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So today at the store, I got back 60 cents in change. All well and good, but when I grabbed the quarters to put them in the pile for de-godding, I noticed that one of them looked a little different. "In [smudge] We Trust", it read, unless my eyes deceived me.
Yes! Now, I had never used any quarters at that store, so this must have come from a parking meter, or from the little cafe near my office, or from the UNICEF box at Halloween. Not from a busker–they always got dollar coins, and always more than one (even the lousy ones got 2 bucks minimum–I kept telling myself, it's not my money to spend, it's our money to put in circulation).
This coin does look like one of mine, but of course there is another, even better possibility–that there are more of us out there, de-godding coins that will be around for decades.

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When it comes to free and truly refreshing (albeit cold) activities this Holiday, nothing still beats the outdoors. All you have to do is head to the park or to the mountains, lay your mat or blanket down, and open up your picnic baskets.
There are still thousands who do this, and yet they don't have time to create their own baskets. They have to rely on the ready-made ones, which are not only expensive but may not contain everything that you are going to need. Worse, they are not up to your expectations or preferences.
You can make your own picnic basket. It may sound complicated, but with all the right tools and steps, it would not be too difficult for you:
Gather the materials you need.
There are different kinds of materials you can use for your picnic baskets. However, the most common material is called wicker. This could be because it allows everything inside to be properly ventilated. It doesn't allow the build-up of moisture, especially when you're travelling long distances.
There are also times when you can use covers for your picnic basket, and this will depend on the theme you want to come up with. For example, if you're planning to create romantic picnic baskets, it would be great to look for fabrics that depict sunrises, sunsets, hearts, or lovers.
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There are various instructions that you can download and print from the World Wide Web. These will be your guide on how to make your picnic baskets look more appealing. Normally, though, you will need cardboards, scissors or shears, needles, sewing machine, tape measures, glue, glue gun, and perhaps some ribbons, special paper, and fabric.
Make room for your essentials.
You want to create a picnic basket that will have enough room for your picnic needs. These include your utensils, food, some beverages, and other possessions like a book or your beloved mp3 player.
It's essential that there will be as many compartments as much as possible. You have to avoid your food from damaging your gadgets. Your beverage may accidentally loosen itself, spilling liquids to your food.
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When Ray, Taylor Hackford's Ray Charles biopic, hit theaters last summer, critics and fans alike lavished praise on Jamie Foxx's stunning performance as Charles, and rightly so. The performance seemed beyond authentic, as if the soul of the man had simply inhabited the actor playing him on the screen.
Wonderful as Foxx's performance was, what really stuck with me about Ray was the portrayal of Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish immigrant who founded Atlantic Records and became one of the great catalysts in the emergence of rhythm and blues in the 1950s and soul in the 1960s. I've seen lots of pictures of Ertegun through the decades, and read a number of interviews, mostly conducted in the '80s and '90s. He didn't come off particularly well in any of them. Usually, he was asked to pontificate about his role in the evolution of African-American music, or make some sweeping statement about music, race, and culture. These are not easy questions to answer, especially when you aren't a professional pundit, and you know the interviewer is basically fishing for platitudes.
In any event, he's always come off as arrogant and self-aggrandizing, which is unfortunate because he's neither; he's just not very good at intellectualizing something that's instinctive to him—the lifelong connection to African-American music that began with haunting D.C.-area jazz clubs in college and later inspired him to sign and record some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, such as Ray Charles, Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker, Clyde McPhatter, the Coasters, the Drifters, Ben E. King, Solomon Burke, and Aretha Franklin.
But how much of that connection was true passion and how much just a keen ear for hot new sounds and records that would sell? I like Ray's take on Ertegun, which favors the passion, portraying the young Ertegun as a goofy music freak, sheepishly offering Ray Charles "Mess Around," the frenzied R & B raveup he'd written that would become Charles' first hit record in 1952. The song isn't much in Ertegun's hands—the voice too thin, nervous, and giddy, the piano too clean, and the lyrics ("Everybody was juiced, you can bet your soul/They did the boogie-woogie, with a sturdy roll") too pale an attempt to evoke jumping black juke joints. Charles is amused, but he also gets it. It's a magical moment, and not just because it captures the birth of a magical sound—more to the point, it conveys just how magical the moment was for everyone involved.
I'll take the giddy music-freak Ertegun over the shrewd businessman or puffed-up elder statesman any day. I'd also love the records he produced whether he loved them or not (check out the mind-blowing Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-74 box set sometime), but I love them more knowing that his passion for the music preceded its profitability for him. Ertegun himself touched on the same topic in a graduation speech he gave at Boston's Berklee College of Music in 1991: "There are people that love nothing passionately. They get into whatever makes them the most money. The person who loves the theater but works as a clerk has a very different quality of life than a person who loves literature and teaches it at a university or is a book editor or literary critic."
As I try to explain EMedia's recent transformation into EventDV to people outside the business (like friends and relatives I visited over the holidays), the thing I have the hardest time conveying is how much many videographers love what they do. I see lots of great videography these days, with the samples and demo reels of the distinguished studios we profile, and the brilliant videographers who grace EventDV with their columns.
But most of the people I know have seen a lot of bad videography too, and share the widespread perception (one that we can be thankful is beginning to go away) of the wedding videographer as a clumsy, intrusive presence who follows the photographer around and produces shadowy VHS video cluttered with cheesy effects and overdubbed soundtrack schmaltz. (That's the kind of perception problem that esteems event photography far above event videography.) It's easy enough for them to grasp the idea of, say, indie filmmakers (read: true artistes) who may do the occasional wedding to pay the bills, but they can't seem to picture event videographers as seasoned, talented shooters dedicated to their own art.
I suppose I'm fortunate, with the company I now keep, that that's nearly all I see. Which probably goes a long way toward explaining why the video I see is so doggone impressive: because the people who create it love and respect their craft, even if others often don't.
A conversation I had with one prominent videographer at last year's WEVA Expo cut to the heart of the problem—and the passion. He mentioned that he had added photography to his services a few years back, and I asked him why. "Because I was sick of the photographer getting all of the bride's money before I got to any of it," he replied. He qualified the statement, adding that he enjoyed photography and was working hard to develop his skills in that area. "But what I really love," he said, "is shooting wedding video."


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Evocative of his promise last fall to acquire a "big bat" over the winter, Angels owner Arte Moreno told the Los Angeles Times that "It's going to be resolved by opening day, one way or the other. I promise you that."
Just how he's going to "resolve" it remains unstated, especially since he has no control over an investigation being conducted in Albany, New York.
Times reporter Bill Shaikin wrote that Matthews spoke briefly about his decision to hire criminal defense attorney Robert Shapiro.
"When your name is mentioned in an investigation, what am I going to do? Check it out myself?" Matthews said. "I'm a baseball player."
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I am a big fan of the Howard Leight Laser Lite ear plugs. At NRR 32 they are higher rated than most other foam plugs out there, and are a great fit for those of us with narrower ear canals who find the big orange ones sold at bike shops and shooting ranges uncomfortable and painful over the long haul. I bought a box of 200 back in 1999 though I only got about 30 pairs in before a bad wreck put my riding on hold for some years. Still, I used them on planes (bliss!), at the shooting range, etc. and a couple years ago when I started riding again went happily back to the box. I ran out at the end of last season and started looking for a new box.
I started at Conney Safety Products where I got the last box but found them to be priced on the high side and with high shipping cost a bit too much. With a little searching (and a google for "free shipping code") I found Seton Company - they had the best price around on the 200-pairs uncorded and as mentioned free shipping with the "WS0114" code. Total price was half what many others charge.
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LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. -- A man went batty after a rare gull attacked he and his wife's ice cream while they were taking a romantic stroll on the beach.
Sadly, the gull had to be euthanized after the man callously beat the bird with a stick.
Dragan Djuric, 50, of Wichita, Kan., and his wife were eating ice cream New Year's Eve on the boardwalk at Main Beach when a flock of birds attacked them, Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jeff Calvert said.
One bird hit Djuric's wife in the head and tried to take the ice cream. Birds also defecated on Djuric.
That's when it was "on."
The couple dropped the frozen treats and Djuric began hitting the birds with a stick, Calvert said.
One of the birds –– a rare Heermann's gull –– sustained a broken wing and was later euthanized.
Djuric was cited and released on suspicion of animal cruelty.
Heermann's gulls are on the Audubon Society's watch list for at-risk birds. The creatures are surprisingly aggressive and steal fish from the pouches of pelicans and chase other birds to take their prey, according to the society's Web site.
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He was born May 12, 1944, to Dorsie and Alma Myrick.
He was preceded in death by his dad, Dorsie Myrick; and two nephews, Chip Estlinbaum and Eli Bonds.
He is survived by his loving wife of 47 years, Mae (Bonds) Myrick of the home; mother, Alma Myrick of Chimes; two sisters, Glenda and Earl Wayne Hendrix of Witt Springs, and Lavonne and Paul Estlinbaum of Chimes; and nine nephews, six nieces, four great-nephews, and 11 great-nieces, and many friends.
Pallbearers are Eric Hendrix, Ricky Hendrix, Shane Hendrix, Tripp Estlinbaum, Cody Gifford, Casey Gifford, Tommy Bonds, Colin Bonds and Joseph Bonds.
Honorary pallbearers are nieces, great-nephews, great-nieces, and members of Crow Mountain and Chimes Fire Departments.
Visitation was conducted from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. The funeral service will begin at 10 a.m. today at Roller-McNutt Funeral Home Chapel Clinton, Arkansas. Burial will follow at Archey Valley Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Archey Valley Cemetery Fund or Pee Dee Baptist Church Building Fund.
Funeral arrangements are under the care and direction of Roller-McNutt Funeral Home of Clinton. Online guest book, www.rollerfuneralhomes.com.


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Discussion in 'Racing' started by yooperbikemike, Jun 25, 2013.
SATURDAY! SATURDAY! SATURDAY! (not Sunday)
Is the weather going to scramble the usual order of things?
Go Nicky.
Still haven´t got over the fact that they cut (and partly ruined) this classic circuit. Why they must do that, made no sense to me, either. I used to be over the moon, when Assen was coming, now it just somehow does not feel special any more. Doesn´t mean racing can´t be good, and I hope it is. Hope nobody runs away at the front this time.
It's still better than most others.
We'll see if the track throws an interesting twist to the series. It would be great to see Rossi get into the mix before he falls too far back. The more potential champions the better to entertain us.
Marquez looks to be tough to beat if he keeps developing at this rate. Hope some other young guns come up to keep the series spiced up.
Can't wait.
Too early for one of my rash predictions?
Alvaro makes 12 corners......
Don't get all crazy on us now . . .
Rossi 5th.
All Spanish Podium
Crutchlow 4th?
All Spanish podium with Dani standing on the top. I'm sure he's determined not to let JL's winning streak continue.
ok, I'm going with crutchlow bullying his way to the front! well, it WOULD be fun to watch anyways.
really just hoping for a good close race with 3 or 4 up front, don't really care who anymore, but dammit, be nice to see hayden up there once in a whle.
Careful. Titty pic=vacation
^^This. Might want to link that one.
1. Rossi
2. Hayden
3. Crutchlow
The Spanish armada wad it in T1.
It could happen.
I'm with the powerpoint expert!
Dovi fourth?
Rossi First!
Spies Second!
Oh, wait, I just woke up, it's Tuesday evening.
Maybe to get a podium result should be Rossi´s first goal right now?
Even if he now claims to have made some sort of improvement in braking stability, that he was missing, there´s still three very very fast Spaniards, and possibly one Brit standing between him and a victory.
Six rounds in, Rossi is now 0-6 to his teammate, that´s probably the ugliest number for him at the moment. Figuring out how to beat JLo, well that´s not gonna be easy either...
It'll never happen........


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Authorities have identified a 62-year-old Durango man who was found dead inside his car Monday at the Trimble Crossing shopping center in the Animas Valley.
Gary Mangold died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Dan Bender, spokesman with the La Plata County Sheriffs Office.
Mangold lived in La Plata County for about seven years. His last known address was on Jenkins Ranch Road in the SkyRidge subdivision. He was about to be evicted and was unable to find work, Bender said.
Before moving to Durango, he worked for 28 years as a geophysicist in Australia.
Mangold was found about 4:15 p.m. in a large parking lot that services a grocery store and a hardware store in the Animas Valley. His body had been there for at least several days.


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posted: 3/14/2008 at 2:33 PM
hey guys and girls! so i really am still alive after a bout with midterms and a really long month of other things happening. It has snowed tons this winter so my running has been sketchy at best. So on the not smoking end of things are not going so well this week. I went out a couple weeks ago and smoked at the bar. I did not smoke again for a week, but this week have been smoking on and off. That is not good. So today, I am buckling down and it seems starting all over again with not smoking. Words of encouragement would be appreciated. Its been almost 5 months and am not about wanting to go back to smoking. Thanks guys! Des
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Des, Stress is the enemy to not smoking. So is not running consistently. Don't be too hard on yourself. Just re-commit and start doing all the supportive self-care stuff (running, sleeping, eating better) as soon as possible (a.k.a. when midterms are over). You'll get back on the wagon. Rooting for you!
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posted: 3/14/2008 at 2:55 PM
thanks for the support obie.. i am in the process of starting the taking care process right now, and starting back on my chantix. its really nice out today so i am thinking of gearing up for a run to see what a week of smoking has done to my body. it cant be great i imagine.
My legs are killing me
posted: 3/14/2008 at 2:57 PM
Hang in there Des. It happens. The warm weather will be here soon and you'll be back outside running. Try the gum. It will keep you mouth occupied and your thoughts away from smoking.
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posted: 3/14/2008 at 5:45 PM
thanks sully!!! so far so good. i am going out of town tomorrow so that should help i just need to unwind a little from school. and i cleaned my entire house today. that is an advantage of quitting is keeping busy. my house is always extra clean when i want to smoke but dont.
posted: 3/14/2008 at 10:04 PM
You were there to support me when I fell off the wagon so I have to return the favor. I don't have any great advice, but what has been working for me is the commit lozenges and the one day at a time mantra "I will not smoke today (maybe tomorrow)" At least you know you CAN quit so don't quit quiting and know we are there for you!
Big Chicken!
posted: 3/16/2008 at 8:32 AM
Des, You will be fine. Just go back to making it through one day at a time. I got super stressed this week as well (the story is for another thread) and almost smoked. I STILL think the smoke would have made me feel better, even for just a minute. I stopped myself and just went on with the day. Get through today, try again tomorrow. We are here for you!
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posted: 3/16/2008 at 10:34 AM
Des, I"m sorry to hear bout your relapse. It truly saddens me when one of us falls back a step or two as we have all battled so very hard to conquer our demons. This year in particular seems to be a hard one for many of us, especially this never ending winter. I too have found myself with occaisional urges to smoke ( so far so good on that front). But that is the GREAT thing about this site and the people in it. This isn't a contest to see who will go the longest. There is no judgement being cast. There are no failures, only new beginings. We are a group that stands together for a mutual purpose, a common goal, a shared experience. We are SO there for you. Our hand is reaching for you to pull you back up on to the wagon as it were. Take the Chantix, minimum one month more if needed, chew the gum, repeat the mantra, talk to us.. daily if possible, weekly if you can. We will get you through this, we'll all get through this.Take care, and keep trying. Andy
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posted: 3/23/2008 at 2:47 PM
hey guys! even though it is cold and there was some flurry action, i put on the shorts and headed out for run. it was a little rough but felt good. the not smoking is going ok these days. i have been working out more eating a little better and just became really aware of how horrible i felt smoking. being out of breathe, heart pounding, acne. did anyone else have bad acne when smoking? it clears up when i quit. well thought i would give the update... hope all is well... Happy Easter des
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posted: 3/23/2008 at 5:44 PM
Hey des, I'm happy to hear your staying away from the cigarettes! It is such a hard thing to do but when you look at all the damage it does it seems to make the decision to quit easier to take. In some ways, I think we all have to battle the urge every once and a while and I think the longer you go without it the easier it is to stay away. I do have to confess. I did smoke yesterday - I smoked my 10k PR by 4 minutes!!!!!!!!! My first race of the season and I ran a 53:25 10K. My best, by far, ever!! I'm pretty pumped. Can't do that smoking. Happy Easter!
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posted: 3/23/2008 at 6:03 PM
Way to go Sully!!! You Rock!! Dude, I've got to tell you, I STILL have not gotten out there. We went down to the inlaws in North Central MA. today, and you can see yards and grass and stuff, but when we got home... still buried in the white stuff! Totally sapping my ambition! Des, glad to hear from ya. Happy Easter. Good that your not smoking. Keep it up. Andy
2010 Dec. California International Marathon 2011 Jan. Disney Marathon
My legs are killing me
posted: 3/23/2008 at 6:21 PM
Hey Andy!!!! I know the snow does suck and winter is getting long but come on bro get back out here and run!! I still have to catch up to you and do a 1/2 which I'm doing in a couple of weeks. Before you know it, we'll be complaining how hot it is
Gotta TRI
posted: 3/23/2008 at 7:23 PM
I know, I know. 47 days til my next half.
Just checked. Probably won't fair much better than my first one.
I'll get out there. ( Thanks for the prodding though... keep it up! ) Andy
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posted: 3/23/2008 at 11:29 PM
Des, nice going. Big smiles from me. And Sully, don't do that! My heart fell for a second. Don't play with my emotions like that! I'm a delicate flower!
Oh. Nice job on the PR.
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Visionary Basis of Christianity
I believe for the most part that Christianity had its origins in a series of visions. These visions, I believe, were naturally-caused and are in no need of supernatural/divine causation. Many Christians will object by saying that while individuals may have hallucinations or visions, it cannot happen to a group or collection of people at the same time. This, I believe, is wrong. What I wish to show in this post is 1.) that visions have occured in antiquity, 2.) that they occur to groups of people at a time, and 3.) they were so common in antiquity that they were considered actually to be normal.
To accomplish these three goals, I wish to provide the social-scientific basis for such visions. Then, I wish to give a few examples of what I consider to be these kinds of visions in history. Let me start with the social-scientific basis of the visions that I have in mind.In pages 327-329 of their excellent Social Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels, Bruce Malina and Richard Rohrbaugh engage in a discussion on "Altered-States-of-Conciousness". I reproduce their section below:"Anthropologists studying cross-cultural psychology define altered states of conciousness as conditions in which sensations, perceptions, cognition, and emotions are altered. Such states are characterized by changes in sensing, perceiving, thinking, and feeling. When a person is in such a state, the experience modifies the relatoin of the individual to the self, body, sense of identity, and the enviroment of time, space, or other people. One scholar has identified twenty such states of conciousness: dreaming, hynogogic (drowsiness before sleep), hypnopompic (semiconsciousness preceding waking), hyperalert, lethargic, rapture, hysteric, fragmentation, regressive, meditative, trance, reverie, daydreaming, internal scanning, stupor, coma, sotred memory, expanded consciousness, and 'normal'. In trace or in any other altered state of conciousness, a visionary encounters, indeed enters, another level of aspect of reality registered physiologically in the brain in the same way 'normal' experiences are. Culturally 'normal' of consensual reality is that aspect of dimension of reality of which a person is most commonly aware most of the time."Alternate reality describes that dimension of reality in which the deity and spirits reside, in which human beings from culturally 'normal' reality can sometimes visit in ecstatic trance by taking a journey (variously called "sky journey" or "soul loss" and the like), and to which people go when they die (Those who do not believe any of these things would call this nonconsensual reality.) During the centuries before and after the Gospels were written, countless persons reported a range of visions and appearances involving celestial entities. There is no reason not to take the experiences of these persons seriously, at their word. Their experiences have to be interpreted within the framework of their own culture's consensus reality (rather than ours)."The authors go onto list five main incidents of these kinds of visions and appearances; the baptism of Jesus, the testing of Jesus, the miracle of walking on the sea, the Transfiguration, and the Resurrection appearances. Their comments on the resurrection appearances are especially pertinent. They say:"The appearances of Jesus raised by God are visions of Jesus in alternate reality, where he, as God's chosen holy one, continues to live. The appearances of a holy man are altered-states-of-conciousness experiences and therefore are quite real. The interpretation that the disciples gave to these experiences was that God had raised Jesus from the dead. Mainstream U.S. culture frowns upon and even denies the human capacity for visions, trances, and experiencs of alternate realities. We are very cruious about nonrational dimensions of human existence, but tend to label all such occurences as irrational. John Pilch cites the work of Erika Bourguignon, who compiled a sample of 488 societies in all parts of the world, at various levels of technological complexity, and found that ninety percent of these societies evidence 'altered states of conciousness' Her conclusion: "Societies which do not utilize these states are historical exceptions which need to be explained, rather than the vast majority of societies that do not use these states" (cited by Pilch 1993). Thus it would be quite anachronistic and ethnocentric to take our post-Enlightenment, post-industrial revolution, technologically obsessed society as the normative for judging anyone other than ourselves. For most of the world, even today, a report of altered states of awareness would be considered quite normal."Cross-cultural comparison suggests that the Gospel authors describe experiences of altered states of awareness. This may be difficult for us to believe because we have been enculturated to be selectively inattentive to such states of awareness except in dreamsand under the influence of controlled substances."I have highlighted in bold what I consider to be important points relative to my arguments. First of all, note that Malina and Rohrbaugh consider the postmortem appearances of Jesus to be "visions". Note also, that they point out that visions of a holy man are in altered-states-of-awareness. Next, note that during the time before and after the Gospels were written that these visions and appearancs were widely reported in history and that they involved altered-states-of-consciousness. Finally note that the U.S. appears to be the exception, not the norm, and that these kinds of ASC type of visions are normative and considered usual in honor-shame soceities. This provides, I believe, the social-scientific basis for visions. Now as for specific examples of these kinds of visions in history involving ASC.
My first example is from Gershom Scholem's remarks on "the messianic revival of Sabbatai Sevi": The people of Smyrna saw miracles and heard prophecies, providing the best possible illustration of Renan's remark about the infectious character of visions. It is enough for one member of a group sharing the same beliefs to claim to have seen or heard a supernatural manifestation, and the others too will see and hear it. Hardly had the report arrived from Aleppo that Elijah had appeared in the Old Synagogue there, and Elijah walked the streets of Smyrna. Dozens, even hundreds, had seen him.... A letter written in Constantinople notes apparitions of Elijah "whom many have seen." In fact, visions of Sevi were very common after his death to his followers from what I understand (Price, Beyond Born Again, "Guarding an Empty Tomb"). These visions of Sevi can be understood as having occured in altered-states-of-consciousness, just like what Malina and Rohrbaugh have argued. Robin Lane Fox, in his work Pagans and Christians also seems to provide an example of a ASC- group vision:"Every visitor to the Black Sea knew the special island of Achilles, and in his report on the area, a visiting governor, Arrian, informed the Emperor Hadrian how 'some said' Achilles appeared to them in broad daylight on the prow or mast of their ships, 'as did Castor and Pollux'. Maximus, indeed knew a man after Homer's own heart. Near the same island, visitors had 'often' seen a young, fair-haired hero dancing in armour and had heard him singing a paean." (Fox pg. 144).According to Fox, Arrian informed Emperor Hadrian of reports that Achilles had appeared to groups of visitors to that special island of Achilles. In fact, according to this report, visitors "had often seen" what they took to be Achilles. In fact, Fox stresses that Miletus was alive with glimpses of the gods which had been granted to all sorts of people (pg. 143). Granted, Achilles and Sevi were probably not in the least considered holy men, but that's not my point here; rather my point is that these kinds of group visions involving altered-states-of-consciousness were common in antiquity. In fact, one can argue that legends arose from these kinds of visions. Even if some stories of these kinds of visions are pure legends, one can reasonably argue that the legends might reflect actual visionary experiences of these kinds.
This, I consider to be the naturalistic basis upon which Christianity was founded on.


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When it comes to tech innovation, who's better--Samsung or Apple? This topic generally results in verbal fisticuffs on message boards, with fanatics from both camps (Android and iOS) hurling nasty insults at one another. But, hey, it's all in fun ... right?
Whatever your views on the ongoing Samsung vs. Apple saga, it's hard to disagree with the statement that Samsung's Galaxy S phones have become the closest thing to the mythical "iPhone killer" of Android fans' dreams. In fact, Samsung announced last month on its flickr page that it has sold (into the channel) more than 100 million Galaxy S phones since launching the series in May 2010. Even more impressive are sales figures for the Galaxy S III: 40 million shipped in just 7 months. (The S III debuted in May 2012.)
Samsung's going gangbusters in the overall mobile phone market as well. According to research firm Strategy Analytics, the Korean tech giant shipped just under 400 million cellphones in 2012, and accounted for 25% of all mobile phones shipped worldwide.
Samsung's phone sales will likely get another big boost when its next-generation S phone--likely named the Galaxy S IV--arrives in the coming months.
What can we expect from the S IV? Rumors suggest a characteristically thin design with a slightly larger display, as well as a series of finely tuned enhancements that manage to boost processing power and reduce energy consumption, make battery-charging a bit less cumbersome and utilize the device's improved cameras in innovative ways that go beyond conventional video- and photo-shooting.
The Galaxy S IV may be Samsung's flagship phone, but it certainly isn't its largest. That distinction goes to the Galaxy Note 2, a behemoth phablet with a 5.5-inch display and a pressure-sensitive stylus. The popularity of the Note 2 -- Samsung claims it sold 5 million of the devices within two months of the product's launch -- and well as reports of an upcoming Note model with an even larger 6.3-inch screen, may keep the Galaxy S series from growing supersized. It may remain the Note's slighter smaller--yet more sophisticated--sibling.
Indeed, if months of rumors of the Galaxy S IV's features are accurate, it would appear Samsung is focusing more on refining the phone's existing features rather than expanding the device to phablet-like proportions.
Samsung didn't return our request for comment on this story, and it's a safe bet that it won't be revealing any significant S IV specs before the phone's launch event.
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Spending bills spare most nursing homes
ST. PAUL -- Most nursing homes are spared big budget cuts and low-income Minnesotans on government health insurance remain covered under Democratic lawmakers' health care spending proposals.
Protecting government-subsidized health insurance for the poor is a key priority for the DFL-controlled House and Senate, the committee chairmen said as they prepare their spending bills for final votes.
"We're not kicking anybody off health care like the governor wanted," said Rep. Tom Huntley, DFL-Duluth, the House health care finance chairman.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty proposes to tighten eligibility requirements for MinnesotaCare, a state health insurance program for low-income people. His proposal would drop 55,000 adults from the program when the new budget period begins July 1. Another 29,000 adults remain on the program until 2011, but then would lose coverage.
The Senate and House make no changes to MinnesotaCare eligibility. Removing people from those programs will cost hospitals more and, in turn, drive up costs for private health insurers, said Linda Berglin, a Minneapolis Democrat and the Senate health finance chairwoman.
In the Senate bill, released Friday, the health and human services budget is cut by about $606 million over the two-year budget period. Berglin said she tried to reduce spending fairly and soften the blow to health care providers.
"No one wants to see cuts in this area because this budget takes care of elderly, disabled, poor children and families," Berglin said.
The House proposal cuts health care spending by $400 million from a roughly $9 billion budget. The House will have to agree to more spending cuts during legislative negotiations, Huntley said, but he could not predict how an agreement will shake out.
"The (legislative) leadership will have to decide where we end up," he said.
No Minnesota nursing homes are targeted for reduced state payments under the House proposal. Senators suggest cutting payments to nursing homes with higher reimbursement rates than others in their region of the state.
Lawmakers are not proposing enough health care spending reductions, Pawlenty said.
Health and human services programs must be reduced because that spending area consumes a growing portion of the state budget, Pawlenty said. The governor said health spending could take up one-third of the two-year budget and is "absolutely out of control."
"This one category is financially killing us," Pawlenty told a Chamber of Commerce audience Friday. "It has to be slowed down."
Senate and House leaders plan to vote on the health and human services spending bills Monday. The health-care bill will be the last of the Legislature's spending bills to reach floor votes and it represents the second-largest area of the state budget, behind public education.
Minnesota hospital executives lobbied lawmakers in recent days, urging them to avoid reducing state reimbursements to hospitals and health clinics for care to poor patients.
Senators propose cutting those hospital payments by 1 percent and making other reductions to some hospital maternity expenses. Pawlenty and House Democrats propose cutting those hospital payments by 3 percent during the budget period.
All three proposals raise fees in a variety of health care programs.


text: Guest Not In Sample Report post Posted March 9, 2009 This is a small expansion I'm making. In consists of a board (that should be placed near River Docks), a Treasure Item deck, a special Mythos deck that is played alongside the normal Mythos deck, and a special cup of Sea monsters. There are also a couple of special cards a new type of token that makes streets in Arkham flooded. A couple of investigators and Ancient Ones will be added as well. Here is the board: (Yellow location means that a gate can't appear in them, but monster can move those location and monster can also apear via encounters) Click the pic for a larger version, or follow this link: img13.imageshack.us/img13/4277/expansion1.jpg Whenever a monster enters the Maelstrom, it is returned to the cup and a random street in Arkham is flooded. This is indicated by a Flood token. Here it is, front and back: When a street is flooded, the terror level increases by 1 and a Sea monster appears on the flooded street. It takes 1 extra movement point to get in or or out flooded streets. Btw, Sea monsters, either in Arkham or in the Sea of Terror, do not count towards to monster limit, although the only way for them to appear in Arkham is through flooded streets. Monsters that appear in the new board are always Sea monsters and gates are always gates to Lost City of Atlantis. An investigator may dry a street by ending his movement there and discard 5 toughness worth of Sea monster trophies or a Lost City of Atlantis gate trophy. When an investigator do so, the flood token is discarded to the pile of unused flood tokens and the terror level decreases by 1. Now how to get into the new board: To get to the Boat Passage location, you need to either spend 1$ and 1 movement point, or only 1 movement point if you have the Boat Ownership card. You can also swim to there, but you need the Swimming card to do so. Here are the relevant cards: There are ofcours a more rules regarding the new board, but they'll be described later. Btw, here's something you can catch on the open sea: Soon I will spoil some Treasure Item card, that introduce a new type of weapons: Rusty weapons. Rusty weapons are not physical nor magical, but as a drawback they have limited Stability; they each start with a different number of Stability tokens, and each turn you remove one token from them. When they're out of stablity, they rust out and are discarded. Stay tuned. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Two and a half years ago, I arranged to meet professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton in a Denver restaurant to talk for the first time about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. Hamilton, a former Olympic gold medalist who tested positive for illegal blood transfusions in 2004, had strenuously denied doping for six years. But as we started to talk, Hamilton looked as if he was going to cry. Not from grief. From relief.
"Sorry," he said after a few seconds. "It just feels so good to be able to talk about this, finally."
To keep a secret is to carry a psychological weight. As Emile Zola wrote, "If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
As Lance Armstrong confesses his doping to Oprah Winfrey before a worldwide audience Thursday, one can't help but wonder: How did this explosive information — the biggest sporting scandal in American history — remain a secret for so long? The answer has to do with the psychological and social dynamic of the secret: how it originated, how it grew, and how it affects those who try to keep it buried.
Hamilton, like Armstrong, began doping in the mid-'90s, during his third year of riding as a professional. At a race that spring, a U.S. Postal team doctor came to his hotel room and offered testosterone to help with his recovery — for health, the doctor said. Those pills were given with the understanding that they were a confidential matter between Hamilton and the doctor.
It worked. Hamilton didn't feel guilty — in fact, he initially felt it was an honor, a sign that the team believed in him. Before long he was on a full doping program: testosterone plus regular injections of the blood-booster erythropoietin, or EPO. He began living a dual life. On the surface, he was a normal professional athlete. Beneath, he spent his days avoiding testers and police, hiding contraband substances in his home, and keeping track of "glowtime," the amount of time after taking a substance in which you were at risk of testing positive. Outside the team, the rule was absolute silence and denial, known as omerta, which had the dual effect of bonding the riders with each other while distancing them from friends, parents and family.
The primitive drug tests of the day were easy to beat (riders used to say they were closer to IQ tests than drug tests). The lack of oversight created another layer of tension. Riders constantly monitored one another, watching who was working with which doctor, who was "flying" (meaning they had targeted a race by optimizing their doping program), and who was riding pan y agua, on "bread and water." Within the team, the riders dealt with an additional constant fear: were even their teammates getting an extra edge?
At first glance, doping would seem to create a level playing field, but in reality the situation more resembles Silicon Valley: an anything-goes innovation race, tipped radically in favor of those with the most expertise, access and money. In that world, Armstrong reigned supreme. He had the most money, the best connections, the most skilled doctors (hired on an exclusive basis, to make sure they didn't work for his competitors), highest risk tolerance, and, as the USADA report shows, a bottomless willingness to use every tool at his disposal, including intimidation, to win at all costs.
When they are finally caught, as virtually all the top cyclists of this generation have been, they have the same response: they minimize; they say that "everyone was doing the same thing." This makes psychological sense. The secret is so massive that it's impossible for them to simply flip a switch and reverse decades of denial, repression and avoidance.
The riders who have navigated this reversal successfully have done so with a lot of effort, time, friends, therapists and humility. It's not an easy road. It doesn't happen in a single Oprah interview. But as Hamilton says, over time he has learned to fully appreciate that old saying: The truth really can set you free.
Daniel Coyle is the co-author, with Tyler Hamilton, of "The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs."


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Notes: Decision on Guillen made
Mariners choose not to offer free-agent right fielder arbitration
By Jim Street / MLB.com
If they had, Guillen would have had until Friday to respond. By accepting, Guillen, a Type B free agent, would have been considered "signed" for the 2008 season and removed from the free-agent market. However, he is now available to all 30 MLB organizations -- including the Mariners, who would have received a compensation selection between the first and second rounds -- a so-called sandwich pick -- in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft had they offered arbitration.
The risk apparently wasn't worth the reward."When you offer arbitration to a free agent, you must be prepared to have him accept and be prepared to keep him," Mariners assistant general manager Lee Pelekoudas said. The Mariners offered salary arbitration to right-hander Gil Meche last year. He rejected the offer and signed with the Royals. Seattle wound up with a sandwich pick and selected Oklahoma State third baseman Matt Mangini, who spent most of the summer at Class A Everett, batting .291 with two home runs and nine RBIs in 22 games. Although veteran pitchers Jeff Weaver, Arthur Rhodes and Chris Reitsma also have filed for free agency, Guillen is the only player from the 2007 team that is "ranked" by the Elias Sports Bureau and therefore subject to the free-agent compensation rules. The rankings, which are based on player performance over the past two seasons, are used to determine whether players are Type A or Type B free agents. An organization that signs a Type A free agent and was among the 15 teams that had the best record last season, would lose its first-round Draft pick -- something the Angels did by signing free-agent outfielder Torii Hunter. The Twins will receive the Angels' top pick in the First-Year Player Draft. The Mariners, meanwhile, are not tipping their hand as to which path they'll take with Guillen, who batted .290, hit 24 home runs, drove in 99 runs and became a vocal clubhouse leader last season. He apparently rejected a one-year offer to return to the Mariners, prompting the organization to go with Adam Jones as the starting right fielder in 2008.
Holding pattern: There is no new news on the Mariners' pursuit of right-handed pitcher Hiroki Kuroda, a free agent who spent the last 11 seasons with the Hiroshima Carp in Japan.Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi refused to shed light on the situation during a conference call on Thursday morning with local reporters. "I'm not trying to be a pain in the neck," he said, "but some guys don't like to read about their negotiations in the papers. They're all different and change from time to time, but it is best not to ruffle any feathers, and probably not good to have other clubs knowing what we are doing, anyway." The Mariners are believed to be the front-runner for the 32-year-old, who just might be the best free-agent starting pitcher on the market. The Dodgers, Phillies, Royals and D-backs also have expressed interest in signing Kuroda. Nice start: Right-hander Brandon Morrow looked superb in his first two starts for the Venezuela Winter League's Lara Cardenales. He pitched five shutout innings on Nov. 10 and came back six days later, surrendering two runs in another five-inning outing. Morrow has walked one and struck out nine. "What he has done so far is encouraging," Bavasi said, "and what [Ryan] Rowland-Smith did [in Venezuela] was encouraging. Both are candidates to be in the rotation [next season], and so far, so good." Morrow is scheduled to make seven or eight starts in an effort build his arm strength. Used as both a starter and reliever at University of California-Berkeley, Morrow was used exclusively out of the bullpen during his rookie season with the Mariners. He appeared in 60 games, posting a 3-4 record and 4.12 ERA.
Spring sked set: The Mariners will close out their 2008 Spring Training schedule with three games in a pair of cities prior to flying back to Seattle to open the regular season on March 31 against the Rangers.For the fourth consecutive season, the Mariners and Cubs will end camp with games in Las Vegas on March 28 (7:15 p.m.) and March 29 (1:05 p.m.). The Mariners will face the Giants at AT&T Park in San Francisco on March 27 at 7:15 p.m. It also was announced on Thursday that the game time for the March 20 Cactus League game against the Padres at Peoria Stadium has been changed to 7:05 p.m. Playoff bonuses: For the first time since 2003, when they won 93 games and finished in second place, three games behind the Athletics in the American League West, the Mariners received a piece of the playoff pot this season. A full share, worth $9,112.12, went to 46 players. There were 10.58 partial shares given and the eight players promoted from the Minor Leagues in September received cash awards. Former manager Mike Hargrove, who resigned on July 1 -- 88 games into the regular season -- received two-thirds of a share with one-third going to first-base coach Gary Thurman. Going, going ... Right-handed pitcher Jorge Campillo and infielder Nick Green decided to become free agents, rather than be optioned to Triple-A Tacoma. Campillo pitched in five games for the Mariners last season, going 0-0 with a 6.75 ERA. Green, one of the September callups following a solid season at Triple-A Tacoma, was hitless in seven at-bats with Seattle.
Jim Street is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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There are two images that may appear below a username when viewing posts. Depending on the used style, the first may be an image associated with your rank, generally in the form of stars, blocks or dots, indicating how many posts you have made or your status on the board. The second, usually a larger image, is known as an avatar and is generally unique or personal to each user. It is up to the board administrator to enable avatars and to choose the way in which avatars can be made available. If you are unable to use avatars, contact a board administrator and ask them for their reasons.
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Did you run TreeSizeFree like i mentioned earlier?
You can download the zipped version, extract it, and run it from a flash drive. You need to find out what is taking up the space. Then you can delete or move the files.You should try something like TreeSize free to see what is using up the disk space.
I suspect that Malwarebytes will find other threats once updated.


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Bishop Anthony B. Taylor of the Diocese of Little Rock says Pope Francis is in a strong position to address the church's challenges and that he reacted with "surprise and delight" at the selection.
"His parents were immigrants — Argentina is a nation of immigrants like the United States — and so I rejoice in the election to the papacy of the first son of immigrants in modern history," Taylor said in a prepared statement.
He also noted that Francis is Hispanic, an ethnic group that includes the majority of the world's Catholics.
In Pope County, the Rev. Chuma Ibebuike, pastor at St. John's in Russellville, said he'd been watching the news all day. He said Francis' election had a different feel than past papal conclaves.
"The joy is that this man (Pope Emeritus Benedict) is still alive, so this conclave took place in a good mood," he said. "The cardinals were not in grief, nobody died."
Ibebuike said having a pope from the Americas will have an impact in Europe and elsewhere.
"That the leader of the whole church comes from the new church, so to say, is amazing and I think he will really strengthen the faith of the old church."
Ibebuike, who is from Nigeria, said a pope from Argentina seems to open the possibility of a pope from African or Asian countries.
"The black pope, that's what we are still waiting for," he said.
Claibanne Williamson, a Catholic who works in a research department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, said it was thrilling when she saw Francis walk onto the balcony. She said it has been interesting to follow the process of choosing a new pope while living in a state with so few Catholics. Four percent of Arkansas residents are Catholic, about 122,000 people.
"There certainly aren't very many," Williamson said. "There are none in my (office). They keep asking me questions — I have to look it up sometimes."
She also said she hopes Francis can put an end to the troubles at the Vatican.
"I hope that he is able to deal with the scandals — the sexual abuse scandals, the different financial scandals — in an unbiased way," she said.
Taylor said Francis appears well-suited to address the challenges the church faces.
"His years working with the congregations — offices — in the Vatican will help him address problems that have emerged recently in the curia," Taylor said.
He said Francis has a clear message that life begins at conception and that "homosexual marriage" is against church teaching.


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City Council confirms Mayor's Appointees to ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Colorado Springs Housing Authority Board
At the formal City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 26, City Council confirmed Mayor Steve Bach's selections to serve as volunteers on the Colorado Springs Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. The three new Commissioners are: James Ringe, Sara Martin, and Sharon King.
"Thanks to these three outstanding individuals for volunteering to serve on the Housing Authority Board," said Mayor Steve Bach.
About the Trustees:
James Ringe – reappointed to five-year term
- Has served on Housing Authority for 19 years
- Requested to serve another five-year term by Board Chair Donnis Martin
- Brings tremendous institutional knowledge
Sara Martin – appointed to five-year term
- Over thirty years of comprehensive real estate knowledge and experience
- Over thirty years of experience managing and co-owning residential units
- Brings perspective of businessperson and landlord to the Housing Authority Board
Sharon King – appointed to five-year term as Resident Commissioner
- Master's Degree in Social Work and a career working in child protection
- Her education and life experiences give her a unique overview of the programs and challenges facing public housing
- Volunteer with the Independence Center, an organization that works to empower people with disabilities


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Dialysis is a procedure that cleanses the blood via mechanical means and is necessary for patients with kidney failure and other forms of kidney disease or injury.
"Hospitals in our own region and across the country are making the choice to leave dialysis programs behind, because they can't compete with the large national competitors," said Cal James, chief of strategy and business at El Camino.
Until the board's vote, one such national competitor had been Satellite. The nonprofit healthcare organization has about 50 dialysis centers nationwide, and, according to James and other hospital officials, Satellite has more up-to-date equipment and can provide dialysis services at lower rates and with greater flexibility than El Camino can.
"As a community hospital, we want to continue offering a full range of services to our patients," said Judy Twitchell, an El Camino spokeswoman. "And this is a way that we can continue to do that."
Both the hospital and Satellite will be bringing assets to the table in the new partnership, Twitchell said. El Camino will give Satellite access to its patient base, facilities and will purchase some new equipment, such as chairs; Satellite has newer dialysis equipment and a state-of-the-art patient information system that it will bring to the hospital's current dialysis treatment centers in Mountain View and San Jose, and to a new center El Camino plans to open up near its Los Gatos campus.
"We are excited by the opportunity to support El Camino Hospital, which shares our commitment to innovation and to providing excellent, affordable patient care for the local community, in operating its dialysis program," Mark Burke, president and CEO of Satellite, said in an El Camino press release.
Under the collaboration, Satellite will provide the hospital with its "paperless clinical information system and certain 'back-office' administrative services," according to the press release.
No jobs will be cut as a result of the partnership, Twitchell said, and patients will receive the same quality of care they are used to, perhaps even noticing an improvement. In the future, after the Los Gatos site is opened, the hospital may hire personnel to run the clinic.
Malcom White, a Palo Alto resident who undergoes dialysis regularly at a Satellite center in Redwood City, told the Voice he is very satisfied with the organization.
"I have nothing but good things to say," White said, noting that the Redwood City center was very responsive and accommodating — allowing him to undergo dialysis overnight so that he can go throughout his day without stopping for a treatment.
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text: If your paper carries my strip "Candorville" (or if you read it online), you may find yourself in today's edition. I know I'm giving away the punchline simply by posting it here, but there's no avoiding that: Like a lot of Trek fans my age, I loathed Voyager with a passion when it first ran. I nitpicked it to death every week on this very forum. I hated the reset button, the magically-clean ship, the miraculous shuttle bays, Neelix, the Kazon, the shift from an ensemble feeling to "The Doctor and Seven of Nine Show." And compared to DS9, I thought it was utterly unrealistic and two dimensional. Then almost a decade went by. I watched DS9 all the way through three times on DVD. When I signed up for Netflix, I watched B5, then TOS, TNG, and DS9 (again). Then Doctor Who, Torchwood, Farscape... anything and everything to keep from watching Voyager. Finally I ran out of stuff to Netflix. So just to remind myself how awful it was, I began watching Voyager. Pretty soon, I started to wonder what this show was and what had it done with the Voyager I remembered? It was actually... good (with the exception of Threshold (which was even worse than I'd remembered). I don't know... maybe it's age. Maybe VOY is more suited for people in their thirties, people who've been through hell already and held on to who they were. Because in my twenties, I thought the Equinox crew was far more realistic. But now, VOY sticking to its Starfleet principles, and putting effort into keeping the ship and their uniforms spotless seems a lot more understandable to me. I don't find it quite so hard to believe anymore that these people could spend time playing around on the holodeck, or that they could build replacement shuttles so quickly, considering they have to have something to do to take their minds off the fact they're marooned on the other side of the galaxy. In the last ten years, I've found that I can get almost a superhuman amount of work done in no time when I'm distracting myself from the everyday horrors of growing older (aging parents, dying grandparents, possibly-receding hairlines). Even Endgame, which previously made me want to shoot my TV and set it on fire, was exciting this time around. So damn exciting. Maybe it's not age, maybe it's simply that Trek's been off the air for a while now, and so this time around, it felt a lot fresher. Or maybe it's because this time around, I watched it without also reading (and crafting my own) negative, nitpicky essays about every little thing that could've been done better or differently. Whatever the reason, I'm glad I gave it another chance. Maybe once ten years go by, I'll try watching "Nemesis" again. ...or maybe that's going too far.


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Off-shore Wind Turbines May Weaken Hurricanes
As one of nature's most destructive forces, hurricanes are unstoppable storms that can cause total devastation for coastal communities. While Mother Nature is unpredictable and uncontrollable, there are researchers and scientists who think hurricanes can be weakened or even stopped. One idea: wind turbines.
New research by the University of Delaware and Stanford University shows that an army of offshore wind turbines could reduce hurricanes' wind speeds, wave heights and flood-causing storm surge.
Sounds like a win-win situation as not only will wind turbines generate electricity but they have the potential to weaken hurricanes before the storms make landfall.
The findings, published online this week in Nature Climate Change, demonstrate for the first time that wind turbines can buffer damage to coastal cities during hurricanes.
Study co-author Cristina Archer, associate professor in the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and Stanford's Mark Jacobson previously calculated the global potential for wind power, taking into account that as turbines are generating electricity, they are also siphoning off some energy from the atmosphere. They found that there is more than enough wind to support worldwide energy demands with a negligible effect on the overall climate.
In the new study, the researchers took a closer look at how the turbines' wind extraction might affect hurricanes. Unlike normal weather patterns that make up global climate over the long term, hurricanes are unusual, isolated events that behave very differently. Thus, the authors hypothesized that a hurricane might be more affected by wind turbines than are normal winds.
Using their sophisticated climate-weather model, the researchers simulated hurricanes Katrina, Isaac and Sandy to examine what would happen if large wind farms, with tens of thousands of turbines, had been in the storms' paths.
They found that, as the hurricane approached, the wind farm would remove energy from the storm's edge and slow down the fast-moving winds. The lower wind speeds at the hurricane's perimeter would gradually trickle inwards toward the eye of the storm. "There is a feedback into the hurricane that is really fascinating to examine," said Archer, an expert in both meteorology and engineering.
The highest reductions in wind speed were by up to 87 mph for Hurricane Sandy and 92 mph for Hurricane Katrina.
According to the computer model, the reduced winds would in turn lower the height of ocean waves, reducing the winds that push water toward the coast as storm surge. The wind farm decreased storm surge — a key cause of hurricane flooding — by up to 34 percent for Hurricane Sandy and 79 percent for Hurricane Katrina.
Read more at EurekAlert!
See more at the University of Delaware and Stanford University.
Wind turbines image via Shutterstock.


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Phillies Roster Moves
The Phillies added one more alumni back to the organization this week. Former Phils All-Star 2nd baseman, Mickey Morandini has been assigned to manage Class A Williamsport next season. He had been coaching High School baseball and also helped out the Phillies during Spring Training over the past several years as well. Morandini joins other former teammates hired this offseason in coaching roles including Juan Samuel and Ryne Sandberg.
Earlier this week as well, the Phillies picked out 5 young players to add to the 40-man roster in order to protect them from being selected in the Rule-5 draft. This is the current roster below with those 5 players highlighted in blue and I added their fielding positions as well:
In addition to these players, 12 non-roster players have been invited to Spring Training:
- Josh Barfield, INF
- Eddie Bonine, RHP
- Tagg Bozied, INF/OF
- Ryan Feierabend, LHP
- Erik Kratz, C
- Jeff Larish, INF
- Dan Meyer, LHP
- Matt Miller, OF
- Brandon Moss, OF
- Pete Orr, INF
- Juan Perez, LHP
- Dane Sardinha, C
Most of these players have a good amount of major league experience and if they do not make the team, they will probably help fill up the AAA roster. It is thought that if southern Jersey native Dan Meyer is healthy, he may have a shot at a bullpen spot. And Pete Orr could end up as a utility man since he plays multiple positions. The rest are long shots.
This list of players also means we have likely seen the last of Mike Sweeney, which is very sad. Many had hoped he would at least get an invitation to spring training as he was a powerful positive force in the clubhouse since arriving in Philly. He may choose to retire; whatever he does, we wish him the best! Sweeney's team spirit and upbeat attitude will be missed.
Photo by Jenn Zambri Photography
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Official ICS leaks out for the HTC EVO 3D
0. phoneArena posted on 04 May 2012, 02:02
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1. whatRUSTP (Posts: 3; Member since: 04 May 2012)
I forget about this phone a LOOOOONG time ago
2. u-suck-more (Posts: 529; Member since: 26 Aug 2011)
the only 3D phone i rmb is the LG Optimus 3D! i think bcos i have it :p
3. ECPirate37 (Posts: 228; Member since: 14 Jul 2011)
This phone is awesome. A lot of people stayed away because of the 3D "gimmick", but even without 3D, it had one of the fastest processors and great performance. I bought it the day it came out and there really isn't a phone coming out that I like enough that would make me get rid of this one.
I can't wait for ICS.
4. atheisticemetic (Posts: 377; Member since: 18 Dec 2011)
lawl @ sprint
5. Cwebb (Posts: 501; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)
Bout damn time. The devs (Joelz, aaronpoweruser, twisted umbrella, Newts, toast, etc.) have been working around the clock to get it working. They actually got the FFC and rear camera (rear only in green preview) to actually work. All I can say is ABOUT TIME!
6. Sprintfan (Posts: 68; Member since: 18 Nov 2011)
While all you Samspunge fanboys and apple iBoys argue about how billy bad ass you think your phones are us EVO 3D owners are sitting back in the cut perfectly happy and proud of our 3d's, perfectly content and have no need to upgrade to something anytime soon.
7. kamran7593739 (Posts: 1; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
with this new software how to off /mute talking guide and vibration when we touch the phone....


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Baseball takes backseat to brain surgery
Westmoreland on road to recovery after difficult procedure
By Gary Gillis / Special to MLB.com
When it came to Ryan Westmoreland, the Red Sox seemed pretty sure that their prospect had the mettle to be refined into Major League gold. If you asked the folks who make a living by peering into a crystal ball of potential, they'd say the speedy, athletic outfielder with a quick bat, a strong arm and a good head on his shoulders might become a familiar face at Fenway Park in three or four years. Nobody knows for sure, of course. Crystal balls can be cloudy.
Today, Westmoreland's baseball future is still uncertain, although the reason has nothing to do with curveballs or crystal balls. An MRI of that good head that the 19-year-old Rhode Island native possesses revealed, with unmistakable clarity, a small cluster of blood vessels with enormous implications for Westmoreland's future.
"It's called a cavernous malformation or a cavernous angioma," says Dr. Ajith Thomas, chief of cerebrovascular surgery in the division of neurosurgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. "It's a mass of thin-walled capillaries we find in the brain that looks something like a raspberry. While it may be an unfamiliar term to read in the sports pages, cavernous malformations are actually fairly common. Many times, they go undetected."
An undetected cavernous malformation is not necessarily a health threat. It's when those thin-walled capillaries rupture and leak blood into the surrounding brain structures that problems can occur. And the location within the brain often determines a course of action.
"Many cavernous malformations are 'silent.' They may leak a small amount of blood that gets reabsorbed or they don't leak at all and the patient is never aware," Thomas explained. "The leaks are also how the malformations grow, so if there are a series of small leaks, the structure itself may get bigger and the symptoms are more frequent. If the malformation is in the brain cortex, the symptoms might be dizziness or seizures. The frequency and severity of the symptoms are considerations when determining if surgery is an option. If we are talking about the cortex, it's a relatively simple surgery. If it's in the brain stem, it can be a much more serious matter."
Thomas informed me that the brain stem -- the lower stalk-like part of our brain that connects to the spinal cord -- is crammed with important structures that control breathing, heart rate and our ability to swallow. Westmoreland's cavernous malformation, discovered after he complained of headaches and other neurological issues, was in his brain stem.
"If a malformation in the brain stem bleeds again or begins to grow, the results can be devastating," said Thomas. "The surgeon who operated on Ryan, Dr. Robert Spetzler of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Ariz., is probably the world's best at this procedure. He has a tremendous amount of experience."
Less than a week after his five-hour procedure, reports were that Westmoreland was out of the intensive care unit and on to what could be a fairly long and difficult recovery.
"Surgery on the brain, no matter how well executed, is always going to cause some little deficit. We surgeons do what we can to keep that to the absolute minimum and hope that it turns out to be unnoticeable to the patient," he explained. "Recovery also depends in part on what you started with. Ryan is pursuing a career that demands exceptional coordination and skill, but he has the advantage of being young and in good physical shape, and that will help."
Thomas estimates that 1 to 2 percent of the population may have cavernous malformations and many, if not most of them, will be unaware and unaffected. It would be wrong to think of them as ticking time bombs.
"Honestly, it's not something I would worry about," Thomas said. "If there are no symptoms, there is no reason to go looking for malformations. Even when we find them, our first question is, 'Is the risk of damage from surgery greater than the risk of simply watching and waiting?' Often the answer is yes."
In Westmoreland's case, it was determined that it was necessary for a surgeon to step in. So for now, we hope that that good head is now even better, and we'll watch and wait for Westmoreland to step back into a batter's box.
Gary Gillis is a contributor to MLB.com. The BID Injury Report is a regular column on redsox.com. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the official hospital of The Boston Red Sox. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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BlackRock Inc (BLK), the world's largest money manager, on Thursday reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit, benefiting from strong markets and a flow of new money into its exchange-traded funds.
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The New York-based company said fourth-quarter net income rose 24 percent to $841 million, or $4.86 per share, up from $690 million, or $3.93 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding long-term compensation expenses and other items, earnings were $4.92 a share, above the analysts' average forecast of $4.33, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue increased 9 percent to $2.8 billion.
Of the $40.5 billion that investors poured into long-term funds during the quarter, nearly half - $19.1 billion - went into the company's iShares exchange-traded funds business. Retail investors accounted for $16.6 billion, or 41 percent of total long-term net flows.
BlackRock has benefited from increased investor appetite for the less-expensive indexed funds provided by iShares, which the company acquired from Barclays in 2009 and is now the largest U.S. provider of ETFs. IShares now accounts for about 21 percent of the company's assets under management.
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The bulk of investor money during the quarter went into equities, which accounted for $24.7 billion, or roughly 61 percent, of BlackRock's long-term net inflows. Investors also added more money than they withdrew into fixed-income funds, which had net inflows of $1.5 billion, and multi-asset products, which had $17.4 billion.
BlackRock ended the quarter with assets under management of $4.3 trillion, including new money and market gains. The company and its peers make money by charging fees as a percentage of assets under management.
Revenue generated by fees based on a portfolio's performance rose 2 percent to $268 million from a year earlier.
The company also said its board had approved a 15 percent increase in its quarterly cash dividend to $1.93 per common share, payable in March.


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Rays recall outfielder Kiermaier from Triple-A
By Bill Chastain / MLB.com
CINCINNATI -- The Rays recalled outfielder Kevin Kiermaier from Triple-A Durham prior to Friday night's game against the Reds at Great American Ball Park.
Kiermaier, who turns 24 on April 22, was hitting .310 with two home runs, a triple and a stolen base in seven games with the Bulls this season.
"[I] just told myself to stay simple," Kiermaier said of his promotion. "And I felt pretty good the whole Spring Training. I just want to carry that over into the regular season, when it really counts. ... Seeing it well. I've had good results so far. It's always nice to get off to a good start and have something to work with and get your confidence going."
Kiermaier is best remembered for joining the Rays' roster for the Game 163 tiebreaker at Texas last season, and he appeared in the American League Wild Card Game at Cleveland as well.
"Someone was joking, 'Finally, your first time getting some service time,'" Kiermaier said. "Still kind of feels the same. I didn't really sleep last night. I was really excited to get up and get on a plane and get here."
Kiermaier said he's been in Cincinnati twice before to watch games.
"To be up here and maybe get into the game is really cool," Kiermaier said.
Home is three hours away for Kiermaier, who said his parents will make the trip from Fort Wayne, Ind., for Friday's and Saturday's games.
"So it's going to be really cool for them and for me," Kiermaier said. "I couldn't ask for a better city to start off."
Rays to summon Bedard before finale
CINCINNATI -- After Friday night's game, the Rays announced they will be adding Erik Bedard to their 25-man roster.
The veteran left-hander will be activated for Sunday's game to serve as the team's long man in place of Cesar Ramos, who will move into the starting rotation in Matt Moore's absence.
A corresponding roster move will take place prior to Sunday's series finale against the Reds.
Outfielder Kevin Kiermaier, who was recalled for Friday night's game to add depth to the Rays' bench, will likely have a return trip to Triple-A Durham.
In Spring Training, Bedard competed for the fifth spot in the Rays' rotation that Jake Odorizzi eventually won. Bedard has since been pitching for Durham.
Ramos to take hill vs. Reds in Moore's place
CINCINNATI -- Cesar Ramos will be the Rays' starter Sunday against the Reds in the finale of the three-game series. Ramos will be taking Matt Moore's spot in the rotation after the Rays placed Moore on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday.
The decision came down to Ramos and Erik Bedard, who is currently pitching at Triple-A Durham.
Manager Joe Maddon explained the choice.
"Based on the Spring Training that he had and a lot of the conversations we had with [Ramos] and all the other pitchers as we broke Spring Training, [we were] trying to stay true to our word," Maddon said. "We felt like this was the right thing to do right now, given that opportunity.
"He's been pitching well out of the bullpen for us in the brief time that he's pitched with us this season. It's not been that far removed -- I still believe he's able to throw at least 75 pitches in a game. It's just trying to be consistent with our message, too."
Rays owner Sternberg part of diversity task force
CINCINNATI -- Rays principal owner Stu Sternberg is on Major League Baseball's On-Field Diversity Task Force, launched by Commissioner Bud Selig. The task force has set three preliminary priority initiatives that will guide the start of the Committee's comprehensive long-term action plan.
MLB will strive to address the talent pipeline that impacts the representation and development of the sport's diverse players and on-field personnel, particularly focusing on African-Americans. The three initiatives now underway include:
• Expanding MLB's reach and involvement with existing urban baseball initiatives, such as Jr. RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), the MLB Urban Youth Academies and various grassroots programs around the country.
• Implementing programs focused on improving the quality of coaching as a way to make the game more engaging, including the use of new initiatives and mobile coaching tools being developed.
• Focusing MLB's marketing reach on urban communities by using a variety of resources, including raising the profile of current and former Major Leaguers. These players would not only engage youth, families and their communities, but could also serve as coaches, program leaders or inspiring figures for youth in urban communities.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Cuesta Annex: no flood basin proposed
Original post made on Nov 14, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 1:41 PM
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Nov 14, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Yah, I'm sure the complaints of the citizens carried as much weight as the $6M over-run when it was time to decide. The dog park, er, annex users should thank their lucky stars that a basin would be too expensive.
Personally I like the open space, but cannot buy into its "environmental" importance when it comes to wildlife. The off-leash dogs have pretty much taken care of that.
I actually find it depressing how little wildlife there is in such a large area...off leash dogs most likely to blame.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Nov 14, 2012 at 2:58 pm
@Is it over? You're obviously a cat lover. What kind of wildlife do you think we're going to get in the middle of our neighborhood? We get opossum, raccoon, crows, squirrels and gofers. You're not missing anything, they're all still there and everywhere in spite of the dogs.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Nov 14, 2012 at 3:34 pm
I like dogs. I have a problem with dog owners who blatantly disregard the city leash ordinance in the annex. I have frequently observed off-leash dogs disturbing birds that forage on the ground. I'm not sure why dog owners think their dogs are exempt from the leash law, perhaps they just don't care and know they can get away with it because the city doesn't have the resources to enforce the rule.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Nov 14, 2012 at 3:54 pm
The article makes no mention of the El Camino Hospital's exposure in the 100 year flood. That was a key issue with the Cuesta Annex element -- without it, key access roads to the hospital will be flooded as much as 6 feet in places in a 100 year flood. I think this is a short-sighted decision.
a resident of Whisman Station
on Nov 14, 2012 at 4:06 pm
" The article makes no mention of the El Camino Hospital's exposure in the 100 year flood. That was a key issue with the Cuesta Annex element -- without it, key access roads to the hospital will be flooded as much as 6 feet in places in a 100 year flood. I think this is a short-sighted decision. "
People will be using helicopters and the Army/NG will be using trucks that can ford the water.
The money is best spent elsewhere. Like spent ENFORCING LAWS for people with off leash dogs.
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Nov 14, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Isn't the water district flush with cash after voters approved the half billion dollar bond measure B?
a resident of Whisman Station
on Nov 14, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Where is that idyllic place in those renderings? Is that wild field near the Cuesta tennis courts where the dogs "do their business"? I have never fancied a walk through it myself. Fear I might step in it.
a resident of Martens-Carmelita
on Nov 15, 2012 at 9:02 am
I wish that the city could find resources to enforce the leash laws in the Annex. Firstly because many visitors who walk their dogs off leash there pretend not to notice when their pet poops and use this as an excuse not to clean up. Secondly, the dogs do disturb wildlife.
I walk my dog in the Annex most days but I never let her off leash - and I always pick up after her. It is so easy - the city even provides the bags!
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Nov 15, 2012 at 9:58 am
@ doglover: "@Is it over? You're obviously a cat lover."
I'm going to assume this is an attempt to minimize my observations(kill the messenger, lump them into a category meant to marginalize them ). Fact is I do love cats but my two dogs chase them too much for me to own one.
As for wildlife, you wanna know what used to be in the annex yrs ago before it became an off-leash dog mecca?
- Quail. The place used to be littered with them. You could hear their calls in the sping. Very cool. Unleashed dogs love to chase ground running birds so no more quail in the annex.
- Nesting birds of prey. There used to be a few types of hawks and an occasional golden eagle nesting here regularly, about 20 yrs ago.
- Egrets and Herons. Now and again you'll see one venture in, to get chased away by an unleashed dog.
What the owners of unleashed dogs have left for us is the list you described.
Its time to start calling in complaints for off leash dogs. That's the only way something will get done.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Nov 17, 2012 at 8:04 am
The residents of Staten Island were not expecting a 100-year superstorm "Sandy" when they were flooded out recently. Just like the poor residents who lived below sea level in New Orleans when Katrina hit, weather happens.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Nov 26, 2012 at 3:25 pm
@is it over? The wildlife you mentioned has a good home at Rancho San Antonio where no dogs are allowed. And that is fine. Please allow the dogs a place too where they can run and be free for a little while like the other animals.
I would hope that dog owners be responsible to pick up after their pets. Unfortunately, there may be a few bad apples. Even a few who use a leash.
I'm too old to hold a leash and run with my young dog. She needs exercise every day.
The dog park by shoreline is a dust bowl, hardly equal to what the wildlife gets at Rancho.
Please don't call in complaints and let the dogs be dogs for a little while.
a resident of Bailey Park
on Jun 6, 2017 at 5:29 am
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My Heart Hurts So Deeply.
Permalink Submitted by Sheila Ebo (not verified) on Fri, 06/22/2012 - 8:44pm
Dr. Grothe was the angel sent to me straight out of heaven, when I neither expected it nor deserved it.
How truly deeply my heart hurts ... words just cannot express enough.
We love you, deeply, Peter - the twins and I mourn your loss and the void you have left will simply never be filled!
Until we meet again ...
Rest in Paradise, Peter.


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Just about to install a set of Ohlins on my 2000 R11RT, but as we looked at the shocks today we noticed that the spanner doesn't "exactly" fit the notches in the adjusting wheel on the front shock. In other words, if you hook either end of the wrench into one of the detents in the wheel, the hook on the other end of the wrench doesn't quite reach to the nearest detent.
Does that make sense? Shouldn't both ends of the wrench simultaneously fit the notches in the adjusting wheels?
What up?