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These MacBook and MacBook Pro sleeves from ColcaSac are the type of sleeves you would get if you wanted to protect your laptop while carrying it to and from your comparative literature lectures at Wellesley. That doesn't mean they're ugly.
Besides being made of "environmentally friendly fabrics", the sleeves are pretty well padded (hemp has a lot of cushioning, it seems) and have an "earthy" feel. If you're the type of person who likes to advertise your love of things that come from the ground, while at the same time protecting your electronics investment, you could do worse. And at $US30ish each, it's not like they're overcharging you for being green either. [ColcaSac]


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Glenn Beck has denied being "responsible" for a planned attack on the leaders of the Tides Foundation, a nonprofit organization Beck has repeatedly demonized. Beck has said that he "stand[s] by each one" of his attacks on the group and lauded his coverage of the organization.
CA shooter targeted Tides, wanted "to start a revolution"
CA gunman wanted to "start a revolution" by "killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation." On July 18, Byron Williams, a convicted felon, engaged in a shootout with police after being pulled over on I-580 in California. Williams was heavily armed, wearing body armor and wielding "a high-powered hunting rifle, a pistol and a shotgun." After being taken into custody, Williams reportedly told investigators that "his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU."
Gunman's mother: Williams watched TV news, was upset with "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items." Following her son's arrest, Williams' mother told the San Francisco Chronicle that her son was angry about "what's happening to our country." The Chronicle reported that Williams "watched the news on television" and that his mother stated that he was upset with "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items."
Beck tipped the scale of Tides coverage before Williams' attempted attack
In virtually the only cable or network TV coverage of Tides, Beck mentioned the group 29 times on his Fox News show. As Media Matters has detailed, a LexisNexis search reveals that the Tides Foundation has been mentioned 29 times on Fox News' Glenn Beck in the time between the show's premiere and Williams' attempted rampage. In contrast, the Tides Foundation has not been mentioned once on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or PBS in the same timeframe.
Beck called Tides a "shady organization" and accused it of "indoctrination," "warp[ing] your children's brains." In his coverage of Tides, Beck has repeatedly implicated the organization in his conspiracy theories, linking it to George Soros, the Apollo Alliance, the Joyce Foundation, and the Weather Underground. Beck has referred to the group as a "shady organization" [May 11] and claimed it is "a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the left" [May 21, 2009]. Beck frequently airs a video produced by Tides, which he refers to as an "indoctrination video...shown in schools all across America to warp you children's brains and make sure they know how evil capitalism is" [June 21].
Beck denies being "responsible" for planned attack, lauds his coverage of Tides
Beck mocks idea that "I am now responsible for terrorist attacks." On the July 29 edition of The Glenn Beck Program, Beck discussed the thwarted rampage in California and decried criticism of his coverage the Tides Foundation, claiming that his critics "are now imaging me as a terrorist and a racist." Co-host Pat Gray called the charges "unbelievable" while Beck stated in disbelief: "So I expose the Tides Foundation and show you what it is, and I am now responsible for terrorist attacks."
Beck: "I stand by each one" of my attacks on Tides Foundation. Beck continued on to defend his attacks against Tides, saying of his accusations of the group "being anti-capitalist, far-left radicals and indoctrinating children" that "I stand by each one of those." Beck also said it was "obscene" that "[t]here are no records of any other talk show mentioning the Tides Foundation" and that "I am the only one that has mentioned the Tides Foundation."
Beck producer Stu Burguiere calls accusations "liberal spin." On the fourth hour of Beck's July 27 radio show, available only to "Insider Extreme" subscribers, Beck's executive producer Stu Burguiere defended Beck against claims appearing on "liberal blogs" suggesting he inspired the actions of Williams, Burguiere called such the accusations "really pathetic" and stated that "just because some idiot goes and does something, you can't blame -- you cannot blame the host of a program who's talked about that organization."
Beck: Putting Tides Foundation on blackboard was "the first time that I really realized its success." On July 28, in a special podcast titled "Fundamental Transformation" for paying subscribers to his website, Beck called his chalkboard "the real star of the show." Beck then stated that "the first time I really realized its success: Tides Foundation and ACORN."
Beck brags about "turning the light of day" on Tides Foundation. On the July 26 edition of his radio show, Beck bragged that "everyone told us that we couldn't" explain what Tides was but that "the reason why the blackboard really became what the blackboard is" was because of his coverage of the group. Beck aired criticism of his coverage of the Tides Foundation from Color of Change's James Rucker and claimed Rucker was saying that Beck is "a danger because no one knew what Tides was until the blackboard. Meaning, that they need the cover of darkness. They must silence people that turn the light of day on to these organizations."
Beck continues to include Tides in his conspiracy theories since thwarted attack
Beck: "Why wouldn't you want us talking about Tides?" On the July 25 edition of his Fox News show, Beck responded to Rucker's criticism of his Tides coverage by asking, "why wouldn't you want us talking about Tides?" Beck went on to ask, "Why would you hide it" if Tides were simply "helping people" and "working for social justice."
Beck links Tides to Weather Underground in plot to redistribute wealth. On the July 28 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck, Beck attempted to tie the Tides Foundation to the Weather Underground. Beck read a portion of the Weather Underground's "manifesto." He then commented, "Now, when I first read this, I thought, boy, where have I seen this before? And then, it dawned on me. George Soros funded the Tides Foundation, which funded the "Story of Stuff," which is now shown, most likely, in your child's school." From Glenn Beck:
BECK: We stopped at -- there's no property rights, because the ignorant masses -- you know, the bigots or the stupid -- they like the free market. They have some stuff.
And what the ignorant masses don't understand -- by the way, that's you, you're clinging to your silly traditions and your God and your guns -- the truth is: your wealth really isn't your wealth. In the truly progressive society, in this society that they wanted, wealth belongs to the world.
Quote, "The relative affluence existing in the United States is directly dependent upon the labor and the natural resources of the Vietnamese -- remember this is written in the 1960s -- the Angolans, and the Bolivians and the rest of the peoples of the third world. All the of the United Airlines, Astrojets, all of the Holiday Inns, all of the Hertz's automobiles, your television set, your you're your wardrobe already belong, to a large degree, to the people of the rest of the world."
Now, when I first read this, I thought, boy, where have I seen this before? And then, it dawned on me. George Soros funded the Tides Foundation, which funded the "Story of Stuff," which is now shown, most likely, in your child's school. Watch.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE [video clip]: Then, along came the corporation. Now, the reason the corporation looks bigger than the government is that the corporation is bigger than the government. Of the 100 largest economies on earth now, 51 are corporations. And as the corporation has grown in size and power, we've seen a little change in the government where they're a little more concerned in making sure everything's working out for those guys than for us.
BECK: If you're familiar with this, we've played this before. It shows how we have gone and raped the rest of the world, so our stuff isn't ours.
Yes, it is all of this capitalist greed that is causing all of the problems on the entire planet. It is our system and it is set up to make sure that it stays that way -- and the Weather Underground talk about, it's going to stay that way by force.
Beck has a history of promoting violent rhetoric
Beck pours gasoline on "average American," asks, "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire?" On his television show, Beck claimed to be imitating Obama while pouring liquid from a gasoline can -- which he later stated was water -- on an actor portraying the "average American." Beck said during his demonstration: "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire? ... We didn't vote to lose the republic."[Fox News' Glenn Beck, 4/9/09]
Beck portrays Obama, Democrats as vampires, suggests "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." On his March 30, 2009, Fox News show, Beck aired a graphic portraying Obama and Democrats as vampires and said: "The government is full of vampires, and they are trying to suck the lifeblood out of the economy." Beck then suggested "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." Beck returned to that imagery on his January 19 radio show, warning listeners that progressives are "vampires" who now have a "taste of blood" and are "gonna start getting more and more violent."
Beck talks about "put[ting] poison" in Pelosi's wine. In 2009, Beck's Fox News show featured a segment in which Beck said the following to a woman wearing a mask of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
BECK: So, Speaker Pelosi, I just wanted to -- you gonna drink your wine? Are you blind? Do those eyes not work? There you -- I want you to drink it now. Drink it. Drink it. Drink it.
I really just wanted to thank you for having me over here to wine country. You know, to be invited, I thought I had to be a major Democratic donor or a longtime friend of yours, which I'm not.
By the way, I put poison in your -- no, I -- I look forward to all the policy discussions that we're supposed to have -- you know, on health care, energy reform, and the economy. [Glenn Beck, 8/6/09]
Beck: "To the day I die, I am going to be a progressive hunter." Telling his listeners that they "are going to learn so much on Friday," Beck compared himself to "Israeli Nazi hunters" and commented: "I'm going to find these big progressives and, to the day I die, I'm going to be a progressive hunter." He added:
BECK: I'm going to find these people that have done this to our -- you know, to our country, and expose them. I don't care where -- I don't care if they're in nursing homes. I'm going to expose what they have done and make sure that the people understand, because our Constitution, our republic -- if it survives -- it will only survive because the people are waking up and through the grace of God, because we are that close to losing our republic. [The Glenn Beck Program, 1/20/10]
Beck: "Grab a torch." Asserting that politicians are addicted to spending, Beck stated: "When do we ever run those who are bankrupting our country and literally stealing our children's future out of town? Grab a torch." [Glenn Beck, 1/6/10]
Beck suggests Obama is "trying to destroy the country" and is pushing America toward civil war. While discussing the ongoing controversy over Arizona's immigration law, Beck told his listeners that "we are being pushed" toward civil war and that Obama is "trying to destroy the country." [The Glenn Beck Program, 5/19/10]
Beck's advice to Liberty grads: "Shoot to kill." During his May 15 commencement speech at Liberty University, Beck told graduates that they "have a responsibility" to speak out, or "blood ... will be on our hands." His advice for graduates (as well as his daughter) included "shoot to kill."
Quoting Jefferson, Beck warns about "rivers of blood." On his Fox News show, Beck quoted a letter by Thomas Jefferson warning " 'if they lose freedom' -- he's speaking of us, future generations -- 'if they lose freedom, there will be rivers of blood.' " Beck continued in his own words, "Boy, I hope that's not true, but I can tell you there will be rivers of blood if we don't have values and principles." [Glenn Beck, 5/14/10]
Beck: "I fear a Reichstag moment, a -- God forbid -- another 9-11, something that will turn this machine on." During an interview with Newsmax.com in which he discussed opposition to Obama's Federal Communications Commission policies, Beck said: "I fear an event. I fear a Reichstag moment, a -- God forbid -- another 9-11, something that will turn this machine on, and power will be seized and voices will be silenced. God help us all.'' [Newsmax.com, 10/7/09]
Beck speaks for one-third of the nation: "[Y]ou will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun" and "before I acquiesce and be silent." Beck has warned "ACORN, GE, Obama, SEIU" that "you are awakening a sleeping giant, and I have nothing to do with it" and that "America is waking up. You know the American Revolution took place with 12 percent of the population? Twelve. Are you telling me there is not 30 percent of this population that you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I let somebody into my house to tell me how to raise my children; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I acquiesce and be silent." Beck further stated:
BECK: They cannot move on these things, because they are building a machine that will crush the entrepreneurial sprit and the freedom that our Founding Fathers designed. This machine, whatever it is they are building, will crush it. Do not let them build another piece.
So while I turn away, I want to make sure that I have at least 10 million eyes watching -- watching every single move they are making.
We know why they're doing what they're doing. You need to do what you need to do, and as long as that is peaceful, we will save our country. [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/30/09]
Beck: "This game is for keeps"; "[Y]ou can shoot me in the head ... but there will be 10 others that line up." Asking his audience to "pray for protection," Beck claimed that "the most powerful people on the planet on the left" were "not going to go away easy" because "[t]his game is for keeps. This is who controls the United States of America and its destiny." He went on to state, "Just pray for protection, please." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/8/09]
Later in the same program, Beck said:
BECK: You can try to put the lid on this group of people, but you will never silence us. You will never -- you can shoot me in the head, you can shoot the next guy in the head, but there will be 10 others that line up. And it may not happen today, it may not happen next week, but freedom will be restored in this land. Period. And no matter what you want to call it, it is a totalitarian state that you're headed towards. [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/8/09]
Beck: "There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America." Beck has claimed that "there is a revolution, and they think they can get away with it quietly," adding: "At this point, gang, I'm not sure, they may be able to because they are so far ahead of us. They know what they're dealing against; most of America does not yet. Most of America doesn't have a clue as to what's going on. There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America, and the way it is done, it has been done through the -- the guise of an election, but they lied to us the entire time." He also said, "And they're gonna say, 'we did it democratically,' and they are going to grab power every way they can. And God help us in an emergency." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/31/09]
Beck suggests that progressives support "armed insurrection." After President Obama signed health care reform legislation into law, Beck suggested that progressives support "armed insurrection" and asked, "Why would the president take up immigration right away, after he's just punched you in the face with health care?" [Glenn Beck, 3/23/10]
Beck suggests Pelosi and Obama support "pick[ing] up a gun" to advance "revolution." During the same edition of his Fox News show, Beck said that "violence is the wrong way to go," but asked his viewers: "You'd pick up a gun? Have you ever thought of that?" He then pointed to several pictures, including images of Obama and Pelosi, and stated: "These people have. Because possibly, maybe the question should be asked, maybe they're tired of evolution, and maybe they are waiting for revolution." Beck also said: "Haven't we just been spanked? Hasn't most of the country -- doesn't most of the country feel like they've been spanked over health care? You bet. I do, you do. A lot of people do." [Glenn Beck, 3/23/10]
Beck suggests Obama administration may kill him. Also on that same edition of his Fox News program, Beck said: "For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill." [Glenn Beck, 3/23/10]
Ranting that gov't under Nixon "wasn't as corrupt as it is now," Beck suggests Obama admin might kill "10 percent" of population. On his Fox News show, Beck warned that "anarchists, Marxists, communists, revolutionaries, Maoists" have to "eliminate 10 percent of the U.S. population" in order to "gain control." They couldn't achieve such a goal when Richard Nixon was president, Beck stated, but the government under Nixon "wasn't as corrupt as it is now." [Glenn Beck, 6/10/10]
Beck: "The army ... of the extreme left is gathering" and they are saying "cops are bad, kill the cops." On his radio show, Beck discussed riots in Oakland, stating: "The army, if you will, of the extreme left is gathering, and they are coming to the conclusion of cops are bad, kill the cops, they're the oppressors. It's all the 1960s, you know, pig stuff." [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/12/10]

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Budget plan would slash Army by 100,000 soldiers
WASHINGTON — The Army would be slashed by more than 100,000 soldiers to a force of 420,000 by 2019 under budget plans set to be unveiled next month.
It is a level far below what Army leaders have said they would need to ensure they can fight one major war and will be one of the highest-profile changes to the military as it downsizes due to fiscal pressure and the winding down of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Army currently has 528,000 soldiers and had been scheduled to drop to 490,000 troops by 2019. The 420,000 level reflects Pentagon planning based on automatic budget cuts that will reduce military spending by about $500 billion over the decade unless Congress restores the funding.
This fall, Army chief of staff Gen. Raymond Odierno warned top Pentagon officials in a briefing that a force of 450,000 soldiers would be "too small" and at "high risk to meet one major war," according to documents obtained by USA TODAY. The Army could not adequately protect the country and fight abroad at 420,000 soldiers, the documents stated.
Since then, the chiefs of the services have been told to list the missions they won't be able to accomplish with diminished budgets, a senior Pentagon official said on condition of anonymity because the budget will not be released for weeks.
STORY:Army and National Guard cross swords over troop cuts
For the Army, a force of 420,000 means that it could respond to a conflict, such as one on the Korean Peninsula, but won't be able to keep up the fight for long without a significant call up of Reserve forces, said another senior military officer who also spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans.
The other services will be reduced in size as well. The Navy will be able to continue to shift its focus to the Pacific but with far fewer ships, and its presence in the Persian Gulf will be lessened.
Even at the reduced numbers, the U.S. military is more than a match for any potential foe, said Gordon Adams, a professor at American University and a budget official in the Clinton administration.
"Who else that we are going to fight in a ground war has 420,000 soldiers?" Adams said in an e-mail. "Silly, really. Of course, we can." If long-term budget cuts are rolled back, the services won't have to cut so deeply into their troop levels. The Pentagon forecasts significant shortfall in its budgets for the next several years. In the current fiscal year, it sought $526 billion for costs that did not include the war in Afghanistan. The budget cuts known as "sequestration" would have lowered that to $475 billion. A budget deal in Congress restored some funds, giving the Pentagon $496 billion.
The shrinking budget has resulted in jockeying by the services to secure the most funding. Last month, for example, a National Guard leader said the Army could be cut to 420,000 soldiers if the Guard was allowed to expand. That touched off squabbling among Army and Guard leaders and prompted top Pentagon officials to tell them to keep their dispute quiet as the budget deliberations continue, according to a senior defense official who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Army, according to a senior officer, is struggling to find a "narrative" that persuades policymakers of its relevance in a new White House and military strategy that is shifting focus to the Pacific, where the Navy and Air Force are better suited to operating.
STORY:Pentagon builds forces in Pacific, eyes China
The Army grew to a force of about 570,000 soldiers at the height of fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was strained greatly in 2007 when President Bush ordered the surge of troops in Iraq. Deployments that had been a year long were extended for some soldiers to 15 months.
The White House strategy assumes that the U.S. military will no longer be engaged in long-term operations that are troop intensive. Instead, it envisions smaller, nimbler forces that deploy for short periods.


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The Jets bragged all week that they could handle Tim Tebow.
They couldn't have been more wrong.
On the biggest play of the night, Tebow beat a Jets blitz around the corner and ran 20 yards for the winning touchdown with 58 seconds left to play.
Understanding exactly why the Jets, protecting a 13-10 lead, would send the house on a third and four in that situation is a question that does not have any acceptable answer.
All you had to do was make sure that the Broncos got nothing more than a field goal at that point in the game, and the Jets had to try for the big play instead of the smart play.
And they got a 17-13 loss to a team that had no business beating them as a result. For nearly 60 minutes they crushed everything the Broncos tried to do offensively, but they couldn't make one play with the game on the line. They lost because of it.
That means they are 5-5 with flickering chances of making the playoffs because they simply cannot figure out a way to play good football on a weekly basis. This is as inexplicable as a loss gets, but it still feels all too familiar for a Jets team that can't seem to stay out of its own way long enough to build on success this season.
You have to wonder if this is the loss that breaks the camel's back for Ryan. Not only did he completely blow the game on the final defensive series, but the team was able to accomplish absolutely nothing offensively once again.
At some point, the failure to build an offense around Mark Sanchez and the failure to develop Sanchez into a competent NFL quarterback must fall on Ryan. Brian Schottenheimer deserves some blame, but Ryan is the one keeping him employed. There are only so many excuses you can make for a guy who cannot find a way to score enough points to win games when the defense — dreadful as the last series was — dominates the opposition for the majority of the game.
The Broncos were alive only because Sanchez threw a brutal pick-six to Andre Goodman and the defense kept Denver from getting so much as a first down for most of the second half. But the offense couldn't take advantage and left the door open just wide enough for Tebow to run through it for a touchdown.
Even if the Jets rally in the next couple of weeks, how in the world can you put your faith in a team that can't win a game against an offense like this when losing puts them in such dire straits? How can you believe in a team that runs an offense that's almost as pathetic as the one that Denver ran all night, only without the messianic ending that makes it easy to forget just how sad Tebow's performance was until the final moments?
You can't, which means you can't believe in the 2011 Jets.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City. You can follow him on Twitter and he is also a contributor to Pro Football Talk.


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Middle America transformed by the pulse of the fantastic
I'm always 8 years old when I read Ray Bradbury, the great American writer who passed away Wednesday.
Eight is the age at which I discovered "The Martian Chronicles." I was too young and didn't understand most of it, but I got the general idea:
"One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing the roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets.
"And then a long wave of warmth crossed the small town. A flooding sea of hot air; it seemed as if someone had left a bakery door open. The heat pulsed among the cottages and bushes and children. The icicles dropped, shattering, to melt. The doors flew open. Windows flew up. The children worked off their wool clothes. The housewives shed their bear disguises. The snow dissolved and showed last summer's ancient green lawns.
"Rocket summer."
I remember the hair standing up on the back of my neck the first time I read these opening lines of "The Martian Chronicles." I was crouched between high bookcases in the stacks of the South Shore branch of the Chicago Public Library, and I had found a book I didn't know I had been looking for. Only years later did I figure out Bradbury's appeal to me: the pulse of the fantastic transforming the Midwestern familiarity of the scene, revealing the strangeness that moves within normalcy.
To get to the South Shore Public Library, I had to walk past a dog who laid in wait to hurl himself in a foaming rage against the chain-link fence that kept him from devouring the vitals of passing children, past junior gangsters-in-training looking to mess with the bookish and absent-minded (as long as nobody's mom was around), past dissolute men who hung out in the parking lot of the Party Mart.
While there was no real danger, it took a certain steadfastness of purpose to make the journey to the library. But that was where Ray Bradbury could be found, so I went.
Bradbury, who never attended college, described himself as "completely library-educated." That was one of his two preferred explanations for how he became a writer: "I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library."
His other explanation involved a visit at the age of 12 to a carnival, where a magician named Mr. Electrico zapped him with an electrified sword and shouted at him, "Live forever!" Later, leaving the carnival grounds, Bradbury reported, "I stood by the carousel and watched the horses go round and round to the music of 'Beautiful Ohio.' Standing there, the tears poured down my face, for I felt that something strange and wonderful had happened to me because of my encounter with Mr. Electrico."
And there you have Bradbury in a nutshell. There's a certain kind of person who is attracted to both the library and the carnival, and who finds his calling by shuttling between them. Bradbury was a heroic exemplar of the type. The obituaries list more than two dozen novels and hundreds of short stories, all sorts of honors, commercial success, the critical respect accorded to the great literary mainstreamer of science fiction and fantasy, and a series of beloved works that includes "Fahrenheit 451," "Dandelion Wine," and "The Illustrated Man."
But for me he'll always be the author of "The Martian Chronicles," and when I read him I'll always be 8 years old and unable to believe what a treasure I've found in the musty library stacks.
"Ready your stand," one of the eerie, elongated Martians says to Sam Parkhill, a hot-dog vendor who receives the deed to half of the colonized planet of Mars shortly before cataclysmic war back on Earth will render the piece of paper meaningless. "Prepare the viands, prepare the foods, prepare the strange wines, for tonight is indeed a great night."
That's how I will remember Bradbury, who miraculously transmuted hot dogs and soda pop into viands and strange wines.
Rotella, director of American studies at Boston College, is a regular columnist for the Boston Globe.


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I have received some very insightful comments about my recent posts concerning sources in genealogy. As a consequence, some of the ideas I expressed have proved to be incomplete. This post is an elaboration on some of my earlier ideas.
The concept of sources in genealogy seems like it should be an obvious part of the basic fabric of the process of discovering your ancestors. One experience this past week illustrates the fact that the concept of a "source" is far from obvious. I had a patron come into the Mesa FamilySearch Library and request some help with her research. She sat down at a table next to me and unfolded one of those huge multi-generational pedigree charts and began pointing to blank spaces on the chart as if I could magically fill them in with names. We focused on one family where the ancestors of both the husband and the wife were missing. I asked her where she had looked for information about her family and she gave me a blank look as if to say, what did I mean where did she look.
It turns out, that the information on the chart had been entirely copied from existing family group records from other people and from FamilySearch's family tree programs. She basically had no idea of the connection between finding a document with information about her ancestors and adding that information to her huge pedigree chart. Really. After a few minutes of search, we found the family, she had pointed to, in the U.S. Census. She was entirely unaware that there was such a thing as a U.S. Census. I spent about an hour showing her how there were millions of records about people's lives in dozens of categories and that searching through these records in some systematic way, usually produced information about specific individuals and families. After a fairly brief search, we did find the names of the wife's parents in the U.S. Census with an entry showing the target person, the wife, as a child in a family.
I realized that this idea of "sources" was not as simple as using the word would make it seem. When we speak of a genealogical source, we are, in fact, implying that there is a research process, which involves a number of steps, and which must be evaluated according to a set of criteria that have evolved over many years. The whole research process is not intuitive. Learning about the connection between looking at records and finding information about an individual or family is something that must be learned. The key here is that many of those people out there in the world of family research have yet to make the connection between the process of doing research and finding usable information. The abundance of online "family trees" submitted by millions of people give the impression that you can just go online and "find" your genealogy and that is exactly what this woman had done and what countless others of our compatriots are doing every day.
So when we talk about adding sources to our research, we are speaking in an unknown language. It is as if they are saying, I looked at my Great-aunt's genealogy and copied down (or got a GEDCOM) and there it is. My genealogy. What do you mean I need to put in a source? My source was Aunt Jane and she knew all these people or whatever.
The idea that the information may be incomplete or entirely inaccurate simply does not exist in the larger genealogical community, especially the ones online feeding the huge family tree programs with names.
At some point, if a person becomes interested enough in genealogy to talk to someone else about the topic or, in the case of this woman, come into a FamilySearch Library, they may begin to understand the concept that that historical information has to come from somewhere and we call those documents or records that provide information "sources." Then the budding genealogist has to gain the concept that recording these sources is a good idea. Sometimes the concept of recording sources requires years of experience and finally realizing that the same records are being searched over and over again.
I have shown this concept to many people over the years and have found that telling someone about sources doesn't work. You have to get the person to come to the point where they are willing to look and finally make the connection between finding a record and discovering more information about their family.
Of course, there is the next problem and that is the reliability of the information. But that is another topic.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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There's little point in pretending that we don't want to have the Latitude festival's children, so here's a rundown of why it's so awesome and what we're looking forward to the most, in no particular order. Apart from the bit about the sheep.
The sheep
Really, any random field in which nothing was going on would be about ten times better if there were pastel livestock present. At Latitude inflicting a broadly pointless, mildly humiliating, and presumably no good for the actual wool dye job upon the hapless ruminants of Henham Park is... well, it's just awesome.
The middle-classes
Admittedly, most British outdoor festivals are basically middle-class affairs, but generally punters tend to get a little 'escapist'... y'know, horse tranquilizer, setting fire to expensive tents bought for them by their doting parents and the like. Not at Latitude: nicely turned out families with children called things like Vienetta wander around in packs, saying things like "mummy, if I'm extra good can I have just one more organic falafel?" A minority, perhaps, but they set the tone for a mostly civilised weekend where you can be tucked up by 2am and not feel like you've on some level or other failed as a human being. And following on from that...
Sort of having a headliner at noon
Does anything more unsubtly hint that maybe you shouldn't be dicking away your day trying to poach eggs on a Primus while LIFE IS HAPPENING ELSEWHERE than shoving Thom Yorke on at noon on the Sunday, a slot last year occupied by Joanna Newsom? No! Well, maybe: having the dancier Sunrise Arena shut at something daft like 9pm probably does too. But the point being, nobody prefers poached eggs to soul-crushing piano dirges. Do they?
Video: Thom Yorke: 'Harrowdown Hill'
The music is quite good
Video: The Pet Shop Boys: 'Rent' (live)
Yes, so as we said Thom Yorke is playing. That's quite a coup, isn't it? Elsewhere Of Montreal, St Vincent, Tricky, Magazine, Fever Ray, Marnie Stern and, LOLz, The Duckworth Lewis Method bring prominent levels of only-UK-outdoor-festival-this-summer awesome, and basically if you're not at least medium tumescent at the prospect of seeing Pet Shop Boys you're probably one of those weird people who used up all their serotonin and are now condemned to a life of utter tedium. We read about that in a paper once. Or maybe it was a dream.
But it was not always that way!
It's hard to really put your finger on what the music policy at Latitude is; ATP gone family-friendly? Bestival shuffled slightly to the left, minus the narcotics? Whatever the case, the last couple of years have seen it settle on a sort of mix between the more comforting end of the musical leftfield and the sparkier bits of the centre. This has made the festival a lot better, at least musically, as we can forgive but perhaps never forget the fact that in its 2006 debut year, major acts included Snow Patrol and Paolo Nutini. Shudder. But credit to Latitude to steering it into increasingly more expansive waters. (Admittedly some people have bitched about the headliners this year, but those people are very odd people who probably think Interpol are better than Nick Cave). Though we do note that ahem Newton Faulkner has sloped his way onto the bill. Tsk.
You can legitimately avoid those pesky 'bands'
Video: Jamie Kilstein: live at the Comedy Store
By simple virtue of having more and bigger bands, the Latitude of now is closer to a dedicated music festival than at its inception, but the non-music line up remains as comprehensive as ever; why see some fey goon sing about his feelings when you can go to a Q&A with Stephen Frears? He's was nominated for an Oscar, he was. You can ask him "Stephen, what is it like to be nominated for an Oscar?". And why see the next big thing when you can listen to a recital by Andrew Motion? He's only met the Queen, he has. Oh, and DiS delightedly notes that old Uni friend Emily Berry appears to be doing the poetry arena. You should see her. Her poetry's amazing. Erm, probably. Also heartily recommended - Jamie Kilstein and Phil Nichol in comedy, Sketchatron featuring Pappy's Fun Club and The Penny Dreadfuls over at the Literary Arena, and, oh, loads of other stuff really. Screw the bands, actually. You can see a band any time. And even then you should think twice.
Hidden away stuff
The main stages are good'n'all, but even if the very idea of poetry or the visual arts leaves you quivering with rage, it's always worth scanning the programme for unusual musical events taking place on the non-band stages, particularly later at night. Last year post-watershed turns from Barry Adamson and Buzzcocks went down well: this year Jeremy Warmsley and Little Words playing the songs of Tom Waits and Daniel Johnson could be fun (Friday, Film and Music arena), while Lightspeed Champion sings Cat Stevens' songs from the soundtrack of Harold And Maude sounds too convoluted a set up to afford to miss. Other slightly random spots – poet Nathan Jones teaming up with The Wave Machines (Friday, Poetry), the nerd wet dream of Jeffrey Lewis giving a lecture on The Watchmen at Film And Music on Saturday), and the mighty Luke Haines pouring venom over the Nineties as he touts his Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part In Its Downfall autobiography on the Literary Arena Sunday. [EDIT: Gah! Luke Haines has pulled out, citing 'moronic promoter error'].
DiS tips of the days - feel free to add your own below
- Pet Shop Boys
- Of Montreal
- Fever Ray
- The Duckworth Lewis Method
- Sketchatron featuring The Penny Dreadfuls and Pappy's Fun Club
- St Vincent
- Marnie Stern
- BAFTA presents a pre-release screening of Le Donk followed by Q&A with director Shane Meadows and star Paddy Considine
- Jeffrey Lewis: Watchmen Lecture and Q&A
- Grace Jones
- Thom Yorke
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Magazine
- Lightspeed Champion sings Cat Stevens' songs from the soundtrack of 1971 film Harold & Maude
- The Vaselines
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Let it slip that you're trying to slim down and suddenly everyone you meet is a weight loss expert. Don't eat white food, they'll say. Drink gallons of water. Don't eat after 5 P.M.
It may be impossible to avoid unsolicited diet advice, but with SELF's help, now you'll know what's worth listening to. We put nine diet strategies to the test, recruiting 27 women to try one tip for three weeks. The results were impressive—one woman lost 11 pounds in only three weeks! We learned not only what works but also which habits stick. Incorporate the behaviors that work for you and soon people will start asking you for weight loss advice.
Skip all soda
At roughly 225 calories a pop, a 20-ounce bottle packs nearly the same calories as a chocolate bar but is far less satisfying. Diet soda is no body bargain, either. For every can you sip daily, your risk of becoming overweight rises by 37 percent, researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio found. Other studies hint at why: Regular use of artificial sweeteners may interfere with the body's ability to estimate calories you've ingested, so you eat beyond what you need.
The tester's take: After Kim Scott, 45, a sales assistant in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, canned her soda habit, she lost her taste for junk food—and 8 pounds. "I'm used to certain flavors together, and potato chips don't taste that great with water," she says. Other testers struggled. "Diet Coke is my only source of caffeine," says Stephanie Davis, 29, a magazine editor in Atlanta. "I was grumpy and exhausted."
Pounds lost: 1 to 8 (average: 4)
Should you try it? Yes. Soda contains zero nutrients. Water, which aids digestion, is your smartest beverage bet. If you want fizz, sip plain seltzer; for a caffeine fix, try green tea.
Eat breakfast, even if you're not hungry
Most people who slim down manage to find time to fuel up every morning, according to the National Weight Control Registry, which tracks more than 5,000 people who have lost 30 or more pounds and kept them off for at least a year. Research indicates that women who eat breakfast are less likely to overeat at later meals.
The tester's take: Although reluctant to add extra calories to their diet, our breakfast eaters were won over quickly by their gain in energy and loss on the scale. "I kept oatmeal at my desk and put it in the microwave first thing, before I turned on my computer or checked my messages. It helped me make it to lunchtime without feeling hungry," says Jennifer Baggett, 29, a marketing manager in New York City.
Pounds lost: 3 to 8 (average: 5)
Should you try it? Yes. Start with something small, even if it's only a few bites of whole-grain cereal, yogurt or toast. Then work your way up to 250 to 500 calories per morning, and include protein and carbs (try whole-wheat toast with peanut butter or cottage cheese and fruit). You'll teach your body to adjust to A.M. calories, so you'll need fewer later in the day.
Use smaller plates and glasses
Diners given smaller dishes serve themselves smaller portions, researchers at Cornell University Food and Brand Lab in Ithaca, New York, found.
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The tester's take: This trick forced Carissa Diest, 29, an actress in Chicago, to face facts. "Once I started putting everything on small plates, I realized how much I had actually been eating," she says. The downside: Some testers were still hungry, so they went back for seconds or added a mini snack to their day.
Pounds lost: 0 to 3 (average: 1)
Should you try it? Maybe. We eat about 92 percent of what we serve ourselves, regardless of the size of the dish, according to another Cornell study. The next time you order the nachos supreme, put a small portion on your bread plate and try to only eat that. Try packing leftovers before you eat. To avoid snacking and seconds at home, keep food out of your field of vision, says Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell University lab.
Swap in lowfat, fat-free or sugar-free versions of foods you crave
With this strategy, you get to eat what you love without racking up unnecessary calories.
The tester's take: Many of the lightened-up products weren't as tasty or filling as the originals. "I hate sugar-free chocolate," says Lindsay Moy, 23, a media buyer in NYC. Two testers said they could stick with lighter options long-term without feeling deprived, but Moy says she doesn't want to: "It would be like losing a little bit of happiness out of life."
Pounds lost: 0 to 1 (average: 1)
Should you try it? Yes and no. It makes sense to trim fat from everyday foods such as milk and yogurt, because they don't trigger cravings. But overall, lowfat doesn't necessarily ensure a lower calorie intake. "Lowfat or fat-free doesn't mean calorie-free—sometimes these products can have even more calories than the regular-fat versions," says Rachel Brandeis, R.D., of Atlanta. And a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that very restrictive lowfat diets may be harder to stick to than other plans. For indulgences like dessert, if you have a favorite brand, you may be better off serving yourself a modest portion of the real thing.
Banish trigger foods from your home
Cravings are often fleeting, and "if you have to leave the house to go get ice cream, you'll be less likely to do it," says Roberta Anding, R.D., of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
The tester's take: "It was pretty easy to stick to," one tester says. "I only go food shopping once a week, so keeping unhealthy snacks out of my cart wasn't a problem. When I wanted a snack, I had no choice but to eat more fruit and vegetables." Still, she says ridding her home of all snacks is too extreme to stick with. "Moderation would be better for me."
Pounds lost: 1 to 10 (average: 6)
Should you try it? Yes. Studies show that out of sight is out of mouth, but there's no need to swear off goodies forever. Depriving yourself of favorite foods could set you up for a pig-out. Indulge during one meal a week or on special occasions, or share a splurge with someone. And if you keep treats in the house, opt for those that come in single-serve portions. (Some are only 100 calories!) Stash pops instead of a carton of ice cream, and then have only one.
Rate your hunger before deciding to eat
Use a scale of 1 (so hungry you'd eat sand) to 10 (so full you can barely breathe). Dig in at 3, eat slowly, and stop at 7, and you'll never overeat again. You'll also avoid hunger-related bingeing.
The tester's take: Easier said than done. "I've been weight training, and now I get much hungrier," says Teresa Moran, 28, a kindergarten teacher in Pembroke Pines, Florida. "I snacked on fruit to keep my appetite from dipping below a 3." Overall, though, this strategy was a winner. Melissa Williams, 28, a magazine editor in Louisville, Colorado, says it made her stop at "the perfect fullness" and she felt "less bloated."
Pounds lost: 0 to 4 (average: 1)
Should you try it? Absolutely. Preventing extreme hunger is as critical to weight loss as walking away from the table before you're too full. Regularly checking your need for food will help you control how much you end up eating.
Start your meal with soup, salad or fruit
"These foods are loaded with water and fiber, which make you feel full," Brandeis says. Eating 3 cups of green salad with fat-free dressing cut the number of calories people consumed at a meal by 12 percent, a study from Penn State University at University Park found. And dieters in another Penn State study who used two 10½-ounce servings of broth-based soup per day for a year lost 50 percent more weight than those who consumed the same number of calories from lowfat snacks.
The tester's take: "I found it a little difficult mentally to add food to my diet," says Nancy Houser, 44, an advertising manager in Aptos, California. But the tip helped testers close in on the recommended nine fruit and veggies a day.
Pounds lost: 1 to 2 (average: 1.5)
Should you try it? Sure. Keep your first course high in volume and around 100 calories, and you'll likely shrink your total daily intake.
Dine out less often
Thanks to ballooning portions, "restaurant meals usually have about 50 percent more calories, fat and sodium than the same dish prepared at home," Brandeis says. Even options that seem healthy, such as grilled fish, can be cooked with oil or butter, adding hidden calories to every bite. And people consume a greater variety of items on average when eating dinner out (4.5 per meal) than at home (3.1 per meal), according to Wansink. "The greater the variety of flavors in a meal, the less likely you are to burn out on one and stop eating. You get tired of salty and move on to sweet. That's why you always have room for dessert!"
The tester's take: A stellar idea. Beth Frey, 29, an account executive in New York City, used to eat lunch out every day, and says she would grab burgers and pizza because they're quick and easy. "But I started bringing turkey sandwiches on whole-grain bread and having them with fruit, or heating up turkey chili. Having a ready-made meal eliminated the daily struggle with junk food at the deli."
Pounds lost: 2 to 11 (average: 6)
Should you try it? Yes. You'll lose weight and enjoy more nutrient-dense meals without all of the fattening extras, Brandeis says. Don't feel pressured to prepare elaborate dishes; the simpler your meal is to make, the less likely you are to phone your local Chinese place for "help."
Eat your meals with no distractions
Focusing on only your food (no TV, no radio, no phone calls, no nothing) helps you detect internal fullness cues, such as a tightening of the stomach.
The tester's take: "At first I couldn't stop thinking about the other things I could be doing at the same time," says Shula Neuman, 39, a media relations director in St. Louis. "But ultimately, it forced me to pay attention to my food."
Pounds lost: 0 to 5 (average: 3)
Should you try it? Yes. When you're distracted, you mindlessly consume extra calories while your "diet brain" isn't looking, says Andrea Giancoli, R.D., of Los Angeles. Eat slowly, concentrate on your food's taste and texture and check in with yourself after every few bites to see if you're still hungry. By changing the way you eat, you may change how much you eat—and suddenly find your weight loss goal within reach.
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The Sandwitches at Slim's on 01/25/11
Check out The Sandwitches with Art Museums, The Soft Bombs and Rachel Fannan (of Sleepy Sun)!!!!
This is part of the Folk Yeah residency at Slim's this month. All Ages 5 BUX. You can't really go wrong.
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100 Records Volume 2: I Miss The Jams
100 Records is Sonny Smith's (Sonny and The Sunsets) mad world of imagined rock created with the help of musical friends: Ty Segall, Tim Cohen (Fresh & Onlys), Heidi Alexander (The Sandwitches) and more of San Francisco's best and brightest.
Turn Up Records and Sonny Smith are proud to present a five disc limited edition 7″ boxed set. The box titled "100 Records Volume 2: I Miss The Jams" will be in stores November 16th (or can be purchased here.)
Here's Earth Girl Helen Brown singing "I Wanna Do It"
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Mission Creek – Mclaren Park 7/17
Last Saturday the Mission Creek Festival put on a sweet show in Mclaren Park. I stopped by to check out performances by Ganglians, Grass Widow, and The Fresh & Onlys, and I got some pictures to prove it! The bands pushed through some technical difficulties, but still managed to come out on top and sounded awesome. Those in the audience who stayed strong/warm through the fog rolling in were rewarded with a Fresh & Onlys set, which made the hypothermia totally worth it. Read on for more photos…
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Amnesia hosted a seriously awesome show last friday. Nectarine Pie, Nodzzz, Wild Choir, Sonny & The Sunsets, and Golden Triangle all stopped by, and no one disappointed. The small bar was packed from beginning to end, and for good reason. From Nectarine Pie's psychedelic jams, to the dual tambourine assault of Golden Triangle, the whole night was overwhelmingly cool, even if it did get a little hot and smelly in there.
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Here is what 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick said in his Sunday night media session from the team's New Orleans hotel:
(on the Ravens defensive line) "They are very physical, very big and take up a lot of space."
(on if playing in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome earlier this year was beneficial in getting ready for the Super Bowl) "It is always good to be familiar with where you are playing. How beneficial is Sunday? It's just being familiar with it, but you still have to go out and play."
(on how playoff pressure is different from regular-season pressure) "I've said this before. Pressure, I feel like, comes from lack of preparation. This isn't going to be a pressure situation, it is going to be a matter of going out there and performing physically."
(on his routine during Super Bowl week) "The same routine we had when we were back inSan Francisco."
(on the difference of regular-season flights and this one to Super Bowl) "Just a bigger plane."
(on the best advice Randy Moss has given him during the season) "Just go out and play like yourself. Randy has been in my ear about going out and playing like myself and making sure I am relaxed out there."
(on if the possibility that the Super Bowl might be Moss' last game is being overlooked) "Yeah. Randy is going to be a Hall-of-Fame player, and he is someone who deserves a Super Bowl ring. We want to send him out the right way."
(on if the 49ers were told to 'take it all in' during their previous trip toNew Orleans) "No one said anything about that. We were focused on that time at that moment."
(on 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh facing his brother, John, in the Super Bowl) "That is a great thing for their family. I think it's the first time in history, so that is something special for them."
(on if he imagined himself starting at the Super Bowl at the start of the season) "At the start of the season, I was just hoping to get on the field some way, somehow."
(on his progression to the starting job at quarterback) "When I first started starting, I was just trying to do well and make sure we were winning games. Things have gone right while we have been playing. We're here."
(on maintaining positive attitude when he was not playing) "That is just being focused on what you are trying to achieve. My dad was always in my ear, saying 'Stay focused, and keep working hard.' That is what I try to do."
(on his relationship with Alex Smith before and after he became a starter) "It is the same. We are both trying to help this team get better and be the best team we can be. Anything we can do to make this team better, and help us win this game, we are going to do."
(on when Jim Harbaugh and GM Trent Baalke came to see him at Nevada, and the throwing contest between him and Harbaugh) "We had a few competitions, different drills and different accuracy things. Just head up and see who could compete and win. We had different goal-post throws, who could throw a better spiral, things like that. I let him win the first one, and I won the rest."
(on how beneficial it is to have a head coach who was a NFL quarterback) "It is very beneficial. He knows what you are looking at, and he knows what you are going through. It makes it easier for him to relate."
(on how he would describe the locker room right now) "It is really like a family. We are around each other more than we are around anybody else. The time we spend together, and the hard work we put in together, it is going to build a close team."
(on what his greatest Super Bowl memory as a fan was) "I don't know. I can't pick one out. I just remember growing up watching the Super Bowl and being a big fan of it."
(on who was his favorite quarterback) "I was always a (Brett) Favre fan. I was born inWisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him."
(on his preparation for the Super Bowl) "It is just head-down, keep working. This isn't a time to relax and get out of your routine or stop working hard. This is when you should be working your hardest."
(on how much he sees of himself in head coach Jim Harbaugh) "I think both of us are very competitive. We want to do whatever it takes to win, so that is where the emotion and the excitement comes from."
(on if too much is made of the quarterback play in the pistol and read-option) "I think people have put too much focus on me. I don't think they realize the other weapons we have on this team. I don't think they realize the great offensive line that we have. There are a lot of other parts on this team that do great things to make it easy for me to go out there."
(on what he remembers about Ray Lewis as a player and person) "I have never met him, but his intensity that he brings to the game and the passion that he plays with is very admirable."
(on why he liked Brett Favre growing up) "The passion he played with. He went out there and played like a kid. He was never afraid to take a chance making a throw. He was going to lay it on the line."
(on risk-taking as a quarterback like Favre did) "I think it is being smart and taking calculated risks. You don't want to just be throwing balls up, but there are also times where you have to take chances."
(on what his biggest adjustment was during his rookie season) "The biggest thing in my rookie year was the terminology of the playbook was completely different from what I was used to. Just picking up on that was the biggest task."
(on what his biggest memory of the 49ers was as a fan) "My biggest memory of the 49ers was when they beat the Packers in the playoffs (in 1999) with T.O. (Terrell Owens) down the middle."
(on if there was a question if he was going to be the primary backup at the start of the season) "Yes, there was."
(on what the competition was in training camp for the backup role) "It was hard work, and it was a competition. I was trying to do everything I could to prove that I needed to be at least No. 2, and that I could go out and play."
(on if he thought that the college offense would work in the NFL) "I thought it would work to some extent. I didn't think it was something you could run every play. There are too many good athletes on defense at this level. Not so much the speed, just the fact that everybody is good on defense. There are not really too many people you can just pick on in the NFL like there is in college."


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Some hospitals and birthing centers offer tubs or whirlpools for
laboring. If yours does, talk to your health professional about laboring in
water. The warm water supports your body and helps you to relax. For many women, laboring in water has been proved to:1
Some time before you are ready to push your baby out, you will have
help getting out of the tub.
A water birth is the delivery of a baby while in a tub or pool of warm water. More research is needed to find out the benefits and risks to delivering in water.
If you are thinking of a water birth, discuss it with your doctor
or midwife.
CitationsCunningham FG, et al. (2010). Abnormal labor. In Williams Obstetrics, 23rd ed., pp. 464–489.
New York: McGraw-Hill. Cluett ER, et al. (2004). Randomised controlled trial
of labouring in water compared with standard of augmentation for management of
dystocia in first stage of labour. BMJ, 328(7435):
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Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004)
The physicist Maurice Wilkins used X-ray diffraction to investigate the molecular structure of DNA. This work was important for the discovery of the double-helix structure. Wilkins had studied physics at Cambridge. During the Second World War he developed radar screens in Birmingham before participating in the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. He was so shocked by the use of two atomic bombs on civilian targets in Japan that after the war he became one of many physicists who moved over to biology - Francis Crick was another.
Wilkins began to use microscopy and X-rays to investigate the molecular basis of heredity. The X-ray diffraction studies of DNA, which Wilkins carried out together with Rosalind Franklin, were used by Francis Crick and James Watson in their work on the structure of DNA. In 1962, Wilkins, Crick and Watson received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the double-helix structure.
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The material of all living organisms, it stores the information, or blueprints, about every cell and is located in the genes. It is made up of two strands which form a double helix and are linked with hydrogen bonds. It was first described in 1953 by Francis Crick and James Watson.


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Assume you have one shot with the cue ball in pocket billiards (a.k.a. pool), with the game idealized in that no spin is placed on the cue ball in the initial shot, all collisions between billiard balls, and balls with the cushions, are perfectly elastic, and there is arbitrarily small felt-ball rolling friction so that reflections may be assumed to continue as long as necessary.
Q1. Is there always some direction in which to shoot the cue ball so that some ball goes into a pocket (is sunk), and although other balls also may be sunk, the cue ball itself is not (so there is no scratch)?
My sense is that the answer should be 'Yes' because irrationally angled paths will eventually visit pockets. But the presence of up to 15 balls, and the requirement that the cue ball not scratch, seems to leave open the possibility that there is some initial configuration of the balls that thwarts every possible shot. It might be necessary to assume that the cue ball is initially not touching any other ball?
Two other variations:
Q2. Is there always a shot to sink a particular ball $B^*$?
Q3. Is there always a shot to sink a particular ball $B^*$ and no other ball?
The latter might be too strong, as all six pockets could conceivably be "protected" by non-$B^*$ balls.


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This definitely looks like something I would enjoy. There's a typo in your first sentence that you'll pick up on when doing a quick scan, otherwise the review reads well. pos'd.
I've had this on lists since it came out. Awesome.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffFirst review in three months. I've listened to this about five times since I started writing.
With its length, that's not hard to understand.
Not bad at all for a three month hiatus
this is good, but your review is pretty fucking lame
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffIf Unbroken doesn't get reviewed soon, I'm going to attempt to tackle it. It'll be a lot more
difficult than this.
Thanks Mordecai.
Nice tracklist
Digging: Lapalux - Amnioverse
my friend is addicted to these guys. i went to see them with trash talk and magrudergrind over the weekend but they played while i was still stuck in line.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI put in the tracklist, but it has to be approved and all that shit before it appears.
lol. but seriously dude, this is not one of your better reviews. it's way too pedestrian, and the first two paragraphs are unnecessary bullshit.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffIt's just now gaining traction. I likely would not have listened to this if it wasn't for seeing Jacob Bannon wearing his Nails shirt in pictures that I saw and seeing the band being promoted by Hydra Head. Most people will be the same way, so I'm telling about these endorsements from these highly respected people in order to spark more interest. The second simply gives comparisons to known bands and genres.
Other than that, I know this isn't that great of a review. Then again, I'm not one to compliment myself on anything I do.
The review is fine - not your best, but with such a long break that's no surprise. Personally I lean away from detailed descriptions of the music, preferring an overall critique, but I know I'm in the minority there.
The music sounds badass.
it does rule, check it out
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffSomething fairly new that I feel needs more publicity, such as this, should have detailed descriptions in a review.
But something older that is more widely known, such as Unbroken, should have more of an overall critique, like you said, though all reviews should have a degree of a description.
That's my opinion at least.
Fuck the sheep who tell me how to live.
Album rules so hard. SO HARD that's what she said. Thank you for giving this album some much needed
publicity on Sputnik. The hardcore world's been raving about it all year.
I'm seeing this band in Cincinnati this weekend and couldn't be more excited. Should be awesome
Some degree of description, yeah, because you can't comment at all without saying something about what people are gonna hear. I just don't see the use in the exhaustive detail some people go into, which you'll never get in professional work.
There must be balance
a lot of noise for only three band members
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Marvel is fresh off a successful appearance at Comic-Con 2012, where the studio premiered several mouth-watering items for its geek fanbase. That included: Edgar Wright's Ant-Man test footage, an Iron Man 3 sizzle reel, confirmation on a Guardians of the Galaxy movie arriving in 2014, and new titles for its sequels, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Fans has been speculating that Captain America 2 would feature a Winter Soldier storyline for quite some time, going back to when it was announced that Sebastian Stan had signed a multi-picture deal with Marvel to portray Steve Rogers' brother-in-arms Bucky Barnes (who became the aforementioned brain-washed, cybernetic super assassin, in "Captain America" vol. 5, #1, released in 2005).
Heat Vision has learned that Anthony Mackie is in negotiations to appear in The Winter Soldier as Sam T. Wilson (a.k.a. Falcon). The character was introduced in "Captain America" #117 in 1969, and is the first full-blown African-American superhero featured in mainstream comics (preceding Luke Cage by nearly three years).
Wilson was introduced as an unnamed social worker in Harlem (during the 1960s), who was recruited by the Red Skull under false pretense. The latter then used the Cosmic Cube to give Wilson psychic powers, which allowed him to communicate telepathically with birds (and thus, control them). Wilson eventually discovered the truth about who the villain and his allies were, and escaped. Shortly thereafter, he encountered Steve Rogers, who convinced Wilson to take on a superhero persona: Falcon, a crime-fighter whose strength is enhanced by his suit (which also allows him to fly).
Falcon would go on to have several adventures with Captain America in the 1970s, when Steve Englehart retconned the character's backstory so that he'd spent some time living as a gangster called Snap, following the murder of his parents (Wilson's memories were revealed to have been altered by Red Skull, via the Cosmic Cube). The superhero was also briefly an Avenger during the late '70s and late '90s, and appeared in a handful of Captain America comic storylines in the early 2000s (he's now a recurring player in the regular CA series, which began with #600 in 2009).
Details are being kept under wraps, with regards to what elements from Falcon's comic history will be retained for the Captain America sequel. The screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely is said to take place primarily in the present-day, as Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) carries out missions for S.H.I.E.L.D. Moreover, recent rumors have suggested the film will be heavily oriented around the organization and its employees (including, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner)). Hence, it's entirely possible that Sam Wilson will already be a S.H.I.E.L.D. employee, at the beginning of Captain America 2.
There's also been unsubstantiated talk about how directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Community) are going to structure The Winter Soldier as a grounded, globe-trotting espionage thriller. Such a maneuver could set the stage for Cap and his fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. employees (Black Widow, Hawkeye, and perhaps Falcon) to encounter the eponymous villain, working for a foreign enemy - and thus, force Steve Rogers to reconcile his past in a most unexpected (and painful) way, with the knowledge that his onetime friend has become a bitter foe.
Mackie, for his part, has seen his star rise rapidly these past three years, following his turns in The Hurt Locker, Notorious, Adjustment Bureau, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (among other films). He doesn't look to lose momentum anytime soon either, with roles in this fall's Gangster Squad and Michael Bay's Pain and Gain on the horizon, in addition to Captain America 2.
The actor will (hopefully) get a healthy amount of screen time while playing Falcon in Captain America 2 - and future installments - seeing how it does take him out of the running as a contender to portray Black Panther in Marvel's shared movie universe.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier arrives in U.S. theaters on April 4th, 2014.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An emotional Nancy Reagan helped unveil a statue of her late husband, President Reagan, on Wednesday, calling the 7-foot figure "a wonderful likeness."
Nancy Reagan, with House Minority Leader John Boehner, wipes away tears at Wednesday's event.
"I know Ronnie would be deeply honored to see himself with a permanent home in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol and very proud to be representing his beloved California," Nancy Reagan said.
She appeared to battle emotions as she mentioned her last visit to the marbled hall for Reagan's memorial in June 2004.
"It's nice to be back under happier circumstances," she said. Watch Nancy Reagan unveil the statue »
The statue is one of two from California in the National Statuary Hall Collection donated by states to honor significant figures.
Nancy Reagan stood arm-in-arm with House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio to pull down the curtain from the statue. She thanked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California for making the event possible.
In her remarks, Pelosi noted that the former president's statue contains pieces of the Berlin Wall, "as a symbol of his commitment to national security and to his success." The wall was torn down shortly after Reagan left office.
"I'm so grateful to Californians for giving him this honor," Nancy Reagan said. "Artist Chas Fagan has captured his likeness so well, and I think the addition of the pieces of the Berlin Wall in the pedestal reflects my husband's commitment to freedom and democracy for everyone."
The former president is credited with polices that led to the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the dismantling of the wall that divided Berlin as a symbol of Cold War politics.
James Baker, a longtime Republican who served in the Cabinets of Reagan and President George H.W. Bush, recalled that Reagan inherited some major problems when he took office in 1981.
Citing the former president's trademark optimism, he quoted from Reagan's first inaugural address that "we are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline."
Nancy Reagan attended a White House ceremony Tuesday marking Barack Obama's signing of legislation authorizing a Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission. The 11-member commission will plan activities marking Reagan's 100th birthday on February 6, 2011.
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Small but perfectly formed Rzeszow, near Poland's south-eastern frontier, is a city with a historic core, having been founded back in 1354.
Spreading out across both banks of the river Wislok in the heart of the Sandomierska Valley, today it's known as both a regional centre of higher education, and the gateway to a spectacular hinterland
Much of Rzezs�w's shopping is mainly centred around malls, the largest of these being Millenium Hall (Kopisto 1), 1km outside the city centre. Go here for the latest fashions, or simply soak up the atmosphere by watching live sport or music broadcasts on the large screens outside. The Full Market (Rejtana 53) is the place to go for Polish brands, and prices are subsequently much lower. The Old Town is perfect for an atmospheric stroll while you shop – handicrafts, antiques and Polish souvenirs can be found on the charming streets of Grunwaldzka, 3 Maja and Kościuszki.
Food & Drink
What Rzesz�w's gastronomic scene may lack in sophistication, it makes up for in value for money and refreshingly unpretentious restaurants. Taste traditional Polish classics at the unfortunately named Grotesque (Przesmyk 4), where goulash and barszcz (beetroot soup) are regulars on the menu. Czarny Kot (Mickiewicza 4) is also good for Polish fare in a casual setting. For something different, try Restauracja Da Vinci (Matejki 4), where Italian food is served with the backdrop of the artist's drawings adorning the walls. Bars are plentiful in Rzesz�w, but the Irish pub Galway (3 Maja 8) is the place to find cheap beer and a friendly atmosphere.
Łańcut Music Festival
Drawing music lovers from all over the world, the Łańcut Music Festival caters to all genres – from classical and opera, to jazz and light rock. Held each year in Łańcut Castle, it's an event not to be missed.
Festiwal Przestrzeni Miejskiej
With a focus on the architecture of cities, along with sociological issues, this new festival – which translates as the 'Festival of Urban Space' – is a must for anyone interested in urban planning. Visitors get to explore Rzezs�w at the same time, as workshops, exhibitions, films and lectures take place in disused buildings around the city.
Carpathian International Song Festival
One of the biggest musical events on the Polish calendar, the Carpathian International Song Festival sees talented singers from around the continent compete for the title of Best Song. There'll also be performances from the Centre of Vocal Art at the Rzesz�w Market Square.
If you want to rock out to some big beats, the NoBorder music festival is the place to do it. The electro clash festival has had big-name performers including Pati Yang. Grab a ticket, a tent, and rock on.
Art De Rue Open Air Festival
Celebrating all things hip hop and street culture, the Art De Rue Open Air Festival is an eclectic event featuring live music from Polish hip hop stars, breakdancing and street art performances, all taking place around Millenium Hall.
The relatively small size of Rzesz�w means hotel accommodation is thin on the ground but there are still some gems here, all reasonably priced. If you want a treat, book a room at the lavish Grand Hotel Rzesz�w (Dymnickiego 1A), a few minutes from the centre, or equally luxurious newcomer Hotel Bristol (Rynek 20-23), where the rooms are light and spacious. At the lower end of the budget is slightly out-of-town Hotel Hetman (Langiewicza 29B), where rooms are modest but pleasant. Those who want all the mod-cons might like Hotel Rzesz�w (J�zefa Piłsudskiego 44), which has a spa and health club and is attached to a brand new shopping centre.


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Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace haven't even begun work on the upcoming Dennis Lehane adaptation Animal Rescue yet, but already they're getting set to team up for another film to do together. The two stars are now both in talks to join the cast of Child 44, the upcoming thriller based on the novel by Tom Rob Smith.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, which reported the casting news, the story is a period piece set in 1950s Soviet Russia and centers on a police officer working to solving a string of child murders. But as he digs further and further into the mystery he suddenly finds himself as " the target of his own government's suspicions." Should they sign on, Hardy will be playing the lead role, while Rapace will play his wife, a woman who seems to be hiding a secret.
As first reported last August, Safe House director Daniel Espinosa will be helming the feature, with Ridley Scott and Michael Costigan producing through their Scott Free label. Richard Price, who previously wrote for HBO's The Wire and has feature credits including 2000's Shaft and Martin Scorsese's segment in 1989's New York Stories, is handling the adaptation.
Hardy and Rapace both have Animal Rescue as the next film on their respective production schedules, with the Michaël R. Roskam-directed project set to go before cameras in March. He most recently completed work on George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road (which sadly won't be heading to theaters until 2014) while the Prometheus star will next be seen alongside Colin Farrell in the action movie Dead Man Down.


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