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A story following the Cullen Clan and there family and friends and enemy.
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This has to be a dream I know my father is not up here waking me up,no its not even him its Aunt Rosalie.
"Wake up Nessie,wake up Nessie, come on or Aunt Alice will be called over here she will be here soon she's helping mom set up for Grandpaw Charlie and Grandmaw Renee and her fellow and your new uncle Thomas and Grand-Sue and Leah and Seth"
I set up in bed for I smelled something strange coming this way,Aunt Rose growled and then had my pants and shirt on the bed "Dress now" I got dress then like lighting Aunt rose had my wist and we are down stairs I in the middle my family around me.
"Get her out of her now" I heard my father say "Edward w have to act normal just set down" Papa Carlisle said in the living room it was my mom Bella ,me, and Aunt Rosalie on the couch on the Arms were Nana Esme and Aunt Alice in the chair was Papa Carlisle and in the other Uncle Jasper and on the steps behind the couch was Uncle Emmett and standing was my father Edward.
The next thing I knew was Aunt Alice saying "I don't know them" Papa Carlisle got up and was at the door he looked at Nana Esme "Get Bella and Nessie yo the safe house now" Like a flash me and mom where in a dark room "What is happening mom?"
I heard Dad's thoughts it was other Vampires like us but none I have ever meet it was two kids and thery had got Papa and dad's and Uncle Jaspers sceant.
I heard a girl talk "Hi i am Hannah and this is my Brother Paxton and are little baby sister Carson sorry for her smell she is human" I knew they had to get Uncle Jasper out of there for the babys saftey. Papa spoke Alice please take Jasper outside now.
"Mom" I heard her growling I knew what that ment "Mom Stop" She opened the door and jumped out "Stay here Renessmee I smell trouble" i knew to listen to my mom Aunt Alice came in holding Uncle Jasper and looked "Wheres Bella" she asked?
I looked at her and then she stoped "Alice what is it" Uncle Jasper said she loked at him "It's Aro,Hes coming here to Nashville and Bella Smeeled him" We all ran inside "Edward its bella she smeeled Aro coming shes gone to meet him" Dad Growled and started Growling.
Papa looked at the kids and then to my aunts and uncles "we have to move out now Alice,Rosalie,Emmett,Jasper go now I will follow". He looked at Nana "Esme you and Nessie stay here he looked at the kids and said to take them to the safe house so Aro would not get them first".
We moved fast everyone gone but me and Nana and the kids Papa took us to the safe house "Stay here" Nana took the Baby and to the kids "We have plans for you we are taking you in you two will stay with Alice and Jasper you age looking and, how tall you are you both could pass for there kids adopted and the baby your sister will pass as Emmett and Rosalie baby we will change her now."
Nana laid the baby on the table and put her Veniom inside the baby she cried for a little bit and then stoped her eyes turned red and then blue. "Nana Esme so there my cousin" She looked "Yes they are".
We heard walking outside and then it stoped at the front of the door "There not here Jane lets go" then screaming "Alec brother we do not leave till we find her"
Nana put her finger to her mouth and said "Shh" she looked at Carson and humbed a little tune so she could here and no one else and then pointed to the door and said to "Go now I will follow you run and stay together"
I started running when I looked down I had forgoten something i ran faster and then when I knew Nana and the others had pasted i ran back bad idel "Sister look what we found" She looked at him and smiled "Renessmee your home" She opened her eyes I fealt Pain and then a man picked me up and held me tight the pain stoped then I felt running.
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It is with great sadness for us here at LACMA that we learn of Dorothea Tanning's recent passing. Tanning's immeasurable contribution to the arts leaves behind a legacy of innovative forms: paintings, prints, drawings, soft sculptures, collages, poems, and much more. Here in the American Art Department, it was truly a pleasure to become so well acquainted with Tanning's work. Having recently acquired her soft sculpture Xmas (1969) as part of LACMA's Collectors Committee acquisitions in 2010, our senior curator Ilene Susan Fort marveled at the numerous fabric sculptures Tanning made in her career, from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, some adorned with teeth, fur, and lace, stating "[these sculptures] clearly involve both the traditional feminine art of sewing and the blatant sexuality brandished by feminists at the time."
Dorothea Tanning, Xmas, 1969, purchased with funds provided by the 2010 Collectors Committee, with additional funds generously provided by Jodie Evans with Lekha Singh, The Rosenthal Family Foundation, Peg Yorkin, The Kayne Foundation, Susan Adelman in honor of the artist's 100th birthday, Irene Christopher, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, American Art Deaccession Funds, Janice G. Gootkin, The Eileen F. and Mort H. Singer Jr. Family Fund in honor of Ilene Susan Fort and J. Patrice Marandel
Dorothea Tanning, Rainy Day Canapé, 1970, Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of an anonymous donor, 2002, © 2011 Dorothea Tanning Collection and Archive/Artist's Rights Society (ARS) New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo © The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
With more than a dozen works by Tanning in LACMA's special exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, the conversations among co-curators Fort and Tere Arcq, as well as research assistant Terri Geis, revealed fascinating details during the process of deciding which of her numerous pieces would best fit the themes of the show. From these discussions, it was interesting to learn that one of Tanning's avatars (a means of masking identity—a theme popular among surrealists) was a particular dog–in fact, a beloved pet–who appears in several of her works.
Dorothea Tanning, Portrait de famille (Family Portrait), 1954, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle
Photo of Dorothea Tanning by Lee Miller, courtesy Lee Miller Archives
While Tanning's work may have been most associated with the surrealist movement, her prolific work ethic in later years pushed her to experiment beyond surrealism, working with abstract forms on paper and even writing. For the time being, the inquisitive and imaginative spirit of her work resides in our galleries as she will be truly missed.
Devi Noor, Curatorial Administrator, American Art


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Note: This story originally ran in the Santa Barbara Independent on June 7, 2007.
In March 1941, all Lowell Steward wanted was to be able to shake hands with other players at a basketball tournament in Kansas City. But he was not deemed worthy to participate with his team from Santa Barbara State College.
In March 2007, the nation recognized Steward as a worthy citizen, a hero even, and he shook hands with President George W. Bush inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda. The occasion was the awarding of the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen, those accomplished black fighter pilots in World War II.
Photo by Paul Wellman Lowell Steward is a war hero, UCSB Athletic Hall of Famer, and is now a Congressional Gold Medal recipient. George Washington received the first Congressional Gold Medal from the Continental Congress in 1776. Since then, it has been bestowed fewer than 250 times.
"There's nothing higher," said Steward, who accepted the award graciously with his fellow airmen, even though it came very late?--?too late for their hundreds of comrades who died in combat or from natural causes; too late for him to share it with his wife Helen, who died three years ago.
Steward's home in Oxnard is decorated with memorabilia from his flying days?--?photos of him on the airfield with his squadron, paintings of their P-51 Mustangs soaring through the clouds and swooping over exploding targets. On a shelf is the Distinguished Flying Cross that Steward earned. He flew 143 missions in the war.
There also are photos of Steward with his college basketball team and a certificate noting his induction into the UCSB Athletic Hall of Fame. He was an all-conference player for the Gauchos in 1941 and '42, when he was team captain, and he also was a league champion in the high jump and long jump.
"I was a jumper," said Steward, who played center even though he was only 5'11". He was the team's leading scorer and rebounder in the 1940-41 season, when the Gauchos received their first invitation to a postseason tournament. They went to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball Championships in Kansas City.
They went with Steward's blessing, and he made the trip with them, even though he would not be able to play since Missouri was ruled by Jim Crow segregation. Steward could not even step on the floor when the 32 participating teams paraded into the Municipal Auditorium. He was turned away and told to go sit in the rafters with the other "colored" spectators.
The Gauchos finished in fourth place. San Diego State, a team they had defeated earlier in the season, won the tournament. On the train ride back to Santa Barbara, UCSB's coach Willie Wilton recalled that Steward lay awake through the night, making "this mournful humming sound."
Upon his graduation, Steward had a burning desire to prove himself. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became one of the first pilots trained for the all-black 332nd Fighter Group at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He spent 15 months in combat. When Allied forces were landing at Normandy 63 years ago this week, the Tuskegee Airmen were escorting bombers from bases in Italy into enemy territory.
"It was dull, dull, dull," Steward said bluntly last week. "The long-range missions were six or seven hours in an airplane."
He had some exciting moments, though, like the time he flew support for the retrieval of an escaped American prisoner in Germany, or the time an 18-inch hole was blasted into his wing over Marseilles. "It was flapping," he said. "I had to fly slow so the plane wouldn't catapult. I landed in Rome."
When he finally made it back home after the war, Steward encountered further racial slights and insults. He forged ahead and became a successful realtor. He's now 88, enough years to fill a piano keyboard, with the highest note coming at last.


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Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel
By Jerome Charyn
Random House, 224 pages, $24.95.
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Isaac Babel was an iconoclast whose small, mysterious oeuvre, delivered in a deft, compact Russian shaped at a time of revolution, becomes more alluring with the passage of time. As Jerome Charyn puts it in his meditation on Babel's life and career, "Savage Shorthand," "his entire life is about falsehood, about evasion, about manufacturing myth."
Babel turned Benya Krik, the Jewish gangster, into another Ali Baba and transformed the Moldavanka, the Jewish quarter in Odessa where he was born in 1894, into a Baghdad on the Caspian Sea. Disregard the fact that the place didn't have "a population of two thousand bandits and thieves." And that his "service" in General Budenny's Red Cavalry's journey in 1920 into Poland, in a war between Cossacks and Polish cavalrymen in which Babel hid under the pseudonym of Kiril Lyutov, is equally filled with fabrications. Or that he would fashion a perfectly credible French accent to tell friends and relatives about his visits to Maupassant's last flat in Paris — "the sun-warmed frilly pink lampshades, like the underclothes of expensive courtesans, the smell of brilliantine and coffee." All these are tall tales from a once sickly child and an adult myth maker who had not yet set foot outside Russia.
It doesn't matter, because Babel's value was never to be found in his accuracy, despite what some have claimed. Instead, it is in the hypnotizing music of his prose and the agonizing commitments in his heart. In and of themselves, Babel's vicissitudes are a labyrinth of misinterpretation. There is Lionel Trilling's famous 1955 essay, in which he portrays Babel as an adventurer with a talent for surprise attacks; the dichotomy he describes between the bookish Jew and the physical Cossack in the Red Cavalry is as enchanting as it is Manichean. Then comes Cynthia Ozick, whose style is a triumph in intellectual obfuscation. For her, Babel is what Kafka isn't: Kafka is "the man who thinks but barely lives," Ozick claims, whereas Babel "lives, lives, lives!" And finally, there is Natasha (aka Nathalie) Babel, the author's daughter, whose Babel is a more humane figure, elusive and sentimental. She is an insider with invaluable information at her disposal, which she made accessible to others while supplementing the missing pieces of the puzzle, but her failure lay in the desire to present the puzzle whole, refusing to recognize that her father wanted it to be forever incomplete. Still others have been mystified by Babel, including Irving Howe. Even I entered the quagmire. In 1993, I wrote a long preface to the Spanish edition of Babel's "Caballería Roja" and "Cuentos de Odesa." (In English, the piece was included in "The Inveterate Dreamer: Essays and Conversations on Jewish Culture.") Partially my focus was on resistance and criminality, wondering what made Krik so glamorous. I wrote in the piece that I've keep rereading his stories, especially the autobiographical ones. That he's an impostor enthralls me; I, too, often feel like a fake.
Charyn is an illusionist prone to edgy types. His memoirs, "Bronx Boy" and "The Dark Lady From Belorusse," read like a tangential tribute to Moldavanka. And his acquaintance with the ins and outs of canonical American Jewish literature, displayed in full in his anthology "Inside the Hornet's Head" (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005), makes him a fitting Virgil to (mis)understand — once again — Babel's cosmology.
"Savage Shorthand"is an example of what unpretentious, passionate criticism is able to accomplish. There are no lessons in it, no ultimate messages about the value of literature. Charyn simply lets his pen loose. He talks about Maxim Gorky, Babel's mentor in the Soviet landscape. He discusses Tolstoy, Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam, Ilya Ehrenburg, filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and Yiddish stage-actor Solomon Mikhoels. But he also sprinkles his pages with disparate yet candid references to "Huckleberry Finn," the photographs of Diane Arbus and André Malraux's politics, as well as with substantive comments on Trilling and Ozick, of course. (She appears to be the bee in his bonnet.) If Charyn's pyrotechnics call attention to themselves, it is because he recognizes that the only way to delve into a sophisticated world of fiction is with clear convictions. All in all, his volume is superb.
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring professor in Latin American and Latino culture and Five College-40th anniversary professor at Amherst College. His book, "The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories," will be released in August by Northwestern University Press. The novella, "Morirse está en hebreo," is the source of a Mexican feature movie to be released at the same time.
This story "A Babel Biographer Chases His Moving Target" was written by Ilan Stavans.


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Government and identity provider participants in FCCX have not been finalized. But the Veterans Administration is on board, and other potential participants, such as the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Education, and Social Security Administration, have been working with the Postal Service on the requirements and standards for the pilot.
Once the digital pipelines have been established, they can be applied to a number of processes that require secure communications. For example, the Internet of Things, the networked interconnection of everyday objects, may include high-risk communications, such as between medical monitors and medication dispensers, mobile payment sites and financial institutions, or electric meters and power companies. The Postal Service recognizes the potential value of playing an enabling role and has made a move to secure a position in the digital world. Nextgov.com reports that the Postal Service has recently filed for a number of digitally oriented trademarks to cover services in data encryption, secure communications, and electronic document management.
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Another Summer Spent Shooting Rockets, Flying Balloons, and Studying Lightning, Sept. 15, 2008
Or, what did you do on your summer vacation, professor?
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO – A small group of the nation's preeminent atmospheric physicists are wrapping up their summer's field research into lightning, clouds, electricity, x-rays and ozone atop South Baldy Mountain about 50 miles southwest of Socorro.
For more than 50 years, New Mexico Tech has operated Langmuir Laboratory, the nation's first facility dedicated to the study of lightning and the atmosphere. Tech professors and students have been joined this summer by scientists, researchers and volunteers from Stanford, the National Severe Storm Laboratory and industry groups to collaborate on a wide range of atmospheric research.
William Winn (right), director of Langmuir Laboratory since the 1980s, said researchers at Langmuir Lab have made ground-breaking discoveries ever since the facility opened in the 1960s. Tech professors have pioneered technological advances that allow scientists to image lightning in clouds, examine where lightning begins and ends and study the distance lightning can travel, Winn said.
Studies of electricity have also lead to new understandings of the dynamics of electrical charges in thunderclouds and how lightning redistributes those charges, he said.
"This is an exciting field of research," Tech vice president Van Romero said. "There are other laboratories that study lightning, but none have the unique mountain features and the longevity that Langmuir Lab offers."
Romero, who earned two degrees in physics from New Mexico Tech, said university scientists and visiting researchers use Langmuir to conduct cutting-edge research that supports efforts to minimize lightning exposure at NASA and within the aviation community.
One method of gathering lightning data is launching specialized instruments into thunderstorms that pass over the mountaintop lab. The teams use weather balloons to launch as many as seven instruments at a time – all of which are equipped with GPS locators and measure different aspects of the atmosphere. Each instrument is called a "sonde," which is a device sent skyward to record various aspects of the atmosphere.
Another method for gathering lightning data involves a ground-based array of radio receivers. Over the past 30 years, Tech professors Bill Rison, Ron Thomas and Paul Krehbiel pioneered the Lightning Mapping Array, a system of multiple radiowave sensors that can create a three-dimensional image of lightning in nearly real-time. The mapping array is an integral tool for future research of lightning.
"The fun part is playing with gadgets," New Mexico Tech physics professor Ken Minschwaner said. "The challenge is having these gadgets work when we need them to work. We have very small windows of opportunity to launch an instrument into a thunderstorm. When it all works, it's quite a satisfying feeling."
Right: Doug Kennedy of the National Severe Storm Laboratory prepares to launch a test balloon on a recent stormy afternoon. Scientists launch a test balloon to visually check the prevailing winds prior to launching instruments into a storm.
Three researchers from the National Severe Storm Laboratory in Norman, Okla., spent three weeks at Langmuir studying the electrical fields in lightning storms and collaborating with Tech researchers on their ozone research.
Two Stanford University researchers spent nights at the laboratory studying elves and sprites – lightning that emanates upward from a thundercloud.
Tech physics professors have several different projects ongoing at the mountaintop facility.
Dr. Ken Minschwaner (kneeling) attaches his ozone sonde to a weather balloon during summer experiments. His instrument was one of seven attached to the balloon on that day. In the background are Doug Kennedy and Sherman Frederickson (right) of the National Severe Storm Laboratory in Tulsa, Okla.
Professor Ken Minschwaner just completed his third year of studying ozone created by lightning. The National Severe Storm Laboratory researchers came specifically to collaborate with the ozone experiments. Their instrument (initially developed in the 1970's at New Mexico Tech) measures electric field strength.
"We want to find out if ozone is produced in regions where the electric field is strong," Winn said. "We also want to find out if ozone is produced by lightning; thus the Lightning Mapping Array is also an essential part of the ozone experiment."
Professor Ken Eack has two projects this summer. He is studying the relationship of X-rays and lightning, an emphasis of his research for more than six years. Also, he and Winn have developed the next generation of commandable "controlled cut-down" device, which will allow researchers to remotely disconnect the instruments from the balloon. In theory, that device will allow researchers more control over the landing spot of their instruments, making retrieval easier.
Physics professor and lightning researcher Richard Sonnenfeld said thunderstorm X-rays are a puzzle in atmospheric studies.
"The existence of hard X-rays around lighting flashes is a real mystery because ordinary electrical breakdown processes only require electron energies that are very much smaller than X-ray energies," Sonnenfeld said. "If X-rays are associated with lightning at the initiation point, it suggests that at least some lightning flashes are started by unusual breakdown processes, perhaps initiated by cosmic rays."
If Dr. Eack succeeds in making the connection between cosmic rays and terrestrial lightning, it would be a very beautiful result in the unification of the cosmos with our earth-bound experience, Sonnenfeld said.
The mapping array plays an essential role in measuring the relative locations of lightning and X-rays, Sonnenfeld said. In future experiments, the electrical field sonde, which measures rapid changes in electric field during lightning flashes, will be flown with an X-ray detector to give additional information.
For the researchers at Langmuir Lab, summer time is like a festival of high-tech gadgets. The level of activity fluctuates from very low activity – waiting for a storm, tinkering with sondes and preparing balloons – to intense activity – firing rockets, launching balloons and ducking for cover. Adjacent to the balloon hangar, the crew spends time assembling their sondes, double-checking and triple-checking their equipment and monitoring the atmosphere. A computer screen constantly displays a radar image of the weather.
About a half-mile from the balloon hangar, the lab manages a rocket launch pad. From a secure position underground, a technician can launch an elaborate model rocket that drags hundreds of feet of copper wire into a thunderstorm. The rocket and its metal attachments trigger lightning, which follows the path of least resistance to the ground – the copper wire.
Safety is a great concern at the lab. Lightning claims more victims each year than snowstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes. According to the National Weather Service, lightning strikes cause an average of 73 deaths each year and hundreds more debilitating injuries. Winn said research at Langmuir Lab provides important insights into this deadly phenomenon. Researchers spend days or weeks preparing for one balloon flight, then spend literally years examining and interpreting the data.
Dr. Ken Minschwaner, Tech physics professor, explains his ozone sonde, which is a chemistry experiment attached to a motherboard with a GPS device.
All atmospheric research is interdisciplinary. Minschwaner's flying sensor – or "sonde" – is basically a chemistry kit attached to a small motherboard, with a transmitter and a GPS device. He visited the Tech chemistry department to mix the base chemicals for his flying sonde. He also had to write computer code to decipher the data. He'll then use higher-order physics to analyze the data and make hypotheses about naturally-created ozone.
To a layman, physics might seem like an academic pursuit, but to the Langmuir Lab researchers, studying the atmosphere is a hands-on activity. Minschwaner said that in the classroom, he stresses the importance of instrumentation and experimentation equally as much as analysis and interpretation.
"It's important that we not only teach them about science and math, but also the fun stuff that goes along with it," he said.


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On Aug. 19 John Legend dropped by The Recording Academy headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., to perform a few songs, chat with GRAMMY.com and even pick up a surprise replacement GRAMMY Award. Legend is in the midst of a tour with the Roots supporting their new album Wake Up, a collection of classic '60s and '70s R&B. During his visit, Legend played a few solo songs at the piano, including the album's title track, originally a hit for Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (and their vocalist, Teddy Pendergrass), and "Shine," the album's only original song.
"[These] songs evoke an era of activism and a time when musicians were really a part of the social movements that were happening, and their music reflected that," says Legend on why the concept of the album appealed to him.
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Acting Admiral Harris wrote: Lord Admiral, it has been months since Blackdog left known space in pursuit of a mysterious vessel which he believed to be a threat to the Empire. At this point, I doubt that he will ever retur--
"Sir, I have two new vessels on sensors. One of them is flying the Admiral's flag."
"Captain Harris, this is Vice Admiral Blackdog. We're in pursuit of an unidentified craft heading directly towards Fleet Central. We can't close the range! Get in position to intercept!"
"Excellent! This will be a good opportunity to try out that new satellite-defense network you designed."
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"This is the master control, right? I don't quite understand all this newfangled technology" [BEEP. TARGET IDENTIFIED].
"Good shooting, lads! Extra crumpet rations all round!"
"Actually, the targeting was handled entirely by a bank of networked quantum computers --"
"Well, extra crumpets for them too."
"Sure. Why not. Be advised, some of the debris is re-entering directly above Squadron House. You may want to get under cover."
"Captain, we're getting some strange readings. It looks like a piece of the debris is under power and maneuvering. It's heading for Defense Station 5."
"Bloody Hell! Attack us in our moment of triumph, will they!"
"OW! My arse!"
"Ensign, tell your aviators to prepare the spotter plane. I'm going to see those blighters off myself!"
Some Time Later...
"I say, good chap, I think the jet engine just ate my hat."
"There's the fort up ahead. Good to see they're keeping a stiff upper lip."
"Target up ahead, closing fast!"
"What exactly is that thing?"
As Captain Harris approaches the fort, the hostile aircraft comes into view.
As it flies towards the fort...
... A pair of hulking, monstrous figures drop from its belly.
"Good bloody hell! War automatons! How the Devil can this be!?"
The first automaton fires a railgun bolt at the repeating cannon atop the fort, but misses. The cannon responds with a hail of lead shot, but it cannot pierce the automaton's thick metal armor.
The second automaton fires, enveloping gunner and weapon alike in a ball of scorching plasma...
... but both emerge unharmed. "Wanker! Is that all you've got? My afternoon tea is hotter'n this!"
Meanwhile, the strange aircraft gains height and flies over the fort, opening up with a pair of miniguns. Two soldiers fall, riddled with bullets.
But the terror has only begun; the flyer deploys a third automaton, which also aims its guns at the men atop the ramparts...
... and sweeps the wall clean of any resistance, save for the gunner.
The spotter plane hurtles towards the strange aircraft poised above the fort...
And Captain Harris leaps onto the strange craft and, with tremendous strength, forces its cockpit, only to find it empty save for a large computer core. "Bloody hell, another automaton! Shall we all soon be murdered in our beds by these newfangled devices!?"
Harris leaps from the aircraft's wing and shoots the computer system through the open cockpit.
With its electronic mind heavily damaged, the ship veers out of control...
...And comes crashing down just beyond the fort.
The spotter pilot pulls his aircraft into a dive (just imagine he's diving, okay?) and opens fire on the automatons below.
Once again, his efforts prove vain as the automatons' metal skin seems immune to attack.
Inspired by Captain Harris' victory, the ratings manning the bombard charge the colossus in the middle of their fort, but their cutlasses fail to draw blood. Er, electricity.
The swordsmen join in the effort, but they cannot seem to connect with their target, despite its size.
The gunner fires another volley from his repeating cannon, but his shots fall wide of the target.
In retaliation, the automaton with the plasma cannon fires a second blast at him. The plasma sweeps across his position, and when it passes both him and the cannon he manned are gone.
Another automaton fires a railgun shot at the spotter plane, but misses.
Surrounded, the third brings its guns to bear on Captain Harris, but mere electronic calculation will never surpass human skill with the musket. Harris stands unflappable amidst the maelstrom of bullets.
The spotter plane finally gets close enough to the action to perform its function. The pilot relays target coordinates, and the bombard fires a round... but despite his efforts, it falls far from the target.
Captain Harris leaps down from the parapet to rally his troops, and both swordsmen strike as one...
...dealing a death blow to their metallic foe.
But Harris knows their victory is short-lived. Having observed the effects of the automatons' plasma cannon, he orders his men to disperse so that one blast cannot kill them all.
A railgun shot smashes through the bombard, rendering it useless.
The second remaining automaton fires into the fort, intending to strike down the good Captain, but misses.
Captain Harris charges out of the fort, his rotary musket flaming as he makes a reckless assault on the robotic titans outside. It seems like an utterly hopeless endeavour...
Until a stream of bullets from his musket severs the railgun from its owner's shoulder mount.
Behind him, the surviving defenders form up to take the fight to the enemy.
A bolt from the automatons' plasma cannon engulfs them, but it is too weak to pose a real threat.
Deprived of its weapon, an automaton rushes Captain Harris. "Hah! Do your worst, metal man!"
"Oof... you're faster... than I suspected."
Despite his injuries, Captain Harris gets back on his feet to lead his men in their counterattack. Sparks fly as cutlasses and beam sabers slice at the war machine's armor.
Meanwhile, the spotter plane makes its second strafing run, damaging the other automaton. Captain Harris attempts once again to shoot its weapon, but misses.
With cold calculation, the last armed automaton on the field fires a bolt of plasma into the fort's entrance...
... turning it into an inferno that leaves no one, not even its weaponless comrade, alive.
Finding himself nearly alone on the battlefield, Captain Harris discards his rotary musket and picks up a more suitable weapon -- the beam sabres from the dead swordsmen. To avoid his enemy's scorching plasma bolts, he hides behind the wall, hoping to bait his target into coming to him.
Meanwhile, the automaton tries to take down the spotter plane, but has little luck.
The spotter pilot goes into his turn, swinging past the fort. "Captain, you need a ride?"
"Jolly good old chap". With tremendous athleticism, he leaps into the cockpit...
"Ouch. I suppose I'm not as spry as I once was."
In a most ungentlemanly fashion, the automaton takes advantage of the Captain's distress to finish him off with a plasma bolt.
Knowing he is the last man standing between this ruthless automaton and its objective, the spotter pilot decides that drastic measures must be taken...
...and sends his plane diving into the ground, taking the foul machine with him.
Lord Admiral, I have chased these mysterious ships for months but I am afraid I am no closer to discerning their purpose. This automaton attack was the strangest yet -- an entirely robotic force sent on a brazen assault against the command center of Blue Sector's fleet. My guess is they wanted to assassinate the naval officers at Squadron House, but we will never know their true goal. As for the Captain, the reserve force sent to hold Defense Station five found him severely injured but still clinging to life. Despite his advanced age, he is a man of stout constitution and I have no doubt he will make a full recovery.
In better news, the automated satellite defenses that Captain Harris inadvertently tested seem to be quite capable of defending our space against incursions such as this one. I am pleased to report that the system has performed flawlessly in every test I have administered since the battle, and is ready to come on-line in an official capacity. Just as soon as Maintenance gets those crumpet crumbs out of the main computer bank...


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First term Democratic Sen. Jim Webb (VA) will not seek re-election, he announced in a statement today.
"After much thought and consideration I have decided to return to the private sector, where I have spent most of my professional life, and will not seek re-election in 2012. Notwithstanding this decision, I have every intention of remaining involved in the issues that affect the well-being and the future of our country."
Webb, the former Navy Secretary in the Reagan Administration, was the sole Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee to vote on May 27 2010 against adding the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
Seven months later, Webb's position changed. On December 18 2010, Webb voted for cloture and final repeal on the historic 2010 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal Act.
The Washington Post adds:
Webb's decision, long anticipated by many in Virginia politics, will make his seat more difficult to hold for his party. Ex-Sen. George Allen (R), who lost the seat in 2006 to Webb, is running to win it back, and a handful of other GOP candidates are also running. Some Democrats hope ex-Gov. Tim Kaine will decide to run for the seat, but he has given no indication yet that he is interested.
It looks like it will be more difficult for the Democrats to retain their Senate majority. Of the 33 Senate seats up for re-election in 2012, 23 are held by Democrats.


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New planting system combines nutrition with no-till for top yields.
A new planting system combines a reengineered no-till planter with better nutrition and soil- and water-handling characteristics for top yields. The system, Nu-Till, takes no-till to a higher level of performance and will increase yields over traditional no-till programs, according to the system's developer Ag Spectrum, DeWitt, IA.
Precise nutrition. The Nu-Till system grew out of research from USDA and universities showing the importance of properly balanced nutrients to soil fertility. "It was good data that helped us understand ways to optimize the soil," says Wayne Stuedemann, president and CEO of Ag Spectrum.
The system requires precise and timely placement of nutrients to help crops grow. "Nitrogen is only applied in the spring when planting, and possibly later as a sidedress if needed for late-season hybrids," Stuedemann explains. Banding nitrogen with the planter provides nitrogen where and when the plants need it.
"Generally this reduces the amount of nitrogen applied," he adds. "Compared to conventional programs, we usually cut N rates 25 to 35%."
A special formulation of phosphorus called Clean Start also must be applied with the system. Stuedemann says the early phosphorus application enhances kernel development. Applicator tubes spray the nutrient directly on the seed in the furrow. A micronutrient enhancement called Kick-Off is sprayed at the same time. Ag Spectrum developed both products.
Additional fertilizer is applied only if soil tests show phosphorus and potassium fall below a medium level on a field, Stuedemann says. He considers a "maintenance" application of fertilizer a waste for a field with phosphorus and potassium levels at medium or above.
Planter modifications. Planting according to the Nu-Till system requires modifications to a traditional planter. "We do not sell the equipment," Stuedemann says. "We just partner with individuals who patented the equipment."
Key equipment components include special trash wheels, a seed firmer to press the seed into the furrow, closing wheels and the nitrogen banding mechanism. The equipment fits on most planters. Stuedemann claims that all these modifications usually cost less than $1,000/row.
Special trash wheels from Martin and Company rake away trash and do not move dirt like other no-till coulters do. Then the seed disc requires only a minimal amount of down pressure to open a seed trench. If soils are wet, less pressure is required, allowing earlier planting.
A Keeton Seed Firmer presses the seed into the furrow bottom by firming rather than crushing the soil, Stuedemann reports. The seed firmers are available with applicator tubes for placing Clean Start and Kick-Off directly onto the seed.
Martin Spading closing wheels finish the job by keeping compaction to a minimum above the seed furrow.
Beefed up no-till. "This is for farmers who want to make no-till work," Stuedemann says. "A farmer can expect that if the Nu-Till system is implemented in its entirety and accurately, yields will at least match conventional yields and in many cases surpass them."
In addition, the equipment and operating expenses of Nu-Till will be significantly less than those of conventional tillage because it requires fewer trips across the field and less fertilizer, Stuedemann says. Plus, farmers are able to plant under wetter conditions than with conventional no-till because of the modifications made to the planting equipment and the soil's ability to function under higher moisture content.
For more information, contact Ag Spectrum, Dept. FIN, Box 215, DeWitt, IA 52742, 319/659-5046.


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The Art of Science Advanced Trivia Game
The most advanced trivia game ever.
- The hardest and, therefore, the most fun trivia game we've ever played.
- Prove your knowledge in real categories, such as: mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics.
- Fairly compete head-to-head with masters in differing fields.
Geeks love trivia. It sometimes feels like currency with which we buy respect. But think about all the trivia games out there - most are in really silly and/or dumb categories. The time has come to take a stand. To say we don't want to answer questions in sports all the time to get our orange wedge so we can win. We want to answer hard questions in mathematics and the sciences. We hear you, and that's why we give youThe Art of Science Advanced Trivia Game.
The Art of Science Advanced Trivia Game is the coolest and hardest trivia game we've ever found. It's got real categories (mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, technology, and a miscellaneous (for extra fun)) and a twist. See, you start by ranking your categories. If you're a biologist, say, you'll put biology on top - meaning you get to answer more biology questions to win. Your mathematician opponent would do the same for the mathematics category. This puts all experts on an equal playing field, each battling with weapons of their own specialty. The Art of Science Advanced Trivia Game - it's time for a brain fight!
The Art of Science Advanced Trivia Game
- The hardest trivia game we've ever played.
- Rank the categories to get more points for what you know more about. So, a mathematician will get more points for math questions and a biologist will get more points for biology questions. This puts different experts on a level playing field!
- Includes: Game board, 330 question cards, 2 card holders, 1 notebook (80 score cards), 6 wooden game pieces, 1 die, and instructions/rule booklet.
- Game Board Dimensions: approx. 19.6" square.


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Phandroid: Samsung Galaxy S III vulnerability exposed – Kies software to blame
Another day, another security scare. I think it would be safe to assume that just about any OS is vulnerable in some area and it never fails, where's there's a hole, there's a person who will find it and exploit it. Today, a security vulnerability was found in Samsung Kies — Samsung's sync and update […]
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Today at the Virtual Summit on Fiscal and Economic Responsibility for People Who Did Not Wreck the Economy hosted by Campaign for America's Future…
Can We Have A Debate? Dean Baker sees the White House debt commission trying to Ca
">impose a false consensus":
These affairs are not about promoting a real exchange of views on issues like the future of Social Security, Medicare, and public support for education, research and infrastructure. The purpose of these events is to tell the public that everyone agrees, we have to cut the deficit. And, this means cutting Social Security and Medicare. This is argument by authority.
Yes We Can! Campaign for America's Future convened top economic experts this afternoon to provide the media with the views not heard by the commission this morning.
No One To Trust:Susie Madrak sees no one to trust after the first White House debt commission meeting:
…when they say "everything's on the table", they mean "only the things the rich and powerful want on the table are actually on the table." And we're supposed to be too stupid to notice.
The Counter-MessageMike Lux offers progressives a one-two punch to reframe the debate:
1. The best way to make major progress on the deficit is to rebuild a broadly prosperous economy. … 2. There are many different ways to cut the deficit without slashing Social Security, Medicare benefits, and programs to help the poor.
Jobs Is Job #1 Robert Borosage chastises the Washington establishment for putting deficit reduction ahead of job growth while unemployment remains unacceptably high:
Choosing between deficit reduction or greater stimulus isn't a matter of taste or of economic mumbo jumbo. It's about values and priorities.
For too many lawmakers, high unemployment seems to be an acceptable price for fiscal probity.
But there are worse things than deficits, and grinding mass unemployment is one of them. Families will divide. Young hopes will be crushed. Wages will stagnate; Gilded Age-style inequality will grow worse; poverty will spread.
There Are No "Greedy Geezers": Nathan Tabak and Ashley Carson debunk the "greedy geezers" attack with something called facts.
Mythbusting Lynn Parramore offers "Nine Deficit Myths We Cannot Afford."


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Allen and Glenna Chaney will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Sept. 15.
They will be honored by their children with a reception from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 15 in Sunbright Community Center.
No invitations will be sent; the couple requests no gifts.
Amy Georgina Ingram and Robin T. Curtis announce their forthcoming marriage.
The ceremony will be at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 13 in front of St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, New Orleans.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Cathie Ingram of Harriman and Bill Ingram of Oliver Springs.
She graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Tennessee Technology Center. She is employed with Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, and is owner of Bella Photographs of Tennessee.
Ashley Whittenbarger and T.J. Miller, both of Harriman, announce their forthcoming marriage.
The ceremony will be at 6 p.m. Sept. 29 in North Rockwood Baptist Church.
All relatives and friends of the couple are invited to attend.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Bill and Shelia Whittenbarger of Harriman.
The prospective groom's parents are George and Lolita Miller of Harriman.
Kelsey Rae Smith was born at 12:36 p.m. July 7 in Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville.
She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 20 inches long.
She is the daughter of Will and Kristy Smith of Harriman.
Grandparents are Steve and Mona Bolden of Harriman, and Diana Smith of Oakdale.
Great-grandparents are Mary Oran and Ruth Headrick.
Kelsey has a brother, Liam, 4, and a sister, Taylor, 5.
Babies born at Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, to Roane County parents:
July 14 — Jheri-Ann Ezell, Harriman. A boy, Izaiah Alexander, 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Sibling: Jacob. Grandparents: Ann Ezell; Jerry Ezell.
July 20 — Taylor Reese, Kingston. A boy, Bentley Michael Scott.
July 21 — Nikki and Timothy Billings, Harriman. A boy, Kameron, 5 pounds, 10 ounces. Siblings: Logan, Ryley and Trinity.
Marriage licenses granted at the Roane County Courthouse from July 12-Aug. 28:
Jeffrey Alan Glasgow to Brenda Gail Townsend Wolfe
Elmer Garrell Bailey to Sandra Jean Kelley McCuistion
Jonathan Adam Mitchell to Jennifer Michelle McIlwain Hill
Jordan Paul Williams to Jennifer Lee Smith
Jonathan Derrick Grizzell to Kristen Deetta Layne Jackson
Jon Elliott Cagle to Tijuana Jo Ford Rockwell
Charles Edward Taylor to Amelia Erin Keller
Jace Simeon Tedder celebrated his ninth birthday on Aug. 23. He celebrated with a NASCAR-themed party at Roane County Park with family and friends.
He is the son of Marty and Robin Tedder of Harriman.
Grandparents are Ernest and Barbara Tedder and Charles and Becky Lamance, all of Harriman.
Jace has a 3-year-old brother, Cole Thomas Tedder.
Rebecca Mechtly of Rockwood celebrates her 73rd birthday today, Aug. 31.
Family members, including son and daughter-in-law, Jack and Lela Mechtly and their daughters, Miranda and Victoria, said they are glad she is home from the hospital for her special day.
"We look forward to enjoying time with you in the days to come," they said.
Mr. and Mrs. John Narramore of Kingston will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Sept. 1.
Their children and grandchildren will host an anniversary reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 2 in Laurel Bluff Baptist Church fellowship hall. All relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Dianna Caine Hicks and Rocky "Billy" Hicks, both of Harriman, were married on Aug. 18 at 599 Morgan County Hwy., Harriman.
Minister Richard Cox officiated during the 6 p.m. ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Kelvin and Lisa Armes of Harriman.
The groom is the son of Bill and Shelia Hicks of Harriman.
The bride was escorted by her father. Her son, McKinley Lough, was ringbearer.
Following a wedding trip to Cape Coral, Fla., the couple is at home in Harriman.
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At CERN, we developed a fabric monitoring tool called Lemon around 10 years ago while the computing infrastructure for the Large Hadron Collider was being commissioned.
As in many areas, modern Open Source tools are now providing equivalent function without the effort of maintaining the entire software stack and benefiting from the experience of others.
As part of the ongoing work to align the CERN computing fabric management to open source tools with strong community support, we have investigated a monitoring tool chain which would allow us to consolidate logs, perform analysis for trends and provide dashboards to assist in problem determination.
Given our scalability objectives, we can expect O(100K) endpoints with multiple data sources to be correlated from PDUs, machines and guest instances.
A team looking into a CERN IT reference architecture have divided the problem into 4 areas
- Transport - how to get the data from the client machine to where can be analysed with the aim of a low overhead per client. Flume was chosen as the implementation for this part after a comparison with ActiveMQ (which we use in other areas such as monitoring notifications). Flume was chosen as there were many pre-existing connectors for sources and sinks.
- Tagging - where we can associate additional external metadata with the data so each entry is self describing. Elastic Search was the selection here.
- Dashboard - where queries on criteria are displayed in an intuitive way (such as time series or pie charts) on a service specific dashboard. Kibana was the natural choice in view of the ease of integration with Elastic Search.
- Long term data repository to allow offline analysis and trending when new areas of investigation are needed. HDFS was the clear choice for unstructured data and we had a number of other projects at CERN that require it's function too.
Using this architecture, we have implemented the CERN private cloud log handling, taking the logs from the 700 hypervisors and controllers around the CERN cloud and consolidating them into a set of dashboards.
Our requirements are
- Have a centralized copy of our logs to ease problem investigation
- Display OpenStack usage statistics such as management dashboards
- Show the results of functional tests and probes to the production cloud
- Maintain a long term history of the infrastructure status and evolution
- Monitor the state of our databases
The Elastic Search configuration is a 14 node cluster with 11 data nodes and 3 HTTP nodes configured using Puppet and running, naturally, on VMs in the CERN private cloud. We have 5 shares per index with 2 replicas per shard.
Kibana is running on 3 nodes, with Shibboleth authentication to integrate to the CERN Single Sign On system.
A number of dashboards have been created. A Nova API dashboard shows the usage
An Active User dashboard helps us to identify if there are heavy users causing disturbance.
The dashboards themselves can be created dynamically without needing an in-depth knowledge of the monitoring infrastructure.
This work has been implemented by the CERN monitoring and cloud teams and thanks for the support of the Flume, Elastic Search and Kibana communities.


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Jewish World Review December 30, 2013/ 27 Teves, 5774
A world of information: Facts in an almanac can make the head spin like a globe
By David Shribman
JewishWorldReview.com | This I learned from the Internet: "The World Almanac" first appeared in 1868 and the word "World" in its title refers not to its global scale or reach but to its origin as a publication of The New York World newspaper. It provided Calvin Coolidge's father with the text of the presidential oath of office when, in 1923, he swore in his son, by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 in the morning. The U.S. government asked that special print runs be commissioned because so many G.I.s read it during World War II.
Fred MacMurray talked about the almanac in an exchange with Edward G. Robinson in "Double Indemnity." (Note to younger readers: Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson were actors, and "Double Indemnity" was a movie.) The almanac makes an important cameo performance in "Miracle on 34th Street" (also a movie; look it up on the web if you didn't see it on your laptop last week).
This I learned from the latest edition of the 2014 "World Almanac and Book of Facts," just now in stores and what you might think of the Internet before there was a Web: A small-craft advisory is prompted by a forecast of winds between 23 and 38 mph. The circumference of the Liberty Bell around its lip is 12 feet and one-half inches. William Wirt ran for president in 1832 on the Anti-Masonic Party ticket. The ZIP code of Crestwood, Ill., is 60445. Howie Morenz of the Montreal Canadiens won the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1928.
Some 5.6 percent of white high school girls were in a physical fight on school property in 2011. A prokaryote is a single-celled organism that doesn't have a distinct nucleus. The first transcontinental television broadcast was on Sept. 4, 1951. The island of Navassa lies between Haiti and Jamaica. Montenegro has 155 miles of rail track.
This I know without looking it up: The first "World Almanac" I remember was the 1959 edition, and I remember it only because my father brought home the 1960 edition and threw out the 1959 number. As a young boy I spent hours with the trim little volume filled with agate type and the sort of worthless knowledge I would eventually spend my life acquiring and then sharing, repeatedly and remorselessly, with others in a newspaper column.
For leisure, and this I know is pitiful, I flipped through the book — today the term would be "surfing," though in the beach town where I grew up that word had a different meaning — for hours and, also pitiful, I was riveted by irresistible attractions such as its summary of the history of the Kuomintang Party or its list of agricultural products of many nations, which invariably included sugar beets. I was a very dull boy, destined to become a very dull man.
This I also learned from the newest edition of "The World Almanac": Romanesque cathedrals have concealed buttresses. Some 82 percent of cell-phone users texted in 2012, up from 31 percent in 2007. The Newberry National Volcanic Monument is in Oregon. Those who travel for medical treatment can deduct part of their expenses from their federal income taxes.
France adopted the Gregorian calendar before Hungary did. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Norfolk, Va., was minus 3 degrees. Tom Brady is from California. The Library of Congress closes at 5 p.m. on Saturdays. The source of the Tombigbee River is Prentiss County, Miss. Gabon has 403 miles of rail track.
This is what I learned from Sarah Janssen, a senior editor of "The World Almanac," in a telephone conversation. Only 20 people work on the book. Some of the editors' offices are messy. As deadline looms, the staff works as many as 80 hours a week. Sarah has on occasion worked at home in her jammies. This year the almanac added a section on marriage and shortened the biography of George W. Bush. The staff proofreads the almanac on paper. Sometimes there is a party when the project is completed. This year there wasn't one. There is no office cat.
This is more of what I found in the newest almanac: The monetary unit of Papua New Guinea is the Kina. Wilhelm Steinitz of Austria was the world chess champ between 1886 and 1894. Both towers of the Century Plaza in Los Angeles have 44 stories.
There are 12 commercial banks in Maine. Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio, was founded in 1850. Some 1.2 million people died in a drought in Bengal in 1900. Allan Nevins won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Grover Cleveland.
Crushed stone, sand, salt, gravel, cement and wollastonite make up a $1.3 billion industry in New York State. The area code for Brown Deer, Wis., is 414. The flag of Somalia has a very pretty shade of light blue. Jehovah's Witnesses participate in an annual Lord's Meal ceremony. Some 3.3 percent of males completed distance education programs in the 2007--2008 academic year. Togo has 353 miles of rail track.
This is more of what Ms. Janssen told me. The almanac staff is divided about equally by gender. Many of them have beats — broad subject areas in which they cultivate expertise and experience — and sometimes they suggest adding elements (such as: more information this year on how often people check their email). Sarah can't think of anything the group does together for fun. But everyone who works on the World Almanac, she says, "thinks the work is fun."
This is more of what I found in the 2014 almanac: The purple finch is the state bird of New Hampshire. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks was born in Unionville Center, Ohio. African Americans account for 9 percent of the population of Indiana. In a public auditorium, the American flag should be placed at the speaker's right as he or she faces the audience. The westernmost town in the 48 continuous states is La Push, Wash. The first reliable measurement of the speed of light was made by the French physicist Armand Hippolyte. Middlebury College has a graduation rate of 94 percent. Denmark has 1,657 miles of rail track.
This is what I think about "The World Almanac": I hope it never goes away.
And one more thing: Panama has 41 miles of rail track.
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Even though the 2012 tornado activity is already well above the year-to-date average for 2005-2011, Standard & Poor says the insurance and reinsurance industries should be able to sustain the losses, including the twisters that wreaked havoc on the Midwest.
"Insurance and reinsurance companies have barely caught their breath after sustaining more than $100 billion in catastrophe losses from 2011 global events, and they are already assessing this year's damage from catastrophes," says S&P in its March 15 Global Credit Portal.
However, the ratings agency adds that while the local impact from recent tornadoes is severe, the industry should be able to manage the losses. S&P also points out that the losses for the February-March outbreak are far less than the April-May outbreak in 2011 that saw $20 billion in insured losses from tornadoes and severe storms.
S&P notes that a "stark contrast" between the 2011 and 2012 outbreaks is that the 2012 tornadoes occurred in less densely populated locations with lower property values. The ratings agency says it does not expect the February-March tornadoes to trigger any of its rated catastrophe bonds and adds that the storms are likely to have a larger impact on regional carriers.


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A letter in the May 22 Tomahawk Leader:
To The Editor:
My wife has been a librarian/reading teacher/computers teacher for Tomahawk Middle School for nine years. Her days are a continuous juggling act between teaching classes, helping teachers with technology problems, and keeping the library up to date. She is a professional, and as a professional one would think she would have the freedom to choose when to take a personal day. However, this is not the case at Tomahawk Public Schools.
Two or three weeks ago, she made a request to Superintendent Al Prosser for June 5 off. Our 5-year-old daughter was having a field trip which required a parent attend ... I was going to be out of town for my uncle's memorial service, so my wife stepped up. She had personal days remaining, so we did not foresee any problems. However, the past couple of weeks have put my wife on a virtual bungee cord of e-mails between Mr. Prosser and Jen Pfannerstill, the teacher's union representative. It seems there are extreme reservations about having a teacher take any personal days during the last week of school, the first week of school or days immediately before or after a school break. I do not know of any other profession where it is dictated when and how a personal day is used. It seems the School District looks upon our teachers as children who need to ask for permission to go anywhere. Actually, that isn't quite accurate, for it is common for students to take a week, or even two, for family vacations ... So it would seem teachers at Tomahawk Public Schools have perhaps the least amount of freedom in the county when it comes to taking time off, with the possible exception of inmates at Lincoln Hills.
Now it has been decided that my wife may take the day off, provided she pay for her own substitute. … This latest ploy has driven me over the edge. To think my wife has to not only jump through hoops … but require that she dish out $80 to spend a day with her kids as if she were renting a pontoon boat for an afternoon pleasure cruise is completely outrageous.
Teachers are always told that children's needs come first, but I guess that is only if those children are not their own. ... What about all the time teachers spend on school that falls outside of contracted hours? My wife goes on overnight field trips to Trees for Tomorrow and Fort Wilderness on a volunteer basis, as well as chaperoning school dances. ... Just last week she came back from a dance at nearly 10 o'clock because a few students hadn't been picked up. … The point is my wife does not slack off on her responsibilities to her students, so why do our children need to take a back seat?
This whole situation makes me recall the old Seinfeld episode of the soup kitchen where the customers need to tread carefully and do everything just so, or the chef yells out, "No soup for you!" Well, Mr. Prosser, you can keep your soup; because what you are dishing out I have no stomach for.
Troy McPherson
Can't swallow this one …
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