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5 ounces spinach - rinsed, stemmed, and dried
2 eggs
5/8 cup semolina flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons butter
2 slices bacon, diced
1 carrot, diced
1 stalk celery, diced
1 onion, diced
3 1/2 ounces lean ground pork
3 1/2 ounces lean ground beef
3 1/2 ounces minced ham
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 cup beef stock
salt and pepper to taste
3 1/2 ounces chicken livers, trimmed and chopped
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups warm milk
1 pinch salt
1 pinch ground nutmeg
1 2/3 cups grated Parmesan cheese
1 pint ricotta cheese
3 tablespoons butter
For the pasta dough: Steam the spinach in a steamer or over boiling water until bright green, 2 minutes. Squeeze to remove excess moisture and process in a food processor to make a paste. Combine spinach with eggs, semolina, and salt and process until smooth. Stir in enough of the flour to make a smooth dough. Knead briefly, cover and set aside.
For the ragu: In a large skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Saute bacon, carrot, celery and onion until onion is translucent. Stir in ground pork, ground beef and minced ham, and cook until browned. Stir in tomato paste, oregano and beef stock. (Reserve the chicken livers for later.) Season with salt and pepper, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 20 minutes.
For the bechamel: While the ragu is simmering, combine 2 tablespoons butter and 2 tablespoons flour in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk to make a roux. Remove from heat, let rest one minute, then whisk in warm milk. Return to heat, simmer 10 minutes, stirring constantly, until thickened. Season with salt and nutmeg. Remove from heat.
To cook pasta: Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. On a floured surface, divide pasta dough into three portions. Roll each portion out to a thin sheet. Have ready an ice wa
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Health Insurance Sign-Ups Reach Almost 79K in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Federal officials say close to 79,000 Ohioans have picked health plans in the new insurance marketplace created by President Barack Obama's health care law.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a report Tuesday with the latest enrollment numbers covering Oct. 1 through March 1. Officials say 78,925 Ohioans have signed up for coverage ahead of the March 31 open enrollment deadline.
That number falls far short of the 152,000 Ohioans that the government projected would be enrolled by the end of February.
The federal data shows that many Ohio residents obtaining coverage in the marketplace are older. Eighty-five percent of enrollees are getting financial help to pay their monthly premiums.
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We played an all Cleric party, it was silly ridiculous.
My favorite campaign was a round robin. There were about 10 players, around 6 of which took turns running in order. It went on this way for about a year.
My favorite was run by a D&D Master way back in the day. He's where I learned what D&D really was about and how when done well it can be an amazing thing.
He got in from the very get-go, an engineer from HP (yeah, the big printer company) that has a portion of the Greyhawk world mapped out with incredible detail. He must have been working on it from the early days of D&D, since he had binders full of information.
Anyways, many of the ideas I have posted here have come initially from him. He was a master of creating interesting opponents and keeping you on your feet. One wizard kept coming back, and we found out he had an invisible ring of regeneration on one finger after we killed him for the 3rd time.
The campaign was in a far reach of Greyhawk, where the players were trapped on land by a dangerous fey-fill wood and by sea by a Dragon Turtle which terrorized the lake. There was a single villiage, and with their general distrust of magic and quite a few eccentric NPCs, it was always an interesting place. I very much liked the dynamic of having a small isolated town as a home base, with very memorable NPCs who you constantly have to deal with, so I still use it to this day.
The adventurers were varied, ranging from a easily accesible extra-dimensional path with many random doors (including a spectator, 2nd edition beholder relation) to a race through a mine on carts. We went into wells, attacked and defended a fortress, and I remember one time particularly hanging out behind an iron golem I aquired as a pet with a magical candle to keep healing him as he defended the gatehouse.
This was D&D at its finest, and I have been striving for that ideal ever since.
In all my years of gaming, I still think that my favorite was with the first real DM that I had. Hutch actually thought out the WHY's behind what he put in the campaign. He created villains that were believable, recurring, and SHOULD be hated.
I use him as a litmus test on what I do nowadays - after a session, I always ask if Hutch would have been pleased with what I did.
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#118 - More efficient handling of fading lights
Opened by Christian Froeschlin (froesccn) - Sunday, 30 May 2010, 15:12 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Thursday, 19 January 2017, 15:34 GMT
Currently, fading light sources are used for lighting and shadow
A sample implementation is provided in the attached files. These
Further considerations regarding this feature:
- For special effects this feature can also be used if the light
- Depending on how
- The default value currently is 0 (or *no* cutoff distance). For
Argh .. just noticed that the files in the first zip file
accidentally contained other changes not related to this patch,
so here is an updated version.
I need to find a better way to manage povray sources here.
I think this could be added after 3.7 release assuming this code is licensed until GPL/AGPL. Then Chris Cason could merge it, I suppose.
The changes are mine, feel free to use them under any license desired.
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Perez closes door on bad memory
TORONTO -- Closers are trained to have a short memory. Whatever happened last night, last month or last season, turn the page and move on.
Indians closer Chris Perez made an exception on Opening Night.
Perez was summoned from the bullpen with the Tribe holding a 4-1 lead against the Blue Jays on Tuesday night. Opening Day starter Justin Masterson had given Cleveland a solid outing to help set up the save situation. On Opening Day against Toronto one year ago, Perez entered with a 4-1 lead following a gem from Masterson, blew the save and watched the Indians lose in 16 innings.
"I was definitely thinking about it," Perez said. "It was the same exact situation -- except the part of the order. It was 4-1 on Opening Day."
Perez opened the ninth inning on Tuesday by inducing back-to-back flyouts off the bats of Edwin Encarnacion and Adam Lind. After Toronto catcher J.P. Arencibia connected for a two-out double, Perez struck out Colby Rasmus to seal the win and collect the save.
In last April's Opening Day loss, Perez labored through 31 pitches. He was admittedly over-cautious after dealing with an oblique issue during Spring Training and gave up three runs on three hits with two walks in two-thirds of an inning.
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The students of St. Thomas the Apostle's History Club hope that most residents in Woodhaven will know all about the Wyckoff-Snedicker Family Cemetery by the time they are finished exploring its history.
The cemetery is nestled behind the beautifully restored All Saints Church at 85-45 96th Street. For over a century the parish was known as St. Matthew's, but after it closed in 2011, it sat dormant until last year when All Saint's moved in from Richmond Hill. They have masses on several weekdays and multiple services on Sundays (visit them at allsaintsrh.org or call 718-849-2352 for a complete schedule).
In the early days of Woodhaven, most settlers had to travel to East New York to bury or visit their dead. In those days, such a round trip would take a whole day. The residents needed something closer, and in 1785 two families – the Wyckoffs and the Snedickers – each gave land for the purpose of creating a cemetery.
Officially, the cemetery lists 136 tombstones, but over the years stones with simple hand carvings have been discovered meaning that the land probably holds a few hundred souls at least.
After the last known burial in the late 1800s, the cemetery has had periods where it has been neglected. Even back in the 1930s, the Leader Observer ran articles calling for better care of this historic burial site. In the mid-1960s the cemetery was auctioned off and purchased by St. Matthew's for $600.
However, it was eventually neglected again before church parishioners and members of the Queens and Woodhaven historical societies conducted a two-year restoration in the 1990s. Working from a very detailed decades-old survey, the group was able to refurbish the land, returning existing gravestones to their original plots.
Sadly, the land has not been cared for since that time, and over the past few years it was the subject of complaints from neighbors and local historians.
Enter All Saints Church led by the Rev. Dr. Norman Whitmire Jr., who oversaw a thorough clean up at the end of 2013 with an eye towards turning this piece of land into something the entire community could enjoy.
At the same time the St. Thomas the Apostle History Club, led by Ms. Patti Eggers, expressed interest in exploring the history of the church and its historic burial ground. That led to Reverend Whitmire opening the gates to the students last week on the last day of their vacation.
They wandered about, respectfully quiet, looking for the names they had chosen to research. Using decidedly modern tools such as Ancestry.com, the students were armed with a little bit of knowledge about the names on the tombstones.
It was a treat to watch as one by one, students found the names they were looking for.
Two of the younger students, Sean Eggers and Brandon Roldan, working from an 80-year old map, found who they were looking for – Isaac Ditmars – resting under a simple rock with the inscription I.D. They were so excited that they did a little happy jig in celebration. I'm pretty sure Isaac would have been pleased that his old bones brought two kids such happiness 250+ years after he died.
That is the magic of the old historic cemetery behind All Saints. The students went in looking for names and what they found were people. People who lived on the very same land we call home. And in those moments of discovery, the residents of the Wyckoff-Snedicker Family Cemetery came alive to the students of St. Thomas the Apostle's History Club.


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Am I doing something wrong with this dough?
I have mastered my regular kneading style pizza dough. It has taken me a very long time to finally be happy with it.
I've recently discovered no knead bread dough and love the results. I also discovered that you can make a no knead pizza dough. I have tried using Lahey's recipe a couple of times and find that it's difficult to work with. I think I'm doing something wrong.
When I watch others create pizzas with this dough on You Tube, their dough looks a lot more like my kneaded dough and not like the sticky mess that I'm making. The first time I made this dough I was scared to death to put it on my peel because I knew I wouldn't be able to get it off of the peel. I used a baking sheet instead. I easily made the dough thin but it was way too sticky to really work with. The end result was a delicious and very well cooked pizza. My husband and I loved the flavor which was a result of the long rise.
The second time I made the dough I added a lot more flour into the dough while trying to shape it into a pizza. The result was better but still too sticky to risk putting on the peel. Again, the pizza was delicious.
I really want to get this dough onto my peel so I can cook it on my pizza stone and would hate to return to the recipe that I mastered because this dough has so much more flavor. Does anyone have any advice? Does anyone else have to add a lot of additional flour and if so, how much do you add? I'm using King Arthur all purpose. I'm not even going to attempt to use my 00 flour right now as I know it will be an ever stickier dough to work with right now.


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Have you found yourself wondering what steps AAA has taken to facilitate access to its publications, if there's a plan for the future of the AAA publishing program and how U.S. federal legislation may impact the program? Check out the new Publications Frequently Asked Questions page on the AAA website.
What steps has the AAA taken to facilitate access to its publications?
While still in the process of examining optimal scenarios for ensuring the broadest possible access to publications and the sustainability of a diverse range of publications, the AAA has already taken the following steps:
- Sliding scale membership: Access to AAA's digital, online literature is available to individuals on a fair and reasonable sliding scale annual fee structure that ranges from $30 to $306 (http://www.aaanet.org/membership/membershipcategories.cfm).
- Free Access: Access to AAA's digital, online literature is available free of charge to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges, and qualifying institutions from less developed countries (http://www.aaanet.org/issues/AAA-Gives-Back.cfm). In addition, AAA participates in four philanthropic programs to provide free access to our content in under-resourced countries. These programs are administered by agencies with presence on the ground in these areas, such as the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the International Council for Science.
- "Ungating" back issues of journals: Access to back issues of AAA's journal American Anthropologist (AA) is available free of charge 35 years and longer after publication. That means that in 2012, all back issues of AA are available free of charge from 1888 to 1977; in 2013, the year 1978 will be "ungated." Sections are encouraged to follow the same plan. To date, three sections have agreed. CFPEP is charged with assessing the success and costs of this arrangement.
- Anthropology News online is open access for two months before content is gated and archived within AnthroSource.
- Grey Literature Hub. With funds raised by the AAA Research Development Committee (RDC), AAA endorsed and is working towards the establishment of an "Anthropology" category on the online open access Social Science Research Network (SSRN) for the purpose of disseminating grey literature, anthropological content that is otherwise not available.
- Author Rights and Permissions: In the author agreement for AAA journals, the author reserves the right (among other rights) to post his/her article on the author's personal or institutional website, and to post the article on free, discipline-specific public servers. Because of these clauses, AAA's author agreement is rated green by SHERPA/RoMEO, a project designed to help facilitate green open access.
What is the AAA plan for the future of the publishing program? How does open-access (OA) fit into it?
CFPEP is evaluating alternative publishing models that support broad dissemination of knowledge (including but not limited to open access) while taking into consideration discipline- and subdiscipline-specific concerns, the needs of a diverse anthropological constituency as well as AAA's commitment to supporting smaller publications, to ensuring a sustainable publishing program and to the financial viability of the association and its sections. CFPEP's process includes discussions with sections, members, staff and relevant consultants to develop five– and ten–year plans for the future of AAA's electronic and print publications. It will make recommendations to the ACC through 2012 and 2013.
For background information, see CFPEP annual reports (http://www.aaanet.org/about/Annual_Reports/committee_reports.cfm; see also http://www.aaanet.org/membership/CFPEP-sectionliaisonreport-Apr2008_appendix.pdf; http://www.aaanet.org/membership/ForFurtherConsiderationCFPEPReport122008.pdf; and Waterston in Anthropology News October 2009: 21).
What is the AAA position on U.S. federal legislation that may have an impact on the publishing program?
The AAA is particularly concerned by any proposed legislation that aims to limit dissemination of research, and that may disproportionately protect private over public interests. At the same time, its role is to be vigilant about the specific needs and interests of our publications program, anthropology as a whole, and individual anthropologist-authors. Acknowledging the Association's commitment to "a publications program that disseminates the most current anthropological research, expertise, and interpretation to its members, the discipline, and the broader society," but also the need for a sustainable publication strategy, and building on the Association's support for a variety of publishing models, the AAA opposes any Congressional legislation which, if it were enacted, would impose a blanket prohibition against open access publishing policies by all federal agencies.
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2016 (Redshirt Senior): First Team All-Southern Conference outfielder… SoCon Player of the Week (Apr. 11-17)… Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week (Apr. 11-17)… Started and played in 56 games all in right field… Hit for a .396 average, fifth all-time at UNCG… Recorded 65 RBI, second on the team and tied for fourth all-time… Had 89 hits, including 11 doubles, six triples and six home runs… 89 hits is fourth all-time, six triples is tied for fifth all time… Drew 40 walks compared to 32 strikeouts… Scored 62 runs, best on the team and eighth in school history… Finished in the top 20 of the NCAA in batting average, runs, runs per game, hits, triples per game, RBI per game, RBI, and on base percentage… .493 on base percentage, tied for fourth all-time… Stole a team-high 23 bases... Two bunt base hits… 30 multi-hit games… 17 multi-RBI games including five games with five or more RBI… Season-high 12 game hit streak (Apr. 5-23)… Five RBI performances in three of four games from Apr. 13-17, one against Wake Forest (Apr. 13), and two against Furman (Apr. 16, 17)… Stole a season-high three bases against North Carolina A&T (Mar. 22) in a game played at NewBridge Bank Park… Season-high four hits on four occasions (Mar. 4, Mar. 20, Apr. 29, and May 26)… Scored three times in five different games (Mar. 11, Mar. 20, Apr. 16, Apr. 23, and Apr. 29).
2015 (Senior): Did not compete in any games due to a preseason injury.
2014 (Junior): Played in 38 games and earned 35 starts … Started 24 games in the outfield and 11 as the designated hitter … Led the team with three triples and 10 stolen bases … Batted .297 and tallied 41 hits, 20 runs scored, five doubles, three triples, 18 RBI and 52 total bases … Was 10 for 13 in stolen base attempts … Produced 11 multi-hit and four multi-RBI efforts … Pieced together a 15-game hitting streak from March 12-April 6 during which he hit .429 and notched seven multi-hit contests … Went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI in the series finale against Furman (March 22) … Was 3-for-3 with three runs scored and a RBI in the middle game of the series against Western Carolina (April 5).
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Paying tribute to an actor or actress, as I understand it, consists in choosing a sufficient variety of clips from their films showing all their different faces, expressions, looks, attitudes, smiles... helping the audience understand where the charisma, beauty or talent of the star resides. My friend Claudia does this wonderfully with her tributes to classic Hollywood legends, capturing the essence of each star with the perfect music choice. This one being absolutely spot on and breathtaking:
Claudia wrote this for me, about this particular work of hers: "I heard the track from the Moulin Rouge! Soundtrack. It was really haunting, moody, mysterious, and somehow I could see Garbo's face the entire time. If I played the track back, I could already see some of her film moments edited with the music - all in my head. It was perfect for her, and I set out to make the tribute immediately. I knew that the strength of Garbo was in her face - her stares, her eyes, her expressions - and that was how I went about choosing clips". And she added, now talking about the art of paying tribute to movie stars: "Actresses like Garbo and Marilyn - the music has to have a sad and sombre sound. Actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford the song has to be about strength, the plight of the woman, heartbreak (like so many of the characters in their films). My Gene Kelly tribute had to resemble his vivacity, the life and creativity he brought to the screen. Whilst my Bogie and Jimmy Stewart tributes had to mirror their heroic, iconic performances onscreen". She's edited tributes to Grace Kelly, James Dean, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner,...
When editing a montage for an actor, I don't use clips from each and every one of their movies, I prefer choosing a quality of the performer and exploring it with the right song. For example, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford have many dramatic roles in their filmography, with some impressive performances (The Verdict or Witness, to mention just a couple), but I wanted to focus on their charisma as leading men, their charm as ladies' men, their rebel attitude as scoundrels and, why not, their sex appeal. I made an obvious song choice for Newman, I admit it, but it's such a great classic and I think it suits his character:
Harry is also a great action star, but I left that out to show his "joker" quality, hence the music choice, also very appropiate thanks to the "space cowboy" thing:
When paying tribute to an actress, there's always a lot more images to choose from, especially if they're beauties like Michelle Pfeiffer or Winona Ryder, cause directors do linger a lot on their gorgeous faces. For Michelle, I wanted a sexy song from the 80's, and Robert Palmer was just perfect. If you ask me, she's one of the most beautiful women in cinema history, but she's not a diva, she doesn't take herself too seriously. That's what I wanted to show, her feline eyes, her slim body, her discreet curves, yes, but also her coolness, her likeable character (which makes her twice as sexy):
Winona is veeery different. She has a lovely face, like an angel, and a peculiar body (she's very short and she has a great rack, pardon my language). But it's her vulnerability, her sweetness, her childlike expressions, her tormented soul that makes her so irresistible. "Crazy" by Aerosmith was the perfect choice for my vision of Winona, I wanted to make reference to her troubled personal life outside the screen, but to say "we love you just the way you are" in the end:
Michael J. Fox has been one of my favorite actors since I was a very very little girl. When I started his tribute, I knew I wanted it to show how universally funny and lovable he can be. The song is taken from one his films, "Doc Hollywood". It's a very cheesy song, I know, but I love the fact that it's saying that he's unique and he did everything just the way he wanted to do it. I presented a bit of his dumb side, too, cause he does have a lot of talent for comedy. And I couldn't resist making reference to his height:
The other actor I was crazy about during the 90's was Keanu Reeves. I know his filmography and his expressions like the back of my hand. We all agree he's not a great actor, but I think he's fantastic in physical performances (which he also enjoys like crazy, he does his own stunts in action films) and he's incredibly sweet and funny when he's given the right role (sometimes involuntarily funny too). Many people think he's inexpressive, and I can't help but see him exactly the other way round, as a very espontaneous, natural, even childish actor who has a talent for a very particular type of performance. It's hard to explain, maybe my video will elucidate:
My latest actor tributes were for a couple whose careers I've been following closely since 1990. Both from my own generation, they proved the world you can be a child actor and survive. For Chris Ricci I tried to claim the magnetism of her face, her big eyes, her unconventional attitude and the sexiness of her body (even when some people have said she was overweight, I actually think a few extra pounds suit her). She changes so much from one role to another, it's amazing. She's not a great actress, but I do think the camera loves her:
Watching Elijah Wood grow up on the big screen is somehow fascinating, especially when you realize he has hardly changed in the last 15 years! It's funny that his first appearance was in Back to the future 2, with Michael J. Fox, who's probably the greatest example of being 32 and still looking 17... "When I grow up (to be man)" by the Beach Boys seemed perfect for this, and also has that same positive attitude, nice disposition, sweet character Elijah shows in so many of his roles:
I also have tributes to Geena Davis and Jennifer Connelly, and I have a song ready for Russell Crowe.


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rom its source in the hilly village of Worcester, Massachusetts to its ending in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the Blackstone River played an important role in the history of New England as well as the country. Samuel Slater built the first successful water-powered cotton-spinning mill on the river in 1790, launching the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The once rural landscape of the Blackstone River Valley became filled with factories and mill towns seeking to take advantage of the river's power.
The advent of industrialization heralded changes in the workforce. In Worcester, workers formed the Mechanics Association in 1842 to help members develop the knowledge and skills to manufacture and run machinery in the mills. In 1857 they built Mechanics Hall to house educational and cultural activities. Featuring meeting rooms, a library, and two halls, the building became a hub of activity, drawing speakers from Charles Dickens to Susan B. Anthony. The superb acoustics of Mechanics Hall would attract orchestras, bands, and renowned performers from Enrico Caruso to Ella Fitzgerald, Yo Yo Ma to Mel Torme. Culture, like the river, would enrich the lives of the people of Worcester.
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Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
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Determining the Facts: Readings
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Ngowi, Jakes and Apuzzo report: "Investigators have found pieces of remote-control equipment among the debris and were analyzing them, officials said. One official described the detonator as 'close-controlled,' meaning it had to be triggered within several blocks of the bombs."
Downtown Boston after two powerful bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line. (photo: unknown)
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Confession Already Has Problems
24 April 13
he surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings acknowledged to the FBI his role in the attacks but did so before he was advised of his constitutional right to keep quiet and seek a lawyer, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Once Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his rights on Monday, he immediately stopped talking, according to four officials of both political parties who were briefed on the interrogation but insisted on anonymity because the briefing was private.
After roughly 16 hours of questioning, investigators were surprised when a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. Attorney's office entered the hospital room and read Tsarnaev his rights, the four officials and one law enforcement official said. Investigators had planned to keep questioning him.
It is unclear whether any of this will matter in court since the FBI says Tsarnaev confessed to a witness and U.S. officials said Wednesday that physical evidence, including a 9 mm handgun and pieces of a remote-control device commonly used in toys, was recovered from the scene.
But the debate over whether suspected terrorists should be read their Miranda rights has become a major sticking point in the debate over how best to fight terrorism. Many Republicans, in particular, believe Miranda warnings are designed to build court cases, and only hinder intelligence gathering.
Christina DiIorio Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, said in an email, "This remains an ongoing investigation and we don't have any further comment."
Before being advised of his rights, the 19-year-old suspect told authorities that his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, only recently had recruited him to be part of the attack, two U.S. officials said.
The CIA, however, named Tamerlan to a terrorist database 18 months ago, officials said Wednesday, an acknowledgment that will undoubtedly prompt congressional inquiry about whether investigators took warnings from Russian intelligence officials seriously enough.
The U.S. officials who discussed the terrorist database and other details of the investigation are in addition to those who discussed the Miranda warning. They were close to the investigation and insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case with reporters.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom authorities have described as the driving force behind the plot, was killed in a shootout with police. Dzhokhar is recovering in a hospital from injuries suffered during a getaway attempt.
Authorities had previously said Dzhokhar exchanged gunfire with them for more than an hour Friday night before they captured him inside a boat covered by a tarp in a suburban Boston neighborhood backyard. But two U.S. officials said Wednesday that he was unarmed when captured, raising questions about the gunfire and how he was injured.
More than 4,000 mourners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid tribute to a campus police officer who authorities say was gunned down by the bombing suspects.
Among the speakers in Cambridge, just outside Boston, was Vice President Joe Biden, who condemned the bombing suspects as "two twisted, perverted, cowardly, knockoff jihadis."
Investigators have said the brothers appeared to have been radicalized through jihadist materials on the Internet and have found no evidence tying them to a terrorist group.
Dzhokhar told the FBI that they were angry about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the killing of Muslims there, officials said.
Dzhokhar's public defender had no comment on the matter Wednesday. His father has called him a "true angel," and an aunt has insisted he's not guilty.
Investigators have found pieces of remote-control equipment among the debris and were analyzing them, officials said. One official described the detonator as "close-controlled," meaning it had to be triggered within several blocks of the bombs.
That evidence could be key to the court case. And an FBI affidavit said one of the brothers told a carjacking victim during their getaway attempt, "Did you hear about the Boston explosion? I did that."
Officials also recovered a 9 mm handgun believed to have been used by Tamerlan from the site of a Thursday night gunbattle that injured a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer, two U.S. officials said.
The officials told the AP that no gun was found in the boat. Boston police Commissioner Ed Davis said earlier that shots were fired from inside the boat.
Asked whether the suspect had a gun in the boat, Davis said, "I'm not going to talk about that."
Kurt Schwartz, director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, did respond to the report.
"Within half a mile of where this person was captured, a police officer was shot. And I know who shot him." Schwartz said. "And there were three bombs that went off, and I know where those bombs came from. ... To me, it does not change anything. This guy was captured alive and will survive. True or not true, it doesn't change anything for me."
The suspects' parents, Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, plan to fly to the U.S. from Russia on Thursday, the father was quoted as telling the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. The family has said it wants to take Tamerlan's body back to Russia.
In Russia, U.S. investigators traveled to the predominantly Muslim province of Dagestan and were in contact with the brothers' parents, hoping to gain more information.
Investigators are looking into whether Tamerlan, who spent six months in Russia's turbulent Caucasus region in 2012, was influenced by the religious extremists who have waged an insurgency against Russian forces in the area for years. The brothers have roots in Dagestan and neighboring Chechnya but had lived in the U.S. for about a decade.
While in the U.S., the brothers received welfare benefits.
The Office of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts confirmed a Boston Herald report Wednesday that Tamerlan, his wife and daughter had received welfare benefits up until last year, when he became ineligible based on family income.
The state also says Tamerlan and his brother received welfare benefits as children through their parents while the family lived in Massachusetts.
Neither was receiving benefits at the time of the bombing.
At MIT, bagpipes wailed as students, faculty and staff members and throngs of law enforcement officials paid their respects to MIT police Officer Sean Collier, who was ambushed in his cruiser three days after the bombing.
Biden told the Collier family that no child should die before his or her parents, but that, in time, the grief will lose some of its sting.
"The moment will come when the memory of Sean is triggered and you know it's going to be OK," Biden said. "When the first instinct is to get a smile on your lips before a tear to your eye."
The vice president also sounded a defiant note.
"The purpose of terror is to instill fear," he said. "You saw none of it here in Boston. Boston, you sent a powerful message to the world."
In another milestone in Boston's recovery, the area around the marathon finish line was reopened to the public, with fresh cement still drying on the repaired sidewalk. Delivery trucks made their way down Boylston Street under a heavy police presence, though some damaged stores were still closed.
"I don't think there's going to be a sense of normalcy for a while," Tom Champoux, who works nearby, said as he pointed to the boarded-up windows. "There are scars here that will be with us for a long time."
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WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Members of a select House-Senate panel on Wednesday targeted for potential repeal a U.S. meat-labeling law that Mexico and Canada have challenged as a violation of world trade rules, and that U.S. meatpackers also oppose.
The country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law requires labels on packages of beef, pork, poultry and lamb sold in U.S. stores to carry specific information on the source of the meat. The U.S. terms it a "consumer information" program.
While favored by consumer groups, COOL has been a lightning rod for dispute for more than a decade. Congress approved meat-origin labeling in 2002, but it did not become mandatory until 2009.
The United States re-wrote the regulations this year in an attempt to satisfy a 2012 World Trade Organization ruling, but has been challenged again at the WTO.
At the first negotiating session on a final version of the new $500 billion U.S. farm bill, several lawmakers said COOL should be revised or repealed, in part because of the risk of international sanctions.
"I am hopeful that working together we can prevent the imposition of tariffs on a wide array of products important to many states," said House Agriculture Committee chairman Frank Lucas in an opening statement. Under congressional protocol, he chairs the farm bill talks.
Canada and Mexico say the law led to a decline in sales of their cattle and hogs because of additional costs to handle them. U.S. meatpackers say COOL is a bookkeeping headache that also drives up costs.
Defenders such as the National Farmers Union and the Consumer Federation of America say COOL help shoppers make informed decisions on their meat purchases. They said there is no need for Congress to intervene.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says COOL is not a food safety or traceability program. Foreign food products must still meet U.S. food safety standards.
Republican Senator Pat Roberts from Kansas, one of the largest U.S. cattle states, said he would support a House provision that was under development and expected to be a repeal clause for COOL.
Senate Agriculture chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said COOL "clearly is one of the issues" for farm bill negotiators.
As the farm bill conference kicked off, negotiators, with a target of completing work before year-end, remain divided on potential cuts to food stamp funding, but are agree on many other elements of the legislation.
President Barack Obama last week listed the farm bill as one of three priorities for completion this year. The administration has not spelled out how it will take part in the bill's final stages.
Conservative Republicans want to cut food stamps by $39 billion over a decade, the largest cuts in at least a generation and 10 times the amount proposed by the Senate.
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Captain J. Reed Endresen and the Crimson host Yale on Senior Day Saturday (phot courtesy Gil Talbot).
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The No. 6 Harvard men's squash team hosts Yale Saturday afternoon in the final regular-season match for both teams.
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The Crimson dropped a 6-3 affair to No. 1 Trinity Wednesday night.
About Harvard
Harvard enters Saturday's match with a 7-4 overall and 3-2 Ivy record. They are ranked sixth nationally and are currently fourth in the Ivy League.
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The Bulldogs, No. 2 in the nation, will be looking to secure the Ivy League title outright against the Crimson. Yale is currently 12-1 and 5-0 in the Ivy League with its lone loss coming agianst No. 1 Trinity. The Bulldogs are assured, at worst, a split of the Ivy title with Princeton.
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J. Reed Endresen - The Harvard men's squash 2010-11 captain has played to a 24-24 career record over his four years with the Crimson. Endresen will be seeking his second straight appearance at the CSA Individual National Championships after qualifying last season.
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Longtime Shapelings will already be familiar with my dear friend Cacie from the "To hell with tiny pants" post. When I heard the mindbogglingly antifeminist responses she'd been getting to her upcoming breast reduction — news that, to be fair, might throw people off a bit, but COME ON — I asked her to write a post about it. (Incidentally, though this should go without saying: This is a space to talk about assumptions, cultural and personal, and the way those come out in unguarded spontaneous reactions — in other words, how things people say off the cuff can reflect a misogynist culture. It is NOT a space to talk about whether Cacie is making the right choice or has the right motivations in getting her surgery.)
I'm getting a breast reduction tomorrow. It's something I've wanted since the summer I was 13 years old, and for years I tried to convince myself that I could live with them. When I discovered how wonderful the health insurance at my new job was going to be, I started thinking about scheduling a consultation with a surgeon – worse case scenario, I'd learn a lot more about the procedure and my health insurance would decline to cover it, at which point I'd have to consider the financial feasibility of it. A few weeks later, I got a call from my doctor saying my insurance company approved it, and I scheduled my surgery.
It's not easy for everyone to understand. In fact, I'd venture to say that most initial reactions include at least one, or if not all three of the following statements: "WHY?!" "You're not that big!" "What does your boyfriend think about this?"
I can almost understand the first two. Most people wouldn't willingly choose to go the opposite direction of society's standards of beauty/sexuality, and trying to see the world from another person's perspective can be tricky. I'm not totally okay with it, but I understand it. The third statement, however, is problematic in several ways.
My boyfriend and I have been together for over three years. We live together. He's seen me have an emotional breakdown over burning the potatoes. I've seen him drive like a maniac and flip people off in traffic. We both have our less than beautiful sides, but we are overwhelmingly happy together and that's all I'll say about that sappy stuff. So you can probably understand the kind of nasty responses I have to swallow after someone asks me "what does your boyfriend think about this?"
"Considering the fact that my boyfriend is extremely shallow, and the only interesting, attractive, and lovable attributes I have are my breasts, it's going to be pretty difficult for him. But it's super nice of you to make such rude insinuations and call my relationship into question."
I'm pretty sure most people don't realize exactly what they're saying about him, me, or us when they ask that question. Of course he cares about me and of course he's attracted to me, but if he had seriously only stayed with me for the last three years because of my large breasts, and I knew about this and didn't care, then… actually there is no "then." Because that is totally unrealistic. So what do I actually say to people when they ask me this question?


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The Government's plan to introduce a "pasty tax" has created "a quagmire of confusion and worry" for businesses, according to a Conservative MP who sits on the Commons committee which scrutinises the Budget.
Mark Garnier, a member of the Treasury Select Committee, said the plan to levy 20 per cent VAT on hot foods including pasties has dragged "innocent bystanders" into a move designed to stop supermarkets unfairly undercutting fast-food outlets.
He also raised the idea of exempting all fast food from VAT as a way of levelling the playing field and boosting consumer spending.
"What started out as a perfectly reasonable attempt to iron out a few VAT wrinkles in the fast food industry has turned into a quagmire of confusion and worry," he said.
"The fact that hugely resourced supermarkets can undercut high street sole traders as a result of VAT inequalities is simply wrong. But to drag innocent bystanders into this row is also wrong.
"These anomalies need to be sorted out. One, as yet unspoken, alternative is to remove VAT on all fast food thus removing the imbalances and helping the consumer at the same time."
The MP for the Wyre Forest constituency in Worcestershire visited the WC Rowe bakery in Penryn, near Falmouth, with local Conservative MP Sarah Newton while in the county on holiday.
All six Cornish MPs, Lib Dems Stephen Gilbert, Dan Rogerson and Andrew George, plus Tories Mrs Newton, George Eustice and Sheryll Murray, have questioned the plan to charge the standard rate of VAT from October.
The Chancellor said in last month's Budget that he wants to create a level playing field by imposing the tax on bakeries and supermarkets selling hot food to bring them in line with fast-food outlets which already pay VAT.
Mrs Newton said: "It is vitally important that the pasty does not get caught in the cross-fire of trying to sort out VAT anomalies between high street takeaways and supermarkets. The proposals are currently being consulted upon and I will continue to make sure a common sense solution is found."
Mr Gilbert, speaking at a Pasty Tax Summit in Truro yesterday, floated the idea of a coalition of Labour MPs and other disgruntled Government MPs - Lib Dem and Conservative - across the country opposed to George Osborne's Budget plan to make pasties and other hot baked foods subject to VAT.
Speaking at the Pasty Tax Summit, which brought together pasty producers and politicians, the MP for Newquay and St Austell said that there was opposition to the plan from across the country, from the Cornish countryside to "meat and potato pie" constituencies in the north of England.
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In an online survey sent to Annual Pass holders and other park enthusiasts, Disney has apparently started to gauge interest in expanding the Star Wars presence at its resorts, starting with Disneyland.
In a screenshot tweeted by The Awl's Ken Layne, one of the questions in the survey asks: "How interested would you be in visiting a Star Wars themed land at the Disneyland Resort?" Star Wars fans are most likely already familiar with the revamped Star Tours ride at Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studios, but it sounds like the company has even grander plans for the property after acquiring Lucasfilm.
Maybe they can fill Fantasyland with Star Wars-themed rides and exhibits. After all, what kid hasn't fantasized about wielding a lightsaber?


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International Volunteer Day 2012
5th of December was set as the International Volunteer Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. The theme for 2012 is 'Celebrate Volunteering!'. International Volunteer Day offers an opportunity for volunteer organizations and individual volunteers to make visible their contributions - at local, national and international levels. United Nations Volunteers (UNV) said on their website that 'on IVD 2012, we celebrate our commitment and hope for a better world'. The Scout Movement, with its millions of volunteers from around the world, and with a Vision of 'Creating a Better World', has been contributing to this goal – everyday of its existence for over 105 years now. UN Secretary General, and a Scout, Ban ki-Moon said on the occasion, 'I applaud all people who volunteer each year for the benefit of their communities'. Click on read more for the 'International Volunteer Day 2012' message from Luc Panissod, outgoing Secretary General of World Scouting.
Message from Luc Panissod, Secretary General, WOSM - International Volunteer Day 2012
Every day, millions of volunteers across the globe who are committed to the core values of Scouting contribute through their competencies, skills and resources, to make a big impact on the Scout Movement, despite everything – despite crises and conflicts, and despite many challenges we face in the world today – so that young people are empowered to make the world a better place.
Volunteers are transforming their local communities through their efforts and are taking on leadership roles at various levels of Scouting. In this era of innumerable challenges, our volunteers are providing grassroots service and leadership to millions of boys and girls in more than 200 countries and territories where the Scout Movement is established.
Thanks to the contributions of many volunteers, Scouting continues to be one of the biggest youth organisations in the world. Today, after 105 years, it is still one of the most popular Movements offering a robust and up-to-date youth programme with volunteers offering value-based leadership in various capacities.
The World Scouting family relies on dedicated volunteers to promote its Mission of preparing and empowering young people to create better world.
Volunteerism is, of course, its own reward. But the International Volunteer Day is a wonderful opportunity for us to remind all volunteers out there - selflessly seeking to improve our world - that we indeed recognise and value their contributions. Personally, on my last International Volunteer Day as the Secretary General of this great Movement, I express my sincere gratitude to all my sister and brother volunteers who share their skills and talents with the Scouting world, and hope that many more will follow in their footsteps in the years, decades and centuries to come.
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