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And we now have our Butler Media Games final game players! These ticket holders have a 1 in 8 chance of winning the $4000 Sony 3D HD Home Theater System from Butler Alarm Service. They will meet at Butler Alarm Service, 4204 Jacksboro Hwy, Wichita Falls by 6:45pm TONIGHT to play the game at 7pm. Stop by and see the fun happen! Plus, Tim Butler is still raffling off an alarm system that you can register for until after the Final Media Game is won. Make it out to watch and win! Joshua David will be there doing the remote from 6pm-8pm.
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers of 1959 were hitting their full stride, as trumpeter Lee Morgan joined the fold with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, the reliable pianist Bobby Timmons and steady bassist Jymie Merritt. Recorded live at New York's City's Birdland aka the "Jazz Corner of the World," this double-CD set reissued of two Blue Note LPs represents four 20-minute sets of this incredible band at their best, and in their element. Mixing up standards and favored originals from peer group composers, the band is, in the vernacular of the era, cooking. Introductions by the legendary M.C. Pee Wee Marquette precede the ultra-cool blues shuffle "Hipsippy Blues," as Morgan and Mobley sing beautifully through their horns in delightful unison. "Chicken an' Dumplins" is one of the hip, cool, chatty, and clipped melodies that will be memorable and hummable 'til jazz do us part. The theme "Art's Revelation" in a minor key has Jewish elements and a solid swing base where Blakey constantly switches up rhythms, but not the tempo. The fast hard bop theme "M & M" defines the genre and the era, while "Just Coolin'" is depicted as a foxtrot, but in hot, hard swinging trim. Several standards include a great read of Randy Weston's "Hi-Fly" with a pristine intro and Mobley's wonderful harmonic interpretation. Thelonious Monk's "Justice" (better known in later years as "Evidence") fully exploits the written pedal point stop-start theme, while the languid "Close Your Eyes" has modal piano and horn inserts further enhancing this sweet tune. You also get a short and stouter version of "The Theme," the former with Marquette's announcing. When Mobley left and Wayne Shorter joined this ensemble, they hit their peak of performance, but this band was as definitive a modern jazz ensemble as there ever was, and the immaculately chosen repertoire elevates this to one of the greatest live jazz session ever, and belongs on the shelf of all serious jazz listeners. ~ Michael G. Nastos


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
A handful of what are presumably nationalist Jewish youth continue to commit acts of vandalism against Arab targets, both Muslim and Christian. And a world eager to point out just how deprived are the Jews of Israel continues to jump on those incidents as though they were earth-shattering news.
These "price tag" attacks - so named because the perpetrators say they are the price Israel must pay for surrendering to Arab demands - have been a god-send for those of Israel's antagonists who try to justify Arab terrorism by claiming the Jewish state behaves no better than its foes. But it is a worthwhile exercise to make a logical comparison between price tag vandalism and, say, the regular stoning of Jewish motorists (we don't even need to touch on the much more severe phenomenons of suicide bombings and rocket attacks).
In the case of price tag vandalism, small groups of extremist Jews acting alone seek to antagonize and intimidate. To date, these "attacks" have resulted in exactly zero deaths, and an equal number of injuries. In every instance, the vandalism has been universally condemned by the rest of Israel, and on many occasions Israelis have turned out to publicly stand in solidarity with the victims. The Israel Police continue to hunt the vandals and recently made several arrests.
In the case of stone-throwing, small groups of violent Palestinian Arabs acting alone seek to cause bodily harm to Jewish motorists. To date, a number of people have been killed in these attacks, and a much larger number have been wounded. Palestinian public opinion polls consistently show that the vast majority of Palestinians have no problem with such violence, and in fact see it as an integral part of their "struggle" for statehood. The Palestinian Authority does not arrest or otherwise punish the perpetrators, and no Palestinians show up at the funerals or hospital beds of the victims.
Beyond the actual vandalism and stone-throwing, the manner in which the respective societies respond to these crimes is very telling, both of the societies themselves and of the level of hypocrisy in the way the media and pro-Palestinian activists portray the situation. Even ignoring the fact that price tag incidents are so very few in number compared to stone-throwing attacks against Jewish motorists, attempting to draw moral equivalence between the two actions exceeds the limits of reason.
Israel is not perfect. Take it from someone who has lived here for half his life, this nation has flaws aplenty. And no one is more critical of those flaws than Israelis themselves. In fact, Israelis are self-critical to a fault, often adopting the unsubstantiated and false accusations of their antagonists just to make sure they have covered all the bases. It's never wrong for us to want to be better than we are. But for the rest of the world to hold Israel to some mythical standard of ethics that no other nation has managed to attain is wrong. And to exaggerate those flaws Israel does possess by equating them to murder and attempted murder is nothing short of antisemitism akin to the historic anti-Jewish blood libels that haunted this people for centuries in exile.
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For Immediate Release
Matt Stoecker, Beyond Searsville Dam, (650) 380-2965
Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity, (510) 499-9185
Steve Rothert, American Rivers, (530) 277-0448
Public Tells Stanford University Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan Is Inadequate and Must Include Investigating Removal of Searsville Dam
PALO ALTO, CA - The public has sent a powerful message to Stanford University and
government agencies that the university plan for protecting endangered
species on the 8,000-acre campus doesn't go far enough and must
consider removing Searsville Dam. The comment period closed last week
for a proposed Habitat Conservation Plan addressing endangered species
impacts over the next 50 years; public comments emphasized the need to
analyze the harmful effects of the 120-year-old dam on steelhead trout
and other imperiled species.
"Stanford's conservation plan inexplicably omits a
thorough analysis of the impacts of the diversion dam, which blocks and
significantly degrades habitat for endangered species in San
Francisquito Creek," said Matt Stoecker, chairman of the Beyond
Searsville Dam Coalition. "While we intend to ensure that public-trust
laws are adhered to, we are committed to working collaboratively with
Stanford and others to improve the conservation plan to benefit
endangered species and watershed health and improve flood protection."
"Sooner or later Searsville Dam must come down, and the
whole San Francisquito Creek watershed can be treated as the ecological
treasure that it is," said Pete McCloskey, former U.S. Congressman,
coauthor of the Endangered Species Act, San Francisquito Creek
watershed resident and Stanford University School of Law 1953 alumnus.
"Stanford has one of the most important dam-removal and
ecosystem-restoration opportunities in the country, and can position
itself as a leader in environmental stewardship and make huge progress
in achieving its stated goal of being a more sustainable campus," said
Yvon Chouinard, founder of the clothing company Patagonia and Beyond
Searsville Dam supporter. "Stanford has got to clean up their own
backyard before people will take their sustainability and environmental
message seriously. You are what you do, not what you say."
"The environmental analysis of Stanford's plan is
clearly legally inadequate; it should address and mitigate all of the
dam's ecological impacts to endangered species covered in the
conservation plan," said Jeff Miller of the Center for Biological
"What happens with Searsville Dam impacts all of us in
the San Francisquito Creek watershed, from the mountains to the Bay and
beyond," said long-time creek advocate Danna Breen. "Stanford must
collaborate with its neighbors on this dam issue to ensure community
safety and watershed health. This plan doesn't do that."
The Conservation Plan acknowledges that the dam is
antiquated, hurts San Francisquito Creek, and has not been modified to
provide fish passage or downstream flows for wildlife habitat. Top
university scientists have stated the need for watershed-wide
collaboration to address environmental issues with the dam, but the
Conservation Plan and a draft Environmental Impact Statement by federal
regulators fail to include analysis of the dam's impacts on endangered
species or public safety. The Conservation Plan has no commitment to
migratory fish passage at the dam, contains no downstream bypass water
flows, which have been required at their other water diversions, and
has not been coordinated with other watershed stakeholders affected by
any decision or indecision on the dam.
The Beyond Searsville Dam coalition, Center for
Ecosystem Management and Restoration, American Rivers, Center for
Biological Diversity and the law firm Shute, Mihaly, Weinberg, LLP
submitted 79 pages of formal comments this week on the legal and
biological inadequacies of the proposed Conservation Plan, and more
than 3,000 Bay Area residents, leading scientists and Stanford alumni
have sent comments to Stanford and regulatory agencies asking for
collaborative studies on dam removal.
Searsville Dam is an obsolete relic that has degraded
wildlife habitat and blocked steelhead migration in the San
Francisquito Creek watershed for more than a century and serves no
drinking-water supply, flood control or hydropower function. The
proposed Conservation Plan would include a 50-year federal permit under
the Endangered Species Act to be able to incidentally harm and kill
endangered species during future development plans and operations on the
Stanford campus. Stanford proposes to maintain the dam and reservoir
through an ill-defined dredging program. The Conservation Plan would
allow operations that continue to prevent steelhead from spawning
upstream of the dam and perpetuate the dam's damaging ecological
effects on downstream habitat and water quality in San Francisquito
For more information and to read the comment letters go to: www.BeyondSearsvilleDam.org.
Buried beneath the sediment behind Searsville Dam, built
120 years ago on the largest tributary to San Francisquito Creek, is a
unique valley where six streams once converged among wetland ponds and
riparian forests before squeezing through a small gorge where the dam
now stands. Dam removal would allow restoration of this amazing habitat
within Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, improve water
quality and habitat downstream, potentially provide flood-protection
benefits, and restore steelhead to more than 18 miles of historic
spawning and rearing habitat above the dam, where ancestral rainbow
trout persist, now isolated by the dam.
The National Marine Fisheries Service advised Stanford
in 2008 to collaborate with interested parties in the watershed to
restore fish passage at Searsville Dam; but Stanford's Conservation
Plan has no such commitment. The federal government has ignored its own
recommendation and is considering granting a permit without requiring
adequate downstream flows for wildlife, as was required for Stanford's
other two water diversions that were also negatively affecting listed
species. Federal wildlife agencies are set to approve a severely flawed
plan that will prevent steelhead recovery and harm the watershed and
regional ecosystem. The plan would allow for the "incidental take"
(harming, degrading habitat and killing) of imperiled species such as
steelhead trout, California red-legged frog, San Francisco garter
snake, California tiger salamander and western pond turtle.
More than two dozen Bay Area conservation and fishing
groups have joined the Beyond Searsville Dam coalition and requested
that Stanford collaborate with its neighbors and evaluate and consider
removal of Searsville Dam. Conservation groups have asked Stanford to
ensure that any dam-removal plan includes flood protection benefits to
downstream communities.
Beyond Searsville Dam is a coalition of more than two dozen organizations and hundreds of individuals supporting
actions to evaluate and consider removal of Stanford University's
Searsville Dam in a manner that is beneficial to protecting creekside
communities and watershed health.
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255,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of
endangered species and wild places.
American Rivers is a national conservation organization that protects and restores America's rivers for the benefit of people, wildlife and nature.
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"[G]ullible" Fox & Friends escape lawsuit for repeating yet another false news story
Research ››› ››› TOM ALLISON
In an article about a lawsuit against Fox News and hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade for repeating as fact an online parody news report of a school prank that included fabricated quotes attributed to the superintendent, the AP reported that the case has been dismissed and that the judge called Doocy and Kilmeade "gullible." But the Fox & Friends segment in question marked at least the third time since 2004 that Fox News has issued a retraction and apology for airing a fake news report that repeated false information.
In a June 4 article headlined "Judge tosses school official's lawsuit against Fox News," the Associated Press reported on the dismissal of a school superintendent's lawsuit against the Fox News Channel and Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade for repeating as fact an online parody news report of a school prank that included fabricated quotes attributed to the superintendent. The judge called Doocy and Kilmeade "gullible," as the AP noted, and while he dismissed the lawsuit, the Fox & Friends segment in question marked at least the third time since 2004 that Fox News has issued a retraction and apology for airing a fake news report that repeated false information. In fact, the segment aired after Fox News' Vice President for News John Moody reportedly warned staff in January 2007 that "seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC." In dismissing the suit, U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby wrote:
The facts in this case -- a morning cable news show derisively reporting events and statements obtained unwittingly from an online parody -- should provide grist for journalism classes teaching research and professionalism standards in the Internet age. But First Amendment principles developed long before the Internet still provide protection to the gullible news program hosts against this public official's claims for defamation and false light invasion of privacy. Poetic justice would subject the defendants to the same ridicule that they accorded the plaintiff. But in real life, the aggrieved school superintendent must be satisfied with their later retraction and a professional reputation sullied less than theirs.
The lawsuit was filed by Leon Levesque, a school superintendent in Lewiston, Maine. According to the AP, "[t]he case was an outgrowth of an April 2007 prank in which a middle school student tossed a slab of leftover Easter ham onto a table surrounded by Somali Muslim youngsters, knowing the Muslims would be offended." Freelance writer Nicholas Plagman later published a fabricated news report about the incident at Associated Content in which he attributed numerous made-up quotes to Levesque, including one in which Levesque was alleged to have said: "These children have got to learn that ham is not a toy." On the April 24, 2007, edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy and Kilmeade reported on Plagman's story as though it were fact and repeated several of the made-up quotes attributed to Levesque. In discussing the parody report, Doocy repeatedly asserted: "We are not making this up." Indeed, when Kilmeade asserted: "You know, I hope we're not being duped," Doocy replied, "We're not being duped. I've looked it up on a couple of different websites up there." Doocy issued an on-air retraction and apology during the May 16, 2007, edition of Fox & Friends First.
Doocy repeated the fake quotes attributed to Levesque from the online article despite the fact that, according to the washingtonpost.com blog The Sleuth, Moody "issued this missive to staff in his daily editorial note on Jan. 23 [2007]: 'For the record: seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC.' " Moody wrote the note after Doocy retracted his false assertion on the January 19, 2007, Fox & Friends, that Sen. Barack Obama "spent the first decade of his life, raised by his Muslim father -- as a Muslim and was educated in a madrassa." Moody criticized the hosts of Fox & Friends in a January 29, 2007, New York Times article, saying, "The hosts violated one of our general rules, which is know what you are talking about. ... They reported information from a publication whose accuracy we didn't know."
Similarly, on October 1, 2004, Fox News issued a retraction and an apology for a fake news story written by chief political correspondent Carl Cameron that falsely attributed quotes to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in an attempt to ridicule him over a purported manicure.
In his opinion in the Levesque lawsuit, Hornby wrote that Fox News' "failure to confirm the accuracy of the quotations demonstrates 'an extreme departure from professional standards' ":
The defendants were certainly gullible. Even if they believed the segments of Plagman that they repeated on the air, at least two portions of the Plagman piece were so absurd that they should have raised the defendants' truth-seeking antennae and caused them to question the accuracy of the article as a whole. First, Plagman "quotes" Levesque as saying "All our students should feel welcome in our schools, knowing that they are safe from attacks with ham, bacon, porkchops, or any other delicious meat that comes from pigs." (emphasis added).64 Later, he "quotes" a student as saying "I'm just glad that kid I beat up yesterday was white; I wouldn't want to be in that mess."65 If negligence as to the reliability of a source were the standard, this should be enough. One would hope that when a publisher is poised to report outrageous quotations from such a source, for a story that is not even breaking news, the publisher's failure to confirm the accuracy of the quotations demonstrates "an extreme departure from professional standards." Connaughton, 491 U.S. at 665.66 But unprofessional conduct does not amount to reckless disregard of the truth, and "failure to investigate before publishing, even when a reasonably prudent person would have done so, is not sufficient to establish reckless disregard." Id. at 688.
From the April 24 edition of Fox News' Fox and Friends (from the lawsuit):
DOOCY: [T]his is the number 1 story that we've been talking about today. Up in Maine, a middle school kid -- you know middle school kids
KILMEADE: 7th grade was it?
DOOCY: when they're not saying pull my finger they're doing crazy stuff. He left a ham sandwich in a paper bag where some kids from Somalia would have their lunches. The kid has been suspended and they're calling it a hate crime.
DOOCY: We're gonna do a recreation, alright?
CARLSON: Ok.
DOOCY: Let ... Brian, just for uh ... demonstrative purposes, hi, how are you Alisyn?
CAMEROTA: Oh, hello.
DOOCY: Great. Uh ... Alisyn, let's pretend, this is a ham sandwich, let's pretend that uh ... Brian is uh ... from Somalia, alright? And I'm ...
CAMEROTA: [OVERLAPPING] That's quite a stretch.
DOOCY: And I'm in ... yeah, I'm in middle school and I know that he's from Somalia, and I've got this ham sandwich, and I just put it on a table next to him .. .
KILMEADE: Right.
DOOCY: Just like that.
KILMEADE: Right.
CAMEROTA: And then you come back here and you and I giggle.
DOOCY: That's right. I put a ham sandwich next to him.
CAMEROTA: That's funny.
KILMEADE: But of course I didn't know what was in it so it would have to be covered.
DOOCY: That's right.
KILMEADE: And then I realize it's ham.
CAMEROTA: Right.
KILMEADE: And suddenly ...
CARLSON: And so you give it to me. [LAUGHS] Thank you. I'll eat it all for you, Thank you, cause you can't touch ham.
KILMEADE: Yeah, look out.
DOOCY: I should have put it in front of her.
CARLSON: Yeah, is that how it ended?
DOOCY: So anyway, yeah, this is what happened in Lewiston, Maine where a middle school kid being funny doing a joke put a ham sandwich in a paper bag in front of, on a table, where some Muslim students would sit. Well now that kid is being investigated for possible hate crimes. He's been uh ... suspended and the superintendent and the school board looking into perhaps other charges against the kid because it's a hate crime. .
KILMEADE: Yeah ... yeah evidently these Somalia kids are Muslim and Muslims think pork is unclean and highly offensive uh ... and they feel as though to put that in front of somebody is akin to trauma ... uh ... to a hate crime. It's traumatizing and in this case in particular the superintendent, who looks as though he's gonna go to the hilt with this, says it's akin to making these kids feel like they're being shot at back in Mogadishu and being starved to death.
DOOCY: Brian, the Center for Prevention of Hate Violence in that region says they are now working with the school to create an anti-ham response plan. We are not making this up. Also the superintendent, a fellow who we're gonna really try hard to get on our show tomorrow to explain all this stuff, Leon Levesque, he says quote, these children have got to learn that ham is not a toy. Uh ... so they sa ... you know what this is ... this is crazy ...
CARLSON: [OVERLAPPING] I do think this is going way too far.
DOOCY [OVERLAPPING]: Hello!
From the April 24, 2007, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
DOOCY: Ham sandwich: hate crime --
GRETCHEN CARLSON (co-host): Looks good.
DOOCY: -- or lunch?
CARLSON: Is that how it ended?
DOOCY: This is what happened in Lewiston, Maine, where a middle-school kid, being funny, doing a joke, put a ham sandwich in a paper bag in front of -- on a table, where some Muslim students would sit. Well, now, that kid is being investigated for possible hate crimes. He's been suspended.
DOOCY: And the superintendent also saying, "These children have got to learn that ham is not a toy."
DOOCY: Brian, the Center for Prevention of Hate Violence in that region says they are now working with the school to create an anti-ham response plan. We are not making this up.
DOOCY: But this is just going kind of crazy. The Center for Prevention of Hate Violence is now working with the school to create -- and I'm not making this up -- an anti-ham response plan. I am not making this up. This is the school district. They're coming up -- in concert with this outfit -- is coming up with an anti-ham response plan. And the superintendent up there says, "These children have got to learn that ham is not a toy."
KILMEADE: The executive director for the Center for Prevention of Hate Violence -- and I thought this was almost from The Onion. I didn't think this was actually true. But he says, "Placing a ham sandwich in front of a Muslim is an extraordinarily hurtful, degrading thing. They probably felt like they were back in Mogadishu, starving and being shot at." I thought this was a joke.
DOOCY: So many people are typing in saying, "You're making this story up, right?" No, we're not making it up. We'll tell you all about it in just a moment.
KILMEADE: You know, I hope we're not being duped.
DOOCY: We're not being duped. I've looked it up on a couple of different websites up there, from a local paper.
From the May 16, 2007, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends First:
DOOCY: On April the 24th, we told you about an incident at a school in Lewiston, Maine, involving one student placing a ham sandwich in front of a Muslim student who -- which offended that student because eating pork is against Muslim tradition. The incident did happen. It did happen.
However, when we checked our various sources on the story, one source was actually a parody and even attributed itself to the Associated Press. In that parody, various quotes were cited to superintendent Leon Levesque that turned out to be fictitious. Had we known the source was not legit, we never would have mentioned them. We apologize if we offended superintendent Levesque and the Lewiston school system. There was no mal intent on our part.
There you go. Just to set the record straight.
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LONDON—Tsegaye Kebede claimed a second London Marathon title on Sunday, cheered through the streets by thousands of spectators reassured by enhanced security at the first major race since the twin bombings at the Boston event.
A race that started with a tribute to the Boston victims with a moment of silence ended with a thrilling conclusion under clear blue skies.
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With a black ribbon pinned to his chest, Kebede chased down Emmanuel Mutai in the closing stages, and overtook the tiring Kenyan to cross the line first in front of Buckingham Palace.
Kebede, who also won in 2010, clocked 2:06:04, while Ethiopian compatriot Ayele Abshero was third.
"I had a little pain in my side during the early part of the race, but as time went on it got better and better," Kebede said. "I could feel myself getting closer and closer to Mutai and that made me stronger. It was a great day to run the London Marathon and even better to win."
Mutai, who finished 29 seconds behind Kebede, blamed hip and thigh problems for conceding the lead.
"(I) could not pick up the pace in the late stages," Mutai said. "Now having said that, I am not disappointed with my time or how I felt during the race."
Kebede's victory in the British capital came after he was denied a shot at glory here at the Olympics last year when he was overlooked by Ethiopian selectors.
The women's race saw Olympic silver medallist Priscah Jeptoo go one better in the annual London race. The Kenyan cruised over the line in 2:20:15, the fastest time this year, ahead of compatriot Edna Kiplagat, while Yukiko Akaba of Japan was third.
"I knew this morning I was going to run well, but there was such a good field you were worried someone would do better," Jeptoo said. "It wasn't until around 25 miles that I got that confidence back and felt I would win."
It was a miserable day for Olympic champion Tiki Gelana, who finished 16th after seeing her hopes thwarted by a collision about a third of the way in. The Ethiopian collided with Canadian wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy as she went to get a drink.
"Every year we come to overtake the women, there's 10 chairs going at 20 m.p.h. and the poor women are scrambling to find their feet," said Cassidy, who finished 20th. "I have a brand new $2,000 pair of wheels that are damaged. Who's going to pay for them? Things have to change."
It was the one blot on a day marked by the defiance of athletes and spectators in the bright London sunshine at the end of a difficult week for the athletics community.
The spectre of the bombings near the Boston Marathon finish line, which killed three people and injured more than 180, loomed in London.
"I was surprised so many people on the way cheering us and that shows there was no fear for those people," Jeptoo said.
And it was apt that Tatyana McFadden, who won her first wheelchair race in Boston just before the explosions, shrugged off security concerns in London to mark her 24th birthday with a second title this week.
"Today was about running freely and running for Boston," she said.
Prince Harry mingled with the crowds and said he had never thought about cancelling his visit following the bombings.
"It's fantastic, typically British," he said. "People are saying they haven't seen crowds like this for eight years around the route. It's remarkable to see."


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An original creation by Jamie Boudreau, host of Raising the Bar on Small Screen Network, the Vessel 75 utilizes a maple syrup foam to add sweetness and mouth feel. It is a beautiful cocktail with a nod to the classic Old Fashioned.
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4 oz maple syrup
2 oz lemon juice
Llace all ingredients into a ISI canister, charge and refrigerate.
Stir bourbon and Peychaud's in a mixing glass.
Strain into rocks glass and top with maple syrup foam.
Garnish with orange zest.
Robert Hess 17 Aug 2007
8:22 am
"Foams" are perhaps one of the more common of the "Molecular Mixology" methods. They are relatively easy to make, and can be flavored with almost anything.
The important thing though is not to treat foams (or any other MM method) as a "Hammer" to which everything else looks like a "nail" to apply it to.
Thomas 4 Jan 2008
7:12 pm
Just extraordinary!
- Would the eggwhite foam technique hold alcohol - spirits or liqueurs in suspension as well as it does the maple syrup?
- Is there a book (or perhaps one still in production) on molecular mixology?
Woodford Reserve is the "house bourbon" at Vessel - nice! What's their top shelf brand?
Wonderful stuff!
Jamie Boudreau 5 Jan 2008
5:32 pm
-The egg white will hold alcohol.
-There is no book that I am aware of.
-We have many top shelf spirits. A trip to Vessel may be in order to see our ever changing selection.
Thomas 5 Jan 2008
5:37 pm
Thanks, Jamie!
A trip to vessel will be a near-religious experience, I'm sure. I'm looking forward to that day.
Adam 10 Feb 2008
7:03 pm
I just visited Seattle last week and had one of these at Vessel. Great drink! Thanks for sharing the formula.
blair frodelius 8 Mar 2008
11:14 am
Where can I purchase an ISI Canister? Lacking one, how would you go about putting the foam onto the drink (spooning or pouring)? Lastly, how long will the foam last before it starts "falling"?
Robert Hess 8 Mar 2008
10:19 pm
ISI canisters are available in many supermarkets and some kitchen stores.
When using "foams" on drinks, they actually start falling relatively quickly.
Jamie Boudreau 9 Mar 2008
12:25 am
I'm afraid that I have to disagree with Robert; foams should not fall relatively quickly, but should last a good ten minutes, at the minimum.
Lacking one, you could pour it on, but the foam will not be of the same consitency or last as long.
But he is right about the availability of ISI cannisters ;-) You should be able to find them in almost every kitchen store, and of course, the web.
Robert Hess 9 Mar 2008
6:59 am
I'll bow to Jamie on this one. I guess I need to work on my foam recipes a little more, because they always seem to start falling apart in a couple of minutes, but then I normally do them as a fairly light layer in a cocktail glass instead of the nearly 50/50 you see used here. Perhaps that might have something to do with it.
Damian WIlliams 1 Apr 2008
2:05 pm
Got a ISI pump this afternoon, and I made this cocktail with my 3rd attempt at a foam! It's the best one I've done, but it seems too runny - I managed to caramalise the foam with a kitchen blow torch which made it last longer though. I also made a Porn Star variation (champagne topped with vanilla vodka and passion fruit foam) and a Bloody Mary variation (citron vodka topped with spicy tomato foam, rimmed with celery salt).
I would heartily recommend spending
blair frodelius 10 May 2008
6:31 am
Apparently there's been a shake-up at Vessel. You can read the details on Good Spirits News under the "The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them" column at:
I wish Jamie well, wherever he ends up!
Oscar Malek 13 May 2009
4:14 pm
This is a really good drink, and one that hopefully I might be able to convince my GM to let me introduce behind my bar as it is a great introduction to molecular drinks, as is the Rosewater Rickey!
I must say Jamie, you're a star!
Michael "Michaelogist" Kelley 29 Jul 2009
2:14 pm
Is there a particular ratio of egg (or cream) and water and everything else that works best for foams? In other words, is your recipe designed in such a way that it would be inappropriate to stray from in terms of its ratio?
Eric Angle 20 Apr 2010
9:06 pm
Are there limitations on the kinds of liquids you can put in an iSi soda siphon (as opposed to the iSi whipper Jamie used)? That is, can I put juices or even alcohol in it instead of just water? I ask because there may be instances where you want to add bubbles but not water to a cocktail. Do I have to use a whipper in order to do this?
Justin Taylor 13 Apr 2011
8:15 am
Is there a way to produce these foams without the use off egg whites?
Alanah Westin 18 Apr 2011
8:38 am
I <3 your cocktails JB. Being a veggie, is there an alternative to egg whites?
Jamie Boudreau 18 Apr 2011
10:32 am
I'm afraid that there isn't really a true alternative to egg. It provides a texture that most hydrocolloids can't match. I'm sure with some playing around, you could get a somewhat similar foam using things like lecithin, agar and xantham. However egg is just much easier.
Peter_Timms 6 Jan 2012
9:04 pm
Pre-chilled the mixture and used a mixmaster to make the foam, which was firm and maintained its integrity for a long time. The taste of the cocktail was not to my liking, but I am new to making cocktails. Or perhaps it was due to the fact that I used Angostura instead of Peychaud's bitters. Thanks for giving me something different to try.
Ben Golden 3 Apr 2012
10:42 pm
Where can I buy (or order) that bar spoon? Thanks!
Robert Hess 4 Apr 2012
7:39 am
Ben, we only see a fleeting glance of the spoon Jamie is using here, so I can't quite tell exactly which one it is, but I believe it is similar to the one that CocktailKingdom.com is selling here: http://www.cocktailkingdom.com/product-p/bsp_wmfspoonxx_0027_stl.htm
If that's not the one you are looking for, you might want to look amongst the other spoons they sell, they've got some pretty nice ones.
Christianpc01 1 Nov 2012
9:38 pm
Hi hows it going, i was hoping you can inform me a little more on the dilution part of this drink- about how many ounces of water is being added to the drink, or is there a rule of thumb when it comes to diluting a brandy or spirit.
-Thank you.
Christianpc01 1 Nov 2012
9:52 pm
p.s.: how do you drink this, do you mix the foam in with the bourbon. or do you just drink it how you would any other drink with foam on it, and just let it sit on top.


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HARRISONBURG — The problem with James Madison's defense, players say, has nothing to do with the scheme and little to do with inexperience.
Instead, they say, the Dukes are not completing the most basic objective of basketball defense: Stop the man with the ball from getting past you.
"We know the principles, but to be honest, defense is just your will against theirs," freshman point guard Pierre Curtis said after practice Friday. "You've got to have it in your mind that that man's not going to score or make it as hard as you can for him to score. There's not much you can really do. Coach already put the principles in our head. That's all he can do. The rest is on us."
So far, they admittedly haven't held up their end of the bargain.
Heading into today's 2 p.m. game against Wofford (4-1) at the Convocation Center, the Dukes (1-2) have allowed 86.3 points per game, second-worst in the Colonial Athletic Association. Teams are shooting a robust 45.7 percent against them, a stat that would be worse if not for Virginia Military Institute's shoot-when-you-see-the-white-of-the-net philosophy.
Those statistics might not be quite as disconcerting if Madison wasn't coming off a season in which it ranked dead last in the CAA in both scoring defense (77.7 points per game) and field-goal percentage defense (48.3).
"We've just got to get the point across of being a better defensive team," JMU coach Dean Keener said. "It doesn't matter what we're doing. Our transition defense has to be better. Our half-court man has to be better, and so do our zones, any zone that we're running."
And unless they improve in a hurry, they're probably going to have a tough time getting past the potent Terriers, whose only loss so far was against Atlantic Coast Conference foe North Carolina State. They're averaging 86.2 points per game while making 46 percent of their field goals.
Wofford, 11-18 last season, may have notched the biggest win in school history Tuesday, beating Cincinnati on the road 91-90 when junior guard Shane Nichols hit one of two free throws with 5.2 seconds left.
"It's obviously a significant win for us," said fifth-year Wofford coach Michael Young, an Emory & Henry graduate and Radford native who has a 52-68 record at the Southern Conference school. "That's one of the most storied programs of the last 10 or 15 years, and even though this might not be one of the great Bearcat teams of previous years, but they've still got some big bodies and some athletic kids, so it's a nice feather in our cap."
And they got it without their starting point guard, Drew Gibson, who missed the game with a hamstring injury after averaging 17.3 points and 7.0 assists in Wofford's first four games.
Young said Gibson has returned to practice and will play today, joining Nichols and senior guard Eric Marshall in Wofford's stellar backcourt. Nichols leads the team with 18.8 points per game, scoring 20 against the Bearcats. Marshall rose to second on the squad with 18.0 points per game after leading Wofford with 27 against Cincinnati.
"They're extremely key," Keener said. "Their perimeter guys are veterans. They've been through the wars. I don't think a whole lot will rattle them and they play with a lot of confidence."
Senior forward Matt O'Connor, who averages 10.8 points per game, gives the Terriers four players in the starting lineup who are comfortable shooting from behind the arc, which is something they do often. Though Wofford doesn't jack it up at quite the rate that VMI does — the Keydets shoot an eye-popping 47.3 3's per game — the 27.6 3-point attempts the Terriers average is still relatively high, and they're hitting 36.2 percent of those. They made 12 of 24 against Cincinnati.
Wofford also plays a fast-paced game without going out of control. It averages 86.2 points and a modest 13.2 turnovers per game. The Dukes, meanwhile, average 22.3 turnovers.
"They're the best team that we've played," Keener said. "And what I mean by that is, watching film of them, they look like a team that's playing in early to mid-January. They have great ball reversal. They share the ball, and that's what I mean by the best team. They really understand how they want to play."
The Dukes say they understand how they want to play, it's just a matter of doing it.
Said Keener: "The game will be won or lost for us on the defensive end."


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Welcome to the new website for Con†Stellation, an annual general interest Science Fiction & Fantasy convention in Huntsville Alabama. Con†Stellation (or Con*Stellation) is a fan-run con sponsored by the NASFA—the North Alabama Science Fiction Association[1]. The next convention—Con*Stellation XXXI: Perseus—will be October 12-14, 2012. We're still developing this new website, so please bear with us. This page will (eventually ;-) cover most of the basics, with links to more detailed info later about all aspects of our convention.
Con*Stellation XXXI: Perseus will be October 12-14, 2012 at the Holiday Inn Express located near the intersection of University Drive and Jordan Lane:
3808 University Drive
Huntsville, AL, 35816
Please note that the date is approximately a month later than in previous years.
See our Registration page for more info.
Adult Membership rate:
$40 through July 22, 2012,
$45 thereafter and through September 30 2012, and
$50 thereafter and at the door.
Rates for younger ages (though 12) are fixed regardless of when they are purchased.
Ages 0 to 3 (as of October 14, 2012): Free
Ages 4 to 12 (as of October 14, 2012): $25
Children not accompanied by an Adult Member will be charged the Young Adult Membership rate.
Young Adult Memberships (students age 13-21) are $5 off the corresponding Adult Membership in effect at the time of purchase. We trust you (we really, really do) but reserve the right to request some proof of student status.
We're in the process of inviting guests for 2012. Please check back as we add confirmed guests.
NASFA was founded in Huntsville circa 1980 partly as a result of local fans meeting at a one-time convention named MidSouthCon, held in Huntsville that year. (This convention is not directly related to the annual convention of the same name in Memphis, Tennessee.) Club members quickly came up with the idea of starting their own science fiction convention. The first of these was a mini one-day con named ZerCon, in November 1981. While planning and executing ZerCon, the club came up with the name "Con*Stellation" (or "Con†Stellation") for a planned ongoing series of longer (three-day) conventions.<ref name="sfc41"/>
The first Con†Stellation was held July 16–18, 1982, under the full name Con†Stellation I: The Pleiades. The time of year varied over the first few conventions, though at least one has been held each year since. In 1983-1984, the convention made the shift from a spring/summer convention to a fall convention. To aid the transition, a two-day mini-convention was held in December of 1983, thus avoiding an extremely long gap between Con†Stellation II and Con†Stellation III. Because the convention had already started using Roman numerals for numbering the series, the mini-convention was numbered as Con†Stellation II.V, a deliberate, tongue-in-cheek, mix of Roman numerals and place notation from Arabic numerals.<ref name="sfc41"/>
Each Con†Stellation has been subtitled with an astronomical constellation—usually one of the 88 official modern constellations, though the first one was named after a group of stars in Taurus. The convention often uses the constellation as a theme in its advertising and for events at the convention.<ref name="sfc41"/>
Con†Stellation has been held at a number of Huntsville-area hotels over its history. Other than Con†Stellation II.V, each has been a 3-day (Friday to Sunday) event.
Conventions in the Con†Stellation series have also included Con†Stellation VI: Lyra held October 9-11, 1987; Con†Stellation VII: Centaurus held October 21-23, 1988; Con†Stellation VIII: Cetus held October 13-15, 1989; Con†Stellation IX: Sagittarius held October 19-21, 1990; Con†Stellation X: Draco held November 8-10, 1991; Con†Stellation XI: Scorpio held November 6-8, 1992;<ref name="ht11"/> Con†Stellation XII: Orion held November 12-14, 1993; Con†Stellation XIII: Musca held November 4-6, 1994; Con†Stellation XIV: Monoceros held November 3-5, 1995; Con†Stellation XV: Aquila held November 8-10, 1996;<ref name="sfc41"/> Con†Stellation XVI: Eridanus held October 17-19, 1997; Con†Stellation XVII: Hydra held October 9-11, 1998; Con†Stellation XVIII: Lupus held October 29-31, 1999; Con†Stellation XIX: Virgo held October 13-15, 2000; Con†Stellation XX: Camelopardalis October 19-21, 2001; Con†Stellation XXI: Pavo held October 18-20, 2002; Con†Stellation XXII: Pegasus October 10-12, 2003; Con†Stellation XXIII: Delphinus held October 15-17, 2004; Con†Stellation XXIV: Lepus held October 7-9, 2005;<ref name="ht051112"/> and Con†Stellation XXV: Cygnus held October 20-22, 2006.
The 26th convention in the series was Con†Stellation XXVI: Ophiuchus, which was held October 12-14, 2007, at the Huntsville, Alabama, Holiday Inn Express.<ref name="ht071013"/> The Guest of Honor was author Mike Shepherd Moscoe.<ref name="ht071013"/> The Fan Guest of Honor was Pat McAdams[2][3]. The Master of Ceremonies was Dr. Travis S. Taylor. Julie Cochrane, Hugo-nominated editor Lou Anders, and William Drinkard also attended.
The 27th convention in the series was Con†Stellation XXVII: Cassiopeia<ref name="edge">Template:Cite news</ref>, held October 17-19, 2008, in Huntsville, Alabama. The Guest of Honor was Diane Duane.<ref name="ambit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="bynkii">Template:Cite web</ref> The Artist Guest of Honor was Bill Holbrook. The Master of Ceremonies was Mike Resnick. Other guests included Peter Morwood and Laura Resnick; plus Lou Anders, Julie Cochrane, William Drinkard, Allan Gilbreath, Les Johnson, Stephanie Osborn, Bill Snodgrass<ref name="billsnodgrass">Template:Cite web</ref>, and Dr. Travis S. "Doc" Taylor; with a musical appearance by Jeff Ugly Shoes & the Cemetery Surfers.
The 28th convention in the series was Con†Stellation XXVIII: Vulpecula, held September 18-20, 2009, at the Holiday Inn Express located near the intersection of University Drive and Jordan Lane in Huntsville, Alabama.
The 29th convention in the series was Con†Stellation XXIX: Leo, held September 17-19, 2010, at the Holiday Inn Express located near the intersection of University Drive and Jordan Lane in Huntsville, Alabama. The Guest of Honor was Wen Spencer. The Artist Guest of Honor was Vincent Di Fate. The Master of Ceremonies was Steve Jackson.<ref name="sjgames">Template:Cite news</ref> The Fan Guest of Honor was Warren Buff. Other guests included Lou Anders, Chris Berman, Mark Fitzgerald, Allan Gilbreath, Les Johnson, Darrel Osborn, Stephanie Osborn, Kimberly Richardson, and Steve White; with a musical appearance by Jeff Ugly Shoes & the Cemetery Surfers.
The 30th convention in the series was Con†Stellation XXX: Corona Borealis, held September 16-18, 2011, at the Holiday Inn Express located near the intersection of University Drive and Jordan Lane in Huntsville, Alabama. The Guest of Honor was Gene Wolfe. The Artist Guest of Honor was Lubov. The Master of Ceremonies was Stephanie Osborn. The Fan Guest of Honor was Gay Haldeman. Special Guest was Joe Haldeman. Other notable guests included Chris Berman, David Drake, Allan Gilbreath, Les Johnson, Darrell Osborn, Kimberly Richardson, Toni Weisskopf, and Karen Zimmerman.
Going forward, the plan is to have each year's Con†Stellaton in October each year. Stay tuned to this website for more info later.
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Also like I said if you are ever intrested in hearing about the "Big Wigs " Documentary that I was talking about let me know. The film played at alot of film fests and I had alot of Saten Island guys in it. Also my first film Sluggers features Wigs and Hassan Johnson of Staten Island and both films are on Russell Simmons HipHop Channel.
Michael Variano, who made the Big Wigs documentary last year featuring Ghostface and Wigs, recently interviewed Clan member GZA.
MV: You've stunned me lately with the Chappelle Show and Coffee and Cigarettes with the indie king Jim Jarmusch.
GZA: I had fun on both. I met Jim Jarmusch in Jersey City and he was shooting 'Ghost Dog;' RZA had a good relationship with a lot dudes, and you know…RZA is walking his dogs. He knew a lot about me and he asked me to do this with RZA.He is a cool person and I worked with Bill Murray but its short though. The entire movie is like 6 different comedy skits. I'm in a restaurant with GZA and Bill Murray walks in, and we start going back and forth. Bill Murray made you feel real cool. He got a different type of humor and he is winning all these type of awards. Also you can catch me on DVD on the first season of Chappelle Show as a musical guest and a comedy skit I did with RZA.
MV: I have stayed away from the Wu-Tang questions but I've got ask how do you want to end it?
GZA: We need to bang them. We need to end with a big bang and give them what they want. I love that clock in Jersey City. Hoboken is cool though too. I love my home and Jersey City is hot now.
MV: 'Wu-Tang Revealed?!?' [referring to the documentary]
GZA: I shot all of it with my digital cameras for years with some vintage footage. A lot of footage is from the 'W' album and the 'Iron Flag.' It's got some great scenes between the Clan. It's a working title, not that we are revealing anything it's just some stuff I wanted to put together. MTV and BET wanted footage but I wouldn't give them anything. I can't wait to get it out. You can watch a trailer for the documentary on the Wu-Tang site at www.wutangcorp.com and it should be hitting stores soon.
MV: How did directing come about?
GZA: When I was at Geffen Records I had creative control, so I did 18 or 19 videos for myself and Wu-Tang and I got my education.
MV: What kind of people do you like to work with?
GZA: I like working with people who give me back input and feed me stuff. Especially with my Director of Photography. What can we do? I never went to school for this so I want people to work with me collaboratively.
MV: Are you going to act or direct?
GZA: I don't know about acting but if comes to me in a natural sense then I will mess with it. If it's fun and laid back then I will mess with it. I can't wait to direct more stuff though.
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Forget NECA's official Dead Space figures, which make Isaac look like was born disfigured. Remember the Dead Space hero as he should be remembered, with this intricately-detailed, custom-made action figure.
A Korean fan the series' official Facebook account only calls "이호갑" is to thank for it, and included alongside the finished shots some images of the figure as a work-in-progress.
Even if you're not the biggest fan of the games, this is still some incredible craftsmanship to behold.
Fan Made Isaac Clarke Sclupture [imgur, via Dead Space, thanks johnsmith!]


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Emily struggles to decide whether she should start a relationship when Will learns about their situation and starts to jealous. Emily and Tyra treat an unruly patient, but after learning of the woman's hoarding situation at home, Emily starts to think that the woman's personality changes may be caused by her cats. After Cassandra and Will's break-up, Will is distracted by Cassandra's strictly professional behavior and misdiagnoses a patient. Meanwhile, Micah's sister comes to visit after learning the truth about their mother.moreless
The hospital is flooded with victims from a bus crash when a winter storm hits Denver, and Emily is assigned to run triage in the E.R. In the middle of the chaos, Emily has to perform an emergency skull procedure on a heroic Marine who unexpectedly collapses. Tyra is frustrated by her father's lack of respect for her as a doctor, but they make a breakthrough in their relationship after they perform an emergency c-section together. Meanwhile, Will and Emily secretly work together to treat an unexpected patient, which causes Sandra to wonder if Will has feeling for Emily. Micah finally decided to make a bold move in his personal life.moreless
Emily, Will, and Cassandra are the final candidates for a research assistant position with Dr. Bandari, and feelings get hurt when Bendari asks them to describe one another's flaws. Emily works to solve the mystery of a boy whose x-rays reveal a bullet lodged in his lung, yet he shows no signs of a gunshot wound or scar. Meanwhile, Emily has an epiphany in her personal life after working with an adrenaline junkie patient with a rare disease that forces him to change his lifestyle.moreless
After a year away from the hospital, Dr. A.J. Aquino returns to Denver Memorial. However, before he allowed to rejoin the staff, the Chief insists that he smooth things over with Dr. Bandari. Emily treats a patient who claims to have psychic abilities and fears that her tarot cards predict her own impending death. Dr. Bandari and Cassandra treat a patient who needs a lung transplant, but the patient faces a difficult decision after Micah uncovers a separate medical problem. Meanwhile, Emily tries to confirm her theory that Will was jealous of her recent blind date, so Tyra offers to teach Emily how to flirt.moreless
Emily and Will work a patient dressed as a costumed character, and though Will immediately assumes that the man's symptoms are caused a psychotic episode, Emily isn't so sure. Dr. Bandari treats a powerful businesswoman who refuses to lighten her workload after suffering a heart attack. When the patient's husband tells Dr. Bandari that he plans to leave his wife after she recovers, Dr. Bandari starts to consider the fate of her own marriage. Meanwhile, Emily goes on a blind date with Cassandra's friend, but the night ends suddenly when her date suffers a serious allergic reaction.moreless
A female car accident victim is brought to the ER, and the staff immediately blames her boyfriend for causing the accident, which stirs some painful memories for Will. Emily learns that her patient is refusing to undergo surgery to treat her cancer, fearing that reconstructive surgery will damage both her career and her relationship. Meanwhile, as Will prepares for an upcoming exam, he struggles to decide between using Cassandra's study method over Emily's legendary flashcards, which brings out Emily's competitive side.moreless
The hospital's popular flower delivery man collapses, and Emily sets out to diagnose his condition. However, she is confused by his refusal to accept treatment. Will and Emily are assigned to a help an ailing criminal, but they struggle to maintain their professionalism and not be influenced by the crimes that he has committed. Meanwhile, Dr. Dupre continues mend his relationship with Tyra, but Emily once again finds herself in the middle when Dr. Dupre and Tyra hit a rough patch and he turns to Emily for help.moreless
Emily provides some constructive criticism for Dr. Bendari on the attending evaluation form, but panics and tries to get the form back when she learns that Dr. Bendari reads the evaluations herself. Will asks Cassandra to befriend Emily, and they both watch while Will makes his first cut on the operating table. Dr. Bendari's first heart patient returns for another procedure, but he must remain awake due to an allergic reaction to the anesthesia. During the operations he suffers a near-death experience, causing him to start questioning his faith in God. A young couple brings their baby in for stomach pains, and they are shocked to learn that they have an intersex child and must decide if they want him to remain a boy or switch genders. Tyra learns some unsettling news about her father and becomes upset with Emily after finding out that Emily had been hiding the truth from her. In retaliation, Tyra tells Cassandra that Emily asked Will not to date her.moreless
Emily suffers a major embarrassment in front of her colleagues at the hands of a drug-impaired patient. In the aftermath, Emily decides to follow Dr. Bandari's advice and tries to toughen up. Emily and Will find that a teenage patient needs a partial liver transplant, but they uncover some surprising information when neither of the teen's parents is a match. Meanwhile, Cassandra starts treating Emily better in an effort to learn more about Will, and Tyra sets Emily up on a date with her ex, a fact which she doesn't reveal to Emily.moreless
Emily and Micah are scrambling to help a patient who desperately needs a kidney transplant, but they are confused when she turns down a kidney donation from her new husband. Emily helps Dr. Bandari and Dr. Hamada with a dangerous surgery to repair a defective heart valve in a baby that a patient is carrying for her sister. Emily vies for a position as Dr. Bandari's research assistant, hoping to prevent Cassandra from spending too much time with Will. Cassandra, however, is willing to do whatever it takes as she pursues Will.moreless
The surgical interns are presented with an impromptu medical quiz with a chance to assist in surgery as the prize, and Emily and Cassandra emerge as the winners. Emily reluctantly agrees to speak to a group of girls about safe sex after an STD outbreak at a local high school. Meanwhile, Emily struggles to forget about her feelings for Will.moreless
Emily is oblivious to her bad reputation among the nurses until one of them presents her a with a very specific case as payback. After revealing her feelings to Will, Emily tries to avoid more awkward encounters by telling him she that she already has another crush. With a patient barely clinging to life, Emily considers using the secret she knows about the chief to obtain a fast approval on a procedure. Meanwhile, Micah is surprised when he finds someone new spending time with his mother during her chemotherapy.moreless
Desperate to shake her geeky girl high school persona, Dr. Emily Owens couldn't be happier to star work as an intern at Denver Memorial Hospital. Much to her dismay, she discovers that her new workplace and her old high school environment have much more in common than she originally thought.


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ORLANDO (Reuters) - Major League Soccer awarded its latest franchise on Tuesday to Orlando before a crowd decked out in purple team colors.
MLS Commissioner Dan Garber made the announcement naming the Orlando City Soccer Club the 21st franchise in the league.
"I'm absolutely delighted for the city, I'm delighted for Central Florida, and most of all delighted for the fans who embraced us here for the past three years," Orlando City Soccer president Phil Rawlins told Reuters.
Rawlins said the Orlando City Lions, a Pro USL team since 2010, will start playing in the league during the 2015 season.
Fans in purple shirts lined up around the block festooned with purple balloons more than two hours early in hopes of gaining admission to a downtown saloon for the celebration.
"It's huge. It's going to be great for the city. It's going to be great for the fans," said Alicia Spencer, 31, a self-employed Lions fan from Orlando.
Last month, city and county officials approved funding for an 18,000-seat, $81 million professional stadium in Orlando's fast-developing downtown entertainment district, which is also home to Amway Arena, the arena of the NBA's Orlando Magic.
The Orlando team will be one of four expansion teams planned by the Major League Soccer through 2020. One new franchise has already been approved for New York, a partnership between the owners of the New York Yankees baseball team and the owners of the British Premier League club Manchester City.
Last week, David Beckham, who starred as a player at Manchester United, Real Madrid and the MLS club L.A. Galaxy, toured potential stadium sites in Miami for the second time in five months as he moved ahead with his plans to bring a MLS franchise to the city.
"I'm looking forward to having a brand new team to cheer for when the Magic aren't playing," said Alex Casper, 29, an unemployed cook and fan from Apopka, Florida.
Rawlins said he would welcome a future Beckham team in Miami. "I think any rivalry is a good thing. The fans love it. It creates an interest, a special spark for the game," Rawlins said.
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Yes, it's true. Sec. 240-3(d) (the former Table 310-16 obelisk note) doesn't apply to pure motor circuit conductors sized in accordance with Sec. 430-22(a).
The drawing you see to the right (available in print version) appears in the December 1998 issue of EC&M, on page 40, as well as in my NEC Illustrated Changes books. It shows a 2-hp motor fed from a 30A circuit breaker and, as covered in the associated text, No. 14 THWN wires. The 1998 article states the wire was sized per Sec. 430-22(a).
The submitter believes the No. 14 wire is incorrect, arguing Sec. 430-22(a) says the conductor ampacity needs to be a minimum of 125% of the motor rating, as determined by Sec. 430-6(a)(1). This section requires the conductors to be selected in accordance with Sec. 310-15(b) or 310-15(c).
Sec. 310-15(b) requires you to use ampacity tables for conductors rated 0 to 2000V (which include the 600V-rated conductors used). Tables 310-16 and 310-17 have an asterisk notation that refers to Sec. 240-3. This section requires conductors to be protected by an overcurrent device, which limits the current to the ampacity of the conductor. Subparagraph (d) to Sec. 240-3 requires the overcurrent device for small conductors to be limited to 15A for No. 14, No. 20A for No. 12, and 30A for No. 10.
The submitter concludes that following this, the minimum conductor size would be No. 10, not No. 14—based on the 30A circuit breaker. He adds a No. 10 conductor meets requirements of Sec. 430-22(a) because it exceeds the minimum of 125% of motor full load current.
The response. The submitter is entirely incorrect. The former obelisk note to the ampacity tables, now Sec. 240-3(d), has never applied if other sections of the Code make alternate provisions. In its new location (Sec. 240-3), this concept is clear in the parent language, which refers to Sec. 240-3(a) through (g). Included therein is Sec. 240-3(g), which in part includes motors. One of the reasons the Usability Committee recommended moving the obelisk note into Art. 240 was to make this point more obvious.
The overcurrent protection for this circuit is divided. The circuit breaker in this instance provides short-circuit protection only. The running overload protection for the motor provides the overload protection. The reason Sec. 430-22(a) uses the 125% parameter is to correlate with Sec. 430-32(a)(1), which also uses 125%. With the motor and its conductors thus fully protected against overload, the only remaining issue is short-circuit and ground-fault protection, and the ratios in Table 430-152 do just that.
This question comes up often. I'd hoped the relocation into Sec. 240-3 would solve the problem, but perhaps not. Be assured, however, there has never been any intention to apply the former obelisk notes to motor circuits, nor is there in the '99 NEC, now that the rules appear in Sec. 240-3(d).


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MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Syria's Foreign Ministry signed agreements with the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to dispose of chemical weapons.
"Difficulties facing Syria, particularly in the framework of the country's war on terrorism, could hinder the implementation of some commitments from time to time," said Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad. But he added Damascus was fully committed to removal of the chemical stockpiles from the war-torn country.
The pacts legalizing the joint mission to rid Syria of its chemical weapons stockpiles was reported by official Syrian radio and television. Mikdad said the government of President Bashar Assad was moving ahead with full implementation of agreements it signed with the United Nations and OPCW since it joined the Chemical Weapons Prohibition Treaty.
The parties also signed a memorandum of understanding on securing medical services and medical evacuation services in the event there is an emergency involving the joint mission.
Syria plans to send a "large shipment" of chemical agents out of the country this month and wrap up the arms removal by March 1, Syrian ally Russia said.
"Literally yesterday the Syrians announced that the removal of a large shipment of chemical substances is planned in February," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said in an interview with the state-supported news agency RIA Novosti.
"They are ready to complete this process by March 1," he said.
His comments followed U.S. criticism last week of the Assad regime's delays in complying with the timetable for eliminating Syria's chemical weapons.
The Obama administration accused the regime Thursday of deliberately stalling the removal of about 1,200 tons of chemical material -- half of it considered especially dangerous -- to gain bargaining leverage.
Just 4 percent of Syria's 530 metric tons of so-called Priority One chemicals -- the most dangerous -- have been removed, when they were supposed to be completely removed by a Dec. 31 deadline, State Department representative Robert Mikulak told the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands.
About the same percentage of less-deadly Priority Two chemicals have also been removed, he said.
The Assad regime blamed the delays on security concerns in the areas through which the chemicals would be transported.
They are to be transported in convoys from 12 storage sites to the Mediterranean port of Latakia in western Syria, about 200 miles northwest of Damascus. From there, they are to be loaded onto Danish and Norwegian ships.
Mikulak told the OPCW the Obama administration rejected those claims.
"These demands are without merit, and display a 'bargaining mentality' rather than a security mentality," he said.


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Protect immigrant women
All women who have lived through violence and abuse should have the certainty that the law will protect them — no matter their race, creed, color, religion or immigration status. Unfortunately, Congress is now considering proposals that would erode this certainty — and its failure to act is already causing harm.
We urge congressional leaders to move forward now to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, without provisions harmful to immigrants.
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As long-time law enforcement leaders, we know this act is crucial. Since passage in 1994, it has helped cut domestic violence by more than half. Still, the scourge of domestic violence remains a serious problem: One in four women experiences an act of domestic violence or sexual assault in her lifetime, and three women die every day at the hands of abusive husbands or partners.
Rates of trafficking women — often from one abusive context to another — are also alarmingly high. Roughly 100,000 survivors of human trafficking live in the United States today, according to the State Department, whose estimates suggest as many as 17,500 foreign-born victims are illegally brought in each year.
We need every available tool to fight these serious crimes, so we fully support reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act — but not in a dangerously altered form that would harm vulnerable immigrant women.
We don't use "dangerously" lightly. When the House sought reauthorization, legislators made changes that dramatically roll back important protections for battered immigrant women and their children — leaving them vulnerable to abuse and, worse, death at the hands of an abuser.
Several House provisions would further endanger immigrant survivors of human trafficking and domestic abuse. These provisions would leave them no legal way to break the cycle of violence in which they are trapped and leave law enforcement no way to bring perpetrators to justice. The changes, for example, would discourage immigrant survivors from calling the police, for fear of immigration issues — so police can't intervene and save their lives.
For many of these women, immigration status is one more weapon that abusers use to intimidate them. Abusers often threaten, "You can't call the police. They'll just deport you."
Under the existing law, our response is clear: "He's wrong. You're safe." If we certify that a victim was helpful to law enforcement during an investigation, she can seek special legal immigration status — known as a U visa.


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Thank you Tamara. Yes, you have indeed understood the essence of the DDR. For information on adaptors (technologies that use information from the delivery context to adapt the content delivered to a client) you should review the material produced by the Device Independence Working Group. Some of the DDWG members are also participants in the DIWG, so there is a lot of cooperation between the groups. While you are reading the DIWG documents, bear in mind that whenever the phrase "delivery context" is mentioned, this is an opportunity for the DDR to play a role, because the DDR will be able to provide that part of the delivery context that relates to "static device characteristics". If you have any questions about content adaptation, feel free to ask questions on the DIWG public mailing list [2]. I have CC'd this reply to that list. ---Rotan [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/di/ <http://www.w3.org/2001/di/> [2] email@example.com ________________________________ From: Tammy [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: 05 May 2006 04:20 To: Rotan Hanrahan Cc: email@example.com Subject: Re: Comments on Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0 Hi Rotan, all this conversation spurred me to read the working draft. Especially when I saw an email from Tim-Berners-Lee in my mailbox! While the discussions in this working group have been high level and beyond my understanding, the working draft seemed to make some things clear. If I understand the part of the picture correctly, using DDRs and content adapters - developers can build an unabridged encyclopedic Web site (full of text, tables, figures, drawings, video clips, sound and other learning objects) that will work for any device because content can be 'filtered' or reorganized based on the calling device. The content adapter is then uses the DDR to format the output. If a device can handle the full unabridged Web it will get it otherwise if it needs to fit into a pocket sized book the adapter makes the decisions of what goes, i.e. if the device can't take the video it can get the alternate graphic/text (a transcription or captions). What I'd like to know is where can I learn more about the device adapters. I see them being to DDR what CSS is to HTML. Is that a correct analogy? One formats presentation the other formats content. Devices would not be the only thing to adapt to, how about content adapted to education grade level, reading level, intermediate/advanced, disability.... ? Is there a public working group discussion list for the device adapters? Tamara Taylor Systems Analyst/Programmer St. Petersburg College Rotan Hanrahan wrote: For the sake of avoiding the kind of loop that the BPWG experienced in past debates, let us concentrate on how this issue relates to the work of the DDWG. Ms Breck notes that there are many people using a diverse set of mobile devices to access educational material on the Web. Unfortunately, much of the material they may wish to access is not available to them because it is incompatible with their device's capabilities. The suggestion that the authors of existing material would recreate their material to suit this diverse community is interesting, but often impractical for a number of reasons: - The authors may not have the resources (finance, time, etc.) to undertake the effort. - The authors may no longer exist (people move on, people fade away). - Alternative representaions of the content may not be available or appropriate. Even if the authors decided to recreate their content for one set of limited devices, there will be other sets of limited devices that will continue to be incompatible with the content. Adaptation is a potential approach. It can be applied in a variety of ways including: - The original authors recreate their content in an adaptable format. - A third-party provides a proxy that "scrapes" pieces from the original content and delivers it via an adaptation solution. Scraping is a technique that requires heuristics/rules to determine the pieces of the content to be extracted, and then reformats these pieces into new content. In the absence of the original author, the process will have to "guess" the intention of the author (i.e. why certain pieces are in certain places). Sometimes it gets this right, more times it gets it wrong. Regardless of how you obtain the pieces of content, there is always one essential step in the solution: ensuring that what you deliver to the end-user will work on the end-user's device. It is this particular step that the DDR hopes to address. Without it, all of the other processes will be prevented from making the Web accessible to the types of users Ms Breck identifies. Of course, it is obvious that an adaptation process is also key to this. I represent a company that provides professional solutions in this space, and I am joined by others in the DDWG who also provide solutions in this space. There are commercial and non-commercial solutions too. All of these will benefit from reliable device information. The commercial solution providers already build extensive private databases of such information, but a general standardised solution that could be used by anyone in the Web (including its mobile aspect) is necessary if everyone is to benefit equally. Please note that some excellent effort has been made within the Open Source community, in particularly the WURFL project. It is therefore significant that both of the people leading that project are participating in DDWG, and we are grateful for their insights. We are also grateful for the input from the OMA community. All of these people understand that to extend the reach of the Web and ensure that the benefits can be shared regardless of the capabilities or limitations of the devices, it will be necessary to have reliable device information. It is therefore fitting that there are messages on this list from potential user communities (e.g. students of the world) who will benefit directly from a successfully implemented DDR. It is for these people that we put in the effort. In return, I would ask the representatives of these communities to let their colleagues know that the challenge of device diversity is not being ignored, and that we value your public support. We also ask you to support our "neighbouring" Device Independence group, as their goal is to exploit device knowledge with appropriate adaptable authoring technologies, which may eventually make diversity a real benefit, and not the "problem" it is so often perceived to be today. Regards, ---Rotan. -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of judy breck Sent: 05 May 2006 15:25 To: Luca Passani; 'Tim Berners-Lee'; firstname.lastname@example.com Cc: 'tag' Subject: Re: Comments on Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0 Creating content that is as open as possible means making it available to the widest possible audience, which means that content should be adapted for a wide set of clients. This proves the opposite of what you claim here.. The phrase here ³wide set of clients² could be synonymous in this discussion with ³wide set of handsets² < because different clients choose different handsets. We have a reality in which the acquisition of devices for voice and email purposes has caused a splintering diversity of device-type. In this situation where there are many types of devices, educators look around and see that there are a around a billion people who have the mobile phones and have no other connection into the Internet. Wouldn¹t it be wonderful if we could deliver educational resources through these phones! The devices essentially all can receive texting, so that is one way. They will one day all host the Web. Perhaps there is an interim middle method to format existing educational materials for the variety of handsets. Perhaps there is not . . . I don¹t mean to start another loop, and apologize for that. My background is having headed (1996-2001) the content of HomeworkCentral.com (became BigChalk.com and was absorbed by ProQuest). I was able to hire graduate students to select links to their academic subjects and to organize them in interlinked packets by subject. We found 150,000+ links of academic knowledge and organized 35,000+ subjects that were visited 4 million times monthly by 2000. All of the links we collected were ³open content² < that is freely accessible online at no charge. Those links, and many more, are still out there at MIT¹s open courseware, the Smithsonian, laboratories, expert websites etc. etc. Here, for example, is a Leonardo exhibit recently placed online by the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/menteleonardo/ As was true more than ten years ago, anyone with Internet access can enjoy this handsome digital material from Florence about Leonard, including those with Web featured phones. But for the upwards of a billion other people who have no Web access but do have phones, perhaps there can be a common format devised to deliver Leonardo, at least in part, now or soon. It could be a format into which the scholars in Florence could revise their exhibit so small screens, blackberries, Palms and the rest could interface some of the knowledge. Apologies if this is not the appropriate forum. Thanks for the chance to express the thoughts. Judy Judy Breck http://goldenswamp.com 212-734-1899 330 East 85th Street, Apt. 1B New York NY 10028Received on Sunday, 7 May 2006 19:40:38 UTC
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