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5G spectrum
Spectrum regulators worldwide are addressing the importance of mid-band spectrum. Ericsson engages in U.S. mid-band proceeding.
Many of the world's leading regulators are moving rapidly to open mid-band spectrum for flexible use, not only to meet rising demand in their jurisdictions, but also to attract investment and innovation.
• Europe has already identified 3.4-3.8 GHz as their primary band for 5G and policymakers are moving to make hundreds of megahertz of mid-band spectrum available for licensed and unlicensed.
• China issued a consultation to make an additional 500 MHz of mid-band spectrum available.
• Japan is studying making an additional 1.1 GHz of mid-band spectrum available.
• Korea plans to auction the 3.4-3.7 GHz band in 2018/2019.
• Singapore issued a consultation on additional spectrum for mobile services.
• India recently issued a consultation regarding licensing 3.3-3.6 GHz.
There is also significant international movement to follow the U.S. lead by opening 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum to keep up with rising consumer, enterprise and operator demand:
• The United Kingdom recently moved to open the 5.725-5.85 GHz band for broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) under a very lightly licensed regime.
• India is studying opening 5.47-5.725 GHz for RLAN operation, and for the first time permitting outdoor operations across the 5 GHz band.
• Canada harmonized technical rules for the 5.15-5.25 GHz band with the U.S. regulations for unlicensed National Information Infrastructure devices.
Significant harmonization exists between mid-band spectrum policies under consideration in the U.S. and internationally. The 3.7-4.2 GHz band includes, or is near to, a number of globally standardized, 5G-designated bands.
On October 2, 2017, Ericsson responded to the United States FCC Inquiry on mid band spectrum focusing on 3.7-4.2 GHz, 5.925-7.125 GHz, and 7.125-8.5 GHz.
Mark Racek lead the Ericsson team to prepare the response to the FCC.
Ericsson asked the FCC to:
1) Pursue flexible-use licensed opportunities in the 3.7-4.2 GHz band using market-based mechanisms to clear that spectrum;
2) Explore the introduction of new licensed opportunities in the 6.425-7.125 GHz bands;
3) Pursue unlicensed opportunities in the 5.925-6.425 GHz with an emphasis on rules that render the band neutral to choice of technology;
4) Ensure that incumbent fixed service point-to-point operations in the 5.925-6.425 GHz and 6.425-7.125 GHz bands are protected from harmful interference;
5) Examine whether to transition the 7.125-8.5 GHz band from an exclusive federal band to a shared one; and
6) Adopt changes to existing long-haul backhaul rules to better support, next-generation, high-throughput services.


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In the second installment of my interview with Bill Volk, we chat about his days at Avalon Hill and the dawn of the computer games industry. Bill was a programming machine, writing games and ports for TRS-80, Commodore Pet, Atari 400s, and CoCo! We also talk about his games Controller and Voyager.
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This is the first installment of my interview with Playscreen co-founder and Avalon/Activision veteran Bill Volk. An industry veteran with 30+ years experience, Bill is the man to talk to about the current state of affairs and where the future lies for Ouya, Facebook and mobile gaming, and Google Glasses. In this part of the interview we focus on his current projects.
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This episode is a review of Jay Barnson's Frayed Knights game, an indie RPG with lots of humor and turn-based combat.
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Jeff is back this week for one last installment. Topics covered include Tribes, the Torque Game Engine, Indie games, why Microsoft shot itself in the foot with Xbone, and some "tough love" advice for aspiring game developers.
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Dynamix founder Jeff Tunnell is back this week to give his views on educational software, patents, Sierra, and behind-the-scenes looks at Betrayal at Krondor, Incredible Machines, and Sid & Al.
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In my 200th episode of Matt Chat, Jeff Tunnell, founder of Dynamix, returns to talk about his company's greatest hits, which probably aren't the games you're thinking of. Then he talks about his fall out with Electronic Arts. Needless to say, if you're a fan of classic adventure games or flight sims, you won't be able to turn away from this episode.
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In the first slice of my interview with Dynamix founder Jeff Tunnell, we chat about his latest projects, including Contraption Maker and why Jeff doesn't like Apple or Google's app stores. Then we talk about his background and how he met Damon Slye and Ken Williams. Then we talk about Stellar 7 and Arctic Fox, one of my favorite Amiga games.
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The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued new instructions to promote safe use of the fibrin sealants Tisseel, Tissucol, Artiss, and Beriplast P during surgery. This advice follows that issued for two other fibrin sealants, Evicel and Quixil, in November 2012. Employed to help reduce local bleeding, these sealants are typically dripped or sprayed onto bleeding tissue to form a fibrin clot.
Reports of gas embolism with Evicel and Quixil in association with the use of spray devices that use a pressure regulator prompted a review of fibrin sealants. These events appear to be related to the use of the spray device at higher-than-recommended pressures and/or in closer-than-recommended proximity to the tissue surface, EMA stated in a press release.
Although EMA reports that risk of gas embolism with Tisseel, Tissucol, and Artiss when applied as spray during surgery was considered to be very low, the Committee concluded that the risk cannot be excluded. It urges that product information for these medicines be updated with new instructions to optimise their safe use. EMA stated the following:
- The product information should be updated with clear and consistent advice for healthcare professionals regarding recommended pressure and distance to use during spraying application.
- The marketing-authorisation holders for these medicines should ensure that they are used with pressure regulators that do not exceed the maximum pressure required to deliver the fibrin sealant, and that they contain labels stating the recommended pressure and distance.
- The product information should include a warning that the risk of gas embolism appears to be higher when fibrin sealants are sprayed using air, as compared to CO2, and patients should be closely monitored for signs of gas embolism.
- Healthcare professionals in the European Union (EU) will receive a letter outlining the updated information on the safe use of these medicines.
For the fibrin sealant Beriplast P (and associated names), however, the CHMP concluded that "there is no risk associated with this product because it does not require a gas-assisted spray device during application, therefore there is no risk of gas embolism with this product when used in accordance with prescribing advice and with the recommended device."


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The LEGO factory in Nyíregyháza opened in 2008, and has since then been producing LEGO® DUPLO® and LEGO toys to markets around the world. The new plant, a three digit million Euro investment, will have a production area of 122,000 m2 and replaces a smaller factory at another location in the city.
Increased Global Investments
A 21st century production plant
The new Nyíregyháza factory, an overall greenfield project, aggregates The LEGO Group's experience in efficiency, safety and sustainability. The facility demonstrates the company's vision of a 21st century production plant that has a positive impact on society and the environment. The electrical and lighting systems have been automated and high-performance thermal insulation building materials have been used to ensure energy efficiency, and by using rainwater the factory's water demand has been reduced by 65,000m3 per year.
Employee safety always comes first in the LEGO Group. For example, the new factory walkways inside the factory area have been designed to ensure that pedestrian and vehicle routes never cross, in order to exclude the possibility of accidents.
Additional units of the factory, such as the automated high-bay warehouses – the biggest of their kind in the country - will be completely installed by 2015. Should there be a need for it in the future, the production complex can be expanded by the addition of further modules.
The company increased its consumer sales by 11% in 2013, and its revenue has quadrupled in less than a decade. In order to meet huge global demand for its toys, the LEGO Group has stepped up its investments in production capacity development to over DKK 2.6bn (EUR 354m) globally in 2013. It has expanded its factories in Mexico and the Czech Republic as well, while the construction of the first Asian LEGO factory is also underway in China. The major investment in Nyíregyháza is part of this overarching strategy.
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Fact Sheet
• A three digit million Euro investment, financed from the LEGO Group's own sources
• 100 acres of land
• Factory area bigger than 122,000 m2
• Number of new jobs created by the investment: 250
• 672 moulding machines, 53,000 m2 moulding area
• Manual warehouse: 6,000 m2
• High Bay Warehouse: 14,000 m2, for the storeage of boxes and pallets
• The two High Bay Warehouses can store ca. 82,000 pallets altogether
• 16 packing lines
• In 2013 the LEGO factory in Nyíregyháza produced 18 million boxes. Planned capacity for the new factory is 30 million boxes
per year.
• Apart from moulding all the LEGO® DUPLO® bricks of the world and a huge number of LEGO elements, the new factory will
also handle the packaging of both DUPLO and classic LEGO products.
• 26 acres of biodiverse eco-park will be established
• Points of vehicles crossing pedestrian traffic: 0
• Saving 60,000 m3 of drinking water per year
• 500 tons less CO2 emission on a yearly basis (if compared to a factory that uses traditional technology)
• Intelligent lighting in all buildings
About the LEGO Group
The LEGO Group is a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company is still owned by the Kirk Kristiansen family who founded it in 1932. The LEGO Group is engaged in the development of children's creativity through playing and learning. Based on the world-famous LEGO® brick, the company today provides toys, experiences and teaching materials for children in more than 130 countries.
About LEGO Manufacturing Kft.
LEGO Manufacturing Kft. was incorporated in 2008. As LEGO Group's Hungarian production subsidiary, it operates its factory site in Nyíregyháza. The company employs 1,500 people at present. LEGO DUPLO products made here are supplied globally through distribution centres located in Jirny, the Czech Republic, and Dallas, TX, USA. The company delivers moulded LEGO bricks to Denmark, the Czech Republic, Mexico and Poland, and started packing classic LEGO toys in March 2014.
LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of The LEGO Group. ©2014 The LEGO Group.


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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The Deuce?
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Perfectly normal.ReplyDelete
You really made me laugh with this! Did this actually happen? How does a person choose a name for it? Does it just look like a "Blake" or something?
- Anonymous9:10 AM, June 12, 2007
OMG, that's too funny! Of course, I was only able to laugh after I recovered from the nauseating memory of a recent hospital stay where my roommate had a colostomy bag....whenever I saw them come by to change it, I prayed I'd be able to get up and leave the room. The stench was unbearable.ReplyDelete
a little poetic license is the only embellishment, and, of course, i changed the name of the colostomy bag to comply with HIPPA.ReplyDelete
Now THAT is weird. I've heard of men naming their you-know-what's and I've even heard of women naming their bosoms, but I have never heard of somebody naming a colostomy bag. (However, I'm extremely modest in "real life" aand have trouble with saying certain body part terms out loud---I can cuss like a truck driver yet I call a woman's private parts a "hoo-hoo". Guess that might be just as weird...)ReplyDelete
That's not weird at all. I name my bm's. Why, just today "justin" and I spent a good 20 minutes together, and then we parted ways.ReplyDelete
I'd name my colostomy bag, I think. It would keep me from having to say "the bag of sh*t hanging from my gut."ReplyDelete
That being said, I think it's a little weird to refer to it as "Blake" to a physician.
I think it is hilarious and kind of cute too.ReplyDelete
BRN - If you haven' already seen it go to my blog and scroll down to see youtube video of Elliot's euphemisms for the nether regions. Totally hillarious.
Personally, I like where Kelso teases her about some woman's pain when she makes whizzywinkle out of her sea biscuit! LOL!
"Justin"? Isn't he a distant relative to Mr. Hankey?ReplyDelete
I was trying to look at your blog and my computer is acting up for pics right now--will try later. (I also had the same trouble on another blog, too---I hate this new Vista program....)
Naming it is perfectly fine. I once saw a postitive Trichomonas and Nisserea culture from a colostomy stoma. THAT is not just wierd, that's totally disgusting.ReplyDelete
Consider this, maybe Blake (or whatever the pre-HIPPA name change was) was the name of her ex-husband. Maybe he was full of shit too.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:43 AM, June 14, 2007
re. Wm. the coroner's comment:ReplyDelete
I've had two cases of STDs related to colostomy sites: one HPV related warts and one Herpes.
Nothing gets me hotter than banging some stoma!
Heh-heh. Without all the weirdness that goes on in a hospital, how could we all stay so amused, entertained and horrified simultaneously ???ReplyDelete


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NEW YORK -- The Op-Ed by seven active duty U.S. soldiers in Iraq questioning the war drew international attention just three weeks ago. Now two of the seven are dead.
Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance T. Gray died Monday in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad, two of seven U.S. troops killed in the incident which was reported just as Gen. David Petraeus was about to report to Congress on progress in the "surge." The names have just been released.
Gen. Petraeus was questioned about the message of the op-ed in testimony before a Senate committee yesterday.
The controversial Times column on Aug. 19 was called "The War As We Saw It," and expressed skepticism about American gains in Iraq. "To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched," the group wrote.
It closed: "We need not talk about our morale. As committed soldiers, we will see this mission through."
Mora, 28, hailed from Texas City, Texas, and was a native of Ecuador, who had just become a U.S. citizen. He was due to leave Iraq in November and leaves behind a wife and daughter. Gray, 26, had lived in Ismay, Montana, and is also survived by a wife and infant daughter.
The accident in Iraq occurred when a cargo truck the men were riding in overturned.
The Daily News in Galveston interviewed Mora's mother, who confirmed his death and that he was one of the co-authors of the Times piece. The article today relates: "Olga Capetillo said that by the time Mora submitted the editorial, he had grown increasingly depressed. 'I told him God is going to take care of him and take him home,' she said. 'But yesterday is the darkest day for me.'"
One of the other five authors of the Times piece, Staff Sergeant Jeremy Murphy, an Army Ranger and reconnaissance team leader, was shot in the head while the article was being written. He was expected to survive after being flown to a military hospital in the United States.


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Sofia Coppola's latest movie "The Bling Ring" has attracted criticism from a member of the real life burglar bunch on which the film is based.
Alexis Neiers served four weeks behind bars for her part in the so-called "Bling Ring" gang, which broke into the homes of stars including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom in 2008 and 2009 and snatched more than $3 million worth of goods.
Emma Watson's character, Nicki, is believed to be inspired by Neiers, but the 21 year old is adamant she has no plans to watch Coppola's crime drama.
In a series of posts on her Twitter.com page, she writes, "It's trashy and inaccurate. … The truth will come out soon enough and I have no intention of seeing this film."
The former TV star, who featured on reality series "Pretty Wild," also claims "The Bling Ring" is "based on inaccurate information" put forward by Los Angeles detective Brett Goodkin and journalist Nancy Jo Sales, who she argues are just as "status obsessed" as she and her friends were.
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No More Government Funds for America's Cup
No More Government Funds for America's Cup
Saturday 14th June 2014
"The Government should not waste any more money on Team NZ's bid for the next America's Cup but fund winning teams like the All Blacks to Samoa and our World Champion Waka Ama teams" says Mana candidate for Mangere James Papali'i.
James Papali'i revealed that the World Champion NZ Masters Waka Ama team is not defending their title at the next World Cup in Rio de Janeiro because of lack of funds. SPARC refused to fund them yet Waka Ama is the fastest growing new aquatic sport in the world.
Nearly 90% of Kiwis surveyed by TV3 Campbell Live show supported John Campbell's call for the AB's to visit Samoa.
The long awaited visit to Samoa by the All Blacks will have huge social profit value but also provide future All Blacks with a pool of Samoa's best players to help the AB brand keep on winning.
Legendary AB Leaauli Michael Jones said that he and many others have been trying since 2003 to get the All Blacks to visit not only to his cultural home but for other AB's like captain Tama Umaga, Christian Cullen, Bryan Williams, iiga Tuigamala, Olo Brown and present players Julian Savea, Ma'a Nonu to name a few.
Over $40
million of taxpayers' money was spent on the last Team NZ
campaign when they lost after leading 8-1 at one stage. It
seems this government is only supporting the rich man's
sport even if they lose but not NZ's All Black brand in
their player's cultural home and other
world cup holders?
"If the NZ Government is prepared to waste millions on the failed Team NZ project surely supporting Winners the All Blacks to Samoa and World Champion Waka Ama crew is a better investment is it not? " questioned Samoan Mana candidate Papali'i.
James Papali'i was endorsed on Friday night to be its Mangere Candidate in the coming general election.


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The tied arch bridge has a clear span of almost 70 metres and is part of the award-winning New Plymouth Coastal Walkway.
Spanning the Waiwhakaiho River, its iconic form represents the sacred relationship between the land, sea and wind with the Ngati Tawhirikura tribe.
Te Rewa Rewa Bridge opened on June 5, 2010 as part of the extension of the Coastal Walkway, making possible a 12.7 kilometre off-road route for cycling, walking, running, skateboarding and rollerblading. This trail leads from Ngamotu Beach in the west through to Bell Block beach in the east.
The bridge has quickly become a proud piece of Taranaki with a couple of international awards already to its name:
Footbridge Awards 2011 - Aesthetics Medium-Span Winner (for bridges with spans between 30 metres and 75 metres).
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GAFFNEY, S.C.- Jake Frazier (Indian Harbor Beach, S.C.) and Keith Wolf (O'Fallon, Ill.) each belted a grand slam home run, while Tyler Witzel (Melbourne, Fla.) and Dan Meyer (Seaford, N.Y.) tossed a pair of gems as the Cobras swept their Conference Carolinas baseball doubleheader against Limestone Saturday.
The Cobras won game one 6-1 and then picked up a 6-2 win in game two.
Witzel got the win in game one allowing just one run on two hits in seven innings on the mound. He fanned five Saints.
Meyer was the winner in game two. He tossed a complete game giving up two runs on six hits, while striking out four.
Frazier was the leading hitter in game one with a pair of hits including his grand slam, while Wolf was 1-for-3 with four RBIs and a run scored in game two. Chad Nader finished the day with three hits, including a triple, three RBIs and three runs scored.
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When it comes to weeknight dinners, some of us are not big fans of planning ahead.
Oh, we might take something out of the freezer in the morning, then figure out what to do with it later in the day. Not for us all the a.m. prep work, so the crock pot can do its thing all day.
About 4 p.m., maybe even 5 p.m., is certainly soon enough to figure out what to do with the chicken or ground beef that's been defrosting all day.
Which is why, when it comes to fixing homemade pizza, we usually don't do it this way. After all, with yeast, you have to think ahead, at least a little, to allow for those two dough risings, so you can get the crust nice and thin.
Which is why the only prep work most of us do for pizza night is make a phone call.
There are those of us, however, who aren't quite ready to give up the fun of putting together that most favorite of all American pies. Which is why we come up with alternatives to yeast-based pizza crust that you can use to whip up last-minute pizza feasts, using any and all the toppings you want, from the simplest to the most exotic.
Which is our exercise du jour …
French bread pizza
You can buy a French bread baguette and build a pizza on it (after all, Stouffer's does), but you'll have more hands-on fun (and better results, we think) when you buy refrigerated French bread dough.
We use bacon, onion and mushrooms to top this rather non-traditional pizza, but you can substitute pepperoni for the bacon. Or any other combination of ingredients, come to think of it.
1 (11-ounce) can refrigerated French bread dough (kept chilled)
About 2 teaspoons yellow cornmeal
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cups thinly sliced onions (about 2 small)
1 (8-ounce) package sliced baby bella mushrooms
3 plum tomatoes, cored, finely chopped
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
8 bacon slices, cooked and coarsely chopped (pre-cooked bacon works well; zap in microwave until crisp)
1/4 cup chopped, fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 tablespoons chopped, fresh oregano
Heat oven to 425 degrees. Lightly flour a work surface. Find the lengthwise seam in the French bread dough. Beginning at seam, gently unroll dough onto floured surface.
Stretch into a 13-inch circle and roll the outer 1 inch to form an edge. Sprinkle a pizza pan or baking sheet with the cornmeal. Move the dough round onto pan.
In a large, non-stick skillet over medium-high, heat olive oil. Add onions and sauté 8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove to a bowl. Add mushrooms to skillet and sauté about 8 minutes, until liquid has mostly evaporated. Remove to bowl with onions.
Add tomatoes and sauté about 5 minutes, until most of the liquid has evaporated. Add to bowl with onions and mushrooms.
To assemble, spread onion mixture over crust, leaving a quarter-inch border. Sprinkle evenly with cheeses and bacon. Bake 12 minutes, until crust is lightly browned. Sprinkle on parsley and oregano and bake about 3 minutes longer. Makes six servings of two wedges each.
Pesto pizza
Not that we find any fault with traditional yeast-based pizza crust, but we really love the flaky, delicate mouth feel of crusts created from puff pastry or phyllo. Hence, this recipe. And the next.
Our simple pesto pizza couldn't be easier and can serve well as a weeknight supper or as an appetizer at a dinner party. Gild it any way you like, but don't overdo it with "wet" stuff.
You can make your own pesto since the basil in your garden hasn't frozen yet. And you can use your own tomatoes. But you can also use storebought ingredients in the colder weather.
Non-stick cooking spray
1 sheet frozen puff pastry (half of a 17-ounce package), thawed
1/2 cup best quality prepared (or store-bought) pesto
1 cup cooked, well drained, crumbled Italian sausage (hot or sweet)
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained, patted dry, finely diced, then patted dry again
Thinly sliced fresh basil, optional
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a (rimmed) baking sheet with cooking spray; dust with about 2 teaspoons cornmeal.
Unfold puff pastry sheet onto a lightly floured surface. Roll out into a 12-inch square. Crimp (using a fork) edges and place on prepared baking sheet. Spread pesto evenly over puff pastry. Sprinkle with half the mozzarella and half the parmesan. Sprinkle on garlic. Add tomatoes. Top with remaining cheese.
Bake 17 to 20 minutes, until golden brown. Remove from oven and garnish with fresh basil, if desired. Makes six servings or two squares each.
'Stuffed' phyllo pizza
This pizza layers phyllo sheets with a yummy cheese mixture so the flavors permeate the whole thing. It's a bit complicated, so read the directions before plunging in.
Still, the only think-ahead work you have to do is remove the phyllo dough from the freezer in the morning and thaw it in the fridge. Even then, you can probably cheat a little by thawing it at room temperature for an hour or so.
Our topping is a version of the original Neapolitan creation, Pizza Margherita. But, since we're using phyllo, which is basically of Greek origins, we use both mozzarella and feta cheeses.
Of course, you can always add some kalamata olives and pepperoni, for additional Greco-Italo tastes.
Cooking spray
About 2 teaspoons cornmeal, for dusting
2/3 cup each, shredded (part-skim) mozzarella and finely crumbled feta cheese (reduced fat works well)
1/3 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
6 teaspoons chopped fresh oregano
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon coarse black pepper
1/8 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes
10 (18- by 14-inch) sheets frozen phyllo dough, thawed
2 cups very thinly sliced plum tomatoes, drained well on paper towels
1/3 cup thinly sliced scallions
1/3 cup fresh basil leaves
Heat oven to 375 degrees. In a bowl, combine mozzarella, feta and parmesan cheeses, plus oregano, salt, black and red peppers.
Cut phyllo sheets in half crosswise. Keep phyllo sheets you're not using covered with wax paper and a kitchen towel to keep them from drying out.
Lightly coat a baking sheet with spray coating, then dust with some cornmeal. Place one phyllo sheet on the baking sheet. Add two more layers of phyllo sheets, lightly spray coating in between. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of the cheese mixture.
Repeat layers (but not the spray-coating) five more times (3 phyllo sheets, 2 tablespoons of the cheese mixture), then topping the whole with the last two phyllo sheets. Coat the top two sheets with cooking spray, then sprinkle on 2 tablespoons of the cheese mixture.
Arrange tomato slices on top of the phyllo sheets. Sprinkle on 2 tablespoons of the cheese mixture, leaving a 2-inch border. Sprinkle with scallions, and remaining cheese mixture. Bake for 17 minutes. Sprinkle basil leaves over pizza, return to oven and bake 3 to 5 minutes longer.
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A popular library saved from closure last year is celebrating its 80th birthday next Sunday.
Friern Barnet Library, now run by a team of voluntary trustees, is marking the anniversary with a special celebration.
Special guests at the event include founder of National Libraries Day Alan Gibbons, chairman of national charity The Library Campaign Laura Swaffield, and Boyd Tonkin, a senior writer at The Independent.
Friern Barnet Library was closed by Barnet Council in 2012 under plans to sell off the building.
But a community campaign to have it reopened, which was boosted by a group of squatters who occupied the building for more than five months, led to a U-turn by the local authority the following year.
Local councillors and many of the library's trustees and volunteers are also expected to attend birthday celebration, on Sunday, March 23, between 2pm and 5pm.


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Shell to Pay $15.5 Million to Settle Nigerian Case
The European oil giant Shell had been accused of being complicit in the executions of the activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other critics of Nigeria's former government.
Updated: May 22, 2009
Ken Saro-Wiwa, one of Nigeria's leading environmentalists and authors, was executed by Nigeria's former military regime in November 1995, provoking international protests and calls for punitive measures against Nigeria.
Mr. Saro-Wiwa, a popular author, playwright and television producer, had been one of the Nigerian government's most articulate and determined critics. He had built a campaign against environmental damage by oil companies and for a fairer share of Nigeria's immense oil wealth for the regions where it is produced.
Mr. Saro-Wiwa's organization, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, grew to become the largest political organization in the 350-square-mile homeland of the Ogoni. This ethnic group, to which he belonged, includes 500,000 people who live in the oil-rich but desperately poor swamplands of Delta State.
The group began to demonstrate for an end oil spillages, gas flarings and the destruction of the mangroves to make way for Shell pipelines. They also demanded a share of the revenues from the oil pumped from their land. In response, Nigerian troops mounted a kind of scorched-earth campaign against the Ogoni, burning villages and committing murders and rapes, international human rights groups say.
Shell, Nigeria's largest oil producing company, had acknowledged frequent spills but had said the Ogoni movement exaggerated their impact.
Mr. Saro-Wiwa was arrested in 1994 and put on trial before a special military court along with other Ogoni advocates, on charges that human rights groups and Western governments said were trumped up. Despite international pressure, Shell initially refused to intervene, saying at the time, "the company does not get involved in politics."
The execution of Mr. Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Ogoni tribe led to fierce protests against Shell, which was already under heavy criticism from environmentalists for its record in the Niger Delta. The event, which ignited worldwide condemnation of Nigeria, prompted changes in Shell's approach to community relations in Nigeria and elsewhere.
Mr. Saro-Wiwa's body was burned with acid and thrown in an unmarked grave.
A lawsuit was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York law firm specializing in human rights, on behalf of Mr. Saro-Wiwa's son and other plaintiffs who fled Nigeria's military regime and did not trust they could sue Shell in Nigerian courts even after civilian rule returned in 1999.
On May 27, 2009, a trial in federal court in New York is expected to examine allegations that Shell sought the aid of the former Nigerian regime in silencing Mr. Saro-Wiwa, in addition to paying soldiers who carried out human rights abuses in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta where it operated. Shell strongly denies the charges.
Born in Bori, Nigeria, Mr. Saro-Wiwa, was the son of J. B. Saro-Wiwa, a businessman, and his wife, Widu, a farmer. He earned a scholarship to the University of Ibadan, near the capital of Lagos. As a schoolboy, he wrote anonymous letters to newspapers commenting on local politics. During the Biafran civil war in the late 1960s, he worked as an administrator for the oil depot at Bonny Island. Later he was removed from the post of regional commissioner for education in the Rivers State cabinet after he expressed strong opinions about autonomy for the Ogoni.
Mr. Saro-Wiwa, a prolific writer of both adult and children's literature, also wrote and produced numerous episodes for a Nigerian soap opera. His highly praised "Sozaboy" (vernacular for "soldier boy") was set amid the Biafran conflict, becoming an anti-war statement as well as a coming-of-age tale of a young village boy who is pressured to become a soldier. Mr. Saro-Wiwa drew on his personal memories of that time. The novel preceded his later political activism. Biafra, which unsuccessfuly tried to secede, contained most of the country's oil reserves.


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I've never been a fan of John Hagee, the bombastic pastor of San Antonio's Cornerstone Church. I find his theology bizarre and his sermons too laden with his own geopolitical concerns. You might remember him as the guy whose endorsement for McCain made the news because of remarks he'd made about the Holocaust.
When I stumbled across his broadcast the other night on my circuit through the channels, I found him talking about the founding of America. Thinking this would provide some entertainment, I stuck with it. It turned out to be your standard civil religion jeremiad. America is going down the tubes, we've forgotten our roots, etc.
By way of illustration, Hagee ran through a list of men who signed the Declaration of Independence and later suffered devastation and ruin because of their support for the Revolution. If this rings a bell, it's because it comes from a patriotic chain e-mail called "The Price They Paid" that usually makes the rounds on July 4. It's mostly hogwash, riddled with the sort of errors that anybody with Internet access can debunk in a few minutes.
Take, for example, the story of Thomas Nelson, Jr, member of the Continental Congress and commander of militia. In 1781 he succeeded Jefferson as governor of Virginia. He owned a fine home in Yorktown, supposedly used as the headquarters of Cornwallis during the siege. According to "The Price They Paid," and as repeated by Hagee, Nelson was aware that the British commander would have taken up residence in his house and requested French and/or American artillery to open fire on the building. The cannons demolished the house, and Nelson died broke.
It's a great story, but it's at best highly exaggerated. How do we know? Well, here's a modern photo of the site of Nelson's home:
Note the big freaking house sitting on top of it. Nelson's home is still there, and while it did indeed suffer cannon damage, there's no evidence outside of tradition that Nelson himself ordered troops to fire on it.
In fact, according to Jerome Greene's highly detailed study of the siege, Cornwallis did not even use Nelson's house as his headquarters. Instead, he set up shop in the home of Nelson's sixty-five-year-old namesake uncle. Allied guns struck this home, too; Greene reports that cannon fire killed one of Nelson's servants. Some versions of the legend maintain that it was this house to which Nelson directed fire, but again, it's an unsubstantiated tradition.
Personally, I think these myths actually trivialize the actions of the signers. They took real risks in publicly identifying themselves with an unlikely cause because they thought it was the right thing to do. Embellishing their stories implies that this wasn't enough, that they weren't real patriots until they lost everything they had because of their allegiance to the cause. It's the willingness to risk that makes someone a hero, not the outcome.
You'd think a guy like Hagee, who makes a fortune as a speaker and writer, could do better than a sappy chain e-mail for a sermon illustration. But if his congregation thinks they're getting their money's worth, then I guess they might as well have at it.


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Quiet bats
It was pretty quiet around Bright House Networks Field today. Those on the travel roster for Sarasota left on a 9 a.m. bus. Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Chris Coste and a handful of pitchers that weren't on the trip had a light workout in the morning.
It was a quiet day in Sarasota too as the Phillies bats produced just six singles in a 7-0 loss.
Dr. Michael Ciccotti, the Phillies' team doctor, arrived in the early afternoon and had follow up examinations with several injured players. Ken Mandel has a complete wrap-up on the medical update on this website.
Paid a quite visit to an old friend this afternoon, Jack Russell Memorial Stadium, the Phillies' home from 1955 through 2003.
The place, being used by The Winning Inning (winninginning.com), an organization that hosts baseball clinics, camps, college tournaments, high school teams and men's baseball leagues, was empty. Grass was still green, although not as plush as it had been when the Phillies were there.
Four-color outfielder billboards have been replaced by green padding. Rumor has it that some of the seats in the park will be demolished this summer.
Physical things may leave us but memories last forever, including the pigeon droppings that used to decorate the open-air press box some 40 years ago. Rest assured, there were a lot of pleasant memories, too, at the old stadium.


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NEW ORLEANS - Archie Manning, patriarch of the NFL's best-known quarterbacking clan, says he's glad the Super Bowl focus is on another family.
Manning has practically been a fixture at the big game in recent years. Sons Peyton and Eli Manning have won three of the last six Super Bowls. The New Orleans Saints, the hometown team Manning toiled for through hard times, won a fourth during that stretch.
Instead of regaling people with stories about raising two of the best quarterbacks of this era, or how he often he got booed and tackled playing for the notoriously bad "Aints," Manning is getting his house ready for visitors.
"The boys and grandkids will be here later in the week, so I'm definitely looking forward to that," he said Monday.
Going into Sunday's game, the Harbaugh family is drawing a lot of attention as the San Francisco 49ers prepare to play the Baltimore Ravens. Jim Harbaugh coaches the 49ers and brother John coaches the Ravens.
Manning said he's glad this matchup isn't pulling him apart.
"That's one of the few nice things about not having either boy in the game," he said.
"I think a lot of people figured San Francisco might be here," he said. "The Ravens, they remind me a little of the Giants from last year and even four years ago. They had a stumble, but right now, they're healthy, hot and in the zone. All I'll say is it should make for a very interesting game."
A game that he can sit back and enjoy, too.
"The only other nice thing about not having one of the boys in the game is I got 10 tickets and that's all I'm going to get. I'm out of the ticket and hotel business this year," he added, "and glad of it."
Manning is hardly a forgotten man in his hometown, however.
"Most of the questions I get now are about the boys playing, and not me. And I like it that way," Manning chuckled. "I don't bring those days up, either."


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2008 Dr. Pepper Big 12 Conference Championship Game Notes
Missouri vs. Oklahoma
Dec. 6, 2008
Oklahoma's Win...
- Gives the South Division a 9-4 record in the Big 12 Championship game all-time.
- Marks the fifth straight win for the South Division in the Championship game.
- Makes Oklahoma the Big 12 Champion for the third straight year and fourth time in the last five years.
- Marks OU's sixth Big 12 Championship (all in the 2000s) and improves OU's championship game record to 6-1 all-time (won in 2000, 02, 04, 06, 07 and 08 and lost in 03).
- Missouri fell to 0-2 in the Championship game all-time. The Tigers also lost last year to Oklahoma 38-17.
- Oklahoma improved to 66-24-5 all-time against Missouri, including a 7-1 mark since the inception of the Big 12 Conference.
- Oklahoma improved to 12-1 on the season while Missouri fell to 9-4 on the year.
Championship Game Notable
- Oklahoma's Chris Brown became the first player to rush for 100 yards in the championship game since Adrian Peterson of Oklahoma ran for 172 yards vs. Colorado in 2004.
- Missouri's 21 points were the most by the losing team since Texas scored 37 in a 39-37 loss to Colorado in 2001.
- The attendance mark of 71,004 was the fifth highest in championship game history. Four of the five most attended games in the history of the championship have been in Arrowhead Stadium.
- Oklahoma's field goal on the opening possession of the game marked the first time a team scored on the game's first possession since the Sooners scored a touchdown on the game's first possession against Colorado in 2004 (Oklahoma scored a touchdown in that game).
- For the seventh straight year in the championship game, one team was shutout in the first quarter. The team that did not score in the opening period came back to win twice, including last year when Oklahoma trailed Missouri 3-0, but won 38-17.
- Oklahoma's 30 points at halftime were the second most in a first half in a Big 12 Championship game behind 42 by Texas vs. Colorado (3) in 2005.
- The 31-point halftime advantage was the third-largest in championship game history. Texas led Colorado by 39 (42-3) in 2005 and Nebraska led Texas A&M by 34 (37-3) in 1997.
Big 12 Championship Game Record List
- The combined 83 points were the most in a championship game passing the 76 by Colorado (39) and Texas (37) in 2001.
- Oklahoma's 62 points were the second most scored in championship game history behind 70 by Texas in its 70-3 win against Colorado in 2005.
- The 41-point scoring margin was the second largest in championship game history behind 67 points (Texas defeated Colorado 70-3 in 2005).
- Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford set a Big 12 Championship game record for passing yardage with 384. The previous mark was 353 by James Brown of Texas vs. Nebraska in 1996.
- Bradford set a Big 12 Championship game record for completions with 34. The previous record for game completions was 27 by Jason White of Oklahoma in 2003.
- Oklahoma's RB duo of Chris Brown and Mossis Madu both tied a Big 12 Championship game record with three touchdowns. They became the ninth and tenth players to accomplish that feat and the first since Jamaal Charles of Texas vs. Colorado in 2005.
- Oklahoma WR Juaquin Iglesis tied the Big 12 Championship game record for touchdowns in a game with two. Both of his scores came in the first half. He tied four others, including former Sooners Malcolm Kelly (2006) and Mark Clayton (2004).
- Iglesias' nine receptions were the second most in championship game history behind 10 by Malcolm Kelly, of Oklahoma vs. Nebraska in 2006.
- Oklahoma TE Jermaine Gresham's eight receptions tied for the third most in a Big 12 Championship game (10 by Malcolm Kelly of Oklahoma vs. Nebraska in 2006).
- Oklahoma established a game record for team first downs with 39. The old mark was 26 set by three teams, most recently Texas vs. Colorado in 2005.
- Oklahoma set a new championship game record for total yards with 627. The old mark was 536 by Nebraska vs. Texas A&M in 1997.
- Oklahoma set a championship game record for total plays with 93. The old mark 87 by Nebraska vs. Texas in 1996.
- Oklahoma set a team record for passing yardage with 384. The old mark was 370 by Texas vs. Colorado in 2001.
- Oklahoma set the Big 12 championship game team record for completions in a game with 34. The old mark was 29 by Oklahoma vs. Kansas State in 2003
- Oklahoma's six rushing touchdowns tied the championship game record of set by Texas in 2005 and Nebraska in 1997.
- Oklahoma set the Big 12 championship game record for first down passes with ???. The previous record was 17 by Oklahoma vs. Kansas State in 2003.
Missouri Notes
- QB Chase Daniel became the Missouri career total offense yardage leader. He entered the game with 12,988 yards. He moved ahead of Brad Smith (13,088) and had 13,256 at halftime.
- Senior CB Tru Vaughns made his first career start.
- PK Jeff Wolfert improved his career PAT mark to a perfect 182 of 182.
- TE Chase Coffman recorded his 30th career touchdown reception. He was already Missouri's all-time touchdown reception leader.
- Former walk-on WR Tommy Saunders moved into sixth place on the MU career receptions list. He finished the game with 144 to pass current Kansas City Chief Will Franklin.
Oklahoma Notes
- Oklahoma established a new NCAA record for points in a season. OU entered the game with 640 and the old mark was 656 by Hawai'i in 2006. Oklahoma becomes the first team to pass 700 points in a season (702).
- Oklahoma set a school record for total yards in a season with 7,307. The Sooners entered the game with 6,680 and the old mark was 6,682 set in 2003.
- Oklahoma scored on its opening possession for the 11th time this year (nine touchdowns and two field goals).
- RB DeMarco Murray broke the Oklahoma school record for season all-purpose yardage. He entered the game with 2,141 and passed Quentin Griffin, who had 2,148 in 2002.
- RB Chris Brown became the third player in the Big 12 to record 1,000 yards rushing this season. Brown entered the game with 988 yards. He joined teammate Murray DeMarco and Oklahoma State's Kendall Hunter.
- QB Sam Bradford broke the school record for career passing yards. He entered the game with 7,201. Josh Heupel held the old mark with 7,456 from 1999-2000.
- Bradford also established a new school mark for career total offense. He entered the game with 7,266. Heupel held the old record with 7,522 from 1999-2000.
- Mossis Madu established a career rushing best with his first career 100-yard rushing game. His previous best was 65 yards vs. Texas A&M this year.
- Leading 10-7 early in the second quarter, Oklahoma scored 31 consecutive points to lead 41-7 before Missouri responded with a touchdown to make it 41-14 with 3:59 left in the third quarter.


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Oct. 15, 2006
Moraga, Calif. - Senior captain Casey Knutson came back from a loss in the first round to win the consolation bracket at the Saint Mary's Invitational as the Broncos concluded three successful days in Moraga. Lindsay McBride fell in the Flight "B" final after a stirring run through the bracket over the weekend. Overall, the Broncos posted their best showing of the fall season.
Knutson lost a first round match on Friday but showed her determination as she recovered to earn a spot in the final today. In the final, Knutson dominated, beating Nevada's Horino Masako 6-0; 6-1.
In the main draw, McBride, who won two singles matches and a doubles match on Saturday, could not beat Nevada's Li-houng Dinh in the final. Dinh, who previously knocked off Knutson and Myra Davoudi this weekend, captured the Flight "B" title 6-2; 6-0.
In doubles, Davoudi and McBride fell 8-3 to Audrey Bardot and Bach-Lan Pham of Nevada in the semifinals.
Sunday's results follow:
Flight "B" Singles Final
NEV Ly-houng Dinh d. SCU Lindsay McBride 6-2; 6-0
Flight "B" Consolation Semifinal
SCU Casey Knutson d. PAC Jasmina Bogucanin 4-3 (default)
Flight "B" Consolation Final
SCU Casey Knutson d. NEV Horino Masako 6-0; 6-1
Flight "B" Doubles Semifinal
NEV Bardot/Pham d. Davoudi/McBride 8-3
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Record-low sea ice in 2018 sent ripples through the Bering Sea's entire ecosystem. Will this be the region's new normal?
Nanoparticles coated with blood cell membranes can move through the body to clean up toxins or heal tissues — without instigating an immune reaction.
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Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses how a news story makes it into Science News magazine.
Nanoparticles coated with blood cell membranes can move through the body to clean up toxins or heal tissues — without instigating an immune reaction.
Record-low sea ice in 2018 sent ripples through the Bering Sea's entire ecosystem. Will this be the region's new normal?
New Ardipithecus ramidus fossils reveal how hominids were shifting toward humanlike walking more than 4 million years ago.
New Yorkers' levels of artificial trans fats dropped, especially in people who ate out the most, after a citywide ban on the fats in restaurant foods.
Researchers rediscovered the world's largest bee living in the forests of an island of Indonesia.
A newly found dinosaur called Moros intrepidus fills a hole in the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs, helping narrow when the group sized up.
Children from homes with all vinyl floors and flame-retardant sofas show higher levels of some synthetic chemicals in their bodies than other kids.
If a lake under Martian ice is real, there must be a subsurface magma pool to keep conditions warm enough for water to remain liquid, scientists say.
Tiny protrusions are from chemical reactions in the paint, say scientists who developed an imaging method that could help curators track the knobs.
Quantum squeezing of light will help scientists make better gravitational wave detectors.
Particle physics sheds new light on the electric potential of thunderstorms.
Seeing intelligence as fixed can result in lower grades, especially for certain minorities
After 15 years of exploring Mars, a dust storm led to the demise of NASA's longest-lived rover.
The first multidrug clinical trial of Ebola treatments is underway amid an outbreak in Congo.
Megaliths spread across the continent due to seafarers' influence, researcher says.
Newly described patterns of brain activity may help reveal the level of awareness in people with brain injuries.
A select group of brain cells responds to both flavor and location, a specialty that may help an animal find the next good meal.
The hardened plaque on teeth is helping scientists trace the history of dairying in Mongolia.
A newly designed material uses only light to speedily remove 99.9999 percent of microbes from water.
There may be yet another large crater buried beneath Greenland's ice sheet. But it's probably not related to the first one found last year.
Scientists are rethinking the shape of the space rock, once thought to be a snowman.
Extreme heat and temperature swings are no match for this lightweight insulator.
A 240-million-year-old fossil reveals the oldest known case of bone cancer in an amniote, a group that includes mammals, birds and reptiles.
A yarn-based textile can switch from breathable to insulating and back again, depending on how much you sweat.
Fifty years ago, surgeons' supply of heart donations was woefully low.
Mystery canids on Texas' Galveston Island carry red wolf DNA, thought to be extinct in the wild for 40 years.
North America's fox squirrel, the venomous striped eel catfish and 64 other species are now considered invasive in the European Union.
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For the past two-and-a-half years, Mancini's pre-match press conferences have regularly been dominated by talk of the controversial striker and his various misdemeanours. That will soon no longer be the case after Mancini bade the 22-year-old a sad farewell earlier this week before Balotelli signed for AC Milan for a move reportedly worth £19million, rising to £22million.
"We are very sorry for him because he leaves the club but we hope Mario can continue to improve and continues to work hard because he is a top, top player," Mancini said.
Mancini will now attempt to draw a line under the Italy international's City career and look forward, starting with Liverpool's visit to the Barclays Premier League champions.
In truth - on recent evidence - Balotelli may not be greatly missed having scored just three goals all season, only one of them in the Premier League. He had also made only two substitute appearances since a dismal display in the derby loss to Manchester United on December 9.
Prior to Tuesday's goalless draw at QPR, City had been hitting their best form of the campaign with six successive wins in all competitions.
With no moves to sign a replacement for Balotelli before the transfer deadline, it is thought reserve striker John Guidetti could soon be promoted to the senior squad.
The 20-year-old Swede made a big impression on loan at Feyenoord last season but has missed most of this campaign with a leg injury caused by a virus. He is now getting close to fitness and City reportedly turned down deadline-day approaches for the player from other clubs.
Mancini is also expected to update on the fitness of captain Vincent Kompany, who is likely to miss the Liverpool game with the calf strain suffered in last week's FA Cup win at Stoke.
City did do some activity on deadline day, signing 18-year-old Ghanaian striker Godsway Donyoh from his country's Right to Dream Academy and immediately loaning him to Swedish club Djurgarden.


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The 2014 IJF Rules are to be used at international events held in the U.S. and, in general, are the rules our judoka who compete in international events outside the U.S. should expect to be used. [NOTE: There are a few issues that need to be clarified where our current understanding varies from what is written in this document, including a part of the bowing procedure, the use of white and blue marker tapes, and certain aspects of hikiwake, cross grip exemption of leg grab penalty, etc. As these issues are clarified we will update this commentary but we felt it was important to publish these IJF Rules as soon as we received them.]
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Theory of relativity
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For more information, see the Wikipedia article:
The theory of relativity is either of two scientific theories devised by Albert Einstein regarding the large-scale structure and behavior of the universe:
- The special theory of relativity (published in 1905) describes the behavior of objects in motion (at constant velocity) in terms of their frames of reference, essentially refining the classical mechanics (physics of bodies in motion) delevoped by Galileo and Isaac Newton, among others. After being reformulated in terms of a proposed four-dimensional "spacetime" by Hermann Minkowski in 1908, the theory became a powerful conceptual and computational tool.
- The general theory of relativity (completed in 1915) explains gravitation in terms of the curvature of spacetime. It extends the results of special relativity to non-intertial (that is, accelerating) frames of reference.
It must be noted that Einstein's relativity has nothing to do with philosophical relativism in any form (moral, ethical, cultural, etc.); they merely sound similar and ultimately derive from the same Latin root. The name "relativity" comes from the fact that both theories are based on more general concepts called principles of relativity — essentially that the laws of physics should not depend on special frames of reference.


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The Dow Finished Perfectly Unchanged Thursday, but Why Did Nike and AT&T Fall?
Amid a flurry of earnings releases Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrials collectively yawned, ending the day exactly unchanged. Most of the attention of stock market investors went to individual companies rather than market indexes today, as a busy day of earnings releases sent companies wildly in either direction. Yet, amid the cacophony of earnings-related noise, declines in Nike and AT&T showed the collateral damage that other companies can wreak on peers in their industries.
Nike's shares fell 1%, with many analysts attributing at least part of the decline to Apple's earnings release. Within the last week, news that Nike would make layoffs in the department that is responsible for the FuelBand raised a huge amount of speculation over Nike's future plans for its premier wearable fitness-tracking device. Many reports initially suggested that Nike would stop making wearable technology entirely, opening the door for Apple to step in with its long-heralded iWatch concept. Yet, for its part, Nike has done its best to downplay its layoff announcement, arguing that software investment for the FuelBand would continue, and that it hasn't entirely ruled out further sales on the hardware side. Even if an iWatch does become reality, that won't necessarily spell disaster for Nike and the FuelBand, especially if the iWatch aims itself more at general-purpose technology rather than fitness-specific applications.
AT&T dropped 1.2%, which was still enough to outperform its telecom archrival in the Dow. Ordinarily, when a prime competitor issues an earnings report that sends its stock stumbling, you'd expect that a company would see a share-price boost. But the problem is that the entire telecom sector is going through struggles that affect all of its players, and part of the competitive pressure that's pushing AT&T and its wireless-network peers down today is coming from outside the traditional telecom realm. With cable companies, tech giants, and other non-traditional entrants making a play at key markets like broadband Internet and video, what hurts one telecom company also hurts AT&T. Although you can expect AT&T to keep fighting against its direct competitors, the group will have to be careful to protect itself as a whole from competitors in other industries seeking to provide the same services.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Part Two: Paper Flower Wreath Tutorial
You will need:
2" scallop paper punch
Dye Ink
3" of cloth covered floral wire per flower (approx. 54" total)
2 buttons per flower (36 total)
Small container of water
Punch four 2-inch scallops for each flower.
Make a small hole in the center of each scallop with the point of a scissors. Cut slits between each scallop about a third of the way into the center.
Ink the edges on both sides of the scallop. How much ink you would like to apply is up to you. I'm a pretty heavy inker because I happen to like the look.
Feed the 3-inch piece of wire through the holes in the button. Dab a bit of matching ink onto the portion of wire that will be exposed.
Submerge the first scallop into water. Remove immediately.
Feed the scallop onto the wire through the hole in the center of the scallop.
Gently squeeze the petals over the button to form a bud shape. Wet paper is very fragile. Take care not to break the petals.
Continue feeding each of the scallops onto the wire, squishing and squeezing each layer onto the previous one.
After all 4 layers have been added, feed a button onto the wire. Twist the wire to secure the layer of petals. This button will not show so you can use old, ugly, or recycled buttons if you'd like.
Gently open up each layer of petals. The petals should have twists and turns in them. This is the look that we are trying to achieve. Once you are pleased with the petal placement, set it aside to dry. After the petals are fully dried, they will be stiff and retain their shape.
The flower on the left has not been inked. It has very little visual definition compared to the two on the right. Even so, having a few solid flowers will add interest to the project.
I hope you enjoy making these flowers. I had to stop myself from making too many. It is very easy to get carried away because they are so much fun to make.
See you on Tuesday for the next installment. Have a wonderful weekend.
12 comments:
- vida bela e doce vida said...
Seu blog e maravilhoso amo seu trabalho estou te seguindo bjs.
- Fri Jun 25, 05:56:00 AM 2010
- Country Girl in the City said...
Oh wow, sooo pretty!
- Fri Jun 25, 06:29:00 AM 2010
- Janine said...
Ahh, there it is!
They look so lovely, I am going to make some right now.
- Fri Jun 25, 06:56:00 AM 2010
- sweetiepie said...
Lettie, you have a way of making things look so easy!!! Thank you for sharing your creative genius with us all.
Take care.
- Fri Jun 25, 07:58:00 AM 2010
- Deb said...
These are just too pretty. Thanks for the tutorial. I think that I'm going to have to make some.
- Fri Jun 25, 09:19:00 AM 2010
- Annette said...
Thanks for the lovely Tutorial...
- Fri Jun 25, 09:33:00 AM 2010
- Jenny said...
So pretty! I made some paper flowers over on my site (http://iheartjennysart.com/2010/05/paper-carnation/) but I love your idea with the button way better! It adds such a nice touch
- Fri Jun 25, 10:57:00 AM 2010
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [25 Jun 02:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria
- Fri Jun 25, 11:38:00 AM 2010
- Kristin said...
Those are truly beautiful.
- Sun Jun 27, 07:57:00 AM 2010
- Suzzi said...
Thank you so much for sharing. This is great.
- Tue Jul 06, 06:28:00 AM 2010
- neli said...
Its so beautifull !!!!!!!!!
- Fri Jul 16, 02:49:00 PM 2010
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I met my sweet valentine "about" 10 years ago. I say about because neither one of us actually wrote the date down. But based on our best CSI techniques we think it was around February 16, 2003.
My husband and I have a unique "how-we-met" story. In January 2003 we were both deployed to a little place called Uzbekistan, he with the Air Force and myself as an Army Reserve Soldier. Sometime in February that year, I was walking down the path between tents and stumbled on a group of guys playing poker. I asked if I could play and a cute guy said "sure!" I was just joking, but he took me seriously and asked me to come over. I couldn't at the time, but told him my tent number and that he could find me the next time they got a game together, fully thinking he would forget all about it. He didn't. A couple days later I saw him at the PX (post exchange), and all I could see over the shelf in between us was his bright blue eyes. He came around the corner and he had a flight suit on. My heart fluttered, literally fluttered, and I was in love.
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Dad's Captivating Photographs of Son Help Explain Autism
Timothy Archibald began photographing his son Elijah at age 5, before the boy was diagnosed with autism. It started as a way to document Elijah's behavior that Archibald just couldn't figure out, but ultimately brought the pair closer together.
"The mystery was the fuel," Archibald, a photographer based in San Francisco, told ABCNews.com. "It was a father-son project we were jazzed about. He was posing in photos and would run around the back of the camera and say, 'That's it. We got it.'"
View the photos on Archibald's website.
The photo project is called Echolalia, a word used to describe a behavior common in autistic children in which they repeat words or phrases. Archibald said the photos paint a picture of autism in a way that words can't.
Elijah, Archibald's oldest child, was born in 2001, but it wasn't clear something was different about him until the Archibalds' second child was born. By the time Elijah got to kindergarten his differences became "all encompassing."
"Everyone wanted to know what was up with Eli," Archibald said. "It took over the home, it took over everyday life. I started to photograph him almost as data collection."
Although bloggers have come across the photos and written about them time and time again since they were first published in 2010, Archibald said the attitude toward them has shifted.
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Back then, about 60 percent of the commenters would accuse Archibald of exploiting his son and the other 40 percent would defend the photos, he said.
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Elijah, now 12, travels with his father on occasion to talk about the photo project, and he loves it. Last year, on a trip to Atlanta, an audience member bluntly asked Elijah what it "feels like" to be autistic.
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Converge Bible Studies: Reclaiming Anger
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Converge is where life and faith come together.
As Christians, we process grief, show love, understand compassion, and accept forgiveness. But when it comes to anger, we often reject it as not being useful or holy. There simply is no place for anger in the worldview of many Christians. We're told to just "let it go," "get over it," or "count to ten." In the church, anger is treated like a dirty little secret.
But why?
God gets angry. Why can't we? We're made in the image of God, and being truly human is to fully embrace who God made us to be. In Reclaiming Anger, David Dorn asserts that anger doesn't have to be a forbidden, destructive emotion. Biblical anger serves a purpose. In this study you'll discover what anger is, how God gets angry, when we need anger, and when we need to let it go.
Converge Bible Studies is a series of topical Bible studies. Each title in the series consists of four studies on a common topic or theme. Converge can be used by small groups, classes, or individuals. Primary Scripture passages from the Common English Bible are included for ease of study, as are questions designed to encourage both personal reflection and group conversation. The topics and Scriptures in Converge come together to transform readers' relationships with others, themselves, and God.


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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was the third President, and one of the Founding fathers, of the United States of America. He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which served as the basis for the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Religious views[edit]
On Christianity[edit]
In the ongoing attempt to proclaim the United States a Christian nation, many historical revisionists attempt to classify Jefferson as a Christian. This seems particularly ironic as Jefferson was accused of being an atheist and an enemy of religion by political opponents and ministers of his time. He has generally been considered a deist, though some have labeled him a Christian deist as he respected the moral tenets of Christianity yet rejected the idea that Jesus was divine.
He redacted a copy of the gospels of the Bible, removing references to miracles (which he rejected) and other supernatural claims, leaving the words and moral philosophy of Jesus. A partial quote from Jefferson, commenting on this book (later dubbed the "Jefferson Bible"), is often used to support the idea that he was a Christian:
- "...[the Jefferson Bible] is a document in proof that I am a real Christian"
A fine example of quote mining, the remainder of the quote gives important context to Jefferson's true position:
- "...that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who call me infidel and themselves Christians and preachers of the gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its author never said nor saw."
His rejection of orthodox Christianity did not sit well with his religious contemporaries, resulting in accusations that he was an infidel. Modern revisionists who label Jefferson a Christian are either ignorant of his views on Christianity or are intentionally misrepresenting his views in the hopes that these idealistic and anachronistic claims will be accepted.
Another quote which provides more insight into Jefferson's views on Christianity comes from his "Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 17:
- "Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth."
He considered that contemporary Christianity had deviated from the original intent of Jesus:
- "Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy,―the most sublime & benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man,―endeavored to crush your well-earnt & well-deserved fame."
This was misquoted by Bill Maher in his 2008 documentary Religulous.[1] He also wrote:
- "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.[2]"
- "I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
On religious freedom[edit]
Jefferson was a true advocate of religious freedom and encouraged the complete neutrality of the government with respect to religion. In addition to the ideas presented in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Jefferson refused to issue proclamations calling for days of prayer and thanksgiving during his Presidency. While Jefferson did not want government to institute any religion, he did view religion as a positive right, a right which the government should take substantial steps to actively protect. Consider Bill No. 84, which was introduced into the Virginia assembly, penned by Jefferson. This bill had a variety of provisions, among which were "exempting clergymen from being arrested while conducting religious services in any place of worship…and also authorized severe punishments, including imprisonment and amercement, for disturbers of public worship or citizens laboring on Sunday."[3] These laws were meant to affirm the government's responsibility to protect acts of worship. There were several laws like this that were introduced into the Virginia state assembly by both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and while not all of them passed, they are important to note because they do show that many of the founding fathers did not necessarily have the same idea of a "wall of separation" that exists today.
A better idea of the background in which Thomas Jefferson was operating under is necessary to fully understand his ideas on the relationship between church and state. In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson describes with horror the treatment of the Quakers at the hands of the theocratic colonies that had been set up in 17th and 18th century America.[4] With this bloody background of religious persecution, Thomas Jefferson, along with many other founding fathers felt that simple government neutrality toward religion was not enough to protect the rights of people to practice. However, they were terrified of going too far in the other direction and establishing a religion. They eventually seemed to settle on this middle ground of active government involvement in the protection of religious liberties and freedoms, while at the same time not explicitly establishing one over the other.
Sustainable evidence as to Thomas Jefferson's views on the establishment of a religion by government can be found in his arguments on how to defend religion. Jefferson felt that the way to get to the truth of any matter would be to foster and encourage free thought, logic, debate and reason. Thomas Jefferson felt that if anybody were to engage in rational inquiry, they would eventually find the truth of religion, which he seems to grant in the Notes on the State of Virginia, to be Christianity. Christianity thrives in a state of rational thought and critical thinking, Jefferson argues, for it was the free inquiry promoted by the Roman Empire that permitted Christianity to grow in the first place, and the free inquiry and rational thought of 14th and 15th century Europe that allowed for "corruptions of Christianity" to be "purged away."[5] Truth, Jefferson said, could stand on its own, and that "it is error alone which needs the support of government."[6] And thus, he argued directly against an establishment of a state religion, because this would halt rational thought and discussion, which would slow the pursuit toward truth, and he felt that anything that slowed the pursuit of truth was fundamentally bad.
His private and public letters include many objections to any tie between organized religion and government and his famous letter to the Danbury Baptist Association includes the first reference to "a wall of separation":
- "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State."
This same sentiment is echoed in a letter to Virginia Baptists:
- "Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."


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Phillips is a staunch liberal, so liberal that he occasionally preaches communism. He's at least bi-curious, as he admits to having slept with his show's producer, whether it be alone with the producer, or in a threesome with his wife and the producer. Peyton is often victimized by his wife, a staunch conservative, on air because of his political views, which almost always differ from hers. He says on air that his dream world would be living in a commune with other people in matching jumpsuits growing potatoes, a stereotype of Russia under Soviet rule.
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A $150,000 lottery win hasn�t yet hit an engineer who struck it big on a scratch-off game.
Harold Edwards of Lincolnton hit his jackpot playing the scratch-off game �10X the Money.� He plans to save the money for retirement, he told state lottery officials.
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Ann at Ann's Musings on Geology & Other Things is hosting March's Accretionary Wedge, with the special Mardi Gras theme of a parade of favorite geology pictures!
It's always hard to pick a favorite geology picture, but this wintery Crater Lake panorama tops my list right now. Crater Lake is one of my favorite places, and it was exciting to visit in the winter! The perfect mirroring effect was particularly stunning. In person, the sky and water were the same color, making the caldera look like an arch in the sky.