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There are many country music artists who are reeling from the recent tragic explosion in West, Texas at the West Fertilizer Co. It hits especially close to home for the iconic Willie Nelson, as the accident happened in a town six miles south of his hometown of Abbott, Texas. The legend taking action and turning his 80th birthday celebration into a benefit concert for the West Volunteer Fire Department.
He tells CMT, "West is like our backyard. It's where I grew up. I road my bike from Abbott to West and back all the time on that road where all this stuff happened."
"There are a lot of our friends and loved ones and neighbors down there. We talked to some of them and some of them made it out OK, and some of them didn't," he adds. "But they're strong and they'll be back. It's one of those things you don't get over. But you will get through it."
The Country Music Hall of Fame member tweeted the information about the benefit concert, saying, "The previously scheduled concert on 4/28 at @thenewbackyard will now benefit West VFD. Details to come soon."
Nelson is rallying his whole Family band for the show, and they're working together to create some hope. "I'll be there, and my son Lukas, my son Micah and daughters Paula and Amy," the icon says. "We'll all be there doing a benefit show now. Until today, it was set up as a birthday show. But since the West tragedy happened, we decided to start a benefit there and let other people join in. If they want to donate to the West Volunteer Fire Department, they can do so. That's where our proceeds are going to go on that day."
It certainly is a shocking and horrific tragedy. The latest in the West, Texas explosion updates is that 35 people are believed to have been killed, and that number includes five members of the West Volunteer Fire Department, four EMS workers and an off-duty Dallas firefighter who pitched in to help. The search for survivors continues, although the outcome appears bleak.
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Republicans are engaged in some public "soul-searching," which is what we usually call it when members of a defeated party explain that the party went wrong by not taking the advice they've been giving all along.
One of the most common arguments at the moment is that demography has become doom for Republicans. The party is worried primarily about three groups: Hispanics, women and young people. To court Hispanics, many Republicans think they need to change their policies on immigration. For women, it's their approach to abortion and contraception. For young people, same-sex marriage.
While there is something to each of these arguments, Republicans are making a mistake by thinking about voters in these categories. The root of the party's electoral challenge isn't demographics: It's economics.
Call it the tyranny of the cross-tab: Republicans look at the polls that show a group voting against them, and then take the mental shortcut of assuming it's mainly because of some issue distinctive to that group. One result is to oversimplify reality: to obscure the facts that married women tend to vote Republican, for example, as do young evangelical Christians.
Race, sex and age influence but don't determine how people will vote - and the influence is often subtler than generally assumed.
Republican views on immigration, and the way they express those views, must play a role in how poorly Republicans do with Hispanics. Republicans haven't found a way to reassure conservative voters that the country will respect the rule of law without also making Hispanics think that the party is hostile to them. A way out of this predicament doesn't immediately suggest itself.
Even if a solution were found, though, the growing number of Hispanic voters would continue to mean trouble for Republicans. Hispanics are disproportionately poor and uninsured. And like people of other races in similar situations, they tend to have views on economic policy that align with the Democrats.
In California, for example, Hispanics helped get Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's tax increases approved on Election Day. A Republican Party that is associated with repealing Obama's health-care legislation - and not with any alternative plan to get people health insurance - is going to get trounced among these voters.
Public support for same-sex marriage has risen a lot, among young people especially, and the Republican Party will have to soften its opposition to it. Again, though, there is an economic dimension to the party's trouble. Young people are also less economically secure than the middle-aged and the retired who vote Republican more frequently. That has to play a role in the way they vote.
What have Republicans up and down the ticket offered to address the concerns of economically stressed young people? A vague promise to create more jobs; an entitlement reform that, even viewed charitably, would do nothing for them here and now.
There aren't many Republicans who think it's smart for candidates to let opposition to abortion in cases of rape become a major issue in campaigns. That stance is unpopular among women and men alike (slightly more among men, according to a Gallup Poll). Elections have generally shown that even Republican politicians who favor legal abortion do worse among women than among men. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, one of those Republicans, did 12 points worse as he was defeated. (Mitt Romney did only 8 points worse.)
Although polls don't find differences between men and women on what everyone calls "women's issues," they do find differences on policy issues we don't usually consider in terms of gender. Women are more liberal on health care, on defense spending and on anti-poverty programs. A smarter approach to abortion, however necessary for Republicans, won't change that.
The common theme here is that the current Republican economic message isn't very compelling to any of these groups. If Republicans addressed that problem, they would find their numbers improving in all of these groups, and outside them too. White, working-class voters, who supported Romney for president but seem to have had low turnout, might have shown up in greater numbers if Republicans had retooled on economics.
Men and women, whites and Hispanics, the young and the middle-aged: All of them want politicians to offer a practical agenda to create jobs, raise wages, and make health care and higher education more affordable. Most of them aren't wedded to liberal answers on those issues. They will take them over nothing, and that's what Republicans have been giving them.
Republicans are unlikely to return to majority status, or even keep their current strength, unless they do better. Looking at voters in categories of race, sex and age won't help them do that.
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Florida real estate mogul Frank McKinney has been building homes for the super-wealthy for 20 years. Recently he decided to start building them green. Acqua Liana, the largest and most expensive home to aspire to LEED certification, is scheduled to be finished in February. The $29 million home is being built on Florida's luxurious Manalapan beach. At 15,000-square feet, the house is three times as large and 25 times as expensive as any home trying to earn certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. McKinney estimates that building a green Acqua Liana cost 7 to 10% more than a non-green house of this type. But can it truly be considered green? We caught up with Frank to ask him a few questions about his latest project – read on for an exclusive interview.
What would a house look like if you spared no expense to make it green?
This one includes $120,000 worth of solar panels that generate as much electricity as two average-size homes consume. The residence's water system treats and recycles enough gray water to fill the average swimming pool every 14 days. There are enough indoor pools, ponds and misters to reduce the interior temperature two to three degrees below that of neighboring properties and enough reclaimed wood was used in construction to equal 10.5 acres of Brazilian rain forest. During construction, over 340,000 pounds of debris and trash was recycled. Additionally, the home has an automated bio-feedback system that will calculate its energy efficiency in real time.
But is it green? It's impossible for any homeowner to justify such luxury. But as McKinney points out in our interview, these houses are being built anyway. Why not direct some of that big money to energy efficiency and responsible site maintenance? And who else can afford to use solar panels extensively?
What was the motivation for building green?
I've been doing these beautiful works of art on the ocean for the last 20 years. The green movement in America, to use a baseball metaphor, isn't in the first inning, the second or the fifth inning. It's at the national anthem. Trends start at the top and when we were presented with the opportunity to turn a home into a certified green home, we felt that it would be a worthy challenge to take. The ultra wealthy are going to be moving to minimizing their carbon footprint.
Nobody is doing this at our level.
With the huge penalty that we face with the size of the house, we start 24 points below zero.
You were aiming for a platinum LEED certification. What happened to that goal?
I wouldn't aim for something that's unattainable. With the size of the house we start 24 points below zero. Had we not had that penalty, we would be certified gold — and had I known a little more about the process.
I think it's a little bit arbitrary. I was willing to run the gauntlet of dealing with this point penalty system. There's a reason that nobody at our level is doing this.
I love the USGBC. I think it's the greatest thing since AL Gore. It is the standard. The benchmark is the LEED-H program prescribed by the USGBC. We helped them develop their criteria.
I only have one problem and that is that this penalty [starting 24 points below zero because of the house's size] is discouraging to most users or builders. It's a bit arbitrary. It's 15,000-square-foot house but it sits on 1.6 acres. I could fit ten houses on there, imagine the impact if I were able to build with that density across America… It's one house on 70,000 square feet.
The green movement in America has been around in the mainstay of consciousness for maybe two years. It's so new, that given a little time, I'm sure that the example that we're setting, and the applications, the technology… will certainly set a standard. I'm happy to be setting the trend there. We are going to work with the USGBC on this.
What rating are you trying for now and when do you expect it will be granted or denied?
We are two points away on Acqua Liana from silver. A part of the rating process, you won't know until the house is finished and all the blanks are filled in on this checklist. We can project where we're going to be but that kind of varies. We're fighting for every little half a point that will get us to silver. When we present them an innovation design point there's no answer in the manual, that's something that will be determined. I will be thrilled if we get certified at all.
Do you have your LEED accreditation?
No, [our green consultant] does.
How did you attempt to minimize on-site waste?
It's not simple. You can imagine a job of that size will have, I can tell you here, it will have 60 plus 30 yard dumpsters removed during the life of the job. That's potentially a tremendous amount of waste.
We've contracted with a waste management property that picks up our dumpsters and takes them back to a facility and sorts through them to separate the good from the bad. In the beginning, 75% was being recycled, and the last report was 81% of our materials – this is the bulk materials.
The small stuff that we do, the sodas and energy drinks that the guys have on-site, it's small, but the cradle to cradle approach should be applied. We have recycle bins right there on the site to collect all of that. And we set that out on the street. No other builder takes the time to take out the workers' trash to recycle. We dismantled a temporary stair for another job piece by piece and we're using a recycled set of stairs to get from the first floor to the second floor. Most of the debris that we make, 80% is recycled
You're importing sand, is that correct? Where did the sand come from? Are you planting greenery that can grow in sand?
It's interesting. To build on the ocean you need a permit… Anything that is seaward of the control line must be beach quality sand. Let's say that they're doing an excavation project down in Fort Lauderdale. Beach quality sand — truck it up and we're restoring the dune with the native material.
That's another thing that we have to do. There's eight particular mandates form USGBC and one is responsible site stewardship. And what we've done because of the threat of washout from hurricanes, we have planted sea oats and sea grasses, dune sunflower, and these are plant material that's highly salt tolerant and its root system is quite deep. And it's what you would see on an actual dune. That's what we've repopulated our dune with and it looks beautiful.
The average American household consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. How much electricity is Aqua Liana expected to consume? Is there any way to quantify the energy consumption of the house?
Don't know it in kW but I can tell you in terms of electric bill….for a 15,000-square-foot [house], $4,500 would be the average electric bill.
Our electric bill, when you combine the solar application, the inflated wall panels, the insulation in the attic, our electric bill will be hovering around 800 bucks. That's a 70% reduction. It's not that the folks who buy the house can't afford it, but the footprint they're leaving is no greater than a half a million dollar house that would be 3,000 to 35,000-square-feet. We've signed up for net metering, selling electricity back to the provider. January, February, and March we will have a zero electric bill. The home owner will be credited money toward their future bills. We love the evergreen solar panels. They're great, they're efficient, they're cheaper. Efficiency when it comes to energy is where we're headed and having an electric bill of zero is in the future.
Crystalina, McKinney's next project, a $30 million green home
This post will spark debate among our readers about whether this project can truly be called green. I'd like to give you a chance to answer them by playing devil's advocate for a minute.
You are building a residence that will require vast amounts of energy and generate substantial waste during construction, and then after it's occupied, consume far more electricity than any single homeowner should ever claim to need.
I just gave you all the facts that say this is unequivocally untrue. You can take the purest approach that says I'm going to eat my granola and hug my trees, or you can have the realist approach that says since 1970 the average home in America has grown by 40 percent.
If those folks [my buying public, the ultra-wealthy] are going to continue to buy big houses, why not build them green? Why not take what the uneducated blogger is going to see as a monstrosity – they're not going to stop building them. The way they were building them used a tremendous amount of waste. If they are going to be buying big houses, why not build them green? Why not take the footprint that that house is going to leave and reduce it from the goliath footprint?
Add on top of that the water reclamation, the money that we are spending to make sure that the city water resources aren't being tapped into.
If you're the purist then I can't debate you because I'm going to be wrong whatever I say. Why not go through the trouble and the expense to set the standard by which others can follow? And it's a lot of trouble and expense. Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy. This is the way that our country needs to go and if we can set the example, doing what I do for a living, which is make big houses, then that's as good as I can do.
Will you continue to build mega-mansions that aren't green?
It's like riding a bike. You don't go back to your tricycle. Everything that we've learned because it's so new — all the technology behind the greening of a home and the greening of America — I would be foolish to waste what our team has learned and say, well that was a fun experiment. This is something that I fully believe in. I feel that it would be, as a businessman, it would be irresponsible of me not to apply what we've learned — not just me, I have a team of 20 – and say let's do better next time, let's use better solar panels… We're so early in this that the technology is changing overnight and I want to be a part of that trend, that wave.
There's no blasphemy. There's no oxymoron here. I'm not going to stop what I'm doing. I have a 9-year-old and she's concerned about the environment. I'm going to make sure that for that generation we're going to set an environmentally responsible example.


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We have had two Presidential debates between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and a Vice Presidential debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden. There has been a lot of discussion about winners and losers and who had a bad or a good night, but based on what I saw that is not the only thing that the American people should focus on.
What I saw from Obama and Biden was one of the worst displays of the arrogance of power I have ever witnessed. Obama was not just having a bad night in his first debate with Romney; by both words and actions he was conveying his complete disdain for the entire election process in this country. He clearly felt that it was beneath him to participate in a debate where he would be required to defend his actions and philosophy before the American people.
He is an elitist and as such he believes that he and Michelle are royalty and the Presidency is his by some divine right. He is only supposed to have to give speeches to adoring handpicked audiences where he can safely hide his ignorance and arrogance behind some safe Teleprompters. He does not believe that anyone has the right to disagree with him or even question him.
He showed that clearly in the second debate. He was aggressive with the arrogant attitude and smirks that indicated he again felt that no one had a right to question him. He didn't have a teleprompter, but he had something almost as good; he had a moderator who handpicked questions that by 2-1margin were favorable to his campaign. He also relied on Candy Crowley to bail him out by interrupting Romney when he was making a good point and assisting the President with her own
comments when necessary.
I am totally convinced that at least in the case of the final question Obama had been tipped off in advance about the content. Remember that the moderator insisted that she get that question in and it was directed at Romney and she then allowed Obama to wrap up the debate with what sounded like rehearsed remarks on the 47% comment Romney had made at a fund raiser. Romney was given no chance to respond. Once again, Obama showed that he does not believe he has to play by the rules.
Joe Biden was just as bad, if not worse. He treated his opponent with rudeness and disrespect and thought that the American people would love his being condescending. He is also an elitist and anyone who disagrees with him is subject to derision and
insults. On the other hand, Paul Ryan was a gentleman and showed his respect for the office of Vice President.
Obama and Biden have nothing to run for re-election on except for a wrecked economic and foreign policy failures, and their headlong rush to destroy our Constitution, our values, and our way of life. They, and the other elitists in Washington D.C., think they are smarter than the rest of us and therefore are entitled to tell us what to do, what to say, and what to think.
They do not believe that the rights guaranteed to us in the Constitution are God given and inherent rights. Obama, Biden, Clinton, Reid, and Pelosi believe that those rights were given to us by the government and thus the government can take them
away from us. They have forgotten that under the Constitution we are the government, not them. They are nothing more than our employees and very poor ones at that. Barack and Michelle are not our King and Queen and we will not tolerate royalty of any kind.


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Basics of data visualization in SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
You will learn
The basics of data visualization: creating charts suggested by the system or manually, doing time-series analysis and predictions
Switch to Visualize room.
By default it displays Chart Builder in visualization tools, and Vertical Orientation of Measures and Dimensions pane.
For now you will focus on manual data discovery using visualizations.
Start with simple Column Chart, which you should select from Chart Picker. Next, drag
Sales Revenue from Measures and drop it on Chart Canvas. Then drag
Lines from Dimensions to the Chart Canvas as well.
You could as well drop these attributes to Shelves.
You should get a column chart like this.
A human eye can immediately spot that the best selling line of products was
Let's sort lines of products by sales revenue on the chart.
For that just move the mouse over
Sales Revenue in the Shelves, then click on Settings icon that appears, and choose Sort Descending.
You can change predefined palette of colors used in a chart by clicking on Settings icon in the canvas, and selecting Choose Colors….
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira offers a long list of predefined palettes, which can be modified or new palettes can be defined by you.
Click on the + in the visualization gallery to create a new visualization. The previous one - the column chart - is remembered in the gallery.
For this newly created visualization choose Numeric Point chart and add
Customer Satisfaction as a measure.
Numeric Point chart is often used at the later stage in data stories, as you will see in corresponding tutorials.
Summarized customer satisfaction scores do not make sense. You need to display an average score.
To do that click on Options icon next to
Customer Satisfaction measure and from Change Aggregation choose Average.
You can see now that the average Customer Satisfaction score across all countries, products and years is 0.88.
Now you should change the way Customer Satisfaction displayed to the percentage format.
To do that click on Options icon next to
Customer Satisfaction measure and choose Display Formatting…
Now change value format to Percentage and Number of decimals to
1. Accept changes.
Save the document.
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Country artist Doreen Taylor must have fallen from heaven, because her singing voice is so angelic. The blonde babe is considered one of the best young songwriting talents in the industry. She's also our Celeb Crush.
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Los Angeles - On Thursday night, the Gauchos defeated the Long Beach State 49ers for the first time all year in the MPSF Conference Semi-Final Match. With the win, the Gauchos advance to the MPSF Championship Match for the first time since 1996.
Senior All-American and All-MPSF first-teamer led all players with 23 kills.
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In determining value for new investments, we focus on a business's current outlook and judge the predictability of that outlook over time, while also factoring in what we can do for the business to drive even better outcomes after our acquisition.
We actively target companies in which significant value can be created through clear strategic and operational change, and created our Portfolio Operations Group to provide hands-on support to help our portfolio companies become more productive, efficient and valuable. Once a company joins the portfolio, we help management craft a plan to reach their full potential over the long term, and provide assistance as they put this plan into practice.
We are proud of Blackstone's role as a positive economic catalyst for the companies in our Corporate Private Equity portfolio. We work to identify, invest in and enhance the value of great businesses.
Global in scope, our Corporate Private Equity group has offices in New York, London, Dusseldorf, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney. As of March 31, 2019, our Corporate Private Equity funds held interests in more than 95 companies.
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In November 2012, private equity funds managed by Blackstone acquired Vivint, a leading provider of smart home technology and services in North America. In October 2014, we completed an initial public offering of sister company Vivint Solar (NYSE: VSLR), a leading provider of distributed solar energy in the U.S. with the nation's second largest residential solar power portfolio.
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HD video capability on cameras is as common as trashy political ads on TV. Most digicams capture 720p clips, but several new ones take Full HD movies such as the just-released 14-megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100. Does this get us to the point we can put our old high-def camcorders on Craigslist? Time to test out this new 24x wide-angle zoom model…
Features and Design
The FZ100 is one beefy Mega-Zoom. The basic-black camera weighs 1.2 pounds with battery so it has a very substantial feel. It has a nice textured surface and like all Mega-Zooms, looks just like a small DSLR – and at $499 it's priced like an entry-level DSLR but without interchangeable lenses and larger APS-C sized sensors. What it does have is a 24x optical zoom with an excellent focal range of 25-600mm. You'd have to spend a fortune for similar coverage with a DSLR, a key reason these cameras are so popular. We love the 25mm option and the impact it has on landscapes, architectural shots and even portraits – and that 600mm telephoto option catches faraway birds sitting in the trees. It's not the 840mm of the Canon PowerShot SX30 IS but it's pretty potent.
The front of the 4.9 x 3.2 x 3.7 (WHD) FZ100 is dominated by the optically stabilized lens. You'll also find an AF Assist/self-timer lamp, remote sensor in the hand grip and too many white, red and gold decals. Calm down boys; look at the SX30 IS for inspiration which hardly has any "marks" and looks very cool.
The top has a hot shoe for optional flashes and mics; large Dolby Digital Stereo Creator built-in mics are on the auto pop-up flash. Next to this is a large mode dial, a shutter button surrounded by a zoom lever, a dedicated red dot video button, a key to switch quickly into burst mode and the on/off switch. The burst options on this camera are pretty amazing—you can grab up to 11 frames per second at full 14.1MP resolution, far beyond most DSLRs. The mode dial options are similar to a DSLR, offering everything from iA Intelligent Auto to PASM (Program Auto, Aperture- and Shutter-Priority, Manual). Aperture options are f/2.8-8.0 with shutter speeds of 60-1/2000th of a second. There are also specific scene modes on the dial (portrait, landscape, sports, macro, night portrait). Move to Scene and there are 17 more, Custom lets you set three favorite settings, while Movie lets you choose between four exposure modes. Clearly this digicam offers more options than the basic aim-and-forget iA and it's as close to a DSLR as you can get without tearing off the lens.
The rear has two key features—a .2-inch EVF with diopter control rated 202K pixels and a vari-angle 3-inch LCD monitor that lets you hold the camera at a variety of angles. The screen is high-quality 460K pixels. The Canon SX 30 IS has a 2.7-inch vari-angle screen rated 230K. The Panasonic's Auto LCD setting adjusts brightness to the ambient light and we had no issues even in direct sunlight. A small speaker is on the right side of the EVF. You'll also find flash-open, EVF/LCD and AF/AE Lock buttons along with a conveniently positioned jog wheel. With this you scroll through your aperture/shutter speed options, pressing in on it to switch between the two. It adjusts other settings like exposure compensation, depending on the mode. To the right of the LCD is a four-way controller with center Menu/Set button. The four-points of the compass give access to ISO (100-1600), Function for adjusting film mode, self-timer and exposure compensation. Surrounding the controller are Display, Playback and Q. (Quick) Menu buttons.
On the left side are two compartments. One is for optional mics/remotes while the other has USB and mini HDMI connections. The bottom of the Made In Japan camera has a compartment for the Lithium-ion battery which is rated a very good 410 shots and the SDHC/SDXC card slot. Definitely use at least Class 6 speed for recording HD videos. We used a 32GB Class 10 SanDisk Extreme SDHC card for our tests.


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Uganda Acquired Chem Weapons: U.K. Official
"I am informed that he has been arrested along with two Ugandan officials for supplying chemical and biological weapons to Uganda," an aide to a U.K. member parliament informed The Black Star News, referring to Tobiasen.
[Black Star News Exclusive]
A U.K. Member of Parliament is investigating allegations that a Danish national supplied chemical and biological weapons to Uganda, The Black Star News has learned.
The Danish national also appeared in a U.K. court charged with conspiring to launder money with top Uganda officials; it is believed that the proceeds may be tied to procurement of chemical and biological weapons by Uganda.
The Danish national, Niels Jorgen Tobiasen, appeared Monday in a Southwark, U.K., court in a preliminary hearing.
"I am informed that he has been arrested along with two Ugandan officials for supplying chemical and biological weapons to Uganda," an aide to a U.K. member of parliament informed The Black Star News, referring to Tobiasen. "I am also making urgent inquiries," added the aide to the member of parliament.
Tobiasen was charged with "conspiracy to money launder," between April 2007 and April 2008 "together with Ananias Tumukunde and Rusoke Tagaswire," according to the indictment sheet obtained by The Black Star News. Additionally, Tobiasen "entered into an agreement knowing or suspecting that the arrangement would facilitate the acquisition, retention use or control of criminal property by or on behalf of another person," according to the indictment sheet.
Tumukunde is a top advisor to Uganda president Yoweri K. Museveni on science and technology; Tagaswire is a Uganda military official.
There have been widespread allegations that chemical or biological weapons have been used to kill prominent Ugandans. Last year, when a top Uganda military official, Brigadier Noble Mayombo, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defense died suddenly, there was much speculation as to what caused his demise.
At his funeral, President Yoweri Museveni announced that he had appointed a three-man team to "probe into the death of Brigadier Mayombo. The team that includes Col. James Mugira, Lt. Tagaswire Rusoke and a senior medical doctor…" according to the official Uganda State House government website. Please see http://www.statehouse.go.ug/news.detail.php?newsId=1185&category=News%20Release
Ironically, Tagaswire Rusoke, whose whereabouts are unknown, is now mentioned in the official U.K. indictment sheet. According to a media report, he is a bio-chemist with Masters degree in toxicology.
"It looks like the trial will be on September 22," Russell Hayes, of the U.K. Crown Prosecution Services informed The Black Star News.
Tumukunde has been in custody since earlier this year. As previously reported by The Black Star News, U.K. prosecutors contend Uganda officials are not cooperating on the case; Uganda's High Commissioner to the U.K. Joan Rwabyomere denies the charges.
Despite widespread reports of gross human rights abuse by Amnesty International and Human Rights watch, Uganda's Museveni remains a Washington and London favorite. Critics also accuse his government of a genocidal policy that has confined nearly two million people in Acholi in wretched camps where a reported 1,000 people were dying per week.
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I got a text last week from my son letting me know he and one of his housemates were going to make sauce. He remembered that I use four cans of tomato puree and a can of paste because he used to open the cans and pour it in when he was little. It's amazing what they remember …
I couldn't wait to teach him remotely how to make sauce. He does a lot of cooking so I knew he had the skill and motivation to do it. What I did not know was whether he had a pot big enough to handle the puree.
Two texts later I told him to go to the Bed Bath & Beyond across from the Stop and Shop grocery chain and pick up a 16-quart stock/sauce pot.
Next was the e-mail to his Smartphone with the shopping list followed by the additions once I actually wrote down the steps to making sauce. He called me on Saturday to tell me his sauce came out great; he fed 11 of his friends and still had some to freeze for later. Good son!
It made me think about the summer of 1980 when college graduation was just behind me and wedding bells just ahead when I sat in our kitchen watching my mother make sauce, writing down all of the steps. I still have the sauce stained notebook paper. Here is my collection of recipes.
In our family, we always make our birthday cakes. The bakery does a fine job on any given Sunday but a birthday cake is homemade. Period.
The frosting recipe shown here makes the most wonderful, smooth spreadable frosting and brings me back to the days when my mother made all of our cakes from scratch, too.
One of my favorite desserts growing up was sheet pie. It was a great big pie made in a half-sheet cake pan and cut into squares. This is how my mother and aunts used to feed the hungry family every summer weekend when we swam in the pool. The recipe shown in the middle is from my Gramma Russo called lemon cake pie. This is like lemon squares and lemon cake combined.
Ridiculous. I intend to make it this weekend.
When I was finally able to have a Thanksgiving at my house after we were married I learned to make stuffing from my mother. Once again, I watched her to it and wrote it all down.
One of the things I remember all these many years later is that you don't scrimp on flavor doing anything low-fat for a holiday.
There are 360 days of the year to go low-fat and low-sodium but holidays are special.
My mother-in-law makes a delicious stuffing recipe, very different from my mother's in flavor and simplicity. I now alternate their recipes.
No matter what the holiday, special occasion or Thursday night dinner on the fly, when you make something with love and history it always tastes better. As I have my copy of my mother's sauce recipe I hope someday my son happens upon the printed e-mail and remembers his first sauce making experience with happy memories of me and his stock pot.


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Extreme Golf Added To President's Golf TourneySOCORRO, N.M.. September 14, 2011 – New Mexico Tech is preparing for the 17th annual President's Golf Tournament on Thursday and Friday with a new wrinkle.
As usual, Thursday's VIP flight will allow major donors to play a relaxed yet competitive round of golf and Friday will see two flights of golfers competing in the fund-raising tournament.
New this year is an extreme golf event after Thursday's VIP flight. A few brave souls will compete in two "holes" of golf at the EMRTC test range, which is usually reserved for training exercises and testing. Extreme golfers will compete in a long-drive competition, where they will hit their driver from the top of a cliff. On the second "hole," golfers will play on a par-3 that is desert and rocks and has no grass.
Event organizer Tony Ortiz said the President's Golf Tournament has a well-earned reputation as one of the most entertaining and fun golf fund-raisers in the state. To add to the mystique, organizers added the special events.
"This tournament isn't about winning and competition," Ortiz said. "This event is about students and raising funds to help deserving youngsters stay in school."
In 2010, more than 250 golfers and dozens of sponsors helped contribute more than $170,000 to the President's Scholarship Fund. This year, Ortiz said even more golfers are competing and sponsors have been equally as generous.
"Our sponsors really came through again this year," Ortiz said. "Without their support, we wouldn't be able to help so many students each year."
University president Dr. Daniel H. Lopez said the tourney has proven to be very beneficial to students who run short on money to complete their education.
"To date, we have provided support to more than 300 students who may not have otherwise finished their education, but for the generosity of our sponsors and supporters of the tournament," he said.
About three dozen students receive scholarships from the golf tournament fund every year. The tournament was formerly the largest single-day fundraising golf tournament in the state – until the event expanded to two days in 2009.
The event kicks off Thursday, Sept. 15, with a VIP flight for major sponsors. Friday's play included two flights, meals for all golfers and gourmet snacks on the course.
Ortiz organizes an army of volunteers, including dozens of university staff members and many student organizations.
"We provide so many perks to the golfers that this tournament has earned a reputation around the state for being the most fun around," Ortiz said.
Everyone enjoys a beautiful day on the golf course, great meals and good company. The winning teams (or best cheaters) go home with some prizes. The ultimate reward, however, is reserved for the New Mexico Tech students who received Presidential Tuition Assistance scholarships.
This fall, more than two dozen college students – many of whom might not have been able to afford tuition – will continue their studies thanks to the generosity of tournament donors and sponsors.
The bulk of the recipients are fifth- or sixth-year seniors who have run out of state-funded scholarships and other full-time undergraduates who don't have the resources to put themselves through college.
"Retention will always be an important issue for science and engineering schools," López said. "This is just one weapon in our arsenal to help keep students in school and help them earn their degrees. A variety of issues influence a student's decisions, and finances often are crucial."
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Hey Derek,
I just moved to Pelham Bay area and was looking to hit sometime. Weekend mornings work best for me. Let me know. I'm not too far away from the park, so some evenings after 6 might work as well.
I'll be looking forward to see the results of your weight training. I could use some more weight training myself. Good luck in 2013!
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If you are following the Aussie, come do the "2 screens" thing with us here:
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Very nice serving and secondary shots against Coach V! I am impressed.
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Hello Derek David, I'm new to the game and received your contact info through Coach V as a good source to get me started. Just joined BTS as of 07/12. Any suggestions? Advice?
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School starts in Millersville right at the beginning of September. This year, the residents of Forest Street each have a child starting a new grade. The interesting part is that no one on Forest Street is starting in the same grade. Several of the kids have parents that get very excited over a new school year and feel compelled to take pictures of their children on the first day. The kids have finally convinced their parents that going into the school with them on the first day is no longer acceptable, but some of the parents still insist on driving them to school that morning. Determine the full name of each child, the street number for their home, the grade that each is starting, and whether they rode the bus to school or their parents drove them.
1. George didn't live at 26 Forest Street and he didn't start 4th grade. The one whose last name was Branch was starting 5th grade.
2. The two kids who rode the bus to school were the boy who lived at 22 Forest Street and the one who started 5th grade.
3. Mark Sylvester didn't live at 27 Forest Street but his parents drove him to school.
4. George's last name wasn't Minoch. Susan's last name wasn't Branch.
5. The kid who started 7th grade had a last name of Perch. Mark didn't start 4th grade.
6. The kid who lived at 23 Forest Street rode the bus. Emily wasn't starting 6th grade.
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An action platformer with a combat/interactivity system based on polarity, Outland focuses on a hero who can switch between light and dark forms, an ability he'll need to exploit in order to destroy monsters and avoid attacks. He'll take damage from opposite-colored bullets but will be impervious to those of the same polarity. He'll also only be able to control objects that match his polarity. By switching between forms, he will be able to solve platforming puzzles and crush enemies in this mysterious new land he finds himself in.
Following in the footsteps of Braid and Limbo, Ubisoft revealed its new arty, retro platformer at PAX Prime this weekend, Outland. The game is being developed by Stardust HD studio, Housemarque, and is set to launch on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network early next year. Read More »
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This January my mornings as a mother of two children who attend a public elementary school in San Francisco could dramatically change. I might no longer need to rise in the wee hours of the morning, a half hour before my kids wake up, to chop fruit into little pieces, clean moldy plastic containers and slather peanut butter and honey onto pieces of bread.
Any parent who has made their children school lunches every morning knows that it's a thankless job.
You send your kids out the door with beautifully packed meals and they return home after school to tell you that the kiwi wasn't ripe or that the apple sauce exploded or that you put too much jelly in the sandwich so the bread turned soggy and, to use my kids' favorite word, disgusting.
Yesterday my daughter experienced one of those lunch box disasters. A container of yogurt erupted and when she came home she handed me a lunch box caked in strawberry goo. Nothing was eaten. The nitrate-free salami sandwich was mushed and crumbled. The organic grapes, plucked from their stem and neatly placed in a BPA-free container, were untouched. I handed back the lunch, which I obviously spent way too much time and money on, and said, "You deal with it—and you're eating that sandwich for dinner."
Yes, I'm probably exaggerating the overall situation. My daughter sometimes packs her own lunch and often my kids devour every crumb, but those early mornings when I've toiled over lunches and my children later return from school with an unopened Thermos of homemade chili are what stand out. I've tossed far too many apples with only a few bites taken out of them.
You might say, Why don't your kids buy school lunch? Here's the thing. The lunches served in San Francisco public schools right now are an embarrassment to this city that's known as one of the best eating towns in the world. I invited The San Francisco Chronicle's renowned food critic Michael Bauer to my kids' school a few years ago to sample one of the meals and raise awareness about the quality of the food. Bauer found the Swedish meatballs too salty, the green beans soggy and frozen tasting and the overall meal "discouraging."
I hate to be so harsh because the budget has been impossibly tight, giving the district few options, and well-intentioned people have worked hard to improve the lunches in recent years. What you find on a lunch tray today is vastly better than what you found 10 years ago. Baby carrots and California-grown apples are now common side dishes—but the main hot course is a disgrace. Yes, these meals meet federal nutrition guidelines, but they're prepared in Illinois, wrapped in plastic, and trucked across the country to San Francisco where they're reheated in ovens.
I'm not kidding. San Francisco—a city that's known for Delfina and the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market—is serving its school children food that's prepared in the Chicago suburbs. What's more many of the offerings are downright unappetizing to a child. Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes? Maybe good when prepared by your Midwestern mom, but not when served TV-dinner style.
All of this could, and probably will change, starting January 7. This week San Francisco Unified School District announced its intent to award next year's meals contract to Revolution Foods in Oakland, a company that's known for getting fresh meals made from real ingredients into schools.
It's not a done deal but when I talked with Ed Wilkins, director of Student Nutrition Services for SFUSD, he said that starting January 7 kids will likely be eating chicken Caesar salads, turkey and cheese sandwiches, vegetarian chili and cheese enchiladas. Listening to him rattle off a list of sample meals made me hungry while typically when I step inside my kids' school cafeteria the last thing I want to do is eat. What's more, none of the food will be prefrozen. All meals will be served 24 hours after they were prepared.
The Board of Education will vote on the proposed contract with Revolution Foods on December 11, 2012. Wilkins, who has worked and fought hard to present this change, says the board is overwhelmingly supportive of improving school food so he's confident that next year sesame chicken wraps will be on SFUSD menus. The district will kick in some extra money to support the step up, but Revolution Foods was the lowest bidder that met new federal nutrition guidelines and SFUSD's future vision for school food.
"This has been a long journey for me," Wilkins said. "It took me a long time to get here. We knew there were going to be cost increases and we budgeted for them." The new meal contract would cost SFUSD about $9 million annually.
When I heard the news I nearly started dancing, Gangnam style—and not only because a change to Revolution Foods would make my life better. This new contract would improve the lives of families and children all over the city.
Children should be a number-one priority and in order to learn and grow kids needs healthy, nutritional meals. I've worked at the lunch hour at my kids' school where more than half, maybe even 75 percent, of the students are eating school lunch. Many of these kids are from low-income families and they're served a free meal—possibly the only "nutritional" food they'll see all day. But most of the food ends up in the compost bin. The graham crackers, sugary muffins and milk are consumed, but the plastic cover on the hot meal is never even pulled back. Something tells me that kids will be much more likely to bite into a freshly made turkey sandwich than prefrozen cheesy, chicken, potato broccoli bake.
When I told my daughter about the possibility of school lunches getting better, she said, "Oh Mommy! Now Ella* and Emma* will no longer be hungry. They have to eat school lunch every day and they only ever drink their milk and eat graham crackers—and I always have to give them my strawberries."
Next year, let's hope I'll be giving up morning lunch-making duty and instead sending my kids to school with $3 in their backpacks so they can buy a Rev Foods meal (this all means an extra half-hour of sleep every day!). Better yet, kids across the city will be returning to their classrooms after lunch with their stomachs full and ready to learn. An overly idealized vision? Probably because many kids will turn up their noses up to Caesar salads, but anything is better than salty Swedish meatballs and soggy green beans.
Curious to see what kids are eating around the world? Here's a look at school lunches in 20 different countries.
*Note: Names of these children were changed.


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Submitted by Laura Swain
Even if you have never ridden a horse in your life, if you live in Keystone you need to have a bit of "Horse Sense."
Horses in pastures and riders on horses are part of the daily scene that contributes so much to the rural lifestyle we all enjoy so much. But for the horse owners, uninformed neighbors can be truly dangerous.
So here are a few tips for the non-horsey set and some reminders for the rest. If you see: Riders on the shoulder of the road: Please slow down and swing wide around them. Horses can be unpredictable and although no one ever plans on their horses jumping out in front of a moving vehicle, it has been known to happen. Don't Honk Your Horn Loose horses on a road or on the side of a road: Please stop your vehicle if possible and get others to stop as well. Hopefully a frantic owner will be close by trying to catch the beasties, and if so, do what they ask in order to help. If no one is about, then call the Sheriff. This is a VERY dangerous situation, both for vehicles and animals. The horses are probably somewhat frightened to find themselves out of their familiar place, and apt to be VERY reactive, so stay calm, go slow, don't honk your horn. Horse trailer pulling out of a side road: Please slow down to let them out. We don't have lots of traffic signals in Keystone, so please be neighborly. Remember that when horses are being pulled in a trailer, slamming on brakes or swerving off the road to avoid hitting someone is likely to cause injury to the horses. Our horse community in Keystone will be so much safer and happier if we all take a bit more care and slow down around our 4-legged friends.
Keystone is home to many social, fraternal, religious, and neighborhood organizations. Some are listed below with their contact information & links. The list is periodically updated so send any changes to our web master..
Keystone Quilters
Fern Garden Club
Keystone Motor Club
American Legion
Home Makers
Meals on Wheels
American Sewing Guild
Friends of the Library
Animal Rescue
Boy & Girl Scouts
Keystone has many forms of recreation - so get out - explore, breath the fresh air, get fit, or just mingle with your neighbors while taking in the sights.
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Horse trails & elsewhere (16)
Boating safety (17)
Youth sports (18)
There are lots of people, places, and things that can suit many interests, be helpful and make our lives more enjoyable. Some that come to mind are listed here - please send our web master others that resonate with you.
Parks (19)
Library (20)
Wildlife Haven Rehab (21)
Your lifestyle in Keystone is shaped by its history, physicality, diverse social fabric and self-determination. Keystone is a blend of citrus groves, ranches, farms, estates, neighborhoods, social, civic, service clubs and churches. Be you a business leader, horseman, farmer, horticulturist, health care practitioner, professional athlete, shop owner, or retiree Keystone is your home.
This Lifestyles section is a collection of factoids and snippets that expresses Keystone uniqueness, so enjoy and please feel free to add to this collection. Just send your pearl to the KCA webmaster.
From the Humane Society Newsletter "Making Tracks" by Carie Peterson
I hear people asking the question "Is this an outside dog?" as if this is a special breed. When I hear this statement, I used to feel sad, but now I look at what a great opportunity I have to educate the adopters as to why dogs are not meant to live outside.
Forcing a dog to live outside is one of the most psychological damaging things a pet owner can do to a a dog. The truth is that dogs are pack animals and we are their "pack". We are their family and our house is their den.
Claiming that a dog in the backyard is good for protection is incorrect. The burglar is not trying to steal your yard and the sound of barking dogs are as common as car alarms going off. How much better would it be if your protection was actually inside protecting your home and family?
The more the dog is outdoors, the less control of behavior you have and aggression is now going to become a problem. Take a look at all the media stories when a dog bites. The pictures show the dog out in the back, usually tied up. These dogs' lives are filled with boredom, frustration and loneliness. Such a live goes against a dog's basic instinct of being left out of his pack leading to stress and anxiousness.
Dogs trying to desperately get their humans attention will whine, bark, claw at the door and dig under the fence. When their human does come out to interact wit them, they are so starved from attention, they exhibit negative behaviors, such as jumping up, whining, barking and all forms of hyperactivity.
Dogs outside become more easily infested with parasites, both internal and external and are more subject to disease. Florida weather is full of hot humid days and terrifying lightning storms that your dog has to endure all alone.
Dogs give us such devotion and joy and deserve to be treated like part of the family. They love their family unconditionally and bring so much happiness into our lives. Humans domesticated dogs, therefore it is up to us to look after them. The reward you receive in return for having a dog in your family is priceless.
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Following in the footsteps of former College of William and Mary students who went on to found and shape the United States, you and your classmates are now facing new challenges in a changing world. From testing yourself in the business community to improving communities around the world, now is your time to transform tomorrow. Before that step, Jostens helps you celebrate and remember your academic career with custom graduation invitations, commencement announcements, class rings and many other products that honor your time at the College of William and Mary.


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Vandalism drains Sweet Springs water tower
. Police in a western Missouri city are looking for whoever opened fire hydrants throughout town, draining about 360,000 gallons from a water tower.
Police said it happened between 1 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Sunday in the city of Sweet Springs.
Several hydrants were opened throughout the community, drawing hundreds of thousands of gallons of water from the tower and flooding city streets. Officials are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
Sweet Springs Police Chief Richard Downing said damage to one of the streets affected by the vandalism is estimated at $5,000.


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Spontaneous combustion, indeed. Remember when Tim McGraw brought Faith Hill out on tour with him in 1996? It was chemistry at first sight. It was impossible not to see the love starting between them. And then, like in any good country song, they danced, they kissed, they got married. And now the couple is about to celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary. Hill's advice on making it work? "You have to essentially like the person that you love. I think it's important to laugh a lot and have a good time," she recently told radio reporters. And knowing you aren't perfect helps, too. She admitted she can be a little too Type A for McGraw's liking. McGraw only had two words of advice: Stay quiet. I hope the two have at least 16 more years together because the life of a cowboy is no good alone.


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One Italian tradition I learned to love while visiting the country with my mother was biscotti (dipped in either espresso or wine). A few years later, while I was slinging pancakes in a local cafe, I was re-introduced to biscotti. After my waitressing shift was up I would take an espresso and piece of chocolate biscotti (technically, biscotto) to accompany me on the ride back to my apartment.
Biscotti is incredibly simple (remember: I don't make anything that's "hard") and like biscuits, if you have a good base to work from, you can expand the flavors immensely. I recently made a large batch of gingerbread biscotti and espresso chocolate-chip biscotti to send to three lovely ladies as part of the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. It was so fun to send out my cookies in their little tins, only to receive three batches of scrumptious goodies in return. If you missed out, don't worry, I heard the organizers will do it again next year!
Special Shout-Out: I sent my cookies to Annalise at Completely Delicious, Jewel at Eat Drink Shop Love, and Tanvi at The Hathi Cooks. In return, I received Double Chocolate Crackles from Amber at Amber's Confections, Molasses Cookies with Orange Sugar from Emily at Back to the Cutting Board, and Dark Chocolate Cafenela Cookies from Leslie at My Kitchen is Open. Now, on to the recipe.
Makes 20 pieces
Base Recipe
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Combine the flour, baking powder and soda, and salt together. Set aside
2. Beat together the eggs and sugar until combined and pale (that's how you know the sugar has dissolved). Add in dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
3. On a greased cookie sheet (this is one of the few times I actually dig out my Sil-Pat), form dough into log about three inches wide and 12-15 inches long. Bake for 25-30 minutes until lightly browned.
4. Remove biscotti from the oven and allow to cool enough to handle. With a serrated bread knife, cut the biscotti into about 20 pieces (more or less, depending on how thick you like you biscotti). Be sure to cut straight down into the biscotti to get clean cuts that doesn't cause the cookies to crumble. Arrange back on the cookie sheet and back for another 12-15 minutes until the biscotti is dry and crisp. Allow to cool on a baking sheet. Enjoy by dunking into your favorite Italian beverage.
Espresso Chocolate-Chip Biscotti
Start with base recipe, but add to egg/sugar mixture...
2 teaspoons instant espresso or coffee powder
2 teaspoons hot water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
(or 3 teaspoons very strong espresso and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract)
After incorporating dry ingredients, add six ounces of chopped semi-sweet chocolate or mini chocolate chips. Bake as above.
Gingerbread Biscotti
Start with base recipe, but add to dry ingredients...
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon orange zest
Bake as above.


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The Jaguars may get a running back back, but it won't be Maurice Jones-Drew.
According to Ryan O'Halloran of the Florida Times-Union, MJD won't play this week against the Patriots, making it nine straight he's missed with a foot injury.
Jones-Drew tested his injured foot this week but didn't practice.
Running back Rashad Jennings could return from his concussion, however, as he told reporters on his way to practice he had passed his tests.
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Plantmines @ Kleurenblind Festival Utrecht 2012 from FRONT404 on Vimeo.
Dutch artists Thomas voor 't Hekke and Bas van Oerle make up the duo known as Front 404. While their work varies in medium it is consistent in being humorously subversive. For example, their project Plantmines is a sort of landmine that is constructive rather than destructive. Unaware passersby step on and discharge the plant mine sending colored powder and confetti into the air. More importantly, though, the confetti contains flower seeds that are intended to eventually grow at the site of the "blast". The duo says of the project:
"You've stepped on a Plantmine, and the explosion of flower confetti serves as an instant party to celebrate that you live in a country where you don't have to worry about stepping on a real landmine. The flower confetti contains flower seeds, to create a permanent happy and colourful spot in the place of the plantmine explosion."
Check out the video to see a Plantmine or two blow up.


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Here's a reference I made for an engineering electromagnetics course I'm taking. I hope it can be of use to someone else. Both the PDF and LaTeX source file are here for download.
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Globular Clusters at the Core of Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1275
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field/Planetary Camera image of the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275, reveals about 50 massive and compact globular clusters. This color picture is a composite of red and green images. Though this is an approximation of a "true color" view, the colors are intensified beyond what one would expect to see with the naked eye. The clusters appear as blue dots. The white dot is the bright and compact core of the galaxy which is partially encircled by large dark filaments of nebulosity. This image is being presented on Thursday, January 16th at the 179th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta, Georgia.
Globular clusters typically contain 100,000 to 10 million stars packed in a region 100 light years in diameter. Most globular clusters are made up of very old stars. Surprisingly, those found in NGC 1275 are young. They may have formed from cataclysmic event in the history of the NGC 1275, such as a merger or collision of two galaxies.
Investigators: Jon Holtzman (UCSC)1 Sandra M. Faber (UCSC), Edward Shaya (U. Maryland)) Tad R. Lauer (NOAO), Edward Groth (IAS, Princeton), Deidre Hunter (1owell Obs.) and the Wide Field Planetary Camera Instrument Team
Credit: J. Holtzman/NASA


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Feb. 25, 2004
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale had three fencers named to the 2004 Women's Fencing All-Ivy team. Senior Erica Korb, the team captain, was named first team All-Ivy in the epee after compiling a season record of 11-4 (.733). Senior Zane Selkirk was named to the first team All-Ivy epee team. She compiled an 8-4 (.667) record on the season.
Freshman Alisa Mendelsohn was awarded second team All-Ivy status in the foil. On the season, Mendelsohn had a record of 10-5 (.667).
All-Ivy status is determined by winning percentage in league matches. All of the above won/loss records and winning percentages are for Ivy league matches.


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This was my second try and making G+ Hangouts on Air work. I was lot more successful this week, however it wasn't without a little pain and frustration. But it was an outstanding learning experience. And after all, isn't that what we are all about?
I want to thank the Godmother of #lrnchat @marciamarcia Marcia Conner for engaging in this new experience. For those of you new to Marcia's work she has a beautiful web site at marciaconner.com.
I think we were about 30mins into #lrnchat before I finally figured out how to invite people to participate with us LIVE via the hangout. So, I wouldn't recommend sitting through this video in it's entirety. At some point I will most likely doing some post production work on these Fireside #Lrnchats.
We can only get 10 people into the hangout LIVE, but you can watch the stream on YouTube while following the #lrnchat twitter stream.
CAUTION: If you thought following the #lrnchat twitter chat stream was a firehose this amplifies that intensity significantly...but in a good way. And it's fun.
Follow me @bschlenker on twitter and +Brent Schlenker on G+.


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The creator of the award at Writer's Reviews, says the following about the award and explains the rules here:
The Thoughtful Blogger Award
For those who answer blog comments, emails, and make their visitors feel at home on their blogs. For the people who take others feelings into consideration before speaking out and who are kind and courteous. Also for all of those bloggers who spend so much of their time helping others bloggers design, improve, and fix their sites. This award is for those generous bloggers who think of others.
I do hope you feel at home here and I will always answer your comments and emails. Any lack of courtesy and consideration is unintentional I assure you.
In this case I will pass on the award and Lady Mac has beat me to it with Welshcakes and James, both of whom fit the criterion of the award. However I'm going to count those two as part of my five, because I want to reinforce that they are indeed worthy recipients.
The others are:
Moof, a fellow medblog reader, who has been described as the Den Mother for the entire Blogosphere, and a first class techie on all fronts. It has been my privilege to make her cyber-acquaintance.
Josie, a fellow Vancouverite, but unmet as yet. Josie epitomizes the Gracious Host at her blog, where she writes very well indeed and dialogues back and forth charmingly with her commenters. Let's have tea some day soon Josie.
Janice, who hosts a delightful blog at Pursuance of Truth, is the last of my nominees. Not only is her blog a visual delight, she weaves her thoughts on life and nature into Haiku, Haiga, Tanka and other poetry, along with her artwork. Bits of wisdom as she sometimes calls them. She always acknowledges her commenters and leaves thoughtful comments when she visits. I like to start my day with a little inspiration from Janice. I know you won't mar the beauty and serenity of your blog with this award Janice, but I bestow it on you anyway.
Well that's it for this. As for that, there's not much room for that after this, so I'll leave you with a photo from Thursday's walk at Spanish Banks.


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England's Welcome, A Set Of Waltzes part 03
Composer: Oakey, Henri
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1855
Sheet music covers were always very topical. This illustration depicts Queen Victoria and Prince Albert dressed in their finest clothes, receiving the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Eugene of France. The men are wearing uniforms and the women have beautiful dresses which were very fashionable outfits for attending balls. They are off the shoulder, emphasise the fashion for tiny waists and are held in shape by a crinoline undergarment. The Royal visitors came to England on a number of occasions most notably in 1856 at the time of the Crimean War, so it is likely that this sheet music can be dated to this time.


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