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London will be awash with colour this weekend: not only does Sunday see the vibrant Chinese New Year celebrations taking over Trafalgar Square, but Kew Gardens will also be filled with a rainbow of orchids. Elsewhere, you can see some of the world's oldest art, take the whole family dancing or watch James McAvoy star in the Scottish play.
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind at the British Museum
Learn about the beginnings of art at this fascinating exhibition, which brings together works of Ice Age art from across Europe. Created more than 20,000 years ago, the works of portraiture and sculpture demonstrate the evolution of figurative art and humans' enduring ability for creative expression. Not only does the exhibition contain striking works of ancient art, but modern masterpieces by artists such as Picasso, Henry Moore and Matisse are also displayed to demonstrate themes that span millennia. Adult tickets are £10. Until 26 May
Orchids at Kew Gardens
Kew's Princess of Wales Conservatory is filled with an unseasonal burst of colour this month, as it hosts a four week long celebration of orchids. The glorious plants are arranged in a variety of captivating displays, with a centrepiece that pays tribute to the majestic giant water lily. Adult tickets are £14.50; children 16 and under are admitted free of charge. Until 3 Mar
Chinese New Year in Trafalgar Square
Celebrate the Chinese Year of the Snake on Sunday with a colourful parade and celebrations that will light up the West End. London's Chinese New Year celebrations are the world's largest outside China and centre around a lively stage in Trafalgar Square, from which fireworks will be released at the end of the day. Don't miss the parade to Chinatown's Rupert Street, which leaves the square at 10am. 10 Feb
Macbeth at Trafalgar Studios
Bafta-winning actor James McAvoy, famous for starring in films such as Atonement, Wanted and X-Men: First Class, takes to the stage as Macbeth in a new production of Shakespeare's renowned tragedy. The play follows the Scottish Lord Macbeth in his murderous quest for power, and is considered one of the bard's darkest plays. Tickets start at £10. Until 27 Apr
Family Barn Dance at Cecil Sharp House
Deal with your children's half-term high spirits at this energetic afternoon of British country dancing. Commencing at 3pm, the barn dance features live music and a caller to guide you through the lively steps. Tickets start from £3 and adults must be accompanied by children, see the website for full details. 10 Feb


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By that stage, you might well expect her to have become a little weary of answering the same questions over and over. Or at least not respond to them quite so well. But, as we've come to discover, Marion Bartoli is unique. And she saved one of her best lines of the day for last.
"Did I dream about having a model contract? No, I'm sorry," she joked. "Did I dream about winning Wimbledon, absolutely yes."
Bartoli, the biggest name in next week's Bank of the West Classic at Stanford's Taube Family Tennis Center (July 22-28), was responding to the suggestion that she has had to work harder in life because she did not look like Maria Sharapova. And she quashed it as firmly as she delivered that final ace on match point, reminding those of us in the room that no, she is not blonde. "That's a fact," she laughed.
On the contrary, Bartoli freely admits that she has not always led a charmed life.
"It was not really my tennis results, it was more my private life," she explained when asked about why she had described herself as hitting 'rock bottom' earlier this year. "And it was really hard to take, I couldn't focus when I was on the court, I couldn't even enjoy being myself. I was almost a bit depressed. But somehow the wheel turned and I had my moment."
And then she paused.
"Maybe it was meant to be like that," she said. "Maybe you have to go through those tough times to bounce back and to have this ultimate high."
Losing a Grand Slam final is not an easy experience to forget. Just ask Great Britain's Andy Murray, and for the 2013 Wimbledon women's finale, Sabine Lisicki. But it was not so much the way she played, or didn't play, in her unsuccessful Championships attempt in 2007 which stayed with Bartoli. It was not making the most of the occasion.
"It was not really painful to lose because Venus (Williams) was just way too good for me. I had absolutely no chance during that final," Bartoli remembered. "What was the most painful for me was not enjoying the moment, I was so overwhelmed at the whole situation.
"So I really wanted this time to enjoy every second of it, no matter what was the result, enjoy, embrace the situation, being out there, playing the final of Wimbledon, on Saturday at 2 o'clock. When I saw the packed stadium, beautiful sky, I thought gosh this is going to be a great moment. And it was."
Practicing with her father on icy, hole-ridden tennis courts late at night after school in France, the limited space on the court the reason for her quirky and quizzical style, driving hundreds of kilometers to tournaments while doing her homework in the back of the car -— "that made me the person that I am right now on the court, it's coming all from that," she said almost proudly.
"When I was younger they (the French Tennis Federation coaches) tried to switch me back to a one-handed forehand, but when they saw my one-handed forehand they said 'OK that's fine, just stick with yours!'" she laughed.
"When I was watching the other players and then watching myself two meters inside the court returning a serve, I was like, 'OK, I'm a bit different'."
But Bartoli is not someone who tries to be a certain way. She greets the fabled tale of her higher-than-average IQ with a sort of embarrassment.
"I'm not calling myself a genius," she says. "I love to make fun of myself, I'm not the kind of person who is saying gosh I'm so perfect.
"I'm totally the opposite, I'm probably doing a million stupid things a day, I'm just trying not to be a pain for the people around me, just to be normal. I will definitely want to stay like that because I just don't want to change."
She's a Wimbledon champion now. She doesn't have to change a thing.
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1520 (1306). Contemporary Social Problems. 3 hours. Conditions disruptive to society today, both those seen as problematic as a whole and those that violate the norms of special groups in society; includes population, poverty, minorities, crime, drugs, sexual deviance, mental illness, changing family patterns and violence. Satisfies arts and sciences core social science requirements. Advised for students planning sociology graduate work. Satisfies the Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement of the University Core Curriculum.
2010 (2319). Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity. 3 hours. Social, cultural and economic perspectives on Native, African, Asian and Mexican Americans; emphasizes work and family patterns for both women and men, racism and sexism and contemporary movements for equality. Satisfies the Cross-cultural, Diversity and Global Studies requirement of the University Core Curriculum. (Same as WMST 2420.)
2050. Sociology of Sport. 3 hours. A study of social behavior in sport, with particular emphasis on its relationship to the cultural perspectives of socialization, minorities, economics, politics and current issues. Satisfies the Cross-cultural, Diversity and Global Studies requirement of the University Core Curriculum. (Same as KINE 2050.)
2070. Introduction to Race and Ethnic Relations. 3 hours. Introduction to the basic theories within current and historical race and ethnicity relations. Includes examination of evidence of continuing prejudice, institutional discrimination and modern forms of racism. Other topics include assimilation, pluralism, contact hypothesis, anti-racism, immigration, segregation and racial identity. Required for all ethnic studies minors.
2100. Crime and Justice in the United States. 3 hours. This course examines the societal responses to people and organizations that violate criminal codes; discusses the history, development, organization and philosophy of the justice process; and analyzes the complex inter-relationships between the major components of the criminal justice system (police, courts and corrections). Satisfies the Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement of the University Core Curriculum. (Same as CJUS 2100.)
3000. Sociology of Marriage and Family. 3 hours. Interpersonal dynamics of marriage and family life; role and influence of the family as both a powerful primary group and as a social institution in society; current status of families in the United States plus cross-cultural and historical patterns. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent. Advised for students planning sociology graduate work.
3110. Sociology of Mental Health, Mental Illness and Mental Health Care. 3 hours. Effects of social stresses and social integration on the mental health of various age, sex, ethnic and other groups within society; mental health care system and problems of access to that system among different subgroups in the population.
3120. Sociology of Health and Illness. 3 hours. Effects of social factors, such as age, sex, race and social class, on health and illness; differential access to health care services among subgroups of the U.S. population, including Blacks, Hispanics, Indians and the elderly; strains in the organization of the health care delivery system.
3190. Correctional Counseling. 3 hours. A study of the basic purposes and techniques of counseling with consideration given to the development of interpersonal skills required to enhance communication and to effect positive behavioral change. Special attention is devoted to exemplary and experimental programs aimed at promoting long-range social adjustment. Experiential learning is provided through case studies and situational exercises. (Same as CJUS 3190.)
3300. Urban Sociology. 3 hours. Rise of the city; ecological distribution and processes; suburb metropolitan areas; trends in urbanization. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent. Advised for students planning sociology graduate work.
3330. Social Stratification. 3 hours. Bases of social differentiation; status, power and mobility in social systems; influence of stratification on behavior; class structure in the United States. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent. Advised for students planning sociology graduate work.
3460. Correctional Systems. 3 hours. This course focuses on prisons and jails. It examines the goals and history of punishment, the death penalty, the composition and social organization of jail and prison populations; bail, detention, sentencing and classification; institutional management and the conflicts between rehabilitation and punishment. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 2100 or equivalent. (Same as CJUS 3400.)
3550. Collective Behavior. 3 hours. Human behavior in sporadic and unstructured situations; theories and case studies of rumors, crowds, panics, riots, disasters, fads and crazes; links among collective behavior episodes, social movements and social change. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent.
3600. The Multiracial Family. 3 hours. Academic study of the dynamics found in multiracial families. Important concepts in race/ethnicity studies such as assimilation, racial identity and pluralism. Other topics include passing, one-drop rule, interracial dating/marriage, bi- or multiracial identity and transracial adoption.
3620. Juvenile Delinquency. 3 hours. Examines juvenile delinquency in the United States. Specific attention is devoted to the definitions, measurement, and correlates of juvenile delinquency. Additional focus is paid to the various theories of juvenile delinquency and what each theory prescribes for preventing treating and handling juvenile delinquents. (Same as CJUS 3620.)
3630. Drugs, Crime and Society. 3 hours. Examines the relationship between drugs, crime and human behavior. Explores the relationship between drug abuse and crime and the policy proposals developed to control drug trafficking, drug abuse, and drug-related crime, as well as the multi-faceted aspects and effects of chemical abuse and dependency. (Same as CJUS 3630.)
3700. Sociology of Religion. 3 hours. A review of the common sociological dimensions of all religions such as moral definitions, group membership and dynamics, prescribed ritual practices and definitions of the sacred. An examination of sociologists contributing to the field such as Durkheim and Weber. Includes a sociological analysis of major world religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism.
3800. Sociology of Work. 3 hours. Social behavior and performance in the workplace beginning at the emergence of the industrial revolution through current workplace arrangements (e.g., work teams). Special topics covered include discrimination in the workplace (e.g., race, age, gender), the relationship between work and family, work alienation, welfare and work, women and work, and unions. Implications for counselors, managers, union organizers, city planners and policy makers. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent.
4000. Sociological Theory. 3 hours. Survey of development of sociological theory; emphasizes nature and types of contemporary theory. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent. Required of all sociology majors.
4160. Developing Societies. 3 hours. Changing culture and institutions family, population, religion, work and politics in developing nations in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa; impact of industrial nations on societies experiencing rapid urban, bureaucratic, technological and industrial growth; implications for war and peace in the world. Advised for students planning sociology graduate work. Satisfies the Cross-cultural, Diversity and Global Studies requirement of the University Core Curriculum.
4250. Sex Roles: Male and Female in Contemporary Society. 3 hours. Socialization to sex roles; male/female differences in family, work and political behavior; male/female inequality; current changes in sex role definitions. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent.
4260. Topics in Sociology. 3 hours. Investigation, analysis and discussion of a significant, contemporary topic. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
4340. Social Psychology and Behavior in the Social Environment. 3 hours. Social and cultural bases of diverse human behavior; social matrix of personality organization and disorganization. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent. Advised for students planning sociology graduate work.
4350. Community Organization. 3 hours. Principles of community organization and disorganization; agencies and programs dealing with contemporary problems facing the community. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent.
4450. The Family in Later Life. 3 hours. Later stages in the family life cycle are surveyed with emphasis on changing family composition, role transitions and support systems. Pre-requisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent. (Same as AGER 4450.)
4460. Community Corrections. 3 hours. This course examines the concept of community corrections from various perspectives. It also examines contemporary practices and trends in probation, parole and other forms of community corrections. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 2100 or equivalent. (Same as CJUS 4460.)
4500. Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence. 3 hours. Practical focus on socialization, parenting and educational strategies in childhood and adolescence, and upon the social factors, agencies and institutions (particularly education) affecting children and adolescents in modern society. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent.
4540. Race and Ethnic Minorities. 3 hours. Conditions and distribution of race and ethnic minorities; socio-psychological and cultural factors in race and ethnic relations; pattern of relations in the United States with emphasis on the Southwest and on social services. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or SOWK 1450 and other equivalents. Satisfies the Cross-cultural, Diversity and Global Studies requirement of the University Core Curriculum.
4550. Sociology of Aging. 3 hours. Twenty-somethings, Generation Xers, Baby Boomersall will all be senior citizens sooner or later. Their sex, race/ethnicity, and social class will affect their experience of aging. Course explores issues related to successful aging, including what young adults should be doing now to ensure that they have happy, healthy, wealthy, and creative golden years. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent. (Same as AGER 4550.)
4600. Sociology of Mass Communication. 3 hours. Communication as a social process; patterns and institutions of mass communication; analysis of public opinion and propaganda; techniques of public opinion measurement. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1510 or equivalent.
4750. World Population Trends and Problems. 3 hours. Patterns of population growth; trends of fertility and mortality; migration; social and economic consequences of population change.
4870. Social Research and Practice. 3 hours. Principles and procedures; sources of data, techniques of collection and analysis, and statistical description. Prerequisite(s): advanced (junior or senior) standing. Required of all sociology majors. (Same as AGER 4870.)
4880. Quantitative Methods of Social Research. 3 hours. Role of quantitative methods in social research; application of quantitative techniques and procedures to social data, statistical inference; data processing. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 4870 or equivalent. Required of all sociology majors. (Same as AGER 4880 and SOWK 4880.)
4900-4910. Special Problems. 1-3 hours each.
4920. Cooperative Education in Sociology. 1-3 hours. Supervised work in a job directly related to the student's major, professional field of study or career objective. Prerequisite(s): 12 hours credit in sociology; student must meet the employer's requirements and have consent of the division chair. May be repeated for credit.
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"Luckily, we're here to separate fact from fiction. Episode 5 of Semi-Cohernet Computing" -> "Coherent"
Ah, data center efficiency. The big vendors have embraced this topic like an admin embraces a bag of Doritos. Luckily, we're here to separate fact from fiction. Episode 5 of Semi-Coherent Computing has Chris Hipp and me interview Rumsey Engineers founder Peter Rumsey. The folks at Rumsey Engineers know their stuff, having built …
"Luckily, we're here to separate fact from fiction. Episode 5 of Semi-Cohernet Computing" -> "Coherent"
Doritos (not Dorritos).....
Although I think more SysOPs prefer Pringles :o)
Gasp. It must be Friday. "Dorritos." Indeed.
It must be friday indeed... nothing better to do than bitch about typos? Or a feeble attempt at an insult and demonstrating your self-proclaimed superiority? What next? Typing out the Thesaurus to point out how bad the world is at grammar?
Honestly... get a life.
Their posts merely point out the grammatical errors in an attempt to keep El Reg up there as the clean cut website that it is....
Yours appears to be the only comment that isnt useful.....
Besides it all a bit of fun, however some "anonymous" people appear to take these sort of things to heart....
Shouldn't Friday be capitalised?
My 200 MIPS Acorn used to have a 1W StrongARM - no fan required. Good enough for web serving.
Now we have dual core modern CPUs, we pay more for electricty than bandwidth.
In broadcasting the switch from air-cooling to liquid cooling already has been made and the difference is amazing. Last year I visited a transmitter site. Which had turned it's old equipment off and the new one on.
From their perspective the main advantages are:
1. It's a _lot_ quieter.
2. Equipment lasts way longer as it's way cooler.
3. It takes less space.
However they also had some problems. Rohde&Schwarz, their equipment maker hasn't been in cooling before. So the amplifier in the transmitter has a lot of transistors bolted onto a copper block. That block has holes inside which are conected by small copper loops on the sides.
There's a valve enabling them to shut off the supply of liquid and when they pull out the amplifier of the rack it will also be isolated. However when they do that, the temperature will rise and eventually the amplifier will turn itself off. This causes the pressure inside the copper block to rise effectively loosening the loops. Doing this a couple of dozend times gets them so loose that they actually fall out..... :(
So when you buy a liquid cooling system make sure it has something to compensate for pressure fluctuations.
Why do we make this so complicated, spending money on more energy hungry cooling systems. Fix it as source use lower power servers, that are as or faster than existing servers. Also, delete data on disks or archive stuff you do not access daily on to tape. All discussed here: http://blogs.sun.com/ValdisFilks/category/Environment
Good overview of the datacentre cooling issues we are facing.
The Datacentre Specialist Group of the British Computer Society has already been working on this issue, and has come up with some very interesting stuff here http://dcsg.bcs.org/ partic on energy efficiency.


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A male complainant told Russellville police that approximately $1,215 in various items were allegedly stolen from a 1996 Toyota Landcruiser outside a residence on Shalimar Circle, according to a report.
Narcotics arrest
A 21-year-old Russellville woman was arrested by Officer Robert Stevens and cited for possession of a controlled substance (marijuana), no proof of vehicle insurance, fictitious tags and failure to register a vehicle.
According to a report, Stevens observed a 2001 white Ford Explorer with expired tags traveling south on Phoenix and turn onto Bradley Lane. During a traffic stop conducted at Bradley Lane and South Reno, the driver stated she had allegedly smoked marijuana during lunch but had none in the vehicle.
After a search of the vehicle was conducted, a plastic baggy with a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana was found, the report said, and the driver gave the officer another plastic baggy of a green leafy substance. The woman was placed in custody and transported to the Pope County Detention Center.


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Organizing your Gallery with Categories
Now that you have added an image gallery and uploaded your own images you can create categories to organize your images into. This will help your images stay organizied.
How do I create Categories?
The first step is to create the categories for your Image Gallery. First, go to your Edit section and click on the Image Gallery in the Site map on the left. On the next screen, click on the "Categories" tab:
Then click on "Add New Category":
This is where you will insert the name of your category. In this example we're creating two categories: Animals and Flowers. You can also add a Description on the second tab, and choose what picture you want to be the main picture for the category.
Once you have added the name for your category, click "OK." You can add as many categories as you want using the same method. Before going back to your images, make sure that you first delete the default categories by selecting the check box and clicking the "Remove Selected" option:
Now you are ready to assign each picture to a category.
How do I add an image to a Category?
To place an image within a category, click on the Images tab to go back to your image list. On the same line as each image you have uploaded, there is a pencil icon under the header "Edit":
Click on the pencil by the image that you want to assign to a category. On the Edit Image screen, click on the "Categories" tab. Here you will see listed the different categories you created:
Note that a picture can be in as many categories as you want. Once you have placed a check box by the category for the image, click "OK." Continue this process for each picture you want placed in a category. When you are done, on the Images tab it will show what category each image is in:
Now when you preview your site, the pictures will be located in the categories chosen. For example, the Animal category will have the pictures placed in the Animal gallery:
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with WHERE ANGELS FALL
and To-Mera, Pythia and The Mariana Hollow
The Underworld, Camden, UK
14th March 2010
Words by Ben Spencer
Live pictures by James G @ Altercarnated Photography
Theatre Of
Tragedy was a band that reminded me of my long haired, gothic trench
coat wearing youth. Between the ages of 17-18, I was gradually treading
through the gothic genre of music that was originally sparked by
symphonic metal band Nightwish and their CENTURY'S CHILD album. This
album unlocked a genre of music at the time that I was ignorant of and
yet longed to pursue. My journey began with Lacuna Coil, Tristania and Flowing Tears. One day I came across an album cover where a white
rose lay across a red one with the italic font 'Theatre of Tragedy'. This
band intrigued me and so I very quickly obtained this album along with
the more cohesive and better produced AEGIS album. My interest in this
particular genre of music desensitised over the course of the next year
and without sight or sound of these guys on music channels, I merely
assumed that their flames had extinguished with the changing of times.
To discover that the band was still around and that their show at Camden
Underworld would in fact be their last was an opportunity I did not
want to miss out on.


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Why is Rachel Weeping at Ramah? Part 3
In this series of posts, we've been exploring why Matthew sees the slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem as "fulfilling" Jeremiah 31:15, which speaks of Rachel weeping for her lost children at Ramah. In part one of this series, we saw that the connection between Bethlehem and Ramah has to do with Rachel's death in childbirth on the way to Bethlehem. It appears from 1 Samuel that she died and was buried in the vicinity of Ramah. In part two of this series, we looked at the geographical and historical context of Jeremiah 31:15. There we discovered that in Jeremiah's day, Rachel was weeping because it was from Ramah that the conquering Babylonians were deporting the captive Jews from Jerusalem. In this post, we'll conclude by putting all the pieces together so we can understand the point Matthew was trying to make.
When I taught this to my Sunday School class, I explained that Matthew is not merely quoting clear predictive prophecies about the Messiah. Rather, he is associating the events in Jesus' life with a wide range of events in the history of Israel. I said it's a bit like that word-association thing psychologists do:
Psychologist: "What do you think of when I say 'Bethlehem'?"
Matthew: "Rachel's death."
P: "And what does that make you think of?"
M: "Her tomb at Ramah."
P: "And 'Ramah'?"
M: "Rachel weeping for her lost children!"
If we understand this dynamic, then we can appreciate the parallels Matthew wants his readers to draw.
In Genesis, Rachel dies giving birth while on the road to Bethlehem. In the midst of her suffering, the midwife tries to comfort her with the news that she is having another son. In this way, her child is both her cause of weeping and her hope for the future.
In Jeremiah's day, Rachel weeps over her children once more, this time because they are being led into captivity and exile near the very spot where she is buried. She is then comforted with the promise that her children will return. Once again, her offspring are both her cause of weeping and her hope for the future.
In Matthew's day, Rachel weeps yet again: this time over the slaughter of the children at Bethlehem. No words of comfort are given her in Matthew, but the very next verse speaks of Herod's death and the return of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus to the land of Israel. Just as in Jeremiah's day, the situation seems bleak, but the hope of salvation lives on.
There are, of course, additional historical parallels in this passage. When the wicked king Herod orders the slaughter of innocent children to protect his rule, we naturally think of the Egyptian pharaoh who ordered the slaughter of Hebrew children. One child, Moses, escaped the slaughter and went on to deliver his people from captivity and exile. In the same way, Jesus escapes the slaughter of the innocents—ironically, by going into exile in Egypt. Like the Israelites, he is led into Egypt by a man named Joseph, a man whom God speaks to in dreams. Like the Jews for whom Rachel wept in Jeremiah's day, this child knows the experience of living in exile, and like the Israelites of Moses' day, he goes through his own exodus from Egypt. Just as Rachel was comforted with the promise that her children would be restored, and just as Moses' birth was a sign that the Israelites' deliverance was near, so Matthew's readers are meant to understand that the long-awaited Messiah has been born and the hope of salvation is close at hand.
Obviously, there's a lot more going on in Matthew's infancy narrative than most modern readers realize. If you want help in bringing out these kinds of connections, here are some resources you'll find helpful:
You may find this surprising, but the main resource I used in preparing my Sunday School lesson was our Bible Lands PhotoGuide. It's tempting to think of the PhotoGuide as primarily a collection of pictures, but it's actually one of the best places for clear, concise information about biblical sites. The photos are really just the icing on the cake. The PhotoGuide article on Ramah gave me all the relevant passages needed to explain the connection between Ramah and Bethlehem, so that constituted the bulk of my research.
Of course, this passage was focused specifically on a place name, so the PhotoGuide was an obvious place to begin. For other New Testament passages that deal with quotations from or allusions to the Old Testament, I find Beale and Carson's Commentary on the New Testament Use of The Old Testament to be particularly helpful. While most good commentaries will deal with the interpretive issues this commentary focuses on, it is precisely this commentary's focus which makes it so valuable. Rather than having to skim commentary which deals with the use of the Old Testament as one of a dozen important aspects of a passage, Beale and Carson put that one issue front and center.
Other resources which help to explain the links between the Old and New Testaments are the various Bible Background Commentaries available from Zondervan and IVP. These are not as narrowly focused on OT and NT parallels as Beale and Carson, but they'll generally draw your attention to those parallels, along with providing information on the historical background of a passage.
While explaining why Rachel was weeping at Ramah required having my Sunday School class look at a number of different passages together with several maps, they were able to follow my explanation without getting overwhelmed by the details. On the contrary, they were excited to see how all these passages fit together. I hope you've found this series helpful—and maybe even a little exciting—as well.
Why is Rachel Weeping at Ramah? Part 2
In yesterday's post, I began relating how I used Accordance to teach a Sunday School class on why Matthew saw the slaughter of the innocents at Bethlehem as the "fulfillment" of what Jeremiah wrote about Rachel weeping at Ramah. In that post, we saw that Bethlehem and Ramah, at eleven miles apart, are not exactly neighboring towns. The connection between them is not one of proximity, but of historical memory. Genesis 35 tells us that Rachel died in childbirth on the road from Bethel to Bethlehem, and 1 Samuel appears to indicate that she was buried in the vicinity of Ramah. Thus, Matthew pictures Rachel weeping in her grave at Ramah over the horrific events taking place in Bethlehem—the destination she died looking toward.
In today's post, I want to look at the original context of Jeremiah's image of Rachel weeping at Ramah. After all, it was Jeremiah, not Matthew, who first spoke of Rachel weeping there. In Jeremiah's day, was Rachel weeping over something that had happened in Bethlehem?
To answer that question, I had my Sunday School class look at Jeremiah 31:15-17. Verse 15 contains the lament quoted in Matthew, followed by the LORD's command to Rachel to stop weeping. Rachel is comforted with the promise that she will receive the "reward" of her "work," and her "children will return from the enemy's land."
In Jeremiah, Rachel weeps because her children are no more, but this is apparently the result of exile rather than infanticide. I next had my class turn to Jeremiah 40:1, which speaks of Jeremiah being found among the captives being held at Ramah prior to their deportation to Babylon. You see, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, Ramah became the staging area from which the Babylonians actually sent the people of Judah into exile.
To illustrate this for my class, I turned once more to the Accordance Bible Atlas. I changed the Route layer displayed on the Map from Ancient Highways to Fall of Jerusalem and Exile. I then let the animated route play as I explained that the Babylonians attacked Judah not from the east, which would have required taking an army through the desert, but from the north, through Syria and Samaria. They later carried the Jewish captives into the Babylonian exile by the same route.
Wanting to show my class that Ramah was just north of Jerusalem on the main road leading north, I decided to display the Ancient Highways route layer again. Yet I also wanted to show that this was the very route the Babylonians would have taken, so I wanted to keep the Fall of Jerusalem and Exile layer on the map at the same time.
But how to do it? Both of these layers appear in the same pop-up menu of the Atlas, which means choosing one will necessarily remove the other. That is, unless you know the trick! If you hold down the Shift key on your keyboard while selecting a second layer, both layers will be displayed on the map at the same time. So that's just what I did.
Now I had another problem. When I selected the additional layer, the animation of the Fall of Jerusalem and Exile layer started all over again, and I didn't want to waste class time waiting for it to finish. So I used another power-user trick: I simply held down the Option key while clicking the Animate checkbox. Doing this skips the animation and immediately shows the finished route. Now I could simply zoom in on the area between Bethel and Bethlehem to show the following.
As you can see, the blue line representing the exiles (see the legend just above the map) does not exactly pass through Ramah or follow the road nearest to Ramah. That's because most of the animated route layers are designed simply to give a general sense of movement rather than to follow specific roads. Still, it's easy to see why Ramah would have been used as a staging point for the deportation of the Jerusalem captives.
In this way, Jeremiah imagines Rachel weeping at Ramah because she is watching the deportation of her descendants from the very place where she is buried. In response, the LORD tells her not to weep, because her hope for the future lies in the eventual deliverance and restoration of her children.
As you can see, using the Accordance Bible Atlas really helped to explain the geographical and historical context of these passages. Its flexible interface made it easy to modify the map to show the information I wanted to show, and knowing a few modifier key tricks really helped streamline my presentation.
In my next post, I'll finish this series by talking about how Matthew connects the story of the slaughter of the innocents to these Old Testament passages (and others) to make his case that Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah.
Why is Rachel Weeping at Ramah?
In Matthew's account of Jesus' birth, he points to specific events as the "fulfillment" of several Old Testament "prophecies." For the past several weeks, I've been exposing my Sunday School class to these Old Testament passages in their original context to show how Matthew's narrative is much more nuanced and profound than most of us realize. I wrote about doing this with the Immanuel prophecy in a previous post. This past Sunday, I talked about how Matthew saw the slaughter of the innocents as the fulfillment of Jeremiah's imagery of Rachel weeping at Ramah.
The subject of Sunday's lesson was all too painfully illustrated by the recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, and I hesitate to discuss it for that reason. While the wanton killing of small children is always shocking, it is, sadly, nothing new. It wasn't new in Matthew's day, either, and he tapped into the memory of a still more ancient infanticide to make his point.
I began by asking my class why Rachel would be weeping at Ramah over the slaughter of children at Bethlehem. Are these two towns close to each other?
To answer that question, I selected "Ramah" in Matthew 2:18 and chose my favorite Map background (Light Browns) from the Map submenu of the Amplify toolbar icon. This opened a map with two sites named Ramah highlighted in red. I didn't bother pointing out the northern Ramah, but quickly zoomed in on the one between Bethel and Jerusalem.
I then pointed out that Ramah and Bethlehem are not all that close. Ramah is north of Jerusalem, while Bethlehem is south of it. There are about 11 miles between them—a fact I just happened to mention, but I could easily have shown my class by option-dragging from one site to the other and pointing out how the distance is shown in the Instant Details panel. (See the image above.)
If these were not neighboring towns, why would Rachel weeping at Ramah have anything to do with the slaughter of the innocents at Bethlehem? To explain the connection between these two towns, I presented several seemingly disconnected passages. First, we looked at Genesis 35:16–20, in which Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin somewhere along the road from Bethel to Bethlehem. In her suffering, she is comforted with the news that she is having another son.
Genesis 35 says that Rachel was buried on the way to Bethlehem, and tradition locates her tomb about a mile north of Bethlehem. I even showed my class a photo from the PhotoGuide of Rachel's Tomb. But then I explained that there are reasons to believe that Rachel was not quite so close to Bethlehem when she died. I had my class turn to 1 Samuel 7:17, which describes Ramah as the center of Samuel's prophetic activity. Then we looked at 1 Samuel 10:2, in which Samuel tells Saul that he will meet two men at Rachel's Tomb shortly after he leaves the town (of Ramah). This would seem to indicate that Rachel actually died in the vicinity of Ramah.
If true, that would certainly explain the connection Matthew saw between Ramah and Bethlehem: Rachel died near the one while traveling toward the other. Thus, she weeps at Ramah because she is buried there, and she weeps over what is happening in Bethlehem because it's as if she is still looking in that direction.
There's still more to this story, but I'll have to finish it in another post. In my next post, we'll look at why Jeremiah spoke of Rachel weeping at Ramah. In the process, I'll show you several little-known tricks to using the Accordance Bible Atlas.


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Yeah, we know, the Ravens won the Lombardi trophy.
But when it comes to what we watched over and over on TV, Beyonce and snack foods dominated Super Bowl XLVII.
According to TiVo's annual data crunching analysis, the Taco Bell "Viva Young" commercial was the most re-watched commercial of the entire game. I must admit, among the crowd I watched with, that got a ton of cheers. And it wasn't even that old of a crowd. Maybe they just like the band fun.
Other ads that scored: The Doritos "Goat" spot, Hyundai, M&Ms, and the icky GoDaddy.com kissing spot (a tough one to explain to the kids at the party). All, by the way, in the first half. TiVo says that's when we payed the closest attention to the ads.
Another TV spike? You guessed it: Beyonce. The halftime show, still ringing in our heads, was 12 minutes of TiVo gold. Lots of replays.
As for the game itself? The end was replayed over and over; before that, the hot play was the 108-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by the Ravens' Jacoby Jones.
Tivo admits, not all the ad action was on TV. "More Super Bowl commercials went to the web well before Super Bowl Sunday," says TiVo General Manager of Media Sales Tara Maitra. The VW "Get Happy" spot, in fact, was seen more than 8 million times before it aired on TV. That's the power of second screening.
Scott, with Beyonce keeping his head ringing, is on Twitter: @scottbudman
The following top ten commercials from Super Bowl XLVII according to TiVo:
3. Hyundai Santa Fe "Pick Your Team"
4. Doritos "Fashionista Daddy"
7. Sketchers "Man Vs. Cheetah"
8. Pepsi Next "Pepsi Next Drink it to Believe It"
9. Audi "Prom"
10. Volkswagen "Get In. Get Happy"


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Light up when you finger it?
Is it just me or did anyone else think of...?
It's probably just me.
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Apple has touched on a new way to help you find your way around its products. The company has registered technology in the US that could see the iPod's clickwheel or your MacBook Air's touchpad light-up when you finger it. Apple patent Apple's design for iPods with light-up clickwheels The patent application, which was …
Is it just me or did anyone else think of...?
It's probably just me.
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Any touchscreen is already capable of displaying that s**tty wheel of theirs - with all those "invented" functions - on-screen.
And if you don't like wheels you could easily change that to pentagram or other symbol preferable. Perhaps some symbol of pornographic nature. I would prefer using iTits control gland with nipple-stiffing feedback control =P
it certainly will attract the shiny shiny brigade... But will be forgotten after 5 mins.
I may be missing something here but, having racked my brain for all of the previous 30 seconds, I can't come up with a need for this. On my iPod I get guided round the menu options by visual indicators on the screen such as the menu item in question becoming highlighted in some way to distinguish it from others. Once the required menu item is highlighted I then click with the centre button to choose that menu option.
I can almost imagine that this might be some help to partially sighted people but only if the light was bright and there were enough different colours to represent each menu option...otherwise they're better off jamming the screen right up to their face and checking for the previously described 'visual feedback' mechanism which is already present - like I have to do when I'm indulging in spectacle-free iPod usage.
As long as they don't charge me £13 for it when every bugger else gets it for free I don't give a crap!
pointless patent as devices have been doing that sort of thing to a limited extent for ages. US patent clerks should throw it out as it may have some innovation but also sucks in trying to get the rights to a load of prior art too.
See gesturing requires use of two fingers
... and another way to waste battery power, but i'm sure the Numpties (with full-blown flashing light syndrome) will be queueing up to buy it.
Keyboard on my smartphone lights up when you type. I don't think this patent should be granted, as it's not exactly unique.
All the mp3 players and mobile phones I've had for years have lit up when I've started to use the interface, so whats new?
My laptop trackpad looks awful dull, I don't think some flashing lights will jolly it up much either. Why not just jam in an iPhone display instead? and while you're at it pop in some 3G and GPS chips, so it's always online like my phone and with a useful mapping do-dad. I'll be first in the queue for that lappy.
Trying to use an iPod in the dark would be made easier by having the touchwheel backlit, certainly. Same goes for the touchpad on a lappie. Not sure about the differnt types of feedback, though - don't think it'd be useful, but then it would another element of "ooo" which they seem to like...
Finger lightworks when rubbed?
That's my coat! The one with tears in it.
Then again, I'm one of those types who are soooo tired of all kinds of devices blinking and lighting up for no reason at all.
(You know, like that blue blinking ear-gear for mobiles...)
umm... prior art everywhere. cell phones anyone? Push a key... any key... and the lights come on. Just because they use a touch interface doesn't mean it's new. Like "The low flying Finn" said... touchscreens have been around a long time and can do all kinda of stuff (all dependant on their user interface of course).
Apple: if we don't have the patent, we'll make it look a little different and then patent it.
I thought we were supposed to be trying to save the environment these days. More lights etc shorten battery life so:
a) you have to charge it more often
b) the overall batery life is shortened (good for apple as you're more likely to replace the iPod as a whole than replace the battery)
I've a laptop which has a set of shortcuts above the keyboard which are lit with indapendent blue LEDs which you cannot turn off and have no functionallity, there is even a light which comes on when you mute sound.
It's time manufacturers started thinking if it is really a neccessary light
J.M. Jarre had a thing, called a "keyboard", that, depending on which "key" you pressed, it lit up, showing you what key had been pressed.
Also, there are these things called plasma balls. When you touch them the part you are touching lights up, with a glow around your finger.
Can't wait for this totally unique invention.
What is it with apple taking common electronics and patenting it?
they are trying to patent ANY sensor system couples with ANY visual feedback.
in a few years when everyone finally stops buying their toys, they will make SCO and RAMBUS business by lawyer look like rank amateurs.
This patent is redundant.
There is already visual feedback on (almost) all touch screen implementations. By essentially retrofitting this concept to a touchpad - that is, giving it some form of 'screen' functionality - Apple are not creating anything new at all. They don't deserve to be granted this patent, but they'll probably get it.
I'll agree with a few other posters that backlighting is useful, though. I love touch-surface technology and Apple do it really well.
Don't apple already make an iPod with a brightly lit multi-coulur touchpad complete with user input feedback?
It's called the iPod Touch and I, for one, thought this was the future of Apple's Ipod interface - Isn't this patent something of a step backwards?
What's with Apply trying to make things easier to use? How dare they!
I think you should need to write & run an assembler program when you want your PDA/MP3 player/laptop to do anything...
Apple just likes to patent things for future income, like that patent for the "pinching" movement, it's been used on multitouch displays for years yet apple get a hold of it and decide that they've "invented" it.... tits.
For starters, why should I have to physically crank a fucking wheel to select something in a menu? My thumb gets sore after spinning through 5000 different artists. As long as they are making you crank something, why not an actual crank that powers the device? I thought electronics were supposed to reduce physical labor. And secondly, I hate animated menus. Sure they are supposed to be easy to use or whatever, but waiting 200ms for a menu to scroll pisses me off. Buying a faster system is supposed to increase effective response time, and they are wasting it on stupid animations. So yeah, Apple may have reinvented the UI or whatever, but only to apease flashy light muppets and piss off power users.
"Can the wheel flash to the beat of your music?"
If that's in the plans, will they be sued when someone has an epileptic fit while using a flashing iPod?
"like that patent for the "pinching" movement, it's been used on multitouch displays for years "
Has it? I've never seen it before the iPod and I've been involved in electronics one way or another since 1964.
That said, I can't see the point of this one.
Could their be a link between this patent and something similar to Perceptive Pixel multi-touch software which Apple already uses in the iphone.
Although patent doesn't refer to such, since when did Apple release patents which stated clearly their intended use.
With a BIG increase in Research and Development over the past 8 Months maybe this is the next big thing that's due.
May sound far fetched but read between the lines and it's not impossible that this is what it could be referring to.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek - The Original & Animated Series' started by EnsignHarper, Jan 10, 2013.
Already ordered mine!
Fifteen dollars plus shipping? Sounds a little steep for a 5-1/2" piece of black and chrome plastic, but then it's basically a hand-made, low-volume product. I hope the guy who's making and selling these things hasn't quit his day job.
Technically, spam.
^^ That depends whether the OP has any financial interest in or connection with the product, doesn't it? Although a bit more of a substantial comment wouldn't hurt.
So very, very far from it.
... says the guy typing a response on a Trek bulletin board on the internet.
NO interest at all in this - personal or financial. Just a fan who something he thought his fellow Trek fans would like. In fact, this was the first time I was ever on Etsy... got directed to this from the good folks at I Live and Breathe Star Trek.
15 bucks is NOT bad for something that is hand made and yes, a unique concept. He also has cool ones like MST3K, TARDIS, and even GOJIRA. It sure beats the awful 'Darwin' things -it is VERY subtle! I love the idea of someone following me, looking at that, and if they are not immediately Trek savvy, wondering about it. Then maybe the light bulb going on over their head..
And the guy following you thinks "NCC-1701? WTF? Oh yeah, Star Trek. Frickin' nerd."
That's HIS problem
Better than following a damn prius with an Obama2012 bumper sticker. Trekkies never took any money out of my pocket.
I fail to see what your personal politics have to do with this topic.
Unless you bought the "Trekkies" DVD.
It's okay to show support for Trek that way, but something a little more original would be nice.
Back when I still had my white 1973 Mustang, I sat down one day and wondered what I could do with it to tie it in with Star Trek. I never actually did anything, but one of the ideas I had was to completely re-do the tail lights, using the Enterprise insignia as a basis. The arrowhead in red as brake light, star in white as the back-up light, and ring around it in amber as turn signal. With the right materials, you could change any vehicle's tail lights to that setup.
If you're going to Trekifiy your car, go big:
I already have the Starfleet Academy decal in the rear window. I don't want to encourage truckers to actively chase me down, pull me over and give me a wedgie.
I wouldn't mind having the "TARDIS" one. But I'd need a blue car, ideally.
^ Geo Metro on the outside, full sized RV on the inside?
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I'm selling my 2012 Orange Five frame.
It's an 18", with maxle rear end (12x135), kashima shock and tapered head tube.
The swing arms were wrapped in inner tubes from day 1 so are in good condition, and aside from a couple of bits of cable rub beneath the shock, the rest of the frame is also in pretty good nick.
The shock could do with a service, but the bearings were changed recently and have had very little use since.
I've got some pics available - drop me an email (address in profile) and I'll send them over.
I'm looking for £700 Ono including hope headset.
Also for sale is a 9spd xt front mech (£20) and a black 70mm thomson stem (£45).


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If built, University Corners will, under the plan now before the city, bring some 500 condos or apartments, 250 hotel rooms, 100,000 square feet of retail space and a 1,200 space parking garage to the corner of University and 13th.
It's a familiar rush-hour scene at the intersection of University Avenue and 13th Street.
Traffic backs up for several blocks in every direction. At times, drivers sit still at a green light because there's no room to move ahead.
Now, on the grassy field at the intersection's northwest corner, the long-stalled University Corners project is back on the table.
If built, it will, under the plan now before the city, bring some 500 condos or apartments, 250 hotel rooms, 100,000 square feet of retail space and a 1,200 space parking garage to the corner of University and 13th.
While developers and city planners expect pedestrians, bicycles and buses to be in the mix, it also will bring additional traffic.
"Anything you put there is going to generate traffic," City Commissioner Susan Bottcher said. "Right now, it is just a big empty lot ... There's going to be an impact on traffic absolutely. I don't think you can have any kind of development anywhere and not affect traffic."
In this case, the traffic will impact two already congested roadways.
To the south and north of University Avenue, Southwest/Northwest 13th Street (U.S. 441) is already operating at an unacceptable level of service, meaning that the average daily traffic on the road exceeds what it was designed to accommodate, according to a late 2012 report from the Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization.
On 13th Street from University south to Archer Road, there are 35,000 average daily trips on a road designed to accommodate 28,200.
The stretch of University Avenue directly west of 13th Street is at 99 percent capacity — with 28,000 daily trips on a road designed for 28,200.
"I'm concerned about traffic," Commissioner Todd Chase said. "The way I see it, pretty much in all directions there's no room to add any more capacity to those roadways. It could be a traffic situation so bad that people avoid the area or begin to use another mode of transportation."
Chase said traffic issues on 13th and University could be further exacerbated by another development planned just to the north across Northwest 13th Street.
On the east side of the 300 block of Northwest 13th Street, an eight-story building with 26,000 square feet of street-level retail, 20,000 square feet of office space and up to 168 condominiums or apartments has received zoning approval from the city.
Commissioner Thomas Hawkins believes the University Corners project should improve the traffic on the city's roadways. He expects a significant amount of foot traffic and bicycle trips — far more than an exclusively single-family-home subdivision would have — and shorter-distance vehicle trips because retail stores, the University of Florida and Shands at UF are all in close proximity.
As for the fact that 13th Street and University Avenue are at or above capacity, Hawkins said that is nothing unique.
"You can say the exact same thing about housing built in Jonesville, too," he said. "That statement is not unique to University Corners. The difference is we will have less vehicle traffic and shorter trips."
As it stands, the City Commission will consider requested changes to prior zoning and land-use approvals — and a request for some $37 million in property tax rebates from the Community Redevelopment Agency — before a detailed traffic impact study is done during the development review process.
David Coffey, the land-use attorney representing University Corners, said the amount the developer would pay to mitigate transportation impacts would be determined at that time.
At this point, consultants working for University Corners have submitted a trip-generation table using the city's criteria for trip credits. It projected a daily raw trip generation of 7,850. But credits for bicycle, pedestrian and transit traffic, the internal capture of trips and the vehicle trips generated by the on-site development razed several years back to make way for University Corners, whittle down the projection of additional daily vehicle trips to fewer than 2,000.
"The expectation is it will be occupied by university staff, faculty and students who will live there and walk to the university every day," Coffey said. "And that is the reason why the city has for 20 years encouraged dense urban development near the university."
Bottcher said it is important to have bus stops in close proximity to the development with pull-out lanes so the buses would not impede traffic flow. She also said the 1,200-space parking garage needs to be able to accommodate not just residents and hotel guests but employees.
As for traffic flow on both University and 13th, there is no driveway access planned from either roadway. The garage entrance and exit will be off Northwest Second Avenue, Coffey said.
For now, state transportation officials are waiting on the detailed traffic study to weigh in on the projected impacts.
"We do have safety and operational concerns with a development this size," said Florida Department of Transportation spokeswoman Gina Busscher. "We are waiting on the developer to update their traffic impact study and then we'll cross-examine it with our own analysis and determine if we concur."


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US commitments sought over base
The United States must provide binding commitments over its future use of the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean if it is to be allowed to carry on using its vast military base on the island, MPs have said.
The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said public confidence had been "dented" by the disclosure in 2008 that the US had secretly used the island as part of its "extraordinary rendition" programme without informing British ministers - in contravention of previous assurances.
The committee said the Government should use the forthcoming negotiations on the renewal of the 50-year agreement allowing the US to use the island - which runs to 2016 - to tighten up the previous informal arrangements.
It said that a requirement to obtain the prior approval of the UK Government for the use of island in combat operations or other "politically sensitive activity" should be written into the new agreement - with an explicit condition that it must not be used for rendition without authorisation from UK ministers.
The committee chairman, Sir Richard Ottaway, said: "We believe that would concentrate minds and prevent a recurrence of the unhappy events of 2008."
He added: "This is about building confidence. The Government relied on US assurances on its use of Diego Garcia, and in 2008 these proved to be inaccurate. That severely damaged credibility. The British public is entitled to know that the UK is able to exercise control over its sovereign territory and what happens there."
In 2006, the then foreign secretary Jack Straw told MPs that there was no evidence that the US had used any British overseas territory in the rendition of terrorist suspects following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Two years later, however, the then incumbent David Miliband disclosed that the US had since admitted it had used Diego Garcia for the re-fuelling of rendition flights on two occasions in 2002 without informing the UK.
Earlier this year, it was reported that an as yet unpublished US Senate committee inquiry had found that the CIA had a so-called "black site" on the island which it used for the detention of "high value suspects" with the "full co-operation" of the UK government.
"If these reports are substantiated, we would expect to revisit this issue, to assess the implications for the UK and for public confidence in its statements on US use of Diego Garcia," the committee said.


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RENTON — Russell Wilson made a point of picking the brain of New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees at the Pro Bowl last year.
And while the Seattle Seahawks celebrated an NFC Championship Sunday, Wilson asked four-time Super Bowl champion and former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who now works for Fox television, what it takes to win a title.
So it's safe to say the Seahawks' quarterback likes to take knowledge from experienced quarterbacks whenever and wherever he can get it. But before Brees or Bradshaw could pass any words of wisdom on to Wilson, he was learning from another quarterbacking great.
The one he'll be trying to beat in Super Bowl XLVIII.
You see Wilson, back when he was a high school sophomore, attended the Manning Passing Academy, a camp run by Archie Manning and his three sons, Peyton, Eli and Cooper. And as luck would have it so many years ago, a teenage Wilson ended up in the group of players being coached by Peyton Manning, the quarterback who will be leading the Denver Broncos against Seattle next week.
"I mean there were thousands of kids there and I was actually in his group," Wilson said. "Me and I think 12 or 15 other guys."
Manning obviously never could have known it at the time, but he was helping shape a young quarterback who would someday try to deny him a second championship ring. That famous Wilson work ethic and those well-documented study habits, Wilson got a lot of that from his father, Harrison, and took the rest from a lot of people who have influenced him, one of whom was Manning.
"Just how much care he showed for the kids at the time and how much detail he always talked about and how much of a perfectionist he was, I try to use that in my game," Wilson said. "I got a long ways to go obviously, but I just try to do all the little things and that's what (Manning) does. He takes tons of notes, he does all the right things and he puts his team in the right position to win football games."
And while Wilson was the one learning from Manning, it seems the teenage quarterback made an impression on Manning a decade ago as well. Prior to the 2012 draft, the Broncos brought Wilson to Denver for a pre-draft visit, and Manning had a vague recollection of meeting Wilson so long ago.
"He was sitting there in the locker room and I went up and talked to him, and he was like, 'Have I seen you before somewhere?'" Wilson said. "He was like, 'Yeah. I think I've seen you. Good to see you man. I've seen you before somewhere. Where did I know you?'"
Wilson told him, "Well actually you coached me in the Manning Passing Academy."
Priority No. 1 for Wilson in the Super Bowl will be worrying about Denver's defense, but he admits he might sneak an occasional peek to watch one of the game's all-time greats at work. For the Seahawks to beat the Broncos and their high-octane offense, Wilson might have to put on an aerial show himself, or at least throw the ball more than he is usually asked to in Seattle's offense. And who knows, if Wilson has a big day and leads his team to victory, the Seahawks might have, of all people, Manning to thank for it, at least a little bit anyway.
"The way he plays the game, he's just a tremendous individual. He has great attention to detail, great leadership, has won a lot of games," Wilson said. "So we're going to have to play our best football game and we know that. We know that he's a great football player and he leads his football team."
Herald Writer John Boyle: email@example.com.


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DELAND, Fla. - Local 6 uncovered an investigative file that says a DeLand police officer admitted to telling Marlon Brown's daughter she would end up like her father.
Marlon Brown was killed back in May when former officer James Harris' patrol car ran over and killed him.
The documents related to the internal investigation say that detective Ignatius Jones was given a warning as a result of the behavior, which the police chief writes violates department policy.
According to the report, Jones admitted he said, "with that attitude she's going to end up like Mr. Brown," referring to Brown's 13-year-old daughter Armani Brown.
Jones encountered the teen when he stopped a group of teenagers from allegedly throwing rocks at a closed business in late May.
According to Jones, he didn't mean to imply that Armani Brown would end up dead like her father, but that she would end up in trouble with the law.
Krystal Brown, Marlon Brown's ex-wife, said no matter the intent the meaning was clear to her and her family.
"This happened maybe a week or two after her father was killed. So he ultimately ended up dead. So that's the way that we took it. That's the way [Armani] took it," Krystal Brown said.
The officer was disciplined by receiving verbal counseling, essentially a warning. A report was also placed in Jones' file.
Deputy Chief Randel Henderson said the comment was inappropriate under any circumstances.
"It's not something we want our officers to say or do given similar circumstances so absolutely we have a progressive discipline system. [Detective Jones] was educated, which we call counseling. He was counseled for it and we'll watch to make sure he doesn't do it again," said Henderson.
Local 6 asked if this incident and the support coming from within the department for former officer Harris was a sign of a larger problem in the department, to which Henderson replied he can't control what officers do on their personal time, but they can be reprimanded for what they say on-duty.
Henderson said the department is working hard to improve relations within the community after the Marlon Brown incident.
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Wall Street Journal Editorial: Fishing for Wildlife LawsuitsThe Interior Department revives the game of 'sue and settle'
Posted by Maeve McKenna on March 11, 2013
"The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service has resurrected a Clinton-era tactic known as 'sue and settle.' With this strategy, outside green groups friendly to the Administration sue the government, demanding a particular regulatory action. The agency happily forswears court and sits down with the plaintiffs to reach a settlement."
Fishing for Wildlife Lawsuits
March 10, 2013
Wall Street Journal
By Editorial Board
The Senate last week gave a warm confirmation welcome to Sally Jewell, until recently the head of outdoor equipment company REI and now President Obama's nominee to run the Interior Department. It's a pity the Senators didn't ask what Mrs. Jewell thinks of the Obama Administration's amazing assault on private property. Its weapon is the Endangered Species Act.
The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service has resurrected a Clinton-era tactic known as "sue and settle." With this strategy, outside green groups friendly to the Administration sue the government, demanding a particular regulatory action. The agency happily forswears court and sits down with the plaintiffs to reach a settlement.
The Administration then claims it was forced to take an action that it wanted all along. One more thing: Businesses and property owners most hurt by the settlement are barred from the talks; the public gets no input. Is this a great country or what?
This tactic reached a zenith in Fish and Wildlife's 2011 mega-settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians, and other green groups over the species act. That agreement allowed Fish and Wildlife to claim it must take action on some 750 species covered by 85 legal actions. The deal's immediate effect was to tee up 250 species for full protection, including sweeping "critical habitat" designations that will restrict commercial or other use of millions of acres of private property.
Among the 750 species is the lesser prairie chicken, a bird whose listing could devastate farmers and ranchers across five states. Oh, and the greater sage grouse, which could shut down oil and gas development and cattle grazing, for starters.
The Administration is also moving to hide the costs of these actions. One of the only smart parts of the species act is a requirement that regulators evaluate the economic impact of designating a critical habitat. That at least gives the public a sense of the costs for businesses and landowners.
The Administration is pushing a rule to dilute these inconvenient economic reports, by moving to what is known as the "baseline" approach. This allows regulators to assume, for purposes of the economic analysis, that the land in question is already subject to a critical habitat designation—and thus worthless for private economic activity. Fish and Wildlife can then claim the only cost of a listing is the cost to the agency itself.
Louisiana Senator David Vitter, ranking member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has demanded that Fish and Wildlife provide details of its interactions with the suing green groups. The agency refused. Mr. Vitter is calling on Congress to cut off money for the enforcement of these settlements. That's a start.
The 40-year-old law has an undistinguished record of restoring species. Its main effect now is simply to terminate economic activity. Mrs. Jewell could make a mark at Interior by initiating a modernization of the species act, and it's a shame no one in the Senate thought the issue mattered enough to inquire about.


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OK, I have decided to give lejos on the NXT a go after becoming quite impressed with it on the RCX. However, I am having a little trouble...
As a preliminary, I should mention that I am doing all of this on linux!
Moving along, the first problem I am having is that I cannot get lejosjc to work. The error I am getting every time is
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meaning that I have clearly not set the $LEJOS_HOME variable correctly. So, and please be *very* explicit, how do I set this variable?
Second, and this is a bit worrying, I pressed the button on the NXT to go into firmware update mode and that's all good. However, I didn't quite realize that this would wipe the memory on the NXT. Now, I got this kit as an educational platform, meaning that I have no software for it. So, is there any way I can obtain the original lego image to put back on with, say, LiNXT? Maybe somebody could be so kind as to post an .tar.gz of the image? Otherwise, my employer may wonder why the new toy only sits there clicking...
Thanks in advance!
UPDATE: Ignore the first problem, there was a pointer conflict between the RCX and NXT versions of lejos. rm -r fixed that one nicely!
Now, about that default lego image...


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Darwinian chase through search marketing
Darwinian chase through search? marketing
Marketers' search programs must be laser-focused but nimble to keep up with algorithm tweaks and social and mobile while not neglecting the essentials of SEO that can organically propel brands to the top.
When Taco Bell was sued this January over the quality of its beef, issuing a press release was not enough of a response. Neither was taking out full-page ads in several national and local newspapers. Neither was creating a YouTube video featuring Greg Creed, the company's CEO, addressing the lawsuit, or a Facebook campaign.
A day after Taco Bell received the lawsuit — and a day after "Taco Bell Meat" was the tenth most searched term on Google — the fast food chain launched a search campaign "to get the facts in front of a lean-forward audience who was proactively searching for information," says Juliet Corsinita, Taco Bell's senior director of media services, via e-mail.
"We wanted to make sure that our official statement was the first thing our audience saw when searching about the beef lawsuit and to ensure that the real facts were shared," Corsinita adds.
To position the company's viewpoint in the search rankings, Taco Bell threaded relevant keywords throughout its "news releases, the website and video descriptions to increase organic search," says Corsinita. The company centered its paid search campaign, conducted by Draftfcb Chicago, around several keywords, including "taco bell lawsuit," "tb lawsuit," "Taco Bell," "Taco Bell menu," "seasoned beef" and "taco meat."
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Taco Bell created a new landing page dedicated to the lawsuit that "featured Taco Bell's official statement, the print ad and the video from Creed," says Corsinita.
"We used this landing page to update with new information as it became available. We also optimized our mobile site at m.tacobell.com so that users could access the information from their phones."
Taco Bell understood the centrality of search to the success of all other marketing efforts. Search engine marketing (SEM, or paid search) has come a long way since the first ad — for live mail-order lobster — appeared to the right of Google's search results in 2000, and search engine optimization (SEO, or organic search) has come a long way from ensuring a keyword appears frequently on a Web page. Topping a search results page is no longer so simple.
Effective search marketing still revolves around thinking like a customer — Google advises as much for those who employ its AdWords offering. With the increasing personalization of search through the introduction of tools such as social search, instant search and location-based search, how does a marketer think like a customer when that customer has so many disparate thoughts?
"Now we're shooting with a laser where years ago we had the opportunity to just use the shotgun and spread that really wide buckshot," says Paul Elliott, partner in consumer products and retail at interactive marketing agency Rosetta.
The growing precision of search has forced large national retailers like Walgreens to completely rethink their paid and organic search marketing efforts. "Walgreens campaigns have changed pretty much 180 degrees," says Vural Cifci, the director of search and acquisition marketing for Walgreens. "When I took over the [Walgreens] program, we decided to take a look at what has been done and first fill the gaps, and then tackle the entire SEM and SEO program from scratch." (Editor's note: Direct Marketing News interviewed Cifci in February when he had been leading Walgreens' search marketing for nearly a year. He was expected to move to Travelocity as director of acquisition in March.)
Cifci and his team first looked at "how search marketing played a role in the overall marketing mix," he says. They sifted through the search data to identify areas of strength and weakness. His team's response was to build from the backbone of search marketing and to layer on it newer search features.
"The first initiative was getting 100% presence of all brands that Walgreens sells in our campaigns. The second initiative was making sure the product ads are utilized," says Cifci. "The third initiative was trying to take advantage of the reviews and star ratings in the ads. The fourth initiative was to have a very accurate representation of our locations in various Google products, including Google Maps."
Walgreens relies on iProspect for campaign execution and Kenshoo for search software, while handling software in-house.
It's notable that Walgreens' first two initiatives focused on traditional SEO and SEM. Since revisiting the company's search marketing efforts, "the paid search campaign has generated about 39% more revenue year-over-year with a flat budget," says Cifci.
He allots partial credit to the adoption of interactive ad features such as location and product images, but also credits the creation of dedicated product landing pages. Just as an athlete has no business bench-pressing 300 pounds if they're not even able to perform a push-up, a search marketing campaign that chases after optimizing for search engines' newer complexities is doomed if the search engine cannot effectively crawl a company's landing pages.


text: Superman was my first superhero, going back to the early 60s when I would tie a towel around my neck and jump off the furniture. When I was about 6 I found out that George Reeves was dead. Bad day. In 1978 Christopher Reeve's effortless performance did indeed make us believe that a man could fly. Brandon Routh did a great job, but he was not Superman. From what I've seen so far Henry Cavill looks like he can pull it off. Hopefully, Superman lives again.


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For calendar submissions contact us here.Submissions should be received two weeks before publication on our site and mention on the air. The calendar is read on-air Mon-Fri at 9am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm and 10pm and Sat-Sun at 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm and 10pm. Information about coming events may be submitted for consideration by email.


text: Zehn Jahre lang hat der britische KĂĽnstler Mike Ballard Jacken in Bars geklaut – und so rund 200 KleidungsstĂĽcke angesammelt. Diese sollen nun zur Kunstmesse Frieze in London ausgestellt und, falls sich jemand meldet, auch an den rechtmäßigen Besitzer zurĂĽckgegeben werden. "Just after his move to London in the late 1990s, Ballard's favourite 55DSL coat was stolen from a crowded pub – a loss he took quite hard. In retaliation, Ballard began stealing other coats he found unattended and over the past ten years he has amassed a collection of over 200. Each coat's contents have been meticulously catalogued and stored (never stolen from). Having come to terms with his loss, Ballard is now relinquishing his collection and the coats will be returned to their rightful owners – but only if claimants can identify the date and place of loss or the contents of the pockets." Via: Mail


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Forsythe, Quentin to play Tuesday against Giants
By Corey Brock / MLB.com
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Infielder Logan Forsythe has been troubled for most of the month by plantar fasciitis in his right foot, though he's not about to let it keep him from the Padres' Opening Day roster.
"I'll be ready," Forsythe said on Monday. "It just [bothers me] when I run the bases. If it maintains a certain pain level, then we can deal with it. If it gets worse ... then we'll see what happens."
Padres manager Bud Black said Monday that Forsythe and left fielder Carlos Quentin (sore right knee) will play in Tuesday's game against the Giants at Scottsdale Stadium.
Forsythe, who hasn't appeared in a Cactus League game since March 7, played three innings defensively at third base in a Minor League game on Sunday. He had three hits in the game, including a home run. More importantly, Forsythe was able to score from first base on an extra-base hit.
He declared the day a success, especially with Opening Day in New York looming just one week away, as the Padres face the Mets at Citi Field on April 1.
"The only thing that seems to be bothering me now is the sprinting aspect of running the bases. That's something we're trying to fight through right now," Forsythe said. "I felt comfortable at third base. I reacted to a couple of balls but didn't get any balls hit at me. It was a good day."
A sore foot hasn't kept Forsythe was hitting.
"It's been nice that, even with this, I've been able to get my work in," he said. "I've been able to get all my work in the cage. I haven't been limited with my swings. That was huge. I've been able to do the same things I've always done. My timing [Sunday] was OK."
With third baseman Chase Headley set to open the season on the disabled list with a fractured tip to his left thumb, the Padres would like to have Forsythe -- who is considered a plus-defender at third base -- to start there.
Quentin has appeared in five Minor League games in the past nine days but hasn't had an official Cactus League at-bat. He did start as the designated hitter in a game on March 8 and had two plate appearances but that game was called because of rain.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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November 10, 2009
New Taylor Shoot - How'd Ya Like Them Muscles?
Taylor (Laurtner!) on his cover shoot for December's Men's Health... forget New Moon, how many days 'till February?!
Via ET
- Lorabell
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Kind of glad that he doesn't have his shirt off because it makes me feel like less of a perv, but that won't stop me from buying "Men's Health" December issue. All because I need to learn how to get six-pack abs quick.ReplyDelete
Kellan Lutz needs a new agent. Taylor is on the cover of Mens health and he is on the cover of "Doggie" magazine.ReplyDelete
Not to take anything away from Taylor, but it is so odd to watch someone who has all the ingredients together for a great meal, but is not old enough to "cook".
Bod?: Check
Car?: Check
Bank?: Check
Smile?: Check
Stamina?: Check
Legal?: DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT!
LOL @ M. It is rather refreshing to see him work with his shirt on. He's still hot as hell.ReplyDelete
lmao @ TJB. yeah that's why i'm buying it, too.ReplyDelete
im a female, but im still buying this magazine. :DReplyDelete
haha, I agree with everyone!ReplyDelete
Taylor, DREAMY!!!!ReplyDelete


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Venue TV TIME Madison Square Garden, New York, NY MSG, NBA TV 7:30 PM EST
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Injury Report
New York Knicks
Detroit Pistons Metta World Peace - Sore Left Knee (OUT) Rodney Stuckey - Sore shoulder (DAY TO DAY Pablo Prigioni - Hairline fracture of right great toe (QUEST) Raymond Felton - Strained Right Groin (PROB) Tyson Chandler - Upper Respiratory Infection (QUEST)
Today in Knicks history
January 5, 2004 Knicks defeat Washington 103-87 at Madison Square Garden, marking the 28th consecutive game that they held an opponent under 100 points, tying a post-shot- clock NBA record.
Recent meetings
November 19, 2013 New York saw the game turn in the Pistons favor in the third quarter when they were outscored 28-20 and the Knicks were never able to recover as they were defeated by the Detroit Pistons 92-86 at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The loss snapped a seven-game winning streak versus the Pistons. The Knicks were paced by Carmelo Anthonys 25 points and seven rebounds over 37minutes. J.R. Smith posted 18 points on 7-15 shooting over 34 minutes. Detroit was led by Rodney Stuckeys 21 points off the bench. Detroits two big men both chipped in double-doubles as Greg Monroe recorded 16 points and 11 rebounds and Andre Drummond posted 13 points and 11 rebounds.


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This has started off as how much I hated my job, turned into sex stuff... You've been warned.
For the first three hours, I got to sit in a cold room doing my cirtifications (snore) and my butt was starting to get numb. I finally finished that crap and go to front line and stand around because they had too many people on the schedule so all of my duties were already done. Then, Liz (the MIC) comes to me and says "oh, there are too many people here, you can leave." I didn't WANT to leave. They give me shit hours anyway and it just blows... Today was just not my day... Anyone else think work sucks sometimes?


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I can't get into work because of transport problems. Will my pay be docked?
Employment specialists say that in most cases people don't have any automatic right to be paid if they can't get to work, and unfortunately this applies to reasons that are effectively beyond your control, such as road closures, train cancellations or even school closures.
However, this does not mean that all companies will automatically dock a day's pay. It's worth checking your contract; some may contain clauses that state that employees will still be paid if they are unable to attend work because of adverse weather conditions. If this is in your contract, your employer has a legal obligation to honour it.
In addition, some employers may exercise discretion and pay staff who don't make it into the office, particularly if they are able to work from home or other premises.
Can my employer force me to take the day as holiday?
Again, much of the above applies. You don't have a legal right to be paid, so what can happen is that your employer suggests the unpaid day's work is taken as part of your annual leave. You don't have to take this up, but if you don't you may end up simply not being paid for the day.
In law, you are entitled to a minimum notice period that is twice as long as the paid leave your company wants you to take – so it would need to provide two days' notice for one day's leave. However, this notice isn't required if your holiday entitlement is more than the statutory minimum (which is 5.6 weeks a year, including bank holidays).
Alternatively, your employer may suggest that you make up the time by working extended hours over the next few weeks. Again, this isn't compulsory but may be a more palatable alternative to simply losing a day's wages.
What about school closures? It's not my fault that the school is closed and I can't leave my children on their own
Employers are obliged to give employees time off in emergencies if they have dependants. But they are not obliged to pay them for this time. This would cover school closures. Again, many employers take a more enlightened approach and will allow a degree of flexibility. But if you aren't being paid you have to weight up which is more costly, the loss of a day's wages or arranging emergency childcare, if this can be done at short notice.
What if my workplace is closed – will I still get paid?
If your place of work is shut down because of the adverse weather you are still entitled to be paid. In such circumstances your employers should not be able to dock the day's pay or force you to take the time as annual leave. However, they could ask you to work from home, or other premises, which you would be obliged to do.
Can an employer force me into work if I have been advised not to travel?
No. If you feel the journey could be unsafe then Acas – the employment advice and conciliation service – said employers couldn't force staff to get into work. However, they don't then have to pay them, so it could be argued that this pressure will mean many people do travel even when official warnings not to do so are in place.
Can you claim expenses from your company for additional travelling costs such as taxis etc?
No, unless your employment contract specifically makes provision for this.
Can you sue or claim compensation if you fall over on a public street or when using public transport and feel more should have been done to make it safe?
If you feel that a company or local authority has been negligent, you may be able to bring a personal injury claim if you can argue that such an outcome was foreseeable.


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Lauren R. Stevens: Ideal role for Spruces
In order to judge what should happen at The Spruces Mobile Home Park in Williamstown, it helps to consider what did happen on August 28, 2011, when Tropical Storm Irene flooded the park.
Down in the Hoosac Valley we didn't get that much rain, five inches in North Adams, the equivalent of about a 50-year storm. Yet the water roared through the Williamstown USGS gage [sic], actually located in the western end of North Adams, at nearly 13,000 cubic feet per second, the record pace set in the 1950 flood. How come so much water from comparatively little rain?
Far more rain fell at higher elevations, in the Deerfield Valley and in the Catskills, and some 15 inches to the north of us in Vermont. Some Green Mountain towns experienced a 500-year event. The South Branch of the Hoosic, coming up from Cheshire, wasn't unduly enlarged, whereas the North Branch, coming down from Heartwellville, Vt., was on a rampage. North and South join at MoCA; their combined flow entered The Spruces at its upstream corner. Had we had the rain in our valley that fell on our neighbors, the damage would have been even more severe.
Although 2012 was a relatively dry year here, Hurricane Sandy having touched us lightly, since 1970 precipitation in our area has been above average and increasing. While it is not possible to attribute the increase solely to climate change, it is consistent with what scientists predict as an effect of the warming in our part of the world. We can anticipate more rain in the future, and with it, not necessarily more storms but heavier ones.
Furthermore as winters grows milder, more of the annual precipitation will be in the form of rain rather than snow. Snow gathers on the ridges to be released gradually through the spring as melt-water. With warmer winters we are more susceptible to winter flooding, as well as that of autumn storms.
At the Hoosic River Watershed Association's State of the River Conference, "Irene+1," in September, Vermont state Rep. Bill Botzow noted that when we assert a public interest in private land, such as for conservation, recreation or agriculture, we generally compensate the owner. We do not, however, have any system in place to compensate private holders of flood plains, such as The Spruces, even though their land performs the public good of holding and slowing flood water, thus protecting adjacent properties.
In Irene, for example, the Burnett farm in Adams, North Branch Nursery in Stamford, Bonnie Lea Farm and Williams College's Cole Field in Williamstown, all performed their function as flood plains and all suffered damage. Being open fields, however, no lives were at risk and structural damage was minimal. At The Spruces, nearly 200 homes were destroyed and 250 lives would have been at risk, had not the town evacuated the inhabitants.
Williamstown may win federal and state flood emergency funds to purchase The Spruces, compensating the private owner, restoring the 125 acres to full use as a flood plain, establishing activities compatible with occasional flooding such as agriculture and recreation, compensating the owners of the remaining mobile homes and beginning to create a larger pool of affordable housing elsewhere in town.
All involved should be so fortunate. At least, that's how it looks from the White Oaks.
A writer and environmentalist, Lauren R. Stevens is a regular Eagle contributor.
If you'd like to leave a comment (or a tip or a question) about this story with the editors, please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you can do that by filling out our letters form and submitting it to the newsroom.


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The Houston Dynamo and the Houston office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC US) announced the donation of $750 for every Houston Dynamo goal scored at home during the 2012 season. The donation will be made by PwC's Houston office through Dynamo Charities to Houston's Ronald McDonald House.
"PwC Houston and the Houston Dynamo are united in one common goal: to do what we can to help the Houston community thrive," said Niloufar Molavi, PwC's Houston market managing partner. "We hope through our contributions to Houston's Ronald McDonald House that we will be able to help provide families with the stability and resources they need to keep their children healthy and happy so they can all have a brighter future."
"Dynamo Charities is thrilled that PwC will donate to Houston's Ronald McDonald House," said Lori Ginsburg, director of Dynamo Charities and Community Relations. "PwC's commitment to the Houston community is exciting and we are proud to partner with them for this campaign."
The Dynamo have scored three goals in the first three home games of the 2012 season, bringing the total amount of donations to $2,250. Houston will play a total of 17 regular season games at BBVA Compass Stadium in 2012.


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Choke Canyon Reservoir continued its big bass bonanza March 20 with another ShareLunker, a 13.12-pounder caught by Joseph B. Thoman, Jr., of Farmersville, Louisiana. The angler was fishing in the Texas Bass Club for the Deaf tournament when he caught the bass, which was 25.25 inches long and 21.25 inches in girth. At the same time, the Bass Champs South Region team tournament, also taking place on Choke Canyon on Saturday, weighed in two potential ShareLunkers at the Calliham Store. Store owner Brian W. Loy certified the weights as 14.47 and 15.27 pounds. Unfortunately, neither of those two fish survived.
No tournament has ever weighed in more than one 13-pound-plus fish, and the fact that two tournaments on the same lake produced three in two days is extremely good news for Texas fishing, especially Choke Canyon anglers. Big bass are there! However, the deaths of the two big fish has generated quite a bit of discussion both within Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the tournament industry about ways to avoid similar tragedies in the future.
Tim Cook, state conservation director for the Texas B.A.S.S. Federation Nation, fished the Choke Canyon tournament. "No one wants to see big fish like these survive more than a tournament angler. We want the opportunity to catch that fish again when she's bigger, but a little extra help may be necessary such as the ability to weigh that fish early in a tournament," he said "I am a big advocate for anglers policing themselves and not for government regulation. I believe that we can successfully work to reduce ShareLunker and tournament mortality."
Brian W. Loy, himself a former tournament angler on the B.A.S.S. and FLW trails, established a ShareLunker holding station at the Calliham Store as a way of helping big fish survive. Sometimes the problem is getting fish to the store, and Loy is ready to help. "I will provide a boat and operator with the right gear to keep big fish alive to go pick up fish during any tournament with more than 100 boats," he said. "We will bring the fish to the store, get a certified weight on them, and put them in a tank where they will have a better chance of surviving than in a livewell."
Loy says the common perception that big bass are tougher than small bass is not true. "People don't realize how delicate these big fish are," he said. "They really need delicate handling." David Campbell, ShareLunker program manager, encourages anglers to handle fish as little as possible, always support the head and tail when moving or photographing them, and getting them to a minnow tank at a marina or ShareLunker holding station as soon as possible after catching the fish.


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BERLIN- Former Stephen Decatur girls' varsity lacrosse standout Nikki Carpenter was an important part of the James Madison University Club Lacrosse team that captured the U.S. Lacrosse Women's Collegiate Associates Division II National Championship.
Carpenter, a former Stephen Decatur Seahawk, now plays on the James Madison Club team that last week won the U.S. Lacrosse Division II championship. All club teams from Division I schools across the country are broken down into two divisions and James Madison was ranked number one in the second division to earn a spot in the National Tournament in Colorado Springs.
The Dukes beat Santa Barbara in the first round, then knocked off Loyola in the semifinals to earn a spot in the national championship game against Utah. Against the Utes, James Madison got out to a 9-5 lead at the half and cruised to the 19-11 win in the championship game. JMU was playing in its first-ever national tournament and became the second straight team from the Mid-Atlantic Women's Lacrosse League to win the national championship. The University of North Carolina accomplished the feat last year.


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Ernakulam Overview
You can reach Ernakulam from Vadodara by road in about using a cab upon driving using a cab.
Ernakulam, being the biggest metropolis in the state and the nerve centre of commercial and industrial activities, Ernakulam offers much potential for a casu8al or shopping spree visitor. HOwever, as we are less interested in the metropolitan face of the city we drove directly to see the hill palace at Thrippunithura, which is situated a few kilometers south of the city. Known as the Queen of the Arabian Sea, Kochi's charms are manifold. From the Chinese fishing nets and heritage buildings of Fort Kochi to the old spice markets of Mattancherry and the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Ernakulam, buzzing with hotels, cinema halls shops and restaurants, the city combines the finest in tradition and modernity. If you are looking for car rental Ernakulam let us know and we will be happy to provide you with best budgeted deals for . Book cabs in Ernakulam