praises written about him, I have a glimpse of the rest of his surrogate children all around the globe,
Peter I am sure your wings looks great on you, Always on my mind.
Dr. Peter Grothe: you deserve to be a WORLD citizen...
The loss of Prof. Grothe was a complete shock to me especially I spent a whole semester (September 2011 - Feb 2012) at MIIS, almost meeting him on a weekly basis (either in a cultural gathering, meeting, lunch invitation, etc.) He was a great host not just to me but to all international students. The first time I meet him, you felt internal peace and warm connection with his attitude and kind heart. I am saddened but at the same time, I am happy that he left this world knowing that we all cared about him, respected him and will always remember him.
Dr. Peter Grothe is a WORLD CITIZEN who promoted peace and international collaboration and understandings...A man who believe that human beings are the same everywhere on earth...
I / We ... will always remember you.
I learnt a lot from him and I will always promote his tolerance and peaceful initiatives and will share it to my community.
RIP my dear professor.
A Great Loss of a Great Humanitarian
I just came across this announcement while looking to add Peter to my Linked In account. This is sad news indeed. Peter's presence in my life began long before I attended the French Summer Intensive Language Program or enrolled as a BA/MPA student at MIIS. I was first introduced to MIIS and Peter at an AFS student exchange orientation on my way to the Czech Republic exactly two decades ago. Peter was an integral part of countless success stories that came from AFS and MIIS alike that were cultivated early on and lasted long after graduation. Anyone who knew Peter will attest to his passion for travel and genuine interest in students. He was a sincere global humanitarian who will be greatly missed. I feel strong that his legacy will continue at MIIS, but it is a sad time for anyone who cared for him or benefited from his kindness and experience. Peter was one of those rare individuals who set out to make a positive impact on the world. He pursued a profession that reflected his passion for people and improving the human condition. He had a warmly genuine smile for each person he met.
Goodbye My Dear Professor (class of 1982)
A small tribute to Peter Grothe
It was a very sad moment when I heard about Peter Grothe's passing away. I still remember the very first moment when I saw him, a very humble, kind and caring person. He was my first mentor who opened the first windows of opportunity for me to pursue my academic interest. I am very grateful to him for giving me the chance to be one of the first Afghan female who studied the ESL program in MIIS in 2004.
It is a pity that I could not meet him after leaving MIIS. I believe he still remains with us in spirit.
May his soul rest in peace,
thanks from an AFS student of 1967-68
In those days; Peter took us students to visit resurection city on the lawn in front of the white house. Jesse Jackson held a ceremony in one of the tents, we sang all together about love and peace, we shall overcomw..... I will never forget it! Thank you Peter


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I'm going to be upgrading my laptop next month. I'll be using the laptop for school but it will also be my primary laptop so I'd like to do things like HD streaming, light gaming, etc. as well.
I think something like this would suit those purposes:
14" screen
i5 processor
4GB+ memory
some type of non-integrated graphics card (not really up to date on mobile video cards)
I'm looking to spend around $600-800, the closer to $600 the better obviously.
Where would I buy something like this, though? Best Buy? Online store like Newegg? Through the manufacturers website?
The last time I bought a laptop I went to Best Buy, but I wasn't looking for anything specific.... browsing their website hasn't exactly inspired confidence that I can just walk into any Best Buy and find what I'm looking for. The website doesn't allow for filtering of results by hardware so searching on their site is just a bit better than useless!
So where do you fine folks prefer to purchase your mobile hardware? Also any specific recommendations for me?
Never bought one but Lenovo often has very good sale prices direct from their website.
Start with Newegg and Amazon to get a general idea on what you want and what is available. Next go to the manufactures web sites and see what they have on sell. Finally check out the refurbished and outlet stores at newegg and the manufactures.
You can get some very good deals by shopping around. Sometimes Newegg is cheaper, other times it is Best Buy, or the manufacturer. Also, if you can afford it try to get a business class unit. They have better support, better warrenties, and are built better. For example Dell Latitude, Lenovo Thinkpad, HP probook, ect...
Right now I would say this one on newegg is probably about what you are looking for. But, shop around you may find a better deal.
Looks like something like this might work
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834215392
Although HP does offer a similar setup with a 630m and no SSD cache drive for $100 less.
Before HellionPrime gets here, just be mindful of quality and understand what you'd be getting for your money. Most consumer grade systems skimp on aspects of their build that give the system sufficient ruggedness. Most of the stuff you'd see in a low-end brick & mortar store like Best Buy or Office Depot/Staples/OfficeMax will be pretty mediocre. Even at your price point's top end, much of what you're looking at will be iffy.
Retail in general is problematic as laptops are a rapidly depreciating asset. It's almost never a good idea to stock computers. They just go stale over time. Buying online through Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. allows you to get a build-to-order or carefully chosen spec that's current. I just have no concept of doing anything else for an x86 laptop, though. Specialized brick & mortar stores may have a few better models, but are still going to be full of pitfalls.
I'd definitely consider the outlets. If you stick to business-oriented models then virtually everything you see will be new or darn near to it. Cancelled orders or returned orders are new merchandise but can't be sold as such. Some are loaners or tech demo hardware. You should be able to sort out the off-lease and other refurbs pretty easily. That's going to get you closer to your price point, getting you more for your money.
Lastly: Are you sure you need a discrete GPU? Integrated has gotten a LOT better lately.
As far as the discrete GPU goes, I could probably get by with an i7 processor combined with the HD4000. From what I've seen the i5/HD4000 can handle most games on 'low' settings but can struggle on 'medium'. Even the i7/HD4000 doesn't like some games like Civ V, which is a game I'm a big fan of I also worry that newer/future titles might struggle even with the i7/HD4000. I'll keep an eye out for business class laptops that are sold through the manufacturer's outlet sites. Brand new they are scary expensive.
Lenovo has a 14" Ideapad Y400 with an i7 & GT 650m @ $799 right now - wish I had the money to pull the trigger on that right now
I could probably get by with an i7 processor combined with the HD4000
There are two flavors of mobile i7, and it's somewhat confusing relative to the desktop:
i5 is a quadcore without hyperthreading (4 cores, 4 threads.)
i7 is a quadcore with hyperthreading (4 cores, 8 threads.)
i5 is a dual-core with hyperthreading (2 cores, 4 threads.)
i7 is either a
dual core with hyperthreading and more cache (2 cores, 4 threads)
a lower clocked quad-core with hyperthreading and aggressive turbo boost (4 cores, 8 threads, but unless thermals permit, it runs at a low clock speed.)
The performance difference between the mobile i5 and the first type of mobile i7 is not huge. The second type is typically going to be found in larger laptops with thermal characteristics that can handle a quadcore, and the prices on those won't be cheap. Just realize that for the stuff under $1,000 the distinction between i5 and i7 is not much at all.
HD4000 isn't great and I'm not going to blow smoke up your ass, but gaming on a laptop isn't either mediocre or expensive. The heat and power requirements of a beefy CPU and GPU are just not problems that are easily solved. You can probably come up with an OK compromise, but you need to understand where you're making the compromise to do it in a way that will make you happy.
Jeez - didn't realize there were so many variations for mobile processors
I'm starting to think it might make more sense to just limit my budget to around $500-600 and take the extra $$$ and buy an Xbox or a PS3. It seems like a lot of the i5/HD4000 combos fall within that price range, and that setup would still allow me to do light gaming on the road.
As far as durability goes, do ultrabooks reflect the build quality of business class notebooks or is it a mixed bag?
I can't speak much to ultrabooks, working in an industry that has problems utilizing that class of hardware. Typically smaller, lighter systems need to care less about doing specific things to ruggedize their design and most ultrabooks are predominately metal.
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Jeez - didn't realize there were so many variations for mobile processors
I'm starting to think it might make more sense to just limit my budget to around $500-600 and take the extra $$$ and buy an Xbox or a PS3. It seems like a lot of the i5/HD4000 combos fall within that price range, and that setup would still allow me to do light gaming on the road.
As far as durability goes, do ultrabooks reflect the build quality of business class notebooks or is it a mixed bag?
Ultrabooks are solid, with little flex or screen wobble for the most part. But you definitely wouldn't want to drop it like you can a Thinkpad or Inspiron.


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You'll definitely not have the "OMG What Have I Done" feeling tomorrow morning. I made the switch back in February and have recommended Ubuntu ever since. I had been a Windows user with a Linux curiosity up until then. I would by no means be considered a "Linux guy" in any Linux circle, but I feel fairly comfortable right now. Should you run into a problem, make sure to find a Local Community (LoCo) Team [ubuntu.com] near you.
Thanks for the info! The only problem that I have run into is that the fglrx drivers for my ATI X1300 Pro caused a "black screen of death" and I had to go into the grub menu and back-out my xorg.conf file. Amd64 is not yet supported for the fglrx driver it seems.


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German E Coli Outbreak Caused By New 'Mutant' Strain
This is just what the world needs now: A deadly, never before seen "mutant" strain of E. coli. That's exactly what the World Health Organization says is responsible for killing 17 people in Germany this week. Of the 1,500 people who are sick with the strain being attributed to cucumbers, 470 "have developed a rare kidney failure complication." A WHO food expert, Hilde Kruse, told MSNBC that this new strain shows "various characteristics that make it more virulent and toxin-producing" than regular old deadly E. coli. Oh, boy.
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Hoyer Urges Republicans to Face Fiscal Reality
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WASHINGTON, DC – House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after the Senate passed legislation increasing the statutory debt limit by $781 billion – the fourth debt limit increase in five years under President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress. The House of Representatives did not have to pass a stand-alone debt limit increase. This latest debt limit increase was deemed to have been passed by the House as part of the Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Resolution:
"Over the last five years, President Bush and Congressional Republicans have turned an unprecedented fiscal opportunity into a fiscal disaster that requires immediate, bipartisan action. Even Ben Bernanke, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former chairman of the President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors, said recently that he is 'quite concerned' about record budget deficits that threaten our future well-being. His concern ought to concern all of us.
"However, to this day, the Washington Republicans continue to cling to the fiscal fiction that their tax policies are unrelated to the exploding budget deficits and debt. The facts simply show otherwise.
"When President Bush took office, he inherited a projected 10-year budget surplus of $5.6 trillion. He promised that, 'We will pay off $2 trillion of debt over the next decade.' But today, due to the deficits instigated by Republican economic policies, that projected surplus has been turned into a projected deficit of some $4 trillion and more than $3 trillion has been added to the national debt since 2001.
"What is perhaps most disconcerting to me is that the Republican Party is practicing ostrich economics. They believe they can put their heads in the sand and ignore this fiscal debacle and everything will be fine.
"I believe that is a very dangerous and untenable position. And, that is why I urge my Republican colleagues to join Democrats in re-instating the common-sense pay-as-you-go budget rules that require offsets for both tax cuts and spending increases. Those budget rules, which were adopted on a bipartisan basis but allowed to expire by this Republican Congress, helped us restore fiscal order, run four consecutive budget surpluses, and actually pay down the national debt under the Clinton Administration.
"It's well past time to face fiscal reality and to restore fiscal responsibility. It is simply immoral for this generation to force our children and grandchildren to pay our bills."


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Los Angeles is not one of those gracious cities that are kind to visitors. Its urban surprises, rather than expanding one's horizons, often involve unpleasantness. Last summer I had a visitor from New York. A few days into his stay the mercury hit 95 degrees, and he had the understandable impulse to visit the Santa Monica beach. We fought heavy traffic all the way there. What should have taken 15 minutes took more than an hour. We tried to entertain each other with conversation. He's a committed environmentalist, and the traffic was a perfect excuse to talk about L.A.'s famous orientation toward the automobile. Surveying the 10-lane freeway, he said, "Seeing L.A. reminds me how difficult it is to stop burning fossil fuels. How do you change habits and even begin to address climate change when so many lives have been built around the car?" It was a tough question, and as we sat silently contemplating it, I knew his opinion of the city was sinking. He gazed at the idling cars emitting tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. I made a lame attempt to emphasize the positive. "Did you know that in 2008, L.A. County voters passed a ballot measure raising the sales tax to pay for public transit projects? Right now they're using the funds to build a light-rail line from downtown to Santa Monica." "Really?" he replied. "When's it going to be done?" There was a moment of silence. "I think 2016," was my feeble answer. I knew it was a setup for his snarky response: "Really? How many years before you even have the option of a low-carbon trip to the beach? At that rate, we might as well just build seawalls and forget about climate change." I laughed politely.
My houseguest had a point. Even if the entire world were to imitate California and Europe, it would still require a long time to slow increases in greenhouse-gas emissions, let alone reverse them. Renewable energy could become cheap enough to be competitive with fossil fuels without market intervention. But even if there were breakthroughs tomorrow, they would still take years to evolve from concept to marketable products. The most rapid shift possible from fossil fuels to renewables would probably take at least a decade or two. So we'll be emitting greenhouse gases for some time no matter what choices we make now about energy. Couple that with the fact we're already committed to some change from our previous greenhouse-gas increases, and it seems clear: Significant climate change is impossible to avoid.
When we finally arrived at the beach, my friend tore off his shoes and raced to the water. He got out far enough to submerge his calves before running back, yelling, "That water is freezing. It's so hot out. Why is the water so cold?" In front of most people, those words would have been a rhetorical shake of a fist at the sky. But as he realized he had uttered them in front of a climate scientist, I could see the weary amusement sweep across his face. "Oh no, you're actually going to answer that question." "Of course," I said, smiling. "When the sunshine hitting the northern hemisphere undergoes its annual increase from winter to summer, the temperature of the ocean increases a lot more slowly than the land. This is because so much more heat is needed to raise the ocean temperature one degree. So the temperature of the ocean ends up peaking at a lower value than the land. That's the most important reason you're so shocked about the water temperature. But ocean currents also make this patch of the Pacific especially cold." He tilted his head down and looked up at me. "Okay, well now we know why this beach isn't as fun as it could be." This time I laughed for real.
The relatively slow ocean warming in response to increasing sunshine does more than disappoint beachgoers. It has an exact parallel in climate change, creating a lag in warming. In computer-based simulations of the climate system's response to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations, the ocean receives the same amount of extra heat from the greenhouse-gas buildup as the land does. But it registers a much slower warming. Likewise, as greenhouse-gas concentrations have increased over the past century, the accompanying temperature increase has generally been smaller over oceans than over continents. This effect works to our advantage because it gives us more time to adapt to a changing climate—especially in coastal areas, where climate is influenced by the ocean. But it's also symptomatic of the irreversibility of climate change. The ocean eventually has to adjust fully to enhanced heat input. So the global warming we see at any given time doesn't fully reflect what will ultimately materialize as a result of the previous greenhouse-gas buildup. This leads to a disconnect between the current state of the climate—which probably has the greatest influence on our perceptions of climate change—and the eventual climate change we are already committed to, thanks to our past burning of fossil fuels.
There's momentum behind climate change for another reason, but this one is related to the inertia of human habits rather than to physics. It's impractical for us to stop burning fossil fuels right away, even if we collectively decided to. California, much of Europe and other localities are creating incentives to transition away from fossil fuels. In these jurisdictions, efforts are under way to lower carbon footprints. The light-rail line to Santa Monica is an example. But as I noted to my skeptical houseguest, even though Angelenos have largely embraced new rail transportation projects, this line won't be finished until 2016. And it's one of the first elements of a regional rail network that will take decades to complete.
Most people seem to grasp the inevitability of climate change. Ask a climate scientist what question he or she usually gets at cocktail parties, and it's something along the lines of "Based on your research, are we totally screwed?" It may also be the underlying reason why some people deny climate change: The problem may seem too insurmountable to grapple with. For sanity's sake, we might as well change the subject to something we can grapple with.
The inevitability of climate change was underscored for me when my UCLA research team and I completed a study on what climate change will mean for Los Angeles in the middle of this century. Our research shows that if greenhouse-gas emissions are curtailed over the coming decades, the most likely warming in the region will still be 70 percent of what would occur if greenhouse-gas emissions continue to increase. Climate scientists work with standardized scenarios of greenhouse-gas emissions to predict future climates. We worked with a scenario of reduced emissions we nicknamed "mitigation" and a scenario of rising emissions we called "business as usual." Both scenarios result in significant regional warming: about 2.9 degrees Fahrenheit under the mitigation scenario and 4.2 degrees under business as usual.
Put differently, immediate and far-reaching global measures to reduce our carbon footprint over the coming decades would reduce midcentury warming in Los Angeles by only 30 percent. When we examined other aspects of climate change in the region—such as changes in snow, water resources, winds and wildfire—we reached the same conclusion: Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions attenuates climate change somewhat, but it doesn't lead to dramatically different outcomes. A similar story can be told in other regions or for the entire planet. According to a recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment, the most likely midcentury rise in global sea level will be nine inches under the mitigation scenario and 10 inches under business as usual.
We have no choice but to think seriously about how to adapt to changing climatic conditions, no matter what we choose to do about emissions.
Given this conclusion, it may seem wise to simply adapt to climate change and be done with the whole issue, as my houseguest sarcastically suggested. We're also not good at the long-term planning required to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. This deficiency is especially apparent in the way we make economic decisions: Most people don't plan adequately for retirement. A perennial complaint about corporations is their tendency to focus on quarterly earnings instead of long-term profitability. Governments borrow money to enact popular tax breaks or to spend, without giving thought to affordability in years to come.
When it comes to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the inability of governments to make long-term plans is perhaps the most crucial obstacle. Elections come every few years in Western democracies, where much of humanity's emissions occur. Any politician who implements long-term reform will pay a price at the ballot box as soon as the reform begins to cause economic pain. And that politician won't be around to see any political benefit when the reform bears fruit. Meanwhile, the state-capitalist regimes of East Asia, the planet's other big carbon emitters, rely on consistent economic growth to perpetuate their authority. They don't make structural economic changes easily either. With short-term thinking dominating politics in countries with the highest emissions, meaningful regulatory efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions—such as a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax—are rare.
There are few pragmatists when it comes to climate change, but if they were numerous enough to make their voices heard, their argument against action to reduce emissions might go like this: Humans are already on course to change the climate significantly, and our species is terrible at the long-term planning necessary to slow the increase in emissions. The best we can hope for is a robust adaptation plan, perhaps implemented locally and regionally, where natural-resource management is most nimble.
But let us consider results from climate change projections a bit further into the future. If we examine projected outcomes at the end of the 21st century rather than midcentury, the differences between the business-as-usual and mitigation scenarios are dramatic. In our Los Angeles study, under business as usual the region would experience another large increment of warming over and above what already occurs by midcentury. It would be warmer by a total of eight degrees. Three months of the year would have days when the maximum temperature exceeded 95 degrees, which would mean we'd have a new season of extreme heat. Southern California currently has significant snow at high elevations in the winter, but by the end of the century this snow would nearly disappear. This scenario also sees dramatic changes in water resources and in areas burned by wildfire. The ecological consequences are difficult to quantify, but it doesn't take much imagination to realize that what's left of the region's natural landscape would be transformed beyond recognition, hosting different plant and animal species. Meanwhile, in the mitigation scenario, end-of-century temperatures are similar to their midcentury values. The other climate impacts are also comparable to those projected for the earlier period.
On the global scale, sea level would rise something like 17 inches under mitigation and 29 inches under business as usual. Some summer Arctic sea ice is projected to survive at century's end if greenhouse-gas emissions are curtailed. But if we don't curtail emissions, the ice will probably disappear. So our emissions choices will profoundly affect the planet's condition at the end of the century.
Our pragmatic friends who propose adaptation as the only response have to defend the idea that the effects of climate change on the midcentury world can be considered in the moral equation but the effects on our end-of-century world cannot. At some point in the distant future we stop caring about the well-being of our species and rely instead on intervening generations to do the planning for us. But does it make sense to discount the interests of those who will be living at the end of the century, some of whom are already alive?
It's also worth examining the other assumption of the pragmatist's argument, that we are inherently bad at long-term planning. Consider a long-term project that involved profound political and societal change: the struggle for racial equality in the United States. Since the country's founding, those who promoted racial equality knew it would take an effort extending well beyond the lifetime of any single individual. Among the country's founders, some, including John Adams, explicitly opposed slavery. They accepted the constitutional arrangements that permitted it because they calculated that the language of equality and individual rights created a contradiction with the institution of slavery. They knew it would eventually have to be confronted. Within a few decades, they were proved right, and the country fought a civil war over slavery. Abraham Lincoln also understood the abolitionist project as part of a long struggle rooted in the promises of the founding documents. In spite of his opposition to slavery, he advanced the abolitionist cause only incrementally. Once slavery was eliminated and the struggle for social equality took center stage, civil rights campaigners also understood that the struggle would take time. The 2008 election of the first U.S. president with African ancestry was understood by most Americans to be an epochal moment. President Barack Obama's election was an achievement built on at least two centuries of political and social change.
Similarly, the human role in climate took a few centuries to develop. Its roots go back at least to the beginnings of the industrial revolution in the late 18th century. Carbon emissions probably began to have a detectable impact on climate sometime in the mid–20th century. It took generations for the human influence on climate to emerge, and it will probably require generations to slow down or reverse that process. We've become accustomed to confronting problems with short-term fixes, and we keep waiting for a silver bullet to make our greenhouse-gas emissions disappear. When it fails to materialize, we throw up our hands and declare the problem beyond addressing. Looking back at the history of race relations in America, it's easy to imagine how intractable a problem racial inequality must have seemed. For decades, many declared the status quo to be the only practical option.
Yet others kept chipping away at the status quo, and even though racial inequality and discrimination persist, those efforts led to a changed society. According to Martin Luther King Jr., "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." King would have found my houseguest's cynicism about the light-rail line to Santa Monica entirely misplaced. The year 2016 is no further in the future now than 1966 was in 1963. And when King led the 1963 March on Washington, he knew it would take longer than three years to achieve a color-blind society. Some may believe the light-rail line to Santa Monica is too small a step or too far in the future to make a difference. But that belief condemns us to put off other small steps that would make a difference when added together.
We have to acknowledge the irreversibility of climate change. Like my disappointed houseguest, we can't fight the physics of slow ocean warming, and we can't wave a wand to make greenhouse-gas emissions disappear. Every region needs a climate-change adaptation plan for the coming few decades. But beyond that point, further climatic changes—perhaps to a point where the planet's state is unrecognizably different—are not inevitable. If we care about the condition of that world, the only way to avoid those changes is to do what people have always done when faced with an overwhelming project: Get started.


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By Hayden Wright
Carly Rae Jepsen's euphoric brand of pop music hit a fever pitch last year with the release of Emotion, which featured hits like "Run Away With Me" and "I Really Like You." Now she has stunned fans with a surprise release of Emotion Side B, containing eight new tracks from "Side A" sessions. It's the double album you didn't expect but couldn't have wanted more. This is not a test.
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"Emotion Side B almost never was," Jepsen writes in the liner notes. "Well, technically all the songs existed I just didn't think to share them until we toured. But meeting many of you face to face, getting to share in one of the most joyful touring experiences of my life, all I wanted was to give back more of the feelings you all gave me."
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The gang rape of a medical student, who was riding a bus with her boyfriend across the Indian city of Delhi, has sparked nationwide protests and rioting over the inability of the government and public officials to protect women. The situation has escalated so severely that the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has appealed for peace and calm as street violence soon resulted in growing casualties, including at least one fatality.
Singh publicly acknowledged the seriousness of the horrific rape and the mounting sense of exasperation. "There is genuine and justified anger and anguish at this ghastly incident. I assure you that we will make all possible efforts to ensure security to all women in this country."
The 23-year-old victim died Saturday in a hospital in Singapore, about two weeks after the assault.
The ferocious and sickening attack has become one the biggest stories in the country.
Six men, joy-riding in an off-duty bus, picked up the young woman and her boyfriend Dec. 16 after the couple had finished seeing a movie. As she was being raped by each of the men, she was beaten severely with an iron bar, causing life-threatening internal injuries. After the men finished their assault, they threw the woman and her boyfriend out on the side of the road, where they were eventually found, nearly naked. Six men were arrested and remain in custody. However, anger quickly turned against police and other government officials, who many blame for escalating violence against women and the pervasive sense that such crimes will largely go unpunished. According to national statistics from last year, 228,650 of the 256,329 reported violent crimes were committed against women. The conviction rate in India for rape is reportedly 26 percent.
Stone-throwing protesters were met with tear gas and water cannons from police. In order to secure important areas of Delhi, such as the Parliament building and other key government offices, police attempted to close key roads and train stations. Ultimately, a large number of protesters managed to evade the barriers.
A pressing question is whether Indian institutions are systematically failing the needs of a growing and modernizing population. A debate is unfolding over whether changes to the laws, such as fast-tracking rape cases through court, are required, or simply a better and more thorough approach to enforcing current laws. Some have even advocated for introducing the death penalty in cases of rape.
Despite a booming economy in recent years, which has closely connected India to a wide variety of growing international industries, the country is still wrestling with a caste system that for hundreds of years has dictated the relative standing and privileges of many of its citizens.
Extensive laws to prohibit caste discrimination and protect the lowest class of "untouchables," now known as Dalits, are part of a slow process of reform and liberalization that has been a partial success. Dalit activists regularly campaign against discriminatory and degrading practices. For example, the Indian Supreme Court in currently considering banning a temple ritual in Karnataka that involves lower-caste Indians rolling in the discarded food of higher-caste Brahmins.
Concern over institutionalized misogyny and its lingering effects on Indian women and girls has turned the gang rape of this one young medical student into a national cause célèbre.
The benefits of sustained economic growth have not been even distributed across India, and in many communities the value of boys is still held significantly higher than the corresponding value of girls. Together with the breakdown of traditional family power structures in rural areas, these factors have meant that Indian women have found themselves to be a growing target of violence.
By some measures, the situation of Indian women is the worst of all G20 countries, and beating out Saudi Arabia to that honor is no small achievement!
Simple promises from Prime Minister Singh to protect women will do little to improve their safety on city streets and in villages. Concrete steps must be taken to actively protect the interests of Indian women, especially in the light of persistent beliefs in many quarters that "Westernized" women are responsible for attacks against them.
A moving symbol of the ongoing struggle of women in contemporary India is Sonali Mukherjee, 27, who recently won India's equivalent of "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" The program, "Kaun Banega Crorepati," was featured in "Slumdog Millionaire," the 2008 film that won eight Oscars, including Best Picture. Mukherjee's victory is particular inspiring since she is blind from a 2003 acid attack that has left her still horribly disfigured after 22 surgeries. After a brief imprisonment, her three attackers are back on the street.
As India rallies in support of the Delhi rape victim, more pressure must be put on national, state and local officials to adequately protect women from violence. The scale of this problem is vast, so a sustained effort must be made in order to ensure that the perpetrators of all these vicious crimes are brought to justice.
Attorney Timothy Spangler divides his time between Orange County and the United Kingdom.


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Memory, displays at risk if North Korea goes south
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South Korea is home to two-thirds of the world's DRAM production and half of NAND production.
Alll quiet on the Eastern Front... too quiet, actually.
A month ago, we started the conversation about what might happen to the electronics supply chain if North Korea went sideways on the world. At the time, the north was saber rattling in the worst way. (See: Time to Think About Korean Contingencies and Infographic: North Korea's Road to War.)
Since then, the rhetoric has dialed back a bit, but the tensions remain. IHS iSuppli helps put things into perspective. Here's one data point:
- In 2012, 66 percent of industry revenue for the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, as well as 48 percent of total NAND flash revenue, belonged to the two South Korean memory titans Samsung and SK Hynix.
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Boy Scouts of America Names New President
Gottschalk to help lead organization into the next 100 years
SAN DIEGO—May 23, 2008—The Boy Scouts of America has selected John
Gottschalk, chairman of the Omaha World-Herald Company, as president at the
organization's National Annual Meeting in San Diego on May 23.
his two-year term as the BSA's top volunteer, Gottschalk will direct the
National Executive Board, which guides the national youth-service organization.
One of his top priorities will be to assist Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca
in moving the organization toward the BSA's 100th Anniversary
Celebration in 2010.
addition to his role as president of the BSA, Gottschalk serves as chairman of
the Omaha World-Herald Company, a media conglomerate of daily and weekly
newspapers, magazines, and electronic publications. He has served on the board
of directors since 1980 and joined the company full-time in 1989.
"I am
honored to serve as national president during such a pivotal point in the Boy
Scouts of America's history as we move toward our 100th anniversary
in 2010," Gottschalk said. "We have one of the most spectacular opportunities
that we're ever going to have in this 100th year. For so long, too
long, others have been defining us. I think the greatest opportunity we have
immediately is to define ourselves—not that we don't know who we are, but
define ourselves to America."
Gottschalk, an
executive vice president on the BSA National Executive Board, is a recipient of
the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope and Silver Buffalo awards. He also is a
member of the 1910 Society and Founders Circle.
"The Boy Scouts of
America is enthusiastic about John's new role as national president of our
organization," said Bob Mazzuca, Chief Scout Executive. "By drawing from his
sound business experience and tenacity, he will help lead us into the next
generation of Scouting."
Gottschalk follows
in the footsteps of past presidents such as Ed Whitacre, former chairman and CEO of AT&T; Milton
Ward, CEO of Ward Resources Inc.' Roy S. Roberts, Managing Director, Reliant Equity
Investors, John Cushman, chairman of
Cushman & Wakefield Inc. and outgoing president William F. "Rick" Cronk,
former president of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream.
Gottschalk is a
director of Cabela's, Inc.; Election Systems & Software, Inc.; and McCarthy
Group, Inc. His community involvement extends to the boards of directors of Creighton University, the Henry Doorly
Zoo, the Omaha Symphony, and the Joslyn Art Museum. Currently,
Gottschalk serves as chairman of the USO World Board of Governors and the Omaha
Performing Arts Society.
the Boy Scouts of America
Serving more than 4.6 million youth between the ages of 7
and 20, with more than 300 councils throughout the United States and its territories, the BSA is the
nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based
leadership training. The Scouting movement is composed of 1.2 million volunteers,
whose dedication of time and resources has enabled the BSA to remain the nation's
leading youth-service organization. For more information on the BSA, please
visit www.scouting.org.


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ABC News also reports that the brothers are believed to have learned how to make the deadly pressure cooker bombs on the internet.
Meantime, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in the death of three people and injuries to more than 200 people at the Boston Marathon.
Tsarnaev remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition with wounds to the neck and throat.
He made an initial court appearance in his hospital room.
Tsarnaev, will not be tried as an enemy combatant, the White House said today. Tsarnaev is a naturalized U.S. citizen, and under U.S. law, American citizens cannot be tried by military tribunals, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
"We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice," Carney told reporters. "The system has repeatedly proven that it can successfully handle the threat that we continue to face," he said, citing Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and others as examples.
Tsarnaev is specifically charged with one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely, an improvised explosive device or IED) against persons and property within the United States resulting in death, and one count of malicious destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death. The statutory charges authorize a penalty, upon conviction, of death or imprisonment for life or any term of years.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlin Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police early last Friday morning.
A report out in the Wall Street Journal says just before 26-year-old Tamerlin Tsarnaev was killed, he called his mother in Russia. He reportedly said, "The police, they have started shooting at us. They are chasing us. Mama, I love you." then his mother says the phone went silent.
In outlining the evidence against him in court papers, the FBI said Tsarnaev was seen on surveillance cameras putting a knapsack down on the ground near the site of the second blast and then manipulating a cellphone and lifting it to his ear.
After the first explosion went off about a block down the street and spread fear through the crowd, Tsarnaev - unlike nearly everyone around him - looked calm and quickly walked away, the FBI said. Just 10 seconds or so later, the second blast occurred where he left the knapsack, the FBI said.
The FBI did not make it clear whether authorities believe he used his cellphone to detonate one or both of the bombs or whether he was talking to someone.
The court papers also said that during the long night of crime Thursday and Friday that led to the older brother's death and the younger one's capture, one of the Tsarnaev brothers told a carjacking victim: "Did you hear about the Boston explosion? I did that."
Seven days after the bombings, meanwhile, Boston was bustling Monday, with runners hitting the pavement, children walking to school and enough cars clogging the streets to make the morning commute feel almost back to normal.
Residents paused in the afternoon to observe a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m., the time of the first blast. Church bells tolled across the city and state in tribute to the victims.
Also, hundreds of family and friends packed a church in Medford for the funeral of bombing victim Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant worker. A memorial service was scheduled for Monday night at Boston University for 23-year-old Lu Lingzi, a graduate student from China.
Fifty-one victims remained hospitalized Monday, three of them in critical condition.
Federal authorities went to a Rhode Island home belonging to the parents of Katherine Tsarnaev. She's the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and she and their 3-year-old are reportedly staying with her parents. Her lawyer did the talking, and apparently her family has put their house up for sale.
The six-block area of Boylston Street where the bombs went off remains closed, but once the FBI releases the scene, the city will follow a five-step process to reopen the area. It's still unclear when that will be.
After the two brothers engaged in a gun battle with police early Friday, authorities found many unexploded homemade bombs at the scene, along with more than 250 rounds of ammunition.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the stockpile was "as dangerous as it gets in urban policing."
"We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene - the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had - that they were going to attack other individuals," he said. "That's my belief at this point."
Friday manhunt and lockdown in Boston
Thermal imaging shows suspect in boat
Surveillance photos of the bomb suspects
Pictures from the Boston Marathon bombings (The Associated Press contributed to this report)


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years ago (early 60's) on the Today Show with Dave Garoway (sp ?) he decided to find out if a "barrel of monkeys" was as much fun as touted, so one day he had a barrel full brought on-stage, and well,............ it WAS quite fun! Remeber back in those days "live" was really live! They were all over the in-house attendees in no time. Quite a lively morning! Ha Ha!
It's 50/50 but I think, old world tails point to the head, new world point away.
Also the position of the thumbs can tell you where they live in the canopy heirachy.
A limur, is one of the oldest arborial mamals and is related to the cat family, although it barks like a dog. I don't think it's a monkey descendent at all, coming from a completely different species line.
Again, every day I live, the further back I have to cast the memory net to come up with this bunkum, so if it's wrong, so be it.
New world monkeys have prehensile tails. (From the great collection of trivia stored away in my head.)...how do you tell the difference between old world and new world monkeys....Iamble
I'm on a new world? What happened to the old one?
Was it cleared by the Vogon Construction Fleet?
19 BMWMOA Nationals under my belt, and I have no idea what I am doing.
Franze is back with three submissions this week, each of which is a very successful image. Number one is close enough and shot at such an angle that it's impossible for me to know what it is. This is perfect for drawing attention to the form without distracting me with other--unnecessary--information. It's simple and unusual. I like it.
Number two is noteworthy for all its triangles. It's also appealing, but for it's composition. This could have been shot at least 359 other ways, and I agree with his decision. It's a stark, geometric study.
Number three is a successful and thought-provoking reflection. Very nice. It's simple, but like the other two, it shows an eye for detail and forethought.
Paulbach brings us another motorcycle image. I'm not sure why, but this one makes me think of a love triangle, two men and their mutual mistress. It's a beautiful bike and these two are clearly admiring it. The color of the bike is really rich, but the overall exposure is a bit blown-out (see man #2's hat). I wonder was this shot on manual or did you meter for the bike? Just wondering. As you, yourself, said, just a casual snapshot. Pretty good one, though.
Here it is, this week's big kahuna. Quite a bit of insightful commentary has already been offered on this image from RM and others, and much deserved congratulations on capturing such beauty. I bears worth repeating that this photo, in addition to reflecting a talented photographer, shows the merit if having your camera with you, the gift of timing, and the importance of vantage point. You need to have a good camera and be a good photographer, but it sure helps to be in the right place at the right time. Having had a chance to study both, I do like the original over the orange one; however, the orange shot has a more interesting composition, at least to my eye.
To nitpick, there are dust-bunnies revealed in the LRHC. You and I both need to clean our sensors. I'm also a tad concerned about the vignetting in the LLHC--on both shots. I'm wondering, given the chance, if you would--or even could--compose it differently, raising or lowering the city horizon line? Any minor technical imperfections are greatly overshadowed by this image's breathtaking drama. Wonderful shot.
Nice to see Mar here this week with a triangular submission. Hi Marilyn! This image does indeed have a number of triangles. And I realize this is probably the most informal of snapshots, but this attractive young woman deserves a better portrait. The harsh shadows on her face (which serve this assignment perfectly) are exactly why many photographers prefer to shoot on cloudy days or in open shadows. Bricciphoto wrote a nice piece this week about using a reflector; this would be a perfect instance for just that. I do like how she is photographed. Although perhaps not the most flattering angle, she can handle it and it makes for an interesting character study.
Boney came back with one more! This is a great interpretation of the theme and another game of "where are the triangles"? Once again, almost too numerous to count. It's an interesting geometric study of a familiar scene shot in an unusual way. Well-composed, too. In many of this week's pictures I mention muted colors or underexposure. This is a perfect example of a right-on exposure and bright, vivid colors. Beautiful!
Barring any 11th hour submissions (paging BeerTeam to the front desk. . . .) that's all we've got. I had a lot of fun this week. I didn't know how triangles would go over--I never know how a theme will succeed. The silence at the beginning was deafening, but as in every week past, the photographers rise to the challenge and provide invigorating, interesting, instructive, and insightful images. Each week is successful because each of you takes out your camera to expose yourselves (triple entendre intended) for our benefit, and I thank each of your for that.
For next week (that's tomorrow) we have a special Thanksgiving Photo Assignment and you can find it here.
Good grief! I look at this triangle several times a day, and I never thought of it as a "triangle." I am an idiot.
Jeff Dean − BMW MOA Co-founder (1972)
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Co-founder, 1972, of BMW MOA
Jeff Dean − BMW MOA Co-founder (1972)
Tucson, Arizona, and Madison, Wisconsin
Co-founder, 1972, of BMW MOA


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State Grid's Surprise Australian Power Play
It didn't take long for Liu Zhenya, general manager of State Grid Corp., to make good on a pledge to grow the Chinese power giant's overseas assets.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Liu was telling reporters attending the Communist Party Congress in Beijing that State Grid's ambition is to nearly quadruple its overseas assets by 2020 to as much as US$50 billion. Healthy returns from past deals are emboldening management of the state-owned company to kick the tires on more acquisitions, he said.


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I live close by to Hunter, so I was there and home again a few times. Sunday I took the guided ride to the summit. I had a little mishap with a tree root adjacent to a mudhole, you can see the result here...
I had another mishap a little further on, that resulted in a broken clutch lever, I did not make it to the summit. I coasted down the mountain to the base lodge in shame (well not really).
Max had one of his team remove a clutch lever from a demo bike, rendering it inoperable, and installed it on mine so I could ride home. Most impressive! Max and Ben are a class act, and I am happy to have them as "my" dealer.
It is always a pleasure to see Michael Friedle and have the opportunity to spend some time with him.
Each year, the weather seems to be an obstacle to this event really shining, but I hope to see it continue to be successful.


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Full House at Program Featuring Squire Cheyney's Descendant and Revolutionary War Author
February 28, 2014
Left to right, CU Trustee Larry Skinner, Revolutionary War author Marion Lane, CU President Dr. Michelle R. Howard-Vital, Curtis Cheyney, descendant of Squire Cheyney, Chair, PASSHE Board of Governors Guido Pichini, Cheyney Foundation Director David Alston, CU Chief of Staff Sheilah Vance and Robert Anthony, Chair, Board of Supervisors, Thornbury Township, Chester County.
A fascinated audience at Carnegie Hall heard Curtis Cheyney, III, Esq., descendant of George Cheyney, on whose land Cheyney University sits, and alumnus Dr. Marion Lane, ('70), President of the Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge, talk about the interlocking history of Cheyney University, the Cheyney family, and patriots of African descent in the Revolutionary War. The program was held on February 26 during Cheyney University's Founders Week.
Cheyney talked about how Squire Cheyney, whose historic barn and farmhouse are across the street from the university, warned General George Washington that the British were approaching with an army of 8,000 instead of a few hundred. His early warning gave Washington and his Continental Army time to prepare a defense and averted huge troop losses. He enlightened the crowd with history of the Unviesity's campus, including George Cheyney's original log cabin which became the core of Melrose House, the historic former president's home on campus. In 1902 the Cheyney family sold the land to the Institute for Colored Youth, which later became Cheyney University.
Cheyney said that Cheyney University, the Cheyney family, and the surrounding Thornbury Township were all neighbors whose histories and presents are intertwined, and all should be involved in and concerned about the university's thriving.
Lane shared how over 5000 patriots of African descent fought in the Revolutionary War, many of whom were free men, like her patriot ancestors from Virginia, while others were still slaves. She noted that the Revolutionary War was the last fully integrated army until the Korean war.
"Squire Cheyney knew that African Americans were fighting in the Revolutionary War, side by side with white soldiers," Lane said. "It is no accident that this university is here on what was Cheyney family land. "
The lecture reception, which was sponsored by the Cheyney University Foundation, was timed to coincide with the article on the university titled, "Preserving the Past of Cheyney University: The Home of a Hero," in the February edition of US Airways magazine, which was distributed to over 2 million US Air passengers.


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Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by LeadHead, Feb 15, 2013.
Riker: Lets see, where were we?
CRUSHER: I was accusing you of inventing work in order to curry favour with our new captain. I apologise.
WESLEY: Mom, that gold pattern wasn't there.
BEVERLY: Maybe this is something Jean-Luc would like looked into.
RIKER: Jean-Luc Picard? You know the Captain?
WESLEY: When I was little, he brought my father's body home to us.
CRUSHER: Yes Wes, long, long ago. (To Riker) A pleasure to meet you, Commander.
Beverly (cont.): If you will excuse us.
Riker: My pleasure, Doctor. (to Wesley) Wes?
WESLEY: Sir?
RIKER: See you on board.
Wesley: Yes, Sir.
Crusher and Wesley walk away.
(Enter Geordi.)
LAFORGE: Sir, the Enterprise is arriving-
RIKER: This an official report, Lieutenant?
LAFORGE: Sorry, Commander. Sir, Lieutenant La Forge reporting. The Enterprise arriving, but without the saucer section, sir.
RIKER: Stardrive section only? What happened?
LAFORGE: I don't know, sir. Captain Picard has signaled for you to beam up immediately.
RIKER: Our new captain doesn't waste time. It's a good idea. Thank you, Lieutenant.
LAFORGE: Aye, sir.
RIKER: (taps combadge) Enterprise, this is Commander Riker at Farpoint Station, standing by to beam up.
[Transporter room]
(Riker materialises)
TASHA: Lieutenant Yar of Security, sir. Captain Picard will see you on the Battle Bridge.
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