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LeVar Burton of Star Trek and Roots fame is "outraged" with presidential candidate Mitt Romney after Romney remarked that he would cut funding to PBS during Wednesday's debate. Burton, as the creator and host of the network's beloved children's book television series Reading Rainbow, has a close connection to PBS and has seen the positive effects that it has had on child education and development.
Burton tells TMZ:
"I am personally outraged that any serious contender for the White House would target as part of his campaign the children of America in this fashion...Educators across the country, as well as millions of children and adults know that the programming on PBS has been responsible for significant improvements in education, literacy, math, science and life skills for generations of our children...PBS represents .00016% of our nation's budget, yet this free resource benefits kids across all economic circumstances."
Let's not doubt the importance of Burton's words — a large number of the voting populous has likely grown up with Reading Rainbow as an educational presence in their schools and at home, while an even greater number have grown up with PBS staples like Mister Rogers and Sesame Street. Romney's attack on the network may have struck a nostalgic nerve.
Burton adds:
"Defunding PBS directly punishes the less fortunate by removing this trusted and extraordinary educational resource available to all...On behalf of America's children, I can't stay silent. I encourage you to join me in fighting this short-sighted and frankly mean-spirited attack on our children."
Will do, LeVar. Now sing it with me: Butterfly in the sky! I can go twice as hi-igh!


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Official Launch Maybank Foundation - Perdana Leadership Foundation Writing and Photo Contest 2015
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad Launches the Maybank Foundation – Perdana Leadership Foundation Writing and Photo Contest 2015
"We are in danger of losing the art of writing," said Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Honorary President of Perdana Leadership Foundation in a speech delivered at the Official Launch of the Maybank Foundation – Perdana Leadership Foundation Writing and Photo Contest 2015 at the Perdana Leadership Foundation today. "Young people today use abbreviations when sending text, to the extent that words are written according to sound and not meaning. For example, "4" instead of "For", "M" instead of "Am", "U" instead of "You". I fear that we may lose the ability to write and spell properly soon," Tun elaborated.
"That is why this contest is timely as it will encourage young people to articulate their thoughts in proper sentences and even to tell a story through photographs. I congratulate the organisers for creating the contest and urge all young people to participate," Tun said in launching the Writing and Photo Contest. More than 250 students from schools and universities attended the launch.
This is the second time that Perdana Leadership Foundation is teaming up with Maybank Foundation to organise a youth competition and this time, more categories are open to contestants. Young Malaysians aged between 13 and 21 years old can write essays, compose stories or snap a series of photos to participate in the contest. Wonderful prizes await, including up to US$2,500 in cash, Macbooks and iPads. MPH Bookstores is also contributing E-Book Readers as well as book vouchers to the lucky winners. The icing on the cake is the chance to rub shoulders with established authors and photo-journalists at the prize-giving ceremony slated to be later this year.
Don't miss out on the chance to win. There is no limit on the number of entries each participant can submit so Write Your Essay, Compose Your Story and Snap Your Photos today! Visit www.MaybankPerdanaContest.com or our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/perdanaleadershipfoundation . Follow us on Instagram, too, @plfperdana!
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Cubs know importance of starting year strong
PITTSBURGH -- Theo Epstein can focus on the Cubs getting off to a good start, not explaining what he's trying to do in Year 2.
Epstein, who took over as president of baseball operations in October 2011, spent Year 1 talking about the need to build a foundation for sustained success, incorporating "The Cubs Way," and adding staff to make his vision work.
"There's been a lot of growth [in the organization] and there needs to be more growth, and we need to have it manifest on the big league field, and today is the start of that," Epstein said prior to the season opener, a 3-1 win Monday over the Pirates.
The win was huge, and not just because it was only the second time in the last seven years that the Cubs were victorious on Opening Day.
"To get a win is good for our whole organization and for the season, to get off on the right note," said Anthony Rizzo, who did just that, hitting the first pitch he saw over the right-center-field bleachers for a two-run home run.
Of the 10 teams that made the postseason last year, only the Athletics posted a sub .500 April, and they made up for that with a 19-5 July. Winning the opener doesn't guarantee a World Series berth. The defending champion Giants lost their first three games of 2012, and also lost Monday to the Dodgers.
But a "W" helps the mood when coming off a 101-loss season, which the Cubs are, and when key players are on the disabled list. Matt Garza, sidelined with a strained left lat, could return in May. Ian Stewart has recovered from a wrist injury but is on the DL because of a sore left quad. Darwin Barney joined those players on the DL after cutting his left kneecap sliding into the wall at Minute Maid Park in the last exhibition game of the spring.
"We're going to try to turn these early injuries into a positive," Epstein said. "If we can get off to a good start in April with the weather -- they're often low-scoring games [in the first month], and there's a real fine line between victory and defeat, and the key is good execution and playing smart baseball. If we can play well right out of the chute, and we know we're getting good players off the disabled list soon, we'll try to turn it into a positive."
Monday's win helped new Cubs like Edwin Jackson, Scott Feldman and Carlos Villanueva feel good about the guys backing them up. Even without Barney's Gold Glove in the lineup, the defense was solid. Brent Lillibridge did make an error in the first, but Jeff Samardzija overcame that and overwhelmed the Pirates with a mix of offspeed pitches, setting the tone.
"As a pitcher, when you see defense like that, we know there are plays that this team is capable of making," Jackson said. "It makes you want to go out and make the hitters put the ball in play, be aggressive, put the ball in the strike zone. You don't feel like you have to pitch a perfect game -- you can count on the team to make plays behind you."
The question after Game 1, though, is can the Cubs count on Carlos Marmol? Opening Day was not drama free, as Cubs manager Dale Sveum pulled Marmol in the ninth after the right-hander hit a batter, served up an RBI single, and then walked the next hitter. Kyuji Fujikawa got the save in his first big league appearance.
"We're going to need him," Cubs catcher Welington Castillo said of Marmol. "He's the closer and we need him to be in that situation and throw strikes. I can tell that's not him, I know he was a little bit wild. He's better than that. I hope he can turn it around quick."
Marmol is still the closer.
"I'm not concerned about anything right now," Sveum said after the game. "We got a win. We did it a little unconventional, but the bottom line is [Marmol] is still the closer and we won a ballgame."
"[Sveum] wants to win," Jackson said. "It's known that he wants to win. You see a starter go out and go deep into the ballgame like [Samardzija] did, [Sveum] is going on how we feel. If he thinks you look strong, he'll keep you out there. If not, he'll go to whoever he feels like he has to go to to get the job done."
Jackson will take the mound Wednesday for Game 2 when the Cubs resume the regular season. Tuesday provided a good break for Alberto Gonzalez, added to the roster when Barney was injured. The infielder packed for a weekend trip to Houston, not a two-week extended stay with the Cubs.
"I don't have too much -- I need to go to the mall," Gonzalez said.
He wasn't complaining. Nobody on the Cubs is now.
"It's always good to get the ball rolling in a positive direction," Jackson said.
Last year, the Cubs went 8-15 in April. Out of contention at the Trade Deadline, Epstein dealt several veterans for young talent, continuing the rebuilding phase. That could happen again this July.
"I think a good start is important for many reasons," Epstein said. "One, we haven't had good starts around here, as a rule. Good starts can create momentum in and of itself that maybe transcends where it puts you in the standings, because there's a confidence that builds. Players start to get a sense of destiny, and those close games can really start to go your way when you believe. Conversely, a bad start can put you in a position where those things are hard to come by.
"We made a lot of progress last year," Epstein said. "Great things lie ahead for the organization, and now it's time to go out and compete and see if we can get off to a good start and find ourselves right in the middle of this thing, as we want to be."


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I'll give the falafel recipe first, but for prepping up everything, it'd be best to do the sauce first on the day you're serving, because it needs time to chill and develop its flavor.
For the falafel:
- 2 cups of dried garbanzos (chickpeas)
- 1/2 red onion, chopped
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 cup of fresh Italian parsley
- 2 eggs
- 4 tsp of ground cumin
- 2 tsp of dried coriander seeds, crushed
- 1 tsp of salt
- 1/2 tsp of black pepper
- 1/2 tsp of cayenne
- 1/2 tsp of fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp of baking powder
- 4 Tbsp of olive oil
- 1.5 cups of bread crumbs
To start with, you'll want to soak your garbanzos (I love the word "garbanzos". Like Carlin has said, it sounds like a circus act: "The Flying Garbanzos!!!"). It's usually recommended to soak them in cold water overnight, I went for a straight eight hours. They start out like hard little pebbles, and after those eight hours turn semi-soft but firm. Some recipes recommend using canned garbanzos, but I feel like they end up too mushy.
After they've soaked, mash them up with a fork or potato masher. In my opinion, the best texture is achieved by crushing about two-thirds of them into small pieces, and leaving about a third broken into large pieces. Next, run your red onion, parsley, and garlic through the blender and mix into the beans to chop them up fine and mix their flavor, then stir it into the beans. Finally, take the egg, cumin, coriander, salt, pepper, cayenne, lemon juice, olive oil and baking powder, and scramble them all together. Pour into the bean mixture, and work all the flavors together with fork thoroughly.
Now, take your bread crumbs, and stir it in to the mix. The goal here is to get a blend that isn't goopy and sticky, but still has enough moisture to allow you to form balls of the mix. If you add too much, the whole thing will crumble in your hand, so I recommend starting with a cup, and slowly adding until you get the right texture. You'll want them to be just large enough to fit in about a third of your hand. Some people recommend flattening them in order to cook them all the way through, but I believe they're missing the point in doing so.
Fry your falafel in about an inch of olive oil, rolling them so that you get an even, dark brown coloring to the outside of them, and let them rest in some paper towels to drain off any excess oil. If you want to test one, cut it in half; the inside should be moist but have lost any "goopiness" to it, and colored slightly darker than it originally sat in the bowl.
The cucumber-dill sauce is fairly simple:
- 6oz container of plain yogurt
- 1/2 of a cucumber, skinned and diced
- 3 Tbsp of fresh dill
- 1 Tbsp of mayonaisse
- salt and pepper to taste
Stir all of the ingredients together and let rest in the fridge for at least half an hour.
For plating the sandwiches, I used some honey-wheat pita pockets, romaine lettuce, sliced tomato, and sliced the remainder of the cucumber and onion from the two recipes, served alongside some bing cherries. It's a bit of work, but your end result is a flavorful meal with lots of fresh veg. The measurements above gave enough mix for 20 falafel balls, only half of which we ate that night. Any falafel you don't finish off can be stored in a tupperware container with some paper towel (to absorb any excess moisture and oil), then reheated in a toaster oven to restore the crispness.


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The results of a DNA analysis on a number of unknown John Wayne Gacy victims returned to the Cook County Sheriff's Department, and at least one family has found closure in the information.
Gacy victim No. 19 -- who was labeled as such because he was the 19th victim removed from the killer's basement -- has been identified as William "Bill" George Bundy.
Bundy was reported missing on October 27, 1976 and his family always believed that he might have been a victim of Gacy. But the only identification tool available at the time was dental records, and Bundy's records had been destroyed by his retired dentist.
William's brother Robert and sister Laura were in attendance at a press conference with Sheriff Tom Dart announcing the identification. They provided comparison DNA to the sheriff's department, who then sent it to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification.
"Because of all of this work, victim number 19 is never going to be known by a number anymore," said Dart. "While providing closure and answering some obvious questions about what had happened to their brother, it obviously is a terribly heartbreaking period of time for the family."
Bundy's sister Laura said she believed from the beginning her brother was a Gacy victim. She was aware he had been doing construction. "He was always all over the city, she said.
"Closure is great but my only wish in this particular case would have been that we could have provided some sort of closure for William's mother and father before they passed away," Dart said. "I do hope and pray that Laura and Robert might find some peace and closure with the news today."
While identifying Bundy should bring closure to at least one family, others were left wanting.
"There's nothing fortunate about being a victim in this case, but these families are looking for closure and we were unable to provide that," said Dart.
Dart announced in October that his office had obtained DNA profiles for all of the notorious serial killer's remaining victims and asked that anyone with missing loved ones come forward to give DNA samples.
After the request, more than 30 people contacted the sheriff's office in hopes of matching names to the remaining eight Gacy victims. Four samples came back from the North Texas institute without matches.
Gacy was convicted in the murder of 33 young men and boys, most found buried in the crawl space of his Norwood Park Township home near O'Hare Airport. The former construction contractor was executed in May of 1994.
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Rusfurence (Russian: Русфуренция; known as Rusfurrence prior to 2015, and also known as RusCon or Russian Furry Conference) is an annual and biggest furry convention in Moscow, Russia, usually taking place as student holidays start, at the end of January - beginning of February. However, Rusfurence 2019 is to be held at the end of August.
Rusfurence is fairly small compared to other furry conventions, but its attendance in recent years has grown to over 400 furs. Among the challenges to its continued growth are:
- lengthy and expensive travel for non-local furries
- overly restrictive hotel policies
- growing separation between different factions in the Russian furry fandom (art fans, therianthropes, lifestylers, etc.)[citation needed]
Convention staff changes from year to year. At different times the main organizers have been Black Lion, Black Wolf, Dimonius, Fleki, KlyK, Llanowar, Leo leopard, Nexion, Taffka, Tingriel and Ukiwa.
- The first gathering began as Ukiwa's birthday party on February 26, 1999 with 6 attendees.
- The 2000 gathering occurred on January 2 with 8 attendees and Molly, a young lioness.
- RusCon 2001 was held from January 4 to 7 and attracted 23 registrants.
- RusCon 2002 was held from January 4 to 6, attracted over 40 guests, and was the last to be held at the Arbat cultural center.
- RusCon 2003 was held from January 9 to 12 and was the first to be held at the Zvenigorodskiy boarding house.
- Rusfurrence 2004 was held in mid-January and attracted 25 registrants and 16 guests.
- Rusfurrence 2005 was held from January 31 to February 6 and attracted about 60 to 70 participants with the option of staying 2, 4, or 6 nights.
- Rusfurrence 2006 was held from January 30 to February 5 and attracted 101 registrants. This event was the first to feature Russian fursuiters, Basil Lion and SimpleWolf.
- Rusfurrence 2007 was held from January 29 to February 4 at the Москвич ("Muscovite") recreation center in Moscow and attracted 106 registrants.
- Rusfurrence 2008 was held from January 28 to February 3 at the Zvenigorod boarding house (directions). Attendees had the option to arrive on the 28th, 30th or the 1st. Fees ran from 3800 rubles (~US$155) for two days sharing a regular room, to 13800 rubles (~US$560) for six days in a single luxury room. Guests could acquire day passes for 350 roubles/day. There were 116 registrants
- Rusfurrence 2009 was held in the Holiday Hotel "Rus", 18km from Moscow, Russia, from January 28 to February 1, 2009. The convention booked the entire hotel, and enjoyed the luxury of having no noise regulations. There were 169 registrants with at least 140 attendees present.
- Rusfurrence 2010 was held from January 26 to 31, 2010 in hotel Malahovka 12 km outside Moscow. There were 197 registered attendees (including 90 single-day "guests").
- Rusfurrence 2011 was held from February 1 to 6, 2011 at the Zvenigorodskiy boarding house. Attendees had the option of staying 2 or 5 nights. There were about 200 attendees in total, including registered participants, single-day guest and spontaneous participants, who paid their accommodation directly on the conference.
- Rusfurrence 2012 was held from January 31 to February 5, 2012, at the Zvenigorodskiy boarding house. Attendees had the option to stay two or five nights. Early arrival on January the 30 was also available. Rusfurrence 2012 introduced a security team, a room for fursuiters, and a furry-bar. There were 240 attendants: 145 full time participants and 95 single-day guests. There were about 50 fursuits (~25%).
- Rusfurrence 2013 was held over February 5-10, 2013, in the 4-star Avantel Club Istra hotel, and fully occupied a single standing block. Attendees had the option of staying two or five nights. This time, early arrival was not available. Rusfurrence invited for a first time a guest of honour - Alex Vance.
Rusfurrence 2014 took over February 5-9, 2014, at the Zvenigorodskiy boarding house. Early arrival was available.
The convention had a Wild West theme, and the guest of honor was Fox Amoore.[1] The convention's charity was Lion Guardians, for which RUB 35427.50 (about $ 1017) was raised.[2]
Rusfurence 2015 was held over February 4-8, 2015,[3] again at the Zvenigorodskiy boarding house.[4]
The guest of honor was Qzurr,[5] and the convention's charity was the Cheetah Conservation Fund.[6]
Rusfurence 2016 was held over February 3-7, 2016.[7] The convention's backstory read:[8]
|This city was considered the pearl of the West coast until the young and daring gangster seized all the power in the city and created the Empire.
Mafia was fabulously enriched by prohibition supported by the government. At that moment mafia gained a real power. The city became a cradle of crime, the kingdom of forbidden pleasures and criminal acts. All power in the city belongs to the criminal Syndicate – The Family. The government and politicians are totally corrupted. Local police cannot do anything in this situation.
Maintaining the status and capturing the city took a lot of energy. After a while the head of the Syndicate is going to retire and thinking about a successor who could continue the Family business.
Rumors that Don decided to retire have caused a disrepancy between those who are related to him by the bond of blood and who actually runs the business. And now each part tries to find favour in the eyes of Don.
The situation attracted the attention of the feds. They have their own point of view…
Rusfurence 2017 took place over February 1-5, 2017,[9] at the Hotel Heliopark Thalasso, Zvenigorod, Russia.[10]
The theme of the convention was "Wonderland".[9]
Rusfurence 2018 took place over January 31-February 4, 2018,[11] at the Hotel Heliopark Thalasso, Zvenigorod, Russia.[11] There were 404 attendees.[12]
The theme of the convention was "Furturama 3k18".[13]
On April 1, 2018, it was announced that Rusfurence 2019 would not return to Hotel Heliopark Thalasso, or to Zvenigorod, but instead would move to a summer timing, possibly in August.[14] It was explained that this was because of a desire for "kebabs at 20°C rather than -30°C" (later estimated at closer to 25°C), with the potential for tents for gatherings, outdoor activities and, if lucky with the location of the hotel, water events. In addition, it would coincide with vacation time for students - and teachers, and the only clashing nearby convention is Eurofurence (May would overlap with WUFF, with which Rusfurrence shares half its organizers).[15] However, it would be possible that spaces at the hotel would be limited to ~150 attendees - although this would not prevent surrounding hotels from being used by day-visitors. This was considered by the organizers to be an improvement over not being able to fully-book the hotel, with its resulting lack of privacy and control, as well as dealing with the new management of the old hotel. The event is led by Black Lion (chairman, technical/AV) and Fleki (vice-chair, creative/art show).[16]
In February, the convention dates and theme was announced: Rusfurrence 2019 "Summer Night" was to occur August 28-September 1, 2019.[17] The venue was given as the Vozdvizhenskoe «Воздвиженское» Park Hotel in Serpukhov.[18]
See also[edit]
- ↑ Guest of honor on the Rusfurrence 2014 website. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
- ↑ posting by Shain on the Rusfurrence forum. (English translation). Dated February 12, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2014.
- ↑ Rusfurence 2015 website. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
- ↑ Where, when and how on the Rusfurence 2015 website. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
- ↑ Guest of honor on the Rusfurence 2015 website. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
- ↑ Charity on the Rusfurence 2015 website. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
- ↑ Rusfurence's profile on Twitter. Retroieved June 13, 2015.
- ↑ Rusfurence 2016 website. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Rusfurence 2017 website. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
- ↑ Hotel details on the Rusfurence 2017 website. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 When? Where? on the Rusfurence 2018 website. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Rusfurence 2018 website. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
- ↑ Rusfurence 2018 website. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Rusfurence 2019. What's new? - Rusfurence, VK (Apri 1, 2018)
- ↑ Rusfurence 2019. So why Summer? - Rusfurence, VK (April 12, 2018)
- ↑ Rusfurrence lead organizers. Who are they? Rusfurence, VK (April 23, 2018)
- ↑ "Rusfurence 2019. 28 Aug - 1 Sept" - Rusfurence, Twitter (February 19, 2019)
- ↑ About the Rusfurence 2019 hotel - Rusfurence, VK (March 2, 2019)
External links[edit]
- Rusfurrence.ru official website (English)
- Rusfurence 2019 (English) (Russian)
- Rusfurence 2018 (English) (Russian)
- Rusfurence 2017 (English) (Russian)
- Rusfurence 2016 (English) (Russian)
- Rusfurence 2015 (English) (Russian)
- Rusfurrence 2014 (English) (Russian)
- Rusfurrence 2013 (English) (Russian)
- Rusfurrence 2012 (English) (Russian)
- Rusfurrence 2011 (Russian) (English translation)
- Rusfurrence 2010 (Russian) (English translation)
- Rusfurrence 2009 (Russian) (English translation)
- Rusfurrence 2008 (Russian) (English translation)
- Rusfurrence 2007 (Russian) (English translation)
- Rusfurrence 2006 (Russian) (English site)
- Rusfurrence 2005 (Russian) (English translation)
- Rusfurrence 2004 (Russian) (English translation)
- RusCon postings on LionKing.ru:
- RusCon 2003 (Russian) (English translation)
- RusCon 2002 (Russian) (English translation)
- RusCon 2001 (Russian) (English translation)
- Rusfurence on Twitter (in English and Russian)
- Photos, videos, reports: Rusfurrence resources


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Friendlier Skies Needed! Have Your Members of Congress Signed the Letter?
February 7, 2014
It has been nearly two years since a groundbreaking provision to support musicians was signed into law, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has failed to implement the new policies to improve air travel with musical instruments in-cabin. The music community - including a close advocacy partnership between the League of American Orchestras and the American Federation of Musicians - has consistently called on the FAA to complete the rule-making process that it has yet to even begin. Now, Congress is stepping in to tell the FAA to take action immediately.
Contact your Senators and Representative right away and ask them to add their names to the bipartisan, bicameral letter from the Hill to the FAA. Please act fast! The letter closes for signatures at noon Eastern on Tuesday, February 11. We've set up an online communication that will take just moments for you to personalize and send.
Click here to contact your Members of Congress TODAY
The list of those that have already signed on is below and growing. We are grateful to Congressional Arts Caucus Co-Chairs Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ), and Reps. Jim Cooper (D-TN), Howard Coble (R-NC), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), for their extraordinary leadership on this effort. Ask Congress to send a clear message to the FAA – it's time to protect musical instruments from harm in-flight.
Thank you!
Signatures to the Letter as of February 6, 2014:
Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA)
Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA)
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN)
Rep. Michael Michaud (D-ME)
Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN)
Rep. William "Lacy" Clay (D-MO)
Rep. Billy Long (R-MO)
Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE)
Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ)
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY)
Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson (R-PA)
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN)
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX)
Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX)
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Original real estate, cemetery and membership camping salesperson's and broker's licenses are issued for a term of two (2) years. License renewal must occur on or before the last day of the month in which the license was issued. Renewals are for a two (2) year period.
Pursuant to A.R.S. §32-2124 – All applicants for an original real estate, cemetery or membership camping license shall show evidence satisfactory to the Commissioner:
Arizona is a non-reciprocal licensing state.
Out-of-State License Recognition - Click here to review the ADRE requirements to apply for real estate license recognition in Arizona.
Previously Licensed in Arizona – Arizona previously licensed licensees, in a terminated status which had not been renewed within one year of expiration, may qualify for a recertification of pre-licensing education, with the proof of a retake and passing of the Pearson-VUE examination, based on prior Arizona education and licensure. Contact the real estate school attended for records.
The Pre-licensure education is valid for ten years (§32-2124-B). Originally licensed individuals in Arizona, who obtained their real estate pre-license education more than 10 years ago, cannot be relicensed in Arizona without a current 90 hours of pre-licensing education and a retake and passing of the Pearson-VUE examination. All other license application requirements must be met.
Education – Pre-licensing education must be completed in-classroom or online from an ADRE approved Arizona real estate school. The school will provide you with a copy of the Candidate Handbook, or access it online at www.azre.gov. The Candidate Handbook explains in detail what is required when taking the Arizona examination and applying for a license with the Arizona Department of Real Estate.
Examinations - After completion of the pre-licensing course and passing the school's final examination the school will issue a Pre-licensure Education Certificate as verification the pre-licensure education requirement has been met. Upon receiving the Pre-licensure Education Certificate, and for the Broker examination when the Broker Candidate Experience Verification Form (LI-226) is completed, contact the testing administrator, Pearson VUE at 888-405-5776, or www.pearsonvue.com to register and schedule to take the Arizona examination. Examinations are given in Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma by appointment only.
An original Pre-Licensure Education Certificate must be presented to the examination site. Two forms of current personal signature identification, one government issued with a photo are required for presentation. All original documents must be presented at the examination site to allow for participation in the examination. An incomplete package of documents may require the approval process to begin anew.
The fee to take or retake a single part of the License Examination is the same as the fee to take the entire examination. Access the most current License Fee Schedule at www.azre.gov.
Out-of-State License Recognition applicants must present an original certified license history to Pearson Vue to schedule the examination.
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caustic,any strongly corrosive chemical substance, especially one that attacks organic matter. A caustic alkali is a metal hydroxide, especially that of an alkali metal; caustic soda is sodium hydroxide, and caustic potash is potassium hydroxide. Silver nitrate is another caustic substance; it is sometimes called lunar caustic. Most inorganic acids, e.g., sulfuric acid, are caustic, especially when concentrated.
a medicinal substance that exerts a local cauterizing effect when applied to the skin or a mucous membrane. Caustics are used for the destruction of certain skin neoplasms and for disinfection. They also perform antimicrobial activity by destroying the proteins of microorganisms. Caustics include such acids as fuming nitric acid and trichloracetic acid, such salts of heavy metals as silver nitrate and zinc sulfate, and alcohol solutions of iodine. Caustics are used in small concentrations as astringents.
Burning or corrosive.
A hydroxide of a light metal.
A curve or surface which is tangent to the rays of an initially parallel beam after reflection or refraction in an optical system.
A curve or surface which is tangent to adjacent orthogonals to waves that have been reflected or refracted from a curved surface.
1. capable of burning or corroding by chemical action
2. of, relating to, or denoting light that is reflected or refracted by a curved surface
3. a surface that envelopes the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
4. a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
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BALTIMORE– UMBC women's lacrosse battled hard and came within one goal of No. 19/18 Albany on three occasions, but was unable to put home the game-tying goal as the Retrievers fell short of the Great Danes, 12-8, in Saturday afternoon's Senior Day at UMBC Stadium.
The Retrievers were led by senior Kristen Bilney's (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron) hat trick, her sixth of the season, while junior Abby Wilson (Bel Air, Md./Fallston) posted a team-best four points on two goals and two assists.
Albany improves to 12-2 on the season and 3-1 in America East play, while UMBC falls to 7-8 overall and 1-3 in the league.
The Great Danes took the early lead, scoring 3:40 into the contest on an unassisted goal from senior Ariana Parker. Wilson knotted up the contest at one apiece with her 17th score of the year on a shot into the upper corner of the net 6:50 into the action, but a minute later, red-shirt sophomore Rachel Bowles registered the first of her game-best five points, beating her defender and slotting a shot past UMBC starting goalkeeper Anna Barnett (Midland, Texas/Midland).
Another Bowles goal with 11:20 remaining in the opening half capped off a 4-0 run in favor of the Great Danes, but 13 seconds later, Bilney came back with the first of three straight scores for the Retrievers. Bilney's goal was the result of a pair of quick passes from junior Alyssa Semones (Westminster, Md./Westminster/Penn State) to Wilson, over to Bilney. Sophomore Rachel Benzing (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) connected with Semones from behind the net for the second score and 28 seconds later Wilson found Bilney for the third goal to bring the Retrievers within one, at 5-4.
Albany's senior Allie Phelan stopped the run with a free position goal with 5:17 remaining in the period, but the Retrievers came back with the response, despite being a player down, when Semones received a pass from senior Shannon Harkey (Purcellville, Va./Loudon Valley/Florida) and drilled home the shot while falling to the ground. Albany did take advantage of being a player up when Bowles managed a shot through close coverage to give the Great Danes a 7-5 lead heading into the break.
The teams played even throughout the opening period, each taking 12 shots in the stanza and UMBC holding a 7-6 advantage in draw controls.
Retrievers' sophomore Kris Coppolino (Winter Springs, Fla./Winter Springs) brought the black and gold back within one, 7-6, 5:59 into the second period, bouncing home her first goal of the season. Albany scored back-to-back goals to keep some distance to take a 9-6 lead.
UMBC continued to battle as Wilson tallied her second of the day, but the Great Danes held off the Retrievers with two more goals, the first from freshman Sarah Martin and the second from junior Nichole Eamer.
A free position goal from Bilney kept the Retrievers within striking distance at 11-8 with 3:58 to go in the contest, but Albany held off UMBC and added a late free position goal for further insurance.
UMBC freshman goalkeeper Kelly Gielner (Pasadena, Md./St. Mary's) entered the contest 18:53 into the first half and made two saves in the contest. Barnett was credited with the loss in the contest (5-5). Albany goalkeeper Anna Berman improved to 11-2 on the year after making six stops in the contest.
Semones finished with a game-high six draw controls to go with her two goals. The Retrievers held a 13-9 advantage in draw controls in the contest, including 6-3 in the second period.
Parker and Martin each tallied hat tricks for the visitors.
The Retrievers conclude their 2014 slate on Saturday, April 26 at Binghamton.


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~Oil and vinegar of just about any flavour.
~Honda Jazz. Yep, a granny car and proud of it.
{image via here. This is a much shinier, cleaner and prettier version than my dirtier more beat up real car.}
12. What are your favorite clothes?
~My favorite clothes are the most comfortable ones. That translates into yoga pants or leggings, yoga tops or t-shirts, sneakers or tennis shoes.
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
~Everywhere. Let's throw a dart at a map, see where it lands, and go there together ;)
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
~1/2 full. But once it reaches ½ full I'll make sure it's topped off hehehe. Never want it to run empty so I work at making sure it doesn't (figuratively and literally).
15. Where would you want to retire?
~Until I get to see the rest of the world, I can't honestly say.
16. Favorite time of day?
~After all the kids have fallen asleep. There's peace in the house and my brain is still awake enough to do whatever it wants.
17. Where were you born?
here and here}
18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
19. What is your favorite fragrance?
~Rush by Gucci
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20. What is your favorite face cream?
~I'm still looking for one.
21. Favorite baby/kids products?
~I am gobsmackingly unsure. I listen to my kids reactions to products and they don't fall victim to brand loyalty. The only thing they religiously ask for and literally cheer about are Nordic Natural's Nordic Berries vitamins. They're so gentle on the system and taste like candy. So hard to resist them myself hehehee.
22. People watcher?
~Holy heck yes. I find them fascinating.
23. Are you a morning or night person?
~I've become a night person. And it wasn't for some cool supernatural reason like a glittery vampire and I fell in love and I had his vampire baby before he transformed me into my own glittery vampiry self. I'm just ridiculous enough to believe that I can somehow slow down the new day beginning, the kids waking up, and the onslaught of all my daily responsibilities starting anew by staying up as late as humanly possible. But I'm working on that.
24. Do you have any pets?
~Do 4 kids count? That's enough for me.
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Illinois man gets 20 years in Nebraska crash case
A 37-year-old Illinois truck driver has been given 20 years in prison for a Nebraska crash last year that killed a Maryland family.
Josef Slezak was sentenced on Wednesday in Sidney. Slezak, of River Grove, Ill., had pleaded no contest to four counts of vehicular homicide and one count of vehicular homicide involving an unborn child. Prosecutors dropped four manslaughter counts in exchange.
Authorities say Slezak had been driving virtually nonstop from Milwaukee, Wis., and was in western Nebraska on Interstate 80 when he fell asleep at the wheel on Sept. 9, 2012. His semitrailer slammed into the back of a car, killing Christopher Schmidt, his wife, Diana Schmidt, and their children ages 2 and 3. Diana Schmidt was 30 weeks pregnant.
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Padres' FanFest to be held Saturday at Petco
SAN DIEGO -- On-field clinics, forums and autograph signings highlight the Padres' annual FanFest, which will be held Saturday at Petco Park.
The 2013 FanFest, presented by State Farm, will again be a free event and the gates will be open to the general public at 10 a.m. PT. The event will end at 4 p.m. There is free parking in four locations -- surface lots along Imperial Ave. and the Padres Parkade (10th Ave. and J St.).
Padres Platinum, Gold and Blue members get early access from 8:30-9:30 a.m. with printable passes that were sent by email.
For fans who are not members, they can pre-register at no cost at padres.com/fanfest for a pass that will allow entry at 9:30 a.m.
Last year, more than 18,000 fans attended the event.
Current players, coaches, former players, broadcasters and members of the front office will attend the event.
The list of players scheduled to sign autographs includes: John Baker, Anthony Bass, Brad Boxberger, Brad Brach, Andrew Cashner, Chris Denorfia, Logan Forsythe, Jedd Gyorko, Chase Headley, Nick Hundley, Casey Kelly, Mark Kotsay, Tommy Layne, Cory Luebke, Cameron Maybin, Miles Mikolas, Adys Portillo, Carlos Quentin, Clayton Richard, Tyson Ross, Tim Stauffer, Huston Street, Joe Thatcher, Dale Thayer, Will Venable, Nick Vincent and Joe Wieland.
Fans will have the opportunity to get autographs, tour the clubhouse, run the bases and catch fly balls in the outfield. All-Star closer Huston Street will be featured in a kids' pitching clinic. Cameron Maybin will be part of a kids' batting clinic.
There will also be an expanded Military Zone in Park at the Park that will feature an interactive dive display with an underwater breathing system and an interactive jump display provided by Navy Special Warfare, among other activities provided by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps.
Owners Ron Fowler and Peter Seidler, Padres executives Tom Garfinkel and Josh Byrnes, manager Bud Black, players and broadcasters will take part in scheduled fan forums.
In addition, the Padres Foundation will host its annual Garage Sale. The Garage Sale, which raised over $80,000 a year ago, will be featured at a new location -- inside the Park Blvd. gate. Fans will have the opportunity to purchase rare, one-of-a-kind Padres items, including game-used jerseys and batting helmets, with proceeds going to the Padres Foundation.
FanFest will be the first opportunity for fans to guarantee their seats for some of the biggest matchups of the 2013 season, including the New York Yankees' initial visit to Petco Park. Ticket packages will be available online, at the Petco Park box office and by phone at 619-795-5555 beginning at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. Tickets will also be on sale at two locations inside the ballpark during the event.


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The Massachusetts Archives holds Massachusetts vital records covering the years 1841-1925. The vital records cover births, marriages, and deaths that occurred in Massachusetts. The Archives not only holds the records, but also indices to these records. The information from the 1841-1910 Birth, Marriage & Death indices has been entered into a searchable database. We welcome you to utilize this database to find the citations for the Birth, Marriages & Death records you are researching.
Each index entry will include the person's first and last name, the town or city where the event occurred, the year, volume number, and page number. The database is searchable by first and last names, year, and location.
—It is important to note that you need to search alternate spellings of first and last names as the information was frequently recorded as the clerk interpreted the names, or phonetically. For instance, if searching Smith, be sure to also search Smyth.
Please note that you may find records with citations that include either an * or a #. The * indicates that the record was amended at some point and that the citation points to an amended record volume. The Archives holds microfilm of amended records up to 1925, Vol. 86. If you require a copy of an amended record after 1925, please contact the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics. The Registry can be contacted at:
150 Mt. Vernon St.
Dorchester, MA 02125
If there is a # next to the citation, it indicates to staff that an additional step may be required when looking up the record in the record books.
You are always welcome to visit the Archives to make photocopies of the records. If you are unable to visit or if you require certified copies, we do welcome letters of request. Please refer to the instructions on our site.
If you require death records prior to 1841, you need to contact the Town or City Clerk in the town where the event occurred. You can also utilize the Vital Records up to 1850 volumes that can be found at your local public library. Vital records from 1926 to the present are held by the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, and they can be reached at the address above.
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Our software products are being used in India, USA and Singapore.
From the beginning Chemuturi Consultants has been focusing on delivering high quality service without compromising on ethics of the profession. Certifications achieved by our clients are rather a byproduct of process implementation and improvement in quality.
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John Mayer has become the latest celebrity to pull the plug on Twitter.
The "Waiting on the World to Change" singer reportedly bailed on his 3.7 million online followers Sunday after posting one final message on the microblogging service: "What does this button do?"
A rep for Mayer said in an e-mailed statement to The Associated Press that the musician's decision coincided with the end of his Battle Studies Tour and "a return to the studio planned."
Mayer has toyed with exiting Twitter before, calling the service "inherently silly" last year, according to E! News.
In February, Mayer went on a temporary hiatus from posting on the site, amid fallout over his controversial racial comments in a Playboy interview.
With his exit Mayer joins fellow celebrity Twitter apostates Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Amanda Bynes, according to E! News.
Mayer will continue to touch base online with fans on his blog, his rep said.
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Southern Californians from inland areas to the coast received a wake-up call early Thursday when two earthquakes struck -- the first with a preliminary magnitude of 3.7 followed by another measured at magnitude-3.8 -- two miles north of Pomona.
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The first quake hit about 4:43 a.m. one mile southwest of La Verne, followed by the second quake just 20 minutes later.
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NBC4 viewers reported feeling the quake in Alta Loma, Anaheim, Azusa, Chino Hills, Claremont, Corona, Covina, Diamond Bar, Duarte, Eastvale, Fontana, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Glendora, Hacienda Heights, Huntington Beach, La Puente, La Verne, Monrovia, Monterey Park, Newport Beach, North Hollywood, Ontario, Orange, Phillips Ranch, Riverside, Rowland Heights, San Dimas, Upland, Walnut and Whittier.
Even two people from Acton, more than 75 miles away from the epicenter, said they also felt the quake.
Employees at a Pomona doughnut shop were getting ready for business when they felt shaking. Employees said the metal gate at the building's entrance rattled.
"You hear it first, then all of the sudden it starts shuddering," a worker told NBC4.
One NBC4 viewer said the quake was the biggest they've felt in 10 years. An Ontario resident said the earthquake "felt like an underground explosion."
The second jolt felt like the "repercussion of a bomb," Chris, from Glendora, told NBC4. Closest to the quake, Aggie in La Verne said the shaking sounded like a freight train.
There were no reports of damage in the quake.
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Intel broaches fresh barrel-o-Linux
Because you can't use Android in a jet fighter - yet
Intel is not just a chip maker, but also a peddler of Linux and VxWorks operating systems for embedded devices thanks to its $884m acquisition last year of Wind River. This week, the semiconductor giant's Wind River subsidiary rolled out Wind River Linux, which has a Linux kernel that is so fresh that the heat from Linus Torvald's fingertips can still be felt on its bits.
Well, almost. Wind River Linux 4 is based on the Linux 2.6.34+ kernel, which is a variant of the kernel created by Wind River that sits between the 2.6.34 kernel that came out in May and the 2.6.35 kernel that Torvalds approved in August. Wind River Linux 4 runs on x86/x64 chips from Intel as well as ARM, Power, and MIPS processors and supports the GNU GCC 4.4 compiler set and GDB 7 source-level debugger and the EGLIBC 2.11 compiler, which is a variant of the above-mentioned GNU C that has been tuned for embedded system and which offers better support for cross-platform compiling.
Wind River Linux includes an embedded (get it, that's a joke?) [No -Ed] version of the KVM hypervisor controlled by Red Hat but also being championed by Linux hero Canonical in its Ubuntu variant of Debian Linux as well as supported by Novell in its SUSE Linux Enterprise distro. With Version 4 of its home-grown embedded Linux, Wind River is supporting paravirtualised drivers for the KVM hypervisor running on x86/x64 iron, which should boost performance a bit.
The Intel Linux for embedded systems will also run on the Wind River Hypervisor, which is a homegrown bare-metal hypervisor that the company announced back in June 2009 to give embedded systems providers the benefits of server virtualisation without sacrificing the cross-platform benefits of the company's Linux (carrier-grade) and VxWorks (real-time) operating systems and the related Workbench development tools.
This homegrown hypervisor does a lot of the virtualisation work on PowerPC, ARM, and MIPS chips that is built into Intel's VT virtualisation-assist circuits on its 64-bit processors, masking the differences in the architectures and underlying virtualisation from the programmers as they code applications for different architectures. (You can read all about this hypervisor here.) The Wind River Hypervisor supports VxWorks, Wind River Linux, and Microsoft Windows, with other operating systems in the works. The company is still working on MIPS and ARM implementations.
Wind River Linux 4 has support for the PREEMPT RT real-time kernel, which Red Hat and Novell have worked into their respective Enterprise MRG and SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time real-time Linux variants. Version 4 also has a migration path from prior 3.X releases of Wind River Linux. The operating system also supports multiprocessor system boards from Cavium Networks, Freescale, Intel, NetLogic Microsystems, and Texas Instruments.
Version 4 of Wind River Linux has 142 applications in the distro that have been tweaked, 125 packages that have been more fully updated, and 95 totally new packages. The platform will ship before the end of October, and Intel says it is working on making Wind River Linux 4 compliant with the Linux Standard Base 4.0 application portability spec and the forthcoming Carrier Grade Linux 5.0 standard. ®
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Which of these cars got its name from its manufacturer's dominance at a 24-hour sports-car endurance race in Florida in 1967?
Officially called the Ferrari 365 GTB/4, the Daytona held the production car record in 1968 when its performance figures stated it could achieve a top speed of 174 miles per hour. The car earned its nickname, Daytona, thanks to Ferrari's 1-2-3 finish in the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1967.


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Cards credit Red Sox, lament missed opportunities
St. Louis' lineup struggled to string together hits with runners on base in Series
BOSTON -- The second inning Wednesday night would have been a good, better-late-than-never moment for the 2011 magic to return to the bat of the Cardinals' David Freese. But Red Sox pitcher John Lackey, with runners at first and second, made sure Freese would finish with another empty at-bat -- a fly ball to right field.
Freese went 0-for-4 as the Red Sox won the World Series with a 6-1 victory at Fenway Park. He hit .158 in the six Series games and was 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. He can spend the winter lamenting his performance, but he and his Cardinals teammates had no choice but to express respect for the Red Sox, who made big pitches and big hits in the Fall Classic.
"It's a little of both -- you're going up against the Boston Red Sox, and there's a reason they're in the World Series," said Freese, who helped the Cards to the title two years ago while earning Most Valuable Player honors in the National League Championship Series and the World Series but performed nowhere near that level this year. "With that said, we had a lot of opportunities to capitalize and win some ballgames. We didn't make it happen."
The Cardinals and Red Sox were the best teams in their respective leagues in large part because of the way they made opposing pitchers work. They hit for average, drew walks and made the most with runners on base. The Cards sizzled at a .330 and the Sox hit .278 with runners in scoring position during the regular season.
Truth be told, both teams struggled overall in the Series. For all the deserved attention at the lack of the Cards' offensive production, they actually outperformed the Sox in batting average, .224 to .211.
But the Sox hit when it counted. Shane Victorino was 2-for-3 with runners in scoring position, including a game-breaking three-run double in the third inning Wednesday. Mike Napoli drove in four runs on his two hits with RISP, and Series MVP David Ortiz, David Ross, Xander Bogaerts and Jonny Gomes, whose homer sparked Boston in Game 4, all had memorable strokes with a runner at second or third.
The clutch hitting was especially apparent Wednesday.
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In Game 2, rookie starter Michael Wacha held the Sox to three hits and two runs over six innings while picking up the win at Fenway. Wacha used his curveball with some success Wednesday, but his fastball was not as sharp as it was in Game 2, and Victorino took advantage for the biggest hit in the clincher. After yielding six runs in 3 2/3 innings, Wacha was left tipping his cap to a relentless lineup.
"I went to the curveball quite a bit today," Wacha said. "It had good depth and sharpness. I just made some mistakes, and they made me pay for it.''
The early part of the Cardinals' order was good in the scoring position category, but so many key at-bats went to Freese, Jon Jay (1-for-7) and Matt Adams (0-for-5).
But Cards veteran left fielder Matt Holliday, who was 2-for-5 with a double and three RBIs in his scoring-position opportunities, didn't blame the bottom of the batting order. A lot of that, he said, was the Red Sox simply making the right pitches and defensive plays.
"The pitching is elite in the postseason," Holliday said. "Yeah, we didn't score as many runs as we'd like to. I think it's a combination of things. We got pitched pretty well, I guess. We hit some hard balls here that were right at people in big situations. We just couldn't string any hits together.
"We just didn't win. We win as a team. We lose as a team. We didn't score enough runs. They played better than we did. Unfortunately, we didn't play as well as we were capable of, in my mind."
Ortiz dominated the Series offensively, going 11-for-16 (.688) with two home runs, two doubles and six RBIs. But almost as dominant were starter Jon Lester (2-0, 0.59 ERA in two starts) and closer Koji Uehara, who gave up two hits and struck out three in 4 2/3 innings while earning two saves in five appearances.
"That pitching staff is tough," said leadoff hitter Matt Carpenter, who struck out against Uehara to end the game. "Tonight we outhit them, I think, but we just couldn't get that one big hit with runners on.''
The Red Sox locked up the championship with Lackey masterfully pitching around nine hits, striking out five and holding the Cardinals to one run in 6 2/3 innings.
"He did a good job, but we hit a lot of balls hard," Cardinals infielder Daniel Descalso said. "A couple hard-hit balls right at guys. ... If some of those fall, it's a different game. But he had good stuff. He made his pitches when he needed to, and he beat us."


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Ordinarily, I would simply respond in the thread, however the commenter raised several intelligent and interesting points which are worth responding to more broadly.
Taking it piece-by-piece:
The BRC report actually does recommend a decision framework for adopting advanced future fuel cycle technologies (including reprocessing). The report says that the federal government should sponsor RD&D to develop and demonstrate these technologies, but that the federal government (and the federal corporation recommended by the BRC) should not build or operate such infrastructure. So any future closing of the fuel cycle would involve decisions made by the private sector, based upon economics of direct disposal versus recycle. There it is.Yes, it is true the report states just that. However, as I pointed out previously, the BRC report does not address any of the incentive structure built into the current waste fee, which charges based upon electricity demand rather than final impact upon the repository. By the current policy, private operators have no incentive to reprocess until the value of spent fuel exceeds the direct cost of reprocessing in addition to fees already paid for disposal. (There is likewise the issue that the fuel is held in title by the federal government).
In this sense then, it is not per current law the province of the private market to solve. This is at the root of the reason that I point out the flawed incentive structure, however - right now, the current policy of pay-as-you-produce, per unit electricity fundamentally short-circuits decisions by the private market by forcing them to pay a fixed cost for disposal no matter what. A revised policy which rested on A) Payment at time of disposal, and B) Fees adjusted to repository-impacting factors such as volume and heat would allow for this kind of private decision-making process to take place.
In other words, right now any market for private action on spent fuel is essentially a stacked deck, which the BRC recommendations do little to address.
Further, because without further changes to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, spent fuel is the legal responsibility of the federal government, disclaiming technological alternatives to direct disposal without modifying the legal or fee-structure process is itself a commitment to direct disposal, absent events which entail spent fuel having a commercial value above and beyond that which has already been paid over to the federal government. Again, even a policy which delays these payments until spent fuel is handed over for final disposal would help to correct this issue.
As of now, given the fact that the federal government assumes a monopoly over spent fuel, it's a bit of a mulligan to argue that the private market serves as the decision framework for spent fuel treatment alternatives.
This post states that "The overall capacity of a geologic repository is controlled chiefly by temperature" which is not really correct; the overall capacity of a repository is determined primarily by the repository's area. The post presumes that repository area will remain a scarce resource, making closing the fuel cycle necessary to use limited repository area efficiently. This is a potentially completely incorrect assumption. What is the area of bedded salt in the Permean basin that stretches from Texas to Louisiana to Kansas? What is the area of the 70% of the continental U.S. which has crystalline basement rock within 2 kilometers of the surface suitable for deep boreholes? How many ridges of volcanic tuff are there at the Nevada Test Site that have ground water over 1000 feet below the surface? How much granite, how much clay does the U.S. have?Let's break this into two issues. Assuming fixed physical design (i.e., footprint), temperature is a limiting factor. This is not really a matter of dispute. The temperature of the drift wall and the rock between drifts is what controls the physical emplacement of waste.
Yes, one can always dig a bigger hole - or for that matter, look into alternatives such as vertical emplacement rather than the current model for horizontal emplacement. And indeed, by this logic, we conceivably aren't restricted in terms of available repository space - which is why I took care to point out that this is a regulatory limit in the context of Yucca Mountain (based upon the design itself) rather than a strictly technical one. However, the political feasibility of this approach of indefinite expansion has always been in doubt (difficulties in opening one limited-scale geologic repository notwithstanding). I am extremely pessimistic that one can simply get away with indefinite expansion of capacity at a single site, despite what is easily sufficient physical capacity to do so.
Moving on to the broader point regarding available alternative disposal sites, this is actually a point I've been wanting to address in a future follow-up about geologic disposal alternatives (i.e., alternatives to the Yucca Mountain geology). Indeed, the Permian basin salt dome formation is quite large, and was the subject of the aforementioned "Project Salt Vault," which originally tested the feasibility of salt-dome formations. (Likewise, WIPP is also on the border of this same formation).
Deaf Smith county, Texas, one of the five original sites nominated for a permanent geologic repository, was also located in the Permian basin geology, which indeed is quite expansive, with many locations isolated from population centers. Other locations considered, such as Hanford feature granite in the saturated zone. The list goes on.
So, are we limited in terms of available site selection for geologic repositories? Physically, no - nor was this the problem to begin with. However, I would argue on the basis of history that we are greatly constrained politically in opening such a repository. While I welcome the BRC report's emphasis upon a consent-based process for repository siting, I am pessimistic that the NIMBY politics which mired down a site selection process originally would not make opening or expanding future sites another difficult and time-consuming process. I would thus argue that repository space thus is at a premium, not for want of accommodating geology but for lack of political will, something which appears to evolve only on the same timescales as geology itself. (Again, somewhere I'd be happy to be proven wrong.)
On the topic of boreholes - this is one area where the BRC report appeared to favor further investigation - however the one remark I can provide here is that deep borehole disposal is relatively expensive - then again, so are geologic repositories. Cost estimates seem to vary wildly based upon the assessment, with some studies indicating an array of 700 boreholes to dispose of 70,000 MTHM of waste would cost about $14 billion. Looking back to a study performed by a former colleague, it would appear that their estimate for 95 boreholes (for 10,000 cubic meters of storage, or about the equivalent of 36,000 MT of SNF) would be about $3.26 billion - still less than a tenth of the estimated cost of Yucca Mountain and about a quarter of the estimated cost of a similar geologic repository in Sweden. (Note that this study is for intermediate-depth boreholes for greater-than-class-C waste; actual requirements for intact spent fuel may vary.)
In this sense then, issues of future retrievability and ultimate technical feasibility aside, deep borehole disposal may indeed be the way to go. This begs the question (to which I have no immediate answer) why the original Nuclear Waste Policy Act and subsequent amendments were thus so committed to the strategy of centralized geologic repositories, as opposed to decentralized disposal in deep boreholes.
Will the private sector ever want to invest in building reprocessing infrastructure that could become uneconomic overnight as soon as a few square miles of new repository space are opened up?Historically, this factor didn't seem to stop investments at West Valley and Barnwell. While West Valley was ultimately ill-fated due to initial design issues and later rendered retroactively uneconomical by changing regulations, Barnwell was clearly an attempt by the private sector to directly address spent fuel reprocessing. One can dispute whether the economics ever favored the viability of Barnwell, however clearly the private sector has been willing in the past to take on some of this infrastructure.
Further, this assumes a relative ease in developing repository capacity which again, may not be technically constrained, but certainly has yet to be demonstrated in terms of political feasibility.
If the decision to recycle spent fuel is left to the private sector, as the BRC recommends, probably the only reason any significant amount of spent fuel will get recycled in the future is because new reactor technologies will be commercialized where fissile recovered from old spent fuel will be less expensive than fissile from natural uranium. Google "denatured molten salt reactor" for a plausible example.If the BRC recommendations are followed with no further amendment to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (specifically with regard to the fee structure), this is likely true. And certainly, there are plenty of examples of reactor concepts which make use of recovered fissile materials, ranging from the integral fast reactor (a perennial favorite of Barry Brook over at Brave New Climate) to the EM2 small modular reactor design being proposed by General Atomics.
However, once again I believe my criticism here is still salient - how will the chain of custody of spent fuel adapt to allow for private alternatives to direct disposal? Will the federal government rebate funds for fuel diverted for recovery? Will an alternative fee be assessed for waste forms which are either more compact or cooler (thus having a lower marginal impact on the repository capacity?) These are questions which are left unanswered, ones which I believe would have significant consequences for private incentives for nuclear waste management (including recovery for reactors).
Given my own personal political preferences, I would prefer to see a system in which the private market handled spent fuel and the federal government only served in the role of steward of geologic disposal sites. However, in my opinion this requires a more fundamental re-working of the incentives built in to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which has yet to be proposed by the BRC.
Overall, several good and provocative points raised by the commenter - I appreciate their taking the time to present such a thought-out response, and hope this post serves to further the discussion.


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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Highlights Metro Evolution
To enable "PCs without compromise," Microsoft today announced the shipment of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. It demonstrated how the operating system has changed since the developer preview was officially released at the Build conference last September.
I had been skeptical about how well this would work on traditional desktops and notebooks but the new build does seem to address many of these issues. I'll have to wait to try it in order to really judge, however.
Steven Sinofsky, president of the company's Windows and Windows Live division, said that the operating system is ready for consumer preview in five languages now at preview.windows.com. (He did note that the applications were mostly in earlier versions than the operating system.) Visual Studio 11 beta is also available now, and the company will share more information about the enterprise versions at the upcoming CeBit show.
Read PCMag's Hands On With Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
Sinofsky said that as consumers, we face too many choices: consumption or production, performance or battery life, tablet or laptop, touch interface or keyboard and mouse. With Windows 8, he said, Microsoft wants to unite the hardware, OS capabilities, user interface, and applications so they work similarly across mobiles phones, tablets, and laptops, letting the OS scale to meet customers' needs.
The operating system has gone through significant changes since the developer preview, Sinofsky said, and Microsoft made more than 100,000 code changes. This is a "generation change" for Windows, Sinofsky said, representing nothing short of a bold re-imagination of Windows from the chipset to the interface. Microsoft started working on it before Windows 7 shipped.
Microsoft has rethought the user interface. It no longer has to label a Start menu but must enable users to see activities at a glance, make the apps work together, and use cloud connections. Users shouldn't have to pick one app over another, but should be able to have them work together. Cloud connections are also crucial, Sinofsky said. This is all tied together via the Metro interface.
Julie Larson-Green, corporate vice president for Windows Program Management, showed off the basic features of the OS on a tablet and emphasized how the OS is designed to operate using thumbs on a tablet.
She started with a personalized lock screen, which displayed the time and battery life. She then touted the new tile-based Start Menu, which is designed for an environment where users have many more applications. One big change here from the developer version seems to be new ways of zooming out to see all applications and move applications around more easily.
Larson-Green showed the Metro version of Internet Explorer, "flicking" among tabs. The operating system will come with a new Xbox Live tile, similar to that on Xbox and Windows Phone, as well as music and video stores. (She couldn't log on to the Xbox Live, perhaps due to the Internet connection.)
Larson-Green showed a new instant messaging client and explained that Metro applications can work side-by-side. Setting that up did look faster than on the developer version. Applications can also automatically share via the "charms" on the side of the screen.
But a bigger question has always been how well it will work on a more traditional PC, with keyboard and mouse. Antoine Leblond, corporate vice president of Windows Web Services, demonstrated Windows 8 on a Lenovo U300 S Ultrabook, which uses a keyboard and mouse.
Leblond explained that fingers are better for gestures, but mice are more precise. So, he explained that you move the mouse to the lower left to pull up the Start menu.
The mouse and keyboard work to rearrange the Start screen, either by moving individual tiles or groups. To move among apps, users can hold the mouse in the upper left hand corner and then pull down to see thumbnails of all the loaded applications. Users can also still hit the Windows key and type the name of the application.
Leblond ran the Kindle app, a financial application, and the USA Today app and he shared a USA Today article to WordPress, even though the two applications don't know about each other.
"Windows 8 is an even better Windows than Windows 7," Leblond said. All the applications and the desktop we are all familiar with work, and often work better.
Leblond revealed a new UI for copying files.
The desktop works like a Metro application, so users can see their running desktop applications in the same way. Here, it's shown side-by-side with a Metro application.
Larson-Green showed the new OS on a desktop with a touch screen, as well as a keyboard and mouse. All of the same commands work that way.
Using a Microsoft ID to sign in, users can have their preferences and defaults follow them from one system to another. She accessed Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud data repository and showed that any application can pull up content directly from Skydrive or any other application that stores content. An integrated search command works with every application that you have installed.
Users can use the Windows Store to find fun apps and during the consumer preview period, all of the applications will be free, Leblond said.
Sinofsky also announced the winners of the Windows 8 app contest, which seems to include a portfolio application, weather, games, and more. The winning applications will ship with the operating system.
The presentation then turned to hardware. Windows is designed to work on a wide range of systems, Sinofsky explained, from Windows on ARM tablets to traditional notebooks, to multi-monitor desktops used in large enterprises.
In a demonstration, Michael Angiulo, corporate vice president for Windows Planning and Ecosystem, showed off a Windows on ARM reference design tablet based on Nvidia's Tegra 3. Sinofsky and Angiulo also exhibited a variety of machines, including reference designs for tablets based on Qualcomm Snapdragon and TI OMAP processors, as well as Intel's upcoming Clover Trail Atom platform.
The OS now has a new range of class drivers that allow printers, keyboards, and such to work across all the devices. Windows on ARM will come with full versions of the core Microsoft Office applications.
To make Windows 8 work on "phone processors," Angiulo said the OS had to be written to use less CPU, less memory, and less disk but still runs all of the features (except the desktop) as the x86 version. On the Atom tablet, as well as on traditional x86 notebooks, users have access to all of the traditional desktop Windows applications. On all of these machines, Windows supports "connected standby."
Ultrabooks can now boot faster (in about 8 seconds on an Acer machine, as Angiulo demonstrated) and UEFI will also secure boot, as well. Ultrabooks can sleep and resume quickly and applications better suspend when they aren't actually running; it also switches more smoothly between mobile broadband and Wi-Fi connections. Angiulo presented Ultrabooks from Toshiba, Acer, HP, Samsung, and Dell, as well as the Lenovo Yoga hybrid. Users will see new form factors, such as attaching keyboards to tablets, Sinofsky added.
Touch screens will change desktops and thus people's work environments, Sinofsky said, comparing this innovation to the introduction of the mouse 30 years ago. Although desktops will work well with keyboards and mouse, "you're going to want every PC to be touchable," he said. He emphasized, however, that this is "and, not or," meaning that users will continue to want a keyboard and mouse on a desktop.
The range of PCs Microsoft showed was impressive, moving from a tiny dual core AMD-based PC (that appeared to be the size of a fist) to an 82-in touch screen PC mounted on the wall.
Other demos included an exterior speaker connected via NFC; adding arbitrary drives to a storage pool in a way that looks like a single large drive, but with features such as RAID for redundancy; and a dual AMD Radeon 7970 card rendering at 60 frames per second. Most impressively, this demo ran Windows 8 off a USB key using the "Windows to Go" feature.
All in all, Windows 8 looks pretty impressive. It will face a lot of competition from iPads, Android tablets, desktops and notebooks running OS X, and particularly from people who just are comfortable with Windows 7. I'm interested to see if it will be as smooth on the next generation of tablets as the iPad and how well it really works on more traditional desktops.
For more, read PCMag's Hands On With Windows 8 Consumer Preview.


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Lacey Printz and Alexander McMeen add another update on the track and field mission trip to Haiti. The above picture is from the conclusion of the prayer walk, highlighted in the third and fourth paragraphs.
What does it mean to be BOLD for Christ? This is a question that every Christian struggles with on a day-to-day basis. After our second day in Haiti, we feel as though we've been given the opportunity to discover this meaning. Having the ability to be bold exemplifies a great inner strength that God places within our hearts. One who is bold is unafraid of demonstrating this strength and willing to make a statement for what they believe in. Finding an inner strength to be bold for Christ is definitely something that each member of this team desires. We've all been in constant prayer that we may let God fill our hearts so as a result we may pour out our love and souls to these Haitian people.
As Christians, we have the opportunity to be alive in Christ and find strength in dark times and adversity. It is said that Haiti is 90% Catholic, 10% Protestant, and 100% voodoo. The most devout Christians often find themselves practicing voodoo when they feel as if God has not answered their prayers. Voodoo and evil spirits cause these people to live in fear and being here has opened our eyes to how evident Satan is within this country. At first, you might read this and think that is preposterous or not possible back home in the States, but doesn't materialism do the same thing to us? We look down upon something so "silly" as voodoo, when we have something just as powerful controlling us at home without even knowing it.
Recently at the CHCH, they have experienced many problems with their neighbors who practice voodoo, from slashed tires to stolen batteries to stolen license plates. Sitting down with Hunter and Jillian made it evident that there had been evil within the walls of the orphanage. They described how they had recently done a prayer walk over the orphanage grounds and in each room, praying that God may place His hand of protection over the orphanage. They understood the strength of prayer, and the power it contains when many bodies are praying over a certain thing, and so they asked us to partake in our own prayer walk. While we were uncomfortable at first, and even at times during the walk, we know God calls us to step out of our comfort zone so he can take over.
Taking part in the walk was an experience unlike any other. Satan doesn't know what we think, so verbalizing our thoughts and commanding him to leave the walls of this orphanage was vital. Ironically, as we started the walk, we literally heard Satan, as voodoo drums echoed in the distance. Many times we don't physically hear Satan because he controls us through subtle moments, and so it was actually empowering to know he was out there. Each group showed their boldness for Christ because we saw it as an opportunity to show Satan he was no match for God's power and unfailing love.
We finished the walk as a team, praying over the orphanage and the goodness God continues to bestow upon it. We ask that you join us in this prayer because we have seen firsthand how the CHCH can be a light for Haiti. As we close, a specific verse in Acts comes to mind, highlighting just how powerful an experience like this one can be.
Acts 5:29-31 says, "And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness while you stretch out your hand to heal, and the signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak with BOLDNESS."
Be BOLD for Christ.
-Lacey and Alexander


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