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Quinoa and Red Lentil Kitchari
Instead of focusing on eggs this Easter, I decided to focus on renewal. This delicious vegan Quinoa and Red Lentil Kitchari is based on a recipe forwarded to me by a friend and I do not know the original source. It includes Indian spices, carrots and kale and the resulting dish is comfort food at it's vegetarian best.
Kitchari is an Ayurvedic dish, high in vegetable proteins and easy to digest. It is commonly used as a fasting or cleansing dish and is considered to be dosha-balancing. The proteins vary from mung beans, millet, brown rice, quinoa and lentils. This version uses red quinoa and red lentil and you know as soon as you taste it that this is really good food. Comfort food that's really good for you - bring it on!
Quinoa & Red Lentil Kitchari:
1 TBS olive oil or ghee
1/2 white onion, finely chopped
1 tsp curry powder
1 pinch coriander seeds
1 pinch cumin seeds
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cumin
2 carrots, sliced (and halved if the carrots are large in diameter)
1/2 cup red quinoa, rinsed and soaked in water for 1 hour
3/4 cup red lentils, rinsed and soaked in water for 1 hour
3-4 cups of water
1/2 bunch kale leaves, chopped
sea salt to taste
1/2 cup cilantro leaves, chopped
Heat the oil in a heavy bottomed sauce pan. Add the chopped onions and cook for 2 mintues. Add all the spices and stir well. Add the carrots and cook 2 minutes. Add the quinoa, lentils and 3 cups of water. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the kale with additional water as needed. Simmer for 15 minutes, then add salt to taste. Continue to simmer uncovered until almost all the water has been absorbed (should have a very thick soup consistency). Add the cilantro and cook 1 minute. Adjust the salt.
Happy Easter! May you be renewed.


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Inside Man - Marijuana
Aired June 23, 2013 - 22:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MORGAN SPURLOCK, HOST (voice-over): Marijuana has not always been hated by the U.S. government. In fact, before 1937, it wasn't even considered an illegal drug. But after prohibition, the government needed a new evil to go after, so they formed the federal bureau of narcotics and put marijuana near the top of the hit list and they have been hating on pot ever since. But in 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis and 18 other states followed suit. Now, with more and more states not only decriminalizing, but legalizing marijuana, can the federal government still believe that pot is as dangerous as heroin? And what will it take for the feds to finally respect state cannabis laws? Turns out, one particular dispensary in Oakland, California, could decide the fate of medical marijuana for the entire nation. (On-camera): Time the go sell some weed. Get ready. In California where we are right now, medical marijuana has been legal since 1996. And once it was made legal, there was a proliferation of dispensaries where people could go and get marijuana, you know, marijuana products. Once they started popping up, then the department of justice started clamping down on them for being illegal. So, while it is legal in California for them to sell medical marijuana, it is illegal federally for these places to exist, so it is a catch 22. I don't know, but it is going to be really interesting to see where you should draw the line. Is legalization the answer or just opening up a much larger can of worms and a potential for more problems, because that is what a lot of people will argue. The minute you legalize it, we will become a nation of unemployed good for nothing sitting around eating Twinkies and not having jobs. (Voice-over): But in order to purchase or let alone smoke any of that sweet medical MJ, first, I need a note from my doctor. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, there. SPURLOCK: Hey, how are you? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good. Do you have an appointment to me? SPURLOCK: Yes, I do. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Is this your first time doing this? SPURLOCK: Yes, it is. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, great. Please fill out the questionnaire. SPURLOCK: I understand under controlled subs-connect in 1970s hence this kind of schedule one to finding it is highly addictive and having potential for abuse. I understand the cannabis is a medicine, use in treating serious and debilitating medical conditions. I acknowledge that I have been advised not to drive vehicles or operate machinery or participate in any active they that require state judgment or analytical activities while under the influence of cannabis. Are you currently using or did you use in the past any of the following drugs -- cocaine, ecstasy, downers, crack pills, opiates or mushrooms, lsd -- a lot of damning information to this questionnaire. HANYA BARTH, DOCTOR: Thanks for filling this out. SPURLOCK: Yes, thank you. BARTH: OK. So, let's see. Morgan Spurlock, you are 42-years-old, and you would like to use marijuana, and you think it might help you for anxiety and insomnia, and you have talked to the doctor about your insomnia? SPURLOCK: I have. BARTH: You have. OK. And did your doctor have any recommendations? SPURLOCK: Yes, he gave me some xanax? BARTH: Do you that prescription bottle with you or not? SPURLOCK: I do. BARTH: Excellent. So the fact that you have a primary doctor, I do kind of a brief physical exam. Don't fall asleep here now. SPURLOCK: It wouldn't take much. BARTH: I can tell. I see no reason why you shouldn't try the marijuana. I will make out a recommendation for you, so different strains will help you sleep and different strains will help you to be more alert. And for some people, it can create a little bit of paranoia and anxiety, and depends upon the strain. SPURLOCK: I don't need more paranoia in my life. BARTH: No. Most of us don't. SPURLOCK: Yes. There it is. Not only do I now have a card that makes me the ability to buy cannabis in the state of California, but because I have this form, which I was even more shocked by, now I have the ability to grow marijuana, and in the state of California. And in San Francisco, I can grow up to 24 plants in my backyard if I so wanted to. Now, that I have my card, the next stop is across the bay in Oakland, the Harborside health center. Harborside was founded in 2006 as a model of what a medical marijuana dispensary could be. They serve between 600 and 800 patients every single day making them the largest dispensary in the United States. But, according to the feds, Harborside is the largest illegal drug distribution center in the country. And today -- Hello, man. I'm Harborside's newest hire. Harborside faces an uncertain future, and federal efforts have already forced a closure of more than other 600 dispensaries in California alone. U.S. attorney Melinda Hague has pursued Harborside with a vengeance, but Harborside has decided to fight back. And within a month, the courts will decide whether or not Harborside can continue to do business in California. It is a lot nicer than I thought it would be. It looks like a pot health clinic. It smells like my college bedroom. Steve DeAngelo is the executive director and co-founder at Harborside health center. Hey, how are you? STEVE DEANGELO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CO-FOUNDER, HARBORSIDE: Hi. Welcome to Harborside. SPURLOCK: Great to meet you. DEANGELO: Yes. Nice to meet you, too. SPURLOCK: Yes, thanks. What are the ailments that people come in here, when they are seeking to get some medicines and treatment, what are they suffering from? What is the scope? DEANGELO: Well, you know, we see everything from very serious illnesses like cancer, HIV, AIDS, epilepsy to things like anxiety, depression and insomnia. We see a lot of patients with chronic pain. California law allows doctors the write a recommendation for any condition that can cannabis is active for, and it turns out that cannabis is effective for a wide range of conditions. SPURLOCK: What happens when somebody gets here? DEANGELO: So, the first thing that happens is outside. Patient show their medical cannabis documentation and their photo ID before they even admitted to the facility. SPURLOCK: So, nobody can just walk in from the street? DEANGELO: Exactly. SPURLOCK: (INAUDIBLE). DEANGELO: Three types of patients who will come through the door -- new patients, returning patients and patients who are bringing us medicine to distribute to the rest of the patients. So, this is our reception area here. This is patients come in. We double-check their medical cannabis recommendation and make sure that you have not exceed your maximum amount of visits or amount of medicine to purchase and then you are welcome to, you can go on to the floor to select your medicine or to take advantage of some of the services that we have available here. We offer acupuncture, (INAUDIBLE). SPURLOCK: Breaking tai chi, since yoga, says anyone to come here bringing these things, they can come for free. DEANGELO: Completely free. They never have to buy anything. In addition to that, we also have a care package program for low-income that provides our low-income patient with a free gram and a half of medicine every week. We serve about 500 patients. SPURLOCK: OK. DEANGELO: Now we are going to be leaving the public part of our facility and going into the private secure area. SPURLOCK: The first stop is here, the cannabis that comes to the Harborside is here, the intake department. This is the most weed I have ever seen in my life. DEANGELO: Well, you know, when you have 600 to 800 people coming through, you need to keep a little bit of medicine in stock. SPURLOCK: The growers, all of them are members Harborside collective are first called individually to have their cannabis evaluated for quality and purity. Then, the quanti-can, a machine Steve co-invented tests the potency and chemical make of the plant giving in an exceedingly accurate portrait the pots make up. Hey, you guys invented that? DEANGELO: We did. SPURLOCK: You are like the Eli Whitney of marijuana, and that is your cotton gin right there? DEANGELO: Well, it was a huge opportunity for innovation, American ingenuity. SPURLOCK: If the products meet Harborside's strict standards, the plant is weed out, paid for and processed for sale. Harborside insists that all of the steps were taken to ensure the safe-hang quality of the medicine. But according to the feds, everyone of those steps is illegal. DEANGELO: Step over here and I will show you sort of what the typical process is for helping a patients select their medicine. SPURLOCK: OK. DEANGELO: Cannabis contains about 65 unique medical compounds called cannabioids. The ratio of those 65 chemical, one to another various and each one of the various different strains of cannabis and there are 600 strains that we know about. Now, the interesting thing is that unlike varieties of wine all of which make you feel basically the same, each variety of cannabis has a slightly different effect. Harborside classifies four major different types of cannabis. There are either indica dominant or sativa dominant. SPURLOCK: What is the difference between indica and sativa? DEANGELO: Sativa cannabis tends to produces a more cerebral and energizing effect. Whereas sedative tends to produce a more sedative and relaxing and pain controlling type of effect. So, another aspect of the selection process is the delivering mechanism for that cannabis. So, we encourage patients not to consumed raw Canada's flowers by means of smoking. So if I had a patient who came to me and was complaining of chronic pain that woke them up or insomnia, and what they really wanted from the medicine was the ability to get a good solid at night for insomnia and what they really wanted from the medicine was the ability to get a good solid night's sleep, I would probably recommend to them one of these capsules here. SPURLOCK: Where are these capsules come from? DEANGELO: So, these are capsules made by, like all of our medicine, by patients. SPURLOCK: And that is not all they make. There are tinctures for nausea, trappable concentrates for skin cancer lesions, edibles and beverages, even lotions and salves, treatments for all kinds of ailments. DEANGELO: It is very important that patients have a wide range of varieties of cannabis, but also a wide range of different forms of cannabis and medicines. SPURLOCK: You might guess that Harborside is a pretty good business and it is true. Om average, they sell more than 75,000 when the cannabis, each and every day, so it comes as no surprise, that the facility has a top-notched security system complete with sophisticated surveillance camera by metro glocks and are-enforced bullet. So, all the money and all the weed, every night's lock up. DEANGELO: Yes. I created Harborside to set a standard professionalism and abstinence that the rest of the industry hopeful would emulate that would allow up to show the rest of America that this is a substance not to be afraid, but really something is (INAUDIBLE). SPURLOCK: But why a nonprofit? Why not say, we are making $25 million a year. We should make this a four problem (ph) business so we can actually really make some money? DEANGELO: Well, because California law requires us to be a nonprofit and we are committed to being 100 percent compliant with the laws. So, we take that a nonprofit mandate very, very seriously. But, if the state of California saw a fit to make this activity a profit-making activity, we would embrace that with equal enthusiasm. SPURLOCK: I bet you would. Incredible. So, what is the plan for tomorrow? DEANGELO: So, tomorrow at 8:30, we are having an all staff meeting to update and discussed our legal situation, the federal government. And then after that, we are going to put you to work in Fourth Hood. SPURLOCK: Thanks. DEANGELO: See you then. SPURLOCK: I am blown away by how much of a well-organized business it was because the last thing you would expect is kind of is to kind of bunch of donor would be able to have a really organized business. And it is impressive. It is really impressive. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SPURLOCK (voice-over): Today's my first day at work at the Harborside health clinic. Even though more and more states believe that marijuana should be legal, the federal government feels otherwise. Harborside's problems with the fed began back in 2009 with an IRS audit. Next, that the treasury department interfered with their banking operations, and finally, the U.S. attorney filed civilized forfeiture proceedings in July of 2012 meaning that all of Harborside's property and assets are now vulnerable to seizure. Even though Harborside is fully compliant with the California law, the federal government used the dispensary as a criminal organization. But Harborside has chosen to fight back and has an unusual ally in their corner. The city of Oakland has taken U.S. government to court to keep Harborside up and running. This marks the first time any city has taken the U.S. government the court over its marijuana laws. DEANGELO: So, our next big test is going to be December 20th. It is going to be a really historic day of hearings and critical constitutional issues about the power of localities, cities, the states from the federal government and their relationships to each are going to be discussed and implicated in this case. It is a case of huge national importance. First, we are going to hear a motion from the city to completely stop any further proceedings. If the judge were to rule on that motion on that day, it would stop everything, dead in its traps and probably never resurrect it again. Then, we are going to hear motions from our landlords for the court to issue an order for us to cease and disease selling cannabis. If we win, that mean, that we get our day in court and we will win. We will be in front of a bay area jury, and all we have to prove is that more harm will result from closing Harborside than results from allowing Harborside open, and I can make that case to a bay area jury with my hands tied behind my back, blindfolded and with a gag in my mouth. (APPLAUSE) DEANGELO: If we lose those injunctions, we will be issued with a cease and desist order. So, what that means is that maybe, looking at a situation where we may need to adapt our business model. But I will tell you one thing for sure and certain, we will keep the commitment that we made to our patients six years ago, and more than six years ago to provide them with the highest quality medicine and the highest quality patient care possible. We will never ever abandon the patients who depend on us. (APPLAUSE) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Harborside phasing out. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Attention Harborside, attention Harborside. The time is now 10:00, and Harborside is open. All remaining staffs, please turn your channel to 3. SPURLOCK: Hey, there, man. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey. How are you doing? SPURLOCK: Good, brother. What do you need today? Here is the cheese drain. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is really interesting. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And then, I also need a single dose cube of dark chocolate. SPURLOCK: So, you are here with your son? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, this is my son. SPURLOCK: Yes. What do you use (INAUDIBLE) for, sir? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Heel spurs and carpal tunnels. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Migraine. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Diabetes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have problem sleeping. I also have a herniated disc in my back and it helps the muscles relax. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can I smell the haze? SPURLOCK: Yes, you can. Chocolate chip. Chocolate chip. Chocolate. What were you taking before? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was taking anti-depressants and synthetic hormones and sleeping medication and something to combat the side effect from the antidepressant. SPURLOCK: Medication to deal with other medication. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) stabilizer, took it for three days and it made my kidney start to bleed. SPURLOCK: So, were you having internal bleeding or you are like peeing -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: like peeing blood. Yes, I'm a young guy. I didn't at the time want to have to deal with that. And I feel fine after I smoked the right kind of strain. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A lot of seniors grew up as did I did thinking that it was something only jazz musicians did, you know. But, we have all evolved. I mean the whole country is evolving. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's hug it up, man. SPURLOCK: Great to see you. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Great to see you. I will see you tomorrow? SPURLOCK: Yes. I will be here. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, cool. I will see you then. SPURLOCK: Thanks. Have a good night. You see this place is all about the love. That is what I like. Not any attitude or angry people coming in. Nobody is screaming. Nobody yelling. It is all very kind of calm, cool, collected. It's nice. Stand inside of a liquor store for an hour and see who comes like stumbling into a liquor store, and it is filled with angry people. There is not a lot of happy people wandering into the liquor store. Very different vibe here. Next customer. Why do you like this place? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is a really well run establishment. It is clean, and everyone is friendly and nice here. SPURLOCK: And so that is 96 of pre-tax and before tax. How are you? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you? SPURLOCK: I'm good. What is your name? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My name is Captain Bob. SPURLOCK: You are a senior veteran? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I spent a lot of time in Vietnam. SPURLOCK: Is that where a lot of the pain comes from? Comes from then? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes. No question about it. SPURLOCK: Like what kind of injuries did you have coming out of Vietnam? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I have three bullet holes in the leg. I don't take anymore vicodin, I don't take anymore (INAUDIBLE), I don't take anymore of those pills, nothing. SPURLOCK: You are off of them? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nothing. I go home with some of this and I sleep good and I'm not in pain. SPURLOCK: See you next time you come in. Thanks. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you very, very much. I appreciate it. SPURLOCK: Thank you, sir. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't let them sons of a bitch to close you up. SPURLOCK: Thanks, Robert. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SPURLOCK: What is interesting about marijuana, it is a schedule I narcotic, and all of this started because of Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon ultimately wanted to overthrow the, you know, the crazy hippies that were part of this peace and love movement that he saw as destructive to America, and so he was able to get it classified as schedule I narcotic carrying the same type of ramifications if you were caught with heroin or today, methamphetamines. Schedule I narcotics are defines as having three key straits, the drug or substance has high potential for abuse, it currently has now accepted medical use and treatment in the United States and it has been deemed unsafe for use under medical supervision. It estimated that United States spends around $40 billion fighting the war on drugs annually and 13.7 billion of that has been on marijuana. All right, this, despite evidence that marijuana is far less addictive than even alcohol or tobacco which together, accounts for hundreds of thousands of American deaths each year. UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Continuing coverage of the federal the war on California pot shops. UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Tonight, we confirm that two valley pot shops have now been shut down by the feds and this is important, the shutdown came without warning. UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: The two dispensary raids appeared to be connected to the discovery of a large marijuana growing operation two weeks ago in the stock in warehouse. Public records show corporate paper work for the medicine dispensary that the dispensary goes to Matthew Davies of property management in Stockton. SPURLOCK: Are you ready to do this? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. SPURLOCK: Matt Davis was federally indicted for growing the very marijuana that he sold in his two California dispensaries. Unlike Steve DeAngelo of Harborside health, Matt is facing a criminal prosecution as a result, now Matt, an MBA with a wife and two young children is facing up to 40 years in federal prison. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The case of Matt Davis more than any other case in the country demonstrates the conflict between state law and federal law with regard to medical marijuana. Matt Davies is facing charges for manufacture of marijuana even though the people of California voted overwhelmingly to permit medical marijuana use. Matt worked hard to follow the state law. He read the statements by candidate Obama and then President Obama and his justice department saying that if you follow the state law, you will not be prosecuted by the federal government. Those statements that Matt relied on ended up to be false. BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you, everybody. Thank you. SPURLOCK: It was in 2008 when then candidate Barack Obama denounced the bush administration raids on medical canvass. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You tube post shows the campaigning Barack Obama calling DEA raids on medical marijuana shops a waste of taxpayer money. OBAMA: What I am not going to be doing is to use justice department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you prepared for the oath, Senator? OBAMA: I am, sir. I, Barack Hussein Obama -- SPURLOCK: Upon taking office, the Obama administration made his campaign statements official policy with the justice department releasing the Ogden memo. This suggests that that government would no longer focus resources on individuals whose actions were unclear and unambiguous compliance with the state laws. Basically, if you were using or growing marijuana for medical purposes in states where it is legal, you would not have to worry about the feds knocking down the door. This policy shift led to medical marijuana dispensaries proliferating all across states that had previously legalized it. But contradictory to what the Ogden stated, in the following two years of its release, the department of justice actually increased its raids. In 2011, as the crackdowns continued, the justice department released a subsequent memo saying that the marijuana medical patients would be free from prosecution, but not industrial growers. By April 2012, the number of dispensaries raided grew to nearly 200, resulting in over 60 federal indictments. That is more raids in the first four years of the Obama administration than in all eight years of the George W. Bush presidency. MATTHEW DAVIES, CONVICTED 40 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON: Harborside was a model that we looked to and were happy with. We thought that Steve was a pioneer in the industry, and we thought that he was definitely somebody to look at to do it right. The only way we diverged, which I guess became the downfall, we knew that Steve was beholden to the wholesale market, and thus the patients were paying much higher prices really than they should have to. And we thought how can we do it better than Steve? We can vertically integrate so we can lower the price of medicine so we can offer the same equivalent product that Steve did at 40 percent less. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There you go. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I plotted my worst case scenarios, the idea of federal intervention was never one of them. I was naive for trusting our government and believing what they said. MOLLY DAVIES, MATTHEW DAVIES' WIFE: Today, I don't accept that my husband is going to prison. I'm afraid of it. But I don't accept that it is go going to happen, because I think that there has to be someone who sees the situation and realizes what a gross miscarriage of justice it would be to put him in prison. SPURLOCK: Dispensaries can't stay open without a steady supply of product to sell. Cannabis is a plant and for ha Harborside to operate, someone has to grow it. In California, dispensaries are state licensed, but not any of the growers. Leaving them with no real legal protection and living under the constant threat of prosecution. Once targeted, a growing operation's legal consequences can be much more severe than dispensaries as they are often subject to severe mandatory sentences. So I'm locked in the back of a blocked out van, somewhere in Northern California being driven to a undisclosed location where they grow vast amounts of marijuana, and there are stipulations that we have to follow now. We cannot show you the people who work there, we can't show anything who has work with their spaces, we can't show any hands or body parts. This is not sketchy at all. We are driving into a building right now. You hear the dogs? They are closing the doors so we won't know where we are, and they are getting out. When it comes to growing operations at least in the eyes of the federal government bigger is not better. Every time California or any other state has attempted to license a large scale growing operation, the government has stepped in and prohibited them from doing so. The growers rarely publicize their operations out of fear of being raid and arrested. This grower agreed to take us around the facility, but out of fear of prosecution, would not appear on camera and made us alter his voice. He was the only we found who would talk to us. In the eyes of the government is this legal? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Which government? SPURLOCK: In the state? What does the state government say? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are compliant and we are not. SPURLOCK: And so would you be arrested or confiscate anything? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, we don't know. Nobody really knows what happens. I mean, every story is different. This is actually a room that is just set up to go into flowering. SPURLOCK: OK. This is like such a massive setup, and this is only one room. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. SPURLOCK: How many rooms like this do you have? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two. I would say this is a small to medium-sized commercial facility with hundreds of lights here, and there are people with small size and this city has no industry, so without us, the city would be worse than it already is. They say that one in three warehouses in the city, are closed. SPURLOCK: One in three. Wow! That is amazing. So these are all of the ballasts for all the lights that in the rooms. You have air ventilation system that keeps the air circulating. If you look these are the charcoal filters and what each one of these round charcoal filter does is to filter out the air so you don't ever kind get that marijuana smell. And just here in these two rooms is about $500,000 of materials before they even grow plant number one. It is -- it's unbelievable. Look at this. Holy cow! It is like a Cheech (ph)and Chong (ph) dream in here. When you harvest, how many pounds would come out of marijuana plants would come out in 18- plants? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We would hope for a pound a light. SPURLOCK: A pound per light. So how many lights? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: About 50 lights. SPURLOCK: So you are hoping for 50 pounds? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. SPURLOCK: And let's do the math. The current price of a pound of OG Kush is $2700. And this one room with its 50 lights would produce $135,000 worth of product. The growing cycle takes three months, so that is so when you take out the room, it is going to be about $540,000 a year from each room. But once you take out for your expenses, meaning you have a room that cost you 500,000 and you pay your employees and you pay your partners and investors, their dividends, what do you pay home? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you would have to ask it at the end of the year. I have not cashed a check for being positive. To be honest with you, I have not cashed (INAUDIBLE). One of the reasons that I'm here is because I believe in the movement. SPURLOCK: Yes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Without being said, there is a lot of (INAUDIBLE) be made here. SPURLOCK: Well, thank you very much to today. This is great. I appreciate it. See you on the other side. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SPURLOCK (voice-over): Harborside is built its reputation on its commitment to patient's service. Today, I'm experiencing this firsthand going out on runs in their newly minted delivery service. BRIAN BURGESS, HEAD OF DELIVERIES: All right, let's ride out. SPURLOCK: In response to the constant threat of having their physical location shutdown, Harborside started the delivery service to continue to get the medications to the patients. How many deliveries do you usually do in a day? BURGEES: Maybe, it is anywhere from 25 to 40 deliveries in a day. SPURLOCK: And what are the customers like? Are the people who can't travel, are they old, what is it? BURGESS: You get a pretty good mix. Some people just really enjoy the convenience of it. There are a lot of senior citizens. There's patients who are quadriplegics, of course a lot of veterans, and some people just can't get a ride or they have lost their ride. I know that there are patients who have lost their ride because of the person who used to give them the ride is kind of sketched out because of the federal attention and some people don't want to come to the main dispensaries. SPURLOCK: Where is the most interesting place you have made a delivery? BURGESS: I think a church. I did not personally make the delivery, but I know one of the drivers had to go to the church. SPURLOCK: Is what you do legal? BURGESS: What we do is legal in the state of California. Of course, federally, it is still 100 percent prohibited. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi. BURGESS: Hi. SPURLOCK: Hi, how are you? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi. SPURLOCK: During the delivery, IDs examine and order's checked with the same thoroughness as if at the dispensary. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go ahead and count them. SPURLOCK: OK. There is $53. And because of the crackdowns on banks and credit card companies who had dealings with the dispensaries, all of the Harborside transactions are conducted in cash. Why is marijuana such an important part of your life? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have a history of being extremely underweight. I go down to 80 pounds. That is not good. But if I will smoke a little before each meal, I find that I can eat more. SPURLOCK: What happened to the foot? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the purpose why you are over here visiting myself today. SPURLOCK: What happened? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I broke my ankle. SPURLOCK: Gabrielle is a care giver for her husband, a veteran who did three tours of duty and currently struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. How long has your husband been on medical marijuana now? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Three years. SPURLOCK: How was it before? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, that was not a pretty picture because we have to give him medicine. I think it was just making him more numb and not getting any results versus using pot. He's always on control. He can be someone that I can manage to be around and not afraid, because a lot of the times when they are, when they get out, they like to be isolated. They don't like to be around many people. We have kids. You need to be around. SPURLOCK: And do you have like friends or families who think it is a mistake that you give it to him? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My grandmother. My grandmother, but she is 95 years old. I can't change that. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, hello. SPURLOCK: Hi, how are you? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm good. Come on in. SPURLOCK: Thanks. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm not trying to be a vegetable, and I'm not trying to be on something that I won't ever be able to get off of. SPURLOCK: Right. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: With many of the pharmacological things are about. SPURLOCK: When you went off of chemo, what about the natural remedies, and going on the cannabis oils and the hemp oils do for you? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They help me sleep. And that is very, very important when you are trying to heal to get the regenerative sleep. And also, our brain function is coming back, and I have five beautiful children and six gorgeous grandchildren and I love them all. And so, you know, I want to be around, you know. I want to be around, but I want to be around and I want to be effective. SPURLOCK: Why do you think there is so much pushback, you know, just not in California, but across the country with regards of medical marijuana? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because the pharmaceutical companies want to keep us so wrapped up in taking the pills and just pushing, pushing, pushing and against what is natural, what we can do for ourselves, how we can find new ways to stay healthy and this whole mindset that you feel the pain and you go to the doctor and you go to take a pill, and that is supposed to make you well. And so, I just really think it is about money. SPURLOCK: Sondra may have a point, after all 3/4 of Americans are in favor of medical marijuana. Eighteen states in Washington, D.C. have formally legalized it for medical use, 14 states have decriminalized pot, and most recently Washington and Colorado have outright legalized it altogether. So, if the country seems to be increasingly in favor of decriminalizing marijuana and legalizing it for medical use, why is the federal government so steadfast in the opposition? Well, one reason could be the lobbyists. The alcohol industry, for-profit prisons and rehab centers stand to lose billions of dollars from pot's legalization, and law enforcement as well as many government departments and career politicians could lose jobs if the war on pot ends. Industries like these have a history of not letting anything get in the way of their profits. U.S. attorney Melinda Hague issued a statement about Harborside which I find to be pretty compelling. She basically says that she now needs to consider actions regarding marijuana superstores such as Harborside, because the larger the operation, the greater the likelihood that there is going to be abuse of the state's medical marijuana laws and marijuana in hands of individuals who do not have a demonstrated medical need. So, basically what she is saying is that you are so big and you are so successful, that because of that, we want to make sure that by attacking you, no illegal ones pop up. That we are going to basically shut you down. It is kind of dumbfounding. So, I'm going to call Melinda Hague and kind of see what the word is from her. Yes, I'm trying to reach Melinda Hague. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You have reached the voice mail of Melinda Hague. He was attorney for the northern preserve of California. Please leave a message and we will be back to you as soon as possible, thank you. SPURLOCK: Yes. I'm trying to reach U.S. attorney Melinda Hague. Melinda, this is Morgan Spurlock calling and I wanted to speak to you about Harborside medical and the civil forfeiture legal actions that are currently being put against them. If you could call me back, I would love to talk to you when you have a chance. Thank you, bye. Nobody there. We are going to keep calling. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm not able to take your call right now. Please leave your name and number and reason for the call. SPURLOCK: Morgan Spurlock calling for Melinda Hague. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm not able to take your call right now. SPURLOCK: Yes, we are trying to reach Melinda Hague's office please and once again, it is Morgan Spurlock after all. Thanks, bye. Nobody is going to talk to us. It is very evident no one is going to talk to us. We are going to keep trying. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SPURLOCK (voice-over): With the court date in just a few days, we are heading to San Francisco to meet up with Henry Wykowski, the lawyer who represents Harborside health center. Harborside is operating in dangerous legal waters. No dispensary has ever successfully fought back against the federal government, and no city has ever come to a dispensary's aid like Oakland. The city sees Harborside as the very model of a responsible business estimating it has taken $20 million out of street de dealer's hands. Hi. I'm Morgan Spurlock. HENRY WYKOWSKI, HARBORSIDE'S LAWYER: Nice to meet you. SPURLOCK: Nice to meet you. Why did you decide to take on their case? WYKOWSKI: I admire what they are doing. I enjoy taking on challenging cases. It would be most unfortunate if Harborside were closed down because the federal government would be depriving the states and the other dispensaries of a model that they should aspire to emulate. Harborside and you, and you and Harborside are the first medical marijuana cannabis dispensary that has stood up to the medical government. They have done it to other dispensaries but they have all quietly closed down. SPURLOCK: Why do more people not fight back? WYKOWSKI: They are scared and it is very expensive. The odds are overwhelming. It is very few people that are willing to stand up to the United States of America, and that is what he is doing. He is willing to make a sacrifice for what he believes in. I mean, this is the United States of America versus Harborside. SPURLOCK: The day Steve DeAngelo has been waiting for is finally here. Chief federal justice Maria Elena James is hearing their motions, and she could effectively shutdown Harborside for good. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I came from Kentucky. I love you. I love you. I love your brother. DEANGELO: I know if I died tomorrow that my life's work is going to be accomplished, and I don't think that the drug warriors like Melinda Hague can say the same thing. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you so much. DEANGELO: All right. All right. There's Henry. OK. SPURLOCK: The precedent-setting ruling today will likely help shape the future for cannabis for patients and proprietors and for all of the states with these laws on their books. DEANGELO: I'm all set, baby. WYKOWSKI: We are going to win. DEANGELO: Absolutely. That is what we came here to do. SPURLOCK: For Steve, a win is everything. A loss would be devastating. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SPURLOCK (voice-over): Steve has received the ruling from the judge, and a meeting to announce the decision to the Harborside staff and supporters has been called. DEANGELO: I am happy to report to you that the federal judge in our case, the judge Elena Maria James ruled in our favor and said that Harborside does not have to stop selling cannabis, and the landlords cannot force us to stop selling cannabis, and our doors are going to remain open. (APPLAUSE) SPURLOCK: Even though this is a great victory for Harborside, their fight isn't over yet. The federal government is still focused on shutting them down. The next step is a trial, and only time will tell if the will of the people is more powerful than the 42-year-old laws of the federal government. People will look at Steven and say, he is some crazy old stoner running the business, but I think that what he is doing is to really kind of changing the tide in perception of what medical marijuana really is. I mean, I think he is proving that there is a market for it. I think he is proving that there is a need for it. And I think that he is proving that there is a way to do it safely, efficiently, and what we are really start to turn people around to this notion when they see it is a business to do it, when they see there is not just shady guys on the street corners, people hanging out with tank tops and selling drugs, they see that it is, you know, people are running clean establishments that are safe, that ultimately, not only generate revenue for the city, but generate, you know, vast amounts of tax revenue for the country. I mean, it could really change things. And if the government decides to regulate and tax, we might soon be calling the bureau of ATF, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and marijuana. On February 14th, 2013, Judge James ruled that the city of Oakland had no standing in suing the federal government on behalf of Harborside and threw the case out. Harborside is still awaiting a trial date to present their case in front of a bay area jury. The court date will most likely be scheduled for sometime in 2014. Facing the possibility of a much longer sentence, on May 31st Matt Davies accepted a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for the mandatory minimum of five years. As for U.S. attorney Melinda Hague, I have called, and called and called and nothing. That is what I am getting from the phone calls right now. (END VIDEOTAPE) END


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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Don't Eat the Glitter.
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yes! I just bought some gold glitter polish for my birthday. TIS THE SEASON FOR GLITTER EVERYTHING!ReplyDelete
I love glittery nail polish! Only, it's so hard to get off! I worked in food last year, right during prime glittery-nail season. It's a bummer!ReplyDelete
I'm so bad with glitter I always get it every where but it looks nice on you!ReplyDelete
I overdosed on glittery nail polish when I was little, but this is very, very nice indeed!ReplyDelete
I'm the same way with nail polish, especially glitter nail polish, Im always looking at my hands. :)ReplyDelete
I have the same love for glitter as well. some find it weird or unhealthy but it think its just ok ;]ReplyDelete
Soo pretty. I love glitter too. I like to say it's the "magpie" in me--just being attracted to shiny objects.ReplyDelete
Sparkle fever! I have it too! I keep typing "sequin" into every clothing website I window shop at.ReplyDelete
It's so pretty. (:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Imagine if you dipped into your pool of sunscreen and then the one of glitter. That would be awesome!ReplyDelete
Oh loved the color! Glitter distracts me too but I really want that enamel now. Hah xxReplyDelete
I love the glitter nails. So festive! So jolly! Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
my best friend got me shimmery gold polish for my birthday! i love it!ReplyDelete
this is the perfect glitter shade!! i love these shots especially, you on your laptop - great concept!ReplyDelete
holy shit that glitter.ReplyDelete
i've got a sephora gold glitter. but yours looks like your nail is literally made out of glitter.
hihi i like it!ReplyDelete
Haha! Glitter does look tasty- especially pink glitter! Although a soft drink company over here has just brought out a christmas drink with edible glitter: http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Brands-News/Britvic-launches-Glitter-BerryReplyDelete
Eeee yes! I love glitter, especially glittery nailpolish. I hunted some down on ebay last winter like a madwoman, and you remind me that I should really wear it a bit more!ReplyDelete
Firstly, I enjoy your cleverness regarding the combination of that anthro top awash with hands, with your own hands. Secondly, unrelated, but I started Downton Abbey per your recommendation and I'm enjoying it very much.ReplyDelete
I love this gold glitter polish! I've been looking for the perfect one and this looks like it may be it.ReplyDelete
Random Glitter Side Note: We had a Harry Potter Party this summer at the library and I had the grand idea to use lots and lots of glitter in our Harry Potter Wand Decorating Station...and oh. my. god. We had glitter in the carpet for the rest of the summer. There were piles of glitter everywhere.
It was actually pretty magical! :)
Right now I have a glittery black nail polish with a top coat of even more glittery confetti nail polish so I pretty much have the sparkliest fingers ever.ReplyDelete
What a lovely nailpolish! I haven't found gold glitter polish anywhere and I've been looking and looking..ReplyDelete
I just bought a really similar polish, and I love it! So fun and pretty!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Love it! I have a gold and silver glitter nail polish by Paul & Joe that is similar but not so intense, I want the intense stuff! Will have to check it out :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2011 at 9:04 AM
The glitter is ace, but I'm crazy about your shirt! So cute!ReplyDelete
Ah, fellow lover of glittery, sparkly things!ReplyDelete
Christmas - such a good excuse to add some sparkle.ReplyDelete
lol, this is so funny to me. i have really bad ocd and can not be around glitter. it sticks to everything. all the reasons why you love it are the reasons why i absolutely hate it! i used to be a teacher and banned it in my classroom- i was a bad teacher. i love your childhood imagination though!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, this is so pretty.ReplyDelete
I have this nail polish and I wear it and constantly wiggle my fingers too!ReplyDelete


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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new standard reference material (SRM), the first such measurement tool to enable hospitals to link important tissue density measurements made by CAT scans to international standards.
Computed tomography ("CT" or "CAT") uses computer processing to combine multiple X-ray images into three-dimensional scans that resemble slices of the body. These cross-sections are useful for spotting changes that are difficult to discern from ordinary two-dimensional X-ray images alone, such as the changes in lung tissue that indicate cancer or emphysema. Millions of CAT scans take place every year in the U.S. alone, but over time, the devices' outputs have a tendency to "drift," according to NIST physicist Zachary Levine.
"Scanners are calibrated daily, but over periods of months you still see variations," says Levine. "Some of these come from the physical degradation of the machine, or even from changes made by software upgrades. Doctors "get to know" their own machine's idiosyncrasies and make good diagnoses, but they'd still like to be more certain about what they're seeing, especially when it comes to lung tissue."
Calibrating a CAT scanner is not difficult in principle. All that is needed are physical objects of known density that can be run through the scanner together with a patient so the scan shows both the patient and the reference. Finding an appropriate material was a bit challenging though. Lung tissue is among the lightest in the body, and varies constantly in its density depending on how much air is trapped in it.
A lung tissue SRM must span a range of densities not only for this reason, but for diagnostic purposes as well. While emphysema makes lung tissue grow less dense, in a tumor the density increases. Scientists who work on CAT scans often express this density range as a "CT number," where a change in CT number by a few points can mean the difference between one diagnosis and another.
SRM 2088, a collection of five small blocks that the NIST team fashioned from polyurethane foam of different densities, makes it possible to link scans to the International System of Units (SI) for the first time. Together with a second reference material (SRM 2087) developed last year, SRM 2088 allows CAT scans to be tied to SI units for length, density and mass attenuation coefficient—three characteristics that are particularly important for diagnosing lung diseases effectively.
New NIST Standard Reference Material to Help Calibrate Hospital CAT Scanners
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Converging Voices: Gender and Identity
This original exhibition, curated by Karen T. Albert, Hofstra University Museum deputy director and chief curator, focuses on issues of gender and identity, reflecting an international scope and featuring artists such as Ghada Amer, Mariam Ghani, Guerrilla Girls, Yee I-Lann, Zanele Muholi, Pinaree Sanpitak and Carrie Mae Weems.
Funding support for the exhibition has been provided by Astoria Bank and the New York State
Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Presented in conjunction with the 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities to be held at Hofstra University June 1 - 4, 2017.
Converging Voices: Gender and Identity Exhibition
May 2 - December 15
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Emily Lowe Gallery, Behind Lowe Hall, South Campus
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While sinking into a neighbor's soft leather couch, I felt a twinge of furniture envy. The couch was part of a three-piece living room set purchased new from a national chain's clearance center. At a scratch-and-dent sale, my friend updated her living room for a fraction of the standard retail cost.
Here are her tips and other suggestions for finding fine pieces for less.
• Track down clearance centers. National chains operate clearance outlets featuring furniture at steep discounts. Rooms to Go has clearance outlets throughout the country and Neiman Marcus has Last Call Centers in different states.
• Ask about scratch-and-dent sales. Most retailers offer a discount for new merchandise that is slightly scratched or nicked. At Brandsmart, a friend purchased high-end appliances (a washer and dryer) that were new, but cosmetically flawed and sold at a discount.
Department and electronics stores also sell floor models at mark-down prices.
• Don't be afraid to bargain. The sales staff at the clearance sale accommodated a request for color substitutions in a three-piece (monotone) furniture set. The staff also agreed to a negotiated delivery price.
• Think outside the retail box, recommend the editors of RDLiving.com, which is affiliated with Reader's Digest. This article provides details. Consignment stores, estate auctions, discount price clubs (Costco, BJ's and Sam's Club), yard sales and flea markets sell new or gently used furniture. A mixture of new and used furniture is stocked at Habitat for Humanity Restore, which has stores all over the country.
• Check out hotel liquidation sales. Hotels in South Florida and other major markets frequently update their decor with new furniture, selling the existing furniture and fixtures at low prices.
This is a version of my latest column from the Miami Herald. Here's the link.
The Frugal Duchess Booktique
The Frugal Duchess of Beauty Store
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The Poetry & Drama Queen
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GMES comes under Earth and Space Week spotlight
Keeping watch on the world from orbit is helping to make it a safer place to live, heard European journalists visiting the Earth and Space Week in Brussels. Experts recounted how Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative is already delivering operational information services and it is set for further expansion.
A day-long series of press briefings at the Earth and Space Expo focused on the joint initiative of the European Commission (EC) and ESA known as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), intended to provide an independent European capability for global environmental monitoring by combining all available ground and space data sources.
The briefings came on the eve of the anticipated agreement to implement a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) at the Third Earth Observation Summit. With initial services already in operation, GMES will be the European contribution to GEOSS. Wednesday also marks the historic day that the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming finally comes into effect, demonstrating that international cooperation for environmental protection is an idea whose time has come.
"Our environmental policies and legislation are based first and foremost on our knowledge of the state of the environment, what are the risks to it, what are the environmental trends," said Timo Makela, Director in the EC Directorate-General for Environment. "What we know is that we do not know enough at the moment, and satellites and space can bring something additional to our existing monitoring."
Makela explained that GMES services are already serving a wide range of users on an operational basis. Satellite images are being used to detect illegal dumping of oil waste from ships around European Union waters, so that the ships responsible can be identified. Meanwhile tiny millimetre-scale ground movements in Italian and Swiss territory are being detected using space-based radar techniques to create risk maps for landslides.
Humanitarian aid workers plan their activities with up-to-date satellite maps of their operational areas capable of highlighting flooded roads or earthquake-hit buildings – or even, as the briefing heard later, counting the number of individual tents in a crowded refugee camp to assess local needs.
GMES is less about suddenly constructing grand new monitoring systems than making better use of those that already exist. There are around 50 Earth Observation satellites currently in orbit around our planet, along with numerous ground-based observation systems – think of weather stations, tidal gauges or sea buoys - which gather a rich bounty of information on the ocean, atmosphere and land surfaces.
Blending all these Earth and space-based data together - along with numerical models to enable forecasting – can provide a richer and more accurate picture of our planet, providing information services robust enough to be used operationally, and in support of European decision makers.
Earth Observation in action
For examples of how Earth Observation is currently used in a practical way, Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency, explained how views from space enable monitoring of changes in European land cover.
"We can see that the landscape of Europe has a high ecological potential," McGlade said. "There remains a lot of green landscape, but corridors between them are shrinking – impacting biodiversity – and a large area the size of a major city has been covered up by urban sprawl in a decade, so that if this rate stayed unchanged for forty years there would be little European open space left."
"These are the sort of changes that are almost imperceptible if you live down on the ground, but we can detect these shifts from orbit."
Jean François-Minster, President and Director General of the French oceanographic body IFREMER turned to the ocean, revealing how satellite readings of sea surface temperature and height are blended with inputs from buoys and floats and a mathematical model of the ocean to create robust forecasting system known as Mercator.
With memories of the tragic Indian Ocean tsunami still fresh, disaster mitigation and response loomed large in discussions. Udo Gärtner, President of the German Meteorological Services Deutscher Wetterdienst pointed out that weather retains the power to do great harm to life and property – European floods in May 2002 did €20 billion worth of damage, while the 2003 heat wave killed an estimated 20 000 – but accurate forecasting can minimise disaster provided information gets out to those who need it in time.
Maryam Golnaragi, Chief of the Natural Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Programme of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) stated that 90% of global disasters between 1993 and 2002 were weather, climate or water related. Developing countries are typically hit the hardest. The WMO is researching means of reducing their exposure to such hazards by extending prediction lead time and quality.
Satellites have clearly proved their worth in the field of disaster response: the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters makes satellite data available to civil protection authorities responding to emergency situations. First signed in 2000, it is activated on average once every two weeks, with recent activations including the Tsunami aftermath.
Delilah Al Khudhairy, Head of the Institute for the Protection and Security of the EC's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Italy used the tsunami disaster as a case study of what Earth Observation could do across a variety of timescales, from hours to weeks.
When initial news of the disaster came through in late December, the JRC began by combining publicly available regional elevation models, sourced from Space Shuttle radar data, with US satellite-based maps of global population density in order to estimate the area affected and the potential casualties.
"In the next few days it became possible to acquire coarse and medium resolution imagery from ESA and the US" Al Khudhairy stated. "This could be used in turn to plan optimal acquisitions of very high resolution imagery which is most useful for the early response of relief organisations, and now for the ongoing process of sustainable reconstruction."
She added that GMES service consortium Respond is supplying value-added services and maps based on satellite data to relief organisations in the field.
Space Sentinels for GMES
With ESA's starting portfolio of 12 GMES services up and running – known as the GMES Services Element (GSE) - the next step in the joint initiative is to further grow existing services into self-sustainability while gathering user requirements for further ones. Along with this comes evolving and integrating the GMES ground segment and - with uncertainty over long-term data continuity a barrier to user acceptance - developing a series of dedicated spacecraft known as Sentinels.
Five Sentinels are currently planned: the first one radar-based, the second hyperspectral, the third dedicated to ocean monitoring and the final two for atmospheric monitoring from geostationary and low Earth orbit respectively. These missions will be classed as 'operational' as opposed to scientific, comparable in status to weather satellites such as Europe's Meteosat series.
During a panel on GMES and business, Paul Kamon, Chairman of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) made the point that ensuring data continuity was vital for maintaining the independence and competitive status of European Earth Observation.
The panel also covered the fact that companies have many potential roles under the GMES umbrella: providers of infrastructure, acquiring data, carrying out value-adding processing and interpretation or as users of GMES services. Pascale Sourisse, Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel Space and Jean Dauphin, business development director of EADS-Astrium both stressed their companies' willingness to play an active role in GMES across its entire value chain.
Nigel Press, Chief Executive Officer of Nigel Press Associates stressed the importance of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in making GMES work. He explained that the current non-military Earth Observation sector was dominated by SMEs that had developed niche services for customers willing to pay – Dutch firm ARGOSS uses satellite data for tide and sea state forecasting to sailors and offshore industry, for instance, while his own firm provides radar-based natural oil seep detection for oil prospecting firms.
Projecting the GEOSS future
A working lunch saw the spotlight shift from GMES to GEOSS. It was hosted by co-chairs of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) charged with creating the ten-year plan to implement GEOSS, due to be accepted by the Third Earth Observation Summit on Wednesday. The theme of the lunch was 'Imagine if…' we lived in a world where GEOSS was already a reality.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator, Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher rose to the challenge ably, comparing the likely impact of GEOSS to turning the Hubble Space Telescope back from imaging the furthest corners of the universe to look back at the Earth and cover it completely.
"We would be able to mitigate all sorts of catastrophes with a comprehensive Earth Observation system," Lautenbacher said. "Undergoing a drought we may be able to forecast whether it was going to last one year or five years, which would make a big difference."
Fellow GEO co-chair Rob Adam, Director-General of the South African Department of Science and Technology, added that developing nations stood to benefit from GEOSS in a number of ways. Its existence would first highlight identify and then progressively shrink severe data gaps associated with these countries.


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The Baltimore Ravens are standing behind running back Ray Rice, who was indicted today for aggravated assault after allegedly knocking his fiancee unconscious last month.
The team issued a brief statement after Rice's indictment was announced.
"This is part of the due process for Ray. We know there is more to Ray Rice than this one incident," the statement read.
There may be more to Rice than this one incident, but the reports about this one incident are very serious: Police reportedly have surveillance video of Rice knocking his fiancee out. That video has not been publicly released, although another video that has been made public appears to show Rice dragging his unconscious fiancee out of an elevator.
Rice faces three to five years in prison on the aggravated assault charge.


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Oct 10 2011
Halloween and French Movies…
Hello everyone !
Halloween is getting closer, and the next four French Movie Nights will gradually take you there !
We'll start the month with a story full of humour and adventures in Paris in the early 20th century: Adèle Blanc-Sec, who could be described as a French and feminine version of Indiana Jones, will be confronted to the waking up of mummies and dinosaurs that shouldn't have come back to life !
One week later, we'll rediscover a fairy-tale that is supposed to take place in France, in a dark forest, in a dark castle, where beauty and monstruosity are sometimes not that different from each other. Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" will also be the first Black & White movie this year !
Right before Halloween, we'll step back to the present and witness the reunion of two highschool friends in "With a friend like Harry…" If your best friend was a talented writer too busy taking care of his family to use his talent, how far would you be ready to go to get him to write again?
And finally, we'll celebrate Halloween a bit longer with "Pars Vite et Reviens Tard" ("Have Mercy on Us All") on November 2nd… People are dying in contemporary Paris, and all the clues tend to suggest the impossible: the return of the Black Plague!
To help you have a better idea of the four movies, here are some trailers:
The last two trailers don't have subtitles, but of course the movies will have them !
So, to sum it all up:
– When ? On Wednesday evenings, at 7:30PM.
– Where ? WLT 21 (the room with the couch!)
– What ? AWESOME MOVIES, FREE SNACKS AND DRINKS, AND LOTS OF AMAZING PEOPLE !!!
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Kelli Hughes is big time small--standing at just 4 feet 10 inches she doesn't exactly tower over a sitting co-worker.She said one thing really stands out being small. "103 pounds versus 106 pounds is a big difference in somebody of my stature," Kelli said. "You really notice it." And now a new diet called The Petite Advantage Diet by author Jim Karas has some dining advice for women like Kelli--including eating 40 fewer calories a day than taller women. It may not sound like much but it adds up to 4 pounds a year. Kelli said its good advice--in fact she's been practicing it for years. "I find I eat a lot less just because of my stature," Kelli said. "I really don't want to pack it on too fast but I also think my stomach is smaller in size as well because I never really finish a meal." Forest Park Medical Center registered dietitian Katie Pearson said the logic is sound and simple math--the smaller the person the less fuel is needed. "Shorter people, yes, they probably have to work a little bit harder than taller people because it can kind of catch up with them quicker than taller people," Pearson said. "There is less space to put it." The petite diet also calls for women to eat early in the day with breakfast comprising 40% of the day's calories. Pearson said most of her small friends and patients are aware they need to consume fewer calories. Eliminating 40 calories a day can be as easy as ditching a trial size piece of chocolate or something even smaller. "40 calories," Pearson said. "To be honest, that could be a couple of mints a day." Katie doesn't envy her taller friends--she's bigger than that-- besides being short comes with certain benefits--losing just a few pounds is obvious. "I'm okay with being short because I kind of like having to watch what I eat" Kelli said. "It keeps me balanced; it keeps me on my toes." (c)2012 KDAF-TV (Dallas) Visit KDAF-TV (Dallas) at www.the33tv.com Distributed by MCT Information Services
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I'd like to create such a system: [1] Skype on mobile phone -> [2] Skype on server -> [3] plugin to Skype (3rd party application) -> [4] speech recognition Sphinx4. Normally Skype outputs speech to the speaker, normal behaviour of Sphinx4 is to receive speech from microphone. I need to change it so that Skype would redirect its output sound to TCP socket and Sphinx4 would receive it from this TCP socket.
I think this plugin would be server with two children - Skype and Sphinx. I would write this plugin in C#. Can anybody give me, please, any suggestions how to do it? (Examplary codes for other languages than C# would also be useful).
[2] and [3] can easily communicate with each other by sending Skype4COM commands. When the new call is established on Skype (in other words when I call from [1] to [2] and [2] automatically answers this call), plugin [3] enters OurCallStatus function. And inside this function I need to change default output of Skype sound which is set to speakers and make it to be "port".
So there must be Skype -> TCP socket (on localhost) -> Sphinx4. I also thought about other approaches. Those are: IPC (Inter-Process Communication) and maybe some kind of usage of WinAPI.
Why do I have to use TCP socket (Skype -> TCP socket -> Spinx4)? Because I guess it may be impossible or difficult to forward it directly. I need to change this line in code of Sphinx4 application "Microphone microphone = (Microphone) cm.lookup("microphone");" to such a line which would be able to receive speech from "port". I cannot simply save the whole speech from Skype to mp3/wav file and then to open this mp3/wav file in Sphinx4 because it must be done in real time.
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- Easley High School junior, 17, charged with possession of firearm on school property
- School staff found revolver, knives, axes in vehicle outside school, police say
- Police: Student says weapons were for hunting, and he forgot to take them out
- School district says there was no indication of a threat to the school
A South Carolina high school student was arrested Monday morning after school employees found a revolver, knives, axes and dozens of rounds of ammunition in his car, police said.
Investigators have no reason to think that the 17-year-old junior at Easley High School planned to attack anyone, Easley police Maj. Tim Tollison said. But the student was charged with possession of a firearm on school property.
"He told school officials he uses the stuff for hunting, and he just forgot to take it out of the car," Tollison said.
The teen was released on $30,000 bail Tuesday morning, Tollison said.
The junior was arrested after a concerned student told school workers that someone had weapons in a vehicle outside the school of roughly 1,600 students, police said.
In the vehicle were a loaded .22-caliber revolver, nine knives, two axes, a stun gun, handcuffs, and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, according to police, who said they believe the weapons belonged to the student's family.
No guns matching the ammunition -- shotgun shells and rifle and handgun rounds -- were in the vehicle, Tollison said.
The Pickens County school district released a statement saying it appears "that the gun and ammunition (were) left in the car after being used for hunting ... and were not taken to the school with the intent to harm anyone."
"However, bringing weapons on school grounds violates state law, and the school district has a zero-tolerance policy towards weapons on school grounds," the district said. "The timing of this incident is extremely unfortunate, but there is no indication that there was ever an intended threat to the school."
District spokesman John Eby said it's not clear what the handcuffs and stun gun were for, but he said officials don't believe they were for an attack on the school.
The incident came three days after a school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. In addition, the gunman killed his mother and himself.
In accordance with district policy, the arrested student will be recommended for expulsion for at least a year, the district said.


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Usually I don't bother to read articles with titles like "The Deceptive Cost of Social Liberalism," they are usually worthless articles written by people with nothing better to do than cry about how bad life has been to them. In this case, it mentioned my mother's name so I figured I would browse through it.
After reading the article and listening to my mother's side of the story, I could not help but to be angry. Mr. Trageser did nothing but find truths in partial statements my mother made.
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Motor Authority App for iOS - Up-to-the-minute Car News And High-Res Photos
The folks at High Gear Media, an automotive media startup have released the Motor Authority App for iOS devices that not only shows high-resolution photos of the the world's most renown cars and brands, but also offers exclusive first drive reports and automotive analysis from a team of editors and contributors around the world, around the clock.
Car enthusiasts should be pleased at the amount of information is included in the app. Users can browse sections that include First Drives, Spy Shots, Concept Cars, Racing and Auto Show coverage. Each of the sections include beautiful High-resolution photos and video "First Drives" of some of the slickest cars on the road, currently being cooked up by designers, and everything in between. Nowadays, an app isn't an app without social media sharing. Motor Authority is no exception, as users can share favorite stories and photos on Twitter, Facebook or by e-mail.
Unlike competitor app from names like Car and Driver, Motor Authority is completely free, so users don't need a digital subscription or to pay per issue to get their car fix. Motor Authority is a universal app for all iOS devices. So check it out on iTunes and let us know what you think.


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Every year, the Las Vegas Review-Journal lists some of the best companies throughout Nevada, based on nominations from readers and surveys of employees. Prior editions of the list included popular internet retailer Zappos.com, which is headquartered in nearby Henderson, Nev., and MGM Resorts International, the largest private-sector employer in Las Vegas.
The companies highlighted in the most recent list may, according to the Review-Journal, reflect changing workplace attititudes and a desire for a caring environment and traditional benefits over other perks.
Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada
This alcohol distributor won first place in the Las Vegas Business Press list for its commitment to employees, and emphasis on charity and work/life balance. The company gives "enthusiastically" to the University of Nevada Las Vegas, which is known for its undergraduate and graduate degree programs in culinary and hospitality management. They also help, even encourage, employees to spend time with family through a variety of family-oriented events, and because they promote from within and offer continuing education, corporate morale is high.
The company, with offices in Las Vegas and Reno, is a division of Southern Wine and Spirits of America, the largest wine and spirits distributor in the U.S.
Frias Transportation Management
If you hail a cab in Vegas, it's likely affiliated with Frias Transportation Management of Las Vegas, Nevada's largest transportation company. Frias includes five taxicab companies and a limousine company that serve Las Vegas and the surrounding areas in southern Nevada.
The company has what the Review-Journal calls an entrpreneurial feel, even with 2,000+ employees. New taxicab drivers are trained by mentors, and are promoted from within. The company also offers health and wellness benefits, an unusual perk in the industry. Company employees are also active in philanthropy -- volunteering to help local veterans in Veterans Stand Down.
The Palms
A family feel and respect mark The Palms Casino Resort, which employs roughly 4,000 people in Las Vegas. Employees enjoy the perks you'd expect working for one of the most well-known casino hotels, such as concert tickets and discounts, but employees also cite benefits like health insurance and flex time. The company stresses its open communication, including newsletters, town-hall meetings and coffees with the president.
KLAS-TV, a CBS affiliate, is the oldest TV station in Las Vegas. The station encourages open communication between departments and within staff, in the firm belief that an informed staff is as important as an informed public.
According to the Review-Journal, the station also emphasizes a work/life balance, understanding the unique stressors that accompany the life of a journalist. And the station encourages camaraderie in flag footbal and softball teams, office parties, and cookouts.
They also offer opportunities for philanthropic involvement in organizations such as the Las Vegas Springs Preserve and Tools for Teachers.
Bailey Kennedy
Collegial atmosphere dominates at the small and relatively young southwest Las Vegas law firm. Perhaps the company's most famous perk is the "free lunch" it gives every day to each of its 31 employees. The lunches include open discussions about cases and other business.
Other benefits include the opportunity to move up within the firm. According to the Review-Journal, all of its summer interns have received full-time offers at the firm, and all of its paralegals started as assistants at the firm.
Employees at Bailey Kennedy also enjoy a work-life balance that includes annual outings for staffers and their families and other events geared toward building relationships and respect.
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Irma Mary Dahl, 102, of Hillsboro died Feb. 13 at Parkside Home in Hillsboro. She was born July 28, 1910, in McPherson County to John and Mary (Unrau) Franz.
She was a homemaker.
She married Abraham B. Dahl on Sept. 29, 1935. He preceded her in death in 1991. She was also preceded in death by a son, Willard, in 1966.
She is survived by two sons, Calvin Dahl of Maple Grove, Minn., and Donald Dahl of Hillsboro; six daughters, Frances Unruh of Reedley, Calif., Lillian Falls of Kingsburg, Calif., Dorothy Dahl of Hillsboro, Sharon Schroeder of Hillsboro, Beverly Boese of Longmont, Colo., and Barbara Braun of Mooresville, N.C.; 12 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life was to be held 11 a.m. today at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church in Hillsboro.
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Ethno Flanders once again returning to Oostende! One week of fun and music on the Belgian seaside and performances in Gent and Dranouter Festival.
Artistic leaders:
Wim Claeys (diatonic accordeon – Belgium)
Tomas De Smet (bass – Belgium)
Ian Stephenson (guitar – UK)
Emilia Amper (nyckelharpa – Sweden)
Participation fees
- for BENELUX participants: 250 EURO.
- members of Muziekmozaïek: 240 EURO.
- international participants 125 EURO participation
The fee includes lodging, workshops, excursions, entrance to the festivals and meals from Monday 30 July until Monday 6 August. Organize your trip so you arrive on the 29th of July.
Ethno Flanders works and sleeps in the premises of a school in Oostende. Bring sleeping bag and pillows with you if possible.
IMPORTANT: every year Ethno Flanders offers a limited number of scholarships for the participation fee and also travel costs for participants from far away countries. Please contact the organizers as soon as possible!
The fees should be transferred in the following bank account:
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During his five years in office, President Obama has often blamed his problems on what George W. Bush left him with: two wars, a historic recession, an out-of-control financial system and a huge budget deficit. But W.'s most enduring legacy to his successor may have been the tea party movement, and the political dysfunction that it has brought.
That may seem an odd conclusion. Today Obama is the central villain in tea-party rhetoric, and Bush is hardly ever mentioned. Yet the rebellion against Big Government that the tea party has come to embody really began more than a decade ago with a growing sense of betrayal among conservatives over Bush's runaway-spending habits. Conservatives were angered by his refusal to veto any spending bills, especially in his first term, not to mention what happened during the nearly six years of GOP control of the Senate and House from 2000 to '06, when federal spending grew to a record $2.7 trillion, more than doubling the increase during Bill Clinton's two terms. The final outrage that lit the brushfires of tea-party fervor was Bush's sponsorship of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program in the fall of 2008, just before he left office, in order to bail out Wall Street.
It is arguably true that President Obama's decision in 2009 to pile a giant stimulus and a new national health-care program on top of TARP transformed those brushfires into a true national conflagration — and a movement. But in reality Obama's actions were more like a tipping point, many conservatives say. "This social and political phenomenon of the tea partiers was burning all through the Bush years," Reid Buckley, brother of the late William F. Buckley and the self-appointed keeper of his flame as a father of modern conservatism, said in a 2010 interview. "It's a long-term slow boil that has disaffected most people who call themselves conservatives. There's nothing I have against President Obama that in this I wouldn't charge Bush with."
It wasn't just spending of course. Bush also built the intrusive post-9/11 national-security state that Obama has embraced, and which a growing number libertarian tea partiers have come to hate, including National Security Agency surveillance and a program of frequent but secret drone strikes.
True, on many issues, Bush gained enthusiastic conservative support. Among them were his hawkish response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks; his abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol and resistance to domestic efforts to reduce the carbon emissions linked to climate change; his conservative nominees to the Supreme Court; the two large tax cuts he passed in 2001 and 2003 (the latter was the first tax cut approved during wartime in American history); and above all, his 2005 attempt to restructure Social Security, the pillar of the public social safety net, into a program that relied less on government and more on markets to deliver economic security.
Yet throughout his presidency, Bush was far more comfortable with an assertive role for Washington than many conservatives were. They recoiled from his proposals to expand the federal role in education, create a prescription-drug benefit under Medicare and establish a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
On some of these issues — especially the post-9/11 response and the war in Iraq — a sense of patriotism and party loyalty papered over growing conservative discontent with Bush's fiscal irresponsibility and national-security recklessness. But the fissures in the party were quietly widening. Among the conservatives who cooled on Bush were some of today's intellectual champions of the tea party, such as Jim DeMint, the former senator from South Carolina who now heads the Heritage Foundation and is a leading player in the Obamacare standoff; and Tom Coburn, the zealously fiscally conservative senator from Oklahoma. For DeMint, Bush's TARP and stimulus in the fall of 2008 were "the last straw" in his disaffection from Bush, an aide to the senator said. "There's a lot of affection for Bush because of how passionately he fought the war on terror. But as far as domestic policy goes, conservatives felt betrayed." Coburn, in a speech on the Senate floor in October 2005, inveighed against the remorseless earmarking of his fellow Republicans and the spending of the Republican-controlled White House. "All change starts with a distant rumble, a rumble at the grassroots level, and if you stop and listen today, you will hear such a rumble," he said.
Coburn spoke then of "committees full of outraged citizens" forming in the heartland. He supported the Porkbusters movement led by Glenn Reynolds, a blogger (Instapundit) and law professor from Tennessee, which resembled a dress rehearsal for the tea party movement. "It started when Republicans were in charge," Coburn told National Journal a few years ago. He added that Bush's "Medicare prescription drug plan — that was the worst thing imaginable, $13 trillion in unfunded liabilities."
George W. Bush left behind many baleful legacies, among them a $3 trillion war in Iraq that didn't need to be fought, and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. But he also helped to fracture his own party — and thus Washington.


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Impossible is nothing, by crowdfunding you can make your projects become a reality no matter how ambitious they are. It's a matter of attracting people to share the passion for your goal, that's probably the most difficult part.
But not for Kittie, as they have done the work of putting together a huge fan base during the last twenty years. The band have taken care of them, record by record, gig by gig, and now it was time to celebrate together these two decades of musical communion. So on March 28th 2014 the Canadians started a campaign to raise funds to make an anniversary documentary DVD and a book.
This campaign was a mutual thank you, from the band to the fans, as they'd give them the documentary, and from the fans to the band, as they'd help the band doing it. The prizes were a must for the band followers: pick packs, signed posters, t-shirts, book and dvd thank you, skype with the band, EPs and signed guitars among others. And it's been a huge success: Kittie Reached their goal of $20,000 in 8 hours, and the campaign finished at the 203% of the amount.
This contribution will going towards compiling Kittie's personal footage, concerts and events over the past 20 years, to bring the fans the be all and end all of career-spanning Kittie documentaries. They will be entrusting My Good Eye Productions, a friend and the director of their last 4 videos, with the footage, to help them edit and direct. Mark Eglinton, who has had recent success with Rex Brown of Pantera's book, will pen the band's biography.
We'll keep you informed about documentary next steps, looking forward to see the final result.
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By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
MURRAY, Ky. - One of the nation's top offenses wasn't needed Friday afternoon, as the Tennessee Tech baseball team (33-11, 15-7) used dominant pitching to take the first of a three-game, Ohio Valley Conference series from Murray State, defeating the Thoroughbreds (17-22, 9-10), 5-1.
Junior ace David Hess was on point in the Tech victory, tossing seven complete innings while allowing just one earned run and two walks. After surrendering two hits and the one run in the first inning, the right-hander locked down on the Murray bats, scattering four hits the rest of the way while tying a season-high with 10 strikeouts.
Hess struck out the side in both the first and third innings, forcing all six outs via a swinging effort by a Thoroughbred batter. On the day, he forced seven swinging strikeouts as well as three looking while garnering his seventh victory of the season.
Senior reliever Stanton Taylor took over right where Hess left off, continuing to shut down the Murray State offense with a dominating performance. Taylor fanned four batters, three of which were unable to pull the trigger.
Tech tied the game in the top of the second frame, using an RBI single up the middle from redshirt sophomore center fielder Jake Rowland to nod things up at 1-1.
The Golden Eagles then took the lead for good in the fourth, starting with a leadoff single by shortstop Dylan Bosheers. Senior catcher Jordan Parris drove in the go ahead run later in the frame, smacking a sacrifice fly to left field to propel Tech to a 2-1 advantage.
The top of the sixth provided the Tech team with some insurance runs, as the Golden Eagles took advantage of a Thoroughbred miscue to strike three times. After two quick outs, outfielder Tyler Brazelton laced a single to center field before being lifted for pinch runner David Allen. Parris reached on a fielder's choice on the next play, but Allen reached third base safely after a throwing error by Murray State.
Leadoff man Zach Zarzour followed the error with a six-pitch walk, working back from an 0-2 count to load the bases. Allen scored on a wild pitch before junior Jordan Hopkins drove in Parris and Zarzour with a two-run single through the right side.
Zarzour and Brazelton led Tech offensively, both recording multi-hit games. Brazelton finished 2-for-2 with a walk while Zarzour was 2-for-3 with two walks and a run scored. Hopkins led the Golden Eagles with two RBI.
Murray State pitcher Cameron Finch was dealt his sixth loss the year, allowing two earned runs in five and two thirds innings of work. He walked four batters and struck out six while surrendering eight hits and five total runs.
Tech will look to collect another OVC series as junior Chris Chism takes on the league's leading ERA man in Brock Downey in a 2 p.m. CT match-up Saturday afternoon.


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California Department of Transportation
Date: September 17, 2012
District: 05 - Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey,
San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: Jim Shivers or Colin Jones
Phone: (805) 549-3237 or (805) 549-3189
PASO ROBLES - Caltrans held a groundbreaking ceremony today for the third phase of the $45 million Highway 46 widening project, which will widen five miles of the highway from one to two lanes in each direction. Proposition 1B, the transportation bond approved by voters in 2006, is fully-funding this project.
"I am very pleased to see work continuing on this corridor which links the Central Valley and the Central Coast," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "This project will improve safety for thousands of commuters, tourists and those in California's agricultural industry who rely on this highway to move goods to market."
The contractor for this project is Papich Construction of Pismo Beach.
Phase one between Airport Road and Geneseo Road was completed last year while work is currently underway on phase two of widening Highway 46 from Geneseo Road to east of Almond Drive. Construction is expected to be completed early next year. Phase three will widen the highway from Almond Drive to McMillan Canyon Road.
"I am very pleased that our company will continue with the widening of this important corridor which will stimulate the local economy and create jobs,"
said Papich Construction Company President Jason Papich.
Since its passage, Caltrans and the California Transportation Commission have allocated approximately $14 billion in Proposition 1B funds to improve California's transportation system.
For traffic updates on other state highways in San Luis Obispo County, motorists can call Caltrans District 5 Public Affairs at (805) 549-3318 or can visit the website at: www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/road_information.htm.
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Darwin 1, MonkeyGirl 1
Last night was cardiac night in my rooms.
First patient was a CPR in progress coming in via EMS.
"54 year old male has been experiencing chest pain and shortness of breath all week. Tonight he decided to get on the treadmill. Family reports he was on it for about 5 minutes when they heard the crash and went in and found him pulseless and apneic on the floor."
Our resuscitation was unsuccessful. Darwin wins that one.
Patient number 2 was a 58 year old man who was told after a positive stress test two months ago that he needed two stents, and was putting it off because it was too expensive. Tonight he comes in with a classic presentation STEMI. Door to balloon time: 75 minutes. At 0300, I'll take it. LAD 100% blocked, RCA almost 100%, both stented, dude's gonna be fine, 'cept for the angina when the bill comes.
His wife leaned over to kiss him goodbye as he went to the cath lab and I heard her whisper, "I told you so."
MonkeyGirl wins that one.
Darwin's up!