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Rally for States' Rights to Label GMOs!Posted: December 5th, 2014 | Filed under: Events | Tags: Cornucopia Institute, Credo, DARK ACT, Demonstration, Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, Friends of the Earth, gmo, GMO Labeling, Green America, HR 4432, Koch Brothers, Maine Organic Farmers and Growers Association, Mercola, Mike Pompeo, Monsanto, Organic Consumers Association, Protest, Rally, States' Rights, Weston Price Foundation |
The following Call to Action is from the Organic Consumers Association:
The battle for the right to know if your food contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could come to a screeching halt with the signing of one bill in Congress.
We need to stop that bill in its tracks.
H.R. 4432—the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) ACT—was introduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) at the bidding of Monsanto, Big Food and the Koch Brothers. If passed, H.R. 4432 will strip your state of the right to pass a GMO labeling law.
The DARK ACT will have its first hearing on Capitol Hill, on December 10. If we don't turn out in numbers to protest this bill, our voice could be silenced.
The Organic Consumers Association, with help from Friends of the Earth, Credo, Cornucopia Institute, Maine Sierra Club, Weston Price Foundation, Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, Maine Organic Farmers and Growers Association, Green America, Mercola.com and other groups, is organizing busloads of people to attend the hearing, followed by a rally and an organic lunch. But if we want to have an impact, if we want to attract the attention of Congress and the media, we need a minimum of 1000 people to be there.
Here's how you can help.
- Organize a bus from your area. OCA will help pay for a bus from your state to Washington D.C., if you can fill the bus. Call us at 218-226-4164 or email firstname.lastname@example.com if you want to organize a bus.
- Get on one of the buses that have already been organized. We have bus captains trying to fill buses in in Pennsylvania (one in Lancaster, one in Philadelphia), Boston, Central New Jersey, Detroit, Chicago, Indiana, West Virginia, New York City, Maine, Florida, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. If you live in one of those areas, please use the links below to find bus schedules and reserve seats.
- 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. The hearing on Pompeo's DARK ACT is scheduled to take place at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, 45 Independence Ave SW. We will gather there, with signs and banners, beginning around 8 a.m. As many people as can possibly fit into the hearing will attend.
- 10:15 a.m. When the hearing begins, everyone who didn't get into the Rayburn Building will move to our permitted rally spot on the Capitol grounds, at the corner of Independence and 1st St. SE. There we will have a number of speakers who will address the crowd and the media.
- 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. After we wrap up the rally and speakers, we'll move to the Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 201 4th St. SE (4th and Independence Ave, SE).
If you can attend, please read:
- Bring a black and red blindfold, to symbolize being kept in the dark. Red and black will tie in with our Stop Monsanto's Attack on Democracy/Stop Sign image.
- Please try to schedule (in advance) a meeting with the staff of your state representative or senator. Download this flyer, fill in the name of your state, and leave it behind with the staff to deliver to your member of Congress. (Find your senator; Find your representative.)
- Please make a hand-made sign that says: [NAME OF YOUR STATE] Against Monsanto's Attack on Democracy! We want to show Congress and the media that people have come from all around the country to protest this bill.
If you can't attend:
- Sign our petition asking Congress to reject Pompeo's DARK ACT here.
- Help flood the phone lines on Capitol Hill on December 10. We're asking everyone who can't be there in person to call their Congress members on December 10, beginning at 9 a.m. When you are connected with a staff person, you can say: "Hello, my name is [FIRST NAME, LAST NAME] and I live in [CITY, STATE]. I couldn't attend today's protest against H.R. 4432, a bill that would preempt states' rights to label GMOs, but I am calling to ask [NAME OF CONGRESS PERSON] to reject H.R. 4432 and to support states' rights to pass mandatory GMO labeling laws. Thank you.â€
- Make a donation to help offset the cost of buses, speakers, the press conference and organic lunch.
States that are already organizing buses:
- New Jersey (Wall township, Robbinsville, Cherry Hill): Reserve your seat here
- Pennsylvania (Lancaster, Philadelphia): Reserve your seat here
- Michigan (Ann Arbor): Reserve your seat here
- Maine (Bangor, Augusta, Portland): Reserve your seat here
- Chicago: Reserve your seat here
- Massachusetts/Rhode Island (Boston, Marlborough, Providence): Reserve your seat here
- Martinsburg, WV: Reserve your seat here
- Fort Wayne, IN: Reserve your seat here
- New York City: Reserve your seat here
- Orlando, FL: Reserve your seat here
- N. Charleston, SC: Reserve your seat here
- Knoxsville, TN: Coming soon!
- Concord, NC: Coming soon!
- Atlanta, GA: Coming soon!
Additional buses may yet be organized, so please check back. If you want to organize a bus, please email firstname.lastname@example.com, or call OCA at 218-226-4164.
This could be the most important action you've taken yet to protect your right to know about GMOs. Come to Washington D.C. on December 10. Meet other activists! Hear some great speakers! And help us send a clear message to Congress that states should have the right to pass GMO labeling laws!

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Animated Manhattan: Wonder Pets
Part 21 in an ongoing series looking at New York City in animation.
It's been a while since I've posted an entry to the Animated Manhattan series, but I'm bringing it back with a look at the most adorable cartoon to feature New York so far. It's called Wonder Pets, and it's produced completely in New York City by Little Airplane Productions.
Wonder Pets uses animated mixed media to tell the stories of three preschool pets — a guinea pig, duckling, and turtle — who leave the schoolhouse after school to save animals in peril. In an episode called "Save the Pigeon," the pets travel to New York to save a pigeon perched perilously on the Statue of Liberty's nose.
The episode starts in the schoolhouse, where it's clear that kids have been learning about New York. Lots of nice New York details can be found in the classroom.
A few more classroom details (including a King Kong reference):
As the Wonder Pets arrive in Manhattan, the music references Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
Finally our heroes reach the perilous pigeon, who has fallen out of her nest and is afraid to fly back up.
I don't want to ruin the ending for you, but I'll tell you that I learned a valuable lesson about encouragement and believing in one's self.
As night falls over Manhattan, the Wonder Pets make their way back home:
This show is sewiously the most adorable program I've seen in a while, and the New York episode is available from iTunes if you'd like to check it out.


text: Professional networking site LinkedIn is rolling out new features that allow users to easily manage authenticated sessions across multiple devices and better understand what caused security-related changes on their accounts.The site has added a new page under account settings called "See where you are logged in" that lists the user's active sessions, complete with the corresponding location, IP (Internet Protocol) address, browser type and operating system.[Security experts warn against using LinkedIn Intro app for Apple iPhone]Users often access their accounts from devices they don't own, even though this is not a good security practice. Those devices can be a friend's mobile phone or a public computer in a library. Unless they hit the sign out button when they're done, an active session can remain open on that device allowing other users to later access their accounts.LinkedIn's new session management page gives users the opportunity to remotely close sessions that were unintentionally left opened on other devices.The company is not the first large online service provider to add this capability though. Facebook introduced a similar feature in 2010 and Google has had it for Gmail since 2008.LinkedIn has mostly played catch-up to other websites when it comes to account security features. Such was the case with two-factor authentication and full-session HTTPS (HTTP Secure).Another improvement announced by the company this week is the addition of more detail in email notifications sent to users when security-related changes are made to their accounts, such as when their password is changed."The added information gives your more insight into when and where the account change took place, including the date and time and details on the device the changes were made on such as the browser it was running, the Operating System (OS), IP address, and approximate physical location," said Madhu Gupta, LinkedIn's head of security and privacy, in a blog post Wednesday.[Scammers promise easy money in trolling for LinkedIn users]The company also added a new account data export feature similar to the one offered by Google, Facebook and others."This single download will let you see all the data LinkedIn has stored on your account, including your updates, activity, IP records, searches, and more," Gupta said.


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Pendant Thor's hammer Schonenhammer - bronze
material: bronze
dimensions: approx. 3,8 x 4,2 cm
weight: approx. 23 g
Loop for threading the chain approx. 0,5 cm.
Bronze is generally an alloy of copper and tin, with a minimum copper content of 60%. Jewelry made in this way is more of a golden color. Products with an even larger proportion of copper and a smaller proportion of zinc give the jewelry the typical reddish - bronze color. Over time, bronze can darken and be coated with a so-called patina, which is a greenish surface created by the action of an acidic environment (sweat) and oxidation. Such jewelry can be easily brought to its original beauty with a bronze polish. Bronze jewelry can (but does not have to) stain the skin due to sweat (especially rings and bracelets that tightly surround it). This so-called copper patina is easily washable with soap and harmless to health.
Bronze has been known since prehistoric times. The discovery of bronze meant great technological progress in the production of tools, weapons and, to a large extent, jewelry.


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Using the Polish Tape Set, Front Matter
Note: All the text of the front matter of Using the Polish Tape Set is reproduced here. No attempt has been made, however, to make the HTML version look like the page layout of the book.
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Using the Polish Tape Set with The Interpreter's Edge, Generic Edition
developed by Holly Mikkelson & Jim Willis
in consultation with Ludwik Lamensowski
ACEBO P.O. Box 7485 Spreckels, CA 93962
Copyright (c) 1998 ACEBO. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced, or translated without the prior written consent of ACEBO. No part of this publication may be stored or transmitted in any electronic form without the prior written consent of ACEBO.
Tape copyright (c) 1998 ACEBO. It is a violation of US and international copyright law to copy or transcribe the audio tapes of the Polish Tape Set, in whole or in part, without the express written consent of ACEBO.
Introduction How to Use the Polish Tape Set About the Tapes
Simultaneous Lessons Simultaneous Lesson 1, Drinks for Drivers Simultaneous Lesson 2, Free Time Simultaneous Lesson 3, Present-Day Legislation Simultaneous Lesson 4, The Role of the Interpreter in Legal Proceedings Simultaneous Lesson 5, Witnesses Simultaneous Lesson 6, Probation and Parole Simultaneous Lesson 7, The Rights of Criminal Defendants Simultaneous Lesson 8, Sources of Law Simultaneous Lesson 9, Theft and Robbery Simultaneous Lesson 10, Gas Chromatography and Infrared Absorption Simultaneous Lesson 11, Courts of Law Simultaneous Lesson 12, Collection of Fingerprints Simultaneous Lesson 13, Adwokat Rafal Kasprzyk Simultaneous Lesson 14, Drug Laws in Poland Simultaneous Lesson 15, Closing Argument Simultaneous Lesson 16, Crimes Simultaneous Lesson 17, Evidence Simultaneous Lesson 18, Excerpts from the Polish Constitution Simultaneous Lesson 19, Rape Simultaneous Lesson 20, Murder
Memory Lessons Memory Lesson 1, Main Idea Memory Lesson 2, Controversial Content Memory Lesson 3, Writing Key Words Memory Lesson 4, Visualization Memory Lesson 5, Detailed Information Memory Lesson 6, Verbatim Recall of Testimony
Consecutive Lessons Consecutive Lesson 1, Bank Robbery Consecutive Lesson 2, Hit and Run Consecutive Lesson 3, Alien Smuggling Consecutive Lesson 4, Burglary Consecutive Lesson 5, Administrative Hearing, Department of Motor Vehicles Consecutive Lesson 6, Juvenile Court Consecutive Lesson 7, Murder Witness Consecutive Lesson 8, Medical Exam Consecutive Lesson 9, Rape Victim Consecutive Lesson 10, Armed Robbery Consecutive Lesson 11, Personal Injury Deposition Consecutive Lesson 12, Drive-By Shooting
This book is intended to accompany the Polish Tape Set for use with The Interpreter's Edge, Generic Edition. This is the sixth in our series of language-specific tape sets for the Generic Edition. This book and the tape set it accompanies are not ordinarily sold or distributed separately from the Generic Edition. If you do not have a copy of The Interpreter's Edge, Generic Edition, and the Generic Tape Set, contact ACEBO right away. You can call us at (831) 455-1507, or write to us at P.O. Box 7485, Spreckels, CA 93962. You can also contact us by email at email@example.com.
The Polish Tape Set for The Interpreter's Edge, Generic Edition was developed in consultation with Mr. Ludwik Lamentowski, Teacher of English (retired), University of Lodz, Poland. ACEBO wishes to express its appreciation to Mr. Lamensowski for his outstanding contributions, without which the development of these materials would not have been possible. The voices of the following people are heard on the Tape Set:
- Kinga Kozdron
- Holly Mikkelson
- Marek Niklas
- Barbara Selwyn
- Jim Willis
The three chapters of The Interpreter's Edge, Generic Edition cover the three modes of interpreting that court interpreters are required to master:
- Chapter 1 covers simultaneous interpreting.
- Chapter 2 covers consecutive interpreting.
- Chapter 3 deals with sight translation.
The organization of the material in this book and on the Polish Tape Set tapes corresponds to chapters 1 and 2 of the Generic Edition book. Neither this book nor the Polish Tape Set tapes contain any sight translation material.
Study Time Recommendations
When you are using the Polish Tape Set with the Generic Edition book and tape set, remember that interpreting isn't a skill you can develop overnight. Don't try to move through the lessons too quickly, or you won't acquire the mastery you'll need to be a professional court interpreter. Because interpreting is so mentally taxing, you'll reach a point of diminishing returns after about 20 minutes spent on a given exercise. That's why we recommend that you work on each mode of interpreting for 20 minutes, for a total of one hour each practice session. You can practice twice a day if you want, as long as you allow a long enough interval between sessions.
Many of the texts presented in this book are drawn from actual documents and court cases, but the names used are fictitious and are not those of any actual persons involved in any actual court cases.
Some of the texts included in this book may carry a political content or be otherwise controversial. This is by design. The inclusion of such texts is intended to provide you with much-needed practice interpreting material with which you may not agree. These texts should not be taken as representing the views of the authors or of ACEBO.
How to Use the Polish Tape Set
Before you start to use the Polish Tape Set, you should read all the introductory material in The Interpreter's Edge, Generic Edition book, specifically:
- the general introduction, which starts on page v
- How to Use This Book, which starts on page vii
- the introduction to simultaneous interpretation, which starts on page 1-1
- the introduction to consecutive interpretation, which starts on page 2-1
Simultaneous Lessons
Simultaneous interpretation is the most common kind of interpreting used in court. Because the actual courtroom simultaneous interpretation you do will virtually always be from English into Polish, you will not be asked to interpret the Polish simultaneous lessons on the Polish Tape Set. Instead, you will use them as warm-up exercises. You will be instructed to shadow, dual task, and/or paraphrase each passage.
Before you can follow those instructions, you'll need to know what those three terms mean. They are defined starting on page 1-2 of the Generic Edition book, but we've included a brief explanation here as well:
To shadow is to repeat what the speaker says, word for word, in the same language. Try to lag a full thought behind the speaker when you shadow. This helps you get used to talking and listening at the same time. Repeat the shadow exercise until you can shadow everything the speaker says without leaving out any words. After you feel comfortable shadowing, go on to the dual-task exercise. Begin all of your simultaneous practice sessions with five or ten minutes of shadowing to warm up.
Dual task means, simply enough, doing two things at the same time. While shadowing, write something totally unrelated on a piece of paper--the numerals from 1 to 100, for example. When you can do that without omitting any of the speaker's words, count by 3s from 3 to 99, and then backwards. The point is to increase your concentration and accustom yourself to working on two different tasks at once. Whenever you get to the point that you can shadow the speaker easily while performing the written task, increase the difficulty of the written task.
You probably already know what paraphrase means in its everyday sense, and that's very similar to how we use the word in the context of these training materials: Begin shadowing the speaker. As you go along, change the wording of the message wherever you can, without altering the meaning. This is a very difficult exercise, and it serves several purposes: It forces you to build up your decalage--the distance you lag behind the speaker--as you wait to hear something meaningful before rewording it; it builds your vocabulary; it increases your mental agility and problem-solving ability; and it enhances your analytical skills as you become more adept at ferreting out the underlying meaning of the message.
Paraphrasing is a good maintenance exercise that you should return to periodically even after you begin interpreting. Although paraphrasing is a valuable learning tool and mental exercise, you should never paraphrase when you're actually interpreting in court.
The simultaneous lessons on the Polish Tape Set are designed to be used with the English simultaneous lessons in the Generic Tape Set. For each of the twenty numbered simultaneous lessons in the Generic Tape Set, there is a corresponding Polish simultaneous lesson in the Polish Tape Set.
First, do a Polish simultaneous lesson, following the directions given on the tape. Then remove the Polish tape from your tape player, put in the Generic Tape Set tape with the corresponding English simultaneous lesson, and do that lesson.
For example:
Polish Simultaneous Lesson 1 is the first lesson on Tape 1, Side A of the Polish Tape Set. The directions for that lesson tell you first to shadow the passage, then to perform a dual-task exercise with the same passage, and finally to paraphrase the passage.
After you have successfully completed those three tasks, take the tape out of your tape player and put in Tape 1, Side B of the Generic Tape set. Do Simultaneous Lesson 1 on that tape. Again, you are asked to shadow, dual task, and paraphrase, but this time in English.
You would then go on to Polish Simultaneous Lesson 2, followed by Generic Simultaneous Lesson 2, and so on.
The first two Generic simultaneous lessons don't require you to do any actual interpreting. The other eighteen, however, instruct you to interpret into your target language--Polish.
The texts of all the lessons are provided in this book. Do not read the texts while you're listening to the tapes. Instead, use the printed texts to check on yourself after you've done a lesson.
Memory Lessons
The Polish Tape Set contains six memory lessons. The first five are on Tape 1, Side B. The sixth is on Tape 2, Side A. These memory lessons correspond to the six English memory lessons found on Tape 4, Side B of the Generic Tape Set. These lessons are designed to prepare you for doing consecutive interpreting, which depends heavily on memory.
The English memory lessons in the Generic Tape Set are described in detail in the Generic Edition book, starting on page 2-1, under the heading "Memory Exercises."
As was the case with the simultaneous lessons, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the six Polish memory lessons in the Polish Tape Set and the six English memory lessons in the Generic Tape Set. Start with Polish Memory Lesson 1, followed by Generic Memory Lesson 1; then Polish Memory Lesson 2, followed by Generic Memory Lesson 2, and so on.
The best way to do the memory exercises is to have two tape recorders —or a single recorder with two tape stations. Use one player to play the lesson, and the other to record your rendition. When you play the memory exercises, pause the recorder when you hear the word stop. Then record your version of the passage on the second tape. When you play back your rendition, read along in the script as you listen to it, to check for accuracy. If you don't have two tape recorders, you can switch cassettes in the same recorder. Alternatively, you can give your rendition without recording it, and simply read the script immediately afterwards to check for omissions. Do not read the script while listening to the tape for the first time, however.
Consecutive Lessons
When you've successfully completed the memory lessons, you're ready to tackle consecutive interpreting.
First, read the introduction to consecutive interpretation on page 2-1 of the Generic Edition book.
It is in the area of consecutive interpreting that the Generic Tape Set is necessarily least adequate, and it is here that the Polish Tape Set will be of greatest value to you. The Polish Tape Set contains twelve consecutive lessons on tapes 2A through 3B. These will be your primary consecutive interpreting practice materials.
Although the twelve consecutive lessons provided in the Polish Tape Set will give you plenty of realistic consecutive practice, you can still use the consecutive lessons in the Generic Tape Set, either as additional English-to-Polish consecutive practice, or as additional simultaneous practice. Using those lessons for simultaneous practice realistically simulates a situation in which you might be interpreting English testimony to a Polish-speaking defendant.
Note that the consecutive lessons on the tapes do not give you time to interpret a question before the answer is given, or time to interpret the answer before the next question is asked. There would be no way for us to know exactly how much time to leave, and to try to do so would waste a great deal of tape. Instead, we've left very small gaps between questions and answers —just enough to let you know that the speaker has finished. You can then press the pause button on your tape player, interpret the question or answer, and then unpause the machine.
You may find it useful to go back and repeat some of the earlier lessons after you've progressed well into the tape set, just to refresh some of the basic skills. Even after you've begun working in the courts, it's a good idea to come back to these exercises occasionally.
About the Tapes
The Polish Tape Set consists of three cassettes. Those three cassettes are packaged in the same cassette album with the five cassettes of the Generic Tape Set.
The Polish Tape Set contains the simultaneous, memory, and consecutive texts provided in this book.
The contents of each tape in the Polish Tape Set are listed below:
- Tape 1, Side A: Simultaneous Lessons 1 - 12
- Tape 1, Side B: Simultaneous Lessons 13 - 20 & Memory Lessons 1 - 5
- Tape 2, Side A: Memory Lesson 6 & Consecutive Lessons 1 - 4
- Tape 2, Side B: Consecutive Lessons 5 - 7
- Tape 3, Side A: Consecutive Lessons 8 - 10
- Tape 3, Side B: Consecutive Lessons 11 and 12
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Archos Ondio (the smallest Rockbox hardware)
About the boxThe Ondio is Archos' flash player. No harddisk, 128 MB of internal flash, expandable by plugging a MultiMediaCard (MMC). It is based on the same SH platform as the Jukebox Player/Recorder models, so we've been able to adapt Rockbox to it. For details, see the Ondio User Manual There are two different models of the Ondio: The Ondio 128 FM Recorder, featuring a FM radio, and being able to record from that as well as from a built-in microphone and a line input, and the Ondio 128 SP, which does neither have recording nor a radio.
Status of the rockbox port / How you can help
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New components
Button layout and hookupThe Ondio has less keys: only the 4 direction keys, a combined On/Off button, and one menu key. "Hidden" buttons are a MMC card present switch and the USB detection. See KeymapOndio for how they are used in the Rockbox applications. The assignment to the analog ports and the values are different, so it needs an adjusted driver. Direction keys are all on AN4, giving various reading depending on which key is pressed. MMC, USB, Menu and On/Off are "digitally" connected to AN0, AN1, AN2 and AN3, respectively. The ranges represent the readings from 1 Ondio FMR and 1 Ondio SP
Port pin assignmentMany pins have the same mapping as our "classic" FM JBR, the one most similar to the Ondio.
The MMC clock circuit (74AC08 / 74AC32)Three of the gates are used as a little logic to enable/disable the clock for internal and external MMC. One gate is used as a buffer for USB mode enable.
New version: 74AC08, quad AND gate
Old version: 74AC32, quad OR gate
Tuner board connectorThe tuner daughterboard is connected with two headers (firmly soldered, not pluggable). The 2-pin one is for power. Its Vcc is prepared to be switched via PA2, but the power transistor is missing on my board. Instead, it is bridged via a zero ohm resistor to general Vcc (always on). Perhaps this saved a few cents or tuner standby power is neglible. The 10-pin header has the following pinout (viewed on top of tuner board, pin 1 is marked with a square pad):
HW mask bits and their meaningsThe hardware mask consists of 2 bytes, but the second byte seems to be unused. The first bytes' bits most likely have the following meaning (bit numbers count from LSB):
Power measurementsFor adjusting the power thread's runtime estimation, I did some measurements. Conditions for all these were:
Archos Firmware IssuesArchos Firmwares older than 1.31f have a bug that will brick your ondio if you format it.
Be sure to quickly update to a newer Archos Firmware, of even better, flash it with Rockbox.
See the archos changelog for more info. another "possibility" to brick your Ondio: If you run this update from http://www.archos.com/support/download/firmware/ondio_sp/1.32b/ajbrec.ajz on a flashed Ondio (with bootbox) you kill your box! This file is not a normal firmware update, if you run it it shows some strings "RAZ" and" PRG" and so on and writes directly in the flash without warning! After shutdown you only see the "removable disks" in your PC, but you cannot access it. It's possible to rescue such a box using the UART boot mod -- JensArnold
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Lyrics: Robbie Robertson
Music: Robbie Robertson
Sung by Phil Lesh with the Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, Phil & Friends and The Dead.
Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes, moving across the water
There he goes, turning my whole world around.
Do you feel what I feel
Can we make that so it's part of the deal
I gotta hold you in these arms of steel
Lay your heart on the line ... this time.
I wanna breathe when you breathe
When you whisper like that hot summer breeze
Count the beads of sweat that cover me
Didn't you show me a sign, this time.
Can you see what I see
Can you cut behind the mystery
I will meet you by the witness tree
Leave the whole world behind.
I want to come when you call
I'll get to you if I have to crawl
They can't hold me with these iron walls
We've got mountains to climb.
|Grateful Dead Recordings
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There was 1 September day that Papa worked 2 hard
First he crucified every dandelion out in the yard
Then he screamed at baby twice 4 throwin' rocks at passin' cars
Baby didn't listen, so like a priceless work of art
He got snatched by his Papa who then opened up the closet door
And pushed the four-year-old down, onto the closet floor
Baby cried "I'm sorry, I won't do it no more"
Papa said "Yeah, I know, that's what this here's 4"
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Ooh Papa...
Smack! Smack!
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As the door closes, baby starts 2 cry
"Please don't lock me up again, without a reason why"
Papa just went outside and pointed a shotgun up in the sky
He said "How come I don't love my woman?"
Then he took aim and died
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Fair 2 partly crazy, deep down we're all the same
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Perl comes with its own documentation. The most straightforward and widely preferred way to read it is by means of the perldoc command line utility. It will give access to specific perl manpages (e.g.: perlsyn for Perl syntax or perlop for Perl operators) as well as to the documentation for individual functions and faq entries: it supports a large number of command line switches that are described in its own documentation. To access the latter just issue the following command at your shell's prompt:
perldoc perldoc
For some tips about where to look for some particular information, see brian_d_foy's Perl documentation documentation tutorial.
To put it briefly, however, most times you will want to use perldoc as in one of the following examples:
The language used by perldoc, POD makes it easy to render the documentation in a variety of target formats, including HTML. Some Perl distributions, most notably ActiveState's ActivePerl, a very popular one under Windows, come with ready made HTML documentation, wich some find easier to read and walk through.
An HTML version of the documentation is also available on the web at http://perldoc.perl.org/ and some other locations. As such, it can be searched through with Google and the above mentioned tutorial contains some specific examples about how to do so.
A POD Quick Reference is also available here, at the Monastery, which provides a categorized list of the most frequently used docs right in front of the reader for easy and intuitive access to them.
Some people prefer to use a grep or grep-like utility to search specific stuff in the POD documentation installed on their computers, and one can indeed use such an approach when everything else fails.
Under *NIX osen or cygwin, several grep-like utilities are generally availabe out of the box. Under Windows one can use ports from the UNXUTILS or GnuWin32 collections.
Other options include:
Other options
One additional possibility is to use the perlindex utility, which is "a program to index and search the perl documentation."
The tkpod standalone Tk POD viewer from Tk::Pod (which is a GUI for viewing and browsing Perl's POD documentation) also provides an interface to perlindex if it is installed, and its features additionally include:
Yet another alternative to perldoc is Pod::Webserver, a minimal web server which serves local Perl documentation: with it one can browse all the docs available on the machine it runs on with a web browser.
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As part of fulfilling longstanding campaign promise, Obama finally appoints high-powered lawyer to oversee closure of controversial Guantanamo prison
President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
Clifford Sloan is the pick to reopen the State Department's Office of Guantanamo Closure, shuttered since January and folded into the department's legal adviser's office when the administration, in the face of congressional obstacles, effectively gave up its attempt to close the prison.
A formal announcement of Sloan's appointment was expected Monday, according to officials briefed on the matter. They spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the appointment publicly before the formal announcement.
Sloan has served in senior government positions in both Democratic and Republican administrations and is now a partner in the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP law firm. For the past several years, he has been an informal adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, who recommended him for the post, the officials said.
"I appreciate his willingness to take on this challenge," Kerry said in a statement. "Cliff and I share the president's conviction that Guantanamo's continued operation isn't in our security interests."
The move fulfills part of Obama's pledge last month to renew efforts to close the military-run detention center at Guantanamo. That was a major promise in his 2008 presidential campaign, but it ran aground due to opposition from congressional Republicans.
In late May, Obama lifted a self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo detainees to Yemen, in what was a step toward closing a prison that he said "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." He said he would name envoys at both the State Department and Pentagon to try to unblock the closure process. The Pentagon envoy position has yet to be filled.
Word of Sloan's appointment follows the Republican-controlled House's overwhelming passage Friday of a $638 billion defense bill that would block Obama from closing the detention facility. The House of Representatives acted despite a White House veto threat.
The administration cited Guantanamo's prohibitive costs and role as a recruiting tool for extremists. A hunger strike by more than 100 of the 166 prisoners protesting their conditions and indefinite confinement has prompted the fresh calls for the prison's closure. Obama is pushing to transfer 86 approved detainees to their home countries. Fifty-six of the 86 are from Yemen.
Officials said Sloan, whose diverse government experience includes clerking for liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and conservative prosecutor Kenneth Starr, would focus primarily on navigating between the administration and Congress to overcome the deep, largely partisan divide over closing Guantanamo.
"It will not be easy, but if anyone can effectively navigate the space between agencies and branches of government, it's Cliff," Kerry said. "He's someone respected by people as ideologically different as Kenneth Starr and Justice Stevens, and that's the kind of bridge-builder we need to finish this job."


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Trump tweeted that "He won" but said the Democrat's victory was only "in the eyes" of the media.
President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the White House, but made clear he would not concede and would keep trying to overturn the election result. Trump's statements came in tweets that included several baseless claims about the Nov. 3 vote, which state and federal officials say was safe and secure.
Trump, without using Biden's name, tweeted that "He won," something Trump had not said before publicly, though he said the Democrat's victory was only "in the eyes" of the media. Biden defeated Trump by winning back a trio of Midwestern battleground states: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and topped the 270 electoral vote threshold to clinch the presidency. Biden so far has 77.5 million votes, the most ever by a winning candidate, to Trump's 72.3 million.
"If the president's prepared to begin to recognize that reality, that's positive," Biden's incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain told NBC's "Meet the Press." Still, Klain said, "Donald Trump's Twitter feed doesn't make Joe Biden president or not president, the American people did that."
The president has previously refused to accept the results of the election and he dug in again Sunday, saying, "I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go." Even while seemingly acknowledging Biden's victory, he also argued without evidence that the former vice president only won because the election was "rigged." Trump then made unsubstantiated complaints about access for poll watchers and about vote tabulations and asserted, "WE WILL WIN!" Twitter soon posted warning labels about the tweets.
There has been no widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In fact, election officials from both political parties have stated publicly that the election went well and international observers confirmed there were no serious irregularities.
Trump's campaign has tried to mount legal challenges across the country, but many of the lawsuits have been thrown out and none has included any evidence that the outcome might be reversed.
More than a week after Election Day, Trump has neither called Biden nor made a formal concession, and White House officials have insisted that they are preparing for a second term.
In recent days, Trump appeared to be inching closer to acknowledging the reality of his loss. In comments Friday in the Rose Garden about a coronavirus vaccine, Trump said his administration would "not be going to a lockdown" to slow the spread of COVID-19, and added that "whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be? I guess time will tell."
Trump on Sunday renewed his groundless attacks on an election technology firm, Dominion Voting Systems, without evidence of any serious irregularities. Dominion has said it "denies claims about any vote switching or alleged software issues with our voting systems."
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, a federal agency that oversees U.S. election security, said in a statement last week that the "November 3rd election was the most secure in American history." The agency said, "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
In his latest fundraising email, Trump told supporters that "we are fighting to ensure EVERY SINGLE LEGAL ballot is counted" and that he had "legal teams on the ground in every critical state."


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This is Page 3 of a six-page article about Gouda. Here, the flavor (taste) of Gouda cheese. Click on the black links to visit other pages.
Some purists who turn up their noses at young Goudas have far greater respect for the more mature relatives of the clan.
As is typical with more aged cheeses, aged Gouda tends to be harder in texture than a young Gouda; in fact, it has a texture more similar to Parmigiano-Reggiano.
The interior, or paste, is more deeply colored than that of a young Gouda; in a Gouda aged for roughly two years or longer, the paste becomes more of an amber, or yellowish-brown. The flavor is complex: intense, butterscotch-caramel, salty yet on the sweet side (it is often described as caramelized or toffee-like).
Mature Goudas may be difficult to slice evenly with a knife—they frequently come apart in chunks, also similar to a Parmigiano-Reggiano. But they're wonderful grating cheeses, and add flavor to soups, stews, cooked vegetables, rice, mashed potatoes, eggs—try it on anything you'd like to flavor with cheese. A more mature Gouda is often dipped in wax after it has finished maturing; the wax used sometimes is black, not the red or yellow used for a young Gouda (which is how you can spot them when you're shopping).
Aged Gouda will often contain small, crunchy white crystals (you can see them in the photo below). They are a crystallization of the amino acid, tyrosine, a result of casein (the main protein in milk). They're perfectly fine to consume—in fact, some people purchase tyrosine supplements, which are believed to reduce stress and help with sleeping. Certain aged cheeses, like Aged Gouda, Aged Gruyère, Parmigiano-Reggiano and Piave Vecchio, will have a preponderance of them. Most cheese lovers consider the crunchy texture one of the delights of the cheese.���
Aging Gouda
Exactly how long a Gouda should be aged for great flavor and texture is a matter of serious debate among lovers of this cheese. I've seen arguments for Goudas with as little as six months of aging, but there are those who insist that a Gouda isn't truly mature unless it's aged for at least two years. There are those who only love their Gouda aged three years and five-years, though those can be harder to find. See the two examples at the right: the five-year-old on top and the three-year-old underneath, both from cheese specialist iGourmet.com.
Remember, too, that the longer a Gouda has matured, the more you should expect to pay for it, although Gouda is less costly in general than many other cheeses. For instance:
Look at the beautiful, butterscotch color of this 5-year-old Gouda ("triple aged"). You can see the tyrosine crystals dotting the paste. You can also see how the cheese flakes, rather than slices. Compare the color to the 3-year-old Beemster X.O. Gouda below ("double aged"). Both are available at iGourmet.
Perhaps the most elegant-looking wheel of Gouda you'll ever see, and with good cause: black truffles are added.
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As the Rebel Alliance continues its fight for freedom and democracy in the Star Wars galaxy, the phantom puppetmaster himself, Darth Sidious (aka Emperor Palpatine), has issued a new galactic decree about Star Wars Weekends 2014 at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
While some of his blue-hued holographic transmission was garbled, the Emperor has ordered his Galactic Empire to create a demonstration of force and power that can be seen high above Disney's Hollywood Studios during Star Wars Weekends 2014. This has caused much talk in the galaxy that a gala fireworks show featuring Star Wars music will be presented each evening this year.
When consulted, several protocol droids further translated the Emperor's message. These translations reinforced the conclusions that there will be a new evening experience for Star Wars Weekends guests on Hollywood Blvd. in the Walt Disney World Resort theme park.
However, that's not the end of this story.
When the Rebel Alliance secretly learned of the Emperor's plans from a hidden message decoded from an astromech droid, they decided to extend the galactic gala one more weekend in 2014.
In order to convince more guests to join the Rebellion, a 5th weekend is now being added to Star Wars Weekends 2014. The new event dates are every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from May 16-June 15, 2014. The theme for this year's event is, appropriately, "Join the Rebellion."
- Weekend I: May 16 – 18, 2014
- Weekend II: May 23 – 25, 2014
- Weekend III: May 30 – June 1, 2014
- Weekend IV: June 6 – 8, 2014
- Weekend V: June 13 – 15, 2014
In addition to offering a first-look at this year's event logo above, we're pleased to announce James Arnold Taylor will return to Star Wars Weekends 2014 as the event's official celebrity host. Taylor, a Star Wars Weekends fan favorite, is the voice of hundreds of animated characters, including Obi-Wan Kenobi on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars."


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Utah kids benefit from state land reform
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue's feature story, 'Unranchers' reach for West's state lands.
Inevitably, any disagreement over state-owned lands raises the spectre of schoolchildren in need. In Utah, where spending per pupil ranks lowest in the nation, that dismal statistic has spurred reform.
State lands have never generated fat revenues for education. In the 1920s, known coal deposits were sold for just $3 an acre, and those mines are still active. The military leased other lands for as little as 11 cents an acre.
Overseeing state lands in Utah for decades was a board with built-in conflicts of interest. Its 10 members represented timber, oil and gas, minerals, grazing, wildlife and recreation. Only one member directly represented education.
In the late 1980s, a reform movement got under way. Educators and parents began to organize on behalf of schools, and three years ago the state parent-teacher group, teachers' unions and school officials produced a video pointing out the value of state lands and their current mismanagement. The video, shown to gatherings at schools around the state, included a presentation by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, but conservationists and their concerns took a back seat. The focus was on making state lands profitable.
Although the very mention of wilderness can divide communities in Utah, the image of the needy child drew people together. The alliance grew, and five months ago the state legislature responded by dissolving the land board and setting up a new agency. The School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration has a board of seven trustees appointed by the governor on the basis of their business skills.
The same alliance also pushed for a new federal law that may demonstrate to other states how to cash in on state-owned land that is intermingled with federal lands. The Utah Schools and Lands Improvement Act, passed by Congress last October, takes on the state inholding problem. Utah owns 80,000 acres within national parks, 80,000 acres within national forests, and 40,000 acres within Indian reservations.
If Utah's acreage within national parks were sold to the highest bidder or developed, it would fetch "hundreds of millions of dollars," says Margaret Bird, an economist and consultant to the Utah Office of Education. Bird says the federal government has bought private inholdings within its parks but ignored state lands, acting as though the state lands were already federal.
"The schoolchildren of Utah should not be financing the national needs," Bird says.
To get the federal government's attention, a few years ago the state sold one of its inholdings within a national forest; the U.S. Forest Service suddenly "realized it had hundreds of time bombs ticking away in its forests," says Kevin Carter, deputy director of Utah state lands.
Under the new federal law, land agencies are to acquire 200,000 acres of Utah inholdings. As payment, Utah will get federal lands it can develop, including a parcel adjacent to a ski area and a site for telecommunications, as well as up to $50 million in federal mineral royalties. Conservationists are watching the process closely, fearing that some development plans will result in inappropriate uses of the land.
Five years ago, Utah's state lands generated about $9 million for education. Last year the lands brought in $21 million, which still amounts to less than 2 percent of the total state funding for education. Utah has its eyes on New Mexico, where state lands generate 20 percent of total education funds.


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An Oregon woman will be the first openly lesbian lawmaker to lead a state legislative chamber in the U.S.
Democrats in the state House Thursday night chose Rep. Tina Kotek of Portland to be the next speaker. The decision must be formally ratified in January.
Kotek's selection notches another milestone from an election that brought a series of victories to the gay community. Voters last week elected the first openly gay U.S. senator and the first bisexual member of Congress.
Kotek will be the first gay woman to get the top job in a legislative chamber.
Gay leaders will also control the House or Senate in four other states: Washington, California, Colorado and Rhode Island. The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund says that's more than ever before and up from two before the election.
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V6-only Ford F-150 Limited gets more luxury and utilityWed, 27 Jun 2012
The big news for the Limited trim option of the 2013 Ford F-150 is that it will be powered exclusively by the company's EcoBoost V6, making 365 hp while returning a claimed 22 mpg on the highway in two-wheel drive trim.
The new F-150 Limited gets 22-inch polished aluminum wheels, body-color front and rear bumpers and standard HID headlights. The Limited comes only in SuperCrew configuration, and only in three colors—red, black and white.
The interior features leather-trimmed seats with an optional heating and cooling function. It gets aluminum and piano black trim with ambient lighting in five colors. The moonroof is standard, as is a rearview camera, Sync, MyFord Touch and a Sony sound system.
For buyers who want a little utility with their luxury, the Limited comes with a tow-haul mode, a trailer tow package, a trailer brake controller, power running boards and a 110-volt power inverter.
Pricing hasn't been announced yet, but the 2013 Ford F-150 Limited will be in dealerships this fall.
By Jake Lingeman


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Dir: James Franco. US. 2013. 110mins
Baz Luhrmann revisited F. Scott Fitzgerald with 3-D fireworks and exuberant elan. James Franco takes a less flamboyant approach to another giant of twentieth century American literature but his adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is just as stylistically adventurous.
Franco allows the entire film to drift in and out of split-screen using the two frames for different perspectives on the same events, keeping one half of the screen dark or providing some counterpoint between the two images.
Franco attempts to capture and match Faulkner's stream of consciousness prose with split-screen imagery, interior monologues and slow motion to create a film that might seem more at home as an art museum installation than a mainstream cinema release.
Franco's aesthetic choices result in a ponderously paced slice of Southern Gothic that becomes something of an endurance test. Franco's rising star and Faulkner's literary reputation might create some modest theatrical curiosity in America, and Festival interest internationally, but as a nonplussed Bud Grossman remarks in Inside Llewyn Davis: " I don't see much money in it."
Published in 1930, Faulkner's novel follows a dirt poor, backwoods family intent on respecting their mother's last wishes. Her eldest son Cash (Logan Marshall-Green) prepares a handsome coffin as Addie Bundren (Beth Grant) lies dying. Later, her widowed husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) and their offspring begin an epic journey to bury her rotting corpse in the nearby town of Jefferson.
It is almost a Biblical quest towards some promised land as they risk life and limb crossing treacherously swollen rivers, escape burning barns and unburden themselves of the secrets and sorrows they have previously kept hidden.
That sounds like an accessible, linear narrative, but Franco allows the entire film to drift in and out of split-screen using the two frames for different perspectives on the same events, keeping one half of the screen dark or providing some counterpoint between the two images.
It feels distracting and gimmicky without adding anything to the experience. Characters speak directly to camera, voice- over gives expression to interior monologues and the few dramatic moments tends to be drained of any potential to excite by being rendered in slow motion.
The prevailing mood of the film is one of inertia and its stubbornly resists viewers becoming involved in the plight of the lead characters with only the odd moment of humour or heartache escaping to the surface.
Franco himself appears as Addie's son Darl and has assembled an able cast that includes impressive newcomer Brady Permenter as the youngest son Vardaman and Tim Blake Nelson as Anse. Gormless,toothless and with his mouth permanently agape, Nelson looks every inch the part of the none too bright patriarch but his thickly impenetrable accent, again true to Faulkner, makes a good deal of his dialogue impossible to comprehend adding another barrier to an already challenging film.
Production company: Millennium Films
Producers: Lee Caplin, Matthew O'Toole, Miles Levy, Carolie Aragon, Vince Jolivette, Avi Lerner, Robert Van Norden
International sales: Nu Magic Inc., email@example.com
Screenplay: James Franco, Matt Rager adapted from the novel by William Faulkner
Cinematography: Christina Voros
Editor: Ian Olds
Production designer: Kristen Adams
Music: Kim O' Keefe
Main cast: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McBride, Logan Marshall-Green


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Andrew V. Schally
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- Nobel Prize (1977)
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Andrew V. Schally, in full Andrew Victor Schally, (born November 30, 1926, Wilno, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]), Polish-born American endocrinologist and corecipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He was noted for isolating and synthesizing three hormones that are produced by the region of the brain known as the hypothalamus; these hormones control the activities of other hormone-producing glands.
Schally fled Poland with his family in 1939. He attended the University of London and worked for three years at the National Institute for Medical Research in London before traveling to Montreal to enter McGill University. He graduated in 1955 and two years later took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. From 1957 to 1962 he was associated with Baylor University in Houston, Texas, and in 1962 he became a U.S. citizen. That same year Schally was made chief of endocrine and polypeptide laboratories at the Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the same time he joined the medical faculty of the Tulane University School of Medicine, becoming a professor in 1967. He became senior medical investigator with the VA in 1973.
Among Schally's chief accomplishments were the synthesis of TRH (thyrotropin-releasing hormone), the isolation and synthesis of LHRH (luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone), and studies of the action of the peptide somatostatin. His research helped elucidate pathways of hormone regulation in males and females and contributed to the development of fertility treatments and contraceptives. In 1975 Schally and Guillemin received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.


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Alex Artz Work from Ailurophilia. While the statement is from her project Human-Animal, I find it applicable to the images above as well. "I continually wondered how adaptable the human home is for other species, whether that species lives in its own bedroom or in a cage in the backyard. The animals in these pictures […]
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The chestnut brown 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso wasn't the only barely-disguised race car McQueen drove on public roads: there's also this canvas-topped 1956 XKSS Le Mans racer.
To appreciate the full spectrum of the XKSS's lunacy, consider these seven easy steps you'd have to take to create a contemporary equivalent:
- Acquire last year's Le Mans winner: the Audi R10
- Fit passenger door and seat
- Fit rudimentary canvas top
- Install windshield
- Remove giant rear wing
- Replace headlight assembly
- Add a bit of chrome
And you're done! Notice how it's remained a race car with a featherweight carbon fiber body and a 700 HP V12 turbodiesel.
But the engine in the XKSS was not a turbodiesel. It was a gasoline-fueled straight six with triple Webers, good for 250 HP, brain-meltingly loud at 6,000 RPM and also very pretty. In a very British way.
It was not only the engine which made the D-Type such a monster at Le Mans. The body was an aluminum monocoque, carried over from aircraft manufacturing. Very advanced for its day of body-on-frame and superleggera designs, with an aerodynamically shaped underbody for low drag. And, of course, that giant asymmetrical fin behind the driver's seat, good for stabilizing the car when you were screaming down the Mulsanne Straight at 180 MPH.
The D-Type won at Le Mans three times in a row. Fifty years after its last victory in 1957, I was wandering about the parking lot at Le Mans, waiting for the 2007 race to begin, when I spotted one. It had apparently been driven to the race on the public road. Armed with a brochure which depicted Mike Hawthorn—the man who drove the D-Type to its first victory here—I reunited car and driver.
Human biology would have allowed for such a reunion without my help, as Hawthorn would only have been a springly 78 on this cold, damp June day. But he had already been dead since 1959, having crashed his souped-up Mk1 Jaguar into a tree. Four years after eighty people died at the very Le Mans race he won. Two years after nine of the planned 25 XKSS's were destroyed in a factory fire, resulting in the 16 examples ever made of the car.
Perhaps this is why D-Types are so downright frightening in person. They carry their grim history like a personal thundercloud tied to that massive shark fin of theirs.
Photo Credit: John Dominis/Life (McQueen in XKSS, click to download in 3200×2372!), Balázs Fenyő (Jaguar XK engine) and the author (D-Type at Le Mans in 2007)


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Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2, is dragged well past two hours
Star Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Sally Field, Chris Cooper
Director: Marc Webb
It's hard to keep the amazing coming, but somehow, Marc Webb manages it yet again, two years after The Amazing Spider-Man and not so many years later that people have forgotten Tobey Maguire doing those same tricks with more or less the same material. The primary reason is Andrew Garfield, who brings good looks and innocent charm, goofy spunk and enough heart, as well as dollops of romance, to give us a Spider-Man more close to our times, when being nerdy is not nearly as bad. His superhero is as much of a misfit to begin with but more comfortable when he makes the transition. Maguire was never allowed that privilege. Plus, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes with two villains with just enough character and enough acting abilities to make the contest worthwhile. Foxx stars as Max, who works in the electrical division of Oscorp, which we know is the big bad corporation of this comic world. With a balding head, carefully gelled down hair to cover the pate, thick glasses and ill-fitting clothes, he is a pushover, ignored and mocked by his superior and colleagues. Max's best memory is being saved by Spider-Man one day on the road, and being addressed by him kindly. The other villain is Harry Osborn, the heir to the Oscorp empire and Spider-Man or Peter Parker's childhood friend who is dying of an inherited disease and believes his hope is an experiment Peter's late father was working on. Played by DeHaan, Harry is an unstable element, looking vulnerable and venomous at the same time.
Max transitions into the electricity-fuelled Electro and Harry into a crazed maniac over action that Webb carefully orchestrates to keep us interested. In fact, the director nails this aspect right at the beginning when he enacts Peter's parents' death in a plane crash, bringing in a fair amount of suspense. You just wish Max's hand wringing over his sorry state didn't get tiresomely repetitive. While real-life couple Garfield and Stone — as Peter's girlfriend Gwen Stacy — again sizzle on screen, she is among the characters The Amazing Spider-Man 2 does least justice to. She is given ponderous dialogue and placed in incongruous circumstances, from which she never emerges without a helping hand. Webb also overstretches Garfield's welcome, dragging the film well past two hours and giving a teaser to the intended sequel before coming to a, literally, clanking halt.
Source- Indian Express
Written by Shalini Langer.


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Goldie Hawn likes West 57th Street. The actress already has a high-floor apartment on the street and she recently took a look at another one.
Hawn paid a visit to a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 54th-floor condo at the Sheffield building at 322 W. 57th St. The 3,417-square-foot residence includes a library, a formal dining room and a family room. And it's just down the block from Hawn's condo at the Central Park Place building.
The Sheffield is the condo conversion that famously gave developer Kent Swig quite the headache. One of Swig's business partners on the project, Yair Levy, was arrested in 2008 after attacking Swig with an ice bucket. In 2009, Swig lost control of the building to creditor Fortress.
Live-work space
Celebrity criminal-defense lawyer Mark Geragos has big plans for the 12,960-square-foot commercial building at 256 Fifth Ave., which he recently bought for $8 million. Geragos intends to build a triplex residential penthouse on top, and his office will also be in the 1893 building, which can be can be expanded to nearly 25,000 square feet and also comes with a whopping 11,700 square feet of air rights.
Crown Design's Anthony Milano is renovating the building. The proposed residential penthouse addition will be 3,600 square feet and set to the rear of the building, so it is out of sight. The hope is that not making it visible from the street will make it easier to obtain landmark status, sources say.
There are also plans to restore a balcony and the building's storefront space.
Geragos' clients have included Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, Diddy and Chris Brown.
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Model Kendra Spears is the latest pretty face to check out apartments at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. Spears recently visited a three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom condo listed for $1.8 million.
One Brooklyn Bridge Park is already home to supermodel Shalom Harlow, who bought a 1,385-square- foot unit for $1.275 million in 2010. Other residents include actor/comedian JB Smoove and former New York Jet John Dockery.
MNS, the exclusive sales firm for the building, did not return calls.
Sutton impact
Legal eagle Alan Dershowitz is spreading his wings to a Sutton Place co-op.
The prominent lawyer/author has purchased a three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom corner apartment at 45 Sutton Place South. The co-op was listed for $1.895 million.
The 1,800-square-foot unit, which was designed by John Saladino and has East River views, was once owned by catalog queen Lillian Vernon.
Listing broker Lawrence Rich of Prudential Douglas Elliman declined to comment.
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Chart-topping jazz trumpeter Chris Botti is hunting for a deluxe bachelor pad. He recently paid a visit, with his pal Carole Radziwill of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City" in tow, to a two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom, 2,024-square-foot condo at 111 Mercer St. that's on the market for $4.25 million.
Our spies say that the pair did not appear affectionate but that Botti was definitely interested in Radziwill's opinion.
The four units in the newly renovated SoHo development have been on the market for less than two weeks, and there are already contracts out for two apartments.
Listing brokers John Gomes and Fredrik Eklund of Prudential Douglas Elliman declined to comment.


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Updated Tuesday, June 25, 12 p.m. EDT: Various civil rights groups and organizations vociferously condemned the Supreme Court's decision to limit use of a key provision in the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which defended the Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court, called it "an act of extraordinary judicial overreach" and called for Congress to step in, according to a statement released after the decision.
"The Supreme Court's decision today to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act is an act of extraordinary judicial overreach," Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP LDF, wrote. "The Supreme Court ruling takes the most powerful tool our nation has to defend minority voting rights out of commission. By second-guessing Congress' judgment about which places should be covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the Court has left millions of minority voters without the mechanism that has allowed them to stop voting discrimination before it occurs. This is like letting you keep your car, but taking away the keys. To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. Congress must step in."
In a statement, John M. Greenbaum, chief counsel and senior deputy director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said the ruling sets the stage for dire disenfranchisement of minority voters. The committee represented a defendant-intervener in the case.
"The Supreme Court has effectively gutted one of the nation's most important and effective civil rights laws," Greenbaum said in the email statement. "Minority voters in places with a record of discrimination are now at greater risk of being disenfranchised than they have been in decades. Today's decision is a blow to democracy. Jurisdictions will be able to enact policies which prevent minorities from voting, and the only recourse these citizens will have will be expensive and time-consuming litigation."
Barbara R. Arnwine, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee, added in an email statement: "This decision disregards the documented history of ongoing voting discrimination in the covered states and paralyzes Section 5, which has blocked thousands of racially discriminatory voting practices and procedures before they could ever take effect," Arnwine wrote. "Civil rights and civic organizations must now unite with the American people — fighting new discriminatory voting laws lawsuit by lawsuit and state by state — until Congress acts decisively to replace what has been one of the most effective civil rights laws ever passed."
At 12:30 p.m. EDT, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to deliver a statement on the decision from the Supreme Court.
CNN is reporting that a deeply divided Supreme Court has limited the use of a key provision in the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, in effect invalidating the key enforcement provision that applies to all or parts of the 15 states with a history of voter discrimination.
The practical impact of the majority ruling means the separate Section 5 — the key enforcement provision — cannot be enforced.
Any changes in voting laws and procedures in those covered states — including much of the South — must be "pre-cleared" with Washington. That could include something as simple as moving a polling place temporarily across the street.
The two key provisions were reauthorized by Congress in 2006 for another 25 years and officials in Shelby County, Alabama, subsequently filed suit, saying the monitoring was overly burdensome and unwarranted.
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Earlier this week, set top box maker Boxee was acquired by Samsung in a deal worth approximately $30 million. The Korean company will retain all 45 Boxee employees as well as hold the rights to Boxee assets. Samsung plans to put the Boxee team to work on improving the user experience of its own Smart TVs. Unfortunately for Boxee users, the company announced on its website yesterday that it will be discontinuing its Cloud DVR service on July 10th.
Samsung's new "key talent and assets" from Boxee will work on improving the software used in Samsung's internet-connected Smart TVs. Smart TVs have become rather common, but much like the built-in 3D features, consumers may have a TV with Internet connected functionality but many do not utilize these features. The Boxee team will work on improving the interface, and hopefully with Sasmsung's muscle behind the team it will be able to offer enticing media functionality without running into rights issues with the big media companies, which Boxee has run into in the past.
Other than the brief announcement from Boxee and a couple of short quotes from Samsung to the BBC, details on the deal, the Boxee team's future involvement and road map on Boxee-inspired software are scarce. On one hand it is sad to see a small startup being bought out. On the other hand, it seems like it really takes a big company with lots of resources to make inroads into the living room, especially where TV and video is concerned due to media companies and cable companies (and in Comcast's case, both) fighting vigorously against these Internet streaming boxes. Hopefully Samsung realizes what it has and takes advantage of its new talent to make its Smart TVs better! In the meantime, there is always Roku to look to for alternative streaming boxes or XBMC and WMC for fully-fledged home theater PCs.
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As our Dispatch called "park is clear" on our two-way radios this afternoon, the first clap of thunder boomed.
Perfect timing.
All the darling children we saw today were returning to school safe in their buses and dry as a bone.
Well, almost all …
Maddy, from Boonville, and some friends took advantage of the sunny weather and played in the fountains at Holidog's FunTown.
Today is Play Day – our twenty-first annual. Each year, our friends at Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center in Evansville invite 2,500 children with disabilities along with their teachers and chaperones. And we all have one heck of a good time together.
We donate the discounted admissions proceeds to the Rehab Center – this year to benefit the Milestones Child Development Center and to underwrite children's therapy. Over the past two decades, that donation has topped $300,000.
It was a beautiful day filled with beautiful laughter and smiles.
It's our favorite day all season.